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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.
For more information, visit
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.
For more information, visit
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.
For more information, visit
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.
For more information, visit
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.
For more information, visit
www.americanmountaintheater.
com or call 800-943-3670.
Compiled by John Gibb, who can
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
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![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
Syndicated
feature
Holiday
Mathis
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DAILY MAIL Aug. 9, 2013 2D
FOUR DAYS OF HOMECOMING
FUN AND FESTIVITIES!
To be held at Riverside High School
Promoting Awareness of a new UKV Health & Recreation Complex
For additional information contact UKVEC @ 304-595-5991
FREE ENTERTAINMENT EACH NIGHT
www.quincyreccenter.com
Tuckwiller said adult farm-
ers often bring breeding ani-
mals and they travel from
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
right time can witness the mir-
acle of birth.
“Mr. Perkins told me he has
80-some cows due during the
time of the fair,” Tuckwiller
said.
Contact writer Monica Orosz at
monica@dailymail.com or 304-
348-4830.
Animals
▲ Continued from 1D
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-
ets may be ordered online or by
calling 800-514-3849.
More information:
www.statefairofwv.com
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
12:30 p.m. Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show
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
12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show
2 p.m. All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races
3 p.m. The One-Man Band
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
2 p.m. All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races
8 p.m. FMX Championship MotoCross
Tuesday
9 a.m. Angus Cattle Show
12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show
1 p.m. Harness races
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
Noon All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
1 p.m. One-Man Band
1 p.m. Harness races
2:30 p.m. Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show
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
Noon All-American Stunt & Thrill Show
1 p.m. Dairy Goat Costume Contest
2:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show
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
12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor 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. The One-Man Band
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
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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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- 1. The Charlie DanielsBand 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. For more information, visit 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. For more information, visit 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. For more information, visit 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. For more information, visit 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. For more information, visit www.americanmountaintheater. com or call 800-943-3670. Compiled by John Gibb, who can be reached at 304-348-4834 or john.gibb@dailymail.com. dailymail.com/artsandentertainement CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 2D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 2D Charleston Daily Mail ■ Thursday, July 11, 2013 go!here&there... ■ For complete listings of entertainment around West Virginia, including music, dance, theater, festivals and more, visit the exten- sive online calendar at calendar.dailymail.com. Events may be searched by category and by date. ■ HERE & THERE pub- lishes listings of live musi- cal, theatrical and dance programs, art shows, out- door events and children’s activities open to the pub- lic. Deadline for submis- sions is 4 p.m. Tuesday. Send items, including phone number, to: GO! Charleston Daily Mail 1001 Virginia St. E. Charleston, WV 25301 Fax: 304-348-4847 e-mail: dmcopy@ dailymail.com Got a story idea? Call Monica Orosz at 304-348-4830 !Entertainment calendar Upcomingevents 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. DearAbby Woman says legal pot use clouding best friend’s mind Horoscope Jeanne Phillips Syndicated feature Holiday Mathis Syndicated feature DAILY MAIL Jul. 11, 2013 2D 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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CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Newsdigest 3ACharlestonDaily Mail ■ Friday, July 26, 2013dailymail.com/news/nationandworld DAILY MAIL Jul. 26, 2013 3A Today Mostly sunny with a high near 84 119 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 OntheWeb ■ Current road conditions: www.transportation.wv.gov or 1 (877) WVA-ROAD ■ State school closings: wvde.state.wv.us/closings/county/all ■ Additional weather information: dailymail.com/webcam; www.wsaz.com First Full Last New July 16 July 22 July 29 July 8 Moon phase: waning Moonphase Saturday A 60 percent chance of showers, mostly cloudy with a high near 82 Sunday A 30 percent chance of showers, partly sunny with a high near 79 Monday Mostly sunny with a high near 79 Tuesday Mostly sunny with a high near 83 Receive an updated weather forecast four times a day and severe weather alerts as soon as issued by the National Weather Service. NewsChannel 3 and the Daily Mail offer the WSAZ First Warning Personal Forecast. To subscribe, go to wsaz.com Forecasts Hot sunshine expected today but with a cozy breeze. Josh Fitzpatrick WSAZ meteorologist 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. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 Nation &world
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CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Nation &world Newsdigest 3ACharlestonDaily Mail ■ Friday, August 9, 2013dailymail.com/news/nationandworld DAILY MAIL Aug. 9, 2013 3A Today A 70 percent chance of showers, mostly cloudy with a high near 84. 119 64 68 79 77 64 219 50 50 81 77 Today’s high/ 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° Elkins 80°/66° Lewisburg 78°/65° Snowshoe 71°/61° Hi Lo Otlk 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 St Louis 83 69 Rain Salt Lake City 94 70 PCldy San Diego 71 63 PCldy San Francisco 68 55 Cldy Seattle 80 60 PCldy Hi Lo Otlk 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 Philadelphia 89 73 Rain Pittsburgh 80 64 Cldy Raleigh-Durham 90 73 Cldy Richmond 91 74 Cldy Washington,D.C. 87 74 Rain Youngstown 81 63 Cldy OntheWeb ■ Current road conditions: www.transportation.wv.gov or 1 (877) WVA-ROAD ■ State school closings: wvde.state.wv.us/closings/county/all ■ Additional weather information: dailymail.com/webcam; www.wsaz.com First Full Last New Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 28 Aug. 7 Moon phase: waxing Moonphase Saturday 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. Receive an updated weather forecast four times a day and severe weather alerts as soon as issued by the National Weather Service. NewsChannel 3 and the Daily Mail offer the WSAZ First Warning Personal Forecast. To subscribe, go to wsaz.com Forecasts Hazy and humid today. Scattered showers and storms, especially in the evening. Highs in the mid-80s. Josh Fitzpatrick WSAZ meteorologist Almanac Yesterday’s high 86 Record high 100, 1930 Normal high 85 Yesterday’s low 71 Record low 50, 1903 Normal low 65 Precipitation 0.01” Total for month 0.13” Total for year 30.05” 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. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS ■ Engineer from Minnesota says he’ll quit his job after winning By STEVE KARNOWSKI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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. BOWSER dailymail.com ■ Go online to watch White claim his winnings. By AHMED AL-HAJ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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
- 4. would love tofinish 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 ▲ Continued from 1D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 2D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL2D ■ FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2013 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 Syndicated feature Holiday Mathis Syndicated feature DAILY MAIL Aug. 9, 2013 2D FOUR DAYS OF HOMECOMING FUN AND FESTIVITIES! To be held at Riverside High School Promoting Awareness of a new UKV Health & Recreation Complex For additional information contact UKVEC @ 304-595-5991 FREE ENTERTAINMENT EACH NIGHT www.quincyreccenter.com Tuckwiller said adult farm- ers often bring breeding ani- mals and they travel from 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 right time can witness the mir- acle of birth. “Mr. Perkins told me he has 80-some cows due during the time of the fair,” Tuckwiller said. Contact writer Monica Orosz at monica@dailymail.com or 304- 348-4830. Animals ▲ Continued from 1D 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- ets may be ordered online or by calling 800-514-3849. More information: www.statefairofwv.com 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 12:30 p.m. Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show 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 12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show 2 p.m. All-American Stunt & Thrill Show 3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races 3 p.m. The One-Man Band 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 2 p.m. All-American Stunt & Thrill Show 3 p.m. Swifty Swine Pig Races 8 p.m. FMX Championship MotoCross Tuesday 9 a.m. Angus Cattle Show 12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show 1 p.m. Harness races 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 Noon All-American Stunt & Thrill Show 1 p.m. One-Man Band 1 p.m. Harness races 2:30 p.m. Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show 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 Noon All-American Stunt & Thrill Show 1 p.m. Dairy Goat Costume Contest 2:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor Show 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 12:30 p.m. Extreme Raptor 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. The One-Man Band 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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. Hopping mad? Call the Vent Line at 304- 357- 4330
- 5. CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 11A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK CHARLESTON DAILYMAIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 ■ 11A DAILY MAIL Aug. 13, 2013 11A THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 SALE SALE 1320 Smith St. Charleston GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF LIFT PUGH FURNITURE WAREHOUSE SHOWROOMS 304-344-2421 & 1-877-BUY PUGH Power Lift Recliners $ 499.99As Low As DEEN By DAVID DISHNEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 MANNING
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CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Nation &world Newsdigest 3ACharlestonDaily Mail ■ Thursday, August 15, 2013dailymail.com/news/nationandworld DAILY MAIL Aug. 15, 2013 3A 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° Hi Lo Otlk 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 Hi Lo Otlk 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 OntheWeb ■ Current road conditions: www.transportation.wv.gov or 1 (877) WVA-ROAD ■ State school closings: wvde.state.wv.us/closings/county/all ■ Additional weather information: dailymail.com/webcam; www.wsaz.com First Full Last New Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 28 Aug. 6 Moon phase: waxing Moonphase 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. Receive an updated weather forecast four times a day and severe weather alerts as soon as issued by the National Weather Service. NewsChannel 3 and the Daily Mail offer the WSAZ First Warning Personal Forecast. To subscribe, go to wsaz.com Forecasts Mostly sunny, nice and dry today. High of 80 degrees. Light east breeze. Josh Fitzpatrick WSAZ meteorologist Almanac Yesterday’s high 72 Record high 99, 1988 Normal high 85 Yesterday’s low 54 Record low 47, 1964 Normal low 65 Precipitation Trace Total for month 1.99” Total for year 31.91” 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. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS ■ The crash under in- vestigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, authorities By JAY REEVES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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.
