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Benefit Spaghetti dinner
A Spaghetti Dinner for Teresa Ridenour will be held from 4-7 p.m., Saturday at the Wil-son Assembly of God Church, located at 828 U.S. Highway 70A. A pie and cake auction will follow and plates are by donation. Proceeds from the dinner will be used for expenses associated with cancer treatments for Ridenour.
Police are seeking a 50-year-old Ardmore man in connection with the early morning shooting of a local woman July 8.
Sgt. Ryan Hunnicutt, Ar-dmore Police Department Public Information Officer, said Wednesday afternoon Detective Justin Brown, APD Criminal Investigation Division, will be presenting
investigation reports nam-ing Kevin D. Reynolds as the defendant to the district attorney’s office for review of formal charges.
Meanwhile, investigators are searching for Reyn-olds.
“Reynolds is believed to be hiding in either the Dal-las or Tulsa area. Anyone with information about Reynolds’ whereabouts is urged to contact the Ard-more Police Department.
Reynolds himself is urged to turn himself in to the Ar-dmore Police Department,” Hunnicutt said.
Reynolds is described as a black male, 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighing an esti-mated 170 pounds.
The victim, who had been shot in the face, checked herself in to the local hospi-tal emergency room about 8 a.m. July 8. She was airlift-ed within hours to an Okla-homa City hospital, where
she underwent surgery and remained for several days.
Hunnicutt said Wednes-day the victim had been released from the metro hospital, but will be un-dergoing a second surgery within the next few days.
Anyone with informa-tion concerning Reynolds’ whereabouts should call po-lice headquarters at (580) 223-1212 or CrimeStop-pers at (580) 504-4LAW (4529).
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The Mustang Gallery held a grand opening Saturday at 30 North Washington. At left is Mike Leader of Cherokee descent of Medicine Park, who came to bless the store. At right is store manager Doniece Knowles and store owner C.R. Johnson of Chickasaw descent. DON ALQUIST/THE ARDMOREITE
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Ninth Annual Red River Drum and Auxiliary CampEvent Highlights1 The Ninth Annual Red Riv-
er Drum and Auxiliary Camp is taking place this week at Lake Murray State Park. Over 260 students, representing 67 schools from Oklahoma and Texas, are improving their skills as color guard, drumline and drum ma-jors.2 The camp will conclude with
a performance behind the Lake Murray Lodge at 1 p.m. Friday. The performance is free and open to the public.3 The camp features small
group lessons and one-on-one instruction from 17 band instruc-tors from the Texoma area.
Overheard at the Event“We want to benefit small
schools where budgets are being cut and who can’t hire instructors for band.” — Jack Francis, camp co-director
“We give the students ideas of what they’ll be doing when they go back to their schools.” — Dr. Marc White, camp co-director
“The people are cool, the music is really tough and the instructors are good. You really improve your skills here.” — Terris Thompson, drummer from Oklahoma City
“This is the best camp I’ve been to. The counselors are cool and nice and have good ideas for stu-dents.” — Andrew Risinger, drum major from Quinlan, Texas
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday that he may rejoin the so-called Gang of Six, the bipartisan band of sena-tors seeking to reach agreement on a big deficit-cutting deal that would blend spending cuts with a tax code overhaul.
The Oklahoma Republican dropped out of the group two months ago saying Democrats weren’t willing to cut enough spending from programs like Medicare. He says he may rejoin the group depending on how it responds to ideas he’s sent over. The closely watched group has been working for months in hopes of a bipartisan deficit-cutting deal that might gain momentum de-spite the partisanship consuming Capitol Hill.
Asked about rumors he’s think-ing of rejoining the group, Coburn said: “They’re not rumors.” But he said he doesn’t know whether he will in fact return and that it would depend on how the group reacts to some ideas he’s sent over.
“We’ll see” about rejoining the group, Coburn said.
Coburn declined to elaborate, but he almost certainly is pressing the group for more spending cuts. He recently proposed a Medicare overhaul with Sen. Joe Lieber-man, I-Conn., that would, among things, phase in an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67.
Advanced color guard students at the Red River Drum and Auxiliary Camp practice their routine for Friday’s performance at the Lake Murray Lodge. For more photos, visit www.ardmo-reite.com. Story and photo by Jennifer Lindsey/The Ardmoreite
As he was growing up, C.R. Johnson loved hearing sto-ries of the old days. About the history and culture of Native Americans.
That love, coupled with nat-ural artistic ability opened a pathway to a future for John-son, who has opened Mustang
Gallery, Ardmore’s newest Art Gallery and Custom Leather Works Gallery. Located at 30 N. Washington, Mustang Gallery offers a variety of items from artwork to saddles, pottery, beadwork and clothing.
“I thought this would be a great location,” Johnson said. “People have gone out of their way to make me feel welcome. I wanted to get a variety of
things in here. I was teaching a beading class and Doniece (Knowles) was in it and we got to talking. I told her I wanted to put in a shop and she told me what people in town liked.”
Knowles serves as the store manager and also has artwork exhibited in the gallery, along with several other artists from across the state.
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Barbara Ann WilliamsHEALDTON — Grave-
side funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Ann “Cross” Williams, 53, of Ringling is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday, July 15, 2011, at Mount Olive Cemetery in Healdton with Rev. Dan Stewart officiating. Ser-vices are under the direc-tion of Alexander Funeral Home in Wilson.
Barbara was born Sep-tember 21, 1957, in Odes-sa, Texas, to the late Mr. Nathan Eugene “Gene” Cross and Mrs. Anna Maxine (Olson) Cross. She departed this life on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at her home in Ringling.
Barbara was raised in Wilson residing there and the community of Dillard. She graduated from Wil-son High School in 1975. She married Mr. Frankie Joe Williams and to this union came two children, Joe Kyle and Russell Wil-liams. They made their home in Healdton and Barbara worked several jobs, including baby-sit-ting several children and was employed at the Healdton Police Depart-ment as a dispatcher. She was involved in the rodeos with her children and a member of the Healdton Riding Club. She was most recently employed at Wal-Mart for several years in the Customer Service Department. She was of the Pentecostal faith.
Preceding her in death was her father, Nathan Eugene “Gene” Cross; and a daughter-in-law, Leah Williams.
Survivors include her two sons, Rusty Wil-
liams and wife, Alicia of Healdton and Joe Wil-liams and wife, Neva of Loco; mother, Ann Cross of Wilson; sister, Pamela Cross of Wynnewood; brother, Russ Hunter and wife, Sunny of Pied-mont, Okla.; grandchil-dren, Morgan, Joe Lee and Jonee Lee Williams and Hagen Stovall; best friend, Rhonda Guin and husband, Patrick of Ar-dmore; father of their children, Frankie Joe Wil-liams of Healdton: and nieces, Candice and Sum-mer Stovall.
Pallbearers will be Joe Williams, Rusty Williams, Jaime Blodgett, John Ea-kins, Billy Jim Williams, Justin Wells, Hershel Cross and Jimmy Wil-liams.
Honorary bearers will be Morgan, Joe Lee and Frankie Williams.
Family visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home in Wilson.
Condolences can be made online at www.al-exanderfuneralhome.org.
Barbara Ann Williams
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AReA ADDReSS cRiMe TiMe DAYNe 1500 bk. 3rd vicious dogs 1:06 p.m. Mon. owner citedNW 600 bk. Maxwell vandalism 6:06 p.m. Tue. residential, vintage game table damaged, juvenile suspect lo-cated and will pay for $25 damageNe 300 bk. Washington assault 9:12 p.m. Tue.SW 3500 bk. Flanders theft 9:57 p.m. Tue. business, $350 cashNe 100 bk. Monroe theft 10:16 p.m. Tue. auto, 1999 Chevrolet, recoveredSe 400 bk. Park theft 11:38 p.m. Tue. residential, two bicycles, estimated loss $200
FiReTiMe DAY ADDReSS AcTiON12:25 a.m. Wed. 810 Bixby St. arcing-electrical short12:15 p.m. Wed. Plainview Rd. off-road vehicle fire1:04 p.m. Wed. 310 Ash st. medical
SheRiFFTiMe DAY ADDReSS AcTiON1:31 a.m. Tue. rural Ardmore suspicious person8:21 a.m. Tue. rural Lone Grove welfare check10:27 a.m. Tue. Fox theft8:55 p.m. Tue. rural Lone Grove agency referral
carter county Detention center population Tuesday: 187
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Eva DouglassMARIETTA — Funeral
services for Eva Douglass, 49, will be held Friday, July 15, 2011, at 11 a.m. in Marietta’s First Bap-tist Church with Pastor Emmitt Jones officiating, assisted by Pastor Law-rence Anderson. Eva was born to Easop and Metha Rambo on November 16, 1961, in Ardmore, Okla., and went to be with our Heavenly Father on Fri-day, July 8, 2011.
Mrs. Douglass, a home-maker and caretaker, also worked at the Marietta Cookie Factory for nu-merous years. As an active member of Mt. Zion Bap-tist Church, she lived her life wrapped in the love of Jesus Christ. Loved by all whom she encoun-tered, Eva was definitely our very own Angel down here on earth. Her spirit filled personality warmed the heart of all who sur-rounded her. She was never one to complain and always had a positive outlook through all that she endured.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Easop and Metha Rambo; sister, Juanita Daily; and broth-ers, Billy Rambo, Alvin Rambo and Benjamin Rambo.
She is survived by her loving husband of 32 years, Lester Douglass; son, Montre’ and wife, Kristi Douglass; daugh-ter, Shatrese Douglass; and two granddaughters, Kaylie and Kaiya Dou-glass.
Also left to cherish her spirit are sisters, Janet and the late Dale Johnson of Shreveport, La., Doro-thy and Michael Willis of Marietta, Neva and James Coleman of Mari-etta and Bobbye Downing of Moreno Valley, Calif.; brothers, Eugene and Janet Rambo of Mariet-ta, Randall and the late Terry Rambo of Marietta, Ceasar and Repunzale Rambo of Oklahoma City,
Okla., Reuben and Alice Rambo of Gainesville, Texas, Nelson and Maria Rambo of Marietta, and Charles and Sharlotte Rambo of Ardmore.
Eva is survived by a great host of nieces and nephews as well as all of her great-nieces and great-nephews all who she considered her own, having a special bond with each in her own way. As a loving daugh-ter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and aunt, she will truly be missed ... but remembered always.
Serving as casket bear-ers will be nephews, Shannon Johnson, Der-rick Johnson, Michael Willis, Donavan Purvey, Rashad Rambo and Kyric Rambo. Honorary bearers are Alvin Rambo Jr., Sha-rone Jones, Melvin Doug-las, Willie Douglas, Gary Halstied, Keith Douglass and Kerry Rambo. As-sisting as flower girls are Latesia Willis, Shanteah Willis, Tamika Word, Karen Johnson, Andrea Johnson and Jakellya Jackson.
Interment will be in Prairieview Cemetery, Marietta, under the direc-tion of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home & Crema-tion Services, Marietta.
The funeral home will be open until 9 p.m. this evening for viewing.
Online guest book: wattsfuneralhome.com.
eva Douglass
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carter countyMathew E. Marris, 27 — threaten to perform act of violence, three counts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon all after for-mer convictionMonica Sambrano, age unavailable — two counts assault and bat-tery with a dangerous weaponMaurice Adrian Bond, 31 — two counts assault and battery with a dangerous weaponEric W. Bond, 23 — two counts assault and battery with a danger-ous weaponBrandon Shane Bond, 27 — two counts assault and battery with a dangerous weaponRodney Allen Pixico, 34 — threaten to perform act of violenceBrian Christopher Bales, 37 — feloniously pointing a firearmFrankie Dale Royal Jr., 44 — second-degree burglary after former convictionAlmer Joey Mitchell, 35 — driving a vehicle under the influence of drugs Kerri Michelle Owens, 36 — second-degree burglary after former convictionPedro Martinez Garcia, 23 — feloniously pointing a weaponJarrod Steven Smith, 24 — endeavoring to manufacture metham-phetaminePreston Dean Royal, 25 — endeavoring to manufacture metham-phetamine after former convictionMichelle Lynn Rush, 38 — endeavoring to manufacture metham-phetamine
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Floye Marie BurrageFloye Marie Burrage, 82,
passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at Ardmore, Okla. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 15, 2011, at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Ardmore, with Pastor Bob Lee officiating.
Floye was born on June 16, 1929, in Peggs, Okla., to Henry Logan Littlefield and Agnes Mae (Pollard) Littlefield.
As a child, Floye at-tended Peggs Elementary school in Peggs, Okla., and later, Tahlequah High School in Tahlequah, Okla. She worked at T. G. & Y, as well as Woolworths, before she went to work for the Ardmore Veteran’s Center where she retired in 1991. She enjoyed gar-dening. Floye was a lover of pets and will be remem-bered most for her love of family.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; and one sister.
Floye is survived by one daughter, Beverly Adams and husband, Mike of Athens, Texas; two sons, Steven Burrage and wife, Gayla of Marietta, Okla.,
and Robbie Burrage and wife, Linda of Ardmore, Okla.; two grandsons, Lo-gan Lucas and John Ad-ams and wife, Adele; three granddaughters, Carla Ragsdale, Stephanie Bur-rage and Katelyn Burrage; and great-grandchildren, Sean Ragsdale, Samantha Ragsdale, Seth Ragsdale, Curtis Adams and Julia Adams.
Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. this evening at Griffin-Hillcrest Funeral Home, Ardmore.
Condolences may be left at www.Griffin-Hillcrest-FH.com.
Floye Marie Burrage
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it’s time for baseballPLay baLL! share photos of your kids and grandkids in action in their Little League. Or, share team or player photos and your local team’s highlights.
send yOur PhOtOs tO [email protected] and we’ll run them in the newspaper and online at ard-moreite.com.
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Caiden Dillard is playing in YMCA T-ball this summer. Share photos of your youngsters in youth baseball. Please include the child’s name, age, names of parents or grandparents, the name of the league, and any other useful information, such as the family’s hometown. The phone number of the person submitting the photo is also appreciated.
deathsArdmore
Gary Lee Allen, 63, died July 13, 2011. Services pend-ing. (Craddock)
ThackervilleMary Jane Hillburn, 67, homemaker, died July 3,
2011. Memorial service 10 a.m. Saturday, Victory Cha-pel. (Flanagan-Watts)
TishomingoMary James, 95, Fillmore, homemaker, died July 13,
2011. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Clark Chapel.
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Hang-up call leads to arrestA 911 hang-up call led
to the arrest of a 27-year-old Ardmore man early Wednesday on pend-ing charges of domestic abuse.
