GALLIPOLIS — Officials with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities said Friday they are eliminating 32 full-time positions from the Gallipolis Developmental Center.
The positions, officials said, are part of a plan to streamline the workforce with the number of clients the Gallipolis facility serves. At present, officials said the workforce in Gallipolis doesn’t match with the number of people who live at the facility. Although 32 full-time positions will be eliminated by the first week of December, the state plans to turn 18 of those positions into part-time opportunities.
According to John Martin, director of the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, GDC employees may have the option to stay on as part-time workers.
“We had to deliver some very difficult news (Friday) at the Gallipolis Developmental Center this morning,” Martin said. “We have, simply put, more staff than we need for the number of folks who live there. So, we made an announcement around 10 (a.m.).”
Martin said along with the position changes, the state is offering an early retirement buyout. Martin said he believes 36 members of GDC staff would qualify, if they choose to take that option.
“We want to make the operation as efficient as possible and have the right number of staff for the right number of folks who live there,” he said. “It’s hard. These are dedicated (employees) who are good people and it’s a difficult message for us to have to deliver.”
Martin said that nationally, West Virginia does not have state facilities like Ohio’s GDC, neither does Indiana or Michigan.
“In Ohio, we still see a role for the centers,” he said. “They are becoming smaller, but we still feel they play a critical role in our service delivery system. Often, they are handling complex individuals. Something we’re trying to emphasize is we’re not here to close the center and that’s not what our intent is.”
Martin said that some of the decisions to be made with GDC’s transition may still be up in the air as union workers will come to negotiate. The director said the state department would do the best it could to keep employees aware of job openings that fit their qualifications. The department will also work with Gallia office of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and job fairs to keep individuals informed of career opportunities.
The elimination of jobs is not due to budgetary issues, but in an attempt to streamline staff. Currently, before employee cutbacks take place, GDC has 192 employees and 53 clients it serves.
Martin said GDC is moving toward a temporary care facility for individuals experiencing a crisis in their lives and will handle serious care needs.
“Somebody could be at home with mom and dad and go into crisis or they could be in a group home and go into crisis,” Martin said. “They come into our centers. We do crisis stabilization and then follow them back into the community and support them there. That’s been one of the transitions that we have done.”
Since 2009, facilities like GDC have seen a gradual reduction in clients due to aggressive effort to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. According to ada.gov, the ruling required states to “eliminate unnecessary segregation of persons with disabilities and to ensure that persons with disabilities received services in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.”
GDC’s role has been scaled back in state developmental care. The facility in the past has been considered to be a major employer in the Ohio Valley region. Since that time, many former GDC workers have moved on. The facility had a maximum population of more than 1,500 people in its lifetime and the location had served as an American Civil War hospital as well as an epileptic hospital before serving as the area’s developmental center.
GDC superintendent Margaret Mossbarger previously told the Tribune three years ago the facility had 300 residents.
A few years ago, a contentious battle was held between locals and the state over previous GDC cutbacks. Gov. John Kasich made an appearance at Rio Grande. Locals protested his appearance in early 2014.
After July of this year, eight centers like GDC exist throughout Ohio. GDC serves Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Hocking, Vinton, Jackson, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Athens and Washington counties. The state agency has announced it is closing two other facilities in the state.
Many individuals like GDC’s residents have been moving into private residential care communities like the ResCare facility in Rio Grande.
State officials are still in the talks with undisclosed organizations as to what will happen with GDC residential cottages. Zach Haughawout, communications and legislation representative with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, said ideally he thinks the buildings are best outfitted to services providing residential care and such organizations looking to provide those services would be considered first to make use of the cottages.
Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2103.
The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_DSCN6165-10.jpg The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. One protestor’s sign in January 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-1-1-1-4.jpg One protestor’s sign in January 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing Locals protest GDC cutbacks in January 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-2-1-1-4.jpg Locals protest GDC cutbacks in January 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing

UPDATE: 32 FT jobs eliminated at Gallipolis Developmental Center


GALLIPOLIS — Officials with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities said Friday they are eliminating 32 full-time positions from the Gallipolis Developmental Center.
The positions, officials said, are part of a plan to streamline the workforce with the number of clients the Gallipolis facility serves. At present, officials said the workforce in Gallipolis doesn’t match with the number of people who live at the facility. Although 32 full-time positions will be eliminated by the first week of December, the state plans to turn 18 of those positions into part-time opportunities.
According to John Martin, director of the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, GDC employees may have the option to stay on as part-time workers.
“We had to deliver some very difficult news (Friday) at the Gallipolis Developmental Center this morning,” Martin said. “We have, simply put, more staff than we need for the number of folks who live there. So, we made an announcement around 10 (a.m.).”
Martin said along with the position changes, the state is offering an early retirement buyout. Martin said he believes 36 members of GDC staff would qualify, if they choose to take that option.
“We want to make the operation as efficient as possible and have the right number of staff for the right number of folks who live there,” he said. “It’s hard. These are dedicated (employees) who are good people and it’s a difficult message for us to have to deliver.”
Martin said that nationally, West Virginia does not have state facilities like Ohio’s GDC, neither does Indiana or Michigan.
“In Ohio, we still see a role for the centers,” he said. “They are becoming smaller, but we still feel they play a critical role in our service delivery system. Often, they are handling complex individuals. Something we’re trying to emphasize is we’re not here to close the center and that’s not what our intent is.”
Martin said that some of the decisions to be made with GDC’s transition may still be up in the air as union workers will come to negotiate. The director said the state department would do the best it could to keep employees aware of job openings that fit their qualifications. The department will also work with Gallia office of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and job fairs to keep individuals informed of career opportunities.
The elimination of jobs is not due to budgetary issues, but in an attempt to streamline staff. Currently, before employee cutbacks take place, GDC has 192 employees and 53 clients it serves.
Martin said GDC is moving toward a temporary care facility for individuals experiencing a crisis in their lives and will handle serious care needs.
“Somebody could be at home with mom and dad and go into crisis or they could be in a group home and go into crisis,” Martin said. “They come into our centers. We do crisis stabilization and then follow them back into the community and support them there. That’s been one of the transitions that we have done.”
Since 2009, facilities like GDC have seen a gradual reduction in clients due to aggressive effort to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. According to ada.gov, the ruling required states to “eliminate unnecessary segregation of persons with disabilities and to ensure that persons with disabilities received services in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.”
GDC has scaled back its roles in state developmental care. The facility in the past has been considered to be a major employer in the Ohio Valley region. Since that time, many former GDC workers have moved on. The facility had a maximum population of more than 1,500 people in its lifetime and the location had served as an American Civil War hospital as well as an epileptic hospital before serving as the area’s developmental center.
GDC superintendent Margaret Mossbarger previously told the Tribune three years ago the facility had 300 residents. A few years ago, a contentious battle was held between employees and the state over previous GDC cutbacks. Gov. John Kasich made an appearance at Rio Grande. Locals protested his appearance in early 2014.
After July of this year, eight centers like GDC exist throughout Ohio. GDC serves Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Hocking, Vinton, Jackson, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Athens and Washington counties. The state agency has announced it is closing two other facilities in the state.
Many individuals like GDC’s residents have been moving into private residential care communities like the ResCare facility in Rio Grande.
State officials are still in the talks with undisclosed organizations as to what will happen with GDC residential cottages. Zach Haughawout, communications and legislation representative with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, said ideally he thinks the buildings are best outfitted to services providing residential care and such organizations looking to provide those services would be considered first to make use of the cottages.
Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2103.
The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_DSCN6165-6.jpg The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. One protestor’s sign in Jan. 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-1-1-.jpg One protestor’s sign in Jan. 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing Locals protest GDC cutbacks in Jan. 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-2-1-.jpg Locals protest GDC cutbacks in Jan. 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing


