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Fiery crash in Tipp City leaves 2 dead Joyell Nevins

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TIPP CITY — A fiery crash on southbound I-75 late Wednesday night has left two dead and sent one person to the hospital.

Three commercial vehicles and four passenger cars were involved in a crash that started at approximately 9:43 p.m.

Wednesday around the 68 mile marker at the State Route 571 exit.

Traffic was down to one lane for construction and according to reports, a semi-tractor trailer failed to see the stopped traffic and struck a passenger car. The car then hit a second tractor trailer and caused a chain reaction with a third semi truck and three additional pasSee CRASH | Page 2

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Law enforcement, firefighters and medics from multiple jurisdictions work the scene of a crash on southbound I-75 at the 68 mile marker in Tipp City, on Aug. 28. The crash left two semi drivers dead and at least two other victims injured. The crash occurred around 10 p.m. Authorities closed I-75 in both directions for more than 10 hours as crews worked to put out the fires and then clear the wreckage.

Arrowston Inn: a treasure on the hill Sharon Semanie

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Arrowston Inn Bed and Breakfast, located at 1220 Park Avenue, Piqua, is a historic home dating back to 1887. Dr. Norman and Georgia Armstrong have opened their home to those looking for a relaxing get-away.

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Singer/Actor Bing Crosby’s “favorite room” still offers lots of charm with its spacious view of the Arrowston property. The room is decorated with plush red carpeting and beautiful antique wooden bed.

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PIQUA — A touch of Southern hospitality has arrived in Piqua with the long-awaited opening of the Arrowston Inn Bed and Breakfast, located at 1220 Park Avenue. A beautiful historic home which dates back to 1887, the former William Boal Wood mansion is now open to couples searching for a perfect weekend getaway or perhaps local and area corporate executives seeking lodging for outof-town customers.

Owned by Dr. Norman and Georgia Armstrong, the vision of opening a bed and breakfast has become a reality. A native of Charleston, S.C., the retired school teacher is gushing with excitement as she and her husband welcome their first out of town guests this weekend to the sprawling six-acre estate and 12,000-squarefoot home, which sits perched above Echo Lake surrounded by lumbering oak and maples trees flanking each side of the meandering driveway.

“Arrowston” is a three -storm frame house built in 1887 and remodeled in 1929

by William Wood and his wife, Aileen. It was included in the National Register of Historic Places “because it is an example of early twen-

tieth century landscape planning and Georgian Revival style architecture.” Architect Gilmore Handford of Columbus was responsible for its design.

“We received a call from a couple in West Chester last night who are staying with us on Saturday evening,” smiled Georgia, “and we will also be hosting several Canadian guests visiting local friends here next week.” Both she and Dr. Armstrong, now retired after a 40-plus year career as an ear/nose/throat surgeon, facial plastic surgeon and allergist want to share Arrowston’s beauty and history with customers who appreciate its aesthetic beauty and background,.

While many retirees long for the time when they can travel and pursue new interests, Georgia suggests she and her husband of 13 years opted to open a B&B “because we love this house and its history. There’s so much to share and we want others to appreciate it the way we do.”

Arrowston Inn will offer three spacious guest rooms each with its own private bath.

The rooms, explains Georgia in her charming southern dialect, is located on the second floor off a landing featuring 18th century Italian landscape paintings and See INN | Page 2

Butter maker churns to a halt Mike Ullery

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PIQUA — For the past 31 years, visitors to the Piqua Heritage Festival could find Lousie Cromes, sitting in her booth, churning butter.

The 2013 festival will bring about the end of an era, as Cromes has decided this festival will be her last, on the handle of her well-worn churn.

The Piqua native, now 97 years young, has been churning butter since the age of 12, when she learned the skill at her Statler Road home. Now, a Troy resident, Cromes has kept her skills sharp, working at the Heritage Festival, since its begin-

ning in 1982. She has not missed a single year at the festival.

Cromes recalls during the first Piqua Heritage Festival, “That first year, we stood and churned out in the hot sun.

Then they used plastic tents. Then they built us barns.”

Her most memorable festival was when she and her husband, Martin, were crowned King and Queen of the Piqua Heritage Festival, around 1985. Cromes and her husband, who passed away “several years ago,” raised one daughter and five sons, all of whom remain in the area.

In addition, she was a 4-H adviser in the Springcreek area for more than 30 years.

Cromes remains active in the Springcreek Community Club, where she has been a

Extra deputies to be on patrol over holiday MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Sheriff’s Office will be deploying extra deputies throughout the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend working a combined 120 hours of overtime at various time frames to strictly enforce all Ohio traffic statutes.

The extra enforcement already has begun with special emphasis being placed on removing drunk and drugged drivers from area roadways.

The national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign runs through Monday, according to Dave Duchak, chief deputy.

Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes.

Two of three drivers involved in fatal crashes between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. were drunk, according to statistics. More than 10,000 people die each year at the hands of drunk drivers, which is equivalent to 20 jumbo jets crashing each year, reports state. Additionally, for the past five years, more than 800 people were killed over Labor Day weekends at the hands of drunk drivers.

For these reasons, the Miami County Sheriff’s Office will be joining with thousands of other law enforcement agencies across the nation this Labor Day holiday to take part in the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown on impaired drivers, according to Duchak.

“Driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal in every state,” Duchak said.

“Yet we continue to see far too many people suffer debilitating injuries and loss of their loved ones as a result of impaired driving. To help keep this from happening the Miami County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to arresting impaired drivers wherever and whenever they are found.”

The national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” impaired driving crackdown is a prevention program organized by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that focuses on combining high-visibility enforcement with heightened public awareness through advertising and publicity.

The extra deputies are being funded by a grant the sheriff’s office received late last year from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. The grant pays for the overtime the deputies accrue during the enforcement campaign and some fuel costs, he said.

For more information, visit www.StopImpairedDriving. org.

member since she got married in 1933.

The festival furnishes cream, usually 20-25 pounds, to be churned into butter.

The butter is sold for $3.50 per pound to festival patrons.

When asked why she decided to retire, Cromes replied, “It’s time.” On this Labor Day afternoon, when Cromes turns out her final jar of Piqua Heritage Festival butter, she will have produced more than one and one-half tons of pure butter for festival patrons over more than three decades.

Cromes is set to be recognized during opening ceremonies for the festival on Mike Ullery | Staff Photo Saturday morning. It is residents like Louise Cromes displays her butter churn that will her who put the “heritage” in the Piqua be used to churn some 100 pounds of butter at this Heritage Festival. weekend’s Piqua Heritage Festival.

For home delivery, call 773-2725

Obituaries

2 Friday, August 30, 2013 Obituaries William O. Wheelock PIQUA — William O. ager of the Piqua Power “Bill” Wheelock, 61, of Plant following 27 years Piqua, died at 5 a.m. of employment.

Thursday, Aug. 29, He was a United States 2013, at his resiArmy veteran dence surroundhaving served ed by his family. during Vietnam.

He was born Bill enjoyed Dec. 29, 1951, in outdoors and Troy to the late boating and Oscar Wheelock loved his family and Opal (Curry) especially playW h e e l o c k ing and teaching Donaldson. his grandchilWheelock He married dren.

Rita J. Morgan A service to on July 3, 1978, honor his life in Piqua, a marwill begin at 1:30 riage which p.m. Tuesday at would span more the Jamieson than 35 years; & Yannucci and she survives.

Funeral Home Other surwith Hospice vivors include Chaplain Edward two sons, Jon (Beth) Ellis officiating.

Wheelock and Chris Burial will follow at (Natasha) Wheelock, all Wheelock Cemetery, of Piqua; two grandchilNashville where full mildren, Nathan Wheelock and Summer Wheelock; itary honors will be proa brother, Jack (Nancy) vided by the Veterans Wyatt of Malvern; a sis- Elite Tribute Squad. ter, Clara Jo Swiger of Visitation will be from St. Joseph, Mich.; in- 1-4 p.m. Monday at the laws, Randy (Ronda) funeral home.

Memorial contriMorgan, Rick (Polly) butions may be made Morgan, Ralph Morgan, to Hospice of Miami Ron (Linda) Morgan, Becky Gariety; and sev- County Inc., P. O. Box eral nieces and nephews. 502, Troy, OH 45356.

His family appreciates He was preceded in the assistance of Joyce death by two brothersin-law, Lee Sweiger and Liette, Tammy Blundell, Stephanie Stewart, and Bruce Gariety.

Mr. Wheelock was a a special thanks to Chris 1970 graduate of Piqua Banham.

Guestbook condoCentral High School.

Upon graduation he lences and expressions worked for Strieb’s Water of sympathy, to be proSoftener Company, vided to the family, may Olympic Industries and be expressed through retired in 2011 from the jamiesonandyannucci. city of Piqua as the man- com.

Patricia Starr Willis TROY — Patricia Starr Willis, 68, of 475 Meadowood Drive, Troy, passed away suddenly Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, after complications with cancer combined with a stroke.

She was born May 3rd, 194,5 in Dyersburg, Tenn. to the late James Beeney and Betty (Bortmas) Willis Beeney.

She was married to Donald E. Willis on May 24, 1975, and he survives.

Patricia also is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Paige and Clark Lund of Phoenix, Ariz. and Jodi and Mark Zabolotny of Rockwall, Texas; one son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Mary Willis of Monument, Colo., eight grandchildren, Allyson Lund, Abigayle Lund, Matthew Lund, Amanda Zabolotny, Val Zabolotny, Madison Willis, Mitchell Willis and John Berg; as well as two sisters and brotherin-law, Darlene and Larry Shope of Jacksonville, Fla. and Jerrie Hartzell of Troy.

Patricia’s passion in life was children.

She was a teacher and, later, a business administrator, but her real life work began after her professional retirement.

For the last 23 years she has served as a volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate, Guardian Ad Litum (CASA/GAL) for neglected and abused children in Minnesota, Arizona and Ohio.

Her CASA kids were HER kids…she loved them, protected them and worked tirelessly to heal the pain in their lives.

Though battling cancer numerous times in the last 14 years, she lived as if that had never happened, and continued to devote her life to her family and her CASA kids.

Patricia was a force in her family and community.

This incredible lady never did anything halfway.

She was gentle yet strong as steel.

She showed us all, through her daily example, how to overcome all obstacles and live a life of meaning with dignity and grace.

She was our mom, wife, sister, friend, protector… and we will see her again in Heaven.

Her legacy lives through all who knew her.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 5, at Tabernacle Church at 1502 Waco Street, Troy.

Patricia was of the Lutheran faith and Pastor Diane Johnson will officiate.

Arrangements are entrusted to the FisherCheney Funeral Home in Troy.

Please visit www.fisher- cheneyfuneralhome. com where directions and more details may be found.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you honor this amazing life with memorial contributions to the Patricia Starr Willis Fund for Neglected and Abused Children, in care of The Troy Foundation, 214 West Franklin St, Troy, OH, 45373.

Through this foundation, Patricia will continue her work for children.

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Stats show Americans not that into driving anymore Joan Lowy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Driving in America has stalled, leading researchers to ask: Is the national love affair with the automobile over?

After rising for decades, total vehicle use in the U.S. — the collective miles people drive — peaked in August 2007. It then dropped sharply during the Great Recession and has largely plateaued since, even though the economy is recovering and the population growing. Just this week the Federal Highway Administration reported vehicle miles traveled during the first half of 2013 were down slightly, continuing the trend.

Even more telling, the average miles drivers individually rack up peaked in July 2004 at just over 900 per month, said a study

by Transportation Department economists Don Pickrell and David Pace. By July of last year, that had fallen to 820 miles per month, down about 9 percent.

Per capita automobile use is now back at the same levels as in the late 1990s.

Until the mid-1990s, driving levels largely tracked economic growth, according to Pickrell and Pace, who said their conclusions are their own and not the government’s. Since then, the economy has grown more rapidly than auto use. Gross domestic product declined for a while during the recession but reversed course in 2009. Auto use has yet to recover.

Meanwhile, the share of people in their teens, 20s and 30s with driver’s licenses has been dropping significantly, suggesting that getting a driver’s license is no longer the teenage rite of passage it once was.

Researchers are divided on the reasons behind the trends.

One camp says the changes are almost entirely linked to the economy. In a few years, as the economy continues to recover, driving will probably bounce

back, they reason. At the same time, they acknowledge there could be long-term structural changes in the economy that would prevent a return to the levels of driving growth seen in the past; it’s just too soon to know.

The other camp acknowledges that economic factors are important but says the decline in driving also reflects fundamental changes in the way Americans view the automobile. For commuters stuck in traffic, getting into a car no longer correlates with fun. It’s also becoming more of a headache to own a car in central cities and downright difficult to park.

“The idea that the car means freedom, I think, is over,” said travel behavior analyst Nancy McGuckin.

Gone are the days of the car culture as immortalized in songs like “Hot Rod Lincoln,” ”Little Deuce Coupe” and “Pink Cadillac.”

“The car as a fetish of masculinity is probably over for certain age groups,” McGuckin said. “I don’t think young men care as much about the car they drive as they use to.”

That’s partly because cars have morphed into computers on wheels that few people dare tinker with, she said. “You can’t open the hood and get to know it the way you used to,” she said.

Lifestyles are also changing.

People are doing more of their shopping online. More people are taking public transit than ever before. And biking and walking to work and for recreation are on the rise.

Social networking online may also be substituting for some trips. A study by University of Michigan transportation researcher Michael Sivak found that the decline in teens and young adults with driver’s licenses in the U.S. was mirrored in other wealthy countries with a high proportion of Internet users.

Demographic changes are

also a factor. The peak driving years for most people are between ages 45 and 55 when they are the height of their careers and have more money to spend, said transportation analyst Alan Pisarski, author of “Commuting in America.” Now, the last of the baby boomers — the giant cohort born between 1946 and 1964 — are moving out of their peak driving years.

“They are still the dominant players, and they are moving toward a quieter transportation lifestyle,” he said.

There’s also a driving gender gap. In a role reversal, there are now more women than men in the U.S. with driver’s licenses.

And the declines in miles driven over the past decade were more widespread among men than women, according to Pickrell and Pace. Driving by men has declined in every age group except those 65 or older, where it increased slightly. Among women, driving declined only among young adults and teenagers.

There are several economic factors that help explain the trends. Driving declines exactly mirror job losses among men during the recession, when maledominated industries like manufacturing and construction were especially hard hit, researchers said. But average automobile use has declined recently even among those who have remained employed.

Economists say many Americans, especially teens and young adults, are finding that buying and owning a car stretches their financial resources. The average price of a new car is $31,000, according to the industry-aligned Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.

“We’re not selling to everyone.

We’re selling to upper-middle class to upper class,” said Sean McAlinden, the center’s chief economist. The rest of the public, he said, buys used cars or takes the bus.

Then there’s the cost of insurance, maintenance and parking.

The price of gas has gone up dramatically over the past decade.

