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The Charlie Daniels Band
will headline the Tri-County
Fair at 8 p.m. July 30 in Pe-
tersburg.
The Tri-County Fair com-
bines the best of Hardy, Grant
and Pendleton counties and has
been a tradition since 1920.
Two-time Grammy nominat-
ed and five-time Dove Award-
winning Gospel music singers
Jeff and Sheri Easter will per-
form July 28. The Easters now
travel and perform with their
children.
Charleston native and come-
dy magician Dewayne Hill will
perform 8 p.m. July 31. De-
wayne has blended magic with
comedy for a family-friendly
show.
Two-time “American Idol”
participant and West Virginia
native Chase Likens will per-
form at 8 p.m. Aug. 3.
Tickets for the Charlie
Daniels concert are on sale
now; 3,000 seats are available.
For more information, visit
www.tri-countyfairwv.com.
Oil paintings to be
featured in show
The oil paintings of Belmont
artist Karen Chamblin will be
featured in the “Inspired by
the old masters” show through
Saturday at the Art Emporium
on Quarrier Street.
Chamblin, known for her ro-
mantic expression of flowers,
studied oil painting with na-
tionally recognized artists Eliz-
abeth Robbins, Laura Robb
and Dee Kirkham. She special-
izes in still life, florals, birds
and other animals. She often
uses subjects found in her gar-
den along with her extensive
collection of Bell Pottery.
For more information, call
304-345-2787.
Lewisburg concert
series continues
LEWISBURG — A free sum-
mer concert series at Carnegie
Hall’s Ivy Terrace in Lewis-
burg continues at 6:30 p.m.
July 25 with the band Mipso.
The group is rooted in the
mountains of North Carolina
and presents an old-school mu-
sic combination of fiddle, man-
dolin, bass, guitar and four
voices in close harmony. The
group mixes bluegrass ingredi-
ents with a healthy dose of
21st century energy — the
members all are May gradu-
ates from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
They have produced a full-
length album and have per-
formed at sold-out concerts.
Guests are encouraged to
bring a picnic meal and enjoy
this summer tradition. Stuart’s
Smokehouse will be on site
with refreshments for pur-
chase.
The series continues Aug. 8
with Colton Pack Band and
Aug. 22 with Washington Street
Strutters.
For more information, call
304-645-7917 or visit
www.carnegiehallwv.org.
Digital photography
workshops offered
Charleston photographer
Thorney Lieberman will offer
a series of Sunday afternoon
workshops on digital photogra-
phy.
The workshops are scheduled
for 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 21
and July 28.
Participants will learn how
to get the most out of their
cameras, be introduced to Pho-
toshop and Photoshop Ele-
ments and get tips for portrait
lighting and shooting panora-
mas. High school ages and
above are welcome. Cost is
$150; to register, call 304-342-
1842.
Arthurdale festival
honors New Deal
Arthurdale was founded in
1933 as the nation’s first New
Deal Subsistence Homestead
Community, and will host the
New Deal Festival beginning
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
The festival will allow pa-
trons to step back in time to
1933 and will feature artisan
demonstrations, historic re-en-
actors, museum tours, a craft
market, antique car show, live
music, homemade food and
children’s activities.
The New Deal Festival cele-
brates the unique history of
Arthurdale and guests can visit
Eleanor Roosevelt’s ‘Little Vil-
lage’ with specialty tour op-
tions. Guests may climb
aboard a horse-drawn wagon
and travel through Arthurdale
for an in-depth look at the his-
tory of the community. An old-
fashioned hayride is another
option. Tickets for these spe-
cialty tours are available that
day at the loading area.
Online tickets are $6 for
adults and $4 for children.
Gate tickets are $8 for adults,
and $5 for children. Children
under 5 are admitted free.
www.newdealfestival.org.
UC to have free
showing of ‘Oz’ film
Guests on the University of
Charleston’s riverfront lawn
will take a trip down the yel-
low brick road during a free
showing of “Oz the Great and
Powerful” at 9 p.m. Saturday.
Guests are invited to bring
blankets and lawn chairs to the
area closest to Eddie King
Gym. Traditional movie drinks
and snacks will be available
for purchase.
The movie features James
Franco as Oscar Diggs, a
small-time circus magician
with dubious ethics who is
hurled away from Kansas to
the Land of Oz. After meeting
three witches, Oscar is drawn
into the problems facing the
inhabitants of Oz. He puts his
magical arts to good use and
eventually transforms himself
into the powerful Wizard of Oz.
Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and
Michelle Williams also star in
PG-rated film, which runs 130
minutes.
The university is hosting the
movie night as part of the
Charleston Convention & Visi-
tor’s Bureau’s “Gateway to
Jamboree” initiative, which
has coordinated several events
around the city to welcome
visitors attending the Boy
Scouts of America National
Scout Jamboree.
For more information, email
scottcastleman@ucwv.edu or call
304-357-4716.
Sons of Everett Lilly
to perform in Milton
The Sons of Everett Lilly
are set to perform at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday at the Mountaineer
Opry House in Milton.
Tickets are $15 for adults,
$12 for seniors and $5 for chil-
dren. Concessions will also be
available for purchase.
www.mountaineeropry.com or
call 304-743-5749.
Sketches featured
at Gallery Eleven
Larry Wolfe is the featured
artist at Gallery Eleven in
Charleston this month.
The exhibit “New Direction”
shows sketches done before
some of the works and land-
scapes going in a panorama di-
rection. It also includes paint-
ings done from vantage points
on parking garages and from
the gallery’s front window.
The gallery is open from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
www.galleryeleven.com or call
304-342-0083.
Nashville guitarist
to hold seminars
Former Beckley area native
Dick McVey returns home to
conduct a series of seminars
on the music business begin-
ning July 28.
The July 28 and 29 seminars
will be held at the Blue Dia-
mond Recording Studio on
W.Va. 16 between Fayetteville
and Oak Hill. The July 30 and
31 seminars will be at the Old
Federal Courthouse, 400
Neville St., Beckley.
McVey will present the fol-
lowing seminars:
“How To Book Your Band”
— 3 to 6 p.m. July 28.
“How To Make Money With
Your Music” — 6 to 9 p.m.
July 29.
“Songwriters — What You
Need To Know” — 6 to 9 p.m.
July 30.
“Songwriter’s Critique Night”
— 6 to 9 p.m. July 31.
McVey is credited with more
than 500 appearances on the
Grand Ole Opry as a bass gui-
tarist and with handling pub-
licity for George Jones. He has
played guitar for more than 20
artists, including Trace Adkins,
Holly Dunn and Little Jimmy
Dickens.
The cost is $25 per person is
registering in advance — $30
per person at the door. A stu-
dent rate of $20 is available
for those 18 years of age and
younger.
www.dickmcvey.com.
Elkins theater
to host gospel shows
The American Mountain The-
ater in Elkins has scheduled a
series of Sunday afternoon
Southern gospel and bluegrass
shows that begin at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday and will feature the
Sexton Trio.
The shows continue through
Oct. 13 and will feature a vari-
ety of acts. The Hopper will
take the stage Aug. 18, the
Gaither Homecoming on Sept.
15 and Karen Peck & New
River on Oct. 13.
www.americanmountaintheater.
com or call 800-943-3670.
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be reached at 304-348-4834 or
john.gibb@dailymail.com.
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TODAY’S FORECAST
eARIES (March 21-April
19). You don’t have to
worry about your trade secrets
getting out.
Even if they
did, the oth-
ers wouldn’t
know what to
do with them.
It turns out
what’s rele-
vant to you
would be a
lot of work
for the others
to get into.
rTAURUS (April 20-May
20). You used to have
location envy, but you’re start-
ing to realize that you can
connect with the world you
want to be a part of from
wherever you live right now.
Use the library and the Inter-
net or, if need be, the Internet
at the library.
tGEMINI (May 21-June
21). You’ll examine the
elements that make up your
lifestyle. It’s the people you
talk to, the pictures and notes
on your wall, the errands and
habits and decor and food. . .
Bit by bit, you’re building
something beautiful.
yCANCER (June 22-July
22). Don’t be afraid to
speak your true opinion today,
especially when you sense that
you’re with a kindred spirit.
You’ll likely say the thing the
other person has always
thought, too.
uLEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
A handshake will convey
secret meaning. Beware of the
one who turns the shake so
that the top of your hand faces
the ground and his is on top.
This dominating person won’t
treat you as an equal.
iVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22). There’s wisdom in
playing it cool, but not so cool
that you don’t show emotion.
Showing your feelings, or at
least a glimpse of them, takes
confidence. People will see
you as real.
oLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
By being open to your
wilder instincts, you keep your-
self on your toes and heighten
the energy level of everyone
around you. But go too far with
this, and people get jumpy.
pSCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Someone will always
say that the ship is sinking, but
don’t be too quick to jump off.
Show a little faith in your ves-
sel. The same goes for your
idea, project or relationship.
[SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). Have you ever
heard of “decision fatigue”?
Maybe you haven’t named it
yet, but you’ve felt it every
time you leave the grocery
store after a big shop. It drains
your willpower. That’s why
fewer options are better today.
]CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). You’ve created
a steady stream of activity and
joy — or at least you thought
that’s what it was going to be.
Now it may feel more like a
hectic schedule. Cut back now.
Take it easy.
qAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). In food, bitterness is
made palatable by adding
something sweet, salty or sour.
As for internal bitterness, salty
or sour thoughts won’t balance
it at all. Go for the sweetness,
and you’ll get a delicious result.
wPISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You’ve let go of mi-
nor grudges and resentments
before, and now you’re in the
same place all over again.
Should you forgive one more
time? No. Forgive a thousand
more times.
IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTH-
DAY: A retreat in the next six
months will change your per-
spective and help you earn big,
too. You’ll act to improve your
family dynamic and influence
your kin to lead healthier lives.
What you accomplish in Sep-
tember will put you in the run-
ning for an award. An enthusi-
astic partner is part of your
success equation in September.
Your lucky numbers are: 4, 22,
19, 35 and 16.
D
EAR ABBY: Legal
marijuana is making
my best friend stupid,
boring and insipid. “Susan”
and I are in our 50s and have
been best friends off and on
since childhood. A decade
ago, we started taking better
care of our friendship be-
cause so few longtime friends
were still in
our lives.
Since then, I
have been
careful not to
be judgmen-
tal or conde-
scending be-
cause it was
the source of
past friction.
Susan is a
regular mari-
juana user, which has sapped
away all of her ambition and
curiosity. Even when she isn’t
actually high, she lacks the
cleverness and mental acuity
I have always treasured
about her. Otherwise, her life
is functional. She’s in a good
marriage, loves her pets and
enjoys her job. I think if I
said anything, it would cause
a major rift.
Should I just limit our time
together and accept this is
how things are going to be
from now on? I’m a widow
who has lost my parents and
others to illness. I have other
friends and family, but I
don’t want to lose my old
chum, even though being
around her is starting to
make me sad.
