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birthdays Those celebrating birth-

days today include Ruth Atterberry, Vickie Barkhimer, Danny Bateman, Jeanne Brewer, Mindy Choate, Goldie Cunningham, Link Dearing, Benny Fowler, Casaundra Garren, Tim Gravin, Rachel Hallum, Nettie Haney, Caris Hawkins, Jimmy Hulbutta, Shannon Khoury, Johnnie Lewis, Jordon Moyer, Sonny Phillips, Valerie Ranyan, Tony Richardson, Amber

Sipe, Kaylene Thompson, Krystal Turner, Larry Whitlock Jr, & Adrianna Wood.

Those celebrating birth-days tomorrow include Rosemarie Adams, Jim Azlin, Kenneth Azlin, Ashley Bateman, Amber Benn, Aimee Blankenship, Scott Bond, Sassie Buck, Jason Carbitcher, Kelsey Craw-ford, Trisha Davidson, Roy Denton, Summer Doak, Cory Groves, Dean Hailey, John Hooten, Rachel Jett,

Janelle Karges, Javier Lara, Toby Mainord, Jacob McGeisey, Jerry Renner, Benjamin Robbins, Jacie Satawake, Ernie Ste-phens, Gloria Troglin, Chad Ward, Reese Woodard, Syndey Woodard, Wendell Wortham, Zach Wright & Joshua Yeubanks.

anniversaries Those celebrating anni-

versaries today include Zachary and Kim Arthurs, Henry and Sue Gordon,

Brian and Angela Norman & Mark and Valaurie Poulter.

Those celebrating their aniversary tomorrow include Bob and Beth Crist, Roy and Delores Robertson & Mr. and Mrs. Starr Sims.

slants Jeffery Carr working hard

… Levi Newell having a little too much fun hula hoop-ing…

today�First United Methodist

Church will have a special time of prayer for teach-ers, administrators and support personnel of the schools surrounding Semi-nole during their morning services at 10:45 am. They will also have a ‘blessing of the backpacks’ for the kids during the children’s moment.

tomorrow�Sasakwa Public

Schools Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting

at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room at the south end of the high school hallway.

�Varnum Public Schools is having their open enroll-ment from 8:00am-11:30am for Seniors. From Noon to 2:30pm Junior.

tuesday�Women of Wonder will

meet from noon-1 p.m. in the SSC Mirror Room. For reservations call 405-380-3313 or 405-380-3143.

Seminole County Today

Words to Live By:

“When youremembered toforget, you wereremembering. Itwas when youforgot to forget

that you forgot.”

Author Ann Brashares

Trying To Catch Them AllTai Keawphalouk

Events Editor

Recently, have you noticed people wander-ing around aimlessly with phones in their out-stretched hands?

Has this happened to someone you know at work, in town, or at home? No, it’s not a zombie epi-demic… it’s the Pokemon GO phenomenon.

I’ve asked a few people in Seminole what they think about Pokemon Go and got their experiences.

Pokemon Go is a free-to-play, location-based, augmented reality game developed and published by Niantic for iOS and Android devices.

Since its release to select countries in July 2016, Pokemon Go has been one of the most downloaded games from the app store this year.

The app has been well received by many.

It has brought many people closer together within the community: friends and family mem-bers go out to play Poke-

mon together, building stronger family bonds.

Others are seeing the negative effects of the game. Some people have been driving while playing Pokemon Go, using up their monthly cellular data allowances, or even been robbed by criminals after being lured to a Pokemon

On the hunt—Staff Photo by Ken Childers

Above, A group of millienials searching for Pokemon in Downtown Seminole. “Pokemon Go” is a location-based reality game that has taken the nation by storm since its release in July.

The State Director for Rural Development with the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture, Ryan McMullen, will be the speaker at the Seminole Chamber of Commerce monthly Forum next Thurs-day, August 11, 2016.

The luncheon program will begin at 12 p.m. in Foundation Hall of the Enoch Kelly Haney Center on the campus of Seminole State College.

McMullen serves as State Director of USDA Rural Development, managing three federal agencies tasked with strengthening rural Oklahoma.

McMullen’s appointment to this post in 2009 made him the nation’s youngest Presidential appointee to such a post within the U.S.

Department of Agriculture. During his tenure, McMullen has overseen the invest-ment of over $5 billion in Federal resources in rural Oklahoma.

Prior to this appointment, McMullen served southwest Oklahoma for five years in the Oklahoma State Leg-islature. His colleagues chose him to serve in one of five elected leadership posi-tions in the House of Repre-sentatives, making McMul-len the youngest legislator in Oklahoma history elected to House leadership.

McMullen is a sixth gen-eration Oklahoman, raised on the family farm outside the town of Burns Flat. He graduated from Oklahoma State University as a Top Ten Senior Man with a degree in Agricultural Eco-nomics.

McMullen’s career outside the public sector includes the ownership of

Ken ChildersManaging Editor

The signal light at the

intersection of Milt Phillips and Evans has been out for several weeks, and the temporary stop sign was recently damaged, creating potentially hazardous condi-tions for local drivers.

The Seminole City Council will meet Tuesday evening and will consider a proposal from Public Works Director Mike Grant to have the situation declared as an emergency and authorize City Manager Steve Saxon to take appropriate action.

The city could end up having to cough up nearly

$25,000 to make the repairs.

In a cover letter included with the packet sent out to council members in advance of the meeting, Grant stated he had SignalTek diagnose the problem and provide him with a proposal for repairs.

According to Grant, the company told him both the underground wires and the signal light heads were bad and needed to be replaced.

The cost for replacing the heads is $6,440 and esti-mates for replacing the wire range from $3,300 to more than $18,000.

The lower of the two estimates entails running the wiring overhead, which

Grant says is only a tempo-rary fix. Running the wiring underground has an esti-mated price tag of $18,525.

“Alternate 1 and 2 (over-head wiring) will give us several more years of use out of the current system,” Grant stated in the letter. “I realize that money is tight, so I can go however the council feels is best at this time,” he added.

The council will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Goldie Barnett Confer-ence Room of the public library. Meetings of the Seminole Utilities Authority, Gas Authority and Airport Authority will precede the

Local Officers Now Have Extra Set of EyesAngela Downing

City Editor The Seminole Police

Department has recently outfitted all officers with “body cams” that will record the actions of both the offi-cers and the people they come into contact with in the line of duty.

Officers have been using the new body cams, made by Taser Axon, since the beginning of July.

The department was able to get the devices through a grant that Chief of Police Shane Marshall applied for and received.

Officers underwent a four-hour class, taught by Lieutenant Mike Burnett, about the ins and outs of how to use the cameras.

The body cams are mounted to the officer’s chest, depending on the

height of the officer and are secured into place by a spe-cial device.

The cameras record in 30-second intervals while the officer is on duty but not on a call. Once the officer gets a call, they turn the camera on to record the entire incident.

“When I make contact with a citizen and I am on duty, I’m recording,” Burnett said.

Just as officers col-lect fingerprints and blood samples for evidence; the body cams can be used as evidence too.

“This eliminates the ‘he said she said’ that we run into when talking to sus-pects,” Burnett said.

So far they have not had to use them in court but there is always that option available if needed.

The video from the cam-

eras is saved on the unit during the day. Officers may view their own footage on their phone, but it is not accessible by other officers or their phones.

Once the officer removes the camera and places it on a docking station it automatically downloads the videos from that day to evidence.com, a website that secures all the videos for safekeeping.

Only the officer that records the video can view that video, Marshall and Burnett, the system admin-istrator, also have access to the video.

The video, which includes audio recordings, are kept for a set amount of time depending on the incident. For example, a routine traffic stop without incident may stay in the system for

Burnett displaying body cam

Signal Light Repair Costly; Estimates as High as $24K

USDA Official Set to Speak At Chamber Forum Thursday

(See Cameras on Page A12)

(See Forum on Page A12)

(See Pokemon on Page A12)(See Signal on Page A12)

McMullen

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Chips, Salsa And Old FriendsThis week, I had the fortune of meeting up and

reconnecting with not only one, but two good friends I had not seen in many years. The best part? Both meetings occurred within 24 hours of each other.

These were not virtual meetings conducted via Facebook, FaceTime, or Skype. We actually met in person and exchanged handshakes and hugs.

On Wednesday, the phone rang at my desk and the caller ID flashed a very familiar name. It was Charles Morris, a man I had the privilege of work-ing for when he was the general manager of KSLE Radio back in the early eighties.

I was fresh out of high school when I began work-ing there, and I had the utmost respect for him...and still do.

He helped nurture me in my fledgling career as a radio announcer and eventually believed in me enough to put me on the air during prime time: the coveted 6-10 morning slot.

The fun lasted for several years, but as the oil market began to dry up in Seminole, the business-men that owned the station decided it was time to sell.

Being young and unable to cope with change at that stage of life (and perhaps even being a bit stub-born), I decided I wanted to leave. I took out an ad in a regional industry newsletter stating I was looking for a new opportunity.

Soon I had a call from a gentleman named Bill Watkins, who owned an AM/FM combo in Bryan/College Station, Texas.

I made the trip down there and Mr. Watkins put me up in his house for the weekend (which was the largest house I’d ever been in) and by Monday morning, I had a new job as an announcer and ad salesman.

I came back home to Seminole, said my good-byes, loaded up my nearly new Chevy Cavalier and headed south for my new adventure.

When I reported for duty, I was shown my desk and given a set of business cards that read ‘Ken Childers, Vice President of Marketing.’

Wow! You could’ve knocked me over with a feather. I was barely 22 years old and had such a “mature” title.

My elation was short lived, because I quickly discovered that nearly everyone in the building had that same title. I guess that was Bill’s way of dem-onstrating equality.

The fact that I really wasn’t a bigwig in the com-pany didn’t stop me from passing out cards embla-zoned with my name and fancy title in an effort to impress the local college girls at every opportunity that presented itself.

The other bonus, which was huge for me, came in the form of free housing. There was an apartment complex that had run an advertising campaign with the station and did not pay the bill.

Mr. Watkins took their debt out in trade for my rent, which ended up saving me several hundred dollars each month.

I couldn’t have asked for a better deal, and even though I was having fun and made some great new friends, I began to feel a bit homesick after a few months.

One night as I was drifting off to sleep I breathed a prayer, asking for a chance to get back closer to home. The very next morning, my phone rang, and it was the general sales manager of KSLE offering me my old job back.

I took their offer, and a couple of weeks later my dad and brother made the trek to Texas and moved me back “home.”

I ended up staying with KSLE for several more years, before moving to Albuquerque in 1989.

I stayed in the radio business until the year 2000, and can honestly say I applied many of the princi-ples Charles imparted to me as a young greenhorn throughout my career.

Charles and I spent several hours Thursday night reminiscing about the “good ole days” as we munched on tacos and chips and salsa at Casa-dores.

The next morning, as I was at my desk working on getting the Friday edition out the door, I received a text from my childhood friend Matt Snell. If you recall, I wrote about him and our recent “virtual” connection in last week’s column.

I hadn’t seen Matt since 1978, and he dropped by the office to say a quick “hello.” I was able to meet his beautiful daughters and his nephew.

They all seemed to enjoy watching two “old” men reconnect after four decades. We weren’t able to visit very long, but that didn’t matter. It made my day.

Getting to see two guys from yesteryear in a 24-hour period was a blessing.

Even though I don’t deserve much more than I’ve already been given, every now and then, just when I need it most, something extraordinary happens. These two events turned a hot, nearly miserable Oklahoma summer week into something special.

To me, friendships and experiences like that are more valuable than gold. Other things eventually disappear, but true friendships and good memories last forever.

Seminole County AgendasThe Board of County

Commissioners will have a regular scheduled meet-ing at 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 8.

Business includes dis-cussion and possible action on highway expenditures and possible action to allow Aaron Findley to present a more cost effective internet service solution.

The Wewoka City Coun-cil will hold their regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Tues-day, Aug. 9.

They will discuss and take possible action to move the surcharge of $2 from the wastewater plant and ear mark the surcharge for the automated meters as well as possible action to accept donations from the Marcus Roberts Foundation for Westside Park.

Wewoka Public Works Authority will hold its regu-lar meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday Aug. 9.

They will discuss and take possible action to reim-burse the City of Wewoka General Fund in the amount of $120,611.66 for the oper-ation of the Utility System.

The Wewoka Industrial Authority will hold its regu-lar scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug 9.

They will approve min-utes, treasure report and purchase orders.

Seminole City Coun-cil will have their regular scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. at the Seminole Public Library in the Goldie Barnett Conference Room.

They will consider and take possible action regard-ing the repairing the signal

lights at the intersection of Milt Phillips and Evans.

Preceding the meet-ing the Seminole Utilities Authority will meet and consider the possible action soliciting sealed bids for the relocation of water/sewer mains necessary for the construction of a new bridge over Magnolia Creek on East Broadway.

Preceding the meeting the Seminole Gas Author-ity will meet to consider and take action on the constant agenda.

Seminole Airport Authority will also meet to consider possible action to approve applying to the Federal Aviation Adminis-tration for a 90 percent/ten percent grant of $200,000 for new AWOS system.

Seminole Community and Wellness Facilities Authority will have a regu-lar scheduled meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9 in the Reynolds Wellness Center Conference Room.

They will discuss new business and take possible action on plans, adjust-ments and fundraising pos-sibilities, which may include a joint venture with the Seminole Band Boosters for a pumpkin patch, for the new budget year.

Bowlegs Public Schools will hold their regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 8.

Items on the consent agenda include approving Gordon Cooper Technology Center Course for academic credit at Bowlegs School as well as voting to co-op of alternative education with New Lima Schools.

Weekly Events

Following is a list of events, which occur regu-larly each week or month in Seminole County.

MONDAY�Free General Education

Development (GED) classes are offered at Wes Watkins Technology Center Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. For informa-tion on classes and bus stop locations, contact the Stu-dent Service department at (405) 452-5500 or in-district patrons may call toll free at 1-888-884-3834. The enroll-ment period is open, and individuals may enroll any-time throughout the year with Instructor Maryann Norman at 405-257-5754. Test areas covered are Reading, Lan-guage Arts; Writing, Science, Social Studies, and Mathe-matics. Curriculum can also prepare for employment tests or college entrance exams for those that may have a diploma but need to brush up on their skills.

�Monday through Friday, Seminole Nation Alcohol Substance Abuse Program holds AA and NA meetings, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the OAT Bldg., next to the casino.

�Aerobics, 8-9 a.m. each Mon day at Senior Citizens Center 322 N. Fourth; domi-noes 10-12:45 p.m. and tin can bingo 12:45-2 p.m.

�Free Adult Basic Edu-cation (GED) classes are being held at Wes Wat-kins Technical School in Wetumka every Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. Please call Mary Ann Norman for infor-mation at 405-257-5774. Leave a message.

�Heritage House, New Age Project, Dominos, skip-bo, pool, jigsaw puzzles, and exercise equipment from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; bingo from noon to 1 p.m., each day Monday through Friday, 210 W. College.

�GED Classes will be held Mondays and Tues-days at Work Force Okla-homa from 9 to 12 p.m. For more information contact Work Force 382-4670.

�Take Off Pounds Sensi-bly (TOPS), non-profit sup-port group for overweight people, meets each Monday at 5:30 p.m. in Senior Citi-zen Center, 322 N. Fourth.

�ABE/GED classes meet

every Monday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Konawa Library. For more information call JoAnne Lucas at 580-925-3884.

�ESL Class will be held at the Immaculate Concep-tion Catholic Church from 6 – 8 p.m.

�Monday night Bible Study, 7-8 p.m. at Immacu-late Conception Catholic Church Rectory.

�English classes from 7-9 p.m. at Immaculate Con-ception Church Hall.

�Zumba with Tiffany at the Reynolds Wellness Center from 12:15 until 1 p.m. and evening session with Sharon from 6:45 until 7:45 p.m. For more informa-tion contact the Wellness Center at 405-220-4207 or info@reynoldswellness.net

�Intensity with Kevin at the Reynolds Wellness Center from 6:00 a.m. until 6:45 a.m. For more informa-tion contact the Wellness Center at 405-220-4207 or info@reynoldswellness.net

***************�Strother Rural Fire

Department meets at 7 p.m. on the first Mon day of each month at the Strother Fire Sta tion.

�Wewoka Band Booster meeting is held in the fourth Monday of every month during the school year at 6 p.m. in the WHS Band Room.

�Seminole Patchwork Quilters meeting is held at 6:30 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Marsha Poplin’s house.

�Professional and Amateur Writer’s Society meets the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Prague Catholic Church. Inter ested persons wel-come.

�Girl Scouts, Tiak Coun-cil, Service Unit #3 meeting, 6:30 p.m. last Monday of each month in Wewoka at First Free Will Baptist Church in the Fellowship hall (across from the Wewoka Housing Authority).

�Scale Down Weight Loss group meets every Monday at 7:00 p.m. at Konawa Pentecostal Holi-ness Church.

TUESDAY�The Wewoka VFW

meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the Wewoka Senior Citizens Center, 214

S. Brown St., in Wewoka. The meeting begins at 2 p.m. and veterans from all areas are invited to attend. For informa-tion, call 405-257-5836.

� The American Legion meets every second Tues-day of each month at 6 p.m. in the Old Armory in Seminole.

� Ladles of Love pro-vides a free meal each Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-urday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at 211 N. Main St., in Seminole. Questions? Call (405) 664-2489.

�The Seminole Duplicate Bridge Group meets every Tuesday at 1:00 PM at the Senior Citizens Center. Bring a partner and join us.

�Teen L.I.F.T. Class at Reynolds Wellness Center from 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. (limit 5 per class). For more information contact the Well-ness Center at 405-220-4207.

�Alzheimer Caregiver’s Support Group meets each Tuesday. The day meeting is 2-3:00 p.m. at First Bap-tist Church (The Bridge), 420 Reid St. The evening meeting is 6:00-7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church (east door) at 910 West Wrangler Blvd. For information call 405-380-4387 or 405-382-9103, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

�Zumba with Sharon at the Reynolds Wellness Center from 12:15 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. and from 6:45 p.m. until 7:45 p.m. For more infor-mation contact the Wellness Center at 405-220-4207 or info@reynoldswellness.net

�Cardio Fitness with Dillon from 6:00 p.m. until 6:45 p.m. at the Reynolds’ Wellness Center. For more information contact the Wellness Center at 405-220-4207 or info@reynoldswellness.net

�Yoga with Lauren from 8:15 a.m. until 9:15 a.m. and Yoga with Lauren from 5:15 p.m. until 6:15 p.m. at the Reynolds’ Wellness Center. For more informa-tion contact the Wellness Center at 405-220-4207 or info@reynoldswellness.net

� Ceramics, crafts, and knitting from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Senior Citizen’s Building, 322 N. Fourth.

�Seminole Nation will sponsor GED classes from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday at the Com-plex, Wewoka and 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at the Haney Center. Classes are open to the public. For more informa-tion, call 405-257-7263.

�Lions Club meeting each week (except the week of Chamber Fo rum), 12 p.m., SSC Student Union Mirror Room.

�OSU Institute of Tech-nology is now offering Adult Basic Education Classes for the General Education Diploma (GED) at the Semi-nole Workforce Center, 229 N Second Street. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will be begin in

September 2016. For more information, contact Mary Ann Norman at (405) 257-5754 or Seminole Work-force at (405) 382-4670.

�Seminole Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizen’s Build-ing on Fourth Street.

�Konawa Genealogy Society meeting 6-8 p.m. in Kennedy Library. These meetings are open to the public.

�Seminole Area Running Club meeting, 6 p.m. every Tuesday at SSC tennis courts. The public is invited to attend.

�Self-help group meet-ing spon sored by Seminole Nation Alcohol and Sub-stance Abuse Program, 7 p.m. each Tuesday, old Bingo Hall, Fifth and Brown, Wewoka. Public invited.

�Alcoholics Anonymous meet ings each Tuesday, 8 p.m., Senior Citizens’ Build-ing, 322 N. Fourth.

�Shotokan ’Karate For Christ’ meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Bridge at the First Baptist Church on 420 Reid St in Seminole. For more details contact Terry Howard at 405-380-6943.

***************�Pro Care Hearing, 9-11:

30 a.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Heritage House New Age Project. No charge.

�Grief Recovery Meet-ing, 6:30 p.m. at Faith Hos-pice, Inc. located north of Seminole Medical Center, meets first Tuesday of each month. The public is invited and snacks will be served.

�Bowlegs-Lima Water District Board meets at 7 p.m. at the water office on the first Tuesday of every month.

� Non-denominational prayer groups at Bowlegs City Hall, 6-7 p.m., the first Tuesday of each month. Anyone in the community is invited to join small groups for intensified prayer as part of the worldwide prayer networks “Praying for Our Children.”

�SemCo Home and Community Education (HCE) meeting, 1 p.m. at the OSU Extension Office, Seminole County Court-house on the second Tuesday of each month. For more information contact Betty Hutson at 257-3507.

�Youth and Family Ser-vices will host a free par-ents’ support group on the second and fourth Tues-days of each month, 1:30-2:30 p.m., 219 N. Wewoka in Wewoka. For infor mation, call 257-5491.

SEMINOLE COUNTYSHERIFF’S

DEPARTMENTBooking Log

There have been no reports in the past 24 hours.

Activity LogThere have been no inci-

dent reports in the past 24 hours.

SEMINOLE POLICEDEPARTMENT

Arrest LogPatrolman Michael Hobbs

arrested Walter Kelough, 29, of Seminole, on a Semi-nole warrant.

Patrolman Michael Hobbs arrested Tyler Combs, 24, of Seminole, on Seminole warrants.

Incident LogLieutenant M. Burnett

took an information report on Aug. 4.

Police & Sheriff Reports

News

Dave JonesNurcup Harjo Band

I submitted an article in June about the payments of $300 to our General Council Representatives (GCR) from each of the 14 bands and why we need to change the amount. In May on the 24th the General Council (GC) called a “Spe-cial Called Meeting” (SCM) that had a Waiver of 10 Day Notice and 2 Tribal Resolu-tions that lasted about 1 hour and 30 minutes and was paid $300 dollars and on May 31 an “Emergency Meeting” (EM) that had had a Wavier of 10 Day notice and 2 Tribal Resolutions that lasted 56 minutes and was paid again $300 dol-lars. On May 4th was the regular General Council (GC) meeting again at $300 dollars and this doesn’t include what committees that the GCR are also on which pay $100 a meeting, you can do the math. This is a classic example why this system must be changed, on June 4th there was a GCM and GCR were paid $300 dollars and a “Special Called Meeting” on the 23rd that carried to the 27th, 3 hours or more and was paid $300 dollars, do the math for payments in June. On July 30th and August 4th there were SCM meetings, I didn’t see it posted about the latter one in the Pro-ducer and I could be wrong so if I am I apologize to the GC, if there is another meet-ing in August which I’m sure there will be within 30 days that will come out to a $900 dollar pay day for our GCR. I would also like to add that

doesn’t include what the Attorney General charges, I been told $400 an hour. If I were to estimate the cost of all the GC, SCM and EM and that’s not including the Attorney Generals fee since the physical year started up till which I believe is in Octo-ber 2015 up to this August 2016 you wouldn’t believe the amount, I can’t give a fair estimate but I will find out and it will be in my next article.

I was stunned at the short time that these meetings were held and still the GCR got the $300 for both meet-ings on the 24th and 31st of May. I asked 2 local attor-neys what they charged and the fee was from $125 dol-lars to $150 dollars an hour and up depending on the situation. They have to go 7 years of college and pass a bar exam to practice law in the state of Oklahoma. In my earlier article in the Sem-inole Producer’s, “Another Point of View” on June 15, I proposed that the payment to our GCR needed to be changed at a fair amount but this $300 dollar is just too much at a time when our tribal members are strug-gling to make ends meet for food, clothing, rent and utilities. Since June, I have asked opinions from rela-tives, friends, church mem-bers, ceremonial members, tribal employees and a few council members if they agreed this payment, they said no and it needed to be changed. As one tribal employee stated, “I guar-antee you, if we changed it there won’t be no more extra meetings of any kind.” I would like to know

just what “Special Fund” is this money coming from and does it have a budget that has any kind of limit? Who is overseeing where the money comes from and does it go over budget if there is even a budget. What programs do the GC decide to take money from, the BCR? I believe that this is the only program that makes a true profit for the Seminole Nation. This proves there are extra monies available for basic humanitarian needs in our tribe. The school year is approaching and our chil-dren need backpacks and the essentials needed to begin the school year and a $100 dollars a child pre-k to senior year isn’t a lot. A $100 dollars a child is all that the Judgement Fund can offer and we are thankful for that. I know that we can’t help everyone but we can make a difference, I want tribal members to understand the amount that is being wasted for what?? Did the tribe help with back packs, shoes, and other things that are afford-able? If the GC can find money to pay for GCM then they can find monies for our people. Why? Because it the right thing to do!

How can this stipend be justified? I would like someone to look me in the eye and justify it with an appropriate answer. You can call me at 405-505- 0492 or come by my house for coffee and talk about what I have wrote; you are more than welcome. I know most of you or your rela-tives. I would like someone to explain this to me, I know that some of the present

GCM weren’t GCR at that time when the raise was approved but that doesn’t make it right. I’m asking our GCM and Bands to find a solution to a lower pay-ment but at a fair amount, you voted to raise them so you can lower them, It’s gotten out of control. I’ve heard $100 - $125 dollars’ stipend a month to just gas mileage and food and other suggestions. This would include the GC, SPCM and EM meetings for that one month. I would love to hear other tribal member’s opinion in person or in an article. I have thought of a petition but I want to see how our GCM and bands will respond to this. I have often wondered how did the payment get so high and so I found records when and what band voted yes and no. I will only mention what bands voted no and you can go from there. On June 4 2011 the Hvteyievlke band introduced (1) —TRIBAL ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 16 —SECTION 501. STIPEND PAYMENDS to General Council from $ 200 to $300, GCM have to be there from start to adjourn-ment but if GCM leave prior to adjournment will receive $250 dollars. The Eufaula, Cheyvha and Rewalke bands were the only bands that voted no. On October 27 2012, the Tom Palmer Band introduced TRIBAL ORDINANCE 2012- 2014- AMENDING TITLE - SECTION 602 STIPEND PAYMENTS to increase stipend payments from $50 to $100 dollars. The bands that voted no were Tallahasse, Fushutche and

Eufaula bands. The reason I mention how the pay was raised from $200 to $300 is because it happened that day on the council floor without knowledge of tribal members and I don’t recall it being brought to the bands. I didn’t know that GC has the power to give themselves raises without asking the people. Do they appropriate other monies from other programs when they run out? That to me sounds like too much power over tribal funds and most of tribal members don’t realize the way the GC operate.

There is also one more item that I would like to address and mind you, this is my opinion. As long as I can remember we the Sem-inole people have acted through our 14 traditional bands. Our grandmother’s, grandfather’s, mother’s, father’s and relatives did the best for us in the most difficult situations but they learned and adapted to keep our tribe unified and do what’s best for the people. I can remember the stories from the elders about council meetings under the brush arbors and arriving on horseback and buck board wagons in the early mornings and staying late into the night. With all respect to our ancestors, we have to adapt and do what is best for the Seminole people, we have evolved from horse and buggy to computer’s, cell phones and laptops. I would like to see a different structure dividing into in districts like they do when we vote at the tribal election for Chief. I know I’ll get feedback on this but

that’s a good thing, posi-tive or negative. Our band system isn’t working simply because we don’t have tribal members coming to band meetings every band has used the method of “Stacking” where you get as many as your blood relatives to vote for GCR at that one meeting and never see them at another band meeting the rest of the year, it’s a common practice, it’s no secret. This has been the problem time and time again. The bands have a problem making a quorum of 8 and we leave it to GCR discretion a lot of times. We would get more members to vote in districts to elect our GCR during tribal elec-tion, I believe this is the most honest and fair way to greatly benefit the Seminole Tribe. I have heard this over and over “a very few make decisions for the entire band” and it’s not entirely the GCR or bands fault it’s the system that wrong. You read about congress and state reps doing the exact same thing, we have learned their system very well.

I know there are very educated tribal members out there who have smarter ideas and can write an article better than I can so let’s hear from you, I talk to people all the time and ask them to write an article because they have excel-lent advice but that’s as far as it goes. I am just one voice and felt I had to write these articles. I am just a concerned tribal member of the Seminole Nation.

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Oklahoma Downturn Now Longer Than Great Recession

OKLAHOMA CITY —Okla-homa tax collections were down again in July, the 17th straight month of declines, the state treasurer said Friday.

The state treasury took in about $854 million last month, which was $88 million less than it collected in July of 2015, Treasurer Ken Miller said in his monthly revenue report.

The decline was evident in every category, including indi-vidual and corporate income taxes, sales taxes and rev-enue from the production of oil and natural gas, Miller wrote.

Taxes on oil and natural gas production were $30.5 million in July, which was $10.5 million less than the pre-vious July but about $5 million than this June.

The state’s economic decline, which is due partly to a drop in energy prices, has now lasted 17 months. That exceeds the 14 months of decline Oklahoma endured

during the Great Recession, but the current decline isn’t as steep, Miller said.

From the last peak in February of 2015, 12-month collections have fallen by $1.1 billion. During the Great Recession, 12-month gross receipts shrank by $1.9 billion from December 2008 through February 2010.

“Though we are still looking for the bottom of the current economic contraction, the news is not all dire,” Miller said. “To date, this downturn has not been as steep as before and unemployment rates have not risen as high.”

At its peak in 2010, Okla-homa unemployment reached 7.1 percent, while June’s jobless figures show unem-ployment in the state at 4.8 percent. The national unem-ployment rate is 4.9 percent.

But the state’s economic downturn has had a deep impact on services provided by state agencies.

On Wednesday, the state Department of Human Ser-vices, which administers the state’s foster care program and provides services to vul-nerable children, the elderly and persons with develop-mental disabilities, revealed plans to cut $45 million from its budget due to cuts to state agency budgets that are part of a $6.8 billion state budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. The spending plan cov-ered roughly $970 million of a $1.3 billion projected budget shortfall for the year.

During the past 12 months, total state collections are down by 7.6 percent compared to the prior year. Individual and corporate income tax collec-tions totaled about $258 mil-lion, a drop of $32.7 million from July 2015. Sales tax collections, including remit-tances on behalf of cities and counties, total $355 million in July, $23.2 million below July 2015.

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Syrian Refugees Surge Into The United StatesThe pace of Syrian refu-

gees entering the U.S. has surged in recent weeks, government figures show, putting the Obama admin-istration on track to meet its target of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees before the end of September -– and reviving Republican con-cerns about the security implications.

State Department reports show that 2,340 Syrian refu-gees arrived last month in the United States.

That’s more than what occurred during the entire seven months after Presi-dent Obama directed his team to prepare for 10,000 admissions from the war-torn country.

Total admissions for the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, now come to about 7,900, and the vast majority of them are Sunni Muslims, records show.

Homeland Security Sec-retary Jeh Johnson said earlier this week the U.S. is

on track to meet the 10,000-refugee goal.

If the pace from June and July continues this month, the target should be reached with a couple of weeks to spare, before Obama heads to the United Nations to urge world lead-ers to admit more refugees and increase funding for relief organizations.

But amid new predictions from FBI Director James Comey of a “terrorist diaspora out of Syria,” some Repub-licans are ramping up warn-ings that the flow of refugees poses a threat to America and Western Europe.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., urged President Obama in a letter Thursday to “immediately stop accept-ing Syrian refugees as a matter of national security.”

He wrote: “We are seeing a clear pattern in which a number of recent attacks have been carried out by ISIS terrorists with ties to Syria, including: the July 24

bombing of a music festival in Germany; the July 26 killing of a French priest; and the July 24 murder of a German woman with a machete. Syrian refugees played a part, either as attackers or accomplices, in all three attacks.

“In the context of this clear threat, your goal of admitting 10,000 Syrians as a part of a so-called ‘surge operation’ is extremely troubling. … Terrorists are leaving Syria disguised as refugees and carrying out attacks in the West. The prudent course of action is to halt all admissions of Syr-ians into the U.S. until the safety of Americans can be guaranteed,” he wrote.

In a statement Thursday

night, the Donald Trump campaign said the admin-istration was “dangerously expediting their admission.”

According to federal gov-ernment data, the Syrian refugees are being re-settled in states across the country, including Arizona, California and New York.

The White House, though, has emphasized that the screening process for refu-gees takes 12 months to 18 months and includes in-person interviews and a review of biographical and biometric information. The administration also has said it is focused on bring-ing in refugees who are in the most desperate situa-tions, such as families with children and those in need

of medical care. In the year prior to Obama’s new target, the U.S. accepted about 1,680 Syrian refugees.

Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking with reporters during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, said the United States has developed “suf-ficient methods” of screening would-be refugees.

“We are very comfortable that we are bringing people in who will be a great plus to our country,” Kerry said.

Kerry said that “not one event in the United States, of terror” has been commit-ted by a refugee allowed to re-settle in the U.S.

But two Iraqi refugees were arrested in 2011 for plotting to send weapons and money to Al Qaeda

operatives fighting against U.S. troops back in Iraq. The scheme was foiled, but the case did leave jitters about whether extremists could slip in among the Syrian refugees.

“We believe ... the people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism. They are parents. They are children. They are orphans,” Kerry said. “It is very impor-tant that we do not close our hearts to the victims of such violence.”

Kerry also applauded Argentina’s pledge to re-settle 3,000 Syrian refu-gees in the South American country and said the United States is committed to work-ing with the government there on security issues.

New UF/IFAS Study Says Sweet Potato

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ers try to find new crops and the demand for biofuel stock increases globally, University of Florida Insti-tute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers have found that sweet potato vines, usually thrown out during harvest, can serve well as livestock feed while the roots are an ideal source for biofuel.

This could be a key find-ing for the agriculture indus-try in Florida and to biofuel needs worldwide, said post-doctoral researcher Wendy Mussoline.

“The agriculture industry in Florida is looking to find new, viable crops to replace the citrus groves that have been diminished by the greening disease,” Musso-line said. “Potato farmers are also trying to find new crops that offer both biofuel

alternatives as well as food and/or animal feed oppor-tunities. They are conduct-ing field trials on several varieties of sweet potatoes to determine if they are an economically viable crop that they can market.”

According to a newly published study by profes-sor Ann Wilkie and Mus-soline, an industrial sweet potato variety (CX-1) may do the trick.

Currently, 99 percent of the ethanol produced in the United States comes from corn or sorghum, the study says. But scientists and business interests are con-sidering highly productive alternatives such as sweet potatoes for biofuel.

Although China produces 81 percent of the world’s sweet potatoes, U.S. sweet potato production reached a record high of 3.2 billion

pounds in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Wilkie and Mussoline, both researchers in the UF/IFAS soil and water sci-ences department, found that CX-1 is a superior choice as a dual-purpose crop than the so-called “table” varieties—which people would normally eat—known as Beauregard and Hernandez. They deter-mined this by putting CX-1, Beauregard and Hernan-dez, through multiple tests in the field and laboratory in Gainesville.