- 7. COURTESY PHOTO 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. CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 1D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK People There’s no crashing Luke Bryan’s party / 4D 1DCharleston Daily Mail ■ Thursday, August 15, 2013dailymail.com/artsandentertainment go!People 4D Inside Diana Ross takes the stage Go! 2D DAILY MAIL Aug. 15, 2013 1D 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.” Contact writer Monica Orosz at 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 BOB WOJCIESZAK/DAILY MAIL 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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CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Nation &world dailymail.com/news/nationandworld DAILY MAILAug. 16, 2013 3A 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 80°/53° Bluefield 74°/57° Beckley 69°/56° Charleston 81°/58° Huntington 81°/60° Parkersburg 81°/56° Morgantown 78°/55° Clarksburg 80°/55° Wheeling 79°/56° Elkins 74°/52° Lewisburg 70°/54° Snowshoe 63°/51° Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 63 54 Cldy Baltimore 77 62 PCldy Boston 78 63 PCldy Chicago 78 60 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 93 69 Cldy Denver 89 59 PCldy Detroit 77 60 PCldy Honolulu 89 73 Clr Houston 94 72 PCldy Indianapolis 78 59 Cldy Kansas City 78 60 Cldy Las Vegas 104 82 PCldy Little Rock 81 61 PCldy Los Angeles 87 64 PCldy Memphis 83 68 Cldy Miami Beach 90 79 PCldy Milwaukee 75 59 PCldy Nashville 83 65 Cldy New Orleans 91 74 Cldy New York City 79 64 Clr Oklahoma City 84 64 PCldy Orlando 89 75 Rain Phoenix 109 88 Clr St Louis 78 61 PCldy Salt Lake City 100 70 Clr San Diego 75 67 PCldy San Francisco 70 56 Cldy Seattle 78 58 Cldy Hi Lo Otlk Akron, Ohio 77 55 PCldy Charlotte 70 64 Rain Cincinnati 79 61 PCldy Cleveland 75 57 PCldy Columbus,Ohio 79 60 PCldy Dayton 78 59 PCldy Daytona Beach 86 75 Rain Greensboro,N.C. 68 62 Rain Lexington 81 62 PCldy Louisville 83 64 PCldy Norfolk. 77 72 Rain Philadelphia 83 64 Clr Pittsburgh 77 56 PCldy Raleigh-Durham 70 65 Rain Richmond 76 65 Cldy Washington,D.C. 78 63 Cldy Youngstown 76 52 PCldy OntheWeb ■ Current road conditions: www.transportation.wv.gov or 1 (877) WVA-ROAD ■ State school closings: wvde.state.wv.us/closings/county/all ■ Additional weather information: dailymail.com/webcam; www.wsaz.com First Full Last New Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 28 Aug. 6 Moon phase: waxing Moonphase Saturday Partly sunny with a high near 80. Sunday A 40 percent chance of showers, mostly cloudy with a high near 78. Monday Mostly cloudy with a high near 82. Tuesday A 40 percent chance of showers, partly sunny with a high near 85. Receive an updated weather forecast four times a day and severe weather alerts as soon as issued by the National Weather Service. NewsChannel 3 and the Daily Mail offer the WSAZ First Warning Personal Forecast. To subscribe, go to wsaz.com Forecasts Mostly sunny and again pleasant today, though some clouds arrive late in the south and east. Highs near 80. Josh Fitzpatrick WSAZ meteorologist Almanac Yesterday’s high 77 Record high 99, 1988 Normal high 85 Yesterday’s low 50 Record low 46, 1964 Normal low 65 Precipitation 0.00” Total for month 1.99” Total for year 31.91” Sunrise 6:41 a.m. Sunset 8:20 p.m. Newsdigest 3ACharleston Daily Mail ■ Friday, August 16, 2013 President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events in Egypt on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Thursday. Death toll rises in Egypt■ Obama urges country to end violence, says its people must make choice By MAGGIE MICHAEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO (AP) — Weeping rel- atives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smol- dering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt’s deadliest day since the Arab Spring began. World condemnation widened for the bloody crackdown Wed- nesday on Morsi’s mostly Is- lamist supporters, including an angry response from President Barack Obama, who canceled joint U.S.-Egyptian military maneuvers. Violence spread Thursday, with government buildings set afire near the Pyramids, po- licemen gunned down and scores of Christian churches at- tacked. As turmoil engulfed the country, the Interior Ministry authorized the use of deadly force against protesters target- ing police and state institutions. The Muslim Brotherhood, trying to regroup after the as- sault on their encampments and the arrest of many of their leaders, called for a mass rally on Friday in a challenge to the government’s declaration of a monthlong nationwide state of emergency and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. At least 638 people were con- firmed killed and nearly 4,000 wounded in the violence sparked when riot police backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers smashed the two sit-ins in Cairo where Morsi’s mainly Islamist supporters had been camped out for six weeks calling for his reinstatement. It was the deadliest day by far since the 2011 popular uprising that toppled autocratic ruler Hosni Mubarak and plunged the country into more than two years of instability. The Health Ministry said in a statement that 288 of those killed were in the largest protest camp in Cairo’s Nasr City dis- trict, while 90 others were slain in a smaller encampment at al- Nahda Square, near Cairo Uni- versity. Others died in clashes that broke out between Morsi’s supporters and security forces elsewhere in the Egyptian capi- tal and other cities. Mohammed Fathallah, the ministry spokesman, said earli- er that the blood-soaked bodies lined up in the El Imam mosque in Nasr City were not included in the official death toll. It was not immediately clear if the new figures includ- ed the ones at the mosque. Inside the mosque-turned- morgue, the names of the dead were scribbled on white sheets covering the bodies, many of them charred, and a list with 265 names was plastered on the wall. Heat made the stench from the corpses almost un- bearable as the ice brought in to chill the bodies melted and household fans offered little re- lief. Over the mosque speakers, announcements urged people to leave because their body heat was making the humid condi- tions worse inside the mosque, where posters of Morsi were piled up in a corner. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood put the casualty toll at a stag- gering 2,600 killed and around 10,000 injured, but the figures appeared high in light of footage by regional and local TV networks, as well as The Associated Press. The deadly crackdown drew widespread condemnation from the Muslim world and the West. Obama canceled joint U.S.- Egypt military exercises sched- uled for next month, although he gave no indication that the U.S. planned to cut off its $1.3 billion in annual military aid to the country. The U.S. adminis- tration has avoided declaring Morsi’s ouster a coup, which would force it to suspend the military aid. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation can- not continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back,’’ he said, speaking from his weeklong vacation in Massachusetts. Obama said the United States informed Egypt’s interim lead- ers Thursday morning about plans to cancel the military ex- ercises. The president also or- dered his national security team to “assess the actions tak- en by the interim government and further steps that we may take as necessary with respect to the U.S.-Egyptian relation- ship.’’ The Bright Star maneuvers, long a centerpiece of the deep ties between the U.S. and Egyptian militaries, were scheduled to have lasted about three weeks. Several other countries, including Turkey, Jordan and Britain, have also participated. Md. woman gives birth on interstate GERMANTOWN, Md. — Authorities say a woman in labor didn’t make it to the hospital and gave birth in a vehicle on the shoulder of In- terstate 270 during rush hour. Maryland State Police and Montgomery County fire and rescue crews were called to southbound I-270 near Route 118 in the Germantown area around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Assistant Chief Scott Gra- ham, a spokesman for the fire department, says the baby girl was born before crews arrived. He says the mother, baby and father are all doing well. Police say the mother and baby were taken to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville. The unusual birth comes just a few weeks after a baby was born on a plat- form at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station. Police search for missing snake SWARTHMORE, Pa. — A seven-foot boa constrictor has slithered away from the home of the eastern Pennsylvania veterinarian who owns it. Police in the Philadelphia suburb of Swarthmore and the snake’s owner, David Spiegel, say the snake likely doesn’t pose a risk to hu- mans or even most pets — though it may well attack ground moles, frogs or birds. Spiegel says he typically lets the snake sun itself in his yard, but on Monday the snake was gone when he re- turned to check on it. Swarthmore police Chief Brian Craig says residents have been alerted out of “an abundance of caution.” Spiegel says the snake is “friendly” with other pets as it has been raised with their chil- dren, two cats and a tiny dog. The snake has slipped away from home at least once before and been re- turned. Woman loses arm in shark attack WAILUKU, Hawaii — A German woman has been critically injured in a sus- pected shark attack off south Maui. Maui County emergency responders say the woman’s right arm was severed as she snorkeled about 50 yards off shore at Palauea Beach. The woman, who is about 20 years old, was helped to shore by two male friends and a kayaker and rushed to Maui Memorial Medical Center. The Honolulu Star-Advertis- er reports the attack was the fifth off Maui this year and the eighth in Hawaii, accord- ing to state data. Last year saw 11 attacks, the most in a dozen years and far above the annual average of 4.75. The woman’s friends did not see the attack and Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga said it is assumed, but not confirmed, that she was injured by a shark. White House gets help from sun WASHINGTON — A promise to help power the first family’s residence with the sun is finally seeing the light of day. Solar panels have begun to be installed on the White House’s roof, the first time solar power will be used for a president’s living quarters. The work makes good on a nearly three-year-old prom- ise by the Obama adminis- tration to have panels on the White House by the spring of 2011. President Jimmy Carter and President George W. Bush both employed solar power, but never for the res- idence itself. Carter’s panels were taken down by Presi- dent Ronald Reagan. A White House official would not disclose the share of the residence’s power that solar would provide, citing security concerns. The offi- cial would say only that the panels were American-made. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. An Egyptian carries a poster of Morsi among de- bris from a protest camp in Nahda Square, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the Egyptians Army walk among the smoldering remains of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. The death toll keeps going up in Egypt after security forces swept through two sit-in sites yesterday, operated by supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi. An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman now says over 400 people died in the violence that has prompted international criticism.
