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Pride Public tours re-opened facility winners Interest over renovation work allows rare opportunity begin meeting

BY BETHANY J. ROYER Staff writer broyer@civitasmedia.com PIQUA — The next set of Residence Pride Award winners will be announced at Tuesday’s commission meeting.

Those homes being recognized for showing pride in property and community include: Kathleen and Scott Hildebrand at 722 Caldwell St., Connie and Bob Hines of 1312 Brook St.,Linda and Jack Littleton of 1302WashingtonAve.,Holly and Jason Pierce of 651 Boone St.,Judy and Norm Seipel of 222 E.Garnsey St. Homes or businesses are recognized for general property appearance, landscaping, aiding neighbors in regards to their landscape or home improvement projects, home improvements and general clean up.

Winners receive a letter of congratulations and a photo of their home or business with a Residence Pride sign placed in front of the winner’s home for one month.

Properties are also highlighted in the lobby of the city building.

See a property worth nominating? Forms are available both at the city building and on the city’s website with the Residence Pride Committee members consisting of Debbie Stein, executive assistant for the City of Piqua, Amy Welker, director of health and sanitation, Tom Christy, deputy police chief, Dean Burch, IT director, and Jan Koon.

This quarterly recognition will be followed by the third and final reading updating the Piqua Municipal Code regarding trees, with new business consisting of annexation of property in Washington Twp. A resolution to contract with Walls Brothers Asphalt for the resurfacing program will be discussed, along with amending an agreement with the Ohio Department ofTransportation (ODOT) for the U.S. 36 Beautification Project.

Commission will also hear a resolution authorizing a purchase order to Valley Ford Truck, Henderson Truck Equipment and Kalida Truck Equipment for two dump trucks with snow plows for the public works department. Before closing out the meeting with a donation of an acre-plus to the Piqua Improvement Corporation or PIC. Want to learn more?

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

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Jail Administrator Lt. Dave Norman, left, along with Assistant Jail Administrator Sgt. Mike Marion from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office discuss the numerous improvements at the Incarceration Facility on County Road 25-A in Troy.

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Sheriff ’s Office opened the doors of the renovated incarceration facility to

the public Friday before officials move inmates to the jail later this month. According to Chief Deputy Dave Duchak, the public had expressed interest in seeing the incarceration facility and the renovation work after being shut for three and a half

years due to $1 million in cuts in the sheriff’s office budget in 2010. One of two alpha pods will open later in the month at the incarceration facility located in the government complex on N. County Rd. 25A after state jail inspections cautioned the sher-

iff’s office about the downtown jail’s deteriorating conditions which could have shuttered the downtown facility all together.

The downtown jail will continue to operate holding maximum level inmates and overnight detainees. More than $183,000 in repairs, equipment and supplies was approved to be used in the reopening of the Miami County Incarceration Facility. A roof leak had to be repaired, the shower areas had to be re-tiled and supplies such as office furnishings had to be purchased before it opened. The incarceration facility also added more razor wire and fencing to its recreation yard during the renovation due to jail inspection specifications. Sheriff Charles Cox also created an assistant jail administrator, tapping Sgt. Mike Marion to supervise the incarceration facility along with Lt. Dave Norman, jail administrator. The incarceration facility not only received a fresh coat of paint, but another opportunity to streamline inmate and staff security, Norman said.

“I will be a lot safer and more efficient to do things to lessen inmate movement,” Norman said. “This is what they call a ‘California style corrections system’ with direct supervision verses the cell system.” One main change is that inmates will eat their one hot meal and two brown bag meals in the pod, rather than walking to a common eating area. Norman said See Tours/Page 2

Hovercrafts to descend on city this weekend Three fun-filled days include activities for all ages, tastes

BY BETHANY J. ROYER Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com PIQUA — Clear the calendar as activities abound for the weekend of July 19-21 with everything from the Park and Recreation’s 7th annual car show starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Fountain Park and Hance Pavilion with the VanDells making a special concert appearance. To the second annual Activity Day for children preschool to sixth grade from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., at the south end of the park.

Another big event for the weekend –for those unfamiliar take a page from the pod racers in the first Star Wars movie– as the Hoverclub of America will descend upon the Great Miami

River beginning Friday, July 19.

(See full schedule at the end) “The Great Miami River is always a great place to ride,” says Dan Heidel, public relations coordinator for the club, who will be visiting Piqua for the first time with their Hovercrafts as the group formerly held races and cruises in Troy during the 1990s.

Floating on air, a mere ten inches above either water or land, the hovercrafts to descend upon Piqua next weekend will consist of everything from short and small, commercial to home-

made, as Heidel explained how the area around the bridge and the “bowl” of the water allows for a perfect setup. Not only for those participating in the race but the eager-viewing crowds.

Club members traversed the river in early June, scouting the water between Piqua and Sidney and back, determining points of interest, take out points, low head dams, and stopping locations for cruises, according to both Heidel and the group’s website. As a cruise for hovercraft participants will take place on Friday, moving up the river and back, with a bag lunch provided.

Every year the club has a cruise and race in different states, so what brought the group back to the Miami River after more than a decade? According to Heidel a lot of their members are from the area, having brought the crafts to Troy in the past.

“Biggest thing people knew the area, knew the river, that was the biggest draw right on,” said Heidel while the City of Piqua has shown her best side

as fliers were delivered to friendly reception and excitement by area stores and businesses.

Heidel believes that with the river being high due to recent rains will give the race and cruise a definite appeal, and hopes that time and space will allow for demonstrations for the public on how hovercrafts work, given the misconception they float on water as opposed to a cushion of air beneath the skirt of the craft.

“Once they take off they don’t touch the ground again, very unique,” said Heidel who noted the club will also help with the annual Clean Sweep of the Great Miami River Watershed on Saturday morning.

The Hoverclub of America was formed in 1974 and incorporated in 1976 as a 501(c)(7) not for profit corporation in the state of Indiana.

The event will go on rain or shine.

Hoverally 2013 from 8 a.m.

Friday, July 19 until 5 p.m.

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Zimmerman cleared; attorney says safety a concern

BY KYLE HIGHTOWER AND MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

His brother said the former neighborhood watch volunteer was still processing

the reality that he wouldn’t serve prison time for the killing, which Zimmerman, 29, has maintained was an act of self-defense. Late Saturday night, a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and declined to convict him on a lesser charge of manslaughter.

However, with many critics angry over his acquittal, his freedom may be limited.

“He’s going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life,” Robert Zimmerman

Jr. said during an interview on CNN. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee, Washington, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into the early morning Sunday, but some broke windows and vandalized a police squad car in Oakland during protests in four California cities,authorities said. Additional demonstrations were scheduled across the country through

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Churches also made note of the verdict Sunday morning, with many leaders speaking about the case and urging peace in the aftermath. Some congregants wore hooded sweatshirts, as Martin had when he died, or shirts with the teen’s picture.

Martin’s killing in February 2012 unleashed debate across the U.S. over racial profiling, self-defense and ZIMMERMAN equal justice. Protesters nationwide lashed out against See Cleared/Page 2

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Obituaries

Edward Francis Davis PIQUA — Edward Francis Davis, 62, of Piqua, died at 2 a.m. Friday, July 12, 2013, at his residence.

He was born in Sidney, to Mari a n n (Heckl e r ) Davis of Sidn e y DAVIS and the late Orville Davis.

Edward is survived by his children and their spouses, Rodney Stephenson, Houston, Renne and Scott Helman of Bradford, Ben and Kim Davis of Piqua, and Sherri Davis of Sidney; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Carol and Robert Fanning of Houston and Jayne and Luke Keller of Ft. Recovery; and several grandchildren.

Edward proudly served his country as a member

of the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Wa s h i n g ton, D.C. and served as a member of the Old Guard during the Vietnam War. Edward was also a member of the burial detail at Memorial Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C. He was a member of American Legion Post 217, Sidney. Edward loved and his motorcycles Harley Davidson. He was an owner/operator of a big rig.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Adams Funeral Home, 1401 Fair Road, Sidney, with Pastor Fred Gillenwater officiating. Burial will follow in Shelby Memory Gardens, Sidney, OH. Friends may call from 911 a.m Tuesday at the funeral home. Full military honors will be provided by American Legion Post 217, Sidney, OH.

Gerald M. Rosengarten Sr. CELINA — Gerald M. Rosengarten Sr. 68, of Celina died 11:14 a.m., Saturday, July 6, 2013, at St. Rita’s Medical Center. He was born Aug. 13, 1944, in Celina, to Florian and Martha Grisez Rosengarten. Mrs. Rosengarten survives in Celina.

Jerry had been the founder and owner operator of the Covington Party Supply and Pizza Place in the 1970s and currently had been a driver for Midwest Logistics. He was a member of the Celina Moose Lodge 1473, Celina Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge 1291 and AMVETS Post 91.

Survivors include a son,

Gerald M. ‘Jerry’ ( G i n a ) Rosengarten,Jr. of Covington; a daughter, Lori Anderson of West Carrollton; five grandchildren, Kristin Felton, Haley, Holly and Drew Rosengarten and Daniel Mead, siblings, Larry, Thomas, Marlene, Jeanette, and Susan.

He was preceded in death by brothers, Robert and James.

Private family services have been held.

Memorial contributions may be given to charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be shared at BayliffAndSon.com

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Max and Dave, newest power couple ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Welcome to the “Max and Dave Show,” a campaign-style swing around the country featuring two of the most powerful members of Congress rallying support for their effort to overhaul the nation’s tax laws — and, just maybe, change the way Washington works.

Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and Rep. Dave Camp, a Republican from Michigan, are Washington’s newest power couple — and an odd one during these politically deadlocked days in Washington. They are lawmakers from different states, different parties and they’re a decade in age apart.

Yet, Camp and Baucus are developing a close friendship as they try to rally other lawmakers to their cause.

Their secret: Burgers, beer and a culture of working toward public

policy answers that Americans seem to want in Washington — even when there’s no solution in sight.

“Dave’s my buddy,” Baucus told a gathering of workers at 3M, the Minnesota-based maker of everything from Scotch tape to electronic touch screens. “My comrade.”

These days, you don’t often hear Democrats talk that way about Republicans, or see campaign-style events for a topic as dry as tax reform. But the pair have a common goal for an overhaul they believe is long overdue. And tax policy, to them, is exciting for all that is wrong and could be improved about it. So beginning last week in Minnesota, Baucus and Camp began barnstorming the country, employing a similar burgers-and-beer strategy that’s worked for them with colleagues in Washington.

“You have to have some basis to

deal with each other to work together,” Camp said in an interview.

“What we’re trying to do is create that foundation so that we are going to be able to work together on a very important bill that could have profound beneficial effects for the country.”

At issue is a tax system that many inside and outside of Congress say is too complicated for individuals and too onerous for businesses. The broad goal of tax reform is to simplify the code by eliminating or reducing tax breaks and using the additional revenue to lower tax rates for everyone.

Lawmakers in both political parties are convinced that simpler, easier-to-understand tax laws would spur economic activity. One problem is that many of the biggest tax

were still in the incarceration facility were ruined by mold and mildew when the building was shuttered for three and a half years. Duchak said six more corrections officers are needed to open the other pod for low level offenders and are currently going through the hiring process. In previous reports, the projected cost for 19 corrections officers’ salaries is $635,481 per year, plus $381,071 in benefits if all select family benefits. Recently hired corrections’ officer Ryan Carson said he likes the incarceration fa-

cility’s pod system because “there’s no one behind your back and you always see what’s going on.” Also, Duchak said Miami County Sheriff’s Office will be housing inmates from other facilities to balance out the costs to reopen the IF. Of the more than 40 corrections officers laid off after the Incarceration Facility closed in 2008, three have been rehired and currently are working at the downtown jail. For more information about the Miami County Sheriff ’s Office, visit www.miamicountysheriff.org.

challenge briefing 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Cruiser’s challenge timed runs 2:45 p.m. - 5 p.m. Cruise from Piqua to Sydney 1 – 1:45 p.m. Race course open for practice 2 – 2:45 p.m. Time trials (if necessary) 3 – 5 p.m. 1 heat of Sanctioned Racing - FN, FE/FJ, F35, F50, FS/F1/F2 5 p.m. Racecourse closed Saturday Sanctioned racing and cruising 9 a.m. – noon Participant registration 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Safety inspection 11 a.m. Driver’s meeting and course officials briefing 11 a.m. Cruiser’s meeting and challenge (River Junk) briefing noon - 5 p.m. Cruise and challenge (Box lunch provided)

11:30 a.m. – noon Race course open for practice 1 – 5 p.m. 2 heats of Sanctioned Racing - FE/FJ, F35, F50, FS/F1/F2 5 p.m. Racecourse closed 6:30 p.m. Awards Banquet for club members and families at Kuzzinz * Racecourse closed except during published times.