The share of younger workers who can find jobs is at an especially low ebb, while the cost of a college education — and with it student loans — is soaring. Many schools have stopped offering free driver’s education to students. Owning a car is increasingly beyond the reach of many young drivers, researchers said.

Research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 18- to 20-year-olds were three times more likely to have a driver’s license if they lived in a household with an annual income above $100,000 than if they lived in a household with an income below $20,000.

“I don’t think it’s a change in people’s preferences. I think it’s all economics,” McAlinden said. “It might last if the economics stay the same. But if they improve, I think people will come back to driving more. …

Give a person a good job 25 miles away and they’ll be at the dealership the next morning.”

The decline in driving has important public policy implications. Among the potential benefits are less pollution, less dependence on foreign oil, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and fewer fatalities and injuries. But less driving also means less federal and state gas tax revenues, further reducing funds already in short supply for both highway and transit improvements. On the other hand, less driving may also mean less traffic congestion, although the impact on congestion may vary regionally.

Phineas Baxandall, senior analyst for the liberal U.S. Public Interest Research Group, says driving declines mean transportation dollars could be put to other uses.

“You just don’t want to spend money you don’t have for highways you don’t need,” he said.

From page 1 senger vehicles. There also was a massive explosion and persisting fire leading to other smaller explosions, according to police reports.

The Tipp City Police Department responded to the scene of the crash, along with the the Ohio State Highway Patrol crash investigation unit; Ohio State Highway Patrol motor carrier units; medics from Tipp City, Vandalia and Troy; and fire department assistance from Tipp City, Troy, Bethel Township, West Milton, and Vandalia.

There were two confirmed

fatalities, both semi truck drivers, and one person was transported to Upper Valley Medical Center with non-lifethreatening injuries, according to patrol reports.

The other motorists involved were treated at the scene.

Both lanes of I-75 were shut down for several hours.

Northbound lanes opened about 2:30 a.m., but the southbound stretch of I-75 from the 571 exit to the County Road 25-A exit 69 remained closed through the morning for removal of

wreckage and inspection by the Ohio Department of Transportation. Traffic was backed up past Troy on the Interstate and crawled on County Road 25-A/Dixie Drive.

The front driver’s side of Tipp City police cruiser No. 106 was hit by a tire during one of the explosions, leaving cosmetic damage. The cruiser is currently unable to start, due to the close proximity of heat from the explosions, according to Police Chief Eric Burris.

As of press time, the iden-

tity of the victims had not been released.

Late Thursday, workers were making repairs in the southbound lanes, opening one lane at a time while repairs were being made. It was anticipated that both lanes would re-open to southbound traffic at approximately 6 p.m. Thursday. Final repairs are estimated to be around $40,000 to the Interstate.

The crash has been turned over to Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Miami County Coroner’s Office for further investigation.

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Inn From page 1 by way of a beautiful spiral staircase enhanced by wrought iron and wooden railings.

Previous guests visiting Arrowston over the decades have included singing “icons” Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra and trumpeter Doc Severinsen who performed at Edison Community College and spent four days at the estate.

A beautiful antique wooden bed and red carpeting complemented by historic furnishings and paintings captures the elegance of the Bing Crosby Room equipped with an adjoining bath.

The Doc Severinsen Room features an antique brass bed and beautiful view of the estate’s swimming pool and it, too, has a master bath and sitting area as well as access to the main hall on the second floor and family lounge area.

A massive king size bed and wide open space defines the Frank Sinatra Room and private bath. Georgia credits Betty Campling of Piqua with providing decorating assistance for the three rooms as well as an adjoining family lounge area which features a fireplace, giant screen television, comfortable sofas in rich hues and kitchenette area for late-night visitor enjoyment.

Room rates, she noted, range from $145 to $195 per night.

As part of their stay, guests will receive a full homemade breakfast provided daily by Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong.

Georgia says her repertoire of recipes include luscious quiches, breakfast pizza and homemade muffins along with fresh fruit and beverages.

Breakfast will be served

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Plush furnishings, artwork, chandeliers and fireplaces enhance the spacious great room at Arrowston Inn.

in the formal dining room which features a sparking chandelier, handsome dark wood dining table and chairs to seat 16 and wall coverings which reportedly were removed from a French chateau and carefully reapplied on the walls of Arrowston years ago.

Previous news accounts report the “scenic paper in the dining room is irreplaceable” although it was reported a Swiss company still manufactured the hand blocked wallpaper as early as the 1960s.

Guests at Arrowston also will be able to tour the beautifully decorated downstairs as part of their stay.

Guests entering the spacious foyer will immediately be drawn to the original Italian black and white marble flooring installed in 1887, ornate molding and antique

furnishings and artwork throughout the home.

A handsome library featuring one of the myriad fireplaces throughout the home will welcome guests who simply want to relax with a good book or congregate in the adjacent great room decorated with conversational groupings — sofas and chairs — and their own fireplaces at opposite ends of the room.

Beautiful gold-framed art acquired by Dr. Armstrong at an art gallery in Atlanta is a certain conversation piece along with crystal chandeliers. French doors lead outside to the veranda and fountain.

Georgia Armstrong is hopeful the bed and breakfast will appeal to travelers traversing I-75 anywhere between Canada and Florida and beyond.

The couple has visited

local and area chambers of commerce and AAA to promote their latest venture as well as large companies and corporations and hospitals whose visiting guests require lodging. A website has been established at www. arrowstoninn.com and information also is available on www.bedandbreakfast.com Arrowston Inn, she added, is handicapped accessible.

Piqua’s newest bed and breakfast will be open seven days a week from April 15 through Oct. 30. The Armstrongs are “officially retired” and enjoy the remainder of the year at their home in Bradenton, Fla. Until late fall, however, the couple will be kept busy maintaining their new business and working as “innkeepers” anxious to share the history of Piqua’s historic treasure on the hill.

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Age: 7 Birthday: Aug. 28, 2006 Parents: Jeff and Lisa Clark of Piqua Siblings: Gracie Grandparents: Linda and the late Steve Sullenberger Sullenberger of Celina and Dave and Carol Clark of Piqua Great-Grandparents: Edith Sullenberger of Piqua Evan Jefferson Clark

Age: 3 Birthday: Aug. 30, 2010 Parents: Dave and Carrie Davenport of Columbus Siblings: Avery Grandparents: Robert and Carol Thompson of Piqua and Tom and Sherry Davenport of Rochester Hills, Mich.

Great-Grandparents: Lois Jones of Englewood and Doris Willcox of Streetsboro

Temperatures will remain above normal in the upper 80s and climb to near 90 for much of the holiday weekend. High humidity continues with several chances for rain over the holiday weekend.

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hydrants will also be dechlorinated so it is safe for the environment.

The water lines will be flushed prior to the placement of these units; however, there is a chance that when these units are first put into service, residents may notice a slight drop in their water pressure as well as a slight discoloration of the water.

If you do experience some discoloration of your laundry, do not dry your laundry and call the water department at 7782018 or 778-2090.

These units will be set to flush during off peak hours so this should also help to avoid any aesthetic problems.

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these flushing units are as follows: ·Fox Drive area ·Near the East Main Street Bridge ·North County Road 25-A near Hetzler Road ·Near the intersection of Linden Avenue and Mainer Avenue ·Intersection of RM Davis Parkway and Covington Avenue These units will be in operation this year throughout the month of September and then again on an annual basis from June through September in the following years.

For more information about this process, contact Don Freisthler, water system superintendent at 778-2090.

Covington Eagles to host remembrance blood drive COVINGTON — The Covington Eagles will partner with the Community Blood Center (CBC) in honoring the memory of 9/11 victims with a community blood drive Monday, Sept. 9 from -7 p.m. in the Eagles Hall multi-purpose room, 715 East Broadway, Covington.

Everyone who registers to donate will receive the limited edition “9/11 We Remember” T-shirt.

Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment online at www.DonorTime. com.

On Sept. 11, 2001, long lines of donors stretched around Community

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Water department installing automatic hydrant flushers

PIQUA — Piqua city workers began installing and operating five automatic hydrant flushers throughout the water distribution system on Thursday.

This is in an effort to improve the water quality by reducing the length of time the water stays in the lines (also known as water age).

The shorter the water age the better quality water can be delivered to customers.

During the time the units are activated, they will flush a great deal of water so they will be placed near a storm drain to help minimize any ponding of water.

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Blood Center (CBC) Donor Centers, a scene repeated at blood centers across the country. For a nation in shock donating blood was a way to take action and respond with compassion to a national tragedy.

The 9/11 T-shirt design arranges the words “Together/United/We Remember/ September/Forever/ Blood Donor” in red and blue lettering on a white background. The T-shirt is free to everyone who registers to donate Tuesday, Sept.

3 through Saturday, Sept. 14 at any CBC Donor Center and most mobile blood drives.

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Darlemaria Haines, St. Paris, had her very first hair cut at 8 years of age by Bethany Hickman, owner of Journey Salon in Piqua. According to her parents, Sonia and Kevin Haines, Darlemaria’s hair will be donated.

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State Briefs Obama briefs Boehner on Syria WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has briefed House Speaker John Boehner on Syria in a conversation in which the Republican leader pressed the president to make the case to the nation and Congress for military action.

A spokesman for Boehner, Brendan Buck, said in a brief statement on Thursday that the speaker questioned the president about issues he raised in a letter on Wednesday.

Among Boehner’s concerns are the legal justification for any military strike, the overall policy and precedent and the objective.

Buck said only Obama can answer those questions, and it was clear that additional conversations, consultation with Congress and communication with the nation were necessary.

Sheriff recovers items from 100 car break-ins HAMILTON (AP) — A tip has led a sheriff’s office in southwest Ohio to recover in a single bust the property stolen in at least 100 recent car break-ins.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones on Thursday announced that several cellphones, wallets, handguns and iPods are among the items that were recovered Wednesday after the

arrest of two juveniles and an adult.

Jones says the juveniles were hitting between 20 and 30 cars a night. The sheriff’s office says the recovered property was likely stolen in Butler County and other areas in southwest Ohio.

The adult, 23-yearold Courtney Pratt, of Hamilton, is facing initial charges of receiving stolen property and misuse of a credit card. Her court records do not list an attorney.

Southern Ohio woman found dead at crash site GEORGETOWN (AP) — Authorities in southern Ohio are trying to piece together what happened after responding to a vehicle crash report to find a dead woman who had been shot and an injured child inside.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol in Georgetown says police received a call about a single-vehicle crash Wednesday night on U.S. Highway 68. Authorities say they found the woman with a gunshot wound and that she was pronounced dead at the scene. The injured child was taken to a Cincinnati hospital.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that no information was released on the child’s injuries or relationship to the woman.

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The highway around the crash site was closed for several hours.

Ohio Senate panel examines infant mortality issue COLUMBUS (AP) — Senators on an Ohio legislative panel are visiting hospitals and health centers as part of a series of hearings on infant mortality.

The Senate Medicaid, Health, and Human Services Committee is meeting Thursday with health professionals at Columbus Public Health to discuss factors contributing to infant mortality and to hear information about a safe-sleep program.

The panel also will stop at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to talk about premature infants.

According to the Ohio Department of Health, the state’s preliminary infant mortality rate in 2011 was 7.9 per 1,000 live births.

That’s higher than the nation’s rate of 6.1, and trails most other states.

Senators have been meeting with community leaders to see how public policy can improve Ohio’s infant mortality rate. Last week, the committee visited Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati.

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Piqua Daily Call “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”

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Mother of the Munchkins

Some habits die hard

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In a galaxy seemingly the drugs!

And that my friends, far, far away and definitely a long time ago, is the sad state of affairs a former co-worker and about advice. While we I were pregnant at the think we mean well, same time, she with to dole out our expeher first and yours truly rience so as to spare another indip e rc o l at i n g vidual sufferwith the secing, advice ond. usually falls As I often from our heard from mouths as a others during testament of first pregnan- I know betcies, the coter, you know worker was pbbbbllllttt , adamant she and that’s a would go natreaural during bethany j. royer lousy son to give childbirth.

Columnist advice.

I inwardly Obviously, rolled my eyes because I’d already I’m guilty of this transgression. been there, done that.

Just as no two pregI too had once declared an all-natural nancies are ever alike, childbirth, just shy the same goes for every of waving my flag, other situation in this until reality hit and life, and I’ve come to then I wasn’t so much realize (the hard way) demanding as weeping advice should be given only after asking one for relief.

I told you, I don’t really big personal deal well with pain, question, for whose and thank goodness I ultimate benefit? Cause did not say anything the thing is, everyone of the like to the co- will make their own worker! However, there choices in this world came a day when she as they see fit, as what asked about childbirth. works for them, in Feeling cornered and the end. That’s how it terrified of what was should be and unless going to come out of extraordinary circummy mouth, in as few stances call for it —the words as possible, I inquirer is insistent, said something along persistent and using a the lines of, “Don’t really big stick to force be afraid to take the advice out of you— eh, I’d just play dead in that drugs.” case so as to keep my That was it.

Some months later lips zipped.

Advice is a risky after we had popped, taken our maternity endevore, I’ve been leaves, and were back reduced to a smudge at the work-helm, my under the weight of co-worker made the unwanted advice, esperemark on how surreal cially after the Big childbirth had been. I D, and I’ve also been understood after two reduced to a smudge kids in two years and for giving unwanted neither pregnancies advice.

I’ve also noticed being anything alike.

Certainly not their that as the munchkins births, one had wanted mature, my advice —or to take up permanent persistent hounding— residency while the sounds ridiculous after other couldn’t wait to a while, such as after I’ve told Brie to get make a break for it.

The co-worker told rid of the Justin Beiber her delivery story, how part in her hair or havshe opted for pain med- ing advised Emma to ication and I said noth- stop walking on her tiping, I was too busy grin- toes for the millionth ning ear-to-ear with the time in an hour.

It’s not easy as a parmassive ego boost that I was right, I was right ent to change this habit of extolling advice but about the drugs!

Later I shared this a few alterations have story —and my know- seemed to go over well, it-all-itis— with anoth- so far. Such as no one er pregnant friend can make you happy, who was adamant she except you or it’s up to wouldn’t fall to our you and my personal obvious weaknesses. I favorite, you’ll figure it once again rolled my out.

Again, it’s not easy, eyes, feeling quite the smarty pants, especial- but before I close let ly upon news of her me give you this one delivery which revolved word of … ah, granola.

Some habits die hard. around days of suffering before ending in a Bethany J. Royer is the mother of two c-section. munchkins and third year psycholShould have taken ogy student. She can be reached at

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Our confused mattress

We got rid of our Web and Sears’ dimensions for that mattress water bed last week.

It was one of the were four inches largsymbols of my lib- er than what was in eration by divorce a our bedroom.

After findwhole bunch ing an indusof years ago. trial-stanI’ve had a dard graph new wife now I found that for 16 years. our king size My free mattress was dom symactually a bol had lost “short king.” its imporI called tance and customer was starting service and to hurt her jack robinson informed back so we Columnist them of this drained it, mistake. tore it down After softly soothing and bought a new mattress and box springs. them by emphasizing It’s been a while that it was not their since I bought a mat- store’s error, that it tress but if it’s at half was disguised with price and it still costs the wrong ticket, they hundreds of dollars said they would call more than my first car, me back in one or two can you still call it just days.

