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Kwantrevis D. Richardson, 20, faces two preliminary charges of first degree murder, Deputy Police Chief David Dickerson said in a statement. Preliminary charges are subject to review by the Macon County State’s Attorney’s office.

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During the park board’s regular meeting, commissioners unofficially voted 3-2 in favor of the Massachusetts-based airline Brilley replacing Air Choice

One as the city’s Essential Air Service provider.

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hearing in September.

Harristown sailor Petty Officer 3rd Class Logan Palmer, 23, a Sangamon Valley High School graduate, was an interior communications electrician on the the USS John S. McCain, which collided with an oil tanker near Singapore in Southeast Asia on Aug. 21, leaving 10 U.S. sailors dead and five injured.

“He loved the Navy,” Palmer’s brother, Austin Palmer, said in an online message Wednesday, following the release of the report.

“He was always there telling me to never give up.”

Describing his brother as brave, honorable, trustworthy and kind, “he truly embodied what it meant to be an Eagle Scout,” Austin Palmer said.

Hundreds attended Palmer’s funeral Sept. 11 in Life Foursquare Church in Decatur. He was buried with full military honors in Harristown Cemetery.

He was posthumously promoted to petty officer 2nd class.

The family, including parents Sid and Theresa Palmer, was returning from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday after receiving a briefing on the report at the Pentagon.

The family also attended the Senate Armed Services Com-

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been executed. The investigation is continuing at this point.”

On Tuesday, police received a call of shots fired at 10:14 p.m.

They found two white males dead in the front room of a mobile home at 3129 Kent Ave. while searching the residence, Dickerson said.

Macon County Coroner Michael Day said the two men were found in a Park City residence and “suffered obvious gunshot trauma.” Their identities are being withheld pending notification of their families, Day said. He could not immediately provide their ages Wednesday.

Dickerson said the police department will be following up on additional leads in its investigation in the next few days. No further information was released Wednesday night.

Anyone with information should call the Decatur Police Department Investigations Division at (217) 424-2734 or Crime Stoppers at (217) 423-TIPS, police said.

A person working in the Park City office said the mobile home community’s management had no comment.

The incident comes a little over a month after a pair of home invasions in the neighborhood in which one woman was shot.

Three people have been arrested in connection with those incidents.

Mikayla M. Melton, 18, and Damon L. Davis, 19, were preliminarily charged with attempted

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don’t think we did.”

Executive Director Bill Clevenger said the board’s official vote is taking place on Friday because notice of the vote was not given 48 hours before Wednesday’s regular meeting, which is required under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Brilley said the Department of Transportation should make a final decision about the board’s recommendation “within a month or so.”

Cape Air was one of three air-

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mittee hearings on the destroyer collisions in September. The 72page report describes in detail the events leading up to the USS McCain collision, its aftermath on the ship, the harrowing escape of some sailors who had been trapped below deck and the multiple ways in which the tragic outcome might have been prevented.

A few minutes before the collision, the commanding officer ordered speed control of the ship to be shifted from one crew member to another, and the steering control was also inadvertently shifted. This caused several minutes of confusion as the crew believed steering was lost, according to the report.

The report said the commanding officer and others on the bridge “lost situational awareness,” and did not understand the other ship’s course and speed relative to their own before the collision. Neither of the ships sounded the five short whistle blasts required by the International Rules of the Nautical Road to warn one another of danger, the Navy said.

Palmer and the other sailors who died in the collision were all in the same sleeping quarters, from which two sailors were able to escape. The Navy concluded that the space likely flooded in less than a minute after the collision.

Several failings were cited by the Navy, including: Substandard knowledge about how to operate the ship control console.

The ship’s commanding officer disregarded recommendations from his executive officer, navigator and senior watch officer to “set sea and anchor watch teams in a timely fashion to ensure the safe and effective operation of the ship.”

No one was properly trained on how to correctly use the ship control console during what the Navy called a “steering casualty.”

Many of the contributing factors leading to the collision resulted from “poor judgment and decisionmaking of the commanding officer,” the Navy said in the report.

“That said, no single person bears full responsibility for this incident,” the report said. “The crew was unprepared for the situation in which they found themselves through a lack of preparation, ineffective command and control and deficiencies in training and preparations for navigation.”

As a result of the two deadly accidents, eight top Navy officers, including the 7th Fleet commander, were fired from their jobs, and a number of other sailors received reprimands or other punishment that was not publicly released. Among them,

the commander and executive officer of the USS John S. McCain were relieved of their duties and reassigned last month.

“We are a Navy that learns from mistakes, and the Navy is firmly committed to doing everything possible to prevent an accident like this from happening again,” Richardson said. “We must never allow an accident like this to take the lives of such magnificent young sailors and inflict such painful grief on their families and the nation.”

The USS Fitzgerald and a container ship collided in waters off Japan in June, killing seven sailors. The Navy said Wednesday that collision “resulted from an accumulation of smaller errors over time, ultimately resulting in a lack of adherence to sound navigational practices.”

In January, the USS Antietam ran aground near its base at Yokosuka, Japan, and in May the USS Lake Champlain, had a minor collision with a South Korean fishing boat. Both Navy ships are guided-missile cruisers.

“We will spend every effort needed to correct these problems and be stronger than before,” Richardson said.

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said Mears, 80. “I am not concerned about it at all.”

Mears said she believes the home invasions and shooting deaths were isolated incidents, not indicative of the overall safety of the neighborhood.

Just hours before the shooting, 32 neighborhood children were trick-or-treating in Halloween costumes to celebrate the holiday.

“We were having a good time, the cute little costumes and cute little kids,” Mears said.

Mears doesn’t live far from where the incident occurred, but she said she didn’t hear anything last night. She only found out about the shooting when a friend tagged her in a Facebook post and asked her if she was OK. “I think we are all kind of surprised by it because you don’t expect these things to happen,” she said of her neighbors. “But I haven’t seen anybody who is concerned about it.”

The recent crime activity doesn’t change Mears’ mind about her neighborhood, and it wouldn’t deter her from encouraging others to move there.

“I’ll be here until they put me in a nursing home,” she said. “I’m 80 and I’m not afraid.”

These are the seventh and eighth homicides in Decatur in 2017.

Police have made arrests in four: Zachary M. Pherigo, 17, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the Oct. 16 shooting death of his 2-yearold nephew, Justin Lee Murphy Jr. Police arrested three suspects in the murder of 22-yearold Zachary Hubbartt of Wind-

sor, who was found shot to death in the 1200 block of East Condit Street on Aug. 27. Jason A. White and Ryan D. Waters face preliminary charges of first-degree murder, and Autumn D. Billings, faces a preliminary charge of obstructing justice.

Demesheo M. Lovelace died after being gunned down in Greenwood Cemetery on July 2.

The three suspects in the crime are Darelle Fox, 31, his brother Joseph Fox, 27, and Shawn Eubanks, 25. They were arrested a week later and jailed on preliminary first-degree murder charges.

Duan L. Lewis, 23, was arrested March 29 and faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of a 5-month-old girl. The girl died March 28 after suffering injuries “consistent with shaken baby syndrome” on March 23.

Two other cases are active, but detectives said at Oct. 25 inquest hearings that they had no witnesses and were searching for leads in both: James M. Basse, 40, of Decatur, was found in the 1400 block of East Wood Street on Sept. 15 dead of multiple gunshot wounds.

Police found Andrian T. Chatman dead in the 800 block of West Decatur Street shortly after midnight on Sept. 26.

In 2016, there were four reported homicides in Decatur. In 2015, there were seven. In the last decade, the largest number of homicides in Decatur was 2011, when 10 were reported, according to police department statistics.

2017: 8; 2016: 4; 2015: 7; 2014: 2*; 2013: 5; 2012: 6; 2011: 10; 2010: 4; 2009: 4; 2008: 9; 2007: 8 Note: One of the two in 2014 was determined to be a justifiable homicide due to self-defense. Source: Decatur Police Department murder and two counts of home invasion in connection with both incidents. Zachary D. Batson, 19, faces preliminary charges of attempted murder and home invasion in the shooting.

Officers were first sent to the 3400 block of Kent Avenue, on Park City’s far northeast side on Sept. 20. A 22-year-old woman told police she was confronted at her door by a woman, and two armed men forced their way into her residence. Her dog was able to chase off the attackers, she told police.

About an hour later, at 10:44 p.m., officers responded to a call on Delta Circle, where a woman was found to have been shot during a home invasion. She survived her wounds.

The victim described how a man and a woman forced their way into her home and demanded money while ransacking her residence. She said she was shot three times while trying to flee, police said.

Jeanne Mears, a resident of Park City since 2009 who helps organize neighborhood activities, said she does not feel unsafe and enjoys the people in the community.

“I’m perfectly secure here,”

lines that responded to the park board’s request for proposals to provide subsidized commercial air service to Decatur. The others were Utah-based SkyWest Airlines and Missouri-based Air Choice One, which has served as the city’s air service provider since late 2009.

Air Choice One’s most recent contract with the Department of Transportation provided subsidies for three flights to Chicago and three to St. Louis each day.

Recognizing customer demand for more trips to Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, Air Choice One decided to cover the difference for one flight per day — mak-

ing it four trips to Chicago and two to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Despite the fact that the district’s relationship with Air Choice One is likely coming to an end, Brilley said he and board appreciated the company’s eight years of service to the community.

“Air Choice One got us off the ground,” he said. “They are a very good airline, and their capabilities are great, but it was just time for a change.”

Commissioner Stacey Young, Vice President Chris Harrison and Brilley will vote in favor of Cape Air, while Commissioners Jack Kenny and Chris Riley supported

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SkyWest’s proposal.

Riley and Kenny said SkyWest’s ability to provide jet service to Decatur could have been attractive to many local passengers, but Young said the company’s lack of flights to St. Louis could have turned many others away. If SkyWest were chosen, it would have only offered two daily flights from Decatur to Chicago.

“More than 30 percent of people utilize our service to St. Louis, while 70 percent use our trips to Chicago,” she said. “So 2,500 of our local community people would not have that option to fly to St. Louis ... we’d be losing a hub.”

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Building. The discussion included an invited audience of around 100 that included doctors and health care workers, politicians, law enforcement and the Macon County coroner.

The task force is looking for information to help it implement the Illinois Opioid Action Plan, which aims to cut the number of opioid-related deaths by one-third in three years. The state had 1,900 opioid overdose deaths in 2016, 11 of which were in Macon County.

Kathy Burkham’s 23-year-old son Tyler Yount was killed by an overdose involving a cocktail of powerful drugs in 2009. Along with her paramedic husband, Michael, she channeled her grief into creating the Tyler Yount Foundation. It has established a state-certified Naloxone program that has seen more than 400 first responders and others trained to administer the life-saving antidote that reverses opioid overdoses. Michael Burkham told Sanguinetti that, so far this year alone, there had been 164 Macon County emergency calls where Naloxone was used. Out of those calls, “118 were actual drug reversals where somebody’s life was saved.”

The real trick, said Kathy Burkham, is keeping those saved alive for the long term so they don’t drift back into drug use. She said addicts needed access to extended care and their families needed access to knowledge and support services so they can work to prevent relapses, which is what had killed her son.

“As a parent I was lost and completely alone. I didn’t know where to turn,” she said. “I ended up knowing far more (about drug addiction) because my son died then I ever knew when he was alive. I think we need a lot more time to work with our sick children while they are in a long-term recovery program.”

Some addicts can end up being revived multiple times and Timothy Macken, executive director of the Macon County Mental Health Board, said it may be necessary for society to insist addicts get treatment. “Maybe at some point you have to force people to engage in With Cape Air, passengers will be able to choose from a similar flight schedule like the one offered by Air Choice One, and the company has expressed a desire to open a ticket agency in Decatur to expand its local presence.

Cape Air is also a regional feeder airline for major companies like United, Delta and American Airlines.

Through interline booking agreements, passengers who take flights from Decatur to either Chicago or St. Louis will have the option to connect with other flights from Cape Air’s partner airlines without multiple tickets.

This also allows Cape Air to

By the numbers 4 out 5 New heroin users who say they started out misusing prescription painkillers 286 Percentage increase in heroin-related overdose deaths from 2002 to 2013 517,000 People who said they had used heroin in the last year or had a heroin-related dependence in 2013 treatment,” he said.

Dr. Dennis Rademacher, director of the HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Treatment Center, said addiction must be recognized for what it is, a disease. He urged the state Task Force to work to ease legal restrictions on doctors which limit the prescription use of treatment drugs like Suboxone, which helps give “addicts their life back.”

Rademarcher said drug addiction is a terrible malady but it can be beaten with the right treatment and help and a remarkable recovery in health is possible.

“The day you take your last drop of opiate, the damage will not get any worse,” he said. “You can’t say that about diabetes, hypertension, heart disease or anything else.”

Tanya Andricks, the CEO of Crossing Healthcare, said the state must also keep a careful eye on the use of prescription opioids if we want to slow the flow of new addicts onto our streets.

With all the advice and opinions sounding out across the room, it fell to Macon County Coroner Michael E. Day to offer a sobering assessment of what is at stake if the state can’t reach out to save addicts and the families who love them.

“The average family unit is no match on its own for heroin or Oxycontin, they’re too powerful,” he said. “Once you get these drugs into your system, once you get it in your mindset, it’s all too powerful; it will overwhelm whatever family ties you have. We have seen that happen time and time again.”

The task force is holding hearings across the state. transport baggage from a boarding location to a destination without requiring passengers to gather their bags or check them in before transferring flights.

As the district looks forward to beginning its new partnership with Cape Air, its primary focus is still to reach the goal of 10,000 enplanements in a year, meaning 10,000 passengers boarding a flight from Decatur. “(Cape Air) told us they’re used to dealing with small communities, and bringing their ridership up,” Brilley said. jcook@herald-review.com | (217) 421-7980

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Lawmaker denies harassment An Illinois state senator has stepped down from the Democratic Party leadership team after accusations of sexual harassment against him.

Chicago Democratic Sen. Ira Silverstein resigned Wednesday as the party’s Majority Caucus Chair. Senate President John Cullerton said in a statement the post will remain vacant for now.

Silverstein acted a day after victim rights advocate Denise Rotheimer told the Personnel and Pensions Committee that Silverstein sent her unwanted social media messages, called her late at night, and described her as “intoxicating.”

Silverstein on Tuesday apologized for making Rotheimer “uncomfortable,” but denied sexually harassing her.

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Democrat Soup Supper set Friday The 48th annual Long Creek Township Democrat Soup Supper is planned 5-7 p.m. Friday in Long Creek Township Community Center, 2610 Salem School Road.

Homemade chicken noodle soup, chili and desserts will be served. Tickets are $6 a person and available at the door.

Local officeholders and candidates for the 2018 general election will speak.

