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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson made a campaign stop at the University of Cincinnati Friday.

Johnson, a former Republican Gov. of New Mexico, warned against voting for either Republicans or the Democrats this election — mocking the rhetoric that this is the most important election of our time — and described both parties as leading the country down a similar path.

“We’re going to fi nd ourselves with a heightened police state,” Johnson said. “We’re going to fi nd ourselves in a continued state of military intervention and we’re going to fi nd ourselves continuing to borrow and spend money in a way that is absolutely not sustainable.”

Johnson spent a most of his speech addressing the fl aws of a two-party political system, and reiterated multiple times the similarities between both parties.

The National Review Online rated Johnson as the best job creator of any of the candidates — with an 11.6 percent job-growth rate during his tenure in New Mexico. In response, Johnson reiterated his belief that the private sector creates jobs.

“ [I] did not create a single job as governor of New Mexico,” he said. “I appointed all the boards and commissions. I controlled all the rules and regulations, and I want to tell you rules and regulations got better on a daily basis — with just a basis on common sense.”

Johnson’s philosophy of job creation is rooted in a faith in the private sector, and his method of enforcing rules and regulations keep private business at ease because they have certainty, he said.

Johnson criticized the unsustainable

nature of the country’s current economic policies — a charge he faulted to both Democrats and Republicans.

“The biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we borrow and print money to the tune of 43 cents out of every dollar we spend,” Johnson said.

On foreign policy, Johnson said both Republicans and Democrats have different rhetoric, but act the same in offi ce — claiming President Obama has been as militaristic as any president.

America has a lot of enemies, mostly because of our military interventions, Johnson said.

“When the drone fl ies overhead and hits the target, it doesn’t just hit the target,” he said. “It kills a lot of innocent people and as a result of that, friends, family, business associates, they vow revenge against the United States.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a “report card” that awarded Johnson with the most “liberty torches” of any presidential candidate this election. The liberty torches were based on candidates’ track record with issues of civil liberties, he said.

Jordan Page, a singer and songwriter who has played at more than 50 political rallies kicked off the event by playing a handful of “protest” songs, as he called them.

Guest speakers included Jim Berns, the libertarian candidate for Ohio’s fi rst congressional district, and Rob Ryan, state representative for the 28th district of Ohio.

“It’s very important to raise awareness about the Libertarian platform,” Ryan said.

In the back of the Great Hall in the Tangeman University Center, seven booths were set up where attendees could register

to vote, sign petitions and talk to Libertarian candidates. Students signed petitions for the legalization of marijuana, and read pamphlets on strategies to spread the libertarian message.

“The turnout could have been a little better, but the energy during the speech and everything was really good I felt,” said Brendan Carr, a third-year architecture student.

Approximately 150 people gathered in TUC to hear Johnson speak.

Johnson advocated spreading the libertarian message, and addressed the importance of voting for the candidate you believe in, regardless of their chances.

“So here we arrive now at an election with this whole notion of wasted votes,” Johnson said. “What is more of a wasted vote than voting for somebody that you don’t believe in?”

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The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) ranked Cincinnati a top-20 college destination in its recent report of mid-sized metropolitan cities.

The institute determined its rankings by looking at data in three areas — academic environment, quality of life and professional opportunities — and then made four lists based on the size of the area, said Steven Cunningham, director of research and education for AIER.

Cincinnati ranked No. 17 in the College Destinations Index, behind cities such as Pittsburgh (No.4), Columbus (No.11) and Cleveland (No.12), but ahead of Indianapolis (No. 19) and Louisville (No. 20).

“[The] idea is that most indexes are about the colleges themselves,” Cunningham said. “We were interested in doing exactly the same thing. In our discussion, we started to think about what the location of the school and its metropolitan areas would enhance or detract from the college experience.”

The numbers used were the most recent available in each area, Cunningham said. Crime and population were not factored in the report.

City offi cials are trying to make Cincinnati a better destination by investing in growing businesses, more uptown housing, improved transportation and greater entertainment options, said Meg Olberding, director of communications for the city manager’s offi ce.

“[We are] working on the city as a whole to make it more welcoming and an easier place to live and work,” Olberding said.

Cincinnati has the potential to move up the list, said David Edelman, a professor in the

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Occupy Cincinnati celebrated its one-year anniversary by marching from Lyttle Park to Washington Park in protest of large corporations Saturday.

Nineteen people gathered at Lytle Park to begin the celebratory demonstration, holding signs saying, “Occupy Cincinnati: one year, we’re still here.”

