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Fire sends one child to hospital Mike Ullery

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PIQUA — Firefighters from Piqua responded to a reported house fire in Shawnee on Tuesday afternoon.

The fire, which was reported at 320 Third St. around 5 p.m., was quickly knocked down, with actual fire damage being confined to one bedroom.

Assistant Chief Vince Ashcraft said although fire damage was minimal, “the was more smoke damage than anything.”

A juvenile female was transported from the scene by Piqua fire department medics for what was described as “minor injuries.”

Firefighters cleared the scene around 6 p.m.

An investigator remained on the scene for a short time after the fire was out to determine a cause of the fire. That cause has not been released. No damage estimate has been given.

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Piqua firefighters work the scene of a house fire at 320 Third St., in Shawnee, on Tuesday afternoon.

Anticipated Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge construction begins

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Area officials and dignitaries look on as Robert Shook digs the ceremonial first shovel of earth during groundbreaking ceremonies for the Robert Shook Bikeway Bridge at the Miami County Park District’s Farrington Reserve on Tuesday.

Bethany J. Royer Staff writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — It was an exceedingly warm morning for attendees of a groundbreaking ceremony at the Farrington Reserve on Peterson Road Tuesday. The throng included a mix of city leaders from

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across the county, including bike trail enthusiasts, Miami County Park district members, and even State Representative Richard Adams. All congregating for a dedication of the Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge, along with a celebration of thanks to those who played a significant part in her impending construction.

“Wow,” said Robert J. Shook, bridge namesake and grandfather of the trail, if you will, who took to the podium to share his thanks along with a brief story of the trail’s humble beginnings. One that consists of “so many stories” according to its founder, and one that will soon span the Great Miami River via a

bridge that will connect not only the communities of Piqua and Troy but those over a 300mile system of paved bikeways in Southwest Ohio.

Shook, a long-time bike trail advocate and chairman of the Miami County Trails Task Force, has seen to the trail’s See BRIDGE | Page 16

Alumni celebrates 42nd anniversary Bethany J. Royer Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — They take to the field, positions immediate and in perfect alignment, with instruments at the ready as the announcer gives a booming introduction: Ladies and gentleman, presenting the oldest active high school alumni band in Ohio, your pride of Piqua, the Piqua High School Alumni marching Band.

Cheers follow, echoing off stadium bleachers by fans of the PHS Alumni Band who will take to the field for their 42nd anniversary this Friday at Alexander Stadium during the halftime show of the Piqua Indians versus Lima

Senior football game, their performance a testament of a love for music, comradeship, and tradition.

To get to know this unique coming together of ages and their reasons for doing so, is to take advantage of an opportunity to speak with and hear three varied stories that puts a face to the alumni band. Whether they’ve been returning year after year or just starting to get their feet wet, such as 2007 PHS graduate Katrina Clark.

“When the stress of life gets to me, music makes me forget it all,” explains Clark of what initially drew her to playing an instrument and joining the school band in the fifth grade.

Originally, she wanted to play the saxophone but the instrument was too

expensive for her family to afford at the time so she optioned to play the flute.

And by the 8th grade, after marching during a game with the high school band, she set her sights on becoming a member of the Pride of Piqua Marching Band.

Clark wasn’t disappointed.

“I met some of the greatest people through my marching experience,” said Clark who eventually traded her flute for the piccolo in her senior year, an instrument she continues to play in the alumni band. And now as a 24-year old mother of one, has seen her love of music reflected in her young son who plays his drum set right alongside her.

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TROY — The Troy gunman who used a BB gun to rob Tim Hortons in an effort to support his drug addiction will spend four years in prison for the heist — two years longer than his accomplice.

Brandon J. B r u m b a u g h , Brumbaugh 20, told Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Lindeman he wanted to apologize for the May 28 robbery of at the restaurant, located at 700 W. Main St., Troy.

“I apologize for letting my drug addiction take my life over,” Brumbaugh said.

His public defender, Steve Layman, asked for a drug treatment program for his client, and said Brumbaugh does not have a felony record.

“The genesis of all of this was his addiction to drugs,” the public defender said.

But Lindeman pointed to Brumbaugh’s extensive misdemeanor history before ordering the four-year prison sentence.

Brumbaugh had several misdemeanor theft cases related to a number of stores in Troy, including Walmart, Meijer, CVS and GameStop, according to Lindeman.

“It’s like you are a one-man plague on local businesses,” the judge said.

Emily Sluk, assistant prosecutor, who sought a prison term, said “what happened that night could have been much worse than it was.”

Quontes J. Atkins, 20, the accomplice, was convicted of robbery in July and was sentenced to two years behind bars last month.

Authorities say the two men robbed the restaurant and Brumbaugh was the one with the gun. The men fled the scene of the crime but were arrested a short time later.

Once he is released from prison Brumbaugh will serve a mandatory term of three years on post-release control.

He was given credit for 104 days spent at the Miami County Jail.

Alleged sex offender pleads not guilty Staff report

TROY — A common pleas court judge set a $10,000 bond for a Troy man who authorities allege possessed and viewed pornography involving children.

Randy J. Hatfield Hatfield, 46, entered a plea of not guilty to a lone count of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, a felony.

According to Hatfield’s indictment, he allegedly committed the offense July 31.

Court documents state he “possessed or viewed” material that “shows a minor in a state of nudity.”

A Sept. 16 pre-trial conference is scheduled.

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Obituaries Leonard L. Dunlap TROY — Leonard passed after a short illness from this life on the late afternoon of Sept. 4, 2013. He was surrounded by his loving extended family.

Born in Zanesville on March 27, 1936, he lived in Troy since 1967. He served our country in the United States Marine Corp. from 1953- Dunlap 1956.

On Dec. 1, 1956, Leonard married Shirley (Snode) in Zanesville and remained so for 57 years. After raising their three daughters and two sons, they retired in 1998, and continued to enjoy many activities and hobbies including; traveling, fishing, hunting, playing cards, dominos, and spending time with their family and friends.

Leonard was preceded in death by four brothers, Albert, Charles, George, Calvin and two sisters, Grace and Mildred.

He is survived by brother Clem Dunlap and

sister Geraldine Davis both of Zanesville.

Leonard also is survived by wife Shirley (Snode) Dunlap and their five children (and spouses), Cheryl McDonald (Scott), Debra Foote, Alice Reber (Steve), Leonard (Chris), Greg; 14 grandchildren: Adrienne, A n d r e w and Allison McDonald, Seth and Patrick Foote, Matthew Reber, Cristopher, Nathan, Mitchell, Nicholas Dunlap, Layne Goings, Nichole Huggins, Kyle and Marshall Dunlap, and four great-grandchildren: Gabriel and Gwendolyn McDonald, Samuel Foote, and Mattox Reber.

He donated his body to Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University therefore, there will be no calling hours.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to American Lung Association, (202) 7853355, www.lung.org/ donate.

Ralph Langston PIQUA — Ralph and more recently worked “Ed” Langston, 60, of at the Dorothy Love Piqua, died at 8:26 a.m. Retirement Community Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, at in Sidney. He enjoyed Gospel singing the Piqua Manor and was an avid Nursing Home. reader. He was He was born a member of the July 12, 1953, Piqua Church of in Piqua to the the Nazarene Richard Langston and had been the of Piqua and the music leader at late Esther B. the First Church (McGillvary) Langston of the Nazarene of Langston.

He married Janice M. Decatur, Ind. A service to honor Matchett; and she surhis life will begin at 12 vives.

Other survivors include p.m. Saturday at the two sons, Adam (Jenna) Piqua Church of the Langston of Berne, Ind. Nazarene with the Rev. and Chris Langston Steven Spoon and the of Decatur, Ind.; three Rev. Lincoln Robinson grandchildren, Dylan, co-officiating. His famMadilyn, Caitlyn; a sister, ily will receive friends Vicki Burk of Piqua; three from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. brothers, Michael A. Saturday at the church.

Langston of Covington, Private interment will be Kieth (Jane) Langston at Forest Hill Cemetery. of Piqua and Douglas Arrangements are being (Christine) Langston of handled through the Mt. Vernon; and many Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Memorial nieces and nephews.

Mr. Langston attended contributions may be Mt. Vernon Nazarene made to the Piqua Church College and obtained his of the Nazarene, 400 S. designation as a Licensed Sunset Dr., Piqua, OH Practical Nurse from 45356. Guestbook condoEdison State Community lences and expressions of sympathy, to be providCollege.

He worked for 19 years ed to the family, may be as a Licensed Practical expressed through jamiesNurse in Ft. Wayne, Ind. onandyannucci.com.

Pearl G. Krampe PIQUA — Pearl G. Krampe, 106, of Piqua, died at 12:35 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, at the Upper Valley Medical Center.

She was born March 7, 1907, in Newport to the late Albert and Rose (Grisez) Francis. She married William J. Krampe June 18, 1930, in Newport; he preceded her in death in 1991.

S u r v i v o r s Krampe include two daughters, Patricia Broerman of West Carrollton, Anita (Joe) Kinsella of Piqua; 14 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and three sisters.

Mrs. Krampe was a wonderful seamstress having worked at Buecker’s Interiors for over twentyfive years and retiring in 1987.

In addition to sewing

she enjoyed fishing. She was a devoted member of St. Boniface Catholic Church and a member of the YWCA of Piqua.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at St. Boniface Catholic Church with the Rev. Fr. Thomas L. Bolte and the Rev. Fr. Angelo C. Caserta as ConCelebrants.

Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home where a prayer service will begin at 5 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Boniface Catholic Church, 310 S. Downing St., Piqua, OH 45356.

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

Obituary policy Please send obituary notices by email to pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com. Notices must be received by 3 p.m. the day prior to publication.

There are no Sunday or Tuesday editions of the Piqua Daily Call.

For more information, call 937-773-2721. Obituaries submitted by family members must be paid prior to publication.

Mazetta “Etta” D. Clossman TROY — Mazetta “Etta” D. Clossman, 93, of Troy, passed away Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at the Koester Pavilion, Troy. She was born Feb. 7, 1920, in Center, Ky., to the late Clarage and Lula Mae (Boston) Froggett.

She is survived by two daughters and a son-inlaw, Jennifer Mae and Douglas Coate of Troy and Linda Ann Clossman of West Collingswood, N.J.; and one son and daughter-in-law, William John and Janet Clossman of Abilene, Texas. Mazetta leaves 13 grandchildren, John, Sarah, Eugena, Kelli, Melissa, Robert, Jessica, Cassandra, Wendy, Justin, Chris, Kimberly, and Clinton; and 20 great-grandchildren. She was also aunt and great-aunt to many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one daughter, Rebecca Marie Denney; one sister, Virginia Eileen Kay; and two brothers, William Radford Froggett and Wendell Clarage

Froggett.

She was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. She was a charter member and past President of the Miami Valley Trailer Coach Association.

Mazetta was a former employee of Stanley Home Products and Rikes Department Store, and later retired from National Content Liquidators after 15 years of service.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with Bishop William Jensen officiating. Interment will be held in the Evergreen Cemetery in West Carrollton. The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Miami Valley Chapter, 31 West Whipp Road, Dayton, OH 45459.

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

Joyce Millbourn Falik SIDNEY — Joyce Millbourn Falik, 89, of Sidney, formerly of Piqua, died at 1:35 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at Dorothy Love Retirement C o m m u n i t y, Sidney.

She was born in Bucyrus, on May 16, 1924, to the late John H. and Agnes (Blowers) Spaid. Falik On Sept. 14, 1947, she married Dr. Raymond Millbourn.

He preceded her in death in 1994. In Piqua, on June 8, 1996, Joyce then married Victor Falik, and he survives.

Joyce is survived by two daughters and son-in-law: Leslie and Paul Peltier, Marysville, OH and Beth Millbourn, Prescott, AZ; one son and daughter-in-law: Mark and Lorna Millbourn, Sidney, OH; numerous nieces and nephews; eight grandchildren: Tracy Fosler, Piqua, Oh, Erin Taylor, Troy, OH, Amanda Peltier, Upper Arlington, OH, Dr. Paul E. Peltier, III, Dublin, OH, Captain Allison Deatherage, Beavercreek, OH; Sam Millbourn, Sidney, Rachel Carter, Sidney, OH and Josh Carter, AZ; and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one sister: June Cover.

Joyce graduated from Bucyrus High School in 1942.

She then graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from The Ohio State University in 1948.

She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, Piqua.

Joyce was also a member of Piqua Country Club, YMCA, YWCA and a Girl Scout leader for 10 years.

She was a founding member of Tecumseh Woods Swim Club, Piqua. Joyce was secretary to the vice president of Farm Bureau Ins. Co., which is now Nationwide Insurance Co. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Piqua, with the Rev. Fr. Thomas Bolte as Celebrant. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua.

Memorial contributions may be made to Michelle Peltier Theado Scholarship Fund, In Care Of Chuck and Nancy Peltier, 1805 Amherst, Piqua, or American Heart Association, 1313 West Dorothy Lane, Kettering, OH 45409. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

Chad Richard Ditonto COVINGTON — Chad Richard Ditonto, 32, of Covington, passed away Aug. 26, 2013. Chad was born in Dayton to LouAnn Ditonto on Dec. 22, 1980.

He attended Milton-Union High School in West Milton.

Chad was employed by various businesses in his Ditonto community, where he has many friends and will be greatly missed.

Chad was known for his great sense of humor and wit, his resourcefulness, and devotion to his family.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Marion Jeffery Ditonto.

Chad is survived by his

mother, LouAnn Ditonto of Covington; grandfather, Richard Ditonto and stepgrandmother, Beverly Ditonto of Hinsdale, N.Y.; aunt and uncle, Linda and Randy Trimble of Tipp City; cousins, Jordan Trimble, Blake Trimble, Nick Trimble and Owen Trimble, all of Tipp City; aunt and uncle, Cheryle and Joe Potterf of Danielsville, Ga. and his cousins, Sara Wise, Logan Potterf, Griffin Potterf, Caroline Potterf and Quinn Potterf.

Arrangements in care of Bridges-Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Covington.

Condolences may be left for the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

Mary M. Emmel Tamplin TROY — Mary M. (Peck) Emmel Tamplin, 97, of Troy, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at the Koester Pavilion, Troy.

Mary was born July 15, 1916 in Dayton, to the late Roy Peck and Luella (Brown) Peck.

Mary is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Peggy and Charles Eberheart of Raleigh, N.C., and Janet and Donald Gates of Troy; stepdaughter, Diane and Herman Thompson Tamplin of Urbana; stepson, Bradley and Shirley Tamplin of Piqua; nine grandchildren, Kathy Potter of Piqua, Jim and Cindy Eberheart of Maryland, John and Denise Eberheart of Albuquerque, N.M., Andrew Eberheart of Arizona, Angie McCarel of Troy, Tim and Debbie Gates of Troy, Clint Emmel of Troy, Doug and Kim Emmel of Troy, and Jeff Emmel of Huber Heights; many great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and step-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Mary was preceded in death

by her first husband, Marvin Francis “Bud” Emmel; second husband, Lowell Emerson “Wag” Tamplin; sons, Marvin Douglas “Doug” Emmel and George Joseph “Joe” Emmel; sisters, Nellie Wion and Betty Spears; and two grandchildren, Raymond and Steven Emmel.

Mary was a former member of the Casstown Lutheran Church and attended the Alcony Grace Church. She was formerly employed with Braun Brothers Meat Packing Company. She enjoyed cooking for family and friends.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

Interment will follow in the Riverside Cemetery, Troy. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

William Neil Benson GALLIPOLIS — William Neil “Bill” Benson, 78, of Gallipolis, formerly of Piqua, died at 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at Arbors at Gallipolis, Gallipolis. He was born in Richmond, Ky. on March 5, 1935, to the late William L. and Flora E. Benson.

Bill is survived by one daughter, Frances J. Benson of Columbus; one sister and brother-in-law, Nannette and Russell Keels of Bidwell; and several nieces and nephews.

Bill was a member of Greater Love Missionary

Church, Piqua. He worked as a nursing assistant for many years. Bill proudly served his country as a member of the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, at Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, with the Rev. Floyd Murray officiating.

Burial will follow in the cemetery.

Full military hours will be presented by The Veterans Elite Tribute Squad, Piqua, OH. Arrangements have been entrusted to Melcher-Sower.

last few years, the purchasing of musical instruments, while also having, “Fun at the same time!”

Randy Cissner shared similar experiences as Williamson and Clark, as a 1987 PHS graduate and dedicated snare drum player from his freshman to senior year of high school during what he calls the glory years of band. He estimated some 200 plus members were split amongst 160 to 165 instruments, 32 drill team members, two field commanders and two feature twirlers along with alternates.

“What got me in, is my sisters were in band,” said Cissner in a reverse of Williamson’s familial experience, with two elder siblings, both flute players, and his father an active band parent.

Given the family activities it was natural for Cissner to become a part, too, along with a tendency to beat pots and pans as a kid, “I fell right into it and drums were always a thing for me. I’ve been playing drums as long as I can possibly remember.”

As his sisters were graduating and he was just coming into high school, Cissner states Piqua won their first percussion trophy, an event that changed the sense of the band overall, the popularity growing and with it, continued championships.

“That is what started some of the glory years,” explained Cissner of the earlier reference, with the football team five and five, and a slightly different culture at the time playing a large part.

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the alumni, it took a few years.

After graduation, Cissner went into the Marine Corps, and was the first person from the Piqua post to be accepted into the Marine Corps music school.

