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Edison’s mission: ‘a rewarding education’ Editor’s Note: This is the second in a five-part series of stories highlighting Edison Community College as it celebrates its 40th year of service.

Focusing on Edison’s mission, this piece was written and is being submitted

by Edison President Cristobal Valdez.

PIQUA — Community colleges are an American invention, which place publicly funded higher education opportunities in close-to-home facilities. The first community college started nearly 100 years ago and since then community colleges have Valdez made their reputation by being inclusive institutions which welcome all students who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience. Similarly, Edison Community College was established in 1973 to provide access to educational

opportunities for the local residents of Darke, Miami, and Shelby counties.

The community college’s mission is the fountain from which all of its activities flow. It is the lifeblood of all that is done and it directs and motivates the college to serve students and develop pathways for their success. In simplest terms, the mission of the community college is to provide education for individuals, many of whom are adults, in its service region.

Like most community colleges, Edison Community College’s mission includes basic commitments to: serve all segments of society through an open-access admissions policy that offers equal and fair treatment to all students; provide a comprehensive educational program; serve its region as a community-based institution of higher education; and

provide lifelong learning opportunities through the teaching and learning process.

To further guide staff in serving communities and students, Edison Community College has created Core Values for its educational programs and environment which include: Communication, Ethics, Critical Thinking, Human Diversity, Inquiry/ Respect for Learning and Interpersonal Skills/Teamwork. These values are reflected in every aspect of the College.

Students’ educational experiences incorporate the core values at all levels, so that a student who completes a degree program at Edison Community College has not only been introduced to all of these values, but has had them reinforced and refined at every opportunity.

Recently, all higher education institutions, including Edison, have been challenged to incorporate a “student See EDISON | Page 2

United Way kicks off 2013 campaign Belinda M. Paschal Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — True to their name, the 17 area businesses known as “Pacesetters” have set the pace for the United Way’s community campaign by donating more than $293,000 toward the human service’s organization 2013 goal.

“They are a group of companies who want to show their support to the United Way and give the community a boost ,” said Sean Ford, executive director for United Way. The Pacesetters have been in high gear since their kickoff breakfast in July, where Piqua City Schools Athletic Director Chip Hare spoke to the crowd. “He gave a wonderful speech that got them fired up for the campaign,” Ford said.

This year’s Pacesetters are: Buckeye Insurance Group; Chase Bank; Crayex Corp.; Fifth Third See CAMPAIGN | Page 2

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Members of the United Way’s Pacesetters proudly display the amount of funds they have raised for the organization so far on Friday evening at the first home game of the Piqua High School Indians.

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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk planned

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PIQUA — An event taking place at Fountain Park next month will give area residents an outlet to help find a cure to cancer — and all a participant needs to do is walk.

Fountain Park and the nearby bike path will play host to the city’s inaugural Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k walk event, which is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 5.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 9 a.m.

Todd Bolton, the event’s publicist, said the event is the American Cancer Society’s premiere event to help raise awareness and fund the fight against breast cancer.

“In the past 20 years, 8 million walkers have raised $450 million to create a world with less breast cancer and more birthdays,” he

said.

Bolton also said this is the first time the fund-raising walk against cancer has been held in the Northern Miami Valley.

“We are excited about this new event and need to get the word spread,” he said. “The American Cancer Society turns 100 this year and what better gift than for thousands of people from the Miami Valley to come out to support this inaugural event.”

Bolton said it would be his hope that attendance is very high for the event and encouraged participants to form teams for fundraising.

“Most people walk three miles during their day,” Bolton said.

“Have a family member or a friend sponsor you.”

The fund-raising event will start and end at Fountain Park and will follow the bike path.

For more information on the event or to register early, visit www.makingstrideswalk.org.

Names released in fatal crash Staff Report

ELIZABETH Twp. — The names of individuals involved in a deadly crash Thursday in Elizabeth Township have been released.

Killed was Marsha Craft, 65, of Vandalia.

According to sheriff ’s reports, Ms. Craft was traveling on Walnut Grove Road, stopped at the stop sign at the intersection of Ohio 201, then pulled into the path of a truck.

Kyle Magato, 16, of Casstown, was driving the pickup truck. Both vehicles ended up striking a house situated on the southeast corner of Ohio 201.

Magato was taken to Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy with minor injuries.

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2 Saturday, September 7, 2013 Aleatha F. Offenbacher PIQUA — Aleatha High School and retired F. Offenbacher, 79, of from the former Sonoco Piqua, died at 11:15 p.m. Products of Piqua as a Thursday, Sept. 5, machinist and 2013, at Heartland inspector following of Piqua Nursing 41 years of employHome. She was ment. She enjoyed born Jan. 17, her family, friends 1934, in Casstown and fishing. to the late Perry A service to and Mary J. (Cole) honor her life Cavender.

She will begin at 10 married Ross E. Offenbacher a.m. Tuesday, at Offenbacher; he the Jamieson & preceded her in death Jan. Yannucci Funeral Home 12, 1990. with the Rev. Travis Survivors include two Mowell officiating. Burial daughters, Neva (Rick) will follow at Forest Hill Hager and June Ann (Rob) Cemetery.

Visitation Teets, all of Piqua; six will be from 5-7 p.m. grandchildren; two great- Monday at the funeral grandchildren; a brother, home. Memorial contriOmer Cavender of Piqua; butions may be made to and two sisters, Georgia one’s favorite charity, Hayslett and Martha Heartland Hospice or the (Norman) Bradney, all of American Cancer Society.

Piqua. She was preceded Guestbook condolences in death by a son, Joseph and expressions of sympaJohn Francis, a brother thy, to be provided to the and two sisters. family, may be expressed Mrs. Offenbacher was a through jamiesonandyangraduate of Piqua Central nucci.com.

Bernard G. Rogers DAYTON — Bernard G. Rogers, son of Iva Rose (Croswaite) and Hugh Alpha; brother to Donald, Charles and James; husband to the late Jill (Bryant); father of Thomas, Patricia “Lynn” and John; passed away of natural causes Sept. 5, 2013.

Bernie was born in Petersburg, Ky. and proudly served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He graduated from the University of Kentucky, and went on to own Rogers Oldsmobile and Cadillac in Piqua.

After retiring in 1987, he enjoyed golfing, fish-

ing and hunting.

He will always be remembered for his good nature, humility and generosity.

Bernie was the true definition of a nice guy, and will be greatly missed.

Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m. Sunday at Schlientz and Moore Funeral Home at 820 West Centerville Road (Route 725), Dayton.

A graveside funeral will be held at 12 p.m. Monday at Lexington Cemetery at 833 West Main St., Lexington, Ky. For those wishing, condolences may be left at SchlientzandMoore.com.

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Cal D. Bitner COVINGTON — Cal D. Bitner, 96, of Covington, passed away Friday, Sept.

6, 2013. Services are pending. Arrangements are in care of Jackson-Sarver Funeral Home, Covington.

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Edison is committed to aligning student success with future opportunities for continued career success. To this end, the college has recently instituted a Linking and Learning initiative, in which the board of trustees hold meetings off-campus at industry locations such as Upper Valley Medical Center, Emerson Climate Technologies, Honda of America, and Midmark.

These meetings have allowed Edison to develop stronger relationships with local business and industry leaders, increase knowledge of their respective industries, and align curriculum with industry needs to provide qualified graduates ready for employment.

Included in the comprehensive nature of Edison’s mission is to provide educational pathways to prepare area high school student for higher education including providing opportunities for high school juniors and seniors to participate in dual enrollment courses at their high school or attend

at one of Edison’s campuses via the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option Program and receive both high school and college credits for their studies.

Further, Edison provides opportunities for its current students to transfer to area and regional universities. Edison has established numerous articulation agreements in the areas of business, engineering, education, and nursing, to name a few, that ensure graduates seamless entry into a baccalaureate program.

For all of the college’s existence, Edison has focused on providing the learning opportunities that enable and empower citizens, commerce, and communities in Darke, Miami, and Shelby counties. Edison will continue that commitment and strive daily to provide “A personal experience, a rewarding education” to all of our students and to be a resource for all the communities it serves.

Next week, the focus will shift to Edison’s programs and services over the past forty years, including academic programs and services, information technology, and student services.

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Police: Remains in box likely missing toddler John Seewer Associated Press

TOLEDO (AP) — Human remains found in the rafters of a garage are likely that of a toddler last seen about three months ago inside a house on the same property, police said Friday.

Investigators said they found the remains Thursday inside a box that was behind other containers and piles of trash in the detached garage.

An autopsy conducted Friday was inconclusive, and DNA tests will be needed to determine if the remains are of 19-month-old Elaina Steinfurth, a county coroner said.

Investigators, though, were confident that what they feared was true.

“We found what we believe may be baby Elaina,” said Toledo Police Chief Derrick Diggs.

The home and the garage where the box was located belong to the family of a man who had been dating the girl’s mother.

Both the mother, Angela Steinfurth, and her now-estranged boyfriend, Steven King II, are in jail and accused of obstructing justice.

No charges have been filed since the remains were discovered.

Steinfurth and her two daughters stayed with King at his family’s home on June 1, investigators said.

The girl’s father went to the residence to pick up his two daughters the next day, but only Elaina’s 4-year-old sister could be found.

Investigators have said Steinfurth knew Elaina had been seriously injured and didn’t seek medical help.

They would not say what type of injuries the toddler had or who caused them.

Steinfurth has been in jail since mid-June. Her attorney, Jane Roman, declined to comment on Friday.

King was charged in July with lying to investigators about the child’s disappearance.

He told reporters after his arrest that he is innocent. A message was left with his lawyer.

Authorities, including the FBI, have searched homes, vacant buildings and the Maumee River near downtown Toledo for any sign of Elaina over the past three months.

Volunteers also have looked through neighborhoods and parks.

Officers searched both the home and the garage in the days after Elaina disappeared.

They went to back to the home Thursday and removed the box with the remains, just hours after King appeared in court at a hearing where his trial date was scheduled.

Angela Steinfurth’s stepfather, Richard Schiewe, said the box was not in the garage the day after the little girl was reported missing.

He said he went into the garage with police when they searched the building.

“That body was not in the rafters,” he said Friday. “Somebody went and got that body and put it in there.”

Groundbreaking set for bridge Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge to honor local advocate PIQUA — The Miami County Park District will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Farrington Reserve, 1594 W. Peterson Road in Piqua.

Construction on the bridge will begin late next week after being placed on hold for just over a year.

The winning construction bid came in at $1,557,290.55 and will be funded through a Congestion/Mitigation

Air Quality grant from a 300-mile system of Miami Valley Regional paved bikeways in Planning Commission; Southwest Ohio.

Clean Ohio Trails The bridge Fund from the is named after Ohio Department Robert J. Shook, of N at u ra l long-time bike Resources and trail advocate local funds. and chairman The bridge, of the Miami scheduled to County Trails open in July Task Force.

2014, will com- Bob Shook “The Pa rk plete the NorthDistrict Board South Great Miami o f C o m m i s s i o n e rs River Re c re at i o n thought it would be fitTrail through Miami ting to honor Bob and County from Piqua to his efforts by naming Montgomery County the bridge after him,” where it connects to said J. Scott Myers,

executive director for the Miami County Park District. “Bob’s commitment to completing the bikeway has been unwavering, even in the face of tough obstacles.”

Shook’s leadership has led to the coordination and construction of the Great Miami River Recreation Trail in Miami County. “ The bikeway has become an important asset for the community and on any given day, hundreds of people use it as part of a healthy lifestyle,” Myers said.

FBI, DHS: No specific threat to 9/11 anniversary Eileen Sullivan Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is aware of no credible or specific information that points to any terror plot tied to the anniversary of the September 2001 attacks, according to a new confidential threat assessment from the FBI and Homeland Security Department obtained by The Associated Press.

The new assessment, dated Thursday, said that intelligence agencies remain concerned that al-Qaida and its affiliates are committed to carrying out attacks on

Western targets. But it said there was no information pointing to any known plot.

The bulletin made no mention of Syria, even as President Barack Obama sought congressional approval to use military force against the Syrian government.

Four Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on last year’s anniversary.

Three others were killed and more than 260 others were injured when two men set off bombs near the finish line of the popular Boston Marathon in April.

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This year’s goal is

$5,000 more than it has been the past several years, as past campaigns have exceeded their goals. “For the past two campaigns, we’ve raised about $570,000, so we felt we should go ahead and make that our goal,” Ford said. “We feel confident that the community will come together and raise the money again.”

Funds from United Way will benefit 23 partner agencies including American Red Cross, Miami County Child and Family Service, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, Piqua Compassion Network, Meals on Wheels of Piqua, the Salvation Army, Sunrise Center for Adults and the Piqua YWCA, among others.

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There was no specific or credible intelligence about those attacks, either.

The terror threat to the U.S. is different than it was 12 years ago. In 2001, there was credible intelligence about a terror plot, but that information wasn’t shared with the right people.

Today, the threat is more diffuse.

Cyberattacks threaten to disrupt major U.S. operations in the government and the private sector.

Lone actors represent another threat — one or two people who are not directly affiliated with alQaida but who subscribe to the terror group’s ideology and want to strike out because they disagree with U.S. policies.

Today, officials are concerned about retaliatory strikes if Obama moves forward with plans to use military force against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, which the administration condemns for the death of 1,429 in a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 near Damascus.

Assad’s government blames the episode on rebels who have been seeking to overthrow his government.

Iraqi officials and militant groups have said that Iranian-backed Shiite militias are threatening to retaliate against American interests inside Iraq if the U.S. goes ahead with strikes, as Tehran is a close ally of Assad.

The FBI has been reviewing old case files involving Hezbollah and Iran’s Quds Force, reaching out to its sources to see whether they know anything new, a law enforcement official said.

The official offered few details about the outreach and spoke on condition of anonymity because the official did not want to publicize the bureau’s investigative strategies.

In its intelligence bulletin, the FBI and Homeland Security

Department reminded law enforcement of activity that could indicate a planning for an attack, such as surveillance and questions about security operations.

They also provided tips to avoid Internet denial of service attacks, such as a warning Aug. 27 from a Tunisian hacker group. The group, called “ Tu n i s i a n — H a c k e r s II” threatened a 10-day denial of service attack against U.S. banks starting Sept. 1.

By Sept. 5, law enforcement had seen no evidence that the hacker group carried through with the plan, the bulletin said.

Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic congressman from Indiana who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission report, said Americans should be reassured to know that there is no credible or specific information about a terror attack tied to the 9/11 anniversary next week.

But today’s threats are so difficult to detect because they’re often unknown to law enforcement.

