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HB5 again topic of conversation Bethany J. Royer Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA —It’s the gift that keeps on trying to give as House Bill 5 made a comeback after several months of silence during closing comments at Tuesday’s commission meeting.

“House Bill 5 is an issue that we’ve been dealing with for some time now,” said Mayor Lucy Fess as she presented to fellow commission members, city leaders and residents a letter from Bill Duncan, mayor to the city of Oakwood.

As discussed at previous meetings, H.B.

5 seeks to alleviate the state of Ohio from what is believed by some to be one of the most complicated local income tax systems in the country.

While complications and money may be saved according to proponents, city municipalities such as Piqua see a different side should the bill pass,

one that looks vaguely similar to last year’s defeated House Bill 601.

At stake, the loss of an estimated $400,000 to as much as $2.1 million, an amount the city can little afford to lose and as declared in an emergency resolution passed in December against H.B. 601 and repeated

upon the bill’s resurrection by the Ohio General Assembly in the form of H.B. 5.

Highlights of Duncan’s letter as read by Fess: •Introduced in Jan. 2013, H.B. 5 components would see to substantial revenue losses to Ohio municipalities •Municipalities sup-

port uniformity and simplicity, but oppose additional revenue reductions and central collection •50 items are listed in the bill with municipalities objecting to an estimated 20 •Municipalities against H.B. 5 seek revenue See HB5 | Page 2

Miami East graduate named superintendent at Spencerville

A Ga-la ol’ time

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The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra opens the evening’s entertainment with the Star Spangled Banner during the 5th Anniversary Gala at the Fort Piqua Plaza on Wednesday.

A deal: Voting to avoid default, open government David Espo

AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up against one last deadline, Congress raced to pass legislation Wednesday avoiding a threatened national default and ending a 16-day partial government shutdown along the strict terms set by President Barack Obama when the twin crises began.

“We fought the good fight. We just didn’t win,” conceded House Speaker John Boehner as lawmakers lined up to vote on a bill that includes nothing for Republicans demanding to eradicate or scale back Obama’s signature health care overhaul.

The stock market surged higher at the prospect of an end to

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the crisis that also had fearful of the economic threatened to shake con- impact of a default. fidence in the U.S. econBoehner and the rest of omy overseas. the top GOP leadership A Senate vote was set told their rank and file first on the legislation, they would vote for the which would permit the measure, and there was Treasury to borrow nor- little or no doubt it would mally through Feb. 7 or pass both houses and perhaps a month longer, reach the White House in and fund the government time for Obama’s signathrough Jan. 15. More ture before the administhan two million federal tration’s 11:59 p.m. Oct. workers — those who 17 deadline.

That was when had remained on the job and those who had been Treasury Secretary Jacob furloughed — would be Lew said the government paid under the agree- would reach the current $16.7 trillion debt limit ment.

Across the Capitol, and could no longer bormembers of the House row to meet its obligamarked time until their tions.

Tea party-aligned lawturn came to vote.

Only a temporary makers who triggered truce, the measure set a the shutdown that began timeframe of early next on Oct. 1 said they winter for the next likely would vote against the clash between Obama legislation. Significantly, and the Republicans over though, Texas Sen. Ted spending and borrowing. Cruz and others agreed But for now, govern- not to use the Senate’s ment was lurching back cumbersome 18th centuto life. In one example, ry rules to slow the bill’s officials met to discuss progress.

“The compromise we plans for gearing back up at the Department reached will provide our of Housing and Urban economy with the stabilDevelopment, where 307 ity it desperately needs,” employees remained at said Senate Majority work during the partial Leader Harry Reid, shutdown and more than declaring that the nation “came to the brink of 8,000 were furloughed.

After weeks of grid- disaster” before sealing lock, the measure had an agreement.

Senate Republican support from the White House, most if not all Leader Mitch McConnell, Democrats in Congress See SHUTDOWN | Page 2 and many Republicans

SPENCERVILLE — Dennis Fuge, a graduate of Miami East High School, began his career at Spencerville Local Schools and has served the community of Spencerville his whole teaching career.

Fuge was tapped as the Spencerville Local Schools’ superintendent on Oct. 8. He began his teaching career at the district 32 years ago and has held a variety of positions throughout those three decades.

“I am honored to accept the position of Superintendent of Schools at Spencerville,” Fuge said in the press release. “My entire educational career has been at Spencerville and I look forward to continuing our excellent reputation as a school. It will be difficult to follow Mr. Hatfield as he has been See FUGE | Page 2

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Piqua resident Jim Palmer agrees that the roadways through Forest Hill Cemetery in Piqua are popular with walkers and runners.

Annual R.I.P. 5k run/walk slated for Oct. 25 Will E Sanders

Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — The annual Run in Piqua 5k, or R.I.P. Run, is a great run/walk activity that’s geared not only toward the Halloween season, but also as an event where family participation is encouraged, said Michelle Herndon, a coorganizer of the 5k.

Herndon said the 5k run/walk through the Forest Hill Cemetery began 16 years ago when she and fellow organizer, Holly Trombley, set out to bring a fun activity to the city that entire families could take part in.

“We started it because there wasn’t anything

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for families to do around Halloween,” Herndon said. “We tried thinking up something that people of all ages could do and came up with the 5k.

From there, it just grew.”

This year’s R.I.P. 5k will be held Saturday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. at Fountain Park and Forest Hill Cemetery along Forest Avenue. The proceeds of the event will go to WOTVC Piqua Channel 5.

The start and finish of the run will be in front of Fountain Park, and in between participants will make their way through the picturesque cemetery grounds.

Registration is $25 and includes a long-sleeve t-shirt. Runners and

walkers can register to take part in the run/walk through www.active.com, which is where registration forms can be found.

Those looking to register through the mail should send registration forms to R.I.P. Run, PO Box 1821, Piqua, OH, 45356.

Same-day registration will also take place at the event starting at 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Elm Street. Make checks payable to R.I.P. Run. In addition to the run, the event will also feature awards, door prizes, refreshments and a costume contest that will take place after the race at Hance Pavilion.

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2 Thursday, October 17, 2013 Obituaries CHARMALEE KUCH PIQUA — Charmalee J. Kuch, 81, of Piqua, died at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, at her residence. She was born Jan. 17, 1932, in Bradford to the late William and Mary (King) Thomas.

She married George I. Young, who preceded her in death; and she married Wilbur “Bud” Kuch, who also preceded her in death.

Survivors include a son, George A. (Dee) Young of Piqua; two daughters, Antoinette “Toni” C. Klohe of Blacklick and Mary (Pete) Mays of Sidney; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two greatgreat-grandchildren; a sister, Roketa (Ralph) Seidel of Phillipsburg; and two brothers, Tony (Kay) Ernst of Ardmore, Okla. and Bud Thomas of Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by a son, John Young, a daughter, Terri Kendrick, two

brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. Kuch was a graduate of Bradford High School and attended college. She was a bookkeeper for the Piqua Lumber Company and then the Troy Lumber Company, from which she retired.

She enjoyed many crafts including crocheting, baking especially cookies, and was an avid Chicago Cubs fan.

A service to honor her life will begin at 1 p.m. Monda at Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with Pastor Stephen Chapman officiating. Burial will be at Harris Creek Cemetery, Bradford. Visitation will be from 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County.

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

Death Notices CHRISTMAN SIDNEY — Harold E. Christman, 89, of Sidney, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, at 9:10 a.m. at his residence. In keeping with Mr. Christman’s wishes there will be no viewing or visitation prior to a private graveside service which will be held at the convenience of the family at Forest Hill Cemetery in Piqua. Cromes Funeral Home, Sidney, in in charge of arrangements.

EWING TROY — Mason Bernard Ewing, infant son of Diana K. Stigall and Nate Ewing of Troy, passed away at 1:18 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.

Arrangements entrusted to Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy.

Fuge From page 1 an outstanding leader for our school and community, but I have full confidence that I will continue to prepare our school for the challenges that exist as we move forward as a district.”

Fuge has invested his entire professional career with Spencerville Local Schools serving the district for 32 years starting as a teacher in 1981. During his tenure he has served in many capacities including high school t e a c h e r, summer maintenance worker, various coaching positions, faculty manager, middle school principal, athletic director, special education officer, assistant transportation director, OSHA Compliance Officer, K-8 principal and is currently the K-6 principal. He also has served on various committees and project teams including Race to the Top and Safe Routes to School.

“I’m looking forward to lead the school district,” Fuge said. Fuge said the district has approximately 1,000 students and likens the rural community to his roots in Miami County “The kids are just super,” Fuge said of Spencerville Local Schools. “I fell in love with the district, raised my family here and I’m very excited about this opportunity.”

The Spencerville Local Schools Board of Education took action Oct. 8 to employ Fuge as Superintendent of schools to replace Joel Hatfield who is retiring effective Jan. 1, 2014.

“Mr. Hatfield has

been our superintendent here for the last 14 years so I have some pretty big shoes to fill,” Fuge said of the former superintendent. “We really got a pretty awesome district here and we’ve been meeting and discussing making adjustments with all the challenges that all Ohio districts are facing.”

Fuge attended Miami East High School. He received his bachelor of arts in marketing and education, and a minor in history from Ohio Northern University. He received his master of arts in school administration from the University of Dayton.

According to the press release, the Spencerville Local Schools’ b o a rd reviewed numerous qualified applicants and felt Fuge was an outstanding choice to lead the district forward.

Fuge and his wife Pat, reside in the rural Spencerville area.

They are parents of four children, Kory (Maria), Erika, Tricia, and Jenna and the grandparents of Lydia.

“Dennis Fuge has been a loyal employee and member of the Spencerville community for many years,” said Lori Ringwald, president of Specerville Local Schools’ board of education. “He has a sincere passion for our district and a genuine caring for the students and the staff. The board of education welcomes him as he transitions in to his new position as Superintendent of Spencerville Local Schools.”

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Advance directives address important decisions Belinda M. Paschal Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — If you were terminally ill, unconscious and unable to communicate, who would speak for you? Who would determine the best course of treatment for you?

Though such questions may seem, they can be helpful in letting others know what to do in case the unthinkable happens.

That’s the goal of Living Wills and Advance Directives Week, which runs through Saturday. The week is designed to encourage people to make their wishes known and put into writing the care they wish to receive.

“It is our hope that Living Wills and Advance Directives Week will prompt our patients, employees and community to have thoughtful conversations about their health care decisions and complete reliable advance directives to make their wishes known,” said Susan Walker Hemm, marketing and development manager for Hospice of Miami County.

“Fewer families and health care providers will have to struggle with

making difficult health care decisions in the absence of guidance from the patient, and health care providers and facilities will be better equipped to address advance health care planning issues before a crisis and be better able to honor patient wishes when the time comes to do so.”

There are three common types of advance directives, said Pam Linderson, bereavement coordinator and chaplain for Hospice of Miami County. “One is the living will, which give directives for that last little bit of your life. If you’re in a permanently unconscious state and two physicians have determined that no treatment is going to help you survive, the living will directs them as to what you want done,” she said.

“The durable power of attorney for health care allows you to name a person to act on your behalf if you become unable to make decisions for yourself,” she said. “There is also the DNR (Do Not Resuscitate), which is an order by a physician.”

As soon as a person is of legal age, they have the opportunity to determine who will make health care decisions for them and therefore, are eligible to complete advance direc-

tives paperwork Linderson added.

“If you didn’t have a durable POA for health care, let’s say you’re in an automobile accident and you end up unconscious. There’s a hierarchy in the state of Ohio that says if you can’t make a decision for yourself, then it falls to your spouse. If you’re not married, it goes to your parents, children or nearest living relative.

“So it’s best to have a POA for health care, especially if you’re not comfortable leaving it up your nearest living relative,” Linderson said.

Not having an advance directive couple open the door for disagreeing family members to file an objection, leaving care decisions in the hands of a judge.

Hospice of Miami County will have a representative available from 1:303:30 p.m. Friday at Covington Care Center, 75 Mote Drive, Covington, to answer questions and offer assistance to anyone wishing to complete advance directives.

Advance directive packets also may be picked up at the Hospice office, 550 Summit Ave., Troy, and at area hospitals including Upper Valley Medical Center. Printable forms are available at www.ohanet. org/advance-directives.

Shutdown From page 1 who negotiated the deal with Reid, emphasized that it preserved a round of spending cuts negotiated two years ago with Obama and Democrats.

As a result, he said, “government spending has declined for two years in a row” for the first time since the Korean War. “And we’re not going back on this agreement,” he added.

McConnell made no mention of the polls showing that the shutdown and flirtation with default have sent Republicans’ public approval plummeting and have left the party badly split nationally as well as in his home state of Kentucky. He received a prompt reminder, though.

“When the stakes are highest Mitch McConnell can always be counted on to sell out conservatives,” said Matt Bevin, who is challenging the party leader from the right in a 2014 election primary.

More broadly, national tea party groups and their allies underscored the internal divide.

The Club for Growth urged lawmakers to vote against the congressional measure, and said it would factor in the organization’s decision when it decides which candidates to support in midterm elections next year.

“There are no significant changes to Obamacare, nothing on the other major entitlements that are racked with trillions in unfunded liabilities, and no meaningful spending cuts either. If this bill passes, Congress will kick the can down the road, yet again,” the group said.

Even so, support for Boehner appeared solid inside his fractious rank and file. “There are no plots, plans or rumblings that I know of. And I was part of one in January, so I’d probably be on the whip list for that,” said Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out in favor of the bill.

Simplicity at the end, there was next to nothing in the agreement beyond authorization for the Treasury to resume borrowing and funding for the government to reopen.

House and Senate negotiators are to meet this fall to see if progress is possible on a broad deficitreduction compromise of the type that has proved elusive in the current era of divided government.

Additionally, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is to be required to produce a report stating that her agency is capable of verifying the incomes of individuals who apply for federal subsidies under the health care law known as Obamacare.

Obama had insisted repeatedly he would not pay “ransom” by yielding to Republican demands for significant changes to the health care overhaul in exchange for funding the government and permitting Treasury the borrowing latitude to pay the nation’s bills.

Other issues fell by the wayside in a final deal, including a Republican proposal for the suspension of a medical device

tax in Obamacare and a Democratic call to delay a fee on companies for everyone who receives health coverage under an employer-sponsored plan.

The gradual withering of Republicans’ Obamacarerelated demands defined the arc of the struggle that has occupied virtually all of Congress’ time for the past three weeks.

The shutdown began on Oct. 1 after Cruz and his tea party allies in the House demanded the defunding of the health care law as a trade for providing essential government funding.

Obama and Reid refused, then refused again and again as Boehner gradually scaled back Republican demands.

The shutdown initially idled about 800,000 workers, but that soon fell to about 350,000 after Congress agreed to let furloughed Pentagon employees return to work. While there was widespread inconvenience, the mail was delivered, Medicare continued to pay doctors who treated seniors and there was no interruption in Social Security benefits.

Still, national parks were closed to the detriment of tourists and local businesses, government research scientists were sent home and Food and Drug Administration inspectors worked only sporadically.

Obama and Boehner both came to the same conclusion — that they would allow the shutdown to persist for two weeks, until it became politically possible to reopen government and address the threat of default at the same time.

As Republican polls sank, Boehner refused to let the House vote on legislation to reopen the entire government, insisting on a piecemeal approach that the White House and Reid rejected as insufficient.

As the Oct. 17 debtlimit deadline approached, there were warnings from European officials as well as Cabinet members and bankers in this country that failure to raise the debt limit invited an economic disaster far worse than the near-meltdown of 2008.

On Tuesday, the Fitch credit rating agency said it was reviewing its AAA rating on U.S. government debt for possible downgrade.

By then, the endgame was underway.

Late last week, Obama met with Boehner and House Republicans at the White House. The session resulted in brief followup talks in which GOP aides suggested easing the across-the-board spending cuts in exchange for changes in benefit programs such as making Medicare more expensive for better-off beneficiaries.

After that faltered, Reid and McConnell announced over the weekend they were seeking a deal to solve the crises, and expressed hope they could quickly come to an agreement.

That effort was suspended on Tuesday, a day of suspense in which Boehner made one last stab at a conservatives’ solution.

When his rank and file refused to coalesce around any proposal, he gave up and McConnell and Reid returned to their labors.

income tax,” said Huff who understands the need to reduce the complexities but other items proposed by the bill such as a lack of revenue neutrality poses the greatest concern. As central collection would mean the state would take over local income tax collection. A problem the city manager has had personal experience with during his

former employment with the city of Fishers, Indiana, citing taxes were paid back late and the county losing $60 million because the state needed money.

“I don’t have a lot of confidence in that (central collection) and I don’t think anybody else does either.”

Huff sees the central collection as a huge mistake, one that would be deteri-

mental not only to Piqua but cities across the state.

Commission meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. every first and third Tuesday of the month, on the second floor of the Government Municipal Complex, in the commission chamber.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

For more information visit piquaoh.org.

HB5 From page 1 neutrality As referenced in Duncan’s letter, H.B. 5 has three top goals: Tax reform, central collection and uniformity, issues many organizations, according to City Manager Gary Huff, have been working together to try to address.

“We are very much in favor of uniformity of the

Run From page 1 Herndon said the run/walk offers a unique setting and the Halloween-themed event is great for young and old alike.

“Between the scenery and the enjoyment of doing it, it’s great,” she said. “We get lots of runners that love the course. The route (through the cemetery) is clearly marked.”

One aspect of the course that past participants have told Herndon they really enjoy is running up with hill at the cemetery around the time of the sun setting.

“It’s just such a good course,” Herndon said. “Families come up to me all the time and tell me how much they love it. I get a lot of comments about how great it is for families.”

Helping to plan and organize the race for 16 years has been a wonderful thing, Herndon said, because it has allowed her to watch many of the younger participants grow up before her eyes.

“Some of the kids were 10 when they first started and now they are getting married,” she added.

“It’s fun to watch them grow.”

Usually the run/walk draws about 400 participants, and Herndon encouraged families and other outdoor enthusiasts to come out and take part in the event.

The awards handed out to finalists are also unique, she said.

“The top awards are miniature headstones made from solid granite or marble and donated

by Nickol Monument,” Herndon said. “People just love those.”

For more information, contact Herndon at (937) 418-3776 or send her an email at runinpiqua@ yahoo.com.

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COVINGTON — To this day, Clark Manson still is in awe about the love and support he has received from people in the area and fans all across the country.

