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Ex-cop charged in teen’s death Victim’s family ‘cautiously optimistic’ that former officer will be convicted

By JENNIFER EMILY and TASHA TSIAPERAS Staff Writers

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The Texas Senate chambers were ready ahead of today’s start of the special session, which was called by Gov. Greg Abbott after several issues were not resolved by the end of the regular session in May. Lawmakers can only consider items placed on the agenda by the governor.

Governor Abbott chides naysayers

What to watch for in the session

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Businesses step into political fray

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday railed against lawmakers who disagreed with his priorities for the looming special legislative session, promising to call out the naysayers in a public list. 1B

Lawmakers will consider 20 items, including a critical bill to keep alive several state agencies scheduled for closure Sept. 1. Here’s a list of what to watch for as the special session gets underway. 1B

Texas business leaders are finally stepping up, but they need to do more than write letters and hold news conferences if they want to defeat the so-called bathroom bills, Gromer Jeffers Jr. writes. 3B

Companies often avoid political controversies. But the bathroom bill runs so counter to the core values of some employers that they decided to speak out publicly, writes Mitchell Schnurman. 1D

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Trump administration OKs more guest-worker visas But landscapers and others say help may be too little, too late

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday announced a sizable, one-time boost to a temporary migrant-worker pro-

gram, providing a bit of relief to Texas landscapers and other industries that have clamored for more seasonal help.

But the decision hardly ends a fractious immigration debate muddled by President Donald Trump’s “American first” push.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department said it would increase by 15,000 the number of H-2B visas that are

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available this year. The visas — reserved for temporary, low-wage, non-farm workers — will go to companies who would otherwise suffer “irreparable harm.”

That approach represents something of a middle road, given that Congress gave the Trump administration the discretion to approve tens of See

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President Donald Trump donned a cowboy hat in the White House’s East Room on Monday while touring a “Made in America” showcase event featuring U.S. manufacturers from all 50 states. Garlandbased Stetson gave Trump the custom “El Presidente” hat. (Story, 3A)

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College debt wiped clean for some may get their debts wiped away because critical paperwork is missing.

The troubled loans, which total at least $5 billion, are at the center of a protracted legal dispute between the student borrowers and a group of creditors who have aggressively pursued them in court after they fell behind on payments.

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The fired Balch Springs cop who fatally shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was indicted Monday on a murder charge by a Dallas County grand jury.

Jordan’s family and their attorney said they were “cautiously optimistic” after Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson anROY nounced the inOLIVER dictment against 37-year-old Roy Oliver.

Oliver was also indicted on four counts of aggravated assault by a public servant for firing his rifle into a car full of teenagers leaving a party April 29. Jordan, who sat in the front passenger seat, was struck

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The family of slain North Lake student Janeera Gonzalez plans to remember her on what would have been her 21st birthday with a small gathering of family and friends at her grave. 1B

Introducing your kids to cosplay (dressing up as fictional characters from books, movies, TV shows or video game) is not only fun, it can build confidence, too. 1E

WASHINGTON — Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas declared Monday night they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, for now killing a 7-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.

The announcement by the senators leaves their GOP leaders two votes short of the necessary tally to begin debate on their bill to dismantle the health law. Two other Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, had already said they would not support a procedural step to begin debate.

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in the head. His two brothers and two friends were also in the car.

Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber originally said the Chevrolet Impala was aggressively reversing toward Oliver and Officer Tyler Gross, but body camera footage con- JORDAN tradicted that EDWARDS story. Oliver was fired and arrested on the murder charge in May. Johnson said prosecuting Oliver is not a “political statement” but rather the right thing to do, something she believes most police officers would agree with.

“I think our police officers would stand with us and say, ‘We do not condone bad behavior,’” she said. “Hopefully it is a message we are sending to the bad police officers. If you do wrong, we will prosecute you.”

‘Danger to community’ Lee Merritt, the family’s attorney, said he was pleased to see Johnson go forward with plans to prosecute Oliver, something that other district attorneys might not do in similar

police shootings.

“Far too often we see cases where there’s been a lack of comparable effort in cases that are equally deserving,” Merritt said after the announcement. “We are satisfied with this step.”

Oliver was also indicted last month on two aggravated assault charges following accusations he pulled a gun on two people in an unrelated road-rage incident weeks before Jordan’s death. The district attorney called Oliver a “danger to the community.”

That case was investigated more thoroughly after Jordan’s death. Originally Dallas police said no crime occurred.

The attorneys for Jordan’s family have been critical of how Dallas police handled the roadrage incident.

“Had Dallas taken some action on that particular night when they knew that this officer placed a gun to someone’s head, Jordan would be with us here today,” said attorney Daryl Washington, who also represents the family.

Oliver faces up to life in prison for each of the seven felony charges against him. Although no date has been set for his trial, Johnson said prosecutors will first pursue the murder charge against Oliver.

Johnson declined to elaborate on the details of the case but said she is dedicated to “seeking justice for Jordan.”

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Jordan Edwards’ father, Odell Edwards, and stepmother, Charmaine Edwards (center), listened as Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson announced that a grand jury returned indictments for Roy Oliver on four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant.

“We believe we have a very strong case,” Johnson said.

“We’re planning to win this case.”

‘A great kid’ Many who have been strongly advocating that prosecutors move forward with the case have questioned whether the district

attorney’s office could win a conviction after so many officers nationwide have been acquitted in shootings of unarmed black men.

But another attorney for Jordan’s family, Jasmine Crockett, said she is no longer one of them.

“There’s no question now in

my mind whether he’s going to be locked up,” she said.

In the meantime, Oliver is free on a $700,000 bond related to the murder charge and aggravated assault charges stemming from the road-rage incident. A judge did not increase that bond for the four new aggravated assault charges.

Oliver and Gross were at the Balch Springs home after a 911 call about reports of drunken teenagers. But they arrived and found no alcohol or drugs in the home. The officers were inside when they and partygoers heard gunshots. Oliver and Gross ran outside. Oliver went to his patrol car for his rifle, and Gross ran toward where he thought the shots came from.

The shots everyone heard while inside the house, investigators later learned, came from the parking lot of a nearby nursing home.

Oliver grabbed his rifle from a patrol car as Jordan, his brothers and two friends got in a car to leave the party. Gross walked up to the car, yelling for them to stop. He broke a window of the car with his gun. The kids drove off.

Oliver, a six-year veteran of the force, shot through a passenger window and killed Jordan.

Jordan’s stepmother, Charmaine Edwards, described the teen Monday as “a great kid, a great football player, a straightA student, somebody that was gonna go somewhere.”

She and Odell Edwards said their sons who were with Jordan when he died have been struggling since the shooting. Some days they’re OK, other days they’re not.

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cases are deeply flawed, with incomplete ownership records and mass-produced documentation.

Some of the problems playing out in the $108 billion private student loan market are reminiscent of those that arose from the subprime mortgage crisis a decade ago, when billions of dollars in subprime mortgage loans were ruled uncollectable by courts because of missing or fake documentation. And like those troubled mortgages, private student loans — which come with higher interest rates and fewer consumer protections than federal loans — are often targeted at the most vulnerable borrowers, such as those attending for-profit schools.

At the center of the storm is one of the nation’s largest owners of private student loans, the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts. It is struggling to prove in court that it has the legal paperwork showing ownership of its loans, which were originally made by banks and then sold to investors. National Collegiate’s lawyers warned in a recent legal filing: “As news of the servicing issues and the trusts’ inability to produce the documents needed to foreclose on loans spreads, the likelihood of more defaults rises.”

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Judges have dismissed dozens of lawsuits against former students, essentially wiping out their debt, because documents proving who owns the loans are missing.

National Collegiate is an umbrella name for 15 trusts that hold 800,000 private student loans, totaling $12 billion. More than $5 billion of that debt is in default, according to court filings. The trusts aggressively pursue borrowers who fall behind on their bills.

Across the country, they have brought at least four new collection cases each day, on average — more than 800 this year — and tens of thousands of lawsuits in the past five years.

Missing paperwork Judges throughout the country, including recently in cases in New Hampshire, Ohio and Texas, have tossed out lawsuits

by National Collegiate, ruling that it did not prove it owned the debt on which it was trying to collect.

The trusts win many of the lawsuits they file automatically, because borrowers often do not show up to fight. Those court victories, which can be used to

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garnish paychecks and federal benefits like Social Security, can haunt borrowers for decades.

The loans that National Collegiate holds were made to college students more than a decade ago by dozens of different banks, then bundled together by a financing company and sold to investors through a process known as securitization. These private loans were not guaranteed by the federal government, which is the nation’s largest student loan lender.

But as the debt passed through many hands before landing in National Collegiate’s trusts, critical paperwork documenting the loans’ ownership disappeared, according to documents that have surfaced in a little-noticed legal battle involving the trusts in state and federal courts in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

National Collegiate’s legal problems have hinged on its inability to prove it owns the student loans, not on any falsification of documents.

Robyn Smith, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group, has seen shoddy and inaccurate paperwork in dozens of cases involving private student loans from a variety of lenders and debt buyers, which she detailed in a 2014 report.

But National Collegiate’s problems are especially acute, she said. Over and over, she said, the company drops lawsuits — often on the eve of a trial or deposition — when borrowers contest them. “I question whether they actually possess the documents necessary to show that they own loans,” Smith said.

‘Numbers game’ Lawsuits against borrowers who have fallen behind on their consumer loans are typically filed in state or local courts, where records are of-

ten hard to search. This means that there is no national tally of just how often National Collegiate’s trusts have gone to court.

Very few cases ever make it to trial, according to court records and borrowers’ lawyers.

Once borrowers are sued, most either choose to settle or ignore the summons, which allows the trusts to obtain a default judgment.

“It’s a numbers game,” said Richard Gaudreau, a lawyer in New Hampshire who has defended against several National Collegiate lawsuits. “My experience is they try to bully you at first, and then if you’re not susceptible to that, they back off, because they don’t really want to litigate these cases.”

Transworld Systems, a debt collector, brings most of the lawsuits for National Collegiate against delinquent borrowers.

And in legal filings, it is usually a Transworld representative who swears to the accuracy of the records backing up the loan. Transworld did not respond to a request for comment.

Hundreds of cases have been dismissed when borrowers challenge them, according to lawyers, often because the trusts do not produce the paperwork needed to proceed.

Stacy Cowley and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times

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How Texas uses the H-2B visa program

thousands more visas.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly arrived at his number after determining that “there are not enough U.S. workers who are willing, qualified and able to perform temporary, non-agricultural labor to satisfy the needs of some American businesses,” a senior DHS official said.

But it remains to be seen if the administration struck the right chord.

Texas companies, by far, are the biggest users of visas for seasonal, non-agricultural workers. And demand has only continued to grow in recent years.

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Unions and immigration hawks chafe at any support of a program they say takes away American jobs and depresses wages. And many business groups, meanwhile, have complained that the boost’s positive impact could be blunted by the fact that it is coming so late in the year.

“Any relief is welcome relief,” said Craig Regelbrugge, a senior vice president at AmericanHort, a landscaping industry group. “But it is awfully late, and a lot of harm is already done.”

The visa program has proved to be an early test of the Trump administration’s approach on immigration policy.

Current law limits the H-2B program to 66,000 visas a year, split evenly between fall and spring application periods. Texas plays an outsized role, as Lone Star State companies — landscapers, in particular — accounted for about 15 percent of the positions certified last year.

And while Trump has touted a “Hire American” mantra, he’s also defended the use of H-2B visas at places like his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Congress in May struck a bipartisan deal to potentially make available an additional 70,000 visas. But lawmakers also punted the decision

What kinds of Texas companies use H-2B visas?

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on the exact number and approach to the Trump administration — a move that drew the ire of Kelly, the Homeland Security Secretary.

Pressed in May by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to take quick action to increase the cap, the retired Marine general didn’t hide his frustration by saying that “this is one of those things I really wish I didn’t have any discretion in.”

“For every senator or congressman who has your view, I have another who says, ‘Don’t you dare. This is about American jobs,’” Kelly said, urging Congress to craft a long-term solution.

Broader debate The split echoes elements of the broader immigration debate.

Backers say the H-2B visas are essential, allowing companies to staff positions they’ve been unable to fill with American workers. And they argue that the program is far-reaching, revving the economy in fields ranging from construction to crabbing to bed and breakfasts.

But critics say the program is ripe for abuse and puts American workers at a disadvantage. Mike Cunningham, the retired executive direc-

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President Donald Trump wore a Stetson hat called ‘El Presidente’ made especially for him and given to him

by Stetson’s Dustin Noblitt (left).

The FY2017 figures are year to date.

A crew member works on netting aboard a boat at the shrimp basin in Brownsville. A shortage of boat crews continues to be problematic for the Texas Gulf Coast industry under the restraints of the H-2B visa program.

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tor of the Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council, said the government’s latest approach again “misses the point.”

“There are plenty of people here in this country who can be trained to do these jobs,” he said.

The Trump administration’s focus on “irreparable harm” will add another twist.

The threshold, which goes beyond earlier standards, says businesses seeking H-2B visas must prove that they would likely suffer “permanent and severe financial loss” without them. Evidence could include documentation that shows an inability to fulfill business contracts or pay bills.

Regelbrugge of AmericanHort said a “lost economic opportunity may not destroy a business” but that it could still jeopardize many jobs. And that sort of nuance could be compounded by the fact that it will be another few weeks before new visas can be processed and workers put in place.

“For the most part, it is too little, too late,” said Bruce Birdsong, owner of Precision Landscape Management in Farmers Branch.

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Trump dons ‘El Presidente’ from Garland’s Stetson LBJ famously wore one.

So did George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt.

President Donald Trump on Monday donned a Stetson — the iconic Western hat made in Garland — at the White House “Made in America” showcase.

As part of the “America First” theme of Trump’s inauguration, the administration this week is featuring U.S. manufacturing. All 50 states were represented at the event, and Garland’s Stetson Hat Company was Texas’ representative.

It’s also a Stetson tradition to give every president a custom hat.

Stetson had set up a table of cowboy hats in the East Room of the White House at the event. With a crowd looking on, Trump tried on a white Stetson to loud applause, calling the hat “beautiful.”

“We have a hat here especially for him, it’s the El Presidente, it’s the General Edition and we had it scripted in the sweatband, Donald J. Trump, Make America Great Again 45th President. We have the seal as well,” Dustin

Noblitt of Stetson said.

Noblitt hand-delivered Trump’s hat.

Stetson has been producing cowboy hats for 152 years.

“Two hundred sets of hands touch every single hat, 100 percent American-made, 100 percent Texas actually,” Justin Thomason of Stetson said.

At the White House event, Trump signed a “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Order.

He pledged to wipe out unfair trade practices with other nations, despite some Trump family products that are being manufactured overseas.

“Every member of my administration shares the same goal: To provide a level playing field for American workers and for American industry,” Trump said. “I want to make a pledge to each and every one of you. No longer are we going to allow other countries to break the rules, steal our jobs and drain our wealth. And it has been drained, it has been drained.”

Washington correspondent Tom Benning contributed to this report.

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White House unveils goals for NAFTA The Trump administration on Monday unveiled its goals for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, advancing an effort to rewrite the terms of trade that could transform the U.S. economy for decades to come.

Items on the administration’s agenda include a U.S. push to reduce its trade deficit with Mexico, further restrictions on the amount of imported material in goods that qualify for the agreement and the elimination of a controversial mechanism to review trade remedies.

More than a third of U.S. exports flow to Canada and Mexico, and business and labor groups are watching closely to see what President Donald Trump’s team prioritizes in the negotiations.

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Mississippi girl fatally beaten over math JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man who fatally beat a 3-year-old girl because she couldn’t correctly answer questions about numbers told investigators that “this was a tough world and she had to be tough if she wanted to survive,” Meridian Police Chief Benny Dubose said Monday.

Joshua Salovich was charged with capital murder, meaning he could face the death penalty, and held without bail. Detectives testified in an initial court appearance that the 25-year-old boxer-in-training beat toddler Bailey Salovich at maximum force with a bamboo rod, a cellphone cord and his hands.

Salovich’s court-appointed lawyer didn’t immediately respond to a phone message and an email seeking comment Monday evening. Dubose said it isn’t clear whether Salovich is the child’s biological father.

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Judge who stole cardholders to resign SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California judge has agreed to resign after swiping two art deco-style business cardholders from a judges’ dinner in San Francisco.

The Commission on Judicial Performance on Monday announced its censure of Judge Michael S. Williams of Napa County. Williams’ resignation will take effect in December.

Williams was attending a dinner hosted by a matrimonial lawyers association in March 2016 when he took the two cardholders, estimated to be worth $30 to $50 each. The judge expressed remorse and said he had an “unexplainable impulse” to take the cardholders.

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Simpson has good shot at parole Former football star has favorable odds with board, record

Anti-abortion activist found in contempt SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has found an antiabortion activist known for clandestine videos of abortion-rights advocates in contempt of court.

U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick ruled Monday that anti-abortion campaigner David Daleiden violated an order forbidding him from posting secretly taken videos of abortion rights advocates.

Daleiden is a leader of the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress. His center is known for clandestine 2015 videos that claimed to show Planned Parenthood employees selling fetal tissue for profit. The group says the videos were deceptively edited.

Monday’s contempt ruling concerns the release of additional videos recorded at meetings of the National Abortion Foundation, an abortion-rights group, in 2014 and 2015.

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Megan O’Leary left a message in chalk on the sidewalk close to where Justine Damond was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer Saturday night. It is unclear why the officer opened fire on Damond, 40, a yoga and meditation teacher from Australia.

Investigators haven’t said why Australian bride-to-be was shot MINNEAPOLIS — Justine Damond called police late Saturday night after hearing a sound in an alley near the home she shared with her fiance.

But shortly after two officers arrived in her upscale Minneapolis neighborhood to investigate, the call turned deadly when one of the officers shot Damond.

It is unclear why the officer opened fire on Damond, a 40-year-old yoga and meditation JUSTINE teacher from Aus- DAMOND tralia, and her death immediately drew renewed scrutiny of police officers in the Twin Cities area for their use of deadly force.

Minneapolis is still reeling from two controversial police-involved shootings that set off waves of heated protests and prompted nationwide calls for officers to wear body cameras.

Damond’s death also has raised serious concerns in her home country.

News of her death was splashed across the websites of major news outlets in Australia, where friends, according to media reports, are demanding a federal investigation.

Investigators remained tightlipped Monday about what happened at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, when police

received a 911 call about a possible assault in the alley behind Damond’s home. Neither of the responding officers had turned on their body cameras, and police have not yet said why one of the officers shot her. The squad car camera did not capture the incident, either. Investigators are looking into whether other video of the shooting exists.

All Minneapolis police officers have worn body cameras since the end of 2016, according to the city, a policy decision announced last July after a black motorist named Philando Castile, a local school worker, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in the Twin Cities area.

Authorities said the officers involved in Damond’s shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure.

Local media identified the officer who fired as Mohamed Noor, who is a Somali-American. A city newsletter said he joined the police department in March 2015.

Noor was sued this year after a May 25 incident in which he and other officers took a woman to the hospital on a mental health hold.

Three people “with knowledge of the incident” told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the responding officers pulled into the alley behind Da-

mond’s home. The woman, wearing pajamas, approached the driver’s side door and was talking to the driver, the newspaper reported. The officer in the passenger seat then shot Damond through the driver’s side door, the three people told the newspaper.

The scant details have left city officials, and Damond’s family, friends and neighbors in Minneapolis, shocked and confused about the circumstances that led to her death.

Her fiance, Don Damond, said the family has been given almost no additional information about what happened after police arrived. Justine Damond, whose maiden name was Justine Ruszczyk, had planned to marry next month but had already taken her fiance’s last name.

“We’ve lost the dearest of people, and we’re desperate for information,” he said. “Piecing together Justine’s last moments before the homicide would be a small comfort as we grieve this tragedy.”

Damond’s family members in Australia also released a statement Monday through Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, saying they “are trying to come to terms with this tragedy and to understand why this has happened.”

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IMMIGRATION

Justice Gorsuch welcomes new citizens Newest Supreme Court member fills in at 9th Circuit ceremony

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. Supreme Court justice who was in favor of completely reinstating President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries welcomed new U.S. citizens on Monday, encouraging them to tolerate different points of view and respect people with whom they disagree.

“Democracy depends on our willingness to hear and respect even those we disagree with strongly,” U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch told the citizens following a naturalization ceremony at the 9th Circuit’s judicial conference. “In a government by and for the people, we have to remember those with whom we disagree, even vehemently, still have the best interests of the

Jeff Chiu/The Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch greeted new U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the 9th Circuit’s judicial conference in San Francisco on Monday.

country at heart.”

Gorsuch’s visit comes as the Trump administration asks the high court to again weigh in on its ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries. Gorsuch was among three justices who said in June that the ban should be completely reinstated pending arguments before the high court, and

the justice could not escape discussion of the ban during his visit to the 9th Circuit conference.

With Gorsuch seated next to her, an Alaska high school student earlier in the day read her winning essay on Japanese internment — a topic selected by the 9th Circuit.

Olivia Tafs, 15, com-

pared the treatment of Muslims after the Sept. 11 attacks to that of JapaneseAmericans during World War II. She cited Trump’s travel ban as an example of what she said was ethnic profiling.

Gorsuch shook her hand following the speech.

Gorsuch was a late fillin at the 9th Circuit conference for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who canceled his trip after his wife fractured her hip in Austria. The 9th Circuit — the nation’s largest federal court circuit — includes the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and district and bankruptcy courts in California and eight other western states.

Judges in the circuit have blocked both of Trump’s travel bans and halted his attempt to strip funding from so-called sanctuary cities.

Sudhin Thanawala, The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, former football star and TV pitchman and current Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after having served more than eight years for an ill-fated bid to retrieve sports memorabilia.

Now 70, Simpson will have history in his favor and a clean record behind bars as he approaches the nine-year minimum of his 33-year sentence for O.J. armed robSIMPSON bery and assault with a weapon. Plus, the parole board sided with him once before.

No one at his Thursday hearing is expected to oppose releasing him in October — not his victim, not even the former prosecutor who persuaded a jury in Las Vegas to convict Simpson in 2008.

“Assuming that he’s behaved himself in prison, I don’t think it will be out of line for him to get parole,” said David Roger, the retired Clark County district attorney.

Four other men who went with Simpson to a hotel room to retrieve from two memorabilia dealers sports collectibles and personal items that the former football star said belonged to him took plea deals in the heist and received probation.

Two of those men testified that they carried guns.

Another who stood trial with Simpson was convicted and served 27 months before the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that Simpson’s fame tainted the jury. Simpson’s conviction was upheld.

Prison life was a stunning fall for a charismatic celebrity whose storybook career as an electrifying running back dubbed “The Juice” won him the Heisman Trophy as the best college player in 1968 and a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.

He became a sports commentator, Hollywood movie actor, car rental company spokesman and one of the world’s most famous people even before his Los Angeles “trial of the century,” when he was acquitted in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Simpson appeared grayer and heavier than most remembered him when he was last seen, four years ago.

He will appear Thursday by videoconference from the Lovelock Correctional Center to be quizzed by four state parole commissioners in Carson City, a two-hour drive away.

The four board members have experience with Simpson, having granted him parole in July 2013 on some charges — kidnapping, robbery and burglary — stemming from the 2007 armed confrontation.

In a nod to Simpson’s celebrity, officials will let the proceedings be streamed live, and the board plans a sameday ruling. A decision usually takes several days.

Ken Ritter, The Associated Press

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DIPLOMACY

U.S. and Russia resume talks

WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia on Monday resumed high-level talks aimed at resolving irritants between Washington and Moscow, as Russian patience dwindles for the return of two seized diplomatic compounds.

Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov were meeting on Monday. U.S. officials downplayed chances for a breakthrough, especially since Russia abruptly canceled the diplomats’ last scheduled meeting in June in response to new Ukrainerelated sanctions. Ryabkov did not respond to a reporter’s shouted question as he arrived at the State Department with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.

The goal is to pave the way for future cooperation on Syria, Ukraine and other global issues by first building trust through discussions about smaller issues.

The resumption in talks came less than two weeks after President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a highly anticipated first meeting in Germany, an encounter both countries described as a positive first step toward improving relations.

Driving the agenda are grievances each country wants the other to address.

The U.S. wants Moscow to stop harassing American diplomats and to lift a ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children. Russia wants the U.S. to return two Cold War-era recreational estates — one in Maryland

Vanessa Vick/The New York Times

Walter Shaub, who is resigning as the director of the Office of Government Ethics, said actions by President Donald Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis.

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Departing ethics boss slams administration

Shaub’s ethics recommendations

prohibitions on presidential conflicts of interest; mandating that presidential candidates release tax returns; and revising financial disclosure rules. But he acknowledged that some of these proposals would be difficult to pass in Congress.

There are signs that lawmakers are open to considering the ideas. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said

he was preparing to meet with Shaub. The effort could be a test of what kind of appetite Gowdy has to challenge the Trump administration as the chairman of what is traditionally the most active oversight committee in Congress.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s top-ranking Democrat, also wants to discuss the ethics office and ways to strengthen it.

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Tillerson pushes forward with restructure Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is moving ahead with plans to restructure his department and has hired two consulting groups to assist with the process, according to a cable sent to embassies around the world.

Tillerson said he had hired Deloitte and Insigniam to help oversee the reorganization. Insigniam had previously overseen an internal polling effort to get suggestions from the department’s rank and file about how to make the department more efficient.

The cable listed five com-

mittees that will analyze different aspects of the department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, with leaders from each organization among the committee members.

Among the committees are those dedicated to ensuring that foreign assistance programs align with national priorities, that there is a balance between the work done in Washington and in the field, and that the department’s computer system — famously poorly functioning — adopts cutting-edge technol-

ogy.

Tillerson has made clear that he believes the State Department is badly mismanaged.

In an interview last week, he said he was surprised at how poorly the government’s decision-making process compares with that of Exxon Mobil, where he worked for 41 years, leaving as the chief executive and chairman.

“It’s largely not a highly disciplined organization. Decisionmaking is fragmented, and sometimes people don’t want to take decisions; coordination is

difficult through the interagency,” he said of the government.

Tillerson’s only direct experience with government service has been during the Trump administration, which has been slow at filling crucial leadership positions.

Tillerson has said he expects to come up with a reorganization plan by the end of the year and begin putting it to work next year, a long process for such an effort but one that reflects his commitment to a topto-bottom review.

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that they control. Currently, they are only required to disclose debts for which they are personally responsible.

■ Require that federal employees disclose assets that are placed in discretionary trusts, investment vehicles that hold property they may benefit from but are not currently controlling.

■ Require presidential and vice-presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to the Federal Election Commission and file them with the Office of Government Ethics, as they must currently do with more limited financial information.

■ Create a new conflict of interest standard that applies to the president and vice president. It would be more flexible than the one governing all other federal employees.

This standard would prevent the president from holding an interest in a privately held company or a controlling interest in a publicly held company that does business with the federal government.

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and one in New York — that the Obama administration seized as part of its response to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Though Putin declined to retaliate in December for Obama’s response — which also included expelling 35 Russian diplomats the U.S. said were really spies — frustration has mounted in Moscow amid disappointment that Trump has not reversed those actions. Senior Russian officials have said in recent days that without a resolution soon, Moscow will have to retaliate, possibly by expelling American diplomats and moving against U.S. properties in Russia.

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Walter Shaub Jr., departing head of the Office of Government Ethics, wants Congress to strengthen ethics laws.

Among his recommendations are: ■ Establish that the director of the Office of Government Ethics may only be fired by the president for cause and with 30 days’ notice to Congress.

■ Require the federal government’s 4,000 or so political appointees to prepare formal ethics agreements with their agencies that detail in writing what they cannot do without a conflict of interest, such as taking an action that might benefit a former employer or a company to which they have financial ties.

■ Grant the ethics office limited subpoena power to ensure that federal agencies and employees are honoring ethics requirements. Make it easier for the office to recommend discipline for employees who have violated rules.

■ Require that federal employees, including the president, disclose business liabilities and debts in entities

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice will speak to staff on the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, a source familiar with the panel’s interviews said Monday.

The panel, which is investigating Russian interference in U.S. elections, is interviewing several former Obama administration officials this week. Panel staff met with National Intelligence Director James Clapper on Monday and will also interview former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough.

President Donald Trump has argued that Rice may have committed a crime when she asked intelligence analysts to disclose the name of a Trump associate mentioned in an intelligence report. Rice has said she did nothing improper.

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by President Donald Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis, the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics said. He called for major changes in federal law to expand the power and reach of the oversight office to combat the threat.

Walter Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government’s top ethics watchdog Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged longaccepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States’ ethical standards, which have been admired around the world.

“It’s hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we’re not even keeping our own side of the street clean. It affects our credibility,” Shaub said in a twohour interview last weekend — a weekend Trump let the world know he was spending at a family-owned golf club that was being paid to host the U.S. Women’s Open tournament. “I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.”

Shaub called for nearly a dozen legal changes to strengthen the federal ethics system — changes that, in many cases, he had not considered necessary before Trump’s election. Every other president

since the 1970s, Republican or Democrat, worked closely with the ethics office, he said.

A White House official dismissed the criticism, saying Sunday that Shaub was simply promoting himself and had failed to do his job properly.

“Mr. Schaub’s penchant for raising concerns on matters well outside his scope with the media before ever raising them with the White House — which happens to be his actual day job — is rather telling,” Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that misspelled Shaub’s name. “The truth is, Mr. Schaub is not interested in advising the executive branch on ethics. He’s interested in grandstanding and lobbying for more expansive powers in the office he holds.”

Trump’s repeated trips to his family’s business properties — he has visited one of them on at least 54 days since moving into the White House nearly six months ago, including nearly 40 stops at a family golf course — have caused discomfort for Shaub each time.

“It creates the appearance of profiting from the presidency,” Shaub said. “Misuse of position is really the heart of the ethics program, and the internationally accepted definition of corruption is abuse of entrusted power. It undermines the government ethics program by casting doubt on the integrity of government decision making.”

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ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH

Speech may be clue to mental decline Study shows increased use of pauses, fillers as key indicators

Your speech may help reveal if you’re developing thinking problems. More pauses, filler words and other verbal changes might be an early sign of mental decline, which can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests.

Researchers had people describe a picture they were shown in taped sessions two years apart. Those with earlystage mild cognitive impairment slid much faster on certain verbal skills than those who didn’t develop thinking problems.

“What we’ve discovered here is there are aspects of language that are affected earlier than we thought,” before or at the same time that memory problems emerge, said one study leader, Sterling Johnson of the University of WisconsinMadison.

This was the largest study ever done of speech analysis for this purpose, and if more testing confirms its value, it might offer a simple, cheap way to help screen people for very early signs of mental decline.

Don’t panic: Lots of people say “um” and have trouble quickly recalling names as they age, and that doesn’t mean trouble is on the way.

“In normal aging, it’s something that may come back to you later and it’s not going to disrupt the whole conversation,” another study leader, Kimberly Mueller, explained.

“The difference here is, it is more frequent in a short period,” interferes with communication and gets worse over time.

The study was discussed

Monday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.

About 47 million people worldwide have dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the most common type. In the U.S., about 5.5 million people have the disease. Current drugs can’t slow or reverse it, just ease symptoms. Doctors think treatment might need to start sooner to do any good, so there’s a push to find early signs.

Mild cognitive impairment causes changes that are noticeable to the person or others, but not enough to interfere with daily life. It doesn’t mean these folks will develop Alzheimer’s, but many do — 15 to 20 percent per year.

To see if speech analysis can find early signs, researchers first did the picture-description test on 400 people without cognitive problems and saw no change over time in verbal skills. Next, they tested 264 participants in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention, a long-running study of people in their 50s and 60s, most of whom have a parent with Alzheimer’s and might be at higher risk for the disease themselves. Of those, 64 already had signs of early decline or developed it over the next two years, according to other neurological tests they took.

In the second round of tests, they declined faster on content (ideas they expressed) and fluency (the flow of speech and how many pauses and filler words they used.) They used more pronouns such as “it” or “they” instead of specific names for things, spoke in shorter sentences and took longer to convey what they had to say.

Marilynn Marchione, The Associated Press

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FEDERAL SPENDING

Antarctica program on thin ice U.S. funding cuts could freeze research projects, facility fixes McMURDO STATION, Antarctica — The American research station on the edge of this frozen continent may look like a mining camp in the wilderness, but it is actually one of the glories of American science.

From its origin as a collection of Navy huts six decades ago, the station has grown into a small town with more than a thousand residents during peak months.

It has long been the main hub for the most ambitious Antarctic research program run by any nation. Hundreds of scientists cycle through every year to study the perils of collapsing ice caps, the mating habits of penguins, the deep history of the Earth and the great mysteries of the cosmos.

Now, in an era when the Trump administration is seeking to slash federal spending, the fate of Antarctic research is an open question.

The cost of keeping the American lead in Antarctica may be high. The National Science Foundation, which runs the research programs in Antarctica and Greenland, has decided that the aging, inefficient buildings at McMurdo must be replaced. It has devised a plan with no official price tag yet, but it is almost certain to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition, the ships that deliver supplies every year must be led by a boat capable of breaking heavy sea ice. The only one in the United States’ fleet big enough to do the job, the Coast Guard’s Polar Star, is a decrepit 40-year-old vessel that members of the crew sometimes call “a rust bucket.”

Unplanned ship repairs

Photos by Jonathan Corum/The New York Times

Scientists and engineers waited by a vehicle used to haul people around McMurdo Station, the main logistics hub for the United States’ Antarctic research program.

Steve Zellerhoff oversees the long-distance hauling of science equipment over the ice at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

could force McMurdo and its sister station at the South Pole to operate with skeleton crews for a year or more, shutting down most of the scientific research.

“We are living on borrowed time,” said Kelly Falkner, the director of polar programs at the National Science Foundation.

Much of the American science does not actually happen at McMurdo. The camp is effectively a logistics hub — or,

as one committee declared recently, the polar equivalent of a NASA launchpad.

From the station, teams of scientists can fly to field camps deep in the Antarctic interior, plumb the ocean depths and catch helicopters into the nearby McMurdo Dry Valleys, an ice-free region where hundreds of millions of years of the planet’s history are exposed in the hillsides.

Spending days in a convoy of

supply tractors rolling at eight miles an hour can be tedious, but the trips provide plenty of time for reading, music and reflection. “One day I got into camp and they asked me what I was listening to,” said Steve Zellerhoff, who oversees the long-distance hauling of science equipment over the ice. He replied: “I listened to Radiolab.

All of Radiolab.”

McMurdo is spread out across more than a hundred buildings, many of them fairly small — a legacy of its origins as a Navy camp, but seen today as one of the biggest problems.

The layout means a lot of moving among buildings in the freezing weather: to retrieve supplies scattered across multiple warehouses, to fetch vehicle parts, to stash garbage and recycling.

“If you designed it from scratch, you wouldn’t have designed it the way it is,” Falkner said.

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repeal and replace it,” Moran said in a statement. He added that the Senate repeal bill “failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address health care’s rising costs.”

Schumer: Begin anew In his statement, Lee said of the bill, “In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn’t go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations.”

By jumpJERRY ing together, MORAN Moran and Lee ensured no one would be the definitive “no” vote.

With four solid votes against the bill, Republican leaders were faced with two options: Try to go back and rewrite the bill in a way that could secure 50 Republican votes, a seeming impossibility at this point, or do as Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, promised and team with Democrats to draft a narrower, bipartisan measure to fix the flaws in the Affordable Care Act that both parties acknowledge.

The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, responded to the announcements by urging his Republican colleagues to begin anew and, this time, to undertake a bipartisan effort.

“This second failure of Trumpcare is proof positive that the core of this bill is unworkable,” Schumer said.

“Rather than repeating the same failed, partisan process yet again, Republicans should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah had championed a proposal that would allow insurers to sell low-cost, stripped-down plans — an idea that ended up in the latest version of the GOP bill. But the language added was not quite what Lee had been advocating, his office said.

lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the markets and improves our health care system.”

The opposition from Paul and Collins was expected, so McConnell had no margin for error as he unveiled the latest version of his bill. Though Paul and Collins rejected his bill, McConnell survived through the weekend and until Monday night without losing another of his members — though some expressed misgivings or, at the very least, uncertainty.

McCain’s health Senate Republican leaders returned to the Capitol on Monday pledging to press ahead with plans to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, but the news of Lee and Moran digging in against the bill created the deepest doubts yet as to whether it could pass.

The day had already begun with uncertainty as the health of Sen. John McCain thrust the future of the flagging effort deeper into doubt.

In a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell said that

he spoke with the Arizona lawmaker Monday morning and that “he’ll be back with us soon.” McCain is recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot above his left eye that involved opening his skull.

McConnell has delayed action on health care until McCain’s return. While McConnell has no way to pass the legislation without his vote, McCain’s presence in the Capitol is far from a guarantee that it will succeed.

McCain has voiced worries about the measure and has not committed to voting for it. In addition, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., hinted Monday that he might vote against advancing the measure to floor debate — departing from his posture last week. Johnson’s opposition would bring to three the number of GOP senators opposed to advancing the bill; with 52 Republicans — and Vice President Mike Pence ready to cast a tiebreaking vote — the party can lose only two.

In his speech, McConnell said Republicans intend to put in “continued hard work” to pass their proposed rewrite of much of the Affordable Care

Act. But the likely timetable remained unclear. McCain, 80, is awaiting results of tissue pathology reports “pending within the next several days,” the hospital treating him said in a statement over the weekend.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., spoke to him by phone as he was walking to the Senate chamber for a vote Monday evening. The two had an animated conversation, and Graham said McCain was “dying to get back.”

“They were doing a routine checkup and they found the spot and it looks like everything is going to be A-OK,” Graham said. He said McCain’s doctors “don’t want him to fly for a week,” adding, “I think he would walk back if they would let him.”

Repeal failure McConnell has now failed twice in recent weeks in rolling out his repeal bill and keeping his caucus together in advance of a planned vote. He first wanted to hold a vote in late June, only to abandon that plan after running into opposition.

Lee, one of the most conservative members of the Senate, had championed a proposal that would allow insurers to sell low-cost, stripped-down plans — an idea that ended up being added to the latest version of McConnell’s bill. But the language that was added to the bill was not quite what Lee had been advocating, his office said after the bill was released.

Moran faced pressure in his home state about how the bill would affect Kansas, including its rural hospitals. The Kansas Hospital Association said last week that the latest version of the Senate bill “comes up short, particularly for our most vulnerable patients.”

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World NEWS DIGEST

Qatar calls alleged hacking ‘unfortunate’ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Qatar, the tiny Gulf state being isolated by its neighbors, said Monday that the reported involvement of the United Arab Emirates in hacking its government news site in May is “unfortunate” and a breach of agreements among the Gulf countries.

The Washington Post, quoting unnamed U.S. intelligence officials, reported Sunday that the UAE orchestrated the hacking and planted a false story that was used as a pretext for the crisis between Qatar and four Arab countries.

The UAE has denied involvement, calling the report “false” and insisting that the UAE “had no role whatsoever” in the alleged hacking.

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Charge is premeditated murder, though motives are unclear AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian soldier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison Monday for the deaths of three U.S. soldiers whom he shot at an air base in November.

The soldier, 1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha, 39, had pleaded not guilty, saying that he opened fire because the Americans had failed to stop their car as they approached the gate of the air base, and that he thought the base was under attack. “I was doing my job,” he said as he was led from the courtroom.