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CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3A CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Nation &world Newsdigest 3ACharlestonDaily Mail ■ Wednesday, August 21, 2013★dailymail.com/news/nationandworld DAILY MAIL Aug. 21, 2013 3A Today A 60 percent chance of showers, mostly cloudy with a high near 81. 119 64 68 79 77 64 219 50 50 81 77 Today’s high/ tonight’s low: Martinsburg 84°/68° Bluefield 78°/64° Beckley 74°/63° Charleston 82°/67° Huntington 82°/67° Parkersburg 82°/66° Morgantown 83°/65° Clarksburg 82°/65° Wheeling 84°/66° Elkins 79°/63° Lewisburg 78°/61° Snowshoe 66°/58° Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 61 52 Rain Baltimore 88 72 Cldy Boston 89 69 Clr Chicago 90 70 Clr Dallas-Ft Worth 97 76 PCldy Denver 88 61 Cldy Detroit 86 70 PCldy Honolulu 86 73 Clr Houston 95 74 Cldy Indianapolis 86 69 Cldy Kansas City 92 69 Clr Las Vegas 105 82 PCldy Little Rock 93 71 Clr Los Angeles 84 63 PCldy Memphis 92 72 Clr Miami Beach 89 80 Cldy Milwaukee 90 69 PCldy Nashville 88 70 PCldy New Orleans 90 76 Rain New York City 87 72 Clr Oklahoma City 94 70 Clr Orlando 92 74 Cldy Phoenix 111 86 Clr St Louis 91 72 PCldy Salt Lake City 97 73 PCldy San Diego 74 66 PCldy San Francisco 69 57 PCldy Seattle 82 57 Clr Hi Lo Otlk Akron, Ohio 84 65 PCldy Charlotte 82 69 Rain Cincinnati 82 67 Rain Cleveland 85 67 Clr Columbus,Ohio 84 67 Cldy Dayton 82 65 Cldy Daytona Beach 89 76 PCldy Greensboro,N.C. 82 69 Cldy Lexington 82 68 Cldy Louisville 85 71 Cldy Norfolk. 85 72 Cldy Philadelphia 90 70 Clr Pittsburgh 85 66 PCldy Raleigh-Durham 85 71 Cldy Richmond 87 71 Cldy Washington,D.C. 87 72 Cldy Youngstown 84 64 Clr OntheWeb ■ Current road conditions: www.transportation.wv.gov or 1 (877) WVA-ROAD ■ State school closings: wvde.state.wv.us/closings/county/all ■ Additional weather information: dailymail.com/webcam; www.wsaz.com First Full Last New Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 28 Aug. 6 Moon phase: full Moonphase Thursday A 30 percent chance of showers, partly sunny with a high near 83. Friday A 50 percent chance of showers, partly sunny with a high near 81. Saturday Mostly sunny with a high near 85. Sunday Mostly sunny with a high near 86. Receive an updated weather forecast four times a day and severe weather alerts as soon as issued by the National Weather Service. NewsChannel 3 and the Daily Mail offer the WSAZ First Warning Personal Forecast. To subscribe, go to wsaz.com Forecasts Limited sunshine today, with scattered showers and storms. Highs 80-85. Brandon Butcher WSAZ meteorologist Almanac Yesterday’s high 84 Record high 99, 1983 Normal high 84 Yesterday’s low 60 Record low 47, 1953 Normal low 64 Precipitation 0.00” Total for month 2.30” Total for year 32.22” Sunrise 6:46 a.m. Sunset 8:13 p.m. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities prepare at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy after reports of a gunman entered the school, Tuesday, in Decatur, Ga. A suspect was in custody after reports of gunfire at an Atlanta-area elementary school Tuesday, the school chief said, with television footage showing young students running out the school being escorted by teachers and police. Doctor accused of drugs-for-sex plan PITTSBURGH — A west- ern Pennsylvania doctor has surrendered on charges he overprescribed anti-addiction and anti-anxiety drugs and traded them for sex through offices that closed after he voluntarily surrendered his medical license when state agents began to investigate his practice last year. Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Thomas Radecki, of Clarion, couldn’t be reached for com- ment and his defense attor- ney was not immediately available. The Pennsylvania Board of Medicine said last year that Radecki voluntarily sur- rendered his medical license because of unprofessional conduct linked to the investi- gation, which wasn’t fully revealed until the state at- torney general’s office filed charges Tuesday. Before surrendering his li- cense, Radecki had offices in Clarion, Dubois, Kane and Seneca and opened a clinic in Dubois in March 2012 where he dispensed medicines meant to wean people off of heroin and similar drugs. Man tries to open door of jetliner MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An AirTran flight was safely di- verted to Memphis, Tenn., af- ter a passenger tried to open an emergency exit on the plane, officials said Tuesday. Flight 265 was on its way from Baltimore to Austin, Texas, Monday evening, when it had to make the emergency landing, South- west Airlines spokesman Brad Hawkins said. Crew members stopped the man from opening the door, said John Greaud, vice president of operations for the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. He said he wasn’t sure if they used verbal commands or if they physically subdued him. The 119 passengers were temporarily removed from the plane so officials could interview them about what happened and check the air- craft at Memphis Interna- tional Airport. Hawkins said the man was turned over to authorities in Memphis. N.Y. reporter loses appeal in leak case DENVER — New York- based reporter Jana Winter has lost another round in her battle to protect her confi- dential sources for a story about Colorado theater shoot- ing suspect James Holmes. A New York state appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision to en- force a Colorado subpoena that could force Winter to re- veal the names or go to jail. Colorado needs the ap- proval of New York judges to enforce the subpoena. Winter works for Fox News. Citing unidentified law-enforcement sources, she reported Holmes sent a psychiatrist a notebook con- taining violent images. Holmes’ attorneys say the leak violated a gag order. They also say police may have lied when they denied being Winter’s source, un- dermining their credibility as witnesses. Kagan says justices aren’t tech-savvy PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ele- na Kagan says she and her fellow Supreme Court justices aren’t very tech savvy and still communicate with each other the same way they did when she was a clerk in 1987: with paper memos. In an appearance in Provi- dence on Tuesday, Kagan ac- knowledged the justices have a ways to go to understand technologies such as Face- book, Twitter and even email. She says emerging tech- nologies pose a challenge for the court, and it can be diffi- cult to understand whether a decision makes sense given the technology involved. She says the justices are often helped by younger clerks. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS ■ No one was injured, students and faculty evacuated the building By BILL BARROW and KATE BRUMBACK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DECATUR, Ga. — A teen was in custody, suspected of firing shots from an assault ri- fle Tuesday at an Atlanta-area elementary school where dra- matic television footage showed young students racing out of the building, being es- corted by teachers and police. No one was injured and all stu- dents and teachers were ac- counted for and safe. The 800 or so students in pre- kindergarten to fifth grade were evacuated from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, a few miles east of Atlanta. They sat outside in a field for a time un- til school buses came to take them to their waiting parents and other relatives at a nearby Wal-Mart. When the first bus arrived a couple hours later, cheers erupted in the store parking lot. The suspect, identified later as 20-year-old Michael Bran- don, fired at least a half-dozen shots with an assault rifle from inside the school and officers returned fire, DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexan- der said at a news conference. Though the school has a sys- tem where people must be buzzed in, the gunman slipped inside behind someone author- ized to be there, Alexander said. The suspect, whose identi- ty was not released, never got past the front office and was being questioned at the police department, Alexander said. No charges had yet been filed. A woman in the school office called WSB-TV as it was hap- pening to say the gunman asked her to contact the At- lanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. As- signment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with the woman who said she was alone with the man and his gun was visi- ble. “It didn’t take long to know that this woman was serious,” Lecroy said. “Shots were one of the last things I heard. I was so worried for her.” U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement took the man into custody after the shootout. DeKalb County Schools Su- perintendent Michael Thur- mond praised faculty and au- thorities who got the young stu- dents to safety, staying calm and following safety plans in place. “It’s a blessed day, all of our children are safe,” Thurmond said at the news conference. “This was a highly professional response on the ground by DeKalb County employees as- sisted by law enforcement.” The school has about 870 children enrolled. The academy is named after McNair, an as- tronaut who died when the space shuttle Challenger ex- ploded on Jan. 28, 1986, ac- cording to the school’s website. Suspect arrested in Ga. school shooting dailymail.com ■ Go online to see video from the shooting scene THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Four State Department officials have been cleared of security failures that led to an attack last year on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambas- sador Chris Stevens, authorities said Tuesday. State spokeswoman Marie Harf said the officials, who held senior positions at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Near East Affairs during the Sept. 11, 2012, at- tack, will be reassigned to new jobs. She said an internal State re- view concluded “there was no breach of duty” by any of the four, who have been on paid ad- ministrative leave for months. The Benghazi attack has been under intense scrutiny by some House Republicans who have suggested the Obama adminis- tration is trying to cover up the circumstances and aftermath on the outpost that left Stevens and three other Americans dead. A State Department report in December described a security vacuum in Libya after rebel forces toppled the decades-long regime of strongman Moammar Gadhafi. It singled out the Bu- reau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Near East Af- fairs for lacking cooperation and being confused over pro- tection at the diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among the four officials are Eric Boswell, assistant secre- tary of state for diplomatic se- curity; Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security; and Ray- mond Maxwell, deputy assis- tant secretary of state who oversaw the Maghreb nations of Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Mo- rocco. Tuesday’s announcement drew a sharp rebuke from House Oversight and Govern- ment Reform Committee Chair- man Darrell Issa, who has been leading a congressional probe of the government’s response to the attack. “Instead of accountability, the State Department offered a charade that included false re- ports of firings and resigna- tions and now ends in a game of musical chairs where no one misses a single day on the State Department payroll,” Issa, R- Calif., said in a statement. He called the government’s response to the attacks “more of a public relations strategy than a measured response to a failure in leadership.” Issa has repeatedly ques- tioned the State Department re- view’s findings in December, which he says were developed in secret and appear to have failed to include interviews with witnesses. He said he will expand his in- vestigation to include the de- partment’s decision to not dis- cipline the four officials. BENGHAZI ATTACK Agency clears diplomat officials ■ Police say Australian baseball player was randomly targeted by three ‘bored’ teenagers By KRISTI EATON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNCAN, Okla. — With the simplest of motives — break- ing up the boredom of an Okla- homa summer — three teenagers followed an Aus- tralian collegiate baseball play- er who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him with a shot to the back for “the fun of it,” prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the teens with murder. As the boys appeared in an Oklahoma courtroom, a 17-year- old blurted out, “I pulled the trigger,” then wept after a judge told him that Tuesday’s hearing wasn’t the time or place to sort out the facts of the case. Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys “thugs” as he told Stephens County Judge Jerry Herberger how Christo- pher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, died on a city street. Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards, Jr., 15, of Duncan were charged with first-degree murder and, under Oklahoma law, will be tried as adults. Michael De- wayne Jones, 17, of Duncan was accused of using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court. “I’m appalled,” Hicks said af- ter the hearing. “This is not supposed to happen in this community.” In court, Hicks said Luna was sitting in the rear seat of a car when he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber revolver and shot Lane once in the back. Hicks said Jones was driving the vehicle and Edwards was in the passenger seat. Edwards has had run-ins with the law previously and had been in court Friday, the day of the killing, to sign documents relat- ed to his juvenile probation. “I believe this man is a threat to the community and should not be let out,” Hicks said as he requested no bond for Edwards. “He thinks it’s all a joke.” The two younger boys were held without bond; Bond was set at $1 million for Jones. Family and friends on two continents mourned Lane, who gave up pursuit of an Aus- tralian football career to pur- sue his passion for baseball, an American pastime. His girl- friend Sarah Harper tearfully laid a cross at a streetside me- morial in Duncan, while half a world away, an impromptu me- morial grew at the home plate he protected as a catcher on his youth team. “We just thought we’d leave it,” Sarah Harper said as she visited the memorial on Dun- can’s north, well-to-do side. “This is his final spot.” Flowers, photos and an Aus- tralian flag already adorned the roadside in a tribute to Lane. “I don’t know anybody who’s left this. It means a lot,” Harp- er said. Police Chief Dan Ford has said the boys wanted to over- come a boring end to their summer vacation — classes in Duncan resumed Tuesday — and that Jones told officers that they were bored and killed Lane for “the fun of it.” Man allegedly killed for ‘fun’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday along the road where he was shot and killed, in Duncan, Okla.