Friendship going to pot
California
DEAR F.G.T.P.: As people
grow older, long and well-es-
tablished relationships be-
come more precious. But
much as we might wish oth-
erwise, relationships do not
always remain the same. Be-
cause you are no longer re-
ceiving what you need from
your interactions with Susan,
I agree you may need to see
her less often.
In light of your long rela-
tionship, I don’t think it
would be offensive to tell her
you have noticed a change in
her and you miss the person
she used to be. However, are
you absolutely certain that
what you have observed is
caused by marijuana? If
you’re not, then consider
sharing your observation with
Susan’s husband, in case her
lack of sharpness could be
the result of another medica-
tion she’s using or a neurolog-
ical problem.
DEAR ABBY: My husband
and I have been married for
one year. Yesterday I put all
the pieces together and real-
ized he’s been cheating on
me.
I called the other woman,
and after she regained her
composure and heard she is a
mistress, she told me every-
thing. She gave me the an-
swers I desperately needed,
and I am thankful for her
honesty and — surprisingly
— her compassion.
Now I need to move for-
ward. I am crushed, and even
though he can’t explain why
he cheated, I still want to
know why. He says he’s going
to counseling, which is some-
thing I have been begging
him to do since I had a mis-
carriage last summer.
Will he change? Or should I
continue to pack the house
and move on?
Crushed
Chicago
DEAR CRUSHED: Much
depends upon the reason your
husband started cheating. If it
was a way to avoid experi-
encing the pain of the loss of
the baby, it’s possible that
with counseling the two of
you can get beyond this.
I suggest you ask to be in-
cluded in one or more of the
counseling sessions. If he
agrees, at least you will know
he is seeing a therapist. If
not, you will have to decide
whether you have had enough
loss in one year to last you a
lifetime, and whether you
still have a future together.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail
Van Buren, also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips. Write
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,
CA 90069.
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Charlie Daniels to play festival
COURTESY PHOTO
The Charlie Daniels Band will headline the Tri-County Fair, to be held July 27 to Aug. 1 in Pe-
tersburg.
■ CLAY CENTER FALL 2013:
Tickets are now on sale for the
Clay Center’s Fall 2013 perform-
ances. The shows include Diana
Ross at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 21; The
Beach Boys at 7:30 p.m. Sept.
22; Mountain Stage featuring Ani
DiFranco, Dawes, Dave Mason
and Red Baraat at 7 p.m. Sept.
29; Dennis Deyoung: the found-
ing member of Styx at 8 p.m.
Oct. 11; the Doobie Brothers at
7:30 p.m. Oct. 13; Diana Krall’s
Glad Rag Doll World Tour at 7:30
p.m. Oct. 20; “Les Miserables” at
7:30 p.m. Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9 and
2 p.m. Nov. 3 and 10; and the
all-female musical quartet Celtic
Woman at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3.
Tickets are available at
www.theclaycenter.org or by
calling 304-561-3570. Season
ticket packages are on sale now.
■ NEED TO BREATHE: The
rock band makes a stop at the
Charleston Civic Center 8 p.m.
Aug. 1. It will be joined by Dirty
Guv’nahs. Attendees must be
21 and older. The event is
standing room only and tickets
are $20. For more information,
visit www.ticketmaster.com or
call 800-745-3000.
■ “CHICAGO:”: The Char-
leston Light Opera Guild will
present Tony Award and Gram-
my Award-winning musical
Aug. 2-4 and 9-11 at the Char-
leston Civic Center Little The-
ater. For more information, call
304-545-6945.
■ AMERICAN MOUNTAIN
THEATER: The theater has
scheduled a series of Sunday
afternoon Southern gospel and
bluegrass shows through Octo-
ber. The schedule includes The
Hoppers on Aug. 18, the
Gaither Homecoming on Sept.
15 and Karen Peck & New River
on Oct. 13. All concerts start at
3:30 p.m. For more information,
visit www.americanmountain
theater.com or call 800-943-
3670.
■ DISNEY JUNIOR LIVE:
The “Disney Junior Live on Tour!
Pirate and Princess Adventure”
brings popular characters from
“Sofia the First” and “Jake and
the Never Land Pirates” to the
stage at 3 and 6 p.m. Aug. 17 at
the Charleston Municipal Audi-
torium. Tickets are $20, $25,
$35, $50 and $60 and are avail-
able at www.ticketmaster.com
or by calling 800-745-3000.
■ MATCHBOX TWENTY &
GOO GOO DOLLS: The rock
bands will bring their summer
tour to the Charleston Civic
Center Aug. 21. Tickets are $35,
$55 and $74 and are available
at www.ticketmaster.com or by
calling 800-745-3000.

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DAILY MAIL Jul. 26, 2013 3A
Today
Mostly sunny with
a high near 84
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64
68
79
77
64
219
50 50
81
77
Today’s high/
tonight’s low:
Martinsburg
85°/65°
Bluefield
81°/66°
Beckley
77°/60°
Charleston
83°/61°
Huntington
83°/62°
Parkersburg
81°/59°
Morgantown
79°/62°
Clarksburg
80°/57°
Wheeling
80°/62°
Elkins
78°/54°
Lewisburg
80°/59°
Snowshoe
67°/56°
Hi Lo Otlk
Anchorage 70 57 Cldy
Baltimore 85 68 PCldy
Boston 73 64 Rain
Chicago 78 58 Rain
Dallas-Ft Worth 99 76 Cldy
Denver 86 59 PCldy
Detroit 80 65 PCldy
Honolulu 89 74 Clr
Houston 97 77 PCldy
Indianapolis 80 64 PCldy
Kansas City 82 56 Cldy
Las Vegas 103 86 Cldy
Little Rock 86 66 Rain
Los Angeles 81 65 Cldy
Memphis 88 68 PCldy
Miami Beach 92 77 PCldy
Milwaukee 77 58 Rain
Nashville 87 66 PCldy
New Orleans 93 77 Cldy
New York City 82 67 PCldy
Oklahoma City 83 67 Rain
Orlando 92 74 Rain
Phoenix 105 87 Cldy
St Louis 83 62 Cldy
Salt Lake City 99 74 PCldy
San Diego 75 67 Cldy
San Francisco 70 55 PCldy
Seattle 80 56 Clr
Hi Lo Otlk
Akron, Ohio 79 61 PCldy
Charlotte 87 69 PCldy
Cincinnati 82 62 Clr
Cleveland 79 63 PCldy
Columbus,Ohio 82 63 Clr
Dayton 80 62 PCldy
Daytona Beach 90 72 Rain
Greensboro,N.C. 84 67 PCldy
Lexington 83 64 PCldy
Louisville 84 66 PCldy
Norfolk. 82 70 PCldy
Philadelphia 85 68 PCldy
Pittsburgh 79 62 PCldy
Raleigh-Durham 86 66 PCldy
Richmond 86 68 PCldy
Washington,D.C. 85 70 PCldy
Youngstown 80 60 PCldy
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A 30 percent
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Mostly sunny with
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Almanac
Yesterday’s high 79
Record high 106, 1934
Normal high 85
Yesterday’s low 57
Record low 51, 1947
Normal low 66
Precipitation 0.00”
Total for month 6.36”
Total for year 28.91”
Sunrise 6:23 a.m.
Sunset 8:43 p.m.
Furniture company
sticks with Deen
HIGH POINT, N.C. — The
North Carolina-based home
furnishings company that
markets Paula Deen’s furni-
ture line is sticking with the
embattled celebrity chef.
The High Point Enterprise
reports that Universal Fur-
niture International will con-
tinue to market the Paula
Deen Home Collection.
Deen has been under fire
since the revelation earlier
this year of a legal deposi-
tion in which Deen admitted
under oath to having used
the N-word. Many companies
have dropped Deen since the
deposition became public.
Jeff Scheffer with Univer-
sal Furniture says he feels
bad for Deen. He says the
Deen he knows isn’t the one
who has been portrayed in
the media recently.
Scheffer wrote retailers
saying his company accepts
Deen’s apologies for her pre-
vious comments.
Gun group collects
money for shooter
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An
Ohio firearms group has
raised more than $12,000 to
buy guns or a security sys-
tem for George Zimmerman,
the former neighborhood
watch volunteer who was re-
cently acquitted of all
charges in the fatal shooting
of unarmed teen Trayvon
Martin in Florida.
Ken Hanson of the Buck-
eye Firearms Foundation
says the group sent Zimmer-
man a check for $12,150.37
Tuesday. He says the
fundraising effort was
launched because the group
believes Zimmerman’s gun
rights are being violated.
The U.S. Department of
Justice has taken all the evi-
dence from the trial, includ-
ing the gun that killed Mar-
tin, as part of a civil rights
investigation.
An attorney for Zimmer-
man has said his client is
getting threats since the ver-
dict earlier this month and
has been carrying a weapon.
Train derails, spills
ethanol at Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. — Firefight-
ers in Florida are working
with CSX Transportation of-
ficials to upright 10 toppled
train cars that derailed at
the Port of Tampa.
CSX spokesman Gary
Sease told the Tampa Bay
Times about 4,500 gallons of
ethanol spilled onto the
ground when the 81-car
train derailed early Thurs-
day. No one was injured.
Sease says the ethanol was
contained to the immediate
area.
Officials say the train was
heading to the port from
Chicago. The cause of the
derailment was not immedi-
ately known. CSX officials
are investigating.
Authorities restricted ac-
cess to the port while Tam-
pa Fire Rescue crews
sprayed foam onto the spill.
Prison population
down for third year
WASHINGTON — The gov-
ernment says the U.S. prison
population dropped for the
third straight year in 2012.
The Bureau of Justice Sta-
tistics says there were more
than 1.5 million prison in-
mates last year. That’s a drop
of 1.7 percent from 2011.
The prison population hit
a high of more than 1.6 mil-
lion inmates in 2009.
Despite the overall decline,
the federal prison population
actually rose by nearly 1,500
inmates last year. The state
population dropped by nearly
30,000 inmates.
California is responsible
for most of the decrease in
the number of state inmates.
That’s because of a 2011 law
sending non-serious, non-vio-
lent or non-sex offenders to
county jails.
Nine states saw their
prison populations drop by
more than 1,000 — Califor-
nia, Texas, North Carolina,
Colorado, Arkansas, New
York, Florida, Virginia and
Maryland.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The death toll in a passenger train crash in northwestern Spain rose on Thursday after the train jumped the tracks on a curvy
stretch just before arriving in the northwestern shrine city of Santiago de Compostela, a judicial official said.
■ Anthony Weiner says
he exchanged messages
with as many as three
women after resignation
By JONATHAN LEMIRE
and JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK — Anthony Wein-
er said Thursday that he’d traded
racy messages with as many as
three women since similar sex-
ting forced him out of Congress.
But as he tried to tamp down
questions about his behavior, a
poll suggested the new disclo-
sures were taking a toll on his
mayoral prospects and the
House’s top Democrat excoriated
him.