While corporate and political corruption was the center of the protest, many protesters were there for different reasons.

“Well, for myself — and everybody is bringing different issues to the table — I don’t feel like with this two-party system we really have a choice,” said James Thorpe of Covington.

“Occupy brought together people from the economic activists, political activists, ecological activists all under one banner,” said Les Courtney of Alexandria, Ky. “That way all the different motivations of people were able to actually unify to a united front.”

All 19 of the protesters were involved in the activist movement one year ago, and for many it was a reunion of the people they worked with, and even got arrested with, said Rigel Behrens of Cincinnati.

“For me, it’s kind of like a reunion, and it’s wonderful to see all of the people that we spent a lot of time working with,” Behrens said. “It’s quieter; it’s not so photogenic. But a lot of these folks have been working on voter registration, they’ve been working on supporting the Anna Louise Inn, they’ve been working on labor rights.”

Josh Spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati

Homeless Coalition, led the charge with a megaphone, chanting, “This is what democracy sounds like.”

Throughout the city, the group stopped at various businesses while Spring gave a history of the political dealings of private industries.

During the march to Washington Park, one protestor was issued a citation for being on the street after a Cincinnati police offi cer warned the group to stay on the sidewalk. Courtney, the protester who got the citation, said it wasn’t a fair citation.

“Technically as the cop asked me to leave the road, I got out of the road,” Courtney said. “Unfortunately for him it wasn’t as fast as he liked me to get out of the road, so as a result it took six police offi cers to write one citation.”

The protesters made a stop at Piatt Park, where they used chalk to draw anarchy symbols on the sculpture of James A. Garfi eld.

At Washington Park, Spring questioned the renovations made to the park and accused the city of forcing changes on a community that didn’t want the renovations.

“It obviously looks good, but what you might not know is that it took $48 million for it to look this good,” Spring said.

“Despite the fact that the neighborhood came out in mass and said we’d like to keep our pool, our kids use it, we’d like to keep our school, our kids use it, we’d like to keep our basketball court, they said no. We’re going to spend $48 million but we can’t afford to keep those things.”

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The University of Cincinnati is hoping to help patients suffering from hypertension follow their medication procedures by implementing a series of informative lectures.

The series begins Tuesday at the Learning Exchange Center of the Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Medical Center and will be funded by a $50,000 award from the Ohio Partnership for Adherence through Collaborative Education (Pace) Foundation and Pfizer Inc. The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, along with six other colleges of medicine in Ohio, comprises Ohio Pace. The Cincinnati VA Medical Center and James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy are also involved with Ohio Pace.

“Hypertension affects approximately one-in-three adults in the U.S.,” said Charuhas Thakar, associate professor of medicine. “[Hypertension] is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular events including heart attacks and strokes. It is also associated with progression of chronic kidney disease leading to kidney failure.”

Thakar and his team plan to use the award to “improve the knowledge and ability of the provider to monitor and hopefully improve adherence to medications prescribed

for hypertension,” he said. Less than one third of hypertensive patients are

optimally treated and sometimes unawareness of the condition will allow the hypertension to go unnoticed, Thakar said. Hypertension is a chronic condition, requiring dedication to treatment from both the provider and patient. Over time, suboptimal treatment may be administered. Additionally, some biological problems make optimal blood pressure treatment difficult.

“Our goal is to use both existing tools, as well as develop simple new tools so providers can assess adherence as close to real time as possible,” Thakar said. “ [The team is] targeting indirect measures of monitoring adherence — one based on [prescription] refill information via query of electronic medical records. ”

The team hopes the identification of poorly adherent patients will avoid unnecessary escalation of therapy, allowing medical providers to improve adherence using existing strategies, Thakar said. Some of these strategies are patient education, counseling, re-visiting side effect profiles and medication reconciliation.

“The effectiveness of these strategies and its impact on patient outcomes [will] be the next step of evaluation,” Thakar said.

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Luckily, Chapman forced Sandoval to pop-out and struck out Posey — but only after allowing a run on a wild pitch during the at-bat.

Against all odds the Reds won, 5-2, and regardless of Sunday’s result, which won’t go final until after press time, Cincinnati will return to the Queen City with at least one game in hand.

I don’t like to put too much stock into single victories, but Saturday’s win could be the biggest win of the past two decades for the Reds.

With as much hesitation as I can possibly say it with: This could be the year?

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touchdown, UC’s defense stepped up and forced two incomplete passes before comings up with its second sack of the game, forcing MU to punt.