After that, he was essentially away from music playing until his son, William, came into the system. The latter the beginning of a steady return for the elder Cissner, including becoming the drum instructor at the school and in turn involvement with the alumni.

Last year was the first time Cissner took to the field with the alumni, a surreal moment coupled with his son having graduated this past year and now an active alumni member, too. The culmination an encouragement to stick with it or what he refers to as, “A nice little marriage,” with school contacts affording him the opportunity to encourage graduates to become a part.

For now, the excitement expressed by the three alumni band members is all about the impending halftime shows.

“This year’s band is going to blow people away, we are going to surprise so many people,” said Cissner. “I’m looking forward to it, it’s going to be a great show.”

Join the Piqua High School Alumni Band at Alexander Stadium this Friday as they honor the following band members who have passed away this year: Sam Shie, Darlene Petty, Ken Alexander (past chair person for 5 years).

For more information visit: http://phsalumnibnad.org — or— https://www.facebook. com/groups/Piqua.Alumni.

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Band From page 1 His enthusiasm giving her something to look forward to — becoming a band mom.

“I look forward to it,” said Clark of a future that will be here before she knows it, while expressing an eagerness to play with the alumni each year as it provides not only an opportunity to join amazing musicians on the field but, “brings back a lot of memories.”

Penny Williamson expressed similar memorable sentiments as a PHS graduate — class of 1976 — the oldest child of four siblings who followed her lead and became involved in the band, too.

Williamson began her band career with the saxophone but switched to trombone during her senior year of high school.

“They needed a trombone player and I volunteered,” said Williamson, exchanging her back row position as a saxophone player for an immediate spot in the front with the trombone players, emphasizing with a chuckle that some saxophone-playing friends may have played a part in the voluntary transition.

After graduating from high school, Williamson attended Sinclair Community College in Dayton, the drive from home to school and back again allowing her continued membership with the alumni, something that proves a challenge for the group’s numbers given so many graduate from high school, proceed to college, and never return.

Williamson has only missed one halftime show due to knee surgery, and while marching in Alexander Stadium has proven to be a very different expe-

rience from that of her high school days, being a part of the alumni offers friendship, fun and memories.

“Those were great memories for me,” said Williamson of her high school years amongst band friends who became a larger network outside the format, “We roamed together in those days. It was a good time.”

Today, Williamson enjoys the mix of ages in the alumni, recalling her initial regards of the group before she became a member was an “If they can do that, I can do it, too” approach. She also enjoys and takes great pride in the fact her granddaughter, Emma Hiegel, a freshman at Piqua High School, is a second year Piqua High School marching band member.

Williamson also noted the changes over the years, from director’s inspecting lines from shoes to hats, and students responsible for the care of their uniforms. And the band being much larger, estimating over one hundred and learning a new show and new music every week.

While the graduating class of 1976 alumni members has whittled over the years, an approximate 2 to 3 in an estimated 30 members, Williamson says they’ve a large support network, with well over 150 on their most recent mailing list.

“I always enjoyed my high school and this is a way to give back,” said Williamson, with the alumni band’s ultimate goal to support the high school and instrumental music that includes scholarships and in a shift of gears over the

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Mainstreet Piqua celebrates Canal Place re-dedication PIQUA — The Mainstreet Piqua beautification committee celebrated the rededication of Canal Place in downtown Piqua on Sunday, Sept. 8, with an ice cream social.

Canal Place got a complete makeover last summer and received all new concrete and four rain gardens were also installed.

This summer, three picnic tables with umbrellas were purchased for the area.

The Canal Place project was paid for by donors to the Mainstreet Piqua beautification program, along with support from the City of Piqua, Piqua Community Foundation, Neils A Lundgard Foundation, Miami County Foundation, Piqua Concrete Corporation, Canal Place property owners and the Piqua Covington Girl Scouts in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts in the USA. The Mainstreet Piqua beautification committee is also responsible purchasing flowers for the 54 large planters located throughout the downtown area.

For more information about Mainstreet Piqua Provided photo check out their website at The Mainstreet Piqua beautification committee held an ice cream social on Sunday, Sept. 8, to www.mainstreetpiqua.com. celebrate the re-dedication of Canal Place in downtown Piqua.

Local artist signs recording deal Colin Foster

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Local performer Clark Manson performs at a recent concert.

Not bad company.

The Clark Manson Band won the Newport Hall Battle of the Bands and reached the state final of the Texaco Country Showdown within four months of forming. In the past, Manson, alongside bandmates Jason Rhoades (age 33, lead guitar), Adam Hardy (27, drums), Matt Seskevics (27, keys) and Nick Christian (26, bass), played several large-scale area venues, like the Miami Valley Music Festival, along with many area establishments.

During that time, Manson and his band built some momentum. “I couldn’t ask for a better group of guys,� said Manson about his band. “They are all amazing players and we have a lot of fun together; but when we hit the stage or rehearsal space it’s all business.�

Since last November, it has been a collaborative writing process between Manson and 2002 Covington grad and Dusty Blythe, who currently resides in Troy.

Blythe co-wrote six of the nine songs on the upcoming record, including the first single “I Love It When You Drive.� “Dusty is an amazing writer and we always seem to be on the same page, which allows us to crank out tunes left and right,� Manson said.

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“When we were writing songs for the “Clark Manson Project� we really wanted to touch base with the party feel. We wanted to write a album you could put on with your buddies while your drinking beer and not have to worry about skipping the slow sad song.�

Manson will play a show Saturday at W.O. Wrights in Beavercreek. You can find out more about Manson by checking out his website clarkmanson.com.

For booking purposes, visit the web page to fill out a submission form or email him directly at clarkmansonbooking.gmail.com.

With the support of a good producer and creative band, Manson said he likes the direction his album is headed. “Running With The Night� will be available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.

In the future, Manson said he hopes to have a song playing on the radio, and he even hinted at the possibility of having his music on satellite radio in the upcoming months. “The record is like crazy; it sounds like (something) that would play on the radio,� Manson said.

For now, though, Manson will just continue to put in the work – living the dream can come later.

Extended Forecast Thursday

Friday

Chance of rain

HIGH: 83 LOW: 68

Mostly sunny

HIGH: 69 LOW: 54

POLICE REPORTS Sept. 6

Theft: Police responded to Ace Hardware, 1942 W. Covington Ave., after three wrench sets were stolen. Video of the theft showed an unknown man stealing them.

Criminal damage: Police responded to the Southside Laundromat, 214 S. Wayne St., after a glass window was smashed out of the business.

Neighbor complaint: Police responded to the 500 block of Vine Street after a man’s neighbor came over and demanded the complainant pay for a vet bill.

Child endangering: Police responded to the Piqua High School, 1 Indian Trails, after a female victim alleged her grandfather “punched her in the face and kicked her in the leg when he took her to school.� Police are investigating.

Disorderly conduct: Police responded to Piqua High School, 1 Indian Trails, after a student at the high school threatened to bring a gun to school and “shoot everyone.� The student said it to a group of students.

The student admitted saying it to the police.

The student’s father was notified and the student was suspended. The student made the threat because he was bullied.

The school checked on the bullying students and “handled them per their policy.�

Robbery: Police responded to the Bent Tree Apartments, 1250 Garbry Road, after a man was assaulted and money was taken from him. The victim was not seriously injured. Police are inves-

tigating.

Sept. 7

Theft: Police responded to the 800 block of Lindsey Street after a “white heavy set female with dark hair and a black tank top� stole the change box from her garage sale.

She left in a tan smaller car.

Menacing: Police responded to the 900 block of Boal Avenue after a complainant advised that the suspect came to his residence to collect past due rent and threatened to assault him.

Burglary: Police responded to the 400 block of Second Street after a leaf blower and a lawn mower was stolen.

Sex offense: Miami County Children’s Services notified the Piqua Police Department of a possible sex offense.

An alleged victim of sex abuse, a female teen, held a knife to her mother’s throat. She said her dad “has done some inappropriate sexual contact with her and her 14-year-old sister.� The investigation is ongoing.

Sept. 8

Burglary: Police responded to Marathon, 226 W. Water St., after the front glass door was smashed with a rock.

Cigarettes and cash were taken. Police also responded to Family Dollar, 633 W. High St., for a similar complaint.

A suspect was found and charges are expected to be filed.

Theft: Police responded to the 800 block Boone Street after a subject reported a game console, video games, and a diamond ring were stolen from his residence.

DAR kick-off brunch PIQUA — The Piqua-Lewis Boyer Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, at the Peter Studebaker Cabin for a kick-off brunch carry-in. The cabin is located at 6555 State Route 202 Tipp City. The program will be on the Studebaker Family History by speaker Miriam Owen Irwin. DAR members are to bring a covered dish to the brunch. Chapter dues are due at this time. Prospective members and guests are also welcome.

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COVINGTON — Clark Manson is the typical small-town kid with big dreams.

Over the summer, his dream of becoming a signed country recording artist came true, though he’s not one to brag about it. “I don’t want to be that (guy) who says he has a record deal,� said Manson, a 2009 Covington High School grad, in a text message.

The fact of the matter is he does — and Manson’s stock on the country-music radar has started to rise ever since his ‘media guy,’ Weston Bakos, created a Twitter page (@ ClarkManson) in August. A little over a month later, Manson’s account has already reached 16,000 followers – and he has been getting compliments from people all over the country. “Social media is basically everything when it comes to getting your music heard,� Manson said. “My media guy, Weston Bakos, started the Twitter page at the beginning of August and we are already up to over 16,000 followers. It’s mind blowing on how involved the followers get and how excited they are to hear the new record. It feels surreal to have people from all around the country giving me support and hoping that we will make a stop in their town to play a show. “I’m blessed to be in the position I am in right now — and so excited for all my fans to hear the record.�

Manson signed the deal in early July, which funded the entire recording process for his album, titled “Running With the Night.�

It is due out at some point in October, but he will spend the next few weeks traveling back and forth between Cleveland and Columbus for vocal work before going to Nashville in late September to work on the finishing touches.

From July 28 to Aug. 4, Manson spent time recording his album in the country music capital of the world, Nashville. He was backed up by a new group of musicians, some of whom have experience playing alongside many popular country acts. “Basically on that trip (to Nashville) I met with the producers, engineers and musicians who played and worked on the record,�

Manson said. “We then laid down the instrument tracks to the nine songs on the album. We had some of the best players in Nashville play on the record who have credits on Jake Owen’s, Kacey Musgraves’ and Kelly Clarkson’s new records, as well as many more big artists.�

Hot and humid

We’ll continue to see highs above normal through midweek, with readings in the lower 90s. Humidity stays high, too, pushing heat index values into the mid-upper 90s. Fairly low rain chances exist today, with a better chance as a front slowly moves through on Thursday.

High 90, Low 70

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Serving Piqua since 1883

We are very excited eral questions from to kick off the new citizens who have 2013-2014 school voiced their concern year. Our staff has about the new lower been tirelessly prep- rating.

Many are worried ping for another this means amazing Piqua City school year Schools at Piqua have sudSchools. denly gone We are from an happy to “Excellent” have our studistrict to dents back something and ready to worse. The learn. answer to As we Rick Hanes that quesenter into Superintendent tion is this new school year of Piqua City Schools “No.” Piqua we are faced with big City Schools, just like many other districts changes.

In fact, many resi- in the state, are in the dents may not be same situation and aware that Piqua City are feeling the effects Schools, along with of a new accountabilall school districts ity system that has across Ohio, are fac- changed the way it ing major modifica- measures and shows tions in accountabil- progress in our district. ity.

The easiest way to I’d like to take a moment to share with say it is that we have you how these chang- not changed, but the es are affecting what goal line and meais going on in our dis- sures of achievement have. trict.

We welcome the In June 2010, the State Board of challenge of higher Education adopted expectations.

We make no excusthe “Common Core” es for our grades, and State Standards.

The new district we are dedicated to report card system correcting the areas was established to where we have fallen share a set of clear short.

Our staff is currenteducational stanly analyzing the new dards.

The standards were data to focus on how designed from the well we are serving most rigorous state our students in our standards across the classrooms.

We are using the country and constructed by a diverse data to focus goals group of teachers, and classroom stratexperts, parents, and egies to improve on school administra- areas where we need tors, so they reflect to be better.

These new report both aspirations for our children and the card standards are a realities of the class- method toward ensuring our children are room.

These standards are getting the best posdesigned to ensure sible education.

Of course, standards that students graduating from our schools cannot single-handedare prepared to enter ly improve the quality the workforce or go to of our education system, but they do give college.

As the new us shared goals and “Common Core” state expectations for our report card system students.

It is our hope that with A-F letter grades was implemented, we can count on your we anticipated our continued support in district would expe- the coming months rience several bumps as we move forward the along the road during implementing necessary changes the first few years.

Just like many other needed to improve school districts across our district.

Thank you for supthe state, we too have received lower ratings porting our schools including three B’s, and our students.

We look forward to four C’s, one D, and partnering with you one F. We have taken sev- for continued success.

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War weary and rightfully so The advice of The New York Times’ highly skeptical of a fourth war within thoughtful and sometimes controver- 12 years, especially after Iraq.

“Keep in mind, I’m somebody who sial foreign affairs columnist Tom Freidman became a matter of discus- opposed the war in Iraq and am not sion between Secretary of State John interested in repeating mistakes of Kerry and a conservative Republican us basing decisions on faulty intelcongressman during House commit- ligence,” Obama said in Sweden. But tee hearings on President Obama’s the President has trouble making his case when CBS and ABC and other proposed strike on Syria.

Friedman’s advice was that, instead media refer to “Assad’s alleged use” of of military strikes, the U.S. should chemical weapons.

Polls done over the Labor arm the rebels and shame Day weekend showed only Syrian President Bashar 29 percent of the American Assad. public support intervention Kerry replied that shamin Syria. Yet, one of the ing Assad would have no most respected pollsters, effect because dictators Pew Research, found a have no shame. shift toward supporting the As the American people President as he makes his and legislators struggled case, from 27 percent to 38 with the administration’s percent. policies for Syria, so also Donna Brazile The Senate Foreign did the administration Relations committee voted itself. Friedman wrote, “The Columnist to support the president.

Obama team has clearly struggled with its Syria policy, but, John McCain, one of Obama’s severin fairness, this is a wickedly complex est critics on Syria, emerged from the problem.” I haven’t seen or heard the White House saying he believes the dilemma over Syria’s use of chemical president has a “pretty solid plan.” weapons put more accurately: “wick- Of the five key leaders in Congress, only Senate Minority Leader Mitch edly complex.”

This is a civil war, yet Syria’s loca- McConnell remained indecisive, with tion makes it of strategic interest to the others supporting Obama.

But as I watched the House Foreign the security of her neighboring countries, and even those far away, includ- Affairs hearings, I was struck how ing Russia, China and the United often I heard legislators say the words, “tired” or “weary,” referring to more States.

At least 12 nations are involved in overseas military action.

We should, in fairness, remember Syria’s civil war: Israel, Iran (with that Obama ended the war in Iraq, and boots on the ground), Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France, that we will be leaving Afghanistan Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar, the United within a year. Instead of unilateral Arab Emirates and Jordan. And there action in Libya, Obama marshaled the are many groups fighting there: al-Qai- United Nations, got the Arab League da, the Shias and Sunnis, Hezbollah, to own up to its responsibilities and and ethnic minorities like the Kurds, led our NATO allies to take the larger share of the strikes, without any who are fighting Kurdish jidhadists.

More than 110,000 Syrians have “boots on the ground.”

Only a political solution can solve died in combat. Four million-plus Syrians have been displaced internal- the Syrian civil war. But, Russian ly, and 2 million refugees have flooded President Vladimir Putin, who feels Jordan and Lebanon — a humanitar- Russian ally Assad can prevail, will ian problem that could buckle those likely block action in the United Nations. With UN cooperation thwartgovernments.

Worst of all has been the use of ed, Obama has devised a two-track chemical weapons in Syria. The use policy that has been cautiously, pruof these “weapons of mass destruc- dently and deliberately arrived at.

The hard fact remains that if the tion” constitute a war crime, with U.S. takes action, even in concert with 189 out of 196 nations having signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, other nations, we will shift attention from Assad to the U.S. The Russian pledging not to use them.

Humanity has at least advanced to a embassy in Washington also released point where it has rules of war. Those a statement saying it was concerned for the security of a nuclear reactor rules exclude the use of chemicals.

Assad, with his superior military near Damascus.

In deciding to deter Assad from power, has been unable to dislodge more chemical attacks, perhaps our the Free Syrian Army (FSA) from Damascus with months of bom- arguments shouldn’t be about U.S. bardment and fighting. Someone in interests.

I agree with the International Crisis Assad’s command figured that what Group who issued a statement saying, shells can’t kill, gas would.

Chemicals are a hideous way to die “Quite apart from talk of outrage, — never mind that it kills civilians, deterrence and restoring U.S. credibilchildren, animals and even plants, in ity, the priority must be the welfare of the Syrian people.” Syria presents addition to soldiers.

Allowing their use would change a problem that appears to be beyond the nature of warfare into something human wisdom.

Pope Francis I has called for Sept. even our distant barbarous ancestors 7 to be a day of prayer. This came to would shun.

Obama is quite right to tell the mind when I saw a front page photo world, as he did in Sweden, to own up of Secretary Kerry testifying, with his to the treaty — to make it mean some- hands together as if in prayer.