“The threat has become more spread out, more difficult, more means could be used,” said Hamilton, who currently co-heads the Washingtonbased Bipartisan Policy Center, which plans to release a report Monday on the terror threats to the U.S. “Identifying particular individuals who might turn violent is very, very hard to do. It’s a big country — lots of people out there, and it’s a huge challenge to law enforcement.”

And it’s difficult to get specific intelligence that an attack will happen at a certain date and time, Hamilton said.

“It’s one thing to intercept intelligence which enables you to stop a big attack, which we’ve been successful at doing over the years,” he said. “It’s quite another to identify every lone wolf, every solitary actor.”

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Age: 6 Birthday: Sept. 6, 2007 Parents: Kristy and Kevin Earick of Piqua Siblings: Tabitha, Kelsey, Kaden and Nolan Grandparents: Jane Laloge of Piqua, Paul Francis of Middletown and Roberta Earick of Piqua Great-Grandparents: Marion Grillot of Ryan Howard Earick Russia

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Age: 6 Birthday: Sept. 6, 2007 Parents: Kristy and Kevin Earick of Piqua Siblings: Tabitha, Kelsey, Ryan and Nolan Grandparents: Jane Laloge of Piqua, Paul Francis of Middletown and Roberta Earick of Piqua Great-Grandparents: Marion Grillot of Kaden Micheal Earick Russia

Winds will become southerly, helping us warm up over the weekend. Today will be partly cloudy and there is a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms on Sunday.

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Culver’s partners with local FFAs to say thanks TROY — Culver’s of Troy has partnered with Miami East, Newton and Covington FFAs as part of a larger, nationwide effort by Culver’s and its guests to thank the family farmers on which the restaurants depend by donating 10% of its sales on Sept. 22 from 4-7 p.m. to these chapters.

The “Thank You, Farmers” partnership in participating restaurants all over the U.S. was unveiled in July to help spread awareness and generate support for

this nation’s hardworking farmers.

“Culver’s restaurants as a whole have depended on family farms since the first restaurant opened in 1984,” says Culver’s of Troy owner David Potts. “We want to show our gratitude by helping support the next generation of farmers. The FFA Advisor from Miami East, Marie Carity, was a great partner in our campaign and brought in the other local chapters. Our guests have been donating $1 by purchasing wall

decals for the past several weeks and all funds collected will be distributed to these schools.”

During this event, Potts is encouraging all farmers to drive their tractors to Culvers and bring two cans of food for the local food pantry and receive a free scoop of custard The Miami East, Newton and Covington FFAs help this next generation meet the challenges of feeding a growing population by encouraging members to develop their own unique talents

and explore their agricultural interests in a broad range of career pathways, from future farmers to biologists to veterinarians.

Culver’s of Troy takes pride in being an active member of the community by supporting local charities and organizations since 2004.

“Culver’s is proud to call the dairy land of Wisconsin home,” said Craig Culver, CEO and co-Founder of Culver’s.

“Coming from a place connected to the farms

that produce the dairy and grow the food that’s made the restaurant what it is, celebrating and supporting the FFA just feels right.”

Culver’s serves fresh food, always cooked to order, with genuine family values to each and every guest.

Culver’s is an expanding franchise system with nearly 500 independently owned and operated restaurants in 20 states.

The restaurants’ awardwinning customer service is based on small-town,

Midwestern values, genuine friendliness and an unwavering commitment to quality and freshness.

Signature items include the ButterBurger®, made from fresh, never-frozen Midwest-raised beef, and fresh frozen custard, including the famous Flavor of the Day program.

For more information, visit www.culvers. com, www.culvers.com/ facebook, www.twitter. com/culvers, www.gplus. to/culvers or www.instagram.com/culvers.

Edison awarded Choose Ohio Women’s self-defense First scholarship program class comes to YWCA PIQUA — Edison Community College has recently been announced as a recipient of the Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program.

The college will offer 40 $1,500 scholarships per year during the 2013-2015 academic school years to current and potential students majoring in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

The scholarship program is awarded to select Ohio colleges, universities and their business partners that have developed inno-

vative academic programs to recruit and retain more Ohio students entering STEM fields.

By offering scholarships to students in these fields, the program supports increased higher education participation and success of Ohio students, while helping ensure the creation of highly trained technical workforce, ideally suited for modern careers.

Students majoring in the following areas are eligible to receive the scholarship: physical, biological, and

agricultural sciences; engineering; computer science; mathematics; two-year technology degrees; nursing and allied health fields; teacher preparation in STEM disciplines.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational employment projections in November 2009, “The U.S. will have more than 1.2 million job openings in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related occupations by 2018. These include scientists, doctors, software developers and engineers. Yet,

there will be a significant shortage of qualified college graduates to fill these careers.”

Jon Husted, Ohio Secretary of State and Choose Ohio First Program initiator, believes the program will help make Ohio a national leader in educating students in the high-demand STEM fields.

For further information about the Choose Ohio First Scholarship, cont act Edison’s Finance Aid Office at 778-8600.

The deadline to apply for the scholarship is Sept. 20.

PIQUA — The Piqua Police Department along with the YWCA Piqua are co-sponsoring a 12-hour self-defense program for women 15 years and older on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning Monday, Sept. 16, at the YWCA Piqua, 418 N. Wayne St. The program will be held September 16, 18, 23 and 25. Classes are from 6-9 p.m. All classes are taught by Piqua Police officers who are R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense)certified instructors.

“R.A.D. is great for women of all ages who want to be able to defend themselves if the need arises,” said Lynn Marroletti, YWCA program director.

“One of the missions of the YWCA is to empower women and this class definitely enables women to be empowered especially when a situation develops,” she added.

A workbook/reference manual will be provided.

YWCA membership is not required to participate. Those interested in taking the course must sign up at the YWCA to fill out a form and pay the class fee beforehand.

Limited scholarship assistance is also available.

Participants must be able to attend all four sessions.

For more information or registration, stop at the YWCA Piqua, call 7736626, or e-mail info@ ywcapiqua.com.

Support group set Former principal to receive Honorary American FFA Degree to meet Tuesday TROY — A support group for people affected by breast cancer will meet Tuesday, Sept. 10. The group is sponsored by UVMC Cancer Care Center.

The support group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmhouse located at the UVMC/ Upper Valley Medical Center campus, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

The group’s mission is to empower women to deal with the day-to-day realities of cancer before, during and after treatment.

Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. This month’s speaker is Mark Kaufman of the American Cancer Society.

U.S. Chamber to offer job fair for vets SIDNEY — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has announced a job fair, Hiring Our Heroes, for U.S. armed services veterans, to take place Sept. 26 at the American Legion hall, 1265 Fourth Ave., Sidney, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

The foundation has invited area employers with available jobs to register to participate in the fair by visiting HOH.Greatjob.net.

Veterans, active duty military, members of the Guard and reserve components and military spouses who are job-hunting can register to attend by visiting the same website. Walk-ins will be welcome if space is available.

For registration questions, email hiringourheroes@ uschamber.com or call (202) 463-5807.

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CONOVER — Tim Williams of Conover was recently selected to receive the Honorary American FFA Degree through the National FFA Organization.

Williams will receive the award on stage at the 2013 National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky on Friday, Nov. 2.

He will receive a certificate and medal and have his name permanently recorded into FFA history.

Williams was selected because of his support of the advancement of agricultural education and FFA through outstanding personal commitment.

Williams recently retired from bring principal at Miami East High School.

During his educational career, he hired countless FFA members to work on his family’s horse, straw

and hay farm.

Williams attended numerous conventions to support the Miami East FFA members and applaud their accomplishments. Furthermore, he served on the Miami East Agricultural Education Department Advisory Committee for 13 years where he provided direction and insight to the future of the agriculture program.

The Miami EastMVCTC FFA Chapter nominated Williams because he has always been supportive of the efforts of the Miami East FFA Chapter. Williams and his wife, Sandy, will forever be fondly honored by the Miami EastMVCTC FFA Chapter.

He has received honorary degrees from both the Miami East-MVCTC FFA Chapter and the

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Tim Williams is such a supporter of the Miami East FFA Chapter that he has even kissed a pig as fundraiser for Children’s Hospital in February 2013. Williams was recently selected to receive the Honorary American FFA Degree.

Ohio FFA Association.

The Honorary American FFA Degree is an opportunity to recognize those who have gone beyond valuable daily

contributions to make an extraordinary long-term difference in the lives of students, inspiring confidence in a new generation of agriculturalists.

Tri-County Board seeks artists for Art of Recovery showcase PIQUA — he Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services is seeking entries from local artists for its annual Art of Recovery showcase, to be presented in conjunction with the Board’s annual meeting Oct. 16 at Edison Community College in Piqua.

Artists who have been affected personally, through a family member or friend, or anyone whose art reflects recovery from mental illness or addiction are invited to participate.

For display consideration, artwork and an accompanying art submission form must be received by the Tri-County Board no later than Friday, Sept. 27. The form and additional details are available

at the Tri-County Board’s website, www.mdsadamhs.mh.state.oh.us/ art_of_recovery.htm.

Art may be in any medium, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, instrumental music, poetry and short prose. Artists may submit more than one piece for submission, and may elect to remain anonymous at the showcase. There is no fee to enter, and no prizes are awarded.

“Art and recovery go hand in hand,” said Mark McDaniel, executive director of the Tri-County Board. “Creating art can be healing and therapeutic on a number of levels – it provides a way to communicate deep emotions, pro-

motes confidence, and offers hope, purpose and identity.”

The Art of Recovery showcase aims to increase public awareness of mental illness and addiction issues in an effort to fight the stigma that so often accompanies these diseases.

The showcase will be open to public viewing from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Robinson Theater at Edison Community College in Piqua. A brief business meeting and award presentation also will take place.

For more information about submitting artwork for the Art of Recovery showcase, call or write Brad Reed, director of community resource development, at the TriCounty Board office in Troy.

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A winning coalition on Syria Most Congressional votes follow Republican voters.

“My constituents are war-weary,” strict party lines these days. But the resolution authorizing the pres- Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia ident to strike at Syria for using said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” nerve gas against its own people “They don’t want to see us get scrambles those polarizing propen- involved in this.” sities.

This weariness is Both parties are dividreinforced for some ed, and the president can Republicans by an adaonly prevail by fashionmant hostility toward ing the sort of bipartisan President Obama, even coalition he has tried — when he espouses a policy and largely failed — to they might otherwise supbuild around other issues. port.

Since the early ’70s, the “There are plenty of GOP has portrayed itself conservatives who are as more willing and able not isolationists who than the Democrats to Cokie Roberts don’t trust Obama to employ American power. conduct foreign policy,” Columnist That tradition of robust a GOP strategist told the military response helped Washington Examiner. generate widespread Republican “They’re not comfortable risking support for President Bush’s deci- American troops with Obama as sion to invade Iraq after 9/11. commander-in-chief.”

That tradition endures today, priThe Republican divisions are marily in what might be called more visible, but Democrats have the interventionist wing of the their own problems.

Republican Party. And in those The war-weariness Sen. circles, it overrides the fact that the Chambliss mentions is even more president is now a Democrat, not a pronounced among liberals who Republican. opposed the Iraq war in the first Speaker John Boehner reflect- place. ed that tradition in a statement Only 29 percent of Democrats endorsing Obama’s decision on favor air strikes, according to a new Syria: “Only the United States has Pew poll and that fatigue is comthe capacity and capability to stop pounded by confusion over where (Syrian President) Assad or warn the president’s strategy could lead. others around the world that this “(The) aftermath of a U.S. strike type of behavior will not be toler- on targets in Syria is difficult to ated.” predict, with negative consequencSome Republicans are drawing es that may be beyond our capabilon another tradition, embodied in ity to control,” warned Sen. Ed the old adage “politics stops at the Markey of Massachusetts. water’s edge.” Not all issues should But even longstanding Democratic be viewed through a political prism. doves are more willing to use force The national interest still matters. when it comes to defending Israel Rep. Mike Rogers, the chair- and deterring Iran, and that’s why man of the House Intelligence the administration is vigorously Committee, invoked that principle pushing that angle. when he asserted on CNN, “This Secretary of State John Kerry is a national security issue. This even compared Syria’s Assad to isn’t about Barack Obama versus Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein, the Congress. This isn’t about and the argument is working with Republicans versus Democrats.” lawmakers like Eliot Engel of New Added Sen. John McCain: “A rejec- York. tion of this resolution would be “If we stand idly by,” Engel said catastrophic … for the institution of on NBC’s “Today,” “then every desthe presidency and the credibility pot in the world thinks they can of the United States.” commit war crimes and no one will A third Republican faction is do anything.” impelled to support the president Obama’s best argument with because it believes the real target Democrats, however, is self-interof his “shot across the bow” is not est. He will be president for more Syria but Iran, a country whose than three more years. nuclear ambitions pose a much Many issues Democrats care greater threat to American — and about are coming up on Capitol Israeli — interests than the Assad Hill: immigration, tax reform, entiregime in Damascus. tlement spending.

“The connection between Syria These legislators are stronger if and Iran is clear as a bell,” Sen. he is stronger, and losing the Syrian Lindsey Graham of South Carolina vote would diminish the president’s said on PBS. leverage in all those battles.

Those arguments are not workSo here’s the key to a winning ing, however, with the isolationist coalition: liberal Democrats who wing of the Republican Party. want to strengthen the president Sen. Rand Paul rejects the essence and conservative Republicans who of Boehner’s position. “I don’t see want to strengthen the presidency.

American interests involved on Our bet is they will narrowly preeither side of the Syrian war,” he vail. said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

For others, the legacy of inter- Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at steveventionism has taken its toll on cokie@gmail.com.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal efforts to rebuild depleted fish populations have largely been successful, but pressure to overfish some species remains high, and some fish stocks have not rebounded as quickly as projected, according to a new report by a scientific panel.

The report by the National Research Council says 43 percent of fish stocks identified as being overfished were rebuilt or showed good progress toward rebuilding within 10 years, the time limit required by federal law. Another 31 percent were on track to rebuild if sharply reduced fishing levels remain in place, the report says.

But the report also says 26 percent of overfished stocks continue to be overfished, due to ineffective enforcement and errors in fish stock estimates that led officials to set catch limits that were too high.

The report, released Thursday, said fishery management plans continue to be plagued by uncertainty, noting that 20 of 55 fish stocks examined by the research council were not actually overfished despite being classified as such by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The variation in success rates “reflects a mismatch between the current prescriptions for rebuilding (depleted populations) within a limited time frame and the uncertainties inherent in assessing and managing fisheries,” the research council said.

While overfishing is a key cause of depleted fish stocks, climate change and other ecological factors can also drive changes in fish stock populations, the report said.

Those dynamics, along with data limitations on fish populations and health, complicate efforts to rebuild fish populations within the required 10 years, the research council said.

