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Kane ordered to stand trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

NORRISTOWN — The state’s attorney general on Monday was ordered to stand trial on charges she leaked secret grand jury information to embarrass a rival prosecutor.

Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania attorney general, didn’t speak as she left a suburban Philadelphia courthouse flanked by bodyguards.

A judge rejected her lawyer’s contention she had another way

of humiliating the rival prosecu- hadn’t delved into motive during tor: pornography. Defense lawyer the hearing.

Gerald Shargel raised Fina, reached by phone, Kane’s knowledge of exdeclined to comment on plicit office emails near Shargel’s argument. the end of Monday’s eviKane, 49, also is charged dence hearing, saying exwith lying under oath posing former prosecutor about the leak, ordering Frank Fina’s “disgraceful aides to illegally snoop conduct” would have through computer files to been an easier way to rekeep tabs on the investitaliate against him. gation into it and harmJudge Cathleen Kelly ing the reputation of a KATHLEEN Rebar warned Shargel he former civil rights leader was “far afield” in invoknamed in the leaked docKANE ing pornography, a cenuments. tral theme of Kane’s public deShe could face up to seven fense, because prosecutors years in prison if convicted of the

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ETHAN SHANK, a second-grader at Ben Franklin Elementary School in White Township, talked with Stephanie Brilhart, guidance counselor, upon his arrival today for the first day of school. Ethan is the son of Michelle and Tyler Shank.

ICTC seeks Challenger funds from area school districts

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most serious charge, perjury.

She remains free pending an Oct. 14 court appearance. No trial date has been scheduled.

Inside the courtroom, Kane sat quietly at the defense table, flipping through documents and jotting notes, as prosecutors outlined how they believe she passed a transcript and memorandum related to a 2009 grand jury investigation to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter last year.

A top aide to Kane left a package containing the material between his front and screen doors, Continued on Page 12

China’s economic woes felt worldwide

BOUNCING BACK: A college student from Pittsburgh who was struck by ightning last spring has returned to the University of Dayton with a new outlook on life./Page 3

REINFORCEMENTS: As Washington state’s wildfires burned into the record books Monday, firefighters from New Zealand and Australia arrived to contribute to a ground campaign led by firefighters and U.S. soldiers./Page 9

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Officials of Indiana County Technology Center are appealing to its member school districts for $2 million in contributions to fund the construction of the Central Allegheny Challenger Learning Center and the Indiana County STEM Academy on the tech center campus in White Township.

INDIANA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT Development of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics education center has slowed from original projections, in part by lagging corporate and foundation grant support.

ICTC leaders said Monday that fi-

nancial commitments from the seven participating school districts would help to leverage millions more in outside support to make the center a reality.

The tech center’s newly named administrative director, Eric Palmer; the Challenger center project developer, Larry Segal; and education consultant Rodney Green appealed to Indiana Area Continued on Page 12

Wolf blasts planned veto override vote

By MARC LEVY Associated Press

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf blasted Republican lawmakers Monday over a plan to force pieceby-piece override votes of his budget bill veto, saying GOP leaders cannot negotiate in good faith while staging what the Democrat called an unconstitutional and unproductive move.

Wolf’s comments in a letter to lawmakers came a day before today’s planned veto override votes and the resumption of talks on an eight-week-old budget stalemate that has shut off funding to schools and a range of safety-net services.

The House Republican plan could pose a political dilemma to Democratic lawmakers.

Supporting Wolf’s veto would mean taking a series of votes against funding for educational and human services programs that they actually support.

“We cannot afford the delay that will occur with an unconstitutional veto attempt,” Wolf wrote. “Repub-

lican leadership cannot negotiate in good faith to move our Commonwealth forward while at the same time leveling public ultimatums and undertaking unconstitutional measures like this.”

Democrats have vowed to oppose the line-by-line veto override attempts to prevent Republicans from achieving the necessary two-thirds majority. Republicans rebuffed accusations that their plan is a political stunt and insisted nothing in case law or the constitution outlaws a veto override that targets a piece of the budget, rather than the whole vetoed bill.

“The Democrats not wanting to vote to send money to these countless organizations caught in the middle of the stalemate is offensive,” House Republican leaders wrote in a memo to rank-and-file members Monday.

Pennsylvania is nearly two months into its new fiscal year without the new year’s spending plan in Continued on Page 12

WASHINGTON — China is exporting something new to the world economy: fear.

Global investors are quaking over the prospect of a devastating slump in the world’s second-biggest economy. And they’re fast losing confidence that China’s policymakers, seemingly so sure-footed in the past, know how to solve the problem.

The worst-case scenario is that a collapsing Chinese economy would derail others around the world — from emerging markets in Chile and Indonesia to industrial powers such the United States, the European Union and Japan.

Despite the market fears, U.S. stocks rebounded sharply in early trading this morning.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 300 points, or almost 2 percent, in the first half-hour of trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed more than 40 points, or 2 percent. The Nasdaq composite rose more than 100 points, or 2.4 percent. Oil prices were up, but U.S. crude was still trading below $40 a barrel.

Asia’s freefall in the stock markets Monday and today, in the words of David Kelly, chief global strategist at JP Morgan Funds, is “Made in China.”

This year, the International Monetary Fund expects China’s economy to grow 6.8 percent, which would be its weakest peace since 1990.

China, which was posting double-digit growth in the mid-2000s, is trying to engineer a daunting transition — from overContinued on Page 4

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JAMES HOLMES, convicted Aug. 7 of murdering 12 people when he opened fire on a Colorado movie theater, appeared in court Monday for the sentencing phase in Centennial, Colo., where victims and families were given the opportunity to speak. See story on Page 9.

VA: Backlog cut to below 100K cases

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday it now has fewer than 100,000 disability claims older than four months, a “historic mile-

stone” that is one-sixth the size of a long-term backlog that reached a record 611,000 claims in 2013.

Allison Hickey, the VA’s undersecretary for benefits, said the current backlog of 98,535 claims older than 125 days is the lowest since the

agency started measuring the claims backlog in 2007.

The decrease has not come at the expense of quality, Hickey said. Accuracy of disability decisions has improved from about 83 percent in 2011 to 91 percent Continued on Page 4

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — Page 3

Student struck by lightning has new outlook on life

BRIEFS Amish man dies as car strikes cart REBERSBURG (AP) — State police are investigating and may charge a man with drunken driving after his pickup rear-ended a horsedrawn cart, killing one Amish man and injuring another.

The Associated Press is not identifying the 47-year-old Rebersburg man whose blood was drawn after the Friday night crash because he has yet to be charged by troopers from the Rockville barracks.

Police said the truck hit the buggy in Miles Township, Centre County, killing Elam Stoltzfus, 75, of Mill Hall, and injuring Elmer Stoltzfus, 31, of Rebersburg.

Both men were thrown from their cart.

Child-toting women charged PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two women are jailed on charges they shoplifted at a Pittsburgh Target store with two kids in tow, and police say one woman was so intoxicated she didn’t even know what store she was in.

KDKA-TV reported that Sara Fuss, 31, of Pittsburgh, and Heather Garland, 38, were arrested Sunday.

Police also charged Fuss with child endangerment because her children, 7 and 2 years old, were with the women. Police said the women, who were both intoxicated, spent about two hours stuffing a stroller carrying Fuss’ child with merchandise.

Police said Fuss called relatives to pick up her children after police arrested the women, but was so intoxicated she kept telling relatives she was at a Kmart store in nearby Swissvale.

Online court records don’t list attorneys for the women.

Intruder makes himself at home ERIE (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police said a woman found an intruder taking a shower and doing his laundry at her home when she woke up.

Troopers said the resident summoned police to her home in Greene Township, near Erie, on Saturday morning.

Casey James Shaffer, 24, of Erie, was arrested on charges of criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and loitering and prowling at night.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for him. Shaffer remained jailed Monday in the Erie County Prison pending a preliminary hearing Sept. 8.

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MASON MURRAY-McDONOUGH, 18, of Penn Hills, stood for a portrait on Aug. 12 on Chatham University’s campus in Pittsburgh, where he will start classes this week.

Chatham to begin year with first coed undergrad cohort

By ELEANOR CHUTE

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH — Nasir Alexander is ready to make history.

Alexander, of Kissimmee, Fla., is among 80 men who this week will become the first males enrolled in the historically allfemale undergraduate college at Chatham University.

Move-in day is Wednesday, with orientation on Thursday.

Overall, total enrollment at the fully coed Chatham is expected to be up by more than 100 students, from 2,134 last school year to 2,241 this fall, including 61 men who are first-year students and 19 who are transferring in.

The growth has come largely from firstyear students, who have more than doubled, from 104 last school year to 219 this fall. That means that, in addition to men, there are more women.

Alexander said, “One of the reasons I decided to go to Chatham was the opportunity to start something brand new and leave a legacy.�

Derrick Robinson, a graduate of City Charter High School in downtown and a Penn Hills resident, isn’t traveling as far to campus but is just as excited. He plans to study information management systems. “I feel like this is a really good time for me to express who I am as a person and as a scholar with academics. I think it’s a really good chance to broaden Chatham’s horizons, also,� he said.

Founded as a women’s college in 1869, Chatham has been accepting men as graduate students for more than two decades but not in the on-campus undergraduate college in Shadyside. The move to make the entire university coed sparked campus protest from alumni when the decision was made in 2014. “It’s been a lot of work,� said Esther Barazzone, who has been president since 1992. “I think we’ve done the right things, and it’s being (proven) in increases in both men and women.�

She said the college expected to attract not only men but more women because only small percentages of high school students are interested in a women’s college.

Chatham had about 500 students — all undergraduates — in the early 1990s.

Today, much of its enrollment is in various graduate, professional and other programs, including online courses.

Last school year, even as its enrollment grew above 2,100, it still had only 597 oncampus undergraduates in what was called the Chatham College for Women.

This fall, 685 on-campus undergraduates are expected. “We decided to grab that problem before it became a devastating problem,� Barazzone said.

The president hopes Chatham ultimately will have at least 1,000 undergraduates and some day as many as 5,000 total students, both on campus and online.

Changes have been underway on campus to prepare for the men.

All but one of the residence halls will be coed by floor, with Fickes Hall remaining women only.

All of the undergraduates will be housed on the Shadyside campus, although a new residence hall, which will have graduate students, is opening on the Eden Hall campus in Richland.

Changes have been made in some other buildings as well, including moving the bookstore and student life offices from the Carriage House to Woodland Hall to make space for a student center, including a lounge and meeting spaces, in the Carriage House.

Chatham, already a member of the President’s Athletic Conference, has added Division III men’s sports, including basketball, baseball, volleyball, track and field, cross country, and swimming and diving.

Women will continue to field teams in all of those sports except baseball. Women also have ice hockey and softball.

Of the 80 men, 44 are athletes. About 30 percent of incoming women are athletes.

Alexander, who is looking forward to being on the basketball team, said he learned about Chatham when the head basketball coach visited Florida and saw him practice.

Alexander wanted to play basketball in college, but at 5 feet 8 inches he had no illusions of a Division I scholarship. He began researching Chatham, applied and won a presidential scholarship covering tuition, fees, room and board for four years if he maintains a 3.0 GPA. When he visited the campus in the spring, he said, “I liked that it was near downtown where all the activity and things are, but it has its own little section.�

He was also encouraged by talking with teachers in his planned major of exercise science.

Robinson, who does not plan to play sports, said Chatham awarded him a “fantastic financial aid package,� and he likes that it is close to home.

Of Chatham, he said, “From everything I’ve heard about Chatham, it provides a challenge to students. I want to be challenged.�

DAYTON, Ohio — A college student who was struck by lightning last spring has returned to the University of Dayton with a new outlook on life.

Sean Ferguson, 23, of Pittsburgh, spent months in rehab healing from his broken bones and burns. He expects to graduate in December.

He was walking home in Dayton in April when he was struck by lightning. Several passers-by rushed to help him, and one gave him CPR. Ferguson calls that man his “guardian angel.� “He learned CPR just two days beforehand at the only airport in the country that has a CPR kiosk,� Ferguson told WKEF-TV. “It’s safe to say he’s the reason I’m here.�

Ferguson suffered a broken jaw and burns to more than 35 percent of his body, the university said.

A GoFundMe account was created to help with Ferguson’s medical bills. He has received more than $17,000 in the last four months.

He said he still feels the sensation of pins and needles from his knees to his toes. He had to go through physical therapy to relearn how to walk.

SEAN FERGUSON So far this year, 22 lightning-related deaths have been reported. There were 26 reported last year and 23 reported in 2013, according to the National Weather Service. Ohio ranked fourthhighest in the nation with 146 lightning-related deaths reported from 1959 to 2013, according to a report made available through the weather service.

Ferguson told the Dayton Daily News on Sunday that he has a new perspective on life and plans to start jogging and running in hopes of getting back to playing sports and other outdoor activities. “I’m just realizing how fragile life can be and that it can be taken at any given moment,� he said. “I don’t take anything for granted now.�

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OBITUARIES James Ewing James W. Ewing, 77, of Mentor, Ohio, passed away Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, at his home.

He was born June 13, 1938, in Indiana.

Mr. Ewing was a tool maker at Kennametal for 43 years before his retirement in 2000.

He is survived by his children, Jeffery Ewing and Brad (Gwin Eckert) Ewing; grandchildren, Sean (Sonya), Craig, Amanda and Brent Ewing; great-grandchildren, Alasdair and C.J.; two brothers, Norman Ewing Jr. and Raymond (Jean) Ewing; two sisters, Hazel (Donald) Singer and Ruth Clawson; and several nieces, nephews and other family members.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sally Ann Ewing; parents, Norman Ewing Sr. and Emily Ewing; brothers John, Ken and Ed; infant brother Clair; sister Gladys “Trudy“ Lawson; and daughter-in-law Tina Ewing.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at

the Brunner Sanden Deitrick Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 8466 Mentor Ave., Mentor, Ohio. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be at Western Reserve Memorial Gardens, Chesterland, Ohio.

To send flowers and offer condolences, visit www. brunners.com.

Emma Galetka Emma Eleanor Galetka, 92, of Indiana, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, in the Indiana Regional Medical Center.

Born in 1922 in Aultman, she lived most of her life in Getty Heights, White Township.

She was an extraordinary faith-filled Catholic and a member of St. Bernard of Clairvaux Roman Catholic Parish in Indiana since 1947.

Emma attended grammar school in Aultman and Warren G. Harding High School in Warren, Ohio.

She served as a catechist as a young adult for the former St. Anthony’s Church in Aultman and enjoyed her time teaching and being mentored by the Sisters of St. Joseph.

She was a recipient of an award for volunteer hours with United Cerebral Palsy of Western Pennsylvania, and was a supporter of the Downtown Indiana “Vinegar Hill Project.”

Emma married her husband, Emil, in April 1944 in Holy Trinity Church, Norfolk, Va., and experienced World War II as the wife of an active-duty U.S. Marine who served in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

As a new bride, she worked at Day’s Dry Cleaners in Oceanview, Va., and was an employee of Indiana State Teachers College, working and living in John Sutton Hall in the 1940s.

Emma was a good listener and friend to many. She could frequently be found sitting on her front porch, where she loved to converse with neighbors. As a homemaker, Emma was known for her healthy vegetable crops, berries, fruits and flowers.

She loved to cook, make jams and jellies and bake. She especially enjoyed visits with family and friends, old photographs, picnics in the yard and camping in state parks.

She was well-read and always informed of current events. She had a good sense of humor, was creative and

was known for her cheerful laugh.

Emma was proud of her daughter and granddaughters and all of their achievements, her Slovak heritage and genealogy, and her own personal history which she documented in a journal after her husband’s death.

She is survived by a daughter, Joan Galetka Kort and her husband, Lawrence, of Natrona Heights; two granddaughters, Dr. Elizabeth A. (Christopher) Von Bargen, of New Freedom; and Theresa M. Kort, of Lexington, Ky.; many nieces and nephews; and one sister-in-law, Jeannette Berish Spence of Rural Valley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Emil J. “Aim” Galetka, in 2002; her parents, Michael and Anna (Mudry) Berish; six sisters: Anna Timko, Mary Briscoe Stapinski, Theresa Hudak, Margaret McBride, Elizabeth Nemitt, and Susan Dellafiora; and six brothers: John Berish, Andrew Berish, Peter Berish, Joseph Berish, Michael Berish and Paul Berish. She was the last surviving member of the Berish family.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Ben Franklin Road, Indiana.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at noon Wednesday at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Parish.

Interment will follow in St. Bernard’s Cemetery, Indiana.

Blood drive to be held A blood drive will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Indiana Mall in White Township to benefit the Indiana County chapter of the

American Red Cross.

The drive will be held in the space formerly occupied by the arcade, across from Auntie Anne’s Pretzels.

Ruthann Koos Ruthann (Boros) Koos, 73, of Blairsville, died Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, at Life Care Hospital, Monroeville.

She was born April 3, 1942, in McKeesport, to Frank and Ida (Baros) Boros.

Ruth formerly worked in a secretary pool for the U.S. government. She enjoyed spending time with her family. She liked to read, play games and enjoyed her animals. She enjoyed spending time at her home and with her late husband, Jim. She is survived by her sons, Erik G. Koos and wife Kathleen, of Torrance, and Adam C. Koos, of Blairsville; a daughter, Diana K. Mandekic and husband Gary, of Derry; grandchildren Seneca L. Koos and Ryan J. Mandekic; brothers John Boros and wife Grace, of McKeesport, and

Jim Boros and wife Kathy, of McKeesport; and sister, Janet Breckenridge and husband Bill, of McKeesport.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Louis James Koos, in 2007; and brothers Frank and Terry Boros.

Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the James F. Ferguson Funeral Home Inc., Blairsville, where a blessing service will be held at 11 a.m.

Friday with Father Stephen R. Bugay officiating. Interment will be private.

If so desired, memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 602, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. www.jamesfergusonfuner alhome.com

Kathryn Silveri Kathryn Ann “Kuta” Silveri, 89, of Homer City, died Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, at Beacon Ridge Nursing Home.

The daughter of the late Joseph and Kathryn (Yancy) Mlinarich, she was born Oct. 2, 1925, in Red Barn.

Kathryn was a member of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish and a member of Christian Mothers.

She is survived by two children, Ronald and his wife, Marian Silveri, of Huntingtown, Md., and JoAnn and her husband, Wayne Bossinger, of Pittsburgh; four grandchildren, Bryan and his wife, Ashely, of Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth and her husband, Josh Lansbury, of Huntingtown; Justin Bossinger, of New Jersey; and Jennifer and her fiance, Jason, of Washington, D.C.; and a great-grandson, Bryce Lansbury.

Kathryn is also survived by her siblings, Helen Sandford, of Greensburg; Irene Mlinarich, of Bridgewater; Frank Mlinarich, of Graceton; Gertrude Mlinarich, of Homer City; and Betty

Nymick and her husband, John, of Pittsburgh; and her sister-in-law Julia Mlinarich, of Clune.

Her dear friend Kathy Daskivich and many nieces and nephews also survive her.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Silveri, and siblings Mary Mlinarich, Joseph Mlinarich, Steve Mlinarich and Ann Cochran.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City. A Blessing Service will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday at the funeral home, followed by a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Coral site, with the Rev. Father Ron Cyktor as celebrant.

Interment will follow in the St. Bernard Cemetery, Indiana.

Directors: Garritano gets high marks

By RANDY WELLS

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MARION CENTER — Dr. Frank Garritano, superintendent of the Marion Center Area School District, Monday received an overall review rating of above average from the school district’s directors for the 2014-15 contract year.

The rating was partially based on Garritano achieving two contractual performance goals — improved student achievement and growth and helping the district put a balanced budget in place.

The school board also agreed to enter into an affiliation agreement with Indiana University of Pennsylvania that will provide educational experiences to students enrolled in IUP’s bachelor’s degree and master’s degree nursing programs.

The IUP students will have opportunities to perform internships in Marion Center schools.

In more preparations for the start of classes Wednesday, the directors approved lists of school bus stops; substitutes for teachers, para-educators, nutritional

MARION CENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT and custodial staffs and bus drivers; and about 150 volunteers who help at the high school and elementary schools.

In other actions the directors: • Approved a minor change in the date for the high school marching band to perform at Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Fla. The student musicians will now perform there Feb. 9-14, 2016.

• Gave approval for wrestlers to participate in an overnight trip for an individual wrestling tournament Jan. 29 and 30, 2016, and for the cross country team to participate in the PIAA Foundation Cross Country Meet in Hershey Sept. 26.

• Hired retried state trooper Rick Gemmel as a school security officer.

• Gave approval for the Punxsutawney Region Antique Automobile Club of America to use the high school’s parking lot Sept. 20 for spectator parking for the club’s annual car show.

Discount food sale set HEILWOOD — The Pine Township Volunteer Fire Company will hold its monthly discount food sale Saturday, at the fire station, in Heilwood. Doors will open at 4 p.m., merchandise will arrive for preview at 5 p.m. and the sale begins at 6.

Discounted grocery items to purchase will include a variety of frozen foods, meat, cheese and other dairy products.

This is a pay-as-you-go,

cash only, “bent and dent” style sale so smaller denominations of cash would be appreciated.

It is recommended that buyers bring your own boxes, bags or baskets for purchases.

Everyone is welcome to attend. The kitchen will be open prior to and throughout the sale.

For more information, contact Amy at (814) 9510209 or the fire station at (814) 948-4438.

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS GALETKA, Emma Eleanor, noon, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Indiana (Bowser-Minich Funeral Home)

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VA: Backlog cut to below 100,000 cases Continued from Page 1 today, she said.

The gains were achieved in part through use of mandatory overtime for employees in the benefits division, a practice Hickey says officials hope to stop in September.

Mandatory overtime has been in effect for nearly three years but “is not sustainable,” Hickey said, adding that she is confident that recent gains will not be sacrificed once mandatory overtime concludes.

Hickey attributed to the gains to hard work by employees at the Veterans Benefits Administration, as well as improved computer systems and the willingness of VA doctors and nurses to provide veterans with medical examinations needed to support disability claims.

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, credited VA workers for “putting in extra effort the last few years” to reduce the claims

backlog and deliver long overdue benefits to more veterans.

“But given VA’s history of hiding veterans off the books, we cannot forget the ongoing investigations into data manipulation and destruction of claims documents across the country,” Miller said in a statement.

Citing a widespread problem of secret waiting lists for VA health care, Miller said officially reported numbers from the VA “rarely tell the whole story.”

And with nearly 100,000 veterans “still languishing on the initial claims backlog alone, it is still far too early to pat ourselves on the back,” he said.

The Veterans Benefits Administration has faced sharp criticism in recent years, as lawmakers and President Barack Obama decried a huge backlog that was denying hundreds of thousands of veterans needed benefits.

The rush to close the back-

log caused its own problems.

Last year, the VA’s office of inspector general said the VBA made benefits payments of more than $85 million to veterans who lacked adequate medical evidence that they deserved them.

The IG’s office also found widespread problems at VA regional offices in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities, including mail bins full of unopened disability claims and manipulation of data by agency workers.

The IG’s office has said it is conducting a wide review of the Philadelphia office, investigating two senior leaders for possible misconduct.

Separately, the VA said it has launched a top-down review of its handling of disability claims and pledged to punish those who falsify data.

Hickey told reporters Monday that the VA has asked the IG to label as resolved 20 of 33 issues raised by the IG report on the Philadelphia of-

fice. So far the IG has not done so.

Many of the remaining issues cannot be resolved without additional money for increased staffing and improved ability to handle appeals, Hickey said.

Despite its well-documented problems, the Philadelphia office is among those that have reduced their claims backlogs in recent months, Hickey said. Just 3,151 Philadelphia-based claims are older than 125 days, she said, compared with a high of 12,826.

Even as she celebrated the smaller backlog, Hickey said the agency is unlikely to eliminate the backlog entirely, as former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki promised. Nor is it likely to reach a 98 percent accuracy goal set by Shinseki.

Hickey called those “aspirational” goals that are beyond the agency’s reach without a significant increase in staffing and changes in law.

China’s economic downturn felt worldwide Continued from Page 1 heated growth fueled by exports and often-wasteful investment to slower growth built on consumer spending.

Official numbers show the Chinese economy grew 7 percent from January through March from a year earlier. Yet there’s growing suspicion that Beijing’s statistics are failing to capture the extent of the slowdown: Auto sales, electricity consumption and construction activity are “all looking very weak,” Kelly notes.

“Everybody felt they could slow down to about 7 percent (annual growth) and that wouldn’t be the end of the world,” says Sung Won Sohn, economist at California State University Channel Islands.

“It looks like it’s slowing down even beyond that.”

Big American companies such as Caterpillar and Chevron have acknowledged the damage that China’s troubles are causing them.

China’s troubles have also

depressed several technology stocks. Shares in Apple, which has enjoyed strong sales of iPhones and other products in China, are down nearly 20 percent the past five weeks.

On the surface, at least, the panic on Wall Street might seem overdone. After all, a 1 percent annual drop in China’s economy translates into just a 0.2 percent pinch to America’s economy, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. Likewise, a China pullback of that size would slow annual growth in the 19country eurozone by only 0.10 percent to 0.15 percent, according to UniCredit Research.

That sort of slowdown is hardly catastrophic.

So why the hysteria?

For one thing, China’s troubles raise doubts about whether its policymakers have the tools to keep their economy growing at a healthy pace — something

that’s been a reassuring constant for more than two decades.

Recently, Sohn says, “The Chinese government has not been able to control its economy and the financial market.”

Beijing had cushioned its economy during the 20082009 financial crisis by ordering state-owned banks to ply companies with loans to build roads, houses and factories. The result: an escalation of corporate debt that’s now feeding the problems.

The Chinese authorities also made the misguided decision to talk up stock prices, encouraging inexperienced investors to buy shares. The idea was that companies could issue stock into a rising market and use the proceeds to reduce their debts.

But stocks rose to unsustainable levels and crashed.

The government has since been trying in vain to clean up the mess.

The latest trouble started

Aug. 11, when Beijing unexpectedly devalued China’s currency, the yuan. Authorities explained that they wanted to catch up with investor sentiment, which suggested that the yuan was overvalued from having been linked to a rising U.S. dollar.

Skeptics worried that the devaluation was instead a desperate move to bail out China’s struggling exporters: A weaker yuan gives Chinese goods a price edge in foreign markets.

In the aftermath, pain from slower Chinese growth and a weaker yuan could spread.

Oxford Economics calculates that a 10 percent drop in the yuan this year would reduce South Korea’s growth in 2016 by 1.16 percent and Indonesia’s 0.32 percent.

Slowing industrial output and construction in China means less demand for Chilean copper, Australian coal and Brazilian iron ore. It also squeezes Taiwan and South Korea, which make

components Chinese factories use to assemble electronics, cars and other products. Also suffering is Japan, which sends about a fifth of its exports to China.

The possibility of a worsethan-expected Chinese downturn has also raised worries in Europe, now in a fragile recovery. The impact will depend on just how bad the slowdown turns out to be. A severe downturn — to, say, 3 percent annual growth — could cost Europe 1 to 2 percentage points in lost economic output cumulatively over five years.

Germany would likely absorb the most pain. In the past decade, German makers of industrial machinery and autos have boosted profits thanks to China’s strong growth. In 2013, China overtook the United States as the largest market for luxury carmaker BMW AG. BMW has been cautioning that China’s market is enduring a “normalization” and that lower

growth is expected.

Andreas Rees, chief German economist at UniCredit Research, notes that China accounts for just 6.5 percent of Germany’s exports. “Overall, I think all the frenzy about China is exaggerated,” he says.

Yet some analysts say economic calculations might not be enough to measure the risks from a downturn in China’s economy. The political and social fallout could exert their own damage.

What if China’s slowdown further reduces oil prices, igniting an economic crisis in energy exporter Russia?

Would President Vladimir Putin be tempted to distract his people by stirring up more trouble in Ukraine?

Greece accounts for just 2 percent of the eurozone’s economy. Yet a Greek budget crisis has raised fears that the country would have to abandon the euro, possibly leading to a breakup of the eurozone.

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Man describes tackling suspect

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LeDoux said it wasn’t until he saw the trooper’s name tag that he realized he knew LAKE CHARLES, La. — It the officer because he was was a scene that probably good friends with the offiwould have made most peo- cer’s brother, also in law enple run the other way: a forcement. bloodied state police trooper Police introduced LeDoux lying on the asphalt by the at a news conference earlier side of a Louisiana country Monday but he did not speak road, the lights from his po- to reporters at the time. lice cruiser still flashing as a “This is a hero,” said state man with a shotgun stood police chief Mike Edmonson. nearby.