Call (217) 855-4129 for more information.

Amphitheater bid OK’d Christy-Foltz to begin work on $3.9M project Friday JAYLYN COOK

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DECATUR — The Decatur Park District board of commissioners has accepted a bid to construct a multi-million dollar amphitheater in Nelson Park.

During the park board’s regular meeting Wednesday, the board accepted a bid from Christy-Foltz Inc. to build the project, scheduled to be completed by the summer of 2018.

At $3,998,402, the Christy-Foltz bid was the lowest bid that Forsyth-based firm Architectural Expressions received for the project, according to Managing Partner Larry Livergood.

The firm received a total of three bids for the project, he said, which ranged from $3.9 million to $4.7 million in price.

Livergood said the firms that responded to Architectural Expressions’ bid request were required to finish the project within 270 days. He said the amphitheater is currently expected to be finished by July 29, 2018.

“That gives us a good date for a potential fall concert,” Livergood said.

“Obviously, a few weeks would be needed to make the facility operational, but that’s the target date as of today.”

The amphitheater has been in the works since 2014, after former Gov. Pat Quinn visited Decatur and announced the district would receive funding for the multi-million outdoor venue.

But in January 2015, district officials said Quinn’s office didn’t approve necessary paperwork before Gov. Bruce Rauner took office that month. A few months later, Rauner suspended all state grants for park district projects.

Planning for the project resumed after The Howard G. Buffett Foundation announced in October 2016 that

A view from terrace seating of the stage in a rendering of the new Nelson Park lakefront amphitheater. it would cover the $3.9 million cost of a new outdoor venue. The city and park district are sharing the estimated $358,600 of engineering and professional services.

Livergood said Christy-Foltz should begin work on the amphitheater site

this Friday.

“There’s a lot of clearing that has to be done at the site, so that will definitely come first,” he said. jcook@herald-review.com | (217) 421-7980

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Caregivers event planned Nov. 8 The Coles County Council on Aging will host a Caregivers, Coffee and Conversation session from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the LifeSpan Center in Charleston.

Coffee, pastries and attendance prizes will be available. The event is free, but reservations are required. Call (217) 639-5150 or visit colescouncilonaging.org to sign up.

Police: Man stole batteries for drugs TONY REID

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DECATUR – A Decatur man stole vehicle batteries to support his drug habit and hit the same towing business recently on four occasions, stealing at least 10 batteries, according to police.

A sworn affidavit said the 41-yearold suspect was arrested Monday night after the owner of Richard’s Towing, 1121 North 21st St., had caught him with three stolen batteries. He had been warned previously to stay away from the property, the affidavit said.

A check of the lot revealed six vehicles were missing their batteries.

When interviewed by officers, the suspect said he had taken 10-12 batteries in four raids on the business, the affidavit said; he had also helped himself to a radar detector from one vehicle. “He said he was selling the batteries for $5 to support his heroin habit,” the affidavit said.

The suspect was jailed on multiple charges of burglary, possession of burglary tools and trespass to land. He remained in the Macon County Jail Wednesday in lieu of posting $10,000 bond. If he makes bond, he is ordered to stay away from Richard’s Towing. treid@herald-review.com|(217) 421-7977

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Cybercrimes unit fights online offenses

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BLOOMINGTON — Staying one step ahead of those who use their skills to steal from strangers and victimize children is the focus of the Bloomington Police Department’s cybercrimes unit.

Detective Josh Swartzentruber told an audience at Tuesday’s BPD focus group that the two-man unit investigates a wide range of crimes involving computers, cellphones and other devices.

“Computer crimes are no longer just crimes committed against other computers or networks,” said the detective.

Swartzentruber, who also works with the U.S. Secret Service cybercrimes task force, estimated that 85 percent of his time is spent on child pornorgraphy and other crimes that victimize mi-

nors. Swartzentruber’s partner, Detective Bill Lynn, shares his time with the FBI unit investigating computer-related offenses.

Child pornography cases can take up to a year to investigate, said Swatzentruber, because of the voluminous amount of material stored on hard drives seized by police.

The majority of the child pornography cases are handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in Peoria where federal prosecutors have the ability to seek harsher sentences, according to the detective.

Training never ends for detectives who investigate cybercrimes.

“Our daily life is spent reading and researching what we need to do to stay ahead of the bad guys,” Swartzentruber told the audience.

Police Chief Brendan Heffner said the city budget includes about $25,000 annually for training for Lynn and Swartzentruber. The specialized training has been used to help other local police agencies that don’t have the tools to investigate complex internet crimes, said Heffner.

Several residents expressed concern that their personal information and credit card data could be compromised.

The detective advised them to only use a Wi-Fi connection that’s secured with a password to avoid others from accessing information and check that internet links to banks are secure.

Swartzentruber shared his own experience of having his credit card compromised by a person in Tampa, Fla. Further theft was halted after the credit card

company called the detective to verify the breach.

The theft of credit card numbers is a problem that goes beyond the U.S., but a few precautions can protect consumers, said the detective. Restaurants that offer credit card transactions to be handled by customers on a device at the table or complete the payment process in clear view of customers limits the chance that a theft, or skimming, of the card will occur.

Cellphones are a major source of information for police.

“Cellphones are little computers,” said Swartzentruber, that allow police to retrieve messages, texts, phone records and documents related to a crime. eblunny@pantagraph.com

Tate & Lyle maintains city’s ‘Castle in the Cornfields’ JOHN REIDY

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DECATUR — Tate & Lyle is one of the city’s most successful businesses and owner of perhaps its most recognizable landmark.

Tate & Lyle came to Decatur in 1988, purchasing A.E. Staley Mfg. Co., a longtime Decatur employer.

Already successful in the starch business in Maryland, A.E. Staley came to Decatur and purchased a defunct starch making plant in 1909. He made the necessary repairs and improvements and opened the doors for his business in 1912.

The business thrived in Decatur, leading to the construction of one of the city’s most iconic sights: the A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. Building on East Eldorado Street. The grand office building opened in 1930.

“This building really is Decatur,” said Laura Jahr, director of the Staley Museum, which opened last year to recognize the company’s legacy. “For Staley, it was crown jewel of his business em-

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Staley built the 14-story neo-gothic structure in 1930 to house his growing agro-industrial business, and it became known as the “Castle in the Cornfields.”

“Many thousands of tourists from all over the country will pass by that building every year and the structure we plan will make them remember ‘Staley’ and Decatur as nothing else could do,” Staley said in a 1928 Decatur Herald article.

Tate & Lyle acquired the business in

1988. Its headquarters moved to Hoffman Estates in 2010, but the building still houses operations.

The Decatur site includes Tate & Lyle’s production operations, an administration building, research and development labs and full pilot plant capabilities, according to the company.

It is one of Decatur’s largest employers with more than 500 workers.

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‌‌ votes against UN US rebuke of embargo UNITED NATIONS — The United States voted against a U.N. resolution condemning America’s economic embargo against Cuba on Wednesday, reversing last year’s abstention by the Obama administration and reflecting worsening U.S.-Cuban relations.

Israel joined the United States in opposing the embargo resolution, which was overwhelmingly approved in the 193-member General Assembly by a vote of 191-2. That was the same vote as in 2015.

Last October, then-President Barack Obama’s administration abstained for the first time in 25 years on the embargo resolution as the U.S. leader and Cuban President Raul Castro moved forward with the historic warming of relations between the two countries.

Ex-Catalan officials to appear in court BARCELONA, Spain — Some members of Catalonia’s ousted government will appear before a Spanish judge today for questioning in the rebellion investigation stemming from the region’s declaration of independence, but the former regional president does not plan to be among them.

Paul Bekaert, a Belgian lawyer representing the sacked Catalan president, said Wednesday he was seeking to have Carles Puigdemont questioned instead in Belgium. Puigdemont turned up in Brussels this week along with several of his former Cabinet members.

All 14 of the regional officials removed by the Spanish government face possible charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement for driving the series of moves that culminated in Catalan lawmakers voting in favor of independence from Spain last Friday.

BRIEFLY WILDFIRES: Responding to deadly wildfires in California and the West, House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill to allow faster approval for logging and other actions to reduce the risk of fire in national forests.

NORTH KOREA: A high-ranking North Korean defector told a Senate panel Wednesday that a pre-emptive U.S. military strike on the country would trigger automatic retaliation, with the North unleashing artillery and short-range missile fire on South Korea. Thae Yong Ho is the former deputy chief of mission at the North Korean Embassy in London.

IRAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday strongly backed Iran and its nuclear deal with world powers, saying Moscow opposed “any unilateral change” to the accord after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to re-certify it.

NASA: President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA chief is promising to run the space agency on a consensus agenda driven by science. But the assurances from Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., failed to placate Senate Democrats at a contentious confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

OBAMA SUMMIT: Former first lady Michelle Obama said words matter, particularly in an age where Twitter and other social media can be used like a weapon. She addressed a summit of young leaders Wednesday hosted by the Obama Foundation in Chicago. She says people shouldn’t “tweet every thought” because “first initial thoughts are not worthy of the light of day.” The comments drew laughter from the crowd as Obama added she wasn’t “talking about anybody in particular.”

BERGDAHL: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s difficult childhood and his washout from Coast Guard boot camp stoked serious psychiatric disorders that helped spur him to walk off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday. Dr. Charles Morgan was the final defense witness at Bergdahl’s sentencing hearing, and closing arguments are expected to start today.

— Associated Press

Study offers hope for muscle disease LAURAN NEERGAARD

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‌WASHINGTON — A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots’ lives, and some began to roll over, sit and stand on their own, researchers reported Wednesday.

Only 15 babies with spinal muscular atrophy received the experimental gene therapy, but researchers in Ohio credited the preliminary and promising results to replacing the infants’ defective gene early — in the first few months of life, before the neuromuscular disease destroyed too many key nerve cells.

“They all should have died by now,” said Dr. Jerry Mendell of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, who led the work published by The New England Journal of Medicine. Yet, “those babies are still improving.”

Mendell cautioned that much more study is needed to prove the gene therapy works and is safe. Nor is it clear whether the replacement

gene’s effects would wane over time.

Spinal muscular atrophy occurs in about one in 10,000 births, and those with the most severe form, called SMA Type 1, rarely reach their second birthday. They can be born looking healthy but rapidly decline. One study found just 8 percent of the most severely affected survived to age 20 months without needing permanent mechanical ventilation to breathe.

There is no cure. The first treatment wasn’t approved until last December — a drug named Spinraza that requires spinal injections every few months.

The experimental gene therapy approach aims for a one-time fix.

Spinal muscular atrophy is caused when a mutated gene can’t produce a protein crucial for survival of motor neurons, nerve cells in the spinal cord that control muscles.

Some children carry extra copies of a backup gene that produces small amounts of the vital protein, and thus have much milder forms

of the disease.

Scientists loaded a healthy version of the gene into a virus modified so it couldn’t cause illness.

Then 15 babies got a one-time intravenous injection. The virus carried the healthy gene into motor neurons, where it got to work producing the protein those nerve cells require to live.

Three babies received a low dose of the gene therapy, as a first-step safety precaution. The remaining 12 got a high dose.

All of the children are alive, Mendell said, about two years and counting after treatment. All beat the odds of needing permanent machine help to breathe by age 20 months.

But only the high-dose recipients saw better motor control, reaching some developmental milestones usually unthinkable for these patients. Eleven could sit unassisted at least briefly; nine could roll over. Eleven are speaking and able to swallow. Two were able to crawl, stand and then walk, Mendell’s team reported.

Those results are “very striking,” said Dr. Basil Darras, who directs Boston Children’s Hospital’s neuromuscular center and wasn’t involved in the new research.

While the treatment needs testing on far more babies, usually “there are no further developmental gains” after diagnosis, Darras explained. “They stagnate for a while and they go downhill very fast and die.”

The only serious side effect attributed to the gene therapy so far involved possible signs of a liver problem that eased with treatment.

AveXis Inc., which is developing the gene therapy and helped fund Wednesday’s study, has opened a second small trial at seven hospitals.

Meanwhile, doctors are prescribing SMA patients the new medication Spinraza, which works by increasing that backup gene’s protein production and, according to a separate New England Journal study, had some benefit in about half of patients.

Consumer banking rule repeal now law

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Regulation would have allowed consumers to unite, sue companies KEN THOMAS

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JACQUELYN MARTIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

From left, Facebook’s general counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter’s acting general counsel Sean Edgett, and Google’s senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker are sworn in Wednesday for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian election activity and technology on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Facebook ads linked to Russia are released Displays underscore how foreign agents touched US hot buttons ERIC TUCKER AND MARY CLARE JALONICK

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‌A trove of Facebook ads made public Wednesday by Congress depicts Russia’s extraordinary cyber intrusion into American life in 2016 aimed at upending the nation’s democratic debate and fomenting discord over such disparate issues as immigration, gun control and politics.

The ads, seen by vast numbers of people, encouraged street demonstrations against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and fostered support and opposition to Bernie Sanders, Muslims, gays, blacks and the icons of the Civil Rights movement.

The few dozen ads, a small sampling of the roughly 3,000 Russian-connected ones that Facebook has identified and turned over to Congress, were released amid two consecutive days of tough and sometimes caustic

questioning by House and Senate lawmakers about why social media giants hadn’t done more to combat Russian interference on their sites.

The ads underscore how foreign agents sought to sow confusion, anger and discord among Americans through messages on hot-button topics. U.S. intelligence services say the Russian use of social media was part of a broad effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of Trump.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether the Kremlin worked with the Trump campaign to influence voters.

Many of the ads show careful targeting, with messages geared toward particular audiences. One ad, aimed at those with an interest in civil rights and their leaders, highlights a man who claims to be Bill Clinton’s illegitimate son.

Another video parodying Trump was targeted at black people who also are interested in BlackNews. com, HuffPost Politics or HuffPost Black Voices.

In preparation for hearings this week, Facebook disclosed that content generated by a Rus-

sian group, the Internet Research Agency, potentially reached as many as 126 million users. Company executives said that going forward they would verify political ad buyers in federal elections, requiring them to reveal correct names and locations. The site will also create new graphics where users can click on the ads and find out more about who’s behind them.

They faced questioning during two days of hearings, with lawmakers expressing exasperation at the seeming inability to thwart foreign intervention.

At one point, Sen. Al Franken shook his head after he couldn’t get all the companies to commit to not accepting political ads bought with foreign currency.

Several ads touting Facebook pages called “Back the Badge,” “Being Patriotic,” “Blacktivist,” “South United” and “Woke Blacks” were labeled as being paid for in rubles using Qiwi, a Moscow-based payment provider that aims to serve “the new generation in Russia” and former Soviet republics, according to the company’s website.

‌WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the repeal of a banking rule that would have allowed consumers to join together to sue their bank or credit card company to resolve financial disputes.

