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Capital One to pay $210M over marketing tacticsWASHINGTON (AP)

— The Obama administra-tion’s consumer watchdog agency flexed its enforce-ment muscles for the first time Wednesday and ordered Capital One Bank to repay millions of credit card customers allegedly tricked into buying costly add-on services.

Capital One will pay $210 million in refunds and regulatory fines. Most of the money will go directly to customers.

The bank’s phone-sales

operators told customers that services like payment protection and credit moni-toring were free or manda-tory or offered more ben-efits than they did, federal officials said.

The hard selling targeted people with poor credit, they said.

The order against Capital One is the first enforcement action by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, set up a year ago to protect consum-ers from excessive or hid-

den fees and other financial threats.

Capital One will pay up to $150 million to 2.5 million customers, $25 million to the CFPB and $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a separate fed-eral agency that oversees its banking operations.

“Consumers deserve to be treated fairly by their credit card issuer,” CFPB director Richard Cordray told reporters. He said the problems are not isolated

at Capital One and said he expects announcements about other companies.

CFPB officials observed heavy-handed sales tactics by workers at Capital One call centers as they moni-tored the bank’s operations, the agency said in its order.

Agency officials reviewed records and phone scripts, interviewed managers and listened to taped calls with customers, the agency said. The CFPB can oversee the biggest banks and certain other companies by sta-

tioning employees at their offices.

Customers were trans-ferred to the call centers when they phoned to acti-vate their credit cards, the order said. For most cus-tomers, that meant a two-minute process without any ads for extra products. But people with subprime cards or lower credit limits endured eight-minute pitch-es by live operators while they were waiting for the card to be activated.

Call center operators

often ignored scripts and instructions provided by Capital One, the CFPB’s order said. Capital One is being held responsible because of “ineffective over-sight,” it said.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, who heads the OCC, said banks’ management of out-side vendors is “an area we have identified as an increasingly significant risk,” especially for big

Cumberland River candidate for nomination for Emerging Artists of the YearNola SizemoreStaff Writer

Rural Rhythm Records recently announced Cumberland River band are now candidates for nomination for the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year, along with band member James Dean for Banjo Player of the Year.

“The International Bluegrass Music Association voting process is a three ballot system,”

said Rural Rhythm Records Publicist Penni McDaniel. “Only artists that make the final third ballot, which comes out in August, are considered nominated. Most don’t realize that Cumberland River, formed just three short years ago as this hot young group, is all over the place. They have had eight songs featured on the hit FX Network TV show Justified; signed with Rural Rhythm Records, who released their first national album, The Way

We Live; have two music video releases; and recent-ly added yet another lead vocalist, Brad Gulley to the band, which totals three lead vocalists for this hot young group. As if they weren’t busy enough, James Dean recently kicked off a new radio show on WSWV 105.5 Radio in Pennington Gap, Va., which airs every Wednesday from 7 p.m. — 11 p.m.”

Dean said he is “absolute-ly delighted” to be a can-didate for nomination for

Banjo Player of the Year.“I never would have

expected it in a million years,” said Dean. “I’m very humbled. As far as the band being a candidate for Emerging Artist of the Year I’d like to say we have worked very hard and this is just like icing on the cake for the hard work we have put into our music. If it doesn’t go any further than this, we’re very honored that the International Bluegrass Music Association thought enough of us to put us up

for nomination. I’m so glad this has happened for all of us. I know Justin, Brad, Dustin, Joey and Jamie have put hours and hours in away from their families and this is what it is for.”

Cumberland River band includes the talents of James Dean (banjo, lead & harmony vocals), Joey Jones (bass), Dustin Middleton (mandolin, lead & harmony vocals), Jamie Stewart (Dobro, harmony vocals) and Brad Gulley (guitar, lead & harmony

vocals). All five band mem-bers contribute their song-writing talents to the band’s music.

“The group heads back to The Curve Studio with producer Steve Gulley in just a few weeks to record their highly anticipated new album, which will no doubt again showcase the group’s songwriting and vocal tal-ents,” said McDaniel.

Reach Nola Sizemore at 606-573-4510 or at nsize-more@heartlandpublica-tions.com.

Tourist panel hopes for trail town designationNola SizemoreStaff Writer

During a recent meeting of the Evarts Tourist and Convention Commission members wanted the pub-lic to know the purpose of tourist commissions is to do all things necessary for the promotion, adver-tisement and publication of information relating to tourist attractions within its jurisdiction, along with providing activities for its citizens to enjoy.

“Every year the Evarts Tourist Commission gives back to the city of Evarts and all of Clover Fork through the tourism taxes paid,” said acting chair-person Sydney Johnson. “Every year the Evarts Tourist Commission pro-vides free fireworks, a Labor Day Festival with free music to enjoy along with free inflatables for the kids. We organize and host Fourth of July and Christmas parades with prizes given out. We work hard to beautify our city and provide things for

everyone on Clover Fork to enjoy. Each member of the commission takes their position seriously and hopes each member of the community is, in turn, proud of the efforts being put forth by this commis-sion to enrich their lives. “

Also discussed dur-ing the meeting, was a recent presentation made by Kentucky Adventure Tourism Executive Director Elaine Wilson, saying the city lacks one “snag” in obtaining a trail town designation for the city.

“Once we get this one snag taken care of, we have a really great chance of obtaining this designa-tion,” said city clerk Kristi Lamb. “The snag is Kelly Street, it’s a state roadway and it takes you to the head of Baileys Creek. The city limits stop near the RV park in north Evarts and from there to the end of the road is our snag. It’s approximately .9 tenths of

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Smith announces partnership at meetingMorgan HensleyStaff Writer

Evarts City Council held their monthly meeting Tuesday evening. Several topics were discussed and decided upon during this meeting.

Bookkeeper David Smith read his monthly report which was approved. Smith then stated he would be tak-ing a year off from doing the taxes for the city of Evarts.

“I’m not taking a break from doing bookkeeping. I’m taking a break from doing taxes,”said Smith. “Troy Gaw & Associates and I will be combining offices. It’s nice to have someone handle payroll so my office can tackle more important issues.”

Police Chief Lupe Blas gave the monthly police report for June 2012 noting many different topic. One of which being Officer William

Clogston will graduate from the Department of Criminal Justice Basic training July 2o.

“We are proud of him,” said Chief Blas. “He was really committed to this. It isn’t easy to go through this course.”

Chief Blas brought to the attention of the council a small problem the city is facing. There have been sev-eral juvenile curfew viola-tors within the past month.

“How we’re dealing with them is we are picking them up and giving them rides home,” said Blas. “We tell their parents that there may be charges later on. We are doing our best to deal with this situation.”

Area recruiter for the Appalachian ChalleNGe Academy Dexter Day was present at the meeting ask-

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SKCTC hosts flag dedication ceremony

A flag dedication ceremony took place on the Cumberland campus of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College on Wednesday. Three flags were raised during the event — the SKCTC flag by Southeast stu-dents, the Kentucky flag by employees of the college and the American flag by the Harlan County JROTC. Members of the Harlan County JROTC unfolded the American flag during the ceremony.

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STATE/REGIONPolice searching for man who escaped from custody

HARRODSBURG (AP) — Police in central Kentucky are searching for a man who escaped from the back of an officer’s car.

WKYT-TV reports that 26-year-old Austin Howell broke the window in the back seat of a police cruiser early Wednesday morning and got away from police in Harrodsburg.

The station reported that police had arrested Howell on an emergency protective order for domes-tic violence. Officers say he was last seen wearing pajama pants and cowboy boots. He is white, 6-foot-2 and about 190 pounds.

Police say they didn’t handcuff Howell because he had wrist wounds.

Vermont cancels Mass. jail contractMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A year after Vermont

inmates at a Massachusetts jail rioted over condi-tions there, Vermont has discontinued the contract under which it sent inmates there.

Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito says the Franklin County Jail and House of Detention in Greenfield reduced the number of Vermont inmates it would take from about 100 to below 50. He says at that point, it didn’t make sense to contin-ue the contract, which was allowed to expire June 30.

Vermont inmates rioted at the jail last July, amid complaints about conditions at the facility.

Pallito says Vermont had put out a request for pro-posals for jails near Vermont to house inmates from the state, but nothing satisfactory was found.

That means Vermont’s out-of-state inmates now go to private prisons in Kentucky and Arizona.

Searchers find no body in river after report

HAZARD (AP) — A search has ended for a woman possibly missing in the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.

WYMT-TV in Hazard reported Pike County Technical Rescue was called out by the Kentucky State Police and crews spent seven hours searching the river on Tuesday. Squad Capt. Nee Jackson said someone had reported seeing the body of a woman in the river.

The reported sighting was near the Nolan Toll Bridge between Pike County and Mingo County, W. Va. The search came up empty and Jackson said it was over unless new information came in to police.

Boater dies after vessel capsizesWICKLIFFE (AP) — A southern Illinois man has

died after the boat he was in capsized on the Ohio River.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources spokesman Sgt. Garry Clark said two men, who were experi-enced boaters, had launched their vessel Tuesday morning to fish near the wickets of Dam 53. He says they were pulled into the structure as they tried to pull up anchor and their boat capsized, throwing them into turbulent water.

Ballard County Emergency Manager director Anita Bugg said one man was hit in the head and knocked unconscious when the boat flipped.

Clark said another fisherman found the scene and was able to rescue one man and retrieve the body of the other. Their identities were not released.

Americans on no-fly list allowed to learn to fly

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security offi-cials say that U.S. citizens who are banned from fly-ing on airplanes because they’re considered a terror threat are not prohibited from learning how to fly at the nation’s flight schools.

The security loophole was raised during a hearing before the House Homeland Security committee, when some lawmakers were surprised to hear that anyone on the no-fly list would be allowed to for-mally learn to fly a plane in the U.S., despite lessons learned by law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

After the attacks, more security checks were put in place for foreigners who want to attend U.S. flight schools, but U.S. citizens have not been subject to the same review.

