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TUESDAY
August 16,
2016
IN BRIEF
Demo derby
coming to
Preble Aug. 27
The Preble Volunteer
Fire Fighting Association,
Inc. will host the CrashO-Rama
Demolition
Derby Aug. 27 at Preble
Fireman’s Park, four
miles west of Decatur on
U.S. 224. Show time is 7
p.m., and gates open at 3
p.m.
Admission is $10 for
adults, and $5 for children aged 8-12. Children
ages 7 and younger enter
free. Pit passes are $15.
No person younger than
18 years of age is allowed
in the pit area except for
drivers. No glass containers or alcohol are permitted inside the pit areas.
Figure 8, mini car,
stock wire class, windshield class and feature
cars power wheels demo
derby are for children
ages 4-8.
Proceeds will go to
updating and maintaining
fire equipment and Preble
Fireman’s Park.
For more information
contact Dan Elzey at 2239273 or the park phone at
547-4159
School board
filing deadline
is Aug. 26
Persons
interested
in serving on the North
Adams, Adams Central
or South Adams school
boards have until noon
on Aug. 26 to gather signatures and submit nominating petitions.
Each candidate must
obtain at least 10 signatures of registered voters
in their school district.
The board seats up for
election in the Nov. 8 general election include:
•
Adams
Central
— District 1, District 5,
District 6 and at-large.
• North Adams —
District 1 ( two seats) and
District 2 (two seats).
• South Adams —
District 2, District 4,
District 5 and at-large.
The petition of nomination forms may be picked
up at the Adams County
Clerk of Court’s office.
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Festival of the Kekionga draws near
Decatur’s Kekionga Festival,
the annual celebraton of the
heritage of Decatur and Adams
County, will begin Wednesday
evening with a praise and worship service and will continue
throughout the upcoming weekend.
Sidewalk sales will
line 2nd Street in
downtown Decatur
from
10
a.m.4 p.m. Saturday
during the annual
Kekionga Festival.
A host of festival activities are
planned, starting
Wednesday evening with a local
praise service and
continuing
until
mid-afternoon
Sunday. A pioneer encampment
will once again be
located north of
Riverside Center
to give visitors a
glimpse of life from
an era gone past.
Praise service Wednesday
The Decatur Ministerial
Association will hold its annual
Kekionga Praise and Worship
tent service at 7 p.m. Wednesday
at Riverside Center.
K C Graves, president of the
association, will provide the
inspirational message. A quartet
of men from member churches
will perform at the service.
The worship service is open
to the public
See the complete
festival schedule
on Page 2
DDD file photos
The Farmers Market
The Decatur Farmers Market
will be open from 3-7 p.m. in
the 100 block of East Madison
Street in downtown Decatur.
Parking is available in the city
owned lot on 1st street.
Vendors will be selling a wide
variety of goods, from crafts,
baked goods, homemade items,
flowers, herbs and more.
Taste of Decatur
This year’s Taste of Decatur
event will be held from 4-8
p.m. Thursday at the Riverside
Center in conjunction with the
festival. Taste of Decatur will
feature area restaurants serving small portions from their
menu, with offerings ranging
from 50 cents to $4. The celebration gives attendees an
opportunity to sample a variety
of the best Decatur restaurants
have to offer, from appetizers to
entrees, to fast food and desserts.
Also returning this year will
be the Decatur Historic Wagon
Rides by Camelot Carriages at
4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Flower show
Show off the best flowers and
vegetables from your garden
at the sixth annual Kekionga
Festival Flower and Vegetable
Contest and Show. Open to
all area gardeners of any age,
the event will start on Aug. 19
at the Riverside Center. Cash
prizes in addition to “bragging
rights” will be awarded for first,
second and third places in up to
50 categories and Best of Show
See FESTIVAL, Page 2
Local Homestead Farm
honored at state fair
Five area farms were recognized on
Friday at the Indiana State Fair with
Hoosier Homestead awards for 100
years or more of family farm ownership,
according to State Rep. Matt Lehman,
R-Berne. Among the honorees was the
Nussbaum/Hindenlang Farm, located
in Adams County. The farm has been in
operation since 1865 and received the
sesquicentennial award. Family members, shown at left, were present to
accept the award. Other sesquicentennial award-winning farms in Lehman’s
district included the Hockemeyer Farm,
located in Allen County, in operation
since 1862; the Bearman/Bradtmueller
Farm, located in Allen County, in operation since 1882; the Taylor Family Farm,
located in Wells County, in operation
since 1840; and the Sturgeon Farm,
located in Wells County, in operation
since 1865.
Photo provided
Build-a-Kit
at das marit
on Saturday
The das Märit Farmers
& Artists Market in Berne
is hosting a “Build a Kit”
project for area children from 10 a.m.-noon
Saturday. Each child will
have a choice of building
a stool, bird house, shelf,
marshmallow launcher,
tool box or bird feeder. The only things participants need to bring are a
parent, a hammer, and $5
per item the child would
like to build.
75¢
Weber says public defender’s fund for deposition payments is drying up
By MIKE LAMM
County Chief Public Defender Brad
Weber and Prosecutor Jeremy Brown
appeared before members of the Adams
County Council during their monthly
meeting last week.
Weber told councilors he has less
than $300 remaining in his miscellaneous expenses account with which to
pay for the cost of legal depositions. He
said he currently has “10 depositions
taken but not paid for,” and with “half
a dozen jury trials before the end of the
year,” insufficient funds remain in the
account to cover those expenses.
Legal depositions can cost between
$150 and $400 to record, and additional
copies can costs up to $350 each, Weber
said.
While Weber admitted, “I try to limit
the number of depositions” requested,
they often “show discrepancies in testimony” and are requisite in the legal
process. If convicted, certified copies of
depositions “are part of discovery” and
are required by law, he explained.
“I’m not here to ask for more money.
I’m trying to figure out how to pay” for
this increasing expense, Weber said.
Auditor Mary Beery noted Weber has
in excess of $33,000 in his supplemental public defender fund and com-
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mented, “I don’t see why you couldn’t
use that fund” to pay for the increasing
cost of depositions. Rather than transfer
money from one fund to another, County
Attorney Mark Burry agreed with Beery’s
assessment, recommending Weber use
those monies to resolving the issue.
Prosecutor has staff vacancy
Brown appeared before the commissioners to seek permission to replace an
employee who has left his department.
According to Brown, Court Office
Manager Cynthia Everett has announced
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FESTIVAL
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for an arrangement and
specimen.
Check-in for entries
will be from 4-6:30 p.m.
Aug. 19. After judging, all exhibits will be
on display at Riverside
Center for public view
throughout the Kekionga
Festival.
Motor Sports Car Show
The 2016 Motor
Sports Festival will
take place during the
Kekionga Festival from
4-9 p.m. Friday on 2nd
Street.
Mayor’s Challenge
Decatur Mayor Ken
Meyer will take part
in his first Mayor’s
Challenge, an annual
event that pits the
mayor of Decatur
against the mayor of
Berne — Bill McKean
— in a series of lighthearted competitions
ranging from knife
and spear throwing to
fire starting and other
comical events. Always
a crowd-pleaser, the
Mayor’s Challenge wil be
held at 9 a.m. Saturday
in the pioneer encampment area just north of
Riverside Center.
Sidewalk sales
The festival will again
feature the Downtown
Decatur Sidewalk Sale
this year. Vendors will
display their wares
from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturday.
Featured on 2nd
Street, from Jackson
to Jefferson streets,
will be retailers, service
and non-profits, home
crafts and antique dealers. There will also be
food booths located at
Madison Street next to
the courthouse.
A limited number of
booth spaces are still
available and forms may
be picked up at the local
Decatur Chamber of
Commerce.
Wood carving
Sheri Keiffner will
demonstrate her wood
carving skills at the
Kekionga Festival on
Saturday. Carving demonstrations will take
place at 10 a.m., noon,
2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in
Riverside Park, located
behind Riverside Center.
For more information call the Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
at 724-2604 or pick up
one of the flyers available at the chamber and
in many businesses.
The schedule may also
be found on the chamber’s website at www.
Decaturchamber.org.
Get your artifacts appraised
Saturday at Kekionga Fest
Dave Ramp, from the
Little Turtle Archaeological
Research Society, will return
to Decatur’s Kekionga Festival
this year to display his collection of Native American stone
tools — some of which date
back more than 10,000 years
— for the public to view and
learn about.
Ramp will appear at the
Riverside Center from 9 a.m.4 p.m. Saturday to speak with
area residents. Visitors are Ramp
invited to bring their stone
tools — arrowheads, large
stone weapons or working tools — for identification and appraisal, free of charge.
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— The complete schedule for the Decatur Kekionga Festival —
Wednesday
7 p.m. — Old Fashioned Praise and
Worship Service (Riverside Tent).
Thursday
3-7 p.m. — Farmers Market (Madison
Street);
4-8 p.m. — Taste of Decatur (Riverside
Center);
4:30 / 5:30 / 6:30 p.m. — Historic Wagon
Tours (Riverside Center);
5 p.m. — John Hebein (Frank Sinatra)
(Riverside Center);
6 p.m. — Razz M Jazz (Riverside Center).
Friday
9 a.m.-2 p.m. — Education Day (Riverside
Park and Riverside Center);
3-7 p.m. — Vegetable and Flower Show
check-in (Riverside Center);
4 p.m. — Encampment open to the public
(Riverside Park);
4-9 p.m. — Motor Sports Car Show
(Downtown).