Authorities also suspect Robert LeDoux was Daigle in the death of just down the road a another man whose bit when three men body was found pulled him over and Monday at a house told him not to go any where Daigle had closer. been living. Calcasieu “‘Don’t go down Parish Sheriff Tony there. That guy’s got a Mancuso said augun,’” LeDoux told thorities originally The Associated Press went to the house as he recounted how Sunday evening beSTEVEN it was that he ended cause the vehicle VINCENT up tackling and capDaigle was driving turing the gunman was registered there. on Sunday.

No one answered and they Instead LeDoux, who had had no search warrant, so been out for a weekend drive they left, he said. in his Jeep, charged toward But on Monday authorities the danger. When he pulled got a phone call from the up, he found a man with man’s office saying he had “pure evil in his eyes” rifling not shown up for work and through the trooper’s pock- asking police to check on ets. The man was trying to him. As authorities were on unclasp the trooper’s hand- their way to the house, Mangun. cuso said state police also “He told me, ‘Everything’s passed along information all right. Mind your own from their interview with business. You need to go,’” Daigle that “led investigators LeDoux recalled. to believe there was an alterInstead, LeDoux attacked: cation at this house.”

“I took off running. I tackled Upon arrival, a sheriff’s him. We hit the ground. I was deputy found the man dead on top of him and I called and signs of a struggle. The 911.” man’s name was not reThe man whom LeDoux is leased. credited with apprehending Authorities have charged is now charged in the death Daigle with first-degree murof Senior Trooper Steven Vin- der in the trooper’s slaying. cent. Kevin Daigle, 54, is ac- But they are still trying to figcused of shooting Vincent on ure out what triggered him.

Sunday evening after Vincent The police have not refound Daigle’s truck in a leased the dashboard video, ditch and stopped to offer as- but Chief Edmonson desistance. Vincent died Mon- scribed what he said is on it: day. LeDoux said he was out Vincent, a 13-year state pofor a drive Sunday when he lice veteran in southwest saw flashing police lights Louisiana and member of a about a quarter-mile in front law enforcement family, tryof him. Three men stopped ing to talk the man out of the him and urged him to turn truck. Instead, the man came around. They said they were out with a shotgun. calling 911, but that he “It was frightening to shouldn’t approach the pa- watch,” Edmonson said. trol car because they had He said the tape shows a seen a man brandishing a shotgun blast, and then gun by the trooper.

Daigle wandering over to After LeDoux tackled the Vincent to ask him if he was gunman, the other men ran alive. over to help. They hand“You could hear him cuffed the shooter and two of breathing, telling him, ‘You’re them held him down while lucky. You’re lucky — you’re LeDoux went to help Vin- going to die soon.’ That’s the cent, using the trooper’s words that came out of his radio to call for assistance. mouth,” Edmonson said.

Associated Press

By JULIE PACE

AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is the man in the middle, caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For months, White House officials expected Clinton to be the Democratic nominee in the 2016 election. Some of Obama’s top political advisers moved to New York to run her campaign and Obama appeared to give his tacit approval, saying she would be an “excellent president.”

But that bet on Clinton suddenly looks less certain. With Biden weighing his own presidential run more seriously amid signs of weakness in Clinton’s campaign, the White House faces the prospect of a family feud over who will become heir to Obama’s legacy.

“Certainly he’s got something at stake here,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday of Obama’s interest in the 2016 election.

Biden’s recent overtures to donors and Democratic officials have led to palpable awkwardness in the West Wing as aides — many with close ties to Clinton, the vice president or both — try to maintain impartiality.

Earnest raised the prospect that Obama could endorse a candidate in the Democratic primary, though others close to the president say it’s unlikely he’d publicly put his thumb on the scale if Clinton and Biden were locked in a close contest.

In picking between Biden and Clinton, Obama would be making a choice between two of the most influential members of his administration.

Obama and Clinton long ago turned their political rivalry from the 2008 primary into an alliance. Clinton left the administration in early 2013 after four years as Obama’s secretary of state, but she and the president still get together for occasional meetings. They both attended a birthday party in Martha’s Vineyard last week for Democratic powerbroker Vernon Jordan, and Obama played golf on the tony Massachusetts island with former President Bill Clinton.

However, some White House officials were irked by revelations that Clinton sidestepped administration guidelines by using a private email account on her own computer server to do State Department business. Privately, some Obama allies also say they’re miffed at Clinton’s handling of the email controversy, which continues to dog her campaign.

Meanwhile, Obama and Biden ap-

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VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared in 2013 onstage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. pear to have developed a genuine friendship during their six-and-a-half years in the White House. When Biden’s son, Beau, died of brain cancer earlier this year, Obama delivered a moving eulogy in which he referred to the vice president as a “brother.” In the weeks after the younger Biden’s death, Obama made sure the vice president was by his side for high-profile administration announcements.

Earnest said Obama viewed his selection of Biden as a running mate as the smartest decision of his political career.

“I think that should give you some sense of the president’s view of Vice President Biden’s aptitude for the top job,” Earnest said.

On Monday, Obama and Biden met for their weekly lunch in the president’s private dining room. Both men spent much of August on family vacations and their lunch marked their first in-person meeting since Biden stepped up his deliberations and outreach about a possible campaign.

People familiar with Biden’s thinking say he’s yet to make a final decision, but is likely to announce his political future within a month.

The vice president is consulting with a close circle of longtime advisers, though there are said to be divisions within that group about whether he should run.

Those close to Obama and Biden insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the vice president’s deliberations or the White House’s view of the 2016 race.

Of course, what’s at stake for Obama in the 2016 election is more than just his personal relationships with Clinton and Biden. Much of his legacy is contingent on a Democratic president

maintaining his policies on immigration, health care and climate change, as well as the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Since announcing her candidacy in April, Clinton has largely backed Obama’s policies. However, she’s distanced herself from his decision to approve offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and said she would have voted against his bid to get fast-track authority for an Asia-Pacific trade deal if she were still in the Senate.

Clinton has more latitude than Biden in breaking with Obama policies given that her portfolio in the administration was largely limited to foreign affairs.

The vice president, however, has been a central figure in wide-ranging administration policies and has been the point person on everything from the economic stimulus to gun control legislation to Ukraine.

“Biden, as the president’s partner, would be closely identified with the Obama legacy,” said David Axelrod, a longtime Obama political adviser.

However, he added that “any Democrat will carry the benefits and burdens of Obama into this election.”

Some Democrats say Biden’s strongest campaign strategy would be to cast himself as an economic populist.

He met over the weekend with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing whose support would be a major coup for Biden.

Democrats say Biden supporters are also quietly reminding influential operatives and donors that the vice president was ahead of both Obama and Clinton on some issues that are now cornerstones for the party, including gay marriage.

Police: Website hack may have led to suicides

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press

TORONTO — The hacking of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said Monday.

The company behind Ashley Madison is offering a $378,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of members of a group that hacked the site.

Hackers last week released detailed records on millions of people registered with the website, a month after a break-in at Ashley Madison’s parent company, Torontobased Avid Life Media Inc. The website, whose slogan is, “Life is short. Have an affair,”

is marketed to facilitate extramarital affairs. Toronto Police acting staff Superintendent Bryce Evans said the hack is having an “enormous social and economic fallout.”

“This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world,” Evans said. “This is affecting all of us. The social impact behind this leak, we’re talking about families, we’re talking about children, we’re talking about wives, their male partners.”

The hackers who took responsibility for the break-in had accused the website’s owners of deceit and incompetence, and said the company refused to bow to their demands to close the site.

The hackers referred to themselves as the Impact Team. Evans said the hackers

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Evans said there are confirmed cases of criminals attempting to extort Ashley Madison clients by threatening to expose them unless payment is received.

The police official did not offer further details of the unconfirmed suicides. He also said hate crimes may be connected to the hack but did not provide details.

Evans addressed the hackers directly, saying their actions are “illegal and will not be tolerated.”

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Higher education critique overstated

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t about the time you’re rant when the subject of reading this column, I higher ed comes up, and cermay be holding the first tainly higher education deor second class meeting for serves some of this criticism. the courses that I teach at my But a lot of it is overstated or college. The fall semester is unjustified. just beginning, providing an All educational institutions occasion to reflect for a mo- struggle with the tension bement on higher education in tween their obligation to America. confront society’s values and Others are doing the same. the forces that push them to This month “The Atlantic” conform with and reflect published two articles about those values. As legislators higher education. It doesn’t and taxpayers have systemlook very good in either. atically withdrawn support In “The Coddling from higher educaof the American tion over the last Mind,” Greg several decades, Lukianoff and their message, imJonathan Haidt plicit and someargue that in their times explicit, is to efforts to cater to “Act more like students American businesses.” colleges and uniSo why is anyone versities are playsurprised when ing a role opposite they do, even if from their tradithat means catertional one: Instead ing to “customers” of confronting stuin terms of accomdents with unfamodations, curricmiliar and even ula and entertainuncomfortable ment and charging ideas, institutions according to what John M. Crisp of higher educathe market will teaches English tion are shielding bear? at Del Mar them from anyFurthermore, thing that might College in Corpus many of the comoffend. plaints against Christi, Texas.

In the same issue His column is higher ed enumerCaitlin Flanagan ated earlier simply distributed by suggests that the have no relevance McClatchydesire to protect for a significant Tribune News their students portion of AmeriService. from offense has can colleges and caused colleges and univertheir students. The students sities to lose their sense of that I will be meeting for the humor. Comedians love to first time this week aren’t the play the college circuit, but privileged, entitled, hypersome, such as Chris Rock sensitive freshmen imagined and Jerry Seinfeld, have by critics of higher ed. For given up on colleges because the most part, they’re older of their unwillingness to tol— the average age is 27 — erate anything that might be and they’ve come to school, edgy or offensive — no mator come back to school, with ter how funny. a focused, practical purpose “Harper’s Magazine” takes in mind. a shot at higher ed this They won’t be spending month, as well, with “The weekends binge-drinking at Neoliberal Arts: How College fraternity parties or assaultSold its Soul to the Market,” ing their dates after football

by William Deresiewicz. He games. They’re more likely to argues that colleges and uni- be working a second job or versities, rather than serving taking care of their kids. as sources of “real educaI wouldn’t call them typical tion,” are thoroughly com- college students, but their promised by the market and numbers aren’t insignificant. now exist only to teach stu- They’re part of the 45 percent dents to make a living, not of American undergraduates how to live. who attend the nation’s 1,700 These complaints against community colleges, and higher ed are well-founded. they amount to roughly 9 In fact, one could add others: million students. a culture of drinking, racist Of course, community colfraternity parties, grade infla- leges have their own probtion, a watered-down, whim- lems, but the fact that a sigsical curriculum, harass- nificant segment of higher ment, date rape, cushy education isn’t implicated in dorms, extravagant student many of the most prominent amenities and an average complaints against it ought post-graduation debt of to suggest some doubts $30,000. about the extent to which And we haven’t even men- higher education at large is tioned higher education’s ob- guilty of the most extravasession with football, a ne- gant charges against it. cessity for institutions that Just as with the NFL, the seek prominence and alumni misdeeds of the superstars in loyalty but a sport that ex- higher education may unploits its players and leaves fairly indict many colleges, many of them damaged for professors and students who life. are just trying to get the job No wonder some Ameri- done. cans shift quickly into fulljcrisp@delmar.edu

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Jimmy Carter finds peace W

hen Ronald Reagan announced applied his faith, whether as a liberal in November 1994 he had been on social issues like abortion and gay diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dis- rights, or internationally where he freease, even some of his most ardent po- quently has cited Israel — not her enelitical opponents paused to wish him mies — as the main impediment to well.

Middle East peace, but Carter probably It was the same last Thursday when has a better knowledge of the Bible’s former President Jimmy Carter, who contents than any president since will soon be 91, held a news Abraham Lincoln. conference in Atlanta to anI attended Carter’s Sunday nounce that a cancer first disschool class at First Baptist covered in his liver has spread Church in Washington, D.C., to other parts of his body, inwhere he sometimes delivcluding his brain. ered the lesson. When at While death is the ultimate Camp David, he held services end of all on Earth, the knowlattended by family members, edge that one’s expiration staff and invited guests. His date is getting close has a way example was cited by some of focusing the mind, and not in the Christian community just for the person who has as having a positive influence received the news. on people not well acquaintReporters at the news coned with the inside of a church ference were unusually building. deferential to Carter, which Reporters who accompahas not always been their attinied Carter to church rarely tude since he left office in reported on what he said.

1981.

Mostly it was, “The president Cal Thomas What struck me was not writes a went to church today, and in only Carter’s humility and column other news ...” They seemed gratitude for the opportunidisinterested, even though distributed by ties and privileges he has enCarter’s press secretary, Jody joyed, but the inner peace he Tribune Media Powell, cited in Wesley PipServices. exuded. perts’ book “An Ethics of Evangelical Christians like News,” observed, “The AmerCarter understand this from a Bible ican people, as a whole, are probably verse that says “And the peace of God, better equipped to understand that aswhich passes all understanding, shall pect of Jimmy Carter’s life than are the guard your hearts and minds in Christ people who are trying to explain it to Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7) them.”

One can disagree with how Carter Pippert, who was a UPI White House

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correspondent during the Carter administration, wrote a book called “The Spiritual Journey of Jimmy Carter, in His Own Words.”

While teaching the Sunday school class on Jan. 29, 1978, Pippert quoted Carter as saying: “You can’t say, ‘Tomorrow, I’m going to have inner peace in my heart. ...’ It slips away from us. It’s not something guaranteed to each of us. If we subjugate our lives to God, if we open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, if our life is consistent with the purpose or example of Christ ... in our relationship with God, and others, then we will have inner peace. ...”

That statement, more than the optimism of doctors who are treating him, reflects the source of Carter’s contentment, which many in the media still do not understand.

In the former CBS television series “Touched by an Angel,” Martha Williamson, the show’s executive producer, wrote these words for “the angel of death”: “Death is nothing to fear, but it is something to prepare for.”

Jimmy Carter is prepared.

Even his political opponents should celebrate the good he has done, and especially in following the example of Harry Truman, who also did not cash in on the presidency after leaving office.

As Carter approaches not the end, but a new beginning, his political detractors, and even his supporters, might consider some self-examination to make sure they, too, are prepared.

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Upending Constitution not an option

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ormer Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, of participation in the benefits of the one of the 17 candidates for the republic, just by your silence you Republican presidential nomina- should not be. If you do not undertion, says emphatically he is offended stand that this 1868 amendment, and

by Donald Trump’s suggestion that the the one ahead of it abolishing slavery, children of illegal aliens who are born were the final nails in the coffin of that on U.S. soil be deprived of their citi- monstrous institution, you should zenship. withdraw your candidacy immediately.

For that reason, if none other, Donald Trump is a self-promoting Gilmore’s standing in the jerk who seems to have an pecking order of chief execuaffinity for walls and Nazi tive wannabes should be near German-like abridgement the top of the long list not at of human rights and Amerithe bottom. He gets it as percan principles. Fortunately haps few of his competitors for most of us, even those in do, with a number of them eithe American electorate ther tepid or utterly absent in whose anger at the sodefense of the 14th Amendcalled establishment draws ment to the United States, them to this unholy flame, which states unequivocally Trumps’ rhetoric is as holthat: low as his head seems to be.

“All persons born or naturalEven if, God forbid, he ized in the United States and should become the next ocsubject to the jurisdiction cupant of the White House, thereof, are citizens of the he could not accomplish United States and the state what he proposes. wherein they reside.”

There is absolutely no Amending the amendment Dan Thomasson way that this symbol of is what we are talking about is former vice world freedom could round here and the implications of up 12 million men, women president of that are startling. The amendand children who are unScripps Howard ment further ensures equal documented and send protection under the law, pro- Newspapers. them who knows where. hibiting arbitrary action by His column is Even if it could be done, the states. But just trying to distributed the blight would forever deal with its birth protection by McClatchystain this nation, which in the first sentence could Tribune News once appealed for the hudlead to chaos and unthinkable Service. dled masses yearning to be results. Your birthright is invifree. We would be eternally olate. You are an American because a lesser place, historically condemned you were born here. Take that away once and for all as a failed experiment. from one group and you could take it Trump knows this. So in addition to away from all. being a demagogue with little or no If you are a candidate for the highest practical understanding of statecraft, office in the land who supports he is a liar. Not since a Southern candiTrump’s unconscionable attack on one date campaigned on the promise to of this country’s strongest guarantees take a pitchfork to his opponents has

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there been a better example of irresponsibility and disingenuousness.

Gilmore is a constitutional lawyer by profession and one who understands the nuances of the document that has guided the nation throughout its history.

Is there need for meaningful immigration reform? Of course there is. But Congress has met every attempt with a solid wall of opposition to every reasonable proposal including the one hammered out by a rare coalition of Republican and Democrats. No president — George W. Bush not excepted — has found himself able to pry definitive, fair reform from the legislature.

The hang-up always seems to be a path to citizenship for those who have fled here, even one that under the current proposal would take them years to achieve.

Many Americans are upset about the flood of illegal immigrants from our southern borders. But upending our Constitution is not a viable suggestion.

The hateful nonsense being spewed by Trump should be disavowed wholesale by the rest of the GOP pack. There are millions upon millions of Americans whose parents or grandparents were born here as the progeny of those who immigrated from the world over and never bothered to become official citizens.

For those of you who find this nitwit’s proposal appealing, take a look at your family tree. Chances are you would find an ancestor who never bothered to become naturalized but who was a productive citizen nevertheless.

Who is to blame for Trump? Certainly a large share belongs to the media. But some of it — with an exception or two — belongs to the rest of GOP flock who would put politics above sane policy. danthomasson@verizon.net

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WWII plane found in river bed WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The remains of a Soviet fighter-bomber plane and two crew members shot down by Germans in 1945 have been found in a river in central Poland amid extremely low water levels associated with a drought.

Explorers made the find in the muddy tributary of the Bzura River on Sunday.

The remnants of the plane have been moved to a museum in nearby Wyszogrod for examination, with recovery work ongoing.

The head of the museum, Zdzislaw Leszczynski, said today that witnesses had described the plane being hit while flying low in January 1945 and crashing down through the thick ice and into the river.

Recent drought has allowed access to the remains. Leszczynski said he has informed the Russian Embassy about the find.

Report: 47M have dementia LONDON (AP) — Health researchers say there are now nearly 47 million people living with dementia globally, up from 35 million in 2009. They warned that without a medical breakthrough, numbers will likely double every 20 years.

In a report issued today, researchers from Alzheimer’s Disease International say about 58 percent of all people with dementia live in developing countries and that by 2050, nearly half of all those with the disease will live in Asia.

Numbers are expected to rise with aging populations and as more cases are identified.

Experts estimate the cost of treating dementia could jump to $1 trillion in just three years and called for governments to adopt legislation to ensure better treatment for people with the disease. There is no known cure for dementia.

Man pleads guilty to Facebook spam SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Nevada man has pleaded guilty to sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users, officials said.

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said Monday that Sanford Wallace, 47, of Las Vegas, admitted in federal court in San Jose, Calif., to accessing about 500,000 Facebook accounts and sending the unsolicited ads disguised as friend requests over a three-month period.

Wallace acknowledged accessing Facebook’s computer network in order to send the spam messages on three occasions between November 2008 and February 2009.

Haag said Wallace also admitted he violated a court order not to access Facebook’s computer network. He was charged with fraud and criminal contempt.

Couple weds in hospital HOUSTON (AP) — It could have been the plot of a movie: A Houston couple improvises a hospital wedding in less than an hour after the bride goes into labor early.

Stephanie Tallent was eight months pregnant and having an ultrasound Friday when she went into labor at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women in Houston.

Fortunately she and fiance Jason Nese had gotten their marriage license the day before. Nese fetched the license from his car, along with a white sun dress Tallent meant to send to the cleaners. A chaplain was called and a party of doctors, nurses and clinic staff rounded up for the wedding.

After the ceremony, Tallent was prepped for a cesarean section. Daughter Sophia arrived a few hours later at 6 pounds, 3 ounces.

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VISITORS USED binoculars today to watch the north side at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea.

Koreas reach agreement North contrite; South halts broadcasts

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — After more than 40 hours of talks, North and South Korea pulled back from the brink today with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the moment, avert the bloodshed they’ve been threatening each other with for weeks.

In a carefully crafted, though vague, statement, North Korea expressed “regret” that two South Korean soldiers were maimed in recent land mine blasts Seoul blamed on the North.

While not an acknowledgement of responsibility, let alone the “definite apology” South Korea’s president had demanded, it allows Seoul to claim some measure of victory in holding the North to account.

South Korea, for its part, halted antiPyongyang propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers on the border, which will let the authoritarian North trumpet to its people a propaganda win over its bitter rival, and silence the broadcasts that outside analysts say could demoralize front-line troops and inspire them to defect.

The agreement represents a good first step in easing animosity that has built since South Korea blamed North Korea for the mine explosion at the border earlier this month and began

the propaganda broadcasts in retaliation. But, as always on the Korean Peninsula, it’s unclear how long the good mood will continue.

Despite South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s expression of hope that the North’s “regret” will help improve the Koreas’ relationship, the accord does little to address many fundamental, long-standing differences. The announcement of further talks to be held soon in either Seoul or Pyongyang could be a beginning, but the Koreas have a history of failing to follow through on their promises and allowing simmering animosity to interrupt diplomacy.

Appearing on North Korea’s official Korean Central TV on Tuesday afternoon, Hwang Pyong So, who was one of the North’s negotiators, indicated that, despite the expression of regret, Pyongyang had no intention of taking responsibility for the land mine explosions.

Hwang, the top political officer in the Korean People’s Army, said the South learned a “serious lesson” that it should not provoke the North by “creating a groundless incident” that raised tension and increased the possibility of a military clash.

Hwang, however, ended his short TV appearance on a positive note, expressing hope that the accord would provide

an opportunity for improved ties.

Pyongyang’s decision to send Hwang to the talks was considered a signal of its seriousness since he is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea’s second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un. The negotiations that began Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom, where the Koreas agreed to the 1953 cease-fire that stopped fighting in the Korean War, also resulted in Pyongyang agreeing to lift a “quasi-state of war” it declared last week, according to South Korea’s presidential office and North Korea’s state media.

While the declaration was largely a matter of rhetoric — the border is the world’s most heavily armed and there has never been a formal peace agreement ending the Korean War, so the area is always essentially in a “quasistate of war” — there had been growing worry about South Korean reports that the North was continuing to prepare for a conflict during the talks, moving unusual numbers of troops and submarines to their land and sea border.

The Koreas also struck an important humanitarian agreement by promising to begin talks in September to plan emotional reunions of families separated by the Korean War. The reunions could take place as early as October.

Officials deny faulty cameras hindering bombing investigation

By NATTASUDA ANUSONADISAI Associated Press

BANGKOK — The investigation into Bangkok’s deadly bombing turned into a blame game after police said their progress was hindered by faulty security cameras and city hall shot back today, insisting the cameras are not the problem.

In the absence of solid leads into who carried out Thailand’s deadliest attack in recent history, a debate has emerged about the street-side cameras and whether they are working.

The national police chief first raised the matter on Monday, saying 15 of 20 security cameras along the main suspect’s getaway path were broken, leaving police with incomplete and blurry pictures that forced them to use their “imagination” to piece together his movements.

Police chief Somyot Poompanmoung also said police lacked high-tech equipment to clarify images of the suspect, who is seen in a fuzzy video leav-

ing a backpack at the scene of the blast in central Bangkok minutes before the explosion.

“Our problems come from the CCTV cameras,” Somyot said today. “They are installed too high, too far apart and the camera quality makes them unable to take high-resolution footage.”

City hall, known as the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, called a news conference today to reject the criticism of its cameras.

Maj. Vichai Sangprapai, an adviser to the Bangkok governor, said there are 107 security cameras in the vicinity of the attack, of which four were broken the night of Aug. 17 and promptly fixed.

However, only one of the faulty cameras was along the man’s suspected path, he said.

“There was only one broken camera at Rajaprasong intersection, and that would not distort the investigation,” he said. “Please do not use the impairment of one camera to generalize that all the security cameras in Bangkok are inefficient.”

City hall has installed more than 50,000 security cameras around Bangkok, which are constantly monitored and maintained, said Taweesak Lertprapran, head of the BMA’s traffic and transport department.

Vichai added that the city uses cameras of an “international standard,” but some are designed to monitor the surrounding area while others are installed for security or traffic purposes, which can zoom in for details.

More than one week after the Aug. 17 bombing at the capital's revered Erawan Shrine, which left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured, police appeared no closer to tracking down suspects or determining a motive for the attack.

Police have released an artist's sketch of the suspect who was seen in the security camera video from the open-air shrine leaving a backpack at a bench and walking away. A separate camera showed the suspect, wearing a yellow T-shirt, on the back of a motorcycle taxi leaving the site.

PARIS (AP) — Mark Moogalian and his wife were seated facing each other on the high-speed train when she saw only his expression and the urgent “Get out, this is serious.” Then, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian said, she ducked behind some seats as he lunged to grab the assault rifle from the gunman’s hands.

“When my husband collapsed, I saw across the seats.

He looked at me and he said, ‘I’m hit, I’m hit.’ He thought it was over and he was going to die,” she told Europe-1 radio.

The bullet struck him in the back and exited through the neck.

The American teacher and artist who has lived in France for more than two decades has emerged as another hero in the high-speed train attack thwarted by a group of quickthinking men. According to French President Francois Hollande, a Frenchman was the first to encounter the gunman as he left the toilet, alerting others in the area.

That person, Hollande said, wished to remain anonymous.

MARK MOOGALIAN Moogalian remained hospitalized today in the northern city of Lille, and his sister in Virginia said his role in trying to stop what French authorities are calling a terror attack was in character.

“Mark would give anything for anybody,” Julia Allen told NBC News. “He’s just that kind of person.”

Risacher said U.S. Airman Spencer Stone came across the wounded Moogalian and stanched the bleeding by holding his finger on the wound until paramedics could take over.

Moogalian runs a language school from a houseboat in the outskirts of Paris, according to the school’s website.

Music and art are clearly his passions, as his personal website attests, with its range of sculpture, paintings, photos and downloads of music he performs in a duo with his wife. In the duo’s biography, they describe themselves as “largely bicultural, bringing the best of both worlds.”

“My husband is among the heroes of this story, and he nearly paid with his life, because just a few millimeters closer and the bullet would have sliced his carotid in exiting,” Risacher said.

Moogalian and the Frenchman will receive the Legion of Honor, as did Stone, U.S. Army Spec. Alek Skarlatos, their friend Anthony Sadler and British businessman Chris Norman.

Meanwhile, U.S. military authorities in Germany say Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone is doing well at an American military hospital where he is being treated for injuries suffered as he and others helped subdue the gunman. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center spokesman Chuck Roberts said today that Stone arrived at the facility in southern Germany the day before and seemed in good spirits.

Survey: Recalls sink satisfaction with autos

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer

DETROIT — Americans are less happy with their cars and trucks than at any time in more than a decade, and it’s largely because they’re getting sick of dealing with recalls.

The 2015 American Consumer Satisfaction Index, an annual survey that involved 4,300 consumers, found that satisfaction with automobiles

dropped for the third straight year to the lowest level since 2004. High new-car prices also were a factor.

“While it is true that all cars are now much better than they were 10 to 20 years ago, it is alarming that so many of them have quality problems,” said Claes Fornell, chairman and founder of the survey.

Last year automakers recalled a record 64 million vehicles for problems such as exploding air bags and igni-

tion switches that can unexpectedly cause engines to stall.

The problems can be deadly. So far General Motors has agreed to compensate families of 124 people who died in crashes caused by the faulty switches. Eight more people have died worldwide after being cut by shrapnel from exploding Takata air bag inflators.

Rising prices also contributed to the consumer

frustration. Car prices are up 11 percent since 2010 and hit records all year, rising to an average $32,932 in July, according to the Edmunds.com auto website.

The index’s automobile satisfaction score this year dropped nearly 4 percent to 79 out of 100. In 2004, the last time the score was that low, the industry set the previous annual record for recalled vehicles at 30.8 million.

Of the 27 brands tracked in

the index, 15 saw their satisfaction scores decline, while only Acura and BMW improved.

Foreign-based brands led the survey, with Toyota’s Lexus luxury brand on top at 84, followed by Acura, Lincoln and Mercedes-Benz, tied at 83. BMW, Subaru, Toyota, Hyundai, Buick and Cadillac rounded out the top 10. Fiat Chrysler’s Fiat brand had the lowest satisfaction score at 73.

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EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE During these lazy days of summer, Christmas is probably the farthest thing from your mind! With thoughts of vacation, finding ways to keep cool and big family get-togethers filling these summer days, the sounds of jingle bells and carolers out in the snow are ancient history.

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Here are some quick and easy ways to get started now!

CRASH SAVE: Once each week put $10 — or an amount you find appropriate —into an envelope for a person, such as your mail carrier or newspaper delivery person, who you will thank with a tip during the holidays. Label and seal the envelope. Then make a note in your calendar so you don’t forget where you put it.