Sunday Endurance race 10 – 11 a.m. Safety inspection 11 a.m. Driver meeting 11:30 a.m. – noon Race course open for practice noon - 2 p.m. Endurance race 2:30 p.m. Awards ceremony on the levee 3 p.m. Teardown, cleanup and departure More information at www.hoverclubofamerica.org

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Tours Continued from page 1 it will cut down on the inmate interaction with other pods and quell disturbances. “It will be a lot safer this way for the staff,” Norman said.

“It’s all about keeping your big happy family in the pod to keep incidents down,” Marion said. The incarceration facility also is seeking new reading materials for its library. The library will be in the middle of an open area in the facility instead of an enclosed room with limited sight lines. The books which

City Continued from page 1 Sunday, July 21 on the banks of the Great Miami River.

BREAKOUT: Schedule of Events Thursday Arrival and setup 10 a.m. Race course construction and setup 4 p.m. Participant arrival and paddock setup 6 p.m. Early Bird dinner at the Boomerang Pub Friday Sanctioned Racing, Challenge and Cruise 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Participant arrival and registration 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Safety inspection 12:30 p.m. Driver’s meeting and course officials briefing 12:30 p.m. Cruisers meeting and

Cleared Continued from page 1 police in the Orlando suburb of Sanford as it took 44 days for Zimmerman to be arrested. Many,including Martin’s parents, said Zimmerman had racially profiled the unarmed black teen. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.

Six anonymous female jurors considered nearly three weeks of often wildly conflicting testimony over who was the aggressor on the rainy night the 17-year-old was shot while walking through the gated townhouse community where he was staying and where Zimmerman lived.

Jurors were sequestered during the trial, and they deliberated more than 15 hours over two days before announcing late Saturday night that they had reached a verdict. The court did not release the racial and ethnic makeup of the jury, but the panel appeared to reporters covering selection to be made

up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.

In August 2012, defense attorney Mark O’Mara said Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, had been living like hermits and weren’t working because they feared for their safety.

After Saturday’s verdict, police, officials and civil rights leaders urged peace and told protesters not to resort to violence. While defense attorneys said they were thrilled with the outcome, O’Mara suggested Zimmerman’s safety would be an ongoing concern.

“There still is a fringe element that wants revenge,” O’Mara said.“They won’t listen to a verdict of not guilty.”

Those watching reacted strongly when the verdict was announced. Martin’s mother and father were not in the courtroom when it was read; supporters of his family who had gathered outside yelled “No! No!” upon learning of the verdict.

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black resident of Sanford, angrily asked outside the courthouse: “How the hell did they find him not guilty?”

“He killed somebody and got away with murder,” Perkins shouted, so angry he shook, looking toward the courthouse.

Trayvon Martin’s brother, Jahvaris Fulton, said on Twitter: “Et tu America?” — a reference to the Latin phrase “Et tu, Brute?” known as an expression of betrayal.

In a Sunday afternoon statement, President Barack Obama called Martin’s death a tragedy for America but asked that Americans respect calls for calm reflection.

“I know this case has elicited strong passions,” he said. “And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.”

The statement reflected the widespread national attention of the case. The White House rarely issues formal responses to trials that do not directly involve the president or federal government.

Obama said the verdict should prompt a discussion on gun violence, but it’s unlikely he will use the trial as a way to restart his legislative push for stricter gun control laws. The measures

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he sought after the December school massacre in Newtown, Conn., failed to pass the Senate.

NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous started a petition calling for the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman. “The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin,” Jealous wrote in the petition, posted on the website MoveOn.org and addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder.

Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump acknowledged the disappointment of Trayvon Martin’s supporters, ranking the teen alongside civil rights heroes Medgar Evers and Emmett Till in the history of the fight for equal justice. However, Crump said, “for Trayvon to rest in peace, we must all be peaceful.”

Martin’s family maintained the teen was not the aggressor, and prosecutors suggested Martin was scared because he was being followed by a stranger. Defense attorneys, however, said Martin knocked Zimmerman down and was slamming the older man’s head against the concrete sidewalk when Zimmerman fired his gun.

Prosecutors called Zimmerman a liar and portrayed him as a “wannabe cop” vigilante who had grown frustrated by breakins in his neighborhood committed primarily by young black men. Zimmerman assumed Martin was up to no good and took the law into his own hands, prosecutors said.

State Attorney Angela Corey said after the verdict

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Martin Green, lower left, is comforted by Bridgett Welch after hearing the verdict of not guilty in the trial of George Zimmerman at the Seminole County Courthouse, Saturday, in Sanford, Fla. that she believed second-degree murder was the appropriate charge because Zimmerman’s mindset “fit the bill of second-degree murder.”

“We charged what we believed we could prove,” Corey said.

Zimmerman also had some supporters outside the courthouse, including Cindy Lenzen, 50, of Casslebury, and her brother, 52-year-old Chris Bay, who stood watching others chant slogans such as, “the whole system’s guilty.”

Lenzen and Bay — who are white — called the entire case “a tragedy,” especially for Zimmerman.

“It’s a tragedy that he’s going to suffer for the rest of his life,” Bay said. “No one wins either way.This is going to be a recurring nightmare

in his mind every night.”

Before a special prosecutor assigned to the case ordered Zimmerman’s arrest, thousands of protesters had gathered in Sanford, Miami, New York and elsewhere, many wearing hoodies like the one Martin had on the night he died. They also carried Skittles and a can of iced tea, items Martin had in his pocket. Obama also had weighed in, saying that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.”

Despite the racially charged nature of the case, race was barely mentioned at the trial.

“This case has never been about race or the right to bear arms,” Corey said. “We believe this case all along was about boundaries, and George Zimmerman exceeded those boundaries.”

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Adams: Online survey available COLUMBUS — State Representative Richard Adams (R-Troy) has set up an online legislative survey in an effort to gain feedback from the residents of the 80th Ohio House District regarding a variety of state issues.

The survey can be ac-

cessed at http://tinyurl.com/RepRich ardAdamsSurvey.

“It continues to be important to me to receive information from my constituents in the 80th district, which will enable me to better represent them in the Ohio House of

Representatives,” Adams said.

Additionally, residents of the 80th District are welcome to contact Adams by calling his office at (614) 466-8114. The 80th District includes Miami County and portions of ADAMS Darke County.

Trapeze classes channel inner performer

BY ALLISON WARD The Columbus Dispatch COLUMBUS (AP) — Inside a cavernous West Side warehouse, Aaron Pickering stood on one foot, swinging on a trapeze, with his other leg extended behind him.

The arabesque, like other moves he has learned, didn’t prove as routine as he might have expected.

“You think: ‘I can do this. This is just like a jungle gym,’??” Pickering said. “But, hey, I’m 40.”

The office manager from Grandview Heights had no experience in the so-called aerial arts until about 18 months ago — when, bored with weightlifting, he entered Movement Activities in the Franklinton neighborhood.

“It takes confidence up there,” he said, “and just getting the body to cooperate.”

Confidence is among the traits that students hone during low-flying trapeze and other sessions taught by Mikey Thomas, 46.

His students — roughly 80 of them — also gain concentration and flexibility in the classes, which many pursue as an alternative workout.

They come away with stories to pass along to family members, friends and — in the case of David Rose — colleagues.

On the mornings after his evening classes, Rose said, co-workers at the property-management office where he works gather around his desk to hear how things went.

“It’s such a great core and upperbody workout, but it’s so different each week with the different apparatuses,” Rose, 52, said after a recent class. “I’ll be sore, but it’s a good sore.”

For five months, Rose has attended the classes in the 100,000-

square-foot warehouse at 400 W. Rich St. The 1910 building houses art and music studios, and Movement Activities.

In one corner of Thomas’ space, six trapezes hang 4 to 6 feet off the ground. During some sessions, rings or hoops about the size of HulaHoops — called lyra — dangle, too.

Padded mats cover the floor, and upbeat music plays. Aerial arts — a hybrid of dancing and gymnastics — began as a dance movement in the 1970s to bring the spectacle of the circus “closer to the ground level,” said Thomas, a professionally trained dancer and choreographer.

“It makes it a little more for the average person.”

With friends wanting to give trapeze a try, Thomas rented space in early 2012 at a dance studio off Sawmill Road. As interest mounted, he needed more room and, last summer, moved to the West Side.

“I didn’t want to have a school, a business; a school is a lot of work,” said Thomas, a 2000 graduate of Ohio State University. “But it was unavoidable. There was this influx of people asking, “Can I do that?’??”

First-time students attend an orientation before taking lessons as often as three times a week (for $8 to $20 a class).

Among Thomas’ regulars are 24year-old Teal Larsen, with nine years of experience; and 25-year-old Cate Owens, a professionally trained dancer.

Others are much greener — including Jade Piatt, an aesthetician seeking to tap her adventurous side; and friends Rachael Wummer and Alice Rush-Rhodes, who were both looking for an unusual workout.

“Who takes trapeze class? I do,” said Wummer, 26, of the Short

North. “It always makes me smile.”

Within eight weeks, Piatt could flip herself onto a trapeze bar from a hanging position, if not as gracefully as more-experienced students.

Still, the 30-year-old is pleased with her progress.

“I feel like I’m getting stronger and can do things I couldn’t do at the beginning,” she said. “The hardest thing for me is the balancing aspect.”

During a recent beginner class, Thomas led a 15-minute warm-up before guiding students through repetitive movements on the bar.

They started with chin-ups, then progressed to more difficult moves, eventually flipping themselves onto the bar and hanging from the knees. Finally, they stood on the bar and slowly removed their feet, hanging with their arms wrapped around the trapeze ropes.

Advanced lessons, Rose said, encompass the same movements, but students combine them into several-minute routines.

Scott DeWitt, a friend of Thomas’ who started taking classes in January 2012, is hooked.

“It’s given me a confidence that I have noticed playing out in other parts of my life,” said DeWitt, a 49year-old writing professor at OSU. “I (thought I) would never, ever try anything like this, but mostly that’s because I’ve never had the opportunity.”

Which speaks to the primary reason that his friend opened Movement Activities.

“I think people have a secret desire to perform,” Thomas said.

“I’ve really always believed that art, especially movement art, needs to be more accessible to people.”

Ohio community college exports courses CLEVELAND (AP) — A community college in northeast Ohio has parlayed its participation in a 3year-old state initiative on coursesharing across the state.

Lorain County Community College in Elyria most recently is exporting two one-year certificate courses, medical assisting and supply chain management, to be offered this fall at Tolles Career and Technical Center in Plain City near Columbus.

LCCC President Roy Church told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (bit.ly/14RubM2) in an interview published Sunday that the college’s partnerships show the need is there for a college to offer proven and accredited programs to schools without them.

About 10 years ago the college began offering its nursing and respiratory programs at Bowling Green State University’s Firelands campus in Huron.

“The whole idea when we started this was if there was an unmet need in a geographic area, wouldn’t it be better to mobilize an existing program from another institution instead of starting from scratch and developing a new program,” he said.

LCCC also has provided health programs to Terra Community College in Fremont and helped Eastern Gateway Community College after it was established in Steubenville in October of 2009.

Washington and beyond.

The Montana senator says he is on track to meet individually with every member of the Senate by the end of the month. Camp is trying to forge bipartisan relationships on the Ways and Means Committee by pairing small groups of Republicans and Democrats to develop options for addressing different parts of the tax law.

Every few weeks, Baucus and Camp invite about a dozen lawmakers to lunch at a Capitol Hill pub, always a mix of Democrats and Republicans, senators and House members.

Camp and Baucus have dubbed their lunches “burgers and beer,” and the location — a pub called Kelly’s Irish Times — has historic significance. Former Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., is credited with helping to rescue the 1986 tax reform package with a plan he devised over two pitchers of beer at the pub. At the time, Packwood was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, a position now held by Baucus.

“Part of it is, we’ve been so polarized in this town, this Congress for so many years, many of us don’t know each other,” Baucus said. “A burger and beers makes a lot more sense to me than a fancy dinner.”

Camp and Baucus have held two lunches so far. The latest was Tuesday, and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, was there. She said Camp and Baucus are setting a good example for other lawmakers.

“There was a time when members of Congress moved their families to Washington, and they got to know each other.

Their kids went to school together, they went to church together, they socialized together,” Jenkins said. “We don’t do that anymore. Our constituents demand that we be in church with them on Sunday.”

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., was at

the lunch, too.

“It’s when preparation meets opportunity that something can happen, and that preparation just happens to coincide with knowing your colleagues,” Larson said. “And knowing them not like, ‘Hey, let’s go out and have a beer.’

I’m talking about knowing them in terms of going through what the issues are.”

Camp says he is committed to passing a tax reform bill out of the Ways and Means Committee by the end of the year. There is no guarantee the full House would vote on a bill. But Boehner has signaled his support for the effort by reserving the prestigious bill number HR 1 for a tax overhaul measure.