Saturday
8 a.m. — American Cancer Society seventh annual Kicking Out Cancer Kickball
Tournament, Hanna Nuttman baseball diamonds. Cost is $150 per team of 12, six
guys / six girls. Silent Auction, 50 / 50
raffle, food prepared and donated by United
Steelworkers 15173. Family friendly event;
8 a.m. — JAKES registration;
The
9 a.m.-4 p.m. — Sidewalk Sale (downtown);
9 a.m. — Mayor’s Challenge (Riverside
Park);
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — JAKES (Bellmont
Pond) - Archery, BB-gun target shooting,
fishing, fishing lure making, tree identification, animal tracks. Info: Dion Jordan 260701-9096 or www. nwtf.org/jakes. Lunch
provided;
10 a.m.-4 p.m. — Camelot Carriage Wagon
Transportation (between encampment and
downtown);
10 a.m. — Sheri Keiffner Carving
(Village);
10 a.m. — Razz M’ Jazz Dancers
(Courthouse);
10 a.m.-3 p.m. —Young Farmer’s
Barnyard (Riverside Center);
10 a.m.-5 p.m. — (Riverside Center) Art
Show, demonstrations, education exhibits, Vegetable and Garden Show, Ruth
Meinzen (Wool Spinning), Janet Torson
(The Honeybee), Carolyn Fast (Handwoven
Baskets), John Lindsey (Spinning Wool and
Flax), Laurie Mrvos (Hand Weaving), Paula
Schumm (Strolling Musician), David Ramp
(Artifact Roadshow), Lon Hawkins (“0” Gauge
train display in the Garden Room), Lawrence
and Karen Dietz (cannon display);
10 a.m.-noon — 2 p.m. Cannon shot outside Riverside Center;
10:30 a.m.-noon — My Lost Tribe
(Courthouse);
11 a.m. — Thistle Mountain Dulcimers
(Gazebo);
11 a.m. / 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. — Flag folding demonstrations, new flags for sale and
disposal of old flags by American Legion
(Riverside Center);
11 a.m. — Bellmont Brave Generation
(Riverside Tent);
11 a.m.-1 p.m. — Sidewalk Chalk Art
sponsored by MamaTalk (Old 27 Ice Cream
Shop, 168 S. 2nd Street);
Noon — Sheri Keiffner Carving (Village);
Noon — Razz M’ Jazz Dancers (Riverside
Center);
12-3 p.m. — Thistle Mountain Dulcimers
(Riverside Center);
2 p.m. — Sheri Keiffner carving (Village);
4 p.m. — Sheri Keiffner carving (Village);
5 p.m. — Auction of wood carvings
(Riverside Park) at conclusion of last show;
5:30 p.m. — Registration for Adams
Memorial Hospital Kekionga 5K Greenway
Gallop (Riverside Center);
6:30 p.m. — Race start - 5K Greenway
Gallop;
12-8 p.m. — Kekionga Motorcycle Show
sponsored by EDZ Motorcycle Sales &
Service (lst Street at Jackson Street). Beer
Tent sponsored by Decatur Package Liquors
and The Wet Spot.
Sunday
9 a.m. — Church Service (Village);
10 a.m.-3 p.m. — Encampment (Village.
Good Life
3 Factors That Impact Homeowner Happiness
It is said that as you get older you become wiser, but as homeowners grow
older, do they become happier? According to a nationwide homeowner happiness survey conducted by HomeAdvisor,
the answer is yes. This was the case of
Bob and Joanie Johnson, who dropped
their youngest child off at college in August 2015.
Although they needed time to adjust to
their children no longer living at home,
they soon realized they had extra time
and money to devote to home projects.
Many parents who become empty nesters have this revelation and start focusing on projects that have been placed
on the backburner while kids were in the
house.
“It makes sense that empty nesters have
the highest happy home scores,” said
Dr. Karen Ruskin, HomeAdvisor’s Happiness Advisor. “They have likely settled in
a community they enjoy and plan to stay.
This group also generally has the most
economic stability and time to make their
house a happy home.”
The survey shows that individuals in the
empty-nester stage have higher happy
home scores across the board compared
to all other stages of life. The main factors that contribute to their happiness are
their communities, location and features
of their homes. Compared to other stages of life, empty-nesters feel the safest
in their communities, most connected to
their neighbors and are also the happiest
with the condition of their homes.
Overall homeowner happiness boils
down to a combination of three important
factors: accessibility to attractions and
services, community and dwelling. Interestingly, research shows that accessibility and community play a far bigger role
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This rings true for the Johnsons, who are
far happier with the accessibility of services in their community and their neighbors than other life-stage groups.
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NASA: July was
Earth’s hottest in
recorded history
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just broiled to its
hottest month in recorded history, according to
NASA.
Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which
spikes global temperatures on top of man-made
climate change, July burst global temperature
records.
NASA calculated that July 2016 was 1.51
degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1950-1980
global average. That’s clearly hotter than the previous hotter months, about 0.18 degrees warmer
than the previous record of July 2011 and July
2015, which were so close they were said to be in
a tie for the hottest month on record, said NASA
chief climate scientist Gavin Schmidt.
Scientists blame mostly man-made climate
change from the burning of fossil fuel with an
extra jump from the now-gone El Nino , which
every few years is a natural warming of parts of
the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.
Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said
this is significant ‘‘because global temperatures
continue to warm even as a record-breaking El
Nino event has finally released its grip.’’
NASA’s five hottest months on record are July
2016, July 2011, July 2015, July 2009 and
August 2014. Only July 2015 was during an El
Nino. Records go back to 1880.
This is the 10th record hot month in a row,
according to NASA. The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, which calculates
temperatures slightly differently, will come out
with its July figures on Wednesday. NOAA has
figured there have been 14 monthly heat records
broken in a row, before July.
This new record and all the records that have
been broken recently years tell one cohesive
story, said Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies: ‘‘The planet is getting
warmer. It’s important for what it tells us about
the future.’’
Traffic
Monroe crash
injures three
Three people were
injured in a two vehicle
accident at 7:42 a.m.
Monday on U.S. 27N near
Polk Street in Monroe.
An Adams County
Sheriff’s
Department
report stated that Steven
M. Dent, 61, Fort Wayne,
was traveling south on
U.S. 27 when he attempted a left turn onto Polk
Street, failing to see a
northbound
pickup
truck, driven by Jeffery
L. Butler, 54, Decatur.
The Butler truck hit the
Dent car in the right rear
fender, causing damage estimated between
$10,000 and $25,000.
Dent admitted he had
been drinking at the
time.
Both drivers were
transported to area hospitals by units of the
Adams County EMS. A
passenger in the Butler
pickup, Scott E. Burke,
47, Decatur, later drove
himself to an area hospital. Dent and Burke
both submitted to blood
alcohol tests, with the
results pending. The
collision remains under
investigation by the sheriff’s department.
At 4:34 p.m. Monday,
Ana E. Banuelos, 38,
Decatur, was reportedly
eastbound on C.R. 000N
at C.R. 850N, when her
SUV hydroplaned on
standing water and skidded into the intersection,
striking the left side of a
northbound SUV driven
by Morgun J. Werling,
19, Hoagland. The force
of the impact caused the
Werling vehicle to enter
the east ditch and swerve
back across both lanes
of traffic before coming
to rest in the front yard
of Alice J. Sielschott on
the west side of the roadway.
Neither driver complained of injuries following the collision, which
caused an estimated
$5,000 to $10,000 to
both vehicles.
Decatur police investigated an accident at
12:50 p.m. Monday when
a deer ran into the side of
a pickup truck.
A report stated Rodney
L. Vore, 46, Decatur, was
southbound on 28th
Street south of U.S. 224
at an estimated speed
of 25 mph when a doe
ran from the trees and
brush on the east side
of the road into the driver’s side of his truck. He
stated “the deer paused
momentarily and stared
at him,” before running
off.
Damage to the Vore
pickup truck was estimated at less than
$1,000.
Man arrested for arson blaze
that decimated California town
LOWER LAKE, Calif.
(AP) — A California man
was arrested Monday on
arson charges for allegedly sparking a wildfire
that exploded over the
weekend,
destroying
more than 175 homes,
business
and
other
structures in a Northern
California town, authorities said.
Lake County Sheriff
Brian Martin said Damin
Blotter
David Ramos, 33,
Fort Wayne, was arrested Monday by sheriff’s
deputies for driving while
suspended, operating a
motor vehicle without a
license and indirect contempt of court. Bond was
set at $200 cash and
$2,500 surety.
Anthony Pashilk, 40, of
Clearlake was arrested
Monday on 17 counts of
arson and is in jail. He is
suspected in numerous
fires in Lake County over
the past year.
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In unprecedented move, Russia warplanes
take off from Iran to target IS in Syria
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 • Page 3A
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian warplanes took off on Tuesday from a
base in Iran to target Islamic State
fighters and other militants in
Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry
said, widening Moscow’s bombing
campaign in a major development
in the country’s civil war.
The long-range bombers took
off from near the city of Hamedan,
around 280 kilometers (175 miles)
southwest of the Iranian capital,
and struck targets in three provinces in northern and eastern Syria.
It is virtually unheard of in
Iran’s recent history to allow a foreign power to use one of its bases
to stage attacks from. Russia has
also never used the territory of
another country in the Middle
East for its operations inside
Syria, where it has been carrying
out an aerial campaign in support
of President Bashar Assad’s government for nearly a year.
The announcement suggests
cooperation on the highest levels between Moscow and Tehran,
both key allies of the embattled
president.
It comes a day after Russia’s
defense minister said Moscow
and Washington are edging closer
to an agreement on Syria that
would help defuse the situation
in the besieged northern city of
Aleppo.
Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu said the agreement
would ‘‘allow us to find common
ground and start fighting together for bringing peace to that territory,’’ adding that Russian representatives are ‘‘in a very active
stage of talks with our American
colleagues.’’
A U.S. official said, however, that discussions with the
Russians are still ongoing and no
agreement is close. The official
spoke on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitivity of the
talks.
Russia and the United States
have been discussing greater
coordination for striking extremists in Syria, but they have been
unable to reach agreement on
which militant groups could be
targeted.
Russia has criticized what it
describes as U.S. reluctance to
persuade the Syrian opposition
groups it supports to withdraw
from areas controlled by al-Qaida’s branch in Syria.
Death toll now at seven in Louisiana flooding
BATON ROUGE, La.
(AP) — As waters begin
to recede in parts of
Louisiana’s capital city,
some residents struggled to return to flooddamaged homes on foot,
in cars and by boat. But
though the rain had
mostly stopped, new
places in the state faced
flood dangers from the
deluge that has sent
thousands into shelters.
Rivers and creeks
were still dangerously
bloated in areas south
of Baton Rouge as people filled sandbags there
to protect their houses,
bracing for the worst
as the water worked its
way south. In one area,
Ascension Parish, officials said some small
towns have already been
inundated.
Seven deaths have
been reported and more
than 20,000 have had to
be rescued since Friday
in some of the worst
flooding the state has
ever seen. And at least
11,000 have hunkered
down in shelters to wait
out the floods.
The slow-moving, lowpressure system that
dumped more than 20
inches of rain on some
parts of Louisiana was
crawling into Texas, but
the National Weather
Service
warned
the
danger of new flood-
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part-time cook Patsy
Smith ($17.31 per hour)
and 12 jail employees,
ranging from $1,160
to $1,315.20 annually.
Sheriff Shane Rekeweg
admitted, “veterans are
not pleased that new
employees are making
nearly the same amount”
as they are.
The increased base
pay for jailers recently
passed by council has,
however, “prompted an
increase in new applicants,” Rekeweg said.
Councilor
Dennis
Bluhm again raised concerns that no projections
for operating costs at the
new jail have been realized. Rekeweg responded, “That should come
from the architects.”
Bluhm suggested, “We
need those figures pretty
fast.” Budget negotiations will occur before
jail construction is finished, he stressed.
Bluhm also asked if
the 911 system is able
to receive text messages.
Rekeweg said, “We’ve had
that capability for over a
year new.” He added that
while he wants the general public to dial 911 and
speak personally with a
dispatcher, “If there is a
situation where you cannot speak,” texting is a
viable option.