“The CX-1 roots have higher starch content and thus higher potential for fuel ethanol yields than the table varieties,” Mussoline said.

The study demonstrated CX-1’s value as animal feed and promotes the indus-trial sweet potato crop as

a dual-purpose crop that could be used for both fuel ethanol—from the starchy roots—and nutri-tious animal feed—from the vines.

“Although this would be a ‘new’ feedstock for biofuels in the U.S., sweet potato is currently used in other countries; for example, China and Brazil, use it as a biofuel feedstock,” Mus-soline said.

“The sweet potato is a high-yielding crop suited to tropical and subtropi-cal climates that requires minimal fertilization and irri-gation, and the CX-1 indus-trial cultivar offers superior potential for feed and fuel,” Wilkie said.

The research was sponsored by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Office of Energy.

There isn’t much evi-dence to conclusively prove that daily sunscreen use can prevent most skin cancers, a research review concludes.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use sunscreen, doctors say. It just means it’s unethical to do experi-ments testing the effec-tiveness of sunscreen by randomly assigning some people to use it and others to skip it.

“Lack of high quality experimental evidence should not be equated with evidence that such interventions are ineffec-tive and it is important that patients and consumers do not stop protecting their skin until better quality evidence emerges,” lead authors Dr. Ingrid Arevalo-Rodriguez and Dr. Guillermo Sanchez of the Instituto de Evalu-acion Technoloica en Salud in Bogota, Colombia told Reuters Health by email.

Dr. Laura Ferris, a der-matologist at the University of Pittsburgh who wasn’t involved in the research

review, pointed out, also by email, that it’s difficult to mea-sure the effect of sun protec-tion on the prevention of skin cancer, “particularly because it is not ethical or practical to randomize the population.”

“One could not, for exam-ple, tell one group to seek shade, wear a hat, and use sunscreen and another to sit in the direct sun and abstain from use of sunscreen,” Ferris added. “So lack of evidence does not mean that sun protection has no impact on the risk of skin cancer, just that the impact is difficult to measure.”

In a review published by the Cochrane Library, Are-valo-Rodriguez and San-chez and colleagues set out to assess how much we already know about whether sunscreen and other pro-tective measures, such as wearing hats or sunglasses or staying in the shade, pre-vent skin cancer.

They focused on what’s known as basal cell and cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas, which make up the majority of skin cancer

cases. Their analysis didn’t look at melanoma, a rare and much more deadly type of skin cancer.

The research team only wanted to look at trials that randomly assigned some people to use sunscreen or other protection - and they found just one study that met their criteria.

This study, done in Australia, monitored about 1,600 people for more than four years and didn’t find a meaningful difference in the number of new cancer cases detected based on whether people used sun-screen every day or only occasionally.

That might not be long enough to follow patients to see if sunscreen prevents skin cancer because it can take several years after sun exposure to detect abnor-malities on the skin.

What this does suggest is that more high-quality research is needed, the authors told Reuters Health.

In the meantime, “Patients and consumers in general need to consult

health professionals to obtain specific advice about the need of specific preven-tive measures, according with their age, skin color, occupation and presence of other risk factors for skin cancer, among other fac-tors,” they added.

Even without more stud-ies, there’s already plenty of proof that exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun causes skin cancer and mel-anoma, noted Dr. David Lef-fell, a skin cancer researcher at Yale School of Medicine who wasn’t involved in the research review.

“The scientific facts are inescapable-regular use of sun protection reduces skin cancer and cancer precur-sors,” Leffell said by email.

“The benefits of sun pro-tection and the incontrovert-ible evidence of sunburn and chronic sun exposure as a cause of about 60 per-cent of melanomas should inspire people to continue reasonable sun protection if they fit into the moderate to high risk groups, and even if they don’t,” Leffell added.

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Could Acupuncture Really Stave Off Dementia?By Ben Spencer

Acupuncture may help elderly people retain their memory, research sug-gests.

Chinese scientists found that the ancient treatment – which involves inserting thin needles in different parts of the body – might even stave off decline during the early stages of dementia.

The Wuhan University team found that if used for at least two months, three times a week, it improved scores in a number of cog-nition tests.

The treatment is particu-larly effective if used along-side dementia drugs, their findings suggest.

Scientists have long been divided about the benefits of acupuncture, a discipline which dates back 3,000 years.

Critics say its benefits

have never been proven, and NHS watchdog NICE earlier this year removed the treatment from a list of recommended therapies for back pain.

But others say it is useful technique that should be utilised as much as pos-sible, especially where no other effective treatments exist.

The researchers, whose work is published in the BMJ journal Acupuncture in Medicine, reviewed the find-ings of five previous studies involving 568 patients.

It’s long been said doing a daily crossword or Sudoku puzzle is key to keeping the brain active.

But whether exercising the white stuff can stave off dementia is more hotly contested.

Now scientists have discovered that the type of brain training programme

we do is key to reducing the risks of the degenerative brain disease.

Just 11 sessions of a spe-cific technique called speed processing could help to cut the chances of older patients developing the dis-ease - by almost half.

And each exercise - aimed to improve the time and accuracy of someone’s mental ability - could slash the risk by 8 per cent every time.

Those who completed the speed processing train-ing experienced levels of improved attention, experts found.

They also had reduced symptoms of depression, a better functional perfor-mance and improved driv-ing ability.

But memory and reason-ing training had no ben-efit on preventing dementia, experts found.

The trials all involved people with mild cognitive impairment, a condition in which memory is declining and which often leads to a diagnosis of dementia.

The team found that those in receipt of acupunc-ture fared better than those who received common dementia drug nimodopine alone.

They scored better scores on two established tests of cognition - an examination of mental state and a test of picture recognition.

A combination of acu-puncture and nimodipine also significantly improved exam scores when com-pared to nimodipine alone.

The researchers con-cluded that acupuncture ‘has a significant positive effective on cognitive and memory function’.

But they admitted that far more research is needed.

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Anniversary of National Historic Preservation Act CelebratedOKLAHOMA CITY – The

Oklahoma History Center announces the opening of its newest photographic exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the National Historic Preser-vation Act (NHPA) into law and its positive impact on historic preservation.

The exhibit will open August 15, 2016, and will be located in the West Family Hall of the History Center. It may be viewed Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 29 images included in the dis-play illustrate how the NHPA fosters the preservation of significant buildings, struc-tures, sites, districts and objects across Oklahoma.

As part of his Great Society program, President Lyndon Johnson took note of the fact that the spirit and direction of the nation are founded upon and reflected in its historic heritage.

Associated with this was the awareness that historic

properties significant to the nation’s heritage were being lost or substantially altered, often inadvertently, with increasing frequency. President Johnson knew that governmental and pri-vate historic preservation programs of the time were inadequate to ensure a gen-uine opportunity for future generations to appreciate and enjoy this rich heritage.

On October 15, 1966, the National Historic Pres-ervation Act was signed. Key provisions of the law included creation of the National Register of Historic Places and allocation of matching grants to states for the identification and protection of historic prop-erties.

To qualify for the National Register, a property must meet at least one of four broad criteria: (a) they must be associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or

(b) must be associated with the lives of persons signifi-cant in our past; or (c) they embody distinctive charac-teristics of a type, period or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that pos-sess high artistic values or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or (d) have yielded, or may be likely to yield, informa-tion important in prehistory or history.

The economic boom of the post-World War II era, construction of the inter-state highway system and programs such as urban renewal resulted in the loss of many properties impor-tant to Oklahoma history.

For example, several downtown Oklahoma City landmarks were destroyed to make way for new development in the 1960s. The NHPA requires fed-eral agencies to consider

historic properties in the planning of construction projects and to consult the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and others to avoid, minimize or mitigate adverse effects to historic properties.

According to Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Melvena Heisch, approximately 3,000 federal undertakings are reviewed by the Oklahoma SHPO each year.

The State Historic Pres-ervation Office is a division of the Oklahoma Historical Society. With its matching grant authorized under the NHPA, the SHPO carries out the federal preservation program in Oklahoma.

The photo exhibit at the Oklahoma History Center illustrates the state’s diverse heritage, the variety of properties that represent that heritage and the ways the NHPA programs help protect it.

The Oklahoma His-

tory Center is a division of the Oklahoma Historical Society and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institu-tion, National Archives and is an accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums. The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society is to collect, pre-serve and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma.

Founded in 1893 by members of the Territo-rial Press Association, the OHS maintains museums, historic sites and affiliates across the state. Through its research archives, exhibits, educational programs and publications the OHS chron-icles the rich history of Okla-homa. For more information about the OHS, please visit www.okhistory.org.

Black Caucus to Honor State’s First Black SenatorSen. Kevin Matthews,

chairman of Oklahoma’s Legislative Black Caucus, said members are creat-ing a $10,000 endowed scholarship at Langston University to honor the life and work of E. Melvin Porter, Oklahoma’s first black member of the state Senate. Porter died July 26 at the age of 86.

Matthews will formally announce the creation of the scholarship at a memo-rial service for Porter to be held this Saturday, August 6 at 11:00 a.m., at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.

“Oklahoma became a state in 1907 but until 1964 no black citizens had ever been elected to the Senate. E. Melvin Porter broke that

barrier and was an impor-tant figure in Oklahoma’s civil rights movement,” said Matthews, D-Tulsa. “It is the hope of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus that this scholarship will ensure his lifelong work will always be remembered.”

Gov. Mary Fallin has ordered all American and Oklahoma flags on state property to be flown at half-staff from 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 5 through 8:00 a.m. Monday, August 8 to honor Porter, who was born in 1930 in Okmulgee.

He was a member of the first class at Vanderbilt University Law School to include black students. Elected in 1961 as president of the Oklahoma City chap-ter of the National Associa-

tion for the Advancement of Colored People, Porter participated in sit-ins and boycotts with fellow Okla-homa civil rights leader, Clara Luper.

He ran unsuccessfully for a House seat as a Repub-lican in 1962, but was suc-cessful as a Democrat two years later in his bid for the Senate, where he remained for 22 years.

While in office, Porter introduced the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act, Oklahoma’s equivalent of the federal Civil Rights Act. The Senate honored Porter during the 2015 session, 50 years after he began his first term in the upper chamber.

For more information, call Sen. Kevin Matthews, 405-521-5598. Standing Ovation for Porter on Senate Floor in 2015

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The initiative is designed to honor and recognize the numerous women in agricul-

ture across all 77 counties of the state, from all aspects and areas of the industry ranging from producers to educators, leaders to entre-preneurs, veterinarians to board members and many more.

“Our hope is to tell the stories of the countless women who give selflessly to this industry but don’t always receive an award,”

said Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture Jim Reese. “We want to find the hidden inspi-rational women and give them the recognition they deserve. Giving one woman of the year award is great, but it leaves out so many other worthy women.”

One honoree will be selected each week and recognized on ODAFF’s social media with a detailed

biography and her “ag story.” Additionally, a press release acknowledging her selection will be submitted to area newspapers.

The benefit of using social media for recognition is that it is accessible to most every-one and allows the archives to be accessed long after they were published.

“We encourage everyone to submit a nomination,” said

Secretary Reese, “Whether that is nominating yourself or someone you know.”

The nomination form can be found by visiting okwomeninagandsmallbusiness.com and clicking on the Sig-nificant Women in Ag nomi-nation link. All nominations must be submitted online before February 1, 2017.

After all nominations have been submitted, a selection

committee will begin the pro-cess of recognizing Oklaho-ma’s Significant Women in Agriculture.

In addition to the launch of the program, the Statewide Women in Agriculture and Small Business Conference held at the Moore-Norman Technology Center featured speaker Dr. Temple Grandin and a record-breaking atten-dance of nearly 300.

New Grant Will Study Immune Cell Linked to AsthmaThe National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Dis-eases has awarded Okla-homa Medical Research Foundation scientist Xiao-Hong Sun, Ph.D., a five-year, $2.76 million grant to investigate a recently discovered immune cell involved in asthma.

The role of the new cell, called an innate lymphoid cell, is to protect the body from parasitic infection. However, when too much of this cell type is present, it seems to result in asthma.

“These cells were previ-ously thought to be made only in bone marrow,” said Sun, who holds the Lew and Myra Ward Chair in Biomedical Research at OMRF. “We discovered that they are also made in the thymus, which brings up some interesting connec-tions to asthma.”

The thymus, which sits on top of the heart, is a major site for the creation of T cells, a type of spe-

cialized white blood cell that plays a central role in immunity. During childhood and through puberty, the thymus generates a lifetime supply of T cells—enough to carry through adulthood. When the supply of T cells is adequate, the thymus has done its job and begins to shrink.

Sun postulates that innate lymphoid cells are also present in the thymus and might explain why chil-dren have higher rates of asthma than adults.

“Since kids have a very active thymus when they’re born and up to puberty, they’re more likely to have a large number of innate lymphoid cells coming from the thymus along with the T cells,” said Sun. “This is also the stage of life where many kids tend to develop asthma. People often say they ‘grow out” of asthma as they get older, so maybe it’s linked to this later decrease in thymus function. That’s

what we hope to find out with this grant.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7.7 percent of people in the United States suffer from asthma. The highest rates of asthma occur in the 5-14 age group at 10.3 percent and decline over time, reaching a low point of 6.9 percent in Amer-icans over the age of 65.

“We don’t yet know the significance of this find-

ing, but if we determine this hypothesis to be true, it would have great clinical relevance,” she said. “Per-haps the thymus is where we need to look for ways to control asthma in children. That’s what we hope to learn.”

The grant will also allow Sun and her lab to further investigate whether the innate lymphoid cells pro-duced in the thymus differ from the ones made in the

bone marrow. Sun said their discovery

of innate lymphoid cells in the thymus came about by accident through study of a particular mouse model in their lab—a model they’ve used for more than two decades to study T cell development.

“This research builds on our experience and what we have been working on the past 25 years, so it puts us in a unique position to do

this work,” she said. “I am very excited to see how this cell is controlled and hope we can learn what happens in the thymus and how it might be linked to asthma. It really fits really well with the overall research of this lab and comes back to what started this lab in the first place.”

The new NIAID grant, number R01 AI126851-01, is part of the National Insti-tutes of Health.

Representative Requests Several Interim StudiesState Rep. Regina

Goodwin has requested an interim legislative study to examine the value of teacher certification and its effect on student academic performance.

“I want to know what kind of impact certified teachers have on student perfor-mance,” the Tulsa Democrat said. “I think certified teach-ers are better equipped to

teach Oklahoma’s children than non-certified teach-ers are. But I don’t know whether the State Depart-ment of Education has col-lected any research data on that subject, one way or the other.”

The issue of teacher qualifications has grown in importance over the past couple of years, because of emergency teacher cer-

tifications issued to fill hun-dreds of vacancies in teach-ing ranks across the state.

The State Board of Edu-cation approved 304 emer-gency teacher certifications, a one-month record, on July 28. In comparison, 30 emer-gency teaching certificates were issued during the entire 2011-12 school year.

Oklahoma City had the most certification requests last month, 64, followed by Putnam City, 30, and Tulsa, 28. However, the board approved certification applications from 91 school districts last month.

Emergency certifications allow school districts to hire applicants with a college degree, even if they have no background in educa-tion. An applicant for an emergency teaching certifi-cate must pass a test in the requested subject area and must embark on an individ-ual path to full certification in order to continue to teach.

“There is very little data available to measure the effect that emergency certifications are having on student performance,” Goodwin said. More than 1,050 such certificates were issued last school year, records indicate. “It is vital that we examine this issue thoroughly,” said Goodwin, D-Tulsa, “because these students are at a forma-tive stage, and we’re issu-ing teaching certificates to people who presumably are knowledgeable about their particular subject but have no experience as a class-room teacher.”

House Speaker Jeff Hick-man assigned the study, #16-065 to the House Com-mittee on Common Educa-tion.

Goodwin also has three other interim studies pend-ing.

One will be an evaluation of the Family Caregivers Support Act. “We need to broaden access to pro-grams such as respite ser-vices and support groups that are available to care-givers who are taking care of older family members in their homes,” Goodwin said. “Many of my constituents

also are concerned about proximity to a site where they can learn about educa-tion and counseling services that are provided to family caregivers.”

That study, #16-068, was assigned to the House Committee on Long-Term Care and Senior Services.

Study #16-067 will revisit the issue of a sheriff’s appointments to the prop-erty appraisal process, particularly on home fore-closures.

HB 2380 passed both the House of Representa-tives and the Senate on initial consideration, and cleared a committee in each chamber, but died on the next-to-last day of the 2016 legislative session when it fell four votes shy on final consideration in the House.

HB 2380 stipulated that a “disinterested person” could not be related “within the third degree,” by blood or marriage, to the sher-iff, to any person “having an interest in the lands or tenement subject to levy or to another disinterested person valuing the same lands or tenements…”

The bill further man-dated that in any county with a population of 65,000 or more, a “disinterested person” performing an appraisal on a foreclosed property would have to be a certified real estate appraiser licensed under the Oklahoma Certified Real Estate Appraisers Act, a real estate broker licensed under the state Real Estate License Code, or a real estate sales asso-ciate licensed under the real estate code for more than two years.

Study #16-067 has been assigned to the House Committee on County and Municipal Government, of which Goodwin is a member.

Study #16-064 will examine the fines, fees and court costs that are assessed in criminal cases in Oklahoma.

That study was assigned to the House Committee on Criminal Justice and Cor-rections.

Numbers to Remember213 — Wrecks in Oklahoma every day9 — Wrecks in Oklahoma every hour

2 — Fatal wrecks in Oklahoma per day71 — Percent of fatal wrecks occurring in rural areas

Primary Causes ofVehicle Accidents

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Young Americans Say Both Parties Fail ThemWASHINGTON -- Most

young Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties don’t represent them, a critical data point after a year of ferocious presidential primaries that forced partisans on both sides to confront what - and whom - they stand for.

That’s according to a new GenForward poll that shows the disconnect holds true across racial and ethnic groups, with just 28 percent of young adults overall saying the two major parties do a good job of represent-ing the American people.

The poll shows that despite this across-the-board feeling of disenchant-ment with the two-party system, the Democratic Party holds a clear advan-tage in appealing to young people of color. But among young whites, majorities feel left out by both parties.

More than two-thirds of young adults, including vast majorities of young Asian-

Americans, Hispanics and blacks, say the Republican Party does not care about people like them.

Democrats fare a bit better among young people overall, with a small major-ity - 53 percent - saying the party cares about people like them. Among young African-Americans, Hispan-ics and Asian-Americans, most believe the party does care about people like them. But among young whites, majorities say both par-ties don’t care much about them, including 58 percent who say that of the Repub-lican Party and 52 percent who say it about the Demo-cratic Party.

GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, high-lighting how race and eth-

nicity shape the opinions of a new generation.

The results of the survey of Americans age 18-30 reflect something of an identity crisis for both par-ties heading into the future, driven in part by deep antip-athy toward the presidential candidates they nominated. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clin-ton, the two least-popular presidential nominees in the history of modern poll-ing, were opposed by large and bitter swaths of their parties.

Young people aren’t certain to fall in line behind the nominees, the survey found. Three-quarters of young adults say the billion-aire real estate magnate is unqualified to be president even after he vanquished 16 GOP rivals. Half say the same of Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, after unlikely rival Bernie Sanders forced her to fight for the nomination

for a year.Emiliano Vera, 22, of

Bushnell, Illinois, says he isn’t coming back to the Democratic Party that attracted him with Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008. Ideology this year drew him to Sanders. But disenchantment with what seemed like an obviously rigged nomination process in Clinton’s favor, he says, is what’s pushing him to the Green Party. Leaked Democratic National Com-mittee emails confirmed for him that the party had their thumb on the scale for Clin-ton, Vera said.

“This is the last straw for me,” said Vera, part of the majority of young Sanders supporters on whom Clinton cannot depend for votes, the survey found. This year, he says, his friends agree that the Democratic Party generally is the “lesser evil” to the GOP’s Trump. But the future, he says, is a different picture.

But for all the disenchant-ment, young adults across racial and ethnic groups are mostly unfamiliar with their alternatives. Seven in 10 say they don’t know enough about Libertarian presiden-tial candidate Gary Johnson to have an opinion about him, and nearly 8 in 10 say the same about Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

The 18-30 age group tends not to be a conser-vative constituency, so the survey contains critical data particularly for Democrats and Clinton, who has said she knows she has “work to do” to appeal to the young people who flocked to Sand-ers during the primary.

Rachel Mace, 20, is an example of the challenge faced by Democrats and Clinton in particular. The Farmington, Michigan, resident supported Sand-ers and says she wants

to see one party make “a meaningful commitment” to public financing of cam-paigns. She doubts she’ll ever see a party, or a can-didate, seek that reform voluntarily.

“There’s more hope, I think, for the Democratic Party, but we’re going to have to force them,” Mace said. As for Clinton, “I find her to be incredibly corrupt.”

Young people across racial and ethnic groups were more likely to sup-port Sanders than Clinton in their primary battle this spring, and among young Sanders supporters, less than half - 43 percent - say they’ll support Clinton against Trump in the fall election. Three percent say they’ll support Trump, with the rest saying they’re undecided, will vote for a third-party candidate or will not vote.

Clinton Acknowledges Trust IssuesWASHINGTON -- Hill-

ary Clinton acknowledged Friday the challenge she’d face leading a country where most Americans don’t trust her, saying she takes “seriously” the work she must do to build confi-dence in her character.

But the Democratic presidential nominee also claimed that a broad elec-toral victory over Donald Trump in November would give her the capital needed to push her plans through Congress with Republican support and appeared to blame her political oppo-nents for her low approval ratings.

Clinton pointed to the high ratings she won as secretary of state and as a senator from New York, arguing that voters like her more when she’s working than when she’s campaign-ing - something she attrib-uted to campaign attacks on her character.

“Were 67 percent of the people in New York wrong? Were 66 percent of the American public wrong?” Clinton said. “Just maybe, when I’m actually running

for a job, there is a real benefit to those on the other side with trying to stir up as much trouble as possible.”

Clinton’s trustworthiness has emerged as her big-gest weakness in the fall campaign, one worsened by her responses to questions about her use of private emails servers as secretary of state and her reluctance to take regular questions from journalists.

The questions-and-answer session Friday at a joint meeting of the National Association of Black Jour-nalists and National Associ-ation of Hispanic Journalists marked the first time she’s talked about how that politi-cal problem could impact her future administration.

Clinton attempted to “clarify and explain” a recent statement on Fox News Sunday that FBI Director James Comey had said her answers about her emails practices were “truthful.”

“I may have short-cir-cuited and for that I will try to clarify,” she said. Comey was speaking solely about her responses in a closed-door FBI interview, and not

her public comments on the issue, which have included inconsistencies.

Clinton has claimed she never sent or received anything marked classi-fied. In reviewing the FBI’s investigation, Comey said seven e-mail chains dealt with matters that were “that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Pro-gram level when they were sent and received.”

During the short question-and-answer session, Clinton also detailed some of her plans should she win the White House, promising to make an overhaul of Amer-ica’s immigration system a “clear, high priority.”

She argued that a broad victory, one that included Democrats winning control of the Senate and tightening their margin in the House, would put pressure on Republicans to come along.

“There’s nothing like win-ning to change minds,” she said. “I view the political landscape as increasingly favorable to us making this happen.”

That logic would depend on Republicans changing

the political calculus they’ve made over the past eight years. Even when President Barack Obama held majori-ties in both the Senate and House during his first term, he was still unable to find widespread Republican support for his plans.

Her comments Friday came before an unusual audience: the media. Clin-ton last held a formal press conference more than eight months ago. Aides says she’s conducted over 300 interviews since launch-ing her campaign, but she has shied away from open forums where reporters can ask questions.

Friday’s event was care-fully controlled, with Clinton taking just seven questions from preselected journalists.

Trump Faces Divided PartyDES MOINES, Iowa -

- Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divi-sions Friday in two Midwest-ern battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another as he strained to overcome deepen-ing concerns about his presi-dential candidacy.

Some of Iowa’s Republican elite will appear alongside the celebrity businessman for an afternoon rally, his third appearance in the swing state over the past two weeks. But in neighboring Wisconsin, a state Trump insists he can win, the state’s best-known Republi-cans said they were too busy to attend his evening event.

Sen. Ron Johnson and House Speaker Paul Ryan citied scheduling conflicts, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll attend an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner instead of appearing with his party’s standard bearer.

“Welcome to Wisconsin, Mr. Trump, but let’s get something straight,” Wisconsin’s Assem-bly Speaker Robin Vos wrote in an open letter to his GOP colleagues ahead of Trump’s arrival. “We are Ryan Repub-licans here in Wisconsin, not Trump Republicans.”

The tale of two states underscores Trump’s mount-ing challenges during one of the most tumultuous weeks of his unorthodox campaign. He has skipped from one misstep to the next, sparking a fresh wave of Republican defections among longtime party loyalists who refuse to support their presidential nominee - includ-ing some who even publicly support for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Clinton faced tough ques-tions of her own Friday when pressed to explain her email practices as secretary of state and why many voters distrust her.

Addressing a group of minority journalists, she insisted she “never sent or received anything that was marked classified,” while again conceding it was a mistake to conduct State Department business on a private email server.

Clinton also acknowledged many people don’t trust her.

“It doesn’t make me feel good when people say those things, and I recognize that I have work to do,” Clinton said. She added, “I’m going to work my heart out in this campaign and as president to produce results for people.”

Yet Trump’s gaffes have largely overshadowed Clin-ton’s vulnerabilities as the Democrats work to recover from a bruising primary elec-tion season.

Complicating the Republi-can Party’s 2016 challenge are fresh signs the nation’s econ-omy is strengthening under a Democratic president.

With Election Day little more than three months away, the Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added a healthy 255,000 jobs in July, a sign of confidence that could point to a resilient economy. The unemploy-ment rate remained a low 4.9 percent as more Americans launched job searches and nearly as many were hired.

Trump’s approach to national security came under fire Friday as well, with former CIA Director Michael Morell

contending the Republican nominee would make “a poor, even dangerous commander in chief.”

Morell, outlining his views in The New York Times, also questioned Trump’s unusual praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin

“In the intelligence busi-ness, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,” wrote Morell, who served presidents in both parties over the past three decades.

Trump has done little to help himself this week.

He conceded Friday he was wrong to claim repeatedly in recent days that he saw a video of a U.S. cash payment going to Iran.

The New York billionaire has cited a $400 million payment the U.S. made to Iran this year, delivered on the same day that Iran released four American hostages. Trump charged on Thursday in vivid detail that the Iranian government released a video of the cash exchange to embarrass America.

“The plane I saw on televi-sion was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” Trump tweeted Friday morning.

He has refused to admit any error, however, on a higher-pro-file dispute with an American Muslim family whose son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq. Republican leaders and military veterans have called on Trump to apolo-gize for criticizing the Khan family, who appeared at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

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– Kevin Durant left behind Oklahoma City a month ago, but he hasn’t really been able to fully escape his former home – even after having his introduc-tory news conference with the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, even after play-ing his first game at Oracle Arena since the move with USA across his chest, and even after he left the country to try to lead the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team to a gold medal in Brazil.

Already, Durant has had to shoot down rumors that frustration with Russell Westbrook prompted his departure in free agency, and that he informed West-brook and Nick Collison of his plans to stay with the Thunder.

And on the day Team USA met with reporters for the first time since arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Durant was again asked about Westbrook’s decision to renegotiate a three-year contract worth $85 million

that will keep his former run-ning mate with the Thunder for at least one more year beyond next season.

“I’m happy to see any player in this league do whatever they want to do,” Durant said. “As long as he wasn’t pressured to do anything and felt like he did everything he wanted to do. And that’s how I feel about every player in this league. It’s good for him, man. It’s good for his family.

“It’s good for the people in Oklahoma City that love to watch him play and love to have him on their team.

“I got nothing but positive energy and vibes for every-body. I don’t have no beef with anybody or wish no ill will on anybody. So if he did what he wanted to do, that’s better. That’s great for him.”

Westbrook’s decision to remain with the Thunder and give the organiza-tion the chance to build a contender around him has made the electrifying point guard more beloved in a small market devastated

by Durant’s exit. Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett declared Thursday “Russell Westbrook Day” and hun-dreds of fans gathered out-side Chesapeake Energy Arena to celebrate his com-mitment to the franchise.

Durant would prefer to look ahead – on the task at hand in his second Olym-pics and what will eventu-ally await him when he finally gets settled with the Warriors – but he knows he won’t be able to avoid

questions about the only franchise for which he has played, and his teammate for the previous eight sea-sons, any time soon.

Aside from a text mes-sage to inform him of his decision, Durant hasn’t had a chance to actually sit down with Westbrook to dis-cuss the situation. He’s not certain when, or if, that day will eventually come.

“That’s a touchy deal. I don’t know,” Durant said. “It’s easy for someone else

to tell me what I should do, but you guys don’t know how that whole thing [went down]. I don’t know, man. I’ll see after this is over and once everything dies down. Like I said before, at some point we’ll sit down and talk. But I don’t know when.”

By deciding to chase a gold medal the same summer in which he made a controversial and poten-tially league-altering move to form a super team with the Warriors, Durant has opened himself up to ques-tions that he could’ve other-wise avoided until training camp. But he has grown to appreciate sharing his feel-ings, without allowing others to formulate opinions devoid of his voice.

“I think that probably was the best thing,” Durant said. “I waited all summer to get what I wanted to say off my chest. Now, it felt like saying it a few weeks ago, how everything went down – I’m still answering those questions now. It makes it a little easier going into the season, even though

it’s going to ramp up once the season starts. Getting my voice out and letting people know how I feel – either way, they probably don’t care – but just getting it out, I think, it’s been a little easier.”

While he respects West-brook for staying, Durant has no regrets about joining the Warriors.

“I felt good when I made the decision. It’s just the outside noise that I just kept hearing, kept getting louder and louder. It was hard to ignore it. And it’s hard to shut it off,” Durant said. “But as time goes on, things get better. It’s still a little dif-ferent to me. … I haven’t settled down in the Bay yet. I haven’t been around my teammates yet.

“So all that stuff, I’m still trying to figure out how to make it work and how new it’s going to be. It’s basketball at the end of the day. I can mesh with anybody. And I can play any game. And I can fit into any system. So it’s just a matter of me going out there and getting used to it.”

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Mickelson Still Has High HopesSPRINGFIELD, N.J. -

- Phil Mickelson is running out of time to validate what quietly has been a good year, minus only a victory.

He is not running out of patience.

Mickelson expects the disappointment from his runner-up finish in the Brit-ish Open to linger because of how well he played, only to lose to the lowest score in major championship history. He found himself thinking too much about results in the PGA Championship, and along with not making putts, he was never a factor at Baltusrol.

“Certainly, the play this year at the British tells me that I’m able to play at a high level,” said Mickelson, who turned 46 in June and is starting to check out col-leges for his oldest daugh-ter, 17-year-old Amanda. “I’m starting to see my game come back. I’m start-ing to hit the shots again - what I’m visualizing, what I’m seeing - and doing it with ease now.”

He had only two winless years on the PGA Tour, 1999 and 2003, until going the last two years without a victory. The British Open wasn’t his only close call. He missed a short putt at Pebble Beach to get into a playoff with Vaughn Taylor. He closed with a 67 to finish second in the FedEx St. Jude Classic. And then there was Royal Troon, where his 267 was topped only by Henrik Stenson’s 264 in British Open his-tory. Call that a case of bad timing.

Even so, three runner-up finishes is the most Mickel-son has ever had in a year that he didn’t win.

Next up is a three-week break before he plans to play all four FedEx Cup playoff events. He has announced that after the Ryder Cup, he will play the Safeway Open that starts the 2016-17 season in Napa, California.

“I wouldn’t say the lack of a win this year would be a failure, but it wouldn’t be as successful as I want or expect,” Mickelson said. “However, I’m optimistic heading into these next few events because I’m starting to hit shots.”

Lost in this winless year is that Mickelson is on the verge of qualifying for his 11th straight Ryder Cup team. He has never been a captain’s pick. Perhaps even more amazing is that his passion is still high in his 25th year on the PGA Tour.

“It’s been very frustrat-ing for me when I arrive to the course and shots

aren’t coming off,” he said. “Trying to hit fades and it’s drawing. Ball is not start-ing down my intended line. All those things have been very frustrating, but that has not been the case this year. The ball is starting down my line. The feel and touch is starting to come back. I’m starting to shoot some good scores. So I’m excited about where it’s going.”

JACK’S (NEW) STAND: Jack Nicklaus didn’t under-stand why golfers would not want to go to Rio for the sport’s return to the Olympics after 112 years, and opinions grew stronger when Rory McIlroy said he took up golf to win cham-pionships, not grow the game.

Nicklaus changed his mind, however, during the opening of The Golden Bear Grill last week in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The 18-time major champion said he initially felt bad for golf when top players began withdrawing, thinking it was selfish on their part to not help grow the game.

“Then I started thinking more about it and thought maybe I shouldn’t have said that because it’s not about that,” Nicklaus said. “They aren’t about growing

golf right now. They are into playing golf. I’m into grow-ing golf because I’m past my time. ... I’ve taken the opposite side of my own opinion.”

FAST START: Bryson DeChambeau tied for fourth in his professional debut at Hilton Head in April, and it appeared he would be a lock to go straight from col-lege to the PGA Tour and earning a full card.

Instead, that honor might go to Jon Rahm of Arizona State.

He waited until after the U.S. Open to turn pro, and the Spaniard tied for third in his pro debut at the Quicken Loans National. Then, he tied for second at the RBC Canadian Open two weeks ago. He has yet to miss a PGA Tour cut in four starts as a pro. Rahm made the cut in four of the five PGA Tour events he played in college.

The high finishes over the last six weeks enabled him to take special temporary membership, making him eligible for unlimited spon-sor exemptions. That’s not a big deal because only three tournaments are left.

Rahm is playing the Travelers Championship this week, and he is likely to finish the equivalent of

top 125 on the money list to earn a full PGA Tour card. The last player to do that was Bud Cauley in 2011.

Even if he gets his card, Rahm would not be eligible for the FedEx Cup play-offs unless he wins, which would make him a PGA Tour member immediately.

DeChambeau, mean-while, still has work to do for him to avoid the Web.com Tour Finals. He missed four straight cuts after his tie for fourth, and only once has finished in the top 20. He also is playing the Travelers Championship.

RYDER CUP SHIRTS: Davis Love III is among the few who actually liked the Sunday shirts that Ryder Cup captain Ben Crenshaw had them wear at Brookline in 1999. They were maroon with old photos of previous winning U.S. teams, though that was hard to see from a distance.

Either way, they worked, and that’s why Love still keeps his shirts.

Both of them, as it turns out, thanks to PGA of Amer-ica manager Susan Martin.

“I got soaked with cham-pagne, and for the closing ceremony, she gave me a dry one,” Love said. “So I’ve got two. People always ask me, ‘Do you still have that shirt?’ I say, ‘Not only do I have it, I have two of them.’”