Facing a third day of renewed
queries and criticism of his con-
duct as he continued campaign-
ing, the married Democrat also
said he supposed he’d had sexual-
ly charged exchanges with six to
10 women while serving in Con-
gress; he’d said previously there
were about six.
Weiner, the former congress-
man who resigned in 2011 after
the first batch of sexts surfaced,
is running for New York mayor
and had been competitive in most
polls of the Democratic primary
race until the latest furor over
his behavior began this week
when the gossip website The
Dirty posted explicit messages
that a woman said she and Wein-
er sent each other starting in July
2012.
The scandal got seamier
Thursday when The Dirty posted
an unredacted crotch shot that it
said Weiner sent to a woman last
year.
Weiner said Thursday he was
still “working with people” to get
help dealing with his penchant for
X-rated online flirting, but he dis-
puted any suggestion that it’s an
addiction.
“I don’t believe that it is. The
people that I am working with
don’t believe that it is,” he said as
reporters questioned him after a
campaign event.
“The point is that it’s behind
me,” he said. “I have worked
through these things.”
He admitted his sexting habit
had extended into last year, as he
and his wife strove to create a
public image of a healing mar-
riage after his 2011 resignation
from Congress.
Before the revelations, Weiner
had been near the top of most
polls gauging the Democratic
mayoral primary race. But a new
NBC 4 New York/Wall Street
Journal/Marist poll showed he
had fallen behind City Council
Speaker Christine Quinn in the
crowded Democratic field.
“New York City Democrats
were willing to give Anthony
Weiner a second chance but are
reluctant to excuse his behavior
now,” Marist College polling di-
rector Lee Miringoff said in an
analysis of the results.
Still, Democratic voters are
roughly evenly split on whether
he should drop out of the race,
and on whether his digital dal-
liances will affect their votes.
Candidate
revises
sexting
estimate
■ In an ABC interview,
juror B29 says she owes
an apology to the parents
of Trayvon Martin
ORLANDO, Fla. — The sec-
ond juror to speak publicly
about George Zimmerman’s tri-
al told ABC News in an inter-
view made public Thursday
that she feels the neighborhood
watch volunteer got away with
murder for fatally shooting
Trayvon Martin. But she said
there wasn’t enough evidence to
convict him under Florida law.
Juror B29 told Robin Roberts
that she favored convicting
Zimmerman of second-degree
murder when deliberations be-
gan by the six-member, all-
women jury.
“I was the juror that was go-
ing to give them a hung jury,”
she said. “I fought to the end.”
But by the second day of de-
liberating, she realized there
wasn’t enough proof to convict
the 29-year-old Zimmerman of
a crime.
“George Zimmerman got
away with murder, but you
can’t get away from God,” she
said. “And at the end of the
day, he’s going to have a lot of
questions and answers he has
to deal with.”
Juror B29 is the second pan-
elist to go public with what
went on during deliberations
earlier this month. She allowed
her face to be shown and used
her first name, Maddy, unlike
Juror B37, who was inter-
viewed on CNN last week with
her face obscured.
Four jurors, not including the
one interviewed by ABC, is-
sued a statement last week
saying the opinions expressed
by Juror B37 to CNN’s Ander-
son Cooper did not represent
their views.
That juror said the actions of
Zimmerman and Martin both
led to the teenager’s fatal
shooting, but that Zimmerman
didn’t actually break the law.
Juror B29 also told ABC that
she didn’t believe race was an
issue at the trial. Though the
judge so far has refused to re-
lease the names or biographi-
cal information about the ju-
rors, B29 said she was 36 years
old and Puerto Rican.
She said she feels like she
owes Martin’s parents an apol-
ogy.
“I felt like I let a lot of peo-
ple down, and I’m thinking to
myself, Did I go the right
way? Did I go the wrong
way?’ ” she said. “As much as
we were trying to find this
man guilty . . . They give you a
booklet that basically tells you
the truth, and the truth is that
there was nothing that we
could do about it.”
Juror cites lack of evidence
Juror B29 spoke publicly since the acquittal of George Zim-
merman. She and her attorney sat down with Robin Roberts,
left, on “Good Morning America,” in New York on Thursday.
■ Officials say dozens
are dead, nearly 100
hospitalized after a train
derailed in Spanish city
By HERNAN MUNOZ
SANTIAGO DE COM-
POSTELA, Spain — A Spanish
train that hurtled off the rails
and smashed into a security
wall as it rounded a bend was
going so fast that carriages tum-
bled off the tracks like dominos,
killing 80 people and maiming
dozens more, according to eye-
witness accounts and video
footage obtained Thursday.
An Associated Press analysis of
video images suggests the train
may have been traveling at twice
the speed limit, or more, along
that curved stretch of track.
Spain’s government said two
probes have been launched into
the train’s derailment Wednes-
day night on its approach to this
Christian festival city in north-
west Spain, where planned cele-
brations in honor of one of Je-
sus’ disciples gave way to a liv-
ing nightmare.
The regional government in
Galicia confirmed that police
planned to question the 52-year-
old train driver, in Santiago de
Compostela’s main hospital with
unspecified injuries, as both a
witness and as a possible sus-
pect, but cautioned that possible
faults in safety equipment were
also being investigated.
The Interior Ministry raised
the death toll to 80 in what was
Spain’s deadliest train wreck in
four decades. The Galician gov-
ernment said 94 others re-
mained hospitalized in six re-
gional hospitals, 31 of them —
including four children — in
critical condition.
The U.S. State Department said
one American was killed in the
crash and five others were in-
jured. State Department spokes-
woman Marie Harf said those
numbers were “likely to change”
and declined to elaborate.
“Today the American people
grieve with our Spanish friends,
who are in our thoughts and
prayers,” President Barack Oba-
ma said in a statement.
Eyewitness accounts backed
by security-camera footage of
the moment of disaster suggest-
ed that the eight-carriage train
was going too fast as it tried to
turn left underneath a road
bridge. The train company
Renfe said 218 passengers and
five crew members were on
board. Spanish officials said the
speed limit on that section of
track is 50 miles per hour.
The Interior Ministry, respon-
sible for law and order, ruled
out terrorism as a cause.
While sections of the Spanish
press pointed an accusatory fin-
ger at the train driver, Spanish
authorities and railway safety
experts cautioned that a fault in
systems designed to keep trains
traveling at safe speeds could be
to blame.
Renfe identified the driver,
Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, as
a 30-year employee of the state
rail company who became an
assistant driver in 2000 and a
fully qualified driver in 2003.
The company said Amo took
control of the train from a sec-
ond driver about 65 miles south
of Santiago de Compostela.
It was Spain’s deadliest train
accident since 1972, when a
train collided with a bus in
southwest Spain, killing 86 peo-
ple and injuring 112.
State-owned train operator
Renfe said the crash happened
at 8:41 p.m. about 2.5 miles
south of Santiago de Com-
postela.
Renfe said it and Adif, another
state-owned company that man-
ages tracks, signals and other
railway infrastructure, were co-
operating with a judge appointed
to investigate the accident.
The maximum Alvia speed is
155 mph on tracks made espe-
cially for the AVEs, and they
travel at a maximum speed of
137 mph on normal gauge rails.
High speed to blame for crash
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chance of showers,
mostly cloudy with
a high near 84.
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tonight’s low:
Martinsburg
87°/70°
Bluefield
79°/66°
Beckley
78°/66°
Charleston
83°/70°
Huntington
84°/70°
Parkersburg
83°/67°
Morgantown
79°/67°
Clarksburg
82°/67°
Wheeling
80°/65°
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Lewisburg
78°/65°
Snowshoe
71°/61°
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Anchorage 61 55 Rain
Baltimore 87 73 Rain
Boston 77 68 Rain
Chicago 81 62 Cldy
Dallas-Ft Worth 102 79 Cldy
Denver 79 55 Cldy
Detroit 82 61 Cldy
Honolulu 86 73 Clr
Houston 99 77 Clr
Indianapolis 83 64 Cldy
Kansas City 79 64 Rain
Las Vegas 98 78 Clr
Little Rock 96 75 PCldy
Los Angeles 77 62 PCldy
Memphis 94 78 Cldy
Miami Beach 89 79 Cldy
Milwaukee 78 60 Cldy
Nashville 87 72 Rain
New Orleans 92 77 Rain
New York City 80 72 Rain
Oklahoma City 90 71 Cldy
Orlando 93 76 PCldy
Phoenix 106 82 Clr
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Salt Lake City 94 70 PCldy
San Diego 71 63 PCldy
San Francisco 68 55 Cldy
Seattle 80 60 PCldy
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Akron, Ohio 82 62 Cldy
Charlotte 87 71 Cldy
Cincinnati 86 68 Rain
Cleveland 81 65 Cldy
Columbus,Ohio 85 67 Cldy
Dayton 82 65 Cldy
Daytona Beach 90 76 PCldy
Greensboro,N.C. 87 71 Cldy
Lexington 83 71 Rain
Louisville 85 73 Rain
Norfolk. 89 75 Cldy
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Richmond 91 74 Cldy
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A 50 percent
chance of showers,
mostly cloudy with
a high near 84.
Sunday
Mostly sunny with
a high near 83.
Monday
Partly sunny with
a high near 83.
Tuesday
A 40 percent
chance of showers,
partly sunny with
a high near 82.
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Hazy and humid today. Scattered
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evening. Highs in the mid-80s.
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Normal high 85
Record low 50, 1903
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Precipitation 0.01”
Sunrise 6:35 a.m.
Sunset 8:28 p.m.
Snake-handlers to
get reality show
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
Serpent-handling preachers
in Tennessee and Kentucky
are getting a television real-
ity show.
The Tennessean reported
National Geographic Chan-
nel will carry “Snake Salva-
tion,” which debuts Sept. 10
at 8 p.m. CDT.
The preachers are Andrew
Hamblin of Tabernacle
Church of God in LaFollette
Tenn., and Jamie Coots of
the Full Gospel Tabernacle
in Jesus Name church of
Middlesboro, Ky.
Coots said the TV show
will feature scenes from
worship services where
snakes are handled as well
as church members’ efforts
to live out their faith daily.
Executive producer
Matthew Testa said 16
episodes are planned.
N.Y. man pleads
in smuggling case
NEW YORK — A New
York City antiques dealer
has pleaded guilty to smug-
gling artifacts made from
rhinoceros horns from the
U.S. to China.
U.S. Attorney Preet
Bharara says Qiang Wang,
known as Jeffrey Wang,
pleaded guilty to wildlife
smuggling conspiracy Wed-
nesday in Manhattan federal
court. Bharara says Wang
smuggled Asian artifacts
made from rhino horns and
ivory from New York to
Hong Kong and China in vio-
lation of wildlife trafficking
laws. Rhinos are an endan-
gered species.
Wang was arrested in
February. The 34-year-old
faces up to five years in
prison when he is sentenced
in October.
Bharara says Wang faked
U.S. Customs documents on
packages containing the arti-
facts.
