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Tests of heart valves lift hope

Report: Greene should be fired

Constitution Center show highlights the human face of combat, as seen by the Army’s own artists.

Trials at Penn and elsewhere, on people too ill for open-heart surgery, saw higher survival rates.

The internal PHA document cites a plot to hide sex claims. By Jeff Shields, Jennifer Lin, and Nathan Gorenstein

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In 2008, Ralph Miller’s heart was failing from a faulty valve. Walking upstairs left him gasping for air. The retired railroad worker from Chester County had run out of options and would likely Mammogram die within two years. questions On Wednes¢ A new study day, Miller, finds exam’s now 72, was benefit is a back in his close call. A4. barn working on one of the lawn tractors he repairs and resells, thanks to an experimental surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Miller was among several hundred patients in a clinical trial at Penn and other medical centers focusing on valve patients who were too sick for traditional open-heart surgery. Instead, Miller and some others received experimental heart valves that significantly improved survival rates after a year. The results were published Thursday in the See HEART on A14

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“Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare,” by Tom Lea, hangs at left as a visitor walks through the exhibition.

“I painted my way through the war,” said New Hope’s Paul Rickert, whose work from Vietnam is on display.

War through painter’s eye By Art Carey

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Working in oil and watercolor, New Hope artist Paul Rickert paints luminous scenes of the Maine coast and moody streetscapes of Chestnut Hill, where he once lived. He is fascinated by the mysteries of fog and hidden narratives beneath “the subtle drone of ordinary life.” But 44 years ago, when he was 19,

Rickert’s subject matter was altogether different — soldiers under fire rushing for a chopper, a soldier helping evacuate a wounded comrade, a soldier on a gurney linked to life by an IV line. Rickert was a combat artist in Vietnam, one of dozens assigned by the Army to create a visual record of that long, inglorious war. His paintings and drawings are among more than 250 works

of art in a magnificent new exhibition at the National Constitution Center, “Art of the American Soldier,” opening Friday and continuing through Jan. 11. Drawn from the Army’s rarely seen collection of nearly 16,000 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and cartoons, the show is an extraordinary sampling of the artistic impressions of soldiers from World See WAR ART on A16

Bottom of the first, two on, one out, Howard at bat, and you’re 10-deep in Ashburn Alley, behind a sea of people, your head whipping back and forth to home plate, as you stand in line awaiting a roast pork with long hots from Tony Luke’s. Wouldn’t it be great if you could order food from your seat and

someone would bring it to you? That day has come. In an arrangement touted as the first of its kind in professional sports, the Phillies, Major League Baseball, and stadium concessionaire Aramark are allowing fans to skip the lines and wirelessly order premium sandwiches and beverages, and delivery is promised in less than 30 minutes. Even in the cheap seats.

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In theory, the only hitch is that you must use an iPhone or an iPad 3G running a new release of Major League Baseball’s At Bat 2010 or At Bat 2010 Lite “app,” which the league, the Phillies, and Aramark modified for Citizens Bank Park. In a pregame demonstration Tuesday, the technology worked fine. See BALLPARK on A10

he Iranian arms broker Amir Hossein Ardebili found himself locked in Tbilisi’s notorious Prison No. 5. The crumbling, filthy facility, a 19th-century factory converted to a desolate jail, was largely shuttered in darkness, crammed with sweaty, shirtless prisoners. They slept in shifts, up to 74 inmates in a holding pen. “We washed in the toilet,” Ardebili recalled. Human Rights Watch and the

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Food delivered to his seat, Paul Sandmeyer had his hands full at the Phillies’ game Wednesday.

After the sting, U.S. agents began to probe the Iranian’s laptop. What would it reveal of Iran’s military plans? By John Shiffman

European Commission for the Prevention of Torture had repeatedly cited Prison No. 5 for inhumane conditions. A year earlier, guards killed seven inmates during a riot.

¢ A suit says an ex-PHA official paid a price for confronting Greene. A15.

No frost in sight for the pumpkin

Now, takeout at the ball game By Michael Klein

Philadelphia Housing Authority Executive Director Carl R. Greene should be terminated immediately for engaging with subordinates in a conspiracy to conceal four sexual-harassment claims, according to an internal report obtained by The Inquirer. The 12-page document, expected to be presented to the PHA Board of Commissioners in a closed-door session Thursday, called Greene “a serial sexual harasser” who “mentally tortured, physically assaulted, and professionally damaged” four female employees. It described a “modus operandi” in which Greene would pick a target, change her job so that it brought her in close professional and/or physical contact with him, then insist on going out socially “under the guise of discussing work with her.” He would then offer raises and promotions, the report states, “then See PHA on A15

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And yet, what Ardebili feared most was extradition. If sent to the United States, his lawyer argued to the Georgian courts, this would violate Ardebili’s human rights — for surely, he would be tortured.

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A 2006 Human Rights Watch report on Tbilisi Prison No. 5, where Ardebili was held.

THE STORY SO FAR An Iranian arms broker is arrested in the Republic of Georgia after a sting by U.S. Homeland Security agents. As the Iranian sits in a Tbilisi prison, the U.S. agents scramble to extradite him to Wilmington. Find additional images, videos, and interviews at www.philly.com/ ShadowWar

The sunlight is becoming ever more oblique, the nights are about as long as the days, and, officially, the seasons have changed. Apparently, however, the atmosphere hasn’t noticed. The extraordinary warmth that characterized the hottest summer on record in Philadelphia and the related intensifying dryness have lapped into the brand-new season. On Wednesday, when the last gasp of summer expired at 11:09 p.m., the temperature hit 90 for the 54th time this year, beating the record of 53 set in 1991. On the first day of fall Thursday, the temperature is headed to the July-like mid-80s, then back to the familiar low 90s on Friday. Although early speculation suggests a winter on the mild side, informed sources believe that eventually, it will get cooler. Whether it will get wetter is a whole other matter, and the rapid browning throughout the region is a See WEATHER on A16

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GENEVA, Switzerland — A report by three U.N.-appointed human-rights experts said Wednesday that Israeli forces violated international law May 31 when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, killing nine activists. The U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission concluded that Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and it described the military raid on the flotilla as brutal and disproportionate. The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded by saying that the Human Rights Council had a “biased, politicized and extremist approach.” Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the report and called for those involved in the raid to be punished. The 56-page document lists alleged crimes by Israeli forces during and after the raid, including willful killing and torture. It alleges that Israel violated the right to life, liberty, and freedom of expression, and the right of captured crew and passengers to be treated with humanity. The 47-member panel also concluded that a humanitarian crisis existed in Gaza on the day of the incident and “for this reason alone,” it said, Israel’s blockade of the terroritory “is unlawful.” It described the raid, in which eight Turkish activists and a Turkish American on the Mavi Marmara were shot and killed, as “clearly unlawful.” Israel says its troops fired after coming under attack by activists wielding clubs, axes, and metal rods. The activists said they were defending their ship after Israeli soldiers attacked it in international waters. The raid sparked an outcry and forced Israel to ease its Gaza land blockade. It has lifted virtually all limits on food, medicine, and consumer goods but maintains a naval blockade. Andy David, spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said the U.N. council blamed Israel before the inquiry — it condemned the raid in a June resolution — “and it is no surprise that they condemn after.” Israel has been working with a separate U.N. group examining the incident. The council’s report was compiled by former U.N. warcrimes prosecutor Desmond de Silva, Trinidad judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips, and Malaysian women’s-rights advocate Mary Shanthi Dairiam. The council has in the past singled out Israel for criticism.

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Palestinians attack an Israeli bus during the funeral procession of a Palestinian man shot dead by a private Israeli security guard in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

Clashes in Jerusalem cloud fragile peace talks By Josef Federman and Diaa Hadid

day — and the Palestinians have threatened to walk away ASSOCIATED PRESS from the talks if that occurs. JERUSALEM — Crowds of On Monday, Israel’s deputy Palestinian youths violently prime minister called on the rampaged in East Jerusalem Palestinians to abandon their on Wednesday after the shoot- demand. On Tuesday, Israel’s ing death of a local man, military chief warned that a clouding fragile peace efforts collapse of the talks could even as the Palestinian Au- well lead to violence. If Netanyahu backs down thority president signaled he may back away from threats and extends the freeze, trouto quit negotiations if Israel bles with his pro-settler coaliresumes West Bank settle- tion partners are likely. If he doesn’t and the talks break ment construction. At one point, Israeli riot po- down, Israel’s international lice stormed the hilltop com- standing would suffer — alongpound known to Jews as the side the possibility of renewed Temple Mount and to Muslims violence with the Palestinians. In a Tuesday night address as the Noble Sanctuary — the most explosive site in the Is- to prominent American Jewraeli-Palestinian conflict, and ish figures, Palestinian Authe place where the last Pales- thority President Mahmoud tinian uprising began almost Abbas indicated a possible softening of his position. exactly 10 years ago. “I cannot say I will leave That uprising, which killed the negotiations, but it’s very thousands over about five difficult for me to resume years of violence, erupted af- talks if Prime Minister Netanter a failed U.S.-led peace ef- yahu declares that he will confort at Camp David. Wednes- tinue his [settlement] activity day’s outburst comes less in the West Bank and Jerusathan a month after the sides lem,” Abbas said, according resumed peace negotiations, to a transcript of the event. at a tense moment when the The Palestinian ambassatalks already face possible col- dor to the United Nations, Riylapse over Israel’s plans to ad Mansour, later said that end its 10-month slowdown of Abbas’ comments had been construction in the Jewish set- misconstrued and that Abbas tlements of the West Bank. was still ready to walk away. The moratorium was de- But he stopped short of a declared last November under nial. intense U.S. pressure to help Clashes erupted in the Silcoax the Palestinians into wan neighborhood of East talks with the government of Jerusalem shortly after a PalPrime Minister Benjamin Net- estinian man was killed by a anyahu, who — despite hav- private Israeli security guard ing accepted the principle of watching over Jewish famia Palestinian state — inspires lies in the area. About 70 ullittle faith in the Palestinians. tranationalist Jewish families Netanyahu said all along that live in Silwan, amid 50,000 the slowdown would end Sun- Palestinian residents.

Israeli police said the man, Samir Sirhan, 32, had a criminal record and was shot overnight after a group of youths pelted the guard with stones. Residents said Sirhan, a father of five young children, was unlikely to have participated in the violence. After the shooting, rioting spread throughout Silwan and to the nearby walled Old City, intensifying during Sirhan’s funeral. Young men and boys with their faces covered with T-shirts to avoid identification set fire to trash bins and tires. They hurled concrete chunks and rocks at paramilitary police and demanded revenge. Police responded by firing off rounds of acrid tear gas. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police moved into the disputed compound after stone-throwers attacked Jewish worshipers at the adjacent Western Wall, the holiest prayer site for Jews. Rosenfeld said the stonethrowers fled into the AlAqsa Mosque, Islam’s thirdholiest site, and after a standoff, riot forces pulled back without further incident. In other unrest, Palestinian youths overturned three cars with passengers inside, in one case dragging a man out of his vehicle and stabbing him. They smashed the windows of five buses, and a paramilitary police jeep was set on fire and destroyed. Ten Israelis were wounded, including the stabbing victim, who was seriously hurt, police said. Palestinian medics said 14 people were lightly hurt.

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It’s the bicentennial of a tiny Louisiana republic that came about by revolt. By Mary Foster

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BATON ROUGE, La. — While Texans are fiercely proud their state was once its own republic, and California celebrates the same former status on its flag, relatively few Louisianans know that a group of their forebears overthrew Spanish rule 200 years ago to carve out a tiny, independent nation. With the bicentennial Thursday, historians and descendants of the rebels are hoping to change that. “It is the most dramatic event in Louisiana history that has been so little recognized,” said Sam Hyde, director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. “… It is a unique event that had a lasting effect on this area and others.” Early on Sept. 23, 1810, 75 armed rebels slipped into the Spanish fort at Baton Rouge and subdued the garrison in what was described as a “sharp and bloody firefight.” They lowered the Spanish flag and raised the Bonnie Blue Flag — a white star on a blue field — that had been adopted for the new nation they called West Florida. Three days later, the rebels signed a declaration of independence and set up a government for a new nation, historians say, of about 4,000 people. The republic was one of three nations that joined with the United States as it expand-

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Signatures on an original copy of the Constitution of the

Republic of West Florida, at the Louisiana State Archives. ed west during the 19th century. The others were the republics of Texas and California. West Florida achieved its goal of U.S. annexation — 74 days after independence, said archivist Betty Tucker of Zachary, La. Historians generally agree that the republic included eight Louisiana parishes still known as the Florida Parishes; those completed what became the state of Louisiana in 1812. “They were English-speaking people, several were Tories, and they were sick of Spain,” Tucker said of the rebels. Under the Spanish, “you had to be Catholic; they had no rights, no vote. They were planning to join the United States from when they started their secret meetings in 1805.”

The rebels also originally claimed all Spanish territory extending east through Mississippi to the Perdido River, which separates Alabama and Florida. But their attempt to seize Mobile, Ala., failed, and Hyde said people living in those areas outside Louisiana never actively rebelled. On Thursday, ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary of the revolt will be held at Old Fort San Carlos in Baton Rouge, and a flag-raising is set at the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse in Covington. On Jan. 10, the bicentennial of the annexation of West Florida will be celebrated at State Capitol Park in Baton Rouge. West Florida’s residents were mostly farmers and tradesmen of Scottish and En-

glish descent. Its leaders dealt harshly with opponents to either independence or U.S. annexation. “It was pretty violent,” Hyde said. “In one case, a man was burned alive.” Tucker said the revolution quickly faded from the state’s memory. “Most people think this was all part of the Louisiana Purchase,” Hyde said. Descendants of West Florida’s founders hope the bicentennial will give the republic its proper place in history. In 2002, Leila Roberts, great-granddaughter of Fulworth Skipwith, leader of the republic, donated the original copy of the West Florida Constitution to the Louisiana State Archives, state archivist Ellen Brown said. David Norwood is a descendant of Bennett Hilliard Barrow, a rebellion leader. He displays in his home a table marked by rings from wet glasses, which family lore holds were left by rebels who met to plot their rebellion. Next door is the family home, Highland Plantation, built in 1805, where the rebels gathered. 1810 was a bad year for Spain. Not only did West Florida rebel; the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars sparked revolt in Spanish possessions across the Western Hemisphere. Said David Norwood’s wife, Cammie, “This is unknown history that is important to the rest of the nation.”

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Obama offers new strategy on world aid

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ism or related crimes, “an astoundingly high number of WASHINGTON — Efforts American citizens who have by extremists abroad to radi- attacked — or intended to atcalize and recruit U.S. resi- tack — their own country,” dents present new security said Sen. Joe Lieberman threats, three top Obama ad- (I., Conn.), the committee’s ministration officials told Con- chairman. gress on Wednesday. In his prepared testimony, The threat posed by home- Mueller said it was possible grown extremists shows that that more American extremthe battle against terrorism ists were feeling increasingly has become more complex disenchanted with living in in the last year, underscor- the United States or angry ing the challenges of pin- about U.S. and Western forpointing and blocking plots, eign policy, “making their desaid Michael Lecision to leave for iter, director of extremist opporThree officials National tunities abroad SUSAN WALSH / Associated Press t h e told Congress all the more apCounterterrorPresident Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ism Center. (left) reach to shake hands after Obama’s speech. of efforts by pealing.” “Groups affiliOmar Hamextremists ated with al-Qaemami, an Alabamtries that seek to improve their may get more aid. an now known as own development and goverAides said that the United da are now acabroad to Abu Mansour alnance in specified ways. States had often seemed to tively targeting radicalize and Amriki, or “the United Aides to Obama acknowl- simply throw its money at t h e American,” has edged that the new approach problems. Obama has prom- States and lookrecruit U.S. become one of would mean shifting aid from ised to double foreign aid to ing to use Ameriresidents. the highest-prosome countries to others, but $50 billion by 2012 but also cans or Westernfile members of they were vague on who wants to make the programs ers who are able to remain undetected by the Somalia-based group alwould be cut back. more effective. Obama said that the new A consensus has developed heightened security mea- Shabab and appeared in a jiprogram would put a strong among major donor nations, sures,” FBI Director Robert hadist video in May 2009. Leiter said the rising proemphasis on broad economic mainly that money must be Mueller told the Senate growth, which he hailed as spent on more than food, Homeland Security and Gov- files of U.S. citizens such as “the most powerful force the health, and education, and ernmental Affairs Commit- Hammami in overseas groups provide young extremists world has ever known for also should help build econo- tee. It appears “domestic radi- with American faces as role eradicating poverty and creat- mies and public institutions. ing opportunity.” The president’s tough-love calization and homegrown models. Leiter said plots by homeHe said economic growth message echoed those of oth- extremism” are becoming had turned South Korea “from er world leaders in New York more pronounced, Mueller grown Sunni extremists were disrupted in New York, North a recipient of aid to a donor of for the annual U.N. General said. Homeland Security Secre- Carolina, Arkansas, Alaska, aid. It’s the force that has Assembly. German Chancelraised living standards from lor Angela Merkel has called tary Janet Napolitano said al- Texas, and Illinois in the last Brazil to India. And it’s the on poorer nations to take Qaeda had inspired an array year and point to “a collective subculture and a common force that has allowed emerg- greater responsibility for of extremist organizations. “We are all seeing more di- cause,” even though the plots ing African countries like Ethio- their progress, while Canadipia, Malawi, and Mozambique an Prime Minister Stephen verse activity” by a more di- were unrelated. Napolitano said U.S.-born, to defy the odds and make real Harper urged greater ac- verse collection of groups, NaYemen-based Anwar al-Awlaprogress toward achieving the countability from countries politano said. Leiter said al-Qaeda in Paki- ki was an illustration of an Millennium Development that receive aid each year. Goals, even as some of their The leaders’ remarks reflect stan was at one of its weakest English-speaker spreading neighbors — like Cote d’Ivoire the concerns of donor nations points organizationally. None- propaganda over the Inter— have lagged behind.” about the stewardship of their theless, he said, it remains a net. Lieberman said extremists In regions where problems contributions, exacerbated by capable and determined eneare less acute, such as Eastern global economic troubles and my that has proven its resil- “are working increasingly to ience over time. build alliances or essentially Europe and Latin America, Oba- the drive for austerity. Since 2009, at least 63 U.S. recruit soldiers for their ma aides said that help was likecitizens have been charged army from within the United ly to be reduced, while the poor- ¢ Obama seeks to explain est stretches of Africa and Asia health-care law to voters. A7. with or convicted of terror- States.” ASSOCIATED PRESS

world donor. Countries such as Haiti and Afghanistan will continue to receive special assistance, even if their governments’ records of reform are open to question, aides said. “We will seek partners who want to build their own capaciBy Christi Parsons ty to provide for their people,” and Paul Richter Obama said. “We will seek deLOS ANGELES TIMES UNITED NATIONS — Presi- velopment that is sustainable. dent Obama on Wednesday pre- … The days when your developsented to world leaders a new ment was dictated in foreign plan for distributing U.S. aid to capitals must come to an end.” Obama spoke during a struggling nations, promising to “change the way we do busi- week in which world leaders ness” by putting a new focus on have been focused on the self-reliance and market forces United Nations’ chief antipovto create a path out of poverty. erty program, the Millennium Development Goals, a 15-year The U.S. aim is not to sim- plan launched in 2000. With ply dole out aid but to create five years left to meet targets “the conditions where assis- of poverty reduction and tance is no longer needed,” health-care improvements, Obama said in comments at and amid a world economic the United Nations. The pro- crisis, doubts have spread gram will reward countries about its ultimate success. willing to cooperate in their The new U.S. program, set up own improvement, he said. after a lengthy review, builds At the same time, Obama in- on the Bush administration’s sisted that the United States Millennium Challenge Corporawould not abandon the helpless tion concept, which aimed to and would remain a leading give special rewards to coun-

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Study adds to debate on mammograms’ value Research likely to draw cautions finds the tests don’t save many lives, even in older women.

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“The test is surely a close call, a delicate balance between modest benefit and modest harm,” H. Gilbert Welch, a Dartmouth Medical School primary-care physician, wrote in his editorial. By Marie McCullough That message could be misINQUIRER STAFF WRITER interpreted, worried Emily F. The American Cancer Soci- Conant, chief of breast imagety and other influential orga- ing at the Hospital of the Uninizations say getting a mam- versity of Pennsylvania. mogram is “one of the most “Women are looking for reaimportant things a woman sons not to get their mammocan do to protect her health.” grams,” Conant said. “We A study and editorial in know mammography works. Thursday’s New England To cut back now, when we Journal of Medicine offers a know how to hone and make more restrained view: The de- it even better, is going back in cision to undergo breast can- time.” Ultrasound, MRI imagcer screening is a close call. ing, and digital technology The study, by researchers are now used to clarify ambigfrom Norway and Harvard uous mammograms. Much of the mammography University, expands the neverdebate rests on now-outdated ending debate over the value of mammograms. Previously, studies done from the 1960s through the 1980s in which the debate centered on womwomen were randomly asen in their 40s, when breast signed to get mammograms cancer is relatively rare but or not. often aggressive. The new The latest study, in constudy concludes that screentrast, uses data from Noring doesn’t save many lives, way’s public health-care syseven among women aged 50 tem, which gradually phased to 69, who are at higher risk in breast cancer screening of the malignancy. across the country starting in Screening this postmeno- 1996. (Before that, mammopausal age group for a decade grams were mostly used to direduced breast cancer deaths agnose palpable lumps.) Unby a “modest” 10 percent, like U.S. health plans, Norwhich translates to one life way covers the test only for saved per 2,500 women who women ages 50 to 69, and got the breast X-rays, accord- only every other year. ing to the analysis of NorThe nine-year phase-in of way’s cancer registry. Previ- the program enabled reous studies have estimated searchers to tease out how this “mortality benefit” to be much of the reduction in about 25 percent. deaths was due to earlier canThe new study did not look cer detection with mammogat the risks of screening — raphy, vs. greater awareness namely, overdiagnosis and and better treatments. The overtreatment. However, the study analyzed data from editorial said that in the Unit- more than 40,000 women of ed States, about 1,000 of every all ages who developed breast 2,500 women screened for a de- cancer in the decades before cade would have at least one and after screening was introfalse alarm, 500 of them would duced. Of these, 4,791 died of undergo an unnecessary biop- the disease. sy, and five or more would be It turned out that overall, treated for cancers that would breast cancer mortality fell 28 percent in the decade after never have become lethal.

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Fla. court finds no basis for ban on adoption by gays By Curt Anderson and Kelli Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — Florida’s strict ban on adoption by gay people is unconstitutional because no other group, even people with criminal backgrounds, is singled out for a flat prohibition by state law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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screening began, but it dropped even among women who weren’t getting mammograms. The researchers concluded that 10 percent of the overall mortality reduction — about a third — was directly linked to screening, while the rest was due to better, more timely treatment, such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Lead researcher Mette Kalager, a biostatistician with Norway’s cancer registry, speculated that the growth of screening raised awareness of the importance of checking out breast abnormalities. “We’re actually taking better care of ourselves now than we did 20 years ago,” she said. “That could be a spin-off effect of screening.” Last year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force set off a controversy by issuing updated screening advice. It said women in their 40s who are at average breast cancer risk should consider forgoing mammograms because of the risk-benefit tradeoffs. Given the latest study, Welch said, doctors and advisory groups should strive to inform women, and accept that some will opt not to be screened. “It’s one of the few areas where doctors go beyond cajoling and become coercive,” Welch said. “They say, ‘What, you don’t care about your health?’ ” if a woman declines a mammogram. Preventive Services task force member Sanford Schwartz, a physician and health-care expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, offered the bottom line: “Mammograms still work, but not as well as doctors thought — and nowhere near as well as most women think.”

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The ruling by the District The decision is likely to be Court of Appeal upholds a appealed to the Florida Su2008 decision by a Miami- preme Court, which could Dade County judge who then determine the ultimate found “no rational basis” for fate of the law. “We note that the ban when she approved our ruling is unlikely to be the adoption of two young the last word,” the appeals brothers by Martin Gill and panel said. The ruling came in an aphis male partner. The prohibition was enacted peal of the 2008 in 1977 and is the decision by the The judges only law of its state Department kind in the naof Children and noted that Families, which tion, according to no other had urged the court records. In a 28-page group but gays judges to considopinion, a threeer evidence of had been judge panel of what it said were barred from r i s k f a c t o r s the court noted that gay people among potential adopting. are permitted to gay parents. become foster These factors, acparents or legal guardians in cording to attorneys for the Florida, yet are the only department, included more sexual activity by children of group not allowed to adopt. “It is difficult to see any ra- gay parents and more incitional basis in utilizing homo- dents of teasing and bullying sexual persons as foster par- suffered by children from gay ents or guardians on a tempo- households. The appeals panel said that rary or permanent basis, while imposing a blanket pro- the state’s evidence did not hibition on those same per- back up those assertions and sons,” Judge Gerald Cope that its “experts’ opinions wrote for the panel. “All other were not valid from a scientifpersons are eligible to be con- ic point of view.” The departsidered case-by-case to be ment also now agrees, according to Wednesday’s ruling, adoptive parents.” “that gay people and heterosexuals make equally good parents.” Clearing the Record According to the departA story Wednesday about ment, at any given time in new evidence of serious Florida there are as many as fraud in Afghanistan’s parlia- 1,000 children in need of mentary elections misspelled adoption, and it often takes the name of Indicium Consult- more than 30 months for ing, a private security analy- adoptions to become final. sis firm in Kabul. “We’re thrilled for the Gill ¢ family and we’re thrilled for A story Tuesday about a what this means for the adChester County man charged vancement for human rights in in a sex-abuse case incorrect- the state of Florida,” said ly referred to the affiliation of Howard Simon, of the Amerit h e b a s e b a l l t e a m h e can Civil Liberties Union of coached. The squad was in a Florida, which represented the youth league. Gill family. “What this also shows is The Inquirer wants its news how easy it is to pass bad legreport to be fair and correct in islation and how many years every respect, and regrets when and decades it takes to reit is not. If you have a question move bad legislation from the or comment about news books,” Simon said. The boys coverage, contact assistant are now ages 10 and 6. managing editor David Sullivan A DCF spokesman did not (215-854-2357) at The Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia 19101, or immediately return a telee-mail dsullivan@phillynews.com. phone call seeking comment.

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12 spectators killed in blast at Iran military parade By Nasser Karimi

en and children, said provincial Gov. Vahid Jalalzadeh, who was TEHRAN, Iran — A bomb ex- quoted in a report by Iran’s ploded Wednesday at a military state broadcasting company. parade in northwestern Iran, Iranian forces in the border killing 12 spectators. One offi- zone have clashed for years cial blamed Kurdish separatists with Kurdish rebels from the who have fought Iranian forces Iranian wing of the Kurdistan in the area for decades. Workers Party, which also has The blast in the city of Maha- fighters based in Turkey and bad, close to the Iraqi and Turk- Iraq. The group in Iran has ish borders, wounded 75 peo- generally not targeted civilple, Iranian media reports said. ians in its campaign for greatMost of the victims were wom- er rights for the Kurdish miASSOCIATED PRESS

In the World Pirates assault offshore oil rig LAGOS, Nigeria — Pirates with Kalashnikov rifles clashed with Nigerian navy forces in a failed bid to take over an offshore oil platform, then kidnapped three French employees of a marine-services company while retreating, a Nigerian official said Wednesday. Navy Commodore David Nabaida said a Thai employee also may have been taken hostage by the pirates during the attack, which began early Wednesday morning. The French-flagged vessel Bourbon Alexandre was working in an oil field operated by Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned oil producer. No claim of responsibility for the attack has been made, officials said. It was the latest act of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, especially along Nigeria’s 530-mile coast. Such attacks have been common near Nigeria’s Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of swamps, mangrove fields, and creeks almost the size of South Carolina. — AP

nority, raising the prospect that the bomb might have gone off prematurely. A state radio report said the device was detonated on a timer and had been placed under a bush near the parade route. No one immediately claimed responsibility. Jalalzadeh told state TV the explosion was carried out by “counterrevolutionaries,” a reference to the Kurdish separatist group. He called it “a

madinejad’s disputed reelection in June 2009. Britain’s foreign minister condemned the attack. State TV broadcast video capturing the moment the blast shook the parade. It showed soldiers marching in front of a stage for VIPs as the explosion rang out. The area was left littered with debris and bits of torn clothing. The footage also showed military personnel rushing to

the site, and injured women being treated in a hospital. Iran’s official IRNA news agency, citing hospital officials, said all the dead were female; the Mehr news agency said two of the victims were wives of ranking military officers. State TV said two were young children. The parade was one of several held around Iran to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

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Book exposes White House divide on war By Anne Gearan

show clear progress by the end of this year or risk a colWASHINGTON — President lapse of public support. Obama’s early attempts to seize The book, Obama’s Wars, recontrol of a neglected Afghani- veals that Obama’s aides stan war yielded a strategy that were deeply divided over the pleased almost no one and war even as the president hasn’t turned the tide of a con- agreed to nearly triple troop flict near its 10th year. levels in a gamble reminisJust how contentious that cent of President George W. plan has been, inside the Oba- Bush’s Iraq war “surge.” ma White House as well as out“I want an exit strategy,” side, is captured in Bob Wood- Obama said at one meeting, ward’s new book. The account as he and White House aides exposes the roots of an Afghan- groused that the Pentagon istan exit plan driven more by brass was boxing him in. politics than national security He got one, at least on paand shows the president wor- per. Obama has said he will ried about losing the support begin withdrawing forces in of the public and his party. July 2011, a date that many in “I have two years with the the military see as artificial public on this,” Obama is and perhaps premature. quoted as saying at one point, Privately, Obama told Vice referring to what the adminis- President Biden to push his tration still considers a finite alternative strategy opposing well of public patience. a big troop buildup in meetSuch private fears have ings, according to the book. been aired publicly. Defense While Obama ultimately reSecretary Robert M. Gates jected the alternative plan, has said the United States the book says, he set a withand its NATO partners must drawal timetable because “I ASSOCIATED PRESS

can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.” Obama’s top White House adviser on Afghanistan and his special envoy for the region are described as believing the surge and withdrawal strategy will not work. Details from the book were first reported by the New York Times, which obtained a copy before its release Monday. The Washington Post also reported extensively on the book by its longtime reporter and editor. It shot to No. 2 on the Amazon best-seller list Wednesday. Obama was among administration officials Woodward in-

terviewed for the book. It contains previously classified information, including a secret six-page “terms sheet” that a frustrated Obama dictated himself as he tried to bring the generals to heel. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said divisions were inevitable. “I think that the book portrays a thoughtful, vigorous policy process that led to a strategy to get the best chance of achieving our objectives and goals in Afghanistan,” he said. “I can’t imagine that any option that the president looked at would not have engendered some debate.”

Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell had a copy Wednesday but declined comment on the substance of the book. “We are not going to start offering literary criticism,” he said. A NATO spokesman in Afghanistan, German Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, said the strategy was working and would show larger results by the end of this year. “Let’s be humble and modest,” Blotz said. “This is work in progress. We need some more time.” Obama announced his redrawn war plan in December,

with a heavy emphasis on his promise to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next summer. The Obama administration plans a review of the strategy in December but no major “course correction,” as senior officials have put it. Even after the strategy was announced, sharp divisions persisted. A year after the bruising debate last fall, the administration remains at odds over how to calibrate the U.S. relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He is seen variously as the linchpin or the Achilles’ heel of U.S. chances for even modest success.

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CIA-Trained Afghan Hunters The CIA has trained and bankrolled a well-paid force of elite Afghan paramilitaries for nearly eight years to hunt al-Qaeda and the Taliban for the CIA, according to current and former U.S. officials. Modeled after U.S. special forces, the Counterterrorist Pursuit Team was set up in the months after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2002 to penetrate territory controlled by the Taliban and al-Qaeda and target extremists for interrogations by CIA officials. The 3,000-strong Afghan teams are used for surveillance and long-range reconnaissance missions. Some have trained at CIA facilities in the United States. The Afghan pursuit teams were described in detail in Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars, due out Monday. Woodward reported that the units conducted covert operations inside neighboring Pakistan’s lawless border areas as part of a campaign against al-Qaeda and Taliban havens. The use of Afghan paramilitaries to carry out spying activities will likely inflame already frayed political relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. — Associated Press

McChrystal inquiry leaves questions It found that the most egregious remarks to Rolling Stone were not from him or top staff.

members of his staff regarding Obama, Vice President Biden, and some top aides. People identified as senior aides to the general were quoted disparaging many senior members of the Obama By Thom Shanker national security team, includNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ing one who, in banter with WASHINGTON — An Army the general, referred to Biden inquiry into a Rolling Stone as “Bite Me.” magazine article about Gen. One McChrystal aide was Stanley A. McChrystal has quoted calling Gen. James L. found that it was not the gen- Jones, the national security eral or senior officers on his adviser, a “clown,” and Mcstaff who made the most egre- Chrystal was described as regious comments that led to acting with disdain upon rehis abrupt dismissal as the ceiving an e-mail from Richtop Afghan commander in ard C. Holbrooke, the special June, according to Army and representative for AfghaniPentagon officials. stan and Pakistan. But the review, commisMonths later, his forced resioned after an embarrassing tirement remains a topic of and disruptive episode, does Pentagon discussion, and the not wholly resolve who was investigative process has only responsible for the inflamma- served to fuel the consternatory quotes, most of which tion. “More of this ‘Who shot were anonymous. Stan?’ serves no purpose,” a seThe Army review has been nior Pentagon official said. turned over to a higher-level inIn undertaking its review, quiry by the Pentagon’s inspec- the Army inspector general set tor general because the matter out not to extend the controverinvolves not only a four-star sy but to settle it, Army offigeneral but also several subor- cials said. Gen. George W. Cadinates outside the Army. sey Jr., the Army chief of staff, The Army report, which has ordered the inquiry to deternot been released, points some mine how Rolling Stone was blame at a midlevel Navy spe- granted access to a wartime cial warfare officer who served commander and also to assess as an aide to McChrystal, ac- responsibility for quotes criticording to Army, Pentagon, cal of civilian leaders. and other military officials. Pentagon officials said the But that officer was not in- Army’s review might also terviewed by the Army’s in- serve a secondary purpose. At vestigators, and so blame was least two of the more senior based on the comments of oth- Army officers on McChrystal’s ers. The officer has told Navy staff were up for promotions officials that he did not make or new assignments, and the the offending comments, ac- Army would not want to forcording to Pentagon officials. ward the nominations until The actions or comments of they were cleared. two civilians on the general’s Details of the investigations team were criticized by the and resulting controversy Army review, officials said. were described by a dozen PenMcChrystal, who was sum- tagon civilians and military ofmarily recalled by President ficers who read the Army reObama to Washington, where view or were briefed on it; they he accepted responsibility for requested anonymity because the episode and resigned, is the probe continues. now teaching at Yale UniversiDefense Secretary Robert ty and making the rounds on M. Gates and Adm. Mike the lecture circuit. He was re- Mullen, chairman of the Joint placed as the commander in Chiefs of Staff, had champiAfghanistan by Gen. David H. oned McChrystal, but both Petraeus, his former boss. supported Obama’s decision In the article, McChrystal to accept his resignation. was not directly quoted saying They spoke of the importance anything overtly insubordi- of preserving civilian control nate, and the report noted that of the military and stressed he might not even have been that a commander was represent to hear some of the sponsible for establishing the disrespectful comments by leadership climate.

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Continued from A1 A fan launches the app on the iPhone, whose GPS system verifies that he or she is inside the ballpark. With a couple of taps, a menu of sandwich platters comes up: cheesesteak, roast pork, turkey, Italian hoagie, and crab cake. Each sandwich is served with a brownie and chips, so the price ($12 to $19) is a few dollars higher than in Ashburn Alley and premium-seating areas. (For instance, a Tony Luke’s roast pork that sells for $8.50 at the concession will run $12.50 when delivered with chips and a brownie.) Water, soda, and beer (Bud and Bud Light) are available, though beer is delivered only with food, Aramark says. The menu might expand. Into the phone, a fan taps the section, row, seat number, name, and credit-card number, then “enter.” The order hits an Aramark computer terminal in a kitchen behind home plate, where workers prep and package the food, which a runner puts into an insulated bag for delivery. Tip is optional. “It’s a natural extension of the technology out there,” said Brian Hastings, Aramark’s regional director of operations. But glitches did occur Wednesday night, at least with two fans from Haddonfield. Ron Sandmeyer, 54, and his son, Paul, 24, arrived equipped with two versions of the iPhone. One phone, an iPhone 3G, wouldn’t support the app. Their second version, an iPhone 3GS, worked fine — but not where they started out watching the game. Ron and Paul were seated in the Hall of Fame Club, Section 219, and the iPhone 3GS said service was unavailable in that section. Ron Sandmeyer often sits in Section 120, so he tried ordering and having the food delivered to that section. That worked fine. At precisely 7:16 p.m., he ordered two pork sandwiches and one cheesesteak for $37. Eighteen minutes later, the food arrived in an insulated delivery bag, carried by a cheerful Aramark employee, Likeita Stone. “We would have been standing in line way longer than that,” said Paul, impressed. The sandwiches arrived hot and moist. Paul and Ron made short work of their meal. “I think it’s very good, yeah,” Paul said. “Not bad,” Ron said. “A lot warmer than I expected it would be. Let’s see what happens when they are doing 1,000 of these a night.” Jeremy Campbell, Aramark spokesman, said service should have been available in the Hall of Fame Club and would be available everywhere, except the Diamond Club, and on all versions of the iPhone. He said he would look into the problem. Sports fans used to attend a game with a buddy who didn’t shut up. Now they also have wireless devices brimming with all sorts of features that don’t shut up. The Eagles last week started offering FanVision, a $200 palm-size display that allows fans at Lincoln Financial Field to generate their own

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After the Iranian’s arrest, his bulky Gigabyte-brand computer was hand-carried to Homeland Security offices on Chestnut Street. Its contents would keep U.S. agents around the world busy with investigations for years. SHADOW WAR from A1 After his arrest, the bulky Gigabyte-brand computer was hand-carried from Georgia to the U.S. Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices on Chestnut Street. Once a judge signed a search warrant, ICE computer experts got to work. In a windowless room, they cracked open the laptop shell, removed the hard drive, and copied it. They pasted the copied data onto the hard drives of six clean computers and returned the laptop to the evidence vault. On two computers, they placed complete copies of Ardebili’s laptop. These would be searched and analyzed by a sophisticated program called Forensic Toolkit, software that allowed agents to search every file, every e-mail, every website visited, even those Ardebili had deleted. A rudimentary search for the word missile, for example, returned hits in 1,498 files. To sort data in a different way, the agents put the same material onto the four other computers, dividing it by file type, such as PDF or JPEG. The techies easily broke the passwords. Most were as simple as “1111,” even “123.” The agents began sifting through years of data, 101,000 files in all. They found PDFs of brochures from American companies, Excel spreadsheets of price quotes, PowerPoint presentations from U.S. and Canadian weapons manufacturers, and Word documents of correspondence and shipping information. The files clearly incriminated Ardebili. They provided hard evidence that he’d bought millions of dollars worth of military-grade technology. More important, the files revealed what the Iranians were asking for — what they needed to upgrade, resupply, and expand their army, navy, and air force. For example, agents discovered evidence that the Iranian navy planned to wrap 40 vessel hulls with stealth technology designed to avoid U.S. radar. And they discovered a deal with an unwitting Arizona firm for at least 124 microcompressors, the very make and model of a component used to trigger IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan — creating an indirect but startling link between Ardebili and some roadside bombs responsible for more than 2,000 U.S. troop deaths.

A laptop deal revealed an indirect but startling link to roadside bombs — microchips used to trigger IEDs.

The computer files were also filled with technical spec sheets and complex drawings the Homeland Security agents did not understand or recognize. The agents doubted that Ardebili

dabbled in nuclear technology, but they couldn’t be certain. They needed help. They called Washington.

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Negine Ardebili was no fool. She was a college student majoring in genetics, the daughter of a biophysics professor, wife of the successful Shiraz businessman Amir Ardebili. Yet she had believed her fatherin-law’s lame lie. When he’d returned from Tbilisi in October — arriving in Shiraz without his son — he’d explained it this way: Amir had been required to stay behind as a witness to the ar- Negine Ardebili rest of an American charged with illegal arms sales. He’d be back soon. But as days became weeks and now a month with no word from her Amir — no calls, not even an e-mail — Negine grew angry and frustrated. What was happening? Where was her new husband? In the customs of her culture, Negine could not confront her father-in-law. So she waited for the right moment and went through his things. She found a Georgian court document that revealed the truth. Negine was incredulous with rage. Her husband was in prison in Tbilisi. Worse, the Americans wanted him to stand trial in the United States. She sat in their new home, thinking: Will I ever see Amir again?

WILMINGTON, NOV. 8, 2007 The American prosecutor was beginning to wonder the same thing: Would he ever see Ardebili again? Without an extradition treaty between the two nations, things were moving slowly. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall was optimistic, but knew extradition was never a sure thing. In recent years, U.S. agents had arrested Iranian arms dealers in Hong Kong, France, Germany, and Austria, friendly, stable nations with established court systems. Yet none had been extradited, and a few had even been released and returned to Iran. The situation in Georgia was also becoming far more complex. Iran was allegedly applying pressure, warning of dire repercussions if Ardebili were extradited to the United States. According to a report from the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi,

Iran was threatening to cut off Georgia’s natural-gas supply in the middle of a bone-chilling winter. What’s more, U.S. agents learned of an alleged Iranian plot to have Ardebili poisoned before he could be extradited to the United States. Georgian officials, meanwhile, were grappling with tense domestic affairs, including increasingly violent protests against the government. In early November, riot police bearing batons and tear gas beat back protesting crowds, injuring hundreds, damaging Georgia’s reputation as a post-Soviet democracy and straining relations with the United States. “The situation in ROG [Republic of Georgia] is worsening,” a U.S. Embassy official reported to Hall on Nov. 8. “A state of emergency has been declared. The army has closed main highways. Commercial air traffic is expected to be suspended. Deputy ICE attaché is locked down at embassy. Ominously, Ministry of Justice has not been able to reach the prison by phone.” Georgia’s president ultimately eased tensions by calling for early elections in January. Shortly thereafter, Hall learned that the Georgian Supreme Court was expected to take up Ardebili’s case soon. Start making plans now, the Georgians hinted. Once the court rules, you will have 24 hours to pick up Ardebili. The Georgians, it appeared, were eager to wash their hands of the whole messy affair.

PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 2007 The squad from the Department of Energy specialized in high-tech weapons of war. These included seemingly harmless but critical parts needed to build a nuclear bomb. The DOE team arrived soon after the call from Philadelphia, setting up at the Holiday Inn on Pattison Avenue. After scanning Ardebili’s laptop for 48 hours, the scientists emerged with good news: no evidence of nuclear weapons. What they found surprising, however, was the sheer volume of military-grade trading going on. “They told us they’d never seen a prolific Iranian buyer,” an agent recalled. “The guy seemed to be working all the time, trying to buy stuff from American companies 24/7.” To help the agents dig through the data, including 26,000 e-mail messages, the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security sent help — experts on 14-day and monthlong assignments. Raw data flowed to Washington; intelligence officials visited Philadelphia. From Ardebili’s laptop, agents traced 33 bank transfers — money sent from Tehran via Germany to the U.S. accounts of American manufacturers. They also found transactions involving 70 American companies, 16 of which held large Pentagon contracts. Homeland Security agents identified two dozen Iranian procurement agents — men just like Ardebili — as well as 50 Iranian government subsidiaries buying weapons and components for the Islamic Republic’s military. Ardebili’s laptop would keep U.S.

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On a cold, clear morning, prosecutor Hall and the ICE team strode toward an unmarked Gulfstream IV jet at Washington Dulles International Airport. Tipped that the Georgian Supreme Court was poised to deliver a ruling, the Americans needed to be in position. They would fly to central Europe and wait for word from Tbilisi. For such a time-sensitive extradition, the ICE team couldn’t rely on a commercial flight. And a marked U.S. plane might make a fat target if the Iranians were lying in wait. The G-IV wasn’t cheap. A weeklong rental would run $250,000, perhaps more. The team boarded the jet carrying laptops and business clothes, no weapons. The team leader, undercover supervisor agent John Richards (not his real name), believed they should arrive dressed for a legal prisoner transfer, not a covert rendition.

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As they settled into the plush seats, someone from the charter company approached Richards. Sorry, he said, there’s been a change. The plane will have to refuel in Amsterdam, complicating costs. The new tab will be closer to $300,000. Normally, such a major change would delay the flight or even scuttle it, jeopardizing the case. But by a stroke of luck, one of the three undercover agents who had stung Ardebili in Tbilisi now worked in Washington, for the very official supervising overseas operations. Richards called the agent, Patrick Lechleitner. It was Martin Luther King’s Birthday and ICE offices were closed. Richards reached Lechleitner out shopping with his wife. “We’re on board, getting ready to close the doors here and take off,” Richards told Lechleitner. He didn’t have to explain that this opportunity might represent the only chance to grab Ardebili. Lechleitner called HQ. The middle managers on holiday duty balked. Lechleitner called Richards to apologize: Clearly, the bureaucrats didn’t understand the stakes. Taking this in, the restless Richards glanced down the cabin, his ICE squad ready to go. The former Philly street cop knew what to do. Shouting into the phone at his friend, Richards said, “What’s that, pal? I can’t you hear you. Sorry, you’re breaking up. You’re breaking up. …” Richards snapped the phone shut and shrugged. “I guess we’re OK,” he said. Take off, he told the pilot. As the plane taxied, Richards hoped Lechleitner had his back, but he wouldn’t know until they got to Amsterdam. He needn’t have worried. Lechleitner could guess what Richards was up to. He took a deep breath. He might lose his job for this, Lechleitner thought, but his guys were operational. He couldn’t abandon them. He called HQ back. “The flight change is authorized,” he said. “Who’s authorizing it?” the duty officer asked. “Put my name on it.” Contact staff writer John Shiffman at 301-320-6655 or jshiffman@phillynews.com.

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HOW THIS SERIES WAS REPORTED Shadow War is based on nine months of reporting, including U.S., Iranian, and Republic of Georgia documents; e-mail messages; medical files; undercover video; wiretaps; and other digital media obtained by The Inquirer. It also draws on extensive interviews with: ¢ Amir Ardebili; his wife, Negine; mother, Zahra Ahkami; and lawyers Edmund Lyons and Ross Reghabi. ¢ Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall and U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware. ¢ U.S Homeland Security/Immigration Customs Enforcement agents John Kelleghan, Andrew McLees, Clark Settles, Michael Ronayne and Patrick Lechleitner. Two ICE agents – “Darius” and “John Richards” – asked that their true names not be published, because they still work undercover. ¢ Defense Criminal Investigative Service agents Ed Bradley and Robert Lerario. An Iranian diplomat in Washington spoke informally, but his government declined an interview. In the interests of safety, Ardebili and the undercover ICE agents agreed to be interviewed only on the condition that certain details be omitted from this series. Learn more at www.philly.com/ shadowwar

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“It is an impressive trial, and it is an impressive result,” said Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist and director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, who was not involved in the study. Still, Krumholz said, before declaring total victory, it is important to note that the trial involved a very select group of patients who got the valves implanted by teams of top surgeons and cardiologists at elite academic medical centers. “This data is certainly strong enough to say, ‘Here is a good alternative’ for patients who cannot undergo surgery,” he said. The shortterm complications and deaths in this group of patients suggest that there might be problems when this becomes more widely available, Krumholz said. Penn’s Bavaria said he hoped some of the concerns about choosing the right patients and which doctors implant the device will be addressed by the FDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by limiting payments to qualified medical teams. Ralph Miller recommends it. Two years after he got his new valve, he is no longer so easily short of breath. “I don’t want to sit down and say I’m done,” Miller said Wednesday. “I want to keep busy, because if I lay up and don’t do anything, I won’t live.” Contact staff writer Josh Goldstein at 215-854-4733 or jgoldstein@phillynews.com.

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es that Sibyl Bryant, a former Aug. 13 with news reports PHA general counsel and hu- that his bank had foreclosed man-relations officer, not on his $615,000 townhouse. It only failed to present to the was later revealed that the board a $200,000 settlement IRS had placed a lien of in 2007 but also told an out- $52,000 on his assets for unreside attorney handling the ported business income. case that the board had apGreene initially sought a proved it. three-week leave of absence, The report also states that but the board suspended him Michael Leithead, former se- with pay after commissioners nior deputy executive direc- learned of the secret paytor, received draft board reso- ments to settle three sexuallutions on the same case, harassment cases, with a without notifying the board. fourth complaint pending. PHA’s current general counThe report was contained sel, Fred Pasour, failed to in a thick binder of internal bring a $350,000 setdocuments shared tlement to the with board memboard after assurbers Wednesday. ing the same outThey included reside attorney, Mark ports of two addiF o l e y, t h a t h e tional internal sexuwould, according to al-harassment inthe report. vestigations that Greene’s chief of document a pattern staff, Shelley of questionable beJames, also a lawhavior by Greene yer, wrote the letter Carl R. Greene that dates back terminating Foley was a serial more than a deafter he insisted a harasser, the cade. settlement b e report alleges. Although the two brought to the complaints — filed board’s attention. in 2001 by Renee “An analysis of the settle- Yue and in 2004 by Rachel ments and the surrounding Roberts — were dismissed as circumstances indicates that unsubstantiated, the two Mr. Greene and his cohorts former employees describe conspired to deceive the PHA behavior by Greene similar to Board of Commissioners,” that described in complaints the report states. in 2004, 2008, and 2010. Contacted Wednesday Both women accused night, Bryant said she was Greene of making inappropri“saddened and outraged that ate comments about their prithe PHA board would con- vate lives, calling them at all clude their investigation and hours, and pressuring them issue findings without con- to spend more time with him tacting me. I, too, have infor- after work — allegations later mation that would have a sig- repeated by the four women nificant bearing on these mat- whose cases are documented ters.” by the latest PHA board invesBryant said she would com- tigation. ment more fully once she had The report on that investigaread the board’s report. tion states that one of the Leithead could not be four women reported her hareached Wednesday night. rassment claims to Greene’s James and Pasour could not assistant executive director, be reached through a PHA Carolyn Carter — who shared spokeswoman. an “intimate relationship” Greene’s troubles began with her boss and “thought

they were engaged.” Greene acknowledged that the two had a “special relationship,” according to the report. Carter could not be reached Wednesday night. It was not clear whether the PHA board would act on the report Thursday. “I do not know what will happen tomorrow as regards Mr. Greene’s future as exec of PHA,” Street wrote in an e-mail Wednesday night. The report provides the following summaries of the four sexual-harassment claims filed against Greene: Melissa Shingles’ complaint was sent in 2004 to the PHA’s Equal Employment Opportunity office, but Rosanna Grdinich, the authority’s EEO officer, says she never saw a copy and believes it was “intercepted by general counsel Fred Pasour.” Lawyer Foley was authorized to offer Shingles $200,000. He made the offer, told Shingles’ attorney that it was contingent upon approval by the PHA board, and drafted documents for presentation to the board. Bryant subsequently informed Foley that “the settlement was approved and authorized by the PHA board.” In fact, the board knew noth-

ing of the settlement, according to the report. Carolyn Griffith filed a claim with the EEOC and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in August 2004, alleging that Greene sexually harassed her. Foley represented PHA in the matter and negotiated a $98,000 settlement with Griffith in July 2005. PHA paid Griffith that amount directly with no board approval or notification, since PHA regulations state that the board must preapprove only contracts in excess of $100,000. Moneke Thomas first complained informally in January 2008 to Carolyn Carter that Greene had sexually harassed her. Pasour, the agency’s general counsel, and other officials were also informed of the allegation. When an internal investigation did not corroborate Thomas’ allegation, Foley found the matter troubling because Carter, who believed she was engaged to Greene, and Pasour “were the point persons and decisions makers” in dismissing the claim. Elizabeth Helm sent a fourpage letter complaining of sexual harassment by Greene to John Zurn at PHA in April. Helm, through her attorney, John Elliott, then filed a com-

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plaint with the state Human Relations Commission. Elliott then filed an amended complaint in June, alleging that Greene was being aided and abetted in his unlawful conduct “by unnamed people within the organization.” In August, Greene authorized Pasour to settle the case for $200,000. The case remains unsettled. Elliott rejected a settlement offer presented by PHA attorneys and offered one of his own, noting that Helm’s demand would increase by $25,000 for every day a settlement is not executed. Elliott said Wednesday night that he had not seen the report, but after hearing parts of the conclusion he said it “still cannot absolve the board of its responsibility to supervise what was going on at PHA. It was their job to know. It’s too convenient to say we didn’t know what was going on.” Contact staff writer Jeff Shields at 215-854-4565 or jshields@phillynews.com.

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came as the executive director was grappling with a forINQUIRER STAFF WRITERS mal sexual-harassment comA former human-resources plaint that later would be setemployee at the Philadelphia tled for $350,000. Housing Authority says in a According to the lawsuit, federal lawsuit that she was Greene stopped Grdinich in a removed from her job and hallway to ask what cases she had her salary cut after conwas working on. “Ms. Grdinfronting the agenich informed … cy’s executive direcGreene that she tor, Carl Greene, had received three with allegations of anonymous calls resexual harassment. garding sexual Rosanna Grdinabuse by defendant ich, a former PhilaGreene against a delphia police officPHA female employer, also says in the ee,” the lawsuit suit, filed Wednessays. day in U.S. District The woman who Court, that files conwas the subject of taining complaints Rosanna the anonymous against other PHA Grdinich says calls received the employees disap- her pay was cut $350,000 secret setpeared after she after the clash. tlement, the suit alturned them over to leges. her supervisor in Within days, Grdinearly 2009. ich said, an agency lawyer, FreGrdinich was the agency’s derick Pasour, and the chief of equal employment opportunity staff, Shelly James, called her officer in 2008, when the third into a meeting to announce of four known formal sexual-ha- “she was no longer the EEO ofrassment complaints against ficer.” She was told that Pasour Greene was filed. The disclo- was taking over her duties. sure of these complaints — and Grdinich, who joined the their secret settlements — led agency in 1999, was reassigned to Greene’s suspension last to oversee evictions, and her month. salary was reduced 25 percent. Grdinich’s conversation Evictions were typically done with Greene in late 2008 and by PHA police officers, the suit her subsequent transfer to a says, but Grdinich was not aljob evicting PHA tenants lowed to carry a gun or wear a

bulletproof vest. After she was removed as equal employment opportunity officer, Grdinich packed up her files and turned them over to Pasour, the suit says. Six weeks later, when Pasour called her in to unpack the files, Grdinich alleged, she found that “several” involving active complaints were missing. Pasour told Grdinich “not to worry about it,” the suit says. Pasour did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. A spokeswoman for PHA, Nichole Tillman, said the agency would not comment. Pasour and James, both named in the suit, are part of a small group of PHA executives who for years have been top members of Greene’s management team. Also named in the suit is Richard Zappile, the head of PHA police and risk management. Grdinich’s suit is the second in as many weeks filed on behalf of PHA employees by Michael Pileggi, a PHA lawyer until he was dismissed in 2002 in a dispute over his legal residence. Pileggi subsequently sued the agency and settled out of court. Contact staff writer Nathan Gorenstein at 215-854-2797 or ngorenstein@phillynews.com.

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The human face of war, captured by Army artists WAR ART from A1 War I, when the Army first deployed artists, to the present day, when it employs an official artist in residence. “There’s something so startling — that for 100 years the Army has been sending soldiers to the front lines to do art, and in a way that seems very unmilitary — basically letting them do whatever they feel artistically moved to do,” says David Eisner, president and CEO of the Constitution Center. The exhibition “presents the human face of war in a way only an artist can, and in a way no newsreel or photograph could hope to.” The Army’s art collection represents the work of about 1,300 artists, mostly soldiers. “It’s an amazing collection, and not a lot of people know it’s here,” says Sarah Forgey, its curator. The current exhibition is “a good opportunity to see a wide variety of what we have. This many pieces haven’t been seen in one place in quite some time.” The art is representational and realistic, and organized thematically rather than chronologically — a soldier’s life, duty, sacrifice. Soldiers exploring foreign lands, doing laundry, bathing, savoring mail, praying, playing baseball. Or overrunning enemy positions, scrambling for cover, rescuing comrades, dying in battle. The section titled “The American Soldier” is a wall of moving, evocative portraits, including one by Rickert. “Look at his eyes — he’s been through it,” the artist said during a preview tour Tuesday. “Too much combat and not enough sleep, the awful fatigue of war.” Many of the paintings are accompanied by video touch screens featuring interviews with artists. An iPod tour amplifies the experience with oral histories. In a repeating “pop-up” theater piece, a live actor tells the story of a soldier who, like Rickert, is drafted and joins the Vietnam art team. To complement the exhibition, the center has launched an online gallery where soldiers past and present can share renderings of their experiences. The Constitution Center had contemplated an exhibition about the military, Eisner says, spurred both by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and by war’s changing nature in an age of terrorism. It was a CBS-TV Sunday Morning segment in November about the Army’s art treasures that sparked this show — assembled with astonishing swiftness for such an ambitious undertaking. “We dialogue with a lot of ghosts at the Constitution Center,” says Christine Reyer, director of exhibitions. “To be able to deal with living, breathing history was a refreshing change and pleasant privilege.” It was almost a century ago that the Army institutionalized the commissioning of artists to document soldiers’ lives. Since then, it has dispatched eight to cover World War I, 42 in World War II, 57 during the Vietnam War, four in the 1991 Persian Gulf War,

John Wehrle headed the first Vietnam combat art team. “We were free to follow our own instincts,” he said.

Roger Blum, a member of the first Vietnam combat art team, has seven works included in “Art of the American Soldier.”

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Paul Rickert, who lives in New Hope and still paints, is one of the Vietnam combat artists whose

Staff photographs by Charles Fox and three in U.S. military operations during the last decade. Rickert was a member of the first Vietnam team. On Tuesday he was joined by three former comrades, including John Wehrle, 68, of Richmond, Calif., the lieutenant who led the team. “In a sense, we wrote the rules, because nobody knew what we were supposed to be doing,” Wehrle said. “We made it up as we went along. We were free to follow our own instincts. To the Army’s credit … they didn’t want propaganda. They let us express our own point of view.” If the Army shunned propaganda, so too did most of the artists. Rickert’s close friend Roger Blum, now 69, of Stillwater, Minn., did a painting that shows a Vietnamese woman and her two naked children fleeing the flaming ruins of their home — a lurid conflagration, incandescent yellows and oranges that radiate heat, humiliation, and horror. “It’s a strong statement,”

work is displayed. “I didn’t fight the war. I was just over there observing it,” he said.

Blum acknowledged — but it wasn’t intended as an antiwar image. “It’s the cost of war,” he said, an action that was “pretty drastic” but justifiable: The husbands of such women were hiding in caves, picking off U.S. troops. “I support the military and believe we need to fight to protect our freedoms,” Blum said. The goal of most of these soldier artists is stated eloquently by Master Sgt. Martin Cervantez, the Army’s current artist in residence: “When I was first assigned here and they said, ‘OK, you have carte blanche to go paint your point of view for history,’ it took me a couple of months to digest that and try to develop my idea of what the point of view should be, which came down to three things: That’s what it looked like, that’s what I did, and that’s where I was.” One of the questions most often asked of Forgey, the collection’s curator, is: Why does the Army still use artists? Her response: While a pho-

to can capture a moment accurately, a painter can use artistic license to manipulate details — moving something on the periphery to the foreground, combining something that happened yesterday with something that happened today — to enhance drama and convey the entire emotional spirit of an event. If the exhibition has a reluctant star, it’s Rickert. A photo of him at 19, clean-cut and sharp-eyed, greets visitors at the outset, and his drawing of his buddy Blum surrounded by curious Vietnamese children is the exhibition’s final, summarizing image. But Rickert, thoughtful and wry, is humble to the point of embarrassment about his role as a combat artist. “I didn’t fight the war. I was just over there observing it. I approached it like an assignment and did it as objectively as possible,” he says. He grew up in Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill, the son and grandson of artists. After a se-

mester at Temple University, he dropped out and began honing his talent through the Famous Artists School correspondence course, under the tutelage of his illustrator father. Drafted, he registered as a conscientious objector and was sent to train as a medic at Fort Sam Houston, where his artistic skill impressed his superiors. Applying for the combat art team, he was virtually guaranteed a place. In 1966, he was sent to Vietnam for two months and traveled widely, recording what he witnessed in his sketchbook. Then, for two months in Hawaii, he refined his sketches and impressions into fully realized paintings, eight in all, as well as many drawings and watercolors. Rickert calls the whole experience “a parenthesis” in his career. “It was strange,” he says. “I painted my way through the war.” “I’m ambivalent about it. It’s something I didn’t want to do. For me it was more a sur-

vival thing, not a noble venture. … I don’t want to advertise it as part of my legacy.” Ten years ago, he skipped a reunion of his team. But this summer, he interrupted his precious painting time in Maine to participate in the exhibition. “I just thought it was important and wanted to show up for the other guys,” he said. “I realize now that it’s part of history, and that puts it in a different light. “It’s important not because I went over there or the war was a success — I don’t think it was — but because a group of artists … tried to show what a soldier goes through. “In that sense, it was a great program, and in that sense, I’m very proud to have been part of it.” Contact staff writer Art Carey at 215-854-5606 or acarey@phillynews.com. For ticket information, call 215-409-6700 or visit www.constitutoncenter.org.

A warm start to autumn may herald a mild season

WEATHER from A1 growing — or, in some cases, a nongrowing — concern. “Farmers are working their butts off to keep the crops watered,” said Paul Hlubik, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, which is seeking disaster aid for drought-affected farmers. The government has declared most of New Jersey and Delaware to be in “severe” drought, and all of Eastern Pennsylvania in “moderate” drought. Pennsylvania and New Jersey have asked residents to cut back on water voluntarily. Hlubik said crops such as corn and soybeans, along with pasturing hay, had been especially affected. Drought conditions also are taking a toll on the homefront, evidenced by an outbreak of balding lawns. “I’ve never seen anything like this year,” said Anna Hillman, 80, who has lived in Narberth for 43 years. She said her husband had installed water-saving devices in their toilets, and the couple splash dishwater on their plants. The conditions in the midAtlantic region aren’t surprising, given the rapid cooling of surface waters across the

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tropical Pacific, said Matt Rogers, a meteorologist with the Commodities Weather Group in Washington. “In La Niña patterns, you tend to have a long, slow burnoff of the summer,” he said. In the last four autumns characterized by La Niña — 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2007 — September temperatures averaged above normal in Philadelphia. In 2007, the temperature hit 89 on Oct. 8. That September — as is this one so far — was bone dry. That’s no coincidence.

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“Hot days and dry days go together,” said Al Cope, senior science officer at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly. That said, one of the greatest rainstorms in Philadelphia history was in September 1999, from the remnants of Hurricane Floyd. This season, however, tropical-storm remnants have been missing in action, as upper-air currents have steered storms away from the U.S. coasts. That could change, and

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Anna Hillman examines the dried grass at her home in Narberth.

“I’ve never seen anything like this year,” she said. the government’s Climate Prediction Center is saying odds favor some rain next week. Scrolling even farther into the future, early forecasts suggest the region should expect no precipitation windfall from cosmic snows during the winter. The commodities service in Washington is calling for a warmer and drier-than-normal winter, with energy demand across the country down about 10 percent from last year.

So far, the impacts of the dry spell have been mitigated by a long reign of generous precipitation. The last seven years have constituted the wettest such period in 137 years of recordkeeping in Philadelphia. Since Jan. 1, 2003, rainfall has been 8.5 percent above normal. In its drought assessment last week, the National Weather Service noted that, in general, stream flows were near normal, and groundwater near to below normal. That is little consolation to the plants, however. In the last 30 days, they have been rain-starved, with precipitation totals under a third of normal in every county in the region except Burlington, which was at 36 percent. Chester County was at 18 percent of normal; Cape May, 30. Tonight, the spectacular harvest moon may cast its magnificent silvery glow on the foliage, but Friday morning, the sun will reveal that the leaves are brown. Said Anna Hillman, as expert as any: “It doesn’t look good.”

AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pa., expects winter temperatures in Philadelphia to be slightly above normal, with snowfall about normal. Both services forecast that winter will get off to a cold start in December, as does WSI Corp., in Massachusetts, which serves energy interests. WSI hasn’t ventured deep into the winter yet, but it predicts continued warmth in October and November. Wheth- Contact staff writer Anthony R. er that means continued dry- Wood at 610-313-8210 or ness is unclear. twood@phillynews.com.

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For first time, women are majority in Swiss cabinet By Bradley S. Klapper and Frank Jordans ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA, Switzerland — Swiss women for the first time captured a majority of the seats in the country’s seven-member executive branch Wednesday, brushing aside Switzerland’s history as one of Europe’s last nations to grant women full suffrage. The tilt in the balance of power came as the parliament in

Bern voted Social Democrat lawmaker Simonetta Sommaruga into the cabinet. “We’ve reached the goal after a century-long struggle,” said Ruth Dreifuss, a former Swiss cabinet member who in 1999 served as the country’s first female president. Unlike most countries headed by presidents or prime ministers, Switzerland is largely governed by seven politicians from different parties

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59 N.Y. cabdrivers arrested in scam

NEW YORK — Thousands of tourists and residents who took New York City’s iconic yellow taxis were quietly ripped off by drivers who frequently manipulated their meters to double the fare rate, officials said Wednesday as 59 drivers were arrested. Six drivers reeled in more than $10,000 apiece by repeatedly bumping their meters up to a higher suburban rate when they actually were in the city, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said. One driver did that more than 5,100 times in 11/2 years, prosecutors said. Unsuspecting passengers overpaid an average of about $5, officials have said. The criminal cases represent the most serious offenders among thousands of drivers believed to have deployed the fare trick before the city acted to stop it this spring. Still, officials stressed that the allegations involved a fraction of the city’s 48,000 yellow-cab drivers. — AP

Crash report cites bus driver’s pot use SALT LAKE CITY — A tourbus driver smoked marijuana heavily for several days before falling asleep at the wheel and crashing in Utah, killing three Japanese tourists and injuring 11 passengers, an arrest report released Wednesday said. Yasushi Mikuni, 26, a Japanese citizen living in Las Vegas, was charged with 10 felony counts of negligent driving under the influence and a misdemeanor charge of having marijuana residue in his system. Mikuni also faces misdemeanor logbook violation and unsafe-lane-change charges in the Aug. 9 crash on I-15 near Cedar City. He was arrested Monday. Mikuni, who escaped the accident with minor injuries, was driving for Canyon Transportation Inc. of Sandy, Utah. The bus was en route to Bryce Canyon National Park when it rolled over. — AP

Elsewhere:

Officials confirmed the deaths of three members of a family from the Sept. 9 natural-gas pipeline explosion that ripped through San Bruno, Calif., bringing the toll to seven. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was spared her position as the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday as her colleagues declined to oust her, despite her independent campaign for reelection after losing the GOP primary.

special election called after Leuenberger and Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz announced their retirements. The cabinet already had three women and two men representing five parties. “We’ve shown that women fight together, instead of against one another,” Sommaruga said. The 4-3 majority makes Switzerland only the fifth country in the world to have

more women than men in its cabinet, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The others are Cape Verde, Finland, Norway, and Spain. For Swiss women, the vote culminates a slow path to gender equality in politics. Swiss women did not get the right to vote or run in national elections until 1971, and the first Swiss woman was not elected to the cabinet until 1984.