The country singer from Covington signed a record deal over the summer.

Since then, the amount of followers on the @ ClarkManson Twitter account has swelled to more than 21,000, while his first single — “I Love It When You Drive” — from the album “Running With The Night” has amassed more than 34,000 views on YouTube.

But on Sept. 14, Manson, a 2009 Covington High School graduate, took things a step further when he was signed to become a featured artist for Jagermeister following a show he performed at W.O. Wrights in Beavercreek.

“It’s pretty big, and I didn’t think it would be possible,” Manson said.

“Basically with that it means they will help promote you, help promote your shows, your album (and) they make your merchandise for free (thousands of dollars worth of merchandise).

In the future, there may be opportunities to get involved in the big tour they sponsor. They do a country tour, and hopefully down the road we get to do that.”

The Jagermeister Country Tour has featured

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Covington graduate Clark Manson, 22, recently signed on to become a Jagermeister featured country act.

acts such as Eric Church and Dierks Bentley in the past. Aaron Lewis headlined the tour over the summer.

“Running With The Night” will drop on Oct. 29 and be available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.

The hard copy of the album will be available on Nov. 1 and will be sold at Manson’s show that night at Z’s Sports Bar in Piqua.

Jagermeister will sponsor the concert, which also will include the winner of CMT’s ‘Next Superstar’ Matt Mason, a signed recording artist for Warner Bros. Records.

Tickets will cost $7 and can be purchased the day of the show or by calling Z’s in advance.

W.O. Wrights will host a CD release party for Clark on Nov. 9.

The opening act for that show will be the Lee Gantt Band, a group that performed alongside popular country act Dustin Lynch over the summer. Manson has two other tour dates scheduled with Gantt, one in Illinois on Jan. 30 and the other in Wisconsin in February.

Manson said he is hopeful to schedule some shows at The Bluestone in Columbus in the near future.

Manson spent time in Nashville in the latter stages of June laying down the groundwork for his album. During that time, he worked with producers, engineers and musicians that had credits on albums for Jake Owen, Kacey Musgraves and Kelly Clarkson. He said he hopes to one day be mentioned in the same breath

as the Eric Church’s and the Jake Owen’s of the world — and if things continue to go the way they are, Manson may be destined for country music stardom, a concept that is still mind-boggling to the the 22-year old.

“I get about 150 direct messages a day on twitter,” Manson said. “I like to look through them to see what they say have to say. I had a girl from Detroit message me the other day asking me about my next show. I ended up hooking her up with VIP passes to the show at W.O.’s “It’s crazy. We have people coming to see us from places like Detroit and Illinois and places like that. I’m just like ‘wow,’ people are driving hours to come see us play a twohour show.”

PHS choir concert set for Sunday Concert to honor the late Kris MaGill PIQUA — The choral department of Piqua High School will present its annual Fall Concert at 2;30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Hartzell Center for the Performing Arts. The three choirs are under the direction of Tom Westfall, director of choirs. Accompanying the choirs will be Brenda Vetter, music education aide.

The Women’s Chorus will open the High School concert with “Jubilate Fanfare,” which incorporates the traditional “Shall We Gather at the River,” followed by “Stars I Shall Find,” based on

the works of American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933). They will close their portion of the concert with” Ride the Chariot,” a traditional spiritual featuring student soloist, Mae Carnes.

The Men’s Chorus will open with “A Festive Alleluia,” followed by “This Old Hammer,” a traditional song based on the legend of steel driver, John Henry. They will close with the OSU fight songs and the Piqua Pep Song.

The Concert Choir will sing “Alleluia Fanfare,” followed by “Salmo 150” by Brazilian compos-

er, Ernani Aguiar. The choir will then present “To Where You Are,” dedicated to the memory of Kris Magill. Kris was a 2006 graduate of PHS who recently passed away.

While at PHS, he was in Men’s Chorus, Concert Choir and Show Choir. His brother, Noah, is currently in Concert and Show Choirs.

The Concert choir will close with a modern spiritual, “Ain’t Judgin’ No Man” and the PHS Alma Mater.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the PHS office at 773-6314 during school hours.

Suspicious person: Police responded to Piqua Catholic Schools, 218 S. Downing St., after a suspicious subject was spotted walking around the school building. A unit was dispatched to the scene, but the subject was gone upon the arrival of a police officer.

Animal complaint: Police responded to a call of an aggressive dog in the 1300 block of Covington Avenue near the Bay N Wash. Police arrived at the scene and made contact with the owner of the dog. The owner was warned for having a dog at large.

Menacing: Police responded to the 1500 block of Garfield Avenue after an ex-boyfriend threatened a woman over the phone. The complainant did not want officers to make contact with the suspect.

Civil dispute: Police responded to the Kroger gas station, 1510 Covington Ave., after a protection order was possibly violated. Police are continuing an investigation concerning the call.

Theft: Police responded to Buffalo Wings and Rings, 989 E. Ash St., after a vehicle was broken into and a GPS unit was taken while she was at work. Cameras at neighboring businesses were checked. The case is pending.

Disturbance: Police responded to the 700 block of Young Street after a male and a female were arguing over relationship issues. Both parties stated the fight was only verbal in nature.

Theft: Police responded to the Marathon gas station, 226 W. Water St., after a suspect drove off after filling up without paying. After searching security cameras the police were able to get a license plated number and the suspect was contacted. The suspect told police “it was an accident” and he would go back to the station and pay.

Telephone harassment: Police responded to the 800 block of West Greene Street after a complainant reported he received 16 hang up phone calls from two subjects that have been harassing him.

Lost property: Police responded to the 300 block of Linden Avenue after a motorist found a license plate

in the roadway. Once it was turned over to police the plate was returned to its owner.

Unruly juvenile: Police responded to the 200 block of Manning Street after a caller reported her daughter was burnt by a neighbor boy who was playing with fire.

Theft: Police responded to the 600 block of Greene Street after a female reported that money was missing from her purse. A suspect was located and consented to a search, but the money was not found.

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Theft: Police responded to the 1200 block of Severs Drive after a victim reported that her miniature pinscher was stolen from her yard. Police have no suspects.

Disturbance: Police responded to the 1000 block of Covington Avenue after a complainant’s ex-girlfriend came to his residence and found the man with another woman. The upset ex-girlfriend pulled the women’s hair, broke the complainant’s laptop and left. Charges were not requested by the victim.

Theft: Police responded to the 400 block of Downing Street after someone entered a residence and stole items.

Assault: Police responded to the 1400 block of Grant Street after a victim was struck several times in the head. Witnesses told police that this was an unprovoked assault on the victim. A parent of a suspect later went to the scene and was advised that an assault charge would be filed against the suspect.

Civil dispute: Police responded to Four Star Tool Rental, 1726 W. High St., after the complainant advised they rented a generator to a subject and that the item has yet to be returned.

Neighbor complaint: Police responded to the 1100 block of Broadway Street over a complaint dealing with walnut tree.

Theft: Police responded to Kroger, 1510 Covington Ave., after a woman put a beer in her purse and then fled the scene without paying for it in a vehicle driven by a man.

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Get healthy with Wild Walking Women PIQUA — Get motivated to walk and get healthier with the YW Wild Walking Women beginning Tuesday, Oct. 29. The ladies will meet to walk from 9-10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays for a four-week period.

Participants will meet at the YWCA, 418 N. Wayne St., and Cheryl Hepner will guide the group on different paths each week.

“We promise a fun

time, an opportunity to meet new friends and a time to develop your health and wellbeing,” said Hepner.

“Motivation and laughter will keep you going as you get healthier together.”

The class fee is $5.

Pre-registration is requested.

For more information or to register, stop at the YWCA Piqua, call 773-6626 or e-mail info@ywcapiqua.com.

Monster Dash 5K set for Nov. 2 PIQUA — Monster Dash for Young Life 5K and fun run will be held Saturday, Nov. 2, in Versailles.

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“And said to them, Why sleep you? rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”

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Baseball isn’t dying, it’s thriving For readers who upcoming season. Then skip the sports page, come three or four cupan update: There are cake games, a handful no New York teams in of exciting conference the MLB playoffs this matchups, maybe a bowl season. The Mets were game, and then eight dreadful right out of more months of phoning radio spring traintalk shows to ing, while gossip about the Yankees high school high-salaried recruits and lineup succonspire cumbed to against the age and injucoach. ry.

Are they Prominent even sports was tabfans, these loid bad boy Gene Lyons p e o p l e ?

A-Rod, Alex Ro d r i gu e z , Some, sure.

Columnist the handBut a lot of some third baseman them are mainly there whose well-publicized for the identity politics woes keep him in a dead and the party. heat with Miley Cyrus Meanwhile, I watch for the title of America’s major league baseMost Tedious Celebrity. ball almost every day How long before they’re from April to October photographed leaving a — with occasional pilnightclub together? grimages to the ballBut I digress. With no park. I once overheard New York teams in the an impertinent woman running, it follows that ask my wife why she tout le monde has wea- let me. Diane answered ried of baseball. That’s that she was a baseball a French phrase signi- coach’s daughter, and fying “everybody who sometimes watches matters.” with me. (I guarantee Not y o u , you she can name the Pittsburgh. Oakland? Red Sox starting lineFuggedaboutit. up.) She added that I It was therefore inevi- don’t supervise her pastable that the lordly times, and that we do New York Times would better when we don’t greet the playoffs with try to push each other a mighty ho-hum in around. the form of an essay Does she never tire

by Jonathan Mahler of it? “Sometimes,” she entitled “Is the Game said. “But he’s home.

Over?” Because the He’s sober, and he’s not Super Bowl gets much out making a fool of higher TV ratings than himself in some topless the World Series, all bar.” the luster is supposedBoys, if you get a ly gone from the game chance, marry a coach’s once called “America’s daughter.

Pastime.”

So why does even Oddly, Mahler’s the NBA’s Game of the main journalistic cre- Week on ABC, Mahler dential is “Ladies and wonders, get almost Gentlemen, the Bronx double the ratings of is Burning,” his book Major League Baseball about the serial killer on Fox? “Son of Sam,” the 1977 It’s the nature of the Yankees of Billy Martin game, as New Yorkand Reggie Jackson centric writers focused fame, and owner upon national TV ratGeorge Steinbrenner — ings fail to grasp. See, the Donald Trump of I don’t just watch basehis time. ball. I watch the Boston Anyway, never Red Sox. (To me, the mind, as Mahler con- MLB Extra Innings TV cedes, that baseball has package is the greatest achieved the competi- bargain in sports.) It’s tive balance and over- not a once-a-year specall financial success it tacle. It’s an imaginative never enjoyed during its commitment, like read“golden age,” i.e. when ing “War and Peace” he and I were small one chapter at a time. boys. There have been Not to go all literary seven different World on you. Baseball players Series champions in the are jocks, not English past 10 years, only one professors. Most highof them the Yankees. By falutin literary appreevery objective measure ciations of the game go except national TV rat- right by them. ings, the game’s thrivI’m talking about the ing. daily grind of baseball: Today he thinks NFL the interplay of charfootball has all the acter and personality, advantages.

“Teams and the thousand-andplay only once a week, one strategic and tactiand when the postsea- cal decisions that make son arrives, every game the game so uniquely is an elimination game,” absorbing to players Mahler writes. “But its and serious fans. But real advantage is that incomprehensible to the it’s louder, faster and once-a-year viewer who more violent — which hasn’t followed the story is to say, better in line.

Economically, tune with our cultural it’s in local broadcasts moment.” where loyalties abide It’s an advantage to and the game thrives. play only once a week? The national game of That’s just one reason the week is an anachI’ve always regarded the ronism, dating to when NFL as a colossal bore. it was the only baseball Sure, the Super Bowl’s on TV. Me, I’m watcha huge TV event in ing NESN. It follows January, when half the that many fans lose country’s stuck indoors, interest in postseason eager to get loaded and play unless their team’s gamble. At most Super involved.

Bowl parties I’ve attendPretty much like ed, people hardly watch Mahler and his fellow except when the hard- provincials at the New core guys start yelling.

York Times.

College football’s much the same. Where Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons I live in SEC territory, is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the football fans devote President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). months to obses- You can email Lyons at eugenelysive chatter about the ons2@yahoo.com.

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Sweet Land of Liberty

Supreme Court teaches students they’re outside constitution I was furious to see this headline from again tossed America’s young outside the civil liberties guardian the Rutherford Constitution, the late justice should also Institute last week: “U.S. Supreme Court be heard by today’s students, parents and Refuses to Hear Case of Student Subjected teachers, who need to pay much more to Random Lockdown and attention to how our most powMass Search by Police in Public erful judicial body defines who School.” we are as Americans.

I was furious, but not shocked I knew Justice Brennan. A because, as I’ll explain, this has powerful protector of our indihappened before. vidual liberties, he was perFurthermore, there has been sonally amiable, seldom raised hardly any media attention to the his voice and addressed his outcome of this case, Burlison friends, including me, as “pal.” v. Springfield Public Schools, But when the majority of that which Rutherford’s founder and Supreme Court prompted his Nat Hentoff president, constitutional lawyer long dissent in the Doe case, he John Whitehead, says has “longtold me in his chambers, “I was Columnist term ramifications of treating really mad.” young people as if they have no rights.”

I reported on the case in my profile Here are the facts of the case: of Justice Brennan for The New Yorker, “On April 22, 2010, the principal of later reprinted in my book “Living the Central High School (in Springfield, Mo.) Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic announced over the public address system American.” Here is a portion of it: “In that the school was going into ‘lockdown’ 1979, Diane Doe, aged 13 (her last name and that students were prohibited from was not given, because she was a minor), leaving their classrooms. was sitting in her classroom at Highland “School officials and agents of the Greene Junior High School, in Highland, Ind. Next County Sheriff’s Department thereafter to that building was a senior high school. ordered students in random classrooms to “Suddenly, all the classrooms in both leave all personal belongings behind and schools were entered by school and police exit the classrooms (despite the previous officials — along with police-trained order). Dogs were also brought in to assist German shepherds — who were undertakin the raid. ing a mass search for drugs and drug para“Upon re-entering the classrooms, phernalia. No students in particular were students allegedly discovered that their under suspicion; all of them were under belongings had been rummaged through.” general suspicion.

Mellony and Doug Burlison, the par“For two and a half hours, the stuents of two kids enrolled in Central High dents had to sit quietly with their hands School, sued the school district for vio- upon their desks and the contents of their lating the Fourth Amendment and the desks in plain view. … Each student was Missouri Constitution. (The Rutherford inspected by a German shepherd. Justice Institute, as usual, provided lawyers to Brennan wrote (in dissent) that when one the Burlisons at no charge to present their of the dogs came to Diane, it ‘sniffed at her case.) These searches were conducted body, and repeatedly pushed its nose and without any individually cited suspicions muzzle into her legs.’ By its concentrated of wrongdoing by any of the students, not attention, the dog had marked the girl as a to mention total disregard of due process. person under suspicion.”

But dig this: In March of this year, the Diane sued the school and police, claimEighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ing her Fourth Amendment rights had been the school’s concern with exposing drug violated. No judge had issued a warrant for use outweighed the privacy rights of the this mass dragnet search. A federal district locked down students. And, after an appeal judge later threw out her case, declaring to John Roberts’ Supreme Court, the plainher rights had not been violated. The tiffs got unpleasant news on Oct. 7: Among Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals gave the court’s long list of cases for which cerher damages for the dog’s strip search. tiorari, or review, was denied was Burlison However, the court denied her basic conv. Springfield Public Schools. stitutional claim concerning the totality The Burlisons, effectively, have no case.

There was not one word about why our of the mass lockdown — without, wrote highest court couldn’t be bothered with this Brennan in his dissent, any focus “on par— and not a single, dissenting voice. Where ticular individuals who might have been were Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader engaged in drug activity at school.” The Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Anthony appeals court ruled the school’s interest Kennedy? It was Justice Kennedy, often in drug use outweighed Diane’s privacy known as “the swing vote” in decisions, rights. The Supreme Court then refused who said years ago: “The Constitution any further review of the case. In his needs renewal and understanding each gen- dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision, eration, or else it’s not going to last” (from Justice Brennan roared: “Schools cannot my book “Living the Bill of Rights,” Harper expect their students to learn the lessons of Collins and University of California Press). good citizenship when the school authoriBut in this case, the court, including ties themselves disregard the fundamental Kennedy, simply had nothing to say about principles underpinning our constitutional public school students being locked down freedoms.”

I hope that teachers who read Brennan’s and searched en masse without a glimmer role in that case will encourage class discusof due process. sions and arguments on what it means for Most Americans have not even heard of the Burlisons’ case, so I’m not going to let this nation’s future now that the Supreme it fade away. That’s why I hereby challenge Court has, again, gotten away with treating all members of this Supreme Court to read our young as constitutional nonentities.

Do you agree? To be continued. (or reread) Justice William Brennan’s furious dissent in a similar 1981 case, Diane Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Doe v. Renfrow.

Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the His dissent has largely been forgotten. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cato But because the Supreme Court has once Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

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, 937-570-4063 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

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s U.S. Senate race went to the voters Wednesday as both candidates characterized the race as a referendum on the partisan gridlock paralyzing Washington.

Democrat Cory Booker and Republican Steve Lonegan each cast a ballot early in the morning in the special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in June.

The election is the first since the partial federal government shutdown began more than two weeks ago.

“Whatever the outcome of this election, the nation will be watching New Jersey as a referendum on what’s going on in Washington, D.C.,” Booker said after voting at an apartment complex in downtown Newark.

Booker, the high-profile mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, circulated a petition to end the shutdown and accused Congress of failing voters by not finding a way to work together.

Lonegan supports the shutdown, arguing the Affordable Care Act should be delayed a year and objecting to the concept of government-directed health insurance. In recent days, he has accused Booker of not even living in Newark.

After voting in Bogota, the city he led as mayor for three terms, Lonegan said he has been able to unite Republicans of all stripes.

“We’ve unified and I’m proud of that,” he said.

“The entire Republican party, from the tea party to the moderate wing to pro-life and not so pro-life.

Everybody who cares about individual liberty.”

The two-month campaign has played out under a compressed schedule and was the subject of controversy even before the two candidates were chosen.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie appointed a GOP caretaker and ordered the election held Oct. 16, the soonest date the law allowed following an unprecedented August primary.