GROUP CRAFTING: Spend an evening with three or four friends making holiday decorations. Each person brings an idea plus all the materials and supplies needed for that project. By the end of a very fun evening, everyone goes home with three or four new items.

COLLECT: This summer as you are traveling and camping, collect pinecones, seashells, even dried plant materials and other such items. Now you have the stuff you need to make wonderful tree ornaments and other crafty items.

STOCKINGS: Don’t sew?

No problem. You can still “make” great Christmas stockings. Buy large, wooly socks (find them on sale now at camping and outdoors stores). Roll up one sock and tuck it into the toe of the other and fill up the “stocking” with little gifts. Turn the top down to form a cuff. Decorate with glue-on letters or embroidery, or leave it plain.

CREATIVE WRITING: This year, resolve to send out a family Christmas letter.

Throughout the year, record events and happenings in a small notebook that you keep handy.

Come December, it will be simple to write because you have all the material you need without racking your brain. Friends and relatives will be thrilled to receive such a great gift.

FAMILY COOKBOOK: One year a friend got the best gift. Her mother is an excellent cook and often cooks without a recipe.

Her sister spent hours with Mom in the kitchen and painstakingly recorded the exact ingredients and measurements of the family’s favorite dishes.

She then developed them into a recipe book and gave it to her sister, my friend, for Christmas. Over the years it has become even more special — not only because her sister made it for her, but also because the recipes are now recorded for both of them to pass on and to always remember their mother.

MEMORY QUILTS: If you and your kids have saved every T-shirt from every school event they ever participated in, cut out the pattern and/or words from each shirt and make memory quilts. Use the recipients’ favorite colors for the border and coordinating fabric for the backing.

The Indiana Gazette

NEW OFFICERS

MARY HUNT

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday:

Submitted photo

OFFICERS OF Blairsville American Legion Post 0407 for 2015-16 are, first row, from left: Bill Smith, second vice commander; Jim Kissock, first vice commander; Bill Orr, commander; Skip Libengood, sergeant-at-arms; Jim Fleming, 27th District deputy commander and installing officer; and second row: Bill Swanson, treasurer; Brady Hogue, chaplin; Ernie Pecsi, assistant sergeant-at-arms; and Tom Patz, adjutant. Absent from the photo were Jim Prince, service officer, and Bill Shulick, judge advocate.

Woman makes mark as volunteer

By PAUL SWIECH

The (Bloomington) Pantagraph

LINCOLN, Ill. — Over her 60-year career, Shirley Dittus has rolled bandages, worked in a coffee shop, spoken with elementary and high school students about health, made candy, assembled gift packs, pressed and mended clothes and attended meetings.

She’s done it for the same employer but hasn’t been paid a penny.

Dittus has been a volunteer with Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital since 1955.

“What a blessing. It’s unbelievable!

I can’t believe I’ve been around that long,” Dittus, 83, said with a laugh last week in The Pink Shutter Thrift Shop.

She volunteers there at least twice a month, pressing donated clothing, assisting customers and providing other help as needed, said Lynne Metz, director of hospitality and volunteers. Dittus, a native of Decatur, said she also helps out at the shop on Saturdays from time to time.

“Saturdays are kind of difficult since Victor (her late husband) passed away (in 2011),” she said.

Proceeds from Pink Shutter, 114 N. McLean St., Lincoln, benefit hospital auxiliary programs that support ALMH. “It’s amazing that someone has been volunteering for as long as she

has,” said Pink Shutter Manager Jennifer Heidbreder. “Her knowledge of things is amazing.”

Dittus has been involved with the auxiliary for 60 years and remains on its board as a liaison to the Illinois Hospital Association’s Constituency on Volunteers, which supports hospital volunteerism.

“I’ve always loved it,” Dittus said of her hospital volunteer work. “That’s been my career. The hospital is a big part of my life.”

“She’s a lovely lady,” Metz said.

“She’s meant a lot to our critical access, small hospital. Lincoln is lucky to have a person who has given so much of herself to the hospital and community.”

But Dittus’ recognition extends beyond Logan County because of her role with the hospital association’s Constituency on Volunteers. Dittus is among the longer serving hospital volunteers statewide, the association said.

“She (Dittus) served as the (Constituency on Volunteers) state chair in 2007, a position that required her to travel throughout Illinois meeting with hospital auxiliaries and volunteers from throughout the state,” said Sue Kaufman, hospital association chief operating officer.

“I have been honored to know and work with Shirley for over 35 years at the state level,” Kaufman continued.

“Her outstanding leadership, caring

way and commitment to hospital volunteerism is exemplary. Shirley is a tireless worker who always makes time to share her ideas with auxiliaries from throughout Illinois.”

“There are few people who can say they’ve given 60 years to any organization for no pay,” Metz said.

Dittus married Victor, a Chestnut native, in 1954. Victor and his brother bought a farm in rural Atlanta, Shirley and Victor moved there and Shirley continues to live in the farm house.

She quit her clerk/typist job when their first child was born. She and Victor raised three children and she helped him on the farm.

“I drove the tractor, the truck and the combine,” she said.

A new ALMH building opened in 1954, and her husband’s aunt, Stella Volle, was the hospital seamstress. By 1955, Dittus had joined the hospital auxiliary and was rolling bandages, making tray favors for patients and volunteering in the hospital coffee shop.

Over the years, she worked with hospital candy stripers; mended physicians’ gowns; made candy, mothers’ gift packets and children’s gift bags; joined the auxiliary board; worked the auxiliary’s booth at the county fair and helped to organize fundraisers, including fashion shows, queen contests, dances, luncheons, card parties and Festivals of Trees.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Did you know volunteer work is real work? Volunteer service can enhance a résumé.

Not looking for employment? Retired? Looking to change career fields? Want to give back to your community? Or just love volunteering?

Indiana County has numerous opportunities for adults to volunteer.

Where does your interest lie?

ANIMALS • Four Footed Friends can use your help with animal care, walking dogs and as a foster parent. (724) 349-1144 • Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to bathe, groom and walk the animals. (724) 465-7387/3977

CLERICAL • American Red Cross needs help with front desk/clerical support. For more information, call (724) 4655678.

• Community Guidance Center needs volunteers to file and do data entry. Contact Kerry Ray at (724) 4655576, ext. 128.

• Four Footed Friends is looking for a volunteer receptionist. (724) 3491144 • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) needs volunteers to answer the phones, type and do filing. (724) 465-2657 or (724) 2489555 • Indiana County Humane Society can use assistance with filing, mailing and answering the phone. (724) 465-7387/3977

DISASTER ASSISTANCE The American Red Cross is looking for volunteers for the Disaster Action Team Health and for safety instructors. (724) 465-5678

EDUCATION • ARIN has a need for tutors to work with adults to improve basic math and reading skills in preparation for the GED. Also, tutors are needed for the English as a Second Language Program. (724) 463-5300, ext. 2329 • Indiana Free Library needs volunteers to reshelve books from 3-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Contact John Swanson at (724) 465-8841.

• Torrance State Hospital needs a library aide, GED and literacy tutors and computer tutors. Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

• Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County is looking for a library volunteer. Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

MEDICAL/SOCIAL WORK/ CHILD CARE • accessAbilities Inc. is looking for volunteers who can provide companionship for their consumers by making crafts, playing cards or board games, reading or doing small home repairs. (724) 465-6042 • Aging Services Inc. is looking for volunteers who can help with group activities such as crafts, reading, music and card games; and provide friendly one-on-one visits. Contact Jim McQuown at (724) 349-4500.

• Alice Paul House is seeking volunteers to provide crisis intervention and counseling to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, juvenile offenders, and other crime. By completing a training course in paraprofessional crisis intervention counseling, volunteers will be able to assist and empower individuals in crisis first hand by answering the crisis hotline and interacting with shelter residents and clients. For more information, contact Whitney Mottorn at (724) 349-5744.

• Aging Services Inc. is looking for ombudsman volunteers. If you have two hours of free time a month to help ensure the quality of life and care of long-term care residents, they need you. Call (724) 349-4500 for more information.

• Aging Services Inc. is looking for APPRISE volunteers to assist older adults with services and information on health insurance benefits, Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, claims filing, benefits counseling, telephone assistance, consumer protection, referral to other resources, and advocacy. Call (724) 349-4500.

• Communities at Indian Haven needs volunteers to assist residents in wheelchairs, assist residents with activities and religious services; bring appropriate pets to visit, share craft ideas/skills and join the adopt-agrandparent program. (724) 4653900 • Indiana County Community Action Program needs mentors and child care providers at its shelters.

(724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555 • The St. Vincent de Paul Society needs volunteers for their “Adopt an Elder” program, who will share at least 30 minutes of their time per month to visit an elderly person in a local nursing home or personal care home. Ongoing commitment is needed. For more information, contact Chuck Spadafora at (724) 8016029.

• Big Hearts Little Hands Mentoring Program, a program of

the YMCA of Indiana County, is in need of positive, caring adults to provide guidance, care and emotional support to one of Indiana County’s youth in need. Those interested must be 18 years of age or older to be a Big. For more information, call (724) 463-9622

VNA • VNA Family Hospice needs volunteers to assist with grief support and companionship for patients and their families, respite relief, running errands for families and other activities. Contact Mary Edith Cicola at (724) 463-8711.

• CareNet, a service of the Visiting Nurse Association, is looking for volunteers to provide friendly visits, transportation or shopping assistance to the elderly and disabled in the community. Those interested may contact Lisa Davis, volunteer coordinator, at (724) 463-6340.

• Hopeful Hearts, a service of VNA family hospice, needs peer support group facilitators, family greeters and food servers. Contact Diane Giever at (724) 349-3888.

OUTDOORS • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County is looking for building and grounds volunteers to help with upkeep and janitorial tasks.

Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

• Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board members, organizational help to manage membership and social media and environmental educators to teach children at the Tanoma AMD Wetlands outdoor classroom and other locations; and water monitors to install water probes in streams, download data from data loggers, help with maintenance of data loggers and obtain water samples for testing. For more information, call (724) 471-6020 or (724) 463-8138.

WEB/TECH • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County could use an experienced IT volunteer. For details, contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 4639600.

OTHER • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) can use your assistance in the food warehouse. For details, call (724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555.

• The Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to as-

sist with grant writing and publicity.

For more information, call (724) 4657387.

• Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board members who will attend board meetings the first Thursday of every other month and committee meetings (the opposite month), and work with their accounts to track day to day expenditures and revenues, chair the finance committee, etc.

(724) 4716020 or (724) 463-8138.

• The St. Vincent de Paul Society is looking for volunteers to work in its Thrift Store, helping to organize and display donated items, customer services and cashier duties. Must be able to work a minimum of three hours per week, can be flexible. For more information, contact Nick Kolb at (724) 465-2440.

SPECIAL EVENTS • accessAbilities is in need of volunteers to assist with its 5K Run/Walk and a murder mystery dinner. For more information, call (724) 4656042.

• The American Red Cross needs volunteers at blood drives to serve as walkers, greeters or canteen workers.

For more information call (724) 4655678.

• Four Footed Friends needs special event volunteers. Call (724) 3491144 for details.

• ICCAP can use help with Care and Share Day and other special events.

For more information, call (724) 4652657 or (724)248-9555.

• Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to assist with the county fair, school presentations and fundraising. For more information, call (724) 465-7387/3977 for details.

• Historical & Genealogical Society needs a collections assistant and special events volunteer. Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

• Torrance State Hospital needs assistance for special events (picnic, auction, holiday events) through the year.

Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

SENIOR CORPS is a national volunteer organization. It provides volunteers age 55 and over with volunteer opportunities in nonprofit agencies.

Benefits include free accident, personal liability and access automobile insurance while volunteering. Contact Janeen Love at (800) 648-3381, ext. 236, or at jlove@jccap.org for more information.

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The Indiana Gazette

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — Page 9

Whiskey will age aboard ISS

Washington firefighters get international help

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. — As Washington state’s wildfires burned into the record books Monday, calls for help were answered from far and near.

Fire managers from New Zealand and Australia arrived to contribute to a ground campaign led by firefighters from across the West and augmented by U.S. soldiers.

The flames that claimed the lives of three firefighters, injured four others and burned 200 homes also inspired an outpouring of volunteers who have been invited for the first time in state history to help battle the blazes.

This summer’s fire response across the West has been overwhelmed by destructive blazes tearing through the tinder-dry region.

The biggest fire burning Monday was in Okanogan County on the Canadian border, where a group of five fires raging out of control became the largest in state history, scorching more than 400 square miles, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.

Lightning-sparked fires broke the state record, surpassing blazes that destroyed more than 300 homes in the same county last year. “I’d like to set some different records,�

Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said.

The U.S. is in the midst of one of its worst fire seasons on record with some 11,600 square miles scorched so far. It’s only the sixth-worst going back to 1960, but it’s the most acreage burned by this

date in a decade, so the ranking is sure to rise. “It’s only Aug. 24th,� Isaacson said. “In our district we could see this go clear to the first of November.�

Thirteen firefighters have died nationwide this year, including the three in Washington state who were killed when they tried to escape the fire in a vehicle, crashed and were overrun by flames.

So many fires are burning in the state that managers are taking extreme measures, summoning help from Down Under and 200 U.S. troops from a base in Tacoma in the first such use of activeduty soldiers in nine years.

Jim Whittington, a Bureau of Land Management spokesman in Portland, Ore., said military assets cannot be used against wildfires until all civilian resources are deployed.

Since 1987, active duty military personnel have been mobilized to serve as wildland firefighters a total of 35 times.

The last time was in 2006.

Since then, it has not been necessary to ask for military assistance until this fire season, Forest Service officials said.

Nearly 4,000 volunteers also answered the state’s call for help, far more than will be accepted, said state Department of Natural Resources spokesman Joe Smillie.

The state is looking for former firefighters or heavy equipment operators who can bulldoze fire lines to corral the blazes and keep them from spreading in mountainous, timber-covered areas. So far, about 200 people with the right experience have been cleared to work.

The 70 firefighters from Australia and New Zealand who arrived at the Nation-

By MARCIA DUNN

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink — distilled spirits.

A Japanese company known for its whiskey and other alcoholic beverages included five types of distilled spirits in a space station cargo ship. The station’s big robotic arm — operated by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui — grabbed onto the supply craft launched Wednesday by his homeland. Flight controllers helped anchor it down.

The supply ship contains nearly 10,000 pounds of cargo, including the six liquor samples. Suntory Global Innovation Center in Tokyo wants to see if alcoholic beverages mellow the same in space as they do on Earth.

The samples will spend at least a year in orbit before being returned to Earth. An identical set of samples will be stored on the ground in Japan.

The experiment has NASA’s blessing. Spokesman Dan Huot said all re-

ELAINE THOMPSON/Associated Press

A FIREFIGHTING helicopter pulled up after filling with water Sunday at Lake Chelan in Washington. al Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, were being outfitted to fill a critical shortage of mid-level fire managers such as equipment bosses, strike team leaders and supervisors.

The Southern Hemisphere nations have been partners with the U.S. for more than 50 years, able to lend out firefighters because the severest part of their fire seasons occur at opposite times of the year.

The last time the U.S. asked for their help was 2008, with 50 firefighters arriving. The U.S. sent firefighters abroad in 2007.

Chris Arnol, international liaison for Australia and New Zealand firefighters, said at a news conference in Boise the firefighters will be ready for the mountainous terrain in the Pacific Northwest.

Warren Heslip, a 47-year-old firefighter from Southland, New Zealand, said the new arrivals were ready for the conditions. “We’re used to tall timber and steep territory,� he said.

Costs for the international firefighters will be paid by the agency they’re assigned to, officials said, though no estimate was yet available.

AUGUST SPECIAL

Holmes’ victims speak freely

By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Scores of victims of James Holmes’ deadly attack on a Colorado movie theater, now free to vent their feelings before the judge, are denouncing the defense team, the legal process and the single juror who blocked a death sentence.

Throughout Holmes’ three-month trial, if they were called to testify, survivors and family members were stifled by objections and court orders preventing them from veering off topic or saying too much about the searing emotional and physical scars the shooting has left.

But they were finally allowed to speak without interruption when Holmes’ formal sentencing opened Monday, offering testimony that was sometimes quiet and reflective, sometimes laced with anger and frustration.

Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed, called Holmes a pathetic coward and the defense attorneys “agents of evil� who were trying to advance their own careers.

Robert Sullivan, the grandfather of the youngest victim, 6-year-old Veronica MoserSullivan, called on Holmes to “do the correct thing for once� and petition the court to be executed by firing squad.

Unlike during the trial, witnesses spoke from a lectern facing Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr., rather than the jury box, which sat empty.

Their voices were tearful and trembling.

At the end of the three-day hearing, Samour will formally sentence Holmes to life without parole and up to 3,318 additional years on attempted murder convictions. Forty more people are expected to take the stand today and Wednesday.

Jurors rejected Holmes’ insanity plea and convicted him of murdering 12 people and trying to kill 70 others when he opened fire on a packed theater in suburban Denver on July 20, 2012. The jury was divided on the sentence, with 11 favoring death

and one favoring life without parole. Under Colorado law, jurors must be unanimous to impose the death penalty, so Holmes automatically got life.

For the most part, Samour let them share their stories, no matter how long or offtopic. But twice he took the unusual step of chiming in, offering an impassioned defense of the jury and the process after the mother of one of the wounded said Holmes’ life sentence showed more concern for Holmes than for his victims. “You can’t claim there was no justice because it wasn’t the outcome you expected,�

Samour responded. He said the jury was fair and impartial and that he tried his utmost to be the same. “And that’s how you know it was justice,� he said.

The judge later delivered a forceful rebuke after Sullivan suggested that one juror might have improperly blocked the death penalty for

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Samour said he understood the victims are hurting, but he said speculating on misconduct was unacceptable. “I don’t have any basis in front of me or any reason anyone has put in front of me (to conclude) there was deception,� he said.

Other people told Samour about the physical pain, the grief and the despair Holmes’ rampage caused.

Veronica’s mother, Ashley Moser, who was paralyzed and who suffered a miscarriage, described being stripped of her independence and privacy because she requires a caretaker everywhere she goes. In a statement read by a prosecutor, Moser said she has had to relearn even simple tasks, and she still needs help using the bathroom and maneuvering from her motorized wheelchair to her bed without falling.

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Teens are shopping more like their parents

By ANNE D’NNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Giulia Pugliese is a typical teenager. She likes to look good, and she’s particular about what she wears.

But when The Associated Press followed the 15-year-old from Long Island on a recent back-to-school shopping trip with friends, she left a Nike store empty-handed — even though Nike is one of her favorites.

The reason?

“I buy on sale because it’s stupid to buy a pair of shorts for $60,” said Pugliese, who instead looks for the “Swoosh” logo in discount stores like Marshalls.

Teens are shopping like their parents during the back-to-school season, and that’s putting a lot of pressure on retailers to change the way they market to them. Gone are the spending sprees, starting weeks before school bells ring. More teens are thrifty nowadays, a habit picked up from their recession-scarred parents.

Today’s kids recycle more clothes from the previous school year, mixing and matching the old with the new for different looks. They also shop year-round for things they need so they’re spending less money this time of year.

When they do buy, they’re less likely to get anything that’s not on sale. And the number of kids who’ll reuse last year’s items rose to 39 percent from 26 percent between 2011 and 2015, says a Deloitte LLP poll of 1,000 parents.

And when teens shop, they’re spending less. Families with school-age kids, on average, are expected to spend $630.36 this year, according to a survey of 6,500 by the National Retail Federation.

That’s down 6 percent from last year and results have registered declines for four out of the past seven years. Overall, back-to-school spending this year should hit $42.5 billion, up 2.1 percent from the previous year, according to The Retail Economist, a research firm. That’s much lower than the 5 to 6 percent average gains typically seen in a healthy economy.

Teens’ behavior is an extension of how their parents learned to shop

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TEEN SHOPPERS, from left, Isabella Cimato, 17; Giulia Pugliese, 15; Arianna Schaden, 14; and Sofia Harrison, 15, took pictures of themselves at a mall in Garden City, N.Y., recently. since 2008 when retailers pushed discounts to entice people to buy during the downturn. That helped lure shoppers, but it also got them addicted to deals. The shift made it difficult for stores to make money because discounts cut into profits.

Such behavior has cut into sales from July through September, the second-biggest shopping period of the year behind the winter holidays.

Sales during that period were 24.9 percent of total sales annually last year, down from 25.8 percent in 2003, according to The Retail Economist.

“Consumers are sending a message to retailers that says ‘the backto-school shopping season just isn’t that important anymore,’” says Deloitte’s Alison Paul.

The shift is changing how stores market to teens. Whereas stores’ promotions would end around Labor Day, they’re now extending them through September. They’re also pulling together complete outfits from different brands in stores to make it easier for teens to buy looks. And they’re using social

media campaigns to be more easily discovered by teens.

To observe teens’ new behavior, the AP followed Pugliese; her cousin, Arianna Schaden, 14; and two friends, Isabella Cimato, 17, and Sofia Harrison, 15, at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y. Here are some ways teens are shopping differently, and how retailers are adjusting:

THEY’RE IN NO RUSH TO BUY Teens aren’t impatient about shopping.

Although they started shopping weeks early, the four teens plan to delay buying things they don’t need immediately, like jeans, until well after school starts and the weather cools. In fact, they’re planning to spend about half of their back-toschool budget of about $400 after school begins.

Cimato didn’t buy anything at all that day. Harrison, who bought just a few shirts, said: “To be honest, it’s not that big of a deal because I shop year-round.”

Besides that, they want big dis-

counts. During their shopping trip, Schaden found a $58 romper she liked, but decided to leave the mall without it.

“I think I buy on sale because my mom never buys something unless it’s on sale,” she said.

In response to this new thinking, Macy’s and J.C. Penney are now staggering back-to-school promotions through September. Penney also is increasing the back-toschool merchandise it carries in late August and September. That includes denim, backpacks and basics such as underwear.

And Hollister, a division of Abercrombie & Fitch, says it is timing deals on items that shoppers most want at that time. Right now, for instance, it’s promoting trendy tops and T-shirts with graphics.

THEY’RE SMART CONSUMERS Teens aren’t roaming around at the mall for kicks during back-toschool. They’re researching the looks they want online and follow popular hashtags on social media so they can piece together looks be-

fore they get there. Google says its image searches for “school outfit” have grown dramatically during the past three years, and soared 76 percent in July.

Cimato, who researched denim tops and items with fringe on Instagram, said: “I pretty much know what I am looking for.”

That presents challenges for retailers that are afraid teens will bypass their stores because they’re focused on items they already want to buy. So, retailers are trying to get teens’ attention before they are in stores.

Macy’s is identifying key trends and hashtags on social media that are getting lots of followers. It now highlights shoe trends using the popular hashtag FWIS, which means “from where I stand.”

The retailer also is putting together more looks from various labels to create outfits and displaying them on mannequins or tables in the teen department instead of showing them by merchandise category.

These include looks teens haven’t necessarily seen on social media.

Penney uses Pinterest personalities like Katherine Accettura and Mai Phung who are influential among teens to market its back-toschool fashions. The company says it sees up to 500 times more re-pins than if it promoted the product itself.

THEY WANT A UNIQUE LOOK Teens no longer want to be carbon copies of each other. Now, kids, inspired by what they see on Instagram and the like, want to personalize hot looks.

“I’m not a big fan of logos,” Harrison said. “That’s distracting to my style.”

That behavior makes it hard for retailers to dictate specific looks.

That means retailers have to do more marketing to attract teens.

Penney’s back-to-school ad campaign called “Bend the Trend” tries to show how easy it is to put together trends for a personalized style.

And like many teen retailers, Hollister has scaled back its logoed merchandise.

“Today, the customer is the center of everything we do,” said Hollister President Fran Horowitz.

Inspiring boy among world’s best wheelchair tennis players

By SCOTT FOWLER

The Charlotte Observer

FOREST CITY, N.C. — To get to the tennis court, Conner Stroud pushes his wheelchair there.

This is made more difficult by the fact that he has no legs.

Conner, 15, then does the intricate dance required to climb into that wheelchair. He straps himself in, pulls his racquet out from the back pocket of the chair and removes the “blades” he uses as artificial legs. Then he yanks a tennis ball stored between the spokes out of his wheelchair and starts hitting, and quickly you realize that Conner doesn’t want pity. Conner wants to slug a forehand for a winner.

Conner currently ranks as the No. 1 junior wheelchair tennis player in the United States and as one of the top 15 in the world. A 10th-grader, he starts on his high school team, playing against able-bodied players while still in his wheelchair. Conner does that well enough that last season he was the No. 3 player for Thomas Jefferson High in Mooresboro, N.C., 60 miles west of Charlotte, N.C. While Conner loses more often than not in high school matches — a wheelchair can’t jump or change directions nearly as quickly as an able-bodied player — he wins almost all the time against other wheelchair athletes. In either case, he rarely stops smiling.

“I like playing tennis because of the competition mostly,” said Conner, who was born with a rare, nonhereditary disability, proximal femoral focal deficiency. “You meet new people and you get to have fun.

Win or lose, you can still have fun.”

In high school boys’ tennis — a sport I have both played and coached — frustration is a central theme. You’ve got testosterone, teenagers and no referees. It is a boiling cauldron of possibility.

Racquets sometimes get thrown.

Players scream at themselves after missed shots or dispute line calls.

I have watched Conner play several full matches, and he never does any of that. The most demonstrative he ever becomes is when he pantomimes clapping with his racquet — always applauding an opponent’s good shot, not his own.

“I just try to stay positive,” Conner said. “After every point, I try to say I’m going to win the next point, or the next game, or the next set — or the next match if I lose the whole match.

“There’s always room to be posi-

CONNER STROUD practiced at the Peach Tree Racket Club in Forest City, N.C., recently.

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tive. You can always win another time.”

But don’t misunderstand.

Conner plays in a wheelchair and has won a statewide sportsmanship award, but he is also remarkably competitive. That quality — along with some amazing hand-eye coordination and a supportive family that includes two tennis coaches for parents — has allowed him to arrow through the ranks in wheelchair tennis.

He was one of three members selected for the United States earlier this summer in the biggest junior wheelchair team tennis event in the world — the World Team Cup. Conner played six matches in Turkey in May and won five of them as the U.S. won the junior wheelchair title for the first time since 2000.

Said Jason Harnett, a coach from California who is on the United States Tennis Association’s national staff and has worked extensively with Conner: “He is a polite boy and very well-mannered, but he will rip your heart out trying to beat you.

It’s nothing personal. It’s ‘Hey, I like you and we’re going to get lunch afterward, but right now I’m going to beat you as bad as I can.’ You see

that attitude in a lot of the best players, whether able-bodied or disabled.”

‘SORT OF A DOUBLE WHAMMY’ It is easy to see there is something different about Conner.

He has long preferred shorter sets of artificial legs to longer prosthetics because he moves faster that way. So when he walks into a public place he looks like a 4-foot tall 15year-old with a mouthful of braces.

The lower half of his body is mostly gone.

Says his father, Dewey, who once played on Clemson’s tennis team: “Wherever Conner goes, people look and say, ‘I wonder what happened to him?’ So Conner has always had eyes on him. You go in a restaurant and little kids always look. It’s just human nature. It’s funny to see how they strain to see, and their mamas are grabbing them away.”

Conner was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), which affects somewhere around one in 100,000 children.

There are four levels of PFFD. Conner ended up with the worst one. “About 85 percent of the chil-

dren born with it only have one leg affected,” Conner’s mother, Rita Stroud, said. “And they’ll have one normal leg and one that could be two inches shorter or severely shorter. Basically there is a problem when the limb buds are forming at the hip joint during pregnancy.

Conner got it on both sides and the worst kind — it was sort of a double whammy.”

When Conner was born, the Strouds already had two children who are now grown — their daughter is a nurse in Asheville, and their son just graduated from Appalachian State. They knew through tests during Rita’s pregnancy that Conner would have PFFD. Doctors warned them it was likely he would never walk.

Conner had no femurs, hips, ankles or knees when he was born. He had no spinal paralysis, however, and his brain was unaffected. And he had feet.

Specialists told the Strouds that his feet would never be able to be weight-bearing, however, and recommended that they amputate the front part of each foot and leave the heels. At age 2, Conner had that surgery at the Shriners Hospital in Greenville, S.C., and he hasn’t needed another surgery since.

Conner learned to walk on his heels and still does so — albeit with a twisting gait because he has no hip joints. With his “blade” prosthetics, he can navigate stairs and even run.

‘HIS UPSIDE IS TREMENDOUS’ As able-bodied players got older, they started hitting the ball harder, and Conner found he too often could no longer get to the ball to hit it. He had always balked at playing in a wheelchair, but finally decided to try it at age 13 at a local clinic.