But now both houses of parliament are presided over by women, and Economics Minister Doris Leuthard holds the country’s rotating presidency until the end of the year. The slow change partly reflects Switzerland’s unique system of direct democracy. Women could only gain full suffrage through a national referendum of men, who passed the measure for all nationwide votes 39 years ago.

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Gaming is a gamble

s the colorful con man in The Music Man would say, friends, we’ve got gambling “right here in River

City.” The question is whether the official opening Thursday of Philadelphia’s first casino will mean “Trouble with a capital ‘T’,” as the mythical Professor Harold Hill forewarned. Six years after Pennsylvania legalized slots parlors — now upgraded prematurely to fullfledged casinos — the debut of SugarHouse Casino on the banks of the Delaware River is a sobering moment for a city that can ill-afford more trouble. The utilitarian gambling hall erected on North Delaware Avenue at the border of Fishtown and Northern Liberties puts 1,600 slot machines and 40 card tables within easy reach of neighborhoods across the city, many of them low-income. With the illusive promise of winnings, look for the casino to feed gambling addictions that will trouble thousands of city residents. At the ribbon-cutting, don’t look for any mention of the social costs of gambling — increases in personal bankruptcies, crime, family problems, and addictions. But the state’s protections against problem gambling clearly aren’t up to the challenge yet. In fact, state gambling regulators even rejected the sensible idea of requiring that regular patrons be sent monthly win-loss statements. The former Jenkintown tax collector charged with gambling away tax receipts at Parx — not to mention the seven casino patrons arrested for leaving children outside the Bucks County slots joint — could be a mere warm-up for future problems. No question, there will be winners in the SugarHouse debut aside from the casino operators, who own what undoubtedly will be a big moneymaker. Jobs for 800 full-time and 200 part-time casino employees are nothing to sniff at in tough economic times. A special-services district will receive $1 million a year from the casino, starting in

Philadelphia opens a new era with its first casino. The hall on the river will profit some, but not without a cost.

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Let donor spend as he wants TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer

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opponent, protested outside SugarHouse Casino Monday.

2012, to fund community projects in Fishtown, Northern Liberties, and parts of Kensington. Vendors supplying the casino have a lucrative new business opportunity. Of the two casinos planned in Philadelphia, SugarHouse’s more remote location also has the least negative impact on hopes to transform the riverfront into a pedestrian-friendly setting for recreation, and residential and commercial development. That’s in stark contrast to the traffic-clogged southern end of Columbus Boulevard, where the long-stalled Foxwoods Casino is slated. And while it serves its own selfinterest, SugarHouse at least will keep a few cars off the road by hauling casino patrons from Center City aboard a free trolley. The vocal casino opponents who fought the good fight did delay SugarHouse’s opening. That’s a victory of sorts. Now, their vow to monitor inevitable problems stemming from casino gambling in Philadelphia must become the mantra of city officials, too.

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he Senate is expected to vote Thursday on legislation that would restore some openness to an increasingly secretive campaign finance system. The Disclose Act would require corporations, labor unions, and a proliferation of misleading “nonprofit” groups to report their campaign expenses and donors. This measure is needed more than ever because of the Supreme Court’s decision that allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts to influence federal elections. A bill has already passed the House, but it stalled in the Senate over the summer. Full disclosure is the least that the law should require. Widening loopholes in election law have enabled pseudo-nonprofit organizations to spend millions of dollars on election advertisements this year. And there’s no way of knowing who’s behind them. In the Pennsylvania Senate race, for example, Democrat Joe Sestak is the target of negative TV ads funded by a shadowy group called Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategy. It paid $500,000 to air ads on TV stations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for one week in late August. The ads distort Sestak’s voting record in Congress on health care, but unfortunately that’s standard for election season. What is new is the complete anonymity of the people paying for the attack ads. Crossroads GPS is organized under federal tax law as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, so it doesn’t have to identify its donors. Under tax law, the primary purpose of Crossroads GPS is supposed to be something other than political. But the group intends to

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Voters need to know exactly who is paying for political ads that use misleading information to attack opponents. spend at least $10 million this year on election advertising, and its website says Crossroads’ “goal is to provide a clear road map for concerned Americans.” President Obama complained about the tactics of such groups when he attended a fund-raiser for Sestak at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Monday. “The names always sound very benign — it’s ‘Americans for Prosperity,’ ‘Committee for Truth in Politics,’ ‘Americans for Apple Pie’ — I made that last one up,” Obama said. “None of them will disclose who is paying for these ads. You don’t know whether it’s some big financial interest; you don’t know if it’s a big oil company, or an insurance company. You don’t even know if it’s foreign controlled.” Crossroads GPS is affiliated with Republican strategist Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush. Beyond that, little information is available about the group’s funding or backers. Such nonprofits will likely escape any real regulation. By the time the IRS examines a group’s paperwork, the election will be over. Federal elections are moving into an era in which wealthy donors can operate anonymously and with impunity. Shedding a little sunlight on the system is the least Congress should demand.

The juxtaposition of the stories of the Penn State hockey gift and a possible increase in tuition at the school was so obvious a come-on for reader protest that I’m surprised that you published only two letters from anguished readers (“$88 million gift to Penn State,” Saturday). Hey, the man gave a generous donation for something in which he believes. Let’s not criticize him for his choice of causes. If you feel that the money should go to another cause, how about you donate the money? W.S. Clement West Grove

Which freedoms are at risk? Characterizing the tea-party movement as reflecting the “mood of the country” is quite a stretch (“Extremism can be a virtue,” letter, Monday). Rather, it represents an extremely vocal and quite radical minority opinion; opinion propelled by the “prophets” and profits of a strictly partisan television network. Citing Barry Goldwater’s famous quote regarding the relationship between extremism and liberty provides the opportunity to ask a question: Which of our freedoms are currently at risk? Should we, for example, look for “Second Amendment remedies” because an activist government saw fit to preserve the spiraling auto industry and its millions of jobs? Would a Hoover-esque laissez-faire approach to the imploding banking system be more in keeping with core American values? Is ending the possibility that you, lacking health coverage, might lose your home because your kid contracted cancer really a step toward a socialist sinkhole? Please tell me exactly what fears are driving this conservative outrage. Indeed, even if a centrist course might be best for America at this time, one must recognize that the champions of such moderation are virtually extinct in the Republican Party, the very antithesis of the teaparty movement, and best exemplified by the budget-surplus presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.

school. Patronage jobs and an unaccountable bureaucracy will ultimately dictate who lives and dies while members of Congress and families are exempt. Historically, dictatorships have used socialized medicine. When government has control over one’s health, it has literal control over one’s life. The Democratic Party has certainly picked fine company: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao. Alan B. Levy Mount Laurel

Taxpayers are victims in drug war We read your article concerning the arrest of a teacher (“Philadelphia teacher charged in sale of marijuana,” Sept. 15) with interest, and we ask, who is the victim of this alleged crime? Surely not the teacher’s clients, who readily paid for his services. As far as we can tell, no students were involved in the sales, so the teacher’s profession and salary are not relevant to the story. We don’t recall any other alleged criminal’s salary being included in Inquirer stories, but it is September, once again open season on teachers. So who are the victims? How about the citizens of Pennsylvania? Thanks to archaic laws concerning the sale of soft drugs, taxpayers are contributing thousands to pay for the sting operation, prosecution, and incarceration of the teacher, a victim of the never-ending “War on Drugs.” Now that’s a dollar figure worth reporting.

Kurt Jaworski West Chester kurtj7@verizon.net

Health-care reform threatens liberty The health-care reform act passed solely by the Democratic Party is the greatest single threat to freedom and personal responsibility in American history. It is the health-care equivalent of a repeal of the Second Amendment. No longer will individuals have the choice of physicians, medications, and access to operations regardless of age. Total control will emanate from Washington by individuals and panels who have never taken a medical course, let alone gone to medical

Robert Allekotte Brigantine

How to collect less taxes Leonard Boasberg complains that the GOP wants to “freeze all the Bush tax cuts,” even on the rich. I don’t think he realizes that the very rich have the money to hire tax advisers to tell them how to avoid paying taxes (“More lipstick for GOP pig,” Tuesday). Raise taxes and more people will find ways to avoid paying those taxes, and tax collection actually goes down. There is a level of taxation for which the rich find it easier to pay the taxes than to go through contortions to avoid paying them. Careful analysis would point to the ideal rate of taxation that would maximize collection.

Henry L. Lazarus Philadelphia hlazar@verizon.net

Mice in suits

Christine O’Donnell raised eyebrows a few years ago with her claim on The O’Reilly Factor that scientists have created mice with “fully functioning human brains.” But considering all of the members of Congress with fully functioning mouse brains, her idea seems plausible. James Miles Collingdale jxxphilly@gmail.com

Clearing the Record The legal opinion that enabled elected officials to retire, collect a DROP payment, and return to office was provided by a previous city solicitor, and not by Shelley Smith, as indicated in an editorial Tuesday.

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Phila. cannot afford the costs of smoking Re: “Let’s clear the air,” editorial, Sept. 11: Of the 10 largest cities in the country, Philadelphia has the highest rate of smoking among adults and high school students. Nearly three in 10 adult Philadelphians — or 300,000 people — smoke regularly. That’s enough smokers to fill more than four Lincoln Financial Fields. Smoking in Philadelphia is both a public-health and economic crisis: 2,500 Philadelphians die every year from smoking-related diseases. Of existing smokers, one in two will die of a smoking-related disease. Moreover, smoking in Philadelphia leads to $800 million a year in productivity losses. The good news is that we know what works to reduce smoking rates. And most smokers want to quit. We just need to mobilize the resources and the will to make tough but important changes. We’ve done it before, with the city’s passage of the Clean Indoor Air Worker Protection Law in 2006, and we can do it again. We must use the media to show that smoking doesn’t have to be the norm and is, in fact, harmful. Hard-hitting counter-advertising campaigns have been successful in New York City and California. We must restrict access to tobacco products for minors through merchant education and enforcement. And we must make resources available to every smoker who wants to quit. This is the responsibility of publichealth agencies, employers, and insurers. Through the city’s Get Healthy Philly initiative (www.phila.gov/ health), we’re taking all of these approaches. For information, tools, and resources to help you quit, log on to www.smokefreephilly.org. Drs. Lorraine T. Dean and Giridhar Mallya Philadelphia Department of Public Health

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Heart of the peace process An extended freeze on settlements would serve both Israeli and Palestinian interests.

Let’s hope talk of repeal dies a natural death.

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Health-care reform is making a difference By Michael R. McGarvey

t’s high time for people who know something to speak up. Six months ago today, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, the most ambitious and farreaching reform of the health-care system in 45 years. In the months since that historic accomplishment, the public has been subjected to a relentless barrage of know-nothing, self-interested negativism from politicians and interest groups funded by the insurance industry, and the polls show voters are taking it seriously. In the run-up to the reform vote, House Minority Leader John Boehner repeatedly crowed that the U.S. health-care system is “the best in the world.” That is simply false. On every measure used to assess the effectiveness of health-care systems, the United States is outranked by more than 30 other nations. The first step to improvement is to recognize the problems. I am a physician, and I spent 16 years of my career in and around the health-insurance industry, and I think the health-reform law is a huge step in the right direction. Let’s consider what the law has already accomplished: Roughly four million Medicare beneficiaries who have hit the “doughnut hole” in their drug coverage are getting $250 rebates this year, along with a 50 percent discount on prescription drugs; a temporary reinsurance program was established to protect early retirees; and a temporary high-risk insurance pool was created to help Americans who are uninsured because of preexisting conditions. Beginning today, a number of key provisions go into effect: No health plan will be able to continue the practice of dropping a person who gets sick; lifetime caps on coverage will be prohibited; annual coverage limits in many plans will be tightly restricted; most health-insurance plans will be prohibited from denying coverage to children with preexisting conditions; young people

up to their 26th birthday will be able to remain on their parents’ insurance policies; and new plans will be required to cover preventive services without imposing co-payments or deductibles. Wisely, the authors of this extensive health-reform law phased its implementation over four years. By the time the bill is fully implemented in 2014, health-insurance exchanges will be in place throughout the nation to test whether the private insurance industry can satisfy the needs of the public. At that time, no adults with preexisting conditions can be discriminated against by health insurers; women will no longer be subjected to higher premiums than men; the nation will be investing in improving the supply of primary-care doctors and nurses; and community health centers will be receiving additional support. At the same time, progress will have been made in ensuring that tests and treatments proven to work are being applied to patients. Most important, some 32 million previously uninsured Americans will enjoy the physical and psychological benefits of knowing they have health insurance. A core principle of the discipline of operations research is that a successful solution has to be at least as complex as the problem. The health-reform law is certainly complex, but so is the so-called U.S. health-care system. Few pieces of legislation prove to be perfect on enactment, and our world is constantly changing. There will be changes we wish to make as implementation unfolds, and these can be accomplished. The law offers all of us the opportunity to put our shoulders to the wheel to ensure successful implementation and identify areas for improvement. The current clamor for repeal is a fool’s mission. Let’s hope such talk dies a natural death as the benefits of the law become more concrete, beginning today. Michael R. McGarvey is a retired chief medical officer of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

City losing too many babies By Marian Tasco and Blondell Reynolds Brown

too early and too small. We are now much better at keeping such babies alive through ne way societies mea- medical technology; howevsure their overall er, we have not made much health and well-being progress in learning why preis by the number of babies term births occur and how who die before their first they can be prevented. It is birthday — the infant mortali- important that pregnant ty rate. By this standard, Phil- women receive early and conadelphia is not doing very sistent prenatal care, which well, and African Americans has been the emphasis of in the city are faring terribly. most programs designed to Philadelphia’s infant mor- address infant mortality. tality rate in 2007 was 11.4 However, research is indicatdeaths per 1,000 live births, ing that this traditional precompared with Pennsylva- natal care, while important, nia’s rate of 7.4 isn’t enough. per 1,000 and a Philadelphia The infant U.S. rate of 6.8. must refocus its The rate among mortality rate efforts based on blacks in Philalatest reis appalling, the delphia was 15.9, search, seek out which was close with African approaches that to twice that of are beginning to Americans whites, Asians, work in other and Hispanics. places, and recontaking the Philadelphia’s sider many longbiggest hit. rate is close to held beliefs. double that of A promising apsome other large proach that was mentioned cities, such as New York and at the hearings is known as Los Angeles. the “life course perspective,” In response to these dis- which posits that poor birth couraging facts, City Council outcomes are the result of cuauthorized the Public Health mulative factors experienced and Human Services Commit- over a woman’s lifetime, and tee to explore this issue that interventions must go bethrough hearings. One strik- yond the prenatal period. ing aspect of expert testimo- This builds on research showny presented was that infant ing that early experiences of mortality has not declined adversity, trauma, and sesignificantly over the last de- vere stress can cause changcade, despite sustained ef- es in the body and brain that forts to connect at-risk wom- make individuals more vulen with health-care and so- nerable to poor health outcial services. comes far in the future. Most infant deaths occur Women who themselves among babies who are born may have been born early

and small, and who experienced various kinds of physical and social stress, including the effects of racism, are more likely to develop a range of health conditions, from obesity to hypertension to mental illness. They in turn make poor birth outcomes more likely. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has begun to embrace this perspective and grapple with what it means for city services. As a first step, the Division of Maternal, Child, and Family Health held a daylong symposium featuring national experts on the life-course perspective. Other communities are working to address infant mortality through a broad range of interventions that address the health and social well-being of families and individuals. These include initiatives to promote family financial stability, encourage healthy eating, prevent child abuse, address mental-health issues, and provide access to high-quality health care. Along with this approach comes the recognition that giving all babies the opportunity for a truly healthy start in life will be a long, difficult haul. It will likely require a generation or more to achieve change in Philadelphia communities where racism, severe stress, and poor health have been entrenched for decades. Marian Tasco and Blondell Reynolds Brown are members of City Council.

he renewed talks between Israel and the Palestinians are already in jeopardy over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. A partial Israeli moratorium on building will expire on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out extending the freeze, but Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he’ll walk out if it’s ended. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accuses Abbas of using the issue to undermine talks. On the contrary, the settlement issue goes to the heart of the peace process. Even if Abbas backs down, it would serve Israeli as well as Palestinian interests to maintain the freeze. Here’s why: Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon designed the settlement grid in 1978 to ensure permanent Israeli control over the West Bank. Sharon’s dream came true, as the grid, along with special settler roads and other land retained by Israel, divided the West Bank into cantons that could easily be closed off from one another. But Israel’s security needs have changed. Today, even many Israeli hawks believe in the necessity of a two-state solution. They know that if Israel keeps the West Bank and retains effective control over Gaza, the Arab population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean will eventually eclipse the Jewish population. That leaves Israel with three difficult options: a twostate solution, a one-state democracy in which Jews become a minority, or an apart-

heid state in which Israel rules over a majority of disenfranchised Arabs. Most Israelis would prefer the first option — if their security could be assured. Yet the continued expansion of settlements makes it harder to achieve a twostate solution. Israeli building during 16 years of peace talks disillusioned Palestinians and fed a tolerance for violence. An end to the current freeze will undermine Abbas’ already shaky credibility with his public. More building will also make it harder for Netanyahu to avoid the onestate trap, even if he wanted to do a deal. To understand why, it helps to look at a map of the settlements, like the fascinating interactive tool put together by the dovish Americans for Peace Now (APN), at www.peacenow.org/map.php. The tool is based on the extensive collection of settlement data assembled by Israeli Peace Now. Check out the overall map of the West Bank and a list of “Layers and Overlays.” Then, click on Israeli Municipal Jurisdiction and you’ll see a series of blue splotches dotting the West Bank. These are the territorial boundaries assigned to 120 settlements in the West Bank and 12 post-1967 neighborhoods around Jerusalem. According to APN, nearly 10 percent of the West Bank is covered by settlements, with a population of 300,000. Only a fraction of the allotted settlement land is built up, but settlers have the right in principle to expand. “When you look at the

map,” says APN’s president, Debra DeLee, “you can see how the settlements balkanize the West Bank, and make it impossible for a viable, contiguous Palestinian state to be established.” For a graphic illustration, scroll down the list of settlements, and click on Maale Adumim, whose municipal area is nearly the size of Tel Aviv and runs almost to Jericho. If fully built up, this settlement would come close to dividing the West Bank into two halves. Of course, the fate of the settlements will be discussed during negotiations over borders. Israel might be able to keep some enclaves in return for land swaps, but continued building complicates the issue. More construction also strengthens the militant settler lobby, and makes it harder to map a border between Palestine and Israel. As important, new construction further undercuts the bargain made when both sides signed on to the 2003 U.N. roadmap, which called for a total freeze in settlement activity in return for tougher Palestinian security measures. By all accounts, Palestinian security forces on the West Bank are now doing a good job. If Abbas accepts an end to the freeze, those forces will be branded as collaborators helping settlements to expand. That’s why the peace process sponsors, the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia, have all called on Israel to extend the moratorium. If Netanyahu wants to avoid the one-state trap, he should find a way to freeze building until the two sides agree on future borders. Building bigger settlements shrinks the already slim chances for a two-state deal. E-mail Trudy Rubin at trubin@phillynews.com.

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A battler on and off the field

Tom Schafer held his own when he tried to make the Eagles. Now he faces a bigger fight. Tom Schafer had a moment everyone would love to have. Unfortunately, he doesn’t remember it. You know the character Burt Lancaster played in Field of Dreams, the man who appeared in just one major-league baseball game and never got up to bat? Tom Schafer, 49, is the Moonlight Graham of the NFL. About three hours into our conversation at his home outside Phoenixville, he mentions this — that in his two seasons of pro football, he was sent in for just one play. The Eagles had signed him as a cen-

ter in August 1984, and his number was called during a preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Truth is, he can’t recall whether it was an extra point or a field goal. He didn’t even snap the ball. He lined up at guard, must have blocked his man, that’s all. Those few seconds were not supposed to be the sum of his pro career, but then he kept getting cut, and then he got hurt, and then he was done. It’s an embarrassing fact, that one play, he says. After all, his teammates from West Chester University, where

he is in the athletic Hall of Fame, and from Upper Merion High School, where he starred on an undefeated state championship team, talk of their friend the NFL player. But the reason he invited me to sit with him is that it’s time to share the gritty details of his life and the battle he is waging. “You’ve got to throw your dignity aside when you’re being treated for cancer,” he says from a lounge chair in his bedroom, his voice left a low rasp by one of his dozen major surgical operaSee SCHAFER on B4

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Tom Schafer starred in football at West Chester

University and Upper Merion High School and tried out for the Eagles. He is fighting cancer.

DRPA’s federal charter under fire

Big-league help in South Philly

Pa. lawmakers say they will work with N.J. counterparts to change it. By Paul Nussbaum

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The Phillies’ Chase Utley (left) talks in front of Mayor Nutter with Demetrius Jennings, 17, a Marian Anderson center regular for years.

MLB youth academy coming By Kia Gregory and Luke Harold INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS

Demetrius Jennings started swinging a bat at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center when he was 5 years old. “This is basically my second family,” said Jennings, 17, standing in the hallway near photos of the famed Anderson Monarchs, the center’s youth baseball team. Jennings credits the sport for where he is. He sits near the top of his class at Penn Charter. And he plays shortstop and the outfield on the center’s RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) team. His talent on the field has big-name colleges coming his way. So far he’s considering the University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard, with plans

to attend medical school. His South Philadelphia neighborhood is marred by “a lot of violence and drugs.” “This place has taken me away from the negative things,” he said. On Wednesday, he stood with Phillies representatives and city officials for a big announcement. The first-ever, multisite MLB Urban Youth Academy is coming to his South Philadelphia haven. Jennings is a symbol of the project’s promise. Major League Baseball, the Phillies, and the city announced the nearly $3 million project, with academic and recreational programs and indoor and outdoor baseball facilities at the Anderson center and FDR Park. See CENTER on B11

Councilman takes aim at deed theft

Greenlee’s bill would tighten rules on property transfers. By Miriam Hill

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Steven Grosik got some surprising news in the mail about a year ago. Someone had stolen his backyard. Since then, Grosik, a grocery-store clerk who lives in North Philadelphia, has been navigating a legal maze to try to get it back. “I’m already almost a year into this, and it’s still not finished,” Grosik told a City Council committee Wednesday during testimony on a bill introduced by Councilman Bill Greenlee in the hope of deterring such crimes. The bill would require the city Records Department to check whether the name of a person transferring a property matches that of the current owner. If the names did not match, the bill would require the department to not record the deed and possibly refer the case to law enforcement. See DEED on B5

Utley and Jennings unveil a sign for the MLB Urban Youth Academy Philadelphia, the league’s fourth such facility.

Bruce Raisley launched a widespread virus.

Computer expert gets jail after a cyberspace battle By Barbara Boyer

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The two reclusive computer experts staged their vicious fight on a cyberspace battlefield, each intent on the other’s destruction. One, who has built a career out of creating false Web personas, lured his adversary into an adulterous “affair” with a fictitious online lover, a humiliating hoax he broadcast across the Internet. His target, a software programmer formerly of Western Pennsylvania, retaliated by unleashing a worldwide computer virus. But it was a short-lived victory for Bruce Raisley, 48, who had lived in Monaca, near

Pittsburgh. On Wednesday, a federal jury found that Raisley’s vengeance turned criminal when he launched a program that directed about 100,000 computers to attack websites that republished stories detailing his sad saga, including the sites for Rolling Stone magazine and the Rick A. Ross Institute of New Jersey, which studies controversial groups and movements. Raisley faces up to a decade in prison, but is more likely to receive three to five years for his conviction after a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Camden, authorities said. Raisley was provoked, prosecutors said, See HACKER on B4

HARRISBURG — After a day of hearings about the beleaguered Delaware River Port Authority, legislators said Wednesday they would try to rein in the bistate agency by changing its federal charter. Sen. John Rafferty “Somebody has (R., Montgomery) said he would work with law- to eventually makers in Pennsylvania, stand up to New Jersey, and Washington to limit the say, ‘I’m in DRPA’s powers and give charge of this state legislators more control over it. He said organization.’ ” he hoped to introduce State Sen. John such a bill in January. Rep. Mike Vereb (R., Rafferty Montgomery) has drafted a similar measure to be introduced in the House on Thursday. Vereb worked closely with New Jersey Assemblyman Dominick DiCicco (R., Gloucester), who introduced a bill in Trenton last week. “Somebody has to eventually stand up to say, ‘I’m in charge of this organization,’ ” said Rafferty, who chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. Any change in the DRPA’s federal compact See DRPA on B11

SRC hears plans to curb school violence 46 Phila. schools are targeted to address safety, truancy, bullying. By Kristen A. Graham INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission Wednesday heard plans to zero in on safety and discipline at 46 district schools where violence is particularly problematic, and recommendations for changes to promote racial and cultural harmony. A disproportionate number of the district’s violent incidents, expulsions, suspensions, and truant students come from what it’s calling the “Focus 46” schools, officials said. These schools share many of the same characteristics — often, they have a violent incident rate of more than five per 100 students, an average daily attendance rate of less than 90 percent, and greater than 40 percent of students who are chronically truant. “That’s where the majority of the drama is,” said Tomas Hanna, an assistant superintendent. “Let’s focus heat and light right there.” District officials said Wednesday night that See SCHOOLS on B6 ¢ An Asian student from Bok was attacked in the neighborhood in May. B7.

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John R. Strassburger, right, led the college from 1995 until June. Obituary, B10.

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Justice Dept. targets Phila. man, 2 others in fraud

A lawsuit says the three and their companies may have cost the IRS as much as $30 million. By Robert Moran INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The Justice Department is seeking a court injunction to stop a Philadelphia man and two others from allegedly promoting millions of dollars in securities sales as tax-free loans. The civil suit, filed Wednesday in Virginia, names Fred R. Wahler Jr. of Philadelphia,

Daniel Stafford of Maryland, William Chapman of Virginia, and three of their companies in an alleged scheme that may have cost the IRS as much as $30 million in tax revenue. According to the suit, customers were told they could receive tax-free loans for their securities. The suit says the securities actually were

News in Brief Poll: Pa. voters like GOP and Toomey over Sestak

sold, with the customers given up to 90 percent of the proceeds, the defendants and their associates keeping the rest, and no taxes paid on the sales. The IRS has been reviewing the tax returns of customers in an attempt to collect unpaid taxes, the suit says. Wahler and Stafford operated as HedgeLender, which marketed the scheme, and Chapman owns Alexander Capital Markets and Alexander Financial, which sold

the securities, the suit says. Charles Miller, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to say whether a criminal case was being pursued. He said civil suits were “one of the ways to shut down these illegal operations quickly.” Reached by phone, Stafford said the allegations against him and Wahler, who he said was his business partner, were “entirely bogus.” He said that he operated as

a broker, not a lender, and that customers were always advised to consult with licensed tax professionals. Stafford also said he is now destitute and living off food stamps. The suit alleges that he and Wahler are marketing stock loan products through a new company, Securities Finance, and its website. Stafford said he was not involved with Securities Finance. “You don’t see our

Fires injure three in city

Republican Pat Toomey inched closer to majority support in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, leading his Democratic opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Rep. Joe Sestak, 50 percent to 43 percent. In the poll, 56 percent of Pennsylvanians who said they were likely to vote Nov. 2 said they disapprove of the job President Obama is doing, compared with 40 percent who approve. By 52 percent to 43 percent, voters said they would rather have a Republican representing Pennsylvania in the Senate. The source of Toomey’s overall lead over Sestak, who represents the Seventh District in suburban Philadelphia in the House, was a commanding advantage among independents likely to vote, 54 percent to 36 percent. “Pat Toomey is in a good place, ahead by 7 points with six weeks to go. But Congressman Joe Sestak has proven himself a tough competitor, so it’s too early to order the champagne,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. The telephone poll of 684 likely voters was conducted Sept. 15 to Sunday. Results are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. — Thomas Fitzgerald

Fuse problem slows Regional Rail service

Power problems again disrupted service on SEPTA’s Regional Rail lines during Wednesday morning’s rush hour. SEPTA reported delays of up to an hour on the West Trenton line and 30 minutes on all other lines. A fuse problem at the Jenkintown station caused the system-wide slowdown, said Sylvana Hoyos, a SEPTA spokeswoman. After the problem was fixed, trains were running on or close to schedule, she said. Twice last month, power problems involving Amtrak equipment disrupted Regional Rail lines and service on Amtrak and NJ Transit trains on the Northeast Corridor. — Inquirer staff

Police probing a death in North Philadelphia

Police are investigating the death of a man who returned to his North Philadelphia home bleeding from the mouth and died at a hospital Wednesday. The man, 32, was dropped off at his home on the 1800 block of Widener Place in the Ogontz section about 2:25 a.m., police said. Medics were called because he was bleeding, and they took him to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he died at 2:51 a.m. — Inquirer staff

Navy SEAL from Toms River killed in Afghan crash

WASHINGTON — A Navy SEAL from Toms River, N.J., was among nine American troops killed Tuesday in the worst coalition helicopter crash in Afghanistan in four years, the Defense Department said. The military announced Wednesday that four sailors were among the nine. They were identified as Petty Officer Third Class Denis Miranda, 24, of Toms River; Lt. Brendan Looney, 29, of Owings, Md.; Senior Chief Petty Officer David McLendon, 30, of Thomasville, Ga.; and Petty Officer Second Class Adam Smith, 26, of Hurland, Mo. McLendon was assigned to a Naval Special Warfare unit. Miranda, Looney, and Smith were assigned to SEAL teams. Five members of the Army’s 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., were also killed but had not been named yet. — AP

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names on there,” he said of the website. Reminded that a reporter had reached him through the phone number on the website, he said he did “consulting” for the firm. Chapman said he needed to read the suit and did not have an immediate comment. Wahler could not be reached for comment. Contact staff writer Robert Moran at 215-854-5983 or bmoran@phillynews.com.

Murder trial for boyfriend ordered Police said he admitted killing Kensington’s Regina Schickling and moving her body to N.J. By Joseph A. Slobodzian INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Questioned by police about his missing girlfriend, Stephen Benford said they’d had an argument, he punched her in the face, and she left their Kensington apartment. That story held for about three hours. Then, apparently spurred by guilt, Benford said he would tell the truth: Fueled by crack cocaine and beer, he punched Regina “Gina” Schickling unconscious, stabbed her scores of times, and dumped her in a field behind a house owned by his parents in northwest New Jersey. Benford’s July 6 statement was read Wednesday at a preliminary hearing in which he was held for trial on murder and related charges in the June 30 slaying of the 22-yearold art student. Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge James M. DeLeon also ruled that Benford, 23, be held for trial on an unrelated assault charge in the Feb. 1 stabbing of Delwin Pinkins in Mako’s bar at Third and South Streets. According to Assistant District Attorney Jodi Lobel, Pinkins, 26, was stabbed ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer through the hand when he inA Philadelphia firefighter carries gear from a rowhouse fire in the 5300 block tervened in a fight between a of Spruce Street, where a 53-year-old man suffered third-degree burns and a friend and Benford over a stolen beer. teenage boy suffered first-degree burns on his arms Wednesday, authorities Benford was being investisaid. The fire was reported at 5:59 a.m. In another city fire Wednesday, reported gated in that confrontation at 9:35 a.m., a woman described as a senior was found on the second floor of a when he was arrested in Kensington rowhouse. She was in critical condition, police said. Both fires are Schickling’s killing. He had under investigation. been taken in for questioning after Schickling’s friends and family reported her missing. She was last seen with Benford at Fire, a bar at Fourth Street and Girard Avenue. According to Lobel, Benford ultimately told police that he and Schickling had returned from Fire to their apartment in the 2700 block of Kensington Avenue late on June 30. After Benford smoked crack cocaine more people throughout Penn- tution does not give Congress and drank several beers, Lobel The attorney general sylvania,” but that it has to be the power to mandate that cit- said, the couple began arguing sued to stop it, now calls implemented properly by izens have health-care cover- about his joining her in California, where she was in college. age. state government. it “a great opportunity.” Benford admitted punching Onorato campaign spokesIt also says the law violates Not inconsistent, his man Brian Herman said he the Constitution by forcing a Schickling 10 times in the face, spokesman says. did not know how Corbett mandate on the states with- and then stabbing her with a could “criticize the law in one out providing resources to switchblade he kept in the night table, Lobel said. He told breath, then call it ‘a great pay for it. By Angela Couloumbis opportunity’ in the next. It’s “This law threatens every police that he had smoked INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU citizen’s individual liberties,” more crack, drunk more beer, completely inconsistent.” HARRISBURG — Six Corbett’s campaign called Corbett said at a news confer- and shot heroin in an unsucmonths after the federal Onorato’s contentions a mark ence at the time. “Citizens cessful effort to pass out. The next day he bought a health-care bill became law, of “desperation.” should be protected large plastic trash can and Democrat Dan Onorato is confrom an overreachKevin H a r l e y, tending that his Republican spokesman for Coring federal govern- trash bags, according to his police statement. He drove opponent for governor is waf- bett’s campaign, said ment.” the body to his parents’ home fling on his position on the in an e-mail that the Corbett’s participain Stroudsburg, in northeastissue. tion in the suit was attorney general has ern Pennsylvania, borrowed immediately critiOnorato noted Wednesday said he believes the keys to their house across cized by Democrats the Delaware in Hackthat Attorney General Tom health-care reform is and activist groups ettstown, and dumped her in Corbett, the GOP’s gubernato- necessary, but that rial nominee, in March joined the federal health-care bill is as a political move to further an overgrown field, Lobel a group of mostly Republican trying to achieve that goal in his campaign for governor. said. Schickling’s decomattorneys general around the an unconstitutional and cost- Corbett has repeatedly de- posed body was found July 7. nied the lawsuit is political. An autopsy showed she had country in filing suit to block ly way. The liberal group Keystone sustained a blow to the head Nonetheless, Harley wrote, the law on constitutional grounds. And in a letter to if the lawsuit fails, the next Progress filed a right-to-know and had been stabbed 59 request last spring with times, including 20 times in potential donors that month, governor “must be prepared Corebtt’s office, seeking all her neck, Lobel said. with a strategy for how to mitCorbett wrote that “under no communications mentioning According to Monroe Councircumstances” would he go igate or control the explosion the lawsuit. The group was dety court records, Benford, in costs” — and that is what along with this “big-governnied since most information who was unemployed, had Corbett is detailing in his poliment, special-interest takeinvolving litigation is shield- pleaded guilty to assault cy paper. over of our health care.” ed under the state’s Right-to- charges in a 2005 incident in “Down in the polls and cam- Know Law. Yet in a policy paper that which he was stopped for Corbett placed on his website paign finances, Dan OnoraOn Wednesday, Keystone driving under the influence. this week, he wrote that the to’s desperation is showing in Progress filed suit in Com- He was sentenced to two to law is “a great opportunity to the way he’s stretching to monwealth Court appealing five years in prison and was paroled in 2007. extend coverage to thousands come up with new ways to the denial. attack Tom Corbett,” Harley said. Contact staff writer Joseph A. Contact staff writer Angela Kevin Riordan’s column does Slobodzian at 215-854-2985 or In their suit, the attorneys Couloumbis at 717-787-5934 or not appear today. jslobodzian@phillynews.com. general argue that the Consti- acouloumbis@phillynews.com.

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The only witness to see a man carrying a package, he awaits trial in theft of heroin.

matters, the case could not proceed. Williams, along with Officers Robert Snyder and James Venziale, was indicted in July on federal charges of stealing nearly 300 grams of heroin from a drug dealer and By Allison Steele INQUIRER STAFF WRITER scheming to sell it. Earlier The circumstances of Eu- this month they were also ingene Lopez’s 2007 arrest on dicted on charges of plotting the streets of Germantown to rob a mobster who was acseemed clear-cut: As Philadel- tually an undercover agent. phia Police Officer Mark WillThe officers conspired with iams watched from his cruis- an alleged drug dealer to deer, Lopez tossed a package velop both plans, police have into an open car window and said, and also worked with an kept walking. undercover agent who was Williams reached into the posing as a drug dealer. car, grabbed the package, and All three officers have been followed Lopez, who was fired from the department. charged with possession with They are on house arrest intent to deliver. The package while they await trial. turned out to contain a kiloLopez, 32, has a history of gram of cocaine, police later drug arrests and other chargsaid. es. When Williams spotted But on Tuesday, the day Lo- him on Sept. 5, 2007, Williams pez was scheduled to go to said Lopez was walking on trial in Common Pleas Court, Manheim Street and glancing prosecutors dropped the at Williams’ cruiser several charges. The case against times. him depended on testimony During a 2008 hearing, Willfrom Williams, who, with two iams told Common Pleas other officers, was indicted in Court Judge Nazario Jimenez July on charges of stealing Jr. that he saw Lopez toss a heroin from a drug dealer. package wrapped in a plastic Police said Lopez’s package bag through an open car wintested positive for cocaine, dow and continue walking. but Williams is the only offic“It was immediately apparer who saw Lopez carrying it. ent to me that it was a large Since Williams is blocked amount of narcotics,” Willfrom testifying in criminal iams testified.

The man sitting inside the car left the scene before Williams spoke to him, Williams said, but Williams caught up with Lopez a block later and arrested him. Williams testified that he recovered a kilogram of cocaine from the car, saying he knew it was a kilogram because “throughout my experience, I observed narcotics packaged in that manner several times.” Guy R. Sciolla, Lopez’s attorney, asked Williams under cross-examination if he had ever seized a kilogram of cocaine prior to that day. Williams replied, “I haven’t seized any myself per se.” Sciolla, who was present during Tuesday’s proceedings, said the case should serve as a wake-up call to the criminal justice system. “You shouldn’t be given a rubber stamp of credibility simply because you’re a police officer,” Sciolla said. “Judges and D.A.’s still have to evaluate what police officers are telling them, and they should put their antennas up and really think about whether they’re getting the straight story from every member of law enforcement.”

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Kurzweil said the decision meant a $160,000 loss in her A Cherry Hill family plan- organization’s budget of just ning center has closed and over $3 million. Planned Partwo others in Burlington enthood of Southern New JerCounty are expected to shut sey also has locations in Burtheir doors by the end of No- lington, Camden, Atlantic vember because of state bud- City, and Bellmawr and at get cuts, advocates said Stockton College. Wednesday. “It’s unfortunate that the Joyce Kurzweil, executive governor has taken this tack vice president of Planned Par- of eliminating services that reenthood of Southern New Jer- ally save the state money,” sey, said the organization had Kurzweil said. closed its Kings Highway faMichele Jaker, executive dicility Monday, the day Demo- rector of the Family Planning crats in the Legislature failed Association of New Jersey, to restore $7.5 million in state said the Burlington County funding to 58 family planning Health Department was excenters statewide. pected to close family planGov. Christie eliminated ning centers in Browns Mills state funding to family plan- and Mount Holly by the end ning health centers in his of November. first budget, of $29.4 billion, Democratic lawmakers said saying the state did not have Monday that they planned to the money. keep fighting to restore fund-

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HACKER from B1 by an intentionally devastating prank staged by Xavier Von Erck of Portland, Ore., founder of the organization Perverted Justice. Raisley initially was a supporter of the group, which collaborated with Dateline NBC on the television newsmagazine’s controversial “To Catch a Predator” features. He reportedly participated in Inter-

net chatrooms associated with the organization. When Von Erck launched Perverted Justice, he and others posed as minors online to attract pedophiles whom they identified on the website. The group boasts that hundreds have been arrested as a result of its work, and Von Erck was hired by NBC as a consultant. Raisley grew disenchant-

ed with Von Erck’s techniques, which have raised legal concerns. Their fallingout became personal when Raisley accused Perverted Justice of using a picture of his young son to lure predators. He filed a 2005 complaint with the FBI, which found no evidence that his son had been used as bait, authorities said. Von Erck also has de-

nied the accusation. Raisley continued his crusade against Von Erck by identifying the group’s anonymous volunteers and allegedly threatened to harm them, authorities said. Von Erck has admitted he also launched a crusade. In 2005, he posed online as an adult woman named Holly and began an Internet relationship with the unsuspecting Raisley. The two engaged in steamy correspondence and online sex. At the request of “Holly,” Raisley provided explicit images of himself. Within months, Raisley, then living in Arkansas, told his wife that he loved another woman and went to meet Holly at the Little Rock airport. A photographer sent by Von Erck snapped shots of Raisley, flowers in hand, waiting for the paramour who didn’t exist. The images were immediately posted on the Internet along with transcripts of his chats with Holly. Raisley’s embarrassment increased in 2006 when Radar Magazine published an article that questioned tactics used by Perverted Justice. Rolling Stone ran a similar story the next year. Both included the tale of Raisley’s humiliation by Von Erck. The pieces were re-

published on numerous web- caused more than $100,000 in sites. damage and Raisley had to be Along the way, Raisley lost held accountable, the prosecuhis job. His wife filed for di- tors charged. vorce. He no longer had conRaisley’s public defender, tact with his son. He became John H. Yauch, tried to condesperate to remove the sto- vince the jury there was no ries. credible evidence to link his The self-taught computer client with the Rick Ross whiz did what he knew best: site. The FBI charged RaisHe wrote a program with a ley in 2009 with intentionalmalicious virus that spread ly infecting the site with the worldwide in virus, which the 2007. Its intensaid it Bruce Raisley institute tion, he has adspent $20,000 to mitted, was to reresolve. launched a motely control After Wednesvirus after computers to day’s verdict, bring down the being caught Raisley — who is websites that self-emup in a hoax. now posted his sordid ployed and lives tale. with his mother The virus hit hard in Eu- in the Midwest — initially derope, including Slovenia. In- clined comment to a reporter ternet sites that included in- and then offered a brief apoloformation about Raisley were gy. bombarded and either “I forgive Von Erck for crashed or slowed to a crawl. what he did to me, and I hope During the trial before he can forgive me for what I Judge Robert B. Kugler, pros- did to him,” he said. ecutors focused on the techniIn addition to a possible calities of the crime, describ- prison sentence, Raisley’s coning such things as “botnets” viction could carry a $250,000 used to spread viruses to com- fine and restitution to his vicputers. tims. Sentencing is set for Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jan. 7. Lee Vartan and Erez LieberUntil then, Raisley is permann told the panel of five mitted to use a computer only men and seven women about for work. Von Erck’s cruel prank. For that, Raisley deserved sympa- Contact staff writer Barbara thy, they said. Boyer at 856-779-3838 or But the computer hacking bboyer@phillynews.com.

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DEED from B1 Greenlee and Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, who also has worked on the bill, said property theft often creates multiple victims. The first is the person whose land or house is stolen, but sometimes the thief sells the property, creating a second victim. Greenlee said the bill is a “simple check,” but Records Commissioner Joan Decker opposes it. She said state law and a court order require the city to record deeds immediately. That stance flabbergasted Greenlee. “You mean that no matter what junk is presented to you, you’re required to record it?” he asked. Grosik testified that someone named Anthony Mitchell created a phony document to take his property. The document had two obvious problems, he said. For one, it didn’t have Grosik’s name on it. Instead, it listed the previous owner, Red Sargent. Grosik said the Records Department could have prevented the crime by checking the name on the transfer document against the current deed, which would have shown Grosik as the owner. “To find out that they took my property without using my name, that’s not even right,” Grosik said. Also, the notary seal on the document had expired before the new deed was filed. He found out that his backyard had been stolen because a Philadelphia law aimed at preventing such theft requires the Records Department to notify owners of property transfers. Grosik complained to the Records Department immediately, only to be told the city could do nothing. Instead, Grosik has had to try to find Anthony Mitchell and begin legal proceedings to get his property back.

Grosik cannot afford a lawyer, and Mitchell, who listed a false address on the property transfer, has remained elusive. Grosik has started working on getting his property back through the courts, but that is a lengthy process that requires him to advertise to try to find Mitchell. Already, filing fees have cost him $343. He has grown frustrated. His house was a shell when he bought it, and he rehabbed it himself, even knocking down a brick building next door by hand to assemble the three parcels that now constitute his house, garage, and backyard. “I went through a lot of stuff to make this house mine,” he said. His backyard has a separate deed from his house and would have looked like an empty lot available for building to the person who stole it. Lisa Caulfield, chief of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Economic Crime Unit, said people who commit property theft often drive around neighborhoods looking for vacant lots or abandoned houses. In her testimony, she recommended that the Records Department put several new procedures in place to prevent such thefts. The Records Department already photographs people who walk in to submit deeds, but Caulfield wants the city to ask for photo identification as well so that if a crime occurs the district attorney can find the suspects. Caulfield and others say they do not know how many cases of property-title theft occur yearly, but they say they receive complaints frequently. Caulfield recently won a case involving a ring that had stolen 82 properties in the city. It took four years to prosecute. Dina Schlossberg, a lawyer

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SCHOOLS from B1 they could not immediately release the full list of 46 schools, but said that 20 of the schools are on the state “Persistently Dangerous” list and the other 26 were either past persistently dangerous schools or are trending that way. Hanna, Deputy Superintendent Leroy Nunery, and Chief Inspector Myron Patterson, the new school safety chief and a member of the Philadelphia police force, said the district would focus on improving instructional practices at the schools, clarifying districtwide reporting standards, and creating a “school climate action team” to monitor safety, violence, and discipline. By Nov. 1, each school must submit to the district a plan that details the strategies it will use to fix safety problems, truancy, and bullying issues. The district wants to expand to 24-hour coverage the district’s 215-400-SAFE bullying and violence hotline and improve its callback time. Officials also said they would create a blue-ribbon panel of city leaders to monitor the district’s progress. It will implement new antibullying programs and start an anti-bullying campaign at some schools next month. Nunery said the district would work to make sure dangerous incidents are properly recorded. “We assume that everyone knows to make a report, but at times, that doesn’t happen,” Patterson said. There will be a new focus on violence prevention, Hanna said. “In the past, it was more reactive to incidents as they happened,” said Hanna. “Now, we want to take a look in a more proactive manner.” “This is a new day,” Nunery said. Later, a task force convened in the wake of the Dec. 3 beatings of dozens of Asian students at South Philadelphia High released its final report to the SRC. The 30-page report lists dozens of recommendations — from implementing a yearround, multi-language orientation program for new students to more consistent discipline for all students. The 50-member task force has no enforcement authori-

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ty, but called upon the district to publish within 90 days “a plan of implementation based upon the recommendations contained in its report …” Task force members should be involved in compiling the plan, a cochair said. In its report, the task force noted, however, that its work “only scratched the surface on the systemic issues that exist within the district around race and culture as a whole.” Beyond more consistent discipline and year-round orientation programs for new students, recommendations included: training all staff in anti-bullying and conflict-resolution techniques; hiring a more diverse staff; offering better principal training and more principal mentoring; diversifying the curriculum; and offering strong peer-mentoring programs. There should be a renewed focus on service learning and a more deliberate approach to celebrating diversity, task force members said. Cochair Kay Kyungsun Yu said the task force should live on as an advisory body to Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and the SRC. “We’d like to continue the dialogue,” Yu said. Commissioner Joseph Dworetzky said the district would form an implementation team, including members of the task force. “It’s a great report, a great contribution to the city,” Dworetzky said. Ackerman characterized the report as “solid. It gives us a blueprint for moving forward.” The district’s director of diversity training and education, Theos McKinney, helped lead the task force until he resigned in the spring. The district has not replaced McKinney.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Asian student from Bok was attacked in May Police found no racial motivation in the street assault. Two Asians were beaten at school Friday. By Jeff Gammage and Kristen A. Graham INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS

One said, “Are you from Bok?” The assailants then began to punch him. The victim told police that he believed he had been attacked because of the school logo on his shirt. Police said at the time that they did not think the attack had been racially motivated. Tensions have been high in the neighborhood since December, when 30 Asian students were assaulted by groups of mostly African American students at South Philadelphia High. That attack was racially motivated, authorities have said. On Friday, the two Chinese students, both freshman, were kicked and punched by a large group of African American students, according to city school district and police accounts. Both victims required hospital treatment. A 14-year-old boy was charged with assault. No other “Freshman Day” attacks were reported at Bok, Edison, or Washington High School, where, district spokesman Fernando Gallard said, officials learned that some students had designated Friday as a time to haze ninth graders. Melton said Wednesday that the staff was interviewing students to try to determine the motivation behind the assault. “What’s important to me here is I had two of my students injured,” he said. “Any time a student of any group or ethnic group is injured, I’m seriously concerned about it. … We’re going to get to the bottom of this.” Earlier this week, Melton said he had warned students via a public-address announcement that no trouble would be tolerated. He also left a recorded phone message for Bok parents on Friday morning before the attack. The assault occurred on the sixth floor of the school, at Ninth and Mifflin Streets. The students, one 14 and one 15, were walking to class when about 10 students attacked the 15-year-old. The 14-year-old tried to help his friend, then was attacked himself.

The Friday attack on two Chinese students at Bok High followed an incident in May in which an Asian teenager wearing a school shirt was chased and punched on the street by a group of about 15 African American youths. In the earlier case, which occurred May 4, a 16-year-old boy who attended Bok was attacked as he walked through the neighborhood near 15th and Morris Streets with his girlfriend. He escaped into the South Philadelphia branch of the Free Library, and the staff quickly locked the doors to keep the assailants out. The group fled when police arrived. “The person being attacked ran into the library for safety,” Sandra Horrocks, the library system’s vice president for communications, said at the time. “The library staff did shut down the building to make sure the staff and everyone [inside] stayed safe.” The staff then called the Commission on Human Relations, she said, “because there seemed to be some racial issue involved.” Neither the state nor city Human Relations Commission had a record of such a call in May. On Monday, school officials investigating the Friday attack said early reports indicated that it had occurred on “freshman hazing day,” and that race had not been a motivation. Principal Larry Melton said Wednesday night that May attack had never been reported to the school. He was asked if knowledge of that assault influenced his view of whether the Friday attack may have been racially motivated. “I can understand how people with certain interests might want to connect dots to make that point,” he said. “I’m remaining open to the whole situation. I’m not going to make any judgments and say that we don’t have a problem at our school or that we do have a problem.” According to Philadelphia police, on May 4 the Asian boy, whose name was not released because of his age, was approached near the li- Contact staff writer Jeff brary at 5:27 p.m. by 15 Afri- Gammage at 215-782-3146 or can American male juveniles. jgammage@phillynews.com.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Trying for normal after a homicide

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S. Jersey woman rebuilds her life after losing a daughter. By Darran Simon

father. But Vasquez almost lost her, too. It has been three years In 2008, Vasquez was living since Lourdes Vasquez took in Clementon with Crystalina the witness stand, slid her — then 17, a senior at Overhands into a brown paper brook High School in Pine Hill bag, and pulled out the dirt- — and Oshiana and Crystalistained clothing of her mur- na’s boyfriend, Philipe D. Gay, dered daughter. who is Oshiana’s father. VasShe had not been warned quez worked two jobs: as a disthat prosecutors would ask patcher at Canon Business Soher to show jurors the black lutions, where she’s still emdenim shorts that 13-year-old ployed, and as a cashier at a Shaline Seguinot was wearing K&G store at nights. She didn’t the day she disappeared. The get home until 10 p.m. shorts were hanging on a tree Gay, an Overbrook gradubranch in a field where Sha- ate, watched Oshiana during line’s body was found, and the day while Crystalina was her mother identified them. in school. The baby slept in a Vasquez has tried to move crib in her grandmother’s on with her life since that tri- room. al, which led to the conviction One morning in February of Miguel Figueroa. She has 2008, Vasquez noticed bruises on Oshi a n a ’s leg, back, and stomach as she changed the child’s diaper. “I screamed so loud,” she said. At first, Gay said he didn’t know what had happened, Vasquez said. She didn’t beAPRIL SAUL / Staff Photographer lieve him. Lourdes Vasquez with granddaughter Oshiana “I know you Shaline Vanessa Gay at home. know something,” she reforgiven him, and even gotten membered saying to him. over being cross-examined by He was the only one home him when he acted as his own alone with Oshiana during attorney. the days, she said. But he crept back into her For three days, Vasquez life again last month. was at Virtua Voorhees HospiSister Helen Cole, a North tal around the clock with the Camden nun who has been child. Shortly after Oshiana’s like a guardian angel to two-week hospital stay, VasquVasquez, delivered the news: ez learned that the state was A state appellate court had re- putting the child in foster duced Figueroa’s sentence, care. making him eligible for pa“I felt that that other piece role in 45 years instead of 55. of my heart was ripped Before she broke the news, again,” she said. Cole said, she counseled Shortly after Oshiana left Vasquez not to make the rul- the hospital in February, Gay ing seem more significant admitted in a taped statethan it was — the worst had ment to hitting her, according already happened. to authorities. Vasquez felt more annoyed “He wasn’t on anything,” than angry when she learned she said. “I think he was realabout Figueroa’s appeal. ly young and stupid.” “Every time I turn around Gay was convicted of aggraand I think it’s behind me, I vated assault and served 20 hear his name come back months of a five-year prison up,” she said. term; he was released in AuToday, she is living in Cam- gust den County, raising her first “I’ve been to hell and back,” grandchild. She is trying to Vasquez said. lead a normal life, out of the She called child services at unwanted spotlight that least three times a day, trying shone on her after her daugh- to see Oshiana in the winter ter’s murder. of 2008. Shaline was killed in North One day in March 2008, she Camden in August 1995, and and Crystalina marched Vasquez became a national down to a Voorhees office figure, talking about the case and pleaded with a supervias it went unsolved. In 2000, sor, who told Oshiana’s foster Figueroa was captured in mother to bring the child to Florida, where he was living the office. Oshiana had been under another name. He was in foster care for about three convicted in 2002 of murder; weeks. that conviction was overOshiana didn’t recognize turned in 2005 because he her at first, so Vasquez startwas denied the opportunity to ed to sing, “You Are My Suncross-examine witnesses. He shine,” a song she always was convicted again in 2007. sang to Oshiana. Vasquez briefly went to The baby’s eyes lit up. grief counseling after the kill- Vasquez and Crystalina starting, and at one point she ed to cry. thought of suicide daily. “I In May 2008, Vasquez filled just wanted to end it all,” she out the paperwork seeking said. custody of Oshiana while waitCole made her write a let- ing for Gay’s sentencing in ter pledging not to take her Camden; a Superior Court life. judge gave Vasquez custody “The good Lord put her of Oshiana that day. there,” Vasquez, 46, said. “Lourdes is a very resilient God gave her another gift, person,” Cole said. “She’s she said, on June 12, 2007, the been through so much adverday her first grandchild was sity.” born. The arrival of Oshiana Vasquez walked out of the Shaline Vanessa Gay shortly courthouse, a divorced after Figueroa’s conviction 44-year-old grandmother was something of a rebirth charged with raising a grandfor Vasquez. child, 13 years after burying “From there on,” she said, her child. “I was living again.” Crystalina, now 20, has cusThe toddler — whose moth- tody of a second daughter, er is Vasquez’s younger 4-month-old Emani, and daughter, Crystalina — has watches Oshiana during the long, curly hair, just like her day. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

During one recent evening, Vasquez’s tidy one-bedroom apartment in Pine Hill was dim in the living room, the blinds drawn, the television on. A baby bouncer sat in one corner. The walls had a few framed pictures: a handful of photos of Oshiana at 5 months, in a white dress with a white headband, and a photo of Shaline taken a few weeks before her death. Vasquez cooked pasta and meatballs. She gave Oshiana chocolate milk and garlic bread, and sat on the edge of a brown sofa to watch Glee, one of her favorite shows. Oshiana, now 3, nestled close. She jumped off the couch and spun around with her arms extended, dancing, when one of the actors in Glee played a guitar and sang the pop song “Billionaire.” Vasquez sang along. Oshiana sucks both thumbs, and never did take to the pacifier. She loves SpongeBob SquarePants and still calls Vasquez what sounds like “Gamma” — even though she can pronounce the word correctly. Like most 3-year-olds, she demands attention. She fussed when her grandmother took too long to give her warm chocolate milk. Usually before bedtime, she somersaults on her bed, landing on her back with her legs in the air, that long, curly hair trailing behind her. Vasquez waited for her to rest her head on the pillow beneath framed pictures of Pinocchio and the Little Mermaid, in the bedroom with light-green colored walls that the two share, and fall asleep. “She’s my buddy. I wouldn’t know what to do without her. She keeps me alive,” Vasquez said.

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IRENE (nee Tener), September 21, 2010, of Atlantic City NJ, formerly of Philadelphia PA. Wife of Arthur S. Altman. Mother of Susan (Joel C.) Rutenberg and Stephen Kahn. Sister of Morton (Ronnie) Tener and the late Norman Tener. of Michelle Grandmother Rutenberg, Jennifer RutenbergPollick, Dani Rutenberg, Brielyn Kahn, Marni Ledwitz and Jeffrey Rutenberg. Great grandmother of Bryce and Kylie. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services, 11 A.M., September 24, 2010, at the Har Jehuda 8400 Lansdowne Cemetery, Avenue, Upper Darby PA. The family will return to the residence of Stephen Kahn and respectfully request that contributions in her memory be made to Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave., Philadelphia PA 19111. www.levinefuneral.com

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A. ROBERT, Aug. 24, 2010. Brother of Clement Bellace. Relatives and friends are invited to his Memorial Funeral Mass Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 at 10 A.M. in St. Patrick Church, 242 S. 20th St. (at Locust St.), Phila. Int. private in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery. (STOLFO F.H.)

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PAUL, Sept. 21, 2010. Husband of the late Janet (nee Tollen), father of Steven Benjamin and (James), Linda Santangelo brother of Joyce Dimitrov and the late Raymond Benjamin. Grandfather of Erica and Alexa. Relatives and friends are invited to Funeral Services Friday 10 A.M. precisely at GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL SACKS, 6410 N. Broad St. Int. King David Memorial Park. Family will return to the Santangelo residence. Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1626 Locust St., Phila. PA 19103 www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

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JOSEPH A., Sept. 22, 2010. Beloved husband of the late Catherine (nee Mele). Devoted father of Angela Cella and father-in-law of John Costanzo. Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to his Viewing Fri. eve. 7 to 9 P.M. and Sat. morning 8 to 9 A.M. at PENNSYLVANIA BURIAL CO. INC, 1327-29 S. Broad St. Funeral Mass Sat. 9:30 A.M. at Divine Mercy Parish, 6667 Chester Ave., Phila. Int. Holy Cross Cem. In lieu of flowers, family requests donations in his memory be made to the Malvern Retreat House, PO Box 315, Malvern, PA 193550315, Attn: Michele O’Neill.

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HARRY L., JR., Born Sept. 3, 1937, after a lengthy illness on Sept. 21, 2010. Survived by his father, 3 sons and a daughter. www.terryfuneralhome.com

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JOSEPH FRANCIS, 50, of Atlantic City, NJ. Sept. 18, 2010. Son of the late George and Rose (nee McCrossen). Brother of Linda Morrissey (Mike), John (Patti), Ellen and Gerry. Memorial Mass to be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 at the Chapel of the Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, PA. 19103

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ROSEMARY G. "Rosey" (nee Geraghty), on Sept. 20, 2010, of Old City-Phila., formerly of Alexandria, VA. Captain U.S. Navy, Retired. Wife of the late Kenneth E. Cox. Survived by her stepson Whitney (Suzanne) Cox of London UK, her stepdaughter Hillary (Dave) Bochniak of Chicago, 3 grandchildren; Peter, Alice and Sawyer, her brother Jack A. (Lucy) Geraghty and her sister Patricia Geraghty and her loving nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to her Visitation on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 at 10 A.M. at St. Pius X Church, 220 Lawrence Rd., Broomall. Funeral Mass to follow at 11 A.M. Inurnment will be at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date. Contributions may be made in Rosey’s memory to Crossing the Finish Line, 980 Harvest Dr., Suite 203, Blue Bell, PA 19422. www.danjolell.com

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BETTY (nee Schneider), Sept. 20, 2010, in Jupiter, FL. Wife of the late Harold Desfor and the late Harold Rusten. Survived by loving family and friends. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services Sun. 12 Noon precisely Haym Salomon Memorial Park (Sec AC). Family her late will return to residence. Contributions in her memory may be made to American Cancer Society, 1626 Locust St., Phila., PA 19103. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

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GRACE D. (nee Damirgian) Sept. 22, 2010 of Jenkintown. Beloved wife of the late Daniel H., Jr. Devoted mother of (Michael), Gagnon Nancy Steven (Susan) and the late Daniel H., III. Sister of the late Nancy Davis and Michael Damirgian. Cherished grandmother of Nicole, Victoria, Alexandra, Elena and Hannah. Relatives and friends may call on Friday Eve. 7 to 9 P.M. and on Saturday from 9 to 10 A.M. J. JOSEPH at the McGOLDRICK FUNERAL 507 West Ave., HOME, Jenkintown with the Funeral Service to follow. Interment Hillside Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to the Breathing Room Foundation, 120 S. York Rd., Suite 7, Hatboro, PA 19040.

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JOSEPH F. DOYLE, ESQUIRE, of Williamstown NJ, age 73, passed away at home on Sept. 21st, 2010, surrounded by his loving family after a courageous battle with cancer. Joe grew up in Collingswood NJ, and was a life-long resident of South Jersey. Joe was a graduate of La Salle University and Villanova Law School. He graduated Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Law Review. Joe was a lawyer and Municipal Court judge in Gloucester County for many years. Joe was a renaissance man: an avid lover of sailing, boating, and fishing; an accomplished cook; and a Joe’s master woodworker. memory will live on through his handcrafted furniture, particularly his clocks. However, most dear to his heart was the cradle he built for the birth of his first grandchild, later used by other grandchildren. His works will be forever treasured by his family and future generations. At the top Joe’s list of enjoyment was traveling with his family and close friends to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Joe’s love of the Outer Banks prompted him, ten years ago, to initiate an annual Thanksgiving trip to Nags Head, a tradition his family will continue. Joe is pre-deceased by his parents, Aloysius and Mary (Crawford) Doyle; his brother, John Doyle, and his dear uncle, He Crawford. Christopher leaves behind his beloved Jane (Brogan); his loving children, Jane Griess (Michael), Ellen (David), Joseph Schultheis (Linda), Christopher (Deneen), and Elizabeth Olson (Michael); as well as his adored grandchildren, Steven, Andrew (Audrey), and Joseph Griess; Caroline and William Schultheis; Alyson Doyle; and Christopher and Finneas Doyle; and his devoted sister, Helen Crawford. Joe will be greatly missed by numerous loving family members and friends. A Viewing will be held at St. Agnes Church (701 Little Gloucester Road,) Blackwood NJ, Friday, September 24th, 2010, from 9 to 11 A.M., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will be at New St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bellmawr NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to Samaritan Hospice, 5 Eves Dr., Suite 300, Marlton NJ 08053.

FEESER

ADONNA J., on Sept. 20, 2010, formerly of Lansdowne. Age 77. Adonna worked at Conrail for many years. She is survived by her godson, Andrew Savo and by many friends. Visitation Saturday, 10:30 to 11 A.M., at St. Callistus Church, 67th St. and Lansdowne Ave., Phila., followed by her Funeral Mass at 11 A.M. Interment Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers please make memorial contributions to Catholic Charities, 222 N. 17th St., Phila., PA 19103. TERRANOVA FUNERAL HOME

FIORENTINO

BENJAMIN, Sept. 20, 2010. Beloved husband of Mary (nee DiTullio). Devoted father of Darlene Iacoviello, Cindy (Andy) Morris, Phyllis Lacca, Joy (Rachid) Gottih, Maria Lacca, Gina (Marco) D’Alessandro and John (Joanne) Lacca. Also survived by 12 grandchildren and one great grandson. Brother of Phyllis (Carmen) Giacchino and Marie (Anthony) Turchi. Ben was President of Eastern Electronics for over 50 years and a Member of the So. Phila. Lions Club and was it’s past and Relatives President. friends are invited to his VIEWING SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. until 11:15 A.M. at the Church of St. John Baptist Vianney, Youngsford Rd. and Rte 23 (Conshohocken State Rd.) Gladwyne, PA 19035 followed by his Funeral Mass 11:30 A.M. Int. Holy Cross Cem. Yeadon, PA. In lieu of flowers family requests contributions be made to the Alzheimer’s Disease Assn., Delaware Valley Chapter, 399 Market Street, Suite 102, Phila. PA 19106.

LAMBRECHT

MARY (nee Kilian) of Hatboro September 20, 2010. Beloved wife of Fred W. Services and interment will be private. In lieu of flowers please remember Mary through your gift to Alzheimer’s Association, Delaware Valley Chapter, 399 Market St., Suite 102, Phila. PA 19106. Arr. S C H N E I D E R FUNERAL HOME, Hatboro.

MAIDA

ANTHONY J. “Tony”, on Sept. 18, 2010, of Fort Washington. Beloved husband of Nancy G. (nee Gallovich) Maida, devoted father of Leonard Maida and the late Anthony J. Maida. Also survived by 3 Grandchildren, one great grandchild and his brother Jimmy Maida. Relatives and friends are invited to call after 9:30 A.M. Saturday at St. Anthony of Padua Church 259 Forest Ave., Ambler. Funeral Mass 10:30 A.M. Interment private. Remembrances in his name to the American Heart Assn. 1617 JFK Boulevard, Ste. 700 Phila., PA 19103 or the American Lung Assn., 527 Plymouth Rd. Ste. 403, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 would be appreciated. Condolences may be made at www.UrbanFuneralHome.com

MANNING

JOSEPH A. of Warminster, formerly of Somers Point, NJ. Husband of 66 years to Jacqueline M. (nee O’Connor). Also survived by 7 children, 12 grandchildren, one great grandson, nieces & nephews. Relatives and friends may greet the family Fri. 9 A.M. Nativity of our Lord Church, York & Street Rd. Warminster. Funeral Mass 10 A.M. Int. private. In lieu of flowers donations to Wisshickon Hospice, 150 Monument Road, Suite 300, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 would be appreciated. PLUNKETT F.H.

VICTOR, on Sept. 21, 2010, of Egg Harbor Twp., NJ, (formerly of Frankford). Husband of Florence (nee Lada), father of Carol (Robert) Wilusz and Donna (Robert) Schembs and brother of the late Joseph, Louis, Alphonse, John, Dominic, James, Arnold, Alfred and Albert Fiorentino; also survived by 8 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. ROWENA (nee Weiss) Sept. 21, Services and interment private. 2010, of Philadelphia, PA. Wife Arr. NULTY FUNERAL HOME of Theodore R. “Ted” Mann. Mother of Julie Mann (Ernie Cohen), Rachel Mann and Marcus Mann. Grandmother of Noah Cohen and Julia Mann. Great grandmother of Cameron Quintero-Smith. Aunt of Julian Goldstein. Relatives and friends are invited to services Friday Sept. 24, 2010 at 2 P.M. at JOSEPH LEVINE AND SON, 7112 N. Broad St. Interment, Laurel Hill Cemetery. The family will return to the late residence and respectfully request that contributions in her memory be made to Mazon, a Jewish Response to Hunger. www.levinefuneral.com

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McCOLLUM

DOLORES E., Sept. 19, 2010. Loving daughter of Patrick and the late Sara (nee Davis) dear sister of McCollum, Patrick, Kevin, Terry and Carroll, dear niece of Daniel McCollum, beloved Aunt Dee Dee of numerous nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Saturday morning from 8 to 9:15 A.M. in St. Gabriel Church, 29th and Dickinson Sts. Mass of Christian Burial 9:30 A.M. Int. New St. Mary’s Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations in Dolores’ memory to St. Gabriel Church Memorial Fund, 2917 Dickinson St., Phila. PA 19146 would be appreciated.