On the following drive, the Bearcats began to pull away thanks to a 62-yard, 10-play drive that lasted 4:55, and ended in George Winn getting his second touchdown of the evening. The Bearcats led 38-14 with less than nine minutes to go in the third quarter.

Miami’s desperation began to show on the next drive as it went for a long fourth-down conversion, but failed, turning the ball over to UC with 4:08 left in the third quarter.

Following an interception from Bearcat senior

linebacker Greg Blair, Jordan Kay came in to relieve Legaux at quarterback, and freshman running back Tion Green —playing in place of Winn — got his first score of the year on a 3-yd rush, which capped a 19-yd drive, and put the Bearcats up 52-14.

That’s when the scoring stopped, as both squads brought in second-string players to finish the game.

“I thought it was great that we got some young running backs some reps,” Jones said. “Now we have some great teaching tools as we continue to develop our football team.”

The Bearcats (4-0, 1-0 Big East) next take on the Fordham University Rams (4-2, 1-1 Patriot League) at Nippert Stadium Saturday.

onE yEar latEr (Clockwise starting at top) Josh spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, speaks to members of the occupy movement in Lytle Park in Cincinnati Saturday. A mounted Cincinnati Police officer and another officer speak with an attendee at the event Saturday. An attendee at the anniversary rally wears a Guy Fawkes mask, first seen in the film “V for Vendetta,” which became something of an unofficial face to protestors around the world.

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College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, citing the Cincinnati Reds as a major draw to the city.

“You have a professional baseball team that you can actually get tickets for, and you won’t go bankrupt doing it,” Edelman said. “The major problem is people don’t know about this city.”

Byron Hutchins, a fourth-year history student, disagreed with some of the rankings.

“I think we should be higher than Cleveland,” Hutchins said.

Edelman agreed that the rankings could have been done differently.

“What they haven’t done is corrected the income per capita for cost of living,” Edelman said. “The cost of living and the earning potential would give you a true value of where you are.”

might not know is that it took $48 million for it to look this good,” Spring said. “Despite the fact that the neighborhood came out in mass and said we’d

like to keep our pool, our kids use it, we’d like to keep our school, our kids use it, we’d like to keep our basketball court, they said no. We’re going to spend $48 million but we can’t afford to keep those things.”

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Sigma Phi Women’s Honorary hosted its inaugural Fall Ball at the Herman Schneider Quadrangle Friday.

The honorary provided food from Chipotle, $1 beers and a DJ for the crowd. Sigma Phi also had a photo booth and announced the homecoming court at the event.

“We were trying to include different student organizations to get more community — more pull from various student groups so that more students would like to come and join in on this event,” said Morgen Schröder, the president of Sigma Phi.

The event was a way for Sigma Phi to “give back to the University and the students,” Schröder said.

“We just thought that it would be a great event for students to celebrate homecoming, especially freshman students who are fresh out of high school,” Schröder said. “We thought that this would be a good way to get the freshman really hyped up about homecoming.”

The inclement weather on Friday evening did not stop attendees from dancing and socializing with other students and alumni.

“I just really wanted to get out there and socialize and meet a bunch of other college students too, and I really love dances and getting dressed up,” said Madeline Mason, first-year fashion design student.

Sigma Phi promoted the event through social media and fliers posted around UC.

“I like to support the girls in Sigma Phi. I got about four different Facebook invitations all at the same time,” said Ray Malarik, fifth-year biomedical engineering student. “It’s a cool concept.”

Sigma Phi came up with the idea for this event one year ago with the intent of not only being more distinguished throughout the UC community, but to bring back a forgotten tradition.

“The concept of a Fall Ball is so quaint and adorable,” said Becca Shelton, third-year student. “It’s like being back in the Jane Austin era”

Even though many people loved this year’s idea, some attendees thought that the fall ball could use a little improvement to boast the amount of attendees for the future.

“Everyone thinks that homecoming is really juvenile — the homecoming dance itself — so probably make it more college oriented,” said Danielle Banks, first-year exploratory studies student.

The event cost approximately $5,000. Sigma Phi received sponsorships from many different organizations including student government, PanHellenic and Inner Fraternity Council, said Regan Noppenberger, Sigma Phi member who was in charge of funding the event.

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FIRST FALL BALL The inaugural Fall Ball brought back the tradition of formal dances for Homecoming week.

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The University of Cincinnati hosted its annual homecoming parade sponsored by the Alumni Association Saturday before the Bearcat football game.

The theme of the parade was “We love Lucy: a flashback to yesteryear,” a reference to UC’s beloved mascot, Lucy the Bearcat.