The president signed the measure at the White House in private. Journalists were not present to witness the signing.

The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s regulation, which the banking industry had been seeking to roll back.

The Trump administration and Republicans have pushed to undo regulations they say harm the free market and lead to frivolous lawsuits.

Democrats contend the rule would have given consumers more leverage to stop companies from financial wrongdoing.

CFPB Director Richard Cordray, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in a statement that Trump had “signed away consumers’ right to their day in court.”

“This action tips the scales of justice in favor of Wall Street banks less than ten years after they caused the financial crisis,” Cordray said.

If the rule had been allowed to go into effect in 2019, it could have exposed banks to large class-action lawsuits, a possibility that has taken gotten more attention following the sales practices scandal at Wells Fargo and the security breach at credit company Equifax.

The repeal means bank customers will still be subject to what are known as mandatory arbitration clauses. These clauses are buried in the fine print of nearly every checking account, credit card, payday loan, auto loan or other financial services contract and require customers to use arbitration to resolve any dispute with their bank.

Britain’s defense chief quits amid allegations

Report: Fallon repeatedly touched journalist’s knee in ’02 JILL LAWLESS

Associated Press‌

‌LONDON — Britain’s defense minister resigned Wednesday after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior — the latest twist in a growing scandal over harassment and abuse in the country’s corridors of power.

Michael Fallon said in a resignation letter to Prime Minister Theresa May that his “previous

conduct ... may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces.”

Fallon, 65, was first elected to Parliament in 1983 and has been defense secretary since 2014.

A newspaper reported last weekend that Fallon had repeatedly touched a journalist’s knee at a function in 2002. The journalist in question said she had shrugged off the incident, but reports suggested that other allegations about Fallon might soon emerge.

Accepting his resignation, May said she appreciated “the characteristically serious manner in

which you have considered your position.”

The scandal surrounding Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has emboldened people in many industries to speak up about sexual harassment or attacks at the hands of powerful individuals who control their future job prospects.

May has also ordered an investigation into claims another senior minister made inappropriate advances to a Conservative activist.

Writer and academic Kate Maltby says Cabinet minister Damian Green “fleetingly” touched

her knee in 2015 and later sent her a “suggestive” text message after she was pictured wearing a corset in a newspaper.

Maltby wrote in the Times of London newspaper that Green “offered me career advice and in the same breath made it clear he was sexually interested.”

“It was not acceptable to me at the time and it should not be acceptable behavior in Westminster in the future,” Maltby wrote.

Green, Britain’s de facto deputy prime minister, denied making sexual advances and called the allegations “a complete shock” and “deeply hurtful.”

Hollywood harassment claims widen MARK KENNEDY AND JAKE COYLE

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‌NEW YORK — Hollywood’s widening sexual harassment crisis has ensnared a prominent film director after six women — including actress Olivia Munn — accused Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct in a Los Angeles Times report on Wednesday.

Playboy Enterprises quickly distanced itself from Ratner as his attorney denied the allegations.

The reverberations also reached back 32 years as Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman came forward to apologize for allegedly sexually harassing a 17-year-old intern in 1985.

W r i t e r Anna Graham Hunter alleged Hoffman in a Wednesday column in The Hollywood Reporter that the now 80-year-old actor groped her on the set of TV movie “Death of a Ratner Salesman” and “talked about sex to me and in front of me.”

Hoffman issued a statement Wednesday, apologizing for “anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”

Munn also complained about onset behavior, alleging that while visiting the set of Ratner’s “After the Sunset” in 2004, he masturbated in front of her in his trailer. Munn described the incident, without naming Ratner, in a 2010 collection of essays.

Ratner’s lawyer issued a statement Wednesday in which he said the director “vehemently denies the outrageous derogatory allegations” and is “confident that his name will be cleared once the current media frenzy dies down and people can objectively evaluate the nature of these claims.”

Ratner directed the “Rush Hour” film series, “Red Dragon,” “X-Men: The Last Stand” and “Tower Heist.” He has a firstlook deal with Warner Bros. and his RatPac and Dune Entertainment has an extensive co-financing deal with the studio that has encompassed much of Warner Bros.’s output, including “Wonder Woman,” ‘’It” and “Justice League,” ‘’It.” “We are aware of the allegations in the LA Times and are reviewing the situation,” Warner Bros. said in a statement.

But Playboy Enterprises shelved any of its projects that involved Ratner, including working on a biopic of Hugh Hefner, which was to star Jared Leto. “We are deeply troubled to learn about the accusations against Brett Ratner. We find this kind of behavior completely unacceptable,” according to a statement.

Ratner and Hoffman become the latest Hollywood figures to face allegations of misusing their power to harass actresses, a list that now includes producer Harvey Weinstein and writer-director James Toback.

Harassment allegations have also been levied against actors Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Piven.

The crisis has widened to other areas of entertainment and media, including country music. Kirt Webster, a major country music publicist who has represented high profile clients like Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr., had denied accusations that he sexually assaulted an aspiring country singer.

Police in Beverly Hills on Tuesday announced they have launched criminal investigations over complaints received about Weinstein and Toback.

Weinstein has denied engaging in any non-consensual sexual contact. His representative, Sallie Hofmeister, had no comment on the Beverly Hills investigation. The department said late Tuesday that it was investigating Weinstein and Toback after receiving “multiple complaints,” although the department did not specify the M 1 nature of the complaints.

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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Indictment more serious than president thinks President Donald Trump would like Americans to believe the indictment of former campaign manager Paul Manafort is no big deal.

“Today’s announcement has nothing to do with the president and nothing to do with the president’s campaign,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

That prompted guffaws, obviously, across social media — plus a quick demand by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, for Sanders to resign for the “outright lies” she has told.

Manafort was indicted, along with an associate, on tax fraud, money laundering and other federal charges tied to millions of dollars in secret payments from pro-Russian forces within Ukraine dating to 2006.

It’s true that Monday’s charges don’t prove the more serious questions at the heart of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. They don’t prove that Trump or his team colluded with Russia to win last year’s election.

And they don’t prove that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey because he refused to stop investigating the possibility of collusion.

But nothing to do with Trump?

Sanders can’t be serious.

Besides, it’s early yet. Later that day, word came that another campaign figure, senior foreign affairs adviser George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI when it asked him in January about his contacts with Russian intermediaries. He told the FBI he had known those Russian contacts before he ever came aboard the campaign. But that was a lie.

Trump immediately insisted that the alleged crimes by his former campaign manager took place “years ago and before Paul Manafort was part

of the Trump campaign.” But not according to the indictment. Right there on the first page, it alleges that Manafort’s vast money-laundering scheme stretched from “at least 2006 through 2016.”

He is also accused of lying to the FBI about his work for Ukraine last fall and again earlier this year.

That’s not “years ago.” That’s practically yesterday.

It’s common for prosecutors to use tax fraud charges, and perjury too, to squeeze a defendant against whom they can’t prove an underlying cases.

Call it the Al Capone strategy.

But what’s so important about the tax charges against Manafort is why he was hiding all that income. And where all the income was coming from.

Before he ran Trump’s campaign, he and his companies spent years boosting pro-Russian forces within Ukraine. When one of his clients was elected president there, the indictment alleges, he began hiring lobbyists back in the U.S. to advance Ukraine’s interests before Congress.

That wouldn’t have been illegal.

Maybe awkward to explain in a U.S. presidential campaign, but not illegal. But before you can lobby the U.S. government on behalf of a foreign power, our laws require you to come clean about the relationship, how much you’re being paid and for what.

The indictment alleges that he failed to register, instead conducting all that business through a worldwide maze of partnerships, accounts and banks.

Will this be the first of many indictments? It’s too soon to say. But it casts Trump, who claims to be such a smart people picker, in extraordinarily poor light.

— The Dallas Morning News

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Tech industry must fight its bad press The U.S. technology industry, personalized as Silicon Valley, is under attack. And it’s not just Steve Bannon ranting about “lords of technology” who steal Americans’ jobs, wealth and opportunity.

The reasons for the attacks, some perceived and some real, aren’t new.

But they have reached a scale that Bay Area industry cannot ignore.

A few examples: — The New York Times Week in Review section Oct. 14 featured a scathing article headlined “Silicon Valley is not your friend.” It argued that tech’s Big Five companies, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, have concentrated wealth and power to a degree that threatens our democracy.

— The Atlantic magazine has published several articles this year faulting tech, including one saying, “It’s getting harder to believe in Silicon Valley.”

— Wired magazine, noting “the backlash growing toward the tech industry’s overwhelming power and wealth,” posted the story “New York: The pious alternative to evil Silicon Valley.”

A barrage of media attention to its treatment of women, reliance on H1B visas and disrespect of Americans’ privacy is creating an image that M threatens to overwhelm the positive 1 impact tech has on the U.S. economy.

It was tech that yanked the nation out of its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. It has led in job creation for the past eight years — a spectacular run that, at least economically, made America great again.

Criticisms of the industry’s attitudes toward privacy and women ring true. The industry itself has to fix them. But Silicon Valley also needs to stand against the external forces that threaten its future.

Its success rests in the thousands of innovative startups armed and ready to capitalize on new opportunities — many of them driven by immigrants.

Imagine if Tesla’s Elon Musk had not been able to come to Silicon Valley to get a PhD at Stanford in applied physics and material science? Imagine if Google’s Sergey Brin had not taken the same path and teamed with Larry Page on a research project at Stanford to create a new type of search engine?

The main challenges to the American economy are not tech’s power but government anti-immigration legislation, anti-science policies and other retro trends that may well keep the next wave of entrepreneurs from coming to the Bay Area to start their companies. Driving the core of the industry overseas will make America weak again.

— The Mercury News

Dems’ irrelevancy self-inflicted

P

erhaps you’ve heard a little something about President Donald Trump fighting publicly with members of his own party. The media loves these he-said-then-he-said stories of political conflict. They’re so easy to cover and self-destructive to the GOP cause. So they’re churned out day after day, enabling this president to manipulate coverage through mere tweets and dominate consecutive news cycles.

What you haven’t heard much about is the acidic disarray among Democrats.

That’s understandable.

ANDREW Democrats in MALCOLM Washington have become basically irrelevant. They lost control of the House. They lost control of the Senate. They lost control of the White House.

This is important far beyond any political rooting interest. Our democracy needs at least two parties, two vibrant, imperfect, competing political organizations as a check on the other.

Perhaps Barack Obama’s worst political legacy is the devastation he wrought on his own party, not by mean tweets but by making everything about him.

He wanted Obamacare so badly Democrats obediently rammed it through Congress without a single GOP vote. Obama loved the sole spotlight of fundraisers so much he did on average of one a week for eight straight years. And Democrats still lost everything, including nearly 1,000 powerful seats in state legislatures across the land.

To be sure, life in any congressional

minority stinks. All it can do is obstruct and whine. If Democrats had any new ideas, which they don’t, no one cares — not even their sympathetic media. That’s because minority ideas are politically DOA. But much of the party’s enduring predicament is self-inflicted. Who leads Democrats today? Right. No one. Ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi from California is 77. Her team includes Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. Hoyer is 78. Clyburn is 77.

Notice anything about this aged crowd, besides birthdates all before Pearl Harbor? They all come from coastal states, not that massive red area in between so full of economic hardship, simmering discontent and frustrations. Trump didn’t create that volatile voter cocktail, but he sure tapped into it. And still does daily.

In the Senate, New York’s Chuck Schumer rules Democrats. The spring chicken at 66, he took over from Harry Reid, who turns 78 next month. Then, there’s Hillary Clinton, another coastal New Yorker. She’s 70 and declined to campaign last year in such unimportant places as Michigan and Wisconsin that cost her the election.

Now comes Dianne Feinstein of California, the most populous and arguably most reliably liberal state that wouldn’t know a heartland Main Street unless a limo driver pointed out the sign.

A former San Francisco mayor, Feinstein wants a fifth Senate term next year. She’ll be 85 years old then.

Supporters argue her seniority brings great clout. But it also comes with long-term costs. Born during the Great Depression, Feinstein does not embody the values of today’s

angry, younger progressives.

Her tenure blocks their political advancement, prompting primary challengers. Pelosi faced a caucus leadership challenge last fall after a fourth straight election failure.

And the GOP is experiencing similar intraparty duels over loyalty to a noisy president.

One could argue such struggles and periodic purges are part of a natural political rejuvenation within a healthy democracy. Unfortunately, this time they’re widening the gap between the expanding extremes of both parties, reducing any likelihood of another characteristic of a healthy democracy, compromise.

Witness all the major legislative achievements of this year’s Congress, which are, uh, nothing.

Americans’ approval of Congress’ job performance is nearing single digits, which is basically members, their families and friends.

Previously, when each party was less polarized to extremes, legislative compromises were more viable. With moderates on both sides losing or retiring in frustration, gridlock sets in.

Fifty-three weeks from now, in the 2018 midterms, history and premature polls indicate Democrats may well win back majorities in Congress.

But that won’t be because of anything Democrats did. It will be because of who they aren’t. They aren’t Republicans, who blew their shot at ruling the entire swamp, let alone draining it.

Andrew Malcolm is an author and veteran national and foreign correspondent covering politics since the 1960s.

Mass pardons would escalate risks This presidency is raising all kinds of novel constitutional questions.

Starting in January, people who could not have pronounced “emoluments” a month previously were opining confidently that President Donald Trump was violating the Constitution’s clause about them. Now we’re having to consider just how far the president’s pardon power runs.

Trump has reportedly asked his aides that question.

Now conservative RAMESH PONNURU lawyers David Rivkin and Lee Casey are urging him to use the pardon power expansively, to block prosecutors from investigating and charging “anyone involved in supposed collusion with Russia or Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign,” including the president himself. Their Wall Street Journal op-ed goes even further, advising pardons for anyone involved in arguably related Obama administration misconduct.

Whether the courts would be obliged to respect a presidential self-pardon is a disputed question.

But let’s assume that judges could not review the pardons that Rivkin and Casey recommend, as they cannot review the vast run of pardons. Trump should restrain himself from issuing these pardons even if he has the legal power to grant them — and even if his

anger over special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between his campaign and Russia tempts him to make them.

The conservative lawyers say the pardons are necessary to end the “madness” that the investigation has already produced. But they do not justify that characterization of the harms that blanket pardons would prevent.

They suggest two harms from allowing Mueller to continue. First, they claim that he is threatening to intrude on presidential authority by treating Trump’s firing of James Comey as director of the FBI as obstruction of justice. “A president cannot obstruct justice through the exercise of his constitutional and discretionary authority,” they say.

The statutes can be read to suggest that presidents can indeed obstruct justice in that way: A corrupt motive can convert legal into illegal activity.