OBITUARIESWilliam Bledsoe

William P. Bledsoe, age 60 of Cumberland passed away at his residence on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, after a long illness.

He was born January 21, 1952 to the late Emory and Martha Hogg Bledsoe in Lynch.

William was disabled but had worked 20 years for Southern Industrial Construction Company. He believed in the Baptist faith and was a member of The American Legion.

In addition to his par-ents, William is preceded in death by his brothers, James (Hollywood) Bledsoe and Jeff Bledsoe; one sister, Dolly Ann Dyer; and one grandchild, Madison Crow.

He is survived by his wife, Donna McKnight Bledsoe; children, Kristie McKnight of Benham, William (Buddy)

McKnight and Stephanie Crow of Cumberland, Lori McKnight of Cumberland, Sharon (Leroy) Monk of Mount Vernon, Melinda (Melvin) Powell of Mount Vernon, and William (Teresa) Bledsoe of Ovenfork; one brother, Chuck Bledsoe of Whitesburg; grandchildren, Mathew Hughes, Kadence Crow, Evan Crow, Jacob Banks, Jonathan Marlow, Matthew Marlow, Cody Monk, Jordan Powell, Aliyah Powell, William Tyler Bledsoe, Sean Bledsoe and Kylie Bledsoe; one great-grandchild; and a host of family and friends who will mourn his passing.

A memorial service will be held in the chapel of the Tri City Funeral Home on Friday, July 20, 2012, at 2 pm with RB Browning officiating. Interment will follow in the Peaceful Acres

Cemetery at Hiram, KY.You may leave online

condolences for the family at www.harlanobits.net.

Tri City Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Sandra WilderSandra Farmer Wilder,

of Martinsville, Ind., passed away unexpectedly on July 16, 2012.

She was preceeded in death by her mother and father, Hazel and Fred Farmer and a brother, Tommy Farmer.

She is survived by her husband Ed Smith Wilder, daughters Paige Carey, Kelly Leibrandt (Troy), Lisa Bennett Grandchildren Bri Leibrandt, Katie, Kyle and Carson Bennett and Great Grandchildren Kenadie Rae Schultz and Blane Oakley O’Neal. Sister

Carol Dawn Bryant (Bob), niece and nephews and many extended family and friends.

The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 21 at Carlisle Branson Funeral Home in Mooresville, Ind. with calling there on Friday, July 20 from 4-8pm.

Leisha HallLeisha Hall age 49 of

Baxter, KY passed away on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at Harlan ARH.

Visitation will be Saturday, July 21, 2012 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Mount Pleasant Funeral Home.

Graveside services will be private.

Other arrangements are incomplete at this time.

Mount Pleasant Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

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a mile stretch of roadway.”Lamb said a map is being

prepared showing the road-way in question. She said during Wilson’s recent pre-sentation she said once she has this map she will take a request to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the county to see if this small portion of road-way can be designated a county road, which is ATV friendly.

“The city can’t afford to annex the roadway, so this is our best option,” said Lamb. “If we can get pass this speed bump, then we can become a trail town city. Once we get this des-ignation, we are looking at free marketing across the state and nation”

“If our county govern-ment wants tourism in this county, they’ll have to go along with this,” said Johnson. “Being designated as a trail town will be such an honor for Harlan County as a whole. We’re all in this

together across the county. By working together and promoting our county as a whole will benefit every-

one. We sincerely hope members of the fiscal court will consider this and help us in obtaining this desig-

nation.”In other commission

action planning began on the upcoming sixth annual Labor Day Festival, which will be held on Sept. 1 from noon until 10 p.m. Prices were set for booths as fol-lows: water and electric needed $20, water only $10, electric only $10 and neither $10. The booth size is 10 feet by 10 feet. All applications are due by Aug. 30. Set up will begin at 10 a.m. This year’s event will also feature fireworks. Any questions or to reserve a booth, you may call 837-0609.

Also approved was to combine with Harlan and Cumberland Tourist com-missions in the purchase of a total 100,000 11 X 17 full color, folded in half then tri-folded gloss text tourism brochures.

Reach Nola Sizemore at 606-573-4510 or at nsize-more@heartlandpublica-tions.com.

Acting chairperson Sydney Johnson asked during a recent meeting that everyone across the county work together to promote Harlan County as a whole.

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ing council members to help get the word out that the academy needs community support. Day also expressed the need for mentors as well.

“One thing we need is support from our commu-nities. We need mentors. Mentors are very important for the program. We need to keep these kids on track,” said Day. “We want to help the kids that are failing in school and are close to dropping out. The academy opens this Sunday and we

will be enrolling kids until then. So if you know anyone who may meet that criteria — please encourage them to talk to me. I will come to them.”

Also approved during the meeting was a petition by the residents of Keister Spur Street in North Evarts to make their street a dead end. During the past school year there have been noted damages done to proprieties along that street by motorist trying to pass each in such a

narrow lane.Council members also

approved their official support to obtain a new veterans hospital facility located within the Central Appalachia area. As of now, veterans must travel to

Lexington or out of state for medical attention or hospi-talization.

Reach Morgan Hensley at 606-573-4510 or mhens-ley@heartlandpublication.com.

Due to a line break in Pineville, Black Mountain Utility District has issued a boil-water advisory for the Bledsoe area (systemwide).

Bring water to a rolling boil for one minute before consumption until further notice.

Boil advisory issued

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banks.Call center operators

told customers that buying a product would improve their credit scores or cred-it limits, the CFPB said. Operators misled callers about the products’ costs and sold them to people who were not eligible for their benefits, the agency said.

For example, operators sold “payment protection” that would cancel some cred-it card debt if the customer became sick or unemployed. But the buyers sometimes were already sick or jobless, so they could never collect on a claim.

The settlement also cites credit monitoring products with names like Credit Inform and ID Alert that are supposed to monitor people’s credit records and sometimes reimburse them for lost wages or other expenses related to identity theft.

Banks are pushing the extra services as they scram-ble to replace profits lost because of recent limits on fees they can charge and how cards can be marketed. Industry officials argue that the limits are encourag-ing banks to come up with increasingly obscure, diffi-cult-to-detect ways of charg-ing customers.

CFPB enforcement chief Kent Markus said the agen-cy wants to “make it more costly to violate the law than to comply with it.”

“We want to discourage

the harmful practices from occurring to begin with,” he said.

People with lower credit scores and lower credit lim-its typically have less cash available as a cushion before they start incurring fees on cards, loans and other bills. They are more likely to buy financial products in error because of misunderstand-ings, independent research shows.

The regulators’ charges hinge on the consumer bureau’s allegation that Capital One’s phone sales workers were “deceptive” in selling the add-on services. The CFPB can charge com-panies engaged in “unfair, deceptive or abusive prac-tices.”

Banks and consumer groups have been locked in a public battle about how the young agency would use that power. Wednesday’s action provided the first clear clues about its plans. The CFPB held Capital One responsible for the behavior of a third-party vendor, a rare but not unheard-of deci-sion by federal regulators.

The CFPB’s action was also notable for requiring automatic refunds to con-sumers who allegedly were duped — a simple process compared with the time and paperwork involved in most class-action settlements.

Regulators did allow Capital One to settle the matter without admitting or denying any of the facts that they alleged. Bank critics

have complained about the use of similar language by the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle high-profile charges.

They say the process lets banks buy their way out of problems and avoid deeper scrutiny.

In addition to the refunds, Capital One agreed to stop selling the products until it can provide a plan that is acceptable to regulators. The response will be moni-tored by an independent auditor.

Most of the refunds will go to customers who bought add-on card services between August 2010 and January 2012.

They will receive the full amount of fees they paid and any other related costs. Capital One customers will receive credit to their accounts; former customers will receive checks.

The CFPB’s action solidi-fies the standing of an agen-cy whose very existence remains a subject of stiff debate on Capitol Hill.

Republicans wanted it to be run by a bipartisan com-mission instead of an inde-pendent director and want-ed Congress to have power over the agency’s budget. The agency’s champions said it needed independence to avoid outside influence.

Republicans delayed some of the agency’s powers by holding up the appoint-ment of Cordray, a former Ohio state attorney general.

President Barack Obama

installed Cordray in January, using his presidential authority to make appoint-ments while the Senate is not in session. Republicans say that appointment was not valid.

Banks and their Republican allies have said the agency’s broad powers will prevent banks from issuing new products and will increase costs for cus-tomers. Cordray told report-ers the agency is sticking to issues that clearly violate the law and hurt consumers.

“We are not going to be bringing enforcement actions on small or technical matters where they’re in the gray area,” he said.

Capital One blamed the third-party vendor for vio-lating its instructions. Still, Capital One card division president Ryan Schneider apologized to customers in a statement, adding, “We are accountable for actions that vendors take on our behalf.”

The consumer bureau, created under the Obama administration’s 2010 finan-cial overhaul law, is the first federal regulator focused on protecting consumers rather than on ensuring that banks are stable and profitable.

Among the other card companies that might be in the CFPB’s sights, Discover Financial Services said last month that it had been sub-poenaed by the CFPB and another federal regulator over its fee-based products, including payment protec-tion.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012 Harlan Daily Enterprise — Page 3Court News District court cases

The following cases have been heard in Harlan District Court, Judge Jeff Brock pre-siding.

James C. Southard, 20, second-degree trafficking a controlled substance — waived to grand jury.

Frank T. Price, 33, operat-ing vehicle on suspended/ revoked operator’s license — failed to appear for hearing.

Stephanie Ellis, 27, driving on a DUI-suspended license, failure to produce insurance card — failed to appear for hearing.

Johnathan Melvin Caldwell, 29, no operator’s/moped license — pleaded guilty, fined $50 (court costs waived).

Casey D. Turner, 25, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to produce insurance card, fail-ure of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance, failure to wear seat belt — failed to appear for hearing.