Marine demoted
after guilty plea
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. —
A Marine Corps sniper cap-
tured on a YouTube video
urinating on the corpses of
Taliban fighters in
Afghanistan is being reduced
in rank after pleading guilty
at a court-martial.
Marine Corps spokesman
Col. Sean Gibson says Sgt.
Robert W. Richards of Semi-
nole, Fla., was tried Wednes-
day at Camp Lejeune and
was reduced one rank to
corporal.
The video got internation-
al attention. It shows four
Marines in full combat gear
urinating on the bodies of
three Afghans in July 2011.
Richards faced a number
of charges including derelic-
tion of duty and violating or-
ders. Military prosecutors
said Richards had filmed
himself and others urinating
on the corpses.
Gibson says Richards’ sen-
tence means eight Marines
have been punished for their
involvement in the incident
through administrative pun-
ishments or courts-martial.
Two indicted on
conspiracy charges
BOSTON — Two friends
of the suspected Boston
Marathon bomber have been
indicted on obstruction con-
spiracy charges.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Aza-
mat Tazhayakov are accused
of trying to dispose of evi-
dence from Dzhokhar Tsar-
naev’s dorm room.
Authorities say they later
found some of the items in a
New Bedford landfill.
The two 19-year-olds have
been detained since they
were initially charged in
May. If convicted, they face
up to 20 years in prison.
An attorney for
Tazhayakov says his client
did nothing wrong and that
he has tried for the last sev-
eral months to persuade au-
thorities to drop the charges.
He says he and his client
both agree that authorities
are on a “witch hunt.”
Kadyrbayev’s attorney
didn’t immediately return a
message for comment.
■ Engineer from
Minnesota says he’ll
quit his job after winning
By STEVE KARNOWSKI
ROSEVILLE, Minn. — A 45-
year-old suburban Minneapolis
man wasted little time Thursday
in claiming one-third of a $448
million Powerball jackpot, com-
ing forward only hours after re-
alizing he had won to reveal his
good fortune to the world.
Paul White, a project engineer
from Ham Lake, said at a news
conference at Minnesota State
Lottery headquarters that his
“significant other” called him
Thursday morning to say one of
three winning tickets for Wed-
nesday night’s drawing had been
sold in Minnesota. The other two
were sold in New Jersey, but
those who bought them hadn’t
come forward yet.
White said he checked the 10
tickets he had bought and real-
ized he had nailed all six num-
bers on one of them. The di-
vorced father of two teenagers
said the ensuing hours had been a
blur.
“It’s just surreal at this point. I
don’t think you guys can under-
stand — it’s crazy. No worries
anymore. It’s crazy,” he said.
White said he worked for a
Minneapolis electrical contrac-
tor that had worked on major
projects around the area includ-
ing the Twins’ Target Field and
the University of Minnesota’s
TCF Bank Stadium. He said he’s
help his company finish a few
things up, but that after that his
working days would be over.
“I think a lot of good things
are going to come out of this for
not only my family and friends
but for random people,” he said.
“I don’t want to work for any-
body else for the rest of my life
for a paycheck.”
The other two winning tickets
were sold in New Jersey, includ-
ing at a store in Little Egg Har-
bor, which is still recovering
from the damage wrought by Su-
perstorm Sandy, which made
landfall just a few miles away.
But even if the winner wasn’t
someone devastated by the
storm, the community will ben-
efit from the jackpot.
Phil Weber, director of the
Acme Markets store where one
of the winning tickets were sold,
said Thursday that the store
would donate $10,000 in gift
cards to local charities. Weber
said some of the store’s employ-
ees are still out of their homes
more than nine months after the
storm. The store itself has been
making donations since Sandy,
Weber said.
The other ticket was sold in a
Super Stop & Shop store in South
Brunswick, N.J.
The winning numbers drawn
Wednesday night were: 05, 25, 30,
58, 59 and Powerball 32.
Each winning ticket was worth
$86 million before taxes, or $58.3
million after taxes, if taken in a
lump sum. They are worth $149.4
million over 30 years if the win-
ners choose the annuity option.
Man claims part of jackpot
Paul White, of Ham Lake, Minn. and his girlfriend Kim Van-
Rees, hold up the winnings after he was announced as one of
the winners of the $448.4 million Powerball Jackpot, Thursday,
in Minneapolis.
■ Four killed, four more
wounded in what police
call a domestic attack
By URIEL J. GARCIA
DALLAS — A former teacher
who moonlight-
ed as a hip-hop
dancer enter-
taining NBA
crowds has
been arrested in
the fatal shoot-
ing of four peo-
ple in two Dal-
las-area homes,
and police were
investigating Thursday if he used
a grenade or other explosive in
one of the attacks.
Investigators arrested Erbie
Bowser, 44, on Wednesday night
at the second crime scene, DeSo-
to police Cpl. Melissa Franks said.
Charges are pending, she said.
Four people were also wound-
ed in the attacks. Franks said
the attacks were a domestic in-
cident and that investigators
were trying to determine how
Bowser knew the victims.
The first shooting took place
at a house in southwest Dallas
late Wednesday and the second
happened about 15 minutes later
in DeSoto, some 10 miles away,
Dallas police Sgt. Warren
Mitchell said.
Police were called around
10:30 p.m. to the home in Dallas
where they found four gunshot
victims. A mother and her
daughter were killed and a 14-
year-old boy and a 17-year-old
girl were wounded. A relative
discovered the bodies.
The gunman then fled to DeS-
oto, where he is suspected of
killing two women. Two boys,
ages 11 and 13, were shot but
survived that attack, Franks said.
A neighbor in DeSoto, Tommy
Johnson, said he heard a loud
boom Wednesday night coming
from the direction of the home
where the victims were later
found.
“We thought it was coming
from upstairs, because the kids
are always upstairs making
noise,” Johnson said. “I went up
and asked, Did y’all hear any-
thing?’ and one of my daughters
said it came from outside. So I
peeped out the front and that’s
when I saw a bunch of officers
walking down the sidewalk and
about 10 houses up.”
The Dallas Mavericks said
Thursday that Bowser was a
dancer for the team, performing
with the Dallas Mavs ManiAACs.
The team describes the dance
troupe as “beefy men” who en-
tertain fans during games.
He worked for nearly a
decade as a special education
teacher in the Dallas suburb of
Mesquite. School district spokes-
woman Laura Jobe said Thurs-
day he resigned in 2010 “on good
terms.” He also worked for a
couple of seasons as a football
coach at West Mesquite High
School, she said.
Man arrested in Texas shootings
Law enforcement investigators work the house of a fatal shooting Thursday morning, in DeSoto, Texas. A man has been ar-
rested in the fatal shooting of four people in two Dallas-area homes, just minutes apart, and police are investigating if he used
a grenade or other explosive in one of the attacks.
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White claim his winnings.
By AHMED AL-HAJ
SANAA, Yemen — Two U.S.
drone strikes killed a total of
nine suspected al-Qaida mili-
tants Thursday, a Yemeni mili-
tary official said, the sixth and
seventh such attacks in less than
two weeks as the Arab nation is
on high alert against terrorism.
The uptick in drone strikes sig-
nals that the Obama administra-
tion is stepping up its efforts to
target Yemen’s al-Qaida offshoot
— al-Qaida in the Arabian Penin-
sula — amid fears of attacks af-
ter the interception of a message
between its leader and the global
leader of the terror network.
Since July 27, drone attacks
have killed 31 suspected mili-
tants, according to an Associat-
ed Press count provided by
Yemeni security officials.
The Yemeni military official
said the first drone attack killed
six alleged militants in central
Marib province, while the second
killed three more in the al-Ayoon
area of Hadramawt province in
the south. Both airstrikes target-
ed cars, added the official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity
because he was not authorized to
talk to the media.
The high alert in Yemen came
after authorities revealed an al-
Qaida plot to target foreign em-
bassies and international ship-
ping lanes in the Red Sea.
The U.S. and Britain evacuat-
ed diplomatic staff this week af-
ter learning of a threatened at-
tack that prompted Washington
to close temporarily 19 diplo-
matic posts in the Middle East
and Africa.
While the United States ac-
knowledges its drone program in
Yemen, it does not confirm indi-
vidual strikes or release infor-
mation on how many have been
carried out.
In the capital of Sanaa, an As-
sociated Press reporter said a
drone buzzed overhead for hours
Wednesday and early Thursday,
leaving residents anxiously won-
dering about its target and
whether al-Qaida militants were
about to strike in the city.
Thursday’s first reported
drone attack hit a car carrying
the suspected militants in the
district of Wadi Ubaidah, about
109 miles east of Sanaa.
Badly burned bodies lay be-
side their vehicle, according to
the official. Five of the dead
were Yemenis, while the sixth
was believed to be of another
Arab nationality, he said.
Yemeni authorities said Wed-
nesday they uncovered an al-
Qaida plot to target foreign em-
bassies in Sanaa and interna-
tional shipping in the Red Sea.
A U.S. intelligence official and
a Mideast diplomat have told
the AP that the embassy clo-
sures were triggered by the in-
terception of a secret message
between al-Qaida chief Ayman
al-Zawahri and Nasser al-
Wahishi, the leader of the
Yemen-based al-Qaida in the
Arabian Peninsula, about plans
for a major attack.
Drones
kill nine
al-Qaida
militants

would love to finish in less
than 2 hours; his best time
ever was 1 hour, 50 minutes
and 56 seconds back in 1987 or
‘88.
Paul has a more modest goal
of finishing between two and a
half hours and two hours and
45 minutes.
“I just want to finish,” Paul
said. “I’m still learning pace.”
He readily turns to his dad,
who has logged more than
65,000 miles running, for ad-
vice.
“Every time we talk it’s
‘How far did you run?’” Paul
said. “His running has fueled
my interest.”
Paul said he’s grown to love
running so much that he rises
at 4:30 a.m. to fit it in before
he heads from his home in
Fayette County to the Charles-
ton area, where he works for a
home medical device company.
“The other day I was late for
work because I ran so far,” he
said.
A testament to how far he’s
come in such a short time
came during a recent visit to a
client’s home to help with her
oxygen tank.
“I had set her up four or five
months ago and I told her I
was the one who had done it.
She was like, ‘No, it wasn’t
you. His name was Paul and
he was a big boy.’”
As they discuss running,
something occurs to Dennis.
“Have you ever thought
about doing a marathon? I’ve
never asked you that,” he tells
Paul.
As a matter of fact, Paul
has his sights set on a Hunting-
ton marathon in November.
Contact writer Monica Orosz at
monica@dailymail.com or 304-
348-4830.
Runners
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TODAY’S FORECAST
eARIES (March 21-April
19). If you stubbornly
cling to your own ideas, you
won’t know
what anyone
else thinks.
Don’t worry.