Four days later they a mattress?

My semi-new wife called and informed has slowly brought me us that they had a out of the 70s. Last “California king ” matyear she took my lava tress coming.

My mind immediatelamp to Goodwill.

She stopped letting ly snapped back to the me wear my beige mattress graph. Aha! double -knit leisure Another imposter.

This one was two suit five years ago.

I have a feeling that inches longer and two next to go will be some inches shorter than of my expressions like our box springs.

After swearing that “crazy, man.” She is a very nice and patient they would measure the thing before they woman.

Back to our so- brought it into our called mattress. The home we set a delivdelivery men set it up ery date.

It fit. It was comfy. and then came in with the bad news. The box All was well in the springs were too big Robinson house.

How did this hapfor the mattress by pen? Let me use my four inches.

They said they 42 years of experience would call and get it in manufacturing to corrected. They didn’t make some deducand I suspect the mat- tions.

This was an RV spetress had something to cial mattress which do with it.

We called Sears is for original equipcustomer service and ment and maybe some after a day they called replacement orders. and informed us that It would have been they had the right part a short production numbers on the bill so run on their line. The they had to match. line would have been We checked the part changed to the new numbers on the mat- dimensions and the tress and spring and correct tickets taken they did have the right to the end of the line number. “See!” and to be placed on the they hung up. mattress. This didn’t I started to suspect happen. the mattress. How can From my experience a king size bed spring in other factories I see be too big for a king a further possible consize mattress? clusion.

The box springs are This would not have not made any bigger. happened in a wellAha! I went on the run, disciplined fac-

tory with well-trained, permanent workers who were treated fairly.

Let me go to the two extremes of my experience.

General Tire in Akron was a place where the founder was remembered as a guy who walked the factory and knew the workers’ names.

He was part of the identity of his work place. Most of the older workers were Catholic like the owner.

In the old days part of the screening was done by a priest’s recommendations.

The workers were connected to the company and bonded to each other.

They did not do shoddy work. They made sure you didn’t either. Their union got them decent pay and benefits.

I worked in other factories with good discipline and training, good to fair worker attitude. They were all unionized with good managers.

And the furthest extreme was an automotive tail-pipe manufacturer. The workers were from a temp agency, got minimum wages and were barely trained.

Our turnover was alarming, our industrial accidents were criminal and mistakes were rampant.

We did not care for the workers. They did not care for their jobs.

This plant was forced to sell for delivery failure by their automotive customer.

When General Tire’s 65-year-old plant was closed, I volunteered to go and inspect tires off the line.

The tire builders made unflawed tires right up to the closing. With all their anger and all their pain they still could not drop their pride in workmanship.

I never saw one tire leave with the wrong identification on it.

And our customers never had to pay for our mistakes.

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Tiny Okla. town tries to rid water supply of worms COLCORD, Okla. (AP) — A northeast Oklahoma town is temporarily without a water supply after city workers found worms in the municipal water tower.

The worms showed up in the drinking water supply in Colcord, a town of 815 people about 80 miles east of Tulsa. Vice Mayor Cody Gibby says the worms are a type of earthworm that range from a half-inch to an inch long.

Gibby says the worms are passing through water filters and getting into distribution lines. The town shut off its drinking water Tuesday night with plans to flush the water system out and scrub the water tower clean.

Classes are canceled Wednesday at Colcord schools, and bottled water is available for residents.

Penn. clown couple ties the knot, no foolin’ LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — If the key to a long marriage is laughter, these clowns are set.

Billy Tedeski and Patty Kulwicki tied the knot Friday at an annual clown festival in central Pennsylvania.

The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reports Kulwicki literally reeled Tedeski in to start the ceremony — a bit the Pittsburgh couple had performed at Clownfest two years ago.

Tedeski wore a fake nose, black lipstick and full clown regalia as he exchanged vows with Kulwicki at the festival in Lancaster. The bride wore the same dress she’d used in the skit two years ago, plus a lace headband to go along with her flame-red wig.

Guests got in on the act and so did the officiant, a fellow clown. Tedeski says his fellow clowns are more than friends, they’re family.

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A rough road back to ‘Riddick’ for Diesel Derrik J. Lang

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Thump.

Thump.

That’s the sound the golf cart makes each time it strikes the uneven pavement as it transports Vin Diesel across the Universal Studios backlot.

He’s traveling from his bungalow office to a screening room where “Riddick” crew members have gathered to watch the third installment of the sci-fi series starring the 46-year-old actorproducer as an extraterrestrial ex-con.

“It’s such a victory that this movie is going to be in theaters,” he says in his signature growly tone.

Indeed, when it comes to “Riddick,” Diesel is all too familiar with hitting bumps in the road. It took the “Fast & Furious” star nearly a decade (and millions of dollars in fundraising) to bring his see-in-the-dark anti-hero back to the big screen.

Universal had jettisoned a possible third edition after 2004’s “Chronicles of Riddick” didn’t soar at the box office.

Despite the fact “Chronicles of Riddick” and its 2000 predecessor “Pitch Black,” as well as a pair of “Riddick” video games, amassed a cult following, it seemed like Riddick would be forever lost in space.

However, Diesel remained undeterred. He worked with series writer-director David Twohy to resuscitate Riddick, obtaining the film rights after Universal passed.

“I started in the independent (film) world, but this was a new level of challenge for me,” said Diesel.

He treated the sequel

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In this Aug. 20 photo, actor Vin Diesel poses for a portrait at NBC Universal in Universal City, Calif.

just like an indie film project, not unlike the 1990s self-funded movies “Multi-Facial” and “Strays,” which first transformed the burly New Yorker from bouncer to actor-producer.

Between filming “Fast & Furious” movies, he traveled to Germany with Twohy to woo enough investors to convince the studio to come back on board.

“This character struck a chord,” said Diesel, who points to his 46 million Facebook fans as the reason for taking several risks —including almost leveraging his own house when bills couldn’t be paid — to recover Riddick. “He’s tangible for them. I think the idea of a character that has been misread, overlooked and given up on is very fascinating to people.”

The original “Pitch Black,” which introduced the ruthless Richard B. Riddick amid an eclectic group of spaceship crash survivors, cost $23 million and went on to earn $53 million worldwide.

The follow-up heavily expanded on the first film’s spacey mythology

and budget. It cost $105 million but wasn’t ultimately a blockbuster, bringing in a so-so $115 million worldwide.

“Riddick,” which opens Sept. 6 and leanly cost between $35 and $40 million, blends elements from both chapters, keeping the ornate look of “Chronicles” but dispatching with its PG-13 interstellar politics in favor of the R-rated terror of “Pitch Black.” The film strands the Furyan bad boy on a desolate planet where he’s hunted by dueling bands of mercenaries.

“For both of us, it was like going home again,” said Twohy. “No matter what part of the world we’re in, whether it’s the Australian outback where we shot ‘Pitch Black,’ or Vancouver where we filmed the second movie, or inside an old train depot in Montreal where we shot ‘Riddick,’ it just feels like home when we’re together making a Riddick movie.”

With the revivals of “Fast & Furious” and “Riddick” now under his belt, Diesel feels reinvigorated about his other passion project:

a trilogy in which he’d play Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca, the audacious general who marched across the Alps to challenge the Roman Empire. It’s another bumpy venture Diesel has been working on for the better part of a decade.

But first, Diesel says he’s revving up for the seventh “Fast & Furious,” which begins shooting next month in Atlanta and Los Angeles, and Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in which he’ll portray the tree-like alien Groot. For the former street performer, it’ll mark his first foray into motion-capture acting — and playing a character known for delivering just one line: “I am Groot.”

“The idea of bringing that physicality to a CGI character always tantalized me,” he said. “To strip away everything is insane. In this case, the voice plays heavily into it, too. I don’t know what kind of dialogue will be in it, but even if it stayed true to character, there’s so much one can do with ‘I am Groot.’ It’s the kind of challenge very few actors ever get.”

“Hornaday maintained that something better could and should have been done to accommodate the advance of civilization with the buffalo’s right to existence.” As Dehler notes, Hornaday applied that view to the fur seal and other endangered species as he campaigned on their behalf.

“The Most Defiant Devil” is Dehler’s noteworthy chronicle of the life and career of this key figure in the conservation movement. He reveals a fascinating American, a man of vision and conviction whose stubbornness and hubris won him allies and enemies among lawmakers, potential patrons and fellow conservationists. He once described himself as an unrepentant sinner in regard to his past as a killer of animals and “the most defiant devil that ever came to town.”

Hornaday (1854-1937) was born in Indiana and grew up on an Iowa farm. His interest in wildlife led him to study zoology and then taxidermy at the state college in Ames, Iowa. Preparing specimens for scientists and museums promised him a living and an opportunity for travel around the country and abroad.

The great adventure of Hornaday’s life, a collecting

trek to Asia undertaken when he was just 21, kept him from his fiancee and his home in Syracuse, N.Y., for 2½ years.

He hunted elephants, monkeys, orangutans and scores of other animals, protected or not, for museums and scientific study. Often beset by fever and short on funds, he survived the ordeal and wrote a popular book about his travels.

Opponents of his crusades would later accuse him of hypocrisy. Hornaday rationalized past hunting expeditions as proper because of the educational value of the specimens they produced. Hostile to market hunting and the use of modern firearms by hunters, he railed against their destructive impact on wildlife. He also pointed out the positive impact of animals, including birds that devoured insects to the benefit of agriculture.

Hornaday’s advocacy for animal conservation found an anchor in New York at what would become the Bronx Zoo, which he helped found in 1896 and then served as director for 30 years. He was also adept at collecting wealthy and powerful friends, enjoying the support of the wealthy industrialist Andrew

Carnegie and a future president, Theodore Roosevelt.

Dehler doesn’t shy away from noting Hornaday’s racism — he viewed many nonwhites as lazy, untrustworthy and corrupt. Demanding unwavering patriotism during World War I and the “Red Scare” that followed, Hornaday could be near hysterical in his attacks on Germans and Russians. While he could be genial and charming, he had a penchant for carrying on personal and professional vendettas against those who disagreed with him or otherwise crossed him.

Without question, animals needed tenacious defenders at the turn of the century.

Hornaday was single-minded in pursuit of protections for wildlife easily overwhelmed in an industrial age. His influence proved to be deep — environmentalist Aldo Leopold was among those inspired by Hornaday’s writings — as well as long-lasting.

The top conservation award of the Boy Scouts of America is named in his honor.

Dehler’s biography performs the kind of work Hornaday once cherished — the dissecting and rebuilding of a unique specimen for people to ponder and cherish.

Notable biography examines dogged conservationist Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press

“The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday & His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife” (University of Virginia Press),

by Gregory J. Dehler Irony alert: The man often credited with saving the buffalo from extinction began his crusade by killing 20 of the furry beasts. It had taken five weeks to find even a handful of buffalo in Montana in the fall of 1886, their numbers down from the millions to the hundreds after decades of unregulated hunting for economic gain.

William T. Hornaday wasn’t seeking meat or fur or even trophies — well, not exactly. He was the chief taxidermist for the U.S. National Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, and needed specimens. The hunt led Hornaday to write a book decrying the buffalo’s fate and to help create preserves. His efforts, and those of others, kept the buffalo roaming into the new century.

Hornaday came to believe that the extinction of the buffalo was not inevitable. “On the contrary,” writes biographer Gregory J. Dehler,

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Dear Abby: My hus- friend. When the son raisband and I have two beau- es the subject again with tiful, hardworking daugh- his mother, she should tell ters we brought up as him that she loves him and loving, respectful parents. will see that his wishes are Recently, “Kellie,” 25, got carried out, even though tattoos covering her right losing him will be losing a arm, leg and ankle as well part of herself. as her shoulders. They are When you see the visible unless she mother again, ask if wears long sleeves he has an advance and long pants. directive for mediThis has ruined cal decisions in our relationship place. In it, a perbecause it shows son can specify that how little she thinks only palliative care of us as parents, is preferred. and how disrespectA group that offers ful of our feelings Dear Abby guidance in draftshe is to put the Abigail Van ing these important tattoos where everyBuren documents — and one can see them. one to which I conShe knows we don’t like tattoos because we tribute — is Compassion have mentioned it to her and Choices. The toll-free and voiced our disappoint- number is 800-247-7421. If ment when she got the your friend does not have an advance directive, it’s first one on her ankle.

I can’t sleep at night or important that he make look at my daughter know- one now. ing how little she cares Dear Abby: Our acrossabout our feelings. I feel neighbors it’s a slap in the face that the-street she doesn’t honor, respect feel they need to mow or love us. What do you their lawn three (excesthink? — Beside Myself sive) times a week. This in Fort Worth includes using a weedDear Beside Yourself: eater and two mowers I think it is time you toned — a push mower and a down the high drama. large riding mower. Quite What’s done is done. If often, the husband choosyou do not appreciate the es to mow after 8 p.m. person your daughter is He doesn’t work and could BENEATH her skin, you do it during the morning will lose her. And THAT hours if he wants it cooler. would be a tragedy!

The noise is loud and extremely disruptive, Dear Abby:I have a and lasts about an hour 20-plus-year high school because he goes over and friend who is fighting over the same area. We ALS (Lou Gehrig’s dis- work and would like to ease.) I have developed enjoy the few hours we a close relationship with have in the evening and him and his parents. His relax. Any ideas? — Tired mom has shared some of his comments with me, of the Noise in Montana Dear Tired of the but he hasn’t shared those Noise: If you’re on speakthoughts with me himself.

The comments are, “I ing terms with this neighwant to die,” or, “I want to bor, you should ask him if he would please manicure go home to God.” I think listening and his lawn at a different time being a supportive friend because the noise is disis what I can do for him, ruptive. If he is unwilling but I’m at a loss as to what to cooperate, check with to say to his mother. I the city to find out if there don’t know what advice to are any noise ordinances give her so she can be sup- in place. If there are, you portive in her conversa- can report the noise as a tions with her dying son. nuisance.

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The statute of limitations has expired concerning the following tale, so I can finally tell it.

In October of my now 40-something year-old son Eric’s seventh-grade year, he informed me that he was probably going to get a D, maybe even an F, in English on his upcoming report card, and perhaps for the entire year.

“How’s that?” I asked.

“My teacher doesn’t like me, Dad,” he replied.

He then launched into a litany of her many offences against him, including blaming him for things he didn’t do, targeting him for unwarranted criticism, covering his best work with negative comments in dread red ink, and mocking his answers

in front of the entire class.

“You can’t pull wool over my eyes, Eric,” I said. “The truth is that you are making it difficult for her to do her job.

You’re a troublemaker in her class. Maybe the other kids think you’re funny. She doesn’t, and neither do I. I have only one thing to tell you which is that if you don’t get at least a B in her class, you will spend every free moment of the next grading period in your room and you will go to bed every one of those nights at seven o’clock, lights out.” End of “conversation.”