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SHULMAN

SCHUCK

SKABLA

MARGARET (nee Burke), 88, formerly of Lansdowne, PA, died on Sept. 21, 2010. Wife of the late Harry J. Rendler, Jr. Mother of Elaine RendlerMcQueeney; Robert Rendler (Lorraine); Rosemary Santo; Jean McGrath (Michael); Joan Kryst (Ken); Harry K.; Denis R.; Geraldine Sawyer (Steve); 16 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren and a sister, Helen Hayes. Visitation Friday, 9:30 A.M. Sept. 24, 2010. Mass 11:00 A.M., St. Philomena’s Church, 41 Baltimore Ave., Lansdowne, PA. Burial Sts. Peter and Paul Cem. Donations may be to Alzheimer’s Assoc., 225 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60601 or www.alz.org. Online condolences: STEPHEN J., On Sept. 21, 2010, www.BrownFuneralHomesWV.com age 77, of King of Prussia. Beloved husband of the late Louise E. (Topper) McLoughlin, father of Stephen R. (Joanne) J. Vincent McLoughlin, (Heather) McLoughlin, Michael D. (Mary) McLoughlin and Maureen A. (Arthur) Coyle, D. of Regina brother M. Soderberg, Laura McCandless and Delia A. Smith; also survived by 6 grandchildren, Stephen C. McLoughlin, Joseph D. McLoughlin, Arthur S. Coyle, Molly H. McLoughlin, Thomas S. McLoughlin and Phoebe L. HENRY P., age 99, of McLoughlin. He was preceded Cheltenham, Sept. 18, 2010. in death by Edward R. Beloved husband of the late McLoughlin, and George E. Katherine (nee Hutelmyer), McLoughlin. Relatives and cherished father of Henry B. friends are invited to attend the (Marie), Francis J. (Marilyn) Funeral Mass Saturday, Sept. Lawrence and the late Mary 25, 2010 at 10 A.M. at Mother of Raidy, dear grandfather of Divine Providence Church, 333 Michael Raidy, Deborah Allendale Rd., King of Prussia, Marcum, Lorie Combs, Coleen PA 19406. Friends may call on Bank, Francis P., Leighton, and Friday evening from 7 to 9 P.M. Katherine Schuck. Dear great at THE MOORE AND SNEAR grandfather of Lee A. FUNERAL HOME, 300 Fayette Morefield, Brandon, St., Conshohocken a n d Christopher and Cody Saturday morning from 9 to Marcum, Noah and Christian 9:50 A.M. at the Church. Combs, Joseph, Jonathan, Interment Calvary Cemetery, Christopher, Caleb and Gabriel West Conshohocken. Memorial Schuck. Dear uncle to Sr. contributions may be made in Agnes Schuck, Judy Bayer and his memory to Coalition for Pamela Watson. He was Pulmonary Fibrosis, 10866 W. preceded in death by his Washington Blvd., #343, Culver parents Ludwig and Julia, City, CA 90232 sister brother Valentine,

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PASSIO-LICARETZ

Emma, her husband James Johnson, nephew Louis Schuck and many cousins and in-laws. A graduate of Villanova University, Henry worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Navy at the Philadelphia Naval aviation Yard developing After retiring machinery. Henry and Katherine toured the world seeing China, the Phillipines, Brazil and his home, Bavaria, ancestral Germany. Relatives and friends are invited to his Funeral Mass Sat. 10 A.M. Presentation B.V.M. Church, 100 Old Soldiers Rd., Cheltenham where the family will receive after 9 A.M. Int. Holy ANNA M. (nee Harviletz) age Sepulchre Cem. Donations in 92, on Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Henry’s memory to the church. FRANCIS X. FOLEY F.H. Beloved wife of the late Joseph V. Petrosky. Loving mother of Alan J. Petrosky and the late Joanne Mucha and the late Sandra Swigard. Also sadly missed by her 4 sisters, Julie, Sophie, Pauline and Margaret. FELICIA (nee Kruszewski) on Family and friends are invited Sept. 21, 2010, at the age of 95, of Roxborough. to Anna’s Life Celebration Sat. formerly after 9 A.M. and to participate Beloved wife of the late in her Funeral Service at 11 Charles. Dear sister of the late A.M. JOHN F. GIVNISH OF Edward Kruszewski of Hawaii, ACADEMY RD., 10975 loving cousin to the Gryn Academy Rd., Phila. I n t . family. Relatives and friends Resurrection Cem. In lieu of are invited to her viewing and flowers, a donation in Anna’s funeral Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 Memory to Penn Wissahickon from 9 - 11 A.M. at the PAUL Hospice, 150 Monument Rd., KARCSH FUNERAL HOME, Suite 300, Bala Cynwyd, PA 162-164 Cotton St., Phila., PA 19127. Services will begin at 11 19004 would be appreciated. A.M. Int. Holy Sepulchre Cem. www.lifecelebration.com FRANCES, Sept. 17, 2010. Beloved wife of the late Charles Licaretz; dear sister-inlaw of Jenny Passio and Gwen Passio. Also survived by many loving nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing and Funeral, Sat. morning, 9 A.M. at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, 9th and Watkins Sts. Funeral Mass to begin 10 A.M. Int. Calvery Cemetery. Cherry Hill, NJ. Arr. VINCENT GANGEMI FUNERAL HOME, INC.

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SHELLEY

HARRIET E. (nee Whitlock), on Sept. 21, 2010. Harriet was 93 years old, formerly of Mt. Airy. She was a sweet and kind person and an avid Phillies fan. wife of Irving Beloved Shulman, mother of Nancy E. Holz and Joan E. Rack, grandmother of 6 grandchildren and grandchildren. many great and by nieces Survived nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Monday 10 A.M. followed by her Funeral Service 11 A.M. at McILVAINE THE CLARE MUNDY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 7384 Ridge Ave. (cor. of Wigard Ave.) I n t e r m e n t Beechwood Cem. Donations in Harriet’s name may be sent to American Red Cross, 2221 Chestnut St., Phila. PA 19103 or American Heart Assoc., 5455 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43214.

MILDRED "MILLIE" T., Sept. 21, 2010, of Collingswood NJ, formerly of Philadelphia PA. Age 90 years. Wife of the late Ernest P. Skabla. Dear mother of Michael (Lillian) Skabla, Mary (Robert) Kahkonen and Barbara (Brian) Valerio. Also survived by 8 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Viewing Sat., 9:30 to 10:30 A.M., at FOSTER-WARNE FUNERAL HOME, Haddon and Lees Ave., Collingswood NJ. Funeral Mass Sat., 11 A.M., at the Church of St. John, Park and Lees Ave., Collingswood NJ. Int. Calvary Cem., Cherry Hill NJ. Memorial contributions may be made to Small Steps In Speech, POBox 134, Collingswood NJ 08108. www.fosterwarnefuneralhome.com

SOLOMON

GARY, September 20, 2010. Son of Mary Neville. Brother of Herma Sailor-Rand. Uncle of Christy Daccardi. Great uncle of Ashli Finuoli. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services, Friday, 1:30 P.M. precisely at Mt. Sharon Cem. (Section M). Family will return to his late residence. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

STANTON

DOROTHY (nee Hemsley), on Sept. 21, 2010, of Drexel Hill, PA. Beloved wife of the late Thomas M. Stanton, loving mother of Tom Stanton, Jim (Pat) Stanton and Mary Anne Miller. Relatives and friends are invited to visit with the family Friday, 10:30 - 11 A.M. THE DONOHUE FUNERAL HOME, 8401 WEST CHESTER PIKE (cor. LYNN BLVD.), UPPER DARBY PA, 610-4490300 followed by her Funeral Service, 11 A.M. Int. SS. Peter and Paul Cem. In lieu of flowers, contributions to either www.feedthechildren.org or www.humanesociety.org would be appreciated. www.donohuefuneralhome.com

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JAMES R., Sept. 20, 2010. Beloved husband of Patricia (nee Armentani). Devoted father of James Testa and Tricia (Jamie) Leon. Poppi of Skyler and Zachary. Brother of Rose Knowles and Joseph Testa and the late Carmela Brusco and Salvatore Testa. Son-in-law to Mildred Armentani. Relatives and friends are invited to his VIEWING FRIDAY EVENING 7-9 P.M. and Sat. 8 A.M. until MONTI9:30 A.M. at THE RAGO FUNERAL HOME INC., 2531-35 S. Broad St. Funeral Mass Stella Maris Church, 9th and Bigler Sts., 10 A.M. Int. SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery.

THORSON

ANDRE N., "Andy", age 77 Formerly of Narberth, PA. passed away on Sept. 22, 2010. Loving husband of 43 years to Gail M. Thorson. Father of Erik A. (Janie) Thorson, Jennifer E. Thorson, and Brendan M. Thorson, grandfather of Alexandria M, Christopher A. and Abigail J. Thorson. Brother of Jenny Colon and Digna Aguayo. Also Survived by Many Nieces and Nephews. Andy Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He took over the accounting business of his late father in law, Carroll L. Morris. Andy was dedicated throughout his life to helping others and treated everyone like family. A Graveside Service will be held on Sat. Sept. 25, 2010 at 10 A.M. from Westminster Cemetery, 701 Belmont Ave. Bala Cynwyd, Pa. 19004. Memorial Contributions may be made to Stein Hospice of Sandusky OH.,1912 Hayes Ave. Sandusky OH, 44870. Arr. ALLEVA FUNERAL HOME INC. Paoli, Pa.

TURSI

ISABEL, on Sept. 21, 2010 (nee Masino) of Cherry Hill, NJ. She was the beloved wife of the late John and loving mother of 4 sons, John, Jr. (Roberta) of Medford, Joseph (Diane) of Egg Harbor Twp., Lawrence (Linda) of Medford, and Michael of Mt. Laurel; 3 daughters Kathleen (Greg) Kiehner of Delran, AnneMarie (Jack) Conroy of Mt. Laurel and Linda (Alan) Lepson of Las Vegas, NV; 11 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, 2 brothers John Masino of Cherry Hill and James Masino of Wildwood Crest. Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Funeral Mass Saturday morning at 10:00 A.M. in St. Mary’s Church, 2001 Springdale Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ. Interment Calvary Cemetery. There will be a Viewing Friday evening from 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. and Saturday morning from 8:45 9:45 A.M. in St. Mary’s Church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Susan G. Komen For the Cure, 2 Princess Dr., Suite D, Lawrenceville, NJ or Stand Up 2 Cancer. ALLOWAY FUNERAL HOME, Merchantville, NJ .

VENABLE

JOHN T., on Sept 20, 2010, age 81, of King of Prussia, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family. He is survived by his beloved wife, Lucy (nee McKeon) Venable of 29 years. Loving father of Jody (David) Weaver, John (Denise) Rossi, Michael (Karin) Rossi and David (Heather) Rossi. Proud grandfather of Jessica and Jared Weaver, Gabriella, Rebecca, Jake, Nicole, Bianca and Alexander Rossi. Son of the late Benjamin and Rosalyn Venable. Mr. Venable was a graduate of LSU and served in the US Air Force. He was employed by Bell of PA for 32 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service on Saturday, Sept 25th, at 11 A.M., from United Church of Christ East Goshen in West Chester. Interment to follow at Philadelphia Memorial Park in Malvern. Visitation Saturday morning from 10 to 11 A.M. at the Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Neighborhood Hospice, 400 E. Marshall St., W. Chester PA 19380. Arr by the ALLEVA FUNERAL HOME, INC. Paoli.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

OBITUARIES

Ursinus’ John R. Strassburger, 68 By Walter F. Naedele

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

John R. Strassburger, 68, president of Ursinus College in Collegeville from 1995 until June, died of metastasized prostate cancer Wednesday, Sept. 22, at Memorial SloaneKettering Cancer Center in New York. Ursinus saw dramatic growth and improved prestige as a model liberal-arts institution under his leadership. Dr. Strassburger added majors in art, dance, and theater; hired more faculty; built more buildings; and increased enrollment from 1,100 when he began to 1,700. “He moved that school from a quiet liberal-arts college to one well-known not only in the region but all over,” interim president John E.F. Corson said in a phone interview. Now, Corson said, “it is a

John R. Strassburger led the

college from 1995 until June. place populated by kids who could go anywhere.” Not only did Dr. Strassburger expand the curriculum and faculty, he said, but also “it was the way he could interact with students” as he walked across campus, many of whom “he knew by name and what they were doing, in a

way that was astonishing.” A daughter, Trudy, said “he considered his greatest achievement helping to make Ursinus College a place [where] students could be free to learn.” In 2008-09, he was board chair of the Council of Independent Colleges, which represents more than 600 such institutions across the nation. During Dr. Strassburger’s years at Ursinus, Corson said, a new performing arts center and two new student residences were built. A new wing on the Berman Museum of Art was another bricks-and-mortar accomplishment. Born in Sheboygan, Wis., Dr. Strassburger worked summers as a steelworker and a machinist before earning a bachelor’s degree in American history at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1964, and a master’s degree in history at Cambridge University in

1966. He earned his doctorate in early American history at Princeton University in 1976 and held a 2002 honorary doctor of humane letters from Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, Japan. In 1970, Dr. Strassburger joined the history faculty at Hiram (Ohio) College, where he became director of the Center for Regional Studies and codirector of the Hiram in Dublin program before leaving in 1982. At the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, where he earned a distinguished service award, he was acting assistant director and program officer for education programs from 1982 to 1984. Dr. Strassburger moved to Galesburg, Ill., and from 1984 to 1994 was history professor, dean, and executive vice president at Knox College there.

Caswell Holloway Jr., 86, builder By Walter F. Naedele

Before and after graduation — from 1943 to 1945 — he Caswell F. Holloway Jr., 86, served on the freighter Media former builder of South Jer- na in the North Atlantic. sey condominiums, died of While working briefly for a complications from pneumo- firm in New Orleans, “he was nia Saturday, Sept. 18, at his going to be shipping out, and home in Jupiter, Fla., where my mom became pregnant,” he had lived said a son, Caswell III. So the since t h e naval career ended. mid-1980s. In late 1945, Mr. Holloway For decades joined his father’s firm, Wall before, h e & Holloway, a manufacturer’s lived in Haver- representative for plumbing ford and Villa- and other products, at 22d nova. and Chestnut Streets. Born in ChesIn the 1950s, Mr. Holloway ter, Mr. Hollo- became vice president of the way graduated company’s successor, the HolCaswell F. from St. James loway Corp. He became chief Holloway Jr. High School executive officer in 1977. As there in 1941, head of that company’s sucearned a football scholarship cessor, Holloway Holding Co., to Villanova University, and he diversified the firm into transferred to the Merchant electronic security and real Marine Academy, from which estate development across he earned a degree in engi- the nation. In the Philadelphia region, neering in 1944. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

IN THE REGION Sister Muriel Ratigan

former St. Leonard’s Academy in University City. She Educator, 95 also taught in Holy Child Sister Muriel Ratigan, 95, schools in New York, Illinois, an educator and an adminis- and California. trator for her religious sociFor six years, Sister Muriel ety, died of heart failure Fri- was a member of the Provinday, Sept. 17, at Holy Child cial Council for the Western Center, the retirement resi- Province of the Sisters of the dence of the Holy Child; for two years, she Sisters of the was business manager for the Holy Child in society’s American Province in Rosemont. Drexel Hill; and for nine years, A native of she was on the staff of the sociNew York City, ety’s Generalate in Rome. Sister Muriel From 1993 to 1997, Sister Muearned a bache- riel taught English as a second lor’s degree in language to adults at Provimathematics dence Center, a Holy Child minSister Muriel from the Colistry in North Philadelphia. She Ratigan lege of Mount then was a math tutor to eleSt. Vincent mentary students at St. Thothere. She was then an accountant at the Na- mas-Our Mother of Good Countional Bureau of Economic Re- sel School in Bryn Mawr until 2006, when she was 91. search in New York. Sister Muriel is survived by In 1947, she entered the convent of the Holy Child. For a brother, William, and nephmany years, she was known ews and nieces. A Funeral Mass will be said by her religious name, Mothat 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, at er St. Agnes. Sister Muriel taught for two New Sharon Chapel, 1341 Montyears at the Rosemont School gomery Ave., Rosemont, where of the Holy Child, and from friends may call after 10. Burial 1952 to 1955 taught at the will be in Calvary Cemetery,

IN THE NATION AND THE WORLD ning role as an impassioned Irving Ravetch Southern union organizer.

Mr. Holloway’s firm built, among others, Gardens Plaza and Brighton Place Condominiums in Ocean City, N.J., and Mystic Shores, a retirement community in Little Egg Harbor, N.J. Mr. Holloway was chairman of the national membership council of the Associated General Contractors of America from 1988 to 1994, his son said. He was also director of the Philadelphia unit of the General Building Contractors Association in the 1990s. A Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Mr. Holloway was a trustee of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, which awarded him an honorary degree in humane letters in 2002. He was also a trustee of Mount St. Mary’s University and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia gave him its Distin-

guished Catholic School Graduate Award in the early 2000s. In addition to his son Caswell III, Mr. Holloway is survived by wife Marie; sons Steven, T. Brian, B. Scott, Gary, and Todd; daughters Karen Perry and Marie Dudley; a sister; 26 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Mr. Holloway was predeceased by sons John and Thomas and daughter Jeanne O’Neill. A visitation was set for 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2400 N. Providence Rd., Upper Providence, where a Funeral Mass will follow. Burial is to be in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Marple Township. Contact staff writer Walter F. Naedele at 215-854-5607 or wnaedele@phillynews.com.

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bachelor’s degree in history at Temple University, graduated from the former PhiladelRev. John E. Margos phia Divinity School, and was Episcopal priest, 84 ordained an Episcopal priest The Rev. John E. Margos, in 1957. 84, an Episcopal priest in He was then a curate at St. Delaware County for more Mary’s Church in Burlington, than three decades, died of the Episcopal chaplain at Anrespiratory cora Psychiatric Hospital in failure Sun- Winslow Township, and vicar day, Sept. 19, at Holy Spirit Church in Clinat Heartland ton, N.J. Hospice in WilFrom 1968 until he retired mington. He in 1993, Father Margos was had lived in rector at St. Michael’s Church Parkville, in Yeadon. Md., since In retirement, he was assist2000. ing priest at the Church of Born in Phil- the Holy Redeemer in SpringRev. John adelphia, Fa- field, Delaware County, until E. Margos ther Margos 2000. graduated He is survived by daughfrom Northeast High School ters Maureen Tchinnis and and was a Navy signalman Mary McCann, a sister, in the South Pacific. He took three grandchildren, and part in five landings, among companion Helen Hetrick. them at Luzon in the Philip- His wife, Beverly, died in pines and at Okinawa. 1972. When he returned home, he A viewing was set for 11 played center field from 1947 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at the to 1950 for the North Philadel- Church of the Holy Redeemphia Cardinals, a semipro er, 145 W. Springfield Rd., team in the Penn-Del League. before a 1 p.m. Mass of the Father Margos earned a Resurrection there.

then all-black musicians union Local 767 and the allA top screenwriter, 89 Eight of the Ravetch-Frank white Local 47. “I knew that was something Irving Ravetch, 89, a two- Jr. screenplays, including time Oscar-nominated screen- Hud and Norma Rae, were di- that had to be done,” he said in 2000. writer — for Hud and Norma rected by Martin Ritt. Mr. Collette had already In a 1979 interview, Frank Rae, written with his wife, Harriet Frank said she and her husband had crossed the color bar before that in 1949 Jr. — died Sun- “a line-for-line collaboration,” and 1950 by day of pneumo- one that began with weeks of performing as nia at Cedars- talking everything out, taking the only AfriSinai Medical notes and speaking every line.” can American — Los Angeles Times Center in Los musician in Angeles. the orchestra In a collabora- Buddy Collette for Groucho tion that began L.A. bandleader, 89 Marx’s You Bet with the 1958 Your Life radio Buddy Collette, 89, a Gramfilm The Long, Irving and TV shows. my-nominated jazz saxophonHot Summer, Ravetch Buddy Mr. Collette Mr. Ravetch ist, flautist, bandleader, and Collette came to nationand F r a n k educator who played imporal jazz promiwrote t h e tant roles in Los Angeles jazz nence in 1955 scripts for more than a dozen as a musician and an advocate films, including The Sound and for the rights of African Ameri- as a founding member of the Fury, Hombre, The Reiv- can musicians, died Sunday at drummer Chico Hamilton’s influential quintet. The combiers, Murphy’s Romance, and a Los Angeles hospital. nation of Mr. Collette’s woodMr. Collette’s virtuosic Stanley & Iris. skills on saxophones, flute, winds and, especially, his They shared Oscar nominaand clarinet allowed him to flute-playing with the cello of tions in 1964 for their screen- move easily from studio work Fred Katz and guitar of Jim plays for Hud, a drama set in in films, TV, and recording to Hall created a timbre that remodern Texas and starring small jazz groups and big mains one of the jazz world’s Paul Newman, and in 1980 for bands. He was, in addition, most uniquely appealing Norma Rae, a drama starring one of the activists instrumen- sounds. Sally Field in her Oscar-win- tal in the 1953 merging of the — Los Angeles Times

Jill Johnston

Feminist writer, 81

During his career, he was a board member of the American Academic Leadership Institute, the American Council on Education, and the Lenfest Foundation. His commentaries were published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Besides his daughter Trudy, Dr. Strassburger is survived by his wife, Gertrude; another daughter, Sarah; a brother, a sister; and two grandchildren. A memorial service was set for 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at Bomberger Hall on the Ursinus campus, with a reception to follow at the Berman Museum on campus. Contact staff writer Walter F. Naedele at 215-854-5607 or wnaedele@phillynews.com. Inquirer staff writer Susan Snyder contributed to this article.

Robert D. Kane, 89, detective By Sally A. Downey

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Robert D. Kane, 89, of Upper Darby, a retired detective lieutenant with the Upper Darby Police Department and a decorated World War II veteran, died of kidney and heart disease Sunday, Sept. 19, at Delaware County Hospital. Mr. Kane served in the Police Department for 25 years. After retiring in 1980, he investigated major crimes for four years with the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Kane joined the Army in Robert 1942 and D. Kane shipped out with more than 16,000 other soldiers aboard the Queen Mary, an ocean liner that had been transformed into a troop carrier. Though he rarely spoke about his war experiences, his family said, he did share memories of an enormous wave that nearly capsized the ship. The incident inspired the novel The Poseidon Adventure, which later became a movie. In 2007, Mr. Kane revisited the Queen Mary at its berth in Long Beach, Calif. Mr. Kane saw action in North Africa and participated in the invasion of Salerno, Italy. While moving north to Florence with his unit, he was wounded in both legs by shrapnel. He was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After his discharge, he attended the University of Scranton at night while working at a supermarket. In June 1946, he married Jeanne Connolly. They had met at a dance in Wilkes-Barre. “He idolized my mother all during their 64 years of marriage,” said a son, Bob. In 1953, Mr. Kane moved his family from Wilkes-Barre to Delaware County when he went to work for Westinghouse in Lester. After a strike at the plant, he took a civilservice exam and began his career in law enforcement. He and his wife traveled extensively abroad. His favorite foreign country was Ireland, and he made more than 30 trips there, his son said. In 2007, he visited his ancestral homeland for the last time and acted as tour guide for his two sons and two grandsons. In addition to his wife and his son Bob, Mr. Kane is survived by another son, John; daughters Eileen KaneO’Neill, Maureen Ritchie, Denise Buck, and Michelle; 14 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at Donohue Funeral Home, 8401 West Chester Pike, Upper Darby. A Funeral Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at St. Laurence Church, 30 St. Laurence Rd., Upper Darby. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken.

Jill Johnston, 81, a longtime cultural critic for the Village Voice whose daring, experimental prose style mirrored the avant-garde art she covered and whose book Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution spearheaded the lesbian separatist movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday of a stroke in Hartford, Conn. She started as a dance critic, but in the pages of the Voice, which hired her in 1959, she embraced the avant-garde as a whole, including happenings and multimedia events. In the early 1970s she began championing the cause of lesbian feminism, arguing in Lesbian Nation (1973) for a complete break with men and with male-dominated capitalist institutions. She defined female relations with the opposite sex as a form of collaboration. Her marriage to Richard Lanham in 1958 ended in divorce six years later. She married Nyeboe in Denmark in 1993 Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or and in Connecticut last year. — N.Y. Times News Service sdowney@phillynews.com.

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Weather Report

Conditions updated throughout the day on www.philly.com

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Exclusive EarthWatch 7-Day Forecast Thursday

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Thursday’s Forecast

Unseasonably warm air will stay over the area through at least Friday, when it will get well into the 90s. A cold front will arrive Saturday, and stall south of the area Sunday into Tuesday or Wednesday, bringing a wet period that is badly needed.

Thursday’s Highs and Lows

Scranton

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

88 69

New York

HIGH

93 68

Mostly sunny and very warm

81/61

LOW

84 59

Sunny and hot

Sun/Moon

LOW

Sun and clouds

Sun rises 6:49 a.m., sets 6:56 p.m. Moon rises 6:43 p.m., sets 7:04 a.m.

88/69

84/62

85/66

87/64

87/66

Lancaster 87/66

Asbury Park 81/64

Philadelphia

Wilmington

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Trenton

Reading

88/69

87/67

Vineland 86/65

Baltimore

Atlantic City 82/70

91/69

Water Temp

Dover

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Cape May

Washington

85/69

93/72

Regional Forecast

Poconos Partly cloudy. High 77. Partly cloudy

Marine Forecast

Thursday night. Low 60. Mostly sunny Friday. High 81.

Manasquan to Cape Henlopen Partly cloudy. Wind north at 5-10 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 2-3 feet.

Jersey Shore Partly cloudy. High 82. Mostly clear Thursday night. Low 70. Mostly sunny Friday. High 84.

Delaware Bay Partly cloudy. Wind north at 5-10 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 1-2 feet.

Delaware Partly cloudy. High 87. Mostly clear

Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach

Thursday night. Low 68. Mostly sunny Friday. High 89.

Partly cloudy. Wind northwest at 5-10 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 2-4 feet.

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Tides Thursday

Philadelphia (Chestnut St.) High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:04 a.m., 2:27 p.m. Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:47 a.m., 9:08 p.m. Weather indications s = sunny; pc = partly cloudy; c = cloudy; sh = showers; t = thunderstorms; r = Delaware Breakwater High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:14 a.m., 9:32 p.m. rain; sf = snow flurries; sn = snow; i = ice. Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:58 a.m., 3:18 p.m. City Wednesday Thursday Friday Cape May Allentown 88/50/pc 84/62/pc 88/65/pc High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:37 a.m., 8:52 p.m. Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:12 a.m., 2:35 p.m. Atlantic City 88/65/t 82/70/pc 84/73/s Atlantic City (Steel Pier) Baltimore 90/61/s 91/69/pc 92/69/s High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:03 a.m., 8:18 p.m. Harrisburg 88/56/pc 87/66/pc 90/64/pc Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1:51 a.m., 2:14 p.m. New York 86/64/s 88/69/pc 88/66/s Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) Pittsburgh 86/67/t 87/65/pc 86/58/pc High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:38 a.m., 10:53 p.m. Salisbury, Md. 88/61/s 89/69/pc 91/68/s Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5:16 a.m., 5:44 p.m. Scranton 83/54/pc 81/61/pc 81/61/s Barnegat Inlet Washington 94/67/s 93/72/pc 95/70/s High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:13 a.m., 8:28 p.m. Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:19 a.m., 2:47 p.m. Wilmington 88/60/s 87/67/pc 91/67/pc

In the Region

DRPA

Continued from B1 requires approval by both states’ legislatures and governors, as well as Congress and the president. Several lawmakers at the hearing suggested consolidating the DRPA with other regional agencies that oversee port and airport operations in Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey. The DRPA has been under fire for its spending and hiring practices, conflicts of interest, political dealing, and lack of accountability and transparency. It also has been forced to end its long-standing practice of giving free passage to employees on its bridges and trains. The agency’s chairman, John H. Estey, and its chief executive, John Matheussen, told the Transportation Committee on Wednesday that significant changes had been made at the agency and more were in the works. Sen. Jane Earll (R., Erie) was not impressed. “It’s almost akin, in my mind, to locking the barn door after all the animals have left,” Earll said. Several Pennsylvania board members — including Auditor General Jack Wagner, Treasurer Rob McCord, and

Philadelphia labor leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty — said more housecleaning was needed. Philadelphia City Councilman Frank DiCicco, another Pennsylvania board member, said he might quit the DRPA board before its next meeting, scheduled for Oct. 6. Now that economic-development spending has been largely ended at the DRPA, he said, his main reason for being there was gone. “Those projects benefit the region,” DiCicco said. “My reason for wanting to be on the DRPA was to be in on that process.” He said the projects had brought hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars to his waterfront Council district. The ability to make changes at the DRPA is limited under current law by the wishes of the governors of the two states, Wagner said. “As all of you know, the governors control these boards,” said Wagner, one of two DRPA board members not appointed by a governor. The other is McCord. They serve on the 16-member board by virtue of their elected offices. “The only way you will see change is if the governors desire a change,” Wagner said. “If Gov. Christie wanted to change the CEO, that would have happened already.” Christie has been especially critical of the DRPA, forcing

Temperatures

High Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 (3:56 p.m.) Record high for Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 (1895) 3 p.m. humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45% Low Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 (2:39 a.m.) Record low for Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 (1962) Normal high/low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76/59 High/low same date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78/63 Season cooling degree days. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,720 Last season cooling degree days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,188 Normal season cooling degree days . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,191

Wednesday’s barometer

6 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30.09 falling Noon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30.06 falling 6 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.98 falling

Daylight sky conditions Wednesday 20% clouds with 80% sunshine

Precipitation

Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 in. Month through Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.61 in. Year through Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.58 in. Normal through Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.88 in. Deficit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.30 in.

changes in governing policies and vetoing reforms that he said did not go far enough. Wagner said Pennsylvania should give its governor the same veto power over DRPA decisions. McCord and Dougherty renewed their call to replace Matheussen as chief executive. They were the only two board members to vote to oust him at the board’s most recent meeting this month. “It feels like the right time for a rotation of leadership there,” McCord said. He also addressed a controversial practice that required insurance brokers working for the DRPA to split their fees with each other. “I flatout do not believe senior management” about its being unaware of such sharing, he said. That so-called true-up practice came in for extensive criticism at Wednesday’s hearing. The issue centers on two insurance brokers, Graham Co. in Center City and Willis of New Jersey Inc. in Morristown. The firms collect commissions from the insurance companies that are hired to insure the DRPA. In recent years, Graham has received more in commissions than Willis has. Willis says it is entitled to half the money under an unwritten DRPA policy to share the

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80 64

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National Forecast

Weather at noon Thursday and forecast high/low temperatures

Vancouver 59/52 Seattle 62/54 Portland 64/54

wealth equally between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Since 2004, Graham has paid Willis $514,530, according to Graham. “To me, that might be the worst” of the DRPA’s offenses, Dougherty said. “To me, that sounds illegal. It looks basically like a kickback system.” Sen. Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. (D., Phila.) said he was “very, very concerned” about the true-up practice and suggested the committee use its subpoena powers to obtain e-mails about it and who knew about it. Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams (D., Phila.) said, “I’m to the point of disgust,” over recent revelations about DRPA practices. He said the battle over free bridge passage for DRPA workers reinforced public skepticism about the agency and officials who defended the benefit. “The private citizen doesn’t get why we don’t get it,” he said. “They think we’ve lost our minds and this only underscores it.” But Estey said that many DRPA employees had the right to free trips under their union contracts and that the DRPA was now caught between that contractual obligation and Christie’s insistence that all free rides be banned. “It will almost certainly cost us a lot of money to fight what is almost certainly a losing battle,” said Estey, a Philadelphia lawyer who formerly served as Gov. Rendell’s chief of staff. Rafferty said he hoped to introduce a bill to rewrite the DRPA’s federal charter early next year because the current legislative session is almost over. He said he would talk to U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D., Pa.) next week about congressional support. In the House, Vereb said he was gathering additional sponsors for his bill and would work with Rafferty to coordinate the effort to change the federal compact. Contact staff writer Paul Nussbaum at 215-854-4587 or pnussbaum@phillynews.com.

CANADA

Billings 69/44

Chicago 88/68 St. Louis 91/68

Los Angeles 70/59

Low High

Phoenix 94/74

Dallas 89/74

Thunderstorms Snow

Ice

Memphis 98/74

Houston 90/75

Rain MEXICO

City Wednesday Thursday Albany, N.Y. 78/60/sh 76/61/pc Albuquerque 76/64/r 78/55/s Anchorage 54/45/s 49/37/pc Atlanta 92/71/t 91/70/s Boston 86/62/s 71/62/pc Buffalo 75/66/t 79/64/t Charleston, S.C. 89/71/pc 89/70/s Charlotte 92/70/pc 93/64/s Chicago 72/63/pc 88/68/pc Cincinnati 96/64/pc 93/66/s Cleveland 79/67/t 89/71/pc Dallas 89/73/pc 89/74/pc Denver 81/52/pc 79/46/pc Des Moines 81/66/pc 79/57/t Detroit 78/32/t 87/73/pc Honolulu 79/73/r 88/72/s Houston 88/74/pc 90/75/pc Indianapolis 80/68/sh 95/69/s Jacksonville 88/68/pc 88/73/pc

Friday 85/63/pc 83/60/s 51/37/pc 89/71/s 85/67/s 84/53/pc 88/70/s 91/65/s 70/53/sh 88/58/t 87/58/t 90/74/pc 81/50/s 70/52/s 82/54/t 87/72/s 91/75/pc 86/57/t 88/72/t

Cities Abroad

City Wednesday Thursday Acapulco 86/77/pc 88/78/t Amsterdam 72/52/s 68/53/sh Athens 73/68/pc 77/65/pc Auckland 55/48/pc 54/45/sh Baghdad 108/73/s 106/76/pc Bangkok 93/81/pc 91/78/t Barbados 88/79/t 87/77/t Beijing 72/45/s 71/54/s Berlin 68/45/s 73/48/s Bermuda 79/73/s 81/72/s Brussels 73/48/s 71/53/sh Buenos Aires 70/50/pc 59/40/s Cairo 91/73/s 93/71/s Copenhagen 57/41/pc 68/52/s Dublin 68/57/r 63/52/sh Havana 90/73/pc 87/73/t Hong Kong 82/75/t 83/76/t Jerusalem 87/72/t 92/68/s Johannesburg 72/41/s 80/53/s Kabul 86/54/s 80/49/s

Toronto 73/63

Minneapolis 71/52

Denver 79/46

San Francisco 72/58

The worst pollutant in the region Wednesday was particulates, produced mainly by motor vehicles and power plants. Good (G) . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-50 Carbon monoxide . . . .CO Moderate (M) . . . . . . . 51-100 Nitrogen dioxide . . . . .NO Unhealthful (U). . . . . 101-200 Particulates . . . . . . . . . PA Very Unhealthful (V) . 201-300 Sulfur dioxide . . . . . . .SO Hazardous (H) . . . . . 301-400 Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . . . OZ At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects.

Wednesday’s Pollution Standard Index

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Allentown Harrisburg

LOW

Friday 87/77/t 62/54/sh 79/66/pc 62/51/sh 107/76/s 90/78/t 88/78/t 72/54/s 68/54/c 83/73/s 65/55/sh 66/45/s 95/73/s 64/51/sh 60/44/s 90/72/t 84/76/t 95/70/pc 84/56/s 82/50/s

Detroit 87/73

Montreal 66/47 Boston 71/62

Pittsburgh New York 87/65 88/69 Philadelphia Washington 93/72

Fronts:

Atlanta 91/70

Stationary New Orleans 89/76

Warm Miami 89/79

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City Wednesday Thursday Kansas City, Mo. 80/64/r 83/62/t Las Vegas 86/70/s 91/66/s Los Angeles 69/61/s 70/59/s Memphis 96/72/s 98/74/s Miami 89/78/pc 89/79/t Minneapolis 64/48/sh 71/52/t New Orleans 92/79/pc 89/76/pc Orlando 89/73/pc 91/74/t Phoenix 95/77/t 94/74/s Portland, Maine 79/58/pc 68/49/pc Portland, Ore. 66/53/sh 64/54/r Richmond 94/67/s 94/67/s St. Louis 80/68/t 91/68/pc Salt Lake City 78/65/pc 75/54/s San Diego 70/64/pc 70/60/s San Francisco 68/60/s 72/58/s San Juan 88/78/t 88/78/t Seattle 63/48/s 62/54/r Tampa 91/74/pc 92/76/t

Friday 77/60/pc 94/69/s 77/60/s 95/72/pc 89/80/t 61/51/sh 90/75/t 92/75/t 99/76/s 74/58/c 76/57/pc 95/66/s 78/58/t 84/54/s 70/62/s 79/59/s 90/79/t 67/54/sh 92/76/t

City Wednesday Thursday London 75/52/s 67/55/sh Madrid 81/55/s 78/57/c Melbourne 55/43/s 63/46/s Mexico City 77/55/pc 73/58/t Milan 79/54/pc 80/58/pc Montreal 73/63/sh 66/47/c Moscow 50/46/sh 56/44/sh Nassau 90/81/pc 88/80/t New Delhi 85/77/t 87/76/t Paris 79/48/s 69/55/sh Prague 70/46/s 72/47/s Rio de Janeiro 95/77/s 88/71/s Rome 79/63/pc 78/59/pc Seoul 66/55/pc 70/54/s Singapore 91/79/pc 90/78/t Stockholm 59/41/pc 65/48/pc Sydney 70/55/s 70/54/pc Tokyo 88/77/pc 80/71/t Toronto 73/63/t 73/63/sh Vancouver 61/48/s 59/52/r

Friday 63/53/sh 80/58/sh 63/47/s 71/58/t 73/55/c 72/55/r 62/46/pc 91/81/t 88/75/t 62/51/sh 70/48/pc 90/71/s 76/58/pc 70/53/pc 88/77/t 65/50/sh 75/56/s 75/62/sh 76/55/sh 61/54/r

MLB to open an Urban Youth Academy in Phila. CENTER from B1 “This is neighborhood development at its finest,” said Mayor Nutter, joined by Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael DiBerardinis, Phillies second baseman Chase Utley, and former Phillies star Dick Allen. The academy is expected to start in fall 2011, and serve ages 10 to 18 citywide. Students will also receive educational resources, such as academic tutoring and SAT prep courses. “And if there’s a weakness,” said Anderson leader Steve Bandura, 49, “it will be addressed.” Students and their parents will sign contracts to symbolize their commitment to the program. “Our goal here will be to produce college graduates,” said Bandura, longtime coach of the Monarchs, the first cold-weather-city team to win the Senior Boys title at the RBI World Series. The South Philadelphia Academy is the fourth sponsored by Major League Baseball in the country. It will be modeled after the first, in Compton, Calif., which opened in February 2006 with financial support from the Dodgers, Angels, and Padres. “It’s been a great experience for the kids because of the location,” said the academy’s manager, former majorleague catcher Ike Hampton. “It’s great that inner-city kids can get involved in baseball.” The Compton Academy revived Little League Baseball in Compton after it had been dormant for about 15 years. So far, more than 50 of its student-athletes have signed professional contracts, and more than 100 have gone on to collegiate baseball and softball programs. The Philadelphia academy is the MLB’s first cold-weather facility. “I can’t tell you what a thrill

it is,” Phillies president Dave Montgomery said. “We are pleased because we can take our commitment to the city’s youth to the next level.” For decades, the Anderson center has been a stabilizing force. “When I was young, this was my recreation center, too,” said Williams Gibbs, 34, standing on the sidewalk with his 2-year-old son, Emmanuel, to show his support. His son Brandon, 9, plays baseball and soccer at the center. “The character that Coach Bandura presents in himself, and how he wants the kids to be, has rubbed off. The respect value goes a long way here.” For Alicia Lawrence, 54, who grew up in the neighborhood, “this was the only place we were allowed to go. Before that, it was the only place my mother was allowed to go.” “And when you got here, there was a mother and father there for you,” chimed in her gray-haired friend Anthony L. Lawrence, a member of the civic group the South Philadelphia Oldheads, which has run job and technology programs at the center. “We didn’t act up, because we didn’t want to get kicked out,” Lawrence said, then laughed. “We’re the granddaddies now,” he continued. “So we’re here about our grandchildren. We can only accomplish this by us all working together.” Jennings stood at the podium as proof. “I know there are thousands of kids like me who haven’t been provided the same opportunity,” he told those gathered. “I look forward to coming back as Dr. Jennings,” he added to applause. Contact staff writer Kia Gregory at 215-854-2601 or kgregory@phillynews.com.

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Donation focuses on safe-sleep effort for babies The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association gave cribs heading to the Cribs for Kids program. Pediatrician Eileen Tyrala already knew how a commonplace, loving act — putting an infant down to sleep — could have horrific consequences. She’d worked for years to teach parents about the importance of providing a safe sleeping environment, especially as new studies showed risks in age-old habits such as draping

babies with blankets and surrounding them with soft toys. But the risks truly hit home a few years ago when a friend told Tyrala a painful family secret about a baby granddaughter lost years before. “She looked at me. It was her son’s fault,” Tyrala recalls. He’d been sleeping on a couch with the baby, and had likely

caused his own daughter to suffocate. Tyrala, formerly a neonatologist at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, was back at St. Chris’ on Tuesday to help accept a donation of 70 cribs and other “safe-sleep” items from the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association. The donations will be distributed by Philadelphia’s Maternity Care Coalition through its Cribs for Kids program. (For information, call 215-972-0700, or go to www.mo-

mobile.org.) The hospital event was part of a five-city tour by the JPMA to promote its creation, Baby Safety Month. In Illinois, the group took heat from the state attorney general, Lisa Madigan, who accused it of trying to whitewash its members’ reputations, which were sullied by the safety recalls of millions of cribs. Madigan was angry that the organization’s seal of approval See CONSUMER 10.0 on C4

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Center City: Job Magnet

Downtown Is Where the Jobs Are Private-sector employment for 2008 shows Philadelphia third to New York and San Francisco*, according to a report released by the Center City District. Breakdown of downtown employees and percentage of total city employment:

Numbers show its pull: It accounts for 38.9 percent of private-sector jobs and nearly half of all salaries earned in the city. Show me an office high-rise, and I’ll want to know which companies are in it. Show me a luxury condominium building, and I’ll want to know how the residents who live there earn their living. A new report by the Center City District may not name names, but it reinforces how important Philadelphia’s central business district is to the region as a whole. After years of guesstimating that between 250,000 and 300,000 people work in the neighborhoods squeezed between the rivers and Spring Garden and South Streets, the nonprofit group has an exact number: 216,937 private-sector employees as of 2008, based on data collected by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. Center City accounts for the most private-sector jobs — 38.9 percent — and $12.13

billion in earnings, or 43.6 percent of all salaries earned within Philadelphia’s borders. After decades of suburban migration, the compact central business district still accounts for 10 percent of all jobs and 15 percent of all salaries. Center City District president and chief executive officer Paul R. Levy said the new analysis allows him to confidently place Philadelphia’s central core behind only the downtowns of New York and San Francisco in terms of percentage of their cities’ total employment. However, remember that original guesstimate range? That hard number is much lower than 250,000 jobs. Well, that reflects the limitations of See PHILLYINC on C4

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A coalition of The Inquirer’s largest debt holders and a partnership of local businessman Raymond G. Perelman and the Carpenters Union pension fund emerged Wednesday as the only two bidders for the newspaper company. Both groups submitted initial bids by Wednesday’s noon deadline. It is not known how much either offered, but a minimum bid of $50 million was required. Bidders also had to put up at least $7.5 million as a cash deposit. An auction is set for 10 a.m. Thursday in federal Bankruptcy Court here to determine who will take control of Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., which owns The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and the website Philly.com.

The auction is the second for the company, which has been in bankruptcy since February 2009. It seems certain to be the final chapter in a saga that began in 2006 when a group of local investors led by Brian P. Tierney bought the company for $515 million. Within three years, however, the company filed for bankruptcy, owing its senior lenders $318 million. To resolve that debt, the company was put up for auction in April. The sale ended when the group of senior lenders — 16 financial institutions including Angelo, Gordon & Co., Alden Global Capital, and Credit Suisse — bought the company for $139 million, including $105 million in cash. That bid topped a $129 million offer from a group of local investors that included See NEWSPAPERS on C4

Advanta creditors have tough decision By Harold Brubaker

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1,578,864 50.6%

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210,519 42.0%

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216,937 38.9%

*Excludes: government employees; the self-employed; those compensated as partners; and data from Washington, D.C., and Boston. SOURCE: Center City District based on data from Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau.

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Investors who bought notes from Advanta Corp. before the Montgomery County credit card company filed for bankruptcy last November have been forced into a nerve-racking gamble. Do they take an offer to sell their notes to professional investors who specialize in bankruptcies, for up to 60 cents on the dollar, or do they wait — betting they will get more out of the ultimate bankruptcy settlement? Jim Foster of Audubon, Montgomery County, considered the 60 percent offer from Liquidity Solutions Inc., of Hackensack, N.J. “This sounds pretty good,” he said Monday in an e-mail. “I do not need the cash in the near future, but if I reinvest this money, I can start to get a return on it, hopefully.” But later that day, after studying the offer more carefully, he had doubts. “This disclaimer here kind of scares me,” he said on the telephone, referring to three pages of legalese, “so I’m probably going to wait it out.” Foster and more than 3,000 other mostly individual investors might not have to wait much longer to get a rough sense of how much they will receive of the $135.7 million they are owed. Advanta said Sept. 3 that its liquidation plan was “at an advanced stage” of preparation and should be filed with the Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington by the end of October. The plan will provide guidance on how much money unsecured note holders such as Foster can expect to receive. Howard A. Cohen, a lawyer at Drinker, Biddle & Reath L.L.P representing the unsecured creditors’ committee, did not respond Wednesday to questions by e-mail or voice mail. Anticipation of the imminent filing of a liquidation plan and Advanta’s settlement last month of a dispute with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. apparently spurred a flurry of buyout offers to retail note holders. Since July, the value of the offers has jumped to as much as 60 percent, or $6,000 for a $10,000 note, from about 35 percent, according to letters sent to investors and shown to The Inquirer. The FDIC settlement, approved by U.S. BankSee ADVANTA on C4

Covering adult children in new health law By Jane M. Von Bergen INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

By Christopher K. Hepp

to teach parents the importance of providing a safe sleeping environment for infants.

A liquidation company is offering note holders 60 percent on the dollar. Their other option is to wait until the bankruptcy settlement is final.

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Eileen Tyrala has worked for years

Retired government lawyer Carol Lebow’s son, Edward, 24, started law school this year, so when she heard that federal health-care legislation would allow him to be insured under her policy, she was thrilled. “It makes a difference if your kid can stay on your plan,” said Lebow, who lives in Yardley. On Thursday, six months after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, several provi-

Some questions and answers about a key provision that takes effect Thursday. sions begin to take effect — among them, the ability of parents to cover their adult children up to age 26 under their policies. But confusion abounds, and the coverage of adult children is neither automatic nor immediate. Here are the answers to some common questions:

The Bottom Line

Question: Are all adult children able to be covered under their parents’ policies? Answer: Yes, if the employer’s insurance plan covers young dependent children, it must also cover adult children. But if it doesn’t, then the adult child will not be covered. Same goes for family plans purchased by individuals. Also, if the adult child’s employer offers insurance from an employer, the child can not turn to his parents’ plan for a better deal. See COVERAGE on C4

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Johnson & Johnson lawyers say the FDA knew of a secret recall; WPCS hires a buyout adviser; the TARP head is stepping down. C2.

Executives in N.Y. and other hard-bit states debate forcing insurers to add bedbug coverage. C3.

MarketWatch C5. Dow Jones Industrials 10,739.31 Dn 21.72, 0.20% Nasdaq Composite 2,334.55 Dn 14.80, 0.63% Standard & Poor’s 500 1,134.28 Dn 5.50, 0.48%

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bailout. The Treasury Department said it had sold 52.1 million warrants at $13.70 per warrant. The government had set a minimum bid price of $10.50 per warrant for the warrants. A warrant gives the purchaser the right to buy common stock at a fixed price. The government obtained the warrants when it provided the Connecticut insurer with $3.4 billion in support from the bailout fund in June 2009. That was done to help shore up its capital position during the financial crisis. Sales of the warrants will sever the remaining ties Hartford Financial has with the bailout fund, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program. — AP

In the Region J&J lawyers: FDA knew of secret recall

Lawyers representing Johnson & Johnson insist government regulators knew it was secretly pulling packets of ineffective Motrin from store shelves last year, rather than issuing a public recall. J&J has major operations in the Philadelphia area. Documents the J&J attorneys turned over to congressional investigators seem to show the Food and Drug Administration received multiple company reports about the effort to remove small containers of faulty Motrin from store shelves. But the attorneys say they have no documents from the FDA approving the “phantom recall” of Motrin in the first half of 2009. What the FDA knew, and when it knew it, has become a central part of a House panel’s probe of the phantom recall. — AP

EU Parliament OKs supervision law

Tablet to get priority FDA review

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., Chadds Ford, said the Food and Drug Administration had granted priority review status for a new formulation of Oxymorphone, a pain medication. The new formulation is for a long-acting tablet that is crush-resistant, to thwart nonmedical abuse and accidental overdoses. It is designed to treat “moderate to severe chronic pain in patients requiring … around-the-clock opioid treatment for an extended period,” the company said. The FDA grants priority review — which cuts the median review time to about seven months, from about 14 months for standard review — for “drugs that offer major advances in treatment, or provide a treatment where no adequate therapy exists,” the agency says on its website. — Reid Kanaley

Toll names a new financial officer

Toll Bros. Inc. has named senior vice president Martin P. Connor its chief financial officer and treasurer, replacing Joel H. Rassman, who died at age 65 Sept. 14 after a long illness. Connor joined Toll in 2008. — Alan J. Heavens

WPCS hires an adviser

WPCS International Inc., Exton, said it had hired a financial adviser to evaluate a $24.7 million buyout offer from the Riley Group as well as other options. The adviser, Lincoln International L.L.C., is based in Chicago. WPCS is an engineering company that specializes in

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Gold bars for sale at a Tokyo jewelry shop. Gold prices hit a record, settling at $1,292.10, after

a rally fueled by the Fed’s indicating that it might leave interest rates low and be willing to print more money to spur the economy. Gold prices have increased since the 2008 financial crisis began: The precious metal was trading in the $740 range in October 2008. communications.

— Harold Brubaker

PSE&G: Pay on time or get reported The 12 percent of Public Service Electric & Gas Co. customers who are behind on their bills can consider themselves warned: The New Jersey utility is telling a credit agency. PSE&G said it would begin notifying a credit agency next year about the bill-paying histories of its 1.7 million electric and gas customers. “People who pay their bills late — or not at all — increase costs for everyone,” said Joseph Forline, PSE&G vice president of customer operations. — Andrew Maykuth

Phila. retailer expands in Ohio Five Below Inc., Philadelphia, said it would open three stores in Ohio on Friday — one in Columbus and two in Cleveland. The retailer entered the Ohio market with five stores in Cleveland earlier this year. With the new outlets, the company will have 133 stores in 13 states. Five Below sells low-priced merchandise, such as fashion accessories and DVDs, to teens and preteens. — Paul Schweizer

Elsewhere Head of TARP to step down Herb Allison, the head of the government’s $700 billion financial-bailout program, has announced he will resign. Allison, who had led the bailout program since April 2009, said in a letter to colleagues at the Treasury Department that they had accomplished a great deal and helped to stabilize the financial system. The Troubled Asset Relief Program, the formal name for the bailout program that began during the George W. Bush administration, has been widely criticized by the public as a rescue for wealthy bankers who took extraordinary risks. Allison will be succeeded as head of the program by Tim Massad, 54, who will become acting assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability while the administration looks for a permanent successor. — AP

U.S. raises $706.3M from warrants The government raised $706.3 million from the sale of warrants it held in The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. It was the latest move to recoup costs for taxpayers from the $700 billion financial

The European Union Parliament has approved new financial-oversight institutions aimed at preventing another financial crisis. Parliament overwhelmingly backed the plan to set up watchdog boards for the financial markets, banking, and insurance sectors in addition to a European board to make sure the EU can avoid new crises. Parliamentary approval in Strasbourg, France, was the last hurdle for the plans, which were hailed as a major step in EU-wide financial management. Also, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a House committee Wednesday that U.S. banks are in a good position to meet new global capital standards because of the stress tests conducted last year. — AP

Portugal’s borrowing costs jump

Portugal raised $1 billion in a debt auction Wednesday that drew strong investor interest, but its borrowing cost was the highest since it joined the euro. The Portuguese sale follows solid bond auctions Tuesday in Ireland, Spain, Greece — other financially troubled eurozone countries. The ability of the governments to raise money relieved some short-term market pressure. However, the high interest rates from the Portuguese auction deepened worries about how the country will service its debt in the long term amid anemic growth and just as it is trying to cut spending. — AP

Yields mixed on money funds

The average seven-day yield on taxable money market funds was 0.04 percent this week, unchanged from last week, according to iMoneyNet Inc. A seven-day yield is an annual yield that is based on the preceding seven days’ level of income by the fund. The average yield on tax-free funds was 0.04 percent this week, up from 0.03 percent last week. — Rhonda Dickey

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Insurance against bedbugs? It may happen

very time I talk about it, I get itchy,” says Cole Henry, senior vice president of corporate

underwriting at $2-billion-asset Philadelphia Insurance Cos. of Bala Cynwyd.

Henry is talking about bedbugs. For hotels, college dorms, and other bedding centers threatened by the U.S. bedbug resurgence, “there’s no coverage for insect infestation,” Henry said. “It’s excluded. It’s always been excluded, and it’s going to stay excluded” from business-insurance policies. For commercial landlords, bugs are “a maintenance issue,” not an accident deserving compensation. That could change. Henry’s colleagues are debating whether to add bedbug policies “that wouldn’t sink the company. … Mitigation can run into a lot of money. For a small apartment building, you could run 50 to 60 grand” for heat and chemical treatments.

Bedbug infestation,

costly to get rid of, is excluded from business insurance, but the industry may add polices “that wouldn’t sink the company.”

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And insurance bureaucrats in New York and other hard-bit states are debating whether to force insurers to add bedbug coverage, which would drive rates higher. What about the sleeper who gets bit? “From a third-party liability standpoint, if there’s bodily injury or property damage,” Henry explained, “you’re going to have to defend [your client’s case] and pay any damages a court might impose,” just as if you tripped on the rug and broke your leg.

Ivy League’s ‘mafia’

Bloomberg sent a reporter to Penn and figured out what lots of brainy college athletes already knew: the reason the Ivy League still fields Division I NCAA teams (Division I-AA in football), even though they mostly get whipped by big-name state schools and very few of their players make the pros. It’s not just about sports. It also opens up contacts, contracts, internships, and jobs, which Penn’s athletic overseers and involved alumni can offer in spades, since so many of them are Wall Street and hedge fund executives. “We call them our alumni mafia,” Penn football coach Al Bagnoli told the news service. Nothing new there, says Ed McGinley, a retired Goldman Sachs executive and Main Line resident who played Penn ball more than a half-century ago with future NFL star Chuck Bednarik and longtime Wolf, Block partner and Main Line Republican power Anthony “Skip” Minisi. Three of McGinley’s brothers were also fighting Quakers at Franklin Field. Younger brother Gerry “was later drafted by the Eagles — in the eighth round.” The younger McGinley never signed, instead joining the

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Contact drills: University of Pennsylvania football coach Al Bagnoli and

others say Ivy League sports are all about making business connections.

financial-securities business at Kidder Peabody. That was before television contracts and union representation made a few years in the NFL a paying proposition, even for the rare Ivy League draftee.

Two rivers

If New Castle County Executive Christopher Coons, a Democrat, beats Republican Christine O’Donnell for the U.S. Senate seat they covet in Delaware’s fall election, he’ll face ugly public battles and marathon backroom negotiations on the Potomac. Just as on the Brandywine, Coons said Wednesday that he had brokered a compromise offer by Bala Cynwyd developer Stoltz Real Estate Partners regarding extensive development plans. Those plans seemed to have unnerved Vice President Biden’s neighbors in tony Greenville and local Republicans, led by county Councilman Bob Weiner. In a public letter, Coons wrote that Stoltz had agreed to revise its plans for the Greenville Center shopping district and

DuPont Co.’s sprawling, abandoned Barley Mill Plaza office complex. It is canceling a high-rise tower and shaving 1.2 million square feet off a new office-and-stores project — as long as Stoltz is given the zoning changes it needs to proceed with the scaled-down proposals. Will this boost Coons in a part of Delaware where Republicans voted against O’Donnell in their primary? “I appreciate the county executive working on a solution, but the proposal for Barley Mill Plaza is [still] miles in any direction from an Interstate exit” and still looks too big for the neighborhood, Weiner said. Weiner said Coons’ administration rushed to approve Stoltz’s earlier plans, ignored complaints about the process, and hurried the revised offer ahead of November’s vote. But Weiner will check to see what neighbors think before going further. Contact columnist Joseph N. DiStefano at 215-854-5194 or JoeD@phillynews.com.

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Treasurys, gold draw investors from stocks By Stephen Bernard

ports have consistently indicated that the economy continNEW YORK — Traders put ues to expand, albeit slowly. their September stock rally “People are saying, ‘I’ve got on hold and moved into Trea- some profits, let’s book ’em,’ ” surys and gold Wednesday, a Auer said. day after the Federal Reserve Entering Wednesday, the said it was ready to take more Dow had increased 13 of the action to boost the economy. last 15 sessions and climbed The Dow Jones industrial 7.5 percent in September. average fell more than 21 The Fed did not announce points. specific actions to strengthen With no economic data out the economy, but investors inWednesday and the Fed’s an- terpreted its statement as a nouncement late Tuesday hav- signal that the central bank ing a bigger effect on the could step up its bond-purbond and currency markets, chasing program down the Bob Auer, portfolio manager line. of the Auer Growth Fund, Investors had little incentive said it was natural for stocks to move more money into to pause. stocks, so they turned their foMajor indexes have soared cus to bonds and gold. Treathis month as economic re- surys increased again, pushing ASSOCIATED PRESS

their yields lower, and gold climbed to another record. If the Fed starts purchasing bonds, it would have the dual effect of raising demand for Treasurys and hurting the value of the dollar. That is why bond prices rallied Wednesday and traders swapped out dollars for gold and other currencies. The Dow fell 21.72, or 0.20 percent, to 10,739.31. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 5.50, or 0.48 percent, to 1,134.28, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 14.80, or 0.63 percent, to 2,334.55. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite to its price, fell to 2.55 percent from 2.58 percent late Tuesday. Its yield is

often used to set interest rates on mortgages and other loans. Gold climbed to a record $1,298.00 an ounce before falling back to $1,292.10 an ounce. The euro hit a five-month high against the dollar. In corporate news, Microsoft Corp. shares dipped 54 cents, or 2.15 percent, to $24.61 after the company said it was increasing its dividend for the first time in two years. Adobe Systems Inc. shares plummeted after the maker of computer software said its fiscal third-quarter profit surged, but it said revenue during the current quarter will likely fall short of expectations. Adobe shares fell

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PhillyInc Continued from C1 the data collected by those federal agencies. First, they exclude all those employed in the public sector. Second, the self-employed and those who get compensated through partnerships, such as lawyers and accountants, also aren’t counted. So the Center City District’s researchers worked the phones and made some estimates based on square footage of federal office space to determine that 43,394 federal, state, and city employees work downtown. Using city tax data, they estimated that an additional 7,000 people worked in Center City as partners at 895 firms in the law, accounting, finance, real estate, retail, and hospitality fields. They earned $1.1 billion in partnership income in 2008, and the verdict is that law-firm partners took home 70 percent of that total. Add it all up, and the Center City District says 267,331 people work for private- and public-sector employers in the central business district — right in the range it had been estimating. The real power in the new data, however, is that they can show where city residents work — and where those who work in the city live. Puncturing one myth, Levy said, the data show that less than half of the jobs in Center City are held by suburbanites. Philadelphia residents hold 51 percent of Center City’s private-sector jobs. About 21,600 people who live in Montgomery County and 20,221 from Delaware County make the daily trek to jobs in the central business district. Though 43.3 percent of employed Center City residents can apparently roll out of bed and hit their desks, many residents of the city’s other neighborhoods also depend on the businesses in the central business district for work. For example, 26.9 percent of employed South Philadelphia residents work in Center City. Using that kind of analysis, the Center City District is advocating that planners direct new infrastructure spending, and that Mayor Nutter restart wage- and business-tax cuts to support the major “employment nodes” of Philadelphia. Though Center City is the biggest node, the University City section of West Philadelphia has 55,187 private-sector jobs, the Navy Yard contains 4,097, and Temple University’s main campus and hospital complex employ 15,301. The Center City of today is the beneficiary of the major infrastructure spending of previous generations, Levy said. It and the rapidly changing areas around the city’s largest universities and the Navy Yard need nurturing, he said, because they are the “future of the city.”

$6.27, or 19.03 percent, to $26.67. Shares of CarMax Inc. closed up $2.04 at $26.16. Quarterly profit increased nearly 5 percent at the chain of used-car dealerships as auto sales and customer prices increased. About three stocks fell for every two that increased on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a light four billion shares, down from Tuesday’s 4.2 billion. Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.4 percent, Germany’s DAX index fell 1.1 percent, and France’s CAC-40 dropped 1.3 percent. Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 0.4 percent.

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Eileen Tyrala speaks at St. Christophers Hospital, where the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association donated 240 safe-sleep items to Philadelphia’s Maternity Care Coalition.

Consumer 10.0 Continued from C1 remained on some drop-side cribs still being sold even after manufacturers agreed last December to quit making the cribs, which have been blamed in more than 30 deaths over the last decade. She wasn’t mollified by the group’s response — that its seal reflected standards in place at the time of a crib’s manufacture, not of its sale. Tyrala, of course, knows something about the risks associated with shifting standards. As an expert in the hazards of infants’ sleeping environments, she regularly contends with generations of entrenched beliefs and habits, such as “co-sleeping,” that have been identified as a significant danger to infants. Tyrala can’t confirm the JPMA’s assertion that “40 times more babies die every year from suffocation in unsafe sleeping environments than from defective cribs.” As a scientist, she believes the data are insufficient on both sides of that formulation. But she was happy to have the JPMA’s attention on an issue she cares about. Tyrala is national medical director of the Cribs for Kids program, which was started in Allegheny County in 1998. She helped bring it here in 2002, and it now has 280 partner organizations nationwide. Since the late 1980s, doctors have dramatically changed their advice on infant sleep, and significantly reduced the numbers of unexplained deaths, including those attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. “For a long time, we just thought these deaths were completely mysterious,” Tyrala said. “We began to realize that the vast majority of deaths that used to be called SIDS were caused by suffocation or asphyxiation.” Because of increased atten-

Coverage Continued from C1 Q: Does coverage begin right away? A: No. Most companies have an open-enrollment period — a time when the new policy year begins. That’s when the adult child can either continue on the parents’ plan or rejoin the plan if he or she had already aged out.

$101 million on the bankruptcy filing date. Since then, the company has received $15.8 million in cash from its defunct credit Continued from C1 card business, offsetting exruptcy Judge Kevin J. Carey penses, which included $6.3 on Sept. 7, was a significant million on salaries for Advandevelopment. Under the set- ta employees and $6.9 million tlement, more than $200 mil- for law firms and other prolion in FDIC claims related to fessionals. Advanta’s balance Advanta’s shuttered bank sub- sheet still showed $24.6 milsidiary in Utah were reduced. lion in such receivables at the Either the FDIC will have a end of July. $50 million claim against AdAdvanta, which provided vanta, or the company will credit cards to small businessget as much as $5.4 million. es, funded its operations in In another positive develop- part by selling notes to invesment for Advanta note hold- tors. As borrowers defaulted ers, the company, now in Ply- on their cards during the recesmouth Meeting, received sion and Advanta increased incourt approval to dissolve an terest rates, it suspended operinactive insurance subsidiary ations in May 2009. that has $5.5 million in assets The 60 percent offer from and no liabilities. Whatever Liquidity Solutions assumes remains will flow to Advanta, Advanta will have at least $81 which had $107 million in million to repay note holders. cash as of July 31, according The company obviously exto Advanta’s latest monthly pects to get more out of the operating report. bankruptcy process. Those reports provide the Reached Wednesday, Geronly public glimpse of Advan- ald Jospitre, who signed Lita’s finances since its bank- quidity Solutions’ letters to ruptcy petition, but they are numerous investors, said he not detailed, making it hard could not comment. to draw firm conclusions. Heartening for note holders Contact staff writer Harold is the $6 million increase in Brubaker at 215-854-4651 or Advanta’s cash holdings from hbrubaker@phillynews.com.

Newspapers Continued from C1 Perelman and the Carpenters’ pension fund. The second auction was necessary because the lenders, operating as Philadelphia Media Network Inc., failed to reach a contract agreement with the company’s unionized drivers in time to meet last week’s deadline for the sale and the conclusion of the bankruptcy. Philadelphia Media Network had said since last week that it planned to bid and prevail in Thursday’s auction. Mike Dwyer, executive director of the Juvenile Products Philadelphia Media NetManufacturers Association, speaks at the news conference. work had been far along in hospitals to do what St. Chris’ its takeover plans for the Many age-old does: Teach safe sleep practic- company when its deal fell es to all newborns’ parents. apart. It had named a chief habits can be Tyrala says House Bill 47, executive officer, Gregory Osfatal for infants, passed unanimously by the berg, and four members to a House, has been stalled in the board of directors. It also such as draping Senate, a frustrating turn af- had negotiated new conblankets on them ter four years of trying. tracts with 15 of the compaTyrala says the education ny’s 16 unions. or surrounding proposal is a small but imporFred S. Hodara, lead attorthem with toys. tant way to address a real — ney for Philadelphia Media and utterly needless — hor- Network, declined to comtion and shifting classifica- ror. The city of Philadelphia ment Wednesday after the tions, historical comparisons recorded 14 accidental sleep- bids were announced. are tough. But Tyrala says related deaths last year, and The second bid comes from good data show the magni- 11 in the first half of this year, an entity called Rayco L.L.C., tude of various risks: says Dr. Roy Hoffman of the which is made up of Perel8 An infant placed on soft City Health Department. man and the Carpenters bedding, such as an adult matThere may have been more. Union pension fund, accordtress, faces a fivefold in- Last year, 23 infant deaths ing to J. Gregory Milmoe, Percrease of sudden unexpected were classified as “sleep-relat- elman’s attorney. infant death, the official cate- ed” but of undetermined Perelman’s son, Ronald O. gory that now includes SIDS. cause, Hoffman says. Perelman, owner of Revlon 8 An infant placed on its stomTyrala may know why. Guilt Cosmetics, had been part of ach faces a 21/2-fold increase and shame over these tragic the bidding in April. in death risk; placed on its accidents are powerful motiPerelman, who is 93, did stomach on soft bedding, it vators for families to close not return calls Wednesday faces a 21-fold increase. ranks and keep secrets. for comment. He told the As8 An infant co-sleeping with A few years ago, her friend sociated Press that his son adults faces a 40-fold in- made that painfully clear. would not be part of the bid crease in death risk. for the newspapers. One of Tyrala’s initiatives Contact columnist Jeff Gelles at “Ronny has a genuine interhas been to urge the Pennsyl- 215-854-2776 or est in it,” Raymond Perelman vania legislature to require jgelles@phillynews.com. said. “But the money is period that an adult child will be included in the policy.

ent’s bill. If the company charges a flat rate for all dependents, then the adult child gets folded into that rate.

mine.” Ed Coryell, business manager for the Carpenters’ fund, could not be reached for comment. The pension fund was among the original investors in Philadelphia Newspapers when it bought The Inquirer, the Daily News, and Philly.com in 2006. Perelman’s latest bid was saluted by Teamsters Local 628, the union that represents the company’s drivers. Efforts to get a contract with the drivers failed on the issue of a pension plan. Philadelphia Media Network said it would not continue in the pension plan, but would create and fund two definedcontribution programs instead. John Laigaie, president of Local 628, said he met with Perelman recently and came away believing the union could reach a resolution on the pension issue with him. “In talking to him, I really think he understands the needs of the workers,” Laigaie said. Perelman is expected in court Thursday for the auction. Lawrence G. McMichael, lead attorney for Philadelphia Newspapers, said this auction should be a much shorter affair than the April sale, which went for 29 hours. “I think it will go quickly,” he told Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Raslavich. “I’m cautiously optimistic we won’t be here real late tomorrow.” Contact staff writer Christopher K. Hepp at 215-854-2208 or chepp@phillynews.com.

dependents, and be unmarried. In New Jersey, companies must continue the coverage up to age 31, if the adult Q: My child no longer lives child is not married, has no In Lebow’s case, her son can- with me and is no longer a dependents, and is a New not rejoin her plan until its student. Will this still work? Q: Young people can be insured Jersey resident. However, open-enrollment date in Jan- A: Yes. Your child can be mar- under their parents’ plans up to the law does not apply to uary. ried and live out of state. the age of 29 in Pennsylvania New Jersey companies that and 31 in New Jersey. How do cover their own medical Q: What are the next steps? Q: What about cost? Who pays? those state laws work and will costs and just use insurance A: Call your company’s hu- A: The answer is in your em- they change? firms to handle the paperman resources department ployer’s insurance plan. If A: In Pennsylvania, employ- work. and find out when open en- the company makes employers can choose to offer conrollment is. You must in- ees pay more per child, then tinued coverage up to age 29. Contact staff writer Jane M. Von form the company within 30 an adult child who rejoins But the adult child has to Bergen at 215-854-2769 days of the open-enrollment the plan will increase the par- live in Pennsylvania, have no orjvonbergen@phillynews.com.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Up-to-the-minute stock and mutual-fund quotes, customizable portfolios, company profiles, and more at http://go.philly.com/business From the Associated Press

Nike reports

Today

Footwear giant Nike reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings today. Analysts expect strong results. The company’s products remained popular during the recession, and Nike has boosted its profits in recent quarters by cutting costs. Now, executives are looking to increase sales by focusing on developing markets. On Monday, company leaders reiterated plans to raise revenue to $27 billion by 2015, up from $19 billion recently. Shares rose to an all-time of $79.04 earlier this week, before falling to $77.31 Wednesday.