Conner was so good so fast that the USTA immediately took notice and invited him to a camp in Mission Viejo, Calif.

“He had the tennis part down right away,” said Harnett, the USTA coach. “He didn’t have the wheelchair part down. There are all sorts of nuances in using a tennis wheelchair, and that was the biggest hurdle.”

In wheelchair tennis, all the rules are the same except players are allowed two bounces to hit the ball rather than one. But the movement is very different. Players learn to become one with their tennis-specific wheelchairs, which have wheels tilted inward for quicker navigation.

Quickly, Conner improved. By age 14, he was playing for the U.S. in the World Team Cup for the first time.

Now he is ranked No. 1 in the U.S., although he played No. 2 for the U.S. at the World Team Cup behind a 17-year-old American returning from injury.

“As some of the older boys age out, his ranking is only going to climb,” Harnett said of Conner.

“He’s got a chance to get to No. 1 in the world as a junior in the next couple of years.”

“That’s what I want to do,” Conner said. “And then I want to become top 10 in the world as an adult player, then the top adult player in the United States, and then No. 1 in the world as an adult.”

There are some full college scholarships available for wheelchair tennis, and the top 10 players in the world can actually make a living in the sport. The best players get to play the Grand Slam tournaments at the same time the able-bodied players do.

“I know he was very good on his stumps,” Harnett said, “but in the able-bodied tennis world he was always going to be limited in how far he can go. In a wheelchair, though, his upside is tremendous — a Paralympic gold medal. Travel the world. Play Wimbledon. That’s pretty good.”

For now, though, Stroud is happy navigating both tennis worlds — all the while learning to drive a car with hand controls. He has his learner’s permit.

How hard is it to drive?

“I think it’s pretty easy,” Conner said, shrugging.

ABILITY VS. DISABILITY Conner plans to play high school tennis every year against able-bodied opponents, too. In March, I watched Conner play a close match against Lincoln Charter’s Jackson Law, an all-conference tennis player. Conner took an early 3-2 lead.

“He had an ingenious way of moving his wheelchair around on the court — mostly turning the wheelchair around completely — which made it seem like he was able to travel faster,” Law remembers.

Law eventually turned things around and won the match, but not before his level of respect for Conner’s tennis game had heightened.

“Conner was an incredible player and person,” Law said. “Very mature. Very respectful. He has overcome so much. I hope to play him again.”

Health

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — Page 11

Karate provides therapy for disabled kids

By LIV OSBY

The Greenville News

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Half a dozen children between 5 and 9 years old form a line facing the sensei and bow in respect.

Assuming the appropriate karate stance, they begin punching the air with their right fists, shouting with each jab, “One, sir. Two, sir.

Three, sir.”

While karate classes for children are held around the country every day, this class is special.

It’s at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville.

And these kids are on crutches, in walkers and braces, and wearing prosthetic limbs.

Shriners, which provides specialty orthopedic services to children regardless of ability to pay, is offering the class so these children with disabilities can build strength and coordination while having fun.

Kyle Boswell, 5, an active little towhead who suffers from familial spastic paraplegia, a genetic neuromuscular condition marked by leg weakness, just beams at his mom, who’s watching from the back of the class, after every exercise.

“It’s all he talks about now,” Jennifer Boswell said. “It makes him feel very important to be part of something like that. He loves it.”

Shriners kids get lots of physical therapy, of course.

But incorporating karate is something new, and so far, it seems to be a success, according to physical therapist Chelsie Reed.

“They do a lot with different kinds of punches and kicking, and all of those require selectively controlling muscle groups, which for these kids is very important because they often lack coor-

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ELLIE BARBOUR, along with other patients of the Shriners Hospital for Children of Greenville, S.C., participated in a karate class at the hospital. dination and balance,” she said.

“It challenges the kids to move in ways they may not typically move. And they have so much fun while they’re doing it.”

The class is possible because of Kevin Ballenger, owner of the Hurricane Martial Arts center in Greenville and already a Shriners volunteer.

For the past two years, Ballenger has been making popcorn for the kids every Thursday and thinking about how else he could help.

Then two months ago, Shriners patient Eva Madden, 5, came into his martial arts school.

“She’s missing her right leg and has a prosthetic,” he said. “But seeing her in class and how well she did, it got back to Shriners. And that got the ball rolling.”

Karate seemed like a good fit for Eva from the start, said her mom, Cyndi Madden, of Greenville.

“She really enjoys it,” she

said. “It’s a good outlet for her. It’s good exercise. Good discipline training. And like the sensei reviews with the children, she’s learning courtesy and respect. Overall, it’s a great activity for her.”

Madden said she was always worried about how Eva’s disability would affect her life. Would she be able to participate in sports and other normal childhood activities with her peers?

“But she’s proven to me (through karate) that we shouldn’t be worried,” she said. “That she doesn’t have very many limitations.”

As the Shriners class begins, the children bow to Ballenger in the martial arts tradition. Then they assume what he calls the horseback riding stance, and follow his instructions, jabbing first forward, and then upward, uttering a shout to help with focus.

Next, the children line up at the kicking and punching bags, obviously a favorite exercise if the loud thuds from

each blow and their eagerness to do it again are any indication.

“All those stances make their bodies stronger,” he said, “and it helps build their self-confidence to be able to do those physical things that maybe they didn’t know they could do.”

Ballenger attends to each child personally, taking his or her individual disabilities into account.

“It’s very exciting to see how much they listen to Kevin and respect him,” said Reed. “And he respects them back.”

Ballenger says the Shriners patients do more for him than he does for them.

“The kids are always willing to try hard and do their best.

It’s really good to see,” he said. “And when I see the smiles on their faces, that they’re having a good time, and learning, that’s the reward for me.”

After a couple of classes, Ballenger will award the students a white belt, like any

student at his school would get. And as they learn, they will get belts of different colors that correspond to their skill levels.

Boswell never thought it would be possible for Kyle to participate in karate. But he looks forward to every class and gives it his all.

“The biggest thing about having a child with a disability is you want them to be in extracurricular activities and with other children outside of school and Shiners gives us that opportunity,” said the Travelers Rest woman.

“I love the fact that he gets to be with other children who are special in their own way,” she added. “He doesn’t have to feel like he’s the only one different. He’s not alone.”

Besides enjoying it, she said, it helps him gain strength, making his disability less of an obstacle. And now she hopes he’ll be able to join the Scouts one day as well.

Karate has helped Eva Madden become physically stronger, more coordinated and agile, too, her mom said.

And the confidence Eva’s developed after attacking and overcoming a challenge leaves her mom believing that the sky’s the limit for her now.

“It’s heart-warming for me, too, to see other children able to participate in karate who probably wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity had Shriners not incorporated this class into their services,” she said.

“You realize it’s not just your child who has these kinds of challenges and needs. There are plenty of other children out there who are even more limited than your own sometimes,” she added. “It’s good to see that it can be helpful for so many kids.”

Doctor fights confusion over diagnoses with cartoons

By ALISON BOWEN Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — While treating patients as a radiation oncologist at the University of Chicago, Dr. Andrew Howard noticed that many didn’t seem to understand their diagnoses. Beyond being understandably unable to take in all the information — something common when hearing upsetting news — many were mixing up basic information about their treatment, like chemotherapy versus radiation.

The doctor started working on ways to simplify that moment for patients.

While drawing with his two daughters, ages 5 DR. ANDREW and 2, an HOWARD idea came to him and morphed into his cartoon, “Cancer Ninja,” which launched in May. The tagline? “A doctor fighting cancer, one drawing at a time.” Howard talked about understanding diagnoses and how Jane, the patient in his comic, can help.

Howard treats patients with breast cancer but aims to make the cartoon helpful for all. This is an edited transcript.

Question: Your cartoon, “Cancer Ninja,” follows Jane through her cancer diagnosis, explaining what’s happening through her story.

How did the idea for this begin?

Answer: It all really started as a rant to my very patient wife about how little my patients understood about everything they were going through. (For example,) nobody understood the difference between chemotherapy and radiation. From a doctor’s standpoint, those things could not be more different.

So I started making a list of things my patients didn’t understand: what is meant by cancer stage, what a prognosis means.

Question: These are all terms that, to doctors, might be everyday words but for a patient are new and potentially scary. You first thought of writing a book — how did that change to a comic strip?

Answer: I started drawing with (my daughters) and realizing how much I enjoyed drawing with them. They like

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DR. ANDREW HOWARD’S “Cancer Ninja” comic adds humor to a touchy subject. to draw dinosaurs and hot air balloons. At the same time, I started reading more picture books. I realized how some of these illustrators are amazing. They can communicate so much with a very simple line drawing. That pushed me to improve my hot air balloons with my daughters, and then my wife suggested, “Well, why don’t you combine your interests?”

Question: What was the first cartoon, and how did you decide that?

Answer: I had the idea of telling a story, like a single patient. I treat a lot of breast cancer patients, and it’s a really well-understood cancer.

We know what to do for just about every situation a patient can find herself in. I’ve decided to make Jane a very early-stage case, but I wanted her advanced-stage enough that she could get surgery, plus go through chemo, plus go through radiation. I want her to go through all of those. (Also), people are left psychologically reeling after, and so I want to follow her through that.

Question: The moment of diagnosis is such a specific moment to focus on — it’s life-changing. What do they teach doctors about handling those moments?

Answer: I went to college at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (and then medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin). There, they actually took a lot of pride in (training doctors on delivering a diagnosis). They have a course on breaking bad news. So (we were instructed) to the point where they taught us how to arrange the room, how to make sure everyone’s sitting.

Question: And how do you arrange everything? You’re sitting in front of patients

whose worst fear is likely what you are there to tell them.

Answer: As a radiation doctor, I usually am not the one breaking the news. I will sometimes break the news that “it’s more advanced than we thought.” You’re supposed to go through all these steps: “What’s your understanding of what your cancer is right now and the prognosis? Do you want to know what the prognosis is?” Often people don’t. And then you always want to make sure the patient’s not the only one there — there’s someone else in the room, so they can talk about it later. Then you’re supposed to make an appointment afterward to talk again soon, within a week or so, because they will miss so much of what you said.

Question: What do you find that people didn’t understand?

Answer: I’ll ask them, “Have you ever gotten radiation before?” And they’ll say, “Oh, yeah, of course I did.”

And they’ll describe, and I’ll realize, “Oh wait a second,

that was chemotherapy.”

That happened a lot.

Staging is a very confusing thing, but it roughly divides people into prognostic groups, like what’s going to happen. And we also tailor our treatments. (The American Joint Committee on Cancer sets the staging system for breast cancers.)

Prognosis is mostly understood by people thinking the prognosis is poor. A lot of cancer survival data is published in the form of median survival. But if you tell someone that the median survival is 14 months, then they think, “Oh, my gosh, it’s been three months, so I have 11 months left.” I found myself repeating; even if I’ve explained it once before, you have to say it over and again, “Median means a lot of people live longer than that.”

Question: So sometimes people can’t take it in, and other times people are almost grasping too much for any detail. That’s hard to balance.

Answer: Being a radiation doctor, we’re the ones who often have the time (to spend time talking with patients).

With the cartoon, I feel like there’s so much more (to cover in detail). In the beginning, such-and-such a cell experienced mutation, but that step where a cell goes through mutation, there are so many micro-steps in that.

There’s so much more I could explain in that part. But I’m hoping that once Jane’s story is all done, maybe I’ll go back and fill in more.

Question: I imagine simplifying it is a challenge.

Answer: (The patient) doesn’t necessarily need to know the mechanization of such-and-such of chemo-

Belly Fat May Weaken Bones

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Scientists used to think that heavier people had denser bones, but new research suggests that having deep belly (visceral) fat may weaken bones.

Researchers looked at CT scans of the abdomens and chests of about 7,200 men and women ages 18 to 65.

People with more deep belly fat had worse bone density than those with less belly fat. This held true even if the participants had a “spare tire” around the middle but were in a normal weight range. The researchers also found that greater visceral fat was also associated with poorer-quality muscle.

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Question: What’s the biggest challenge in the cartoon?

Answer: I’ve gone through a very general situation with Jane, just being diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, it’s going to get much more specific, because she has a particular stage of cancer. But I want to keep it as broadly interesting as possible (for all cancer patients), so that’s going to be a tricky balance.

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Kane ordered to stand trial Continued from Page 1 prosecutor Kevin Steele said.

A political consultant who helped Kane get elected three years ago picked up the package and delivered it to a reporter, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors called two witnesses: a top Kane aide and the lead investigator in the case against her.

Special agent David Peifer, in charge of special investigations for Kane’s office, testified he provided her with a copy of a transcript cited in the Daily News article months before it was published. Peifer also testified he had a copy of a memo related to a confidential case emailed to her last summer.

Kane told a grand jury last November she had never seen the memo, prosecutors said.

Focusing on the leak, prosecutors contrasted remarks Kane made about the sanctity of grand jury proceedings as a county prosecutor in 1999 with her testimony to the leak grand jury last November.

In the earlier testimony, Kane said she would feign ignorance to preserve the confidentiality of grand jury proceedings. She testified last November she wasn’t subject to secrecy rules surrounding a 2009 grand jury investigation because she was never sworn in to that grand jury.

Shargel argued the perjury count didn’t meet the legal definition and prosecutors didn’t outline other allegations with enough specificity.

Challenging a conspiracy charge, he said there was “no

suggestion that two people of a like criminal mind joined forces, joined ranks and entered into an agreement.”

Shargel argued accusations Kane used her position to smear a former Philadelphia NAACP head’s reputation were moot because the man had already been the subject of negative newspaper articles.

Detective Paul Bradbury, who investigated Kane, said the leak caused the NAACP official “great personal distress” and forced him to close his charity when donations dried up after the newspaper story appeared.

Kane has said releasing the pornographic emails exchanged by office employees is crucial to her defense strategy, but her office said last week it has concerns disclosing them could be perceived as retaliating against witnesses in the criminal case against her.

Kane has said the leak investigation and criminal charges were a “stealth political weapon” to oust her from office and a campaign to discredit her began after her office found pornographic and explicit video images and jokes in hundreds of emails while reviewing a predecessor’s handling of the child sex abuse case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

The email scandal, which surfaced last summer, resulted in six firings, 23 reprimands and two high-profile resignations, including that of a state Supreme Court judge.

Poll: 54 percent disapprove of Kane’s performance HARRISBURG (AP) — A new poll shows more than half of Pennsylvania voters disapprove of Kathleen Kane’s handling of her job as state attorney general and nearly as many think she should resign.

The survey released today

by Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University is based on telephone interviews with 1,085 voters from Aug. 7 through Aug. 18.

Kane faces criminal charges that she leaked confidential grand jury informa-

tion and then lied about it under oath, but plans to run for re-election next year.

Fifty-four percent of the respondents disapproved of Kane’s performance and 20 percent approved, the poll found.

Forty-nine percent said Kane should resign. Twentyseven percent said she should not. About one-quarter of the respondents had no opinion on either question.

The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

Wolf blasts planned veto override vote Continued from Page 1 place. On June 30, Wolf vetoed the GOP’s entire $30.2 billion, no-new-taxes budget bill within hours of its passage with only Republican support. Wolf’s $31.6 billion plan has stalled in the GOPcontrolled Legislature.

Meanwhile, both sides are trying to get the upper hand in the political blame game.

Wolf charges that the Republican budget plan shortchanged schools and human services, let the Marcellus shale natural gas drilling industry off the hook for a tax increase and worsened the state government’s longterm budget deficit.

The veto override plan “will distract from serious negotiations and shows once again that Republican leadership is not serious about reaching a consensus on the budget,” Wolf wrote.

Republicans accuse Wolf of holding safety-net service providers hostage to get what he wants, including a multibillion-dollar tax increase that Republicans oppose.

Wolf did not need to veto the entire Republican budget, and could have allowed funding to keep flowing to

crucial services while negotiations continued, Republicans say.

In his letter, Wolf did not say how he would respond to last week’s Republican counterproposal on the budget.

The GOP met a key Wolf demand to boost public school aid, while insisting on an end to the traditional benefit in Pennsylvania’s two big public employee pension systems in favor of a 401(k)-style plan for future employees, a shift Wolf has opposed.

The governor wrote, however, he is taking the offer seriously and suggested he will look to Republicans for more concessions on funding for education and human services.

Senate GOP leaders said through a spokeswoman that they appreciated Wolf’s consideration of their most recent offer, but backed the House GOP’s move to override the veto.

“Social services agencies and others are hurting because of Gov. Wolf’s choice to veto their funding,” spokeswoman Jennifer Kocher said.

“We are looking to take the necessary steps to help them.”

Suspects found asleep in garage NEW CASTLE (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man has been jailed on burglary charges after police found him sleeping in the victim’s garage — with a woman.

The New Castle News reported today that the woman found with Spencer Peak, 21, has yet to be charged.

New Castle police say they found the couple about 4:35 a.m. Saturday.

That’s when the homeowner went downstairs and found a glass jar containing

cash missing, some furniture moved, and cabinets opened. The female homeowner also found her safe on the back porch, her purse missing and her basement door forced open.

Police say they found the sleeping intruders after noticing the garage light was on.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Peak who faces a preliminary hearing Sept. 1 on burglary and other charges.

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EASTBOUND TRAFFIC in the 800 block of Philadelphia Street in Indiana has been moved into the center lane as workers from M&B Services, of Clarion, build new sidewalks and curbs and make other improvements along the south side of the street as part of the ongoing streetscape enhancement project. Dave Fairman, Indiana’s public works director, said drivers should use extra caution while traveling through the construction zone or take an alternate route to avoid the traffic congestion.

ICTC seeks Challenger funds Continued from Page 1 School District board members Monday for a contribution of $722,800 based on the district’s relative enrollment in the county.

In a presentation to the board’s Academic and Extracurricular Committee, the project leaders provided the most details yet of the projected budget for building and operating the center.

The project began in 2012 with a feasibility study for setting up a local Challenger program like almost 50 others already sanctioned by the Challenger Foundation, formed by survivors of the Challenger Space Shuttle astronauts to promote space and science education.

The San Antonio-based foundation awarded Pennsylvania’s first Challenger franchise to the local group in 2013, when construction estimates were set at $3 million.

Last year, after being selected as the site for the center, ICTC introduced plans for a STEM academy geared toward secondary students, to complement the elementary- and middle-school targeted programs of the Challenger center.

The facilities are proposed under the same roof of a two-story building to go up on ICTC grounds at the front of the present tech center school.

Segal said the project has raised $4.6 million in state and federal grants, donations and a pledge from the ICTC budget, and has another $3 million of “pending” funds, expected to come from foundations, federal grants and local donations and in-kind services.

There’s an air of urgency to the appeal to the schools.

Segal said some of the promised money, such as $3.365 million pledged from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RCAP), could be jeopardized if full funding isn’t lined up soon.

“It works to our advantage and our disadvantage. It’s a little bit of a sword hanging over our head, but on the other hand it’s a motivating force,” Segal said. “There is no fixed statutory deadline.

But the governor’s budget office imposes six-month soft deadlines subject to extensions.

“Our initial deadline was December, it became June of this year, and we were able to get that extended based on progress made, to December 5 of this year. It’s a real deadline that we’re taking very seriously.

“Provided we are making progress and not languishing, I am entirely confident we would be able to move it

past that, but if we are not, then we truly are at risk of losing that money.”

Palmer said the momentum built so far probably could not be matched if the support wanes.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever get this good of a $4.6 million running start on a $9 million project again,” Palmer said. “Based on the fiscal climate we’re in right now, based on the excellent representation we have with our government officials that have worked hard to capture that first amount of money, I don’t think we’ll see this opportunity again.”

Similar presentations are planned for the boards of the six other member districts in the county. ICTC plans to request from Blairsville-Saltsburg School District a donation of $322,600; from Homer-Center, $172,600; from Marion Center Area, $278,000; from Penns Manor, $150,000; from Purchase Line, $146,800; and from United, $207,200.

The proposals also come with suggested loan schedules showing how the schools could borrow the money for the Challenger/ STEM project and set up wraparound repayment plans to minimize the impact on local budgets.

They’ve met with officials from Public Financial Management (PFM), a company already used by many area districts for bond sales, to set up the numbers, Segal said.

“We need to meet with the business managers of the district and PFM. We can’t do it justice,” Segal said.

“Realizing that nobody has $722,800 in a suitcase, we are thinking of the most palatable way … for Indiana Area, for each school district individually, and aggregated into a common borrowing.

But what we need, most simplistically, is a joint commitment for $2 million.”

Along with the funding appeal, the presentation showed the STEM academy’s projected operating expenses of $339,517 for the first year, when an estimated 80 students would enroll in the first year of a two-year program. Expenses are set at $702,525 and $769,775 as enrollment would increase to 100 and 120 in the second and third years.

The STEM program would offer three academic “pathways” to channel students to growing career fields in energy, applied science and engineering technology, and bio-medical and health care, according to the presentation.

The “majors” would be laid out in a curriculum designed by Project Lead The Way, geared to 11th- and

12th-grade students. As vocational training students have for decades, the technology students would take academic core classes at their local schools and attend ICTC for half a day.

“To me the advantage of a STEM academy is that you can collaborate, not just on the curriculum, but you can share on expenses over trying to do this independently,” Green said. “Project Lead The Way is a non-profit organization and has become the largest STEM education provider in the United States.

“The idea is that Project Lead The Way curricula will start to show up in the seven districts in a variety of ways.

The STEM academy will become a hub for STEM education, but by using this common platform, a shared expertise … a learning community that will start to develop.”

Segal said the Challenger Center budget would be sustained by tuition charged for groups attending “missions,” the science lessons modeled after International Space Station and NASA Mission Control problemsolving scenarios.

The center would draw from 151 school districts in 22 counties in western and central Pennsylvania, but would rely on strong participation by Indiana County districts.

Sending every Indiana Area School District class from third through eighth grade, 51 in all, to the Challenger center, would cost the district $38,250. But a lower level of participation, for example, sending only third- and sixth-grade students each year, would cost $13,500.

“The thing that’s important as you consider this ask … the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and we need all seven school districts to participate in this,” Segal said.

Indiana board members questioned the ICTC representatives about why the project originally was said to carry no cost for the school districts.

“Was I mistaken when this was first brought up? I understood when we went into this that there would be no additional cost, other than sending students on missions. What changed?” director John Uccellini asked.

Segal explained the budget rose as the facility grew with the addition of the STEM center, but that outside enthusiasm also grew.

“Over this time, we initially really hoped we wouldn’t have to come back to the schools anyway, even at the $9 million,” Segal said. “We hoped, because we received such positive reception

from the secretaries of Education, Community and Economic Development, and Labor and Industry, that this was the coolest thing … that the funding from foundations and corporations would flow forth such that the $2 million number would disappear.

“There is some hope that could still be achieved. But what happened is that in meeting with foundations and corporations, every single one of them asked the question, ‘What is the local investment? What is the local skin in the game? You mean the school districts are going to get a building for 100 percent without paying a nickel?’

“Any project of this magnitude … always has local investment. I know it’s an ask.

I hope that you recognize that we’re not just another applicant coming in saying, ‘Please sir, may we have your money?’ I hope you see this as a group of very involved people putting together an opportunity that has great value.”

Board member Deborah Clawson asked whether the STEM program might draw some students who already take other technology courses at ICTC and take away enrollment in the traditional programs.

“Is it envisioned that what we put up here would draw some of the current tuition students that we pay tuition for them to attend schoolage program? Are we expecting that that cost may go down because some of the students would transfer and ICTC would be diminished?” Clawson asked.

“That’s always a possibility and it’s hard to predict,” Palmer said. “They may be similar on some levels, but they are vastly different programs with vastly different end objectives.

“Is there a potential to cannibalize some of what we already have and find some efficiencies in students moving over? I think there are.”

“I don’t think anyone would say there would be no cannibalization,” Green said. “But I really think it will be minimal. We are marketing the classes in a different way … to offer it to students who really know that careerwise, they want to get into energy, or engineering or bio-medical. This gives them a chance to go in deep, in a ay they can’t in their home district.”

Palmer, Segal and Green asked Indiana directors to consider a proposed resolution to support the funding package. Director Brian Petersen, the committee chairman, said the proposal would be considered later at a regular board meeting.

Historic Saltsburg Car Cruise set for September SALTSBURG — The ninth annual Historic Saltsburg Car Cruise will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 11 at Canal Park in downtown Salts-

burg. Registration begins at 4 p.m.

Trophies will be awarded in four categories: Chevy, Ford, Mopar and Other. The

first 75 registered cars will receive a dash plaque. There will also be door prizes, 50/50 raffles, food, a DJ and more.

Early registration is $5. On the day of the event it is $8.

For more information or to register, call Michelle at (724) 639-3728.

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IndyCar driver dies from injuries “ALL THE DRIVERS, this is IndyCar, we’re always trying to make it safer, but at the end of the day, it’s a race car.

We’re racing hard, we’re racing Indy cars and it’s fast.

When it goes wrong, it can get messy.”

Justin Wilson,

from 2011 interview

Wilson accepted dangers in world of auto racing

By JENNA FRYER

AP Auto Racing Writer

Justin Wilson was seriously injured in IndyCar crashes twice in a two-year span. Both times, the veteran driver returned to competition unwavering in his love for the sport and his acceptance of the risks.

The British driver was adamant that he and his wife understood the dangers of his profession. But he loved racing so much, he fought hard to return from a broken back in 2011 and a broken pelvis and bruised lung in 2013.

Wilson knew death was a possibility in the dangerous world of auto racing.

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On Monday night, he died in a Pennsylvania hospital of a head injury suffered one day earlier when he was hit in the helmet with a piece of debris from another car at Pocono Raceway.

He was 37.

“You’ve got to know the risks and work out if those risks are acceptable,” Wilson told The Associated Press after breaking his back in 2011. “To me, it’s acceptable. But I’m not going to stop trying to improve it. All the drivers, this is IndyCar, we’re always trying to make it safer, but at the end of the day, it’s a race car. We’re racing hard, we’re racing Indy cars and it’s fast. When it goes wrong, it can get messy.”

A popular driver who took a leading role on safety and other issues following the 2011 death of Dan Wheldon, Wilson spent most of this year clawing to get into an Indy car. He announced a two-race deal for Indianapolis only in March with Andretti Autosport, and the agreement eventually swelled into an additional five races.

That perseverance the last few years was just one of the many things that earned Wilson tremendous respect in the paddock.

“What Justin’s gone through over the past couple years, how hard he worked to get back into the car this season, and Continued on Page 14

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MLB: Pirates 5, Marlins 2

The Heat Is On

Nittany Lions have won six of the past eight national titles

J.A. HAPP pitched six scoreless innings in his third straight solid start while two Pirates batters were hit by pitches and Francisco Cervelli had to avoid high inside deliveries twice in a victory Monday night in Miami.

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer

The loss of two All-Americans and two other senior mainstays would foretell a rebuilding season for almost any volleyball team.

Not Penn State.

“Right now,” Stanford coach John Dunning said, “it’s Penn State against everybody else. Until a few more teams beat them, how could you not pick them No. 1 preseason, winning as much as they have the last five or six years? I’m fine with it. I voted for them. It’s where they should be.”

The Nittany Lions have won six of the last eight women’s national championships and are 270-23 since 2007. The “down” years were 2012, when they lost in the national semifinals, and 2011, when they lost in the regional semifinals.

Coach Russ Rose, entering his 37th season at Penn State and the alltime winningest Division I coach, said there’s no secret to his ongoing success.

“Culture impacts things, and a university enables you to compete RUSS ROSE at a high level,” he said, “but at the end it comes down to the kids who are in uniform and how they handle all the noise and all the challenges that are in front of them.”

No. 2 Stanford appears to be the main threat to Penn State even after losing Volleyball magazine 2014 national player of the year Inky Ajanaku to a seasonending knee injury in June.

The Cardinal, which lost to the Lions in the NCAA semifinals last year after beating them in five sets in the regular season, bring back first-team All-Americans in Madi Bugg and Jordan Burgess and a second-team pick in Merete Lutz.

Stanford also signed the nation’s No. 1 recruit in Hayley Hodson.

Ajanaku’s absence will force Dunning to adjust his offensive strategy. Last year, no team set the middle as much as the Cardinal did with Ajanaku.

The Cardinal will be challenged early, opening at home this weekend against Texas A&M and Minnesota and playing Illinois and Penn State in State College next week.

Penn State no longer has American Volleyball Coaches Association national player of the year Micha Hancock, fellow All-American Nia Grant and regulars Dominique Gonzalez and Lacey Fuller.

But the Lions bring back NCAA Championships Most Outstanding Player Megan Courtney, second-team AllAmerican Aiyana Whitney, AVCA national freshman of the year Ali Frantti and Big Ten freshman of the year Haleigh Washington.

Rose still must identify a new setter and libero.