Critics accused the governor of keeping the race off the Nov. 5 ballot, when he is up for re-election, to make it easier for him to win big as a Republican in a Democratic-leaning state and aid his potential national ambitions. During his first debate, he refused to rule out a run for president in 2016.

Public opinion polls showed Booker, 44, the second-term mayor of Newark, with a double-digit advantage heading into the election, where he hoped to secure a seat as the second African-American in the Senate along with Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Lonegan, 57, the former state director of Americans for Prosperity, a group advocating limited government that was founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, ran an aggressive, inyour-face campaign.

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An updated ‘Carrie’ for the digital age Derrik J. Lang

AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Carrie” is going viral.

In the new take on the supernatural coming-of-age story out Friday, beleaguered high school student Carrie White’s torment doesn’t merely occur within the gym showers or on stage at the prom.

It’s also online, one of a few modern updates dropped into filmmaker Kimberly Peirce’s reimagining of the landmark 1974 novel by Stephen King.

There are references to the “Today” show and “Dancing with the Stars,” tunes from Passion Pit and Krewella playing at the prom and Carrie (Chloe Grace Moretz) searching about her burgeoning telekinetic powers online.

Outside the movie, “Carrie” is also being marketed with a hidden camera stunt that’s racked up nearly 40 million views on YouTube.

However, the most profound use of technology in this contemporary “Carrie” occurs while she’s antagonized.

“It’s how you raise your story to the level of myth,” said Peirce, who previously directed “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Stop-Loss.” ”Too much specificity is a bore. I thought the characters needed to have cellphones, but they should probably only use them a few times.

Pynchon, Lahiri finalists for National Book Awards Hillel Italie

AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards.

A month after releasing long-lists of 10 in each of the four competitive categories, the National Book Foundation announced the five remaining writers for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature.

Winners receive $10,000 and will be announced at a dinner ceremony in Manhattan on Nov. 20.

All five fiction nominees are well established, from Pynchon, whose “Bleeding Edge” is set in Manhattan around the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; to Lahiri, whose “The Lowland” was a Booker finalist; to Saunders, whose “Tenth of December” was the rare short-story collection to make-best seller lists. The other finalists are Rachel Kushner, nominated for her highly praised “The Flamethrowers,” and James McBride, known to millions for “The Color of Water” and a finalist for “The Good Lord Bird.”

The nonfiction list features three books by New Yorker staff writers: Lawrence Wright’s Scientology investigation “Going Clear”; George Packer’s dire account of contemporary America, “The Unwinding”; and Jill Lepore’s biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, Jane Franklin, “The Book of Ages.” Also nominated for nonfiction are Wendy Lower’s “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” and Alan Taylor’s “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 17721832.”

For poetry, the finalists are Frank Bidart’s “Metaphysical Dog,” Lucie Brock-Broido’s “Stay, Illusion,” Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke,” Matt

Rasmussen’s “Black Aperture” and Mary Szybist’s “Incarnadine.”

The young people’s literature nominees are Kathi Appelt’s “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp,” Cynthia Kadohata’s “The Thing About Luck,” Tom McNeal’s “Far Far Away,” Meg Rosoff’s “Picture Me Gone” and Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints,” a two-volume graphic novel.

Four of the fiction finalists were published by imprints of the recently merged Penguin Random House, which released 10 of the 20 nominees overall.

The long-lists were started this year as part of an effort to increase awareness of the awards and lead to more sales.

New York publishers, several of whom are represented on the foundation’s board, have complained that fiction nominees in recent years have been too obscure and have cited Britain’s Man Booker Prize as a model. Besides establishing long-lists, the foundation has expanded the pool of judges, once exclusively fellow writers, to include journalists, booksellers and librarians.

The foundation would likely settle for the success of the National Book Award fiction winner from 2012, Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House,” which has sold more than 300,000 copies. Erdrich’s publisher, HarperCollins, gave much of the credit to the award.

Honorary winners include Maya Angelou, whose medal will be presented by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, and E.L. Doctorow, who will be introduced by the publisher emeritus of The Nation and former National Book Award winner Victor Navasky.

The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, is a nonprofit organization that sponsors numerous writing and educational events and programs.

n Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

Otherwise, we’re beating the audience over the head with it. That’s why it was carefully chosen.”

The shy outcast isn’t only ridiculed by fellow students when she experiences her first menstruation — and doesn’t know what’s happening — after gym class. The moment is also captured on a smartphone and later uploaded to the Internet by mean girl Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday). It’s played again on screens during their prom after bullies dump pig’s blood on the teen.

This isn’t just Carrie 4.0 though.

Moretz — who at 16, is the same age as the titular character — believes the broadcast of the digital video amplifies the internal rage of this version of the introverted young woman, who’s been sheltered throughout her life by her religiously fanatical mother Margaret (Julianne Moore). It’s a new reading of the tale that’s spawned three movies and a Broadway musical.

“When that blood is dropped on her, I do think she would’ve walked away if that video had not been put up on the screen,” said Moretz. “I do think she would have walked out of that gym, gone home, cried and been fine — figured her life and moved back into her shell. Without the video, I don’t think the telekinesis would’ve taken over her body.”

When it came to filming that iconic scene, which has

been endlessly imitated and parodied in the decades since director Brian De Palma’s “Carrie” debuted in 1976, Moretz said she was showered with phony blood just twice. The bigger challenge for the young “KickAss” and “Hugo” actresses was unleashing a totally new interpretation of the classic cinematic moment.

“I had to forget about all that,” said Moretz. “As an actor, I just needed to live in my character and not think about Sissy Spacek’s performance or how this is an iconic scene or anything like that. Carrie is Carrie.

She doesn’t know blood is going to be dropped on her.

She just won prom queen and thinks her life is going to turn around for the better now.”

With the aid of computer-generated effects, the blood-soaked mayhem Carrie wreaks is certainly more expansive than De Palma’s original “Carrie” film, as well as the 1999 sequel and a 2002 made-for-TV movie.

Peirce was tasked with balancing expectations of both “Carrie” fans and modern moviegoers — without turning Carrie into one of the X-Men or Transformers.

“I faced it with humility,” said Peirce . “On some level, of course, I was scared I wouldn’t live up to it, but then I just thought, ‘I love Carrie. I’m going to ground this moment. I’m going to make this as specific and real as possible.’ I do think I ended up making it different. It’s the same reason why people are able to bring a new reality to Shakespeare and other works.”

Review: ‘5th Estate’ stimulating but too frenetic Dennis Harvey

ments call for his extradition.

The remainder of the film tracks back to 2007, when LOS ANGELES (AP) — he first makes contact with Ripped from headlines that German technology activstill feel wet, “The Fifth ist Daniel Domscheit-Berg Estate” dramatizes the fast, (Daniel Bruehl), whom he controversial rise of anony- trusts enough to make a close mous-whistleblower website collaborator.

WikiLeaks and its figureDaniel is an enthusiastic head, Julian Assange. acolyte, so much so that Aiming to provide the the 24/7 devotion Julian kind of speculative personal- demands soon exasperates ity portrait behind another Daniel’s girlfriend (Alicia sweeping digital-age change Vikander in a standard thankin communication that touch- less role). es nearly everyone, a la “The The mysterious, seemSocial Network,” helmer Bill ingly large Wiki organization Condon and scenarist Josh Assange frequently alludes to Singer’s film must also stuff turns out to be nothing but in a heavy load of global “a website, a couple email events, all in a hyperkinetic addresses, and you,” he evenstyle aping today’s speed of tually admits, though others information dispersal. climb on board.

Results can’t help but But even as WikiLeaks stimulate, but they’re also appears to be winning the cluttered and overly frenetic, information war in forcing resulting in a narrative less transparency from governinformative, cogent and even ments and corporations, emotionally engaging than pushing them toward greatAlex Gibney’s recent doc “We er ethical accountability, Steal Secrets: The Story of Assange show signs of megaWikiLeaks.” lomania, instability and quesAfter an opening credits tionable judgment. montage that rockets through Returning to the screenthe history of news media, play’s start point, his troops from hand-lettered scrolls to rebel when Assange balks the Internet, the pic leaps at redacting any top-secret into the peak October 2010 American communiques, moment of WikiLeaks’ fame even the parts that might put and notoriety, when Assange innocent lives at lethal risk in (Benedict Cumberbatch) global hot spots. began releasing an enormous Both the kindest and most store of leaked classified U.S. damning thing you can say government documents. about “The Fifth Estate” The resulting fracas out- is that it primarily hobbles shone even prior firestorms itself by trying to cram in incurred by WikiLeaks, more context-needy material and as postscripts note, than any single drama should Assange remains in hiding at have to bear.

Ecuador’s London embassy You can feel the strain while various angry govern- on “The West Wing” writVariety

Frank Connor, Dreamworks Pictures | AP

This image released by Dreamworks Pictures shows Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a scene from “The Fifth Estate.”

er Singer, penning his first big-screen effort, as practically every line has to sum up a philosophy, situation or dilemma. Likewise, Condon, usually a director of admirable cogency and restraint, lays on a battery of audiovisual tactics (onscreen text, graphics, split screen, vertical wipes, etc.), largely set to techno tracks or Carter Burwell’s equally pounding score.

Tobias Schliesser’s camera often jitters as if on its 10th espresso, while Virginia Katz’s editing seldom pauses for breath. There’s conceptual logic behind these decisions, but they are as frequently off-putting as they are thematically apt.

No wonder the two perhaps most memorable scenes are among the very few that slow enough to allow nuance: an uncomfortable visit to Daniel’s parents’ home, when Julian openly disdains them as bourgeois intellectuals; and a let’s-just get-drunk

moment between Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci as State Dept. honchos whose careers won’t likely survive the latest Wiki leaks.

German star Bruehl is stuck playing DomscheitBerg — who wrote one of the two tomes the script draws on — as a single-note nice guy, the standard audiencealter-ego witness to events that spiral out of control.

Hardworking Cumberbatch captures Assange’s slightly otherworldly air, as well as numerous creepier qualities.

(The real-life man may be a hero to many, but few claim he’s a nice guy.) Still, it too feels like a somewhat onedimensional turn, hemmed in by an overall sensibility that just can’t stop to probe deeper.

“The Fifth Estate,” a Disney release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language and some violence.” Running time: 128 minutes.

pet can be comforting, wheth- you and all the readers who er you choose to bury them sent heartfelt letters supportlater or tuck them away in ing “Afraid.” It’s easy to see your home. Most important why dogs are called man’s is having a plan for when that best friend because of all the moment comes so you love, affection, enterautomatically know tainment and comwhat needs to be panionship they give done. It really helped us, and why we only to have all the details want the best for them of his final moments in this life and after. thought out so I felt Read on: in control. I wouldn’t Dear Abby: Your have missed the love pet is your child. of my dog even know- Dear Abby Anyone who doesn’t ing the pain that has Abigail Van understand that isn’t to come in the end. It’s worth worrying about Buren something that should when the loss occurs. be on everyone’s bucket list. Will it hurt? Of course. But — Cathy in California the pain does ease in time.

Dear Cathy: My thanks to When my first dog died, I spoke with a grief counselor at the local veterinary college. It didn’t make my pain disappear, but it helped me to understand it more. Your pet does not live in the future, but in the moment. Enjoy every moment you have together and accept the unconditional love your pet has given you.

You WILL get through it. — Deb In Belmont, Mich.

Dear Abby: Having shared the love of many pets over the years, I have found that dealing with the loss of our furry

friends never gets easier, no matter how many times you go through it. I just reflect on all the cherished times I shared with them, and I know I did my best to make their lives grand. I know I’m better off for having shared their company. Having rescued all of my past and current pets from shelters, I saved them from an uncertain life. I gave them a loving home with affection, stability and a warm bed. While they all leave us at some point, their memory lives on in our hearts.

I think Irving Townsend said it best: “We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.” — Four Paws Father Dear Abby: “Afraid of the Loss” is not alone. Anyone who has known the love of a dog knows the fear of losing that unmatched companionship. When my dog was reaching the end of his lifespan, a fellow dog-lover advised me to get a puppy.

I’m passing her advice along to “Afraid.” Get a puppy or go to the shelter and adopt a dog — any dog. You will save the dog, and the dog will save you right back. — Monique in Texas

Only time can heal pain of losing beloved pets Dear Abby: You gave some nice advice to “Afraid of the Loss” (June 25), who wrote concerning the impending death of a beloved pet. I think your suggestion of a support group is helpful, but having lost a pet I had for 16 years, I have experienced the deep pain this man will feel. Adding a second pet to his home while his pet is still alive often energizes an older pet. When the time comes, it will help the human to have another loving pet to help with the grieving. As I learned, only time was able to take the deep hurt to a place where I could think of him without tears. Keeping the ashes of a

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Relics transform small California Buddhist temple John Rogers Associated Press

ROSEMEAD, Calif.

(AP) — Although he’d been a practicing Buddhist for 20 years, until 10 months ago Dharma Master YongHua hadn’t even seen so much as one of the sacred relics known as shariras that are so important to his faith.

So it came as quite a surprise to the modest, soft-spoken monk when he learned he was becoming the caretaker of more than 10,000 of them.

YongHua’s modest Lu Mountain Temple became a repository for the thousands of colorful crystals, two teeth and a single hair that are believed to have come from the body of the Buddha himself.

A congregant offered up the collection that he’d painstakingly gathered for years.

The relics are said to be capable of producing miracles for people who go near them. And although Buddhists, like members of other religious groups, say that has to be taken on faith, even

the skeptical are starting to believe miracles are happening since the shariras arrived.

“In the beginning, I didn’t really know what to think,” said Vickie Sprout, who meditates at the temple.

Following YongHua’s advice to keep an open mind, she and others noticed, they said, after six months of meditation in the presence of the shariras, that their efforts were leading to a more relaxed, blissful state.

Looking back, YongHua said, it was no small miracle that the relics even made it to Lu Mountain Temple.

Located on the corner of a hillside residential street, the temple is easily mistaken by average passers-by for what it once was: a modest, 1950s-era, cookie-cutter tract home in an aging bedroom community east of Los Angeles. A glance down the hill offers a smog-shrouded view of hundreds of other homes, all looking the same.

The handful of monks who live there like it that

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In this Sept. 18 photo, the tooth of the Buddha, covered with crystals is displayed as the crown jewel of the Lu Mountain Temple Buddhist relics collection in Rosemead, Calif. The temple has become a repository for the colorful crystals and a hair that are believed to have come from the body of the Buddha himself.

way. They rise at 3:30 a.m. each day and, inside the ornate temple that outsiders never see, they spend much of their days in quiet meditation.

“When we’re cultivating Buddhist teachings we’re kind of hidden,” said Master Xian-Jie. “We don’t want a lot of people around.”

Since the shariras’ arrival, there have been quite a few people around.

Hundreds from around the country arrived ear-

lier this year when the monks put the relics on display.

They crowded up to the altar, around a statute of the Buddha and elsewhere for an up-close view of thousands of colorful crystals, some believed to have come from the heart and other body parts of the Buddha himself when he was cremated nearly 3,000 years ago.

Other crystals are believed to have come

from his family members and disciples, said YongHua, as the bespectacled, brown-robed monk showed them off again to visitors last month.

“To us, shariras are very important because if we see them we think we see the Buddha himself, even though the Buddha passed away a very long time ago,” said Thu Nguyen, a 70-year-old retired day-care worker who traveled from San Jose with a dozen fellow Buddhists to see them.

The last time she was in the presence of shariras, she said, was more than 10 years ago at a temple in the Chinese city of Shanghai.

Although such relics can be found at other Buddhist temples around the country, such a large collection is unusual, said Sonya Lee, a University of Southern California professor and expert on Buddhist art and culture.

Tam Huyhn, a retired groundskeeper and recently ordained monk who donated them, said he embraced Buddhism as a means of survival

after the former South Vietnamese army officer was sent to a prison camp in the 1970s following his country’s civil war. After his release, he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s.

He began collecting the relics a few years ago after finding they’d healed the pain he felt in his legs. During a visit to Lu Mountain Temple last year, he said he had a vision that they should be where more people could see them. That left YongHua with a dilemma.

Since their arrival, the frugal monks, who survive mainly on donations, have had to increase security and gird themselves for increased numbers of visitors. YongHua said he hopes to eventually create a stupa, or gathering place, for them like those found in India and Asia, though he knows fundraising isn’t a monk’s forte.

Still, he said, the monks are honored that for whatever reason, the Buddha smiled on them.

“And we feel compelled to share the connection with everyone,” he said.

Philippine quake damages historic churches Kiko Rosario Associated Press

Lady of the Assumption Shrine in Dauis on the resort island of Panglao, near Bohol, when the ground shook.

“The funeral car was crushed by falling debris from the front of the church. The driver was able to get out,” she said.

The back, front and the right wing of the church were destroyed.

The structure is said to be made from corals cemented together with egg white.

Tuesday was a national holiday in the Philippines, incidentally celebrating the Muslim feast of Eid ul Adha, which meant some of the most damaged structures, like schools and office buildings, were empty when the quake struck, which saved many lives.

“That is our only consolation,” said Bohol’s provincial health officer Reymoses Cabagnot.

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LOON, Philippines (AP) — The earthquake that struck the central Philippines and killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region’s historical and religious legacy by heavily damaging a dozen or more churches, some of them hundreds of years old.

As rescuers reached some of the hardest hit areas on Wednesday and the death toll from the quake a day earlier continued to rise, images of the wrecked religious buildings resonated across a nation where 80 percent of the population is Catholic.

The bell tower toppled from Cebu city’s 16th-century Basilica of the Holy Child — a remnant of the Spanish colonial era and the country’s oldest church building — becoming a pile of rubble in the

courtyard by the front gate.

Other churches on the neighboring island of Bohol, epicenter of the quake and a popular tourist destination known for its beaches, were also damaged, some beyond repair.

“The heritage old churches are also very close to the hearts of the Boholanos,” said Bohol Gov. Edgardo Chatto, using the term for residents of the island.

He said authorities would attempt to restore the historic churches, but some may never return to their former state.

“Every piece of the church should be left untouched so that restoration efforts can be easier,” he said. “It may not be a total restoration, but closest to what it used to be before.”

Emilia Dalagan was sweeping grass outside her home near the 300-year-old church called Our

her two-story house in the town of Carmen when the 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 8:15 a.m., sending shock waves across the picturesque island —and knocking her off her feet.

“I crawled down to our kitchen because my mother and nephews were there,” she said. “Then we crawled out of the house.”