But even if Rivkin and Casey are right about presidential immunity, their argument against Mueller is highly speculative. The possibility that Mueller will stretch the law to the detriment of the presidency is not a good reason for pre-emptively pardoning people for lying to the FBI or committing other illegal acts.

Second, the authors note that the investigation is deeply enmeshed in partisan politics. Trump’s political opponents are hoping, sometimes openly, that it will lead to impeachment. Some of his supporters have

“tremendous bitterness” about the investigation, which they see “as an effort by Washington mandarins to nullify their vote.” And Rivkin and Casey note that pardons have been used in the past to foster civil peace.

They offer an alternative way to make sure presidents do not commit serious misconduct: Congress can investigate them and, depending on the results, impeach and remove them from office. But this argument self-destructs. A congressional investigation would be politicized in exactly the same way that they lament.

Pardons all around won’t make for national harmony anyway. They would make the controversies already swirling around Trump burn hotter.

They would lead to more and louder calls for impeachment. And they should.

The standards governing impeachment are not entirely clear.

A conscientious congressman would not consider his mere disagreement with an administration’s policies proof that a president had committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” that warrant removal under the Constitution.

But abuse of the pardon power qualifies, and using pardons to shortcircuit an investigation that threatens the president’s political interests would be an abuse. Let’s hope Trump rejects this bad advice.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist.

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Viewfinders unveil fall colors for colorblind JONATHAN MATTISE

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STEVEN SENNE, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

Bill Maling, of Somerville, Mass., removes a braille plate from an embossing machine Tuesday at the National Braille Press in Boston. The Bostonbased organization has been a leading force for braille literacy in the U.S. since its founding as a weekly newspaper for the blind in 1927.

Preserving braille literacy Advocates say tactile writing system still needed PHILIP MARCELO

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‌ OSTON — For nearly a cenB tury, the National Braille Press has churned out millions of pages of Braille books and magazines a year, providing a window on the world for generations of blind people.

But as it turns 90 this year, the Boston-based printing press and other advocates of the tactile writing system are wrestling with how to address record low Braille literacy.

Roughly 13 percent of U.S. blind students were considered Braille readers in a 2016 survey by the American Printing House for the Blind, another major Braille publisher, located in Louisville, Kentucky. That number has steadily dropped from around 30 percent in 1974, the first year the organization started asking the question.

Brian Mac Donald, president of the National Braille Press, says the modern blind community needs easier and more affordable ways to access the writing system developed in the 1800s by French teacher Louis Braille.

For the National Braille Press and its 1960-era Heidelberg presses, that has meant developing and launching its own electronic Braille reader last year —

the B2G. “Think Kindle for the blind,” Mac Donald said as he showed off the portable machine — which has an eight-button keyboard for typing in Braille as well as a refreshable, tactile display for reading along in Braille — during a recent tour of the press’ headquarters near Northeastern University.

The venerable press, which started as a Boston newspaper for the blind in 1927, has also looked beyond printing Braille versions of popular books and magazine titles.

Educational materials like school textbooks and standardized tests, as well as business-related publications like restaurant menus, instruction manuals and business cards, comprise an increasingly larger share of revenues, Mac Donald said.

“Braille isn’t dead by any means,” he said. “But it needs technology to adapt and evolve.”

Waning interest in Braille has been a challenge since the 1970s, when school districts started

de-emphasizing it in favor of audio learning and other teaching methods, said Chris Danielsen, spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore.

New technology has allowed people with visual impairments to live more independently than ever, but they’re also playing a role in eroding Braille’s prominence, said Cory Kadlik, a 26-year-old Massachusetts native who lost his sight as an infant.

Kadlik said he is “not the strongest Braille reader,” in large part because of what technology allows him to accomplish.

Computer software reads aloud emails and other digital documents for him, and his smartphone helps him complete everyday tasks like sorting the mail.

But while technology has opened up a new world not dependent on Braille, it also presents its best chance at survival, said Kim Charlson, the library’s director.

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Another key is overcoming perceptions that Braille is hard to learn and inefficient to use, said Joseph Quintanilla, the vice president of development at the National Braille Press.

Quintanilla, who has been legally blind since age five, said he regrets shunning Braille growing up. He started to appreciate its role in imparting crucial grammar and communication skills only when he entered the working world and had to play catch up.

“I don’t think we would ask sighted people to go through life without reading,” Quintanilla said. “So we shouldn’t do that for blind people.”

‌GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Even when the rugged expanses of the Great Smoky Mountains were bursting with their famous fall colors, they always looked dull black and tawny to Lauren Van Lew from the 3,590-foot-high perch of Mount Harrison.

For the 20-year-old Van Lew, who has been colorblind her whole life, some colors have just been left to the imagination. She loves painting, but her wife Molly has to help her pick and mix colors.

Recently, however, when Van Lew visited the scenic mountaintop again and looked through a special viewfinder, for the first time she saw yellows, oranges and reds exploding across the landscape.

“Red was the biggest difference. I mean, I can’t describe it,” said Van Lew, who lives in Sevierville, Tennessee. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That red, it’s just gorgeous. It’s incredible.”

She wondered, “How do you see like that all of the time?”

The colorblind viewfinder installed atop the Ober Gatlinburg resort by the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development was one of three in the state that debuted recently, letting people gaze upon colors that they may have never seen before. The other two viewfinders are at scenic areas of Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area near Oneida, and at the westbound Interstate

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Although the technology isn’t new — eyeglasses that let colorblind people see colors are already available — state officials believe this is the first time it’s been incorporated into a viewfinder, at a cost of $2,000 apiece, to help people with redgreen color deficiencies. How crisply the viewfinders display new colors can vary from person to person among the 13 million or so people in the country with color deficiencies.

State tourism officials invited people to try it out last month at Ober Gatlinburg, bringing them up by ski-lift, but left the details somewhat vague to maintain the element of surprise. A crew filmed their reactions for marketing material.

Their first glimpses drew tears, smiles and faces stunned by wonder and awe.

“My heart just started beating fast,” said Todd Heil, who generally sees a lot of green. “I felt like crying, man. Too many people around.”

Amber McCarter works in real estate, so part of her pitch is the fall foliage that drapes the Great Smoky Mountains, even though she can’t entirely see it herself. The viewfinder gave her a firsthand look of the views she’s been selling.

“It’s like, if you want to go see a show somewhere, you don’t want to hear from somebody whose family went. You want to hear from somebody who actually went,” the 22-yearold said.

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Freshman Bennett Williams looks ready now Defensive back already making impact for Illini MARK TUPPER

H&R Executive Sports Editor‌

‌CHAMPAIGN — Most of the many freshmen Illinois has turned to during this rebuilding football season will be much more ready to play next year.

Offensive linemen like Larry Boyd and Vederian Lowe already have the size but desperately need the experience they are soaking up now.

A defensive lineman like Isaiah Gay needs a full year in the weight room as he gains bulk and muscle.

A few are closer to being ready, like running back Mike Epstein (out now with a foot injury) and wide receiver Ricky Smalling, who already leads the ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ team in receiving yards and receiving Illinois defensive back Bennett Williams (4) keeps Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor touchdowns.

(23) from getting in the end zone in last Saturday’s game.

And then there’s safety Bennett

Williams, who just might be the most Big Ten-ready freshman of the bunch.

Only a few people knew much about Williams when he showed up as part of coach Lovie Smith’s 2017 recruiting class, mainly because he was the lone Californian in a group of 25.

The one who knew him best — and who’s not surprised to see that Williams ranks second in tackles and is the team leader with two interceptions — is defensive coordinator Hardy Nickerson, who is most responsible for bringing Williams from Campbell, Calif., to Champaign.

Nickerson played college football with Bennett Williams’ father, Garey, at Cal. They’ve remained friends and Nickerson followed Bennett Williams’ high school career and knew he had 15 interceptions his final two seasons at St. Francis High.

“I knew quite a bit about him,”

Nickerson said. “He’s a little further along than I thought he would be, but I knew he would come in and be an impact player for us. I just didn’t know how soon but I always felt he could be a really good player at this level.

“In high school he played cornerback, safety, receiver and returned kicks. He probably had a few reps at running back in there.”

Nickerson described Williams as a smart, instinctive, fearless player and blossoming team leader who quickly takes to coaching and plays beyond his years. As Nickerson speaks, it becomes clear he once spoke this way about a player who last year led the Illini in tackles. That player is his son with the same name, Hardy Nickerson, who is now on the roster of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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SIDELINES

Papa John: lower profits tied to protests Sales growth at Papa John’s is slowing, and the pizza chain is blaming it on the outcry surrounding NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.

The company, which is a sponsor and advertiser of the NFL, said customers have a negative view of the chain’s association with the NFL. The company also cut its earnings growth expectations for the year and Papa John’s stock fell about 10 percent Wednesday.

“NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders,” said the chain’s CEO John Schnatter, in a call with analysts Wednesday. “This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago.”

The kneeling movement was started last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who kneeled to protest what he said was police mistreatment of black males. More players began kneeling after President Donald Trump said at an Alabama rally last month that team owners should get rid of players who protest during the anthem.

Schnatter, echoing what Trump has said on Twitter, said the controversy is hurting NFL ratings. He said Papa John’s has hired a new creative agency that will help it create more digital ads.

“The controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country,” he said.

A representative for the NFL did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. Commissioner Roger Goodell and several owners said at the league’s fall meetings last month that they did not discuss altering the anthem policy language from “should stand” to “must stand.”

Other companies don’t see the NFL as a problem. Executives at chicken wing chain Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. said last week that the company didn’t expect declining NFL viewership to hurt a key sales figure. And Kohl’s, the department store operator, said it is working with the NFL on a holiday ad campaign.

“What we see is a lot of our shoppers and prospective shoppers are watching NFL so that is what is behind the decision,” said Greg Revelle, the chief marketing officer at Kohl’s. “We are very confident.”

As for Papa John’s, it reported late Tuesday that third-quarter sales rose 1 percent at established locations in North America, which it said was below what the company had expected.

In the same period a year ago, sales rose 5.5 percent at established locations.

ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

A Houston blastoff The Houston Astros celebrate after Game 7 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday. The Astros won 5-1 to win the series 4-3.

Astros win first World Series title BEN WALKER

Associated Press‌

‌LOS ANGELES — From laughingstock to lift off.

George Springer and the Houston Astros rocketed to the top of the baseball galaxy Wednesday night, winning the first World Series championship in franchise history by romping past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7.

Playing for a city still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, and wearing an H Strong logo on their jerseys, the Astros brought home the prize that had eluded them since they started out in 1962 as the Colt .45s.

For a Series that was shaping up as an October classic, Game 7 quickly became a November clunker as Houston scored five runs in the first two innings off an ineffective Yu Darvish. Hardly

the excitement fans felt during the Cubs’ 10-inning thriller in Cleveland last fall.

Well, except for everyone wearing bright orange.

Jose Altuve, one of four carry-overs from a club that lost an embarrassing 111 times in 2013 after switching from the NL to the AL, and this collection of young stars silenced Dodger Stadium from the get-go. Charlie Morton finished up with four stellar innings of relief for the win.

Springer led off the evening with a double against Darvish, and soon it was 2-0.

Springer hit his fifth homer — tying the Series mark set by Reggie Jackson and matched by Chase Utley — when he connected for a record fourth game in a row, making it 5-0 in the second.

That was plenty for Astros manager A.J. Hinch. He pulled starter Lance McCullers Jr. soon after the curveballer crazily plunked his fourth batter of

the game, and began a bullpen parade of four relievers that kept the lead.

Forever known for their space-age Astrodome, outlandish rainbow jerseys and a handful of heartbreaking playoff losses, these Astros will be remembered as champions, finally, in their 56th season.

The club that wears a star on its hat also filled out the Texas trophy case.

Teams from the Lone Star State had won most every major crown — Super Bowl, NBA and NHL titles, championships in college football, and men’s and women’s hoops — except the World Series.

Built on the skills of homegrown AllStars Carlos Correa, Dallas Keuchel and more, and boosted by the slick trade for Justin Verlander, general manager Jeff Luhnow completed the ascent that some predicted.

Famously, now, there was the Sports Illustrated cover in 2014 — after Houston had lost more than 100 games for

three straight years — that proclaimed: “Your 2017 World Series Champs” and featured a picture of Springer in a bright Astros jersey.

Houston won 101 times this year to take the AL West, then won Games 6 and 7 at home in the AL Championship Series. The Astros joined the 1985 Royals as the only clubs to win a pair of Game 7s in the same year.

For the Dodgers, the quest to win a Series for the first time since 1988 fell short. They led the majors with 104 wins and a $240 million payroll, yet it didn’t pay off for part-owner Magic Johnson or manager Dave Roberts.

Longtime ace Clayton Kershaw provided four shutout innings of relief for Los Angeles, but it was too late. What the Dodgers really needed was a better starter than Darvish, someone more like the lefty who tossed out a ceremonial first ball: the great Sandy Koufax.

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Braves advance to Super-sectional Mount Zion wins first volleyball sectional championship JOEY WAGNER

Herald & Review‌

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‌EFFINGHAM — Jay McAtee leapt into the waiting arms of his assistant coaches.

A few feet to his left, his daughter Karlee McAtee hit the floor, surrounded by her teammates.

Finally on Wednesday, Mount Zion collected its first volleyball sectional championship with a 25-20, 25-22 win over Springfield Sacred-Heart Griffin at the Class 3A Effingham Sectional.

“It was the battle I thought,” Jay McAtee said. “It was a match of runs.

We got on a run, they got on a run. That happens when you have good teams is you’ve got to fight for every point.

“I am so proud of these girls. I’ve had this feeling a couple times before and I know coach (Dennis) Vaughn and I wanted them to feel what they’re feeling right now because you just can’t buy it.”

Mount Zion opened both sets up on runs before the Cyclones stormed back to put Mount Zion (35-4) on its heels each time.

But the Braves had an answer for every run Sacred Heart-Griffin (27-8) went on.

Mount Zion simply had too many weapons.

Karlee McAtee led the Braves with 10 kills, Reiley Drake had eight of her own, Hayden Engelbrecht and Dayna Ken-

nedy each had six and Kaitlyn Lillpop recorded a timely three kills.

Those kills were set up by Ali Vaughn’s team-high 27 assists.

On defense, McAtee (11), Madi Crawford (10) and Drake (10) each record double-figure digs for Mount Zion.

SHG had strength in its outside hitters, led by Renee Abernathy. That freed up the middle of the court for Lillpop and Hayden Engelbrecht.