DataBank

Update for employment

$77.31

NKE $58.57

’10

55 Operating EPS

$1.04

est. $1.01

1Q ’09

1Q ’10

Price-to-earnings ratio: 19.9

based on past 12 months’ results

Dividend:$1.08 Div. Yield: 1.4% Source: Thomson Reuters

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Close: 1,134.28 Change: -5.50 (-0.5%)

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189.56

-0.77

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Global Stock Markets Frankfurt DAX London FTSE 100 Hong Kong Hang Seng Paris CAC-40 Mexico Tokyo Nikkei 225 Sao Paulo

Foreign Currencies

6208.33 5551.91 22047.71 3735.05 33207.21 9566.32 68325.18

Forn. curr. Dollar in Country in dollars forn. curr. Argentina .2532 3.9494 Australia .9564 1.0456 Brazil .5796 1.7253 Britain 1.5669 .6382 Canada .9703 1.0306 Chile .002022 494.45 China .1490 6.7114 Colombia .000554 1805.50 Dominican Rep .0269 37.17 Egypt .1753 5.7045 Euro 1.3390 .7468 Hong Kong .1289 7.7580 India .0218 45.872 Indonesia .000112 8942.50 Israel .2708 3.6928 Japan .011828 84.54 Malaysia .3235 3.0912 Mexico .078746 12.6990 Peru .3571 2.800 Philpins .0227 44.05 Russia .0322 31.0559 Saudi Arab .2666 3.7509 Singapore .7547 1.3250 So. Africa .1423 7.0274 So. Korea .000862 1160.50 Sweden .1459 6.8540 Switzerlnd 1.0132 .9870 Taiwan .0316 31.65 Thailand .03260 30.67

Source: The Labor Department

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LOW 10708.40 4451.26 395.11 7193.77 2323.55 1131.58 779.80 11865.56 652.87

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Stocks in the News Traders put the September stock rally on hold and percent, to 10,739.31. The S&P 500 fell 5.50, or moved into Treasurys and gold Wednesday, a day 0.5 percent, to 1,134.28, while the Nasdaq fell after the Federal Reserve said it was ready to take 14.80, or 0.6 percent, to 2,334.55. Gold climbed to more action to boost the economy. The Dow a record $1,298.00 an ounce before falling back to Jones industrial average fell 21.72 points, or 0.2 $1,292.10 an ounce. AMR AMR The New York Times NYT CarMax KMX Close: $6.28 -0.60 or -8.7% Analysts said the third-quarter revenue forecast from the owner of American Airlines was too weak.

Close: $7.45 -0.52 or -6.5% The newspaper publisher expects a loss in the third quarter, saying growth in digital ad sales will not make up for print ad declines. $10

$30

$5.11

J A 52-week range

Vol.: 23.1m (2.6x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $2.09 b

S $10.50 PE: ... Yield: ...

General Mills

GIS

Close: $36.63 0.96 or 2.7% Higher prices and stronger sales of cereals, yogurt and other products boosted the food maker’s quarterly profit by 12 percent. $38

S $38.98

Vol.: 8.7m (1.5x avg.) PE: 16.4 Mkt. Cap: $23.52 b Yield: 3.1% SOURCE: Sungard

$14.87 PE: 13.8 Yield: ... JEF

Close: $23.00 -1.25 or -5.2% The investment bank’s quarterly net income fell by almost half, missing analyst expectations, because of lower trading volumes. $26 22

$31.44

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$20.15

+6.5%

0 -5

S&P 500 +5.8%

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Thursday Spotlight: Financials Companies based in the area and selected major competitors. Stock BkofAm BenefMut CIGNA Citigrp LincNat PNC RadianGrp RBScotlnd SEI Inv TorDBk g WilmTr

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Top Local Stocks

Inquirer/Bloomberg

$26.50 PE: 16.7 Yield: ...

Close: $26.67 -6.27 or -19.0% The software maker’s revenue outlook disappointed investors because of low demand in Japan and from the U.S. education market. $35

Vol.: 3.9m (3.9x avg.) PE: 13.9 Mkt. Cap: $3.95 b Yield: 1.3%

S&P 500 Inquirer/ Bloomberg

Adobe Systems

$30.99

One-year percentage change.

O 2009

$18.62

J A 52-week range

Vol.: 9.5m (2.7x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $5.85 b

Inquirer/Bloomberg vs. S&P 500

LocalStockSpotlight 20

Jefferies Group

J A 52-week range

$7.06

34 J

Vol.: 4.0m (2.2x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $1.08 b

36 32

-10

Close: $26.16 2.04 or 8.5% Quarterly profit rose nearly 5 percent at the used car dealership chain as auto sales and prices rose.

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$1.10

RAD

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$1.99

’10

Operating EPS

est. -$0.16

-$0.14 2Q ’09

2Q ’10

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16.84

-.04

Harbor IntlInstl d

55.65

-.03

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12.44

+.01

PIMCO TotRetA m

11.56

...

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+.02

PIMCO TotRetAdm b

11.56

...

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-.05

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11.56

...

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-.02

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11.56

...

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-.11

T Rowe Price GrowStk

28.40

-.05 -.50

33.21

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27.57

-.08

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104.95

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15.89

-.01

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104.92

-.50

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-.11

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11.03

+.01

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-.05

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11.03

+.01

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-.05

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104.26

-.50

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-.08

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104.27

-.49

31.00

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13.49

...

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13.90

+.02

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33.05

-.05

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59.69

-.60

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96.03

-.62

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10.86

...

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17.09

-.06

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10.86

+.01

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61.40

-.18

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10.86

+.01

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27.97

-.06

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10.86

+.01

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12.99

-.04

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14.73

-.03

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73.21

-.51

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28.27

-.16

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34.09

-.12

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28.28

-.15

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63.28

-.42

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28.26

-.16

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40.33

-.19

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29.71

-.08

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51.33

-.13

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23.44

-.13

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This team is best Manuel has had We don’t know the Phillies’ fi- the Phillies’ most talented team nal destination. since 1977, when manager We do know they’re headed Danny Ozark’s bunch won 101 there in the spiffiest red sports games before suffering a gutcar manager Charlie Manuel wrenching loss to the Los Angehas driven during his tenure les Dodgers in the NLCS. here. These Phillies know how to The 2010 model, even win close games. They after some early-season Inside the are 28-15 in one-run offensive malfunctions, games and 43-24 in twoa lost Lee (Cliff), and a Phillies run games. litany of injuries, is By Bob “We’re tough to beat built to last deep into no matter what the Brookover score is,” rightfielder the postseason. More proof was proJayson Werth said after vided Wednesday night, when scoring from first base on a the Phillies finished their most Raul Ibanez double for the important series of the season game’s only run in the bottom of with a 1-0 victory that complet- the eighth inning. ed a three-game sweep of the Manuel said some luck is inAtlanta Braves. volved in winning close games. With two more victories, this But it’s more about skill and Phillies team will have more quality pitching, which was prowins than any of Manuel’s previ- vided by the right arms of Roy ous five teams, but that is by no Oswalt, Ryan Madson, and Brad means the only indicator that Lidge in the final game of the this collection of players is series, dashing Atlanta’s hopes something special. of winning the National League So many things tell us this is See INSIDE on D8

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Roy Oswalt delivers in the first. He went seven shutout innings and struck out eight Braves.

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Raul Ibanez knocked in the game’s only run with a double in the eighth. Roy Oswalt yielded just one hit in seven efficient innings. Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge each pitched a hitless inning.

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Jayson Werth stood on first base in the eighth inning, and Davey Lopes screamed in his ear. “You’ve got to score on a double!” “I know!” Reliving the moment, Werth smiled. “He always reminds you about stuff,” he said of the Phillies’ first-base coach. “But I already had it in my mind. I was scoring.” Why not? Right now, the Phillies cannot lose. They one-hit the Atlanta Braves to complete a three-game sweep Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park, a 1-0 win in which the lone run scored when Werth scored from first on Raul Ibanez’s two-out double. The Phillies have won 10 in a row. With nine games to play, their six-game lead in the division is the largest this season. The magic number for a fourth straight National League East crown is four, meaning the division could be See PHILLIES on D8

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Kevin Kolb’s tenure as the Eagles’ starting quarterback lasted all of 10 passes and one half. After coach Andy Reid failed to definitively say that Kolb would still be on the roster following the trade deadline, it was fair to wonder Wednesday whether the 26-year-old will ever throw anpass or “Don’t get other play another half in Philahurt or delphia. you’re Kolb, for the record, done.” said that he — Kevin Kolb’s did not ask to be traded affriend Mitch ter Reid inCopeland formed him the day before that he was being replaced by Michael Vick as the team’s starter. And Reid said that he was not willing to listen to offers from other teams. But when the coach, who has received a hailstorm of criticism for his startling quarterback reversal, was asked if Kolb would last beyond this season’s Oct. 19 deadline, Reid was noncommittal. “I can’t predict anything down that far,” Reid said at the NovaCare Complex on Wednesday, a day after he dropped his bombshell. “Nobody in this league can do that. That’s ridiculous.” But the trade rumors have already started circulating. First, there was a report that the Cleveland Browns had contacted the Eagles Tuesday evening to discuss Kolb, a story that had no truth “whatsoever,” according to a source close to the situaSee KOLB on D4

Michael Vick won the Eagles’ starting job with six quarters of dazzling play, but he knows that alone won’t be enough to complete a stunning turnaround from public pariah to reborn superstar. For the surprising move to pay off for Vick, for coach Andy Reid and for the Eagles as a whole, the quarterback will Eagles at have to prove that he can be a Jaguars consistent quar- Sunday at terback and 4:15 p.m. leader. In other (Fox29) words, he will Line: Eagles have to be what by 3. his critics have often said he is not. “You’re only as good as your last game, you’re only as good as your last play, so you’ve got to be consistent,” Vick said Wednesday. “If not, you don’t last long in this league.” After all, just look at Kevin Kolb, who days ago was still the Eagles’ face of the future. Flip to Wednesday, when Reid said Vick is the Eagles’ starter for the rest of this season based on his early-season performance. If this pronouncement is to be believed, then Reid is betting that Vick can be a star for 14 weeks, and provide a steadier hand than Kolb could in his first year as a starter. Of course, we have seen that a shaky performance or two can change things. The stakes are high for everyone involved. If Vick can consistently play at a high level, and perhaps lead the Eagles to the playoffs, he will drastically See EAGLES on D3

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Eagles QB Michael Vick (7) with Kevin Kolb at practice on Wednesday, the day after Andy Reid named Vick the starter.

Receivers going with the flow

DeSean Jackson was one of Kevin Kolb’s biggest supporters. It was no secret after last season that he wanted Kolb to be the Eagles starting quarterback, not Donovan McNabb. He thought Kolb was more accurate, delivered a better ball and gave the receivers a better opportunity to do what they do — in Jackson’s case, sprint away from defenders and get into the end zone — than McNabb did. A day after Andy Reid’s bombshell announcement that Kevin Kolb no longer will be the starter and Michael Vick will, Jackson and the rest of the Eagles wide receivers said all the right things. They didn’t throw Kolb under the bus. They said

they still respect him, still like him, can still play with him in the event Vick gets hurt or kicked to the curb. At the NovaCare Complex, anything can happen these days. But Jeremy Maclin, a measured speaker, lit up when asked about what happens when Vick is in the pocket and the Eagles’ protection breaks down and there is Vick spinning and running and then firing down the field. “Cheap touchdowns,” Maclin said, eyes sparkling. You can’t fool players, at least not about on-the-field performance. They know that at this time, Vick is the better quarterback and See RECEIVERS on D4

Has Vick changed as a player? The questions were about football, but they were also about change, about change and redemption. Michael Vick says he has come a long way, and as he stood at his locker on Wednesday, the newly promoted starting quarterback of the Eagles, it was hard to argue. “My problems,” Vick said, “have been off the field. I don’t think they’ve been on the field.” Yes, the problems. The dogfighting and dog killing that led him to spend 18 months in prison. The hatred and the scorn he brought upon himself with his actions. The loss of his livelihood — which almost happened again this summer when one of

his former codefendants was shot at Vick’s birthday celebration. “I think everything that I’ve been through just made me a stronger individual,” Vick said. The real question, however, as Vick’s rebirth comes full circle, is whether the things he endured also made him a better football player. Did the changes he had to go through as a person make him better suited to play quarterback in the NFL under a demanding coach like Andy Reid? Because Vick is wrong about one thing: Some of his problems were on the field. When Vick finished the 2006 season, he See PRISON on D4

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Michael Vick’s promotion as the Eagles’ starting quarterback has caused seismic reverberations in Philadelphia. But on the wagering front, the change has produced more of a slight tremor. “At least at this point, it’s not major,” said Mike Seba, senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, the company that sets the opening point-spreads that many casinos use as a starting point for establishing their betting lines. “Obviously, Vick just had a great week against Detroit, and that comes after he had a great game in Week 1 [against Green Bay],” Seba said. “But at the beginning of the year, Andy Reid knew what the talents were of both Vick and Kevin Kolb, and he made Kolb the starter back then.” At the beginning of the season, the over-under number for total Eagles victories was eight wins. After a 1-1 start — which is where oddsmakers figured the Eagles to be at this point — and with Vick as the new starting quarterback, the Eagles total-wins over-under remains at eight games. However, Vick’s presence in the lineup is having an impact on public perception. Seba said the line on the Eagles’ next game at Jacksonville that LVSC shipped to its clients was a “pick,” meaning neither team was giving or getting points. In the very early lines, the Eagles were nudged to 1- to 11/2-point favorites on some betting boards. But, quickly, Philadelphia jumped to a 3-point favorite, Seba said. Caesars Palace sports analyst Todd Fuhrman agreed that,

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Coach Rex Ryan stood up in a team meeting on Wednesday and told the New York Jets to “just end it,” with the off-the-field distractions. After a preseason dominated by Hard Knocks, followed rapidly by an opening-night loss to Baltimore, an uproar over alleged disrespectful treatment of a female television reporter, then the arrest of receiver Braylon Edwards for drunken driving on Monday morning, Ryan has had it. At least one of his players agrees, according to a post on DAVID POKRESS / Newsday Yardbarker.com that first Jets coach Rex Ryan told his appeared on players to end the distractions. Blacksportsonline. “It’s ridiculous,” the player said of Edwards’ arrest. “First, we have a program in place to prevent this exact thing. Second, he’s in a contract year and if he can’t keep his nose clean this year, how about when he gets a new contract? He has money to call for a ride. “It’s unacceptable because now his teammates have to answer questions on that instead of focusing on Miami. Some people can’t handle a little success. We just started putting that reporter stuff behind us, and now this. They should fine him to the max. This is just stupid.”

And in Arizona …

… there was another team meeting, this one called by the Cardinals defensive leaders, including pugnacious linebacker Joey Porter. Pro Bowl cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie told reporters the team needs to remember that “when somebody punches us in the mouth we need to be ready to punch back.” The Cardinals, who surrendered 444 yards in last Sunday’s 41-7 rout at the hands of the Atlanta Falcons, play their home opener Sunday against the Oakland Raiders, who never seem shy about punching anybody.

How ’bout those Cowboys?

Prosportsblogging.com reported that Dallas owner Jerry Jones not only is mulling replacing coach Wade Phillips after the ’Boys’ 0-2 start, he’s actually contacting potential replacements to gauge interest. According to the website, CBS analyst Bill Cowher is Jones’ first choice. The second choice is NFL Network/Fox analyst Brian Billick. No word yet on their responses.

Airing it out

SIDELINE Frustrated agent Neil Schwartz lashed out at San Diego general manager A.J. Smith on Wednesday. Schwartz claims to have arranged at least one trade for holdout receiver Vincent Jackson, only to be halted by Smith’s money demands. “Multiple teams have told me that Vincent Jackson they can’t get a deal done with A.J., and some of the teams have referred to A.J. as ‘The Lord of No Rings,’ ” Schwartz said. “That’s how they characterized him.” The movie-oriented moniker was invented two years ago by, alas, a sportswriter.

Giants safety Antrel Rolle did not back away from his critical comments of the team’s shoddy performance in a 38-14 loss to Indianapolis on Sunday. “I don’t think there was enough fight,” Rolle said. “I don’t think there was enough being said. I don’t think there was enough attitude, enough anger toward getting your butt whupped the way we were getting whupped. “That was my problem. And if I don’t have that issue, that’s a problem in my eyes. ”

Why Vick’s the starter

Here’s another theory on why Andy Reid switched from Kevin Kolb to Michael Vick at quarterback. A major factor that is getting very little consideration in the media and none at all among the fan base, is the labor situation. There’s a chance the league won’t play next fall, due to a lockout. If the future is so uncertain, why plan for it? Second, Dallas is 0-2, not the expected 2-0. Washington and New York are coming off embarrassing losses. The NFC East is up for grabs and a 9-7 record could win it. So if the Birds are playing for right now — which outside events have forced them to do — then Vick is the far superior QB for right now. Whether tearing up a carefully crafted four-year plan on the basis of a shaky victory over a team that has won twice in its last 35 games is a wise decision, is a debate for another day. But this almost certainly would not have happened if the Cowboys were 2-0.

Contact staff writer Don McKee at dmckee@phillynews.com. This article contains information from the Associated Press.

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Go to www.phillly.com/inquirer/sports to be heard Results of Wednesday’s Philly.com sports poll: Do you agree with Andy Reid’s decision to name Michael Vick the starting quarterback over Kevin Kolb? Out of 9,043 responses

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Vick doesn’t affect odds on Eagles

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Eagles QB Michael Vick has shown little muscle in moving the betting lines. The Birds remain 25-1 to win the Super Bowl. right now, Vick’s impact is more about perception than reality. “As far as power rankings and that type of analysis, I’m not sure that he does make much of a difference,” Fuhrman said of Vick. “Certainly, with the offensive-line problems they have … his mobility allows them to be a little more creative.” Fuhrman pointed out that the Green Bay game, with the Eagles in comeback mode, and the Detroit game, against a suspect defense, are not reliable tests. Along with what’s happening at the NovaCare Center, just as important to the Eagles’ season-long wagering outlook (they remain about 25-1 to win the Super Bowl), is what’s happening in Dallas and

Minnesota. The Cowboys and Vikings, who have started 0-2, were among a handful of NFC teams expected to advance far into the playoffs in the so-called futures odds posted in the preseason. And Dallas was clearly the wagering favorite to win the NFC East. In futures odds posted on Las Vegas Insider, an informational website that tracks wagering odds, the Cowboys are now 15-1 to win the Super Bowl (compared to a 15-2 open), and the Vikings are 20-1 (compared to an 11-1 open).

What a deal. We mentioned in this space a few weeks ago that the Delaware sports books at that state’s three racinos introduced an NFL pick ’ems

NFLPicks By Bill Ordine

Packers look to be on a roll A few years ago, when New England was on its undefeated regular-season run, Las Vegas couldn’t post a point spread big enough that the Patriots couldn’t cover it, at least for half a season. Most years, some team explodes during the first half of the schedule and batters the line along with its opponents. Last season, that team was the New Orleans Saints, who opened 6-0 against the spread. This could be Green Bay’s year to make such a run, and if it does it will be into the headwind of the so-called public money. The Packers, along with Dallas and Pittsburgh, consistently draw the sentiment of the wagering public, and that betting pressure tends to inflate the line on Green Bay. Still, if there is a horse to be ridden for the first month or so of the new season, its colors are green and gold. Green Bay at Chicago (plus-3). The Bears are coming off a surprising road win against Dallas. But for Chicago to stay with the Packers, Jay Cutler has to continue playing as well as he has been — five touchdown passes and one interception in the first two games. An interesting statistic is that the Packers have been dominant against the spread on grass while the Bears have been particularly poor on grass, which seems to negate Chicago’s home field advantage at Soldier From: Fitzpatrick, Frank To: Fox, Ashley; Gonzalez, John

Earlier in the week, Gonz suggested it “would be fun” if Reid decided to go with Vick. Well, guess what? Crank up the Gonzo fun machine.

Field. Pick: Packers (minus-2). Dallas at Houston (minus-3). Before the season started, this line would have been reversed. Now, the Cowboys’ playoffs hopes are fractured after an 0-2 start and head coach Wade Phillips is in the cross-hairs of Dallas fans. Meanwhile, the Texans are coming off an emotional comeback win in overtime on the road against Washington. Houston is building confidence while the Cowboys have lost theirs. Dallas’ major problem is that it can’t runblock (unless, it seems, the Cowboys happen to be playing the Eagles). Marion Barber leads the team in rushing with just 70 yards. On the other side, Houston quarterback Matt Schaub is capable of routinely throwing for 350 yards. Pick: Texans (minus-3). Oakland at Arizona (minus-4). Sometimes you pick a game because you think you know who’s going to win. Other times, you’re simply betting the team that’s mired in a culture of defeat. The Raiders are 1-1 in the standings but 0-2 against the spread, and their recent road record against the spread is poor. The Cardinals were pummeled on the road in Atlanta, and this is their home opener, so they should be out for blood. Pick: Cardinals (minus-4). N.Y. Jets at Miami (plus-2) This is not an easy one to pick, but games involving quality

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teams are appealing. These two are in the top tier of NFL defenses. Miami — a couple of years removed from the novelty of the Wildcat offense — is exhibiting the hardnosed personality of Bill Parcells, who assembled this roster. Meanwhile, the Jets will have a tough time coming up with the same effort that carried them past the New England Patriots. Plus, they’re dealing with the DUI arrest of WR Braylon Edwards and the injury to CB Darrelle Revis. Pick: Dolphins (plus-2). I like but don’t love: Indianapolis at Denver (plus-51/2). Peyton Manning versus Kyle Orton. Both quarterbacks had great games last week, but which one do you think can keep it going? Pick: Colts (minus-5½). Buffalo at New England (minus-14, 42½ over/under). After losing to the Jets last week, the Patriots will be breathing fire. They may not cover a two-touchdown spread, but they’re going to score points. Pick: Over, 42½. If you held a gun to my head: Atlanta at New Orleans (minus-4). Pick: Falcons. San Francisco at Kansas City (plus-2½). Pick: 49ers. Cincinnati at Carolina (plus-3). Pick: Cincinnati. Cleveland at Baltimore (minus-10½). Pick: Browns. Tennessee at N.Y. Giants (minus-3). Pick: Giants. Detroit at Minnesota (minus-11) Pick: Lions. Eagles at Jacksonville (plus-3) Pick: Eagles.

Ashley Fox

Frank Fitzpatrick

Subject: QB carousel

From: Gonzalez, John To: Fitzpatrick, Frank; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

Did I say fun? I meant funny. As in, what a joke. This organization and Andy are a real laugh.

YouTalkin’ToMe?

Can’t make this up

Are you suggesting the Eagles are a joke?

unexpected flip-flop might actually help Kevin Kolb’s development. If that’s not a joke, I don’t know what is. But maybe I’m using poor English.

From: Gonzalez, John To: Fitzpatrick, Frank; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

From: Fitzpatrick, Frank To: Gonzalez, John; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

Well, let’s see. The head coach just said his crazy,

Wouldn’t you love to know what went on behind the

From: Fitzpatrick, Frank To: Gonzalez, John; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

curtain? Was Reid planning this all along? Did Kolb blow it by suggesting the coach wear plaids since he tends to look fat in black? Is Vick being used in some bizarre motivational ploy? Given the heft your reputation carries in the Eagles’ inner-sanctums, Gonz, I expect answers.

tournament this year with $100,000 in guaranteed cash prizes. The tourney comes under the oversight of the state lottery. The rules are fairly simple. Bettors paid an entry fee of $250 for the season, they pick six games against the spread each week, and the player with the most total wins earns a jackpot of $50,000. There are also prizes for second- through fifth-place, and quarterly prizes of $5,000 for bettors who had the most correct for four-week segments (the last stage is five weeks). Anything fewer than 400 participants would have been a good betting proposition — what’s known in gambling parlance as an “overlay.” In the Delaware lottery’s latest standings of contestants, there were 166 bettors, which makes the contest an excellent deal for those who got in at the start. The leader is 10-2 so far.

Golden years. During the

Borgata Poker Open, currently winding down at the Atlantic City casino, Thomas Noyes Sr., of Clarks Summit, Pa., proved how the green felt is truly a level playing field. Within a span of just four days in mid-September, the 82-year old Noyes not only won the Borgata seniors event, which is advertised for players 50 and older, he also took second place in an open Omaha high/low event. The seniors title (buy-in of $300) was worth $20,940, and second place in Omaha high/low ($350 buy-in) was good for $9,579.

Contact Bill Ordine at 215-854-2939 or at wordine@phillynews.com.

Pick of the Week Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay (plus- 2 ½). The rumblings out of Las Vegas are that when quarterback Ben Roethlisberger gets back on the field, Pittsburgh becomes the favorite to win the AFC. Clearly, the Steelers’ defense has been phenomenal, holding two opponents to a total of 20 points, while Pittsburgh’s offense has been getting by with second- and third-string quarterbacks. The Steelers have made a believer out of me after sacking my picks against them for two straight weeks, and shame on me for not factoring Hall of Fame defensive coordinator Dick LaBeau into the equation sooner. Tampa Bay is not terrible. Quarterback Josh Freeman has been surprisingly efficient, the Bucs are 2-0 both in the standings and against the spread and, as noted, Pittsburgh has had its problems on offense. And those are factors that have the Steelers less than a field-goal favorite. But Tampa Bay has played Cleveland and Carolina so far, and the Steelers are the varsity. Pick: Steelers, giving 2 ½. Washington at St. Louis (plus-3½). Pick: Redskins. San Diego at Seattle (plus-5½). Pick: Seahawks. Last week: 2-4 on featured picks. From: Gonzalez, John To: Fitzpatrick, Frank; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

There’s a reason Joe Banner still won’t talk to me, no matter how many times I ask, Fitzy. The Birds don’t like it when you hold up a mirror and show them how ugly — or in this case silly — they look. From: Fitzpatrick, Frank To: Gonzalez, John; Fox, Ashley Subject: QB carousel

At least in Banner’s case you don’t need a big mirror. From: Fox, Ashley To: Fitzpatrick, Frank; Gonzalez, John Subject: QB carousel

You guys obviously don’t need me, and that’s a good thing since Cohen likely will want a seven-part series: Mike Vick, The Starter. I’ll see you at Christmas.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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SUNDAY’S GAMES EAGLES at Jacksonville, 4:05 Dallas at Houston, 1 Buffalo at New England, 1 Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 Tennessee at N.Y. Giants, 1 Cincinnati at Carolina, 1 San Francisco at Kansas City, 1 Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 1 Detroit at Minnesota, 1 Washington at St. Louis, 4:05 San Diego at Seattle, 4:15 Oakland at Arizona, 4:15 Indianapolis at Denver, 4:15 N.Y. Jets at Miami, 8:20 MONDAY’S GAME

out wide receiver Vincent Jackson remained with San Diego, although agent Neil Schwartz said he had deals in place with several teams before Wednesday’s league-imposed trade deadline. Schwartz said he heard Green Bay at Chicago, 8:30 from multiple general managers that the Chargers asked for “wholly unreasonable” Las Vegas Line compensation for Jackson, a By Keith Glantz and Russell Culver Pro Bowler who had two Favorite Today O/U Underdog straight 1,000-yard seasons. Sunday 3 441/2 JACKSONVILLE Under terms of a deal ar- Eagles N.Y. GIANTS 3 421/2 Tennessee ranged by the NFL and the 14 421/2 Buffalo players’ union, Jackson had NEW ENGLAND BALTIMORE 101/2 37 Cleveland to sign a new contract by Pittsburgh 21/2 331/2 TAMPA BAY 4 p.m. Wednesday in order to Cincinnati 3 381/2 CAROLINA play for a new team in Week 5 NEW ORLEANS 4 491/2 Atlanta 1 1 2 /2 36 /2 KANSAS CITY and have six weeks of his sus- San Francisco 11 421/2 Detroit pension for violating the MINNESOTA 3 471/2 Dallas NFL’s substance abuse re- HOUSTON Washington 31/2 38 ST. LOUIS duced to four. Indianapolis 51/2 48 DENVER Schwartz said it’s unlikely San Diego 51/2 44 SEATTLE that Jackson will play this sea- ARIZONA 4 391/2 Oakland 21/2 35 N.Y. Jets son under teams of the team’s MIAMI Monday contract tender.

Reid: OK with being ‘the bad guy’ By Jonathan Tamari and Jeff McLane

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Saying his job is to do what’s best for the Eagles, head coach Andy Reid defended his decision to start Michael Vick days after pronouncing his support for Kevin Kolb. “If I’m the bad guy, I’m OK with that. I think it’s important that the players — that I do what I think is right for them. How I’m perceived outside of them, that’s not my concern,” Reid said Wednesday. “I’ve got to take care of this football team, number one.” Reid also said the decision was his, and not based on input from other coaches or players. The only player he spoke to before making the decision was Kolb, Reid said. “I didn’t talk to a player. I didn’t talk to a coach. I talked to one guy for two days about this,” Reid said, referring to Kolb. “Whatever anybody else says … is not right.” After the Lions game Sunday, Reid said Kolb would start against Jacksonville. Asked then if it would be hard to go back to Kolb after Vick’s strong performance, Reid said “Not hard.” Reid said Wednesday he needed time to make his decision. “If there’s a tough situation, I’m going to make sure I think it through and I’m going to buy time to do that,” Reid said.

Shock and support

Eagles players were surprised by Reid’s sudden move, but said they supported the coach no matter whom he starts at quarterback. “It was a bit of a shock because one day we heard that Kolb was starting, and then so quick to where Vick was going out there starting for us. So it was just a little change for us,” said wide re-

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Michael Vick scrambles, pursued by the Lions’ Louis Delmas. Coach Andy Reid said on Wednesday that he alone made the decision to make Vick the starter over Kevin Kolb. ceiver DeSean Jackson. “But like I said, we all have confidence in both quarterbacks.” Fellow receiver Jeremy Maclin said the team was “behind both” Kolb and Vick. “It’s not like we’re just turning our backs on Kevin. Kevin’s still a tremendous quarterback. Just right now Vick’s playing tremendous football, so he deserves a chance to go out there and play quarterback.” Tight end Brent Celek came into the NFL with Kolb and has roomed with him every year at training camp. “We play for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Mike’s our quarterback, we’re behind him. When Kevin’s our quarterback, we’re behind him. Depending on what Coach Reid says, that’s the direction

played the game,” Reid said Wednesday. “It’s that simple. He’s played it as outstanding as any quarterback in the league to this point.” Asked if Vick is the starter for the rest of this season, barring an injury, Reid said, “Yes, yeah. I didn’t have a plan for one week. That’s not what I did.” Vick has been one of the Eagles’ biggest offensive weapons, uncorking passes both accurate and incredible and somehow staying on his feet behind a wobbly offensive line. “You can’t argue with the way he’s been playing. You just can’t,” wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said. “He scrambled out of the pocket and threw the ball on a rope down the field. It’s something that not a lot of guys can do.” Working through training camp with Kolb as the team’s choice for the future, Vick, a one-time star tarnished by his dogfighting conviction, said he never envisioned starting this way this year. “I didn’t expect it, but I won’t question the blessing from God,” he said, adding that he is “humble” and “grateful for the opportunity.” The question that has long hung over Vick, however, is whether he could regularly turn his spectacular talents into wins. As a starter in the NFL, he is 39-28-1. That’s a .580 winning percentage, good for about nine wins in a 16-game schedule. He is 2-2 in the playoffs. He took his Falcons teams to

NFL Injury Report O'Callaghan (groin). LIMITED: DE Wallace Gilberry (back), LB Tamba Hali (foot), S Jon McGraw (hamstring). TENNESSEE TITANS at NEW YORK GIANTS – TITANS: DNP: DT Tony Brown (knee), DE Jacob Ford (knee), T Mike Otto (knee). GIANTS: OUT: T William Beatty (foot). DNP: LB Chase Blackburn (knee), LB Phillip Dillard (hamstring), S Michael Johnson (back), WR Mario Manningham (illness), C Shaun O'Hara (ankle, achilles). CLEVELAND BROWNS at BALTIMORE RAVENS – BROWNS: DNP: QB Jake Delhomme (ankle), RB Jerome Harrison (thigh), T Shawn Lauvao (ankle), TE Evan Moore (head), CB Derrick Roberson (hip), WR Brian Robiskie (hamstring), DT Shaun Rogers (ankle, hip), DE Robaire Smith (ankle). LIMITED: LB D'Qwell Jackson (chest), LB Matt Roth (foot), G Floyd Womack (knee). FULL: G Eric Steinbach (thigh), T Joe Thomas (elbow). RAVENS: OUT: LB Tavares Gooden (shoulder), WR Donte' Stallworth (foot). DNP: T Jared Gaither (back), WR Derrick Mason (knee), RB Le'Ron McClain (shoulder). LIMITED: LB Dannell Ellerbe (knee). FULL: TE Todd Heap (shoulder), LB Jarret Johnson (back), LB Jameel McClain (knee), DT Haloti Ngata (back), RB Ray Rice (ankle), LB Terrell Suggs (ankle). PITTSBURGH STEELERS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS – STEELERS: DNP: QB Dennis Dixon (knee), G Trai Essex (ankle). FULL: NT Casey Hampton (hamstring), T Max Starks (ankle). BUCCANEERS: DNP: C Jeff Faine (calf), LB Niko Koutouvides (ankle). LIMITED: RB Carnell Williams (hamstring). FULL: QB Josh Freeman (right thumb), RB Kareem Huggins (groin), TE Kellen Winslow (knee). ATLANTA FALCONS at NEW ORLEANS SAINTS –

we go,” he said. Wide receiver Jason Avant seemed to sum up the sense among the players. “All decisions that the coaches make are right to me. If they make the decision, what are we going to do? We’re players,” Avant said.

wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills and in college at Wayne State. The Eagles often ask their running backs to run pass routes ... Defensive end Brandon Graham was limited in practice with a shoulder strain and tackle Austin Howard was held out of practice with a lower back strain. Extra points Linebacker Stewart Bradley Fullback Leonard Weaver had (concussion), tight end Brent nerve damage in his injured Celek (chest), guard Nick Cole left knee, Reid said. Weaver (knee), guard Todd Herremans had surgery Tuesday to re- (ankle), Kevin Kolb (concuspair a torn anterior cruciate sion) and defensive tackle ligament and torn posterior Trevor Laws (oblique) all particlateral corner in the knee. ipated ... The Eagles signed James Andrews performed the wide receiver Rod Harper and surgery. ... Newly signed run- safety Jamar Adams to the pracning back Joique Bell said he tice squad. expected to play on special teams — something he has Contact staff writer Jonathan done in the past — and had Tamari at 215-854-5214 or done “a lot” of lining up at jtamari@phillynews.com.

Vick knows he has to show consistency

EAGLES from D1 boost his value in the final year of his contract. Reid, in turn, will look like a coach who made the right switch at the right time. If, however, Vick’s six quarters are a mirage, if the Eagles stumble to mediocrity even with him playing quarterback, the questions will come: Why not stick with Kolb, let him learn, and see what the onetime quarterback of the future could really do? “The name of the game is Green Bay 3 46 CHICAGO being consistent and you’ve Home team in CAPITALS. Quarterback news. Charlie got to win and you’ve got to Batch, a longtime backup Moves. Minnesota signed show and prove,” Vick said. who began the season as Pitts- free-agent receiver Hank Bas- “It’s got to be week in and burgh’s fourth quarterback, kett to a one-year deal. The week out.” will start Sunday at Tampa former Eagle practiced with It’s hard to gauge whether Bay, coach Mike Tomlin said. the team Wednesday. … The Vick can do that, in large part Detroit coach Jim Schwartz Saints brought back running because the decision to elevate said quarterback Shaun Hill back Ladell Betts, who had him is based on a small sample would start at Minnesota on been released after the pre- size. Vick played one half Sunday as Matthew Stafford season. … Cornerback Cary against a good Green Bay Packremains sidelined by an in- Williams was added to the ers squad and a full game jured right shoulder. Baltimore Ravens’ roster af- against the Detroit Lions, who Oakland coach Tom Cable ter serving a two-game sus- have been among the worst said Bruce Gradkowski would pension for violating the teams in the NFL and have a start against Arizona. Grad- NFL’s personal conduct poli- weak secondary. kowski replaced Jason Camp- cy. … Steelers linebacker In the preseason, Vick had bell at halftime last week, ral- James Harrison was fined been shaky. Even Reid said lying the Raiders to a 16-14 $5,000 for slamming Tennes- Kolb had the better training win over St. Louis. see quarterback Vince Young camp. But when he looked at to the turf while sacking him Vick’s play in the first two Bucs safety suspended. Tam- on Sunday. weeks of the season, Reid pa Bay’s Tanard Jackson was suspended for a minimum of Injury report. New England said Vick “exceeded even my a year without pay for violat- running back Kevin Faulk expectation.” Reid saw a quarterback who ing the NFL’s substance said he would undergo surabuse policy, the league an- gery for a torn ligament in his avoided pressure but kept his nounced. right knee and miss the rest eyes downfield to complete Jackson sat out the first of the season. … Jets corner- throws. He saw a quarterback four games of the 2009 sea- back Darrelle Revis will not whose 105.5 passer rating is son while serving a suspen- play against Miami on Sun- fourth best in the NFL. “This was all about Michael sion for violating the same day night because of a Vick and the way that he has strained left hamstring. policy.

Provided by the league. (OUT — Definitely will not play; DNP — Did not practice; LIMITED — Limited participation in practice; FULL — Full participation in practice.) EAGLES at JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS – EAGLES: DNP: T Austin Howard (back). LIMITED: DE Brandon Graham (shoulder). FULL: LB Stewart Bradley (concussion), TE Brent Celek (chest), G Nick Cole (knee), G Todd Herremans (ankle), QB Kevin Kolb (concussion), DT Trevor Laws (oblique). JAGUARS: DNP: LB Justin Durant (ankle). LIMITED: DT Landon Cohen (knee), RB Maurice Jones-Drew (ankle), RB Deji Karim (thumb), S Anthony Smith (foot), LB Daryl Smith (thigh). FULL: G Uche Nwaneri (foot), G Justin Smiley (ankle). CINCINNATI BENGALS at CAROLINA PANTHERS – BENGALS: DNP: DE Jonathan Fanene (hamstring), DT Tank Johnson (toe), CB Adam Jones (shoulder), DE Frostee Rucker (toe). LIMITED: DE Antwan Odom (wrist), WR Terrell Owens (back). FULL: RB Brian Leonard (foot), LB Keith Rivers (foot). PANTHERS: DNP: WR Brandon LaFell (hamstring), T Jeff Otah (knee). LIMITED: DE Tyler Brayton (ankle), LB Jordan Senn (ankle), WR Steve Smith (thigh). FULL: DT Louis Leonard (elbow). BUFFALO BILLS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS – BILLS: DNP: G Andy Levitre (neck), LB Paul Posluszny (knee). FULL: S Cary Harris (hamstring). PATRIOTS: DNP: T Nick Kaczur (back), CB Terrence Wheatley (foot). LIMITED: WR Julian Edelman (foot). FULL: QB Tom Brady (right shoulder). SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at KANSAS CITY CHIEFS – 49ERS: Practice not complete. CHIEFS: DNP: DE Tyson Jackson (knee), T Ryan

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Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew, bottled up by opposing defenses in the Jaguars’ first two games, believes he’s on the verge of a breakout. “It should pop sooner or later, hopefully, sooner for my sanity,” said Jones-Drew, who missed practice Wednesday with an ankle injury. Jones-Drew ran 12 times for 31 yards Sunday in a 38-13 loss at San Diego, the eighth time in the last nine games he has under 100 yards. “Teams have been doing a lot of good things against us by stacking the box,” Jones-Drew said. “We’ve been close a couple of times, but we’re just going to keep working at it.” The Jaguars (1-1) will host the Eagles (1-1) Sunday at 4:05 p.m. and have more problems than just running the ball against stacked defenses. “Defenses are going to be stacked until we make them hurt for being stacked,” coach Jack Del Rio said. That’s where quarterback David Garrard comes in. Garrard played one of his worst games against the Chargers, throwing four interceptions, getting sacked twice, and misfiring two deep passes.

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FALCONS: DNP: S Erik Coleman (knee). LIMITED: WR Michael Jenkins (shoulder), RB Michael Turner (groin). SAINTS: Practice not complete. DETROIT LIONS at MINNESOTA VIKINGS – LIONS: DNP: WR Nate Burleson (ankle), S Louis Delmas (groin, biceps, calf), LB Zack Follett (concussion), G Stephen Peterman (foot), QB Matthew Stafford (right shoulder). LIMITED: DE Cliff Avril (knee, finger), S C.C. Brown (forearm), LB DeAndre Levy (groin). VIKINGS: DNP: WR Percy Harvin (hip, illness). LIMITED: WR Bernard Berrian (knee), CB Cedric Griffin (knee), LB Ben Leber (back). FULL: CB Chris Cook (knee), QB Brett Favre (ankle), DT Jimmy Kennedy (knee), T Bryant McKinnie (finger), C John Sullivan (calf). DALLAS COWBOYS at HOUSTON TEXANS – COWBOYS: DNP: RB Deon Anderson (knee), WR Dez Bryant (ribs), DT Jay Ratliff (not injury related). LIMITED: CB Mike Jenkins (knee), LB Sean Lee (hamstring), TE Jason Witten (head), T Sam Young (knee). TEXANS: DNP: TE James Casey (ankle), WR Andre Johnson (ankle). LIMITED: TE Owen Daniels (knee), DT Amobi Okoye (ankle), DE Mario Williams (groin). FULL: RB Vonta Leach (knee), CB Antwaun Molden (ankle). WASHINGTON REDSKINS at ST. LOUIS RAMS – REDSKINS: DNP: WR Anthony Armstrong (groin), S Chris Horton (ankle), T Trent Williams (knee, toe). LIMITED: DT Albert Haynesworth (ankle). FULL: S LaRon Landry (wrist), S Kareem Moore (knee), RB Clinton Portis (wrist). RAMS: OUT: LB Chris Chamberlain (toe), TE Michael Hoomanawanui (ankle), DT Darell Scott (ankle). DNP: TE Billy Bajema (knee), S Craig Dahl (head), CB Kevin Dockery (hamstring), TE Daniel Fells (knee), DT Clifton Ryan (migraines). LIMITED: S Oshiomogho Atogwe (thigh), RB Steven Jackson

(knee), WR Laurent Robinson (foot), T Rodger Saffold (back). INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at DENVER BRONCOS – COLTS: DNP: RB Joseph Addai (knee), LB Gary Brackett (back), DE Dwight Freeney (not injury related), WR Anthony Gonzalez (ankle), LB Ramon Humber (hand), T Charlie Johnson (foot), S Bob Sanders (biceps), LB Clint Session (hamstring). LIMITED: WR Pierre Garcon (hamstring), C Jeff Saturday (knee). FULL: CB Jerraud Powers (foot). BRONCOS: DNP: CB Champ Bailey (foot), CB Andre' Goodman (thigh), LB Wesley Woodyard (hamstring). LIMITED: T Ryan Harris (ankle), G Chris Kuper (knee), RB Laurence Maroney (thigh), S Darcel McBath (forearm). OAKLAND RAIDERS at ARIZONA CARDINALS – RAIDERS: Practice not complete. CARDINALS: OUT: WR Early Doucet (groin). LIMITED: WR Steve Breaston (knee), LB Will Davis (head), RB Beanie Wells (knee). FULL: S Hamza Abdullah (hamstring), LB Clark Haggans (heel), DE Kenny Iwebema (knee). SAN DIEGO CHARGERS at SEATTLE SEAHAWKS – CHARGERS: DNP: WR Malcom Floyd (leg), RB Ryan Mathews (ankle). LIMITED: LB Stephen Cooper (knee). SEAHAWKS: OUT: LB Leroy Hill (calf, Achilles). DNP: RB Quinton Ganther (knee), LB Will Herring (not injury related), T Russell Okung (ankle). LIMITED: LB Matt McCoy (quadricep). FULL: G Ben Hamilton (knee), G Chester Pitts (knee), WR Mike Williams (thigh). NEW YORK JETS at MIAMI DOLPHINS – JETS: OUT: LB Calvin Pace (foot), CB Darrelle Revis (hamstring). DNP: T Wayne Hunter (shin), C Nick Mangold (shoulder). LIMITED: LB Jason Taylor (elbow). DOLPHINS: DNP: G John Jerry (illness), DT Jared Odrick (ankle). LIMITED: LB Channing Crowder (groin).

the postseason in two of the four years in which he started most of their games. He has thrown 75 career touchdowns in the regular season, but added 52 interceptions. The biggest criticism has come on his accuracy: In his six seasons with Atlanta, Vick completed 53.8 percent of his passes, a mark of inconsistency. In his best year, he hit on 56.4 percent of his throws. Meanwhile, the top 20 quarterbacks in the league last year completed better than 60 percent of their passes. So far this year, though, Vick has been sharp, throwing three touchdowns and no interceptions and completing 63.8 percent of his attempts. If Vick can continue doing that, he might raise his game beyond its previous heights, might make the Eagles winners, and might make Reid look very smart. Reid would not discuss his long-term plans for Vick. “I haven’t even gone there,” he said. “He is the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, and that’s what it

is right now.” It would seem to be in both sides’ interests to wait. The Eagles will want to see if Vick can maintain his high level of play before committing to him for more years. Vick could make himself a soughtafter commodity if he keeps playing well. With the Eagles’ coaches and staff, “of course you’d want to stay with those coaches long-term and be a part of the organization for [the] long term, but I think that all remains to be seen,” Vick said. So does the outcome of the surprising twist in the second act of Vick’s career. As Reid showed this week, nothing is guaranteed. Not Kolb’s chance to start, not Vick’s redemption story, and not the success of this move. Vick knows the stakes. “You’re not going to win every game,” Vick said. “But you better win more than you lose, I’ll tell you that much.” Contact staff writer Jonathan Tamari at 215-854-5214 or jtamari@phillynews.com.

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Kolb’s days as an Eagle may now be numbered

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Backup QB Kevin Kolb (4) watches new starter Michael Vick during practice Wednesday. Coach

Andy Reid says he believes Vick has learned to become a pocket passer since his NFL return.

Commentary By Bob Ford

Did prison make Vick a better QB?

PRISON from D1 was 26 years old and had just gone through another scattershot year with the Atlanta Falcons. His completion percentage was low compared with the good quarterbacks in the league and his passer rating of 75.7 ranked him 20th in the league. He had run for more than 1,000 yards, which was exciting, but the Falcons were 7-9 in the regular season and, to be blunt, Vick wasn’t really considered a winner. He was thrilling, he was talented, but the finer points of the game — like working from the pocket or limiting interceptions — did not appear to interest him. Despite having signed a 10-year, $130 million contract with Atlanta at the end of the 2005 season, Vick still had a reputation for coming to work at the last possible moment and for leaving at the earliest. He wasn’t in the film room very much and wasn’t considered an ardent student of the game. On Sundays, he didn’t play quarterback so much as he played Michael Vick. And that is the quarterback who walked into Leavenworth prison, but not the one, apparently, who signed with the Eagles in August 2009, and certainly not the one who played last weekend against the Detroit Lions. Something has changed, and you wonder if it is Vick or the situation around him. “One of the questions we had about Michael was — and it has been a question

throughout his career — is ‘Can he be a pocket passer?’ ” Andy Reid said. “I think you saw [him] under duress — [he] was able to move, maintain his eyes down the field, and make throws down the field.” Vick has been called many things in his life. “Pocket passer” is not one of them. But Reid thinks Vick has developed that skill, and it is a large part of the reason Vick will be starting ahead of Kevin Kolb on Sunday and will remain the starter until Reid changes his mind again. “That’s great coming from Andy, a guy who knows the quarterback position in and out,” Vick said. “The only thing I try to do is impress those guys. I guess that’s what it’s all about. I like to put smiles on their faces.” Those who support Vick will take the words for what they are. Those who cannot forgive his sins will say he changed because it served his purpose to do so, to get himself back on the field as a starter, to make that next big contract possible. Whatever the motivation, the man-as-quarterback appears to be different. It could be that a few seconds in the confinement of the pocket are nothing compared with 18 months in the tight quarters of a cell. After the deadening monotony of prison life, a little extra time in the film room or the weight room isn’t so bad. “You can go on moving forward, doing things the right way, and not turn back to the

old person you were,” Vick said. The changes he made as a player — if they are real and not just a mish-mash of short samples from six quarters of football — are less important than the changes he might have made as a person, but that isn’t why he’s the starting quarterback. Becoming the player Reid wanted could be nothing more than expediency for Vick, the straightest line from Point A to Point B, but that won’t matter if he wins. “I’ve been to the bottom, and I’m just trying to rise like the phoenix,” Vick said. “If I can persevere throughout all the bad things I’ve been through and all of the bad places I’ve been to, then I think things will be OK.” Both he and Reid used the same analogy this week, comparing his return from prison to the mythical firebird that rose from the ashes of its selfimmolation. He should only hope to be so lucky in his search for final redemption. Some scorch marks do not heal. And if the changes have not been real, particularly on the football field as far as the Eagles are concerned, then Vick could end up like another legendary flier whose waxen wings were not really made for so lofty a mission. Contact columnist Bob Ford at 215-854-5842 or bford@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/bobford.

KOLB from D1 tion. And then there was an ESPN report that cited a senior Eagles official as saying they “have had calls” about the availability of Kolb from several teams. Kolb has made it no secret that he wants to start in the NFL. Before the Eagles traded away Donovan McNabb in April, Kolb had told friends and confidants — on occasion — that he wanted to be traded. But then, of course, the Eagles dealt away their franchise quarterback and promoted Kolb. But what about after he was demoted? Those close to Kolb said he would not demand a trade even if his preference is to start. Asked if his initial instinct, upon being told that he no longer was the starter, was to request a trade, Kolb said, “No. My initial instinct was, ‘Shoot, I want to be out there.’ ” During a six-minute interview in the Eagles’ locker room given simultaneously while Vick spoke with reporters 10 feet away, Kolb said nothing that could be taken as critical of Reid or the Eagles. Reid “always does what’s best for this team, and so far to this point he’s done what’s best for my career, as well,” Kolb said. “I trust him, and I

have faith this will work out the way it’s supposed to.” If Kolb wasn’t going to raise a fuss about the way he lost his job — after just four offensive series and a concussion — the quarterback’s circle of friends weren’t as bashful, both privately and publicly. “He didn’t even have a chance to lose his job,” said Mitch Copeland, a former high school coach of Kolb’s in Stephenville, Texas, and a close friend. “I guess the lesson in Philly is, ‘Don’t get hurt or you’re done.’ ” Reid conceded that if Kolb had never suffered the concussion, he would have remained the starter. “Yeah, that’s probably right,” he said. So did that mean Kolb lost his job because he got injured? “Listen,” Reid said, “he lost his job because of Vick’s accelerated play.” Kolb declined to answer a similar question. Linebacker Stewart Bradley, who was concussed only minutes after Kolb went down, said that he understood that the same scenario could have played out during his absence. His replacement, Omar Gaither, however, did not play well. “That’s the way it is with every team and with any posi-

tion,” Bradley said. “Always.” Although he danced around the question the day before, Reid said that Vick was his starting quarterback for the rest of the season. Of course, a week earlier, when he was pressed about the quarterback situation, he said, “I know I’m using poor English: Kevin Kolb is the No. 1 quarterback.” If Kolb were to still have a “bright future” eventually as the Eagles’ No. 1 quarterback, as Reid said, how would this decision affect his standing in the locker room? “It won’t affect him one bit,” Reid said. “The players respect Kevin.” Indeed, a significant number of players said that they called or sent encouraging text messages to Kolb upon the news of his demotion. “I called him just to tell him, ‘I know it’s a tough time. I’m here for you,’ ” tight end Brent Celek said. Copeland, the son of Kolb’s head high school coach, Mike Copeland, said that the news of Kolb’s demotion had further deflated the football-obsessed town of Stephenville. “Our [high school] team is 1-3, the Cowboys are 0-2,” he said, “and Kevin just got benched. It’s been a rough last few days.”

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Quarterback Michael Vick is at his most opportunistic when improvising against defenders. The Eagles’ receivers say that when he scrambles, Vick makes “cheap touchdowns” possible.

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With Vick, wideouts see a few more ‘cheap’ TDs RECEIVERS from D1 gives the team the chance to win right now. They know they’re more dangerous with him than they are with Kolb. That’s not to say that Kolb can’t be better with a little experience, at least better than he was in two quarters against Green Bay, but Vick is better right now. So Vick is their guy. That said, there is a little transition for the receivers, for a variety of reasons. Vick is lefthanded, so Jackson, who typically runs the right sideline when the quarterback is righthanded, and Maclin flip sides when Vick is under center. Also, the Eagles have a plan for when the pocket collapses and Vick goes on the move — one receiver goes deep, another stays in the middle of the field and another comes back to Vick. It looks like chaos, but the receivers love it because when the pocket collapses, so too does the secondary. The Eagles have two of the quickest receivers in the league, guys who generally don’t need more than half a step to blow past their defenders. When Vick is scrambling and creating on the fly, it is hard for the cornerbacks to keep up with their assignments. Hence what Maclin called cheap touchdowns. The rule, as Jackson said: “Stay alive, man.” “He keeps a lot of plays

open,” Jackson said of Vick. “You can’t ever really give up on a play when he’s out there because you never really know what’s going to happen. You see it a couple times. He scrambled and still was able to make some big throws. So that’s good to have a quarterback that can keep plays open like that.” Clearly, Kolb can’t do that. Few, if any, in the National Football League, can. Kolb is a traditional pocket passer who was supposed to execute Andy Reid’s offense with more precision than McNabb. But it’s turned out that, in addition to adding a viable rushing threat, Vick can execute Reid’s offense, too. Hence the change. “It’s still a timing, rhythmtype of offense, but he has the ability to keep plays alive a little longer,” Maclin said. “You’ve got to stay alive. With his arm strength, I know if he’s scrambling I’m definitely looking to take off down field.” It seemed Wednesday like everyone was still a little shell-shocked over Reid’s sudden decision to bench Kolb and start Vick. A little lost in this is the effect it will have on players who get injured and how quickly they will rush to return. It took a while, but Reid admitted that Kolb lost his job because he got the concussion in Week 1. Had that never happened, Vick

would not have had the chance to play, and thus Kolb would not have lost his job. The message to the players, whether Reid intended to deliver it or not, is: Don’t get hurt, or don’t tell us you got hurt, because it could cost you your job. Nevertheless, players are players and they get paid to produce, and win. The National Football League is a business, after all. And the Eagles receivers just want someone who can get the ball into their hands. Vick has done that better than Kolb this season, so it’s a pretty simple call. “If you watched him before his incident and the stuff he’s been through, he was one of the most exciting people to watch in the league and on top of the game and almost in a way the face of the NFL as far as just the stuff that he did,” Maclin said. “Everybody kind of watched him and went, ‘Wow, that guy is definitely special.’ He’s kind of getting back to form.” And now that guy is the Eagles starting quarterback. If Vick keeps getting the ball to his receivers and they keep scoring “cheap touchdowns,” Vick might even get to keep the job. Who would’ve thought that could be the case a year ago? Contact staff writer Ashley Fox at 215-854-5064 or afox@phillynews.com.

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By Marc Narducci

It was Rodriguez’s goal in the 120th minute that settled After playing 120 minutes matters against Washington. on Sunday and then making She was second in WPS with the long bus ride to Boston on 12 regular season goals and Wednesday, the Indepen- all season Rodriguez has cardence will have to fight off ried the offense. fatigue in order to earn a trip It’s a big difference from west for Sunday’s Women’s last year when she played for Professional Soccer champi- Boston and had just one goal. onship game. But this season, Rodriguez Then again, the team isn’t has looked like a the player complaining about who has been a key a cramped week of performer for the soccer that continU.S. national team. ues with Thursday’s Besides being 8 p.m. WPS semifirested after a firstnal against the Bosround bye, Boston ton Breakers. also earned the regThe game will be ular season edge shown in the Fox over the IndepenSoccer Channel. dence, winning the The winner of season series 2-0-2. Thursday’s game at “We haven’t beatHarvard Universi- Independence’s en Boston, but ty’s Soldiers Field Amy Rodriguez: there is no more Soccer Stadium in The team is perfect time than Cambridge, Mass., feeling rested. Thursday,” Rodriguwill then visit FC ez said. Gold Pride in HayThe Indepenward, Calif., for Sunday’s 2:30 dence’s Paul Riley, who was p.m. WPS championship named the WPS coach of the year, said he will stick with game. FC Gold Pride earned an au- Val Henderson in goal. Hentomatic berth in the champi- derson earned the shutout onship game by being the reg- against Washington. She didn’t play in any of the four ular season champion. games against Boston, yieldThe third-seeded Indepening to Karina LeBlanc. dence advanced to the semiA key for the Indepenfinal with Sunday’s 1-0 overdence will be neutralizing time win over fourth-seeded Washington Freedom at Boston’s Kelly Smith, the former standout for the PhilWest Chester University. adelphia Charge of the old Boston, the No. 2 seed, WUSA. Smith was fourth in earned an automatic bye into the league with 11 goals and the semifinal and has been also led the Breakers with idle since a scoreless tie at five assists. Against the InNew Jersey’s FC Sky Blue on dependence, she had three Sept. 11. goals and two assists. “We have had a few days of “Kelly Smith is our target,” rest, so I don’t think the fact Riley said. “We need to take that we played Sunday will care of her.” hurt us,” Independence forRiley says the Indepenward Amy Rodriguez said. dence are healthy. Boston will Boston coach Tony DiCicco, be without midfielder and coalso doesn’t think the rest will captain Leslie Osborne, who be a major advantage. is out with a broken collar“We’re hoping it’s an advan- bone. tage — but the truth is that given four days rest, they are Contact staff writer Marc elite athletes and should be Narducci at 856-779-3225 or fine,” DiCicco said. mnarducci@phillynews.com. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A day after the Flyers opened the preseason with a 4-3 shoot-out win against New Jersey, coach Peter Laviolette was asked Wednesday about his defensemen. Specifically, where one of his players was on the depth chart. Still early in the preseason, Laviolette dodged the question. “Is there that much of a difference between two and five on our team right now? I don’t know. Maybe not,” Laviolette said. “But what we want to do is put together a defensive unit that’s tough to

Steinmetz’s lead narrows at Concord Spring Ford’s Rich Steinmetz saw his lead shrink from 5 strokes to 3 on the second day of the Philadelphia PGA’s Section Championship at Concord Country Club. Stu Ingraham carded a 3-under-par 68 and Steinmetz shot 70 for a two-day total of 133 entering the final day of the 54-hole event. Deerwood’s Greg Farrow posted the day’s best round with a 67, including an eagle on the par-4 10th hole, and moved into third place at 141. The top 62 players in the field of 152 area pros qualified for Thursday’s final round.

The Results Rich Steinmetz, Spring Ford ………63-70–133 Stu Ingraham, M Golf Range …………68-68–136 Greg Farrow, Deerwood ………………74-67–141 Mark Sheftic, Merion …………………73-69–142 John DiMarco, Laurel Creek …………71-72–143 Rob Shuey, Olde Scotland ……………72-71–143 Dave McNabb, Applebrook …………69-74–143 Scott Hunter, Overbrook ………………72-72–144 Cleve Coldwater, Glenmaura National 71-73–144 Nevin Sutcliffe, Back Creek …………69-75–144 Bill Sautter, Philadelphia Cricket ……73-71–144 Barry Dear, Philadelphia PGA ………71-73–144 Terry Hertzog, Bent Creek ……………74-71–145 Bill Walker, Twisted Dune ……………73-72–145 Don DeAngelis, LuLu …………………75-70–145 Dave Quinn, Links ……………………76-70–146 George Forster, Radnor Valley ……74-72–146 John Allen, Sunnybrook ………………75-71–146 Anthony Malizia, Gulph Mills …………74-72–146 John Spina, Philadelphia Cricket …74-72–146 Mike Moses, Concord …………………74-72–146

play against.” That much was made clear in the off-season with the acquisitions of Andrej Meszaros, Sean O’Donnell, and Matt Walker. That will pose a welcome problem when it comes time to reducing the roster for the regular season, Laviolette admitted. “They’re good decisions to have,” Laviolette said of his stacked blue line. “It forces players to make sure they’re on top of their game, make sure they’re playing well. I think that’s the best way to approach it: Keep an open mind and put the best players on the ice, the ones that are playing the best.” Meszaros, 24, and O’Donnell, 38, could be the third defensive pair for the Flyers. After one preseason game, Laviolette said he liked what he saw from the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Meszaros. “He looked good. Strong. He played strong,” Laviolette said. “He’s got a big presence out there. He passes the puck

Oct. 7 at Pittsburgh. “A lot of it is strength,” the defenseman said. “Getting the different leg muscles to fire properly — that probably comes with strength. And a lot of the rest of the knee rehab that you got to get things firing properly. It’s been shut down for a long time, so now we’re just trying to wake it up. Takes a while.”

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Ville Leino said he expected to be cleared to play by the Flyers’ training staff followwell. He’s got a heavy shot, ing Saturday’s game at Minnedefends well.” sota. The left winger, who posted 21 points in 19 postseaPronger progressing son games, intends to play in Chris Pronger said Wednes- three of the remaining four day that he was “coming exhibition matches. … The along slowly” from off-season Flyers play three games in as surgery to his right knee. many days starting tonight in Pronger, who turns 36 in less London, Ontario. The Flyers than three weeks, wore a yel- then face the Toronto Maple low (no contact) jersey as he Leafs and Minnesota Wild. went through drills. Pronger said he was uncer- Contact staff writer Mario Aguirre tain if he would be ready for at 215-854-4550 or the regular-season opener maguirre@phillynews.com

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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

NationalLeague EAST PHILLIES Atlanta Florida New York Washington

W 92 86 76 74 64

L 61 67 75 78 88

Pct GB .601 – .562 6 .503 15 .487 171/2 .421 271/2

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS PHILLIES 1, Atlanta 0 Washington 4, Houston 3 Chicago 2, San Francisco 0 Colorado at Arizona TUESDAY’S RESULTS PHILLIES 5, Atlanta 3 Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 2 San Francisco 1, Chicago 0 Arizona 3, Colorado 1

Streak W-10 L-3 W-3 L-5 W-2

Home 51-27 52-23 38-39 44-30 37-37

Away Last 10 41-34 10-0 34-44 4-6 38-36 4-6 30-48 4-6 27-51 4-6

Pittsburgh 11, St. Louis 6 Florida 7, New York 5 Milwaukee 13, Cincinnati 1 San Diego at Los Angeles Washington 8, Houston 4 Florida 5, New York 2 Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 3 San Diego 6, Los Angeles 0

High&Inside

By Francisco Delgado, Inquirer Staff Writer This is why you never put anything in writing, or texts

Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez, who’s already in a heap of trouble for allegedly beating up his girlfriend’s father, now faces seven counts of second-degree criminal contempt. Rodriguez, who wore a studded T-shirt and a gold chain to his hearing Wednesday in Queens, posted $7,500 bail and left court without speaking — and under a new protection order barring him from contacting girlfriend Daian Pena or her family. At an earlier hearing in connection with the alleged Aug. 11 thumping of 53-year-old Carlos Pena, Rodriguez was told to keep away from Pena and his daughter. That’s when a pretty messy situation got worse. He started sending her text messages and kept going: 56 in all. By the time he got to the final text, sent on Aug. 23, he was bitter, angry, aggressive, threatening. You choose. The text read: “Thank you for sinking me turning your back, take good care of my children … and now I see that your were with me because of the money …” Daian Pena, wisely, never responded to the messages. Defense attorney Christopher Booth said in court that the case wasn’t about Daian Pena, and ordering Rodriguez to keep away from her and their twins confused the situation. He said his client wasn’t clear he wasn’t supposed to try to resolve the issue. “There are no threats, no menacing comments,” Booth said. “There are more text messages of the defendant professing his love.” Be that as it may, Rodriguez could be jailed if he has any further communication with Daian Pena or her family.

The Frank and Jamie McCourt show could end soon

The Frank and Jamie McCourt divorce trial, now raging in Los Angeles Superior Court, could come to a screeching halt this week if both sides agree to mediation. At this point, the couple are fighting over what to do about the Dodgers. He says she signed an agreement that gives him sole ownership of the team in case the unthinkable happens, like a divorce. She says, no way, man, California is a community-property state so I own half of the team. But according to a person familiar with the case, lawyers on both sides are NICK UT / AP planning to discuss mediation and a Jamie McCourt is possible settlement. If so, one of the nearly divorced. most eagerly watched dramas in recent L.A. law history would be canceled, to the frustration of all who enjoy watching a train wreck.

Notable The Diamondbacks announced Wednesday that Kevin Towers, formerly of the Padres, will become the club’s general manager. Towers will take over for interim GM Jerry Dipoto, who replaced the dismissed Josh Byrnes on July 1. Towers will be tasked with turning around an organization that finished last in the NL West in 2009, and will likely repeat this year. … The Nationals will retain Jim Riggleman as manager, according sources. Riggleman signed a two-year deal last year, but only 2010 was guaranteed. Washington is 63-88 and has improved from last season, when it went 59-103. … The Cubs have formally interviewed Chicago favorite Ryne Sandberg about their managerial job, according to a major-league source. Sandberg, skipper of the triple-A Iowa Cubs, was the Pacific Coast League manager of the year in 2010.