• Accepted a grant
totaling
$61,500
to
pay the annual salary
($34,838) and benefits
($26,662) of a new probation officer presented
by Probation Department
Chief Officer Rhonda
McIntosh.
her intention to step
down from a position with
his staff. He proposed
replacing Everett with
Court Level III employee
Jodi Hirschy.
Brown recommended
bumping Hirschy’s current $28,560 salary to
Everett’s annual rate
of pay of $37,140. He
rationalized that the
“significant increase” in
Hirschy’s income was
justified by the “significant increase in responsibility” that comes with
the new position.
Councilor
Randy
Colclasure reiterated his
oft-stated position that
“I have a problem starting someone at the same
rate of pay as their predecessor. That’s quite a
jump,” he added.
Brown
responded,
“I respect your opinion,” but said the added
responsibilities associated with the position
“has to equate to extra
compensation.”
Burry agreed, pointed out that council has
established a pay range
for the position between
$34,728 and $37,165,
and it was required that
Hirschy be offered compensation within those
parameters.
Brown’s request to
replace Everett with
Hirschy was approved,
but her rate of pay was
not clarified. Brown
will apparently need to
return to council to justify Hirschy’s salary.
In other business,
councilors:
• Approved pay increases for Jail Matron Carla
Rose Girod ($1,384.62),
ing remained high due
to the sheer volume of
water flowing toward the
Gulf of Mexico.
In and around Baton
Rouge, many were anxious to check on damage. But a police officer
at one Baton Rouge area
roadblock warned Jack
Miller that the 60-yearold was risking arrest
if he tried to drive a
boat on a trailer down
a stretch of the highway
down to just two lanes.
‘‘I’m trying to get back
to my home and rescue
my cat,’’ Miller said.
Authorities
late
Monday said a body had
been pulled from floodwaters in Baton Rouge,
raising the toll to seven
dead.
Casey Rayborn Hicks,
a spokeswoman for the
East Baton Rouge Parish
Sheriff’s Office, said a
volunteer patrolling in
his boat Monday found
the victim in front of a
library though the manner of death and the
person’s identity still
awaited confirmation.
Despite the dangers,
people ventured out.
Karla and Johnathon
McDaniel waded through
chest-deep water to
revisit their home they
fled late Saturday night
but the water was too
deep to get inside.
On their way out, the
McDaniels stopped to
gawk at a monster truck
revving its engine in a
failed attempt to free a
National Guard vehicle mired in a muddy
ditch. It was a welcome
moment of levity after
days of worry around
the state’s southeast,
which saw thousands of
water rescues.
Trump reveals few details on
‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio
(AP) — Donald Trump
is calling for ‘‘extreme’’
vetting of immigrants
seeking admission to
the United States, but
he’s offering few specifics about how that might
work, how long it might
last or how taxpayers
would foot the bill.
Trump, who had previously called for an
unprecedented temporary ban on immigration by Muslims, vowed
Monday to overhaul
the country’s screening process and block
those who sympathize
with extremist groups or
don’t embrace American
values.
‘‘Those
who
do
not believe in our
Constitution, or who
support bigotry and
hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into
our country,’’ Trump
said in a foreign policy
address in Youngstown,
Ohio. ‘‘Only those who
we expect to flourish
in our country — and
to embrace a tolerant
American society —
should be issued visas.’’
The GOP presidential
nominee has made stricter immigration measures
a central part of his proposals for defeating the
Islamic State — a battle
he said Monday is akin to
the struggle against communism during the Cold
War. He called for parents, teachers and others
to promote ‘‘American
culture’’ and encouraged
‘‘assimilation.’’
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Why it matters?
North Korea
(Editor’s note: Following is the latest in an AP
series examining issues at stake in the presidential election and how they affect people.)
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — THE ISSUE:
Pariah state North Korea could soon be
capable of targeting America with nuclear weapons. Economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation have failed to halt its progress. What can
Washington do to stop the authoritarian government from building up a nuclear arsenal that
threatens the United States and its allies in
Asia?
The entertainment candidate
BY RICH LOWRY
Donald Trump is running a
top-notch campaign to be a conservative media celebrity.
Unfortunately for him, and
especially for the Republican
Party, this isn’t the same thing as
running a good, or even minimally
WHERE THEY STAND
competent, campaign for presi Donald Trump says the U.S. can put more
dent.
pressure on China to rein in its unpredictable
From the beginning, Trump has
North Korean ally. He has suggested that Japan
been the candidate by and for
and South Korea could get nuclear weapons to
the Entertainment Right -- the
defend themselves rather than depend on the
talk-radio hosts, cable personaliU.S. military. But he’s also ready to meet the
ties and authors who recognize in
North Korean leader. Hillary Clinton isn’t conTrump their own combative style
templating a face-to-face with Kim Jong Un, who and find it irresistible.
has met no other foreign leader. She wants the
Trump’s campaign has hewed
international community to intensify sanctions
closely to the rules for 21st-cenon North Korea as the Obama administration did tury media provocateurs: Always
with Iran, which eventually opened the way for a be inflammatory, and never apolodeal to contain its nuclear program.
gize. Wear the media’s outrage as
a badge of honor, and attack your
WHY IT MATTERS
critics twice as hard. Repeat as
Unlike Iran, North Korea already has the
necessary.
bomb. It has conducted four underground nucle- Trump didn’t learn these rules
ar test explosions since 2006. The most recent
as a commentator, but in the
test was in January, when it claimed to have det- world of New York real estate.
onated a hydrogen bomb — a much more power- His dirtball mentor Roy Cohn,
ful device than in the previous tests — although
the late New York power lawyer,
the U.S. government doubted that claim.
taught him to always stay on the
North Korea is also working on ways to deliver attack and never back down. It
nuclear weapons. After five failures, it successwas Trump’s discovery that, in
fully test-launched in June a ballistic missile
the right conditions, the model
that puts U.S. military bases in South Korea,
was transferable to Republican
Japan and Guam within reach. North Korea has
primary politics.
displayed an intercontinental missile that could
Trump opened a window to his
potentially hit the mainland U.S., although it has mindset in advice he gave radio
not yet been flight-tested. It could take several
talk-show host Howie Carr when
more years to perfect that missile, which can be
Carr was embroiled in a miniconmoved by road, making it harder to destroy pretroversy: “Whatever you do, don’t
emptively. The U.S. military has said North Korea apologize. You never hear me
may by now have developed a nuclear warhead
apologize, do you? That’s what
small enough to mount on such a missile.
killed Jimmy the Greek way back.
The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops based in neighRemember? He was doing OK till
boring South Korea as a deterrent force, a legacy he said he was sorry.”
of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended without
This isn’t an accurate reprea formal peace treaty. North Korea is unlikely
to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. or its
allies, a move that would invite its own destruction. But, mindful of the fate of ousted dictators
in Iraq and Libya who gave up nuclear weapons
programs, Kim is clinging to his. He views atomic
weapons as a security guarantee for his oppresBy Jim Mullen
sive regime. That is the main obstacle to resum I was in the big-box store looking negotiations in which the North could win
ing for toothpaste in the pharmuch-needed aid in exchange for disarming.
macy section, which is the size
International attitudes to North Korea are
of a small city. The “Dental Care”
hardening. The nuclear test in January trigsection is 3 1/2 aisles of different
gered the toughest sanctions yet, restricting the
toothpastes, mouthwashes, floss,
North’s access to foreign currency and weapdenture powder, whiteners, gum
ons technology, but it remains to be seen how
massagers, attachments for elecaggressively China enforces them. In a sign of
tric toothbrushes and Waterpiks
how seriously the U.S. takes the emerging North
— 10 or 20 different brands of
Korean threat, it is investing in missile intercep- almost every different item. The
tors in Alaska and California to combat it. U.S.
most popular stuff is at eye level.
experts estimate that North Korea has 13 to 21
But if you suffer from an uncomnuclear weapons, and could have as many as
mon ailment of the teeth and
100 by 2020. That’s about 20 weapons fewer
gums, you’ll have to crawl along
than what India is estimated to have in its arsethe floor to search for special
nal today.
products, or reach up to the high———
est shelf.
This story is part of AP’s ‘‘Why It Matters’’
Pharmacy City is a great place
series, which will examine three dozen issues at
to get an idea of what we sufstake in the presidential election between now
fer from. There are a couple of
and Election Day. You can find them at: http://
aisles dedicated to inserts for
apnews.com/tag/WhyItMatters
your shoes, things to massage,
warm, wrap, pamper and soak
your feet. There’s stuff on the
shelves to solve foot problems I’ve
never even heard of and pray I
will never get. And no wonder our
feet hurt. If you walked over to
Grocery Town and then remembered you forgot to buy something
in Pharmacy City, you’d win a
gold medal for cross-country distance walking. I’m in good health,
and after about 15 minutes I want
to go see if there are any of those
electric carts still available.
sentation of Jimmy the Greek’s
long-ago fall (CBS fired the football analyst almost immediately
after his offensive musings about
black athletes). But it is telling
that this is how Trump remembers it. If only poor Jimmy hadn’t
been weak, he might have survived.
Trump’s refusal ever to apologize takes away one way to defuse
controversies, and perhaps demonstrate some humanity and
humility in the process. So his
only options are to double down
or try to evade what he said, forcing his defenders to repeat wholly
implausible spin.
Believers in the Trump “pivot”
are constantly disappointed for
a simple reason. Like a good
entertainer, Trump always tries
to keep his audiences engaged
and amused. His campaign is
a kind of performance art in
which entertainment value is
more important than basic political considerations.
While journalists and political strategists are appalled by
the distractions, Trump probably looks at things differently.
Whenever one of his controversies generates a tsunami of media
coverage, he may chafe at how
“unfairly” he’s being treated, but
part of him must be delighted as
a child on Christmas morning at
all the coverage.
After his wife’s introduction
to the country was spoiled at
the Republican convention by a
plagiarism controversy, Trump
tweeted, “Good news is Melania’s
speech got more publicity than
any in the history of politics especially if you believe that all press
is good press!” And that has,
across four decades in the media
capital of the world, always been
what Trump believed.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a deft sense of
political theater or boldness. But
Trump is pushing the limits of
the media-centric candidacy. He
isn’t necessarily losing on the
issues; he’s losing on demeanor.
In the latest Washington Post/
ABC News poll, Trump is roughly
even with Hillary Clinton on handling the economy and terrorism,
yet he trails badly on every presidential attribute.
So it’s not just a matter of
Trump being more focused. He
needs to be more dignified, more
careful, more respectful and more
knowledgeable — in other words,
a presidential candidate, not a
media celebrity.