James C. Southard, 20, second-degree trafficking a controlled substance — waived to grand jury.

Suzanne R. Powell, 33, theft by unlawful taking (shoplifting) — continued for arraignment.

Judy Bledsoe, 54, first-degree trafficking a con-trolled substance — waived to grand jury.

James C. Southard, 20, first-degree trafficking a con-trolled substance — waived to grand jury.

William C. Miles, 33, failure to produce insur-ance card, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registra-tion receipt, failure of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance, improp-er registration plate — first charge, pleaded guilty, fined $158; other charges dis-missed.

David M. Jones, 58, sec-ond-degree assault, menac-ing, second-degree disor-derly conduct — waived to grand jury.

Kristie Middleton, 22, res-ident hunting/trapping with-out a license/permit, hunting without a hunter’s education course completion card — pleaded guilty, fined $100 (court costs waived).

Jesse J. Clayborne, 18, hunting without a hunter’s education course completion card — failed to appear for hearing.

Stefanie A. McCall-Spencer, 41, speeding (15 miles per hour over the limit), expired or no reg-istration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to register transfer of a motor vehicle, resident registered/titled vehicle in other state — con-tinued for arraignment Aug. 20.

Tiffany Carver, 25, third-degree terroristic threaten-ing — failed to appear for hearing.

Daniel L. Cornett, 25, careless driving, operat-ing vehicle on suspended/ revoked operator’s license — failed to appear for hearing.

Edward D. Maggard, 35, failure to produce insurance card, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt — dis-missed.

Heather N. Suttles, 21, no operator’s/moped license, license plate not illuminated, failure to produce insur-ance card — continued for arraignment Oct. 1.

Daniel J. Myers Jr., 37, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, expired or no registration plate — failed to appear for hearing.

Evelyn C. Perkins, 34, speeding (15 miles per hour over the limit), failure to produce insurance card, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security — failed to appear for hear-ing.

Daniel Cornett, 25, speed-ing (15 miles per hour over the limit), operating vehicle on suspended/ revoked operator’s license, failure to use child restraint device in vehicle, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security — failed to appear for hearing.

Leslie Saylor, 20, no operator’s/moped license — pleaded guilty, fined $50 (court costs waived).

Brandon Mynhier, 22, failure to produce insurance

card, improper equipment — failed to appear for hear-ing.

Angela M. Cooper, 25, booster seat violations, fail-ure to notify address change to the transportation depart-ment — failed to appear for hearing.

Joe A. Monroe, 39, oper-ating vehicle on suspended/revoked operator’s license, failure to wear seat belt — first charge, pleaded guilty, fined $50 (court costs waived); other charge dis-missed.

Jeremy J. Halcomb, 23, operating vehicle with expired operator’s license, obstructed vision and/or windshield — failed to appear for hearing.

Rhonda J. Brock, 51, alco-hol intoxication in a public place — pleaded guilty, fined $25 (court costs waived).

Larry W. Thomas, 33, alcohol intoxication in a public place, second-degree criminal trespassing — con-tinued for arraignment.

Harvey Middleton, 31, public intoxication of a con-trolled substance (excludes alcohol), third-degree pos-session of a controlled sub-stance — pleaded guilty, fined $125 (court costs waived).

Christopher Sargent, 21, second-degree criminal mis-chief, fourth-degree assault (minor injury) — pretrial conference set July 23.

Wayne Shipman, 45, third-degree terroristic threaten-ing — pleaded guilty, fined $50 and 90 days in jail (pro-bated 24 months, court costs waived).

Jonathan L. Bowling, 26, operating vehicle on suspended/revoked opera-tor’s license, possession of a controlled substance, pos-session of marijuana, driving under the influence of alco-hol/drugs — pretrial confer-ence set July 23.

William R. Jennings, 35, failure of owner to main-tain required insurance/security, expired or no reg-istration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to register transfer of a motor vehicle, improper registration plate — first charge, pleaded guilty, fined $633; other charges dismissed.

Thomas J. Daniels, 30, failure to produce insur-ance card, failure of owner to maintain required insur-ance/security, failure to register transfer of a motor vehicle — first charge, pleaded guilty, fined $50 (court costs waived); other charges dismissed.

Todd W. Parker, 47, speeding (25 miles per hour over the limit), reckless driv-ing — continued for arraign-ment.

Rebecca Combs, 24, license to be in possession, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, failure to produce insurance card, improper equipment — dismissed.

Daniel Cornett, 25, expired or no registra-tion plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to use child restraint device in vehicle, failure to wear seat belt, fail-ure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, operating vehicle on sus-pended/revoked operator’s license — failed to appear for hearing.

Joshua C. Stanton, 19, speeding (15 miles per hour over the limit), careless driv-

ing, improper equipment, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt — dis-missed on warning and proof.

Paul Rouse, 21, speeding (15 miles per hour over the limit), failure to produce insurance card, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, failure to notify address change to the transportation depart-ment — failed to appear for hearing.

Vernon D. Vandagriff, 35, no operator’s/moped license — continued for arraign-ment.

David Ball, 26, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, failure to give or improper signal, oper-ating vehicle on suspended/revoked operator’s license, expired or no Kentucky reg-istration receipt, expired or no registration plate, failure to produce insurance card, no operator’s/moped license — first three charges, plead-ed guilty, fined $600 (court costs waived); other charges dismissed.

Diana L. Fuson, 26, expired or no registra-tion plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to produce insurance card — continued for arraignment.

Anthony S. Smith, 37, fail-ure to wear seat belt, disre-garding stop sign, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security — dis-missed.

Heather Middleton, 23, failure of non-owner opera-tor to maintain required insurance, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, speeding (18 miles per hour over the limit), failure to produce insurance card, license to be in pos-session — continued for arraignment Aug. 13.

Jennifer D. Mullins, 39, speeding (20 miles per hour over the limit), expired or no Kentucky registration receipt — first charge, plead-ed guilty, fined $133 and sentenced to traffic school; other charge dismissed.

Billy R. Price, 44, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to wear seat belt — first charge, amended to no insurance card, pleaded guilty, fined $50 (court costs waived); other charges dis-missed.

Timothy Nolan, 27, fail-ure to wear seat belt, no operator’s/moped license, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, expired or no Kentucky reg-istration receipt, failure to notify address change to the transportation department, license to be in possession — continued for arraign-ment.

Brian Sargent, 27, license to be in possession, fail-ure to register transfer of a motor vehicle, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt — dismissed.

John D. Zunda, 20, failure to wear seat belt, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, expired or no Kentucky registra-tion receipt, failure to notify address change to the trans-portation department — continued for arraignment.

James B. Holland, 55, fail-ure to wear seat belt, failure to produce insurance card, expired or no Kentucky reg-

istration receipt, improper equipment — continued for arraignment.

Andrea M. Pruitt, 21, instructional permit vio-lations, failure to produce insurance card, failure of non-owner operator to main-tain required insurance, no operator’s/moped license, expired or no Kentucky reg-istration receipt — contin-ued for arraignment.

Robert Thompson, 43, license to be in posses-sion, expired or no regis-tration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure of owner to maintain required insur-ance/security, failure to produce insurance card, fail-ure to register transfer of a motor vehicle — continued for arraignment.

Joshua B. Collins, 25, speeding (10 miles per hour over the limit), failure to wear seat belt, obstructed vision and/or windshield, failure to produce insurance card — first charge, pleaded guilty, fined $153; other charges dismissed.

Joseph R. Peace, 21, fail-ure to wear seat belt, operat-ing vehicle on suspended/ revoked operator’s license, failure to produce insur-ance card — continued for arraignment Aug. 20.

Mitchell A. Haynes, 31, failure of owner to main-tain required insurance/security, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registra-tion receipt — first charge, amended to failure to pro-duce insurance card, plead-ed guilty, fined $158; other charges dismissed.

Cody L. Wynn, 26, fail-ure to wear seat belt, failure to produce insurance card, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security — continued for arraign-ment.

Tabatha A. Shumate, 26, expired or no Kentucky reg-istration receipt, expired or no registration plate — con-tinued for arraignment.

Billy Hickson, 26, failure to wear seat belt, failure

of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance — continued for arraign-ment.

Elmer B. Stevens, 25, operating vehicle with one headlight, license plate not illuminated, expired or no registration plate, expired or no Kentucky registration receipt, failure to produce insurance card — dismissed.

Tabitha R. North, 35, fail-ure to wear seat belt, failure to produce insurance card, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security — continued for arraign-ment.

Civil lawsuitsThe following civil law-

suits were filed recently in the office of Harlan Circuit Court Clerk Paul F. Williams.

Megan J. Lucas vs. Jeffrey A. Lucas II — child support and medical insurance.

Dezzie M. Cornett vs. Evan J. Cornett — child support and medical insur-ance.

Tonya L. Risner vs. David M. Risner — child support and medical insurance.

Margaret A. Hensley vs. James E. Lawson — child support and medical insur-ance.

Margaret A. Hensley vs. Kendra S. Farmer — child support and medical insur-ance.

Royce Wynn, et al., vs. Anvil Vanover, et al. — con-tract dispute.

Portfolio Recovery Associates vs. Marybelle Morgan — contract dispute.

Discover Bank vs. Debra C. Maiden — contract dis-pute.

Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company vs. Jonathan McMillon, et al. — contract dispute.

RBS Citizens vs. Elizabeth Mills — contract dispute.

LVNV Funding vs. Billy Blevins — contract dispute.

James Ronnie Farley vs. Bridgett J. Edwards — cus-tody.

Jeffrey Belcher vs. Stephanie Turner — cus-tody.

Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kentucky Commission vs. Housing Authority of Harlan — dis-crimination.

Katina Coots Middleton vs. Alexander Victor Middleton — dissolution of marriage.

Alex Jonathan Hall vs. Stephanie Ann Hall — dis-solution of marriage.