In the Senate, Baucus is teaming with Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, to write a new tax code, almost from scratch. Instead of trying to figure out which tax breaks to scrap, Baucus and Hatch are starting with a blank slate and inviting other senators to make the case for restoring various deductions, credits and exemptions.

In a question-and-answer session with 3M workers, Fred Palensky, the company’s chief technology officer, hit on a theme that Baucus and Camp will have to deal with.

Palensky said he has met with members of Congress in the past and, on an individual basis, they seem like reasonable, sensible people. What happens to them when they get together back in Washington? Palensky asked Camp and Baucus.

“We’re trying to break, frankly, the Washington method of operation,” Baucus said. “Most people in the country want us to work together. Not the Washington way, which is gridlock, but the American way, which is work together and get things done

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And there are significant differences among Democrats and Republicans over how much tax revenue the government should raise and who should pay it. Democrats generally want reform to generate more revenue; most Republicans in Congress are opposed to raising taxes.

Camp and Baucus also are working in a toxic partisan environment in Washington that makes it difficult for Congress to pass routine legislation, let alone a monumental package like tax reform.

“I don’t see how we get anywhere, candidly,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who is up for re-election in Kentucky next year.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasn’t much more optimistic. “We’re a long way from getting something on paper as to what we’re going to go forward on,” Reid said.

Still, Baucus and Camp are pressing forward.

Camp, 60, grew up in Midland, Mich., and was first elected to the House in 1990. A close ally of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Camp chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, which has authority over tax laws.

Its Senate counterpart is the Finance Committee, chaired by the 71year-old Baucus. For him, it’s legacy time. Baucus grew up on a ranch near Helena, Mont., was elected to the Senate in 1978 and has become an independent voice generally more conservative than many of his Democratic colleagues. He’s announced plans to retire next year, and tax reform would be his swan song.

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Too sexy for the Pope?

Couldn’t we have one?” That was Chuck Todd’s question as he hosted his political geek show, “The Daily Rundown,” on MSNBC one recent morning. Todd was moderating a panel discussing former New York congressman Anthony Weiner’s insistence on running for office despite a history of tweeting his private parts, coupled with former governor Eliot Spitzer’s eagerness for political comeback as New York City comptroller, despite the prostitution scandal that ended his tenure upstate. Politicians are neither princes nor role models. But, really, couldn’t someone be a role model, Todd dared to dream?

Role models exist, of course, but don’t always make news as much as people in the throes of scandal. So why wouldn’t we have the politicians stubbornly and defiantly insisting that embarrassing and criminal choices really shouldn’t have long-term consequences? They don’t necessarily make pleas for forgiveness and redemption so much as they do for tolerance. Shame isn’t an entirely bad thing, though.

Not when it makes us self-aware enough to expect better and value — and mold — character.

But instead, we raise kids to not even know they can have better, that they should demand better. And so we wind up with a Glamour magKATHY LOPEZ azine poll determining Columnist that women consider John F. Kennedy “The Sexiest Man (Not) Alive.” Given what we know about him in the light of history, you’d think we’d want better.

Is it any surprise that if we’d settle for infidelity, we’ve lost sight of what we owe one another?

In a homily the other day on the Sicilian island Lampedusa — off the coast of Tunisia, which is currently overflowing with “Arab Spring” refugees, many of them Muslim — Pope Francis talked about the man we walk by and think “poor guy.”

“We are accustomed to the suffering of others, it doesn’t concern us, it’s none of our business,” he said.

If we happen to even bother to think “poor guy,” if we happen to look up from our iPhones enough to notice him, we’ve become all too comfortable insisting someone else help. We feel good about ourselves if we contribute to the latest disaster relief fund or sign petitions that we pretend can work miracles. But it is in civil society where our common humanity is realized.

Perhaps at the heart of the allure of JFK, even knowing what we know now, is the secular drift he made mainstream. It was in his announcing that religion was something that doesn’t really infuse our lives, with his historic campaign speech to Baptists in Houston, that we hit a historic secularist milestone. It marked an embrace of letting ourselves off easy, a posture that has only deepened as religious proposals are increasingly seen as threats, so much so that the federal government would tell Christians their hang-ups about abortion and contraception are not fit for the public square.

As Americans were taking a long Independence Day weekend, Lumen Fidei, an encyclical drafted by Pope Benedict XVI and issued by Pope Francis, was released. In it, faith is described as that which illuminates all of life. “Those who believe are transformed by the love to which they have opened their hearts in faith.” The faithful demonstrate an “openness” to an “offer of primordial love,” in which “their lives are enlarged and expanded.”

We don’t all believe the same things about the meaning of our lives. But when even those who believe in God, who believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, have succumbed to believing that their faith is but “a beautiful story” or “a lofty sentiment which brings consolation and cheer, yet remains prey to the vagaries of our spirit and the changing seasons, incapable of sustaining a steady journey through life,” sooner or later, we’re all going to find ourselves settling.

All is not lost, however. I take some hope in the cover of the current Italian edition of Vanity Fair.

Pope Francis is actually the cover story, dubbed Man of the Year. There’s something about him that is drawing people in. May it not be a cult of personality but a personal and cultural challenge. He happens to believe that God’s love is “tangible” and “powerful,” and “really does act in history and determines its final destiny: a love that can be encountered, a love fully revealed in Christ’s passion, death and resurrection,” as Lumen Fidei puts it. Italian magazine editors may have found us some common ground for cultural renewal. Believe it or not, people who are truly called by that supernatural reality during the course of our temporal interactions aren’t all that bad to have around. It might just make a difference in the neighborhood, schools, politics, the arts, and the lives of the most forgotten and yours and mine.

They might not settle, and challenge us to expect more for and of ourselves, too.

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Let Obama roll out Obamacare stop offering it for one year. ccording to Winston An appropriate question, Churchill, “A lie gets civilly asked and answered halfway around the simply and directly. world before the truth has a I get why power-motichance to get its pants on.” vated politicians don’t have When it comes to Obathis kind of dialogue with macare, the lies have circled their constituents. But why the globe twice before the don’t the media do their truth has gotten out of bed.

DONNA BRAZILE job? They should be informThe Affordable Care Act, ing and educating the pubaka “Obamacare,” the most Columnist lic. significant and wide-rangHere’s a question that should be asked, ing legislation passed by Congress since the 1960s, is a response to a crisis decades in the more often and more insistently: Why are making. Every President since Harry Tru- at least 13 states, including Florida, Texas man (with the exception of Ronald Reagan) and my home state of Louisiana, refusing to proposed a major health reform initiative. expand eligibility for Medicaid programs, In his last State of the Union address, when doing so would not only help hunGeorge H.W. Bush proposed a health insur- dreds of thousands of residents get needed ance tax credit and guaranteeing all Amer- health care (reason enough!) but would also icans access to basic health insurance. (Yes, help cure what ails the state budget. Perhaps when Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Jeb it bears a resemblance to Obamacare.)

President Obama knew crafting legisla- Bush, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz make the tion as important and far-reaching as the rounds talking like presidential candidates, Affordable Care Act — a 21st-century someone should ask them why they don’t Medicare, if you will — would be difficult, want hardworking families to be able to afcontroversial and require a lot of compro- ford regular checkups for their kids.

What about the “sticker shock,” the fact mise. He also stated that reforming health care would be a work-in-progress -- a bal- that this fall, when people shop for insurancing act between the health of our citi- ance coverage on the exchanges (the online marketplaces where people without emzens and containing costs.

Comprehensive health care legislation ployer insurance can buy insurance), some should be a given. After all, preventing ill- of them will see higher prices than before?

Yes, the price will go up -- for some people. ness and healing the sick is both divine and constitutional (i.e., providing for the general There are two reasons for this. First, health insurance will cover more conditions and welfare).

Opponents have been worried about cost, treatments than the minimalist, often pracchoice and the rights of insurance compa- tically useless, coverage people with modernies. Some concerns are legitimate and ate incomes could previously afford — i.e., were addressed in the legislation. Others more bucks, but proportionately more bang will surely be incorporated in future modi- for the buck.

Second, there will be an end to discrimifications.

But the amount and extent of misinfor- nation based on medical condition. So older mation, fear-mongering and falsification re- and less-healthy people will have lower premiums. But the young and the healthy will quires some rhetorical aspirin.

Take, for example, the Republican re- have higher premiums.

Meanwhile, the doomsayers and “disinsponse to the Obama administration’s recent announcement that it would delay formants” ignore two of the most important implementation of the “employer mandate” points about Obamacare.

First, the exchanges will offer Americans until 2015.

Let’s cut through the hyperbole on the a choice among plans that meet basic requirements. In other words, competition, right, and understand the basics: What is being delayed? Implementation which will bring prices down. And if an inof a tax penalty — it’s not a mandate — for surance plan costs too much, people won’t employers that don’t provide coverage, as buy it.

Second, for people who earn less than required by law.

Why is implementation of the tax penalty four times the poverty line -- $94,000 for a being delayed? The White House responded family of four -- there will be tax credits to to petitions from large businesses for more help pay for their insurance premiums.

A proper public information campaign time to implement the Act’s provisions. The administration is showing flexibility in would clear up much of the confusion and granting the delay -- the same flexibility it allay many of the misgivings about Obashowed when it responded to requests by macare. But, unsurprisingly, Republicans in consumer advocacy groups and reduced the Congress are preventing the people from application for coverage from 21 pages to getting the facts.

To paraphrase Churchill, rarely have so three.

Who is affected by the delay? Only em- few done so much to confuse so many. ployers with more than 50 employees. SigDonna Brazile is a senior Democratic nificantly, more than 90 percent of such companies already provide coverage. And strategist, a political commentator and conno one reasonably expects large companies tributor to CNN and ABC News, and a conthat currently provide health insurance to tributing columnist to Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal grants totaling more than $10.3 million have been awarded to Ohio agencies to help homeless and at-risk veterans and their families.

Agencies in 36 Ohio counties will use the grants to serve more than 3,000 homeless and atrisk veteran families.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Friday that $300 million in homeless prevention grants were awarded to 319 community-based groups in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

The private, nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives provide services to very low-income veteran families living in permanent housing or transitioning to such housing.

Veterans Affairs officials say communitybased groups can offer temporary financial assistance on behalf of veterans for rent and utility payments, security deposits and moving costs.

Ohio first: nearly air-tight house certification CLEVELAND (AP) — A nearly air-tight environmentally friendly house in Cleveland has become the first building in Ohio certified by the Passive House Institute U.S. The nonprofit organization promotes high-performing designs to reduce energy consumption.

The initial Ohio designation went to a three-bedroom Cleveland house with thick, heavily insulated walls. It has high-tech windows and nearly air-tight construction to minimize heating and cooling costs.

Director David Beach with the GreenCityBlueLake Institute at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History tells The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer that the demonstration project was successful.

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BY ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene was only 26 years old when he photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine. He went on to take thousands of photos of the Hollywood siren, capturing both her vulnerability and her sex-bomb persona.

Now, 3,700 unpublished black-and-white and color negatives and transparencies of Greene’s Monroe archive are going on the auction block — with copyright. They are but a fraction of 75,000 celebrity negatives and slides Greene shot in the 1950s and 1960s that are going on sale July 27 at Profiles in History in Los Angeles and online.

Copyrights are included with all the material, which is spread over 268 lots, meaning a potential buyer can print images from the negatives and transparencies, sell them and license the material.

“It’s a big, big deal. It’s like selling the recipe for Coca-Cola,” said Joseph Maddalena, owner of Profiles in History, which auctions original Hollywood memorabilia and artifacts.

“It’s nearly unheard of in a public venue, particularly for an entire archive,” said Christopher Belport, the photography consultant for Profiles in History.

The archive also includes hundreds of production stills of Faye Dunaway during the filming of “Bonnie & Clyde” and Cary Grant and Doris Day in “That Touch of Mink.” Among others are Sid Caesar, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve, Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich.

Most of the lots are expected to fetch between $1,000 and $15,000 depending on the number of negatives in each lot and the featured celebrity. But it’s anyone’s guess what they will bring. “It’s unchartered territory,” Maddalena said.

Peter Stern, an attorney specializing in arts-related matters, raised concern that unsigned prints made from the negatives could hurt the market.

“It’s not that hard to sign a photo,” he said.

But Maddalena noted: “There are no vintage Milton Greene photographs. ... He was a work-for-hire photographer” shooting covers for Look, Life, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and other magazines.

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In this photo provided by Profiles in History, July 9, is a 1955 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene. Now 3,700 never-before published negatives and transparencies that Greene shot of the Hollywood siren in the 1950s are going on the auction block.

Like his contemporaries, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Greene is credited with elevating fashion photography to fine art. But unlike them, Greene did not commercialize his work. “Only a handful was published,” Maddalena said.