Police reports indicate officers responded about 12:30 a.m. to a residence in the 400 block of Oak Street, after dispatchers received the emergency call that abruptly ended. Officers determined a do-mestic disturbance was taking place. Upon further investigation, the man was arrested pending charges he abused the victim by strangling her.
But formal charges weren’t filed in the case. The man was released from the Carter County Detention Center hours later, when the victim declined to seek charges through the district attor-ney’s office.
Brian Bales was charged with feloniously pointing a firearm and a misdemeanor charge of threatening to perform an act of violence Tues-day following an alterca-tion.
The Lone Grove man was released on $5,000 bond and is scheduled for a preliminary conference on Aug. 16.
According to the Lone Grove Police Department, the incident started on Fruit Street when Bales, 37, allegedly pulled out in front of another car,
driven by Carson Mar-shall, 40, of Oklahoma City. Marshall’s wife and a minor were in the car. The situation escalated with language and ges-tures as Bales cut the ve-hicle off on Highway 70 after driving in a road-closed lane.
Bales indicated in an interview that he had pulled a gun in self-de-fense and the victims indicated that Bales threatened to kill them. Marshall was able to exit the scene without a shot being fired.
Lone Grove officers Shay Miller and James
Stone arrested Bales at his residence after he produced a handgun that matched the description of the one pulled out in the altercation. The gun
was collected, as was an Oklahoma Concealed Carry License. He was transported to the Carter County Detention Cen-ter.
Summerblooddonationsare still needed
While summer is typi-cally a critical season for blood banks, Tessa J. Hawkins, Oklahoma Blood Institute in Ard-more, said for the third summer in a row, 156 OBI hospitals have not had to worry about shortages.
But summer isn’t over yet. Hawkins urges every-one to donate blood.
Donors can safely give blood every 56 days. Do-nors who give blood with-in the next six weeks will receive T-shirts and two free tickets to the Okla-homa City Zoo.
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Chrysler qualityis revving up
Consumer Reports’ tests of eight Chrysler vehi-cles revealed the automaker’s cars are getting better, but their level of improvement varies
considerably.The Dodge Durango and Charger have improved
the most. Both the V6 and V8 tested versions of the Durango SUV received “Very Good” road test scores. The Charger Rallye also received a “Very Good” road test score.
The Town & Country earned a “Very Good.” Its road test score is also considerably improved.
CR’s testers were unimpressed by the 200, Aveng-er, Compass, Journey and Patriot. Despite some im-provements, they’re still mediocre vehicles overall.
Most of Chrysler’s models have suffered from below-average reliability, according to CR’s Annual Auto Surveys, and the company has consistently logged the lowest average road-test score in CR’s yearly automaker report cards.
All of the tested vehicles were updated for 2011. The Charger and Durango were redesigned and the 200, Avenger, Journey and Town & Country were extensively updated. The Patriot and Compass re-ceived some minor updates.
None of the models tested are Recommended. The Durango, Charger and Town & Country are too new for CR to have adequate reliability data to Rec-ommend. The 200, Avenger, Compass, Journey and Patriot scored too low to be Recommended. CR only Recommends vehicles that have performed well in its tests, have at least average predicted reliability based on CR’s Annual Auto Survey of its more than 7 million print and Web subscribers, and performed at least adequately if crash-tested or included in a government rollover test.
Prices for the tested vehicles ranged from $47,375 for the Durango V8 to $22,290 for the Avenger.
CR’s findings include:n Dodge Charger. The Charger now has a steady,
comfortable ride. The Dodge Charger Rallye Plus ($30,945 MSRP as tested) is powered by a 292-hp, 3.6-liter V6 engine that gets 21 mpg overall in CR’s own fuel economy tests. The 60/40-split rear seat-backs easily fold down to expand the trunk area.n Dodge Durango. The redesigned, unibody Du-
rango is much more sophisticated than the body-on-frame model it replaced. The Dodge Durango V6 ($43,785 MSRP as tested) is powered by a 290-hp, 3.6-liter V6 engine that works hard to provide modest acceleration and gets 17 mpg overall. The Durango V8 ($47,375 as tested) is powered by a 360-hp, 5.7-liter Hemi V8 that gets 14 mpg overall. Cargo and towing capacity is generous.
By Phillip AlderThat well-known orator
A.N. Other said, “The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.”
The best defense against a contract is often twofold — the right opening lead and the correct follow-up by third hand. This deal provides an example. What should West lead against four spades? What would he have chosen if North had raised two no-trump to three no-trump?
If North had rebid three spades, would it have been forcing or nonforcing?
In traditional methods, three spades would be non-forcing, showing three-card support with 10-12 points. But I believe treating it as forcing is more sensible. It is rare that three spades will be the last making contract, and if the responder can bid a forcing three spades, he can offer a choice of games or, when very strong, per-haps save space in a slam investigation.
West’s lead choices against four spades are the heart eight and club five. Given the bidding and his trump control, the heart eight is the better choice.
Now, should East win this trick and give his partner a ruff? Or should he duck (signaling with the nine), playing partner for a dou-bleton?
Remember the bidding. If West has a singleton, South holds four hearts. That is impossible, because he would have rebid two hearts, not two no-trump. East must encourage with the heart nine.
After this start, the de-fenders should get four tricks: the spade king, heart ace, a heart ruff by West, and the diamond ace.
Finally, note that three no-trump should fail after the club-five lead.
Right lead, best defensebridge
Getting startedThere are many strate-
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Fill in the grid so that ev-ery row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9 with no repeats.
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the 24th day of summer.TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1789, the
French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille in Paris.
In 1951, the George Washington Carver National Monument in Mis-souri was dedicated, becoming the first U.S. national monument to honor an African-American.
In 2004, the U.S. Senate voted, 50-48, against a proposed constitu-tional amendment that would ban gay marriage.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Gustav
Klimt (1862-1918), painter; Woody Guthrie (1912-67), musician; Gerald Ford (1913-2006), 38th U.S. presi-dent; Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), screenwriter/director; Harry Dean Stanton (1926- ), actor; Jane Lynch (1960- ), actress; Brian Selznick (1966- ), writer/illustrator; Tim Hudson (1975- ), baseball player.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1999, the Western Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 79-61, to win the first WNBA All-Star Game.
TODAY’S FACT: The French rev-olutionaries were called sans-cu-lottes, or “without breeches,” which
referred to their preference for wear-ing long trousers rather than the breeches of the aristocracy.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.” — Woody Guthrie
TODAY’S NUMBER: $192.7 million — total price fetched for four paintings by Gustav Klimt at a Christie’s auction in 2006.
TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter (July 8) and full moon (July 15).
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Netflix raising rates 60 percent SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix has
provoked the ire of some of its 23 million subscribers by raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for those who want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet.
The company is separating the two options so that subscribers who want both will have to buy separate plans totaling at least $16 per month. Netflix Inc. had been bundling both options in a single package, available for as low as $10 per month.
New subscribers will have to pay the new prices immediately. The changes take effect Sept. 1 for Net-flix’s current customers.
Netflix isn’t changing the $8 monthly price for an Internet streaming-only option, which the company began offering late last year. But instead of charging $2 more for a plan that also offers one DVD at a time by mail, the company will charge $8 for a comparable DVD-only plan. That brings the total to $16.
Those who want to rent up to two DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $20 per month, or 33 percent more. Those wanting three DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $24 per month, or 20 percent more.
When Netflix unveiled the streaming-only option, it also raised the rates for its most popular DVD rental plans by $1 to $3 per month. Those plans included unlimited online streaming too, as had been the case since Netflix began send-ing video over high-speed Internet connections in 2007. That means longtime subscribers who want both entertainment options will get their second price increase in eight months.
The higher prices could slow Netflix’s growth as some custom-ers cancel their plans in protest and potential new subscribers balk at the rates.
Subscribers rankled by the latest price increase vented their outrage in comments on Netflix’s blog as well as its Facebook page, where there were nearly 17,000 comments, mostly negative, by late Tuesday.
Many of the posters were vow-ing to leave Netflix to try out rivals such as Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Hulu.com, which is cur-rently looking for a buyer. Some of the critical remarks likened Netflix to greedy oil and cable companies, while others blasted it for betray-ing loyal customers who had been recommending the service to their friends and neighbors long before it became a household staple.
Schwarzenegger returns to acting in ‘Last Stand’
LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger said he’d be back.
The former governor of California will return to acting with a starring role in the Lion-sgate film “Last Stand.” Schwar-zenegger will play a border-town sheriff who unwittingly finds himself battling a notorious drug kingpin on the run.
Joe Drake, president of Lionsgate Motion Pic-ture Group, said Schwarzenegger will “bring incredible magnetism” to the character of Sheriff Owens.
The role represents Schwarzeneg-ger’s first major movie role since 2003’s “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.”
Longoria’s Vegas nightclub closes
LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas night-club owned by “Desperate House-wives” co-star Eva Longoria is tem-porary closing its doors amid finan-cial troubles.
Longoria’s Beso club within the CityCenter com-plex on the Strip closed Monday.
Beso LLC bank-ruptcy attorney Lenard Schwartz-er said Wednesday that the restaurant attached to the club will remain open because it is profitable.
He says the nightclub could even-tually be renovated and reopened.
Beso LLC filed in January for bankruptcy to remain operating while reorganizing nearly $5.7 mil-lion in debt.
—The Associated Press
Netflix on Tuesday said it is raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for millions of subscribers who want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
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Complaint against boy in brother’s deathSAPULPA (AP) — A manslaugh-
ter complaint has been filed against a 13-year-old Creek County boy in the shooting death of the boy’s 11-year-old brother.
Sheriff ’s Lt. Charles Redfern told the Tulsa World that the teenager is in the custody of his grandparents while pros-ecutors decide whether to file a formal charge.
Redfern says the 11-year-old was shot
in the head and died Friday. He says the shooting was initially reported as a suicide — but investigators determined he did not shoot himself and that his brother was in the room with him when he was shot.
No motive for the shooting was re-leased.
Redfern says both boys were in the cus-tody of the grandparents. He said their parents have not been found.
Teen arrested in deadly fireOKLAHOMA CITY
(AP) — A 15-year-old Oklahoma City boy was arrested Wednes-day in connection with the deaths of an elderly couple found inside their burned home after po-lice said they linked the teen to the remnants of a Molotov cocktail near the house.
The boy, who lives a few houses away, was ar-rested on two counts of felony homicide in the deaths of Doris Haynes, 86, and Boyd Haynes, 87, said Police Capt. Patrick Stewart. He also was ar-rested on a first-degree
arson complaint.The Haynes’ bodies
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The boy was taken into custody and questioned after being found outside near the home, and then arrested after detectives connected him to broken glass found in the street in front of his house.
“We can say that was the remnants of a Molo-tov cocktail, it did not ig-nite,” Stewart said. “We’ve linked him to that Mo-lotov cocktail that was found in the street.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hope dimming for a broad debt-limit deal, Congress and the White House scrambled Wednesday to salvage deficit-reduction talks while top congressional Republicans said the nation cannot afford to default on its obligations — for economic rea-sons and their party’s own good.
Ahead of a fourth negotiating session at the White House in as many days, Senate Republican lead-er Mitch McConnell defended his proposal to give President Barack Obama new powers to increase the nation’s borrowing limit without GOP support.
“I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Repub-licans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy,” McConnell said on a radio talk show, contending that letting the nation go into financial default would give Obama reason to blame Republi-cans for the negative fallout.
House Speaker John Boehner added his own warning against de-fault, even as he expressed frustra-tion with the White House over its role in negotiations to trim long-term federal deficits.
“Nobody wants to go there, be-cause nobody knows what’s going to happen,” he said of a potential financial default. “It’s a crapshoot.”
In comments to a small group of reporters, Boehner said he has not been able to get commitments from the president and his White House team about cutting big entitlement programs. He said that “dealing with them the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-O.”
McConnell’s and Boehner’s re-marks came amid a flurry of debt-related developments Wednesday that reflected the rising urgency of an Aug. 2 deadline to increase the government’s borrowing authority
or fall into a first-ever default.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke warned lawmakers that their failure to raise the nation’s bor-rowing limit could trigger a major financial crisis. He said that if the government defaults on its debt, it would throw “shock waves through the entire financial system.”
Adding pressure, the Treasury Department said Wednesday the federal budget deficit was on pace to break the $1 trillion mark for a third straight year. The deficit to-taled $971 billion for the first nine months of the budget year. With three months to go, this year’s defi-cit will probably top last year’s $1.29 trillion, according to the Congres-sional Budget Office.
In one hopeful sign for compro-mise seekers, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said he might rejoin the so-called Gang of Six, the bipar-tisan group of senators who have been working for months to reach a bipartisan agreement on a big defi-
cit-cutting deal that would blend spending cuts with a tax code over-haul.
And several lawmakers initiated steps that they said were designed to ease the impact of a default.
McConnell’s proposal stood as the most ambitious effort to address the debt limit if negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders fail.
The plan would, in effect, guaran-tee Obama requests for new govern-ment borrowing authority unless Congress mustered veto-proof ma-jorities to deny him. The plan would permit Obama to secure increases in the debt ceiling — needed for the government to pay its debts — and would let Republicans avoid politi-cally damaging votes.
While McConnell appeared to accept the dire consequences of a government default, a group of conservative lawmakers discounted their own leaders’ fears that default-ing on the nation’s debt would be disastrous.
GOP presidential hopeful Mi-chele Bachmann was one of three House members Wednesday who disputed Obama’s assertion that a default would mean that Social Se-curity recipients might not receive their checks after Aug. 2. The Social Security Trust Fund is financed by government securities — the ones that the government would not be able to guarantee in a default.
A two-hour negotiating session Tuesday produced no progress af-ter a day of poisonous exchanges between Democrats and Republi-cans.
Explaining his plan, McConnell said on the Senate floor Wednesday that it would “make the president show in black and white the spe-cific cuts he claims to support. If he refuses he’ll have to raise the debt ceiling on his own.”
GOP assails Obama; debt negotiators scramble
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks during a news confer-ence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. The associaTed Press
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from left, and fellow Senate Republican Senators, leave a news conference on Capi-tol Hill. From left are, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., McConnell, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz., and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. The associaTed Press
Fed divided over more stimulus as economy weakens
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting expressed concerns that the weakening job market might hold back the recovery. But members were divided over whether the Fed should consider taking additional steps to help the economy.
The Fed agreed at the June meeting to end on schedule its program to boost the economy through the purchase of $600 billion in Treasury bonds.
Some members said the Fed should be open to new stimulus measures if growth failed to pick up enough to “meaningfully” reduce the unemployment rate, ac-cording to minutes of the Fed’s June 21-22 meeting released Tuesday.