Indeed, he managed to get a B from said Evil English Teacher. How he

managed in less than five English problem because weeks to accomplish this he believed me.

In the absence of at feat is something I never least a B in looked into.

English, he I did not absolutely even talk knew that he to Miss would spend Malevolence. all of his free She may time in his not have room for nine been a very weeks and go good teacher. to bed, lights I doubt that out, at seven. seriously; Living with Children Eric knew nonetheless, that threats her compeJohn Rosemond were not part tence wasn’t of my parentthe issue.

The issue was that I ing vocabulary. Can you expected Eric, under any say the same of your kids?

The second moral is and all circumstances, to that big problems require be a good student.

There are three instruc- even bigger consequenctional morals to this es. Most parents, I have story, the first of which discovered, try too hard being that Eric solved his to make sure punishments

“fit” crimes. In the process, they end up doing nothing of consequence.

A child misbehaves in some egregious fashion and parents respond with a light tap to the wrist with a flyswatter. “Take that!” they cry, and nothing changes. I was determined that this would be the first and last time I would have to deal with an issue of this sort, and it was.

The third moral is that children do not make good witnesses, especially when they have emotional skin in the game. Specifically, when children complain about teachers, their complaints are generally not truthful. I don’t mean that they are necessarily

lying. They aren’t telling the truth because they cannot see it. The ability to accept full responsibility for one’s misdeeds separates the men from the boys, which is why a good number of “men” (including a good number of women) are still “boys.”

The bottom line: As this new school year begins, it would be a generally good thing if parents resolved to always give a teacher’s report the benefit of doubt where school problems are concerned. Children benefit considerably when adults stand together.

Family psychologist John Rosemond answers parents’ questions at www. rosemond.com

Take a step back in time at Alcatraz

Al Capone. “Machine Gun” penitentiary…a place to house Kelly. Mickey Cohen. Robert troublesome prisoners or to Stroud, the “Birdman of treat those who needed extreme Alcatraz.” rehabilitation.

These names conjure up The island was virtually images from a different era and escape-proof, although there of a lonely, isolated prison in were 36 attempts over the the heart of San years. In 1962, Francisco Bay — Frank Morris, Alcatraz.

John Anglin, and Though it Clarence Anglin served as a fedpulled off the most eral penitentiary famous escape in for just 29 years, Alcatraz history. it still captures the They chipped public’s attention holes around the and imagination. vents in their cells, As a result, it’s climbed into the The Traveling Teacher one of the top tourutility corridor ist destinations in behind the walls Holly McElwee San Francisco. and escaped to the “You are entitled roof. to food, clothing, shelter, and They left paper Mache medical attention. Anything dummy heads in their beds to else you get is a privilege. fool the guards.

Alcatraz Prison Rules and This escape, months in the Regulations, Number 5.” making, made the trio famous, That rule was just one of the although they were never seen realities of life inside the walls again and were presumed to at “the Rock.” This rule and have drowned in San Francisco many others are now part of Bay. the rich history of the island.

Although Alcatraz had a “Break the rules and you go reputation for being hard and to prison. Break the prison tough, history shows that prisrules, and you go to Alcatraz.” oners at Alcatraz enjoyed some That sentiment sums up the perks not seen in other prisons purpose of the solemn island of the time.

They were allowed to eat as much food, the best of any federal prison, as they wanted within the 20-minute meal periods.

In the prisons’ later years, they had permission to paint, play musical instruments, watch movies on the weekends, and use radios.

The guards and their families lived on the island, and they were so confident in the security of Alcatraz, they never locked their doors.

Today, the practical side of a visit to Alcatraz starts with a boat ride from San Francisco.

Stopping first at the dock, a volunteer from the National Park service welcomes visitors and gives a brief introduction.

From there it’s a steep walk up the hill to the cell house, but transportation is available for the infirm.

Once in the cell house, an excellent audio tour, which includes narration from former guards and prisoners, guides visitors through the cellblocks and various rooms.

After the audio tour, visitors are free to walk the grounds to see the recreation yard, views of the mainland, and the wellkept gardens.

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Modern day visitors to Alcatraz can walk through the recreation yard where prisoners used to play baseball and other games.

Alcatraz is also home to a wide variety of seabirds, and their nesting areas can be seen from outside the cell house.

Those who want to take a trip to Alcatraz should plan ahead and buy tickets early.

Tickets for the ferry and subsequent island tour sell out well in advance. Tickets can be purchased online at http:// www.alcatrazcruises.com , the official provider of transportation to and from Alcatraz.

Other tour companies offer tickets, but at inflated prices.

“It looks like Alcatraz has

got me licked,” said Al Capone in 1934.

Indeed, time spent at “the Rock,” by more than 1,500 inmates gave the island its notorious reputation.

Windswept rocks, crashing waves, and San Francisco’s frequent fog put the finishing touches on one of America’s most visited National Parks.

It’s worth the time and trouble to make a journey to the Rock — Alcatraz.

Read more and see pictures at www.travelingteacheronline.com.

Preemie study sparks debate over risks of research Pratt of Kingwood, W.Va. The tiniest pree mies face serious risks, including death and disabilities.

Oxygen has been a mainstay of treating them, but doctors didn’t know just how much to use.

Too much causes a kind of blindness called retinopathy of prematurity.

Too little can cause neurologic damage, even death.

So hospitals used a range of oxygen, with some doctors opting for the high end and some for the low.

The Support study, conducted between 2005 and 2009, aimed to settle which end of that range was the best dose.

It randomly assigned about 1,300 preemies at 23 hospitals to a lower or higher oxygen dose.

To researchers’ surprise, slightly more babies who got the lower dose died, a finding that has led to new standards for the care of preemies.

The problem: A government watchdog agency last spring ruled that researchers violated federal regu-

lations that required them to spell out the risks of the study for parents.

Nowhere in the consent forms that parents had to sign was death mentioned.

“This was a very, very important study to do,” Dr. Jerry Menikoff, head of the Office for Human Research Protections, stressed Wednesday.

“All we were asking for,” he added, “is a couple of sentences to say there were risks.”

He agreed with consumer advocates that a similar study in New Zealand phrased the issue more appropriately, saying the question is whether the lower dose “is safe and effective in reducing serious vision and lung problems without increasing mortality or neurodevelopmental disability.”

But critics, including the head of the National Institutes of Health, argued that back in 2005, doctors didn’t think the lower dose really posed a survival risk — the question was more about which dose did a good-enough job at saving their vision.

In fact, preemies who didn’t enroll in the study — and got whatever range of oxygen their doctors deemed best — turned out to have a higher risk of death, said NIH Deputy Director Kathy Hudson.

Dr. John Lantos, a bioethicist at C h i l d re n’s M e rc y Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., knows that firsthand. His twin grandsons were born during the Support study but weren’t given an opportunity to enroll.

One died soon after birth. The other today is thriving but suffered severe retinopathy and has poor vision.

“Nonvalidated therapy is often more dangerous than careful research,” Lantos said, adding that the consent forms should make that clear as well. “Doctors just hate to say they don’t k n ow s o m e t h i n g.

When they do say it, we should listen.”

While the experts debated how to explain research risks, two families who traveled to Washington for the unusual meeting outlined a bigger

hurdle: Reeling from the stress of having a vulnerable preemie, they simply didn’t understand that they were participating in an experiment.

And they still haven’t been told what dose of oxygen their children received, and it’s impossible to say whether lingering health problems are a consequence of the study or of being extremely premature.

Yet, they now wish they hadn’t participated.

“I u n k n ow i n g l y placed my son in harm’s way,” said Sharissa Cook of Attalla, Ala., who wonders if vision problems experienced by her 6-year- old, Dreshan Collins, were caused by the study or from weighing less than 2 pounds at birth. “The only thing a mother wants is for her baby to be well.”

Dagen’s mother, Carrie, was more blunt with reporters: “Why is omitting information not considered lying?” she said. “We were told they would give her the best care every day.”

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They didn’t understand it was an experiment to test what dose works best.

No one mentioned any risks.

Now 6, Dagen struggles with cere bral palsy, and they wonder: Is that longago study to blame? “ Tell me that the Support study did not hurt Dagen in any way,” her father, Shawn Pratt, challenged a government panel on Wednesday as his daughter, dressed in a bright sundress, stood quietly by.

A major contro versy has erupted over what sounds like a straightforward question: How much should patients be told about the potential risks before they ’re enrolled in certain kinds of medical research?

The issue isn’t about how to study a brand-new, unap -

proved therapy.

All sides agree that those studies must fully inform participants that there’s no guarantee the experiment will work, or even be safe.

Instead, the debate is about one of modern medicine’s dirty little secrets: Doctors frequently prescribe one treatment over another without any evidence to know which option works best.

There’s no requirement that they tell their patients when they ’re essentially making an educated guess, or that they detail the pros and cons of each choice.

Researchers are supposed to outline all the risks when they study which commonly used option is best.

But could that mislead patients into thinking research is riskier than their own doctor’s best guess?

Federal health officials put that question to the public Wednesday, as they debate how strictly to regulate this type of research — a debate sparked by that study of premature babies who included Dagen

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AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no ‘slam dunk’ Kimberly Dozier Matt Apuzzo Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria’s chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.

President Barack Obama declared unequivocally Wednesday that the Syrian government was responsible, while laying the groundwork for an expected U.S. military strike.

“We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out,” Obama said in an interview with “NewsHour” on PBS. “And if that’s so, then there need to be international consequences.”

However, multiple U.S. officials used the phrase “not a slam dunk” to describe the intelligence picture — a reference to then-CIA Director George Tenet’s insistence in 2002 that U.S. intelligence showing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was a “slam dunk” — intelligence that turned out to be wrong.

A report by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence outlining that evidence against Syria includes a few key caveats

— including acknowledging that the U.S. intelligence community no longer has the certainty it did six months ago of where the regime’s chemical weapons are stored, nor does it have proof Assad ordered chemical weapons use, according to two intelligence officials and two more U.S. officials.

The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has said an Aug. 21 rock strike killed 355 people.

A three-page report released Thursday by the British government said there was “a limited but growing body of intelligence” blaming the Syrian government for the attacks. And though the British were not sure why Assad would have carried out such an attack, the report said there was “no credible intelligence” that the rebels had obtained or used chemical weapons.

Like the British report, the yet-to-be-released U.S. report assesses with “high confidence” that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks that hit suburbs east and west of Damascus, filled with a chemical weapon, according to a senior U.S. official who read the report.

The official conceded there are caveats in the report and there is no proof saying Assad personally ordered the attack.

There was no mention in the report of the possibility that a rogue element inside Assad’s government or military could

have been responsible, the senior official said.

All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the intelligence report publicly.

Relevant congressional committees were to be briefed on that evidence by teleconference call on Thursday, U.S. officials and congressional aides said.

Administration officials said Wednesday that neither the U.N. Security Council, which is deciding whether to weigh in, nor allies’ concerns would affect their plans. But the complicated intelligence picture raises questions about the White House’s full-steam-ahead approach to the Aug. 21 attack on a rebel-held Damascus suburb, with worries that the attack could be tied to alQaida-backed rebels later.

Intelligence officials say they could not pinpoint the exact locations of Assad’s supplies of chemical weapons, and Assad could have moved them in recent days as the U.S. rhetoric increased. But that lack of certainty means a possible series of U.S. cruise missile strikes aimed at crippling Assad’s military infrastructure could hit newly hidden supplies of chemical weapons, accidentally triggering a deadly chemical attack.

Over the past six months, with shifting front lines in the 2½-year-old civil war and sketchy satel-

lite and human intelligence coming out of Syria, U.S. and allied spies have lost track of who controls some of the country’s chemical weapons supplies, according to the two intelligence officials and two other U.S. officials.

U.S. satellites have captured images of Syrian troops moving trucks into weapons storage areas and removing materials, but U.S. analysts have not been able to track what was moved or, in some cases, where it was relocated. They are also not certain that when they saw what looked like Assad’s forces moving chemical supplies, those forces were able to remove everything before rebels took over an area where weapons had been stored.

In addition, an intercept of Syrian military officials discussing the strike was among low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to an Assad insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said.

So while Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that it was “undeniable,” a chemical weapons attack had occurred, and that it was carried out by the Syrian military, U.S. intelligence officials are not so certain that the suspected chemical attack was carried out on Assad’s orders. Some have even talked about the possibility that rebels could have carried out the attack in a callous and calculated

attempt to draw the West into the war. That suspicion was not included in the official intelligence report, according to the official who described the report.

Ideally, the White House would prefer more clarity on all those points in the intelligence provided to it.

The U.S. has devoted only a few hundred operatives, between intelligence officers and soldiers, to the Syrian mission, with CIA and Pentagon resources already stretched by the counterterrorism missions in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the continuing missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.

The quest for added intelligence to bolster the White House’s case for a strike against Assad’s military infrastructure was the issue that delayed the release of the U.S. intelligence community’s report, which had been expected Tuesday.

The uncertainty calls into question the statements by Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden.

“We know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons,” Kerry said.

“We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets.

We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place.”

The CIA, the Pentagon and the Office of the

Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Still, many U.S. lawmakers believe there is reasonable certainty Assad’s government was responsible and are pressing the White House to go ahead with an armed response.

“Based on available intelligence, there can be no doubt the Assad regime is responsible for using chemical weapons on the Syrian people,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“Short of putting troops on the ground, I believe a meaningful military response is appropriate.”

Others, both Democrats and Republicans, have expressed serious concern with the expected military strike.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday that all the evidence points in one direction.

“There is no evidence that any opposition group in Syria has the capability let alone the desire to launch such a large-scale chemical attack,” Hague told British broadcaster Sky News.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament to debate the issue Thursday.

Associated Press writers Bradley Klapper, Julie Pace and Lara Jakes contributed to this report.

Fast-food protests underway Candice Choi Sam Hananel Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food protests are underway in cities including New York, Chicago and Detroit, with organizers expecting the biggest national walkouts yet in a demand for higher wages.

Similar protests organized by unions and community groups over the past several months have brought considerable media attention to a staple of the fast-food industry — the so-called “McJobs” that are known for their low pay and limited prospects. But it’s not clear what impact, if any, they will have on business.

In New York, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined about 300 to 400 workers and supporters in a march before flooding inside a McDonald’s near the Empire State Building on Thursday morning.

Shortly after the demonstration, however, the restaurant seemed to be operating normally and a few customers said they hadn’t heard of the movement. The same was true at a McDonald’s a few blocks away.

The lack of awareness among some illustrates the challenge workers face.

Participating workers, who are asking for $15 an hour and the right to unionize, still represent a tiny fraction of the industry.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which works out to about $15,000 a year for full-time employees.

The movement comes amid calls

from the White House, some members of Congress and economists to hike the federal minimum wage.