Floats lined Calhoun Street before the parade began, surrounded by students preparing to walk and ride to support for colleges and organizations as well as homecoming spirit.

“It is always fun to see everyone come out to cheer on the Bearcats,” said Lane Hart, student body president. “Being a part of the parade to pump everyone up for the game was really great.”

Clubs, colleges, fraternities and sororities were all part of the parade, each with their own colorful representation of Bearcat spirit.

A float dedicated to Neil Armstrong, “the first Bearcat on the moon,” complete with a dancing astronaut, made an appearance in the parade from the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

The ski club piled on to their red speedboat and the homecoming court climbed in to the bed of a pick-up truck. UC Blue Ash made its first appearance in the parade this year, a colorful float and student volunteers in tow.

“The alumni association asked us to be a part of the homecoming parade for the first time this year,” said Jessica Fox, a second-year Blue Ash student. “It is pretty cool to walk in the parade and show school spirit.”

Clifton Avenue was lined with spectators and

participants at the start of the parade. The Bearcat band, cheerleaders and dance team led the way with spirited cheers and lively music to keep the crowd pumped. The alumni band made an appearance and led everyone in some UC cheers.

“The band and the alumni band are always the best part of the parade,” said Maria Norton Baumer, a 2003 graduate of UC who has been attending the parade since 1999.

Local high school bands were placed between floats and marched their way through the parade. Lucy the Bearcat from the Cincinnati Zoo rode atop a golf-cart, representing UC with authentic bearcat pride.

“Seeing the entire community of alumni, students, and faculty all coming together with lots of school spirit is great. We are all looking forward to a big win,” said President Santa Ono.

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WASHINGTON — A sharp, unexpected drop in the unemployment rate Friday to 7.8 percent, a 44-month low, threatened to shake up the race for the White House and put the obscure Bureau of Labor Statistics in the crossfire amid unsubstantiated claims that the employment numbers are being cooked.

Coming weeks ahead of the Nov. 6 election, the Labor Department said employers added 114,000 jobs numbers in September and that the unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point. It was the first time since February 2009 that the jobless rate dropped below 8 percent, a tad lower than the 7.9 percent logged when President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.

“The jobs numbers were unambiguously positive. Job growth was solid; the gains were broad based across industries. Hours were up, as was wage growth,” said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for forecaster Moody’s Analytics. “The decline in the unemployment rate overstates the case, but a strong case can be made that the job market and economy are steadily improving.”

Democrats, who’ve been subdued in recent months amid sluggish jobs reports, lauded the news.

“Today’s report marks the 31st consecutive month of private-sector job growth. While we continue to add jobs, it is imperative that Republicans and Democrats work

together to ensure that our fiscal house is in order and our economic recovery remains on track,” Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.., the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, said in a statement.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republicans said the jobless rate was still too high.

“This is not what a real recovery looks like. We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in August than in July,” Romney said in a statement.

At a campaign stop in Virginia, Obama accused Romney of downplaying good news. He said the jobs report “certainly is not an excuse to try to talk down the economy to score a few political points.”

During his own campaign swing later in Abingdon, Va., Romney suggested that there was less to the numbers than met the eye.

“So it looks like unemployment is getting better, but the truth is, if the same share of people were participating in the workforce today as on the day the president got elected, our unemployment rate would be around 11 percent. That’s the real reality of what’s happening out there.”

Friday brought an unusual controversy over the numbers.

Jack Welch, the iconic business guru and former head of General Electric, who supports Romney, all but accused the Obama administration of cooking the books on economic statistics to boost the president’s prospects for re-election

right after he fared poorly in the kickoff presidential debate earlier this week.

“Unbelievable jobs numbers,” Welch said on Twitter. “These Chicago guys will do anything ... can’t debate so change numbers.”

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, appearing on CNBC, dismissed the allegation as “ludicrous.”

Statisticians revised the earlier estimates of jobs created in July and August upward by a combined 86,000. It suggests that there’s a little more tail wind in the economy than previously thought, and it corresponds with better indicators of consumer confidence and manufacturing activity.

Yet in a sign that the economy remains below par, the number of long-term unemployed — those jobless for 27 weeks or more — remained stuck in September at 4.8 million. These long-term unemployed Americans accounted for 40.1 percent of all the jobless.

Unemployment drops to 7.8 percent

A VAGUE BUT VITAL ALLYJonathan s. landay | mcclatchy newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has refused for the first time to declare that Pakistan is making progress toward ending alleged military support for Islamic militant groups or preventing al-Qaida, the Afghan Taliban or other extremists from staging attacks in Afghanistan.

