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WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up. She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, working with the disabled. But she couldn’t land anything else, either, not even a job interview at a telephone call center. Until she feels confident enough to send out resumes again, she’ll get by on food stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis. “I’m not proud of it,” says Baebler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. “The only way I’m

able to sustain any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on.” Baebler’s frustrating experience has become all too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they’ve given up on the job market. Older Americans have retired early. AP PHOTO/STEVE HELBER, FILE Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others A help wanted sign hangs in a window at a have suspended their job hunt until the barber shop in Richmond, Va., March 29. Many discouraged Americans are giving up • See DISCOURAGED on A2 the job hunt.

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Young woman resilient in coping with condition Trojan worked to increase awareness of rare disease BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@civitasmedia.com The mantra “pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” could not ring any more true for 20-year-old Hailey McNamara, who has faced an excruciating burning pain in her left knee for almost a decade. “I live my life as though I don’t have it. That’s what I have to do,” she said. In 2004, McNamara injured her leg in a paddle boat accident. Mysteriously, the next morning she woke up with a horrible pain in her left leg, as well as a mosquito bite. After seeing five different doctors, she was finally diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

TROY (RSD), which is a chronic condition characterized by intense burning pain, skin sensitivity, sweating and swelling. The injury is considered vastly disproportionate to the pain inflicted, which McNamara described as “like a lit match inside my leg constantly burning” — a pain exacerbated by something as simple as wearing pants or a breeze on her legs while wearing a skirt. In addition to persistent pain, McNamara also has intense flareups. Ironically, walking too much can cause a flareup, while the solution to a flareup is often to walk or rub the pain away — which is extremely painful. The ceaseless pain coupled

with worries about the future was a heavy burden for McNamara intially. “I definitely went through a lot of depression. I thought, ‘I’m going to be in a wheelchair, and I’m not going to get through this,’” said McNamara, who lives in Troy with her parents, Carlene and Timothy, and siblings T.J., 13, and Elaina, 11. Carlene said it was difficult to watch her daughter go through so much agonizing pain, which often left McNamara in a heap of tears. When her daughter could not bring herself to move her leg — thus inflicting more pain — during a flareup, she or her husband Timothy would. “It’s hard because you’re causing this pain to your child and she’s crying and bawling and you feel awful, but you know you’re helping,” Carlene said. “I would also wonder, ‘Will she be a normal adult? Will she be able to be a • See DISEASE on A2

Troy residents offered their blessings for the city and reflected on the role of God in everyday life during the 33rd annual mayor’s prayer breakfast at First Place Christian Center on Saturday morning. Mayor Michael Beamish called the tradition an opportunity for individuals “to unite in prayer and spiritual fellowship.” “Let us pray that this community continues to be that great place to live, to work, to play and to raise our families in Christian love and respect,” he said. During the litany, Troy City Council President Marty Baker asked attendees to offer their prayers for city administrators and all those living in Troy. “Blessed are those in our government, the mayor of our city, and for all those in administrative authority. Grant them wisdom and grace in the exercise of their duties,” she said. Pastor Phil Elmore of Fields of Grace Worship Center in Covington spoke about the declining role of religion in society and on a personal level. Individuals tend to overlook God during times of prosperity while seeking God only during tough times, such as following a frightening medical diagnosis or after the Sandy Hook tragedy. “It’s a little more difficult to • See BREAKFAST on A2

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for the wealthy. That’s a mix, he contends, that will provide long-term deficit reduction without harming the economy. In his first comments about the 2014 spending blueprint he’s set to release

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mother? Will she be able to hold down a job?’ When she was first diagnosed, we didn’t know what kind of life she would have. And as a parent, it’s hard to watch that.” Even watching her daughter play in a high school basketball game was an emotional experience. “All the other parents are out there cheering, but I’m crying because I didn’t think she’d ever walk again, let alone run,” Carlene tearfully recalled. (McNamara encourages all those with CRPS to keep active despite the pain, as staying fit can keep the condition from escalating. Should the ailment transgress regardless, McNamara said she would at least feel fortunate that she lived the early years of her life fully.) Because the condition is STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER uncommon and somewhat Hailey McNamara, left, and her mother, Carlene mysterious in nature, McNamara take a walk together on the Great Miami McNamara said kids — and River levee Thursday in Troy. even faculty members — in high school often didn’t legislative bodies about the sensitive to stress, whether believe her. She attended importance of passing the personally or professionally, as well as to noise. But she’s Troy Christian, Newton measure. After several years, the transcended the ailment, and Upper Valley Career Center for a period of time. Complex Regional Pain receiving her nursing aid “Especially when I was Syndrome Education Act license and just recently younger, it was really hard,” was finally passed, promot- getting hired at Versailles McNamara said. “I was ing public awareness by Health Care Center. McNamara and Carlene ridiculed and made fun of: establishing the month of ‘You’re just lying. There’s November as Complex agree that the grace of God nothing wrong with you. Regional Pain Syndrome helped their family get You’re doing this for atten- Awareness Month and through the darkest of days tion.’” She thanks her best requiring the department of following the diagnosis. “There was a lot of friend Julia Wood for stick- health to include information about the condition on reaching out through ing by her. prayer and the church comTroy Christian’s school its website. McNamara does not use munity (at Vandalia Baptist nurse eventually rounded up the students to explain drugs to treat CRPS, as the Temple). You can’t get in very graphic terms the medication she took shortly through something like pain she was experiencing, after her diagnosis left her that without it,” Carlene said. which she treated with an feeling lethargic. Despite all she has gone “It numbed the pain, but epidural for several days. But after a few months, it numbed me,” she said. through, McNamara says McNamara resolved to “With the medicine I was she will remain positive. “I’ve been very fortunate. focus her energy on getting on, I was literally a walking the Ohio Legislature to pass zombie. I almost failed sixth I’m definitely one of the lucky ones,” she said. “I’ve a bill, Senate Bill 40, to grade.” The past eight years got my disease under conincrease awareness of and education about the dis- have been a roller coaster of trol; it’s manageable. I’m ease. On several occasions, emotion, with CRPS mak- not going to let it control my McNamara spoke in front of ing McNamara especially life.”

employment landscape brightens. Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks. It isn’t supposed to be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force those who have a job or are looking for one fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of workingage adults in the labor force what’s called the participation rate fell to 63.3 percent last month. It’s the lowest such figure since May 1979. The falling participation rate tarnished the only apparent good news in the jobs report the Labor Department released Friday: The unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 in February. People without a job who stop looking for one are no longer counted as unem-

ployed. That’s why the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in March despite weak hiring. If the 496,000 who left the labor force last month had still been looking for jobs, the unemployment rate would have risen to 7.9 percent in March. “Unemployment dropped for all the wrong reasons,” says Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group. “It dropped because more workers stopped looking for jobs.” The participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in 2000, reflecting an influx of women into the work force. It’s been falling steadily ever since. Part of the drop reflects the baby boom generation’s gradual move into retirement. But such demographics aren’t the whole answer. Even Americans of prime working age 25 to 54 years old are dropping out of the workforce. Their participation rate fell to 81.1 percent last month, tied with November for the lowest since December 1984.

Breakfast ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 serve God when you’re in a good place. We’re so shallow that when everything is going good — all peaches and cream, so to speak — we think, ‘Who needs God?’” he said. “But the first time you get bad news, everybody turns to God.” People tend to attribute positive times in their life to working hard or overcoming strife, he said, but in the face of tragedy, they find themselves feeling helpless. Seeking faith in God provides a sense of comfort, but that connection with Him should not be limited to only difficult times, Elmore stressed. The morning also included an invocation by

Pastor Mark Messmore, a reading by Stan Kriesberg and a benediction by Pastor Lauren Allen. Music was provided by Grace Baptist Church, worship director Caleb Ingram and worship team members. Chairing the event were Tami BairdGanley, Penny and Jack Hoekstra and Marty and Steve Baker, the latter who was unable to attend. included Sponsors Baird Funeral Home, Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Grilliot Insurance Agency, Koverman Dickerson Insurance, Nolan, Giere & Company, Patty Rose, CFP-Allstate, Trojan Florist, The Troy Foundation and an anonymous donor. Ording’s catered the breakfast.

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• BREAKFAST SET: • DINE TO DONATE: Breakfast: The Pleasant Dine at Troy’s Los Pitayos, Hill VFW Post 6557, 7578 a family Mexican restauC o m m u n i t y rant, and 15 percent of the W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer made-tobill will be donated to the Calendar order breakfast from 8-11 Troy Literacy Council. a.m. Everything is a la Diners must have a flier at CONTACT US carte. the time of order, and one • CREATURE FEAcan be received by emailTURE: Brukner Nature ing jeberly@who.rr.com. Center will present • BIRTHDAY CELECall Melody “Reptiles” from 2-3 p.m. at BRATION: The American Vallieu at BNC. With 47 species of Legion Post No. 586, Tipp 440-5265 to reptiles found throughout City, will recognize April, Ohio the chance of May and June birthdays list your free encountering one during with a carry in at 6 p.m. calendar everyday activities is good. Everyone is invited items.You Increase those chances by whether their birthday is attending the Creature in one of these months or can send Feature as participants not. Participants are your news by e-mail to discuss, observe and even asked to bring their mvallieu@civitasmedia.com. favorite dish to share, and touch common reptiles found in our area, includpaper products, plastic ing the largest snake in the ware and a cake will be state, the black rat snake, provided. Coffee will be which can grow to more than 100 inches available. in length. This event is free and open to • KIDS LEGO NIGHT: Students in the public. first through fifth grades are invited to • PET TALENT SHOW: A pet talent the Troy-Miami County Public Library show will be at 3 p.m. at Lost Creek from 6:30-7:30 p.m. to enjoy creating Reserve, 2645 E. State Route 41, Troy, something special with Lego bricks. Call sponsored by Girl Scout Troop No. 30681. 339-0502 to register. Audience members should bring lawn • ORAL HISTORY: The first of the chairs or blankets for seating. three spring oral history recording ses• BREAKFAST SET: The Legion sions will be at 1 p.m. at the West Milton Riders of The American Legion Post No. Municipal Building on South Miami 586, Tipp City, will prepare an all-you-can- Street. The panel will be Kenny and eat breakfast for $6 from 8-11 a.m. Items Lucille Kauffman, Nellie Besecker, available will be eggs, bacon, sausage, Bernadene Bridenbaugh, Pat Miller, sausage gravy, biscuits, French toast, Norma Helstern, Sally Lutz, Hilda hash browns, toast, waffles, pancakes, Spitler, Rita Ressler and Evelyn cinnamon rolls, juices and fruit. Bowman, discussing their experiences • NATURE PHOTOS: A World Apart: as M-U school bus drivers. The public Nature Photography by Ray Mueller will is invited to bring pictures and other be offered at 2:30 p.m. at Aullwood. memorabilia to share, as audience parMueller will share stories and photographs ticipation is encouraged. For more of the avian friends that live nearby. information, call Barb at (937) 6986559 or Susie at (937) 698-6798. • FAMILY MOVIE: Family movie MONDAY night will be offered at 6 p.m. at the Oakes-Beitman Memorial Library. The • WILD JOURNEYS: Join Jim movie “Brave,” the story of a princess Beckman at 7 p.m. at Brukner Nature who defies custom to save her kingCenter as he take participants through dom from a beastly curse, will be four biomes in Brazil, from the worldshown. Popcorn and bottled water will famous Cristalino Lodge in Amazonia, be provided and participants may bring to the Pantanal, to the Cerrado savanother snacks. For more information, call na, which covers 1.2 million square miles, and finally to the Atlantic Forests. the library at (937) 676-2731. Civic agendas Come enjoy this country, exploring its • The village of West Milton Council breathtaking scenery, amazing wildlife will meet at 7:30 p.m. in council chamand abundant bird life through photobers. graphs and stories. The program is free for BNC members and $2 per person for WEDNESDAY non-members. • CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty Listeners, a group of women who get • STORY HOUR: Milton-Union Public together on Mondays from 1-2:30 p.m. Library story hours at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 at the Milton-Union Public Library, to lis- p.m. Story hour is open to children ages 3-5 and their caregiver. Programs include ten to an audio book and work on projpuppet shows, stories and crafts. Contact ects, will meet. It may be needlework, making greeting cards or another hobby. the library at (937) 698-5515 for details about the weekly themes. • BUDDY READING: Buddy reading • TAX HELP: AARP volunteer tax at the Milton-Union Public Library will be preparation assistance for retirees will be from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The program for offered from 6-8 p.m. at the Milton-Union elementary-aged students is designed to help increase reading skills and com- Public Library. The volunteers accept clients on a first come, first served basis. prehension. An adult or teenage volunBring photo ID and Social Security numteer will be available to aid students ber. with their reading goals. • HOME SCHOOL Q&A: Parents of • BOOK DISCUSSION: The Miltonhome school students are cordially invited Union Public Library book discussion group will meet at noon to discuss “Turn to attend a Home school Question & Answer Session at the Troy-Miami County of Mind,” by Alicia LaPlante. For more Public Library from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Several information, call (937) 698-5515. home school mothers will be on hand to • SALAD AND POTATOES: The answer questions and share experiences. American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp Come and bring a friend! No registration City, will offer a salad bar for $3.50 or a is necessary. For more information, call potato bar for $3.50 or both for $6 from Olive at 339-0502, Ext. 123. 6-7:30 p.m. • OPEN HOUSE: The Troy Lions Club • KIDS LEGO NIGHT: Students in will hold an open house from 7-8 p.m. at first through fifth grades are invited to the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, Troy, to the Troy-Miami County Public Library explain a variety of volunteer opportunifrom 6:30-7:30p.m. to enjoy creating something special with Lego bricks. Call ties through the organization. Refreshments will be served. For more 339-0502 to register. information, see the Lions website at • POET’S CORNER: Do you write poetry? Bring any poems you have writ- www.lionsdist13e.org/troy or call (937) 335-7345. ten to share and discuss with others • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis during Poet’s Corner at 6:30 p.m. at the Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Troy-Miami County Public Library. If you at the Troy Country Club. Missy and Joe don’t have any poems, bring a poem by Duer, owners of Staley Mill Farm and your favorite poet to share. This workIndian Creek Distillery, will give an shop is for anyone who loves to read or overview of their recent revival of the hispoetry. toric distillery in Bethel Township. For • MONTHLY MEETING: The more information, contact Donn Craig, Covington-Newberry Historical Society vice president, at (937) 418-1888. will meet at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall • ALUMNI LUNCHEON: The Staunton Community Center. Mr. and Mrs. David School Alumni will meet at 11:30 a.m. at Roecker of Porters Products Inc. will be Friendly’s in Troy. Classmates and friends the keynote speakers. are invited to attend. • AFTER PROM MEETING: The • CLASS LUNCH: The Troy High Covington High School Junior Class School class of 1962 will meet for an After-Prom Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the CHS library. If you would like informal lunch gathering at 1 p.m. at Marion’s Piazza, 1270 Experiment Farm to chaperone and/or participate in the Road, Troy. All classmates and their 2013 after-prom activities, please spouses are invited to attend. For more attend. For more information, call information, call Sharon Mathes at 339Michelle Henry at 418-1898. 1696 or Esther Jackson at 339-1526. Civic agendas • BOE MEETING: The Newton Local • Covington Village Council will meet Board of Education will hold its regular at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. meeting at 7 p.m. in the Newton School • The Police and Fire Committee of Board of Education Room to conduct regVillage Council will meet at 6 p.m. prior ular business. to the council meeting. • Laura Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the Municipal building. • Brown Township Board of Trustees will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building in Conover. • The Union Township Trustees will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Township Building, 9497 Markley Road, P.O. Box E, Laura. Call 698-4480 for more information.

Edison announces three new trustees Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently appointed three new trustees to the Edison Board of Trustees. The trustees began their sixyear term Jan. 18, 2013, and had their first meeting March 27 at the Honda of America Engine Plant in Anna. Representing Miami County is Dr. Christopher A. Grove. Grove serves as a general surgeon of the Upper Valley Professional Corporation, a Fellow of The American College of Surgeons and serves on several committees at the Upper Valley Medical Center. He has been awarded the UVMC Physician Recognition Award and the Silver Antelope Award for his service in Boy Scouts of America. Grove received his education from the University of Alabama. “After receiving a great start to my education through a community college, it is exciting to have the opportunity to serve

The Mainstreet Piqua Beautification Committee is again planning for the downtown planter program for this summer. Strategically located throughout downtown Piqua are 50 large planters that the committee is planning to fill with hardy flowering plants in mid-May and maintain through September. Each year the Mainstreet Piqua Beautification Committee careful-

as a trustee on the board at Edison Community College. I hope that I can bring a new perspective to the board and help continue the great work that they have been doing. Edison has been a tremendous resource for the surrounding communities over the past 40 years and I look forward to helping ensure that it continues to evolve and progress for many more years to come,” Grove said. Appointed to represent County is Shelby Robinson Joslin. Joslin brings years of agricultural experience to the board. He serves as a director representing Ohio in the American Soybean Association as well as operating a 950-acre family farm raising soybeans and corn with his wife, Ellen. He has been highly involved with several agriculture associations and also has volunteered with

the United Way. Joslin received a bachelor’s of science degree in agriculture from The Ohio State University. Darke County will be represented by Marvella Fletcher. Fletcher retired in 2008 after serving 10 years as vice president of finance at Wayne Hospital in Greenville. She also served as the compliance officer and chaired numerous internal committees. Prior to joining Wayne Hospital, Fletcher served as Greenville city auditor and the clerk of city council. Fletcher received her education from Ball State University. The three new trustees were appointed to replace the following members: Judy Hartman, Ed Curry and Kathy Lukey. Those with continuing terms include Kathleen Floyd, Roger Luring, Darryl Mehaffie, Thomas P. Milligan, Jim Thompson and Tony Wendeln.

PIQUA ly selects plants that have maximum impact and can withstand the summer's harsh growing conditions. To ensure an abundant crop of flowers, new soil will be added to all the planters in the coming weeks. As in the past, the Green Leaf Garden Club and the City of Piqua will maintain the flowers.

To fill each planter with the selected flowers and greenery costs approximately $35 per planter. Contributions to the planter program are fully taxdeductible. Make a tax-deductible gift to Friends of Mainstreet Piqua and mail to P.O. Box 1703, Piqua, OH 45356. Please do not send cash. Checks should be written to Friends of Mainstreet Piqua.

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“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 people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” — First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP Telegraph of Macon on not abandoning U.S. troops’ allies: When American troops went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, they relied on local translators, drivers and guides to help them navigate incalculable risks. In exchange, the United States promised, beginning in 2006, to provide visas for those men and women whose work put them in danger. But nearly a decade later, it has yet to fulfill that commitment. Washington must live up to its obligations. A good place to start would be for Congress and the White House to move swiftly to extend the Special Immigrant Visa program, which is due to expire in the months ahead. Enacted by Congress in 2007, the program provides 6,500 new visas annually for Iraqis and Afghans to resettle in the United States. Yet it has been plagued with problems. An unwieldy application process, coupled with enhanced security measures designed to weed out possible terrorists, has led to backlogs and long delays. As a result, only a fraction of the available visas have been issued. In fiscal year 2012, for example, fewer than 2,000 visas were granted, according to the U.S. Department of State’s data. Overall, only 22 percent of the authorized Iraqi visas and 12 percent of the authorized Afghan visas have been issued since the program began. The Obama administration has made some efforts to improve the program in Iraq, but it has yet to undertake similar reforms in Afghanistan. It ought to ensure that the application process is streamlined in Baghdad as well as Kabul, where some published reports indicate that as many as 5,000 applications are pending. The delays in processing applications aren’t simply an inconvenience. Many applicants have been waiting years for approval and have had to live in hiding during that period. Clearly the Special Immigrant Visa program isn’t working as Congress intended it to. But allowing it to sunset is not the answer. Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on U.S. rivers still needing help to be healthy: American rivers are no longer treated as raw sewage and industrial waste dumping grounds. The Cuyahoga River no longer catches fire. Lake Erie has been resurrected (mostly) from the dead. All thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972. But, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 20082009 National Rivers and Stream Assessment, U.S. rivers aren’t out of the woods just yet. The report found that 55 percent of U.S. rivers and streams are in poor condition biologically and only 21 percent are in good health. While the causes of poor river health can be many, the EPA report noted that the biggest culprits are nutrients, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus. Normal amounts of nutrients may be good for rivers and aquatic life, but too much of a good thing increases algae growth, which decreases oxygen needed by other aquatic life. The excess nitrogen and phosphorus, common ingredients in fertilizers, are coming from farms, livestock feeding operations, cities and sewers. The report also found that 9 percent of waterways contained bacteria levels high enough to be a threat to human health, and it reaffirmed the high levels of mercury in fish in thousands of miles of U.S. rivers. Surely we can do better. The Clean Water Act brought us a long way, but there’s more to be done. Yes, it costs money to keep our rivers clean and healthy. But it would cost considerably more to let them degrade further.

THEY SAID IT “By popular demand, fairgoers have wanted to see a rock band. Due to their popularity, Hinder will attract a whole new audience to our concert.” — Miami County Fair Entertainment Chairman Matt Gross, on the fair’s highlight act this year “I think it’s perfectly appropriate. This will have such a positive impact on the business community downtown and the community as a whole. We are very thankful to the Troy Foundation for supporting it.” — Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington, on the planned Mumford & Sons mural to commemorate the band coming to town this summer “I’m where I belong. I can’t see myself doing anything else.” — New Troy Police Department Patrolman Dominic Burnside

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Hard way to make movies the only right way The hard way is the only way to do anything right. Making movies is no exception. And as the remake of Evil Dead — just released this weekend — showed, technology will never, ever, ever be a worthy replacement for old-fashioned hard work. More and more filmmakers today are choosing to use computer generated imagery (CGI) as an alternative to comparatively more expensive and time-consuming practical effects — makeup, models and the like. This trend, sadly, is more noticeable than anywhere else in my favorite genre of movies, horror. But while CGI does take talent to learn and use properly (I know. I’ve dabbled), the end result simply will never be able to stand up next to the quality of work that a skilled makeup artist can accomplish — and their skill is far more technical, far more specialized, takes far more to build and is worth far more than any computer graphics technician (I know. I’ve dabbled there, too). So naturally, it’s easy to see why a lot of major movie studios choose CGI over practical when they’re looking to keep those skyrocketing budget numbers down. But let’s face it. You get what you pay for.