DIVOTS: With his tie for 13th in the PGA Champion-ship, Jordan Spieth went over $25 million in career earnings. He turned 23 last Wednesday. ... The field average was under par for the final two rounds of the PGA Championship (69.907 and 69.337). ... Of the 18 championships held at Bal-tusrol, 17 have been won by Americans. The excep-tion was Willie Anderson of Scotland in the 1903 U.S. Open. ... Jason Day was among five players who had all four rounds in the 60s at the PGA Championship, matching a record. There also were five players with all sub-70 rounds in 2014 at Valhalla and 1995 at Riv-iera. The difference? Day is the only player to shoot four rounds in the 60s two years in a row.

STAT OF THE WEEK: Steve Stricker has made 23 consecutive cuts in the majors he has played since turning 43.

FINAL WORD: “You don’t see too many overweight, smoking table tennis play-ers.” - Padraig Harrington, on why he rates table tennis players ahead of golfers as athletes. That’s one of the sports he plans to watch at the Rio Games.

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Olympics Will Overshadow Rio’s WoesRIO DE JANEIRO -- On

a corner outside the athlete’s village, a soldier carrying an automatic weapon tried his best to keep from smiling as he posed for a cameraman trying to put a face on secu-rity at the Olympics.

All is not quite fun and games just yet in Rio, though beleaguered organizers are hoping that changes soon. Most competitions begin Sat-urday and, barring a potential disaster, the discussion may actually turn from the prob-lems of Rio to sports from badminton to basketball in an extravaganza that only the world’s biggest sporting event can bring.

It will happen in a city of astonishing beauty and incredible poverty. It will happen despite worries about everything from virus-carrying mosquitoes to gun-toting criminals.

And it will happen with some athletes eyeing each other carefully, not knowing if the playing field is truly level.

The Rio Olympics open with a lot more at stake than gold medals and national pride. Not since Los Angeles rescued the troubled move-ment with a stripped-down version of the games in 1984 has there been more trepida-tion about the future of the massive sporting event.

Some issues, like the Zika

mosquitoes, were out of the control of the International Olympic Committee. Others were things they simply failed to control, like the rampant dopers who have made a mockery of the Olympic movement itself.

Bowing down to Vladimir Putin and allowing Russian athletes to remain in the games may have prevented a full-blown Cold War from

breaking out among Olym-pic nations. But it also high-lighted a schism between Olympic officials and those running the World Anti-Doping Agency, bringing into question their commitment to clean sport.

It also exposed the IOC as a spineless organization more bent on self-preserva-tion than on ensuring cheat-ers are not allowed in any

Olympic sport.Disappointing, but hardly

surprising.These are the same

people, you might remem-ber, who awarded the first Olympics in South America to Rio in 2009, buying without question the promise that in seven years Rio would somehow clean up waters long polluted by raw sewage and build mass transporta-

tion systems to whisk people around town.

Instead, the city’s high-ways are a logjam and on Saturday athletes will row their way through the slimy and dangerous waters of Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where hastily erected bar-ricades and garbage collec-tion boats will be on duty so that television viewers from around the world won’t have to see just how filthy the water really is.

It’s enough to make some of the stuffed shirts at the IOC a bit unsettled.

“How worried should we be?” Prince Albert of Monaco asked his fellow IOC mem-bers this week.

Plenty worried, though about seven years too late. Every Olympics has its issues - few thought Athens would ever be able to pull off the 2004 Games - but there are so many facing Rio that there will be a collective sigh of relief if everything has gone off mostly as planned when the Olympics end in just over two weeks.

Indeed, IOC President Thomas Bach envisions clear sailing for the Olympic movement if that happens.

“If this model stands such a stress test like it had to here in Brazil, then you can see that this model is more than robust,” Bach said.

NBC for one isn’t worried. The Olympics have long been little more than a long-running prime-time summer TV show and the network that paid $1.2 billion for the games says it will make money on this edition.

Rather than cutting into ad sales, the stories about crime, Zika and Brazil’s economic and political woes have actu-ally increased them. And the backdrop for these games will be a director’s dream, with stunning views from venues around the city, including beach volleyball on the famed Copacabana Beach.

The billions in TV revenue have padded the IOC coffers and increased its appetite for adding sports to an already bloated program that for some incomprehensible reason now includes golf. The newest for Tokyo will be sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, efforts to lure younger viewers into the games while traditional track and field and other sports are in decline.

It may turn out that Bach is right. Barring a terrorist attack or mass illness of rowers and sailors, Rio - for all its myriad of problems - may be remem-bered as a success.

Proof that no matter how incompetently they’re man-aged, the Olympics are simply too big to fail.

Tight Security—Courtesy Photo

Brazilian soldiers patrol outside the Olympic Village ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Olympic Venue Has Unusual Sights, SmellsRIO DE JANEIRO --

Right after getting off the plane, sweat beads will start to gather on your forehead. That’s just Rio de Janeiro’s ever-present humidity saying “hello.”

Look around and you will be enveloped by shades of green - lush tropical forests jammed between buildings of all sizes - and tones of blue along the miles of invit-ing coastlines.

Towering over the 2016 Summer Olympics host city is the Christ the Redeemer statue. After a few days, you might chuckle when a hotel brochure or tour guide tries to sell you something by saying it “includes” a view of the statue.

Jesus is everywhere here, as is plenty of tempta-tion and sin.

In Brazil, prostitution is legal, though that doesn’t mean that you will see women and men hawking their bodies all over the city. In fact, walking around, you are more likely to come upon churches, especially of growing evangelical denominations like Pente-costals.

Up in the hills, you can see small dwellings that look like stone huts jammed one after the other, in red and green and pink and orange and many other colors of the rainbow. The slums of Rio, known as favelas, are the most color-ful places in the city, cultur-ally vibrant and filled with interesting people. They are also the city’s poorest areas, often controlled by drug-traffickers and plagued by violence.

No matter where you are in Rio, you might hear gun-fire. It could be drug dealers battling it out for turf, or mili-tary police conducting an operation. Firefights mostly happen in favelas, but sometimes spill out into the “zona sul,” or southern part of the city, home to more well-heeled Brazilians and where tourists flock.

While you might be tempted to capture all the vibrancy of Rio on your smartphone, take a good look around before pulling it out. The “Cidade Mara-vilhosa” has long been plagued by violent mug-gings and robberies that can happen at any time of day and in any neighbor-hood.

A walk along the famed beach in Copacabana reveals both luxury and seediness: Rio’s iconic area

of yesteryear still shines but also has its share of hobos, panhandlers and hard-luck cases.

Keep walking further west to get to Ipanema beaches. And if you are in the mood to see and be seen and spend more money, go a little further to get to Leblon, Rio’s most expensive neigh-borhood.

It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere, the equiva-lent of February up north. But the beaches still have plenty of people, both local and foreign, taking dips. And with good reason: Tem-peratures are frequently in the mid-80s and sometimes even low 90s.

Here you will see some of Rio’s stereotypes in real life: dental-floss bikinis for women, tight speedos for men and bodies that ooze fitness and sensuality. But the beaches have so much more than that. There are pickup soccer and volleyball games and capoeira martial arts. The beats of the drum circles will make you feel

like you’re in movie.Speaking of rhythms,

in cafes, food stands and bars, it’s common to hear the soothing sounds of Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil, just two of the country’s talented musicians known worldwide. The classics are embraced but there is so much more for the ears: pop, funk and everything in-between, especially in any of the thousands of yellow cabs circulating in the city.

At the beach or anywhere close to a waterway, you could smell something rank. Your sniffer is not off: most likely that’s sewage. How strong it smells depends on where you are, how recently it rained and many other factors. Currently Rio only treats about 60 percent of its sewage, which means the waste from millions of residents finds its way into the water. Olympic athletes competing on that water are taking a host of preventative measures to avoid getting sick.

If all this made you tired,

just about any corner on the city offers the perfect pick-me-up: fruits. It would be impossible to exagger-ate the variety or all-around scrumptiousness of what you are about to eat or drink.

If you don’t speak Portu-

guese (and most Rio people don’t speak English), just point at the reddish mangos, the green guavas (with pink insides) or fruits you may have never heard of like Jabuticaba, which look like oversized grapes.

Sit back and enjoy.

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Stabler built a Hall of Fame career on moments more than raw numbers.

Stabler threw more inter-ceptions than touchdowns, completed fewer than 60 percent of his passes, and posted a quarterback rating of 90 or better just twice in 15 NFL seasons.

Yet Stabler was the offensive leader of the great Oakland Raiders teams of the 1970s, helping the team win its first Super Bowl and make it to four other confer-ence championship games in a five-year span.

“Sometimes we forget how smart Kenny Stabler was,” his former coach John Madden said. “He was a brilliant quarterback with a brilliant football mind. He would set things up. There’s a thing that they don’t even judge anymore, called field general. Ken Stabler was a true field general. The offen-sive players really believed and followed him. Anything that came out of his mouth, they totally believed.”

Madden called the shaggy-haired Stabler, whose wild style on the field and off helped earn him the nickname “The Snake,” the perfect Raider. Madden said if he had one drive to win a game and could choose any quarterback who ever played to lead it, Stabler

would be his choice.“The hotter the game, the

hotter I got, and Kenny was truly just the opposite; the hotter the game, the cooler he became,” Madden said.

That calm demeanor helped Stabler play a key role in some of the NFL’s most famous moments - so much so they are universally known by their nicknames.

Stabler scored the go-ahead touchdown in the “Immaculate Reception” playoff game against Pitts-burgh in 1972 that ended with Franco Harris’ improb-able touchdown and a Steelers victory.

His late TD pass that Clarence Davis caught in a “Sea of Hands” helped knock out two-time defend-ing champion Miami the next season. Stabler’s late “Ghost to the Post” pass to Dave Casper in the 1977 playoffs helped force over-time against Baltimore in a game Oakland finally won in the second extra period.

And his heady play to fumble forward in the clos-ing seconds of a regular-season game against San Diego in 1978 led to a touchdown by Casper on a play forever known as the “Holy Roller” that led to a rule change the following season.

“The cat was a cool, calm and collected guy,” said his

Super Snake—Courtesy Photo

In this 1977, file photo, Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler celebrates completing a touchdown pass en route to his team’s 32-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL football Super Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

former receiver Cliff Branch. “He was a chess player on the football field and he put people in checkmate in a minute on the defensive end.”

The only thing missing when Stabler is inducted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday will be Stabler himself. The honor comes just over a year after he died in July 2015 at age 69 from complications of colon cancer. Stabler also suffered from chronic trau-matic encephalopathy, or CTE, a form of repetitive brain trauma, according to his family.

“I told my wife, we’ll just

dig him up and prop him in a chair at the Hall of Fame so he can enjoy it,” said former Raiders receiver Fred Bilet-nikoff. “I’m excited about it. I can’t wait to go back there this year and go through that whole process and watch the excitement in his family’s face.”

Stabler was elected in February by the Seniors Committee as the capper to a career that started when he was a second-round draft pick out of Alabama and the second quarterback selected by the Raiders after Eldgridge Dickey in the

1968 draft.After spending most of

his first four seasons as a backup. Stabler became the starter in 1973. He was the NFL MVP in 1974, then won the Super Bowl following the 1976 season as he put the Raiders right up along-side Pittsburgh and Miami as the class of the AFC.

Stabler is the Raiders’ all-time leader in yards passing and TD passes. He finished his 15-year career with Houston and New Orleans, but will most definitely remembered as a Raider.

It took his death last

summer for Stabler to get another shot at the Hall of Fame honor his teammates believe was long overdue.

“I always believed that Kenny should have been in the Hall of Fame before,” Biletnikoff said. “I know it’s a tough process for guys to get into the Hall of Fame. I was always disappointed that his name wasn’t brought up to the top year after year. I know it was there, but it was never a big factor. This year with that happening, I love it. I know it means the world to his family.”

Stanfel Being InductedAs Player And a Coach

DETROIT -- An offensive lineman who played back in the 1950s, Dick Stanfel didn’t have a lot of stats floating around to help his Hall of Fame case.

What he had was people like Marv Levy who were willing to stand up on his behalf.

“I realize he played so long ago that a lot of the people that are voting now don’t even remember the time, but this guy is so deserving,” said Levy, the Hall of Fame former coach of the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. “I remember going back to Hall of Fame meetings where guys like Gino Marchetti and Artie Donovan would tell me he was the best offensive line-man that ever played.”

Nearly six decades after the end of his playing career, Stanfel is being enshrined posthumously into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this week. In a class of inductees headlined by more recent luminaries Brett Favre and Tony Dungy, Stanfel offers a history lesson - a chance for fans to learn about and appreciate one of the game’s standouts from the pre-Super Bowl era.

Stanfel played seven seasons with Detroit and Washington, leading the Lions to NFL champion-ships in 1952 and 1953. He earned All-Pro honors five times in his relatively short playing career.

“You hate to use the word technician, but he was,” Hall of Famer Mike Ditka said. “Dick was a hell of a football player.”

Stanfel would eventually work for Ditka, serving on his staff with the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints as part of a coach-ing career that spanned 40 years.

Stanfel died last year at age 87. He’d come close to making the hall in 1993 and 2012, falling short as a finalist.

“After dad’s death, we pretty much had resigned ourselves that he would just be forgotten,” Stanfel’s son Rich said.

Instead, Stanfel was selected as a finalist again last August by the seniors committee, a couple of months after his death. He was voted in last February and will be enshrined Sat-urday in Canton, Ohio, with the rest of his class.

Rich Stanfel said the family has been “ecstatic” that Dick finally made it in.

“We’re really happy to be a part of this,” he said. “It’s been pretty much an amaz-ing ride for us right now.”

After being drafted by the Lions in 1951, Stanfel missed that season with a knee injury. He recovered from that setback and played the next four years with Detroit.

After three seasons with Washington, he ended his playing career at age 31; Redskins coach Joe Kuhar-ich left to go to Notre Dame, and Stanfel went with him as an assistant coach.

That type of move would be unusual nowadays - and the early retirement might have hurt Stanfel’s Hall of Fame chances - but Rich Stanfel said the financial ramifications of going from playing to coaching were different then.

“I’m glad dad took that opportunity,” Rich Stanfel said. “He might not have gotten another opportunity to coach, and he made an entire career of it.”

Levy, who was the coach at California from 1960-63, hired Stanfel as a line coach. Stanfel had played

at the University of San Francisco and was born in the area.

“He blew me away with how well he taught,” said Levy, who will be Stanfel’s presenter for his enshrine-ment. “I recall one instance when he wasn’t happy with how a guard was pulling and trapping an outside linebacker, so he stepped in - no pads, no helmet - to demonstrate, and I’ve never seen anybody do it better than he did.”

By the mid-1980s, Stanfel was with the Bears, coach-ing their offensive line. He was part of Ditka’s staff in 1985 when Chicago domi-nated the league en route to a Super Bowl title.

“He was the most con-summate line coach I’ve ever been around,” Ditka said. “He was a great teacher, and he related to the guys.”

Stanfel was on Ditka’s staff in New Orleans before retiring from coaching after the 1998 season. He could have easily dropped off the radar as a Hall of Fame candidate after that, but Levy in particular wouldn’t let it happen.

“Marv Levy would always come back to that commit-tee when they asked him, ‘Who do you think should be in?’” Rich Stanfel said. “And he’d always, you know: ‘First and foremost, Dick Stanfel.’”

Levy insists he wasn’t alone in the push to help Stanfel reach the Hall of Fame, an effort that at long last has succeeded.

“I and so many other current Hall of Famers are really elated that this so-well-deserved honor is finally taking place,” Levy said. “I’ve been among many who’ve campaigned for him.”

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Patrick Has Struggled in NASCAR RacesDARLINGTON, S.C. -

- Danica Patrick is grateful and humbled by the popu-larity and platform she has had over four seasons of Sprint Cup racing. She des-perately wishes for success to go with it.

Patrick expressed frustra-tion this week at her inability so far to become a consis-tent top-15 finisher.

‘’I feel a certain amount of responsibility slash guilt when things don’t go better,’’ Patrick said. ‘’It’s always fun to cheer when someone is doing well. There are times I don’t feel like I’m deliver-ing that.

‘’I want to give them something to cheer for,’’ she said.

The hard-driving Patrick remains one of the series’ most popular and market-able figures. When Go Daddy ended its sponsor-ship of Patrick’s Stewart-Haas Racing car, Nature’s Bakery quickly took over as primary backer this season. Patrick enjoys seeing young girls at races in her T-shirts and understands she has probably convinced plenty of dads it’s okay to let their daughters dream and pursue racing glory.

Now, after almost four seasons of mostly middle-of-the-pack finishes, she wants some for herself.

Patrick had success in open wheel racing, winning the Indy Japan 300 in 2008. She jumped to NASCAR and the new Stewart-Haas program after 2010, cut-

ting her teeth in the Xfinity Series with a few tries in Sprint Cup before making the full-time jump in 2013.

But things haven’t always gone well for the ultra-com-petitive Patrick.

She had a career-best finish of sixth in 2014 in Atlanta, but has not quali-fied for NASCAR’s season-ending playoffs or ended better than 24th in the driver standings. Patrick sits 24th again this season without a top 10-finish with five races left before the champion-ship Chase.

‘’We’re in that phase now where we’re finishing 20th every weekend and I wish I were delivering more,’’ she said.

Team owner Tony Stewart told Patrick when she joined NASCAR it would take longer than she thought to get up to speed.

Is she getting close?‘’I mean, somedays yes

and somedays you are like, ‘What happened?’’’ said Stewart, a three-time series champion who is retiring after the season. ‘’But you look at my career. I was on top and won a champion-ship in 2011 and I couldn’t even find the gate to get out of the racetrack in the years after that. So many things can change and it’s just not as easy as everybody thinks.’’

Patrick was in Darlington on Tuesday to show off her culinary skills - she helped prepare lunch at South of Pearl restaurant, complete

with a black Darlington apron - and stuff back-to-school backpacks with sup-plies for area children.

Patrick has her outside interests. She’s launch-ing an activewear clothing line next year - ‘’It started because of merchandise sales at NASCAR, drivers make so little money off merchandise sales,’’ she says - and hopes to publish

a cookbook of her favorite recipes. She detailed a domestic side, of how she’ll wake up first at racetracks to make breakfast for her-self, then her dogs, then boyfriend-driver Ricky Sten-house Jr.

‘’It’s fun for me,’’ she said.

Patrick, 34, has thought about a family and what it might mean for her career. She has seen her friends have children and wondered about it herself.

‘’Of course, I’m a girl,’’ Patrick said. ‘’But it’s not anything in the urgent department yet.’’

But, she added, ‘’I’m not married and I have a job.’’

‘’I’d like to have some great years in NASCAR and I feel like I haven’t had them

yet,’’ she said.New Darlington President

Kerry Tharp has seen Pat-rick’s poise grow during her NASCAR stint.

‘’It’s a big learning curve coming to stock car racing and she embraced that, wasn’t afraid of that and has worked very hard at that,’’ he said.

Patrick will return to the area in a month for the Southern 500, one of the sport’s most difficult tracks where she’s struggled to get around because of its slip-pery surface and misshapen corners.

Patrick believes her best performances are ahead and that her communication with her No. 10 team and crew chief Billy Scott are as strong as ever. Her immediate goal is getting fast enough to make the jump to a top-15 finisher. Patrick knows if she accom-plishes that, her opportunities to win would increase.

‘’That would make a huge difference on the overall year,’’ Patrick said. ‘’That can and will happen. But nobody’s patient - including me.’’

NHRA Countdown Races

Have Spots to be SettledAs the annual Western

Swing concludes this week-end in suburban Seattle, a number of NHRA teams are feeling confident, while others are likely losing a lot of sleep at night.

Including Seattle, three races remain for drivers to qualify for the NHRA’s Count-down to the Championship – Seattle, Brainerd (Minne-sota) and the biggest race of the year, the legendary U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis on Labor Day Weekend (only two for Pro Stock Motorcycle — Brainerd and Indianapolis).

The Countdown is a six-race playoff that will determine the eventual 2016 champions in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motor-cycle.

A total of 10 drivers/riders in each class will qualify for the Countdown in each respective class.

And while there indeed are still three races to make the Countdown, this weekend’s ProtectTheHarvest.com Northwest Nationals could very likely be a must-win for a number of drivers if they hope to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Let’s break down each of those four classes and deter-mine who needs to do what:

TOP FUEL: Defending champion Antron Brown, Doug Kalitta, Steve Torrence and Brittany Force have all clinched Countdown berths. Eight-time champion and the winningest driver in Top Fuel history, Tony Schumacher, is also fairly safe to make the Countdown.

Likely to make it but not a certainty are J.R. Todd, Shawn Langdon and Richie Crampton.

The biggest question marks are Clay Millican (cur-rently ninth in the standings), Leah Pritchett (10th) and Terry McMillen (11th), who are all on the bubble to make the playoffs.

And while he’ll likely not make the Countdown – although we’d love to see it – we still have to give big props to veteran driver Chris Karamesines, who at the age of 84, is currently ranked 15th, his highest ranking in Top Fuel since finishing 15th in 2002.

Yes, you read that right. The man known as “The Golden Greek” is indeed 84 years

old, and has been racing for approximately 65 years.

FUNNY CAR: In the 50th year of Funny Car competition in the NHRA, drivers aren’t laughing – they’re dead seri-ous to make the Countdown.

Already locked in: points leader Ron Capps, Courtney Force, Jack Beckman and defending Funny Car champ Del Worsham.

John Force, the winningest driver in NHRA history (16 championships, 145 race wins), will likely clinch a berth in the Countdown this week-end at Seattle.

Force is also going for only the second Western Swing sweep in NHRA history – after winning at Denver and Sonoma, he just needs to win at Seattle to duplicate what he did back in 1994, the only driver in Funny Car to do so.

Matt Hagan and Robert Hight, who are both tied for sixth heading to Seattle, will likely make the Countdown, as well.

But after that, the water gets murky. Tommy Johnson Jr. (ranked eighth) and Tim Wilkerson (ranked ninth) are still in contention. Alexis DeJoria (ranked 10th), who suffered a fractured pelvis at Sonoma this past Sunday, not only is questionable to race at Seattle, but also to make the Countdown.

If she misses this weekend and potentially another race or two, DeJoria’s playoff chances are just about done.

The biggest name who needs to make up the largest amount of ground in the three remaining races to qualify for the Countdown is two-time Funny Car champ Cruz Pedregon.

Pedregon has struggled terribly this season. In the first 15 races, he’s failed to get past the first round of eliminations 12 times. He comes to Seattle ranked 12th in the standings, 198 points out of the 10th and final qualifying spot.

The only other Funny Car driver who has a potential chance to make the Count-down, particularly if DeJoria misses one or more races, is 11th ranked Chad Head, who is 150 points behind DeJoria heading to Seattle.

PRO STOCK: Teammates Greg Anderson, Jason Line and Bo Butner are all locked into the Countdown, as is

Allen Johnson.But from there, it gets rather

dicey: A total of 184 points separate fifth-ranked Vincent Nobile and 10th-ranked Alex Laughlin (in-between are Drew Killman, Shane Gray, Chris McGaha and five-time Pro Stock champ Jeg Cough-lin Jr.).

Two-time defending Pro Stock champ Erica Enders is just nine points out of 10th place. Enders has struggled all season to find consistency, horsepower and speed. She’s been a first-round loser in 10 of the first 15 races, and has yet to get past the quarterfi-nals in any race.

Unless Coughlin or Laugh-lin falter, Enders’ team needs to find some additional speed and to go at least two to three rounds in each of the three remaining pre-Countdown races. Otherwise, it’s not look-ing promising for Enders to make the playoffs — and with it would go her hopes of three consecutive Pro Stock cham-pionships.

PRO STOCK MOTOR-CYCLE: Eddie Krawiec, five-time and defending PSM champ Andrew Hines, Angelle Sampey and Jerry Savoie are all locked into the Countdown.

Veteran Pro Stock Motorcy-cle rider Steve Johnson is on the bubble to make the NHRA Countdown to the Champion-ship.

With the two-wheelers not competing this weekend (their next race is Aug. 18-21 at Brainerd, Minn.), that leaves just two races left for six other riders to make the Countdown.

Sonoma winner L.E. Ton-glet, Hector Arana and Chip Ellis (ranked fifth through seventh) are likely to make the Countdown.

But from there, it’s a tossup which of the eight drivers remaining in contention will make the Countdown.

Just 116 points separates all eight drivers, starting with Matt Smith (eighth place) and James Underdahl (15th place).

The biggest battle right now is between Hector Arana Jr. (ninth), Steve Johnson (10th), Michael Ray (11th) and Karen Stoffer (12th). Just 69 points separate the four riders. Take Smith out of the equation and just 30 points separate Arana Jr., Johnson, Ray and Stoffer.

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Danica Patrick had a career-best finish of sixth in 2014 in Atlanta, but has not qualified for NASCAR’s season-ending playoffs or ended better than 24th in the driver standings. Patrick sits 24th again this season without a top 10-finish with five races left before the championship Chase.

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three months, reviewed and then deleted. A more severe case, such as murder, will stay on file indefinitely.

The department will review the system in six months and make decisions on some change such as how long certain videos should be kept.

The video can be altered only by blurring out a person who is not involved in the incident or images of nudity. The original video file cannot be changed or altered in any other way.

Officers have the option of muting the audio in situa-tions where the background conversations are not perti-nent to the case.

The images are part of the open records act and may be viewed by the public

as long as the case in ques-tion in not open.

“I am happy to get them and all the officers wel-comed it,’” Burnett said.

“We went with Taser Axon because they are rugged. One did come off an officer’s chest during a pursuit of a suspect, got run over by a vehicle and con-tinued to record. We use the taser they make so we know their quality,” Burnett said.

Burnett has been an offi-cer for 12 years. He started as a reserve officer and a jailer in Ada then went through a reserve academy that was directed by Detec-tive Branon Bowen.

Once a position became available he spoke to then Chief Chris Mills and was hired on to the Seminole Police Department.

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City Council meeting.All city council and related

meetings are open to the public. The library is located at 424 North Main.

location.But have you heard of

some of the good things in this small community we live in? I had the honor of ques-tioning some of my friends that live in, live around, or even just come to Seminole County a lot. And here are their stories.

Nick Lucas (Holdenville) said that it has brought his family closer together. His brother, his cousin, and he have more shared experi-ences since they started playing Pokemon Go together.

They weren’t really close but now they have memo-ries that will last a lifetime. Memories that are filled with laughter and enjoyment of just catching Pokemon in and around Seminole County.

If you see a Chevy truck on the side of the road with kids in a field, it might be Nick with his family search-ing for a Pokemon.

Jonathan Carr (Edmond) said that since Pokemon Go has come out, he has been out with his family almost every night, from going into Downtown OKC to coming into Seminole to catch

Pokemon. He caught the Pokemon

“Ninetails” near the outskirts of Seminole. He, along with his family, have always enjoyed Pokemon and they still have a lot of the original Pokemon cards. He also doesn’t just play with family.

He has Pokemon nights with his buddies when he and his friends go out one night every week to play Pokemon. They’ve been to Seminole, Wewoka, Hold-enville, and the OKC Metro area just searching and catching Pokemon.

Alyssa Kelough (Semi-nole) stated that she didn’t have a relationship with her brother before, but now that she has started playing Pokemon she has started to have a bond with her brother.

She would pass by his room sometimes and they wouldn’t have anything to talk about so she wouldn’t talk to him before leaving the house. As soon as they both had Pokemon Go, she has had more interactions with her older brother, a bond that cannot be broken.

They get up early on the weekends just to catch Pokemon. She started her

day at 7a.m. to catch some Pokemon, since in the eve-ning it would be so hot and they don’t want to get sick. They set out lures to catch nearby Pokemon and then drive to nearby locations to catch Pokemon.

Koltin Buffington (Semi-nole) stated that he took his Fiancé Alecia out to play Pokemon and they caught the Pokemon “Ghastly” down a back alley in Down-town Shawnee and even met a homeless man.

They tried to catch a “Scyther” but the tracks went in every direction.

As you can see, since Pokemon came out, it has made the bonds between one self’s friends and family stronger for some players.

Even though it may seem scary that a kid is sitting in a parking lot or walking down random alleys, they’re probably just searching for Pokemon.

One last quote by Wewokan Tierra Jones:

“Pokemon Go takes a new spin on a classic video game. Players get to stick with the characters they know and love, while also being active and exercis-ing.”

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several small businesses, a partnership in a market-ing firm, radio broadcasting, and serving as the Director of the El Reno Chamber of Commerce and Develop-ment Corporation.

McMullen will be intro-duced at the Seminole Chamber event by Forum Committee Co-Chair Dr. Jim Utterback.

The Forum program is open to the public. Cost for the meal is $8 per person.

For more information about the forum program, contact the Chamber of Commerce office at 382-3640.

Let’s Catch Them All—Courtesy Photo

Above is a ceiling tile that Alyssa Kelough and her training class painted at her place of employment. The classmates all picked a Pokemon that represented their personality.

Florida Woman Killed in London Knife Attack, Suspect ArrestedBy Jane Onyanga-

Omara

LONDON — The woman stabbed to death in an attack on a street in the British capital was the wife of a Florida State University psychology professor, the university said Thursday in a statement.

Darlene Horton, the wife

of Richard Wagner, was killed the day the universi-ty’s summer study abroad program ended.

Wagner was teaching in the summer study abroad program. Students had already returned to the U.S., but he and Horton remained. The couple was expected to return to Florida today, according to univer-

sity officials.“There are no words to

express our heartache over this terrible tragedy,” Florida State University President John Thrasher said. “We are shocked that such sense-less violence has touched our own FSU family, and we will do all we can to assist Professor Wagner and his loved ones, as well as his

Cheap Oil Has Killed Nearly 200,000 U.S. JobsBy Matt Egan

Cheap oil has fueled a massive wave of job cuts that may not be over yet.

Since oil prices began to fall in mid-2014, cheap crude has been blamed for 195,000 job cuts in the U.S., accord-ing to a report published on Thursday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

It’s an enormous toll that is especially painful because these tend to be well-paying

jobs. The average pay in the oil and gas industry is 84% higher than the national average, according to Gold-man Sachs. The cuts have occurred at a time when many other corners of the American economy have been adding jobs.

About 95,000 positions were eliminated by energy companies in 2016 alone, according to Challenger. Most of those job cuts occurred earlier this year, as oil prices crashed to a 13-year low of

$26 a barrel.But Challenger noted that

there was a “resurgence” of energy-sector job cuts in July, when layoffs spiked by 796% to 17,725.

Oil prices have rebounded from extreme low levels, but they’re losing ground again in recent weeks, briefly slipping back below $40 a barrel this week. Expect more energy job losses to be reflected in Friday’s government jobs report for July.

Few oil companies have

been spared the pink slips. Everyone from diversified oil companies like Chevron (CVX), to oil services firms like Schlumberger (SLB) and Baker Hughes (BHI) have announced mass layoffs. Halliburton (HAL) alone has slashed more than 30,000 jobs, including 5,000 during the second quarter of this year.

“The industry has been hit harder than we’ve seen in the 15 years we’ve been in the business, much harder than ‘08 downturn,” Jeff Bush,

president of oil and gas job recruiter CSI Recruiting, recently told CNNMoney.

And then there are the thousands of layoffs by non-energy companies that pro-vide equipment used to drill for oil like Caterpillar (CAT) and Joy Global. (JOY)

The good news for laid-off oil workers is that some think the pendulum may have swung too hard, creating a talent shortage when drilling activity eventually rebounds. Goldman Sachs predicted

the oil and gas needs to hire between 80,000 and 100,000 people by the end of 2018 just to keep up.

The oil industry may need to pay up to lure workers back to the oil patch.

“Not only have laid off workers relocated to other areas for new jobs but, just as in many other industries, a large portion of the work-force is reaching retirement age,” said John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

friends and colleagues in the Psychology department, as they mourn.”

Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley identified the suspect as a Norwegian national of Somali ancestry. He said police had so far found no evidence of radicalization or anything that would suggest that he was motivated by terrorism.

Five people were injured in the attack — their nation-alities are Australian, Ameri-can, Israeli and British, Rowley said.

“Whilst the investigation is not yet complete — all of the work that we have done so far, increasingly points to this tragic incident as having been triggered by mental health issues,” he said.

“At this time we believe this was a spontaneous attack and the victims were selected at random.”

Police were called to reports of a man attacking people with a knife in Rus-sell Square, near the British Museum in central London — an area visited by many tourists — at about 10.30 p.m. local time Wednesday. Officers arrived at the scene soon afterward and the 19-year-old suspect was tasered

and taken to a hospital.The victim, believed to be

in her 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Scotland Yard said the suspect, who has not been named, was treated in the hospital and is now in custody at a police station in south London. He has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Two women and three men were injured in the attack. One of the victims, who suffered a stab wound to his stomach, remained in the hospital Thursday while the others had been dis-charged, police said.

Manuel Simo, 32, who works at a hotel in the area, told the London Evening Standard: “At first, people were confused and thought it was a traffic accident. When they realized what was happening people were screaming and run-ning away from a guy who was holding a knife. Appar-ently he was just stabbing people randomly — it’s horrible. People ran away in the direction of the British Museum.”

Scotland Yard’s homicide and major crime team is leading the investigation, supported by counter-terror-

ism officers.The stabbings came as

Scotland Yard announced 600 extra firearms officers to patrol the streets of London in a bid to protect residents from the threat of terrorism, following a spate of recent attacks in Europe, including one in Nice, France, that killed 84 people.

A subway train traveling between King’s Cross and Russell Square was tar-geted by a suicide bomber in the terror attacks on the London transport system of July 2005, and a bomb was detonated on a double-decker bus in nearby Tavis-tock Square. The series of attacks killed 52 people.

“As a precautionary mea-sure, Londoners will wake up this morning to notice an increased presence on the streets of officers, includ-ing armed officers today,” Rowley said in a statement earlier Thursday.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, urged Londoners to “remain calm and vigilant.”

“The safety of all London-ers is my number one prior-ity and my heart goes out to the victims of the incident in Russell Square and their loved ones,” he said in a statement Thursday.

Sleepless For Sea Turtles: Padre Island Scientist’s Devotion Pays Off

By Jennifer Weiss, John Makely and Jim Seida

The National Park Ser-vice turns 100 years old this month. Fifty-nine U.S. National Parks cover almost 52 million acres across 27 different states. Last year, they saw a record 305 mil-lion visitors. To recognize the centennial of the system pro-tecting these American trea-sures, NBC News will fea-ture stories from 10 national parks and recreation areas — from California’s Yosem-ite to New York’s Gateway.

During the summer, Donna Shaver often sleeps on the job — so she can nurture the thousands of incubating sea turtle eggs in her care.

Shaver, who leads the Division of Sea Turtle Sci-ence and Recovery at Padre Island National Seashore, beds down in a small room near the incubation facility so she can make frequent visits to the two warm, dark incubation rooms every night during the May through August hatching season.

Wearing a headlamp and loose-fitting athletic clothes, she spritzes water on crates of turtle eggs, aims fans at the eggs nearing the end of their incubation period, monitors temperatures and checks to see if any eggs are close to hatching.

“Sometimes I’m on my feet through the whole night,” she said.

But Shaver is not com-plaining. This is her favorite time of the year.