Even so, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has quietly informed Congress that she’s waived the legal restrictions that would have blocked $2 billion in U.S. economic and military aid to Pakistan. Disbursing the funds, she said in an official notice, is “important to the national security interests of the United States.”

Clinton’s decision illustrates how far the administration apparently has determined that it must go, after a near-breakdown in relations, to ensure Pakistan’s cooperation in the uphill U.S. effort to prevent Afghanistan collapsing into all-out civil war when American-led international combat forces complete a withdraw by the end of 2014.

Some experts, however, warned that the move might backfire. The waivers could encourage a belief among Pakistani commanders that their cooperation is so crucial that Washington will continue

overlooking the Pakistani military’s refusal to end what U.S. officials charge is its support for Afghan insurgent groups or to shutter militant sanctuaries, they said.

“The army is going to think that no matter how angry the Americans are at them, they are utterly indispensable and they can violate in any way, shape or form U.S. law and the United States will massage its law to accommodate them,” said assistant professor Christine Fair, an expert at Georgetown University. “That’s how they are going to read this.”

Pir Zubair Shah, an expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, said Clinton’s decision might be intended as a warning to Pakistan that aid could be withheld next year if it doesn’t end the suspected collusion between its military and its chief spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, and extremist groups.

“It can be a signal that . . . next time we won’t apply a waiver and will block the aid,” he said.

The State Department declined to respond to a request for comment.

Islamabad vehemently denies charges by top U.S. officials that the army-run ISI is aiding the Afghan Taliban and allied groups, such as the Haqqani network, as part of a strategy aimed at preventing rival India

from gaining influence in Afghanistan after international troops withdraw.

In her Sept. 13 notices, Clinton informed Congress that she was waiving provisions of the 2009 Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act and the State Department’s 2012 budget requiring that she certify that Islamabad has met certain conditions before some $2 billion in economic, military and counter-terrorism assistance can be disbursed.

Pakistan was required to have made progress in “ceasing support, including by any elements within the Pakistani military or its intelligence agency, to extremist groups,” especially those that have attacked U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

Islamabad also was required to have made progress toward stopping al-Qaida, the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network and allied Pakistani extremists “from operating in the territory of Pakistan” and staging attacks in neighboring countries. It also must move toward shutting down “terrorist” bases in the tribal areas and other parts of its country.

Clinton didn’t disclose which specific prerequisites Pakistan failed to meet. Those details were classified.

It’s the first time that the Obama administration has waived the requirements, something the Bush administration did six times for democracy-related sanctions.

w.J. hennigan | los angeles times

LOS ANGELES — Rocket maker SpaceX is poised to return to the International Space Station with its Dragon spacecraft to carry out the first contracted cargo resupply flight in NASA’s history.

SpaceX performed a successful demonstration mission to the space station in May, showing NASA that the company could do the job. SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, Calif., has secured a $1.6 billion contract to carry out 12 such cargo missions, and Sunday’s mission would be the first.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off at 8:35 p.m. EDT Sunday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Dragon capsule packed with 1,000 pounds of food, water and supplies.

“I’m still quite nervous about it because it’s just our second mission to the station,” Elon Musk, SpaceX’s 41-year-old billionaire founder and chief executive said.

With last year’s retirement of the space shuttle fleet, NASA is eager to give private industry the job of carrying cargo and crews, in hopes of cutting costs.

Meanwhile, the space agency will focus on deep-space missions to land probes on asteroids and Mars.

Another aerospace firm, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., is nipping at SpaceX’s heels with a test flight of its commercial rocket set for later this year. Orbital has a $1.9 billion cargo-hauling contract with NASA.

Critics, including some former astronauts and members of Congress, have voiced concerns about NASA’s move toward private space missions.

But SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., has quieted many opponents after its successful demonstration mission, though it still faces opposition.

“A SpaceX failure back then, or indeed a slip-up on the next launch, would give ammunition to congressional critics, who in many cases are trying to bring home the bacon for their own constituents,” said Tim Farrar, president of the consulting and research firm Telecom, Media & Finance Associates Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif. “Continued success on SpaceX’s part makes it much harder to argue for continuing to invest in traditional contracts.”

During that nine-day demonstration, the Dragon spacecraft rendezvoused with the $100 billion space station and tested sensors and processors by linking up with the orbiting outpost’s onboard computers.

The crew aboard the space station snagged the spacecraft with a robotic arm and led it in for docking. It was later released and sent back to Earth.