Boehner: No one wants default, would be crapshoot
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boeh-ner said Wednesday that no one wants to see the nation go into government default as the White House and lawmakers scramble to find a deal to avoid that.
The Obama administration says the government will not be able to pay its obligations if Congress does not raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit by Aug. 2. President Barack Obama and Boehner, R-Ohio, have both spoken about the importance of avoiding that scenario.
Yet while the White House insists Congress will ultimately vote to raise the debt limit regardless of whether an accompanying deal comes together to slash the deficit, House Republicans say no such bill can pass unless it includes commensurate spending cuts.
Asked whether House Republicans will ultimately vote to raise the debt ceiling regardless, should it come down to the deadline, Boehner said: “Nobody wants to go there because nobody knows what’s going to hap-pen. It’s a crapshoot.”
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By Abigail Van BurenDEAR ABBY: I agree
with your advice to “Driv-en Away in Georgia” (May 26), whose widowed moth-er has become so bitter, all eight of her children avoid her. As a clinical neuropsy-chologist who works with people with dementia and other aging-related prob-lems, I’d like to share my thoughts.
When a spouse dies, previously undetected early-stage dementia can become apparent to oth-ers. If the surviving spouse had pre-existing cognitive
deficits, they may have been concealed by the competency of the other spouse. After the spouse dies, the structure and functional support once provided is suddenly re-moved. Symptoms then become apparent to fam-ily members. Another diagnostic option might be depression, which can often resemble dementia in elderly people.
There are medications
that can help manage and even slow down the pro-gression of dementia, and early intervention may partially stabilize her at a higher level of functioning. You were right to recom-mend that family members become more involved rather than back away since this woman clearly needs either psychiatric or neurological intervention, or both. Thank you for shedding light on a very
common problem that can touch any family. -- RICH-ARD FULBRIGHT, Ph.D., DALLAS
DeAR DR. FuL-BRiGHt: thank you for sharing your expertise and raising awareness for those with family members who are also struggling with similar issues.
Widowed mom’s ugly behavior is sign that she needs help
Unless you have been living under a rock summer is most assuredly here. The days are longer, the temperatures are hotter and the farmers aren’t
the only ones praying for some much needed rain. In the evenings you can hear the bullfrogs speaking to one another, the crickets chirping out the evenings tune, and locusts frequently chime in with theirs.
Since the temperature decreases considerably in the evenings this is the time that my husband and I like to sit out on our front porch and listen to this music. We strike up conversations pertaining to almost anything. Our conversations range from the current politics to how fast the world is changing with all this new tech-nology. It was on one of these particular evenings that it hit me.
In our world today social networking has become the new norm. Not so long ago letters in the mail from family and friends were so common and party lines were a sneaky way to catch up on gossip. Neighbors would visit one another, television sets actually had to warm up before the picture could be seen on the screen and many fathers used their children as the remote. You
actually had to get up to change the channel. If you had a camera you had to send in your film to be devel-
oped and wait at least a week before you could pick them up. Vehicles were much larger, less efficient on gas, but gas prices were much cheaper, and CDs or cassettes weren’t even heard of.
Today’s world has come such a long way from yesterday. It seems there is some new technology every week. Today you can carry a phone with you everywhere, send and receive pictures, texts, make reserva-tions and download videos, read books and send emails. You can just about do
anything with a phone these days. There is no need to handwrite a letter and send it in the mail. Your friends and family can always know what you’re doing if they just read your newest status update.
Yet with all this social networking, have we lost our sense of connection with people. Why talk in person or even on the phone if you can just send an instant mes-sage via text, wall post, email, or commenting a status.
I ask myself this — do neighbors still visit one another? Do they still make pies or cakes and share them with their neighbors? Are thank you cards still sent? Are pic-nics in the park and flying kites a thing of the past?
Here in Simpson and Durwood you can still drive down the road and a friendly wave is still exchanged. Neighbors still help out one another and almost ev-eryone can tell you who lives where and what they are currently doing with their crops or cattle. None of this is through social networking or texts.
This week I challenge my readers to make a phone call instead of a text, have that picnic in the park or even take the family out for a fun day of flying kites. Let’s all take a pie or cake to our neighbors and truly socialize in person.
With all this new technology and social networking so many wonderful possibilities have opened up for us, but let’s not lose our personal connection with people. I hope all of you have a wonderful week and God Bless.
Karen Crowson
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VINCIAL PARK, Ontar-io, Canada — For weeks the skies were gray, the days were wet, the sum-mer sunshine a distant memory. Then — perhaps because of Canada Day, which was July 1, or Inde-pendence day, on July 4th — everything changed. And here, in the country of winter, I finally found summer, and I fell in love with her again.
I remembered that the sound of summer is the cry of the lonely loon, or maybe the splash the paddle makes as it breaks the quiet water of early morning on Tanamakoon Lake. I remembered that the look of summer is the Cache Lake contrast of the blue water against the white pine, which of course are green. I re-membered that the smell of summer is bug spray.
I remembered that the taste of summer is Mus-koka Ginger Ale, made from pure spring water from artesian wells and bottled in Gravenhurst, Ontario, since 1873 —what you might call the real Canada dry. I remem-bered that the feel of sum-mer, even on the hottest days, is the icy cool of the lakes that are dropped like commas on the landscape of Canada’s water wilder-ness.
We don’t live in the bush, we only come and visit, hoping that its lore and lessons last with us all winter, which in these parts, some four hours’ drive beyond Toronto, is only a few months away.
We aren’t coureurs de bois, the explorers of Canada’s colonial times, hunting for furs and al-ternative routes to the Great Lakes, but merely city people looking, on our few weeks off, for an alternative way to view the world.
We’re not here to cut
down the woods, as the British began do-ing when the French cut off the supply of Baltic tim-ber during the Napo-leonic Wars, but to respect and celebrate them.
And for us the canoe is a means of recreation, not a conveyance of commerce or war. It is, as Samuel de Champlain discov-ered, the ideal means of transport. We agree with John Jennings, who once held the enviable title of vice chair of the Canadian Canoe Museum, that the canoe, which appeared here long before the Eu-ropeans, which took its modern form in cedar about a century and a half ago and which now rules the lakes in aluminum, fiberglass and other new materials, is “an endur-ing symbol of wilderness and freedom throughout North America.”
My summer medita-tions have often leaned toward the canoe, perhaps because four generations of my family have visited these wooded lakes, per-haps because for the past 11 summers we have been drawn here, intoxicated by a country stuffed full of speckled trout and black bass in a land that other-wise turns out to be empty — an emptiness full of meaning.
“Canadians will always be drawn to images of bark canoes, and their so-called ‘domesticated trees’ will continue to af-firm significant aspects of the distinctive national and cultural heritage of our country,” writes James Raffan, one of the leading evangelists of the Cana-dian canoe culture and the recipient of a Canadian Governor General’s Award
for Gallantry for his role in a river rescue.
On summer days like these, I realize that the greatest gift I received from my mother, who turned 80 last week, is her Canadian heritage. Long before she moved to New England, married an American and started her family in Boston, she visited a land described in an old Grand Trunk Railway System ad exactly a century ago as “a wood-land paradise.”
Today this land where summer thrives is the most studied part of Can-ada, spawning well more than 2,100 scientific pa-pers. It wasn’t always this way, of course. According to a history of the area by Ron Tozer and Dan Strickland, more than half “the able-bodied men in Canada spent their win-ter in the bush ‘hurling down pine’ — in the park area and everywhere else our hard-working, great-grandfathers found majestic pines towering above the forest.”
And so as summer began this year, I heard the cry of the lonely loon, and also the splash of the paddle. I looked at the contrast of blue water against white pine. I smelled the bug spray. I gulped a bottle of Muskoka Ginger Ale. Even when no one else would venture into Cache Lake, I felt the icy cool of its redemptive waters.
And this, too: I remem-bered that the sweetness and sadness of summer — for it is fortified with ample measures of both — are what shape the most enduring part of our lives.
The sweetness you know — the way the days last long into evening, the way we linger in the downtown blocks of a summer town right up to closing time, the way we don’t count the calories in a cone of fresh
custard, only to count our blessings at sunset.
But the sadness is here, too. For two decades summertime was for us a combination of first per-son rural and first person plural. With our girls we climbed into the White Mountains and wondered at the geological forma-tions of the western desert and braved the bracing water of Maine’s shore and ventured into Algon-quin lakes.
Now our girls are grown, and mostly gone. They view our home as an emotional Charlotte or Chicago — the hub, to be sure, but also the place they go en route to some-where else. They have their own summers, and we have ours, and hap-pily ours are more sweet than sad.
Yet on these summer days I constantly think of them, discovering their own peaks and val-leys, finding their own passages, learning how to navigate their canoes and, before long, their ca-reers. I know that part of the light of their lives has been the time they almost were blown into a deep ravine by the wild westerly winds that blew across a shoulder of New Hamp-shire’s Mount Lafayette and the times they held our hands on the impos-sibly beautiful beaches of Maine, actually believing we were strong enough to protect them from the tides.
I hope this: Maybe some day in a time far away they might pause and re-call the sweetness of their own summers, the ones we shared and the ones to come, and discover, as we have done these past few years, that it is not only in the winter of life that memories are strong. Perhaps they are strongest most of all in summer.
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In America there is always a knee-jerk reaction — rarely favorable — to government telling its citizens how to live. In a nation born in revo-
lution, that’s hardly a surprise.So it is with an effort to repeal part of the 2007
energy bill that was passed in bipartisan fashion and signed by then-President George W. Bush to begin phasing out traditional, energy-gobbling light bulbs. That law did not ban incandescent bulbs, as widely misreported, but required new lighting products to use 25 percent less energy beginning in 2012, 65 percent less by 2020. Some Republicans are now framing the law as a liberal attack on personal liberties, which is nonsense — Washington’s most prominent current export — as verified by pulling the votes from 2007. At this writing, the House was preparing to vote on the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas — where else? — that would turn back the clock.
However it turns out, no one should kid himself: This issue is less about personal freedoms than presumed political advantage. Mandate or not, there’s little doubting the wisdom of converting to more energy-efficient products that may be a bit more expensive up front but net a significant sav-ings over time in less energy consumption - you’ll pay more at the store but less when you get your Ameren bill; that produce less pollution - with a collective energy savings reportedly equal to some 30 power plants; and that do not put U.S. indus-tries at a competitive disadvantage — U.S. bulb manufacturers such as General Electric and Sylva-nia have not objected.
To be sure, Uncle Sam sometimes interferes where he shouldn’t. The insistence on water-sav-ing toilets, for example, initially backfired in that they often required two flushes instead of one. Ideally, American consumers would come to these conclusions on their own without any federal nudge.
On the flip side, Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor, but his incandescent bulb produced con-siderably more heat than light, and the technology has improved a bit since 1879. If the GOP and any Democrats who wish to join them — a two-thirds vote is required in the House to repeal, then it’s on to the Senate — want to portray themselves as anti-science, Flat Earth Society-types, that’s their prerogative, but in a nation that empties the shelves of the newest gadgets faster than they can come off the assembly line, there’s a risk to that. Energy conservation mandates are far from unheard of in this country, routinely approved by presidents Republican and Democrat alike. Richard Nixon signed into law a 55 mph national speed limit in 1974. By comparison this seems a rather timid move that arguably most Americans won’t much notice.
Ultimately, what is liberal or conservative about energy independence? Given the enormous cost in blood and treasure this nation has expended due to the lack of it, and with so much focus on the national debt, it’s a wonder anybody would be op-posed to moving in that direction.
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Knowles’ work veers to-ward nature scenes while Johnson prefers captur-ing the spirit and history of Native Americans.
“I am a self-taught art-ist,” Johnson said. “A lot of people go to museums to see Native American artwork and don’t un-derstand that you have to look with your heart. I wanted to know what Native Americans went through and express it.
“My grandfather taught me a lot of stories about the past. And, a lot of Native Americans, like Jack Thorpe, would tell me about the things that he was told. I enjoyed sit-ting with the elders who would tell about the Trail of Tears that their par-ents experienced coming to Oklahoma. By them telling me about it, I put myself in that picture.”
Johnson has an im-pressive resume, hav-ing won awards for his
work across the nation. Among his prized honors was a graphite drawing of Chickasaw Lighthorse-men, which former Gov. Brad Henry bought.
In opening the gallery, Johnson is fulfilling a promise to better him-self and in doing so, pay-ing tribute to his ances-try through his life and work.
There are also plans to have Dana Tiger, whose work is displayed, to come to the gallery for a show.
“I always wanted a busi-ness where I could do the things I enjoyed doing,” Johnson said. “I’ve always dreamed of it since I was a young man. I never thought it would come true but I have gotten a lot of help from Ron Park-er and a lot of encourage-ment from others.
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Banners recognize 9/11 anniversaryMembers of the Ard-
more Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution are encouraging area residents to purchase and display “We Remember 9/11” ban-ners in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
State Regent Diane Ha-mill recently returned for the organization’s annual Continental Congress, con-ducted at DAR Headquar-ters in Washington, D.C., where the banners were the “We Remember 9/11” banners were presented to representatives from each memorial site.
“NSDAR hopes that DAR chapters, cities and towns and individuals will purchase and fly the ban-ner in remembrance of hose who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,” Hamill said.
“The events of Sept. 11, 2001, which had a pro-found effect on the United States, continue to resound today. They touched lives, not only of Americans, but also of people in 92 other countries whose citizens
died that day. This flag is in remembrance of Sept. 11. 2001, and in honor of the lives that were de-stroyed, the sacrifices that were made and the bravery that was shown. It repre-sents our ongoing commit-
ment to never forget.”Hamill said the follow-
ing sizes of the banner are available for purchase through the NSDAR:
n 4-inches by 6-inches — $1 each
n 4-inches by 6-inches with base — $1.40 each
n 8-inches by 12-inches — $4.50 each
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n 3-feet by 5-feet — $90
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Orders can be placed online at www.dar.org, the DAR Store Online at www.dar.org/omni/shop-ping_portal.cfm or by call-ing (888)673-3732.
Ardmore DAR Chapter Regent Lorna Holloway and Oklahoma State Regent Diane Hamill hold hand-size versions of the “We Remember 9/11” banners the local group hopes will be displayed throughout the area in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Google didn’t build its new Plus service simply to have an online hangout like Facebook.
Rather, Google’s new social-networking en-deavor is about trying to gain valuable insights into people’s lives and relation-ships. This could help the company do a better job of targeting ads so that ad-vertisers would pay more and have less reason to spend their money on Facebook.
If it succeeds, Plus rep-resents Google’s best shot yet at muscling into a mar-ket that has threatened to topple the Internet search and advertising leader, as Facebook leads the way in making the online world social.