When the turtle hatchlings are ready for release, they are transported to the beach, where Shaver and a crew of colleagues and volunteers

watch over them as they crawl into the surf.

The public is often invited to observe. “We see grown folks with tears in their eyes,” she said.

The incubation facility at the national seashore, a 70-mile stretch of barrier island off southern Texas, is part of a nearly 40-year effort to re-establish a nesting popu-lation of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle on Padre Island. The species is the most endangered of all sea turtles, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Over the course of a decade beginning in 1978, more than 22,000 eggs were collected from Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, the turtles’ main nesting ground, and transported to Texas for incubation. Once hatched, turtles were placed on the beach to amble into the surf, with the hope that they would “imprint,” or gain a lasting impression in order to one day return on their own.

Turtles were then recap-tured and raised in a labora-tory through early develop-ment. They were tagged for tracking, then returned to Padre Island and the sur-rounding area for release into the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1996, Shaver con-firmed the return of the first turtle to Padre Island from the imprint program.

When she started at the national seashore, she was a 20-year-old undergradu-ate at Cornell University with a summer Student Conservation Association internship. She had grown up not far from Cornell in Syracuse, New York, and

was eager to work with at-risk species.

“I fell in love with the work and South Texas,” said Shaver, who is now 57. “I decided this is what I wanted to do.”

Image: Dr. Donna Shaver and the turtle recovery program release Kemp’s Ridley turtle hatchlings into the Gulf of Mexico

Work by Shaver, her col-leagues and volunteers with the Kemp’s ridley popula-tion has raised the turtles’ odds of survival — but by how much, Shaver said she’s not certain. Under natural circumstances, it’s thought that only about 1 in 400 eggs produces a turtle that survives to adulthood.

Marine debris and acci-dental capture by fisher-ies are among the biggest threats to the turtles. Shaver and her colleagues fre-quently find plastic washed ashore with tiny diamond-shaped cuts in it, indicating turtles have taken a bite. “The best thing people can do to help the turtles is to keep plastic out of the ocean,” she said.

Shaver is one of hundreds of scientists at work in the National Park System, whose parks provide researchers and the public with a stunning array of ecosystems and spe-cies to explore. In addition to wildlife, park scientists have expertise in botany, climate, caves, geology and other areas.

Her work can involve heavy lifting and has taken a physical toll over the years. She is preparing for her fifth back surgery.

Her devotion to these turtles, however, has never wavered.

“This conservation work matters because this spe-cies has been around for millions of years,” Shaver said. “It almost went extinct within a blink of an eye due to human activities. It’s a magnificent, majestic spe-cies and it’s important to have it in our natural heri-tage for future generations to be able to enjoy.”

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We Are More Smarter Due To More Educational OpportunitiesTwo types of women

existed in Colonial America. There were wealthy women who wore imported silks and lived a jet-set-of-1776 sort of life.

And, there were poor women who wore home-spun dresses and drudged from dawn until dark in a day-to-day struggle for sur-vival.

But all women shared the same vision of an ideal woman and did what they could to live up to that vision.

Rich or poor, colonial women were cautioned not to think deep thoughts.

The fathers of or country believed the female brain was not as strong as the male brain.

Overuse of a weak brain could cause insanity; there-fore, women must not strain their brains.

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supposed to look lovely. There were two essen-

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To make their backs grow straight, little girls of the wealthy class were either strapped to boards or shackled into tin harnesses for several hours daily.

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linen facemask—and every morning a sunbonnet was stitched securely upon her head; she couldn’t remove it until evening when the stitches were cut.

Scented waters were used to prevent tanning, cold cream was used if there was even a remote possibil-ity that a ray of sunshine might penetrate the clouds and protective sweet pow-ders filmed female faces.

Also, important was a woman’s hair. During the early 18th century, bouf-fant hairdos were in vogue. Many women measured seven feet tall including their hair.

Minus their hairdos, the same women would shrink to barely 5 feet!

To avoid crushing their hair, women either had to kneel inside their carriages or ride with their head pro-truding from the carriage windows.

Fastened to a fashion-able lady’s bodice was a stay-hook from which dangled her etui, a curious little 3-inch box in which she carried her ear scoop for wax removal, a toothpick, a scaler to scrape tartar from her teeth, tweezers to remove a stray unsightly hair, and a tiny bottle of per-fume. Since bathtubs were nonexistent, ladies relied heavily upon perfume.

One of the cultivated lady’s most critical daily problems was to choose which of her many fans to use.

Her fan was more than an accessory; she used it to express her emotions by the way she held it. The exercise of fan use was considered an art.

Her hoop skirt was also important. At the time of the Revolution, fashion dictated that it be oblong in shape to create fullness at the sides but a flatness in front and back.

Special chairs were made to accommodate these hoops and even staircases were built with banisters which curbed outward.

Her shoes were clumsy and uncomfortable.

They were made to fit either foot, and ladies

alternated them in order to keep them pointing straight ahead which was the fash-ionable look.

Although some shoes were made of calfskin, the most comfortable were of dog.

When a colonial dog died, he did not rest in peace. The shoemaker quickly confis-cated the corpse; hence, the expression: “putting on the dog.”

So now you can envision the dream girl of our forefa-thers: Seven feet tall (whose tall hair may include wee-vils), her face chalky white, an ear scoop dangling from her bodice, her gloved hand fluttering a fan, her body corseted and laced until she could barely bend, her feet aching, and her brain empty. Men worshipped her.

Poor women in their homespun dresses copied her as much as possible. She was one of the beauti-ful people of 1776.

I borrowed most of this information from Eudora Seyfer, who shared her research in a California newspaper in 1976. In further research, I learned books and hundred of arti-cles are available on these practices these women endured in the name of fashion.

Women are smarter now because of education opportunities, but in some ways, they haven’t come too far.

Sadly, women of today fall for some fashions that are still unhealthy: high heels (weakening their arches and ankles); pants with hems dragging the floor or ground, (collecting germs); purposely tanning the skin that can cause early wrin-kling and skin cancers.

And, there are health issues still with wearing too-tight clothing.

History seems to repeat itself.

I personally wonder how things would change if the medical field had to have the last say in high-fashion industry.

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“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disci-ples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:13-18

Have you ever met anyone that you have heard a lot about only to find out that they were not anything like what you were told that they were like?

Sadly and more often than not many of the things that I hear in the work that I do are little more than gossip.

Gossip can be defined as casual, careless or reck-less conversation or reports about other people typically involving data and details that are not confirmed as being true.

Over the years I have found that gossip is very degrading and hurtful and not only have I heard gossip about others but I have personally been the target of many a back fence con-versation.

I remember one incident when I was a young pastor that I met a young lady at a Church Convention meeting and she invited me to meet her for dinner and to chat as friends.

We decided to meet at her Church since it was Christmas and they would be decorating and bagging Christmas bags that night. I agreed and so that is where we met.

When I got there the Church was in the middle of working on getting every-thing together for Christmas and so I jumped in and helped out.

After everything was done it was late and since the young lady had two kids she decided to call it a night and go home and put them to bed. We said our good-byes and I headed back home.

When I got home I got a call from one of my Church members that had received a phone call telling him that I was the father of this young ladies children and that we had been married at one time which was news to me since I had just recently met the young lady.

I was truly amazed at how fast that rumor was not only created but spread before I even got home to Ardmore from Ada.

I have seen people whose lives have been permanently destroyed by words that had no founda-tion in the truth. I have seen

teenagers that wouldn’t even leave their homes because of things that were said about them by others and I have even known of kids that have taken their own lives as a result of the pressure. Gossip is not a new thing and was going on in biblical times as well.

There were many people in those days that would criticize and scrutinize the ministry of Jesus Christ and in opposition to Him they would fabricate stories to hurt His credibility.

To add to the problem there were plenty of people that were more than willing to spread the lies and char-acterize Jesus as someone or something that he was not.

Even the Apostles were affected by the things that they had heard.

One night Jesus asked them who it was that men were saying that He was.

The Apostles shared what they had heard people saying about Him.

Jesus asked the Apostles who they thought that He was and Peter quickly asserted that Jesus was the Christ the Son of the Living God.

After commending Peter for being alert to the direc-

tion of the Father, Jesus told him that it was upon that statement of faith that he would build His Church.

Today men are all about re-casting Jesus in their own image and applying to him the attributes that they desire rather than finding out who He is.

People talk and say that God and the Lord Jesus Christ are this way or that and many of those opinions are little more than fanci-ful thinking and reckless gossip.

God has given us His Word so that we could know Him and so that He would not be a mystery to us.

The Lord does not just want us to know about Him but He desires that we know Him personally and intimately.

Knowing Him is not having a relationship with

a lifeless idol that we have created in our own image but it is knowing who He is based upon what He has said about Himself in His Word.

If you really want to know Him then I suggest that you pray for understanding and then open up your Bible and read it.

Get to know God and the Lord Jesus for who they are and not just simply what others say and think about them.

Men’s lives have been utterly destroyed by false narrative and uninformed conjecture and I hope that you will not allow yourself to be one of them.

Learn the truth because eternity is a long time to spend in a place like hell when it is so easy to know God and discover the truth of His Word and who He is.

Life in a NutshellPastor Manuel L. Kishekton, Sr

First Baptist Church of Cromwell

Don’t Be Dismissive Or Thoughtless

When Coming To Him In WorshipDutch independence

from Spain was finally won in 1648 after 80 years of warfare.

The experience, though, left every Dutch city with its own armory and store of ammunition. In Delft, 90,000 pounds of gunpowder was stored in the basement of a former convent in 1654.

This was one of the most productive times of the Netherlands.

Famed for its world maps and advances in medicine, it was also a powerhouse of the Protestant Reformation.

And it was the home of Rembrandt and Vermeer. One of Rembrandt’s most promising students was a young man of only 32, Carel Fabritius, whose talent was rapidly gaining fame.

On Monday, October 12th, 1654, at about 11 AM, the keeper of the Delft powder magazine, Cornelis Soetens, entered the stor-age area with a visitor—and a lantern. Minutes later the gunpowder exploded, kill-ing hundreds and laying waste to almost a fourth of the city.

The painter, Fabritius, was killed and all his works but one destroyed. Soetens, the man who should have been most careful, came to treat his responsibility care-lessly, to his own destruc-tion.

“Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup

of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sin-ning against the body and blood of the Lord.

A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Corinthians 11:27-29 NIV).

When we gather on Sunday to worship our Lord, Jesus Christ, He calls for us to share in a holy remem-brance of His sacrifice. Called “the Lord’s Supper” in Scripture, it’s also known as “communion” as we participate together in the bread and fruit of the vine.

It is a moment of solemn holiness as we recall the death of Jesus in our place, the blood of the new cov-enant.

If we treat this memorial as a meaningless ritual, a “little cracker and juice,” we sow the seeds of our own

catastrophic destruction. We should always

approach holy things with reverence, recognizing the awesome power of God within His ordinances.

To treat the commemora-tion of Jesus’ sacrifice with casual contempt is to incite His everlasting wrath. Let us always approach the Lord with reverence, not shying away from His holy worship, but constantly aware of His Divine power and nature. Meeting Him in worship is no time to be dismissive or thoughtless, but focused and sharply aware. Han-dling holy things demands our serious attention.

A Religious EditorialBy Chris StinnettBy Chris Stinnett

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Weekly Winners, PlayersThe Boomer Seminole

Duplicate Bridge group met Tuesday August 2nd. There were four tables in play the winners were:

1st in A and B group were the partners:

Susanne Major and Laura Rose (both from Seminole).

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2nd in B group were part-ners Gail Woodard (Semi-nole) and Bonnie Palon (Midwest City)

Other playing were Janet

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Hot Car Deaths: How Can Parents Forget a Child in a Car?By David Diamond

Justin Ross Harris, 34, has been charged with murder in the death of his 2-year-old child after he alleg-edly left the toddler in a hot car for eight hours.

I have been studying the brain and memory since 1980, but I was baffled when a news reporter asked me in 2004 how parents can forget that their children are in the car with them. It seemed incomprehensible that par-ents could leave a child in a car and then go about their daily activities, as their child dies of hyperthermia in a car that reaches scorching temperatures.

My first inclination was to assume negligent parent-ing. Then I learned from a children’s advocacy group that more than 100 children had died as a result of being mistakenly left in cars since the 1990s. None of those cases had evidence of prior abuse or neglect by their parents.

I then spoke with many

of these parents. I heard the gut-wrenching 911 calls they made after their child was found dead. I have real-ized that, in the vast major-ity of cases, this was not the act of uncaring or negligent parents.

Since I began studying forgotten children in cars in 2004, more than 300 addi-tional children have died or suffered brain damage as a result of being left in hot cars.

Three times as many children have died this year over last year after being left inside cars that overheat, the National Safety Council reported in early June. It’s a good time to remind our-selves about the dangers of children being left in parked cars -- and also to examine what causes and what can possibly prevent these trag-edies.

As a neuroscientist, I have studied this phenom-enon from neurobiological and cognitive perspectives. I have interviewed parents, studied police reports,

served as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases and contributed to media segments and documenta-ries on the topic.

Based on my research and my expertise, I have developed a hypothesis as to how this tragedy occurs.

This type of memory failure is the result of a com-petition between the brain’s “habit memory” system and its “prospective memory” system -- and the habit memory system prevails.

Prospective memory refers to the planning and execution of an action in the future, such as planning to take a child to daycare. Habit memory refers to tasks that involve repetitive actions that are performed automatically, as in routinely driving from one location to another, such as from home to work.

Prospective memory is processed by two brain structures, the hippo-campus, which stores all new information, and the prefrontal cortex, which is essential to making plans for the future.

The hippocampus pro-vides access to one’s awareness that a child is in the car. The prefrontal cortex enables a parent to plan a route, including the plan to bring their child to the daycare, rather than to drive straight to work.

The habit brain memory system is centered on the basal ganglia, which enables people to perform repetitive tasks automati-cally. Examples of habit memory abound in our daily lives, including tasks such as riding a bike or tying shoelaces.

It also applies in regard to children unknowingly left in cars. When we repeatedly drive along a fixed route, as between home (or other typical start locations) and

work, habit memory can supersede plans stored in our prospective memory.

A suppression of pro-spective memory caused by the dominance of the brain’s habit memory system is an almost daily occurrence. It happens, for example, when we forget to interrupt a drive home to stop at the store for groceries.

In this case, the habit memory system takes us directly home, suppressing our awareness (prospec-tive memory) that we had planned to stop at the store.

The magnitude of pro-spective memory failures, however, is not always so benign as forgetting to buy groceries.

There are documented examples of memory-related tragedies: pilot memory failures are a significant threat to flight safety, police officers forget their loaded guns in public restrooms and service dogs have died of hyperthermia after they were forgotten in cars.

Therefore, our flawed prospective memory puts those we love at risk. This is especially true when we assume that precautions are not necessary because such tragedies happen only to negligent parents. The evidence is clear that this assumption is wrong.

Change in routine, stress contribute to lapses

Although each case is different, the cases tend to share factors in common that contribute to children being left in cars: a change in the parent’s routine that leads him or her to follow an alternate, but well-traveled, route; a change in how the parent interacted with the child during the drive, such as when a child might have fallen asleep en route; and a lack of a cue, such as a sound or an object associ-

ated with the child -- for example, a diaper bag in plain view.

Typically, there was a choice point during the drive where the parent could go to daycare or to another a destination (usually work or home). At that choice point the parents report having lost awareness that the child was in the car.

Parents who have for-gotten their children in cars often report stressful or dis-tracting experiences before or during the drive. Many also report sleep depriva-tion.

The stress and sleep deprivation factors are important, as they are known to bias brain memory systems toward habit-based activity and to impair pro-spective memory process-ing. Ultimately, all or a subset of these factors have caused parents to follow a well-traveled route, con-trolled by their brain habit memory system, that did not include stopping at the daycare.

What happens in the brain when you no longer need information?

In theory, therefore, acti-vation of the habit memory system suppressed their prospective memory system. This caused them to lose awareness of the presence of their child in the car.

A universal observation I have made is that each par-ent’s brain appears to have created the false memory that he or she had brought the child to daycare.

This scientific anomaly explains why these par-ents went about their rou-tine activities, which even included telling others that they needed to leave work on time to retrieve their child from daycare.

Having this “false memory” caused them to

be oblivious to the fact that their child had remained in the car all day.

Explainer: What is forget-ting?

Many of these parents have been charged with manslaughter or even murder. I do not think that incarcerating parents for the deaths of their children in these cases is appropriate.

The hijacking of pro-spective memory by habit memory, and the parent’s loss of awareness of a child’s presence in the car, is a tragic way for us to learn how the brain can malfunc-tion when it is in “memory multi-tasking mode.” There is no indication in the cases I have studied that these parents demonstrated an act of willful recklessness or gross negligence for the child’s welfare.

Finally, how do we stop this tragedy? The first step is to accept that human memory is faulty and that loving and attentive parents can unintentionally leave their children in cars.

Many strategies have been suggested, such as using a phone app linked to an occupied car seat, but most people refuse to take any precautionary mea-sures because they believe this could never happen to them, a potentially fatal mistake.

Some progress has been made by General Motors, which has developed a child reminder system for its cars. Although I applaud GM’s efforts, they have chosen to apply this lifesaving tech-nology to only one of their models.

To ensure that no more children will die in hot cars, it is urgent that legisla-tion mandates that a child reminder system be stan-dard equipment in all cars.

Local Church Raises Money To Help

A Family In A Third World CountryThe Pastor of the First

United Methodist Church, Mark Watson, challenged the kids to raise $300 to buy two schools of fish for a family in a third world country.

The $300 provides the fish and training for the family on how to raise them. The fish will provide meat for the family plus a income as they can sell the meat at the local market.

By Tuesday evening the children have already hit their mark of $300, as part of the deal they got to pie faces as part of the bargain of hitting their goal.

They then wanted to raise $600 and they met that goal already. So he has challenged the adults to raise money for the mission.

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The cost and environ-mental impact of producing liquid biofuels and biochemi-cals as alternatives to petro-leum-based products could be significantly reduced, thanks to a new metabolic engineering technique.

Liquid biofuels are increasingly used around the world, either as a direct “drop-in” replacement for gasoline, or as an additive that helps reduce carbon emissions.

The fuels and chemicals are often produced using microbes to convert sugars from corn, sugar cane, or cellulosic plant mass into products such as ethanol and other chemicals, by fermentation.

However, this process can be expensive, and developers have struggled to cost-effectively ramp up production of advanced bio-fuels to large-scale manu-facturing levels.

One particular problem facing producers is the contamination of fermen-tation vessels with other, unwanted microbes. These invaders can outcompete the producer microbes for nutrients, reducing yield and productivity.

Ethanol is known to be toxic to most microorgan-isms other than the yeast used to produce it, Sac-charomyces cerevisiae, naturally preventing con-tamination of the fermenta-tion process.

However, this is not the case for the more advanced biofuels and biochemicals under development.

To kill off invading microbes, companies must instead use either steam sterilization, which requires fermentation vessels to be built from expensive stain-less steels, or costly antibi-otics.

Exposing large numbers of bacteria to these drugs encourages the appearance of tolerant bacterial strains, which can contribute to the growing global problem of antibiotic resistance.

Now, in a paper pub-lished today in the journal Science, researchers at MIT and the Cambridge startup Novogy describe a new technique that gives pro-ducer microbes the upper hand against unwanted invaders, eliminating the need for such expensive and potentially harmful ster-ilization methods.

The researchers engi-neered microbes, such as

Escherichia coli, with the ability to extract nitrogen and phosphorous — two vital nutrients needed for growth — from unconven-tional sources that could be added to the fermentation vessels, according to Greg-ory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Profes-sor of Chemical Engineer-ing and Biotechnology at MIT, and Joe Shaw, senior director of research and development at Novogy, who led the research.

What’s more, because the engineered strains only possess this advantage when they are fed these unconventional chemi-cals, the chances of them escaping and growing in an uncontrolled manner out-side of the plant in a natural environment are extremely low.

“We created microbes that can utilize some xeno-biotic compounds that contain nitrogen, such as melamine,” Stephanopou-los says.

Melamine is a xenobiotic, or artificial, chemical that contains 67 percent nitro-gen by weight.

Conventional biofermen-tation refineries typically use ammonium to supply microbes with a source of

nitrogen. But contaminating organ-

isms, such as Lactobacilli, can also extract nitrogen from ammonium, allowing them to grow and compete with the producer microor-ganisms.

In contrast, these organ-isms do not have the genetic pathways needed to utilize melamine as a nitro-gen source, says Stepha-nopoulos.

“They need that special pathway to be able to utilize melamine, and if they don’t have it they cannot incor-porate nitrogen, so they cannot grow,” he says.

The researchers engi-neered E. coli with a syn-thetic six-step pathway that allows it to express enzymes needed to convert melamine to ammonia and carbon dioxide, in a strategy they have dubbed ROBUST (Robust Operation By Utili-zation of Substrate Technol-ogy).

When they experimented with a mixed culture of the engineered E. coli strain and a naturally occurring strain, they found the engi-neered type rapidly outcom-peted the control, when fed on melamine.

They then investigated engineering the yeast Sac-

charomyces cerevisiae to express a gene that allowed it to convert the nitrile-con-taining chemical cyanamide into urea, from which it could obtain nitrogen.

The engineered strain was then able to grow with cyanamide as its only nitro-gen source.

Finally, the researchers engineered both S. cerevi-siae and the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to use potassium phosphite as a source of phosphorous.

Like the engineered E. coli strain, both the engi-neered yeasts were able to outcompete naturally occurring strains when fed on these chemicals.

“So by engineering the strains to make them capable of utilizing these unconventional sources of phosphorous and nitrogen, we give them an advantage that allows them to outcom-pete any other microbes that may invade the fer-menter without sterilization,” Stephanopoulos says.

The microbes were tested successfully on a variety of biomass feedstocks, includ-ing corn mash, cellulosic hydrolysate, and sugar cane, where they demon-strated no loss of productiv-ity when compared to natu-rally occurring strains.

The paper provides a

novel approach to allow companies to select for their productive microbes and select against contaminants, according to Jeff Lievense, a senior engineering fellow at the San Diego-based biotechnology company Genomatica who was not involved in the research.

“In theory you could oper-ate a fermentation plant with much less expensive equip-ment and lower associated operating costs,” Lievense says. “I would say you could cut the capital and capital-related costs [of fermenta-tion] in half, and for very large-volume chemicals, that kind of saving is very significant,” he says.

The ROBUST strategy is now ready for industrial evaluation, Shaw says.

The technique was devel-oped with Novogy research-ers, who have tested the engineered strains at labo-ratory scale and trials with 1,000-liter fermentation ves-sels, and with Felix Lam of the MIT Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, who led the cellulosic hydro-sylate testing.

Novogy now hopes to use the technology in its own advanced biofuel and biochemical production, and is also interested in licens-ing it for use by other manu-facturers, Shaw says.Lack Of Secure Investments Is Hindering Growth Globally

By Peter Dizikes

Unless you’ve been fol-lowing the subject closely, you may not have heard of one of the biggest barriers slowing the revival of global economic growth over the last decade. That would be the “safety trap,” a problem arising from a lack of low-risk investments around the world.

To see the problem, recall that after the financial-sector crisis in 2007 and 2008, a large portion of investments people had considered safe — mortgage-backed securi-ties come to mind — were suddenly understood to be risky.

And yet, the ensuing flight to safe assets, such as U.S. debt, has come with its own cost.

The increased demand for these safer investments keeps interest rates at low levels, to the point where central bankers cannot spur additional economic output by further lowering those rates. This is the “trap” part of the safety trap.

In recently published research, MIT economist Ricardo Caballero and two colleagues have described in new detail how the safety trap works.

The paper also highlights a subtle policy implication: The lack of safe assets is a consummately international problem, but the resulting safety trap itself can be rem-edied by policy initiatives from individual countries.

“The shortage of safe assets is a global phenom-enon,” Caballero notes, in explaining how interest rates become lowered glob-ally.

“Movements in safe [yield] rates in one important economy quickly spread into changes in the same direction in the rest of the world.”

But by the same token, Caballero believes, national remedies for the safety trap cross borders as well.

“Policies that increase the net supply of safe assets somewhere are output-enhancing every-where,” Caballero and two colleagues write in their new paper, which introduces a new model of an open global economy in safety-trap conditions.

That paper, “Safe Asset Scarcity and Aggregate Demand,” appears in the 2016 edition of the Ameri-can Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, an annual publication. The co-authors are Caballero, who is MIT’s Ford Inter-national Professor of Eco-nomics; Emmanuel Farhi,

a professor of economics at Harvard University; and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Trapped at the ZLBThe full extent to which

the global availability of safe assets has diminished since the financial crisis is difficult to determine and depends on how various asset classes are defined.

That said, Caballero notes, some observers think the supply of safe assets has declined by about 50 percent in the last decade.

U.S.-issued federal debt remains the safe asset par excellence for investors, since, as Caballero puts it, a lasting “default by the U.S. Treasury seems inconceiv-able, and it is a very large and liquid market.”

But consider the compli-cations of this scenario, in which investors flee from other kinds of assets to gov-ernment debt.

Because more investors want to purchase govern-ment debt, governments can issue that debt at lower interest rates. The global nature of the current short-age then creates this effect in all countries where debt is considered safe.

“Net safe asset produc-ers [such as the U.S.] export these assets to net safe-asset absorbers [foreign investors buying debt] until interest rates are equalized across countries,” write Caballero, Farhi, and Gourinchas.

And that creates a further problem. Central banks lower interest rates to stimulate growth (by making borrowing cheaper).

But when interest rates get low enough they hit what economists call the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB), which puts an end to further inter-est-rate reductions. Output weakens, demand shrinks, and growth sputters.

This has happened in many major countries in recent years.

And yet, as the research-ers note, there is a way out of this bind. Or multiple ways, since, as Caballero suggests, the best policy initiative “depends on the

specific time and circum-stances of the issue coun-try.” One solution is issuing more debt: This is what the U.S. did to produce growth in 2009, for example.

“Fiscal stimulus anywhere … also stimulates output everywhere,” the authors write. Caballero notes that in Germany, although gov-ernment leaders are gen-erally reluctant to take on more debt, “a fiscal expan-sion is very feasible.”

But countries do have other options, such as orchestrating swaps of safe government bonds for risky assets held by banks.

“Perhaps some of that could be done in Italy today if they find a way to secu-ritize the loans in banks’ balance sheets,” Caballero says.

Will the shortage get worse?

Other economists have found the research of Cabal-lero, Farhi, and Gourinchas to be a notable contribution to the field.

Gary Gorton of Yale Uni-versity, a leading finance economist, repeatedly cites the work of the trio in a recent working paper sum-marizing the subject, “The History and Economics of Safe Assets.” As Gorton notes, Caballero and his co-authors have also observed that “countries differ in their ability to produce safe finan-cial assets for storing value,” an imbalance that helps make the search for low-risk assets a global one.

Indeed, as Caballero, Farhi, and Gourinchas continued their work on the subject, they addressed the problem of safe-asset creation in a working paper issued in 2016, “The Safety Trap.”

Developing countries that do not have a lot of safe assets tend to be growing faster than mature econo-mies that do produce safe assets. Thus, as they write, “the shortage of safe assets is only likely to worsen over time.”

But why exactly is this? If a country’s economy is growing, why will its safe assets grow more slowly, in relative terms?

“Producing output from

physical capital is a lot easier than producing safe assets from it,” Cabal-lero explains. “The latter requires institutions that take decades to develop.”

So, for instance, coun-tries need stable systems of issuing debt and good track records to produce safe assets and attract investors. Or, as Caballero notes, “One can imagine that China will one day be a powerhouse of [safe] asset production, but for now output and hence income is growing faster than those assets.”

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MIT researchers have developed a new technique for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales, allowing them to peer at molecules within cells or take a wider view of the long-range con-nections between neurons.

This technique, known as magnified analysis of proteome (MAP), should help scientists in their ongo-ing efforts to chart the con-nectivity and functions of neurons in the human brain, says Kwanghun Chung, the Samuel A. Goldblith Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and Picower Institute for Learn-ing and Memory.

“We use a chemical process to make the whole brain size-adjustable, while preserving pretty much everything.

We preserve the pro-teome (the collection of proteins found in a biologi-cal sample), we preserve nanoscopic details, and we

also preserve brain-wide connectivity,” says Chung, the senior author of a paper describing the method in the July 25 issue of Nature Bio-technology.

The researchers also showed that the technique is applicable to other organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

The paper’s lead authors are postdoc Taeyun Ku, graduate student Justin Swaney, and visiting scholar Jeong-Yoon Park.

MIT researchers have developed a new technique for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales, allowing them to peer at molecules within cells or take a wider view of the long-range con-nections between neurons.

The new MAP technique builds on a tissue trans-formation method known as CLARITY, which Chung developed as a postdoc at Stanford University. CLAR-ITY preserves cells and mol-ecules in brain tissue and makes them transparent so the molecules inside the cell can be imaged in 3-D. In the new study, Chung sought a way to image the brain at multiple scales, within the

same tissue sample.“There is no effective

technology that allows you to obtain this multilevel detail, from brain region connectivity all the way down to subcellular details, plus molecular information,” he says.

To achieve that, the researchers developed a method to reversibly expand tissue samples in a way that preserves nearly all of the proteins within the cells. Those proteins can then be labeled with fluorescent molecules and imaged.

The technique relies on flooding the brain tissue with acrylamide polymers, which can form a dense gel.

In this case, the gel is 10 times denser than the one used for the CLARITY technique, which gives the sample much more stability.

This stability allows the researchers to denature and dissociate the proteins inside the cells without destroying the structural integrity of the tissue sample.

Before denaturing the proteins, the researchers attach them to the gel using formaldehyde, as Chung did in the CLARITY method.

Once the proteins are attached and denatured, the gel expands the tissue sample to four or five times its original size.

“It is reversible and you can do it many times,” Chung says. “You can then use off-the-shelf molecular markers like antibodies to label and visualize the distri-bution of all these preserved biomolecules.”

There are hundreds of thousands of commercially available antibodies that can be used to fluorescently tag specific proteins.

In this study, the researchers imaged neu-ronal structures such as axons and synapses by labeling proteins found in those structures, and they also labeled proteins that allow them to distinguish neurons from glial cells.

“We can use these anti-bodies to visualize any

target structures or mol-ecules,” Chung says.

“We can visualize differ-ent neuron types and their projections to see their con-nectivity. We can also visu-alize signaling molecules or functionally important proteins.”

High resolutionOnce the tissue is

expanded, the research-ers can use any of several common microscopes to obtain images with a resolu-tion as high as 60 nanome-ters — much better than the usual 200 to 250-nanometer limit of light microscopes, which are constrained by the wavelength of visible light.

The researchers also demonstrated that this approach works with rela-tively large tissue samples, up to 2 millimeters thick.

“This is, as far as I know, the first demonstration of super-resolution proteomic imaging of millimeter-scale samples,” Chung says.

“This is an exciting advance for brain mapping,

a technique that reveals the molecular and connectional architecture of the brain with unprecedented detail,” says Sebastian Seung, a professor of computer science at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, who was not involved in the research.

Currently, efforts to map the connections of the human brain rely on electron microscopy, but Chung and colleagues demonstrated that the higher-resolution MAP imaging technique can trace those connections more accurately.

Chung’s lab is now working on speeding up the imaging and the image processing, which is chal-lenging because there is so much data generated from imaging the expanded tissue samples.

“It’s already easier than other techniques because the process is really simple and you can use off-the-shelf molecular markers, but we are trying to make it even simpler,” Chung says.

Get Adventurous Before A Busy Fall RoutinesSummer is fleeting and

schedules are filling up quickly, so take advantage of the free time you have to partake in fun activities with those you love the most: your family.

It’s tempting to stick to the same routine of going to the local playground, taking in a movie or playing in the backyard. Why not try some new experiences this year and go on a family adven-ture?

These five activities are fun for the whole family and will help create lasting memories together. Incor-porate a couple (or all five!) ideas into your schedule to finish summer with a bang and begin fall on a fun note.

Take in a variety of wild-life at the zoo.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! You don’t have to be a child to marvel at the unique and awe-inspiring beauty of our world’s wildlife.

Frito-Lay 2 Go (FL2Go) is partnering with the Associa-tion of Zoos and Aquariums

(AZA) to encourage families to get out and enjoy unique animal experiences.

By visiting an AZA-accredited zoo or aquarium, you’ll be supporting their conservation efforts to save endangered animals from extinction - all while having an unforgettable time with your family.

To find a free kid’s pass, head to your local grocery store and look for FL2Go packages featuring a tiger, panda, monkey, elephant or penguin.

Then visit aza.fritolay2.com to upload the receipt and find your closest AZA facility.

Go kayaking and plan a picnic by the water.

Forget the open road, and hit the open water instead this summer! Kaya-king is a fun, active adven-ture. Soak in the sun and cool breeze, relish in the relaxed environment and enjoy a quiet moment or two with the kids.

When you’re done, extend your time by the

water and have a family picnic. Pack a lunch of sandwiches and your favor-ite chips to refuel.

Spend a night star gazing to look for constellations.

Before the sun goes down, take some time to learn about the various con-stellations, and have every-one in the family select their favorite one.

Then, in the evening, lay out a blanket in your backyard for a night of star gazing, and see who can spot their favorite constel-lation.

To amplify the adventure, turn the night into a back-yard camping trip, complete with a tent, campfire and songs.

Stop by the local animal shelter to take friendly pups on a walk.

The best part of volun-teering is anyone at any age can make a difference! Schedule a family trip to your local animal shelter to spend the afternoon walk-ing dogs, playing with cats and more! Time with a few

furry friends will brighten everyone’s day and you can feel good knowing you brightened their day, too.

Pick your own apples before baking a mouth-watering pie.

When the temperature starts to drop and the leaves begin to turn colors, embrace the changing of seasons by visiting your local apple orchard.

A delicious day trip, apple orchards often offer a wide range of family fun activities, such as hay rides and petting zoos, to make the apple-pick-ing experience that much more enjoyable. After you return home, continue the family time in the kitchen by baking a homemade apple pie!

Hectic fall schedules will be in full swing before you know it, so take advantage of the time you have now to go on a family adventure and create fun-filled mem-ories. Visit fritolay2go.com for more family-friendly activities.

How To Make Learning More Comprehensive For Your ChildAll students heading

back to school this year are part of the new generation known as Gen Z.

Born in the years of 1995-2012, this group is defined by the fact that they grew up with a widespread usage of technology from a very young age.

Laptops, software, apps and digital devices have granted them powerful tools to access nearly the entire bank of human knowledge.

However, it is important to understand this genera-tion is not solely digital, as studies have found hand-writing and analog tools remain important elements of communication when it comes to learning.

According to a recent study commissioned by the Post-it Brand, 85 percent of Gen Z students feel they learn best when they use both digital and non-digital tools for schoolwork.

The study underlines how this group lives in a “phigi-tal” world, a term coined by David Stillman, who is an author, speaker and expert on Gen Z.

That is, physical and digital. He finds “Gen Z stu-dents are adept and fluent with technology, yet they still value and see the ben-efits of non-digital practices such as writing things down with pen and paper and especially communicating face-to-face.”