“We were just tearing them up in the middle,” Jay McAtee said. “Their athletes are on the outside. They were double blocking everything on the outside. That left one-on-one with our middles and our middles are as good as CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW‌ anybody’s. We only have so many sets to dish out every night so while some Mount Zion celebrates after the winning the Class 3A Effingham Sectional championship against Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin on Wednesday. Online gallery at herald-review.com/ Please see BRAVES, Page B4 gallery

SPORTS

B2 | Thursday, November 2, 2017

ON TV TODAY BASKETBALL‌ Golden State Warriors at San Antonio Spurs. (Live Subject to Blackout) (CC) 7 p.m. (TNT) Los Angeles Lakers at Portland Trail Blazers. (Live Subject to Blackout) (CC) 9:30 p.m. (TNT) BOXING‌ Juan Carlos Abreu vs. Jesus Soto Karass. From Casino Del Sol in Tucson, Ariz. (Live) 10 p.m. (ESPN2) FOOTBALL‌ Navy at Temple. (Live) 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Dallas 1 7 .125 4½ Baltimore 4 4 0 .500 170 148 No. 2 Georgia vs. South Carolina, 2:30 p.m. ‌Today’s Games ‌Northwest Division Cincinnati 3 4 0 .429 122 135 No. 3 Ohio State at Iowa, 2:30 p.m.

Vegas at Boston, 6 p.m.

W L Pct GB‌ Cleveland 0 8 0 .000 119 202 No. 4 Wisconsin at Indiana, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 6 p.m.

Minnesota 5 3 .625 — W ‌ est N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

No. 5 Notre Dame vs. Wake Forest, 2:30 p.m.

Utah 5 3 .625 — W L T Pct PF PA‌No. 6 Clemson at No. 20 NC State, 2:30 p.m.

Columbus at Florida, 6:30 p.m. ‌The Top Twenty Five Oklahoma City 4 3 .571 ½ Kansas City 6 2 0 .750 236 180 Detroit at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

No. 7 Penn State at No. 24 Michigan State, 11 a.m.

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ preseason Portland 4 4 .500 1 Denver 3 4 0 .429 127 147 Dallas at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

2017-18 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in Denver 4 4 .500 1 L.A. Chargers 3 5 0 .375 150 152 No. 8 Oklahoma at No. 11 Oklahoma State, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Minnesota, 7 p.m. ‌Pacific Division Oakland 3 5 0 .375 169 190 No. 9 Miami vs. No. 13 Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. parentheses, final 2016-17 records, total points based Philadelphia at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

No. 10 TCU vs.

Texas, 6:15 p.m.

W L Pct GB‌ on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for ‌NFC Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m.

No. 12 Washington vs.

Oregon, 9 p.m.

L.A. Clippers 4 2 .667 — a 25th-place vote and last year’s final ranking:&lt Pittsburgh at Calgary, 8 p.m.

No. 14 Iowa State at West Virginia, 2:30 p.m. ‌East Golden State 5 3 .625 —

Record Pts Prv‌ W L T Pct PF PA‌No. 15 UCF at SMU, 6:15 p.m.

4 4 .500 1 Buffalo at Arizona, 9 p.m.

1. Duke (33) 28-9 1572 7 Phoenix Philadelphia 7 1 0 .875 232 156 L.A. Lakers 3 4 .429 1½ Toronto at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

No. 16 Auburn at Texas A&M, 11 a.m.

2. Michigan St. (13) 20-15 1520 NR 4 3 0 .571 198 161 No. 17 Southern Cal vs. No. 23 Arizona, 9:45 p.m. ‌Friday’s Games 3. Arizona (18) 32-5 1506 4 Sacramento 1 7 .125 4 Dallas Washington 3 4 0 .429 160 180 No. 18 Stanford at No. 25 Washington State, 2:30 p.m. New Jersey at Edmonton, 8 p.m. ‌Tuesday’s Games 4. Kansas (1) 31-5 1439 3 N.Y. Giants 1 6 0 .143 112 156 Indiana 101, Sacramento 83 5. Kentucky 32-6 1340 6 Nashville at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

No. 21 Mississippi State vs. UMass, 11 a.m. ‌South 6. Villanova 32-4 1284 1 Phoenix 122, Brooklyn 114 ‌Saturday’s Games

W L T Pct PF PA‌ 7. Wichita St. 31-5 1270 19 Oklahoma City 110, Milwaukee 91 Vegas at Ottawa, 1 p.m.

New Orleans 5 2 0 .714 191 145 8. Florida 27-9 1100 20 L.A. Lakers 113, Detroit 93 N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 6 p.m.

Carolina 5 3 0 .625 148 142 9. North Carolina 33-7 1047 5 ‌Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Atlanta 4 3 0 .571 153 152 10. Southern Cal 26-10 995 NR Charlotte 126, Milwaukee 121 ‌ N HL Washington at Boston, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay 2 5 0 .286 148 168 11. West Virginia 28-9 840 13 Indiana 124, Cleveland 107 Toronto at St. Louis, 6 p.m. ‌EASTERN CONFERENCE ‌North 12. Cincinnati 30-6 837 18 Philadelphia 119, Atlanta 109 Columbus at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

W L T Pct PF PA‌ 13. Miami 21-12 836 NR ‌ A tlantic Division Phoenix 122, Washington 116 Colorado at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 179 135 14. Notre Dame 26-10 814 14 GP W L OT Pts GF GA‌ Green Bay 4 3 0 .571 164 161 Tampa Bay 13 10 2 15. Minnesota 24-10 642 NR Boston 113, Sacramento 86 1 21 53 36 Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Miami 97, Chicago 91 Detroit 3 4 0 .429 176 169 16. Louisville 25-9 570 10 Ottawa 12 5 2 5 15 44 41 Buffalo at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Chicago 3 5 0 .375 134 171 Toronto 12 7 5 0 14 47 43 Carolina at Arizona, 8 p.m.

17. Xavier 24-14 544 NR Houston 119, New York 97 W ‌ est 18. Gonzaga 37-2 500 2 Minnesota 104, New Orleans 98 Detroit 13 6 6 1 13 37 38 Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

W L T Pct PF PA‌Boston 19. Northwestern 24-12 473 NR Orlando 101, Memphis 99 10 4 3 3 11 30 33 Nashville at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Seattle 5 2 0 .714 175 132 Florida 20. Purdue 27-8 362 15 Denver 129, Toronto 111 11 4 6 1 9 40 44 Anaheim at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

L.A. Rams 5 2 0 .714 212 138 Montreal 12 4 7 1 9 31 45 21. UCLA 31-5 340 8 Utah 112, Portland 103, OT Arizona 3 4 0 .429 119 191 Buffalo 12 3 7 2 8 29 44 22. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 29-5 333 22 Dallas at L.A. Clippers, (n) San Francisco 0 8 0 .000 133 219 23. Seton Hall 21-12 274 NR ‌Metropolitan Division ‌Today’s Games ‌Today’s Games 24. Baylor 27-8 163 12 Golden State at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

GP W L OT Pts GF GA‌ Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 7:25 p.m.

25. Texas A&M 16-15 130 NR L.A. Lakers at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh 14 8 5 1 17 39 52 ‌ S unday’s Games ‌BASEBALL Others receiving votes: Alabama 86, Virginia 57, Rhode New Jersey 10 8 2 0 16 40 31 ‌Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Noon Columbus 12 8 4 0 16 37 30 Island 49, TCU 46, Providence 34, Missouri 19, Virginia Chicago at Orlando, 6 p.m. ‌American Association Baltimore at Tennessee, Noon N.Y. Islanders 12 7 4 1 15 45 38 LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Traded RHPs Michael Wagner, Tech 16, Wisconsin 14, Butler 13, Texas 10, Maryland 7, Cleveland at Washington, 6 p.m.

L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants, Noon Philadelphia 13 6 6 1 13 41 38 Oklahoma 7, Nevada 7, Michigan 6, Dayton 5, Middle Indiana at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Fabio Martinez, Parker Frazier and a player to be named Washington 12 5 6 1 11 36 41 Cincinnati at Jacksonville, Noon Tennessee 4, Ball St. 4, SMU 3, Oakland 2, Oregon 2, Milwaukee at Detroit, 6 p.m. to Sussex County (Can-Am) for OF Jay Austin.

Carolina 10 4 4 2 10 28 30 Indianapolis at Houston, Noon South Carolina 1, Harvard 1, UCF 1.

Houston at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers 13 4 7 2 10 40 47 ‌FOOTBALL Atlanta at Carolina, Noon

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HOCKEY

GOLF‌ Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, First Round. From TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. (Live) (CC) 3:30 p.m. (GOLF) TOTO Japan Classic, First Round. From Ibaraki, Japan. (Live) (CC) 10 p.m. (GOLF) Turkish Airlines Open, Second Round. From the Carya Golf Club in Belek, Turkey. (Live) (CC) 4 a.m. (GOLF) HOCKEY‌ Ferris State at Michigan. (Live) (CC) 6:30 p.m. (BIGTEN) Philadelphia Flyers at St. Louis Blues. (Live) 7 p.m. (FSMW) SOCCER‌ AEK Athens FC vs AC Milan. (Live) 1 p.m. (FSMW) MISCELLANEOUS‌ 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event. From Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. (Taped) 8 p.m., 9 p.m. (ESPN2)

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OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 10 8 (57) N Illinois 23½ 23½ (47) Ball St 8½ 8 (54) at TEMPLE 18 18 (51) Idaho

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at FAU 8 7½ (66½) Marshall Memphis 14 11½ (78½) at TULSA at UTAH 4½ 6½ (59) UCLA

Saturday‌

Baylor 11 7½ (62½) at KANSAS Clemson 8 7 (51) at NC STATE at PURDUE 13 14 (48) Illinois at KENTUCKY 4½ 3½ (63½) Mississippi at FLORIDA ST 6 4½ (50½) Syracuse at NEBRASKA 1 1 (52½) Northwestern Ohio State 17½ 18 (52) at IOWA at WEST VIRGINIA 2½ 2½ (59½) Iowa St Virginia Tech +3½ 2½ (50) at MIAMI Maryland 1 2½ (50) at RUTGERS Georgia Tech 9½ 9½ (49) at VIRGINIA at BOISE ST 22 22 (58) Nevada at ARIZONA ST 4 3 (58½) Colorado New Mexico St 11½ 10 (57½) at TEXAS STATE Georgia St 2½ 4 (51) at GEORGIA SOUTHERN Appalachian St 8½ 9½ (61½) at LOUISIANA-MONROE at OLD DOMINION 7 7½ (50½) Charlotte at TENNESSEE 10 6½ (48½) Southern Miss Auburn 10½ 15 (51½) at TEXAS A&M at AIR FORCE 5½ 6½ (56½) Army Wisconsin 10½ 12½ (48) at INDIANA at TULANE 9 5½ (54½) Cincinnati at GEORGIA 22 24½ (45½) South Carolina at MISSISSIPPI ST 28 28 (58) UMass UCF 14 14½ (75½) at SMU at VANDERBILT 11 10 (52) W Kentucky at TEXAS TECH 1 3 (63) Kansas St at TCU 7½ 7 (47) Texas at LOUISIANA TECH 6 4 (67) North Texas at WASHINGTON 26½ 17½ (53½) Oregon at ARKANSAS 26½ 23 (59½) Coastal Carolina at MICHIGAN 15 15½ (40½) Minnesota at OKLAHOMA ST 3 2½ (76½) Oklahoma at NOTRE DAME 15½ 14 (55) Wake Forest at UAB 11 10½ (52) Rice at SOUTH ALABAMA 2½ 6 (53) Louisiana-Lafayette at NEW MEXICO 5½ 4½ (55) Utah St at FRESNO ST 12½ 14 (50½) BYU at UNLV 8½ 7½ (58½) Hawaii Colorado St 3½ 3 (51½) at WYOMING UTSA 6½ 4 (51½) at FIU at MIDDLE TENNESSEE 17 19½ (45) UTEP at MISSOURI +3 3½ (61½) Florida at ALABAMA 22 21 (48½) LSU Penn St 13 8½ (47½) at MICHIGAN ST San Diego St 25½ 23½ (51) at SAN JOSE ST at CALIFORNIA 7½ 7 (53½) Oregon St at WASHINGTON ST 2 2½ (55) Stanford at SOUTHERN CAL 8 7½ (74) Arizona South Florida 23 24 (64½) at UCONN at HOUSTON 23 24½ (64½) East Carolina

NFL ODDS Thursday‌

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Buffalo 3 3 (43) at NY JETS

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at PHILADELPHIA LA Rams at NEW ORLEANS at JACKSONVILLE at CAROLINA at HOUSTON at TENNESSEE Arizona at SEATTLE at DALLAS Oakland

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Phoenix at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Denver, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Utah, 8 p.m.

Boston at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Denver at Philadelphia, Noon Arizona at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

Washington at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.

Oakland at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Chicago, Minnesota, New England, L.A. Chargers, Cleveland, Pittsburgh

‌Atlantic Division ‌Saturday’s Games

W L Pct GB‌ ‌Monday’s Games Boston 6 2 .750 — Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto 4 3 .571 1½ Sacramento at Detroit, 6 p.m. ‌Thursday, Nov. 9 Philadelphia 4 4 .500 2 Dallas at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 7:25 p.m.

New York 3 4 .429 2½ New Orleans at Chicago, 7 p.m. ‌Sunday, Nov. 12 Brooklyn 3 5 .375 3 Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, Noon ‌Southeast Division Minnesota at Washington, Noon

W L Pct GB‌ L.A. Chargers at Jacksonville, Noon Orlando 6 2 .750 — Charlotte 5 3 .625 1 New Orleans at Buffalo, Noon Washington 4 3 .571 1½ Green Bay at Chicago, Noon ‌NFL Miami 3 4 .429 2½ Cincinnati at Tennessee, Noon ‌AFC Atlanta 1 7 .125 5 N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, Noon ‌Central Division ‌East Cleveland at Detroit, Noon

W L Pct GB‌

W L T Pct PF PA‌Houston at L.A. Rams, 3:05 p.m.

Indiana 5 3 .625 — New England 6 2 0 .750 216 179 N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Detroit 5 3 .625 — Buffalo 5 2 0 .714 153 115 Dallas at Atlanta, 3:25 p.m.

Milwaukee 4 4 .500 1 Miami 4 3 0 .571 92 152 New England at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland 3 5 .375 2 N.Y. Jets 3 5 0 .375 157 186 Open: Kansas City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Oakland Chicago 1 5 .167 3 ‌South ‌Monday, Nov. 13

W L T Pct PF PA‌ ‌WESTERN CONFERENCE Jacksonville 4 3 0 .571 183 110 Miami at Carolina, 7:30 p.m. ‌Southwest Division Tennessee 4 3 0 .571 158 173 ‌Top 25 Schedule

W L Pct GB‌ Houston 3 4 0 .429 215 188 ‌Friday Houston 6 3 .667 — Indianapolis 2 6 0 .250 142 246 No. 22 Memphis at Tulsa, 7 p.m.