Josh Brown Sunday Columnist For years now, horror movies have relied on CGI baddies instead of big rubber monsters or people in quality prosthetic makeup, have used video editing software to create gunshots and wounds instead of blanks and squibs and have digitally added blood in post-production instead of just dumping glorious gallons of tangible fake blood on their actors. All it’s done, though, is create a bland landscape of indistinguishable garbage with no life or personality, no artist’s touch, no real effort. And then a young director named Fede Alvarez, who got this chance because of a viral video he made, comes along with the rarest of things in Hollywood these days — a vision. Granted it was a vision of a movie that already existed, the 1981

cult classic The Evil Dead. Directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Rob Tapert and starring Bruce Campbell, the movie about five unfortunate friends who visit a cabin in the woods and mess with the wrong book spawned two sequels and lengthy, successful careers for the main trio. And with brand recognition cash-in remakes being one of Hollywood’s biggest problems (as well as re-released old movies in 3D — I’m looking at you, Jurassic Park), many were worried about another cult series being ruined. No more worries here. Campbell, Raimi and Tapert all loved the Alvarez vision so much, they signed on to produce, and their faith was rewarded — thanks largely to Alvarez’ insistence on using practical effects for the copious amounts of gore in the movie. And with a plot so basic and acting so average (save for the character Mia, played by Jane Levy), the star of the movie truly was the effects. Every tongue-splitting, broken glass-slicing, appendage-severing, shotgun-blasting moment took pain-staking care and skill, and the effect on the audience is very noticeable. Instead of the stale computerized look of CGI violence, the

remade Evil Dead’s brutality has a very visceral, real feel to it. During one scene near the climax, I even found myself squirming in my seat and holding my breath. Me. That’s as ringing an endorsement as any horror movie can get from me. There were only two or three scenes in the whole movie where CGI was used at all, and even then it was just to slightly enhance something that they’d already done with practical effects — which is a completely acceptable use of CGI. The respect for the original Evil Dead was readily apparent everywhere due to the hard work, passion and care that Alvarez and his crew put into the project, and that’s the best thing that can be said for any remake. And it’s already a success — it’s on the way to being the No. 1 movie of the weekend and is already close to making its budget back. Hollywood, take notice. If you actually put the work into something — and spend the money — people will spend theirs on it. Sure, it’s the hard way. But it’s also the only right way.

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This April 21, 1993, file photo shows inmates raising their hands in surrender as armed guards watch on the recreation yard of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

Officers apprehensive Mood tense on 20th anniversary of prison riot COLUMBUS (AP) — It’s been two decades this month since the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history broke out in southern Ohio and there’s trepidation in the air. A prisons chief in Colorado and a district attorney in Texas and his wife have been slain. The ratio of inmates to guards inside Ohio’s prisons has crept up again after a dip that followed the 11-day siege at Lucasville’s Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in 1993. Double-bunking inmates, a trigger in the uprising that left one corrections officer and nine inmates dead, is back in use at a prison in Toledo. Serious assaults requiring outside medical attention have jumped from an average of three per year to 16 last year, and gang membership, while down slightly, stands at 16 percent. Paul Goldberg, past executive director of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, which represents unionized corrections officers, said “the red flags are there” that existed in 1993 but were ignored. “It wasn’t until we actually had the death of (Corrections Officer) Bobby Vallandingham and the riot in Lucasville that people understood that we’d been serious and what we’d been saying was real,” Goldberg said. “I fear the same circumstances are emerging today.” Vallandingham was among 12 staff members taken hostage on April 11, 1993, when inmates overtook the prison that sits 10 miles north of the Ohio River. They were exiting the recreation yard on an Easter Sunday when it happened. Vallandingham was killed on the fourth day of the occupation, after his inmate captors had flown a bed sheet out the windows threatening to kill a hostage if certain demands weren’t met. Rioting inmates wanted to have single cells rather than be doubled up and wanted more classes and visitation. Muslim prisoners wanted an exemption from a mandatory tuberculosis test that they said violated their religion and an end to forced racial integration. Historian-lawyers Staughton and Alice Lynd, a husband-and-wife team who have spent the past 20 years investigating circumstances surrounding the riot, are marking the anniversary with lectures around the state focusing on the five inmates sentenced to death for their roles in the riot. Media access has never been allowed to the “Lucasville Five”: Siddique Abdullah Hasan (formerly Carlos Sanders), Jason Robb, George Skatzes, Namir Abdul Mateen (formerly James Were) and Keith LaMar. The Associated Press’ request to speak to them ahead of the Lucasville

anniversary was denied. Staughton Lynd, who has written a book asserting none of the five is Vallandingham’s killer, said the state has yet to accept its share of the responsibility in the uprising so that justice can be served and conditions improved. The Lynds arranged for LaMar to speak by phone to about 60 participants at an April 3 event at Youngstown State University revisiting the riot. LaMar, who was convicted of having a role in the slaying of prisoner informants during the riot, discussed being held in solitary confinement for 17 years, Lynd said. Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr authored a voluminous report on the causes of the Lucasville riot as director of thenGov. George Voinovich’s Office of Criminal Justice. He said there’s no question safety and security have improved since then. Mohr can tick off a laundry list of targeted programs, legislative efforts and infrastructure upgrades in the past 20 years and even the past two that are making prison conditions better and guards safer. He said all maximum-security inmates are housed in single cells. Through technology, staff are in better communication and are able to manage inmates with minimal physical contact that can bring violence, he said. The state has installed 4,000 new security cameras and assembled special-response teams across the state trained to handle disturbances. And the administration plans a bill stepping up sanctions against inmates who throw bodily fluids at guards, Mohr said. Christopher Knecht, a former inmate at Lucasville who served time both during the riot and some years afterward, said the two eras can’t compare. “The conditions now are nothing like they were,” he said. “The only complaints now would be issues dealing with guardprisoner relationship, classification, property, food, visits and things of that nature typical complaints found at all prisons.” Yet the anniversary arrives as the national mood within the corrections profession is apprehensive. Mohr considered slain Colorado prisons director Tom Clements a professional and personal friend. The two had talked a day before Clements was shot at his front door last month. “Worrying is a sin, but I still worry,” said Mohr, who’s headed the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction since January 2011. “I think every director in this country is concerned about the safety and operations of the staff. We need to be. Just since I’ve been director, there have been seven corrections employees around the country that have lost their lives in the line of duty.” Luke Van Sickle, president of the prison guards’ union at Lucasville, said the shadow of the riot is always present at the 1,625-acre prison, where 1,365 inmates are housed. That’s down about 500 inmates from 1993

TROY — Louise D. Herman, age 82, of Troy, passed away 1:26 a.m. Friday, April 5, 2013, at Covington Care Center in Covington surrounded by her family. She was born April 11, 1930, in Lonaconing, Md., to the late Ralph and Louise (Kabler) Darrow. Louise is survived by five daughters and two sons-in-law, Debbi Sandefur of Troy, Becky Collins of Troy, Barbara Olive of Wellborn, Fla., Donna and Randy Jolley of South Dakota, and Jacki and Keith Francis of St. Paris; 12 grandchildren, Jason, Carrie (T. J.), Angie (Roger), Mandy, Brittany (Jon), Bridgette, Donna, Sherrie, Ricky, Sarah (Matt), Kelsey and Justin; and 18 greatgrandchildren, Laney, Kasan, Kolton, Konner, Torrie, Noel, Novalle, Tristan, Lily, Klover, Grace, Rose, Tucker, Shannon, Ethan, Hannah, Kyle and Anderson.

Louise was of the United Methodist faith and retired as an administrative assistant from PMI in Troy after 20 years of service. She loved life, shopping, going to the beach, traveling, and her friends and family. She was very proud of receiving her associate’s degree in accounting at the age of 60 from Edison Community College in Piqua. Private services will be held at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are entrusted to FisherCheney Funeral Home, Troy. Contributions may be given in her memory to Hospice of Miami County: P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373, or to Alzheimer’s Association of Miami Valley, 3797 Summit Glen Drive, Suite 100, Dayton, OH 45449. Condolences may be left for the family at www.fishercheneyfuneralhome.com.

HOWARD L. ‘ZIMMY’ ZIMMERMAN TROY — Howard L. “Zimmy” Zimmerman, age 86, of Troy, Ohio, died Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Dayton Veteran’s Hospital Hospice. Born in Elizabeth Township on June 25, 1926. Preceded in death by his parents, Roy and Effie (Peters) Zimmerman; and brother, Ralph Zimmerman. He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Ann (Fogle) Zimmerman; daughter, Sherry Ishmael and friend Mike Gootee, Tipp City; son, Craig Zimmerman and wife Lisa of Texas; grandchildren, Brandon Ishmael, Brittany Otto, Courtney and Zachary Zimmerman; and great-grandchildren, Bryton and Makena Otto. Howard graduated from Tippecanoe High School in 1944 serving four years in FFA. He worked in 4-H for 10 years and was an adviser for 11 years. After graduating from high school he was proudly inducted into the U.S. Army, serving in the Philippines and ending in Japan as the war ended. Howard was active in several organizations, including an astounding 73 years with the Monroe Grange, where he served in many capacities including the Deputy

of Miami County for 16 years, the Ohio State Executive Board for 12 years, and along with his wife, Ann, served as Ohio State Assistant Convention Co-Chairman for four years. He was a charter member of the Tipp City Lions Club and remained a member for a remarkable 54 years. He and his wife Ann were tour directors for 10 years. After graduation he worked at Sanders Dairy Co. in Tipp City and retired from the Tipp City U.S. Post Office in 1988 after 31 years of service. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at the Nashville Church of Christ, 4540 W. State Route 571, West Milton. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until time of service at 1 p.m. Wednesday, all at the Nashville Church. Pastor Lynn Labs officiating. The family requests donations to the Ohio State Grange, Nashville Church of Christ or Hospice of Miami County in memory of Howard. Services entrusted to Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, Tipp City. www.fringsandbayliff.com.

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Pastor Rick Warren’s son, who battled depression, commits suicide LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren announced Saturday that Warren’s 27-year-old son has committed suicide. Warren’s Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression throughout his life. “Matthew was an incredibly kind, gentle and compassionate young man whose sweet spirit was encouragement and comfort to many,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, he also suffered from mental illness resulting in deep depression and suicidal thoughts. Despite the best

health care available, this was an illness that was never fully controlled and the emotional pain resulted in his decision to take his life.” Warren, the author of the multimillion-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life,” said in an email to church staff that he and his wife had enjoyed a fun Friday evening with their son before Matthew Warren returned home to take his life in “a momentary wave of despair.” Church spokeswoman Kristin Cole said he died Friday night. Over the years, Matthew Warren had been treated by Americas best doctors, had received counseling and medication and been the recipient of numerous prayers from

others, his father said. Still, he struggled. “I’ll never forget how, many years ago, after another approach had failed to give relief, Matthew said ‘Dad, I know I’m going to heaven. Why can’t I just die and end this pain?’” Warren recalled. Despite that, he said, his son lived for another decade, during which he often reached out to help others. “You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man,” Warren wrote. “He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He’d then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them.”

Artist refurbishing sculpture on Ohio State campus Sunday. Best known for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Lin’s work now spans the globe. She grew up in Athens, Ohio, where her Chinese immigrant parents taught at Ohio University. The conical mounds and orderly pattern of Groundswell are meant to evoke nature, the contours of southern Ohio’s Native American earthworks and the order of a Zen garden.

She said when she completed it in 1993, as a Wexner artist-in-residence, Groundswell became her first outdoor, site-specific artwork. “It’s a very big important work for me,” she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I love it. It has an ephemeral quality.” Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin calls it Lin’s “garden of glass” a work that filled the empty

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COLUMBUS (AP) — Artist and architectural designer Maya Lin is working to restore an outdoor sculpture in Ohio that she looks back on as a career breakthrough. Lin visited Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts on Saturday to help replace some of the 43 tons of shattered, recycled glass in the sculpture known as Groundswell. She planned a free talk on the process and other topics on

spaces left in architect Peter Eisenman’s unique design of the Columbus museum. Lin is known for integrating natural shapes and environmental concepts into her work. She said the cone-shaped towers in Groundswell came from the natural process that’s used to pour glass. During its 20 years on the Ohio State campus, Groundswell had been repeatedly cleaned to

remove sand, leaves and other debris or to repair vandalism. “The reality is they’ve had to remake it a few times,” Lin said. About five years ago, a close look at the glass determined the entire work needed to be pulled apart and refurbished. Lin said it was important to her to retain the original glass, both for practical and aesthetic reasons. The material was separated

and cleaned using repurposed farm equipment, with only about 10 percent being lost. She looked forward to getting down in the dirt and helping oversee the repouring of the piece. Lin rose to national prominence in 1981 when she won the international design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while an undergraduate student at Yale University.

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• BASEBALL: Troy Post 43 American Legion baseball will be sponsoring its monthly All You Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner today. The dinner is at the Post 43 Legion Hall, 622 S. Market St. and runs from 3-7 p.m. It features all the spaghetti you can eat, plus a fresh salad bar, bread, soft drinks, coffee and desert. The cost for adults is $6.75 and for children under 12 is $4. • SOCCER: For all students in grades 8-11 who are interested in playing soccer at Troy High School next fall, Meet the Coaches night is at 6:30 p.m. April 10 in the Troy High School Cafeteria. For those interested in trying out for soccer, each student and a parent must attend this meeting. For more information, send an e-mail to cjc7@woh.rr.com or call 570-3685. • GOLF: The MIami Shores 18-hole Golf League is holding its opening meeting at 9 a.m. April 23. Everyone is invited. For more information, call Miami Shores Golf Course at (937) 335-4457. • HALL OF FAME: The Trojan Athletics Hall of Fame is still accepting nominations for its 2013 inaugural class. Induction will be held in the fall. Entrance to the selection process is through public nomination. The deadline for nominations is today. Nomination forms are available at all home events or at the athletics office at Troy High School. • HALL OF FAME: The Miami East athletic boosters will hold their annual dinner and auction on April 6. Social hour will begin at 5 p.m. and dinner will be served at 5:30. The Athletic Department will induct three new members into the Hall of Fame beginning at 6:30. New members will be Jim Martin, Barry Coomes and Jamie Long Coleman. • BASEBALL: Spots are still available for the Locos Express Super Power Slam 13U, 14U, 15U baseball tournament June 14-16 in Lima. There is a four-game guarantee. Contact locosexpress@gmail.com for additional information. • COACHING SEARCH: Lehman High School has the following coaching vacanies: head boys basketball, head girls basketball and head cross country. Candidates should send a resume and cover letter to Athletic Director Richard Roll or email them to r.roll@lehmancatholic.com. • SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@civitasmedia.com or Colin Foster at colinfoster@civitasmedia.com.

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SPORTS CALENDAR SUNDAY No events scheduled MONDAY Baseball Piqua at Troy (5 p.m.) Stebbins at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.) Preble Shawnee at Milton-Union (5 p.m.) Bradford at Newton (5 p.m.) Xenia Christian at Troy Christian (5 p.m.) Covington at Versailles (5 p.m.) Lehman at Marion Local (5 p.m.) Softball Piqua at Troy (5 p.m.) Stebbins at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.) Preble Shawnee at Milton-Union (5 p.m.) Newton at Lehman (5 p.m.) Minster at Covington (5 p.m.) Tennis Troy at Bellbrook (4 p.m.) Tippecanoe at Urbana (4:30 p.m.) Oakwood at Milton-Union (4:30 p.m.) Celina at Lehman (4:30 p.m.)

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After beginning the season 41, this was not the way Troy wanted to enter Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division play. The Tippecanoe Red Devils plated five in the second inning against the Trojans to open up a tri-match on Saturday, and the Trojans couldn’t complete a

comeback in a 12-8 loss. And against GWOC crossover opponent Miamisburg, Troy couldn’t cash in on its opportunities in an 8-4 loss. “We came out flat today, walked too many batters, and in the first game we had too many

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Troy’s Dylan Cascaden slides into first base on a pickoff attempt ■ See ROUNDUP on A8 during a game against Miamisburg Saturday in Tipp City.

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Louisville’s Gorgui Dieng stuffs Wichita State’s Fred Van Vleet during the second half of the NCAA Final Four Saturday in Atlanta.

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Troy’s Jamie Snay hits a three-run triple during a game against Milford Saturday at the Tippecanoe Strike Out Cancer Tournament at Kyle Park in Tipp City.

The up and downs Troy, Tipp, Newton all searching for consistency BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com Megan Campbell couldn’t get over the way her Trojans’ final game of Tippecanoe’s Strike Out Cancer Tournament went. Charles Tackett, though happy with his team’s finish, was still bothered by the way his Red Devils’ first two games went. Kirk Kadel and the Indians instantaneously missed the Florida weather. One thing all three coaches have in common? They’re all searching for consistency. Troy won its first game of the day on TIPP CITY Saturday, getting solid pitching and defense in a 4-1 victory over Newton, but mistakes on defense in the final two innings cost the Trojans in its finale as they gave up a four-run lead in an 8-7 loss to Milford. “When you lose the second game of a doubleheader, what you did in the second game always overshadows what happened in the first,” Campbell, the first-year coach of the Trojans, said. Tippecanoe would seem to like that idea after a 13-3 run-rule loss to a talented McAuley team in its opener. The Red Devils fell behind early against Newton but rallied with a four-run fifth inning to finish the day at Kyle Park with a 5-2 victory. McAuley — which beat Troy 11-2 on Friday to open the tournament — proved to be too much for the Red Devils, who also struggled on Friday in a 9-5 loss to MiltonUnion. The Mohawks put up six in the first inning and just kept piling on, finishing the

Newton’s Erin Hixon delivers a pitch during a game ■ See TOURNEY on A9 against Tippecanoe Saturday at Kyle Park.

Louisville bench key in 72-68 win ATLANTA (AP) — The deficit was getting bigger, the clock becoming an enemy and Louisville’s options were dwindling. “I just kept telling the guys … ‘We’re going to make a run. It’s about defense,’” coach Rick Pitino said. “The tempo is not ours. Give them their credit, but the bench won the game for us tonight. Unbelievable display.” Impressive comeback, too. Luke Hancock came off the bench to score 20 points, walk-on Tim Henderson sparked a secondhalf rally with a pair of monster 3s and Louisville advanced to the NCAA title game Saturday night, escaping with a 72-68 victory over Wichita State. Now the Cardinals (34-5) will try and win it all for their emotional leader on the bench, injured Kevin Ware. As the final buzzer sounded, Ware stood up, grinning as he thrust his arms above his head. It is the Cardinals’ first trip to the title game since they won it all in 1986. “We just played super hard,” said Russ Smith, who led the Cardinals with 21 points. “Nobody wanted to go home.” Cleanthony Early had 24 for the ninth-seeded Shockers (30-9), who nearly pulled off their biggest upset of all. Wichita State had knocked off No. 1 seed Gonzaga and Ohio State on its way to its first Final Four since 1965, and the Shockers had a 12-point lead on Louisville with 13:35 to play. It was the largest deficit all tournament for the Cardinals, who seemed out of sorts after an emotional week following Ware’s gruesome injury; he

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Troy girls win Northmont Invitational Nationals edge Reds in 11th inning The Reds’ wild opening week includes another extra-inning loss. Cincinnati sent the game to extra innings with the help of Ian Desmond’s two errors, but the shortstop led off the 11th with his first homer of the season, leading the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 victory on Saturday. See Page A8.

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CLAYTON — The Troy girls won the Northmont Invitational in landslide fashion Saturday, tallying 136 points at the 12team venue. And the scary part about that is the Trojans aren’t even at full strength yet, with people still filtering back from spring break. “We were solid all the way

around,” Troy girls coach Kurt Snyder said. “With having kids on spring break, we’re deep enough to win that meet. It will be nice to get everybody back.” Starting off the day, Caitlyn McMinn got a chance to relive cross country season, running in the 5,000, one of the rare occasions the event is ran in track.

McMinn (20:12.75) won the 5,000 by a 28-second gap. “Caitlyn McMinn got us started off right,” Snyder said. “She won it going away. She won it by over 100 meters. Twelve-and-ahalf laps on a track is a pretty difficult task, she had to have a lot of mental toughness. She was able to pull away from the group midway through and hold on by a big margin.”

Catelyn Schmiedebusch finished second in the 100 hurdles (17.42 seconds) and second in the 300 hurdles (49.32). Ashley Rector won the triple jump (31-0) and was runner-up in the 400 (1:02.14). Gracie Huffman had a breakout day as an individual, winning the 200 (27.37) and finishing second in the 100 (13.33). “She had an outstanding day,”

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Roundup ■ CONTINUED FROM A7 errors,” Troy coach Ty Welker said. “We just didn’t execute.” Tippecanoe (5-1), meanwhile, finished the day strong by handing the Vikings (5-1) their first loss of the season with a 4-0 shutout. A controversial play at the plate got the Devils rolling, and the Trojans (4-3) couldn’t stem the tide until five runs had crossed and they were down 6-0. And though Troy fought back with three in the third and fifth innings, Tippecanoe was able to keep pace by scoring five more runs over the course of the fourth, fifth and sixth. Eight walks and five errors just proved too much for Troy to overcome. “We hit the ball well and kept battling back,” Welker said. “We didn’t quit, and we were in the game offensively. We just didn’t execute defensively or with pitching.” Ben Hughes was 3 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs for Tippecanoe, while Carter Langdon was 2 for 3 with a three RBIs. Reid Ferrell got the win, while Zack Blair pitched the final two innings for a save. Ian Nadolny was 2 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs for Troy, Alex Magoteaux was 2 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs and Greg Johnson was 2 for 4 with an RBI. In the second game, Troy bounced back from an early deficit to take a 2-1 lead after the first. But Miamisburg scored a pair in the third and fourth innings to take control and closed it out with three more in the seventh. Kevin McGraw was 2 for 4 with a double and three RBIs, while Nick Sanders was 2 for 3 with an RBI. “We left 12 guys on base in that game,” Welker said. “We had the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth, two on in the sixth. We just didn’t get guys in when we needed to.” Troy — the defending GWOC North champion — opens divisional play Monday against rival Piqua. Tippecanoe — which also opens up Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division play Monday against Stebbins — utilized

Troy Jay Swigard makes a catch Saturday in Tipp City. smallball to devastating effect against Miamisburg, with five sacrifice bunts and two squeeze bunts, one by Steven Calhoun and the other by Evan Gilliam, for runs. “We had four runs on three hits, and we spread those three hits out. But we bunted more than we have in a long time,” Cahill said. “The kids did a great job of getting the ball down, and we pecked them to death.” With sophomore Austin Clack turning in an absolute gem in his first varsity start, the Devils didn’t need anything but smallball. Clack didn’t strike out anyone and walked one, giving up five hits in a complete game — while throwing a mere 59 pitches. “That’s pretty amazing for seven innings,” Cahill said of the pitch count. “He got 15 ground ball outs, and we committed no errors. That was big.” Bulldogs Swept XENIA — The MiltonUnion Bulldogs struggled to get runs across the plate at Xenia Saturday, falling 9-2 and 6-4 in a doubleheader. Brian Beeler was 2 for 3 in the first game, while Sam Morgan doubled. In the second game, Matt Bracci was

2 for 4. Milton-Union (1-6) hosts Bradford Monday. • Softball Miami East Sweeps Milton-Union WEST MILTON — Milton-Union’s defense struggled on Saturday, and the Miami East offense continuously put pressure on it in a pair of Viking victories, 9-6 and 16-6. Miami East (5-2) took a 7-1 lead with a five-run third inning in the first game, only to see the Bulldogs put up four in the bottom of the third to close the gap. But Paige Kiesewetter and Sam Denlinger combined to only allow one run from there, and the Vikings held on. “The first game was back and forth, and both teams responded with runs whenever the other scored,” Miami East coach Brian Kadel said. “I think we just made a few more plays on defense to work out of some jams and finished off the game strong.” Olivia Edgell had three hits, including a three-run homer, for the Vikings, Kiesewetter added a tworun shot and Kris Bigelow doubled. Christine Heisey and

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Troy’s Nick Sanders fields a ball during a game against Miamisburg Saturday in Tipp City. Brittany Courtright both went deep for the Bulldogs. The second game, though, was all Vikings — beginning with the leadoff spot as Christine Bowling was 5 for 5 with five runs. “It’s good for your leadoff hitter to get on every time and make something happen,” Kadel said. “Our girls have the potential to hit one-through-nine, and if we continue to hit like this, we’re going to be tough to beat.” Lindsey Brookhart was 4 for 5 with a double and three RBIs, Paige Mullen homered and drove in four runs, Madison Linn was 3 for 4 and Kiesewetter and Ellie Gearhart both doubled. Ashley Smith doubled for the Bulldogs, who hot Preble Shawnee Monday. The Vikings, meawhile, have their annual rivalry game against Cross County Conference foe Newton on Tuesday at Newton.