His son, Jonah Still-man, a 17-year old high school student who writes and speaks about Gen Z, agrees, “I can’t imagine life without technology, as I use it throughout the day, even at school.

However, when I’m study-ing for that big test or trying to remember something from class, I find it helps to actually write things down.”

By understanding how Gen Z students think, com-municate and learn best, parents can set them up for success as they head back to school.

Harness the strengths of both digital and analog study tools.

According to the same study from the brand, 61 percent of respondents use both digital devices and handwritten notes when it comes to school work.

In fact, 81 percent stated that they would feel restricted if they could only

work on digital devices. Before the start of the

school year, talk to your stu-dent about their needs and find digital and non-digital tools that complement one another.

Perhaps they would prefer to open a textbook and flag key points to remember rather than download the e-book on their tablet.

On the other hand, they may prefer an e-book but learn best when they can jot down key facts on paper. Equip students with the supplies they need to study efficiently.

Find a note-taking solu-tion that works.

Handwritten notes helped 93 percent of students keep up with schoolwork in a typical week. Whether they prefer to type lecture notes or write them out longhand, students will better recall and retain important infor-mation when they extract key details from a dense outline of notes.

Therefore, as students review their notes, they should jot down facts and reminders on Post-it Super Sticky Notes.

Not only does the act of writing enhance retention, but the notes can stick and restick to organize ideas in a notebook or on a desk, as well as be used as flash cards.

“Using sticky notes is ideal as it taps into exactly how Gen Z has been trained to communicate,” says David Stillman. “From social media posts to texts, they typically write in sound bites.

Giving them a full sheet of paper would feel more

out of place, if not over-whelming.”

Remember how Gen Z interacts and communicates with others.

While Gen Z has spent years texting and tweeting, electronic communication is not the only medium. In fact, 84 percent of Gen Z said they prefer face-to-face communication, according a study called “Gen Z @ Work,” conducted by Gen Z Guru and the Institute for Corporate Productivity.

An in-person meeting works well for these stu-dents. Therefore, consider setting up a weekly after-school session to touch base with a teacher, or review les-sons with a tutor or peer.

Understand there is a time and place for digital devices, but balance is key.

Some students may be distracted in classrooms by the temptation to text friends and browse social media, while other students find digital devices are help-ful for tasks like research-ing information for a report or reading current events. Evaluate your student and whether smart phones, tab-lets and laptops are being used for education-related purposes.

Reach your goal. You’re 42 percent more

likely to get something done if you write it down, according to research from the Dominican University of California. Post-it Brand is encouraging people nation-wide, especially students, to write down their goals, dreams and aspirations as a way to #makeitstick and reach achievement in the new school year.

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How Technology Is Driving Design In Today’s Living RoomThe evolution of American

families and their changing lifestyles is a popular topic these days.

As family dynamics and lifestyles morph, they drive a change in home design.

Aside from the endur-ing presence of a TV and seating, today’s living room looks and functions very dif-ferently from living rooms of just a few decades ago.

“People are changing their vision of a ‘traditional home,’ “ notes Lydia Marks, co-principal of New York City-based design firm Marks & Frantz Design.

“That new vision requires different design ideas, and technology is really inform-ing design decisions in modern living rooms.”

“The forces behind these changing dynamics include generational shifts in atti-tudes, behaviors and life-styles as well as advance-ments in home technology, each informing the other,” adds Lisa Frantz, co-prin-cipal of Marks & Frantz Design.

“Millennials are spending more time at home, parents are seeking memorable experiences through home entertainment, and boom-ers are working later in life, often multitasking across devices within their home.

These shifts are helping drive the trend toward living room designs that are more adaptable.”

Usable decor at the heart of today’s living room

Today’s living rooms fea-ture a multitude of state-of-the-art technology.

Stunning televisions, slim speakers, ultra slim laptops and tablets are a must in

today’s living room designs, and because there are so many options and colors to choose from, families can seamlessly integrate technology to enhance the function and design - even in traditional homes.

“New colors like rose gold laptops and vintage orange portable speakers create new opportunities to add personalized touches, while striking new television design, like LG OLED TVs, make a stunning statement piece,” Marks says.

“And it’s not just about the advanced design form,” adds Frantz.

“These products are also delivering innovative perfor-mance. It’s about form and function.

LG OLED TVs not only look great, but they deliver stunning picture quality and advanced access to stream-ing content from popular apps, internet channels and streaming content provid-ers.”

Connected devices like Smart TVs are transform-ing how people consume content. Advances such as the webOS Smart TV Plat-form offer new features like “Channel Plus” for simple access to channels includ-ing BuzzFeed, Esquire and more.

And, as the first TV to support both available HDR formats - Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10 - OLED smart TV users can stream the newest HDR titles from leading content providers like Netflix, Amazon Video and VUDU.

Dynamic, multi-purpose living spaces

Formal living and dining

rooms that are never used are a thing of the past, Marks explains. TV still remains king; Mintel reports 99 percent of American households with children younger than 18 have at least one TV in their home. However, families are using spaces like living rooms to serve multiple functions, including entertainment and work, researching and making purchasing deci-sions, and communicating with distant loved ones.

According to a recent Mintel study, more than 80 percent of millennials shop for clothing apparel online and more than 67 percent have “binge watched” a TV series, ranking it as their top online TV viewing behavior.

Devices such as the feather-weight LG gram 15 laptop, clocking in at a mere 2.2 pounds with a large

15.6-inch screen, make it easier than ever to transi-tion from the office to the living room while also pro-viding enough screen space to multitask between work deadlines, watching your favorite sporting event and late-night online shopping.

A smarter home on the rise

Homes are becoming as connected as the people who live in them.

Today, home automation systems can control ther-mostat settings, lower and raise mechanized blinds, turn lights off or on, and monitor home security.

“With the popularity of wireless devices and smart homes, homebuyers and real estate developers alike now have a stronger interest in creating spaces that seamlessly integrate advanced technology in ways that will enhance the space, and simplify a buy-er’s life,” notes real estate trends specialist Ricardo Rodriguez of Coldwell Banker Residential Broker-age.

At the same time, people

remain concerned about the high initial set-up costs and perceived complexity of connected homes. Profes-sional installation of con-sumer electronics products has remained a rare occur-rence, even among higher-income households. In fact, in a recent Mintel study, only 10 percent of respondents had ever paid for custom installation of electronics.

Instead, consumers prefer DIY (do-it-yourself) and plug-and-play home monitoring solutions with home automation capabil-ity, like the Smart Security

from LG and ADT, which represents an easy-to-install approach that gives families greater control over how they protect and control their homes.

“Product design is so streamlined and visually appealing that consumer electronics are no longer the elephant in the room; they’re often the star.

Stylish interiors are enhanced by smart tech-nology, and that’s really having a transformational influence on modern living room design,” Marks says.

Ways To Help Ease Kids Back Into The ClassroomAfter a summer of fun,

getting back into the swing of the classroom can be dif-ficult for students of all ages and family backgrounds. But parents can help, say experts.

“It’s easy for parents to feel like there isn’t enough time to add more activi-ties to an already packed schedule.

But, there are many easy ways you can set the tone of making learning fun, ease the back-to-school transi-tion, and foster literacy skills at home,” says Jon Reigel-man, creative director of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL).

Reigelman suggests seek-ing out free resources, such as Camp Wonderopolis, a virtual camp and online learn-ing tool available to all fami-lies, libraries, schools, and community organizations.

It can be a great week-end or after-school activity for busy families that can be completed at any pace.

The site features “Maker” projects that can be created with items found around the house, and virtual, collect-ible Wonder Cards that can be earned by interacting with the site.

Getting kids into an out-of-classroom learning

habit now will set them up for future success.

(Looking ahead to winter break or next summer, the program is also a great tool for combatting the learning loss common during vacations!)

To register, visit camp.wonderopolis.org.

For younger kids, NCFL offers these great back-to-school tips for families.

• Choose a letter of the day. Look for the chosen letter in any printed mate-rials you see -- the news-paper, street signs, bill-boards, or advertisements.

Make up a silly sen-tence using only words beginning with the letter of the day. (For example: Cats can cuddle. Dogs don’t drive. Amy always acts awake.)

• Singing songs can be a literacy activity. Try this twist: Sing short songs like “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” several times, leav-ing off the last word each time until there are no words left.

This activity always pro-duces giggles from chil-dren and parents alike.

• Play “Guess Who.” Describe a cartoon char-acter, celebrity or historical figure. Allow a guess after

each detail is disclosed. Expand your child’s

vocabulary by using unusual words, and then explain their meanings. Take turns. Listen carefully to your child’s descrip-tions, especially his or her choice of vocabulary. Encourage your child to paint a picture of the character with his or her words. At the end of the game, compliment your child on any unusual or new words used.

• Talk to your child about his or her day. Pretend to be a television reporter.

Try questions like “what was the most surprising (curious, funny, event-ful) thing that happened today?”

You are giving your child opportunities to increase vocabulary, recall and reflect, and you are receiv-ing a more detailed version of the time you spent apart. Be prepared to answer the same questions.

You and your child will begin looking for events to report to each other.

The beginning of the school year can be hectic for everyone. Help kids get a leg up on their les-sons by boosting literacy skills at home.

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How To Raise A Kind Child In An Unkind WorldBy Kylie Blenkhorn

I want my son to stay as soft-hearted and empa-thetic, uncontaminated from the harshness and hatred towards others, which sadly seems to be the norm these days.

At only 3 years old, I can already see a lot of my hus-band’s attributes in my son. I can also see a fair amount of me in him too. It is as if all of my best qualities and all of my husband’s best qualities were poured into him and the not-so-favor-able qualities, such as our bull-headed stubbornness and awkward social skills, were funneled out.

What am I most blown away by though is his caring, empathetic nature. For such a little person, my son has a humongous heart, and a truly kind and gentle spirit. I stare at him often and my heart bursts with pride and astonishment that, at such a young age, he already appears so wise beyond his years.

Of course, like all children, his innocence and naivety is

also present, usually in the form of never-ending ques-tions and general amaze-ment over things we forget are impressive to a toddler, such as a garbage truck pulling up to the curb, or an airplane soaring through the clouds.

With all the recent trag-edies taking place in the world, particularly North America (and no, I’m not referring to the US elec-tion!), I have been thinking (read: worrying) more and more about protecting my son from as much as I can, for as long as I can.

I would love for him to stay as soft-hearted and empathetic for as long as possible, uncontaminated from the harshness and hatred towards others which sadly seems to be the norm these days. I know that is naive of me but a mother can dream, right?

It got me thinking, obsessing almost, over this query: How do I raise a kind child in such an unkind world? Every news story that appeared on my twitter and Facebook feed, more maddening and devastating than the last, filled me with sadness and disbelief.

Each morning, I awoke to find yet another instance of racism, prejudice or hatred being spewed by others upon the innocent, effecting the old and young alike.

With all the recent trag-edies taking place in the world I have been thinking (read: worrying) more about

protecting my son from as much as I can, for as long as I can.

It really began to affect me; I became sad and started feeling hopeless. My husband (bless him) could not understand. He kept saying I should cheer up and be relieved that we live in Canada and not in other places in the world, where the hatred and vio-lence and killing is more prevalent.

He was right in a sense, and I am grateful to live where I do, and have the safeties and protection that we have. However, I also know that if it can happen in the United States of America, our close neighbor to the South, it can happen here, in Canada, too. It’s just a matter of time.

As I struggled to try and understand and come to terms with all the violence and senseless killings, I allowed myself a pity party for just a short while. Mean-while, I continued to try and seek out the goodness in the world, frantically skim-ming social media and the internet for more pleasing headlines and feel-good sto-ries, in an attempt to regain my hope for humanity.

I made a surprising discovery. Sure, for every sad, incomprehensible

event, there were articles and commentary point-ing fingers and trying to pin-point blame, but you know what else there was? There was comments about love, strength and stories of hope. There were still good people in the world, help-ing the injured, crying for those lost, praying for those remaining and all looking for the light. I began to focus on these things instead of the devastation.

It was then that I realized, as much as I want to keep my child safe and shielded from this big, bad world, I cannot. There will come a time when he will be old enough to read, and more importantly, comprehend, the stories strewn across the newspaper, internet and television screen.

There will still be bul-lies and gossip and unkind words shouted by unkind people, no matter how hard I try to eliminate them. There will still be wars and conflict and not everyone will like each other.

Rather than obsess and worry about things I cannot control for my son, I will focus on the things that I can. I can’t control the world around us but I can control my role in it. I can pour my kindness into him, filling up his heart and head

until it overflows. I will support, encourage

and acknowledge his good-ness and kindness, praise his behavior, building him up so high that even if many try to tear him down, he will have the strength and con-fidence to stand right back up. I can model kindness and open-mindedness and acceptance of others, in the hope that my actions will be mimicked.

I can teach him that kind-ness truly is contagious, and that a grateful heart brings peace and happiness. I will show him that when others are the most unkind and vicious towards us that is when they need love the most; That love trumps hate and that although actions may speak louder, words can be just as powerful, when delivered honestly and authentically and in a kind way.

I can’t control the world around us but I can control my role in it. I can pour my kindness into him, filling up his heart and head until it overflows.

I will teach him that a bad day does not mean a bad life, and that for every difficult situation he may face, someone elsewhere is facing one much worse. I will work my hardest to instill in him gratitude for the life we were blessed with and the desire to help others who may not be as lucky.

Most importantly, I will show him that as dark and unkind as the world may seem, no one can extin-guish the love and light we have inside ourselves. I will teach him that being kind in such an unkind world is exactly what we all need and what we are meant to do.

Smoothing the Start of the School YearBy Betsy Brown Braun

It’s August... that means three, four, even five more weeks of summer vacation depending upon your child’s first day of school. Summer time and the livin’ is (still) easy!

Even though the reli-ability of the school year schedule actually makes life easier for most children and parents, getting back into the swing of things can

be a real challenge. There are so many adjustments to be made from the more carefree summer life to the hurry-up-we’re-going-to-be-late-school year.

A mindful transition from summer to the school year, done gradually and purposefully before school actually starts, will go a long way towards easing that transition.

Here are some tips for starting the school year off smoothly:

Mind your attitude. Not all children are excited about the start of school, but a positive attitude can be contagious. Instead of saying things like, “Your teacher won’t allow that kind of behavior in school,” try being positive by saying, “I know your teacher will be so excited to hear all about our trip to the mountains.”

Help an older child get fired up about what he might learn this school year: “This is the year that you get to study astronomy. I can’t wait for you to teach me which star is which.”

Introduce your child’s school night bedtime before school starts. School-age children need 9 to 11 hours of sleep, and while they get that during the summer, it usually starts later than is good for a school night. Seven days before the start of school, begin bedtime 15 minutes earlier. Each night, take it back a few more minutes, until you get to the desired bed time.

Your child should awaken naturally in the morning after she has the amount of sleep she needs. If she does not, you will need to adjust her bedtime earlier. She needs to become accustomed to getting up at the time that works for her and for you on school days.

Introduce your school night routine at the same time, a full week before the actual start of school. While you may have allowed TV or tech time before bed in the summer, it may not be a great way to get your child calm and ready for bed on a school night. Go back to your routine of bath/shower, books and tuck time. Get back to your low-key rituals that include an intimate bed time chat, downloading his day.

Adjust your morning routine. A week before school begins, introduce the school morning routine. A sure-fire way to start the

morning out right — without fights about clothing and the like — is to follow this schedule:

1. Snuggle time (Hope-fully even your older kids still crave it!)

2. Get dressed (Begin-ning at 4 years old, children choose their own clothing, hopefully laying their outfits out the night before.)

3. Eat breakfast, but only after your child is fully dressed. (If you are worried that he will get his school clothes dirty, throw on one of your old t-shirts over his clothes.)

4. Brush teeth.5. Bonus time! (a few

minutes on the computer, a quick game of Uno!)

Designate and make ready a homework place. For even the most reluctant child, there’s nothing quite like new school supplies. (Remember?!) After you have shopped with your child, decide with him where he will do his homework. Not only should he have his notebook supplies, but also he can feather his homework nest. The more involved he is, the more will-ing he will be to settle down and get to work.

When the school year begins...

Create routines. Whether it’s the way your child helps you make lunches, when and where he does his homework or when he does his chores, routines help the child to stay on track.

Have rules. Each family will have a different idea about TV during the week, computer and tech time, etc... Have a family meeting to discuss your ideas. Be sure to solicit your child’s opinion, and compromise

where you can. Children who are involved in the rule- making are more likely to stick to them.

Do as much as you can do the night before. Help your child lay out his clothes (if necessary); set the table for breakfast; make the lunches; put the grounds in the coffee maker; put trip slips, backpacks and any-thing that needs to go to school by the exit door.

Set your own alarm clock earlier. I know you’ll hate this one and I am sorry. But hurrying is the enemy of children. Set your alarm clock 10 minutes earlier than you think you need.

If you are not rushed, you will be more relaxed with your child. You will be just that much more avail-able to your child, and he won’t need to act out to get your attention. A chaotic, hurried atmosphere doesn’t make for a great school day send off.

Overestimate your fam-ily’s prep time. However long you think it will take everyone to get ready for school... double it!

If there is extra time, spend it doing something fun, even unexpected with your child. It will help to start her day off happily, and it is much better than rushing her.

Eat breakfast together. Spending a little quality time at the breakfast table together (not reading the paper, not checking email, not focused on the food that is or isn’t being eaten!), goes a long way toward fill-ing your child’s tank.

His moments with you will stay with him throughout his whole day, reminding him that he belongs to a family who loves him.

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If You’re Not Stocking Your Fridge This Way, It’s WrongBy Julie R. Thomson

There are many clever ways to stop wasting so much food in your kitchen. You can freeze leftover wine to make wine slushies. You can regrow certain vegeta-bles with nothing more than a cup of water and a win-dowsill. Or, you can check out Sherri Brooks Vinton’s new book “Eat It Up!” and

learn all the tricks.Vinton’s book offers

recipes that’ll help you cook up pretty much any food scrap into a delicious meal ― think dishes like Radish Tops Tabouleh ― but it also shares other helpful tips along the way, like how to properly stock your fridge to fight food waste before it starts. Bonus: this can help you save some money too,

because you won’t have let your lettuce wilt, again.

Out of sight, out of mind. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve meant to eat it, I’ve planned to eat it, I’ve wanted to eat it, but I just forgot it was there.

A tasty bit of cheese in the back of the drawer, three lovely steamed shrimp, half a cup of caramel sauce—how could I forsake you? To

avoid losing valuable bites to the chaos of the fridge, it helps to have a system. Try some of these tips:

All leftovers live on one shelf. Visit it first before making your next dinner plan or shopping list, to see what you can eat up.

It’s a date. Take a tip from the pros and label all left-overs or opened containers with a “made on” or “opened

on” date. Keeping a roll of painter’s tape and a marker in a nearby drawer makes it easy.

Squirrel it away. Bought the big size because it was half the price? It’s not sav-ings if you throw it out.

When possible, section off the portion you can use right away and put the rest in the freezer.

Works great for hard cheeses, family packs of meat and fish, cream cheese, butter, pasta sauce, breads, and cakes, and even keeps grains and flours fresher, longer.

Delicate on top. Sturdy produce, such as carrots, celery, apples, and broccoli, can live at the bottom of the crisper very happily.

Layer more delicate items, such as peppers, peaches, and summer squashes that might bruise or crush on top of those. Lettuces, herbs, and other leafy items should be on the very top. Eat down through the layers.

Don’t show your perish-ables the door. Sure, it’s

convenient to have the milk and eggs on the door for easy access, but it doesn’t guarantee the longest shelf life.

Through the constant opening and closing, the items on the door see the highest temperatures. If you have a high turnover of milk and eggs, you might not notice a difference, but if those items are going off before you can enjoy them, you might relocate them to a cooler compartment. Leave the door for the much less.

Keep dairy on the low down. Yogurt, sour cream, and milk do best on the lower shelves of the fridge, where the air is colder.

Keep meat on the way low down. Meat should be stored at the lowest point in the fridge, preferably in a meat drawer if your fridge has one.

Not only are the lowest shelves the coldest (cold air sinks), but you don’t want the juices from these items to drip on and contaminate any of your other refriger-ated foods.

Seven Real Relationship Milestones Today That Are Just As Meaningful As Marriage

By Brittany Wong

Getting married is a huge milestone in a relationship, but there’s a lot more to love and building a partnership than saying “I do.”

Below, relationship experts share seven over-looked accomplishments that are just as meaningful as marrying your partner.

1. When you recover from your first big disil-lusionment.

When you’re in the early stages of a relationship, you tend to look at your partner — and the budding relationship itself — through rose-colored glasses. Your bond becomes even stron-ger the moment you realize and accept that your partner may not live up to your ide-alized version of them, said Gal Szekely, founder of the Couples Center for therapy in Northern California.

“Initially, you have dreams and fantasies about the other person fulfilling all of your needs. Eventually, you realize that your part-ner is not perfect,” he said. “Learning to be in relation-ship with the real person and settling for reality rather than a fantasy is an impor-tant milestone in any rela-tionship.”

2. When you survive a crisis together.

You know you’re well matched when you lend each other stability during a rough patch in your lives, said Carin Goldstein, a mar-riage and family therapist based in Sherman Oaks, California. You may not

know how you’re going to get through your big move across the country or your parents’ gray divorce, but you’re glad your partner is at your side.

“It’s a sign of true partner-ship when a couple can sur-vive their world being turned upside down and thrown into chaos,” Goldstein said. “When you endure a crisis and adjust accord-ingly, that’s a milestone that makes you so much more connected.”

Working through a crisis together can make a rela-tionship stronger.

3. When you accept that the relationship isn’t always a 50/50 split.

We like to imagine that a relationship is always 50/50 and that each partner will be equally committed to carrying the relationship. But there will absolutely be moments when one of you is forced to give a little more than your fair share, in the wake of an unexpected ill-ness, for example, or if one of you loses your job.

Those moments will test your relationship and strengthen it, said Heather Gray, a therapist and execu-tive coach based in Wake-field, Massachusetts.

“When you have taken care of someone or have let that person take care of you for a while, that’s real intimacy,” she said. “That’s when you know you are a team in this thing called life.”

4. When you can laugh during sex.

Real talk: Sex isn’t

always sexy. Sometimes it’s just plain awkward. You’ve reached a high point in your relationship when you can laugh about your secret fantasies or anything unex-pected that happens in bed, Szekely said.

“When you and your partner are able to talk about sex, be open about your needs and fantasies and even laugh about what happens during sex, your intimate life can continue to evolve,” he said.

5. When you genuinely apologize for hurting each other.

When you’re in a relation-ship with someone, you’re bound to hurt each other emotionally ― sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. What mat-ters is how you recover: It’s a huge deal when your partner is able to take own-ership for their mistakes and offer a genuine apology, Gray said. (And no, “Sorry if you interpreted it that way” doesn’t count.)

“When you do get into the thick of it and argue, do you still feel loved? Respected? Seen? When you express your hurt, it’s so important that your partner validates that, takes responsibility without blame and works to earn your trust again,” she explained.

Learning how to issue a genuine apology — one that doesn’t shift blame or hurt your partner’s feelings even more — is definitely an accomplishment in a relationship.

6. When you create

something or accomplish a big task together.

Whether it’s purchasing your first home or house train-ing your new adopted pup, it’s a huge relationship win when you accomplish something as a team, said a Amy Kipp, a couples and family therapist in San Antonio.

“Working through the ups and downs of a big project helps you hone your com-munication skills,” she said “The sense of accomplish-ment and teamwork that results from a challenging shared experience strength-ens a couple’s bond.”

7. When you’ve seen each other at your worst and still love each other.

They honeymoon phase of a relationship is easy. It’s when you’ve seen your part-ner at their most stressed out and miserable and you still want to be with them that you know it’s real love, Gray said.

“You want to see who your person is when life hits them, when they’ve been knocked down,” she said. “When they fall, do they get back up? Do they take you down with them? Do they let you in? How they treat you when they’re at their worst is more important than how they treat you when trying to make a first impression.”

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Son Won’t Stand Up To Dad Who Puts His Girlfriend Down

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my boyfriend, “Jake,” for a year and a half. To put it mildly, his dad does not like me. He has never thought I was good enough for his son, and he doesn’t like the fact that I have a daughter from an earlier relationship. He thinks I’m interested in Jake only for his money, even though I work a full-time job and Jake and I share every-thing equally, except my daughter’s expenses. I pay for those myself.

When Jake and I attend family gatherings for holi-days or birthdays, his dad refuses to say hello to me. He does, however, make derogatory or negative remarks about me to Jake. It’s incredibly hurtful and demeaning.

I have tried bringing it up to Jake, and he agrees. But he will not address it with his dad because “Dad won’t change.” Can you help? -- DISLIKED IN MAS-SACHUSETTS

DEAR DISLIKED: I don’t know how serious Jake is about you, but if he was in love with you and planned on marrying you, he would INSIST that, at the very least, his father treat you with respect. Dad won’t change because his son isn’t assertive enough to make plain that if he doesn’t, he will be seeing less of the both of you. I can only hope that your child isn’t on the receiv-ing end of this kind of treatment, because if that’s happening -- for both of your sakes -- I’m advising you to end the romance with Jake.

**DEAR ABBY: I have

been married to the love of my life for 21 years. He has helped me raise my two children to adulthood. Both have now moved away and have their own lives.

My problem started a year and a half ago, when my grandson was born. I live 750 miles from my daughter and her little boy, and have a stand-ing invitation to see them as often as I want (every three to four months). It makes more sense for me

to travel to see them than the reverse.

I have always invited my husband to come with me, but he refuses. He has now given me an ultimatum: I can see them no more than twice a year or he will divorce me. What do you say, Abby? -- DUMBSTRUCK IN MAINE

DEAR DUMBSTRUCK: I say you have three choices -- either work this out with the help of a marriage counselor, see your daughter and grandson only twice a year or start talking to a lawyer. I have a strong hunch there’s more going on here than you have revealed in your letter -- and whether or not your husband agrees to counseling, you should go.

**DEAR ABBY: I am an

older woman who has been dating a very nice man for approximately seven months. I’m fash-ionable and take pride in my appearance. While my friend is clean and neat, he wears a baseball cap with all of his clothes -- even his dress suits. I bought him a nice cap once and he was offended, so I returned it to the store.

Since he is good in so many ways, should I ignore this one quirk? I’d love to see him without the baseball cap when we go out. -- FASHIONABLE IN PENNSYLVANIA

DEAR FASHIONABLE: Have you tried asking him WHY he does this? Your friend may wear baseball caps with every outfit because he’s bald or has thinning hair and is self-conscious about it. (Many men are.) If this gentleman has only one quirk that bothers you, you might be wise to consider that his attire is a reflection only on himself and not you.

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Public NoticesPublished in The Seminole Producer July 31, August 7 & 14, 2016

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SEMINOLE COUNTY STATE OF

OKLAHOMACHARLENE WYRICK, Plaintiff, vs. The Unknown Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees and Assigns CHARLES F. BRYAN, deceased; the Unknown Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees, and Assigns of BONNIE M. BRYAN, deceased; and THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA EX REL FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; Defendants.

Case No. CV-2016-42NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: THE UNKOWN HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, TRUSTEES AND ASSIGNS OF CHARLES F. BRYAN, DECEASED, AND THE UNKOWN HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, TRUSTEES AND ASSIGNS OF BONNIE M. BRYAN, DECEASED.GREETINGS:Take notice that you, and each of you, have been sued in the District Court of Seminole County, Oklahoma, by the above-named Plaintiff in the above numbered and styled cause of action. This suit is brought for the purpose of quieting title in and to certain mineral interests in the property described as follows:The West 60 feet of Lot 9, Block 5,

Clarland Terrace Addition to the City of Seminole, Seminole County, State of Oklahoma.Defendants must answer the Petition herein on or before the 16th day of September, 2016, or the allegations of said Petition will be taken as true, and a judgment will be quieting title in and to the real property as prayed for in the Plaintiffs Petition and excluding Defendants from any claim in the above described real property.WITNESS my hand and seal this 28th day of July, 2016.

KIM DAVIS, COURT CLERK SEMINOLE COUTNY, OKLAHOMA

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SEMINOLE COUNTY HAS BEEN AWARDED FEDERAL FUNDS

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AGENCY UNDER THE EMERGENCY

FOOD AND SHELTER NATIONAL BOARD PROGRAM.

Seminole Co. has been chosen to receive $10,041.00 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.The selection was made by a National Board that is chaired by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red Cross; The Jewish Federations of North America; Catholic Charities, USA; National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA; The Salvation Army and United Way Worldwide. The Local Board was charged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country.A Local Board made up of Social Service representatives will determine how the funds awarded to Seminole County are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service agencies in the area. The Local Board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds available under this phase of the program.Under the terms of the grant from the National Board, local agencies chosen to receive funds must: 1) be private voluntary non-profits or units of government, 2) have an accounting system, 3) practice nondiscrimination, 4) have demonstrated the capacity to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs, and 5) if they are a private voluntary organization, they must have a voluntary board. Qualifying agencies are urged to apply.Seminole County has distributed Emergency Food and Shelter funds previously with Salvation Army and Central Oklahoma Community Action Agency (COCAA) participating. These agencies were responsible for providing meals, utility and housing assistance.Public or private voluntary agencies interested in applying for Emergency Food and Shelter Program funds must contact Rayneta Manwarin at Central Oklahoma Community Action Agency, 1800 B Milt Phillips, Seminole, OK 74868, 405-382-1800. The deadline for applications is August 10, 2016 at 12:00 p.m.

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Seminole County DevotionalThe Seminole Producer, Sun., August 7, 2016 - Section B - Page 11

INDIAN NATIONS BAPTIST2nd & Evans, SeminoleBill Barnett, PastorSS 10am; WS 10:55am Wed. 7pm

ROCKHILL BAPTIST36325 Hwy 270Clive Cochran, PastorSS 10 am WS 11 am Every Sunday

SNAKE CREEK INDIAN BAPTIST8 Mi. N, 3 Mi. E, 1⁄2 SS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am; Wed. 7:30pmTransportation Available

TWIN OAK BAPTIST5 Mi. N on 99, 2 Mi. E 1⁄4 SWill Mascsas, PastorS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am & 7pmSun. Discipleship Training 6pm Wed. 7pm

TRINITY BAPTIST LethaS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 6pmWednesday 6pm

CORNERSTONE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH701 South Wewoka Street, Wewoka, OKFrank E. Washington Pastor/TeacherSS 9:45am WS 10:45am Wed. 6pm

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-LIMAP.O. Box 167, Seminole, OK 74868Joshua Sumers, PastorS.S. 9:45am M.S. 11am Wed. 6:30 pm

MIDDLE CREEK MISSIONARY BAPTISTPO Box 732 WewokaPastor: Willie GuientSS 10am WS 11amWed. Prayer & Bible Study 6:30pm

CATHOLIC

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION MISSION811 W. Wrangler Blvd.Rev. Joseph P. Schwarz - PastorRev. Nerio A. Espinoza - Associate PastorMasses: Sun. 10am (Spanish-12 noon)Wednesday 6:30pmThursday 8:30am

SAINT JOSEPH’S CHAPEL7th & Seminole - WewokaRev. Joseph P. Schwarz - PastorRev. Nerio A. Espinoza - Associate Pastor Sunday Mass 8am

CHRISTIAN CHURCHFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHDISCIPLES OF CHRIST512 Timmons St.Glen Pence, PastorS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:40am

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CHURCH OF CHRIST12040 Hwy 99Chris Stinnett, MinisterS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 7pm

CHURCH OF CHRIST Konawa1 Mi. NE on Old HWY 99Richard Winters, PreacherS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 6pmWednesday 7pm

CHURCH OF CHRISTWewoka4th & Mekusukey Lendal Bolin, EvangelistS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 6pmWednesday 7pm

CHURCH OF CHRIST LittleKirby Hinds, MinisterS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:30am & 5pmWednesday 7pm

CHURCH OF CHRIST619 W. WalnutW.S. 10:30am & 5pm Wed. 7:00pm

GOOD HOPE CHURCH OF CHRISTHWY 99 N & Good Hope Rd.Sun. W.S. 10:30am & 2pmWednesday 7:30pm

LOVE CHAPEL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST216 Hudson Ave., Wewoka, OKElder B. K. Hardwick, PastorS.S. 10am Morning Service 11am

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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS2500 John St. (Corner of HWY 9 & John St.)President Jim ChoateServices Sun. 10am Youth, Wed. 7pm

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THE UPPER ROOM CHURCHOF GOD IN CHRIST 202 W. GaleElder Elmer BenyS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 11:30am & 7:30pmWed. Bible Study 7:30pmEvangelistic Service Fri. 7:30pm

LIGHTHOUSE TABERNACLECHURCH OF GOD1717 Wrangler Blvd.Pastors Charles & Becky ShinaultSun. Services 10:30 am

HEARTLAND FAMILY CHURCH214 W. Strothers - Seminole - 382-0893Tom Newell, PastorS.S. 10:00 am Sunday10am Children’s Ministrywww.hfcseminole.com

THE CHURCH OF GODWest Main MaudDan Kasper, PastorS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 6pmWednesday 7pm

EAST OAK CHURCH OF GOD405 E. Oak, MaudHershal & Linda Davis, PastorsS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11amSunday Night Service 6pmWed. Bible Study 7pm

GOD’S HOUSERev. John Galbraith, PastorJeremiah Fletcher, Youth Pastor20 Harjo St. W.S. 10:30am Wed. 7pm

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ST. MARKS EPISCOPALHighland & WalnutRev. Elisabeth H. DavisS.S. 10am; W.S. 11:15am

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JONES TEMPLE CMEMETHODIST CHURCH104 S. Ocheese, WewokaRev. John W. Vick Sr.S.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11amPrayer Meeting Wed. 7pm

UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBowlegsRev. Susan Rice, PastorWorship Service Sunday 9:15am405-683-1057 405-257-3105Interpreter for the Deaf

FIRST UNITED METHODIST910 W. WranglerRev. Gary WilburnS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:45am

FIRST UNITED METHODISTWewokaRev. Susan Rice, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:50amNon-Denominational Bible Study Wed. 6:00pm

HITCHITEE UNITED METHODISTStrother Community5 Mi. E 1⁄2 Mi. N of LittleRev. Ricky Deer, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am Wed 7pm

KANEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST3 1⁄2 Mi. E of Bowlegs on HWY 59Hazel Battice, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am

ST MARKS UNITED METHODIST Maud, Rev. Scott Spencer, PastorWorship Service 11:00, S.S. 10:00Sun. Supper/Brunch Service 6:00Wed. Bible Study, 5:00

SEMINOLE CONGREGATIONALMETHODIST2 Mi. N on HWY 99 1 1⁄2 blks. W(on Good Hope Rd.)Dewayne JacksonS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am Wed. 7pm

UNITED METHODIST SasakwaRev. Milburn Burrow, PastorW.S. 9:30am

NAZARENE

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE1227 Wrangler Blvd.Charles & Danielle Taylor, PastorsS.S. 10:15am; W.S. 11:15amWednesday 7pm

PENTECOSTAL

BETHEL PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS3 Miles South of Wewoka, 3 1⁄4 WPastor Donna GustinSunday 10am and 6pm

TEMPLE OF PRAISE PCG1100 W. UniversityRev. Jeff NanceS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am & 6pmWednesday 6:30pm

GOOD SHEPERD CHURCH701 N. Boren Blvd. Seminole OK.S.S. 10am W.S. 11am Pastor: Raymond D. WoodsPhone 855-632-9279

FIRST UNITED PENTECOSTALSampson & Killingsworth St.Jerry Stacey, PastorS.S. 10am; W.S. 6pm Wed. 7:30pm

NEW LIFE CHURCH121 W. 12th St., WewokaTommy Azlin, Pastor (405)257-3537W.S. 10:30amSunday Night Bible Study 6:00pmWednesday Family Night 7pm

AMAZING GRACE P.H.C.Milt Phillips & Walnut St.Pat Coffey, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:45am & 6pm Wed. 7pm

GLEANERS HOLINESS CHURCH14th & Bluffview St., WewokaPastor Larry ChesserS.S. 9:45am Sun. Eve. 6:30pm Wed. 7pm

PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCHNorth of the Post Offi ce, Cromwell, OK.Pastor R. Nell Davis-York, S.S. 9:45 W.S. 10:45 Sunday Evening 5PM

PRESBYTERIAN

SEMINOLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 813 N. MainSunday Worship, 11am

ACHENA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SE of Maud S.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH7th & Mekusukey St., Wewoka, OK 74884S.S. 10am; W.S. 11amPastor: Rev. Greg Amen

CHEYARHA PRESBYTERIAN1 Mi. N, 2 1⁄2 E of SeminoleS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST111 N. 4th, Seminole405-303-2068 Jerry States, PastorS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 11amSmall Group Meeting Wed. 5-7pm

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COMMUNITY OF CHRIST CHURCH2704 HWY 3 NPastor, Carl EdgertonS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:45amSun RIC 6:00pm

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COMPASSIONATE HEART OUTREACH CHURCH306 Oak, - SeminoleSun Services 10:45am Evening Service 6:00pmWed Services 7pm

LORD’S LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH720 N. University, Seminole, OKDon & Bonnie Wheeler(405) 275-7985Sunday 10-11am & 6:30 pm Wed. 7pm

NU-GENERATION PRAISE MINISTRIES4.5 miles North of 9 & 99, 1⁄4 mile East, Seminole 382-7988Thursday Bible Study 7pmSunday Worship 10:30amPastor M. L. Quinalty

THE BRIDGE SEMINOLEPhone 405-382-0256Pastor Freddie JonesYouth Pastor Josh CottsSun 10am Sat 6pm Youth ServiceCall For Location And Information

CORNERSTONE TABERNACLE1blk. S. of Post Offi ce-Sasakwa405-941-3632Pastor Bill ChesserThurs. 6:30pm SS 10:00am Bible Study 1:00pm

EPICENTER OUTREACH122 W. Main, HoldenvillePhone 405-712-0987Pastors Bill & Tanya HarrisSun 10:30am & 6:30pmWed 7:00pm Fri Youth 6:30pm

GOD’S ASSEMBLY CHURCHBestwestern HotelSS 10am SW 11amPastor Gus Monreal405-398-4422

NEW LIFE TABERNACLE5Mi. N on HWY 99, 1 Mi. WEastman J. Factor, PastorS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am & 6pm Wed 7pm

BELIEVERS FELLOWSHIP103 North Highland, SeminoleVelma Estes, PastorW.S. 10am & 6pm Wed 6:30pm

LORDS COMMUNITY CHURCH501 N 5th St., SeminoleJim Moreland, PastorS.S. 10am; W.S. 11amWednesday 7pm

FAITH CHAPELFrom Maud, 2 Mi. S on 9A 1 1⁄2 EW.S. 10am & 6:30pm Wed. 7:30pm

GODS GLORY TEMPLE1326 Boren Blvd., SeminoleEd & Nadine McBeth, PastorsS.S. 10am; W.S. 10:45am & 7pm Thur 7:30pmPhone 405-382-8078

VICTORY TEMPLE SEMINOLE FOURSQUARE CHURCHHWY 377/99-5 Mi. N of SeminoleRev. Don Poe, PastorS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:30am & 6pmWednesday 7pm

FAITH OUTREACH4 Mi. E of Seminole on HWY 93 Mi. N, 1 1⁄4 Mi. WW.S. 10am Wed. 7pm

GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCHHWY 99, 15 Mi. S of Seminole3⁄4 Mi. E, at Vamoosa ExitRev. Drew A. Isaacs, PastorS.S. 9:00am; W.S. 10:00amYouth 6pm Wed. 7pm

THE PEOPLE’S CHURCH116 Main Street, MaudS.S. 10am, W.S. 11amFellowship 6pm with dinner to follow.