- 10. CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 4C CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK CHARLESTON DAILYMAIL4C ■ THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 DAILY MAIL Aug. 22, 2013 4C THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A U.S. Forest Service firefighter moves away from a quickly moving section of the Rim Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest Tuesday. ■ Mark Zuckerberg hopes new partnership will connect everyone, even in remote places By BARBARA ORTUTAY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Food, water and the Internet? Facebook CEO Mark Zucker- berg wants to get all of the world’s 7 billion people online through a partnership with some of the largest mobile tech- nology companies. He says the Web is an essential part of life, and everyone deserves to be connected, whether they live in Norway, Nicaragua or Namibia. “The Internet not only con- nects us to our friends, families and communities, but it is also the foundation of the global knowledge economy,” Zucker- berg wrote in a paper posted to his Facebook page late Tuesday. The title asks “Is Connectivity A Human Right?” Of course, connecting more people to the Internet is the kind of philanthropy that would create more potential Facebook users, which would also help boost the company’s bottom line. “There’s nothing wrong with that,” said Fordham University communications professor Paul Levinson, author of “New New Media.” “I think it is actually a pro- foundly important human right in the 21st century to have ac- cess to the Internet.” To get there, Facebook Inc. on Wednesday announced a partnership called Internet.org. It includes the world’s biggest social network, plus Korean electronics giant Samsung, Finnish handset maker Nokia and wireless chip maker Qual- comm Inc. More companies are expected to join. Google Inc., which is not a part of the Internet.org effort, launched a similar undertaking earlier this year with the goal of getting everyone on Earth online. Called Project Loon, the effort launched Internet-beam- ing antennas aloft on giant heli- um balloons. Facebook said the group’s goal is to “make Internet access available to the two-thirds of the world who are not yet connect- ed” — about 5 billion people. According to research group Internet World Stats, about 16 percent of Africa’s population is online, compared with 28 per- cent in Asia, 43 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean and 79 percent in North America. Levinson called the venture “profoundly humanistic, while adding that “at the same time, I would never say that Facebook is run by angels.” If the effort pays off, Face- book will grow its user base, advertising revenue and influ- ence. Business and philanthropy, in this case, can go hand in hand, Levinson said. Facebook has seen a healthy growth of its advertising rev- enue in recent months, espe- cially on the mobile devices it sees as the Internet’s new fron- tier. In its latest quarterly re- port, it posted the largest rev- enue gain since late 2011, when it was still a private company. Total revenue in the April-June quarter was up 53 percent from a year earlier to $1.81 billion. Internet.org’s plans, still in an early, rough-draft phase, in- clude developing cheaper smartphones and tools that would reduce the amount of data required to run mobile ap- plications. For Facebook, the move would certainly add more users to its current 1.15 billion and with them more advertising revenue. Still, Zuckerberg paints the effort as something larger. “For nine years, we’ve been on a mission to connect the world. We now connect more than 1 billion people, but to connect the next 5 billion we must solve a much bigger prob- lem: the vast majority of people don’t have access to the Inter- net,” Zuckerberg wrote. He points out that the people who already use Facebook “have way more money than the rest of the world combined.” That means it may “not actual- ly be profitable for us to serve the next few billion people for a very long time, if ever. But we believe everyone deserves to be connected.” Most of Facebook’s users live outside the U.S., and much of the site’s new user base will come from developing countries in the years ahead. And while most Americans first got online using desktop computers, many of the Internet’s newest users are bypassing PCs entirely, re- lying on mobile phones instead. Javier Olivan, vice president of growth and analytics at Facebook, said Facebook’s move continues what the com- pany has already been doing to get more people online. This in- cludes “Facebook For Every Phone,” an app that launched in 2011 to let people with simple, non-smartphones use Facebook. Facebook says it has invested more than $1 billion so far to connect people in the developing world to the Internet. Facebook’s stock price closed down 9 cents on Wednesday at $38.32. The stock is up 54 per- cent since the start of July. It has been on a roll since Face- book’s latest quarterly report, trading above its $38 initial public offering price for the first time since going public. Facebook CEO wants whole world online THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook wants to get more of the world’s more than 7 billion people online through a part- nership with some of the world’s largest mobile technology companies. Facebook Inc. announced a partnership called In- ternet.org on Wednesday. ■ U.S. Forest Service diverting millions from other sources to help fill gap, fight 51 large fires By JEFF BARNARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Run- ning out of money to fight wild- fires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is di- verting $600 million from tim- ber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap. The nation’s top wildfire- fighting agency was down to $50 million after spending $967 million so far this year, Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers said Wednesday in an email. Chambers says the $50 mil- lion the Forest Service has left is typically enough to pay for just a few days of fighting fires when the nation is at its top wildfire preparedness level, which went into effect Tuesday. There are 51 large uncon- tained fires burning across the nation, making it tough to meet demands for fire crews and equipment. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell sent a letter Aug. 16 to regional foresters and other top officials telling them to come up with the cuts by Friday. “I recognize that this direc- tion will have significant effects on the public whom we serve and on our many valuable part- ners, as well as agency opera- tions, target accomplishments and performance,” he wrote. “I regret that we have to take this action and fully understand that it only increases costs and re- duces efficiency.” The step comes despite Con- gress creating a special wild- fire reserve fund in 2009, known as the FLAME Act. Con- gress dedicated $413 million to the reserve in fiscal 2010, but cut it to $290 million in 2011 and raised it to $315 million in fiscal 2012, according to Forest Service documents. The current figure was not immediately available. “The Forest Service, when it lobbied for the FLAME Act, said, Look, if you give us this reserve fund for large fires, we won’t need to raid other parts of our budget,’ ” said Andy Stahl, director of the watchdog group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics. “The Forest Service instead used up the FLAME money and is now using other parts of its budget. That is giving the agency a blank check and it just keeps putting more zeros on it.” The mandatory budget cut- ting measure known as seques- tration reduced the Forest Ser- vice budget 5 percent, forcing cuts of 500 firefighters and 50 engines. Wildfire spending by other federal agencies takes the total to $1.2 billion so far this year, according to the National Inter- agency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. That is more than half last year’s total of $1.9 billion, and fast-approaching the 10- year average of $1.4 billion. There have been 33,000 fires that have burned more than 5,300 square miles — an area nearly the size of Connecticut. Feds short on wildfire money Firefighters head out to create a fire break to protect an elec- trical structure in the forest. By JULIE WATSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — A San Diego businesswoman stepped for- ward on Wed- nesday to say the leader of the nation’s eighth-largest city had made unwanted sex- ual advances toward her, the latest woman to ac- cuse Mayor Bob Filner of sex- ual harassment. The 70-year-old former con- gressman has been besieged by allegations from at least 17 women, and whether he’ll be able to hang onto his job is in limbo. A petition drive to recall Filner is in full swing, and calls from his own party urg- ing him to step down were mounting with the Democratic National Committee planning to vote on a resolution Friday. The measure would formalize a plea to Filner to leave office and also would condemn any- one who creates a hostile workplace or sexually harass- es women or men. Dianne York, the latest ac- cuser, said Filner placed his hand on her buttocks while she posed for a photo with him about three months ago. York told reporters at a news conference in National City that the incident took place after a meeting at his office. She said she reported the incident to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Settlement talks over a sex- ual harassment lawsuit brought against the city and Filner resumed for a third day on Wednesday. On Tuesday, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith hinted that the talks could go on for longer than originally expected. “Mediation can be a long process — we are in that process,” he told reporters Tuesday after an all-day ses- sion. It was unclear whether Fil- ner’s potential resignation was being discussed as part of the bargaining. Carl Luna, a political sci- ence professor at Mesa Col- lege, said Filner may be still fighting to stay in office or he may be trying to negotiate a deal that would limit his fi- nancial liability in the lawsuit if he agrees to resign. “Oddly enough the person holding the most cards is Bob Filner, because he’s the one in position to end all this,” Luna said. Those at the negotiating table say they have been told not to comment while the talks are ongoing. Filner has been attending the talks along with Goldsmith, City Council President Todd Gloria and Councilman Kevin Faulconer. Gloria would serve as acting mayor if Filner resigns. Attorney Gloria Allred and her client, Irene McCormack Jackson, attended the first day of talks and were in communi- cation but not physically pres- ent with the parties on Tues- day. Filner’s former communica- tions director, McCormack, as she is known professionally, was the first to go public with allegations against him. Other accusers include a university dean and a retired Navy rear admiral. Some contend he cor- nered, groped