Memphis 5 3 .625 ½ ‌North ‌Saturday San Antonio 4 3 .571 1 W L T Pct PF PA‌ New Orleans 3 5 .375 2½ Pittsburgh 6 2 0 .750 167 131 No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 19 LSU, 7 p.m.

FOOTBALL

‌WESTERN CONFERENCE

‌National Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS — Activated LB LaRoy Reynolds ‌Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA‌ from the injured list. Placed LB Jordan Tripp on St. Louis 13 10 2 1 21 44 30 injured reserve.

Winnipeg 11 6 3 2 14 33 32 MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed WR Rodney Adams and Dallas 12 7 5 0 14 34 33 C Cornelius Edison to the practice squad. Released S Chicago 13 6 5 2 14 41 34 Jack Tocho from the practice squad.

Colorado 11 6 5 0 12 34 34 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed QB Brian Hoyer.

Nashville 11 5 4 2 12 27 31 NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DE Jordan Williams from Minnesota 10 4 4 2 10 31 30 the practice squad. Re-signed WR Kalif Raymond to ‌Pacific Division the practice squad.

GP W L OT Pts GF GA‌ Los Angeles 12 9 2 1 19 40 24 WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DL Arthur Jones.

Vegas 11 8 3 0 16 41 31 Placed S Stefan McClure on injured reserve. ‌Canadian Football League Vancouver 11 6 3 2 14 31 27 Anaheim 11 6 4 1 13 35 33 EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released DB Alex Gray, WR San Jose 11 6 5 0 12 30 28 Devante Noil, LB Jonathan Walton, DL Nick Usher, WR AJ Calgary 12 6 6 0 12 28 33 Cruz and RB Back Shaun Wick from the practice roster.

Edmonton 11 3 7 1 7 24 36 ‌HOCKEY Arizona 13 1 11 1 3 33 56 ‌American Hockey League NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. ‌Tuesday’s Games

N.Y. Rangers 6, Vegas 4 Detroit 5, Arizona 3 Winnipeg 2, Minnesota 1

‌Wednesday’s Games

Chicago 3, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 3, Edmonton 2 Toronto at Anaheim, (n) New Jersey at Vancouver, (n) Nashville at San Jose, (n)

LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled D James de Haas from Reading (ECHL). ‌SOCCER ‌Major League Soccer

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Exercised the contract options Gs Andre Blake, John McCarthy and Jake McGuire; Ds Jack Elliott, Raymon Gaddis and Keegan Rosenberry; and Ms Warren Creavalle, Marcus Epps, Derrick Jones, Adam Najem and Fafa Picault.

‌COLLEGE KENNESAW STATE — Named Milton Overton athletic director.

DPS announces latest athletic hall of fame class H&R STAFF REPORT

‌ ECATUR — Eight coaches and D 10 athletes make up the latest Decatur Public School Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted at the Jan. 12 (athletes) and Feb. 20 (coaches) basketball games.

The 10 players are the late Tony Austin, Ben Cooper, Jerelene Cummings, Amber (Creason) Jackson, David Dakin, Jim Minton, Dawn Pitman, Karen Roppa, Tim Smith and Bill Wolfe.

The eight coaches are Bob Witt, Ida Brooks, Jerry Curtis, Ray DeMoulin, Bob Matheson, Mike Rusk and Joe Russell, who are all deceased, and Jack Kenny.

Austin rushed for more than 2,800 yards in his career at Stephen Decatur and was named the H&R Macon County Player of the Year in 1996 for his performance on both offense and defense.

Cooper, a Stephen Decatur graduate, was Decatur’s first state wrestling champion, winning the 154-pound title in 1965. Cooper, who was also a starting offensive lineman on the football team and

a discus and shot put thrower for track, went on to wrestle at Southern Illinois and took third in the NCAA his senior year.

Cummings, a MacArthur grad, won Decatur’s first track championship in 46 years by jumping 5-10 in the high jump at the state meet in 1984. She was also a standout volleyball player — she played both sports at the University of Florida.

Jackson, a 1995 Eisenhower graduate, was the 1993 H&R Macon County Softball Player of the Year and was All-Macon County all four years of high school. She finished with a career batting average of .469, driving in 113 runs, scoring 140 and stealing 99 bases.

She played in college at Ball State.

David Dakin, a 1974 Lakeview graduate, was one of the best basketball players in Lakeview history.

He was the H&R Macon County Player of the Year as a senior, averaging 22 points per game.

Minton, a 1982 MacArthur grad, was the H&R City Player of the Year in 1982, batting .532 while playing catcher and also pitching

for the Generals’ sectional finalist.

Smith, a 1979 Eisenhower grad, was a standout baseball player at Eisenhower, then went on to play at Mercer College, where he led NCAA Division I in home runs as a senior with 24. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles, spending five years in their system until an injury ended his career. He’s spent the last 23 years as a batting practice pitcher for the Marlins.

Pitman, a 1986 Eisenhower grad, was the H&R Macon County Basketball Player of the Year in 1985 and ‘86, and also a standout volleyball player for the Panthers. She went on to play at the University of Nevada, where she’s a member of the school’s athletic hall of fame.

Roppa, a 1966 MacArthur grad, wasn’t able to play sports in high school because they weren’t offered to girls, but Roppa was a standout softball and basketball player. She played both sports at Illinois State, where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and is also in the Amateur Softball As-

sociation Hall of Fame.

Wolfe, a 1965 Lakeview graduate, was an all-state player as a senior for the first undefeated Decatur football team. He played in college at Indiana, where he became the first Decatur athlete to play in the Rose Bowl.

Witt, Brooks, DeMoulin and Matheson have district sports venues named after them — the Eisenhower gym is named after Witt, the MacArthur baseball field is named after DeMoulin, the Eisenhower practice facility is named after Brooks and the MacArthur football field is named after Matheson.

Russell was Eisenhower’s second boys basketball head coach and Decatur’s first African-American coach. He also is the Panthers second-winningest coach behind Witt, who will be enshrined with the players on Feb. 20.

The committee agreed to induct a special class of coaches to catch up with all those worthy of induction and as a result no team will be inducted next winter.

Bumpers Girls — Maddysyn Montgomery 76, Arielle Watters 67, Keyanna Griffin 65.

Boys — Kayden Thompson 70.

Bantams Girls — Kaylynn Madrigal 102-252, Emma York 101-248, Stefani Cripe 96-233, Tori Howard 78-230.

Boys — Keenan Mears-griffin 139-330, Jordan Watters 113-311, Alexander Orme 108-288, Brayden Ruple 100-296, Glen King 91-264.

Preps Girls — Isabella Ledesma 147-394, Cheyenne Elder 133-328, Angelina Madrigal 108-316, Payton Bogle 105-272.

Boys — Lucas Boyd 182-451, Gage Brilley 154-401, Rylan Cripe 150-334, Luca Coffman 132-311, Blake Jones 105-273, Jackson Whicker 100-275.

Juniors Girls — Selena Burns 188-518, Carmen Howard 167-457, Abby Hutchens 157-395, Kaela Durbin 139-386, Ashleigh Moran 121-332, Sydney Durbin 94-260.

Boys — Bryce Ruple 185-500, Brycton Curry 183-457, Aiden Page 172-460.

Majors Girls — Rebecca Bush 205-518, Emma Raleigh 196-488, Alyssa Bird 186-518, India Wright 172-484, Emmaly Durbin 163-428.

Boys — Kyle Newton 256-596, Brandon Likins 243-591, Nathaniel Davis 236-691, Blake Evans 225-551, Colton Centers 211-563, Egan Kopetz 207-510, Michael Iversen 202-483.

PLA-MOR LANES Men Trace Wade had high game 289-747. Tim Frey had high series 279-787.

Jason Finley 278-672, Corey Kistner 278-460, Kevin Besser 270-701, Shawn Reed 268-727, Jason Queen 268-763, Steve Napier 268-737, Jeff Belcher 267-658, Bill Hilbrick 264, Gary Perry 259, Shane Burns 258, Kyle Atchason 258-686, Ben Holman 258-677, Chris O’Neil 258-689, Mike Lacox 258-687, Gabe Howell 258-702, Phil Barry 257-670, Arthur Click 253, Jim Hollis 253-637, Rob Baser 249-666, Jeff Kastl 248-678, Larry Larsen 247-730, Marc Eller 245-634, Michael A. Newberry 245, Jay Waddell 245, Brian Carter 245-672, Tony Mahon 243-698, Britt Sturgeon 241-691, Scott Bird 240-625, Chad Hilligoss 240-625, C.J. Damron 239-657, Eric Dudley 237-645, Phil Sturgeon 237-671, Tom Scribner 235, Tom Hector Sr. 235, Travis Dudley 234-663, Derek Bradshaw 233, Jerry Watrous 233, Travis Sumpter 233-658, Steve Shae 232-642, Steve Binkley 658, Pat Hilligoss 636, Nic Riley 635, Jack Vandevanter 628.

Women Hannah Moore had high game 279-672. Haley O’Neil had high series 254-692. Janet Vincent 256-632, Tricia Queen 247-667, Sandra Hector 244-597, Chelsie Finch 232-650, Patty Dodd 223-576, Angela Hillen 222-538, Cassidy Walters 212-566, Jacqueline George 208-601, Sheila Queen-Kistner 200-548.

Youth Bumper League Girls — Harper Garner 73, Grace Broadwell 72, Amayton Willey 70.

Boys — Lane Hendricks 90, Damonte Warren 77, Brayden Finke 70, Mason Jay 70, Cameron Leigh 63, Conner Reed 63.

Bantams Girls — Kearton Kirkland 78-124, Rachel Garrett 75-137, Nevaeh Willey 74-131, Kynzi Eckart 70-135, Alena Warren 64-115.

Boys — Link Fonseca 83-148, Carson McCoy 67-131, Austin Atchason 59-100, Wyatt Hawkins 57-111, Alex Hudson 57-100.

Preps Girls — Madison Hawkins 156-380, Payton Kirkland 134-343, Kristin Wilber 111-279, Erin Jay 105-305, Jazmine Jay 75-279.

Boys — Braxton Mayer 112-287, Riley Barry 111-280, Dominic Hankins 95-240, Tucker Griffin 87-223, Dylan Ground 64-171.

Juniors Girls — Maci Glasco 156-407, Gabriella Mangalavite 153-358, Carmen Howard 140-387, Briyanna McDermith 134-369, Daytona Fowler 130-360.

Boys — Gabe Fyke 186-458, Dakota McDermith 153-373, Kelton Martin 124-318, Wyatt Muhleman 115-302, Dillan Carter 90-216.

Majors Girls — Tessa Meeley 233-625, Selena Burns 208-568, Mackenzie Mahon 208-472, Alyssa Queen 165-458, Angela Bean 164-453.

Boys — Nathaniel Davis 246-664, Tristin Quinlan 228-609, Victor Montes 207-594, Nathan Bush 206-553, Kegan Mahon 196-473.

an additional week before returning to active status. If he abides by Goodell’s stipulations, Gordon could play in Cleveland’s final five games this season, beginning with a Dec. 3 matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers. Gordon has been in and out of rehab over the past year, and there are many fans who feel he has been given more breaks than he deserved.

He had been suspended indefinitely since 2016.

orange jumpsuit with a white T-shirt underneath on Monday night. When asked if he was taking a shot at McNair with the costume he said: “Nah, man. It was just something to wear to the Halloween party.” The 6-foot-5, 270-pound Clowney said it was the only thing he could find in his size.

McNair issued two apologies after the remarks became public, calling it a “very regretful comment.” In response, almost all of the Texans kneeled during the anthem before their game against the Seahawks on Sunday after no one on the team had ever kneeled before.

Clowney, who was the top overall pick in the 2014 draft, says he didn’t think wearing the costume would be a deal. And when asked if he had to explain it to his teammates he said: “No, everybody was just laughing.”

Siemian’s half dozen turnovers during Denver’s three-game losing streak cost him his starting job 48 hours after his three ugly interceptions wasted a strong defensive effort in a 29-19 loss at Kansas City.

“It came down to what’s best for our football team and frankly, what’s best for Trevor’s future,” coach Vance Joseph said Wednesday after naming his starter for Sunday, when the Broncos (3-4) visit the Philadelphia Eagles (7-2). “The team was OK with it. They trust Brock. He’s been here before.”

Osweiler started seven games in place of an injured Peyton Manning two years ago, going 5-2 in helping the Broncos secure home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs on their way to their Super Bowl 50 title.

In bolting two months later for $37 million in guarantees from the Houston Texans, Osweiler embarked on an 18-month odyssey that included a playoff win, a benching, a blow-up, a trade, the birth of his daughter, his release from Cleveland and ultimately a return to Denver , where backup Paxton Lynch had sprained his throwing shoulder in M 1 the preseason.

‌BOWLING ‌SPARE TIME LANES Men Tom Adcock tied high game and had high series 780-279. Marty Mack had high game. Bruce Drake had high game. Ben Holman 748-278, Dee Morgan 738-248, Jason Queen 735-278, Doug Teague 718-278, Gary Wright 713-262, Chris Lacy 710-259, Gary Bean 709-267, Scott Bird 703-245, Corey Kistner 695-244, Brian Gray 695-263, Jon Parker 693-247, Jason Howard 692-266, Justin Hampton 689, Bruce Drake 686, Mark Watson 680, Jerry Paradee 680-257, Bill Barnett 680-257, James Box 677-257, David Reed 677-258, Tony Mahon 676, Larry Stephenson 267, Brad Bergener 258, Tim Roach 257, Adam Cline 256, Mike Chesser 256, Kenny Bean 255, Jim Horve 246, Mike Farris 246, Ryan Musser 244, Eric Jones 244, Gary Haines 243, Jerry Bafford 243, Greg Lange 242.

Women Diane McGee had high game 694-246. Betty Montgomery had high game. Taylor Bird 681-245, Chelsie Finch 652-227, Trinity Bush 654-236, Tricia Queen 643-233, Debbie Santee 637-236, Betty Montgomery 634, Lauri Wagoner 629-231, Mandie Dietz 616-234, Kendra Griffin 616-219, Cynthia Howell 613-223, Carolyn Jones 609-235, Shelly True 596-226, Maureen Wilcox 594-236, Connie Sargeant 592-225, Hanna Moore 581-226, Barbie Marchisallo 563-224, Nyssa Richards 562-223, Diana Jackson 557-232, Cassidy Walters 555, Annette Tupps 554, Vicki Martin 552-235, Virginia Wade 223, Dawn Jones 209, Kristi Snyder 207, Kathy Kauzlarich 205, Ethel Bond 204, Christina Field 204, Carol Robertson 204, Irene Henson 203.