Colvin out of the hospital Chicago Cubs outfielder Tyler Colvin was released from a Miami hospital Wednesday, three days after part of a broken bat punctured his chest. He was on his way home to South Carolina. The season-ending injury occurred during Sunday’s 13-3 win over the Florida Marlins. Colvin was standing at third base when he was struck by a sliver of Welington Castillo’s broken maple bat. Castillo doubled on the play and Colvin scored. Contact staff writer Francisco Delgado at fdelgado@phillynews.com. This article contains information from the Associated Press.

Thursday’s Games

2010 Team 2009 Last 3 Starts Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA Cardinals/12:35 +115 Suppan (R) 1- 7 5.61 4- 8 1- 0 1- 1 151/3 2.93 at Pirates –125 Burres (L) 3- 3 4.93 7- 3 0- 0 1- 0 20 1.80 Astros/4:35 +110 Figueroa (R) 5- 3 3.51 6- 2 1- 1 1- 1 14 6.43 at Nationals –120 Detwiler (L) 0- 2 2.37 1- 2 0- 0 0- 2 13 3.46 Giants/7:05 +100 Bumgarner (L) 5- 6 3.27 9- 7 0- 0 0- 2 20 1.35 2 at Cubs –110 Dempster (R) 14-10 3.50 15-16 1- 0 2- 1 18 /3 1.45 +130 Sanchez (R) 12-10 3.46 16-13 0- 0 1- 2 162/3 6.48 Marlins/8:10 at Brewers –140 Gallardo (R) 13- 7 3.55 15-14 1- 0 2- 0 21 1.29 Rockies/9:40 –105 Francis (L) 4- 5 4.61 9- 8 0- 0 0- 2 142/3 5.52 at D'backs –105 Kennedy (R) 9- 9 3.79 14-16 0- 1 0- 0 20 0.45 –105 Latos (R) 14- 7 2.84 17-11 1- 1 1- 2 121/3 10.22 Padres/10:10 at Dodgers –105 Kuroda (R) 10-13 3.36 15-14 0- 2 0- 2 20 3.15 ODDS: Number with favorite (–) indicates amount needed to wager to win $100; Number with underdog (+) indicates amount won if $100 is wagered. TEAM W-L: Team’s record in games this pitcher starts. FRIDAY’S GAMES St. Louis at Chicago, 2:20 Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 Houston at Pittsburgh, 7:05 New York at PHILLIES, 7:05 Florida at Milwaukee, 8:10 San Francisco at Colorado, 8:10 Los Angeles at Arizona, 9:40 Cincinnati at San Diego, 10:05

National League Leaders

Not including Wednesday’s games. | RUNS:105; CGonzalez, 105; Pujols, St. Louis, Weeks, Colorado, Milwaukee, 101; Werth, PHILLIES, 101; Votto, Cincinnati, 100; Prado, Atlanta, 99; Braun, Milwaukee, 96. RBIs: Pujols, St. Louis, 109; CGonzalez, Colorado, 107; Votto, Cincinnati, 106; Howard, PHILLIES, 104; Holliday, St. Louis, 99; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 97; ADunn, Washington, 96; Uggla, Florida, 96. HITS: CGonzalez, Colorado, 186; Braun, Milwaukee, 178; Prado, Atlanta, 178; Holliday, St. Louis, 175; Pujols, St. Louis, 171; Votto, Cincinnati, 170; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 169. DOUBLES: Werth, PHILLIES, 44; Holliday, St. Louis, 43; ATorres, San Francisco, 43; Braun, Milwaukee, 41; Loney, Los Angeles, 40; Prado, Atlanta, 39; Byrd, Chicago, 38. TRIPLES: Fowler, Colorado, 12; SDrew, Arizona, 10; Victorino, PHILLIES, 10; AEscobar,

Milwaukee, 9; JosReyes, New York, 9; CGonzalez, Colorado, 8; Morgan, Washington, 7; Pagan, New York, 7; ATorres, San Francisco, 7; Venable, San Diego, 7. HOME RUNS: Pujols, St. Louis, 39; ADunn, Washington, 35; Votto, Cincinnati, 35; CGonzalez, Colorado, 32; MarReynolds, Arizona, 32; Uggla, Florida, 31; Fielder, Milwaukee, 30; Howard, PHILLIES, 30. STOLEN BASES: Bourn, Houston, 52; Pagan, New York, 35; Victorino, PHILLIES, 34; Morgan, Washington, 33; HRamirez, Florida, 32; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 31; JosReyes, New York, 30. PITCHING: Halladay, PHILLIES, 20-10; Jimenez, Colorado, 19-6; Wainwright, St. Louis, 19-11; THudson, Atlanta, 16-8; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 16-10; CCarpenter, St. Louis, 15-8. STRIKEOUTS: Halladay, PHILLIES, 213; Lincecum, San Francisco, 211; Hamels, PHILLIES, 207; Wainwright, St. Louis, 206.

CENTRAL Cincinnati St. Louis Houston Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh

W 86 77 73 70 69 53

L 67 74 79 81 82 98

Pct GB .562 – .510 8 .480 121/2 .464 15 .457 16 .351 32

Streak L-1 L-3 L-2 W-1 W-1 W-5

Home 45-30 46-28 41-37 37-40 34-43 38-39

Away Last 10 41-37 5-5 31-46 3-7 32-42 6-4 33-41 5-5 35-39 8-2 15-59 6-4

WEST San Diego San Fran. Colorado Los Angeles Arizona

W 84 85 82 73 60

L 66 67 68 78 91

Pct GB .560 – .559 – .547 2 .483 111/2 .397 241/2

Streak W-1 L-1 L-2 L-1 W-1

Home 42-32 45-30 51-24 42-34 36-40

Away Last 10 42-34 5-5 40-37 5-5 31-44 6-4 31-44 4-6 24-51 3-7

Cards lose another one to Pirates ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — Charlie Morton pitched effectively over six innings to win for the first time in 41/2 months, Pedro Alvarez homered and drove in four runs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates extended the St. Louis Cardinals’ late-season collapse by winning, 11-6, on Wednesday night. John Bowker homered among three hits as the Pirates won their fifth straight, their longest streak since an identical run in August 2009, and assured the Cardinals of their eighth consecutive series loss to a losing-record opponent. St. Louis has dropped 25 of 37 since it led the NL Central on Aug. 13, including the first two of this three-game series. Any combination of losses by St. Louis or wins by first-place Cincinnati totaling three will eliminate St. Louis from a division race it led much of the season. St. Louis Pittsburgh

010 001 031 – 6 9 0 213 041 00x – 11 14 2

St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Schumaker 2b 4 0 1 0 .267 A.McCutchen cf3 2 2 1 .279 Miles 2b 1 1 1 0 .295 b-Presley ph-cf 1 0 0 0 .231 Jay rf-lf 4 0 0 0 .301 Tabata lf 3 1 1 1 .304 f-Stavinoha ph 1 0 1 1 .257 c-Moss ph-lf 1 0 0 0 .071 Pujols 1b 2 0 0 0 .306 N.Walker 2b 3 2 1 1 .296 Craig rf 2 1 1 0 .200 B.Lincoln p 0 0 0 0 .400 Holliday lf 3 1 1 0 .313 e-Ciriaco ph 1 0 0 0 .667 Greene ss 2 0 0 0 .217 D.McCutchen p 0 0 0 0 .077 Rasmus cf 3 2 2 1 .280 G.Jones 1b 5 2 3 1 .249 Descalso 3b 3 1 1 2 .250 Alvarez 3b 5 1 2 4 .231 Pagnozzi c 2 0 0 0 .250 Bowker rf 3 2 3 2 .222 Walters p 0 0 0 0 .000 Cedeno ss 3 1 1 0 .250 d-Winn ph 0 0 0 1 .263 A.Diaz ss 0 0 0 0 .258 MacDougal p 0 0 0 0 --- C.Snyder c 3 0 1 1 .219 B.Ryan ss 2 0 0 0 .218 Jaramillo c 0 0 0 0 .146 M.Hamilton 1b 2 0 0 0 .000 Morton p 3 0 0 0 .000 Lohse p 1 0 0 0 .188 Leroux p 0 0 0 0 --Bry.Anderson c 3 0 1 0 .280 a-LaRche ph2b 1 0 0 0 .205 Totals 35 6 9 5 Totals 35 11 14 11 a-grounded out for Leroux in the 7th. b-struck out for A.McCutchen in the 7th. c-struck out for Tabata in the 7th. d-hit a sacrifice fly for Walters in the 8th. e-struck out for B.Lincoln in the 8th. f-doubled for Jay in the 9th. E: Morton (3), A.Diaz (2). LOB: St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh 6. 2B: Miles (5), Stavinoha (3), Holliday (44), Descalso (1), A.McCutchen (31), G.Jones (30), Alvarez (17), Bowker (7). 3B: Tabata (4). HR: Bowker (5), off Lohse; Alvarez (12), off Walters. RBIs: Stavinoha (8), Rasmus (65), Descalso 2 (2), Winn (17), A.McCutchen (54), Tabata (34), N.Walker (59), G.Jones (78), Alvarez 4 (48), Bowker 2 (17), C.Snyder (46). SB: Rasmus (11). S: Tabata. SF: Winn, A.McCutchen. RLSP: St. Louis 3 (Pujols, Jay, Greene); Pittsburgh 4 (Morton 2, C.Snyder 2). RA: Descalso, N.Walker. GIDP: C.Snyder. DP: St. Louis 1 (Descalso, Schumaker, Pujols). St. Louis walks (3): Pujols, Rasmus, Walters. Pittsburgh walks (4): N.Walker, Bowker, Cedeno, C.Snyder. St. Louis strikeouts (9): Jay 2, Pujols, Craig, Holliday, Greene 2, Pagnozzi, M.Hamilton. Pittsburgh strikeouts (10): Presley, Tabata, Moss, N.Walker, Ciriaco, Alvarez, Cedeno, Morton 3. St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lohse (L 4-8) 3 7 6 6 3 3 71 7.18 Walters 4 7 5 5 1 6 79 7.83 MacDougal 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 6.89 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Morton (W 2-11) 6 4 2 2 1 5 94 8.11 Leroux 1 1 0 0 1 1 17 6.00 B.Lincoln 1 2 3 2 1 1 29 6.79 D.McCutchen 1 2 1 1 0 2 17 6.21 IBB: off Lohse (Bowker). HBP: by Morton (Descalso). WP: Morton. Umpires: Home, John Hirschbeck; First, James Hoye; Second, Laz Diaz; Third, Wally Bell. T: 2:51. A: 11,785 (38,362).

Nationals 4, Astros 3 Houston Washington

000 100 200 – 3 9 0 001 100 20x – 4 8 0

Houston AB Bourgeois cf 4 A.Sanchez ss 4 Keppinger 2b 4 Ca.Lee lf 3 C.Johnson 3b 3 Wallace 1b 4 Michaels rf 4 Ja.Castro c 2 a-Hernndez ph 0 Quintero c 1 W.Rodriguez p 3 Fulchino p 0 Abad p 0 Melancon p 0 d-Blum ph 1 Totals 33

R 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

H 2 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9

BI 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

Avg. .247 .278 .288 .249 .323 .208 .250 .204 .179 .232 .194 .000 .000 --.262

Washington AB R H BI Avg. Espinosa 2b 4 2 2 2 .229 Desmond ss 4 0 2 1 .280 A.Dunn 1b 2 0 1 0 .264 c-Mench ph 1 0 0 0 .143 Jo.Peralta p 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Burnett p 0 0 0 0 --Zimmerman 3b 4 0 1 0 .307 Morse rf 3 1 1 1 .295 W.Harris rf 0 0 0 0 .185 I.Rodriguez c 4 0 1 0 .272 Bernadina lf 4 0 0 0 .253 Maxwell cf 2 1 0 0 .143 Marquis p 2 0 0 0 .100 Slaten p 0 0 0 0 --Clippard p 0 0 0 0 .500 b-Gonzalz ph1b0 0 0 0 .270 Totals 30 4 8 4 a-walked for Ja.Castro in the 7th. b-sacrificed for Clippard in the 7th. c-grounded out for A.Dunn in the 7th. d-singled for Melancon in the 9th. LOB: Houston 7, Washington 6. 2B: Michaels (10), Zimmerman (32). 3B: Espinosa (1). HR: Morse (12), off W.Rodriguez; Espinosa (5), off Fulchino. RBIs: Ang.Sanchez 2 (23), Michaels (26), Espinosa 2 (13), Desmond (62), Morse (35). SB: Bourgeois 2 (10). CS: Desmond (5). S: Alb.Gonzalez. RLSP: Houston 5 (Ang.Sanchez 2, Ja.Castro, Keppinger, Ca.Lee); Washington 3 (I.Rodriguez 2, Zimmerman). RA: Ja.Castro. GIDP: Bourgeois, C.Johnson. DP: Washington 3 (Maxwell, Espinosa, A.Dunn), (Desmond, Espinosa, A.Dunn), (Desmond, Espinosa, Alb.Gonzalez). Houston walks (3): Bourgeois, Ca.Lee, A.Hernandez. Washington walks (2): Morse, Maxwell. Houston strikeouts (7): Ang.Sanchez, Keppinger, Ca.Lee, C.Johnson, Wallace, Michaels, Quintero. Washington strikeouts (7): Espinosa, A.Dunn, Morse 2, Bernadina, Maxwell, Marquis. Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA W.Rodriguez 61/3 6 3 3 2 6 114 3.67 Fulchino (L 2-1) (BS-1) 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 5 5.60 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 5 2.40 Abad Melancon 1 1 0 0 0 1 20 2.16 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Marquis 6 7 2 2 1 2 96 7.18 Slaten 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 3.35 1 2 25 2.84 Clippard (W 11-6)(BS11) 1 1 0 0 11/3 0 0 0 0 3 14 2.00 Jo.Peralta (H 9) 2 S.Burnett (S 3-4) /3 1 0 0 0 0 9 2.37 Marquis pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.Slaten pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. IR-S: Fulchino 1-1, Slaten 1-0, Clippard 2-2. HBP: by W.Rodriguez (A.Dunn), by Marquis (C.Johnson). Umpires: Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Paul Nauert; Second, Brian Gorman; Third, Ted Barrett. T: 3:05. A: 12,213 (41,546).

NL Wild-Card Race Atlanta San Diego Colorado

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This Date in Baseball 1952: The Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the NL title, the first time since 1948 that the pennant wasn’t decided in the season’s final game. 1957: Hank Aaron’s 11th-inning homer gave the Milwaukee Braves a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and the NL pennant. It was the first time since 1950 that a New York team hadn’t finished first. 1979: Lou Brock stole base No. 938, breaking Billy Hamilton’s record, as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Mets, 7-4, in 10 innings. 1983: Steve Carlton of the Phillies recorded his 300th career victory with a 6-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. 1984: The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 4-1, making Sparky Anderson the first manager to win more than 100 games in each league. 1988: Jose Canseco became the first major-leaguer to hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases in one season as the Oakland Athletics beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 9-8, in 14 innings. Canseco hit his 41st homer and stole two bases, giving him 40 for the season. 1998: Houston’s Craig Biggio became the second player this century to have 50 steals and 50 doubles in a season, joining Hall of Famer Tris Speaker. Biggio, with 51 doubles, singled for his second hit of the game and easily stole his 50th base with two outs in the sixth. 2000: Rafael Palmeiro homered in Texas’ 15-4 loss to Anaheim, becoming the 32d player to hit 400 home runs. 2001: Alex Rodriguez hit his 48th home run, breaking Ernie Banks’ major-league record for shortstops and lifting Texas to a 5-2 win over Anaheim.

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The Pirates’ John Bowker is greeted by third-base coach Tony Beasley after hitting

a solo home run against the Cardinals, who are close to elimination.

Cubs 2, Giants 0

Marlins 7, Mets 5

CHICAGO — Randy Wells pitched 72/3 innings and Kosuke Fukudome homered to lead Chicago over San Francisco. Leading San Diego by a half-game in the NL West and Colorado by 21/2 going in, the Giants were shut out for the fourth time in their last five losses. It was the eighth time in 11 games they scored two runs or fewer. The Cubs have won seven of their last eight games, the lone loss, 1-0, on Tuesday to the Giants on Buster Posey’s home run. They have allowed 15 runs in their last 11 games, throwing four shutouts during that span.

New York Florida

San Francisco Chicago San Fran. AB C.Ross cf 4 F.Sanchez 2b 4 A.Huff 1b 4 Posey c 4 Burrell lf 3 1-Burriss pr 0 J.Guillen rf 4 Sandoval 3b 2 a-Fontent ph3b 1 Uribe ss 3 J.Sanchez p 2 C.Ray p 0 b-Ishikawa ph 0 S.Casilla p 0 Totals 31

000 000 000 – 0 6 1 001 010 00x – 2 5 0 R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

H 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Avg. .259 .289 .288 .321 .264 .500 .301 .263 .285 .247 .127 --.263 ---

Chicago AB Barney 2b 3 S.Castro ss 4 Byrd cf 4 Ar.Ramirez 3b 4 Nady 1b 3 A.Soriano lf 3 Fuld lf 0 Fukudome rf 2 K.Hill c 3 R.Wells p 2 Marmol p 0 Totals 28

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2

H 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 5

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Avg. .254 .304 .294 .238 .261 .255 .200 .274 .222 .180 ---

a-grounded out for Sandoval in the 8th. b-walked for C.Ray in the 8th.1-ran for Burrell in the 9th. E: Posey (7). LOB: San Francisco 6, Chicago 6. 2B: C.Ross (26), F.Sanchez (19), J.Guillen (5), K.Hill (11). HR: Fukudome (13), off J.Sanchez. RBIs: Fukudome (41). CS: Fukudome (8). RLSP: San Francisco 4 (Burrell, J.Sanchez, F.Sanchez 2); Chicago 1 (Byrd). RA: Uribe. GIDP: J.Guillen. DP: Chicago 2 (Nady), (S.Castro, Barney, Nady). San Francisco walks (2): Burrell, Ishikawa. Chicago walks (4): Barney, Nady, Fukudome, R.Wells. San Francisco strikeouts (10): F.Sanchez, A.Huff, Posey 3, Burrell, J.Guillen 2, Sandoval, Uribe. Chicago strikeouts (8): Byrd 2, Nady, A.Soriano, Fukudome, K.Hill, R.Wells 2. San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.Sanchez (L 11-9) 52/3 4 2 1 2 6 102 3.16 C.Ray 11/3 0 0 0 2 2 27 3.98 S.Casilla 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 2.02 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA R.Wells (W 8-13) 72/3 6 0 0 1 6 91 4.28 Marmol (S 34-39) 11/3 0 0 0 1 4 24 2.72 IR-S: C.Ray 1-0, Marmol 2-0. WP: J.Sanchez. Umpires: Home, Mike Winters; First, Hunter Wendelstedt; Second, Brian Runge; Third, Jerry Layne. T: 2:22. A: 37,285 (41,210). TUESDAY

Reds 4, Brewers 3 Cincinnati Milwaukee Cincinnati AB B.Phillips 2b 5 O.Cabrera ss 5 Bruce rf 3 Rolen 3b 4 Edmonds 1b 1 Cairo 1b 3 Gomes lf 4 Bloomquist lf 0 R.Hernandez c 4 Heisey cf 3 Volquez p 3 c-Alonso ph 1 F.Cordero p 0 Totals 36

022 000 000 – 4 9 2 000 001 002 – 3 5 1 R 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

H 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 9

BI 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4

Avg. .271 .267 .276 .291 .276 .287 .264 .167 .302 .249 .133 .267 .000

Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Weeks 2b 4 1 2 0 .267 Hart rf 4 0 1 0 .278 Braun lf 2 1 0 0 .305 Fielder 1b 3 0 0 0 .268 McGehee 3b 4 0 1 1 .280 Dickerson cf 2 0 0 0 .213 C.Gomez cf 2 0 0 0 .238 Lucroy c 2 1 0 0 .257 Counsell ss 2 0 1 0 .246 Bush p 1 0 0 0 .120 Coffey p 0 0 0 0 .000 a-Gamel ph 1 0 0 0 .182 McClendon p 0 0 0 0 .000 b-Inglett ph 1 0 0 0 .250 M.Parra p 0 0 0 0 .182 Totals 28 3 5 1 a-grounded into a double play for Coffey in the 6th. b-struck out for McClendon in the 8th. c-struck out for Volquez in the 9th. E: F.Cordero (1), Bruce (3), Fielder (4). LOB: Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 3. 2B: Rolen (34), R.Hernandez (18). 3B: B.Phillips (5). HR: Edmonds (11), off Bush. RBIs: Rolen (82), Edmonds (23), Cairo (27), Heisey (17), McGehee (95). RLSP: Cincinnati 4 (Gomes, B.Phillips 2, O.Cabrera); Milwaukee 2 (McGehee, C.Gomez). RA: Bruce, R.Hernandez. GIDP: Bruce, Hart, Braun, McGehee, Gamel. DP: Cincinnati 4 (Rolen, B.Phillips, Edmonds), (B.Phillips, O.Cabrera, Cairo), (Rolen, B.Phillips, Cairo), (O.Cabrera, B.Phillips, Cairo); Milwaukee 1 (Fielder, Counsell, Bush). Cincinnati walks (2): Bruce, Heisey. Milwaukee walks (4): Braun, Fielder, Lucroy, Counsell. Cincinnati strikeouts (11): B.Phillips, O.Cabrera 2, Rolen, Cairo, Gomes, R.Hernandez, Heisey, Volquez 2, Alonso. Milwaukee strikeouts (8): Hart, Braun, Fielder 2, Dickerson, C.Gomez 2, Inglett. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Volquez (W 4-3) 8 3 1 1 4 6 108 4.45 1 2 2 1 0 2 22 4.12 F.Cordero (S 38-46) Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bush (L 7-13) 51/3 8 4 2 2 2 88 4.70 2/3 Coffey 0 0 0 0 2 11 4.55 McClendon 2 0 0 0 0 4 22 2.87 M.Parra 1 1 0 0 0 3 15 5.22 IR-S: Coffey 3-0. IBB: off Bush (Heisey). HBP: by F.Cordero (Braun). Umpires: Home, Dan Bellino; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Rob Drake; Third, Joe West. T: 2:47. A: 22,761 (41,900).

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New York AB R H BI Avg. Florida AB R H BI Avg. Jos.Reyes ss 5 0 1 1 .284 Maybin cf 5 1 1 0 .230 Pagan rf 5 0 1 0 .291 O.Martinez ss 3 1 1 0 .286 Beltran cf 5 2 3 1 .246 Morrison lf 4 2 1 0 .308 D.Wright 3b 5 1 1 0 .285 Uggla 2b 5 1 3 2 .286 I.Davis 1b 4 1 2 0 .264 G.Sanchez 1b 4 1 1 0 .283 Duda lf 2 0 1 1 .184 Stanton rf 3 1 0 1 .241 Thole c 3 0 0 1 .282 Hensley p 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Tejada 2b 3 1 1 0 .204 Helms 3b 2 0 1 3 .231 d-Carter ph 1 0 0 1 .253 B.Davis c 3 0 1 1 .228 J.Arias 2b 0 0 0 0 .200 Sanabia p 2 0 0 0 .050 Niese p 1 0 0 0 .192 a-Luna ph 1 0 0 0 .160 Acosta p 0 0 0 0 --- Sanches p 0 0 0 0 --b-J.Feliciano ph0 0 0 0 .265 c-Tracy ph 0 0 0 0 .238 S.Green p 0 0 0 0 --- Veras p 0 0 0 0 --e-N.Evans ph 1 0 0 0 .318 L.Nunez p 0 0 0 0 --Takahashi p 0 0 0 0 .063 Cousins rf 0 0 0 0 .261 Totals 35 5 10 5 Totals 32 7 9 7 a-struck out for Sanabia in the 5th. b-was hit by a pitch for Acosta in the 7th. c-walked for Sanches in the 7th. d-grounded out for R.Tejada in the 8th. e-struck out for S.Green in the 8th. E: Jos.Reyes (14), R.Tejada (7). LOB: New York 8, Florida 11. 2B: Pagan (31), D.Wright (34), O.Martinez (1), Uggla (29), Helms (10). 3B: Beltran (3). HR: Beltran (5), off Sanabia. RBIs: Jos.Reyes (51), Beltran (24), Duda (7), Thole (14), Carter (20), Uggla 2 (98), Stanton (51), Helms 3 (36), B.Davis (15). S: Niese, O.Martinez. SF: Duda, Helms. RLSP: New York 5 (R.Tejada, Beltran, N.Evans 2, D.Wright); Florida 6 (Sanabia, Luna 2, Uggla, Maybin 2). RA: Thole, Carter, Morrison, B.Davis. DP: New York 1 (Beltran, Beltran, J.Arias). New York walks (2): Duda, Thole. Florida walks (7): O.Martinez, Morrison, G.Sanchez, Stanton 2, B.Davis, Tracy. New York strikeouts (6): Jos.Reyes 3, D.Wright, I.Davis, N.Evans. Florida strikeouts (12): Maybin 2, O.Martinez, Morrison, Uggla, G.Sanchez, Stanton, Helms, B.Davis, Sanabia 2, Luna. New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Niese (L 9-10) 52/3 5 6 6 6 7 115 3.95 1/3 Acosta 0 0 0 0 1 3 3.31 S.Green 1 1 0 0 1 3 23 1.80 Takahashi 1 3 1 1 0 1 25 3.81 Florida IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sanabia (W 5-3) 5 6 3 3 0 2 67 3.99 Sanches (H 12) 2 1 0 0 0 2 29 2.28 1/3 2 2 2 2 1 21 3.22 Veras (H 17) 2/3 L.Nunez (H 2) 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.73 1 1 0 0 0 0 11 2.28 Hensley (S 5-8) IR-S: Acosta 1-0, L.Nunez 3-1. IBB: off Niese (Stanton). HBP: by S.Green (Helms), by Sanches (J.Feliciano). WP: Niese. Umpires: Home, Brian O'Nora; First, Chris Guccione; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Vic Carapazza. T: 2:51. A: 21,123 (38,560).

Brewers 13, Reds 1 MILWAUKEE — Craig Counsell and Corey Hart homered as Milwaukee routed NL Central-leading Cincinnati. Johnny Cueto (12-6) had his shortest start of the year, 11/3 innings, for the Reds. Cincinnati Milwaukee

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Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. B.Phillips 2b 2 0 1 0 .272 Weeks 2b 4 3 3 0 .270 a-Valaika ph-2b 2 0 0 0 .290 L.Cruz ss 1 0 0 0 .000 O.Cabrera ss 2 0 0 0 .266 Hart rf 3 2 1 3 .278 Janish ss 2 0 1 0 .272 Braun lf 3 1 2 0 .307 Bruce rf 2 1 0 0 .275 1-C.Gomez pr-lf1 0 0 0 .237 Heisey lf 1 0 0 0 .247 Fielder 1b 2 1 0 1 .267 Rolen 3b 2 0 1 0 .292 Gamel 3b 1 0 1 0 .250 LeCure p 0 0 0 0 .091 McGehee 3b1b 6 1 3 4 .282 b-Blomqist phrf 2 0 1 0 .250 Counsell ss-2b 6 1 1 3 .244 Gomes lf 3 0 1 1 .265 L.Cain cf 5 2 4 0 .282 Burton p 0 0 0 0 --- Kottaras c 5 1 2 1 .201 Maloney p 0 0 0 0 .333 Ra.Wolf p 4 1 2 1 .250 Fisher p 0 0 0 0 .000 Braddock p 0 0 0 0 --d-L.Nix ph 1 0 0 0 .289 c-Bush ph 1 0 0 0 .118 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0 .211 Jeffress p 0 0 0 0 --Stubbs cf 3 0 0 0 .248 Kintzler p 0 0 0 0 --42 13 19 13 R.Hernandez c 1 0 0 0 .301 Totals C.Miller c 1 0 1 0 .254 Cueto p 1 0 0 0 .115 Harang p 0 0 0 0 .139 J.Francisco 3b 2 0 0 0 .261 Totals 31 1 6 1 a-grounded out for B.Phillips in the 5th. b-grounded out for LeCure in the 6th. c-struck out for Braddock in the 7th. d-grounded into a double play for Fisher in the 9th.1-ran for Braun in the 5th. E: R.Hernandez (3). LOB: Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 14. 2B: Janish (10), C.Miller (5), Braun (42), McGehee 2 (34), L.Cain 2 (7), Kottaras (12). HR: Counsell (2), off Cueto; Hart (29), off Harang. RBIs: Gomes (84), Hart 3 (94), Fielder (77), McGehee 4 (99), Counsell 3 (19), Kottaras (26), Ra.Wolf (5). SF: Hart. RLSP: Cincinnati 3 (Alonso, Gomes, J.Francisco); Milwaukee 10 (Counsell 5, Ra.Wolf, Kottaras 2, Fielder 2). RA: Bloomquist. GIDP: L.Nix. DP: Milwaukee 1 (L.Cruz, Counsell, McGehee). Cincinnati walks (2): Bruce, R.Hernandez. Milwaukee walks (7): Weeks, Hart 2, Braun, Fielder 3. Cincinnati strikeouts (11): Janish, Bruce, Heisey, Alonso 2, Stubbs 2, R.Hernandez, Cueto, J.Francisco 2. Milwaukee strikeouts (7): Weeks, Hart, Braun, C.Gomez, Counsell, Ra.Wolf, Bush. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cueto (L 12-6) 11/3 8 8 8 3 2 49 3.73 Harang 2 6 3 3 1 1 48 5.25 LeCure 12/3 4 2 2 2 2 52 4.40 Burton 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 0.00 Maloney 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.57 Fisher 1 1 0 0 1 1 21 5.64 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ra.Wolf (W 13-11) 6 4 1 1 2 7 93 4.24 Braddock 1 1 0 0 0 2 15 3.09 Jeffress 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 3.00 Kintzler 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 11.25 IR-S: LeCure 1-1. IBB: off Cueto (Fielder). HBP: by LeCure (Braun). Umpires: Home, Angel Hernandez; First, Rob Drake; Second, Joe West; Third, Dan Bellino. T: 2:57. A: 27,004 (41,900).

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AmericanLeague EAST New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 92 89 84 76 61

L 59 61 68 75 91

Pct GB .609 – .593 21/2 .553 81/2 .503 16 .401 311/2

Streak W-2 L-3 W-1 L-1 L-1

Home 51-25 46-29 44-34 40-34 34-43

Away Last 10 41-34 5-5 43-32 4-6 40-34 6-4 36-41 4-6 27-48 6-4

CENTRAL x-Minnesota Chicago Detroit Kansas City Cleveland

W 92 80 77 62 62

L 60 72 75 89 90

Pct GB .605 – .526 12 .507 15 .411 291/2 .408 30

Streak W-3 W-1 W-1 L-1 L-4

Home 52-25 40-34 49-29 34-40 32-42

Away Last 10 40-35 8-2 40-38 2-8 28-46 6-4 28-49 4-6 30-48 4-6

AL Wild-Card Race Tampa Bay Boston

89 84

61 68

– 6

Red Sox 6, Orioles 1 BOSTON — David Ortiz hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, John Lackey ended a career-worst four-game losing streak and Boston avoided a three-game sweep with a win over Baltimore. Josh Reddick also homered for Boston — his first of the season — as the Red Sox avoided being swept in Fenway Park by the Orioles for the first time since 1994. Boston has been swept at home twice this season. Baltimore Boston

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Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Boston AB R H BI Avg. B.Roberts 2b 4 0 1 0 .284 Kalish cf 4 1 2 0 .245 Markakis rf 4 1 1 0 .290 J.Drew rf 4 1 1 0 .254 Wigginton 1b 4 0 1 1 .252 V.Martinez c 3 2 2 0 .299 Scott dh 4 0 2 0 .286 D.Ortiz dh 3 1 2 4 .261 Wieters c 4 0 0 0 .254 A.Beltre 3b 4 0 1 1 .324 Ad.Jones cf 3 0 0 0 .284 Lowell 1b 4 0 0 0 .222 Pie lf 3 0 0 0 .277 L.Anderson 1b 0 0 0 0 .294 Andino 3b 3 0 1 0 .243 Hall 2b 4 0 1 0 .241 C.Izturis ss 3 0 0 0 .237 Reddick lf 4 1 1 1 .231 Totals 32 1 6 1 Y.Navarro ss 3 0 0 0 .147 Totals 33 6 10 6 E: V.Martinez (6). LOB: Baltimore 4, Boston 5. 2B: Wigginton (28), Scott (29), Kalish (10), A.Beltre (46). HR: D.Ortiz (31), off Millwood; Reddick (1), off Millwood. RBIs: Wigginton (74), D.Ortiz 4 (96), A.Beltre (99), Reddick (5). RLSP: Baltimore 3 (Wieters 2, Pie); Boston 3 (Reddick 2, D.Ortiz). RA: Wieters, J.Drew. GIDP: Markakis, Lowell. DP: Baltimore 1 (Andino, B.Roberts, Wigginton); Boston 1 (Y.Navarro, Lowell). Boston walks (2): V.Martinez, D.Ortiz. Baltimore strikeouts (9): B.Roberts, Markakis, Wigginton 2, Scott, Wieters 2, Ad.Jones, C.Izturis. Boston strikeouts (11): Kalish, V.Martinez, D.Ortiz, Lowell 2, Hall 2, Reddick 2, Y.Navarro 2. Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Millwood (L 3-16) 5 7 6 6 1 5 83 5.29 1 Da.Hernandez 1 /3 1 0 0 0 3 19 4.48 2/3 Patton 1 0 0 1 1 16 0.00 VandenHurk 1 1 0 0 0 2 16 4.38 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lackey (W 13-11) 7 5 1 1 0 4 111 4.51 D.Bard 1 0 0 0 0 2 13 1.79 Papelbon 1 1 0 0 0 3 22 3.86 Millwood pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. IR-S: Da.Hernandez 2-1. Umpires: Home, Tim Tschida; First, Tim Timmons; Second, Bob Davidson; Third, Alfonso Marquez. T: 2:44. A: 37,729 (37,402).

KATHY WILLENS / Associated Press

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez pockets a dollar from Reggie Jackson at a ceremony honoring his 600th homer. On the table are a vase also presented by Jackson, and the shoes Rodriguez wore when he hit No. 600, to be given to the Hall of Fame.

Twins 5, Indians 1

White Sox 4, Athletics 3

MINNEAPOLIS — With the division title secured, most of Minnesota’s regulars rested, but the Twins still beat Cleveland behind the pitching of Nick Blackburn to complete a three-game sweep. “With home-field advantage still at stake, these guys are going to play,” manager Ron Gardenhire said. “It doesn’t matter who I put out there, you’re going to get a great effort.” Blackburn (10-10) allowed one run and five hits in seven innings. Jose Morales drove in three runs and Alexei Casilla had three hits for the Twins, who have won nine of 11 and improved their record at Target Field to 52-25. The Twins have sold out 74 straight home games and set a season home attendance record of 3,063,327.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Mark Teahen hit a go-ahead double with two outs in the ninth inning right after pinch-hitter Mark Kotsay’s tying single as Chicago rallied to beat Oakland and snap an eight-game losing streak. The White Sox got to the Athletics’ shorthanded bullpen, scoring twice against Brad Ziegler (3-5), who hadn’t given up a run in his previous 12 appearances. Juan Pierre stole his major-leagueleading 60th base, swiping home in the eighth to get Chicago within 3-2.

Cleveland Minnesota

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Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Brantley cf 4 0 1 0 .236 Span cf 3 0 0 0 .266 Sutton ss 3 1 0 0 .304 A.Casilla ss 4 2 3 0 .279 Choo rf 3 0 0 0 .292 Kubel dh 4 0 1 0 .252 Hafner dh 3 0 2 0 .276 1-Plouffe pr-dh 0 1 0 0 .121 2-Cabrera pr-dh0 0 0 0 .263 Valencia 3b 4 0 0 0 .332 Duncan lf 4 0 1 1 .232 J.Morales 1b 3 1 2 3 .273 J.Nix 3b 3 0 0 0 .225 Tolbert 2b 4 1 2 1 .250 LaPorta 1b 4 0 1 0 .222 Revere lf 3 0 1 1 .200 Valbuena 2b 4 0 1 0 .184 Repko rf 3 0 1 0 .217 Gimenez c 4 0 0 0 .182 Butera c 2 0 0 0 .194 Totals 32 1 6 1 Totals 30 5 10 5 1-ran for Kubel in the 7th. 2-ran for Hafner in the 8th. LOB: Cleveland 8, Minnesota 6. 2B: J.Morales (1), Tolbert (4). 3B: A.Casilla (4). RBIs: Duncan (32), J.Morales 3 (7), Tolbert (18), Revere (2). SB: A.Casilla (6), Repko (3). CS: Revere (1). S: Span. RLSP: Cleveland 6 (J.Nix 2, Sutton 2, Duncan, Gimenez); Minnesota 4 (Valencia, Kubel, Span, Butera). RA: Valbuena, A.Casilla, Valencia, Butera. GIDP: Sutton, Revere. DP: Cleveland 1 (Sutton, LaPorta); Minnesota 1 (Tolbert, A.Casilla, J.Morales). Cleveland walks (4): Sutton, Choo, Hafner, J.Nix. Minnesota walks (3): J.Morales, Revere, Repko. Cleveland strikeouts (3): Brantley, Duncan, J.Nix. Minnesota strikeouts (4): Kubel 2, Valencia, Repko. Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA C.Carrasco (L 1-1) 6 6 3 3 3 4 91 3.03 Laffey 1 3 2 2 0 0 15 4.70 J.Lewis 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 3.24 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Blackburn (W 10-10) 7 5 1 1 2 2 89 5.23 Fuentes 1 1 0 0 1 1 21 3.09 Guerrier 1 0 0 0 1 0 15 3.41 HBP: by C.Carrasco (Butera). WP: Blackburn. Umpires: Home, Sam Holbrook; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Brian Knight; Third, Gerry Davis. T: 2:22. A: 40,139 (39,504).

Chicago Oakland

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Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Pierre lf 3 1 2 0 .273 R.Davis cf 4 0 0 0 .272 Al.Ramirez ss 4 0 1 0 .280 Pennington ss 3 1 0 0 .245 Rios cf 4 0 1 0 .286 K.Suzuki c 3 0 1 0 .247 Konerko 1b 4 0 0 0 .313 Cust dh 4 0 1 1 .278 Quentin rf 2 1 1 0 .238 Gross rf-lf 3 0 0 0 .236 1-De Aza pr-rf 0 1 0 0 .000 d-Carson ph 1 0 0 0 .155 Flowers c 3 0 0 0 .000 Iwamura 3b 3 0 0 0 .148 a-Pierzynskiphc1 0 0 0 .271 e-Donaldsonph 1 0 0 0 .143 Viciedo dh 3 0 2 1 .281 Carter lf 3 1 1 1 .100 b-Kotsay ph 1 0 1 1 .239 Barton 1b 1 0 1 0 .276 2-Beckhmprdh 0 1 0 0 .252 Larish 1b 3 1 1 0 .180 Morel 3b 3 0 0 0 .188 M.Ellis 2b 1 0 1 0 .277 c-Teahen ph 1 0 1 1 .259 Sogard 2b 3 0 1 0 .333 Vizquel 3b 0 0 0 0 .288 Hermida rf 0 0 0 0 .197 Lillibridge 2b 4 0 1 0 .253 f-Tolleson ph 1 0 0 0 .256 Totals 33 4 10 3 Totals 34 3 7 2 a-grounded out for Flowers in the 9th. c-doubled for Morel in the 9th. d-popped out for Gross in the 9th. e-struck out for Iwamura in the 9th. f-struck out for Hermida in the 9th.1-ran for Quentin in the 9th. 2-ran for Kotsay in the 9th. E: Lillibridge (3). LOB: Chicago 5, Oakland 6. 2B: Quentin (25), Teahen (12), Larish (3). HR: Carter (1), off E.Jackson. RBIs: Viciedo (8), Kotsay (31), Teahen (24), Cust (47), Carter (1). SB: Pierre (60), Pennington (25). CS: Rios (14), Sogard (1). RLSP: Chicago 2 (Al.Ramirez, Lillibridge); Oakland 3 (Gross, R.Davis, Tolleson). RA: Konerko, Flowers, Pierzynski. GIDP: Rios 2, Morel. DP: Oakland 3 (Sogard, Pennington, Larish), (Pennington, Sogard, Larish), (M.Ellis, Barton). Chicago walks (2): Quentin 2. Oakland walks (1): K.Suzuki. Chicago strikeouts (3): Konerko, Flowers, Morel. Oakland strikeouts (9): R.Davis, Cust 2, Gross, Iwamura 2, Donaldson, Carter, Tolleson. Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA E.Jackson 7 5 3 2 1 6 99 3.18 Thornton (W 4-4) 12/3 1 0 0 0 2 27 2.96 Putz 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.98 1/3 Sale (S 3-3) 0 0 0 0 1 4 1.47 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bre.Anderson 62/3 6 1 1 1 1 108 2.73 2/3 Bonser (H 1) 2 1 1 0 1 12 6.00 Ziegler (L 3-5) (BS 4-4) 12/3 2 2 2 1 1 24 3.12 Putz pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. IR-S: Putz 1-0, Sale 2-0, Bonser 1-0, Ziegler 2-1. HBP: by E.Jackson (Pennington), by Bre.Anderson (Pierre). Umpires: Home, Todd Tichenor; First, Ed Hickox; Second, Mike Muchlinski; Third, Fieldin Culbreth. T: 2:38. A: 16,056 (35,067).

Tigers 4, Royals 2 DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera’s leadoff single started a three-run fifth inning and Detroit held on to beat Kansas City. Max Scherzer (12-10) gave up two hits and struck out eight over 72/3 innings. Ryan Perry got the final out of the eighth and Phil Coke pitched a shaky ninth. Billy Butler hit a two-run, two-out homer in the ninth to pull the Royals within two. The Royals’ Kyle Davies (8-11) was perfect through four innings before giving up three runs on four hits in the fifth. Kansas City Detroit Kansas City AB Dyson cf 4 G.Blanco lf 4 Aviles 2b 4 B.Butler 1b 4 Betemit 3b 4 Ka'aihue dh 3 Y.Betancourt ss 2 Maier rf 2 May c 3 Totals 30

Detroit AB R H BI Avg. A.Jackson cf 4 1 1 0 .298 Rhymes 2b 4 0 0 0 .288 Damon dh 4 0 1 1 .267 Mi.Cabrera 1b 3 1 1 0 .326 Jh.Peralta ss 4 0 0 0 .249 Raburn lf 3 1 2 0 .273 Boesch rf 3 1 1 2 .266 C.Wells rf 0 0 0 0 .348 Inge 3b 3 0 1 1 .251 Avila c 3 0 0 0 .225 Totals 31 4 7 4 E: Scherzer (2). LOB: Kansas City 3, Detroit 4. 2B: G.Blanco (7), Damon (33), Boesch (26). HR: B.Butler (15), off Coke. RBIs: B.Butler 2 (75), Damon (48), Boesch 2 (65), Inge (66). SB: G.Blanco (10), A.Jackson (25). RLSP: Kansas City 2 (B.Butler, Betemit); Detroit 1 (Jh.Peralta). GIDP: Dyson. DP: Detroit 1 (Rhymes, Jh.Peralta, Mi.Cabrera). Kansas City walks (2): Y.Betancourt, Maier. Detroit walks (1): Mi.Cabrera. Kansas City strikeouts (10): Dyson, Aviles, B.Butler, Betemit 2, Ka'aihue, Y.Betancourt, Maier, May 2. Detroit strikeouts (6): A.Jackson, Damon, Jh.Peralta, Boesch, Inge 2. Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Davies (L 8-11) 8 7 4 4 1 6 112 5.05 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Scherzer (W 12-10) 72/3 2 0 0 2 8 116 3.40 1/3 Perry (H 18) 0 0 0 0 1 4 3.97 Coke 1 2 2 2 0 1 15 3.67 IR-S: Perry 1-0. IBB: off Davies (Mi.Cabrera). WP: Davies. Umpires: Home, Dale Scott; First, D.J. Reyburn; Second, Scott Barry; Third, Jerry Meals. T: 2:20. A: 24,678 (41,255).

NATHAN DENETTE / The Canadian Press

Seattle. Drabek (0-2) went five innings, giving up four hits, including two homers.

R 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

H 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4

BI 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2

Avg. .364 .265 .306 .319 .314 .197 .259 .256 .136

Mariners 6, Blue Jays 3 TORONTO — Jose Lopez hit three home runs and Michael Saunders added a two-run drive as Seattle pounded Toronto. Lopez hit a solo shot off starter Kyle Drabek in the second inning, led off the sixth with a blast off reliever Brian Tallet, and connected again off reliever Shawn Camp in the eighth. Saunders added a two-run shot off Drabek in the second. Making his second career start and his home debut at the Rogers Centre, Drabek (0-2) allowed three runs and four hits, including the two homers, in five innings. The righthander, acquired by Toronto in last December’s trade with the Phillies for Roy Halladay, walked one and struck out three. Seattle Toronto

The Blue Jays’ Kyle Drabek delivers against the Mariners in Toronto’s 6-3 loss to

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021 001 020 – 6 9 0 000 200 001 – 3 9 2

Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. I.Suzuki rf 5 1 1 0 .314 Snider lf 5 0 1 0 .240 Figgins 2b 4 0 0 0 .258 Y.Escobar ss 4 0 1 0 .291 Jo.Lopez 3b 4 3 3 4 .237 J.Bautista rf 4 0 1 0 .264 Smoak 1b 4 0 0 0 .194 V.Wells cf 4 1 2 1 .271 Carp dh 4 0 1 0 .176 Overbay 1b 4 1 1 0 .248 J.Bard c 4 0 1 0 .228 A.Hill 2b 4 1 1 0 .210 Langerhans lf 4 1 2 0 .192 Lind dh 4 0 2 0 .236 M.Saunders cf 4 1 1 2 .207 J.Buck c 2 0 0 1 .272 Woodward ss 3 0 0 0 .125 Encarnacion 3b 4 0 0 1 .240 Totals 36 6 9 6 Totals 35 3 9 3 E: Y.Escobar (9), Drabek (1). LOB: Seattle 4, Toronto 7. 2B: J.Bautista (34), Lind (30). HR: M.Saunders (9), off Drabek; Jo.Lopez (8), off Drabek; Jo.Lopez (9), off Tallet; Jo.Lopez (10), off Camp; V.Wells (29), off Pauley. RBIs: Jo.Lopez 4 (56), M.Saunders 2 (32), V.Wells (81), J.Buck (61), Encarnacion (39). RLSP: Seattle 2 (Smoak, Langerhans); Toronto 5 (Overbay 2, Snider 3). RA: J.Buck, Encarnacion. GIDP: Figgins, Smoak, Y.Escobar. DP: Seattle 1 (Woodward, Figgins, Smoak); Toronto 2 (A.Hill, Y.Escobar, Overbay), (Drabek, Y.Escobar, Overbay). Seattle walks (1): Woodward. Toronto walks (2): J.Buck 2. Seattle strikeouts (6): Smoak 2, Carp, Langerhans, Woodward 2. Toronto strikeouts (7): Snider 3, V.Wells, Overbay, A.Hill 2. Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pauley (W 3-8) 6 6 2 2 2 5 100 4.06 J.Wright (H 6) 2 1 0 0 0 1 19 4.19 League 1 2 1 1 0 1 16 3.60 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drabek (L 0-2) 5 4 3 3 1 3 84 4.91 1 0 2 44 6.32 Tallet 2 /3 2 2 2 1/3 Camp 3 1 1 0 0 14 3.00 Carlson 11/3 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.91 IR-S: Camp 1-1, Carlson 2-0. Umpires: Home, Derryl Cousins; First, Mike Estabrook; Second, Jim Joyce; Third, Marvin Hudson. T: 2:33. A: 12,302 (49,539).

WEST Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

W 83 76 75 58

L 67 75 76 93

Pct GB .553 – .503 71/2 .497 81/2 .384 251/2

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1 Detroit 4, Kansas City 2 Seattle 6, Toronto 3 Texas at Los Angeles TUESDAY’S RESULTS Kansas City 9, Detroit 6 Toronto 5, Seattle 3 Minnesota 6, Cleveland 4 Los Angeles 2, Texas 0

Streak L-3 L-1 W-3 W-1

Home 48-26 46-31 40-34 35-42

Away Last 10 35-41 6-4 30-44 5-5 35-42 7-3 23-51 3-7

Chicago 4, Oakland 3 Tampa Bay at New York Boston 6, Baltimore 1

New York 8, Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 9, Boston 1 Oakland 7, Chicago 2

Low&Outside By Michael Harrington, Inquirer Staff Writer Minnesota the first in

Last season, the Twins needed a one-game decider against the Detroit Tigers to get into the division series, and then were swept by the New York Yankees. This season, Minnesota became the first team in the majors to grab a division title, by rallying for a 6-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians and then getting some help from the Oakland A’s, who set down the Chicago White Sox, 7-2, on JIM DIETZ / Associated Press Tuesday night. The Twins’ Drew Butera (left) celebrates Though the after clinching the AL Central title. Twins clinched with 11 games left to play, it wasn’t easy. A home run to Jim Thome aside, Indians starter Fausto Carmona cruised for the first five innings, and the Tribe entered the eighth with a 4-2 lead. But Delmon Young (double), Jose Morales (sac fly), Denard Span (single) and Orlando Hudson (double) all contributed RBIs in the inning, Matt Capps came in to pick up his 15th save for the Twins (and 41st of the year), and manager Ron Gardenhire had his 800th career win. With a day game on Wednesday, the Twins had planned to go home after the game and save the celebrating for another day, but decided to wait around Target Field to see what the A’s could do for them. It was worth it. In what has become a theme for the Twins, they limped into the clincher. Nick Punto was put into the lineup 40 minutes before the first pitch after starting shortstop J.J. Hardy had a migraine, while Drew Butera filled in at catcher for Joe Mauer, who missed a second straight game with a sore left knee. The Twins have overcome several injuries during a second-half surge to the top. All-star first baseman Justin Morneau has been out for more than two months with a concussion and Hardy, Hudson, rightfielder Jason Kubel and starting pitchers Scott Baker and Kevin Slowey have all been sidelined with various injuries. But Michael Cuddyer moved from right field to first base to fill in for Morneau, Danny Valencia emerged as the everyday third baseman, Capps was acquired as the closer, and Brian Duensing moved from the bullpen to the rotation. In other words: The Twins are dangerous when wounded.

Are the A’s still in it?

The Athletics may have lifted the Twins, but they helped themselves, too. The win over Chicago was Oakland’s third straight, while division leader Texas dropped its third in a row with a 2-0 loss in Anaheim to the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday, keeping the Rangers’ magic number at six. Before Wednesday’s 4-3 loss to Chicago, the A’s were seven back. And the slumping Rangers arrive in Oakland on Thursday for a four-game series. Could be interesting.

Is Ozzie Guillen out of it?

Beleaguered White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, a Low & Outside favorite, says he wants to stay in Chicago. Guillen is signed through 2012, but his, ah, tempestuous relationship with general manager Ken Williams could mean an earlier departure. The skipper addressed his future after Wednesday’s win over Oakland stopped Chicago’s season-worst eight-game skid. “I will be in Chicago as long as they want me here, because the White Sox are part of my life,” Guillen told the Chicago Sun-Times. “I’m 46 years old and maybe been working for the White Sox for 25 years. That’s a lot of years. The rumors about I’m going somewhere, that’s good, because at least someone wants me in the paper.” (No, Ozzie, everybody wants you in the paper.) If Guillen does leave, Low & Outside’s loss could be High & Inside’s gain. One rumored destination? The Florida Marlins. Contact staff writer Michael Harrington at mharrington@phillynews.com. This article contains information from the Associated Press.

Thursday’s Games

AMERICAN LEAGUE 2010 Team 2009 Last 3 Starts Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA Mariners –145 Hernandez (R) 12-11 2.35 15-17 0- 0 2- 1 221/3 2.01 at Blue Jays/12:35 +135 Hill (R) 0- 2 4.09 0- 2 0- 0 0- 2 11 4.09 +130 Price (L) 17- 6 2.79 22- 7 1- 1 1- 0 21 1.71 Rays/7:05 at Yankees –140 Sabathia (L) 20- 6 3.05 22-10 1- 1 1- 1 211/3 3.37 Royals/7:05 +130 O'Sllivan (R) 2- 6 6.58 5- 6 0- 1 0- 2 112/3 11.57 at Indians –140 Talbot (R) 9-12 4.58 12-14 0- 1 1- 1 112/3 6.17 Rangers –140 Lee (L) 12- 8 3.19 14-12 1- 0 2- 0 202/3 2.61 9-13 3.65 11-16 1- 2 0- 3 162/3 7.56 at Athletics/10:05 +130 Braden (L) ODDS: Number with favorite (–) indicates amount needed to wager to win $100; Number with underdog (+) indicates amount won if $100 is wagered. TEAM W-L: Team’s record in games this pitcher starts. FRIDAY’S GAMES Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 Minnesota at Detroit, 7:05 Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 Seattle at Tampa Bay, 7:10 Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 10:05 Texas at Oakland, 10:05

American League Leaders Not including Wednesday’s games. G

H Avg.

JHamilton Tex 130 507 94 183 .361 Mauer Min 133 499 88 165 .331 MiCabrera Det 145 528 104 172 .326 ABeltre Bos 146 557 82 181 .325 Cano NYY 149 583 99 188 .322 Butler KC 146 550 70 176 .320 ISuzuki Sea 150 625 69 197 .315 Konerko CWS 142 524 87 164 .313 Guerrero Tex 143 558 81 170 .305 Crawford TB 143 554 101 169 .305 RUNS: Teixeira, New York, 106; MiCabrera, Detroit, 104; Jeter, New York, 103; JBautista, Toronto, 101; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 101; Cano, New York, 99; AJackson, Detroit, 98. RBIs: MiCabrera, Detroit, 120; JBautista, Toronto, 114; ARodriguez, New York, 112; Guerrero, Texas, 107; Konerko, Chicago, 105; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 105; Cano, New York, 104. HITS: ISuzuki, Seattle, 197; Cano, New York, 188;

JHamilton, Texas, 183; ABeltre, Boston, 181; Butler, Kansas City, 176; MYoung, Texas, 175; MiCabrera, Detroit, 172. DOUBLES: ABeltre, Boston, 45; MiCabrera, Detroit, 45; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 45; Markakis, Baltimore, 43; Mauer, Minnesota, 42; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 42; Butler, Kansas City, 41; VWells, Toronto, 41. TRIPLES: Crawford, Tampa Bay, 13; AJackson, Detroit, 10; Span, Minnesota, 10; Pennington, Oakland, 8; Gardner, New York, 6; Granderson, New York, 6; Maier, Kansas City, 6; Podsednik, Kansas City, 6. HOME RUNS: JBautista, Toronto, 49; Konerko, Chicago, 37; MiCabrera, Detroit, 35; JHamilton, Texas, 31; DOrtiz, Boston, 30; Teixeira, New York, 30; ABeltre, Boston, 28; Cano, New York, 28; VWells, Toronto, 28. STOLEN BASES: Pierre, Chicago, 60; RDavis, Oakland, 46; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 44; Gardner, New York, 42; ISuzuki, Seattle, 41; Figgins, Seattle, 40; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 40. PITCHING: Sabathia, New York, 20-6; Lester, Boston, 18-8; Price, Tampa Bay, 17-6; Cahill,

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Batterby-Batter First Inning

Braves: Omar Infante lined out to second. Jason Heyward grounded out to first. Martin Prado grounded out to the pitcher. Phillies: Shane Victorino grounded out to shortstop. Placido Polanco grounded out to third. Chase Utley grounded out to second.

Second Inning

Braves: Brian McCann struck out swinging. Derrek Lee struck out swinging. Nate McLouth grounded out to first. Phillies: Ryan Howard struck out swinging. Jayson Werth walked. Raul Ibanez flied out to left. With Carlos Ruiz batting, Werth stole second and went to third on a throwing error by catcher McCann. Ruiz flied out to right.

Third Inning

Braves: Alex Gonzalez struck out swinging. Rick Ankiel struck out swinging. Tommy Hanson grounded out to shortstop. Phillies: Wilson Valdez lined out to third. Roy Oswalt grounded out to second. Victorino grounded out to first.

Fourth Inning

Braves: Infante grounded out to shortstop. Heyward fouled out to third. Prado doubled to right-center. McCann grounded out to first. Phillies: Polanco fouled out to first. Utley was hit by a pitch. Howard flied out to left. Werth struck out swinging.

Fifth Inning

Braves: Lee flied out to center. McLouth flied out to center. Gonzalez flied out to center. Phillies: Ibanez grounded out to second. Ruiz doubled to left-center. Valdez walked. Oswalt sacrificed to the catcher, moving Ruiz to third and Valdez to second. Victorino struck out looking.

Sixth Inning

Braves: Ankiel struck out swinging. Hanson struck out looking. Infante grounded out on a bunt to the pitcher. Phillies: Polanco grounded out to second. Utley singled to right-center. Howard struck out

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Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. PHILLIES AB R H BI Avg. O.Infante 2b 4 0 0 0 .330 Victorino cf 3 0 0 0 .262 Heyward rf 3 0 0 0 .285 Polanco 3b 4 0 0 0 .296 Prado 3b 4 0 1 0 .307 Utley 2b 2 0 1 0 .279 McCann c 2 0 0 0 .273 Howard 1b 4 0 0 0 .278 D.Lee 1b 3 0 0 0 .257 Werth rf 1 1 0 0 .293 McLouth lf 3 0 0 0 .184 Ibanez lf 4 0 1 1 .274 Al.Gonzalez ss 3 0 0 0 .264 C.Ruiz c 3 0 2 0 .299 Ankiel cf 3 0 0 0 .202 W.Valdez ss 2 0 0 0 .256 Hanson p 2 0 0 0 .103 Oswalt p 1 0 0 0 .145 Moylan p 0 0 0 0 --- a-Dobbs ph 1 0 0 0 .190 Kimbrel p 0 0 0 0 --- Madson p 0 0 0 0 .000 Venters p 0 0 0 0 .000 Lidge p 0 0 0 0 --b-Freeman ph 1 0 0 0 .133 Totals 25 1 4 1 Totals 28 0 1 0 a-struck out for Oswalt in the 7th. b-flied out for Venters in the 9th. E: McCann (13). LOB: Atlanta 3, PHILLIES 10. 2B: Prado (40), Ibanez (35), C.Ruiz (25). RBIs: Ibanez (79). SB: Heyward (10), Utley (11), Werth (12). S: W.Valdez, Oswalt. RLSP: Atlanta 2 (McCann, Prado); PHILLIES 6 (C.Ruiz, Victorino 2, Ibanez, Polanco, W.Valdez). GIDP: Howard. DP: Atlanta 1 (Ale.Gonzalez, Prado, D.Lee). Atlanta walks (2): Heyward, McCann. PHILLIES walks (5): Victorino, Werth 3, W.Valdez. Atlanta strikeouts (8): Heyward, McCann, D.Lee 2, Ale.Gonzalez, Ankiel 2, Hanson. PHILLIES strikeouts (5): Victorino, Howard 2, Werth, Dobbs. Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hanson 6 2 0 0 3 4 106 3.51 1 Moylan /3 1 0 0 0 0 5 3.02 2/3 Kimbrel 0 0 0 1 1 14 0.56 1 1 1 1 1 0 13 1.83 Venters (L 4-3) PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Oswalt 7 1 0 0 1 8 99 2.80 Madson (W 6-2) 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.32 Lidge (S 26-31) 1 0 0 0 1 0 19 3.16 IR-S: Kimbrel 1-0. HBP: by Venters (Utley, C.Ruiz), by Hanson (Utley). WP: Kimbrel. Umpires: Home, Larry Vanover; first, Jeff Nelson; second, Mark Carlson; third, Jeff Kellogg. T: 2:47. A: 45,310 (43,651). looking; Utley stole second on the third strike. Werth walked. Ibanez grounded out to second.

Seventh Inning Braves: Heyward struck out swinging. Prado grounded out to shortstop. McCann walked. Lee struck out swinging. Phillies: Peter Moylan relieved Hanson for Atlanta. Ruiz singled to right-center. Valdez sacrificed to the pitcher, moving Ruiz to second. Craig Kimbrel relieved Moylan for Atlanta. Greg Dobbs pinch-hit for Oswalt and struck out looking. With Victorino at bat, Ruiz took third on a wild pitch. Victorino walked. Polanco fouled out to right.

Eighth Inning Braves: Ryan Madson relieved Oswalt for the Phillies. McLouth grounded out to second. Gonzalez flied

out to center. Ankiel popped out to shortstop. Phillies: Jonny Venters relieved Kimbrel for Atlanta. Utley was hit by a pitch. Howard grounded into a double play, shortstop to third (covering second) to first. Werth walked. Ibanez doubled to left, Werth scored. Ruiz was hit by a pitch. Valdez grounded out to first. PHILLIES 1, BRAVES 0

Ninth Inning Braves: Brad Lidge relieved Madson for the Phillies. Freddie Freeman pinch-hit for Venters and flied out to right. Infante flied out to center. Heyward walked. Heyward stole second. Prado flied out to right. PHILLIES 1, BRAVES 0

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Manuel has his best team yet

INSIDE from D1 East. Those three combined on a one-hit shutout of the Braves. “Our pitching has been good all year, but with the acquisition of [Oswalt], our pitching is top-notch,” Manuel said. These Phillies are also dominant at home. They are 51-27 overall and 35-11 in their last 46 games at Citizens Bank Park. This is the first time they have won at least 50 games at home since the 1993 Phillies went 52-29. That’s an important statistic because the Phillies have the best record in the National League and seem hellbent on keeping it. Since the NL finally won the All-Star Game, the Phillies would have home-field advantage in any playoff series they’re involved in. These Phillies also know how to get hot at exactly the right time. Chase Utley had not hit .300 in any month this season until September. Ryan Howard and Werth are having their most productive months. Shane Victorino is having his best month. And then there is Ibanez, who is having the best month of them all. It was Ibanez’s two-run double down the right-field line that provided two necessary insurance runs in a 5-3 win Tuesday night. One night later, Ibanez stepped up in the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs and Werth on first. Ibanez got a 2-0 outside pitch from lefthander Jonny Venters and planted it right on the foul line in the leftfield corner, allowing Werth to score from first base. “I said about 14 prayers [that the ball would be fair] running around first base,” Ibanez said.

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Laughter followed. “No, really,” he said. Both of Ibanez’s big hits were against lefthanded pitchers, and he admitted it meant something to get a big hit off Venters. Lefthanded batters were hitting .188 against Venters when Ibanez stepped to the plate. Ibanez is hitting .355 this month and already has 15 RBIs, which is as many as he had in any other month this season. Ibanez agreed that this Phillies team is tremendously talented, but he believes the sustained success transcends talent alone. “No question there is a lot of talent in this clubhouse,” he said. “But I think it’s more about the mind-set and the belief that we’re going to get the job done. There is a confidence, but nothing anywhere near arrogance, we will win, and that’s what makes this the best team I’ve ever been on.” The obvious strength of this Phillies team is the starting rotation, which leads the league in wins, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched, and fewest walks. We saw in this short series what the Phillies could do to any team in a short postseason series. Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay, and, finally, Oswalt threw three straight gems, allowing just four runs and 14 hits in a combined 22 innings. Yes, this is the Phillies’ best team during Manuel’s tenure. That does not guarantee a World Series title. But whatever lies ahead for these Phillies will not change the fact that they are headed down the road in a spiffy sports car built to cross the finish line first. Contact staff writer Bob Brookover at 215-854-2577 or bbrookover@phillynews.com.

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After racking up his 26th save, Brad Lidge celebrates with

catcher Carlos Ruiz. Lidge pitched a hitless ninth.

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Halladay earns a day of rest By Matt Gelb INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

No one will talk about it, but the Phillies are at least thinking ahead. That was no more evident than Wednesday, when the decided to Phillies team push Roy Halladay Notes back a day before his next start. It was a sign that the Phillies are at least mildly concerned about Halladay’s workload. It also shows they have an eye toward resting as many regulars as possible if the team clinches a postseason berth early. “They’ve logged some mileage, there’s no question about that, especially with Halladay,” Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. “I’m just hoping we clinch. We’ll take it from there.” Kyle Kendrick, who originally was scheduled to start Monday, will take his normal turn in the rotation on Saturday. That pushes Halladay from Sunday to Monday. Halladay was scheduled to receive an extra day of rest in between his last two starts. The Phillies decided it was best to give him the extra day now. Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt also will have extra days before their next starts. All three would pitch the final weekend against the Atlanta Braves on regular rest. But if the games don’t matter, the starts could be abbreviated tune-ups for the postseason. Halladay leads the majors in innings pitched with 2412/3. He is on pace to throw more than he has since 2003, when he pitched 266 innings. And combined with the playoffs, it’s very possible that Halladay will eclipse that mark. If the Phillies clinch the NL

Phillies Statistics Not including Wednesday’s game. HITTING Avg. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB Polanco ……………… .298 527 74 157 27 2 6 51 30 Ruiz …………………… .296 348 40 103 24 1 8 50 55 Werth ………………… .294 531 101 156 44 2 25 79 76 Howard …………… .280 517 84 145 22 5 30 104 54 Gload ………………… .279 122 15 34 8 0 6 22 8 Hoover …………… .278 18 6 5 2 0 0 2 3 Utley ……………… .278 392 69 109 19 2 15 58 59 Ibanez ……………… .274 522 71 143 34 5 15 78 67 Victorino ……………… .263 555 82 146 24 10 17 66 49 Valdez ……………… .258 314 30 81 14 3 4 33 16 Francisco ………… .253 162 20 41 12 0 4 22 14 Rollins ……………… .245 331 47 81 15 3 7 37 39 Schneider ………… .241 116 16 28 4 1 4 15 16 Sweeney …………… .239 46 7 11 2 0 1 7 4 Brown ………………… .214 56 7 12 3 0 2 12 3 Dobbs ……………… .192 146 12 28 6 0 5 15 11 Bocock …………… .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mayberry ………… .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *Team totals …… .260 5239 722 1363 272 34 154 687 524 *—including pitchers and other players not listed. PITCHING W L Madson ………………… 5 2 Halladay …………………20 10 Worley ………………… 1 1 Oswalt ……………………13 13 Hamels ………………12 10 Lidge ………………… 1 1 Contreras …………… 6 3 Romero ……………… 1 0 Durbin …………………… 4 1 Herndon ………………… 1 3 Kendrick …………………10 9 Moyer …………………… 9 9 Blanton ……………… 7 6 Baez …………………… 3 3 Bastardo ………………… 1 0 Zagurski ………………… 0 0 Mathieson ……………… 0 0 *Team totals ………91 61 *—including pitchers not listed.