Covington Sweeps Centerville COVINGTON — The Covington Buccaneers got a pair of stellar pitching performances against Centerville Saturday, handing the Elks their first two losses of the season while staying undefeated themselves with a pair of victories, 8-1 and 4-0. Casey Yingst struck out five in the opener and gave up only one hit — and she also went 2 for 3 with three RBIs to lead the offense. Jessie Shilt and Morgan Arbogast both went 2 for 3 and Haley Adams doubled. “The girls just played well,” Covington coach Dean Denlinger said. “We probably hit the ball better (Friday) against New Bremen, but we executed better today with runners in scoring position.” Arbogast also struck out five in the second game, giving up four hits in the

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Track ■ CONTINUED FROM A7 said Snyder of Huffman. “Last year, she did more relays, but we are throwing her more into open events this year. She’s really improved from last year. To be able to take first in the 200 and second in the 100 is great for her. Even with the strong wind, she still posted strong times.” Troy’s 4x200 relay team (Rector, Huffman, Shanelle Byrd and Todda Norris) won (1:46.87). In the 4x100 relay, Byrd, Sharice Hibbler, Huffman and Norris placed first (50.20 seconds). McKenna Poling, Courtney Mazzulla, Sarah Adkins and Mariah Sano placed second in the 4x800 relay (11:08.25). “It was nice to have Todda (Norris) back,”Snyder said. “She anchored in 4x200 and 4x100. We dropped almost three seconds in 4x200 and almost broke 50 (seconds) in 4x100.” Jessica Blakes placed second in the discus (97-5), while Abby Brinkman (9-6) and Mariah Sano (9-0) went two-three in the pole vault. Miamisburg finished the day runner-up (91 points) and Kings was third (77.50). The Troy boys dominated the field events and had high placers in distance, relay and sprint events, leading to a second-place finish at the Northmont Invitational. The Trojans scored 97 compared to Northmont’s 127. Kings was third overall with 87.5. Seth Overla won the discus handily, hurling a 129-7

shutout. Heidi Snipes was 3 for 3 with two RBIs and two stolen bases, Connor Schaffer was 2 for 2 and Adams was 1 for 3. Covington (7-0) — which has split with Centerville over the past two years — will face their regional final opponent from last year in Minster on Monday. “Centerville is favored to win its division in the GWOC this year and has three nice pitchers,” Denlinger said. “This is the third year in a row we’ve played them and the first they’ve come here. This was a good day for the girls.” Bradford, Lehman Split BRADFORD — Bradford won the first game of a doubleheader against Lehman Saturday 6-1, but the Cavaliers battled back to earn a split with an 11-1 win in the second game. Bradford (3-3) hosts St. Henry Monday.

for the win — the next closest thrower was Fairborn’s Anthony Fries (123-7). Nathan Fleischer won the pole vault for the second week in a row. Fleischer, who won the event at the Tipp Relays last weekend, once again cleared 13-6 for the victory. Miles Hibbler won the 100 (11.60 seconds) and tied for second in the high jump (5-9). In the 4x100 relay, Devante Bush, Hibbler, Nick Zimmer and Blake Williams combined for a first-place finish (44.14 seconds). Troy’s 4x200 relay team (Bush, Zimmer, Josh Williams and Brandon Lee) placed third (1:35.75) A pair of Trojans placed in the top four in the 5,000 meter run as Jon Osman placed second (16:02.21) and Brandon Nosker took fourth (16:25.24). Troy Schultz returned to form with a second-place result in the 800 (2:05.25). • Tippecanoe Invitational TIPP CITY — The Tippecanoe Invitational turned into a gold old-fashioned Cross County Conference duel between the Covington and Miami East girls Saturday. But in the end, the Buccs won the battle, scoring 94 points to win the meet. The Vikings were runner-up with 81 points. Tippecanoe placed fifth (55 points) and Lehman took 11th (22). And it was once again a big day by Jackie Siefring that helped pave the way for the team title. Siefring had first-place finishes in the 100 hurdles

(15.87 seconds), 300 hurdles (45.91), 200 (26.92) and long jump (15-10). Also doing well individually for the Buccs was Tara Snipes, winner of the 800 (2:35.20), and Carly Shell, who coasted to victory in the 3,200 (11:56.82) Covington’s 4x800 team (Tara Snipes, Julianna Yingst, Carly Sehll and Hannah Retz) won (10:50.26), while Miami East’s team (Abigael Amheiser, Erin Augustus, Abby Hawkins and Sami Sands) placed third (11:23.81). Miami East’s 4x200 team (Lindsey Roeth, Kylie Brown, Renee DeFord and Corrine Melvin) placed second (1:54.69) and Tipp’s team (Erica Comer, Allison Rawlins, Sarah Janosik and Sammie Rowland) took third (1:55.18). Miami East’s 4x100 team — Roeth, Brown, Allie Millhouse and Melvin — placed second (54.05 seconds). Leah Dunivan won the high jump (5-0) and shot put (33-3.50), along with taking second in the 100 hurdles (17.28 seconds). Melvin picked up points for the Vikings by finishing third in the 100 (13.66 seconds). Katrina Sutherly scored eight points for East, placing second in the pole vault (8-0). Lehman’s Sarah Titterington was runner-up in the 100 (13.66 seconds) and finished second in the 200 (27.07). Tipp’s Allison Sinning held off a pair of Buccs for the win the 1,600. Sinning won with a time of 5:21.36, while Covington’s

Carly Shell (5:37.89) and Tara Snipes (5:47.82) finished second and third. The top placers for Milton-Union were the 4x100 relay team (Haily Bohse, Kinsey Douglas, Rachel Paden and Melissa Schlect), which placed seventh (57.82 seconds), and Douglas also placed sixth in the high jump (4-6). Sarah Motz finished seventh in the pole vault (6-6). Springfield Shawnee won the boys team title (105 points), Sidney was second with 78. Tippecanoe placed fourth overall (54), Lehman was fifth (52), Miami East finished sixth (49) and Milton-Union placed 10th (31). Tipp’s Andy Droesch held off a pair of Miami East Vikings in the high jump. Droesch (5-9) won the event as Miami East’s Mike Harmon and Michael Deeter finished second and third, respectively. Miami East’s Ross Snodgrass won the long jump (19-7.25) and Tipp’s Jakob Prall took second (18-9). Milton-Union’s 4x400 relay team of Skyler Deeter, Kyle Swartz, Joe Thoele and Zach Pricer won in a time of 3:41.13. Lehman’s Brad Montgomery won the discus (142-10) and Miami East’s Robbie Adams got third (123-4). Miami East’s Mack Rose won the pole vault (12-0) and Milton’s Austin Dickison placed second (11-0). Lehman’s Justin Stewart won the 100 (11.78 seconds) and finished runner-up in the 400 (51.34).Teammate Mitchell

Slater placed third in the 300 hurdles (43.68). Brad Montgomery also placed second in the shot put (456) and Ben Montgomery took third (43-4). • Versailles Invitational VERSAILLES — The Covington boys team won the black division title at the Versailles Invitational with a score of 137 points Saturday. The Covington boys 4x800 team placed second to Versailles (8:46.45), but the Buccs got redemption in the 4x100, winning in a time of 46.34. Covington’s 4x400 team also combined for the win (3:35.62). Covington’s A.J. Ouellette won the 100 (11.71 seconds) and took first in the 200 (23.88), Lane White cruised to victory in the 400 (50.26), Troy Cron finished runner-up in the 110 hurdles black division (15.84) and second in the 300 hurdles (41.61). Also for the Buccs, Dustin Fickert placed second in the 800 (2:04.37), Alex Schilling placed third in the 1,600 (4:46.56) and Trent Tobias was second in the pole vault (11-6). In the orange division, Newton (23 points) placed eighth and Bradford (18) finished ninth. Newton’s Brady McBride and David Brauer picked up some points for the Indians in the 3,200. McBride was third overall (10:59.06) and Brauer got fifth (11:11.52). Bradford’s Corey Rench shined, placing third in the orange division 110 hurdles (17.85 seconds).

Reds fall in 11th CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds’ wild opening week includes another extra-inning loss. Cincinnati sent the game to extra innings with the help of Ian Desmond’s two errors, but the shortstop led off the 11th with his first homer of the season, leading the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 victory on Saturday. It went down to the last strike. Wilson Ramos also homered in the 11th off J.J. Hoover for a 7-5 advantage. Brandon Phillips doubled home a run with two outs in the bottom of the inning before Craig Stammen (10) fanned Jay Bruce to end it. The Reds went 4 for 17 with runners in scoring position, stranding 11. “We had a chance to win that game several times,” manager Dusty Baker said. “We’ve got to come up with the big hit. I guess turnabout’s fair play.” Extra-inning games have been the norm between the NL’s top two teams from last season Washington won a leaguebest 98 games, Cincinnati 97. They’ve gone to extra innings in five of their last 10 meetings.

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Syracuse’s Brandon Triche (20) shoots against Michigan’s Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) during the first half of an NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday in Atlanta. Michigan advanced to play Louisville in the finals with a 61-56 victory over Syracuse.

■ CONTINUED FROM A7 snapped his tibia and the bone broke through the skin during last weekend’s Midwest Regional final. But Louisville had come back to win five games after trailing by nine points or more already this year, including rallying from a 16point deficit in the title game at the Big East tournament. This one trumped them all. “It’s tough for Wichita State to lose this game tonight because they played great. We had to dig in,” Pitino said. “Four of our starters had their worst start of the season. We had to win the game with our second unit.” Henderson, the walk-on who was forced into increased playing time because of Ware’s injury,

made back-to-back 3s to spark a 21-8 run. While Hancock and Behanan were knocking down shots, Smith and Peyton Siva were turning up the heat on the Shockers. After going more than 26 minutes without a turnover, Siva darted in to strip the ball away from Carl Hall. He fed Hancock, who drilled a 3 that gave Louisville a 56-55 lead, its first since the end of the first half. “Down the stretch, we were just loose with the ball, we just didn’t take care of it, pretty much,” Wichita State’s Malcolm Armstead said. “I can’t give you an explanation it just happened.” Early would give the Shockers one more lead, converting a three-point play. But Siva scored and then Smith stole the ball and took

it in for an easy layup that gave Louisville a 60-58 lead with 4:47 left. Louisville fans erupted, and even Ware was on his feet, throwing up his arms and clapping. The Cardinals extended the lead to 65-60 on a tip-in of a Smith miss and another 3 by Hancock. Wichita State had one last chance, pulling within 68-66 on Early’s tip in with 22 seconds left. But the Shockers were forced to foul, and Smith and Hancock made their free throws to seal the victory. As the final buzzer sounded, Chane Behanan tossed the ball high into the air and Henderson and Hancock did a flying shoulder bump at midcourt. “It’s just a mix of emotions, of feelings. It hurts to have to lose and be the end of the season,” Early said.

“But these guys fought to the end, and we had a great season and keep our heads high and know the grind doesn’t stop.” The Cardinals were the overall No. 1 seed in the tournament, and they steamrolled their way through their first four games, winning by an average of almost 22 points. They limited opponents to 59 points and 42 percent shooting while harassing them into almost 18 turnovers a game, setting an NCAA tourney record with 20 steals against North Carolina A&T. The presence of Ware was supposed to provide even more motivation for Louisville, which already had some unfinished business after losing to Kentucky in last year’s Final Four.

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■ CONTINUED FROM A7 game in six innings. Cassie Gingerich was 2 for 3 with a run and Bri Eichbaum was 3 for 4 with two RBIs in the game. “McAuley is a really good team,” Tackett said. “They play in the Girls Greater Catholic League in Cincinnati, and they always have a tough team. They hit the ball really well. And last night, we had six errors against Milton-Union and another five against McAuley. You just can’t give good teams like that runs.” The Trojans, meanwhile, got a quality pitching performance from Amber Smith, who struck out six and gave up three hits in a complete game against Newton — which had just returned from its season-opening trip to Florida to “enjoy” some 40degree Ohio weather. Troy only had four hits itself, finding ways to scratch together runs. Shai Emerick was 1 for 2 and Alex Wilt, Allison Pierce and Jamie Snay were all 1 for 3, but the Trojans put up two first-inning runs — and Smith made it all stand up. Against Milford, though, the Trojans found themselves in a back-andforth battle. Milford scored three in the bottom of the second to take a 3-1 lead, but the Trojans tied it with two in the top of the fourth and took control in the fifth with one swing of Jamie Snay’s bat. After Troy loaded the bases, Snay belted a triple over the left fielder’s head to clear the bases, part of a four-run inning that put Troy up 73. Milford began chipping away with one in the fifth and cut the lead to one with two in the sixth. “It was 1-0, 3-3, and at one point we were up 7-3,” Campbell said. “But then we gave it up in the last two innings. One of our goals is to push through those final innings, the fifth, sixth and seventh, and we didn’t do that today. We’ve got to execute that.” But with runners on second and third in the bottom of the seventh, a two-run error by Troy proved to be a walkoff winner. “Our practices are going to be focused on calming down in those high-pressure situations,” Campbell said. “We’ve got to be looking to win games, not looking not to lose them. It’s a mindset thing. “We’ll always take a win, but we know we should have had two of them today. We’ll get there. But we’re not there yet.” Jamie Snay finished the game 2 for 3 with a triple, a homer and four RBIs, while Jessica Snay was also 2 for 3 with a double and an RBI. Megan Schreiber was 1 for 3 but scored three runs and Pierce was 2 for 4. Troy opens Greater

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Alex Cobb scattered four hits in 7 1-3 innings, Kelly Johnson homered and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Indians 6-0 on Saturday night. Cobb (1-0) struck out six and walked three as the Rays blanked Cleveland for the second consecutive game. Joel Peralta and Cesar Ramos completed a five-hitter. Tampa Bay got its first hit when Jose Molina had a one-out single in the fourth. Johnson followed with a two-run homer that put the Rays up 3-0. Indians catcher Lou Marson left the game in the fourth with a cervicalneck strain, when he had a jarring collision with Desmond Jennings. Jennings walked leading off the third, stole second and third before being thrown out at home on Matt Joyce’s grounder.

Jennings slammed hard with Marson, who held onto third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall’s throw. Marson was replaced by designated hitter Carlos Santana. The moves forced Indians starter Trevor Bauer into the lineup. He struck out in the fifth. Bauer (0-1) had control problems in his Cleveland debut, walking his first four batters and seven overall in five innings. The right-hander, obtained in an offseason trade with Arizona as part of a threeteam deal and recalled before the game from Triple-A Columbus, gave up three runs, two hits and had two strikeouts during an 105-pitch outing. The Rays won the series opener when Matt Moore and three relievers combined on a two-hitter in a 4-0 win on Friday night.

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Troy’s Rainey Rohlfs takes a cut during a game against Milford Saturday at Kyle Park in Tipp City. Western Ohio Conference North Division play against rival Piqua on Monday. Tippecanoe and Newton, meanwhile, found themselves in what has become their traditional Strike Out Cancer Tournament war. Newton — which was without ace Kirsten Burden on the day — struck first with two in the first inning, and Erin Hixon found ways out of trouble spots through the first four innings. “We were just popping so many balls up,” Tackett said. “We had eight outs on pops in the first three innings. I knew we could do it, though. She was throwing a nice drop-curve on the outside corner, and we just had to crowd the plate. We hit the ball better after that.” Particularly Jordynn Kostyal. After the Red Devils loaded the bases in the top of the fifth, Kostyal cleared them with one of her two triples, putting the Devils on top with one swing of the bat and eventually coming around to score an insurance run. “Just one inning … but I told the girls that we’ve got to get by that,” Kadel said. “Tippecanoe’s a good team when they decide to be — and they always decide to be against us. They hit the ball well.” Tippecanoe got another insurance run in the top of the seventh on a freak hop in the outfield. Eichbaum drove a single to left, but the ball hit the ground and leaped over the left fielder’s head, sending Eichbaum all the way around the bases to score. “That’s just the way it is sometimes. It just wasn’t our day today,” Kadel said.

Troy’s Mackenzie Vernon delivers a pitch Saturday. “But we did play better in that second game than we did in the first. As young as we are, our goal is to keep improving every game. And we are getting better.” “His team’s young this year, but he does a good job with them,” Tackett said. “I know he’s missing Burden right now, too. We were hoping to see her today, because we’ll be seeing some good lefties in our division and we need to be ready for it.” Eichbaum — who got the win against Newton, striking out six, walking two and giving up six hits — was 2 for 4 with two runs, and Cassie Gingerich was 2 for 4 with a run. The Devils open Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail

Division play Monday against Stebbins, while Newton travels to Lehman Monday before a Tuesday Cross County Conference showdown against Miami East. Newton ..000 100 0 — 1 3 2 Troy........200 101 x — 4 4 2 Hixon and Oaks. Smith and Emerick. WP — Smith. LP — Hixon. Tipp 100 101 — 3 8 5 McAul621 022 — 13 13 3 Eichbaum, Rittenhouse (5) and Goodall, Kostyal (3). LP — Eichbaum. Troy........010 240 0 — 7 8 2 Milford ..030 012 2 — 8 6 2 Vernon, Smith (7) and Snay. LP — Smith. 2B — Je. Snay (T). 3B — Ja. Snay (T). HR — Ja. Snay (T). Records: Troy 3-4. Tipp........000 040 1 — 5 8 1 Newton..200 000 0 — 2 6 3 Eichbaum and Kostyal. Hixon and Oaks. WP — Eichbaum. LP — Oaks. 3B — Kostyal 2 (T). Records: Tippecanoe 4-3, Newton 2-2.

Blocking theories like opinions — everyone has one MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Tony Stewart says never. Joey Logano says late in the race. Jimmie Johnson says to protect a victory in the final laps, except, perhaps, if Stewart is behind him because of the potential consequences. Theories on blocking and when it is acceptable vary widely in the NASCAR garage. The topic has become a hot one since the last race two weeks ago in California, where an infuriated Stewart confronted Logano’s crew and accused the young driver of blocking him late in the race. “I don’t like blocking. I never have, I never will,” Stewart said at Martinsville Speedway. “It’s our jobs as drivers to go out there and try to pass people. That is what racing is about. We didn’t have blocking 10 years ago. I don’t know where all of a sudden it became a common deal or some people think it’s alright to do now and think it’s common practice. I don’t believe it should be common practice.” Others disagree, especially when trying to hang on for a victory. “Those are decisions we all make on the track and when you are in the sport long enough, you realize what those decisions could lead to and, honestly, who you throw a block on,” Johnson said. “They could come back and haunt you, so as we are trying to win a race, win for our team, win for

our sponsors, there are these other elements that you may not consciously think of, but there is this quick snapshot that flashes through your mind when you throw a block,” he continued, adding that if you see Stewart approaching in your rear view mirror, “you probably expect something is going to happen.” Blocking can be keeping a car in front of you by continually positioning your car in front of theirs, or taking away their preferred line around the track by adopting it for yourself, even if it’s not your preferred line. The thinking is if a driver is gaining on you, taking away his line can slow that. At Martinsville, where the Sprint Cup Series will race 500 laps on Sunday, cars typically swing wide heading into the turns at each end of the track, then hug the inside curb. A blocking maneuver by a leader might cut down that wide swing, forcing a challenger to drive higher up in the turn away from the curb. It helps to know a fellow competitor’s views, and tendencies, he said. “He has made that known over the years, so there are guys that you probably don’t want to do that to,” Johnson said of Stewart. “But then again, at the end of the race I feel like things go to the next level and they change and to defend for a win, you have to take some extreme measures at times.”