“The sudden opportunity to acquire a large number of camera artifacts from a historically significant photographer will likely amplify the value ... and provide fuller context to those that are sold in the future in auction or privately,” Belport said.

The seller is an unidentified American photography collector who purchased the archive about 10 years ago.

The items came from the Greene estate “via a financial institute in Poland that had secured ownership from Greene in a business dealing” with the copyright, the auction house said in a statement.

The photographer’s son, Joshua Greene, called it “a bad business deal.”

He said that in the process of severing the partnership, he gave them the copyright, calling it “my mistake, which I regret to this day.”

Greene operates Archives LLC, a Florence, Ore., company that sells digitally restored prints of historical collections and owns 110,000 negatives and transparencies that his father gave him before he died in 1985 at the age

of 63.

Greene said Profiles has the residual of the total film archive of 280,000 items, but not all of it would be of interest to the public.

Archives’ limited edition prints are all signed, stamped and authenticated by the estate of Milton Greene.

“The fine art market is protected,” Greene said, because any prints made from the film offered at the auction would be far less valuable without the seal of authenticity.

He plans to attend the sale.

“I hate to see Humpty Dumpty broken up into so many pieces — 268 lots.

I’d like to see it all come back home under one roof where it belongs,” he said.

Negatives and transparencies fade and deteriorate and would need to be digitally re-mastered by anyone who bought them to preserve them forever — a lengthy process that Greene said takes up to 20 hours per negative.

Milton Greene’s 1953 assignment for Look was the start of a close friend-

ship and business relationship with Monroe. He shot more than 5,000 images of her during more than 55 sittings over the next four years — until she married Arthur Miller.

Greene was her confidante and mentor. Together they formed Marilyn Monroe Productions, which resulted in “Bus Stop” and “The Prince and the Showgirl.”

The rarest other celebrity negatives in the sale are of porn star Linda Lovelace.

He shot 2,000 images of her between her filming of “Deep Throat I” and “Deep Throat II” for a project that was never realized, Maddalena said. “Not one has ever been seen before, and we have them all.”

Mark Vieira, an author on the photographic history of Hollywood, said he was flabbergasted by the vastness of the collection.

“Usually this kind of material offers you a slice of history. The Greene collection is more like a chunk of history,” Vieira said.

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DEAR ABBY: I have led an unusual life. I lived abroad alone in my late teens, spent my early 20s exploring the West, and finished my college degree a year early while working full time. It gave me independence, experience and clarity.

My problem is, in dating I feel leagues ahead of men who are my age. I am attracted to much older men.

My current boyfriend is 15 years older than I am. The age gap is often a topic of conversation among my acquaintances, co-workers and some family members. My boyfriend has also experienced unwanted comments about dating a much younger woman.

What are your thoughts on who a person should be dating in her early 20s? And how should I deal with those who believe I am breaking a social code?

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and my son get along better with me when they’re not together. When I am there, they gang up on me and become adversarial. I have reached a point where I hate to be around them at the same time.

I don’t know what to do about this.When I try to talk to my husband about it, he gets angry and blames me. I don’t think I can take much more. What do you think about this?

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DEAR OLD SOUL: I can’t give you an unbiased opinion because when I was in my early 20s, I dated older men. They liked to talk, I liked to listen, and I learned a great deal about life from them.I hope the same will be true for you.

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Famous hand jack, declarer could ruff a heart in his hand, pick up West’s king of diamonds via two finesses and then collect five spade tricks by cashing the ace and taking a finesse against East’s queen. South would lose only one trump trick on this line of play and would make the slam for a score of 920 points.

But a funny thing happened on the way to 12 tricks. When declarer led a diamond to the seven at trick five, Katz won the trick with the king! He then returned a spade, allowing declarer to pick up East’s queen and establish the spade suit.

Understandably, South now thought he was home free. With the jack of diamonds “marked” on his right, he led a diamond to the ace, planning to finesse against East’s jack next (if necessary) and so score the rest of the tricks.

But when East showed out on the second diamond, declarer realized he had been had, and he immediately offered his congratulations to Katz for his brilliant deceptive play.

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Katz led his singleton club, and declarer rose with the ace and played the A-K-Q of hearts, discarding his two remaining clubs. South then started on the right track to making the slam by leading a low diamond to the seven.

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Garden bingo, summer reading and more i there. Pardon my extended absence as the track season finished up, long summer trips were taken, and not much happened. There’s a lot here, so let’s not waste time with my babbling.

I hacked up some divots….I mean ‘golfed’ in the Blythe’s Christmas in July tournament last year.

Even though I have been known to four-putt from ten feet, I had a great time at this golf outing for a good cause, and I suggest you do the same. Here are the words from Dusty Blythe: The 3rd Annual Christmas in July golf scramble and fundraiser in memory of Staci Blythe will take place at the Stillwater Valley Golf Club in Versailles on Saturday, July 27 with a shotgun start at 8 a.m.

All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Covington Outreach Association and will be used to celebrate Christmas with children in need from our community. Entries and/or donations must be received by Thursday, July 25th. Hole sponsorships are also available and very much

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KYLE MOORE Columnist appreciated, with the cost of $50 per hole. These can be sent to Stillwater Valley Golf Club at 9235 Seibt Road Versailles, OH 45380 or to Dusty Blythe at 114 E. Franklin St. Troy, OH 45373. Information concerning entry forms and fees are available at Stillwater Valley Golf Course and at their website: www.stillwatervalleygolfclub.com. This fundraiser helped 155 children celebrate Christmas last year and we hope to help even more kids this Christmas. Thank you to everyone who has supported not only this event, but also the Blythe family over the years and for all who have honored Staci’s memory.”

Once you’ve played in this outing, and hit the range a few times, you’ll

be ready for the Dick Minnich Charity Golf Classic on August 13. To introduce that, here are some words from Buckeye Insurance Group’s Chris Haines: “I wanted to reach out to everyone about this year’s Dick Minnich Golf Classic. It is hard to believe that this is already the 25th Dick Minnich Classic. It is also hard to believe that it has been more than 25 years since we lost Dick. The Dick Minnich Classic has raised more than $90,000 since its inception. The Dick Minnich Classic was one of the first golf scrambles in our area. Golf scrambles have become great fundraisers for many organizations. But with so many to participate in, the attendance of the Dick Minnich has declined slightly over the years. With this being the 25th year, I am asking everyone to consider participating or sponsoring to make this year very special. We intend to have a fire engine there as in the early years and are also inviting many of the past participants to come back and help us celebrate the

25th anniversary. Dick did so many great things for this community. His positive impact and influence reached well beyond just the fire department. I believe he would be proud of what the funds raised from this golf classic have done for the students of our community. Please consider participating or sponsoring and help us to preserve the legacy of Dick and Betty. Sponsorship and Participant information can be obtained from Andy Johnson by calling 216-2020. Thank you for your consideration.”

It is bingo again this month for Senior Citizens of Covington and the surrounding area sponsored by the COA. Bingo is coming up on Thursday, July 18 at the Covington City Building from 1:30-3 p.m.

Come and enjoy the fun with friends. Prizes and refreshments will be available. Please call Nancy at 473-3337 or Cindy at the Covington Church of the Brethren at 473-2415 for a seat.

• From the ladies at JR Clarke Public Library: “Sign up for the sum-

mer reading program “Dig Into Reading.” Visit the library and enjoy a variety of activities. Pick up a picture of a vegetable or flower to color and have on display. Join your friends for GARDEN BINGO with your markers being candy corn! Take home a treat each time you return books. Compete for prizes awarded at the end of the program. The final count for prizes will be Thursday, Aug. 8. Return all of your books by this date.

Remember the more you read the greater chance you have to receive a prize. For every 10 books you read your name will be added to the drawing for a prize. If you read 100 books your name will be added 10 times. A party is being planned for Aug. 10, at 9:30 a.m. At least five books must be read and returned to receive an invitation to the party.

“Join in the fun and play GARDEN BINGO. See how many vegetables and flowers you can cover with candy corn markers.

Prizes will be awarded to those playing. One session is at 11 a.m. and another at 2 p.m.

“State of Ohio summer readers are invited to join the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati to enjoy special discounts for these two games. All summer readers can purchase discounted tickets online by visiting www.reds.com/read. The password is ohread. Tickets must be purchased in advance of the game date to receive a discount for the two dates listed above.

The Upper Valley Wellness Nurse will visit the library Tuesday, July 16, for free blood pressure and glucose screenings. She will be here from 9-11 a.m.

A big thank you to all of the people who patronized our book sale. All of the donations help support the children’s reading programs. A big thank you goes to Brandy Pence and all her helpers for organizing the book sale. It is a lot of work and requires a great deal of time from these loyal volunteers.

Again we say thank you.”

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MIAMI COUNTY PARK DISTRICT AUGUST PROGRAMS Miami County Park Dis- at Stillwater Prairie Retrict August 2013 Programs: serve Rangeline Road access, 7790 Rangeline Road, “Pedaling the Path” north of Covington.

Join a Park District NatThe Miami County Park uralists or volunteer leader District will hold its “Pedal- as they head out to explore ing the Path” interpretive nature. Walks are not bicycle tour from 10 a.m. to strenuous or fast-paced.

12 p.m. on Aug. 3. Cyclists They are held the first and will meet at the Great third Tuesday of every Miami River Recreation month.

Trail parking lot at 970 St. Rt. 202.

Run Challenge 5k Come explore the Great and 10k Run/Walk Miami River Bike Trail with Sequoia Steven and learn The Miami County Park about plants, animals and District will have a 5k and the history of the area. A bi- 10k trail run/walk at 9 a.m. cycle helmet is required. on Aug. 18. Registration begins at 8 a.m. The run/walk “Cast Iron Stargaze” will be held at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross The Miami County Park Road south of Tipp City.

District VIPs will hold a We challenge you to get “Cast Iron Stargaze” pro- outside, get healthy and gram from 8:30–11 p.m. on visit your county parks. The Aug. 3. Charleston Falls 2013 Trail Run Series is Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, sponsored by: Upper Valley south of Tipp City. Join us Medical Center, WPTW, as we explore the stars and Scott Family McDonald’s, learn some of the secrets to Miami County Public cast iron cooking over the Health and Brower’s Insurcampfire. ance. Register online at AlOur Volunteers in Parks l i a n c e R u n n i n g . c o m . will be cooking up some de- Pre-registration $20 (must licious foods for you to sam- register by July 18 to reple. They will also share ceive race promo item). Regsome recipes and give tips ister race day $25. on how to cook over a campFor more information fire. visit AllianceRunning.com Mike Feinstein from the or the Miami County Park Stillwater Stargazers will District's website at Miamibe on hand to show partici- CountyParks.com. pants the beauty of the night sky.

“Rescue Dogs” Dog Social Adult Exploration Hike The Miami County Park District will hold its The Miami County Park monthly Dog Social on AuDistrict will hold an Adult gust 18th from 1-3 p.m. at Exploration Hike at 9 a.m., Stillwater Prairie Reserve, on Aug. 6. The hike will be 9750 State Route 185 north

of Covington. If your dog is nice and plays well with others, bring him to the park.

Participants can walk, talk and show off their dog while leisurely strolling down the trail with park naturalist Spirit of Thunder (John De Boer).

This month’s special guests will be the Buckeye Search and Rescue Dogs.

Their organization is committed to educating the public about canine search and rescue. They will also show how to enhance survivability in an emergency situation.

This highly trained group of scenting dogs will demonstrate how they are able to detect and discriminate the distinctive scent signatures people leave behind in order to locate missing people.

For more information on the Buckeye Search and Rescue Dogs visit http://buckeyesardogs.org.

Don’t miss this fun event.

Please remember owners are responsible for their dogs. Please clean-up after your pet. Meet in the parking lot.

Trailing Moms and Tots The Miami County Park District will have the Trailing Moms and Tots program from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Aug. 19 at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Rd. south of Tipp City. This program is for expectant mothers, mothers and tots from infant to 5 years of age.

Participants can socialize, play and exercise during this walk. Be sure to dress for the weather.

and Milkweed” “Friends in the Meadow” Mother Nature’s Preschool Program

“Friends in the Meadow” Mother Nature’s Preschool Program

The Miami County Park District will have the Mother Nature’s Preschool “Friends in the Meadow” program from 10–11 a.m. on Aug. 20 at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. Get out in the park with Park District naturalist Millipede Mike and discover our animal friends that live in the meadow.

Join Mike as she leads the group in song, story, play and a toddler sized hike.

Meet in the shelter. Choose either weekday series or the Saturday series when registering. $10 for each series of 4.

Class size limited to 12, class minimum size is four.

Pre-registration required.

The Miami County Park District will have the Mother Nature’s Preschool “Friends in the Meadow” program from 10–11 a.m. on Aug. 24, at Hobart Urban Nature Preserve, 1400 Tyrone, off of Dorset Road, in Troy.