Although Jordanian officials initially believed his account — angering their U.S. counterparts — they later backed away from it, and charged al-Tuwayha with premeditated murder.

The trial, which lasted more than a month, did not establish a motive for the killings, but Jordanian officials said there was no evidence that al-Tuwayha had ties to extremist groups.

The FBI has opened an investigation into the case, as is common in matters that potentially involve terrorism.

The victims — Staff Sgt. Matthew Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Mo.; Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe, 30, of Tucson, Ariz.; and Staff Sgt. James Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Texas — were killed shortly before noon Nov. 4.

They were part of a fourvehicle convoy returning to the King Faisal air base outside the southern town of Al Jafr, after conducting weapons training at a nearby range, according to a U.S. military investigation that was completed March 7.

Jordan ruled out terrorism in the shooting, but relatives of the slain U.S. troops have described security camera footage that they say shows alTuwayha shooting for six minutes, reloading and aiming at the Americans, even as they identify themselves as friendly forces. The video was shown to the family by U.S. law enforcement, but has not been released to the public.

Relatives of two of the U.S. soldiers sat quietly as the judge read the ruling.

The New York Times, The Associated Press

Iran: Jailed American scholar can appeal ISTANBUL — An American scholar jailed in Iran can appeal a verdict sentencing him to 10 years in prison for espionage, Iranian judicial authorities said, after an apparently secret trial in which he was accused of using his status as a student to send documents to the U.S. government.

Xiyue Wang, a graduate student at Princeton, was detained in Iran in August after spending the summer researching the Qajar dynasty, the university said. The arrest of the 37-yearold, an expert on Eurasian history, had not been made public until this past weekend, when his sentence was announced.

“He is innocent of all the charges. In Tehran, Wang collected documents that were 100 years old,” said Stephen Kotkin, Wang’s adviser at Princeton.

The Washington Post

Tourists flee wildfires in Montenegro PODGORICA, Montenegro — Montenegro has asked for international help to fight wildfires that are also raging along the Adriatic sea coastline in neighboring Croatia, authorities said Monday.

At least 100 tourists have been forced to evacuate from a coastal area in Montenegro that has been the hardest hit by the blaze. Fueled by strong winds and dry weather, the fire on the Lustica peninsula in southern Montenegro has spread near to homes and camping zones.

The state Montenegrin TV reported that the Interior Ministry asked for international help through the European Union disaster relief system.

The navy also stepped in to help evacuate the area by sea, officials said.

The Associated Press

Ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses upheld MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of its nationwide ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious denomination.

The court’s appeals chamber has upheld the April approval of the Russian Justice Ministry’s call to halt Jehovah’s Witnesses activities and to declare it an extremist organization.

The rejection of the religious group’s appeal allows Russia to liquidate the 395 Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations and seize their property. The group claims about 170,000 adherents in Russia.

Jehovah’s Witnesses spokesman David Semonian said in a statement that “it’s very concerning that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, powerful elements within Russia continue to frame our organization as extremist.”

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Javier Duarte, Mexico’s ex-governor of Veracruz, was escorted from Guatemala to a prison in Mexico City, where he will be tried for abuse of authority and other crimes.

He will be tried for organized crime, embezzlement and other charges GUATEMALA CITY — The former governor of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was extradited from Guatemala to Mexico on Monday to face corruption charges.

Former Gov. Javier Duarte was flown to Mexico City after dropping a fight against extradition. Duarte appeared at the Mexico City airport clean-shaven, guarded and unsmiling, a contrast with his appearance in Guatemala, when he wore a full beard and often grinned broadly.

Duarte fled to Guatemala after resigning as governor of one of Mexico’s most populous states amid mounting allegations of corruption. He faces charges that include organized crime, influence trafficking, embezzlement and abuse of authority.

The Mexican Attorney General’s Office said Duarte was taken to a Mexico City prison for the first hearings in his case. The seriousness of the charges appears to rule out the possibility of his release on bail.

“With this kind of actions, the Mexican government stresses its commitment to take concrete steps to reduce impunity … and strengthen the rule of law,” the Mexican Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

The case is sensitive for Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, which is trying to clean up its

Rebecca Blackwell/The Associated Press

A convoy carrying Duarte exits the hangar of the attorney general’s office at the Mexico City airport.

image ahead of next year’s presidential vote.

Many party leaders had publicly hobnobbed with Duarte, whose state had been a key bastion for the party until it lost the governorship there this year.

Duarte’s legal team has said the state charges are baseless and politically motivated.

Prosecutors allege that, as governor, Duarte embezzled millions and

used much of the money to buy properties.

Duarte is one of three fugitive former Mexican governors arrested abroad recently. Italian authorities captured ex-Tamaulipas Gov. Tomas Yarrington in April. In June, former Gov. Roberto Borge of Quintana Roo state was arrested in Panama.

All three belonged to the ruling party.

The Associated Press

VENEZUELA

Opposition calls for nationwide strike, alternative government CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leaders called Monday for a 24-hour nationwide strike to increase pressure on the socialist government after more than 7 million people rejected a plan to rewrite the constitution and consolidate the ruling party’s power over the country, which has been stricken by shortages and inflation and riven by more than 100 days of clashes between protesters and police.

The opposition also said the country’s National Assembly, which it controls, would name new members to the government-dominated Supreme Court, setting up a showdown with President Nicolas Maduro, whose party controls nearly all other state institutions. Opposition parties also plan to sign

a declaration calling for the formation of an alternative “government of national unity,” a step toward total rejection of government authority.

“Overall the package is pretty radical, especially the idea of a parallel government,” said David Smilde, a Tulane University expert on Venezuela. “I think it could lead to real chaos within the government.”

He noted, however, that the opposition moves were to be implemented in phases over the next week, starting with the nationwide strike on Thursday, giving both sides the opportunity to negotiate possible concessions.

“We call on the whole country to launch a 24-hour national strike this Thursday, a massive, non-violent protest, as a way to pressure the

government and to prepare for the final steps, which will be next week, to confront this fraud … and to restore constitutional order,” opposition leader Freddy Guevara said at an afternoon news conference. He didn’t say what the final steps would be.

The opposition said 7,186,170 Venezuelans participated in Sunday’s symbolic referendum rejecting Maduro’s plans for the July 30 election of an assembly that would remake the country’s political system. It was a strong but not overwhelming showing that fell short of the 7.7 million votes garnered by the opposition in 2015 legislative elections. Opposition leaders said that was because they were only able to set up 2,000 polling places in a symbolic exercise the govern-

Ariana Cubillos/The Associated Press

Opposition leader Freddy Guevara called on people to join in a “massive, non-violent protest” against the government after more than 7 million people rejected the government’s plan to rewrite the constitution.

ment labeled as illegitimate.

Maduro’s allies have called on the assembly to impose executive branch authority over the few remaining institutions outside the control of Venezuela’s socialist ruling party.

In Washington, the Trump administration called on Venezuela’s government to cancel plans to form an assembly to rewrite the constitution, and

to instead hold “free and fair elections.”

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. congratulated the Venezuelan people “for the huge turnout in the referendum” and the “unmistakable statement that they made and delivered to their government.”

Michael Weissenstein and Fabiola Sanchez, The Associated Press

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Monday proposed holding military and humanitarian talks with North Korea, aimed at easing tensions along their heavily armed border and arranging reunions of families divided decades ago by the Korean War. North Korea did not immediately respond. Its reaction will be the first test of the pro-dialogue policy of South Korea’s liberal new president, Moon Jae-in, who argues that talks are the likeliest way to end the crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

The South wants to send a military delegation to the border village of Panmunjom on Friday to discuss “stopping all hostile activities that raise military tension” along the border, Vice Defense Minister Suh Choosuk said Monday.

Such a meeting would be the first between the two governments since 2015 and the first inter-Korean military dialogue since 2014.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, had proposed such talks in a May 2016 speech. But the South’s then-president, Park Geunhye, a conservative who has since been impeached and removed from office, rejected the offer, calling it insincere and demanding that the North first move toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program.

Moon reaffirmed his commitment to dialogue in a speech in Berlin this month, days after Pyongyang conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

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Heavy smoke billowed over Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital in Syria, during an offensive by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

U.S.-backed forces battle IS to recapture Raqqa But Kurdish-led group also clashes with Turkish fighters in Syria BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters fought Islamic State militants in the heart of Raqqa, the extremists’ selfstyled capital, on Monday, as scores of civilians fled areas controlled by the group.

The Kurdish-led group has been one of the most effective forces fighting IS in Syria, but it has also clashed with Turkish-backed Syrian forces elsewhere in the country. As it battled IS in Raqqa, the Syrian Democratic Forces also fought Turkish-allied Syrian forces in Ein Daqna, in the neighboring Aleppo province, according to Syrian activists and Turkish media.

The SDF, aided by the U.S.led coalition, launched their

offensive to capture Raqqa on June 6, and have since taken several areas. The Britainbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday’s fighting is concentrated in Raqqa’s southwestern neighborhood of Yarmouk as well as a central area close to the Old City.

The SDF said intense fighting is underway in central Raqqa, adding that its fighters have taken positions near a centuries-old mosque known as the Old Mosque. The Kurdish-run Hawar news agency said some 180 civilians were able to flee areas controlled by IS, while the Observatory put the number in the hundreds.

The SDF said 11 IS fighters have been killed in the clashes since Sunday. The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said 14 SDF fighters were killed in the fighting in Raqqa on Sunday

alone.

The intensification of fighting comes a week after Iraqi forces declared victory against IS in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the largest the extremists have held. The loss of Raqqa would deal a major blow to IS, but the group still holds wide areas of the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, bordering Iraq.

The SDF is dominated by a Kurdish militia known as the YPG, which Turkey views as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency raging in its own territory. Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces rolled into Syria last year in order to battle IS and halt the advance of the SDF. The U.S.-led coalition has sought to stop the fighting between Turkey and the SDF, both of which are allies against IS. The Associated Press

‘Human cost’ of Afghanistan war on the rise KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan has grown more deadly this year for women, children and other residents of the capital, the United Nations mission in the country said Monday, even as the violence is expected to intensify in the coming months with no hope of peace talks any time soon.

A record number of civilians — 1,662 — were killed in the first six months of 2017, a 2 percent increase from the same period last year, the mission reported. An additional 3,581 civilians were wounded.

“The human cost of this ugly

war in Afghanistan — loss of life, destruction and immense suffering — is far too high,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the U.N. secretary-general’s special representative for Afghanistan. He cited the threat posed by homemade bombs or improvised explosive devices, IEDs, used by insurgent groups. “The continued use of indiscriminate, disproportionate and illegal IED devices by anti-government elements is particularly appalling and must immediately stop,” he said.

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killed. The leading causes of casualties among women were attacks, including suicide bombings, in highly populated civilian areas such as Kabul, the capital. These assaults accounted for almost three-quarters of the 174 women killed and 462 injured in the first half of the year.

Children were again killed in large numbers. They made up more than a quarter of the total casualties, and child deaths were up 9 percent compared with the same period last year.

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Soldiers stand on guard in Panmunjom between North and South Korea.

Suh, the vice defense minister, on Monday called on the North to restore a military hotline that Pyongyang cut off in 2016, amid tensions following its nuclear test in January of that year. Without the hotline, the two militaries have no means of communicating quickly and directly to avoid an unintended conflict.

South Korea did not disclose what specifically it wanted to discuss if military talks were held. In past meetings, North Korea has demanded that the South stop holding joint military exercises with the United States and end the use of loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda along the border. South Korea has recently accused the North of sending military drones to spy on the South, an issue that Seoul would be likely to raise.

Also Monday, the South Korean Red Cross Society proposed a meeting at Panmunjom on Aug. 1 with its North Korean counterpart, to arrange reunions of relatives in the North and South

who have not seen each other since being separated during the 1950-53 Korean War. Those reunions, which have been held occasionally over the years, are a highly emotional issue and are widely seen as a barometer of inter-Korean relations. Moon said in his Berlin speech that the reunions should resume.

The last such meetings were held in 2015, when fewer than 100 elderly Koreans from each side were allowed to spend three days with their family members. About 60,000 South Koreans are still hoping for a chance to see wives, siblings and parents across the border before they die. More than half of them are in their 80s or older.

The U.N. Security Council is discussing a new set of sanctions against North Korea over its ICBM test. The North has warned that such a move would lead to unspecified retaliatory measures, which analysts said might include another nuclear or longrange missile test.

Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times

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EDITORIAL FINDING LIFELINES FOR THE WORKING POOR

Expanding Workers’ Potential We need to rethink our economic development strategies Third in a series

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ith Toyota, Liberty Mutual and countless other corporations expanding in Dallas’ northern suburbs, the region’s overall economic success has obscured an uncomfortable truth: Wealth and jobs are settling outside Dallas, leaving the city with poorer and less-skilled residents.

Dozens of programs incentivize job creation.

Dozens of nonprofits, community colleges and corporations have job-training programs. So why are Dallas’ working poor caught in a worse predicament than those in other cities?

There are decent-paying jobs in Dallas — but not enough of them where the working poor can get to them. In other cases, the working poor might be living in the shadows of prosperous employers but lack the skills or education to be hired. It’s time to develop citywide strategies to help bridge these gaps so that Dallas residents who are willing to put in the labor have opportunities to work themselves out of poverty.

For Dallas’ working poor, deciding whether to take a new job or invest in job training depends heavily on whether they can afford the travel time and expenses.

Take this one statistic: The average transportation cost in the Dallas metro area is $939 a month, when you include the full costs of auto ownership or transit — higher than in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, according to the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Center for Housing Policy.

Do the math: When you are making $12,000 a year, even a small slice of those expenses would be prohibitive. But bringing down the cost requires either finding a job closer to home, or vastly increasing the amount of time spent using public transportation, where it’s available.

A few statistics tell the story: About 86 percent of the city’s jobs are in the northern half of the city.

Jobs paying $1,250 or less a month ($15,000 a year) are concentrated in southeast and East Dallas.

Less than 20 percent of the city’s jobs are accessible by transit in less than 90 minutes, creating a burden for the working poor.

ONLINE: Why does Dallas have so many poor people working themselves weary and yet never getting ahead? Read our six-part series. dallasnews.com/ working-poor

Dallas must rethink job creation and economic development strategies to make it easier for the working poor — for their sake and for the city’s.

We’ve seen successful initiatives in the past, bringing better jobs to the people who need them most. For example, targeted investments in the International Inland Port in southern Dallas helped create warehouse and distribution centers for companies such as Amazon, Home Depot and FedEx. These have translated into solid jobs for people who live and work south of the Trinity River.

But the challenges facing the working poor go beyond this one geography. Dallas must better connect people to jobs closer to where they live, through a mix of workforce skills training and economic development policies.

If Dallas can devote the resources to help struggling workers develop in-demand skills, the payoffs could be huge. A JPMorgan Chase study in 2015 found that middle-skill positions — those that require more than a high school degree but not necessarily a four-year college degree — paid a median wage of $24 an hour. That’s about 35 percent higher than the region’s living wage of $18.08 — and enough to move many families out of poverty.

And if Dallas can’t? All of the city suffers when our workers’ potential is limited — when residents can’t reach well-paying jobs they’re qualified for, or they can’t qualify for well-paying jobs they can reach. And all of the city can benefit when more of Dallas’ working poor find ways to break free from dead-end jobs.

Coming tomorrow: Housing

Lahren’s Wrongheaded Rant Including activist in police chief interviews is right

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allas City Manager T.C. Broadnax was right to invite activist Dominique Alexander to help him evaluate candidates vying to be the next Dallas police chief.

Naming Alexander to one of several interview panels that met recently with the wouldbe chiefs was a smart, level-headed move aimed at lowering tensions between activists and police officers. That’s something everyone ought to applaud, police officers included.

Some police representatives saw it differently and raised a ruckus. That snagged the attention of Dallas’ social media phenom Tomi Lahren. She promptly took to YouTube with an angry, profane and thunderously wrongheaded rant that has been viewed millions of times.

“Of all the left-wing, politically correct, intellectually dishonest bull[expletive] ,” she began. “... The Black Lives Matter activist behind last year’s protests that resulted in the death of five police officers was invited to help choose the next Dallas police chief. Yeah, is your blood boiling yet?”

Lahren is flat-out wrong, even dangerously wrong.

The July 7, 2016 protests didn’t cause the murder of our five officers. Micah Johnson did, when he opened fire. The protesters

had peacefully assembled to demonstrate their concern, one that will have to be addressed by the next police chief.

By putting one of the protest organizers on an interview panel, Broadnax wasn’t taking sides in that debate over police shootings. He simply recognizes a legitimate debate exists. And he’s wise enough to listen to multiple perspectives.

When contacted by our reporters last week, Lahren said it is Alexander’s felony conviction that most angers her: “There are excellent folks out there who can represent what the Black Lives Matter movement is supposed to stand for, and with good intentions,” she told the newspaper.

But that’s a ludicrous backtracking from the content of her video, in which she says plainly that “the Black Lives Matter movement itself is bull[expletive] .” Last August, she called the movement “the new KKK.” As for Alexander’s record, he was convicted in 2011 of felony harm to a child involving a 2-year-old. It’s a serious crime, but it doesn’t disqualify him from offering a valuable perspective on the next police chief, especially since his work since has tapped into a community dialogue that desperately needs to continue.

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LETTERS

Irony of McConnell’s delay I am taken by the irony of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s need to delay discussion of his health care plan pending Sen. John McCain’s recovery from treatment of a blood clot above his eye. Interestingly, such treatment would be either poorly or not at all covered under the low-premium “products” offered by our junior senator in order to get the bill passed.

No worry for our congressmen, as they are well covered for their health care needs. The cynical offer of low-cost products to “keep costs down” does nothing to address the substantial problems affecting health care financing in America. Insurance companies can only offer such products by either insuring that which didn’t need insuring to begin with, such as physician visits, or substantially increasing deductibles and co-pays, which our senior senator decried on Face the Nation on Sunday.

Few households can withstand a $10,000$15,000 hit from their deductibles and copays. I can assure you that McCain’s sophisticated treatment and hospitalization well exceeded those levels within 24 to 48 hours of his arrival in the emergency suite. I sincerely wish the Arizona senator a full recovery while reflecting on these matters.

Bob Haddox, Rowlett

GOP’s self-inflicted wound The Republicans are in the process of selfdestructing over health care for reasons that make no sense. They believe there was a clear mandate to repeal Obamacare and must do so to fulfill some notion of obligation.

But, if you were to poll Republicans specifically when they voted last November, the vast majority would have been for: 1) a broader base of opportunity for all Americans to have access to fundamental health care; 2) a means by which to avoid exclusion for prior existing conditions; and 3) manageable costs for health care.

All of these are key objectives of the Affordable Care Act, which of course needs revision. Had Trump and Republican leaders not been fixated on “Obama” and “repeal” for pure partisan campaign purposes, the path of compromise to reform was obvious.

But instead of bipartisan substantive reforms, Republicans are self-inflicting a wound which will haunt them in 2018 and 2020.

We need a healthy two party system — both with rational convictions, common sense and an ability to compromise. Democrats and Republicans have both failed their members in recent years, but now the Republicans are outdoing themselves for no good reason. All of us lose.

Michael Eberhardt, North Dallas

Dogs have it better “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln The Republican health care bill will likely harm the 20-plus million people thrown off health care insurance. Yet the Humane Society and other animal protection groups will still make possible for destitute dogs to have easier access to medical care than people.

Somehow, I don’t think Trumpcare would pass the Honest Abe test for religion or politics.

Robert Staebell, Richardson

McConnell, can you hear the people?

Last year, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell refused to let President Barack Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court even be interviewed, much less confirmed. McConnell said a new judge must wait until after the people have spoken in the presidential election. So we got Donald Trump and he gave us Neil Gorsuch.

Now McConnell is trying to ram through a health care bill that no one seems to want.

A recent NPR poll shows only 17 percent of Americans approve the Senate’s bill, while 63 percent say Congress should either leave Obamacare as it is or make some changes to improve it. That’s the voice of the people

speaking loud and clear. Can McConnell stop long enough to listen to us?

Roger T. Quillin, Dallas/Lake Highlands

Who’s hiding?

Regarding voter ID lists, Trump asks what are they hiding.

Regarding income taxes, the United States asks what is he hiding?

Robert J. Pesce, Benbrook

Indivisible’s losing strategy In resisting the Trump agenda, the Democratic party finds itself at a strange crossroads.

Throwing money at congressional campaigns hasn’t worked. Trying to disrupt Republican meetings hasn’t worked. Nothing is working for the Democrats. The Indivisible movement has now put far-left Democrats into a mob-mentality mode. Most are still stunned from President Donald Trump’s victory and in disbelief that he is actually acting on longtime campaign promises.

As chairman of the Dallas Young Republicans, our group was recently affected by the Indivisible group on July 6, when we had to change our meeting venue due to a media advisory that protests were coming to the small Uptown Dallas bar where we meet. In the interest of keeping the peace, and of course, wanting to spare our typical meeting venue the chaos, we changed the venue.

Now where does this leave us as an organization? How were we affected by Indivisible protestors? There are now 50 more Young Republican campaign volunteers for Congressman Pete Sessions.

Indivisible: a losing strategy for Democrats, a motivator for Republicans.

Chris Ford, Dallas/Lower Greenville

Why not solar?

Re: “Tangled web with deep ties — Conflicts, partially cloaked, cloud Trump effort to cut red tape,” Wednesday news story.

Brian McCormack was appointed by the Trump administration as a member of the Energy Department’s “deregulation team.” A key Energy Department mission is (was?) promoting renewable energy. But previously, McCormack handled political affairs for a trade association, Edison Electric Institute, which fought against solar energy, saying it could be “a threat to grid reliability.”

Disclosure records confirm that while McCormack was at Edison, it lobbied the Energy Department. The Energy Department wouldn’t answer questions about McCormack’s involvement with those issues.

I’m not an energy expert, but I know that brownouts occur during peak electrical use and solar has the highest output at the same time. So, wouldn’t more solar improve electric utility reliability?

It seems that giving McCormack this position equates to “filling the swamp.”

Hugh Resnick, Dallas/The Cedars

Where are the police?

Re: “Police aim to put brakes on aggressive driving,” July 7 Metro public safety briefs.

Glad to see at least one local police department has the guts to crack down on speeding and reckless drivers. I travel through Sachse at least four times a week at the posted speed limit and I’m tailgated and passed by 90 percent of other drivers weaving in and out changing lanes recklessly.

I started counting in mid-May and since then, I have seen one Sachse patrol car on Highway 78. That’s almost for two months.

What are they doing? And I travel at various times in the day.

Red Benson, Wylie

Drive 55 on the Tollway Am I the only person who realizes that the Dallas North Tollway has lowered its speed limit to 55 mph? When I drove at 55, people were passing me like I was standing still. Is this going to be a permanent change, and will it be enforced? Just wondering!

Thomas M. Reeve, Dallas

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Make Texas stay Texas

Conservatives must demand 4 key reforms in special session, Kevin D. Roberts says

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y any measure, Texas is the nation’s premier land of opportunity, where initiative, a good work ethic and perseverance offer a significant chance for success. Though most signs point to the Lone Star juggernaut continuing, the Texas Legislature will need to take bolder steps to ensure that it does.

Put simply, the legislative session concluded in May fell far short of the transformational conservative, free-market reform required to nurture the so-called Texas Model.

The special session opening today offers an opportunity to do so. The time-tested, proven recipe for success in Texas has been low taxes, fair regulation and maximizing liberty while limiting government. This special session, Texans should demand their legislators not just pass one or two measures that essentially nibble on the edges. Comprehensive reform is needed to keep Texas a strong and competitive state.

What are those essentials? Legislators need to address escalating property taxes, create education opportunities for special-needs students, eliminate state collection of union dues, and put an end to forced annexation. These four reforms would secure, if not enhance, the Texas Model.

First, Texas is a relatively low-tax state overall, but our property taxes are the sixth-highest in America. In some areas, escalating tax bills threaten people’s most important investment, their homes, and discourage business investment, the engine driving our prosperity. Worse still, many taxing authorities increase property tax rates with a murky process that is impossible for the average Texan to decipher — let alone participate in. Fixing this problem is crucial, therefore, both to our prosperity and to our democratic processes.

Second, Texas needs to expand education opportunities, especially for students with special needs. Texas has more than 1,000 school districts, many providing a quality education to the majority of students. The problem, however, is when a student is trapped in a failing school or even a good school that cannot address their specific needs. During the regular session, legislators had the opportunity to provide specialneeds students with education funds that a family could direct to the best option for their child. They could also choose to fund additional tutoring and intervention services.

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In the regular session, the Texas Legislature fell short of the reforms required to keep the Texas Model flourishing, says Kevin D. Roberts.

The beauty of the system would be that families could customize the solution for the specific needs of individual students when one-size-fits-all education just won’t work. If Texas cannot adequately provide opportunities for the most vulnerable of our population, then how can we expect the state to remain at the forefront of liberty and opportunity?

Third, the Legislature should end the practice of the state automatically collecting membership dues for government-employee labor unions. While Texans should have every right to participate in a union if they so choose, the reality of the current system is that an employee must opt-out — often with great pressure not to do so — rather than opt-in. While Texas is a “right to work” state that doesn’t require union membership for employment, automatic payments skirt that right.

Additionally, by putting workers in complete control of whether they pay into the union or not, unions will have to be more responsive to the very constituency they claim to represent: the workers. Finally, it absolves the state of the problematic mixing of advocacy for political matters by creating a clear demarcation between union funding and government activity — a practice, not surprisingly, that has

fueled opposition both to property tax reform and education reform.

Finally, Texas should end forced annexation. There is little I can think of that is more un-Texan than to allow cities to grab land and subject their neighbors to rules, regulations, taxes and liabilities for debts on which the landowners never voted. If annexation is really in the best interest of citizens and a city, let those who would be annexed vote. This practice is not merely a bureaucratic or economic problem: it’s an abomination to liberty, and therefore to the Texas way.

While these four measures are by no means the only reforms that should be considered this session, they represent essential principles for making sure Texas stays Texas, a state with strong individual liberty and broad opportunity. They are the proven ingredients for Texas’ continued success, and supported by a huge majority of Texas voters. Failing to enact these will be transformational for Texas — but in the decidedly wrong direction.

Kevin D. Roberts is executive vice president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin.

Twitter: @KevinRobertsTX

ENCOURAGING EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Prevention is the best cure

It’s good to teach kids to cope, better to prevent trauma in first place, says Michelle Kinder

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ith the constant stress of the news cycle, I’ve never felt the urgency of helping children learn mindfulness, coping strategies and social emotional-health skills more — both for their own sake and to ensure these capacities are baked-in for our future leaders. Having worked at the intersection of mental health and education for more than 20 years, I don’t say this lightly.

Focusing on social emotional health is an upstream effort to prevent serious mental health issues in the future. However, it is not nearly upstream enough. We need to teach social emotional health but, more importantly, we need a society where children are less likely to experience trauma and toxic stress in the first place. Unless we address structural and embedded inequities as an integral part of any social emotional approach, we are redecorating the kitchen when the house is on fire.

Traditional narratives of social emotional health, including ones I participate in, put the onus on the individual to understand and manage his or her emotions, reactions and relationships, but this sole focus on individual resiliency is problematic. Without addressing larger societal issues like race and inequity, we send the harmful

message that children who are dealing with difficult early life experiences should rely on their own superpowers to get through it.

In fact, it’s adults who are the problem — and not the adults who usually shoulder the blame, like the parents. If adults in leadership roles consistently made day-to-day choices that reflect our commitment to future generations, many children would have an entirely different starting gate and social emotional health would be a skill set, not a lifeline.

An appalling 43 percent of all children in our country live in poverty, including more than 60 percent of black and Latino children. Stats like that do not represent failure on the part of individual families; they represent the colossal failing of our system. Poverty is the single biggest risk factor for children, and, according to Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child, it can derail healthy development and literally change children’s brains.

At the same time, children are navigating trauma and adverse childhood experiences at alarming rates. Initial studies on these experiences in the late 1990s focused disproportionately on white, educated families. New research, which is inclusive of a more representative section of society, is confirming a fallout related to decades in which the wants of the few took priority over the needs of the many.

One study, reported by ChildTrends, showed that black

children are more likely than their white or Latino peers to have three or more adverse childhood experiences, while white children were the least likely to have any.

Part of society’s social emotional growth requires us to acknowledge and address these inequities, admitting that we have failed to act in the best interest of all our youngest stakeholders.

It’s tricky, though, because this collective work doesn’t take off without our willingness to look at our own biases and widen our lenses so that we can better understand — and be enriched by — the experiences of different people. Even well-meaning people who have poured their hearts out for our community have no idea where to start, and some can’t imagine how failing to attend to inequity is holding Dallas back.

That said, we have incredible local leadership working to create paths forward, like Richie Butler’s Year of Unity initiative; Communities Foundation of Texas, representing Dallas in the Kellogg Foundation’s nationwide efforts for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation; Michael Sorrell’s tireless #nationbuilding through Paul Quinn College; Teaching Trust alumna Bianca Anderson’s work in schools through the Border Crossers program; and Lauren Embrey, sharing her personal story of overcoming implicit racial bias.

For me, reading articles by people like Peggy McIntosh, Damali Ayo and Robert Jensen

helps me pay attention to how I inadvertently participate in the problem. And it has also helped me to embrace the discomfort that comes from watching movies like Ava DuVernay’s 13th, which explores how mass incarceration is an extension of slavery.

But mostly, I try to think about how new information and discomfort can drive me toward action. And I think a lot about what it means that, as a white woman, I have had the choice to ignore this or go toward it, which has never been a choice for my friends and colleagues of color.

Without question, it is easier to support an individual child to be resilient in the face of poverty and trauma than to address vast and pervasive causes of social inequity. But if we do not consistently include both individual and social factors in the conversation, we will do more harm than good.

In the end, helping children become healthy, productive, happy individuals depends, ironically, on a collective understanding of the root causes of trauma and inequity — and a commitment to action. Only then can we know we are laying the path for children to achieve their full potential — because of us, not in spite of us.

Michelle Kinder is executive director of the Momentous Institute.

Email: mkinder@ momentousinstitute.org

Now, a chance to be human on health care We need to talk about this issue face to face, says Joshua J. Whitfield

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urning away, for just a moment, from the miscellanea of our slowseeming apocalypse, from Antarctic icebergs, North Korean nukes and Russian collusion, let’s focus a little on what’s more acutely important, on what touches most of us most: what Congress almost got away with on health care.

Admit it, you didn’t know what the heck they were talking about. Neither did I. To be fair to President Donald Trump — for once, he was right: “It’s an unbelievably complex subject.” If we’re honest, we’ll admit we’re little wiser on the subject than he. Never mind your friend who blurts out “single-payer!” like he’s figured it out and you’re stupid. Never mind the confident on either the hardened right or the hardened left. It’s a mind-boggling issue, stressful in the same measure that it’s important, so many of us worried because so many of us are confused.

The statutory language of the bills that were under discussion read like cuneiform. Relying as most of us must on secondary literature, we predictably huddled behind the barricades of conventional prejudices because, quite honestly, there was little else we could do. While more ethereal theorists like me talk about Hayek or the invisible hand of the market or some other first principle, the more mathematic and econometric jargonize their opinions with all their usual impressive obscurity. All of it clarifying nothing, of course, adding only to our anxiety because we so little trust those claiming to be experts as well as those who govern us.

What of Sen. Ted Cruz’s amendment, for instance, the market-driven quarantining of the sick? What about cuts to Medicaid? Why not also heavily cut Medicare and Social Security while we’re at it? What about pre-existing conditions and the poor? What about rising costs?

What about religious liberty and respecting conscience? All were loaded and difficult questions, each as consequential as they were complex.

Now the Republican plan seems to have died under its own weight, and we have a new opportunity to pause. How should a person begin to think about all this, basically and morally, as a human?

To start, I think we should be willing genuinely to talk about it: not on Facebook or Twitter, but face to face. Before we speak to politicians, we should speak to each other. And we should dare to make the conversation personal.

That is, we should talk to each other about what health care looks like for each of us, sharing how we’ve been either helped or hurt by the Affordable Care Act or other programs. What do you stand to lose or gain if Congress makes changes?

We should speak up and talk about it with those closest to us.

Which is why the rush to repeal the ACA at this stage was simply inhuman, plainly immoral politics. Everyone agrees that reform is necessary — but not that way. We need more argument, more time, and certainly more compromise. We need to look each other in the face more and hear more from each other. Perhaps we should demand that every member of Congress spend at least one full day, perhaps a week even, with a constituent who’ll be affected by this legislation, somebody who’ll lose their insurance or benefits. Perhaps we should do this, too.

Because that’s how compassion comes about, which leads to solidarity and, at last, to politics above special interests.

Part of the problem is that we always begin these debates in theoretical abstraction before considering concrete particulars, the personal particulars of human lives. We begin these debates thinking first either in terms of dollars or philosophies, when we should begin our thinking the other way around.

To think about health care well, to think about it morally, we need to think in a more human direction, from faces to names to needs and only then to dollars.

Otherwise, our politics and policies are inhuman, however fiscally sensible or foolish they may be.

And that always hurts people. People you know and love.

Father Joshua J. Whitfield is the parochial vicar and director of faith formation and education at St. Rita Catholic Church in Dallas. Email: jwhitfield@stritaparish.net

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Royals share goodwill of Britain Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit EU countries to maintain ties WARSAW, Poland — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shook hands with wellwishers and met with World War II veterans in Poland on Monday at the start of a twocountry goodwill trip intended to underscore Britain’s intention to maintain friendly ties with the European Union that it is in the process of leaving.

The royal couple met President Andrzej Duda and first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda at the Presidential Palace for lunch.

They visited the palace gardens and after lunch took a short stroll in front of the palace and were greeted by a huge crowd waving British and Polish flags and taking photos.

“I am so happy that I saw this beautiful couple,” said Helena Wozna, 63, who was in the crowd. “Prince William shook my hand. I’m happy I came here.”

Prince William and his wife, Kate, then met with World War II veterans at the museum to the

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Children welcomed Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, during her visit with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, to Poland as part of a trip meant to underscore Britian’s continued goodwill toward the European Union.

1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Germans, and traveled to a business center where they met with representatives from Polish and British businesses. Hundreds of thousands of Poles live and work in Britain, strengthening business ties.

The Polish hosts have said this is a visit of “respect and friendship” that shows relations remain strong.

The Duke and the Duchess

were accompanied by their children, Prince George, who will be 4 on Saturday, and Princess Charlotte, 2. The children are expected to draw wide attention on a trip being characterized by the British press as part of a charm offensive to soften Britain’s Brexit diplomacy. Warsaw’s Belvedere Palace, where they are residing during the visit, has had playground toys installed.

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LEGISLATURE ’17

Abbott draws up naughty and nice list Governor to keep track of yays, nays on his top proposals

By LAUREN McGAUGHY and ROBERT T. GARRETT Austin Bureau

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday railed against lawmakers who disagree with his priorities for the looming special legislative session, promising to call out the naysayers in a public list.

During a Q&A at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Abbott urged the conservative think tank and other groups to criticize lawmakers who don’t support his 20 special session proposals, which include voting, taxes, tree ordinances and LGBT rights.

“What we have to do is to continue the process of ensuring that we have a majority of members of both the House and Senate in support of these pieces of legislation,” Abbott said.

SPECIAL SESSION LEADERS from 14 Dallas-area companies take a public stand against the bathroom bill. Mitchell Schnurman, 1D BUSINESS leaders need to do more than write letters and hold news conferences if they want to defeat the bathroom bill.

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“I’m going to be establishing a list. You and other organizations may be establishing a list.

We all need to establish lists that we publish on a daily basis and call people out — who is for this who is against this, who has not taken a position yet.

“No one gets to hide.”

Speaking the day before the session convenes, Abbott questioned whether public schools should be expected to serve every special education student in See

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A primer for the special session Lawmakers begin debate on issues that remain from regular meeting

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Antonio Aguilar and his dog, Junior, were framed by crape myrtle trees as they walked around Bachman Lake in Dallas Monday. North Texas will stay hot and dry with temperatures stretching toward 100 as the week goes on. (Complete weather, 6B)

IRVING

Slain student remembered on birthday North Lake College starts scholarship

By ELVIA LIMÓN

Staff Writer elimon@dallasnews.com

IRVING — Janeera Gonzalez liked her birthday celebrations to be intimate and simple.

On Tuesday, her family plans to honor that tradition on what would have been her 21st birthday with

a small gathering of family and friends at her grave.

“We plan to celebrate her day just as if she were still here,” her mother, Lucia Gonzalez, said in a brief interview Monday at their home. “Even though she’s not alive, she continues to live in our hearts.”

Janeera Nickol Gonzalez was fatally shot at North Lake College in May, where she was a kinesiology major. She was set to gradu-

ate with an associate degree later that month.

Authorities found JANEERA the body GONZALEZ of the gunman, 21-year-old Adrian Victor Torres, in a separate building at the college. Police said he died of a gunshot wound that appeared to be self-inflicted.

Her father, Juan Gonzalez, said Torres had stalked his daughter at the college for nearly two months. He said his daughter and Torres had never been in a relationship. It remains unclear why Torres began following the woman.

Since Gonzalez’s death, several community members have found ways to honor her memory. During a See

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AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott has called lawmakers to Austin for a special legislative session that starts Tuesday.

First on the agenda is passing a critical bill to keep alive several state agencies scheduled for closure Sept. 1, including the Texas Medical Board, which licenses doctors. After dealing with the agency-preserving legislation, lawmakers will consider 19 other items — many of which are controversial redmeat conservative issues — decreed by Abbott.

Many of the measures were considered, and died, during the regular session. Whether they make it through the special session, which can last up to 30 days, remains an open question.

We’ve compiled a list of things to watch for as the special session gets underway.

1. The strained relation-

ship between House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: One of the themes of the regular session was the legislative power struggle between mild-mannered, businessminded Straus and bombastic social conservative Patrick, the Senate president.

The lieutenant governor should be able to push his priorities through the Senate, but it’s possible that Straus could try to stall passing the sunset legislation so the more contentious measures don’t have time to make it through the legislative process.

2. The bathroom bill: Does the bathroom bill stand a chance of becoming law? Businesses, such as IBM, Apple and Facebook, are lobbying against the legislation.

The legislation has proved a favorite of social conservatives, a powerful voting bloc in GOP primaries. It’s a group of voters Patrick and Abbott are courting with their 2018 re-election bids.

3. Local control battles: The growing tension between See

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Whither the mall: A last walk through Valley View

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he last department store standing at Valley View Mall made its tired exit last week with barely a dying gasp. It was a quiet death.

Sears, of course, has not exactly been a retail blockbuster for quite a while now.

But it was the last rusty stake anchoring what was once the quintessential Dallas mall experience, a familiar mix of mid-level stores catering to a mid-level audience for a

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universal, if bland, shopping and social experience.

There wasn’t much to see in those final fire-sale days, just a few clusters of leftovers heaped together in the cavernous, empty store: some

pipe wrenches; odd pieces of patio furniture; a rack of garish ties; bulk packages of discount underpants. The few shoppers poking around looked understandably disillusioned.

Like most Americans, I hadn’t walked through a conventional shopping mall in years. And I hadn’t set foot in a Sears store in decades, even though the memory is indelible. When we were kids, my dad rousted us to hit the Sears

every weekend, because what child wouldn’t rather look at Craftsman tools than watch cartoons on Saturday morning? Just stepping through the door made me itch with boredom.