It’s not a bad idea at all. We could thing more than ink and paper. What Obama also knows is that if America benefit if Obama declared a national takes invasive action, we will own it day of prayer. This problem requires divine wisdom.

—along with the consequences.

Obama is dealing with a war-weary Donna Brazile is a senior Democratic strategist, a political compublic that still wants to do the right mentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a contribthing. The public and Congress are uting columnist to Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine.

The First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Public officials can be contacted through the following addresses and telephone numbers: n Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, warD5comm@piquaoh.org, 773-7929 (home) n John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 773-2778 (home) n William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner, ward2comm@piquaoh.org, 773-8217 n Joe Wilson, 3rd Ward Commissioner, ward3comm@piquaoh. org, 778-0390 n Judy Terry, 4th Ward Commissioner, ward4comm@piquaoh. org, 773-3189 n City Manager Gary Huff, ghuff@piquaoh.org, 778-2051

n Miami County Commissioners: John “Bud” O’Brien, Jack Evans and Richard Cultice, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373 440-5910; commissioners@co-miami.oh.us n John R. Kasich, Ohio governor, Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 644-0813, Fax: (614) 466-9354 n State Sen. Bill Beagle, 5th District, Ohio Senate, First Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-6247; e-mail: SD05@sen. state.oh.us n State Rep. Richard Adams, 79th District, House of Representatives, The Riffe Center, 77 High St. 13th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 466-8114, Fax: (614) 719-3979; district79@ohr.state.oh.us n Jon Husted, Secretary of State, 180 E. Broad St. 15th floor, Columbus, OH 53266-0418 (877) 767-6446, (614) 466-2655

BOSTON (AP) — Three years before the next presidential election, several prospective Republican White House contenders are quietly courting senior members of Mitt Romney’s money machine.

For the candidates, Romney’s team represents a well-connected group of influential donors who can quickly generate — or divert elsewhere — the financial resources that have become the lifeblood of modern presidential politics. The former Republican presidential nominee had questionable political skills, but his fundraising operation was considered an overwhelming success.

And Romney’s fundraising lieutenants — some new to national politics and others wellentrenched political players — are beginning to look for a new home as the potential field of Republican presidential candidates grows.

Some caution against reading too much into their early contact with candidates, but acknowledge that it’s never too early to begin strengthening relationships with major donors.

“We built an interesting network of people. A lot of them would be inclined to get involved again,” Romney finance chairman Spencer Zwick said in a recent interview. “I would love to be heavily involved.”

But expect the donors to be selective. Romney himself suggests that only one — “or perhaps two” — of the growing crop of Republicans is electable. And his top donors, at least for now, tend to agree.

Interviews with more than a dozen senior donors suggest that the men and women who generated hundreds of millions of dollars for Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign represent the more pragmatic wing of the Republican Party — a group likely to shy away from candidates driven by rigid conservative ideology. But few donors have committed to a contender this early. And Republican heavyweights across the political spectrum are aggressively seeking face time with Romney donors at presidential “cattle call” events around the country and in getto-know-you meetings in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and elsewhere.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recently met privately with Zwick in Boston, while several possible 2016ers have courted Charlie Spies, who created the super PAC devoted to Romney’s 2012 presidential bid.

Spies’ group alone raised more than $150 million, while Romney’s campaign collected $446 million, shattering the previous fundraising record by a Republican presidential candidate.

“I’ve had multiple conversations with people who may consider running,” Spies said while downplaying his focus on the next presidential contest ahead of the 2014 midterms.

Half a dozen Republican leaders weighing presidential bids are expected to attend a Sept.

23 fundraiser at the home of senior Romney donor Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets. The attendees, who include Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, will also attend a Washington fundraiser for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad the next day. The Washington event was organized, in part, by Lisa Spies, the wife of the pro-Romney super PAC founder, who helped raise more than $23 million last year as head of the Romney campaign’s women’s outreach program.

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Largest Ferris wheel nears completion in Las Vegas Hannah Dreier Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The madcap carnival on the Las Vegas Strip is getting another over-the-top addition: the world’s largest Ferris wheel.

The outer wheel of the 55-story High Roller ride is scheduled to be hoisted into place Monday. The gargantuan project is now visible from all over the city, including the airport. Early next year, it will be outfitted with 1,500 LED lights, and start its slow spin.

“It’s going to be an icon,” Project Director David Codiga said. “It’s going to be a part of your visit to Las Vegas if you ride it or not.

It’s more or less impossible not to see it if you come here.”

Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns more casinos than any other U.S. gambling company, is building the ride as part of its $550 million Linq development, a new outdoor plaza across the street from Caesars Palace.

The walking mall, sandwiched between the Flamingo and Harrah’s hotel-casino, is expected to open this winter. It’s designed to lure Gen Xers and millennials, demographics Caesars believes will contribute a majority of Sin City tourist dollars by 2015.

City after city has jumped to put a new spin on the classic carnival attraction

over the past decade.

The High Roller will be 100 feet taller than the London Eye, which opened in 2000, 30 feet taller than China’s Star of Nanchang, which opened in 2006, and 9 feet taller than the Singapore Flyer, which opened in 2008.

These giant urban Ferris wheels typically transport riders in large, fixed capsules instead of the smaller, teetering baskets most people remember from childhood.

High Roller riders will have to take a break from gambling and smoking when they enter one of the 28 glass capsules attached to the gargantuan wheel, Codiga said, but they will be able to take in the marqueelit panoramic views with a drink in hand.

The wheel, which has been under construction since 2011, is taller than the Bellagio hotel-casino but still dwarfed by the Stratosphere observation tower, which rises more than 1,000 feet. It will carry 3.5 million pounds of steel — the equivalent of about 200 Hummers— and will take 30 minutes to make one revolution.

And, because this is Las Vegas where overstimulation is the sales pitch, it will feature audiovisual shows in each 40-person pod designed to complement the views.

Codiga, who previously

AP Photo | Las Vegas News Bureau, Brian Jones

In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, The High Roller observation wheel is seen halfway completed Aug. 14 above Caesars Entertainment $550 million Linq retail-entertainment-restaurant development. When finished, the High Roller will be the largest observation wheel in the world bigger than the London Eye or Singapore Flyer.

worked for the theme park company Universal Studios, said he doesn’t want visitors to get bored as the ride ascends and descends.

Tickets will be comparable to the London ride, which costs about $30, according to Caesars spokeswoman Christina Karas. She declined to say to how much it cost to build

the ride.

The High Roller is not the only big wheel jostling for a place among the volcanoes and dancing fountains of the tourist corridor.

A rival company is building SkyVue, a 500-foot observation wheel across from Mandalay Bay at the southern end of the Strip that will feature video

screens broadcasting ads.

That project is expected to open in mid-2015, according to developer David Gaffin.

Last spring, a group of developers revealed plans for a third wheel — the London Thrill — near the CityCenter complex in the middle of the Strip.

The High Roller will also likely have to surren-

der its tallest in the world title before long. Another monster wheel is looming in New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans last year for a 625-foot ride on Staten Island’s waterfront.

Other wheels may grow taller, Codiga said, “but the High Roller will allow you to float over Las Vegas.”

Novel offers vision of hunting trip gone awry Mom’s cellphone video Ann Levin

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Gun owners like to say they teach their children to never point a loaded weapon at another person.

But what if a father let his 11-year-old son peer through the scope of a loaded rifle at a poacher?

What if the inevitable catastrophe occurred? And what if the father decided not to report it to the authorities?

Already these people would have violated several rules of civilized society, and over the course of “Goat Mountain,” a violent and disturbing new novel from award-winning writer David Vann, things will get much worse.

The story is narrated by that unnamed boy, who is looking back as an adult at the lifechanging events of that trip and trying to remember what he felt as a child.

“Some part in me just wanted to kill, constantly and without end,” he remembers feeling at the start of the journey, perched in the back of his dad’s pickup watching quail scurrying along

the road.

Over the next few days, his father will string up a human corpse over the campsite; his grandfather will try to kill him; his father’s best friend will be hunted like an animal; and he’ll shoot his first buck — a family rite of passage — and be forced to eat its still-warm liver and heart.

Then he’ll have to castrate the beast — “what made the buck a man needed to be removed also” — and haul its 120-pound carcass back to camp at night alone.

This is not a book for the queasy of stomach nor for the literal-minded reader.

It’s loaded with allusions to the biblical story of Cain and Abel, the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, and the half-human, half-animal figures of Greek myth. “We drink the blood of Christ so we can become animals again,” Vann suggests in one portentous passage.

The only relief from the guts and gore — human and animal — are Vann’s evocative descriptions of the rugged backcountry of Northern California, where

has lasting consequences

AP Photo | Harper

This book cover image released by Harper shows “Goat Mountain,” by David Vann.

the men go hunting on the family’s property.

And he can be funny about the price we pay for civilization, as in this description of his grandfather: He “had become something modern, an obesity pumped full of insulin and pills and unable to walk through a forest for miles. A thousand generations, tens of thousands of years, ended by him.”

Melody Men to perform annual show in Troy TROY — Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming annual show presented by the Melody Men Chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society. This year’s performances will be presented Oct. 5 at the Troy High School Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Dire Days at the Dairy, or Utter Mayhem, is a melodrama, played out by several of chorus members in the style of a radio show, interspersed with musical performances by chapter quartets and the Melody Men Chorus. The two-act melodrama takes place on the Miami County dairy farm of the Widow McDonald. She and her young daughter Beatrice, along with the neighboring farm owner, Beau Vine

n Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

and his sidekick, Mookey Whey, face the challenge of winning a big milk contract in order to avoid foreclosure by the bank. All hopes and dreams are threatened by the evil scheming of that dastardly milk baron, Salvatore’ Monella, who plans to buy up all the dairy farms in the county.

Also appearing on the show will be The Con Men, the 2012 Johnny Appleseed District Quarten Champions and 2013 International 3rd place Collegiate Quartet.

For ticket prices or further information, contact Russ Hermes at 937-667-6750 or visit www.melodymenchorus.org.

The Melody Men Chorus meets on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m. at the Greene Street United Methodist Church in Piqua.

Dear Abby: My 13-year- under one roof, discoverold son, “Wiley,” was play- ing that you are once more ing a game on my cell- intimately involved with phone. I stupidly forgot your ex must have been to delete a short video of traumatic and threatening myself engaged in a sex to Wiley. It might reassure him to know act with my ex-husthat your seeing band, “Cliff.” Wiley Cliff does not mean didn’t confront me you will be living or mention it, but together anytime given his sudden soon. change in behavior, In the meantime, I’m almost certain I recommend that he saw it.

YOU talk with a The next morning I mentioned Dear Abby therapist to help it and apologized, Abigail Van you cope with the changed relationhoping we could get Buren ship you now have past the awkwardness, but Wiley wouldn’t with your son. It’s a shame admit this is what’s both- that Wiley’s father has ering him. He acted as if used this unfortunate incihe didn’t know what I was dent for his own selfish talking about. Now he’s purposes. Divorced coushutting down. He won’t ples MUST remember that talk to me. He’s off in they have to love their his own world as if I’m a child more than they hate stranger, where a few days each other. before we would laugh, Dear Abby: A year and share and trust each other.

I divorced Cliff because a half ago, I reconnected he and my son didn’t get with “Paul.” We were in along, but in the last six grade school together and months we have been hadn’t seen each other for secretly having an affair many years. We have been and we ultimately want extremely happy and want to get back together to spend our remaining when Wiley is 18. My son years together.

Because of our ages doesn’t approve of him (we’re both seniors) and and he’s angry about it.

I’m worried and embar- separate families and rassed that he saw me incomes, we feel marriage doing what I was doing in is not what we’d like to do. that few seconds of video, But we would like to move and I don’t want to scar in together. Would it be him or have him think ridiculous for us to do that differently of me. Wiley’s without being married? father has been no help, Will the world condemn and I suspect adds fuel us? Will our children to our son’s anger during understand or ostracize his weekend visitations. us? How do we handle I tried therapy for Wiley questions about why we — it didn’t help. Do you have chosen not to marry? have any suggestions? — — In Love in Louisiana Dear In Love: Many Mortified in Arizona Dear Mortified: older couples do what you I’m printing your letter are considering because because, once again, it being married would illustrates the danger of negatively affect their putting videos of a sexual retirement income. If your nature on cellphones. I children like Paul — and can think of few people of his children like you — I any age who don’t prefer doubt you will be ostrato think of themselves as cized. Most adult children products of immaculate want their parents to be conception, and your son happy.

If you’re worried about is no exception. Because how the community Cliff and Wiley’s relationship was so poor the three will react to your living of you couldn’t coexist arrangement, consider talking to a clergyperson about being “married in the eyes of God.” As to questions about why you have chosen not to marry, apart from your family, it is nobody’s business and you are not obligated to discuss it.

Solution:

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Barbarians

Dear Grandparenting: and bad sportsmanship.

My adorable grandson Chris likes Sports once served as a primer his family watching him play little that taught grandchildren essential league football. It was our turn a social skills — playing by the rules, learning to be a graweek ago. cious winner, accepting My wife had never defeat. Today it’s not even seen a football uncommon to find gloatgame in person. ing and bragging, arguI told her not to get ing about rules, crying too excited because or sulking, even quitting I figured it would be in the middle of a game. pretty tame.

Rules are especially After all, we’re talkproblematic for younger ing about eight-year old grandchildren. One playboys and this was just GRANDPARENTING ground study by Anne a practice game that Humphreys and Peter didn’t count for anyTom and Dee and Cousin Key Smith found that seventhing. year-olds spend 10 perMy grandson’s team got the better of it. They jumped out to an early cent of their time playing games with lead and poured it on. Then things rules, while 11-year-olds spend 40 percent. began to get ugly.

Grandchildren acquire habits of The other’s team’s coaches were hotheads. There was lots of yelling at sportsmanship by watching and the referees and finger pointing and learning from their elders. Since then the players on the other team small children often feel disadvanstarted piling on and hitting after taged when pitted against adults, plays had ended. Some players on my grandparents can instill good sportsmanship by emphasizing the congrandson’s team retaliated.

I was appalled at the bad sports- cept of fairness when playing board manship. Maybe kids and coaches act games with them — like Chutes and like that because that’s how the over- Ladders or Candy Land — that allow paid knuckleheads in professional grandparents to model correct behavsports behave. Or maybe it’s because iors. When watching televised sports, make it a point to a comment on good people in general are so rude today.

It’s a crying shame when eight- and bad sportsmanship. Good luck! year-old boys act like barbarians.

Whatever happened to fair play?

Grand Remark of the Week D.T. Swenson, Verna Louise from Piqua wandered Atlanta, Ga. into the bathroom as granddaughter Ashley was combing and preening in Dear D.T., Somewhere in our distant past are front of the mirror.

“Looking good!” said Verna. memories of organized team sports “If you want to be loved by somethat were pure and uncorrupted joyone who isn’t already in your family, ful competitions that were an escape it doesn’t hurt to be beautiful,” said from the ills of society.

Now sports increasingly reflects Ashley. society at large, replete with litigaDee and Tom, married more than 50 years, have eight tion, drugs, big money, individual grandchildren. Together with Key, they welcome questions, glory instead of teamwork, lying, suggestions and Grand Remarks of the Week. Send to P.O. cheating and yes, plenty of incivility Box 27454, Towson, MD, 21285. Call 410-963-4426.

We turned the calendar another page since my last column was written.

School doors have opened for a new year.

Benjamin is in the eighth grade, Loretta is in the seventh, Joseph in fifth, Lovina is in third, and Kevin is in the second.

They all came home on the first day saying school is a lot more fun this year. I’m sure as the days turn to weeks and weeks to months I’ll be hearing a different story.

On Sunday morning, Joe and I along with Verena, Loretta, Lovina and Kevin left for Hicksville, Ohio where we attended church. Four young boys were baptized including Joe’s cousin Stephen.

It was nice to get to visit with Stephen’s parents Jonas and Mandy and all his siblings. I also met some of my readers and we appreciated all the hospitality we received.

It’s always nice and interesting to meet new people and make new friends. My cousin Toby’s son Amos, wife and children were also there at church. I don’t think I would have recognized Amos anymore.

Nine and a half years ago when we lived in Berne, Amos went to the same church district we did and was just a teenager.

This would be a grandson to Aunt Lovina Raber from Ohio.

In the afternoon we stopped to see where Jonas and Mandy live. They have seven children and three with muscular dystrophy.

Their son Neal, 34, has his furniture shop attached to the house. Everything is wheelchair level so he can work from his wheelchair.

He showed us some of the furniture he has made which is very nice. We were served punch and a snack.

We had a short but enjoyable visit.

Jacob, Emma and family also attended church and visited with Jonas and Mandy.

Mandy, Jacob’s mother and Joe’s mother are all sisters.

We headed for Berne, Indiana around 3:30 p.m. and met up with the rest of our family coming from Michigan.

On Monday we enjoyed the day at brother Amos’ house for our annual family gathering.

If I counted correctly our family member

Questions persist about standoff death of man, 107 Jeannie Nuss Associated Press

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — When the time came to move 107-year-old Monroe Isadore to a new home, police say he resisted and barricaded himself inside. Authorities tried using a camera to monitor him, along with negotiating tactics, and finally gas to get him to come out.

None of it worked.

So, a SWAT team went inside and was greeted by gunfire, authorities say. The team fired back, and Isadore died.