Get out in the park with Park District naturalist Millipede Mike and discover our animal friends that live in the meadow. Join Mike as she leads the group in song, story, play and a toddler sized hike. Meet in the shelter. Choose either weekday series or the Saturday series when registering. $10 for each series of four. Class size limited to 12, class minimum size is four. Pre-registration required.

Adult Exploration Hike The Miami County Park District will hold an Adult Exploration Hike at 9 a.m., Aug. 20. The hike will be at Stillwater Prairie Reserve Rangeline Road access, 7790 Rangeline Road, north of Covington. Join a Park District Naturalists or volunteer leader as they head out to explore nature.

Walks are not strenuous or fast-paced. They are held the first and third Tuesday of every month. Register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

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"We are the Stars that Sing" Campfire Program The Miami County Park District will hold their “We Are the Stars that Sing” Campfire from 8:30–10:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, at Stillwater Prairie Reserve, 9750 State Route 185, north of Covington.

Join Spirit of Thunder (John De Boer) and special guests the Stillwater Star Gazers as they celebrate a night of music and the stars.

Spend an evening around the campfire roasting marshmallows, telling stories, playing games and singing songs with special guest Jim Johnson.

Bring your musical instrument and play along.

Park and meet at the main entrance.

Register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, e-mail to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

“Magic of Monarchs

The Miami County Park District will hold its “Magic of Monarchs and Milkweed” program at 2 p.m. on Aug. 24, at Stillwater Prairie Reserve, 9750 State Rte. 185, north of Covington.

The majesty of the monarch butterfly has been recognized for ages. Join Meadowhawk Mandy for an in-depth look at the life cycle, habitat and preservation of the monarch butterfly.

Learn how you can attract these winged beauties to your yard and become an official Monarch Watch Ambassador.

There will be monarch butterfly tagging during this afternoon adventure.

Registration required. To register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, e-mail to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 3356273, Ext. 104.

2013 Trail “Straight Arrow” Naturalist Adventure Series Program The Miami County Park District will have “Straight Arrow” program from 1–4 p.m. Aug. 25, Hobart Urban Nature Preserve, 1400 Tyrone, off of Dorset Road, in Troy. Participants will learn how to shoot a bow and arrow. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will have their archery trailer and trained instructors on-site to teach you about this fun outdoor activity. Bow and arrows provided.

Register for any of the above programs online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

For more information, visit the Miami County Park District website at www.miamicountyparks.com.

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In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, on July 9, Investigator in Charge Bill English, foreground, and NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman discuss the progress of the investigation into the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed.

Photographer charged after he flew over feedlot GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A National Geographic freelance photographer who took pictures of a western Kansas feedlot from a paraglider was charged Thursday with criminal trespassing.

Photographer George Steinmetz, of Glenn Ridge, N.J., and paragliding instructor Wei Zhang, of Beijing, China, were arrested June 28 and briefly detained in the Finney County jail before paying $270 bond. Both were charged with criminal trespassing.

Finney County Attorney Susan Richmeier said she didn’t know whether the men have attorneys.

Steinmetz is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, and many of his pictures of the world’s deserts were taken while piloting a motorized paraglider. He was working on a series about food that will be published sometime in early 2014.

Finney County Sheriff Kevin Bascue told The Hutchinson News that Steinmetz and Zhang didn’t get permission to launch their paraglider from private property and didn’t tell anyone they were going to take photos over a feedlot that’s filled with thousands of cattle.

A feedlot employee alerted authorities when he saw the paraglider and also said an unknown vehicle was parked on the ranch.

Steinmetz and Zhang eventually moved to a different location but feedlot executives still wanted them arrested for trespassing, Bascue said.

“Much discussion has ensued surrounding the arrest of Mr. Steinmetz and his employee regarding the right to airspace and to take photographs,” Richmeier said in a statement. “The charges in no way are related to those two issues and focus on the landowners right to privacy and control over their property.”

Beth Foster, a spokeswoman for National Geographic, said recently that the organization does not believe Steinmetz broke any laws and will provide him and Zhang with legal help, if necessary.

She didn’t immediately return an email from the AP on Thursday.

Richmeier said the landowners don’t want their names released.

Chinese teens who died may have been run over by a fire truck rushing to the burning jet.

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Hersman clarified Thursday that the pilot trainee told investigators

he saw a flash of light at about 500 feet, which would have been 34 seconds before impact and the point at which the airliner began to slow and drop precipitously. She said he told investigators that the light did not prevent him from seeing his instruments, and that it may have been a reflection of the sun. The other pilots made no mention of a light, she said.

While the pilots were manually flying the jet for the landing, as expected on a clear, sunny day, they told investigators they thought the airliner’s speed was being controlled by an autothrottle set for 157 mph.

Inspectors found that the autothrottle had been “armed,” or made ready for activation, Hersman said. But investigators are still determining whether it had been engaged. In the last two minutes, there was a lot of use of autopilot and autothrottle, and investigators are going to look into whether pilots made the appropriate commands and if they knew what they were

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Two people were killed and 180 of the 307 people on board were hurt Saturday, most with minor injuries, when the airliner slammed into a seawall at the end of the runway. The impact ripped off the back of the plane, tossed out three flight attendants and their seats and scattered pieces of the jet across the runway as it spun and skidded to a stop.

The battered passengers, some with broken bones, were told over the jet’s public-address system to stay in their seats for another 90 seconds while the cockpit consulted with the control tower, a safety procedure to prevent people from evacuating into lifethreatening fires or machinery.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators have found no evidence of mechanical problems with Asiana Flight 214, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday, putting the focus of the safety probe into the crash landing at the San Francisco airport squarely on the pilots.

In her final briefing before the agency concludes its on-site detective work, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said the airplane itself showed no signs of a breakdown, and on voice recorders, the pilots of the Boeing 777 fail to notice that their approach is dangerously low and slow until it’s too late.

“There is no mention of speed until about nine seconds before impact when they’re at 100 feet,” she said Thursday. Just seconds before impact, two of the pilots call for the landing to be aborted.

The airliner itself, though heavily damaged in the crash, had no malfunctions in any critical systems, including the engines and flight-control surfaces, the autopilot, the autothrottles and the flight director, she said.

During the first five days of the NTSB investigation, Hersman has said repeatedly that pilots Lee Gang-kuk, who was landing the big jet for his first time at the San Francisco airport, and Lee JeongMin, who was training him, were ultimately responsible for a safe landing.

Investigators have stressed that nothing has been definitively ruled out and no firm conclusions reached. The NTSB team will soon head back to Washington with “a mountain of information” to analyze and review, from pieces of the airliner to interview transcripts, and agency’s final evaluation is expected to take more

doing, she said.

Experts said the evidence points toward pilot error.

Lee Collins, a pilot with 18,000 hours and 29 years of experience on a variety of airliners, said the question is how the Asiana pilots could make such a “gross error.”

“What caused this airplane to crash was their failure to maintain proper airspeed,” Collins said.

During the evacuation, many passengers jumped out the back of the plane or slid down inflated slides through emergency exits. Then, say some, an unnerving wait began. 911 tapes recorded frantic callers, pleading for help.

“We’ve been on the ground, I don’t know, 20 minutes, a half hour,” said one woman. “There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries, head injuries. We’re almost losing a woman here.

We’re trying to keep her alive.”

San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said Thursday that some passengers who called 911 may not have immediately seen ambulances at the scene because they were dispatched to a nearby staging area as first responders assessed who needed to be taken to the hospital.

“There is a procedure for doing it,” Talmadge said. “You don’t cause more chaos in an already chaotic situation. You don’t do that with 50 ambulances running around all over the place.”

Within 18 minutes of receiving word of the crash, five ambulances and more than a dozen other rescue vehicles were at the scene or en route, in addition to airport fire crews and crews from San Mateo County and other agencies already on the scene, Talmadge said.

“Our response was immediate,” Talmadge said.

“It’s not what you may see in the movies. That’s not how a real-life response is to a large-scale incident.”

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Post 184 to take on Post 217 TROY — Piqua Post 184 will take on Sidney Post 217, and Troy will meet Lima in the first round of the four-team American Legion “super regional,” which takes place at Troy and will determine the representative to the State Legion Baseball Tournament.

The tournament begins on Tuesday with the two games. Piqua and Sidney will play at 7 p.m. at the Troy High School field, and Troy and Lima will play at Duke Park.

All the remaining games will be played at Duke Park.

The first-round losers will play at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at Duke Park, and the winners will follow at 8:30.

The loser’s bracket final will be Thursday at 7 p.m., with the winner of that game needing to beat the winner’s bracket champion twice to punch a ticket to Lancaster.

The finals begin Friday at 7 p.m., and if necessary, a second game will be played Saturday at 7 p.m.

Following is the schedule: TUESDAY 7 p.m. — Piqua vs. Sidney at Troy High School field 7 p.m. — Troy vs. Lima at Duke Park (Troy)

BY JOHN KAMPF AP Exchange COLUMBUS — A nine-game conference schedule and a rare season-opener against a league opponent in 2017 were the highlights of Ohio State’s future schedules, which were released by the Big Ten on Thursday.

The 2016 season will kick off the Big Ten’s nine-game conference scheduling format. The Buckeyes will play nine consecutive weeks of Big Ten play in 2016 without a week off.

Then in 2017, Ohio State opens with Indiana on Sept. 2 — the first time Ohio State has opened with a Big Ten game since 1976, when the Buckeyes played Michigan State.

With the announcement of the league schedules, Ohio State’s 2016 schedule is set.

OSU is searching to fill a Week 2 (Sept. 9) slot before solidifying the 2017 schedule.

In 2016, OSU will open with home games against Bowling Green (Sept. 3) and Tulsa (Sept 10) before hitting the road for a Sept.

17 game at Oklahoma.

After an off week, OSU will play nine straight league games, hosting Rutgers (Oct. 1) and Indiana (Oct. 8), going to Wisconsin (Oct. 15) and Penn State (Oct. 22), hosting Northwestern (Oct. 29) and Nebraska (Nov. 5), traveling to Maryland (Nov. 12) and Michigan State (Nov. 19).

The regular season in 2016 wraps up on Nov. 26 with a visit from Michigan, with the Big Ten title game on Dec. 3.

The 2017 season starts with the game at Indiana, which will also be the first time Ohio State has opened on the road since 1998 (at West Virginia).

While the Week 2 slot is yet to filled, Week 3 (home against Oklahoma) and Week 4 (at North Carolina) are expected to much tougher tasks that recent non-league games for the Buckeyes.

The 2017 conference season features road games at Rutgers (Sept. 30), Nebraska (Oct. 14), Iowa (Nov. 4) and Michigan (Nov. 25).

The conference home slate includes Maryland (Oct. 7), Penn State (Oct. 28), Michigan State (Nov. 11) and Illinois (Nov. 18).

The 2017 game at North Carolina potentially could feature two area players, as it would be Mitch Trubisky’s redshirt senior year (if he were to take a redshirt year) and the senior season of Brandon Fritts. Both of Mentor, Trubisky is an early enrollee North Carolina this year, and Fritts is about to

enter his senior season at Mentor after giving his verbal commit to the Tar Heels.

Buckeye watching A number of Ohio State players have been announced to initial watch lists for the upcoming season.

• Junior quarterback Braxton Miller and junior running back Carlos Hyde are on the Maxwell Award watch list, which goes to the College Player of the Year.

• Senior safety C.J. Barnett, junior cornerback Bradley Roby and junior linebacker Ryan Shazier are on the Bednarik Award watch list, which goes to the College Defensive Player of the Year.

• Shazier, Roby and senior safety Christian Bryant are on the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Award, which goes to nation’s best defensive player.

• Senior offensive lineman Jack Mewhort and junior offensive lineman Andrew Norwell are on the watch list for the Outland Trophy, which goes to college football’s top interior lineman.

• Senior center Corey Linsley is on the watch list for the Rimington Trophy, which goes to college football’s top center • Junior tight end Jeff Heuerman is on the watch list for the Mackey Award, which goes to college football’s most outstanding tight end.

• Senior receiver Corey Brown is on the watch list for the Hornung Award, which goes to the most versatile player in college football.

Ohio State Football Future schedules 2014 August 30 — Navy (in Baltimore) September 6 — Idle 13 — Kent State 20 — Virginia Tech 27 — Cincinnati October 4 — at Maryland 11 — Idle 18 — Rutgers 25 — at Penn State November 1 — Illinois 8 — at Michigan State 15 — at Minnesota 22 — Indiana

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Bailey, Reds beaten by Minor, Braves 5-2

WEDNESDAY At Duke Park 6 p.m. — Piqua-Sidney loser vs. Troy-Lima loser BY CHARLES ODUM 8:30 — Piqua-Sidney AP Sports Writer winner vs. Troy-Lima winATLANTA (AP) — Dusty ner Baker sensed the opportunity for an early knockout THURSDAY against Atlanta’s Mike At Duke Park 7 p.m. — Loser bracket Minor.