Charles Shane Fields vs. Stephanie Leann Fields — dissolution of marriage.

Elizabeth Dewie Michelle Perkins vs. Jonathan Eric Perkins — dissolution of marriage.

James Brock vs. Regina Maria Brock — dissolution of marriage.

Joseph Kochin vs. Cindy K. Kochin — dissolution of marriage.

Lavondia Rue Morris vs. Clay Allen Morris — dis-solution of marriage.

Lisa Grubbs vs. Paul Buell — domestic and family.

Bank of America vs. Johnnie Jones, et al. — fore-closure.

Household Finance Corporation II vs. Justin E. Earley, et al. — foreclosure.

GMAC Mortgage vs. Casper O. Cornett, et al. — foreclosure.

Candace L. Long vs. Nathan R. Haywood — medical insurance.

Amanda Eldridge vs. Anthony D. Cress — medi-cal insurance.

Robin Shepherd vs. Macky D. Sullivan — medi-cal insurance.

Jack Brian Hale II vs. Matthew Ray Alred — per-sonal injury.

Tax Ease Lien Servicing vs. unknown heirs of Joseph Black, et al. — taxes.

Tax Ease Lien Servicing vs. Charles James Brock, et al. — taxes.

Tax Ease Lien Servicing vs. Jerry Osborne Jr., et al. — taxes.

Tax Ease Lien Servicing vs. Justin Earley, et al. — taxes.

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Other Viewpoints

Word that the number of new black lung diagnoses has doubled in the last decade underscores the need for the Obama administration to move quickly on new, more stringent federal mine safety regulations limiting the amount of breathable coal dust found in the nation’s coal mines.

An investigation by National Public Radio, the Center for Public Integrity and the Charleston Gazette found that systems in place to protect coal miners have failed because of a number of problems ranging from lax enforcement to operators who cheat on dust tests to lawmakers who won’t toughen inadequate 43-year-old dust standards.

While the numbers are shocking, it should come as no surprise that the regulations currently in place aren’t protecting miners despite the great hope that the disease could be wiped out when the first dust standards were put in place in 1969. …

The Courier-Journal reported last month that black lung is striking not only underground miners in Kentucky but that 5.7 percent of surface miners tested had the disease.

A report by The Courier-Journal in 1998 found wide-spread fraud among coal operators who submitted false air samples to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

That 1998 series of stories resulted in mine operators being indicted for fraud and other actions designed to fix the problems. …

It seems like a no-brainer. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended in 1995 that MSHA reduce the amount of allowable coal dust from 2 milligrams per cubic meter to one milligram.

MSHA director Joseph Main’s proposed regulation, which does just that, is currently awaiting approval by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. If she signs it, the regulation then goes to the Office of Management and Budget for final approval.

Unfortunately, Kentucky miners can’t expect help from the state’s U.S. senators on this matter.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has always seemed more interested in protecting coal-mining profits — and by extension, coal-mining jobs — than protecting coal miners’ health.

And Sen. Rand Paul publicly questioned the need for tougher coal dust standards at a Senate committee meet-ing more than a year ago. …

Solis needs to act quickly to protect coal miners.Putting an end to this scourge and saving 1,500 lives a

year is not too burdensome in a country that is supposed to value life.

– The Courier-Journal, Louisville

Stronger regulations needed for black lung disease

The Associated PressToday is Thursday, July 19, the 201st day of 2012.

There are 165 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On July 19, 1812, during the War of 1812, the First

Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.

On this date:In 1553, King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was pro-

claimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.

In 1848, a pioneer women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war began.In 1943, allied air forces raided Rome during World

War II.In 1952, the Summer Olympics opened in Helsinki,

Finland.In 1961, TWA became the first airline to begin showing

regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers.

In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Obama against self-made manIf Bartlett’s ever puts

together a collection of insultingly deflating quo-tations, it should include President Barack Obama’s take on business success before a crowd in Virginia the other day: “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.”

Obama was explaining — as is his wont — why the rich should pay more taxes. They might have had a great teacher. Or they drive on public roads and bridges. “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that,” the president explained, apparently in the serene confidence that he wasn’t speaking to an audience bristling with proud business owners. “Somebody else made that happen.”

The Obama theory of entrepreneurship is that behind every success-ful businessman, there is a successful government. Everyone is helpless with-out the state, the great pro-tector, builder and innova-tor. Everything is ultimate-ly a collective enterprise. Individual initiative is only an ingredient in the more important work when “we do things together.”

The Obama riff is a direct steal from Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat Senate candidate in Massachusetts who sent

liberal hearts aflutter by throwing the same wet towel on the notion of individual success a few months ago. The Obama/Warren view is a warrant for socialization of the pro-ceeds of success. Behind its faux sophistication is a faculty-lounge disdain for business, and all those who make more than tenured professors by excelling at it. Behind its smiley we’re-all-in-it-together facade is a frank demand: You owe us.

For that most American figure of the self-made man, exemplified most famous-ly by Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln, President Obama wants to substitute the figure of the guy who happened to get lucky while not paying his fair share in taxes. What a dreary and pinched view

of human endeavor. What a telling insight into his animating philosophy.

In his Virginia remarks, greeted with warm applause, Obama took down a notch anyone who has made it: “I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than every-body else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardwork-ing people out there.”

True enough, and we should value the dignity of all work, no matter how humble. But the hallmark of the man of extraordinary accomplishment isn’t sim-ply work. Some of us may work as hard as Steve Jobs.

Few of us are as sin-gle- minded, risk-taking, shrewd or visionary. Millions of us could work 12-hour days for years, yet never come up with the idea for the iPad, let alone successfully manufacture and market it.

To redefine Steve Jobs as the product of the (nec-essary and unremarkable) infrastructure and govern-ment services around him is to devalue human cre-ativity.

The Obama formulation goes something like this: Steve Jobs couldn’t get to

work every day without roads; he couldn’t drive safely on those roads with-out a well-regulated system of driver’s licenses; ergo, the San Jose, Calif., DMV practically built Apple.

And the likes of Steve Jobs had better pay higher taxes to fund the founda-tions of their greatness. Needless to say, no man is an island. We are a prod-uct of our families, schools and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate. But the president believes that among the highest expressions of patriotism are a 39.6 per-cent top individual tax rate and a 25 percent capital-gains rate.

There are few phrases that President Obama likes less than “on your own.” He considers it a lie when people think they’ve made it on their own, and he thinks that the most damn-ing thing that can be said about the Republican vision is that it will leave people on their own. For him, “we’re in this togeth-er,” and the inspiring institution embodying that togetherness is none other than the Internal Revenue Service.

RIch LowryColumnist

Voltaire’s advice — tend your own gardenFISHTRAP HOLLOW,

Miss. — I take my calcium, make my bed, left click and read about another movie star’s divorce, the woman with the world’s largest breasts and the posthu-mous Paterno scandal.

I am learning, along with the rest of the recalcitrant world, how to read news online.

Bored quickly with all that, I realize that the older I get, the more I want to follow Voltaire’s sage advice and simply tend my own garden. That’s not a great trait to have in the column-writing game, but, who knows, maybe the few remaining newspaper readers are ready for less crisis and more garden observation. Certain days, it seems to be the case.

It’s easy to be seduced outside on a summer’s day like this one. The grass is still wet from a squall that blew through yesterday, leaving the world refreshed and the leaves “greasy,” as my friend Bailey White once described the look.

The bright-red oilcloth — real oilcloth, not cheap vinyl, mind you — that I

saw in a store window in Flers, France, and had to have, is shining in its wet-ness on the round table by the branch. Even my dogs feel much relieved that, once again, we’ve been saved from becoming a desert. They frolic and engage in mock battle.

Is it selfish to want to sit and listen for the bullfrog that of late has been taking advantage of the pooled-up resources of my drying branch? It’s been a kind of last refuge for the min-nows and frogs and creek critters. Now Mr. Bass

Note has a choice of prime locations, but I’m wonder-ing if he’ll remain loyal to the place that sustained him.

Some days I fear I’m becoming a dotty old woman sort who had rath-er commune with animals than people. It’s easier, that’s for sure. I long ago gave up trying to make chitchat at parties, because I never seem to have read the same books as others, my politics don’t mesh and even my favorite adult beverage seems inelegant as compared to the long-stemmed tastes of others.

Animals don’t judge. Boozoo and Hank only make me feel guilty if I miss their feeding time by one-quarter of a second, or if I don’t stay home with them 24-7. They under-stand me otherwise, and when the majority rules here, I’m always in it.

They also approve of my casual taste in clothes — yoga pants that haven’t actually been worn to a yoga class in two years, a denim shirt with racy rips, rubber clogs two sizes too big and a bandana to swat

flies. I’d have to go shop-ping to look like a bag lady.

I don’t want to stop car-ing about some things. I want always to apply lip-stick daily; it gives the most tired or washed-out face a little color. I hope always to mow the grass when it needs mowing; nothing spells surrender like a seedy lawn. I intend as well to keep a dog or two every day of my life, else what’s the point?

But I just can’t do much about the Big Picture, about the obscenity of college sports or, for that matter, sports in general. I can’t solve the budget problem, or even vote for a political candidate who delivers what he promis-es. I can’t fix poor Tom Cruise’s latest marital failure or figure out what his Church of Scientology believes.

And that poor woman with the world’s largest breasts is on her own.

To find out more about Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnson-books.com.

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5 Social

Special to the EnterpriseThe back-to-school sea-

son is fast approaching. This is a time of school bus traffic on the roads, anxious parents snapping first-day-of-school photos, and chil-dren will meeting their new classmates and forging new friendships.

This time of the year is also one when parents and students must shop for school supplies. Tradition dictates that families will flock to stores after dis-missal and shop for fold-ers, binders, pens and protractors. Caught up in the moment, many shop-pers choose convenience over low prices on school supplies. Parents could end up at the check-out line with a considerable bill to pay, particularly if they are shopping for multiple stu-dents. Buying items in bulk — and sharing the cost —

may be a more affordable option.