and forcibly kissed them. Filner announced three weeks ago that he would un- dergo therapy after acknowl- edging he has disrespected and intimidated women. He has de- nied committing sexual ha- rassment. Questions also have been raised over Filner’s spending and a trip to Paris. He is being investigated over the various issues by the city attorney’s office, state attorney gener- al’s office, Sheriff’s Depart- ment and U.S. attorney. Before going into therapy, Filner said when he returns his focus “will be on making sure that I am doing right by the city in terms of being the best mayor I can be.” He has not issued a statement since returning. Recall organizers must col- lect 101,597 signatures of reg- istered San Diego voters by Sept. 26. If the petition has fewer than that, the recall campaign will have 30 more days to gather additional valid signatures. If enough signatures are val- idated, the City Council must schedule an election within 60 to 90 days. Another woman says mayor fondled her FILNER By WAYNE PARRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRIGANTINE, N.J. — Once upon a time, he was known as Capt. Bob, the man who trained the dolphins and seals to perform for crowds in At- lantic City. But as he got to know the dolphins, Bob Schoelkopf re- nounced keeping them in cap- tivity and devoted the rest of his life to rescuing stranded marine mammals. Now the man who once prodded dolphins to jump and wave their fins for crowds is part of a broad scientific ef- fort to determine why dolphins are dying by the hundreds. “It’s worst when you get a fe- male come ashore and she’s lac- tating and you see the milk come out onto the stretcher,” said Schoelkopf, co-director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Cen- ter. “That means there’s a baby out there swimming around with- out a mother. That baby is going to become shark bait.” So far this summer, there have been about 230 dolphin deaths along the East Coast, prompting the National Ocean- ic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration to declare an unusual mortality event. That clears the way for an intensive sci- entific inquiry into what is causing the deaths. No definitive conclusions have been reached so far, but many suspect the morbilli virus. The naturally occurring virus was ultimately blamed for the last major dolphin die- off, in 1987, when 740 of the animals died. So far this year, several of the dolphins that washed ashore in New Jersey have tested positive for the virus. The waves of dead dolphins started appearing in New Jer- sey in early July, and it hasn’t let up since then. Wednesday morning, the stranding center got a call about a dead dolphin that washed ashore in Sea Bright, the 62nd so far in New Jersey this year. But it was too badly decomposed and chewed up by sharks to war- rant taking it for a necropsy at a veterinary center near Kennett Square, Pa. — a four- hour round trip that is ex- hausting volunteers. Two hours later, yet another dead dolphin No. 63 washed up in Spring Lake. One recent day in New Jer- sey, a dead dolphin came ashore at 1 a.m., was eutha- nized at 3 a.m., and staff had just gotten home into their beds when yet another dolphin washed ashore at 6 a.m. Schoelkopf has been doing this for decades. A Vietnam veteran whose duty included underwater operations, he was injured during the war and sent to Philadelphia Naval Hospital. His diving experi- ence allowed him to get a job at an aquarium where he cleaned the underwater glass of the dolphin tanks. One night, he was scrubbing away when he felt something nudge him from behind. It was a dolphin that had managed to get out of its holding tank, one of several who had learned how to open the gate, swim out — and then return after a while and snap the latch closed again. “No one had any idea they were swimming out and play- ing around each night,” he said. It changed his life. “I didn’t want to work with captive dolphins anymore,” he said. “It wasn’t right for them to do 13 shows a day and nev- er see sunlight.” He founded the stranding center and has earned a na- tional reputation for rescuing beached or distressed sea creatures. He is well aware of the emotional effect sick or dead dolphins can have on people. “Animals die all the time at sea, but people don’t see it,” he said. “They get upset when they do see it. They’re looking at Flipper.” Former trainer looking into dolphin die-off
- 11. CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 1C CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 1CCharleston DailyMail ■ Friday, August 23, 2013Localdailymail.com/news Classifieds 4C Inside Stocks: Dow, Nasdaq finish up / 2C News: UK begins inquiry into Snowden’s leaks / 4C Teen texted man before abduction News 4C DAILY MAIL Aug. 23, 2013 1C Minister says surveillance camera caught angel By CHARLOTTE FERRELL SMITH DAILY MAIL STAFF HURRICANE — The congrega- tion of the Teays Valley campus of River Ridge Church has settled into a new home that was once a car dealership. The facility has been transformed to meet the needs of the growing church. “The transformation of an exist- ing building and bringing something back to life is a powerful symbol of what it means for us as believers,” Pastor Chad Cobb said. “The scrip- ture says that through Christ we are new creations.” The church at 1 Saturn Way in Hurricane has been a Saturn deal- ership as well as other businesses, including a spot where campers were sold. The Putnam County congregation began meeting at West Teays Ele- mentary in 2008. River Ridge also has a Charleston location on Green- brier Street past Capital High School where Matt Santen serves as pastor. “At West Teays Elementary, we outgrew the space and had gone to two services,” Cobb said. “We began looking for property two years ago.” When church leaders learned the current building was available, a team of experts checked it out and pointed out amenities. “They saw things we never saw,” Cobb said. “We dreamed and prayed. It’s amazing how little we had to do.” Renovations began in mid-April and proceeded quickly. The facility got a fresh coat of paint and new carpet. One wall was torn down and a few more con- structed to create the desired inte- rior. An elevator was added to the two-level structure. The 19,000-square-foot facility has generous lighting from spacious windows. The sanctuary is located on the lower level in what was once a maintenance center. At the West Teays Elementary location, the congregation included about 450. The first service at the new loca- tion on Aug. 18 drew 750, including “family, friends, and well-wishers,” the pastor said. However, several members of the congregation visited a week before the open house and wrote scriptures on the sanctuary floor before it was covered with carpet. ■ Man sees ball of light in recorded video as sign of hope for West Side By CHARLOTTE FERRELL SMITH DAILY MAIL STAFF Charles Shelton awoke about 3 a.m. with a strong feeling that he should pray. He left his bed and went down- stairs to sit on a couch where he prayed for his West Side neighbor- hood and those addicted to drugs. He asked for God’s healing presence. Shelton, who recently installed a surveillance system around his home, felt drawn to a monitor where he saw a gigantic and bril- liant ball of light. It passed through a window and a wall, filling the en- tire room with its presence. A thin- ner film of light that could be seen on its sides fluttered like wings. “I was astonished,” Shelton said. “The Lord revealed to me that this was his angel and his presence.” The huge circle covered an area from a window to a fence on the side of his house. It appeared to come through his living room twice, and he caught it on surveillance video. At first, he didn’t even tell his wife about the event he saw on Aug. 4. But then he figured if some- thing good happens that he should tell people. With the video to back up his experience, he started telling folks, including a television station that included his story on the news. Shelton, an evangelical minister, has been a UPS employee for 27 years. He has lived on Charleston’s West Side for 25 years. “Crime has been growing for a long time,” he said. “You hear about shootings, killings and vandalism. When somebody sees angels, why can’t we let people know? God’s presence is in the neighborhood. No wonder how rough it may get, God is still in the midst. I don’t care what critics say. I know what happened.” Shelton travels to various church- es doing evangelistic work. He and his wife, Helen, who works in the library at the West Virginia University School of Med- icine in Kanawha City, have one son. Charles Shelton Jr. is a Christ- ian drummer who has performed throughout the country and won an armload of awards. He was fea- tured in a Daily Mail article in 2007 when he held a clinic at St. Albans High School for 16 percussionists. Helen Shelton has been working for several years on a faith-based book that is to be published in December. “Tattoos and Body Modification: Power of Attachment” is about breaking free of the chains that hold people back in life. Charles Shelton, who turns 48 on Sept. 1, has worked over the years to fix up his home and has added beautiful landscaping. He takes pride in his community and prays for peace instead of crime. He says he has seen angels on two previous occasions in churches. He believes having the video to share gives him more credibility to talk about the recent experience at his West Side home. “I am not doing this to get popu- lar,” he said. “People need to know there are angels in our neighbor- hood.” Contact writer Charlotte Ferrell Smith at charlotte@dailymail.com or 304-348-1246. W.Va. seeking health care for children Church enters ‘new creation’ Growing Putnam County congregation moves into newly renovated building CRAIG CUNNINGHAM/DAILY MAIL Charles Shelton believes he captured the image of an angel on a sur- veillance camera at his home on Charleston’s West Side. See video of Shelton explaining his sighting at dailymail.com. ■ Change would allow dependents of state employees to enroll in program By DAVE BOUCHER DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER By July of next year, state employees might be able to enroll their children in a state health care program, according to an announcement Thurs- day from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Tomblin announced the state is seeking a waiv- er from the federal government that would allow state employees to enroll their children in the West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Pro- gram, known as CHIP. “The good health of our children is of the ut- most importance,” Tomblin said in the news re- lease. “Through this opportunity, we are seeking to protect and improve our children’s quality of life and future by providing a more affordable in- surance option for their families.” Right now, children of state employees are not eligible for CHIP coverage because of federal el- igibility restrictions. The CHIP program provides