The roof of their house had caved in and the cement walls had collapsed, but she was alive, and so were her parents.

“We left everything behind,” Flores said by phone from the Bohol town of Carmen.

“Belongings don’t matter as long as we can save our lives.”

A day after the quake, Gov. Chatto said that all towns in need had been reached, although landslides and damaged bridges were slowing down road travel. Only two of the island’s 20 bridges were

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CASSTOWN — Casstown United Methodist Church, 102 Center St., Casstown, will host its annual Harvest Dinner and UMW Bake Sale from 4:30-7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.

The smorgasbord menu will include a choice of meat dishes, choice of vegetables, assorted salads and desserts and beverages. The price for adult dinners will be $8.50; $4 for children ages 6-12; children age 5 and under may eat for free.

Carryout will be available. The church is chair lift accessible.

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information-only session and will be helpful to those already on Medicare in addition to persons ready to start Medicare.

The public is invited to attend.

COVINGTON — Do you like homemade noodles, fresh pies, homemade cookies, angel food cakes, homemade fudge, buckeyes, caramels, or fresh peanut brittle.

What about a print by Jim O’Donnell or a handmade apron? Come to the Covington United Church of Christ from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, for their annual Country Store.

Also, join the Women’s Fellowship that same day as they will also be hosting their last salad luncheon for 2013 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., with the church’s special hot chicken salad.

Diners also may enjoy a large assortment of homemade salads, desserts, finger sandwiches and a drink for a suggested donation of $6 for adults and $3 for children.

Use the basement entrance in the alley on the north side of the church for either the Country Store or the salad luncheon.

The church is located at 115 N. Pearl St., and is handicap accessible.

This is the last salad luncheon for 2013.

The next scheduled luncheon will be held June 20, 2014.

PIQUA — Congregation Anshe Emeth in Piqua will be holding Shabbat services at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Services will be conducted by rabbinic intern Marc Kasten. An oneg will follow services. The synagogue is located at 320 Caldwell St. For further information, check the website at www.ansheemeth.org or call 937-5470092.

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“The towns that needed help have been reached. The most heavily hit in terms of casualties was the town of Loon, and there are still ongoing processes there, of recovery,” he said.

President Benigno Aquino III and senior Cabinet members came to offer their support Wednesday and distribute relief aid and inspect the damage firsthand.

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said that the bridges would be repaired within weeks.

Amazingly, the town of Carmen, the quake epicenter, did not record one single death. The hardest-hit areas were along Bohol’s western coast.

Senior Inspector Jacinto Mandal, the police chief in Loon, was sitting in his office drawing up a plan for the upcoming village election when the quake hit.

PUQUA — St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church, 500 N. Downing St., will host its Homemade Noodle Dinner from 4:30-7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9.

The dinner will include chicken or beef and noodles, mashed potatioes, green beans, salad, roll, dessert, and beverage.

Carry-out will be available. Dinner will be $7 for adults; $4 for children age 12 and under.

PIQUA — St. Paul’s Friendship Circle is now taking orders for apple dumplings that will be ready for pickup before Thanksgiving. Order them baked or unbaked. Single apple dumplings are $2/ single and a pan of 12 is $15. To place an order, call 773-4717 or 773-8768.

Church to host Medicare program

COVINGTON — Covington Presbyterian Church will celebrate its 175 anniversary during a service set for Saturday, Oct. 26. A reception to visit with former pastors, Frank Gready, John and Charla Koerner and their families will be held from 6:30-7 p.m.

An organ concert will follow the reception at 7 p.m. with former organist Carl Stuck. Also scheduled is a piano and organ duet with current music director Dee Earl.

The church, which was established in 1838, is located on the corner of Wright and Pearl streets in Covington.

FLETCHER — The Fletcher United Methodist Church has announced an upcoming program entitled “Making Medicare Clear.” The presentation will be given from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.

Wednesday Nov. 6, by Fred Bomer, VP Financial Services (Ohio Insurance & Financial Services) in the church sanctuary. Bomer will address what Medicare parts A, B, C, and D are, and what we need to know about each one for 2014. This an

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S M O KS IEG N A L S Science teacher joins PHS Piqua fights cancer Staff: David Wysong Kayla Bowermaster Sherry Boggs Faith Branson Adviser: Debbie Allen

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in supporting this deadly cancer.

During every home game the student section has a theme for the students to get all dressed up and get crazy while cheering on their football team. For their homecoming game against Sidney, the student section did a pink out.

Seniors, Heidi Strevell and Conner Brown, worked with some of the administration to make pink shirts for the student body and teachers to wear on Friday during school, as well as the students section to wear during the game. With the sale of the shirts, they raised well over $1,000.

The high school did festivities for the students throughout the day to celebrate homecoming while incorporating the pink out. There was a

“Hype Rally” at the end of the day where a little group of guys wore pink and spelled out “Piqua,” there was pink balloons, beaded necklaces and more. Also at the game there was pink plastered all over the stadium.

A lot of the students talked about how it was for a great cause. Senior, Xavier Harrison, said “It’s cool that everyone came together to support cancer, and we had fun while doing it.”

Without a doubt seeing what Piqua did and even seeing what the NFL has done is pretty inspiring.

Everyone knows that breast cancer is deadly and really sad to think about, but the people who step up and support the fight to stop it are real heroes.

The Piqua Indians should be proud of themselves.

McDonald’s Student of the Week

There are many new teachers at PHS this year. Bill Petraiuolo is the new physics and core physics teacher.

Besides teaching he is also a new coach for our Piqua Indians football team.

Petraiuolo attended Mayfield High School in Cleveland.

He played for their Wi l d c at s fo o t b a l l team.

He is a college graduate from the University of Dayton, where he played football for the Flyers.

He did his student teaching at Belmont, a local High School in Dayton.

When Petraiuolo was younger his dream job was to be a doctor; in college he majored in pre-med.

He changed his major to education because he had family who were in education

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Students write their way to HOBY

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Breast cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in America. In 2009, (the most recent year numbers are available according to CDC) 40,676 women and 400 men in the United States died from breast cancer.

The month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since Pink is the color to represent breast cancer everyone sees it a lot throughout the month.

If you are a National Football League watcher, you will see players wearing pink everywhere, even on their cleats. Two weeks ago they had pink flags to support the cause which got really confusing with players having pink towels.

Piqua High School decided to do their part

Strevell shows great leadership skills

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The McDonald’s Student of the Week for the week of Oct. 14-17 is senior Heidi Strevell, daughter of Diane Patrizio.

Strevell was nominated by Chad Haemmerle and Darrell Hite, for her “tremendous leadership in organizing activities.” According to Hite and Haemmerle she has “done an excellent job with organizing the Breast Cancer Awareness month at the PHS.” Strevell is on the PHS girls’ basketball team, and is involved with Link Crew, National Honors Society, and is on the Homecoming court. Her

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Heidi Strevell is Mcdonald’s Student of the Week.

favorite classes are AP Government and AP Calculus, and one of her favorite teachers is Troy Ouhl.

After high school she plans to go to The Ohio State University to study to be a pharmacist.

The annual HOBY has found its way back to Piqua High school to give a chance for students to show their leadership abilities.

HOBY is a youth leadership conference for students who show their leadership in their school and in their communities.

Any sophomore who is interested in being a part of the experience is eligible to attempt to be selected to attend the

Bill “Coach P” Petraiuolo is among many new teachers at PHS this year.

for their careers, plus he was always good with science. He knew he wanted to help people no matter what.

So far he feels that being at PHS is a good experience. “The staff at PHS are great and very helpful, they are good people,” said Petraiuolo. His favorite part about working here at PHS are all the good people around; it has made his transition here easier.

conference.

To be able to attend the conference, sophomores must submit an essay of 100 words or less about how they have shown leadership in their school or communities. Once the essays have been submitted, sophomore counselor, Toni Riley will select the top five and then have another counselor to choose the two best students to represent PHS. In Riley’s opinion, HOBY is a very prestigious program because “anybody can make good

Petraiuolo’s future goals are to: “Keep getting better at teaching and he would like to help all the kids his has in his classes.”

Besides his passion for football and science, he has an interest in music. He has been playing guitar for nine years. He also enjoys movies and weightlifting.

Coach Petraiuolo also like to said, “Go Piqua! Beat Troy!”

grades, but it takes a strong person to be a leader” and it “gives the attitude of I am who I am” to show that they will stand up and be themselves.

Once the students are chosen, they will travel to a four day leadership seminar with other students from different areas in March 2014.

Previous attendees who went to Urbana University for the conference include juniors Clayton Brown, Joling Hsiang, and Corinne Crawford.

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“The Blue Crew” BY: MADILYN BROWN We all know what cheerleaders do: lead the fans in cheers of course! But there would be no point in leading the cheers if there were no fans to lead.

It is a big deal, especially for seniors, to show school spirit at as many games and events as possible. It is still early in the fall, which means it is the season under the lights, also known as football season. Currently the boys are rolling over the competition, making it a lot more exciting to attend all of the games.

Although that is not always possible for everyone, one group of senior girls has made it a priority.

This group of girls is better known as “The Blue Crew.” “We like to think of us as the heart of the student section,” said senior Julia Harrelson. They started this name when they got together before the Anna game making t-shirts that were blue with letters that spelled out “Beat Anna 2K14.”

For the third game against London, they really showed their loyalty. Although the game was almost two hours away, they packed into one car and drove there to support the team. These senior girls include Karly Baird, Madison Banas, Jordi Emrick, Grace Frantz, Julia Harrelson, Katie Heckman, Madeline Franklin, Taylor Lachey, Erica Paulus, Olivia Sehlhorst, and Jenna Kronenberger.

The girls have created some of their own cheers as well as joining in with the cheers of the cheerleaders and the band. They also created the tradition of the tunnel after every game. “Our goal is to create a ‘home game’ atmosphere at every game,” said Harrelson.

Not only do they come out and support, but they are responsible for themes every week. There have been multiple fun themes this year from a beach-theme to a blue-out. Every week these lovely ladies lead the effort (with many other students) to decorate the senior hallway in accordance with the theme. This gets the team and the students hyped up for the upcoming Friday night under the lights.

If you ever need some school spirit in your life, call on the Blue Crew. I am sure they can help!

Blue crew heading to London, Ohio, for a football game: Taylor Lachey, Madison Banas, Julia Harrelson, Katie Heckman, Olivia Sehlhorst

Celebrating with red ribbons BY: BROOKE JONES October 23 through October 31, Lehman will be participating in the celebration of Red Ribbon Week. This week is dedicated to promoting the Red Ribbon Campaign, which annually reaches out to young people all across the country to promote a drug-free lifestyle.

The Red Ribbon Campaign was started by The National Family Partnership in 1986. It is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the nation. The campaign started after drug traffickers in Mexico City murdered a Drug Enforcement Administrator agent in 1985. After the incident, the displaying of red ribbons became the symbol for intolerance towards drug use. The mission of the organization is to create a unified commitment to a drug-free America. Red Ribbon Week is designed to bring awareness to the campaign, as well as to help parents and schools create an effective drug prevention curriculum.

Lehman’s S.A.A.C committee leads the effort at Lehman, which starts with the freshman’s T.U.G.S retreat on October 21. Red ribbons will be displayed above all of the lockers. Other activities are also planned.

Senior Cavalier soccer players: Rob Heckman, Grace Frantz, Jenna Kronenberger, Madeline Franklin, Olivia Sehlhorst, Marla Schroeder, Taylor Lachey, Peter Comer, Joe Simpson, Karly Baird, Lauren Goettemoeller, Seth Bensman, and Jordi Emrick

State bound?

BY: THOMAS COVAULT Lehman is out-performing everyone in one sport this year, and that sport is soccer. Both the boys and the girls teams are looking to go far in the tournament starting soon. The girls finished the regular season at 131-1 and have been state-ranked for several weeks, standing at #4 at this writing. The boys record is not as stellar but they still stand ready to make some noise in tournament play.

The boys are led by seniors Peter Comer, Robbie Heckman, Seth Bensman, and Joe Simpson. Robbie Heckman’s goal for the tournament is “to beat Greenview and score the winning goal.”

The girls are having a fantastic year also, led by seniors Madeline Franklin, Karly Baird, Taylor Lachey, Lauren Goettemoeller, Jenna Kroneberger, Marla Schroeder, Grace Frantz, Jordi Emrick, and Olivia Sehlhorst.

They own a victory over the defending state champions and are looking to take the 2013 title themselves. Karly Baird said, “We hope we thrive in our tournament run and win the state championship.” Olivia Sehlhorst said her favorite part of the year was “having a glorious time with all my teammates.”

One thing is for sure: both soccer teams are looking to end this season with a bang!

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Stephen Covey’s ‘7 Habits’ shakes up schools Heather Hollingsworth Associated Press

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — One year after Johnathan Kent kicked his principal and school “went all bad,” the 8-yearold was recognized at a recent assembly as the “Star of the Month” for being polite and helping out his teachers.

The third-grader’s explanation for the turnaround: “I’m not doing what I did last year.”

But Emily Cross, the principal of Indian Trails Elementary on the outskirts of Kansas City, Mo., is giving some credit to a program the school began using last year that is built around the late self-help guru Stephen Covey’s best-selling “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” A 25th anniversary edition of the 1989 book will be released in November.

The nearly 1,500 mostly elementary schools using the program — called “The Leader in Me” — teach principles from the book, including “think win-win,” ”seek first to understand, then to be understood” and

“synergize.” Teachers, for example, might ask students how historical figures like George Washington might have used them.

And if a student gets into trouble, teachers and principals ask what habit could have helped him or her avoid the scrape.

When Johnathan’s principal asked the boy what habit led to his turnaround, he quickly responded, “Do first things first.” He said he didn’t finish his work last year.

Students typically are assigned leadership roles that range from class greeter to fish-tank cleaner. They also keep a leadership notebook in which they chart growth in an academic area. The notebooks also track a personal goal, such as the time spent learning to tie their shoes. Cross said the tracking is a big motivator for Johnathan.

“He sees that when I’m in class putting first things first, my dot on my graph is going up, and he’s proud,” Cross said.

“He’s very confident now, and he wasn’t last year.”

The Leader in Me,

which has started branching out into preschools and middle schools, is one of “literally dozens” of programs seeking to improve the school climate, said Paul Baumann, director of the National Center for Learning and Civic Engagement at the Denver-based Education Commission of the States, a nonpartisan group that researches education policy. He said most of the programs are run by nonprofits. The cost of the Leader in Me was “pretty high” in comparison, he said.

For a 400-student school, adopting the Leader in Me program would cost between $45,000 and $60,000 over the first three years.

The program’s developer, FranklinCovey, acknowledges that the expense is one of the biggest challenges. Some schools are able to cover the cost using federal Title I money that’s awarded to schools that serve large numbers of low-income students.

And for schools that need help, foundations, community Chambers of Commerce or busi-

nesses might be asked to help cover the cost, said Meg Thompson, who oversees the program for Salt Lake City-based FranklinCovey.

Not everyone is sold though.

Lakeview Elementary in Kirkland, Wash., a Seattle suburb, dropped the program this year after parents complained. Lake Elementary parent Paul Devries said he found the program “cult-like” and “objected to the group mentality.”

Some schools offer training sessions for parents.

“It’s our responsibility as parents to teach values to our kids, not for kids to come home and teach FranklinCovey’s values to us,” said Devries, 53, a fishery scientist and water resource engineer.

“Kids should be able to be creative and think for themselves and not be automatons and repeat the seven habits.”

Asked how many schools had dropped out, FranklinCovey said that would be hard to calculate.

Before his death in July 2012, Covey disputed criticism that he simply repackaged his Mormon

faith in the “Seven Habits.”

Backers say the program exceeded expectations.

“It is easier for kids at 5, 6, 7 to learn the habits than it is for us adults,” said Joel Katte, principal of Meadowthorpe Elementary in Lexington, Ky., where student leadership assemblies feature students singing about and performing skits about the habits. “It’s kind of a first language for them.”

The program got its start in 1999 when Muriel Summers, principal of A.B. Combs Elementary in Lexington, asked Covey whether he thought the habits could be taught to children.

FranklinCovey provided free training for her staff.

“We started to see amazing results,” Summers said. “We saw children really being recognized for what they do well, not what they didn’t do well. And we started to love them through their challenges.”

Covey documented the experience at Summers’ school and others in a 2008 book, and the pro-

gram expanded. Besides the U.S., it’s also being used in more than 35 countries, including Australia, Japan and China. Sean Covey, executive vice president at FranklinCovey and one of Covey’s sons, said the company’s goal is to have the Leader in Me program used in 10 percent of U.S. schools.

The Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University examined two elementary schools using the program and found that students reported their teachers were nicer, while staff reported improved student behavior. That was the experience at Benjamin Harrison Elementary in Marion, Ohio, where discipline problems declined as troublemakers turned into “role model” students, principal Leah Filliater said.

“I think they saw themselves differently, and I think staff treated them a little differently,” Filliater said. “I think it’s a different philosophy that each student can be great at something.”

Lehman Catholic Students solve government crisis SIDNEY — Lehman Catholic Social Studies students spent time last week collectively researching, analyzing and providing solutions to resolve the government shutdown crises.

To solve the crisis, the students engaged in a two-day research and debate seminar. During their two-day foray into contemporary politics, the students, to the relief of their parents and businesses throughout the region, solved the government shutdown and default issues.

Lehman students first reviewed and annotated articles from newspapers and magazines.

This research included articles objectively identifying divergent perspectives. After a day of research and reading, the students were tasked to engage in further individual research that evening. That night, after collecting and reading several additional articles, the students were required to engage in a discussion of the issue with their parents at the dinner table.

The following day,

students coalesced into groups of 10-12, where they discussed and debated the facts and circumstances surrounding the issues. They also identified much of the inflammatory rhetoric and decided to excise the emotion from the arguments.

After lengthy discussions, students in each of the classes decided that they would band together with the few remaining moderates from both major political parties and form a government coalition.

This coalition would then ideally promote common sense ideas to avoid default and reopen the government to conduct the people’s business.

The project was initiated by Social Studies teacher Joe Ratermann.

Ratermann recently returned to the school to teach after spending most of his career serving his country overseas.

Ratermann graduated from Lehman in 1981, and obtained degrees from Wright Provided Photo State and George Mason Lehman government students in Joe Ratermann’s class spent time recently attempting to solve the government shutdown and debt Universities. crisis.