Orbital Sciences has not yet made the maiden flight of a fully operational Antares rocket or a demonstration mission to the space station with its unmanned Cygnus cargo-carrying spacecraft. But company officials said the firm intended to complete required milestones over the next several months.

Orbital has a $1.9 billion contract with NASA for eight resupply flights. But it does not have an astronaut-capable version of Cygnus in the works.

California gas prices skyrocketruss britt | marketwatch

LOS ANGELES — With California’s gas prices at an all-time high and close to $1 above the national average, reports surfaced Saturday of service-station owners who stopped selling fuel, while economists pondered whether the price jump would affect consumers’ holiday shopping plans.

The state’s average was now $4.63 a gallon, according to the website GasBuddy.com. That is an all-time high — and threatens to push even higher toward $5, due to troubles at key refineries in the state. The national average now is $3.80 a gallon.

The Los Angeles Times reported that gas pumps at some Costco Wholesale Corp. stores were shut down rather than pay high prices for wholesale fuel. Prices were beginning to come down in some spots, but it wasn’t clear whether that trend would continue.

Economists are concerned that a sustained spike in gas prices would start to eat into other areas of consumers’ budgets.

Esmael Adibi, a Chapman University economist, told the Times: “If it continues into the holiday shopping season, it will definitely have a negative impact on discretionary spending.”

Prices were even higher in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a gallon of gas usually costs more than in the rest of the state. Prices touched $4.70 and in some places exceeded the $5 mark, the website says. Another web site, GasPriceWatch.com, puts the high in San Francisco prices at $4.91 a gallon.

In Los Angeles, motorists may not have been happy but were adjusting to average price jumps of 25 cents that took place from Wednesday to Friday. L.A.’s average price is roughly the same as the rest of California, where prices now exceed that of Hawaii’s $4.43 a gallon. There were reports of gas going over the $5 mark in some places.

An August fire at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the Bay Area suburb of Richmond, Calif., and a power failure earlier in the week at an ExxonMobil refinery in the L.A. suburb of Torrance have cut into the state’s supplies. The ExxonMobil plant says it has resumed normal operations.

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an unCertain Future a procession runs through parachinar, in pakistan’s tribal area, to mark muharram, the shiite period of annual mourning. the country’s work to end military support for islamic militant groups has been called into question by the obama administration.

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CATS RING MIAMI’S BELL

Men’s and women’s soccer fall

ANNIE MOORE | SENIOR REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati football team dominated the Miami University Redhawks, 52-14 Saturday in the 117th Battle for the Victory Bell.

The victory marks the seventh-consecutive Bearcat win in the oldest non-conference rivalry in college football.

“Obviously [it is] a very good program win,” said Head Coach Butch Jones. “I’d like to congratulate our seniors. We understand what this rivalry is all about.”

The Redhawks opened the game in the no-huddle offense, quickly crossing midfi eld and scoring its fi rst touchdown via a Zac Dysert-to- Dawan Scott passing play, capping an 80-yd scoring drive. Following a botched snap on the PAT, the Redhawks led 6-0 less than fi ve minutes into the game.

During the fi rst drive of the game, the Bearcat’s defense failed to pressure Dysert, giving him plenty of time to fi nd passing lanes in the Cincinnati defense.

The momentum Miami built on its fi rst drive quickly shifted to the Bearcat side, as senior Camerron Cheatham picked off a Dysert pass and took it to the endzone for the Bearcats’ fi rst pick-six of the season. Following a successful PAT, the Bearcats led 7-6.

“I had an angle, and I just put my head down,” Cheatham said of the 68-yd interception he took to the house. “Coach made a great call to get me in position, and I just had to make the play.”

Miami opened its next drive quickly, gaining two fi rst downs before

a Dysert pass was tipped and intercepted by Bearcats senior cornerback Devon Drayne.

The Bearcats quickly capitalized, taking less than three minutes to return to the endzone on a 14-yd pass completion from Legaux to sophomore wide receiver Danny Milligan, for the St. Xavier product’s fi rst-career touchdown.

The offensive mishaps would continue for the Redhawks three plays later when Bearcat junior defensive back Aaron Chenault recovered a Miami fumble, giving MU its third turnover of the quarter.

Despite exceptional fi eld position, the Bearcat offense stalled, and Miliano attempted a 49-yd fi eld goal, but came up several yards short.

“I thought our defense was very opportunistic all night generating turnovers,” Jones said. “We have to do a better job of turning those into touchdowns and not fi eld goals.”