coverage for low-income families or for families who have recently lost their health insurance, ac- cording to the program website. The changes would allow state employees who re- ceive coverage from the Public Employees Insur- ance Agency — PEIA — to enroll their dependents. Other eligibility criteria will remain the same. Almost 25,000 children were enrolled in the program as of July, according to data available on the CHIP website. The attempt to expand CHIP coverage is part of the state’s larger process to prepare for health care changes mandated under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act, also called “Oba- macare,” will change requirements so the state could consider including people who receive some coverage through PEIA, according to the news release. The state will ask the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Sept. 1 if it can expand the program. It’s asking through an amended state plan, one of many the state an- ticipates filing as it prepares for changes under the new health care law. ■ Turn to HEALTH/3C The ministry team at the Teays Valley campus, from left, includes Benjy Cox, music and media director; Pas- tor Chad Cobb; Zack Brady, director of student ministry; and Andy Tuel, campus pastor. BOB WOJCEISZAK/DAILY MAIL Finishing touches are still being added to the youth gathering area at the new River Ridge Church location at 1 Saturn Way in Hurricane. ■ Turn to CHURCH/3C Measures taken to protect uninsured ■ Agencies requiring background checks for health care marketplace ‘navigators’ By ZACK HAROLD DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER Both of the groups charged with hiring “navi- gators” for West Virginia’s health care market- place will require employees to get background checks and fingerprints before they can begin signing up residents for health insurance. Pat Haberbosch, executive director of West Virginia Parent Training and Information, said the navigators, who would guide residents through the Affordable Care Act sign-up process, would receive “pretty intense” training on privacy rules through the online training they will receive through the federal govern- ment. Haberbosch said fingerprints and background checks are already required for the group’s ex- isting employees, and requiring them for naviga- tors is just another layer of protection. “There’s a lot of talk out there,” Haberbosch said. “We want as many safeguards as we can put in place.” Advanced Patient Advocacy, a Richmond, Va.- based company that also will hire navigators in West Virginia, said it will require background checks as well. Chief marketing officer Rodney Napier said the company also might require its navigators to undergo additional training to “make sure they’re up to our standards.” Last week, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and his colleagues from 12 other states sent a let- ter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, saying navigators will not have adequate training to protect individuals’ personal information. ■ Turn to UNINSURED/3C
- 12. ■ Bluegrass singer-banjo playerJ.D. Crowe is 76. Actor Tommy Sands is 76. Musician Daryl Dragon of the Captain and Tennille is 71. Actress Tuesday Weld is 70. Actor G.W. Bailey (“The Closer”) is 69. Singer-bassist Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge is 69. Actress Marianne Sagebrecht is 68. Guitarist Jeff Cook of Alaba- ma is 64. Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) is 61. Gui- tarist Alex Lifeson of Rush is 60. Actress Diana Scarwid is 58. Bassist Glen Matlock of The Sex Pistols is 57. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 52. Guitarist Matthew Basford of Yankee Grey is 51. Bassist Mike Johnson (Dinosaur Jr.) is 48. Percussionist Bobo of Cypress Hill is 45. Country singer Colt Ford is 44. Actress Chandra Wilson (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 44. Bassist Tony Kanal of No Doubt is 43. Ac- tress Sarah Chalke is 37. Rapper Mase is 36. Actress Demetria McKinney (“House of Payne”) is 35. Actor Aaron Paul is 34. Guitarist Jon Siebels of Eve 6 is 34. Actor Shaun Weiss (“The Mighty Ducks”) is 34. Actor Patrick J. Adams (“Suits”) is 32. Singer Mario is 26. Actress Alexa Vega (“Spy Kids”) is 25. ■ On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Bea- tles, was found dead in his London flat from an over- dose of sleeping pills; he was 32. ■ USA Today best-selling fiction books for the week ending Thursday: 1. “Mistress” by James Pat- terson/David Ellis (Little, Brown) 2. “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) 3. “Rose Harbor in Bloom” by Debbie Macomber (Ballan- tine) 4. “Inferno” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) ■ Singer’s provocative performance fuels buzz from MTV awards show By MESFIN FEKADU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It may not be a good thing for her, but Miley Cyrus had the most memorable moment at the MTV Video Music Awards. The provocative pop singer was the hot topic at Sunday night’s show: Cyrus eclipsed Lady Gaga’s opening perform- ance of her new single, Katy Perry’s closing rendition of her latest hit and Kanye West’s artsy set. The 20-year-old even grabbed more attention than Justin Timberlake’s perform- ance with his ‘N Sync band- mates. Cyrus twerked and gyrated, stripped and swayed. She sang, too. She had a helper at the VMAs: Robin Thicke. After per- forming her edgy hit, “We Can’t Stop,” she stripped off her out- fit to reveal a nude bikini. She sang the first verse of Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and then grind- ed on the R&B singer and made suggestive moves with a foam hand. The wild child also slapped a girl’s butt onstage. It was an eye-popping per- formance, much like the party she’s having in her music video for “We Can’t Stop,” one of the most popular on YouTube. Within hours, the Buzzfeed site was posting the “15 Weird- est and Craziest Moments” from Cyrus’ performance, which was aired live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. “Amazing. I thought it was awesome,” fellow former child star Selena Gomez said back- stage of Cyrus’ performance. “I love Robin Thicke, too, so I like that they collab’d.” Artist to watch winner Austin Mahone also seemed to enjoy the performance: “I thought it was pretty creative. I thought it was pretty cool.” Brooke Shields, who played Cyrus’ mom in a few episodes of “Hannah Montana” on the Disney Channel, took note of that on the “Today” show Mon- day: “I was Hannah Montana’s mom! Where did I go wrong?” On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said the performance was “disgust- ing and embarrassing” and that people involved should be ashamed. Twitter said early Monday that Cyrus was mentioned 4.5 million times on the social net- work site, ahead of Timber- lake’s 2.9 million mentions. Cyrus and Thicke’s perform- ance led in tweets per minute peaks with 306,100. Though they were attention grabbers and nominated for four moonmen each, Thicke and Cyrus walked away empty- handed Sunday night. Timberlake earned three awards, including video of the year and best male video for “Mirrors.” Days ahead of the VMAs, his rumored reunion with ‘N Sync dominated head- lines, and he and his former bandmates delivered at the awards show. As Timberlake performed a medley of his solo hits, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fa- tone and Chris Kirkpatrick emerged from the bottom of the stage in suits to sing some lines from their hits “Girlfriend” and “Bye, Bye, Bye.” Gomez, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and possibly the entire venue were giddy as the boy band danced like they did a decade ago. Even rappers Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J admit- ted on the red carpet they were excited to see ‘N Sync hit the stage. “Half of the moonmen I’ve ever won, I won with those four guys right there,” Timberlake said of his bandmates when he accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. “So above all else, I’m going to share this — we can keep it my house — but I’m going to share this award with them.” Cyrus wasn’t the only pop singer with edge at the VMAs: Swift also turned heads. The 23-year-old, who won best fe- male video, appeared to utter an expletive to Gomez when Swift’s rumored ex, One Direc- tion member Harry Styles, was onstage. The boy band also earned boos when it won best song of the summer for “Best Song Ever,” beating out Gomez, Thicke, Cyrus, Daft Punk and Calvin Harris. Rapper A$AP Rocky also pro- vided an awkward moment Sun- day when standing next to NBA player Jason Collins as both an- nounced Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ performance. Collins, who is the first active player in the NBA to say he is gay, spoke about coming out as A$AP Rocky looked uncomfortable. “The next artist is a good friend of mine and he stands up for everything he believes in as far as everybody being equal, color, homosexuality,” the rap- per said as he pointed to Collins in another awkward moment. But that was followed with a touching performance of Mack- lemore & Ryan Lewis’ same- sex anthem “Same Love.” It featured the song’s original vo- calist, Mary Lambert, as well as Jennifer Hudson. The video won best video with a social message while their hit “Can’t Hold Us” won best hip-hop video and best cinematography. “I never dreamt I would be on a stage accepting an award, any of the awards, in particular for that song,” Macklemore said of “Same Love” backstage. “It’s much bigger than the music. It’s equality, so that was the most special for me tonight, but all of them were incredible.” Bruno Mars, who won best male video and choreography for “Treasure,” twirled with his two moonmen backstage while Gomez admitted she thought Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” should have won best pop video instead of her seduc- tive “Come & Get It.” Lady Gaga kicked off the awards show in a less dramatic fashion compared with her past performances. She did change her clothes — and hair — vari- ous times onstage while danc- ing and singing her new hit, “Applause.” She finished in a thong, revealing her toned body. Katy Perry closed the VMAs under the Brooklyn bridge in a boxing ring, singing her smash hit “Roar.” dailymail.com/artsandentertainment CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 9B CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK Charleston Daily Mail ■ Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9BPeople Today’s birthdays Topfive Flashback Startalk “I was Hannah Montana’s mom! Where did I go wrong?” Brooke Shields Actress, on Miley Cyrus’ performance Come see the stars Visit our Web site for a daily update of the celebrity photo gallery. www.dailymail.com Names inthenews DAILY MAIL Aug. 27, 2013 9B • Start Subscriptions • Vacation Stops/Starts • Report Delivery Issues • Register for Digital Access @ cncustomerservice.com then click on register Call 304-348-4800 • To Place a Classified Ad Call 304-348-4848 • Advertise Your Business Call 