Valley View itself has been on life support for years, yet it has fared better than many of its cookie-cutter contemporaries. Its robust location — North Dallas, but not the See

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The exterior of Macy’s, once an anchor of Valley View Mall in Dallas, was vacant in February as demolition had started.

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North Texas COMMUNITY BRIEFS ARLINGTON

Tickets now on sale for UTA’s speaker series Tickets just went on sale for the University of Texas at Arlington’s 2017-18 Maverick Speaker Series. The speakers are Lou Diamond Phillips on Sept. 7; Anousheh Ansari on Oct. 3; Roland Fryer on Nov. 2; Michael Pollan on Feb. 20 and Gretchen Carlson on March 29.

UTA students, faculty, and staff can reserve general admission tickets for free (limit two). For the general public, the cost is $5 per ticket. Reserve tickets at utatickets.com.

Deborah Fleck

CELINA

Ben and Skin Show to host fundraiser Saturday The Ben and Skin Show is hosting a free, family-friendly fundraiser concert and auction from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Light Farms Barn Yard, 1234 Homestead Court.

The event is to benefit Light Farms neighbor Bruce Thompson, who is fighting cancer. There will be live music by Brad Stinson, Jesse Jennings, Kevin “KT” Turner and Tim Urban; food trucks, a bounce house, raffles and live and silent auctions. Find more at wintheday.org.

Deborah Fleck

DALLAS

Three groups receive funds from HUD The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $3,340,074 in housing counseling grants to eight local organizations in Texas to help families and individuals with their housing needs and to prevent foreclosures.

Three of the organizations are in Dallas. They are Transformance (formerly CCCS of Greater Dallas), $212,703; Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, $20,542; and East Dallas Community Organization, $16,706.

More can be found at hud.gov.

Deborah Fleck

DENTON

Drum Corps International to host competition Drum Corps International (DCI) returns to Denton Thursday for DCI North Texas, where several top-tier corps will compete at C.H. Collins Stadium, 1500 Long Road. The show is part of the 45th anniversary Summer Tour that includes 110 shows in 37 states with 55 drum corps vying for this year’s Open and World Class titles.

Full-day rehearsals will be Wednesday and Thursday with the competition at 7 p.m. Thursday. Participat-

ing from Denton are the Cavaliers from Denton High School and the Santa Clara Vanguard from Ryan High School. For tickets, visit dci.org/tickets.

Deborah Fleck

IRVING

Library hosts program on honey bees The Irving Public Library presents a program on “Honey Bees: Our Tiny Treasures” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the South Library, 601 Schulze Drive.

The speaker will be Kim Lehman, science educator, storyteller and musician from the touring artist roster with the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Guests will make a beeswax candle and learn about therapeutic uses of bee products, beekeeping and attracting bees to your garden. All ages are welcome. Admission is free. For details, call 972-721-4612.

Deborah Fleck

LANCASTER

City to host Trash Off on Saturday Lancaster welcomes residents to participate in its upcoming Trash Off from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 1501 N. Dallas Ave. (next to Regions Bank).

Residents can drop off bulk trash, recyclables, scrap metal, brush and electronic waste (i.e. computers, kitchen appliances, televisions). Goodwill Industries of Dallas will be on-site accepting donations of furniture, clothing and household items that would otherwise end up in landfills. Residents will also be able to shred documents at no additional cost.

The program is open to Lancaster residents only with proof of residency.

For more information, call 972218-1324 or visit lancaster-tx.com/ TrashOff. Deborah Fleck

NORTH DALLAS

Edgemere gala to benefit Alzheimer’s Edgemere retirement community will host its 2nd annual Forget-MeNot Gala at 4 p.m. Friday. The public event, which supports the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, will feature music, cocktails, a five-course dinner and a silent auction with items donated by local businesses.

Tickets are $150. To order, call 214623-6104.

Deborah Fleck

PLANO

Rover Dramawerks presents comedy festival For the third year, Rover Dramawerks presents a festival of

10-minute comedies. Selected from over 300 plays submitted blindly from playwrights all over the world, nine short plays will be featured from Thursday through July 29. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays at Rover Dramawerks, 221 W. Parker Road, Suite 580, at the northwest corner of Parker and Interstate 75.

Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students/seniors and may be ordered online at roverdramawerks.com.

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RICHARDSON

Business Council for the Arts to host program The Business Council for the Arts presents a program on “Arts and Business Partnerships: Why Businesses Support the Arts” from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive.

Speakers will be Jordan Shue, Elena Bonifay and Kevin Hurst with Katherine Wagner, council CEO, serving as the moderator.

Find more at ntbca.org.

Deborah Fleck

ROWLETT

Zoning change sought for apartment plan A change in zoning for a planned development with 114 apartments on 14 acres at 4509 Chiesa Road will be considered when the Rowlett City Council meets in regular session at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The property is currently a mobile home complex, but is zoned for limited retail and singlefamily residences.

In its 5:45 p.m. work session, the council will meet with its Animal Advisory Board and also discuss 201718 federal Community Development Block Grant funding. The meeting will be in the city’s Municipal Building, 4000 Main St. Ray Leszcynski

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Izzy May (right) talked with Masa Song while performing at Bastille on Bishop street festival. The 8th annual festival celebrated French food, culture and traditions on Bastille Day, a French holiday commemorating a turning point in the French Revolution.

SOUTHLAKE

History exhibit opens in Town Hall lobby A free history exhibit on Denton County pioneers has opened in the Town Hall lobby, 1400 Main St. The Southlake Historical Society organized the exhibit, which is called, “Shared Stories: Denton County, Southlake and the Wild West, 1840-1878.” It includes artifacts from the Texas Rangers, cowhands and pioneers.

The exhibit runs through Aug. 28. The building is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

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FROM LEFT: Sam Stubblefield, Jaclyn Richardson and Haley Oefinger ordered wine and cocktails from bartender Joslin Doan (right) at the Bastille on Bishop street festival.

PUBLIC SAFETY BRIEFS FORT WORTH

2 killed in Jet Ski crash on Lake Palo Pinto Two men died early Saturday in a Jet Ski crash on Lake Palo Pinto, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Game wardens and the Palo Pinto Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call just before 1:30 a.m. at the lake about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.

The caller reported that two of his friends were on a Jet Ski when he heard a loud crash.

Officers found the bodies of a TCU student, Fort Worth native Tanner Poeschel, 22, and recent University of Missouri graduate Harrison Smith, 22, of Tennessee. Both were wearing life jackets, the wildlife agency said.

Investigators think the Jet Ski struck a boat dock, an agency spokeswoman told the Star-Telegram.

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Man dies when 2 vehicles hit him, 1 flees A Fort Worth man who was killed over the weekend after being hit by two cars has been identified, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

The Tarrant County medical examiner identified the victim as Samuel DeLeon, 48.

Around 11 p.m. Saturday, police

responded to the 8100 block of Camp Bowie Road, where witnesses said DeLeon was hit by two vehicles.

One of the drivers returned to the scene and was cooperative with officers, but police are still searching for the other driver.

Kylie Madry

Man gets 33 years for T-Mobile robberies A Fort Worth man was sentenced Monday to 33 years in federal prison for robbing T-Mobile stores between October 2015 and September 2016.

Nathaniel Roshaun Bowens, 34, targeted stores in several North Texas cities, including Grand Prairie and Mansfield, prosecutors say. One Fort Worth location on Altamesa Boulevard was robbed twice within a week.

Bowens, who stole electronic devices as well as money, was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit robbery, two counts of robbery and two counts relating to using, carrying and brandishing a firearm.

Bowens has been in custody since January. He was convicted after a twoday trial in April.

Emma Ruby

GARLAND

Man arrested in assault of 7-year-old at apartment A 33-year-old man is accused of

sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl he took while she was playing in a Garland apartment breezeway.

Rossember Campos of Garland was arrested Thursday and faces charges of aggravated kidnapping and indecency with a child. He is being held at the Dallas County jail in lieu of $50,000.

The girl was playing in the apartment breezeway in the 1900 block of West Kingsley Road on July 11 when Campos grabbed her and pulled her into an apartment, said Garland officer Lt. Pedro Barineau.

Campos kissed her and touched her before she could escape, Barineau said.

The girl’s mom heard the 7-yearold screaming outside and confronted Campos. He ran and police weren’t able to identify him at the time, Barineau said.

The person whose apartment he was in didn’t know his name, but they found a cellphone he left behind. Police arrested him Thursday in Garland.

Eline de Bruijn

GLENN HEIGHTS

Council member charged with sexual assault of child A Glenn Heights City Council member has been charged with sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child, court records show.

Sidney Davis, 47, was arrested Thursday after an investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

He was booked into the Dallas County

Jail but has since been released.

In a prepared statement, the city said it had been “made aware of a law enforcement investigation and subsequent arrest involving a City Council member.”

Details about the case were not immediately available.

Davis was elected in November 2015 after a failed bid in 2013.

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NORTHWEST DALLAS

1 killed, 2 injured in multiple-vehicle crash One person died and two others were injured in a multiple-vehicle accident on Interstate 35E near Royal Lane on Monday morning.

Two 18-wheelers and a couple of sedans were involved in the crash that occurred about 10:20 a.m., Dallas County sheriff’s spokeswoman Melinda Urbina said.

The two injured people had injuries that were not life-threatening, Urbina said.

Lauren Fox

PLANO

Man indicted in father’s bludgeoning death A Plano man accused of killing his father and storing the body in a freezer has been indicted by a grand jury, WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reports.

Kennth Alleman Midgley II, 28, was arrested in April after briefly fleeing to Mexico, police say.

Authorities found Midgley’s father, 50-year-old Kenneth Alleman Midgley, dead in a freezer on April 15.

The body was found after a welfare check at the home in the 4700 block of Nocona Drive.

Kennth Midgley II was booked in the Collin County Jail and held in lieu of $500,000 bail. His first court appearance is scheduled for next month.

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Man’s body found in water in Pleasant Grove A man’s body was found facedown in the water Sunday in Pleasant Grove.

A passer-by called police about 11:30 a.m. after seeing something in the water in the 5700 block of Scyene Road, near Lawnview Park, police said.

The incident is being investigated as an unexplained death, pending results from the Dallas County medical examiner.

Police said the incident was not connected to another body found Sunday in a creek in the 3000 block of Rochester Street, about 4 miles away.

Identities have not been released in either case.

Claire Z. Cardona

The Dallas Morning News

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suburbs — created the incentive for what will be a phoenix-like rebirth, when the property is repurposed as Dallas Midtown, an updatedand-urbanized vision of the mixed-use development.

Even in its waning years, it fared better than countless malls of identical genesis and layout, eking out a few years of afterlife as an artists’ cooperative.

Last week, though, it was just another dead mall, another dinosaur carcass. It had the gloomy feel of a lost civilization, like the movie set from the original Planet of the Apes. I was Charlton Heston.

The first indoor, climate controlled shopping center I ever saw was Highland Mall in Austin, which opened in 1971. A neighbor lady loaded up all the kids on our rural road in her station wagon and drove us out to see what all the fuss was about.

I was smitten. It was huge and beautiful and new, all its delights hidden inside, like a titanic Easter egg. It was the dull, dingy, heat-baked shopping districts of my childhood turned outside-in, a theme-park streetscape like a game board resized for pedestrians. For an American girl child on the threshold of adolescence, it was paradise.

It was the social medium in which I grew up. The mall stayed pretty much exactly the same as I, along with my contemporaries, eagerly previewed teenager-hood. The same department stores, food courts, youth-friendly retail shops bursting with junk and jetsam — the formula was reenacted in every city, every suburb with comforting predictability. I roamed the mall with packs of girlfriends for a few years, until I graduated to boys and head shops and warehouse-sized record stores.

The mall didn’t change. Weary old Highland Mall grew stale and dingy over the years, until it was reincarnated a few years ago as a satellite community college campus.

Malls died a long and painful death precisely because of their wasteful ubiquity; no species so prolific could be wiped out overnight. The mall was everywhere, as boring and outdated as the rumpus room in your parents’ basement. Americans grew cynical about the notion of recreational shopping (although it did, and still does, occupy much of our attention).

In all honesty, it had been so long since I visited a mall that touring Valley View’s skeletal remains was a nostalgic novelty. Viewed from the floor above, the abandoned food court was littered with debris, the trophy-sized tropical plants dead from lack of water.

I could see the ghost of my teenage self there, snickering with friends over Styrofoam plates of sticky lo mein, showing off our hideous purchases — tacky blouses, evil-smelling perfume, cheap costume jewelry. Oh, to be young, your babysitting earnings burning a hole in your bell-bottomed Levis.

Valley View was full of such ghosts, but not much else. Most of the storefronts were empty anonymous spaces, fenced off behind pulldown gates. A few showed the heroic efforts of re-purpose schemes: Art galleries, craft shops, an odd World War II exhibit.

The latter consisted almost entirely of mannequins dressed in authentic uniforms of both the Allied and Axis powers standing in a crowded space that used to house a sporting goods store, a macabre gathering of enemies.

The chain-link gate gave it the feel of a POW camp scene. A Luftwaffe officer cradled his own head beneath one arm: A joke?

I am as soppy and nostalgic as the next person; probably more so than most. It hurts to see architectural milestones from my own lifetime knocked down and reincarnated with the dinosaur carcassas of the future: Starbucks, Apple stores, pseudo-minimalist bars and restaurants with “craft” in their names.

But few institutions overstayed their welcome like the shopping mall. Our compulsive interest with what lay within them was dulled by repetition, and replaced by the dawning sense that what lay without — blank walls and acres of naked parking lot — was (and remains) a blight on the landscape.

So: Bye-bye, Valley View. There’s not much left now, apart from the movie theater, which Midtown developers say will close by year’s end.

At least something new will grow in its place, something interesting.

But what in the world are we going to do with all those other malls?

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USTIN — Texas business leaders are finally stepping up, but they need to do more than write letters and hold news conferences if they want to defeat the so-called bathroom bills they say will hurt the economy and cast the state as welcoming discrimination.

“We can do better than this,” said Dallas City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates during a news conference at the Capitol by the Texas Association of Business. “Don’t discriminate.”

Lawmakers convene Tuesday for a special session that will be highlighted by the debate over proposals to limit which restrooms transgendered people can use.

Rep. Ron Simmons, R-Carrollton, has filed bills that would undo local nondiscrimination ordinances and another to bar school boards from enforcing

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certain anti-discrimination rules for access to campus restrooms and locker rooms.

Business leaders have been criticized for not doing more to squash the bathroom bill proposals during the regular session. Now that Gov. Greg Abbott has added it to the special session, there’s a likelihood that some sort of legislation will be passed.

The state is at this crossroads in part because business executives didn’t confront Abbott about the proposals with

any gusto. They let his position evolve from public indifference to wanting a bill on his desk.

The governor, perhaps, found the arguments made by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and segments of the Republican Party base more persuasive than the faint objections of the business community.

That’s extraordinary when you consider that Abbott’s robust campaign war chest includes money he got from influential donors who also oppose bathroom bills.

Now the business community is more engaged.

“It’s all or nothing,” said Phillip Jones, president and CEO of a group called VisitDallas.

IBM will send 20 employees, including top executives like senior vice president for human resources Diane Gherson and chief diversity officer LindsayRae McIntyre, to the Capitol on

Tuesday to express opposition to the bills in person.

North Texas business leaders, including the Dallas Chamber, have written letters to Abbott denouncing the bathroom bills.

But in order to move Abbott off his perch, business leaders need to do more.

They should recruit the likes of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and other sports franchise owners to make the point. The state’s sports team owners could have a lot to lose if boycotts derail the chances for them to host national events.

If they want to defeat the bills, Texas business leaders need to call out Abbott directly and forcefully, not with a mild letter.

Even then, it may be too little, too late.

Twitter: @gromerjeffers

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Texas, underlining his support for letting parents of kids in special education use taxpayer money to send their children to private schools.

“Is it really efficient for every public school in the state of Texas to be able to adequately address the full panoply of all the special needs of all of our children?” Abbott asked during the Q&A with TPPF Executive Vice President Kevin Roberts. “That’s probably not the most efficient system.”

“Why not let parents pick the school that’s going to best address the special needs of their very special children?” Abbott added.

Abbott also proposed doing away with the state’s so-called Robin Hood taxation system, which funnels revenue from property rich school districts to property poor ones, and criticized every school finance solution offered so far as “inadequate.”

During the special session, he’s asked lawmakers to give teachers a $1,000 pay increase while requiring more administrative flexibility in hiring and retention practices. School groups are wary of the proposals, warning Abbott hasn’t proposed additional funding for the pay bump.

Praise and protests Abbott’s remarks kicked off a full day of speeches and panel discussions at TPPF with the state’s top Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who praised the governor and criticized House Speaker Joe Straus.

Both Republicans, the two men have longed sparred over the state’s true conservative goals, with Patrick pushing farright social policies and Straus either opposing these proposals

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or expending his energies on other issues like mental health care.

“Governor Abbott and I do not want Texas to become California or Illinois,” Patrick said in his speech later Monday afternoon. “Now, the speaker? Nice guy, but he’s opposite on these issues than Governor Abbott. I don’t think it’s helpful or professional for the speaker, especially because he’s in the same party, to call the governor’s special session ‘manure.’

“If he personally attacks the governor, I will be [Abbott’s] wingman.”

Straus was not invited to speak at the event.

Meanwhile, a few blocks away on the lawn of the Capitol, teacher groups, critics of high-stakes testing and public education administrators praised Straus for unsuccessfully attempting to funnel billions more into public education this year. Several of the rally’s speakers said the Legislature hasn’t given teachers the resources they need to do a good job.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urged conservative think tanks and other groups to criticize lawmakers who don’t support his special session proposals. “We all need to establish lists that we publish on a daily basis and call people out — who is for this who is against this, who has not taken a position yet,” Abbott said Monday during a Q&A at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

They blamed leaders such as Abbott and Patrick.

Texas State Teachers Association president Noel Candelaria scoffed at the two top GOP leaders’ proposals for teacher pay raises and bonuses.

“Lieutenant Governor Patrick, teachers know that a bonus is not a pay raise,” Candelaria said. “And Governor Abbott, why not have the state pay for a real teacher pay raise? We have more than $10 billion sitting in the rainy day fund doing nothing.”

Texas teachers earn $6,300 less than the national average, he said.

Gary Godsey, director of the Association of Professional Texas Educators, pointed to 15 House members who attended the rally.

Of them, 10 are Republicans who support Straus.

“These folks in the House, most of them, are our really close friends,” he said. “Thank God for them.”

Organizers estimated that between 1,500 and 2,000 people attended.

Bathroom bills While Abbott and Patrick spent much of their time at TPPF discussing these same issues — Patrick reiterated the school finance fix he pitched last week — they also touched on the governor’s other special session priorities: taxes, illegal voting and undoing city ordinances that regulate tree trimming and removal.

Abbott was not asked about the so-called bathroom bills, controversial legislation that could limit the bathrooms open for use to transgender men, women and children. Texas businesses, including trade organizations, chambers of commerce and top firms like AT&T, American Airlines and IBM, oppose the bills.

They held their own news conference Monday morning, urging Abbott and Patrick to reject the bills, which they called “discriminatory” and “unnecessary.”

But Patrick, one of the proposal’s most vehement supporters, defended the bill as “only controversial to the people who don’t get it.”

“It’s not discriminating against anyone,” Patrick said. “We don’t want sexual predators — and I’m not talking about transgender people ... I don’t want sexual predators masquerading as being transgender to enter into a bathroom to follow a little girl.”

He also repeatedly attacked Straus, accusing him of wanting to implement a statewide income tax because he wanted to funnel more money this year into public education. Straus’ spokesman Jason Embry rejected that allegation in a statement sent to The Dallas Morning News.

“Speaker Straus doesn’t support a state income tax because it would be bad for Texas and harm our economy, just like the bathroom bill,” Embry said.

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the state government and Texas cities was on full display during the regular session.

Many of the items on the agenda for the special session take aim at local measures, such as ordinances preventing cities from regulating what property owners do with trees on private land as well as cellphone use while driving.

Abbott has also added cutting property taxes to the special session agenda, seeking more easily triggered elections to roll back rates. Look for local officials and law enforcement to oppose the rollback provision because it could limit the ability of cities and counties to provide services such as parks, roads and law enforcement.

4. Teacher pay raises: Since the end of the regular session, Abbott and Patrick have proposed teacher pay raises. In a news conference last week, Patrick proposed that districts would pay $600 bonuses to teachers with six to 10 years experience and $1,000 for those with 11 or more years.

The lieutenant governor said the pay increases would be funded, in large part, by passing a constitutional amendment that would dedicate the first $700 million collected from the state lottery to teacher bonuses. The money already goes to school districts but is not necessarily used for teacher salaries.

Teacher groups have called the proposed pay raises an “unfunded mandate.”

5. School vouchers: School

vouchers, which direct money from public schools to parents to pay private school tuition, have been a pet issue of Patrick’s since he entered the Senate in 2007, but an alliance of big-city Democrats and rural Republicans have defeated voucher legislation each time.

The voucher measure that will be considered this summer is limited in scope — it would only allow parents of special needs children to use public school dollars for private schools.

6. Abortion restrictions: Abbott put several abortion-related items on the docket, including prohibiting abortion coverage under primary health insurance plans and increasing reporting requirements when health complications arise from abortions.

7. Mail-in ballot fraud: Amid a heated national discussion about voter fraud, Abbott placed addressing mail-in ballot fraud on the summer session agenda.

Recent cases of mail-in voter fraud in West Dallas have fueled Abbott’s call to address the issue.

The governor has tasked two North Texas legislators with shepherding mail-in ballot fraud bills in the special session.

8. Will 30 days be enough? Abbott has the legal authority to call as many special sessions as he wants. If lawmakers fail to pass many of his agenda items — as some Capitol observers have suggested — the governor could keep legislators in Austin for another round.

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Artists show how East Meets West DEBORAH FLECK

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ucille Patterson is 99 years old. She attributes her longevity to Chinese brush painting. Patterson is one of several members of The Association of Oriental Arts of North Texas who has paintings on display in the “East Meets West” exhibition at the Dallas Chinese Community Center. The exhibition also features artwork by members of the Chinese Art Society of the Southern U.S. and the Dallas Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association.

On Saturday, the artists attended an opening ceremony that featured several speakers, including Chung-Hua Lee, 92, the society’s president, and Johnny Lee, described as “the backbone of the center.”

Organizers said they wanted to share Chinese culture through the paintings, which include an historic poem

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written in Chinese, chrysanthemums by Patterson, landscapes by Weiping Ding and koi by Wendy Yiwen Koay.

The exhibit runs through July 28. The is center at 400 N. Greenville Ave. in Richardson.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY ATG Against the Grain Productions will have Dine for a Cause at Cindi’s New York Deli, 11111 N. Central Expressway in Dallas.

Guests can drop receipts in a donation box, and the restaurant will donate 25 percent to the nonprofit.

THROUGH THURSDAY The Asian Film Festival of Dallas continues with screenings through Thursday with a closing night party at 10 p.m. Thursday.

Find more at asianfilmdallas.com.

Sopheap Pich display Dallas is attracting some famous names in the Asian art world. The Crow Collection is showing works by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich through Jan. 7, and the Dallas Museum of Art will display Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” from Oct. 1 to Feb. 25.

Pich recently talked about his art and background in a program at the Crow. His love of Cambodia drew him back there in 2002. But he struggled for a few years.

“It was Norway,” he said that changed everything. “I was at a low point in my life, living in a shack, when I got invited to go to Norway for a show.”

Other exhibitions followed, leading to his meeting Tyler

SATURDAY Jae S. Lee/Staff Photographer

Cindy Chu takes a look at artwork during the “East Meets West: Calligraphy & Painting” exhibition at the Dallas Chinese Community Center in Richardson.

Rollins, who owns a New York City art gallery with a focus on contemporary art from Southeast Asia. Pich is one of his gallery artists.

Pich travels around the world and said his favorite city is Kyoto in Japan. This was his first visit to Dallas, and he said he was impressed with its culture and museums. He added he was honored to have his piece Rang Phnom Flower — a sprawling, 25-foot creation made of rattan and bamboo — on display at the Crow.

To learn more about the exhibition, visit crowcollection.org.

Women’s cricket Google is celebrating the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup. On Monday, a green cricket holding a paddle took over the website’s logo. When users clicked on the logo, up popped a cricket video game, complete with cheering.

The month-long World Cup ends this week, with the championship on Saturday in London. Eight teams started play in June: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. Four have reached the semifinals:

The Texas Dragon Toastmasters Club and the Chinese Institute of Engineers USA-DFW will host the DFW Youth English Speech Contest from 8 a.m. to noon at Collin College, 2800 E. Spring Creek Pkwy. in Plano. Register at cie-dfw.org.

SUNDAY BAPS Mandir, 4601 N. State Highway 161 in Irving, and Carter BloodCare will host a blood drive from 1 to 5 p.m. To sign up, visit bit.ly/2urqKki.

JULY 27-30 The Isis Foundation presents its 17th annual Yaa Halla, Y’All event, a showcase of Middle Eastern dance and drumming, at the Grapevine Convention Center, 1209 S. Main St. Shows are at 6 p.m. July 27-29 and at 5:45 p.m. July 30. For details, call 817-498-7703.

JULY 28-30 The second annual Bengali Film Festival of Dallas will be at Angelika Plano, 7205 Bishop Road. For a schedule, visit srijonerhut.com.

England plays South Africa on Tuesday, and India faces Australia on Thursday.

To watch the games, go to icc-cricket.com/womensworld-cup.

(And yes, the U.S. has a women’s cricket team, but it hasn’t yet reached the World Cup.)

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June city council meeting, newlyelected Irving Mayor Rick Stopfer declared her birthday, July 18, as Janeera Nickol Gonzalez Day. “This family has suffered a tremendous loss,” Stopfer said then. “I had the opportunity to attend the service, and I wanted the family to know the City of Irving cared.”

North Lake College started a scholarship in Gonzalez’s name and has raised more than $5,000 so far. A group of former Irving High School classmates have also started a GoFundMe account to honor her with a memorial bench near the high school’s tennis courts.

Vanessa Albert, who started the fundraiser for the bench, said she met Gonzalez when they both played on the high school’s tennis team. She said Gonzalez’s love for the sport was the reason why the group decided to place the bench near the courts.

“She would be there after school playing, or that’s where she would be with her friends,” she said. “She was very loving, and for something like that to happen to her, she needed some sort of recognition in some sort of way. She deserved it.”

The slain woman’s 23-yearold brother, Johnny Gonzalez, said the family was very grateful the mayor and city of Irving recognized his sister’s 21st birthday with a proclamation.

“We pray Janeera is forever remembered for the lives that she touched while on earth,” he said. “We pray that she will continue to be remembered and that she lives on through the memories left to friends, family and acquaintances that she knew. It is very overwhelming and a wonderful feeling for us to see the many hearts that she touched.”

Working through the pain Juan Gonzalez said the family has also recently taken on some of his daughter’s homeimprovement projects as a way to remember her. He said his daughter, who was a handson, crafty person, took charge of several home improvement projects, which included installing the floors of several rooms when they moved into their home two years ago.

“I taught her how to use all of the tools,” Juan Gonzalez said. “She could cut wood straighter than me. She had such a grip.”

Since her death, he built a picnic table she always wanted and has started a sunflower

garden, which were his daughter’s favorite flowers.

Lucia Gonzalez said she sees the projects as a way to work through the family’s pain.

“Nothing compares to

the loss of a child,” she said.

“Sometimes we take it minute by minute, others hour by hour or day by day.”

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DANIEL, Bettye Jo Age 86, of Garland, TX, died on July 14, 2017. For full obituary and service times and information, please see williamsfuneral.com

NEWSFACE: I am a 77-year-old Oscar-nominated actor. An environmental and animal rights activist, I began a week-long jail sentence last week for protesting the construction of a gas-fired power plant in New York. I and other activists say this plant would lead to more fracking and contribute to climate change. Who am I?

ELLMAN, Dr. Brian Abraham Dr. Brian Abraham Ellman was born on July 16, 1932 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, the son of Aaron and Miriam, and died on July 15, 2017 in the city of his residence, Dallas, Texas.

Brian is survived by his significant other, Charlotte Schuman, his sons, Clifford, Laurence, Michael (Tram), and Richard (Tiffanee) and his five beloved grandchildren, Ethan, Aviana, Greyson, Devan, and Oliver.

Brian was a brilliant and highly regarded radiologist whose passion for his profession was matched only by his prowess in the field.

Brian and his late wife Merle emigrated with their children from South Africa to Dallas in 1977 to provide a better future for their children. An eternal optimist, Brian will be remembered for his love of life and his radiant smile.

His life centered on travel, art, literature, the study of religion, Judaism, GOLF, friends, and family, especially his grandchildren. He left the world a better place and is deeply missed and loved by his many close friends and family.

1. Donald Trump Jr. released emails that confirmed he met with a Russian (CHOOSE ONE: lawyer, journalist) to get allegedly damaging information about Hillary Clinton in summer 2016.

2. Thousands of websites and organizations took part in a day of action last week aimed at saving “net ..?..” rules to make sure everyone has equal access to the Internet.

3. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former president of ..?.., was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for corruption.

4. President Donald Trump and his wife visited France and attended ..?.. Day celebrations with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife.

5. Nobel Peace Prize-winner and dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was serving an 11-year prison term in ..?.. for “subversion,” died of cancer at age 61.

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6. In the state of ..?.., a huge sinkhole swallowed two homes and threatened others before it stopped growing.

7. A fire that killed three people in a 36-story high-rise in the state of ..?.. has led to questions about the lack of sprinkler systems in older buildings across the U.S. 8. Swiss tennis player ..?.. won a record eighth singles title at Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.

9. A vote on the Senate healthcare bill will be delayed until the return of Sen. ..?.., who underwent surgery for a blood clot in his head.

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DRAPER, Beverly J. Age 73, of DeSoto, TX. Please see website for details and guestbook. www.west-hurttfuneralhome.com

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After twice being denied visas to the U.S., an all-girl robotics team from this Muslim-majority country finally arrived in the U.S. after President Donald Trump intervened on their behalf. The six girls arrived just in time to compete with entrants from nearly 160 countries in the First Global Challenge robotics competition in Washington, D.C. Name this country.

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NEWSFACE: James Cromwell (15 points for correct answer) NEWSPLACE: Afghanistan (15 points for correct answer) (7 points for each correct answer) 1. lawyer; 2. neutrality; 3. Brazil; 4. Bastille; 5. China; 6. Florida; 7. Hawaii; 8. Roger Federer; 9. John McCain; 10. mathematics

Mary Ann Hodges passed away July 14, 2017 in Mesquite, TX. She was born Augest 18, 1940 in Paris, TX and the 6th child of James & Ida Richardson. She married her love of her life Earl Lynn Hodges in Dallas Dec 21, 1957. Her surviving children are Kenneth, Cynthia, Steven, Jeffrey & Jennifer Hodges, Grandchildren are Jeremy Podany, Chris & Noelea Hodges, Shaun & Nicole Chavoya, Daniel, Jillian, Joshua Hodges. Great Grandchildren Jayla & Devon Podany, Emma and Samuel Hodges. Mary is preceded by her daughter Rhonda Podany.

Viewing will be at Ed C. Smith Chapel at 4419 Samuel Blvd in Dallas on Tuesday 6-8 PM and funeral services are Wednesday at 1 PM. Burial is at Grove Hill Cemetery.

Margaret Meade Lambert passed away July 14, 2017 at her Dallas home surrounded by family.

She was a loving wife, a devoted mother and grandmother, a loyal friend and devout Catholic. She was a strong woman with a quick wit who loved to trade stories with her friends and family. Margaret was born December 4, 1932 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania to Margaret and Knighton Meade. She attended Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. and Loyola Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.

As a young professional, she lived and worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she met her husband, Robert G. Lambert of Ripon, Wisconsin. They married April 8, 1961 in Uniontown, and the early years of their marriage included periods in Pittsburgh; Mt. Vernon, Ohio; and Houston, Texas. During this time, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter, who would become the focus of her life from then on. Margaret relocated with her family in 1975 to Dallas, Texas, the city that would remain her home for the rest of her life. In Dallas, she was active in her children’s schooling and extracurricular activities at St. Rita Catholic School, Jesuit College Prep and Ursuline Academy. In her free time, she enjoyed tennis and golf at Northwood Club. She also served as a volunteer at St. Mary of Carmel School, where she loved sharing her passion for reading with the young students. She also served as a Eucharistic Minister to the Catholic community in Dallas for many years. She is survived by her husband, Robert Lambert of Dallas, her three children, also of Dallas, John Lambert, Thomas Lambert and wife Nina, and Jane Lastelick, as well as two grandchildren, Luke and Ryan Lastelick, and three siblings, James C. Meade and Knighton T. Meade of Oklahoma City, OK, and her sister, Catharine Gregware of New Rochelle, NY. A visitation will take place Wednesday, July 19 from 7:30-9:00 PM and a funeral Mass will be held Thursday 11:00 AM, both at Calvary Hill Funeral Home at 3235 Lombardy Ln. in Dallas. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to St. Mary of Carmel School or Catholic Charites, or the charity of your choice.

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Bill enlisted in the US Navy on his eighteenth birthday in 1948, as a seaman recruit, trained to be a hospital corpsman, and retired nearly 24 years later as a Lieutenant Commander, after serving during the Korean War and Vietnam War, at naval dispensaries and hospitals, on a blimp base, a repair ship, a geodetic survey ship (in the Caribbean and Greenland area), a small ship used for target practice by submarines, the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain in the Mediterranean, the aircraft carrier USS Ranger in the Pacific, and the hospital ship USS Repose off the coast of South Vietnam, during which tour he was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal for meritorious achievement during combat operations. For one mission, he qualified as an expert pistol marksman, and, in his spare time, he earned a private pilot’s license.

Bill was born April 5, 1930, in Frederick, Maryland, and died in his sleep at a memory-care unit in Dallas, Texas, on July 15, 2017, from complications relating to Alzheimer’s Disease, which had been diagnosed more than seven-and-a-half years earlier. Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde William Null, Sr., and Dorothy W. Booth Null Decharo, and his sister, Dottie Lee Phillips.

Bill is survived by his sister, Louise Humerick, of Knoxville, Maryland; seven children, including Gary Null, and wife, Leslie, of Dallas, Texas; Jeff Null, and wife, Louise, of Kearneysville, West Virginia; Vicki Morgan, and husband, Hicks Morgan, of Dallas, Texas; Michael Null, and wife, Giaanh, of Brunswick, Maryland; Bo Null, of Aurora, Colorado; Sara Surprenant, of Aurora, Colorado, and Dennis Null, and wife, Louise, of Birmingham, Alabama; fifteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.

After retirement from the Navy in 1972, Bill became the administrator of the City of Milan Hospital in Milan, Tennessee, then managed the practice of a group of neurosurgeons in Alabama, inspected nursing homes for the State of Alabama, and managed nursing homes in Georgia, before retiring to Las Vegas, Nevada, and later moving to Brunswick, Maryland. Within two years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, he moved to a memory-care unit in Dallas, Texas, where two of his children live.

Within minutes after meeting him, any new acquaintance knew he had served in the US Navy, which was his proudest achievement. He was always ready to share an anecdote or life lesson from his Navy experience, some of them rated PG or R. Bill was always proud of his service as a hospital corpsman and later, medical administrator in the Navy, and his family is proud of his service to country and his rise from the lowest-ranking enlisted man to a high-ranking officer in the US Navy.

Private services, with full military honors, will be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a date to be determined. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in honor of Clyde "Bill" Null may be made to the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) Scholarship Fund, 201 N. Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, or www. moaa.org/donatenow.

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Weather

TODAY

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5-day forecast from NBC 5 Weather Experts (from Left) Grant Johnston, Keisha Burns, Samantha Davies, David Finfrock, Rick Mitchell, Brian James

DIARY

Pacific Ocean

El Paso

50s

Durango

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ALASKA

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KEY: l=low, m=medium, h=high, vh=very high

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NATIONAL HIGHS, LOWS & FORECAST

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The moon is closing in on two bright points of light in the dawn sky: the star Aldebaran and the planet Venus. Aldebaran stands to the lower left of the moon at first light tomorrow, with Venus, the “morning star,” farther along the same line.

July 19 5:30 a.m.

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INTERNATIONAL FORECAST & HIGHS AND LOWS

Grains per cubic meter measured in North Dallas

SKY WATCH

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83

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Juneau

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60s

124

90

Monterrey

HAWAII

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93

9 p.m.

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80s

48 at 7:12 p.m.

New July 23

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AIR QUALITY

U.S. HIGH Death Valley, Calif.

U.S. LOW Meacham, Ore.

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-20s Calgary 60s -10s 80s -0s 70s Winnipeg Seattle 80s 60s 0s Montreal 90s 70s 60s 10s Sault Ste. Marie Portland Helena Billings Ottawa Fargo 20s 70s 80s 70s Boston Toronto Minneapolis 30s Rapid City 70s 90s Boise 80s 40s Milwaukee Casper H Detroit Buffalo 90s L 50s New York Pittsburgh Des Moines Cleveland Salt Lake Reno 60s Chicago Omaha 100s City 70s San Cincinnati Washington Indianapolis Francisco 80s 100s Denver 90s 80s Las Richmond Kansas City Vegas St. Louis Louisville 100s 70s 90s Wichita Raleigh 90s 100s Tulsa Santa Fe Los 100s 70s Angeles Memphis 110s Oklahoma 90s Atlanta Albuquerque City 100s 90s 120s Little Phoenix

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DAILY HIGH 95 at 4:00 p.m.

80

7 a.m.

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60s

Vancouver

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Wind S 5-10 UV Index: 8. On a 15-point scale, 8 is very high Pollen forecast: Mostly sunny, low Moderate Grass storm chance Heat Index: 103 Ozone: Yellow, mod. 24-hour high 97 24-hour low 78

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Houston

80s

Corpus 0.00 Laredo Christi 0.00 Brownsville 1.58 1.42 Wind/Pressure 20.49 Max speed 13 mph at 2 p.m.

21.66 Low barometer 29.90 at 5 p.m.

High barometer 29.98 at 9 a.m.

Yesterday HI LO P

Albany, N.Y. 87 64 1.00 Albuquerque, N.M. 91 69 .01 Anchorage, Alaska 62 54 t Atlanta 88 67 .40 Baltimore 89 70 .02 Bangor, Maine 81 60 Birmingham, Ala. 91 74 .05 Bismarck, N.D. 96 72 t Boise, Idaho 93 60 Boston 83 69 Buffalo, N.Y. 77 65 .12 Burlington, Vt. 77 65 .30 Casper, Wyo. 94 53 Charleston, S.C. 80 72 .31 Charleston, W.Va. 90 64 Chicago 79 56 Cincinnati 89 66 Cleveland 78 68 Colorado Spgs, Colo. 92 60 Columbia, S.C. 86 72 .05 Columbus, Ohio 86 68 Concord, N.H. 89 62 Denver 97 59 Des Moines, Iowa 91 72 Detroit 83 60 Fairbanks, Alaska 76 59 t Fargo, N.D. 94 69 .03 Flagstaff, Ariz.

81 52 .12 Grand Rapids, Mich.

82 59 Hartford, Conn.

88 64 .04 Helena, Mont.