But most proposals seek a far more modest increase than the one workers are asking for, with President Barack Obama wanting to boost it to $9 an hour.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez compared the protests to the demands of demonstrators in the 1963 March on Washington, who sought a national minimum wage to give workers better living standards.

“For all too many people working minimum wage jobs, the rungs on the ladder of opportunity are feeling further and further apart,” said Perez, who’s taking a lead role in Obama’s push for a higher minimum wage.

The Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million works in health care, janitorial and other industries, has been providing financial support and training for local organizers in the fast-food strikes around the country.

Organizers say the walkouts will hit more than 50 cities on Thursday, following a series of strikes that began last November in New York City.

The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the country’s millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.

Ryan Carter, a 29-year-old who was walking out of the McDonald’s where workers demonstrated on Thursday, said he “absolutely” supported work-

ers’ demands for higher wages.

“They work harder than the billionaires in this city,” he said. But Carter, who was holding a cup of the chain’s coffee he bought for $1, said he didn’t plan to stop his regular trips to McDonald’s.

McDonald’s Corp. and Burger King Worldwide Inc. say they don’t make decisions about pay for the independent franchisees that operate the majority of their U.S. restaurants. At restaurants that McDonald’s owns, the company said pay starts at minimum wage and ranges upward depending on the employee’s position and experience level.

The company, based in Oak Brook, Ill., said raising entry-level pay would raise overall costs, leading to higher prices on menus.

Wendy’s said in statement to CNBC that it was “proud to provide a place where thousands of people, who come to us asking for a job, can enter the workface at a starting wage, gain skills and advance with us or move on to something else.”

Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, did not respond to a request for comment.

“If you are someone striking for $15 an hour, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot have the same number of job opportunities. It’s a direct reflection of economics of the industry,” said Mike Saltsman, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, which gets funding from the restaurant industry.

Workers were also expected to walk off their jobs in cities includ-

Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel | AP Photo

Protesters display placards outside a Burger King fast food restaurant in Boston, Thursday. The protest was one of several planned in Boston Thursday in what organizers say are similar walkouts planned in dozens of cities to push chains such as McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s to pay workers more.

ing Atlanta, Boston, Hartford, Conn., Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Many targeted restaurants will likely be able to stay open, however. The strikes were announced earlier, giving managers time to adjust staffing levels.

Fast-food workers who take part in the strikes are generally protected from being fired or having employers retaliate against them, even though they are not members of unions.

Federal labor law gives all workers the right to engage in “protected concerted activities” to complain about wages, working conditions or other terms of employment.

“It’s always been understood that people who fall under this concerted activity umbrella are protected as long as they are protesting not only on their own behalf but on behalf of others as well,” said Robert Kaiser, a St. Louis labor law attorney.

Predator drone now part of Calif. wildfire battle Associated Press

GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — As crews advanced against a giant wildfire around Yosemite National Park, fire commanders said they would maintain use of a Predator drone to give them early views of any new flare-ups across in the remote and rugged landscape.

Officials remained confident on Thursday about their efforts to corral the Rim Fire, which grew by a relatively modest few hundred acres overnight.

The fire had burned about 301 square miles as of Thursday morning and remained 30 percent contained. It has cost $39 million to fight.

“We remain very optimistic that our containment lines are holding, and we’ll continue to strengthen lines around communities that are threatened around the fire,” said California fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.

Fire officials said they expect to fully surround the blaze in three weeks, although it will burn for much longer than that.

The California National Guard drone deployed Wednesday was being remotely piloted hundreds of miles away, allowing ground commanders to keep an eye out for new fires they otherwise wouldn’t have immediately seen.

“The drone is providing data directly back to the incident commander, allowing him to make quick decisions about which resources to deploy and where,” Berlant said.

Previously, officials relied on helicopters that needed to refuel every two hours.

While unmanned aircraft have mapped past fires, use of the Predator will be the longest sustained mission by a drone in California to broadcast information to firefighters in real time.

The plane, the size of a small Cessna, will remain over the burn zone for up to 22 hours at a time, allowing fire commanders to monitor fire activity, determine the fire’s direction of movement, the extent of containment and confirm new fires ignited by lightning or flying embers.

The drone is being flown by the 163rd Wing of the California National Guard at March Air

Reserve Base in Riverside and is operating from Victorville Airport, both in Southern California. It generally flew over unpopulated areas on its 300-mile flight to the Rim Fire.

Outside the fire area, it will be escorted by a manned aircraft.

Officials were careful to point out the images are being used only to aid in the effort to contain the fire.

In 2009 a NASA Predator equipped with an infrared imaging sensor helped the U.S. Forest Service assess damage from a fire in Angeles National Forest. In 2008, a drone capable of detecting hot spots helped

firefighters assess movement of a series of wildfires stretching from Southern California’s Lake Arrowhead to San Diego.

The Rim Fire started Aug. 17 and quickly exploded in size, becoming one of the 10 largest California wildfires on record.

Its progression slowed earlier this week when it moved from parts of the forest with thick underbrush that had not burned in nearly a century to areas that had seen fire in the past two decades.

But it will burn for months, possibly until California’s dry season ends this fall.

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until we see rain,” said Hugh Safford, a regional ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.

That means the smoke could continue to foul air north of Yosemite in the Lake Tahoe basin and neighboring Nevada, although residents received something of a reprieve Wednesday when for the first time in three days blue sky was sometimes visible through the haze.

The air quality index in the Reno area still had improved only to the “unhealthy” level, and in Douglas County, Nev., school children were kept indoors again when the index registered in the

“hazardous” category.

The air was clear, however, in the tourist mecca of Yosemite Valley, home to the towering Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and the 2,425-foot plunge of Yosemite Falls.

The Rim Fire has destroyed 111 structures, including 11 homes, and posed a threat to ancient giant sequoias.

The fire also has threatened San Francisco’s water supply at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, but Stratton said it was burning itself out as it approached and that crews were lighting back burns to push it back into the wilderness.

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Agency seeks tough rules to reduce Lake Erie algae John Flesher

AP Environmental Writer

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. and Canada should crack down on sources of phosphorus runoff blamed for a rash of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie, an advisory agency said Thursday.

The algae produce harmful toxins and contribute to oxygendeprived “dead zones” where fish cannot survive.

The International Joint Commission said in a report that urgent steps are needed to curb runaway algae — a problem that led both nations to reach their first agreement to improve Great Lakes water quality more than 40 years ago, when some considered Erie ecologically dead.

To u g h e r standards for municipal and industrial waste treatment produced improvements by reducing the flow into the lake of phosphorus on which algae feeds.

But the problem began worsening in the late 1990s.

In 2011, the largest mass on record formed in the lake’s western basin, even-

tually reaching more than 100 miles from Toledo to Cleveland.

“What happened in 2011 was such a shock that people realize more of the same is just not tolerable,” said Lana Pollack, chairwoman of the commission’s U.S. section. “If we can get the governments to take action on this report, it will make a big difference.”

The report says different sources of phosphorus runoff have emerged — primarily large farms, where manure and other fertilizers are washed into tributary rivers during storms and snowmelt.

They accounted for more than half of the phosphorus that reached the lake in 2011, while one-third came from smaller farms and nearshore communities as well as city sewers.

M o re intense storms likely caused by climate change are sweeping more nutrients into the lake, the report said.

Additionally, unlike decades ago, much of the phosphorus dissolves in water, making it easier for algae to consume.

The report sets tar-

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In this Oct. 5, 2011, file satellite photo from a NASA website are algae blooms on Lake Erie. A U.S.-Canadian agency urged both nations on Thursday to crack down on big farms and other sources of phosphorus that is believed responsible for a rash of algae blooms on Lake Erie. Runaway algae is a worsening problem on Lake Erie and some bays of Lakes Huron and Michigan.

gets for sharp reductions in phosphorus runoff over three to six years, including a 46 percent decrease in total phosphorus and a 78 percent cut in the dissolved type for the lake’s central and western basins.

To reach those goals, governments in both countries should require “best management practices” that reduce the amount of phosphorus applied

to fields and slow the flow of water to drainage systems, the report says. One step should be to ban spreading manure on frozen or snow-covered ground, it says.

Another proposal would link the cost and availability of government-subsidized crop insurance to farmers’ willingness to curb phosphorus runoff.

“The idea is that if

you’re contributing to pollution, you’re going to pay more,” Pollack said. “There’s really a strong need to change agricultural practices, or else just say you’re going to sacrifice Lake Erie.”

The report also calls for prohibiting nearly all use of phosphorus fertilizers for lawn care, and for additional study and monitoring of sewage plants and other facil-

ities that discharge into the lake.

The goals are challenging but achievable, said Raj Bejankiwar, a commission scientist who led development of the report.

“Lake Erie was in a worse situation in the ’60s and ’70s … and both nations took action and the lake came back,” he said.

“We’ve done it before and it’s doable now.”

Jury weighs Ohio firefighter discrimination case Amanda Lee Myers Associated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) — Juror heard closing arguments in which attorneys invoked the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream for equality and then began deliberating Thursday whether the city discriminated and retaliated against a longtime black fire lieutenant in what he called “a class case of institutional racism.”

The deliberations began after a one-week trial in the lawsuit brought by Cincinnati fire Lt. Mark Broach against the city, claiming that he was targeted for defending a fellow black firefighter and for filing a discrimination com-

plaint with the city.

In his closing argument, Broach’s attorney became tearful as he spoke of a letter that King wrote from a Birmingham, Ala., jail defending his tactic of street protests, writing: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“I am really sorry, after all these years, that we have to do a case like this in Cincinnati,” attorney Al Gerhardstein told jurors, calling on them to return a verdict in favor of Broach “that will sing to all of Cincinnati that they better wake up and stop discrimination and stop retaliation.”

Gerhardstein cited city statistics that showed in 2011 that about a quarter of Cincinnati’s police and

fire personnel were black but half of all disciplinary actions in the fire department were against black workers.

Roy Winston, assistant chief of human resources for the department, testified Wednesday that for years, there was racial disparity in how employees were disciplined, with black firefighters subjected to more and harsher punishment.

“How hard does a man have to fight to be treated fairly by the city of Cincinnati?” Gerhardstein told jurors.

City attorney Augustine Giglio told jurors that there’s a difference between being treated unfairly and racial discrimination. “(Broach) has no race

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claim,” Giglio said. “We can expound and preach about race discrimination, but you have to have facts to back it up.”

He said a neglect-of-duty allegation against Broach was initiated not in retaliation, but because a fire captain believed Broach didn’t respond to a fire fast enough and allowed a firefighter to go into the blaze alone.

A department investigation later concluded those claims were unfounded.

Despite that, the department had a duty to relieve Broach of his lieutenant responsibilities until the investigation was finished, which took four months, Giglio said.

“If these charges are true, this is a serious, serious

safety issue and if they’re true, someone could get hurt, and someone could even die,” Giglio said.

“Thank goodness nobody got hurt. Sometimes you’re lucky nobody gets hurt.”

He acknowledged that the city has had a history of race problems and called discrimination “vile,” but said that doesn’t mean it happened in this case.

Broach, who is still with the department but assigned to a different engine company than the two captains he accused of discriminating against him, is seeking $98,000 in back pay for time he was on leave, plus unspecified compensatory damages to be decided by jurors should they find in his favor.

Ohio prisons facing inmate population spike Andrew Welsh-Huggins AP Legal Affairs Writer

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s prison inmate population is spiking beyond estimates and widespread changes are needed to reduce the numbers, the director of the state prison system said Thursday.

The state’s already high population of 50,000 could soar to 52,000 in two years and top 53,000 in six years, Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said in a presentation to a legislative prison inspection committee.

The system is currently at 131 percent of inmate capacity and could hit 139 percent by 2019, Mohr warned. California’s system was declared unconstitutional at 140 percent, he said.

Mohr also singled out

2017 as a significant year: the earliest that Ohio could build a new prison to deal with the increase, if that were the approach taken.

Mohr said in a follow-up interview with The Associated Press he would consider it a failure if that happened.

“If we don’t do anything, it projects a level of crowding that we cannot Mohr handle,” Mohr said.

“Those are the challenges.”

Inmates entering the prison system today have committed more serious crimes, resulting in longer sentences, according to a report to be released later Thursday by the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee.

The number of women behind bars also is soaring and far outpacing the increase in the male population, the CIIC report added.

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Under that 2011 law, the number of inmates was supposed to drop to around 47,000 by 2015 and dip below 47,000 two years after that.

But that law didn’t anticipate a recent increase in violent crime and an uptick in cases filed by prosecutors across the state, Mohr said.

He called some of the changes in the 2011 law, such as earned credit for good behavior, “tinkering.”

Mohr also said offenders committing minor drug and property crimes are being kept out of prison, but nearly one in four are returning for probation violations.

Mohr also said something still needs to be done with the system of probation departments in Ohio, which is patchwork and not centralized.

The prisons agency recently privatized its food service system, a decision it blamed in part on budget shortfalls created by the unanticipated rise in inmate populations.

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Tigers cruise past Delphos

IN BRIEF ■ Golf

Fair records ‘Golden” ace

Lehman netters edge Sidney

WEBSTER — Mike Fair recorded a hole-in-one whil playing in the Golden Boys fall outing Wednesday at Stillwater Valley Golf Course.

A 70-year old retired Navy veteran, Fair used a sand wedge on the 106yard, par-3 ninth hole.

Witnessing the ace were Charlie Sanders, Chuck Asher and Bob Daugherty.

The Piqa boys golf team hosted Sidney at Echo Hills Golf Course Thursday.

The Indians lost 168176.

Information on the match was not available at press time.

Piqua will play Greenville Thursday at Turtle Creek.

Lavey cards 36 at Echo

Tigers beat DSJ

Casey Lavey was low gross with 36 in the Wednesday Industrial League at Echo Hills Golf Course.

Mike Butsch was second with 37 and Ron Pearson Jr. was third with 38.

Andy Hildreath and Tim Kearns shared low net honors with 30.

Jim Shaw, Dave Cox and Logan Fessler tied for third with 31.

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Two card 35 in Echo scramble Two teams carded 35 to tie for first in the Ladies League at Echo Hills.

The two teams were Vicki Francis, Joyce Catron, Judy Hornbeck and Jane Rudd; and Cindy Pearson, Renie Huffman, Linnea Thomas and Kay Hardman.

In evening nine-hole play, Amie Rinaldi was low gross with 53 and Sue Dougherty was low net with 38.

■ Fundraisers

Mom’s Club to host 5K run Piqua Football Mom’s Club will be hosting the third annual 5K run.

Register at www.speedy-feet.com

PIAB to hold chicken dinner The Piqua Indians Athletic Boosters will be holding their annual Chicken Dinner sale before the football team’s home opener Sept. 6 against Kings.

The dinner is $8.

The dinners will be sold from 5-6:30 p.m.

DELPHOS — The Versailles boys golf team improved to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the MAC with a 175-202 win over Delphos St. John’s Wednesday at Delphos Country Club.

Ryan Knapke shared medalist honors and led Versailles with a 40.