No one can
change your
opinion with-
out your per-
mission. Lock
it up in a sa-
cred part of
your mind
while you con-
sider other sides.
rTAURUS (April 20-May
20). You have a flair for
communication. It starts before
you ever fully arrive on the
scene. People will see you com-
ing and will begin to build a
sense of curiosity and expecta-
tion.
tGEMINI (May 21-June
21). Writing and trans-
portation are themes of the day
that fit together well. Through
writing, you can transport your-
self and others to a different
headspace. And physical trans-
portation will give you some-
thing to write about.
yCANCER (June 22-July
22). Maturity doesn’t al-
ways equal restraint. Some-
times it’s more evolved to act
on an impulse than to hold it
back. Much depends on the situ-
ation. You’ll read it well today
and act accordingly.
uLEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You know all those glam-
orous, charismatic visionaries
you admire? Well, you’re be-
coming more like them every
day. Keep moving in the direc-
tion of your idols, and you’ll
soon achieve a measure of suc-
cess that has personal signifi-
cance.
iVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Strong-willed people are
sometimes hard on the people
around them, but they often
have other qualities that more
than make up for their tendency
to be difficult. You’ll experience
this in some way today.
oLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You have guts today, so
do what you love. Someone will
enjoy what you produce and get
behind you. Others won’t get it.
But you don’t need everyone on
your side. The most important
person to have on your side is
you.
pSCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Your sunny mood has
you coming at every problem
with optimism. You’ll assist
anyone who needs it. If you
keep lifting others up this way,
pretty soon everyone will be
walking on higher ground.
[SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). What you need
is willpower and the ability to
overcome adversity — not be-
cause times are hard, but be-
cause they are not. Sometimes
it’s harder to stay on track
when life gets a bit too easy.
]CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). Action will
teach you. It of course will be
helpful to think about how
things might turn out before
you embark on a journey. But
don’t forget the part where you
really do embark, because ac-
tion is your teacher.
qAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). When you meet peo-
ple blessed with deep levels of
graciousness and sweetness, it
makes you want to try harder.
You can be sure that people are
thinking this when they en-
counter you today, too.
wPISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Some people want to
know you. Others want to know
what you think of them — that
is, if it’s good news. This is the
difference between small and
great minds.
IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTH-
DAY: Direct your listening
skills inward, because your intu-
ition will lead you out of bad
situations and into good ones.
September brings a special per-
son into your life. October
shows you where the money is,
and December improves the
family dynamic. Financial shifts
in February inspire new al-
liances. Scorpio and Sagittarius
people adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 4, 2, 33, 49 and 14.
D
EAR ABBY: My father-
in-law died two weeks
ago. The services were
beautiful. Many people sent
flowers, but one arrangement
— a bouquet
of white flow-
ers — arrived
anonymously.
I didn’t think
much about it,
just that
someone
wanted to ex-
press sympa-
thy. Now my
mother-in-law
has become
frantic with concern about the
flowers. She sobs over not
knowing who sent them and —
we think — suspects they came
from an old or not-so-old flame.
My in-laws were married for
more than 50 years, and it is
heartbreaking to see her com-
pound her grief with these
thoughts. We have suggested
various reasons that someone
might have sent the flowers
anonymously, but she refuses to
accept them.
Is sending flowers this way
unusual? Or are there good rea-
sons to do it? For the record, is
it even good manners to send
flowers to a funeral anony-
mously? Or is my mother-in-
law’s reaction normal?
Grieving
Georgetown, Texas
DEAR GRIEVING: Your
mother-in-law is grieving. She
is fragile right now, and possi-
bly not thinking straight. A card
may have been sent with the
bouquet that was somehow lost
in transit.
That she was married to her
husband for 50 years and now
suspects he was unfaithful be-
cause of a bouquet of flowers
at the man’s funeral is a sad
reflection on their marriage.
She should discuss this with her
spiritual adviser, if she has one,
or a grief therapist.
DEAR ABBY: I am in my
early 30s and have been mar-
ried for five years. My husband
and I decided to have a baby,
and five months ago I found out
I was pregnant. When I told my
mom the great news, she was-
n’t happy to hear it. She doesn’t
care. All she cares about is how
“fat” I’m going to get.
My mother never wants to
talk about anything baby-relat-
ed. If I complain about an ache
or pain, she quickly says, “It’s
because you’re fat!”
It hurts me so much that she
treats me and her future grand-
child this way. I almost feel like
having this baby was a mistake.
Please help me. I don’t know
what to do anymore.
Almost in tears
Ohio
DEAR ALMOST IN TEARS:
Stop depending so much on
your mother’s approval and
you’ll have a happier pregnan-
cy. The person you should talk
to about your weight is your
OB/GYN. If your weight is
such that it might affect your
health or your baby’s, you need
to know it ASAP. Your doctor
can refer you to a nutritionist if
you need guidance about your
diet.
Your relationship with your
mother doesn’t appear to be
particularly positive. As you
grow closer to motherhood, talk
more with your girlfriends, talk
more to your husband and less
to your mother.
DEAR ABBY: I don’t go to
nightclubs often, so I’m curious
as to what the protocol is for
this. Sometimes, in the ladies’
room, there is a woman there
with toiletries, gum, cosmetics,
etc. Before you can get your
own, she puts soap in your hand
and gives you a paper towel.
There is a bowl on the counter
for people to leave tips. The
club manager says she isn’t an
employee of the club, but sim-
ply looking to make tips. I un-
derstand this.
My question: Am I supposed
to tip her just once for the
evening, or each time I use the
ladies’ room?
Inquisitive clubber
Florida
DEAR CLUBBER: Tip the
attendant each time you use the
bathroom and she hands you the
soap and towel — the standard
rate is 50 cents to a dollar.
However, if you tip the person
generously the first time, you
shouldn’t feel obligated to do it
again if you need to return.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail
Van Buren, also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA
90069.
DearAbby
Flowers meant to ease
grief causing heartache
Horoscope
Jeanne
Phillips
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DAILY MAIL Aug. 9, 2013 2D
FOUR DAYS OF HOMECOMING
FUN AND FESTIVITIES!
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Tuckwiller said adult farm-
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around the country to show
their animals.
Farmers welcome visitors
and questions and the fair will
again feature a popular exhibit
from the Perkins family farm,
which operates the dairy
birthing center each year. Visi-
tors who are around at the
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“Mr. Perkins told me he has
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Fair highlights
When: Today through Saturday,
Aug. 17
Where: State fairgrounds at Fairlea
(south of Lewisburg)
General admission: $10 for those
13 and up, $8 for children 6-12
and free for children 5 and under.
Tickets to carnival rides and some
concerts are sold separately; Tick-
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Today
10 a.m. West Virginia’s Strongest Moun-
taineer Contest
11 a.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races
Noon All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show
12:30 p.m. Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show
12:30 p.m. Comedic Hypnotist
2 p.m. All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
3 p.m. The One-Man Band
8 p.m. Concert with Tate Stevens
10 p.m. Fireworks
Saturday
10 a.m. Open horse show
11 a.m. Half-Bad Bluegrass Band
1:30 p.m. Rise Above Bike Swing
3:30 p.m. Comedic Hypnotist
5 p.m. Sheep shearing demo
5:30 p.m. Half-Bad Bluegrass Band
8 p.m. Concert with Casting Crowns
Sunday
11 a.m. Appalachian Hoedowners
3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races
6 p.m. Concert with Austin Mahone &
Coco Jones
7 p.m. Comedic Hypnotist
Monday
11 a.m. concert with Jonathan Buckner &
Chosen Road
1 p.m. Harness races
3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races
8 p.m. FMX Championship MotoCross
Tuesday
9 a.m. Angus Cattle Show
5 p.m. Junior horse and pony show
8 p.m. Concert with Josh Turner and
Dustin Lynch
Wednesday
9 a.m. Simmental Cattle Show
1 p.m. One-Man Band
5 p.m. Farm show halter classes
8 p.m. Concert with Eli Young Band and
Love and Theft
Thursday
9 a.m. Limousin Cattle Show
1 p.m. Dairy Goat Costume Contest
2:30 p.m. Concert with Sound Express
& The Legacy
3 p.m. Suffolk Sheep Show
5:30 p.m. Concert with Sound Express
& The Legacy
8 p.m. Concert with Thompson Square
& Randy Houser
Friday, Aug. 16
10 a.m. Hampshire Sheep Show
11 a.m. Concert with Michael Christopher
3:30 p.m. Comedic hypnotist
5 p.m. Boer goat showmanship
5:30 p.m. Concert with Michael Christo-
pher
8 p.m. Concert with Theory of a Deadman
Saturday, Aug. 17
11 a.m. Concert with Sons of Everett Lilly
12:30 p.m. Rowdy Raptor Show
1 p.m. Jersey cattle show
4 p.m. Open horse show
6:30 p.m. Rise Above Bike Swing
8 p.m. Concert with Buckin’ B Bull Ride
and Parmalee
Woman’s leg inspires others
■ St. Louis woman
builds prosthetic leg from
Legos, video goes viral
By JIM SALTER
ST. LOUIS — As a child,
Christina Stephens filled her
parents’ basement with Lego
castles and pirate ships. When
she put her Lego-building skills
to work last month making a
prosthetic leg out of the chil-
dren’s toy, she became an In-
ternet sensation.
Stephens, 31, lost her left foot
in an accident this winter and
decided to combine her clinical
expertise as an occupational
therapist with her own experi-
ence of losing a limb to help
others dealing with amputa-
tions.
Stephens, who is small, ath-
letic and seemingly always up-
beat, began a series of YouTube
videos and a Facebook page un-
der the name “AmputeeOT,” in
which she addresses issues that
many new amputees struggle
with. Among them are how to
swim with and without a pros-
thetic, deal with phantom limb
pain, and clean an amputation
site and prosthetic liner.
But it was her construction of
a prosthetic leg out of hundreds
of Lego pieces that made her
an Internet star. The YouTube
video has more than 1.3 million
views since it was posted in
early July.
“I thought my Legos video
had some viral potential but I
had no idea it would explode
like it did,” she said.
Stephens has a knack for
building and fixing things. In
January, she was changing the
brake pads on her Prius in her
St. Louis garage when the car
slipped off its jack stand and
landed on her left foot.
Her husband, Christopher,
used a hydraulic jack to lift the
car off her and then rushed her
to the hospital. She figured the
foot was probably broken, but
no worse.
“It didn’t look that bad,”
Stephens recalled.
Within weeks, though, her
toes and other parts of her foot
turned gray, then black. Her
surgeon believed he could save
the foot, but there was no guar-
antee it would be functional,
Stephens said.
“He wanted to do a partial
foot amputation with multiple
skin grafts over my foot and
ankle, possible fusions,” she re-
called.
In addition to her work as a
therapist, Stephens is a clinical
researcher at Washington Uni-
versity. So rather than fret over
her loss, she turned to research
to decide if she’d be better off
with a damaged foot or without
the foot. The foot was numb yet
painful, and knowing the pain
may not go away if she kept
the foot, she chose amputation.
The foot was removed Feb. 26.