Plus is Google’s carefully scripted venture into a ter-ritory where its previous efforts have been duds.
On the surface, Plus is reminiscent of Facebook — with a Google touch. It lets people share photos and status messages, chat with friends and acquain-tances and follow news updates. A prominent feature called circles al-lows users to organize the people they interact with into groups, such as fam-ily, close friends or fishing buddies. Users can choose to share things only among certain circles.
Google Plus is still in a restricted, test phase, and invites to join are highly coveted. Only time will tell if it takes off among the broader public or if it’s too little, too late to face off with Facebook and Twitter on the social front — just as Microsoft has failed to surpass Google in search with latecomer Bing.
Google Inc., which re-ports its latest quarterly results on Thursday, has done quite well without its own social network. Its search engine accounts for two-thirds of queries made in the U.S., and even more in parts of Europe. Its rev-enue is expected to sur-pass $36 billion this year, the bulk of it from text ads that appear alongside search results and other Web content.
But online behaviors are changing. People are spending more time on Facebook and other social networks. And they are in-creasingly relying on their friends’ recommendations when deciding where to eat and what movies to watch.
Google, meanwhile, has bungled past social media efforts. A sharing program called Wave was quickly
killed off because users didn’t know what to make of it. Buzz, a later venture, was the center of a privacy fiasco. Google had been too aggressive about au-tomatically creating circle of friends, which inad-vertently revealed whom they’ve corresponded with on Gmail.
Early response to Google Plus has been positive. But that’s no guarantee for broader success. As Google botched one social media effort after another, Facebook grew exponen-tially.
Today, half of Facebook’s 750 million worldwide us-ers log on to the site every day. That’s roughly the en-tire population of the U.S. and U.K combined. More than 250 million people engage with Facebook in some form on outside web-sites each month around
the world. They do this by clicking the ubiquitous “like” and “recommend” buttons on news and other sites or by logging on to websites using their Face-book passwords.
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McConnell: Don’t take hard debt-limit stand that will re-elect Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Failure to raise the U.S. debt limit would probably ensure President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warned fellow conserva-tives on Wednesday, fresh evidence of deep GOP po-litical divisions on an issue of paramount importance to the nation and its econ-omy.
McConnell spoke as Obama and congressional leaders met for a fourth straight day — struggling to avert an unprecedented government default threat-ened for Aug. 2 — and rank-and-file lawmakers advanced fallback mea-sures in case the bipartisan talks fail.
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MIAMI (AP) — Doctors in Florida are fighting a first-of-its-kind law requiring them to have a legiti-mate safety concern before they start asking a patient about guns.
The physicians contend the new law is too broad and they should be free to ask patients and parents about firearms in the house to make sure people know how to keep them safely locked away. Doctors routinely offer similar advice about other household risks, from the dangers of tobacco use to swimming pools.
Gun rights supporters who pushed for the new law believe questions about gun ownership are an invasion of privacy, and say some people have been dropped by doctors simply because they refused to talk about firearms.
The law, signed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott, took effect June 2. It forbids doctors from inquiring about guns unless the information is “relevant to a patient’s medical care or safety, or the safety of others.”
Doctors’ groups representing about 11,000 physi-cians in Florida immediately sued, calling on a federal judge to block the law. They say the law is already having a chilling effect on meaningful conversations about firearms with patients, which professional medical organizations have for years advocated as good practice. Many patient questionnaires ask about gun ownership.
“Making sure patients understand the risks around them is a critical part of a doctor’s mission,” Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, an attorney for the physicians’ said Wednesday during a court hearing on the law-suit.
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MARMADUKE By Brad Anderson
THE FAMILY CIRCUS
Dr. Peter H. Gott M.D.DEAR DR. GOTT: My
67-year-old husband has recently become affected by arthritis pain in his hands. They swell and his knuck-les seem to “stick.” What are some ways of dealing with this problem? He is cur-rently taking aspirin for the pain, but we’d like to know if a supplement or anything else would be helpful.
DEAR READER: There are more than 100 types of arthritis, the most com-mon of which is osteoar-thritis. This form typically occurs as we age and is the result of joint carti-lage breakdown. While typically seen in seniors, anyone can develop os-teoarthritis; it generally affects weight-bearing joints such as the hips, knees and spine, but may be present in just about any joint in the body.
To determine if this is the cause of your hus-band’s hand pain, I sug-gest he make an appoint-ment with his physician for an examination, blood work and X-rays. Other types of arthritis can
cause similar symptoms but may require different treatment. I will answer your question as though he has osteoarthritis since it is the most likely cause.
Over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, naproxen and aspirin can relieve pain and swelling, but do not use more than the recommended dose be-cause they may upset the stomach.
Glucosamine chondroi-tin may prevent further damage and rebuild lost cartilage.
Topical castor oil, or castor oil-based lotions with capsaicin or menthol (such as Castiva), applied to the affected areas twice a day can reduce pain.
A purple grape juice and liquid pectin combination has been found to reduce pain and swelling while in-creasing mobility. Simply mix 8 ounces of the juice with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the liquid pectin; drink up to three times a day. When pain levels have
been lowered, reduce the pectin to 1 to 2 teaspoons and drink the mixture once or twice a day as a maintenance dose. Other readers have had success using 4 ounces of grape juice and 8 ounces of ap-ple juice, and a few brave souls have even taken the pectin without any juice at all. Apple pectin capsules have also been found beneficial by some, but they may be difficult to find.
Beyond that, prescrip-tion anti-inflammatory and pain medications may be recommended. Exer-cise and physical therapy will keep the joints mov-ing. Heat or ice applied to the affected areas several times a day may also re-lieve pain.
There are many op-tions, so I urge your hus-band to see a physician to get to the bottom of the situation. Together, they can then come up with a treatment plan that will successfully ease pain, improve hand mobility and prevent further dam-age.
Natural remedies for arthritic hands
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CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Hold off on making any important agreements with another. The aspects are such that, although peo-ple mean well, it isn’t likely they would stand the test of time.
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cause someone has a title doesn’t necessarily make him or her bigger than life. It only defines the job the per-son is assigned to do. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – For the sake of peace, don’t let yourself be drawn into a debate with someone who loves to argue. Once this person gets started, you won’t be able to turn him or her off. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – It’s wise to abide by your instincts and per-ceptions about participat-ing in any kind of financial debate with someone who always thinks he or she is right. It’ll be a lost cause. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Underestimating the competition is always a mistake. Thus, regard-less of how inept you think someone is, take him or her seriously. This person might know something to which you’re not privy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Think twice before ab-sentmindedly being unreal-istically generous to some-one who doesn’t deserve it. There’s a good chance that on impulse you’ll give away something you’ll regret. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – If you have a choice, avoid any gathering where someone who makes you feel uncomfortable is likely to be in attendance. You won’t have any fun being miserable. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – It would be best not to depend on another to do something for you that you know the person really doesn’t want to do. She or he will either do a bad job or totally let you down. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Don’t try to impose your views on someone who you know will be un-receptive to what you have to say. All you’ll accomplish is making this person stand even firmer in his or her be-liefs. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – The handling of your resources isn’t likely to be your strong suit today, so it behooves you to be as pru-dent as you can. Addition-ally, it would be wise not to offer any financial advice.
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Pittsburgh steel-ers linebacker James Harrison calls nFL Com-missioner Roger Goodell a “crook” and a “devil,” among other insults, in a magazine article in the August issue of Men’s Journal. see story on Page 13 THe ASSociATeD pReSS
MOENCHENGLAD-BACH, Germany (AP) — Abby Wambach sure knows how to deliver.
A goal, a promise and soon, she hopes, a World Cup title.
The U.S. women had fans on edge once again until Wambach broke a tense tie with her header off a corner kick in the 79th minute Wednesday. Alex Morgan scored three minutes later to seal a 3-1 semifinal victory over France, and the Americans let loose with a party that carried all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
Next up, a trip to the World Cup final Sunday in Frankfurt that will be the first for Americans since 1999, when they last won it all. They’ll play Japan, which upset Sweden 3-1 to move one step away from
realizing its own dream.“We’ve achieved part
of our goal. We’re in the final,” Wambach said. “We want to complete it. We want to be world champs.”
So do their fans, new and old.
The Americans cap-tivated the crowd back home with their epic, come-from-behind win over Brazil on Sunday, and a little thing called a workday wasn’t going to deter them. Some fans skipped work — bars opened early for the noon EDT kickoff — while oth-ers sneaked peeks at the game in the office. At the Phoenix airport, dozens of fans crowded around TVs to watch the game.
When the final whistle blew, Hollywood celebri-ties, pro athletes and or-
dinary folks who didn’t know a free kick from a corner kick just a few days ago flooded Twit-ter with congratulations. “My heroes. Wambach. Boxx. Rapinoe. Solo. That TEAM! Our team!” ac-tor Tom Hanks tweeted. Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers said, “Awesome job US Women, finish it off Sunday now.”
Wambach and company were glad to share the mo-ment.
“These wins, we can’t do it alone. We know a whole nation is cheering us on,” Wambach said. “We believe in ourselves and we’re in the final. I couldn’t be happier.”
A little relieved, too.France was the surprise
of the tournament, mak-ing the semifinals with a creativity and flair that
was breathtaking to be-hold. And for much of the game, the U.S. couldn’t contain Les Bleues.
“We didn’t play well to-day,” U.S. coach Pia Sund-hage said. “However, we find a way to win and that’s a credit to the play-ers’ hearts. That’s what makes it so wonderful to be coach of this team.”
With the U.S. struggling to create opportunities in the middle, Sundhage re-placed Carli Lloyd with sparkplug Megan Rapinoe early in the second half, moved Lauren Cheney in-side and pulled Wambach back to the midfield.
The difference was no-ticeable immediately. The Americans were able to push forward and began threatening French goal-keeper Berangere Sapo-wicz.
The 1980 United States Olympic hockey team still stands as the No. 1 under-dog of all-time. That may never change.
But the U.S. women’s soccer team could be the No. 1 bandwagon in our nation’s history. Has anything commanded as much attention in these sports-deprived summer days than the Women’s World Cup?
(Umm, Derek Jeter ... the NFL lockout ... Rory McIlroy ... Don’t think too hard, just follow me).
Every four years, coun-tries from around the world gather to play the world’s game. And like any other sport in which the U.S. is involved, we expect nothing but a big first-place trophy and gold medals from the soccer players we send overseas. Ranked No. 1 in the world entering the tournament, this U.S. women’s team started off as anything but.
Missing was the domi-nace of years past. The U.S. scrapped through games like a team that was missing the confi-dence of the veterans that made the sport explode in the late 90s. In their first three games, headlines read of shoddy defending, the team’s leader (menac-ing forward Abby Wam-bach) in the goal-scoring slump of her life and the U.S. actually losing a group play game. Swe-den shamed our ladies 2-1 in their final Group C game, and the U.S. got a matchup with Brazil in the quarterfinals as its punishment.
The last time the two teams met in the World Cup in 2007, the semifi-nal game ended in a 4-0 thrashing by Brazil, fore-shadowed by the worst coaching decision of all-time.
Not just in soccer, but any sport. Ever.
In 2007, then-U.S. coach Greg Ryan decided to start legendary but creaky 36-year-old goal-keeper Brianna Scurry against Brazil. This would have been just fine except for the fact that a younger goalkeeper named Hope Solo was riding a three-game shutout streak and had started every game of the Cup up to that point. Pulling a hot keeper in the biggest game of the team’s season is the equivalent of Jason Garrett deciding to start Jon Kitna in the NFC Championship instead of a hot Tony Romo because
the Associated PressFrom Derek Jeter to Al-
bert Pujols and Joe Mauer, you could put together an All-Star team just from the guys who have been stuck on the disabled list this season.
If 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher, 2011 might just be the Year of the In-jury. David Wright, Buster Posey and Zack Greinke have missed big chunks of time as well, and the rash of injured stars may be one of the biggest reasons
that all six division races are so close heading into the unofficial second half of the season.
With so many teams playing short-handed, no one has been able to break away from the pack yet and take command of the pennant race, setting up a 2½-month sprint to the finish.
Jeter spent 21 days on the shelf with a calf injury that slowed his pursuit of 3,000 hits, Pujols stunned everyone by coming back
from a broken forearm after just two weeks and Mauer’s seemingly unim-peachable image in his home state of Minnesota took a big hit when he spent most of the first two months of the season re-habbing a mysterious leg injury.
The current disabled list is chock full of stars — Jo-han Santana, Jon Lester, Roy Oswalt, Carl Craw-ford, Josh Johnson, Jus-tin Morneau. And many of the trips haven’t been
quick ones. Wright has been on the list since May 16 with a stress fracture in his lower back, Morneau is not expected back until mid-August after having neck surgery and Johnson was placed on the 60-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation on May 17.
Others won’t be back at all this year. Posey, San Francisco’s bright young star catcher, is out after breaking his left leg and straining some ligaments
in his left ankle on a home plate collision with Florida’s Scott Cousins on May 25. Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright, Yan-kees right-hander Joba Chamberlain and Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka have all had surgery on their pitching elbows and are rehabbing for 2012.
It even sent the All-Star managers searching a lit-tle bit to fill a few holes created by injuries.
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — WNBA scoring lead-er Sylvia Fowles had 21 points, and the Chicago Sky beat Tulsa 72-54 on Wednesday.
Fowles, now averaging 20.4 points per game, add-ed 13 rebounds in front of a franchise record crowd announced at 13,838 at Allstate Arena.
The loss was the seventh straight for the Shock (1-12) and second for interim coach Teresa Edwards, who took over July 9 after Nolan Richardson’s resig-nation.
Chicago (7-7) opened with eight straight points and never trailed on the way to a 21-9 first-quarter lead.
Jennifer Lacy had 13 points off the bench while Andrea Riley added 12 for the Shock. Epiphanny Prince had 11 and reserve Tamera Young added 10 for the Sky.
Fowles gave the Sky their biggest first-half lead at 39-20 with 3:13 left. The Shock then went on a 9-2 run to cut into the margin by halftime. In the third quarter, they pulled within 47-42 on Lacy’s fast-break layup but got no closer.
The Shock shot 30.4 percent from the field and had 24 turnovers.
Fowles now has 35 double-digit rebounding games for her career. She’s third in the WNBA with a 9.7 average.