Although it can be easy to procrastinate and wait until school starts to buy supplies, it might be pru-dent to shop before the new school year begins. Many teachers, in an attempt to help parents save money, publish school-supply lists online in advance of the school year. Most teachers do not vary their require-ments from year to year, so if your son or daughter has been assigned a teach-er, ask around among last year’s students to see what that teacher requires. This way you can head to the store or comparison shop online at your convenience.

Some supplies are stan-dard regardless of class assignment. These include pens and/or pencils, fold-ers, spiral notebooks, copy paper, loose-leaf paper,

erasers, crayons, markers and highlighters. Purchased individually, the per-unit cost of each item may be higher than purchasing these items in bulk. This is when the advantage of buy-ing in bulk shines through. Here are some helpful hints

for parents about to shop for school supplies.

* Shop for frequently used items in bulk, whether from online wholesalers or through a warehouse store for which you are a mem-ber.

* Collaborate with a few

different school parents to chip in for school supplies. Then one parent does the shopping and splits the sup-plies with the others.

* Keep a stockpile of sup-plies at home. They do not expire, and next year you may not have to shop at all.

* Having extra supplies on hand enables duplicate sets for at home and in school for consistency.

* Some parents like to buy many supplies and then donate some for underprivi-leged children. This time of year manufacturers or retailers could actually donate a portion of school-supply proceeds to some educational organizations.

* Buying larger quanti-ties of supplies could enable you to build up rewards points at certain retail-ers. This may entitle you to future coupons or dol-lar awards that can be put

toward more expensive items, including tablets or graphing calculators.

* Contact the teacher and see if you can volunteer to buy all of the supplies in bulk for the entire class, with each student then pay-ing the required amount. This will save many fami-lies time and effort.

* If you have a friend or family member who is a teacher, find out if he or she can purchase your school supplies. Often teachers are eligible for a discount on school supplies.

* Purchase bulk quan-tities of certain supplies and find out if they can be sold as a fundraiser for the school. A portion of the sales will go to the PTA.

Buying school supplies in bulk can save money and provide an opportunity to give something back to the school community.

Thursday, July 19 2012 Harlan Daily Enterprise — Page 5

Buy school supplies in bulk, save money

Nifty reader tips to consider: Tag —you itchDear Heloise: The Maui

(Hawaii) News gets my day started with “Hints From Heloise.” I want to share this idea. It seems I’m always putting on a piece of clothing with the SCRATCHY LABEL TAG at the neck — ouch! My solution is good old reli-able invisible tape. I tape the label directly to the garment. I have done this many times. Just remem-ber to remove before laun-dering or any other type of cleaning.

Many of the tags have valuable information that I want to keep. Also, consign-ment shops don’t accept usable clothing items with the tags removed.

— Caren N. in Maui, Hawaii

Aloha to you, Caren,

and to all of my friends in Hawaii! Love your hint. However, try leaving the tape on through launder-ing, and you might be sur-prised how long it stays on.

— Mahalo, Heloise

DONATION DETAILSDear Heloise: I recently

remodeled my kitchen and donated my old cabinets, counter, kitchen sink, faucet, dishwasher and range hood to Habitat for Humanity’s resale store. The appliances need to work.

— Donna in Rowlett, Texas

This is a wonderful orga-nization! You can contact a Habitat ReStore in your area for details on donat-ing. They collect reusable and leftover building mate-rials, furniture and appli-ances, which they then sell to the public, with the pro-ceeds going toward build-ing the Habitat houses. For more information, go to www.habitat.org or call 800-HABITAT.

— Heloise

DUSTY DISASTERDear Readers: A friend

was putting in tile flooring when she learned a valu-able lesson. Although she had covered the furniture and shut off the air condi-tioning, she forgot to cover the vents! This created a mess of dust once the air was turned back on!

Many home-remodeling jobs can create a lot of dust. So if you are doing one, cover furniture and tape around air vents, cabi-nets and closets, if needed. Plastic sheets and painter’s tape are invaluable tools for keeping dust to a mini-mum without damaging any paint or finishes.

To clean after a job like this, use the vacuum’s

brush attachment to go over the furniture first, then a microfiber cloth. Trying to wipe debris off finished furniture can dull the finish.

— Heloise

BUTTON HINTDear Heloise: Here is my

quick fix to keep from los-ing buttons on shirts, etc.: Whenever I buy clothes with buttons, I put a little clear nail polish on the thread, and it lasts a long time before the tips of the thread loosen up. I some-times redo the thread as time goes by.

— Irene S. in South Dakota

STORING NONSTICK PANS

Dear Heloise: I have an

idea for storing nonstick fry pans. I took the shelf out of a two-shelf cupboard in my kitchen island. My husband hung a rod across it and bent some hooks for me that circle the rod. I hang all my pans, small to large, on the hooks. The larger pots stack nicely under the shortest fry pans, and the lids under the large skillets. No banging or stacking.

— Sherril in California

Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to: Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column.

HeloiseHints from Heloise

First make sure you are with Him, then you can be sure He’ll be with you.

I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

— Matthew 28:20

BIBLE THOUGHT

It’s the time of year to stock up on pencils, scissors and other school supplies. Purchasing in bulk could save you money.

Federal produce-testing program spared — for now SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

— The nation’s largest produce-safety testing pro-gram narrowly escaped clo-sure thanks to a last-minute grudging reprieve from the Agriculture Department, and finding a permanent solution to keep tainted fruits and vegetables from reaching consumers could take an even bigger effort.

Each year, the tiny pro-gram screens thousands of produce samples. It has found more than two dozen bacteria-laced exam-ples that prompted recalls of lettuce, tomatoes and other foods from grocery stores.

It was at risk of being scrapped after President Barack Obama’s proposed budget slashed the effort’s funding earlier this year. But USDA spokesman

Justin DeJong said late Monday that although the Microbiological Data Program “does not align with USDA’s core mission,” it will operate through December, using existing agreements with states to keep testing for salmonella, E. coli and listeria over the next six months.

Public health officials and food safety advocates have long argued that get-ting rid of the program would leave the country without a crucial tool to investigate outbreaks of deadly foodborne illnesses.

If samples test positive for bacteria, it can trig-ger nationwide recalls and keep contaminated pro-duce from reaching the public.

Dr. Robert Tauxe, the U.S. Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention’s top food-germ investiga-tor, has said the program’s information can be key to pinpointing foods tied to outbreaks, and it could not easily be replaced by com-panies’ internal tests or more modest federal sam-pling programs.

The CDC said contami-nated fruits and vegetables caused nearly one-third of the major multistate food-borne illness outbreaks last year.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., a longtime food safety advocate, said she would continue to push for the program to stay open beyond the year’s end, since the House and Senate have not included any funding for it in their agriculture spending bills.

“I am glad to hear the

program will continue, but a temporary reprieve is not enough,” she said. “It is unacceptable for this cru-cial, cost-effective program to be eliminated.”

Finding more money for the modest program, which cost $4.3 million to run last year, may be tough in this economic cli-mate. The FDA is already squeezed for food safety dollars, receiving so little money for food inspections that some facilities are only

inspected every five to 10 years.

In recent years, industry leaders from United Fresh Produce Association and other major trade groups have repeatedly urged the government to get rid of the USDA program, saying it has cost growers millions of dollars in produce recalls and unfairly targeted farm-ers who aren’t responsible for contaminating the food.

They want the private sector to do more testing,

rather than allowing the USDA to take random samples of fruits and veg-etables at massive grocery store distribution centers, after produce has already left company control.

Ray Gilmer, a United Fresh spokesman, did not immediately comment Monday. He has said the industry supports funding the FDA to do more scien-tifically rigorous tests that would help monitor public health.

‘Ripper’ is tense, terrifying“Ripper: An Event

Group Thriller” (Thomas Dunne Books), by David L. Golemon

The Event Group is the most top-secret orga-nization in the United States. Only the president is authorized to know of its existence. The group works without oversight and has total autonomy. But in “Ripper,” David L. Golemon’s latest thriller to feature the elite team, the Event Group is about to be exposed and destroyed.

A raid on a drug dealer in Mexico unveils a conspiracy going back almost 125 years. It’s a secret so delicate that it’s remained buried since 1888, when a madman was terrorizing London under the name Jack the Ripper. Robert Louis Stevenson tried to reveal the secret to the world, and George

S. Patton tried to bury the truth in 1916 when he was a lieutenant working under orders from President Woodrow Wilson. That truth is about to come out, and their enemies see this as the perfect opportunity to seize the Event Group’s headquarters and kill every last member of the team.

The Event Group works in a manner similar to the Syfy TV series “Warehouse 13,” with historical artifacts kept under lock and key and hidden from the rest of the world. Throw in a mix

of Tom Clancy military-style action and “X-Files” sci-fi wizardry and the result is an explosive com-bination that features the author’s immense imagina-tion. It’s difficult to ground such fantastic science and weirdness in reality, but Golemon makes it look effortless.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto is defending the decision to wait more than two weeks before getting an MRI that found torn car-tilage in his left knee.

The Cincinnati Reds first baseman hurt the knee while sliding into a base on June 29, but didn’t get an MRI because he didn’t think the injury was seri-ous. He kept playing and the knee improved, so he didn’t feel a need for tests.

“I was improving, so I would say nobody’s at fault here,” Votto said on Wednesday.

When the knee got worse over the weekend, he got an MRI that found the tear and led to surgery. He’s expected to miss three to four weeks.

Votto started rehabilita-tion exercises on the knee at Great American Ball Park on Wednesday. He told reporters that he wouldn’t have done anything differ-ently in hindsight.