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Baltimore 3 2 .600 3 2 .600 Boston 3 2 .600 Tampa Bay 2 3 .400 Toronto 1 4 .200 New York Central Division W L Pct Chicago 3 2 .600 Detroit 3 2 .600 3 2 .600 Minnesota 2 3 .400 Cleveland 2 3 .400 Kansas City West Division W L Pct Oakland 4 2 .667 Texas 3 2 .600 3 3 .500 Seattle 2 3 .400 Los Angeles 1 4 .200 Houston NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 4 1 .800 Washington 4 1 .800 3 2 .600 New York 2 3 .400 Philadelphia 1 4 .200 Miami Central Division W L Pct Cincinnati 3 2 .600 Chicago 2 3 .400 2 3 .400 St. Louis 1 3 .250 Pittsburgh 1 4 .200 Milwaukee West Division W L Pct Arizona 4 1 .800 Colorado 3 1 .750 San Francisco 3 2 .600 2 2 .500 Los Angeles 1 3 .250 San Diego

GB WCGB — — — — — — 1 1 2 2

L10 3-2 3-2 3-2 2-3 1-4

Str Home Away L-1 1-1 2-1 L-1 0-0 3-2 W-2 3-2 0-0 W-1 2-3 0-0 L-2 1-2 0-2

GB WCGB — — — — — — 1 1 1 1

L10 3-2 3-2 3-2 2-3 2-3

Str Home Away W-1 3-2 0-0 W-2 2-0 1-2 W-1 2-1 1-1 L-3 0-0 2-3 L-1 0-0 2-3

GB WCGB — — ½ — 1 ½ 1½ 1 2½ 2

L10 4-2 3-2 3-3 2-3 1-4

Str Home Away W-4 2-2 2-0 L-1 1-1 2-1 L-1 0-0 3-3 W-1 0-0 2-3 L-4 1-4 0-0

GB WCGB — — — — 1 ½ 2 1½ 3 2½

L10 4-1 4-1 3-2 2-3 1-4

Str Home Away W-2 4-1 0-0 W-1 3-0 1-1 W-1 3-2 0-0 W-1 1-1 1-2 L-1 0-0 1-4

GB WCGB — — 1 1½ 1 1½ 1½ 2 2 2½

L10 3-2 2-3 2-3 1-3 1-4

Str Home Away L-1 3-2 0-0 L-2 0-0 2-3 W-1 0-0 2-3 L-2 1-2 0-1 L-4 1-4 0-0

GB WCGB — — ½ — 1 ½ 1½ 1 2½ 2

L10 4-1 3-1 3-2 2-2 1-3

Str Home Away W-3 2-1 2-0 W-3 1-0 2-1 L-1 1-1 2-1 W-1 2-2 0-0 L-1 0-0 1-3

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Detroit 8, N.Y. Yankees 3 Texas 3, L.A. Angels 2 Baltimore 9, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 13, Philadelphia 4 Boston 6, Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 Oakland 8, Houston 3 Seattle 8, Chicago White Sox 7, 10 innings Saturday's Games Toronto 5, Boston 0 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 3 L.A. Angels 8, Texas 4 Detroit 8, N.Y. Yankees 4 Philadelphia 4, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 6, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 0 Oakland 6, Houston 3 Sunday's Games N.Y.Yankees (Sabathia 0-1) at Detroit (Verlander 1-0), 1:05 p.m. Boston (Lester 1-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-1), 1:07 p.m. Kansas City (Shields 0-1) at Philadelphia (Hamels 0-1), 1:35 p.m. Minnesota (P.Hernandez 0-0) at Baltimore (Hammel 1-0), 1:35 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 1-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 0-0), 1:40 p.m. Oakland (Anderson 0-1) at Houston (Harrell 0-1), 2:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 1-0), 2:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0) at Texas (Darvish 1-0), 8:05 p.m. Monday's Games Baltimore at Boston, 2:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, 4:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games Kansas City 13, Philadelphia 4 Colorado 5, San Diego 2 San Francisco 1, St. Louis 0 Miami 7, N.Y. Mets 5 Cincinnati 15, Washington 0 Atlanta 4, Chicago Cubs 1 Arizona 3, Milwaukee 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, Pittsburgh 0 Saturday's Games N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 3 Washington 7, Cincinnati 6, 11 innings St. Louis 6, San Francisco 3 Philadelphia 4, Kansas City 3 Arizona 9, Milwaukee 2 Atlanta 6, Chicago Cubs 5 San Diego at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. Sunday's Games Miami (Fernandez 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Laffey 0-0), 1:10 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 1-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-0), 1:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 1-0) at Atlanta (Hudson 0-0), 1:35 p.m. Kansas City (Shields 0-1) at Philadelphia (Hamels 0-1), 1:35 p.m. Arizona (Kennedy 1-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 0-0), 2:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 0-1) at San Francisco (M.Cain 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 0-1), 4:10 p.m. San Diego (Volquez 0-1) at Colorado (Chacin 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Monday's Games Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston . . . . .000 000 000—0 2 0 Toronto . . . . .000 203 00x—5 8 1 Lackey, Aceves (5) and D.Ross; Happ, Delabar (6), Loup (8), Santos (9) and Arencibia. W_Happ 1-0. L_Lackey 0-1. HRs_Toronto, Arencibia (3), Rasmus (2). Seattle . . . . . .010 000 020—3 6 1 Chicago . . . .000 012 10x—4 6 1 F.Hernandez, Furbush (7), Pryor (8) and Shoppach; Axelrod, Veal (6), N.Jones (7), Thornton (8), Crain (8), A.Reed (9) and Gimenez. W_Veal 1-0. L_F.Hernandez 1-1. Sv_A.Reed (3). HRs_Seattle, M.Saunders (1). Chicago, Rios (2). Los Angeles .410 002 100—8 12 0 Texas . . . . . . .002 001 001—4 9 1 Hanson, S.Burnett (7), Jepsen (8), Frieri (9) and Iannetta; M.Harrison, Frasor (6), J.Ortiz (6), R.Ross (8) and Pierzynski. W_Hanson 1-0. L_M.Harrison 0-2. HRs_Los Angeles, Pujols 2 (2), Trumbo (1), Bourjos (1). Texas, Moreland (1), Kinsler (2), N.Cruz (1). NewYork . . . .010 003 000—4 6 2 Detroit . . . . . .100 042 01x—8 17 0

P.Hughes, Logan (5), Phelps (5), Chamberlain (8) and Cervelli; Scherzer, Alburquerque (6), D.Downs (7), Benoit (9) and Avila. W_Scherzer 1-0. L_P.Hughes 0-1. HRs_New York, Wells (2). Minnesota . . .014 000 001—6 9 1 Baltimore . . .201 020 000—5 11 2 Worley, Roenicke (6), Perkins (9) and Mauer; Tillman, McFarland (4), O'Day (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters. W_Roenicke 1-0. L_Ji.Johnson 0-1. Sv_Perkins (1). HRs_Minnesota, Parmelee (1). Cleveland . . .000 000 000—0 5 0 Tampa Bay . .100 201 02x—6 9 0 Bauer, Albers (6), Allen (7) and Marson, C.Santana; Cobb, Jo.Peralta (8), C.Ramos (9) and J.Molina. 1-0. L_Bauer 0-1. W_Cobb HRs_Tampa Bay, K.Johnson (1). INTERLEAGUE Kansas City .000 020 100—3 6 0 Philadelphia .000 010 003—4 3 2 Mendoza, Crow (7), K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez; Lannan, Mi.Adams (8), Bastardo (9) and Quintero. W_Bastardo 1-0. L_G.Holland 0-1. NATIONAL LEAGUE Washington002 002 10002—7 10 3 Cincinnati .000 100 02201—6 13 0 (11 innings) Detwiler, Clippard (7), Storen (8), R.Soriano (9), Stammen (10) and W.Ramos; Leake, LeCure (7), Simon (8), Broxton (9), Chapman (10), Hoover (11) and Mesoraco. W_Stammen 1-0. L_Hoover 0-2. HRs_Washington, Harper (3), W.Ramos 2 (2), Werth (2), Desmond (1). Cincinnati, Choo (3). Miami . . . . . . .100 010 100—3 11 2 NewYork . . . .100 002 31x—7 9 1 Nolasco, Webb (6), Qualls (8) and Olivo; Niese, Atchison (7), Edgin (7), Lyon (8), Parnell (9) and Buck. W_Lyon 1-0. L_Webb 0-1. HRs_New York, Cowgill (2). St. Louis . . . .100 031 001—6 11 0 San Fran . . . .011 000 010—3 7 0 S.Miller, Choate (6), Salas (7), Mujica (8), Boggs (9) and Y.Molina; Vogelsong, Mijares (6), Kontos (7), J.Lopez (9), S.Casilla (9) and Posey. W_S.Miller 1-0. L_Vogelsong 0-1. Sv_Boggs (1). HRs_San Francisco, Pence (2), Sandoval (2). Arizona . . . . .100 320 210—9 16 0 Milwaukee . .110 000 000—2 10 3 Corbin, Bell (7), Mat.Reynolds (8), Sipp (9) and M.Montero; Fiers, Narveson (6), Figaro (7), Kintzler (9) and Lucroy. W_Corbin 1-0. L_Fiers 0-1. HRs_Arizona, Kubel (1), Goldschmidt (2), A.Hill (1). Chicago . . . .100 130 000—5 13 0 Atlanta . . . . . .100 000 032—6 12 1 Villanueva, Russell (7), Fujikawa (8), Marmol (9) and Castillo; Teheran, C.Martinez (6), Varvaro (8), Gearrin (8), O'Flaherty (9) and Laird. W_O'Flaherty 10. L_Marmol 0-1. HRs_Chicago, Valbuena (1), Rizzo (2). Atlanta, J.Upton 2 (5), B.Upton (1).

HOCKEY National Hockey League All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 39 29 10 0 58127 95 N.Y. Rangers 38 19 15 4 42 93 90 N.Y. Islanders 39 19 16 4 42113119 New Jersey 38 15 14 9 39 90103 Philadelphia 38 17 18 3 37106118 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 38 25 8 5 55120 91 Boston 37 24 9 4 52102 79 Toronto 38 21 13 4 46117106 Ottawa 37 19 12 6 44 93 83 Buffalo 38 15 17 6 36102116 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 38 19 17 2 40113108 Winnipeg 40 19 19 2 40 98120 Carolina 37 16 19 2 34 97115 Tampa Bay 37 16 19 2 34119110 Florida 38 12 20 6 30 94131 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 37 28 5 4 60123 80 Detroit 38 19 14 5 43 99100 St. Louis 36 20 14 2 42105 98 Columbus 38 16 15 7 39 91101 Nashville 39 15 16 8 38 93104 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 37 20 11 6 46 98 93 Minnesota 37 21 14 2 44100 97 Edmonton 38 16 15 7 39100106 Calgary 36 13 19 4 30 97128 Colorado 37 12 20 5 29 89117 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 38 25 8 5 55117 95 Los Angeles 38 22 13 3 47111 92 San Jose 37 20 11 6 46 94 89 Phoenix 37 16 15 6 38101104

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 12:30 p.m. FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, STP Gas Booster 500, at Martinsville, Va. 2 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, Indy Lights, Legacy Indy Lights 100, at Birmingham, Ala. (same-day tape) 3 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, Grand Prix of Alabama, at Birmingham, Ala. 11 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, SummitRacing.com Nationals, at Las Vegas (same-day tape) COLLEGE SOFTBALL 1 p.m. FSN — Marshall at Houston 3 p.m. ESPN — Baylor at Oklahoma CYCLING 8 a.m. NBCSN — Paris-Roubaix, Compiegne to Roubaix, France GOLF 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Texas Open, final round, at San Antonio 3 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour, Texas Open, final round, at San Antonio 5 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, final round, at Rancho Mirage, Calif. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. FSN — Washington at Cincinnati 2 p.m. WGN — Seattle at Chicago White Sox 8 p.m. ESPN2 — L.A. Angels at Texas MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. CBS — NCAA Division II tournament, championship, Metro State-West Liberty winner vs. Western Washington-Drury winner, at Atlanta MOTORSPORTS 3 p.m. SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, at Doha, Qatar 11 p.m. SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, at Doha, Qatar (same-day tape) NBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ABC — New York at Oklahoma City 3:30 p.m. ABC — L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers NHL HOCKEY 12:30 p.m. NBC — St. Louis at Detroit 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — New Jersey at Buffalo RODEO 1 p.m. CBS — PBR, Stanley Make Something Great Invitational, at Billings, Mont. (previous and same-day tape) SOCCER 5 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS, New York at Chicago TENNIS 1 p.m. ESPN2 — WTA, Family Circle Cup, championship match, at Charleston, S.C. WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament, national semifinal, teams TBD, at New Orleans 8:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament, national semifinal, teams TBD, at New Orleans 37 17 17 3 37 99113 Dallas NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Friday's Games Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO Buffalo 4, Ottawa 2 St. Louis 3, Columbus 1 Detroit 3, Colorado 2, OT Dallas 3, Anaheim 1 San Jose 2, Calgary 1 Saturday's Games Winnipeg 4, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 1, Nashville 0 Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 1 Montreal 2, Boston 1 Toronto 2, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 1 Washington 4, Florida 3 Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Sunday's Games St. Louis at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. Dallas at San Jose, 4 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Columbus, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m. Nashville at Chicago, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Anaheim, 9 p.m. Monday's Games Carolina at Boston, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 9 p.m. Phoenix at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct W L x-New York 49 26 .653 x-Brooklyn 44 32 .579 x-Boston 39 37 .513 Philadelphia 31 45 .408 Toronto 29 48 .377 Southeast Division W L Pct z-Miami 60 16 .789 x-Atlanta 42 36 .538 Washington 29 47 .382 Orlando 19 58 .247 Charlotte 18 59 .234 Central Division W L Pct x-Indiana 48 29 .623 x-Chicago 42 33 .560 Milwaukee 37 39 .487 Detroit 25 52 .325 Cleveland 23 52 .307 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct x-San Antonio 57 20 .740 x-Memphis 51 25 .671 Houston 43 33 .566 Dallas 37 39 .487 New Orleans 26 50 .342 Northwest Division W L Pct x-Oklahoma City 56 20 .737 x-Denver 52 24 .684 Utah 40 37 .519 Portland 33 43 .434 Minnesota 29 47 .382 Pacific Division W L Pct x-L.A. Clippers 50 26 .658 Golden State 44 32 .579 L.A. Lakers 40 36 .526 Sacramento 27 49 .355 Phoenix 23 53 .303 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Friday's Games Cleveland 97, Boston 91 New York 101, Milwaukee 83 Philadelphia 101, Atlanta 90 Chicago 87, Orlando 86 Toronto 95, Minnesota 93 Miami 89, Charlotte 79 Oklahoma City 97, Indiana 75

GB — 5½ 10½ 18½ 21 GB — 19 31 41½ 42½ GB — 5 10½ 23 24

GB — 5½ 13½ 19½ 30½ GB — 4 16½ 23 27 GB — 6 10 23 27

Utah 95, New Orleans 83 Golden State 111, Phoenix 107 Dallas 117, Sacramento 108 L.A. Lakers 86, Memphis 84 Houston 116, Portland 98 Saturday's Games Washington 104, Indiana 85 Brooklyn 105, Charlotte 96 Miami 106, Philadelphia 87 Minnesota 107, Detroit 101 San Antonio 99, Atlanta 97 Milwaukee 100, Toronto 83 Houston at Denver, 9 p.m. Sunday's Games New York at Oklahoma City, 1 p.m. L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m. Memphis at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Washington at Boston, 6 p.m. Orlando at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Golden State, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Dallas at Portland, 9 p.m. NCAA Tournament Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND N.C. A&T 73, Liberty 72 Saint Mary's (Cal) 67, Middle Tennessee 54 James Madison 68, LIU Brooklyn 55 La Salle 80, Boise State 71 EAST REGIONAL Second Round Butler 68, Bucknell 56 Marquette 59, Davidson 58 California 64, UNLV 61 Syracuse 81, Montana 34 Temple 76, N.C. State 72 Indiana 83, James Madison 62 Miami 78, Pacific 49 Illinois 57, Colorado 49 Third Round Marquette 74, Butler 72 Syracuse 66, California 60 Indiana 58, Temple 52 Miami 63, Illinois 59 Regional Semifinals Marquette 71, Miami 61 Syracuse 61, Indiana 50 Regional Championship Syracuse 55, Marquette 39 SOUTH REGIONAL Second Round Michigan 71, South Dakota State 56 VCU 88, Akron 42 Florida Gulf Coast 78, Georgetown 68 San Diego State 70, Oklahoma 55 North Carolina 78, Villanova 71 Kansas 64, Western Kentucky 57 Florida 79, Northwestern State 47 Minnesota 83, UCLA 63 Third Round Michigan 78, VCU 53 Florida Gulf Coast 81, San Diego State 71 Kansas 70, North Carolina 58 Florida 78, Minnesota 64 Regional Semifinals Michigan 87, Kansas 85, OT Florida 62, Florida Gulf Coast 50 Regional Championship Michigan 79, Florida 59 MIDWEST REGIONAL Second Round Louisville 79, N.C. A&T 48 Colorado State 84, Missouri 72 Michigan State 65, Valparaiso 54 Memphis 54, Saint Mary's (Cal) 52 Saint Louis 64, New Mexico State 44 Oregon 68, Oklahoma State 55 Duke 73, Albany (N.Y.) 61 Creighton 67, Cincinnati 63 Third Round Louisville 82, Colorado State 56 Michigan State 70, Memphis 48 Oregon 74, Saint Louis 57 Duke 66, Creighton 50 Regional Semifinals Louisville 77, Oregon 69 Duke 71, Michigan State 61 Regional Championship Louisville 85, Duke 63 WEST REGIONAL

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Second Round Wichita State 73, Pittsburgh 55 Gonzaga 64, Southern 58 Arizona 81, Belmont 64 Harvard 68, New Mexico 62 Ohio State 95, Iona 70 Iowa State 76, Notre Dame 58 Mississippi 57, Wisconsin 46 La Salle 63, Kansas State 61 Third Round Arizona 74, Harvard 51 Wichita State 76, Gonzaga 70 Ohio State 78, Iowa State 75 La Salle 76, Mississippi 74 Regional Semifinals Ohio State 73, Arizona 70 Wichita State 72, La Salle 58 Regional Championship Wichita State 70, Ohio State 66 FINAL FOUR At The Georgia Dome Atlanta National Semifinals Saturday, April 6 Louisville 72, Wichita State 68 Michigan (30-7) vs. Syracuse (30-9), 8:30 p.m. National Championship Monday, April 8 Louisville (34-5) vs. Michigan-Syracuse winner, 9 p.m. NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Glance All Times EDT OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL First Round Oklahoma 78, Central Michigan 73 UCLA 66, Stetson 49 Creighton 61, Syracuse 56 Tennessee 83, Oral Roberts 62 Florida State 60, Princeton 44 Baylor 82, Prairie View 40 Purdue 77, Liberty 43 Louisville 74, Middle Tennessee 49 Second Round Oklahoma 85, UCLA 72 Tennessee 68, Creighton 52 Baylor 85, Florida State 47 Louisville 76, Purdue 63 Regional Semifinals Tennessee 74, Oklahoma 59 Louisville 82, Baylor 81 Regional Championship Louisville 86, Tennessee 78 SPOKANE REGIONAL First Round Iowa State 72, Gonzaga 60 Georgia 70, Montana 50 California 90, Fresno State 76 South Florida 71, Texas Tech 70 Stanford 72, Tulsa 56 Michigan 60, Villanova 52 Penn State 85, Cal Poly 55 LSU 75, Green Bay 71 Second Round Georgia 65, Iowa State 60 California 82, South Florida 78, OT Stanford 73, Michigan 40 LSU 71, Penn State 66 Regional Semifinals Georgia 61, Stanford 59 California 73, LSU 63 Regional Championship California 65, Georgia 62, OT NORFOLK REGIONAL First Round South Carolina 74, South Dakota State 52 Kansas 67, Colorado 52 Texas A&M 71, Wichita State 45 Nebraska 73, Chattanooga 59 Notre Dame 97, UT-Martin 64 Iowa 69, Miami 53 Duke 67, Hampton 51 Oklahoma State 73, DePaul 56 Second Round Kansas 75, South Carolina 69 Nebraska 74, Texas A&M 63 Notre Dame 74, Iowa 57 Duke 68, Oklahoma State 59 Regional Semifinals Notre Dame 93, Kansas 63 Duke 53, Nebraska 45 Regional Championship Notre Dame 87, Duke 76 BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL First Round Vanderbilt 60, Saint Joseph's 54 Connecticut 105, Idaho 37 Maryland 72, Quinnipiac 52 Michigan State 55, Marist 47 Delaware 66, West Virginia 53 North Carolina 59, Albany (N.Y.) 54 Kentucky 61, Navy 41 Dayton 96, St. John's 90, 2OT Second Round Connecticut 77, Vanderbilt 44 Maryland 74, Michigan State 49 Delaware 78, North Carolina 69 Kentucky 84, Dayton 70 Regional Semifinals Kentucky 69, Delaware 62 Connecticut 76, Maryland 50 Regional Championship Connecticut 83, Kentucky 53 FINAL FOUR At New Orleans Arena New Orleans National Semifinals Sunday, April 7 Louisville (28-8) vs. California (32-3), 6:30 p.m. Notre Dame (35-1) vs. Connecticut (334), 8:30 p.m. National Championship Tuesday, April 9 Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

AUTO RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-STP Gas Booster 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Va. Lap length: .526 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 98.4. 2. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 98.364. 3. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 98.287. 4. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 98.272. 5. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 98.185. 6. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 98.185. 7. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 98.078. 8. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 98.017. 9. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 97.962. 10. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 97.962. 11. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 97.947. 12. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 97.941. 13. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 97.85. 14. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 97.78. 15. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 97.719. 16. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 97.643. 17. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 97.613. 18. (51) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 97.513. 19. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 97.458. 20. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 97.442. 21. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,

97.432. 22. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 97.417. 23. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 97.382. 24. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 97.297. 25. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 97.247. 26. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 97.217. 27. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 97.177. 28. (95) Scott Speed, Ford, 97.048. 29. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 96.993. 30. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 96.949. 31. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 96.904. 32. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 96.899. 33. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 96.879. 34. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 96.83. 35. (11) Mark Martin, Toyota, 96.755. 36. (32) Ken Schrader, Ford, 96.676. 37. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 38. (44) Scott Riggs, Ford, Owner Points. 39. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 40. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points. 41. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, Owner Points. 42. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points. 43. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points. Failed to Qualify 44. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 96.543.