Other Tiger scores were Tyler Drees 44, Kyle Cotner 45, Alex Stucke 46, Griffen Riegle 49, Mitchell Stover 49.

Versailles JVs defeated Miami East 186-217 to improve to 5-0.

Tiger scores were Nicholas Litten-Stonebraker 43, Jacob Watren 45, Aaron Barga 45, Michael Hemmelgarn 53.

Piqua’s Kenton Kiser watches a tee shot closely Thursday at Echo Hills.

Wion back as Russia coach

WEBSTER — The Russia boys golf team defeated Anna 166-180 at Stillwater Valley Golf Club.

Russia scores included Austin Tebbe 40, Gavin Hoying 41, Luke Dapore 42, Zach Sherman 43.

GIRLS GOLF Raiders edge Wave

WEBSTER — The Russia girls golf team got past Greenville 213-216 Thursday at Stillwater Valley Golf Club.

Kaila Pleiman shared medalist honors with 48.

Other Russia scores were Morgan Daugherty 53, Taylor Borchers 56, Lindsay Meyer 56.

GIRLS TENNIS Cavs edge Sidney

SIDNEY — The Lehman girls tennis team lost to Sidney 3-2.

“This is a huge win against a rival and previously undefeated Sidney team,” Lehman coach Will Harrelson said.

In singles, Julia Harrelson beat Katie Salyers 63, 6-0; Sarah Gravunder beat Marina Oba 6-2, 6-4; and Diana Gibson beat M. Kinslow 6-0, 6-0.

In doubles, Meghan Burner and Elaina Snyder lost to Melinda McBride and Alexis Hall 3-6, 7-5, 64; and Emily Hoersten and Kaitlin Gillman lost to Larger and Wellaver 64, 6-2.

“The first doubles match went late into the day, with many of the games going to deuce,” Harrelson said. “And Emma Simpson played well against a Sidney senior in a JV match.”

Emma Simpson beat Stiffler in a JV match 8-3.

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Lady Raider spikers have big expectations Incorrect information was received for the Russia volleyball team in the Fall Sports Section on Thursday.

Below is the correct information.

Todd Wion returns for his fourth season as Russia volleyball coach.

The Lady Raiders were 22-4 last year and finished 10-2 in the SCL. Graduating off that team were seven seniors including All-Ohio, first team SCL and first team District 9 player Ashley Borchers and first team SCL and first team district 9 outside hitter Olivia Monnin.

Returning letterwinners include seniors Maggie Kearns and Camille Puthoff; and juniors Kylie Wilson, Taylor Daniel and Claire Sherman.

“We will be a strong contender this year, not only in the SCAL, but also postseason play,” Wion said. “The always tough Shelby County Athletic League will be very strong again this year. I believe if play dictates, we will be a top contender.”

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Moore-Malone vs. Adkins/Teach Saturday, 11:30 a.m.

Teach-Fulker vs. Steinman-Heiner Finals Sunday, 11 a.m.

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Thorpe-Lee vs. Hanes-Hanes Saturday, 1:30 p.m.

Grassia-Estadilla vs. Anderson-Verstratten Semifinals Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

Relbe-Essick vs. winner of 10 a.m. match

WOMEN Open Singles Semifinals Saturday, 10 a.m.

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Anderson-Schiller vs. first round winner Finals Sunday, 2:30 p.m.

BOYS Open 18 Singles Semfinals Saturday, 1:30 p.m.

Stephen Hendershot vs. Benjamin Schroer Devon Parshall vs. Connor Oaks Finals Sunday, 2 p.m.

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Josh Riebe vs. Noah Haupt Branson Leigeber vs. Shane Essick Finals Sunday, 11 a.m.

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Reds come out swinging Bailey blanks Cardinals COLUMBUS – They don’t name valedictorians at the end of sophomore year and books don’t make best-sellers lists with several chapters still unwritten, so Urban Meyer’s caution when appraising junior linebacker Ryan Shazier is understandable.

Shazier earned a nod from Meyer as one of the best linebackers in the country at the end of his sophomore season.

But when asked if Shazier is on a path to become the next great linebacker at Ohio State, which has had eight firstround NFL draft choice linebackers, Meyer hit the brakes.

“He still has work to do. At times by the end of the season he was playing at a high level. If you start talking about the great ones, I don’t know if I can go there yet,” Meyer said. “But the way he finished that season last year, he’s one of the best backers I’ve had.”

Shazier’s body of work last season was impressive – 115 tackles, which was second in the Big Ten; 17 tackles for losses, which led the Big Ten; and 5 sacks.

But it was one tackle, which forced a fumble, that led to many people mentioning him in the discussion of great OSU linebackers, like Randy Gradishar, Chris Spielman, Andy Katzenmoyer, A.J. Hawk and James Laurinaitis.

Last year, with less than three minutes to play, Wisconsin had the ball on Ohio State’s 1-yard line with the Buckeyes leading 14-7.

Earlier in the game, the Badgers’ running back Montee Ball had tied the NCAA record for career touchdown, so everyone in Camp Randall Stadium knew what was coming next.

As expected, Ball took the handoff and launched himself over the top of the lines. At just the right moment,

Shazier also went into launch mode and met Ball at the top of his jump, knocked the ball out of his hands and OSU’s Christian Bryant recovered it.

After the game, Shazier said, “The first thing that went through my mind is that somebody needs to make a play and I wasn’t waiting on anybody to make a play. He jumped, I jumped and punched the ball out.”

Shazier began making plays as a freshman linebacker who barely weighed 200 pounds.

He was one of the few bright spots on OSU’s defense during a 6-7 season.

Now, as a 230-pound junior who hasn’t lost any speed with the weight gain, Ohio State’s coaches see Shazier making the routine plays consistently as well as the spectacular plays.

“He has become what I like to say is a linebacker. You see him start

AP Photo

Homer Bailey fires a strike against St. Louis Wednesday night.

making linebacker plays instead of just highlight reel plays,” defensive coordinator Luke Fickell said.

Offensive tackle Jack Mewhort had no doubts Shazier would make lots of linebacker plays from the first time he faced him in practice.

“I’ve gone against him a lot in my career and

he’s an unbelievable player. He’s a unique challenge as a linebacker because he’s not just a big muscle guy who is going to come in and hit you. He’s going to go around you too,” Mewhort said.

“He’s very fast, one of the fastest guys on the team. He came in here Day 1 and contrib-

uted and there are great things ahead for him.”

Day 1 of Shazier’s junior season starts Saturday when Buffalo comes to Ohio Stadium to play No. 2 OSU. As the only returning player on the front seven of Ohio State’s defense, Shazier said he felt some pressure but has gotten past that.

Shazier looks to continue progress Linebacker coming off big sophomore year COLUMBUS – They don’t name valedictorians at the end of sophomore year and books don’t make best-sellers lists with several chapters still unwritten, so Urban Meyer’s caution when appraising junior linebacker Ryan Shazier is understandable.

Shazier earned a nod from Meyer as one of the best linebackers in the country at the end of his sophomore season.

But when asked if Shazier is on a path to become the next great linebacker at Ohio State, which has had eight first-round NFL draft choice linebackers, Meyer hit the brakes.

“He still has work to do. At times by the end of the season he was playing at a high level.

If you start talking about the great ones, I don’t know if I can go there yet,” Meyer said.

“But the way he finished that season last year, he’s one of the best backers I’v e had.”

Shazier’s body of work last season was impressive – 115 tackles, which was second in the Big Ten; 17 tackles for losses, which led the Big Ten; and 5 sacks.

But it was one tackle, which forced a fumble, that led to many people mentioning him in the discussion of great OSU linebackers, ered it.

After the game, Shazier said, “The first thing that went through my mind is that somebody needs to make a play and I wasn’t waiting on anybody to make a play. He jumped, I jumped and punched

the ball out.”

Shazier began making plays as a freshman linebacker who barely weighed 200 pounds.

He was one of the few bright spots on OSU’s defense during a 6-7 season.

Now, as a 230-pound junior who hasn’t lost any speed with the weight gain, Ohio State’s coaches see Shazier making the routine plays consistently as well as the spectacular plays.

“He has become what I like to say is a linebacker. You see him start making linebacker plays instead of just highlight reel plays,” defensive coordinator Luke Fickell said.

Offensive tackle Jack Mewhort had no doubts Shazier would make lots of linebacker plays from the first time he

Bengals, Colts meet in preseason finale

AP Photo Ohio State linebacker Ryan Shazier makes a tackle against Michigan last season.

faced him in practice.

“I’ve gone against him a lot in my career and he’s an unbelievable player. He’s a unique challenge as a linebacker because he’s not just a big muscle guy who is going to come in and hit you. He’s going to

go around you too,” Mewhort said.

“He’s very fast, one of the fastest guys on the team. He came in here Day 1 and contributed and there are great things ahead for him.”

Day 1 of Shazier’s junior season starts

Saturday when Buffalo comes to Ohio Stadium to play No. 2 OSU. As the only returning player on the front seven of Ohio State’s defense, Shazier said he felt some pressure but has gotten past that.

Hoyer throws against Bears in preseason finale

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Record Book Chicago West Division

Football

NFL Preseason Glance National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W 2 2 2 1

L 1 1 1 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .250

PF 71 65 78 80

PA 66 83 60 68

W 2 2 1 0

L 1 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 74 67 67 40

PA 61 62 65 95

W 2 2 2 0

L 1 1 1 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .000

PF 57 98 79 46

PA 52 73 53 68

W L T Pct PF 2 1 0 .667 47 1 2 0 .333 52 1 2 0 .333 65 1 2 0 .333 62 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

PA 72 52 79 71

W 3 2 2 1

L 0 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .500 .333

PF 76 67 72 51

PA 41 64 69 57

W 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .333 .000

PF 76 67 54 49

PA 56 58 85 88

W 2 2 1 0

L 1 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 84 72 29 43

PA 78 50 41 81

PF 88 36 55 52

PA 30 31 37 73

Buffalo New England N.Y. Jets Miami South

Stiefel faces slick track conditions Takes eighth in Waynesfield feature

On Saturday night, Becca Stiefel of Stif Racing traveled to Waynesfield Raceway Park to compete in the 1000 cc mini sprint class in her Dick's Paint and Body Shop, KB Machine and Tool, Aesthetic Finishers, Automotive Armature Works, J and T Photos, Ham Signs, Rieck Services, AMSOIL-Doug Mertz, Richard Donnelly, Colors by Barr, Mark Knupp Muffler and Tire backed mini sprint.

Stiefel would start her heat race from inside row 2 and would settle into third place on lap one.

However, as another car tried to pull a slider, they ended up in the side of the 328 and Steifel now was running sixth.

With some minor damage Stiefel was able to get one spot back and secure a 10th starting spot in the

feature.

In the feature, she would encounter a track that has given her and her team fits and that would be a slick surface.

From her 10th starting spot, Stiefel was able to improve two spots and finish in eighth place.

“The track really slicked off tonight and being the last feature we knew it was going to really be slick and we just can't get a grip on the setup when it does this but were working on it,” Steifel said after the race.

“The car is in one piece and we'll be back to finish the regular season up next week."

Stiefel returns to Waynesfield Saturday for the final regular season race of 2013.

Hot laps are scheduled for 6 p.m. and racing will follow at 7.

Woods ‘back’ looking strong No sign of injury in practice

NORTON, Mass. (AP) — On and off the golf course, Tiger Woods didn't look anything like the player who only four days ago dropped to knees with back pain.

He took full, powerful swings with the driver at the TPC Boston, and he had no trouble gouging shots from the deep rough.

He stooped over without hesitation to remove his tee from the ground or retrieve his golf ball from the cup.

Even more telling was the catch.

Sitting behind a table at his news conference Thursday, someone tossed Woods a bottle of water from about 25 feet away.

The throw was a little wide. Woods instinctively twisted to his right and reached out his hand to grab it.

"The back has been ... it's a lot better than obviously on Sunday," Woods said at the Deutsche Bank Championship. "It was nice to have that extra day of rest. Having the tournament start on Friday certainly helps. And I've gotten treatment every day, two to three times a day. And it feels good."

It was the third time this year Woods has shown physical discomfort on golf course. An elbow injury forced him to miss two tournaments in the early summer.

He was grabbing his lower back in the final round of the PGA Championship. And then at The Barclays last week, after complaining of a stiff lower back from sleeping on a soft mattress in his hotel, Woods fell to his knees on the 13th hole after what he said was a back spasm on his second shot to a par 5.

His health figures to be a talking point at the Deutsche Bank Championship, at least until he gets to the 10th tree Friday morning to begin the tournament in the ultimate power grouping — Woods, British Open champion Phil Mickelson and Masters champion

Adam Scott, who not only are Nos. 1-2-3 in the FedEx Cup, but 1-2-3 in the world.

Even before he could hit his first tee shot in the pro-am, one of the amateurs asked him about his back.

The question was inevitable. The answer was predictable.

"It's fine," Woods said.

The rest of the round was just like any other.

There was no indication of injury, plenty of laughs and even the occasional, "Good shot, Mike," from Woods. He was speaking to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of his amateur partners.

Woods said he had planned to play nine holes, and then only chip and putt on the back nine as a precaution, just as he did last week at Liberty National.

"But it felt good, so I continued playing," he said.

Woods said the treatment was similar to the strain in his left elbow two months ago — electric stimulation, ice, ultrasound and massage. Still unclear was whether how much he would be able to practice before and after rounds. Woods said that would be "day to day."

"This was the first day I hit balls or swung a club since Sunday," he said.

"And it was a pleasant surprise to go out there and play without any discomfort today."

That was a good sign, because even for the second of four tournaments, the FedEx Cup playoffs already have turned up a notch.

While it's traditional for the top three players in the standings to be in the same group for the opening rounds of the playoff events, this is the first time it features the top three players in the world ranking.

"It's exciting, I know for me, to have it 1, 2, 3 in the world," Woods said. "It also goes to show you that those are three hottest players in the world."