GALLIPOLIS — Officials with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities said Friday they are eliminating 32 full-time positions from the Gallipolis Developmental Center.
The positions, officials said, are part of a plan to streamline the workforce with the number of clients the Gallipolis facility serves. At present, officials said the workforce in Gallipolis doesn’t match with the number of people who live at the facility. Although 32 full-time positions will be eliminated by the first week of December, the state plans to turn 18 of those positions into part-time opportunities.
According to John Martin, director of the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, GDC employees may have the option to stay on as part-time workers.
“We had to deliver some very difficult news (Friday) at the Gallipolis Developmental Center this morning,” Martin said. “We have, simply put, more staff than we need for the number of folks who live there. So, we made an announcement around 10 (a.m.).”
Martin said along with the position changes, the state is offering an early retirement buyout. Martin said he believes 36 members of GDC staff would qualify, if they choose to take that option.
“We want to make the operation as efficient as possible and have the right number of staff for the right number of folks who live there,” he said. “It’s hard. These are dedicated (employees) who are good people and it’s a difficult message for us to have to deliver.”
Martin said that nationally, West Virginia does not have state facilities like Ohio’s GDC, neither does Indiana or Michigan.
“In Ohio, we still see a role for the centers,” he said. “They are becoming smaller, but we still feel they play a critical role in our service delivery system. Often, they are handling complex individuals. Something we’re trying to emphasize is we’re not here to close the center and that’s not what our intent is.”
Martin said that some of the decisions to be made with GDC’s transition may still be up in the air as union workers will come to negotiate. The director said the state department would do the best it could to keep employees aware of job openings that fit their qualifications. The department will also work with Gallia office of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and job fairs to keep individuals informed of career opportunities.
The elimination of jobs is not due to budgetary issues, but in an attempt to streamline staff. Currently, before employee cutbacks take place, GDC has 192 employees and 53 clients it serves.
Martin said GDC is moving toward a temporary care facility for individuals experiencing a crisis in their lives and will handle serious care needs.
“Somebody could be at home with mom and dad and go into crisis or they could be in a group home and go into crisis,” Martin said. “They come into our centers. We do crisis stabilization and then follow them back into the community and support them there. That’s been one of the transitions that we have done.”
Since 2009, facilities like GDC have seen a gradual reduction in clients due to aggressive effort to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. According to ada.gov, the ruling required states to “eliminate unnecessary segregation of persons with disabilities and to ensure that persons with disabilities received services in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.”
GDC has scaled back its roles in state developmental care. The facility in the past has been considered to be a major employer in the Ohio Valley region. Since that time, many former GDC workers have moved on. The facility had a maximum population of more than 1,500 people in its lifetime and the location had served as an American Civil War hospital as well as an epileptic hospital before serving as the area’s developmental center.
GDC superintendent Margaret Mossbarger previously told the Tribune three years ago the facility had 300 residents. A few years ago, a contentious battle was held between locals and the state over previous GDC cutbacks. Gov. John Kasich made an appearance at Rio Grande. Locals protested his appearance in early 2014.
After July of this year, eight centers like GDC exist throughout Ohio. GDC serves Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Hocking, Vinton, Jackson, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Athens and Washington counties. The state agency has announced it is closing two other facilities in the state.
Many individuals like GDC’s residents have been moving into private residential care communities like the ResCare facility in Rio Grande.
State officials are still in the talks with undisclosed organizations as to what will happen with GDC residential cottages. Zach Haughawout, communications and legislation representative with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, said ideally he thinks the buildings are best outfitted to services providing residential care and such organizations looking to provide those services would be considered first to make use of the cottages.
Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2103.
The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_DSCN6165-8.jpg The Gallipolis Developmental Center by Haskins Park in Gallipolis. One protestor’s sign in January 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-1-1-1-2.jpg One protestor’s sign in January 2014 asks Gov. Kasich if he was ready for a layoff. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing Locals protest GDC cutbacks in January 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_1.28-GDT-GDC-2-1-1-2.jpg Locals protest GDC cutbacks in January 2014 during a visit from Gov. John Kasich at Rio Grande. Beth Sergent | Ohio Valley Publishing


Even though Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) holds a morbid fascination for “the infected,” he’s shocked at how they’re catered to at a Tijuana colonia on AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead.”
In “Los Muertos” (Episode 209), Nick awakens to the sound of chanting as a man sacrifices himself to ravenous zombies.
“Mi Papa!” sobs the doomed man’s young daughter (Katia Lopez).
“You don’t need to see it,” Nick exclaims, shielding the girl from this ghastly spectacle. “Don’t look!”
Later, when accompanying Luciana (Danay Garcia) on a supply run, Nick has questions.
“Those near death deliver themselves to the dead,” Luciana explains, thus protecting the community from attack.
“What if your friend became lunch for no reason?” Nick argues.
Dismissing Nick as a weak and faithless gringo, Luciana claims a natural cleansing process has begun. And when the zombies depart, “this world will be as new.”
Sounds great, but Nick and Luciana’s immediate goal is swapping prescription meds for bottled water. That involves making nice with gangsters controlling East Tijuana.
“They deal with everything now,” Luciana says. “And they will hang you for looking at them wrong!”
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The supply run proceeds smoothly until Nick is caught pilfering snack food.
“You know what we do to rats?” machete-wielding Marco Rodriguez (Alejandro Edda) yells. “We cut off their paws!”
Talking fast to save his hand, Nick points out that Marco’s sister is hooked on OxyContin.
“You’re gonna run out of Oxy,” Nick warns. “You let your sister go for one week without it, you’re gonna pray she turns so you can kill her!”
Nick will deliver the opioids, he says, in exchange for a shopping cart loaded with water.
“They could have killed us both right there,” Luciana hisses during their walk home. But her hostility eases when she realizes Nick stole the snack for the fatherless girl.
Nick’s kindness was misguided, however, according to colonia leader Alejandro Nuñez (Paul Calderon).
“Comfort is no supplement for faith,” Alejandro insists. “You do that girl no favors.”
Suddenly Nick spots an ominous scar on Alejandro’s shoulder. Are the stories true that this pharmacist suffered a zombie bite but didn’t become infected?
Upon hearing one of Alejandro’s fervent sermons, Nick wonders if he’s among “the children of the resurrection.”
“The world is for us. The faithful. The chosen ones,” Alejandro proclaims. “From death we come and to death we deliver ourselves!”
Elsewhere in Baja, Nick’s mother, Maddie (Kim Dickens), gives up searching for her son. She joins daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Ofelia Salazar (Mercedes Mason) and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) in heading for the “Abigail” yacht.
To their dismay, the boat is gone.
Needing shelter, these survivors break into a beachfront hotel. While Alicia and Ofelia explore the guest rooms, Maddie and Victor get drunk at the bar. Maddie laments that she’s “never gonna see Nick again.”
“That boy was born lost, like his daddy,” Maddie dejectedly says. “He’s been slipping through my fingers ever since the day I gave birth to him.”
As Maddie bitterly offers a toast to motherhood, Victor plays an out-of-tune piano. The ghoulish noise attracts zombies locked inside the hotel tower.
Alicia watches in horror as the undead hurl themselves off balconies, rise to their feet upon hitting the ground and stagger toward Maddie and Victor.
Making matters worse, Ofelia is suddenly AWOL.
“We’re not gonna make it,” Ofelia glumly said before disappearing. Devastated by the deaths of her parents, Ofelia lost all hope.
“You have me, for what it’s worth,” Alicia offered. “We’re family now.”
“Family is family,” Ofelia sadly replied.
In other words, Alicia is just a companion, not a sister.
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Re: Tree spikers cling to Lelu Island (B.C. Views, July 20).
Tom Fletcher seems to believe protecting salmon is not only bad, but dishonest. He suggests it’s an effort to cover up an international plot to kill B.C.’s oil and gas opportunities and Alberta’s oilsands.
His column falsely asserts that, along with other groups, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has “poured money into anti-LNG campaigns in B.C., as they funded opposition to oilsands development before them. Indeed, the record suggests the long project to establish what environmental front groups named the Great Bear Rainforest was a strategy to stop hydrocarbon exports from western Canada, even as U.S. sources ramped up production.”
The foundation’s Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative supports groups working to ensure that all factors – social, environmental and economic – are fairly respected in development decisions. It does not fund efforts to stop oil and gas development.
Salmon support a huge economy that provides jobs, social and cultural benefits. And, in British Columbia, unlike many other parts of North America, we still have a chance to keep most salmon watersheds intact. This is why the foundation supports the efforts of communities to protect these fish. This means ensuring that scientific evidence is fully addressed in project development, including siting decisions.
We are proud supporters of the Great Bear Rainforest, not because we are “anti” anything else, but because this is a unique region. Like the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef, it is recognized by experts around the globe as one of the planet’s most important and unique natural wonders.
It is a region that deserved to be protected on its own merits – a fact so clear that federal, provincial and First Nation governments came together with industry and environmental groups to ensure it would be. To portray this impressive collaboration as an anti-oil and gas does a disservice to the broad array of Canadians and First Nations that prioritized its preservation.
The Moore Foundation supported this as part of our commitment to assist groups that seek to protect wild salmon habitats along the West Coast. People, issues, organizations and funds cross the Canada-U.S. border all the time. There isn’t anything unusual about Canadian environmental groups requesting and receiving donations from international foundations that share the same environmental goals.
Ivan Thompson, B.C. Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Vancouver