HEBREW CENTER400 W. Seminole St.S.S. 10am Fri. 7:30pm

IMMANUEL FELLOWSHIP3103 Boren Blvd.Rev. Tim Tate, PastorS.S. 10:00am W.S. 7pm

CONEY ISLAND TABERNACLE3 Mi. East of Bowlegs, 1 1⁄2 NorthCharles Troglin, PastorS.S. 10am; W.S. 10:30am & 7pmThur 7pm

THE CHURCH OF GOD OF THE FIRSTBORN, INC.424 W Wewoka St. in SeminoleLyle D. Bates, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am & 7:30 pm9:00 O’clock Prayer Daily

ABUNDANT LIFE TABERNACLEW. Main in EarlsboroW.S. 9:45am & 7pm Wed. 7pm

SEMINOLE HOLINESS CHURCH8th & Evans St.Pastor Bill BurnsW.S. 10:00am & Thur. 7pm

MARANATHA BIBLE CHURCH1 Mi. S of HWY 3 & 9A, 1⁄4 ERev. H. Jeff Nailey, PastorWorship & Praise 10:45am

NEW HOPE MISSION CHURCH6 3⁄4 Mi. N of Wewoka on HWY 56S.S. 9:30am; W.S. 11am Wed. 7pm

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH39307 W. McArther, Shawnee, OK405-273-62868:15 & 10:30am, Sunday SS 9:30Lewis Walters, Pastor

REFUGE WORSHIP CENTER105 Broadway of America, HoldenvillePastor: James & Shelly WilliamsSun. 9:30 & 10:30am; Wed. 7pm

COKV MUCVSENew Testament Church Wewoka 13⁄4 W. on 270B WewokaDavid & Judy Little - PastorsS.S. 10am W.S. 11am & 6pm Wed. 7pm

PEACE TABERNACLE229 N. Main-Seminole 405-382-2463Tom Akers, PastorW.S. 6pm Wed. Bible Study 7:30pm

HEALING BRANCHES309 N. Second, SeminoleDoris Nelson, PastorS.S. 10:15 W.S. 11am & 6:30 pmBible Study Thur. 7pm

VIC Cowboy Church35329 EW 1310Maud, OK.Sunday Morning 10amSunday Evening 7pm

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ASSEMBLY OF GOD BowlegsPastor Roy Robertson, Jr.S.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:45am & 6pmWednesday 7:00pm

THE PRAISE CENTER ASSEMBLY OF GOD LittleMark & Annetta Fox, PastorsSS 9:30am WS 10:30am & 6pm Wed 7pm

SEMINOLE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD420 E. EvansDoyle & Sharon Long, PastorsSunday 10am W.S. & Calvary Kids, 5:30pm Grow GroupsWed: at 207 N. Main, 6pm Highly Favored Youth7:30 Missionettes & Royal Rangers Wed: at 420 E. Evans, 7pm Bible Study

GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY OF GOD1609 Wrangler Blvd. (Highway 9 E)1 1⁄4 mile East of 9 & 99Rev. James Jackson, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:45am & 6pm Wed. 7pm

NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD31⁄4 Miles East of South Rock Creek Rd.S.S. 10:00am; W.S. 11am & 6pm Wed. 6:30pmPastor: David Pollard (405) 214-8282

JARVIS ASSEMBLY OF GODRev. Cindy & Ronnie Robertson41⁄2 Mi. NW on HWY 3S.S. 10am; W.S. 10:45am & 6pm Bible Study Wed. 7pm

OLD GLORY ASSEMBLY OF GODPlant 13S.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am & 4pm

FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD1301 S. Mekusukey Wewoka, OKRev. Perry Justus, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:45amS.Eve. 6pm Wed. 7:00pm

BAPTIST

1ST BAPTIST CHURCH NEW LIMA, OKLocated on Payne RoadSS 9:45am WS 11am Prayer Service Wed. 6:45pm

MISSION HOME MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH3 Miles N. of Wewoka on old 56Pastor Matt WyattSS 9:45am; MS 10:45; Sun Eve 6pm; Wed. 7pm

ST. MATTHEWS BAPTIST CHURCH21⁄2 Miles East on 270, 21⁄2 Miles North on County Rd. 359Rev. Walter Pitts SS 10am WS 11am

REDEMPTION ROAD BAPTIST- Maud35249 EW 132Pastor Roy ChapelleSS10am; WS11am & 6:30pmWednesday 6:30pm (405) 220-5655

GALILEE BAPTIST CHURCH1025 E. 9th, Shawnee, OK. 74804Pastor Tony RhoneSS 9:30am; WS 10:45am Wed. 6:30pm

GREATER PILGRIMREST4 miles North, 1⁄4 mile WestMichael L. Robinson, PastorSS 10am, WS 11am

WHITE STONE BAPTIST Cromwell, OKLewis Norvell, PastorSS 10am; WS 11am & 6pm; Wed. 7pm

COLD SPRINGS BAPTIST3 Mi. E of Konawa on HWY 39 1⁄4 Mi. SouthS.S. 9:30; W.S. 11am; Wed. 6:30pm

EBENEZER BAPTISTCorner of Highland and GaleRev. Larry PayneSS 9:30am; WS 11am Wed. 6:30pm

FIRST FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH OF WEWOKA 400 Patton Ave.Pastor Allen MooreSS 9:45pm WS10:50amSunday Night 6pm Wed. Night 7pm

FIRST BAPTIST BowlegsAndy Quinton, PastorSS 10am; WS 11am & 6pm Wed. 6:30pm

FIRST BAPTIST420 Reid St., SeminoleS.S. 9:30am; W.S. 10:45am & 5pm; Wednesday 6pm

FREE WILL BAPTIST WolfPastor, Allen WoodS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am & 6pm

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH301 S. Mekusukey 405-257-5438Chris Baker, Pastor S.S. 9:15am; WS 10:30am & 6pm Wed. 6:45pm

FIRST BAPTIST CromwellPastor, Manuel Kishketon S.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:50am & 6pm Wed. 7pm

SEMINOLE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH3701 HWY 3 NTroy Bordeaux, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 10:45am & 6pmWed. Prayer Meeting 7pm; Wed. 7pm

FIRST MISSIONARY BAPTISTCorner of Evans and TimmonsDaniel Smith, PastorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am & 1pm Wed. 7pm

FREEWILL BAPTIST EarlsboroHavner Reid Jr., PastorSS 9:45am; WS 11am & 6pm Wed. 7pm

AKASVMKV BAPTIST CHURCH400 S Wewoka Ave., Wewoka, OKPastor: Dan FactorS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am & 7pmWed. Discipleship Training 7pmPrayer Service 7:45pm

GALLILEE BAPTIST338 Russell St.J.L. Crawford, Sr., PastorS.S. 10:15am W.S. 11:15am Wed. 7pm

HARVEY ROAD BAPTISTRussell Vicars, Pastor1620 Harvey Rd.- 270 BypassS.S. 9:45am; W.S. 11am & 6pmWednesday 6:30pm

HIGHWAY BAPTIST8 Mi. N on HWY 99Carl Whitfi eld, PastorSS 9:45am; WS 10:55am & 7pm

IDEAL STREET BAPTIST1727 Ideal St.Rev. Russell BakerSS 9:45am WS 11am & 5pm Wed. 5pm

MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCHRev. Frank Moppin4 Mi. S. WewokaS.S. 10am; W.S. 11am & 6pmSun. Discipleship Training 5pmWednesday 6pm Church: 405-257-3682

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Eduardo Aquirre, posses-sion of marijuana, plea of guilty, $249, possession of paraphernalia, plea of not guilty, set for non jury trial docket August 10, 2016.

Kim Anderson, simple assault, plea of not guilty, set for non jury trial docket August 10, 2016.

Michelle Suzanne Atkins, unlawful burning, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $369.

Steven R. Bender, driving under suspension, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $369, expired insur-ance, same, $149, expired tag, same, $149.

Cynthia Chotinikorn, possession of marijuana, appears not, conviction based upon bond forfei-ture, $329, open container, same, $104.

Jack M. Cumins, tall weeds, appears not, war-rant issued, bond set at $369.

Samantha M. Deboer, petit larceny, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at

$369.Michelle Gafford, tall

weeds, appears not, war-rant issued, bond set at $264.

Debora Gould, tall weeds, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $369.

Nathaniel Ian Johnson, expired tag, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $369.

Jeannie Jones, dis-obeyed stop sign, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $269.

Angela Lashley, tall weeds, appears not, war-rant issued, bond set at, $269.

Colten McKee, posses-sion of drug paraphernalia, plea of guilty, $194.

Karina Isabel Puerto, careless driving, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $269, no driver’s license, same, $249.

Cecilia Russell, speed-ing, appears not, warrant issued, bond set at $204.

Winter Stepp, speed-ing, appears not, warrant

issued, bond set at $229.Kayla Hudson, allowing

dog to run at large, plea of not guilty, set for September 14, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.

Sussane Crisenberry, indecent exposure, plea of guilty, $224.

Echoille Johnson served with city warrants owing a balance of $492, released to complete 21 hours of community service.

Chrystal Lyle, allowing dog to run at large, plea of guilty, $149, confinement of certain dogs, plea of guilty, $149.

Trent Brooks, allowing dogs to run at large, plea of guilty, $149, allowing dogs to run at large, plea of guilty, $149.

Anthony G. Benton, speeding, plea of no con-test, 6 months deferred, #1 Pay $94 fine and costs, #2 Not violate any city, state or federal laws.

Tori Phillips, allowing dog to run at large, plea of no contest, $149.

Seminole Municipal Court85 Years AgoFrom the Files of The Seminole Producer

August 7, 1931Seminole is the home-

town to the 10 officers and 100 guardsmen now quartered in the city await-ing developments in the shutdown of the oilfields. Officers for the most part sat and chatted over old times and the coming encampment at Fort Sill which begins August 14 and of the possible action of the units during the occupation of the oilfield.

The city public market square took on a wartime appearance as Company L 179th infantry and Bat-tery A 160th Field Artillery used the square as a drill ground. Offices sat in the shade of the building and watched sergeants drill recruits in the sun.

Major Earl Taylor is in command of the Seminole garrison. He was not at all pleased with a “write up” in a Shawnee news-paper saying that soldiers were crowding the streets. “The men were not on the streets except for a show and they were marched up there in a most orderly formation and came back the same way.” Gawk-ing civilians followed the guardsmen everywhere they went. They seemed to want nothing – just look at them.

–oOo–The flag at the state cap-

itol was flying at half mast in tribute to the Rev. Uriah D. T. Murray, father of the state’s governor. Capitol offices will be closed for the funeral at Bethany where the elder Murray will be buried. Governor Murray who arrived at the bedside of his father a few minutes after his father had died was hard at work at his office today.

–oOo–In Norway, the subma-

rine Nautilus has aban-doned the attempt to reach the North Pole under the ice this year.

–oOo–Pupils of Miss Fran-

ces Wozencraft, talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wozencraft, will give a recital at the Wozencraft home, 411 North First. The recital is being given by 12 primary pupils who have been studying piano under

Miss Wozencraft’s instruc-tion all summer.

–oOo–Mrs. C.A. Thomas,

411 Highland, had as her guest, Miss Eva Barbee of Wewoka.

–oOo–One of the most enjoy-

able of children’s parties given this summer was the birthday dinner and party given by Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Burton at their beautiful home on First in honor of the ninth birthday of their charming little daughter, Louise. The party was also given honoring the 16th birthday of Miss Hazel Higdon whose birthdate is the same as Louise’s. Mrs. Burton was assisted by Mrs. Florence Brown, Mrs. Grace Disch and Mrs. Annie Higdon.

Youthful guests present included Bernice Fryer, W.R. Disch, Jessie Maloy, Dorothy Dehart, Elba Cole, Shelba Cole, Othal Russell, Jewel Brown, Mary Jane O’Farrell, June Brahard, Bobbie Brahard, Zona Lee Russell, Laura Mae Brown, Louise Parker, Betty Lou Brown, Imogene Brown, Jessie Cawthorn, Earline Humphries.

August 8, 1931Near the depot on Sem-

inole’s Main Street is the little cluttered-up shop of Sam Lee, a little Chinaman who may be anywhere from 16 to 60 but it hap-pens he is nearer 60 and has several grandchildren. His shop is stocked with everything from snuff to rare old vases made in his native China. Sam says he doesn’t sell very much these days but he sleeps and eats in his place and living doesn’t cost so very much.

It has been 13 years now since Sam, or maybe we should call him Lee, has been to China. He has a 16-year-old son who is learning English over there now who was only two years when he saw him last.

He came to California in 1887 and all these years spent over here have not been wasted and the Chinaman by nature is no fool. Behind that stoi-cal face is a very nimble

brain. Every subject we broached, he headed us off with information which we thought was contained only in the books which is exactly where Sam Lee learned it.

We mentioned China and his family, “Yeh, my wife, she very fine ladee, small foot – that sign of fine ladee, stay at home, can’t walk very far in China,” Sam Lee says. “My wife father very rich man and very fine old man too – make all girls bind up feet so can’t walk very far and not very fast – make very fine ladee.”

–oOo–Great was the spirit of

gayety and hilarity at the picnic given by employees of Chevrolet Motor Com-pany of Shawnee and Sem-inole at Lake Wewoka. The picnic supper was given mostly in honor of Miss Lula Dawson of Weather-ford who is here visiting her brother, W.W. Dawson, for few days. Seminole employees were Mrs. Carrie Ramsey, Miss Pearl Cutsiner, Miss Cosetta Ferguson, Miss Bobby Granbury and the honoree Miss Lula Dawson.

–oOo–Representatives of the

14 divisions of the Semi-nole Nation of Indians will meet at the Seminole Municipal Building August 12 to sign the final state-ment of the nation to the Indian Bureau at Washing-ton asking the reopening of Mekusukey Indian Acad-emy. When the various bands have pledged their support of the petition, it will be endorsed by officers of Seminole Chamber of Commerce and sent with the names of all members of the tribe to Washington.

–oOo–Mrs. L.R. Sullivan, 800

East Evans, is expected to return home soon from a two-week’s visit in South-ard, Oklahoma. She will be accompanied by her chil-dren, Bobby and Dorothy Jean Sullivan.

–oOo–Dr. John G. Mitchell,

new superintendent of Seminole city schools, began preparations for the opening of school, Sep-tember 7th.

Enjoy Mosquito-Free Outdoor GatheringsOutdoor gatherings are

a summertime staple for many families and groups of friends for whom summer simply would not be com-plete without backyard barbecues or lazy evenings on the patio. While outdoor party hosts often invite as many friends and family members as possible to such gatherings, they also can count on some uninvited and particularly bothersome guests: mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes love to bite humans. The side effects of such bites can range from the relatively harmless (annoying, itchy bites) to the severe (disease). Hosts who want to keep mosquitoes at bay during their next patio party can try the following tips.

• Address areas with standing water. Standing water is attractive to mosqui-toes because it gives them a place to breed. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

studies have shown that female mosquitoes prefer to lay eggs in water that collects or is stored in man-made containers. The CDC recommends that items that can collect water, including

pet bowls, vases, birdbaths and pool covers, be emptied and scrubbed at least once per week. When items like pet bowls are not in use, turn them over to empty them and then keep them covered until they must be used again. Tightly seal any water storage containers to prevent mosquitoes from getting inside and laying eggs.

• Simulate wind. Few people may think to bring window or desk fans out-side when entertaining, but simulating wind can deter mosquitoes from invading patios and decks. Mosqui-toes fly slowly and often cannot make it through the simulated wind created by manmade fans. In addition,

fans may blow away the very things, such as body odor, that draw mosquitoes to humans in the first place.

• Light citronella candles and/or torches. Citronella candles and tiki torches that burn citronella are effec-tive mosquito deterrent as well. Such candles and torches give off smoke that confuses mosquitoes and masks the human scents that attract the bugs. Place torches around your patio but find somewhere other than the dining table to place citronella candles if you decide to use them, as some people find the candles aggravating or bothersome.

• Plant mosquito-repel-lent plants. The right plants

might help you keep mos-quitoes at bay as well. For example, catmint contains an oil called nepeta faas-senii that can be used as an all-natural mosquito repellent. Closely related to catmint, catnip also can be an effective mosquito deterrent. But both species can be invasive, so be sure to contact a local lawn and garden professional before planting any plants to repel mosquitoes.

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District CourtWEWOKA DIVISION

CIVIL SUITSFirst United Bank & Trust

Co. v. Steven Lee Rice, indebtedness.

First United Bank & Trust Co. v. Kevin Hobia, foreclo-sure.

First United Bank & Trust Co. v. Derrick lee Neal, replevin.

Carolyn Sue Bruce v. Malcolm Ernest Freeman, damages.

Larry Dean Bruce v. Malcolm Ernest Freeman, damages.

BancFirst, an O.K. State Bank v. Larry Stiles, Arnon R. O’Brien, PetroStar Oil Co. LLC, L&A Spendthrift Trust 2007, L&A Spendthrift Trust 2012 and Bosco Joe’s BBQ & More, indebtedness.

AmeriPrise Auto & Home Insurance v. Ashley J. Hill, indebtedness.

Wisconsin Domestic Incorp. V. Ashley J. Hill, indebtedness.

Integris Seminole Medi-cal Center v. Christopher D. Jennings, suit on account.

Seminole HMA LLC v. Christopher D. Jennings, suit on account.

Integris Seminole Medi-cal Center v. Denise L. Car-penter, suit on account.

Seminole HMA LLC v. Denise L. Carpenter, suit on account.

Integris Seminole Medi-cal Center v. Nathan John Bellymule, suit on account.

Seminole HMA LLC v. Nathan John Bellymule, suit on account.

Charlene Wyrick v. Charles F. Bryan, deceased, unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, Bonnie M. Bryan, deceased, United States of America ex rel, Farmers Home Adminis-tration, United State Depart-ment of Agriculture, quiet title.DIVORCE PETITIONS

Shaunna Nicole Johnson v. Caalond Tyler Johnson

Anthony Bradshaw v.

Kathleen Rena BradshawJennifer J. Bond v.

Thomas S. BondMARRIAGE LICENSES

Allen Woodrow Raymond Tozer and April Michelle Carpenter

Kirby Rice Kilgore and LaDonna Marie Moore

Matthew Dillon Kelough and Kaitlyn Brooke MoorePROTECTIVE ORDERS

Linda Christine Elliott v. Lisa D. Gonzalez

Dalena Brooks v. Ken-neth Allen Brooks

Autumn Sue Dunagan v. Cody Lee GileSMALL CLAIMS

Glen Alexander v. Dana Harjo, indebtedness, $3,500 plus $163 plus $50.FELONIES

Michelle Annette Esker, domestic abuse – assault and battery.

Sarah Marie Carpenter, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, domestic assault and bat-tery in the presence of a minor.

Deangelo Reshawn Henderson, possession of a controlled dangerous sub-stance.MISDEMEANORS

Richard Harold Kilgore Jr., driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Jimmy Don Azlin, operate vehicle while driver’s license suspended (1st offense).

Kenneth Clayton Farris, operate vehicle while driv-er’s license suspended (2nd offense).

Lora Lea McQuown, driv-ing a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol (misd.), driving with license c a n c e l l e d / s u s p e n d e d /revoked.

Sarah Gail Shaw, operate vehicle while driver’s license suspended 2nd offense.

Jimmy Dale Headrick, operate vehicle while driv-er’s license suspended (1st offense).

Christopher Joseph Fowler, operate vehicle while driver’s license sus-

pended (1st offense).Michael Buryl Truitt, oper-

ate vehicle while driver’s license under revocation (1st offense).

Dylan Keith Streater, petit larceny.

Mark Tillman Dayman, protective order violation.TRAFFIC CITATIONS

Nicholas Drew Jackson, no seatbelt.

Michael Gene Lowe, no seatbelt.

Kennedi Shannon McGin-nis, no seatbelt.

Max Dean Smith, no seatbelt.

Richard Harold Kilgore Jr., failure to secure load.

Richard Harold Kilgore Jr., transporting an open container of beer.

Jimmy Don Azlin, no seatbelt.

Kenneth Clayton Farris, operating a motor vehicle at speed not reasonable and proper.

Lora Lea McQuown, fail-ure to signal lane change.

William Ray Baumann, speeding 86 in 70.

Krista Marie Garcia, speeding 91 in 70.

Jafaeth Sarani Gomez, improper passing of station-ary emergency vehicle.

Rosie M. Harjo, speeding 71 in 55.

Scott Dewayne King, speeding 81 in 65.

Ryley Elizabeth Lawson, speeding 85 in 70.

Jasper Ty magilke, no seatbelt.

Jasper Ty Magilke, speeding 75 in 65.

William Edward Moore IV, no seatbelt.

James Baxter Overall, speeding 75 in 65.

Melinda M. Parker, speeding 84 in 70.

Araceli Ramirez, oper-ate vehicle without a valid driver’s license.

Araceli Ramirez, speed-ing 84 in 70.

Stella Ann Tillman, speeding 91 in 70.

Elizabeth Ann Watters, speeding 80 in 70.

Jimmy Dale Headrick, fol-

lowing too closely.Sarah Gail Shaw, speed-

ing 81 in 70.Wesley Nolan Robinson,

expire tag.Robert Leroy James, fail-

ure to yield at stop sign.Christopher Joseph

Fowler, speeding 89 in 70.Frank Edward Andrews,

no seatbelt.Roy Dee Carey, speeding

80 in 70.Kenneth Destin Colbert,

speeding 91 in 70.Sarah Lynn Ducasse,

speeding 80 in 70.Dionne Lanell Dunkins,

speeding 80 in 70.Alyssa Annmarie Everett,

speeding 75 in 65.Chase Orion Godfrey,

speeding 86 in 70.Carolyn Sue Grayson, no

seatbelt.Madison Jean Jackson,

speeding 89 in 70.Johnny Thomas Lane, no

seatbelt.Preston Wyatt Lewis,

speeding 86 in 70.Todd William Maples,

speeding 85 in 65.Riley Ray Maylen, no

seatbelt.Ruby Laverne McCray,

inattentive driving resulting in an accident.

Mya Nichols, no seatbelt.Mya Nichols, operate

vehicle without a valid driv-er’s license.

Brett Everett Pollard, speeding 80 in 70.

Edwardo Deluna San-doval, inattentive driving resulting in an accident.

Courtland Quay Teal, speeding 88 in 65.

Glenda Marie Clark, no seatbelt.

Summer Michelle Harris, speeding 86 in 70.

Robyn Michelle Jones, no seatbelt.

Alan Jackson Kelough, speeding 80 in 65.

Kenneth Dewayne Nutt, no seatbelt.

Justin Michael Phillips, speeding 85 in 70.

Justin Michael Phillips, failure to comply with com-pulsory insurance law.

Ethan Thomas Stinnett, inattentive driving resulting in an accident.

Johanna Smith, failure to stop at stop sign.

Jacob Ray Rodgers, speeding 97 in 70.

Roger S. Peralta, speed-ing 92 in 70.

Jayson W. Martin, speed-ing 90 in 70.

Shaiann Jim, speeding 91 in 70.

Ronald Jaems Gray, speeding 85 in 70.

Ivan Diaz, speeding 89 in 70.

Mathew Terrance Dewan, speeding 92 in 65.

Mathew Terrance Dewan, failure to use child restraint for child at least 4 but under 8.

Christopher Jamar Davis, speeding 94 in 70.

Michael David Buckner, speeding 91 in 70.

James Allen Brown, speeding 86 in 65.

Ryan Bridges, speeding 80 in 70.

Warnell Charles Bijou, speeding 80 in 70.

Brittany Lea Beats, speeding 97 in 70.

Nathan Eric Barnes, speeding 87 in 70.

James M. Antonucci, speeding 75 in 65.

James M. Antonucci, no seatbelt.

Edward Eugene Allen, operate vehicle without a valid driver’s license.

William Vernon Cady, speeding 90 in 70.

Cody Joe Canterberry, no seatbelt – passenger.

Melissa Renee Fetters, speeding 88 in 70.

Jodi Danielle Oldham, speeding 80 in 70.

Robert John Shasberger, speeding 84 in 70.

Larissa Rachelle Smith, speeding 90 in 70.JOURNAL ENTRIES

Security State Bank v. Ronald Lee Smith, journal entry of judgment.

Seminole HMA LLC v. Robert Charles Greenleaf Byrd, journal entry of default judgment.

Seminole HMA LLC v. Mitchell Charles, journal entry of default judgment.

In re the marriage of : Sandra K. Smith and Paul Charles Smith, journal entry.

The State of Oklahoma v. Justin Lee Wands, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Charles Wayne Kiplinger Jr, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Jeremiah Kevin Harris, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Jessica Ann Hager, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Dustin John Combs, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Ellis Elywise Talamasey II, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Lawrence Dean Whiteshirt, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Willa D. Crow-Griffin, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Keaton Ross Hobia, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Whitney Jo Howell, judgment and sentence returned served.

The State of Oklahoma v. Wesley Allen Williams, judgment and sentence returned served.

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Mortgages

American Energy Wood to Wilmington Trust, finan-cial statement covering lands in 12-7-6.

Kimberly Anderson to BancFirst, mortgage cover-ing lands in 6-8-7.

Robert Stan Anderson to BancFirst, mortgage cover-ing lands in 6-8-7.

Christopher Anson Sr. to Navy Federal Credit Union, mortgage covering lands in 20-6-6.

Teresa Anson to Navy Federal Credit Union, mortgage covering lands in 20-6-6.

BAC home Loans Ser-vice to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

BancFirst to Chia H. Lee, release of mortgage cover-ing lands in 8-9-7.

BancFirst to Bogdan Borowski and Jolanta Borowski, release of mort-gage covering lands in 5-10-7.

BancFirst to Christopher L. Anson Sr. and Teresa Anson, release of mortgage covering lands in 15-7-6.

Bank of America NA to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

Banker Trust Company to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

Gloria Barrett to Quicken Loans Inc., mortgage cover-ing lands in Green Mead-ows.

Lance Bloomer to Vision Bank NA, mortgage cover-ing lands in 34-11-6.

Susan Bloomer to Vision Bank NA, mortgage cover-ing lands in 34-11-6.

Elisabeth K. Cone to First United, mortgage covering lands in Oliver.

Matthew B. Cone to First United, mortgage covering lands in Oliver.

CountryWide Home Loans to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage cover-ing lands in Southgate.

Department of Veterans to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

Deutsche Bank National to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

Mechell Downey to First United Bank, mortgage cov-ering lands in 22-8-6.

Michael D. Downey to First United Bank, mortgage covering lands in 22-8-6.

First United Bank to Marchand Fleming and

Flora Fleming, release of mortgage covering lands in original township Wewoka.

Great Nations Bank to Milt Phillips Retail LLC, release of mortgage cover-ing lands in 21-9-6.

Billy Grimes to First National Bank & Trust, modify mortgage covering lands in 6-8-8.

Jennifer L. Harjo to Banc-First, mortgage covering lands in 3-8-6.

Joey D. Harjo to Banc-First, mortgage covering lands in 3-8-6.

Michelle N. Jesse to Vision Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 2-6-5.

Todd L. Jesse to Vision Bank NA, mortgage cover-ing lands in 2-6-5.

Diann J. Marr to Banc-First, mortgage covering lands in 35-10-5.

Gary Duane Marr to BancFirst, mortgage cover-ing lands in 35-10-5.

Amelia Masso to First United Bank and Trust, mortgage covering lands in 19-7-8.

MERS to Embrace Home Loans Inc. and Robert L. McCarty, assignment of mortgage covering lands in Thorns Second.

James Mize to Quicken Loans Inc., mortgage cover-ing lands in 18-8-6.

Debbie Lee Phillips to First National Bank & Trust, mortgage covering lands in original township Wewoka.

Dennis Ray Phillips to First National Bank & Trust, mortgage covering lands in original township Wewoka.

Security State Bank to TLP Custom Homes LLC, release of mortgage cov-ering lands in Lakewood Estates.

Security State Bank to Richard W. Turner and Angela J. Turner, release of mortgage covering lands in Vernon Heights.

Security State Bank to Todd L. Jesse and Michelle N. Jesse, release of mort-gage covering lands in 2-6-5.

Security State Bank to Janetta L. Wood, release of mortgage covering lands in North Van Acres.

Security State Bank to Herbert L. Cooper, release of mortgage covering lands in 22-8-6.

Security State Bank to Gary Bible and Shelly Bible, release of mortgage cover-ing lands in 31-7-8.

Security State Bank to Raymond D. Ward and Betty Ward, release of mortgage covering lands in Southwick.

Security State Bank to Gary D. Tolson, release of mortgage covering lands in

35-10-5.Michael G. Sowder to

First National Bank & Trust, mortgage covering lands in original township Cromwell.

Julie A. Stinnett to Banc-First, mortgage covering lands in 2-6-5.

Troy Stinnett to Banc-First, mortgage covering lands in 2-6-5.

Gloria L. H. Ter Wee to Vision Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 32-10-7.

Terry W. Ter Wee to Vision Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 32-10-7.

Gary Tolson to Venis Exploration Inc., amended mortgage covering lands in 35-10-5.

Tri County Rentals to Citi-zens Bank of Ada, mortgage covering lands in original township Wewoka.

Tri County Rentals LLC to Citizens Bank of Ada, mortgage covering lands in Rosalee.

Vandee Mortgage Trust to Ralph Howard Coker and Kim K. Coker, release of mortgage covering lands in Southgate.

Elena Vega to Bank of the West, mortgage cover-ing lands in Clarland Ter-race.

Jorge Vega to Bank of the West, mortgage covering lands in Clarland Terrace.

White Star Petroleum to MUFG Union Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 12-7-6.

White Star Petroleum to MUFG Union Bank NA, financial statement covering lands in 12-7-6.

Leslie D. Williams to Vision Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 27-10-6.

Peggy S. Williams to Vision Bank NA, mortgage covering lands in 27-10-6.

Heather A. Yates to CU Members Mortgage, mort-gage covering lands in 26-6-6.

Robert Scott Yates to CU Members Mortgage, mortgage covering lands in 26-6-6.