“As it’s been for us a number of years, we graduate multiple players who are All-Americans, and you’ve got to replace them,” Rose said. “Nobody is going to feel sorry for you, and you practice and get to work and try and find a new way of competing with the big boys.”

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Bucs survive wild night in Miami

By STEVEN WINE

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AP Sports Writer

MIAMI — The Pittsburgh Pirates got hit harder in the batter’s box than J.A. Happ did on the mound.

While Happ threw six scoreless innings, the Pirates were fortunate to avoid injury against several wild relievers as they beat the Miami Marlins 5-2 on Monday night.

Erik Cordier was ejected when he plunked Sean Rodriguez — the only batter he faced — in the left hand. Starling Marte was hit in the arm an inning earlier, and Francisco Cervelli twice ducked out of the way of high inside pitches.

“It concerned the umpires enough to throw a guy out,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said.

“Anytime anything’s hot and high, whether it’s missed command — it does happen, but there’s a point in time when it just doesn’t look right.

“It’s a hard position to judge intent. We’re just going to move on.”

Marlins manager Dan Jennings

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argued with plate umpire Jeff Kellogg about Cordier’s ejection while Rodriguez grinned as he walked to first base.

“The umpire did what he felt he had to do to control the game, but it was certainly no intent in that,” Jennings said.

Marte and Rodriguez both scored after being hit.

“It wasn’t bad intentions,” teammate Gregory Polanco said.

“But it bothered us a little bit because it wasn’t one; it was three, four, five, six — all the pitches inside.”

Polanco had a season-high four hits and drove in a run. Andrew McCutchen hit a two-out, tworun double in the third inning,

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and Neil Walker contributed a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

The Pirates won for the sixth time in seven games to climb a season-high 27 games above .500.

They have won five consecutive road games since Aug. 13, and they’re 4-0 this year against Miami. They remained 3½ games Continued on Page 14

Teams feeling the pain of exhibition games

By BARRY WILNER

AP Pro Football Writer

The games don’t count. That makes the pain from major preseason injuries even more, well, painful.

Yet NFL teams go through weeks of training camp in the intense heat of summer, then play four exhibition matches — five if you are chosen for the Hall of Fame game, as the Pittsburgh Steelers were this year.

Despite new rules resulting from the 2011 labor agreement that curtail the number and intensity of practices, key players such as Packers star re-

ceiver Jordy Nelson don’t make it to the real season.

It’s a delicate balancing act for everyone: players, coaches, trainers, even owners.

Is it too much?

“I don’t know if it changes the mindset,” says Falcons coach Dan Quinn, whose team hasn’t lost any significant performers for the season.

Yet. “That’s always at the forefront of our thinking. You know in this profession, it’s part of the game, but it still (stinks). It’s a bummer for (Nelson) and his team.”

Continued on Page 17

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STEELERS CENTER Maurkice Pouncey left the field on a cart during Sunday’s exhibition game.

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Wilson dies from injuries

Continued from Page 13 the opportunity that he had with Andretti, I think he exemplified the reason we all love doing this,” said Ed Carpenter, who raced against Wilson on Sunday. “He fought so hard to come back.

He was doing what he loved to do, what we all love to do, and why we’ll all be back competing in his honor in the near future.”

Wilson, who lived outside Denver in Longmont, Colo., with his wife, Julia, and two daughters, died in a hospital in Allentown. He was airlifted there Sunday after he was hit in the head with a piece of debris and his car veered into an interior wall at the track.

“Can’t even begin to describe the loss I feel right now. He was my Brother, my best friend, my role model and mentor. He was a champion!” his younger brother, Stefan, also an IndyCar driver, tweeted. Stefan Wilson said his brother’s organs would be donated.

The last IndyCar driver to die from an on-track incident was two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Wheldon, who was killed in the 2011 season finale at Las Vegas after his head hit a post in the fence when his car went airborne.

After Wheldon’s death, Wilson became one of three driver representatives to serve as a liaison between the competitors and IndyCar. It was no surprise: The 6foot-4 Wilson, easily the tallest in the series, was wellliked.

“Justin’s elite ability to drive a race car was matched by his unwavering kindness, character and humility — which is what made him one of the most respected members of the paddock,” said Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., the parent company of IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Wilson’s death reignited concerns about the safety of IndyCar. The series has been under fire since the season opener at St. Petersburg, Fla., where debris from a car sailed over the grandstands and struck a fan in the concession area. The woman hit said in a lawsuit filed against IndyCar her skull was fractured. She contends she fell backward and hit her head after she was struck by debris.

IndyCar made a series of rule changes to fortify the many parts and pieces on its new aerodynamic body kits, but the nose that flew off of Sage Karam’s car Sunday is not a tethered part. The series was also forced into action during the buildup to the Indianapolis 500 after three cars went airborne during practices.

“Motor racing is never going to be 100 percent safe.

If it was, there would be nobody in the grandstands,” Mario Andretti told AP on Monday.

Andretti called this “a perfect storm, and the thing that every driver fears: getting caught up in somebody else’s mistake.”

Wilson was the 12th car to pass through Karam’s crash scene. As he approached, the nose section appeared to bounce several times along the track. It came down in the open cockpit of Wilson’s car, then shot straight back into the air.

Now being debated again is the potential use of canopy similar to the one used in fighter jets to shield the drivers in the open cockpits. A year ago, IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe was left with a concussion when he was hit in the head by debris.

Formula One driver Jules Bianchi sustained a massive head injury in a crash last October and spent nine months in a coma before he died last month.

“We have open cockpits, we are exposed to what happened to Justin every single day we are in the car,” Tony Kanaan, who leads the IndyCar driver council, told The Associated Press on Monday.

“Until the entire world — FIA, IndyCar, Formula One — until they come together and find something to help that, this is the danger we face. It’s the unfortunate risk of our product.”

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THE YANKEES’ Carlos Beltran, right, hit a game-winning sacrifice fly during Monday’s game in New York as Astros catcher Hank Conger looked on.

Wright homers in Mets return

By The Associated Press David Wright hit a long home run on his first major league swing in 133 days, Wilmer Flores went deep twice and the New York Mets set a franchise record with eight homers in a 16-7 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.

Yoenis Cespedes, Juan Lagares, Travis d’Arnaud, Daniel Murphy and Michael Cuddyer also connected for the NL East-leading Mets. New York set a franchise record with 15 extra-base hits — seven doubles and eight homers. The teams tied an NL record with 11 combined homers.

Fresh off scoring 33 runs in a threegame sweep at Colorado, the Mets slugged their way back from a 7-2 deficit after Jacob deGrom’s shortest career outing.

Sean Gilmartin (3-1) had four strikeouts in 3 1-3 scoreless innings to earn the win.

Ryan Howard and Domonic Brown hit three-run homers and Cameron Rupp also took deGrom deep.

BRAVES 5, ROCKIES 3: Jonny Gomes drove in three runs with two hits, including a two-run homer in the first, and Atlanta beat Colorado to end its seven-game losing streak.

Adonis Garcia snapped a 2-2 tie with a homer off Jorge De La Rosa (7-6) in the fourth. Gomes’ fifth-inning single drove in Cameron Maybin, who doubled.

Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon and Ben Paulsen hit homers in the first and second innings, respectively. Julio Teheran (9-6) was strong after that as he allowed three runs on four hits in 7 1-3 innings.

CARDINALS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3: Lance Lynn pitched six effective innings with the help of four double plays, and Yadier Molina hit a two-run single in the seventh to lift St. Louis over Arizona.

Lynn (10-8) allowed two runs on nine hits and induced three straight inningending double plays, including with the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth.

Trevor Rosenthal gave up a run-scoring single to David Peralta in the ninth be-

fore closing out his 39th save.

Matt Carpenter hit a solo homer off Jhoulys Chacin (0-1), and the Cardinals broke open a tie game with a three-run seventh.

Welington Castillo homered for Arizona but flied out with the bases loaded to end the seventh.

AMERICAN LEAGUE YANKEES 1, ASTROS 0: Carlos Beltran hit a game-ending sacrifice fly after Oliver Perez walked the bases loaded, and New York beat Houston in a game highlighted by a tense duel between Nathan Eovaldi and Scott Feldman.

Perez (0-1) entered in the ninth and gave New York fans a reminder of his wild five seasons with the Mets. He walked Brett Gardner, threw a wild pitch, then walked Alex Rodriguez intentionally. Brian McCann walked to load them and end Perez’s night.

Beltran then gave Chad Qualls’ first pitch a ride to deep center field for New York’s third walk-off win this year.

Eovaldi and Feldman each went eight innings.

ROYALS 8, ORIOLES 3: Omar Infante led a seven-run charge in the sixth inning to support a strong start by Kris Medlen, helping Kansas City beat Baltimore.

Despite working on a pitch count, Medlen (2-0) lasted six innings in his first start since Sept. 27, 2013, with Atlanta. The right-hander allowed five hits — one of them a two-run homer by Adam Jones in the first inning — while striking out six without a walk.

Infante followed a tying, two-run homer by Mike Moustakas in the sixth with a two-run triple, then scampered home when the throw to third base skittered away.

RED SOX 5, WHITE SOX 4: Rusney Castillo homered and drove in a career-high five runs, and Joe Kelly won his fifth straight outing as Boston beat Chicago.

Kelly (7-6) allowed five hits and two runs over 7 1-3 innings.

Castillo went 3-for-4 and finished a triple shy of the cycle. His sixth-inning double drove in two runs and extended Boston’s lead to 5-1.

Jeff Samardzija (8-10) dropped a career-worst fifth straight decision. Jose Abreu hit his 24th homer.

ATHLETICS 11, MARINERS 5: Danny Valencia homered and Stephen Vogt doubled twice in a seven-run fifth inning as Oakland climbed out of a big hole against Seattle starter Hisashi Iwakuma.

Josh Reddick also went deep and drove in three runs for the A’s, who rallied after starter Felix Doubront exited early with a bruised foot.

Oakland trailed 5-0 after Iwakuma (53) allowed just one single through four innings. Vogt got the outburst started with a leadoff double. Two outs later, Billy Burns and Mark Canha connected on consecutive two-run doubles to make it 5-4.

Reddick tied it with an infield single and Valencia hit his 12th home run.

INTERLEAGUE CUBS 2, INDIANS 1: Kris Bryant homered with two outs in the ninth inning to lift a surging Chicago to a victory over Cleveland in a makeup of a rained out game from June 15.

Carlos Santana singled home pinch runner Abraham Almonte with the tying run with two out in the ninth to spoil Jon Lester’s bid for his first shutout and complete game with the Cubs.

Anthony Rizzo’s triple in the seventh drove in Chris Coghlan — who had doubled for only Chicago’s second hit — to break a scoreless tie in a pitching duel between Lester and Indians ace Corey Kluber.

REDS 12, TIGERS 5: Brandon Phillips drove in four runs with a home run and a triple during Cincinnati’s 10-run sixth inning and the Reds came back from a five-run deficit to snap a ninegame losing streak and beat Detroit.

Eugenio Suarez homered and doubled during Cincinnati’s biggest inning since scoring 10 runs against Arizona in August 2005. Fourteen Reds batted in the inning against four Detroit pitchers, including reliever Al Alburquerque (3-1), who allowed three runs while not retiring any of the three batters he faced.

Continued from Page 13 behind St. Louis in the NL Central. The Cardinals won 5-3 at Arizona on Monday night.

Happ improved to 2-1 in four starts since being acquired by the Pirates. He has been with his new teammates such a brief time he still refers to them in the third person.

“They’re having a lot of fun, playing good baseball and doing a lot of little things right,” Happ said. “It’s awful fun to watch.”

Happ’s teammates enjoyed watching him, too. He gave up four hits and a walk, and even major league batting leader Dee Gordon was off balance, going 0-for-3 against the left-hander.

Happ has allowed one earned run in his past 17 1-3 innings.

“The curveball-slider combination played for him extremely well tonight,” Hurdle said. “He threw all four pitches extremely well — a real solid performance.”

The Marlins’ scoreless streak reached 21 consecutive innings before they scored in the seventh against Jared Hughes on J.T. Realmuto’s RBI groundout.

Tom Koehler (8-12) allowed two runs in six innings. He lost his sixth start in a row, and against the Pirates he fell to 0-4 in four career starts.

Mark Melancon came on with two on and none out in the ninth and faced only two batters to earn his 40th save, the most in the majors.

Pittsburgh won despite going 3-for-17 with runners in scoring position.

In the second of a fourgame series at Miami tonight, Pittsburgh will start right-hander Charlie Morton (8-4. 4.06 ERA). The Pirates have won each of the past five games Morton has started.

The Marlins will go with left-hander Brad Hand, whose 7-20 career record as a starter is the worst among active pitchers.

NOTES: Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer made his first start since landing on the DL on July 19 due to a sprained left knee. He went 1-for-4. ...

Right-hander A.J. Burnett, who hasn’t pitched since July 30 due to a strained flexor tendon in his right elbow, is scheduled to throw a bullpen session today. “If he proves he’s healthy, (his return) could come sooner rather than later,” Hurdle said.

“There is an intense ‘want to,’ and he is being smart and listening to the right guys on the ‘how to.’” … Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich (bruised right knee) targeted today to return from the DL. On Monday, Yelich shagged fly balls for the first time since his injury.

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Kentucky knocks S.C. out of tournament

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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Eli Burwash scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning then earned the save pitching as Bowling Green, Ky., avoided elimination Monday at the Little League World Series by beating Taylors, S.C., 4-3.

Bowling Green will play tonight against Bonita, Calif., which beat Cranston, R.I., 10-3.

Burwash also hit a first-inning home run.

“I’ve closed out before, but this was the biggest one yet,” said Burwash, who said his last home run was in regionals.

Ty Bryant earned the win, leaving after 84 pitches, and will be eligible for all of the weekend should Bowling Green progress that far. Burwash needed only 14 pitches and can pitch again today.

“Ty pitched outstanding and it was picture-perfect the way we laid it out,” Bowling Green manager Rick Kelley said.

“We wanted Eli to close it out and have him for tomorrow and it worked out perfect.”

Should Burwash face Bonita in a save situation, the California players may well turn again to their rally monkey, a red, white and blue knit puppet with a stars and stripes pattern, something player Walker Lannom credited for the win Monday

after an early 2-0 deficit.

“It’s our rally monkey, it represents us,” said Lannom.

“We’re a team, but we need something to represent us and that’s the rally monkey.”

Little League is scheduled to induct former New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera into its Hall of Excellence tonight.

Also, former slugger Gary Sheffield is scheduled to make a promotional appearance. Sheffield played in the 1980 LLWS for Tampa, Fla., along with former major leaguer Derek Bell.

BONITA, CALIF. 10, CRANSTON, R.I. 3: Jacob Baptista hit a go-ahead grand slam and Levi Mendez struck out 11 as Bonita, Calif., advanced at the Little League World Series, defeating Cranston, R.I., 10-3 in an elimination game.

Bonita reached the U.S. Final 4 and plays again today against Bowling Green, Ky., in another elimination game.

Bonita overcame a two-run deficit in the third inning. Baptista capped the six-run rally when he drilled a first-pitch fastball out to center for a 6-2 lead.

Mendez went 3-for-3 and shut down Cranston over the final five innings. Cranston scored two first-inning runs on a Caleb Harris lead-off home run and Cam Ademac’s RBI single, but Mendez allowed only one

more hit and struck out the side in both the fourth and sixth innings.

Bonita’s Dante Schmid hit a solo homer in the sixth and has homered in all three Series games.

TAIWAN 5, UGANDA 0: Wei Hung Chou pitched a one-hit shutout as Taipei, Taiwan eliminated Kampala, Uganda.

Wei struck out 14 and walked none, including a stretch of eight consecutive strikeouts from the first through third innings. Wei finished at 80 pitches and struck out the side to end the game, and with two of his team’s six hits at the plate.

The only Uganda baserunners were Frances Alemo on a first-inning single and Joshua Olara on a fourthinning hit batsman.

Wei and Cheng Yu Yang also scored twice for Taiwan, which will play Mexico Tuesday in another elimination game.

Uganda finished 1-2 in the nation’s second LLWS appearance. A team from Lugazi played in 2012 but did not win either of its first two games before being eliminated.

MEXICO 9, AUSTRALIA 0: Mexico scored nine runs in the first inning to eliminate Australia, winning 14-3 in four innings.

Gerardo Lujano and Andres Villa each hit 2-run doubles in the first inning. Damian Garcia, Jorge Armenta and Alberto Bustos added home

runs for Mexicali, which advances to play today vs. Taiwan.

Armenta finished 3-for-3 with 4 RBIs. Garcia was 2-for-2. Derik Lopez and Gerardo Lujano each scored twice. Mexicali scored at least once in each inning to end the game via the 10-run mercy rule.

Blake Cavill was 2-for-2 with an RBI for Sydney, which finished 1-2 in Australia’s third year as its own region in the series. A team from Perth won the nation’s first LLWS game in 2014.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 7, PORTLAND, ORE., 3: Emmanuel Rodriguez hit two home runs to lead the Dominican Republic past Portland, Ore., in a consolation game.

Both teams both were eliminated from the Series on Saturday, but the Dominican Republic ended its allstar season by winning a game in which it never trailed.

Rodriguez led off the first inning with a home run then hit another the fifth inning to make it 7-3. He went 4-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs. Jose Marte earned the win, striking out six batters in 3 2-3 innings.

Oregon tied the game in the second inning on an RBI double by Samuel Stuhr, but the Dominican Republic scored four runs in the bottom of the inning.

Nolan Miga and Kyle Oslund each had two hits for Portland.

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Over-40 teams score victories Moran Financial defeated Arbor Pros 10-9 in an Indiana Over-40 League baseball game that was played Sunday at the White Township Recreation Complex.

Scott Moran led Moran Financial with two singles and a double.

Steve Moran finished with two hits and two RBIs, and Kirk Thomas hit two singles and scored two runs.

Brad McClure, Al Baum and Dave Radkis each stroked a single and knocked in two runs, and Radkis recorded the game-winning RBI in the seventh inning.

Baum earned the win.

For Arbor Pros, Todd Smith smacked a pair of doubles and a single, and Jeff Miller and Jeff McCartney each had two hits.

• Bowman’s Coins defeated Hogan’s Heroes, 5-0, in an game played Sunday.

Both teams battled through three scoreless innings before Bowman’s recorded three runs in the fourth and tacked on two more in the fifth.

Mike Mills paced Bowman’s, finishing 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles and an RBI, and Al Bifer clubbed two singles and batted in a run.

Scott Bowman pitched four innings to earn the win.

For Hogan’s, Mike Rearick smacked a double.

• Bob’s Pizza topped Brunzies, 93, in a game played Sunday.

Brunzies tied the game at 1 in the fifth inning and tacked on two more runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead, 3-1. But Bob’s Pizza scored eight times in the bottom of the frame.

Jim Kotelnicki and Bill Thompson paced Bob’s Pizza with a single, a double and two RBIs apiece. Tom Nanni also drove in two runs.

For Brunzies, Darrell Coscarelli smacked a triple.

Kotelnicki earned the win with two strikeouts over the final three innings, and Bob’s Pizza starter Thompson struck out six.

Indiana wins fall baseball game NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Indiana swept a doubleheader against Super Swings of Northern Cambria, taking both games 8-4, in Western Pennsylvania Fall Baseball League games Saturday.

The team is comprised of players from Indiana and Homer-Center high schools.

Zach Schultz struck out nine and walked two in posting the win in the first game. Cameron Allmendinger pitched three innings of relief and picked up the save.

Taylor Squiric banged out two hits, and Ryan Dixson stroked a two-run single.

In the second game, Zach Schultz hit a grand slam, and Matt Alexander hit a go-ahead RBI single with two outs in the seventh to drive in Alec Petroff. Corey Cavalier followed with a two-run single.

Schultz and Alexander finished with two hits apiece, with Alexander smacking a double. Cole Shaffer and Cavalier also had two hits apiece.

Tommy Budash picked up the win in the second game, pitching 3 1-3 innings in relief. Squiric was the starter.

IHS boys win season opener VANDERGRIFT — Indiana won its season opener by defeating Kiski Area, 196-213, in a WPIAL non-section boys’ golf match Monday at Vandergrift Golf Club.

C.J. Hughes was the medalist and led Indiana by carding a 37. Kyle Grube and Johnny Angelo each shot 39s, Ian Helsel posted a 40, Joey Bujdos fired a 41, and Zach Schultz tallied a 43.

Indiana travels to Norwin today.

• BLAIRSVILLE — Homer-Center scored a win in its season opener, besting United, 223-253, in a Heritage Conference match at Chestnut Ridge Golf Course.

Homer-Center’s Colin Moore shot a 40 and was the medalist.

Alex Arone carded a 44, Chris Ober shot a 45, John Capitosti had a 46, and Tanner Yancy notched a 48.

Ben Smith posted a 44 to lead United. Kylee Surike and Collin Moore each fired 47s.

Both teams play on the road today. Homer-Center travels to Ligonier Valley and United heads to Saltsburg.

• BLAIRSVILLE — Indiana shot a combined 312 to win the HomerCenter Wildcat Invitational on Thursday at Tom’s Run Golf Course.

Homer-Center finished in second with a combined score of 360.

Northern Cambria took third with a 366, and Conemaugh Township finished fourth with a 368.

Indiana’s C.J. Hughes and Kyle Grube shared the medalist honor by shooting 75s. Ian Helsel had a 76, and Zach Schultz posted an 86.

Alex Arone fired a 79 to pace the Wildcats. John Capitosti had an 82, and Colin Moore shot an 89.

For the Colts, Hunter Duriez shot an 84, and Tyler Pershing had an 86.

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KEVIN JACK, right, a 2015 Indiana High School graduate, received the Walter J. Stapleton Sr. Memorial Golf Scholarship. The cash award is given annually to the IHS senior golfer who best exemplifies the character traits of Stapleton, the founder of the golf program at the high school and coach of the team for more than 30 years. Jack, who is a business major at IUP, was presented a plaque by Stapleton’s sons, Jim, left, and Wally.

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Winston shines in preseason

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It’s only preseason, but Tampa Bay’s Jameis Winston is clearly making strides as an NFL quarterback.

The first overall pick in this year’s draft scored a 1-yard touchdown run after he was nearly flawless on the first drive of the game, and the Buccaneers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 25-11 on Monday night.

Winston was 3 of 3 passing for 27 yards, leading an 80-yard scoring drive that set the tone for a tough night for the Bengals (1-1), who yielded 52 yards rushing to Doug Martin along the way.

Winston limped off the field, done for the night, two plays after appearing to tweak his right ankle when he was sacked by Geno Atkins and Wallace Gilberry early in the second quarter.

RAVENS: Baltimore Ravens reserve running back Lorenzo Taliaferro will miss several weeks with a knee injury.

Taliaferro has a sprained MCL ligament, coach John Harbaugh said Monday. The injury occurred when he was making a tackle following an interception in Baltimore’s 40-17 loss to Philadelphia on Saturday.

Now in his second season, Taliaferro is competing against rookie Javorus Allen to back up starter Justin Forsett.

The injuries are beginning to stack up for the Ravens, who went deep into their depth chart to get five players on the offensive line against the Eagles.

Baltimore was so beset by injuries that Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda was switched to right tackle.

JETS: New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith was back at the practice field for the first time since being sidelined with a broken jaw after a teammate punched him nearly two weeks ago.

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Indiana — 196 C.J. Hughes 37, Kyle Grube 39, Johnny Angelo 39, Ian Helsel 40, Joey Bujdos 41, Zach Schultz 43 Kiski Area — 213 Tim Collins 39, Nick Yohe 40, Connor Smotzer 43, Max Mercurio 44, Sye Lynch 47, Josh Centorcelli 47

HOMER-CENTER 223, UNITED 253

United — 253 Smith 44, Surike 47, Moore 47, Strong 57, Brendlinger 58, Cameron 60 Homer-Center — 223 Moore 40, Arone 44, Ober 45, Capitosti 46, T.Yancy 48, A.Yancy 55

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Smith, unlikely to participate in any drills for the next few weeks, was on the field Monday with his red nocontact No. 7 jersey and no helmet.

He stretched with the rest of his teammates at the start of practice, and then headed to the trainers’ area.

Smith’s jaw was broken on Aug. 11 when linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali punched him in the locker room. Smith was expected to miss six to 10 weeks, and he had surgery to insert metal plates and screws into the jaw on Aug. 13.

TEXANS: Brian Hoyer has been named the Houston Texans’ starting quarterback.

Hoyer had been competing with Ryan Mallett for the job. Coach Bill O’Brien announced the decision on Monday, saying Hoyer won the job because of his composure and consistency.

Hoyer started 13 games for the Cleveland Browns last season before signing with the Texans in the offseason. Mallett started two games for Houston last season before having season-ending surgery for a torn pectoral muscle.

LIONS: Former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Rob Sims has announced his retirement.

Sims made his announcement to TV station WJBK in Detroit on Sunday, and Lions coach Jim Caldwell said Monday that Sims was a leader who did a great job of setting examples for younger players.

The Lions gave their offensive line a makeover this offseason, drafting tackle Laken Tomlinson in the first round and trading for guard Manny Ramirez. They also parted ways with longtime center Dominic Raiola.

Sims started all 16 games in each of his five seasons with Detroit.

PATRIOTS: New England Patriots players are looking forward to hav-

ing veteran wide receiver and former rival Reggie Wayne on their team.

There was no announcement by late afternoon by the team, but coach Bill Belichick, making his weekly appearance on WEEI in Boston, said Monday, “I think we’ve agreed. I’ve had several (conversations) with him. We’ll see how it goes.”

Wayne, who turns 37 in November, had 64 catches for 779 yards in 2014, his poorest season.

There hadn’t been much movement for Wayne, who is seventh in NFL career receptions (1,070, 82 for touchdowns) and eighth in yardage (14,345).

TITANS: Titans starting cornerback Jason McCourty has had surgery to repair a groin injury, and coach Ken Whisenhunt says he’s not ruling the veteran out of Tennessee’s season opener.

Whisenhunt announced Monday that McCourty had surgery earlier in the day.

McCourty had missed two weeks of practice after first being given a day off for a sore groin. Whisenhunt said the Titans thought rehabilitation would heal the injury before the decision to avoid McCourty dealing with this throughout the season.

BILLS: Coach Rex Ryan and the new-look Buffalo Bills are the hottest ticket in town.

The Bills are selling season tickets at a record pace and have passed 60,000 sales. As a result, the team will establish a waiting list for fans interested in purchasing season tickets for next season.

The latest figure released Monday is about 12,000 short of Ralph Wilson Stadium’s capacity. It’s also 3,000 more than the previous franchise record set in 1992, when the Bills were in the midst of making four consecutive Super Bowl appearances — all losses.

PHILADELPHIA — The NFL says Terrell Suggs’ hit on Sam Bradford’s knees Saturday night wasn’t illegal and shouldn’t have been a penalty.

Chip Kelly disagrees.

Suggs was called for roughing the passer after a low hit on Bradford in the first quarter of Philadelphia’s 40-17 win over Baltimore. He argued the quarterback is fair game on zone-read plays.

Dean Blandino, the league’s vice president of officiating, agreed.

“Because the quarterback has an option, he’s considered a runner until he either clearly doesn’t have the football or he reestablishes himself as a passer,” Blandino said Monday.

“So it’s not a foul by rule.

It’s something that we’ll make sure that we cover with our game officials because the defensive end coming off the edge, he doesn’t know if the quarterback is going to keep it, he doesn’t know if he’s going to take off and run or drop back and so we treat the quarterback in that instance as a runner until he clearly re-establishes as a passer or he clearly doesn’t have the football. The referee felt it was late so we’ll clarify that and make sure everyone is on the same page.”

But Kelly said the play was a simple handoff out of a shotgun formation.

Replays show Bradford didn’t attempt to carry out a fake.

“That’s not a zone-read play. On a zone-read play, a quarterback can get hit,” Kelly said. “Not every shotgun run is a zoneread play. We don’t run as much zone-read as everybody thinks we do. Are they going to hit every quarterback in the league when they handoff in a shotgun?

Kelly said he hasn’t spoken to Blandino yet.

“I think it’ll be troubling for the league if every quarterback in the shotgun can get hit (after a handoff),” Kelly said.

Bradford played his first game since his second ACL surgery in 11 months. He was upset with the hit. Left tackle Jason Peters suggested it was premeditated.

“When you run the read-option, you have to know the rules,” Suggs said. “If you want to run the read-option with your starting quarterback that’s had two knee surgeries, that’s on you.

That’s not my responsibility to update you on the rule. I could’ve hit him harder on that. I didn’t. I eased up.”

Teams feeling pain of exhibitions Continued from Page 13 More than a bummer, it could be a season changer. Few receivers are as important to their teams as Nelson is to Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay. “It’s difficult to lose a guy like that in a meaningless game,” Rodgers said.

And there are two more “meaningless” games ahead for all 32 teams.