She was joking with col-
leagues in her research lab
about the kinds of prosthetic
leg she should use — a pirate
peg and zombie leg were men-
tioned. One colleague joked that
she should build one out of Le-
gos.
She liked the idea of putting
her childhood skills to the test,
and she still had all of the Lego
that her mother had amassed
over the years, mostly through
yard sales.
It took Stephens about two
hours to shoot the time-lapse
video in her south St. Louis
home. In it, she constructs a
colorful prosthetic leg, albeit
one of no practical use: When
she stands up on it, the foot
crumbles.
The Lego leg wasn’t meant to
be functional. “The video is sort
of a metaphor for rebuilding
your life after a disability,”
Stephens said. “But you can’t
really walk on it.”
The video was an instant hit
and has garnered widespread
media attention, helping her get
the word out about her other
video tutorials. Several people
have contacted her with ques-
tions, asking her to make
videos addressing other issues,
and to just say thanks for the
information.
Sherry Young, a 38-year-old
woman from suburban Wash-
ington D.C., was born with a
partial tibia on her right leg.
After two fractures, it became
extremely painful and wasn’t
healing. For the past year, she’s
had to use crutches to walk.
She had to either amputate or
go through reconstructive sur-
gery.
She found Stephens’ videos on
YouTube. Based on what she
saw, she decided to amputate.
“Without Christina I don’t
think I would have gone
through with this,” Young said.
“I would have dealt with the
pain and just kept walking on
crutches. I’m very happy I
made the decision I did.”
Young said even her children
are more comfortable with the
decision after watching
Stephens’ videos.
“I guess it’s just her personal-
ity,” Young said. “Watching her,
she feels comfortable.”
Kerri Morgan, an instructor
in occupational therapy and
neurology at Washington Uni-
versity who supervises
Stephens, said Stephens has al-
ways been talented in her work,
but even more so now.
“Since her injury, she has a
different perspective to offer,
making her an even stronger
and more passionate occupa-
tional therapist,” Morgan said.
Stephens plans more videos,
and she has a second Lego leg
— “Lego Leg 2.0,” she called it.
This one has moveable pieces
— but it’s still for show only.
“Part of what I want to do
with my videos is de-stigmatize
amputation and make it less
scary,” Stephens said.
Christina Stephens adjusts her prosthetic leg at her home in St. Louis. After Stephens had her
leg amputated below the knee following an accident this past winter, she decided to put her Lego-
building skills to work by making a prosthetic leg out of the children’s toy and has become an
Internet sensation in the process.
Stephens said she didn’t intend for the Lego leg to be func-
tional, but was a metaphor for rebuilding life after a disability.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled a concept Monday for a transport system he says would make a nearly 400-mile trip in half the time it takes an
airplane. The “Hyperloop” system would use a large tube with capsules inside that would float on air, traveling at more than 700 miles per hour.
■ Tube system would
allow passengers to travel
at more than 700 mph
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD
LOS ANGELES — Imagine stepping
into a car-sized capsule in downtown
Los Angeles and, 30 minutes later,
emerging in San Francisco.
On Monday, billionaire entrepreneur
Elon Musk unveiled a transportation
concept that he said could whisk pas-
sengers the nearly 400 miles from Los
Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes
— half the time it takes an airplane.
If it’s ever built.
His “Hyperloop” system for travel
between major cities would use a large
tube. Inside, capsules would float on
air, traveling at more than 700 mph.
The air would be sucked by a powerful
fan at the front and expelled at the
rear.
“Short of figuring out real teleporta-
tion, which would of course be awe-
some (someone please do this), the
only option for super fast travel is to
build a tube over or under the ground
that contains a special environment,”
Musk wrote in his proposal, posted on-
line.
The system Musk envisions is not un-
like the pneumatic tubes that transport
capsules stuffed with paperwork in
older buildings.
In this case, the cargo would be sev-
eral people, reclining for the ride.
Coming from almost anyone else,
the hyperbole would be hard to take
seriously. But Musk has a track record
of success. He co-founded online pay-
ment service PayPal, electric luxury
carmaker Tesla Motors Inc. and rock-
et-building company SpaceX.
Monday’s unveiling lived up to the
hype part of its name.
Leading up to the unveiling, done on
the SpaceX website, online speculation
was feverish. Musk has been dropping
hints about his system for more than a
year during public events, mentioning
that it could never crash and would be
immune to weather.
During a Tesla earnings call Thurs-
day, Musk said he is too focused on
other projects to consider actually
building the Hyperloop.
“I think I kind of shot myself by
ever mentioning the Hyperloop,” he
said. “I don’t have any plans to exe-
cute because I must remain focused on
SpaceX and Tesla.”
He said he would fulfill his commit-
ment to publishing an open-source de-
sign, meaning anyone can use it and
modify it.
Entrepreneur unveils ‘Hyperloop’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves during a rally at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif.
Musk unveiled the “Hyperloop” system Monday.
■ Defense attorney
questions just two of the
more than 50 witnesses
By NOMAAN MERCHANT
and PAUL J. WEBER
FORT HOOD, Texas — Tes-
timony has been moving so
quickly during the military tri-
al of the soldier accused in the
2009 Fort Hood shooting ram-
page that the judge decided to
give jurors extra time on Mon-
day in between witnesses to
finish their notes.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is acting
as his own attorney during the
trial at the Texas military
base, where he is accused of
killing 13 people and injuring
more than 30 others in Novem-
ber 2009. If convicted, he could
face the death penalty.
But he has mostly sat silent
during the trial, enabling prose-
cutors to call more than 50 wit-
nesses in less than four days.
Witness after witness —
many of them soldiers shot
during the attack — has de-
scribed how Hasan opened fire
inside a Fort Hood building,
leaving it scattered with blood
and the dead. Yet Hasan has
questioned just two of them
and raised only a few brief ob-
jections, and many witnesses
were on the stand for 20 min-
utes or less.
The rapid pace raises the
possibility that prosecutors
may wrap up far sooner than
the months-long timeline the
judge initially said was possi-
ble for the trial. On Monday,
she started taking brief breaks
so jurors could finish their
notes after each witness.
“Just look up when you’re
ready. Take as much time as
you need,” the judge, Col. Tara
Osborn, said.
So far, witnesses have built a
detailed picture about what
happened the afternoon of Nov.
5, 2009. They’ve said a gunman
shouted “Allahu Akbar!” —
Arabic for “God is great!” —
and opened fire on unarmed
soldiers, many of whom were
getting ready to deploy to
Afghanistan.
Many of the wounded sol-
diers thought the gunfire was a
training exercise, and some
didn’t realize it was an attack
until they were hit by bullets.
Spc. Joseph Foster told jurors
on Monday that he recalled
thinking, “Those paintballs are
looking really real.”
Spc. Jonathan Sims testified
about getting shot while trying
to protect another soldier
whose neck he was holding to
try to stop the bleeding.
He also echoed earlier testi-
mony when he said he heard a
wounded soldier crying out,
“My baby! My baby!” One of
the soldiers who was killed,
Pvt. Franceska Velez, was
pregnant.
Hasan didn’t question any of
the soldiers testifying Monday.
The Army psychiatrist did,
however, indicate that he was
enlisting the help of his stand-
by attorneys, who have been
ordered to help him during the
trial.
Hasan told Osborn that he
had assigned “some tasks” to
one of them and wanted the
judge to let the lawyer skip
court for the day.
“It would be in my best in-
terest if he used that time to
prepare for that,” Hasan said,
and Osborn agreed.
It was among the few hints
that Hasan has offered about
his defense since his brief
opening statement last week,
when he acknowledged that ev-
idence would show he was the
shooter and described himself
as a soldier who “switched
sides.” He indicated before tri-
al that he would call just two
witnesses.
His standby defense attor-
neys have protested that Hasan
was putting up a defense that
guarantees him the death
penalty.
The attorneys asked Osborn
to scale back their responsibil-
ities to help Hasan or to allow
them to take over his defense,
but Osborn refused. The attor-
neys have said they would ap-
peal Osborn’s denial, though no
appeal had been filed as of ear-
ly afternoon Monday at the
Army Court of Criminal Ap-
peals.
Jury given time amid rapid pace of Fort Hood trial
Maj. Nidal Hasan, second from right, sits with his standby de-
fense attorneys Maj. Joseph Marcee, left, and Lt. Col. Kris
Poppe, second from left, as presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn
looks on, during Hasan's trial, in Fort Hood, Texas.
■ Chef, brother were sued
by former employee who
claimed she suffered from
racially offensive talk
By RUSS BYNUM
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A fed-
eral judge
Monday threw
out race dis-
crimination
claims by a
former Savan-
nah restaurant
manager
whose lawsuit
against Paula
Deen has al-
ready cost the celebrity cook
a valuable chunk of her culi-
nary empire.
Lisa Jackson sued Deen and
her brother, Bubba Hiers, last
year saying she suffered from
sexual harassment and racial-
ly offensive talk and employ-
ment practices that were un-
fair to black workers during
her five years as a manager
of Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and
Oyster House. Deen is co-own-
er of the restaurant, which is
primarily run by her brother.
But claims of race discrim-
ination by Jackson, who is
white, were gutted in the 20-
page opinion by U.S. District
Court Judge William T. Moore
Jr. The judge agreed with
lawyers for Deen and Hiers
that Jackson has no standing
to sue her former employers
for what she claims was poor
treatment of black workers,
regardless of her claims that
she was offended and placed
under additional stress.
Jackson, at best, “is an ac-
cidental victim of the alleged
racial discrimination,” Moore
said in his ruling. “There are
no allegations that defendant
Hiers’s racially offensive
comments were either direct-
ed toward plaintiff or made
with the intent to harass her.”
The ruling lets stand Jack-
son’s claims that Hiers sexu-
ally harassed her when she
worked at the restaurant from
2005 to 2010. However, the
judge said he was reserving
the chance to rule on requests
from Deen’s lawyers to dis-
miss other claims in the law-
suit.
The judge added that to al-
low Jackson to seek legal re-
course for discrimination di-
rected toward other workers
“would serve to conscript fed-
eral courts as human resource
departments that are respon-
sible for imposing and moni-
toring a federally created
standard for harmony in the
workplace.”
Of course, Jackson’s race-
based claims have already re-
sulted in serious damage to
Deen’s public image. It was
Jackson’s lawyer who ques-
tioned Deen under oath in
May when she acknowledged
having used racial slurs in the
past. A transcript of the legal
deposition became public in
June, and the backlash against
Deen caused the Food Net-
work and other corporate
sponsors and business part-
ners to drop her.
Still, Deen’s publicist issued
an upbeat statement Monday.
“We are pleased with the
court’s ruling today that Lisa
Jackson’s claims of race dis-
crimination have been dis-
missed,” Elana Weiss said in a
statement emailed to The As-
sociated Press. “As Ms. Deen
has stated before, she is con-
fident that those who truly
know how she lives her life
know that she believes in
equal opportunity, kindness
and fairness for everyone.”