The report identifies several strategies to improve management of federal fisheries, including taking action to avoid overfishing before fish populations drop to levels where they are considered overfished. Such a strategy could help fisheries avoid strict limits that come with rebuilding plans, such as occurred earlier this year when the New England Fishery Management Council approved steep cuts in cod fishing off the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts.

New England fishermen say their centuries-old industry faces collapse in the wake of the new rules, which reduce the cod catch to just a fraction of its historical totals. The rules prevent fishermen from landing more plentiful groundfish species, such as haddock and Pollock, because those species cannot be pulled up without catching too many of the cod that swim among them.

Cutting back on cod fishing before the species faced disaster “would have helped, instead of waiting to the end when a huge balloon payment” of drastic fishing reductions was needed, said Patrick Sullivan, an associate professor of natural resources at Cornell University who co-chaired the research council report.

NOAA managers also need better data on fish populations and health, Sullivan said, comparing fisheries management to predicting the weather.

“You make predictions, and suddenly we know what’s happening” in the ocean, he said.

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Billboard announced the list Thursday.

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Dear Abby: I’m 24 and lems.) Would it be wrong a college graduate. My to attempt to further the boyfriend, “Jordan,” and relationship, as long as it I have been together for a remains appropriate withyear and we would like to in the office, or should I get married. However, my forget it and date someparents are against the one outside of work? — idea. They love Jordan, Working Relationship but they think marriage In Indiana is stupid because, Dear Working in 2013, “WHO is Relationship: getting married?”

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Review: ‘Salinger’ takes a kitchen-sink approach Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writer

“Reclusive.” Is that an adjective, or is it actually part of J.D. Salinger’s name? The word has been used so often to describe the famous writer, one could be forgiven for thinking it appears on his birth certificate.

But there’s obviously much more to the story of “reclusive author J.D. Salinger” than the way he withdrew from public view and publishing and spent much of his life in Cornish, N.H., where he was frequently pursued by avid fans.

One of the more entertaining tidbits in “Salinger,” the exhaustive, exhausting and overly hyped new documentary by Shane Salerno, is the account of one of those fans, who made the pilgrimage and clearly felt he was owed more time than he was granted.

“I’m not a counselor,” Salinger said, finally. “I’m a fiction writer.”

It would have been enough if “Salinger” had merely explored that one idea: How much did this writer, after capturing the world’s attention with “The Catcher in the Rye,” owe us? Did he owe us a sequel, a novel every few years, or his presence on talk shows, with opinions on the issues of the day? Did he “owe” us more than he gave, before his death in 2010 at the age of 91? It seems many felt that way.

But Salerno, until now best known as a screenwriter for “Armageddon” and “Savages,” spent nearly a decade researching Salinger for this project, which includes a 700-page book and a TV documentary. And he had enough material, clearly, for five different films: “Salinger and his Wartime Past,” ”for example. “Salinger and his Women.” ”Salinger and His Struggles With Fame.” Instead, he took a kitchen-sink approach, and while the film moves quickly for its 120 minutes, that approach blunts its impact.

Take, for example, the mere number of voices here. Though arguably the two most important people — Salinger’s children — did not cooper-

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This image released by The Weinstein Company shows author J.D. Salinger, left, after the Normandy invasion with his fellow counterintelligence officers from the film “Salinger.”

ate, it seems most anyone else did.

And so we have fellow authors, literary folk, historians, former lovers, acquaintances, and fans all having their say. Some have fascinating stories indeed — as in the wartime buddy who tells how Salinger arrived on the Normandy beaches on D-Day carrying in-progress chapters of “Catcher.”

Others, including Martin Sheen, John Cusack, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ed Norton or director Judd Apatow, are there to describe the impact Salinger’s work had on them — with mixed effect.

And one thing the director might certainly have jettisoned, in addition to a sometimes excitable score, are the needless dramatizations — an actor on a stage, pounding at a typewriter, or a neglected child knocking fruitlessly on the door of Salinger’s work cabin.

For those not already well versed in all things Salinger, there’s absorbing material on his wartime past: the amount of time he spent in combat, his counter-intelligence work, and the breakdown he suffered later, after witnessing death-camp horrors.

On an entirely different note, there are amusing anecdotes about his aversion to selling out, particularly to Hollywood. “Tell Billy Wilder to stop calling me!” is one memorable quote.

There’s also much on Salinger’s affinity for younger women. Yet again, the material — though like much here, not all of it new — is undeniably interesting, like the account of Jean Miller, whom he met when she was 14. But some of it will make some viewers feel queasy, and wondering if he deserved such scrutiny.

Of course, there’s the finale: A revelation, two hours in coming, based on anonymous sources, that there’s a trove of new Salinger works to be published, according to his detailed instructions, starting in 2015.

To which we can only say: Well, that would be amazing. But who knows?

We can only wait and see.

“Salinger,” a Weinstein Company release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “disturbing war images, thematic elements and smoking.”

Running time: 120 minutes.

Two and a half stars out of four.

National Zoo: 2-week-old panda cub is female Brett Zongker Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a girl!

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Thursday that its 2-weekold giant panda cub is female and her father is National Zoo panda Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN).

Panda mother Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) was artificially inseminated with sperm from Tian Tian, as well as a panda named Gao Gao at the San Diego Zoo. It takes time to determine a cub’s gender, and a DNA sample was collected to determine the paternity of the cub born Aug. 23.

A second stillborn cub delivered a day later was also female and sired by Tian Tian, officials said.

The cubs were fraternal twins.

Keepers performed a den check Thursday morning and all the signs show the mother and cub continue to be healthy, Senior Curator Brandie Smith said.

The cub also is starting to develop dark markings in her fur around the eyes, ears and back.

“It’s got a fat little belly.

It’s very active. It’s very vocal,” Smith said. “If it needs anything, it definitely lets Mei Xiang and the rest of us know that it needs something.”

Zookeepers were able to

perform one quick physical examination of the cub when it was 2 days old.

Since then, Mei Xiang has become more protective and hasn’t allowed humans to grab her cub again.

The 10-day mark was critical for survival, Smith said. At that point, keepers started to gain more confidence about the cub’s health.

“We watch her grow stronger and healthier every single day,” Smith said. “So we’re finally starting to really celebrate.”

The cub will make her public debut in about four months.

China owns the pandas at the National Zoo. The cub is expected to stay with her mother for a little more than two years until she is weaned and will stay at the zoo for about four years.

Mei Xiang’s only other surviving cub, a male named Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and was returned to China in 2010.

Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub last year after several years of failed breeding, but the cub died after six days. Its lungs hadn’t fully developed and likely weren’t sending enough oxygen to its liver.

Having a successful panda birth now, after years when Mei Xiang and Tian Tian failed to reproduce, has

already given zoo scientists new confidence in the Washington pandas’ reproductive health. The zoo had considered swapping out one or both of the pandas for a more viable pair.

“It’s a confirmation that Mei Xiang is a really healthy female and of course a healthy mother,” said Smithsonian Reproductive Biologist Pierre Comizzoli.

Giant pandas are considered critically endangered in the wild.

Breeding them in captivity has proved difficult, especially in Washington.

The new cub’s gender, though, does not have a significant impact on the survival of the species, Smith said.

“Because the population is so small, every single animal is impor-

tant,” she said. “So males or females, just getting numbers on the ground is what’s important.”

Following Chinese tradition, the cub will be named after it is 100 days old.

Four American zoos have giant pandas, and several cubs have been born in the United States.

But the bears hold a special place at the National Zoo.China gave the zoo its first set of pandas in 1972 to commemorate President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the country, and pandas have remained a symbol of diplomacy between the two countries.

The zoo’s first panda couple, Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing, had five cubs during the 1980s, though none lived more than a few days.

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Financial advice for those turning forty

So you survived your surprise party and you’re getting used to the fact that you’ve turned 40 years old quite well.

You got all the typical gag gifts, but after you put the cane with the bike horn in the closet, allow yourself a moment to reflect.

Although you may feel like you’re still 28, you’ve reached a great milestone – and now is a good time to take a serious look at your finances.

Here are a handful of things to keep in mind now that you’ve hit the big 4-0.

• Look at the big picture.

You likely have a lot going on financially, so take time to step back and consider what you’re really trying to achieve overall.

Make a list of all your financial obligations and goals – from daily expenses to long-term plans. Then start prioritizing them, being honest with yourself about the “need to haves” (retirement savings) and “nice to haves” (tuition paid in full for your college-bound child).

Also re-evaluate the products your child’s college education and policies you already have or a parent’s stay in an assisted in place and ensure you’re mak- living facility, begin planning ing the most of your options. and saving well in advance to For example, this is a critical avoid compromising your own time to maximize your quali- financial security. fied retirement savings. If your • Educate your children. employer offers If you have chila 401(k) match, dren, take steps make sure you’re to instill finantaking advantage cial responsibilof it, and save the ity now. Guiding allowed amount in them on a path to an IRA as well. financial indepen• Set limits. dence is positive While it can be diffor them, but also ficult to restrain good for your own your generosity, financial future.

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Family income not a factor as students eat free Bridget Murphy

Boston, said he expects the program will cut down on potential disruptions at the K-8 school by easing hunger pangs that could be linked to classroom misbehavior.

“We know that calm stomachs means calm students who are ready to learn in classrooms,” he said Wednesday.

Michael Peck, director of Food and Nutrition Services for Boston Public Schools, said 76 percent of students already had qualified for free or reduced price meals.

He said the program will save the district money, partly because officials won’t have to hire couriers to drop off and pick up applications for reduced or free meals at the city’s more than 120 schools.

They also may be able to cancel the armored car pickups of cafeteria money.

An Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman said students at 58 of the city’s 100 public schools started getting free breakfast and lunch this year under the program. A spokeswoman for District of Columbia Public Schools said 76 out of 111 district schools are part of the program, which started there in the last school year.

In western Michigan, an administrator with Grand Rapids Public Schools said the district has been serving free breakfast and lunch for its 17,000 students since the 2012-2013 school year started.

Paul Baumgartner, the district’s nutrition service director, said that breakfast counts skyrocketed after the program began and that it saves families the hassle of filling out applications for free or reduced price meals.

“The rationale is we’ve got these communities that have demonstrated severe need,” he said. “Why don’t we see if we can reduce some of these barriers?”

Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — Some students toted lunchboxes to the first day of school in Boston this week, but district administrators are expecting that could become a more unusual sight as parents learn about a federal program that is now providing all public school students in the city with free breakfast and lunch.

The nation’s oldest school system has joined a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that has spread to 10 states and the District of Columbia that offers students two free meals every school day, whether or not their families can afford them.

“It’s one less weight and one less burden for parents,” said Joshua Rivera, whose son is a second-grader at the Maurice J. Tobin School in Boston’s Roxbury section.

Known as Community Eligibility Option, the program is part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. For schools to qualify, federal officials said, more than 40 percent of students have to be getting food stamps or aid through certain other federal assistance programs.

Besides easing hunger, school officials said, the program eliminates the expense and time of handling paperwork for students who qualify for reduced or free meals and also helps erase a stigma that plagued some students from poor families.

With the program’s adoption in Boston, education officials said, the city joins schools in cities including Grand Rapids, Mich., Atlanta and Washington, D.C., in a program that will be available across the country starting in the 2014-2015 school year.

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or your spouse are unable to provide for them because of a premature death or disability.

• Prepare for change.

Unexpected events are bound to happen, but you can minimize the risk that an event like disability, illness, or divorce will jeopardize your financial security by having a contingency plan in place. It’s difficult to consider these circumstances, but having an emergency fund or the proper insurance for unforeseen events may be a lifesaver someday. If your emergency fund goes unused, saving the extra cash will be not have been in vain – consider using it to further another financial goal.

• Seek advice. It can be extremely challenging to prioritize your financial goals during your 40s, but your future financial security depends on it. Why go it alone? Consider consulting with a financial advisor and other professionals, such as an accountant and attorney. They can help

guide you through the multiple demands you face and help you make rational – rather than emotional – decisions about your finances.

The most important thing to remember during this period is that though you may find it challenging to set aside the cash for your long-term goals, it’s crucial not to lose sight of them.

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August US jobs data could drive Fed bond-buying move Christopher S. Rugaber AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs of improvement in the U.S. economy emerged this week, and the jobs report the government will issue Friday will show whether that strength is fueling consistent hiring gains.

The August employment report will be the most significant economic data to be released before the Federal Reserve meets Sept. 17-18.

Many economists expect the Fed to decide then to slow its monthly bond purchases.

Analysts predict a solid gain of 177,000 jobs for August, above total but just below the monthly average this year of 192,000. The unemployment rate is expected to remain 7.4 percent.

Many economists were encouraged by data released this week. Reports showed that services companies are stepping up hiring and that a dwindling number of people are losing jobs.

Americans are buying more cars than at any time since the recession began in December 2007. And U.S. factories expanded in August at their fastest pace in more than two years.

This year’s steady job growth, along with declining

layoffs, has helped lower the unemployment rate to 7.4 percent from 7.9 percent in January. It also means more Americans are earning paychecks and will likely boost consumer spending in coming months.

The improved jobs picture is a key reason most economists expect the Fed to scale back its bond buying. The Fed’s $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bond purchases have helped keep home-loan and other borrowing rates ultra-low to try to encourage consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more.

Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed could begin slowing its bond purchases by year’s end if the economy continues to strengthen and end the purchases by mid2014. After its September policy meeting, the Fed will announce whether it will taper its monthly purchases and, if so, by how much.

The data released in the past week have bolstered the position of those Fed officials who argue that the economy is healthy enough to withstand tapering: • U.S. services firms, which employ about 90 percent of the U.S. workforce, expanded last month at their fastest pace in nearly 8 years, accord-

ing to a report Thursday from the Institute for Supply Management. Sales and new orders rose. Service companies also hired at the fastest pace in six months. The institute’s index of service sector growth has jumped 5.8 points in the past two months to 58.6 — the biggest twomonth increase since it began in 1997. Service firms include retailers, banks, construction companies and hotels.

• A four-week average of applications for U.S. unemployment benefits has fallen in the past month to its lowest point since October 2007 — two months before the Great Recession officially began. The trend shows that employers are laying off fewer and fewer workers.

• Survey results reported Thursday by payroll provider ADP found that American businesses added 176,000 jobs in August. That was just below the 198,000 added in July but close to the past year’s average monthly gain.

• U.S. factories grew last month at their strongest pace in more than two years, according to the ISM’s index of manufacturing growth. A measure of orders soared to its highest level since April 2011, a sign that factory output could grow further in coming months.

• Americans bought new cars in August at the fastest annual pace since November 2007, before the recession.

Auto sales jumped 17 percent compared with a year earlier.

Toyota, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Chrysler and General Motors all posted double-digit gains over last August.