He is currently on a path to
defeat, although this may bother
him less than a typical presidential candidate. In terms of media
attention, Trump’s campaign has
been, and will continue to be,
a runaway success. In his rambling news conference after the
GOP convention, Trump bragged
about how many Time magazine
covers he has had in the past
year. There have been reports
that Trump is considering starting his own TV network after the
election.
And why not? By November,
even if he loses, he will be more
famous than ever.
Lowry is a nationally-syndicated
columnist. He can be reached via
e-mail: comments.lowry@)nationalreview.com
Clean-up on Aisle 380
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August 16, 2016
Today is the 229th day of 2016
and the 58th day of summer.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1861,
President Abraham Lincoln prohibited Union states from trading
with states that had seceded.
The Village Idiot
There’s an entire wall of bandages and wraps for ankles,
elbows, backs and feet. Some of
the bandages come in industrial-size boxes. I’m not sure you
should be treating yourself at
home if you need a bandage the
size of a beach towel. Something
like that is sure to need a stitch
or two. You get to the bandage
section by taking a left at the
sunscreen booth that blocks the
middle of one of the main aisles.
I never realized how dangerous
it was to leave the house. How did
people like George and Martha
Washington ever get through
those steamy Virginia summers
without sunblock and bug spray?
Oh, yeah — they didn’t leave
the house wearing tank tops and
bikinis. They had a word for sunblock back then. It was called
“clothes.”
There are several major
and growing subdivisions at
Pharmacy City — Eye Care
Corner, Incontinence Village,
Supplement Junction and the
Just for Men Corner. And this is
the thing about Pharmacy City:
You’ll always run into someone
you know. It’s like running into
someone in the cheap whiskey
In 1896, gold was discovered near the Klondike River in
Canada’s Yukon Territory, sparking a gold rush.
In 1977, Elvis Presley died at
age 42.
In 2007, U.S. citizen Jose Padilla
was convicted of conspiracy in a
“dirty bomb” terrorism case and
sentenced to more than 17 years
section of the liquor store.
The first thing you think is how
embarrassing — now they’ll think
I’m incontinent when actually
I’m just looking for Rogaine. The
good news is that they’re probably embarrassed, too. When you
meet someone in the Incontinence
Village, the first thing you say is,
“Where do they hide the shampoo? I swear it’s never in the
same place twice.”
It’s easy to get lost in Incontinence
Village; it’s huge and the boxes are
so big. Two or three boxes and
you’ve filled up an entire cart. I’m
probably not alone in wishing that
the outside of every box said something like, “These are not for me.
I’m shopping for someone else,” in
big letters.
There’s something about being
in the checkout line with a bunch
of personal stuff that always
makes me uncomfortable. I’ll bet
there are men and women who
drive to faraway towns to buy
certain products. I wonder how
much hair dye for men is sold
over the internet. Me, I’m not
embarrassed about dyeing my
hair gray; I’ve been doing it for
years. It makes me look distinguished.
“Who told you that?” asks Sue.
“It makes you look like Captain
Kangaroo. But older. And not so
smart.”
in prison.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Nine-tenths
of tactics are certain, and taught
in books: but the irrational tenth
is like the kingfisher flashing
across the pool, and that is
the test of generals.” — T.E.
Lawrence, “The Evolution of a
Revolt”
C ommunity
Community Calendar
Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016:
Optimist Club, noon, Richard’s Restaurant.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
A.A., 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church.
MOPS, 9-11 a.m., First United Methodist Church.
League for the Blind and Disabled support group,
1:30-3:30 p.m., Woodcrest.
Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. Operation Help food pantry for Decatur and Monroe
residents, 1-4 p.m., Adams County Service Complex.
Bring your own box or cloth bags.
Free meal, 5-6 p.m., First United Methodist Church,
6th Street entrance.
Adult Children of Alcoholics, a 12-step support program for those raised in alcoholic families, 7 p.m., The
Bridge Community Church, 403 Winchester Road.
FISHER COMPLETES READING PROGRAM — John Fisher, son of Paul and Katie Fisher, recently completed the “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program at the Berne Public Library. His parents read to
him often and they have discovered that “Noah’s Big Boat” is his favorite book. Reading books often has
allowed John to develop a love for books, a fascination with the pictures and an understanding that the
words in the books have meaning. Incentives have been provided by the United Way of Adams County
and the Adams County Community Foundation. For more information about the 1,000 Books Before
Kindergarten program, call the Berne Public Library at 589-2809.
Photo provided
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016:
Rotary Club, noon, Back 40 restaurant.
Monroe United Methodist Church Farmer’s Wagon,
1 p.m., line is to form no earlier than noon.
Senior citizens play cards, 1 p.m., Riverside Center.
Decatur Farmer’s Market, 3-7 p.m., Madison Street
between 1st and 2nd Streets.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
TOPS Club weigh-in, 5:30 p.m.; meeting 6:15 p.m.,
Woodcrest Activity Building.
Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., weigh-in; 6:30 p.m. meeting, Adams Memorial Hospital Decatur Room.
Divorce Care4Kids, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Decatur Church
of God.
A.A. (open) Big Book meeting, 7 p.m., First Church
of the Nazarene, Berne.
Yoga for Stretching and Strength, Hope United
Methodist Church, 6608 Hoagland Rd., Hoagland, 7
p.m.
Gymanfa Ganu planned at Salem Presbyterian Church
The annual Gymanfa Ganu, or
Welsh Festival of Song, will be held
at the Salem Presbyterian church
in Venedocia, Ohio, starting at 4
p.m. Sept. 4. A light supper will be
served from 4-6 p.m. and the program will begin at 7 p.m.
According to a press release, this
tradition can be traced back to the
12th Century in Wales where the
singing of hymns in four part harmony began. It has been an important part of the Venedocia Church’s
life since 1915. Visitors return each
year from many states to renew
friendships and to hear the sound
of the grand old hymns being sung
by several hundred people.
The director this year is
Christopher Uhl, who has many
A past Gymanfa Ganu festival held at Salem Presbyterian Church in
Venedocia, Ohio.
Photo provided
family ties to Venedocia. He is the
son of Don and Faye Uhl of Van
Wert, the grandson of Albert and
Margaret (Williams) Uhl, who were
both born in Venedocia, and the
grand-nephew of J. Alford and
France Breese, long–time choir
director and organist, respectively,
of Salem church.
The featured soloist will be
Susan (Morgan) Leffel. She lives
in New Knoxville, Ohio, with her
husband, Keith, and her children Logan and Morgan. She also
has roots in Venedocia and was
married in the church in 1992.
She is the daughter of Thomas
and Eleanor (Evans) Morgan of
St. Marys and the granddaughter
of the late D. Orus and Eunice
(Jones) Morgan and the late Daniel
and Ruth (Morris) Evans all of
Venedocia.
Accompanists for the Gymanfa
will be Ladonna Allenbaugh and
Connie O’Neill. Rev. Thomas Emery
is the pastor.
For more information call Jean
Owens at (419) 968-2430 or e-mail
[email protected].
Optimist Club hosts the Brunes
Decatur Sculpture Tour committee member, Jean
Brune, and her husband, Charlie, recently talked
to the Decatur Optimist Club about the Decatur
Sculpture Tour. They included information about
how the tour was started and how much it has
grown over the last five years.
Photo provided
APLS-Decatur to host business workshop
The Adams Public Library System
will host a workshop at 5:30 p.m. Aug.
23 at the Decatur branch of the APLS
for those in business who are interested in market research. The workshop will cover how to conduct market
research using the premier source
of business and residential information, ReferenceUSA, which includes
databases on businesses, internships,
healthcare, consumer information,
new movers, US and Canadian new
businesses and standard white pages.
The
ReferenceUSA
databases
are available inside the library's networks, plus outside the network to
anyone with a valid APLS library card.
For more information or to reserve a
space for the workshop, contact adult
services librarian Andrea Chronister at
[email protected] or 7242605.
Sense & Sensitivity
By HARRIETTE COLE
Ex Won’t Stop Texting Reader
DEAR HARRIETTE: My ex-boyfriend
texts me way too casually. Just a week
after our breakup, he texted me with his
weekend plans, completely unprovoked.
I responded a few hours later, and
the conversation ended there. Now he
attempts to text me like we didn’t date for
years! What gives? I thought everyone
knew saying that we would “stay friends”
is a lie. -- Exes and Nos, Charlotte, NC
DEAR EXES AND NOS: Obviously,
your ex didn’t get the memo! You need
to get in touch with him, preferably not
via text. Ask him if the two of you can
talk. Then, either face-to-face or on the
phone, explain to him that it isn’t cool
for him to be in touch as if you are old
buds. Tell him that you need some space
between you and that, even though you
hope the two of you will stay pleasant
with each other, you are not interested
in staying an active part of his life. Wish
him well. Tell him you intend to live your
life, and he should do the same -- without including you in it.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I’ve been bitten
by the DIY bug. I redid a dining table and
realized we can save so much money by
putting a little elbow grease into things
we own already. However, my wife disapproves of my new hobby because
“it’s easier to buy something instead of
wasting your time.” I acknowledged we
didn’t need to do the DIY project out of
necessity, but because it was fun. We’re
currently debating why I can’t build us a
couch instead of buying one. How do I
get my wife on the DIY craze? -- Do It on
My Own, Berkeley, California
DEAR DO IT ON MY OWN: You
two need to come to a meeting of the
minds. To get your wife to begin to like
your new hobby, you have to create
boundaries. Tell her how much you love
the DIY scene and that it is bringing you
tremendous joy. Ask her to indulge you
the space to work on projects around
the house. Tell her it is important to you
to have her blessing. Ask her what you
can do so that she will feel comfortable.
For example, if she really wants to
buy a new couch, acquiesce to her if
in turn she will give you the freedom to
build something else. Try to get your wife
to agree on projects before you start
them, so that she feels like she still has a
say in what goes into her house. People
can become irrationally territorial when
they feel that their turf is threatened. If
the home was once her domain, your
new interest in building things for it may
have gotten her off balance. By acknowledging that and ensuring her that you
are not trying to take over, but, instead,
hoping to contribute, you may be able to
win her over.
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RV, manufactured
housing museum in
Elkhart to expand
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Officials of a recreational
vehicle and manufactured housing museum in
Elkhart are looking to expand its space and cater to
larger events.
President of the RV/MH Hall of Fame and Museum,
Darryl Searer, unveiled a plan to expand the venue
last week, The Elkhart Truth reported.
The $8 million to $10 million update includes
adding a 60,000-square-foot event center, a
15,000-square-foot, a campground rally site, and
pavilion with a stage and restrooms. Plans also
include an expansion of the museum and existing
office space.
‘‘We are underutilizing the space we have right
now,’’ Searer said.
He estimates that it had to turn away 45 events
over the last year because there wasn’t room to host
them.
‘‘This expansion will allow us to be able to host
those events and even attract new ones,’’ Searer
said.