The weekend confrontation raised a flurry of questions Monday as residents struggled to make sense of how someone known as a pleasant, churchgoing man who was hard of hearing and sometimes carried a cane had died in an explosive confrontation. Did authorities know how old he was? Did they follow proper procedure? Could they have done anything differently?

“It’s just a big puzzle,” said Ivory Perry, who has known Isadore for decades.

The standoff began Saturday, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press. Laurie Barlow, 48, of Lonoke, told officers she had gone to the house where Isadore was living temporarily to help him move to a new home. She

said Isadore had previously been excited about the move but that when she arrived Isadore barricaded himself in a room.

“Ms. Barlow stated his granddaughter finally got him to open the door and she went around to speak with Mr. Isadore, at that time she stated Mr. Isadore raised his arm and pointed a gun at her and stated ‘You better stop breaking in to my house,’” the report said.

After police moved Barlow and the granddaughter across the street, Isadore fired at a door moments after police tried to contact him. A SWAT team, called out when negotiations failed, maneuvered a camera into the house to see how Isadore was armed, then stormed inside after deploying gas and a distraction device, the report said. When Isadore fired, the entry team fired back.

Police Sgt. David DeFoor said Monday that Isadore had been living at the home temporarily, but did not go into more detail. The sergeant also said officers may not have been aware of the man’s age.

“The only thing they knew that I’m aware of was that he was older,” DeFoor said.

Prosecutors are expected to review whether police reacted appropriately.

Crime is not uncommon in this community of about 50,000 people some 45 miles southeast

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count has reached 90 although three of the nieces and nephews weren’t there.

There was lots of food there so I won’t try to mention it all. Amos had a 180-lb. hog roasted and there was lots of meat left.

It was delicious!

Volleyball, corn hole, and horseshoe games were played.

I had never played the cornhole game but sister Verena and I teamed up against sisters Liz and Susan.

Needless to say I was on the losing team but we had fun trying.Everyone brought snacks that were enjoyed later in the afternoon.

We started for home around 4:35 and arrived home around 6:40 p.m. Everyone was ready for bedtime early.

School bags and clothes were all ready for the next morning.

This is an interesting recipe I thought I’d share with you all!

Carrot Pie

1 ½ cup cooked mashed carrots 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 Tab. dark molasses 1/8 teaspoon cloves 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. ginger 1/2 tsp. salt 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup scalded milk Mix in order given and bake in unbaked pie shell at 425 for 10 minutes then at 350 for 45 to 50 minutes.

Served with whipped cream or ice cream if desired.

Five generations!

Pictured above are members of great-great-grandmother Alice Smith’s family. First row, greatgreat grandmother Alice Smith of Lockington, baby Noah McLaughlin and his mother Sarah McLaughlin of Columbus. Second row, great-grandmother Barbara Roeth of Troy and grandmother Jane Fogt of Piqua.

WWII vets hope lake in Italy yields GIs’ remains

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of Little Rock, where prisons house hundreds of inmates and signs caution drivers against picking up hitchhikers.

But in Isadore’s old neighborhood, where he lived until several months ago, friends recalled him as a pleasant and active man. He mowed lawns in his advanced years and kept a vegetable garden, often sharing its bounty.

“I thought he was a good, old guy because he would always talk to us and go to church every Sunday,” said Dwayne Grant, 50. Grant recalled that Isadore tilled the garden himself — though Monday the plot stood empty, as if it yielded no crop this year.

Robert and Ivory Perry said they had known Isadore for more than 20 years.

“Everybody knows Mr. Isadore,” said Robert Perry, 76.

His wife, Ivory Perry, 65, said Isadore had done his own cooking — she recalled neck bones and rice pudding — and talked about religion.

“I just don’t understand how this happened,” she said.

Neither Grant nor the Perrys knew Isadore had access to a gun.

“I believe if somebody had told them that he was a 107-year-old man in that house, even with a gun, I don’t believe they would have laid down fire on him,” Robert Perry said.

And Grant said the violence seemed very out of character for Isadore.

“I couldn’t believe it myself,” he said. “The guy, he was 107 years old. I mean, come on.”

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Somewhere on the bottom of Italy’s largest lake lie the remains of two dozen American soldiers who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in 1945 in the waning days of the fighting in Europe during World War II. A volunteer group’s discovery of what could be the wreckage 900 feet down in Lake Garda has given aging veterans hope that, after nearly seven decades, the remains of their comrades can finally come home.

“If you talk to the World War II guys, they’re looking for closure and they haven’t got it,” said retired Army Col. Michael Plummer, president of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, the Army unit that battled the Germans in northern Italy until the last week of the war.

Of the association’s nearly 1,200 members, about a third served during World

War II. “We seem to save any single soldier or find anybody in the wilds of Borneo or the mountains, and we thought it was very bad that the United States wasn’t doing anything for these guys,” said 89-year-old Jerry Nash, of Hudson, N.H. Nash was laying communication wire as the 10th Mountain pursued German forces into northern Italy’s rugged alpine region, home to the 50-mile-long Lake Garda. When the enemy blew up tunnels through the mountains ringing the lake’s northern end, the division’s commanders sent soldiers across the lake in amphibious six-wheeled trucks, known by their military designation DUKW and known to GIs as ducks.

On the night of April 30, 1945, three DUKWs left the lake’s east side carrying members of the division’s 605th Field Artillery. One of the vehicles, jammed with 25 soldiers and a 75 mm cannon, stalled during the journey and soon began taking on water.

According to Cpl. Thomas Hough, the lone survivor, the soldiers desperately tossed their equipment and ammunition overboard in an attempt to keep the vessel from sinking. But the DUKW went down anyway, plunging the men into the frigid waters of the glacier-fed lake.

Soon all had drowned but Hough, a former lifeguard from Dayton, Ohio, who was rescued by two 10th Mountain soldiers on shore who heard the cries for help. Hough died in 2005.

Brett Phaneuf, a researcher from the Chester, Conn.-based nonprofit underwater archaeology organization ProMare, led an effort 10 years ago to find the sunken DUKW. Hampered by equipment issues, Phaneuf found no sign of the vehicle.

But in late 2011, a local Italian group of volunteer divers started their own search.

Using sonar and a remotely operated vehicle equipped with a video camera, they announced last December the discovery of a WWII DUKW sitting upright on the lake bottom.

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FDA: Roche drug works in early-stage breast cancer Matthew Perrone AP Health Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has issued a positive review of a breast cancer drug from Roche that could soon become the first pharmaceutical option approved for treating early-stage disease before surgery.

In documents posted online, FDA scientists said women who received the drug Perjeta as initial treatment for breast cancer were more likely to be cancer-free at the time of surgery than women who received older drug combinations. Although the results come from mid-stage trials of the drug, FDA scientists recommended accelerating approval of the drug.

That step is reserved for groundbreaking drugs to treat life-threatening diseases.

Perjeta was first approved last summer to treat women with a

subtype of breast cancer that has already spread to other parts of the body.

But Roche’s Genentech unit is now seeking approval to use the drug at a much earlier stage of the disease: after diagnosis and before surgery to remove the tumor.

Surgery to remove tumors is the first step in treating virtually all forms of cancer. If approved, Perjeta would be the first cancer drug approved for use as a pre-surgical step. Using cancer drugs before surgery is still experimental, but doctors hope the approach could help shrink tumors to make them easier to remove. In some breast cancer cases, a tumor that is easier to operate on could allow women to keep their breasts, rather than having them surgically removed.

On Thursday, the FDA will ask an outside panel of cancer specialists whether Perjeta’s benefits outweigh its risks for treating early-stage breast

cancer. Among other questions, the experts will be asked whether the preliminary results reported by Genentech are likely to result in longer overall survival for patients. The government agency isn’t required to follow the group’s advice, though it often does.

The panel will review a 417-woman study comparing Perjeta in different combinations against older breast cancer treatments. When Perjeta was combined with Herceptin, another Genentech drug, and standard chemotherapy, 39 percent of women saw their cancer reach undetectable levels. Only 21 percent of women experienced the same results from taking Herceptin and chemotherapy alone. After drug treatment all the women received standard breast surgery to remove any cancerous tumors.

Genentech says this surgery allowed researchers to confirm the presence or absence of cancer.

Last year the FDA released guidelines for studying breast cancer drugs in the pre-surgical setting, with the aim of accelerating approval of promising therapies.

Perjeta is the first drug to undergo FDA review since those recommendations were released. If approved, it could encourage more drugmakers to study cancer drugs for early-stage use.

“Despite advances in systemic therapy of breast cancer, there remains a need to expedite drug development and approval of highly effective therapies for patients with high-risk early-stage breast cancer,” the FDA states in its review.

Like Herceptin, Perjeta only works in a subset of about 20 percent of breast cancer patients who have tumors that overproduce a protein known as HER2, which makes cancer cells rapidly divide and grow.

Breast cancer is the second most deadly

form of cancer in U.S. women, and is expected to kill more than 39,000 Americans this year, according to the National Cancer Institute. About 6,000 to 8,000 deaths per year are attributed to the HER-2 form of the disease.

FDA scientists stress in their review that Genentech’s results are preliminary and will have to be confirmed in future trials. The company only measured the patients’ immediate response to the drug, and did not submit follow-up data showing whether the cancer returned or whether women ultimately lived longer. But agency scientists said the company’s approach “is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit,” and noted that Genentech is already enrolling patients in a late-stage trial that could confirm the results.

Since the early 1990s the FDA has granted accelerated approval to dozens of drugs based on

promising early results, on the condition that their effectiveness is confirmed in later studies. That policy has been praised by patients with HIV, cancer and other deadly diseases where access to experimental treatments can mean life or death.

But the flipside of the program means removing drugs from the market if their initial promise isn’t confirmed by later studies. In 2011 the FDA was criticized by some cancer patients when it revoked breast cancer approval for another Genentech drug, Avastin. The FDA concluded that the drug did not help breast cancer patients live longer or bring enough other benefit to outweigh its dangerous side effects. The drug is still approved to treat colon cancer and other forms of the disease.

The FDA is scheduled to make a decision on whether to approve Perjeta for early-stage breast cancer by Oct. 31.

Don’t wait! – Get kids’ flu vaccination early

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DAYTON — The infectious disease experts at Dayton Children’s Hospital along with the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly advise parents of children 6 months and older to get their child a flu vaccination as soon as possible, rather than later.

According to the CDC, more than 200,000 people, on average, are hospitalized from flu complications each year in the United States.

Twenty thousand of those hospitalized are children younger than 5 years old.

“One of the best preventative measures for the flu is to get your child vaccinated, and to do so early,” says Sherman Alter, MD, medical director of infectious disease at Dayton Children’s.

Even with new strains of vaccinations being released, it is highly recommended to get your child immunized with the current vaccine available so your child isn’t left at risk while waiting for another vaccine to come in.

Flu season is unpredictable and can begin as early as October. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for your child to be protected. The CDC recommends getting vaccinated as soon as it becomes available in your community.

Dr. Alter also offers these five tips for preventing and treating the flu.

Flu Prevention – Stop it before it stops you

1. Visit your local pharmacy or family doctor to get the flu vaccine as early as possible.

2. Wash your hands

well and often with soap and water. Alcoholbased hand cleaners are okay as an alternative.

3. Cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue.

4. Keep sick children at home including out of school or day care until they are better—usually seven days after the illness starts is adequate.

5. Eat healthy and find healthy ways to deal with stress and anxiety.

Recognizing the Flu – Common symptoms

1. Rapid onset of fever 2. Headache 3. Body aches 4. Loss of appetite 5. Chills and fatigue 6. Cough 7. Runny nose and sore throat 8. Vomiting and diarrhea If your child has any of the following symptoms, they should be taken to the emergency department: • Fast breathing or trouble breathing • Bluish or gray skin color • Not drinking enough fluids • Not waking up or not interacting (not responding to your voice or making eye contact) • Being so irritable (cranky) that he or she does not want to be held • Not urinating (peeing) or no tears when crying • Symptoms improve, but soon return with worse cough and fever

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Man who made confessional DUI video faces court Andrew Welsh-Huggins AP Legal Affairs Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio driver who made an online video confessing to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after drinking heavily was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

In a 3½-minute video posted last week, Matthew Cordle admitted he killed a man from a Columbus suburb and said he “made a mistake” when he decided to drive that night.

“My name is Matthew Cordle, and on June 22nd, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani,” he says somberly.

“This video will act as my confession.”

Cordle, of Powell, another Columbus suburb, was due to appear in Franklin County court Tuesday afternoon after being charged with aggravated vehicular homicide a day earlier and turning himself in.

Cordle also is charged with a misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

He could plead guilty as early as Tuesday but might also have to wait for his case to be assigned to a permanent judge.

Franklin County prosecutor

Ron O’Brien said Cordle faces up to 8½ years in prison if convicted.

Cordle’s attorneys on Monday downplayed any suggestion that Cordle made the video in hopes of winning a light sentence. But a harsh sentence could also send the wrong message to people trying to take responsibility for crimes, they said.

His attorneys said they hope he will be free on bond after pleading guilty but before being sentenced to continue to spread his anti-drunken driving message.

O’Brien previously said Cordle’s blood sample from the night of the crash tested positive for alcohol and negative for drugs. The indictment alleges Cordle’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the level at which Ohio authorities generally consider a driver to be impaired.

Messages left with Canzani’s family were not immediately returned Monday. O’Brien said the family will be in court Tuesday. He said in similar cases, it would be common for him to ask for the maximum sentence.

The video was filmed Sept.

3, and the version posted on YouTube has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.

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After confessing on video to killing a man in a drunk-driving accident, Matthew Cordle, 22, right, surrenders to sheriff’s deputies at the Franklin County Corrections Center in Columbus, on Monday. In a 31-minute video posted last week, Cordle admitted he killed a suburban Columbus man and said he “made a mistake” when he decided to drive that night.

It begins with Cordle’s face blurred as he describes how he has struggled with depression and was simply trying to have a good time with friends going “from bar to bar” the night of the accident.

He then describes how he

ended up driving into oncoming traffic on Interstate 670.

Cordle’s face becomes clear as he reveals his name and confesses to killing Canzani.

He ends the video by pleading with viewers not to drink and drive.

“I can’t bring Mr. Canzani back, and I can’t erase what I’ve done, but you can still be saved. Your victims can still be saved,” Cordle says. Then a message appears on the darkened screen: “Make the promise to never drink and drive.”

Quiet, not stormy, weather for US this year so far Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a couple of years of wild, deadly and costly weather, the United States is mostly getting a lucky break this year.

So far.

Summer is almost over, and as of Tuesday morning, not a single hurricane had formed this year.

Tornado activity in 2013 is also down around record low levels, while heat waves are fewer and milder than last year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Meteorologists credit luck, shifts in the highaltitude jet stream, and African winds and dust.

“It’s been great,” said Deke Arndt, climate monitoring chief for NOAA’s National Climatic Data

Center in Asheville, N.C. “I hope that we ride this pattern out through this year and following years.”

There have been eight tropical storms in the Atlantic. Not one has reached the 74 mph wind threshold to become a hurricane, though Tropical Storm Humberto off the coast of Africa is likely to become one soon.

If Humberto stays a tropical storm through 8 a.m. EDT Wednesday, it will be the latest date for the first hurricane of the season since satellites started watching the seas in 1967, according to the National Hurricane Center.

This year, overall storm activity in the Atlantic — an index that combines number and strength — is about one-fifth the average. That’s despite wa r m e r- t h a n - n o r m a l seas, which usually fuel

storms.

It has also been a record of nearly eight years since a major hurricane — one with winds of 110 mph — blew ashore in the United States. That was Hurricane Wilma, which hit Florida in October 2005.

Meteorologists say dry, stable and at times dusty air blowing from Africa is choking storms instead of allowing them to grow. On top of that, shifts in the jet stream — the same river of air some blame for wild weather in 2011 and 2012 — have caused dry air and wind shear, which interfere with storm formation, said Gerry Bell of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

Plain old random chance is also a big factor, said MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel.

“Nobody’s complain-

ing,” said former National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield.

Bell and NOAA last month forecast a 70 percent chance of a busierthan-normal hurricane season, with six to nine hurricanes and 13 to 19 named storms.

Bell said he is sticking with that forecast because it was just an unusually slow August, adding: “There’s going to be more hurricanes; that’s just a fact.”

People shouldn’t let their guard down because several past seasons have started off slow and ended quite busy and deadly — 1967, 1984, 1988, 1994 and 2002, said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with the private firm Weather Bell. Hurricane season starts in June and runs through the end of November “All it takes is one bad

hurricane to ruin an otherwise quiet hurricane season,” said Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters, a former hurricane hunter. “Recall that last year’s worst storm — Hurricane Sandy — didn’t occur until the third week of October.”

In the nation’s heartland this year, tornadoes are flirting with a record for the fewest, with just a bit more than half the normal number of nearly 1,300 twisters reported by mid-September. A shift in the jet stream is credited.

While the West has seen heat waves and major wildfires, the summer heat overall hasn’t been nearly as oppressive and extensive as last year’s record-setter. Last year, weather stations around the U.S. set more than 59,000 heat-related

records through Sept. 9.

This year they have set 21,254.

In 2011, the U.S. had 14 weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion.

Last year it was 11. While NOAA hasn’t counted them yet this year, the number is far lower, but includes two terrible Oklahoma tornadoes, meteorologists said.