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Police have provided an update into the sudden death of an 18-year-old man, saying that a ‘hazardous chemical substance’ was believed to be near the body.
Emergency services were called to a house in Grove Road, Broadwater at lunchtime yesterday and ambulance staff wearing bio-hazard suits were seen entering the property. Click here to read the original story.
Emergency services were called to a chemical incident at Grove Road in Worthing yesterday, where an 18-year-old man died. Picture: Eddie Mitchell
The road was temporarily closed, and neighbours are believed to have been told not to leave their houses while emergency services dealt with the incident.
Sussex Police has issued a statement, which said: “Police were called to a report of a man found dead at his home in Grove Road, Broadwater, Worthing on Monday (29 August) at 12.35pm.
“It is believed that there may have been some hazardous chemical substance near the body of the 18-year-old so specially trained ambulance and fire crews attended the scene. The body was recovered safely.
“The death is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner’s officer is dealing with the incident.”
Emergency services were called to a chemical incident at Grove Road in Worthing yesterday, where an 18-year-old man died. Picture: Eddie Mitchell
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Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win
LAS VEGAS: Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that. Wheeler considers himself one of the lucky ones. He was able to build up enough savings to retire, but even now his wife had her teaching hours reduced at a community college, dramatically reducing their household’s income. “It’ll be better with Trump because he’ll bring the jobs back,” Wheeler, 66, said as he stopped by a Republican Party office to scoop up some “Make America Great Again” yard signs and bumper stickers.
“Everybody I know is a Trump supporter. He resonates well in Nevada.” Nevada is the most diverse battleground state. On paper, it should be secure for Democrats. But there are enough people like Wheeler, still rattled by the recession and frustrated about other things, to make it one of Trump’s best swing states. Democrats and Republicans agree that the state’s competitiveness is not just a quirk of public polling, which has a spotty track record in Nevada, but is reflected in private surveys, the tightness of Nevada’s races for the US Senate and House, and the observations of seasoned political operatives. “Nevada’s a picture of where the country’s at,” said Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Union, which represents nearly 60,000, mostly immigrant workers in casinos and hotels on the Strip. “It’s increasingly diverse but the ideas of nationalism, open borders are very much at play here.”
Recovering economy
The economy has recovered since the recession. The unemployment rate is down to 6.5 percent from 13.7 percent in 2010. While home prices have doubled since 2012, they are well below their 2007 peak, and many Las Vegas residents live in subdivisions dotted with still-unoccupied houses. Nevada also has one of the lowest rates of college education in the country, with only 23 percent of its population having graduated college, giving Trump a reservoir of non-college graduates that traditionally form his base.
And the state’s antiestablishment streak and rebellious culture may prove a good fit for the brash New York developer and reality show star. “In Nevada, we have this mindset of it’s us versus the world,” said Charles Munoz, Trump’s state director. “It’s the perfect storm of policy and messaging.”
The stakes in Nevada go beyond the state’s six electoral votes in the presidential election. The race for retiring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s seat pits his hand-picked successor, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, against US Rep Joe Heck. Two of the state’s four US. House seats are also in play. The state has become a presidential bellwether, voting for the winning candidate in every election since 1980. But its partisan divides have hardened as an influx of immigrants has helped fuel Las Vegas’ boom and pull political power from the more rural and conservative northern part of the state. “When I first moved here in 1974, you could barely tell the Republicans and the Democrats apart,” said Donna West, 59, who was working a phone bank for Clinton one recent night. “Now there are huge differences.”
Plenty of advantages
Those differences provide Clinton with plenty of advantages in the state. Democrats have a formidable Nevada ground game, with 70,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans to date. It’s a gap similar to that in 2012, when President Barack Obama won the state by 6 percentage points. Clinton has targeted the state for more than a year, announcing her immigration policy there in 2015 to appeal to Nevada’s growing numbers of Latinos and Asian-Americans.
The state is 51 percent white, though whites comprised twothirds of the 2012 electorate, according to census data. “We know that we have the votes, we just have to turn them out,” said Clinton state director Jorge Neri, who has a view of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel from his office in the Clinton campaign’s headquarters. That hotel, rising just off the Strip and surrounded by a sea of stucco, Asian markets and adult video stores, has been engaged in a battle with the Culinary Union, which organized more than 500 of its workers.
The hotel refused to recognize the union until the National Labor Relations Board forced it to do so in April. Now the union complains the hotel won’t negotiate a contract and has sent housekeepers and bartenders there to picket Trump rallies nationwide. Democrats think the union battle can convince Nevadans that Trump’s populism is phony and he actually hurts workers. “For some people in the country it may seem like a distant thing, but this is in our backyard,” Neri said. The Trump campaign sees the hotel as a net positive. “Trump has invested in this state while Hillary Clinton hasn’t,” Munoz said. On Friday, Trump met at the hotel with about two dozen Latino supporters, Republican leaders and campaign staffers, and asserted: “People don’t know how well we’re doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos. We’re doing really well.” — AP


CHICAGO—New Zika research released on Friday, Aug. 26, has found that the virus may spread sexually from a man to a woman even if the man had no symptoms of Zika infection.
The finding came from a report in Maryland where a man who was infected with Zika in the Dominican Republic but had no symptoms infected his female partner who had not traveled to a place where Zika is being transmitted.
The study, published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on death and disease, suggests that sexual transmission of Zika is no less likely in asymptomatic individuals than in others with symptoms.
Current recommendations for preventing sexual transmission of Zika in returning travelers now differ depending on whether the returning traveler is symptomatic and on whether the couple is planning to become pregnant, but that may need to be changed.
Separately, health officials in Puerto Rico have reported as many as 10 people who developed the paralyzing neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barre syndrome as a result of Zika infections.
The latest studies add to the evolving picture of the impacts of Zika, a virus previously considered to be mild but which has recently been shown to cause the serious birth defect known as microcephaly, as well as neurological illness in adults.
In Puerto Rico, where Zika arrived in December 2015, health officials have been systematically tracking cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome following reports in other countries showing an increase in cases related to Zika.
Guillain-Barre causes gradual weakness in the legs, arms and upper body, and in some cases, temporary paralysis.
Overall, the Guillain-Barre surveillance system identified 56 cases of the syndrome in people infected from Jan. 1 to July 31, 2016, officials from the Puerto Rican health department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease.
Guillain-Barre is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks itself in the aftermath of an infection, typically occurring in the days following an illness.
Of the cases in Puerto Rico, 34 patients had evidence of a flavivirus infection, such as Zika, dengue or Chikungunya, and 10 had confirmed Zika virus infections. Diagnostic tests cannot easily discern Zika from related infections, but health officials suspect nearly all of the flavivirus infections seen were related to Zika because that is the predominant flavivirus currently circulating in Puerto Rico.
All 34 patients required intensive care, and 12 required a breathing tube and mechanical ventilation. One patient died of septic shock after treatment for Guillain-Barre.
In addition to the Guillain-Barre cases, there were seven patients with evidence of infection from Zika or a related virus that developed neurological disorders other than Guillain-Barre. The findings follow reports in other areas that Zika can directly infect adult nerve cells.
In the sexual transmission case, current guidelines for preventing sexual transmission of Zika suggest that couples in which one person returns from an area with active transmission but did not develop symptoms of Zika should wait eight weeks before attempting to conceive a child.
But men diagnosed with Zika should wait at least six months before attempting to have a child, and women with a Zika diagnosis should wait at least eight weeks.
Health officials said more study is needed to determine the risk of sexual transmission of Zika from asymptomatic individuals.
As more is learned about how long Zika lasts in semen in infected men, "recommendations to prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus will be updated if needed," officials wrote.

Zika likely spread sexually from asymptomatic man to woman


Zika likely spread sexually from asymptomatic man to woman -study
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - New Zika research released on Friday has found that the virus may spread sexually from a man to a woman even if the man had no symptoms of Zika infection.
The finding came from a report in Maryland where a man who was infected with Zika in the Dominican Republic but had no symptoms infected his female partner who had not traveled to a place where Zika is being transmitted.
The study, published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on death and disease, suggests that sexual transmission of Zika is no less likely in asymptomatic individuals than in others with symptoms.
Current recommendations for preventing sexual transmission of Zika in returning travelers now differ depending on whether the returning traveler is symptomatic and on whether the couple is planning to become pregnant, but that may need to be changed.
Separately, health officials in Puerto Rico have reported as many as 10 people who developed the paralyzing neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barre syndrome as a result of Zika infections.
The latest studies add to the evolving picture of the impacts of Zika, a virus previously considered to be mild but which has recently been shown to cause the serious birth defect known as microcephaly, as well as neurological illness in adults.
In Puerto Rico, where Zika arrived in December 2015, health officials have been systematically tracking cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome following reports in other countries showing an increase in cases related to Zika.
Guillain-Barre causes gradual weakness in the legs, arms and upper body, and in some cases, temporary paralysis.
Overall, the Guillain-Barre surveillance system identified 56 cases of the syndrome in people infected from Jan. 1 to July 31, 2016, officials from the Puerto Rican health department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease.
Guillain-Barre is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks itself in the aftermath of an infection, typically occurring in the days following an illness.
Of the cases in Puerto Rico, 34 patients had evidence of a flavivirus infection, such as Zika, dengue or Chikungunya, and 10 had confirmed Zika virus infections. Diagnostic tests cannot easily discern Zika from related infections, but health officials suspect nearly all of the flavivirus infections seen were related to Zika because that is the predominant flavivirus currently circulating in Puerto Rico.
All 34 patients required intensive care, and 12 required a breathing tube and mechanical ventilation. One patient died of septic shock after treatment for Guillain-Barre.
In addition to the Guillain-Barre cases, there were seven patients with evidence of infection from Zika or a related virus that developed neurological disorders other than Guillain-Barre. The findings follow reports in other areas that Zika can directly infect adult nerve cells.
In the sexual transmission case, current guidelines for preventing sexual transmission of Zika suggest that couples in which one person returns from an area with active transmission but did not develop symptoms of Zika should wait eight weeks before attempting to conceive a child.
But men diagnosed with Zika should wait at least six months before attempting to have a child, and women with a Zika diagnosis should wait at least eight weeks.
Health officials said more study is needed to determine the risk of sexual transmission of Zika from asymptomatic individuals.
As more is learned about how long Zika lasts in semen in infected men, "recommendations to prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus will be updated if needed," officials wrote.