Still, more than four years after the recession officially ended, the economy has a long way to go return to full health. The unemployment rate is well above the 5 percent to 6 percent range associated with a normal economy.

Many of the jobs created this year have been part-time positions in industries with generally low pay, such as hotels, retailers and restaurants. Such jobs leave consumers with less money to spend than do better-paying positions in industries such as manufacturing and construction, which have mostly shed jobs the past four months.

Businesses have also reduced spending on heavy machinery and other longlasting factory goods. That caused orders to U.S. factories to fall in July by the most in four months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

AP Retail Writer Anne D’Innocenzio contributed to this report from New York.

Weak jobs report, Syria tensions whipsaw markets Ken Sweet

AP Markets Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market lurched between gains and losses Friday as traders held out hope for more economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve and worried about escalating tensions between the U.S. and Syria.

Stocks opened slightly higher after a weak jobs report for August bolstered hopes that the Fed may wait to cut back on its bondbuying program.

But the market soon fell as traders worried about a standoff in Syria. Russian media reported that naval ships were en route to the country, raising worries of a wider conflict and sending the Dow Jones industrial average down as much 148 points in the first half-hour of trading. By 12:05 p.m.

Eastern Daylight Time, the Dow had recovered and was up 40 points at 14,977. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose six points to 1,661 and the Nasdaq composite was

up 8 points to 3,667.

Traders moved money back into U.S. government bonds on speculation that the weak employment numbers would encourage the Federal Reserve to keep buying bonds. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.91 percent from 3 percent the day before, a big move for the bond market.

Wall Street was rattled by signs that the confrontation between the U.S. and Syria over Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians was getting worse. Three Russian naval ships were sailing toward Syria in the eastern Mediterranean on Friday and a fourth was on its way, the Interfax news agency reported, a sign that Russia may assist Syria in case the U.S. does strike. However, Russia President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff said the naval ships were there to help Russia evacuate its citizens if strikes become necessary.

“These are troubling developments,” said David Chalupnik, head of equities for Nuveen Asset Management.

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“Syria is turning into something bigger that what it started out to be.”

The price of crude oil rose as traders anticipated that any escalation of tensions in the Middle East might disrupt the flow of oil from the region. Oil rose $1.81 to $110.16 a barrel. Gold rose $13 to $1,386 an ounce as investors parked money in safe-play assets.

In Washington, the Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added 169,000 jobs last month, fewer than the 177,000 economists had forecast. It also revised downward the number of jobs added in July to 104,000, from its previous estimate of 162,000.

“This was a horrible set of jobs figures, starting with large revision to last month’s number,” Tom di Galoma, head of fixed-income rates sales at ED&F Man Capital, wrote in an email to clients.

Friday’s jobs survey is the last major piece of economic data the Federal Reserve will have to consider before its

September 17-18 policy meeting, when it will decide the fate of its large bond-buying program.

The Fed has been buying $85 billion in Treasurys and other bonds since last September in an effort to keep interest rates low and encourage hiring and economic growth. It was widely believed that the Fed would start pulling back on the purchases this month, barring a disappointing jobs report.

In corporate news, Mattress Firm sank after the company reported second-quarter earnings of 43 cents a share, far below the 51 cents analysts expected, according to FactSet. Mattress Firm plunged $6.78, or 16.3 percent, to $34.91.

VeriFone Systems reported a third quarter loss on Thursday, but the results still came in above Wall Street expectations. The electronic payment terminal maker jumped $2.22, or 11 percent, to $22.94.

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Making the hotel lobby a place to see and be seen Scott Mayerowitz AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Hotels want you to stay a while — in their lobbies.

Long treated as dead spaces that hotel guests raced through on the way to the elevator, lobbies are being transformed into places to work, surf the Web or meet friends for a drink.

Large, traditional hotels are spending billions in renovations to try to mimic the style and financial success of luxury and boutique hotels, which have always drawn free-spending crowds to their lobbies.

Walls are being torn down to make lobbies feel less confined. Communal tables are popping up. Wine lists are being upgraded. And quiet nooks are being carved out that give business travelers space to work but still be near the action.

Companies like Marriott, Hyatt and Starwood are betting that more vibrant lobbies will leave guests — especially younger ones — with a better feeling about their stay, even if their room is bland. Hotel owners say the investments are beginning to pay off, not just in alcohol sales, but in their ability to charge higher room rates.

“People want to go where people are,” says Michael Slosser, managing director of operations for Destination Hotels and Resorts, a group of 40 hotels in the U.S. “They

want to go to be seen, to relax and to people watch.”

The changes are meant to attract travelers like Michael Coscetta, a 31-year-old consultant from Wantagh, N.Y., who spends about 90 nights a year on the road.

“Working in a hotel room feels claustrophobic,” says Coscetta, who instead takes his laptop and heads to the lobby or a nearby coffee shop.

Steve Carvell, associate dean for academic affairs at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, says younger guests “very much want that sense of not feeling alone, even though they are.”

U.S. hotels are forecast to spend $5.6 billion on capital improvements this year, up 10 percent from 2012 and more than double the $2.7 billion spent in 2010, according to a study by Bjorn Hanson, dean of New York University’s hospitality school. The bulk of that money pays for new beds, showers and other room improvements. But Hanson says a “proportionally record amount” of money is going to reconfiguring lobbies.

Marriott International, Inc. is freshening up lobbies in its namesake brand with “Great Rooms” that feature free Wi-Fi, comfortable seats and menus stocked with small dishes and local craft beers.

The concept was first tested in 2007 and is expected to be in 70 percent of the 550 Marriott hotels worldwide by the end of the year.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. — the company behind trendy W Hotels — launched a $4 billion lobby revitalization of its Sheraton brand in 2009. Nearly half of the 427 Sheratons worldwide now have lobbies with communal areas, modern rugs, improved lighting and flatscreen TVs at the bar.

Additionally, Sheraton has tried to inject a bit of pizazz to all its lobbies by adding upscale wine lists, each rated

by Wine Spectator magazine.

Having better wines gives waitresses “something more to talk about than ‘Can I take your drink and where are you from?’” says Rick Ueno, general manager of the Sheraton Chicago.

It also gives the hotel more revenue. In the first six months of this year, the hotel bar sold 18,000 glasses of wine. That’s 24 percent more than the same period last year. At $14 a glass, that adds up to $50,000 more in revenue.

Nearby, the Hyatt Regency Chicago spent $168 million to spruce up its lobby, adding clusters of chairs and couches, a grab-and-go marketplace and a restaurant that flows into rest of the lobby. Similar renovations have taken place at Hyatts in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco.

Robert Mandelbaum, director of research information services at consulting firm PKF Hospitality Research, says the changes are “very

much guest driven.”

“It isn’t fun being one of 20 business people sitting by yourself in a hotel restaurant reading a magazine, eating the $19.95 steak special,” Mandelbaum says.

While overall hotel food and beverage revenue has fallen 27 percent in the last five years, sales in hotel bars have grown 5 percent, according to Mandelbaum.

Grand old luxury hotels, like New York’s Plaza and Chicago’s Drake, have long relied on their public spaces to help distinguish themselves.

But as hotel chains developed in the 1960s, designs became standardized and bland. Guests no longer selected hotels by the looks of the lobby but on the brand’s reputation.

A brief lobby renaissance kicked off in 1967 with the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The hotel’s 22-story atrium and rooftop revolving restaurant made it a tourist destination.

Similar hotels soon popped up in San Francisco, Houston, Detroit and Los Angeles. But the oil crises of 1973 and 1979 made heating and cooling giant atriums impractical.

Increased use of wheeled suitcases reduced the need for bellmen and the space they occupied. The lobby became a place to swipe a credit card, get a room key and leave.

By the 1980s, they resembled bunkers, with low ceilings and few windows.

“The industry really failed

by letting the lobbies get hollow,” says Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson.

Then in 1984, Ian Schrager and his business partner Steve Rubell — the men behind the famed 1970s nightclub Studio 54 — opened the Morgans Hotel in New York.

The rooms were tiny. But its stylized lobby redefined the industry.

Robert Mapplethorpe photographs were commissioned for the walls. Nightclub music blared. When it first opened, locals waited behind red velvet ropes to enter.

“The lobby established the pricing of the hotel,” says NYU’s Hanson.

It would take more than a decade for chains to catch on. Then, in 1998, Starwood opened the W New York.

The lobby became the “living room.” Forget food. The emphasis was on drinks with higher profit margins. Guests clamored at the bar to buy $14 cosmopolitans and sour apple martinis.

Other hotel chains eventually followed with their own boutique brands, including Hyatt’s Andaz and InterContinental’s Indigo.

Marriott partnered with Schrager to launch its own “lifestyle” brand. But traditional convention, airport and city center hotels were largely ignored until now.

Revamping lobbies is a delicate balancing act: attract younger road warriors but don’t turn away baby boomers

with loud, thumping music.

Sheraton’s first lobby modernization came in 2006 when it partnered with Microsoft to provide free computers. Soon it was selling Starbucks to lingering guests.

“As people spent more time in the lobby, they were more willing to purchase food and beverages,” says Hoyt Harper, the senior vice president in charge of Sheraton.

Nearly 15.1 million — or half of — Sheraton guests use the computers each year. Just 5.8 million use the gym.

Pushing through costly renovations isn’t easy. Most chain hotels are owned by smaller companies that must meet the larger brand’s standards in exchange for using the Sheraton, Marriott or Hyatt name. Some need convincing to understand the benefits of spending millions on a lobby revamp.

For proof that the investment works, look no further than Destination Hotels and the $26 million renovation of its seaside L’Auberge Del Mar resort in Southern California.

Its new living room-style lobby features large doors that open out to the ocean, allowing the breeze to flow through. A fireplace warms guests on cold days as they enjoy $25 charcuterie plates and $12 hibiscus margaritas.

Prior to the renovation, the hotel sold $450,000 worth of food and drinks in its lobby each year. Today, it sells more than double that.

After years of decline, U.S. births leveling off?

Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — After falling four years in a row, U.S. births may finally be leveling off.

The number of babies born last year — a little shy of 4 million — is only a few hundred less than the number in 2011, according to a government report released Friday.

That suggests that lately, fewer couples may be scared away from having children because of the economy or other factors, some experts say. Among the signs of a possible turning point: The birth rate for women in their early 30s inched up for the first time since 2007.

“We may be on level course or potentially even see a rise” in birth trends in the near future, said Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some are a bit more pessimistic.

“The decline has slowed down, but it’s still a decline,” said Carol Hogue, an Emory University expert on birth trends.

Falling births is a relatively new phenomenon in this country. Births were on the rise since the late 1990s and hit an all-time high of more than 4.3 million in 2007.

The drop that followed was widely attributed to the nation’s flagging economy.

Experts believed that many women or couples who were out of work or had other money problems felt they couldn’t afford to start or add to their family.

The economy officially was in a recession from December 2007 until June 2009. But well into 2011, polls showed most Americans remained gloomy, citing anemic hiring, a depressed housing market and other factors.

The new CDC report is a first glimpse at 2012 birth certificate data from state health departments, but the numbers aren’t expected to change much.

Highlights of the report include: •The birth rate for all women of childbearing age — 63 births per 1,000 women — was essentially flat from the year before.

•Rates dropped for

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Hispanic women, 2 percent, and blacks, 1 percent, but less than the previous year.

The rate continued to stay the same for whites, rose 4 percent for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, and fell slightly for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

•Rates fell again for women in their early 20s, down 3 percent from 2011.

That’s the lowest mark for women in that age group since 1940, when comprehensive national birth records were first compiled.

•For women in their late 20s, birth rates fell 1 percent. That age group accounts for more than a quarter of all of the nation’s births. The rate rose a slight 1 percent for women in their early 30s, who have nearly as many babies as women in their late 20s.

•Rates also rose 2 percent for moms ages 35 and older, and 1 percent for women in their early 40s. Rates in older moms have been rising slightly in recent years, despite the overall downward trend. Experts say that’s because older women generally have better jobs or financial security, and are more sensitive to the ticking away of their biological clocks.

•Birth rates for teen moms have been falling since 1991 and hit yet another historic low. The number

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In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a family nurse practitioner, right, examines a newborn girl accompanied by her mother in Portland, Ore. After falling four years in a row, U.S. births may finally be leveling off. The number of births in 2012 was almost 4 million - only a few hundred less than the number in 2011, according to a government report released Friday.

of babies born to teens last year — about 305,000 — is less than half the peak of nearly 645,000 in 1970.

The teen birth rate has been cut in half since 1991, said Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, who called it a “stunning turnaround.”

Experts attribute that decline to a range of factors, including less sex and more use of contraception.

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tion studying medical technology at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky. and is currently employed at Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy as medical laboratory scientist.

Her fiance is a 2007 graduate of Fort Loramie High School and is currently employed at L&J Cable in Russia as the warehouse floor manager.

Their reception will be held at St. Remy Hall in Russia.

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he engagement of Noelle Elise Ranalli to Ivan Joseph Reiber Jr. is announed by their parents, Chris and Patricia Ranalli of Galloway and Cliff and Karen Baker and Ivan and Shirley Reiber, all of Piqua.

The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Franklin Heights High School and is a student at Mount Carmel College of Nursing,

been rising steadily since 1996, until it dropped slightly in 2010.

Even if the C-section rate has peaked, it’s still too high — particularly in certain states, Emory’s Hogue said. For example, last year 40 percent of births were C-sections in Louisiana, and more than 38 percent in New Jersey, Mississippi and Florida, the report found.

“There’s a lot of room for improvement,” she said.

Palsgrove deployed on USS Harry S. Truman

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eslie Kay Hoelscher and B r a n d o n Scott Phlipot announce their upcoming wedding on Sept. 14, at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Newport.

She is the daughter of Jeff and Lori Hoelscher of Fort Loramie. Dennis and Lori Phlipot, also of Fort Loramie, are parents of the bridegroom.

The bride-elect is a 2006 graduate of Fort Loramie High School.

She pursued her educa-

Another report highlight: About 33 percent of births last year were delivered through Cesarean section — a rate unchanged from the previous two years.

C-sections are sometimes medically necessary. But health officials believe many are done out of convenience or unwarranted caution, and in the 1980s set a goal of keeping the national rate at 15 percent.

The C-section rate had

where she is studying to receive a bachelor of science in nursing.

The bridegroom is a 2003 graduate of Lehman Catholic High School and a 2007 graduate of The Ohio State University, where he received a bachelor of science in business administration.

The couple is planning an October wedding at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Columbus.

NORFOLK, Va. — Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Kristopher A. Palsgrove, son of Nicole R. and Steven A. Palsgrove of Piqua, along with other sailors assigned aboard the nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) arrived in the U.S. 5th Fleet’s Area of Responsibility (AOR) after the ship completed a routine transit through the Suez Canal.