PJH Participates in Edison’s annual campus visit PIQUA — Edison Community College recently hosted students from Piqua Junior High School at its fourth annual Campus Visit Day program. The entire eighth grade class, consisting of approximately 300 students, visited the Piqua Campus throughout the past two weeks.

While visiting, students had the opportunity to gain handson experience in the classroom and, ultimately, develop a correlation between education and career choice.

Prior to the event, Stacey Bean, enrollment manager at Edison, visited the junior high school classrooms to prepare students for their visit.

“Each year I look forward to presenting to the eighth grade students at the

Piqua Junior High.

It’s always engaging, fun, and informative,” Bean said.

“Creating awareness early helps students build a positive perception of higher education opportunities and realize that college, especially Edison, is definitely an option for them.”

Students selected from a variety of classes to attend while visiting, including robotics, medical sciences and criminal justice, all taught by Edison faculty members.

Throughout the day, in between the classroom sessions and lunch, students assembled in the Robinson Theater to participate in the talent show, PJHS Has Talent, with this year’s winners receiving prizes from the campus bookstore.

Pre-K students learn fire safety tips Students from the Center for Early Learning at Piqua Catholic were given a first hand glimpse into the life of a firefighter during National Fire Prevention Week. On Oct. 11, Ms. Jenni’s (Smith) prekindergarten class took their first field trip to the Piqua Fire Department.

Along with parent Kristy Perkins and volunteer Kerri Josefovski, the class walked from their preschool on South Downing Street to the fire station.

Firefighter Bill Hogston welcomed the class and shared a lot of valuable information with the students. In addition to the field trip, the students were treated to a special quest appearance from firefighter Tony Grilliot. All of the preschool students participated in activities to promote fire safety and learned about the important role of a firefighter.

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School Briefs PIQUA — The following programs are taking place in Piqua City Schools: •National School Lunch Week will be celebrated through today.

Parents and grandparents are invited to eat a school lunch with their students.

•The Piqua High School Speech and Drama Club presents the outdoor drama Spoon River Anthology on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Forest Hill Cemetery. Tickets are $3 and must be purchased in advance in the main office at Piqua High School.

•Favorite Hill Primary School will celebrate Red Ribbon Week, an annual awareness campaign, the

week of Oct. 21. Various theme days and classroom activities will take place throughout the week.

The focus of the week is on developing and supporting ways to prevent youth from using illegal drugs or legal drugs illegally.

•The Piqua Band will participate in a fund raiser through Buffalo Wings and Rings on Oct. 30. The band will receive a percentage of the sales between 5-8 p.m. that evening. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go toward the purchase of new marching band uniforms.

Bring your family and friends out that night for a great dinner and help the marching band at the same time!

•Building Project Updates are available on the Piqua City School District website at www.piqua.org.

Click on “Construction” on the left hand side of the home page for regularly updated information.

•Heard It Through The Grapevine — Do you have a question or have you heard something about the Piqua City School District that you want clarified?

Link to “Heard It Through The Grapevine” at www.piqua.org to submit your questions. You will receive an email with the answer/ response. Frequently repeated questions will be posted in the Q&A on the “Heard It Through The Grapevine” page.

Information Call ROB KISER sports editor, at 733-2721, ext. 209 from 8 p.m. to midnight weekdays.

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Looking to continue momentum Piqua travels to Greenville Friday Rob Kiser

Sports Editor rikser@civitasmedia.com

The Piqua football team finally has some momentum in its favor.

And Indians coach Bill Nees hopes to keep it going when Piqua (2-5, 1-1) travels to Greenville (1-6, 0-2) Friday night.

Piqua broke a fourgame losing streak with an impressive 46-17 win over Sidney last Friday.

“It seemed like until last week, we were always staring momentum in the face,” Nees said. “Last week, we had it at our back.”

There were two big keys in that game.

A young Piqua defense seem to rise to a different level in the second half.

The Indians had three interceptions in the game, won the turnover battle 4-0 and recorded a shutut in the second half.

Dom Stone was a big part of that.

The linebacker, who has 54 tackels and two sacks on the season, returned a fumble for a TD, picked off a pass and had a sack on fourth down to give Piqua the ball.

Alex Nees and Andrew Lee also had interceptions.

“I said a couple weeks ago I felt like we were coaching the offense and teaching the defense,” Nees said. “I think they are starting to understand things.”

Another big key was the play of the offensive

In brief n Lady Raiders move on

TIPP CITY — The Russia volleyball team will play Riverside at 1 p.m. Saturday in Tippecanoe D-IV sectional action.

The Lady Raiders opened the tournament with a 25-9, 25-8, 25-8 win over Xenia Christian.

Kylie Wilson led the Lady Raiders with 16 kills, Taylor Daniel had 29 set assists and three aces, Clair Sherman added six kills, four blocks and six aces, Camille Puthoff had five kills and four aces and Cassie Pleiman had four aces.

The Raiders are 16-7 on the season.

n PressPros to air Troy game

PressProsMagazine.com will air the Troy at TrotwoodMadison game Friday night.

Air time is 6:30 p.m., with kickoff at 7 p.m.

Fans at the stadium can pick up the game on Stadium FM 107.3.

n Piqua youth hoop signups

Piqua fifth and sixth grade girls basketball signups will be held Thursday and Saturday at Piqua Junior High.

Thursday’s signups are from 6-7:30 p.m. and Saturday’s is from 10:30 a.m.-noon.

For more information, contact Rory Hoke at 778-2997 or hoker@piqua.org.

n Piqua hoops fundraiser

The Piqua boys basketball program will hold an “All You Can Eat” pancake breakfast made by Chris Cakes of Ohio on Nov. 16 from 8-11 a.m. in the Piqua High School commons.

Tickets will be $7 and can be purchased in the Piqua High School office.

Stumper many Q: How running

backs in Urban Meyer’s 12 years as head college football coach have rushed for 1,000 years?

A:

None

Quoted

“I’m tired of hearing that, man.”

— Urban Meyer on having neer had a running back rush for 1,000 yards.

line.

Trent Yeomans has three straight games rushing of 200 yards or more and has already rushed for 1,195 yards on 132 carries, scoring 14 TDs. He is second in the GWOC in rushing.

And last week, he had some holes you could have driven a semi through.

“Watching the game, you knew the offensive line played well,” Nees said. “But, when we watched the game films on Saturday, that is when you truly had an appreciation for how great a game our offensive line had. It was impressive how many blocks they were able to sustain down the field.”

That has allowed Yeomans to have a break-out season — but he deserves plenty of credit for that as well.

“Everybody talks about Trent’s (Yeomans) speed,” Nees said. “But, another thing is — the guy just has tremendous vision as well.”

With Yeomans success, it has opened things up for the passing game and Dan Monnin’s 77-yard TD pass to Tate Honeycutt last week was a great example of that.

“That is what we want,” Nees said. “We want to have a balance on offense.”

While Greenville has just one win, the Wave has been able to move the ball on offense.

Sophomore Clay Guillozet is back at quarterback after starting as a freshman.

He has completed 75 of 145 passes for 849 Mike Ullery | File Photo

See PIQUA | Page 10 Alex Nees makes a big hit against Sidney as Hayden Hall closes in.

Meyer tired of being asked same question Not likely to have 1,000-yard running back this year either COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has learned to accept the aggravation and quickly counter it.

He encounters the question, he says, as much as 200 times a year from recruits, fans and reporters: Why haven’t you ever had a running back rush for 1,000 yards?

“I’m tired of hearing that, man,” he said earlier this week when asked about it.

It’s a sore spot for the 12th-year head coach, yet is undeniable.

Meyer had quarterback Braxton Miller go for 1,271 yards rushing a year ago, but no running back has ever turned the trick — not at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida or Ohio State.

No matter where he goes, someone brings it up — particularly other schools who tell bluechip offensive players

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Ohio State quarterback Carlos Hyde avoids a tackle on his way to the end zone earlier this year.

that they will never flourish in Meyer’s version of the spread offense.

“Oh, all the time. It’s gone everywhere from offensive linemen don’t

get developed and then we have all these firstround draft picks. I remember at one point they were saying that our offense doesn’t develop

receivers and then the last seven receivers we coached aren’t only playing but they’re starting in the National Football League,” he said. “You hear it, but you just have to be armed and ready to go. Then (players) see the yards per carry, they see the opportunities you get. It really helps.”

Meyer presents a variety of reasons why he’s never had a running back top that nice, round figure that is the goal of all rushers.

He points out that Jeff Demps, a sprinter/back who played at Florida from 2008-11, was situated to break that mold until he was injured.

“He gets hurt and it’s nuts,” Meyer said, disgusted.

Just a year ago, his first Ohio State team was 10th in the nation in rushing and tailback Carlos Hyde racked up 970 yards in addition to

Miller’s big year.

That’s right, just 30 yards away from ending the drought.

This season the Buckeyes (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten) are 11th in the nation in rushing at 281 yards a game. Hyde has 294 yards in just three games — he was suspended for the first three for a legal problem — while fellow tailback Jordan Hall, nursing an injured knee that caused him to set out the last game, has 427 yards rushing with six regular-season games remaining.

In other words, either needs a big finish to do it. Hyde is aware he needs to average around 90 yards while Ohio State plays in both the Big Ten title game and a bowl.

“It’s a big goal,” he said. “But I try not to think about it. I just try See MEYER | Page 10

Dodgers flex muscles in clutch LA victory forces NLCS back to St. Louis LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez homered twice and Zack Greinke gave the Los Angeles Dodgers the clutch performance they needed in a 6-4 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday that trimmed St. Louis’ lead to 3-2 in the NL championship series.

Carl Crawford and A.J. Ellis also went deep for the Dodgers, who rediscovered their power stroke just in time to save their season.

They held in the ninth, when St. Louis scored twice off closer Kenley Jansen before he struck out pinch-hitter Adron Chambers with two on to end it.

The best-of-seven series shifts back to St. Louis for Game 6 on Friday night, when ace Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to start for the Dodgers against rookie Michael Wacha.

When those two squared off in Game 2, the Cardinals won 1-0 on an unearned run.

Desperate to avoid elimination, the Dodgers brought in some Hollywood star power for pregame introductions. Will Ferrell announced their lineup and lent a comic spin to each player’s name,

capping it by introducing Greinke as “today’s winning pitcher.”

Ferrell knew what he was talking about.

Greinke got into a bases-loaded jam in the first inning but escaped with no damage. From there, he pitched seven strong innings and even delivered an RBI single.

The Cardinals also led last year’s NLCS 3-1 before losing three straight games to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants.

The Dodgers rallied in this one after Greinke gave up an early 2-0 lead just as he did in Game 1, which Los Angeles lost 3-2 in 13 innings on the road.

After neither team homered in the first three games for the first time in NLCS history, the big bats came out.

The Cardinals used a two-run homer by Matt Holliday and a solo shot from pinch-hitter Shane Robinson to win 4-2 on Tuesday night.

This time, Gonzalez went 3 for 4 with two solo homers. His twoout shot in the eighth made it 6-2.

The Cardinals tied it at 2 in the third on Carlos Beltran’s RBI triple and Holliday’s run-

scoring double.

Los Angeles answered in the bottom half. Mark Ellis singled leading off but was erased when Hanley Ramirez grounded into a double play.

Gonzalez followed with the Dodgers’ first homer of the NLCS, slugging the ball an estimated 428 feet into the right-field pavilion for a 3-2 lead.

As he headed toward the dugout, Gonzalez cupped his hands to his ears and wiggled them in a gesture resembling mouse ears. It was an apparent tweak at Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, who said Gonzalez had done “some Mickey Mouse stuff ” in celebrating a double on Monday night.

The Dodgers are trying to become the 12th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-ofseven series.

Greinke allowed two runs and six hits. He struck out four and walked one.

Jansen gave up RBI singles to Matt Adams and Pete Kozma in the ninth.

A.J. Ellis homered in seventh, sending an 0-2 pitch from Edward Mujica into the left-field pavilion to make it 5-2.

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Los Angeles Dodgers’ A.J. Ellis hits a home run Wednesday.

Crawford homered with one out in the fifth, extending the Dodgers’ lead to 4-2. He walloped a 3-2 pitch from starter Joe Kelly an estimated 447 feet into the rightfield pavilion.

Kelly gave up four runs and seven hits in five innings, struck out three and walked none.

Beltran’s triple went over the head of Andre Ethier and to the wall in center, scoring Matt Carpenter, who singled.

Holliday followed with a double to deep center.

NOTES: Ramirez, playing with a broken left rib, left after six

innings. … In the three games Ramirez has started with the injury, only two grounders have been hit to him. … The homers by Gonzalez and Crawford were the first given up by Kelly in 24 career postseason innings. He allowed two homers in a game twice during the regular season. … Beltran’s triple was his first ever in the postseason. …

Former Dodgers star Orel Hershiser tossed out the first pitch on the 25th anniversary of his three-hit shutout against Oakland in Game 2 of the 1988 World Series.

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Bengals ‘D’ standing strong Cincinnati defense makes key stops CINCINNATI (AP) — The Patriots had firstand-goal, less than 3 feet away from a momentumswitching touchdown. They couldn’t get it, settling for a field goal and a stunning 13-6 loss that stopped Tom Brady’s touchdown streak.

A week later, the Bills had first-and-goal at the 2-yard line, looking to grab the lead. They ran four plays and got nowhere, turning it over on downs.

Eventually, they also lost the game, 27-24 in overtime, and came away regretting the 2 yards that were too much.

Cincinnati’s best moments on defense have come right in front of its end zone.

The Bengals have pulled off goal-line stands each of the last two weeks for wins over New England and Buffalo. They’re 4-2 and alone in first place in the AFC North for the first time since 2009, and a resilient defense has played a big role in it.

Those stands have come to define a defense that again ranks among the league’s top 10.

“It’s just all about attitude, their will against ours,” defensive tackle Domata Peko said. “We put our foot on the gas pedal and shut them down.”

The first one became a footnote to history.

New England trailed 13-3 in the fourth quarter when Danny Amendola caught Brady’s pass while falling down at the 1-yard line. Safety Chris Crocker touched him down as he rolled into the end zone.

That touch prevented a touchdown.

Brady threw two incompletions and a run went nowhere, forcing a field goal.

It was Brady’s best chance to extend his streak of 52 consecutive games with a touchdown pass, secondlongest in NFL history.

With that, the defense had its first moment in the spotlight.

“We’re still creating our image or whatever you want to call us,” Peko said. “I know one thing about our defense: We never give up.”

In Buffalo on Sunday, the Bills drove to a first-andgoal from the 2-yard line.

A run gained a yard, and two more runs were stuffed.

Thad Lewis was sacked on a fourth-down play while trying to scramble and throw.

The Bengals then went 98 yards in nine plays for a touchdown and a 17-7 lead.

That defensive stand wound up as an early turning point.

“Yeah, it’s big,” quarter-

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The Cincinnati Bengals had another big goal-line stand last week.

back Andy Dalton said. “For them to come in and stop them on the goal line just kind of shows the attitude of our defense and shows what we can do and the type of guys that we have.”

The defense had a lapse in the fourth quarter, allowing the Bills to tie it on a 40-yard touchdown pass.

It forced a three-and-out in overtime, setting up Mike

Nugent’s 43-yard field goal.

The two goal-line stands have given the defense a bit of a swagger when the other team is in scoring range.

The Bengals are ranked No. 8 on defense heading into a game Sunday at Detroit (4-2), which has the league’s sixth-ranked passing game.

“There’s just a lot of confidence,” safety Taylor Mays said. “It’s something to get

excited about. It means a lot. The goal-line stand is one of the best things you can do on defense.”

NOTES: Dalton was honored on Wednesday as the AFC’s Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in Buffalo. Dalton completed 26 of 40 for 337 yards with three touchdowns, one interception and

a season-high passer rating of 105.9. … RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis was excused from practice on Wednesday because of illness. CB Terence Newman was held out with a sore abdomen. C Kyle Cook was limited by a shoulder injury. … CB Leon Hall had a full practice. He missed two games with a hamstring injury and played the entire game at Buffalo.

Weeden unwanted man in Cleveland Fans place ad for quarterback on Craig’s List BEREA, Ohio (AP) — These days, Brandon Weeden’s critics come in all shapes and sizes — and from every direction.

One foolish pass, if it can even be called a pass, has made the Browns quarterback Cleveland’s most maligned athlete. While others harp on his costly mistake, an interception that has been lampooned locally and nationally, Weeden is doing his best to move on from an embarrassing moment that may trail him long after his NFL career is over.

He’s cut himself off from all contact with negativity.

No sports talk radio. No Twitter. Nothing to remind him of the gaffe.

“The easy ones are obviously social media, which has turned into a joke,” Weeden said. “Watch movies with the wife or whatever, but just don’t listen to it. I’ve been through ups and downs enough, and I’d like to say that I’m mature enough to not listen to what a 7-year old kid has to tell me about how to play quarterback or whatever it may be. I’m not concerned with it.

“I’m concerned with helping this team win games.”

Weeden was upbeat as he met with reporters for the first time since Sunday, when his ill-advised flip toward fullback Chris Ogbonnaya in the fourth quarter was intercepted and essentially wrapped up the Lions’ 31-17 win. The pick, which drew comparisons to Miami kicker Garo Yepremian’s infamous pass in the Super Bowl 40 years ago, continues to enrage

Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden is not popular with the fans.

many Browns fans.

One angry Cleveland fan went as far as taking out an ad on Craig’s List to find a new quarterback.

“We’ve got problems under center … well one problem. Brandon Weeden,” the fan posted.

“If you’re sick of seeing desperation heaves to the sidelines, countless sacks after superb coverage, and underhanded lightly tossed interceptions in the 4th quarter then please come apply!”

Weeden understands the criticism and that it comes with the territory.

He’s heard boos before and expects they’ll continue unless he plays more consistently. In the meantime, he’s staying positive and

keeping his sense of humor.

“It’s no different for me any week,” he said. “It’s part of playing the position. I have very good earmuffs on, went out and got about the best ones I could.

You can’t listen to it. All I care about is what goes on inside this building. If the guys in this building have my back and I have theirs, and we’re all on the same page, it really doesn’t matter what else is being said.

“We’re a football team here and I love coming to work with these guys every single day.”