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From left, France’s Gaetane thiney, united states’ Abby Wambach and France’s sandrine soubeyrand go for the ball during the semifinal match between France and the united states Wednesday. THe ASSociATeD pReSS
Onward to the finalsWambach spurs US in 3-1 win over France
One more game to get on the bandwagon
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Chicago sky’s sylvia Fowles, left, and tulsa shock’s elizabeth Cambage battle for a rebound during the second half on Wednesday. THe ASSociATeD pReSS
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OU, OSU players on Thorpe Watch
The watch list for the 2011 Jim Thorpe Award includes two okla-homa Sooners, an oklahoma State cowboy and a Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
oU cornerback Jamell Fleming and free safety Tony Jefferson are on the list with oSU strong safety Markelle Martin and Tulsa free safe-ty Marco Nelson.
The award is named for okla-homa native Jim Thorpe and is given each year to the top defensive back in college football.
Sooner sprinter turning pro
Oklahoma sprinter Candyce McGrone announced Wednes-day she will forego her final year with the OU track and field program to be-gin her professional career.
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Accusations flying in Clemens trial
Prosecutors said Wednesday that needles and cotton balls Roger Clemens’ former trainer says he used to inject the star pitcher tested positive for Clemens’ DNA and anabolic steroids — evidence the defense said was faked.
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NFL players say ‘get the deal done’
calling the play-ers’ offer “fair for both sides,” star quarterbacks Tom Brady, peyton Manning and Drew Brees — plaintiffs in an antitrust suit against the NFL — said Wednesday “it is time” to wrap up negotiations on a deal to end the league’s lockout.
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Track and Field
Southern Oklahoma Track Club at Region 9 Meet, Tulsa
CYCLING5:30 a.m.
VERSUS — Tour de France, stage 12, Cugnaux to Luz-Ardiden, France
GOLF3 a.m.
ESPN — British Open, first round, at Sandwich, England
1 p.m.TGC — Nationwide Tour,
Chiquita Classic, first round, at Maineville, Ohio
3 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Viking
Classic, first round, at Madison, Miss.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
6 p.m.MLB — Regional cover-
age, N.Y. Yankees at Toronto or Cleveland at Baltimore
9 p.m.FS OKLAHOMA — Texas
at Seattle (KESN-FM 103.3)WNBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.ESPN2 — Seattle at San
Antonio
BaseballMLB Glance
AMERICAN LEAGUEEast W L Pct GBBoston 55 35 .611 —New York 53 35 .602 1Tampa Bay 49 41 .544 6Toronto 45 47 .489 11Baltimore 36 52 .409 18Central W L Pct GBDetroit 49 43 .533 —Cleveland 47 42 .528 ½Chicago 44 48 .478 5Minnesota 41 48 .461 6½Kansas City 37 54 .407 11½West W L Pct GBTexas 51 41 .554 —Los Angeles 50 42 .543 1Seattle 43 48 .473 7½Oakland 39 53 .424 12
———Today’s GamesCleveland at Baltimore, 6 p.m.NY Yankees at Toronto, 6 p.m.Kansas City at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Texas at Seattle, 9 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUEEast W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 57 34 .626 —Atlanta 54 38 .587 3½New York 46 45 .505 11Washington 46 46 .500 11½Florida 43 48 .473 14Central W L Pct GBMilwaukee 49 43 .533 —St. Louis 49 43 .533 —Pittsburgh 47 43 .522 1Cincinnati 45 47 .489 4Chicago 37 55 .402 12Houston 30 62 .326 19West W L Pct GBSan Francisco 52 40 .565 —Arizona 49 43 .533 3Colorado 43 48 .473 8½Los Angeles 41 51 .446 11San Diego 40 52 .435 12
———Today’s GamesFlorida at Chicago Cubs, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 9 p.m.
BasketballWNBA Glance
EASTERN W L Pct GBIndiana 10 3 .769 —New York 8 5 .615 2Connecticut 6 5 .545 3Chicago 7 7 .500 3½Atlanta 3 9 .250 6½Washington 2 9 .182 7WESTERN W L Pct GBPhoenix 9 4 .692 —Minnesota 7 4 .636 1San Antonio 7 4 .636 1Seattle 7 4 .636 1Los Angeles 5 6 .455 3Tulsa 1 12 .077 8
Tuesday’s GamesSeattle 79, Washington 71Los Angeles 84, San Antonio 74
Wednesday’s GamesNew York 91, Atlanta 69
Chicago 72, Tulsa 54Phoenix 112, Minnesota 105Indiana 90, Connecticut 78
Today’s GamesSeattle at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
CyclingTour de France results
WednesdayAt Carmaux, France11th StageA 104.1-mile ride in the rain from Blaye-les-Mines to Lavaur, with a couple of minor hills but no major difficulties
1. Mark Cavendish, Britain, HTC-Highroad, 3 hours, 46 minutes, 7 sec-onds.2. Andre Greipel, Germany, Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time.3. Tyler Farrar, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, same time.4. Denis Galimzyanov, Russia, Katusha, same time.5. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway, Sky Procycling, same time.6. Romain Feillu, France, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time.7. Jose Joaquin Rojas, Spain, Movistar, same time.8. Sebastien Turgot, France, Europcar, same time.9. Francisco Ventoso, Spain, Movistar, same time.10. William Bonnet, France, Francaise des Jeux, same time.11. Arnold Jeannesson, France, Francaise des Jeux, same time.12. Gerald Ciolek, Germany, Quick Step, same time.13. Anthony Delaplace, France, Saur-Sojasun, same time.14. Sebastien Hinault, France, AG2R La Mondiale, same time.15. Gianni Meersman, Belgium, Francaise des Jeux, same time.16. Jurgen Roelandts, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time.17. Pablo Urtasun, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, same time.18. Mark Renshaw, Australia, HTC-Highroad, same time.19. Rob Ruijgh, Netherlands, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time.20. Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuania, Astana, same time.
Also29. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, same time.35. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, same time.36. Tony Martin, Germany, HTC-Highroad, same time.39. Peter Velits, Slovakia, HTC-Highroad, same time.47. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, same time.49. Tom Danielson, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, same time.50. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, same time.55. George Hincapie, United States, BMC, same time.66. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time.75. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, same time.82. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg,
Leopard-Trek, same time.86. Andreas Kloeden, Germany, RadioShack, same time.95. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Rabobank, same time.96. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, same time.124. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC, same time.144. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, HTC-Highroad, 5:03 behind.171. Danny Pate, United States, HTC-Highroad, 5:43.
Overall Standings(After 11 stages)1. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, 45 hours, 52 minutes, 39 seconds.2. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Rabobank, 1 minute, 49 seconds behind.3. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, 2:26.4. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 2:29.5. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 2:37.6. Tony Martin, Germany, HTC-Highroad, 2:38.7. Peter Velits, Slovakia, HTC-Highroad, same time.8. Andreas Kloeden, Germany, RadioShack, 2:43.9. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 2:55.10. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Leopard-Trek, 3:08.11. Ivan Basso, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, 3:36.12. Damiano Cunego, Italy, Lampre-ISD, 3:37.13. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, 3:45.14. Kevin De Weert, Belgium, Quick Step, 3:47.15. Robert Gesink, Netherlands, Rabobank, 4:01.16. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, 4:07.17. Tom Danielson, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, 4:22.18. Rein Taaramae, Estonia, Cofidis, 4:52.19. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, 4:53.20. Samuel Sanchez, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, 5:01.
Also35. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, 7:16.48. George Hincapie, United States, BMC, 14:53.52. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, HTC-Highroad, 20:19.137. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC, 53:50.150. Tyler Farrar, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, 1:01:32.163. Danny Pate, United States, HTC-Highroad, 1:07:50.
Soccer2011 Women’s
World Cup GlanceSemifinalsWednesdayMoenchengladbach, GermanyUnited States 3, France 1Frankfurt, GermanyJapan 3, Sweden 1
Third-Place MatchSaturdaySinsheim, GermanyFrance vs. Sweden, 10:30 a.m.
FinalSunday, July 17Frankfurt, GermanyUnited States vs. Japan, 1:45 p.m.
MLS GlanceSaturday’s GamesColorado at Seattle FC, 3 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 3 p.m.San Jose at Columbus, 6:30 p.m.Sporting Kansas City at Houston,7:30 p.m.Portland at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.D.C. United at FC Dallas, 7:30 p.m.New York at Chivas USA, 9:30 p.m.
TexasPick 3 Day: 2-4-8, Sum It Up: 14Pick 3 Night: 8-7-9, Sum It Up: 24Daily 4 Day: 6-9-7-3 Sum It Up: 25Daily 4 Night: 9-0-3-6, Sum It Up: 18Cash Five: 2-5-10-11-13Lotto Texas: 10-16-21-48-50-52Powerball: 8-18-19-32-54, Power Ball: 08, Power Play: x4
Scoreboard
OU sprinter McGrone turns pro
NORMAN — Oklahoma sprinter Candyce Mc-Grone announced Wednesday she will forego her final year with the OU track and field program to begin her professional career.
McGrone won the 2011 NCAA 100-meter dash title in an Oklahoma program record 11.08 seconds. She also holds the program record in the indoor 200-meter dash (22.84). McGrone earned All-America status in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and earned second-team All-America honors as a member of the 4x100-meter relay in 2011. She earned All-Big 12 honors in those three events as well as the 4x400-meter relay.
— From staff and wire reports
CyCling
Contador staying in the huntLAVAUR, France — Defending Tour de France Alberto Conta-
dor wants to show his rivals he is still the world’s best climber when the race hits the Pyrenees on Thursday. It just depends whether his troublesome right knee lets him.
The three-time champion has been bugged by a swelling in his right knee since he crashed on last week’s fifth stage, and he banged the same knee again when falling of his bike on stage 9 last Sunday.
With two mammoth climbs up the Col du Tourmalet and an uphill finish to Luz-Ardiden awaiting him on Thursday’s 12th stage, the Spaniard feels quietly confident his body will not let him down. It had better not, otherwise Andy Schleck and Cadel Evans, his main Tour rivals, will not hesitate to try to knock him out of contention.
Cruel, but that’s the Tour. After all, Contador did not wait around when Schleck’s chain came off last year.
“My knee is responding well so I’m obviously very happy,” Contador said Wednesday’s 11th stage. “But keep in mind that I didn’t climb the Tourmalet today. I have to see how it responds and on that basis I will make a decision how to do the race on the last climb tomorrow.”
British sprinter Mark Cavendish won Wednesday’s 11th stage with a blistering late attack to clinch his third Tour stage win of the race, and Frenchman Thomas Voeckler kept hold of the race leader’s yellow jersey for another day.
Football
Players want to get deal doneNEW YORK — Calling the players’ offer “fair for both sides,”
star quarterbacks Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees — plaintiffs in an antitrust suit against the NFL — said Wednesday “it is time” to wrap up negotiations on a deal to end the league’s lockout.
At the bargaining table, though, it wasn’t that easy.On the day Brady, Manning and Brees spoke as a group
publicly for the first time, players and owners spent nearly 11 hours meeting at a Manhattan law office.
About two hours after players’ association chief DeMaurice Smith left, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell walked out with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the league’s lead ne-gotiator Jeff Pash at 10 p.m.
Other owners including Pittsburgh’s Art Rooney and Caro-lina’s Jerry Richardson departed around then, too.
Negotiations were scheduled to resume Today. With each passing day, the need to strike a bargain and end the first NFL work stoppage since 1987 becomes greater.
In a statement released to The Associated Press via the NFL Players Association, New England’s Brady, Indianapolis’ Manning and New Orleans’ Brees said: “We believe the overall proposal made by the players is fair for both sides and it is time to get this deal done.”
golF
Americans not getting loveSANDWICH, England — Tiger Woods is back home, nurs-
ing a sore leg. The rest of American golf isn’t doing so well, either.
The U.S. is mired in its longest drought of the modern Grand Slam era, having gone five straight majors without a victory.
Phil Mickelson was the last American to capture a title, more than a year ago at the 2010 Masters. Since then, it’s been two golfers from Northern Ireland (Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell), two from South Africa (Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen) and one from Germany (Martin Kaymer).
While players from all over the world describe the U.S. slump as nothing more than cyclical, Nick Watney concedes that it’s getting a bit bothersome.
Coming into the British Open, Europeans hold the top four spots in the world rankings. Steve Stricker is the highest American at No. 5.
With Woods sidelined by an injury, the 22-year-old McIlroy is a solid favorite to follow up his eight-stroke victory at the U.S. Open with another major title at Royal St. George’s. The bookies also like a pair of Englishmen who happen to be 1-2 in the world rankings, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood.
— The Associated Press
“You are scrambling a bit when you have the number of injuries that we have to deal with be-fore we chose the team,” NL manager Bruce Bochy said on Monday.
The Red Sox, Cardinals and Giants have somehow been able to weather a se-ries of significant injuries and sit atop their respec-tive divisions as the sec-ond half of the season is
about to commence.Others such as the
Twins, who have watched eight regular players hit the DL for extended pe-riods of time, and the Tampa Bay Rays, who saw Evan Longoria miss 26 games with an oblique in-jury, got off to slow starts in part because of health problems.
Here’s a quick look at the stars, slumps and sur-prises of the first half of the season:
STARS—Jose Reyes, SS, New York Mets:
Electrifying presence has made the Mets worth watching. Leading NL with
.354 average and 15 triples, six more than next closest hitter.
—Matt Kemp, CF, Los Angeles Dodgers: All-around stud. Hitting .313 with 22 homers and 67 RBIs. Been intentionally walked 12 times and leads in many of the stat geeks’ favorite categories, including wins over re-placement.
—Jair Jurrjens, RHP, Atlanta Braves: Leads NL in wins (12), ERA (1.87) to keep Braves within striking distance of the juggernaut in Philadelphia.
—Jose Bautista, OF/3B, Toronto Blue Jays: His assault continues. Belt-ed a league-high 31 homers in first half and also hitting .334, second in the league while playing two positions.
—Adrian Gonzalez, 1B, Boston Red Sox: Worth everything that the Red Sox invested. Leading league with .354 av-erage and 77 RBIs with 17 homers.
—Justin Verlander, RHP, Detroit Ti-gers: With apologies to All-Star starter Jered Weaver, Verlander has been the AL’s best pitcher in the first half. Is 12-5
with a 2.15 ERA and league-leading 147 strikeouts. Also tossed a no-hitter on May 7 at Toronto.
SLUMPS:—Los Angeles Dodgers: Pretty
much everything has gone wrong for one of baseball’s tradition-rich fran-chises. Owner Frank McCourt is in a bitter battle with MLB over control of the team, with the fight spilling into bankruptcy court. And the team has sunk to the bottom of the NL West in Don Mattingly’s first season as manager.
—J.A. Happ, RHP, Houston Astros: Hasn’t recorded a victory since May 14, falling to 3-10 with a 5.63 ERA. Happ is 0-6 with a 5.85 ERA during his skid, and the Astros are winless in those nine starts.