This week’s matchups are the ones when the starters get the most action — and are subject to the most risk. Even that could change; some coaches are considering reducing the time their elite players are used this week.

“That’s where the challenge is for a coach,” says Quinn, in his first season in charge after running Seattle’s defense. “From how do you get the readiness you need to play at your best to wishing you had done more to get them ready.”

Or done more to keep them healthy.

Look at the Redskins, Giants, Browns and Bills, clubs already ravaged by injuries.

Washington saw tight ends Niles Paul (broken ankle) and Logan Paulsen (turf toe) lost for the season.

New York is trying to rebuild its secondary, and has lost two safeties for 2015, with several others sidelined, some with major injuries. It got so bad that projected starter Bennett Jackson tore up a knee late in a win over Jacksonville; Jackson was only on the field because the Giants had run out of safeties.

“Hopefully these injuries slow down,” linebacker Jon Beason said.

“They have been coming fast and furious for us the past couple weeks.”

And for Cleveland. At least the Browns haven’t seen anyone sidelined for the regular season, but they’ve had an epidemic of soft tissue problems, which often stem from players not being fully fit when they enter workouts.

Buffalo has had practice sessions and games without its top five running backs and top three receivers.

The Bills also lost two players to long-term injuries.

Trying to protect guys also becomes problematic, Bills coach Rex Ryan says, because it puts other players in situations they wouldn’t normally be in.

“I think sometimes when you start taking plays off of somebody else and you put more on to other people,” Ryan said, “and we watch that all the time. But it’s something that obviously we’ve been bit with.”

For years, suggestions from outside the NFL to cut back on the preseason have flooded the summer conversation. Complaints range from fans having to pay regular-season ticket prices for exhibition games to the lack of quality and excitement in such games to ... injuries.

Remember how the folks in St. Louis felt when quarterback Sam Bradford went down last summer with a knee injury. Go back through the years and you’ll find dozens of

other such examples, all the way back to Joe Namath wrecking his knee in a 1971 preseason game.

But team owners are reluctant (to be kind; adamantly against might be more accurate) about reducing the number of exhibition games and the high profits they make from them.

TV also likes the ratings the preseason games bring.

And don’t even approach the coaches about cutting back more on prep time.

“You have to get ready,” Jets coach Todd Bowles said. “If there are fewer preseason games, you don’t get to see young guys and you don’t get to evaluate, and the older guys don’t play themselves into shape. Some unfortunate things that go on but, we have to play the preseason games.”

Adds veteran linebacker James Harrison, whose Steelers lost star center Maurkice Pouncey to a broken leg on Sunday and kicker Shawn Suisham to a torn ACL in the Hall of Fame Game: “Football is about preparation, you’ve got to go out there and do it time and time again,” Harrison said.

“Sometimes people get hurt.”

And sometimes, thankfully albeit rarely these days, they don’t.

Rams coach Jeff Fisher said after Sunday night’s loss to Tennessee that no players were in the training room.

“That’s good news,” Fisher said, “going through a preseason game and having an empty training room.”

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — Page 18

BRIEFS

Scoreboard SCHEDULE Subject to change

TODAY GOLF

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS At DuBois Country Club Punxsutawney at DuBois, 10 a.m.

At Cherry Wood Golf Course United at Saltsburg, 3 p.m.

At Champion Lakes Golf Club Homer-Center at Ligonier Valley, 3 p.m.

At Youghiogheny Country Club Indiana at Norwin, 2:30 p.m.

At Cambrian Hills Country Club Blairsville at Northern Cambria, 3 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

At Murrysville Golf Course Indiana at Franklin Regional, 2:30 p.m.

TENNIS

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS Punxsutawney at Bradford, 3:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY GOLF

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS West Shamokin at Burrell, 3:30 p.m.

At Champion Lakes Golf Club Mount Pleasant at Ligonier Valley, 10 a.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

At Meadow Lane Golf Course Punxsutawney at Indiana, 3:30 p.m.

TENNIS

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS West Shamokin at Valley, 3:30 p.m.

Indiana at Greensburg Salem, 4 p.m.

ON AIR Subject to change

TODAY

BASEBALL 1 p.m. — Little League World Series, White Rock vs. Webb City, consolation game, ESPN 4 p.m. — Little League World Series, Mexicali Baja California vs. Taipei, ESPN 7 p.m. — NL: Pirates at Marlins, Root, WCCS-AM 1160 7 p.m. — AL: Astros at Yankees, MLB Network 8 p.m. — Little League World Series, Bowling Green vs. Bonita, ESPN SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — UEFA Champions League: Valencia at Monaco, FS1

WEDNESDAY BASEBALL 1 p.m. — AL: Astros at Yankees, MLB Network 4 p.m. — Little League World Series, Barquisimento vs. Tokyo, ESPN 7 p.m. — NL: Pirates at Marlins, Root, WCCS-AM 1160 7 p.m. — AL: Angels at Tigers, MLB Network 8 p.m. — Little League World Series, Pearland vs. Lewisberry, ESPN 10 p.m. — NL: Cubs at Giants, ESPN SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — UEFA Champions League: Manchester United at Club Brugge, FS1

FOOTBALL NFL EXHIBITION Monday's Game Tampa Bay 25, Cincinnati 11 Friday’s Games New England at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Jacksonville, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Indianapolis at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at Denver, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Houston at New Orleans, 4 p.m.

Arizona at Oakland, 8 p.m.

ARNEA LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Conference Championships Saturday, Aug. 22 National Conference San Jose 70, Arizona 67 Sunday, Aug. 23 American Conference Jacksonville 61, Philadelphia 56 ArenaBowl Saturday’s Game At Stockton, Calif.

Jacksonville at San Jose, 7 p.m.

CFL Thursday’s Game Montreal at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s Game Toronto at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Game Calgary at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES At South Williamsport Double Elimination Monday’s Games Santiago de los Caballero 7, Portland 3 Mexicali Baja California 14, Sydney 3, 4 innings, mercy rule, Sydney eliminated Bowling Green 4, Taylors 3, Taylors eliminated Taipei 5, Kampala 0, Kampala eliminated Bonita 10, Cranston 3, Cranston eliminated Today’s Games Consolation — White Rock vs. Webb City, 1 p.m.

Game 21 — Mexicali Baja California vs.

Taipei, 4 p.m.

Game 22 — Bowling Green vs. Bonita, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Game 23 — Barquisimento vs. Tokyo, 4 p.m.

Game 24 — Pearland vs. Lewisberry, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Game 25 — Game 21 winner vs. Game 23 loser, 4 p.m.

Game 26 — Game 22 winner vs. Game 24 loser, 8 p.m.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL EASTERN LEAGUE Monday’s Games Binghamton 10, Erie 1 New Hampshire 8, Portland 4 Trenton 3, Akron 1 Reading 11, Altoona 5 Bowie 5, New Britain 2 Harrisburg 4, Richmond 3 Today’s Games Erie at Binghamton, 5:35 p.m., 1st game Reading at Altoona, 7 p.m.

New Hampshire at Portland, 7 p.m.

Akron at Trenton, 7 p.m.

Harrisburg at Richmond, 7:05 p.m.

Bowie at New Britain, 7:05 p.m.

Erie at Binghamton, 8:05 p.m., 2nd game Wednesday’s Games Akron at Trenton, 2 p.m.

New Hampshire at Portland, 6 p.m.

Erie at Binghamton, 6:35 p.m.

Reading at Altoona, 7 p.m.

Harrisburg at Richmond, 7:05 p.m.

Bowie at New Britain, 7:05 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L New York 68 56 Washington 62 61 Atlanta 54 71 Miami 50 75 Philadelphia 50 75 Central Division W L St. Louis 79 45 Pittsburgh 75 48 Chicago 72 51 Milwaukee 53 72 Cincinnati 52 71 West Division W L Los Angeles 67 56 San Francisco 66 58 Arizona 62 62 San Diego 61 63 Colorado 49 74

Pct GB .548 — .504 5½ .432 14½ .400 18½ .400 18½ Pct GB .637 — .610 3½ .585 6½ .424 26½ .423 26½ Pct .545 .532 .500 .492 .398

WILD CARD STANDINGS

Pittsburgh Chicago San Francisco Washington Arizona

W 75 72 66 62 62

L 48 51 58 61 62

GB — 1½ 5½ 6½ 18

Pct GB .610 — .585 3 .532 9½ .504 13 .500 13½

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division W L New York 69 55 Toronto 69 55 Baltimore 62 62 Tampa Bay 62 62 Boston 57 68 Central Division W L Kansas City 76 48 Minnesota 63 61 Detroit 59 65 Chicago 58 65 Cleveland 58 66 West Division W L Houston 69 57 Texas 64 59 Los Angeles 63 61 Seattle 57 68 Oakland 55 71

Pct GB .556 — .556 — .500 7 .500 7 .456 12½ Pct GB .613 — .508 13 .476 17 .472 17½ .468 18 Pct GB .548 — .520 3½ .508 5 .456 11½ .437 14

WILD CARD STANDINGS

W L Pct GB 69 55 .556 — 69 55 .556 — 64 59 .520 4½ 63 61 .508 6 63 61 .508 6 62 62 .500 7 Monday’s Games NATIONAL LEAGUE N.Y. Mets 16, Philadelphia 7 Atlanta 5, Colorado 3 Pittsburgh 5, Miami 2 St. Louis 5, Arizona 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE N.Y. Yankees 1, Houston 0 Kansas City 8, Baltimore 3 Boston 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Oakland 11, Seattle 5 INTERLEAGUE Chicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1 Cincinnati 12, Detroit 5 Today’s Games NATIONAL LEAGUE N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 7-6) at Philadelphia (J.Williams 4-9), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 9-5) at Washington (Strasburg 7-6), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 5-4) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 4-5), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 8-8) at Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 8-4) at Miami (B.Hand 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 5-4) at Arizona (Ray 3-9), 9:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 15-6) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-3), 10:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston (Keuchel 14-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-5), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 5-9) at Detroit (Simon 11-7), 7:08 p.m.

Minnesota (E.Santana 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Karns 7-5), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 13-6) at Texas (D.Holland 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-9) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 6-6), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Miley 10-9) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 7-10), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Chavez 7-12) at Seattle (Montgomery 4-6), 10:10 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games NATIONAL LEAGUE N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 10-11) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 8-9) at Washington (Scherzer 11-10), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 3-1) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-10), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 7-8) at Cincinnati (Holmberg 1-3), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 6-8) at Miami (Narveson 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lackey 10-8) at Arizona (Corbin 3-3), 9:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at San Francisco (Peavy 3-6), 10:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston (McHugh 13-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 9-7), 1:05 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-8), 3:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-7) at Detroit (Verlander 1-6), 7:08 p.m.

Minnesota (Duffey 2-1) at Tampa Bay (Archer 11-9), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Price 12-4) at Texas (Lewis 145), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 7-6) at Kansas City (Cueto 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 5-11) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 12-7), 8:10 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE Milwaukee (Nelson 10-9) at Cleveland (Carrasco 12-9), 7:10 p.m.

New York Toronto Texas Los Angeles Minnesota Baltimore

MONDAY’S BOX SCORES PIRATES 5, MARLINS 2 Pittsburgh ab r h bi Miami ab r h bi GPolnc rf 5 1 4 1 DGordn 2b 4 0 0 0 SMarte lf 3 2 1 0 ISuzuki rf 3 0 0 0 McCtch cf 5 0 2 2 Prado 3b 4 0 2 0 Kang 3b 3 1 0 0 Dietrch lf 4 0 1 0 NWalkr 2b 2 0 0 1 Ozuna cf 4 2 2 0 Bastrd p 0 0 0 0 McGeh 1b 4 0 2 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 Realmt c 4 0 0 2 Cervelli c 3 0 0 0 Hchvrr ss 4 0 0 0 PAlvrz 1b 3 0 0 0 Koehler p 2 0 1 0 SRdrgz 1b 0 1 0 0 Ellngtn p 0 0 0 0 Mercer ss 4 0 1 1 Cordier p 0 0 0 0 Happ p 2 0 0 0 McGgh p 0 0 0 0 JHughs p 0 0 0 0 Gillespi ph 1 0 1 0 Morse ph 1 0 0 0 BMorrs p 0 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 Dunn p 0 0 0 0 JHrrsn 2b 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 5 8 5 Totals 34 2 9 2 Pittsburgh 002 000 111 — 5 Miami 000 000 101 — 2 E—Realmuto (5). DP—Pittsburgh 2, Miami 1. LOB—Pittsburgh 13, Miami 6.

2B—G.Polanco 2 (26), McCutchen (30), Ozuna (17). SB—G.Polanco (21). S— Happ. SF—N.Walker.

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO Happ W,2-1 6 4 0 0 1 6 J.Hughes H,20 1 1 1 1 0 0 Watson H,32 1 2 0 0 0 0 Bastardo 0 2 1 1 0 0 Melancon S,40-42 1 0 0 0 0 0 Miami IP H R ER BB SO Koehler L,8-12 6 7 2 2 4 6 Ellington 1 0 1 1 1 0 Cordier 0 0 1 1 0 0 McGough 1 1 0 0 0 1 B.Morris 2-3 0 1 1 4 1 Dunn 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Cordier pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

Bastardo pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

HBP—by Cordier (S.Rodriguez), by Ellington (S.Marte). WP—Ellington.

Umpires—Home, Jeff Kellogg; First, Brian O’Nora; Second, Clint Fagan; Third, Alan Porter.

T—3:21. A—17,644 (37,442).

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CARDINALS 5, D-BACKS 3

CUBS 2, INDIANS 1

St. Louis ab r h bi Arizona ab r h bi MCrpnt 3b 4 2 1 1 Inciart rf 5 0 1 0 Pham cf 5 1 1 1 Pollock cf 5 1 2 0 JhPerlt ss 4 0 1 0 Gldsch 1b 4 0 0 0 Heywrd rf 4 1 1 0 DPerlt lf 5 0 4 1 Molina c 5 0 2 2 WCastll c 4 1 2 1 Pisctty lf 4 0 1 1 Cllmntr p 0 0 0 0 MrRynl 1b 4 0 1 0 Tomas ph 1 0 0 0 GGarci 2b 3 1 1 0 JaLam 3b 2 1 1 0 Broxtn p 0 0 0 0 A.Hill 2b 4 0 1 1 Moss ph 0 0 0 0 Owings ss 3 0 0 0 Siegrist p 0 0 0 0 DHdsn p 0 0 0 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 Sltlmch c 1 0 1 0 Lynn p 2 0 0 0 Chacin p 2 0 1 0 Bourjos ph 0 0 0 0 Chafin p 0 0 0 0 Kozma 2b 1 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 2 0 1 0 Totals 36 5 9 5 Totals 38 3 14 3 St. Louis 001 001 300 — 5 Arizona 010 001 001 — 3 E—G.Garcia 2 (2), D.Peralta (1), Goldschmidt (3). DP—St. Louis 4. LOB— St. Louis 9, Arizona 11. 2B—Piscotty (10), Pollock (31), A.Hill (12). HR—M.Carpenter (19), W.Castillo (17). S—Bourjos.

St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO Lynn W,10-8 6 9 2 2 2 3 Broxton H,13 1 2 0 0 1 0 Siegrist H,23 1 1 0 0 0 2 Rosenthal S,39-41 1 2 1 1 0 1 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO Chacin L,0-1 6 1-3 6 3 2 1 5 Chafin 0 0 1 1 1 0 D.Hudson 2-3 2 1 1 1 2 Collmenter 2 1 0 0 1 0 Chafin pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.

Umpires—Home, Greg Gibson; First, Chad Fairchild; Second, Pat Hoberg; Third, Jim Joyce.

T—3:19. A—19,892 (48,519).

Cleveland ab r h bi Chicago ab r h bi Kipnis 2b 4 0 1 0 Fowler cf 3 0 0 0 Lindor ss 3 0 1 0 Schwrr lf 4 0 0 0 Brantly lf 4 0 1 0 Coghln rf 4 1 1 0 CSantn 1b 3 0 1 1 Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 1 YGoms c 3 0 1 0 Bryant 3b 4 1 1 1 JRmrz pr 0 0 0 0 LaStell 2b 3 0 0 0 RPerez c 1 0 0 0 JHerrr 2b 0 0 0 0 Aviles cf 2 0 0 0 StCastr ss 3 0 1 0 Sands rf 3 0 0 0 D.Ross c 3 0 1 0 Urshela 3b 3 0 1 0 Lester p 1 0 0 0 Kluber p 2 0 0 0 HRndn p 0 0 0 0 Crocktt p 0 0 0 0 Raburn ph 0 0 0 0 Almont pr 0 1 0 0 Totals 28 1 6 1 Totals 29 2 5 2 Cleveland 000 000 001 — 1 Chicago 000 000 101 — 2 Two outs when winning run scored.

E—Schwarber (4). DP—Chicago 4.

LOB—Cleveland 4, Chicago 4. 2B—Coghlan (19). 3B—Rizzo (3). HR—Bryant (20).

SB—C.Santana (9). S—Aviles, Lester 2.

Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO Kluber 7 2-3 4 1 1 0 11 Crockett 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 McAllister L,3-4 2-3 1 1 1 0 2 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO Lester 8 2-3 6 1 1 1 6 H.Rondon W,5-2 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 HBP—by Kluber (Fowler), by Lester (C.Santana, Raburn).

Umpires—Home, Marvin Hudson; First, Dan Iassogna; Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Lance Barrett.

T—2:38. A—36,283 (40,929).

METS 16, PHILLIES 7 New York ab r h bi Phila. ab r h bi Lagars cf 6 1 2 2 CHrndz 2b 3 1 0 0 DnMrp 1b 6 3 3 2 Galvis ss 5 1 3 0 Cespds lf 5 2 2 2 OHerrr cf 4 0 1 0 DWrght 3b 5 3 2 1 Howard 1b 5 2 2 3 WFlors 2b 6 3 3 5 ABlanc 3b 4 1 1 0 dArnad c 5 1 3 3 Asche lf 3 0 1 0 Cuddyr rf 4 1 3 1 Francr lf 2 0 0 0 Tejada ss 5 0 0 0 DBrwn rf 5 1 2 3 deGrm p 1 0 0 0 Rupp c 3 1 1 1 Glmrtn p 2 1 1 0 Morgan p 2 0 0 0 Confort ph 1 1 1 0 Neris p 0 0 0 0 Robles p 0 0 0 0 Ruf ph 1 0 0 0 Uribe ph 1 0 0 0 DeFrts p 0 0 0 0 OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 Sweeny ph 1 0 0 0 CTorrs p 0 0 0 0 Loewen p 0 0 0 0 Totals 47 16 20 16 Totals 38 7 11 7 New York 011 344 102 — 16 Philadelphia 313 000 000 — 7 E—D.Wright 2 (2), Dan.Murphy (11).

DP—New York 2. LOB—New York 7, Philadelphia 9. 2B—Dan.Murphy 2 (29), W.Flores (21), d’Arnaud (9), Cuddyer 2 (15), Conforto (6), Asche (20). HR— Lagares (5), Dan.Murphy (10), Cespedes (6), D.Wright (2), W.Flores 2 (14), d’Arnaud (8), Cuddyer (9), Howard (20), D.Brown (5), Rupp (6).

New York IP H R ER BB SO deGrom 2 2-3 8 7 6 3 3 Gilmartin W,3-1 3 1-3 3 0 0 0 4 Robles 1 0 0 0 0 1 O’Flaherty 1 0 0 0 0 1 C.Torres 1 0 0 0 1 0 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO Morgan 3 2-3 7 5 5 0 3 Neris L,2-1 1 1-3 3 4 4 0 3 De Fratus 2 7 5 5 1 1 Loewen 2 3 2 2 1 1 HBP—by Gilmartin (O.Herrera), by Neris (Cespedes). WP—deGrom.

Umpires—Home, Tom Hallion; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Bruce Dreckman; Third, Alfonso Marquez.

T—3:33. A—23,744 (43,651).

BRAVES 5, ROCKIES 3 Colorado ab Blckmn cf 4 Reyes ss 4 CGnzlz rf 2 BBarns rf 2 Arenad 3b 4 Paulsn 1b 3 LeMahi 2b 4 Hundly c 3 KParkr lf 3 JDLRs p 2 McBrid ph 1 Germn p 0 Fridrch p 0

r 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

h bi 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

Atlanta ab r h bi Markks rf 5 0 3 1 Maybin cf 4 1 2 0 FFrmn 1b 3 1 0 0 JGoms lf 4 1 2 3 Bourn lf 0 0 0 0 Bthncrt c 3 0 0 0 JPetrsn 2b 4 0 0 0 AdGarc 3b 4 1 1 1 Ciriaco ss 4 1 2 0 Tehern p 1 0 0 0 Detwilr p 0 0 0 0 EJcksn p 0 0 0 0 Swisher ph 0 0 0 0 Vizcain p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 32 5 10 5 Colorado 110 000 010 — 3 Atlanta 200 111 00x — 5 LOB—Colorado 3, Atlanta 9. 2B— Markakis (30), Maybin (17), Ciriaco (8).

HR—Blackmon (15), Paulsen (10), J.Gomes (6), Ad.Garcia (5). CS—Maybin (6). S—Teheran.

Colorado IP H R ER BB SO J.De La Rosa L,7-6 7 9 5 5 4 3 Germen 2-3 0 0 0 1 1 Friedrich 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO Teheran W,9-6 7 1-3 4 3 3 1 5 Detwiler 0 1 0 0 0 0 E.Jackson H,1 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 Vizcaino S,4-4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Detwiler pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

Balk—J.De La Rosa 2.

Umpires—Home, Larry Vanover; First, Brian Knight; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Adam Hamari.

T—2:43. A—13,920 (49,586).

REDS 12, TIGERS 5 Detroit ab r h bi Cincinnati ab r h bi Gose cf 5 0 1 0 Schmkr lf 4 1 1 2 Kinsler 2b 3 2 3 0 Suarez ss 5 3 3 3 MiCarr 1b 5 1 2 1 Votto 1b 2 3 1 2 JMrtnz rf 5 1 2 3 Phillips 2b 5 1 2 4 TyCllns lf 4 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 5 1 1 0 Knudsn p 0 0 0 0 Bruce rf 4 1 1 1 JIglesis ph 0 0 0 0 Bourgs cf 3 1 1 0 Cstllns 3b 4 1 1 1 Brnhrt c 3 1 1 0 Avila c 2 0 1 0 Sampsn p 1 0 0 0 Romine ss 4 0 1 0 Balestr p 1 0 0 0 Farmer p 3 0 0 0 DJssJr ph 1 0 0 0 Alurqrq p 0 0 0 0 Badnhp p 1 0 0 0 Grzlny p 0 0 0 0 Hoover p 0 0 0 0 N.Feliz p 0 0 0 0 AChpm p 0 0 0 0 RDavis lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 36 5 11 5 Totals 35 12 11 12 Detroit 400 100 000 — 5 Cincinnati 000 00(10) 02x — 12 DP—Cincinnati 1. LOB—Detroit 10, Cincinnati 5. 2B—Mi.Cabrera (24), J.Martinez (22), Romine (4), Suarez (14), Bruce (29), Barnhart (7). 3B—Phillips (2).

HR—J.Martinez (33), Castellanos (14), Suarez (9), Votto (24), Phillips (10). SB— Bruce (8), Bourgeois (2). CS—Gose (9).

Detroit IP H R ER BB SO Farmer 5 1-3 3 3 3 3 3 Alburquerque L,3-1 0 2 3 3 1 0 Gorzelanny 0 0 1 1 1 0 N.Feliz BS,5-12 2-3 3 3 3 1 1 Knudson 2 3 2 2 0 1 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO Sampson 4 9 5 5 2 5 Balester W,1-0 2 1 0 0 1 1 Badenhop 1 1 0 0 1 0 Hoover 1 0 0 0 0 0 A.Chapman 1 0 0 0 2 1 Alburquerque pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.

Gorzelanny pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

T—3:23. A—30,150 (42,319).

BOXING FIGHT SCHEDULE FRIDAY At Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Brandon Bennett vs. Jonathan Maicelo, 10, lightweights; Phil Jackson-Benson vs. Antonio Guerrero, super middleweights; Robert Easter vs.

Osumanu Akaba, 10, lightweights.

At D Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas (SHO), Trevor Bryan vs. Derric Rossy, 10, heavyweights; Juan Ubaldo Cabrera vs. Mike Gavronski, 10, middleweights.

SATURDAY At Staples Center, Los Angeles (ESPN), Hugo Ruiz vs. Julio Ceja, 12, for the interim WBC World super bantamweight title; Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares, 12, featherweights.

At the Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (PPV); Shane Mosley vs. Ricardo Mayorga, 12, middleweights; Joel Diaz Jr. vs. Luis Arceo, 10, lightweights.

YANKEES 1, ASTROS 0 Houston ab r h bi New York ab r h bi Altuve 2b 3 0 0 0 Ellsury cf 4 0 0 0 MGnzlz lf 4 0 0 0 Gardnr lf 3 1 0 0 Correa ss 4 0 2 0 ARdrgz dh 3 0 0 0 ClRsms rf 3 0 0 0 BMcCn c 3 0 3 0 CGomz cf 3 0 0 0 Beltran rf 3 0 1 1 Gattis dh 4 0 2 0 Bird 1b 3 0 0 0 Mrsnck pr 0 0 0 0 Headly 3b 3 0 0 0 Valuen 3b 3 0 1 0 Gregrs ss 3 0 1 0 Carter 1b 4 0 0 0 Drew 2b 3 0 1 0 Conger c 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 0 5 0 Totals 28 1 6 1 Houston 000 000 000 — 0 New York 000 000 001 — 1 One out when winning run scored.

E—Headley (20). DP—Houston 2, New York 1. LOB—Houston 8, New York 6.

SB—Ellsbury (17). CS—Marisnick (6).

S—C.Gomez. SF—Beltran.

Houston IP H R ER BB SO Feldman 8 6 0 0 0 6 O.Perez L,0-1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Qualls 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 New York IP H R ER BB SO Eovaldi 8 4 0 0 3 7 A.Miller W,2-2 1 1 0 0 0 2 O.Perez pitched to 3 batters in the 9th.

WP—O.Perez.

Umpires—Home, Gabe Morales; First, Eric Cooper; Second, Sam Holbrook; Third, Tripp Gibson.

T—2:47. A—37,125 (49,638).

ROYALS 8, ORIOLES 3 Baltimore ab r h bi K.C. ab r h bi MMchd 3b 4 1 1 0 AEscor ss 5 1 1 0 GParra rf 4 0 0 0 Zobrist lf 4 2 2 0 A.Jones cf 4 2 2 2 L.Cain cf 5 0 3 2 C.Davis 1b 3 0 0 0 Hosmer 1b 4 1 1 1 Clevngr dh 3 0 1 1 KMorls dh 3 0 0 0 Wieters c 3 0 0 0 Mostks 3b 4 1 1 2 Schoop 2b 3 0 1 0 S.Perez c 4 1 1 0 Urrutia lf 2 0 0 0 Rios rf 4 1 2 0 Pearce lf 1 0 0 0 Infante 2b 4 1 2 2 Flahrty ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 30 3 5 3 Totals 37 8 13 7 Baltimore 200 100 000 — 3 Kansas City 001 007 00x — 8 E—Schoop (5). DP—Kansas City 1.

LOB—Baltimore 0, Kansas City 7. 2B— M.Machado (26), Clevenger (4), Hosmer (26), Rios (15). 3B—Infante 2 (7). HR— A.Jones (24), Moustakas (14).

Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO U.Jimenez L,9-8 5 2-3 10 7 7 1 3 Brach 1-3 2 1 1 0 0 J.Rondon 2 1 0 0 1 2 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO Medlen W,2-0 6 5 3 3 0 6 F.Morales 2 0 0 0 0 0 Hochevar 1 0 0 0 0 2 Umpires—Home, John Hirschbeck; First, John Tumpane; Second, Joe West; Third, Bill Welke.

T—2:19. A—27,797 (37,903).

ATHLETICS 11, MARINERS 5 Oakland ab r h bi Seattle ab r h bi Burns cf 5 1 2 2 KMarte ss 4 1 3 0 Canha 1b 5 2 2 2 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0 Reddck rf 5 2 3 3 N.Cruz rf 3 1 0 0 Valenci 3b 5 2 2 2 Cano 2b 4 1 2 1 Vogt c 5 2 3 0 Gutirrz dh 4 1 1 3 Lawrie 2b 4 0 2 2 AJcksn cf 4 0 1 0 BButler dh 4 1 0 0 Trumo lf 4 1 2 1 Crisp lf 4 0 0 0 JMontr 1b 4 0 0 0 Fuld lf 0 0 0 0 Zunino c 3 0 0 0 Sogard ss 4 1 1 0 Totals 41 11 15 11 Totals 34 5 9 5 Oakland 000 070 103 — 11 Seattle 005 000 000 — 5 E—Trumbo (3). DP—Seattle 1. LOB— Oakland 5, Seattle 3. 2B—Burns (14), Canha (17), Vogt 2 (20), Lawrie (22), K.Marte (6). HR—Reddick (15), Valencia (12), Gutierrez (8), Trumbo (8). SB— Reddick (6), K.Marte (3). CS—Cano (5).