By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - New Zika research released on Friday has found that the virus may spread sexually from a man to a woman even...


Zika likely spread sexually from asymptomatic man to woman -study


BY JOE PALLADINO
Ryan Gomes and his fundraising golf tournament, Hoops For Heart Health, rolls on.
On Monday, the tournament landed at the Country Club of Waterbury. The cause and the location attracted more than 100 golfers to Gomes’ annual summer soirée that raises funds and distributes automated external defibrillators (AED), portable devices used during life-threatening cardiac arrest.
The ninth HHH raised money to place an AED in the city’s newest high school, Waterbury Career Academy, and fund training.
Gomes has donated more than 100 AEDs across the country, in every NBA city during his eight-year career with the Celtics, Timberwolves, Clippers, and Thunder, in countless colleges, worked with the city to get them into all Waterbury schools, and he even went to Alaska to donate a device.
“We need to get the automated external defibrillators into the necessary places, which is everywhere,” Gomes said, “at all fields and in gymnasiums and in all facets.”
An AED saves lives. We have seen proof in Danny Berger, a former Division I basketball player who collapsed at practice in 2012 when he played at Utah State. He was revived on court by an AED that had been donated by Gomes.
Gomes, a former Wilby High star and All-American at Providence College, scored 4,962 points in his NBA career, totaled 712 assists, and averaged 10.1 ppg. But Gomes greatest play, his biggest career assist, was the one that put that AED into the gym at Utah State.
And that career is now over, or perhaps we should say, one phase is complete. Gomes will no longer touch an NBA floor again as a player. But he has transitioned. He’s management now. Gomes was hired this summer as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets D League franchise. The Long Island Nets officially announced last week that Gomes will join Pat Rafferty as an assistant coach under Ronald Nored.
Gomes, who will turn 34 on Thursday, has squeezed every possible drop out of his professional career. He played for eight seasons, 487 games, started 371 of them, played professionally in Germany and Spain, and in his last role, played in the D League last season and was named Impact Player of the Year with the Los Angeles D-Fenders.
It was that last hurrah that gave Gomes the impetus to swap roles. He was not asked to leave the gym. He walked off the floor at the professional level on his own.
A few years ago I asked Gomes if he had reached the end of his playing days. He was not fond of the question. Now, he is at peace with the concept that he is a former NBA player. He is ready for the next challenge.
“I look back at my career and I am satisfied with what I did as a professional athlete,” said Gomes, “at all levels, overseas, the NBA, and the development league.”
The time was right. The pro ladder didn’t have more rungs for Gomes.
“Last year, when I was in Spain, I really didn’t play,” he said, “and I didn’t want to walk away from the game that way. If this coaching opportunity came last year, I might have said, ‘I want to play one more time.’
“But now, I walked away from playing the game.”
So this past summer, Gomes reached out to the NBA. He queried former coaches and teammates and general managers. Always a popular man in the clubhouse, a fan favorite in every city he played with a tireless work ethic for community outreach, Gomes is a no-brainer as the right man to develop future NBA talent.
“I am ready to hit the playbook,” Gomes said on Monday, “give advice to the team and the player, and see where that may lead.”
Did we say he was out if rungs? Maybe we should say, Gomes has found a different ladder.
“That’s what it is all about,” he said. “You always need new challenges and new things to conquer. This is my first year. I will be with the Brooklyn Nets during the preseason, in camp, and leading up to our first game. I will be taking notes. I will be checking off the things I want to accomplish. And then in five or six years, who knows.”
Ryan Gomes is chasing the NBA, again.
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GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Eastern Lady Eagles edged the Gallia Academy Blue Angels in a girls golf match on Monday, as visiting Eastern won 202 to 227 at Cliffside Golf Club in Gallipolis.
Gallia Academy sported six golfers while Eastern only had five, but the top four scores counted towards the team total.
Eastern was paced by a pair of high-40s juniors — Sarah Bunce with a 47 and Kaitlyn Hawk with a 49.
The other Eagle counting cards were in the low-50s — sophomore Kylee Tolliver with a 52 and senior Katelyn Edwards with a 54.
Eastern’s other score was senior Ashley Tolliver with a 69.
For the host Blue Angels, sophomore Molly Fitzwater fired a 10-over-par 46, capturing match medalist honors for the first time in her career.
The other Gallia Academy counting cards belonged to senior Kimberly Edelmann with a 52, senior Breanna Justice with a 60, and freshman Carley Johnson with a 70.
Rounding out the Blue and White were junior Katie Fraley with a 76 and sophomore Sydney Crothers with an 81.
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Eastern’s Sarah Bunce chips to the 16th green during Monday’s non-league girls golf match against Gallia Academy at Cliffside Golf Club. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_8.29-EHS-Bunce.jpg Eastern’s Sarah Bunce chips to the 16th green during Monday’s non-league girls golf match against Gallia Academy at Cliffside Golf Club. Paul Boggs/OVP Sports