Searer’s hope is that in the future, thousands of
visitors will come to Elkhart for an RV trade show,
while hundreds more participate in an RV rally next
door.
‘‘They will have easy access to the site from the
Toll Road,’’ he said. ‘‘All of the RV sites will be pull
through, which nobody else in the county has. Plus,
we will be able to increase visits to the museum
through tie-ins to the rallies.’’
Searer said he expects additional business from
the expansion to bring in more than $400,000 each
year.
‘‘Everybody who holds an event here or comes
here loves the facility,’’ he said. ‘‘The best part is we
are not just limited to RV-related shows. We hold
weddings, reunions and even a gun show.’’
Construction for the expansion could begin by
2020.
NIPSCO to raze closed plant,
clean site for development
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Northern Indiana
Public Service Co. is moving ahead with a project
to demolish a long-shuttered Gary power plant and
clean up the site along Lake Michigan.
The Merrillville-based utility says the demolition
of its Dean H. Mitchell power plant and the site’s
environmental cleanup will cost an estimated $18
million.
NIPSCO says it will work with Gary officials and
other local stakeholders to try to attract new development to the site that would bring jobs and tax
revenue.
The coal-fired power plant was built in 1955,
but was taken offline in December 2001. It was
put into use periodically after that but later permanently decommissioned due to its age, needed
upgrades and the cost of complying with federal
regulations.
Some trails at southern Indiana
forest closed are for logging
NASHVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A state forest in southern Indiana is closing off some trails temporarily
because logging operations are underway.
Yellowwood State Forest property manager Jim
Allen tells The (Bloomington) Herald-Times the
trails will be closed six to eight weeks because of
the logging. Allen is hopeful the trails may be open
by the time the leaves begin to turn this fall.
He said the restrictions on trails are needed to
ensure visitors to the forest are safe.
Allen said the trails where the logging is happening should not be affected by the operation.
‘‘Once we open back up the trails, they will be
as they were,’’ he said.
But Jason Flickner, conservation director of the
Indiana Forest Alliance, a non-profit environmental group, said the trails won’t be as good a place
to hike as before.
‘‘It will still be a mess after that,’’ he said.
‘‘That’s the problem. The Indiana Forest Alliance
stance has always been that the Department of
Natural Resources should stay away from recreational trails. Once they go in there and log, even
if they open it in time for fall colors, it’s going to be
a muddy, sloppy mess.’’
Yellowwood State Forest is in the heart of what
the Indiana Forest Alliance hopes will become one
of 13 areas across Indiana to be protected from
logging.
Vanderbilt University pays $1.2M to
remove ‘Confederate’ from dorm name
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
(AP)
—
Vanderbilt
University announced
Monday that it will pay
more than a million dollars to remove an inscription containing the word
‘‘Confederate’’ from one
of its campus dorms.
The private university has referred
to the Confederate
Memorial Hall simply
as ‘‘Memorial Hall’’
since 2002, but was
blocked in court from
changing the name
chiseled on the building because it was constructed with the help
of a $50,000 gift from
the United Daughters
of the Confederacy in
1933.
Under the agreement, Vanderbilt will
pay $1.2 million, the
equivalent of the gift
made 83 years ago,
to the organization’s
Tennessee chapter. In
exchange, the chapter
will relinquish its naming rights to the building.
Giuliani, backing Trump, appears to forget 9/11
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph
Giuliani,
promoting
Donald
Trump’s national security plan,
said Monday that in the ‘‘eight
years before (President Barack)
Obama came along, we didn’t
have any successful radical
Islamic terrorist attack in the
United States.’’ That’s an apparent omission of the largest terror
attack in United States history.
Giuliani was mayor of New
York City on Sept. 11, 2001 and
in the hours after the World
Trade Center fell, while thenPresident George W. Bush was
largely unseen, he became the
face of American grief and determination. His brave and graceful
performance in the weeks after
the towers’ collapse earned him
the nickname ‘‘America’s mayor’’
and he was soon launched into
national political stardom, his
name synonymous with the
response to the attacks. That
made his comments Monday all
the more puzzling.
‘‘Under those eight years,
before Obama came along, we
didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the
United States. They all started
when Clinton and Obama got
into office,’’ Giuliani said ahead
of Trump’s speech on national
security.
The eyebrow-raising comments, which were immediately
lampooned on social media, were
a far cry from Giuliani’s usual
speeches, which are often pep-
pered with references to the resolve
New Yorkers displayed after the
attacks. In fact, his discussions of
the attacks were so common that
Vice President Joe Biden once
said of him there were ‘‘only three
things he mentions in a sentence:
A noun, a verb and 9/11.’’
Jake Menges, a spokesman
for the former mayor, told The
Associated Press on Monday evening that Giuliani was referring
to a lack of major attacks during
the remainder of Bush’s term.
It was not immediately clear if
Giuliani was referring to a lack of
major attacks during the remainder of Bush’s term. A spokesman
for the former mayor did not
respond to a request for a clarification.
15 Guantanamo detainees sent to UAE in major transfer
POR T -AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) — Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo
Bay detention center
were sent to the United
Arab Emirates in the
single largest release
of detainees during the
Obama administration,
the Pentagon announced
Monday.
The transfer of 12
Yemeni nationals and
three Afghans to the UAE
comes amid a renewed
push to whittle down
the number of detainees
held at the U.S. prison
in Cuba that President
Barack Obama aims to
close.
The Pentagon says 61
detainees now remain at
Guantanamo, which was
opened in January 2002
to hold foreign fighters
suspected of links to
the Taliban or the al-
Qaida terrorist organization. During the Bush
administration,
532
prisoners were released
from
Guantanamo,
often in large groups to
Afghanistan and Saudi
Arabia.
The latest batch of
released prisoners had
been held without charge
at Guantanamo, some for
over 14 years. They were
cleared for release by the
Periodic Review Board,
comprised of representatives from six U.S. government agencies.
The UAE successfully
resettled five detainees
transferred there last
year, according to the
Pentagon. In July 2008,
the seven-emirate nation
also repatriated UAE
citizen and Guantanamo
prisoner
Abdulah
Alhamiri at the same
time that Afghanistan
and Qatar each accepted
one prisoner a piece.
In the United Arab
Emirates, the staterun WAM news agency
had no reports on the
Guantanamo transfers
on Tuesday and UAE officials declined to immediately comment on the
Pentagon
announcement.
The
United
Arab
Emirates is a major
regional military ally
for the U.S., as it hosts
American military personnel targeting the Islamic
State group with airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
Dubai’s Jebel Ali port is
the most frequently visited by ships of the U.S.
Navy outside of America.
Lee Wolosky, the State
Department’s
special
envoy for Guantanamo’s
Comedy Central pulls the plug on ‘The Nightly Show’
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy
Central’s ‘‘The Nightly Show with
Larry Wilmore’’ is coming to an end.
The late-night humor and talk
show, which premiered in January
2015, will conclude its run Thursday,
the network announced Monday.
The program, which filled the slot
vacated by Stephen Colbert when he
jumped to CBS, sought to explore
current events and larger life issues
as presided over by Wilmore, who
previously had served as ‘‘senior
black correspondent’’ on ‘‘The Daily
Show.’’
But audience acceptance of ‘‘The
Nightly Show’’ never approached its
‘‘Daily Show’’ lead-in, neither during
the regime of Jon Stewart nor that
of his successor, Trevor Noah, who
took over last September.
Comedy Central president Kent
Alterman praised Wilmore and his
team for ‘‘crafting a platform for
underrepresented voices.’’ He said
the show had steadily improved,
‘‘but unfortunately it hasn’t resonated with the audience in a way that it
would need to for us to continue.’’
While this year’s second quar ter found ‘‘The Daily Show’’ beaten
only by NBC’s ‘‘The Tonight Show’’
in adults 18-to-34, logging 278,000
viewers, ‘‘The Nightly Show’’ retained
little more than half that audience,
according to Nielsen.
Tornados reported
in central Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP)
— The National Weather
Service says several tornados have touched down
in central Indiana, downing powerlines and trees
and damaging homes.
Authorities say a tornado was seen Monday
evening 17 miles west
of Indianapolis near
Danville.
A
tornado
touched down shortly after just east of
Pittsboro. A funnel cloud
was also reported on the
ground in Brownsburg
and Clayton.
The Brownsburg Fire
Department reports there
are trees down and some
homes damaged in the
town. However, there
were no reports of injuries.
Authorities also were
reporting strong winds
in Boone, Marion and
Hamilton counties. While
there were reports of
damage to several barns
and detached garages, no
injuries were reported in
those areas.
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Topical medications for
glaucoma lower intraocular
pressure and can delay or
slow the progression of the
eye disease. Medication adherence is important.
Patients who were treated
with once-daily prostaglandin eye drops were recruited
from a university-based
glaucoma clinic. Patients
were given a container with
an electronic cap in which to
store their eye drops. The cap
recorded each time the container was opened.
Of the 407 patients who
completed the three-month
adherence assessment, 337
(82.8 percent) took their
medication correctly on at
least 75 percent of days. The
other 70 patients (17.2 percent) (deemed nonadherent)
were less likely to be able to
name their glaucoma medication, less likely to agree
that remembering to use the
medication was easy, and
more likley to agree with the
sentiment that eye drops can
cause problems.
Given that most patients
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by
Eugenia Last
You have more going for
you than you realize. Before you give
in to pressure or let someone else
take charge, you should consider all
the angles. A positive attitude will
help you convince others to see
things your way.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Network with peers and share your
experience. Don’t let the actions of
others upset you or cause you to
leave your plans incomplete. Believe
in yourself and what you have to
offer. Prepare and present.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
-- Participate in events that involve
colleagues or deal with changes
going on in your industry. The people
you meet will expand your knowledge and give you insight into future
changes and obligations.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
-- If you listen to what your emotions
are trying to tell you, you will know
exactly what you have to do. A positive personal change will occur
through communication with an
expert.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- Expressing your feelings will
give others the opportunity to share
theirs as well. Together, you can find
solutions that will help you move forward without fear, uncertainty or
regret.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
23-Dec. 21) -- Consider your income
options and look for alternatives that
will help you make more doing some-
THE LOCKHORNS ®
thing you enjoy or are good at. A
change of location or of colleagues is
favored.
CAPRICORN
(Dec.
22-Jan. 19) -- You can offer someone
help, but not at the expense of forgoing a chance to make personal gains.
Make suggestions, but don’t take on
responsibilities that don’t belong to
you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) -- Put energy and enthusiasm
behind your plans in order to improve
your current work situation. Taking on
additional responsibility will impress
someone influential.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- A situation you face will require
patience, understanding and the time
and space to unfold naturally in order
to turn out favorably. Good things will
develop if they are given the
chance.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
-- An enthusiasm for experimentation
accompanied by hard work and discipline will pay off. Giving back to
your community by volunteering your
time will also lead to interesting new
friendships.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
-- Don’t give in to emotional manipulation or be made to feel guilty.