—Adam Dunn, DH, Chicago White Sox: Hitting .160 with nine homers, 34 RBIs and 117 strikeouts in first year of a four-year, $56 million contract. Hitting .031 (2 for 64) against lefties.
—John Lackey, RHP, Boston Red
Sox: Has been a massive disappoint-ment since signing a five-year, $82.5 million deal before last season. Is 6-8 with a 6.84 ERA this year.
SUPRISES:—Pittsburgh Pirates: The perennial
losers are in the middle of a stunningly successful season, riding CF Andrew McCutchen and closer Joel Hanrahan to a 47-43 record, just one game be-hind the Cardinals and Brewers in the NL Central.
—Lance Berkman, OF, St. Louis Cardinals: In the middle of a career re-surgence, leading NL with 24 homers.
—Curtis Granderson’s power: The New York Yankees’ center fielder strug-gled in his first year in pinstripes, but has rebounded in a big way this year. His 25 homers at the break are the second-highest total in the majors, behind Bautista.
—The top ace in Philly: When the Phillies unveiled their ‘Four Aces’ start-ing rotation, Cole Hamels was the last one mentioned. Not now. Hamels has
the best ERA (2.32) of any of the four and his 11 wins are tied with Roy Hal-laday for the team lead.
MEMORABLE MOMENTS:—Jeter’s 3,000th hit: Like ev-
erything else in his championship-drenched career, the Yankees short-stop did it in style, hitting a homer to become the 28th player in MLB history to achieve the feat in a five-hit day.
—Brewers acquire K-Rod: Milwau-kee GM Doug Melvin made the first big splash of the trade season, announcing just after the All-Star game that he got closer Francisco Rodriguez from the Mets to bolster the bullpen and try to make what is expected to be Prince Fielder’s last year in Milwaukee a memorable one.
—Travis Hafner’s walkoff slam: The Indians slugger, who has rebounded after three mediocre seasons, hit a grand slam in the ninth inning on July 7 to beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4.
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Kitna “has more experi-ence.” Needless to say, Ryan’s contract wasn’t renewed with the na-tional team and he was wiped off the face of the coaching earth.
Back to the present, and Solo is the best goal-keeper in the world in 2011 — a charasmatic blend of athleticism and say-what’s-on-her-mind confidence that’s a breath of fresh air in women’s sports. Solo was a major player in keeping the Brazilian team at bay, as the U.S. won in pen-alty kicks on Saturday to
advance to play France in the semifinals. There’s your personal and team redemption story of the summer.
The timing of the quarterfinal win was perfect. In a down time for leagues everywhere, where some guys can’t even work (NFL, NBA), soccer’s there with a merry group of charac-ters that have rallied and scored some goals that would make the men’s team jealous. If you’ve watched SportsCenter in the last week, you’ve seen the women’s highlights ... leading off the broadcast.
Miracle On Grass it isn’t — these ladies were tabbed as favorites — but it’s still our fun-to-watch
team against the world.After the win over
Brazil, there wasn’t much doubt that the U.S. would beat France in the semifinals. Wambach scored the game-winner on a towering header and Alex Morgan added a third goal late for the 3-1 victory and the U.S.’s first championship berth since the super summer of 1999. That’s when Brandi Chastain scored a winning penalty kick, ripped her jersey off and elevated women’s soccer in America to unforseen levels, particularly among youths.
Twelve years on, what’s best about this U.S. women’s team is its self-awareness. They don’t
pretend to be anything else than the nation’s top human interest story in a god-awfully hot summer. When the NFL gets its act together, soccer will become an afterthought again, but Solo tweeted after the U.S.’s win, im-ploring the universe that there was plenty of room on the U.S. bandwagon.
With a win on Sunday against Japan, the U.S. can claim No. 1 in two things: women’s soccer and bandwagon of the year. There’s no shame in having a bigger cheering section, even for a few weeks.
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HORNEContinued from Page 12
NEW YORK (AP) — Heavily fined Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison calls NFL Com-missioner Roger Goodell a “crook” and a “devil,” among other insults, in a magazine article.
The 2008 AP Defensive Player of the Year hasn’t been shy about ripping the league after he was docked $100,000 for il-legal hits last season. In the August issue of Men’s Journal, his rants against Goodell reach another level of wrath.
“If that man was on fire and I had to piss to put him out, I wouldn’t do it,” Harrison told the maga-zine. “I hate him and will
never respect him.”His other descriptions of
the commissioner include an anti-gay slur, “stupid,” ‘’puppet” and “dictator.”
If the Steelers had de-feated the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl, Harrison said, he would have whispered in Goodell’s ear during the trophy ceremony: “Why don’t you quit and do something else, like start your own league in flag football?”
Harrison also criticizes other NFL execs, Patri-ots-turned-commenta-tors Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi (“clowns”), Houston’s Brian Cushing (“juiced out of his mind”)
— and even teammates Rashard Mendenhall and Ben Roethlisberger for their performances in the Super Bowl loss.
Harrison calls the running back a “fumble machine” for his fourth-quarter turnover. Men-denhall said on Twitter on Wednesday he didn’t have a problem with what Harrison said “because I know him.” But he also included a link to his stats from last season, which show he didn’t have a pat-tern of fumbling.
Of the quarterback’s two interceptions, Har-rison says: “Hey, at least throw a pick on their side of the field instead of ask-
ing the D to bail you out again. Or hand the ball off and stop trying to act like Peyton Manning. You ain’t that and you know it, man; you just get paid like he does.”
Steelers President Art Rooney II said in a state-ment that he hadn’t seen the article or talked to Harrison.
Harrison also questions whether a black player is punished more for a hard hit on a white player than the opposite. Beyond the insults, Harrison makes some serious points about what he believes are the league’s misguided at-tempts to increase safety.
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14 THURSDAY, July 14, 2011 n The Ardmoreite n www.ardmoreite.com n SPORTS
basketballn Advantage Basketball
Camps: Edmond (Aug 8-12), camp runs from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., for more information, visit www.advantagebasketball .com, email [email protected] or call (405) 708-8117 or (425) 670-8877.
bowlingn Ken-Cliff Lanes Fall
Leagues: Starts the second week of September, offer-ing men’s, women’s, mixed and youth leagues, visit www.kenclifflanes.com for more information and registration.
footballn Dickson Lil Comets
Skills Camp: Aug. 1, 2 and 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m., grades 4-6, full pads, $40 per camper, register at Dick-son High School office or day of camp, must reg-ister by July 15 for camp T-shirt.
golfn The 25th annual Chil-
dren’s Shelter Golf Bene-fit: Lakeview Golf Club in Ardmore on Aug. 6 start-ing with a scramble start. The event is a four-per-son team scramble with a cost of $60 per player, and includes green fees, cart, lunch and prizes in honor of the silver anniversary of the event. Entry forms are available at Lakeview and Dornick Hills Golf Courses, Longest Insur-ance and R&R Trophy. For more information call (580) 223-4489 or (580) 220-9727.
n 2011 Lakeview Junior Golf Program: Ages 11 and younger, $45 per junior includes Wednesday play days, play day July 20; juniors will be grouped and play each week, age determines tee box played, parent volunteers needed, for more information, con-tact Lakeview golf shop at (580) 223-4260.
n 345 Combat Sustain-ment Support Battalion “Unlimited Support” An-nual Tournament: Sept. 12, Lake Murray Golf Course, 8 a.m. sign-in, 9 a.m. shotgun start, lunch provided, proceeds benefit all soldiers of the 345th CSSB, sponsorships avail-able from $75-$250, for more information, call (580) 504-7714 or email
[email protected], mail entries to 345th CSSB, 2015 Vet-erans Blvd., Ardmore, OK 73401.
n Lake Murray Golf Course Ladies Day: All day every Thursday, $15 plus tax per round, for more information, call (580) 223-6613.
n Lake Murray Golf Course Lady Niners’ League: Fridays, nine-hole league with open play times, for more informa-tion, call (580) 223-6613.
n Lake Murray Golf Course Monday Morn-ing Mixers: Mondays at 9 a.m., 8:45 a.m. check-in time, open to the public, 18 holes with various for-mats, for more informa-tion, call (580) 223-6613.
n Lake Murray Golf Course Wednesday Night Scramble: Every week at 6 p.m., nine-hole scramble, 5:45 p.m. check-in time, for more information, call (580) 223-6613.
n Lakeview Junior Club Championship: July 21, $20 entry fee, includes range and lunch, flighted by age (8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17 with boys and girls divisions, entry dead-line July 20, trophies for first-third places, for more information, call (580) 223-4260.
rodeon Barker Ranch Jack-
pots: Every Tuesday night, 4264 S. Plainview Rd., arena opens at 4 p.m., ex-hibitions from 4:30-7:30 p.m. and after jackpot if needed, jackpot starts at 8 p.m., $25 entry fee, $4 exhibitions, $100 will be added with at least 15 en-tries, for more informa-tion, call Kelly Barker at (580) 504-3063.
n Circle L Riding on Faith Playday Series: TNT Arena (between Ardmore and Marietta), saddle se-ries with a saddle in each age group; Dates: July 23, Aug. 20, Sept. 17 and Oct. 1; rain date TBA, events include barrels, st. barrels, pole bending and base-ball; $10 per event; age groups include: leadline, 5 and younger, 6-8, 9-11, 12-14, 1-17 and adults; birth certificates required, for more information, call Pa-mela at (580) 224-7393.
n Gene Autry Roping
Club Open 5D Barrel Race: Every Thursday, exhibitions start at 6:30 p.m., $4 per run or three runs for $10, jackpot starts at 8:30 p.m., $25 entry fee per horse, at the Gene Autry Roping Club Arena, 6 miles north of Hwy 199 on Gene Autry Road, for more informa-tion, call Laneau (LaNay) Duncan at (580) 465-7416 or Leatrice Perry at (580) 369-8623.
n Gene Autry Roping Club Playday Series: Aug. 13, age groups include Peanut (9 and younger), Peewee (10-13), Junior (14-18), Senior Women (19 and older), Senior Men (19 and older), 40 and over women and 40 and over men; birth certificate re-quired for Peanut, Peewee and Junior; $1 per class for Peanut, $2 per class for all others; horses must have negative coggins to be on grounds; for more information, call Dianne at (580) 465-3267, Lark at (580) 319-1774 or Jeannie at (580) 294-3039.
n Pauls Valley Roundup Club 4-D Jackpot Bar-rell Racing: Until Sept. 26, every Monday except holidays, $4 exhibitions start at 6:30 p.m. followed by jackpot barrels ($19), concessions available, for more information, contact PVRC at (405) 238-2776 or (405) 238-7425.
n Pauls Valley Round-Up Club’s Mutton Bustin Buckle Series: Every Sun-day, registration at 2 p.m., riding at 3 p.m., kids ages 3-7 under 55 pounds, $20 per rider, free admission, weekly jackpots and prizes, top 10 winners come back to ride three nights dur-ing Pauls Valley Heritage Days (winner gets buckle), for more information, call Dessie Daugherty at (405) 238-7425 or (405) 238-2776 or Lora Scoggins at (405) 323-0160.
softballn Ardmore EF Five Girls
Fastpitch Team: Looking for committed, serious and experienced players, 14 and under competitive team preparing to move up to 16 and under for fall tournement play that will carry into spring 2012, for more information, contact Thomas Cronemeyer at (580) 226-4155.
Cross Country
PTC fundraiser at Fenton
The Plainview Track Club will sponsor a car wash at Brad Fenton Mo-tors on Saturday from 10 a.m.–3 p.m., with all pro-ceeds going to the PTC athletes who participate in the AAU summer track program.
Other notesPlainview cross country
has started its practice for the upcoming fall season.
Schedule: Sunday at 3 p.m. at Regional Park; Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. at high school track; Tuesday and Thursday at 7 a.m. at Re-gional Park.
Cross country physicals
for the fall season at Pla-inview Schools are July 19 at the Virgil Trout Field-house at 6 p.m.
golfDornick Hills Ladies Golf Association Invitational
HorseraceFirst flightWin — Vicki Peters/Kimberly Bell; Place — Darlene Crawford/Paula Vinzetta; Show — Chris Thomas/Kelsey Hazelwood
Second flightWin — Janet Case/Bambi Nava; Place — Glenda Blair/Regina Briscoe; Show — Susan Theobald/Gracie Walraven
Third flightWin — Darlene MacDonald/Susan Tomson; Place — Sonja Stepp/Shir-ley Cooper; Show — Paula Martin/Susie Dillard
OverallWin — Vicki Peters/Kimberly Bell; Place — Janet Case/Bambi Nava; Show — Darlene MacDonald/Susan Tomson
Ardmore Middle School and High School sports physicals are due Aug. 1. Players cannot practice without physicals.
The ArdmoreiteArdmore had three ten-
nis players named Okla-homa Tennis Coaches As-sociation All-Stars follow-ing strong performances at the Class 5A state tour-nament in May.
Junior Devin Morales placed seventh in the state at No. 1 boys singles and the girls No. 1 tandem of senior Ellie Jones and sophomore Alex Morales were fourth.
In order to be named
an OTCA All-Star, players must either finish in the top eight in No. 1 singles, the top four in No. 2 sin-gles, the top six in No. 1 doubles or the top three in No. 2 doubles at the state tournament.
NationalChamps
Three Ardmore players named OTCA All-Stars
Ardmore High School rising juniors Sadie and Savannah Pfau placed second at the Duncan tournament in 18-and-under doubles on June 25 and second in the Ed-mond Racket Club tour-nament’s 18-and-under doubles on July 8. Devin Morales, (not pictured) who also plays for Ard-more, was second in boys 18-and-under singles at the Duncan tournament and won the 18-and-under championship in singles at the Greens Country Club tournament in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. SUBMiTTED PHoTo
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Two fighters out of Final Round Combat Academy in Lone Grove won three
national titles in the 2011 North American Amateur
Muay Thai Champion-ships on July 9.
Justin Ramsey (left) won the heavyweight divi-
sion and Garrett Willis (right) fought two weight
classes and won the Ju-nior Bantamweight and
Bantamweight divisions. SUBMiTTED PHoTo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday that needles and cotton balls Roger Clemens’ former trainer says he used to inject the star pitcher tested positive for Clemens’ DNA and anabolic steroids — evi-dence the defense said was faked.
Assistant U.S. attorney Steven Durham revealed the results during opening arguments in Clemens’ trial on charges of lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens’ attorney Rusty Hardin responded that he won’t dispute the needles contain Clemens’ DNA and steroids, but ac-cused the trainer Brian McNamee of “mixing” it up.
“He manufactured this stuff,” Hardin told jurors. “Roger Clemens’ only crime was having the poor judgment to stay connected with Brian Mc-Namee.”