Jackson’s attorney, Matthew
Billips, did not immediately
return a phone call seeking
comment. Attorneys for Deen
and Hiers also did not imme-
diately return phone calls.
The judge’s decision comes
a month after Deen and Hiers
dumped their attorneys and
hired a new legal team. But
the court motions seeking dis-
missal for all race-based
claims in the case were filed
in December, months before
those changes were made.
In her lawsuit, Jackson had
claimed Hiers frequently made
jokes containing racial slurs at
work and prohibited black
workers from using the restau-
rant’s front entrance and cus-
tomer restrooms. She said she
was personally offended be-
cause she had biracial nieces.
Attorneys for Deen have
said in court filings that Jack-
son’s lawsuit was based on
“scurrilous and false claims.”
They said before Jackson
filed suit, she threatened to
embarrass Deen publicly un-
less she paid the ex-employee
“huge sums of money.”
Judge throws out race-based claims in Paula Deen lawsuit
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FORT MEADE, Md. —
Lawyers for Army Pfc. Bradley
Manning opened
their case Mon-
day in the sen-
tencing phase of
his trial by at-
tacking com-
manders’ deci-
sions to send
the young intel-
ligence analyst
to Iraq and let
him keep his top-secret security
clearance despite emotional out-
bursts and concerns about his
mental health.
Manning faces up to 90 years
in prison for disclosing reams of
classified information through
the anti-secrecy website Wik-
iLeaks. His lawyers are pre-
senting evidence in hopes of a
lighter sentence.
Manning had a history of vio-
lent outbursts and psychological
evaluations during his military
training before and after he de-
ployed in 2009. During his state-
side training as an intelligence
analyst, he had to give a class-
room presentation about the
dangers of disclosing classified
information after he provided
secret details about his school-
ing in online communications
with relatives.
His brigade commander, Col.
David Miller, testified the 2nd
Brigade of the 10th Mountain
Division deployed in the fall of
2009 with 10 to 15 percent few-
er intelligence analysts than the
number authorized by the mili-
tary. But Miller denied feeling
any pressure to take soldiers
who should not have deployed.
“In a counterinsurgency fight,
you can always use more,” he
said.
Maj. Clifford Clausen, who
headed the brigade’s intelli-
gence branch, said there was
pressure to take every soldier.
“We were having a problem
meeting strength. There was a
pressure on the whole unit to
deploy,” he said.
Miller’s executive officer Lt.
Col. Brian Kerns said he had
concerns before deployment
about Clausen’s leadership abil-
ities.
“I think it was the right deci-
sion at the time to move for-
ward with the individuals that
we had because we didn’t have
anything better at the time that
we could turn to,” he said.
Clausen was removed from
the position in early 2010 be-
cause of his failure to effective-
ly communicate intelligence
findings to commanders, Kerns
and Miller testified.
Kerns and Clausen both said
they received letters of repri-
mand as a result of an Army in-
vestigation into Manning’s ac-
tions. They are among 15 people
disciplined in the case.
In Iraq, Manning had several
more emotional outbursts. One
episode prompted commanders
to remove the bolt from his ri-
fle, rendering it unusable.
In December 2009, while be-
ing scolded for tardiness, Man-
ning overturned a table, spilling
a radio and computer onto the
floor and had to be restrained,
the supervisor, Sgt. Daniel Pad-
gett, testified during a pretrial
proceeding.
And in early May 2010, a few
weeks before his arrest, Man-
ning punched another supervisor
in the face, prompting a com-
mander to move him from the
secure workplace to a supply
room, but his security clearance
wasn’t immediately revoked.
Manning, a 25-year-old native
of Crescent, Okla., gave more
than 700,000 documents and
some battlefield video to Wik-
iLeaks while working as an in-
telligence analyst in Iraq. He
was convicted July 30 of 20
counts, including six federal Es-
pionage Act violations, five theft
counts, and a federal Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act charge.
Manning says he leaked the
material to expose wrongdoing
and provoke discussion about
U.S. military and diplomatic af-
fairs.
WikiLeaks
defense
keys on
leadership
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Today
Mostly sunny with
a high near 80.
119
64
68
79
77
64
219
50 50
81
77
Today’s high/
tonight’s low:
Martinsburg
79°/51°
Bluefield
75°/56°
Beckley
72°/55°
Charleston
79°/57°
Huntington
79°/58°
Parkersburg
78°/54°
Morgantown
75°/53°
Clarksburg
77°/55°
Wheeling
75°/53°
Elkins
76°/51°
Lewisburg
72°/52°
Snowshoe
63°/50°
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Anchorage 64 55 Cldy
Baltimore 80 57 Clr
Boston 78 61 Clr
Chicago 77 59 Clr
Dallas-Ft Worth 92 70 PCldy
Denver 87 58 PCldy
Detroit 75 57 Clr
Honolulu 87 73 PCldy
Houston 92 74 Cldy
Indianapolis 76 58 Clr
Kansas City 79 62 Cldy
Las Vegas 106 81 Clr
Little Rock 81 60 Clr
Los Angeles 86 65 PCldy
Memphis 82 64 Clr
Miami Beach 90 79 Cldy
Milwaukee 74 58 Clr
Nashville 83 65 PCldy
New Orleans 89 73 Cldy
New York City 78 60 Clr
Oklahoma City 87 66 Cldy
Orlando 92 75 Rain
Phoenix 110 87 Clr
St Louis 77 59 Clr
Salt Lake City 100 71 Clr
San Diego 78 67 PCldy
San Francisco 72 58 PCldy
Seattle 75 59 Cldy
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Akron, Ohio 74 51 Clr
Charlotte 78 63 PCldy
Cincinnati 78 58 Clr
Cleveland 73 54 Clr
Columbus,Ohio 77 56 Clr
Dayton 76 57 Clr
Daytona Beach 90 76 Rain
Greensboro,N.C. 77 60 PCldy
Lexington 79 59 Clr
Louisville 81 61 Clr
Norfolk. 79 64 PCldy
Philadelphia 80 61 Clr
Pittsburgh 75 51 Clr
Raleigh-Durham 80 61 PCldy
Richmond 80 55 Clr
Washington,D.C. 80 61 Clr
Youngstown 72 50 Clr
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Friday
A 20 percent
chance of showers,
partly sunny with
a high near 81.
Saturday
A 20 percent
chance of showers,
partly sunny with
a high near 80.
Sunday
A 40 percent
chance of showers,
mostly cloudy with
a high near 80.
Monday
A 40 percent
chance of showers,
partly sunny with
a high near 84.
Forecasts
Mostly sunny, nice and dry today.
High of 80 degrees.
Light east breeze.
Josh Fitzpatrick
WSAZ meteorologist
Almanac
Normal high 85
Record low 47, 1964
Normal low 65
Precipitation Trace
Sunrise 6:40 a.m.
Sunset 8:21 p.m.
Great grandson
admits to killing
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. —
A northeastern Pennsylvania
teen has pleaded guilty to
murdering his great-grandfa-
ther in December 2009, and
faces 14 to 28 years in
prison under a plea bargain
reached Wednesday.
Cody Lee, who was 15 at
the time and now 19 years
old, will return for sentenc-
ing Oct. 25 before a Luzerne
County judge.
Police charged that Lee
carefully plotted the shotgun
murder of 80-year-old Her-
bert Lee, saying the teen’s
classmate authenticated a
school notebook in which Lee
scrawled his plans including
“Finding grandpa’s gun. Kill
grandpa. Find money.” The
boy also planned to kill his
father, who was able to
wrest the gun from his son.
The guilty plea to third-
degree murder enabled the
boy to avoid a life sentence.
His attorney says Lee “ac-
cepts responsibility” and
hopes to one day be a “pro-
ductive member of society.”
Va. students get
wrong test scores
RICHMOND, Va. — More
than 4,000 Virginia students
with cognitive disabilities
were incorrectly told they
had passed a test after a
scoring error by a national
company with a history of
similar mistakes.
The Washington Post re-
ports that testing company
Pearson provided miscalcu-
lated scorecards to school di-
visions over the summer to
judge the assessments taken
last school year. Scores that
should have registered as a
fail instead were given a
higher proficiency level.
Virginia has a three-year,
$110 million contract with
Pearson to administer and
score state tests.
The company apologized
for the inconvenience in a
statement.
N.J. teacher admits
to having child porn
NEWARK, N.J. — A for-
mer New Jersey band
teacher has pleaded guilty to
downloading child pornogra-
phy and luring a teenage boy
to his apartment for sex.
Robert Mucha of Newton
was charged last year with
possession of child pornogra-
phy and enticing a minor to
engage in criminal sexual
activity.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office
says Mucha convinced the
teen to travel from New Jer-
sey to Stroudsburg, Pa.,
where Mucha tried to initiate
sexual contact with the youth.
At the time of his arrest,
the 57-year-old worked as a
volunteer emergency med-
ical technician in Andover,
Sussex County. He had pre-
viously taught band and Bu-
gle Corps to teenagers in
Belleville and Lakewood.
During a court hearing
last year, prosecutors dis-
closed excerpts from online
chats where Mucha allegedly
expressed his sexual fan-
tasies of child cannibalism.
Family lost at sea
back in Arizona
PHOENIX — A family is
back in Arizona after their
attempt to relocate to a tiny
island left them lost at sea
for weeks.
Sean Gastonguay told
KTVK-TV that his family’s
boat is gone — presumably
at the bottom of the Pacific
Ocean.
He says he now has to
find work to repay the State
Department $10,000 that the
family borrowed to fly back
from Chile.
The family moved from
Ash Fork, Ariz., to San
Diego last year.
They left there in May on
a voyage for Kiribati that
they said was intended to
leave behind what they con-
sider government interfer-
ence in religion.
They made it to Chile after
being picked up by a fishing
vessel and transferred to a
cargo ship.
■ The crash under in-
vestigation by the
National Transportation
Safety Board, authorities
By JAY REEVES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A
UPS cargo plane crashed into a
field near the Birmingham air-
port Wednesday, killing two pi-
lots and scattering wreckage
over a rural area moments af-
ter witnesses heard the massive
A300 jet coming in at treetop
level.
People living near the airfield
reported seeing flames coming
from the plane and hearing its
engines struggle in the final mo-
ments before impact.
“It was on fire before it hit,”
said Jerome Sanders, who lives
directly across from the runway.
The plane, which departed
from Louisville, Ky., went down
about a half-mile from Birm-
ingham-Shuttlesworth Interna-
tional Airport and broke into
several pieces and caught fire.
The pilot and co-pilot were the
only people aboard.
Mayor William Bell, who was
briefed by the city’s fire chief,
said there were two or three
small explosions that authorities
believe were from aviation fuel.
Weather conditions at the time
were rainy with low clouds.
Toni Herrera-Bast, a spokes-
woman for the city’s airport au-
thority, said the crash did not
affect airport operations, but it
knocked down power lines and
appeared to have toppled at
least one tree and utility pole.