Instead, the Reds and final their manager were left to bemoan a missed opportuFRIDAY nity in the first inning that At Duke Park 7 p.m. — Winner’s helped Minor stick around bracket champion vs. for seven innings in the Braves’ 5-2 win over Homer loser’s bracket winner Bailey and Cincinnati on Saturday.

SATURDAY The Reds didn’t score in At Duke Park the first inning after loading 7 p.m. — Championship the bases with one out. game, if necessary; Win“It’s disheartening to see ner to State Legion Tournament July 29 to Aug. 2 it happening over and over again,” Baker said. “(Minor) in Lancaster wasn’t sharp. We had him on the ropes and then we came out with nothing. His pitch count was high, then he settled down in the middle inSerena nings, and was extremely Williams was handed this tough on us.” amount in Minor (9-4) appeared fines for her headed toward a short outoutburst at the ing when he threw 51 line judge in pitches in the first two inU.S. Open nings.

He gave up singles to semis.

Shin-Soo Choo and Joey Votto and walked Brandon Phillips to load the bases with one out in the first.

Minor escaped by striking out Jay Bruce and ending QUOTED the inning on Todd Frazier’s liner to third base.

Minor’s two-run double in the fifth gave the Braves a 32 lead.

Bailey (5-8) lost his second straight start since throwing his second career no-hitter on July 2. He allowed four runs on 10 hits in six innings.

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Cincinnati Reds shortstop Corky Miller (2) forces out Atlanta Braves’ Reed Johnson (7) but cannot make the double play during the third inning of a baseball game on Saturday, July, 13, 2013, in Atlanta. Atlanta won 5-2.

Bailey said he was hurt by infield singles and groundballs, including Minor’s double, that skipped down the line.

“It was just one of those days,” Bailey said. “It just seems like I’ve had a lot of one-of-those days.”

Braves All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts.

“Go figure,” Bailey said. “It was more the bottom of their lineup that beat us today.”

The Braves, who lost starting outfielders Jason Heyward, B.J. Upton and Justin Upton to injuries in the first two games of the se-

ries, found success with their fill-ins. Jose Constanza, recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett, started in left field and hit leadoff with Reed Johnson in center and rookie Joey Terdoslavich in right.

The patchwork outfield combined for seven hits, including three by Constanza.

“I feel bad for them to be hurt,” Constanza said through a translator. “It’s a bad way to be called up, but I was ready to come up here and help the team win.”

Brian McCann and Dan Uggla hit home runs.

The Reds took a 2-0 lead in the second. Zack Cozart

tripled, Chris Heisey doubled and Choo hit an RBI single.

Minor then recorded 11 consecutive outs, providing his teammates an opportunity to rally.

Braves reliever Luis Avilan walked Votto and gave up a single to Phillips with two outs in the eighth. Bruce ended the inning with a fly ball.

Craig Kimbrel struck out Frazier, Cozart and pinchhitter Xavier Paul in the ninth for his 26th save.

Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said before the game he is confident Hey-

ward can recover from his strained right hamstring by resting through the All-Star break. Gonzalez said the “trickiest” injury is Justin Upton’s left calf strain. He said calf injuries can be nagging.

B.J. Upton, who has a right adductor muscle strain, said he felt “a little better” Saturday but couldn’t predict if he expects to be ready after the All-Star break.

The Braves plan to delay decisions on possibly placing the Upton brothers on the disabled list until after the break.

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Tyson Gay tests positive for banned substance

All-Star status in question

BY CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer

BY PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer American 100-meter record holder Tyson Gay, who had promoted himself as a clean athlete, tested positive for a banned substance and said he will pull out of the world championships next month in Moscow.

Gay wouldn’t reveal the substance in a phone conversation from Amsterdam on Sunday, but he said he was notified by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency late last week that a sample came back positive from a May 16 out-of-competition test. He said he will have his “B’’ sample tested soon, possibly as early as this week.

“I don’t have a sabotage story. I don’t have any lies. I don’t have anything to say to make this seem like it was a mistake or it was on USADA’s hands, someone playing games,” said Gay, who fought back sobs as he spoke.

“I don’t have any of those stories. I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.”

Asked who that person was, Gay replied: “I can’t really say it. Sometimes a human being naturally, generally trusts somebody. That’s what people do.”

USATF CEO Max Siegel said in a statement: “It is not the news anyone wanted to hear, at any time, about any athlete.”

Siegel added: “We do not know the facts of this case and look to USADA to adjudicate it and handle it appropriately.”

A triple world champion in 2007, Gay was healthy again this season after being constantly plagued by hamstring and groin ailments, along with a surgically repaired hip. He won the 100 and 200 at nationals last month, setting up an anticipated showdown with Usain Bolt at worlds.

But that’s been scrubbed. Gay, who has the fastest 100 time in the world this season, also said he will pull out of a meet in Monaco and fly back to the headquarters of USADA in Colorado Springs, Colo., to be on hand when his “B’’ sample is tested.

The anti-doping organization said in a statement it “appreciates his approach to handling this situation and his choice to voluntarily remove himself from competition while the full facts surrounding his test are evaluated.”

“The ‘B’ sample will be processed shortly,” the statement went on, “and as in all cases all athletes are innocent unless or until proven otherwise through the established legal process, and any attempt to sensationalize or speculate is a disservice to due process, fair play, and to those who love clean sport.”

Gay is the second high-profile track athlete to makes headlines for doping in the last few weeks. Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown, the reigning 200-meter world champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist, was suspended by her national federation last month pending an investigation into a positive drug test. Jamaican officials said Campbell-Brown, the 2004 and 2008 Olympic champion in the 200, tested positive for a banned diuretic at a meet on the island in May. Gay is good friends with Campbell-Brown and said at the time: “We’re all accountable for what goes in our system or what goes in our body. But at the same time, sometimes mistakes do happen.”

A few years ago, Gay was part of USADA’s program called “My Victory,” where athletes pledge to compete clean. In his testimonial on the website, Gay said, “I compete clean because I really believe in fairness, and besides that, my mom would kill me! Just being honest.”

The Twitter accounts of many track and field athletes expressed their thoughts soon after news broke on Gay: — Distance runner Kara Goucher:“I am heartbroken over the news of Tyson Gay. Always liked him. Keep cleaning up the sport USADA, there are many more cheats out there.”

— Sprinter Wallace Spearmon: “ ... much respect is all I can say. I wish you well. We started together and I got your back.”

— Hurdler David Oliver: “ATHLETES!! There are TOO many resources at our disposal to check against what supplements/creams etc you are using! Smarten up!”

— Olympic gold medalist Angelo Taylor: “It’s a valuable lesson to be learned #tracknation. Young and old athletes.You and only you are responsible for what goes in your body!!”

— Sprinter Bianca Knight: “The people who know YOU are riding w/you.”

Gay has spoken with his teammates, friends and family, including his mother and daughter.

“They already know it is some type of accident, or some type of — I don’t want to use certain words, to make it seem like an accident, because I know exactly what went on, but I can’t discuss it right now,” he said.

“My career and my name have always been better than medals or records or anything like that. I’ve always wanted a clean name with anything. Unfortunately, I have to break this news, that I have a positive ‘A’ sample.”

Gay wouldn’t go into specifics about the case, saying he couldn’t “discuss it” when asked if what he tested positive for was a steroid.

“I have to go over everything with USADA first,” said Gay, who finished fourth at the London Games last summer. “I will take whatever punishment I get like a man.

I do realize and respect what I put in my body and it is my responsibility.

“I’m going to be honest with USADA, about everything, everybody I’ve been with, every supplement I’ve ever taken, every company I’ve ever dealt with, everything.”

ATLANTA (AP) — Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has a thumb injury that is preventing him from playing Sunday and leaves his status for the All-Star game in question.

Freeman said Sunday he jammed his left thumb on the first play of Saturday night’s 5-2 win over the Reds. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons fielded Chris Heisey’s grounder and threw slightly wide of first base, forcing Freeman to catch the ball in Heisey’s path. Heisey hit Freeman’s glove and was out.

“I guess my thumb was in the wrong place,” Freeman said. “It’s just one of those freak injuries I seem to run into every year.”

Freeman remained in the game and is wearing a soft splint on his hand on Sunday. He said there is “a little bit of tiny swelling” in the thumb.

“I can still bend it and do everything,” Freeman said. “It’s not too bad, so I’m just going to take a day off and see how it goes.”

Freeman made the AllStar roster on the fan vote. He said he didn’t know if he would be able to play in the game.

“Obviously, I hope to play but we’ll see how it goes,” Freeman said. “I’ve got to look out for the best interests of this team, so I’ve got to be available to

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Atlanta Braves’ Freddie Freeman drives in a run with a base hit in the second inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, July 11, in Atlanta. play in the second half. If I can’t play in the All-Star game, we’re better off if I’m able to play in the second half.”

Manager Fredi Gonzalez said Freeman could receive treatment for the injury while in New York for the All-Star game.

“I think he needs to go,” Gonzalez said. “If he can participate, participate.

Hell, yeah! You never know when that chance

will come again.”

Evan Gattis, who had been out since June 18 with a right oblique strain, was activated from the 15-day disabled list and is starting at first base.

Gattis came off the DL after playing only two games in his injury rehastint with bilitation Triple-A Gwinnett. The original plan had been for Gattis to remain with

Gwinnett through Sunday.

“It was good,” Gattis said of his rehab stint. “I felt good to square up the ball last night. That tells me I’m ready.”

Gattis, whose primary position is catcher, has started 11 games in left field and only three games at first base.

B.J. Upton, who left Friday night’s game with a right adductor muscle strain, was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Saturday.

“We’ve got a break coming up and I just need a little more time to get healthy,” Upton said, adding his recovery “is not a thing that’s going to happen immediately.”

Justin Upton also left Friday night’s game with what was announced as a left calf strain. On Sunday, Gonzalez said team doctors have concluded the injury was just a severe cramp.

Gonzalez said Justin Upton would be available in an emergency situation on Sunday.

The Braves expect a third injured starting outfielder, Jason Heyward, to recover from his strained right hamstring without being placed on the disabled list.

The Braves’ patchwork outfield of Jose Constanza, Reed Johnson and rookie Joey Terdoslavich combined for seven hits Saturday night and is starting again Sunday.

BASEBALL STANDINGS National League The Associated Press

L.A. Dodgers 1, Colorado 0 Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Mets 2

East Division W Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central Division W Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee West Division W Arizona Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco San Diego

Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis 4

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GB .574 .500 .495 .444 .380

— 7 7½ 12 18

L 56 56 52 42 37

Pct 36 36 42 50 56

GB .609 .609 .553 .457 .398

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L 50 47 45 43 41

Pct 44 46 50 50 54

GB .532 .505 .474 .462 .432

— 2½ 5½ 6½ 9½

Miami 2, Washington 1, 10 innings Philadelphia 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 13 innings, 2nd game Arizona 5, Milwaukee 4

Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 5, Philadelphia 4, 11 innings, 1st game Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 2

43 38 37

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GB .585 .574 .478 .447 .355

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Saturday’s Games Minnesota 4, N.Y. Yankees 1

San Francisco 9, San Diego 0

Chicago White Sox 5, Philadelphia 4, 11 innings, 1st game

American League The Associated Press

East Division W Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore New York Toronto Central Division W Detroit Cleveland

Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West Division W Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

Toronto 7, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3

L 58 54 52 51 45

Pct 38 41 43 43 48

GB .604 .568 .547 .543 .484

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L 51 50

Pct 42 44

GB .548 .532

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Cleveland 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 7, Detroit 1 Philadelphia 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 13 innings, 2nd game Oakland 3, Boston 0 Seattle 6, L.A. Angels 0

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL July 15 1901 — Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his first of two career no-hitters, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0.

1969 — Cincinnati’s Lee May hit four home runs in a doubleheader split with the Atlanta Braves. May had two home runs and drove in five runs in both games as the Reds lost the opener 9-8 but came back to win the second game 104.

1969 — Rod Carew stole home off Chicago’s Gerry Nyman in the Minnesota Twins’ 6-2 victory. It was Carew’s seventh steal of home for the year and tied Pete Reiser’s 1946 major league mark.

1973 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 17 batters and threw his second no-hitter of the year, beating Detroit 6-0.

1980 — Johnny Bench broke Yogi Berra’s record for home runs by a catcher as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Montreal Expos 12-7.

Bench hit his 314th homer as a catcher off David Palmer. Bench had 33 home runs while playing other positions.

a double as the American League beat the National League in the All-Star game 7-6. Hank Blalock of Texas hit a go-ahead, tworun homer as a pinch-hit1990 — Chicago’s Bobby ter in the eighth off Los Thigpen became quickest Angeles’ Eric Gagne. to reach 30 saves in a season as the White Sox beat 2005 — Baltimore’s New York 8-5.