Youth

OFF THE WIRE FOOTBALL‌

Browns’ Gordon conditionally reinstated‌ CLEVELAND — Josh Gordon’s personal journey, from star to suspended outcast to sobriety, has reached a new dawning. He’s getting yet another chance to resurrect his football career and life. Cleveland’s gifted wide receiver has been conditionally reinstated by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who met with the Browns former Pro Bowler on Wednesday in New York and is allowing him to return after a nearly three-year absence. Gordon, who hasn’t played since the 2014 season, can immediately join the team for meetings, engage in conditioning work and individual workouts. He has to comply with requirements set forth by Goodell and can begin practicing with the team on Nov. 20.

The 26-year-old will be eligible — at the team’s discretion — to return to active status on Nov. 27 or remain on the commissioner’s exempt list for

Clowney costume not a message to owner‌ HOUSTON — Texans defensive end Jadeveon Clowney said Wednesday that he was not sending a message to team owner Bob McNair when he dressed up as a prisoner for a Halloween party, though he added that “it was pretty hilarious of me.

Clowney wore the costume days after McNair apologized for saying “we can’t have the inmates running the prison” during a meeting of NFL owners about players who protest by kneeling during the national anthem.

Clowney posted a video to Instagram which showed him wearing the

Broncos pick Osweiler‌ ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Brock Osweiler knows just how to turn the Denver Broncos’ quarterback switch into more than a temporary gig.

“Ball security is job security,” Osweiler said.

Doesn’t Trevor Siemian know it.

SPORTS

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Thursday, November 2, 2017 | B3

AROUND THE MAJORS YANKEES‌

Girardi would have returned to New York‌

Joe Girardi still wants to be a manager — and he “absolutely” still wanted to manage the Yankees.

In his first interview since being dumped by the Bombers, Girardi explained to The Athletic how disappointed, surprised and hurt he was when GM Brian Cashman told him in a “fairly quick” conversation that his decade-long run was over.

“I was surprised. With the year that we had and the progress the team had made, I thought I would be back,” said Girardi, who’s been spending a lot of time with his family. “Obviously, there is a ton of talent there, a ton of great young talent. I was excited about that.

I thought I’d be back.”

He added: “There was disappointment because I kind of wanted to finish what we had started this year. And I was looking forward to the growth of the organization, the young players, the more young players with the veterans we had.”

ATHLETICS‌

Oakland catcher arrested on gun charge‌ ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

Miami Heat guard Tyler Johnson (8) goes up for a shot against Chicago Bulls center Robin Lopez (42) during the second half Wednesday.

Heat too hot for Bulls Markkanen scores 25 in loss TIM REYNOLDS

Associated Press‌

‌MIAMI — Goran Dragic scored 20 points, Tyler Johnson added 19 and the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls 97-91 on Wednesday night to snap a three-game slide.

Hassan Whiteside returned from a five-game absence with a bruised knee and scored 13 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for the Heat, who went 3-3 on their six-game homestand and gave coach Erik Spoelstra what has apparently become his annual gift — it was the fourth straight year Miami played and won on his birthday.

Spoelstra, 47, and his wife announced earlier Wednesday that they are expecting their first child, a son.

Lauri Markkanen scored 25 points and Robin Lopez added 22 for the Bulls, who were 7 for 28 from 3-point range

and got five of those makes in the final 2 minutes. Chicago fell to 1-5, matching its worst start since 2007-08.

Dion Waiters also scored 13 for the Heat, who were without starting forward James Johnson — a late scratch with right knee tendinitis.

Miami was rolling early, up 20-6 after 8 minutes and 35-20 midway through the second quarter. The Bulls started 1 for 10 from the floor, Whiteside had eight rebounds in the game’s first 4:50 and everything was working for Miami.

That is, until the Bulls started attacking.

A 24-10 run by Chicago tied the game late in the half, seven of those field goals by the Bulls coming in close proximity to the rim. Chicago led by as many as six in the third and probably should have been up more, missing five shots at the rim late in the quarter.

The Heat reclaimed the lead with a 10-1 run to end the third, Tyler Johnson scoring five of those points and

Dragic hitting a late 3 as Miami took a 67-64 lead into the fourth.

TIP INS Bulls: Chicago tinkered with its starting lineup, adding David Nwaba and having Paul Zipser come off the bench. Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg is exploring certain combinations ahead of the looming return of Bobby Portis (suspension). ... The Bulls trailed by as many as 14 in the first quarter, the earliest they’d faced such a deficit so early this season. ... Justin Holiday missed 12 of his first 13 shots.

Heat: Whiteside made his 200th appearance with the Heat. ... This was one of Miami’s four November home games. The Heat play at home three times in the next four weeks, and have 17 of their next 24 on the road. ... Miami hasn’t lost four straight games in the same homestand since March 1016, 2008. ... Justise Winslow made his first shot, giving him seven straight makes over three games.

NEW ERA

Wednesday marked the first time since March 26, 2003 that the Heat and Bulls played and Dwyane Wade wasn’t on either roster. Miami and Chicago played 71 times between 2003-04 and last season; Wade played for Miami in 64 of those games, sat out four and played for Chicago in the three Bulls-Heat matchups last season.

SPO STATS Among the 30 current NBA coaches, only San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich has held his job longer than Spoelstra. But there are only nine coaches who are younger than the Heat sideline boss: Luke Walton, Tyronn Lue, Brad Stevens, Dave Joerger, former Heat assistant David Fizdale, Frank Vogel, Jason Kidd, Michael Malone and Hoiberg.

UP NEXT Bulls: Visit Orlando on Friday to wrap up a two-game trip.

Heat: Visit Denver on Friday to begin a six-game road trip.

Dodgers’ title drought reaches 30 years BETH HARRIS

Associated Press‌

‌LOS ANGELES — Even Clayton Kershaw couldn’t save the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series.

The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner tossed four scoreless innings of relief when starter Yu Darvish fell into a five-run hole after 1 2/3 innings Wednesday night.

But the Dodgers’ offense never put it together. Los Angeles mustered just six hits, hit into a double play and stranded 10 runners in a 5-1 loss to Houston that extended its championship drought to 30 years.

It was a clunker of an ending for baseball’s best team during the regular season.

The Dodgers won 104 games, boasted

an NL-leading six All-Stars and won the NL West for the fifth consecutive year.

They won 43 of 50 games over a twomonth stretch from June to early August, the best 50-game run in the majors since the 1912 New York Giants.

Their lead reached a whopping 21 games on Aug. 23, and they survived an 11-game September skid to coast into October.

Boasting the majors’ highest payroll of $240 million, Los Angeles rolled past Arizona in the NL Division Series and then knocked off the defending champion Cubs in six games in the NL Championship Series to reach their first World Series since 1988.

The Dodgers and Astros dueled to a 3-all tie through six thrilling games, with Los Angeles rallying to force the

first World Series Game 7 in Dodger Stadium history.

But, a few miles from Hollywood, the script got flipped.

Manager Dave Roberts, so quick with his hook all season, left Darvish in to face hot-hitting George Springer in the second. Springer blasted a two-run homer — his record-tying fifth of the Series — and Houston extended its lead to 5-0.

Brandon Morrow got the last out of the inning before Kershaw came on in the third. The left-handed ace allowed two hits, struck out four and walked two, leaving fans to question why Roberts didn’t start Kershaw on short rest in the first place. Or at least bring in Kershaw to face Springer in the second.

Especially since Darvish only managed five outs in losing Game 3 at Hous-

ton, when he also lasted just 1 2/3 innings. He’s the second pitcher in World Series history with less than two innings pitched in two starts.

Darvish took the loss, giving up five runs — four earned — and three hits. He didn’t record a strikeout and walked one.

Acquired at the July trade deadline, Darvish was best known in the Series for being the target of a racist gesture

by Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel.

Kenley Jansen appeared earlier than usual, too. The closer, who tied for the NL lead with 41 saves, trotted out in the seventh to face the top of the Astros’ order. He induced a flyout from Springer, struck out Alex Bregman and walked Jose Altuve, who stole second before Carlos Correa popped out to shortstop.

Astros From B1

After Springer lined a leadoff double, Alex Bregman hit a bouncer that first baseman Cody Bellinger threw past Darvish for an error, allowing a run to score. Bregman aggressively stole third and scored on Altuve’s grounder, and it was 2-0 after eight pitches.

A double by Marwin Gonzalez helped set up perhaps McCullers’ biggest contribution, a slow grounder for his first pro RBI. Springer followed with a nodoubt, two-run drive into the left-center field bleachers.

That was the Series-most 25th homer in a Major League Baseball season that set a record for home runs. It was easily enough for the Astros to offset pinch-hitter Andre Ethier’s RBI single in the Los Angeles sixth.

Only once have the Dodgers clinched a crown at home, that coming in 1963 when Koufax outpitched Yankees star Whitey Ford to finish a sweep. They’ve never won Game 7 of the Fall Classic at their own park, dating more than a century ago to their days on the streets of Brooklyn as the Trolley Dodgers.

As pockets of Houston fans got r and louder in the later innings, the crowd at Dodger Stadium was left to repeat the sad, but hopeful cry that used to echo in Brooklyn: Wait till next year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS‌ Just 106 days until pitchers and M 1 catchers report to spring training.

Houston Astros’ Charlie Morton reacts after Game 7 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell was arrested in Arizona after a food delivery person alleged he pointed a gun at her.

Maxwell was the only player in Major League Baseball to take a knee this year during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.

Scottsdale police said officers went to Maxwell’s home Saturday night after getting a call about a person with a gun. Maxwell was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct.

“We were disappointed to learn of the allegations. We take this situation and ongoing investigation seriously,” the A’s said in a statement. “We are gathering information from the proper authorities and do not have further comment at this time.”

Police said Maxwell was held in custody pending an initial court appearance. It wasn’t known if he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

TMZ Sports first reported the arrest.

‌2017 POSTSEASON BASEBALL GLANCE ‌WILD CARD

Tuesday, Oct. 3: N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 4 Wednesday, Oct. 4: Arizona 11, Colorado 8

‌DIVISION SERIES ‌(Best-of-5) ‌American League ‌Houston 3, Boston 1

Thursday, Oct. 5: Houston 8, Boston 2 Friday, Oct. 6: Houston 8, Boston 2 Sunday, Oct. 8: Boston 10, Houston 3 Monday, Oct. 9: Houston 5, Boston 4

‌New York 3, Cleveland 2

Thursday, Oct. 5: Cleveland 4, New York 0 Friday, Oct. 6: Cleveland 9, New York 8, 13 innings Sunday, Oct. 8: New York 1, Cleveland 0 Monday, Oct. 9: New York 7, Cleveland 3 Wednesday, Oct. 11: New York 5, Cleveland 2

‌National League ‌Chicago 3, Washington 2

Friday, Oct. 6: Chicago 3, Washington 0 Saturday, Oct. 7: Washington 6, Chicago 3 Monday, Oct. 9: Chicago 2, Washington 1 Tuesday, Oct. 10: Washington at Chicago, ppd., rain Wednesday, Oct. 11: Washington 5, Chicago 0 Thursday, Oct. 12: Chicago 9, Washington 8

‌Los Angeles 3, Arizona 0

Friday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 9, Arizona 5 Saturday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 8, Arizona 5 Monday, Oct. 9: Los Angeles 3, Arizona 1

‌LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ‌(Best-of-7) ‌American League ‌Houston 4, New York 3

Friday, Oct. 13: Houston 2, New York 1 Saturday, Oct. 14: Houston 2, New York 1 Monday, Oct. 16: New York 8, Houston 1 Tuesday, Oct. 17: New York 6, Houston 4 Wednesday, Oct. 18: New York 5, Houston 0 Friday, Oct. 20: Houston 7, New York 1 Saturday, Oct. 21: Houston 4, New York 0

‌National League ‌Los Angeles 4, Chicago 1

Saturday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 5, Chicago 2 Sunday, Oct. 15: Los Angeles 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday, Oct. 17: Los Angeles 6, Chicago 1 Wednesday, Oct. 18: Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2 Thursday, Oct. 19: Los Angeles 11, Chicago 1

‌WORLD SERIES ‌(Best-of-7) ‌All Games Televised by Fox ‌Houston 4, L.A. Dodgers 3

Tuesday, Oct. 24: L.A. Dodgers 3, Houston 1 Wednesday, Oct. 25: Houston 7, L.A. Dodgers 6, 11 innings Friday, Oct. 27: Houston 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 Saturday, Oct. 28: L.A. Dodgers 6, Houston 2 Sunday, Oct. 29: Houston 13, L.A. Dodgers 12, 10 innings Tuesday, Oct. 31: L.A. Dodgers 3, Houston 1 Wednesday, Nov. 1: Houston 5, L.A. Dodgers 1

‌Astros 5, Dodgers 1

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Decatur Herald & Review

Hatchets slash to Class 1A supers Newton moves on to Class 2A Elite 8

HERALD & REVIEW STAFF REPORTS

‌STRASURG—In both sets of Wednesday night’s Class 1A Windsor Sectional final, Louisville North Clay scored the first point of the set.

The Cardinals didn’t fly much higher than that the rest of the night.

Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg junior Megan Schlechte — and her team high 11 kills — played a big part in the Hatchets’ two set domination of North Clay, 25-8, 25-16.

“We just came out excited and ready to get back to Redbird (Arena in Bloomington, the site of the state finals),” Schlechte said. “Our freshman and sophomores helped us get ready by being loud and we were just loose and ready to play.”

Early on, the Hatchets’ offensive attack worked to perfection and every ball that went Schlechte’s way seemed to find its way to the floor — four of the first five points for W/SS were kills from Schlechte — and it wasn’t until Windsor/StewStras held a commanding 9-3 advantage that the Cardinals successfully blocked an attack of Schlechte’s.

“When Megan comes out and hits well, we usually take a good lead in the beginning,” Hatchets coach Ronda Schlechte said.

“The girls are really confident and motivated right now, and are playing as a team, and we hope to take that moving forward.”

Schlechte was by no means the only one to supply offense for the Hatchets.

Junior setter Mackenzi Tabbert found Maria Gentry and Mackenzee Reynolds for a pair of kills in the first set — four of her 17 assists on the night — as the Hatchets rolled offensively.

W/SS stifled any chances the Cardinals had with their height on defense and capitalized on eight Cardinals’ errors to take

the set 25-8.

In the second set, the Hatchets almost came out a little too loose.

The Cardinals held an 8-6 lead in the second set, and the game was tied at 10 points each, but then the Hatchets attack came back.

Kasey Bean downed a kill and Schlechte struck from the back row — before and after a hitting error from North Clay — to extend the lead to 14-10 and force a Cardinals timeout.

“The second set we came out a little on the flustered side,” coach Schlechte said. “We just weren’t playing as clean as we did in the first set, but they were able to come back and put that ball down.”.

In the last half of the second set, Bean blocked a Cardinal attack and Tabbert added a block of her own—to go with six errors from North Clay in the last ten points—and the Hatchets were on their way to Super Sectionals at Albion, Friday at 6 p.m.