GOLF Valero Texas Open Scores Saturday At TPC San Antonio San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Third Round Billy Horschel................68-68-70—206 Jim Furyk ......................69-70-69—208 Charley Hoffman ..........71-67-70—208 Ryan Palmer .................71-71-68—210 Bob Estes......................72-69-69—210 Rory McIlroy..................72-67-71—210 Padraig Harrington .......68-73-70—211 Martin Laird...................70-71-70—211 Jeff Overton ..................69-72-70—211 K.J. Choi........................72-67-72—211 Daniel Summerhays.....69-69-73—211 Marcel Siem..................76-67-69—212 D.J.Trahan.....................70-71-71—212 Martin Flores.................71-72-70—213 David Lynn....................72-70-71—213 Richard H. Lee..............74-70-69—213 Jason Kokrak ................74-68-72—214 Shane Lowry.................70-72-72—214 Nicholas Thompson .....71-73-71—215 William McGirt ..............70-72-73—215 Freddie Jacobson.........70-74-71—215 Bud Cauley ...................71-71-73—215 Aaron Baddeley............74-70-71—215 Steve LeBrun................72-69-74—215 Matt Kuchar...................74-70-71—215 Charl Schwartzel ..........72-73-70—215 John Mallinger ..............73-72-70—215 Ben Kohles....................69-70-76—215 Steven Bowditch...........69-69-77—215 Kevin Chappell..............75-69-72—216 Brian Davis....................69-72-75—216 Ken Duke ......................73-68-75—216 Brendan Steele.............72-72-72—216 Brian Harman ...............72-69-75—216 Alistair Presnell.............69-72-75—216 Charlie Beljan ...............71-74-71—216 Neal Lancaster .............75-70-71—216 Brendon de Jonge........70-69-77—216 Justin Leonard ..............72-71-74—217 Paul Haley II..................73-70-74—217 Stuart Appleby..............75-69-73—217 Bryce Molder ................68-74-75—217 Chris DiMarco...............75-69-73—217 Seung-Yul Noh..............73-71-73—217 Brian Gay......................71-70-76—217 Joe Durant ....................70-71-76—217 Nathan Green...............69-72-76—217 Peter Tomasulo .............67-73-77—217 Jason Gore ...................69-71-77—217 Matt Bettencourt...........67-73-77—217 Ben Curtis.....................74-71-72—217 Todd Baek.....................73-72-72—217 Scott Stallings...............73-70-75—218 Harris English ...............68-75-75—218 Brad Fritsch...................70-73-75—218 John Merrick .................74-71-73—218 Lee Janzen ...................70-69-79—218 Andres Romero ............69-76-73—218 Henrik Norlander ..........74-71-73—218 John Huh.......................74-69-76—219 Jeff Gove.......................71-73-75—219 Luke List........................73-71-75—219 Peter Hanson................70-71-78—219 Troy Matteson ...............76-69-74—219 Ian Poulter.....................70-75-74—219 D.A. Points.....................74-71-74—219 Joe Ogilvie ....................71-74-74—219 Retief Goosen...............70-69-80—219 Russell Knox.................73-72-74—219 Cameron Percy.............72-71-77—220 Greg Chalmers.............72-71-77—220 Scott Langley................73-70-77—220 Jimmy Walker................71-73-76—220 Brendon Todd................73-72-75—220 Made cut, did not finish Wes Short, Jr................71-71-79—221 Johnson Wagner ..........74-70-77—221 John Peterson...............70-75-76—221 Gary Woodland.............71-74-76—221 Kyle Stanley ..................74-70-78—222 Matt Every.....................70-75-78—223 Justin Bolli.....................76-69-78—223 Joey Snyder III..............72-73-87—232 LPGA-Kraft Nabisco Championship Scores Saturday At Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament Course Rancho Mirage, Calif. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,738; Par: 72 (a-amateur) Third Round Inbee Park.....................70-67-67—204 Lizette Salas .................70-68-69—207 Angela Stanford............70-74-66—210 Suzann Pettersen.........68-75-67—210 Karrie Webb..................72-71-67—210 Karine Icher ..................72-70-68—210 Jessica Korda ...............70-72-68—210 Pornanong Phatlum .....71-69-70—210 Paula Creamer .............74-68-69—211 Caroline Hedwall ..........71-68-72—211 So Yeon Ryu .................73-71-68—212 Jiyai Shin.......................70-71-71—212 Hee Young Park............70-70-72—212 Sarah Jane Smith.........72-72-69—213 Hee Kyung Seo ............72-70-71—213 Anna Nordqvis..............69-72-72—213 Ayako Uehara ...............72-72-70—214 Caroline Masson ..........70-73-71—214 Moriya Jutanugarn........70-72-72—214 Cristie Kerr ....................71-71-72—214 Haeji Kang ....................72-69-73—214 Jodi Ewart Shadoff.......68-72-74—214 Belen Mozo...................74-72-69—215 Catriona Matthew .........72-73-70—215 Stacy Lewis...................73-71-71—215 Na Yeon Choi ................68-75-72—215 Michelle Wie..................72-70-73—215 Amy Yang ......................69-73-73—215 Giulia Sergas ................70-69-76—215

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Vital signs show mixed recovery WASHINGTON (AP) — From household wealth to spending at stores, many of the U.S. economy’s vital signs have recovered from the damage done by the Great Recession. Home foreclosures and layoffs have dropped to prerecession levels. Economic output has rebounded. And the Dow Jones industrial average is in record territory. So is the economy back to full health? Not quite. Not with unemployment at 7.7 percent and with 3 million fewer jobs than when the recession began. And while the housing market is improving, that engine of economic growth and job creation still has far to go before it can be declared healthy. Perhaps the best way to think about the U.S. economy is this: After five painful years, it’s nearly back to where it started when the recession began. What’s different now is that the trends are much healthier. Gone are the fears that the economy could fall into another recession. “We’ve made a lot of progress,” says Michael Gapen, senior U.S. economist at Barclays Capital. The recession officially began in December 2007. It ended in June 2009. Here’s a look at ways in which the economy has returned to pre-recession levels and ways it hasn’t: • WHAT’S BACK: H O U S E H O L D WEALTH: Americans lost $16 trillion in wealth during the recession, mainly because home values and stock prices sank. Those losses have now been reversed. Household “net worth” reached $66.1 trillion in the final three months of 2012, according to the Federal Reserve. That was just 2 percent below the peak reached in the fall of 2007. And steady increases in stock prices and home values so far this year have allowed Americans as a whole to regain all their lost wealth, though many individual families have yet to recover. Increased net worth is vital to the economy because it typically drives more spending. Net worth equals the value of homes, investments, bank accounts and other assets, minus debts such as mortgages, student loans and credit card balances. RETAIL SALES: Just as household wealth has recovered, so has consumers’ willingness to spend more to shop, eat out or go on vacation. That trend has spurred job growth at retailers and

grown by 13 million since then. As a result, a much smaller proportion of people are either working or looking for work than before the recession. The labor force participation rate the percentage of adults with a job or seeking one has sunk from its prerecession level of 66 percent to 63.5 percent in February. That matches a 30-year low. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: When the recession began, unemployment was 5 percent. Now, it’s 7.7 percent. Probably no figure better illustrates the downturn’s lingering damage. The unemployment rate is well below the recession’s peak of 10 percent in October 2009 but far above the 5 percent to 6 percent range associated with a healthy economy. Twelve million people are unemployed. Yet that figure doesn’t include 2.6 million people without jobs who have stopped looking for one. An additional 8 million work part time but want fulltime work. Combining all those groups, 22.6 million people are either unemployed or “underemployed.” HOUSING: The housing market has been recovering for about a year but still hasn’t reached normal levels. Previously occupied homes were sold in February at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 4.98 million. An annual rate of about 5.5 million would be healthy. In the recession, sales had bottomed at 3.8 million. And last month, builders began work on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 917,000 homes. That’s way up from a recession low of 478,000. But it’s still far from a healthy annual rate of roughly 1.5 million. Prices have risen nearly 9 percent since bottoming in March 2012, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index, but they remain 29 percent below their pre-recession peak. Still, housing differs from other sectors: Its peaks occurred during a housing bubble that eventually burst. Few expect or even want prices to return to those levels soon. AUTO SALES: Auto sales have nearly returned to where they were. Americans bought cars at an annual rate of nearly 16 million in December 2007. Sales plunged to 10.4 million in 2009. In March this year, the annual sales pace was 15.3 million. The rebound has stimulated hiring and restored the once-bankrupt General Motors and Chrysler to health.

AP PHOTO/MIKE GROLL, FILE

Marty Grossman shops for a hat at Lodge’s store in Albany, N.Y., Feb. 26. After five painful years, the economy is nearly back to where it started when the recession began. What’s different now is that the trends are much healthier. Gone are the fears that the economy could fall into another recession.

AP PHOTO/AL BEHRMAN, FILE

A sold sign is posted in front of a home for sale in Mariemont, Ohio, March 12. From household wealth to spending at stores, many of the U.S. economyís vital signs have recovered from the damage done by the Great Recession. While the housing market is improving, that engine of economic growth and job creation still has far to go before it can be deemed healthy. restaurants. Retail sales totaled $421.4 billion in February. Adjusted for inflation, that was nearly 18 percent above the recession low and just 0.7 percent below the record level in November 2007. LAYOFFS: The job market remains weak by some measures. But consider this: If you have a job, you’re less likely to lose it than at any other point in at least 12 years. That marks a sharp turnaround from the depths of the recession, when layoffs soared from 1.8 million in December 2007 to 2.6 million in January 2009. In

January this year, employers cut 1.5 million jobs the lowest monthly total in the 12 years the government has tracked such data. That explains why the number of people seeking first-time unemployment benefits each week has plummeted. That number reached 667,000 one week in March 2009, the most in nearly 25 years. Over the past month, weekly applications have averaged 354,000, only slightly more than in December 2007. FORECLOSURES: Among the most visible signs of the recession were the “Foreclosure” and “Bank

Owned” signs that dotted housing developments around the country. But home prices have been rising steadily. Foreclosures have sunk back to prerecession levels. Banks repossessed 45,000 homes in February 2013, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing firm. That was the fewest since September 2007 and was down from a peak of 102,000 in March 2010. STOCK MARKET: Last month, the stock market finally regained the painful losses investors suffered during the recession. The Dow Jones industrial

average closed at an alltime high of 14,253.77 on March 6. That topped its previous peak of 14,164.53 in October 2007. The Dow had plunged all the way to 6,547.05 in March 2009. It closed even higher on Tuesday at 14,662. 01. And the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, a broader measure of the market, reached a record 1,570.25. GDP: America’s economy is producing more goods and services than before the recession began. In the final three months of 2007, it produced an annual rate of $13.3 trillion in goods and services, a record high. That figure had shrunk to $12.7 trillion when the recession ended. It then began to recover. The U.S. gross domestic product, the broadest gauge of production, regained its previous peak by the end of 2011. And in the final three months of 2012, GDP was $13.7 trillion. Still, that gain comes with an asterisk, because the population has grown. Viewed on a per capita basis, GDP at the end of 2012 remained 1.5 percent below its pre-recession peak. • WHAT’S NOT BACK: TOTAL JOBS: The United States still has many fewer jobs than in December 2007. The recession eliminated 8.7 million. Since then, 5.7 million jobs have come back, leaving the economy 3 million short. And the population of Americans 16 and older has

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Total Assets Name Obj ($Mlns) NAV American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 59,807 55.08 American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 48,072 39.09 American Funds GrthAmA m LG 58,253 36.70 American Funds IncAmerA m MA 60,003 19.02 American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 46,350 32.55 Dodge & Cox IntlStk FB 42,802 35.51 Dodge & Cox Stock LV 44,907 134.08 Fidelity Contra LG 63,448 82.73 Fidelity Magellan LG 12,345 78.71 Fidelity Advisor HiIncAdvT m HY 549 10.63 FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 44,354 2.31 Janus GlbRsrchT WS 111 50.32 Janus RsrchT LG 1,320 34.88 Putnam MultiCapGrA m LG 3,016 59.69 Vanguard 500Adml LB 66,504 143.19 Vanguard InstIdxI LB 75,168 142.27 Vanguard InstPlus LB 56,766 142.28 Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 67,969 38.91 Vanguard TotStIIns LB 45,547 38.91 Vanguard TotStIdx LB 90,136 38.89

Total Return/Rank 4-wk 12-mo 5-year +1.5 +12.8/A +3.2/B +0.3 +14.9/A +1.4/C -0.1 +13.3/A +3.4/D +1.4 +13.7/A +5.5/B +1.5 +13.8/B +3.8/C -1.7 +13.3/B 0.0/A +1.2 +21.2/A +3.6/C +0.3 +8.5/B +5.3/B -0.4 +9.7/B -0.4/E +0.9 +13.9/A +9.3/C +1.4 +14.3/A +6.1/A -2.4 +5.5/E +2.3/C -0.3 +9.2/B +4.2/C -0.1 +6.1/C +4.7/C +1.0 +13.6/B +4.9/B +1.0 +13.6/B +4.9/B +1.0 +13.6/B +4.9/B +0.9 +13.9/B +5.5/A +0.9 +13.8/B +5.5/A +0.9 +13.7/B +5.4/A

Pct Min Init Load Invt 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 4.00 2,500 4.25 1,000 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 5.75 0 NL 10,000 NL 5,000,000 NL200,000,000 NL 10,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 3,000

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Sunday, April 7, the 97th day of 2013. There are 268 days left in the year. Today’s Highligh: On April 7, 1953, the U.N. General Assembly ratified Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden as the new secretary-general, succeeding Trygve Lie of Norway. On this date: In 1788, an expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.

In 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created by an act of Congress, with Natchez as the capital. In 1922, the Teapot Dome scandal began as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. In 1927, the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New

York in the first successful longdistance demonstration of television. In 1959, a referendum in Oklahoma repealed the state’s ban on alcoholic beverages. In 1969, the Supreme Court, in Stanley v. Georgia, unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.

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PIQUA — Unity National Bank is proud to present Debbie Robart as retail sales associate who will be responsible for serving Unity’s existing customers, as well as introducing prospective customers, while working closely with branch managers, loan originators, trust and investment associates as well as Unity’s commercial loan team. Robart was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Ind., and she attended Indiana University. She previously was employed at the Piqua Country Club as the wedding and event coordinator. She is excited to begin her career in banking and follow in the footsteps of her father, who retired from banking after 43 years in the business. She and her husband, Mark, who is the golf professional at the Piqua Country Club, reside in Piqua and have two grown daughters.

involvement with the Piqua Optimist Club along with donating her time volunteering at St. Boniface Church in Piqua as well as Piqua Catholic School. She resides in Piqua with her husband Brian and 14-year-old daughter Olivia.

repair shop, I settled on Trojan Auto Care because of their strong Christian values and the shop’s appearance,” Grassmann said. “Since joining the team, I have not been disappointed. The shop is clean, organized and the entire team is friendly and honest.”

Grassmann joins Trojan Auto Care Free community shred set TROY — Trojan Auto Care has announced that for April 20 John Grassmann has

joined its team of automotive repair experts. Grassmann comes to Trojan Auto Care after having served for several years with the U.S. Army. “I’m very pleased to have John join our automotive repair team,” said Vic Haddad, owner of Trojan Auto Care. According to Haddad, “We’ve been working hard to build an automotive repair business that has a reputation of providing exceptional customer service. John’s enthusiasm to the automotive industry and his dedication to hard Leece named work fit perfectly with our branch manager goal. We’re excited to see him excel in his studies PIQUA — Unity and his position here at National Bank has Trojan Auto Care.” announced the promotion Grassmann grew up in of Krista Leece as branch Eaton and joined the Army manager of the Sunset in March 2004. After going office. through basic training at She Fort Leonard Wood in has Missouri, and then been advanced training at Fort with Drum in New York, he was the deployed to Iraq for two bank separate tours of duty. since Grassmann’s passion for 2004 automotive repair came as and a result of his assignment was in Iraq. He is now working previon a degree from Sinclair L EECE ously a Community College in teller at that office and automotive technology. most recently was responsi- Grassmann and his wife of ble for the branch operasix years have a 4-year-old tions there. daughter. Leece has contributed to “When I was seeking a Miami County through her job in an independent

TROY — Minster Bank and Shred-it, the world’s leading on site document destruction company, are sponsoring a free Community Shred Day from 8-11 a.m. April 20 (or until the truck is full) to safely dispose of these sensitive materials. The event will be at the Troy office of Minster Bank, 1280 Experiment Farm Road, Troy. Community Shred Day is free and up to five bags of paper will be accepted. Binders, staples and paper clips do not have to be removed. When papers are dropped off at site, you do not have to leave your car, Shred-it staff will remove the papers and shred them while you watch. The paper is then recycled. As the fastest-growing form of fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage threatens to destroy personal credit ratings as well as a person’s reputation and security. Governments and regulators around the world continue to develop legislation to help protect individuals and businesses. Prevention is the best solution. For more information, contact Minster Bank at 339-9388 or 866-MINSTER.

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Bob Knife, who said he has played golf approximately 10 times this season, tees off at No. 7 at Miami Shores Golf Course Thursday with friends Eric Kvant, background left, and Gary Weaver.

The hole story Miami Shores offers plenty of ways for golfers to hit greens BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com f you are looking for a new way to spend time with your loved ones, Miami Shores Golf Course should be added to the list of family-friendly activities. In 2012, Miami Shores Golf Course kicked off a new program to allow families to play the sport and to share their love of the game. Family Night Golf is held each Sunday night from 6 p.m. to sunset in the months of June, July and August. Family Night Golf is $10 per adult and $5 for children, with a maximum of $25 per family. Miami Shores recently opened for the 2013 season. “It’s a great way to come out to play and learn,”said Miami Shores PGA Golf Pro Ken Green. “Golf is a sport that can teach a lot of life skills. You can have a good day and the next, have a bad day, all on the same course.” Green said Family Night Golf is a fun way to spend a Sunday evening with children and adults of all skill levels. “Our first year was last year and the response was good and we had a lot of great feedback,” Green said. “It was very well received and we hope more people take advantage of it this year as well.” Green likens the changes on the course for Family Night Golf as “puttputt golf on a bigger, more fun scale.” Green said the front nine holes of the 18-hole golf course are made more family-friendly with 8-inch holes on the greens. The larger holes help beginners with their putting confidence. Also, the course has four sets of golf tees and Family Night Golf participants are encouraged to use the “Forward Tee” for a much shorter, more family-friendly game. “The 8-inch holes are easy for kids and adults and makes the game more fun for everyone,” Green said. “It’s great exercise and cost-wise, it’s very affordable.” Ken said Family Night Golf is a great way for golfers of all skill levels to enjoy the game with their kids. He

Course superintendent Ryan Leach repairs a leaky sprinkler Thursday at Miami Shores. Jack Evans watches as his grandson, Mitchell Evans, putts on a green at Miami Shores Thursday in Troy. “We thought we’d enjoy a game of golf together,” Jack said.

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TROY also said Family Night Golf is the perfect time to teach the rules of the game and practice golf etiquette in a relaxed setting. “It’s just a great time to come out, play and have a good time for the whole family in a fun way and enjoy learning the sport,” Green said. Miami Shores is offering several other specials as well this season. It is offering “Frequent Players Cards” for players to purchase eight green fees at regular price with the ninth green fee free. For junior players, July is one green fee at regular price and the second green fee is free. For the more mature golfer, Senior Days are Mondays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior Days are buy three rounds and get the fourth free, which does not include cart fees. “Golf is a fun sport to play at any age, at any skill level,” Green said. “We have people who play well into their 80s because it’s a great way to spend time outdoors and golf will always be a challenge and every game is different.” Green also said on the course’s website are league and outing dates. Green said another great way to spend time with family and friends is to book the course for an outing. “Golf is a great way to spend time with family for family reunions or class reunions,” Green said. Green also stresses the benefits of the course’s flat terrain for patrons to Richard Long takes a few practice swings while waiting for a group to play • See MIAMI SHORES on B2 Thursday at Miami Shores.

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Less sitting, more exercising leads to more sleeping, survey says BY JACK KELLY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Exercise may not be too stimulating before sleep — it may even be helpful, according to a recent survey conducted for the National Sleep Foundation. In a poll of 1,000 adults ages 23 to 60, those categorized as “vigorous exercisers” were almost twice as likely as non-exercisers to say they had a good night’s sleep “almost every night.” “There seemed to be a dose-response effect,” said Dr. Christopher Kline, a sleep researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, one of five experts chosen by the National Sleep Foundation to advise on poll questions and interpret results. “The more you exercise, the better you’ll sleep.” But “the biggest bang for your buck was from noexercisers to light-exercisers,” Kline said. “You get the most benefit from exercise when you move from no exercise to just a little exercise.” Whatever your exercise habits, you’re more likely to have trouble sleeping if you sit too long during the day, the survey indicated. Respondents who sat for less than eight hours a day were twice as likely to say they had “very good” sleep quality than did those who sat for eight hours or more. “If you spend the rest of the day sitting down, a lot of the health effects of exercise are negated,” Kline said. No research before had connected sedentary behavior with poor sleep, he said. No difference in the quality of their sleep was reported by those who exercised at night and those who exercised earlier in the day. “This was the finding that was somewhat surprising to me,” said Dr. Daniel Shade, a sleep specialist with Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. “We would say you shouldn’t exercise closer to bedtime than four to six hours. The thinking was you would be hyperactivated, hyper-

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Tim Walch works out at night at Club Julian. aroused.” As a result of this finding, he’ll probably alter the advice he gives patients, Shade said. “You might tell insomniacs they should exercise earlier in the day,” he said. “But if you are normal, apparently it doesn’t matter when you work out.” What’s important is that the more you exercise, the better you’ll sleep, “so we can tell our patients to keep moving,” Shade said. Exercising late doesn’t interfere with their sleep, according to those working out at Club Julian in the Pittsburgh suburb of Ross after 9 on a recent night. Dana Sabo, 43, teaches fitness classes three nights a week after her day job handling billing for a law firm. “I definitely sleep better” on the nights she teaches, Sabo said. “I take a shower and go right to bed.” “If I don’t work out, I have a hard time falling asleep,” said Kayci Lebak, 22, a patient advocate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Passavant hospital.