SO 46 50 143 147 13 3 58 100 73 40 31 31 20 6 22 30 0 3 987

SB 5 0 11 1 1 0 10 4 34 5 6 17 0 1 1 1 0 0 98

CS 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 19

E 4 6 4 13 1 2 11 2 2 3 0 6 2 1 1 5 0 0 79

ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO 2.37 50 0 5 491/3 39 14 13 3 12 61 2.53 32 32 0 2412/3 229 74 68 24 30 213 2.57 3 1 0 7 7 2 2 1 1 8 2.90 30 30 0 1982/3 157 68 64 19 52 181 2.93 31 31 0 2022/3 176 69 66 24 57 207 3.24 46 0 25 412/3 30 16 15 5 20 49 3.35 63 0 4 532/3 52 21 20 4 16 53 28 16 14 3 27 27 3.74 55 0 3 332/3 1 3.86 60 0 0 65 /3 59 28 28 7 24 59 4.56 43 0 0 491/3 65 27 25 2 15 26 4.78 31 29 0 1691/3 188 97 90 26 46 78 4.84 19 19 0 1112/3 103 64 60 20 20 63 5.04 26 26 0 1602/3 193 99 90 25 38 122 5.11 47 0 0 44 50 27 25 6 22 23 5.17 22 0 0 152/3 16 9 9 1 9 19 7.50 6 0 0 6 5 5 5 1 4 9 2 10.80 2 0 0 1 /3 5 3 2 0 2 1 3.74 152 152 38 1368.1 1336 610 568 162 384 1107

East, there remains the other plateau of best record in the league. And don’t think that is meaningless. This season, the team with the best record in the league will have the choice of having an extra day off during the division series. “That makes a whole lot of difference,” manager Charlie Manuel said. But it sounds as if the Phillies would be willing to go for the best record with some reserves on the field. Entering Wednesday, the Phils had five more wins than the next-best teams — Cincinnati and Atlanta. “Home-field advantage is significant,” Amaro said. “But again, we have to be cogni-

zant of the workload these guys have had. We’ll see how things go.”

Live pitching for Rollins

Jimmy Rollins (strained right hamstring) will participate in a simulated game Thursday. Rollins has missed the last 12 games, but the Phillies expect the shortstop to be able to play during the season’s final week. “He’s going to be back before the playoffs,” Manuel said. The simulated game also will be a way for some of the rarely used Phillies relievers to stay sharp. Manuel said lefthanders Mike Zagurski and

Antonio Bastardo would pitch in the simulated game. It the Phillies want a second lefty reliever in the postseason, both are possibilities. “That’ll help just as much as anything else,” Manuel said. He also said Domonic Brown could participate in the simulated game. Brown has not played since Sept. 6 because of a strained right quadriceps.

A soft spot for Thome

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Twins became the first team to clinch a playoff spot. That means former Phillies slugger Jim Thome is headed back to the postseason for the third straight year. Manuel remains very close with Thome, who has called the Phillies’ manager a father figure. Manuel said he called Thome last week to talk. This week, Thome appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated. “He’s happy,” Manuel said. “I’m happy for him. He’s had a big season.” That might be an understatement. Thome is having one of the greatest seasons ever for a 40-year-old player. He entered Wednesday’s game hitting .280 with a 1.043 OPS and 25 home runs.

Extra bases

The Phillies honored retiring Braves manager Bobby Cox before the game. The entire team came out of the dugout to applaud Cox as he exchanged lineup cards with the umpires. Team officials had a luncheon for Cox on Tuesday and presented him with a painting. … For the second straight game, the Phillies set a ratings record on Comcast SportsNet. Tuesday’s 5-3 victory over Atlanta delivered a 15.0 rating (446,000 households).

Phils sweep Braves, go 6 games up PHILLIES from D1 wrapped up as early as Saturday. “It’s all coming around about the right time,” Werth said. That could qualify as the understatement of the season. On Wednesday, the Phillies won the first-ever one-hitter at Citizens Bank Park. No, they did not blow away Atlanta here in three days. They simply made plays when they had to. They limited their mistakes. The Braves did not. Ibanez had his second huge hit in as many days off a lefthanded Atlanta reliever. Against Jonny Venters, Ibanez connected on a 2-0 slider. He floated one deep down the left-field line that landed on the dirt of the warning track. Running down the firstbase line while watching the ball, Ibanez said he muttered 14 prayers to himself. “No, really,” he said. Were they in English or Spanish? “Both probably.” Werth, who reached on a two-out walk (his third pass of the night), was already at second base and only saw the ball bounce off the wall. “I was scoring after that,” Werth said. The pitchers made it stand up. In the ninth, after Martin Prado hit a shallow fly ball to right with two out, Brad Lidge hopped off the mound and put his right hand in the air. The ball landed in Werth’s glove. Lidge spun around shouting and hugged catcher Carlos Ruiz. They are feeling it now. “There is a confidence,” Ibanez said, “but nothing anywhere near arrogance.” Lidge, just as he had done in the previous two games, brilliantly closed the game in the ninth. He walked Jason Heyward with two outs but induced the fly ball from Prado to end it. The lone Braves hit came in the fourth, when Prado hit a double into the right-center gap off Roy Oswalt. Once again, Oswalt was masterful, allowing no one to reach third base over seven innings. If this was a postseasonlike test for the three Phillies’ aces, they passed. In three games, the Big Three pitched a combined 22 innings and allowed four earned runs (a 1.64 ERA). Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay, and Oswalt struck out a total of 17 batters against four walks. Oswalt was the only one to earn a

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Jayson Werth lets his feelings show after scoring the go-ahead run on a double by Raul Ibanez

in the eighth inning. Werth walked three times on a night when the Phils mustered four hits. no-decision. In 11 starts with the Phillies, Oswalt has a 1.76 ERA. He is 7-1 and has come as advertised. “With the acquisition of Roy,” manager Charlie Manuel said, “our pitching is topnotch.” Finally, on Wednesday, Atlanta had a pitching matchup it could at least feel comfortable with, as it sent Tommy Hanson to the mound. This was no Adalberto Mendez, Ja-

son Marquis, Brandon Beachy, or Mike Minor. For seven straight games, the Phillies had forced an opposing starter out before finishing five innings. That tied a major-league record. Hanson pitched six shutout innings, allowing just two Phillies hits. It was the performance the Braves lacked in the first two games of this crucial series, when they sent two rookies to the mound. That mattered little. In the

eighth inning, thunder roared in the distance. The fans gasped each time they saw a bolt of lightning near Center City. Then, Ibanez’s double made almost everyone stand for the rest of the game. They waved their towels and chanted, “Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!” Contact staff writer Matt Gelb at 215-854-2928 or mgelb@phillynews.com. Follow on Twitter @magelb.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

SportsInBrief NASCAR crew hit with penalty Clint Bowyer’s NASCAR championship chances were crippled Wednesday when his car failed a follow-up inspection and he was penalized 150 points after winning last weekend’s first race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. NASCAR also fined crew chief Shane Wilson $150,000, and suspended him for the next six Sprint Cup races. Car chief Chad Haney was also suspended six races, and team owner Richard Childress was docked 150 owner points. The team plans to appeal the penalty. Bowyer was permitted to keep Sunday’s victory at New Hampshire. NASCAR does not typically strip wins and an official said the Richard Childress Racing team probably was punished enough. With Sunday’s win, Bowyer vaulted from 12th to second in the standings. The penalty drops him back to last place, 185 points behind leader Denny Hamlin. NASCAR said the No. 33 Chevrolet from Sunday’s race had been altered and did not meet its strict specifications. No details were offered, but one official said the issue revolved around how the team had set up the body of the car.

GOLF: Ernie Els, a three-

time major champion from South Africa with 62 victories around the world, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the first year he was on the ballot, Els received 66 percent of the vote from a panel of journalists, golf officials and Hall of Fame members. The induction will be May 9 at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla.

a chance to return to the NBA following his infamous gun altercation with Gilbert Arenas. Crittenton, 22, didn’t play last season because of an ankle injury and then served a 38-game suspension after he and Arenas admitted taking guns into the locker room following a dispute stemming from a card game. Crittenton pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge Jan. 22 and received probation.

MLS: The Union have won

a $50,000 grant from Pepsi Cola earmarked for setting up a soccer field for the Chester City United soccer organization. The next step is choosing a site for a fullsize natural grass field. Chester City United currently serves more than 300 boys and girls.

COLLEGES: Villanova goal-

keeper Chris Bresnahan has been named the Philadelphia Soccer Six Player of the Week for his efforts in last week’s shutout wins over Penn and Princeton.

CYCLING: American cyclist

Taylor Phinney has signed for the Swiss-U.S. squad BMC Racing, turning down a contract with Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack team. Phinney, a two-time pursuit world champion, says on BMC’s website that its long-term backing for the team influenced his decision. His new teammates include road race world champion Cadel Evans of Australia and U.S. veteran George Hincapie.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS:

The California State Athletic Commission says Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title contender Chael Sonnen tested positive for steroids following a loss to Anderson Silva last month in Oakland. The NBA: The Charlotte Bob- commission suspended cats will bring Javaris Crit- Sonnen’s license, likely tenton to training camp squashing the UFC’s plans with a non-guaranteed con- for a Sonnen-Silva rematch tract, giving the ex-Wash- early next year. — Staff and wire reports ington Wizards point guard

Scoreboard College Scores Volleyball Cabrini 3, Gwynedd Mercy 0 East Stroudsburg 3, Philadelphia 0 Johns Hopkins 3, Swarthmore 0 Penn State Berks 3, Immaculata 0 Philadelphia Biblical 3, College Notre Dame 1 Princeton 3, Temple 1 West Chester 3, Holy Family 1 Union County 3, Manor 0

Field hockey Drexel 3, Temple 1 Rowan 5, Richard Stockton 2 Swarthmore 15, Bryn Mawr 0 Villanova 3, Penn 0

Women’s soccer Chestnut Hill 5, Goldey-Beacom 2 Lebanon Valley 1, Haverford 0 Molloy 3, Philadelphia 2 Rowan 3, Rutgers Camden 0 West Chester 3, East Stroudsberg 0

Men’s soccer Delaware Valley 5, Philadelphia Biblical 1 East Stroudsberg 2, West Chester 0 Temple 4, Rider 0 Rutgers Camden 3, Rowan 1 Villanova 3, St. Joseph’s 0 Ursinus 1, Alvernia 0 (2 OT)

Women’s tennis

Arcadia 2, Cabrini 1 Chestnut Hill College 7, Univ. Sciences 2 Philadelphia 8, Caldwell 1 Rowan 3, Rutgers-Camden 0 Swarthmore 1, Eastern 1

Men’s tennis St. Joseph’s 6, Rider 1 West Chester 6, Gloucester 2

MLS WEDNESDAY’S GAMES FC Dallas 2, New England 2, tie Kansas City 4, Houston 3

Tennis Moselle Open In Metz, France SINGLES, FIRST ROUND Kristof Vliegen, Belgium, def. Federico del Bonis, Argentina, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, def. Thierry Ascione, France, 6-4, 6-4. Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, def. Arnaud Clement, France, 6-4, 6-2. SECOND ROUND Tommy Robredo (7), Spain, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-4, 6-2. Richard Gasquet (4), France, def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3). Philipp Kohlschreiber (6), Germany, def. Michael Berrer, Germany, 6-4, 6-2.

Tashkent Open In Tashkent, Uzbekistan SINGLES, SECOND ROUND Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Anna Chakvetadze (3), Russia, 7-6 (4), 3-2, retired. Alla Kudryavtseva (7), Russia, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, 6-4, 6-2. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, def. Maria Elena Camerin (8), Italy, 6-4, 6-1. Monica Niculescu (5), Romania, def. Ekaterina Ivanova, Russia, 0-6, 6-0, 6-1. Akgul Amanmuradova, Uzbekistan, def. Jill Craybas, United States, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-2. Darya Kustova, Belarus, def. Magdalena Rybarikova (6), Slovakia, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Alexandra Dulgheru (1), Romania, def. Ekaterina Bychkova, Russia, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5. Elena Vesnina (4), Russia, def. Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-2.

BCR Romania Open In Bucharest, Romania SINGLES, FIRST ROUND Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Pere Riba, Spain, 6-1, 6-1. SECOND ROUND Juan Ignacio Chela (4), Argentina, def. Simon Greul, Germany, 6-1, 6-0. Jeremy Chardy (8), France, def. Simone Vagnozzi, Italy, 6-2, 6-4. Bjorn Phau, Germany, def. Adrian Ungur, Romania, 6-2, 6-4. Albert Montanes (1), Spain, def. Tobias Kamke, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.

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Penn St.’s pocket rocket

Speedy, 5-7 receiver Devon Smith is the Lions’ most dangerous weapon. By Joe Juliano

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The most dangerous player on the Penn State offense is also the smallest, a 5-foot-7, 159-pound sophomore who gives opposing defenses the shivers whenever he gets the football in open space. Wide receiver Devon Smith is one of the fastest men ever to play for the Nittany Lions, a one-time secret weapon who isn’t such a secret any more. After all, an opponent tends to pay special attention to someone who can run the 40-yard dash in 4.23 seconds, something Temple is sure to do when the Owls travel to Beaver Stadium on Saturday. “He’s very hard to cover because he’s so fast,” Lions cornerback D’Anton Lynn said. “You can’t play off him or he’ll run past you. If you try to press [cover] him, he’s so small, you might not get a good hit on him. He’s by far the fastest player I’ve ever had to cover.” With Smith, Penn State’s offensive coaches try to find different ways of getting him the football, either split wide or in the slot, or lined up in the backfield, looking for the big play. He is third on the team with nine catches for 135 yards and his first career touchdown last Saturday. He has rushed six times, sending fear through the stands as they watch defensive linemen almost twice his size try to flatten him. He also has returned two punts, nearly breaking both of them. “I’m comfortable both ways,” Smith said of his play at running back and receiver. “I came out of high school as a running back. I know I’m kind of small but I’ve played running back my whole life. Once I came here, I had to learn how to play wide receiver from the older guys, the way they do their stuff. I’m still learning.” Wide receiver Derek Moye, who has worked with Smith along with fellow wideout Graham Zug, said he likes the way Smith has developed. “He worked hard in the offseason,” Moye said. “He’s running routes instead of just going out for passes as the guy on the team who’s really fast.

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Penn State’s Devon Smith scores on a 48-yard pass reception against Kent State. The wide receiver is one of the fastest men ever to play for the Nittany Lions.

He’s become a good receiver.” If there’s one thing you can say about the former Maryland state high school track champion, it’s that he’s not scared. Smith was the 2009 champion in the 60-meter dash at the Nike indoor meet. His time of 6.63 seconds was the third-fastest ever run by a high school sprinter. He played in Penn State’s 2009 season opener, gaining 75 all-purpose yards from two catches, one rush and a pair of kickoff returns. Though he missed one game after suffering a concussion against Iowa, Smith got a good amount of playing time. This season, his responsibilities have grown significantly but he said he can handle the extra work. He has added 15 pounds since he first enrolled last year.

“I think in the game of football, you have to be mentally strong and physically strong,” he said. “I’m really stronger than I look. I really can lift as much as some of the guys. I can bench 265 [pounds] three times.” Lions coach Joe Paterno likes what he has seen in Smith, calling him “a good tough kid ... a good competitor.” Smith said it was his grades, not his size, that initially scared some colleges off from recruiting him. Once he improved his grades, the calls came, including one from Temple. But Smith committed to Penn State during his junior year of high school. One of the players helping Smith at wide receiver is Curtis Drake, the West Catholic product who suffered a bro-

ken leg early in preseason. “Curtis and me are best friends so I just had to step up in his place,” Smith said. “He’s a great player and I can’t wait until he gets back. We’re going to keep this thing moving.” With Smith, it tends to move quite a bit faster.

Nittany notes. Nittany Lions

senior guard Stefen Wisniewski and Owls senior linebacker Amara Kamara have been chosen as members of the 2010 Allstate Good Works Team, sponsored by the American Football Coaches Association, for their outstanding community service work. Contact staff writer Joe Juliano at 215-854-4494 or jjuliano@phillynews.com

Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Diamondbacks: Named Kevin Towers general manager. Houston Astros: Claimed RHP Cesar Carillo off waivers from San Diego. Designated INF Edwin Maysonet for assignment. Washington Nationals: Signed a two-year player development contract with Hagerstown (SAL). AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle Mariners: Recalled INF Mike Carp, OF Greg Halman and RHP Anthony Varvaro from Tacoma (PCL). Purchased the contract of INF Matt Mangini from Tacoma.

Football NFL: Suspended Tampa Bay S Tanard Jackson indefinitely for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. Baltimore Ravens: Activated CB Cary Williams from suspension. Released S Ken Hamlin. Miami Dolphins: Signed TE Jeron Mastrud. Waived RB Clifton Smith and TE John Nalbone. Minnesota Vikings: Signed WR Hank Baskett to a one-year contract. New Orleans Saints: Re-signed RB Ladell Betts. Waived RB DeShawn Wynn. San Francisco 49ers: Signed LB Bruce Davis to the practice squad.

Ice Hockey Atlanta Thrashers: Assigned F Angelo Esposito, F Michael Forney, F Danick Paquette, F Jared Ross, D Paul Postma and D Mike Siklenka to to Chicago (AHL). Released F Andre Deveaux and D Kyle McLaren. Dallas Stars: Assigned G Jack Campbell to Windsor (CHL). Washington Capitals: Signed G Michal Neuvirth to a two-year contract extension.

Local Golf Women’s Golf Association At Stonewall, Radley Run. CLASS C SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Sandra Carter, DuPont …………96-104–200 Joli Pry, Coatesville …………102-103–205 Ronne Hellmann, Philmont ……103-108–211 Marcy Harper, Rolling Green 104-108–212 Jeraldine Luft, Sandy Run ………107-108–215 CLASS C SUPER-SENIORS Helen Brun, Talamore ………104-111–215 Judy K. Wellons, Hershey’s Mill 102-114–216 Kathleen Kelly, Bala …………109-107–216 Marianne Nolan, Medford Lakes 105-113–218 Sylvia Davenport, Radley Run …109-109–218 Elizabeth Hasson, Radley Run …108-110–218 CLASS D SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Ann Crossan, Sandy Run ………109-110–219 Peggy Kaspar, LuLu ……………107-114–221 CLASS D SUPER-SENIORS Charlotte Dempsey, Medford Lakes ……………………………………110-114–224 Suzanne Rath, Medford Lakes …108-118–226 Karen Esslinger, Old York Road 116-117–233 Mary Ann Langrall, Chester Valley ……………………………………113-120–233

NHL Preseason WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Toronto 4, Ottawa 1 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 1 Washington 6, Columbus 2 Boston 4, Montreal 2 St. Louis 5, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 2 Los Angeles 4, Colorado 2 San Jose at Anaheim Edmonton at Vancouver TUESDAY’S RESULTS FLYERS 4, New Jersey 3, SO Columbus 5, Atlanta 2 Florida 4, Carolina 1 Ottawa 5, Toronto 0 Colorado 3, St. Louis 1 Tampa Bay 4, Dallas 2 Calgary (ss) 3, Vancouver (ss) 2 Phoenix at Anaheim, 10 THURSDAY’S GAMES Boston at Florida, 7 New Jersey at NY Rangers, 7 Toronto at FLYERS, 7 Carolina at Nashville, 8 Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 9 Los Angeles (ss) at Phoenix (ss), 10 Phoenix (ss) at Los Angeles (ss), 10:30

College Football

2 Tar Heels draw NCAA suspensions ASSOCIATED PRESS

The NCAA suspended North Carolina defensive back Kendric Burney for six games and safety Deunta Williams for four on Wednesday for receiving improper benefits. Both players also must repay some of the benefits to become eligible, although the school plans to appeal the length of the suspensions. In a news release, the NCAA said Burney received $1,333 in benefits and Williams received $1,426. The school said Burney must repay $575.19 and Williams must repay $450.67 to charities of their choice. North Carolina officials said the benefits included trips to California, Atlanta and Las Vegas for Burney, and two trips to California for Williams. Most of the benefits associated with Burney came from someone who the NCAA said qualifies as an agent. Williams’ benefits were violations of a rule preventing athletes from receiving “preferential treatment.”

Las Vegas Line By Keith Glantz and Russell Culver

College Football Favorite TONIGHT Miami TOMORROW TCU Saturday NORTHWESTERN PURDUE MICHIGAN IOWA OHIO ST. Virginia Tech PENN ST. GEORGIA TECH FLORIDA ST. DUKE CONNECTICUT MISSISSIPPI ST. MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI Air Force KANSAS ST. HOUSTON Oklahoma-x Alabama BOISE ST.

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10 14 23 261/2 411/2 31/2 19 8 191/2 71/2 18 2 21/2 16 13 41/2 23 18 6 17

7 Cent. Michigan 12 Toledo 251/2 Bowling Green 28 Ball St. 441/2 E. Michigan 4 BOSTON COL. 131/2 Temple 81/2 N.C. State 19 Wake Forest 61/2 Army 20 Buffalo Pk Georgia 21/2 Fresno St. 20 Miami (Ohio) 131/2 WYOMING 7 UCF 191/2 Tulane 131/2 CINCINNATI 7 ARKANSAS 171/2 Oregon St.

Both players sat out the first two games for the winless Tar Heels (0-2), who lost by 30-24 to both LSU and Georgia Tech. Thirteen players sat out the opener, and only tailback Shaun Draughn has been cleared from that group so far. Draughn was allowed to return early last week and played sparingly behind Johnny White in the loss to Georgia Tech. As it prepares to travel to Rutgers, North Carolina is still awaiting word on the status of 10 other players, including NFL prospects Marvin Austin and Robert Quinn on defense, top receiver Greg Little, and tailback Ryan Houston. The NCAA visited Chapel Hill in July to investigate whether Austin and Little received improper benefits from agents, but that probe expanded to include possible academic misconduct involving a tutor last month. Athletic director Dick Baddour called the length of the

Favorite Open Today Underdog Stanford 21/2 41/2 NOTRE DAME ARIZONA 61/2 61/2 California TEXAS 141/2 151/2 UCLA Idaho 71/2 71/2 COLORADO ST. Nevada 3 4 BYU Southern Cal 24 22 WASH. ST. KANSAS 191/2 23 New Mexico St. FLORIDA 14 14 Kentucky Southern Miss. 4 4 LA. TECH TENNESSEE 11 131/2 UAB INDIANA 21 221/2 Akron MARSHALL 51/2 6 Ohio AUBURN 3 3 South Carolina UTAH 321/2 311/2 San Jose St. SAN DIEGO ST. 71/2 71/2 Utah St. LSU 61/2 9 West Virginia Baylor 7 71/2 RICE North Carolina Pk 21/2 RUTGERS MINNESOTA 4 4 N. Illinois UTEP 7 111/2 Memphis UNLV 6 101/2 New Mexico Oregon 91/2 11 ARIZONA ST. TROY 12 11 Arkansas St. Middle Tenn. 3 21/2 LA.-LAFAYETTE FLA. ATLANTIC 4 10 North Texas SOUTH FLORIDA 25 27 W. Kentucky MARYLAND 101/2 111/2 Fla. International x-at Paul Brown Stadium Home team in CAPITALS.

suspensions “unduly harsh” and hopes to have an appeal heard by next week.

Syracuse receiver is finished.

Coach Doug Marrone said fifth-year senior Aaron Weaver did not receive a medical Bowls face tax complaint. Op- hardship waiver from the ponents of the Bowl Champi- NCAA. The wide receiver sufonship Series accused three fered a torn anterior cruciate of the nation’s premier bowls ligament in his right knee in of violating their tax-exempt practice last week. With the status by paying excessive sal- ruling, Weaver’s college caaries and perks, providing reer is over. “sweetheart loans,” and doing undisclosed lobbying. Miami visits Pitt. The PanPlayoff PAC, a political action thers (1-1) will play Miami on committee that wants the bowls Thursday night for the first replaced with a championship time since 2003. playoff system, plans to file a Beating No. 19 Miami (1-1), complaint with the Internal Revsomething Pittsburgh has enue Service on Thursday against the operators of the Fi- done only once in 15 meetings esta, Sugar and Orange Bowls. since 1984, would give the The Associated Press ob- Panthers a confidence boost. “They’re a very dangerous tained a copy of the comteam with speed at every skill plaint before its filing. position,” Pitt linebacker Gamecocks tailback exits. Tristan Roberts said. “It’s Backup Jarvis Giles has decid- pretty much as big a chaled to transfer from South lenge as we’ve had for a Carolina, a team spokesman while. Everybody knows that said. The sophomore had Florida is recruited for speed, only two carries for 12 yards and Miami has some really fast players.” this season.

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Cheltenham is 3-0, thanks to air attack

Without a workhorse ballcarrier in the stable, Cheltenham coach Joe Gro originally Central Bucks expected to take a runningSouth’s Katie back-by-committee approach Walsh hits the to gaining the bulk of yardage ground as she on offense this season. pursues the ball That thinking changed when in front of North quarterback Penn’s Nikki Kenneth Hill. Both teams Cropper, a remained junior and unbeaten: second-year South’s record starter, beis 7-0-1. North gan spraying Penn is 5-0-1. the ball DAVID M WARREN / Staff Photographer around to a number of receivers. Thanks in large part to his surprising production, the Panthers are 3-0 for the first time since 2003. “We certainly anticipated throwing more, but to be honest, I didn’t expect to pass on her neck when she left the this much,” Gro said. Penn is 5-0-1. Hauck said. The defenses for the For the Maidens, the deadThe Titans had a 4-2 advan- field with a trainer to be The 5-foot-11, 175-pound Croptop-ranked Titans and lock ended a three-game tage in penalty corners in the checked out. per, flying under the radar enleague losing streak to South, first half. They stepped it up “It got a little rough at tering the 2010 campaign, has the No. 4 Maidens The Titans won both of their in the second with five to times,” Fedele explained. completed 31 of 48 passes (64.6 proved impenetrable. meetings last season by 2-1 North Penn’s one. Titans coach Christina Ford percent) for 705 yards and scores. The year before, they In the 15-minute overtime, hoped the overtime would ofeight touchdowns. “He’s a hardBy Don Beideman split during the regular sea- North Penn had two quick cor- fer her team more opportuniworking kid, diligent about his INQUIRER STAFF WRITER son. ners but couldn’t score, with ties to score with only seven preparation,” Gro said. North Penn and Central The tie “was definitely frus- defender Kelly Hamilton mak- players per side on the field. Cheltenham, which last seaBucks South, two of the area’s trating,” said North Penn de- ing a nice stick stop on one North Penn appeared to be top field hockey teams, spent fender Macie Hauck, who shot by Amy Coughlin. more tired than South in the son went 3-9 overall and 2-4 in an exhausting 75 minutes was responsible for some of The Titans then had two closing minutes but was able the Suburban One League American Conference, has playing in Wednesday’s warm the key defensive plays of the corners in the final 31/2 min- to hang on. three multipurpose backs: Dan weather. And all the two game. She had a big stick utes. They thought they had a “We just didn’t get the job Rouse, Chris Stephens, and Aqsquads had to show for their stop, blocking a shot by South goal off the second one when done,” Ford said. uil Reed. LeKan Ajibade is priefforts was a 0-0 tie in over- standout Maddie Harding off Kayla Kenney put the ball in North Penn coach Carrie marily a wideout in a spreadtime. a penalty corner with just the cage. Jankowski agreed that her It wasn’t as if the host Maid- less than 10 minutes to play. It was disallowed because team didn’t have as much in motion scheme. ens and Titans didn’t have “We started off slow,” the initial shot off the corner the tank at the end. “We’re not looking for one chances to score — they had Hauck continued, “but we fi- was higher than the 18 inches target,” Gro said. “We have sev“That’s always a hardquite a few — but each time, nally picked it up.” allowed by rule. eral kids we think are compeplayed game,” she said. the opposing defense rose to Hauck attributed the start Kenney did not start the Central Bucks South tent. We want to spread it out.” 0 0 0 0 – 0 the occasion in the Suburban to a little nervousness on the overtime because of an ankle North Penn 0 0 0 0 – 0 Before the season, Gro One League Continental Con- part of her and her team- problem, but she did come Saves: CBS-Lydia Keener 3; NP-Shannon Keen. planned to use Rouse, a 5-11, ference matchup. mates. It was no doubt the back. North Penn’s Liz Fedele 7. 175-pound senior who threw a The tie left both teams un- same for South: two heavy- took a bump on the head TD pass in an opening win beaten. South, ranked No. 1 in weights trying to figure each when she hit the artificial sur- Contact staff writer Don against Harry S Truman, only face while diving for a ball. Beideman at 267-815-0733 or The Inquirer’s weekly rank- other out. as a running back. “I realized, ings, is 7-0-1. No. 4 North “This is always a big game,” She was wearing an ice pack dbeideman@phillynews.com. though, that we couldn’t afford to lose the other things he does for us,” the coach said. Southeastern Pennsylvania Boys’ Sports Of the offensive line, which includes 6-foot, 185-pound senior tight end Jonathan Tsipori, Gro said, “It’s been a pleasant surprise so far.” The squad’s 4-4 defense, By Mike Gibson Lansdale Catholic past Neu- town beat Kensington, 3-1. Neshaminy goalie Austin FOR THE INQUIRER mann-Goretti, 8-0. Walravens Daniel scored Brotman had five saves in a yielding 11 points per game, has been led by ends Richard Tom Baker added four Matt DiLiegro scored twice four goals and added two as- 3-0 win at Bensalem. Bicentennial. Kyle Klein Levine (6-3, 230) and Logan goals to his impressive scor- for host Conwell-Egan in a 3-0 sists and Edward Slueue ing pace this season, leading win over Bishop McDevitt. chipped in with a goal and four scored off a pass from Dan Niederriter (5-11, 195). host Archbishop Wood past St. Joseph’s Prep needed a assists as host Bok routed Park- Fuich to break a tie and give Rouse, Orvin Liburd, and West Catholic, 8-1, in a Catho- second-half goal from Bren- way Center City, 8-0. host Holy Ghost Prep a 3-2 Tedi Lester are the mainstays Suburban One American. Joe win over New Hope-Solebury. at linebacker, with Ajibade lic League soccer game. dan Gallagher to beat CardiBaker is coming off a nal O’Hara, 2-1. Farrell had two assists for Matt Kyne scored three and Jamir Bullock rotating at 42-goal season in 2009 and alArchbishop Ryan beat visit- host Wissahickon in its 5-0 goals to lead Delco Christian one of the outside spots. The ready has 15 in the Vikings’ ing Roman Catholic, 4-0, as win over Upper Moreland. past host Springfield (Mont- secondary includes Cropper, Suburban One Continental. gomery County), 5-1. first eight games. He scored Kevin Nelms scored twice. Stevens, Reed, and Bazil WillPublic. Bartram scored all of Curtis Washburn scored 2 Pioneer Athletic. Sophomore iams, who fills in at safety all four goals in the game’s first 28 minutes. its goals by halftime in a 4-0 minutes, 30 seconds into over- Anthony Santoleri answered and cornerback. In other league games: win over visiting Southern. time to give North Penn a 2-1 a penalty kick by Phoenixville Lester missed the first two Father Judge, the No. 2 Abu Donvo scored twice and win at Central Bucks South. with three consecutive goals games because of a knee injuteam in The Inquirer’s Top 10, goalie Jefferson Banto made Ben Marks scored on a in the second half to give ry. Liburd, a quality wrestler, displayed a balanced attack two saves. header off a feed from Mike Methacton a 3-1 win over the signed up just before training with single goals by Ryan Central dominated visiting Gleason to give host Central visiting Phantoms. His brothCoaste, Eric Goldbloom, Ray Prep Charter, 6-0, as A.J. Tow- Bucks East a 1-0 overtime win er, senior Domenic Santoleri, camp. “I never anticipated Jimenez and Rich Maychack son scored twice, and Sam over Central Bucks West. The assisted on two of the goals. that he would actually make for a 4-0 win over visiting Bathurst and Davis Mantilla Patriots’ Shane Donovan reShawn Laskey’s goal and as- an impact,” Gro said. “In pracArchbishop Carroll. notched assists. turned to goalie duty after sist gave Perkiomen Valley a tices, he wears us out.” On Friday, in the American La Salle, the No. 1 team in Markus Malave had two fracturing a hip one month 2-0 win at Pottstown. Nonleague. Melvin Snoh Conference opener for both the Inquirer Top 10, rolled goals and Ray Melone ago and turned back all five past visiting Monsignor Bon- chipped in with three assists, shots he faced. scored four goals and assisted teams, Cheltenham will host Suburban One National. Ryan on the other as Malvern Prep Upper Dublin (2-1). The Cardiner, 5-0, as Darius Madison highlighting Franklin Towne nals are fueled on offense by scored twice. Charter’s 5-0 verdict over vis- Laska and Erhan Selvi scored beat visiting Hill School, 5-0. tailback Anthony Williams. Brendan Pinder had four iting Lincoln. first-half goals for Council goals and his brother, James, Jordan Jeune’s two second- Rock South in a 2-1 win at Contact Mike Gibson at Said Gro: “They run the ball had four assists to lead host half goals helped host German- Abington. rallysports@phillynews.com. really, really well. If they have

North Penn and C.B. South battle to a 0-0 draw in OT

Baker scores four as Wood routs W. Catholic

Girls’ Soccer Notebook

Cappo’s 200th win comes as a surprise to him By Don Beideman

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

When Archbishop Wood beat Archbishop Carroll on Sunday in girls’ soccer, it marked coach Bill Cappo’s 200th win in 17 seasons. It was also a surprise to him. “I don’t keep track of wins and losses,” said Cappo, whose Vikings are the defending Catholic League champions. “My assistant coach told me after the game.” Not only was Cappo in the dark on how many wins he had, but so were members of his team before the 10-0 victory. “I don’t know that it would have been any more incentive for us — we won the game rather easily — if we had known, but I’m so proud of him for reaching 200 wins,” said Deanna Messner, Wood’s freshman goalie.

Messner has recorded five straight shutouts since the Vikings, ranked No. 9 in Southeastern Pennsylvania by The Inquirer, lost their nonleague opener to Central Bucks South, 2-1. South is ranked No. 2. “It was rough in the beginning,” Messner said of her first year in goal. “It’s been a great experience, though.” Messner probably will face her stiffest test of the young season Thursday when Wood hosts Lansdale Catholic in a league game. The Crusaders were runners-up to Wood last season. “We have LC and then we face [Archbishop] Ryan,” added senior Christine Berrelle, who moved to sweeper against Carroll instead of playing her usual midfield position. Regular sweeper Hunter Filippo sat out the game because of tendinitis in her

hip, but is expected to be ready for the Crusaders. “I’ve played sweeper for my club team, so I was used to it,” Berrelle said.

was right out of the blocks,” West coach Wes Davis said. “We knew nothing about them, and they were physical. We had an early lead [1-0 at halftime], but couldn’t hold it. We’re learning as we go.”

a lot of leadership. And there’s more depth than we have had in the past.”

Changes galore. There has

been a major shuffle in the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches PIAA Class AAA champ DownAssociation rankings this ingtown West lost quite a Phillips to return. Pennsbury week, leaving teams from number of seniors from last coach Kaitlyn Battiste is look- Southeastern Pennsylvania season, but don’t count the ing forward to the return of sitting at the top three spots Whippets out of anything, es- center midfielder Molly Phil- in the poll. pecially if Morgan Dankanich lips sometime next week. PhilCouncil Rock South is No. 1, has anything to say about it. lips broke her nose in the Fal- followed by Central Bucks The senior striker has scored cons’ first scrimmage. South and Downingtown nine goals in the Whippets’ last Battiste, in her second sea- East. The Titans were No. 5 six games. The only team to son as coach, has Pennsbury last week, followed by the shut her out was third-ranked off to a 4-1 start. The loss was Cougars at No. 6. Owen J. Neshaminy, a 2-1 winner over a tough 2-1 setback against Roberts takes over No. 6, movthe Whippets. West’s other loss No. 3 Neshaminy. ing up from No. 9. Strath Hawas to Owen J. Roberts, ranked “We scored early and then ven is a newcomer at No. 9, No. 5. The Whippets were played well for a while before as is Neshaminy at No. 10. scheduled to play Downing- some mental breakdowns hurt town East, The Inquirer’s No. 4 us,” Battiste said. “We only lost Contact staff writer Don team, Wednesday night. four seniors from last year. We Beideman at 267-815-0733 or “The loss to Neshaminy have 10 seniors now, so there’s dbeideman@phillynews.com.

Dankanich hot. Defending

Inquirer State Football Rankings Previous rankings in parentheses. Area teams in bold.

Class AAAA 1. La Salle (2) 2. Ridley (3) 3. Pittsburgh Central Catholic (4) 4. Easton (5) 5. N. Allegheny (NR)

2-1 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0

Class AAA 1. Allentown Central Catholic (1) 2. West Allegheny (2) 3. Arch. Wood (3) 4. Bishop McDevitt (5) 5. Abington Hts. (4)

3-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 3-0

Class AA 1. Greensburg Central Catholic (1) 3-0 2. Lancaster Cath. (2) 3-0 3. Aliquippa (3) 3-0 4. North Schuylkill (4) 3-0 5. West Catholic (5) 1-2

Class A 1. Clairton (1) 3-0 2. Rochester (4) 3-0 3. So. Columbia (5) 3-0 4. Farrell (NR) 3-0 5. Riverside (NR) 3-0 — Rick O’Brien to throw against us, that means we’re having some success.”

More than baseball. Known

best for the talent it regularly produces on the diamond, Boyertown is making noise on the gridiron. The Bears, directed by rising QB Dylan Pasik and running backs Jared Von Dohren and Tom Froehlich, handed Pioneer Athletic Conference rival Pottsgrove, which came in ranked No. 5 by the Inquirer, a 34-28 loss Friday. The 6-3, 200-pound Pasik, a second-year starter, ran for a 3-yard TD and hooked up with Brook David for a 55-yard score. Boyertown, guided by thirdyear boss Mark Scisly, is 3-0 for the first time since 1991. The Bears will visit Pope John Paul II at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Extra points. Friday’s Suburban One League American Conference matchup between Upper Merion and host Norristown, set for Roosevelt Field, has been moved back to 7 p.m., the original start time. … In Friday’s game-clinching tackle of West Catholic’s Joshua Mathis, dropped two yards behind the line of scrimmage, La Salle’s tacklers were strong safety/linebacker Mark DiFrangia, end Joe Naji, and tackle Kieran Trainer. … In Garnet Valley’s 34-14 win over Conestoga last week, the Jaguars ran on all 81 plays from scrimmage. That included a third-quarter play in which punter Nathan Miller, with Garnet Valley at its own 11, intentionally stepped out of the end zone for a safety. Contact staff writer Rick O’Brien at 610-313-8019 or robrien@phillynews.com.

The Inquirer TOP 10 GIRLS’ SOCCER

Team

Record

Records are through Tuesday. Last week’s rankings in parentheses.

1. Council Rock S. (1)

5-0

2. Central Bucks S. (4) 5-0-1 3. Neshaminy (2)

4-2

4. Downingtown East (3) 6-1 5. Owen J. Roberts (5) 6-0-1 6. Boyertown (6)

6-1-1

7. Pennridge (8)

4-1

8. Strath Haven (9)

5-1

9. Archbishop Wood (10) 5-1 10. Unionville (7) 4-2-1 Under consideration (listed alphabetically): Council Rock North (4-2), Hatboro-Horsham (4-0), Lower Merion (5-0-1), Pennsbury (4-1), Radnor (5-2). — Don Beideman

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Wednesday’s Results Boys’ Soccer CATHOLIC LEAGUE Archbishop Wood 8, West Catholic 1 Conwell-Egan 3, Bishop McDevitt 0 Lansdale Catholic 8, Neumann-Goretti 0 Father Judge 4, Archbishop Carroll 0 St. Joseph‘s Prep 2, Cardinal O‘Hara 1 La Salle 5, Monsignor Bonner 0 Archbishop Ryan 4, Roman Catholic 0 BICENTENNIAL LEAGUE Delco Christian 5, Springfield (M) 1 Holy Ghost Prep 3, New Hope-Solebury 2 FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE Moorestown Friends 2, Germantown Friends 1 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Spring-Ford 10, Upper Perkiomen 0 Methacton 3, Phoenixville 1 Perkiomen Valley 2, Pottstown 0 Pottsgrove at Boyertown, ppd. PUBLIC LEAGUE A Masterman 5, Olney 0 Franklin Towne Charter 5, Lincoln 0 Bartram 4, Southern 0 Central 6, Prep Charter 0 Northeast 3, Phila. Academy Charter 1 PUBLIC LEAGUE C Science Leadership 4, Edison 1 Germantown 3, Kensington 1 Palumbo 4, FitzSimons 0 Bok 8, Parkway Center City 0 SUBURBAN ONE AMERICAN Cheltenham 1, Plymouth Whitemarsh 0 Wissahickon 5, Upper Moreland 0 SUBURBAN ONE CONTINENTAL North Penn 2, Central Bucks South 1 (2 OT) Central Bucks East 1, Central Bucks West 0 (OT) SUBURBAN ONE NATIONAL Neshaminy 3, Bensalem 0 Council Rock South 2, Abington 1 NONLEAGUE Malvern Prep 5, Hill School 0 Academy of New Church 1, Solebury School 1

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CHES-MONT LEAGUE West Chester Rustin 4, Sun Valley 0 Avon Grove 4, Coatesville 0 West Chester East 1, W.C. Henderson 1 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Methacton at Phoenixville, ppd. Perkiomen Valley 6, Pottstown 0 SUBURBAN ONE AMERICAN Plymouth Whitemarsh 1, Cheltenham 0 (2 OT) Upper Dublin 5, Norristown 0 Wissahickon 2, Upper Moreland 2 SUBURBAN ONE CONTINENTAL Central Bucks South 3, North Penn 3 SUBURBAN ONE NATIONAL Council Rock North 2, Pennsbury 0 Neshaminy 6, Bensalem 0 Council Rock South 5, Abington 0 NONLEAGUE Germantown Academy 5, Friends‘ Central 0 Phil-Mont Christian 2, Friends Select 1 Abington Friends 4, MaST Charter 0 Westampton Tech 1, Christian Academy 1 Solebury School 6, Academy of New Church 1 Perkiomen School 3, Mercy Vocational 0

Field Hockey BICENTENNIAL LEAGUE Bristol 2, Calvary Christian 0 Christopher Dock 7, Plumstead Christian 0 Springfield (M) 7, Delco Christian 3 CATHOLIC LEAGUE Cardinal O‘Hara 6, Archbishop Wood 0 Archbishop Carroll 8, Conwell-Egan 0 DEL-VAL LEAGUE Academy Park 6, Penn Wood 0 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Methacton 3, Phoenixville 0 Pope John Paul II 2, Owen J. Roberts 0 SUBURBAN ONE AMERICAN Plymouth Whitemarsh 11, Cheltenham 0 Upper Dublin 3, Norristown 0 Wissahickon 7, Upper Moreland 1 SUBURBAN ONE CONTINENTAL Central Bucks South 0, North Penn 0 Souderton 1, Quakertown 0 SUBURBAN ONE NATIONAL Council Rock North 3, Pennsbury 0 Neshaminy 4, Bensalem 0 Abington 1, Council Rock South 0 (2 OT)

Girls’ Volleyball PUBLIC LEAGUE Saul 3, Girls High 1 Fels 3, Science Leadership 1 Southern 3, Franklin Learning Center 1 Ben Franklin 3, Simon Gratz 1 Mastbaum 3, Freire Charter 0 Engineering & Science 3, Frankford 1 Lincoln 3, Mariana Bracetti 0 NONLEAGUE Merion Mercy 3, Archmere 0

Girls’ Tennis CENTRAL LEAGUE Conestoga 7, Marple Newtown 0 Harriton 7, Ridley 0 Upper Darby 5, Strath Haven 2 INTER-AC LEAGUE Baldwin 6, Springside 0 PUBLIC LEAGUE Washington 5, Northeast 0 SUBURBAN ONE AMERICAN Upper Dublin 7, Norristown 0 Wissahickon 7, Upper Moreland 0 TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE Perkiomen School 5, Woodlynde 0 NONLEAGUE Germantown Friends 4, Central 1 Agnes Irwin 6, Hill School 1 Episcopal Academy 5, Friends‘ Central 2

Water Polo NONLEAGUE Lawrenceville 16, Penn Charter 8

Cross-Country BOYS St. Joseph’s Prep 32, Archbishop Wood 34, Roman Catholic 77, Lansdale Catholic 110, Archbishop Carroll 148 (1, Owen Glatts, SJP, 17:13) Father Juge 31, La Salle 34, Monsignor Bonner 81, Archbishop Ryan 108, Cardinal O’Hara 123 (1, Joe Joniec, FJ, 18:02) Wissahickon 21, Upper Dublin 37 Wissahickon 15, Plymouth Whitemarsh 48 (1, Dillon Farrell, W, 16:34)

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North Penn 15, Central Bucks West 43 North Penn 18, Central Bucks South 38 Central Bucks South 23, Central Bucks West 32 (1, Dan Davis, NP, 17:06) Perkiomen School 41, Collegium 43, Woodlynde 98, Del-Val Friends 99, Phelps 129, Mercy Vocational 185 (1, Chris Meade, PS, 17:22) Spring-Ford 15, Pottstown 50 Owen J. Roberts 15, Pottstown 50 Spring-Ford 27, Owen J. Roberts 28 GIRLS Archbishop Wood 15, St. Hubert 74, Archbishop Prendergast 86 (1, Kasey Brown, AW, 21:12) Cardinal O’Hara 15, Archbishop Ryan 51, Archbishop Carroll 68 (1, Erin Dolan, CO, 22:45) North Penn 15, Central Bucks South 40 Central Bucks West 15, Central Bucks South 45 Central Bucks West 27, North Penn 28 (1, Meghan McGovern, NP, 18:44) Owen J. Roberts 15, Pottstown 50 Spring-Ford 15, Pottstown 50 Owen J. Roberts 27, Spring-Ford 28

Golf CATHOLIC ACADEMIES Mount St. Joseph 236, Nazareth Academy 296 (Nicole Mischler, M, 44; Laura Pharo, Jenna Jester, N, 61 at Old York Road) CATHOLIC LEAGUE Archbishop Wood 253, Conwell-Egan 364 (Paul Carbone, AW, 35; Blaise Straka, CE, 45 at par-36 Old York Road) Archbishop Ryan 260, Monsignor Bonner 267 (Walt Clark, AR, 41; Matt Lewis, Sean Kirkwood, John O’Neill, MB, 42 at par-34 Torresdale-Frankford) Cardinal O’Hara 273, Neumann-Goretti 281 (Nick Familetti, CO, 40; Liam Dougherty, NG, 40 at par-34 FDR) PUBLIC LEAGUE Boys’ Latin 245, FitzSimons 262 (Bryan Davenport, BL, 70 at par-62 Walnut Lane)

Thursday’s Schedule Football CHES-MONT LEAGUE AMERICAN Great Valley at Octorara, 7 PUBLIC LEAGUE CLASS AA At Southern: Bok vs. High School of Future, 6 PUBLIC LEAGUE CLASS AAA University City at Roxborough, 3

Boys’ Soccer BICENTENNIAL LEAGUE Plumstead Christian at Girard College, 3:45 CENTRAL LEAGUE Conestoga at Springfield (D), 3:45 Penncrest at Garnet Valley, 3:45 Lower Merion at Haverford High, 3:45 Radnor at Upper Darby, 3:45 Ridley at Strath Haven, 3:45 Marple Newtown at Harriton, 7 CHES-MONT AMERICAN West Chester Rustin at Sun Valley, 3:45 Kennett at Unionville, 7:30 CHES-MONT NATIONAL Coatesville at Avon Grove, 7 Downingtown West at Downingtown East, 7 DEL-VAL LEAGUE Academy Park at Penn Wood, 3:30 Chichester at Interboro, 3:30 PENN-JERSEY LEAGUE Pine Forge at Solebury School, 4 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Pottstown at Owen J. Roberts, 7:30 PUBLIC LEAGUE Fels at Martin Luther King, 3:15 Franklin Learning Center at Roxborough, 3:15 Boys‘ Latin at Furness, 3:15 Swenson at Frankford, 3:15 Bodine at Engineering & Science, 3:15 TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE Perkiomen School at Woodlynde, 3:45 Wyncote at Mercy Vocational, 3:45 NONLEAGUE Glen Mills at Valley Forge, 3:30 Bishop Shanahan at Great Valley, 3:45 Hun School at Chestnut Hill, 4 Tatnall at Episcopal Academy, 4:15

Girls’ Soccer CATHOLIC ACADEMIES Villa Maria at Gwynedd-Mercy, 3:45 Mount St. Joseph at St. Basil, 3:45 Villa Joseph Marie at Nazareth Academy, 3:45 CATHOLIC LEAGUE Bishop McDevitt at Little Flower, 3:30 Conwell-Egan at St. Hubert, 3:30 Lansdale Catholic at Archbishop Wood, 3:30 Archbishop Ryan at West Catholic, 3:30 Hallahan at Archbishop Carroll, 3:30 Neumann-Goretti at Cardinal O‘Hara, 3:45 CENTRAL LEAGUE Harriton at Marple Newtown, 3:30 Springfield (D) at Conestoga, 3:45 Garnet Valley at Penncrest, 3:45 Haverford High at Lower Merion, 3:45 Upper Darby at Radnor, 3:45 Strath Haven at Ridley, 3:45 CHES-MONT LEAGUE Great Valley at Bishop Shanahan, 3:45 Kennett at Unionville, 6 TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE Woodlynde at Perkiomen School, 4 NONLEAGUE Interboro at Chichester, 3:30 Del-Val Friends at Christian Academy, 3:45

Field Hockey CENTRAL LEAGUE Garnet Valley at Penncrest, 3:45 Haverford High at Lower Merion, 3:45 Upper Darby at Radnor, 3:45 Strath Haven at Ridley, 3:45 Harriton at Marple Newtown, 7 Springfield (D) at Conestoga, 7:15 CHES-MONT AMERICAN Sun Valley at West Chester Rustin, 3:45 Kennett at Unionville, 4:15 CHES-MONT NATIONAL Downingtown East at Downingtown West, 3:45 West Chester East at W.C. Henderson, 3:45 Avon Grove at Coatesville, 7 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Pottstown at Owen J. Roberts, 7:30 PUBLIC LEAGUE Washington at Central, 3 Northeast at Lincoln, 3 Girls High at Franklin Towne Charter, 3:15 Rhodes at Frankford, 3:15 SUBURBAN ONE NATIONAL Pennsbury at Truman, 7 TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE Perkiomen School at Kimberton Waldorf, 3:45 NONLEAGUE Great Valley at Bishop Shanahan, 3:45 Westtown at Agnes Irwin, 3:45

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Girls’ Volleyball CATHOLIC ACADEMIES Gwynedd-Mercy at Merion Mercy, 5 Neumann-Goretti at Archbishop Carroll, 7 CATHOLIC LEAGUE St. Hubert at Little Flower, 3:30 Archbishop Ryan at Hallahan, 5:30 Bishop McDevitt at Archbishop Prendergast, 6:30 West Catholic at Lansdale Catholic, 6:30 Archbishop Wood at Cardinal O‘Hara, 7 CHES-MONT LEAGUE West Chester Rustin at Avon Grove, 5 Downingtown East at W.C. Henderson, 5 Kennett at Bishop Shanahan, 5:15 Downingtown West at Octorara, 5:15 West Chester East at Sun Valley, 5:15 Unionville at Oxford, 5:15 PUBLIC LEAGUE Washington at CAPA, 3:15 Olney at Bok, 3:15 Roxborough at High School of Future, 3:15 Overbrook at Parkway West, 3:15 Kensington at Bodine, 3:15 Dobbins at Furness, 3:15 University City at Lamberton, 3:15 SUBURBAN ONE AMERICAN Cheltenham at Norristown, 3:30 Plymouth Whitemarsh at Wissahickon, 3:30 Abington at Upper Merion, 3:30 Upper Dublin at Hatboro-Horsham, 7 SUBURBAN ONE CONTINENTAL North Penn at Souderton, 7 SUBURBAN ONE NATIONAL Bensalem at Council Rock North, 3:30 Neshaminy at Truman, 3:30 Pennsbury at Council Rock South, 3:30 NONLEAGUE Harriton at Academy Park, 3:45 MaST Charter at New Hope-Solebury, 3:45 Sacred Heart at Baldwin, 3:45 Strath Haven at St. Basil, 4 Renaissance Academy at Faith Christian, 4 Marple Newtown at Mount St. Joseph, 5 Agnes Irwin at Penn Wood, 5 Coatesville at Spring-Ford, 5:15 Methacton at Great Valley, 5:15 Westtown at Wilmington Friends, 5:15

Girls’ Tennis BICENTENNIAL LEAGUE Lower Moreland at Christopher Dock, 3:45 Calvary Christian at Plumstead Christian, 3:45 Delco Christian at New Hope-Solebury, 3:45 Phil-Mont Christian at Jenkintown, 3:45 CATHOLIC ACADEMIES Nazareth Academy at Merion Mercy, 3:45 Mount St. Joseph at Gwynedd-Mercy, 3:45 Villa Maria at Sacred Heart, 3:45 St. Basil at Villa Joseph Marie, 3:45 CENTRAL LEAGUE Conestoga at Strath Haven, 3:45 Ridley at Garnet Valley, 3:45 Penncrest at Haverford High, 3:45 Marple Newtown at Lower Merion, 3:45 Radnor at Harriton, 3:45 Springfield (D) at Upper Darby, 3:45 CHES-MONT LEAGUE Avon Grove at Bishop Shanahan, 3:30 Sun Valley at Coatesville, 3:30 Downingtown East at West Chester Rustin, 3:30 Downingtown West at Octorara, 3:30 West Chester East at Oxford, 3:30 Kennett at W.C. Henderson, 3:30 Great Valley at Unionville, 3:30 DEL-VAL LEAGUE Chester at Academy Park, 3:30 Penn Wood at Chichester, 3:30 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Methacton at Boyertown, 3:30 Spring-Ford at Owen J. Roberts, 3:30 Pottstown at Perkiomen Valley, 3:30 Phoenixville at Upper Perkiomen, 3:30 Pottsgrove at Pope John Paul II, 3:30 PUBLIC LEAGUE Central at Bodine, 3:15 Washington at Northeast, 3:15 Masterman at Girls High, 3:15 Bartram at Edison, 3:15 Frankford at Olney, 3:15 Lincoln at Parkway NW, 3:15 NONLEAGUE Lansdale Catholic at Wissahickon, 3:30

Water Polo Pennridge at La Salle Perkiomen Valley at Upper Merion, 4:30 Springfield (M) at Upper Perkiomen, 5:30

Friday’s Schedule Boys’ Soccer BICENTENNIAL LEAGUE Calvary Christian at Phil-Mont Christian, 2 Delco Christian at Lower Moreland, 3:45 Christopher Dock at Springfield (M), 3:45 CATHOLIC LEAGUE Archbishop Wood at Cardinal O‘Hara, 3:30 St. Joseph‘s Prep at Archbishop Carroll, 3:30 West Catholic at Bishop McDevitt, 3:45 Lansdale Catholic at Archbishop Ryan, 7 Father Judge at Monsignor Bonner, 7:30 At Lighthouse Field: Conwell-Egan vs. Roman Catholic, 8 PUBLIC LEAGUE C Germantown at Douglas, 3:15 Del-Val Charter at Carroll, 3:15 Kensington at Science Leadership, 3:15 FitzSimons at Parkway Center City, 3:15 Bok at Lamberton, 3:15 University City at New Media Charter, 3:15 SUBURBAN ONE LEAGUE Cheltenham at Norristown, 3:30 Wissahickon at Upper Merion, 3:30 Upper Moreland at Upper Dublin, 3:30 Central Bucks East at Central Bucks South, 3:30 Central Bucks West at Hatboro-Horsham, 3:30 Souderton at Pennridge, 3:30 Quakertown at North Penn, 3:45 Council Rock South at Council Rock North, 3:30 William Tennent at Neshaminy, 3:30 Truman at Pennsbury, 3:30 Abington at Bensalem, 3:30

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Central Bucks South’s Meghan Kaminski makes a setup shot during a volleyball match against Central Bucks East. She added soccer when the sport switched from spring to fall this year.

Titans’ Kaminski does double duty in the fall

She’s playing on both the volleyball and soccer teams. By Don Beideman

noon and volleyball in the evening. When the PIAA eliminated Bocklet said it’s her happyits spring girls’ soccer chamgo-lucky style and her height pionship, forcing some that make her a confident schools to move their soccer goalie. In the district playoffs, season to the fall, a few multihe asked her if she had a sport athletes knew they strategy for the penalty kicks. would have to make a deci“I’ll get to what I can,” she sion on which sport to play in nonchalantly replied. autumn. Her mother says she has a For Meghan Kaminski, fall goalkeeper’s personality, nevhad always been volleyball er letting anything, including season. In the spring, she a goal, get her down. Amy Kamoved over to soccer. minski calls her daughter a But Kaminski, a junior at classic third sibling — wantCentral Bucks South, never ing to try everything that oldthought about making a er sisters Brandi and Kelsey choice. She didn’t see why did. Meghan took dance lesshe couldn’t play two sports sons, played a little basketin the same season. Neither ball, and even had a fling with Kaminski, a junior, is also the did her mother, Amy. the drums but ultimately starting goalie for the Titans’ gave them up for soccer and So the two approached then- soccer team. She has the volleyball. athletic director Mike Dougher- blessings of both coaches. ty last school year about play“I wanted to play in the ing both sports. Dougherty said ing whatever they do.” school band, but I had too it had been done before, and he Last spring, Kaminski many other things,” she said. had nothing against it. Her height gives her an addproved her worth to his soc“He only asked that cer team, which won the Dis- ed advantage when she dives Meghan talk to both coaches trict 1 championship with a for shots high in the upper to get their permission to do victory over Council Rock corners of the net. it,” her mother said. Of course, her height helps a South on penalty kicks. DurNeither volleyball coach Ul- ing the penalty-kick session, lot on the volleyball court, too. ana Keer nor soccer coach she made several saves to “She’s a gifted athlete and Joe Bocklet objected, and give South an 8-7 advantage can play anywhere,” Keer each is benefiting from Ka- and the win. The game had said. minski’s contributions. been tied, 0-0, forcing the penAlthough she has almost The Titans’ soccer team is alty kicks. South finished the two full years of high school 5-0-2 and ranked fourth in season 18-4-1. competition remaining, severSoutheastern Pennsylvania Explaining her desire to al colleges have expressed an by The Inquirer. Kaminski play both sports, Kaminski interest. Drexel, Pitt, and has allowed only two goals as said, “I didn’t want to let ei- Maryland are looking at her the starting goalie. The ther team down. I decided I’d for soccer. Villanova, Mary6-foot-1 Kaminski plays all- be more of an asset to the land, Michigan State, and Syraround for the South volley- soccer team; that’s why I acuse like her for volleyball. ball team, which was 4-0 en- made soccer my primary Either way, the colleges will tering Tuesday night’s match sport. But I don’t have a favor- be getting a very levelheaded against Central Bucks East. ite.” player and an honor student to Bocklet likes that she’s playFortunately for Kaminski, boot. ing multiple sports. there have been few direct “I have a problem with stu- conflicts between the sports. Contact staff writer Don dents who focus on one sport,” On Monday, for example, she Beideman at 267-815-0733 or he said. “They should be enjoy- played soccer in the after- dbeideman@phillynews.com. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Southeastern Pennsylvania Girls’ Sports

Bieler’s late goal gives PW a 1-0 win By Mike Gibson

Laura Lacy had three goals and Claire Boylan, Brooke Erinoff and Jenn Smokonich added the others as Solebury topped visiting Academy of the New Church, 6-1. Alexis Rice turned back 12 of the 13 shots she faced in goal for the Spartans (2-2). Chelsea Baker scored in the game’s 55th minute to give Phil-Mont Christian a 2-0 lead in a 2-1 win at Friends Select. Grace Finkbiner scored a second-half goal for the Falcons.

goals as host Plymouth Whitemarsh overwhelmed CheltenPersistence paid off for ham, 11-0. The Colonials host Plymouth Whitemarsh scored six goals in the first and Erin Bieler in a Suburban half and five in the second. One American Conference Suburban One National. Alex soccer game with CheltenKuzma scored twice for host ham on Wednesday. Council Rock North in its 3-0 Bieler’s header was the Cowin over Pennsbury. Jacque lonials’ 55th shot of the game Fagan also scored for the Indiwith 1 minute, 2 seconds left ans (2-4). Amanda Krause got in the second overtime to the shutout in goal. give them a 1-0 win. Brittany Calvert scored a Jess Knudsen was credited pair of goals for Neshaminy with an assist on the play. in a 4-0 win at Bensalem. CaitCheltenham goalie Jay Mee lin Carrezola added a goal Stepp turned back an aston- Field Hockey and an assist for the Redishing 54 shots before that. skins, who also got a goal Upper Dublin monopolized from Brittany Sheenan. LindPioneer Athletic. Naomi Moono scored twice and on most of the shots and say Blum, Annie Kopera and Emily Armstrong added a rolled to a 3-0 Suburban One Char Reese were also creditpair of assists as Perkiomen American win over visiting ed with assists. Catholic. Steph Fratoni’s hat Valley topped visiting Potts- Norristown. The Cardinals (6-2 overall, trick helped Cardinal O’Hara town, 6-0. The Vikings (2-4) scored four second-half goals. 4-0 league) had 26 shots to cruise past host Archbishop Nonleague. Abington Friends the Eagles’ three and Emily Wood, 6-0, to remain unbeatGoalie Marykate scored a pair of goals in each Hitchings found the range e n . half and earned a 4-0 win at twice. Sarah Carroll also O’Connell had four saves for the Lions (7-0-1). MaST Charter. Gabby Garza, scored. The most impressive stat of Kelly McGlynn, Diana SandmMaddie Lesher notched a eyer and Lauren Thompson the game belonged to Norris- hat trick and Rachael Brosius town goalie Eliana Gilette, added a pair of goals to lead scored. visiting Archbishop Carroll to Megan McNamara had who had 23 saves. In other conference games: an 8-0 win over Conwellthree goals and an assist to Lauren Becker had two Egan. The Patriots (5-3, 1-0) lead host Germantown Academy to a 5-0 win over Friends’ goals and three assists for also got a goal and an assist Central. Cailyn Alfieri and Wissahickon in its 7-1 win at each from Maura Campbell Kerry Lawlor also scored for Upper Moreland. Jackie and Michelle Walsh. Del-Val. Sara Jackson and the Patriots (2-4), who got a Hibbs added a goal and two pair of assists from Sarah Ar- assists for the Trojans (5-2, Ashley O’Donnell each scored mato. Melanie Rapella had 3-0). twice to lead host Academy three saves in goal to post the Meg McCullough and Galen Park past Penn Wood, 6-0. Newsum each scored three A m a n d a G o m m e r a n d shutout. FOR THE INQUIRER

Kellianne Gallagher each chipped in with a pair of assists. Ches-Mont. Megan Barone, Jess Bednarcik, Arielle Hamerslag and Allison Wethey scored goals for host West Chester Rustin in a 4-0 win over Sun Valley. Bicentennial. Hannah Loux scored a pair of goals for Christopher Dock in a 7-0 win over Plumstead Christian. The Pioneers scored four first-half goals. Karli Balmer, Hannah Bergey, Jenessa Derstine, Megan Evans and Courtney Hunsberger also scored. Anna Studenmund scored three goals and Annie Crudele added two more as host Springfield (Montgomery County) topped Delco Christian, 7-3. Elise DiFilippo had a goal and three assists for the Spartans (5-0). Freshman Mary Wallick scored a pair of second-half goals for host Bristol in its 2-0 win over Calvary Christian. Gabby Fracke had four saves in goal for the Warriors (4-4). Pioneer Athletic. Emily Kellett scored twice in Methacton’s 3-0 win over visiting Phoenixville. Danielle Schanbacher added a goal and two assists. Contact Mike Gibson at mgibson@phillynews.com.

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Summer ends; simmer doesn’t Fall officially began late Wednesday with the region breaking the record for 90-degree days. What’s ahead?

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¢ Rays at Yankees, 7 p.m. (MLB Network)

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FOOD

Trends favoring locally grown food are kindling new interest in Sukkot, the harvest holiday sometimes called “the Jewish Thanksgiving.” A growing number of Jews are rediscovering the holiday and celebrating with sukkahs in their backyards. F1.

¢ Miami at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

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J-Lo, Stevie T are new ‘Idol’ judges

To no one’s surprise, Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith guy Steven Tyler have been named American Idol arbiters. E2.

TV Tonight

The Big Bang Theory: Penny tags along on Sheldon’s first date ever, with fellow social misfit Amy Fowler. 8 p.m., CBS3

30 Rock: Jack meddles in Liz’s love life while trying to compromise with Amy as she redecorates his apartment. 8:30 p.m., NBC10

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BANKRUPTCY

The dilemma for note holders

Investors who bought notes from Advanta face a gamble. Do they sell them to professional investors, or bet they will get more out of the ultimate settlement? C1.

HEALTH CARE

As law unfolds, some answers

Some parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act take effect. Common questions are answered. C1.

WEATHER

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Left, sax player Victor North,

guitarist Craig Ebner play at Chris’ Jazz Cafe. North is also the Tuesday open-mike host. Inset, Chris’ executive chef and co-owner Mark DeNinno in his kitchen.

HOT & COOL FOR 20 YEARS See CHRIS' on E3 ELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer

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t’s nearly midnight on Friday night. The owners of Chris’ Jazz Cafe, Glenn Gerber and Mark DeNinno, are hanging outside, jabbering with several players readying to enter their weekly late-night jam. There’s a throng of players, young and old, at the door. Inside, drummer and jam leader Jason Faulkner, saxophonist Victor North (the venue’s Tuesday open-mike host), and oth-

ers bear down on hard-driving cool-blue riffs, from “My Shining Hour” to “Monk’s Dream.” While audience members hang at a bar worn by countless elbows and scored with cigarette burns, musicians make their way into the kitchen’s back hallway to practice before their shot on a stage where internationally known jazz greats such as Pat Martino, Joshua Redman, and the Bad Plus play. “By 2 a.m. we’ll have to throw like 80 people out because they can’t stop digging what’s going on — those on stage as well as the audience,” DeNinno says with a laugh, See CHRIS’ on E3

Chris’ Jazz Cafe holds forth with its clean signature sound, the lone Center City live jazz room, an island in a quiet storm.

Family of cops on solid ‘Blue Bloods’ Also premiering: The unprintable, “Outsourced” office humor, a generational drama. Television

$#*! My Dad Says

8:30 p.m. Thursday on CBS3

My Generation 8 p.m. Thursday on 6ABC

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Dirk Brossé debuts as the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia’s music director Saturday. His work is not well-known here.

A little-known conductor comes with a big resumé By David Patrick Stearns

INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC

ith his square jaw, penetrating eyes, and thick dark hair, Belgian conductor Dirk Brossé looks as if he ought to be somebody — and a serious somebody at that. Yet few conductors have arrived for a major post with so little prior reputation as the new music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Brossé, born and based in Ghent, has a huge, diverse resumé as a composer of film scores, musicals, and concert works — roughly 200 in all genres — plus a

9:30 p.m. Thursday on NBC10

Blue Bloods 10 p.m. Friday on CBS3

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remiere Week” comes to a close Friday night with the best new broadcast series of the fall. And, just to prove this TV thing is still a mystery to everybody, the worst one debuts the night before, on the very same network. A few more new shows pop up in the next few weeks to augment the 16 the networks will have left on our doorsteps since Monday, but none will match the solid cast and intriguing writing of Blue Bloods, which stars Tom Selleck as New York City’s police com-

missioner. Nor will anybody be able to go below the desperately unfunny $#*! My Dad Says, which becomes doubly uncomfortable because it so misuses another beloved TV veteran, William Shatner. A second sitcom, about See TELEVISION on E5

Reagan, N.Y. police commissioner, in “Blue Bloods”: Tension and intimacy.