The Redhawks took over, but after a penalty-ridden drive would be forced to punt. The Bearcats took over at its own 48-yd line, and quickly got into Redhawk territory as the fi rst quarter ended.

Legaux started the second quarter on the sideline as junior wide receiver Jordan Luallen came in to offer a different look on the offense. Following two penalties, Legaux returned and led the Bearcats into the redzone. Senior George Winn capped off the drive with a 6-yd touchdown run, giving UC a 21-6 advantage.

Miami’s offense quickly returned to its earlier form, getting two fi rst downs on Dysert passes, but a holding call on third down in UC territory meant another punt for the Redhawks.

UC started its next drive from the 2-yd line, but gained yardage in big chunks as Winn broke a 57-yd run on a dive play. Legaux then piloted the offense to the 2-yd line, but penalties and inaccurate passes plagued the offense, forcing UC to settle for a 24-yd fi eld goal.

“In the fi rst half I made some minor mistakes, and in the second half I calmed down a little bit,” Legaux said. “The ball was just getting away from me, that was a lot of it.”

The Redhawks only needed 1:10 to get back in the endzone thanks to a Dysert TD pass to junior wide receiver Nick Harwell. The Redawks then successfully executed a two-point conversion on a Dysert scramble to get MU to within 10 points.

Legaux and the Bearcat offense got the ball back with 2:05 left before halftime, but were unable to produce as Legaux over-threw several open receivers, offensive players committed penalties and the Bearcats had to punt the ball. Miami had time for one play, but the hail-mary pass was incomplete.

The Bearcats took a 24-14 lead into the locker room. Ralph David Abernathy IV jump-started the Bearcat offense in the

third quarter with a 58-yd kick return, giving the Bearcats the ball at Miami’s 40-yd line.

“I thought in the second half we came out and our players just executed,” Jones said. “Obviously the kickoff return to start the second half really got the momentum going.”

Following Abernathy’s run, Legaux completed a 19-yd pass to junior tight end Travis Kelce, giving UC a 31-14 lead. Following its fourth

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team played its fi nal two home matches this weekend against the Georgetown Hoyas and the Villanova Wildcats, losing both matches 1-0.

UC took on Georgetown during a chilly Friday evening. The lone goal of the match came from a Hoyas corner kick in the 81st minute of the match.

Daphne Corboz sent a corner kick into the six-yard box and junior defender Mary Kroening easily headed in the shot.

The Bearcat’s defense held the Hoyas — who lead the Big East in goals scored — to 16 shots, and UC sophomore goalkeeper Kristina Utley made four saves.

The Bearcats took 13 shots, forcing Georgetown sophomore goalkeeper to produce fi ve saves.

The Bearcats then faced Villanova Sunday afternoon.

Villanova came out strong, with its fi rst shot coming from senior forward Heidi Sabatura in just the second minute of the match.

UC’s fi rst scoring opportunity would come from a Megan Grouse corner kick in the fourth minute, but the chance went begging.

The Wildcats’ offense continued to put pressure on UC’s goal and broke into the scoring column in ninth minute of the match when Sabatura fi nished a shot past Utley. Freshman forward Renee Hart provided the assist to give the Wildcats a 1-0 advantage.

Villanova outshot the Bearcats 9-3 in the fi rst half. UC’s best scoring opportunity came from senior midfi elder Liz Miller in the 15th minute of the match, when she played a ball into the box, but was called for a foul.

Villanova maintained its lead and entered the half with a 1-0 advantage.

The second half saw an increased intensity from the Bearcats’ offense, while Villanova struggled defensively and received two yellow cards in the 69th and 70th minutes.

UC had a chance to tie the game late, after a Villanova foul in the box gave the Bearcats a penalty kick. Grause’s penalty wasn’t powerful enough to make it past the Wildcats’ keeper Jami Kranich and the game remained 1-0.

After the missed PK, the Bearcats took several shots on goal, but failed to capitalize on any of them. UC ended the match with 12 shots on goal and the Wildcats’ fi nished with 21.

The Bearcats next travel to South Orange, N.J. where they will take on the Seton Hall Pirates Friday at 5 p.m.

The University of Cincinnati Men’s soccer team lost a 3-0 decision to No. 12 St. John’s Saturday at Belson Stadium in New York.

The loss snapped UC’s school record of six straight games without allowing a goal, which last occurred Sept. 9 during the Bearcats 2-0 loss at Evansville.

The match remained scoreless throughout the fi rst half, but St. Johns quickly seized momentum to start the second half. Jack Bennett successfully converted a penalty kick to give the Red Storm a 1-0 lead in the 48th minute.