Browns coach Rob Chudzinski believes Weeden’s teammates are behind him, and that they’re rallying to his side as they prepare for Sunday’s game

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yards and nine touchdowns, against eight interceptions.

Allen Tabler has caught 32 passes for 402 yards, while Zach Comer has 16 receptions for 170 yards.

“He (Clay Guillozet) has completed 51 percent of his passes for almost 1,000 yards,” Nees said. “That is pretty good.”

Ryan Eldridge leads the rushing attack with 523 yards on 97 carries.

“They will mix things up on offense,” Nees said.

“They will spread things out at times — and then there are times they line up in a traditional two-

back set. So, it is a lot to prepare for.”

The Wave defense is led by linebacker Bryce Jenkinson, who has a whopping 96 tackles.

Greenville will use different looks on the defensive side of the ball as well.

“They play an even front,” Nees said. “But, then they will show an odd front with three defensive lineman. They have a number of players going both ways.”

The Indians will look to ride the momentum from last week over the final three weeks and continue their winning ways.

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at Green Bay. Weeden may have had some mistakes in critical spots, but he’s not the only reason the Browns (3-3) had their three-game winning streak stopped.

Pro Bowl tackle Joe Thomas said Weeden hasn’t lost any support in Cleveland’s locker room.

“I think everybody in here has got a lot of confidence and trust in what Brandon does,” he said.

“We definitely think he’s the guy that can lead us this year to the playoffs.”

Weeden had some strong moments in Sunday’s loss.

The second-year QB threw two touchdown passes in the first half as the Browns built a 17-7 lead. But Cleveland’s offense bogged down after halftime and

to do whatever my team needs me to do to get a win. That’s all that matters with me.”

Meyer doesn’t feel the need to defend what his offense does.

“If someone wants to question whether we run the ball effectively, I think we over the last 12 years have run the ball really well,” he said. “Just in recruiting and all that other nonsense, we can’t anticipate guys missing games for whatever reason.”

Heading into the fourthranked Buckeyes’ game Saturday against Iowa (4-2, 1-1), whomever wins the ground game will likely win the game. The Hawkeyes also like to run, but even more than that they are

almost everything Weeden did was erased by the fateful flip, a play he’s been trying to shake since the moment the ball left his right hand.

“It’s behind me,” he said.

“Obviously, I didn’t lose any sleep over it. It stung at the time. It will probably always sting. If I go back and watch that game again it will bring back memories. It all happened so fast, but you have to move on from it. It can’t happen.

Just don’t let it happen again. That’s the way I feel about it.”

Some of the angst directed at Weeden can be traced to him starting again after Brian Hoyer, the Cleveland-raised QB who led the Browns to two

stout against the run.

“We are a team that likes to run the football. We like to think that we have an offensive line that presents that to us,” said Ohio State co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach Stan Drayton. “So to sit there and say that we are going to go into this football game and not run the ball because Iowa is pretty good at it is not real. We are going to run the football and we are going to trust our offensive line to get engaged. We are going to trust our running backs to play through contact.”

Iowa is eighth in the country in rushing defense, allowing just 89 yards a game. The Hawkeyes

straight wins, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

Weeden isn’t getting the benefit of the doubt, and that’s something Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers can identify with.

It took several seasons for Rodgers to emerge from Brett Favre’s long shadow and win over Packers fans, so he feels empathy toward Weeden.

“You learn how to move forward from those things,” Rodgers said on a conference call. “You have to go through it. We all did.

Anybody who has played this position has made throws like that or decisions like that. You have to be able to grow from those experiences.”

Weeden’s miscue came on the eve of him turning 30, which made the monumental birthday even tougher to bear.

“I felt 40,” he said. “The three in front of the zero is just a little bit different.

I’m not going to get used to that for a while.”

NOTES: WR Charles Johnson, signed on Saturday off the Packers practice squad, has a torn knee ligament and needs surgery. The Browns were unaware of the injury until they gave him a physical. Johnson must stay on the active roster for two more weeks. … G Jason Pinkston practiced for the first time this season after being sidelined with a high ankle sprain. … LB Jabaal Sheard practiced and could play this week after missing three games with a sprained knee. Chudzinski said Sheard came close to playing against the Lions.

have yet to give up a rushing touchdown.

“They haven’t even been in their goal-line defense,” Meyer said, shaking his head. “Think about that.”

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz has looked at the film and has come away impressed with what he’s seen of Ohio State, as well.

“They’ve got a very effective offensive system,” he said.

“Their quarterbacks have both been extremely dangerous and productive. Their running backs are outstanding. There’s really nothing you can load up on because their receivers are really good. It’s a tough preparation.”

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Coaches, players receive honors Frazier, Snipes, Cash all named Coaches of the Year

Piqua girls cross country coach Steve Frazier was honored recently by the Greater Western Ohio Conference North.

Frazier, who is retiring after this season was named Coach of the Year.

■ Junior libero Kailey Byers led the Piqua honorees on the All-GWOC North volleyball team.

Byers was named to the first team.

Macy Yount was named to the second team and Logan Ernst and Tasha Potts were named special mention.

■ Giriffen Jennings headed the honorees on the Piqua boys soccer team.

Jennings was named to the first team.

Hunter Comstock and Grady Stewart were named to the second team, while Luke Brown and Caleb Vallieu were named special mention.

■ Amy Burt and Kayla Schrubb both received top

Kendra Beckman and Emily Holicki, Miami East; and Katie Houk and Trelissa Lavy, Newton.

Special mention included Katelyn Gardella, Miami East; and Halee Mollette, Newton.

Honorable mention picks included Sam Skidmore, Miami East; and Madison Tebics, Newton.

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honors on the GWOC North girls soccer team.

Both players were named to the first team.

Kaylee Bradney and Hannah Went were named to the second team, while Teija Davis and Reynna Lavey were named special mention.

■ Kenton Kiser was named to the All-GWOC North second team in boys golf.

Ryan Minniear received special mention honors.

Lady Cavs Lehman

coach Greg Snipes and senior setter Ellie Cain took top honors on the AllNWCC volleyball team.

Snipes was named Coach of the Year, while Cain was named Player of the Year.

Also named to the first team were hitters Olivia Slagle and Sidney Chapman and defensive specialist Erica Paulus.

Named to the second team was defensive specialist Ava Schmitz.

Receiving honorable honored mention honors were volleyball Michelle Duritsch and

JOHN CASH Marianne Hissong.

Cashs honored

SAM CASH team were Haley Patty, Bradford; Jessica Dammeyer, Covington; Trina Current, Miami East; and Kennedy Brown, Newton.

Named special mention were Michayla Barga, Bradford; Brooke Gostomsky, Covington; Anna Kiewewetter, Miami East; and Allie Wise, Newton.

Miami East volleyball coach John Cash and senior Sam Cash took top honors on the All-CCC volleyball team.

John Cash was named Coach of the Year, while Sam Cash was named Player of the Year.

Joining Sam Cash on the first team were Ashley Six All-CCC Current, Angie Mack and Six local players were Allison Morrett, Miami named to the All-CCC East; and Maddie Mol- girls soccer first team. lette, Newton.

They included Abigail Named to the second Amheiser, Jessica Barlage,

Five All-CCC

Five local players were honored on the All-CC boys soccer first team.

They included Deven Baldasare and Brandon Kirk, Miami East; and Zane Clymer, Treyton Lavy and Jon White, Newton.

Named special mention were Colton Holicki, Miami East; and Logan Welbaum, Newton.

Honorable mention picks included Austin Kowalak, Miami East; and Moustafa Simpara, Newton.

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Postseason Glance Postseason Baseball Glance All Times EDT LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All games televised by Fox Boston 2, Detroit 1 Saturday, Oct. 12: Detroit 1, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 13: Boston 6, Detroit 5 Tuesday, Oct. 15: Boston 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Boston at Detroit Thursday, Oct. 17: Boston (Lester 15-8) at Detroit, 8:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Detroit at Boston, 4:37 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 20: Detroit at Boston, 8:07 p.m.

National League All games televised by TBS St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2, 13 innings Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 1, Los Angeles 0 Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0 Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 Friday, Oct. 18: Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-9) at St. Louis (Wacha 4-1), 8:37 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Los Angeles (Ryu 14-8) at St. Louis (Wainwright 19-9), 8:37 p.m.

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) All games televised by Fox Wednesday, Oct. 23: at AL Thursday, Oct. 24: at AL Saturday, Oct. 26: at NL Sunday, Oct. 27: at NL x-Monday, Oct. 28: at NL x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: at AL x-Thursday, Oct. 31: at AL

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W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 5 1 0 .833 157 94 San Francisco 4 2 0 .667 145 118 St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 141 154 Arizona 3 3 0 .500 111 127 Monday's Game San Diego 19, Indianapolis 9 Thursday, Oct. 17 Seattle at Arizona, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 20 Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Detroit, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.

Houston at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Cleveland at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

Open: New Orleans, Oakland Monday, Oct. 21 Minnesota at N.Y. Giants, 8:40 p.m.

College Schedule College Football Schedule All Times EDT (Subject to change) Thursday, Oct. 17 SOUTH Miami (5-0) at North Carolina (1-4), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 18 SOUTH UCF (4-1) at Louisville (6-0), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 19 EAST Colgate (1-5) at Holy Cross (3-4), Noon Villanova (4-2) at New Hampshire (2-3), Noon Texas Tech (6-0) at West Virginia (3-3), Noon Fordham (7-0) at Yale (3-1), Noon Georgetown (1-5) at Lehigh (5-1), 12:30 p.m.

William & Mary (4-2) at Maine (4-2), 12:30 p.m.

Prep Tournament Schedule GIRLS SOCCER D-III Triad at Lehman, 5 p.m.

Botkins at Miami East, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY

VOLLEYBALL Brookville D-III Miami East vs. Northeastern, 6 p.m.

Tippecanoe D-IV Newton vs. Tri-County North, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY At Miami Valley Career Tech Center BOYS D-I B Race, 3:30 p.m.

Piqua, Centerville Beavercreek Lebanon, Miamisburg, Bellbrook, Fairmont, Stebbins, Middletown, Fairborn, Franklin, Ponitz Career Tech, Sidney.

D-III A Race, 9:30 a.m.

Russia, Miami East, Covington, Bradford, Fort Loramie, Arcanum, Dayton Christian, Miami Valley, Mechanicsburg, Ansonia, Mississinawa Valley, Triad.

D-III B Race, 10:30 a.m.

Houston, Lehman Catholic, Botkins, Anna, National Trail, Franklin Monroe, Jackson Center, Emmanuel Christian, Troy Christian, Bethel, Catholic Central, Riverside, Middletown Christian.

D-III C Race, 11:30 a.m.

Versailles, Newton, West Liberty-Salem, Xenia Christian, Yellow Springs, Cedarville, Twin Valley South, Tri-Village, Dixie, Tri-County North, Southeastern, Fairlawn.

GIRLS D-I B Race, 3 p.m.

Piqua, Springboro, Lebanon, Bellbrook, Miamisburg, Greenville, Springfield, Fairmont, Wayne, Franklin, Sidney, Ponitz Career Tech.

D-III A Race, 9 a.m.

Covington, Bradford, Fort Loramie, West Liberty-Salem, Mechanicsburg, Ansonia, Bethel, Troy Christian, Dayton Christian, Mississinawa Valley, Middletown Christian.

D-III B Race, 10 a.m.

Versailles, Miami East, Lehman Catholic, Houston, Botkins, Twin Valley South, Arcanum, Tri-Village, Franklin Monroe, Tri-County North, Dixie, Jackson Center.

D-III C Race, 11 a.m.

Russia, Newton, Xenia Christian, National Trail, Catholic Central, Yellow Springs, Cedarville, Riverside, Triad, Miami Valley, Emmanuel Christian, Southeastern.

BOYS SOCCER D-I Piqua at Beavercreek, 2 p.m.

D-III Newton vs. Xenia Christian-WLS winner, 2 p.m.

Lehman at Bethel-Brookville winner, 7 p.m.

Brotkins at Troy Christian-Miami East winner, 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL Brookville D-III Versailles vs. West Liberty-Salem, 1 p.m.

Miami East-Northeastern winner vs. Anna-Dixie winner, 2:30 p.m.

Tippecanoe D-IV Russia vs. Riverside, 1 p.m.

Troy D-IV Lehman vs. Tri-Village-Bethel winner, 6 p.m.

Sacred Heart (6-1) at Bryant (3-3), 1 p.m.

Lafayette (1-4) at Harvard (4-0), 1 p.m.

Cornell (1-3) at Monmouth (NJ) (3-4), 1 p.m.

Richmond (3-3) at Rhode Island (2-5), 1 p.m.

Army (3-4) at Temple (0-6), 1 p.m.

Penn (2-2) at Columbia (0-4), 1:30 p.m.

Bucknell (1-4) at Dartmouth (2-2), 1:30 p.m.

Towson (6-1) at Albany (NY) (1-6), 3:30 p.m.

UMass (1-5) at Buffalo (4-2), 3:30 p.m.

Princeton (3-1) at Brown (3-1), 6 p.m.

Duquesne (3-2) at Robert Morris (2-3), 6 p.m.

Old Dominion (4-2) at Pittsburgh (3-2), 7 p.m.

SOUTH Southern Miss. (0-5) at East Carolina (4-2), Noon SMU (1-4) at Memphis (1-4), Noon South Carolina (5-1) at Tennessee (3-3), Noon Georgia (4-2) at Vanderbilt (3-3), Noon Syracuse (3-3) at Georgia Tech (3-3), 12:30 p.m.

Jacksonville (2-4) at Campbell (1-5), 1 p.m.

Marist (3-3) at Davidson (0-6), 1 p.m.

Carnegie-Mellon (3-3) at Mercer (5-1), 1 p.m.

Delaware St. (2-4) at NC A&T (3-2), 1 p.m.

Hampton (1-5) at Norfolk St. (2-4), 1 p.m.

Chattanooga (4-2) at Elon (2-5), 1:30 p.m.

Appalachian St. (1-5) at Furman (2-4), 1:30 p.m.

Howard (1-5) at Florida A&M (2-4), 2 p.m.

Morgan St. (1-5) at NC Central (3-3), 2 p.m.

VMI (1-5) at Presbyterian (1-4), 2 p.m.

Tennessee St. (6-1) at UT-Martin (4-2), 2 p.m.

Tennessee Tech (3-4) at E. Kentucky (3-3), 3 p.m.

Grambling St. (0-7) at Jackson St. (5-2), 3 p.m.

Kent St. (2-5) at South Alabama (2-3), 3 p.m.

Coastal Carolina (6-0) at Liberty (3-3), 3:30 p.m.

North Texas (3-3) at Louisiana Tech (2-4), 3:30 p.m.

Duke (4-2) at Virginia (2-4), 3:30 p.m.

Wofford (4-2) at W. Carolina (1-6), 3:30 p.m.

Maryland (5-1) at Wake Forest (3-3), 3:30 p.m.

Savannah St. (1-6) at Bethune-Cookman (5-1), 4 p.m.

Austin Peay (0-6) at Murray St. (4-3), 4 p.m.

Arkansas (3-4) at Alabama (6-0), 7 p.m.

LSU (6-1) at Mississippi (3-3), 7 p.m.

SE Louisiana (4-2) at Northwestern St. (3-3), 7 p.m.

Florida St. (5-0) at Clemson (6-0), 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. (5-1) at McNeese St. (5-1), 8 p.m.

MIDWEST UConn (0-5) at Cincinnati (4-2), Noon Purdue (1-5) at Michigan St. (5-1), Noon Minnesota (4-2) at Northwestern (4-2), Noon Navy (3-2) at Toledo (3-3), Noon Florida (4-2) at Missouri (6-0), 12:21 p.m.

Drake (3-3) at Butler (5-2), 1 p.m.

Ohio (4-2) at E. Michigan (1-5), 1 p.m.

Akron (1-6) at Miami (Ohio) (0-6), 1 p.m.

Indiana St. (1-5) at Illinois St. (2-4), 2 p.m.

S. Dakota St. (4-3) at Missouri St. (1-6), 2 p.m.

Morehead St. (2-4) at Valparaiso (1-5), 2 p.m.

Ball St. (6-1) at W. Michigan (0-7), 2 p.m.

SE Missouri (1-5) at E. Illinois (5-1), 2:30 p.m.

N. Illinois (6-0) at Cent. Michigan (3-4), 3 p.m.

N. Dakota St. (6-0) at S. Illinois (4-3), 3 p.m.

Oklahoma (5-1) at Kansas (2-3), 3:30 p.m.

Indiana (3-3) at Michigan (5-1), 3:30 p.m.

Sacramento St. (3-4) at North Dakota (2-4), 3:30 p.m.

Iowa (4-2) at Ohio St. (6-0), 3:30 p.m.

W. Illinois (3-4) at Youngstown St. (6-1), 4 p.m.

South Dakota (3-3) at N. Iowa (4-2), 5 p.m.

San Diego (4-2) at Dayton (4-2), 6 p.m.

Southern Cal (4-2) at Notre Dame (4-2), 7:30 p.m.

Wisconsin (4-2) at Illinois (3-2), 8 p.m.

SOUTHWEST TCU (3-3) at Oklahoma St. (4-1), Noon MVSU (1-5) at Prairie View (4-3), 3 p.m.

Alcorn St. (5-2) at Texas Southern (1-5), 3 p.m.

Southern U. (3-3) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (0-6), 3:30 p.m.

BYU (4-2) at Houston (5-0), 3:30 p.m.

Auburn (5-1) at Texas A&M (5-1), 3:30 p.m.

Nicholls St. (4-2) at Stephen F. Austin (2-4), 4 p.m.

Iowa St. (1-4) at Baylor (5-0), 7 p.m.

Cent. Arkansas (3-3) at Lamar (3-3), 7 p.m.

Georgia St. (0-6) at Texas St. (3-3), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Charleston Southern (6-1) at Colorado (2-3), 2 p.m.

Colorado St. (2-4) at Wyoming (4-2), 2 p.m.

Cal Poly (3-3) at Montana (5-1), 3:30 p.m.

UCLA (5-0) at Stanford (5-1), 3:30 p.m.

UC Davis (2-5) at N. Colorado (1-6), 3:35 p.m.

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Beccas Stiefel races Saturday night

Stiefel closes race season Finishes seventh in Waynesfield feature WAYNESFIELD — On Friday Becca Stiefel traveled to Waynesfield Raceway Park to participate in the Harvest of Sprints event in her 1000cc mini sprint.