304-348-4860 Charleston Newspapers FOR ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS, PLEASE CALL (304) 348-5140 OR TOLL FREE 1-800-WVA-NEWS • Advertise YouYouY r Business Advertising – Retail i i Circulation Customer Service • To Place a Classified Ad Advertising – Classified Miley steals the show Reggae star sues after bottle injury RICHMOND, Va. — Gram- my winning reggae musician Frederick “Toots” Hibbert is suing several organizations after he was injured during a May concert in Richmond. Hibbert has filed the $20 million lawsuit in Richmond Circuit Court against Venture Richmond and Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers Inc. The suit also names securi- ty-provider Regional Market- ing Concepts Inc. and another company that provided con- cessions for the concert. The leader of Toots & the Maytals was struck in the head with a tossed vodka bot- tle while he performed on Brown’s Island in the James River. After suffering a deep head cut, Hibbert canceled the remaining stops on his tour and returned to Jamaica. The Richmond Times-Dis- patch reports that Venture Richmond objected on Mon- day to the allegation of negli- gence, saying the teen charged in the incident is solely responsible. Kate Gosselin sues ex over tell-all book PHILADELPHIA — TV celebrity Kate Gosselin has filed a lawsuit accusing her ex-husband Jon of stealing her hard drive and hacking into her phone and computer to get material for a tell-all book. The federal lawsuit says he took the material and hacked into her bank accounts for a book called “Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World.” The suit, filed Monday, says the book was written by her ex-husband’s friend, tabloid writer Robert Hoffman, but has since been pulled from Amazon because the material was obtained illegally. The couple starred in the reality TV show Jon & Kate plus 8,” detailing life with their twins and sextuplets, before they separated in 2009 and later divorced. She lives in Sinking Spring, Berks County, while he lives in Wyomissing, Pa. A lawyer who once repre- sented Jon Gosselin did not immediately return a mes- sage. First woman on stock exchange dies NEW YORK — Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, who started as a trainee on Wall Street and became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, has died of complications of can- cer at age 80. Siebert died Saturday at Memorial Sloan-Ketter- ing Cancer Center in New York. Her death was con- firmed by Jane Macon, a director of Siebert Financial and a part- ner at the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Siebert was founder and president of brokerage firm that bears her name, Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc. The com- pany went public in 1996 as Siebert Financial Corp. Macon said Siebert was “a fabulous woman, a trailblaz- er and a pioneer” who set a high standard for those who entered the financial world after her. “She always pushed the doors open and kept them open for other people to follow.” COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS SIEBERT GOSSELIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus perform “Blurred Lines” at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday. Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, of ‘N Sync, reunite to perform a few of their hit songs. And the winners are . . . A list of winners at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, which aired live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.: ■ Video of the year: Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors” ■ Best female video: Taylor Swift, “I Knew You Were Trouble.” ■ Best male video: Bruno Mars, “Locked Out of Heaven” ■ Best pop video: Selena Gomez, “Come & Get It” ■ Best hip-hop video: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dal- ton, “Can’t Hold Us” ■ Best rock video: Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Up In the Air” ■ Best collaboration: Pink and Nate Ruess of fun., “Just Give Me a Reason” ■ Best video with a social message: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fea- turing Mary Lambert, “Same Love” ■ Best song of the summer: One Direction, “Best Song Ever” ■ Artist to watch: Austin Mahone, “What About Love” ■ Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Justin Timberlake ■Best direction: Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” (director David Fincher) ■ Best visual effects: Capital Cities, “Safe and Sound” ■ Best choreography: Bruno Mars, “Treasure” ■ Best art direction: Janelle Monae featuring Erykah Badu, “Q.U.E.E.N.” ■ Best cinematography: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton, “Can’t Hold Us” ■ Best editing: Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors”
- 13. Pumpkin beers brew dismay Life 3D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 1DLifeCharleston Daily Mail ■ Wednesday, September 4, 2013dailymail.com/foodandliving ■ Pittsburgh diner seen on TV lives up to hype S eptember is National Breakfast Month and I kicked off its first day in style with a Sunday morning feast at a hot Pittsburgh spot. And it wasn’t just any spot, but one featured on the Food Network and praised by foodies, the press and the president him- self. I must say the hour wait to get inside Pamela’s Diner in Pittsburgh’s Strip District was well worth it. Surrounded by colorful decor and vintage family pho- tos covering the walls, a group of 12 of us enjoyed plates of world-famous this and well-known that until we couldn’t possibly manage an- other bite. Although everything we sampled was fantastic, most folks come (and wait, however long it takes) for Pamela’s signature “crepe-style hot- cakes,” which really are like a cross between the two. They’re golden brown and but- tery like pancakes, but thin and light like crepes, giving them crackly and crispy edges and an almost toasted texture. Darnedest thing I’ve ever seen. One of the most deli- cious, too. You can order them plain or stuffed and topped with ba- nanas, walnuts, chocolate, strawberries and what-not. I enjoyed mine rolled up like crepes with blueberries, sour cream and brown sugar inside and a scoop of whipped cream on top. They’re so good and sweet you don’t even need syrup, which many guests forego. Few pass on Pamela’s popu- lar Lyonnaise potatoes, so I couldn’t, either. They were in- credible, although I shudder to think how much butter went in to making them so. One special that day was a breakfast hash blending the restaurant’s house-made chori- zo sausage with the aforemen- tioned butter-blessed potatoes and cheese, which you stuffed inside flour tortillas for phe- nomenal results. Still, it’s those unique pan- cakes I can’t get out of my head. Although the recipe is a closely guarded restaurant se- cret, check out www.pamelas- diner.com to see what all the fuss is about. Oftentimes, places like this featured on the Food Net- work’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” are more gimmicky than good — celebrated for how giant the portions are or how chockfull of cheese every- thing is. But Pamela’s is beloved for simple food done simply well. That’s worth a wait in my book. ■ ■ ■ Speaking of Pittsburgh, a onetime West Virginia State Recipe Challenge winner that has enjoyed retail success there as well as in markets like Charlotte, Cincinnati, Chattanooga and Nashville will soon be available in local Television 4D Comics 5D Inside Dear Abby: Grandma weighs decision to sever contact with daughter / 2D Jeanne Phillips, Dear Abby Steven Keith Daily Mail columnist TheFoodGuy 1D DAILY MAIL Sep. 4, 2013 1D Family still thankful for gardens By CHARLOTTE FERRELL SMITH DAILY MAIL STAFF L EON — This summer’s wet weather has taken a toll on the gardens at Thankful Valley Farms in the scenic landscape of Mason County. “Everything rotted because of the rain,” Sherrie Taylor said. “The zucchini and squash rotted at the root.” Her husband, David Taylor, estimates the family has lost $25,000 in pro- duction this year. Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and corn all suf- fered in the wake of rain and overflow- ing creeks. Some vegetables were destroyed while others did not grow to their full po- tential. Deer ate the beans. All is not lost. Seven vari- eties of hot peppers are flour- ishing, the potatoes are doing well, and the animals are healthy. Those running this family farm know how to focus on the positive. They have overcome greater hardships and fought bigger battles. “There are four generations living here,” said Sherrie, who added that everyone works the farm according to his or her abilities. Sherrie, 50, and David, 43, both previously married, have seven children and eight grandchildren between them. They were living on the out- skirts of Columbia, S.C., when they met and fell in love. She had a son and was car- ing for three special needs children. He had a daughter. They married in October 2005. On Dec. 5, 2010, they lost everything they had in a fire that destroyed their home and every Christmas gift. As they tearfully sat in their van feeling defeated an empty egg carton popped open with these words inside the lid: “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Leaning on their faith, they set out to piece their lives back together. “I take pride in being able to provide for my family,” David said. He took his ID and head- ed to the Salvation Army in quest of immediate assistance. Then they decided to com- pletely reconstruct their lives and go into farming. David grew up on a farm in South Carolina and Sherrie on a farm in Lincoln County. After pricing land in the South, they decided to look in the Moun- tain State where they found af- fordable acreage and a fellow willing to offer owner financ- ing. When David stood in the midst of a secluded area and realized he had no cell phone service, he knew he wanted the land. They moved to West Virginia on Dec. 4, 2011. “We looked like the Clam- petts moving here,” he said, referring to the characters from the 1960s show “The Bev- erly Hillbillies.” “We had our big family van, the largest U- haul you could get and a pop- Mason farmers looking at positives despite losing $25,000 in production W.Va. Farms Stories about our state’s farmers Hotcakes well worth the wait COURTESY PHOTO The Daily Mail’s Food Guy, Steven Keith, waited an hour for the chance to try the fa- mous crepe-style pancakes at Pamela’s Diner in Pittsburgh. ■ Turn to FARM/3D ■ Turn to FOOD GUY/3D TOM HINDMAN/DAILY MAIL Sherrie Taylor, holding granddaughter 1-year-old Anna Lynn, is shown with husband, David, and their daughters, Jessica, 10, Kaitlyn, 15, and Hannah, 13. For video of the Mason County farm, go online to dailymail.com. Hannah and Jessica gather ground cherries for a sweet snack. A Suffolk sheep is among animals roaming the land at Thankful Valley Farms. Hannah cradles baby rabbits that are just hours old. Turkeys are plump with fluffy feathers at Thankful Valley Farms. While many vegetables suffered in the wake of wet weather, the peppers flourished.