A $400 million cash payment to Iran has little precedent
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.
The money was sent to Iran on Jan. 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release the prisoners. The Obama administration claimed for months the events were separate, but recently acknowledged the cash was used as leverage until the Americans were allowed to leave Iran. Only then, did the U.S. allow a plane with euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currency loaded on pallets to take off in the other direction for Tehran.
"There's actually not anything particularly unusual about the mechanism for this transaction," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said this week of the initial cash payment.
FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
But diplomatic historians and lawyers with expertise in international arbitration struggled to find any similar examples.
Asked to recall a similar payment of the U.S. using cash or hard money to settle an international dispute, the office of the State Department historian couldn't provide an example.
The acknowledgement that the prisoners and the payment were linked, and the unusual cash delivery, have fueled Republican claims that a "ransom" was paid. At a news conference this month, President Barack Obama said cash was used because the U.S. and Iran don't have a banking relationship after years of U.S. sanctions on Iran, making a check or wire transfer impossible.
The $400 million was the principal owed by the U.S. on a 1970s Iranian account for buying U.S. military equipment. After Iran's 1979 overthrow of the U.S.-backed shah and the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran, the weapons were never delivered. Iran has wanted the money back plus interest ever since. Seven months ago, the two sides put the matter to rest with a $1.7 billion settlement.
Alan Henrikson, diplomatic history professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, found a precedent by reaching back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War.
The accord called for the United States to pay Mexico $15 million, an amount worth about $482 million in today's money, he said. The payment was determined "in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States," vague diplomatic wording designed to compensate Mexico for a massive loss of territory that included all of California and parts of seven other states. At the same time, the Americans avoided any acceptance of national guilt.
The treaty stipulated that the U.S. immediately pay $3 million — or nearly $100 million in 2016 dollars — in Mexico City in the form of Mexico's gold or silver coin. The remainder had to be paid the same way in $3 million installments each year, with the debt subject to a fixed rate of 6 percent annual interest. President Ulysses S. Grant would later declare it "conscience money."
"Ambiguity is often needed in diplomacy in order to achieve agreement," Henrikson said. "What is important, in my view, is that both sides to a negotiation clearly understand, even if only tacitly, what is being agreed upon when ambiguity is used. This is not all that subtle, actually. It is life."
The administration has been ambiguous from the start about its settlement seven months ago. Reports by the Wall Street Journal have led to recent acknowledgements about the $400 million delivered in stacks of cash and the connection to the American prisoners. But officials still won't say how Iran received the $1.3 billion in interest.
It was done "in a fairly above-board way," a senior administration official intimately involved in the Iran negotiations said in a conference call last week, saying only that the interest payments involved an unidentified, foreign central bank. The official wasn't authorized to be quoted by name and demanded anonymity. The State Department said Wednesday the payments were made Jan. 19, two days after the cash delivery.
Other settlements with Iran and other foreign claimants in recent decades bore some similarities to this latest transaction. But none seemed to involve planeloads of cash.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton reached a settlement with Iran over the U.S. Navy's 1988 downing of an Iran Air passenger plane that killed 290 people.
The arrangement totaled $131.8 million but there was no cash delivery. Instead, $61 million was deposited in a Swiss bank account that was jointly held by the New York Federal Reserve and the Iranian Central Bank. The money was reserved for the families of those killed, not the Iranian government. The remainder of the settlement was mainly used to cover Iranian debts to U.S. claimants in separate arbitration cases.
And in 1998, the U.S. settled a dispute with Pakistan after halting the delivery of an F-16 aircraft purchase. The compensation was described as $325 million in cash and $140 million in surplus agricultural commodities, mainly wheat and soy, but the precise mechanics of the payment were never spelled out.
"There were no sanctions regarding dollars or banks in Pakistan, so it may have been that the 'cash payment' was a bank transfer," said Marcia Wiss, an international lawyer with a private practice in Washington.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards show was all about performances that got the sweat dripping, the muscles ripping and the adrenaline pumping. Here are the top moments from Sunday’s show:
JUST CALL THEM THE BEYONCE MUSIC AWARDS
If there was any doubt that this night was all about Beyonce, she killed any notion of that idea with her amazing medley of songs from her incredible “Lemonade” visual album.
As the leading nominee, all eyes were on her to prove herself as the biggest musical act of her generation.
And as usual, she delivered a flawless performance.
She moved seamlessly between outfits, songs and stages, singing with passion and strength. She danced through fire and smoke, took a baseball to a camera and had her dancers end the performance laying on the stage to symbolize the power of women. Mic dropped.
KANYE MAKES A CASE FOR ‘FAMOUS’
MTV has learned it’s better to give Kanye West the microphone than risk him taking it from someone else.
West, who famously jumped on stage to interrupt Taylor Swift at the VMAs in 2009, didn’t perform, but instead took the time to explain his controversial music video “Famous.”
He referenced back to his own past antics when he acknowledged that his music video might lose to Beyonce in the video of the year category. (It did.)
He made sure to reference several people whose images appeared in the video, including his former girlfriend Amber Rose, his wife’s ex Ray J and his perennial target, Swift, who was not there.
RIHANNA DELIVERS A FULL SHOW
Any artist would have a hard time trying to match a Beyonce performance of this magnitude, but the multifaceted R&B singer Rihanna proved she could hold her own over the course of four separate performances throughout the show.
Rihanna, who was given the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, worked her way through her multitude of hits, from “Please Don’t Stop the Music,” to “Work” and “Diamonds.”
It was like a walk back through her musical career over the past decade. And then at the end, she gracefully accepted the award from a gushing Drake, who declared his love for her, and talked about winning the award for her home country of Barbados.
WAIT, WHO IS TEYANA TAYLOR?
You won’t be asking that again.
After West’s speech, he introduced his music video for “Fade” featuring singer Teyana Taylor, who is signed to West’s GOOD Music label.
In an homage to “Flashdance”, the athletic Taylor — dressed like a boxer — danced in a revealing outfit, shining with moisture among heavy weight machines and punching bags. Even her husband, NBA player Iman Shumpert, appeared in the video in a shower sex scene.
The strange, sexy video was the talk of Twitter with plenty of women and men gaping over her incredible figure, which is all the more incredible because she gave birth to her daughter less than a year ago. Those are some major workout goals.
MTV GETS OLYMPICS FEVER
Between the real-life Olympic athletes to several athletic-themed performances, the VMAs felt like an Olympic rerun.
For starters, gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps revealed that he was listening to the rapper Future when he made the now-famous angry glare seen around the world during the Olympics.
And four members of the Final Five gymnastics team fan-girled out onstage when they got to hand over the award to Beyonce for best female video.
Finally, Jimmy Fallon impersonated swimmer Ryan Lochte, making false claims on his musical accomplishments — a reference to the accusation that Lochte filed a false robbery report while in Rio.
BRITNEY BORES
No one wants to follow Beyonce, but if you’re going to phone in a performance, you might as well do it when nobody is paying attention.
This was Britney Spears’ first VMA performance in a decade, and she’s got a long history of creating big moments on the awards show.
Instead she mechanically went through the rhythms in a low-key duet with rapper G-Eazy, in which they tried to force some chemistry that just wasn’t there.

Beyonce dominates an Olympic-sized VMA awards


Sunderland will look to step up their interest in £3million Barnsley defender Alfie Mawson after Javier Manquillo arrived on a season-long loan.
The 22-year-old Atletico Madrid full-back has joined with a view to a permanent four-year deal.
With Sunderland now fully stocked at right-back, David Moyes will look to add another defender, striker and central midfielders to his squad before Wednesday’s 11pm deadline.
Mawson, 22, is being tracked by a host of Championship and Premier League clubs, but Sunderland are working hard to beat their rivals to his signature.
Sunderland have also been linked with a fresh move for £7million-rated Sevilla defensive midfielder Vicente Iborra, who has been on the club’s radar all summer.
Iborra, who only signed a new deal until 2020 last summer, has made 83 appearances for Sevilla, scoring 17 goals, since moving from Levante in 2013.
It is understood he will be allowed to leave for the right price, with Sevilla chairman Jose Castro confirming that the Europa League holders have had an offer for him, although he didn’t confirm it was from Sunderland.
He said: “We have an important offer for Iborra. In this moment, it isn’t clear if we will accept it and we will wait to see what happens in next [few] days.”
Moyes has made six signings with Papy Djilobodji, Paddy McNair, Donald Love, Adnan Januzaj, Steven Pienaar and Manquillo arriving on Wearside.
The agreement for Manquillo is a season-long loan initially, which includes an option for Sunderland to make the move a permanent four-year deal after the completion of the loan.
“I am very happy to come back to the Premier League,” said former Liverpool loanee Manquillo .
“I’m really pleased to sign for Sunderland because they have tried really hard to get me here and, since the very first minute, they have been really welcoming.
“I am very happy to be here and I can assure every single Sunderland fan that I will be giving my best at every training day and match.
“I want to give everything inside of me for this club.
“Since the very first minute I arrived at the club, I have met some great people and they are looking forward to big things.
“This club is very big and I cannot expect any better in terms of staff, stadium facilities and supporters. They are great, so I think the club is going to have a great future.
“Everything I have seen since I came is a club that is looking forward to doing very good things.”
Manquillo spent the 2014-15 season on loan at Liverpool but failed to establish himself as a first-team regular at Anfield under then-manager Brendan Rodgers.
Manquillo – a former target of Juventus – enjoyed a productive spell last season on loan at Ligue 1 side Marseille, but he was surplus to requirements at Atletico this season.
Meanwhile, 17-year-old Joel Asoro is reported to have caught the eye of European giants Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and PSG.
The Swede burst onto the first team scene this summer and started the midweek EFL Cup win over Shrewsbury Town.
However, his agent has been quoted in Sweden confirming that Asoro will remain on Wearside, adding he will look to negotiate a new contract once the transfer window has closed.

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Cowboys quarterback Romo has broken bone in back
Aug 27 (The Sports Xchange) - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo suffered a broken bone in his back on the third play of Thursday night's preseason game and coach Jason Garrett said the injury would cost the veteran a chunk of the 2016 season.
An MRI on Friday revealed Romo's back injury is much worse than anticipated, Garrett announced Saturday, two days after he was knocked out of the game against the Seattle Seahawks.
"We're confident that he's going to be coming back and playing football for us this year," Garrett said but provided no timetable on Romo's possible return.
A source told NFL Media's Ian Rapoport that the best-case scenario for Romo's return is during the middle of the season. According to a Pro Football Talk source with knowledge of the situation, Romo is expected to miss six to 10 weeks.
Romo underwent a pair of back surgeries in 2013 and he missed most of last season with a twice-broken left collarbone. Garrett said the injury is not related to the surgeries Romo had in 2013.
The Cowboys went 4-12 last season, including 1-11 with three backup quarterbacks, as Romo missed 12 games.
On Dallas' third offensive play on Thursday night, Romo scrambled from the pocket, then went into a slide near the line of scrimmage. He was crunched by Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril from the blind side.
After staying on the turf initially, Romo walked off on his own. He threw some passes on the sideline but was held out for the rest of the game by Garrett after lobbying to return. Romo completed his lone pass of the game for 11 yards.
"I was going into a slide," Romo said after the 27-17 loss to the Seahawks. "But in a weird way, I feel good about the fact that was probably as tough of a hit I've taken on the back as I've had in the last five years.
"From that regard, I feel very lucky that it can hold up and I can keep going."
Rookie fourth-round pick Dak Prescott likely will start the regular-season opener against the New York Giants on Sept. 11 if Romo is ruled out.