Rafael Palmeiro became the 26th player to reach 1997 — The San Fran- 3,000 career hits, curling cisco Giants scored 13 runs an RBI double into the leftto set a modern NL record field corner off Joel Pineiro for runs in a seventh in- in the fifth inning of a 6-3 ning en route to a 16-2 rout win over Seattle. Palmeiro of the San Diego Padres. joined Hank Aaron, Willie The Giants set the NL Mays and Eddie Murray as record for the most runs in the only players with 3,000 a seventh inning since hits and 500 homers.

1900.

2006 — For the first time 1999 — After 22½ years in nearly three decades, a in the dreary Kingdome, full day of major league Seattle finally played a baseball games were home game outdoors, mov- played without a save ing into a $517.6 million recorded. There were six ballpark with a retractable blown saves during 15 roof. Jose Mesa wasted a games, including two each ninth-inning lead by walk- in Pittsburgh’s 7-6 victory ing four batters and the over Washington, and in Mariners lost 3-2 to the Cincinnati’s 3-2 win San Diego Padres in Safeco against Colorado. The NaField’s opener. tionals and Reds both won with ninth-inning rallies.

2003 — Anaheim’s Garret Anderson went 3-for-4 2007 — The Philadelwith a two-run homer and phia Phillies lost their

10,000 game, 10-2 to St. Louis. The franchise, born in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers and later called the Blue Jays in the mid1940s, fell to 8,810-10,000.

2008 — Justin Morneau slid home just in time on Michael Young’s sacrifice fly in the 15th inning, giving the American League a 4-3 victory in the All-Star game at Yankee stadium.

The AL extended its unbeaten streak to 12. The AL improved to 6-0 since the All-Star game began determining homefield advantage in the World Series.

Boston’s J.D. Drew, who hit a tying two-run homer in the seventh inning, took home MVP honors.

2011 — Atlanta earned the 10,000th win in franchise history with an 11-1 rout of Washington. Tim Hudson gave up one run and seven hits in seven innings and had two hits for the Braves, who played in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta.

Today’s birthdays: David D. Carpenter 28; Chris Denorfia 33; Miguel Olivo 35.

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Ty Cobb bat to be auctioned during All-Star week DETROIT (AP) — A baseball bat given by Tigers legend Ty Cobb to Detroit’s postmaster will be auctioned off during All-Star week.

The century-old, 34.5inch bat used by “The

Georgia Peach” is available to the highest bidder through Hunt Auctions.

It belongs to a descendant of William Nagel, who was a friend of Cobb’s.

Nagel also sometimes threw batting practice to

Cobb.

Nagel’s great-grandson, Duffy Ross, is the one who’s selling off the bat through the auction at MLB All-Star FanFest in New York. The auction ends on Tuesday.

The estimated price range for the bat is $75,000 to $125,000.

Ross says “it’s nice to know” his great-grandfather “played even a small role in the success of one of baseball’s all-time greats.”

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Dwight Howard From Superman to Rocket Man

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer

HOUSTON (AP) — Dwight Howard has a new team and catchy new nickname.

“He’s not Superman anymore. He’s Rocket Man now,” longtime Rockets broadcaster Bill Worrell said Saturday as he introduced the team’s major free agent acquisition.

As Howard took the stage and greeted several Houston officials including owner Leslie Alexander and coach Kevin McHale, a couple of his new teammates playfully repeated his new moniker — ‘Rocket Man, Rocket Man’ — and were met with a huge, toothy smile from Howard.

“It means a lot to me just to have a fresh start and have an opportunity to write my own story,” Howard said. “I don’t think people understood the fact that I got traded to L.A., and now I had a chance to really choose my own destiny, and this is the place where I chose and I’m happy about it.”

The Rockets gave him a four-year deal worth about $88 million, a year less and far below the $118 million the Lakers could have offered.

The center was formally introduced in Houston on Saturday after spurning the Lakers to sign with the Rockets. He was greeted by some of the brightest stars in team history.

Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon and Yao Ming were among those on hand to celebrate Howard’s signing. Also joining the party were

Ralph Sampson, Clyde Drexler and Elvin Hayes.

He will be the latest in a storied line of centers to play for the Rockets. He has long worked with Olajuwon to improve his game, and “The Dream” was among the contingent that flew to Los Angeles to woo him into joining the Rockets.

Olajuwon didn’t shy away from raving about his student.

“He is the missing piece where he can really bring the team to a championship contender,” he said.

Howard joins a team starring James Harden that reached the playoffs for the first time since 2009 and battled back from a 3-0 deficit before being eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6.

General manager Daryl Morey, who led the effort to land Howard, is excited about upgrading his team and knows this puts the Rockets among the preseason favorites to contend for a championship.

“I think it absolutely gives us a chance,” he said.

“What you do this job for is to have a chance. The reality is five to seven teams have a chance any given year. The way it is in this league, you’ve got to have multiple All-Stars, you generally have to have dominant top players and we have two guys that we think are in the top 10 in the league in James and Dwight.”

Howard was traded from Orlando to the Lakers in a four-team trade that also included Philadelphia and Denver last year. He recovered from back surgery last

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Dwight Howard waits for his introduction from behind the curtain during the press conference and welcoming ceremony for him, Saturday, in Houston. season and averaged 17.1 points and 12.4 rebounds His one season in Los Angeles was filled with unrest, including an admission that there were times that he wasn’t having fun and what many believed to be a less than positive relationship with Kobe Bryant The Rockets believe that will change in Houston.

“If you can be a great player and can’t be happy, what difference does it make? He’ll be very happy here,” Alexander said.

“Dwight recognizes that his boyhood dreams will come true as a Rocket.”

Yao made a call to Howard to help recruit the 27-year-old player to Houston. As the most recent star center to play for the Rockets, Yao is eager to see Howard take the team to “the next level.”

“I feel so happy that he chose the Rockets and I feel the Rockets will be the

best fitting team for him because we have such a great, rich history of big men,” Yao said.

Howard is perfectly happy dealing with lofty expectations from outsiders because he believes he should control the game every time he sets foot on the court.

“That’s what I’ve always expected out of myself,” he said. “Before I got injured, that’s what I did every night — I dominated the game on both ends of the floor. It’s not about putting up big numbers, none of that; the biggest thing is just going out there and having fun and dominating and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Of all the people the Rockets enlisted to help lure Howard to Houston, the star admitted that his new teammate Chandler Parsons made the biggest impact.

“Chandler is probably the guy you should really

thank,” Howard said. “He’s been blowing my phone up every day. He’s been great.”

Howard couldn’t pinpoint one thing Parsons said that helped sway his decision, but noted that they had numerous conversations about Houston’s great team chemistry and the feeling of family.

Parsons, a second-round pick in 2011 who has developed into a solid starter, said he tried to sell Howard on the idea of winning.

“I just told him: ‘We’re going to be really good without you, we’re going to win games without you.

Come make us great,’” he said.

The Rockets also got a push in a rather random way.

Howard was in Aspen, Colo., while mulling his options and prayed for a sign of what he should do.

“I believe in signs ... and when I was in Aspen it

seemed like everybody I met was from Houston,” he said. “I just had a good feeling in my soul about everything, the direction of the team, and just had a great feeling about what they were trying to accomplish.”

Though his nickname got switched on Saturday, the Rockets unveiled a Superman-inspired marketing campaign this week that features a man’s torso with hands ripping back a suit to reveal a red shirt that says ‘Rockets,’ above their slogan ‘A New Age.’ That picture along with several other shots flashed on a video screen above the stage during Saturday’s introduction.

After he was done speaking with reporters, Howard and the other Rockets’ stars made their way outside where the street in front of the Toyota Center was blocked off for a rally to allow fans to welcome him to Houston.

Munoz gets call to race for Panther at Toronto

BY JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer TORONTO (AP) — Carlos Munoz got back to his hotel following the Indy Lights race expecting to catch a 6 a.m. flight home Sunday morning.

A call from Panther Racing dramatically changed his travel plans.

The team had just learned from doctors that Ryan Briscoe had broken his right wrist in a crash late in Saturday’s race, and Panther needed a replacement for Sunday’s event at Exhibition Place.

They asked Munoz to step in for what will be just his second IndyCar race of his career.

“I was really surprised because it was really late and normally you don’t call a driver who doesn’t have any experience driving an Indy car on a road course,” Munoz said.

Munoz’s first IndyCar race wasn’t too shabby, though. He finished second in the Indianapolis 500 this year driving for Andretti Autosport.

But at Indy, the 21year-old Colombian was on track almost two full weeks preparing for the race. At Toronto, he got 30

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Panther Racing’s Colombian driver Carlos Munoz, right, stands next to the injured Australian driver Ryan Briscoe in the pits following warm ups for the Toronto Indy in Toronto on Sunday. Munoz replaced Briscoe after he broke his wrist during Saturday’s race. minutes in Sunday morning’s warm-up session to prepare for his first career road course race in an IndyCar.

Fortunately, the Indy Lights points leader is familiar with the track after finishing fourth in Saturday’s race.

Unfortunately, he had no idea he’d be in the Indy car and didn’t have his seat with him in Toronto.

But team owner Michael

Storm brewing over Muirfield’s men-only membership

BY STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) — A storm is brewing at Muirfield.

Not of the weather variety that sent scores soaring in the third round when the British Open was last held there in 2002. It’s the storm that once erupted at Augusta National for the Masters before it had female members and made a brief showing when the Open was held at Royal St. George’s two years ago.

Muirfield is one of three courses on the Open rotation — Royal Troon and Royal St. George’s are the others — that have a men-only membership, which has been criticized as being out-of-touch and damaging to the staid reputation of the sport.

Augusta National did not have female members until last summer,

when it invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to join. They were the first women in green jackets since the club was founded in 1932. It was seen as a key move. Tiger Woods called it “important to golf.”

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, which runs the British Open and itself is a men-only membership organization, isn’t budging. And the topic likely will get even more attention this week when golf’s oldest championship returns to Muirfield in east Scotland, where women are allowed to play and have access to its facilities. But they cannot be members.

Some prominent politicians won’t be attending this year’s event in protest.

“I just think it’s indefensible in the 21st century not to have a golf

club that’s open to all,” said Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, a huge golf fan who played a round with Phil Mickelson in the pro-am before the Scottish Open this week.

Salmond attended the 2011 British Open at Royal St. George’s, but said Saturday he didn’t realize at the time that the club had a menonly policy.

Two British government members — Maria Miller, the culture, media and sport secretary, and sports minister Hugh Robertson — have also turned down invitations to attend.

“I would really encourage the R&A, when they next come to allocate the Open, to look at this, simply because of the message that it sends out,” Robertson said in Sunday’s Daily Telegraph. “It just looks very, very out of touch and old fashioned in the post-Olympic era.”

Andretti and his engineers encouraged him to race for Panther.

“They said, ‘Hey, you have to take this chance to have an opportunity to get more experience, more laps,’” Munoz said. “I’m grateful to have this opportunity and they have the confidence for it.”

Munoz has three wins, two poles and six top-fives this year in Indy Lights.

Since firing J.R. Hildebrand after the Indianapolis 500, Panther Racing has been using

Briscoe and Oriol Servia in its car. Briscoe drives when he doesn’t have a conflict with his ALMS schedule and was set to run in both races at Toronto. So Servia was not in Canada to jump in the car on short notice.

Briscoe needs surgery and is out at least until next month’s race at MidOhio.

“Carlos is a tremendous young driver with a great deal of talent,” Panther owner John Barnes said.

“We’re excited that he was available to drive the National Guard Chevrolet today on such short notice, and I’m sure this will be a great learning experience for him. We’re obviously wishing Ryan a speedy recovery, but also very happy to make the most of this opportunity with Carlos today.”

Munoz had no other IndyCar races on his schedule this year following his breakout performance at Indy. He’d been trying to get into the August race at Sonoma, but with the focus on winning the Indy Lights championship has made long-term planning difficult.

Still, he hopes to be racing full-time in IndyCar next season and wants to use Sunday as a learning experience.

“Panther Racing does not expect much for me, so my goal is to not make any mistakes,” Munoz said.

“It’s my first time turning right ever in an Indy car, so we’re going to swim with the sharks.”

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Tuesday, July 16, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a good day to discuss how to share property or divide something, especially an inheritance. The wealth and resources of others can benefit you and your family.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Conversations with others will be smooth today. People are happy, upbeat and full of energy. What a great day to schmooze.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Relations with co-workers will be positive today. This is a good day to work with others and get their cooperation.

You will achieve more this way than by working alone.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A playful day! Enjoy saucy flirtations with others. This is a strong day for sports and sports events, as well as socializing with friends. (You might feel competitive.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Family discussions will go well today because you have lots of positive energy. No doubt you will persuade others to go along with your wishes.