St. Johns created far more chances than UC, outshooting the Bearcats 11-5.

The Red Storm added two more goals before all was said and done, with Jelani Williams scoring in the 63rd minute and

Danny Bedoya closing out the scoring in the 86th.

“Tonight was a tough loss,” said head coach Hylton Dayes. ”Credit St. John’s; they played well and put us under a lot of pressure, which we did not handle well. The fi rst goal was critical because it came so early in the second half.”

The Bearcats must get back on the practice fi eld to get ready for Western Michigan University, which it will host Wednesday at Gettler Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

If there was ever a squad destined to fall victim to MLB’s new interpretation of home fi eld advantage, it was the Cincinnati Reds Saturday night.

According to roughly 100 percent of so called “baseball experts” the Reds were destined to lose Saturday and inevitably lose the series in no more than four games.

Admittedly, I agreed. Because realistically, who wouldn’t?

For Cincinnati, the matchup was a nightmare — the epitome of why so many people have an issue with the lower seeded teams hosting the fi rst two games of a playoff series.

The Reds fi nished the regular season with the second best record in the National League, but only got to celebrate for two days before Cincinnatians realized the Reds would have to head to San Francisco in its fi rst series.

It became simply too easy to justify why the Reds would lose the opening game. Cincinnati is a homerun hitting team that plays in a homerun friendly ballpark in the Midwest.

San Francisco’s AT&T Park, where the temperature sometimes fl uctuates more than 30-40 degrees in one day, provided the Reds with the farthest possible trip and arguably the least homerun friendly ballpark in the country.

Throw in the fact that San Francisco ace Matt Cain would be on the mound, and the general consensus was that Johnny Cueto would need to be nearly perfect to keep the Reds in the game.

But Cueto faced only one batter, as if Cincinnati — which hasn’t won a playoff game since 1995 — needed anything else to lessen its already slim chances of victor.

Cueto left the game with back spasms — quite possibly caused by the severe drop in temperature — after only eight pitches and one retired batter.

After its ace pitcher broke the 88-year old record for shortest outing by a starting pitcher in a playoff game, Cincinnati stood no chance of winning the game, right?

Wrong.In a manner completely

foreign to Cincinnati professional sports teams over the last two decades, everything went right for the Reds after Cueto left the game.

Sam Lecure relieved Cueto and pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless baseball, allowing the Reds’ No. 3 starter, Matt Latos, ample time to warm up in the chilly conditions.

Latos, who has been dominant against the Giants this year, pitched four brilliant innings, allowing only one run on a homerun by MVP candidate Buster Posey.

Cincinnati still needed run support, so the home run-hitting Reds went into a non-home run hitting ballpark and hit them anyway.

Brandon Philips put the Reds in front in the third inning with a two-run blast before Jay Bruce absolutely destroyed a ball to the deepest part of the stadium one inning later to push the Reds’ lead to 3-0.

Cincinnati’s fortune continued into the ninth inning, as Posey — one of the best catchers in MLB — gifted the Reds a fi fth run on a passed ball.

Although the Reds seemingly controled the entire game, I was never comfortable. As a Cincinnatifan, I’ve trained myself not to be. It didn’t help that I was following the game via text updates at a wedding reception with no TVs and even less cellphone service. Nevertheless, fear was present.

In the ninth inning, my fears were very nearly realized.

Reds closer Aroldis Chapman came in, with a 5-1 lead,to close the game.

Early on, Chapman hit everything but the strike zone. With only one out — and Pablo Sandoval and Posey yet to hit — I’m sure many Reds fan were already prepared to pepper their television screens with drunkenly laced tirades.

I was more than ready to throw my cellphone across a room of very well-dressed people in a very nice country club.

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FINAL STAND The UC women’s soccer team closed out its home schedule this weekend.

LAUREN PURKEY | PHOTO EDITOR

RING MY BELL Bearcat players celebrate with the Liberty Bell at Nippert Stadium on Saturday. The Bearcats defeated the Redhawks 52-14 for the seventh consecutive time, moving the all-time series record to 59-51-7 in favor of Miami University.

PHIL DIDION | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

KEEP ON ROLLING Travis Kelce dives into the end zone for a touchdown at Nippert Stadium on Saturday. The Bearcats defeated the Redhawks 52-14 for the seventh consecutive victory over Miami University. UC improved to 4-0 on the season.

MADISON SCHMIDT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Women’s soccer falls to Nova, Georgetown

UC men drop 3-0 decision at St. John’s

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