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Cowboys quarterback Romo has broken bone in back


MIAMI COUNTY — A Tipp City man who assaulted a police officer was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison on Monday.
Miami County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Christopher Shaffner, 29, of Tipp City, for fourth degree assault. Judge Pratt also sentenced Shaffner to serve 10 months for a community control violation, which will be served concurrently with the assault charge.
On June 25, Shaffner was intoxicated and knocking on the back door of a residence on West Main Street in Tipp City. One of the occupants had a restraining order against Shaffner at the time of the incident.
As Shaffner was being detained, he refused to allow officers to shut the cruiser doors. Shaffner kicked an officer several times, resisting the officer’s orders. Shaffner had a black eye prior to being arrested, but attempted to blame the police officer for the injury while being treated at the hospital.
Shaffner blamed his abuse of alcohol for his actions and asked for leniency. Judge Pratt noted Shaffner had already been placed on five years of community control just a few months earlier involving the same subject whom he followed home from a Tipp City bar.
“You are the one who put yourself in this situation,” Pratt told Shaffner. “You being drunk doesn’t excuse your conduct.”
Shaffner was given 121 days of jail time credit.
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Tipp man gets prison for assaulting officer


MIAMI COUNTY — A Tipp City man who assaulted a police officer was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison on Monday.
Miami County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Christopher Shaffner, 29, of Tipp City, for fourth degree assault. Judge Pratt also sentenced Shaffner to serve 10 months for a community control violation which will be served concurrently with the assault charge.
On June 25, Shaffner was intoxicated and knocking on the back door of a residence on West Main Street, Tipp City. One of the occupants had a restraining order against Shaffner at the time of the incident.
As Shaffner was being detained, he refused to allow officers to shut the cruiser doors. Shaffner kicked an officer several times, resisting officers orders. Shaffner had a black eye prior to being arrested, but attempted to blame the police officer for the injury while being treated at the hospital.
Shaffner blamed his abuse of alcohol for his actions and asked for leniency. Judge Pratt noted Shaffner had already been placed on five years of community control just a few months earlier involving the same subject whom he followed home from a Tipp City bar.
“You are the one who put yourself in this situation,” Pratt told Shaffner. “You being drunk doesn’t excuse your conduct.”
Shaffner was given 121 days of jail time credit.
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Shaffner kicked a Tipp City police officer several times
By Melanie Yingst [email protected]
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Tipp man to serve 15 months for assaulting police officer


MIAMI COUNTY — A Tipp City man who assaulted a police officer was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison on Monday.
Miami County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Christopher Shaffner, 29, of Tipp City, for fourth degree assault. Judge Pratt also sentenced Shaffner to serve 10 months for a community control violation, which will be served concurrently with the assault charge.
On June 25, Shaffner was intoxicated and knocking on the back door of a residence on West Main Street in Tipp City. One of the occupants had a restraining order against Shaffner at the time of the incident.
As Shaffner was being detained, he refused to allow officers to shut the cruiser doors. Shaffner kicked an officer several times, resisting the officer’s orders. Shaffner had a black eye prior to being arrested, but attempted to blame the police officer for the injury while being treated at the hospital.
Shaffner blamed his abuse of alcohol for his actions and asked for leniency. Judge Pratt noted Shaffner had already been placed on five years of community control just a few months earlier involving the same subject whom he followed home from a Tipp City bar.
“You are the one who put yourself in this situation,” Pratt told Shaffner. “You being drunk doesn’t excuse your conduct.”
Shaffner was given 121 days of jail time credit.
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Shaffner kicked Tipp City police officer several times
By Melanie Yingst [email protected]
Reach Melanie Yingst at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @Troydailynews
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Turkey opens bridge between continents in megaproject drive
By Ayla Jean Yackley
GARIPCE, Turkey, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Turkey opens one of the world's biggest suspension bridges on Friday, creating a new link between two continents with the latest megaproject in a $200 billion building spree that President Tayyip Erdogan hopes will secure his place in history.
The bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe, is built in the style of New York's Brooklyn Bridge and boasts pylons higher than the Eiffel Tower. It is 1.4 km (0.9 mile) long and 59 metres wide, with eight vehicle lanes and two high-speed rail lines.
Erdogan is seeking to use such projects to drive economic growth and secure a place as Turkey's most significant leader since the modern republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
"Be proud of your power, Turkey," said a TV advert before the opening of the $3 billion Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge on the edge of Istanbul. It is named after a 16th-century Ottoman ruler.
Erdogan's infrastructure drive is transforming Europe's biggest city, which straddles the Bosphorus Strait. In a little more than a decade, Istanbul's skyline has soared, new highways have been built, and the length of the metro tripled.
But Turkey's stellar economic growth has slowed since 2011 and it could face difficulties attracting investment following an attempted coup last month, which led to a purge by the government that has seen tens of thousands of people in the military, judiciary, civil service and education being detained, suspended or placed under investigation.
The country has also been hit by attacks this summer by Islamic State on a wedding party and Istanbul airport, while the Turkish army's incursion this week in Syria to curb jihadist and Kurdish forces has unsettled nerves.
But Erdogan - whose government announced a $200 billion, decade-long infrastructure investment plan three years ago - has vowed the months of turmoil will not hold back planned megaprojects. He is due to attend Friday's bridge opening.
The Yavuz Sultan Selim, which runs from the Garipce area on Istanbul's European side to the region of Poyrazkoy on the Asian side, is the third bridge to span the Bosphorus Strait and can withstand winds of 300 km an hour. It ranks among the world's biggest suspension bridges, in terms of width of deck, height of pylons as well as length of span.
It has been built by Italy's Astaldi and Istanbul-based IC Ictas which will jointly operate it for about a decade.
Officials say the bridge will ease congestion in a city of 14 million people, reduce fuel costs and save workers time.
Environmentalists say the project threatens Istanbul's last forestland and will contaminate water supplies. Some economists warn the costs of such large-scale building is unsustainable.
BRIDGE 'IS SYMBOL'
Turkey closed deals to secure $45 billion in private infrastructure investment last year, absorbing 40 percent of the global total, according to the World Bank.
Other planned megaprojects include the world's biggest airport in Istanbul and a huge canal that would render a large chunk of the city an island.
Such undertakings trumpet Turkey's regional clout and drive the economy, Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan told Reuters near the bridge site at Garipce. Construction accounts for 6 percent of output and employs 2 million people.
"Turkey, by virtue of its geography, bridges Asia and Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus, but to benefit from this position, we need arteries and corridors," he told Reuters. "There is money to be made by easing transportation between Europe and Asia, and this is why we are doing these projects."
As Arslan spoke, workers scaled the bridge's gleaming white steel cables. Some 300 metres below, crude tankers rumbled north through the Bosphorus, one of the world's busiest oil transit points, connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Each day, 650 new cars hit Istanbul's roads, Arslan said, making it the word's third-most congested city and increasing travel times by 50 percent, according to TomTom Traffic Index.
The bridge "is a symbol and much like Turkey a gateway", said Paolo Astaldi, chairman of Astaldi which owns a third of the joint venture. "It not only alleviates traffic in Istanbul, it speeds movement of goods across Turkey and, as Syria stabilises, the importance of the link will increase."
Under a build-operate-transfer model, the consortium receives the toll crossing fees for vehicles using the hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge - $3 for cars and $15 for trucks. The government guarantees the firms will receive, as a minimum, the toll income from 135,000 cars a day, though the actual number expected to use the bridge is expected to be higher.
Planned Turkish megaprojects, if realised, may add 10 to 15 percentage points in the next five years to the debt-to-GDP ratio, now 33 percent due to a wide current-account deficit, said Atilla Yesilada, an analyst at Global Source Partners.
"You're trying to stimulate sagging growth with a surge in infrastructure, but you have a savings problem. There comes a point when the international community won't lend to you."
ISTANBUL'S 'LUNGS'
The bridge is part of a network of 215 km of transit roads for freight to bypass Istanbul, Arslan said, reiterating a government pledge to protect the area from housing development.
Yet realtors in nearby fishing and farming villages report a fourfold rise in land prices, and activists in the Northern Forests Defence campaign group believe the real aim is to erect new suburbs.
"Transit makes up 3 percent of total traffic, so it won't mitigate traffic jams," said Cihan Baysal of the Northern Forests Defence. "This opens up hitherto pristine lands to more construction projects, because Turkey's economy depends on construction ... which paradoxically exacerbates traffic jams."
The new roads seared gashes through forestland. Arslan said that while 380,000 trees were felled, 2.5 million were planted.
"These forests are Istanbul's lungs," said Baysal, pointing to a court ruling the bridge lacked an environmental report.
Among other concerns are the fate of what media reports said were a trove of unexcavated antiquities in the construction area, including Paleolithic remains and a Byzantine jail.
The two older Bosphorus Strait bridges, crossed by 150 million vehicles a year, sparked protests in 1973 and 1988; now their silhouettes define the skyline.
Even the third bridge's name stirred controversy when it was announced at a 2013 ground-breaking ceremony. Selim I, known as Selim the Grim, expanded the Ottoman Empire to dominate the Middle East.


By Ayla Jean Yackley GARIPCE, Turkey, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Turkey opens one of the world's biggest suspension bridges on Friday, creating a new link between tw...