88 53 Honolulu 87 73 .04 Indianapolis 87 69 Jackson, Miss.

93 74 Juneau, Alaska 60 51 .02 Kansas City, Mo. 92 68 Knoxville, Tenn.

91 66 Las Vegas, Nev. 109 88 t Little Rock, Ark. 92 72 Los Angeles 86 69 Louisville, Ky. 92 68 Memphis, Tenn.

93 70 Miami 93 82 .01 Milwaukee 73 55 Mpls/St Paul, Minn. 92 68 Nashville, Tenn.

92 67 New Orleans 88 77 .09 New York 85 73 Oklahoma City 95 69 Omaha, Neb. 96 75 Orlando, Fla. 94 75 3.09 Pensacola, Fla. 88 75 .57 Philadelphia 89 71 .07 Phoenix, Ariz.

99 75 .21 Pittsburgh 85 66 Portland, Maine 78 63 Portland, Ore. 80 55 Providence, R.I. 80 66 Rapid City, S.D. 99 62 Raleigh, N.C. 90 72 .09 Reno, Nev. 94 62 Richmond, Va. 90 70 Sacramento, Calif.

99 65 St. Louis 92 74 Salt Lake City 99 76 San Diego 76 70 San Francisco 72 58 Santa Fe, N.M. 89 61 .01 Savannah, Ga. 85 74 1.11 Seattle 78 55 Shreveport, La. 94 74 .04 Sioux Falls, S.D. 96 70 Spokane, Wash.

81 52 Syracuse, N.Y. 81 63 .08 Tallahassee, Fla. 87 76 t Tampa, Fla. 90 80 .01 Tucson, Ariz.

91 73 .09 Tulsa, Okla.

94 75 Washington, D.C. 91 76 .11 Wichita, Kan. 94 70 -

Today HI LO F

84 92 59 90 91 77 90 86 96 82 81 84 93 86 92 87 87 84 91 92 87 84 95 94 85 75 83 77 85 85 92 87 87 93 62 93 90 105 95 85 92 95 91 85 82 93 87 84 95 95 89 86 90 100 87 77 84 84 85 89 94 90 90 96 100 78 71 89 87 81 94 84 88 83 87 88 92 96 92 96

68 69 54 73 70 62 73 61 63 69 61 66 56 72 68 71 68 66 64 72 70 62 65 74 66 54 61 53 67 67 57 72 68 74 52 74 70 87 74 66 72 76 79 70 67 73 75 73 72 74 73 76 73 83 66 63 55 69 62 70 58 71 57 77 78 70 55 61 74 54 75 68 60 62 73 77 75 76 75 74

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Tomorrow HI LO F

88 93 61 91 93 84 92 87 95 86 83 86 97 93 91 86 91 88 91 96 89 90 96 96 87 77 82 74 86 89 94 88 90 94 63 93 90 100 95 85 94 96 91 81 85 95 89 87 97 98 91 89 92 102 89 82 81 85 97 93 95 95 94 100 97 78 72 92 93 78 95 92 89 85 89 90 94 97 95 99

67 69 55 73 72 64 73 61 63 70 68 69 59 75 70 70 70 71 64 74 71 63 65 79 69 57 63 50 66 67 58 76 72 75 51 76 70 85 74 66 75 77 80 67 70 73 76 75 73 78 74 77 75 85 68 65 60 70 64 72 57 72 58 80 76 69 56 61 75 57 76 70 60 65 73 78 75 77 77 76

P=precipitation, F=Forecast, c=cloudy, pc=partly cloudy, sf=snow flurries, t=trace, i=ice, r=rain, sh=showers, s=sunny, ts=thunderstorms, sn=snow

TEXAS REPORT City

Yesterday HI LO P

Abilene 95 72 t Amarillo 95 68 Austin 97 74 .04 Beaumont/Pt Arthur 88 74 .75 Brownsville 90 74 .04 Childress 97 74 College Station 96 75 Corpus Christi 90 72 .31 Dalhart 100 67 Del Rio 94 71 .12 Denton 93 74 El Paso 92 69 89 78 .04 Galveston Houston 92 78 .04 Junction 96 70 .94 Laredo 94 76 .13 Longview 94 74 .04 Lubbock 92 68 Lufkin 92 73 .10 Marfa 86 62 t McAllen 100 77 .02 Midland/Odessa 99 70 Paris 92 75 San Angelo 100 69 San Antonio 96 76 .01 Temple 96 72 t Texarkana 91 71 Tyler 94 75 Victoria 95 74 .01 Waco 95 73 .02 Wichita Falls 95 73 -

Today HI LO F

92 96 94 87 92 96 94 92 100 91 94 92 89 90 90 99 94 94 92 82 101 94 93 94 94 94 93 93 93 94 95

72 68 73 75 76 74 75 76 67 75 75 73 81 75 71 77 75 70 73 59 80 72 74 71 76 73 75 75 74 75 73

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Tomorrow HI LO F

94 97 98 88 91 99 97 94 99 95 97 91 90 93 94 99 95 93 93 82 100 94 95 97 97 97 94 94 95 96 97

73 69 75 75 77 74 76 76 66 76 76 73 81 76 74 78 75 71 74 60 80 73 74 72 77 74 75 75 75 76 73

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By KATE HAIROPOULOS and NAHEED RAJWANI Staff Writers

Ezekiel Elliott was involved in an altercation Sunday night at Uptown Dallas’ Clutch Bar, a source told SportsDay, the latest troubling off-field epi-

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sode by the Cowboys’ star running back who is already under investigation by the NFL. Dallas police say a man was struck in the nose and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The incident is part of an ongoing investigation for aggravated assault. Elliott has not been named by the police as a suspect or as someone See

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s the Cowboys prepare to leave for California in five days, remind me again about the health of Darren McFadden.

That thought was probably on the minds of many Cowboys fans early Monday

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The Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott, already facing possible league suspension on a 2016 violence complaint, was involved in a bar fight Sunday in Dallas, a source said.

FIGHT Page 6C

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as they learned of an incident at a Dallas club reportedly involving running back Ezekiel See

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BIG 12 MEDIA DAYS

Playing defense Louis DeLuca/DMN

SMU’s Morris expecting improvement As American Athletic Conference media day rolls around, SMU coach Chad Morris isn’t guaranteeing a bowl appearance but is promising a better brand of football. 4C

ALSO INSIDE ■ Washington’s Kirk Cousins will be the first NFL QB to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag. 7C ■ Injured Mets pitchers Noah Syndergaard and Matt Harvey began throwing programs. 5C ■ Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander putting the team up for sale. 5C

TODAY’S ONLINE CHATS ■ SportsDayDFW.com contributor Matt Mosley, 10 a.m.

■ Cowboys insider Brandon George, 1 p.m.

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SCORES AL, 5C

NL, 5C

at Baltimore............3 Texas .......................1 Toronto ...................4 at Boston ................3 at Minnesota ..........4 New York ................2 Seattle ....................9 at Houston ..............7 Detroit...................10 at Kansas City.........2 Tampa Bay ................ at Oakland.................

Washington ............6 at Cincinnati............1 at Pittsburgh ..........4 Milwaukee ..............2 at Miami .................6 Philadelphia ............5 St. Louis ..................6 at New York ............3 Chicago ....................4 at Atlanta ...............3 San Diego .................. at Colorado................

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Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said three years of the CFP isn’t long enough to draw conclusions about the strength of the Big 12 during his opening remarks at The Star in Frisco.

Inside coverage Pages 2-3C Chuck Carlton: Was that new Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley on the podium or former coach Bob Stoops?

Hard to tell a difference. 2C

INSIDE

Today’s teams Texas, West Virginia, Baylor, Kansas State and Oklahoma State

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ALTIMORE — In describing his approach to evaluating his team and his position in the run-up

Claudio fulfills multiple roles, 4C

to the trade deadline, Rangers general manager Jon Daniels has said it’s not just about wins and losses.

It is also about the “how.”

Well, how about this: On Monday, the Rangers lost 3-1 to Baltimore, a team that rival evaluators have circled like vultures on carrion. The stink is that pungent.

And in losing, the Rangers managed two hits off a starter whose ERA was approaching

eight. They perhaps allowed an important extra run to score by miscommunication on what should have been an out. You could also make the case they may have run themselves out of an early rally.

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Obituary ............... 5 Scoreboard ........... 7 Soccer ................... 7 Tennis................... 7 WNBA .................. 7

Briefs: Heading into his fifth season as coach at Texas Tech, Kliff Kingsbury said he knows his team has to be much improved. 3C

Sputtering offense, mistakes foil Rangers

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Baseball ........4-5, 7 Cycling .................. 5 NBA ...................... 5 NFL ....................6-7 NHL ...................... 5

State of the conference: Bob Bowlsby said it’s unfair to disparage the Big 12 after missing the CFP in two of the first three years. 2C

ORIOLES 3, RANGERS 1

RANGERS INSIDER

Cleveland................... at San Francisco .......

Ben Baby: Altering the perception of poor defense is tough in a conference where each team runs about 90 plays per game. 2C

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12:35 p.m.: Dallas Stars defenseman Marc Methot in studio with BaD Radio 3-7 p.m.: Intentional Grounding with David Moore and Robert Wilonsky 7 p.m.: Norm Hitzges Travel Special

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KWRD-FM (100.7), KFLC-AM (1270 Spanish) at Montreal 6:30 p.m.

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WINGS: 817-469-9464 at Minnesota noon ROUGHRIDERS: 972-731-9200 at Corpus Christi 7:05 p.m.

at Corpus Christi 7:05 p.m.

San Antonio 7:05 p.m.

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Thoroughbred racing 6:35 p.m.

Thoroughbred racing 5 p.m.

LONE STAR PARK: 972-263-RACE

THE LINE

By PreGame.com MLB Today American League Favorite Line Underdog at Baltimore (Bundy) 118-108 Texas (Ross) at Boston (Fister) Off Toronto (Happ) at Houston (Peacock) 185-170 Seattle (Gaviglio) at Kansas City (Wood)114-104 Detroit (Boyd) New York (Cessa) 125-115 at Minnesota (Colon) Tampa Bay (Snell) 113-103 at Oakland (Smith)

National League Favorite Arizona (Ray) Chicago (Lackey)

Rising star ready to shine

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Line Underdog 125-115 at Cincinnati (Romano) 119-109 at Atlanta (Newcomb)

at Col. (Senzatela) at Miami (Conley) at Pittsburgh (Nova) St. Louis (Wacha)

158-148 San Diego (Lamet) 138-128 Phil. (Velasquez) 140-130 Milwaukee (Guerra) 115-105 at New York (Montero)

Interleague Favorite Line Underdog Cleveland (Clevinger) 128-118 at SF (Blach) at LAA (Chavez) 106-104 Washington (Jackson) LAD (Kershaw) 290-260 at CWS (Gonzalez) To read the money line, use $100 as the base unit.

Number on the left is how much must be wagered to win $100 on the favorite. Number on the right is how much is returned for a $100 wager on the underdog.

STATE OF THE CONFERENCE

Bowlsby defends Big 12’s quality Commissioner: Three years isn’t long enough to draw conclusions

By CHUCK CARLTON Staff Writer ccarlton@dallasnews.com

FRISCO — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby is getting pretty good at making a case for the quality of football in his conference.

It looks like he will be getting a chance to do it for a while longer, with a pending contract extension through 2024-25.

In his State of the Conference address to kick off media days Monday, Bowlsby did his best to deflect the league’s 1 for 3 showing so far in the College Football Playoff. Oklahoma in 2015 is the only team to reach the semifinals.

“It gets a little tiresome because I know we play at a very high level, and I know that top to bottom we're the best in the country in terms of balance,” Bowlsby said, offering an assessment that will attract attention. “And I know that the method by which we conduct our championships and conduct our regular season is the most difficult because you never miss anybody.”

The return of the conference title game this season at AT&T Stadium means the Big 12 will be the only league with a round-robin schedule and a guaranteed No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup.

Yes, it matters. Fairly or not, the CFP has turned into the barometer of a league’s football status.

Bowlsby looks at the Big 12 numbers and sees what he called a short window.

“I just think the premise is

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Commissioner Bob Bowlsby insists that Big 12 football hasn’t fallen behind its peers.

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flawed,” Bowlsby said. “I don’t think three years makes a difference. We’re trying to win national championships. That pathway is through the CFP, and it’s as simple as that. We know what we have to do.”

As he did at the Big 12 spring meetings in June and in several interviews since, Bowlsby noted the Big 12’s 4-2 bowl record.

“You can have as good a postseason as we had last year,” Bowlsby said, “and you’re still viewed as being marginally successful if you’re not in the CFP and not playing in the title game.”

As he did in a Morning News interview two weeks ago, the 65-year-old Bowlsby said he has been offered a contract extension by the conference presidents through 2024-25 and probably will sign soon. That would take him through a crucial TV negotiation in the next decade with the Big 12’s ESPN and Fox contracts set to expire.

“My health is good,” Bowlsby said. “I feel like I’m pretty young at 65. I’ll stay at it for a while. I like what I’m doing.”

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OU’s Riley praises Stoops, acknowledges challenges of job

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RISCO — Lincoln Riley knew he would face inevitable comparisons replacing Bob Stoops as Oklahoma’s football coach.

Not even Riley could imagine the comparisons would extend to his tone and cadence in his first press conference Monday at Big 12 media days at The Star.

Some thought Riley’s inflection was remarkably similar to Stoops’, at least as much as a 33-year-old from Muleshoe can sound like a 56-year-old from Youngstown, Ohio.

Riley even got a question about it, which served as a nice transition to just how much of Stoops will — and should — be part of his coaching DNA. “That will be one of my challenges is to find a way to still be myself but not discount all the lessons from him and the other guys that I’ve worked for and with over the past several years,” Riley said.

“I told somebody earlier, had I left and taken a head coach [job] somewhere else, I would have carried a lot of things that [Stoops] does with me just because I think he’s really good, and I think it’s kind of proven the test of

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Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley poses for photos during Big 12 media days.

The 33-year-old Riley was a big focus of attention Monday as the replacement for retired Sooners coach Bob Stoops.

time.”

Riley clearly was the story du jour as media days began, with the two other new coaches — Texas’ Tom Herman and Baylor’s Matt Rhule — in Tuesday’s lineup.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby remembered the late Donnie Duncan singling out Riley as a rising coaching star even before Riley landed at Oklahoma in 2015 as offensive coordinator.

OU athletic director Joe Castiglione made his first trip to media days in half-adozen years to support his new coach.

“Candidly, it’s what we expected after watching him for the last two years,” Castiglione said of the transition.

“He’s been fantastic.”

Much has been made of

Riley’s youth. Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury, who was also 33 when he was hired in Lubbock, suggested it’s not merely age.

“There are a lot of challenges whether you’re 33 or 43,” Kingsbury said. “There’s so much that piles on your desk that in the past you took down to the head coach. It’s just knowing that the buck is going to stop with you no matter what.”

Riley made sure to reach out to returning players following the sudden June 6 retirement of Stoops, who had 190 wins and 10 Big 12 titles.

“I wasn’t the guy that came in and recruited them, and I don’t feel like they should have to accept me just because now I’m the head coach,” Riley said. “I feel

like that’s something that I should have to earn, and I told them that I would give them every ounce I have to get that done.”

He also plans to reach out to Stoops when necessary.

“I’m comfortable with myself and being myself,” Riley said. “I don’t have an ego in this, and say, ‘Well, I’ve got to change things just because I’m the head coach, and I don’t want to seem like I’m just trying to be Bob Stoops 2.0.’

“I want to use the things I think are right. And if there’s a few things I think fit my personality better or can help us as a team, then I’m certainly not going to hesitate to do those, either.”

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Big 12 defenses face challenges Coaches: Stats skewed because league offenses run so many plays

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RISCO — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby wasted no time Monday in bringing up the lack of defense often associated with the conference.

During his opening remarks at media days at The Star, he brought up the conference’s collective scoring defense in the postseason and the fact it was the best in the country.

“For a league that is reported to be singularly interested in offense, that probably speaks volumes,” Bowlsby said.

The perception of poor defenses is one of the large knocks against the Big 12, an aspect mentioned last fall when its members were left out of the four-team College Football Playoff for the second time in three years.

Altering perception would greatly improve the Big 12’s chances of landing a playoff spot. But TCU coach Gary Patterson explained why the stats aren’t in the conference’s favor.

“You’re playing 90 plays, and some [teams] are playing 50,” Patterson said.

Granted, Clemson won the national championship last season with an offense than ran more than 1,000 plays and a defense that was top 10 in key categories.

But while Patterson’s numbers might be low, they dig into the Big 12’s problem.

The conference’s fast-paced offenses tend to lead to more plays per game, which leaves

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defenses on the field longer, creating more opportunities to give up points and yards.

Last season, the Big 12 had only one team in the nation’s top half of yards allowed per game. Kansas State checked in at 51st. The Wildcats were 37 yards per game better than the nextbest team in the conference, but they were also the only ones to have an offense than ran less than 70 snaps per game.

But when one looks at yards per play instead of yards per game, four Big 12 schools were in the top half of the nation — Baylor (No. 48), TCU (No. 51), West Virginia (No. 58) and Texas (No. 61).

“Unless you’ve been in this league or have some of the familiarities with the offenses, I just think there’s a lack of understanding,” said Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury, who fielded several questions Monday about the Red Raiders’ defense.

Kansas coach David Beatty provided anecdotal evidence when disagreeing with a claim that the Big 12 is a bad defensive conference.

In 2014, the year before he left Texas A&M’s staff to become the Jayhawks’ coach, Beaty watched TCU beat Mississippi 42-3 in the Peach Bowl. Earlier that year, Mis-

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TCU coach Gary Patterson said a lot of the Big 12’s defensive shortcomings are a result of the high number of fast-paced offenses that run more plays per game than those from other conferences.

bowl game.”

Speaking of TCU’s ’14 season, Patterson was still upset Monday the Horned Frogs and Baylor were snubbed from the inaugural CFP. That decision led to the reinstatement of the Big 12 Championship Game this fall.

But Patterson will be the first to say his team’s defense suffered last season. The Horned Frogs surrendered 5.49 yards per play, roughly a 16 percent increase from the 2014 season.

Even if the Big 12’s teams improve their defensive numbers, judging that progress might be difficult in a conference with fast and explosive offenses.

Kingsbury said the best way for the conference to fix perception is to win games when it matters the most.

“The proof ’s in the pudding, and we need a Big 12 team to have some success in the playoff,” Kingsbury said.

A closer look Nine of the Big 12’s 10 teams have more favorable defensive rankings when calculated on a per-play basis rather than a per-game basis: School YPG* YPP* Baylor 81 48 TCU 73 51 W. Virginia 74 58 Texas 94 61 Kansas St. 51 70 Oklahoma 82 80 Okla. St. 92 84 Iowa St. 102 86 Kansas 109 91 Texas Tech 128 126 * YPG: yards per game; YPP: yards per play; ranking out of 128 FBS schools

sissippi was ranked as high as third in the Associated Press poll and beat Beaty’s Aggies by 15.

“It was one of the best football teams I’d ever played against, including the Alabamas and the Auburns of the world,” Beaty said of the Rebels. “And TCU wiped the floor with them in that

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year, adding 12 more scores on the ground. Shimonek passed for 464 yards and six touchdowns in four games. He threw one pick.

Kingsbury said Mahomes’ success last year actually bodes well for Shimonek.

The fifth-year transfer from Iowa competed against Mahomes in practices all last year.

“When he was at Iowa, the quarterbacks ahead of him both got drafted,” Kingsbury said. “When he was at Tech, Davis [Webb] and Pat [Mahomes] got drafted. He’s played against those guys, practiced against those guys at a very high level.

“I think people will be surprised.”

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A strong endorsement by Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt notwithstanding, Kliff Kingsbury knows exactly where he stands heading into his fifth season in Lubbock.

After going 8-5 in his first season, Kingsbury has gone 16-21. Not even a great offense has made up for one of the worst defenses in the country.

“Obviously, we know what's at stake,” Kingsbury said. “We know we have to be much improved.

But that's part of the job.”

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Kingbury, Mayfield back on good terms Everything is apparently copacetic between Kliff Kingsbury and Baker Mayfield after Mayfield’s contentious transfer from Tech in 2013.

The two chatted Monday at media days.

“I don’t need closure,” Mayfield said. “I’ve got a lot of respect for coach Kingsbury, and I know he has the same for me. I told him he looked all GQed up like he always does.

He asked me if I had gotten taller. We got a good laugh out of that. I told him, no, I just have stuff in my shoes to make me look like that.”

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Riley: Mayfield learned from mistake Last week, Baker Mayfield was named the Big 12’s preseason offensive player of the year.

The honor was a positive note in an offseason otherwise noteworthy for all the wrong reasons.

In February, Mayfield was arrested in Arkansas and charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication, fleeing and resisting arrest. The actions were caught on a dash-

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Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield said he is on good terms with Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury after Mayfield’s contentious transfer in 2013.

cam video that went viral.

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said Mayfield has done a good job earning back the trust of his teammates and continues to be a team leader.

“He’s made one bad mistake and he learned from it,” Riley said.

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Big 12 withholding Baylor revenue Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the conference will continue to withhold revenue from Baylor as the verification process continues into institutional changes made by Baylor following its years-long

sexual assault scandal.

Bowlsby said Baylor’s leadership group of president Linda Livingstone, athletic director Mack Rhoades and football coach Matt Rhule have been as cooperative as the Big 12 could hope. Bowlsby said he does not expect the investigation to conclude before the season begins.

“It is obviously a complex situation, and because of the lawsuits ... it will have some effect on the time frame of our verification process, but we are moving forward with it,” Bowlsby said. “We continue to withhold the 25 percent of their revenue distribution, and we’ll continue to do that as long as this is a pending matter.”

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TCU’s Turpin cleared to return to football TCU wide receiver KaVontae Turpin has been cleared to return to football after missing much of spring practices due to academic issues, coach Gary Patterson said.

Patterson said he believes Turpin, who will be a junior, was affected by the success he had early in his career at TCU. “One of the worst things that happens in this day and age is a young player is great as a freshman,” Patterson explained, “because I think it’s really hard with the media and everything else for them to handle being invisible.”

Turpin played in only eight games as a sophomore due to injuries. He was still second on the team with 986 all-purpose yards.

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QB Shimonek ready to take over at Tech Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury lost his starting quarterback when the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Patrick Mahomes 10th overall in the 2017 NFL draft.

But Kingsbury said he isn’t panicking as he plans for Nic Shimonek to lead the team.

Mahomes passed for 5,052 yards and 41 touchdowns last

You won’t find many programs with as starkly different histories as Texas and Kansas.

The former owns as many as nine national titles, depending on whom you ask, while the latter has only played in 12 bowls in 127 years of existence.

That’s why it was so shocking when the Jayhawks defeated the Longhorns 24-21 in November, Kansas’ first win over Texas in football since 1938.

Kansas coach David Beaty said he hopes that win can signal a turning point for his program in his third season in Lawrence.

“I do believe that it’s yet to be seen whether that can be a cornerstone in our program as we work to turn this thing around,” Beaty said. “It would be a shame for us to waste that opportunity. ... I do think you have to win to be able to attract top talent. ... So that obviously helped us in a lot of ways, but we’ve got to put a lot more wins together for it to really affect us.”

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Claudio wearing multiple hats in bullpen Banister needs his only lefty reliever at other times before the ninth

Baltimore 3, Rangers 1

By EVAN GRANT

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BALTIMORE — One thing keeps Rangers manager Jeff Banister from labeling plucky Alex Claudio his against-theodds closer for the time being: He also needs Claudio in other roles.

At the moment, Claudio is the only left-handed reliever in the Rangers bullpen. Because of that, Banister will deploy Claudio against lefties before the ninth inning, if the situation warrants. Claudio, pitching for the third consecutive day Sunday, pitched the eighth inning because Kansas City was sending three left-handed hitters to the plate. Claudio retired all three.

“I really don’t want to label Alex or anyone in the bullpen right now,” Banister said. “If you are going to use your only left-hander as [a closer], you have got to have [right-handers] who are very efficient at getting left-handed hitters.”

The Rangers optioned lefty Dario Alvarez back to the minors July 3. He had allowed lefties a .389 OBP and .782 OPS. In right-handers Jose Leclerc and Tony Barnette, the Rangers have two options who have performed better against lefties. Leclerc has allowed a .318 OBP and .754 OPS; Barnette .341 and .774.

While Leclerc and Barnette have better numbers against lefties than Alvarez, the numbers are not outstanding. In

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Rangers center fielder Carlos Gomez can’t reach a ball hit by Baltimore’s Seth Smith in the seventh inning. Smith’s homer off starter Andrew Cashner broke a 1-1 tie.

2014-15, Shawn Tolleson became a valuable member of the Rangers’ bullpen because he was a right-hander who could also be effective against lefties, holding them to a .287 OBP and .678 OPS. Interest in Carter: The Rangers maintain interest in signing free-agent first baseman Chris Carter to a minor league contract, two major league sources confirmed Monday. Carter, 30, was released by the New York Yankees on July 12, a week after being designated for assignment.

Various reports have Tampa Bay and Oakland also discussing the possibility of adding Carter, who hit 41 home runs last season with Milwaukee, but was hitting just .201 with eight homers when the Yankees released him.

Carter could provide the Rangers with a right-handed power option off the bench or as insurance for Mike Napoli.

Since the Yankees released him, they would be responsible for the remainder of his $3.5 million salary with the exception of a pro-rated portion of the major league minimum.

The Rangers are also monitoring the trade market with left-handed relief being among the assets most coveted. But left-handed relief is always a coveted commodity at the trade deadline.

San Diego’s Brad Hand and Detroit’s Justin Wilson are two of the more attractive — and controllable — lefties potentially available. The Rangers had a scout at the DetroitKansas City game on Monday.

Diekman to throw: Lefthander Jake Diekman on Thursday will throw his first official bullpen session since

Texas .......................... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Choo dh ......................... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .244 Andrus ss ...................... 4 0 0 0 0 0 .291 Mazara rf ...................... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .254 Beltre 3b ....................... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .282 Kozma pr ....................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .114 Odor 2b.......................... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Gomez cf ....................... 2 0 0 0 1 1 .249 Robinson lf.................... 3 1 0 0 1 0 .200 Lucroy c ......................... 3 0 1 1 0 0 .258 Gallo 1b ......................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 .191 Napoli ph-1b ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 .202 Totals .......................... 28 1 3 1 5 5 Baltimore ................... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Jones cf ......................... 3 1 0 0 1 1 .258 Machado 3b................... 3 0 3 0 1 0 .238 Schoop 2b...................... 3 0 0 1 0 0 .293 Trumbo dh..................... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .253 Davis 1b ........................ 3 0 0 0 0 1 .216 Mancini lf ...................... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .304 Smith rf......................... 3 1 1 1 0 1 .260 Rickard rf ...................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Castillo c........................ 3 1 2 0 0 0 .265 Tejada ss ....................... 3 0 1 1 0 0 .235 Totals .......................... 28 3 8 3 2 5 Texas ......................... 010 000 000 — 1 3 1 Baltimore .................. 000 001 20x — 3 8 0 E—Lucroy (1). LOB—Texas 6, Baltimore 4. 2B—Lucroy (15), Castillo (7). HR—Smith (10), off Cashner.

RBIs—Lucroy (26), Schoop (55), Smith (21), Tejada (4). SB—Machado (5). SF—Schoop. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 2 (Mazara, Robinson); Baltimore 3 (Jones, Trumbo 2). RISP—Texas 0 for 3; Baltimore 1 for 5. Runners moved up—Choo, Andrus, Schoop. GIDP—Lucroy, Schoop 2, Tejada. DP—Texas 3 (Andrus, Odor, Gallo), (Beltre, Odor, Gallo), (Andrus, Odor, Napoli); Baltimore 1 (Bleier, Schoop, Davis).

Texas ....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cashner ............6 2/3 6 3 3 2 3 95 3.58 (L 4-8) .....................

Jeffress ............1 1/3 2 0 0 0 2 23 5.12 Baltimore .............IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Tillman .................. 6 2 1 1 4 3 95 7.20 Bleier ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 1.34 (W 2-1) ...................

Givens H, 16.......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 18 2.09 Brach ..................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 19 2.68 (S 16-20).................

Inherited runners-scored—Jeffress 1-1. HBP—Bleier (Gomez). Umpires—Home, Dan Iassogna; First, Brian Gorman; Second, Stu Scheurwater; Third, Tripp Gibson.

T—2:55. A—14,922 (45,971).

three colon surgeries over the past nine months.

He did, however, sneak out for a couple of pitches Monday.

“It felt good,” Diekman said after a handful of light tosses off the mound following a long-toss session at 170 feet.

“My mind is ready, and I don’t really care if my body is. If I have to, I’ll fake it to make it.”

Diekman is about five weeks out from the final surgery, which connected his “J-Pouch,”

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Yet, manager Jeff Banister sees a different team. He sees a team with an extended hot streak in it.

“I feel like our ‘how’ is in good shape,” Banister said Monday night. “We were still battling tonight in the ninth with two runners on base. We battled yesterday. We believe we will put runs on the board.

We can do that and we have done that.”

They have.

But the Rangers offense remains a bit like your old grill.

Sometimes it’s a bit cranky

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in starting.

Sometimes, you get a flame up.

Sometimes, you get a nice slow burn.

You just never know. They are just as un-

predictable.

This is a veteran offense with all of its parts healthy.

And, yet, it sputters. If the big swings connect, the Rangers are formidable. If not, they are lost. In the four games since the All-Star break, the Rangers have scored 10 runs; seven

of them have come on homers.

On Monday, there were no homers, so runs were hard to come by. They got a two-out walk from rookie Drew Robinson in the second inning. Jonathan Lucroy then followed with a double to right center on which Adam Jones fell down. Robinson scored easily. Lucroy saw the ball kicking around in the outfield as he was churning for second and made the decision to go for three. It took a perfect set of relays, but he was out. The inning was over. Tillman allowed just one more hit, a single to Adrian Beltre, over the next

four innings in his best outing of the year.

“We made him work, but we just couldn’t string hits together,” Lucroy said. “It was a down night for our offense, but we’re not going to stay down.

We are too good. We’re going to score some runs. We’ve got to do better.”

Despite the lack of offense, the game was tied heading to the seventh — or as it is more commonly referred to in relation to the Rangers this season, “the bottomless abyss.”

Andrew Cashner was heading toward his second consecutive seven-inning outing, some-

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and removed an ostomy bag.

He said he feels strong and has returned to his approximate playing weight (200 pounds).

He is hopeful that his rehab can be accelerated once he proves he can throw off a mound, giving him the opportunity to contribute for the final six weeks of the regular season.

Briefly: RHP Keone Kela (shoulder) will throw a bullpen session Tuesday, and the Rangers will then make a determination about whether he will go on a rehab assignment or be activated Thursday. Kela has not pitched since June 27.

RHP A.J. Griffin (intercostal muscle strain) will make a rehab start for Triple-A Round Rock on Wednesday and is scheduled to pitch four innings or about 60 pitches.

INF Juremi Profar, the younger brother of Jurickson Profar, was named the Texas League Player of the Week for batting .391 with a 1.071 OPS for Double-A Frisco for the week that concluded Sunday.

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Chasing 3,000 Rangers third baseman ADRIAN BELTRE is closing in on career hit 3,000 and inclusion in a club with only 30 members.

Date Opp. Time TV Rangers starter Opponent starter Tue. at Bal. 6:05 FSSW Tyson Ross (2-1) Dylan Bundy (8-8) Wed. at Bal. 6:05 FSSW Martin Perez (5-6) Kevin Gausman (5-7) Thu. at Bal. 6:05 FSSW Cole Hamels (4-0) Wade Miley (4-8) Fri. at TB 6:10 FSSW Yu Darvish (6-8) Alex Cobb (8-6) Sat. at TB 6:10 FS1 Andrew Cashner (4-8) Chris Archer (7-5) All games broadcast on KRLD-FM (105.3) and KFLC-AM (1270 in Spanish).

thing he had not done since 2015. With two outs, though, he tried to go up and in with a first-pitch fastball to lefty-hitting Seth Smith. The fastball drifted in the other direction.

Smith drove it over the center field wall to give Baltimore a 2-1 lead.

No. 8 hitter Wellington Castillo lined a ball to the gap in left center. Robinson did a good job cutting it off and spun to throw the ball in.

Shortstop Elvis Andrus cut it off and tried to flip to Rougned Odor, but Odor was looking toward first base to check the

runner. The ball went untouched. Castillo ended up at second, then scored on a single

by Ruben Tejada.

“Maybe there was a little miscommunication,” Banister said. “There was a possible play at second base.”

Oh, the possibilities are endless for the Rangers, but as the time to make a decision on the direction of this season ticks away, the club continues to miss opportunities to turn those possibilities into realities.

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Morris promises his third team will be competitive this fall

By ADAM GROSBARD Staff Writer agrosbard@dallasnews.com

The American Athletic Conference media day Tuesday signifies the unofficial start to head coach Chad Morris’ third year at SMU. The conference’s gathering in Rhode Island means that training camp is near and the regular season isn’t far off.

Morris enters the season with a 7-17 record. It’s not near the kind of success rate he was accustomed to during his Texas high school football coaching career, or as the offensive coordinator at Clemson.

With SMU having failed to reach a bowl game over the last four years, the hope is that the Mustangs can return to the bowl season with three classes of Morris’ recruits on

the roster.

Morris is unwilling to guarantee a bowl appearance, but he will promise a better brand of football from a team that went 5-7 in 2016.

“What December looks like, I don’t know at this point,” Morris said in an interview on the American Conference’s media network. “But I do know that this will be a very competitive football team that has a roster that’s stacked with talent both offensively and defensively with guys that have played a lot of football.”

True freshmen defensive lineman Demerick Gary and cornerback Eric Sutton gained valuable experience last season rather than sitting out the year as redshirts. Their accelerated maturity, combined with the returns of veterans like end Justin Lawler and center Evan Brown, gives SMU an experienced combination despite the roster’s relative youth.

But no returning player means more to SMU than

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SMU coach Chad Morris, on the sideline during the Mustangs spring game in April, expects his team to improve upon its 5-7 showing last year.

wide receiver Courtland Sutton. The 6-4 Brenham native considered turning pro after a 1,246-yard, 10-touchdown season, numbers that don’t do justice to the athletic moments he provided fans.

After pondering the NFL, Sutton opted to return to the Hilltop for his junior season.

Now, he is routinely in the first round in early 2018 mock drafts. Some even peg him as

a top-10 prospect.

“What a great young man,” Morris remarked. “This is a guy that’s gonna get his degree in 31/2years from SMU. Obviously for a guy like that to come back, he could have gone pro, went to the league, but he chose to come back. And we’re excited about him and what he brings to the team.”

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DENTON — Senior safety Kishawn McClain and junior cornerback Nate Brooks were named to the Preseason AllConference USA team Monday.

The team was selected by the league’s 14 head coaches.

McClain led UNT in tackles for a second straight season last fall, when he finished with 91 stops to go with three interceptions.

Brooks intercepted a team-high four passes and posted 57 tackles in 2016.

Brett Vito

TEXAS

Volleyball star charged with DWI AUSTIN — Micaya White, who helped lead Texas to the NCAA women’s volleyball final last season, will appear in court next month on a DWI charge.

According to Travis County state district court records, White is scheduled to appear Aug. 4 after being charged with driving while intoxicated

by University of Texas police following a March 18 traffic stop.

The 20-year old White, who will be a sophomore this season, is an outside hitter from Frisco Centennial and was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year last season.

The Associated Press

ACC

Florida State, Jackson earn preseason honors GREENSBORO, N.C. — Florida State is the preseason pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference, and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson of Louisville is the preseason player of the year.

The ACC announced voting results following a poll of 167 media members.

The Seminoles were picked as overall ACC champions on 118 ballots, while reigning national champion Clemson received 35 votes.

Florida State also was picked as the Atlantic Division favorite, while Miami was the top choice in the Coastal.

The Associated Press

The Dallas Morning News

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Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST W Houston ................ 62 Seattle .................. 46 Texas ..................... 45 Los Angeles .......... 46 Oakland ................. 42 CENTRAL W Cleveland............... 47 Minnesota............. 47 Kansas City ........... 45 Detroit................... 42 Chicago .................. 38 EAST W Boston................... 52 Tampa Bay ............ 49 New York .............. 47 Toronto ................. 43 Baltimore .............. 43

L 30 47 47 49 50 L 43 45 46 49 52 L 42 44 44 49 49

Pct GB .674 — .495 161/2 .489 17 .484171/2 .457 20 Pct GB .522 — .511 1 .495 21/2 .462 51/2 .422 9 Pct GB .553 — .527 21/2 .516 31/2 .467 8 .467 8

Home 29-19 27-22 25-20 24-21 27-21 Home 21-24 21-28 25-22 25-21 19-21 Home 27-17 27-19 26-17 22-24 26-19

Away 33-11 19-25 20-27 22-28 15-29 Away 26-19 26-17 20-24 17-28 19-31 Away 25-25 22-25 21-27 21-25 17-30

L10 Str 7-3 W-1 5-5 W-4 5-5 L-2 3-7 W-1 7-3 W-3 L10 Str 4-6 L-4 5-5 W-1 4-6 L-1 6-4 W-3 3-7 L-4 L10 Str 3-7 L-1 6-4 L-1 3-7 L-2 6-4 W-1 3-7 W-1

Tor. 4, at Bos. 3

Steve Pearce hit a solo homer, then added the go-ahead single in the eighth inning.

at Min. 4, NY 2

Eddie Rosario had two RBI doubles, and Eduardo Escobar had a go-ahead hit in the eighth.

Det. 10, at KC 2

Nicholas Castellanos and Mikie Mahtook went deep, and Jordan Zimmermann smothered the Royals.

Sea. 9, at Hou. 7 (10)

Kyle Seager and Danny Valencia hit back-to-back homers in the 10th off Tony Sipp.

TB at Oak

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TODAY’S PITCHERS TV/ 2017 Last three starts Pitchers Time W-L ERA W-L IP ERA Ross (R) FSSW 2-1 5.33 1-0 16.2 3.24 Bundy (R) 6:05 8-8 4.33 1-2 16.0 7.88 Happ (L) 3-6 3.54 1-2 16.1 2.76 Fister (R) 6:10 0-3 6.75 0-2 14.2 6.14 Gaviglio (R) RSSW 3-4 4.31 0-3 17.0 6.35 Peacock (R) 7:10 7-1 2.63 3-0 17.0 2.12 Cessa (R) ESPN 0-3 4.18 0-3 13.2 5.93 Colon (R) 7:10 2-8 8.14 0-3 10.0 14.40 Boyd (L) 2-5 5.69 0-2 13.2 7.24 Wood (L) 7:15 1-2 6.06 0-0 4.0 4.50 Snell (L) 0-5 4.85 0-2 15.2 6.89 Smith (R) 9:05 0-0 4.50 0-0 6.0 4.50

Tex. at Bal. Tor. at Bos. Sea. at Hou. N.Y. at Min. Det. at K.C. T.B. at Oak.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Tex. NY Sea.

at Bal. (FSSW) 6:05 at Min. 12:10 at Hou. 1:10

TB Tor. Det.

at Oak. at Bos. at KC

2:35 6:10 7:15

NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST W Los Angeles .......... 64 Arizona.................. 53 Colorado ................ 53 San Diego .............. 40 San Francisco ........ 35 CENTRAL W Milwaukee ............ 52 Chicago .................. 46 St. Louis ................ 45 Pittsburgh ............. 45 Cincinnati .............. 39 EAST W Washington .......... 56 Atlanta .................. 45 Miami .................... 42 New York .............. 41 Philadelphia .......... 30

L 29 39 41 51 58 L 43 45 47 48 53 L 36 45 49 49 61

Pct .688 .576 .564 .440 .376 Pct .547 .505 .489 .484 .424 Pct .609 .500 .462 .456 .330

GB — 101/2 1 11 /2 23 29 GB — 4 51/2 6 111/2 GB — 10 1 13 /2 14 251/2

Home 39-11 33-15 26-18 24-23 17-24 Home 28-24 24-20 26-24 24-23 23-24 Home 26-19 23-22 22-24 21-26 16-25

Away 25-18 20-24 27-23 16-28 18-34 Away 24-19 22-25 19-23 21-25 16-29 Away 30-17 22-23 20-25 20-23 14-36

L10 Str 9-1 W-9 2-8 L-5 5-5 W-1 7-3 W-2 3-7 L-2 L10 Str 7-3 L-2 6-4 W-3 5-5 W-1 8-2 W-2 4-6 L-4 L10 Str 8-2 W-5 6-4 W-3 6-4 W-1 3-7 L-2 2-8 L-1

Ryan Zimmerman set the Nationals’ career home run record with his 235th, a solo shot, breaking Vladimir Guerrero’s mark.