National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini said climate change tends to push the world toward more extreme weather, but sometimes natural variability pulls the weather more back to normal, and this is one of those years for much of the U.S. However, China, Japan and Korea have had many extremes, especially heat waves, Masters said.

And Uccellini had one big warning: “This year is not over yet.”

High school dropouts struggle to find jobs in Ohio Excellent Education, based in Washington, says employers increasingly want workers with more education than high school.

“The majority of jobs in today’s knowledge-based economy require a high school diploma at minimum, and in most cases they need some form of education after high school,” said Jason Amos, vice president of communications for the nonprofit organization.

Ohio high school graduates on average earn $7,500 more annually than dropouts.

College graduates on average earn $27,000 more than those who didn’t finish high school.

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Feeling they cannot succeed or escape living in poverty are among other reasons people drop out.

Early intervention and exploring alternative education that focuses on job preparation and allows students flexible learning can help.

Dayton-based Sinclair Community College has a Fast Forward Center to help counsel and provide resources to students ages 16-21 who have dropped out or aren’t attending school regularly.

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He went to the Fast Forward Center, then enrolled in a charter school where he earned his diploma in 2009.

He said he benefited from individual attention for subjects he struggled with.

He works at a bookstore now and hopes to eventually earn a college degree in mechanical engineering.

“It may take a lot of work, but with the economy and circumstances today, it is pretty much mandatory that people need to get a high school diploma or GED,” said Michael Carter, Sinclair’s superintendent of School and Community Partnerships.

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A Dayton Daily News analysis of federal labor statistics shows that dropouts who are 25 or older are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as diploma-earning peers. In 2012, only about 30 percent of Ohioans 25 or older who didn’t finish high school had jobs. That leaves about 561,000 people without diplomas who were also without jobs last year.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Lady Indian netters host Greenville

DiSalvo cards hole-in-one Mary DiSalvo recorded a hole-in-one on the 80yard ninth hole at Stillwater Valley Golf Club.

DiSalvo used a 6-iron for the shot.

TROY — The Piqua boys golf team lost to Troy Monday at Miami Shores 158-183 in GWOC North action.

Kenton Kiser led Piqua with a one-over par 37.

Other Indian scores were Kyle Ingle 48, Derek Jennings 49, Ryan Minniear 49, Kody Poling 49, Dylon Bayman 51.

Cindy Pearson was low gross with 47 in regular nine-hole play in the Ladies League at Echo Hills Golf Course Tuesday.

Linda Willis was second with 48.

Marty Hemm was low net with 33 and Clara Sowry was second with 34.

Karen Nickol and Renie Huffman tied for low putts with 16.

Russia second

ARCANUM — Five local teams competed in the Joe Middleton Golf Classic Saturday at Beechwood Golf Course.

Russia finished second with a 341 total.

Raider scores included Zach Sherman 80, Austin Tebbe 84, Gavin Hoying 88, Luke Dapore 89, Jordan Kremer 89, Connor Monnin 90.

Newton finished third with a 355 total.

Brock Jamison led all local golfers, finishing fourth with a 79.

Other Indian scores were Reid Ferrell 88, Wade Ferrell 89, Donovan Osceola 99, Christian Nelson 103, Milan Bess 112.

Piqua was fifth with a 362 total.

Kenton Kiser finished fifth overall with an 80.

Other Indian scores were Kyle Ingle 89, Ryan Minniear 96, Kody Poling 97, Derek Jennings 100, Dylon Bayman 104.

Miami East finished seventh with a 370 total.

Viking scores included Scot Kirby 88, Ryan Bergman 90, Kley Karadak 96, Dylan Martinez 96, Devyn Carson 99, Zach Ostendorf 111.

Houston finished 14th with a 432 total.

Wildcat scores included Jaron Howard 99, Anton Wehrman 101, Deion Booher 112, Tristin Stangel 120, Jake Braun 130, Jacob Gates 159.

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The Covington junior high football team defeated Mississinawa Valley 38-6. It was a good effort by everyone.

Bradford JH stays busy The Bradford junior high volleyball teams lost to Miami East.

The seventh grade lost 25-13, 25-13 and the eighth grade lost 25-5, 2511.

Bradford was coming off a split with Riverside.

The seventh grade won 22-25, 25-12, 25-9; while the eighth grade lost 2514, 25-15.

For the seventh grade, Marissa Cassel had four points, eighth aces and one kill; while Maddy Gambill had seven points and three aces.

MacKenzie Gambill had one point and one ace, while Bianca Kenner had 15 points and 10 aces.

Karmen Knepp had two points and two aces, while Macie Reck had 15 points, seven aces and one assist.

Amy Roberts added one point and one ace.

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Piqua’s Kim McCullough (right) hits a backhand return against Greenville Tuesday.

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ST. PARIS — The Miami East boys golf team got past Covington 174-189 Monday in CCC action at Lakeland Golf Course.

Ryan Bergman and Dylan Martinez led See ROUNDUP/Page 11

Wood shuts down former teammates

Reds lose series opener to Cubs CINCINNATI (AP) — Left-hander Travis Wood has pitched well enough to beat his former team a few times, only to see the Cubs offense let him down.

Didn't need any help this time.

Wood beat Cincinnati for the first time in his career, repeatedly pitching out of threats for seven innings, and Chicago stalled the Reds' week-long surge with a 2-0 victory Monday night.

Wood (9-11) finally beat the team that traded him after the 2011 season. He was 0-4 in his career, including three losses this season, even though he had pitched well in most of the games.

He allowed six hits and

The Reds trailed the Cubs 7-0 at press time Tuesday night.

fanned seven.

Finally, he got them.

"It's the first time I've ever beaten them. That's really nice," Wood said.

"I've pitched some good games against them, and they've gotten me a few times, too, so this one was nice."

Kevin Gregg gave up a double in the ninth while earning his 31st save in 35 chances.

Ryan Sweeney and Luis Valbuena homered off Bronson Arroyo (13-11), who had won his last four starts against the Cubs.

The Reds were coming off a refreshing week — six wins in seven games

against the rival Cardinals and the NL Westleading Dodgers, leaving Cincinnati only 1½ games out in the NL Central.

And with St. Louis idle Monday, the Reds had a chance to gain a halfgame on first place.

Cincinnati hasn't been within a game of first place since May 25.

The Reds have won a lot of close games and made up a lot of ground since falling a season-high 7 games out on Aug. 8.

Facing a team they have dominated, they wasted a chance to move closer.

"We had a good run against the Cardinals and the Dodgers," Arroyo said.

AP PHOTO "It would have been nice Joey Votto flies out Monday night against Chicago. to continue it tonight.”

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Defensive end Carlos Dunlap didn't need a whole lot of words to sum it up.

"This one hurts," Dunlap said. "This one really hurts."

For the second year in a row, the Cincinnati Bengals opened the season with the type of performance that stung a lot.

The Bengals played impressively for the first three quarters in Chicago, moving the ball easily and clamping down on defense. They bungled it away at the end with an avalanche of mistakes that allowed the Bears to rally for a 24-21 win.

Some of the biggest mistakes came from their leading players.

All-Pro receiver A.J. Green let one of Andy Dalton's passes go off his hands for an interception inside the Chicago 20yard line, thwarting one threat. Mohamed Sanu fumbled the ball inside the Bears' 20-yard line after a catch, setting up Chicago's go-ahead touchdown drive.

During that drive, the defense twice had to use timeouts because it had the wrong number of players on the field, leaving the Bengals with no opportunity to stop the clock in the closing minutes.

And, finally, the most notable gaffe: With the

Bears set to punt the ball with 1:06 to go, middle linebacker Rey Maualuga — a team captain last season — threw a defender to the ground, drawing a penalty that let Chicago run out the clock.

Cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick also drew a 15yard penalty for a personal foul that set up Chicago's 58-yard field goal to close the first half.

Simply, the Bengals lost their composure at key moments. Both Kirkpatrick and Maualuga exchanged words and pushes with a defender, letting it escalate until they were penalized.

"I don't want to see our guys do that," coach Marvin Lewis said on Monday.

"They know better than that. They've never been that way, so we have to get it on the right page quickly.

"It's plain and simple.

It's no revolutionary thing. You can't be the second offender."

What made it so painful was that it ruined some really good moments in the first three quarters.

Andy Dalton completed 79 percent of his passes for 282 yards and two touchdowns to Green. He also had the two interceptions, including the one that deflected off Green's hands.

"That's a catch that A.J. will make 100 times out of 101," offensive coordinator

Jay Gruden said on Monday. "If you're going to be targeted that many times a year, you're going to have a drop or two."

The Bengals had touchdown drives of 97, 91 and 80 yards against one of the NFL's top defenses, an impressive performance by any measure.

"I don't know if I've ever been around when you have a 97-yard drive, a 91yard drive and an 80-yard touchdown drive," Lewis said.

In the end, it didn't matter. When the Bengals set their goals at the start of the season, one of them was to learn how to close out tough games on the road against premier teams. They wasted their first chance to do it.

"We were pretty good against a pretty good defense, but just not good enough," Gruden said.

NOTES: Lewis said LT Andrew Whitworth, who sat out the opener as he recovers from offseason surgery on his left knee, might be ready to play in the home opener next Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. ... LB Vontaze Burfict had a sore right leg on Monday, but Lewis thinks he'll be able to play against the Steelers. Burfict took a helmet to the side of the left knee as he was tackled following an interception, but returned to the game.

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BEREA (AP) — Brandon Weeden's body bore the ugly marks of an afternoon spent under attack.

As he dressed following Sunday's seasonopening, 23-10 loss to Miami, the Browns quarterback had large reddish welts on his sides and back, semi-permanent tattoos left by Dolphins defenders.

On Monday, Weeden absorbed a few more blows.

Sports talk radio airwaves were filled with cries for Weeden's head as Cleveland fans vented after watching him throw three interceptions as the Browns lost their ninth straight opener and for the 14th time in 15 years. Although he was sacked six times, hit 16 by official count, had a few passes dropped and one TD called back by a holding penalty, Weeden was targeted again.

However, there was plenty of blame to be passed around.

"It's everybody," wide receiver Davone Bess said. "Whether it's protection or us catching the ball. It's everybody, collectively, and I think the faster we come to grips with that and understand that it's not an individual guy, we'll be in good shape."

Weeden was not in Cleveland's locker room, but Browns coach Rob Chudzinski reported that his second-year quarterback was OK physically.

"He's fine," Chudzinski said. "He might have a few bruises."

Weeden's rough outing called to mind his NFL debut last year, when he threw four interceptions in a loss to Philadelphia.

The shaky opener was the first of several inconsistent performances in 2012 for Weeden, leading to months of speculation about whether the soonto-be-30-year-old can be Cleveland's franchise quarterback. That's an ongoing debate and his day with the Dolphins did nothing to quiet his critics.

Chudzinski, though, said he isn't about to bench Weeden. Cleve-

land's No. 3 wasn't the No. 1 problem against Miami.

"The protection issues were there," he said.

"That's something that you have to contend with. I thought Brandon had some ups and downs. There were some throws and some reads that he would like to have back. But the one thing you saw yesterday was what I talked about: Resiliency. You saw his resiliency and his toughness. If anybody had questions about that prior to this game, you look at the game, and he's pretty tough and kept bouncing back and coming back."

Weeden finished 26 of 53 for 289 yards and one touchdown. The numbers are respectable, but they don't tell the whole story as Weeden, who was missing top receiver Josh Gordon because of a suspension, misfired on some easy throws and spent much of the afternoon with one or more of Miami's defensive linemen in his face.

Weeden's tough day ended with him scrambling from trouble on fourth down and desperately flinging a side-arm pass that fell incomplete.

On several occasions, Weeden moved his arm in a small circle to try to loosen his shoulder.

It wasn't all Weeden's fault. But just as it is for every other NFL quarterback, the glory and the blame come in disproportionate doses.

Many Browns fans view Weeden as a temporary fix, someone to hold the job down until the team finds a younger, more mobile quarterback who can elevate the his teammates by talent and will.

Chudzinski believes Weeden can do that for the Browns — in time.

"I think that happens naturally as a guy gets better and better and more experienced. He's the focal point typically in the offense and that happens," he said. "I think he has improved and he has shown that to this point. Ultimately it has to happen out on the field and in the performance.”

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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — While Clint Bowyer's spin got all the attention at Richmond, a few questions from a puzzled Brian Vickers and the promise of a post-race kiss led to one hefty punishment from NASCAR. Ryan Newman replaced Martin Truex Jr. in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship on Monday night when NASCAR penalized Michael Waltrip Racing for manipulating the outcome of last weekend's race.

MWR was fined $300,000, and general manager Ty Norris received an indefinite suspension. Truex, Bowyer and Vickers were docked 50 points apiece — but Bowyer's deduction does not affect his position in the Chase, which begins Sunday at Chicago.

"We penalize to ask for it to not happen again," NASCAR President Mike Helton said. "It's a message from the league or the sanctioning body saying 'You can't do this.'"

Newman was leading with seven laps remaining Saturday night at Richmond, where a victory would have given him the final spot in the 12-driver Chase field. But Bowyer spun to bring out a caution, setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to Newman losing the race and the final berth in the 12-driver Chase field, which instead went to Bowyer teammate Truex.

While examining the situation, NASCAR reviewed communication between Bowyer and his Michael Waltrip Racing crew that seemed to indicate the spin was deliberate, as well as additional evidence that suggested MWR had Bowyer and Vickers take a dive over the final three laps so Joey Logano would knock Jeff Gordon out of Chase contention in yet another attempt to help Truex.

NASCAR did not adjust the standings to put Gordon into the Chase — he was in before Bowyer's spin — because Helton said it was impossible to address all the scenarios.

"We don't react to the ripple effect of an occurrence because I don't think there's any way we can reasonably do that," Helton said. "We look at the incident and only the incident because we know from experience that if you try to look at the ripple effect of an incident, you can't cover all those bases. You can't ever come up with a conclusion that is equitable and credible across the board."

Newman was moved into the Chase because the points deductions to the MWR drivers were made to their totals at the conclusion of Saturday night's race. Once Truex lost his 50 points, it dropped him to 17th in the standings and below Newman, who then moved into position for the second wild card into the Chase field.

Gordon was never eligible for the wild card, and MWR tried to further manipulate the standings by knocking him out of the top 10 to make sure Logano didn't grab the wild card the team wanted for Truex. They did it by having Vickers and Bowyer pit in the closing laps of the race, which was revealed in team communications reviewed by The Associated Press on Sunday.

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COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio State coach Urban Meyer says he is "fairly optimistic" that injured quarterback Braxton Miller will be able to play when the fourth-ranked Buckeyes play at California on Saturday.

"Yeah, I'm fairly optimistic," Meyer said on Tuesday. "With everything I've been told, the improvement made between day 3 and day 4 (after a sprained knee) is very important and it's usually substantial. I'm fairly optimistic."

Speaking on the Big Ten coaches teleconference, Meyer said that Miller has shown signs that he may be healthy AP PHOTO enough to see action after spraining a medial-collat- Braxton Miller hopes to eral ligament in his left be back Saturday. knee in last weekend's 42After several minutes 7 win over San Diego on the turf, Miller limped State.

to the sideline and then was taken to the locker room by motorized cart.

He returned to the sideline, but did not play again.

Meyer said he saw Braxton throw a few passes and then would evaluate him after he had practiced.

"We'll know more (Wednesday) on if he'll be available for the Cal game," Meyer said.

Miller got treatment on the knee on Sunday and Monday.

After watching the junPHOTO PROVIDED BY J&T PHOTOS ior go through a "limited- Becca Stiefel finished fifth in a feature at Waynesfield Raceway Park. capacity" workout on Tuesday, Miller may be tested more in the last big practice before the Buckeyes' third game of the season.

"It's just, can he plant, can he move, and all of that," Meyer said.

Stiefel takes second in points standings Wins heat race; takes fifth in feature

Buckeye defense prepared to chase Cal quarterback COLUMBUS (AP) — If there's one thing other than a dinner buffet that gets the attention of a big defensive lineman, it's a freshman quarterback.

"A true freshman can be really athletic and all that," Ohio State defensive tackle Michael Bennett said. "But it's easier to get flustered and to get a little nervous — especially when you see a defensive line closing in."

The fourth-ranked Buckeyes' defense is well aware that the signalcaller for Saturday's opponent, California, is just a few months removed from worrying about prom dates and getting to his home room on time.

Jared Goff is the Bears' rookie quarterback — and also the focal point for the Buckeyes' defenders.

"I don't feel that much pressure," said the 6-foot4, 205-pounder Goff, out of Kentfield, Calif. "I'm

just doing what I've been doing since I came in this spring. I'm just doing my best. If we have to throw the ball a lot of times, we throw it a lot."

Oh, the Bears throw it a lot, all right. And Goff is certainly no easy mark.

He has gotten off to a terrific start and is leading the nation with 930 yards passing in two games in coach Sonny Dykes' wide-open, hurryit-up offense.

Dykes isn't worried about Goff getting jittery over playing one of the nation's top teams on national TV. "We'll just tell him last week was on national television and he probably won't know the difference," he cracked.

But playing Portland State is a far cry from Ohio State.

After all, most plays, Goff is all by himself in the backfield.

"This is basically an

empty offense," Ohio State co-defensive coordinator Everett Withers said. "They have a back in the backfield but he's lined up outside the tackle. So they send five (receivers) out every snap. That is getting everybody out in the route."