(Meanwhile, some of you are involved in secret activities, especially love affairs.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a strong day for those of you in sales, marketing, teaching, acting or even those who write, because you are convincing! Because you have lots of intellectual energy, you want to tell it like it is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You're willing to work hard to earn money today. This is good. You're also willing to work hard to spend it. This might not be so good. Your call.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will assert yourself in a positive way today, because you feel courageous and confident. If others are looking to you for leadership, they'll find it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might be enthusiastic about travel plans today or anything related to higher education, medicine and the law. One way or another, you're going places!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Embrace the enthusiasm of others to get things done today. All group activities will be positive and ultimately will benefit you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You are high-energy and ready to work. In fact, many of you will delegate as much as possible today because you're saving the most demanding aspects of your job for yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Love affairs, romance, sports events and playful, social meetings will be high-energy occasions today. You're in the mood to party!

YOU BORN TODAY You are a passionate, romantic idealist. You constantly seek adventure to make your life stimulating and exciting. (This is why you are such a bold adventurer.)

You are true to your goals and desires because your faith is strong. You are also nurturing to loved ones. This year your most important focus is on partnerships and close friendships.

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Prison vendor charged for unserved meals

BY JULIE CARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent COLUMBUS (AP) — A private vendor in line to begin feeding roughly 100,000 prison inmates in Ohio and Michigan has a track record of billing for food it doesn’t serve, using substandard ingredients and riling prisoners with its meal offerings, past audits in several states show.

But some states say Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services has performed well.

The audits in Ohio, Florida and Kentucky found Aramark charged states for meals not served, changed recipes to substitute cheaper ingredients and sometimes skimped on portions.

A 2001 audit by thenOhio Auditor Jim Petro found a verbal amendment to Aramark’s twoyear contract led the state prisons department to pay Aramark for serving almost 4.5 million meals rather than the 2.8 million meals it actually served. That added $2.1 million to the contract cost.

An internal audit by Florida’s prisons department in 2007 concluded Aramark’s practice of charging the state per inmate rather than per meal created “a windfall for the vendor” after a large number of inmates stopped showing up for meals, reducing company costs by $4.9 million a year. The review found the company was paid for some 6,000 meals a day that it didn’t serve. Aramark stopped serving Florida’s prison meals in 2009.

Kentucky’s state audi-

tor launched a review of Aramark in response to the 2009 prison riot at Northpoint Training Center sparked over food isAuditor Crit sues.

Luallen’s 2010 report found Aramark overbilled the state by as much as $130,000 a year, charging for the meals of as many as 3,300 inmates that were shown through head counts not to be incarcerated.

Besides payments for unserved meals, the audits found Aramark sometimes substituted cheaper ingredients — receiving food inmate-grown against contract terms or substituting less expensive meat products, for example — without passing savings on to taxpayers.

During an Ohio site visit, inspectors reported witnessing a “near riot” at breakfast when Aramark adhered strictly to its contractual portion sizes.

In general, states still saved money overall — the primary enticement behind the latest privatization efforts in Ohio and Michigan.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration initially decided not to privatize certain prison services after determining three contracts out for bid didn’t achieve the savings state law required.

Fellow Republicans in the Legislature balked and officials re-evaluated the cost estimates, ultimately awarding the contract to Aramark on grounds the company’s proposal would cut about $16 million from the state’s current $73 million food service budget. Democrats said the state had “magically reworked the money.”

The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association questions whether Aramark can deliver the $14 million in annual savings it has promised the administration of Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich without cutting corners.

The union, which represents roughly 8,600 state workers in Ohio’s adult and youth prisons, had made its own higher bid aimed at keeping prison food service in-house.

“As much as the state says they want to give them another shot, all you’ve got to do is look at their recent history in Kentucky and Florida and you’ll see they haven’t changed from when Jim Petro did his investigation years ago,” said Tim Shafer, the union’s operations director. “That’s how they make money.”

Calls and emails from The Associated Press to Aramark seeking comment weren’t immediately returned.

The $110 million Ohio deal to feed some 50,000 inmates starts Sept. 8 and runs through June 30, 2015, with two opportunities to extend. More than 230 of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s 433 food service workers have been moved to other positions, and additional relocations are being attempted.

The deal calls for the state to pay Aramark for serving three meals a day to the number of inmates at the previous day’s midnight census count — a per-inmate arrangement rather than per meal like those criticized by auditors in the past.

Michigan’s change of heart on cost savings also hinged on agreeing to Ara-

mark’s assumption that all 44,000 state inmates would eat three meals a day, a state bulletin on the matter indicated.

Shafer said the contracts are a recipe for overbilling.

“Not every inmate eats.

Not every inmate eats every day. Not every inmate eats every meal,” he said.

JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for Ohio’s corrections department, said the state requested “multiple pricing methodologies” from prospective vendors and determined that basing the contract on midnight census counts was the most cost-effective. She said this contract won’t allow for verbal changes.

Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay said Kansas pays Aramark on “a kind of sliding scale” based on the average population per facility the previous month. He said the state has had a generally positive experience.

“We’ve been using them for at least a decade and overall the track record’s been very good,” said Barclay. “Keep in mind, we also have internal procedures to make sure that’s going well. We don’t just sign a contract and say, ‘Everything will be well.’

We monitor that carefully.”

Kentucky has also chosen to put safeguards in place as a result of the 2010 audit findings, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb.

Among other things, the department established a new position devoted to helping monitor the contract, she said.

NE Ohio county had most injected drilling waste AKRON (AP) — Booming energy production in shale formations has made a northeast Ohio county the top location in the state for underground injection of drilling wastes.

Portage County, home of Kent State University, had enough drilling wastes injected deep into the ground in 2012 to fill a train of tanker cars that would stretch nearly 37 miles, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Sunday.

Out-of-state shipments account for 57.6 percent of the waste going into Ohio’s injection wells, up from 54 percent the previous year.

In 2012, 6 million barrels came from Ohio drillers and 8.2 million barrels from other states,

mostly Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Portage County’s injections delivered brine and other wastes into 15 active wells, nearly two-thirds of it from out of state. The volume grew 18.7 percent from 2011.

Portage County took in 16.6 percent of the drilling waste injected below ground in Ohio, the newspaper reported.

The waste come from the boom in horizontal fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica and Marcellus shale formations. The wells are extracting huge quantities of natural gas and oil.

But critics fear such wells are a threat to underground aquifers that provide drinking water.

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and grass-roots groups have called for a ban on injection wells.

The state and the energy industry say pressurized injection wells are safe, not a problem and the best way to safely get rid of such wastes.

“Ohio has the toughest injection rules in the United States. Hands down, we’re more stringent than the federal government,” said state geologist Tom Tomastik at a recent public meeting in Portage County.

Statewide, Washington County in southeast Ohio ranked No. 2 for injections followed by Trumbull and Ashtabula counties in northeast Ohio and Noble County adjacent to Washington County.

Portage County sits at

the northern edge of the Clinton sandstone that was extensively drilled in the 1970s and 1980s, said geologist Jeffrey Dick of Youngstown State University.

That proximity to companies drilling verticalonly wells decades ago resulted in northeast Ohio becoming the center of injection in Ohio, he said.

The sharp growth last year is troubling to activist Teresa Mills of Columbus, fracking coordinator for the Buckeye Forest Council.

And Melanie Houston of the Ohio Environmental Council said “it’s no secret that Ohio is becoming a dumping ground for other states.”

Historic landmark back at the grind YOUNGSTOWN(AP) — A historic landmark in northeast Ohio is heading back to work.

The main wooden beam has been replaced at Mill Creek Park’s Lanterman’s Mill in Youngstown to get it back in working order.

Mill Creek MetroParks development and marketing director Linda Kostka says the upgrade will allow the mill to resume grinding corn, wheat and buckwheat.

She tells The (Youngstown) Vindicator that without the water wheel turning the grindstone,there was gap in the experience of 19th century history and culture. The grinding had stopped in January.

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BY GOSIA WOZNIACKA AND TERENCE CHEA Associated Press SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, refrigerator-sized contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.

Hired by a Salinas-based agricultural produce company, the engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can “thin” a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand.

The thinner is part of a new generation of machines that target the last frontier of agricultural mechanization — fruits and vegetables destined for the fresh market, not processing, which have thus far resisted mechanization because they’re sensitive to bruising.

Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics, computer vision, robotic hardware and algorithms, as well as networking and high precision GPS localization technologies. Most ag robots won’t be commercially available for at least a few years.

In this region known as America’s Salad Bowl, where for a century fruits and vegetables have been planted, thinned and harvested by an army of migrant workers, the machines could prove revolutionary.

Though they cost millions of dollars, farmers say, the robots are worth the investment: They could provide relief from recent labor shortages, lessen the unknowns of immigration reform, even reduce costs, increase quality and yield a more consistent product.

“There aren’t enough workers to take the available jobs, so the robots can come and alleviate some of that problem,” said Ron Yokota, a farming operations manager at Tanimura & Antle, the fresh produce company that hired the Lettuce Bot. Many sectors in U.S. agriculture have relied on machines for decades and even the harvesting of fruits and vegetables meant for processing has slowly been mechanized. But nationwide, the vast majority of fresh-market fruit is still harvested by hand.

Research into fresh produce mechanization was dormant for years because of an over-abundance of workers and pressures from farmworker labor unions.

In recent years, as the labor supply has tightened and competition from abroad has increased, growers have sought out machines to reduce labor costs and supplement the nation’s unstable agricultural workforce. The federal government, venture capital companies and commodity boards have stepped up with funding.

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efficiency, but nobody wants to work in the fields,” said Stavros G. Vougioukas, professor of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of California, Davis.

But farmworker advocates say mechanization would lead to workers losing jobs, growers using more pesticides and the food supply becoming less safe.

“The fundamental question for consumers is who and, now, what do you want picking your food; a machine or a human, who with the proper training and support, can” ... take significant steps to ensure a safer, higher quality product, said Erik Nicholson, national vice president of the United Farm Workers of America.

On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain View-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot would not only replace two dozen workers, but also improve production.

“Using Lettuce Bot can produce more lettuce plants than doing it any other way,” said Jorge Heraud, the company’s co-founder and CEO. After a lettuce field is planted, growers typically hire a crew of farmworkers who use hoes to remove excess plants to give space for others to grow into full lettuce heads. The Lettuce Bot uses video cameras and visual-recognition software to identify which lettuce plants to eliminate with a squirt of concentrated fertilizer that kills the unwanted buds while enriching the soil.

The company, which raised $3 million from a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm for the Lettuce Bot, also plans to develop machines to automate weeding — and eventually harvesting — using many of the same technologies.

Another company, San Diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes. The pruner uses robotic arms and cameras to photograph and create a computerized model of the vines, figure out the canes’ orientation and the location of buds — all to decide which canes to cut down.

Fresh fruit harvesting remains the biggest challenge.

Machines have proved not only clumsy, but inadequate in selecting ripe produce. In addition to blunders in deciphering color and feel, machines have a hard time distinguishing produce from leaves and branches. And most importantly, matching the dexterity and speed of farmworkers has proved elusive.

“The hand-eye coordination workers have is really amazing, and they can pick incredibly fast. To replicate that in a machine, at the speed humans do and in an economical manner, we’re still pretty far away,” said Daniel L. Schmoldt at the U.S. Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

In southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working

Ease labor woes?

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In this May 23 photo, Jorge Heraud, CEO of Blue River Technology, center, explains how the lettuce bot works as software engineer Willy Pell, in green, watches in Salinas, Calif. In the Salinas Valley, the lettuce capital of the world, entrepreneurs with the Silicon Valley company Blue River Technology are testing the Lettuce Bot, a boxy robotic machine that can thin fields of lettuce, a job that now requires detailed hand work by 20 farm workers. with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.

The machine is equipped with 24 arms whose movement is directed through an optical sensor; it allows the robot to make a choice based on fruit color, quality and size.The berries are plucked and placed on a conveyor belt, where the fruit is packed by a worker.

Still, the harvester collects only strawberries that are hanging on the sides of the bed, hence California’s strawberry fields would have to be reshaped to accommodate the machine, including farming in single rows, raising the beds and even growing varieties with fewer clusters.

Experts say it will take at least 10 years for harvesters to be available commercially for most fresh-market fruit — not a moment too soon for farmers worried about the availability of workers, said Lupe Sandoval, managing director of the California Farm Labor Contractor Association.

“If you can put a man on the moon,” Sandoval said, “you can figure out how to pick fruit with a machine.”

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In this May 23 photo, field operations manager Matthew Rossow tests the lettuce bot in Salinas, Calif. In the Salinas Valley, the lettuce capital of the world, entrepreneurs with the Silicon Valley company Blue River Technology are testing the Lettuce Bot, a boxy robotic machine that can thin fields of lettuce, a job that now requires detailed hand work by 20 farm workers.

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