Was. 6, at Cin. 1

at Pit. 4, Mil. 2

Gregory Polanco doubled twice, drove in two runs and threw out a potential go-ahead run at the plate.

at Mia. 6, Phi. 5(10)

Giancarlo Stanton homered twice, and Dee Gordon hit an RBI single with two outs in the 10th.

St. L. 6, at NY 3

Paul DeJong homered against the Mets for the fourth straight game, and Adam Wainwright hit an RBI double while winning his fourth straight start.

Atlanta’s ninth inning rally fell short as Cubs closer Wade Davis got Johan Camargo to fly out, leaving the bases loaded.

Chi. 4, at Atl. 3

at Col. 9, SD 6

Charlie Blackmon ‘s fourth leadoff homer hit the facing of the third deck, and rookie German Marquez struck out nine.

TODAY’S PITCHERS Mil. at Pit. Phi. at Mia. Ari. at Cin. St.L. at N.Y. Chi. at Atl. S.D. at Col.

Pitchers Guerra (R) Nova (R) Velasquez (R) Conley (L) Ray (L) Romano (R) Wacha (R) Montero (R) Lackey (R) Newcomb (L) Lamet (R) Senzatela (R)

TV/ 2017 Last three starts Time W-L ERA W-L IP ERA 1-3 4.78 0-2 11.1 10.32 6:05 9-6 3.21 2-1 17.2 4.08 2-5 5.58 0-2 11.2 5.40 6:10 2-3 7.53 1-2 10.2 15.19 8-4 2.97 1-1 18.1 3.44 6:10 1-1 4.50 1-1 8.0 4.50 6-3 4.10 3-0 17.2 1.53 6:10 1-5 5.77 1-2 15.0 4.80 5-9 5.20 0-2 17.1 6.23 6:35 1-4 4.26 1-2 13.1 7.43 3-3 5.93 1-1 17.0 3.71 7:40 9-3 4.63 1-1 15.0 10.80

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Chi. Phi. SD

at Atl. at Mia. at Col.

11:10 a.m.

11:10 a.m.

2:10

Mil. Ari. Stl.

at Pit. at Cin. at NY

6:05 6:10 6:10

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Cle. at SF

TODAY’S PITCHERS TV/ 2017 Last three starts Pitchers Time W-L ERA W-L IP ERA LAD Kershaw (L) 14-2 2.18 3-0 23.0 0.78 at CWS Gonzalez (R) 7:10 4-8 5.61 0-3 15.2 10.34 Was. Jackson (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00 at LAA Chavez (R) 9:07 5-10 4.99 0-3 15.1 4.11 Cle. Clevinger (R) 5-3 3.00 2-0 18.0 1.00 at S.F. Blach (L) 9:15 6-5 4.60 2-1 15.1 6.46

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Cle. LAD

at SF at CWS

2:45 7:10

Was.

at LAA

9:07

Washington 6, Cincinnati 1

St. Louis 6, Mets 3

Detroit 10, Kansas City 2

St. Louis ......... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Carpenter 1b ..... 3 1 1 0 2 0 .244 Pham lf.............. 3 1 2 3 2 1 .311 Fowler cf ........... 4 0 1 0 1 2 .244 Gyorko 3b .......... 5 0 1 0 0 2 .293 Molina c ............ 5 1 2 0 0 0 .268 DeJong ss.......... 5 1 1 2 0 3 .299 Wong 2b ............ 4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 Sierra rf............. 4 1 0 0 0 0 .400 Wainwright p .... 3 1 1 1 0 1 .222 Lyons p .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Bowman p ......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Voit ph .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .295 Siegrist p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Cecil p ................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Totals .............. 37 6 10 6 5 11 New York ....... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Conforto cf ........ 4 1 1 1 1 0 .278 Cabrera 2b......... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Cespedes lf........ 5 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Bruce rf ............. 4 0 2 0 0 2 .270 Rivera 3b ........... 4 0 0 0 0 0 .296 Duda 1b ............. 4 1 2 1 0 1 .248 Reyes ss ............ 4 1 2 0 0 1 .230 d’Arnaud c ......... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .220 Wheeler p.......... 2 0 0 0 0 0 .077 Edgin p .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Robles p ............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Flores ph ........... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .280 Sewald p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Blevins p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Goeddel p .......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Granderson ph .. 0 0 0 0 1 0 .228 Totals .............. 35 3 8 2 3 6 St. Louis................000 006 000 — 6 10 3 New York ..............000 012 000 — 3 8 0 E—Fowler (1), Sierra 2 (2). LOB—St.Louis 9, New York 9. 2B—Wainwright (2), Duda (19), Reyes 2 (16). HR—DeJong (10), off Wheeler; Pham (12), off Robles; Conforto (16), off Wainwright; Duda (16), off Wainwright. RBIs—Pham 3 (38), DeJong 2 (22), Wainwright (10), Conforto (46), Duda (34). DP—St. Louis 1.

St. Louis ......... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wainwright .5 2/3 6 3 2 2 3 100 5.08 (W 11-5) ............

Lyons H, 5 ......1/3 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.95 Bowman H, 18 .1 1 0 0 0 0 17 3.60 Siegrist H, 4 .....1 0 0 0 1 3 15 4.76 Cecil ..................1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3.55 (S 1-6)................

New York ....... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wheeler.......5 1/3 7 4 4 4 5 96 4.98 (L 3-7) ................

Edgin ................0 0 1 1 1 0 7 4.05 Robles ............2/3 1 1 1 0 1 11 6.45 Sewald .............1 0 0 0 0 2 14 4.14 Blevins .............1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.34 Goeddel ............1 2 0 0 0 2 26 3.12 Edgin pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

Siegrist pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

Inherited runners-scored—Lyons 1-0, Cecil 1-0, Edgin 1-0, Robles 2-2. HBP—Wainwright (Cabrera). Umpires—Home, Alfonso Marquez; First, Chad Fairchild; Second, Dave Rackley; Third, Joe West.

T—3:20. A—29,977 (41,922).

Detroit............ AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Kinsler 2b .......... 6 1 3 1 0 0 .242 Castellanos 3b .. 5 2 2 2 0 2 .247 Upton lf ............. 4 1 0 0 1 1 .267 Cabrera 1b......... 4 0 0 0 1 0 .263 J.Martinez rf ..... 2 0 0 0 1 1 .305 Presley rf .......... 2 2 2 0 0 0 .299 V.Martinez dh ... 4 2 3 3 1 0 .260 Mahtook cf........ 5 1 3 2 0 1 .276 Avila c ............... 3 1 0 0 2 1 .292 Iglesias ss ......... 4 0 1 2 0 1 .255 Totals .............. 39 10 14 10 6 7 Kansas City .... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Merrifield 2b..... 5 0 1 1 0 1 .285 Bonifacio rf ....... 3 0 1 0 1 0 .255 Cain cf ............... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .272 Burns ph-cf ....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Hosmer 1b ........ 5 1 2 1 0 2 .312 Perez c............... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .282 Butera c............. 0 0 0 0 1 0 .227 Moustakas 3b ... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Escobar ss ......... 2 0 1 0 0 1 .233 Torres pr-ss ...... 1 1 0 0 0 0 .267 Moss dh ............ 3 0 0 0 1 2 .188 Gordon lf ........... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .193 Totals .............. 35 2 8 2 3 7 Detroit ..................132 100 102 — 10 14 0 Kansas City...........000 000 110 — 2 8 1 E—Hosmer (3). LOB—Detroit 9, Kansas City 11. 2B—Kinsler (13), Presley (5), Merrifield (20). 3B—Kinsler 2 (3). HR— Castellanos (12), off Vargas; Mahtook (5), off Vargas; Hosmer (13), off Saupold. RBIs—Kinsler (24), Castellanos 2 (49), V.Martinez 3 (36), Mahtook 2 (19), Iglesias 2 (27), Merrifield (34), Hosmer (43). SF—Iglesias. DP—Kansas City 2.

Detroit............ IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Zimmermann6 2/3 7 1 1 0 7 97 5.58 (W 6-7) ..............

Saupold ..........1/3 1 1 1 1 0 21 2.38 Stumpf .............1 0 0 0 1 0 15 3.46 Bell .................2/3 0 0 0 1 0 23 4.21 Hardy..............1/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 6.05 Kansas City .... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Vargas .........2 2/3 7 6 6 4 4 70 3.06 (L 12-4) ..............

Alexander....2 1/3 1 1 1 2 2 38 2.27 McCarthy..........2 2 1 0 0 0 33 2.12 Alburquerque ...1 0 0 0 0 1 12 3.86 Feliz ..................1 4 2 2 0 0 22 5.66 Saupold pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.

Inherited runners-scored—Saupold 1-0, Stumpf 1-0, Hardy 1-0, Alexander 1-0.

HBP—Zimmermann (Escobar), Saupold (Bonifacio). Umpires—Home, Tom Hallion; First, Phil Cuzzi; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Mark Ripperger.

T—3:29. A—26,359 (37,903).

Toronto 4, Boston 3

Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 2 Milwaukee ..... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Villar 2b............. 5 0 0 0 0 2 .221 Thames 1b ........ 5 0 2 0 0 1 .250 Braun lf ............. 5 0 1 0 0 1 .259 Shaw 3b ............ 5 2 2 0 0 2 .293 Santana rf ......... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .291 Vogt c ................ 2 0 0 1 0 1 .222 Pina c................. 1 0 0 0 1 0 .291 Arcia ss ............. 4 0 2 1 0 0 .281 Phillips cf .......... 2 0 0 0 2 1 .176 Suter p .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 Scahill p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Aguilar ph ......... 1 0 1 0 0 0 .291 Hader p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Hughes p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Perez ph ............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Webb p .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Totals .............. 35 2 8 2 4 10 Pittsburgh ...... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Harrison 2b-3b.. 4 0 1 0 1 1 .272 Cervelli c............ 5 0 2 0 0 2 .254 McCutchen cf .... 3 0 1 0 1 1 .294 Freese 3b .......... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Rivero p ............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Bell 1b ............... 4 1 1 0 0 0 .241 Osuna lf............. 2 1 1 0 1 0 .252 Frazier lf............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 .266 Polanco rf .......... 4 2 4 2 0 0 .272 Mercer ss .......... 3 0 1 1 0 0 .268 Kuhl p ................ 2 0 1 0 0 0 .040 Hudson p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Gosselin ph ....... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .150 Watson p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Nicasio p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Moroff 2b .......... 1 0 1 1 0 0 .115 Totals .............. 34 4 13 4 3 5 Milwaukee............010 100 000 — 2 8 1 Pittsburgh ............000 021 01x — 4 13 0 E—Arcia (14). LOB—Milwaukee 11, Pittsburgh 10. 2B—Shaw (23), Bell (17), Polanco 2 (18). RBIs—Vogt (29), Arcia (34), Polanco 2 (27), Mercer (38), Moroff (6). SB—Arcia 3 (8), McCutchen (7). SF— Mercer.

Milwaukee ..... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suter ...........4 2/3 7 2 2 2 2 70 3.09 Scahill.............1/3 0 0 0 0 1 6 4.79 Hader................1 2 1 1 0 0 13 1.29 (L 1-1) ................

Hughes .............1 1 0 0 0 1 16 2.82 Webb ................1 3 1 1 1 1 22 5.62 Pittsburgh ...... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kuhl .............5 2/3 4 2 2 3 7 102 4.85 Hudson ...........1/3 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.34 (W 2-4) ..............

Watson H, 6 .....1 2 0 0 1 1 25 3.59 Nicasio H, 16..2/3 1 0 0 0 1 18 2.55 Rivero ......... 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 19 0.72 (S 7-7) ................

Inherited runners-scored—Scahill 3-0, Hudson 2-0, Rivero 1-0. HBP—Kuhl (Suter). WP—Kuhl. Umpires—Home, Mark Wegner; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Mike Winters; Third, Ryan Blakney.

T—3:15. A—18,506 (38,362).

On this day in ...

1927: Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubled off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.

1962: Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins each hit grand slams in the first inning of a 14-3 rout of the Cleveland Indians.

1970: Willie Mays bounced career hit number 3,000 through the left side of the infield off Mike Wegener in the second inning of the San Francisco Giants’ 10-1 romp over the Montreal Expos.

1987: New York’s Don Mattingly tied Dale Long’s 31-year-old major league record when he hit a home run for the eighth consecutive game in the Yankees’ 7-2 loss to the Rangers.

2006: Atlanta became the first team since the 1930 New York Yankees to score 10 or more runs in five straight games following a 14-5 victory over St. Louis. The Braves have scored 65 runs during their offensive explosion that included two 15-run games.

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Washington ... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Goodwin cf ........ 5 2 2 1 0 0 .245 Drew ss ............. 5 1 1 0 0 1 .273 Harper rf ........... 4 1 2 3 1 1 .329 Zimmerman 1b . 5 1 3 1 0 0 .327 Murphy 2b......... 4 1 0 0 1 3 .344 Rendon 3b ......... 2 0 1 0 2 1 .318 Wieters c........... 3 0 0 1 0 0 .245 Raburn lf ........... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .291 Strasburg p ....... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .128 Lind ph .............. 1 0 1 0 0 0 .317 Blanton p .......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Grace p .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals .............. 36 6 11 6 4 8 Cincinnati ....... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Peraza 2b .......... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .253 Cozart ss ........... 3 0 0 0 1 2 .306 Votto 1b ............ 4 0 1 0 0 1 .308 Duvall lf............. 3 0 0 0 0 1 .277 Gennett rf ......... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .306 Suarez 3b .......... 3 1 1 1 0 1 .252 Schebler cf ........ 3 0 1 0 0 2 .250 Barnhart c ......... 3 0 0 0 0 2 .264 Feldman p ......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .032 Wojciechowski p1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Alcantara ph ..... 1 0 0 0 0 1 .205 Peralta p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Lorenzen p ........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Winker ph ......... 0 0 0 0 1 0 .250 Iglesias p........... 0 0 0 0 0 01.000 Totals .............. 29 1 4 1 2 12 Washington ..........500 001 000 — 6 11 0 Cincinnati..............010 000 000 — 1 4 0 LOB—Washington 8, Cincinnati 4. 2B— Goodwin (11). 3B—Raburn (2). HR—Harper (23), off Feldman; Zimmerman (20), off Feldman; Goodwin (8), off Wojciechowski; Suarez (13), off Strasburg. RBIs—Goodwin (21), Harper 3 (72), Zimmerman (64), Wieters (37), Suarez (46). SF—Wieters.

GIDP—Votto, Duvall. DP—Washington 2.

Washington ... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Strasburg .........7 4 1 1 1 11 105 3.31 (W 10-3) ............

Blanton ............1 0 0 0 1 0 14 6.75 Grace ................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.48 Cincinnati ....... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feldman ...........1 5 5 5 1 0 33 4.34 (L 7-7) ................

Wojciechowski .5 2 1 1 3 4 70 5.22 Peralta..............1 2 0 0 0 1 20 2.95 Lorenzen ..........1 1 0 0 0 1 19 3.99 Iglesias.............1 1 0 0 0 2 20 1.61 HBP—Strasburg (Duvall). Umpires— Home, James Hoye; First, Will Little; Second, Jeff Kellogg; Third, Tim Timmons.

T—2:58. A—17,574 (42,319).

Toronto .......... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bautista rf ........ 5 0 0 0 0 4 .230 Martin c............. 5 1 1 0 0 2 .230 Donaldson 3b .... 3 0 0 0 2 1 .250 Smoak 1b .......... 2 1 1 0 2 1 .292 Carrera pr-lf ...... 0 1 0 0 0 0 .284 Morales dh ........ 4 0 3 2 0 0 .258 Goins pr-dh ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .208 Tulowitzki ss..... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .239 Pearce lf-1b....... 3 1 2 2 1 0 .279 Pillar cf .............. 4 0 1 0 0 2 .251 Barney 2b .......... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Totals .............. 34 4 8 4 5 13 Boston............ AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Betts rf.............. 4 0 1 1 0 2 .274 Pedroia 2b ......... 3 0 1 1 1 0 .307 Bogaerts ss ....... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .296 Moreland 1b...... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .251 Ramirez dh........ 4 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Benintendi lf ..... 3 1 2 0 1 1 .279 Bradley Jr. cf..... 4 1 0 0 0 1 .270 Vazquez c .......... 3 1 1 0 1 0 .267 Holt 3b .............. 2 0 0 1 0 0 .136 Totals .............. 31 3 6 3 3 7 Toronto .................210 000 010 — 4 8 1 Boston ..................000 000 300 — 3 6 0 E—Stroman (1). LOB—Toronto 8, Boston 5. 2B—Morales (17), Pillar (24), Pedroia (15), Benintendi (14). HR—Pearce (8), off Rodriguez. RBIs—Morales 2 (51), Pearce 2 (22), Betts (56), Pedroia (44), Holt (2).

SF—Holt. DP—Toronto 1, Boston 1.

Toronto .......... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stroman ......6 2/3 5 3 0 3 5 106 3.10 Leone (BS, 2) .1/3 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.92 Tepera ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.59 (W 5-1) ..............

Osuna ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 8 1.93 (S 23-26)............

Boston............ IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rodriguez ....5 1/3 6 3 3 4 8 111 3.66 Abad ............1 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 20 2.70 Hembree ..........1 2 1 1 1 2 23 3.61 (L 1-3) ................

Barnes ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 14 3.32 Inherited runners-scored—Leone 2-1, Abad 1-0. Umpires—Home, Chris Segal; First, Mike Everitt; Second, Jordan Baker; Third, Bruce Dreckman.

T—3:18. A—36,144 (37,499).

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Miami 6, Philadelphia 5 (10) Philadelphia ... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Hernandez 2b.... 3 1 1 1 1 1 .278 Galvis ss............ 5 1 1 1 0 1 .244 Herrera cf .......... 4 1 0 0 1 1 .259 Neris p............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Leiter Jr. p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Franco 3b........... 4 1 1 1 1 0 .224 Williams rf-cf ... 5 0 2 2 0 0 .292 Knapp c.............. 3 0 0 0 2 0 .252 Stassi 1b ........... 3 1 0 0 1 1 .169 Morgan p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 Pinto p............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Kelly cf-rf .......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Perkins lf........... 2 0 0 0 0 1 .171 Nava ph-lf ......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 .283 Eickhoff p .......... 2 0 0 0 0 0 .053 Blanco ph .......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .144 Milner p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Garcia p ............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Joseph 1b .......... 1 0 1 0 0 0 .248 Totals .............. 34 5 6 5 6 6 Miami ............. AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Gordon 2b.......... 6 1 3 1 0 0 .294 Stanton rf ......... 3 2 2 3 2 0 .275 Yelich cf............. 4 0 0 0 1 2 .284 Ozuna lf............. 4 1 2 0 1 1 .319 Bour 1b.............. 4 1 1 2 1 2 .286 Prado 3b ............ 2 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Dietrich 3b ........ 3 0 1 0 0 1 .241 Realmuto c ........ 3 1 0 0 2 1 .303 Riddle ss............ 4 0 0 0 1 0 .250 Koehler p........... 2 0 0 0 0 2 .053 Tazawa p ........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Suzuki ph .......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .223 Barraclough p.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Phelps p ............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ramos p ............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Moore ph........... 0 0 0 0 1 0 .270 Steckenrider p... 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Ellis ph .............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Totals .............. 37 6 9 6 9 10 Philadelphia..........004 000 100 0 —5 6 0 Miami....................200 030 000 1 —6 9 0 Two outs when winning run scored.

LOB—Philadelphia 7, Miami 11. 2B—Galvis (18), Williams 2 (4), Ozuna (18). 3B— Dietrich (3). HR—Stanton (27), off Eickhoff; Stanton (28), off Eickhoff; Bour (21), off Eickhoff. RBIs—Hernandez (15), Galvis (38), Franco (48), Williams 2 (8), Gordon (19), Stanton 3 (62), Bour 2 (63). CS— Yelich (1). SF—Hernandez. DP—Miami 1.

Philadelphia ... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eickhoff ............6 6 5 5 4 8 91 4.83 Milner.............1/3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2.45 Garcia .............2/3 0 0 0 1 0 13 2.37 Morgan...........2/3 0 0 0 0 1 10 6.04 Pinto...............2/3 1 0 0 1 0 11 3.86 Neris...............2/3 0 0 0 1 1 9 3.38 Leiter Jr..........2/3 2 1 1 2 0 14 4.25 (L 1-2) ................

Miami ............. IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Koehler.............5 4 4 4 3 2 89 7.92 Tazawa H, 2 .....1 0 0 0 0 0 13 5.19 Barraclough (BS, 3)10 1 1 1 0 22 3.53 Phelps ..............1 1 0 0 2 2 22 3.45 Ramos ..............1 1 0 0 0 2 20 4.08 Steckenrider.....1 0 0 0 0 0 13 3.52 (W 1-1) ..............

Garcia pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

Inherited runners-scored—Morgan 1-0, Pinto 1-0, Neris 2-0. HBP—Barraclough (Perkins). WP—Eickhoff. Umpires—Home, Chad Whitson; First, Jerry Layne; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Mike Estabrook.

T—3:41. A—17,146 (36,742).

Minnesota 4, Yankees 2 New York ....... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ellsbury cf ......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .258 Frazier lf............ 4 0 2 0 0 0 .308 Judge rf ............. 3 0 0 0 1 1 .311 Holliday dh ........ 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 S.Castro 2b........ 3 0 0 0 1 1 .309 Gregorius ss...... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .284 Headley 3b ........ 4 1 1 0 0 0 .258 Cooper 1b .......... 4 1 3 1 0 1 .286 Romine c ........... 3 0 1 1 0 1 .237 Gardner ph ........ 1 0 0 0 0 0 .251 Totals .............. 33 2 8 2 2 8 Minnesota...... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Dozier 2b ........... 5 0 2 0 0 1 .249 Granite cf .......... 4 1 1 0 0 1 .111 Mauer 1b........... 3 1 1 0 1 0 .285 Sano 3b ............. 4 1 1 0 0 0 .270 Kepler rf ............ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .260 Vargas dh .......... 2 1 0 0 1 2 .244 Escobar ph-dh ... 1 0 1 1 0 0 .273 Rosario lf .......... 4 0 2 2 0 0 .289 Adrianza ss ....... 3 0 1 0 1 0 .292 J.Castro c .......... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .217 Totals .............. 34 4 10 3 3 7 New York ..............000 010 100 — 2 8 1 Minnesota ............011 000 02x — 4 10 0 E—Mitchell (3). LOB—New York 7, Minnesota 9. 2B—Frazier 2 (3), Headley (20), Cooper 2 (3), Romine (6), Rosario 2 (16), J.Castro (14). RBIs—Cooper (1), Romine (19), Rosario 2 (30), Escobar (29). DP— New York 1, Minnesota 2.

New York ....... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mitchell ............5 6 2 1 2 2 90 4.29 Smith ...............3 4 2 2 1 5 60 6.00 (L 0-1) ................

Minnesota...... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mejia ...........5 1/3 5 1 1 0 4 76 4.22 Duffey (BS, 2)1 1/32 1 1 0 3 22 4.80 Rogers .........1 1/3 1 0 0 2 0 12 1.98 (W 5-1) ..............

Kintzler ............1 0 0 0 0 1 10 2.18 (S 26-29)............

Inherited runners-scored—Duffey 1-0, Rogers 1-0. HBP—Mejia (Ellsbury). Umpires—Home, Brian O’Nora; First, Scott Barry; Second, Quinn Wolcott; Third, Ramon De Jesus.

T—3:02. A—27,566 (39,021).

Seattle 9, Houston 7 (10) Seattle ........... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Segura ss .......... 5 1 2 0 0 1 .349 Gamel rf ............ 5 1 1 0 0 4 .321 Cano 2b ............. 4 0 0 0 1 1 .268 Cruz dh .............. 4 1 1 1 0 0 .292 Seager 3b .......... 5 2 3 2 0 0 .256 Valencia 1b ....... 4 2 2 2 1 1 .274 Dyson cf ............ 4 1 0 0 1 1 .246 Heredia lf .......... 5 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Zunino c ............ 5 1 2 3 0 2 .233 Totals .............. 41 9 11 8 3 11 Houston ......... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Springer rf......... 3 1 0 2 2 0 .304 Altuve 2b .......... 6 0 1 0 0 2 .347 Reddick lf .......... 5 0 1 0 0 1 .307 Correa ss ........... 1 0 0 1 0 1 .320 Gonzalez ph-ss . 3 1 1 0 0 0 .311 Gurriel 1b .......... 4 1 1 1 1 0 .298 Beltran dh ......... 4 1 2 2 0 2 .235 Aoki pr-dh ......... 1 1 0 0 0 0 .269 McCann c ........... 4 1 2 0 1 0 .253 Bregman 3b ...... 5 0 2 0 0 0 .257 Marisnick cf ...... 4 1 2 1 0 2 .259 Totals .............. 40 7 12 7 4 8 Seattle ..................100 310 110 2 —911 0 Houston ................101 004 010 0 —712 1 E—McCullers (3). LOB—Seattle 6, Houston 10. 2B—Segura (18), Valencia (15), Zunino (12), Reddick (21), Marisnick (6), Gonzalez (13). HR—Cruz (20), off Devenski; Zunino (13), off Gregerson; Seager (13), off Sipp; Valencia (11), off Sipp; Marisnick (11), off Miranda; Beltran (12), off Miranda.

RBIs—Cruz (74), Seager 2 (51), Valencia 2 (48), Zunino 3 (39), Springer 2 (64), Correa (67), Gurriel (46), Beltran 2 (37), Marisnick (26). SB—Segura (11), Gamel (3), Gurriel (2). SF— Springer, Correa. DP—Houston 1.

Seattle ........... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miranda.......5 2/3 6 5 5 1 4 91 4.35 Pazos ................0 2 1 1 0 0 7 3.44 Zych ................1/3 0 0 0 1 1 8 2.15 Rzepczynski .....1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.12 Vincent H, 14 .1/3 3 1 1 0 1 18 2.08 Cishek.............2/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.18 Gallardo............1 1 0 0 2 0 18 5.59 (W 4-7) ..............

Diaz ..................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.18 (S 17-20)............

Houston ......... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McCullers ....4 2/3 6 5 4 3 5 95 3.28 Guduan ...........1/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 7.88 Feliz ..................1 1 0 0 0 2 13 3.70 Devenski ..........1 1 1 1 0 1 12 2.73 Gregerson ........1 1 1 1 0 1 20 4.00 Giles .................1 0 0 0 0 1 16 3.31 Sipp ..................1 2 2 2 0 1 21 4.45 (L 0-1) ................

Pazos pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.

Inherited runners-scored—Zych 3-1, Cishek 3-1, Guduan 2-0. HBP—McCullers (Cruz), Pazos (Marisnick). Umpires— Home, Adam Hamari; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Kerwin Danley; Third, Todd Tichenor.

T—3:49. A—24,701 (42,060).

Cubs 4, Atlanta 3 Chicago ........... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Zobrist 2b-lf...... 5 0 1 2 0 1 .219 Bryant 3b .......... 5 0 0 0 0 0 .272 Rizzo 1b............. 4 1 2 1 1 0 .260 Contreras c........ 4 0 0 0 1 2 .273 Schwarber lf...... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .177 Uehara p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Davis p .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Happ cf .............. 4 0 2 0 0 2 .261 Heyward rf ........ 3 1 0 0 1 1 .262 Baez ss-2b ........ 4 2 2 0 0 2 .264 Lester p ............. 2 0 1 0 1 1 .111 Russell ph-ss .... 1 0 1 1 0 0 .233 Totals .............. 36 4 9 4 4 10 Atlanta ........... AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Inciarte cf .......... 4 1 0 0 0 0 .307 Phillips 2b ......... 4 1 2 1 0 0 .294 Freeman 1b ....... 4 1 1 0 0 1 .333 Kemp lf.............. 4 0 1 1 0 1 .294 L.Adams pr........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Flowers c ........... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .294 Markakis rf ....... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .277 Morris p ............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 --M.Adams ph...... 0 0 0 0 1 0 .291 Swanson pr ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Rodriguez 3b ..... 3 0 0 0 1 2 .000 Camargo ss ....... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .322 Teheran p .......... 2 0 1 0 0 0 .156 Krol p................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Santana rf ......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 .221 Totals .............. 32 3 6 2 3 7 Chicago..................000 020 110 — 4 9 1 Atlanta..................001 000 002 — 3 6 2 E—Baez (9), Rodriguez (1), Teheran (2).

LOB—Chicago 9, Atlanta 5. 2B—Happ (12), Baez (16), Lester (2), Russell (15).

HR—Rizzo (23), off Krol. RBIs—Zobrist 2 (28), Rizzo (60), Russell (32), Phillips (35), Kemp (45). SB—Bryant (7), Contreras (3), Lester (1), Inciarte (12), L.Adams (5), Swanson (2). DP—Chicago 1.

Chicago ........... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lester ...............7 3 1 1 1 6 102 4.07 (W 6-6) ..............

Uehara H, 13 ....1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.13 Davis ................1 3 2 2 2 0 28 2.25 (S 18-18)............

Atlanta ........... IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Teheran ............6 5 2 2 4 5 107 4.69 (L 7-7) ................

Krol..............1 2/3 3 2 2 0 3 24 5.67 Morris .........1 1/3 1 0 0 0 2 20 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Morris 1-1.

WP—Teheran, Davis. Umpires—Home, CB Bucknor; First, Manny Gonzalez; Second, Ed Hickox; Third, Mark Carlson.

T—3:17. A—41,256 (41,500).

Calendar July 30 — Hall of Fame inductions, Cooperstown, N.Y. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.

Aug. 16-17 — Owners’ meetings, Chicago.

Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players.

Dec. 10-14 — Winter meetings, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

MLB AT A GLANCE

Mets pitchers take first steps to return NEW YORK — Noah Syndergaard and Matt Harvey began their throwing programs Monday, playing catch together at Citi Field in their first steps toward returning to the mound for the New York Mets.

Whether either one gets back in time to make a difference this season, well, that remains to be seen.

On the mend from significant injuries, both right-handers said they felt good — but neither would put a timetable on his recovery. Harvey hasn’t been sidelined as long as Syndergaard, but both are at least several weeks away from coming off the disabled list.

“We’ll try and get back as quick as we can,” Harvey said.

Syndergaard, a Mansfield Legacy product and an All-Star last season, has been out since May 1 with a torn lat muscle on his right side. Harvey, the oftinjured former ace who has faded the past two years, went down in mid-June with a stress injury to his right shoulder.

The two have combined for just five wins (four by Harvey) and 18 starts this year, a major reason the disappointing Mets were 41-48 and 91/2 games out of a playoff spot going into Monday night’s series opener against St. Louis.

Marte to return for Pirates: Starling Marte insists he still isn’t sure exactly how the illegal steroid that cost the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder an 80-game suspension got into his system. Set to return Tuesday night, he stressed he did not inject himself with Nandrolone but understands he was “careless” while spending last offseason in his native Dominican Republic.

“That’s something I regret, not being careful enough,” Marte said through translator Mike Gonzalez on Monday in the final hours before his forced half-season sabbatical ends.

The 28-year-old, a two-time Gold Glove winner and one-time All-Star, apologized to his teammates in the min-

utes after his suspension was handed down on April 18. He offered a broader one to the organization and the fan base, well aware his misstep could follow him for the remainder of his career.

Mock ceremony: Ex-Rangers Carlos Beltran hasn’t used his glove in a game in more than two months.

So Monday, the Houston Astros gathered around their teammate in center field and laid his mitt to rest, holding a mock funeral to send it off.

The silly ceremony was held at Minute Maid Park before batting practice, before the AL West leaders hosted Seattle. The Astros wore black shirts to mark the occasion except for Brian McCann, who donned a black robe to officiate the service.

The 40-year-old Beltran has played 77 times this season, all but nine as a designated hitter. He hasn’t been in the field since May 16 in Miami.

AROUND THE MAJORS Boston: Manager John Farrell said Major League Baseball denied Boston’s protest over a bizarre play on the bases last weekend involving Matt Holliday of the New York Yankees.

Houston: All-Star Carlos Correa left the game against Seattle with a jammed left thumb. He’ll be evaluated Tuesday.

Kansas City: Reliever Neftali Feliz was reinstated from the paternity list and RHP Miguel Almonte was optioned to Triple-A Omaha.

NY Yankees: P Michael Pineda is set to have Tommy John surgery Tuesday, probably putting him out of action until at least late next year. The 28-year-old Pineda is 8-4 with a 4.39 ERA in 17 starts. He is eligible for free agency after this season. ... 1B Greg Bird will have ankle surgery Tuesday and is expected to miss the next six weeks.

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NBA

Rockets owner Alexander is selling team, CEO says HOUSTON — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander (74) is selling the team.

Rockets CEO Tad Brown made the announcement Monday, hours after he said Alexander made the decision.

Alexander took over as owner on July 30, 1993, and the Rockets went on to win back-to-back titles in 199495.

Brown said Alexander had been approached over the years by those looking to buy the team, but that he never considered it until very recently.

Brown said he will be working with the league office to facilitate things while they look for a new owner.

There is no set timetable for the sale, but Brown said they want to find the right buyer and won’t rush the process.

■ The Boston Celtics announced that they have signed Paul Pierce (39) to a contract so the 10-time AllStar can retire with the team he spent his best 15 seasons in the NBA with.

Pierce helped bring a championship in 2008 as part the “Big Three” of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen.

■ The Los Angeles Lakers beat Portland 110-98 in the Las Vegas summer league championship game. No. 2 pick Lonzo Ball, who didn’t play in the final because of a mild calf strain, was named Vegas MVP.

NHL

Campbell announces his retirement after 17 seasons CHICAGO — Defenseman Brian Campbell is retiring at age 38 after playing 17 NHL seasons and winning the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010.

Campbell announced his retirement Monday. The Blackhawks said he’ll join their business operations department, assisting with community and youth hockey initiatives and marketing.

■ The Ottawa Senators avoided ar-

bitration with restricted free agent forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau by agreeing to terms on a $9.3 million, three-year contract. Pageau, 24, had eight playoff goals last spring as the Senators reached the Eastern Conference final.

TOUR DE FRANCE

Four riders bid for victory at unpredictable race LE PUY-EN-VELAY, France — The battle for victory will go down to the wire at the Tour de France.

With just six stages left before the three-week race reaches the ChampsElysees, only 29 seconds separate the top four riders through Monday’s off day.

Defending champion and threetime winner Chris Froome has an 18-second lead over Fabio Aru of Italy. Frenchman Romain Bardet, the runner-up to Froome last year, is 23 seconds back in third place. Colombian Rigoberto Uran is fourth.

The final week includes two Alpine stages in high altitude and a short time trial.

ELSEWHERE ■ Former Kentucky basketball player Jerry Bird, who was a member of the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame and had his No. 22 jersey retired to the Rupp Arena rafters, has died at 83.

Bird played for Kentucky from 1954 to 1956 and helped the school attain two Southeastern Conference titles in 1954 and 1955.

■ A mixed martial arts fighter has died after losing a match in Kentucky. Gary Thomas of Hardrock MMA promotions, which put on the event, told The Courier-Journal that 37-year-old Donshay White of Radcliff, Ky., died Saturday after competing in a heavyweight match in Louisville against challenger Ricky Muse.

■ Shi Tingmao and Chang Yani won the China’s ninth straight world title in women’s 3-meter springboard synchronized diving at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary, and Chen Aisen and Yang Hao delivered China’s fifth gold of the championships in the men’s 10-meter.

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Exterior of the Clutch Bar, located on Cedar Springs Road in Dallas. Police are investigating a Sunday incident that reportedly involved Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott.

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who was involved.

But as details emerge, they could influence whether the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell decide to discipline Elliott, the league’s leading rusher last season and one of its brightest young stars. The NFL is aware of the matter and gathering facts, according to a league spokesman.

ESPN reported last week that Elliott was already in line for a one- or two-game suspension over claims of violence made last year by a female acquaintance.

Elliott denied wrongdoing and is not facing charges in those incidents, but he can be suspended by the NFL anyway. In the meantime, Elliott has continued to show questionable decision-making and behavior, even after saying he is aware of the need for caution because of his high-profile position.

The Cowboys depart Saturday, also Elliott’s 22nd birthday, for training camp in Southern California.

Dallas police said they were sent about 9:40 p.m.

Sunday to the 2500 block of Cedar Springs, where Clutch is located, to investigate a disturbance call. A 30-year-old man told police that someone he didn’t know assaulted him.

Police records show the blow caused “serious bodily injury.”

Police records identify the alleged victim as Nkemakolam “Daryl” Ibeneme, who regularly is a DJ at Dallasarea clubs and also goes by “DTrain.” He did not respond to requests for comment.

TMZ Sports released video from the scene that it says shows the alleged victim moments after being struck in the face, lying on the floor and holding his nose before being loaded into an ambulance.

At least one person on Twitter claimed to witness Elliott strike another person. He did not respond to requests for comment.

Elliott’s representatives and the Cowboys also did not respond to questions about the matter.

Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant tweeted, in part, that Elliott “could have been defending himself.”

The incident is part of a precipitous pattern for Elliott, whom the Cowboy selected with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2016 draft out of Ohio State and who exceeded even massive expectations on the field last season.

It’s been away from football where he’s struggled.

Elliott came under scrutiny in March for pulling down a woman's top and exposing her breast at the St. Patrick’s Day block party in Dallas’ Lower Greenville neighborhood. The incident was caught on video.

He also visited a marijuana dispensary in Seattle, where pot is legal, before a preseason game there. He was at a bar in Columbus, Ohio, in February when one of his closest friends was arrested for trying to carry a firearm into the establishment.

ESPN reported that he and his representatives last week received the league’s findings of its year-long investigation into Elliott’s behavior and were expected to respond this week.

As the Cowboys wrapped up their offseason program in June, Elliott said he was wising up as he headed into a month’s worth of free time.

“Just kind of want to stay out of the way,” Elliott said.

“Whatever you do is going to be seen.”

When Elliott was asked about what he’s learned from offseason issues, he said: “It’s just life. You learn from your mistakes. If you don’t, it can be brutal.”