Hardin said steroids would have been so “in-credibly inconsistent with his career and beliefs that there’s no way he would have done it.”
Clemens has said that the only things McNamee ever injected him with were the common local anesthetic lidocaine for his joints and vitamin B-12 to ward off flu viruses and stay healthy. But Durham said neither substance was found on the needles or cotton swabbed with his blood stains.
Hardin told the jury that the government is “horribly wrong” in charg-ing his client with per-jury, false statements and obstruction of Congress. Clad in a dark suit, Clem-ens watched silently from the defense table with a clenched jaw.
“There was a rush to judgment on Roger that has made it impossible for him to be fairly heard until he got here,” Hardin
said.Hardin showed the jury
an enlarged photo of the country with all the sites where federal agents in-vestigated the case. He said it involved 103 law enforcement officers, five attorneys, 229 investiga-tion reports and 72 inves-tigation locations across the continental United States, Germany and Puerto Rico.
“They still didn’t find anything to connect him with steroids except Brian McNamee,” Hardin said.
Durham, however, said that about 45 witnesses, including several of Cle-mens’ former teammates, will help make the case that Clemens used ana-bolic steroids and human growth hormone.
Hardin argued that the government’s case essen-tially rises and falls with McNamee, who the lawyer said has lied repeatedly. “He’s still lying,” Hardin said.
Needles have Clemens DNA, steroids; defense claims fakery
Clemens trial
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WANTEDNow accepting applica-tions for the position of Director of the Marshall County EMS. Qualified applicant must be a li-censed paramedic, have management experience. Salary commensurate with experience. All ap-plicants must send re-sume to Marshall County EMS, PO Box 707, Ma-dill, OK 73446. Resumes must be received by 5pm on the 19th day of July, 2011. Resumes will be considered at Special Board Meeting held on the 20th day of July, 2011 at 12pm. Equal Op-portunity Employer
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Medical 240
Cross Timbers Hospiceof Ardmore
is looking for a full-time Bachelors level social worker. Only individuals with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) need apply. This is a “days only” po-sition with no nights or wknd call req’d. Pay is competitive and Cross Timbers provides excel-lent company-paid bene-fits for full-time employ-ees. Come by and fill-out application or send re-sume’ to Ray mcDonald, Ph.D. Cross Timbers Hospice, 207 C St. NW, Ardmore 73401. If you have questions, you may call Ray McDonald, Ph.D. 580-223-0655 or 1-800- 498-0655. Cross Timbers Hospice does not dis-criminate on the basis of gender, age, race, relig-ion, or place of origin.
Truck Drivers 250
Be home every night.Business is good. Hir-ing trailer spotters. Lo-cal drivers & end up
drivers. Apply at Carrell Trucking, 3801 Spring-dale Rd. See Paual for
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Beaver Express - Ard-more
Relief Driver - $12.50/hr. Mon. through Fri. some out of town work required. 2 yrs exp. Class A CDL. Clean MVR & HAZMAT re-quired. Call or come by 24 Moore Street SW - 580-226-4313.
Business is good.Hiring OTR regional,
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Trucking, 3801 Spring-dale Rd. See Paula for
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Cyclone Trucking Company, Inc.
located off Hwy 70 South of Madill on Smiley Road is cur-rently seeking full-time experienced truck driv-ers for its flatbed op-erations. These are openings in our Madill facility. New pay pack-age, 401K with com-pany match, health in-surance, home most weekends. DOT physi-cal & drug test re-quired. 2 years OTR minimum. Apply in per-son or call 1-800-527-1781.
Local Cab Companyhiring Full Time Driver. Must pass background
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REAL ESTATE500-550
Apts for Rent Furn..............505Apts for RentUnfurn............506Business Property for Rent.510Business Property for Sale.512Businesses for Sale............514Condo/Townhms for Rent...515Condo/Townhms for Sale...516Duplexes for Rent ..............520Duplexes for Sale...............521Farms for Sale....................524Houses-Rent/Lease Furn....525Houses-Rent/Lease Unfurn526Houses for Sale..................530Land for Lease....................533Land for Sale......................536Land Wanted to Lease........538Real Estate Wanted to Buy.539Manufactured Homes-Rent.540Manufactured Home-Sale...541Mobile Hm Spaces-Rent.....542Hse Wanted to Rent/Lease.548Office Space for Rent/Lease550
7,000sf. building inbusy shopping center, will remodel to suit ten-ant. Call 580-220-7887
42x72 4 bays, metal shopbuilding double office, fenced yard & wash bay. Hwy 70 & S. Brock Rd. 580-618-0744/618-2121
Car Lot For Rent: Hwyfrontage, Lone Grove, 2 bay garage, office. Lo-cated E. of Farmer’s Mar-ket. Call 580- 223-4732 wk 226-3659 hm
Shop for rentw/ 2 hydraulic lifts $400 828 K NW. 465-3919
Bus/Com Propertyfor Sale 512
691 12th NW,1209 Wolverton, 1211 Wolverton. All 3 adjoin-ing hosp. district. Ap-prox 5000sf total . Ap-prox 1/4 city block of land. Contact Jess 580-465-0473 or Cheryl 580-465-3411.
Established Pet Boutique/Doggie Daycare Businessfor sale. We have been in business for 7yrs & are doing great. Perfect turn key business oppurtunity with lots of potential for growth. Would be a steal for an entrepreneur look-ing to establish a busi-ness. Call 580- 504-5745 or 580-504-0554
3bd w/gar., cha, closeto grade school & park. $550 mo. $350 dep. Very clean. 3 Francis, Healdton. Taking appli-cations. 580-229-0399
5 ac. fully fenced(horses), 3bd 1ba, ch/a, ceiling fans, DW, W/D hkups, gas stove/oven/hot water tank, hdwd floors, fenced yard, big gar. sml barn, strg shed, City of Ardmore, DICK-SON SCHOOLs, man-datory ref., dep/rent $950 580-504-0431
Beautiful 2Bd/1Ba Brick w/cellar, country setting, quiet & peace-
ful, 3 mi. from town, Plainview ISD $650mo.
+ dep. Can be seen now, available Aug. 1.
Call 580-504-2101
Fisher Properties324 F SW 3 Bd 2 Bath $735 mo. & 1425 B NW 3 Bd 2 Bath Brick with
garage $925 mo. Secu-rity dep $500. Available Aug 1. Call 768-2400
Lone Grove 2/2 MH, lgfncd yrd. cellar, carport $500/$400. 657-2609
Houses for Sale 530 2.8 acres with 3 Bd 3 Bath lg ktchn/DR, 2 living, utility, 2 car att. gar, ch/a, water well, cellar, trees, storage shed, lg sunroom with sliding glass doors, 1 mi. outside Wilson
City limits...4363 Midway Rd. 580-668-2666 / 668-5550
2400sf Beautiful cedar &rock on 17 acres. 4 mi N
of town $299,000. 222-6556
Brick 3/1.5, cha, lg covdeck, strg bldg, $70k oboRingling 580-465-9119Town & Country 3/2/2.
1ac 305 Eastwood -Remodeled priced to sell
580-795-3274
Land for Sale 536 2 Acre Tracts $9,500
40 Acre tract with live creek $135,000. Increase to 70 acre tract $235,000. More 40 acre tracts with ponds $125,000
Gated Entry. Lone Grove Schools. Some restrictions apply. Other property available. Hwy 53W.
Call Charlie 580-221-3740
Land for Sale 536Golf Course Lot
on 17th Fairway at Falcon-head (940)768-8251
Manuf. Homesfor Rent 540RVs for rent All Bills Pd.
including wifi & cable. $650-$850 mo/$300 dep.
226-2266
Manuf. Homesfor Sale 541
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Appliances 606Cheapo Appliances-Stovewasher, dryer, frig, freezer in Ardmore 580-465-0473
BuildingMaterials 609
Steel BuildingsDiscounted Factory Inven-
tory. 24x36, 38x50, 48x96, 60x150 Misc.
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Good Thingsto Eat 623
Black Eyed Peas$30 per bushel shelled/
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MiscellaneousMerchandise 629Going out of A/C business!
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New Treadmill $150antq full bed $195, coffee table $65, pair of vintage end tables $120, micro-wave $25. 580-223-0920
Patio Set $50,Broyhill TV Cabinet $150. Ardmore. Crys-tal 479-236-0962
Invitation to Bid...................710Legals.................................720Oil/Mineral Rights...............730Public Notice......................740
Legals 720No. 18918
Anyone having an in-terest in a 1932 Ford Coupe with Vin# 18101642 call Charlie at 580-221-3601
(Published inThe Ardmoreite
July 14, 21 & 28, 2011)
No. 18913IN THE DISTRICTCOURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICTARDMORE, CARTER COUNTY, STATE OF
OKLAHOMAIn The Matter Of: )R. M. P. )DOB: 05/18/2009 )A. R. P. )DOB: 03/24/2010 )C. M. P. )DOB: 03/24/2010 )Alleged Deprived )Children. )Case No. JD-2011-16S U M M O N S AND
N O T I C ETO: Travis Pitman, Ad-dress: Unknown, Lub-bock, TXGREETINGS:YOU ARE HEREBYNOTIFIED that a hear-ing in the matter of R. M. P., A.R.P. and C.M.P. has been scheduled before the Honorable Dennis Mor-ris on the 4th day of August, 2011 at 10:00 o'clock a.m., in the above-described mat-ter.FURTHER, the person(s) having cus-tody or control of the above-named children must appear personally and bring said children before the Court on said date and time.YOU ARE ADVISED that the child, the par-ent(s), and other inter-ested parties have the right to have an attor-ney present at the hearing and at each stage of the proceed-ings thereafter. If you cannot afford an attor-ney, you may make ap-plication for a Court-ap-pointed attorney at the District Court Clerk's Office at the Carter County Courthouse, Ardmore, Oklahoma. For this application you will be charged a one-time, non-refund-able fee of $40.00. If you do not obtain an attorney or make appli-cation for a Court-ap-pointed attorney prior to the hearing, the Court may proceed with the hearing and make such findings and grant relief as re-quested in the Petition. IT IS YOUR RESPON-SIBILITY TO RETAIN AN ATTORNEY SUF-FICIENTLY IN AD-VANCE OF THE HEARING TO EN-SURE YOUR REPRE-SENTATION.FAILURE TO RE-SPOND TO THIS SUMMONS OR TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING SHALLCONSTITUTE CON-SENT TO THE ADJU-DICATION OF THESE CHILDREN AND MAYUTLITMAELY RESULTIN LOSS OF CUS-TODY OF THESE CHILDREN OR THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THESE CHIL-DREN. (Okla. Stat. tit. 10, §1-4303(A)(4)).FURTHER, If you fail to appear as summoned, the Court will proceed with the hearing and will grant the relief re-quested.Dated this 12th day of July, 2011.
KAREN VOLINO,DISTRICT COURT
CLERKBy: /s/ GinaRichardson
Deputy Court Clerk(Published in
The Ardmoreite July 14, 21 & 28, 2011)
No. 18916Anyone having owner-ship claim to the fol-lowing: Boat 1615BE; Motor K5002106A#712948 Type 60 27405R, Red Trailer.Should contact: Claimant 580-277-8697Claimant has lien in amount of : $3,122.10 to dateSale will be held July 29, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. at 409 Akron, Ardmore, OK 73401
(Published inThe Ardmoreite July 14, 21 & 28, 2011)
Legals 720No. 18917
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CARTER COUNTY,
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
In The Matter Of: )A.L.B. )DOB: 10/23/2008 )An Alleged )Deprived Child. )Case No. JD-2010-45ALIAS S U M M O N S
AND N O T I C ETO: John Barrow, Ad-dress: 303 I St, Dun-can, OK 73533
YOU ARE HEREBYNOTIFIED that a hear-ing on the request of the Petitioner for Ter-mination of Parental Rights filed herein in the matter of A.L.B. has been scheduled before the Honorable Dennis Morris on the 7th day of September,2011 at 10:30 o’clocka.m.
FURTHER, the per-son(s) having custody or control of the above-named child must appear personally and bring said child be-fore the Court on said date and time.
FURTHER, the relief requested in the above-mentioned mat-ter is to terminate the Parental Rights of JOHN BARROW to A.L.B for the following reasons to-wit:
1. The child was ad-judicated deprived on the 2nd day of Novem-ber, 2010;
2. That such adjudi-cation was caused by or contributed to by the acts or omissions of the father;
3. That the father has failed to show that the conditions which led to the adjudication of the child have been cor-rected although he has been given more than three months to do so;
4. Termination of the father’s parental rights is in the best interest of the child.
YOU ARE ADVISEDthat the child, parent(s), and other in-terested parties have the right to have an at-torney present at the hearing on the above-mentioned appli-cation to terminate pa-rental rights and at each stage of the pro-ceeding. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may make application for a Court-appointed attorney at the District Court Clerk’s Office at the Carter County Courthouse, Ardmore, Oklahoma. For this ap-plication, you will be charged a one-time, non-refundable fee of forty dollars ($40.00). If you do not obtain an attorney or make appli-cation for a Court-ap-pointed attorney prior to the hearing, the Court may proceed with the hearing and make such findings and grant relief as re-quested in the Applica-tion to Terminate Pa-rental Rights. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBIL-ITY TO RETAIN AN ATTORNEY SUFFI-CIENTLY IN AD-VANCE OF THE HEARING TO EN-SURE YOUR REPRE-SENTATION.
FAILURE TO RE-SPOND TO THIS SUMMONS OR TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING TO TERMI-NATE PARENTALRIGHTS SHALL CON-STITUTE A DENIALOF INTEREST IN THE CHILD, WHICH DE-NIAL MAY RESULT, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE OF THIS PROCEEDING, OR ANY SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDING, IN THE GRANTING OF THE APPLICATION FOR TERMINATION OF THE PARENT’S PARENTAL RIGHTS AND IN THE CHILD’S ADOPTION. OKLA. STAT. TIT. 10 § 7006-1.2(A) (2).FURTHER, if you fail to appear as summoned, the Court will proceed with the hearing and will grant the relief re-quested.
DATED this 12 day of July, 2011.