Rocco Florio works out regularly in the evenings, from 8 to about 9:30 p.m., at Club Julian. vigorous exercisers, 77 percent of moderate exercisers and 76 percent of light exercisers — but only 56 percent of non-exercisers — described the quality of their sleep as “fairly good” or better. The quality of their sleep improves on days they exercise, said 62 percent of vigorous exercisers, 54 percent of moderate

the carts and facility takes place. Miami Shores recently obtained a new piece of equipment that features four attachments for course maintenance. The Ventrac tractor mows the course’s fairways, tees and banks, the rough cut and levee areas and has a blower to remove debris quickly off the course. “It was something we really needed,” Green said. “It’s nice to have the blower to blow all the

leaves and stuff off to the side of the course to get it out of the golfer’s way.” Green said he is lookBY LEE BOWMAN ing forward to the 2013 Scripps Howard season after a long, cold News Service winter. “It’s great just seeing While many smokers everybody again after the take precautions like only winter,” Green said. lighting up in an isolated room, on a porch or in the • For more detailed information about Miami yard, those steps seldom eliminate the dangers that Shores or to set up a tee nicotine and other chemitime, call (937) 335-4457 or visit the Miami Shores cals from burning tobacco pose to infants and chilwebsite at www. dren. These range from miamishorestroy.com. increased risks for respiratory infections and Sudden MTD APRIL SPECIAL Infant Death Syndrome to higher lifetime risks for cancer. But short of setting up an array of lab sensors in the home, there’s no way to 25% OFF all MTD parts tell how much smoke residue is entering a particentire month of April! ular space. Now, researchers at Dartmouth University EQUIPMENT SUPERSTORE report they’ve come up with 3155 Tipp-Cowlesville Rd. a prototype sensor sensitive 335-5993 and compact enough to use just about anywhere. Smaller and lighter than a cell phone, the prototype — developed in the lab of chemistry professor Joseph BelBruno — can fit in the

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exercisers and 49 percent of light exercisers. Eight percent of vigorous exercisers, 14 percent of moderate exercisers, 16 percent of light exercisers and 24 percent of non-exercisers said they had difficulty falling asleep. It took vigorous exercisers just 16.6 minutes, on average, to fall asleep, compared to 20.5 minutes for moderate

In the poll, which was conducted by WB&A Market Research for the National Sleep Foundation, 18 percent of respondents described themselves as “vigorous” exercisers, 25 percent as “moderate” exercisers and 48 percent as “light” exercisers. Nine percent said they didn’t exercise at all. Eighty-three percent of

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exercisers, 22.6 minutes for light exercisers and 26.3 minutes for the sedentary. Twice as many non-exercisers (34 percent) as vigorous exercisers (17 percent) take medicine to help them sleep. Only 40 percent of vigorous exercisers, as opposed to 46 percent of moderate exercisers, 55 percent of light exercisers and 72 percent of the sedentary, reported feeling tired during the day. More than twice as many of the sedentary (14 percent) reported having difficulty staying awake at least once a week while driving, eating or engaging in social activity than did those who exercised (4 to 6 percent). Just 22 percent of those who sat for less than six hours a day described their sleep quality as “fairly bad” or worse, compared to 25 percent who sat for less than eight hours and 30 percent for those who sat for more than 10. At Club Julian, Addie Echardt, 52, of McCandless said that, for her, exercise is always worth it: “I sleep better on the nights I work out than on the nights I don’t.”

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As Facebook matures, is it losing its edge? NEW YORK (AP) — To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tonguein-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then those friends shared with their friends. Soon, after Amazon paid to promote it, posts featuring the $3.49 utensil were appearing in even more Facebook feeds. At some point, though, the joke got old. But there it was, again and again the banana slicer had become a Facebook version of that old knock-knock joke your weird uncle has been telling for years. The Hutzler 571 phenomenon is a regular occurrence on the world’s biggest online social network, which begs the question: Has Facebook become less fun? That’s something many users especially those in their teens and early 20s are asking themselves as they wade through endless posts, photos “liked” by people they barely know and spur-of-the moment friend requests. Has it all become too much of a chore? Are the important life events of your closest loved ones drowning in a sea of banana slicer jokes? “When I first got Facebook I literally thought it was the coolest thing to have. If you had a Facebook you kind of fit in better, because other people had one,” says Rachel Fernandez, 18, who first signed on to the site four or five years ago. And now? “Facebook got kind of boring,” she says. Chatter about Facebook’s demise never seems to die down, whether it’s talk of “Facebook fatigue,” or grousing about

how the social network lost its cool once grandma joined. The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project recently found that some 61 percent of Facebook users had taken a hiatus from the site for reasons that range from “too much gossip and drama” to “boredom.” Some respondents said there simply isn’t enough time in their day for Facebook. If Facebook Inc.’s users leave, or even check in less frequently, its revenue growth would suffer. The company, which depends on targeted advertising for most of the money it makes, booked revenue of $5.1 billion in 2012, up from $3.7 billion a year earlier. But so far, for every person who has left permanently, several new people have joined up. Facebook has more than 1 billion users around the world. Of these, 618 million sign in every day. Fernandez Indeed, hasn’t abandoned Facebook.

Though the Traverse City, Mich., high school senior doesn’t look at her News Feed, the constant cascade of posts, photos and viral videos from her nearly 1,800 friends, she still uses Facebook’s messaging feature to reach out to people she knows, such as a German foreign exchange student she met two years ago. uses Fernandez Facebook in the same way that people use email or the telephone. But she prefers using Facebook to communicate because everyone she knows is there. That’s a sign that Facebook’s biggest asset may also be its biggest challenge. “We have never seen a social space that actually works for everybody,” says danah boyd, who studies youth culture, the Internet and social media as a senior researcher at Microsoft Research. “People don’t want to hang out with everybody they have ever met.”

Might Facebook go the way of email? Those who came of age in the “You’ve got mail” era can reminisce fondly about arriving home from school and checking their AOL accounts to see if anyone sent them an electronic message. Boyd, who is 35 (and legally spells her name with no capitalization), recalls being a teenager and “thinking email is the best thing ever.” Few people share that sentiment these days. Ian Bogost, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently listed email alongside “Blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn” in a Facebook post. “I was just going through my daily email routine, reflecting on the fact that it feels like batting down a wall of locusts,” Bogost says. Although email has gone from after-school treat to a dull routine in the space of 20 years, no one is ready to ring its death knell just yet.

And similarly, Facebook’s lost luster doesn’t necessarily foreshadow its obsolescence. “I don’t see teenagers leaving in droves,” boyd says. “I just don’t see it being their site of passion.” In early March, Facebook unveiled a big redesign to address some of its users’ most pressing gripes. The retooling, which is already available to some people, is intended to get rid of the clutter that’s been a complaint among Facebook users for some time. Facebook surveys its users regularly about their thoughts on the site. Jane Leibrock, whose title at Facebook is user experience researcher, says it was about a year ago that she noticed people were complaining about “clutter” in their feeds. Leibrock asked them what they meant. It turns out that the different types of content flowing through people’s News Feeds links, ads, photos, status updates, things people “liked” or commented on were “making it difficult to focus on any one thing,” she says. “It might have even been discouraging them from finding new content.” The new design seeks to address the issue. There is a distinct feed for “all friends,” another for different groups of friends, one just for photos, and one for pages that users follow. As a result, says Chris Struhar, the lead engineer on the new design, the new feeds give people a way to see everything that’s going on. “The amount of stories you have available to see has continued to increase,” Struhar says. “What we try to do now is give you more control over what stories you see in your feed.” With that kind of control, the company hopes people will spend more time

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• TROY CITY SCHOOLS K-6 Monday — Cheese quesadilla, refried beans, corn, fruit, milk. Tuesday — Chicken tenders, dinner roll, mashed potatoes with gravy, carrot snacks, fruit, milk. Wednesday — Hot dog on a whole grain bun, potato smiles, steamed broccoli, carrot snacks, fruit, milk. Thursday — Grilled chicken on a whole grain bun, steamed broccoli, carrot snacks, fruit, milk. Friday — Yogurt, Bosco pizza stick, green beans, carrot snacks, fruit, milk.

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Daniel Singer, 13, works at his computer in Los Angeles March 25. Singer thinks the average teenager wants to see new stuff on Facebook. Singer said Facebook is part of a daily routine, “kind of like brushing your teeth.”

on the site and share more information about themselves so companies can target them better with advertisements. Paul Friedman, a 59year-old dentist in New York City, says he’s using Facebook less now than when he first signed on four years ago, but he’s not sure if the site has “become less interesting or that I am just less interested in it,” he says. “I think that it might have seemed more interesting in the past because it was a new ‘forum,’” Friedman says. “Now that it is not new, it takes more unique content to make it interesting.” That said, Friedman still uses Facebook to see if friends are organizing events, such as music gigs or yoga classes, or to check out interesting YouTube videos. He says seeing the same jokes reappear doesn’t really bother him. “Ninety-nine percent of it is a waste of time anyway,” he says. “If it wasn’t for the one percent, I’d close my account.” When it comes to people of a certain age, Friedman may be in the minority. Tammy Gordon, vice president of the AARP’s social media team, says the 50plus set is just now settling into Facebook. The organization’s own Facebook page grew from 80,000 fans to a million last year. This age group is growing the fastest because older people tend to be latecomers to Facebook. According to a recent Pew survey, 32 percent of people 65 or older use social networking sites, compared with 83 percent of those 18 to 29. “They are not necessarily at that point where some of the younger generation is, where they have News Feed overload,” Gordon says.

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City highlights U.S.-Latino history link CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — For most residents from bigger Texas cities, the South Texas city of Corpus Christi has always been a day-trip destination for a quick beach getaway. But often overlooked are the coastal city’s deep roots in Mexican-American history, some of it wrapped up in the civil rights movement. And while Corpus Christi doesn’t have a huge number of museums or landmarks connected to Latino history, visitors can find plenty of interesting things to see, from an exhibit about a physician and civil rights leader to a statue of the late Tejano star Selena. Corpus Christi was formally founded in 1839 as a trading post, but it’s likely that shipwrecked Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca explored the city’s shores in the 1500s with African slave Estevanico. The shipwrecked travelers became famed healers among American Indians, visiting the sick in villages throughout what is now Texas, which historians later characterized as an early example of a multiracial effort. Little physical evidence of that voyage exists in the city today, but the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History offers an exhibit of artifacts from another excavated Spanish shipwreck which includes a section of the ship’s wooden keel and verso guns. In more recent times, Corpus Christi served as the launching pad for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), once the largest Latino civil rights group in the nation. Founded in 1929 by World War I veterans, the group served as a key player in some of the most dramatic moments in the Mexican-American civil rights movement. The group helped raise money for a legal team led by San Antonio lawyer Gus Garcia and Houston attorney John J. Herrera to successfully take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 challenging a ban on MexicanAmericans serving on juries in some parts of Texas. But there’s no tangible tribute to LULAC’s history in the city, other than an education center and apartment complexes bearing the name. “It really bothers me,” said Nick Adame, current president of LULAC Council No. 1, who is working to build a South Texas Civil Right Museum in Corpus Christi. “There are museums for everything else. We need to change that because this city was so important to the movement.” There does exist, however, a nice exhibit to the late Dr. Hector P. Garcia at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The physician and civil rights leader founded the G.I. Forum and helped bring national attention to a funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas, that reportedly refused to offer chapel services for a Mexican-American World War II soldier killed in battle. (A graduate student later argued that the funeral home owner didn’t want his chapel used not out of racism but because of a dispute between the widow and the soldier’s father-in-law, a story that at least three historians said has been proven false). Garcia also played a role in organizing Mexican-American World War II veterans who raised money to pay for poll taxes and later led the Viva

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In this March 14 photo, old Viva Kennedy! campaign buttons of civil rights leader and G.I. Forum founder Dr. Hector P. Garcia, lower left, are shown at the Garcia exhibit at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas. The coastal Texas city’s deep roots in Mexican American history is often overlooked as visitors mainly come here for a quick beach getaway.

IF YOU GO … • CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: 1900 N. Chaparral St., http://www.ccmuseum.com/ . Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays noon-5 p.m. Adults, $12.50, children 5-12, $6. • MARY AND JEFF BELL LIBRARY: Exhibit about Dr. Hector Garcia, Viva Kennedy and Mexican-American civil rights, open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on second floor of library, 6300 Ocean Drive, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, http://rattler.tamucc.edu/ . Statue of Garcia in front of library, on Garcia Plaza. • SEASIDE MEMORIAL PARK: 4357 Ocean Drive. Graves of Dr. Hector Garcia and Tejano singer Selena. • SELENA MUSEUM: http://www.selenaetc.com/museum.html , 5410 Leopard St. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Adults, $3; children under 5, $1, Tourists take photos in front of the the resting place of the late Tejano singer, Selena, at the Seaside infants free. • SELENA STATUE: Peoples Memorial Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, March 14. Street T-Head and North Shoreline Boulevard. presidents and photos from the Mexican- American civil rights movement. Also kept at the library are Garcia’s papers, which are popular among histori- March 1995 by a distraught fan. ans writing about the civil rights Her death at age 23 was movement in Texas. mourned all over Texas and has “Dr. Garcia kept everything,” brought thousands of visitors to said Grace Charles of the her resting place, where many library’s Special Collections & leave money, lipstick and flowers Archives. “He left a trail that in her honor. Her slaying came tells us a story of his time.” just as the Tejano star was Also on campus is a life-size attempting to crossover into statue of Garcia. mainstream music with hopes of In addition, every year in becoming the most popular January on Garcia’s birthday, Mexican-American singer of all dozens of Latino veterans come time. to Seaside Memorial Park, where Not far from Selena’s resting he is buried, to pay their place is a museum dedicated to respects. the star. Operated by her family, But by far the most visited the museum displays some of The resting place of the late Tejano singer, Selena, is shown at the place in Seaside Memorial Park Selena’s dresses, her Porsche, Seaside Memorial Park in Corpus Christi, Texas. and possibly all of Corpus Christi and music memorabilia. is the resting place of slain There’s also a Selena statue at at his own expense. Kennedy Clubs in Texas to help Tejano singer Selena. the seawall where fans leave The exhibit housed at the elect John F. Kennedy to the Born Selena Quintanilla notes and take pictures. It’s as if presidency. Garcia also provided school’s Mary and Jeff Bell Perez, the rising Mexicanthey’re saying, “At least you will health care to thousands of poor Library displays Viva Kennedy not be forgotten.” memorabilia, letters from various American star was killed in Mexican-Americans, sometimes

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Met signs agreement with India NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and India have signed an agreement to cooperate in areas of conservation, exhibitions and research. Under the agreement, the Met says the museum and India’s Ministry of Culture also will cooperate on short- and long-term loans, publications and public education. The collaboration also calls for the immediate creation of the Indian Conservation Fellowship Pilot Program. Met Director and CEO Thomas

International Festival of the Arts kicked off Thursday and runs through April 27 at locations around the city. The theme is “If You Had a Time Machine.” More than 50 events, installations and performances from local, national and international artists are exploring a wide range of questions related to time travel, Arts festival under many looking at historic events way in Philadelphia in a novel way or imagining what the future will bring. PHILADELPHIA — The Acclaimed singer-songwriter city’s newest arts festival has Rufus Wainwright will pay homreturned with a month of music, age to Judy Garland’s 1961 dance, theater, visual arts and Carnegie Hall performance with family activities, all loosely his show “Prima! Rufus! Judy!” based on the topic of time travel. on April 21, while Grammy Award-winning pianist and comThe Philadelphia

Campbell says under the program emerging Indian conservators will work alongside the museum’s staff of nearly 100 conservators and scientists. A major exhibition focusing on India’s Deccan region also is planned for some time in spring 2015.

poser Danilo Perez on April 26 will use multi-instrumental jazz improvisation to commemorate Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific Ocean in 1513. The festival’s core exhibit in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is an imaginary time machine, actually a 100feet-long corkscrew spiral that visitors can walk through and experience changing sights and sounds.

Proclamation preserves acreage ANACORTES, Wash. — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Sen. Maria Cantwell, Reps. Rick

Larsen and Suzan DelBene celebrated the designation of the San Juan Islands National Monument with environmental, tribal and other community leaders Monday morning at an event in Anacortes. President Obama signed a proclamation March 25 using the Antiquities Act to preserve about 1,000 acres already managed by the Bureau of Land Management. National monument status prevents the small islands, historic sites and north Puget Sound habitat from being sold or developed. Salazar said the San Juan Islands will be an economic engine for the region through tourism and outdoor recreation.

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‘Evil Dead’ should please original fans BY JOHN DEFORE AP Film Reviewer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Blood-drenched” barely begins to describe Fede Alvarez’s remake of “Evil Dead,” a gorefor-broke affair that strips the flesh off Sam Raimi’s cultbeloved comic-horror franchise and exposes the demons at its core. The presence of Raimi, original collaborator Rob Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell as producers should give the faithful permission to attend what would otherwise smell like a shameless exploitation of the 1981 film, but the high production values and nonstop action offered here should also please younger genre fans who’ve never bothered to rent it. True to the essence of its predecessor but reinventing some particulars (precedent is set by Raimi’s “Evil Dead II,” which practically remade the story from scratch), this film retains the five-youths-in-acabin premise, but renames the characters and changes some relationships to ensure we don’t expect a beat-by-beat remake. That’s good news for Shiloh Fernandez, who has none of the humor or panache of Campbell. Fernandez’s David fills the slot of Campbell’s Ash, in that he’s the brother of the first young woman to be possessed by evil forces (Jane Levy’s Mia), but David is, wisely, never offered as an Ash-like hero. And while the original had a conventional slasher-flick setup

most charismatic cast member, but Alvarez and his co-writer Rodo Sayagues give him only one wisecrack in the whole film. Jokes are almost non-existent here; Alvarez comes closest to trying to make us laugh (and it works) when his camera casually shows us a prop a shotgun, a chainsaw whose importance we remember from Raimi’s trilogy. Instead he and his crack effects team work to make our stomachs turn. From the initial attack on Mia the infamous “tree rape” scene to the literal rainstorm of blood that accompanies the climax, “Evil Dead” delivers satisfyingly disgusting effects that serve an ever-accelerating action pace. The only respite from the gore comes in those treacherous moments when one of the possessed stops spitting threats and blood to speak in the wounded, innocent AP PHOTO/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS, DOANE GREGORY voice of the human who used to This film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Stanley Tucci, left, and Shia LaBeouf in a inhabit its body. The flip-flopscene from “The Company You Keep.” ping between “why are you hurting me?” and “I will rape your soul in Hell!” is one of the origiNot that this misinterpreta- skin and full of “never repeat a co-ed spring break trip to the woods this one offers more jus- tion can last for long what with these magic words”-type warn- nal film’s gags like Raimi’s camera, dodging trees as it offers a ings, destined to be ignored — tification for the remote setting Mia’s flesh bubbling up into a scarier version of Linda Blair’s diagnoses Mia’s condition after breakneck POV shot of demons and the characters’ reluctance swooping in to inhabit unwitting having unwittingly (read: stuto leave when things start to go “Exorcist” visage, and her new mortal shells that Alvarez exepidly) set demons loose in the south: Mia is a drug addict, and habit of trying to kill her pals cutes perfectly in this unaskedfirst place. But he’s too late to and spouting demon-voiced her brother and their friends for but entirely welcome keep her from biting some of promises that none will live have come to the family cabin their friends, allowing spirits to remake. until dawn, it’s pretty clear to nurse her through a coldovertake them as well. (The disheroin isn’t her only problem. turkey withdrawal. Having “Evil Dead,” a FilmDistrict Lou Taylor Pucci’s Eric, having tinction between zombie-style already steeled themselves to biological infection and demonic release, is rated R for strong ignore her inevitable pleas to go discovered a mysterious book bloody violence and gore, some home, Mia’s friends at first mis- full of supernatural lore — fans possession was always a little sexual content and language. hazy in Raimi’s series.) take the evidence of her posses- recognize it as the Running time: 91 minutes. Pucci is this “Evil Dead’s” Necronomicon, bound in human sion for drug-sick desperation.

FILM REVIEW Movie depiction Redford angers survivors Acts in, directs thriller LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Redford does his most compelling work in some time as both actor and director in “The Company You Keep,” a tense yet admirably restrained thriller about a fugitive forced out of hiding after 30 years to prove his innocence. Adapted with clarity and intelligence by Lem Dobbs from Neil Gordon’s novel, and lent distinguishing heft by its roster of screen veterans, this gripping drama provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent. Recalling aspects of Sidney Lumet’s poignant “Running on Empty” from 1988, but with a more subdued emotional palette, the film opens with vintage-style news footage detailing charges against members of radical antiwar group the Weather Underground in the early 1970s for plotting to blow up buildings in multiple U.S. cities. A second report follows, attributing responsibility to the same group for a Michigan bank robbery during which a security guard was killed. While the robbers were identified, only one was ever apprehended. Back in the present, Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), who was involved in the robbery and has been living in hiding as a Vermont housewife in the decades since, is preparing to turn herself in to the FBI when she is arrested entering New York State. Coverage from aggressive young Albany newspaper

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This film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Stanley Tucci, left, and Shia LaBeouf in a scene from “The Company You Keep.” reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) links her to local civil rights lawyer Jim Grant (Redford), who declined to take Solarz’s case. Eager to impress his prickly editor (Stanley Tucci), Ben exploits his access to Diana (Anna Kendrick), a college hookup now working for the bureau. Despite warnings from her boss Cornelius (Terrence Howard) to back off, Ben persists, digging for insights. His legwork reveals that while Jim has long been a respected community member, raising his 11-year-old daughter Isabel (Jacqueline Evancho) alone since the death of his wife in an accident a year earlier, no record of him exists before 1979. Putting two and two together, Ben discovers, just ahead of the Feds, that Jim is Nick Sloan, another of the Michigan robbers. This establishing action is set up with methodical efficiency in Dobbs’ screen-

play, gaining momentum when Jim/Nick whisks Isabel out of town and into the care of his brother (Chris Cooper) just as the FBI is closing in. Meanwhile, Ben continues to look for neat answers to messy questions. But a prison interview with Sharon gives him some understanding of the commitment and idealism of the ’70s radicals. This affecting scene Sharon shows regret for the mistakes that were made but refuses to repudiate her convictions is played with perspicacity, toughness and compassion by Sarandon. Propelled by another moody score from Cliff Martinez (“Drive,” ”Contagion”) that adds a contemporary edge to Redford’s solidly conventional style, the remainder of the film plays out in pursuit mode. Dropping in on former Weather Underground cronies, some more welcoming than others, Nick hopes to smoke out his ex-lover

Mimi Lurie (Julie Christie), the one person able to clear his name. This allows for brief but incisive appearances from Nick Nolte as a lumberyard owner still wearing his “Liberty or Death” T-shirt; and Richard Jenkins as a college professor who stayed above ground and fears that Nick’s visit may compromise him. Still a step ahead of the FBI, Ben has located Henry Osborne (Brendan Gleeson), the investigating officer on the Michigan case, who is cagey with him, but his daughter Rebecca (Brit Marling) unexpectedly sheds light. It becomes clear to the reporter that Nick is not running toward another assumed identity but toward a solution that will give him back his life and his daughter. Ben also discovers old links between Osborne’s family and Mimi’s, leading him to a “The Company You remote cabin on Michigan’s Keep,” an SPC release, is Upper Peninsula. rated R for language. While it provides for some passing commentary Running time: 125 minutes.