Surround yourself with people who
think the same way you do. Listen to
an expert and apply what you learn.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
-- You won’t see eye-to-eye with the
people you interact with. Listen carefully and go about your business.
You’ll gain the most by working alone.
Avoid temptation and indulgence. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Go
with the flow and see what happens.
Your ability to adapt to the changes
going on around you will be to your
benefit. A romantic gesture is encouraged.
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Fact or Fiction?
August Challenge
August is the eighth month of the year. Here are some questions
about the month. How many can you answer correctly?
1) August was named in honor of the
Roman emperor Augustus. Fact or
Fiction?
2) There are 33 days in August. Fact
or Fiction?
3) August is cold in the United States.
Fact or Fiction?
4) Fall starts in August in the United
States. Fact for Fiction?
5) Many American kids go back to
school in August. Fact or Fiction?
6) The peridot is the birthstone for
August. Fact or Fiction?
7) Most peridots are white. Fact or Fiction?
8) Some people are named August. Fact or Fiction?
9) Very few holidays take place in August in the United States. Fact or Fiction?
10) August is Get Ready for Kindergarten Month in the United States. Fact or
Fiction?
Answers: 1) Fact, 2) Fiction, there are 31 days in August, 3) Fiction, August is one of the hottest
months in the United States, 4) Fiction, 5) Fact, 6) Fact, 7) Fiction, most are olive green, 8) Fact,
9) Fact, 10) Fact
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The last words
Have you heard of Anne
Frank? The Jewish girl
was just 13 when she had
to go into hiding with her
family to avoid being sent
to a German concentration
camp during WWII.
For two years, Anne hid
with her family and others
in the attic of the building
where her father worked.
During that time, Anne
kept a diary, writing about
the events of the day and
her feelings on things.
On August 1, 1944, Anne
wrote what would be the last entry in her diary. That day, the
family’s hiding place was discovered and everyone in the attic
was soon sent to a German concentration camp. Otto, Anne’s
father, was the only one who survived. He took Anne’s diary and
published it, allowing her words to live on!
What Rhymes with SCHOOL?
List 10 words that rhyme with “school.”
1. ___________
6. ___________
2. ___________
7. ___________
3. ___________
8. ___________
4. ___________
9. ___________
5. ___________
10. __________
Some answers: cool, drool, fool, ghoul, mule, pool, rule, spool, stool, tool
Name
That Person
Many famous people were born in August.
Fill in the blanks to name some of them.
1) L O U _ S A _ M S T R O N _
2) D A _ Y C R O C K E _ _
Q: What grades do
pirates get?
A: High Cs.
Q: How do you get
straight As?
3) O R V I _ _ E W R I _ H T
4) H E _ B E R T H _ _ V E R
5) A N _ I E O A _ L E _
6) B A _ A C K O _ A _ A
7) A L _ _ E D H _ T C H C _ C K
A: Use a ruler.
Answers: 1) Louis Armstrong, 2) Davy Crockett, 3) Alfred Hitchcock, 4) Herbert Hoover, 5) Annie Oakley, 6) Barack Obama, 7) Orville Wright
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Red Sox past Tribe
CLEVELAND (AP) —
David Ortiz hit a go-ahead,
two-run homer in a threerun sixth inning, and the
Boston Red Sox defeated
the Cleveland Indians 3-2
on Monday to extend their
winning streak to four.
Ortiz’s 27th home run
of his farewell season was
the 530th of his big league
career. Ortiz homered in
all three games the Red
Sox played in Cleveland
this season.
One out later, Jackie
Bradley Jr. also homered
off Josh Tomlin (11-6),
who has given up a major
league-leading 29 home
runs this season.
Drew Pomeranz (1-2)
allowed two runs in 7 2/3
innings to win for the first
time since he was acquired
from San Diego on July
14. He had been 0-2 in five
starts for the Red Sox.
Selected by Cleveland
with the fifth overall pick
in the 2011 amateur draft,
Pomeranz gave up Rajai
Davis’ leadoff homer in the
fourth and RBI double in
the eighth.
Craig Kimbrel escaped
a ninth-inning jam for his
20th save in 22 chances.
AL
Central-leading
Cleveland had won its previous four games.
ROYALS 3, TIGERS 1
DETROIT (AP) — Ian
Kennedy pitched effectively into the seventh inning
to win for the first time
since June 26 as Kansas
City beat Detroit.
The Tigers lost Miguel
Cabrera after four innings
to a strained left biceps.
Cabrera appeared to injure
himself in a first-inning
collision with Cheslor
Cuthbert at first base, but
batted twice before leaving
the game.
Detroit said the slugger
is day to day.
Kennedy (7-9) ended an
eight-start winless streak,
allowing one run and five
hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Three relievers finished,
with Kelvin Herrera pitching the ninth for his fifth
save.
Daniel Norris (1-1) gave
up two runs — one earned
— in 5 1/3 innings. He
made the error that led to
the unearned run.
MARLINS 6, REDS 3
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Chris Johnson drove in
two runs with a homer and
a double, former reliever
David Phelps pitched into
the sixth inning in his
third start of the season
and Miami won the opener of its four-game series
against Cincinnati.
Marcell Ozuna also
homered and Dee Gordon
beat Joey Votto’s high toss
to pitcher Blake Wood covering first base for a bases-loaded, two-run infield
single. The wild card-contending Marlins have won
two straight after a threegame skid. Both wins
have come since Giancarlo
Stanton was lost Saturday
for what is expected to be
at least six weeks with a
groin injury.
Phelps (6-6) struck out
a season-high eight while
allowing two runs in 5 1/3
innings. Fernando Rodney
got three outs for his 21st
save in 23 tries.
Scott Schebler homered
for the Reds to snap an
0-for-28 slump. Brandon
Finnegan (7-9) allowed four
runs in 5 2/3 innings.
RAYS 8, PADRES 2
ST.
PETERSBURG,
Fla. (AP) — Drew Smyly
allowed just a solo homer
over seven innings of
one-hit ball, and Tampa
Bay got home runs from
Logan Forsythe and Kevin
Kiermaier in its victory
over San Diego.
Alexei Ramirez hit his
fifth homer and Derek
Norris walked twice —
those were the only baserunners against Smyly
(5-11).
Brad Boxberger and
Kevin Jepsen completed the three-hitter, with
Jepsen allowing a single
to Wil Myers and a homer
to Yangervis Solarte in the
ninth.
Forsythe hit his fifth
homer in his last 13 games
off Luis Perdomo (5-7).
Kiermaier had a three-run
drive in a five-run eighth
that made it 8-1. He had
three hits and two stolen
bases.
PIRATES 8, GIANTS 5
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— Gregory Polanco had
a homer and four RBIs,
Ryan Vogelsong won in
his return to AT&T Park
and Pittsburgh beat San
Francisco.
Andrew
McCutchen
added two hits, two RBIs
and a spectacular catch in
the eighth inning to help
Pittsburgh move within
one game of idle St. Louis
for the second NL wild
card.
That was enough for
Vogelsong (2-2) to win
despite an up-and-down
outing.
Vogelsong, who spent
parts of seven seasons
with the Giants and won
two World Series, allowed
four runs over 5 2/3
innings. He received an
extended standing ovation in the first inning and
again when he left in the
sixth.
2016 Olympic Medals
By The Associated Press
Through Monday, Aug. 14
176 of 306 total medal events
Nation G S
B
United States 26 23 26
Britain 16 17
8
China 15 14 17
Russia 11 12 12
Italy 8 9
6
Germany 8 6
6
France 7 9
8
Japan 7 4 16
Australia 6 7
9
South Korea
6 3
5
Netherlands 6 2
3
Hungary 5 3
4
Spain 3 0
2
New Zealand
2 6
0
Kazakhstan 2 3
5
Brazil 2 3
4
North Korea
2 3
2
Kenya 2 3
0
Canada 2 2
9
Colombia 2 2
0
Cuba 2 1
3
Poland 2 1
2
Switzerland 2 1
2
Belgium 2 1
1
2 1
1
Thailand Croatia 2 1
0
Uzbekistan 2 0
4
Jamaica 2 0
2
Greece 2 0
1
Iran 2 0
1
South Africa
1 5
1
Sweden 1 4
1
Denmark 1 3
4
Belarus 1 2
2
Romania 1 1
2
Slovenia 1 1
1
Argentina 1 1
0
Bahrain 1 1
0
Slovakia 1 1
0
Vietnam 1 1
0
Czech Republic 1 0
5
Ethiopia 1 0
3
Taiwan 1 0
2
Independent 1 0
1
Bahamas 1 0
0
Fiji 1 0
0
Kosovo 1 0
0
Puerto Rico
1 0
0
Singapore 1 0
0
Ukraine 0 4
1
Azerbaijan 0 2
1
Indonesia 0 2
0
Turkey 0 2
0
Lithuania 0 1
2
Georgia 0 1
1
Mongolia 0 1
1
Algeria 0 1
0
Armenia 0 1
0
Grenada 0 1
0
Ireland 0 1
0
Malaysia 0 1
0
Tot
75
41
46
35
23
20
24
27
22
14
11
12
5
8
10
9
7
5
13
4
6
5
5
4
4
3
6
4
3
3
7
6
8
5
4
3
2
2
2
2
6
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
5
3
2
2
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
Philippines 0
Venezuela 0
Norway 0
Egypt 0
Israel 0
Estonia 0
Kyrgyzstan 0
Morocco 0
Portugal 0
Tunisia 0
Un ArabEmirates 0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Major League Baseball
National League
East Division
W L Pct
GB
Washington 70 47 .598
—
62 56 .525 8 1/2
Miami New York
59 59 .500 11 1/2
Philadelphia 56 63 .471
15
Atlanta 44 74 .373 26 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Chicago 73 43 .629
—
St. Louis
62 56 .525
12
Pittsburgh 60 56 .517
13
Milwaukee 52 64 .448
21
Cincinnati 48 69 .410 25 1/2
West Division
W L Pct
GB
San Francisco 66 52 .559
—
Los Angeles
65 52 .556
1/2
Colorado 56 63 .471 10 1/2
San Diego
50 68 .424
16
Arizona 49 69 .415
17
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Sunday’s Games
Miami 5, Chicago White Sox 4
N.Y. Mets 5, San Diego 1
Boston 16, Arizona 2
Philadelphia 7, Colorado 6
Washington 9, Atlanta 1
Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 3
Baltimore 8, San Francisco 7
Pittsburgh 11, L.A. Dodgers 3
St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 4
Monday’s Games
Miami 6, Cincinnati 3
Tampa Bay 8, San Diego 2
Washington 5, Colorado 4
Arizona 10, N.Y. Mets 6
Pittsburgh 8, San Francisco 5
Tuesday’s Games
Milwaukee (Garza 4-4) at Chicago
Cubs (Cahill 1-3), 1:20 p.m., 1st
game
L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 11-7) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 8-4), 7:05 p.m.