“I was feeling great,” Votto said, standing on crutches in front of his locker. “Those four days off at the All-Star game, then coming back, I was almost at 85 to 95 percent (when) running. And then all of a sudden, it just started swelling up and it felt like I tweaked something.”

The National League’s 2010 MVP is known for his durability — he played in 161 games last season. He was batting .342 when he went on the 15-day dis-abled list, leading the NL in doubles, walks, on-base per-centage and extra-base hits.

Votto said he felt some-thing in the knee during a 3-2 win over the Cardinals on Saturday night, and it was sore a day later. He had a single and RBI dou-ble during a 4-2 win that completed a sweep of the Cardinals on Sunday, then told the team about the problem.

“I was always taught to

just stay out of the training room, play as much as you can,” Votto said. “If you can play, play. For better or worse, I think in the long run that’s going to pay off for me and hopefully for the Reds. But I healed really quickly after the ini-tial (injury). We were really optimistic, hoping it was just something muscular.

“We’re also trying to stay in first place and win the division. That’s another reason I felt it was wise to wait it out and hopefully heal and help the team.”

The NL Central lead-ers called up outfielder Xavier Paul from Triple-A Louisville before a game against Arizona, giving them a little help with the offense. Like Votto, Paul bats left-handed.

The outfielder went to spring training with Washington and started the season at Triple-A Syracuse.

He was released by the Nationals on July 3 and signed a contract with the Reds last Thursday.

“I had an out with the Nationals, and I chose to take my chances with another club,” Paul said. “The Nationals were great to me. They have a great bunch of guys, and they could win it. It’s just that I needed a change. It worked out.”

Paul gives the Reds a lit-tle more speed in the lineup as well, something they’ll need while they try to get by without Votto.

“Right now, we’ve got to change our game a little bit because we don’t have that power in the middle of the lineup with Joey out,” manager Dusty Baker said.

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Ky, coach says program will rebound quickly HOOVER, Ala. (AP)

— Kentucky coach Joker Phillips believes last year’s mediocre season is a minor bump on the road to consis-tent success.

The Wildcats played in five straight bowl games from 2006 to ‘10, but regressed to a 5-7 record last season. They ended the year on a high note, beat-ing Tennessee for the first time since 1984, but must replace many key players.

At Southeastern Conference Media Days on Wednesday, Phillips said Kentucky had done a good job of stocking quality

young players during the bowl streak and “now those guys have to go out and play.”

Phillips said several inex-perienced players made important plays during the program’s 2-2 finish to the 2011 season, particularly in the galvanizing Tennessee victory, and that bodes well for the coming fall.

“There were a lot of young kids making plays for us late in the season, espe-cially the last four games,” Phillips said. “You look out there, the last game, prob-ably four or five true fresh-men were playing for us on defense.”

Kentucky returns 11 starters, including receiver La’Rod King and quarter-back Morgan Newton. King led the team with 40 catch-es for 598 yards and seven touchdowns last season.

But the Wildcats will rely on several young players to step up and help immediate-ly. Phillips said one of them

will be sophomore lineback-er Alvin Dupree, who he called “a guy that someday will be … a household name in the state of Kentucky.”

That’s tough to do in Kentucky, where the household names tend to be confined to the basket-ball court. Phillips said that even though Kentucky is viewed as a basketball school, he uses the basket-ball program’s exposure as an advantage for football recruiting and selling his program.

Both Phillips and senior offensive lineman Matt Smith praised the Wildcats’

incoming freshman and weren’t shy about saying they would be on the field quickly.

Phillips said 26 of the 44 players on Kentucky’s two-deep depth chart are fresh-men or sophomores. The third-year coach said some may view that as “disas-trous,” but he was confident the Wildcats have more quality players than ever before.

“They’ve got to under-stand that we’re going to need them,” Smith said. “In years’ past a lot of freshman have come in and haven’t been able to contribute right

away except for one or two here and there. But with the recruiting our coaches have done and how good a job they’ve done bring-ing in athletic guys that are smart and can learn and pick up things on the fly, we’re going to need a lot of help from them.”

Smith said if the new tal-ent can mesh with some of the older players, the players will be celebrating a bowl trip and not just a vic-tory over Tennessee.

“It’s fun to be home with your family for Christmas,” Smith said. “But not for that long.”

Reds 1B Votto starts rehab

Sandy spots of doom are everywhere at Royal Lytham

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) — There are no sheep to be found around this lush patch of northwestern England.

Their legacy lives on through a landscape pock-marked with deep, treach-erous traps — hundreds of them, in fact.

Welcome to Royal Lytham & St. Annes.

There are a staggering 206 bunkers dotting this historic course, where the British Open begins Thursday. The golfer who does the best job staying out of these sandy spots of doom could very well wind up with the claret jug in his grasp come Sunday evening.

“Rule No. 1, avoid the bunkers,” England’s Paul Casey said. “Rule No. 2, if you’re in a bunker, just get it out. Don’t go for the glory shot.”

While pot bunkers can be found at golf clubs around the world, they are a dis-tinctive feature on links

courses, right up there with inclement weather. What they lack in size they make up for in depth, leaving a much tougher escape route than the traps typically found on PGA Tour lay-outs.

The origins of the pot bunker supposedly traces back centuries, when sheep burrowed into the ground seeking warmth and shelter from the notorious coastal weather. The modern ver-sion is created with layers of sod stacked atop each other, similar to bricklay-ing, which creates a men-acing wall that usually leaves the offender with little chance of pulling off a decent shot.

Tony Jacklin, who won the 1969 Open at Lytham, defined the bunker mental-ity this way: players accept-ing that fate every time a ball tumbles into the sand.

“The bunkers essential-ly have a red line around

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Penn State to respond soon to NCAA demand for info

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — As the NCAA con-siders whether Penn State should face penalties fol-lowing the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal — including a possible shutdown of its celebrated football program — the university says it will respond within days to the governing body’s demand for information.

The head of the NCAA has declared that the so-called death penalty has not been ruled out for Penn State, but university presi-dent Rodney Erickson said Tuesday he doesn’t want to “jump to conclusions” about possible sanctions.

The NCAA is investigat-ing whether Penn State lost “institutional control” over

its athletic program and violated ethics rules. Its probe had been on hold for eight months while former FBI Director Louis Freeh conducted an investigation on behalf of the school’s board of trustees. Freeh’s 267-page report, released last week, asserted that late football coach Joe Paterno and three top officials buried allegations against Sandusky, his retired defensive coordinator, more than a decade ago to protect the university’s image.

Sandusky was convicted last month of sexually abus-ing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He awaits sentenc-ing.

Erickson said now that Penn State has the results

of its own investigation in hand, it can turn its atten-tion to the NCAA.

“The NCAA has indi-cated that they’d like me to respond … as quickly as possible now that we have the Freeh report,” he said. “So we’ve already started the process of starting to compose that response. We’ll do so over the course of the next few days and get that response back as soon as possible, and we’ll then engage in discussions with the NCAA.”

In a PBS interview Monday night, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he’s “never seen any-thing as egregious as this in terms of just overall con-duct and behavior inside a university.” He said

he doesn’t want to take “anything off the table” if there’s a finding that Penn State violated NCAA rules.

The last time the NCAA shut down a football pro-gram was in the 1980s, when Southern Methodist University was forced to drop the sport because of extra benefits violations. After the NCAA suspended the SMU program for a year, the school decided not to play in 1988, either, as it tried to regroup.

Erickson would not say whether he thought Penn State deserved to have its football program yanked.

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here,” Erickson told The Associated Press

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Summer hoops

Harlan County’s Lindsay Branson put up a shot during recent summer basketball action.

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SPOTSFrom Page 6

them,” he said. “I mean, they’re a one-shot penalty.”

Maintaining that impos-ing line of defense takes up plenty of the grounds crew’s time and efforts. To prevent weeds sprouting from the sodden bricks, a herbicide is applied using a soft bristle brush, almost like painting the side of a house.

“Last week, we went out there and pulled out any stray weeds by hand,” Lloyd Balazs, a full-time groundskeeper at the club, said as he walked along the 18th fairway under a setting sun Wednesday, the start of the tournament just hours away. “If we need to, we’ll brush the sides to get any sand off.”

Of course, the bunkers don’t get nearly as much of a workout during the British Open as they do when regular duffers are playing. And either way, there was even some dis-agreement over just how

many there were. Some media outlets reported 205. Others, including the Royal & Ancient governing body, said it was 206. Not that one less bunker will be much consolation for the 156 players chasing golf’s oldest major title.

“At any links golf course you’ve got to stay out of the bunkers, because you can’t get to the green,” Tiger Woods said. “That’s just a fact. If you hit the ball in there, it’s going to go up against the face, because it goes in there with some steam, and you’re pitching it out sideways or some-times even backward.”

If it’s any solace, the pot bunkers at Lytham tend to be more visible off the tee than other Open courses like St. Andrews, where the drive requires a bit of blind faith and an accurate yard-age book.

“The neat thing about these bunkers is how I think they’re raised up a lot so

that you can visually see them and then shape the ball off of them. … You can hit a fade or draw. They’re start-ing points. You can actually see where they begin and end,” Woods added.

Not that seeing them makes avoiding them all that easy. At the 18th hole, for instance, there are 10 bunkers sprinkled across a wide range of possible landing areas, requiring an extremely precise tee shot.

The first four come rat-a-tat-tat, starting in the middle of the fairway and branching off to the right, about 200 to 250 yards out. Three more hug the left side — boom, boom, boom. Farther down on the right, two tiny bunkers lurk omi-nously. Finally, if the wind turns and a player really cranks a drive, he might find himself deposited in the sand of last resort, seemingly carved out of the ground for no apparent rea-son some 350 yards away.

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as he conducted a round of media interviews in his office on Tuesday. “Let’s wait for this process to unfold. President Emmert has said that the NCAA will take a deliberate and delib-erative process in address-ing this, so I don’t think we should jump to any conclu-sions at this point.”