Palsgrove is on a scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions for Operation Enduring Freedom.

Palsgrove deployed July 22 from Norfolk, Va. Palsgrove is a 2010 graduate of Piqua High School of Piqua and joined the Navy in March 2011.

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Police Reports Sept. 1 Assault: Police responded to the 1300 block of Forest Avenue after a female assaulted her exboyfriend following a dispute the two of them had at the residence. The female was cited with assault.

Suspicious person: Police responded to the 1000 block of Jill Court after a subject was outside yelling about a theft from a nearby apartment. The subject was found to have missed her medication.

Criminal damage: Police responded to the La Quinta Inn, 950 E. Ash St., after a male subject punched out a window

at the business during an altercation with another male, which resulted in the subject receiving a severe laceration to his arm.

The male was transported to the hospital and was cited for criminal damage.

Sex offense: Police began investigating an alleged sex offense case involving two minors that occurred about three weeks ago.

Theft: Police responded to the 500 block of Adams Street after medication was stolen from a woman’s purse.

Disorderly conduct: Police responded to the 300 block of South Main Street after an “intoxicated” man came to a

home demanding money. The intoxicated man was warned for disorderly conduct.

Criminal damage: Police responded to the 700 block of Downing Street after a person through a vodka bottle through a car window.

Sept. 2 Mental health: Police responded to the 1000 block of Jill Court after a woman tried jumping out of a two-story window. She was transported by paramedics to the hospital.

Disturbance: Police responded to the 400 block of Glenwood Avenue after a complainant

advised her brother was threatening her.

Criminal damage: Police responded to the 1200 block of Garbry Street after someone threw a brick through a side window of a vehicle.

Theft: Police responded to the 600 block of Roosevelt Avenue after prescription pills were stolen from a purse.

Police investigation: Police responded to the intersection of North Wayne Street and Riverside Drive after a “male was in the park after hours practicing a performance art.”

The man was told to move along.

Sept. 3 Theft: Police responded to the Salvation Army Family Store, 8225 Looney Road, after a shopper placed her purse down and walked away for a moment. When she returned the purse was gone.

Sept. 5 Disturbance: Police responded to the 400 block of Young Street after a man’s girlfriend became drunk and was causing problems at the house. The female agreed to leave for the night.

Theft: Police responded to the 300 block of Fifth Street after a vehicle was broken into and a hat was stolen.

Marriages Douglas Lee Clark, 35, of 8785 State Route 66 Lot#12, Piqua to Mary Fay Richendollar, 32, of same address.

B ra d Wi l l i a m Strayer, 23, ,of 695 Banyon Tree Way Apt. B, Tipp City to Shelby Nicole Studebaker, 21, of 1659 S. Greenlee Rd., Ludlow Falls.

Nathaniel Adam Klaus, 31, of 5525 S carff Rd., New Carlisle to Franziska Katharina Neumann, 36, of 1120 Bunker Hill Rd., Troy.

A n d re w Jo h n Ross, 24, of 1144 Stephenson Dr., Apt. D, Troy to Jessica Marie Westfall, 28, of same address.

Keith Allan Lock Jr., 745 Bellaire Dr., Tipp City to Jennifer Marie Hoover-Crabtree, 30, of same address.

Timothy Jordan Payne, 28, of 2655 W. Homer St., No. 2, Chicago, Ill. to Jamie Michelle Ullmer, 28, of same address.

Todd Allen Battson, 47, of 802 McKinley Ave., Piqua to Lori Annette NElson, 49, of same address.

Montana Jo e Schultz, 26, of 1380 Chelsea Rd., Troy to Destiny DeAnn Cox, 21, of same address.

Beau Allen Jay, 33, of 224. N. High St., Covington to Jennifer Lynn Fugate, 37, of same address.

A n d re w A a ro n Micheal Wolfe, 20, of 400 Hess St ., Bradford to Skylar Rae Bannon, 18, of same address.

Rufus William Judd, 46, of 6845 Marjean Drive, Tipp City to Jill Ann Sizemore, 45, of same address.

Ro s s S cott Wickstrom, 25, of 587 Century Dr., Cameron, N.C. to Jessica Marie Wichie, 25, of same address.

David Lynn Brown, 46, of 10 W. First St., Fletcher to Solena Kay Mead, 38, of same address.

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Shaffer, 31, of 680 Stonyridge Ave., Troy to Amanda Dawn Staley, 31, of same address.

David Todd Salyers, 47, of 8 Chinook Ct., Tipp City to Jodie Rae Whitmer, 57, of same address.

Edgar Dan Demmitt, 21, of 855 S. State Route 202, Troy to Chelsea Elizabeth Dickens, 21, of 2225 Pleasant View Dr., Troy.

Michael Lee Simon, 58, of 303 W. Water St., Troy to Bridget Swick Jackson, 51, of 610 Michigan Ave., Troy.

Michael William Maiden, 42, of 1130 Parkview Dr., Troy to Beverly Ann Cantrell, 52, of same address.

Alan Jeffrey Grillot, 31, of 8051 W. Mason Rd., Sidney to Lindsay Carroll Shipman, 26, of 1140 N. Sunset Dr., Piqua.

Barry Milton Pawson, 56, of 5260 E. State Route 571, Tipp City to Toni

Marie Massa, 52, of same address.

Magnum Daniel Napier-Scott, 21, of 100 Lowry Dr., Apt. 2, West Milton to Shannon Irene May, 18, of same address.

Brandon William Saunders, 20, of 3919 Fenner Rd., Troy to Whitney Lynn Harshman, 21, of same address.

Jacob Alan Knoop, 28, of 8510 CasstownFletcher Rd. Fletcher to Cassidy Lynn Shaw, 26, of same address.

John David Jakubek, 45, of 5469 1/2 Inglewood Blvd., Culver City, Calif. to Angela Marie Sandlin, 42, of same address.

Kristofer Swadener Martin, 34, of 205 Dwight Drive, Tipp City to Mindy Ellen Bierer, 34, of same address.

Vi n c e n t Ju l i u s Brackman, 38, of 1180 Gre e n f i e l d Dr., Troy to Michele Marie Nadasi, 35, of same address.

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Bowerman, 28, of 704 Blaine Ave., Piqua to Megan Ann Davidson, 29, of 1604 Nicklin Ave., Piqua.

C h a rl e s Blair Robinson, 31, of 2222 Fenner Rd., Troy to Tiffany Nicole Howett, 30, of same address.

Ju s t i n Miles Ingram, 23, of 5545 State Route 718, Troy to Samantha Ann Calvert, 20, of 1482 Sussex Rd., Troy.

Nicholas Rya n Deringer, 28, of 727 Robinson Ave., Piqua to Christine Lynn Pollock, 28, of same address.

Lawrence Anthony Phillips, 25, of 240 Coach Dr., Tipp City to Kenzie Alise Klingenberg, 23, of same address.

Eric Jackson, 27, of 1445 South Alcony Conover, Troy to Heather Lynn Ford, 36, of 1323 Imperial Ct. Apt. H, Troy.

Chance Allen Turner, 33, of 1602 Dover Ave., Piqua

to Heather Renee Wilkin, 26, of same address.

Brian E d w a rd Sherman, 27, of 914 Gordon, Piqua to Angel Dawn Brake, 26, of same address.

Ray Anthony Wiley, 32, of 420 W. Ash St., Piqua to Karina Sue Moser, 28, of same address.

Stephen Christopher Stapleton, 26, of 665 NW Gurley Ct., Poulsbo, Wash. to Mary Kathleen Iams, 29, of same address.

Ke v i n Michael Maine, 39, of 4432 Pine Brook Ct ., Centerville to Jaime Ellen Taylor, 32, of 101 S. 7th St., Tipp City.

Paul Allen Stout, 23, of 3827 N. Freemont St., Apt. 2E, Chicago, Ill. to Lindsey Louise Usserman, 22, of same address.

Alan Clifton Dodson, 43, of 414 S. Main St., Laura to Jennifer Denise Dodson, 37, of same address.

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Bruce Long, Nancy Long to Levi Long, 1.873 acres, $0.

Kelly Monnin, Michael Monnin to Lisa McKinney, 0.717 acres, $112,000.

Lisa McKinney to Ryan McKinney, 8.2753 acres, $0.

Larry Eichhorn, Patricia Eichhorn to Larry Eichhorn, Patricia Eichhorn, 46.8046 acres, 15.6587 acres, $0.

Kalo, 12.859 acres, $320,000.

Brian Grattan, Jennifer Grattan to Darrell Lochtefeld, Diane Lochefeld, 10.331 acres, $81,000.

Deborah Wright, Jeffrey Wright to Monica Rose, Stephen Wright, 1.266 acres, 1.5 acres, 1.329 acres, $0.

Property Transfers Troy Wendy Blair Compton to E. Joseph Lowe MD Inc. Profit Sharing Trust, E. Joseph Lowe, M.D., trustee, one lot, $68,000.

Cheryl Mote to Ram Rentals LLC. , two part lots, $0.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp, Fely & Lembright Co. LPA, power of attorney to Jeremy Abdon, Joann Abdon, one lot, $65,000.

Amy Bechtol, Collin Bechtol to Amy Bechtol, Collin Bechtol, one lot, $0.

Kim Gainer, Shawn Gainer to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $111,000.

Autumn Storer, Shaun Storer to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $164,900.

Jon Mauk, Kristen Mauk to Randall Leach, one lot, $285,000.

Melissa Wannemacher to John A. Wannemacher Jr., two part lots, $0.

James Callahan, Letha Callahan to Troy Christian Schools Inc., 0.1317 acres, $0.

Renee Begley, Scott Begley Renee Machacek to Deborah Tippie, Nathan Tippie, one lot, $210,000.

Adam Stahl, Julie Stahl to Ana Rose Matherson, Craig Matherson, one lot, $157,500.

Estate of Norma Hufford, Maxine Fausey, executor to Thomas Patrick Jr., Tina Patrick, one lot, $48,500.

Janet Johnson to Myrle Briggs, one lot, $112,000.

Beverly Cox, Edward Cox to Edward Cox, Carla Anne Mercer, Amy Louise Voris, one lot, one part lot, $0.

James Barr, Margaret Barr to James Barr, Thomas Barr, Kelly Sue Blair, Amy Marie Galbreath, one lot, $0.

Eileen Flinn Trust, Kay Hale, successor trustee, Ted W. Murray, successor trustee to Jeffrey Oda, Robin Oda, one lot, $110,000.

Estate of Jane E.

Tillman, Debra K. Miller, co-executor, Dawn Smith, co-executor to Robert Rudy, one lot, $88,600.

Piqua Alice Fuller, Myron Fuller to Karen Collum, one lot, $82,000.

Aaron Graves, Julie Graves a.k.a.

Julie Sheehan, Scott Sheehan to Julie Graves, two part lots, $0.

Julie Graves to Julie Graves, James Marr, two part lots, $0.

Gerald Weinschenk, Pauline Weinschenk to Jeri Sawyer, Jane Vlahos, Steven Weinschenk, two part lots, $0.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Donald Stegman, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, two part lots, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one part lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, two part lots, $0.

Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, one lot, $0.

Joyce Hertlein to Elizabeth Hertlien, two lots, $0.

Ronald Leathem to Chad Vanvoorhis, a part lot, $9,000.

Thomas Slife to Melissa Slife, Thomas Slife, a part lot, $0.

Peter Kelly Jr. to Tresa Ruby, one lot, $0.

Cammy Anderson,

Jason Anderson to JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., one lot, $37,000.

Haley Wolfe to Christopher Wolfe, Wendy Wolfe, one lot, $0.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Richard Gibson, Karyn Littlejohn, one lot, $0.

Brenda Rhodes, Richard Rhodes to Scott Edgell, Sherry Edgell, one lot, $60,000.

Huber Heights Kylene Hussong to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $100,200.

Poetry Potts, William Potts to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $192,800.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $33,000.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $0.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $48,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $47,000.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $48,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $48,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $48,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $46,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $40,500.

Anita Kennedy to Hard Times Farms LLC, 41.712

acres, 19.132 acres, 21.25 acres, $0.

Tipp City Laura Roop, William Roop to Gerald F. Brown Jr., one lot, $117,500.

Bryan Blake, executor, Estate of Ellen K. Cotterman to R. Adam Blake, a part lot, 0.348 acres, $30,100.

Bryan Blake, executor, Estate of Ellen K. Cotterman to R. Adam Blake, a part lot, $135,100.

Anna Marie Peiser, Julia Peiser to Carolyn Glaser, Davis Glaser, one lot, $25,000.

Steve Bruns, president, Bruns General Contracting Division, RCS Division & Homes, Rockford Lumber & Supply Inc. to Karla Peffly, William Peffly, one lot, $255,000.

Beverly Greene, Thomas Greene to Monica Malcein, one lot, $280,000.

Joseph Mains, Mona Mains to Kayla Keyt, Matthew Keyt, two part lots, $180,000.

Betty D. Borchers Trust, Betty Borchers, cotrustee, Nelson Borchers Trust, Thomas Dysinger, co=trustee, to Harvey Perrault, Jane Perrault, one lot, $48,000.

William Leffler to Loaine Leffler, one lot, $0.

West Milton David Luke to Sandy Luke, one lot, $0.

PNC Bank N.A. to Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, one lot, $0.

Mary Beth Roberts, Randy Roberts to Miranda Fox, one lot, $160,000.

Matthew Minneman to John Flint, one lot, $125,000.

Staunton Twp. David Hale, Debra Hale to Randy Hendricks, Theresa Hendricks, 1.133 acres, $71,500.

Patricia Roeth, Richard E. Roeth to Living Trust of Patricia Roeth, Richard Roeth, co-trustee, Patricia Roeth, co-trustee, 39.430

Bradford Lori Swob to Michael Kesler, one lot, $10,000.

Casstown JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. to Guy Welbaum, one lot, $25,000.

Covington Roland Peters to Patricia Peters, one lot, $0.

James Thompson, Julianne Thompson to Julie Jennings, Jenny Long, Lois Strayer, one lot, $115,000.

Kristine Knapp a.k.a.

Kristine Lewber to Kristin Lewber, two lots, $0.

Bethel Twp. Doris Miller to Doris Miller Trust, Doris Miller, trustee, one lot, $0.

Doris Miller Trust, Doris Miller, trustee, to Vickie Knops, one lot, $150,000.

Brown Twp. HSBC Mortgage Services Inc. to James Walters, one lot, $24,000.

Concord Twp. Lois Miller to Wells Fargo Bank N.A., one lot, $0.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to JII Properties Inc., one lot, $99,000.

Jamie Long, Jeremiah Long to Casey Schilperoot, Shelley Schilperoot, one lot, $94,900.