Elliott infused the Cowboys with his energy and talents last season, rushing for 1,631 yards and 15 touchdowns, and he has said he wants to take on an even bigger role this season as Dallas tries to win the NFC East again and move past playoff disappointments.

He and quarterback Dak Prescott often goof around in the locker room, and his memorable hop into a Salva-

tion Army Red Kettle as part of a touchdown celebration last season showed off his fun-loving side.

He re-enacted the hop last weekend as part of the National Fantasy Football Convention held among fans in Fair Park.

But Elliott has also been known to struggle when fans approach him off the field, and he left the event’s VIP party last Friday night in Dallas’ Design District in frustration.

Elliott is not the only Cowboy to make headlines this offseason for the wrong reasons. Linebacker Damien Wilson was arrested July 4 on allegations he backed his pickup into a woman and flashed a rifle at her brotherin-law at Toyota Stadium, which was hosting an FC Dallas match and a fireworks show that night. Wilson is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Wilson's attorney has since denied the allegations.

In late May, cornerback Nolan Carroll was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after officers reported that he was seen driving on the wrong side of the road.

Staff writer Jon Machota contributed to this story.

Twitter: @khairopoulos, @naheedrajwani

Elliott, a player already under league investigation for previous accusations of domestic violence in Ohio and Florida.

Charges were not filed in those incidents.

It’s too soon to say with any certainty what happened at Clutch, a bar on Cedar Springs where the Yelp reviewers tell you right away that the bouncers are just “itching for a fight.”

Elliott has been accused by witnesses of throwing a punch but has not been charged. Dallas police said they are investigating but did not mention Elliott in a statement issued Monday morning.

Maybe defending himself or defending a woman’s honor?

Maybe something or maybe nothing? Maybe not the last time we hear Elliott’s name attached to an incident?

The last one seems the most certain, given the course the talented running back has weaved since being taken with the fourth pick of the 2016 draft.

The latest only adds to the possibility of the Cowboys opening the season without the NFL’s leading rusher from 2016. What seemed until recently a long shot now ranks as a likelihood.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Elliott was given a report from the NFL a week ago, detailing the year-long investigation into the other incidents.

Elliott was supposed to respond to the league this week before any ruling involving a suspension could be made.

This would seem likely to delay any NFL announcement unless Dallas police tell us there was no Elliott involvement Sunday night.

Trouble has dogged Elliott ever since the Cowboys picked him fourth in the 2016 draft, but it has mostly seemed like the smallest stuff.

Each time — whether being photographed in a legal marijuana store or for an incident involving a woman he knew at the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade or when police talked to him in Columbus, Ohio, about his knowledge of another incident — Elliott has told the media that he has learned his lesson and that he knows he needs to lead a more quiet life as a star in the NFL. And each time … something else comes along.

If Elliott ends up landing

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a suspension, he will add to a growing list for a team that opens its defense of its NFC East title against its top competition, the New York Giants, in prime time Sept. 10.

The defense is without pass rusher David Irving for four games. Defensive end Randy Gregory seems to be on perpetual suspension for failed drug tests. Linebacker Damien Wilson is being investigated for his arrest at Toyota Stadium earlier this month where he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (his truck) and for brandishing an AR-15.

Cornerback Nolan Carroll was charged with DUI this spring.

Third-round pick Jourdan Lewis is scheduled to stand trial next week for a domestic violence charge from his time at the University of Michigan.

Lewis is not under NFL investigation.

So it has been assumed that the offense would carry a defense — already busy trying to incorporate rookies into its regular rotation — but how much does that change if Elliott is out for any length of time?

McFadden ran for 1,089 yards including more than 800 yards in his 10 starts in 2015, sparking the belief that it doesn’t take an elite back to succeed behind the Cowboys’ offensive line. Last year McFadden’s playing time virtually disappeared when Elliott arrived on the scene. McFadden gained 87 yards on 24 carries, and his yards per carry dropped a full yard (from 4.6 to 3.6) from the previous season.

Former Washington Redskin Alfred Morris played more than McFadden in 2016, but his yards per carry declined for the fourth straight season to an uninspiring 3.5 on 69 attempts.

Whether it’s McFadden, Morris or someone behind Door No. 3, the Cowboys’ depth chart at running back has been rendered much more interesting by Elliott’s inability to keep his name out of trouble.

It seemed like a playful shot last week when Dak Prescott told a Sports Illustrated interviewer that Elliott needs to spend more time working for sponsors or charity like Prescott does and less time posing naked for ESPN the Magazine.

Taking his clothes off is probably the least of Zeke’s problems right now.

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Cousins retains Redskins’ franchise tag QB prefers playing on year-to-year basis; will get $23.9 million in ’17 Kirk Cousins will be the first quarterback in NFL history to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag.

Cousins and the Washington Redskins didn’t sign a long-term deal by the deadline Monday. He will make $23.94 million on the franchise tag in 2017 after earning $19.95 million last year.

Team president Bruce Allen

said in a prepared statement that the Redskins’ goal was to sign Cousins to a long-term contract and offered him $53 million guaranteed or $72 million in the event of injury. That would have been the secondmost fully guaranteed money given to a QB behind Aaron Rodgers’ $54 million.

“Despite our repeated attempts, we have not received any offer from Kirk’s agent this year,” Allen said. “Kirk has made it clear that he prefers to play on a year-to-year basis.

While we would have liked to

work out a long-term contract before this season, we accept his decision.”

Cousins’ agent, Mike McCartney, declined an interview request made before Allen issued his statement.

The 28-year-old Michigan State product is going into his third full season as Washington’s starter. Cousins set franchise records with 4,166 and 4,917 yards the past two seasons, but has yet to win a playoff game.

Cousins and executives called negotiations positive, and

Scoreboard BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE American South Div. ........W L PCT GB Memphis (STL) ................61 33 .649 — Nashville (OAK)...............44 51 .463 17 1/2 Round Rock (TEX) ...........42 53 .44219 1/2 New Orleans (FLA) .........38 57 .40023 1/2 American North Div. ........W L PCT GB Colo. Springs (MIL) .........57 34 .626 — Okla. City (LAD) ..............50 44 .532 81/2 Iowa (ChC) ........................43 50 .462 15 Omaha (KC)......................42 50 .45715 1/2 Pacific North Div...............W L PCT GB Reno (ARI)........................55 39 .585 — Fresno (HOU)...................53 41 .564 2 Tacoma (SEA) ..................46 47 .495 8 1/2 Sacramento (SF) .............38 55 .409 16 1/2 Pacific South Div. .............W L PCT GB Salt Lake (LAA) ...............50 44 .532 — Albuquerque (COL) .........47 46 .505 21/2 El Paso (SD)......................47 47 .500 3 Las Vegas (NYM) ............36 58 .383 14 MONDAY’S RESULTS at Round Rock ........10 New Orleans ..........1 Memphis ..................5 at Okla. City ...........3 at Iowa .....................1 Nashville ................0 at Albuquerque ........6 Tacoma...................5 Colo. Springs ............8 at Omaha .......4 (12) El Paso........................ at Sacramento .........

Fresno......................... at Las Vegas ............

Salt Lake .................... at Reno ....................

TODAY’S GAMES New Orleans at Round Rock 7:05 Colorado Springs at Omaha 12:05 Tacoma at Albuquerque 5:35 (dh) Memphis at Oklahoma City 7:05 Nashville at Iowa 7:08 El Paso at Sacramento 9:05 Fresno at Las Vegas 9:05 Salt Lake at Reno 9:05 MONDAY’S LINECORE New Orleans.........100 000 000 — 1 7 0 Round Rock...........034 300 00x — 10 16 1

NO: Copeland, Marte (5), Cunniff (7) and Nola. RR: Dykstra, Reyes (6), Wolff (7), Alvarez (8), Claiborne (9) and Hayes. WP—Dykstra (1-3). LP—Copeland (6-9). 2B—NO: Telis.

RR: Nicholas. HR—RR: Martinson (7), Rua (4), Guzman (10). SB—RR: Marte. E—RR: Rua. T—2:31. A—8,199.

one-year franchise tender before Monday.

The Steelers wanted to sign Bell to a long-term contract and tried hard in hours before Monday’s deadline. Team president Art Rooney II and general manager Kevin Colbert were vocal about that after the season and throughout the spring.

In the end, it proved to be a tricky negotiation for both sides. Bell knows he’ll be able to make $26 million guaranteed at minimum if he is able to avoid a major injury this season. It’s a gamble he is willing

to take.

Panthers fire GM: The Carolina Panthers, who faded from a Super Bowl spot to a losing season in 2016, fired general manager Dave Gettleman on Monday, eight days before training camp opens. They already were without a team president after Danny Morrison resigned in February.

Owner Jerry Richardson said in a statement he made the decision after a long evaluation of the team’s football operations.

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Umpires— HP: Grant Conrad. 1B: Jeff Gorman. 3B: Kyle McCrady.

T—2:27. A—6,761.

South Div. ..........................W L PCT GB San Antonio (Padres) .....15 9 .625 — Corpus Christi (Astros) ..13 11 .542 2 Frisco (Rangers) ................ 9 15 .375 6 Midland (Athletics)........... 8 16 .333 7 North Div. ..........................W L PCT GB Tulsa (Dodgers) ...............15 9 .625 — Springfield (Cardinals) ...15 9 .625 — NW Arkansas (Royals) ...11 13 .458 4 Arkansas (Mariners) ......10 14 .417 5 MONDAY’S RESULTS at Corpus Christi ......7 Frisco .....................2 at Springfield ...........4 NW Arkansas .........1 Midland ....................5 at San Antonio.......1 Arkansas ................13 at Tulsa ..................2 TODAY’S GAMES Frisco at Corpus Christi 7:05 6:30 NW Arkansas at Springfield Midland at San Antonio 7:05 Arkansas at Tulsa 7:05

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they may go through this again next spring. If Washington uses the franchise tag again for 2018, Cousins would get a 44 percent raise to $34.47 million, or they could use the transition tag on him at a cost of $28.78 million.

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BASKETBALL WNBA Western Conference ........W L Pct. GB Minnesota ........................15 2 .882 — Los Angeles ......................14 5 .736 2 Phoenix .............................11 8 .579 5 Dallas ................................10 11 .476 7 Seattle ................................ 9 10 .474 7 San Antonio........................ 2 17 .105 14 Eastern Conference..........W L Pct. GB Connecticut ......................12 8 .600 — Washington ......................11 9 .550 1 New York ............................ 9 9 .500 2 Atlanta ................................ 8 10 .444 3 Indiana ................................ 7 12 .368 41/2 Chicago................................ 6 13 .316 5 1/2 MONDAY’S RESULT at Los Angeles .......80 Indiana .................62

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SOCCER MLS WESTERN W Kansas City.............8 FC Dallas .................8 Houston ..................8 Portland ..................7 San Jose .................7 Vancouver...............7 Seattle ....................6 Los Angeles ............6 Real Salt Lake .......6 Colorado..................6 Minnesota Utd. .....5 EASTERN W Toronto FC ............11 Chicago..................11 NYC FC ..................10 Atlanta Utd ............9 Orlando City............8 Columbus ................9 New York ................8 Philadelphia............6 Montreal .................5 New England ..........5 D.C. United..............5 NOTE: Three points for tie.

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WEDNESDAY’S MATCHES Philadelphia at Montreal San Jose at New York Toronto FC at NYC FC Houston at Minnesota Utd. D.C. United at Seattle Real Salt Lake at Portland Vancouver at Los Angeles

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TENNIS ATP DELL TECHNOLOGIES HALL OF FAME OPEN

(at Newport, R.I.) MONDAY’S RESULTS Grass-court outdoor tournament FIRST-ROUND SINGLES Dennis Novikov, United States, d. Marco

Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-3.

Denis Kudla, United States, d. Mitchell Krueger, United States, 6-4, 5-7, 6-0.

Tobias Kamke, Germany, d. Taylor Fritz, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, d. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Adrian Menendez-Maceira, Spain, d. Stefan Kozlov, United States, 6-2, 7-6 (5).

Bjorn Fratangelo, United States, d. Illya Marchenko (8), Ukraine, 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4.

ATP SKISTAR SWEDISH OPEN

(at Bastad, Sweden) MONDAY’S RESULTS Clay-court outdoor tournament FIRST-ROUND SINGLES Henri Laaksonen, Switzerland, d. Mikael Ymer, Sweden, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

ATP WORLD PLAVA LAGUNA CROATIA OPEN

(at Umag, Croatia) MONDAY’S RESULTS Clay-court outdoor tournament FIRST-ROUND SINGLES Marco Cecchinato, Italy, d. Gilles Simon (5), France, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, d. Marius Copil, Romania, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

WTA BRD BUCHAREST OPEN

(at Bucharest, Romania) MONDAY’S RESULTS Clay-court outdoor tournament FIRST-ROUND SINGLES Cagla Buyukakcay, Turkey, d. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, d. Irina Bara, Romania, 6-4, 6-4.

Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, d. Maryna Zanevska, Belgium, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1.

Carla Suarez Navarro (2), Spain, d. Annika Beck, Germany, 6-0, 6-1.

Ekaterina Alexandrova (9), Russia, d. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2.

Jacqueline Cristian, Romania, d. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

WTA LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP GSTAAD

(at Gstaad, Switzerland) MONDAY’S RESULTS Clay-court outdoor tournament FIRST-ROUND SINGLES Maria Sakkari, Greece, d. Mona Barthel (4),

Germany, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Rebecca Sramkova, Slovakia, d. Nina Stojanovic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.

Carina Witthoeft (6), Germany, d. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Louisa Chirico, United States, d. Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Kiki Bertens (2), Netherlands, d. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-1.

Anna Zaja, Germany, d. Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, 6-2, 6-3.

Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, d. Rebeka Masarova, Switzerland, 7-5, 6-7 (9), 7-5.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS— Selected the contract of RHP Jacob Turner from Syracuse (IL). Transferred RHP Koda Glover to the 60-day DL.

BASKETBALL

BOSTON CELTICS— Signed G/F Paul Pierce and announced his retirement.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES— Signed F Rade Zagorac.

FOOTBALL

CAROLINA PANTHERS— Fired general manager Dave Gettleman.

HOCKEY

BUFFALO SABRES— Named Chris Hajt assistant coach. Retained assistant coach Tom Ward.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS— Announced the retirement of D Brian Campbell, who will remain with the club in the business operations department.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS— Signed F Frederick Gaudreau to a three-year contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS— Agree to terms with C Jean-Gabriel Pageau on a three-year contract.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL ATLANTA BRAVES— Optioned RHP Jason Hursh and INF Jace Peterson to Gwinnett (IL). Reinstated UTs Sean Rodriguez and Danny Santana from the 10-day DL. BALTIMORE ORIOLES— Optioned RHP Stefan Crichton to Norfolk (IL). Sent RHP Mike Wright to the GCL Orioles for a rehab assignment. Agreed to terms with LHP Cameron Bishop on a minor league contract.

BOSTON RED SOX— Optioned INF Tzu-Wei Lin and RHP Austin Maddox to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated LHP Eduardo Rodriguez from the 10-day DL. Sent LHP Roenis Elias to Lowell (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES— Optioned LHP Zac Rosscup to Albuquerque (PCL). Recalled RHP Jairo Diaz from Albuquerque.

HOUSTON ASTROS— Sent LHP Dallas Keuchel to Corpus Christi (TL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS— Optioned RHP Miguel Almonte and OF Jorge Soler to Omaha (PCL). Recalled OF Billy Burns from Omaha. Reinstated RHP Neftali Perez from paternity leave. Sent 3B Cheslor Cuthbert to Omaha for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS— Agreed to terms with LHP Jason Richman on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES— Optioned RHP Domingo German to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES— Optioned RHP Jose Valdez to El Paso (PCL). Reinstated RHP Kirby Yates from paternity leave.

SOCCER

D.C. UNITED— Traded an international roster spot through the end of 2017 to Columbus for $50,000 in general allocation money.

Waived F Jose Ortiz.

COLLEGES

CAMPBELL— Named Jim Malone assistant athletic director for physical development/ strength and conditioning.

MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR— Named Steven Thrash receivers and junior varsity coach.

MINNESOTA STATE-MANKATO— Named Tony Scherber assistant athletic director for sport operations.

PLATTSBURGH STATE— Named Randy Ashe assistant trainer.

RIT— Named Melissa Piacentini assistant women’s hockey coach.

ROGER WILLIAMS— Named Kiki Jacobs director of athletics, intramurals and recreation, effective Aug. 7.

RUTGERS— Promoted Marco Battaglia to assistant athletic director for development.

TEMPLE— Promoted Kristy Bannon Sromovsky to senior associate athletic director/compliance and student-athlete affairs.

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White House OKs guest-worker visas Landscapers and others say the increase may be too late. 1A

NATION & WORLD

Subway stores to freshen up look The chain’s redesign includes a brighter atmosphere and tablets for ordering. 2D

ECONOMY & YOU

Dollar stores fight to survive As chains move in, smaller competitors are forced to adapt. 3D

DALLAS-FORT WORTH

oliticians love to say Texas is wide open for business. But will they listen to those who actually do business here?

On Monday morning, leaders from 14 Dallas-area companies took a public stand against a “bathroom bill” that’s widely seen as discriminating against transgender people in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott has directed lawmakers to consider such a proposal in a special session that starts Tuesday.

Collectively, the local companies behind the letter generate over $322 billion in annual revenue and have over 730,000 employees around the world.

Some adopted pro-LGBT policies decades ago, and all put a premium on attracting a diverse workforce.

Companies often avoid political controversies, which can alienate customers. But the bathroom bill runs so counter to the core values of some employers that they decided it was

With a Napa Valley store, the luxury retailer will debut its first boutique outside Texas. 5D

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necessary to speak out publicly.

CEOs from AT&T, Texas Instruments, BNSF Railway and American and Southwest airlines were among those signing a letter delivered to Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus.

A bathroom bill, the letter said, “would seriously hurt the state’s ability to attract new businesses, investment and jobs.”

“Our companies are competing every day to bring the best and brightest talent to Dallas,” the letter said. “To that end, we strongly support diversity

and inclusion. This legislation threatens our ability to attract and retain the best talent in Texas, as well as the greatest sporting and cultural attractions in the world.”

The controversy has already caused damage.

As of Monday, $66 million in conventions had been canceled in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, tourism officials said. Another $205 million in conventions would be canceled if a bathroom law passes, they said. And $1.5 billion in events and conventions are at risk, according to the group Texas Welcomes All. The letter from Dallas CEOs is the latest in a string of public pleas to reject a bathroom bill. On Sunday, IBM took out full-page ads in Texas newspapers and said it would send executives to Austin to work against the measure.

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INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

No signs of a ‘Trump slump’ in tourism With travel up despite strong dollar, some call it a ‘Trump bump’

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NEW YORK — Last winter, the U.S. tourism industry fretted that the Trump administration policies might lead to a “Trump slump” in travel.

But those fears may have been premature. International arrivals and travel-related spending are up in 2017 compared with the same period in 2016.

There might even be a “Trump bump,” says Roger Dow, CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, a nonprofit representing the travel industry.

A few months ago, Dow and others warned that President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and ban on travel from a handful of mostly Muslim countries could send an anti-tourism message.

But “impending doom hasn’t manifested itself,” Dow said in an interview.

“Right now, we cannot identify a loss. It’s contrary to everything we’ve heard, but travel is in slightly better shape than it was a year ago.

Everyone wants me to tell the story of the sky is falling, but for the travel industry, the sky is not falling.”

The latest numbers from the U.S. Travel Association’s

Travel Trends Index showed 6.6 percent growth in international travel to the U.S. in April and 5 percent growth in May compared with the same months last year. The Travel Trends Index uses hotel, airline and U.S. government data.

Individual sectors have good news, too. Hotel occupancy for the first five months of 2017 was “higher than it has ever been before,” said Jan Freitag, senior vice president with STR, which tracks hotel industry data.

American Express Meetings & Events has “not seen a slowdown in either domestic U.S. meetings or international meetings from the U.S.

in the past six months,” according to senior vice president Issa Jouaneh. Even New York’s National September 11 Memorial and Museum has more international visitors: 554,381 at the museum Jan. 1 to July 11, up from 517,539 the same period last year.

Florida’s Orlando International Airport, a gateway for theme park visitors, reported growth for domestic and international passengers year to date, though Visit Orlando CEO George Aguel said it was “still premature to determine a specific impact” from Trump administration policies.

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Mortgage lender Ditech will lay off 437 workers as it closes its Irving office by the end of this year, according to a notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.

“Due to current circumstances, management has determined that it is in the best interests of the company to consolidate our mortgage servicing operations in company locations other than Irving,” wrote Elizabeth Monahan, chief human resources officer for Ditech’s owner, Walter Investment Management Corp.

Her letter to the state was publicly released Monday.

National Mortgage News first reported the closing Friday and said the restructuring was aimed at stemming losses

by Walter Investment. It cited an internal memo sent to Ditech employees on July 12.

“Despite the progress we are making on our 2017 operating plan, our financial results have been disappointing See

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FOOD INDUSTRY

Pizza Hut looks to drive out competition Plano-based chain to hire 14,000 delivery workers by year’s end

By KAREN ROBINSON-JACOBS

Staff Writer krobinson@dallasnews.com

As it looks to fend off competition from rival pizza chains and services such as UberEats, Plano-based Pizza Hut on Tuesday announced plans to hire about 14,000 additional delivery drivers across the country.

That includes about 500 in North Texas, where the brand has more than 150 locations.

The nation’s largest pizza chain has had to confront slowing sales, due in part to incursion from all manner of food delivered to your door by competitors.

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Tesla: Autopilot wasn’t on during crash

Subway to freshen look

Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk has posted an e-mail from a driver who now says he didn’t have his vehicle’s Autopilot system engaged during a weekend crash in Minnesota, an incident that contributed to a stock decline Monday.

Dave Clark, 58, had told police the 2016 vehicle left the roadway after he activated Tesla’s driver-assistance system, according to a statement released Sunday by the Kandiyohi County sheriff ’s office. The vehicle was found flipped on its top, and Clark and four adult passengers suffered minor injuries, police said.

In an email sent Monday afternoon to the sheriff ’s office, Clark said he was confused in the moments after the crash.

Tesla also announced that it is adding two new executives from major media companies as directors after investors pressured the electric-car maker to diversify a board with members who aren’t closely tied to Musk.

Wire reports

NATION

DIVIDENDS

Netflix piling up viewers, big bills

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SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix is pulling in new viewers and award nominations in droves, but the online video service still faces a long-term problem: Its acclaimed programming lineup is costing far more money than what subscribers pay for it.

That hasn’t been a big issue so far, thanks to investors’ willingness to accept scant profits in exchange for robust subscriber growth.

Netflix delivered on that front again Monday, announcing that it added 5.2 million subscribers in the second quarter covering April to June. That’s the largest increase ever during the period, which has always been the company’s slowest time of year.

Wall Street rewarded Netflix by driving up its stock by more than 10 percent to $178.30 in extended trading, putting the shares on track to hit a new high in Tuesday’s regular trading.

FedEx recovering from cyberattack MEMPHIS, Tenn. — FedEx Corp. says it is still working to recover from a cyberattack that hit its European TNT Express unit, and the incident could have a material impact on its financial results.

Shares of FedEx fell 3.4 percent Monday morning but recovered about half by the close of trading.

FedEx said in a regulatory filing that the June 27 attack was causing lost revenue and higher costs for Netherlandsbased TNT, which FedEx bought for $4.8 billion last year.

Walmart apologizes after vendor’s slur NEW YORK — Walmart is apologizing after a racial slur was used in a product description by a third-party vendor on its website.

The seller used the slur in reference to a hair cap.

Walmart says it has removed the listing from its website and called it a “clear violation of our policy.”

It said it was “appalled that this third-party seller listed their item with this description on our online marketplace.”

App melts down on ice cream day OAK BROOK, Ill. — A McDonald’s promotion for free ice cream cones to celebrate National Ice Cream Day went awry because of a

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glitch with the fast food giant’s mobile app.

McDonald’s offered a free vanilla cone to its app users Sunday. But after several users complained to McDonald’s on Twitter that the app wasn’t working, McDonald’s told them to instead simply ask the cashier to honor the promotion.

McDonald’s tweeted that the company was trying to resolve the issue and promised to have its app “back online soon.”

A representative for the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company apologized Monday for the “technical issues” and said the app is working again.

WORLD

Canada wildfires push lumber prices higher Sweeping wildfires across Canada’s British Columbia are threatening timber supplies and sending lumber prices surging.

More than 375 fires have swept across the province, burning forests and forcing sawmills to shut down or evacuate. While the impact on supplies is minimal so far, there are concerns that the blazes will continue to spread amid hot, dry conditions, according to Paul Quinn, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in Vancouver. Lumber futures on Monday jumped by the exchange limit in Chicago to the highest in more than two months.

BNP Paribas fined $246 million by Fed BNP Paribas SA was fined $246 million by the Federal Reserve for failing to prevent its currency traders from using electronic chatrooms to manipulate prices, according to a Monday statement from the regulator.

The Fed said the Parisbased lender’s deficiencies — which already led to a $350 million settlement in May with the New York Department of Financial Services — constituted unsafe and unsound practices and ordered the bank to improve its oversight and internal controls over foreign-exchange trading.

Earlier this year, a former BNP Paribas trader, Jason Katz, pleaded guilty to violating federal antitrust laws.

The Fed barred him from the U.S. banking industry in January.

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Redesign includes brighter atmosphere and ordering tablets NEW YORK — Subway wants to freshen up the look of its stores as it tries to stem a sales decline.

The sandwich chain says the redesign — which includes a brighter atmosphere, displays of vegetables behind the counter and ordering tablets — is the first major revamp since the early 2000s. The changes will take place as stores around the country are remodeled and new ones are built.

The makeover comes as Subway’s sales have fallen for four straight years amid competition from places including Jimmy John’s and Firehouse Subs. Since 2012, Subway’s average annual sales per store are down 13 percent at $420,000, according to industry tracker Technomic. Last year, its number of U.S. stores also shrank for the first time, though the company says it still has more than 26,200 domestic locations. Globally, the chain says it has more than 44,800.

Don Fertman, Subway’s chief development officer, says franchisee agreements require them to remodel stores every seven to 10 years. The company says that franchisees will have a variety of design options to pick from and that it is looking for ways to help them lower costs.

Fertman says the current “Tuscany” design was intended in part to reflect the Italian heritage of founder Fred De-

Photos by Chris Radcliffe/The Associated Press

A Subway store in Knoxville, Tenn., features the redesign coming to more locations in the coming months.

Ordering tablets are expected to be added as part of a remodel for Subway stores.

Luca, who died in 2015. His sister, Suzanne Greco, is now CEO of the privately held company.

“It’s been working for us since the early 2000s,” Fertman said, but he noted that it was time to evolve.

In the U.S. and Canada, new stores will be built using the redesign. About 150 stores will get the new look in the coming

months, Fertman said. By the end of next year, he said 3,000 to 5,000 stores globally should have it, with most of those being in the United States and Canada. Subway says the stores with new designs will include new menu items, such as bread made without gluten.

Some have reservations about the plans.

John Gordon, a restaurant

industry analyst, said Subway might be better off focusing on improving its food before turning to remodeling, given the tight financial situations of many franchisees.

While the company hasn’t yet specified the cost, the remodeling looks like it will be pricey for franchisees, notes Keith Miller, who has three Subway stores in Northern California.

Miller, who is also head of the Coalition of Franchisee Associations, said two key questions are whether remodeling would boost sales, and whether franchisees can afford it. If franchisees can’t afford it, Miller said, it’s not really a solution.

“How do you require someone to do something that they can’t financially do?” he said.

Candice Choi, The Associated Press

NET NEUTRALITY

WALL STREET

Battle brews over internet access

Investment firm eyes P&G board seat

Tech firms, providers of broadband try to sway FCC on rules Microsoft Corp. and Google pleaded with U.S. regulators on Monday to preserve strong net neutrality rules, while AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. backed weakened oversight and said Congress should settle the issue that’s burned for more than a decade.

The tech pillars and the broadband providers are trying to sway the Federal Communications Commission, which is moving toward gutting rules against interfering with web traffic. Monday was a deadline for comments on the FCC proposal advanced

by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai called Restoring Internet Freedom, which already has attracted more than 8 million comments.

The rules passed by an Obama-era, Democratic-led FCC forbid broadband providers from blocking or slowing data — to hinder rivals, for instance, or to favor affiliated services — and from setting up “fast lanes” that would cost more. Under Pai’s proposal announced in April, the FCC would end its claim to strong legal authority to enforce the rules, and the chairman asked whether the FCC should retain the ban on paid fast lanes.

For broadband providers, the change would remove a threat of intrusive rate regulation as FCC authority is cut

back. If Congress passed a law, that would insulate net neutrality rules from changing as partisan control of the FCC switches following elections.

Web-based companies see peril in relaxing rules that they say protect consumers’ ability “to enjoy the unfettered ability to access the lawful content of their choice,” the Internet Association, a Washington-based trade group with members including Microsoft, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., said in a filing Monday. Undoing the rules “would introduce significant uncertainty and would threaten the virtuous circle of innovation” that’s seen broadband services boom.

Internet service providers see the issue differently, arguing that the embattled rules have deterred broadband investment.

Rules should return to the lighter-touch framework that existed before the current rules were set in 2015 “in order for the U.S. to retain its leading role in shaping and benefiting from the internet,” USTelecom, a trade group with members including AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc., said in a summary of its comments Monday to the FCC. “A lasting congressional solution is needed, but, in the interim, the commission must undo the harm.”

Todd Shields, Bloomberg News

Trend of activist shareholders taking on corporate giants grows The billionaire investor Nelson Peltz said Monday that he was seeking a board seat at Procter & Gamble, setting up one of the biggest showdowns between an activist shareholder and a corporate titan.

It is yet another sign of the growing power of top activist investors, who have successfully challenged ever-bigger companies into changing their corporate strategies, profiting along the way.

In a regulatory filing, Peltz’s investment firm, Trian Fund Management, argued that Procter & Gamble, the consumer products giant, had underperformed financially and was in need of a shake-up.

Trian contended that Procter & Gamble needed to cut costs and trim its bureaucracy.

Trian disclosed in February that it had taken a $3.5 billion stake in the company.

Activist investors have become forces to be reckoned with on Wall Street in the past decade, taking on bigger targets and often getting results. Their success in shaking up companies has drawn the support of other shareholders. Even staid mutual funds that once kept their distance now give activists ideas about which companies to take on.

The past 12 months alone have seen Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund, Third Point, push for changes at Nestlé and Paul Singer’s firm, Elliott Manage-

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Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz’s investment firm is seeking a board seat at Procter & Gamble, claiming the consumer products giant has underperformed financially and is in need of a shake-up.

ment, take on Samsung and the mining giant BHP Billiton.

The consumer goods giant P&G, whose products include Crest toothpaste and Gillette razors, has struggled in recent years to win over Wall Street analysts worried by increased competition and declining market share, particularly in the United States. The company has sought to markedly slim down, announcing in 2014 that it would cut around 100 brands.

Over the past five years, Procter & Gamble’s stock price has lagged behind the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, which rose 81.5 percent compared with the company’s increase of almost 34 percent. Sales at the consumer products conglomerate have declined during the past four years, and the company has cycled through three chief executives in eight years.

Michael J. de la Merced, The New York Times

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What’s going on? Well, customer traffic fell last quarter for the first time in nearly a decade, raising fears that Tractor Supply has gotten caught up in retail’s long-term slump. But weather and calendar shifts played big roles in that slowdown, and there are ample reasons to keep believing in the company’s future.

Tractor Supply is making major improvements to its digital offerings, rolling out a national “buy online, pick up in store” program. Early results reflect increased digital purchasing and also extra spending at stores.

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THE FOOL’S SCHOOL

Think twice about real estate investing The idea of owning rental property can be enticing: You buy properties, get tenants and collect rent checks. But it isn’t as simple as that. Here are some tips to consider.

■ Choose your locations carefully. If you see a lot of For Sale or For Rent signs, that’s not a good sign. Favor neighborhoods near shopping and good schools.

■ Expect to spend money, not just collect it. Apartments will need to be painted. Sinks will need to be fixed, and locks will need to be changed. Roofs and rugs will need to be replaced. To attract and keep tenants, your property should look clean and decent.

■ If you have a good tenant who takes care of the property and pays on time, you may not want to raise the rent very often.

A reliable $1,000 per month can be better than an iffier $1,200 per month. Choose tenants carefully, running credit checks and calling references.

■ Don’t let tenants fall more than a few weeks behind in the rent, because they may never be able to catch up. If there are problems, negotiate, perhaps arranging for the rent to be paid weekly. Consider collecting the rent in person, so you can regularly check up on the property’s condition.

■ Learn the rules and laws governing rental properties, so you know how to deal with various issues, such as when and how to evict. Make sure you understand your insurance policy and what it does and doesn’t cover.

■ Seek and develop relationships with people who can help you, such as friendly, experienced landlords in the area and good carpenters, electricians, plumbers, contractors, roofers, etc. They may bail you out on occasion, so treat them well.

■ Before you buy a rental property, read up on the topic and perhaps even take a course.

One useful book is Real Estate Investing for Dummies, by Eric Tyson and Robert Griswold (For Dummies, $23).

MY DUMBEST INVESTMENT

Sometimes it’s better to sell and move on My dumbest investment has been in an energy com-

pany. It cratered by 65 percent over less than six months, and it kept falling. I hung on, thinking that if it didn’t sink any further and the dividend didn’t shrink or disappear, I would break even in six or seven years.

M.B. The Fool responds: That’s a dangerous way to think about your investments. If a stock plunges in value, you should know — or find out — why. Then assess whether its challenges will amount to a temporary slowdown or will be life-threatening. Many times, a stock will plunge for good reason, making it not something you want to hang on to.

Your company fell victim to plunging oil prices and took on a lot of debt trying to stay afloat. It wasn’t enough, and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2016, essentially wiping out your hope of breaking even.

Today, it’s still in bankruptcy, and there is no dividend.

There were — and are — more promising companies in which to invest.

It’s a common error to think about staying invested in a fallen company, hoping it will get its act together so that you can at least recoup what you lost. But it’s more rational to sell, take whatever money is left, and invest it in one of your most promising investment ideas.

ASK THE FOOL

Mergers not always good for stock prices When one company buys another, does the acquiree’s stock price always go up?

H.G., Fort Wayne, Ind. Not necessarily. If the company’s market value is around $6 billion, and it’s bought for $7 billion, the stock price may jump on the news. When a company is very desirable, perhaps due to its products, technology, patents, cash generation or growth prospects, a buyer may have to outbid other interested companies. But if the company is struggling, its stock price will be depressed, and it might get bought for relatively little.

Meanwhile, if investors think that the acquiring company has struck a good deal, its own price might also rise.

But if they think it overpaid or won’t see a good return on the investment, its price can drop.

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I produce innerwear and outerwear under my own name as well as the Champion, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Just My Size, L’eggs, Wonderbra and Gear for Sports brands.

Unlike many peers, I make more than 90 percent of my apparel in my own manufacturing plants.

Who am I? Last week’s answer: WD-40

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Fed is on track, data aside Board sticking to plan amid cloudy view of inflation consensus

Federal Reserve plans for gradual interest-rate increases hinge on inflation rising to its 2 percent target, but it’s not showing up and they don’t know why. That’s undermining Chair Janet Yellen’s case for further policy tightening.

During two days of congressional testimony last week, Yellen stuck to the Fed’s outlook for gradually rising inflation that would support additional hikes in its policy rate. That was before Friday’s consumer price index report that showed continued weak pricing power in June across a range of goods and services for the fourth consecutive month.

“There is no way of getting

around it,” said Laura Rosner, a senior economist and partner at MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC in New York. “The weakness is pretty broad and it’s partly happening in cyclical areas of the economy that might be slowing, like motor vehicles.”

At the Fed’s June policy meeting, and in her testimony before U.S. lawmakers, Yellen stuck with the Federal Open Market Committee’s baseline forecast, which predicts increasing resource constraints gradually lifting inflation and supporting another rate increase this year with three more in 2018.

She told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that inflation risks were “two-sided,” dismissing some of the weakness in recent reports to “transitory” moves in some categories of the data series.

“It’s premature to conclude that the underlying inflation trend is falling well short of 2 percent,” she said. At her June 14 news conference, Yellen said the committee continues to believe that with a strong labor market, “the conditions are in place for inflation to move up.”

The FOMC’s outlook and Yellen’s comments reflect forecasters’ bedrock understanding of how inflation works. They look at public expectations of prices, near-term inflation performance or “inertia,” and resource-use benchmarks such as estimates on what rate of unemployment begins to trigger higher compensation that fuels demand in the economy.

Expectations have been low but stable, while inflation inertia has shown little upward traction. Right now, central bankers are making a big bet that low

rates of unemployment will boost prices eventually. Their estimate for the unemployment rate that keeps supply and demand in balance in the economy is 4.6 percent. It’s been below that rate since March and stood at 4.4 percent in June.

“They are saying: We don’t see the world as tremendously different and at some point domestic resource scarcity will push inflation up to 2 percent,” said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays PLC and a former member of Fed Board staff.

“As long as inertia is due to one-offs — that is, transitory and non-monetary, then they dismiss it. But at some point you say maybe that is dumb and shift your tone. They are not there yet.”

Craig Torres, Bloomberg News

DOLLAR STORES

Fighting to survive

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At a time when many brick-and-mortar stores are cratering, dollar stores have largely weathered seismic shifts in consumer habits and fierce competition from online retailers.

As chains move in, smaller competitors are forced to adapt NEW YORK — The 99-cent store with the bright red awning cannot compete with the cutthroat pricing or huge selection at the two Dollar Tree outposts in its poor Brooklyn neighborhood.

So it has found another way to lure customers: with the personalized service usually associated with luxury stores.

After one woman requested a reusable lint brush, it began stocking them for 99 cents. It saves items for customers until they can pay for them. It anticipates their needs with air-conditioners in summer, heaters in winter and roses on Valentine’s Day. And it even offers a self-serve coffee stand where they can linger.

“It’s evolved beyond just being a 99cent store,” said Habib Abdul Musiwir, the manager of 99¢ & Up Millenium Discount & Party Supply in East New York, whose customers have gone to check out the Dollar Tree stores only to return. “We’re meeting the needs of the community.”

Small family-owned dollar stores are under enormous pressure to hold onto customers and remain solvent as national chains like Dollar Tree expand their footprint in New York City and elsewhere, a trend underscored by Dollar General’s recent move to open stores in the city for the first time. Some independent stores have emphasized their neighborhood roots, while others have raised prices or tweaked their inventories beyond party supplies and off-brand shampoos to include household staples like bread and milk and even organic foods.

But just as supermarket and drugstore chains have reshaped local economies and wiped out many small businesses, dollar store chains are beginning to take over neighborhoods where mom-and-pop dollar stores have traditionally dominated.

Many independent store owners and workers say they are facing a bleak future as their customers have more choices, and rising rents and operating costs further cut into their dwindling profits.

“The chains are growing rapidly at the expense of the independents — when they open up one chain store, they destroy five or 10 independent stores,” said David Emrani, the owner of Pride Products Corp., which imports general merchandise and distributes it to about 3,000 independent dollar and discount stores nationally, about half the number from a decade ago.