Miami (Urena 1-3) at Cincinnati
(DeSclafani 6-1), 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota (Santana 5-9) at Atlanta
(De La Cruz 0-5), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Jackson 3-2) at Tampa
Bay (Snell 3-5), 7:10 p.m.
ilwaukee (Anderson 7-10) at ChicaM
go Cubs (Hammel 12-5), 8:05 p.m.,
2nd game
St. Louis (Garcia 9-8) at Houston
(Keuchel 7-11), 8:10 p.m.
Washington (Gonzalez 8-9) at Colorado (Bettis 10-6), 8:40 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-7) at Arizona (Shipley 2-1), 9:40 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Taillon 3-2) at San Francisco (Samardzija 10-8), 10:15 p.m.
American League
East Division
W L Pct
GB
Baltimore 66 51 .564
—
Toronto 67 52 .563
—
Boston 65 52 .556
1
New York
61 57 .517 5 1/2
Tampa Bay
48 69 .410
18
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Cleveland 67 49 .578
—
Detroit 63 55 .534
5
Kansas City
58 60 .492
10
Chicago 56 61 .479 11 1/2
Minnesota 47 71 .398
21
West Division
W L Pct
GB
Texas 70 50 .583
—
Seattle 63 54 .538 5 1/2
Houston 61 57 .517
8
Oakland 52 67 .437 17 1/2
Los Angeles
49 69 .415
20
———
Sunday’s Games
Tampa Bay 12, N.Y. Yankees 3
Toronto 9, Houston 2
Cleveland 5, L.A. Angels 4
Miami 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Boston 16, Arizona 2
Kansas City 11, Minnesota 4
Detroit 7, Texas 0
Baltimore 8, San Francisco 7
Seattle 8, Oakland 4
Monday’s Games
Boston 3, Cleveland 2
N.Y. Yankees 1, Toronto 0
Kansas City 3, Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 8, San Diego 2
Texas 5, Oakland 2
Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 2
Tuesday’s Games
Boston (Rodriguez 2-5) at Baltimore
(Gallardo 4-4), 7:05 p.m.
Toronto (Estrada 7-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 6-10), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-8) at
Cleveland (Kluber 12-8), 7:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Duffy 9-1) at Detroit
(Verlander 12-6), 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota (Santana 5-9) at Atlanta
(De La Cruz 0-5), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Jackson 3-2) at Tampa
Bay (Snell 3-5), 7:10 p.m.
akland (Triggs 0-1) at Texas (HarO
rell 3-2), 8:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Garcia 9-8) at Houston
(Keuchel 7-11), 8:10 p.m.
Seattle (Miranda 1-0) at L.A. Angels
(Chacin 3-8), 10:05 p.m.
Monday’s Transactions
BASEBALL
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE —
Suspended Cleveland LHP Skylar
Arias (AZL Indians) 56 games for a
violation of the Minor League Drug
Prevention and Treatment Program.
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned
LHP Tyler Olson outright to Columbus (IL). Reinstated RHP Joe Colon
from the 15-day DL and optioned him
to Columbus.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned
LHP Andrew Albers to Rochester (IL).
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP
Arodys Vizcaino and C Tyler Flowers
to Rome (SAL) for rehab assignments.
CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned
LHP Cody Reed to Louisville (IL).
Recalled OF Kyle Waldrop from Louisville.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS —
Designated OF Zach Walters for
assignment. Placed RHPs Josh
Ravin and Brandon McCarthy on the
15-day DL. Sent LHP Adam Liberatore to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for
a rehab assignment.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Sent
RHP Tyler Glasnow to Altoona (EL)
for a rehab assignment.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned
2B Luis Sardinas to El Paso (PCL).
Transferred RHP Erik Johnson to the
60-day DL.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Waived/
injured S Durell Eskridge. Re-signed
S Tyrequek Zimmerman.
DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed C
Travis Frederick to a six-year contract extension.
DETROIT LIONS — Waived TE
Ben McCord. Placed WR Andre
Caldwell on injured reserve. Signed
TE Andrew Quarless and LB Dominique Tovell.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived
P Michael Palardy. Claimed G Donovan Williams off waivers from Chicago.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS —
Waived/injured S Elijah Shumate.
Signed DT Ishmaa’ily Kitchen.
Sander, US reach v-ball quarters over Mexico
By JANIE McCAULEY
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)
— Taylor Sander leapt
high for timely blocks. He
went low for a save at
floor level to keep a winning point going. Then,
he squatted way down to
send another tough ball
back over the net.
At last, the U.S. men’s
volleyball team is playing
the very brand of volleyball
the Americans knew they
had in them to make a special run at the Olympics. It
just took a few days longer than expected to get
going and find a winning
groove.
They reached the quarterfinals Monday after
that slow start, victors in
their third straight match
to conclude pool play by
dominating Mexico 25-23,
25-11, 25-19. Canada,
playing in its first Olympics
since 1992 in Barcelona,
also advanced after beating Italy in four sets for
its first victory against the
first-place pool A winner
in major competition and
hand the Italians their
first loss in Rio. Laster,
Brazil beat France in four
sets.
Sander’s kill from the
left side on match point
sealed it for the U.S. He
is one of several among
the team’s eight first-time
Olympians to make vast
improvements the past
three matches.
‘‘We all had to pick it up,’’
Sander said. ‘‘Those first
two matches, we weren’t
playing USA Volleyball.
We weren’t aggressive, we
weren’t giving our heart
every single point. Our
coaching staff did a good
job holding us accountable. We had a couple
team meetings. We all just
sat and talked about what
we needed to do to win. We
talked about it, then we
went and did it.’’
The
24-year -old
Sander, who had struggled with an aggressive
but inconsistent serve
in the initial two contests, was stellar defensively for the fifth-ranked
Americans. He also has
been growing a mustache
for the Olympics — not so
punish has been a prickly issue between the NFL
and the union in recent
years, so the elevation of
this dispute was not surprising since it revolves
around the potential of
player discipline and
how it fits within the collective bargaining agreement.
The stance of the players has been steadfast
in this case, refusing to
be interviewed without
being presented with
what they’ve called credible evidence. Affidavits
were sent by the NFLPA
on behalf of the players to
substitute for the interviews. Birch dismissed
each as simply half-page
statements, which were
‘‘wholly devoid of any
detail.’’ Birch also said
the league determined
that an assertion made
in Neal’s affidavit was
‘‘demonstrably false.’’
Harrison said in his
statement, sent to Birch
July 25 by the NFLPA, he
never met nor communicated with the source of
the report and has never
violated the NFL’s policy
on performance-enhancing substances.
‘‘Neither the CBA nor
the policy state that a
player must agree to
an in-person interview
based upon random,
baseless verbal remarks
or face discipline for a
failure to cooperate with
a league investigation,’’
union attorney Heather
McPhee wrote then on
Harrison’s behalf.
Birch cited Article 46
of the CBA in noting the
discipline that can come
for noncooperation or
obstruction. Such a suspension would be separate from any possible
future determination of
violation of the steroid
policy.
‘‘We cannot accept
your unilateral assertion that the cursory,
untested statements you
have submitted satisfy
the players’ obligation,’’
Birch wrote.
Retired
quarter back Peyton Manning
was also cited in
Al-Jazeera’s
doping
report in December.
The NFL announced
last month it has closed
its separate probe on
Manning, who granted
interviews and provided
all records sought by
league investigators.
much out of superstition
but because his teammates won’t allow him or
Kawika Shoji to shave the
way things have turned
around in Rio de Janeiro.
‘‘We’re going red polos
and mustaches apparently,’’ U.S. coach John
Speraw joked of the facial
hair and coaches’ red
shirts worn on match
day.
Sander took it upon
himself to find ways to relax
away from Maracanazinho
arena. He has been swimming with teammates at
the Navy School where the
Americans train or watching other sports on TV
to keep from feeling any
added pressure.
‘‘Him articulating that
is really nice to see that
he has that kind of awareness about where he was
and what he needed to
do in order to improve,’’
Speraw said. ‘‘He’s learning the challenges of the
mental game when put
under great duress and
he’s never experienced this
before. For him to have
experienced that, recognized it, learned what he
needed to do in order to
perform better and then
come out and execute is a
wonderful long-term lesson.’’
What a dramatic turnaround in a week’s time
for Sander and the young
Americans, greeted by
chants of ‘‘U-S-A!’’ when
they entered for pregame
warmups to face eliminated Mexico (0-5).
NFL requests meeting with linebackers
By DAVE CAMPBELL
AP Pro Football Writer
The NFL is still seeking
an audience with the four
linebackers it’s investigating for an alleged link
to performance-enhancing drugs.
The
league’s
latest message to James
Harrison, Clay Matthews,
Mike Neal and Julius
Peppers came with an
ominous
and
onerous threat: Answer our
questions in the next 10
days, or start your suspension.
NFL
senior
vice
president of labor policy and league affairs
Adolpho Birch sent a
letter Monday to the
NFL Players Association
detailing a plan to suspend Harrison, Matthews,
Peppers and Neal if they
don’t speak with the
league by Aug. 25.
Their
punishment
would then start the
following day on an
indefinite basis, to be
ended at the discretion
of Commissioner Roger
Goodell once an interview has been completed.
Birch’s memo to the
union was obtained by
The Associated Press,
according to a person
with knowledge of the
investigation who’s not
authorized to speak publicly about it.
Harrison, a 14-year
veteran, is a longtime
leader for the Pittsburgh
Steelers. Matthews and
Peppers are key cogs
in Green Bay’s defense,
and Neal is currently a
free agent who spent the
past six seasons with
the Packers. Harrison,
Matthews and Peppers
have been picked for the
Pro Bowl a combined 20
times.
The NFL first notified
the quartet on Jan. 11
about the investigation
into a television report by
Al-Jazeera featuring allegations made by Charlie
Sly, who worked as an
intern at an anti-aging
clinic, about the use of
banned performanceenhancing drugs by
several athletes including the four linebackers.
Sly later recanted his
claims.
Birch, in his letter, said
the league has made ‘‘at
least seven attempts’’ to
arrange the interviews.
Goodell’s power to
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Stars blow out Blackford opening night
By DYLAN MALONE
BERNE— In what
could have been the fastest and most uneventful
opening nights in recent
memory,
the
South
Adams Lady Stars made
the Blackford Bruins
wish for better times on
Monday night in a threeset sweep 25-7, 25-6,
25-8.
The entirety of the
varsity contest took all
but 50 minutes as the
Stars were simply the
better team on the court
against the struggling
Bruins.