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on the journalistic process and the slow death of print media, making the ambitious reporter such a driving figure perhaps mutes the focus a little. LaBeouf acquits himself well in the role. But tracking Ben’s slow-blooming integrity is a somewhat prosaic detour in the concluding scenes, occasioning some speechy wisdom from Nick when they finally meet again. The storytelling is nonetheless robust and thematically rich, strengthened by a fine cast. Redford has done this kind of earnest man of conscience countless times before, but he brings such gravitas and thoughtfulness to play that he keeps us firmly in Nick’s corner. While Sam Elliott, as Mimi’s current partner, Cooper and Tucci are given little to do, Christie, Nolte, Jenkins, Gleeson and Sarandon all use their limited screen time to maximum effect. It’s remarkable how much texture these faces add to the film’s depiction of a generation with a fire in its belly that has had to adapt to a different world or find other ways to channel their impassioned ideas. Among the younger cast, the always sparky Kendrick is underused. But Marling makes a lovely impression in her handful of scenes, outlining a young woman whose sharp mind and restless, questioning nature make her a link to the countercultural past. Editor Mark Day keeps the pace satisfyingly steady, and the film is shot by Adriano Goldman in a handsome but unshowy style to match the script’s sober approach.

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MIAMI (AP) — The reallife murder, torture and kidnapping case from South Florida that’s behind the coming movie “Pain & Gain” indeed reads like a script, just not a funny one. The fact that the film, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is an action-comedy has angered survivors of the Sun Gym gang’s crimes and those who investigated them nearly two decades ago. “You are talking about real people. And in this particular case, especially when you’re talking about the murder victims, these were innocent victims,” said retired Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Felix Jimenez. Zsuzsanna Griga told The Miami Herald that the movie’s depiction of the gang as sympathetic bumblers just trying to get ahead is “ridiculous.” Gang members murdered and dismembered her brother and his girlfriend. “It’s horrible what happened to them,” said Griga, who lives in Hungary. She could not be reached by The Associated Press. “I don’t want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers,” she said. The Paramount film, which opens April 26 and is directed by Michael Bay of “Transformers” and “Armageddon” fame, is adapted from a series of Miami New Times articles about a group of 1990s bodybuilders who hatched a brutal getrich-quick kidnapping scheme that eventually escalated to murder. Paramount declined comment. The New Times series told of mastermind Daniel Lugo, played by Wahlberg, his sadistic muscleman Noel Doorbal, played by Anthony Mackie, and Jorge Delgado, who is not portrayed in the movie, who were denizens of the Sun Gym, known for its hardcore bodybuilders. Johnson plays Paul Doyle, a fictional member of the crew. They attempted to abduct Schiller about halfdozen times. They finally succeeded, snatching Schiller in 1994 outside his deli.

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DATES TO REMEMBER Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. • Parenting Education Groups will • DivorceCare seminar and supmeet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family port group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and age8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child appropriate ways to parent children. care provided through the sixthCall 339-6761 for more information. grade. There is no charge for this program. • AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The dis- St., Troy, use back door. cussion meeting is open. • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring • AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal • Sanctuary, for women who have Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. been affected by sexual abuse, loca• AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., tion not made public. Must currently Westminster Presbyterian Church, be in therapy. For more information, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 • AA, Living Sober meeting, open a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. to all who have an interest in a sober Main St., Tipp City. For more informalifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster tion, call Tipp-Monroe Community Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at and Caldwell streets, Piqua. 669-2441. • Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s • The Ex-WAVES, or any woman Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity who formerly served during World Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., War II, will meet at 1 p.m. the second Troy. Open discussion . Monday at Bob Evans in Troy. • Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist TUESDAY Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville. • The Miami Soil and Water • Narcotics Anonymous, Never Conservation District Board of Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Supervisors meet in regular session Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., every second Tuesday at 8 a.m. at Sidney the district office, 1330 N. County • Teen Talk, where teens share Road 25-A, Troy. Call (937) 335-7645 their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the for more information or go online to www.miamiswcd.org. Troy View Church of God, 1879 • Deep water aerobics will be Staunton Road, Troy. • Singles Night at The Avenue will offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Call 335-2715 or visit Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg www.lcctroy.com for more information Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompeti- and programs. • The Friends and Neighbors Club tive volleyball, free line dances and of Miami County, a women’s nonprofit free ballroom dance lessons. Child and social organization doing charitacare for children birth through fifth ble work in the Troy area, meets at 7 grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus build- p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Troy-Hayner Cultural ing. For more information, call 667Center. For more information, contact 1069, Ext. 21. Joanne at • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete jrosenberglvspopcorn@hotmail.com. • A teen support group for any at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. grieving teens, ages 12-18 years in Proceeds help the youth baseball the greater Miami County area is organization, a nonprofit. offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings at the Generations of Life Center, secMONDAY ond floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee. • Dollar menu night will be from 68 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Sessions are facilitated by trained Dollar menu items include hamburger bereavement staff and volunteers. Crafts, sharing time and other grief sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled support activities are preceded by a cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for light meal. • Quilting and crafts is offered $1 each. from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at • Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 information. Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. • Mothers of Preschoolers, a • An arthritis aquatic class will be group of moms who meet to unwind offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call and socialize while listening to infor335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for mation from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from 6:15more information and programs. 8:30 p.m. Single, married, working or • An evening grief support group meets the second and fourth Monday stay-at-home moms are invited. evenings at 7 p.m. at the Generations Children (under 5) are cared for in MOPPETS. For more information, of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074. is open to any grieving adult in the • The Miami Shelby Chapter of the greater Miami County area and there Barbershop Harmony Society will is no participation fee. Sessions are meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested the website at homc.org. in singing are welcome and visitors • AA, Big Book discussion meetalways are welcome. For more inforing will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity mation, call 778-1586 or visit the Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The group’s Web site at www.melodymenchorus.org. discussion is open to the public. • Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards • AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meet- Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. ing (attendees must have a desire to Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people. stop drinking) will be at Troy View For more information, call 335-8814. Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton • AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Road, Troy. Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. • AA, There Is A Solution Group • AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, United Methodist Church, County 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The dis• AA, The Best Is Yet To Come cussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal • AA, West Milton open discusChurch, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The sion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 discussion is open. • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap Lutheran Church, Main and Third accessible. streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed dis• Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will cussion (participants must have a meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room desire to stop drinking). at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. • Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion Group, Presbyterian Church, corner meeting is open. A beginner’s meetNorth and Miami streets, Sidney. ing begins at 7:30 p.m. • AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the • Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin Open discussion. • An Intermediate Pilates class will St., Troy. Issues addressed are physibe from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 cal, verbal and emotional violence 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more toward family members and other information, call Tipp-Monroe persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of con- Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. fronting and how to act nonviolently • Women’s Anger/Rage Group will with stress and anger issues. • Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For Issues addressed are physical, verbal more information, call 339-2699. and emotional violence toward family • TOPS (Take Off Pounds members and other persons, how to Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran express feelings, how to communiChurch, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. cate instead of confronting and how New members welcome. For more to act nonviolently with stress and information, call 335-9721. anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more • Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restau- information. • Narcotics Anonymous, Just For rant. Guests welcome. For more inforTuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity mation, call 478-1401. Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., • Weight Watchers, Westminster

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Troy. This is an open discussion. • Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion. • Public bingo, license No. 010528, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m. Instant tickets also will be available. • Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available. Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959. • DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 335-8397.

WEDNESDAY • The Troy High School class of 1962 will meet at 1 p.m. every second Wednesday at Marion’s Piazza, 1270 Experiment Farm Road, Troy. All classmates and spouses are invited. For more information, call Sharon Mathes at 335-1696 or Esther Jackson at 339-1526. • Skyview Wesleyan Church, 6995 Peters Road, Tipp City, will offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. • An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The “Sit and Knit” group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. • The Milton-Union Senior Citizens will meet the second and fourth Wednesday 1 p.m. at 435 Hamilton St., West Milton. Those interested in becoming members are invited to attend. Bingo and cards follow the meetings. • Grandma’s Kitchen, a homecooked meal prepared by volunteers, is offered every Wednesday from 56:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48. The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $6 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s. • The Town and Country Grandmothers No. 329 meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Wednesday at the AMVETS Post on LeFevre Road, Troy. • The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989. • The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564. • The Toastmasters will meet every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at American Honda to develop to help participants practice their speaking skills in a comfortable environment. Contact Eric Lutz at 332-3285 for more information. • AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m. Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m. Monday night and is wheelchair accessible. • AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open. • AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs. • Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. • A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from

partner violence is offered. There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 339-6761. • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. School-age children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy. There is no charge for this program. More information is available by calling 339-6761. • Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 252-6766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www.region5oa.org. • A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104. Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance. Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 667-4678 for more information. • Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200. A 12-week video series using Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. Offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life and practice in being able to say no. For more information, call Linda Richards at 667-4678. • The Troy Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. For more information, call 335-1923. • A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 5702688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465. • The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

THURSDAY • The Upper Valley Medical Center Mom and Baby Get Together group will meet from 9:30-11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm House, located northwest of the main hospital entrance and next to the red barn on the UVMC campus. The meeting is facilitated by the lactation department. The group offers the opportunity to meet with other moms, share about being a new mother and to learn more about breastfeeding and the baby. For more information, call (937) 440-4906. • Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The Generations of Life Center of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restaurants on the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Locations vary, so interested parties can call the office at 573-2100 for details. This is a social event for grieving adults who do not wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu. • An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Parents are invited to attend the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open discussion. • Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at different locations in the county. The luncheons are casual dining experience that allows adults to come together for food and fellowship. Call the Generations of Live Center at 3355191. • Tipp City Seniors gather to play cards prior to lunch every Thursday at 10 a.m. at 320 S. First St., Tipp City. At noon will be a carry-in lunch and participants should bring a covered dish and table service. On the third Thursday, Senior Independence offers blood pressure and blood sugar testing before lunch. For more information, call 667-8865. • Best is Yet to Come open AA meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • AA, Tri-City Group meeting will take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of the former Dettmer Hospital. The lead meeting is open. For more information, call 335-9079. • AA, Spirituality Group will meet at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy. The discussion is open. • Health Partners Free Clinic will offer a free clinic on Thursday night at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road

25-A, Troy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer patients to other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 332-0894 for more information. • Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. • Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

FRIDAY • An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The Tri-County Suicide Prevention Coalition will meet at 9 a.m. the second Friday in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the west entrance to the fourth floor. • AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. The discussion is open. • AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 S. Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym. • Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Open discussion. Fellowship from 7-8 p.m. • A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 9-10 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call TippMonroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 667-2441. • Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Brethren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6. For more information, call 640-3015 or visit www.groupia.org. • Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday. Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants may bring instruments and join in. A small donation is requested at the door. For more information or directions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624.

SATURDAY • The West Milton Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., West Milton, will offer a free clothes closet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday. Clothes are given to those in need free of charge at this time. For more information, call (937) 6984395. • Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings are offered at 8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25A, Tipp City. • AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Road and State Route 41. The meeting is closed (members must have a desire to stop drinking). • AA, Troy Winners Group will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy for discussion. The meeting is open. • AA, Troy Beginners Group meets at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting. • Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m. • Pilates for Beginners (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney. • Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • The Next Step, a worship celebration for people on the road to recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit. • The Tipp City Seniors eat out at area restaurants (sign up at the center) at 4:30 p.m. Card cames will be offered at the center for a $2 donation.

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Strout’s new novel a Maine family saga BY KENDAL WEAVER AP Book Reviewer “The Burgess Boys” (Random House), by Elizabeth Strout: Jim and Bob Burgess, the brothers who are the title characters of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “The Burgess Boys,” grew up fatherless in a small Maine town after an accident in the family car when they were young. They were smart, though, and became lawyers in New York City. Now Jim, at 55, is a highpowered corporate attorney who once gained national media attention. Bob, at 51, is a legal aid lawyer with a more modest sense of himself. As the novel unfolds, they are drawn back to their hometown, revisiting old scars while struggling with a new shock to the family psyche. This is Strout’s first book since her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” and her extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again. “Olive Kitteridge” is built on the scaffolding of separate short stories that, to lesser or greater degrees, involve the title character, a teacher in a coastal Maine town. “The Burgess Boys” follows a more traditional, more sweeping novelistic track, with the marital discord and conflicted feelings of the Burgess brothers set around their attempts to help a young nephew avoid jail. Like Olive, who can be stern and not necessarily likable, the Burgess brothers are not depicted in a wholly agreeable light but become unforgettably alive to the reader. They have their foibles from the start: Bob, who is divorced and a bit sloppy, drinks and worries too much; Jim, married to a discontented heiress, is self-absorbed and belittles Bob, whom he calls “slobdog.” Their sister, Bob’s twin Susan, also divorced, lives in a cold, quiet house in Maine with her friendless teenage son, Zach the nephew who lands in serious legal trouble, even facing a possible hate crime charge, after throwing a frozen pig’s head into the mosque of Somali immigrants. The cultural chasm between white Maine locals and dark-skinned Muslims, along with efforts by both sides to bridge the distance, is a developing element throughout the book. But the distance between Bob and Jim painfully wide at times, lovingly close as well and turning on “a terrible secret” from childhood gives the novel a level of intrigue and human depth with lasting impact. Strout’s writing style is all her own, at times almost effortlessly fluid, with superbly rendered dialogue, sudden and unexpected bolts of humor and, just as a scene seems to be low-key, carried away by startling riffs of gripping emotion. It’s not clear why the narrator is a woman from the Burgess hometown in Maine, the fictional Shirley Falls, who was younger than the brothers but heard gossip about the childhood accident that killed their father. When she decides to write their story, even her mother voices doubt: “You don’t know them,” she said. “Nobody ever knows anyone.” Maybe so. But Strout knows and vividly evokes the territory of Maine and New York City, her characters, their inner lives and fears and beyond the saga of a family in crisis the healing power of mercy.

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Hillary Clinton book expected in 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — So what does it all mean? Hillary Rodham Clinton has a deal for a memoir and policy book about her years in the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. The book has yet to be titled and is tentatively scheduled for June 2014, in time for the summer reading season and for the midterm elections, when a promotional tour could easily blend with Democratic efforts work to recapture the House. The former secretary of state’s itinerary will be closely scrutinized for any signs she may run for president in 2016 any book tour events in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina would receive broad attention. But her book will likely be anticipated on several levels as a possible signal of a presidential run; as the latest chronicle of one of the most eventful public lives of the past quartercentury; as the continuation of a tradition of secre-

tary of state memoirs that includes Dean Acheson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Present at the Creation” and works by Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Clinton’s immediate predecessor, Condoleezza Rice. “Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary public service has given her a unique perspective on recent history and the challenges we face,” Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group and the book’s editor, said in a statement Thursday. “This will be the ultimate book for people who are interested in world affairs and America’s place in the world today.” Financial terms were not disclosed. Clinton reportedly received $8 million for the 2003 memoir, “Living History,” also published by Simon & Schuster. As with “Living History,” Clinton was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, who has handled deals for President Barack Obama

and Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. Karp previously served as editor for another Barnett client, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and his memoir “True Compass.” Hillary Clinton, 65, stepped down as secretary of state earlier this year after serving throughout Obama’s first term. Polls indicate she would be a leading contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but she has yet to announce a decision. Clinton was defeated by Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008. According to Simon & Schuster, Clinton will write about everything from the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Arab Spring to China and climate change. She “will share her views as to what it takes for the United States to secure and sustain prosperity and global leadership. Throughout, Secretary Clinton will offer vivid personal anecdotes and memories of her collaboration with President Obama and

his national security team, as well as her engagement with leaders around the world.” Clinton, who already has started writing the book, was often praised as a hard-working and effective secretary of state. But it’s unclear whether she will cover one of the bleakest events of the past four years the attack last fall against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead and led to widespread criticism of security procedures and allegations by Republicans of an election-year cover-up of an act of terrorism. Simon & Schuster’s announcement mentions the 2011 overthrow of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but not the Benghazi attack. The publisher did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the attack. The book will apparently stick to her time as secretary of state and not cover the years immediately following her 2003 memoir, when she was re-elect-

ed to the U.S. Senate in 2006 and ran for president in 2008, an intense and sometimes bitter campaign that led to widespread reports of animosity between Clinton and Obama. A person familiar with the book said that Clinton does not plan to write about the 2008 campaign or any possible future runs. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the book and requested anonymity to discuss it. Clinton is a well-established author. Her “Living History” was a million-seller that was highly publicized, if only for her take on her husband’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Her other books, all from Simon & Schuster and all released while she was the first lady, include her best-seller about raising children, “It Takes a Village”; “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets”; and “An Invitation to the White House: At Home With History.”

Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar” by James Patterson, Lisa Papademetriou (Little, Brown) 6. “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books) 7. “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books) 8. “The Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult (Atrai/Emily Bestler Books)

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PUBLIC RECORDS: MARRIAGE LICENSES Jeremiah Edward Bayer, 22, of 112 Maryville Lane, Piqua, to Rebecca Danielle Matlock, 21, of 5920 Belle Oaks Place, Antioch, Tenn. Aaron Robert Frantz, 24, of 7265 N. State Route 721, Bradford, to Alaina Marie Swabb, 22, of 504 Hickory Drive, Bradford. Travis Jason Groff, 35, of 1300 Edwards Drive, Tipp City, to Traci Jean Lester, 21, of same address. Jonathan Wesley Coppock, 22, of 420 2nd St., Piqua, to Camilee Grace Adams, 21, of same address. David Beryl Chandler, 54, of 6165 Detrick Road, Tipp City, to Shawn Marie Hanley, 54, of same address. David Anthony Smith, 29, of 26 E. West St., Troy, to Tiffany Anne Lewis, 30, of same address. Gary Duane Smith, 51, of 1139 Scott St., Troy, to Elizabeth Mildred Weaver, 51, of same address. Dustin Michael Davis, 31, of 1608 Echo Lake Drive, Piqua, to Kara Rose Turner, 23, of same address. Clint Patrick Hufford, 25, of 9833 Dawn Chase Way,

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Rate slips to 3.54 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages crept closer to their historic lows this week, a trend that could help the housing recovery strengthen. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for the 30-year fixed loan edged down to 3.54 percent from 3.57 percent last week. That’s near the 3.31 percent reached in November, which was the lowest on records dating to 1971. The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage declined to 2.74 percent from 2.76 percent last week. The record low of 2.63 percent also was reached in November. Low mortgage rates have contributed to a housing rebound more than six years after the bubble burst. Home sales and construction are up, prices are rising and more Americans are refinancing. That’s helped the broader economy.

I love it all when it comes to homedecor styles. But years ago, I figured out that a traditional look works best for my own home. I really like surrounding myself with classic furnishings and accents that have stood the test of time, yet I don’t want my house to feel like it’s stuck in a time warp, a museum to a bygone era. The key to keeping your traditional home interesting is to update it regularly with pieces that give classic styling an exciting new lease on life. Here are five tricks for making traditional decor fresh. 1. Mix Up Matching Furniture Groupings Symmetry is a hallmark of a traditional look. But that doesn’t mean you have to fill your house with furniture groupings consisting of pieces from sets. Interject a new piece or two that looks a little different from the others in the room. For example, if all your SHNS PHOTO COURTESY NELL HILL’S wood is stained, how about adding a Give your decor a bit of a shake up by interjecting a new piece or two that look • See UPDATE on C2 a little different from others in the room.

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How to refinance a house you are renting out BY MARCIE GEFFNER bankrate.com Buying a house is an attractive proposition in these days of low mortgage interest rates and fallen prices. But if you want to buy a new home, while renting out the old one, you could face a glitch. It might be hard to refinance a house that you’re renting out. That’s because “things change when you’re no longer dealing with a primary residence,” warns Ben Chenault Jr., regional manager at Fairway Independent Mortgage in Birmingham, Ala. “A lot of people want to jump on the great deals, but they still have their current home and don’t want to wait for that home to sell,” Chenault says. “They think, ‘Aha! The rental market is good; I’ll just rent it out.’ But what if someone stops paying the rent? Are you sunk? If the answer is ‘yes,’ you probably shouldn’t do it.” Let’s suppose, for the sake of discussion, that you’ve already done it. Now you own two houses — one that you occupy, and one that you don’t. To cut monthly interest expense, you want to refinance the house you’re renting out. It might not be easy. Often, equity is the biggest hurdle in the effort to refinance a house you’re renting out. Lenders typically require a cushion of 25 percent or more to refinance a loan secured by a non-owner-occupied house, says Stephen LaDue, a senior loan officer at Prime Lending in Brookfield, Wis. The reason: An owner who has a substantial stake in the property is less likely to default. “If you’re upside-down or have a minimal investment, you might walk away,” LaDue observes. Some lenders might be flexible about credit scores, income and cash reserves, but that 75 percent maximum loan-to-value ratio is usually a “hard and fast rule,” Chenault adds. A second mortgage on the

rental house will make refinancing difficult because that lender probably won’t agree to remain in the lesser position if the first loan is refinanced. “Whoever has the second mortgage probably won’t be willing to work with us,” Chenault says. You might assume that rental income can be counted toward the guidelines to refinance a house you’re renting out. But Gary Parkes, formerly a mortgage loan officer with Acopia Home Loans in Woodstock, Ga., says lenders tend to be suspicious of rent unless the landlord is a professional property investor. Consequently, lenders typically allow only a portion, if any, of that rent to be relied on to qualify, especially in the case of a new tenancy. Rent is even trickier if the tenant is a family member because the tenancy isn’t an arm’s-length transaction, LaDue warns. That close relationship between the landlord and renter creates a different set of risk criteria for the lender — and more documentation requirements for the borrower. Other restrictions apply when you want to refinance a house you’re renting out. For instance, most lenders won’t allow one borrower to have more than four mortgages on residential properties, according to LaDue. That limit, he explains, exists in part to prevent the misuse of government-insured loans to acquire multiple homes as investment properties. Homeowners who want to move out and rent out might be tempted to sneak around these issues by refinancing before they vacate their current home. That’s a sensitive subject because it involves intent and loan fraud. One year of residency is often cited as a guideline to determine intent to occupy. But that’s not an absolute rule.

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Keith Geurkink, Teresa Geurkink to Paul Borchers, Kayla Winner, one lot, $125,000. Estate of Thomas D. Wagner, Zebulon Wagner, administrator to Kenneth Burns, Mary Carol Burns, one lot <$0. Erin Chaney a.k.a. Erin Thompson to Michael Luth, one lot, $0. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Brent Davis, Joseph Davis, one lot, $0. James Slough Jr. to Fifth Third Mortgage Company, one lot, $43,400. Jacqueline Addis, Orville Addis to Jennifer Sanders, one lot, $142,900. Letha Allen to Thomas Allen, one lot, one part lot, $0. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Casual Coastal Investments LLC, a part lot, $0. Jill Dunfee, Verl Dunfee, David Newmam, Janet Newnam, Lori Wilson, Thomas Wilson to Rebecca Martin, Thomas Martin, one lot, $16,500. Wells Fargo Bank N.A., successor, Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a part lot, $0.