That means that there's nobody left to block should Bennett or a bull-rushing lineman or outside 'backer get a bead on the guy in the pocket looking for an open teammate.

It's one thing to be a first-year player and to hand off 40 times a game.

It's quite another to be in charge of an attack that reels off plays every few seconds and requires a steady stream of splitsecond decisions. "(Goff is) very impressive, obviously, to come in and step into this kind of offense," Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer said.

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Tiger boys win

WEBSTER — The Versailles boys golf team edged Parkway 163-167 Monday on the front nine at Stillwater Valley Golf Club.

Tyler Drees led Versailles and was match medalist with 38.

Other Tiger scores were Ryan Knapke 40, Mitchell Stover 41, Jacob Watren 44, Alex Stucke 45, Kyle Cotner 51.

GIRLS GOLF Russia gets win

The Russia girls golf team edged Arcanum 206211 Monday at Stillwater Valley Golf Club.

Morgan Daugherty was match medalist for Russia with 46.

Other Lady Raider scores were Taylor Borchers 48, Alicia George 56, Haleigh Shaffer 56.

Russia won the JV match 264-294.

Maddie Borchers was medalist with 62.

Other Raider scores VOLLEYBALL were Kara Barlage 64, Bradford splits Lizzie Adfams 65, Kelsey BRADFORD — The Koverman 73.

Bradford volleyball team lost to Cedarville 25-23, GIRLS TENNIS 25-18, 24-26, 25-7 Saturday.

Lady Cavs fall DAYTON — The The Lady Railroaders Lehman girls tennis team were coming off a CCC lost 5-0 to Chaminade- win over National Triail Julienne Monday.

25-13, 25-9, 24-26, 22-25, In singles, Julia Harrel- 15-3 last week. son lost to Natalie Allen 6Haley Patty had 14 1, 6-0; Sarah Gravunder points, seven aces, six kills lost to Kelly Pleiman 6-1, and four digs; while Molly 6-0; and Kaitlin Gillman Dunlevy had 11 points, lost to Amanda Draeger 6- four aces, one kill and four 0, 6-0. digs.

In doubles, Meghan Brooke Brower had 21 Burner and Elaina Snyder points, five digs and 11 aslost to Mackenzie Boyer sists; while Bree Bates and Brianna Douglas 6-3, had 15 points, six aces, 6-1; and Emily Hoersten five kills and three digs. and Emma Simpson lost Michayla Barga had to Margot Duffy and Ash- four points, 10 kills and 10 ley Huffman 6-0, 6-0. digs.

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Other Viking scores were Zach Ostendorf 44, Scot Kirby 44, Kley Karadak 45, Devyn Carson 45.

Covington scores included Joe Slusher 45, Levi Winn 46, Jacob Blair 47, Ty Boehringer 51, Jesse Wall 76, Derek McCool 85.

On Saturday night, Becca Stiefel traveled to Waynesfield Raceway Park to compete in the final 1000cc mini sprint class points race for 2013.

Going into the night Stiefel was second in points and would look to hold that down as improving on it was slim as the number one position only needed to complete a lap.

The Piqua driver started her heat race on the outside of the front row and at the green flag used a great run off the high side of turn two to take the lead and never looked back till the checkered flew.

The win secured her a sixth place starting position in the feature.

On the start Stiefel again would use the high side off turn two to get a

run down the back stretch and go from sixth to third.

Stiefel would hold down the third spot and begin to work for second but just as she reeled in the second place car a red flag would fly bringing the field to a stop.

On the restart, Stiefel would find the car to not be as good but continue to hold her spot but would slip back to fifth with just a few laps remaining and finish in fifth place.

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"I can't thank my team, sponsors, and you the fans enough for your support this year, as many of you know last year I lost my best team member and I came back this year determined to give him a great year and I think I did that,” an emotional Stiefel said after the race. “There are still a couple things I still want this year and we still got some racing left for the year."

Stiefel returns to Waynesfield Raceway Park to race in the "Harvest of Sprints" which will take place on Sept. 29.

Stiefel also plans to run a couple races before them with locations to be determined — but one or more of them may be wingless shows.

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PA 24 16 49 23

W L T Pct PF Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 28 Denver 1 0 0 1.000 49 San Diego 0 1 0 .000 28 0 1 0 .000 17 Oakland NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 33 Dallas 1 0 0 1.000 36 Washington 0 1 0 .000 27 N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 31 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 23 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 17 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 7 Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 17 North W L T Pct PF Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 34 Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 24 Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 28 Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 24 West W L T Pct PF St. Louis 1 0 0 1.000 27 San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 34 Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 12 Arizona 0 1 0 .000 24 Thursday's Game Denver 49, Baltimore 27 Sunday's Games New Orleans 23, Atlanta 17 Chicago 24, Cincinnati 21 New England 23, Buffalo 21 Tennessee 16, Pittsburgh 9 N.Y. Jets 18, Tampa Bay 17 Kansas City 28, Jacksonville 2 Seattle 12, Carolina 7 Miami 23, Cleveland 10 Detroit 34, Minnesota 24 Indianapolis 21, Oakland 17 San Francisco 34, Green Bay 28 St. Louis 27, Arizona 24 Dallas 36, N.Y. Giants 31 Monday's Games Philadelphia 33, Washington 27 Houston 31, San Diego 28 Thursday, Sep. 12 N.Y. Jets at New England Sunday, Sep. 15 Dallas at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Washington at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Miami at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 16 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:40 p.m.

PA 2 27 31 21

New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo South Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville North Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland West

PA 27 31 33 36 PA 17 18 12 23 PA 24 21 34 34 PA 24 28 7 27

AP Top 25 Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (57) 1-0 1,494 1 2. Oregon (1) 2-0 1,385 2 3. Clemson (1) 2-0 1,332 4 4. Ohio St. (1) 2-0 1,327 3 5. Stanford 1-0 1,271 5 6. Texas A&M 2-0 1,133 7 7. Louisville 2-0 1,105 8 8. LSU 2-0 1,075 9 9. Georgia 1-1 1,036 11 10. Florida St. 1-0 1,011 10 11. Michigan 2-0 872 17 12. Oklahoma St. 2-0 834 13 13. South Carolina 1-1 829 6 14. Oklahoma 2-0 675 16 15. Miami 2-0 615 NR 16. UCLA 1-0 488 18 17. Northwestern 2-0 452 19 18. Florida 1-1 405 12 19. Washington 1-0 392 20 20. Wisconsin 2-0 378 21 21. Notre Dame 1-1 333 14 22. Baylor 2-0 295 23 23. Nebraska 2-0 277 22 24. TCU 1-1 170 24 25. Mississippi 2-0 78 NR Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 64, Fresno St. 26, Michigan St. 26, Texas 26, N. Illinois 21, Virginia Tech 15, BYU 14, Georgia Tech 10, Arizona 9, Illinois 9, Bowling Green 7, Penn St. 7, Boise St. 3, Tennessee 1.

USA Today Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (58) 1-0 1,545 1 2. Oregon (1) 2-0 1,447 3 3. Ohio St. (2) 2-0 1,429 2 4. Stanford 1-0 1,327 4 5. Clemson 2-0 1,307 5 6. Texas A&M (1) 2-0 1,242 7 7. Louisville 2-0 1,121 8 8. LSU 2-0 1,067 11 9. Florida St. 1-0 1,040 10

10. Georgia 1-1 1,021 12 2-0 866 14 11. Oklahoma St. 12. Michigan 2-0 860 17 13. Oklahoma 2-0 800 15 14. South Carolina 1-1 788 6 15. Nebraska 2-0 478 19 16. Northwestern 2-0 473 20 17. UCLA 1-0 471 18 18. Wisconsin 2-0 455 21 18. Miami 2-0 455 24 20. Florida 1-1 410 9 21. Notre Dame 1-1 348 13 22. Baylor 2-0 297 NR 23. Washington 1-0 253 23 24. TCU 1-1 195 24 25. Mississippi 2-0 91 NR Others Receiving Votes: Michigan State 74; Fresno State 59; Arizona State 48; Texas 38; Northern Illinois 27; Arizona 21; Brigham Young 18; Arkansas 16; Georgia Tech 12; Virginia Tech 8; Texas Tech 7; Central Florida 6; East Carolina 6; Southern California 5; Bowling Green 3; Illinois 3; Kansas State 3; Boise State 2; Tennessee 2; Utah 2; Utah State 2; Boston College 1.

College Schedule College Football Schedule All Times EDT (Subject to change) Thursday, Sept. 12 SOUTH Tulane (1-1) at Louisiana Tech (1-1), 7:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Troy (2-0) at Arkansas St. (1-1), 7:30 p.m.

TCU (1-1) at Texas Tech (2-0), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 13 FAR WEST Air Force (1-1) at Boise St. (1-1), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 14 EAST Stanford (1-0) at Army (1-1), Noon Colgate (0-2) at New Hampshire (0-1), Noon Dayton (1-1) at Robert Morris (1-1), Noon Georgia St. (0-2) at West Virginia (1-1), Noon New Mexico (1-1) at Pittsburgh (0-1), 12:30 p.m.

Lehigh (1-0) at Monmouth (NJ) (0-2), 1 p.m.

E. Michigan (1-1) at Rutgers (1-1), 1 p.m.

Fordham (2-0) at Temple (0-2), 1 p.m.

Stony Brook (1-0) at Buffalo (0-2), 3:30 p.m.

Bryant (2-0) at Maine (2-0), 3:30 p.m.

Delaware (2-0) at Navy (1-0), 3:30 p.m.

Wagner (1-1) at Syracuse (0-2), 4 p.m.

Holy Cross (0-2) at CCSU (0-2), 6 p.m.

Marist (0-2) at Georgetown (1-1), 6 p.m.

William & Mary (1-1) at Lafayette (0-1), 6 p.m.

UCF (2-0) at Penn St. (2-0), 6 p.m.

Lincoln (Pa.) (1-0) at Sacred Heart (2-0), 6 p.m.

Rhode Island (0-2) at Albany (NY) (1-1), 7 p.m.

Delaware St. (0-1) at Towson (2-0), 7:30 p.m.

Maryland (2-0) at UConn (0-1), 7:30 p.m.

SOUTH NC Central (1-1) at Charlotte (2-0), Noon Virginia Tech (1-1) at East Carolina (2-0), Noon Presbyterian (1-1) at Furman (0-2), Noon Louisville (2-0) at Kentucky (1-1), Noon Louisiana-Monroe (1-1) at Wake Forest (1-1), 12:30 p.m.

Morehead St. (0-2) at Jacksonville (0-2), 1 p.m.

North Greenville (1-0) at VMI (1-1), 1:30 p.m.

Samford (1-1) at Florida A&M (1-1), 2 p.m.

MVSU (0-2) at Alcorn St. (1-1), 3 p.m.

Georgia Tech (1-0) at Duke (2-0), 3:30 p.m.

Nevada (1-1) at Florida St. (1-0), 3:30 p.m.

The Citadel (0-2) at W. Carolina (0-2), 3:30 p.m.

Charleston Southern (2-0) at Campbell (1-1), 6 p.m.

Austin Peay (0-2) at Chattanooga (1-1), 6 p.m.

Coastal Carolina (2-0) at E. Kentucky (1-1), 6 p.m.

Bethune-Cookman (2-0) at FIU (0-2), 6 p.m.

Richmond (1-1) at Gardner-Webb (1-1), 6 p.m.

Tennessee Tech (1-1) at Hampton (0-2), 6 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) (0-1) at James Madison (1-1), 6 p.m.

Warner (0-1) at Mercer (1-0), 6 p.m.

Elon (1-1) at NC A&T (1-0), 6 p.m.

Howard (1-1) at Old Dominion (0-2), 6 p.m.

Alabama A&M (1-1) at SC State (0-2), 6 p.m.

Fort Valley St. (0-1) at Savannah St. (0-2), 6 p.m.

Mississippi St. (1-1) at Auburn (2-0), 7 p.m.

Lenoir-Rhyne (0-1) at Davidson (0-1), 7 p.m.

Kent St. (1-1) at LSU (2-0), 7 p.m.

Morgan St. (0-2) at Liberty (1-1), 7 p.m.

Nicholls St. (1-1) at Louisiana-Lafayette (0-2), 7 p.m.

Memphis (0-1) at Middle Tennessee (1-1), 7 p.m.

Missouri St. (0-2) at Murray St. (1-1), 7 p.m.

Vanderbilt (1-1) at South Carolina (1-1), 7 p.m.

FAU (0-2) at South Florida (0-2), 7 p.m.

Prairie View (1-1) at Southern U. (0-2), 7 p.m.

Jackson St. (1-1) vs. Tennessee St. (1-1) at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Cent. Arkansas (1-1) at UT-Martin (1-1), 7 p.m.

Georgia Southern (2-0) at Wofford (1-1), 7 p.m.

W. Kentucky (1-1) at South Alabama (1-1), 7:30 p.m.

North Alabama (1-0) at Jacksonville St. (2-0), 8 p.m.

West Alabama (1-0) at McNeese St. (2-0), 8 p.m.

MIDWEST Bowling Green (2-0) at Indiana (1-1), Noon Akron (1-1) at Michigan (2-0), Noon W. Illinois (2-0) at Minnesota (2-0), Noon UCLA (1-0) at Nebraska (2-0), Noon Youngstown St. (2-0) at Michigan St. (2-0), 2 p.m.

William Jewell (0-1) at Valparaiso (0-2), 2 p.m.

Charleston (WV) (0-1) at S. Illinois (0-2), 3 p.m.

Quincy (0-1) at Indiana St. (0-2), 3:05 p.m.

Lincoln (Mo.) (0-1) vs. Grambling St. (0-2) at Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Butler (1-1) at Franklin (0-1), 6 p.m.

Washington (1-0) vs. Illinois (2-0) at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Iowa (1-1) at Iowa St. (0-1), 6 p.m.

Northwestern St. (2-0) at Cincinnati (1-1), 7 p.m.

Illinois St. (0-1) at E. Illinois (2-0), 7 p.m.

UMass (0-2) at Kansas St. (1-1), 7 p.m.

Montana (1-0) at North Dakota (1-1), 7 p.m.

SE Louisiana (1-1) at S. Dakota St. (2-0), 7 p.m.

E. Washington (2-0) at Toledo (0-2), 7 p.m.

Marshall (2-0) at Ohio (1-1), 8 p.m.

Notre Dame (1-1) at Purdue (1-1), 8 p.m.

W. Michigan (0-2) at Northwestern (2-0), 9 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Tulsa (1-1) at Oklahoma (2-0), Noon Southern Miss. (0-2) at Arkansas (2-0), 12:21 p.m.

Texas Southern (0-1) at Sam Houston St. (1-1), 3 p.m.

Alabama (1-0) at Texas A&M (2-0), 3:30 p.m.

Ball St. (2-0) at North Texas (1-1), 4 p.m.

Alabama St. (0-2) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (0-2), 5 p.m.

McMurry (0-1) at Stephen F. Austin (0-2), 7 p.m.

Lamar (1-1) at Oklahoma St. (2-0), 7:30 p.m.

Kansas (1-0) at Rice (0-1), 7:30 p.m.

Mississippi (2-0) at Texas (1-1), 8 p.m.

FAR WEST Fresno St. (2-0) at Colorado (2-0), 2 p.m.

Boston College (2-0) at Southern Cal (1-1), 3 p.m.

Mesa St. (1-0) at Montana St. (1-1), 3:05 p.m.

Cal Poly (1-1) at Colorado St. (0-2), 3:30 p.m.

Tennessee (2-0) at Oregon (2-0), 3:30 p.m.

N. Colorado (1-1) at Wyoming (1-1), 4 p.m.

Humboldt St. (0-1) at Portland St. (1-1), 4:05 p.m.

N. Illinois (1-0) at Idaho (0-2), 5 p.m.

Western St. (Col.) (0-1) at Idaho St. (1-0), 5:05 p.m.

S. Utah (2-0) at Washington St. (1-1), 6:30 p.m.

Ohio St. (2-0) at California (1-1), 7 p.m.

UTEP (0-1) at New Mexico St. (0-2), 8 p.m.

Weber St. (1-1) at Utah St. (1-1), 8 p.m.

N. Arizona (0-1) at UC Davis (0-2), 9 p.m.

S. Oregon (0-1) at Sacramento St. (0-2), 9:05 p.m.

Cent. Michigan (1-1) at UNLV (0-2), 10 p.m.

Oregon St. (1-1) at Utah (2-0), 10 p.m.

UTSA (1-1) at Arizona (2-0), 10:30 p.m.

Wisconsin (2-0) at Arizona St. (1-0), 10:30 p.m.