Bryan Ross, Regina Ross to Bryan Ross, Regina Ross, 0.723 acres, $0.

Elizabeth Twp. Vickie Knops to Erin Clements Kalo, Steven

Lostcreek Twp. Larry Eichhorn, Patricia Eichhorn to Larry Eichhorn, 130 acres, 30 acres, $0.

Monroe Twp. Terry Williams to Robin Williams, Terry Williams, 12.925 acres, $0.

Michael Speck, trustee, Silvia Speck, trustee to Sylvia Fong Kwan, one lot, $0.

Sylvia Fong Kwan to Sylvia Fong, Silvia Speck, one lot, $0.

Diahann Blair, Jaydee Blair to Diahann Blair, Jaydee Blair, 3.427 acres, $0.

Larissa Plymale, William Plymale to Philip Plummer, one lot, $125,000.

Newberry Twp. Federal Home Loan Mortgage, Lerner Sampson & Rothfuss to Deborah Martin, Lewis Martin, 1.00 acre, $64,900.

Springcreek Twp. Randy Joe Packman, Sharon Packman to Douglas Lillicrap, Jacquelne Lillicrap, 0.693 acres, $56,000.

John Williams, Lori Williams to Ann Levering, John Levering, one lot, $280,000.

Ethan Hines to Kindrea Hines, 5.351 acres, $0.

Union Twp. Bryn Shipe, Kevin Shipe to Bryn Shipe, Kevin Shipe, 10.015 acres. $0.

Washington Twp. Shannon Howard, Tina Howard to William Howard, 3.336 acres, $0.

Paul Rank to Jerry Grise, one lot, $145,000.

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Obama notes split over Syria attack, plans speech Josh Lederman Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Barack Obama acknowledged deep divisions at home and abroad on Friday over his call for military action in Syria — and conceded the possibility he’ll fail to sway the American public.

He refused to say whether he would act without passage of congressional authorization for a strike in response to chemical weapons use.

Setting the stage for an intense week of lobbying in Washington over the strike resolution, Obama said he planned to make his case to the American people in an address Tuesday night.

Obama laid out in new detail his reasoning for seeking congressional approval, saying it was because the use of chemical weapons in Syria didn’t pose an imminent threat to the United States or its allies — situations in which he said he would have responded immediately.

But he said the use of weapons of mass destruction is a long-term threat to the United States and the world, and the U.S. has the ability to respond

with air strikes without the risk of putting troops on the ground.

“It’s conceivable at the end of the day I don’t persuade a majority of the American people that it’s the right thing to do,” Obama acknowledged.

“And then each member of Congress is going to have to decide.”

Obama, speaking at the end of a two-day Group of 20 economic summit, earlier held a surprise meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a chief opponent of U.S. military action.

Both Obama and Putin said that while they still disagreed, the meeting was constructive.

Obama, in his news conference, seemed to be feeling the burden of the challenge he faces in persuading the American public, the international community and Congress to back military action.

But he expressed confidence the American people and lawmakers, weary after long-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, would listen.

“I trust my constituents want me to offer my best judgment. That’s why they elected me. That’s why they re-elected me,” he said.

Ten members of the

Group of 20 joined the United States in a joint statement accusing the Syrian government of carrying out a chemical weapons attack on civilians last month and calling for a strong international response against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The statement stopped short of explicitly calling for military action against Syria, but administration officials argued that it amounted to support of Obama’s move toward targeted military strikes.

The countries signing the statement with the U.S. were Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Seeking to rally support back in Washington, the administration planned another classified briefing for all lawmakers next Monday night after Congress returns, and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough planned to attend the closed-door Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday morning, according to a congressional aide.

Although surveys showed a significant number of House Republicans

family’s life in 2011 when a neighbor fishing along Havana’s Malecon seawall found Pancho near death, practically featherless and without any appetite.

Knowing that Guerrero takes in animals, the neighbor brought the pelican to her door.

The bird is a 3-yearold Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis, or Caribbean brown pelican, whose habitat ranges from the southern United States to the Brazilian Amazon.

A veterinarian prescribed a regimen of medicine and curative creams, and Guerrero nursed him through what seemed an unlikely recovery.

Pancho’s plumage has long since recovered its silky brown luster and he’s strong enough to flap his wings vigorously, but against expectations he never rejoined his brothers and sisters at sea.

“It’s been like this for a year and a half,” said Guerrero, a homemaker and mother of a 13-yearold son.

She repeatedly tried

to reintroduce Pancho into the wild down at the Malecon, but he ignored other pelicans flying past.

He might enjoy a dip in the sea and take flight briefly, but would always alight at her side. When she went to leave, he simply followed her on foot back to 23rd Street.

Guerrero said Pancho frequently accompanies her on walks and responds when she calls his name, even obeying commands to jump up on park benches. He also has a possessive streak, rubbing her ears with his long beak — and jabbing the beak at others who approach her.

“Just imagine, sometimes he doesn’t even let me get near her,” said Freddy de Leon, Guerrero’s 48-year-old husband.

Pancho behaves as if he’s just another member of the household, climbing up on the wooden rocking chairs. He sleeps in a bucket and gets daily hose-baths in the patio.

Sometimes he flaps up to the roof to bask in the

and Democrats opposed to military action or leaning against it, officials in the leadership insisted it was premature to say the resolution could not be approved.

At this stage, just a third of the House and Senate have participated in classified briefings and Obama is still reaching out to lawmakers.

Still, final passage rests on significant votes from House Republicans and Democrats, and the administration is struggling to reach those numbers.

A spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who is backing authorization, said Obama needs to make a convincing case to the public Tuesday night.

“Members of Congress represent the views of their constituents, and only a president can convince the public that military action is required.

We only hope this isn’t coming too late to make the difference,” spokesman Brendan Buck said.

Obama said he and other leaders at the summit had had a “full airing of views on the issue” during a three-hour dinner Thursday night.

He said the leaders were unanimous in

believing that chemical weapons were used in Syria and that international norms against that use must be maintained.

He said division comes over whether action must come through the United Nations.

Putin said that the U.S. push for military action has been supported only by Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia and France.

Putin said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a “very cautious attitude.”

He said that many others along with Russia and China voiced their opposition to the military action, including India, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Italy.

“The use of force against a sovereign nation is only possible as self-defense — and Syria hasn’t attacked the United States — and on approval of the U.N. Security Council,” Putin said. “Those who do otherwise place themselves outside the law.”

Russia on Friday warned the United States and its allies against striking any chemical weapon storage facilities in Syria.

The Russian foreign ministry said such targeting could release toxic

chemicals and give militants or terrorist access to chemical weapons.

“This is a step toward proliferation of chemical weapons not only across the Syrian territory but beyond its borders,” the Russian statement said.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin said Russia was boosting its naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea, moving in warships into the area and stoking fears about a larger international conflict if the United States orders airstrikes.

Illustrating the risks associated with a strike, the State Department ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon, a step under consideration since last week when Obama said he was contemplating military action against the Syrian government.

Before his scheduled return to Washington late Friday, Obama also met with Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists, calling attention to another area of disagreement with Moscow.

Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler and Donna Cassata in Washington and Julie Pace, Angela Charlton, Nataliya Vasilyeva and Vladimir Isachenkov in St. Petersburg contributed to this report.

Pancho the Pelican an urban celebrity in Havana Andrea Rodriguez Associated Press

HAVANA (AP) — Pancho the Pelican apparently prefers the company of humans to his own kind, and the grit of the big city to a life spent soaring through the breeze above the Caribbean Sea. The wayward seabird has become the toast of 23rd Street, a bustling Havana thoroughfare where the 2-foot-tall Pancho waddles down the sidewalk, wings spread and beak agape, as delighted children point and smoky 1950s Chevrolets rumble past.

He’s on a first-name basis with neighbors who’ve come to see him as one of their own.

Paperboys greet him each morning with cries of “Panchoooooo, the paaaaaaper’s here!”

“When I saw him, it was love at first sight,” said Magela Guerrero, Pancho’s 32-year-old adopted “mom,” of whom he’s fiercely protective.

The bird came into her

Ramon Espinosa | AP Photo

Pancho the Pelican walks along a street in Havana on Thursday. The wayward seabird has become the toast of 23rd Street, a bustling thoroughfare where Pancho waddles down the sidewalk.

sun.

Perhaps his easy demeanor shouldn’t be surprising. Guerrero and de Leon’s home is a veritable menagerie of animals that they say coexist peacefully despite including both predators and potential prey: three dogs and a cat, a hawk, another bird of prey called a kestrel, a parrot, three turtles and a goose.

“It’s like a zoo here,”

Religious sect raided in Germany on abuse fears David Rising Associated Press

B E R LI N (AP) — Police raided a Christian sect in southern Germany, taking 40 children into foster care on suspicion they were being physically abused and seizing sticks allegedly used to hit them, authorities said Friday.

Augsburg prosecutors said they had opened an official investigation into an undetermined number of the adult members of the socalled “Twelve Tribes” sect on suspicion of causing serious bodily harm and mistreatment of children.

“The suspicion is that they hit their children — with sticks, for example,” said spokesman Christian Engelsberger.

“We don’t know who it was, though, so the investigation is against unknown persons.”

About 100 Bavarian police raided the sect’s premises on Thursday, confiscating evidence including the sticks

alleged to have been used, Engelsberger said.

They also found rooms where the abuse is alleged to have taken place, Engelsberger said.

Authorities say 28 of the children were found at one of the sect’s locations in the area of the town of Deinigen, and 12 others in the Woernitz area.

The sect said in a statement on its website that the children were aged 1 ½ to 17 and that members were told they would remain with foster parents at least until a court hearing next week.

“Where is the legal basis here?” the statement said. “People cannot be found guilty based on their association with a religious faith. … There was no direct evidence against any individual provided.”

Still, in a description of the U.S.-founded sect’s beliefs, the

group said its members believe in spanking their children, though “we know that some people consider this aspect of our life controversial.”

“We love our children and consider them precious and wonderful — because we love them we do spank them…” the group said. “When they are disobedient or intentionally hurtful to others we spank them with a small reed-like rod, which only inflicts pain and not damage.”

The sect, founded by a Tennessee high school teacher in the 1970s, today has about 2,000 to 3,000 members worldwide, according to its website.

They have previously had problems in Germany for violating laws on homeschooling their children.

Its practices have run afoul of the law in the U.S. as well, including in 2000 in Connecticut where a couple belonging to the

group pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and cruelty for disciplining their children with a 30-inch (76-centimeter) fiberglass rod.

In 1984, authorities raided the group in Vermont and removed 112 children on abuse allegations. A judge later ruled the raid illegal and returned the children to their parents.

The raids in Germany came after an undercover reporter for RTL television passed on evidence he had accumulated over months of work, the station reported.

Engelsberger said he could not comment on where the tip came from, but said initially an area family court had ordered the children removed after receiving evidence, then his office began a legal probe after the sticks and other evidence were found during the raids.

Guerrero said. “Kids always stop to look.”

The family has contacted a local aquarium about finding a mate for Pancho, but there’s no romance on the horizon yet.

Guerrero said the bird gulps down about 2 1/4 pounds (1 kilogram) of fish a day.

His species needs a steady saline intake, so she feeds it to him in

buckets of saltwater that a neighbor hauls in plastic bottles from the sea 10 blocks away.

“His favorite is sardines, but I’ve bought him everything,” Guerrero said. “At the fish market, we are well-known, regular clients.”

It’s no wonder Pancho doesn’t leave, with all those sardines served up by a doting adopted mama.

Pakistani education activist Malala honored

Mike Corder Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, was honored Friday with the Children’s Peace Prize for her work promoting education for girls in her homeland.

The 16-year-old said she accepted the prize in the historic Knights’ Hall in The Hague “on behalf of all of the children in the world who are trying to go to school, and all of those parents who are overcoming fear and intimidation — or cultural opposition — to give their sons and daughters the chance of an education.”

Malala was 15 when she and two of her friends were attacked on their way home from school in Pakistan’s northwest Swat Valley.

She survived a gunshot wound to her head and now attends school in England after being flown there for treatment.

She harked back to the attack that turned her into a household name in her emotional acceptance speech.

“In my home country of Pakistan, the Taliban uses terror to try and stop girls going to school,” she said. “I was just one target for their vio-

lence. There are many others whose names are not known.

It is for them that we must continue our campaign to ensure that all children in the world have the chance to go to school.”

Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman handed Malala the prize, calling her “my hero” and saying “you have become an inexhaustible source of inspiration to millions of girls.”

Malala celebrated her 16th birthday on July 12 by giving a speech at the U.N. in New York, telling the body that the attack gave her new courage while demanding world leaders provide free education to all children.

The U.N. had declared her birthday “Malala Day,” but she insisted it was “the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.”

The Children’s Peace Prize is awarded each year by a Dutch foundation to honor the achievements of an inspirational child activist.

The first prize was awarded posthumously in 2005 to South African youngster Nkosi Johnson for his work on behalf of children in his home country with HIV. The award carries a prize of €100,000 that this year will be invested in education projects for girls in Pakistan.

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IN BRIEF ■ Golf

Two teams card 28 at Echo Hills Browning Plumbing and Four Dudes shared low gross in the Thursday Industrial League closing scramble.

The Browning Plumbing foursome of Ron Pearson Jr., Ryan Pearson, Jeff Jennings and Dominick Jennings and Four Dudes foursome of Mike Bosse, John Simpson, Jeff Elliott and Joe Bundy both combined for 28.

Team Jim Sherry Chrysler (Dan Penrod, Dave Vosler, Mick Leffel, Rick Krejci) was low net with 19.25, while Team Staley Plumbing (Kirt Huemmer, Scott Erwin, Tom Staley, Rick Rouse) was second with 20.25.

■ Volleyball

Bradford JH splits with Trail The Bradford junior high volleyball teams split two matches with National Trail.

The eighth grade, 2-1, won 25-8, 25-16.

Ivee Brubaker had one assist, while Brooke Fair had four points, two aces and one kill.

Hannah Fout had four points, one ace and four assists; while Samantha Grow had eight points, three aces, one kills and six assists.

Valerie Kissinger had 12 points, six aces and seven kills; while Aspen Weldy had four points, two aces and one kill.

Bailey Wysong added 10 points, one ace and three kills.

The seventh grade, 1-2, lost 25-16, 25-17.

■ Baseball

Reds get win over Dodgers CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto emerged from his deep slump with a single and a two-run homer Friday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, who had another starting pitcher get hurt.

The NL West leaders lost Chris Capuano to a mild groin strain in the second inning, when he grimaced on a pitch to Zack Cozart. Already this week, the Dodgers had to push Hyun-Jin Ryu back from a scheduled start because of a sore back.