Turkey opens bridge between continents in megaproject drive


Malaise continues in Australian rugby as Bledisloe Cup stays in NZ
By Greg Stutchbury
WELLINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The malaise that blighted Australia's top rugby players throughout Super Rugby has now well and truly ensconced itself in the national team following their sixth successive defeat in their Rugby Championship loss to the All Blacks on Saturday.
Michael Cheika's side were beaten 29-9 at Wellington Regional Stadium and while they were more combative than in the 42-8 loss the previous week, the niggly, negative tactics earned little respect from rugby fans or their local media.
Cheika attempted to divert attention from the loss, and style of play, by criticising referee Romain Poite and suggesting All Blacks prop Owen Franks had been guilty of eye gouging.
In reality, however, the Wallabies were again simply outplayed with their game plan designed to minimise the damage and prevent another thrashing in a match that doubled as part of the Bledisloe Cup series between the two sides.
To that extent the tactics worked, though it really only papered over some worrying cracks that are signs of deeper issues within Australian rugby as they fight for relevance in a crowded sporting marketplace.
While those issues will need a more strategic view, it will be interesting to see if the Wallabies can at least fix some of their on-field problems in time for their next match against the Springboks in Brisbane on Sept. 10.
The Wallabies' set piece has fallen apart in the last two weeks. They lost four line outs on their own throw on Saturday and did not get enough clean ball to attack with from lineouts they did win.
All Blacks hooker Dane Coles also suggested the visitors were not interested in scrummaging, instead preferring to try to milk penalties from Poite.
What the immensely strong set pieces from South Africa and Argentina make of that observation will be interesting to watch as the Rugby Championship progresses.
LACKING DEPTH
Player depth continues to be a major issue for the two-time world champions and injuries have only highlighted their glaringly inadequate international playing stocks.
Three immensely creative players who could spark something at inside centre -- Kurtley Beale, Matt Giteau and Matt Toomua -- are among those who are out injured.
First choice flyhalf Bernard Foley, so instrumental in their run to the World Cup final last year, sat too deep last week in Sydney and has kicked poorly in both games.
The gamble of recalling enigmatic flyhalf Quade Cooper, who looked vulnerable and indecisive in all of his previous 10 matches against the world champions, failed to pay dividends.
Cooper again struggled with the speed and intensity of the All Blacks defenders and rarely appeared at first receiver.
The unpredictability of his game, which could tear teams apart when he was at his best, has also largely disappeared since he suffered a bad knee injury at the 2011 World Cup.
Instead of challenging defenders or trying to create any doubt in the line, his default reaction is to shovel the ball on, which creates issues in the midfield as players get cramped or forced across field.
Despite those issues, Cheika said he felt he had seen enough from Cooper and Foley on Saturday to consider sticking with the partnership in the future, though what he does in the number 13 jersey is another issue.
Centres Tevita Kuridrani and Samu Kerevi, whose selections have been based on their ability to get beyond the gain line, have consistently failed to do so and been error prone.
One positive for the Wallabies continues to be the ball-pilfering abilities of their loose forward trio, though Michael Hooper's previously under the radar, off-the-ball cheap shots were noticed on Saturday.
The only other is the sense of danger whenever fullback Israel Folau, who has said he wants to play in the midfield, gets his hands on the ball.


By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The malaise that blighted Australia's top rugby players throughout Super Rugby has now well and truly ensco...


Malaise continues in Australian rugby as Bledisloe Cup stays in NZ


ST. LOUIS (AP) — A transgender inmate is suing the Missouri prison system for refusing to provide hormone therapy as she transitions to a woman, adding her voice to those of prisoners in other states who argue that denying such treatment amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit in federal court in St. Louis last week on behalf of Jessica Hicklin, a 37-year old inmate serving life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder at age 16, when she went by her birth name, James. She is challenging a state Department of Corrections policy that bars hormone therapy for inmates who weren’t receiving it before being incarcerated.
According to her lawsuit, it wasn’t until last year that medical experts determined that Hicklin has gender dysphoria, in which a person feels extreme distress because of a disconnect between their birth sex and gender identity. But in a blog posted on Lambda Legal’s website, Hicklin wrote that she felt she was a girl since she was very young.
“Even at 16, I felt I was on my way to certain death. I didn’t know what gender dysphoria was, or how to explain my feelings to my family or others in my small town,” wrote Hicklin, who was convicted of fatally shooting a man during a drug-related crime in the small town of Clinton in 1995.
The lawsuit contends that experts advised she undergo hormone therapy and permanent hair removal and that she have access to “gender-affirming” products from the prison commissary store that typically aren’t available at the all-male Potosi Correctional Center where she’s imprisoned. It also says she’s been sexually assaulted in prison and has anxiety and depression, along with “intrusive thoughts” of cutting off her own testicles because of the denied treatment.
In her blog posting, Hicklin wrote that she feels “locked in a prison within a prison — my body.”
“This personal prison is much crueler, and without a change in policy, I’m not sure I will survive it,” she wrote.
Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman David Owen and Martha Harbin, a spokeswoman for Corizon Health, which provides health care for the prison system and is also named in the lawsuit, declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that there are 3,200 transgender inmates in the nation’s prisons and jails.
Federal inmates can receive treatment for gender dysphoria if an evaluation determines they need it, based on a policy enacted in 2011. The policy applies whether therapy was prescribed before or after the inmate entered federal custody.
But states continue to have varying regulations.
“It’s a hard battle that Jessica and others in her situation have to face, when they have to explain to a state why they need medical treatment,” said Richard Saenz, an attorney for Lambda Legal, a Washington-based non-profit for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those with HIV and AIDS.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice wrote in a court filing that state prison officials must treat an inmate’s gender identity condition just as they would treat other medical or mental health conditions, regardless of when the diagnosis occurred. The filing was part of a lawsuit on behalf of Ashley Diamond, a transgender woman who was imprisoned at the time in Georgia.
Diamond has since been paroled. In February, Georgia agreed to pay $250,000 to settle her lawsuit.
W. John Thomas, a health law expert at Quinnipiac University’s schools of law and medicine, said prison systems are facing increasing pressure to tend to the medical needs of transgender inmates and that he thinks the issue will likely make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He said state corrections departments often oppose treatment for transgender inmates for two reasons: the cost and the “political and moralistic.”
A lawsuit similar to Hicklin’s was filed earlier this month by Reiyn Keohane, a transgender Florida prisoner who is seeking hormone treatments.
In June, a federal judge ruled that California must allow transgender inmates to have more female-oriented commissary items like nightgowns and necklaces. The ruling was part of a settlement that will make California the first state to pay for an inmate’s sex reassignment surgery.
In December, an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected an Arkansas inmate’s appeal seeking gender reassignment hormones to transition to a woman. It ruled that several mental health professionals evaluated Andrew Reid, who identified as a woman, and had not diagnosed a gender identity disorder.
Perhaps the most well-known case of a transgender prisoner seeking treatment was that of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst serving a 35-year sentence at a military prison for leaking government documents to Wikileaks. Last year, the Army agreed to pay for hormone treatments for Manning, who was previously known as Bradley.

Transgender inmate latest to push for hormone treatment


AFTON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man is facing five felony charges for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting two women at gunpoint.
Washington County Sheriff’s deputies arrested James Lauck, 36, of New Richmond, Friday morning after responding to the 3100 block of St. Croix Trail South in downtown area of Afton. He faces five felony charges, including second degree assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping.
Law enforcement responded to a possible hostage situation at approximately shortly after 6:45 a.m. When they arrived, two women frantically waved the deputies down and told them Lauck had been holding them at gunpoint, according to the criminal complaint filed Monday in Washington County District Court.
Lauck allegedly hit and shoved both women and cut one of the women’s hair with a scissors during the incident, according to the complaint.
One of the women told law enforcement that Lauck was her ex-boyfriend and she had recently broken up with him. He had been living with her for the past month, the complaint stated.
Lauck allegedly told the women that he had six bullets, which he said he’d use on them, one of the women’s stepfather and himself. Lauck had put a gun to her head and forced the women to lay on the floor facing away from him, according to the report.
The women broke through a basement window and escaped the home after Lauck went upstairs, according to the complaint.
The incident prompted a large police response because of initial dispatch information that Lauck had a firearm.
Lauck returned to the home on his motorcycle where deputies confronted him. He allegedly ignored directives to show law enforcement his hands and told deputies to kill him, according to the complaint.
Police said they uncovered a camouflage .45 caliber handgun in Lauck’s jacket pocket.
According to the complaint, Lauck is a part of an “outlaw motorcycle gang” and could face a maximum of 64 years in prison if convicted on the charges.
A Washington County judge ordered Lauck to remain in jail without bail.
Court records show he has no prior felony convictions in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Wisconsin man charged with kidnapping two women