Cleveland Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburgh West Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego East Washington Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants South New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta North Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota West

W L T Pct Seattle 3 0 0 1.000 Arizona 2 1 0 .667 San Francisco 2 1 0 .667 St. Louis 0 3 0 .000 Thursday's Games Detroit 40, New England 9 Carolina 34, Baltimore 27 Friday's Games Seattle 17, Green Bay 10 Chicago 34, Oakland 26 Saturday's Games Washington 30, Buffalo 7 Indianapolis 27, Cleveland 6 N.Y. Jets 24, N.Y. Giants 21, OT Kansas City 26, Pittsburgh 20, OT Philadelphia 31, Jacksonville 24 Tampa Bay 17, Miami 16 Denver 27, St. Louis 26 Dallas 24, Cincinnati 18 Tennessee 27, Atlanta 16 San Diego 24, Arizona 7 Sunday's Games New Orleans 31, Houston 23 San Francisco 34, Minnesota 14 Thursday, Aug. 29 Indianapolis at Cincinnati Detroit at Buffalo Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets New Orleans at Miami Washington at Tampa Bay Jacksonville at Atlanta N.Y. Giants at New England Pittsburgh at Carolina Tennessee at Minnesota Cleveland at Chicago Green Bay at Kansas City Houston at Dallas Baltimore at St. Louis Arizona at Denver Oakland at Seattle San Francisco at San Diego

MLB Standings

East Division

Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times EDT National League

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago West Division

W 80 67 61 60 49

L 52 65 73 72 82

Pct .606 .508 .455 .455 .374

GB — 13 20 20 30½

W 78 77 75 58 56

L 55 55 59 74 77

Pct .586 .583 .560 .439 .421

GB — ½ 3½ 19½ 22

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 78 55 .586 — Arizona 68 64 .515 9½ Colorado 63 72 .467 16 San Diego 60 73 .451 18 San Francisco 59 74 .444 19 Wednesday's Games L.A. Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 0 Washington 4, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 1 Atlanta 3, Cleveland 2 Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Cincinnati 10, St. Louis 0 Colorado 5, San Francisco 4 San Diego 5, Arizona 1 Thursday's Games N.Y. Mets 11, Philadelphia 3 Miami at Washington Milwaukee at Pittsburgh Cleveland at Atlanta Friday's Games Philadelphia (Halladay 3-4) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-11), 2:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 9-9) at Washington (Zimmermann 15-7), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (S.Miller 12-8) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 14-6), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 10-5) at Atlanta (Teheran 10-7), 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-7) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 8-13), 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 13-9) at Colorado (Manship 0-4), 8:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 7-13) at Arizona (Delgado 44), 9:40 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 8-11) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 12-5), 10:10 p.m.

Saturday's Games Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 8:05 p.m.

American League

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

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21

W L Pct GB Texas 78 55 .586 — Oakland 75 58 .564 3 Los Angeles 60 72 .455 17½ Seattle 59 73 .447 18½ Houston 44 88 .333 33½ Wednesday's Games Texas 12, Seattle 4 Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Oakland 14, Detroit 4 Boston 4, Baltimore 3 Atlanta 3, Cleveland 2 Tampa Bay 4, L.A. Angels 1 Chicago White Sox 6, Houston 1 Kansas City 8, Minnesota 1 Thursday's Games Detroit 7, Oakland 6 Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 2, Tampa Bay 0 Baltimore at Boston Cleveland at Atlanta Seattle at Houston Friday's Games Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 8-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 11-11), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 8-7) at Toronto (Buehrle 107), 7:07 p.m.

Cleveland (McAllister 7-7) at Detroit (Porcello 10-7), 7:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (H.Santiago 4-7) at Boston (Dempster 6-9), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Hendriks 0-2) at Texas (Darvish 12-5), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-7) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 813), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (Walker 0-0) at Houston (Peacock 3-4), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 8-5) at Oakland (J.Parker 10-6), 10:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

MLB Leaders

Baseball

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central Division

76

W 79 75 70 70 60

L 55 57 61 63 74

Pct .590 .568 .534 .526 .448

GB — 3 7½ 8½ 19

W 78 71 69 57

L 56 61 64 75

Pct .582 .538 .519 .432

GB — 6 8½ 20

TODAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—YMolina, St. Louis, .333; CJohnson, Atlanta, .329; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .323; Cuddyer, Colorado, .322; Craig, St. Louis, .317; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .314; Votto, Cincinnati, .312.

RUNS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 100; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 88; Votto, Cincinnati, 88; Choo, Cincinnati, 87; Holliday, St. Louis, 85; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 81; JUpton, Atlanta, 80.

RBI—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 104; Craig, St. Louis, 96; Phillips, Cincinnati, 95; Bruce, Cincinnati, 87; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 86; FFreeman, Atlanta, 85; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 81.

HITS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 160; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 157; Segura, Milwaukee, 156; Craig, St. Louis, 154; Votto, Cincinnati, 151; DanMurphy, New York, 150; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 147.

DOUBLES—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 43; YMolina, St. Louis, 37; Bruce, Cincinnati, 35; Desmond, Washington, 33; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 33; Rizzo, Chicago, 33; GParra, Arizona, 32.

TRIPLES—SMarte, Pittsburgh, 10; CGomez, Milwaukee, 9; Segura, Milwaukee, 9; Span, Washington, 9; Hechavarria, Miami, 7; Venable, San Diego, 7; CGonzalez, Colorado, 6; DWright, New York, 6; EYoung, New York, 6.

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

STOLEN BASES—Segura, Milwaukee, 38; ECabrera, San Diego, 37; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 35; CGomez, Milwaukee, 31; EYoung, New York, 31; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 27; Revere, Philadelphia, 22.

PITCHING—Zimmermann, Washington, 15-7; Wainwright, St. Louis, 15-8; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 14-6; JDe La Rosa, Colorado, 14-6; 8 tied at 13.

ERA—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 1.72; Harvey, New York, 2.27; Fernandez, Miami, 2.30; Corbin, Arizona, 2.79; Greinke, Los Angeles, 2.86; SMiller, St. Louis, 2.90; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 2.91.

STRIKEOUTS—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 197; Harvey, New York, 191; Wainwright, St. Louis, 184; Samardzija, Chicago, 175; HBailey, Cincinnati, 173; Latos, Cincinnati, 170; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 168.

SAVES—Kimbrel, Atlanta, 42; Mujica, St. Louis, 35; RSoriano, Washington, 35; AChapman, Cincinnati, 33; Romo, San Francisco, 32; Grilli, Pittsburgh, 30; Cishek, Miami, 28.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—MiCabrera, Detroit, .359; Trout, Los Angeles, .331; ABeltre, Texas, .329; Mauer, Minnesota, .324; DOrtiz, Boston, .313; TorHunter, Detroit, .308; Cano, New York, .305; JhPeralta, Detroit, .305.

RUNS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 95; CDavis, Baltimore, 95; Trout, Los Angeles, 91; AJones, Baltimore, 87; AJackson, Detroit, 86; Ellsbury, Boston, 83; Bautista, Toronto, 82.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 130; CDavis, Baltimore, 120; Encarnacion, Toronto, 99; AJones, Baltimore, 95; Fielder, Detroit, 91; Cano, New York, 85; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 84.

HITS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 173; ABeltre, Texas, 170; Machado, Baltimore, 165; Trout, Los Angeles, 163; Pedroia, Boston, 160; Ellsbury, Boston, 159; AJones, Baltimore, 159.

DOUBLES—Machado, Baltimore, 44; Lowrie, Oakland, 39; CDavis, Baltimore, 37; AlRamirez, Chicago, 36; Mauer, Minnesota, 35; Saltalamacchia, Boston, 35; Pedroia, Boston, 34; Trout, Los Angeles, 34.

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

HOME RUNS—CDavis, Baltimore, 47; MiCabrera, Detroit, 43; Encarnacion, Toronto, 34; ADunn, Chicago, 30; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 29; Bautista, Toronto, 28; ABeltre, Texas, 28; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 28.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 49; RDavis, Toronto, 40; Andrus, Texas, 35; Rios, Texas, 31; Altuve, Houston, 30; LMartin, Texas, 29; McLouth, Baltimore, 29; Trout, Los Angeles, 29.

PITCHING—Scherzer, Detroit, 19-1; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 14-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 14-4; Colon, Oakland, 145; Masterson, Cleveland, 14-9; CWilson, Los Angeles, 13-6; Guthrie, Kansas City, 13-10.

ERA—AniSanchez, Detroit, 2.61; Darvish, Texas, 2.68; Kuroda, New York, 2.89; Scherzer, Detroit, 2.90; Colon, Oakland, 2.94; FHernandez, Seattle, 2.97; Sale, Chicago, 2.99.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 225; Scherzer, Detroit, 201; FHernandez, Seattle, 194; Sale, Chicago, 193; Masterson, Cleveland, 188; Verlander, Detroit, 169; DHolland, Texas, 167.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 40; Nathan, Texas, 38; MRivera, New York, 38; AReed, Chicago, 36; GHolland, Kansas City, 36; Balfour, Oakland, 33; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 31.

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Wales Open Scores PGA European Wales Open Leading Scores Thursday At Twenty Ten course at Celtic Manor Newport, Wales Purse: $2.8 million Yardage: 7,378; Par: 71 First Round Espen Kofstad, Norway 35-29—64 Chris Wood, England 34-32—66 Richard Green, Australia 33-33—66 Mark Foster, England 33-34—67 Tjaart Van Der Walt, South Africa 36-31—67 Gregory Bourdy, France 34-33—67 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 36-32—68 Robert Rock, England 36-32—68 Mikko Ilonen, Finland 38-31—69 Peter Uihlein, United States 37-32—69 Maximilian Kieffer, Germany 32-37—69 Robert Coles, England 35-34—69 Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark 35-34—69 Liam Bond, Wales 33-36—69 Paul McGinley, Ireland 36-34—70 Gregory Havret, France 33-37—70 G. Fernandez-Castano, Spain 35-35—70 Simon Wakefield, England 34-36—70 Alessandro Tadini, Italy 37-33—70 Ricardo Santos, Portugal 38-32—70 Damien McGrane, Ireland 35-35—70 Keith Horne, South Africa 34-36—70 34-36—70 Raphael Jacquelin, France Christian Cevaer, France 37-33—70 Callum Macaulay, Scotland 35-35—70 David Drysdale, Scotland 36-34—70

Transactions Thursday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Released RHP Brett Myers.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed 3B Chris Nelson on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Luis Jimenez from Salt Lake (PCL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHOENIX SUNS — Traded F Caron Butler to Milwaukee for G Ish Smith and C Viacheslav Kravstov.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Saskatchewan LB Weldon Brown an undisclosed amount for an illegal and dangerous hit to the head of Edmonton QB Mike Reilly during an Aug. 24 game.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DE Greg Peach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Signed general manager Peter Chiarelli to a four-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

COLLEGE EASTERN COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE — Promoted Katie Boldvich to assistant commissioner for leagues and affiliates/senior woman administrator and Lisa Nurse to director of business services and human resources. Named Drew Brown associate commissioner for external affairs and Owen Salvestrini assistant commissioner for administration.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a feel-good day at home with family members. Relations with female relatives will be especially warm and friendly. What a great day to entertain at home!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Relations with neighbors, siblings and relatives will be warm and friendly today because you feel warm and friendly. It's just that simple. (A positive frame of mind is attractive to everyone.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your money prospects look good, or at least you feel this way today. Nevertheless, don't go overboard on spending. Guard against extravagant impulses. (Keep your receipts.)

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today the Moon and lucky Jupiter are lined up in your sign, which makes you feel generous to the world.

Actually, you will get what you give, in terms of kindness, friendship and support.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Solitude in pleasant surroundings will soothe your soul today. You've been focused on your job and earnings, and now you want time off for good behavior.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Relations with females are excellent today -- specifically, they will be mutually beneficial. In other words, you help them and they help you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Details about your private life might be made public today; nevertheless, you look good. Someone in authority (probably a female) can help you today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Do something different, because you want adventure, stimulation and a chance to learn something new. Be a tourist in your own city. Go someplace you've never been before.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You feel encouraged by your fair share of something. Perhaps gifts and goodies will come your way today. The universe owes you a favor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Conversations with partners and close friends are upbeat and reassuring. Travel with a female is likely.

Someone might offer you solace or comfort today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Work-related travel might happen for you today. If you need a favor at work or the assistance of others, ask a female co-worker. People are good to you today!

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Because you are in touch with your muse today, you can be highly creative. Romance can flourish. In fact, all relationships with others will be warm and friendly. This is a good day to learn about cooking or gardening.

YOU BORN TODAY You were fated to stand out. People notice you. Generally, you are comfortable with this attention. You like to perform, which in turn gives you an opportunity to influence people. You're an excellent team player; you also can lead. This year something you've been involved with for nine years might end or diminish in order to make room for something new to enter your life.

Birthdate of: Sara Ramirez, actress; Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer; Chris Tucker, actor/comedian.

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J&J launches new cap to curb Tylenol overdoses Matthew Perrone AP Health Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bottles of Tylenol sold in the U.S. will soon bear red warnings alerting users to the potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the popular pain reliever. The unusual step, disclosed by the company that makes Tylenol, comes amid a growing number of lawsuits and pressure from the federal government that could have widespread ramifications for a medicine taken by millions of people every day.

Johnson & Johnson says the warning will appear on the cap of new bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol sold in the U.S. starting in October and on most other Tylenol bottles in coming months. The warning will make it explicitly clear that the over-the-counter drug contains acetaminophen, a pain-relieving ingredient that is the nation’s leading cause of sudden liver failure.

“We’re always looking for ways to better communicate information to patients and consumers,” says Dr. Edwin Kuffner, vice president of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson unit that makes Tylenol.

Overdoses from acetaminophen send 55,000 to 80,000 people in the U.S. to the emergency room each year and kill at least 500, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

Acetaminophen can be found in more than 600 over-thecounter and prescription products used by nearly one in four American adults every week, including household brands like Nyquil cold formula, Excedrin pain tablets and Sudafed sinus pills.

Tylenol is the first of these products to include such a warning label on the bottle cap. McNeil says the warning is a result of research into the misuse of Tylenol by consumers. The new cap message will read: “CONTAINS ACETAMINOPHEN” and “ALWAYS READ THE LABEL.” The move comes at a critical time for the company, which faces more than 85 personal injury lawsuits in federal court that blame Tylenol for liver injuries and deaths. At the same time, the Food and Drug Administration is drafting long-awaited safety proposals that could curtail the use of Tylenol and other acetaminophen products.

Much is at stake for McNeil and its parent company.

Johnson & Johnson does not report sales of Tylenol, but total sales of all over-the-counter medicines containing acetaminophen were more than $1.75 billion last year, according to Information Resources Inc., a retail data service.

Safety experts are most concerned about “extra-strength” versions of Tylenol and other pain relievers with acetaminophen found in drugstores. A typical two-pill dose of Extra Strength Tylenol contains 1,000 milligrams of acetaminophen, compared with 650 milligrams for regular strength.

Extra Strength Tylenol is so popular that some pharmacies don’t even stock regular strength.

Most experts agree that acetaminophen is safe when used as directed, which generally means taking 4,000 milligrams, or eight pills of Extra Strength Tylenol or less, a day.

Each year, some 100 million Americans use acetaminophen, but liver damage occurs in only a fraction of 1 percent of users. Still, liver specialists say those cases are preventable. Part of the problem, they say, is that there are sometimes hundreds of pills in a bottle, making it easy for consumers to pop as many as they please. For example, McNeil sells Extra Strength Tylenol in bottles containing up to 325 tablets “The argument goes that if you take acetaminophen correctly you will virtually never get into trouble,” says Dr. William Lee of the UT Southwestern Medical Center, who has studied acetaminophen toxicity for four decades.

“But it’s the very fact that it’s easily accessible over-the-counter in bottles of 300 pills or more that puts people in harm’s way.”