Stiefel would encounter transmission troubles during practice but her team was able to resolve those issues prior to the heat race in which she started fourth.

Stiefel would settle in to the fourth position making one pass to finish third in the heat and secure herself a spot in the "A" main feature.

Stiefel would start the feature from the seventh spot of a field of 23 cars.

On the first lap as the field came through turns 3 and 4, the front few cars would get together and Stiefel would avoid trouble and get through the wreck that took out several cars.

On the second restart again the front runners would get together this time flipping several cars and a lot of damage but again Stiefel would find a way to stay out of trouble.

Now with the field lined back up and Stiefel would finding herself still starting seventh and everybody on the outside row moving forward several spots due to cars being knocked out.

On the third start, things finally went well and Stiefel would settle in to seventh and work herself up to fourth place,

when a caution would come out with two laps remaining.

On the restart, Stiefel would find trouble and slide back to seventh and took the checkers to end her 2013 season.

“The clutch was slipping bad in hot laps, but my crew worked their butts off getting the problem resolved before my heat race,” Stiefel said after the race. “In the heat race I just wanted to secure a spot in the feature and that I did.”

Stiefel said the feature race was a challenge.

“In the feature I'm not really sure how I stayed out of trouble but I did,” she said. “and the car was feeling good and I was moving up and holding my own but then the caution came out.

“On the restart the car was not what it was prior to the caution and I tried to hold them off but I was not able to.”

Overall, Stiefel felt good about the 2013 season.

“I'm happy with the season we had finishing second in points and now look at 2014 and see whats in store for me,” she said. “ I want to thank all my fans and sponsors and also those that travel to support me at the track also. I also would like everyone to keep fellow driver Dustin Ingle who was involved in a bad wreck tonight in your prayers and I hope everything turns out OK."

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Tank plant union wants museum to honor vets LIMA (AP) — People who oversee a towering flag monument honoring military veterans plan to add a museum at the northwest Ohio site.

The organizers hope to display part of a beam from the World Trade Center wreckage and dirt from various battlefields dating as far back as the Revolutionary War, The Lima News reported. They also have a flag flown over the Presidential Palace in Baghdad after U.S. troops overtook the city, as well as a near-life-sized model of an Abrams tank, which is built nearby at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center.

The veterans committee for the union representing workers at the manufacturing center is pushing to turn an old utility building into the museum.

Greg Gebolys, chairman of the UAW Local 2075 Veterans Committee, said his target date for the project, which is still in the planning stages, is 2015. The volunteers to work on it are lined up, and the biggest hurdle will be raising money to cover the cost, estimated at $150,000, he said.

“What we want to do is highlight the sacrifices the American soldiers have given so we can have our freedom,” Gebolys said.

The idea is for a museum open on a weekend day or by appointment for student tours or other groups.

It would be near the Freedom Flag, a monument that appears from afar to be the image of a flag but is actually a series of five, 25-foot columns made of engraved bricks honoring veterans.

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Brokers simplify, confuse health exchange shopping Emery P. Dalesio Associated Press

(AP) — This month’s glitchfilled rollout of the health insurance marketplaces created by federal law is a business opportunity for brokers and agents, but regulators warn that it also opened the door for those who would seek to line their pockets by misleading consumers.

New Hampshire’s insurance commissioner sent a cease-anddesist letter last week to an Arizona company he accused of building a website to mislead health care shoppers into thinking it was the official marketplace. The site was taken down Friday.

Regulators in Washington state and Pennsylvania also have told agents to change websites that seemed likely to convince consumers they were connecting to government-run sites.

Connecticut’s insurance department warned agents and brokers this summer that it will take action against agents who mislead consumers or design sites to replicate the state-run exchange.

An organization run by the top insurance regulators in each state recently issued an alert on the potential for scams related to the marketplaces. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners advised consumers that bogus sites have been spotted and warned people to beware of unsolicited calls by people claiming they need personal information to help them enroll in insurance.

Not all insurance agents are licensed to sell insurance on the exchanges, and buying a policy from one of them could leave consumers without the tax subsidies that make the health insurance affordable. Consumers who seek an insurance professional’s help are urged to make sure they know who they’re dealing with.

“We all need to be on the lookout right now. We don’t want consumers to get confused,” said Jessica Waltman of the National Association of Health Underwriters, a trade association representing agents and brokers.

Susan Johnson, the Northwest regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said while

some brokers are passionate about helping, others are seeking to take advantage.

In one such case, a statelicensed broker in suburban Seattle bought the domain name washingtonhealthplanfinder. org and built a website with fewer computer glitches than the state’s new health insurance marketplace, wahealthplanfinder.org. The brokerage’s site told customers: “Welcome to the Exchange!” in big print until the state insurance commissioner asked for changes to avoid confusion.

“You don’t want to go to the wrong portal,” Johnson said.

The insurance broker, Jeff Lindstrom, said he thought he was being creative when he bought 40-50 domain names to bring in new customers. He said he is not trying to confuse the public. Lindstrom’s toll free phone number was also very close to the official call center number, said Stephanie Marquis, a spokeswoman for Washington’s insurance commissioner.

In New Hampshire, newhampshirehealthexchange.com offered free price quotes on insurance, but it wasn’t affiliated with the state or the federal government, which is running New Hampshire’s official online market. The site was taken down days after the state sent a cease-and-desist letter.

“It put itself forward as offering health insurance through the exchange, and consumers are naturally misled by that into thinking it’s the government site,” said Deputy Insurance Commissioner Alex Feldvebel.

The insurance department took action after getting a complaint from a small business owner who called a phone number on the misleading site.

“He called and ended up talkng to someone who said, ‘Unless you make a choice today, the price is going to go up,’” Feldvebel said.

A man who answered the phone declined to comment at the company identified as running the site, Arizona-based Steffen Financial.

In Pennsylvania, a consumer law group this summer tipped off regulators about a licensed broker’s website that featured a logo mimicking the

state seal and telling visitors: “Welcome to the Pennsylvania Health Exchange!” The broker took down PAhealthexchange. com a day after the state insurance department’s enforcement bureau called.

The top online search result using the terms “texas health insurance exchange online” is for Texas Health Insurance Exchange, which sells unsubsidized insurance policies. The broker who owns the website is Scott Thiltgen, a state-licensed insurance agent in Cedar Park, Texas. He said he’s also marketing on his Facebook page, Texas Health Insurance Marketplace.

Thiltgen said he’s not out to confuse consumers.

“It’s basically there to have someone they can talk to that knows about the exchange,” he said.

He said he’s earned the federal certification needed to sell subsidized policies on exchanges, and plans to start once the federal marketplace sorts out its glitches.

“Right now I’ve got a list of people that are ready to sign up for subsidized exchange plans, but can’t,” Thiltgen said.

While regulators have warned consumers, they don’t have any reports of people being cheated.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners and state agencies in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina report no complaints since the marketplaces launched on Oct. 1.

Those with industry experience warn whenever there’s money and confusion, consumers should be alert. Fraudsters saw opportunities when Medicaid Part D prescription drug insurance plans hit the market a decade ago, said Waltman, of the agents and brokers trade association.

“I think that we have to be concerned that this has happened a variety of times in the past,” Waltman said.

The first line of defense is checking whether a broker or agent is licensed by the state insurance department where they operate. Usually that can be done online.

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn’t have a similar option to check whether an agent has

2 charged in Fla. after bullied girl’s suicide Jennifer Kay Associated Press

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — It was a cold-hearted online post that a Florida sheriff said hastened the arrest of two girls, aged 12 and 14, in the bullying-suicide case of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd repeated the older girl’s Facebook comment almost word for word at a news conference Tuesday. “‘Yes, I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself but I don’t give a …’ and you can add the last word yourself,” Judd said.

But in an interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday, a couple identified as the 14-year-old’s parents said their daughter would never write something like that and that the girl’s Facebook page had been hacked.

Of the claim that the 14-year-old’s page was hacked, Judd said Tuesday: “Of course, we don’t believe that.”

Authorities in central Florida said Rebecca was tormented online and at school by as many as 15 girls before she climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant and hurled herself to her death Sept. 9. But the two girls arrested were primarily the ones who bullied Rebecca, the sheriff said. They have been charged with stalking and released to their parents.

Rebecca is one of at least a dozen or so suicides in the past three years that were attributed at least in part to cyberbullying.

The sheriff said they were still investigating the girls, and trying to decide whether the parents should be charged.

“I’m aggravated that the parents aren’t doing what parents should do,” the sheriff said. “Responsible parents take disciplinary action.”

About a year ago, the older girl threatened to fight Rebecca while they were sixth-graders at Crystal Lake Middle School and told her “to drink bleach and die,” the sheriff said. She also convinced the younger girl to bully Rebecca, even though they had been best friends.

The girls repeatedly intimidated Rebecca and called her names, the sheriff said, and at one point, the younger girl even beat up Rebecca at school.

Both girls were charged as juveniles with third-degree felony aggravated stalking. If convicted, it’s not clear how much time, if any, the girls would spend in juvenile detention because they did not have any previous criminal history, the sheriff said.

The sheriff’s office identified the two girls, but The Associated Press generally does not name juveniles charged with crimes.

The bullying began after the 14-year-old girl started dating a boy Rebecca had been seeing, the sheriff said.

A man who answered the phone at the 14-year-old’s Lakeland home said he was her father and told The Associated Press “none of it’s true.”

“My daughter’s a good girl and I’m 100 percent sure that whatever they’re saying about my daughter is not true,” he said.

At their mobile home, a barking pit bull stood guard and no one came outside despite shouts from reporters for an interview.

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Orlando attorney David Hill said detectives may be able to pursue contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge for the parents, if they knew their daughters were bullying Rebecca yet did nothing about it.

But it “will be easy to defend since the parents are going to say, ‘We didn’t know anything about it,’” said Hill, who is not involved in the case.

Before her death, Rebecca changed one of her online screen names to “That Dead Girl” and she messaged a boy in North Carolina: “I’m jumping.” Detectives found some of her diaries at her home, and she talked of how depressed she was about the situation.

Last December, Rebecca was hospitalized for three days after cutting her wrists because of what she said was bullying, according to the sheriff. Later, after Rebecca complained that she had been pushed in the hallway and that another girl wanted to fight her, Rebecca’s mother began home-schooling her in Lakeland, a city of about 100,000 midway between Tampa and Orlando, Judd said.

This fall, Rebecca started at a new school, but the bullying continued online, authorities said.

“Rebecca’s mother went above and beyond to create interventions.

The one issue that Rebecca’s mom said to us was, ‘I just didn’t want to have her not like me, so I wanted to give her access to her cellphone so she could talk to her friends,’” Judd said. “Rebecca’s family is absolutely devastated by this. Quite frankly, we’re all devastated by this.”

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State Briefs Right-to-work backers collect 100K signatures

COLUMBUS (AP) — Supporters of “right-to-work” restrictions in Ohio plan an Election Day petition push after gathering about one-fifth of the signatures they say they’ll need to make the November 2014 ballot.

Ohioans for Workplace Freedom tells The Columbus Dispatch it has gathered 100,000 signatures so far.

Petition drive coordinator Bruce Hull says the group is aiming for 500,000 to assure it has the roughly 385,000 valid signatures required. It hopes to have 10 to 15 circulators in each county on Nov. 5.

The group seeks a constitutional amendment banning mandatory union membership and prohibiting Ohio unions from charging dues to non-members. A pair of similar proposals stalled in the Legislature.

Democrats and unions have opposed the effort, calling it worse than a collective bargaining overhaul overturned by Ohio voters in 2011.

Ky. man drowns while swimming

HENDERSON, Ky. — An Owensboro man drowned while swimming at Newburgh Beach in Henderson County.

Deputy Coroner Donna Ford told the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer that 27-year-old Yoshua Phillips was pulled from the Ohio River at 10 a.m. CDT Sunday.

Ford said rescue crews were called to the river to search for Phillips at about 5 a.m.

Ford said no foul play is suspected. The exact cause of death is being investigated by the state medical examiner’s office in Madisonville.

Pollution limits may be set

COLUMBUS — Ohio is proposing to set limits on the pollution in streams that feeds toxic algae in Lake Erie and other lakes in the state.

The plan would limit the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen that mainly come from farm fertilizers, manure and sewage.

The head of Ohio’s Environmental Protection Agency tell The Columbus Dispatch that specific limits would be set for each Ohio stream. Federal regulators are reviewing the state’s plan.

Toxic blue-green algae blooms in western and central Lake Erie are a growing concern. The algae are blamed for hurting tourism and are a threat to drinking water and fish. The algae also produce toxins that can sicken people and kill pets.

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completed training necessary to work for consumers on a federally run exchange. The federal agency recommends consumers ask agents to provide a copy of the certificate showing they’ve completed training.

Some states that operate their own exchanges plan to identify marketplace-certified brokers, but that has not yet happened in all states, leaving a temporary gap for consumers. More than 2,600 state-licensed brokers cleared to work on New York’s exchange were expected to be listed on its website soon, the state’s health department said.

Still, spreading the word that subsidized health insurance is available and explaining how consumers should buy it leaves a legitimate role for brokers, Waltman said. Brokers earn commissions paid by insurance companies and not consumers.

Some brokers are under pressure to add customers because the commissions they earn on each policy are shrinking as the law rolls out.

Boise, Idaho, insurance agent Tom Shores estimates he’ll need to pick up 3,000 new customers to offset commissions cut to about $9 per policy each month.

Shores estimates a quarter of his brokerage’s 4,000 existing health insurance customers also might learn they’re eligible for Medicaid, the government insurance for low-income people, once they enter their financial data into the exchange system.

“The only way we’re going to make money is to get more people,” Shores said late last month.

The two largest companies on South Carolina’s exchange are paying commissions of about $28 per policy per month for the first year, dropping to $14 a month after that, said John Adair, a broker in Greer, S.C. “The law is complicated and making any sort of insurance purchase can be complicated — which plan to choose, deductibles, co-insurance, co-pays, network of providers,” said Adair, who built a website and licensed his business in states nationwide to capture new customers.

“With what we’re seeing with the federal exchange, and some of the glitches, the agents themselves are very much in high demand.”

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COLUMBUS — Ohio’s gas prices have risen closer to the national average after dipping during the second week of the partial government shutdown.

The state average was $3.30 for a gallon of regular gas in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and WEX Inc. That’s up eight cents from last week but still well below the cost a year ago, when the average was $3.64.

The national average was about $3.34 Monday. It’s down a penny from a week ago and 45 cents less than the average at this time last year.

If the budget impasse and government shutdown drag on, it’s expected to decrease demand for energy and lead to lower fuel prices. That would benefit drivers but also signal a weak economy.

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For Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Today the only Full Moon in your sign all year is taking place. Naturally, this provokes conflict with partners and close friends. You might want to bite your tongue. Hmm? TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Today's Full Moon might create some tension with co-workers bosses, customers and people you interact with while you're working. Patience is your only ally.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Disputes with others, especially in group situations, might take place today. Your relations with females will be particularly challenging. It's the Full Moon!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The Moon is your ruler, which means you feel every Full Moon. Today, however, the Full Moon makes you feel torn between the demands of home and family versus the demands of your job and external world.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is an accident-prone day for you, because of the tension of the Full Moon. An accident doesn't have to happen; however, emotional upsets and distractions could be hazardous.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Double-check financial matters today, especially with banks, because with a Full Moon, something tends to come to a head. ("I have no money!")

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) The only Full Moon directly opposite your sign that occurs all year is taking place today. This is why you might feel tension with others. This is also why you want to hide.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Be patient with co-workers, customers and also with people who might be dealing with health-related issues for you. Today's Full Moon can be exasperating. Chill out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Parents need to be patient with children today because they, too, feel the increased emotionality of the Full Moon. Likewise, romantic partners must be patient with each other.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Do whatever you can to smooth over family troubles today, which are no doubt provoked by the Full Moon tension today. Be tolerant and listen to others.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You have a strong need to communicate to others today; nevertheless, you feel blocked. After the Full Moon peaks today, it will be easier for you to speak.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Money concerns are likely today because of the Full Moon, which might aggravate certain situations. Wait until tomorrow to see how the dust settles.

YOU BORN TODAY You are a natural leader and often play an important role in the lives of those around you. You have many interests that you pursue, some of which you will excel at and perfect. You are fun-loving and always attracted to where the action is. You have a fine mind.

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In ‘Letter 44,’ a secret threatens a US president Matt Moore Associated Press

Secrets abound in America, but none on the scale as those revealed in the pages of Charles Soule’s “Letter 44,” a series where humanity finds the stars hold not just ambition, but a threat kept hidden.

The first issue of the series published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press Inc. was released Wednesday. It’s illustrated by Alberto Jimenez

Alburquerque, colored by Guy Major, lettered by Shawn DePasquale and edited by Jill Beaton.

Soule says the new series is a measured essay on the human spirit, and the quest for knowledge knowing that there is life up there and it may not be friendly.

The story centers on President Stephen Blades who is told about the existence of an alien presence kept secret for years by his predecessor. It’s in the asteroid belt between Mars

and Jupiter, it’s unclassifiable, it won’t communicate and it may be girding for war.

From there, it’s one truth after another and it changes everything for Blades as a leader, citizen, father and person.

Soule said idea sprang forth in early 2011 about the time “when it was pretty clear that the last space shuttle mission was going to happen soon. The U.S. as a space power was going to change, dramatically.”

Inspired by that change, he was walking along the beach in Cape May, N.J., and pondering what it would take for America, among others, to get back to the stars.

“I wanted to write the story about what we could do and, if we really need to, could we get back up there?

What would be the incentive? In the 1960s, it was the Cold War and the space race,” Soule said. “What could take us up there?

The idea of aliens being

up there, and then it all fell into place.”

And so it does, with Soule’s story focusing not just on Blades and the political ramifications of knowing what’s up there, but also the crew of the spaceship Clarke, which is poised to make the first, human contact with whatever is there.

Soule said the pieces of both plots will come together, over the course of the series, and “everything will make sense,” he says. “Even some of the weird stuff.”

Need motivation? There’s an app for that Anne Flaherty Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever suspect you do more housework than your spouse? Or that certain tasks at work raise your blood pressure? Maybe you wonder why you’re sneezing more lately, or if carbs are really what is making you tired after lunch?