Soap opera with a message about AIDS

Music

By Toby Zinman

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

8 p.m. Saturday at the Mann Center, $10-$25, www.manncenter.org; 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Kimmel Center, $24-$81, www.chamberorchestra.org; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Baptist Temple, $28, www.thebaptisttemple.org.

guest-conducting record that has taken him to a lion’s share of Europe’s secondary orchestras. He’s been there and done that in triplicate — though in few placSee BROSSE on E3

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Tom Selleck stars as Frank

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Walter DeShields (left) and Neil Carr in a scene

from “VI Degrees,” a play created by Kash Goins. It is part of the Philly Urban Theatre Festival.

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he brave, ambitious Philly Urban Theatre Festival — 14 plays by African American writers performed over a period of three weeks — was created and is produced by Kash Goins, a Philadelphia actor. I met him briefly in the lobby of the Adrienne Theater: a big, genial guy who radiated charm and openingnight nerves. With the festival offering two full-length plays on the

Theater Review

VI Degrees

Through Sunday at the Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St. Tickets: $20. Information: www.putf.org.

first night — Tiffany Joyner’s Apologies Are for the Living on the Adrienne’s main stage, Goins’ VI Degrees in the upstairs space — I could see only one. In 2009, VI Degrees was See 'VI DEGREES' on E4

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Wednesday, on the stage of the Forum in Los Angeles, amid intense speculation — OK, not that intense; everyone knew it for awhile now — the final two American Idol judges were announced! “Rolled out,” as they say. They are Steven Tyler, lunatic wide-mouth tenor of Aerosmith, and impossibly gorgeous Jennifer Lopez. They’ll join Randy Jackson, still there after all these years. Host Ryan Seacrest introduced the trio in a fired-up, thumping, pointless rally. See, they’re “auditioning.” OK, this has to be the craziest, most random assortment of three people ever, in the show’s grand tradition of unexplainedly wacky combos of jaggedly divergent

personalities. Everyone’s hoping J-Lo and Stevie T can recapture the magic (did we really write that? what magic?) of former Idol arbiters Paula Abdul and Simon “Me Make Money” Cowell. So, are J-Lo and Stevie supposed to fight? She would so clock the little dude. …

Oh, no, now it begins … By law, soon as you get to be a judge on Idol, the snarks start. Rumor: J-Lo’s getting $12 million for her Idolness. Rumor: She’s such a diva she nearly botched the deal — and is already busting chops on the set. (“Gimme them yellow M&Ms!!!!”) Stevie T, now resembling a weird mix of Whoopi Goldberg and Topo Gigio, says his Aerosmith mates are all, like, “jealous.”

Star and Buc Wild on WPHI? Are Star & Buc Wild itching for a return to Philly radio? WPHI (The Beat 100.3), which has been without a morning show for months, has given a few middle-of-the-night air shifts to the edgy duo. Star (Troi Torain) and Buc Wild (Timothy Joseph) used Twitter on Wednesday to announce that they’d return to 100.3 from 2 to 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Star and Buc were last heard as the syndicated morning show on rival WUSL (Power 99) but were fired in May 2006 after Star said on the air that he wanted to “do an R. Kelly” on a rival DJ’s 4-year-old daughter. In 2001 at another station, Star made headlines for airing a tape of a woman’s screams silenced by a crash — two days after singer Aaliyah’s plane went down. They host a Web show at www.starandbucwild.com. Should Star and Buc get the morning job — as reporter Dana Hall at Radio-Info.com suggests is the angle here — they’d face off against Jonesy, who hosts AM drive at Power 99. Jonesy was their sidekick when the duo were working in New York. Station management would not address the issue Wednesday.

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So who’ll be the mean one? Steven Tyler (left) and Jennifer Lopez were introduced Wednesday as the new

“American Idol” judges, joining holdover talent assessor Randy Jackson on the hit show. filmmaker friend Casey Affleck. The fake documentary on Phoenix’s “career change,” called I’m Still Here, just hit theaters. At Letterman’s urging, Phoenix also made clear that the talk-show host had not been in on the joke.

Surviving Oksana lawyer seen on TV

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David Letterman told Joaquin Phoenix his last

visit was “like you slipped and hit your head.”

Phoenix comes clean

Actor Joaquin Phoenix returned to David Letterman’s Late Show on Wednesday to apologize for his weird appearance last year. The one that turned out to be an elaborate piece of performance art and the world’s longest movie role. “You’ve interviewed many, many people,” Phoenix said, “and I assumed that you would know the difference between a character and a real person, so — but I apologize. I hope I didn’t offend you in any way.” No offense taken, Letterman replied, saying the chance to lob jokes at Phoenix had been like batting practice. Phoenix was clean-cut and shaven Wednesday, without the sunglasses, shaggy beard, and unruly hair he wore Feb. 11, 2009, when the actor told a befuddled Letterman that he was giving up acting for a rap career. Describing that appearance Wednesday, Letterman told Phoenix it was “like you slipped and hit your head in the tub.” Instead, Phoenix was playing a role for

A shout-out to David Horowitz, lawyer for Oksana Grigorieva, for getting us into the middle rounds! Still standing after she fired an eloquence of lawyers, Horowitz, on NBC’s Today Wednesday morn, fired back at the Mel Gibson camp. No, Oksana didn’t release those humiliating tapes of Mel going off, David told host Meredith Vieira. She didn’t take money for selling them. Or withholding them. She didn’t get no money. She’s broke and is a “domestic violence victim.” Mel’s camp says she’s trying to get paid, to extort/soak Mel. O and M are battling for custody of daughter Lucia. Oksana claims Mel abused her during their troubled time together. Meantime, longtime Mel bosom-bud Jodie Foster, his director and costar in new flick The Beaver, calls Mel “the easiest, nicest person I’ve ever worked with.”

Irma La Doubt casts doubt on David

You knew it had to happen sometime. Soccer and fashion god David Beckham, we mean, having some corner kicks with a lady not his wife. Or it could all be a lie. We don’t know. But we derive choice jollies from Irma Nici, high-end (and we say this humorously) California call-woman, who tells In Touch Weekly she and David teamed up five times in 2007. Irma calls the experience “a high.” Victoria Beckham, David’s wife, might say the reverse. David’s not taking this in the penalty box: He says he told In Touch the accusations were untrue and “ridiculous.” He’s taking

legal action.

We don’t want to hear this one, either

Bent on demolition of all happy unions, the same In Touch reports on reports that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are about to break up. Unnamed Source tells Star mag Ash-K’s been tomcattin’ with some random named Brittney Jones. (They met at a bowling alley, so it must be true.) He’s even been sexting. Gasp!

DeBella says Kim K is a krok, wants $$

John DeBella, longtime Philly radio guy and morning man at WMGK-FM (102.9), dissed faux-reality TV’s Kim Kardashian on the air Monday. Kim went on a Sept. 15 shopping spree with mommy Kris Kardashian in Paris, normal thing, dropped a mere $100,000, including $30K on a single crocodile-skin handbag at highest-end boutique Hermès. Wrong in so many ways! Animals were harmed in the making of this bag! Sean Penn and Shakira bring joy to Haiti, Angelina Jolie rounds up aid for Pakistani flood victims, Bono solves all cosmic problems, and — Kim’s enough to make you hurl in a handbag. DeBella challenged her on the air: “If you can drop $100,000 in one day on handbags … then you certainly have another $10,000 to help me feed the hungry.” He refers to his ninth annual “Turkey Drop” Nov. 23, in which he’ll take donations of money and turkey (bucks and clucks) to benefit City Team Ministries Philadelphia, which helps poor people tristate. Kendra Wilkinson is said to be interested in helping out. Kim, get busy with that debit card! No crocodile tears! This article contains information from Inquirer wire services and from websites. Contact “SideShow” at sideshow@phillynews.com.

Don’t sweat how he feels; how do you feel?

Question: I divorced, found myself again, and I’m out there dating. After a lot of dead ends, I’ve met someone with whom I really connect. He has been separated about six months after 15 years of marriage. I know he likes me (a lot), but he also says he’s not looking for a long-term relationship. Eventually I do hope to find a partner, though if I don’t I’ll still be fine enough. But I don’t want to be Rebound Girl. What to do? It seems like a hopeless scenario, but I don’t want to give up the best thing I’ve had in a long while. Answer: You have to take him at his word. If you don’t think you can handle sharing or losing him, then you need to back off, if you’re able — or break up. If you do think you can handle it — if you’re

not afraid to feel like roadkill if this flops — then take the chance and see where it goes. You’ve recovered from a divorce, so you can recover from this. The question is whether he’s worth that kind of effort. Try to think less of how he feels about you, and more of how you feel about you. Don’t date him, or anyone for that matter, past the point where it’s dragging your self-image down. Question: My boyfriend and I have been casually looking at engagement rings. I’ve asked him if I can be involved in picking it out, and he has agreed. He has this endearing habit of bringing home presents I’m allergic to, can’t use, don’t like to eat. His heart is in the right place, so I appreciate these gifts, but for something this expensive, I’d rather we both put thought into it. When I mentioned this to my mother, she said I was greedy and ungrateful, and told me “you’re lucky you’re getting anything.” It hurt my feelings no end. She didn’t get an engagement ring from

my father, so I’m guessing this is colored by jealousy a bit, but I still feel horrible. Am I an ungrateful wretch because I want something on my finger I would actually like to look at for the rest of my life? Answer: Is your mom always this tough on you? I can see her disagreeing, but “Ooh, I hope you didn’t hurt his feelings when you asked that” would have gotten her point across. That phrasing also would have allowed for the possibility that there wasn’t anything wrong with it, and left you room to explain your rationale. To answer your question, your rationale sounds fine. You can be pragmatic without being presumptuous. But presenting this as a matter of avoiding an ugly ring might not have helped your cause. From now on consider leaving out your fiance’s knack for bad gifts: “For something this expensive, I’d rather we both put thought into it.” E-mail Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost.com.

Fox29 anchor Kerri-Lee Halkett, out on personal leave since Sept. 8, has resigned, effective next month, the station announced. Sources said that she wants to spend more time with her son, Van, 5, and that she is being courted for TV work near her vacation home in Connecticut. She and her husband, Bala Cynwyd-based environmental lawyer Kirt Mayland, live in Center City. Halkett, a 15-year Fox veteran, has eight years at the local station. Station manager Patrick Paolini called her “a talented journalist,” while Halkett thanked her coworkers, “whom I feel honored to have worked beside and to the company for the many opportunities I have been given. Philly will always feel like home.” No replacement for Halkett has been announced. In other Fox29 news, I hear that the durable Sharon Crowley — a street reporter since 1999 — is leaving the station, bound for a reporting job in New York.

Briefly noted This weekend’s Sesame Street Live production of Elmo’s Healthy Heroes at the Wells Fargo Center is a homecoming for Amanda Sutliff, 25, the show’s performance director, who grew up in Warrington. This year’s honorary chair of the Wellness Community of Philadelphia’s annual “Help Make It Happen!” mini-golf event — at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Tee’s Golf Center, 707 Conshohocken Rd., Conshohocken — is not quite in grade school. He’s Collin Napoletano, a 5-year-old rhabdomyosarcoma survivor and the inspiration for the book Collin’s Trip to Upside Down Town, by Ross Thomson. Washington Post spirits columnist Jason Wilson of Haddonfield will read from his book, Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits, at Cork restaurant (90 Haddon Ave., Westmont) at 7 p.m. next Thursday.

Award-winners Arts boosters Ted and Stevie Wolf will pick up the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia’s lifetime achievement award at the Barrymore Awards on Oct. 4. University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann will get this year’s gold medal from the Philadelphia Public Relations Association on Nov. 9. Mayor Nutter and City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. will walk out with “eco-champions” awards at Thursday’s launch party for the inaugural Manayunk EcoArts Festival, which takes over Main Street in Manayunk. They don’t call the street “Green Lane” for nothing. Contact columnist Michael Klein at mklein@phillynews.com. Follow his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider and on Twitter @phillyinsider.

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Hot and cool for 20 years at Chris’ Jazz Cafe

CHRIS' from E1 still in his work clothes as executive chef of Chris’. “I love this,” he says, smiling. DeNinno and Gerber are beaming not only because they dig a packed house or appreciate the music. They do both, for sure. What’s most to love is that they’re celebrating Chris’ 20th anniversary Friday and Saturday, a solid but bittersweet accomplishment when you consider that, at present, this is the only nightclub in downtown Center City that books only jazz. In particular, Alan McMahon programs live shows that feature the clean mainstream sound of bop, post-bop, and hard swing that just happens to be this city’s jazz signature. “I model our booking after the Village Vanguard, a live version of the classic Blue Note label,” says McMahon, who has been booking Chris’ since before Gerber bought it in 1999 with two partners. (DeNinno became co-owner in 2002.) “It’s Chris’ brand, sure, but this Philadelphia sound originated in the ’50s and ’60s with the likes of Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, and Jimmy Smith,” Gerber says. “One of our objectives is to make sure there’s an outlet for this style in Philly. As the only full-time jazz club in Center City, we feel a responsibility to keep it alive.” Gerber, in particular, would love to book avant-garde jazz but agrees with DeNinno and McMahon that their signature sound is king and that experimental jazz is tough on a dinner-and-drinks audience. Philly was long well-regarded for its jazz rooms, spaces such as Pep’s and the Showboat. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Zanzibar Blue and Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus were hallowed homes to live jazz until each closed down within the last 10 years. McMahon and DeNinno agree that Zanzibar grew too expensive after its move from 11th Street to Broad, and Ortlieb’s lost its zest after original owner Pete Souder sold it in 2006. “Zanzibar was high-end, Ortlieb’s was the clubhouse, and we were comfortable in the middle, until they both folded,” DeNinno says

Chris’ Jazz Cafe 20th Anniversary Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St. Information: 215-568-3131, www.chrisjazzcafe.com Friday: The All Star Band. Two shows, 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. Tickets: $20 per show. 11:15 to 2 a.m.: Victor North and Jazz Jam. Tickets: $10 ($5 for students with instruments). Saturday: The All Star Band. Two shows, 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. Tickets: $25 per show. 11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m: Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece Quintet. Tickets: $10.

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Pianist Pat Bianchi, sax player Victor North, guitarist Craig Ebner at Chris’. The owners agree that Chris’ signature, mainstream sound is king and that experimental jazz is tough on a dinner-and-drinks audience.

with genuine sadness. Today, LaRose and the Loft in Germantown, Mango Moon on the Main Line, and Le Cochon Noir on Parkside Avenue book live jazz — but they’re not downtown. The Clef Club books jazz, but it’s open only sporadically. The floating Ars Nova Workshop presents avant-garde jazz in non-nightclub settings. The Kimmel Center books jazz, but that’s hardly a club. Lucky Old Souls will change the equation a bit when the bar/restaurant opens on 17th and McKean Streets in South Philly in (it is hoped) 2011. But as far as jazz in Center City goes, Chris’ is the last jazz-bo standing. “Some healthy competition would be a good thing for musicians, fans, and Chris’, too, but it’s a good thing there’s a venue downtown with live jazz six nights a week,” says Matthew Feldman, the guy looking to

open Lucky Old Souls. “Aside from Ars Nova, no one but Chris’ books well-known, out-of-town jazz musicians on a regular basis.” Internationally renowned chanteuse Jackie Ryan agrees — especially since she has sold out Chris’ during two separate appearances there. “It has a certain vibe that only places that have been around a long time have, soul perhaps,” she says. “The only other club that touched me like that was Ronnie Scott’s in London, which has been around for 40 years. I think Chris’ outlasted most other venues because Al McMahon and the rest of the staff have a strong sense of what they want their club to say to the world.” Here’s a brief history of Chris’: Chris Dhimitri opened the 1421 Sansom St. spot (it was the Pub throughout the ’70s and ’80s) as

Chris’ in 1990, and booked local guitarist Jimmy Bruno and saxophonist Larry McKenna to run it weekends. By the late ’90s, McMahon — who had been booking live jazz brunches at 12th Street’s nowclosed Bistro Bix — was hired to bring more live players to the mix. “I brought my guys, like trumpeter John Swana, saxophonist Eric Alexander, and a bunch of young cats from the Criss Cross label,” McMahon says. “Chris’ was basically a restaurant with some jazz until the new owners came in. That’s when a few nights with the same bands turned into six nights a week, 700-plus bands a year, two shows nightly.” McMahon laughs about how lawyer Gerber and restaurant consultant DeNinno bought the venue and turned a hole in the wall with a beat-up piano into a world-class

Chamber Orchestra’s new leader

BROSSE from E1 es well-known to Americans. Even the films he has scored — titles include Boerenpsalm — haven’t been seen much outside of Europe. Yet this mystery is anything but his doing. “I don’t have hidden agendas. I hate agendas. With me, one plus one equals two,” he said on Tuesday, having just flown into Philadelphia for his opening Chamber Orchestra concerts starting Saturday. “I’m open and reachable. You don’t have to send me 25 e-mails and wait six months for a phone call.” Even the thick dark hair — rare for a 50-year-old with two college-age daughters — “is all original,” he laughs. “I don’t paint my hair.” The Chamber Orchestra has had only two previous music directors in its 46-year history — Marc Mostovoy and Ignat Solzhenitsyn — and is approaching this new introduction carefully. Mass mailings to Center City residents weren’t typical brochures, but a personal-style invitation letter from Brossé. His tenure opens not at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater (the orchestra’s home) but at the Mann Center on Saturday — with fireworks as a crowd-drawing bonus, followed by Sunday and Monday concerts at Kimmel. Both conductor and orchestra need all the promotional oomph they can get — the Chamber Orchestra is back from the financial abyss, but only recently. Last season was curtailed from 10 Kimmel Center subscription pairs to four. This season, the debt-free orchestra is up to eight pairs with a third performance in Temple University’s recently renovated Baptist Temple. The season’s programs are mostly familiar works by Mozart, Beethoven, Bizet, and Joaquin Rodrigo, reflecting Brosse’s belief that there’s always going to be some overlap with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s repertoire, though the size of the forces — 33 vs. 90 — will always deliver a different experience. Also, each program will feature an unannounced short piece — like a chef sending an amusebouche to the table — such as Brossé’s own Fanfare for Philadelphia, which he’ll slip into this weekend’s concerts. Certain traditions will remain in place: The departed Solzhenitsyn will return once a year for the foreseeable future, and Philadelphia Orchestra principal players will be

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Dirk Brossé, at Le Méridien

Philadelphia, is based in Ghent, Belgium. He wants to spend more time in the U.S. guests for concertos. Beyond that, orchestra musicians shy away from discussing Brossé except to say that, technically speaking, he has the goods — the main prerequisite for a working relationship with any new conductor, particularly one whose credits are weighted toward film work. In fact, Brosse’s main U.S. credit is last year’s Star Wars: A Music Journey tour — which carries the prestige of being an interpreter anointed by composer John Williams but also a slight Hollywood taint that even established musicians like Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma, who occasionally play on film scores, haven’t entirely escaped. “Life is too short to worry about these things. And it’s too late anyway,” Brossé says. “I’m not going to change for the 10 people who don’t like it. Also, you cannot be a good musician if you’ve never played jazz and never listen to pop music.” But Brossé’s training, as it turns out, was not in movieland. Though he has an internal metronome that allows him to coordinate music with cinematic images without the use of a click track — a gift rarer than perfect pitch — his actual conducting technique came out of formal training with contemporary music in the Netherlands, years directing the Belgian youth orchestras, plus studies in Paris, Vienna and, most significantly, a conducting seminar in Cologne where fellow students were the distinguished Ingo Metzmacher and

Markus Stenz. Brossé leaped at the Philadelphia opportunity out of a desire to spend more time in the United States, and his music leaves little question why: He’s an American composer in all but name, influenced by John Williams superficially and Leonard Bernstein more deeply. Also, Europe’s film world holds less allure now, as lower budgets dictate increasing use of synthetically generated sound. And in the orchestral world, he’s had his disappointments: An ensemble he formed in the 1990s was shut down by the government after four years because state-dictated regulations made the enterprise more expensive than he could afford. “In Europe,” he says, “the weight you have in your backpack is so heavy.” Still, some Chamber Orchestra board members questioned the wisdom of hiring a Belgian rather than an American. “I was very short in my answer: An American conductor would be like bringing in a member of your own family,” he recalls. “Bringing somebody from another continent, I can share all of the things I have learned.” And the Belgian connection makes sense: Executive director Peter H. Gistelinck has known Brossé for roughly 25 years from film work together. However, Gistelinck heads off any accusations of Flemish chauvinism: “Everybody was given a fair chance,” he says. “But it helps to know somebody. You know what you’re getting.” The fact that most Philadelphia music lovers haven’t known his name is partly due to restrictive post-9/11 security regulations that have impeded the influx of European talent here. Top classical artists can’t even obtain American agents. One indication of the widening gulf is that EMI is releasing a six-disc boxed set of Brossé’s music in Europe this fall — an honor not accorded to just anybody. Few, if any, recordings of his classical compositions are available in the United States. The differences Brossé is likely to introduce here may be immediately audible. The center of the historically informed performance movement has shifted from England to the Low Countries, thanks to conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe and Jos van Immerseel, whom Brossé considers his neighbors, liter-

ally and figuratively. Don’t expect the homogenous suaveness that marked chamber orchestra performances in decades past. Brossé is not one to muzzle brass players. Not every sound should be lovely. “It’s painting with sound,” he says. “Like Van Gogh, I’m going to use a very bright yellow against a very bright blue. I’m not afraid of that.” In a Chamber Orchestra promotional recording of Brossé conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 live last spring, the performance bristles with activity. Phrases talk back to each other, sometimes combatively. Normally secondary activities elbow their way to the foreground. Such effects aren’t entirely authentic. The real wild card in Brossé’s approach is his composing. The fact that this is a regular part of his life means that he approaches Mozart and Beethoven not as distant historic figures, but as peers, with results that are likely to surprise not only audiences but also himself. During his ride from the airport Tuesday, he revisited the Beethoven 8th recording. “Is that really us?” he exclaimed.

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Soap opera has AIDS message Curtis sets program

'VI DEGREES' from E1 showcased at New York’s Downtown Urban Theater Festival and named the event’s best play. Written and directed by Goins, it is impressive, flawed, raw, and moving. There are overlong silences and awkward between-scene pauses, but ultimately, this is engrossing theater. The playbill included nothing but the cast members’ names; in the absence of more information, I can only assume that most of them are not trained actors. During the intimate scenes (of which there are many), the actors speak in the quiet voices they would use in real life, making them almost inaudible to the audience. This lack of voice projection is not only exasperating, since you miss some of the plot, but self-defeating, since the big central speech about the Philly Urban shocking AIDS statistics in Theatre the African American community is almost impossible to Festival hear. Essentially a soap opera The Philly Urban with a message about AIDS, Theatre Festival VI Degrees follows a group of runs through friends who, it turns out, Oct. 10 at the know one another more intiAdrienne Theater, mately than anybody sus2030 Sansom St. pects. Solomon (Neil Carr) It features a and Sherry (the excellent Lauchanging roster of ren Shaye) are planning their 14 plays in runs wedding. Tina (Sherri Fisher) of two to eight provides comic relief as the performances. For cheesy wedding planner. information, go to But once Sherry flies out to www.putf.org. a business conference, Solomon has a variety of sexual partners. One is a prostitute named Nee Nee (Cierra Davis), who is otherwise hooked up with Rome (Anthony Harris), who is just out of prison, where his sexual adventures were complicated and dubious. Solomon adds a little down-low action with his old friend Rich (Kevin Moore). Rich, meanwhile, has been having a lunchtime affair with Tamika for six years; Tamika is married to Keith (Kash Goins — what a relief when he arrives onstage: At last! A trained actor!). Ultimately, it becomes clear how AIDS has ravaged this group of people and how shock-

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Kash Goins, the Philadelphian who wrote “VI Degrees,” also acts in the production at the Adrienne Theater.

ing the consequences of all this fooling around are. And that, of course, is the play’s point. VI Degrees plays through Sunday; its sequel, VII Deadly Sins (winner of an audience-choice award at this year’s Downtown Urban Theater Festival), revisits some of these same characters 10 years later. It will be performed Oct. 4-10. The Philly Urban Theatre Festival offers a wide variety of plays about urban social issues, particularly focused on the African American community. Follow Toby Zinman on Twitter at #philastage.

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DEVIL (PG-13) 12:50 2:55 5:25 7:30 9:35 PM RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (R) 12:40 3:00 5:20 7:35 9:50 PM THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) 12:05 5:05 PM GOING THE DISTANCE (R) 2:30 7:15 9:35 PM MACHETE (R) 2:45 7:45 10:00 PM THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) 3:50 9:55 PM NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (PG) 12:15 5:00 PM PIRANHA 3D (R) 2:50 5:10 PM THE SWITCH (PG-13) 12:10 5:00 PM VAMPIRES SUCK (PG-13) 3:20 5:15 10:00 PM EAT PRAY LOVE (PG-13) 12:25 7:10 PM 109 W. Lancaster Ave. 222-FILM #(523) DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG-13) 12:20 7:20 9:50 PM ALPHA AND OMEGA (PG) SALT (PG-13) 5:00 7:30 PM 2:40 7:25 9:40 PM THE TOWN (R) INCEPTION (PG-13) 12:30 6:50 PM 5:10 7:45 PM THE LAST AIRBENDER 3D (PG) THE AMERICAN (R) DP 2:25 9:30 PM 5:30 8:00 PM CYRUS (R) 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:45 PM NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (PG) TOY STORY 3 IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (G) 12:00 4:40 7:05 PM 4:30 PM THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) 7:00 PM TOY STORY 3 (G) 4:15 PM RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (R) GET LOW (PG-13) (4:55 PM) 7:15 PM INCEPTION (PG-13) 5:00 PM THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (R) 8:15 PM

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The New TV Season By Jonathan Storm

CBS’s ‘Blue Bloods,’ solid, intimate drama

TELEVISION from E1 an American’s adventures running a call center in India, and another drama, soapy with an unusual format, also premiere Thursday. ¢ Blue Bloods (CBS3, 10 p.m. Friday). We’ve seen big family dinners on TV before, but few match the tension and intimacy in the premiere of this cop show. Erin the daughter, an assistant district attorney, says she’s so angry at her oldest brother, Danny the detective, that she could strangle him. “No strangling on Sunday. OK, Sunshine?” Selleck’s Frank Reagan says calmly from the head of the table. The reason for her discontent: Danny threatened to drown a suspect in a toilet, and that pretty much ruins any shot she has of even getting the case to trial. “Dad stuck somebody’s head in the toilet?” asks her awestruck nephew, drawing scowls from the grown-ups. Grandpa Henry, the former police commissioner, however, does take Danny’s side. “I say what I think,” he chides his granddaughter. “And look where it got you,” she retorts, disrespectfully. While the audience imagines what she means, her father says nothing, but a glance can be worth a thousand words. Selleck is taking a page from The Good Wife’s Julianna Margulies, finding forcefulness in few words, letting face and body convey his feelings not only to the audience but also to a seemingly unending stream of human distractions, most notable a cynical media and an unsupportive mayor. Selleck alone makes Blue Bloods worth watching. Then you have Donnie Wahlberg as the mercurial Danny, who is probably still suffering from the post-traumatic stress of his time in Iraq. His intensity burns through the screen. Will Estes (older brother JJ on American Dreams) and Bridget Moynahan (Mrs. Big on Sex and the City) hold up their ends of the bargain, too. Estes’ Jamie Reagan, a Harvard Law grad who couldn’t resist the police-beat call, finds that the mayhem of his workday doesn’t fit smoothly into conversation with his

TV Today The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3

p.m., NBC10) — Actor Ed Helms (The Office); Kelly Osbourne.

The Oprah Winfrey Show (4

p.m., 6ABC) — Teri Hatcher, Cybill Shepherd, and Linda Evans.

The Big Bang Theory (8 p.m.,

CBS3) — Penny tags along as Sheldon goes on his first date ever, with a fellow social misfit.

My Generation (8 p.m., 6ABC)

— A mockumentary crew follows members of a 2000 high school class for an update on how these promising young adults turned out.

Community (8 p.m., NBC10) —Betty White guest stars as an eccentric professor in the second-season premiere.

30 Rock (8:30 p.m., NBC10)

— Jack meddles in Liz’s promising relationship with Carol (guest star Matt Damon), but at home, he also struggles to compromise with Avery, who is redecorating his apartment.

Grey’s Anatomy (9 p.m.,

6ABC) — The staff of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital remains shaken by a shooting spree.

The Office (9 p.m., NBC10) —

Michael refuses to fire the new office assistant.

Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) — Actor James Franco; actress Sofia Vergara; Shakira performs.

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) —

Jimmy Smits; Jackie Evancho; Brian Wilson.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:06 a.m., 6ABC) — Actor Zach Galifianakis; Trombone Shorty performs. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:37 a.m.,

CBS3) — Jon Hamm; Jonathan Ames; Bettye LaVette performs.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

(12:37 a.m., NBC10) — Amy Poehler; Rashida Jones; Aaron Johnson; Pavement.

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“My Generation” follows the stories of nine high school friends and the promise of what

they could be 10 years later, told documentary style. Top right, “$#*! My Dad Says” stars Nicole Sullivan, William Shatner, and lots of appearances by naughty bits. And on “Outsourced,” right, it’s the American customs, not Indian ways, that bear the brunt of the gentle humor. It should fit seamlessly into NBC’s goofballs-at-the-office night. yuppie friends. And, after his sudden career change, his relationship with his girlfriend seems headed in the same direction as the one that sister Erin has with her ex-husband. Onto all these personal and familial foibles, creators Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, who were both executive producers on The Sopranos, attach not only a weekly criminal case but also an overarching police department mystery that promises to keep the audience guessing for weeks to come. Blue Bloods may not wind up in TV history’s Top 100, but it’s the star of the mediocre 2010-11 vintage. $#*! My Dad Says (CBS3, 8:30 p.m. Thursday). The Parents Television Council, shrill defenders of their idea of decency, is apoplectic over the title of this series, deriving from a popular Twitter feed. There is no Critics Television Council (who has time to write all those fund-raising appeals?), but if

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there were, and if I were its president, it would also plead with advertisers to boycott this mess. Not only does it seek to find humor in each and every naughty body part, male and female, it also makes fun of gays, Arabs, the developmentally disabled, and who knows what other groups. Check that. There isn’t a shred of fun in this tale of a curmudgeonly grandpa and his unappealing adult children. Its only redeeming quality could prove to be that it persuades clueless executives, desperate to “monetize” social-network technology, never to try to marry TV and Twitter again. Outsourced (NBC10, 9:30 p.m. Thursday). Some people are angry, as well, about this sitcom’s shoddy treatment of Indians. But careful viewing reveals that American customs bear the brunt of most of the gentle humor of this series that should fit seamlessly into NBC’s goofballs-at-the-office (or in-the-classroom) Thursday-night sitcom block.

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When American Novelties closes its call center in Kansas City, Todd Dempsy gets sent to India to manage the folks who will be taking orders for such must-have items as the fanny bank and the mistletoe belt. Cut-ups wear it in hopes of getting kissed, well, below. “This is how you celebrate the birthday of the son of your God?” asks one of the Indian workers, all of whom, along with Dempsy, must learn to reconcile North American and South Asian ways. The workers may be Indian, but they are the usual TV office types, which would make NBC an equalopportunity offender, if it weren’t doing a better job than anybody else of milking laughs from workplace situations. My Generation (ABC, 8 p.m. Thursday). “People try to put us down just because we get around,” The Who’s Roger Daltrey sang in “My Generation.” People will try to put down the TV show with the same name because

the characters lean toward caricatures, and their circumstances seem to get progressively more unreal. To combat that, producers have adopted a documentary format, as an independent filmmaker catches up with nine high school grads 10 years on, and the show jumps between their carefree youth and the pressures of what passes for adulthood. In high school, they were all types — the jock, the punk, the rich boy, the wallflower, etc. — but, wouldn’t you know it, a decade has shuffled the cards, leaving the kids in situations and relationships that are supposed to be surprising, but aren’t. Give ABC credit for an interesting format and a drama that isn’t about doctors, lawyers, or cops, but it’s hard to imagine enough viewers going for this one that any of these folks will ever make it to 30. Contact television critic Jonathan Storm at 215-854-5618 or jstorm@phillynews.com.

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“I’m five now, but on my next birthday I start my age on a whole new hand.”

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Zits is on vacation. New strips will return September 27.

By Jacqueline Bigar

Happy Birthday You make changes that point to a new path this year. Your ability to juggle different concerns emerges once more as a salient trait. Relationships of all sorts might be slightly more difficult as you juggle what you think you should do and what you want to do. Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Invigorated, the Ram will be unstoppable. Issues that might be Full Moon-driven might be easily resolved with a different perspective and a willingness to try another way. Tonight: Think “fun.” Make weekend plans. Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Know when to back off. What you think and feel also might be exaggerated in some form. This could be the result of the issues that surround you. Tonight: Vanish early. Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★★ Zero in on what you want. A child or new friend could weigh you down in a substantial manner. Use diplomacy and walk away from what might be a distinct issue. Tonight: Where you are, the action is. Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Step up to the plate. Though there could be an issue involving a child or loved one, you see a matter in a different light. How you deal with someone and the choices you make

could be dynamic and long term. Tonight: A must appearance. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★ You know how to look at the big picture. What is stopping you? You know what works and are an unusually creative thinker. Negativity can stop you from taking a necessary leap of faith. Tonight: Where there is music. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Inadvertently, one issue or bond puts pressure on another. You might want to stop worrying so much and just do what feels right. Tonight: Listen to a dear older friend’s suggestion. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ You could take what is going on personally or you could just observe. Others seem strong and determined to have a situation unfold in the style they believe is best. Tonight: You revise your thinking about a key relationship. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ Understanding evolves to a new level if you observe more and judge less. When asked an opinion, the smart Scorp will pull back and diplomatically smile and say little. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ You can move through a situation if you tap into your creativity and humor. While lightening up the problem, you’ll find the

solution with ease with the support of others. Do avoid a meeting. Tonight: Let the fun begin. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You might wonder what you need to do in order to balance what for many could be a touchy situation. A boss or someone you look up to could be difficult at best. Tonight: Put your feet up at home. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ You have a winning way, and you know it. Let your ability to excel in situations with many different issues or changing scenarios step right in. You might want to update your selfimage. Tonight: Only where the action is. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★ Be sensible when it comes to spending and enjoying yourself. There needs to be a strong line of demarcation, whether you want it or not. Revise your long-term goals or a friendship that just might not be cutting it for you. Tonight: Time to treat. Born on this date Actor Mickey Rooney, singer Ray Charles, singer Bruce Springsteen

I continue a series on saving tricks with end plays. You’re declarer at four hearts, and West leads a club. You figure he has the ace of spades and king of diamonds for his bid, so you’re at risk of losing two spades and two diamonds. What will you do about it? The actual South saw nothing better than to play West for K-x in diamonds. He took the king of clubs, drew trumps, and led the ace and a low diamond, ducking East’s 10. But West followed low, East shifted to a spade, and the defense got two spades and a second diamond. South succeeds with an end play. After he draws trumps, he takes the ace of clubs, ruffs a club and leads a low spade. If East wins and leads another spade, West is end-played when he takes the ace. Say East wins the first spade with the nine and leads the jack

of diamonds. South plays low from his hand, takes the dummy’s ace and exits with a spade. Then West must cash the king of diamonds, setting up South’s queen, or concede a ruff-sluff.

Five-star forecast

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Bridge By Frank Stewart

DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ K 6 ♥ A K Q 10 9 5 ◆ Q 3 2 ♣ K 2. You open one heart, the next player bids one spade, your partner raises to two hearts and the player at your right passes. What do you say? ANSWER: To bid game or try for game at hearts would be questionable. (When today’s South landed at four hearts, he went down despite a super-strong the dummy.) If you judge to try for game, bid two no-trump. Your king of spades may be a winner at no-trump when the opening lead is a spade.

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first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the Google Inc.-owned website. From more than 23,000 from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial. By Jake Coyle

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely there is a work of art. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned website. From among more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial. A curatorial team from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York selected the videos, which will play at kiosks in Guggenheim museums in New York; Berlin; Bilbao, Spain; and Venice, Italy, beginning Monday. A jury that includes filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and visual artist Takashi Murakami will whittle the results down further to about 20 videos. Those will be presented at the Guggenheim in New York on Oct. 21. “It’s become increasingly obvious that this kind of creative video is completely core to YouTube,” said Anna Bateson, director of marketing for YouTube. “It’s a fundamental part of what the site is doing, and yet it wasn’t really being celebrated.” The chosen videos vary wildly, from wellknown YouTube hits to little-seen works by

students and amateurs. More familiar selections include the OK Go music video “This Too Shall Pass,” which features a Rube Goldberg apparatus, a complicated machine designed to perform a simple task, and the “Human Mirror” video, in which a subway car is lined by apparent twins mimicking each other’s movements, by the comedy troupe Improv Everywhere. Others are less heralded, like a jogging video by multimedia performer Jillian Mayer, in which rural video is projected against the urban landscape along her path. Many videos utilize various forms of animation, particularly stop-motion animation. Joe Penna, known to most as MysteryGuitarMan, pieces together a classical guitar piece one shot — and one note — at a time. Joan Young, associated curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim, said the selected videos show the breadth of the materials on YouTube. “We focused on works that really were conceived from the start for an online medium, so not necessarily works that were to be projected in a museum space or works that simply documented a performance,” she said. “The idea really is working with the medium.” The videos are assembled at www.youtube.com/play.

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Trends favoring locally grown food are kindling new interest in Sukkot, the holiday sometimes called “the Jewish Thanksgiving.”

H A R V E S T O F J OY Ingredients for Sukkot dishes

By Elisa Ludwig

tend to reflect the season, as with this Olive Fig Tart.

FOR THE INQUIRER

f the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Sukkot is not, by devotional standards, one of the biggies. In fact, because this harvest celebration (which began at sunset Wednesday) so closely follows the high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it is often overshadowed by them. Yet a growing number of Jews, inspired by its ecological,

JAN BALDWIN From “The Healthy Jewish Cookbook”

back-to-the-earth, DIY underpinnings, are rediscovering what is sometimes referred to as the Jewish Thanksgiving. Sukkot “has this natural sensibility to it, and since a lot of people are trying to attune themselves more to nature right now, it makes sense that they’re tapping into this holiday,” says Gil Marks, a rabbinically ordained food writer, most recently of the exhaustively researched compendium Encyclopedia of Jewish Foods.

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Asher and Sarah Kahn

with son Tal in their Queen Village sukkah. Stuffed peppers are a favorite.

“I didn’t grow up celebrating this holiday,” says Rebecca Karp, the 27-year-old assistant director of Philadelphia’s Moishe House, a residence and nonprofit community center for young Jews. “But as I got older and learned more about it, Sukkot was a holiday that really spoke to me, and I think the idea of sustainable living, the idea of the harvest, really resonates with people of my generation.” See SUKKOT on F4

Homey kitchen warms a campus

Kelly Writers House, a pretty yummy place By Dianna Marder

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

he scent of warm chocolate wafts from the kitchen of a cottage comfortably set back from the street and edged with a wrought iron fence so typical of 1850s Philadelphia. It is the fragrance of home, an aroma that calls one and all to the table. And not by accident, this scent suffuses Kelly Writers House (writing.upenn.edu/wh).

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The 25 million-dollar baby carrot

“This house was originally a home,” says cofounder and faculty director Al Filreis. “And as in any home, the kitchen is the most important room. Everything seems to happen in the kitchen.” Now in its 15th year nurturing poets and playwrights, novelists and nonfiction writers — not just from Penn but from all parts of the region — Kelly Writers House stands out on the University See WRITERS HOUSE on F2

Students meet in the Penn cottage, seen through kitchen door. The kitchen was funded by Martha Wallace, Edward W. Kane.

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he baby carrot had its day. By the end of the ’90s, little more than a decade after it was invented (it’s a “babycut carrot,” whittled from an adult), it was credited for jumping carrot consumption a hefty 33 percent. In a world ruled by fries and chips, it was the carrot that roared: It was the healthful snack, and portable to boot. But that was then. At 25, even a baby carrot slows down. Sales have tapered off. Which explains the pocket-

size packet that showed up in the office the other day, inscribed with fightin’ words: “Eat ’em like junk food.” The contents, still the same stubby babies, have been repositioned (“the ultimate extreme snack”) and redefined (“crunchier than chips, orange-ier than cheese puffs”), looking to steal the opposition’s thunder, perform a little marketplace jujitsu. So the curtain rises on the See ON THE SIDE on F4 ADVERTISEMENT

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Food feeding creativity: Eleanor Kane, who graduated in ’09 with a degree in English/creative writing, waits in the new kitchen for her chocolate chip cookies to bake. She’s the daughter of Martha Wallace and Edward Kane, who donated money for the kitchen. Right, she puts cookies in the oven; also working are freshman English majors Hannah White (top), Sarah Schwab.

Kelly Writers House, a very yummy place WRITERS HOUSE from F1 of Pennsylvania campus for its architecture, its programming, and its accent on home cooking. And now, thanks to the generosity of Edward W. Kane

(Class of 1971) and his wife Martha J. Wallace (a Penn State and Harvard Business School grad), the kitchen just had its first renovation in 15 years. There’s a new stove, micro-

Fish With Almonds and Rice Makes 6 servings 1/2

pound white fish (cod, haddock, hake) 1 cup rice 4 ounces ground almonds

1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon ginger Salt and pepper to taste 2 tablespoon anise seeds

1. Place the fish in a skillet and add just enough water to cover. Bring to a simmer, then cook gently for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the fish to a platter and set aside. 2. Drain off the broth. Measure one cup and set aside to cool. Then add cold water to the remaining broth to reach two cups, add salt, and set aside. 3. Place the almonds in a bowl, and add the reserved cup of broth when cool. 4. Pour the rest of the liquid into a pan with the rice and bring to a boil. Then cover and cook over gentle heat until the liquid is nearly all absorbed. Turn off the heat and keep the pan covered. 5. Add the sugar, ginger, and anise to the almonds and pour into the rice, stirring very gently with a fork. 6. Flake the fish and add to the rice. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

— From Erin Gautsche, Kelly Writers House Per serving: 268 calories, 13 grams protein, 31 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams sugar, 10 grams fat, 16 milligrams cholesterol, 118 milligrams sodium, 3 grams dietary fiber.

Beet, Leek, and Gorgonzola Bruschetta Makes 12 bruschetta or 6 servings

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 leeks, halved, sliced thin, and cleaned Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 day-old baguette or other fresh country-style bread,

sliced 1/2-inch thick on a bias 1/4 cup olive oil 2 to 3 medium-to-large beets, red or yellow, roasted, cut into 1/4-inch cubes 1/4 pound Italian Gorgonzola, crumbled

1. Put olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add butter and melt. Add leeks and saute until translucent, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 2. Meanwhile, preheat broiler. Place slices of bread on a tray, generously brush with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Lightly toast under the broiler for 2 minutes. Flip toasted slices over, spread a tablespoon of leeks on top, and top with roasted beets and a sprinkle of crumbled Gorgonzola. Return toasts to the oven until cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. 3. Serve with a side of salad or baby greens.

— From Forklore by Ellen Yin (a Penn alum) Per serving: 349 calories, 9 grams protein, 29 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams sugar, 22 grams fat, 22 milligrams cholesterol, 635 milligrams sodium, 3 grams dietary fiber.

wave, and stainless steel double sink; the floors and cabinets are refinished, and a backsplash of recycled glass is coming. But the homey atmosphere remains, along with an old oak table, plucked from the trash years ago but still exerting the odd gravitational pull so many kitchen tables seem to possess. On Sept. 14, the Kane-Wallace kitchen was christened with a spread that featured empanadas; corn pudding (see recipe); salad greens; beet, leek, and Gorgonzola bruschetta; and an almondbased blancmange with fish (see recipe). The kitchen here is central to the cause, says director Jessica Lowenthal, not only as an element of hospitality, but also because, in a subtle way, food feeds creativity. Aroma informs us. It stirs the memory, calling to mind vivid pictures of people and places. And just as fervently, aroma permeates the present, creating an aura of warmth and setting the stage for positive interactions. Meals invite conversation, and breaking bread is a great equalizer. So, while other departments at Penn (which shall remain nameless and blame-

Corn Pudding

study students and volunteers in the Writers House kitchen. Many come to her as novice cooks, says Gautsche, who also writes the blog Veggiecurious.com. But they leave knowing the secret of her particular specialty, a delightfully spicy Chocolate-Chili Bread Pudding (see recipe). Hundreds pass through the Writers House each week, Filreis says. Students are fed and cared for. Undergrads collaborate in the upstairs rooms on print and Web-based literary projects such as the food guide Penn Appetit and the feminist F-Word. Area grade schoolers visit Dinner bell and dedication on Fridays and Saturdays for plaque in the new kitchen at writing games with Penn stuUniversity of Pennsylvania’s dents. Thanksgiving dinners Kelly Writers House. serve 60 or more — often inless) may entertain visiting ternational students who canspeakers with chips and some not leave the campus, and dip, Kelly Writers House al- alienated or disaffected stuways puts out a spread made dents who elect not to endure in-house. an evening with relatives. In fact, program coordinaThe list of visiting writers tor Erin Gautsche is also, by features Susan Sontag, Art choice, the kitchen maven. Spiegelman, Russell Banks, Aside from helping to orga- and Grace Paley. nize each semester’s 150 or so “E.L. Doctorow sat in this programs (readings, film dining room,” Filreis says. screenings, seminars, lecKane, a venture capitalist tures, exhibits, radio broad- who lives in Concord, Mass., casts, and more) Gautsche says his first connection to routinely supervises work- the Writers House came through Paul Kelly, a 1962 Penn and 1964 Wharton School grad, who funded the renovations that made this

Makes 30 cookies

2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 sticks butter at room temperature

1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 4 egg yolks 1 tablespoon vanilla 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

1. Combine the following dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and salt, in a small bowl and set aside. 2. Beat white and brown sugar into the butter in a large mixing bowl for three minutes. Gradually add the egg yolks and vanilla. Add in the dry ingredients, mixing until just combined. Do not overbeat. Stir in chocolate chips. 3. Divide dough into one-inch balls and freeze until solid. 4. Bake in oven preheated to 325 for 13 to 15 minutes or until no longer shiny on top and slightly cracked. Let sit for two minutes on the cookie sheet, then transfer to a rack to cool completely. — From Eleanor Kane, Kelly Writers House Per cookie: 186 calories, 2 grams protein, 23 grams carbohydrates, 14 grams sugar, 10 grams fat, 44 milligrams cholesterol, 167 milligrams sodium, 1 gram dietary fiber.

Contact staff writer Dianna Marder at 215-854-4211 or dmarder@phillynews.com. Read her recent work at http://go.philly.com/diannamarder.

Makes 8 servings 5 eggs 1/3 cup butter, melted 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup milk 4 tablespoons cornstarch

1 (15.25-ounce) can wholekernel corn 2 (14.75-ounce) cans creamstyle corn

1. Preheat oven to 400. Grease a 2-quart casserole dish. 2. In a large bowl, lightly beat eggs. Add melted butter, sugar, and milk. Whisk in cornstarch. Stir in corn and creamed corn. Blend well. 3. Pour mixture into the prepared casserole dish and bake for 1 hour.

— From Erin Gautsche, Kelly Writers House Per serving: 276 calories, 7 grams protein, 37 grams carbohydrates, 13 grams sugar, 12 grams fat, 154 milligrams cholesterol, 558 milligrams sodium, 3 grams dietary fiber.

Erin Gautsche’s Chocolate-Chili Bread Pudding Makes 6 servings

Chocolate Chip Cookies

old house ready for prime time. Both men were university trustees. Kane’s second connection is through daughter Eleanor. She chose Penn over Princeton, Ed Kane says, because the Writers House “smelled like home.” At home, mom Martha Wallace had a career in computer software, but whenever possible she had meals made from fresh ingredients on the dinner table. “I wasn’t a fanatic about it,” Wallace says. “But I come from generations who cooked from scratch. My grandmother made her own ketchup. “For my part,” Wallace says, “I didn’t make things from a box or buy prepared foods.” Ellie Kane, who majored in English with an emphasis on creative writing, worked for a year after graduation at the Writers House, where, in addition to recruiting prospective students, she perfected a recipe for chocolate chip cookies (see recipe). She’s leaving soon for the Farm School in Athol, Mass., to pursue a career in agriculture and education. In other words, she’s becoming a farmer.

6 tablespoons unsalted butter plus additional for greasing ramekins 2 cups heavy cream 6 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate 3 tablespoons sugar 3 teaspoons vanilla 2 tablespoons cinnamon 3 teaspoons cayenne pepper

6 large eggs, lightly beaten 41/2 cups cubes (1/2-inch) firm pumpernickel bread (about 12 slices) Vanilla ice cream (optional) Special equipment: six 8-ounce ramekins or a muffin tin with 1-cup muffin cups

1. Place oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter ramekins or muffin cups. 2. Cook butter, cream, chocolate, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, cayenne, and a pinch of salt in a 2-quart heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and whisk in eggs until combined. Fold in bread cubes and let stand 5 minutes. 3. Fill ramekins with bread mixture and bake until puffed and set around edges, but still moist in center (15 to 20 minutes). Cool 5 minutes before serving. Per serving (without ice cream): 802 calories, 16 grams protein, 58 grams carbohydrates, 19 grams sugar, 60 grams fat, 356 milligrams cholesterol, 535 milligrams sodium, 8 grams dietary fiber.

Food Calendar

Jewish recipes as chicken soup, kugel, roast chicken, Taste of Plymouth Meeting and apple cake. $40. 6:30-9:30 Mall, featuring interactive p.m. at Philly Kitchen Share, food demonstrations, a chil- 1514 South St. For more infordren’s chef hat workshop, and mation and to register, call tastings of a variety of dishes 2 1 5 - 5 4 5 - 4 4 0 0 or visit from the mall’s restaurants. www.gershmany.org. Free admission. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the Plymouth Meeting Mall, 500 W. Germantown Pk., PlySustainable seafood dinner mouth Meeting, 610-825-9351. prepared by chefs Terence More information and details Feury of Fork and Jennifer on the mall’s restaurant week Carroll of 10Arts, featuring an (Sept. 26-Oct. 2) available at appearance by author Paul www.shopplymouthmeetingGreenberg, whose book Four mall.com. Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, will be available Sunday, Sept. 26 for purchase. $75. ReservaAnnual Vendemmia Homemade tions accepted from 6:30-8 Wine Festival, a celebration of p.m. at Fork, 306 Market St., wine-making and Italian cul- 215-625-9425. For more inforture featuring a tasting of mation, visit www.forkrestauhomemade wine, Italian deli- rant.com. cacies, live music, and more. Plan Now Advance tickets are $40 per Sept. 30: Yards Beer dinner, person or $400 for a table for 10; $50 day of festival. Pro- featuring a menu that inceeds benefit Vendemmia cludes poached halibut with Foundation scholarships. 2-6 sweet potatoes and soyp.m. at Vendemmia Square, glazed brussels sprouts, between Pattison Ave. and spruce-smoked lamb loin, rhuHartranft St. at S. Broad and barb cobbler with tavern porS. 20th Sts. To purchase tick- ter ice cream, and more, with ets, visit the Vendemmia each course paired with a Foundation office at 1841 S. craft beer from Yards BrewBroad St. or call 215-551-3859. ery. $65. 7 p.m. at Chifa, 707 More information available at Chestnut St., 215-925-5555, www.vendemmiafestival.com/ www.chifarestaurant.com. — Barry Zukerman festival.

Saturday, Sept. 25

Monday, Sept. 27 Cooking with Bubbe, a class on Jewish culinary history featuring recipes such classic

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A juicy steak with a walnut topping and a tomato and bean salad are easy enough for a weeknight and special enough for a weekend dinner with friends. The crunchy nut coating contrasts with the tender meat, and hot-pepper jelly lends a surprise punch.

College kickoff

Make your kitchen football-friendly with a flexible cutting board that has your team’s insignia. These are 12-by-15 inches, have a nonslip coating, and come with 80 different college emblems. — Dianna Marder Flexible cutting mat, $14.99 at Magicslice.com.

Walnut-Crusted Steak

An extra-point Oreo

Themed snacks and gadgets for eating-while-watching-football have gotten ridiculous. A pigskin-shaped grill? A helmet as a chip-and-dip tray? But we’ll give these Oreos a pass. — Maureen Fitzgerald Football Oreo cookies, $3.30 for a 10.9-ounce bag, at most supermarkets through football season.

Makes 2 Servings Olive oil spray 3/4 pound strip steak, about 3/4 inch thick, fat removed 2 tablespoons hot-pepper jam or jelly 2 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts Salt and freshly ground pepper 1. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high and spray with olive oil spray. Add steak and cook 5 minutes. Turn. 2. Spread hot pepper jelly over the cooked side. Press the walnuts into the steak. Cook 5 minutes more for rare, 7 minutes for medium-rare. 3. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Per serving: 311 calories, 41 grams protein, 14 grams carbohydrates, 11 grams fat, 96 milligrams cholesterol, 106 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.

Tomato and White Bean Salad

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Nestled beside the Wissahickon along the pedestrian paradise of Forbidden Drive, historic Valley Green Inn has long conjured an image of a fusty park amenity for the wedding crowd and the ladies-luncheon crab cake set. But there’s been a surprising push to update the menu over the last couple years that paid tasty dividends at a recent lunch, with deft nods to lighter dishes that focus on good seasonal ingredients. Alongside well-wrought classics (such as rich French onion soup and a tender sirloin sandwich), chef de cuisine Andrew Gerulsky

conjured this delightful special from market inspirations — crisply seared red snapper fillets with grilled white heirloom eggplant, a juicy salad of end-of-season tomatoes, and the vibrant snap of pistachios and pistachio oil. Dinner entrees are decidedly upscale (and service can be frustratingly slow). Reasonable lunch prices, though, make revisiting this classic an accessible value. — Craig LaBan Red snapper lunch special with eggplant and pistachios, $13, Valley Green Inn, W. Valley Green Rd., 215-247-1730; www.valleygreeninn.com

Makes 2 servings 2 medium-size ripe tomatoes, cut into large cubes (about 2 cups) 1 cup drained and rinsed canned Great Northern or other small white beans 2 tablespoons reduced-fat Italian salad dressing Salt and freshly ground pepper 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional) 1. Place tomatoes and beans in a bowl and add dressing. Toss well. 2. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix again. Sprinkle parsley on top.

Per serving: 194 calories, 11 grams protein, 36 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams fat, 1 milligram cholesterol, 219 milligrams sodium, 9 grams dietary fiber.

Endless, boundless ‘restaurant week’ “Restaurant Week” doesn’t end Friday. Well, the big one — Center City District Restaurant Week — wraps up Friday, but other areas and individual restaurants are offering promotions of their own. (You sometimes have to ask; I found that Girasole at Broad Table Talk and Pine By Michael Streets offers its $35 “restauKlein rant week” special nightly.) 8 From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Plymouth Meeting Mall will host “Taste of Plymouth Meeting Mall” in Center Court, and Benihana, Bertucci’s, Redstone, Charley's Grilled Subs, Chick-fil-A, Dave & Buster’s, Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, and Whole Foods Market will offer samplings; from Sunday through Oct. 2, these restaurants will offer deals as part of Plymouth Meeting Mall. 8 From Sunday through Oct. 1, 15 restaurants in Chinatown will sell three-course dinners for $10 and

What’s coming

four-course dinners for $15 to $20; see list on Facebook at http://is.gd/fjTdv. 8 From Monday through Oct. 3, about three dozen restaurants in the western suburbs will offer menus priced at $15, $20, $30, or $40 per person; list: www.mainlinerestaurantweek.com. 8 From Oct. 10 to 16, Philly Neighborhood Food Week will feature eateries in various neighborhoods that offer three- and four-course meals at $20 or $30; list: www.phillyneighborhoodfoodweek.net.

Indian fusion

You can get masala dosa at the new Philadelphia Chutney Company (1628 Sansom St., 215-564-6446). You can also get the savory rice pancake filled with spinach, jack cheese, and roasted tomato. And that’s the point: The new quick-casual Philadelphia Chutney is an unapologetically Americanized spin on south Indianstyle fare. Lawyer Nirav Mehta and

With Flanigan’s Boat House gone from Malvern’s Great Valley Corporate Center after 15 years, the new occupant will be known as Twenty9 and is scheduled to open in October. Concept: American cuisine, event spaces, sports bar, outside deck. Partners are Stephen Scutti of Stephens on State in Media, Patricia Archie, and Edward Tietjen.

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Nirav Mehta (left) and Baldev Singh at their new Philadelphia Chutney Company, putting an American spin on the fare of south India. Baldev Singh, who owns Aman’s Indian Cuisine across from Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton and Aman’s Indian Bistro in Chalfont, are touting their menu — including uttapas, thalis, idli (steamed rice and lentil cakes), and wraps — as organically sourced, low-fat, and all-vegetari-

an. They intend the Sansom Street location, former Remedy Tea Bar, as the first of several locations, including one on Temple’s main campus. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and later Fridays and Saturdays; closed Sundays.

Rittenhouse Square burger shop 500º has supersized its 5½ounce patties to 7 ounces, and dropped most prices by 50 cents. The opening of SugarHouse Casino has sent Darling's Diner at the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Northern Liberties to secure a liquor license and start 24/7 service soon. Contact columnist Michael Klein at mklein@phillynews.com. Enjoy dining? Follow his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider and on Twitter @phillyinsider.

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Concern for Earth fosters interest in Sukkot

SUKKOT from F1 At the heart of Sukkot is the sukkah, the temporary leanto that celebrators build in their yard — or on their urban balcony or rooftop — which represents the fragility of life and the temporary housing of the Israelites as they wandered in the desert. These days, ready-made sukkah kits simplify matters for the construction-impaired. For the eight days of the holiday, all meals are taken inside the sukkah’s walls — many families also sleep and study in their sukkahs, weather permitting. The sukkah itself is decorated with greenery and organic materials, fruits and vegetables, lights, and all manner of crafts. “Sukkot is underrated but it’s a wonderful, joyous holiday, especially as it comes after solemn Yom Kippur. We don’t go over the top, but we have fun decorating,” says Sarah Kahn, who with her husband Asher, and 2-year-old son Tal adorns their Queen Village sukkah with dried fruit, strings of popcorn, and the traditional symbols the lulav (a tied bundle of date palm, willow, and myrtle branches) and etrog (citron fruit). “The lulav and the etrog are part of a tradition of the four species, which also include the aravah, the willow branch, and the hadas, the myrtle branch, and together they represent the whole gamut of the agricultural world,” Marks says. On the culinary front, the festival is generally less prescriptive than other Jewish holidays, though ingredients and flavors tend to reflect the season and the harvest of local foods: squashes, figs, apples, pears, root vegetables. Anne Rubin, a real estate broker in Elkins Park, serves black bean and pumpkin soup. For Suzanne Litke, a Center City medical market research professional, spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg are olfactory hallmarks of Sukkot and the months to follow. Every year she and her children make rustic an-

Makes 16-18 servings

White or cider vinegar 1 large head (about 3 pounds) green or savoy cabbage, cored 1 medium onion, sliced For the stuffing: 11/2 pounds ground beef About 1/2 cup raw rice Dry bread crumbs or matzo meal 1 large egg 1/2 cup water 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black

pepper For the sauce: 2 cups crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce, or 1 cup of each 3 tablespoons tomato paste 1 cup water 2 bay leaves 1 to 8 tablespoons sugar (depending on preference and the sweetness of the tomatoes) About 1/2 teaspoon salt Ground black pepper to taste 2 to 4 tablespoons lemon juice or cider vinegar

1. Fill a large pot about three-fourths full with water, add a little vinegar, and bring to a rapid boil. Carefully place the cabbage in the boiling water and cook until the outer leaves are pliable enough to roll easily, about 5 minutes. Using a pair of tongs, pull off the supple leaves. Repeat the process until you have 16 to 18 untorn large leaves. Trim the tough center rib of each leaf. Shred any extra cabbage leaves and place in the bottom of a deep heavy pot or baking dish. Scatter the onion over the top. 2. To make the stuffing: Combine all the stuffing ingredients. 3. Place about 1/4 cup stuffing on each large cabbage leaf, arranging it a little off center. Use 1 to 2 tablespoons for smaller leaves. Fold the sides of the leaf over the stuffing, fold over the rib end, and roll up. Arrange the cabbage rolls, seam side down, in the prepared pot. 4. To make the sauce: Combine all the sauce ingredients. Pour over the cabbage rolls. If the sauce does not cover the cabbage rolls, add enough water to cover. 5. Cover and simmer over low heat until tender, about 11/2 hours. Or bake, covered, in a 350-degree oven for about 1½ hours, then uncover and bake until the sauce is thickened and the cabbage rolls are lightly browned, 30 to 60 minutes. Serve warm.

— From Encyclopedia of Jewish Food by Gil Marks Per serving (based on 18): 162 calories, 10 grams protein, 17 grams carbohydrates, 7 grams sugar, 6 grams fat, 37 milligrams cholesterol, 340 milligrams sodium, 3 grams dietary fiber.

Roasted Sweet Vegetables in Spicy Cinnamon Cider Makes 6 to 8 servings

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At the Kahn home in Queen Village, a candy sukkah made by Sarah and son Tal decorates the full-size sukkah in which the family celebrates the eight-day holiday of Sukkot. ise-spiced Italian biscuits called ginetti. Pickles and relishes, stews such as tzimmes (a mixture of vegetables and dried fruits), cobblers, and strudels are very common. Anything in a casserole dish, easily

Olive Fig Tart

Makes 4 to 6 servings 11/3 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup ground blanched almonds 1/3 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup olive oil

Ashkenazic Stuffed Cabbage

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cup cold water 12 fresh ripe figs 1/4 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup plain live yogurt 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 tablespoons honey

1. To make the pastry dough, put the flour, almonds, sugar, and salt in a food processor and blend. Add the oil and pulse until crumbly. Add water, a little bit at a time, until dough comes together into a ball. Gather up the dough, wrap in plastic, and leave at room temperature for at least one hour. 2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-inch removable-bottom fluted tart pan. Press dough into the pan and prick lightly with a fork all over. Line the dough with baking parchment, cover with dried beans, and bake for 10-15 minutes. Remove the beans and paper and bake for 5 more minutes to crisp the crust. 3. Cut the figs in half lengthwise and arrange on the crust. Whisk together the cream, yogurt, almond extract, and honey. Pour mixture over the figs and bake for 50 minutes, until the cream mixture is set. Serve warm or cold but not chilled.

— Adapted from The Healthy Jewish Cookbook by Michael van Straten Per serving (based on 6): 431 calories, 6 grams protein, 60 grams carbohydrates, 34 grams sugar, 20 grams fat, 16 milligrams cholesterol, 79 milligrams sodium, 4 grams dietary fiber.

transported from kitchen to sukkah, is appealing. “Filled foods, like the cornucopia, are symbolic of harvest and bounty, so we tend to see those a lot during this holiday,” Marks says. Another interpretation is that the stuffing echoes the cramming of multiple family members into the sukkah’s limited space. Baked apples and stuffed peppers are a favorite in the Kahn home, while stuffed cabbage is a must-have meal in the family sukkah of Adam Laver, a lawyer in Center City. Both Ashkenazic and Sephardic cooking traditions include a multitude of pastries, kreplach, and dumplings that fulfill the stuffed-foods symbolism. Stuffed pumpkins are popular in Uzbekistan, for instance, and stuffed grape leaves are found on Middle Eastern Sukkot tables. Marks notes that Polish Jews serve a stuffed roasted cow’s udder, a dish that has not caught on among American Jews. At the Moishe House on Washington Square West, Karp takes the harvest theme further and hosts a sustainable Shabbat dinner — this year held on Friday. “It’s basically a meal where everything, including the wine, is produced within a radius of 200 miles or less,” Karp says. “We always bring in speakers to discuss environmental and

sustainability issues because we want to demonstrate the relationship between the Sukkot harvest and what’s happening in our immediate area.” Past speakers have included representatives from Mill Creek Farms, Greensgrow, and the Urban Nutrition Initiative. Similarly, Branch Creek Farm in Perkasie is hosting chef Michael Solomonov of Zahav for a farm-to-table Sukkot dinner on Sunday. For the typical modern, busy household, it’s not all gorgeous, shiny produce straight from the field. A week of Sukkot meals often mimics the arc of the typical week of eating: one or two special feasts (usually on the first day and on Shabbat), maybe a takeout pizza or sandwiches, and lots of leftovers on the other nights. Still, it’s the gathering in the sukkah on the fleetingly warm evenings of autumn that makes it special. Adam Laver grew up celebrating Sukkot at his family’s home in Center City, where his young family continues to celebrate it today. “For us, it’s really the most beautiful and enjoyable Jewish celebration,” he said. “We’re still working on our condo association to see if we can build a sukkah in our garden next year.”

1 cup sweet apple cider 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar 2 tablespoons margarine 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed 41/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 tablespoon kosher salt

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teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks 1 pound peeled and cubed butternut squash 25 baby carrots 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 cup golden raisins

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a roasting pan with nonstick cooking spray. 2. In a small saucepan, place apple cider, vinegar, margarine, olive oil, lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cayenne pepper. Warm over low heat 3 to 5 minutes. 3. Place sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, and raisins in prepared pan. Pour warm sauce over vegetables. 4. Cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake until vegetables are soft, about 1 hour and 30 minutes. — From Quick & Kosher by Jamie Geller Per serving (based on 8): 251 calories, 2 grams protein, 50 grams carbohydrates, 24 grams sugar, 7 grams fat, no cholesterol, 812 milligrams sodium, 4 grams dietary fiber.

Ginetti Di Sukkot

Makes about 48 ginetti 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup olive oil 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cup ground blanched almonds 2 teaspoons anise seeds

1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange or lemon rind 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 2 cups unbleached flour

1. Cream together sugar, oil, and salt. Add one egg at a time, beating after each addition. Add the ground almonds, anise seeds, cinnamon, grated rind, vanilla and almond extracts. Add enough flour to form a rather stiff dough. 2. Turn out on a floured working surface, knead for 1 minute, then roll into a rope 1 inch wide. With a sharp knife, cut diagonally into 2-inch pieces. 3. Place on a well-floured baking sheet and bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Store in a tin box, at room temperature, where ginetti keep fresh at least 8 days, the duration of Sukkot.

— From The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews by Edda Servi Machlin Per ginetti: 69 calories, 1 grams protein, 9 gram carbohydrates, 4 grams sugar, 3 grams fat, 9 milligrams cholesterol, 16 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.

On the Side By Rick Nichols

The baby carrot: Not junk, just marketed that way ON THE SIDE from F1 latest skirmish in the unequal battle of raw produce for shelf space — and, let’s face it, a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t — here in Fast Food Nation. (Can we defer the discussion of food-miles and packaging waste to a later date, please?) The carrots previewed recently in Cincinnati and Syracuse, where high school students are said to be snapping them up from vending machines at 50 cents a pop. But in a week or two, Bolthouse Farms, the Bakersfield, Calif., grower, plans to have them in Philadelphia markets — three-ounce packs of scary, Halloween-themed “Scarrots,” priced ounce-for-ounce roughly the same as Halloween candy. Not a peep about healthfulness. No big deal about convenience. Bolthouse and a consortium of smaller carrot growers are selling, this time around, the awesomeness of crunch.

HL Group for Bolthouse Farms

New snack-size packages of baby carrots. Halloween-themed “Scarrots” will be priced ounce-for-ounce roughly the same as Halloween candy. And they’re putting their money where your mouth is. From a current advertising budget that one industry insider describes as “nothing,” the “Bunch of Carrot Farm-

ers” are assembling a $25 million-ayear war chest, the minimum to even pretend to compete against junk-food snacks that outspend veggies roughly 100 to 1.