Emrani himself owned six dollar stores on Long Island in 2008, but closed all but one after Dollar Tree chain stores opened nearby and not only poached some of his workers but also took away his customers.

“You constantly have to ring up — if you don’t, you die,” he said. “You have to have more and more customers every day to survive.”

Overall, the dollar store industry is thriving at a time when the brick-andmortar retail landscape is littered with shuttered stores. Promising deep discounts, these stores flourished during the recession and have continued to multiply at a time of seismic shifts in consumer habits and fierce competition from online retailers, especially Amazon, which recently started offering discounts to poorer families for its Prime membership, which covers the cost of shipping.

Nationally, 30,496 dollar stores rang up $33.8 billion in sales of food and household items in 2016, up from 20,543 stores and $14.9 billion in sales a decade earlier, according to Inmar Willard Bishop, a data analytics firm.

“Dollar stores are figuring out how to get people in,” said Marshal Cohen, chief

industry analyst at the NPD Group, a market research company. “They have done the best job of changing with the consumer than any other retail store.”

Dollar General, one of the nation’s largest chains, has grown to 13,601 stores from 10,506 stores five years ago. This year, it plans to open 1,290 new stores. It will also remodel or relocate another 760 stores.

“As we expand our presence in communities throughout the country, we continue to meet customers’ needs for everyday low prices on items they use and replenish most often,” said Crystal Ghassemi, a spokeswoman for Dollar General Dollar stores can trace their roots to the mid-1800s, when one-price stores became a popular way to sell clothing, jewelry and knickknacks to thrifty shoppers, said Wendy Woloson, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University.

Today, many dollar stores offer steep discounts by selling leftovers from other retail outlets. But as the stores have evolved, they have also expanded their inventory with bigger chains carrying their own brands and many stores adding perishable foods.

These no-frills stores have become a refuge for people left behind by the economic recovery, including laid-off workers, middle-class families facing rising living costs and recent college graduates burdened by huge loans. “A lot of customers who traded down to dollar stores can’t trade back up, or see no need, because the dollar stores meet their needs,” said Mark Cohen, an adjunct professor and director of retail studies at Columbia Business School. “To them, Walmart is a luxury store.”

Winnie Hu and Emily Palmer, The New York Times

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Wall Street Watch AK Steel 3.87 11.39 6.49 AMC Ent 21.25 35.65 19.70 AT&T Inc 36.10 43.50 36.39 AberFitc 8.81 23.29 9.27 AcelRx 1.95 4.08 3.15 AMD 5.10 15.55 13.80 Alcoa Cp 20.71 39.78 36.40 Alibaba 82.59 152.25 151.23 AllscriptH 9.80 15.17 12.32 AllyFincl 16.68 23.62 20.96 AlpAlerMLP 11.05 13.31 12.07 Altaba 37.50 57.41 57.51 Altria 60.82 77.79 73.37 Amarin 2.19 4.47 4.29 Amazon 710.10 1017.00 1010.04 Ambev 4.70 6.39 5.88 AmIntlGrp 53.93 67.47 64.05 AmicusTh 4.41 13.28 12.91 Anadarko 42.58 73.33 45.22 Annaly 9.83 12.73 12.26 Apple Inc 96.42 156.65 149.56 ApldMatl 25.68 47.86 46.15 ApldOptoel 11.50 86.36 84.18 ArcelorM rs 16.14 28.11 25.47 Arconic 16.75 30.69 24.95 AstraZen s 25.55 35.60 33.38 AtwoodOcn 6.12 15.37 8.07 AuriniaPh 1.74 10.54 7.45 AVEO Ph h .50 3.19 2.50 Avon 3.24 6.96 3.61 BakHuGE n 36.12 38.59 37.64 BcoBrad s 6.50 10.37 9.26 BkofAm 14.09 25.80 24.02 BkNYMel 38.53 52.50 53.35 Bankrate 6.91 14.25 13.95 B iPVxST rs 11.93 42.84 11.70 BarrickG 13.81 22.94 16.08 BlueAprn n 7.08 10.10 6.59 BostonSci 19.67 28.51 27.69 BrcdeCm 8.64 12.72 12.69 CSX 27.46 55.48 54.62 CVS Health 69.30 98.66 78.30 CabotO&G 20.02 26.74 25.43 CallonPet 9.63 18.53 10.73 CambrE rs .16 5.07 .40 CaraThera 4.75 28.50 15.43 Celadon 1.30 9.75 3.90 Cemex 6.91 10.37 10.04 CenovusE 6.76 16.82 7.41 CntryLink 22.33 33.45 22.88 ChesEng 4.38 8.20 4.85 Chevron 97.53 119.00 104.21 ChicB&I 12.91 36.56 18.30 Cisco 29.12 34.60 31.50 CgpVelLCrd 10.01 29.68 12.88 Citigroup 42.50 68.91 66.83 CliffsNRs 4.91 12.37 7.40 CocaCola 39.88 46.06 44.73 Comcast s 30.02 42.18 39.20 CommScpe 28.28 42.75 34.75 ConAgra 32.93 41.68 33.48 ConocoPhil 38.80 53.17 43.19 Corning 22.07 31.18 31.32 CousPrp 7.04 9.10 8.92 CSVixSh rs 18.42 385.00 17.76 CSVInvN rs 13.50 47.55 24.44 CSVelIVST 29.27 88.77 90.52 CSVLgNG rs 11.20 54.89 13.46 CrossrdS rs 1.45 7.42 2.93 CrwnCstle 79.38 104.68 96.81 CymaBay 1.15 6.02 5.98 CypSemi 9.63 14.98 14.29 Delcath rs .01 6.49 .14 DeltaAir 35.84 55.75 54.64 DenburyR 1.27 4.29 1.54 DevonE 28.80 50.69 31.35 DiamRk 8.73 12.00 11.83 DxGBull rs 22.04 143.18 29.84 DrGMBll rs 13.72 133.15 17.37 DirDGlBr rs 22.80 72.47 31.09 DxSCBear rs 15.67 33.59 15.73 DxBiotBear 6.09 31.70 6.56 Disney 90.32 116.10 104.79 DomDmd g 7.92 13.65 14.07 DryShp rs .89114240.00 .89 Dynegy 5.84 15.59 8.64 eBay s 26.17 37.20 37.05 EldorGld g 2.38 4.38 2.45 EnCana g 7.59 13.85 9.36 Endo Intl 9.70 24.93 12.29 EgyTrEq s 13.77 20.05 17.89 EngyTrfPt 18.31 31.49 20.55 ENSCO 4.71 12.04 5.25 EntProdPt 24.01 30.25 27.65 Ericsson 4.83 7.58 7.28 Exelon 29.82 37.70 37.03 ExxonMbl 79.26 93.22 80.86 Facebook 113.55 160.32 159.73 FairmSant 2.97 13.12 3.75 FelCor 6.00 9.13 7.22 FiatChrys 6.01 12.02 11.98 FifthStFin 3.90 6.32 5.48 FifthThird 18.16 28.97 26.16 FireEye 10.35 18.42 15.50 FstData n 12.65 19.01 18.51 FirstEngy 27.93 34.96 30.24 Fitbit n 4.90 17.18 5.72 FordM 10.67 13.27 11.74 FrptMcM 9.24 17.06 13.00 GGP Inc 21.05 32.10 23.69 Gap 21.02 30.74 23.36 GenElec 25.85 32.38 26.82 GenMills 53.24 72.15 54.15 GenMotors 29.82 38.55 36.38 Genworth 2.67 5.27 3.45 Gerdau 2.19 4.39 3.42 GileadSci 63.76 88.85 71.15 GoldFLtd 2.60 6.60 3.81 Goldcrp g 11.91 19.35 13.18 Groupon 2.90 5.94 3.88 GulfportE 12.47 31.03 13.53 HD Supply 28.97 44.73 30.24

Stock

Top 150 area companies vs. S&P 500 Percentage change from a year ago:

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52-Wk Low/Hi Close

Chg

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52-Wk Low/Hi Close

Chg

EncorW EgyTrEq s EnLinkLLC Ennis Inc ExxonMbl FelCor FiestaRst

33.70 13.77 14.70 14.40 79.26 6.00 18.05

+.25 -.15 +.10 +.05 -.42 +.14 +.20

Flowserve Fluor FogoChao n Fossil Grp GameStop GreenBrick HMS Hldgs

39.13 43.65 10.50 8.98 20.10 6.84 15.94

-.27 +.26 -.05 +.27 +.26 -.20 +.16

49.75 20.05 20.45 19.33 93.22 9.13 30.65

42.75 17.89 18.05 19.30 80.86 7.22 18.45

d

-8.02

21,500

21,500 20,500 19,500

.83

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d

+1.96

-0.13

Apr.

May

June

Russell 3000

+7.57

+0.25

u

Close: 2,459.14

Close: 25,577.50

Chg .................+.03% YTD chg .....+17.30% 1-yr chg .....+24.90%

Chg ................. -.01% YTD chg .......+9.84% 1-yr chg .... +13.49%

Chg .................+.03% YTD chg .......+9.18% 1-yr chg .... +13.98%

u

YTD chg

1-yr chg

Pound 1.3056 Canad. dollar .7879 Euro 1.1480 Yen .008876 Peso .056866

+5.99% +5.90% +9.01% +3.66% +17.26%

-1.14% +1.98% +3.77% -6.33% +4.95%

Chg .................+.02% YTD chg .......+9.41% 1-yr chg .... +13.98%

CBOE VIX

Chg YTD chg -.06% +9.18% -.43% +5.07% +.16% +6.48% +.28% +3.24%

Volatility of near-term S&P 500 index options

1-yr chg +12.91% +40.48% +14.44% +16.70%

u

Dow Transport.

Dow Utility Nasdaq 100 Russell 1000 Russell 2000

Chg YTD chg -.46% +7.23% +.39% +7.66% +.03% +20.07% % +9.74% +.19% +5.49%

Close: 9.82

1-yr chg +21.64% -.17% +26.41% +13.61% +18.52%

52-week range: 9.37 - 23.01 Chg ...............+3.26% 1-mo chg ......-5.30% YTD chg ..... -30.06% 1-yr chg ..... -21.06%

WORLD INDEXES Mexico Bolsa IPC

Canada S&P/TSX

U.K. FTSE 100

Japan Nikkei 225

u

d

u

u

+170.06

-9.45

+25.74

Close: 51,332.29

Close: 15,165.36

Chg .................+.33% YTD chg .... +12.47% 1-yr chg .......+9.31%

Chg ................. -.06% YTD chg ......... -.80% 1-yr chg .......+4.36%

Market

Close

Chg

YTD

Buenos Aires 21,331.18 -2.51% +26.09% Frankfurt 12,587.16 -.35% +9.63% Hong Kong 26,470.58 +.31% +20.32%

EXPANDED LISTINGS 52-Wk Low/Hi Close

HP Inc 13.55 Hallibrtn 40.12 Hanesbds s 18.91 HertzGl 8.52 HP Ent n 15.46 HomeDp 119.20 HostHotls 14.69 HuntBncsh 9.10 IAMGld g 3.14 ICICI Bk 6.42 ING 10.49 iShGold 10.81 iShBrazil 31.04 iShEMU 32.36 iShSilver 14.44 iShChinaLC 33.91 iShEMkts 33.94 iShiBoxIG 115.55 iSh20 yrT 116.49 iS Eafe 56.10 iShiBxHYB 83.24 iShR2K 114.88 iShREst 72.11 Infosys 13.42 Intel 33.23 IBM 147.79 iShJapan rs 47.32 iShCorEM 41.24 ItauUnibH 9.10 JD.com 21.22 JPMorgCh 63.38 JetBlue 15.70 JohnJn 109.32 JnprNtwk 22.12 Keycorp 11.35 Kimco 17.02 KindMorg 18.31

19.58 58.78 28.24 53.14 19.16 160.86 20.21 14.74 5.87 9.34 18.17 13.18 40.80 41.98 19.71 41.92 43.45 124.45 140.86 67.24 88.75 142.90 85.79 16.71 38.45 182.79 54.90 52.34 13.65 44.18 94.51 24.13 137.00 30.96 19.53 32.20 23.36

18.47 44.11 22.92 15.75 17.23 153.89 18.48 13.81 5.18 9.33 18.01 11.86 36.78 41.36 15.22 41.72 43.22 120.68 123.67 66.19 88.56 142.06 80.16 15.64 34.47 153.01 53.56 52.05 11.64 41.63 91.39 23.53 132.15 29.13 19.14 18.93 19.55

+19.05

Close: 7,404.13

Chg .................+.35% YTD chg .......+3.66% 1-yr chg .... +10.58%

Market Seoul Sao Paulo Sydney

Close: 20,118.86

Chg .................+.10% YTD chg .......+5.26% 1-yr chg .....+21.95%

Close

Chg

U.S. BONDS Close 2-yr T-note 5-yr T-note 10-yr T-note 30-yr T-bond

YTD

2,425.10 +.43% +18.50% 65,212.31 -.34% +8.28% 5,800.76 -.14% +1.43%

Stock

Saturday: 1-week change and 52-week high and low

52-Wk Low/Hi Close

SthcrssEn 1.10 SwstAirl 35.42 SummitMP 19.96 TandyLthr 6.85 TenetHlth 14.06 TxCapBsh 45.90 TexInst 64.74 Torchmark 60.49 TrnsRty 9.41 Trinity 20.80 TriumphBc 16.26 TuesMrn 1.60 TylerTech 139.61 US Concrte 42.82 USLime 59.05 Valhi 1.66 WestwdH 49.01 Wingstop n 24.74 Zix Corp 3.65 ZoesKitchn 10.94

4.74 64.39 26.50 9.05 30.84 93.35 84.65 79.53 29.69 30.13 27.95 8.11 178.09 80.45 81.99 4.10 63.99 33.42 6.67 37.70

Chg

2.84 62.14 24.35 8.90 18.98 78.25 81.66 78.37 27.96 27.69 25.30 1.80 176.12 78.00 80.28 3.19 58.97 30.14 5.75 11.81

-.09 +.21 +.30 -.10 -.11 -.75 -.34 +.22 -.13 +.30 +.20 -.05 +.33 -.60 +.58 -.03 +.59 -.26 +.01 +.15

BkofAm B iPVxST rs SPDR Fncl iShEMkts Vale SA

77,182,700 47,144,500 40,400,800 40,005,800 32,115,700

Chg YTD 1-yr

1.36 ... +.16 1.86 ... -.06 2.31 -.02 -.12 2.90 -.02 -.17

+.67 +.72 +.72 +.60

Close

MOST ACTIVE Stock

-.19 -.31 -.08 -.20 +.05

AMD PwShs QQQ Apple Inc Nvidia Microsoft

.53 -.02 +.06 +.47

CASH PRICES Coins, per troy oz

Close

-.12 +.07 +.52 -.70 +.57

BEST PERFORMERS

Chg

%Chg

Stock

Close

Chg

%Chg

Celadon 3.90 Danaos 3.00 WestmRs s 3.01 GnCable 18.20 CobalIE rs 2.61

+.65 +.45 +.37 +1.65 +.20

+20.0 +17.6 +14.0 +10.0 +8.3

Sevcon 21.73 CrossrdS rs 2.93 Soligenix n 2.82 AcelRx 3.15 Quidel 34.12

+8.05 +.95 +.75 +.75 +6.90

+58.8 +48.1 +36.2 +31.3 +25.3

Last Prv. Day

Handy & Harman base $16.080 $15.890 London a.m. fixing $16.070 $15.710 Engelhard industrial $16.160 $15.050

Stock

WORST PERFORMERS

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Chg

%Chg

Stock

Close

Chg

%Chg

DBCmdDL 2.87 BlueAprn n 6.59 ExcoRs rs 1.87 StoneMor 8.14 AMC Ent 19.70

-.40 -.77 -.22 -.93 -2.20

-12.2 -10.5 -10.5 -10.3 -10.0

Pavmed wt 1.61 AirT Inc 16.25 Adomani n 12.75 Sphr3D grs 3.93 Abeona wt 4.70

-.39 -3.15 -2.37 -.63 -.72

-19.5 -16.2 -15.7 -13.8 -13.3

AGRICULTURE FUTURES CMER CATTLE

CMER FEED CATTLE

40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Contract Open Aug 17 117.75 Oct 17 118.52 Dec 17 118.90

Settle 116.95 118.62 119.25

50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Chg -.85 +.05 +.25

Fri’s sales................98,076 Chg +2838 Fri’s open int. .......375,890

Contract Open Aug 17 153.52 Sep 17 153.40 Oct 17 152.07

Settle 154.42 154.37 153.15

Chg +.15 +.30 +.40

Fri’s sales................17,491 Chg +1070 Fri’s open int. .........60,067

ICEX COTTON

CBOT CORN

50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

Contract Oct 17 Dec 17 Mar 18

Open 67.31 66.70 66.28

Settle 68.57 67.76 67.37

Chg +1.39 +1.18 +1.26

Fri’s sales................14,651 Chg +1547 Fri’s open int. .......216,306

Contract Open Sep 17 375.75 Dec 17 389 Mar 18 400

Settle 375 388 398.75

+.05 -.11 +.23 +.53 +.04 +1.01 +.33 +.02 +.09 +.01 -.12 +.05 -.04 -.11 +.14 -.17 -.20 +.11 +.34 -.13 +.03 +.33 +.32 -.03 -.21 -1.23 -.07 -.24 -.10 -.38 -.86 +.10 -.45 +.12 -.07 -.02 +.01

Stock

52-Wk Low/Hi Close

Kinross g Kohls Kroger s LendingClb LloydBkg Lowes MFA Fncl MGM Rsts Macys MarathnO MarathPt s MarvellTch MedProp Medtrnic MelcoResE Merck MetLife MicronT Microsoft Momo Mondelez MorgStan Mylan NV NRG Egy Nabors NetApp Netflix s NewmtM NxtEra pfR NikeB s NobleCorp NokiaCp Nutanix n Nvidia OasisPet OcciPet vjOceanRig

2.88 35.16 20.46 4.30 2.56 64.87 7.03 23.38 20.85 11.20 38.23 9.68 11.54 69.35 12.08 57.18 38.87 13.02 52.93 12.48 40.50 27.79 33.60 9.84 6.93 24.94 84.50 30.19 46.80 49.01 3.32 4.04 14.38 52.77 6.56 57.20 .12

5.56 59.67 36.44 6.79 3.87 86.25 8.66 34.34 45.41 19.28 55.20 18.18 15.74 89.72 23.94 66.80 58.09 32.96 73.27 45.95 47.23 47.33 50.40 23.36 18.40 43.90 166.87 46.07 55.49 60.33 8.37 6.65 46.78 168.50 17.08 78.48 2.89

3.99 39.87 22.87 5.30 3.56 76.43 8.53 31.85 23.05 11.59 54.31 16.26 12.99 86.06 21.15 62.61 55.35 31.72 73.35 40.84 43.69 45.33 38.75 22.92 7.54 43.62 161.70 33.73 54.37 57.79 3.95 6.31 22.75 164.25 7.79 60.04 .22

Chg +.09 +1.06 -.14 -.09 -.03 +.37 -.12 -.06 +.69 -.06 +.50 -.32 +.31 -2.51 -.05 -.45 +.01 -.07 +.57 -.53 +.07 +.13 -.46 -.32 -.24 -.02 +.58 +.43 -.63 -.21 +.04 -.02 +.63 -.70 -.10 +.22 +.02

Stock

52-Wk Low/Hi Close

Oclaro 5.12 OfficeDpt 3.01 ONEOK 42.79 OpkoHlth 5.99 Oracle 37.62 Pandora 6.76 Paretem rs .50 ParsleyEn 25.17 PayPal n 36.28 Penney 4.17 PetrbrsA 6.75 Petrobras 7.61 Pfizer 29.83 PlainsAAP 23.21 Potash 15.23 PS SrLoan 22.96 PwShs QQQ111.85 PrUltPQ s 54.06 PUVixST rs 33.80 PrUCrude rs 12.36 ProctGam 81.18 ProgsvCp 30.54 PShtQQQ rs 28.68 PSEG 39.28 PulteGrp 17.69 QEP Res 8.58 Qualcom 51.05 RLJ LodgT 18.92 RandLog h .19 RegionsFn 8.82 ReprosTh .33 ReynAm s 43.38 RiteAid 2.21 SpdrGold 107.00 S&P500ETF 208.38 SpdrLehHY 35.05 SpdrRetl s 38.53

11.30 5.84 59.47 12.15 51.85 14.98 5.75 39.82 58.63 11.30 11.77 12.56 37.39 33.95 20.27 23.46 143.90 112.13 556.00 24.48 92.00 46.33 65.36 46.14 25.20 21.12 71.62 25.10 2.95 16.03 2.48 67.81 8.77 130.55 245.97 37.41 48.26

9.83 5.83 53.57 6.05 50.44 9.44 1.15 28.49 57.58 5.10 8.10 8.46 33.25 26.43 17.70 23.16 142.19 107.66 32.46 14.67 87.55 45.45 29.13 43.23 24.36 9.37 56.46 21.23 .34 14.70 .39 65.26 2.31 117.29 245.53 37.21 40.22

Chg -.07 +.09 +.41 -.08 +.07 +.19 -.23 -.22 +.42 +.16 -.08 -.08 -.18 -.27 ... ... +.07 +.06 -1.78 -.42 +.45 -.13 -.04 +.87 ...

-.05 -.35 +1.56 -.05 +.02 -.19 -.30 -.02 +.52 -.03 +.02 +.36

Stock

52-Wk Low/Hi Close

SpdrOGEx 29.90 SRC Eng 5.87 Schlmbrg 64.15 Schwab 27.71 SeadrillLtd .33 SeagateT 29.00 SeaWorld 11.77 SiriusXM 4.05 SnapInc A n 15.21 Soligenix n 1.90 SouthnCo 46.20 SwstnEngy 5.46 SpiritRltC 6.64 Sprint 5.83 Square n 9.85 SP HlthC 65.96 SP CnSt 49.98 SP Engy 63.29 SPDR Fncl 18.94 SP Inds 56.27 SP Tech 45.80 SP Util 45.33 Staples 7.24 Starbucks s 50.84 SupEnrgy 8.99 Supvalu 2.90 Symantec 20.06 Synchrony 26.01 TJX 68.22 TaiwSemi 27.91 Target 48.56 TeckRes g 14.56 TerraVia .16 Tesla Inc 178.19 TevaPhrm 27.59 TherapMD 3.50 TimeWarn 74.27

44.97 10.38 87.84 44.10 4.59 50.96 20.13 5.53 29.44 5.08 53.80 15.59 13.97 9.65 26.65 81.08 57.36 78.45 25.30 69.58 57.62 54.63 10.25 64.87 19.39 5.74 33.22 38.06 83.64 36.92 79.33 26.60 2.98 386.99 55.79 8.30 102.45

31.89 7.28 66.83 42.93 .38 39.07 14.44 5.46 15.13 2.82 47.04 6.09 7.71 8.39 26.19 79.84 54.78 65.32 24.84 69.39 56.87 52.16 10.11 58.33 10.95 3.27 30.52 29.65 70.36 35.91 53.73 19.36 .25 319.57 31.83 5.26 99.21

Chg

Chg -1.25 -1.50 -1.50

Fri’s sales..............409,482 Chg -4035 Fri’s open int. ....1,364,153

-.02 +.03 -.02 -.11 +.00 -.43 -.49 -.02 -.14 +.75 -.22 +.08 +.04 -.16 -.14 -.29 +.06 -.08 -.08 -.04 +.01 +.24 +.03 -.43 -.13 -.02 +.44 +.17 +.56 -.34 +.50 +.06 +.03 -8.21 -.07 -.37 -.58

Stock

52-Wk Low/Hi Close

Transocn TurqHillRs 21stCFoxA Twitter US Bancrp US NGas US OilFd USSteel VF Corp Vale SA Vale SA pf ValeantPh VanEGold VnEkRus VEckOilSvc VanE JrGld VangEmg VangEur VangFTSE Vantiv Vereit VerizonCm ViacomB Visa s WPX Engy WalMart WalgBoots WeathfIntl WellsFargo WhitingPet WholeFood XPO Logis XcelEngy Yamana g Zynga

7.67 2.44 23.33 14.12 41.13 6.33 8.65 15.72 48.05 4.86 4.13 8.31 18.58 17.37 23.63 27.37 34.71 45.36 35.52 52.45 7.44 42.80 32.68 75.17 8.39 65.28 75.18 3.39 43.55 4.81 27.67 27.93 38.00 2.21 2.40

16.66 3.80 32.60 25.25 56.61 9.74 12.00 41.83 65.20 11.70 11.10 32.74 31.79 22.19 36.35 52.50 42.58 56.99 42.25 66.24 11.09 55.82 46.72 97.37 16.17 80.48 88.00 7.09 59.99 13.39 43.84 65.44 48.50 5.95 3.86

8.36 2.92 27.38 19.94 52.03 6.76 9.45 23.35 56.20 9.30 8.80 17.37 21.98 20.05 25.37 32.76 42.30 56.27 42.00 63.53 8.43 43.66 35.32 96.83 9.96 76.37 79.18 4.29 54.71 5.17 41.89 60.46 46.12 2.45 3.58

Chg +.03 +.06 -.36 +.30 -.05 +.10 -.14 +.14 +.18 +.05 +.05 +.13 +.18 -.16 -.05 +.36 -.22 -.10 -.07 -1.66 +.08 +.10 +.39 -.10 +.06 +.03 +.27 +.10 -.28 +.03 -.21 -3.38 +.20 +.07 -.07

STOCK FOOTNOTES cld- issue has been called for redemption by company • ec-company formerly listed on the American Exchange’s Emerging Company Marketplace • g-dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars • h-Does not meet continued-listing standards • lf-late filing with the SEC • n-stock was a new issue in the last year — the 52-week high and low figures are calculated from their start date • nya-stock trades on NYSE Arca Exchange • pf-preferred stock issue • pr-preferences • pp-holder owes installments of purchase price • rs-stock has undergone a reverse stock split, decreasing outstanding shares by at least 50 percent within the past year • rt-right to buy security at a specified price • s-stock has split, increasing outstanding shares by at least 20 percent within the last year • wi-trades will be settled when the stock is issued • wd-when distributed • wt-warrant, allowing a purchase of a stock • un-unit, including more than one security • v-trading halted on primary market • vj-company in bankruptcy, receivership or being reorganized under the bankruptcy law — this appears in front of the name MUTUAL FUND FOOTNOTES b - Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d - Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f - front load (sales charges). m - Multiple fees are charged. NA - not available. p - previous day´s net asset value. s - fund split shares during the week. x - fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: Morningstar.

YTD % rtn

227.24 61.46 224.23 61.44 17.04 224.24 61.47 117.22 71.26 113.98 48.42 10.77 22.75 61.82 86.05 195.08 45.06 39.46 26.48 28.50 49.97 42.91 10.24 60.12 13.79 14.16 10.66 127.65 2.36 10.71 10.69 55.16 65.17 42.35 63.92

... +.01 ... +.01 -.02 -.01 +.01 -.05 -.09 -.12 +.01 +.01 -.01 -.04 ...

-.15 -.01 -.02 +.01 -.03 -.01 -.02 +.01 -.03 +.01 ... +.01 -.21 +.01 +.01 ... +.01 -.05 +.01 +.01

+11.0 +10.6 +11.0 +10.5 +17.3 +11.0 +10.6 +19.8 +7.0 +17.3 +15.2 +2.5 +6.5 +9.0 +11.0 +8.1 +18.3 +9.8 +8.0 +17.3 +15.3 +8.3 +3.7 +12.2 +3.0 +3.5 +2.4 +17.3 +5.3 +2.6 +1.8 +10.6 +22.4 +19.9 +5.1

VXX XLF EEM GDX SPY USO QQQ UVXY IWM FXI XLE EWZ JNUG VWO EFA GDXJ XOP TVIX XLK XIV

47,144,500 40,400,800 40,005,800 27,623,500 25,790,400 24,252,700 22,985,300 13,980,600 13,451,800 12,875,700 12,063,200 11,468,600 9,517,800 9,047,100 9,036,400 8,677,100 8,642,900 8,397,000 8,335,100 7,961,900

NAV

% Chg

11.70 24.84 43.22 21.98 245.53 9.45 142.19 32.46 142.06 41.72 65.32 36.78 17.37 42.30 66.19 32.76 31.89 17.76 56.87 90.52

-2.6 -0.3 -0.5 +0.8 -1.5 -5.2 +0.2 -0.4 -0.1 -0.1 +3.5 -0.5 -0.2 +1.1 -0.1 -4.9 +2.6

YTD % chg -54.1 +6.8 +23.5 +5.1 +9.8 -19.4 +20.0 ... +5.3 +20.2 -13.3 +10.3 ... +18.2 +14.7 +3.8 -23.0 -81.3 +17.6 +93.6

Benchmarks U.S. GOVT. RATES Prime Discount primary Fed funds target T-bill, 6 mo yld

SECONDARY MARKET

1-wk

4.25 4.25 1.75 1.75 1-1.25 1-1.25 1.11 1.14

LIBOR 3 month 6 month

Latest

1-wk

1.31 1.47

1.30 1.47

Fannie Mae 30-yr mortgage yield

Latest

1-wk

3.65

3.61

60 days Avg. Bank rates 3-yr used car loan 5-yr new car loan 1-yr CD 30-yr fixed mtg 15-yr fixed mtg

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MITCHELL SCHNURMAN

Dallas CEOs band together Cricket is coming to town to fight bathroom bill Dallas area among potential sites for cricket stadium, professional team

Continued from Page 1D

“No one should face discrimination for being who they are,” the ad said.

There have been other letters against the bathroom bill, including one from the leaders of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. Over 1,300 organizations also have signed a pledge to make Texas a more welcoming place for all people.

What’s significant about Monday’s letter is that Dallasarea CEOs are attaching their names to the fight. That puts them in the spotlight, too, and gives political cover to lawmakers who feel strong pressure from conservative voters.

The letter is signed by Randall Stephenson of AT&T, Doug Parker of American, Gary Kelly of Southwest, Kim Cocklin of Atmos Energy, Matthew Rose of BNSF, Mark Rohr of Celanese, Harlan Crow of Crow Holdings, Sean Donohue of DFW International Airport, Emmitt Smith of EJ Smith Enterprises, Fred Perpall of the Beck Group, David Seaton of Fluor, Thomas Falk of Kimberly-Clark, Trevor Fetter of Tenet Healthcare and Richard Templeton of Texas Instruments.

A spokesman for the governor’s office was asked about the letter. He said that companies come to Texas for the economic climate, including low taxes, reasonable regulations, right-to-work laws and tort reform.

“The truth is that businesses look at what is best for their bottom line, and Texas is that place,” spokesman John Wittman wrote in an email.

OK, but why couldn’t Texas be good for profits and good for diversity and inclusion, too?

Many employers, in fact, insist on both. Today, they worry about attracting talent and creating products for a global market. Having a diverse, inclusive workforce is seen as crucial to the efforts.

“It’s about a total business strategy,” said Gene DePrez, a site selection expert at Global Innovation Partners in the New York area.

To some companies that are expanding or relocating,

By TRACY M. COOK

Staff Writer tracy.cook@dallasnews.com

A sports ventures firm will work with real estate giant JLL to plan and build eight cricket stadiums across the country, including Dallas.

Global Sports Ventures LLC sought JLL’s sports and entertainment group for its advisory services as part of an effort to bring a professional cricket league to the United States by 2020.

JLL will manage the site selection and oversee the development of eight stadiums in Texas, California, Illinois, Georgia, Florida, Washington D.C., New Jersey and New York. Those locations were chosen on the basis that the sport already has established followings there, predominantly through Asian populations.

In Dallas-Fort Worth, Asian populations are among the fastest growing ethnic groups. In the 2010 census, Collin County counted nearly 32,000 Asian residents of Indian ethnicity. That county hosted a national youth cricket tournament in 2014. In Dallas County, about 37,000 Asian Indians lived there in 2010.

Outside of India, the U.S. makes up cricket’s second highest viewership, said Jignesh Pandya, the Phila-

Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer

Jennifer Staubach Gates, a member of the Dallas City Council and a VisitDallas board member, spoke out against the bathroom bill Monday in Austin.

a bathroom bill would carry a lot of weight: “That should be understood by legislators in Texas before they make any decisions,” DePrez said.

To the LGBT community, any bill that prohibits transgender people from using certain bathrooms is discriminatory. One advocate compared the proposal to having separate drinking fountains during segregation.

When North Carolina adopted a bathroom bill last year, the backlash was severe.

Several companies dropped expansions plans, major sporting events were moved elsewhere and entertainers like Bruce Springsteen canceled concerts.

Gov. Roy Cooper, elected after opposing the law, called it “a dark cloud” over the state.

“It has stained our reputation,” Cooper said after HB 2 was repealed in March. “It has discriminated against our people. And it has caused great economic harm to many of our communities.”

North Carolina continues to score high marks in business climate rankings.

And Wittman cited the latest praise for Texas from CEOs around the country.

For the 13th straight year, Texas was named the top state for business by Chief Executive magazine.

But others have a different assessment. CNBC dropped Texas to No. 4 for business last week — the lowest ranking since the annual review started a decade ago. CNBC noted that there were no statewide protections against discrimination, and that California had recently banned state-funded travel to Texas over adoption policies toward gay couples.

Texas is one of the “least inclusive states in the nation,” CNBC said.

That’s something to be ashamed of. And if lawmakers pass a bathroom bill in the next month, the scarlet letter will be hard to erase.

Global Sports Ventures

Global Sports Ventures LLC plans to partner with real estate giant JLL to build eight cricket stadiums across the country. Cities, including Dallas, were chosen on the basis that the sport already has established followings there, predominantly through growing Asian populations.

delphia real estate developer behind the plan. The sport is played with bowlers (similar to American baseball pitchers), batsmen and fielders and the action occurs on a large grass, turf or clay field. Matches can often last for hours.

The Texas stadium will be in Dallas, said Pandya, whose ties to the city also come via his work as a franchisee of Plano-based Pizza Hut. The stadium’s location will be determined in the next several weeks, said JLL international director David Demarest.

The complexes, which Pandya estimates will cost a combined $2.4 billion to build, would include a cricket stadium, parking, and mixeduse lifestyle centers with restaurants and hotels, as well as office, residential and retail space. The projects are expected to create 17,000 jobs.

Demarest said the site search will focus on areas that are desirable from a mixed-

use perspective with access to freeways and other means of transportation. The stadium would be the retail complex’s anchor.

“More and more in all professional sports and in all entertainment activities, people are looking to expand beyond what’s happening at a venue,” Demarest said. “That includes entertainment and other retail outside of the venue. Retailers can take advantage of the fact that all these people are coming into and out of a facility.”

But in order to attract American athletes who would otherwise be drawn to baseball and softball, India’s most popular sport needs more than financial backing and developed infrastructure.

“It definitely needs more professionals coming in to develop the sport,” said Jagannath Poosarla, president of the Dallas Youth Cricket League.

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Dallas’ Forty Five Ten expands Where is it?

Luxury retailer to debut first boutique outside Texas with Napa Valley store

AT&T Performing Arts Center Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House 2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201

By MARIA HALKIAS

Staff Writer mhalkias@dallasnews.com

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Forty Five Ten’s four-level store opened in downtown Dallas in 2016 — the first jolt of energy in the early stages of a downtown renaissance.

try.”

“It feels like the right time,” said Bolke, who was raised in California.

The Napa Valley store will be the luxury retailer’s fifth, and its first store outside of Texas. The company opened in Houston’s River Oaks District last year.

In March, Forty Five Ten completed the conversion of its former address, 4510

McKinney Ave. in Dallas, into a home furnishings store. In August 2016, it opened TTH Forty Five Ten in Highland Park Village.

Forty Five Ten’s four-level store on Main Street is a big piece of downtown Dallas’ comeback, which has included new hotels, residential construction and building renovations.

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After opening a larger Dallas store on Main Street downtown in November, Forty Five Ten is making a leap to one of those upscale, small towns that dot Napa Valley, Calif.

Forty Five Ten will open an 865-square-foot boutique in Yountville. The shop will sell men’s and women’s apparel, as well as some gifts and cosmetics.

The boutique, which will be located at 6540 Washington St., opens July 28. The Dallasbased retailer noted that the store will be a few steps from chef Thomas Keller’s restaurants The French Laundry and Bouchon.

Brian Bolke, Forty Five Ten’s president and co-founder, said Napa Valley is one of his “favorite parts of the coun-

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Pizza Hut hiring drivers to starve out rivals Ditech Continued from Page 1D

The hiring spree, for fulland part-time drivers, will be combined with new technology that “drastically improves the accuracy and reliability of Pizza Hut deliveries,” the company said in a news release.

The new system is capable of “predicting how long a delivery will take and will account for variable factors such as weather, construction, traffic and other irregularities in the delivery pattern to enable safe, accurate deliveries,” the release said.

The driver-tech combo should speed up delivery times for the chain, which is part of Louisville-based Yum Brands.

Delivery represents a growing share of sales at Pizza Hut and other major chains, as consumers use smartphone apps and tablets to plan dinner.

“The category has shifted to delivery now more than ever, and Pizza Hut is staffing accordingly,” said spokesman Doug Terfehr.

“As on-demand delivery continues to be a priority for our customers, we are more

Tom Fox/Staff Photographer

William Bielamowicz of Carrollton filled out a Pizza Hut job application for operations manager during a job fair in Dallas in May. The Plano-based pizza chain said Tuesday that it is looking to hire about 14,000 delivery drivers around the country, including roughly 500 in North Texas.

committed than ever to providing the best pizza delivery experience possible.”

The company declined to reveal compensation for the drivers.

The largest pizza chains

already rely heavily on delivery, and some smaller players are testing the waters.

Papa Murphy, the take-andbake chain, said this week that it is testing delivery in Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Den-

ver and Colorado Springs, Colo.

“Pizza delivery is up for the three top quick-service pizza players — Pizza Hut, Domino’s and Papa John’s — but down for” the rest of the

closing office in Irving

category as a group, according to a report from research firm NPD Group.

Between 2011 and 2016, delivery traffic for the top three chains gained 2 percent, to 623 million “visits,” while delivery in the rest of the category slipped by 17 percent over the same period. That’s probably because much of the non-chain pizza business is migrating to artisanal concepts that focus on the dine-in experience.

As pizza competition continues to heat up, Pizza Hut hopes the stepped-up delivery will lure back some customers, especially those focused on convenience.

“We are serious about this, and this focus and commitment to the best delivery experience will hopefully help some customers re-assess the brand if they haven’t tried us in a while or haven’t had us deliver a pizza before,” Nicolas Burquier, Pizza Hut’s chief operating officer, said in a prepared statement. “This is about accuracy and consistency, giving our customers a trusted experience.”

Continued from Page 1D

and the need to accelerate our consolidation is clear,” Walter CEO Anthony Renzi said in the memo reviewed by National Mortgage News. “[W]e have made the difficult decision to close the Irving office by the end of 2017. ... Leading up to the closing of the Irving office, we will continue to maintain a strong leadership presence in Irving to ensure a smooth transition.”

The parent company intends to consolidate its operations into three “core” Ditech sites in Fort Washington, Pa., Jacksonville, Fla., and Tempe, Ariz., as well as a site in Houston for its reverse mortgage business, National Mortgage News reported.

In its letter to TWC, Walter Investment said the layoffs in Irving started July 12 and will continue through December.