Baseball

MLB Standings Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times EDT National League East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 86 57 .601 — Washington 74 69 .517 12 Philadelphia 66 77 .462 20 New York 64 78 .451 21½ Miami 53 89 .373 32½ Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 83 60 .580 — Pittsburgh 82 61 .573 1 Cincinnati 82 63 .566 2 Milwaukee 62 80 .437 20½ Chicago 61 82 .427 22 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 84 59 .587 — Arizona 72 71 .503 12 San Diego 65 77 .458 18½ Colorado 66 79 .455 19 San Francisco 65 79 .451 19½ Monday's Games Atlanta 5, Miami 2 Chicago Cubs 2, Cincinnati 0 Washington 9, N.Y. Mets 0 Pittsburgh 1, Texas 0 L.A. Dodgers 8, Arizona 1 San Francisco 3, Colorado 2, 10 innings Tuesday's Games San Diego at Philadelphia Atlanta at Miami Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Washington at N.Y. Mets Pittsburgh at Texas Milwaukee at St. Louis Arizona at L.A. Dodgers Colorado at San Francisco Wednesday's Games Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-11) at Cincinnati (Leake 12-6), 12:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 7-10) at Texas (Garza 33), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Nicasio 8-7) at San Francisco (Petit 30), 3:45 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 8-13) at Philadelphia (Halladay 3-4), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 13-6) at Miami (Fernandez 11-6), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Haren 8-13) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 7-4), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 6-4) at St. Louis (Lynn 1310), 8:15 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 13-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 135), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday's Games Atlanta at Miami, 12:40 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

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

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

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

East Division

American League

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

W 87 78 77 76 67

L 58 64 66 68 76

Pct .600 .549 .538 .528 .469

GB — 7½ 9 10½ 19

W 82 77 75 62 58

L 62 66 69 80 85

Pct .569 .538 .521 .437 .406

GB — 4½ 7 19 23½

GB W L Pct Oakland 83 60 .580 — Texas 81 62 .566 2 Los Angeles 67 76 .469 16 Seattle 65 79 .451 18½ Houston 48 96 .333 35½ Monday's Games Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Minnesota 6, L.A. Angels 3 Pittsburgh 1, Texas 0 Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 1 Houston 6, Seattle 4 Tuesday's Games Kansas City at Cleveland N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore L.A. Angels at Toronto Boston at Tampa Bay Pittsburgh at Texas Detroit at Chicago White Sox Oakland at Minnesota Houston at Seattle Wednesday's Games Kansas City (Shields 10-9) at Cleveland (Kazmir 8-7), 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 7-10) at Texas (Garza 33), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 10-9) at Baltimore (Feldman 5-4), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 15-6) at Toronto (Dickey 12-12), 7:07 p.m.

Boston (Dempster 8-9) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 8-3), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Ani.Sanchez 13-7) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 7-6), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 2-3) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-11), 8:10 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 4-5) at Seattle (Maurer 4-7), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday's Games Oakland at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

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

L.A. Angels at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

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

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

Wildcard Glance Wild Card Glance At A Glance All Times EDT NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct WCGB Pittsburgh 82 61 .573 — Cincinnati 82 63 .566 — Washington 74 69 .517 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct WCGB Texas 81 62 .566 — Tampa Bay 78 64 .549 — Baltimore 77 66 .538 1½ Cleveland 77 66 .538 1½ New York 76 68 .528 3½ Kansas City 75 69 .521 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday's Games Chicago Cubs 2, Cincinnati 0 Washington 9, N.Y. Mets 0 Pittsburgh 1, Texas 0 Tuesday's Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Washington at N.Y. Mets Pittsburgh at Texas AMERICAN LEAGUE Monday's Games Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Pittsburgh 1, Texas 0 Tuesday's Games Kansas City at Cleveland N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore Boston at Tampa Bay Pittsburgh at Texas

MLB Leaders TODAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—CJohnson, Atlanta, .329; Cuddyer, Colorado, .327; Werth, Washington, .324; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .324;YMolina, St. Louis, .320; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .316; Craig, St. Louis, .315.

RUNS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 112; Choo, Cincinnati, 97; Votto, Cincinnati, 92; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 90; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 87; Holliday, St. Louis, 86; JUpton, Atlanta, 85.

RBI—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 107; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 101; Craig, St. Louis, 97; FFreeman, Atlanta, 96; Bruce, Cincinnati, 93; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 89; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 88.

HITS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 174; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 170; Segura, Milwaukee, 167; DanMurphy, New York, 164; Craig, St. Louis, 160; Pence, San Francisco, 160; Votto, Cincinnati, 160.

DOUBLES—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 48;YMolina, St. Louis, 39; Bruce, Cincinnati, 38; Desmond, Washington, 35; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 35; Rizzo, Chicago, 35; GParra, Arizona, 34; Pence, San Francisco, 34.

TRIPLES—SMarte, Pittsburgh, 10; CGomez, Milwaukee, 9; Segura, Milwaukee, 9; Span, Washington, 9; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 7; Hechavarria, Miami, 7; Venable, San Diego, 7; EYoung, New York, 7.

HOME RUNS—PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 32; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 31; Bruce, Cincinnati, 29; DBrown, Philadelphia, 27; CGonzalez, Colorado, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 24; Beltran, St. Louis, 23.

STOLEN BASES—Segura, Milwaukee, 40; ECabrera, San Diego, 37; EYoung, New York, 36; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 35; CGomez, Milwaukee, 33; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 27; Pierre, Miami, 22; Revere, Philadelphia, 22.

PITCHING—JDe La Rosa, Colorado, 16-6; Zimmermann, Washington, 16-8; Wainwright, St. Louis, 16-9; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 15-7; Greinke, Los Angeles, 14-3; Latos, Cincinnati, 14-5; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 14-8.

ERA—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 1.92; Fernandez, Miami, 2.23; Harvey, New York, 2.27; Greinke, Los Angeles, 2.79; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 2.82; Strasburg, Washington, 2.96; Corbin, Arizona, 2.97.

STRIKEOUTS—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 208; Wainwright, St. Louis, 195; Harvey, New York, 191; Samardzija, Chicago, 190; HBailey, Cincinnati, 190; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 183; Hamels, Philadelphia, 183.

SAVES—Kimbrel, Atlanta, 45; RSoriano, Washington, 39; Mujica, St. Louis, 36; AChapman, Cincinnati, 35; Romo, San Francisco, 33; Gregg, Chicago, 31; Grilli, Pittsburgh, 30.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—MiCabrera, Detroit, .353; Trout, Los Angeles, .338; Mauer, Minnesota, .324; ABeltre, Texas, .317; DOrtiz, Boston, .312; Cano, New York, .308; Loney, Tampa Bay, .306.

RUNS—Trout, Los Angeles, 97; MiCabrera, Detroit, 96; CDavis, Baltimore, 96; AJones, Baltimore, 93; AJackson, Detroit, 92; Ellsbury, Boston, 89; Encarnacion, Toronto, 89.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 133; CDavis, Baltimore, 124; Encarnacion, Toronto, 104; AJones, Baltimore, 102; Cano, New York, 97; Fielder, Detroit, 97; DOrtiz, Boston, 90.

HITS—Trout, Los Angeles, 179; Machado, Baltimore, 178; ABeltre, Texas, 176; MiCabrera, Detroit, 175; AJones, Baltimore, 172; Pedroia, Boston, 170; Ellsbury, Boston, 169.

DOUBLES—Machado, Baltimore, 49; Lowrie, Oakland, 42; CDavis, Baltimore, 39; Pedroia, Boston, 38; AlRamirez, Chicago, 37; Trout, Los Angeles, 37; JCastro, Houston, 35; Mauer, Minnesota, 35; Saltalamacchia, Boston, 35.

TRIPLES—Gardner, New York, 10; Trout, Los Angeles, 9; Ellsbury, Boston, 8; Drew, Boston, 6; AGordon, Kansas City, 6; BMiller, Seattle, 6; AJackson, Detroit, 5; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 5; Kawasaki, Toronto, 5; LMartin, Texas, 5.

HOME RUNS—CDavis, Baltimore, 48; MiCabrera, Detroit, 43; Encarnacion, Toronto, 36; ADunn, Chicago, 31; AJones, Baltimore, 31; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 31; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 29.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 52; RDavis, Toronto, 40; Andrus, Texas, 39; Rios, Texas, 35; Altuve, Houston, 32; LMartin, Texas, 32; Trout, Los Angeles, 32.

PITCHING—Scherzer, Detroit, 19-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 16-5; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 15-3; CWilson, Los Angeles, 15-6; Colon, Oakland, 15-6; Masterson, Cleveland, 14-10; 5 tied at 13.

ERA—AniSanchez, Detroit, 2.61; Darvish, Texas, 2.84; Colon, Oakland, 2.85; Sale, Chicago, 2.90; Iwakuma, Seattle, 2.97; Kuroda, New York, 2.99; Scherzer, Detroit, 3.01; FHernandez, Seattle, 3.01.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 246; Scherzer, Detroit, 215; Sale, Chicago, 207; FHernandez, Seattle, 200; Masterson, Cleveland, 188; Verlander, Detroit, 182; DHolland, Texas, 172.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 43; MRivera, New York, 41; GHolland, Kansas City, 40; Nathan, Texas, 39; Balfour, Oakland, 37; AReed, Chicago, 37; Perkins, Minnesota, 33; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 33.

Auto Racing

Sprint Cup Leaders NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders Through Sept. 8 Points 1, Matt Kenseth, 2,015. 2, Jimmie Johnson, 2,012. 3, Kyle Busch, 2,012. 4, Kevin Harvick, 2,006. 5, Carl Edwards, 2,006. 6, Joey Logano, 2,003. 7, Greg Biffle, 2,003. 8, Clint Bowyer, 2,000.

9, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,000. 10, Kurt Busch, 2,000.

11, Kasey Kahne, 2,000. 12, Martin Truex Jr., 2,000. 13, Jeff Gordon, 750. 14, Ryan Newman, 741. 15, Jamie McMurray, 721. 16, Brad Keselowski, 720. 17, Paul Menard, 698. 18, Aric Almirola, 664. 19, Juan Pablo Montoya, 656. 20, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 644.

Money 1, Jimmie Johnson, $6,962,945. 2, Kyle Busch, $5,259,480. 3, Matt Kenseth, $5,001,451. 4, Brad Keselowski, $4,765,620. 5, Kevin Harvick, $4,749,098. 6, Carl Edwards, $4,545,729. 7, Jeff Gordon, $4,327,379. 8, Ryan Newman, $4,315,556. 9, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $4,298,593. 10, Joey Logano, $4,262,392.

11, Martin Truex Jr., $4,176,764. 12, Clint Bowyer, $4,148,236. 13, Kasey Kahne, $4,069,933. 14, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., $4,012,734.

15, Kurt Busch, $3,860,603. 16, Aric Almirola, $3,785,951. 17, Greg Biffle, $3,744,124. 18, Tony Stewart, $3,710,624. 19, Juan Pablo Montoya, $3,694,388. 20, Jamie McMurray, $3,663,783.

Golf

Fed-Ex Cup Leaders PGA Tour FedExCup Leaders Through Sept. 2 Rank Player Points YTD Money 1. Henrik Stenson 4,051 $4,905,963 2. Tiger Woods 4,037 $8,231,839 3. Adam Scott 3,917 $4,664,611 4. Matt Kuchar 3,103 $5,415,008 5. Graham DeLaet 2,806 $2,649,300 6. Phil Mickelson 2,762 $5,253,527 7. Justin Rose 2,664 $3,815,881 8. Steve Stricker 2,617 $3,417,532 9. Brandt Snedeker 2,326 $4,934,087 10. Jordan Spieth 2,246 $3,039,820 11. Keegan Bradley 1,866 $3,304,813 12. Jason Day 1,785 $3,136,430 13. Jason Dufner 1,781 $2,886,134 14. Gary Woodland 1,771 $1,665,812 15. Jim Furyk 1,718 $2,487,179 16. Kevin Streelman 1,718 $2,906,818 17. Bill Haas 1,718 $3,281,963 18. Hunter Mahan 1,601 $2,569,164 19. Boo Weekley 1,560 $2,640,262 20. Webb Simpson 1,531 $2,505,382 21. D.A. Points 1,496 $2,507,287 22. Billy Horschel 1,491 $3,133,383 23. Dustin Johnson 1,428 $2,626,094 24. Sergio Garcia 1,409 $1,919,085 25. Roberto Castro 1,398 $1,783,164 26. Bren. de Jonge 1,379 $1,532,524 27. Zach Johnson 1,343 $2,340,509 28. Harris English 1,337 $2,181,007 29. Charl Schwartzel 1,319 $1,895,123 30. Lee Westwood 1,271 $2,065,251 31. Charles Howell III 1,248 $1,844,589 32. Kevin Stadler 1,235 $1,238,910 33. Kevin Chappell 1,197 $1,572,719 34. Nick Watney 1,193 $1,440,039 35. Scott Piercy 1,186 $1,814,004 36. Rickie Fowler 1,184 $1,783,942 37. Chris Kirk 1,172 $1,660,416 38. John Huh 1,169 $1,508,682 39. Chris Stroud 1,150 $1,582,869 40. Bubba Watson 1,137 $1,691,076 41. Rory McIlroy 1,132 $1,784,763 42. D. Summerhays 1,102 $1,223,486 43. Russell Henley 1,088 $1,975,226 44. John Merrick 1,076 $1,865,158 45. Jimmy Walker 1,073 $1,941,570 46. Brian Gay 1,072 $1,409,297 47. Patrick Reed 1,067 $1,943,839 48. Gr. McDowell 1,048 $2,156,595 49. Brian Davis 1,047 $1,179,257 50. Jonas Blixt 1,040 $2,008,264 51. Matt Jones 1,019 $1,492,707 52. Ian Poulter 1,008 $1,698,599 53. Charley Hoffman 1,001 $1,566,103 54. Luke Donald 992 $1,457,246 55. Scott Stallings 984 $1,606,547 56. David Lynn 964 $1,550,053 57. Matt Every 947 $1,156,067 58. Marc Leishman 921 $1,458,559 59. Nich.Thompson 918 $934,570 60. Rory Sabbatini 915 $1,151,822 61. Ken Duke 902 $1,705,863 62. David Hearn 900 $1,117,115 $1,690,517 63. Mich. Thompson 898 64. Jason Kokrak 888 $1,242,661 65. Ryan Moore 870 $1,314,265 66. Bryce Molder 854 $792,058 67. Sang-Moon Bae 838 $1,696,240 68. Angel Cabrera 831 $1,766,319 69. Brendan Steele 826 $986,721 70. Ernie Els 823 $1,154,508

Soccer

MLS Glance

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Montreal 13 7 6 45 New York 13 9 6 45 Sporting KC 13 9 6 45 Philadelphia 10 9 9 39 New England 10 10 7 37 Houston 10 10 7 37 Chicago 10 11 5 35 Columbus 9 14 5 32 Toronto FC 4 13 10 22 D.C. 3 19 5 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Real Salt Lake 14 8 6 48 Seattle 14 8 4 46 Los Angeles 13 10 4 43 Colorado 11 8 9 42 Portland 10 5 12 42 FC Dallas 10 7 10 40 Vancouver 10 10 7 37 11 7 37 San Jose 10 Chivas USA 6 15 7 25 Wednesday, Sept. 11 Chicago at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 13 Real Salt Lake at Seattle FC, 10 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 14 Columbus at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at D.C. United, 4 p.m.

Toronto FC at New York, 7 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

New England at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Portland at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

GF GA 45 37 44 36 41 27 37 38 37 29 31 35 32 37 31 38 23 39 16 44 GF GA 52 35 35 27 43 33 35 29 43 30 39 39 39 38 29 40 27 48

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"We're probably going to pit here on green," Norris says.

"Are you talking to me?" Vickers replies in surprise.

"Yeah, we're going to pit," Norris says.

"What? I've got to pit? I don't understand. Pit right now?" Vickers says in disbelief.

"You've got to pit this time. We need that one point," Norris responds.

"10-4. Do I got a tire going down?" Vickers says.

Vickers then pitted as the field went green.

When he asked after if his crew found anything with the tire, Norris replied, "I'll see you after the race, Brian, I owe you a kiss."

Helton indicated Monday that conversation between Norris and Vickers, with Vickers' confusion over the directives he was given, was the smoking gun against MWR. "The preponderance of

things that happened ... the most clear was the direction that the 55 driver was given and the confusion around it, and then the conversation following that occurrence," Helton said. "That's the most clear piece of evidence."

Waltrip also mentioned the sequence when he apologized in a statement on Monday night.

"What occurred on the No. 55 radio at the end of Saturday night's race in Richmond was a split-second decision made by team spotter Ty Norris to bring the No. 55 to pit lane and help a teammate earn a place in the Chase," he said. "We regret the decision and its impact."

Norris also apologized in a series of tweets posted late Monday night.

"There was no time to think just act. Though it was to benefit MWR it is now clear it was to the detriment of the sport I

love and have called home for the past 24 years," he posted.

Gordon's reaction to NASCAR's ruling focused on Truex, who did nothing to land in his teammates' mess, and Bowyer, who escaped unscathed.

"Feel bad for Truex. He got in under controversy now out due to it. But the guy who started all of this not effected at all??? Don't agree!" Gordon posted on Twitter.

Bowyer denied Saturday night he intentionally spun and Truex was an unwitting participant.

Waltrip said the team will learn from what happened and move on.

The controversy surrounding Saturday's race put a damper on Newman's Monday announcement that he had reached a deal with Richard Childress Racing to replace Jeff Burton next season in the No. 31 Chevrolet.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This afternoon you might encounter difficulties with travel plans. If so, postpone important decisions until tomorrow. Similar challenges could arise with publishing, the media, medicine and the law.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Although you're focused on shared property, insurance matters and inheritances today, just do your homework and fill your data bank. Wait until tomorrow to make a firm decision about anything.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Be patient with others, because today the Moon is at odds with the Sun, and everything is a bit loosey-goosey and all over the map. Tomorrow things will settle down.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) At work today, just attend to routine duties. Don't initiate new things or volunteer for anything. Keep your head down and your powder dry.