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competition and challenge anyone who gets in your way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Visiting an old hangout will help resolve an emotional matter that has been holding you back. An investment or vocational change will help your finan-cial situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Discuss your plans

with anyone affected by your decisions. Anger will solve nothing, but incorpo-rating others’ suggestions will help you avoid opposi-tion. Offer incentives and rewards.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Try something differ-ent, new and exciting. It will give you the pick-me-up you need, and will provide some ideas that will encourage personal or professional changes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Consider every angle before you start something new. A partnership with someone who has as much to bring to the table as you looks rewarding. Romance is encouraged.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- As soon as you deviate from what you promised to do, you will be put in an awkward position. Avoid a run-in with someone with the power to make your life miserable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Don’t let your emotions take the reins. A balanced attitude will help you get the most out of what you do. Make suggestions, but don’t let anyone lean on you emotionally or finan-cially.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Step up your game and take care of business before someone else takes charge. You will be ridiculed if you don’t do your share, but rewarded for your effort.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Your instinct will be to act fast, but if you take a moment to think matters through and plan carefully, you will spare yourself a lot of grief.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You should participate in any group conversation or prospect that looks inter-esting. A take-charge atti-

tude will help position you for advancement. Love and romance are in the stars.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- A practical approach to whatever you do will help you stick to a budget and alleviate stress. Listen to an offer and ask questions. Avoid getting involved in an unstable situation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Don’t give in to demands or ultimatums. Deal with matters swiftly in order to have time to enjoy a few hours with someone who makes you feel good about yourself.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016Get your motor revved

up, and don’t stop until you reach your destination. If you can imagine what you want to do, you can make it happen. Well-thought-out plans will not let you down. Make ethical choices and do your best to make a dif-ference.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Offer incentives to anyone who has something you want in order to get your way. Sincerity coupled with action is all it will take. A unique approach will cap-ture plenty of interest.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Put emotional mat-ters to rest by being up front about the way you feel and how you want to move for-

ward personally and profes-sionally. Romance is in the stars.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Try something new and exciting, as it will give you the energy and motivation you need to bring about per-sonal change. If what you are doing isn’t working for you, do something about it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Do what makes you happy. Adjust your schedule or routine in order to have time to enjoy life, experi-ment and gain experience. Romance is highlighted and will improve your life.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Put your network-ing skills to use. Getting involved with groups and taking part in events that will help you keep abreast of industry news will lead to a prosperous new beginning. Romance is highlighted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Organize your time and don’t make promises that will be impossible to keep. Overdoing it in any manner will cause prob-lems at home and work. A minimalist attitude will serve you well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Stretch your imagi-nation, think outside the box and utilize your time optimally in order to get the most bang for the least effort. Your savvy, orga-nized and precise actions will pay off.

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MAUD ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL

Monday – Tuesday – NO SCHOOL.

Wednesday - Breakfast: Whole grain cereal, whole wheat toast, pineapple tid-bits, juice and milk. Lunch: Corndog, french fries, pork and beans, mixed fruit and milk.

Thursday – Breakfast: Pancake on stick, whole

grain cereal, whole wheat toast, pears, juice and milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, green beans, pineapple tidbits, whole wheat hot roll and milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Whole grain cereal, whole wheat toast, peaches, juice and milk. Lunch: Ham & cheese sandwich, carrot sticks, broccoli florets,

apple, ranch dressing and milk.

Menus subject to change without notice.

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NUTRITION CENTERSMonday – Baked fish,

macaroni & cheese, toma-toes, cornbread, peaches and cottage cheese, marga-rine, buttermilk or 2% milk,

coffee &/or tea.Tuesday – Chili hot dogs,

baked beans, pasta salad, pie, margarine, buttermilk or 2% milk, coffee &/or tea.

Wednesday –- Sau-erkraut and sausage, blackeyed peas, zucchini, squash, cornbread, baker’s choice, margarine, coffee &/or tea, buttermilk, or 2% milk.

Thursday – Oven baked

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Friday – Hamburger pizza, garden salad, veg-etables, breadstick, straw-berry shortcake, margarine, coffee &/or tea, buttermilk, or 2% milk.

Menus subject to change without notice.

WEWOKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Thursday – Breakfast: Choice of cereal, toast, jelly, applesauce, juice and milk. Lunch: Hamburgers, let-tuce, tomato, pickle, sweet potato fries, watermelon and milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Sausage gravy, biscuits,

peaches, juice and milk. Lunch: Mazzio’s pizza, romaine salad, corn, rosy applesauce, wacky cake and milk.

Menu Subject to change without notice.

BUTNER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Thursday – Breakfast: French toast sticks (3 each), cereal, fruit, milk and juice. Lunch: Ham & cheese sub, carrot sticks, sunchips, salad bar, fruit and milk.

Friday – Breakfast: Cin-namon roll, cereal, fruit, milk and juice. Lunch: Pizza, caesar salad, fruit, salad bar and milk.

MENU SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

Land Transactions

Sandra J. Akerman to Sandra J. Akerman, war-ranty deed covering lands in 29-8-8.

Bryce T. Baker to Tri County Rentals LLC, war-ranty deed covering lands in Rosalee.

Jarrod R. Baker to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Natalie Baker to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mech-ell Downey, warranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Sharon K. Baker to Tri County Rentals LLC, war-ranty deed covering lands in Rosalee.

BBJ Rentals LLC to Oklahoma State of, quit claim deed covering lands in 27-9-6.

Michael S. Bearden to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Mina Susan Bearden to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Blessed Rock Free Will to Reggie Parker, quit claim deed covering lands in South Heights.

Lamona Carpenter to Linda J. Carpenter Rhodes and Sandra Kay Smith, transfer on death deed cov-ering lands in East Forty.

David Carter to Edge-wood Investments LLC, quit claim deed covering lands in 27-9-6.

Jamie Carter to Edge-wood Investments LLC, quit claim deed covering lands in 27-9-6.

Curtis L. Chandler to Ruben Massok and Amelia Masso, joint tenancy war-ranty deed covering lands in 19-7-8.

Brian P. Coates to Terry W. Ter Wee and Gloria L. H. Ter Wee, joint tenancy war-ranty deed covering lands in 32-10-7.

Brian P. Coates to Brian P. Coates and Rhonda Coates, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in 32-10-7.

Rhonda Coates to Terry W. Ter Wee and Gloria L. H. Ter Wee, joint tenancy war-ranty deed covering lands in 32-10-7.

Rhonda Coates to Brian P. Coates and Rhonda Coates, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in32-10-7.

Conner 1991 Revocable to jelly Conner, quit claim deed covering lands in 25-6-6.

Conner 1991 Revocable to Connie Conner Weems, Ronald Francis Conner, Timmie Denise Lee Myers and Pama Rhea, mineral deed covering lands in 10-5-7.

Conner Family Trust to Jelly Conner, quit claim deed covering lands in 25-6-6.

Conner Family Trust to Connie Conner Weems, Ronald Francis Conner, Timmie Denise Lee Myers and Pama Rhea, mineral deed covering lands in 10-5-7.

Carl J. Edgell Trust to Roban Bieber and Katheryn Bieber, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in Vernon Heights.

Bob Evans to Robert Stanley Anderson and Kimberly Anderson, joint tenancy warranty deed cov-

ering lands in 6-8-7.Angela K. Green Fixico

to Angela K. Fixico and Curtis Fixico, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in original township Cromwell.

Sharon E. Flanagan to Robert Stanley Anderson and Kimberly Anderson, joint tenancy warranty deed covering lands in 6-8-7.

Fractal Oil and Gas LLC to Sullins Ranch LLC, war-ranty deed covering lands in 24-7-5.

Patrick T. Gaines to Robert Scott Yates and Heather A. Yates, joint ten-ancy warranty deed cover-ing lands in 26-6-6.

Shannon M. Gaines to Robert Scott Yates and heather A. Yates, joint ten-ancy warranty deed cover-ing lands in 26-6-6.

James A. Gale to Presley petroleum Company, min-eral deed covering lands in 32-9-7.

Garrett & Company LLC to Oklahoma State of, quit claim deed covering lands in 27-9-6.

Robert L. Garrison to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Saundra B. Garrison to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Golden West Holdings LLC to Cascade Royalty Holdings, mineral deed cov-ering lands in 16-10-8.

Daniel J. Grier to Roban Bieber and Katheryn Bieber, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in Vernon Heights.

Patricia A. Grier to Roban Bieber and Katheryn Bieber, joint tenancy quit claim deed covering lands in Vernon Heights.

Coy H. Hammett to Bev-erly A. Altizer, transfer on death deed covering lands in 27-7-5.

Coy H. Hammett to David L. Hammett, transfer on death deed covering lands in 27-7-5.

Jackie Lee harris to Bert Jessy harris, quit claim deed covering lands in 13-5-7.

Carol M. Istre to James B. Mize, warranty deed cov-ering lands in 18-8-6.

James H. Istre to James B. Mize, warranty deed cov-ering lands in 18-8-6.

John Turner Keehn to King Estate Petroleum, quit claim deed covering lands in 7-5-8.

Shelbi Baker M. Kelih to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Todd W. Kelih to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mech-ell Downey, warranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Lacquement Properties to Dennis Ray Phillips and Debbie Lee Phillips, joint tenancy warranty deed cov-ering lands in original town-ship Wewoka.

Bernice Lay to Kymberli D. Blankenship, revocable transfer on death deed cov-ering lands in original town-ship Wewoka.

Bernice Lay to Tri County Rentals LLC, warranty deed covering lands in original township Wewoka.

Lewis Kenny Family LLC to Cecily Lewis Kenny, quit claim mineral deed covering lands in 3-7-6.

Debra Lowery to Wash-

burn Revocable Living, contract for deed covering lands in 27-8-5.

Jeff Lowery to Washburn Revocable Living, contract for deed covering lands in 27-8-5.

MidFirst Bank to Travis L. Rider and Kelsey Rider, special warranty deed cov-ering lands in Grounds.

Brian Keith Miller to Troy Don Stinnett and Julie Ann Stinnett, joint tenancy war-ranty deed covering lands in 2-6-5.

Janesa Kaye Miller to Troy Don Stinnett and Julie Ann Stinnett, joint tenancy warranty deed covering lands in 2-6-5.

Skyler Neal to Corey Johnson, quit claim deed covering lands in 31-8-7.

Tyler Neal to Corey John-son, quit claim deed cover-ing lands in 31-8-7.

Harold D. Newell to Harold Newell Living Trust, mineral deed covering lands in 2-10-5.

Jeanne Zoll Nicholson to Jeanne Z. Nicholson Trust, mineral deed covering lands in 1-10-6.

Teresa Norman to Mallisa McGilberry, quit claim deed covering lands in 28-9-6.

Kristin Oliver to CLS Leasing, quit claim deed covering lands in 17-9-6.

Parker Revocable Trust to Robert C. Christy, royalty deed covering lands in 36-9-6.

Sally Baker P. Pittman to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Dana P. Racine to Michael D. Cowney and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

Sharon Baker Racine to Michael D. Downey and Inge Mechell Downey, war-ranty deed covering lands in 22-8-6.

William Renton to Brenda Lozano, quit claim deed covering lands in Oliver.

Don Robertson to Joey D. Harjo and Jennifer L. Harjo, joint tenancy warranty deed covering lands in 3-8-6.

Byron E. Rockhold to Robert Stanley Anderson and Kimberly Anderson, joint tenancy warranty deed covering lands in 6-8-7.

Peter Rose to Rosmarie Adams, Eveline Barbar Waddell, Peter Gustaf Rose and children, transfer on death deed covering lands in 35-10-6.

Estate Genevieve Seger to Dorothy F. Cassel, min-eral deed covering lands in 29-9-7 and 32-11-6.

Seminole County to Regi-nald E. Parker and Carol Parker, county deed cover-ing lands in Campbell.

Dewayne Sexton to Sul-lins Ranch LLC, quit claim deed covering lands in 16-7-6.

Ronald Hays Stafford to Erin Lorene Bumgarner and Jordon Lewis Bumgarner, warranty deed covering lands in 4-9-8.

Yvonne Kay B. Stafford to Erin Lorene Bumgarner and Jordon Lewis Bumgar-ner, revocable transfer on death deed covering lands in 4-9-8.

Yvonne Kay B. Stafford to Erin Lorene Bumgarner and Jordon Lewis Bumgar-ner, warranty deed covering lands in 4-9-8.

Stailey Revocable Living to Leslie D. Williams and

Peggy S. Williams, joint ten-ancy warranty deed cover-ing lands in 27-10-6.

Bill States to Swearingen 2003 Trust, quit claim deed covering lands in 7-9-6.

Oleta M. States to Swear-ingen 2003 Trust, quit claim deed covering lands in 7-9-6.

TriPower Resources LLC to Sullins Ranch LLC, war-ranty deed covering lands in 24-7-5.

Tucker Revocable Trust to Dennis Ray Phillips and Debbie Lee Phillips, joint tenancy warranty deed cov-ering lands in original town-ship Wewoka.

Washburn Revocable to Jeff Lowery and Debra Lowery, warranty deed cov-ering lands in 27-8-5.

Guss A. Williams to Sandra J. Akerman, war-ranty deed covering lands in 29-8-8.

Ferril Williamson to Dennis Ray Phillips and Debbie Lee Phillips, joint tenancy warranty deed cov-ering lands in original town-ship Wewoka.

Phyllis Williamson to Dennis Ray Phillips and Debbie Lee Phillips, joint tenancy warranty deed cov-ering lands in original town-ship Wewoka.

Lewis Olen Wilson to Jeff Lowery and Debra Lowery, warranty deed covering lands in 28-8-5.

Yerby Revocable Trust to Sullins Ranch LLC, war-ranty deed covering lands in 17-7-6.

Joshua Yerby to Sullins Ranch LLC, warranty deed covering lands in 17-7-6.

Monty Yerby to Sullins Ranch LLC, warranty deed covering lands in 17-7-6.

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TV and Movie Listings

SUNDAYMORNING

* Scheduling Subject to Change8:00 4 Meet the Press 5 News Sunday Morning 9 Sunday Morning 13 Outdoor Oklahoma 25 Jesse Duplantis 34 In Touch 43 On the Spot8:30 13 This Old House 43 Tomorrow’s World9:00 4 Olympics 2016 5 This Week With George Stephanopoulos 13 Antiques Roadshow 25 News 34 Jack Van Impe 9:30 9 Face the Nation 34 Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People 43 OkieWild10:00 5 Matter of Fact 9 Face the Nation 13 Movie: The Gorilla Who Talks 25 Full Measure 43 Final Descent Outdoors10:30 5 St. Luke’s 9 Joel Osteen11:00 4 Olympics 2016 13 NOVA11:30 43 Flash Point

SUNDAYAFTERNOON

12:00 9 MyDestination.TV 13 Washington Week

25 Movie: Iron Eagle 34 Auto Racing 43 Movie: Scooby-Doo12:30 13 Charlie Rose1:00 9 Turner Special 13 Current Conversation1:30 13 Mclaughlin Group 34 Mike & Molly2:00 4 Olympics 2016 9 PGA Tour 13 Oklahoma News Report 34 Movie: Wedding Daze 43 Movie: Ramona and Beezus2:30 13 Religion & Ethics3:00 13 Oklahoma Horizon 25 NHRA Drag Racing3:30 4 Olympics 2016 13 Oklahoma Gardening 34 Mike & Molly4:00 13 Smart Travels 34 Celebrity Name Game 43 Are We There Yet?4:30 5 Matter of Fact 13 Rick Steve’s Europe 25 Celebrity Name Game 43 Are We There Yet?5:00 4 5 9 News 13 Lawrence Welk 34 Family Feud 43 The Middle5:30 4 5 9 News 34 Family Feud

43 The Middle

SUNDAYEVENING

6:00 4 Olympics 2016 5 America’s Funniest Home Videos 9 60 Minutes 13 Father Brown 25 The Simpsons 34 Big Bang Theory 43 Murdoch Mysteries6:30 25 Bob’s Burgers 34 Big Bang Theory7:00 5 Celebrity Family Feud 9 Big Brother 13 Dancing on the Edge 25 The Simpsons 34 Movie: Stepmom 43 Rookie Blue7:30 25 Brooklyn Nine-Nine8:00 5 $100,000 Pyramid 9 Madam Secretary 13 Inspector Lewis 25 Family Guy 43 Blue Bloods8:30 25 The Last Man On Earth9:00 5 Match Game 9 BrainDead 25 News 43 Person of Interest Series Opener 9:30 13 The Tunnel 25 Sports Wrap Up 34 Mike & Molly10:00 5 9 News 25 Fox 25 Sports Wrap Up 34 Two & a Half

Men 43 Elementary10:30 5 News 9 Sports Blitz 13 Hinterland 25 Full Measure 34 Two & a Half Men11:00 4 News 5 Rizzoli & Isles 9 ET 34 2 Broke Girls 43 Rookie Blue11:30 4 Olympics 2016 13 Doc Martin 25 Crazy Talk 34 2 Broke Girls12:00 5 Scandal 9 Castle 25 Anger Management 34 Raising Hope 43 Haven12:30 4 Dateline 13 Inspector Lewis 25 Anger Management 34 Raising Hope

MONDAYEVENING

* Scheduling Subject to Change6:00 4 5 9 News 13 PBS NewsHour 25 Big Bang Theory 34 Family Feud 43 Inside Edition6:30 4 Olympic Zone

5 Wheel of Fortune 9 Entertainment Tonight 25 The Big Bang Theory 34 Family Feud 43 The Middle 7:00 4 Olympics 2016 5 Bachelor in Paradise 9 Mom 13 Antiques Roadshow 25 So You Think You Can Dance 34 Supergirl 43 Friends7:30 9 2 Broke Girls 43 Rules of Engagement8:00 9 Mom 13 American Experience 34 Supergirl 43 How I Met Your Mother8:30 9 The Odd Couple 43 Everybody Loves Raymond9:00 5 Mistresses 9 Scorpion 25 News 34 The Simpsons 43 Freedom 43 News9:30 25 News 34 American Dad 43 Jeopardy10:00 5 9 News

13 Movie: TBA 25 News 34 Family Guy 43 M*A*S*H10:30 4 News 5 Jimmy Kimmel 9 Late Show with Stephen Colbert 25 2 Broke Girls 34 American Dad 43 M*A*S*H11:00 4 News 13 Last of the Summer Wine 25 Modern Family 34 Cleveland Show 43 Tosh.011:30 4 Olympics 2016 5 Nightline 9 Late Late Show 13 Last of the Summer Wine 25 Modern Family 34 Family Guy 43 Just for Laughs Gags12:00 5 The Real 9 The Late Late Show 13 Antiques Roadshow 25 Crazy Talk 34 News 43 Friends12:30 9 The Insider 25 Dish Nation 34 News 43 Are We There Yet?

Datebook

Sunday, August 7, 2016Today is the 220th day

of 2016 and the 49th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1789, the U.S. Department of War was established.

In 1942, the U.S. 1st Marines Division landed on the island of Guadalca-nal, marking the first major American offensive of World War II.

In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in response to reported Vietnamese attacks.

In 1998, U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were bombed.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Ralph Bunche (1904-1971), activist/Nobel laureate; Tobin Bell (1942- ), actor; Garrison Keillor (1942- ), writer/entertainer; Wayne Knight (1955- ), actor; David Duchovny (1960- ), actor; Harold Perrineau (1963- ), actor; Jimmy Wales (1966- ), Wikipedia co-founder; Michael Shannon (1974- ), actor; Charlize Theron (1975- ), actress; Sidney Crosby (1987- ), hockey player; Mike Trout (1991- ), baseball player.

TODAY’S FACT: In 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of five crashed into a reef at Raroia, near Tahiti, aboard their balsa wood raft, Kon-Tiki. The 4,300-mile, 101-day voyage from Peru was undertaken to prove that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian Islands.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2007, Barry Bonds of the

San Francisco Giants hit his 756th career home run, surpassing the record set by Hank Aaron.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.” -- Garrison Keillor, “The Book of Guys”

TODAY’S NUMBER: 1,368 -- height (in feet) of the wire suspended between the World Trade Center towers and walked by French high-wire artist Philippe Petit on this day in 1974. Petit walked back and forth, sat and even danced on the 200-foot-long wire for 45 minutes before sur-rendering to police.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (Aug. 2) and first quarter moon (Aug. 10).

Monday, August 8, 2016Today is the 221st day

of 2016 and the 50th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations charter, making the United States the first nation to join the organization.

In 1963, 15 thieves stole close to 2.6 million pounds from a mail train in Britain’s “Great Train Robbery.”

In 1974, President Rich-ard Nixon announced on national television that he would resign the presidency at noon the following day.

In 1990, Iraq announced its “unification” with Kuwait, days after its military forces invaded and took over the

country.TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), poet; Marjorie Rawlings (1896-1953), novelist/Pulitzer Prize winner; Benny Carter (1907-2003), jazz musi-cian; Esther Williams (1921-2013), actress; Mel Tillis (1932- ), singer-songwriter; Dustin Hoff-man (1937- ), actor; Keith Carradine (1949- ), actor; Deborah Norville (1958- ), journalist; The Edge (1961- ), guitarist; Roger Federer (1981- ), tennis player; Meagan Good (1981- ), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph on this day in 1876.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1988, the Chicago Cubs hosted the first-ever night game under the newly installed lights at Wrigley Field. Rain caused the game to be called in the fourth inning with the Cubs leading the Mets 3-1.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in a man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.” -- Marjorie Rawlings, “Cross Creek”

TODAY’S NUMBER: 2,121 -- height (in feet) of the Warsaw radio mast in Poland, which held the title of the world’s tallest structure until it collapsed on this day in 1991.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (Aug. 2) and first quarter moon (Aug. 10).

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1O. ANTIQUE SHOPS *********

Antiques, Collectibles “old” stuff, art, rustic and disstressed furniture Mon-Tues-Wed 10-4 700 W. Broadway, Seminole 584-9002

Visit Willow Creek Antiques for special gifts, Many new items, North end of main street in Wewoka. 405-380-3750

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20. GARAGE SALES **********

Assorted pallets of New Merchandise. Great for garage sales, flea markets, stores, $350 and $325 a pallet, Winter’s Wholesale Pallets. 616 W. Broadway, Seminole 405-443-0364 or 382-7250

Garage Sale Kits available at The Seminole Producer. Kit contents: 3 large flourescent signs, price stickers, check list, sales record and sale tips sheet. Only $5. The Seminole Producer, 121 N. Main.

Is it time for a Garage Sale? Advertise your sale in The Seminole Producer Classifieds. Call 382-1100 or come by 121 N. Main, Seminole.

Clothes, Housewares, Plenty of knick knacks. Harvey to 270, 1 mile East to sportsman lake RD, follow signs. 8-? Saturday only

Attract a crowd to your Garage Sale! you provide the goods; our garage sale ad will provide the crowd! Sell the things you no longer need and make some easy money. Call The Seminole Producer Classified Dept today 382-1100 or stop by our office at 121 N. Main to place your ad today!

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Reeves Antiques, 207 E. Main Shawnee is open during roadwork, Lots of Shawnee pottery and sales in booth 11

Winter’s Store. Open every Friday and Saturday 9-4. assorted merchandise. 3 1/2 miles North of Semi-nole college on Hwy 3 382-7250

Tired of sitting all morn-ing and no one show up for your sale. Advertise in advance! The Seminole Producer can help. Stop by the office, 121 N. Main, Monday thru Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and let every-one in town know about YOUR sale.

50. PERSONALS *************

Information for Alcoholics Anonymous meetings con-tact Chris W. 918-424-8300 or Sherry L. 405-303-2769

50.PERSONALS

Narcotics Anonymous meets at 322 N 4th, Tues-day 6:30 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Thursday 6:30 p.m. and Saturday 5 p.m. Business meeting 2nd Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. Contact Dana at 405-382-0948 for infor-mation.

Recovery In Christ, 12 Step Open Recovery Meeting every Sunday night 6:00 pm, Community of Christ Church across from SSC. Come join us in recovery. For more info call Jim 405-382-4351 or 405-308-2354.

Unity Group NA Meetings, 604 E. Broadway, Semi-nole OK. Monday 11:00am and 8:00pm, Wednesday 11:00am, Thursday 8:00pm, Friday 11:00am, Saturday 9:00pm Candle-Light, Sunday 8:00pm call Rick 405-584-2326 or Brandon 405-633-4934

70. ANNOUNCEMENTS *********

Now available for rent, storage sheds of various sizes, call 382-2633 for more information or come by 1308 Boren, Plumlee’s Mini Storage.

www.Wil l isStorage.com 1405 E. Broadway, sizes are 5x10, 10x10, 10x15, 10x20, cell #405-380-6301

NOTARY PUBLIC Service available in The Seminole Producer office. 8:00-5:00 Monday thru Friday. $2 charge per stamp/signature. SIGNER MUST BE PRESENT!!!

Job Hunting? Renting, Buying or Selling? The Seminole Producer Clas-sifieds work! Come by 121 N. Main or call 382-1100 and place your ad today!

NOTARY PUBLIC Service available in The Seminole Producer office. 8:00-5:00 Monday thru Friday. $2 charge per stamp/signature. SIGNER MUST BE PRESENT!!!

CLASSIFIED DEAD-LINES: Copy for Classified Ads must be in the office by 4:30 pm the business day preceding date of insertion. Copy for Sun-day’s paper must be in by 4:30 pm, Friday. Classified Ad Department is closed on Saturdays. Garage sale ads and some other types of classified ads require payment in advance. Phone 405-382-1100 or 405-257-3341, ask for Classified Ad Department or come by our office at 121 N. Main, Seminole.

Instant credit on most ads call 405-382-1100 or visit www.SeminoleProducer. com

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70.ANNOUNCEMENTS

Temple of Praise, Pastors Jeff & Naoma Nance.. One GOD, One church, One family. Pastor JeffNance@att.net Service Times - Sunday School 10am, Sunday Morning 11am, Sunday Evening 6pm, Wednesday Evening 6:30pm, 382-0503. Find us on YouTube: Temple of Praise PCG. (Find your desiny PCG) 1100 N. Uni-versity

NOTARY PUBLIC Service available in The Seminole Producer office. 8:00-5:00 Monday thru Friday. $2 charge per stamp/signature. SIGNER MUST BE PRESENT!!!

Need a job? Looking for that new employee? Have items for sale or need to sell? Want to advertise your business...sell your home? Whatever your advertising needs are the Seminole Producer can help. Come by 121 N. Main or call 382-1100 to place an ad today!

110. JOB WANTED *************

House cleaning, I have ref-erences, Call 405-777-6006 or 405-204-2646

120. HELP WANTED ***********

Now hiring a Double week-end LPN/Charge nurse and a Double weekend CNA at Okemah care center, Ben-efits after 90 days. Apply at 112 N. Woody Guthrie in Okemah.

The Oklahoman is seeking independent contractors to deliver the newspaper in the Seminole area. must have valid drivers license, be available early morning hours 7 days a week and have dependable trans-portation. It’s great part time work for retirees, stay at home moms and col-lege students. If interested please call Jim Clark 405-919-2274

Full & Part time LPN needed. Seeking a posi-tive professional punctual progressive compassionate person to work with special needs clients. Supervisery skills desired. Competitive wages. Call 405-452-3271 to set up job interview. May apply in person or mail resume to Cindy Majors c/o Maple Place 620 S. ala-bama, Wetumka. 74883.

Commercial Brick: Now Hiring for manufacturing position and diesel mechan-ics Apply in Person old Hwy 270 Wewoka EOE/M/F/D/L

Expanded solutions in Wewoka OK. is looking for experienced machine oper-ators, supervisors, mechan-ics and warehouse help for both shifts. Full time, competitive pay + benefits. Must be able to pass a drug test. We have positions available immediately. To apply in person stop by our Wewoka plant 300 N. Wewoka Ave or email your resume to josh@expandedsolutions.com

Cafeteria Help Needed Butner Cafeteria is loking for substitutes to fill in. Duties would include cook-ing, cleaning, and serving the wonderful students of Wetumka. If interested please call Keystone Food Service at 405-437-6455.

120. HELPWANTED

Needing Meat cutter, Call 928-785-6311

155. TELEPHONE REPAIR SERVICES

Telephone Service Don P. Cook Retired SW Bell, 405-257-5218 or 405-380-6659

Telephone Service Phone systems & Networking, Telephone Jack-Install, Repair or Replaced, Chuck Chadick Retired-SWB Tele-phone Co 405-380-7692 - 405-382-5020

160. SERVICE DIREC-TORY

Osborn Tree Service, trimming, removal, stump grinding. Arborist with bucket truck. Cell, 405-380-7008.

Maud Y storage. Storage spaces available. 10x10; 10x15, 10x24. 15x24. 405-380-4387.

Piano Tuning 405-379-2937

Give your business a boost! Prepare for new customers and clients by advertising in The Seminole Producer. Call 382-1100 or stop by our office at 121 N. Main in Seminole.

Handyman, guaranteed work, carpentry, cement, roofing. 25 years experi-ence, 405-303-0143.

165. HANDYMAN SER-VICE

Save $ - Monthly Pay-ments. Call P.J. 580-421-2481 - 24-7 Maintenance, Repair, Replace, Remodel, Bath, Kitchens, Additions, Drywall, Flooring, Tile, Brick, Water, Smoke, Fire & Mold, Rentalmakeready, Hauling, Tree, Windows, Insulation.

Two hands construction is taking orders for work in the Seminole area. We cover all aspects in the con-struction field! We got you covered! Contact James (405)683-1486

170. REPAIR SERVICE ********

Roy’s appliance service, repairs refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers and water heaters. local phone 918-844-9064

Sewing Machine repair, service and parts, Jim Sor-rell 382-5925

175. LAWN MOWING SER-VICES

Isabel Deatherage Handy-man Service, Barbed wire fence building and repairs, tree trimming, have 1 ton truck to haul 1 to 2 ton loads, farm work, garage cleaning, housekeeping. Clean out guttering, raking leaves, Free estimates, References available 405-584-9008

Patterson complete lawn & Handyman service, auto & equipment repair, hauling, tilling, fencing, buildings, 405-380-2122

175. LAWNSERVICES

Tony’s Lawn and Haul-ing. Lawns mowed, limb and brush hauling, garage cleanup, small tree removal Reasonable rates. Senior discount. 380-7699

180. BUSINESS- PROFES-SIONAL

Kepler painting.. We do interior, Exterior, painting and stains, All finishes, 20 years Experience, Free Estimates, Senior discounts call Bill 405-220-2071

Steve-o Tractor & Brush-hogging Services: Plowing, discing, auger, driveways $35/hr, 2 hr minimum. 405-220-5900

Mason’s Construction. Metal roofs, siding, add-ons, new construction, all phases of home improve-ment. 382-7152 or 220-5107

FAX SERVICE Outgoing Fax. Send the first page to any other Fax machine in the continental United States for only $2.50, each additional page is only 50› Incoming Fax. Need a fax sent to you? The charge for incoming faxes are only $1 per page! Our Fax Number is 405-382-1104.

Green’s Foundation Repair Specialist Piers, floor brac-ing, wood rot repair, free estimates, 405-878-0471.

Tuggle Dozer & Tractor Ser-vice. Clearing house/barn pads, driveways, ponds. Free estimates. 382-7225 or 405-650-0074.

190. AUTO SERVICE **********

We buy junk vehicles run-ning or not. Call 405-997-5921 405-584-1573

220. CARS FOR SALE *********

DONATE YOUR Car to the Seminole Historical Society Help the Museum and lower your taxes. Call 382-1500 for more info.

220.AUTOMOBILES

#9 Auto Sales, view us @ numbernineauto.com (405)598-8876 Tecumseh, OK.

Looking for a GOOD DEAL? Find it fast in the Seminole Producer Classi-fied Section. Come by 121 N. Main or call 382-1100 to place an ad today!

230. TRUCKS FOR SALE *******

2002 Ford Lariat crew cab, 135K, bought new here @Seminole Ford, Very clean and pampered, new tires, leather. $7000 405-808-9328

260. MOTORCYCLES ***********

Projct, parts bike or fix it. 1992 Suzuki GSXR 750, needs motor work. It broke the timimg chain and bent 2 valves, so needs that fixed or just buy a head for it. It has a new starter, dyna S 2000 Ignition, tires are excellent, has title!!!! $800 OBO text 584-0453

300. GOOD THINGS TO EAT ****

In Holdenville on Broad-way of america by Day light donut shop gold and blue tent, Water melons Red and Yellow Seed and seedless, Cantaloupe, Tomatoes other summer vegetables as in season Formally across from Rob-inson Auto, I accept Chick-asaw-Choctaw Nation farmers market checks 918-441-9987 8:30 to 8:30 Monday-Sunday

320. FEED, HAY, GRAIN ******

Hay For Sale, Square bales Bermuda grass $4.00 per bale, Horse hay $5.00 per bale 405-220-6701 Text or leave message.

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170. REPAIRSERVICES

175. LAWNSERVICES

180. BUSINESS-PROFESSIONAL

190. AUTOSERVICE

220.AUTOMOBILES

230. TRUCKS &PICKUPS

260. ATVs &MOTORCYCLES

300. GOODTHINGS TO EAT

320. FEEDHAY, GRAIN

Seminole Nation Gaming Agency

Position Title:CHIEF GAMING REGULATOR

Position Reports to:GAMING COMMISSIONERS

Location: SEMINOLE NATION GAMING AGENCYSalary: $60K - $68K

Closing Date: AUGUST 12TH, 2016

Applications and all accompanying documents must be received by 5:00pm on closing date of the announcement. You may also submit resumes by E-mail

to dchesser@sngaok.com.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYEE: The Seminole Nation is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Other than Indian Preference, selection for this position will be made without regard to race, sex, color, creed, age, marital status, national origin or any other non merit factor.

For a complete job description, contact the SNGA Administration offi ce at 2015 W. Wrangler Blvd. Seminole, OK 74868

POSITION PURPOSE: The Chief Gaming Regulator

develops initiates, maintains, and revises policies and

procedures for the general operation of the Seminole

Nation Gaming Agency to prevent illegal, unethical,

or improper conduct with the gaming facilities and

manages day-to-day operation of the Seminole Nation

Gaming Agency, subject to the approval of the SNGA

Gaming Commission. This position also monitors and

enforces compliance with all laws and regulations

applicable to the Nations Gaming activities.

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

or Business and a minimum 5 years of gaming work

related experience. Excellent interpersonal, computer,

oral and written communication skills. Knowledge

of accounting and auditing principals/standards,

and familiarity with various computer systems and

applications. Must be able to pass the required

background investigations requirements. Must not

have a criminal record and possess a valid Oklahoma

driver’s license.

INDIAN PREFERENCE: Qualifi ed Indian applicants

will recieve preference over non-Indian applicants.

Priority in selection will be given to Indian candidates

who present proof of eligibility for Indian preference.

Verifi cation in the form of a Certifi cate of Degree of

Indian Blood (CDIB) or tribal enrollment card must be

provided with the application.

HOW TO APPLY: Submit SNGA application,

resumes, diplomas, transcripts, valid Oklahoma

Driver’s licenses, and CDIB or tribal enrollment card

to: Seminole Nation Gaming Agency, Attn: Human

Resource Department 2015 W. Wrangler Blvd.