Mike Leake (12-6) emerged from his recent slump, helping the Reds get their fourth win in their last five games.

STUMPER Before Peyton Q: Manning did it

Thursday, who was the last quarterback to throw seven TD passes in one NFL game?

A:

Joe Kapp

QUOTED "Peyton had an amazing night. Peyton's had a lot of amazing nights."

—John Fox on Peyton Manning’s record night

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Piqua running back Austin Reedy finds running room against Kings Friday night at Alexander Stadium/Purk Field.

Exciting from start to finish

Piqua suffers heartbreaking 24-23 loss to Kings ROB KISER Civitas Media It was an exciting game from two good football teams.

But, in the end, too many missed opportunities led to Piqua dropping a 24-23 decision to Kings at Alexander Stadium/Purk Field.

“When you get in those kind of situations against a good football team like Kings, you have to be able to take advantage,” Piqua football coach Bill Nees said.

And the last two minutes kind of summed up the night for the Indians.

Piqua had taken a 2317 lead with a little over four minutes remaining when Tate Honeycutt caught a 16-yard TD pass from Dan Monnin. The two-point attempt appeared to be good on a pass from Monnin to Austin Reedy, but a clipping call forced Piqua to kick the extra point to make it 23-17.

Kings, starting on Piqua’s 48 after a long kickoff return by Jamison Williams, scored in a minute.

Matt Sannella ran it in from five yards out and Adam Woeste’s kick broke the tie and gave Kings a 24-23 lead with 3:04 remaining.

But, Tate Honeycutt nearly broke the kickoff return for Piqua, taking it back 45 yards to the Knights 35.

Monnin hit a big 12yard pass to Noah Gertner on third-and-nine from the 23 and for a first down at the 11.

On fourth-and-three from the four with less than two minutes remaining, Monnin drew Kings offsides making it fourthand-one from the two.

Piqua elected to go for the TD and there was a fumble on the snap with Sannella recovering at the one with 1:52 on the clock.

“Yes I did (consider the field goal),” Nees said.

“The way we had been running the ball, I thought we could punch it

Noah Lyman for 11 yards to the 19, but a two-yard pass in the flat to Colton Bachman nearly ran the clock out.

After Monnin spiked the ball, there was one second left on the clock and a missed field goal from 35 yards out ended the game.

“You know, we had a chance down at the goal line and gave ourselves another chance,” Nees said.

The game had gotten off to a rough start for Piqua.

The Indians fumbled the opening kickoff and fell behind 14-0 quickly as quarterback Ryan Maguire, who had 117 yards on 26 carries, had touchdown runs of one and 31 yards.

But, Derrick Gullett had an interception in the first quarter and the second quarter was all Piqua.

Honeycutt turned a short pass from Monnin into a 61-yard touchdown and Trent Yeomans broke free on a 56-yard run to tie game at 14.

Derrick Gullett intercepts a pass in front of Alex Thomas Friday night.

Kings then snapped the ball out of the end zone on a punt to put Piqua up 1614 and it would look like the Indians would add to that before a fumble stopped a drive deep in the Knights territory.

“The defense was kind of up and down tonight,” Nees said. “We did seem to have the momentum in the second quarter. There a are a lot of things you can look at (when you lose by one).”

Woeste had a 40-yard field in the third quarter to put Kings up 17-16, before the drama in the fourth quarter unfolded.

Monnin completed 17 of 22 passes on the night for 218 yards, with Honeycutt catching four passes for 116 yards to lead the receivers.

Yeomans went over 100 yards for the second straight game, rushing for 144 yards on 19 carries.

Trent Yeomans hauls in a pass as Tyler Knecht gives chase.

Piqua, 1-1, will be at in. Obviously, when it left and was able to force ball at the Kings 30 with home again Friday, look32 seconds to go and no ing to get back on track doesn’t work, it is the Kings to punt. when Lima Senior visits A 20-yard punt by the timeouts. wrong call.”

Monnin quickly hit in non-conference play.

Piqua had two timeouts Knights gave Piqua the

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Ouellette runs wild in Buccs win

Filling the air with footballs

NEW PARIS — The Miami East Vikings opened Cross County Conference play with a 42-13 victory over National Trail Friday night.

Miami East quarterback Conner Hellyer had it working from start to finish. He completed 9 of 11 passes for 222 yards in the first half. He added three TDs. Michael Fellers had a pair of rushing TDs and one receiving, while Alex Brewer and Dalton Allen both added scores.

“We’re pretty sure this is the first time we’ve been 2-0 since 1994,” Miami East coach Max Current said. “We’re pretty fired up.”

Current was also fired up about his offense and defense clicking on all cylinders.

“Last week, (our receivers) had six or seven drops,” Current said. “That really skewed Conner’s passing numbers. It was good to see him go out and do that. He was pretty accurate.

He did have one interception. He threw a couple long fades to Michael (Fellers) and Dalton Allen, and he

SIDNEY — Lehman and Minster filled the air with footballs Friday night, combining for 825 yards passing.

But the difference in a 33-18 victory for the Cavaliers was the consistency of the passing attack behind the strong and accurate right arm of Nick Rourke. He was 15-for-22 in the first half for 231 yards, 13-for-22 for 226 yards in the final two periods.

By contrast, Minster quarterback Josh Nixon had an amazing first half, hitting 13-for-22 for 309 yards.

But the Cavaliers kept him in check in the second half, 7-for-21 for 59 yards.

The Cavs even their record at 1-1 on the year heading into a lengthy trip to London Friday night for a 7:30 game.

Minster, meanwhile, is in a precarious position, falling to 0-2 before even embarking on Midwest Athletic Conference play.

The Wildcats open conference play Friday with the short trip down the road to rival New Bremen.

Despite the two touchdown victory, the Cavaliers found themselves down 12-0 in the early going.

After two punt exchanges to start the game, Nixon hit Wolf for a 75-yard touchdown on a short route, just two plays into Minster’s third possession of the game.

Then just moments later, Lehman fumbled the ball away and Minster took over

East beats Trail hit Brewer right before half. It was nice to see those guys get times up in the pass game.

“I thought our defense overall did a nice job of defending against the pass. We had a lot of penalties called on us. We had a punt return by Fellers called back. That’s the kind of things we have to clean up.”

Miami East (2-0, 1-0) will look stay undefeated against Ansonia Friday at home.

Covington 70, Arcanum 19 ARCANUM — Covington was well on its way to 2-0 by the end of the first half Friday night.

A.J. Ouellette had 11 carries for 330 yards and five touchdowns by half and the Buccs ran right past the Arcanum Trojans 70-19 to open Cross County Conference play.

Ouellette totaled 338 yards for the game — which is a new record at Covington. He also ran an interception back 94 yards with no time left to finish the game.

Covington (2-0, 1-0) continues CCC play Friday, hosting Mississinawa Valley.

Lehman rides Rourke’s right arm to victory

on the Cavs’ 25. On thirdand-goal from the one, Sam Dues punched it in for a 12-0 lead, the two-point conversion failing, like the PAT kick did after the first score.

It was crucial for Lehman to answer and the Cavs did, with Rourke throwing for 27 yards on first down from his own 31 to set the tone. He completed four passes on the drive, and on a fourth-andtwo at the Minster 10, Greg Spearman took it in for the score. The kick was good to cut it to 12-7 with :34 left in the opening period.

After Minster had a score taken off the board on a fairly obvious offensive pass interference call in the endzone, the Wildcats turned the ball over on downs at the Lehman 23.

The Cavs went to work again, with Rourke hitting four more passes, including Todd B. Acker | Civitas Photo a 34-yarder to John Husa on Lehman’s Clay Selsor runs with the ball as Minster’s Prater Otting third-and-eight. chases him.

He found his favorite tar- Spearman.The play worked After Minster fumbled get, Drew Westerheide, for to perfection and gave the the ball away in the endzone the score from 15 yards out Cavs the lead at the half at on fourth-and-goal from the with 6:11 remaining to make 20-13. one, Lehman took over at it 13-12.

Rourke came out with a the 20 and scored in eight Minster came back with a two-yard score to cap a vengeance in the second half plays, overcoming two penal57-yard drive, the key play and put on a clinic, complet- ties during the drive. Rourke being Nixon to Eli Wolf for ing his first eight passes. found Spearman again, this The very first one was on time for 13 yards with 2:32 36 yards on third-and-11.

Dues scored from the two the opening play of the sec- left in the third period, makfor an 18-13 Minster lead, ond half, when he found ing it 33-18.

Rourke finished with 457 but the Cavs answered right Spearman on a short route, back on a bit of “trickera- and the junior scatback yards passing for the Cavs. tion.” On third-and-9 at the turned it into a 76-yard score And Spearman, in addition Minster 46, Rourke hit Max with just eight seconds gone to his four scores, also had Schutt, who lateraled to off the third-quarter clock. an interception.

Meyer doesn’t like complacency Prefers to think of OSU as underdogs COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The large banner at one end of the Buckeyes’ indoor practice facility simply says, “The Chase.”

It doesn’t refer to being chased, but rather to chasing something or maybe someone else.

Even though his team might just be favored in every game on its schedule, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer refuses to believe that his team is anything other than an underdog. In other words, it’s a pursuer.

“Some people think we’re the hunted. I don’t feel that way at all,” Meyer said during preparations for Saturday’s game against San Diego State. “We are the hunter.

Everybody wants an angry football team, everybody wants a team on edge and a hungry team. And if you’re the hunter, that usually equates to being hungry. If you’re the king of the hill, then you just battle that bad word, complacency.”

Meyer believes teams get fat and happy when they’re on top — and Meyer despises fat and happy teams.

So even though the Buckeyes are picked to beat the Aztecs by four touchdowns on Saturday — and also that they’re riding the nation’s longest winning streak at 13 games — Meyer continues to push the mindset that they’ve accomplished nothing.

Here are five things to watch for in the matchup: AZTEC LA VISTA, BABY: The Aztecs are coming off a humbling 40-19 loss at home to FCS-member Eastern Illinois. They were out-

played and outcoached in every facet.

Coach Rocky Long says he’s not going to overreact to the defeat, even though it was a stunner.

“I try never to panic and I don’t fear anything,” he said. “If you’re a competitor, you don’t fear anything.”

This week, SDSU has focused on fundamentals and taking a small step forward instead of shocking the world at No. 3 Ohio State.

“We’re all working for one goal, which is to get better, go out there and compete this weekend,” said quarterback Adam Dingwell, who threw four picks in the embarrassing loss. “(We’re working on) becoming a better football team, so when conference (season) rolls around, we can get that 20th (Mountain West) championship.”

WELCOME BACK: The Buckeyes reinforce two thin positions with players coming off suspensions.

Bradley Roby, an All-Big Ten cornerback a year ago, returns after being benched for his role in a mid-summer bar skirmish. He’ll likely see plenty of action, both on defense and special teams.

Tailback Rod Smith also is back from a one-game sojourn for an unspecified violation of team rules. He’s on punt-return and -block teams, and will likely get some carries.

MUEMA’S THE WORD: Meyer called SDSU’s Adam Muema possibly the best running back the Buckeyes will face all season.

Muema injured an ankle early

in the opening game and didn’t return. But he has practiced all week and is expected to make up for lost time with lots of rushing attempts this week.

SAVING FUEL: Several of the Buckeyes said that after they rolled to a 23-0 first-period lead in their 40-20 win over Buffalo, for some reason they eased off the gas pedal.

They’ll make an effort to not repeat that mistake, since the Bulls twice pulled within 10 points and almost recovered a Braxton Miller fumble at the Ohio State 1 that might have made it a nail-biter.

“We had a good little struggle in the second half after getting up there,” wide receiver Chris Fields said.

The coaches have preached to not let that happen again.

AIR RAID: The Aztecs, partly because of Muema’s injury and partly out of desperation as they fell behind in the second half, called almost 70 pass plays last week.

It’s quality, not quantity, this week.

“I just have to get better,” Dingwell said. “If we need to throw the ball to win, that’s what we have to do. If we have to run the ball to win, that’s what we’ll do.”

The Buckeyes don’t expect that kind of air assault, but still have to be prepared for it. The defensive backfield hopes it gets tested.

“Our defense, especially our secondary, we feel like if they throw the ball we’ll make ‘em pay,” said AP Photo free safety Christian Bryant.

Braxton Miller and Ohio State are heavy favorites again today.

Gordon will start in front at Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jeff Gordon will try to race his way into NASCAR’s playoffs from the pole position.

The four-time series champion turned a trackrecord qualifying lap of 130.599 mph at Richmond International Raceway on Friday night to win his 73rd career pole position, and his first this season.

“I can breathe now,” Gordon joked after seeing the time hold up.

His lap pushed Kurt Busch to the outside of the front row, meaning the tension win be palpable once the green flag drops Saturday night for the 400-lap race around the 0.75-mile, D-shaped oval.

Busch is 10th in points, and the top 10 after Saturday night’s race earn automatic berths in the

10-race playoffs to finish the season.

Gordon is 11th, six points behind, and needs to pass Busch or one of the other drivers now in the top 10 to assure himself a berth in the Chase for the championship.

In all, 10 drivers are fighting for the last five spots.

“There’s no doubt we all recognize what’s on the line here,” Gordon said.

The pole extended to 21 Gordon’s NASCAR-record string of consecutive seasons with a pole position, breaking a tie with David Pearson, and gave him the No. 1 pit stall on the front stretch at RIR. “I didn’t think it was going to come this year.

I’ll be honest,” Gordon said of the top starting spot. “Qualifying has not

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Jeff Gordon signs autographs during qualifying for Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. Gordon won the pole.

been very good for me and for our team this year.

Very proud of this one.

Boy, it comes at a great time. … We know how important that number one pit stall is and starting up front.”

Busch, the 2004 series champion, rallied after being 19th-fastest in practice, possible with the help of cloud cover that moved in front of the sun just as he was wheeling onto the track for his run.

“We will take the cloud cover and we will take those adjustments we made,” Busch said, adding that “we just threw a couple of things at it, and it stuck. … That lap came out of nowhere. Awesome lap.”

Defending series champion Brad Keselowski, who is 15th in points and still has a remote chance of racing his way into the Chase, will start third, followed by Clint Bowyer and Matt Kenseth.

Bowyer and Kenseth are among the drivers already locked into the Chase, meaning all eyes will be on the front once the race starts, with Gordon and Busch no doubt battling to lead the first lap, or any lap, top gain a bonus point that could prove critical as the race winds down

under the lights.

“It depends on what everybody’s attitude and goals are,” Gordon said of the tone that could be set right away. “This is a long race. You’ve got to be smart. We found that out last year.”

Gordon arrived at RIR last year still needing to lock up a spot in the playoffs, went a lap down early on and kept battling.