Schools often propose sanctions to the governing body. Erickson pointed out that Penn State has already given $2.6 million in bowl revenues to its new cen-ter for child abuse research and treatment and to the Pennsylvania Coalition against Rape, a group that operates rape crisis centers across the state.

“We’ve already started to impose sanctions in the sense that we took away $2.6 million of ath-letic department funds,” Erickson said. “Surely we’ll have to do more, but we’re already on that road.”

Erickson also addressed the controversy swirling around the statue of Paterno outside Beaver Stadium, saying that no decision has been made on whether to take it down.

The bronze statue had been a rallying point for students in the months

since Sandusky’s November arrest.

“I’m still in the process of talking with members of my leadership team,” Erickson said. “I’ll want to talk with members of the board and others. And we will make a decision, and we will make the right decision based on what we believe is the best course of action for the uni-versity.”

University spokesman David La Torre said a deci-sion on the matter would be made in seven to 10 days.

Regardless of Penn State’s decision on the stat-ue, it’s clear that Paterno’s name is losing its luster.

Paternoville, a tent city outside Beaver Stadium where students camp out for prime football tickets, was scrapped Monday in favor of Nittanyville.

Nike took Paterno’s name off a child care cen-ter on its corporate campus on Thursday, the day the Freeh report was released. The halo that had floated above Paterno’s head in a State College mural was removed Saturday. In its place the artist added a blue ribbon in support of child abuse awareness.

Brown University in Rhode Island, the late

coach’s alma mater, said that not only had it removed Paterno’s name from its head football coach-ing position and a student award, but it’s also review-ing whether to remove him from the school’s athletic hall of fame, too.

And a Connecticut mid-dle school said it would paint over its own mural of Paterno.

Although there was some negative reaction to Paterno immediately after Sandusky’s arrest — the Big Ten dropped Paterno’s name from the conference championship trophy where it had been next to that of Amos Alonzo Stagg, who won almost 100 fewer games — the pace has picked up since the Freeh report was released.

The Paterno statue, in particular, has been a point of much contention. Critics have called for the sculp-ture to be taken down after the Freeh report concluded that Paterno was aware of a 1998 allegations against Sandusky — in contrast to his grand jury testimony and an interview given after his firing — and that he was involved in the decision to hide a 2001 incident from the authorities.

Pistorius set for Olympic debut GEMONA, Italy (AP) —

Even when he’s looking at photos of his bleeding and blistered leg stumps, Oscar Pistorius smiles.

And with his Olympic debut approaching, it’s easy to understand why.

Pistorius, whose legs were amputated below the knee when he was a baby, is set to make history by running — yes, running — in the London Olympics. He will be the first double-amputee athlete to com-pete at the Olympics, and his journey has been long and rife with hurdles.

When he finally got word earlier this month that he had a place on South Africa’s team — his was the last name of 125 pen-ciled in — his first reaction was relief. Then came utter joy.

“I think I woke up the next morning with cramps in my cheeks. I was smil-ing in my sleep,” Pistorius said during a recent inter-view at his training base in northeastern Italy. “You also realize very quickly … it’s the London Olympics and I need to perform. Very stressful.

“You’ve made the

entrance to write the test, but now the test is in front of you,” he said.

The test comes Aug. 4, the opening day of the 400-meter heats.

The “Blade Runner,” as he is known, runs with car-bon-fiber blades that often cause blisters and rub his stumps raw. Pistorius was born without fibula bones due to a congenital defect, and lost his legs at 11 months. It never stopped him from playing sports — even rugby — with pros-thetics.

But his running pros-thetics led to years of controversy. Already a Paralympic gold medal-ist, Pistorius was initially banned from competing against able-bodied peers because many argued that his blades gave him an unfair advantage.

In 2008, however, the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared him to com-pete. Last year, he ran on South Africa’s 4x400 relay team at the 2011 world championships, and though he sat out the final, he won a silver medal because he competed in the heats.

Pistorius is aware that

not everyone is convinced he should compete at all.

“There will always be people who will debate, and there will always be a journalist willing to write an opinion and a certain angle to a story,” Pistorius said.

“One of the reasons for doing the tests was prov-ing that I’m in a sport and have the ability to run due to my own talent and hard work and sacrifices, and that was important for me. Looking back at that, I’m happy that we went through it.”

American LaShawn Merritt, the defending Olympic champion in the 400, looks forward to rac-ing against the 25-year-old Pistorius.

“I’ve told him how much respect I have for him and the drive he has, to want to do something and take the action to work hard and get to where he wants to be,” Merritt said. “The dream of his was to be able to run with the able-bodied athletes, and he knew what he had to do to make that happen, time-wise, and he worked his butt off to get it. He’s here now.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, July 19, 2012:

Your instincts guide you with your finances, yet sometimes they point you in a direction that might not seem logical. You need to follow your intuition more often. The unexpected tends to toss you where you need to be. If you are single, use caution, as a difficult or unavailable person might appear. Learn to say “no.” If you are attached, the two of you voice your feelings more often, which helps cre-ate greater unity. LEO brings out your pride. You alone can decide if this interaction is for the best.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could be surprised

by the difference one day can make. You provide an element of excitement just by being yourself and a source of independent thinking. A partner could be unusually testy. Tonight: Think about starting the weekend early.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Stay centered, no matter

what you do. Loosen up and be will-ing to put your best foot forward. Your intuition plays a strong role in your decision-making process. Curb a tendency to be overactive and some-what overly assertive. Tonight: Head home. Take the dog for a long walk to reduce your stress.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Keep a conversation

moving, and don’t get hung up on receiving the answers you want; they will come soon enough. Investigate and compare different qualities and prices of a new item. Do not stand on ceremony with someone if he or she hasn’t called. Tonight: Hang out.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Be aware of what you offer.

You might have a tendency to give too much. As a result, others get an attitude when you do less or go your own way. A family member goes into an uproar for a similar reason. This person is setting the stage for more attention. Tonight: Your treat.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You regain your energy

with ease this morning. A meeting only accelerates your plans and acti-vates more enthusiasm. You seem to be able to clear your schedule quickly and make room for networking and other social plans. Tonight: Make that call to a special friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You might want to say less

and listen more. You still are mak-ing up your mind about a situation or decision. A key associate or partner continues to be full of surprises. You might end up spending more than you’d anticipated. Tonight: Not to be found.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Where your friends are is

where you want to be. You make an unusual effort to bring others together. A close friend or loved one could jolt you with his or her news. Detach if you are feeling triggered. As a result, you’ll come up with answers quickly. Tonight: Where the action is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Be willing to state where

you are coming from. Resist making judgments about the people you are with. Just because others do not think like you doesn’t mean they are wrong. Many of their ideas can work — it’s just that you prefer your own. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Keep reaching out for

more feedback if you are wondering which way to go with a situation. You will know when you find a suitable answer. Your get-up-and-go attitude, mixed with a sense of humor, makes nearly anything easier. Tonight: Where your mind can wander.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Keep reaching out for a

key associate who often sheds light on issues surrounding your life. What you hear and what seems correct will make you want to throw the status quo in the air. You see where you need to make an adjustment. Tonight: Add more spice to your social life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Defer to others, who gen-

erally are rather dominant. You allow yourself more freedom through this process. Be spontaneous and jump on a suggestion that feels right. Enjoy the moment and the extra freedom. Tonight: Just be yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might try to let go of a

nagging situation, only to find yourself in the middle of it. No matter what you do, reach out for someone you care about, and let this person know where you are coming from. A dynamic conversation will ensue. Tonight: Whatever feels good.

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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ opens in theaters at midnightThe Associated Press

Christopher Nolan con-cludes his Batman trilogy in typically spectacular, ambitious fashion with “The Dark Knight Rises,” but the feeling of frustra-tion and disappointment is unshakable.

Maybe that was inevi-table. Maybe nothing could have met the expectations established by 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” which revolutionized and set the standard for films based on comic books by being both high-minded and crowd-pleasing. With Christian Bale as his tortured super-hero starting from 2005’s “Batman Begins,” Nolan has explored the complicat-ed and conflicting motiva-tions of man as well as the possibility of greatness and redemption within society.

Here, as director and co-writer, he’s unrelent-ing in hammering home the dread, the sorrow, the sense of detachment and futility of a city on the brink of collapse with no savior in sight. Gotham is under siege in ways that tonally and visually recall 9/11; what is obviously the island of Manhattan gets cut off from the outside world at one point. Rather than seeming exploitative, it’s just one of many examples of the script from Nolan and his usual collabora-

tor, his brother Jonathan, making the franchise feel like a relevant reflection of our times. Identity theft, economic collapse and an uprising of the disgruntled, disenfranchised have-nots against the smug, comfy haves also come into play.

There’s so much going on here, though, with so many new characters who are all meant to function in significant ways that “The Dark Knight Rises” feels overloaded, and sadly lacking the spark that gave 2008’s “The Dark Knight” such vibrancy. The absence of Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the anarchic and truly frightening Joker, is really obvious here. It ret-rospect, it makes you real-ize how crucial Ledger’s performance was in mak-ing that Batman movie fly.

By comparison, “The Dark Knight Rises” is plot-heavy, obsessed with pro-cess, laden with expository dialogue and flashbacks that bog down the momen-tum and — dare I say it? — just flat-out boring at times. Yes, the Batman world through Nolan’s eyes is supposed to be moody and introspective; you’ve got to admire the fact that he is willing to challenge us this way when summer block-busters so often feel flashy and hollow. And yet at the

same time, it takes some giant leaps with its charac-ters which either make no sense, haven’t earned the emotions they’re seeking, or both.

“The Dark Knight Rises” does feature the kind of impeccable production values we’ve come to expect from Nolan’s films; many members of his core team are back, including cinematographer Wally Pfister, editor Lee Smith and production design-ers Nathan Crowley and Kevin Kavanaugh. “The Dark Knight Rises” feels weighty and substantive — and, thankfully, isn’t in 3-D — but it takes on an even grittier look than its pre-decessors as Gotham City devolves into desperation and ruin.