Oakland IP H R ER BB SO Doubront 2 4 0 0 0 4 Scribner 2 5 5 5 0 3 Mujica W,3-4 2 0 0 0 0 1 Venditte H,2 2 0 0 0 0 1 Pomeranz 1 0 0 0 0 1 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO Iwakuma L,5-3 4 2-3 7 7 7 1 4 Olmos 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 Rasmussen 1 2 1 0 0 2 Elias 1 0 0 0 1 0 D.Rollins 1 5 3 3 0 1 HBP—by Scribner (N.Cruz).

Umpires—Home, Manny Gonzalez; First, Jim Reynolds; Second, Paul Schrieber; Third, Fieldin Culbreth.

T—3:09. A—17,970 (47,574).

RED SOX 5, WHITE SOX 4 Boston ab r h bi Chicago ab r h bi Betts cf 4 0 1 0 Eaton cf 4 1 1 0 Sandovl 3b 5 0 1 0 Abreu dh 4 2 2 1 Bogarts ss 4 0 1 0 MeCarr lf 4 0 0 1 Ortiz dh 4 0 0 0 AvGarc rf 4 1 2 1 T.Shaw 1b 5 0 0 0 LaRoch 1b 4 0 1 0 HRmrz lf 3 2 1 0 GBckh pr 0 0 0 0 BrdlyJr lf 0 0 0 0 AlRmrz ss 3 0 1 1 B.Holt 2b 3 2 2 0 CSnchz 2b 4 0 0 0 RCastll rf 4 1 3 5 Flowrs c 3 0 1 0 Hanign c 4 0 2 0 Saladin 3b 3 0 0 0 Totals 36 5 11 5 Totals 33 4 8 4 Boston 030 002 000 — 5 Chicago 100 001 002 — 4 DP—Boston 1. LOB—Boston 9, Chicago 3. 2B—H.Ramirez (12), R.Castillo (4), Eaton (21), Abreu (26), Al.Ramirez (25). HR—R.Castillo (5), Abreu (24). SB— Betts (17), B.Holt (7).

Boston IP H R ER BB SO J.Kelly W,7-6 7 1-3 5 2 2 1 4 Ross Jr. H,9 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 Machi S,2-2 1 3 2 2 0 0 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO Samardzija L,8-10 5 2-3 8 5 5 2 7 Da.Jennings 2 1 0 0 0 3 M.Albers 1 1-3 2 0 0 1 1 HBP—by Samardzija (H.Ramirez, Bogaerts). PB—Flowers.

Umpires—Home, Doug Eddings; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Bill Miller; Third, Ben May. T—3:10. A—18,051 (40,615).

SOCCER MLS Wednesday’s Games New York at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Houston at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Friday’s Game Los Angeles at San Jose, 11 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Columbus at New York City FC, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto FC, 4 p.m.

New England at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Houston, 9 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Colorado, 9 p.m.

From Gazette wire services

Fraser-Pryce takes 100-meter

TRANSACTIONS

GOLF

MONDAY’S MOVES

PGA STATISTICS

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned OF David Lough outright to Norfolk (IL).

Designated OF Nolan Reimold for assignment. Placed SS J.J. Hardy on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jorge Rondon from Norfolk. Reinstated 1B Steve Pearce from the 15-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHP Cody Anderson to Lake County (MWL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent OF Alex Gordon to Omaha (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent 3B Taylor Featherston and David Freese to Salt Lake (PCL) for rehab assignments.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed LHP CC Sabathia on the 15-day DL. Announced LHP Chris Capuano declined outright assignment, declared free agency and agreed to terms on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Kendall Graveman on the 15-day DL. Recalled 1B Max Muncy from Nashville (PCL). Fired third base coach Mike Gallego.

Promoted Ron Washington to third base coach.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent LHP James Paxton to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Drew Stubbs and assigned him to Round Rock (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned 1B Matt Hague to Buffalo (IL). Recalled C Josh Thole from Buffalo.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated RHP Archie Bradley from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Reno (PCL). Released C Gerald Laird. Designated OF Danny Dorn for assignment. Optioned RHP Zack Godley to Mobile (SL). Selected the contract of RHP Jhoulys Chacin from Reno (PCL).

ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated RHP David Aardsma for assignment. Optioned OF Eury Perez to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Sugar Ray Marimon and C Christian Bethancourt from Gwinnett.

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Jorge Soler and RHP Jason Motte on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Tommy La Stella and LHP Zac Rosscup from Iowa (PCL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated RHP Chad Bettis from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP David Hale to Albuquerque (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Yimi Garcia to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Andre Rienzo to the GCL Marlins for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Optioned LHP Dario Alvarez to Las Vegas (PCL).

Reinstated 3B David Wright from the 60day DL. Sent LHP Steven Matz to Binghamton (EL) for a rehab assignment.

Transferred LHP Jack Leathersich to the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned RHP Josh Wall outright to Indianapolis (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Tyler Lyons to Memphis (PCL).

Recalled 2B Greg Garcia from Memphis.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent OF Angel Pagan to the AZL Giants for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ — Signed C Jeff Withey to a multiyear contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Chicago DT Jeremiah Ratliff three games for violating the league’s policy and program for substances of abuse.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived LB Marquis Spruill. Signed WR John Harris.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived/injured OL Jason Weaver. Signed G Lucas nix to a oneyear contract.

DETROIT LIONS — OL Rob Sims announced his retirement.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed WR Arrelious Benn on injured reserve.

Waived/injured OT Brennan Williams and WR Damian Copeland. Signed LB Mister Alexander, OL Will Corbin and WR Erik Lora.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived WR Michael Preston.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released LS Cullen Loeffler.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed WR Brandon Gibson on injured reserve.

Re-signed LB D.J. Lynch.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived/injured S Justin Currie and LB Tony Johnson.

Signed LB Ashlee Palmer and DB C.J. Conway.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed TE Matt LaCosse. Waived-injured DL Davon Walls.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Activated OL Cody Wichmann from the PUP list.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released CB Jeremy Crayton. Signed WR Dashon Foxx.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed RB Akeem Shavers to the practice roster.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Mike Willie and OL San Longo to the practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Named Daniel Cherry III chief marketing and innovation officer for the club and the Prudential Center.

SOFTBALL NATIONAL FASTPITCH COACHES ASSOCIATION — Announced the resignation of executive director Lacy Lee Baker.

TENNIS ATP — Fined Nick Kyrgios $25,000 and suspended him 28 days for “aggravated behavior” during a match against Stan Wawrinka on Aug. 12. Both penalties are suspended and will be dismissed if Kyrgios does not incur any fines for verbal or physical abuse at any ATP sanctioned tournament, or does not accumulate fines totaling more than $5,000 for any other offenses at ATP sanctioned tournaments for the next six months.

COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Announced the resignation of running backs coach Bo Graham.

BUFFALO — Announced men’s basketball F Justin Moss is no longer enrolled in school.

CCSU — Named Jackie Beck women’s golf coach.

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Promoted BJ McKie to men’s associate head basketball coach. Named Ahmad Smith men’s assistant basketball coach and Thomas Butters director of men’s basketball operations.

CLEMSON — Named David Kopp student assistant baseball coach.

FELICIAN — Named Rob Albano men’s and women’s assistant cross country coach.

McMURRY — Named William Cooper assistant track coach and recruiting coordinator.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE — Named Brennan Webb men’s golf coach.

NEW JERSEY CITY — Named Awal Ahmed men’s assistant soccer coach.

OKLAHOMA STATE — Named Bill Grier men’s assistant basketball coach.

PRESBYTERIAN — Named Parker Bangs assistant baseball coach.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE — Named Scott Aceto men’s assistant soccer coach.

SAINT ROSE — Named Michael Frawley assistant trainer.

SEATTLE — Named Mike Jones men’s assistant basketball coach.

SIU EDWARDSVILLE — Named Alexis Lawrence women’s graduate assistant basketball coach.

Through Sunday Scoring Average 1, Jordan Spieth, 68.721. 2, Bubba Watson, 69.437. 3, Brooks Koepka, 69.463.

4, Jason Day, 69.592. 5, Dustin Johnson, 69.667. 6, Will Wilcox, 69.730. 7, Justin Rose, 69.830. 8, Paul Casey, 69.840. 9, Henrik Stenson, 69.860. 10, Brandt Snedeker, 69.861.

Driving Distance 1, Dustin Johnson, 318.5. 2, Bubba Watson, 315.3. 3, Jason Day, 313.5. 4, Adam Scott, 312.0. 5, J.B. Holmes, 310.5.

6, Charlie Beljan, 309.8. 7, Brooks Koepka, 309.5. 8, Tony Finau, 308.9. 9, Patrick Rodgers, 307.7. 10, Gary Woodland, 306.8.

Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Francesco Molinari, 76.88%. 2, David Toms, 74.50%. 3, Jason Bohn, 72.19%. 4, Chez Reavie, 71.89%. 5, Colt Knost, 71.76%. 6, Justin Leonard, 71.70%. 7, Steven Alker, 71.41%. 8, Zach Johnson, 71.36%. 9, Brendon Todd, 70.94%. 10, Henrik Stenson, 70.32%.

Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, Henrik Stenson, 73.48%. 2, Jim Herman, 73.44%. 3, Stewart Cink, 73.14%.

4, Will Wilcox, 72.86%. 5, Paul Casey, 72.06%. 6, Francesco Molinari, 71.07%. 7, Russell Knox, 70.77%. 8, Justin Rose, 70.62%. 9, Brooks Koepka, 70.53%. 10, Lucas Glover, 70.46%.

Total Driving 1, Henrik Stenson, 48. 2, Will Wilcox, 60. 3, Keegan Bradley, 68. 4, Justin Rose, 71. 5, Graham DeLaet, 85. 6, Charlie Beljan, 92. 7, Russell Henley, 95. 8, Hideki Matsuyama, 101. 9 (tie), Lucas Glover and Jim Herman, 108.

Strokes Gained-Putting 1, Cameron Smith, .962. 2, Jimmy Walker, .891. 3, Aaron Baddeley, .717. 4, Freddie Jacobson, .665. 5, Brandt Snedeker, .626. 6, Jordan Spieth, .622. 7, Russell Henley, .621. 8, Brooks Koepka, .620. 9, Jason Day, .599. 10, Lee Westwood, .582.

Birdie Average 1, Jason Day, 4.68. 2, Jordan Spieth, 4.62. 3, Justin Rose, 4.52. 4, Vaughn Taylor, 4.43. 5, Bubba Watson, 4.27. 6, Dustin Johnson, 4.25. 7, Cameron Smith, 4.23. 8, Jimmy Walker, 4.19. 9, Justin Thomas, 4.18. 10, Tony Finau, 4.14.

Eagles (Holes per) 1, Brooks Koepka, 65.4. 2, Bubba Watson, 66.9. 3, Dustin Johnson, 84.0. 4, J.B. Holmes, 95.5. 5, Matt Kuchar, 100.3. 6, Hideki Matsuyama, 103.8. 7, Justin Thomas, 105.8. 8, Jason Day, 112.0. 9, Rickie Fowler, 116.0. 10, Will Wilcox, 117.0.

Sand Save Percentage 1, Chris Kirk, 65.22%. 2, Kevin Na, 64.29%. 3, Chad Collins, 63.87%. 4, Matt Kuchar, 63.41%. 5, Justin Rose, 63.10%. 6 (tie), S.J. Park and Will Wilcox, 63.08%. 8, David Toms, 63.04%. 9, Luke Donald, 62.50%. 10, Brendon Todd, 62.31%.

BASKETBALL WNBA Today’s Game Connecticut at Atlanta, 11:30 a.m.

FEDEXCUP LEADERS Rank Player Points 1. Jordan Spieth 4,169 2. Jason Day 2,459 3. Bubba Watson 2,407 4. Jimmy Walker 2,014 5. Justin Rose 1,742 6. Robert Streb 1,720 7. Dustin Johnson 1,718 8. Patrick Reed 1,593 9. Rory McIlroy 1,567 10. Danny Lee 1,561 11. Zach Johnson 1,559 12. Brooks Koepka 1,544 13. Brandt Snedeker 1,537 14. Charley Hoffman 1,512 15. Rickie Fowler 1,498 16. J.B. Holmes 1,484 17. Kevin Kisner 1,416 18. Jim Furyk 1,401 19. Paul Casey 1,389 20. Hideki Matsuyama 1,374 21. David Lingmerth 1,305 22. Steven Bowditch 1,287 23. Bill Haas 1,281 24. Ben Martin 1,217 25. Ryan Moore 1,208 26. Matt Kuchar 1,164 27. Scott Piercy 1,127 28. Louis Oosthuizen 1,088 29. Chris Kirk 1,087 30. Kevin Na 1,062 31. Sergio Garcia 1,051 32. Gary Woodland 1,037 33. Jason Bohn 1,037 34. Sangmoon Bae 1,025 35. James Hahn 1,012 36. Justin Thomas 1,007 37. Shawn Stefani 987 38. Russell Henley 986 39. Tony Finau 985 40. Webb Simpson 953 41. Henrik Stenson 952 42. Harris English 932 43. Troy Merritt 930 44. Russell Knox 914 45. Billy Horschel 903 46. Daniel Berger 899 47. Brendan Steele 895 48. Brendon de Jonge 892 49. David Hearn 890 50. Marc Leishman 854 51. Phil Mickelson 849 52. Nick Watney 847 53. Brendon Todd 831 54. Pat Perez 825 55. Matt Jones 821 56. Ryan Palmer 817 57. Cameron Tringale 816 58. Fabian Gomez 797 59. Ian Poulter 777 60. Boo Weekley 776 61. Kevin Streelman 771 62. Keegan Bradley 759 63. Alex Cejka 739 64. Matt Every 727 65. Carl Pettersson 723 66. Daniel Summerhays 720 67. Sean O’Hair 719 68. George McNeill 715 69. Brian Harman 704 70. Charles Howell III 692 71. Scott Brown 690 72. Rory Sabbatini 678 73. Chad Campbell 670 74. William McGirt 652 75. Will Wilcox 649 76. Davis Love III 649 77. Hunter Mahan 648 78. Scott Pinckney 645 79. Jerry Kelly 632 80. Colt Knost 628 81. Martin Laird 628 82. Morgan Hoffmann 627 83. Chesson Hadley 626 84. Kyle Reifers 626 85. J.J. Henry 620 86. Jason Kokrak 614 87. Padraig Harrington 610 88. John Senden 610 89. Jim Herman 610 90. Greg Owen 608 91. Kevin Chappell 602 92. Bryce Molder 595 93. John Peterson 588 94. Adam Scott 585 95. Adam Hadwin 584 96. Charl Schwartzel 584 97. John Huh 565 98. Jason Gore 564 99. Francesco Molinari 558 100. Hudson Swafford 554 101. Johnson Wagner 551 102. Nick Taylor 549 103. Jason Dufner 546 104. Graham DeLaet 545 105. Jon Curran 540 106. Zac Blair 538 107. Steve Wheatcroft 536 108. Andres Gonzales 531 109. Chris Stroud 531 110. Lee Westwood 530 111. Retief Goosen 519 112. Carlos Ortiz 515 113. Chad Collins 504 114. Mark Wilson 497 115. Spencer Levin 496 116. Stewart Cink 494 117. Ken Duke 493 118. Vijay Singh 490 119. Luke Donald 484 120. Tim Clark 481 121. Jonas Blixt 471 122. Erik Compton 471 123. Camilo Villegas 467 124. Ryo Ishikawa 458 125. Jeff Overton 458

YTD Money $10,399,715 $6,066,205 $5,752,185 $4,300,050 $4,570,302 $3,647,124 $4,696,498 $3,067,681 $4,295,849 $3,233,397 $3,951,187 $3,391,267 $3,510,052 $3,295,096 $3,751,080 $3,400,104 $3,166,576 $3,223,639 $3,079,386 $3,079,850 $2,715,794 $2,688,210 $2,785,058 $2,617,934 $2,584,968 $2,258,545 $2,059,554 $3,009,036 $2,296,396 $2,328,983 $2,633,929 $2,448,415 $2,089,173 $2,110,462 $2,001,883 $1,986,376 $1,689,411 $2,074,020 $1,944,046 $1,959,575 $2,148,070 $1,534,116 $2,022,098 $1,655,553 $1,674,913 $1,802,951 $1,591,391 $1,464,467 $1,735,549 $1,762,267 $2,072,160 $1,607,992 $1,646,599 $1,411,289 $1,620,852 $1,607,645 $1,510,762 $1,554,789 $1,628,079 $1,671,352 $1,490,266 $1,441,948 $1,193,371 $1,521,816 $1,164,419 $1,103,482 $1,308,199 $1,139,085 $1,343,899 $1,220,566 $1,145,250 $1,356,164 $1,015,707 $845,513 $1,168,302 $1,241,253 $1,262,281 $1,221,274 $1,096,119 $1,044,209 $1,124,988 $1,062,235 $1,119,689 $1,113,434 $1,021,967 $1,033,489 $1,330,852 $1,354,289 $1,053,278 $1,180,794 $1,002,702 $950,800 $779,509 $1,382,365 $937,611 $1,209,528 $678,556 $1,054,313 $997,389 $895,509 $1,085,160 $1,053,352 $943,244 $988,349 $1,049,549 $844,936 $973,024 $925,335 $746,814 $928,396 $921,830 $880,234 $747,899 $768,520 $690,260 $661,655 $800,103 $735,384 $925,993 $1,028,139 $703,664 $676,602 $627,976 $833,967 $545,032

BEIJING (AP) — ShellyAnn Fraser-Pryce made it another Jamaican night at the Bird’s Nest, sprinting to the 100-meter gold at the world championships for a recordtying third time — a feat that matches teammate Usain Bolt.

Like Bolt, Fraser-Pryce came into the event with two Olympic and two world titles in the 100.

And after Bolt ran to his third gold on Sunday, Fraser-Pryce did likewise on Monday.

Unlike the thrilling come-from-behind win of the lunging Bolt in Sunday’s final, FraserPryce bolted from the blocks, powered through midway and was able to lift her right arm and index finger in victory as she crossed the line in 10.76 seconds.

Fraser-Pryce is the only woman with three 100 world titles, matching Bolt and American runners Maurice Greene and Carl Lewis overall.

Although the Jamaican dominance in the sprints has been overwhelming the past years, the Kenyan dominance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase goes back decades.

And it was flaunted again on Monday as Ezekiel Kemboi won his fourth straight world championship title, finishing it off with his trademark dance wrapped in the Kenyan flag.

Just as predictable as Kemboi was the victory of Caterine Ibarguen in the triple jump. The Colombian extended her unbeaten run to 29 events and retained her title with a winning leap of 14.90 meters.

The Olympic silver medalist hasn’t been beaten in three years.

In the biggest surprise of the night, Olympic champion and worldrecord holder Renaud Lavillenie again missed out on the world title, failing three times at 5.90 meters and leaving the gold medal to Shawnacy Barber of Canada.

Florida State RB found not guilty TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State running back Dalvin Cook plans to head back to the field after a jury found him not guilty of punching a woman in the face outside a bar in June following a shouting match.

The college immediately lifted his suspension after the verdict.

It took the seven-member jury only about 20 minutes to deliver its decision Monday after a one-day trial that included testimony from the alleged victim, one of her friends and several of Cook’s teammates. Cook had been charged with misdemeanor battery.

The prosecutor, Sarah Dugan, said she was disappointed in the verdict.

The alleged victim, Madison Geohegan, quickly left the courtroom before she could be asked for comment.

Coach charged with molestation INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have arrested the head of an Indianapolis gymnastics academy who coached two members of the 2008 U.S. women’s Olympic team.

Marion County Jail records say Marvin Sharp, 48, was being held Monday on a preliminary charge of child molesting.

Sharp was arrested after police officers searched his Indianapolis home and Sharp’s Gymnastics Academy on Sunday.

Details on the allegations against him weren’t immediately released, and the Marion County prosecutor’s office said the case remained under investigation.

The Indianapolis Star reports Sharp coached central Indiana natives Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek before they were members of the U.S. team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The Indiana Gazette

Get the guns ready now The cooler evening temperatures have increased the flights of dove and goose in the local skies.

While shooting my bow last week, I had the chance to watch a flock of geese leaving Musser Lake just north of Indiana.

Juvenile geese have little airtime under their wings at this point in the year and can be comical to watch on the wing.

Maple-leafing is a term used by waterfowlers to describe when a duck or goose dips a wing to quickly drop altitude, fluttering straight down much like the falling leaf of a maple. The action is typically seen as birds drop into a Zeke Wilson spread of covers the decoys eagerly, outdoors for or in this The Indiana instance, when Gazette.

Email: sports@ young of the year learn to indiana fly. gazette.net These early flights are an indicator to hunters and allow plenty of lead time in arranging their opening-season hunts. Both early-season offerings of dove and goose can be excellent table fare, although harvesting game in September often means the need for ice.

Scouting can add confidence when packing the cooler prior to the hunt in anticipation of the liberal limits.

After a long offseason, sometimes hitting the small target of a winging dove is all but impossible. At the range it is a little easier to analyze a miss and adjust.

There have been a few times when I opened dove season 0-for-12 before settling down and beginning to get down on the gun. Typically, I carry more ammunition than one could possibly need, but several episodes come to mind when the hunt ended prematurely.

The slower and larger geese also can leave one holding an empty gun just as easily.

A preseason practice session on some clay targets is good for any shooter but is especially important for new hunters.

During the heat of the hunt, instruction can be difficult to administer. Establishing good shooter form and safety at the range prior to the opening day should put more meat in the cooler. In our area there are not large concentrations of geese and squandering a golden opportunity should be avoided.

Guns that were not properly cleaned and stored after last hunting season should receive attention prior to the opening day. Powder deposits in the receiver often build up, preventing the ejectors from grabbing the rim of the shot shell. The fear of a gun freezing is still several months away, so gun oil can be applied liberally.

In high humidity, fingerprints on bluing can quickly begin to rust.

Ammunition for standard calibers is now readily available, from what I saw recently at the Military Depot in Home.

Oddball offerings are still difficult to obtain and some serious searching or waiting might be required if you shoot a lesser known.

Just as the wildlife responds to the shortening days, so, too, do the hunters as preparation begins almost simultaneously.

Bow and gun sales will be brisk in the few remaining independently owned shops in the county.

Sadly, the box stores and online merchants have all but killed what was once the fixture of the hunting community.

Supporting your local shop will allow young hunters to grow up with a place to hear hunting stories.

Hunters who use dogs to assist in their hunts are always eager for cooler days so training sessions can begin to lengthen.

Scenting conditions can be difficult in late summer, and often dogs that have been out of the woods take a while to clean out the cobwebs.

ZEKE WILSON

The Gazette on the Web www.indianagazette.com

Outdoors BRIEFS Weighty issue

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — Page 19

By The Indiana Gazette

Benny Hill Memorial Bass Tournament slated at Yellow Creek PENN RUN — The second annual Benny Hill Memorial Bass Tournament will be held Saturday at Yellow Creek State Park’s North Launch.

The entry fee is $60 per two-man team. There is an optional $10-per-boat lunker fee.

Food and refreshments will be served afterward to participants at the North Shore Pavilion.

Proceeds benefit the Wesley Spectrum Services Foundation for Autistic Children.

Applications can be downloaded at www.alleghe nymountainbassanglers.com.

For information, contact Mike at meldridge@ comcast.net or Bob at bob_miller814@yahoo. com, or call (724) 388-8065.

Sportsmen’s Day slated at Fox and Coon Club The Indiana County Fox and Coon Hunters Association will hold a Sportsmen’s Day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19.

The event is free and open to the public.

More than 20 vendors will display goods for hunting, trapping, fishing and outdoor supplies.

The first 50 children under 16 will receive a free gift, and a shoulder mount will be given away to a child between the ages of 7 and 16.

Refreshments will be available, and a silent auction and 50-50 drawing will be held.

For information, contact Jim Carloni at (724) 7623832, email ICFCHA@gmail.com or visit the club’s Facebook page.

The club is located at 255 Ramsey Run Road, Indiana.

Shelocta club to hold turkey shoots on Sundays SHELOCTA — The Shelocta Sportsmen’s Club will hold turkey shoots on three Sundays, Sept. 13, Sept.

20 and Oct. 11.

Registration is at noon, and the shoots start at 1 p.m.

Keystone Sportsmen’s Club to hold pair of shoots ATWOOD — The Keystone Sportsmen’s Club will hold a 3-D archery shoot on Sunday, Sept. 13. It is a “Hunt of a Lifetime” benefit shoot.

Registration is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For information, contact Kathy Morgan at (724) 397-8491.

Hickok leads weekly shooters at indoor archery club CLYMER — Chris Hickok shot a 223 and was the top shooter in the sixth week of R.C. Indoor Archery’s summer league on Saturday.

Cody Morgan leads the season standings at 1,417.

He is followed by Don Craig at 1,400, Jared Mason at 1,383, Ken Misko at 1,363 and Ryan Hopkins at 1,361.

In the team standings, Hickok and Megan McCunn led the way last week with a 445.

Rick Gray and Jimmy Lowe lead the season standings at 2,538. Cody Morgan and Brenda Gray are second at 2,531, and Deanna Hauzie and Guy Hopkins are third at 2,509.

Action shoots slated at Indiana County Club

Small changes can make big difference

By JEFF KNAPP

sports@indianagazette.net

Weight might be one of the more overlooked aspects of fishing. Sure, the early-season trout angler keys in on the precise weight to tick nymphs along the bottom.

But all in all, the weight factor often is down the pecking order in presentation considerations.

Take for example a trip Dave Keith and I made last weekend to Keystone Lake.

The trip took place during the afternoon and evening hours during a dreadfully hot, sunny day.

Going into the outing I expected fairly slow fishing.

And we definitely worked for our bass. But toward the end of the session it was apparent I was working harder, as Dave was getting about three bites to every one of mine.

We were both using Texasrigged plastic worms. His was a Senko-style worm, while mine was an action tail. But switching to a Senko didn’t up my production.

And the colors we used were proven ones on Keystone. I think the biggest factor was slip-weight size. Dave was fishing an eighth-ounce bullet sinker; mine was a quarter-ounce.

While my heavier sinker got the worm down to the base of the weeds much quicker — we were hitting the outside edges of submerged weeds in 12 to 15 feet of water — the slower sink rate of his setup offered a more tantalizing look, one they preferred, at least that day.

The point was driven home when he hooked several quality bass, in the evening twilight, ones that ate the worm right after splashdown. His best largemouth was a solid 4-pounder that cleared the water by 2 feet during a jump.

Going light isn’t always possible. Had the day been a windy one, a heavier sinker would have been needed to provide a level of feel and control. But if wind had been present, perhaps the fish

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DAVE KEITH displayed a with a nice largemouth bass taken recently at Keystone Lake. would have been more aggressive. And going as light as possible isn’t always the best approach.

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Just like a spinnerbait deflecting off of wood, the jig is making aggressive bounces off the bottom (or nearby weeds). And like the spinnerbait, the bites the jig provokes are likely of the reaction nature.

Speaking of heavy jigs, I recall a late-fall day on the Allegheny River when Andy Vetula put on a clinic with one of his hand-tied bucktail jigs.

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jig (rather than the lighter quarter-ounce we’d normally use in that situation) he hovered the jig-big minnow combo right in front of the noses of a school of walleyes.

The fish weren’t active — they wanted something fished slowly, and with no additional action — but several of them went home in the livewell.

Soft jerkbaits — commonly called flukes — are one of my favorite river smallmouth choices during the summer.

Typically I fish them without any additional weight.

But there are times — when the fish seem reluctant to rise up and eat a fluke close to the surface — when added weight can make a difference. A swimbait-style hook, one with the weight molded along the shank of the hook, is a good option.

Even just one-sixteenth of weight will make the bait fish deeper and potentially more productively.

So the next time your favorite setup isn’t working, consider altering the weight a bit to change up the look.

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Theaters, museums enhance experience for blind, deaf

By RACHEL CROSBY Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When the lights dim and a play starts, all eyes are on the stage. But what if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it?

How do people who are blind experience a live theater show? A museum exhibit? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest problem we face is that many people assume people who are blind canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experience theater or other sources of entertainment,â&#x20AC;? said Chris Danielsen, spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that is not correct.â&#x20AC;?

Yes, they can hear the actors, their motions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the pouring of a glass, the shot of a gun. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been going to live shows for a long time, Danielsen said.