UPS spokesman Jeff Wafford
said the plane was carrying a va-
riety of cargo, but he did not
elaborate. The names of the crew
were not immediately released.
The National Transportation
Safety Board sent a team of in-
vestigators to the scene.
James Giles, who lives just
off the airport’s property, said
the plane missed his home by a
couple of hundred yards, judg-
ing from tree damage and de-
bris. He was at work at the
time but said it was clear from
the scene that the plane was at-
tempting to land on the north-
south runway that is typically
used by much smaller aircraft.
Large planes such as the A300
typically use the bigger east-
west runway, he said.
“They were just trying to get
to a landing spot, anywhere,” he
said.
The plane was built in 2003
and had logged about 11,000
flight hours over 6,800 flights,
Airbus said in a news release.
UPS jet crashes near Birmingham, killing pilots
Fire crews investigate where a UPS cargo plane lies on a hill at
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport after crashing
on approach Wednesday in Alabama.
■ At least 278 dead in
clashes; U.S. officials
urge the nation
to respect democracy
By HAMZA HENDAWI
and MAGGIE MICHAEL
CAIRO — Riot police backed
by armored vehicles, bulldozers
and helicopters Wednesday
swept away two encampments
of supporters of ousted Presi-
dent Mohammed Morsi, setting
off running street battles in
Cairo and other Egyptian cities.
At least 278 people were killed
nationwide, many of them in the
crackdown on the protest sites.
It was the highest single day
death toll since the 18-day up-
rising that toppled autocrat
Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The Health Ministry said 235
civilians were killed and more
than 2,000 injured, while Interi-
or Minister Mohammed Ibrahim
said 43 policemen died in the as-
sault. He said Morsi supporters
attacked 21 police stations and
seven Coptic Christian churches
across the nation, and assaulted
the Finance Ministry in Cairo,
occupying its ground floor.
The violence drew condemna-
tion from other predominantly
Muslim countries, but also from
the West, with Secretary of
State John Kerry saying it had
dealt a “serious blow” to
Egypt’s political reconciliation
efforts.
The assault to take control of
the two sit-in sites came after
days of warnings by the interim
administration that replaced Mor-
si after he was ousted in a July 3
coup. The camps on opposite sides
of the capital began in late June
to show support for Morsi. Pro-
testers — many from Morsi’s
Muslim Brotherhood — have de-
manded his reinstatement.
Two journalists were among
the dead — Mick Deane, 61, a
cameraman for British broad-
caster Sky News, and Habiba
Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, a re-
porter for the Gulf News, a
state-backed newspaper in the
United Arab Emirates, the news
organizations reported. Both
had been reported to be shot.
Churches belonging to Egypt’s
minority Coptic Christians were
torched in four provinces south
of Cairo — Minya, Assiut, Sohag
and the desert oasis Fayoum. In
the city of Bani Suef south of
Cairo, protesters set three po-
lice cars on fire. Farther south
in the Islamist stronghold of As-
siut, police used tear gas to dis-
perse pro-Morsi crowds in the
city center.
Morsi supporters want him re-
instated and are boycotting the
military-sponsored political
process, which includes amend-
ing the Islamist-backed constitu-
tion adopted last year and hold-
ing parliamentary and presiden-
tial elections early next year.
The U.S. gave a stern warn-
ing to Egypt’s leaders, with
Kerry condemning the violence
as well as the restoration of
emergency rule. He urged them
to calm the situation.
“This is a pivotal moment for
all Egyptians,” said Kerry, who
spoke by phone with the foreign
minister. “The path toward vio-
lence leads only to greater in-
stability, economic disaster and
suffering.”
Violence erupts in Egypt
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo's Mohandessin neighborhood, Egypt, Wednesday.
An Egyptian security force kicks a supporter of Morsi as they
clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University.
Supporters of Morsi push a police vehicle off of a bridge in the
eastern Nasr City district of Cairo.

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Paul Doucette, left, Kyle Cooke, Rob Thomas and Brian Yale are touring to promote their first Matchbox Twenty album in five years, this one drawing in the tal-
ents of all four band members rather than longtime frontman Thomas.
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Matchbox Twenty back
Band’s newest album written as collaborative effort by all four members
By MONICA OROSZ
DAILY MAIL STAFF
I
f the music from Matchbox
Twenty’s newest album
sounds really different from
past projects — well, that was
intentional.
For one thing, the pop band’s
fourth album, “North,” was
written with care. It’s been five
years since the band last re-
leased an album, during which
time its members, including
frontman Rob Thomas, took a
little hiatus to pursue separate
projects.
“We didn’t sit down and say,
‘We’re going to take five
years,’” explained guitarist Kyle
Cook. “But we are very blessed
as a group to have had the kind
of success that when we put out
an album, it has an extensive
shelf life.”
Besides, recording and pro-
moting an album is ex-
hausting.
“Once you’ve
done that
for
three years, everybody’s really
burned,” Cook said.
But once the four members
did sit down to begin a new
project together, they decided
they’d collaborate in a different
way, with all four contributing
to the writing process.
“I think largely in the early
records the band was a huge
vehicle for Rob’s songs,” Cook
said. “And that’s not to take
anything away from that.
“But one thing Matchbox
Twenty doesn’t like
to do is repeat
themselves.
Each album
has a signif-
icant
identity
and
we
put a lot of time into that.”
That fresh perspective each
time is a good thing, Cook said,
because when the sound stays
the same, “That’s when it gets
stale and people become unin-
terested.”
The re-
sult is an interesting mix of an-
them and ballad, mellow and
upbeat. It’s the first Matchbox
Twenty album on which Cook
has a song solely to his credit
(“How Long”) and one featuring
his voice on lead vocals (“The
Way”).
“It’s nice to have a cast of
characters to bring some varia-
tion,” Cook said. “That was a
new thing for us.”
Though he’s played an instru-
ment since he was 9 and took
up violin as part of his rural In-
diana school program, Cook
said he wasn’t as comfortable
singing at first.
“That took a little bit more
time,” he said. “I
knew I could
hear notes
and
that I had good pitch.”
Even now, Cook still isn’t
comfortable singing in all set-
tings.
“Sometimes it’s more nerve-
wracking singing in the living
room with your family than it
is on stage,” he said.
The song that took the
longest to pen on the album
was “She’s So Mean,” about a
woman who is, shall we say, a
piece of work.
Written by him, Thomas and
Doucette, it began as a
freestyle exercise in lyrics.
“That took a long time to get
the lyrics going,” Cook said.
“We don’t do tongue-in-cheek.
But we said, ‘Let’s take a stab
at this.’ We invented this char-
acter who gets whatever she
wants — it took a surprising
amount of time to get it right.”
monica@ dailymail.com or
304-348-4830.
If you go
What: Matchbox Twenty and the
Goo Goo Dolls
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Civic Center
Tickets: $37 to $77
Info: www.ticketmaster.com or
800-745-3000
Walls
become
blank
canvas
■ Artist’s Clay Center
drawings meant to create
discussion before they are
ultimately painted over
By MONICA OROSZ
DAILY MAIL STAFF
A new exhibit at the Clay
Center includes work that will
disappear under a coat of
paint in a few months.
That will happen with full
approval of New England
artist Ethan Murrow, though
he acknowledges he grimaces
a bit at the thought.
Murrow’s exhibit, which of-
ficially opens Saturday, in-
cludes works on paper and an
installation with a video along
with wall drawings done on
site.
He said that idea grew out
of his training as a painter.
“When I was first getting
started, doing my undergradu-
ate work in Minnesota, I spent
time in farm fields, painting a
wheat crop. The farmers
would stop and critique my
work. It was always really
friendly,” he said.
The wall paintings take this
notion inside.
“They are made in the mo-
ment. They’re risky. They
present a very different chal-
lenge for me in that I have to
perform publicly for the insti-
tution,” Murrow said.
“Works on paper are very
solitary,” he said, and created
in a sterile studio. “I think art
is not made for a single indi-
vidual. It really is about a
larger conversation with a big-
ger public. So building that
into the practice and process
is very important to me.”
All of which means visitors
are welcome to see the
process today and tomorrow;
Murrow plans to work on the
pieces in follow up phases as
well.
“I will add to them — they
will change and mutate as the
show goes along,” he said.
And by all means, questions
and comments are encour-
aged.
“I think, frankly, most peo-
ple whether they admit it or
not, have strong opinions
about artwork,” Murrow said.
As he draws with ballpoint
pen on a wall, it tends to
make people more comfort-
able to ask about the process.
“It happens all the time,” he
said, adding some of the
Blues band will introduce itself at Live on the Levee
COURTESY PHOTO
Chaz Humley & The Effects started as a casual get together of
like-minded musicians in 2009 and became a blues band that
now has several top awards under its belt. The band opens for
Edwin McCain Friday night at Live on the Levee.
■ Local group began in
2009, has had strong
showings at competitions
with its original music
By MONICA OROSZ
DAILY MAIL STAFF
Chaz Humley & The Ef-
fects may be known in blues
circles outside West Virginia
more than it is here.
The band intends to change
all that Friday night with its
first ever performance at
Live on the Levee.
“One of the nice things is
about Friday is that we are
going to play 13 or 14 songs
in an hour and nine of them
are going to be our origi-
nals,” said bass player Jim
Spence. “We’re going to play
our new CD, front to back.
We’ll let them see who we
are.”
“To get to open for Edwin
McCain is even more of a
plus.”
If you haven’t heard of
Chaz Humley & The Effects,
don’t feel bad. The guys —
Spence, Alan Handley, Tim
Coll and Scott Rogan — have
been playing together just
since 2009. It was a reunion
for Spence and Rogan, child-
hood friends who played mu-
sic together as boys, until
Rogan’s family moved away.
When Handley, also a mu-
sician friend from young
adulthood, called Spence to
suggest they get together to
play and he’d invite a couple
more musicians, Spence was
delighted to see Rogan again.
“The first year or 18
months, it was just an infor-
mal get together — we’d get
together and drink beers and
play,” Spence explained. At
first, they noodled around
with old rock material, par-
ticularly the Beatles.
“But then we found the
blues really suited us well,”
Spence said. And the four re-
alized there wasn’t a lot of
local blues to be found. They
started playing electric blues
— lots of upbeat stuff — and
on a whim decided to enter
their first blues competition
in October 2011.
Because most competitions
want original music, they
took a few months to knock
out some songs — and ended
up coming in third place in
If you go
What: Live on the Levee
When: 6:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Haddad Riverfront Park
Cost: Free
FYI: Friday’s concert opens with
Chaz Humley & The Effects, fol-
lowed by Edwin McCain
■ Turn to LEVEE/3D
■ Turn to ARTIST/3D
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Boston artist Ethan Murrow
works on a detailed pen draw-
ing he’s doing right on the ex-
hibit walls at the Clay Center
art gallery. The wall drawings
will complement an exhibit of
works on paper and installa-
tions that include video.

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