One can lament, and I do, the passing of a time when the allAmerican carrot didn’t need reshaping and repackaging. (Just peel and serve! And save about $1 a pound.) One can mourn the moment when claims of “superfruit” (dried cherries) and “high in antioxidants” (pomegranate juice) lost their thrill. (Too overexposed!) One can even regret the fruit-andveggie world’s internecine backstabbing: “Ounce for ounce, bite for bite, better than apples,” reads the label on Sunsweet pitted prunes. But time moves on: When Crunch Pak, the Washington processor of presliced apples, started 10 years ago, the marketability of pouches of sliced apples seemed as far-fetched as, well, baby carrots or bagged lettuce once did. Now, says Tony Freytag, the company’s marketing director, schoolkids who once tossed whole apples away in the cafeteria scarf

down the bagged slices: Crunch Pak has grown 50-fold in the last 10 years. At Disney World (and Land), a major client, Mickey Meals (of hot dogs, hamburgers, and grilled cheese) that once came with sides of fries now come with sides of sliced apples, grapes, or baby carrots. (You can still get fries, but you have to ask, and they cost extra.) “That’s a mind-shift,” Freytag says: “We are the new junk food.” Which, all things considered is not a bad shift. As long as kids don’t forget that apples grow on trees. Or never experience the fresh, sweet snap of a just-yanked carrot — of the grown-up persuasion. Contact columnist Rick Nichols at 215-854-2715 or rnichols@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/ricknichols.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Chatting With Craig LaBan

Favorite fall beers; Restaurant Week notes

Here is an excerpt from Craig LaBan’s online chat: Craig LaBan: Congratulations to the Philly-area brewers who won prizes at the prestigious Great American Beer Fest last week — a number of the gold winners (Stoudts Heifer-in-Wheat; Troegs’ Flying Mouflan; McKenzie Brew House); also took top notice in the Inquirer’s Brew-vitational this summer. (See box for local winners.) Ah, to be thirsty in Philly is such a wondrous thing! Reader: What is your favorite, go-to fall beer? C.L.: Let’s start with a good malty Oktoberfest … Ayinger is my all-time fave. Then we move on to porters (had a great Edmund Fitzgerald the other night from Great Lakes Brewing), then maybe a Scotch ale like Dirty Bastard from Founders. (Am I already drinking for winter?) OK, let’s stick with a nice, slightly lessheavy brown ale, then. Maybe Earth Bread and Brewery in Mount Airy will consider brewing the brown ale that scored so well in our Brew-vitational once again for fall drinking. C.L.: Alex Capasso’s West Side Gravy was a topic on last week’s chat, and a reader wrote me afterwards, somewhat peeved, that I discussed it without having eaten there. We were really discussing the space, the lack of crowds, etc., and I did not discuss the food. Well, I did visit recently and had a somewhat mixed experience. I’m still not a fan of the big, revamped Woolworth space that feels a bit empty. I did enjoy the fried chicken, with its crackly micro-crust and juicy, tender meat, but not the “tuna from hell” a signature sandwich from new chef Siobhan Allgood, who cooked it as a contestant on Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen. This was exactly the kind of overwrought creation on brioche I’d expect a reality show contestant to cook—seared tuna with pro-

Gold Medals Stoudts Heifer-In-Wheat, Stoudt Brewing Co., Adamstown, Pa.; South German-style Hefeweizen (65 Entries) Saison Vautour, McKenzie Brew House, Malvern; French- and Belgian-style Saison (52) Pig Iron Porter, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, Media; Robust Porter (53) Russian Imperial Stout, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, Media; Imperial Stout (50) Flying Mouflan, Troegs Brewery, Harrisburg; Barley Wine-Style Ale (57)

Hop Back Amber Ale, Troegs Brewery, Harrisburg; American-Style Amber/Red Ale (83 Entries) Kellerbier, Triumph Brewing Co., Philadelphia; Kellerbier/Zwickelbier (24) Dunkel Lager, Triumph Brewing Co., Philadelphia; European-Style Dunkel (19) Troegenator, Troegs Brewery, Harrisburg; Bock (36)

Bronze Medals Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Weyerbacher Brewing Co., Easton; Field Beer (28 Entries) The Jaspers, Bullfrog Brewery, Williamsport, Pa.; Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer (54)

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Maria Rodale does not mince words. The sustainability advocate and head of Rodale Inc. publishing company believes we must rapidly convert to organic farming systems or jeopardize the health of the planet and its inhabitants. She lays out this jarring argument with grace in her slim new book, Organic Manifesto. In it, she details the benefits of organic agriculture and the dangers of “chemical farming — the term she uses to describe nonorganic or conventional farming that uses synthetic fertilizers, nontherapeutic antibiotics, hormones, genetically modified organisms, and pesticides. Many of her reasons for preferring organic will be familiar to sustainable foodies, but Rodale also cites newer research on the way healthy organic soil — as opposed to soil depleted by conventional farming — absorbs greenhouse gases and may help turn around global warming. As a third-generation organic and health advocate, who took over the reins of her family’s research and publishing empire last year, Rodale eschews the stance of impassive journalist for that of organic champion. We recently chatted with the mom, gardener and CEO — whose company publishes Prevention, Men’s Health and Women’s Health, among other publications — about her thoughts on agriculture, shopping and saving the world. Q: What inspired you to write

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12,995 $13,395

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$ 13,985 $14,395

SOLARA

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COROLLA LE

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2004 TOYOTA

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2009 TOYOTA

$ 14,995 $17,985

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2007 TOYOTA

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$ 20,295 $20,995

RAV-4 AWD

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21,995 $22,995

2008 TOYOTA

4-RUNNER AWD

2006 TOYOTA

V6 Engine, Sunroof, Power Windows & Locks, Must See! Beige, Only 43,050 Miles! #U10192

SIENNA LTD.

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23,895 $24,995

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27,995

For More Visit Our Website At

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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automotive

low cost cars & trucks BMW 318TI coup 1998 $2300/obo Black/black, runs great, CD 267-441-4612 BMW 528i 1998 $4999 Mint cond,all pwr, sunroof. 267-240-5747

Ford Windstar 1998 $1950 All pwrs, Exc cond, Insp April, 117k. 215-831-9507

Cadillac Brougham 1989 $4,800 98K miles, mint cond. Call 856-691-5516

Ford Windstar 2000 $3950 Deluxe 8 pass all powers orig mi, garaged, exceptionally nice, meticulous owner, must sac, below book 215.922.5342 Fran

Chevy Astro Extended Van ’93 $1250 auto, a/c, 7 pass or cargo 215.620.9383

GMC SAFARI AWD 1995 $1250 gd cond, 167k mi, Bensalem 215.518.9406

Chevy Blazer LT 2000 $3975 New Body style, 4 dr, 4 wheel drive, full power, a/c, like new, Carol, 215-922-2165

Honda Accord EX 1998 $2495 200k, sunroof, gorgeous 610.524.8835

CHEVY Caprice Classic 1994 $2150 all powers, 77K, runs new. 215-620-9383

Lucerne CX 4 dr 2008 $18,210 dark crimson metallic ext, cocoa/shale int, 19,325 miles, exc cond. 5 year/100k mile GM warranty. (609)463-9229

Sedan Deville 4dr 2002 $6,985 luxury, sunrf, original mi, full pwr, premium tires, deluxe stainless steel wheels, Sacrifice below book value 215.928.9632

Infiniti G20 1993 $1150 4 dr, auto, loaded, clean. 215-518-8808 JEEP CHEROKEE SPORT 1995 $1600 all power, low miles. 267-475-6444

CHEVY Impala LS 2001 $4800 99K mi, loaded, sunroof, 215-850-5702

Merc Cougar XR7 1996 $1250 all pwr, new insp, runs exc. 215.620.9383

Chevy Impala LS 2003 $3475 3.8 V6, loaded, CD, clean, 267.592.0448

Mercedes Benz C220 1995 $1,500 Black, 187,411 mi, 610-368-8176

Chrysler Concorde 2000 $4,000/obo 1 owner, exc. cond., 82K mi. 267-972-9711

Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 2001 $2975 Low mi, lthr, mnrf, chrome, 267.592.0448

Dodge Grand Caravan Sport ’02 $4495 auto, new insp, gorgeous, 610.524.8835

Toyota Camry 1988 $1200 gd cnd, 97k garaged no rust 215.820.5805

Dodge Intrepid ES 2004 $3450 3.2 V6, lthr, CD, alarm, cln 267.592.0448

Toyota Solara 2000 $4195 Mint Cnd, Sunrf, all power 267-315-8812

Ford F150 Pickup 1995 $800 Firm Ladder rk, toolbox, 133k mi 215-669-0418

Toyota Tercel 1995 $950 auto, AC, 4 cyl, 34mpg. 215-620-9383 VOLVO 850 T-5 1997 $2195 200K mi,new insp,gorgeous 610.247.1883 Volvo V70 1999 $4,500 Silver 69,000mi 215-242-5066

Land Rover 2004 Luxury Discovery SE 7 4 door w/ 2 sunroofs, 3 seater, original mi., garage kept, like new! (not exaggerated) Sr. citizen owner. 215-627-1814

Miata Luxury Roadster Convertible 2000 5 speed, A/C, few original miles, well maintained, woman driver, must sacrifice, $5985, Mary, 215-922-2165

Corvette 1992 Best Offer T-Tops, full power, A/C, Really exceptional, unusual opportunity! Serious buyers only. Call (215)922-6113

Classic Cars, Consigning, Buying & Selling, 35 yrs. exp., professional E-bay services (856)241.0004. (732)644.5960 Visit Our Website: cnhmusclecars.com

Miata MX5 Convertible 2003 $15,900 black, 13,000 miles, auto, leather, garage kept, includes hardtop. Call 610-825-6632

$ JUNK CARS WANTED $ Lost Title Ok. $100-$300 Paid. 215-370-5419

ALTIMA S 2.5 2006 $9800 2,700 miles, 4cyl, gray int (215)715-4647

PAYING UP TO $300.00. WE BUY JUNK CARS ! Any Condition! WE SELL USED CAR PARTS. (609) 396-3005

1985 35’ Trailer w/ 15’x20’ sunroom, sleeps 6, exc cond, $8,000, 856.308.4725

legal notices Annual Meetings Public Notice Hahnemann University Hospital Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors The Board of Governors of Hahnemann University Hospital will be holding its annual public meeting at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 25, 2010. The meeting will be held in the 19th floor Board Room located in the New College Building, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. All interested parties are invited to attend. For more information, call 215762-3446.

ALL CA$H Today All Cycles & ATVs 215-639-3100 www.eastcoastcycle.com H.D. Sportster 2009 $6000 like new, 1,100 miles, 610-587-7449 Yamaha R6 2004 $5,000/OBO Blue, mint cond. 13,000 mi 610-368-0967

Hyundai Tucson 2006 $10,000/OBO Still under warranty. Tow & roof rack. 843-670-1531

FORD F-150 2006 $14,000 35,000 miles, like new, 215-913-2296 Ford F250 2000 $5,200 White, 91,000 mi. 267-716-5754

G6 2006 $6,000/obo many options, clean in/out 215-266-5138

PRIUS Hybrid 2005 $5,500 178K,runs great,Trevose,Pa 215.518.9406

VW Passatt GLS 2001 $3495 auto, new insp, gorgeous, 610.524.8835

Camping Membership Lifetime, Camp Coast 2 Coast $10/nite (full hook up!) Pd $1595, must sell $595. 800-236-0327

CORVETTE 1972 $16,900 matching #’s 215-322-9547, cell 215-858-9549

CHEVY Impala 2001 $3,500 runs good, clean. Call 215-681-3575

FORD MUSTANG 2003 $5,000 fully loaded, black, 5 spd, GT, 162k 215-896-0027

BMW 325Ci 2001 $10,500 Black Conv. 85,000 mi 215-237-6747 BMW 528 I 1999 $5895 Black, Loaded, Gorgeous, 610-247-1883

Philadelphia Towing And Transport 3200 S. 61st Street Philadelphia, PA 19153 Public Auction to be held Thursday, September 23, 2010 At 8 AM All vehicles sold ’as is’ CHEVY 1GNDT13W8Y2392506 FORD 1FAFP55S54A175850 HYUNDAI 5NPEU46F19H437051 ISUZU 4S2CK58W744302370

HOLLY ACRES RV PARK - AC Area, NJ Booking for 2011 Season. Large shaded sites, great activities. Family park. Book by 10/15 & receive free cable TV with your site(new seasonals only). 609-965-2287

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Bus 13 passenger, Atlantic City Jitney w/ handicap lift, good cond., bus only. $4,000. Call (609)610-3936

Just go to philly.com/cars

Meeting Notices PUBLIC NOTICE The Philadelphia Housing Authority Board of Commissioner Meeting will be held on T h u r s d a y , September 23, 2010 at 3:00 p.m., at Philadelphia Housing Authority, 12 South 23rd Street, 6th Floor, Multi Purpose Room, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John F. Street, Chairman Board of Commissioners The WXPN Policy Board will meet on Wednesday, September 29 at 12:00 pm. Meetings are open to the public. Please call 215-898-0628 for more information.

Dodge Ram Van 2001 $9,850 Black, 75,500 mi. Call 856-577-2618

auto dealer directory ACURA

BMW

ACURA OF TURNERSVILLE

BMW of MT. LAUREL

KERBECK CADILLAC 340 Albany Ave Atlantic City, NJ kerbeckcars.com 609-345-2100

HONDA BOB SLOANE HONDA

3400 Route 42, Turnersville One Of 11 great Brands at Turnersville AutoMall 856-728-3900 AcuraOfTurnersville.com

1220 Route 73 South Mt Laurel, NJ Authorized Dealer (856)840-1400 www.desimonebmw.com

CHEVROLET

Bustleton & Haldeman NE PHILADELPHIA www.sloaneautos.com (215) 305-5000

BUICK

BRYNER CHEVROLET

BURNS HONDA

RTE. 1, LANGHORNE, PA Authorized Dealer PA 215-943-7000 Toll Free 866-86-DAVIS

Rt. 611 South, Jenkintown www.brynerchevy.com 215-886-3140

DAVIS ACURA

Piazza Acura of Ardmore 150 WEST LANCASTER AVE ARDMORE, PA 19003 ArdmoreAcura.com 800-916-5017

PiazzaAcura WestChester 1330 WILMINGTON PIKE WEST CHESTER PA 19382 WestChesterAcura.com 800-916-3968

SUSSMAN ACURA

Old York Rd & the Fairway Jenkintown, PA Authorized Dealer (215)887-1800

AUDI Audi Turnersville

3400 Route 42, Turnersville One Of 11 great Brands at Turnersville AutoMall 856-649-7930 AudiOFTurnersville.com

F.C. KERBECK BUICK Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

CADILLAC Cadillac of Turnersville

3400 Route 42, Turnersville One Of 11 great Brands at Turnersville AutoMall 856-629-8700 CadillacOfTurnersville.com

F.C. KERBECK

Pre-Owned Cadillacs Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

HOLMAN CADILLAC

1200 Rt. 73 S. Mt. Laurel, NJ 1-800-671-4813 Desimonecadillac.com

KERBECK CHEVROLET

340 N. Albany Ave Atlantic City, NJ kerbeckcars.com 609-344-2100

CORVETTE KERBECK CORVETTE 430 N. Albany Ave Atlantic City, NJ www.kerbeck.com 1-800-57-VETTE 1-800-578-3883

GMC F.C. KERBECK GMC Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

325 NORTH ROUTE 73 MARLTON,NJ 08053 Authorized Dealer (856)983-6131

CHAMPION HONDA

9903 Bustleton Ave NE PHILADELPHIA www.sloanehonda.com 215-305-5000

MARTIN MAIN LINE HONDA

SUSSMAN HONDA

1543 EASTON ROAD WILLOW GROVE, PA Authorized Dealer (215)657-7055

HYUNDAI

Townshipline & Burmont Rd Drexel Hill, PA DrexelhillHonda.com 800-769-5786

PIAZZA HONDA OF PHILA. 6935 ESSINGTON AVENUE PHILADELPHIA, PA PhiladelphiaHonda.com 1-800-916-5215

PiazzaHonda Pottstown 629 N. Lewis Rd Limerick, PA PottstownHonda.com 800-916-5218

F.C. KERBECK

Pre-Owned Jaguar Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

COLONIAL HYUNDAI

4423 W. LINCOLN HWY DOWNINGTOWN, PA ColonialHyundaiPa.com 610-873-9000

KIA KIA OF LANSDALE

N. Broad St., Lansdale, PA 215-362-3301 www.harriscars.com

NORTHEAST HYUNDAI PIAZZA HYUNDAI OF POTTSTOWN 84 Auto Park Blvd LIMERICK, PA 19468 800-916-7390 piazzahyundai.com

Springfield Hyundai

754 Baltimore Pike Springfield, PA 610-690-4604 SPRINGFIELDHYUNDAI.COM "Baltimore Pike Across from KOHLS"

F.C. KERBECK

Pre-Owned Lexus Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

LEXUS OF CHERRY HILL

1230 Rt 73 South, Mt. Laurel NJ 888-473-0062 lexusofcherryhill.com

CAROUSEL HYUNDAI

US Rte 202, West Chester, PA 610-399-3100 www.carouselauto.com

123 E. Lancaster Av,Ardmore PA mainlinehonda.com Grant Ave & Academy Rd Phila Authorized Dealer hyundai.northeastauto.com 610-649-5600 800-673-1042

PiazzaHonda of Drexel Hill

JAGUAR

SUSSMAN KIA

JENKINTOWN & BAEDER RDS. JENKINTOWN, PA Authorized Dealer (215)884-9000

LEXUS ATLANTIC CITY LEXUS

Fire Rd., Egg Harbor Twp, NJ Authorized Dealer 1-800-31-LEXUS 609-641-0008

Lexus of Chester Springs

Largest Lexus Dealer in Chester County PA turnpike Exit 312 on Rt 100 www.lexusofchestersprings.com 800-526-6468

WILKIE LEXUS

568 W. Lancaster Avenue HAVERFORD, PA Authorized Dealer www.wilkielexus.com 610-525-0900

LINCOLN MERCURY F.C. KERBECK

Pre-owned Lincolns Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

MASERATI

NISSAN

ALGAR MASERATI

All-Star Nissan Of Devon

1234 Lancaster Avenue Rosemont, PA Factory-Authorized Dealer for Ferrari and Maserati www.algarferrari.com (610) 527-1100

www.allstarnissan.net

FC KERBECK MASERATI

265 E. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore, PA www.ardmorenissan.com 610-649-4400

Route 73, Palmyra, NJ www.FCKerbeck.com 888-895-9546

MAZDA MAPLE SHADE MAZDA RT. 73 - MAPLE SHADE RT. 42 - TURNERSVILLE MSMAZDA.COM

459 W. LANCASTER AVE DEVON, PA 610-695-2900

ARDMORE NISSAN

SLOANE SCION

NE PHILA 215-742-9300 GLENSIDE 215-885-5400 DEVON 610-647-2300 www.sloaneautos.com

TOLL FREE 866.888.0534

SUBARU

PiazzaMazda W Chester

Bob Rafferty Subaru

1340 Wilmington Pike West Chester, PA PiazzaMazda.com 610-399-5330

SUSSMAN MAZDA

1601 EASTON ROAD WILLOW GROVE, PA Authorized Dealer (215)887-1800

4700 West Chester Pike Newtown Square, PA www.raffertysubaru.com 610-353-6900

SUBARU OF CHERRY HILL

New Ownership, New Building 1800 W. Marlton Pike (Rte. 70) Cherry Hill, N.J. 08002 (856) 330-1500 www.subaruofcherryhill.com

TOYOTA Bob Sloane Toyota

EASTON & JENKINTOWN RDS GLENSIDE, PA Toyota 215-885-5400

BobSloane Toyota of Devon 470 W. LANCASTER AVE DEVON, PA www.sloaneautos.com 610-647-2300

CHAMPION TOYOTA

1546 Cottman Ave. Phila, PA 19111 www.championcars.com (215) 742-9300

HOLMAN TOYOTA-SCION 1301 Rt. 73 Mt. Laurel, NJ (1-888-843-6054)

www.holmanauto.com

VOLKSWAGEN NORTHEAST VOLKSWAGEN

Grant Ave & Academy Rd Phila vw.northeastauto.com 800-671-2214

PIAZZA VW OF ARDMORE 150 W. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore, PA PiazzaVW.com 800-797-8051

Thursday, September 23, 2010

merchandise market Desktops/Laptops & Repairs/ Upgrades net ready. Incl MS Ofc,$175 (215)292.4145

BUYING EAGLES SBL’s WANTED - CASH PD

400 Pre-Owned ROLEX Nat’l Watch & Diamond, 8th & Chestnut 215-DIAMOND Arcade video games pinball machine, shuffle bowl alley.Trade for printing work. tntquality@aol.com215-783-0823

BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.25 sf (215)365-5826

CALL 215-669-1924K

Phillies Tickets Wanted Call 215-915-3621

POOL TABLE Gorgeous 8’ solid wood 1" slate, lthr pckts, dec legs & access/ Nvr used, $4500, Sell $1495. 610-476-8889. 33&45 Records higher $ Really Paid

BD MATTRESS Luxury Firm w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033

BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest, & 2 Nite Stands. High Quality. One month old, Must sell. Cost $6000 ask. $1500. 610-952-0033

BED A brand new Queen pillow top mattress set w/warr. Sell $169; Full $149. Twin $139; 3 pc King $249 215-752-0911

* * Bob 610-532-9408 * *

33&45 RECORDS

ABSOLUTE HIGHER$

* * * 215-200-0902 * * *

Antique & Collectable Buyer, Coins, Gold, Costume Jewelry, Military, Toy Cars, Dolls, Trains, Barbie Cleanouts Will Travel

Ronnie, 267.825.8525

Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476 BED: Brand New Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set w/warr, In plastic. $155; Twin $140; 3 pc King $240; Full set $145. Memory foams avl. Del. avl 215-355-3878 Bedroom Set brand new queen 5 pc esp. brown $489. Del Avail 215-355-3878 Bedroom Set Queen Brand new solid wood $599. Can deliver 215-752-0911 BEDS - GOODBED! Custom Platform beds & bedroom sets. 267-970-4070 NEW Mattress sets - $100. Twin, Full Queen. Delivery Avail. 215-307-1950 SOFA, LOVE SEAT, MICRO, NEUTRAL chocolate Can del. $499. 215-752-0911

STOLEN: School Police Furness Piece, anyone with info call 215-875-3795.

Cameras, Clocks, Toys, Radios, Dolls, Porcelain, Magazines, Military I Buy Anything Old..Except People! Call Al 215-698-0787

garage sales

Burlington City, NJ - 90+ Families! All of E. Union St. Sat, 9/25; 9-3. Rain Date9/26. Info before Sat: 609-387-9245 Cherry Hill West High School’s Community Wide Yard Sale Saturday 10/2, 8-1pm great oppurtunity to sell, open to all space rental $10. Register by 9/25 chwpta2010@yahoo.com FLEA MARKET-Saturday 10/9 Wynnefield Heights, PATHMARK 4160 Monument Rd, 9-4; Rain Date Sun. 10/10, Vendors Welcomed, $25, PayPal, Money Order, Cash, CALL (215) 473-9422 www.wynnefieldheights.org HORSHAM Multi Family Yard Sale ! Sat. Sept. 25, 7 am-3pm 215 Garden Ave Join us for last sale of season! Jenkintown, PA M ulti-family Garage Sale 787 Baeder Rd. Sat.,Sept. 25th 8am-10am Jewelry, toys, clothing, much more Jumble Sale: Wht elephants, books, DVDs, baked goods, jewelry. Merion Friends Mtg 615 Montgomery Ave Merion/Narberth 9/25 9am-1pm No earlybirds Main Line Estate Sale Fri 9/24, Sat 9/25, Sun 9/26 10am-6pm 485 Merion Road, Merion, PA 19066 267-934-5677 Entire contents, antique Persian & Chinese rugs, fireplace chairs, mirrors, furniture, vintage perfume collection, Victorian & Art Deco jewelry, both costume & genuine, fabulous collection of original artwork, Chagall, Miro, Picasso, Dali, Tarkay, Egbi, Degas, Calder, P. Max, Pissarro & others, Coll. of rare books, brick-a-brack, moped, bike, clothes, garden tools, etc. Corner of Montgomery Ave & Merion Rd. MALVERN Huge Multi Family Sale, Sat. 9/25, 8am-3pm, 1470 Eaves Spring Rd, household items, toys, books, tools Northern Liberties Multi-family, Sat 9/25, 9-4pm, 400 block Olive St. between Fairmont & Brown, 19123. PHILADELPHIA G ARAGE/YARD SALE 3120 Gilham St. Sat. Sept. 25th 8 to 12 Furniture, TVs, sporting goods, tools,..etc S. Phila - 1618 Mifflin St. Abandoned Storage Warehouse Sale, 9/25 & 26, 8am-3pm. Loads of stuff.

24xx S Edgewood 3br/1ba $850+util modern, nr trans, sec 8 ok 215-868-0481 55xx Larchwood 2 BR dplx $700+ utils 1st/last & 1 month sec. 484-908-2306 65xx Allman 3 BR $750 newly remodeled, porch, small yard, Section 8 OK, Call 215-463-2403

SW Phila 3br/1ba Sec 8 approved modern, new kitch & crpets 267.819.8039

41xx Parrish St 5br/1ba $1200+util modern, nr trans, sec 8 ok 215-868-0481 50xx Parrish St. 3br/1ba $700+utils 1st, last & security, w/w carpet, freshly painted, available now (215)718-5980

56xx Arch St. 2 BR $650+ utils 2 mo. security, Avl Oct 1, 215-438-7238 Kershaw St. 3 BR $750 Section 8 approved. Call 267-716-3662

1411 N. 76th St 2 BR condo $875 new rugs, w/d, a/c, prkg, 215-740-4900

254 Simpson St. 3 BR $850 nw rugs, w/d, a/c, yd, bsmt 215.740.4900

Coins, MACHINIST TOOLS, Militaria, Swords, Watches, Jewelry 215-742-6438

OVERBROOK 2br $750 + Porch, yd, Sec 8 ok. 610-649-9009

Diabetic Test Strips Unused. Cash for. Up to $16 per 100 strips. 215-525-5022 DIAMONDS ROLEX #1 215-DIAMOND Nat’l Watch & Diamond, 8th & Chestnut

21st & York 3 BR $600+ utils Section 8 Ok. Call 215-681-7394

Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903

24th & Cumberland 3 & 5 BR/2 Full BA newly renovated, SS appliances, hardwood flrs, jacuzzi tub, C/A, 215-430-2150

Records, CD’s, DVD’s, Videos, Games Instruments, Books, Toys. (215)252-6751

25xx N Gratz St 3br/1ba $685+utils Washer, Wind A/C. Call 215-224-1546

service directory NOTICE For more information and assistance regarding the investigation of Money To Loan Advertising, Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC urges its readers to contact: THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF EASTERN PA 1930 Chestnut St., P.O. Box 2297, Phila., PA 19103. 215-448-6100

Night time child care for the overnight professional, Temple & Enistein hosp area. Neighbor provider childcare 267.331.5382

North Phila 3BR newly renovated home for rent,$700,very spacious rooms,close to trans, a must see. Call 267-600-9269. Temple Hosp 4 & 5br single fam homes 1st month rent special. Call (215)477-1269

5th St. 3br Row house $750/mo. remodeled kitchen, new paint & carpeting, w/d, garage, back yard (267)394-0414

38xx Lawndale St. 3Br $950+utils freshly painted, sec 8 ok, 215.264.2340 42xx N. 15th 3BR $850/mo Newly renov, Sec 8 welcome215.519.5947

Baker & Green 4+br/1.5ba $1650+utils modern, renov, ceil fans, yard, parking, close to train, Call Jon K. (215)264.5924

1XX E Pleasant 4br/1ba $1150 total renov, cent air, HW flrs 215.601.5182 Mega Copywriter Available. Affordable. 610.687.3573 tmilton56@gmail.com

PRIVATE TUTOR: College level business courses. 36 years exp. Course content & study strategies addressed. Manageable fees. Prof. Burton Brodo. 215-925-7628

82xx Fayette St. 3br/1.5ba $1,100+utils Open House 9/25, 1-3pm. 267-307-0083

MASSAGE (Chinese) Relaxing tight muscles, removing toxins. TuiNa, Swedish, deep tissue, reflexology, acupressure. 212 Market St, Philadelphia 215-922-2325

personals

7xx Madison 3br/1ba $700+utils completely renov, sect. 8 ok, qualified applicants only,$35 app. fee, 215-852-8543 F & Tioga 3BR $700+ utils $2100 move in. Sec 8 OK. 267-259-4465

34xx G St. 4br/1ba $775+utils new carpet & paint, (215)651-2027 4847 Mulberry St. 2Br sect 8 approved, renov (267)257.0144

WELSH & BLVD mod twin 3br 2.5b great cond, quiet st, $1350+utils 267-312-7100

UPPER DARBY 3 BR $985 w/w, W/D, refrige, yard, close to transp & shopping, sunporch, everything brand new, Must See! 610-358-2438

Erial 4Br/2.5Ba $2,450 fin. bsmnt., inground pool. 856-449-5985

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RAGDOLL KITTENS Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. $500. 610-731-0907 SIAMESE cats & kittens CFA & TICA Reg. Show quality $1700 USD Call Mike 484 300 6431 Siamese kits, reg, PURRfect PURRson alities 610-944-3609 or 610-506-7109

American Bulldog Pups, NKC registered, shots & wormed, 2 M, 2 F Left. $800 (610)888-2731 or (610)551-2673 Beagle puppy, loveable Male, 11 wks, $200. George (609)820-8169 Bernesse Mountain Puppies - shots, wormed,vet checked, $850, 610.857.0108 B ichon Frise mixed with King Charles Spaniel $450 USD (215) 749-2965 BICHON FRISE Pups, reg, shots/wormed, fam raised, ready. $475. 717-687-7440 Boston Terrier pups, AKC, wormed & shots, blk, white & brindle 732.297.6910 Boston Terrier pups, M & F, shots & wormed, avail now, (856)694-2952 BRITTANY SPANIEL PUPS - AKC, s/w 3M, born 6/26, $600, 717-786-2433.

Cairn Terrier pups, ACA, vet checked, F $650, M $600. (717)989-8345 Cane Corso Puppies $450 215-375-8596 Cavalier Spaniels Puppies Health cert. $600 & up. Call 215-538-2179 CHIHUAHUA PUPS, ACA, Family raised, vet checked, $450. Call: 717-554-4566 COCKER SPANIEL PUPS 2 girls, 1 brown, 1 black, $500, call Barb or Rich, 215-343-7351, Warrington, PA. Cocker Spaniel Pups ACA, Chocate & multi color, M $350. (717)867-1653 Collies AKC, sable & tri pups, ready now, normal eyed, gauranteed. 856-825-4856 Dachshund Pups -AKC mini, long haired, vet checked, 1st shots, Call 856-785-2441

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6030 Greenway Av 2BR $575+/mo 614 Roosevelt Blvd, 2BR, $575+/mo 2nd fl + 2 mos sec, 1 mo, 215-888-2025 614 Roosevelt Blvd, 2BR, $575+/mo 6030 Greenway Blvd 2BR $575+/mo 2nd fl + 2 mos sec, 1 mo, 215-888-2025

319 North 64th St. 1.5br $600/mo + rear apartment. $1,800 to move in. Call 215-783-8456 422 N 52nd St 1br 3rd flr, newly renovated, (484)483-8710 50th & Haverford 1BR $550 & up Lg kitch & bath, sec+rent.215-747-4049 52xx Kershaw St. $600 & $675 2 apts, 1 is bi-level, 2 bath, EIK, backyard with porch, hdwd flrs & crpt 610.766.1729 55th & Baltimore 2 & 3BR $650-$700 Near transp & college (917)435-0014 55th & Wyalusing 2 BR $550+ utils very good condition. Call 215-836-2476 55xx Master St. 2br $550+utils renovated, w/w crpt, 215-688-7104 59th & Chestnut 1 BR/1 BA $600 ht incl 1.5 month deposit, LR, kitch, garb. disp., bsmnt w/washer, porch (215)927-1373 902 N 41st 1br 2nd flr $600 Lrg apt, 1st mo + security, 215-292-4145 W. Phila 3 & 4br apts Avail Now 1st month rent special. Call 215-477-1268

219 N. 63rd St 1br $550+ util. 3rd floor. security deposit 215-906-5654

50xx Newhall St. small 1BR $625 Nice 3rd floor! Voucher ok, 267-241-8842 541 Wister St 1BR/1BA $600 Large, clean & renovated. Private entrance, yard. Walk to LaSalle, new shopping center & public transportation. Call 215-380-3315 Coulter St. 2br $775+utils nr Queen Ln station, Rooms $500/mo. inc util, seperate storage, (917)686-2634 E. Logan St. 2BR $700/mo Incl heat, near transp. Call 267-228-6601 GERMANTOWN Studios, 1 & 2 BR Various $$ Beautiful Apts. 215-849-1622 KNOX ST 2br $675+utils 2 mo dep, 1 mo rent. 267-338-9870 WALLINGFORD BEAUTIFUL APTS. GREAT MOVE-IN SPECIALS Make our home your next home 215-247-5614

1129 E. Mt. Airy Ave. 2BR 1BA $875+util 215-572-5082 16xx Murdoch Rd. 2br $750+utils newly renov, hdwd flrs, w/d on site, storage, off st prkng, garage, (215)327-0394 MT AIRY A pts start’g @ $400 & UP 10 locations. Beautiful Studios, 1 & 2 BR. CALL FOR SPECIALS! 215-247-5614

1201 Chelten Ave 1 BR $605+util large apt,2 month sec dep (215)287-1303

5821 HAVERFORD AVE 2B/1BA BA Large Eat in Kitchen, Living Room All Utilities Included, Central Air, Alarm System, Wireless Internet Avail $900 Qadir 267-228-0777

1826 Ridge Ave 3 Br 2nd flr, New Renov. 215-885-1700 1933 N Judson St 2BR bi lvl $675 1.5/ba, 10 mins to Temple U,215.768.8410 2253 N 16th St. 1 & 2BR $500 & up newly renov,walk to Temple 215.768.8410 23xx N. 25th St 2Br $600+utils $1200 move-in, new renov 267.784.9284 30th & Dauphin vic Efficiency 267-975-4602 or 215-763-6951 33rd Street 1 & 2 BR $600 & up newly renov, near Univ 215.227.0700, 9-5

1145 W. Venango St. 2BR $650 hw flrs, new kit/bath. 215-519-7336 1, 2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY - PARKING 215-223-7000

1360 E Rittenhouse. 1 BR 1st flr $550 newly renovated, hardwood floors, new appliances, Must See! 215-803-5050 8th St 2br $775+utils DR, 2 entries, Studio $450+utils brand new BA, sep kitch w/entry (917)686-2634

9XX E. Tioga 1br $475+utils 2nd flr, renovated,Sec 8 ok,215-424-2785

4740 Frankford Ave Studio $475-$500 heat & water included. 2 months security, 1 month rent, 215.669.7166, 215.743.4417 FRANKFORD 1br Apt, Efficiency $500$600 Utils Included 215-720-5725

Bustleton & Tomlinson 2BR $650-$750 +utils, W/D, pets ok. Call 267-338-6696 Cottman Ave Vic 2BR $755+ utils $2175 move-in, w/w. Call 267-251-5675 Frankford & Linden 2BR $875+utils spacious 2nd flr, bsmnt, gar215-322-8784 MAYFAIR 1 BR $565+ 2nd flr, rugs, credit check, 215-816-4626 ONTARIO & ’I’ ST 2BR 2nd fl $550+ utils 267-312-7100 Paul St. Studio & 1br $500 & up fresh paint, close to hosp (848)466-0059

38xx N. 15th 2BR, 3rd flr $550+utils nr trans $1000 sec $50 app 215.480.1910 Holland 2 BR/2 BA Condo 55+ Comm., elevator,garage,215.817.0768

23xx Tioga St. 1 BR, 1st flr $550+ util Nice size rms. 1st/last/sec 215-908-8576 36xx Pacific St. Efficiency $375+ util Call 215-873-3542 Broad & Hunting Pk 1st flr 1br $600+util priv entry, $1800 move in (215)559-5039

NEWTOWN SQ-HONEYMOON RETREAT Conv. Barn- 2 BR apt. Old Fashion Paint Brush Fresh - Lg. Skylg. w/dryer No pets, smoking. $1039. 610-368-5830. UPPER DARBY 1 BR $725 prvt entrance, w/w, AC, close to transp & shopping, all utils incl. 610-358-2438

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Maltese Pups -AKC, health guarantee, www.babymaltese.com 302-562-0762 M iniature Pinscher Pups vet checked, shots, tails, reg 610-636-0385 Neopolitan Mastiff, female, 22 mo, blue/ brindle, guard dog, $350, 215-254-0562 Neopolitan Mastiff Pups CH bloodline akc reg., big bone, tawny color 267-258-8878 OLD ENGLISH BULLDOGG PUP 1 F, very bully, s/w, IOEBA $1500. 267-259-0187 OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG PUP - Female, AKC, 1st shots, wormed, health guarantee, ready to go, $800, 484-333-3545

Pekingese Puppies 2F/2M AKC 8 wks $395-495 call 215-500-6264

Pit Bull Pups, Blue ,UKC reg. $300, Excel price, excel litter, shots, great with kids. Call 215-820-3135 Pomeranian Pups - AKC, M & F, Adorable, $500. 215-453-8847 POODLE Mini/Toy M, F, pedigree $450 up 856.220.9794 or 856.231.0186 POODLE PUPPIES - ACA, Red, Toy, shots & wormed, $500. 717-786-8368 POODLES Std Silver, brown, red Pet/Show. mithrilstandardpoodles.com 254-542-4695

ROTTWEILER PUPS - Shots & Wormed, Health guaranteed. $500. 610-857-4386 SHIH TZU-BICHON pups, very cute & friendly, shots/wormed, vet checked, health guar. $295. 717-687-6239

Shih Tzu, pure bred, 9 weeks, no shed, vet checked, $300, (717)933-9486 SHORKIE PUPS - 2 males, family raised, vet checked, $400. 717-738-0057 Standard Poodle Pups, black, champion health-checked parents. 267.236.3821 TOY FOX TERRIER PUPS: 3M, ready, shots & wormed, $250, 717-768-0745 Welsh Corgie Pups, AKC, Vet checked, shots, family raised $600. (610)273-3275 WHEATEN TERRIER PUPS - non-shed Irish shaggys. M/F. 610-248-3241 Yorkshire Terrier M & F. Vet checked, 1st shots, wormed $575. 856-426-3206 Yorkshire Terrier pups M&F vet checked, 1st shots. Ready to go. $800 215-510-1706, 215-637-1079.

Yorkshire Terrier pups, papers, 1st shot, 3M, cute, playful, $600. (267)902-9934

Frankford, furn, no drugs, near El, room in apt, $85/wk+ $250 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area, nice cozy rooms, Private entry, no drugs. (215)548-6083 NICETOWN cable with all channels, micro, a/c, fridge, shared ba & kit, $330 move-in, $110/week, 215-221-5195

North Phila, West Phila & Logan- Private entr, $70-$125/wk + APT, 609-877-0375 N. Phila rms for rent, Single Occpy. Only, 267-339-9839 or 215-380-5870 Roosevelt Blvd: modern, clean, safe. A/C, cable, W/D, 267-444-1544 South Phila: Rooms for rent, $100-$125 267-970-1773 SW: $105/wk. Use of kitchen. 215-206-3832 or 610-721-2981 SW & Nicetown, newly renov, furnished room $100-$125. 267-999-9182 SW-N-W Move-in Special!$90-$150/wk clean rms, use of kitch, SSI 215.220.8877 SW-Wynfld, nr St. Joe’s, $125/wk, $500 to move-in, 1 mo deposit, (267) 251-5547. W. Mount Airy: Special $100 & up. Private home. 215-224-3737 W Phila. clean furn rooms. use of kitch, $125/wk, Soc. Sec & SSI OK. 267.847.9512 W. Philadelphia Furnished Rooms $130-$150/wk, carpet, 267-236-2158

W. Phila - Furnished & Renovated $80$100/wk 267.258.8727 or 267.650.9228 W. Phila & G-town: New, Lrg, luxury rms/ apts, ALL utils incl, SSI ok 267.577.6665

13xx Fillmore St. 3BR porch, Section 8 ok, 215-766-1795

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Doberman Pups, AKC, red male, black female, $800. Call 302-888-1267 English Bulldog pups. AKC, vet checked, health gurantee, excellent temperment, M $1000, F $1200. (717)445-4438 ENGLISH Bulldog pups FCI/AKC, Champ bloodlines 1yr health guar, 610-533-0589 ENGLISH BULLDOGS PUPS, registered, $1,400. Call 215-294-0065 English Springer Spaniel Pups - Pure bred, no papers, fam raised, ready now! M $225, F $300 717.940.9822 no Sun calls Fila Brasileiro male pup World Champion Bloodlines. $2500. 215-536-5860 Fox Terrier Puppies - Vet checked, dewormed, $195. 717-406-8505 French Bulldog Pups, AKC, vet checked, champion parents. Call 570-922-4888 German Shepherd Dog vet checked, 1st shot, guaranteed. 610-760-3111 German Shepherd mix Pups: shots & wormed, $150 each. 717-529-6091 ext 1 GERMAN SHEPHERD Puppies, AKC, European blood lines, shots & wormed, family raised. $595. 717-768-7781 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS 9 weeks old, 1st shots, parents on prem ises, $500, Bryan, 267-407-2686 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS, AKC, large boned, Call 609-351-3205 German Shepherd pups (Czech) $600. AKC, shots, (856)359-6288 German Shepherd Pups: Large Boned. Parents on prem. Good with kids. www.jolindys.com. (610)495-7247 GERMAN SHORTHAIR POINTER AKC, S/W, 10wks, 2M, $400. 215-509-1053. GOLDEN DOODLES - family raised, shots, wormed, $700, 717-354-6836 GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS 1st shots $400. Mom & Dad on site 610-306-0624 Golden Retriever Pups - AKC, 2 M, 6 F, $600/ea. 2 year guarantee,814-448-3792 GREAT DANE PUPPIES - Blue, Female, $800, 302-698-1665 Irish Setter pups, ACA, 5F, 3M, $550/ea. John Esh (717)786-7363 ITALIAN CANE CORSO MASTIFF pups, ICCF reg. sire 204lbs, blue & blue fawn colors, ready Oct 3rd, $1500-$2500. credit cards accepted 570-345-4882 LAB PUPS 100% GUAR READY NOW MUST COME SEE!!! 215-768-4344 Lab pups, ACA, farm raised, F $300, M $275, ready 10/2, (717)687-3932 LAB PUPS, AKC reg, s/w, home raised. 610-944-3609 or 610-506-7109 Lab pups, Choc, AKC, vet chkd, family raised, exclnt temperment, exclnt w/kids, ready now, 3M, 7F, $450. (717)786-0227

26xx Chadwick 2 BR incl water, call 215-397-8625

30xx Agate St 3br $700 renovated, section 8 ok, (215)424-2785

21xx Simon St 2+br/1ba $740+utils new carpet & paint, bsmt, 215-725-6074

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306 E. Sanger 1Br $550+utils 1st flr, 2mo sec + 1mo rent 215-276-3687

50xx N. Marvine 2Br/1Ba $650+elec duplex, 2nd flr, 1st/last/sec215-669-2493

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618 S. 2nd St. 2BR $1050+ elec newly renovated, Call 215-665-1130

Hortter 3br/1ba $1100+utils renovated, beautiful block (267)577.6665

MASSAGE & SPA 1216 Township Line Rd. Drexel Hill (610) 4 4 9 -0 8 1 5

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EAST MOUNT AIRY $150-$200/week Rms w/prvt Bath. Util Incl 919-451-5497

1xx N. Yewdall St. 3BR $700 + utils bsmnt,frt pch,$2100 mve in, 302.377.1010

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DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING - 2.23 K, w/ white gold wedding band 1 K, $5500. Call for info, 610.636.2678, 4-7pm.

Classe Audio Pre-Amp: CP50, great cond. box & manual, $1700, 302-791-7791

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6416 Carlton St. 3 BR/2 BA $850 254 Simpson St. 3 BR/1 BA $850 6608 Haddington Ln 3 BR/1 BA $885 6624 Leeds St. 3 BR/1 BA $995 6555 Haverford Ave 4 BR/2.5 BA $1195 new rugs,w/d,a/c,yd,bsmnt 215.740.4900

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CONSOLE PIANO dark wood with bench. $500 USD. 215-743-8613

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13th/Erie furn’d rms $90/wk & up Priv. ent, single occupancy 215-514-7143 15th & Federal 8th & Lucerne 65th & Landsdown 42nd & Westminster Share kit & ba $320-$360 No sec dep, SSI OK. 215-758-7572 22nd & Dauphin rooms for rent $75$100. $300 to move in. 267-972-2874 22xx Lehigh Ave $90-100 furn,shared kit & ba,no sec 302-507-8050 2745 Germanttown Ave Luxury Room for rent $350/mo. Hank (267) 974-9271 33rd St. & Ridge Ave. $100-125/wk. Lrg renovated furnished rms nr Fairmount Park & bus depot. 215-317-2708 38xx N. 15th, Lg, furn, shared kit, w/wo pvt BA, $115wk+$300 sec, 267.809.7866 4952 Lancaster Luxury Room for rent $375/mo. Hank (267) 974-9271. 54th & Catharine lrg, clean, furnished , $550. Free utils & laundry 215.528.1058

commercial industrial 25xx McKean St. - 2 car storage garage, elec & water incl, $350/mo. 215.397.8625 7th & Fernon: 615 sqft, storage only, no mechanic, $800/mo. 215-715-7661 E. Lansdowne, Large Garage, newly renov w/ elec, $175/mo. 610-358-2438

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jobs HOUSEKEEPER - Professional couple seeking full time help immediately. Livein. Thurs-Mon. Mainline home.,small dog , must speak Tagalog. Driver’s license helpful but not necesary. Call 610-664-5942 Live in Nanny/Housekeeper Ambler, PA. No smoking/alcohol (267)575.0823

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57xx Thomas. Rooms: clean, nice & large, $90/wk. Call 267-912-9644 60th & Market, Broad & Huntington Park $100wk, $199 mvn 267-784-9284

64th & Kingsessing, 50th & Westminster, 13th & York 215.971.4870 Darby area N/S, $130/wk cable & utils inc, use of house, 484-469-0753

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Steve Zalenski Electric Guaranteed Lowest Prices Lic/ins PM hrs Call (215)796-2358

Gas-Wood Burning-Electric Fireplaces Sales, Service & Installations Bob’s Fireside Shop-35th Year! 856-845-2532

Handyman: •Painting •Kitchens •Baths •Roofing •Etc. 25 yrs exp, 267.254.0880

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MILT FISHER ELECTRICIAN - Immediate Service, Lowest prices in city. 40 yrs exp. Lic#16054. Call (215)519-9008

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COMPANION DES POS, 20 yrs exp. caring for elderly,refs,reliable. 215.879.9056 DRIVER with car seeks position. Reliable and mature. Call Bob 610-241-2729 DRYWALL FINISHER/PATCH PLASTERER Water damage. Call Purnell 215.432.0815 Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055 Home Health Aide w/ 11 yrs exp des pos. Avail hourly or overnight. 215-501-6063 Nurses Aide desires in home position exp’d, 24/7, will travel (215)490-6378

CARPENTER Expd in all repairs& remodeling. If it can be done-I’m the one. Lic’d & insured . Free Estimates 215-878-1160 HOME RENOVATION SPECIALS bath $1000, kitch. $1500, paint & tile, etc References & Insured. 610-818-8402

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Phase 1 closeout incentives at Spring Valley Village

Get low-maintenance living, sense of community at Watson Run

Spring Valley Village extended the free granite countertops for the kitchen, and free appliance and lighting upgrades for all homes in Phase 1. “This has been a tremendous promotion for our customers,” said Craig Stevens, sales manager for Spring Valley Village. Spring Valley Village continues to have success selling the Oxford model for $99,900. Because of such a low price, buyers can bank a large portion of their current home equity and live at Spring Valley Village debt-free, said Stevens. “The home offers everything customers need to simplify their lives.” The two-bedroom, two-bathroom home has a large living room and kitchen, a dining room and a garage. Most customers, said Stevens, add the full-end covered porch. “With 10 models to choose from, along with the flexibility to modify our homes, customers have an abundance of floorplan choices,” he noted. Home prices in this attractive, 55-plus community are from $99,900 to $187,900. Home features include ranch-style floorplans, two or three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, warm gas heat, central air, one- or two-

As you travel through the heart of Amish country in Lancaster County, Pa., you just might fall in love. Tucked into the breathtaking countryside is Watson Run, Berks Homes’ distinctive 55plus community located just outside the charming town of Intercourse. Many come to visit the area around Watson Run as tourists, but the rich history, local attractions and relaxing surroundings become rooted in their memories, drawing them to come back and call it home. Strolling down nearby Main Street, you’ll be surrounded by quaint shops and restaurants, including The Lunch Basket, The Kling House, Kitchen Kettle Village and Tulip Patch Country Crafts. And your proximity to major roadways means even more conveniences are just a short trip away. There’s an undeniable sense of community within Watson Run; it can be seen by the waves of neighbors passing by and gatherings in the clubhouse, which offers a banquet area, a fitness center and an outdoor pool. This sense of community is attractively coupled with the peace of mind you’ll find. Indeed, you’ll have more time to enjoy the things most important to you, because you won’t be burdened with the duties of yardwork

The Oxford model, with a base price of only $99,900, is a popular model at Spring Valley Village, Berks County. car garages, gas fireplaces, and more. “Customizing is not only welcome, it’s encouraged,” said Stevens. “Every customer is met with individually to design their homes and make suggestions on how to make them fit their lifestyles.” Residents also enjoy the 7,700-square-foot clubhouse that features a large fitness center with aerobic and weight-training equipment and TVs. The handicap-accessible clubhouse also includes a billiards room, library, card room, arts and crafts room, a large outdoor patio, and a grand room for social gatherings. The community is located on Stauffer Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. Five models are open Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 866-2740990, or visit www.springvalleyvillage.com.

and snow removal. The inviting one- and two-story floorplans boast open layouts excellent for entertaining family and friends. First-floor master bedrooms, included in all of the floorplans, round out the benefit of low-maintenance living. And covered front porches provide the perfect getaway to relax and enjoy tranquility in its most simple state. Berks Homes has been building homes for more than 37 years and prides itself on exceeding homeowners’ expectations through quality and customization. For more information on Watson Run, call 484-818-1740, or visit Watson Run, as well as all of our other communities, online at www.berkshomes.com.

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Fabulous amenities attract homeowners to two David Cutler Group communities While the elegantly appointed courtyard homes at Montgomery Walk and Terraces at Montgomery Walk have abundant appeal, it’s clearly the amenities that have proven to be the

The 7,000-square foot clubhouse for Montgomery Walk and the Terraces at Montgomery Walk provides a meeting place for owners, as well as a quiet respite in front of a fireplace in the great room.

main attraction for prospective home buyers of this Montgomery County, Pa., active-adult community. Jennifer Casey, sales coordinator, said, “Home buyers are amazed by our floorplans and impressed with the David Cutler Group quality of construction, but the amenities have proven to be the big sell for the 55-plus crowd.” With a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse, outdoor pool, tennis court, putting green and walking trail, Montgomery Walk and the Terraces at Montgomery Walk have a decidedly resort-like feel, something that hasn’t been lost on the residents. “Our homeowners have really taken advantage of the social opportunities provided by the clubhouse, and are enjoying meeting neighbors and entertaining friends,” said Casey. “Working out is another popular past-time, and our residents love having everything conveniently located on-site.” The maintenance-free lifestyle is yet another amenity home buyers are enjoying. Lawn care, snow removal and common ground upkeep are all included in the low monthly fee, leaving residents ample time to enjoy leisurely pursuits. Beyond the amenities, these communities offer a beautiful selection of home plans, each designed for ease of living and complimented by

stunning architectural details. Homes feature two (Rt. 463), close to fine dining, upscale shopping or three bedrooms, two or three bathrooms, full and a wealth of recreational amenities. For basements and garages. Square footages range information or to arrange a private tour, call from 1,800 to 2,700, and pricing begins in the 215-619-2735, or visit www.davidcutlergroup.com. $300,000s. For those looking for less space to maintain, Information is subject to changes, errors and omissions. the Terraces at Montgomery Walk offer two-bedroom, twobathroom garden flats with garages from the $200,000s. Square footages range from 1,400 to 1,800. First-floor master suites are standard at each location. Additionally, both communities offer a long list of luxurious standard appointments and the unmistakable craftsmanship that is the hallmark of all David Cutler Group homes. Montgomery Walk and the Terraces at Montgomery Walk are located in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, Pa., off In addition to billiards, owners can work out in the gym, swim in the Hartman Road between Rt. outdoor pool, play tennis, watch a movie in the media room, and partic309 and Horsham Road ipate in many other fun activities.

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Spring Arbor offers the best of all worlds: great location, floorplans and amenities McKee Builders’ 55-plus Spring Arbor in Middletown, Del., features an amazing clubhouse and community amenities; a great location close to shopping and restaurants, fishing and boating; outstanding single-family homes; low taxes; and great incentives. Each Spring Arbor low-maintenance, single-family home offers up to 2,000 square feet, convenient one-floor living, two or three bedrooms, two bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen, a family room, a dining room, and a one- or two-car garage — all with pricing starting in the $270,000s. Home buyers can tour four designer-decorated models. During September, Spring Arbor is offering $30,000 to use toward options, as well as your choice of either a sunroom or a basement. The community features a luxurious clubhouse with a heated outdoor pool and a large patio area, great room, crafts room, billiards and card rooms, library, fitness center, bocce courts, putting green, and a tot lot. Outdoor maintenance is taken care of, allowing you more time to take advantage of all the area and the community offers. For home buyers who would like to enjoy this lifestyle right away, single-family homes

and townhomes are ready for quick delivery. Spring Arbor is close to the cultural areas of Wilmington and the Brandywine Valley, beaches, wildlife areas, fishing and boating in lakes and bays, golf courses, the historic towns of Odessa and Middletown, shopping, restaurants, medical centers, and major roads including I-95. The community is located just 22 miles from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, so it’s ideal for homeowners with family in New Jersey or the Philadelphia area. Delaware features extremely low property taxes, no state sales tax, no state tax on social security, and reduced taxes on pension and retirement earnings. Directions from Philadelphia area: South on I-95 to the Newark/Middletown exit (Rt. 896 south). Continue south over the Summit Bridge. At the bottom of the bridge, turn right onto Bethel Church Road/Rt. 15. Continue for about 5 miles. Left at Bunker Hill Road. Right on Merrimac Avenue. Spring Arbor is on the right. For Mapquest, use 106 Gazebo Lane, Middletown, DE 19709. For more information, call 302-376-5577.

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Traditions of America defies trends Traditions of America is the leading builder of 55-plus, active-adult communities in Pennsylvania. With five communities currently selling in affordable, well-known Pennsylvania locations such as Bethlehem, Lancaster, State College, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, the company’s success is unique during a time when many homebuilders are struggling. To what does the company owe its trendbucking status? Tim McCarthy, CEO for Traditions of America, credits the firm’s innovative approach to serving its customers. “Many builders’ gut reaction to a recession is to restrict buyers’ choices. We take the opposite approach; now is the time to expand our offerings.” In response to the economy and heightened buyer anxiety, Traditions of America created two unique, customer-focused programs: HomeFree, a risk-free, home sale contingency program; and Price Protection, to insulate buyers from the ups and downs of market cycles. “Active adults want to move, but feel saddled by their existing homes and overwhelmed by negative headlines. HomeFree helps buyers sell their existing homes, because we put customers first. We guide them through the process of pricing their homes correctly, picking a qualified local Realtor, making their homes more salable, negotiating offers, and managing inspections,” McCarthy explained. “On average, HomeFree customers’ sell their homes for more money and faster than other area homes.

“Price Protection was our response to buyers’ concern about buying too early,” he continued. “If we reduce prices before someone goes to settlement, we’ll refund them the difference. Now that prices are stable and rising, buyers are using Price Protection to lock in today’s low price. They keep any appreciation between contract signing and closing.” Every Traditions of America community offers its signature, five-star amenities and a variety of single-family and garden-home choices. Community features include a stateof-the-art clubhouse ranging in size from 8,000 to 17,000 square feet. Residents enjoy a variety of amenities, including a fitness center, media room, demonstration kitchen, whirlpool spa, sauna, business center, fulltime lifestyle director and much more. The outdoor lifestyle features a beautiful swimming pool and, in most communities, includes tennis, putting green, bocce, shuffleboard and extensive walking trails. Residents have the time to truly enjoy the amenities and carefree lifestyle since Traditions of America handles all the lawn care and leaf and snow removal. Traditions of America is the clear leader for 55-plus customers in Pennsylvania. The company’s exclusive focus on the desires of 55-plus buyers has led the company to create innovative programs like HomeFree and Price Protection, and to create lifestyle offerings that cater to the passions of its customers. Visit www.TraditionsofAmerica.com for more information today.

LIVE BETTER Tired of climbing stairs? Up to the bedroom. Down to the laundry. Ready to live better? It’s easy at Traditions of America. Our awardwinning homes feature single level living with designer kitchens and first floor master suites. Live better while we take care of the yard and snow. Meet friends at the clubhouse and catch up over coffee in the café. Relax by the fireplace with a good book or stretch your legs on our walking paths. Our HomeFree Program helps you sell your current home; if you don’t sell your home, you don’t have to buy ours! It’s time to live better!

Live Better in a 55+Community by TRADITIONS OF AMERICA Lehigh Valley – HANOVER From the upper $200s 484-281-3555 Lancaster – MOUNT JOY From $199,900 717-492-4529 Mechanicsburg – SILVER SPRING From the low $200s 717-766-9557 State College – LIBERTY HILL From the low $200s 814-466-9490 Pittsburgh Area – LIBERTY HILLS From the low $200s 724-869-5595

Traditions of America communities are age qualified. 80% of households (100% at Mt. Joy) must include one resident age 55 or better and all residents must be at least 19 years or older. Prices, terms and availability are subject to change without notice. See Sales Associate for details.

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Don’t miss Sunday’s Grand Opening of Fernmoor Homes’ Woods Landing The Grand Opening of Fernmoor Homes’ Woods Landing, a unique active-adult community in Mays Landing, N.J., is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 26, noon to 5 p.m. In celebration, Fernmoor Homes is holding an Endless Summer Dance Party. Refreshments will be served while you dance to the sounds of summer. Tour the soon-to-becompleted Woods Landing Clubhouse and Enrichment Center, the decorated model home, and several quick-delivery homes. Carol Smith-Gephart, sales manager, said, “To our buyers, Woods Landing represents the memories they have of vacationing at the Jersey Shore. Now they can live close to all the things

This home at 48 Ernst Court, Mays Landing, N.J., is available for quick delivery.

they love, while remaining close to family and friends.” At Woods Landing, you’ll discover a location that’s in the middle of everything, with easy access to Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Long Beach Island and New York City. The clubhouse, slated to open next year, is one of the reasons Jeffrey Fernbach, president of Fernmoor Homes, and his team have been eager to open the neighborhood. “As a result of our extensive research, we designed the clubhouse interior to include a casual elegance to more closely reflect our homeowners’ desires,” he said. The clubhouse will include a fitness center and outdoor pool. Fernmoor Homes offers single-story and twostory loft designs of 1,502 to 2,300 square feet. Pricing is from the low-$200,000s. Fernmoor Homes created a program that provides “MOOR” reasons to take a look at its neighborhoods. Noted Smith-Gephart, “The ‘Get Moor’ program provides buyers what they want in a new home for a price that makes sense.” For directions, visit www.fernmoorhomes.com/ woodslanding.php. For more, visit www.fernmoorhomes.com, or call the sales center at 609-625-1595.

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mid-$400,000s. Residents will enjoy “a lifetime of Saturdays” with a resort-like lifestyle just minutes from shopping, recreation and major commuter routes. “We’re redefining active-adult living by offering a state-of-the art community with first-rate amenities including a 10,000-square-foot clubhouse with indoor and outdoor pools, tennis and bocce courts, fitness center, and walking trails,” said LaGreca. Plus, Regency at Yardley provides lowmaintenance, Energy Star-rated homes, as well as lawn care, snow removal and community maintenance. For more information on Yardley’s premier, 55-plus, active-adult community, visit RegencyAtYardley.com, or call 215-321-0188.

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Excitement is growing in anticipation of Regency at Yardley, Toll Brothers’ upcoming resort-style, active-adult community. The community, set to open next month, has been experiencing tremendous demand from interested home buyers. “Phone calls and Internet inquires have been overwhelming,” said Greg LaGreca, Toll Brothers’ vice president. “We haven’t seen this level of response in five years.” Many of the inquiries have come through RegencyAtYardley.com, where buyers can sign up to become part of the VIP member list. An invitation-only VIP Private Preview Event for these members will be held Sept. 29, and will offer additional information about the community. “We encourage those who would like to learn more about Regency at Yardley to go to our website and register to become a VIP member,” said LaGreca. Located in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pa., and just two minutes from both I-95 and Route 1, Regency at Yardley will consist of 176 single-family homes with a choice of six floorplans ranging from 1,814 to nearly 3,000 square feet. Pre-construction pricing starts in the

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Only 11 home sites remain at Regency at Providence by Toll Brothers Don’t miss this final opportunity to live in Regency at Providence, Toll Brothers’ luxury single-family-home community for active adults nestled within the hills of Montgomery County. With only 11 home sites remaining, buyers should act quickly to own the home of their dreams. The community’s convenient location, spectacular home designs and low-maintenance lifestyle make Regency at Providence the perfect place to call home. Located in the scenic town of Oaks, Pa., Regency at Providence is designed to provide a resort-like lifestyle in an ideal setting. The community boasts eight varied and spacious home designs with attractive exterior styles ranging from 1,690 to more than 2,500 square feet, and is exceptionally priced from the $300,000s. All homes feature 10-foot first-floor ceilings, stylish Corian countertops, rich hardwood flooring, and the added convenience of a first-floor master bedroom suite. Homeowners at Regency at Providence enjoy unlimited access to an exclusive 12,000-squarefoot clubhouse with an exciting selection of amenities, including an indoor swimming pool, fitness center, his-and-hers locker rooms and

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multipurpose event rooms. Outside, residents can enjoy tennis courts, a swimming pool with deck area and miles of walking trails. Regency at Providence is ideally located close to major thoroughfares, including Route 422 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, providing easy access to the cultural and commercial centers of King of Prussia and Philadelphia. Now is the time to buy, as this community is almost sold out. Call 610-933-4600, or visit RegencyAtProvidence.com. Prospective home buyers also can tour the community, the decorated model home and clubhouse every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Trade your empty nest for an exciting Center City lifestyle Now is the time to experience the low-maintenance, carefree lifestyle you deserve at a price you can afford. Toll Brothers, the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, is offering an outstanding opportunity to own at Naval Square, Philadelphia’s top-selling community. Toll Brothers’ Naval Square offers townhomes and Enjoy the convenience of Center City living condominiums within a short walk of downtown and the suburban feel of a 24-hour-attended and Philadelphia and University City. gated community. Naval Square is a famed historic property transformed into a 20-acre, park- pet friendly; dogs and cats are permitted with like setting with distinctive condominiums and restrictions. Plus, you’ll save money and can add townhomes. Residents are within a short walk of to your retirement fund, as Naval Square offers Center City and University City. Naval Square’s its residents a 10-year tax abatement. ideal location puts you in the heart of all the fine Choose the home that’s right for you. Naval dining, shopping and entertainment the city has Square offers convenient, single-level living with to offer. a selection of one- to three-bedroom condominiWith its carefree luxury lifestyle, great loca- ums and beautiful, multi-floor, three-bedroom tion and beautiful setting, Naval Square is the townhomes. Decorated models are available for perfect community for those hoping to downsize. viewing. Pricing for the condominiums is from You’ll be able to take back your weekends with a the $300,0000s, and for the townhomes from the low-maintenance lifestyle, as all exterior home $400,000s. Immediate occupancy is available. maintenance is provided. Residents have full use To schedule an appointment, call 215-732of the community’s amenities, including the new 8655, or visit the sales center at 2420 Grays Ferry fitness center, outdoor pool and sundeck, com- Ave. daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Wednesdays munity center, shuttle bus service, garage or 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) To learn more, visit deeded parking, plus much more. Naval Square is NavalSquare.com.

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Custom homes, personalized service await you at Coldstream Crossing “Selling homes isn’t that difficult — although some builders have made homebuying difficult,” said Linda Fenton, corporate director of sales and marketing for Vantage Point Retirement Living, owner/developer of Coldstream Crossing, an active-adult community in Kimberton, Chester County, Pa. “Just ask people what they want and give it to them. At Coldstream Crossing we tailor the entire homebuilding process to the needs of the buyer,” she noted. “From moving walls to designing a second master suite on the first floor, we give our buyers our full attention. Plus, we’ve taken the

You’ll cook and entertain in style in your new kitchen at Coldstream Crossing in Chester County, Pa.

meaning of building a custom home to another level.” It’s not merely that the homes are custom. Coldstream Crossing tailors each home’s construction time frame and pricing, and even adapts the timing to settlement on the buyer’s existing home. Many active-adult buyers today are feeling anxiety regarding selling their current homes, Fenton noted. The anxiety is not limited to the actual sale of the home, but encompasses cleaning out the basement, completing overdue repairs, updating the décor, and dealing with the uncertainty of a final sale price. As a result, Coldstream Crossing’s sales staff expanded its role to include “moving counselors.” They give buyers a choice of several top-selling realtors in different market areas, names of companies that can help them thin out stored possessions, and homestagers who will help with homeselling strategies. Coldstream Crossing works on the individual needs of every one of its customers. To schedule an appointment or for more information, call 610-933-3493. The Community is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.coldstreamcrossing.com.

Heritage Shores is the East Coast’s active-adult destination Heritage Shores in Bridgeville, Del., is setting a new standard of living for those aged 55 or better. The streets are lined with more than 200 customized homes, with 1,800 more to be built during the next seven to eight years. These home owners are enjoying first-class amenities — making Heritage Shores 100% Ready. “As expected, Heritage Shores is putting Bridgeville, Del., on the map,” noted Dottie Harper, president of Providence of Brookfield Homes, developer of Heritage Shores. “We are attracting active adults from all along the East Coast, specifically Baltimore, Northern Virginia, Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia. These are educated consumers, looking for the perfect retirement destination. They’re choosing this unmatched destination for many reasons.” The Clubhouse, which is the lifeline of the community, features a magnificent ballroom, fine and causal dining, an arts and crafts room, card room, woodworking shop, library, and grand viewing-terraces. The 18-hole Arthur Hills championship golf course, spanning the grounds of the entire community, is open to the general public as well. Other golf amenities include a driving range, and

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First-class amenities await you at this Bridgeville, Del., community from Brookfield Homes. The clubhouse features a ballroom, dining room, library and more. An 18-hole golf course spans the community’s grounds.

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on-site golf pro and golf shop. Additionally, there’s a Sports and Aquatic Center that features indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, expansive fitness center, aerobics room, whirlpool, locker rooms and snack bar. Outdoors, more than 20 ponds, walking paths and trails, and picturesque landscaping span the community. To learn more or to schedule a visit, call 866-684-DE4U (3348), or visit www.HeritageShores DE.com.

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