But Nolan’s approach is so coldly cerebral that it’s a detriment to the film’s emotional core. It’s all doom and gloom and no heart. There is no reason to care about these charac-ters, who function more as cogs in an elaborate, cha-otic machine than as real people whose souls are at stake.

It’s been four years since “The Dark Knight” came out but eight years have passed in terms of story. Bale’s Bruce Wayne suffers in self-imposed exile, sulk-ing about Wayne Manor,

mourning the loss of his darling Rachel and carry-ing the burden of blame for the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent.

His goal of a peaceful Gotham has been achieved, but he’s left as a man with-out a purpose. Michael Caine, as the ever-loyal valet Alfred, brings dignity and eloquence to the film as he begs Bruce to carve out his own form of happi-ness. Fellow veterans Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon and Morgan Freeman as gadget guru Lucius Fox are their usual dignified selves, but they don’t register the way they should because the film is so overstuffed.

Several new characters manage to draw Bruce out of his funk in various ways. Anne Hathaway brings some much needed zest to the proceedings as Selina Kyle, otherwise known as Catwoman in the Batman universe, a slinky thief who punctures Bruce’s bubble when she lifts his finger-prints from his safe, along with a beloved pearl neck-lace.

She’s selfish and cynical, only looking out for herself, but at least she goes about her crimes with some verve and style. They never call her Catwoman by name, and she’s never as campy as Michelle Pfeiffer and

Halle Berry were in previ-ous film incarnations of the role, but she’s always fun to watch.

The other woman in Bruce’s life, however, is woefully underdeveloped — which is a real problem because she plays a key role in the film’s climactic rev-elations. Marion Cotillard (one of many alumni from Nolan’s “Inception”) co-stars as Miranda Tate, a wealthy philanthropist who hopes to work with Wayne Enterprises on developing clean, sustainable energy. The romance that develops between her and Bruce is utterly unbelievable.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt adds a youthful presence as John Blake, an up-and-com-ing member of the police force who inspires Bruce to revisit his own childhood as an orphan. Gordon-Levitt as solid as always but there’s not much to his character aside from earnestness.

Then there’s Bane, a muscular mass of pure evil who orchestrates an elabo-rate takeover of Gotham City. The role is a huge waste of what Tom Hardy can do; his character is so one-dimensional and poorly defined, he’s never so much a fearsome fig-ure as a large and hulking one. It doesn’t help matters that it’s often difficult to

make out what he’s say-ing beneath the cage-like muzzle that covers his nose and mouth and alters his voice. Hardy can be sexy and charismatic (as he proved in “Inception”) but also a dangerous and unpredictable figure. None of that is on display here. He’s all brute force.

But he is the instigator of the film’s dazzling open-ing sequence, worthy of the best of James Bond: a daring aerial maneuver in which Bane kidnaps a scientist by hijacking his plane from the skies above. That’s probably the most effective of the many set pieces Nolan stages here, although the collapse of Heinz Field during a packed football game also has an urgent, visceral quality, with thrills that recall the most imaginative moments of “Inception.”

This is the problem when you’re an exceptional, visionary filmmaker. When you give people something extraordinary, they expect it every time. Anything short of that feels like a letdown.

“The Dark Knight Rises,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language. Running time: 164 minutes. Two stars out of four.

Explanation offered for the Olympic Torch Relay Special to the Enterprise

The Olympic Torch Relay is one of the more recognizable traditions associated with the Olympic games. This year’s Summer Olympics are set to begin in London this month, and the tradi-tion of the Torch Relay will once again be a part of the festivities.

Where will the flame go?The Olympic Torch

will visit every county of the United Kingdom,

every Local Authority on Northern Ireland and Scotland and every bor-ough in London. Visit www.london2012.com to find a detailed map of the torch’s route so you can witness some history.

How is the route cho-sen?

The route is devised so as many people as possible can celebrate the flame’s journey and the people chosen as torchbearers. Each nation within the

United Kingdom was con-sulted, and local authori-ties and representatives from sectors such as tour-ism, heritage, culture and sport were allowed to give their input. In addition, the route was chosen to dem-onstrate the historical and social diversity of the UK and to display the king-dom’s physical beauty.

How far does the flame travel?

The relay takes place over 70 days, and during

that time the flame will travel roughly 8,000 miles either during the relay or in convoy.

When is the flame not carried by a torchbearer?

Since the goal is to allow as many people as possible to witness the Olympic flame, there are times when it is not carried by a torchbearer. During these periods, it will be trans-ported via a convoy.

Where does the relay start and finish?

The relay began at Land’s End on May 19. The torch’s journey across the UK will end in the Olympic Stadium in London on July 27 as part of the Opening Ceremony.

How are torchbearers chosen?

Torchbearers are nomi-nated by someone they know. Members of the public were encouraged to nominate someone who inspired them. Olympic sponsors also ran nomina-

tion campaigns.What do torchbearers

wear?There are 8,000 torch-

bearers, and each will wear a white and gold uniform designed by Adidas. The white top has gold shards at the shoulder and neck-line, which run down the arm to the hand holding the torch.

The Olympic Torch Relay is one of the most recognizable sporting tra-ditions across the globe.

600-year-old bras discoveredVIENNA (AP) -- A

revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras.

The University of Innsbruck said Wednesday that archeologists found four linen bras dating from the Middle Ages in an Austrian castle. Fashion experts describe the find as surprising because the bra had commonly been thought to be only little more than 100 years old as women abandoned the tight corset.

Instead, it appears the bra came first, followed by the corset, followed by the reinvented bra.

One specimen in partic-ular “looks exactly like a (modern) brassiere,” says Hilary Davidson, fashion curator for the London Museum. “These are amaz-ing finds.”

Although the linen gar-ments were unearthed in 2008, they did not make news until now says Beatrix Nutz, the archaeologist responsible for the discov-ery.

Researching the items and carbon dating them to make sure they were genu-ine took some time. She delivered a lecture on them last year but the informa-tion stayed within aca-demic circles until a recent article in the BBC History Magazine.

“We didn’t believe it ourselves,” she said in a telephone call from the Tyrolean city of Innsbruck. “From what we knew, there was no such thing as bra-like garments in the 15th century.”

The university said the four bras were among more than 2,700 textile fragments -- some linen, others linen combined with cotton -- that were found intermixed with dirt, wood, straw and pieces of leather.

“Four linen textiles resemble modern-time bras” with distinct cups and one in particular looks like today’s version, it said, with “two broad shoul-der straps and a possible back strap, not preserved but indicated by partially torn edges of the cups onto which it was attached.”

And the lingerie was not only functional.

The bras were intricately decorated with lace and other ornamentation, the statement said, suggesting they were also meant to please a suitor.

While paintings of the era show outerwear, they

do not reveal what women wore beneath. Davidson, the fashion curator, described the finds as “kind of a missing link” in the history of women’s under-wear.

Women started experi-menting with bra-like gar-ments in the late 1800s and the first modern brassiere was patented in the early 19th century. It is thought to have been invented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob, who was unhappy with the look of her gown over a stiff corset.

Also found at Lemberg Castle in Tyrol was a linen undergarment that looks very much like a pair of panties. But Nutz said it is men’s underwear -- women did not wear anything under their flowing skirts back then.

“Underpants were con-sidered a symbol of male dominance and power,” she said.

Medieval drawings often show a man and a woman fighting for a pair of under-pants in a symbolic battle to see who “wears the trou-sers” in the family.

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Join Nicole and John and start saving today!

Nicole went back to basics and saved $312!

John got in the game with a wide range of sports, movies and more & saved up to $750!

Blockbuster @Home (1 disc at a time): Only available with new qualifying DISH service activated between 5/21/12 and 7/31/12. For the first 3 months of your subscription, you receive a bundle of Blockbuster @Home for $5/mo (regularly $10/mo) and your programming package at a promotional bundle price. Promotional prices continue for 3 months provided you subscribe to both components of the bundle and do not downgrade. After 3 months, then-current prices apply to each component (unless a separate promotional price still applies to your programming package). Requires online DISH account for discs by mail; broadband Internet to stream content; HD DVR to stream to TV. Exchange online rentals for free in-store movie rentals at participating Blockbuster stores. Offer not available in Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands. Streaming to TV and some channels not available with select packages. 12 month pricing requires 24 month agreement. Digital Home Advantage plan requires 24-month agreement and credit qualification. Cancellation fee of $17.50/month remaining applies if service is terminated before end of agreement. With qualifying packages, Online Bonus credit requires AutoPay with Paperless Billing, email opt-in for DISH E-Newsletter, and online redemption no later than 45 days from service activation. After applicable promotional period, then-current price will apply. $10/mo HD add-on fee waived for life of current account; requires 24-month agreement, continuous enrollment in AutoPay with Paperless Billing. 3-month premium movie offer value is up to $132; after 3 months then-current price applies unless you downgrade. Free Standard Professional Installation only. All equipment is leased and must be returned to DISH upon cancellation or unreturned equipment fees apply. Up front fee, monthly fees, and limits on number and type of receivers will apply. You must initially enable PrimeTime Anytime feature; requires local channels broadcast in HD (not available in all markets). Number of recording hours will vary. 2000 hours based on SD programming. HD hard drive space comparison based on equipment currently available. HD programming requires HD television. Prices, packages, programming and offers subject to change without notice. Offer available for new and qualified former customers, and subject to terms of applicable Promotional and Residential Customer agreements. Additional restrictions may apply. Offer ends 7/31/12. HBO®, Cinemax® and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. SHOWTIME is a registered trademark of Showtime Networks Inc., a CBS Company. STARZ and related channels and service marks are property of Starz Entertainment, LLC. All new customers are subject to a one-time, non-refundable processing fee.

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