Seminole, Oklahoma 74868

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10. ANTIQUESHOPS

20. GARAGE SALES

50.PERSONALS

110. JOBWANTED

120. HELPWANTED

155. TELEPHONEREPAIR SERVICE

160. SERVICEDIRECTORY

165. HANDYMAN SERVICES

70.ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIRECTOR ICW/FAMILY SERVICES

For complete position description and application

procedures contact the Alabama Quassarte Tribal

Town Adminstrator at (405)452-3987.

Position remains open until fi lled.

Required Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and 3 Years

Related Experience.

360. MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

Alverez 12 string guitar, AJ 60 SC-12 Blonde with gig bag, like new $600 firm, 405-481-9625

17’ trailer $100.00 Firm 405-838-8727

Garage Sale Kits available at The Seminole Producer. Kit contents: 3 large flourescent signs, price stickers, check list, sales record and sale tips sheet. Only $5. The Seminole Producer, 121 N. Main.

By Owner New 2000 ib winch $50, Paint sprayer kit $40, Round tool bin $25, Mens Diabetic shoes size 10 $25, Like New ATV 4 wheeler jack $110, 7 1/4 circular saw with blade $50, Heavy duty carpet kicker $30, Electric pole saw $65, Golf clubs w/ bag and accessories (got 14 clubs) $75, Used Concrere steps $75, 80 slab blocks $.75 each, 62 regular blocks $.75 each, 405-650-1568

By owner New 1500 watt electric heat gun 2 posi-tion $15, Airinslator gage $10, Two tier collapsible step ladder (inside) $18, Mig-flux welding cart $50, Toolbox $10, 50 Ft fish tape $5, Gas camping stove 1 burner plus 4 full cans of butane fuel $25, Kangaroo kitchen camping stove works on propane bottles or butane $25, Used 3 Inch high air cut off tool $20, Heavy trailer lock $20, Pneumatic rolling feat $25, Stump burner with propane tank $50, 10x12 two room dome tent $20, Ball mount hitch with 2in drop $20, Welding kit for synthetic material $20 405-650-1568

Attract a crowd to your Garage Sale! you provide the goods; our garage sale ad will provide the crowd! Sell the things you no longer need and make some easy money. Call The Seminole Producer Classified Dept today 382-1100 or stop by our office at 121 N. Main to place your ad today!

360. FOR SALEMISCELLANEOUS

Like new household appli-ances, washer, dryer, deep freezes, refrigerator, air conditioners at The Toolbox 114 N milt phillips, 382-1051.

365. COMPUTERS *************

Computer Rescue! Fast & Friendly Services at your home or office. Fix slow computers & internet issues. Remove spyware & viruses. Over 25 years’ experience.(435)632-4914 cell

INCOMING FAX!! Need it in a hurry? Have it Faxed to you through the Producer’s Fax. Incoming Fax service only $1.00 per page. The Fax incoming number is 405-382-1104, open 24 hours, 7 days a week. For Additional information call 405-382-1100.

430. FREE TO GOOD HOME

Guinea pig free to good home 4052206765

Free to a good home. Very good watch dog. Loving, playful, and medium size. Approx 8 month old female. 405-380-4787

WHEN YOU Want fast results, call Classifieds--405-382-1100 or stop by our office at 121 N. Main in Seminole and place your ad today!

490. GUNS FOR SALE *********

Bookout Enterprises. We buy, sell or trade guns, ammo, reloading sup-plies. 600 S. Mekusukey, Wewoka. 405-257-3364.

520. APARTMENTS FOR RENT

813 N University; Remod-eled 1 & 2 Bedroom, Water Paid. 405-382-1212

520.APARTMENTS

Van Sanford Apartments, Starting at $200 deposit, starting rate, $450 monthly. All bills paid, 405-382-1212

Apartments for rent 500 East Broadway (3 avail-able) 2 Bedroom all bills paid $775.00 Water only $625.00 - 1 Bedroom all bills paid $700.00 - Water Only $595.00 - $200 deposit (can be flexible with good references) Call Cory at 405-584-1940

530. HOUSES FOR RENT ********

Cabin, Tiny living, all bills paid, washer/dryer included, $700 month $350 deposit, Delmar lake 405-237-4387

2-2 bedroom 2 bath mobile homes, appliances fur-nished, 2 car carport, stor-age building, fenced yard, water and garbage paid, clean, No Pets, rental ref-erence required, $500 and $550 month $300 deposit. Avilable August 1st 405-640-9521

1 Bedroom duplex and 1,2 And 3 bedroom houses for rent, in Seminole no pets (405) 382-1212, section 8 available.

2 bedroom mobile home, 405-380-4172

Rent to Own, 1 bedroom. 809 Seminole in Wewoka 405-517-6633

For rent or Sale, 214 Quail creek Rd. In Quail run addition. 3 Bedroom 2 bath, 1891 square feet, 3 stall shop 2 car garage. Mini storm basement 2 3/4 Acres, $1400 month $1000 deposit, Includes water and community pool, No large pets 382-6618 or 405-740-8426

2 bedroom 1 bath house. Beautiful resort-like 160 acres. Cosmetic work needed house. Barn avail-able, camping, fishing, 5 miles running trails, pets extra. Clean record, Semi-nole. (435)632-4914

2 Rooms for rent: $465 & $365 Full use of 160 acre farm. 5 mile trails. fish-ing, camping, barn avail-able. Background check. (435)632-4914 cell

D & L Properties Rentals, 2 and 3 bedroom homes, references and deposit required. 405-380-2868

Little Tree Properties cur-rently has 2 and 3 Bed-rooms available, Refer-ences required, Call Greg 1-580-235-6977 or Sherry 1-405-887-0486 For details and Showing

The CLASSIFIEDS are an Easy Sell! Call today The Seminole Producer 382-1100.

1621 F Street, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $500 month $500 deposit 405-237-4387

3 Bedroom 2 bath mobile home, Total Electric,all appliances furnished, water and garbage paid, fenced yard, storage, car-port, No Pets, rental refer-ences, $600 month $300 deposit, Available August 1st. 405-640-9521

530. HOUSESFOR RENT

For Rent 3 bedroom house, 1 1/2 bath, Section 8 Only, Reference required, Avail-able July 1st, 380-8248

2222 Grounds Ave., 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, CH/A, Fenced, Yard, NICE Neigh-borhood, $800/MO. 405-370-2525

JIM MOREU Rentals. Phone 382-1093, Semi-nole, OK. Unfurnished rent-als. References required.

540. HOMES FOR SALE *********

1014 Coolidge 2 bedroom 1 bath $25,000 also 510 N. Jefferson 2 bedroom 1 bath $15,000 possible owner finance. 405-303-1382 or 405-669-1261

In Seminole, 3 bedroom brick, open floor plan, CH/A, 2 car garage, stor-age building, fenced yard, excellent condition! 1-417-827-4161

3 bedroom, 2 bath newly remodeled home, large fenced yard. 805 Coolidge. $52,000, owner financed with 15% down. 580-399-9796.

316 E. 8th street, Wewoka OPEN HOUSE 8/6/16 from 1-4pm Nice home with a large yard on a quiet street $32,000

3 Bedroom 1 Bath fenced back yard, garage and stor-age shed, $20,000 Inquire 307 W Russell

New Price: a spacious 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath. 2 living areas, large sun room w/2 car garage. 2,425 sq ft on corner lot located in Seminole. $50,000. Call 405-633-5100 or 405-905-4745.

550. BUSINESS REAL ESTATE

For Sale Living Estate 15 Acres 405-683-8096

Start saving TODAY...Shop the Seminole Producer Classifeds! 382-1100.

550.BUSINESSREAL ESTATE

Warehouse for rent, 400 East Broadway 30x60 with office and 12’ over-head door with automatic opener, $660 month 405-382-6000

560. LOTS FOR SALE **********

Broadway commercial lot $3,000 possible owner finance. 405-303-1382

570. FARMS/RANCHES FOR SALE

Structual Pipe 420’ of 2 7/8” upset tubing $1.15 ft. 25 3/4’ of 8 5/8” with collar and threads $4.50 ft. 89 1/2’ of 5 1/2” pipe $3.00 ft. 40’ of 6 5/8” with 3/8” wall $4.50 ft. or all for $750 call 405-481-9625

Have land to sell? Call 382-1100 and place an ad in the Seminole Producer classi-fied section.

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590. MOBILE HOMES ***********

For Sale 2015 Fleetwood 16’x60’ set up in shady acres, Seminole 2 bed 2 bath, washer dryer, front & back porches. $30,000 405-808-0842

Summer clearance sale! Lenders offering zero down with land and less than perfect credit programs. Limited time free delivery and set on select homes. 2,000 dollar furniture pack-age with purchase. WAC 405-631-7600 or 405-602-4526

CLASSIFIEDS - Sell your cars, real estate, pets, crafts, etc. the EASY WAY! Call Today! Seminole Pro-ducer 382-1100.

600. MOBILE HOME SPACES

Spaces for Rent. Hidden Hills Village, Seminole. 405-584-0986.

610. ACREAGE FOR SALE OR RENT

40 acres in Sasakwa call Jim 405-777-6006

Looking for a GOOD DEAL? Find it fast in the Seminole Producer Classi-fied Section. Come by 121 N. Main or call 382-1100 to place an ad today!

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360. FOR SALEMISCELLANEOUS

365.COMPUTERS

430. FREE TOGOOD HOME

490.GUNS

520.APARTMENTS

530. HOUSESFOR RENT

540. HOUSESFOR SALE

550.BUSINESSREAL ESTATE

560.BUILDING LOTS

570. FOR SALEFARMS-RANCHES

590.MOBILE HOMES

600. MOBILEHOME SPACES

610. ACREAGESALE - RENT

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RESIDENTIAL*MLS#740610- 812 McKinley, Sem-2 or 3BR/1 or 2 living/1BA.*MLS#726435- 2002 Grisso Dr., Sem-2BR/1BA.*MLS#735066- 704 Twin Lake Dr., Sem- 3 or 4BR/2.5BA overlooks the lake.*MLS#731569- 101 Sterling Dr., Sem- 3BR/2BA.*MLS#728173- 2107 Grisso Dr., Sem-3BR/2BA, lots of updates*MLS#726150- 615 Morningside Dr, Sem-3BR/3BA Florida room NEW!*MLS#724874- 805 Lincoln St., Sem-3BR/1BA. *MLS#724629- 2005 Grisso Dr., Sem-3BR/1.5BA.*MLS#721550- 210 Quail Creek, Sem-3BR/2BA, 2.25 AC m/l. $20,000 PRICE REDUC-TION*MLS#710572- 1120 N. Timmons, Sem- 4BR/1.5BA. NEW PRICE!*MLS#710555- 920 Spurr St., Sem-3BR/1BA. NEW PRICE!*MLS#709045- 2317 Grisso Dr., Sem-4BR/3BA/2LV/2 car garage!*MLS#718338- 813 William Blvd, Sem-3BR/3BA/2LV with office! NEW.*MLS#705666- 19 Harber Ct, Sem- 2BR/1BA w/1BR/1BA apartment.*MLS#702809- 2917 Brandon Drive, Sem, 3BR/2.5BA, 2900 sqft m/l NEW PRICE!*MLS#717872- 1207 Ideal St., Sem-3BR/1BA. 1 Car garage. Great Lot! REDUCED!*MLS#736797- 1200 Coolidge, Sem- 3BR/1.5BA Large Lot.*MLS#703077 - 1039 N Main St., Sem - 3BR/1.5BA, Lg shop and 2 car shop/garage. NEW PRICE!*MLS#732775- 2000 Mary, Sem - 3BR/2BA Brick home attatched garage.*MLS#723041- 107 W. 2nd St., Bowlegs-3BR/1BA, nice size yard.*MLS#721522- 1701 Pastusek, Prague- 2/3BR/1BA remodeled in the last 5 years, CH&A.*MLS#717982- 517 W. Walnut -3BR/25BA with metal shop in town.*MLS#704460- 1817 Oakridge, Sem- 3BR/1.5BA.*MLS#702785 - 1012 Jefferson, Sem - 3BR/1BA.*MLS#732771- 1329 Haskell 4BR/2BA Great investment opportunity.*MLS#568432- 1201 N. Timmons ST., Sem- 3BR/2BA. NEW PRICE!

*MLS#721917- 716 McKinley, Sem-3BR/1Ba fenced yard, brick home.*MLS#700176- 612 N. Park St., Sem.-2BR/1BA. NEW!*MLS#703598- 1101 Harding St, Sem - 2BR/2BA 1340 sqft m/l NEW!*MLS#719258- 524 W. Walnut, Sem-3BR/1BA, 1 car detatched garage! NEW PRICE!*MLS#721842- 1010 Sunnymeade, Wew-3BR/2BA/1 Car garage, updated kitchen. NEW LISTING!*MLS#722184- 600 S. Oliphant, Holden-ville-3BR/2.5Ba, over 3000 sq. ft. on 5.45 AC m/l.*MLS#717940- 1706 Sherry Lane, Prague - Move-in Ready! 3BR/2BA/2car garage. NEW LISTING!*MLS#735188- 35901 Hwy 59, Wew-2BR/1BA on 12.22 acres m/l. Ready for remodel.*MLS#710084-319 Ash, Maud- 4BR/2BA some new updates.*MLS#714470- 520 E. Porter, Wetumka-2BR/1BA, carport and shed. NEW!*MLS#736868- 1803 Redbud, Wew-3BR/1.5BA, 2 car garage.*MLS#709599- 417 E. Saint Louis, Wetum-ka-3BR/2BA, detached garage, large lot!*MLS#718604- 1331 W. Broadway, Kona-wa - 4BR/3BA/2LA, Lg Garage with BA. NEW PRICE!*MLS#724527- 530 W. Walnut, Sem-2BR/1BA. NEW PRICE!*MLS#729887- 224 Berton Ave, Holden-ville - 2BR/2BA/2LV Large home with large lot!*MLS#721048- 2319 Grisso Drive, Sem- Beautiful 3BR/3BA/2LA home with 2nd at-tatched home across the breezeway!*MLS#711813- 1205 Reid Circle, Sem-3Br/2.5Ba/2 living areas.*MLS#729788- 2111 Grounds Ave., Sem-Beautiful 3BR/2BA/2 Living area stone home! NEW PRICE!*MLS#732689- 1211 Gessel St, Sem - 2BR/1BA fenced yard, great investment opportunity! NEW!

HOMES WITH ACREAGE*MLS#738977- 3212 N 3715 Rd., Holden-ville-3BR/2BA on approx. 2.62 AC m/l.*MLS#737892- 12074 N. Hwy 3, Sem-3BR/2BA, 1 AC m/l.*MLS#728083- 12557 N Old Hwy 99, Sem-3BR/2BA MH pm approx. 1 AC.*MLS#720205- 101 Shawnee, Cromwell Area-6BR/2BA 1.33 AC m/l. NEW PRICE!*MLS#717687- 35343 EW 1240 Rd., Sem-3BR/2BA MH 1.24 AC m/l. NEW PRICE!*MLS#717687- 35343 EW 1240 Rd., Sem-3BR/2BA MH. 1.24 AC m/l.*MLS#717225- 36408 EW 1190 Rd., Sem-2 homes, 160 AC m/l. NEW! $50,000 PRICE REDUCTION!*MLS#736655- 11895 NS 3570 Rd, Sem- 3BR/2BA/2 living area 5 ac w/pond! NEW!!*MLS#712986- 12584 NS 3570 Rd, Sem- 3BR/2BA, 255 AC m/l on paved rd.*MLS#717956- 7070 E. 136, Holdenville-3BR/2.5BA. 40 acres. NEW!*MLS#703509- 14323 N 362 RF, Sasakwa- 80 fenced acres w/2 ponds & 3BR/1BA home

that needs work. PRICE REDUCED!*MLS#729869- 36409 EW 1310 Rd. - 2BR/1.5BA 1.9 ac m/l, recently renovated.*MLS#722613- 47781 Coleman Rd., Maud-2 houses, 20 AC located between Earlsboro and Maud off HWY 9A South.*MLS#727497- 35527 EW 1270 Rd, Sem- 4BR/3BA, 8 acres m/l w/pond less than 5min. from town! NEW!*MLS#709088- 900 Adwan DR., Sem-5BR/3.5 BA/3LV, 30x40 shop, pool, 20 AC m/l.*MLS#712148- 3131 N. Hwy 99, Sem- 5BR/3 OR 4BR/2.5BA, 5.96 ac. M/L.*MLS#731514-2309 N. Harvey Rd., Sem-3BR/3BA, 8.38 acres m/l. PRICE REDUCED!*MLS#707982- 104928 NS 3511 Rd., Prague-5.79 acres m/l, 2BR/2.5Ba, pond, barn, shop with electricity.*MLS#716291-35208 EW 1260 Rd, Sem-3BR/1BA, 5.31 AC m/l.*MLS#571562- 13501 NS 3610 Rd, Sa-sakwa-10 Acres m/l 2BR/2BA.*MLS#721171- 25171 Hwy 102, Techum-seh-5BR/4BA approx. 4080 sq ft on 29.65 AC m/l NEW PRICE!.*MLS#717699- 36010 EW 1270 Rd., We-woka-4BR/2BA, approx. 1 AC.*MLS#596374- 36472 E 137 Rd, Sasakwa- 3BR/1BA, 40.04 AC m/l.*MLS#592845- 13736 NS 3630, Sasakwa-3BR/2BA, 40 ac m/l. *MLS#595068- 181530 N. 4475 Rd., Rattan-5BR/2BA Hunter’s Dream!*MLS#736786- 8129 Hwy 9, Wetumka- 2 or 3BR/2BA, barns, outbuildings, 5 ponds, 150 AC m/l.*MLS#596576- 46803 Hwy 3- Shawnee-3BR/4BA home on 31.92 ac m/l! Price Reduced! LAND*MLS#737881- 12.55 AC Seminole County w/some utilities under $20,000.*MLS#725698- EW 1140, Sem- 504.15 AC m/l. NEW!*MLS#705773- NS 3550, Sem- 80 AC m/l. PRICE REDUCED!*MLS#578862-Approx. 190’ x 82’ lot on Park Heights Rd. NEW PRICE!*MLS#578588-21 NS 3540, Sem- 21.20 acres.*MLS#571932-Hwy 99 and Moccasin Trail - 13.42 Acres m/l with Barn.*MLS#545914- 2003 Whippoorwill, Sem- .43 AC Lot. NEW PRICE!*MLS#715947-Lots on Princeton St, Sem-1.04 AC m/l. PRICE REDUCED!*MLS#500617-83’x163’ Lot in Northwood Addition, Sem.*MLS#583687- 12043 S. 358th Rd., Sem-62.56 AC m/l with stocked pond.*MLS#702117- 318 Acres m/l EW 970 Rd, Paden - 2 ponds, approx 60% cleared NEW!*MLS#577561- 1713 and 1721 Shane St, Prague, 2 lots overlooking pond!*MLS#717975- NS 3520 Rd., Prague-60 acres m/l. Cross fenced, 2+ stocked ponds, field fence, Bermuda.*MLS#716083- 120 acres m/l NS 3580 Rd, Sem- Beautiful land! NEW PRICE!*MLS#739211- 20 acres m/l, Sem- N of I-40, beautiful, fenced, great building loca-

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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

*MLS#726553- 1043 Main St, Sem- Amaz-ing commercial property over 2300 sq ft with a great location!*MLS#703155 - 302 E. Oak Street, Sem - Corner property in Main Street District Downtown Seminole, 5 tenant spaces. NEW PRICE!*MLS#701747 - 11901 N. Hwy 99, Sem - Successful gas station and convenience store w/ equipment & inventory. NEW!*MLS#71837- E. Hwy 9, Sem-1 AC-Great business location! NEW PRICE!*MLS#574125- 200 N. Milt Phillips Ave., Sem-Gas station and tire shop.*MLS#576173- 317 N Main Street, Sem. - Ana’s Place great location on Main St.*MLS#552867- 516 W Strothers Ave, Sem 1,500 sqft commercial building CH&A. NEW PRICE!*MLS#557743 - 312 Main St. - 2 vacant lots on thriving Main Street in Seminole.*MLS#567755- 301 S Main Wetumka - Cur-rently leased, great investment opportunity!*MLS#736869- 607 W. Broadway, Sem- 3,000 sq ft shop building. Great business opportunity!

2005 W. Wrangler Blvd. Suite C, Seminole 405-220-4225

Russell Ryker, Broker/Manager (405) 380-6932

SweeneyofSeminole@gmail.com

Have you considered selling your current property?

It’s a great time to sell!

Call us for ALL your Real Estate Needs!

(405)220-4225 • www.SweeneyHouses.com

MLS #735695MLS #735695

MLS #738576MLS #738576

Denton Blevins, Realtor Associate (580) 421-6632

MLS# 738576- Seminole, NEW

LISTING! Nice 3 bedroom home

with bonus and or additional

bedroom, 2.5 bath, large living

MLS# 733952- Wewoka, Nice 3 bed brick home on large lot with fenced backyard, nice shade and pecan trees. Home features a large kitchen with tile counter tops and large dinning area. Bathroom has a jetted tub perfect for relaxing. The bedrooms features large closets with built in shelves. This home has a new central heat and air system with an air purifi er. Other features are a recently replaced water heater, laminate fl ooring and much more.

MLS# 737278- Seminole/Maud, Incredible and completely remodeled home! This 4 bedroom/ 2 bath home has over 3000 sq ft, all on 4 beautiful acres. New appliances, new paint, completely updated throughout the house! This massive living room also features a built-in sound system. Kitchen has all new counter tops and sink. Large covered patio perfect for entertaining or just relaxing. The roof is only 2 yrs old. The rural seclusion is perfect for enjoying peaceful country living. There is just too much to describe about this amazing home. Call for your appointment to view today!

MLS# 735770- Seminole, Beautiful, completely remodeled 3 bed/2.5 bath home on over 76 ac. This home features a completed updated kitchen, tile throughout the house, Kitchen has granite counter tops, new roof late 2015, new windows 2016, new vinyl/metal siding 2016, new H&A system, solid wood doors throughout the home. All sitting on an amazing 76 ac property with 2 ponds, one of which is stocked. All fenced and cross fenced. Includes shop building, barn, corrals and more. Property has 2 entrances fromHwy 99 as well as old 99. Call to day for your appointment to view this incredible Home!

MLS# 735695- Seminole,

NEW LISTING! Must see 3

bedroom home over 1700 sq

ft. This home features a large

kitchen. With 2 living areas there is abundant space. A fenced back

yard with 2 covered patios great for entertainment or just relaxing

and enjoying the outdoors. Central heat and air. Carpets recently

steam cleaned. This home is truly move in ready.

room, dinning area, kitchen and breakfast area, new carpet in living

room, new laminate fl oor in dinning area, new counter tops in two

bath rooms, two water heaters, roof replaced July 2016, beautiful

large fenced back yard, covered patio, huge pecan tree, with

storage building. This is a nice home in a great location.

THE SEMINOLE HOUSING AUTHORITY

has now opened its waiting list for Section 8. Vouchers will be receiving applications effective August 5. Income verifi cation, criminal backgrounds and rental history will be performed on each applicant to determine eligibility.

Applications may be obtained at 111 Randolph Street in Seminole. Friendly staff is available to assist applicants needing help completing the application. Birth Certifi cates and Social Security cards for each person on the application and photo Ids for each adult (18 years or older) are required with the

submittal of each application.

MANUEL SMITH

405-997-8461

405-997-8462

SMITHSMITH

AUCTION COMPANYAUCTION COMPANY

Specializing in

Farm, Estate, Business

Liquidations, Equipment

and Cattle

Brand new 30 year roof. Lots of space, good size kitchen with tons of cabinets with slide out drawers and lazy susan,

large breakfast nook area, dishwasher and gas stove, formal dining room, very large laundry room with

½ bath or could be 4th bedroom or offi ce space, total of 2½ bathrooms, sliding glass doors, several extra closets, linen storage, 1 car attached garage with extra laundry

hook ups, covered patio, fenced back yard and pecan tree.

(918)231-2966 • (405)380-4530

1322 VAN DRIVE, SEMINOLE, OK 748681322 VAN DRIVE, SEMINOLE, OK 74868

$87,900$87,900

Owner: Leon Hasbell 275-1812

PAYLESS TREE SERVICE

Over 35 Years in Business.*Now Accepting Credit Cards*

Licensed *Bonded* InsuredTrimming & Removal with Bucket

Truck. Stump Grinding.

382-3689Kevin O'Daniel

AssociateCarole O'Daniel

Broker

Real Estate, Appraisals, ETC., Home Inspect ions & Auct ions

Please call for additional information

on these listings plus many others!

(405) 382-3689

Visit our web site @ www.caroleandcompany.com

3407 N. Highway 99, frame home, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 2

living areas, CHA, REDUCED, $49,500

416 E. Wanda Jackson, Maud.Brick ven, 3 bedroom, 1.5

bath, 2 living areas, NEW LISTING, $55,000

35635 EW 1200, Seminole, Brick Ven Home, 3 bed, 2 bath,

large den, shop bldg, barn, pond, located on 15 ac, MOL,

REDUCED, $140,000

12008 EW 3620, Wewoka. Brick Ven., 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, 2,034 sf+, 2 car att.

garage, totally updated, 10 ac MOL, Reduced, $177,900

SW of Seminole, 40 acres MOL, NEW LISTING, $66,000

SW of Seminole, 80 acres MOL, NEW LISTING, $136,000

5 N. Highland, Seminole, Frame home, 2 bed, 2 baths,

1,537 sf+, $22,000

City limits of Seminole,9.5 acres MOL, NEW LISTING,

$25,000

PUBLISHER’S NOTICEAll real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it il-legal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limita-tion or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real es-tate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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The Seminole Producer - Sun., August 7, 2016 - Section C - Page 8

Opinion Page

Will Donald Last All The Way to The Election?

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I had planned to take Jabba the Cat to the vet last week, but Jabba had other plans. Specifically, his plan was to hide under the bed until the pet carrier was long gone.

Once he’s under the bed, there’s no get-ting him out. As soon as he sinks the six claws on each of his huge paws into the carpet, there’s no moving him -- left, right, up or down -- no matter how hard I pull.

How did he know we were going to the vet and not to a spa for overweight cats? It’s as if he has ESP. And Jabba has never even had a bad time at the vet’s; it’s always been a painless, almost boring, experience. A little poking, a look at his teeth, a look in his ears. He doesn’t even seem to mind the booster shots, so what’s the big deal?

The big deal is that for this cat, every day has to be just like yesterday. Any change in the regular order of things -- moving his dish, Sue and I going to bed 15 minutes earlier or later than usual, having new visitors -- drives him crazy. The sight of the cat carrier isn’t bad, exactly, it’s just that it wasn’t there yes-terday. So I had to cancel our appointment and reschedule. This time, I left the carrier next to his dish for a whole week, and sure enough, he got into it without a struggle on the day of the appointment.

The first thing I realized when we got to the vet’s was that I am in the wrong busi-ness. The vet’s office has doubled in size since the last time Jabba was there. It has an “east entrance” and a “west entrance” now, the staff wears fancy uniforms and they accept bitcoins as payment. My human doctor’s office is not half as big -- or lush. I’d never given much thought to how much money we are happily willing to spend on our pets. I know what I spend on one cat; can you imagine what it costs to own a horse?

The good news is that vets seem to want pets, and their owners, to have a good experience. The vet called for Jabba less than five minutes after we arrived. If Jabba had an appointment with my human doctor, it’d be a two-hour wait. The vet treats Jabba like a visiting dignitary -- an honored guest. My own doctor always gives me the feeling that I’m wasting his time, that he has more important things to do. If only I were really, really sick with some fascinating but incur-able “House”-worthy disease, then he’d find me interesting. Finally, I would have given him something he could talk to other doctors about. My everyday plantar fasciitis obvi-ously isn’t it.

Jabba can’t even talk, yet the vet hangs on his every purr. Somehow the vet can get him to open his mouth without upsetting him in the slightest. Me, I still have a scar from trying to pill him years ago.

It makes me wonder -- why are vets so much better to their patients than human doctors are?

(Contact Jim Mullen at mullen.jim@gmail.com.).

The question isn’t so much if Donald Trump can win the election as whether or not he’ll still be the GOP candidate come November. Nobody can predict what mad trajectory the Republican nominee’s cam-paign might take. But given Trump’s erratic, politically self-destructive behavior, it’s rea-sonable to suspect he might get forced out or quit in a huff rather than face the ultimate indignity of losing to a girl.

Just the other day, Rep. Richard Hanna of upstate New York, disavowed Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton, the first Republi-can member of Congress to do so. Describ-ing himself as “stunned by the callousness” of the candidate’s remarks about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents whose son died fighting in Iraq, Hannah called Trump “a national embarrassment,” and “unfit to serve.”

Hanna added that while he disagrees with Hillary Clinton on many issues, “she stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime. That matters.” The implication, of course, is that Trump’s only cause is himself and his grotesquely swollen ego.

How long before Sen. John McCain, whose own heroic service as a Vietnam POW Trump has impugned, decides that he too must act? How long before his patri-otism forces him to agree with President Obama that “there has to come a point at which you say ‘enough’?”

I’m betting McCain will bolt before November.

Former Bush speechwriter and Wash-ington Post columnist Michael Gerson: “Those who support Trump are setting the Republican Party at odds with the Ameri-can story told by Lincoln and (Rev. Martin Luther) King: a nationalism defined by striv-ing toward unifying ideals of freedom and human dignity.

Is this what the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader, the chairman of the Republican Party and so many other good people intended when they entered politics? Is this how they define their soul’s high purpose?”

Gerson added: “It is not too late to repu-diate.”

But whether or not Republican leaders can summon the political courage to break with Trump and his inflamed supporters, there are increasing signs that the great man himself is hearing footsteps, as they say in the NFL.

To begin with, he doesn’t talk about polls anymore. No surprise, as Trump’s bombas-tic “I alone” acceptance speech claiming to be the nation’s one-man hope of redemp-tion was an utter failure. Maybe plagiarizing Benito Mussolini wasn’t such a great idea after all.

(OK, that was a cheap shot. Trump hasn’t got the self-discipline to be a fascist.)

Anyway, here’s the thing: A Gallup poll taken after the 2016 GOP convention showed voters less likely to vote for Trump by a 51-36 margin -- the first negative

numbers in post-convention polling his-tory. No national political convention since Gallup began asking the question in 1984 has failed to improve a nominee’s stand-ing. Even Mitt Romney got a two percent bounce. Trump dropped 15 points.

I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Trump describe the U.S. as a doomed, hell-ish landscape with “poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad.” Were Republicans really so far gone into his cult of personality as to leave patriotism, opti-mism and the enduring hope of a better tomorrow to Democrats?

Indeed, they were. Hence voter dismay, and a recent CBS News poll showing 63 per-cent of voters saying Trump “lacks the right temperament” for the presidency. For all the hugger-mugger over Hillary Clinton’s “damned emails,” 60 percent think she’s prepared.

Faced with a far better informed rival who doesn’t rattle easily and also happens to be a woman, Trump’s all of a sudden hunting a way to crawfish out of the presidential debates. What else can he do, call her “Shorty”? Say she’s a 6 and a half? The debate dates are all wrong, he whines.

Well, you try to schedule a night in Sep-tember or October that doesn’t conflict with a major athletic event -- whether playoff baseball, college football or the NFL. That’s why God made DVRs.

But no, the NFL didn’t complain to Trump. He made that up, pretty much as he makes up most of what he says.

So the would-be national savior has started making excuses. He recently told an Ohio audience, “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”

Oh yeah, honesty compels him. Come November, Trump will only have lost because “Crooked Hillary” cheated. That was the whole point of the idiotic “Lock her up!” chant during the Republican convention.

Longtime Trump confidant and GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone (he has Nixon’s face tattooed on his back) says Trump should start claiming that, “If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the elec-tion of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.”

In short, something like a coup attempt.Except I don’t believe Trump’s got the

guts to go through with it.Do you?(Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons

is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).

Much of today’s modern technology is very good and very useful. For instance, a lady was in “my” bookstore and had her phone out shinning at the books on the bottom shelf. I had placed all we had of the vampire Twilight series and the sci-ence fiction series “Left Behind.”

\She took a picture of the books and sent immediately sent it to her daughter. Daughter texted back the name of one she did not have and Mom bought it. 45 seconds - two people happy. What a deal! When I grow up I want to be able to do that. Many people come in with a written or typed list but this is the first I have seen using mobile technology.

Recently I met a long time friend for our semi-annual meeting which hap-pens once or twice a year if we can get together. Since he is a state away, there are sometimes problems in working out a schedule.

This time one discussion (yes, we have many important topics) was about GPS devices. I have had problems with said devices and have heard other horror sto-ries.

One uncle I know, missed most of his prettiest niece’s wedding reception as the GPS left two cars at a cow pasture several miles from the actual place - which was in a city and there were no cows invited. Then there was the time we were coming home through the Smoky Mountains.

By the way, they were not smoky at all and we were glad of that. We were on highway I-40 which is a very familiar highway to me but only as far east as the middle of Arkansas. Gypsy, our personal GPS, tried to get us to turn off the highway at every intersection.

Nervously, I plowed ahead and won. I am sure Gypsy had her feelings hurt as I have attempted to use her to find a couple or three addresses when I got calls to get a swarm of bees. And yes, Hutch, I keep it updated (for all the good it does).

Several years ago I could actually keep up with advances in computer technology, that is until I got a job that took up most of my time. I even took a class or two and kept falling behind anyway.

Somewhere along the way the techno gates opened full wide and I was swept away in the flood of information, tricks and techniques. Not wanting to overstate the situation but I have heard of some other people who have had trouble with their computers.

Probably all of you are able to manage your computer and come out on top. Being among the minority of those who have problems, I have even been known to have muttered an expletive which should have been deleted.

Occasionally, my computer will go for a long time without doing something to antagonize me. Oh, at least 10 to 15 minutes. Then, yes, I complain about my computers but when I first started writing things for others to read, my pen or pencil made as many mistakes as my computer now makes.

One major difference is that I could snap a pencil in two or chunk a pen into the trash. OK, it didn’t help but it did relieve a bit of tension. Today? Wellsir, today I do not believe I shall be breaking my typer in two nor chunking it in the trash even if it does point out its mistaken spellings.

You are just about to hear something dreadful about the automatic word spell checker. You want to type in one word and that smart alec decides it knows more than you do and puts in another word which may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with the subject of the sentence. Then you send/post a correc-tion and feel like a dofus.

Without a doubt, this is one of the most irritating things modern technology has unleashed upon an unsuspecting public. Cellular telephones seem to be the worst at this, although at least once a day some-one on Facebook has to correct a word that has been changed to one of no sense. But... go back to your parents early child-hood or your grandparents early childhood or even my early childhood.

Late one night while doing an assign for composition class, I made a mistake at the end where the bells were to be tolling. By the time I got it corrected I had erased a hole in the manuscript. Professor Snarf was not amused. Overall, we are so much better off than people of 100 years ago or even 50 years ago. Nossir, I would not want to go back--except for the traffic.

Modern Technology

Is So Good For You

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IdiotBy Jim Mullen

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