He eventually rallied to finish second and made it into the Chase field.

Busch, too, said getting to the finish in good shape is what will matter most.

“We want to make sure we pace ourselves, do the right thing,” he said. “We are feeling good about this. I love these challenges and right now, Gordon and I are one-two.”

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Piqua edges Springfield

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Cash hits milestone The Piqua volleyball team prepped for today’s match with Lehman with a 11-25, 25-23, 21-25, 2927, 17-15 win over Springfield.

Piqua, 3-3, was led by Logan Ernst, who had eight kills and seven blocks.

Tasha Potts pounded eight kills, while Macy Yount had 22 assists and five aces.

Sarah Palmer served three aces.

Today’s match at Garbry Gymnasium with Lehman begins with the JV match at 11 a.m.

Cavs spike WG

WAYNESFIELD — Lehman volleyball made its Northwest Central Conference debut with an impressive 25-7, 25-14, 255 win over WaynesfieldGoshen.

"We came out and played really well in the opening game," Lehman coach Greg Snipes said.

"We had some mental errors and mistakes the second game, but we did a nice job bouncing back in the third game."

Marog Baker served nine aces for the Lady Cavaliers, 3-5, while Olivia Slagle pounded nine kills.

Ellie Cain had seven kills and dished out 18 assists, while Sidney Champman had six kills.

Erica Paulus added 10 digs.

Lehman will play at Piqua Saturday, with JV starting at 10 a.m.

Cash hits milestone

PITSBURG —Most coaches, if they’re lucky, only reach one milestone in a season.

Miami East volleyball coach John Cash hit two in consecutive matches in the same week.

His Vikings took care of business Thursday night at Franklin Monroe, hammering the Jets 25-6, 25-9, 25-10 for a Cross County Conference victory — and giving Cash his 100th win as the Miami East coach.

On Tuesday night, the Vikings gave him the 200th victory of his coaching career, as he won 101 with the Fairborn Skyhawks boys team before

taking over the Vikings.

That first 101 wins included a state semifinal appearance for Fairborn.

But the latest 100 has included two consecutive Division III state championships for the Vikings, as well as a mountain of other milestones.

“That is pretty cool,” Cash said. “It’s been a pretty awesome ride so far. But the journey never ends, whether you’re in it or on the outside. I’m glad it’s taken some twists and turns along the way.”

Thursday’s match, however, was a straight-forward beatdown.

Trina Current had a big night with eight kills, five aces, five digs and two blocks. Sam Cash also added eight kills, 11 assists, an ace, four digs and a block, Angie Mack had five kills and four digs, Allison Morrett had three kills, 16 assists, seven aces, five digs and a block, Katie Runner had four kills, Ashley Current had two kills, two aces and a block, Anna Kiesewetter had 10 digs and Lindsey Black had one dig.

“I thought our pace was solid tonight,” Cash said.

“We were attacking quite a bit in those second and third sets and ran some decent offense.

And Franklin Monroe scrapped some balls up and stretched out some long points — which we were fortunate enough to win, as we like to do. Our serve is really starting to come on, too.

“Today was a better day.”

Miami East (5-2, 3-0) faces Bradford Tuesday.

Lady Raiders fall

The Russia volleyball team lost to Fort Loramie 25-20, 26-24, 25-16.

Kylie Wilson led Russia with 17 kills and nine digs.

Taylor Daniel had 22 assists, while Claire Sherman had four blocks and five aces.

Camille Puthoff had six kills and seven digs, while Maggie Kearns had three combined blocks and nine digs.

Russia plays at Versailles Saturday.

Piqua boys drop match with Wave

Drees ties Versailles record GREENVILLE — The Piqua boys golf team lost to Greenville 185-202 Thursday at Turtle Creek.

Kenton Kiser led Piqua with 46.

Other Piqua scores Kyle Ingle 49, Derek Jennings 53, Ryan Minnier 54, Kody Poling 57, Dylan Bayman 64.

Raiders beat Jets

The Russia boys golf team defeated Fairlawn 165-221 Thursday.

Austin Tebbe was medalist with a 39.

Other Russia scores were Luke Dapore 41, Jordan Kremer 42, Trevor Sherman 43.

Russia won the JV match 175-248. Jonah Buccs drop match Counts and Justin GariRICHMOND, Ind. — ety shot 41.

The Covington boys golf team lost 172-196 to Na- Drees goes low MINSTER — Tyler tional Trail Thursday at Drees tied a school record Highland Lake in CCC acwith a two-under par 34 tion. at Arrowhead Golf Course Joe Slusher led Covingas the Versailles boys golf ton with 43. team defeated New BreOther Bucc scores were men 163-176.

Levi Winn 47, Jacob Blair Other Tiger scores were 52, Ty Boehringer 54, Alex Stucke 42, Kyle CotJaret Vanhoose 71, Derek ner 43, Ryan Knapke 44, McCool 81.

Mitchell Stover 45, Griffen Riegle 55.

Newton boys win

WEST MILTON — Brock Jamison was medalist with 44 as the Newton boys golf team beat Bethel 194-196 Thursday in CCC action at Stillwater Ridge Golf Course.

Other Newton scores were Reid Ferrell 46, Wade Ferrell 51, Donovan Osceola 53, Christian Nelwon 55, Milan Bess 55.

GIRLS GOLF Lady Raiders fall

MINSTER — The Russia girls golf team lost to Fort Loramie 184-206 Thursday at Arrowhead Golf Course.

Taylor Borchers led Russia with 44.

Other Raider scores were Morgan Daugherty 49, Alicia George 56, Kaila Pleiman 57.

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Kaily Baird moves the ball downfield for Lehman Thursday night against Botkins.

Cavalier soccer teams win

Lady Vikings prep for big game with Eagles GREENVILLE — The Lehman boys soccer team defeated the always physical Greenville Green Wave Thursday night 5-0.

The Cavaliers dominated from the beginning to end.

Rocco Catanzarite took a nice pass from Joe Simpson and beat the goalie on the left hand side of the net at 12:01 in the first half.

Fifteen minutes later, Trey Kerrigan scored off a cross from Conner Thobe to take a 2-0 lead into half time.

The Cavaliers put the game away very early in the second half.

Rob Heckman caught up to a perfect ball by Pete Comer. Heckman drilled it into the bottom left of the goal to make it 3-0 with 39:00 minutes left in the game.

Kerrigan scored his second goal of the game off a Seth Bensman assist and at the28 minute mark Will Hoersten capped off the scoring with a goal after the Green Wave kicked the ball to their keeper and he failed to get a foot on the ball.

"This was the most physical team we have played this year," Lehman coach Tom Thornton said.

"I thought our kids responded well. We out ran them a little bit and got the shots that we wanted. Now we have to get ready for Saturday."

Lehman had 26 shots on goal while Greenville had just seven shots.

Lehman keeper Nick Earhart had six saves.

Lehman is 3-1 on the season and face a tough road game at 1 p.m. today at Franklin Monroe.

GIRLS SOCCER Cavs blank Botkins

SIDNEY — The Lehman girls soccer team got off to a fast start and never let up in keeping the Botkins Lady Trojans winless on the season Thursday in high school action at Lehman.

The final was 6-0, and five of the goals came before the half.

Lehman wasted no time, scoring just fourand-a-half minutes into

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Lehman’s Peter Comer has position on a Greenville player Thursday. the contest on a free kick from about 35 yards away

by Jordi Emrick.

Four minutes later, Taylor Lachey assisted on a goal by Jenna Kronenberger, and five minutes after that goal, Ashley Keller got the first of two assists, setting up Sara Fuller for the third goal of the game.

With 14 minutes remaining in the first half, Keller assisted on Lachey's goal, and with 10 minutes left, Fuller assisted on the second goal

by Kronenberger.

With three minutes remaining in the game, Karly Baird and Kaitryn O'Leary combined for a double assist to Katie Edwards for the final goal of the game.

"We came out strong, which was good, and got on the board early," said Lehman coach Tony Schroeder. "And our defense played well again.

We didn't give them opportunities to score."

Lehman is now 4-0-1, with all five games being shutouts. Botkins is 0-3-2.

The Lady Cavs are at Franklin-Monroe Saturday.

East beats FM

CASSTOWN — The Lady Vikings came out with a 4-1 victory over Franklin Monroe in their third annual “Kick for the Cure” game.

Off the field, the Vikings raised over $2,300 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

On the field, East wasted no time getting started.

Not even 3:00 into the game, Madeline Davis sent a thru ball up the middle that Emily Holicki ran onto for the score.

They traded places nine minutes later when Holicki sent the thru ball for Davis' goal.

With 13:40 remaining until the break, Allyson Manning scored for the Jets off a Brianna Diceanu pass.

At 7:20 left until the break, Holicki recorded her second goal of the night off a Kendra Beckman assist.

Renee DeFord finished off the scoring for the Vikings in the second half with her first Varsity goal off an assist from Jessica Barlage.

"This wasn't our sharpest game, and the girls realized that,” Miami East coach Emalie Carson said. “Though our pressure on goal was good.

But we played well enough for the win. We'll take that and move on to get ready for the next one."

The Vikings are now 50-1, 2-0 in Cross County Conference play.

They will travel to Troy Christian today.

Lady Cavaliers beat Piqua Lehman girls fall to LCC

The Lehman girls tennis team defeated Piqua 41 Wednesday.

Lehman swept the singles matches.

Julia Harrelson defeated Sam DeBusk 6-1, 60; Sarah Gravunder defeated Corinne Crawford 0-6, 6-1, 6-0; and Diana Gibson defeated

Molly Smitley 6-1, 6-4.

At first doubles, Piqua's Kim CCullough and Haley Weidner defeated Meghan Burner and Elaina Snyder 7-5, 6-1; while at second doubles, Lehman's Emily Hoersten and Kaitlin Gillman defeated Abby Helman and Elle Ryan 6-0, 7-6 (7-2).

Lehman was coming off a 4-1 loss to Lima Central Catholic.

At singles, Harrelson

defeated Paige Collins 6-3, 7-5; Gravunder lost to Kacey Bradshaw 0-6, 6-0, 6-0; and Gibson lost to Liz Kidd 6-2, 6-1.

In doubles, Burner and Snyder lost to Emily Janowski and Allison Hullinger 6-3, 6-0; and Hoersten and Gillman lost to Samantha Stallkamp and Sophia Venturrlla 6-2, 6-3.

Piqua followed that match with a 5-0 loss to Northmont in GWOC

North action.

In singles, Crawford lost to Akiah Parker 6-0, 6-0; Smitley lost to Marissa Anderson 6-0, 60; and Megan Mullen lost to Kennedy Harden 6-0, 60.

In doubles, McCullough and Weidner lost to Michelle Hibbard and Elle Barone 6-0, 6-0; and Helman and Ryan lost to H. Weaver and A. McCain 60, 6-0.

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CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions with female relatives will go well today. This is also a good day to mend broken fences with family members or have a good heart-toheart discussion with someone.

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Ticketmaster puts resale, unsold tickets in one spot Ryan Nakashima AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans of popular artists or sports teams are painfully aware how difficult it is to find good seats to live events at affordable prices. With a new ticket resale

system, Ticketmaster is trying to show you what seats are available in one place — both unsold ones and those up for resale — so you can price-shop more easily.

The nation’s largest ticketseller quietly began rolling out its system, called TM+,

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for certain shows including a Black Sabbath concert in Massachusetts in August. More than two dozen professional sports teams have signed up, including many in the NFL. With the pro football season beginning in earnest Sunday, millions of football fans could start using the system soon. So far, about 300 events have used TM+, which the company says is still in test mode.

Using a computer, ticket buyers can see where each available seat is in a stadium, how much it’s selling for and whether it’s a marked-up resale seat or one that hasn’t been sold yet.

Before, you had to search for resales and unsold tickets separately. By seeing them together, you can tell before paying the resale price whether you can get an unsold ticket much cheaper just a row or a few seats away. For an upcoming Miami Dolphins’ home game against the Atlanta Falcons, for instance, you can see that a single resale seat in Section 122 priced at $146.05 is right beside an unsold seat selling for $85.

For some happy customer, that extra $61.05 will buy a lot of hot dogs, beer and merchandise.

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have one-stop shopping,” said Jim Rushton, the Dolphins’ chief revenue officer.

Ticket holders who are looking to sell because they can’t make an event can do so from a mobile phone or computer.

All transfers are electronic, so there’s no need to send physical tickets in the mail.

Ticketmaster, a division of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Live Nation Entertainment Inc., is hoping its new system will help it take a larger share of the resale ticket market, which is estimated to be worth more than $4 billion in annual revenue in North America. The figure includes the resale ticket price and associated fees, which are estimated at about $1 billion a year.

Ticket sellers are usually brokers, who buy tickets hoping to sell them for profit, as well as sports fans who are season ticket holders but can’t make every game. Individuals whose plans change are also in the market to flip their tickets.

Profit from resale tickets often goes to brokers, who are often first in line to buy tickets the moment they go on sale. By offering an improved resale system, Ticketmaster can collect a fee on every resale. The fee

amounts to about 20 percent — about half from the buyer and half from the seller. Rushton says the Dolphins also will share in those fees, unlike for third-party reseller sites such as StubHub, where the team makes nothing.

Bringing customers to a map that shows original tickets alongside resale tickets increases the chance that more original tickets get sold. More original ticket sales will increase the amount of money that goes to venues, teams or artists, improving Ticketmaster’s relations with its clients.

Also, Ticketmaster got into trouble with New Jersey regulators in 2008 for directing people to its TicketsNow unit to buy marked-up resale tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert when cheaper original tickets were still available. By showing original and resale tickets side by side, the new system addresses that concern.

TM+ will help boost the company’s share of the resale market from about 10 percent to about 30 percent in the next few years, says John Tinker, an analyst with research firm Maxim Group. That would result in about $300 million in revenue and about $60 million

in profit each year, allowing it to catch up to market leader StubHub, a unit of eBay Inc. “StubHub has done a great job in the space and Ticketmaster is finally stepping it up,” he said.

Chris Tsakalakis, president of StubHub, dismissed Ticketmaster’s new system, noting that Ticketmaster has been selling resale tickets since 2002, most recently with TicketsNow. “StubHub, with superior customer service and more than triple Ticketmaster’s secondary ticket sales, remains the market leader, and we intend to keep it that way,” he said.

Ticket brokers say they are closely watching how the new system evolves through the test phase.

Harris Rosner, owner of VIP Tickets, a ticket reseller that has an office near Los Angeles’ Staples Center, said competition between the two largest resale marketplaces could help fans and brokers, if they ultimately reduce fees on transactions to maintain or grow market share.

“I look forward very much to seeing how it works out and embracing it,” Rosner said.

“Competition is always good for the consumer, right?”

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