Turns out, there’s an app or gadget to test all of that.

Advancements in wearable body sensors, mobile applications and other gadgets mean that nearly everything we do can be captured, logged and analyzed. And everyday consumers are jumping at the chance to conduct their own experiments — tracking sleep, caffeine intake, kids’ studying habits, household chores, even whether a baby is nursing more frequently on Mom’s left breast versus her right.

“I don’t know if I’d use the word ‘obsessed,’” said Ernesto Ramirez, a self-tracking devotee who helped to organize a two-day conference on the subject last week in San Francisco.

Speakers at past “Quantified Self” conferences have included a man who developed his own app to see if he could walk every street in Manhattan and a dad who used trackers on his kids to monitor chores.

“I think there’s an overall trend toward curiosity and proving knowledge of one’s self in the world,” Ramirez said.

When Tim Davis of Beaver, Pa., tipped the scales at 318 pounds two years ago, he bought a Fitbit gadget to track his physical activity and the Lose It! app on his phone to track calories.

He bought a Wi-Fi-enabled scale that published his daily weight on his Twitter feed and turned to other apps to track his pulse, blood pressure, daily moods and medications. At one point, Davis said he was using 15 different apps and gadgets, which he said helped him drop 64 pounds by that following year.

“It’s the second-by-second, minute-by-minute changes that really did it,” said Davis, 39. “If you’re the type of person who likes gadgets and devices and to collect metrics, you’re also the kind of person who does not like gaps in data.”

A pediatrician in Kansas City, Mo., Natasha Burgert, said apps that track newborn feedings and sleep patterns have become wildly popular among her patients and she now encourages parents to send her the data before their appointments.

“In the first few weeks, parents are so tired. It’s really hard for them to give you objective data,” Burgert said.

Public health advocates and researchers say tracking technology could be used to encourage people to use less gasoline, conserve water or drive slower by giving them real-time feedback on their daily habits.

It also could expose causes of medical conditions that baffle doctors.

HopeLab, based in Redwood, Calif., is one nonprofit looking to harness technology to improve health. It has developed a $30 movement-tracking device for kids called a “Zamzee,” and a website that rewards activity with online points and badges.

HopeLab has developed video

games for young cancer patients that lets them pretend to blast cancer cells. Researchers there say their studies have shown that the game improved patients’ moods and encouraged them to stick with treatment.

“When you give people a sense of autonomy, a sense of agency, that can actually be very transformative to their health,” said HopeLab spokesman Richard Tate.

Ramirez said he thinks the next step will be embedding sensors in nearly everything a person encounters throughout the day and linking that information together. Think of a car that won’t start if you’ve consumed too much alcohol or a light bulb that changes colors when it’s time to go to bed.

Industry watchers say these kinds of data-driven apps are finding their place in a market that has struggled to profit from advertising.

Raj Aggarwal, CEO of Localytics, a Boston-based analytics firm, says mobile games are still by far the most popular among consumers, but their fan base can be fickle. If a data-logging app is useful enough, it can convince consumers that they should pay for upgraded subscriptions or premium services that earn the developers money.

One mobile app called “GymPact” has found a novel way of making money off its consumers’ data. The app lets people bet against one another as to whether they will go to the gym. The non-exercisers have to pay the exercisers, with GymPact taking a cut.

But what becomes of all this

data?

In theory, most apps let you delete your information. But programs such as the FitBit reserve the right to keep and analyze your information, and possibly pass along the data to third parties to make sure the program works as promised. What would happen if these tech companies decide to package and sell all that data? Could a person ever be denied a job or life insurance, for example, if their mobile app showed they tried but never quit smoking?

Poorly encrypted data or lax privacy controls could become a problem, too.

In 2011, some FitBit users were surprised to see their sexual activity logs pop up in Google searches; that’s something FitBit’s privacy settings allowed at the time unless a person knew to opt out. FitBit has since modified its policy to keep hidden more sensitive data unless someone configures his or her account specifically to share it.

As for Davis and his fight to lose weight, he said his biggest mistake was letting his FitBit gadget lose its charge last year.

Without the continual feedback, and perhaps a mobile app to remind him, Davis’ motivation waned and his weight climbed to 292 pounds.

But Davis insists he won’t stay that way for long. He has persuaded his family members and coworkers to wear self-measuring devices, sparking a friendly rivalry.

“Keep an eye on me,” he said of the months ahead. “I think you’ll see a difference.”

the far right flank that hails Cruz and Lee for what they call a principled, courageous stand.

Cruz, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, has seized the headlines and collected nearly $800,000 for his political action committee in the past three months.

“I think Ted Cruz and Mike Lee did exactly the job that those of us who helped them get elected” wanted them to do, said Drew Ryun of the Madison Project, one of the first conservative organizations to back Cruz last year in his long-shot Senate bid.

Among tea party Republicans, Cruz’s popularity has climbed, from a 47 percent favorability rating in July to 74 percent, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday. Nontea party Republicans see him in a less favorable light, with his unfavorable numbers up to 31 percent.

Among Senate Republicans, Cruz and Lee are near pariahs, publicly slammed for a tactic that has taken a heavy toll on the GOP’s standing and privately criticized for helping outside groups targeting Republican incumbents before next year’s congressional elections.

The latest Washington PostABC News poll showed threequarters of Americans disapproving of the way congressional Republicans were handling the budget.

“What did I say three weeks ago, what did I say a month ago, it was a fool’s errand,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waving a copy of the latest poll for reporters clustered in the Senate basement earlier this week. “I knew that it was going to be a disaster and it is a disaster.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a

fierce opponent of the health care law, called the effort to unravel the law a “fantasy.”

Compromise has never been part of the vocabulary for Lee, who was elected in 2010, and Cruz, a member of the Senate for some 10 months. The two have been relegated to the sidelines during the Senate negotiations.

Neither was part of a bipartisan group that jump-started talks.

The two even skipped Tuesday’s weekly closed-door Republican luncheon.

Further riling the GOP is the reality that shutdown and the default threat have overshadowed the problem-plagued rollout of the health care markets on Oct. 1 despite Republican efforts to highlight the programs’ woes.

In private, Republicans have been dismissive and confrontational with Cruz, according to lawmakers and congressional aides.

At one meeting, Cruz presented his own poll numbers and argued that Republicans weren’t suffering despite the overwhelming evidence suggesting they were, prompting eye-rolling from his colleagues.

At a subsequent meeting, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., asked whether Cruz would disavow efforts by the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group founded by former South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint that has been running ads in states with GOP incumbents, challenging them to support the “defund Obamacare” quest.

McConnell, who faces similar ads in his state as he seeks a sixth term next year, joined with Ayotte in questioning Cruz, who was noncommittal.

More recently, the Texas senator insisted that Senate Republicans could force a vote on

a House-passed bill to ease the pain of the shutdown for military veterans, seemingly unaware of Senate rules. He didn’t give a convincing explanation how that could be done, considering that the Republican Senate minority has no power to set the agenda.

Cruz appeared to be resting his hopes on a strategic stumble by Reid, a 26-year Senate veteran.

Yet for all the internal backbiting, Cruz stands as the Teflon tea partyer, winning over conservatives.

At the Values Voter Summit this past weekend, an annual gathering of social conservatives and evangelicals, participants echoed Cruz and Lee’s determination not to back down.

Lee brought activists to their feet when he said he was still working with Cruz to strip money from the law.

“We make no apologies. We stand with you,” Lee said, drawing loud applause.

In imploring conservatives to remain vigilant, Cruz quoted the 1995 film “The Usual Suspects,” and Keyser Soze’s assessment that the “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.” Cruz’ variation: “the greatest trick the left has ever played is to convince conservatives we cannot win.”

Cruz won the organization’s straw poll on Saturday with 42 percent, well ahead of former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon.

Dennis Bussey of Richmond, Va., said many conservatives are searching for a new standardbearer and he was impressed by Cruz’s reception.

“We’re looking for someone — maybe not a hero but maybe we do need a hero,” he said.

Fool’s errand or heroic stand? GOP on Cruz, Lee Donna Cassata Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fool’s errand or heroic stand?

The bipartisan compromise on Wednesday to avoid a financial default and end a 16-day partial government shutdown cast a spotlight on Republican Sens.

Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, who had precipitated the crises with their demand that President Barack Obama gut his 3-year-old health care law.

Other Republicans who repeatedly had warned the two about their quixotic move took little pleasure in saying “I-told-you-so.”

The final deal hardly nicked the health care law, while the shutdown and near default left the GOP reeling.

“He’s the one who got us into this. He had no strategy. And it caused us to waste 16 days and get ourselves killed in the polls,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said of Cruz. “All for a guy who was fraudulent from the start.”

With a heavy dose of gallows humor, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Republicans’ poll “numbers have gone down, Obamacare’s somehow mysteriously have gone up. And other than that, this has been great.”

Cruz, a freshman who engaged in a 21-hour talkathon and egged on House Republicans for the fight, was unapologetic.

“This battle will continue to provide real relief for the millions of Americans who are hurting, who right now still don’t have a voice in the United States Senate,” said Cruz, surrounded by a pack of reporters.

His defiance has been wildly cheered by outside conservative groups that have made money on the months-long dispute and

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EU praises Iran nuclear talks; more talks in Nov. George Jahn Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — High-stakes nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers adjourned on an upbeat note Wednesday, with the European Union’s top diplomat calling them “very important.” Iran’s foreign minister spoke of a possible “new phase” that would ease a decade of tensions over fears that his country wanted a nuclear bomb.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton did not go into details on the substance of the talks. But she read a statement endorsed by both Iran and the six countries, calling the talks

“substantive and forward looking.”

Confirming Iranian media reports, the statement said the two sides will meet again in Geneva on Nov. 7-8.

Ashton, who convened the talks, spoke of a “very intensive and I think a very important meeting.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who headed the Iranian side, said he hoped the results achieved over two days of talks ending Wednesday “will hopefully be the beginning of a new phase” in relations between Iran and the six powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and

Germany.

“We have reached a serious stage in the talks,” he told reporters.

The lack of immediate details on what was achieved, however, made it difficult to evaluate the amount of progress made in what has been a decade of deadlocked negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran says it’s not interested in having nuclear weapons. Its proposal Tuesday to the six powers focused on their demands that Iran’s uranium enrichment program and other activities that could be used to make nuclear arms be stopped or reduced.

Iran wants painful international sanctions to be lifted in exchange for possible concessions it had been previously unwilling to consider. Those could be increased international monitoring of its nuclear program and the scaling back of its uranium enrichment plans — a potential pathway to nuclear arms and the centerpiece of its impasse with the West.

Tehran insists it has no interest in weapons production. Still, it has resisted both enticements and sanctions from world powers designed to force it into ending uranium enrichment and other activities that could be used to make

weapons.

But negotiations now appear to be driven by the new wind generated since reformist President Hassan Rouhani was elected in June.

A member of one of the delegations at the talks said the new Iranian plan offered reductions in both the levels of uranium enrichment being conducted by Iran and the number of centrifuges doing the enrichment — a key demand of the six powers.

An Iranian official said any plan would be implemented in three stages, lasting from six months to a year.

Both men demanded

anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss the confidential plan.

Iranian state TV, which closely reflects government views, said Tehran offered to discuss uranium enrichment levels.

The report also said Iran proposed adopting the additional protocols of the U.N.’s nuclear treaty — effectively opening its nuclear facilities to wider inspection and monitoring — if the West recognizes Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

But the Iranian official said any acceptance of the protocols would be one of the last steps in implementing the plan.

Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missing Mari Yamaguchi

A woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) downriver to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan’s main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

More than 350 homes were damaged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said.

The typhoon, which stayed offshore in the Pacific, had sustained winds of 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour), with gusts up to 180 kph (110 mph), before it was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening. The storm was moving northeast, off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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TOKYO (AP) — A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.

Hardest hit from Typhoon Wipha was Izu Oshima island, which is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo.

Rescuers found 16 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town officials said. Dozens of homes were destroyed, and about 45 people were missing.

(30 inches) of rain fell on Izu Oshima during a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning, the most since record-keeping began in 1991.

The rainfall was particularly heavy before dawn, the kind in which “you can’t see anything or hear anything,” Japan Meteorological Agency official Yoshiaki Yano said.

Izu Oshima is the largest island in the Izu chain southwest of Tokyo. It has one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, Mount Mihara, and is a major base for growing camellias. About 8,200 people live on the island, which is accessible by ferry from Tokyo.

Yutaka Sagara, a 59-year-old sushi chef on the east coast of the island, said he spent a sleepless night with colleagues at their

company housing. Their hillside apartment barely escaped a mudslide that veered off to the side.

Later he found out the mudslide crushed several houses as it flowed to the sea.

“People on this island are somewhat used to heavy rainstorms, but this typhoon was beyond our imagination,” he said by phone.

Sagara came down to his seaside sushi restaurant on foot, wading through knee-deep mud, to check things out and make sushi for rescue workers.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking to Parliament on Wednesday, vowed to do the utmost to rescue the missing and support the survivors, while trying to restore infrastructure and public services as quickly as

possible. Japanese troops were deployed to the island, as well as Tokyo’s “hyper-rescue” police with rescue dogs.

As a precaution, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, released tons of rainwater that were being held behind protective barriers around storage tanks for radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator, said only water below an allowable level of radioactivity was released, which Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority allowed Tuesday. During an earlier typhoon in September, rainwater spilled out before it could be tested.

Associated Press writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.

Kors hunger campaign goes big — Times Square big Samantha Critchell AP Fashion Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kors knows a few things about getting his message out. His ads, fashion shows and even his favorite models and socialites pretty much ooze the jet-setter lifestyle he embodies. On Wednesday,

however, he embarks on a new campaign: World Food Day. Of course, it will have the slick fashion touch. There will be user-generated content from shoppers, celebrities and activists on 12 of the largest billboards in Times Square; content that will be replicated on the WatchHungerStop.com

website. Kors aims to have 10,000 to 20,000 images go up during the event.

Models Lily Aldridge and Chanel Iman will be wearing their Watch Hunger Stop T-shirts, stores will be selling the fundraising watch that Kors designed, and a God’s Love We Deliver gala event will be held to bestow the Michael Kors Award for

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“So, we thought, ‘How do you make a lot of noise?’

Times Square, of course, and the Internet. So we’re using social media to bring everyone to Times Square, where they can help spread the word,” he said.

There’s no irony, or there shouldn’t be, that a fashion designer is tackling hunger after years of headlines about fashion’s too-skinny models.

“They’re two completely separate issues,” Kors said.

“The debate over skinny models has absolutely nothing to do with trying to feed starving children in the developing world. People know the difference.”

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“God’s Love had this seemingly simple mission of delivering nutritious meals to people too ill to leave their homes. I saw what a difference that small act made, both to those receiving the food and to those who helped prepare and deliver the meals,” Kors said.

“So when I was looking to expand the scope of our philanthropy, hunger seemed a natural cause to commit to. I was also drawn to the direct nature of fighting hunger — I’m a resultsoriented person, and this is a problem we can affect.”

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It was the year to go big on World Food Day, Kors said, thanks to his rapidly growing company that enjoyed a successful IPO in 2011 and earnings that nearly tripled in the last fiscal year. He said the company’s philanthropic efforts should grow, too, while focusing on a specific platform, and he couldn’t ask for a better partner than the United Nations World Food Programme.

His connection to World Food Day goes back to the 1980s and God’s Love We Deliver, a New York-based organization that delivers meals to those in need.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The new Vatican No. 2 was a no-show Tuesday at the ceremony to take over the reins of the Holy See administration, after being hospitalized for urgent surgery on the day he was to have begun charting a new course for the troubled Vatican bureaucracy.

Pope Francis told the assembled guests at Tuesday’s handover ceremony that Archbishop Pietro Parolin had to undergo minor but urgent surgery and would be out for several weeks. Parolin was hospitalized while visiting his family in Italy’s Veneto region, the Vatican said without providing details.

The day was supposed to have been a ceremonial and very real changing of the guard from the retiring Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who left his post after seven tumultuous years in which he was blamed for many of the gaffes and problems of the papacy of Benedict XVI. Francis welcomed Parolin “in absentia” as he thanked Bertone for his service, noting the difficulties and “thorns” that Bertone had endured.

“I want to thank you for the courage and patience with which you lived through the setbacks that you had to confront,” Francis said. “There were a lot.”

Bertone’s scandal-marred term climaxed with the 2012 theft of Benedict’s papers by his butler and subsequent publication in a blockbuster book. Based on how poorly Bertone was portrayed in the leaked documents and from the butler’s own testimony, the leaks were clearly aimed at discrediting Bertone by airing the Vatican’s dirty laundry.

But many other problems of Benedict’s reign, from his rehabilitation of a Holocaustdenying bishop to the Vatican’s initial, flatfooted response to the 2010 explosion of clerical sex abuse cases, were blamed on Bertone’s administrative shortcomings.

A canon lawyer from Genoa, Bertone

had no diplomatic experience when he was named the Vatican’s top diplomat in 2006 by Benedict, who clearly wanted a faithful servant as his No. 2 administrator. Bertone had served as then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s deputy when both were concerned with doctrinal issues at the Vatican’s orthodoxy watchdog.

In his final weeks on the job, the 78-yearold Bertone made clear he didn’t appreciate the finger-pointing, telling reporters last month that he had been victim of a “plot by crows and vipers” to bring him down.

While admitting to some problems, he said overall he judged his tenure “positively.”

In fact in his speech Tuesday Bertone outlined the highlights of his — and Benedict’s — term, praising improved relations with Jews and even Muslims after Benedict initially riled the Muslim world with a 2006 speech in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor as characterizing some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as “evil and inhuman.”

Bertone said Benedict “suffered profoundly” from the church sex abuse scandal and pushed through new laws to fight it.

New popes usually bring with them a new secretary of state, so a changing of the guard under Francis is altogether to be expected, particularly given the mandate given Francis by the cardinals who elected him, to reform the dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy. What’s remarkable is that Francis had decided on Parolin just days after being elected, according to one of Francis’ closest advisers, Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga.

Francis and Parolin had only met once before, when Parolin, 58, was deputy foreign minister under Bertone — a job he held until he was sent to be the Holy See’s ambassador to Venezuela in 2009.

“The truth is that I haven’t spoken much with him and I think that when I have the chance, I’ll ask him why he named me,” Parolin told Venezuela’s El Universal newspaper.