Walter Investment employs about 4,500 workers nationally, down nearly 25 percent from the end of 2015, according to regulatory filings.

Dallas-Fort Worth is a major financial services employment hub, with mortgage lenders Nationstar Mortgage, Caliber Home Loans and Prime Lending all headquartered in the region. The default servicing operations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also are in North Texas, along with auto lenders Santander Consumer USA and Capital One.

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UNDERGARMENTS

The battle over a $52 sports bra heads to court The battle for a better bra is heading to court.

Lululemon Athletica is suing Under Armour for allegedly copying a sports bra design, showing just how critical it has become for retailers to reinvent the ubiquitous undergarment.

According to Lululemon, its

$52 Energy Bra — which has four straps that criss-cross in the back — “does it all.” Which is why, the Vancouver-based company says, it’s suing rival Under Armour for patent and trademark infringements. In its lawsuit, filed this month, Lululemon says it takes issue

with four of Under Armour’s sports bras, which range from the $29.99 Armour Strappy to the $39.99 Armour Eclipse Low Impact.

In the filing, Lululemon says “Under Armour’s unauthorized acts have caused and will continue to cause irrepara-

ble damage to Lululemon and its business.”

A representative for Baltimore-based Under Armour said the company “takes the intellectual property rights of others very seriously.”

The two companies are fighting for a piece of the fast-

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growing sports bra market, which analysts say accounts for more than $1 billion in U.S. sales a year. Last year, Lululemon executives said thirdquarter bra sales grew more than 20 percent.

Abha Bhattarai, The Washington Post

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Bids & Proposals Notice of Request for Proposal RFP # 17-23-883 (B) CTE PROGRAMS, SERVICES & INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES The Irving Independent School District (IISD), Dallas County, Texas will receive Proposals for: RFP # 17-23-883 (B) CTE Programs, Services & Instructional Supplies until 2:00 PM, August 10, 2017, in the Purchasing Office at 2621 W. Airport Frwy, Irving, TX 75062.

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By Order for Service by Publication dated the 22nd day of June, 2017, you, as the natural father of the above named minor child, are ordered, either personally or by your attorney, to answer or otherwise respond to the Petition of Adoption in writing within sixty (60) days of the 22nd day of June, 2017, the date of which service by publication was ordered.

You are further advised that pursuant to the applicable provision of Georgia law, that the said Petitions for Adoption also seek to have your parental rights to the said minor child permanently terminated as a matter of law.

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By: Dan Young Deputy Clerk of Court Liberty County, Georgia For: Linda Dixon Thompson Clerk of Superior Court Liberty County, Georgia

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Despite fear of ‘Trump slump,’ tourism strong “The truth of the matter is no.

I think it was a lot of media hype.”

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International trips are often planned months in advance, so decisions made this year about travel may not be evident yet.

“For us, we already planned before the election,” said Alban Michel, waiting with a group of Swiss tourists to see One World Trade’s observatory in New York on Monday.

Companies that track online behavior say searches for U.S. travel are down. Yet tour companies that bring foreigners here are “not only holding year over year, but in many cases they’re having a record year,” according to Chris Thompson, CEO of Brand USA, which markets the U.S. to the world. Thompson thinks it’s “too early to tell” how the industry will fare, adding that the travel industry’s ups and downs may have “little or nothing to do” with Trump and more to do with the strong dollar and lackluster economies elsewhere.

Asked if there’s a “Trump slump” in travel to the 12 Southern states marketed by Travel South USA, CEO Liz Bittner said, “The truth of the matter is no. I think it was a lot of media hype.” Bittner agreed that the challenge for U.S. tourism “isn’t so much Trump. It’s the strong U.S. dollar against some of the other currencies,” which makes the U.S. an expensive destination for foreigners.

Liz Bittner, Travel South USA CEO, on whether a “Trump slump” existed

of the 1785 Inn in Conway, N.H., had his busiest July Fourth weekend in 34 years but says “foreign visitors were off a bit — Trump effect. We have to assure foreign visitors that they are welcome in America.”

The Travel Trends Index predicts slower growth for the rest of 2017, but still nearly 2 percent higher than last year through November.

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Daniele Biron, an Italian visiting the 9/11 memorial Monday while in New York for a conference, agreed that “the value of the dollar” is a factor for many travelers but said, “I don’t know if the politics” matter to most visitors.

Isabelle Bornemann, owner of Alaska Travel Connections, said her international group bookings are down 30 percent, mainly because of the strong dollar. But some European travel agencies tell Bornemann the decision to stay away is political, based on the perception that foreigners aren’t welcome in the U.S. Charlie Mallar, owner

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Merck announces tech hub in Austin by the Austin City Council in April.

In return, Merck said it will create at least 600 jobs, paying an average annual salary of $84,586, and it would invest almost $29 million to build and equip the new innovation center.

“Texas continues to excel as an economic powerhouse because global industry leaders like Merck recognize the Lone Star State as a premier state for business expansion and enterprise,” Abbott said in a news release.

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New York City’s tourism agency, NYC & Company, predicts that 300,000 fewer international travelers will visit the city this year than last, according to spokesman Chris Heywood. Concerns about Trump administration’s policies include “rhetoric surrounding the travel ban, laptop bans on certain airline carriers and the threat of having visitors reveal social media accounts,” along with “the lack of a proactive welcome message on behalf of the nation,” Heywood said. New York has put up its own signs saying “New York City — Welcoming the World” in England, Germany and Mexico.

Comprehensive international arrivals data from the U.S. Commerce Department takes seven months to compile, so it will be next year before definitive 2017 statistics are available. But the Commerce Department has seen a 5 percent increase January-March over the same period last year in collections from ESTA fees, which are electronic travel authorization fees paid by foreigners who don’t need visas to enter the U.S. That suggests increased visitation from visawaiver countries like the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and Australia.

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Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. will move forward with plans to develop a major technology innovation center in Austin, becoming the key anchor for an innovation district developing around the Dell Medical School.

The global pharmaceutical titan made the announcement after the governor’s office announced it would provide the company a $6 million grant from the Texas Enterprise Fund. That grant comes on top of a 10-year, $856,000 city tax incentives package approved

Though the U.S. tourism industry worried about a possible slump in travel because of the Trump administration, the first half of 2017 suggests no such trend, with a number of sectors reporting an increase.

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When geek’s in the genes

Cosplay-fan parents bond with kids, usher in next generation of proud nerds Staff Writer Afriend@dallasnews.com

K

eely Graesser strode into a store’s Free Comic Book Day in style recently, with backup. The Prosper mom was dressed as X-Men’s Polaris, complete with a green wig and blue-and-yellow jumpsuit. Behind her was a small army of Star Wars Mandalorians: three surprisingly short, armor-clad mercenaries.

The Boba Fett-like squad was actually Graesser’s young kids, three examples of the next generation of nerds getting an early start, and often for the better. When Graesser goes to geek gatherings and fan conventions, she’s always in costume and usually accompanied by at least one of her kids.

Graesser and her kids are fans of cosplay, or dressing up as fictional characters from books, movies, TV shows or video games. North Texas opportunities to take part include pop culture juggernaut Fan Expo Dallas, genre-specific celebrations such as AnimeFest, and new additions such as the upcoming inaugural Texas Latino Comic Con. A moderator of several Facebook groups and member of cosplay clubs, Graesser has helped run comic book store costume contests, visited a children’s hospital in Star Wars gear and donned a Black Widow catsuit at a foster children’s adoption day.

By DAVID TARRANT Staff Writer dtarrant@dallasnews.com

What caused Colonial settlers to run away to join up with American Indian tribes, and what does that have to do with recent combat veterans returning home to find themselves missing life in the war zone? Best-selling author Sebastian Junger explores the human need for the kind of strong, intimate bonds that can be found in tribal societies in his 2016 book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging.

Junger is scheduled to be the keynote speaker Saturday at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine.

He recently spoke with us in an interview, which has been edited for clarity and brevity.

What led you to write about this topic?

I started thinking about these issues 30 years ago while growing up in a great American suburb. We didn’t know our neighbors very well and didn’t care much about them. Everyone I knew lived that way, and everyone I knew wasn’t happy about it.

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Keely Graesser poses with her children, Sarah, 6, Peter, 8, and Luke, 4, as characters from Aliens. Graesser and her kids enjoy dressing up as fictional characters from books, movies, TV shows or video games.

HEALTHY LIVING

Slowing the aging process

72-year-old gets the most out of boot camp workouts

By LESLIE BARKER Staff Writer lgarcia@dallasnews.com

Dan Short isn’t into fitness to buff up. He’s just trying to avoid what his late wife Maryrose, who was a nurse, told him. Namely, that inactive adults can lose up to 5 percent of their muscle mass each decade after 30.

“She helped me understand that the goal of fitness training as you get older wasn’t to look

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Why you feel driven to find your tribe Mayborn speaker Sebastian Junger says a nation is one huge tribe

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like a model or an athlete, but simply to slow the aging process,” says Short, who just turned 72.

For 20 years, he worked out in the couple’s Fort Worth home gym, using the treadmill or lifting weights. Five years ago, he started going to Camp Gladiator. Here’s his fitness routine: Typical week of workouts: I go to boot camp for 60-minute workouts three days a week, and supplement those with occasional yoga classes.

Each camp has a different routine, and each activity works a different set of muscles. Over See

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How did you first start thinking about the value and attraction of tribal life?

My adopted Uncle Ellis used to tell me how white people were constantly running across the frontier to join Indian tribes.

And then the light bulb went off when I kept encountering veterans who’d say they missed the war and wished they could go back. And that, to me, was exactly what my uncle was talking about, except in a modern context.

With our country as polarized as it is, do you see the United States as one tribe or many different tribes?

When we live in a nation, by definition it’s one huge national tribe. But when one candidate or leader creates factions in the the See

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United States by saying there are enemies of the state within our borders, they’re actually acting un-tribal. If we don’t want to live as a nation, that’s fine. We should just divide up.

As long as we’re living red and blue under one tent, we have to act that way.

The factionalism of the recent election, it was just getting going when I started to write Tribe. And I was so revolted by it, mostly because it seems antithetical to any kind of national unity, which we all depend on socially, economically, militarily and psychologically.

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You point out that major crises, such as the relentless bombing of London during World War II by the Nazis, have the opposite of the intended effect to shatter morale. Why is that?

If you believe in evolution, we’re obviously descendants of our successful ancestors. As fang-less, claw-less apes that can’t run well, we depend on solidarity within the group. If antisocial behavior were triggered by hardship, adversity and danger, we wouldn’t be here today. Another way to say that is we’re the descendants of those that acted in prosocial ways because that’s how our survival could be ensured.

How do examples of that play out in modern life?

It could be extremely mundane — helping an old person across the street is prosocial behavior. In a larger context, there’s some sense that a community has to take care of its own, and I owe something to that effort.

Modern society has so completely eliminated hardship and danger in everyday life that the individual is almost never called upon to step up. If there’s a crisis, like a hurricane or a blizzard, there is enormous amount of prosocial behavior. Those hard times are actually looked

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Filmmaker and journalist Sebastian Junger was embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan from May 2007 to July 2008. He will speak at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Saturday.

back on with an enormous amount of nostalgia.

How does military life resemble the values of tribal life?

The vast majority of soldiers never see combat. They’re in support units. But just the close nature of that work plays to all our evolutionary adaptations as a species, so it feels incredibly good.

You saw this firsthand as a war correspondent?

In the city of Sarajevo [during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s], there was an extreme sense of community.

It was a civilian community besieged by a modern army, and I really missed that when I left Sarajevo. I didn’t want to be anywhere else but Sarajevo.

In your book, you’re critical of the way PTSD is viewed as a chronic condition with war veterans. Why? PTSD is incredibly common thing. If you have a car accident

or if you’re assaulted on the street. You don’t have to be a soldier. Trauma is a part of life and virtually everyone will get PTSD at some point in their life as a healthy adaptation to trauma. What’s not healthy is long-term, going on decades and decades. That’s where the disorder comes in, in that diagnosis.

As a species, we wouldn’t have survived if a significant percentage of traumatized people remain non-functioning for the rest of their lives. That

doesn’t make any evolutionary sense.

One of the problems with the VA [Department of Veterans Affairs] right now is that because PTSD is considered a lifelong problem, the VA is incentivizing people to see themselves as broken because they will get a lifelong disability check. In this weird way, veterans are incentivized to not get healthy. You want to make the person functional and useful as fast as possible. But when you actually warehouse them in a disability designation and give them just enough money to live on, it’s not a healthy thing. It doesn’t return them to functionality and functionality is mental health.

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Plan your life The 13th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is partly sponsored

by The Dallas Morning News, takes place Friday-Sunday in Grapevine at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center. In addition to Junger, who speaks Saturday, speakers include Katherine Boo, Charles Johnson, Sarah Hepola and many others. For details and registration, visit themayborn. com/registration.

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Dear Abby: I dated the perfect man for two years. When he asked me to marry him, I had to say yes. He was kind, gentle, attentive, easygoing, full of dreams, great sense of humor, an excellent provider and sexually the best.

Three months after our perfect wedding, it all began to unravel. I learned he is bipolar with manic episodes. He has been married three times before me and always lost interest in sex. He says he may be attracted to men, then tells me he’s not sure. He also isn’t as good handling his financial affairs as he led me to believe.

I’m 58, and he’s 59. How could I not have had a clue about any of this? I sold my house to move into the parsonage with him. After repeatedly being lied to, misinformed or left out of the loop all together, I am now couch-surfing, mainly at my ex- husband’s house.

I feel tired and broken — no income, no home, no respect and no hope of him getting it together. I would

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Ladies first.” If the man says no, she will usually glare at him but not say anything else.

I think putting men on the spot simply because of their gender is rude and have told her so, but she brushes me off.

Do you think I should say anything more to her? Refuse to go places with her if she’s going to do that? Or just ignore it?

Ladies First Dear Ladies First: I think your answer lies in doing what you think is right.

Meaning, it is important for you not to benefit personally from something you

don’t think is right. (For what it’s worth: I’m with you. I’d be horrified.) So, you leave the grocery store when she jumps the line, for example, or take your things to a different line. Calmly, politely say why. “You know how I feel — I won’t be part of this.”

Don’t reopen the discussion, though, about her behavior; you made your point about rudeness and she brushed you off.

Any measures you take now are appropriately about distancing yourself from her tactics, versus presuming to try to change her.

appreciate any advice or counsel. All I have figured out is to start over and remain single as he is my third husband.

Third Time Around

fore we got married and I wasn’t moving. His response was, “So you were worth moving for, but I’m not?”

There are other reasons for my not wanting to move there, but the bottom line is that I wish he had been true to himself before deciding to marry me. I think it’s a bit late to be playing this game. I’d like your thoughts, and please give it to me straight.

Staying Put

Dear T.T.A.: You will feel less tired and broken after you have consulted a lawyer about helping you get out of this fraudulent marriage. And while you’re at it, you and your lawyer should bring this to the attention of the church council or whoever holds the lease on that parsonage. I am sure they will be very interested in what you have to say about the leader of their flock.

Dear Abby: When I started dating my husband, “Ralph,” 22 years ago, I made it very clear that I would never move to his hometown, which is six hours away. Even though it may seem selfish, my wish was to be near my family. Our relationship progressed anyway. We’ve been married for 15 years, live in my hometown, and have three little boys.

Ralph is 42, homesick and wants us to move back home now to be around his parents because he’s lived around my parents for 15 years. I told him my intentions were made crystal clear be-

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Dear Staying: OK, here they are. I think your husband has a valid point.

Marriage is supposed to be about compromise, and for the last 15 years he has lived in your community.

I wish you had shared what your other reasons for being against moving are, because they might have influenced my opinion. But from where I sit, I think you owe it to Ralph to give it a try. Perhaps you and your family could rent out the home you’re living in and rent a place in his hometown for a year. That way, if you can’t adjust, you would be able to move back near your own family, which appears to be your first priority.

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BOSTON — The number of people trying to determine whether they are descended from a Mayflower passenger is surging as the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World approaches in 2020.

Now, a partnership announced last week between the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants is making it easier to figure out.

The Boston-based genealogical society is digitizing and indexing authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies and 50 years’ worth of the Mayflower Quarterly magazine, and making them available at its research site, americanancestors.org.

There were 102 people on

the Mayflower when it landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Half died in the first year.

Today, there are an estimated 10 million living Americans and as many as 35 million people worldwide descended from that resilient little group, said Lea Filson, governor general of the Plymouth-based General Society of Mayflower Descendants. They include presidents, poets and celebrities.

Yet her organization has only about 30,000 members.

She’d like to see that grow.

“With the 400th anniversary coming up, we’ve seen a huge uptick in membership applications,” Filson said. “But at the same time, people say they have a hard time getting ahold of our records.”

The genealogies, called “Silver Books” because of their distinctive covers, have previously only been available for purchase from the Mayflower society or from libraries, said Ryan Woods, the vice president and chief operating offi-

cer of the genealogical society.

They include about 150,000 birth, marriage, death and deed records.

The Mayflower society’s records are so accurate and unimpeachable that tracing your roots to them automatically qualifies you for membership.

The information is valuable to people who think — but don’t have proof — that they are Mayflower descendants, as well as those who already know they are but want to learn more.

Thanks to several television shows, genealogical research is now America’s second-most popular hobby after gardening, Filson said.

And discovering you’re the progeny of a Pilgrim is the gold standard in family research.

“It’s a real emotional thing when you discover you’re a Mayflower descendant,” she said. “I’ve seen people break down in tears.”

When Filson’s organization decided to digitize its records, it immediately thought of

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There are an estimated 10 million living Americans and as many as 35 million people worldwide descended from the resilient group of 102 who were on the Mayflower when it landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

teaming up with the genealogical society. Established in 1845, it is the premier national resource for genealogists and family historians.

The digitization process is already underway. Seven of the 31 “Silver Books” are

browsers will be allowed temporary free access before a paid membership is required.

“There are many, many people who could be related, literally, to this story,” Woods said.

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online, and the plan is to finish the process by the end of the year. Then they’ll start working on the Mayflower Quarterly editions dating to 1935.

Like all records posted at americanancestors.org,

Workout has to be fun, Short says

Nasal sprays can affect vision

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Complications including cataracts, glaucoma and nasal septal perforation have been linked to corticosteroid nasal spray use.

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The nasal sprays for allergies are not as likely to cause cataracts as the inhalers, but I suspect that some of the drug is getting into the bloodstream and circulating throughout the body from either route of administration.

Corticosteroid nasal sprays such as Beconase AQ, Flonase and Nasacort AQ once were available only by prescription. The prescribing information alerted physicians to adverse reactions such as nosebleeds, sore throat, cough, headache and loss of the sense of smell.

Nasal septal perforation, glaucoma and cataracts also were mentioned as possible complications.

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the course of several camps, I get to work out every muscle I group I have — and several I didn’t know I have.

If I had only 20 minutes to work out, I would: Practice yoga. If I had only 20 minutes, I would probably be feeling some stress.

Yoga would be the perfect remedy.

What gets in the way of my workouts? Almost nothing! I learned years ago that it is much easier to maintain your commitment to an exercise program if you avoid starts and stops. Once you start making excuses, you’ll be able to find even more.

Proudest fitness moment: I am the oldest person at our Camp Gladiator boot camp, with most of the other participants being younger than my children. A fundamental principle during the camps is that everyone should work at their own pace, so I typically do fewer repetitions than the others (I call it a senior discount).

A few months ago, a group of young campers came up and said I was an inspiration to them. It was really cool to have people who were so physically fit think that I could be an inspiration during an exercise program.

Fitness goals: I have no traditional fitness goals like lifting a certain amount of weight. My focus is on functional training, the ability to perform the normal activities of life more easily and without the risk of injury.

My workout program has given me the confidence, strength and stamina to

baristas start making your favorite drink as soon as you get out of the car, you know you have a problem.

“A few months ago, a group of young campers came up and said I was an inspiration to them,” Dan Short says. “It was really cool to have people who were so physically fit think that I could be an inspiration during an exercise program.”

participate in a variety of challenging activities with my grandchildren. My goal is to still be able to do that 10 years from now.

Favorite healthy food: I love fresh fruit. There’s no better way to start the day than cereal with a generous serving of raspberries.

Favorite indulgence: Starbucks Café Mocha.

Three things you’ll always find in my refrigerator: Two I am proud of, one less so. I always have fruit, a fresh salad from Eatzi’s and a container of Graeter’s Chocolate Chip ice cream (which always justifies the feeling of guilt).

What I should eat more of: Fish. I love perfectly cooked fish, but fish done less than perfectly always seems awful to me.

What I should probably cut back on: Unfortunately, Starbucks. When the

What I’d say to someone who wants to follow my routine: The key to success is finding a program that is fun, and for me that has been a group program with a diverse set of participants in terms of age and ability. In the right environment, you can find support, encouragement and friendship.

Add to that mix an instructor who bubbles over with enthusiasm, and you will find yourself looking forward to days when you get to work out.

What my workout says about me: During most of my adult life, I enjoyed setting goals and took satisfaction in their achievement.

After a few months at Camp Gladiator, I almost quit because I knew I could never compete with people half my age in terms of achieving meaningful goals.

Slowly, it dawned on me that the goals weren’t important; instead, it was the process that was important.

Doing some physical activity was better than doing nothing. I now focus on doing the best I can during a workout, knowing that the outcome will take care of itself. As a result, in other aspects of my life I am now much more willing to let the future unfold as it will.

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My wife, Judy, was previously married to the late Norman Kay, one of the strongest players never to win a world title. He declared this deal, from the semifinals of the 1968 Olympiad.

Norman was always a deliberate player, and when West led the spade jack, he took considerable time before committing himself. Eventually he won, tested the hearts and, when they broke 3-3, took the diamond finesse for an overtrick.

Was his line of play the best? It fails when hearts are 4-2 with the diamond finesse wrong. In contrast, playing on diamonds first might work if that suit divides evenly. But if the diamond ace is followed by a diamond to the queen, which is allowed to win, does declarer now risk a third diamond, or does he try the hearts?

Once you have identified the problem, maybe you can spot the best play for declarer.

This would have been to try a low diamond toward the queen before releasing the ace. If the queen wins, you are still in control in the diamond suit and can even cope with a bad heart break by coming to hand in spades and leading a low heart to the 10. This loses only to the bare heart jack in East.

And of course, if the diamond queen loses to the king, there is still time to test both red suits.

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Freezing out seniors

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eet the brand-new Chapter 280 of the Texas Finance Code, effective Sept. 1, 2017.

You need to know about this one.

Going by the catchy name “Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation,” Chapter 280 puts the onus on financial institutions, securities dealers and investment advisers to help protect seniors (65plus) from fraud and financial exploitation. This is a good-news/bad-news law. The good news is that a whole new group is being educated to help stop fraud on elders. The bad news is that your financial accounts can be frozen for more than 30 days without prior notice or court order.

The ball starts rolling when an employee of a financial institution suspects financial exploitation of a customer. The employee is required to notify the financial institution, which has up to five days to submit a report to

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the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The institution may also notify a “third party reasonably associated with the vulnerable adult” unless, of course, it suspects that the third party is the abuser.

Now comes the scary part. After submitting the report, the financial institution may put a hold on any transaction involving the senior’s account or on any transaction that it thinks is related to the exploitation.

If DFPS or a law enforcement agency requests the hold, then the financial institution is required to put the hold in place. The hold is good for 10 business days and can be extended for another 30 business days if

requested by a state or federal agency or law enforcement agency. The only way a senior can lift the hold is to go to court.

The financial institutions are required to adopt internal policies on all of this, and can include as part of the policy an internal authorization to report the suspected financial exploitation to the attorney general, the Federal Trade Commission and the appropriate law enforcement agencies. The financial institution and its employees are immune from liability unless they act in bad faith or with malicious purpose.

The rules are similar for securities dealers and investment advisers, with the exception that their immunity is worded a bit differently. A dealer or investment adviser must act in “good faith and with the exercise of reasonable care” to be immune from civil or criminal liability or disciplinary action.

With all of this talk about mandatory govern-

mental reporting and account freezes, it behooves us to look a bit more closely at definitions.

“Exploitation” means the act of forcing, compelling or exerting undue influence over the senior that causes the senior to act in a way that is inconsistent with past behavior or causes the senior to perform services for the benefit of another person.

“Financial exploitation” means wrongfully taking the senior’s money, assets, property or identifying information. It includes wrongful acts by an agent acting under a power of attorney.

Keep some cash and the name of a good lawyer handy in case your friendly banker decides you need protecting.

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CHRONIC DISEASE SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Tuesdays, July 25 through Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Crescent Manor, 1413 Range Drive, Mesquite. Seniors with arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic pain, anxiety or other ongoing conditions will learn to control their symptoms and pursue an active lifestyle. The program will also be offered on the same days from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Mequite Gardens, 1409 Range Drive, Mesquite.

Last day to register is Aug. 1. Contact Maegan Valdez at 214-954-4247 to register or for more information.

RICHLAND COLLEGE SENIOR ADULT PROGRAM KICKOFF PRESENTATION July 20 (Th) from 9 to 11:30 a.m., Richland College, Sabine Hall SH118, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas. Learn about classes offered in the fall semester of the emeritus program and meet the new instructors. Continental breakfast provided, prizes given out at the end of the event. Free. RSVP required to 972-238-6972 or rlcemeritus@dcccd.edu.

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MS. TEXAS SENIOR AMERICA PAGEANT Aug. 5 (Sa) at 1 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel, 4099 Valley View Lane, Dallas.

Scott Murray and Mary Frances Hansen are the masters of ceremonies.

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Entertainer and storyteller Rose­Mary Rumbley will present stories about theater history and scenes from various productions.

Free and open to seniors age 55 and older. Call 972­ 205­2502 for more details.

DOUBLE FEATURE July 25 (Tu) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wylie Senior Recreation Center, 800 Thomas St., Wylie. Watch Dolphin Tale and the documentary Showdown at the OK Corral while snacking on pizza and popcorn. Free. Call 972­ 516­6349 for more details.

WIDOWED PERSONS SUPPORT GROUP DINNER Aug. 8 (Tu) at 5 p.m., Brookhaven Country Club, 3333 Golfing Green Drive, Farmers Branch. A buffet dinner will follow the social hour, and entertainment will be provided by Richard Berry. Payment of $23 per person must be made by Aug. 4. Send

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DANCES & SOCIALS CITY LIGHTS Today at 7 p.m., Plano Senior Center. $5. 972­941­7155.

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Stop agonizing about Social Security benefits

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my emails are any indi­ cation, it seems as if 90 percent of senior citi­ zens in this country are worried sick that they are losing out on Social Secur­ ity benefits, or making decisions that result in dramatically reduced monthly checks from the government. In almost all the cases I encounter, their worries are ill founded.

I started working for the Social Security Administra­ tion in 1973. My mentor was a guy who was with the agency almost from its inception in 1935. He retired around 1980, and I retired in 2005. In all those years, neither one of us ever met a Social Security recipient, or a potential beneficiary, who worried one little whit about getting the most out of his or her monthly benefits.

“Maximizing” one’s Social Security was just not part of the lexicon. The majority of seniors signed up for their retirement benefits at 62. Some waited until 65 (the full retirement age for the first six decades of

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Social Security’s existence). A very few people waited until age 70 to start their benefits.

But then two things happened. In the late 1990s, some unintended loopholes grew out of a new law that allowed senior citizens over age 66 to work without any reduction in their benefits.

Those loopholes became known as “file and sus­ pend” and “file and restrict.” They allowed retirees to collect depen­ dent spousal benefits on a husband’s or wife’s Social Security record while delaying their own benefits until 70. Congress eventually recognized these loopholes violated the basic tenets of the program and closed them.

Or to be more precise, they immediately closed the “file and suspend” provisions and put a time clock on “file and restrict.”

Only people turning 66 before January 2020 can still jump through the spousal benefit loophole.

The bigger thing that happened is that financial planners discovered a new, huge market: greedy geezers! They lured them into seminars with come­ ons like this one I just got

in the mail this week: “You could be missing out on thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits!”

Because of them, the term “maximizing your Social Security” became the catchphrase for a genera­ tion who 40 years earlier were chanting, “Make love, not war!” Now they are crying, “Make money, not love!”

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in all this hoopla about maximizing benefits.

I signed up for my Social Security when I was 66 years old.

That was 10 months ago.

I am getting $2,225 per month. Now I just learned that I could have maximized my Social Security by filing for wife’s benefits on my husband’s record and saving my own until age 70 when I would get higher benefits. He is 73.

He started his benefits at age 70. He gets $2,850 per month. So now I’d like to cancel my retirement claim and then file for wife’s

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benefits. I understand I can get half of his, or $1,425. Can I do this?

Well, yes you can do this, although not at quite the money amounts you think. You really should think long and hard before jumping on this maximizing bandwagon.

You and your husband are already getting more than $5,000 per month in Social Security benefits. That is far more than the average Social Security beneficiary can even dream about.

But if you are intent on squeezing every last nickel out of your Social Security piggy bank, here is what you should do.

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Make an appointment to talk to someone at your local Social Security office.

Tell them you want to withdraw your retirement claim. (You have up to 12 months after your benefits start to do that.) You will have to repay all the benefits you’ve already received. That sounds to me like you’ll be writing the government a check for $22,250.

After you withdraw your retirement claim, you will then turn around and file a claim for wife’s benefits on your husband’s account.

But you won’t get half of his current benefit. You’ll only get half of his full retirement age rate. I’m guessing that’s about $2,150. So your share of that is $1,075. You can claim up to 6 months’ worth of retroactive spousal benefits.

Once you make that switchover, you will keep getting $1,075 per month, until you turn 70. At that point, you would refile for your own retirement bene­ fits, and get 132 percent of your basic rate, or about $2,900 per month.

Both my wife and I are about to turn 62.

We went to a seminar about maximizing Social

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Security benefits. I was told that I could file for husband’s benefits on my wife’s record and then save my own until age 66. But the Social Security people said I couldn’t do that. Are they right? We are worried that we are missing out on Social Security benefits that everyone else is getting.

The Social Security people were right. If you are under your full retirement age, the law says you must file for your own retirement benefits.

The loophole mentioned at the beginning of this column, the one that let people 66 and older file spousal benefits while delaying their own benefits until 70, closes before you reach your full retirement age.

So now you and your wife simply have to make one of three Social Security decisions. Do you want reduced retirement benefits at 62, or some other age between 62 and 66? Or do you want full benefits at age 66? Or do you want to wait until age 70 and get 132 percent of your full retirement age rate?

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LEARNING & ENRICHMENT THE ART OF HAPPINESS July 18 (Tu) from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Belmont Village Turtle Creek, 3535 N. Hall St., Dallas. Author and educator Danny Mack will use humor and enthusiasm to help attendees discover the secret to happiness and enlightenment. Free.

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MEDICARE/MEDICAID COUNSELING July 19 (W) from 9 a.m. to noon, Duncanville Senior Center, 206 James Collins Blvd., Duncanville. The Dallas Area Agency on Aging will have a bilingual (English/Spanish) benefit specialist available to answer questions. No appointment required. Call 972­780­5073 for more information, or call 214­ 871­5065 to speak with a benefit specialist.

HOLOCAUST PRESENTATION July 25 (Tu) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Belmont Village Turtle Creek, 3535 N. Hall St., Dallas. Dr. David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, will present “The Singularity of the Holo­ caust,” and discuss what sets the Holocaust apart from other human catastrophes and how it is related to other tragedies.

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JULY 18 BIRTHDAY: Fill your home with love and beauty this year. Guard your health and fitness, despite outside demands. Family and personal finances rotate challenges and breakthroughs; for best results, share resources. Fall in love again this autumn.

10 is the easiest day.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — Profit through actions rather than words.

Go for your heart’s desire. Ignore rumors or gossip. The tide is in your favor.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — You’re strong enough for the challenge.

Quick action gets results. There’s been enough talk. Express your passion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 6 — Find a quiet spot to get moving. Stretches soothe and strengthen. Imagine getting what you want. Choose your objective.

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DENNIS THE MENACE

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Teamwork gets results. Set a juicy goal and go for it. A coordinated push wins. Stick to tested routines, and act decisively.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Pour energy into your career today. Working at something you love brings abundance. Talk is cheap; don’t believe everything you hear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Explore new frontiers. Act fast and take advantage of a fantastic opportunity. Travels and investigations beckon.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — A lucky break lands in your shared accounts. There’s more money coming in.

Collaboration magnifies the benefits. Actions go further than words.

DOONESBURY

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — You and a partner can really make something happen today! Don’t get distracted with chatter; get moving. There’s a fine reward possible.

This week’s strips are reprints.

By Garry Trudeau

By Bil Keane

FAMILY CIRCUS

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Practice your moves. Physical action wins valuable results. Don’t just talk; get out and break a sweat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Romance blossoms and flowers. Show your love through your actions. Share something delicious.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Love, beauty and good fortune come to your house. Efforts reap marvelous results.

Paint works wonders. The time for talk is past.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Creative expression flowers, despite obstacles. If at first you don’t succeed, try again.

Ignore chatter or distraction.

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“Now listen …” ___ smasher Trains to Chicago’s Loop Flared skirts Org. for some sportswomen Invoice from a souvenir shop?

Terse put-down of Sandra’s “Gidget” performance?

Outrage Toasty King Kong, for one

36 Playlist listing 38 Poorly lit 39 Unsullied 41 ___ Leppard 42 “Paradise Lost” setting 44 Many SAT takers: abbr.

45 Where to keep divorce papers?

47 Signal Ernie’s buddy to step onstage?

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authorities 46 Purple things in several van Gogh paintings 47 Pop-producing toy weapon 48 Continue through time 49 Land, as a fish 50 Electric cars named for an inventor 53 Kind of salami 56 Court fig.

58 Girl’s name that’s also a 59-Down 59 See 58-Down 60 Maniacal leader?

61 Org. of concern to H&R Block

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64 The Great Fire of Rome began, consuming most of the city for about a week. (Some blamed the fire on Emperor Nero, who in turn blamed Christians.)

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1536 The English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England.

1817 English novelist Jane Austen died in Winchester at age 41.

1932 The United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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PEANUTS

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By Charles M. Schulz

1947 President Harry S. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

1969 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left a party near Martha’s Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne, 28; some time later, Kennedy’s car went off a bridge into the water. Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned.

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BIRTHDAYS | JULY 18

Business mogul Richard Branson is 67.

Singer Ricky Skaggs is 63.

Talk show host-actress Wendy Williams is 53.

Actor Vin Diesel is 50.

Actress Kristen Bell is 37.

Actor Chace Crawford is 32.

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1 Funny person 4 Get through to 9 Grand __; bridge triumph 13 Resound 15 Golfer __ Els 16 __-Cola; RC competitor 17 Buzzing insects 18 Terra __; clay for patio pots 19 __-friendly; easy to operate 20 In a funk 22 Not as much 23 Late Kennedy matriarch 24 Cold sore site 26 Valuables 29 Least lengthy 34 Dramas 35 Moxie; guts

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Cosplay builds confidence, bonds families

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(From left) Sarah Graesser, Carleigh Quinn Angel, Peter Graesser and Emma Angel, dress up as characters from DC and Teen Titans.

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She’s not the only mom who decided to introduce her kids to cosplay early. The Facebook group Geeky Moms of North Texas has 60 members, many of whom are parents of cosplayers or convention-goers. It’s a source of fun — and sometimes, the parents say, it’s been much more significant than that.

Graesser is also one-fourth of Mutants, Maidens & Munchkins, a cosplay group where she and three other moms, Laura Maisano of Lake Dallas, Amy Scott of Shawnee, Okla., and Dianne Angel of Prosper, cosplay with their young kids. Graesser and Maisano began cosplaying on their own in the early 2000s. More than 10 years later, they, Scott and Angel started getting their kids involved.

Graesser’s kids, at 8, 6 and 4, were all early to cosplay.

She brought her oldest son to his first convention when he was 3 months old, sticking out a little among the mostly teenage crowd. Today, she takes all three of her kids to conventions about once every

two months, and her oldest a little more often.

“At this point, most people at the conventions know all my kids,” Graesser says.

For the kids, the experience is exciting. Graesser and Maisano say their kids were always bringing up ideas for their next costumes. For the moms, it’s a chance to share something they love with their kids, and invite other parents to do the same. Their group has held several panels at conventions offering tips to parents wanting to make costumes for their kids.

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Building confidence

Cosplayers dressed as Doctor Who characters: Ivy Kiefer (left) as Capt. Jack Harkness; Sharley Kiefer, 10, as Rose Tyler; Serenity Clarke, 10, as Amelia Pond; and Cassandra Clarke as the 10th Doctor. They gathered at Madness Games & Comics.

Parents Cassandra Clarke of Garland and Ivy Kiefer of Plano were largely swept into the cosplay world through their kids.

Clarke has been raising her 10-year-old niece, Serenity, for five years, and says cosplay helped Serenity finally find her people.

Serenity has encountered bullies at school because of her nerdier interests, Clarke says, but when she came to her first convention dressed as Rose Ty-

ler from Doctor Who, the effect was instantaneous.

“When she walked into that convention and started striking her poses, she realized that there was a whole community that embraced her.” Clarke says. “Every time we go to a con and we cosplay, her confidence goes up a couple more notches.

Because she’s meeting other people — not just other people, but other kids — that are like her and that are into the same things.”

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Clarke and Kiefer met through a local cosplay Facebook group and realized their girls were the same age. Clarke says Serenity and Kiefer’s daughter, Sharley, an avid cosplayer, were fast friends, bonding over shared interests and experiences.

Kiefer says she had trouble connecting with other moms in Plano, but with the parents at conventions, she felt like she was part of something. To Clarke, the camaraderie and chance to compare parenting notes is vital.

“That parent group has been key for me. It’s made me realize I’m not screwing up, letting my kid be who she is,” Clarke says.

For the whole family Melissa McGinnis’ whole family gets in on the cosplay game. The Kilgore resident said she usually goes to conventions with her husband, daughter, niece and nephew, who all wear costumes. To her, cosplay has been a source of self-acceptance for her daughter and herself.

McGinnis says that even as early as 6 years old, Rosaleen, now 10, was self-conscious about her appearance. She

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“Being in the community and seeing everybody being confident with themselves and enjoying what they do — and meeting celebrities who said, ‘You have the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen.’ ‘You are a beautiful young lady.’ ‘Wow, you’re amazing.’ ‘You’re awesome.’ ‘You’re funny.’ ‘You’re talented.’ — has been a huge confidence boost for her,” McGinnis says.

Today, Rosaleen has her own cosplay Facebook page, where she dresses as characters such as Alice from Alice in Wonderland and the comic book villain Harley Quinn.

McGinnis said her daughter is now much more outgoing and sure of herself. The same journey has been a slower one for McGinnis herself, who says she struggled with body image issues for years. Very recently, she says she’s been making strides of her own.

“I’ve watched her bloom

and blossom and it inspired me to do the same,” McGinnis says. “I’m not trying to impress anybody anymore. My husband loves me for who I am. My daughter loves me for who I am. I have an incredibly supportive circle of friends and family who love me for who I am.”

Her daughter’s newfound confidence led McGinnis one day to say, “ ‘Today I want purple hair.’ So, I did it. I went and dyed my hair purple,” she says. “ ‘Oh, I want a new dress.’

So, I bought a new dress, and didn’t care that it had spaghetti straps instead of long sleeves.

She’s rubbed off on me a bit, actually.”

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