KAREN VOLINO,DISTRICT COURT
CLERKBy: /s/ Lisa LatimerDeputy Court Clerk
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The ArdmoreiteJuly 14, 21 & 28, 2011)
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Legals 720No. 18911
IN THE DISTRICTCOURT FOR THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICTARDMORE, CARTER
COUNTY, OKLAHOMAIn the Matter of the )Estate of DIANA M. )ADORINO, )Deceased )Case No. PB-2010-110NOTICE OF HEARING
FINAL ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR
ORDER ALLOWING FINAL
ACCOUNT, DETERMI-NATION OF HEIRS, DISTRIBUTION AND
DISCHARGENotice is hereby
given that DIANE HIRSCHBERG and GABRIELLA ADOR-INO as referenced in the Decedent's Will, Co-Personal Repre-sentatives of the ES-TATE OF DIANA M. ADORINO, Deceased, having filed in this Court their Final Ac-count of the adminis-tration of said Estate, and Petition for order allowing same, deter-mination of heirs, and for final distribution of said Estate and dis-charge of said Co-Per-sonal Represen-tatives, the hearing of the same has been set by the Court for the 3rd day of August, 2011, at 9 o'clock a.m., at the Courtroom of said Dis-trict Court in the County Courthouse, at Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, and that all persons in-terested in said Estate is notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the said ac-count should not be settled and allowed, the heirs of said DIANAM. ADORINO, De-ceased, determined, said Estate distributed and the Co-Personal Representatives dis-charged.
DATED this 11th day of July, 2011.
LEE A. CARDJUDGE OF THE
DISTRICT COURTKAREN VOLINO,
COURT CLERKBy: /s/ Lisa Latimer
Deputy ClerkD. MICHAEL HISEY, OBA #4238HISEY & LANDGRAF333 West Main, Suite 450P.O. Box 66Ardmore, OK 73402-0066(580) 226-6270(580) 226-0571 FaxATTORNEYS FOR CO-PERSONAL REP-RESENTATIVES
(Published inThe Ardmoreite
July 14, & 21, 2011)
No. 18881IN THE DISTRICT
COURT OFCARTER COUNTYSTATE OF OKLA-
HOMAIn the Matter of the )Estate of RAYMOND )JOHN RANDALL )PALMER, )A Deceased )mior child, )d/o/b 11-05-2006 )
PB-2008-152NOTICE TOCREDITORS
All creditors having claims against Ray-mond John Randall Palmer, deceased, are required to present the same with a description of all security interests and other collateral (if any) held by each creditor with respect to such claim, to Tamara Ely, the named per-sonal representative, at the offices of James R. Neal, P.O. Box 1628, Ada, Oklahoma 74821-1628, on or be-fore the following pre-sentment date: August 30, 2011, or the same will be forever barred.
Dated this 29th day of June, 2011.
/s/ James R. NealOBA #17109
P.O. Box 1628Ada, OK 74821-1628
(580) 332-5579 Phone(580) 421-9599 Fax
Tamara Ely, Personal Representative
(Published inThe Ardmoreite
July 7 & 14, 2011)No. 18912
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Legals 720No. 18914
IN THE DISTRICTCOURT OF CARTER COUNTY STATE OF
OKLAHOMAIN THE MATTER OF)THE ESTATE OF )DANIELLE MOOSE,)DECEASED. )Case No. PB-2007-134NOTICE OF HEARING
PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
PERSONALREPRESENTATIVES
AND ISSUING LETTERS OF
ADMINISTRATIONNotice is hereby
given to all persons in-terested in the estate of Danielle Moose, De-ceased, that on the 12 day of July, 2011, Ron-nie Cropper, filed his Amended Petition for Appointment of Per-sonal Representative in this Court praying that Letters of Administra-tion of said estate be granted to Carol Crop-per and that said Amended Petition will be heard before this District Court, Carter County Courthouse, at Ardmore, Oklahoma, at 9:00 o’clock A.M., on the 12th day of August, 2011, when and where all persons interested may appear and con-test the same.
Witness my hand this 12 day of July, 2011.
Dennis MorrisJUDGE OF THE
DISTRICT COURTKaren Volino,
Court ClerkCarter County,
OklahomaBy: Jodie Jones
Deputy(seal)
S. Brent Bahner, OBA#414Fischl, Culp, McMillin, Chaffin, Bahner & Long100 “E” Street S.W.P.O. Box 1766Ardmore, OK 73402Attorney for Ronnie Cropper and Carol Cropper
(Published inThe Ardmoreite July 14, 2011)
No. 18888Notice By Publication
Advertisement Of Warehouseman’s Sale
Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned warehouseman claims lien upon the goods de-scribed below, held for the accounts as set forth below, to wit:ACCOUNTSHazel Edwards216 12th NWArdmore, OK 73401Jami Ross1401 8th NWArdmore, OK 73401Jerome Shannon330 I St NEArdmore, Ok 73401Kirk Russell527 SE 2nd StArdmore, OK 73401Rutha Willis115 MonroeArdmore, OK 73401Christite & David Hodg-son2401 Village Lane J5Ardmore, OK 73401Kermeisha Halstied 416 C St. NWArdmore, OK 73401Jon Collins1013 B St. SEArdmore, OK 73401The above mentioned units will be sold at C & H Mini Storage 1411 4th NW Ardmore Okla-homa on July 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM
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of Unclaimed Animals under Title 4; Section 85.6 of the Oklahoma State Statutes. Horse, 4 yr old mare. Horse, 2 yr old stud. Mini Mule, 4 yr old. Donkey, 3 yr old. Horse, 4 yr old stud (All ages are ap-proximate). Owners must provide detail de-scription to claim these animals. Contact Dep-uty Robinson at the Carter County Sheriff Office, 223-6104.
YOU ARE HEREBYNOTIFIED that a hear-ing on the request of
Legals 720the Petitioner for Ter-mination of Parental Rights filed herein in the matter of J.J. W. J., A. L. J. and P.N.J. has been scheduled before the Honorable Dennis Morris on the 19th day of September, 2011 at 9:00 o’clock a.m.
FURTHER, the per-son(s) having custody or control of the above- named children must appear personally and bring said children be-fore the Court on said date and time.
FURTHER, the relief requested in the above-mentioned matter is to terminate the Parental Rights of JOSEPH JAMES as to J.J. W. J.for the following rea-sons to-wit:
1. The child was ad-judicated deprived on the 13th day of May, 2010;2. That such adjudi-cation was caused by or contributed to by the acts or omissions of the father;3. That the father has failed to show that the conditions which led to the adjudica-tion of the child have been corrected al-though he has been given more than three months to do so; 4. Termination of the father’s parental rights is in the best interest of the child. YOU ARE ADVISED
that the children, par-ent(s), and other inter-ested parties have the right to have an attor-ney present at the hearing on the above- mentioned application to terminate parental rights and at each stage of the proceed-ing. If you cannot af-ford an attorney, you may make application for a Court-appointed attorney at the District Court Clerk’s Office at the Carter County Courthouse, Ardmore, Oklahoma. For this ap-plication, you will be charged a one-time, non-refundable fee of forty dollars ($40.00). If you do not obtain an attorney or make appli-cation for a Court-ap-pointed attorney prior to the hearing, the Court may proceed with the hearing and make such findings and grant relief as re-quested in the Applica-tion to Terminate Pa-rental Rights. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBIL-ITY TO RETAIN AN ATTORNEY SUFFI-CIENTLY IN AD-VANCE OF THE HEARING TO EN-SURE YOUR REPRE-SENTATION.
FAILURE TO RE-SPOND TO THIS SUMMONS OR TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING TO TERMI-NATE PARENTALRIGHTS SHALL CON-STITUTE A DENIALOF INTEREST IN THE CHILDRENS, WHICH DENIAL MAY RE-SULT, WITHOUT FUR-THER NOTICE OF THIS PROCEEDING, OR ANY SUBSE-QUENT PROCEED-ING, IN THE GRANT-ING OF THE APPLI-CATION FOR TERMI-NATION OF THE PAR-ENT’S PARENTALRIGHTS AND IN THE CHILDREN’S ADOP-TION. OKLA. STAT. TIT. 10 § 7006-1.2(A) (2).
FURTHER, if you fail to appear as sum-moned, the Court will proceed with the hear-ing and will grant the relief requested.
DATED this 1st day of July, 2011.
KAREN VOLINO,DISTRICT COURT
CLERK/s/ Gina RichardsonDeputy Court Clerk
(Published inThe Ardmoreite
July 7, 14, & 21, 2011)
Legals 720No. 18880
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT
CARTER COUNTY, STATE OF
OKLAHOMAIn The Matter Of:J.J. W.J.DOB: 12/11/2003A.L.J.DOB:03/18/2006P.N.J.DOB: 06/05/2007Alleged DeprivedChildren.Case No. JD-2010-15
SECOND ALIASS U M M O N S AND
N O T I C ETO: Brandi Gene Har-ris-James, Address: Unknown
YOU ARE HEREBYNOTIFIED that a hear-ing on the request of the Petitioner for Ter-mination of Parental Rights filed herein in the matter of J.J. W.J., A.L.J. and P.N.J. has been scheduled before the Honorable Dennis Morris on the 19th day of September, 2011 at 9:00 o’clock a.m.
FURTHER, the per-son(s) having custody or control of the above- named child must ap-pear personally and bring said child before the Court on said date and time.
FURTHER, the relief requested in the above-mentioned matter is to terminate the Parental Rights of BRANDI GENE HARRIS-JAMES as to J.J. W.J., A.L.J. and P.N.J for the following reasons to-wit:1. The children were adjudicated deprived on the 13th day of May, 2010;2. That such adjudica-tion was caused by or contributed to by the acts or omissions of the mother;3. That the mother has failed to show that the conditions which led to the adjudication of the children have been cor-rected although she has been given more than three months to do so; 4. Termination of the mother’s parental rights is in the best interest of the children.
YOU ARE ADVISEDthat the children, par-ent(s), and other inter-ested parties have the right to have an attor-ney present at the hearing on the above- mentioned application to terminate parental rights and at each stage of the proceed-ing. If you cannot af-ford an attorney, you may make application for a Court-appointed attorney at the District Court Clerk’s Office at the Carter County Courthouse, Ardmore, Oklahoma. For this ap-plication, you will be charged a one-time, non-refundable fee of forty dollars ($40.00). If you do not obtain an attorney or make appli-cation for a Court-ap-pointed attorney prior to the hearing, the Court may proceed with the hearing and make such findings and grant relief as re-quested in the Applica-tion to Terminate Pa-rental Rights. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBIL-ITY TO RETAIN AN ATTORNEY SUFFI-CIENTLY IN AD-VANCE OF THE HEARING TO EN-SURE YOUR REPRE-SENTATION.
FAILURE TO RE-SPOND TO THIS SUMMONS OR TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING TO TERMI-NATE PARENTALRIGHTS SHALL CON-STITUTE A DENIALOF INTEREST IN THE CHILDRENS, WHICH DENIAL MAY RE-SULT, WITHOUT FUR-THER NOTICE OF THIS PROCEEDING, OR ANY SUBSE-QUENT PROCEED-ING, IN THE GRANT-ING OF THE APPLI-CATION FOR TERMI-
Legals 720NATION OF THE PAR-ENT’S PARENTALRIGHTS AND IN THE CHILDREN’S ADOP-TION. OKLA. STAT. TIT. 10 § 7006-1.2(A) (2).
FURTHER, if you fail to appear as sum-moned, the Court will proceed with the hear-ing and will grant the relief requested.
DATED this 1st day of July, 2011.
KAREN VOLINO,DISTRICT COURT
CLERK/s/ Gina RichardsonDeputy Court Clerk
(Published inThe Ardmoreite
July 7, 14 7 21, 2011)
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — Three coordinated bomb-ings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 21 people and wound-ing 141 in the worst terror at-tack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege.
Bloody bodies were strewn in the dirt of Mumbai’s crowded neighborhoods and markets. Doors were ripped off storefronts, motorcycles were charred and a bus stop was shredded. After the blasts in three separate neighbor-hoods, police set up check-points and were put on high alert.
The bombings came just months after peace talks re-sumed between India and Pakistan, which New Delhi has blamed for past attacks.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the blasts and appealed to the people of Mumbai “to remain calm and show a united face.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and Indian officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blasts.
Indian officials have ac-cused Pakistan’s powerful spy agency of helping coor-dinate and fund earlier at-tacks, including the Mumbai siege, which killed 166 people over three days. Peace talks between the countries were suspended after the siege and resumed only recently.
Pakistan’s government ex-pressed distress about the loss of lives and injuries soon after Wednesday’s blasts were reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama also condemned the “outrageous attacks.”
“The American people will stand with the Indian people in times of trial, and we will offer support to India’s efforts to bring the perpetrators of these terrible crimes to jus-tice,” he said in a statement. “I have no doubt that India will overcome these deplorable terrorist attacks.”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she will go ahead with her plans to visit India next week despite the bombings. Standing with
India “is more important than ever,” she said.
The bombings began with an explosion that ripped through the famed Jhaveri Bazaar jewelry market at 6:54 p.m. A minute later, a blast hit the busy business district of Opera House, several miles (kilometers) away in south-ern Mumbai. At 7:05 p.m., the third bomb exploded in the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai, according to police.
Because of the close timing of the blasts, “we infer that this was a coordinated attack
by terrorists,” Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.
A lifeless body lay on a cart. Survivors carried the wound-ed to taxis. One man was dragged out of the area on a red board used as a stretcher. Bleeding victims crowded into the back of a cargo truck to be taken to a hospital, where wards were filled with the wounded, slathered in white burn cream.
At Jhaveri Bazaar, a witness described two motorcycles exploding in flames and saw at least six bodies.
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Afghan leader mourns brother, faces void in south
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai climbed into his slain half-brother’s grave Wednesday and sobbed alongside the coffin, mourning the loss of the most powerful figure in southern Af-ghanistan before appointing another brother to take the man’s place.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the head of the Kandahar provincial council and the president’s most powerful emissary in the south, was shot to death Tuesday by a trusted friend at his mansion in Kandahar.
“My message for them (the Taliban) is that my countrymen, my broth-ers, should stop killing their own people,” President Karzai said after the funeral, which was attended by thousands of mourners. “It is easy to kill and everyone can do it, but the real man is the one who can save people’s lives.”
Israel’s high court asked to overturn boycott law
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli peace group has petitioned the coun-try’s Supreme Court to overturn a controversial new law banning boy-cotts of West Bank settlements, as in-ternational human rights groups and Israel’s own attorney general joined a growing chorus of the legislation’s critics.
The Gush Shalom peace group, which says it began calling for a boy-cott of settlement products back in the 1990s, alleged that the new law violates basic democratic principles.
“The parliamentary majority seeks, through the Boycott Law as by other pieces of legislation, to silence any criticism of government policy in general and of government policy in the occupied territories in particular,” the statement said.
Policemen inspect the site of a bomb explosion at Zaveri bazar in Mumbai, India, Wednes-day. Near-simultaneous bomb blasts rocked three busy neighborhoods during evening rush hour in India’s busy financial capital, killing at least 17 people in what the govern-ment called an apparent terrorist attack on the city. the associated Press