"When I first started
here they had some players," recalled SA coach
Ashley Buckingham of
Blackford. "They'll get
better and they had three
injuries headed into the
season they are recovering from. We've been
there before."
The
beginning
of
the night seemed to be
more competitive than it
turned out to be as the
teams found themselves
tied at 5-5 in the opening
frame. After an ace from
Jaci Rogers the Bruins
actually led 2-0.
It would be the only
one-timer of the match
against the Stars, however, thanks to a 20-2
run the Starfires would
go on to end the first set,
25-7.
Addie Wanner took
over the serve for the
Stars at the 13-7 mark
and put up 12 straight
points including three
aces taking advantage of
the Bruins' miscommunications often.
In similar fashion during game two, the Bruins
went on a negative streak
midway though the set
where they simply could
not get a good touch on
the volleyball. After a 2-2
tie, the Stars would score
17 of the next 18 points
to grab an insurmountable 19-3 lead.
During that run, Madi
Wurster went on a tear
of seven aces (five in a
row at one point) before
coach Buckingham mercifully subbed her out to
give the set some flow for
her offense.
"Our serving was
good tonight with our
aggressiveness," praised
the SA coach, "but we
missed about four or
five a game and in close
matches against quality opponents that is a
big point swing. A lot of
that is mental preparation, which we've been
working hard on in the
off-season."
It was obvious just
how hard it was to get
into a mental focus with
no flow to the game. A
few times the Starfires
were caught on their
heels when the Bruins
made a quality return,
but that happened too
few times to make a
dent in the score. SA
would take the second
set with ease ending
on an ace from Julia
Grabau.
South Adams jumped
out to a 7-0 lead in set
three and never looked
back for the complete
sweep.
Said Buckingham of
the game's worth, "We
had a good scrimmage
against Jay County to
start the year and we got
to work on some things
and tonight we worked
on some other stuff,
more mental things trying to stay engaged with
a lead."
Wurster also have five
kills and three digs for
the Stars, while Morgan
Alberson had a team-
In the morning, there
was too little wind, then too
much, at the sailing regatta
on Guanabara Bay, where
men’s and women’s medal
races were postponed until
Tuesday. In the afternoon,
smoke and ash from a
wind-whipped wildfire billowed over the field hockey
stadium in Deodoro.
Boxing may have to
weather another storm of
its own after a surprising decision in the men’s
heavyweight gold medal
fight, where boos cascaded down from the crowd
when Evgeny Tischenko,
of Russia, was announced
as the unanimous winner over Vassiliy Levit, of
Kazakhstan, who looked
like the winner.
Biles’ blunder allowed
Sanne Wevers of the
Netherlands to take the
gold medal and Laurie
Hernandez of the U.S. to
slip past Biles for the silver. It also ended Biles’ bid
to become the first female
gymnast to win five golds
in a single Olympics.
Already a three-time
gold medalist (all-around,
team and vault) when she
walked onto the floor on
Monday, Biles was a favorite on beam as the reigning world champion.
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“Golf and
other
4-letter
words”
By A Jay
Kalver
Thoughts on the 2016 City...
THE WURSTER SERVE— South Adams outside hitter Madi Wurster delivers one of her seven aces on
the night as the Lady Stars dismantled the Blackford
Bruins on opening night in three sets. (Photo by
Dylan Malone)
high six kills. Jade Farlow
produced three kills and
Wanner had two kills.
The Stars took advantage of their opportunities at the net when the
offense was allowed to
move the ball.
"I hope throughout
the year we continue
to become more versatile with hitters that can
do that. I want them to
coordinate for different
options out there," noted
Buckingham.
In the JV contest, Ayla
Rosswurm had eight
aces, Shaelynn Bowman
had two blocks, and
Lydia Loshe had three
aces as the reserve Stars
won 25-16, 25-6.
South Adams will host
Canterbury on Thursday
night in their next
action.
USA goes goldless after costly miscues
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO
(AP) — The Americans
were denied a gold medal
Monday for the first time
since the 2008 Beijing
Olympics, and it took two
big stumbles to keep the
‘‘Star Spangled Banner’’
on pause.
One of the slips cost
U.S. gymnastics star
Simone Biles gold on the
balance beam. The other
secured Shaunae Miller’s
win in the women’s 400
meters over Allyson Felix,
the U.S. star who missed
out on her fifth Olympic
gold medal.
Miller, of the Bahamas,
crossed .07 seconds ahead
of Felix thanks to a headfirst dive that came after a
downpour forced a delay
in the evening events and
sent spectators scurrying for shelter at Olympic
Stadium.
Biles lost her status as
Rio de Janeiro’s juggernaut after a blunder on
the balance beam prevented her from a record-tying
fourth gold in gymnastics
at these games.
The American’s shutout came on a day the
Rio Games were dogged by
rain, wind and fire.
OUT OF BOUNDS
She topped qualifying
last week and had just
completed the most difficult part of her routine
— a tumbling pass that
stretches the length of
the 4-inch wide slab of
wood — when she missed
the landing following her
punch front flip.
A fresh round of troubles tormented South
America’s first Olympics
on Monday:
—The German Olympic
team said canoe slalom
coach Stefan Henze died
from injuries sustained in
a car crash last week.
—The Egyptian judo
athlete who refused to
shake his Israeli opponent’s hand after losing
a first-round heavyweight
fight was sent home.
—The
Olympic
Broadcasting Service said
seven bystanders sustained
minor injuries when a television camera it operates
plummeted about 30 feet.
—South Korean cyclist
Park Sang-hoon was taken
from the velodrome on a
stretcher with his neck
immobilized after a crash
multi-discipline omnium
competition .
—And Usain Bolt, the
co-star of these games
along with Michael Phelps,
NoTicEd
said that a tight schedule
slowed down the sprinters
in the 100 meters Sunday.
Bolt blamed the hour turnaround from the semifinals to the finals for his
lumbering start before he
recovered to win his third
consecutive gold medal
and retain the title as the
world’s fastest man.
LONE RUSSIAN : The
lone Russian track and
field athlete at the Olympics
has won her appeal to compete in Rio. The Court of
Arbitration for Sport ruled
early Monday that Darya
Klishina is eligible to take
part in Tuesday’s long
jump qualifying because
she has been based outside of Russia for the last
three years and has been
subjected to regular drug
testing.
GRECO-GREATS
: Cuban heavyweight
Mijain Lopez again bested Turkish rival Riza
Kayaalp, putting him in
the company of wrestling
great Alexander Karelin.
Lopez beat Kayaalp 6-0 to
capture his third GrecoRoman gold medal. Lopez
joins Karelin and Carl
Westergren of Sweden as
the only wrestlers with
three Olympic titles in the
classic discipline.
AdVERTiSE
WiTH THE
dEcATUR
dAiLY
dEMocRAT.
The 2016 Club Championship or as I have always
known it "The City" is in the books. As always there are
back stories that make the two day affair different from
year to year.
One thing that made this year's tournament better
was the participation. Since everyone is playing the
same golf course, no one has the time or energy to critique anyone elses game. More golfers decided to give it
a go and test their skills.
Better or worse is definitely in each individuals eyes.
The golf ball doesn't know who is striking it, and as far
as I know can't do the math.
There is an old expression in golf that states, "every
shot makes somebody happy". This usually revolves
around a friendly wager or perhaps a title on the line.
Saturday during the first round we were allowed to make
our own groups and play with whomever we liked.
Old high school and college chums Dick Steury and
Steve Feasel were playing number six, a par five, when
Dick hit a monster drive and a 7-iron onto the green. A
prodigious blow indeed for a senior golfer. At that point
Steve was encouraging Dick to make his putt, earn an
Eagle and perhaps get a skin and win a few schekels.
Steve was hitting his third shot from 100 yards from
the green when the most unlikely thing happened, it
went in! An Eagle for Steve. At this point Steves's allegiance to his buddy's putt may have been wavering
when he saw the possibility for his own skin.
Well wouldn't you know it, Dick rolled in his thirty
foot putt and tied Steve's Eagle. There would be no skin
winner on six that day. And yes they were the only two
Eagles of the 75 or so players competing.
In talking with winner Luke Ainsworth, a newly wed
who is awaiting the results of his Bar exam, I asked him
what he thought about shooting a career round of 67 on
Saturday. He quickly reminded me that this was not the
first 67 he has posted in a City tournament. A few years
back Luke shot 67 but Keith Blythe had a 66 followed
up with a 68 and won by 5 shots. This time nobody was
catching Luke and his 70 on Sunday closed the deal
delivering his first City title.
Speaking of Keith, he was level par on his second
round still trailing when he hit his second shot on the
par five 15th trying to carry the ball 220 yards and reach
the green over a pond. It hit on dry land but bounced
back into the waters edge.
Never one to give up a shot, Mr. Blythe donned his
rain gear, stepped into the murky water up to his shins,
and blasted the ball which was barely visable in the
muck, onto the putting surface. He missed his birdie
putt and an errant tee shot on 17 trying to drive the
green ended his chances.
By the way...I have video footage of the water shot!
With the Olympic Games in full swing it's hard for me
not to think of the time I wore the U.S.A. warmups in
an A.A.U. sanctioned match between the Polish Junior
Wrestling team and a team of Northern Indiana AllStars including three Bellmont stars of that era, Greg
Mankey, Victor Beer, and Dave Delong.
Bellmont hosted the event and thus I was selected
as the head coach for the Red, White and Blue. We
exchanged gifts across the mat, as was the tradition,
and both national anthems were played. It was an emotionally charged moment and one I shall never forget.
It was as close as I will ever come to representing my
country in an athletic competition.
I also remember the young Polish coach who stayed
with me in Decatur and loved American rock and roll.
His gift from me was a Led Zeplin album which he had
heard for the first time on my turntable. As afficianados
of the group would say Lead for his head back across the
pond.
As we watch the rest of the games from Rio, never
doubt that this moment in time for these athletes and
coaches is the pinnacle of their careers.To compete for
your country, on the biggest stage in the world, will be
the memory that they will hold most dear.
In 1976, I traveled to Montreal for the Olympic
Games. U.S.A. wrestling with Dan Gable coaching was
my biggest interest. As it turned out it was the energy
of the tens of thousands of good people from all over the
world, gathered together to celebrate sport and life that
made the most impact.
A dozen or more languages being spoken at the same
time as the streets of Montreal were closed down to auto
travel and opened up for the citizens of the world. It
seems that we are more alike than we are different. That was 40 years ago, but I think it's important that as
Americans we remember our role in this world and our
responsibility to set the highest standards for the rest of
humanity.
Our namesake Stephen Decatur said “Our Country in
her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be
in the right; but our country right or wrong.”
Let's see if we can't do a better job of getting it right.
cALL
TodAY!
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