Lee applauded the new warning, but said McNeil’s marketing has contributed to the “freewheeling” way that

Americans take the drug. For decades, McNeil has advertised Tylenol as “the safest kind of pain reliever” when used as directed. “That has been their standard ploy in the past, and I would argue that safest it is not,” he says.

McNeil’s Kuffner stands by the company’s safety claim: “When taken as directed, when people read and follow the label, I believe that Tylenol and the acetaminophen ingredient is one of the safest pain relievers on the market.”

McNeil is the only major drugmaker adopting the bottle cap warning at this time, according to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, a trade group for over-the-counter medicine companies.

“While this is not an industrywide initiative at this time, it fits squarely within the many ongoing industrywide educational initiatives to further acetaminophen safe and responsible use by consumers,” said Emily Skor, a vice president with the trade group, which represents McNeil, Bayer Healthcare, Procter & Gamble and other nonprescription drugmakers.

20 Years of Warnings McNeil has updated the safety warnings on Tylenol periodically since the 1990s.

In 1994, the company added a warning about the risk of liver damage when combining alcohol with Tylenol following a lawsuit brought by Antonio Benedi, a former aide to President George H.W. Bush, who fell into a coma and underwent emergency liver transplant after mixing Tylenol with wine at dinner.

A jury awarded him $8.8 million in damages after concluding that McNeil failed to warn consumers about the risk. The FDA made the alcohol warning mandatory for all manufacturers of acetaminophen in 1998.

Then, in 2002, an expert panel of FDA advisers recommended that the government agency require all acetaminophen products to carry a warning about the risk of “severe liver damage” when not taken as directed. The group’s votes are non-binding, though the FDA usually follows them.

McNeil voluntarily added the warning to its products in 2004, five years before the FDA made it mandatory.

Today, McNeil appears to be moving ahead of regulators again. In 2009, the FDA assembled another expert panel to consider more sweeping changes to reduce acetaminophen overdoses. The panel recommended a half-dozen major changes, including lowering the maximum nonprescription daily dose for adults. McNeil voluntarily adopted that recommendation, lowering the recommended adult dose of Extra Strength Tylenol to 3,000 milligrams per day, or six pills of Extra Strength Tylenol, down from 4,000 milligrams per day, or eight pills. The label stipulates that patients can still take a higher dose under doctor’s directions.

But the company has not embraced a more drastic recommendation by the FDA’s expert panel: eliminating the over-the-counter “extrastrength” formulation altogether, which would mean lowering the acetaminophen dose from 1,000 milligrams to 650 milligrams, or two tablets of 325 milligrams each. The panel said the 1,000 milligram dose should only be available via prescription.

McNeil argues that the lower dose is less effective and could drive people to take antiinflammatory pain relievers, a different class of drugs that includes aspirin and ibuprofen.

Those medicines can cause stomach ulcers and dangerous gastrointestinal bleeding.

FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson says the agency is actively working on new rules for both children and adult acetaminophen products.

While the agency won’t give a timeframe for completion, the federal government’s website that tracks new regulations lists December as the target date for publishing the proposed rules.

As early as 1977, FDA advisers recommended adding more warnings to the acetaminophen label about liver damage, but the agency didn’t require the language until 2009.

“They are very slow to respond to these things and it’s always a little frustrating,” says Dr. Lewis Nelson of New

York University, who chaired the 2009 FDA panel.

Anatomy of an Overdose Experts first identified acetaminophen overdose as a major public health concern in the 1990s, but it has taken years to form a clearer picture of the problem.

Acetaminophen overdoses occur when the liver is overwhelmed by too much of the drug, producing a toxic byproduct that kills liver cells. Liver failure occurs when most cells are no longer able to function.

At that point, a patient then generally has 24 to 48 hours to live without a transplant.

Of the roughly 500 acetaminophen deaths reported annually, about half are accidental, with the rest deemed suicides. About 60 percent of the unintentional overdoses involve prescription opioidacetaminophen combination drugs such as Percocet and Vicodin, according to a database of liver failure cases run

by Dr. Lee at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Those two products alone were prescribed more than 173 million times last year, according to IMS Health.

So how do these accidental acetaminophen deaths occur?

Imagine you’ve had major dental surgery, and your dentist prescribes a five-day supply of Percocet. You take the recommended two pills every six hours for 2,600 milligrams of acetaminophen, well below the 4,000-milligram-a-day safety threshold.

But you’re still experiencing pain, so you decide to add Extra Strength Tylenol, six caplets a day for another 3,000 milligrams. Now you’re feeling better but you still have trouble sleeping, so you take Nyquil, for another 650 milligrams. After a few days on this 6,250 milligram regimen, experts say acute liver damage is a real risk.

The labels on all of these products warn against mixing them. But researchers say many consumers either don’t read or don’t understand such warnings.

Even after taking into account people who ignore labels, there are still cases of liver damage that stump researchers. These are the people who have apparently taken about 4,000 milligrams a day or less, well within the safety threshold.

“It’s still a little bit of a puzzle,” says Dr. Anne Larson, of the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. “Is it genetic predisposition? Are they claiming they took the right amount, but they really took more? It’s difficult to know.”

The question is critical in the lawsuits piling up against McNeil in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, near McNeil’s headquarters in Fort Washington, Pa. Virtually all of the 85 cases claim that the plaintiffs suffered liver failure despite taking Tylenol as directed.

According to one of those complaints, Madeline Speal, of Salzburg, Pa., took Tylenol for three days in November 2009 “at appropriate times and in appropriate doses.” But on Nov. 28, she was admitted to Latrobe Area Hospital with catastrophic liver damage. She was then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where she underwent an emergency liver transplant.

The cases against McNeil, which share the same legal wording, allege that the company risked the lives of consumers by making “conscious decisions not to redesign, re-label, warn or inform the unsuspecting consuming public.”

The lawsuits have been consolidated under a single federal judge to streamline the pretrial process, though they will eventually be returned to judges in their original districts for trial.

J&J and McNeil continue to reiterate that Tylenol is safe.

“We remain confident in the safety and efficacy of Tylenol products, which rightfully have been trusted by doctors, hospitals and consumers for more than 50 years,” McNeil said in a statement.

But lawyers for the patients suing McNeil say Tylenol can still be dangerous even when used at or just above recommended levels.

“Products that are available to consumers should have a reasonable margin of safety,” said Laurence Berman, one of several attorneys representing Tylenol users.

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-266 HSBC Bank USA, NA vs.

Donald Lyle Bolen, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-049240 & N44-049230 Prior Deed Reference: Book 583, Page 540 Also known as: 1805 Nicklin Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty One Thousand and 00/100 ($81,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Susana E. Lykins, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447812

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-017 Unity National Bank vs.

Paul Ault, Jr., et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-020600 Also known as: 909 West High Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Three Thousand and 00/100 ($63,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Dale G. Davis, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447711

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-328 Federal National Mortgage Association vs.

Jennifer Lantz, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 18, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Bradford, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: H18-000710 Also known as: 213 Clay Street, Bradford, Ohio 45308 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($35,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kevin L. Williams, Attorney 08/16, 08/23, 08/30-2013 40370594

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-176 Mainsource Bank vs.

Keith L. Howard, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 18, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-090700 Also known as: 615 Adams Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100 ($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Alan M. Kappers, Attorney 08/16, 08/23, 08/30-2013 40370546

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-002 The Citizens Banking Company vs.

Cari M. Kaylor, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 18, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-034780 Also known as: 727 Elm Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Four Thousand and 00/100 ($54,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Anne M. Smith, Attorney 08/16, 08/23, 08/30-2013 40370549

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-309 M & T Bank vs.

Kirk E. Klingler, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Cit of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-049080 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 735, Page 807 Also known as: 1516 Broadway, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Seventy One Thousand and 00/100 ($71,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Ellen L. Fornash, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447826

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-170 U S Bank, NA vs.

Iris N. Jackson, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 18, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-073115 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 736, Page 788 Also known as: 1518 Amesbury Court, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Channing L. Ulbrich, Attorney 08/16, 08/23, 08/30-2013 40370527

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-745 Unity National Bank vs.

Deborah C. Millhouse, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Fletcher, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: B05-000630 Also known as: 11 West Main Street, Fletcher, Ohio 45326 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Twenty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($29,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Dale G. Davis, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447700

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-293 Household Realty Corporation vs.

Colleen R. Franz, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 18, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-012760 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 751, Page 7 Also known as: 640 South Wayne Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty One Thousand and 00/100 ($51,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Craig A. Thomas, Attorney 08/16, 08/23, 08/30-2013 40370530

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-088 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company vs.

Larry G. Burnett, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 25, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-038310 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 775, Page 157 on July 26, 2006 Also known as: 1009 Hancock Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($55,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Richard J. LaCivita, Attorney 08/23, 08/30, 09/06-2013 40398638

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-301 U S Bank, NA vs.

Bill D. Mulvihill, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 25, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-024540 Prior Deed Reference: Fiduciary’s Deed, Volume 770, Page 713, filed 04/05/2006 Also known as: 455 Wood Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty One Thousand and 00/100 ($51,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Robert R. Hoose, Attorney 08/23, 08/30, 09/06-2013 40398624

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-289 Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs.

Derek B. Vagedes, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-009830 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 759, Page 630 Also known as: 218 West Greene Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($99,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Susana E. Lykins, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447819

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-042 JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA vs.

Terry A. Cotrell, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-035530 Also known as: 534 McKinley, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kevin L. Williams, Attorney 08/30, 09/06, 09/13-2013 40447902

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-023 JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA vs.

Carolyn S. Penny, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on September 25, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-031190 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 852, Page 661 Also known as: 902 West Grant Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Twenty Five Thousand Forty Eight and 00/100 ($25,048.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Jennifer N. Heller, Attorney 08/23, 08/30, 09/06-2013 40398586

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Piqua Heritage Festival Sat., August 31, Sun, September 1 & Monday September 2 at Johnston’s Farm

2013 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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SATURDAY AUG. 31

Fun Run, Airstrip North of grounds 5K Run, Airstrip North of grounds Rifle, pistol, Smooth Bore, Competition Registration Parade starts at Farm House to Main Stage; Rifle Competition (closing at 1 p.m.); Sheep Dog Demo John Allread Opening Ceremony, Main Stage Frontier History Class, School House; Individual Hawk & Knife Registration and Competition; Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain, Pavilion Stage Rounders Old Timey Music; Signup for Ice Cream eating contest Blue Celtic Grass – Bluegrass; Only a Minstrel; McGovern Ceili Dancers – Irish Dance; Voyager Fife & Drum, Roaming Grounds Rodeo Chris Supinger – A Purveyor of Improbable Possibilities; Ramblin Rovers – Folk Music; Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic Ice Cream Eating Contest; Sheep Dog Demo/John Allread; American Pathos Father Son and Friends – Traditional Folk Rabbit Hash String Bank – Old Timey Music; Soft Shell – Native American Story Telling Archery Registration, Arrow Range Bottina Solas Archery Competition; Frontier History Class, School House; Ticket To Ride – Beatles Tribute Band; ELVIS McGovern Ceili Dancers – Irish Dancing Ramblin Rovers – Folk Music; Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic Muleskinners Bluegrass; Voyager Fife & Drum, Roaming Grounds Father Son and Friends – Traditional Folk Rounders Old Timey Music; McGovern Ceili Dancers – Irish Dance; Sheep Dog Show; Chris Supinger - A Purveyor of Improbable Possibilities Rabbit Hash String Band, Old Timey Music; Water Balloon Toss; Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain Patherfinders Ticket To Ride – Beatles Tribute Band Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic; Blue Celtic Grass – Bluegrass; Voyager Fife & Drum Roaming Grounds Festival Closes for the night

SUNDAY, SEPT. 1

Festival Opens Car Show Archery Registration, Archery Range Archery Competition, Archery Range Sheep Dog Demo John Allread Blue Celtic Grass – Bluegrass Spittin Image – Musical/Comedy; Frontier History Class, School House Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic Rodeo Rifle Competition Registration, Shooting Range Bettina Solas Voyager Fife Drum, Roaming Grounds Celtic Martins – Celtic Fiddle Music Chris Supinger – A Purveyor of Improbable Possibilities McGovern Ceili Dancers – Irish Dance Sheep Dog Demo John Allread; Dulahan – Celtic Music; American Pathos; sign up for Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest ELVIS; Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain Frontier History Class School House Couples Hawk & Knife Registration Hawk Range; Patherfinders Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic; Blue Celtic Grass – Bluegrass Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest; Father Son and Friends – Traditional Folk Chris Supinger – A Purveyor of Improbable Possibilities; Ramblin Rovers – Folk Music Soft Shell – Native American Story Telling; Church Service Sheep Dog Demo John Irish Dance Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic Muleskinners – Bluegrass Dave Dowler Samuel Clemens - Mark Twain Spittin Image – Musical/Comedy; Voyager Fife & Drum, Roaming Grounds Celtic Martins – Celtic Fiddle Music Hot Air Balloon Launch (Weather Permitting) Festival Closes for the night; Rabbit Hash String Band – Old Timey Music

MONDAY, SEPT. 2

Festival Opens; Flint and Steel Competition near Rifle Range Sheep Dog Demo John Allread; sign up for Pie Eating Contest; sign up for Pig Scramble Abe Lincoln visits the Schoolhouse; Only a Minstrel (AA); Dulahan, Celtic Music; Mike Hemelgarn – Ventriloquist/Magic (PS) Blue Celtic Grass – Bluegrass Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain Sign up for Spelling Bee, Grades 4-12 and adults; Pig Scramble; Bettina Solas Rodeo Celtic Martins – Celtic Fiddle Music Father Son and Friends – Traditional Folk Patherfinders; Spelling Bee, Grades 4-12 and adults; Daniel Boone Story Telling; Ultra Primitive Archery; Demonstration Hawk Range Ramblin Rovers – Folk Music Dulahan – Celtic Music; Dave Dowler; Soft Shell – Native American Story Telling; Pie Eating Contest; Kiddie Tractor Pull Registration & Pull Celtic Martins – Celtic Fiddle Music Sheep Dog Demo John Allread Daniel Boone Story Telling

SHUTTLE SERVICE TO THE PIQUA HERITAGE FESTIVAL

Shaded Area Outdoors or Wait Inside the Air-Conditioned Mall

Aug. 31, Sept.

1&2

Shuttle Hours: Sat. & Sun. 9am-9pm Mon. 9am-6pm

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Piqua, Ohio • (937) 773-1225 Located at I-75 & US Route 36

Proud to be a part of Piqua’s Heritage Festival

For more information or to schedule a complimentary financial review, call or stop by today.

Jerry L Anthony, AAMS®

Randy Evans, AAMS®

Ryan E. Ratermann, AAMS®

Andrew Stewart

Financial Advisor

Financial Advisor

Financial Advisor

Financial Advisor

421 N. Main St. Piqua, OH 45356 937-615-9047

115 W. Ash St. Piqua, OH 45356 937-773-7430

100 N. Sunset Dr., Piqua, OH 45356 937-773-1671

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