- 14. stores here. Owned byformer Marshall University quarterback Jim Gilbert, Bluegrass BBQ has struck a deal with Kroger to start appearing on shelves in the grocer’s Kanawha City, Marmet and Barboursville stores. A new relationship with Shop West Virginia will increase its distribution throughout the state as well. Bluegrass BBQ’s three all- natural, gluten-free flavors in- clude Spicy, Blueberry and Original, which features a unique blend of barbecue styles from around the coun- try — smoky (Memphis), spicy (Texas), sweet (Kansas City) and vinegar (North Carolina). Want to try some yourself? Gilbert will be providing free samples from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Kroger in Kanawha City. ■ ■ ■ And speaking of barbecue, I’ll be saving a great recipe sent my way this week from Amoretti, makers of infused oils, vinegars and flavored syrups. This easy homemade Peach Barbecue Sauce features the fruit’s tangy sweetness with- out the hassle of peeling, pit- ting and dicing those juicy suckers. Try it on roasted or grilled pork, chicken, steak or even salmon. Contact writer Steven Keith at dailymailfoodguy@aol.com or 304- 348-1721. You can also follow him on Facebook and Pinterest as “Dai- lyMail FoodGuy,” on Twitter as “DMFoodGuy” or read his blog at http://blogs.dailymail.com/foodguy/. CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK 3D CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 ■ 3D DAILY MAIL Sep. 4, 2013 3D up camper.” She left behind her job as a parts and service director for a car dealership and he left his position as a network engineer for the Department of Energy. She now works the farm and home schools the chil- dren. Aside from long hours on the farm, he also works in Parkersburg, where he does system assessments for the Department of Treasury. There are nine family members living on the farm. Sherrie’s son, Chris Put- nam, 21, does the heavy lift- ing. He lives there with his wife Harley and their 1-year- old daughter Anna-Lynn. The Taylors adopted the three sisters Sherrie had in her custody when they met. Kaitlyn, 15, Hannah, 13, and Jessica, 10, all work on the farm. The oldest has Asperg- er’s Syndrome, the middle is autistic and the youngest has cerebral palsy. Sherrie said the girls knew that moving to the farm is a way for them to learn independence while home schooling has helped them achieve more than experts anticipated. Meanwhile, Sherrie’s moth- er, Anna Barrett, who turns 71 on Sept. 31, helps gather vegetables and can them along with other chores that need done. Their oldest children live elsewhere, including Sher- rie’s son, Joey Miller, 32, her daughter, Amanda McElveen, 30, and David’s daughter, Rebecca Taylor, 21. The Taylors say they never would have made it this far without the help of good neighbors who have been supportive and loaned equip- ment. They name Betty Hill, Elmer Miller, C.L. Keefer, and Teresa Pyatt and her late husband, Charlie Pyatt, who died two months ago. Officials from the West Virginia Department of Agri- culture have also offered ex- pertise. The gardens did better last year in dry weather than this year with all the rain. A grant has been secured through the Department of Natural Resources for a greenhouse to grow high-tun- nel tomatoes. The family sells hay, eggs, chicken, pork and hopes to add beef next year. They also sell animals. They have a variety of chickens and rabbits as well as goats, pigs, ducks, and turkeys. A pot bellied pig and an alpaca are among rescued critters. They participate with oth- er farms in the Ittle Bitty Mobile Market that travels to various areas with meat, eggs, vegetable, and berries. Participating farms include Thankful Valley, Ittle Bitty, Shooting Star, Shady Oaks and Bradley. “We have about 50 acres and five gardens,” Sherrie said. “Next year we’ll have seven gardens. We till the gardens by hand.” The family has applied for grants for needed farm equipment. Sherrie figures love, deter- mination, hard work, family ties, faith, and good neigh- bors are a good combination for success. Among her greatest blessings, she counts the support and love of her husband. For more information about Thankful Valley Farms and Hatchery, go to thankfulvalleyfarms.com, email thankfulvalley@yahoo.com or call 304-458-2113. Contact writer Charlotte Fer- rrell Smith at charlotte@ dailymail.com or 304-348- 1246. Farm ▲ Continued from 1D Family credits neighbors for support, loaning farm equipment Peach barbecue sauce 1 cup yellow mustard 3/4 cup aged pomegranate (or plain) balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup light brown sugar 1/4 cup water (or reduced-sodium chicken/beef stock) 2 Tbsp. chilli poweder 1/2 Tbsp. soy sauce 1 tsp. peach syrup 1/4 tsp. cayenne Salt and pepper to taste 1. Add all ingredients (except salt and pepper) in a medium bowl and whisk until blended. 2. Baste or brush on meat during the last few minutes of cooking. Recipe courtesy of Amoretti. Food Guy ▲ Continued from 1D TOM HINDMAN/DAILY MAIL Jessica Taylor, 10, holds Huckleberry, a prized Silkie chicken. Hannah Taylor, 13, rubs the belly of a pig that will give birth any day. Wet weather took a toll on the produce at Thankful Valley Farms and Hatchery. Pumpkin beers brew dismay with drinkers Women’s style show The Woman’s Club of Char- leston is inviting the public to attend their Style Show and Luncheon at noon Sept. 11. The show will be held at the clubhouse at 1600 Virginia St. E. in Charleston. The show is a fundraiser for two programs the Club has supported for many years, Camp Kno-Koma and Garnet Career Center Nursing Scholarship Program. Camp Kno-Koma provides a healthy, fun summer camping experience for diabetic chil- dren. The camp has a very specialized medical staff fo- cusing on diabetic care. The Club awards four scholarships to students from the Garnet Career Center Nursing Pro- gram at their May meeting. A light lunch will be served. The Style Show features Club members as models, wearing clothes from Ivor’s Trunk and Talbot’s. Day, evening, casual and cruise wear will be fea- tured. The cost is $20 per person. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 304- 776-7800 no later than Sunday. Tickets also may be pur- chased in advance at the club, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. now through Friday. Tailgate party Wheeling Island is kicking- off the football season with an Ultimate Tailgate Party on from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Showroom. Tickets are $10 and available at ticketmas- ter.com or by calling 800-745- 3000. Former Pittsburgh Steelers Greg Lloyd, Louis Lipps and Edmund Nelson will be on hand as special guests of the Ultimate Tailgate Party. Seven celebrity chefs will prepare popular tailgating food and go head-to-head in an iron- chef wing cook-off. Guests will vote for their favorite wings and the winning chef will be crowned Wing Champion. Support group Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 8 p.m. Wednesdays at New Beginnings Group, 1121 Virginia St. East, Char- leston. Several other meetings are available each day at other lo- cations and times. For more information, visit www.aawv.org or call 1-800- 333-5051. Pool hours for dogs The Charleston Parks and Recreation Department will open the Kanawha City Com- munity Center Swimming Pool, 3511 Venable Ave., for the dogs from 6 to 8 p.m. to- day, Thursday and Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sat- urday and Sunday. Donations of dog food and pet supplies will be accepted and donated to the Kanawha- Charleston Animal Shelter. Beer-tasting event The Greenhouse of Teays Valley, 3554 Teays Valley Road, will host its first beer- tasting event at 7 p.m. Thurs- day. Six courses of food will be served and a different beer will be served with each. For example, for the third course, Moretti Lager, an Italian beer, will be paired with seafood Alfredo over penne pasta. This event is $40 per guest, who must be age 21 or older. For reservations, call 304-397- 6316. Authority meeting West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority will meet at 10 a.m. today at 600 Capitol St. The West Virginia Public Broadcasting Founda- tion will meet following the Authority. Rosedale yard sale A yard sale will be at the Rosedale Senior Citizen Center in Rosedale from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. There will be something for everyone: clothes for men, women and children, lots of plus-sizes for women and name-brand purses are includ- ed, along with baby and household items. Concessions will be sold as well. Table tennis club The Charleston Table Tennis Club is starting its season at 6 p.m. on Monday in the North Charleston Recreation Center. This is an adult club for table tennis enthusiasts. All players must bring their own racquet. Call Dale Goff at 304-415-8685 for more details. Mobile office hours Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has announced the dates and times of her mobile office for the month of Sep- tember. State residents can get help with the federal gov- ernment, including Social Se- curity Administration, Medicare or the Veterans Ad- ministration. The schedule for this week is: Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. to noon, Lewis County Senior Center, 171 West Second St., Weston. Thursday: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Ripley Senior Center, 121 Court St. S., Ripley. Friday: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Hansford Senior Center, 500 Washington St., St. Albans. To submit an item, send it by email to dmnews@dailymail.com, fax it to 304-348-4847 or mail it to Community Briefs, Charleston Daily Mail, 1001 Virginia Street East, Charleston, WV, 25301. 4522 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E. 4130 Robert C. Byrd Drive Charleston, WV 25304 Beckley, WV 25801 304-926-1001 304-252-3900 West Virginia Vein and Skin Centers, PLLC George Lovegrove, M.D.-Medical Director Breaking news online at dailymail.com Community briefs By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. — It’s bad enough that back-to-school comes in June, and Halloween arrives in July. And of course we all know Christmas begins in September. But now even the craft beer industry is cav- ing to seasonal creep. For this year, the beer drinker’s har- binger of autumn — pumpkin ales — apparently couldn’t hold off until the pumpkins actually ripened. Labor Day may be considered the unofficial end of summer, but some craft brewers couldn’t even wait until then to roll out their pump- kin and other fall seasonal beers. Many already have been in stores and on taps for a month. And not all beer drinkers are saying, “Cheers!” “Everyone likes pumpkin beer, but you don’t want it to come too soon. I definitely like to drink it in the appropriate season,” says Nate Marsden, 23, of Boston, who nonetheless recently gave in to the temptation of his fa- vorite seasonal brew, Pumk- ing, an imperial pumpkin ale from Southern Tier Brewing Co. He’s got company. Beer connoisseurs who wanted to savor summer a bit longer have been airing their gripes on social media. Taking to Twitter with hashtags such as (hash)HolidayFail and (hash)SummersNotOver, peo- ple like Andrew Hickey let it be known they weren’t im- pressed with the early start. Forget being irritated about back-to-school ads, the 33- year-old tweeted — complete with a photo of the offending brew — back on Aug. 16. “Why is there pumpkin ale al- ready on shelves?!?” “I think it’s just a rushing the season kind of thing,” said Hickey, of East Brunswick, N.J. “I’m guilty of drinking them but it seems like it’s get- ting earlier and earlier each year.” Brewers were quick to ex- plain that they didn’t have much choice. They said in- creased demand and the size of their breweries meant they needed to start making the beer earlier. And that means it gets to consumers earlier, too. “If you think it’s too early for Pumpkin Ale . don’t go get some,” Schlafly Beer in St. Louis posted on its website in August. “It will still be on shelves for the next couple months (hopefully) and you can pick some up down the road.” Dan Kopman, the brewery’s co-founder, said that in a per- fect world they’d have their summer offerings available through the end of summer, then start selling their fall beers soon after. “When some- thing changes that has been very traditional, you’re always going to get a comment,” he says. “It’s a great problem to have and is simply reflecting what’s going on in the mar- ket.” Bars across the country also have weighed in on the avail- ability of pumpkin beers when temperatures are still hover- ing in the high 80s. “We will not be tapping pumpkin beers until the fall, when the season is appropri- ate,” says An Bui, the self-pro- claimed chief beer officer at Mekong, a Vietnamese restau- rant in Richmond that offers 50 revolving taps and more than 200 varieties of bottled beer. “Seasonal beers are where you taste the fruit or the flower of that period,” Bui says. “It’s so early. 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