But Chicago theater is making the experience better.

Two hours before showtime on a recent morning, pieces of Chicago Shakespeare Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Mermaidâ&#x20AC;? production were strewn about the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lobby.

Arielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long red locks.

Flounder the guppyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turquoise and yellow â&#x20AC;&#x153;finâ&#x20AC;? mohawk. Even the tough snakeskin boots of Sebastian, the crab who conducts.

Lincoln Rybak, 3, was running his fingers over all of it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tapping, squishing, squeezing. Lincoln is legally blind, and his parents were participating in the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touch tour, an opportunity for patrons with low vision to feel the textured costumes, explore the set and meet the characters before the show.

Touch tours are not new to the city â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Victory Gardens Theater adopted a program in the 1990s, said Evan Hatfield, Steppenwolf Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of audience experience. But in the past five years, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural scene has blossomed with accessibility. He listed 21 local theaters that offer programs like touch tours, audio description, sign lan-

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LINCOLN RYBAK, 3, and his mom, Alana, felt one of the wigs from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Mermaidâ&#x20AC;? with help from Melissa Veal, wig and makeup designer, at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Chicago. guage interpretation and live captioning for productions.

And that number is growing.

Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite piece was a fantastic sea urchin headpiece; his little hands were grasping the flexible, floppy spines that poke out from its base. He was at a standstill as a group of about 20 children and adults who are blind weaved through the props with family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoaaaaaaaa,â&#x20AC;? he howled, tugging the thick spines as Jason Harrington, the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education outreach manager who heads accessibility programs, explained each piece.

Growth in accessibility is not limited to theaters.

Eleven other Chicago institutions including the Lincoln Park Zoo, the History Museum and the Shedd Aquarium pledged to make accessibility better in many ways after the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in July, said Christena Gunther, founder of the Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium, a group that works as a network for cultural accessibility programs.

Ideas include offering more programs, hiring full-time accessibility managers and

finding new ways to reach those with disabilities, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Accessibility is not just about having a ramp,â&#x20AC;? Gunther said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different, everybody has different needs. Accessibility never reaches an ending point, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the challenge but also the fun part.â&#x20AC;?

Once in the theater, Lincoln and the group had full access to a few of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set pieces.

On stage was Prince Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ship, a piece of Arielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grotto, a giant sea anemone cushion and Chef Louisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cooking table, covered with â&#x20AC;&#x153;pots and pans and really gross-feeling fish, which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re welcome to touch,â&#x20AC;? Harrington said as he guided the tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they feel awful?â&#x20AC;? said Sharon Howerton, of Chicago, who is blind and brought her son, daughterin-law and grandchildren along.

Soon, a handful of the core cast members joined the group â&#x20AC;&#x153;so you get a sense of what they sound like,â&#x20AC;? Harrington said.

There was Ariel, in full attire, who explained the mermaidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curiosity and many costume changes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from a

tail to a dress to a wedding gown. King Triton and Eric also joined. And the man who played Sebastian previewed the crabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jamaican accent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah-ree-el!â&#x20AC;? he yelled.

While a touch tour undoubtedly â&#x20AC;&#x153;enhances the experience,â&#x20AC;? said Danielsen of the federation for the blind, so does audio description, an explanation of scenes and set changes that are transmitted live to patrons who are blind, through headsets, while the show unfolds on stage.

Chicago Shakespeare and about 20 other local theaters offer it already or plan to soon.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an accommodation that requires training, finessing and time to perfect, but when done well it can make the play come alive in a new way.

Like the beginning of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Mermaid,â&#x20AC;? when Ariel begins to sing the opening, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A World Aboveâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a beautiful song, but even better when you know a giant blue fabric like the surface of the ocean is rippling around her as she rises to hip level from beneath the stage, like sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treading water.

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Krakowski talks about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Schmidtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; role

By YVONNE VILLARREAL Los Angeles Times

When we last saw Jacqueline Voorhees in Netflixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,â&#x20AC;? she was reclaiming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or attempting to, anyway â&#x20AC;&#x201D; her Native American identity and becoming her own woman after her marriage had fallen apart.

Sure, she could barely see in the end after she chucked her blue-tinted contacts, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beside the point.

Krakowski stopped by The Times recently to discuss her role as Kimmyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-absorbed boss and the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JANE journey in KRAKOWSKI the first season, from wealthy Manhattanite to a lost and vulnerable wealthy Manhattanite who sorta has a breakthrough. And Emmy voters took notice: Krakowski is a contender in the category of supporting actress in a comedy for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have great sympathy for Jacqueline,â&#x20AC;? Krakowski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be a person who worked so hard to change who she was, from the A to Z journey that she took, and that they wrote for her, is a really com-

plicated person to me. I love that she found some sort of, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go home and find my real truth.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

But did Jacqueline find it?

Krakowski made sure to be careful of what she said about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read episodes 1 and 2, so I know where we pick up,â&#x20AC;?

Krakowski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it is very interesting to see â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the transformation and the old characteristics that we enjoyed to watch are still there.â&#x20AC;?

Does she have her contacts back in?, I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Am I allowed to reveal this stuff? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know,â&#x20AC;? Krakowski â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who does know! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said.

But Krakowski was more forthcoming with some behind-the-scenes details about something else.

In late July, after their appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Krakowski, Tituss Burgess and Tina Fey had fans going gaga over a video of them lip-synching BeyoncĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flawlessâ&#x20AC;? that Burgess posted on Instagram.

That it would cause a frenzy is no surprise considering â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtâ&#x20AC;? has produced

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more than its share of standout music moments, from the ear worm of a theme song to the rhyme-tastic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peeno Noir.â&#x20AC;?

Krakowski filled us in on how their musical moment materialized. And it was partly, believe it or not, Feyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing. Krakowski said Fey started playing her â&#x20AC;&#x153;favorite jamsâ&#x20AC;? on the flight, among them BeyoncĂŠ tracks. In the midst of them playing,

Burgess had revealed to Krakowski that when he hears â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flawless,â&#x20AC;? he thinks of her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Tituss) said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do something,â&#x20AC;? Krakowski recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And suddenly Tina goes, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I thought it was for us to show our grandkids. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d post it anywhere. ... The next day, I wake up and I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wait a minute. How do people know this?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

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versus at a museum, people are usually just dropping in and you might not know what people are coming to see,â&#x20AC;? said Gunther of the cultural consortium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way you can make your institution accessible varies depending on what type of organization you are.â&#x20AC;?

The Art Institute is able to plan for its monthly sign-language tour, which garners about 60 patrons, Livingston said. Other museums offer audio tours and guided tours â&#x20AC;&#x201D; options that cover the bases but do not yet go above and beyond, Gunther said.

But they all share an interest in improving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re better off than five, 10 years ago,â&#x20AC;? she said, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is an ongoing effort. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always something new and different you can offer at your institution.â&#x20AC;?

To the left of the Shakespeare stage, a pair of signlanguage interpreters enthusiastically signed the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dialogue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; another layer of accessibility for patrons at the show.

Harrington remained in a handful of ears until curtain call, guiding them through live set changes as he watched from a room high above the audience.

He described Prince Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s castle, Arielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lavender dress.

The way Ursulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil electric eels moved down aisles and about the theater. And ultimately, Prince Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal. Their marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They kiss,â&#x20AC;? Harrington said, just before the couple climbed aboard the ship and sailed backstage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lights out, end of play.â&#x20AC;?

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If Chicago theaters are budding, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s museums are still planting the seeds.

The Art Institute of Chicago offers a touch gallery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a free area where anyone can feel four small sculptures, said Lucas Livingston, the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant director of senior programs. But those four pieces are only a tiny slice of the artwork offered in the building.

The Art Institute also hosts tours where patrons can handle a limited number of 3-D-printed duplicates of objects on display, like plastic copies of ancient mugs, dolls and instruments. Those are helpful not only for the blind but for people with dementia, Livingston said, so they can feel and better engage with each piece. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody loves to learn through touch.â&#x20AC;?

The museum also has five small 3-D-printed duplicates of paintings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; helpful, tactile representations of the art on the wall from different genres, since handling can damage original paintings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For theater, you have the luxury of knowing whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming in advance and being able to plan for that,

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Dominating TV, Donald Trump is a ratings draw

By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Opinion polls are one thing, but Nielsen numbers speak more loudly to television executives: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to pull in viewers makes him catnip for news programs and wins a level of coverage that feeds on itself.

NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meet the Pressâ&#x20AC;? had its biggest audience in more than a year for its Trump interview on Aug. 16, leading that showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest competitors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Weekâ&#x20AC;? and CBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Face the Nationâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to feature phone interviews with the New York businessman this past Sunday.

After CNN turned Jake Tapperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interview with Trump into a prime-time special last week and earned its best rat-

ings at that hour in a month, the network repeated it two nights later. Two Trump interviews on Sean Hannityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fox News Channel show this month both brought in around 2.2 million viewers, well above his typical audience.

Trump is generally considered the biggest reason why Fox reached 24 million people for the first GOP presidential debate earlier this month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most watched program in Fox News history.

That instantly made him a big â&#x20AC;&#x153;getâ&#x20AC;? for TV producers, and the media savvy ex-reality show host has eagerly played along.

Keenly aware of his drawing power, Trump suggested in a Time magazine interview that he could ask CNN to pay $10 million to charity for his participation in the next GOP debate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting a lot of atten-

tion that he should get because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing so well in the polls and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting a lot of attention because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Donald Trump, and you never know what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to say,â&#x20AC;? said David Bohrman, a television consultant and former CNN Washington bureau chief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not negligence to cover him,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Aware of that drawing power, cable news outlets cover Trump events with an intensity the other 16 Republican candidates can only envy. A town hall meeting in New Hampshire last week drew live coverage. CNN and Fox News both cast aside regular programming Friday to pick up Trump speaking at a rally in Alabama.

Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unpredictability is a bonus. His critical comments about Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Megyn Kelly for her debate questions, made during an inter-

DONALD TRUMP ... GOP frontrunner view with CNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Don Lemon on what would normally be a sleepy August Friday night, put that show in headlines for the entire weekend.

Viewership during the seven call-in interviews that Trump has given to MSNBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Morning Joeâ&#x20AC;? since June 18 rose 22 percent from what the talk show averaged 10 minutes prior to his call, the Nielsen company said. On July 24, the size of the audience jumped 47 percent in only a few minutes when Trump spoke.

Danny Shea, editorial director of The Huffington Post, compared the attention news networks are giving to Trump to CNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non-stop coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner last year.

He was on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Morning Joeâ&#x20AC;? last week to defend HuffPoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s declaration that it would only cover Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s candidacy in its entertainment section, a decision that grows harder to defend with each new poll. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an open secret that (Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign) is a joke and a spectacle,â&#x20AC;? Shea said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and by going wall-towall on it youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just legitimizing it.â&#x20AC;?

Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough, rejected the argument that Trump had more ratings than news value. During off-the-air meetings, â&#x20AC;&#x153;nobody ever says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, Donald Trump is great for ratings.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; What we say is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;what the hell is going on?

Can you believe this? What is happening?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He is a very real story, and the longer he stays in front, the more of a story heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be.â&#x20AC;?

In past campaigns, the mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;invisible primaryâ&#x20AC;? gave bursts of early attention to candidates before voters settled things, to which Gary Hart, Howard Dean, John McCain, Jimmy Carter can attest. None matched Trump for attention, said Thomas Patterson, acting director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kennedy School of Government.

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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2015. There are 128 days left in the year.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Highlight in History: On Aug. 25, 1985, Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father, Arthur, and six other people in a commuter plane crash in Auburn, Maine.

On this date: In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.

In 1825, Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.

In 1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.

In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

In 1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. Romania declared war on former ally Germany.

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In 1980, the Broadway musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;42nd Streetâ&#x20AC;? opened. (Producer David Merrick stunned the cast and audience during the curtain call by announcing that the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director, Gower Champion, had died earlier that day.)

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In 2009, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Mass., after a battle with a brain tumor.

Ten years ago: Hurricane Katrina hit Florida with 80 mph winds and headed into the Gulf of Mexico. The base closing commission voted to shut down the Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic Walter Reed hospital and move much of its staff and services to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. The Miss America pageant announced it was leaving Atlantic City, N.J., its home for 84 years. (The pageant ended up moving to Las Vegas, but moved back to Atlantic City in 2013.)

Five years ago: North Korea welcomed Jimmy Carter back to Pyongyang as the former U.S. president arrived to bring home Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American jailed in the communist country since January 2010 for entering the country illegally from China.

One year ago: A funeral was held in St. Louis for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot to death by a police officer in suburban Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9. At the Emmy Awards, ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modern Familyâ&#x20AC;? won best comedy series for the fifth time, while the final season of AMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking Badâ&#x20AC;? captured the top drama award and a trio of acting honors for its stars, including Bryan Cranston.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthdays: Game show host Monty Hall is 94. Actor Sean Connery is 85. Actor Page Johnson is 85. TV personality Regis Philbin is 84. Actor Tom Skerritt is 82. Jazz musician Wayne Shorter is 82.

Movie director Hugh Hudson is 79.

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Actor Anthony Heald is 71. Rock musician Danny Smythe is 67. Rock singer-actor Gene Simmons is 66.

Wife wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share her workday after husband shuts her out DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 36 years to a woman who is a pediatric physical therapist.

A number of her youngsters are disabled or abused, and their lives can be a struggle.

This results in emotional, intense workdays for my wife.

She brings these stories home and shares them with me.

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a saying that a joy shared is twice a joy and a burden shared is half a burden. When she tried to confide what was weighing on her mind or heart on those occasions, your response was, frankly, unkind. Further, if the treatment sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giving those children is covered by HIPAA regulations, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that the only people she should talk to about them are her colleagues.

I wish I could be more helpful, but it looks like you may have to find another way to be intimate with your wife besides discussing her workload.

DEAR ABBY: As chairman of the American Institute of CPAsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tax Executive Committee, may I offer some clarification to you and your readers about your answer in your July 13 column titled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Couple Deep in Tax Hole Need Help in Climbing Outâ&#x20AC;??

In fact, three groups of tax preparers have unlimited practice rights under Department of the Treasury regulations to represent their clients on any matters before the IRS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; certified public accountants, attorneys and enrolled agents.

None are more qualified than CPAs. CPAs are licensed by state regulators and must

meet minimum education requirements to sit for their national licensing exam and then fulfill ongoing continuing education requirements, as well as abide by a code of professional ethics. Attorneys have a generally similar system.

Enrolled agents are often former IRS employees who are licensed by the IRS after passing an exam.

Enrolled agents are competent and respected tax professionals, but the fact they are licensed by the IRS does not mean they are better qualified or superior in serving clients than are CPAs or attorneys.

IRS.gov has a page explaining the different types of tax return preparers and their qualifications, which may be helpful to your readers. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TROY K. LEWIS, CPA DEAR MR. LEWIS: Thank you for the clarification and for expanding my reply to that letter. It was not my intention to imply that CPAs are less qualified than enrolled agents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and if I created that impression, I sincerely apologize.

Actor John Savage is 66.

Country singer-musician Henry Paul (Outlaws; Blackhawk) is 66.

Rock singer Rob Halford is 64. Rock musician Geoff Downes (Asia) is 63.

Rock singer Elvis Costello is 61.

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NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Indiana will hold a Public Hearing on September 9, 2015 at 5:00 pm, in the Council Room of the Indiana Borough Municipal Building at 80 North 8th Street, Indiana, PA, as provided by the Zoning Ordinance for the following request: Beymer Brook LLC with vested interest in 948/964 Wayne Ave./964 Garman Ave. and a lot on Garman Ave., being tax parcels 24-05-619, 24-05-620 and 24-05-620.01 all located in a U-1 zoned district, is requesting a variance to Article VI of Ch. 460 § 460-37A(2) of the Code of the Borough of Indiana for the number of parking spaces required by use.

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INDIANA nice 1 bdr, 1 level, 3 season patio & carport. Includes appliances with laundry. $695/mo. (724) 840-2399 INDIANA, Near campus, nice 2bdr, w/d , dishwasher, parking, available fall of 2015 - spring 2016.

Call (724) 422-0717 INDIANA: Located on Wayne Ave., 3 bdr, 1ba, $700/month. Call (724) 388-7528 INDIANA: N.14 St. 2 bdr, w/d, off street parking, $650/mo + utilities. Call (724) 840-6333 Ava. 9/6

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IN Town, 651 N. Sixth St. 3 bdr, 2 1/2 bath. 1500 sq.ft. $1,100/mo. (724) 464-9997.

INDIANA schools, 2 bdr, 1.5 baths, includes lawn, snow & sewer, $775/mo + utilities. (607) 725-9055

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VERY NICE: 2 Bdrm, fully remodeled, Rte 156, Village of Idaho $450/mo, incl. garbage, move in ready. (724) 354-4552 Wanted For Rent

LOOKING to rent clean, comfortable, private setting 2 bdrm house in Pine/ Barr/ Green/ Cherryhill Twp & Punxy. No gas heat. (724) 388-0501 Mobile Homes For Sale

RENT to Own: 2 bdr, 2009 Champion, Blairsville Schools, new hardwood floors, c/a, $650+ utilities. No pets. Call (814) 243-2504 TYSON FARM: 3 bdr, 1ba, $4,000 move in today. Close by 30 & rec.

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Yesterday, I compared flipping a coin to an endplay. In the former, you have only a 50 percent chance of winning; but in the latter, it is 100 percent if you can draw trumps, keeping at least one in the dummy and your hand, eliminate the cards in two side suits, and give an opponent the lead when he has to help you.

Here is another example.

How should South play in six hearts after West leads the spade queen? What do you think of the auction?

North’s two-notrump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise, promising four or more hearts

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(Four of his major would have indicated a minimum and three no-trump middling strength.)

Four diamonds was a control-bid (cue-bid).

Then South used regular Blackwood.

(If North-South had been using Roman Key Card Blackwood, South would have known that North had the heart queen.)

At first glance, the contract appears to depend upon one out of two diamond finesses.

But whenever declarer faces this position, he should try to engineer an elimination and endplay. He wins the first trick, draws trumps, and cashes his other four blacksuit winners, discarding the diamond five from the dummy. Now South leads a diamond to dummy’s 10 (or queen). After East wins with the jack (or king), he must either lead back into dummy’s diamond tenace or concede a ruff-andsluff.

Yes, a diamond lead is fatal to the contract. East should have doubled the four-diamond control-bid.

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(724) 541-2941 call between 8am-6pm BRASS Plated & Porcelain Daybed, like new, asking $75. Call (724) 599-5935 CABINET: hardware white, 30 handles. $20.00 Call (724) 463-7294 Couch: teal colored, good condition, asking $250. (724) 349-8942 or 412-289-6070 Leave Msg CRAFTMATIC Adjustable Bed, single, complete w/mattress, good condition. Call (724) 549-6312 END TABLES (2) in fair condition. $15 for both.

Call (724) 349-0646 or (724) 388-9603 FREE Standing potty chair w/handles, clean, $25.00.

Call (724) 639-4056 Leave Message FREE World War II army bunk beds, no mat tresses. Call for more info. (724) 465-4350 LARGE older Frigadare chest freezer,good working condition. Asking $75.00.Call (724) 254-4159 LA-Z-BOY Loveseat recliner, seats 2, burgundy fabric, good condition. $300. (724) 349-9629

TECHNICS Stereo system, 5 components with remote, 3’ speakers, and glass front stand, cd component may need work. asking $30.00 for all. Call (724) 422-7870

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

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Sports Equipment For Sale

COMPOUND Bow: complete & ready to go. $225.

(724) 639-3969 YOUTH Hockey Equip: all Reebok, never used, helmet w/ cage m, shoulder pads jr m, pants jr sm, gloves 10, elbow pads jr m & sr m, $75 for all. Call (814) 749-1635

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Miscellaneous For Sale

2 STEELER Preseason tickets, Sept. 3, Carolina Panthers, 45 yard line, section 534, $100 for both. (724) 463-3425 4 Cemetery Plots in Greenwood cemetary , asking $1500 Call (321) 757-3669 2014 TROYBILT, 42” Riding mower, 7 speed pony, 15.5hp, excellent condition. $650. Call (724) 349-7437 27” CONSOLE Zenith TV, works good and nice cabinet. $75.

(724) 479-3436 CANNING jars: mostly reg quarts, some pints, most have rings. 70 cents each. (724) 479-9145 CRAFTSMAN 10hp Rear engine rider mower, 30” cut , runs great, $150.

Call (724) 349-7437 FIGURINES: Red Rose Tea, 28 pieces $1.00/ea.

Call (724) 465-2949 FURNACE: Singer 240 volt trailer furnace, free.

(724) 726-5550 KENMORE Sewing machine & stand for repair or parts. Free. Call (724) 388-6037 MOTORCYCLE Jacket: size 46, black leather heavy duty, with liner, 5 pockets, belt, large lapels, $50. (724) 783-7623 POWER CHAIR: new, needs good home, Black & red, a Jazzy 6, good condition, nice chair.

Weight as far as someone riding it. 300 pounds, asking $350. firm. (814) 246-4502 call any time.

LAZY BOY couch, 2 yrs old, very good condition, like new, beige in color. $195.00 (724) 479-2041

PRE-LIT 6ft. Christmas tree, multi color lights, rotates also, excellent condition. $40.

724-463-1809

LAZY BOY/ Recliner Chair, burgandy color, good condition, asking $150.

Call (724) 801-8930

SENTRY SAFE: 18” high, 16.5 Wide, 17” deep, New $180. asking $100. (724) 248-1714

LEATHER Rocker, good shape, neutral color, $30.

(724) 465-0828 LIVING ROOM, Dining Room, Bedroom furniture, American Arts & crafts, chocolate, excellent condition, must see, Call (724) 349-3253

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Appliances For Sale

SPACE Heater, Torpedo 97,000 BTU with therostat on wheels for garage, $90 obo. (724) 479-2136 TREADLE Singer sewing machine, did not use, appears to be in good shape, asking $80. Call (724) 388-6037

WHITE Whirlpool (24” wide) under counter dishwasher. Good condition. $100.00 (724) 463-7294

WATER Pond mold, kidney shape, 59” length, 31” wide, center depth 21”, w/3 step water fall, 3.5 to 4 ft. Good cond, $45 obo. (814) 360-2762

WHITE Whirlpool (30” wide) slide in gas stove.

Good condition. $150.00 Call (724) 463-7294

WATER Treatment equip. neutralizer, Tanin and Salt bin, $800. (724) 254-2503

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Computers & Accessories

COMPUTER Monitor, keyboard, scanner & printer. $45 for all. (724) 479-3350 HP Office Jet 4620, fax machine, copy , printer, never hooked up to computer, asking $50. Call (724) 599-5935

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Wanted to Buy

BUYING Junk cars. Call us McCarthy Auto. (724) 349-2622

WANTED STANDING TIMBER

Mountain View Lumber Co. 717.592.1678

We respect your property.

Cash paid up front!

WANTED Princess Pine.

Call 814-236-1973 or 814-661-3271 for more information.

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Swimming Pools For Sale

ABOVE Ground pool stairs & handrails. asking $75. Call (724) 388-6037

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

10.00 x 20 Mounted Truck Tires, Budd & Dayton Wheels $50-$75 each Call (724) 422-3735 8’ Bed off of 91 fullsize ford p.u $300obo installation availabe but extra.

Call (724) 422-3735 TWO Tires: 245-50R-20 from Dodge Nitro, like new, $65. each. (724) 479-9645 WEATHER Guard, model 127-0-02, aluminum saddle box, brand new, retail $700 sale for $500. Call (724) 549-1876 WEATHER TECH Cargo Liner for 2009 Ford Edge, never been used, still in box. $100. obo. Call (724) 388-9034 after 5pm.

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2009 CHEVY Impala SS, v-8, 5.3L, automatic, full power, 60k miles, very good condition. Asking $11,000.00 Call (724) 422-5099 Trucks For Sale

73 F-100 Ford Pickup 75k miles, original wheels & mats, good shape. $3500. (724) 254-0805 98 F-150 Lariat, extended cab, 4 x4, auto, 6 1/2 ft bed, 76k miles, power locks & windows, leather interior, CD changer plus more. $4300 obo. (724) 463-7454

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Don’t let hesitation cost you.

Stop procrastinating and consider your options. It’s time to step up and make a firm choice.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You will accomplish more working as a team member than on your own. Your colleagues will offer you the help you need, and you will be able to show off your leadership skills.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t let negative issues weigh you down. You will feel more at ease once you face what is troubling you and share your feelings with people contributing to your dilemma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Getting

Autos For Sale

2000 DODGE Grand Caravan, V6, 3.3, California car, nice shape, 183,000 miles, Insp. 9/16 $1,200 obo. Call-leave message.

(724) 479-2136

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2015

by Eugenia Last Muster up the courage to do your own thing if you want to be successful. The skills you have acquired are best applied in a precise manner. You need to make the most of the opportunities that come your way.

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involved in a love triangle will lead to heartache. Financial and legal issues are best left alone for now. Delve into a solitary task and avoid bureaucratic red tape.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Cheer up an ailing or troubled friend. Your compassion will be returned in an unexpected way. A short jaunt or change of scenery will do you good. Embrace the unfamiliar and unknown.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Balance is key. Focusing too much on one thing will lead to problems. Strive for equality between your business and personal life. Avoid workplace gossip.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Love is in the air. Make the most of your romantic mood and do something special for a loved one.

Reaffirm your feelings and share your plans for the future.

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An unexpected bill will make a serious dent in your savings. You are best off showing your generosity by offering your time or talents.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Get involved in joint efforts. Refuse to let shyness hold you back. If you take the initiative, a successful partnership will develop. A romantic liaison looks inviting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you enthusiastically embrace change, you will gain recognition for your efforts. Your future looks bright if you pace your every move and stick to carefully laid plans.

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Motorcycles For Sale

2007 HONDA Shadow 750; Cobra pipes, new battery, 12,200 miles, excellent condition, $3495 (724) 422-7391 2008 Wildfire Scooter, 150cc, runs great, up to 50 mph,Many new parts, only 730 miles, asking $650.

Call (724) 465-0601

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Motorcycles For Sale

SUZUKI 650 V-Strom adventure, besten top case, center stand, fork brace, low & stock seat, under 4,000K, $6,200. Call (724) 465-2823

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Boating Needs

1982 THUNDERCRAFT Boat, 15ft, includes trailer, 9.9hp mariner, $1800 Call (724) 349-0646

ESTATE AUCTION THURS., AUG. 27 @ 4:00 PM 180 Lantern Lane (White Twp.) INDIANA, PA 15701

(From Philadelphia St., take N. 4th St./Old 119, 1.7 mi., Rt. on Harrison St. to Lantern Lane)

HOUSEHOLD ITEMS - MANY TOOLS MILITARY ITEMS - VINTAGE ITEMS FURNITURE - WASHER & DRYER - COINS SPORTS CARDS - PATRIOTIC ITEMS SCRAP METAL - BOOKS ON MILITARY COLLECTIBLES - & MORE! KEMP CHIPPER/SHREDDER 8HP KOHLER ENGINE Photos at auctionzip.com (ID #1496) REAL ESTATE - to be sold at 6:30 PM 2 Parcels with single family home and garages in a private cul-de-sac location.

Seller: STELLA M. SENSABAUGH ESTATE Co-Executors: Robert S. Sensabuagh & Melanie L. Fink

MIKE CHARNEGO

CAI Auctioneer - Appraiser AU-1659-L Homer City, PA • 724-479-2481 E-mail: auctionmike@verizon.net Member: National & PA Auctioneers Association

REAL ESTATE AUCTION THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 @ 6:00 PM 1171 Washington Street, Indiana, PA 15701 (Between 11th and 12th Streets) This is your opportunity to buy, at auction, a frame, two-story single family residence on a 42’x130’ lot. The first floor has a large living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and enclosed front porch. The second floor has 3 bedrooms and bath. Floors are of carpet and vinyl.

There is a full basement with a Burnham gas HW furnace, gas HW tank and laundry facilities. All public utilities are present. Stove, refrigerator, dryer and partial furnishings are included with the real estate. Do not miss this opportunity!

Photos @ auctionzip.com (ID #1496) Call or e-mail for a Bidder’s Information Packet.

TERMS: $2,500 deposit at the time of auction. Balance due by October 16, 2015. Inspect real estate by appointment only or 1 hour before the auction.

Call today! Sold subject to seller confirmation.

Announcements made at the auction take precedence over printed information.

Seller: S&T Bank Trustee This property must be sold for the trust account!

Auction Conducted By: “Your Real Estate Auction Professional”

MIKE CHARNEGO

CAI Auctioneer - Appraiser Homer City, PA 724-479-2481 AU-1659-L E-mail: auctionmike@verizon.net Member: National & PA Auctioneers Association