Easy does it.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This can be a creative day for you; nevertheless, you might encounter obstacles with others. Don't be pushy with your agenda. You will have more success if you wait until tomorrow.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a classic day where you can hide at home in front of the TV with junk food. Play hooky if you can.

Work tomorrow. But for those who must work, be low-key.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a poor day for important decisions. If you have to agree to anything important, do it in the morning.

Ideally, you will wait until tomorrow.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Although you're focused on financial matters today, except for the morning, this is a poor day for financial decisions. Tomorrow is much better.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Although the Moon is in your sign today, you will find it difficult dealing with authority figures, especially females. Try to stay flexible and light on your feet.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Keep a low-profile today. If possible, you will enjoy working behind the scenes or working alone. Better yet, you'll enjoy quietly resting.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Expect opposition in group situations today. If you can, you might want to postpone important suggestions until tomorrow. (Easier, more productive day.)

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a poor day to ask for approval or permission from authority figures.

By contrast, tomorrow is a good day.

(Forewarned is forearmed.)

YOU BORN TODAY You are fearless, and your bravery often is connected with ethical issues that are important to you. You're private and sometimes difficult to find; and yet, you are witty and entertaining. Words and language fascinate you. Above all, you are a realist. This year something you've been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish to make room for something new.

Birthdate of: Jason Statham, actor; Jennifer Hudson, actress/singer; Neil Peart, musician/author.

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Patient’s bill soars as health law program falters Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coping with advanced cancer, Bev Veals was in the hospital for chemo this summer when she got a call that her health plan was shutting down.

Then, the substitute insurance she was offered wanted her to pay up to $3,125, on top of premiums.

It sounds like one of those insurance horror stories President Barack Obama told to sell his health overhaul to Congress, but Veals wasn’t in the clutches of a profit-driven company.

Instead, she’s covered

by Obama’s law — one of about 100,000 people with serious medical issues in a financially troubled government program.

Raw political divisions over health care have clouded chances of a fix for the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, leaving families like Veals and her husband Scott to juggle the consequences. That’s not a good omen for solving other problems that could surface with “Obamacare.”

“You don’t advertise one thing and then give the customer another thing,” said Veals, 49, who lives near Wilmington, N.C. “I finally felt for the first time going through this cancer that I had something dependable, and somebody pulled the plug.”

In a statement, the federal Health and Human Services department said the program “continues to provide excellent coverage.”

But the department said it was unable to provide current enrollment numbers, which might reflect the impact of belt-tightening this summer that led North Carolina and 16 other states to turn their programs over to federal officials.

Known as PCIP, the program was intended as a temporary lifeline for people denied insurance because of medical problems.

It’s supposed to provide coverage at premiums that healthy people would typically pay.

PCIP will end Jan. 1, when Veals and other enrollees will be able to transition to new insurance marketplaces where they may be able to find lower-cost plans.

Jan. 1 is also when Obama’s law will forbid insurers from turning away people in poor health.

At the same time, virtually all Americans will be required to have coverage.

Many who are currently uninsured will be able to get tax credits to help pay premiums.

Part of the problem with PCIP stems from a decision by the president and Congress more than three years ago to cap funding at $5 billion.

Some experts warned that might not be enough to last through the end of 2013.

Veals is a breast cancer survivor now battling colorectal cancer.

A runner, she has participated in more than 125 fundraising races for cancer research.

Her husband Scott is self-employed, a slowmotion replay operator for televised sporting events.

Bev Veals had been uninsured for 27 months before she was able to get on the North Carolina PCIP plan early in 2011.

She considers herself a strong supporter of Obama’s law.

But even with insurance, deductibles and copays for cancer care strain the budgets of most families. And that doesn’t count lost wages and expenses not covered by insurance.

“It starts as a handpacked snowball that someone starts pushing down the hill,” said Veals. “It gains momentum and speed, it gets bigger and bigger, and swallows everything in its path.”

The more than $3,000 extra the Veals will have to pay this year “is not discretionary money,” she explained. “This is heat-the -house -in-the winter money.”

When her home health nurse called her at Duke Cancer Center about the health plan changes, Veals was on a chemotherapy pump.

Her first thought was they missed a payment.

Then she remembered her premium was set for automatic payment and wondered if their account was low.

Her mind racing, she worried somebody had hacked their finances.

Scott Veals called the North Carolina PCIP plan and learned it was being turned back over to the federal government on July 1 because of financing problems.

After more digging, he found out their premiums would go down somewhat in the federal plan, to $420 a month.

But there was a catch: They had already met their deductible in the North Carolina plan, and also reached their annual out-of-pocket maximum of $6,250.

With the federal plan, they would have another deductible of $1,000 for the rest of 2013, and a total of $3,125 in outof-pocket costs before reaching that plan’s catastrophic limit.

Deductibles and copayments shift some financial responsibility to patients.

“We are paying 18 months of deductibles and out-of-pocket cost for one year’s worth of coverage to two insurance companies,” said Scott Veals.

The problems with PCIP bubbled up in February, when federal officials unexpectedly announced an enrollment freeze.

Although fewer people had signed up than originally expected, very costly cases were draining its budget.

A few months later, federal officials gave states running their own PCIP plans an ultimatum: take on some financial risk or turn the programs back to Washington at midyear.

In those 17 states, Washington put in new cost-sharing requirements to help keep the program financially viable through the end of the year.

If the administration saw problems coming, Obama’s budget did not reflect it. The president did not request any new funds for PCIP. The No. 2 House Republican did make an attempt to pump more money in, but it was fraught with politics.

Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia proposed to divert funds from elsewhere in the health care law, unacceptable to Democrats.

His idea also failed to get Republican support.

“Our elected officials, some of whom have been impacted by cancer, must come together to identify a bipartisan solution to fund this program for the remainder of 2013,” said Emily Shetty, who handles federal policy and lobbying for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Veals and her husband say they are looking forward to full implementation of the health care law next year. But getting through the next few months will be a struggle.

“We both knew there would be bumps along the road but we never thought there would be this kind of bump,” she said.

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This position is involved in all aspects of maintenance and facilities with preference toward proven skills in mechanical, fabrication, hydraulic, and pneumatic. The ideal candidate will have experience with electrical, machine repair and rebuilding of manufacturing equipment, Candidates must have a solid work history and be willing to work 2am10am, overtime and other shifts when required.

We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(K) and many others.

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SHIPPING $12.50 TO $14.50 Freshway Foods in Sidney, has immediate openings in Shipping. * Full-Time * Part-Time (Weekends) For immediate consideration complete an application or email resume: Freshway Foods 601 North Stolle Sidney, Ohio 45365 tarnold@freshwayfoods.com

Truck Body Technician Excellent opportunity for an experienced individual in truck body repair. Ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with sanding, grinding, painting & fiberglass repair on tractor-trailers. Must be reliable and able to work with minimal supervision. Pay based on experience. This is an excellent long term opportunity with insurance, 401K, uniforms, and a very clean shop.

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Freshway Foods, in Sidney has an immediate Supervisor/ Manager position. The successful candidate will have:

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Buckeye Insurance Group seeks highly motivated and self-directed individual for a support specialist position on our Help Team in our Piqua, Ohio office. Position involves large amounts of data entry, systems testing and providing telephone support to our agency force. Successful candidates will be adept at problem-solving, have strong interpersonal and data entry skills and be able to prioritize tasks in order to meet strict deadlines.

Proficiency in Word and Excel is essential. Associate degree is required; P&C insurance background a plus.

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Please send resume and cover letter to: send.resumes@ buckeye-ins.com No phone calls, please.

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9/11 ceremony will be a quiet ‘last’ for mayor Jennifer Peltz Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — When this year’s Sept.

11 anniversary ceremony unfolds at ground zero, the mayor who has helped orchestrate the observances from their start will be watching for his last time in office. And saying nothing.

Over his years as mayor and chairman of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, Michael Bloomberg has sometimes tangled with victims’ relatives, religious leaders and other elected officials over an event steeped in symbolism and emotion.

But his administration has largely succeeded at its goal of keeping the commemoration centered on the attacks’ victims and their families and relatively free of political image-making.

In that spirit, no politicians — including the mayor — were allowed to

speak last year or will be this year.

Memorial organizers expect to take primary responsibility for the ceremony next year and say they plan to continue concentrating the event on victims’ loved ones, even as the forthcoming museum creates a new, broader framework for remembering 9/11.

“As things evolve in the future, the focus on the remembrance is going to stay sacrosanct,” memorial President Joe Daniels says.

At today’s ceremony on the 2-year-old memorial plaza, relatives will again read the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa. Readers also will recite the 1993 trade center bombing victims’ names.

At the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, where today’s ceremony

will include bell-ringing and wreath-laying, officials were gathering Tuesday to mark the start of construction on a visitor center.

The Pentagon plans a Wednesday morning ceremony for victims’ relatives and survivors of the attacks, with wreath-laying and remarks from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other officials, and an afternoon observance for Pentagon workers.

Deciding how to mark the anniversary of the worst terror strike in U.S. history was a sensitive task for Bloomberg and other leaders in the months after the attacks, perhaps especially for the then-new mayor.

Officials were planning a memorial service for thousands of families from 90 countries, while also setting a tone for how the public would commemorate 9/11.

“That was the challenge that we faced, and it was an enormous one,”

recalls Jonathan Greenspun, who then was part of Bloomberg’s community affairs unit and now is a political consultant. “There was a recognition, by the mayor, that the ceremony had to transcend typical memorial services and the politics that are sometimes associated with them.”

Officials fielded about 4,500 suggestions — including a Broadway parade honoring rescue workers and a one-minute blackout of all Manhattan — before crafting a plan centered on reading names at ground zero.

“Our intent is to have a day of observances that are simple and powerful,” Bloomberg said as he and then-Gov. George Pataki announced the plans in 2002.

For years, the ceremonies did include politicians reading names and texts, and Bloomberg made remarks that over the years touched on Hurricane Katrina, the

2005 London subway bombings and the Biblical King David’s grief at the death of his son Absolom, among other topics.

Bloomberg’s role hasn’t always been comfortable, especially for a mayor whose brisk, pragmatic personality and early criticisms of the memorial struck some victims’ relatives as insensitive.

When the ceremony was shifted to nearby Zuccotti Park in 2007 because of rebuilding at the trade center site, some victims’ relatives threatened to boycott the occasion.

The lead-up to the 10th anniversary brought pressure to invite more political figures and to include clergy in the ceremony. And when Bloomberg mentioned the idea of ending the namereading the next year, some of the relatives were aghast.

By next year’s anniversary, Bloomberg will be out of office, and the museum is

expected to be open beneath the memorial plaza.

While the memorial honors those killed, the museum is intended to present a broader picture of 9/11, including the experiences of survivors and first responders.

But the organizers expect they “will always keep the focus on the families on the anniversary,” Daniels said.

“We see ourselves as carrying on a legacy.”

That focus was clear as relatives gathered last September on the treeladen plaza, with a smaller crowd than in some prior years.

After the throng and fervor that attended the 10th anniversary, “there was something very, very different about it,” says Charles Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, was killed in the trade center’s north tower.

“It felt almost cemetery-ish, but not really. It felt natural.”

prospects for a solution at the U.N., said Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, after his party’s rank and file met privately for lunch in the Capitol with the president. He quoted Obama as saying that even if a credible plan could be worked out, it could be difficult to push through the U.N. Security Council. And, indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said such a U.N. effort could work only if “the American side and those who support the USA in this sense reject the use of force.”

The president readied his speech as a small crowd of anti-war protesters, some waving signs, gathered outside the gates of the White House.

The background for his remarks included an unpredictable chain of events stemming from the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21 that the Obama administration swiftly blamed on Assad’s government.

U.S. officials say more than 1,400 died in the episode, including at least 400 children, and other victims suffered uncontrollable twitching, foaming at the mouth and other symptoms typical of exposure to chemical weapons banned by international treaty.

Other casualty estimates are lower, and Assad has said the attack was launched by rebels who have been fighting to drive him from power in a civil war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 100,000 civilians.

Assad’s patron, Russia, has blocked U.S. attempts to rally the Security Council behind a military strike.

But Monday, after a remark

by Kerry, it spoke favorably about requiring Syria to surrender control of its chemical weapons, and the Syrian foreign minister did

likewise.

The foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, said Tuesday that his government was ready to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile in line with Russia’s proposal in order “to thwart U.S. aggression.” He also said Syria was prepared to sign an international chemical convention it has long rejected — a step it can take on its own at any time without U.S. or U.N. supervision.

Syria has long refused to provide an accounting of the size of its stockpile, rarely referring in public to its existence. According to an unclassified estimate by the French government, it includes more than 1,000 tons of “chemical agents and precursor chemicals,” including sulfur mustard, VX and sarin gas.

Obama has said frequently he has the authority as commander in chief to order a military strike against Assad regardless of any vote in Congress, and he has consistently declined to say whether he would do so if lawmakers refuse to approve the legislation he is seeking.

The response in Congress to support such a strike has been lukewarm at best — as underscored during the day when liberal Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and conservative Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., both announced their opposition.

Markey, who was elected to the seat that Kerry vacated when he joined the Cabinet, said the legislation under consideration was too broad, “the effects of a strike are too unpredictable, and … I believe we must give diplomatic measures that could avoid military action a chance to work.”

Said Mulvaney: “While I am concerned about taking no action, it strikes me that international law cannot be upheld via unilateral attack

by the United States.”

And Rep. James Langevin, a Rhode Island Democrat who sits on committees dealing both with military and intelligence matters, said he feared that “Iran and Russia could cause serious damage” to the United States if they retaliated with a cyberattack.

Yet Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, said, “It would be inimical to our country’s standing if we do not show a willingness to act in the face of the use of chemical weapons and to act in a limited way to address that use alone.”

Hours before Obama’s speech from the White House’s East Room, Hoyer added, ” I don’t think there’s any doubt that failure to do so would weaken our country, create a more dangerous international environment and to some degree undermine the president of the United States.”

Earlier, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell became the first congressional leader to come out against legislation giving the president authority for limited strikes. “There are just too many unanswered questions about our longterm strategy in Syria,” he said.

By contrast, Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the top two Republicans in the House, have endorsed Obama’s request.

Given the uncertainty of diplomatic maneuvering, no vote is expected for several days, if then.

“If something can be done diplomatically, I’m totally satisfied with that. I’m not a blood and thunder guy.

I’m not for shock and awe,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a reference to the massive display of firepower that opened the war in Iraq nearly a decade ago.

Still, there was ample skepticism in Congress about the United Nations as well as Russia’s true intentions, as well as Syria’s willingness to be bound by international agreements.

“There is an overwhelming view it would be preferable if international law and the family of nations could strip Syria of the chemical weapons,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “And there’s a large view we should let that process play out for a little while.”

Said Boehner: “Clearly, diplomacy is always a better outcome than military action. But I will say that I’m somewhat skeptical of those that are involved in the diplomatic discussions today.”

after being placed on hold for a little over a year and if the group of bicycling enthusiasts in attendance for the groundbreaking are of any indication, the completion date of July 31, 2014, won’t come soon enough.

“We’re just here to be here because we love biking,” said John Villers, of Piqua, speaking on behalf of the other bicyclists in attendance, each dressed for the occasion in biking gear complete with safety helmets.

For Villers, he has taken the recreational trail as far south as Cincinnati and east into Columbus, and as a member of the Dayton Cycling Club and a 5k runner, has met many individuals along the way, including bikers from Michigan.

“They were on vacation,” said Villers emphasizing the growing popularity and draw of the trail. “They had seen information on the trail and came here just to ride the trail.”

Obama blends threat of attack, hope of diplomacy David Espo Julie Pace Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the run-up to a prime-time televised speech, President Barack Obama blended the threat of a military strike with the hope of a diplomatic solution Tuesday as he worked to rid Syria of an illicit stockpile of fearsome chemical weapons.

Secretary of State John Kerry set a hurry-up trip to Geneva for talks Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the United Nations Security Council first scheduled, and then scrapped, a private meeting on steps to defuse a looming crisis.

Despite expressing skepticism about the outcome of the diplomacy, officials said, Obama and close Senate allies reaffirmed their decision for a pause in attempts to win congressional backing for a strike against President Bashar Assad’s government.

And while a presidential statement to that effect was possible in Obama’s nationwide speech, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pointedly told a congressional hearing it was not time to let the threat lapse.

“For this diplomatic option to have a chance at succeeding, the threat of a U.S. military action, the credible, real threat of U.S. military action, must continue,” he declared.

At the same hearing, Kerry said any diplomacy “cannot be a process of delay. This cannot be a process of avoidance.”

He later added that any agreement must include binding consequences if Syria fails to comply, and lawmakers moved to rewrite pending legislation along the same lines.

Obama himself “wasn’t overly optimistic about”

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“I’m not going to hang up my spurs, even though I am 81 years old,” said Shook who has become the go-to expert on trail concept and implementation for surrounding communities. “I’m young in spirit and young mind, and I’m going to keep on working.”

A round of applause ensued as Shook asked for the bridge to not only represent Robert J. Shook but, “Let it represent a friendship bridge, between all the citizens of Miami County, the nation, and the world. Let them come and enjoy the beautiful, Great Miami River trail through Miami County.”

Construction on the Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge is due to begin

Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Alan Fram, Stephen Ohlemacher, Lolita Baldor, Bradley Klapper, Nancy Benac, Deb Riechmann, Matthew Lee, Kimberly Dozier and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this story.

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