PIQUA Jessica Carson a.k.a. Jessica Gleason to Gayle Carson, Jessica Carson, two part lots, $0. HSBC Mortgage Services Inc. to Shannon Howard, two part lots, $23,000. Connie Cool, Ronald Cool to

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TIPP CITY Betty D. Borchers Trust, Betty Borchers, co-trustee, Nelson C. Borchers Trust, Thomas Dysinger, co-trustee to Jeffrey Sebor, Rena Shuchat, one lot, $45,000. Jill Ann Price to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association, one lot, $83,000. Rosewood Creek LLC to Jessica Gagnon, Matt Gagnon, one lot, $89,900. Jay Richie, Kayla Richie to Christina Haber, one lot, $115,000.

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go out of style, like black and white, others definitely have a limited lifespan. If your home is saturated with the colors that were big 20 or 30 years ago, it will instantly look dated, even if you have fresh furnishings and accents in the spaces. The only way to combat getting stuck in the past is to constantly tweak your color palette. 4. Add a Few Transitional Accents One of the easiest and least expensive ways to keep a traditional look new is to weave in a few transitional accents. We mix the most traditional of accents, like looking glasses and crystal water vases and silver candlesticks, with contemporary looks, like a bright orange ceramic vase. White pottery pieces, with their sleek lines and contemporary vibe, still look classic enough to use in traditional rooms. They are different enough from the norm that they will catch viewers by surprise, yet not so different that they feel out of place surrounded by antiques. 5. Update Lamps and Shades Dated lamps can bring down the style IQ of a room in a flash. A decade ago, the market was glutted with lots of cheap lamps that have not stood the test of time. It’s time to let these unremarkable light pieces go and replace them with lamps that will make a huge style statement in your room.

■ CONTINUED FROM C1 piece that is painted? If your sofa and chairs are covered in similar fabrics, reupholster the sofa or the chairs in a contrasting textile. Want to take it a step further? Try this popular style technique: Upholster the front and back of a chair in different but harmonious fabrics. It is such an edgy look that it makes me smile every time I see it. 2. Interject Bolder Art Adding a piece or two of new art will help you make great strides toward freshening up a traditional look. Stop and take a hard look at your existing artwork. Is the subject matter or style dated? Are the mats faded and the frame nicked and scuffed? Most importantly, do you still love it? Often, we just grow tired of looking at the same pictures year after year, but don’t ever think to change it out for something new. The hot new look in traditional artwork is bigger and bolder. In my own bedroom I’ve added a collage of female nudes. The room is traditional, but the mix of classic and contemporary thematic artwork is intriguing. I like how the interjection of the modern art gives the space a fresher feel. Another trick for making artwork displays more modern is to hang the pieces close together. 3. Update Your Color Palette While some of the hues in a traditional color palette will never

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plus the added atmosphere of grandeur. The marble or stone is being seen on floors, as countertops and as wall coverings such as back splashes in the kitchen — and also surrounding the tub and shower in the bathroom. • Leather furniture is back big-time — but for many, it’s never been out of style. Suede is also in vogue. If fabric is your preference for upholstery, then two patterns stand out: stripes; and bold botanical, floral type prints. If you are afraid of too much pattern, express yourself in toss pillows, making them the bold botanical pattern or the striped pattern or perhaps a combination of both.

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Aaron Culver to PennyMac Loan Services, PennyMac Loan Trust 2011, a part lot, $36,700. Michael Kinder to Heather Lynn Kinder, Michael Kinder, one lot, $0. Helen Pemberton Welsh et al to Ian Pemberton, one lot, $0.

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Geraldine Parson to Federal BETHEL TWP. National Mortgage Association, one lot, $58,000. Teresa Wiley to RTE Capital Rex Adams, Robbin Adams to LLC, 0.729 acres, $145,000. Jennifer Johnson, one lot, one part lot, $69,500. BROWN TWP. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Jill Reck, Robert Reck, Zoe Reck, a part lot, Estate of Leonard Franke, $0. Brenda Smedley, executor, to Gary Hartzell, Sherry Hartzell, PLEASANT HILL 71.141 acres, $405,600.

HOME TIPS: DESIGN TRENDS • Remember when mirrors were the rage as the interior-design trend? Mirrors are back again. Grouped mirrors are the fashion. To spruce up a living room, a grouping of small mirrors creates an interesting focal point. • Natural materials have always been popular and are currently seeing an even greater influence in interior design. Natural wood, as in floors and furniture, gives us the feeling of comfort and strength. Marble and stone also give us comfort and strength

Stephanie Welter, one lot, $223,800. Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to M1 Homes of Cincinnati LLC, one lot, $33,000. NVR Inc. to Dustin Gilroy, one lot, $216,900.

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Priced under appraisal, and seller is adding an updated kitchen for the new owner! Big porch, privacy fenced yard, tall ceilings, pocket door, and wide wood trim. Formal dining, 3 bedrooms & 2 baths. $150's Dir: Main St., S on Third.

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1909 SHAGGYBARK RD. TROY Back on the Market and a fantastic New Price of $143,500. Field to rear, 2 car garage, 3 beds, 2.5 baths, deck, and way under tax value! Elizabeth Township. Dir: St. Rt. 41 E, to Shaggybark Rd.

Step in the front door and know you are home. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 story, full finished basement, 3 car garage and tons of updates. $239,900. Dir: Co. Rd. 25A to West on Swailles Rd. to West on Peters to left on Seneca. Laurie Johnson 657-4184 • 615-1800

1421 MAPLECREST TROY Large rooms, fenced back yard, nice deck, brick and vinyl ranch in Maplecrest Subdivision. 3 large bedrooms, 2 full baths, large great room. Microwave, range, dishwasher and gas dryer remain. Laminate flooring in kitchen, breakfast room. Paddle fans in every room. Maple cabinets in kitchen. $173,900. Dir: N. on Market to R. on Troy urbana to R. on Maplecrest. Laurie Johnson 657-4184 • 615-1800

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OUTSTANDING VIEWS! Seeing is believing! You will LOVE the space here! 2,655 sq. ft. of living space! This beautiful 1 story offers 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, super large dining room at 21x15! Sunken family room w/wood burning fireplace, updated flooring, septic, well, bath, water softner! Tons of storage. Great office. Kitchen open to dining room w/open bar area and breakfast room. Private fenced courtyard, attached garage, .96 acre lot w/mature trees, nicely landscaped! Jeff Apple For sale at $162,900. Dir: St. Rt. 48 418-3538 S. out of Covington, left on Marlin.

BUYERS CONTRACT THIS HOME BY 4/26/2013 AND RECEIVE A $5,000 GIFT CARD TO “THE CAROLINE” RESTAURANT AT CLOSING. Simply gorgeous! Amazing quality, space, character and charm. Close to 3,000 sq. ft. of living space, not including finished basement. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, beautiful hardwood floors and crown molding, formal dining room, great room, built-ins, 20x15 3 season room. Very nice and secluded lot w/lush landscaping. Home warranty included. For sale at $234,900. Dir: Sunset Ave. to Jeff Apple 418-3538 E. on Park to L. on Orchard.

Brick ranch duplex on a cul-de-sac with lots of privacy. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths w/2car garage on one side and 2 bedrooms, 2 baths w/1 car garage on other. $189,900. Dir: S. Miami St. to West on Tracie Ln. to left on Michaela. Missy Trumbull 418-0483 • 615-1800

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Clean 3 bed brick ranch! One owner, eat-in kitchen, appliances included, well kept home, newer roof, large covered patio, nice yard, 1 car garage w/storage, imme- Betty Baker diate occupancy! $79,000. 609-9641

Wonderful Updated Home, nestled on 1/2 Acre lot, full super clean Basement, Lots of Beautiful kitchen cabinets, New carpet and flooring thru-out, Freshly painted, New ceiling fans, New windows, New Furnace/C/A, Just Installed & enclosed new bathtub/shower surround and toilet in basement, Updated 220 Electric, Attached Garage, New Storage Shed, Porch and Deck, MOVE IN READY, YOU NEED TO CALL TO SEE FOR YOURSELF THIS DELIGHTFUL Betty Baker HOME!!! Super Clean home!! Priced 609-9641 at $115,500.

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BY JOE LAMP’L Scripps Howard News Service 1317 LYLTE RD. Great price on this 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home with large living room, spacious master suite, and a 30x36 outbuilding on a 1 acre lot. $92,000.

942 S. MARKET ST. Just move in! This newly remodeled home features 2 bedrooms, hardwood floors, sunroom, full basement and attached garage. $79,900.

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This charming home features 2 bedrooms, spacious living room, eat-in kitchen, full basement and a 2 car attached garage. $79,900.

Miami East school disctrict! Great opportunity on this 3 bedroom farmhouse with horse barn, sheds and a 10 acre lot. $135,000.

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After years of building huge raised-bed gardens for others, mostly large community-garden projects, I’m finally getting to build such a garden on my own property. I admit that, with every raised bed I plotted on paper and built on location, envy was part of my reality. I would constantly need to remind myself just how much those other gardens would do to enrich the lives of those able to utilize them. Secretly, though, I found myself thinking, “No one needs a garden like those more than me. Imagine the possibilities.” Lament no more. This will be a garden to rival any garden project I’ve ever been a part of. Sixteen large cedar beds will occupy a recently graded area of my property that not by accident sits just outside my office window. Yes,

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My new raised-bed garden under construction. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this garden. When not actually out in my garden, I’ll be able to watch it grow from a short distance away. The reasons for this arguably over-the-top garden in my own backyard are many. First, I’m a gardener and I really do play one on TV. So it only makes sense to practice my profession and sharpen my skills at home,

when I’m not “working.” But, in fact, I will be working from home a lot more in the upcoming years, thanks to this new installation. Ironically, for years now, I’ve been on the road far more than I’ve been home — or so it seems — talking and featuring other people’s gardens, because theirs offered the best examples of whatever the subject happened to be.

Although I’ve always had a garden, space limitations and/or lack of sufficient sunlight kept me from being able to have such a place that provided unlimited teachable opportunities to a national television audience. Although I believe every garden offers such moments, you really need more than what mine have been able to offer for more than just a few segments. With the new garden and many large, deep raised beds, full sun and my ability to keep a watchful eye on things, there’s not much I won’t be able to do or show. Consider it making up for lost time. There will be many successes — and, no doubt, a few failures along the way. We’ll push the limits and experiment a lot. We will learn much together in the coming seasons. Imagine the possibilities.

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HOME IMPROVEMENT • Concrete Installation: Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways • Replacement Exterior & Interior Doors • Replacement Windows • Window Glass Replacement • Room Additions • Complete Kitchen & Bath Remodeling • Storage Building & Pole Buildings

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DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $550/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

2 BEDROOM house in country, 2 car garage, Bethel Township, No pets! $700 monthly plus deposit, 6395 Studebaker Road, (937)667-4144 for appointment to see

PIQUA, nice 2 bedroom townhouse. Appliances included, 1.5 baths. All electric. Patio and carport, (937)308-9709.

TIPP CITY ranch double. 1400sqft. 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, 2 car. Private. $895 plus deposit. (937)623-2103

EVERS REALTY TROY, 2 Bedroom Townhomes 1.5 bath, 1 car garage, $725

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320 Houses for Rent 3 BEDROOM, 2 full baths, screened porch, all appliances, AC, Country Living! $975 monthly, (937)335-3207.

TROY, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, garage, fenced yard, remodeled in Westbrook, $950 month (937)570-0529 TROY, updated 2 bedroom ranch in Westbrook, 1 year lease, possible land contract, $795 (937)308-0679

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The responsibilities of this position are broad and diverse ranging from daily oversight of grounds maintenance to management of a diversely skilled maintenance staff in a complex manufacturing environment. Responsibility for creating capital budgets, working with various outside contracting services and government agencies is a sampling of the breadth of the position.

NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info: (985)646-1700, Dept. OH-6011.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated strong leadership qualities including team building, organization, clear expectation setting and dedication. Requirements include the ability to communicate and interact effectively with personnel from all departments in the company and to efficiently manage a large number of service providers. Assure workforce safety with robust processes, clear expectations and effective oversight will always be the first priority.

NOTICE Better Business Bureau 15 West Fourth St. Suite 300 Dayton, OH 45402 www.dayton.bbb.org 937.222.5825 This notice is provided as a public service by A newspaper group of Ohio Community Media

COST/SALES ANALYST KTH Parts Industries, Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening in our Sales Department. This position will have an emphasis on cost/pricing with our customer—attention to detail is a must. Preferred candidates for this position will have a four-year degree. Other general qualifications for this position include: • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint • Good written and oral communications skills • Mechanical aptitude is preferred but not required

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This position will offer competitive compensation for the individual with the right set of skills and experience. We invite you to learn more about Minster and submit an application and resume by visiting www.minster.com. A more detailed description is available on-line.

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8-5

Arett Sales, a leading lawn and garden distributor, is hiring Material Handlers to select orders, load, unload and receive merchandise. Forklift experience a plus. We will train the right people. $8.50 per hour to start. Raise after 90 days. Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life and 401k. Apply in person: 1260 Brukner Dr, Troy. EOE. Drug Free Workplace. Arett Sales. jobs@arett.com. (937)552-2005.

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Janitor/ Floor Tech (Troy): Previous floor care experience is required. Monday - Friday, 5pm-1:30am. $10 hour. Apply online www.lacostaservices.com and click on employment. LaCosta Facility Support Services, (847)487-3179, elorant@cms4.com. LABORERS CDL TRUCK DRIVERS

Industrial contractor hiring for hard hat environment. Training provided. Apply at: 15 Industry Park Court Tipp City

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If you're searching for a career with real growth potential, take a look at the FORTUNE 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,650 home improvement stores in the United Sates and Canada. Never stop improving at our Troy, OH location in one of the following opportunities: Seasonal Customer Service Associates for:

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For job descriptions or to apply online, go to: http://www.lowes.com/careers

To apply in person, stop by The Troy Lowe's at: 2000 W. Main Street Lowe's is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to Diversity and Inclusion

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Successful Candidates should have: • Management Experience • Organizational Skills • Ability to be on-call • Computer Skills

KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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RESCARE, a leader in providing support to individuals with developmental disabilities is seeking a Residential Manager in the Sidney area. This position will administer the day-today operations of a group home, including staff supervision, payroll and financial management.

KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and a team-oriented manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates should send a confidential resume including salary requirements to:

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The Shelby County Department of Job & Family Services is looking for two highly motivated individuals to fill two (2) vacancies in its Children Services Division.

1. INVESTIGATOR- The selected individual will be responsible to work closely with families where child abuse and/or neglect have occurred. 2. FOSTER AND ADOPTION- The selected individual will be responsible to carry a small caseload of children in permanent legal status and recruit and maintain Foster and Adoptive parents for the agency.

This position requires the applicant to: • Possess a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in an appropriate field • Live within a thirty (30) minute drive of Shelby County, Ohio • Operate a motor vehicle • Possess a valid Ohio Driver's License and automobile insurance • Occasionally stay overnight at training sessions • Physically move independently and occasionally lift articles weighing up to forty (40) pounds.

Starting wage is $12.32 with possible increase depending upon level of degree and experience. This position is Classified, Certified Civil Service and may require passing a Civil Service Test.

Fringe Benefits for this position include: • Employee and spouse health insurance paid at 90% • Family health insurance paid at 90% • Dental and Vision insurance available • Prescription drug card • Paid sick leave (if leave available) • Paid vacation (after 1 year of service) or after accumulated it applicant has prior countable service • OPERS • Deferred compensation plans available • U.S. Savings Bonds available by payroll deduction Interested individuals should submit a resume and cover letter no later than April 15, 2013 to: Patty Raymond, Administrative Supervisor Shelby County Dept. of Job and Family Services 227 South Ohio Avenue Sidney, OH 45365

Shelby County Department of Job and Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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INSIDE SALES PERSON needed for local event and catering company. Responsibilities include telemarketing and meeting directly with clients. Experience or degree in hospitality a plus. Competitive benefit and salary package. Call (937)570-7230 for more information.

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IN-HOME CARE, Make an agreement/ offer/ commitment. Will exchange professional, devoted nursing care to someone for the rest of their life. 23 years experience. Exchange for negotiations. Call Rose (937)751-5014.

JOB WANTED: Looking for farm equipment operator position for spring planting season. (prefer RED equipment), vazenkrex@hotmail.com. (937)503-0504.

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TRACTOR, Massey Harris Pony collector tractor with hydraulic blade, excellent condition. (937)489-1725

TRACTOR, Nice original Ferguson 30 with 90% rubber,12 volt, local one owner, (937)489-1725

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AWNING, retractable 15' wide x 12' projection. White and blue. Comes with motorized remote as well as manual handle and all hardware. Like new, only used 1 year $3500, (937)492-1635.

BRIDAL SET, Brand new, have receipt, selling for half price, (937)339-4612 or (937)830-2590

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We offer excellent benefits, a dynamic team environment, competitive compensation and a powerful portfolio of award winning products to help you succeed. Sales experience prefered. Email cover letter and resume by April 19th, 2013 to: crandall@civitasmedia.com

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RIDING MOWER, Craftsman 42" deck, 6 speed transmission, 13 HP, Briggs & Stratton engine, new battery, very clean, asking $825 OBO. China cabinet (3 piece) with matching table, extra leaf and four chairs, tan in color, $450 OBO. Baby crib with attached changing table, $125 OBO. 350 Chevy stock engine, $250 OBO, (937)418-7227.

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From center of Vandalia – Rt 25A (old Dixie) or (Veteran’s Memorial Dr Parkway) go south past Sylvan and Wellness Center and turn right on Alkaline Springs Rd then 3 streets to right on Attica. Sale is at 781 Attica on left side.

6345 W. Versailles Rd. - Piqua, Ohio Furniture & Appliances: Bedroom suite (Northern), desk and chair (Bassette), Tell City Hutch, Table/chairs, couch, loveseat, recliner, end tables, lamps, dressers, Roseback needlepoint chair, 2 cast base piano stools, electric hospital bed, washer/dryer, refrigerator, upright freezer, misc. items. NOTE:To sell at Noon. Collectibles: Approx. 175-200 pcs. Fenton (milkglass, hobnail, silvercrest, etc.) See Photos. Over one hundred oil cans (many miniatures w/ several advertisers - Ford, Texaco, Singer, Hoover, etc.), NAPA trucks (delivery semi and Vista Dome horse van), egg crates, washer & scales, Miami Co. Dairy cheese bucket, few crocks and bowls, Magnalite roaster, City Brewing Co. beer case, antique tractor show badges, 1949 Laura Lumber calendar, B/W photos and few postcards, 3 early autograph books (1-1887), early jointed doll w/ open mouth & 2 teeth, misc glassware, two horse buggy hitch. Sewing: Singer sewing machine, boxes and boxes of material and quilting pcs., quilting frames and racks, magazines and so on. Garage: 5 H.P. Magna Force 2 stage air compressor, older Hobart welder (220 v.), Craftsman drill press, 15 gal. sprayer, wet-vac, stack tool box (full of hand tools, drills, taps, few air tools), die-hard booster/charger Teardrop Economy hit/miss motor, bolt bins, bench grinder, vise, pipe wrenches, John Deere chainsaw, lawn roller, portable air tank, etc. Ring 2 at 10:00 am. Barn: (2) 525 John Deere riding mowers (1-bagger, yard sweep), 7 ft. Bushhog, Woods snow blade (both 3 point), air auger, poly water tanks (1,000 and 1,500 gal), (2) flatbed wagon, Farmhand 6 row cultivator, 880 high clearance 5 row 5 bottom plow, 8 ft. truck tool boxes, one horse McCormick Deering pull drill, belt drive buzz saw, 250 gal. fuel tank, 500 gal. & 1,000 gal. propane tanks, large cast iron boiler, Dole 300 moisture tester, Speedster auger, 8” x 51’ auger, canning jars, and so on. To follow garage items. Tractor & Truck: Massey Ferguson 285 Diesel w/ Freeman loader (hydraulic), approx. $2,300 in receipts for maint. in late 2011 (nice tractor). 2011 Ford F150 XLT w/ 9,600 mi. Both to sell at noon w/ owners confirmation.

WEDNESDAY EVE, APRIL 10, 2013 4PM – SHARP! House to be sold by Perry Conley – Stegall and Associates Realty, 937-2078333. Contact Perry Conley for real estate terms. FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD: Butcher block island; Maytag while refrigerator with freezer on bottom; Westinghouse 30” electric stove; toaster oven; under the counter RCA DVD & TV; Sauder large storage cabinet; recliner chair; Lazy Boy recliner; stool; table and floor lamps; plant stands; entertainment center; rugs; blanket chest; computer chair; shelving; pictures; Degnazic signed pic; small appliances; 27” Toshiba TV; Emerson VCR; typing stand; brass rack; 2 square end tables; hassock; futon; chairs; chests; card table; oak queen size bed; mirrors; double dresser; night stand and chest; Magnavox portable TV; sewing table and light; cupboard; step stool; Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer; 4 & 6 ft step ladders; metal shelving; stereo; 2 Rubbermaid storage units 1 large and 1 small; wicker stand; 2 loungers; 2 patio tables; garden tools; shepherd hooks; flower pots; garden hose and reel; racks; totes; crocket set; fencing; bird feeders; kitchen utensils; pots & pans; crock pot; bedding; linens; baking pans; CDs; cassettes; VCR tapes; bisque dolls; Christmas; teddy bears; 12 Snow Babies; Hummel plates and rack; games; books; baskets; Polaroid camera; Norman Rockwell plates; patterns; Pyrex bowls; plastic ware; tea pot; musical snow globes; dishes; Lean Machine; cat on nest; cups and saucers; small brass collection of dogs on shelf; Rally 2 canister sweeper; Hoppy China doll in case; cookbooks; unmarked Fenton vase and bowl; silverware tins; post office mail box bank; luggage clothing; 78 records; Norman Rockwell stamp album; Hoover upright sweeper; figurines; Nintendo set; work bench; fan; coolers; gilded frame picture; some hand tools; Craftsman 6.0 key start 22” self propelled mower; plus lots more box lots to be determined! SIZE 10 WEDDING DRESS WITH TRAIN COINS/CURRENCY:9 Eisenhower dollars; 6 Susan B Anthonys; Kennedy halves; The American President Coin Collection 1963; 1 red note; 1953 Series A $2.00 bill and six other $2 bills. WELL KEPT AUTOMOBILE: 1998 Ford Mercury Mystique, 34,284 actual miles! Cruise, cassette, air, PW, PB, PDL, automatic, 4 cylinder, cloth interior – excellent condition! Would make anyone a nice car. Come and see! Go to www.auctionzip.com under Larry Lavender for photos and complete listing of pictures TERMS: Cash or check with proper ID. $50 bank charge plus $19 bank fees and subject to prosecution for bad checks!

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