COLUMBUS — When Urban Meyer looks into the future he sees the past.
Coaches don’t usually like to look backward but in this case it serves Meyer’s purposes.
Ohio State has 16 first-time starters, which makes the Buckeyes the least experienced FBS team in college football this season.
The hope is that exceptional recruiting the last few years will compensate for all the talent which walked out the door after last season, including nine underclassmen who left early to enter the NFL draft.
But recruiting isn’t the only reason to think the Buckeyes can put themselves into the conversation about the College Football Playoff again, Meyer said. The recent past might provide a road map for this year’s team.
“I see that potential. I think 2014 was the template that everybody wants,” Meyer said, referring to OSU’s national championship season two years ago.
“J.T. Barrett was buried in the depth chart, Darron Lee, Eli Apple, Zeke Elliott, Mike Thomas — those guys were no-names, and they became very good throughout the course of 2014. And another guy, Cardale Jones, was buried in the depth chart.”
All of those players except Barrett are in the NFL now. So are Vonn Bell, Taylor Decker, Braxton Miller, Jalin Marshall, Adolphus Washington, Joshua Perry, Nick Vannett, Tyis Powell and Joey Bosa, when he signs.
Whether their replacements live up to the four-star and five-star rankings the recruiting analysts gave them will determine if Ohio State is able to stay at the elite level it has been on with 50 wins in 54 games in Meyer’s four seasons in Columbus.
The reasons to believe 2016 is similar to 2014 start with quarterback J.T. Barrett, who is 15-2 as a starter.
Barrett has the starting quarterback job to himself this year. He’s healthy and is expecting to have another season like the one he had in 2014 when he was the best quarterback in the Big Ten before he suffered a broken leg in the Michigan game.
What he doesn’t have is a lot of experience around him on offense.
He doesn’t have Elliott, who had back-to-back seasons of 1,878 yards and 1,821 yards rushing, which could mean OSU will throw the ball more this season.
Noah Brown, expected to be the No. 1 receiver, has one career catch. And though center Pat Elflein and guard Billy Price are All-Big Ten caliber offensive linemen, the other three positions will belong to first-year starters – Jamarco Jones, Isaiah Prince and probably freshman Michael Jordan.
Defensively, the line is the most experienced area, with one returning starter, Tyquan Lewis, and Sam Hubbard, who got close to starter’s minutes last year, at the ends.
Linebacker Raekwon McMillan, almost certainly in his final season at OSU before heading to the NFL, and cornerback Gareon Conley are the other returning starters.
Players like Chris Worley and Dante Booker at linebacker, Malik Hooker and Damon Webb at safety and cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore, Denzel Ward and Damon Arnette will get their chances to play after mostly watching from the sideline so far in their careers.
Punter Cameron Johnston is one of the best in the country. Kicker Sean Nuernberger lost his job to a walk-on for much of last season before getting it back late in the season. He is 16 of 24 in his career but did not make a field goal longer than 38 yards last season.
“I just like coaching this team. They’re hungry, they’re very anxious to learn,” Meyer said.
Beginning this Saturday against Bowling Green, Ohio State will learn if a group of mostly inexperienced players can live up to the always big expectations at OSU.
Ohio State defensive end Tyquan Lewis (59) sacks Northern Illinois quarterback Drew Hare last season. Lewis is one of six returning starters for OSU this season. DON SPECK/The Lima News http://limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_Tyquan.jpg Ohio State defensive end Tyquan Lewis (59) sacks Northern Illinois quarterback Drew Hare last season. Lewis is one of six returning starters for OSU this season. DON SPECK/The Lima News
Buckeyes’ goals remain same no matter who leaves
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2016. There are 126 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
On this date:
In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during the Revolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces, who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.
In 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In 1939, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, went on its first full-fledged test flight over Germany.
In 1949, a violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, New York. (The concert was held eight days later.)
In 1957, the USS Swordfish, the second Skate Class nuclear submarine, was launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
In 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus in December 1962.
In 1965, influential Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, 77, died in Cap Martin, France.
In 1975, Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see), the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida — a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.
In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Ten years ago: A Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 people and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor. Two Fox News journalists, Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, were freed by militants nearly two weeks after being kidnapped in Gaza City. The action series “24” won Emmys for best drama series and best actor for Kiefer Sutherland; “The Office” was honored as best comedy.
Five years ago: Hurricane Irene, after striking Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, pushed up the U.S east coast, prompting evacuations in New York City and leaving major flood damage in Vermont. Hundreds of soldiers and federal agents raided a casino in Monterrey in northern Mexico, two days after an arson attack on a gambling house killed 52 people.
One year ago: Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Ex-NBA star Darryl Dawkins, 58, whose board-shattering dunks earned him the moniker “Chocolate Thunder” and helped pave the way for breakaway rims, died in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Today’s Birthdays: Author Lady Antonia Fraser is 84. Actor Tommy Sands is 79. Bluegrass singer-musician J.D. Crowe is 79. Musician Daryl Dragon is 74. Actress Tuesday Weld is 73. Actor G.W. Bailey is 72. Rock singer-musician Tim Bogert is 72. Actress Marianne Sagebrecht is 71. Country musician Jeff Cook is 67. Actor Paul Reubens is 64. Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 63. Actor Peter Stormare is 63. Actress Diana Scarwid is 61. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 60. Golfer Bernhard Langer is 59. Country singer Jeffrey Steele is 55. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 55. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is 54. Writer-producer Dean Devlin is 54. Rock musician Mike Johnson is 51. Rap musician Bobo (Cypress Hill) is 48. Country singer Colt Ford is 47. Actress Chandra Wilson is 47. Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt) is 46. Actress Sarah Chalke is 40. Actor RonReaco (correct) Lee is 40. Rapper Mase is 39. Actress-singer Demetria McKinney is 38. Actor Aaron Paul is 37. Rock musician Jon Siebels (Eve 6) is 37. Actor Shaun Weiss is 37. Contemporary Christian musician Megan Garrett (Casting Crowns) is 36. Actor Kyle Lowder is 36. Actor Patrick J. Adams is 35. Actress Karla Mosley is 35. Actress Amanda Fuller is 32. Singer Mario is 30. Actress Alexa PenaVega is 28. Actor Ellar Coltrane is 22. Actress Savannah Paige Rae is 13.
Thought for Today: “Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.” — Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1908-1973).
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Today in History
Today is Saturday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2016. There are 126 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
On this date:
In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during the Revolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces, who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.
In 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In 1939, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, went on its first full-fledged test flight over Germany.
In 1949, a violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, New York. (The concert was held eight days later.)
In 1957, the USS Swordfish, the second Skate Class nuclear submarine, was launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
In 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus in December 1962.
In 1965, influential Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, 77, died in Cap Martin, France.
In 1975, Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see), the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida – a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.
In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Ten years ago: A Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 people and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor. Two Fox News journalists, Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, were freed by militants nearly two weeks after being kidnapped in Gaza City. The action series “24″ won Emmys for best drama series and best actor for Kiefer Sutherland; “The Office” was honored as best comedy.
Five years ago: Hurricane Irene, after striking Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, pushed up the U.S east coast, prompting evacuations in New York City and leaving major flood damage in Vermont. Hundreds of soldiers and federal agents raided a casino in Monterrey in northern Mexico, two days after an arson attack on a gambling house killed 52 people.
One year ago: Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Ex-NBA star Darryl Dawkins, 58, whose board-shattering dunks earned him the moniker “Chocolate Thunder” and helped pave the way for breakaway rims, died in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Today’s Birthdays: Author Lady Antonia Fraser is 84. Actor Tommy Sands is 79. Bluegrass singer-musician J.D. Crowe is 79. Musician Daryl Dragon is 74. Actress Tuesday Weld is 73. Actor G.W. Bailey is 72. Rock singer-musician Tim Bogert is 72. Actress Marianne Sagebrecht is 71. Country musician Jeff Cook is 67. Actor Paul Reubens is 64. Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 63. Actor Peter Stormare is 63. Actress Diana Scarwid is 61. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 60. Golfer Bernhard Langer is 59. Country singer Jeffrey Steele is 55. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 55. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is 54. Writer-producer Dean Devlin is 54. Rock musician Mike Johnson is 51. Rap musician Bobo (Cypress Hill) is 48. Country singer Colt Ford is 47. Actress Chandra Wilson is 47. Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt) is 46. Actress Sarah Chalke is 40. Actor RonReaco (correct) Lee is 40. Rapper Mase is 39. Actress-singer Demetria McKinney is 38. Actor Aaron Paul is 37. Rock musician Jon Siebels (Eve 6) is 37. Actor Shaun Weiss is 37. Contemporary Christian musician Megan Garrett (Casting Crowns) is 36. Actor Kyle Lowder is 36. Actor Patrick J. Adams is 35. Actress Karla Mosley is 35. Actress Amanda Fuller is 32. Singer Mario is 30. Actress Alexa PenaVega is 28. Actor Ellar Coltrane is 22. Actress Savannah Paige Rae is 13.
Thought for Today: “Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1908-1973).