“It’s exciting,” coach Schlechte said with a smile in regard to returning to Supers. “I hope the girls can come out and perform well. I know we will have some tough opponents and I hope they can keep their confidence up and play their game.”

“We know the competition will be tough on Friday,” Megan Schlechte closed. “But we are all really excited and will be ready to go.”

Newton sweeps in sectional title match ‌ ROBINSON — Tri-County coach Crystal Buckler thought her team came into Wednesday’s Class 2A volleyball sectional title match against Newton with confidence.

But that confidence seemed to quickly erode, right from the first point when the Titans were

called for a double-hit when they tried to return the opening serve.

Buckler couldn’t pinpoint one specific reason of why things snowballed for Tri-County, but the Titans did show life late in the second set and made it a onepoint set.

It was too big of a hole, though, and the Eagles, who were the aggressors for most of the match, got the final few points they needed and swept Tri-County 25-10, 25-22 to win the sectional title.

Newton, which improved to 30-7, won its second straight sectional title. The key was Newton’s serving as the Eagles forced a tough first pass from Tri-County throughout the match.

The aggressive serving helped keep Tri-County out of its offense for most of the match.

“Our serving was really, really big tonight. We didn’t miss many serves,” Newton coach Jill Kistner said. “We wanted to make sure that they struggled getting the ball to (Allison Smith). She’s a very talented outside hitter. When she did put swings down, she was good. We kept them off-balance all night long with the serve-receive. We didn’t get very many aces, but we made them work to get the ball back over.”

Newton advanced to Friday’s super sectional in Vandalia against Carlinville. “(Abby Frohning) was huge for us tonight and she really put the ball down in that first set.

She sets in the back row and did a really nice job of moving the ball around,” Kistner said. “At the end, (Tri-County) made a big push because no one wants their season to be over. We said it wasn’t going to be easy and we have to be ready for anything.

Tri-County is a really good team.

They put up a big battle at the end. They could’ve rolled over, so I give them a lot of credit and I am excited that we get to play on Friday.”

Takeaways pile up for Bears’ defense ANDREW SELIGMAN

Associated Press‌

‌ AKE FOREST, Ill. — The ChiL cago Bears were trying to rally in the closing minutes at New Orleans last week. That’s when safety Adrian Amos made his move.

He went straight for the ball as other defenders closed in for the tackle and ripped it out of running back Mark Ingram’s hands after he took the handoff at the Chicago 26. Amos made the recovery, giving the Bears a chance to take the lead trailing by five.

Chicago gained just 9 yards on the next drive before the Saints kicked a field goal and wound up losing 20-12 to the NFC South leaders.

But the Bears can’t blame a defense that is starting to come up with big plays and even rekindle memories of the ball-hawking Lovie Smith era.

“We’re just getting after the ball,” Amos said. “Just running around, flying around, and capitalizing on other teams’ mistakes.”

After struggling to force turnovers early in the season, the Bears are tied for 12th in the NFL with 11 takeaways. That matches their total from last season.

The Bears have eight in the past three games, and they enter their bye on somewhat of a roll with back-to-back wins before a tight loss at New Orleans.

Chicago still has a long way to go, particularly on offense, before it’s ready to contend in the NFC North. But the Bears (3-5) at least are showing some progress coming off last season’s 3-13 embarrassment.

The play of the defense in recent weeks has been particularly encouraging.

Coming off back-to-back seasons with a franchise-low eight interceptions, the Bears were one of three teams without one entering their game at Baltimore in Week 6.

But they picked off Joe Flacco twice and Cam Newton two times the following week against Carolina.

CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW‌

Mount Zion celebrates after the winning the Class 3A Effingham Sectional Championship against Sacred Heart-Griffin Wednesday. Online gallery at herald-review.com/gallery

Braves From B1

numbers are not eye-popping, look at their hitting percentage.”

On Wednesday, that hitting percentage was .545 for Engelbrecht and .429 for Lillpop.

Time after time on defense, Lillpop sent the ball back from which it came on her way to three blocks.

“This was probably one of my best games just because blocking was really important,” Lillpop said. “We worked on it a lot during practice so I knew how important it was.”

But four years ago she was cut from her seventh grade volleyball team — and her sixth grade team before that. Wednesday, she was a key cog in a sectional championship.

“I really just focused on myself and the basics of volleyball,” Lillpop said. “I wasn’t really worrying about where I went, but rather how I got there. It was just kind of a progressive staging up.”

“She is such a good offensive weapon,” Jay McAtee said. “That’s what hard work does right there.”

Leading 18-17 in the first set, the Braves went on a 6-0 run to all but ice the opening set.

In the second set, Mount Zion attacked early, leading 8-2 before SHG came back to lead 19-15, forcing Jay McAtee into a timeout.

Mount Zion made adjustments to attack the middle, but the Braves also knew they wanted to avoid a decisive third set.

“We just knew that nothing good happens when we go to three (sets),” Kennedy said. “We wanted to get it done in two. We just needed to come together, get one pass, get it to one of our hitters and put it down to get on a roll.”

Mount Zion travels to Salem

CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW‌

Mount Zion’s Reiley Drake (5) hits the ball during the Class 3A Effingham Sectional championship against Sacred Heart-Griffin on Wednesday. Online gallery at herald-review.com/gallery Friday for the Class 3A Salem Super-sectional against Belleville Althoff.

“I don’t care who we play, where we play, indoors or outdoors, it doesn’t matter,” Jay McAtee said.

“I’m just glad we’re playing Friday night.”

Joey’s take‌ A reversal‌

After starting slow in Monday’s semifinal match against Taylorville, the Braves attacked early Wednesday.

Early success in both sets helped to build a lead for the Braves, allowing a little more room for error.

But even after a first-set win in which the Braves never trailed, they knew they had to find more in the tank.

“We knew they were going to come out even more aggressive than they did in the first set because they were obviously a good team,” Kennedy said.

SHG coach Sandy Hamilton attributes some of her team’s slow

start to nerves.

“To me, I felt like it was a pretty equal match for us in terms of the first and second games,” Hamilton said. “We were working ourselves into a tizzy. I saw a couple people shaking their hands, we looked so nervous. We’ve been in this position before, but it’s one of those things where its match has its own life and tonight our life was not our best.”

No shortcomings‌

Karlee McAtee and Drake make up part of a five-headed monster for the Braves, but those two specifically had their work cut out for them Wednesday.

SHG’s hitters Abernathy and Payton Vorreyer posed a massive threat on the outside.

“We knew Reiley and Karlee would have to work for anything tonight because they’re not jumping over anybody. It was a big block there all night long,” Jay McAtee said. jwagner@herald-review.com|(217) 421-6970

OUTDOOR LIVING INDOORS

‌IHSA FOOTBALL ROUND 2 PLAYOFFS PAIRINGS ‌CLASS 1A

‌CLASS 4A

#8 Milledgeville (8-2) at #1 Lena-Winslow (10-0), Saturday, 1 p.m. #5 Freeport Aquin (8-2) at #4 Stockton (8-2), Saturday, 1 p.m. #2 Annawan-Wethersfield (9-1) at #10 Princeville (8-2), Saturday, 1 p.m. #3 Forreston (9-1) at #11 Fulton (7-3), Saturday, 1 p.m. #1 Tuscola (10-0) at #9 Mount Sterling Brown County (8-2), Saturday, 2 p.m. #5 Camp Point Central (8-2) at #4 Carrollton (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m. #2 Bridgeport Red Hill (10-0) at #10 Cumberland (8-2), Friday, 7 p.m. #6 Athens (8-2) at #3 Argenta-Oreana (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m.

#8 Rochelle (7-3) at #1 Johnsburg (10-0), Saturday, 6 p.m. #5 Morris (8-2) at #13 Norridge Ridgewood (7-3), Saturday, 2 p.m. #2 Chicago Raby (9-1) at #10 Richmond-Burton (7-3), Saturday, 1 p.m. #6 Genoa-Kingston (8-2) at #3 Dixon (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m. #8 Belleville Althoff (9-1) at #1 Rochester (10-0), Saturday, 5 p.m. #5 Tolono Unity (9-1) at #4 Herrin (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. #7 Effingham (9-1) at #2 Highland (10-0), Saturday, 3 p.m. #6 Taylorville (9-1) at #3 Herscher (9-1), Saturday, 5 p.m. ‌CLASS 5A

#8 Chicago Hope (8-2) at #1 Sterling Newman (10-0), Saturday, 3 p.m. #5 Clifton Central (8-2) at #4 Orion (8-2), Saturday, 2 p.m. #2 Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley (10-0) at #10 Savanna West Carroll (7-3), Saturday, 2 p.m. #6 Knoxville (8-2) at #14 El Paso-Gridley (6-4), Saturday, 1 p.m. #8 Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin (7-3) at #1 Hamilton West Hancock (10-0), Saturday, 2:30 p.m. #5 Eldorado (8-2) at #4 Maroa-Forsyth (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. #2 Westville (10-0) at #10 Carlyle (7-3), Saturday, 2 p.m. #6 Shelbyville (8-2) at #3 Downs Tri-Valley (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m.

#1 Chicago Phillips (10-0) at #9 Chicago Solorio (8-2), Saturday, 7 p.m. #5 Lake Villa Lakes (9-1) at #4 Lemont (9-1), Saturday, 6 p.m. #2 Sterling (10-0) at #10 Maple Park Kaneland (7-3), Saturday, 6 p.m. #14 Woodstock Marian (6-4) at #11 Glen Ellyn Glenbard South (6-4), Saturday, 3 p.m. #8 Olympia Fields Rich Central (8-2) at #1 Dunlap (10-0), Saturday, 3 p.m. #5 Chatham Glenwood (8-2) at #4 Country Club Hills Hillcrest (8-2), Saturday, 5 p.m. #15 Peoria Richwoods (6-4) at #10 Morton (7-3), Saturday, 2 p.m. #6 MacArthur (8-2) at #3 Washington (8-2), Saturday, 2 p.m.

#8 Wilmington (9-1) at #1 Farmington (10-0), Saturday, 2 p.m. #5 Elmhurst Immaculate Conception (9-1) at #4 Peotone (9-1), Friday, 7:30 p.m. #7 Bloomington Central Catholic (9-1) at #2 Williamsville (10-0), Saturday, 2 p.m. #6 Monticello (9-1) at #3 Byron (10-0), Saturday, 2 p.m. #8 Newton (9-1) at #16 Pleasant Plains (7-3), Saturday, 2 p.m. #5 Carlinville (9-1) at #4 St. Teresa (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. #15 Vandalia (7-3) at #10 Greenville (8-2), Saturday, 1 p.m. #6 Pana (9-1) at #3 Anna-Jonesboro (10-0), Saturday, 2 p.m.

#1 Crystal Lake Prairie Ridge (10-0) at #9 Cary-Grove (7-3), Saturday, 1 p.m. #5 DeKalb (8-2) at #4 Villa Park Willowbrook (9-1), Saturday, 1:30 p.m. #7 Hoffman Estates (8-2) at #15 Lake Forest (6-4), Saturday, 1 p.m. #14 Belvidere North (6-4) at #11 Grayslake North (7-3), Saturday, 4 p.m. #8 Burbank St. Laurence (7-3) at #16 Darien Hinsdale South (6-4), Saturday, 6 p.m. #5 Normal West (8-2) at #13 New Lenox Providence (6-4),

‌CLASS 2A

‌CLASS 3A

‌CLASS 6A

Saturday, 2 p.m. #7 Danville (8-2) at #2 LaGrange Park Nazareth (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. #6 Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin (8-2) at #14 Aurora Marmion (6-4), Saturday, 2 p.m. ‌CLASS 7A

#1 Rockton Hononegah (10-0) vs. #17 Lisle Benet (7-3) at Benedictine University, Saturday, 6:30 p.m. #9 New Lenox Lincoln-Way Central (9-1) at #8 Arlington Heights Hersey (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m. #13 Wheaton North (8-2) at #4 Batavia (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m. #12 New Lenox Lincoln-Way West (8-2) at #28 Alton (6-4), Saturday, 3 p.m. #2 Normal (10-0) vs. #18 Chicago Mount Carmel (7-3) at Gately Stadium, Saturday, noon #10 Buffalo Grove (9-1) at #7 East St. Louis (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. #14 Plainfield North (8-2) at #3 Lake Zurich (10-0), Saturday, 1 p.m. #11 Chicago St. Rita (8-2) at #6 St. Charles North (9-1), Saturday, 2 p.m. ‌CLASS 8A

#1 Frankfort Lincoln-Way East (10-0) at #17 St. Charles East (8-2), Saturday, 1 p.m. #8 Glen Ellyn Glenbard West (9-1) vs. #9 Oswego (9-1) at Glenbard East, Saturday, 1 p.m. #13 Naperville Central (8-2) at #4 Homewood-Flossmoor (9-1), Friday, 7 p.m. #5 Park Ridge Maine South (9-1) at #21 Gurnee Warren (7-3), Saturday, 6 p.m. #15 Minooka (8-2) at #2 Barrington (10-0), Friday, 7 p.m. #26 Edwardsville (7-3) at #23 Palatine (7-3), Saturday, 3 p.m. #3 Chicago Marist (10-0) vs. #19 Chicago Curie (8-2) at Rockne Stadium, Saturday, 3 p.m. #11 Hinsdale Central (8-2) at #6 Wilmette Loyola Academy (9-1), Saturday, 1 p.m.

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SCOREBOARD ‌MOUNT ZION def. SPRINGFIELD SACRED HEART-GRIFFIN 25-20, 25-22 At Effingham For Mount Zion, kills: Karlee McAtee 10, Reiley Drake 8, Hayden Engelbrecht 6, Dayna Kennedy 6, aces: Madi Crawford, Kaitlyn Lillpop, blocks: Lillpop 3, Kennedy, assists: Ali Vaughn 27, digs: McAtee 11, Crawford 10, Drake 10, Courtney Maley 4, Vaughn 3. ‌Stewardson Sectional WINDSOR-STEWARDSON-STRASBURG def. LOUISVILLE NORTH CLAY 25-8, 25-16 At Stewardson For Windsor, kills: Megan Schlechte 11, Maria Gentry 4, Mackenzie Tabbert 2, Kasey Bean 2, Mackenzee Reynolds 2, aces: M. Schlechte 2, Tabbert, Taylor Rentfro, Anna Schlechte, blocks: Gentry 4, Tabbert 3, Bean 2, digs: Mikayla Haddock 9, Tabbert 7, M. Schlechte 7, assists: Tabbert 18, Martina Gratz 2, M. Schlechte, Rentfro.

(Windsor-Stewardson-Strasburg — 32-6, next: Friday vs. Cobden.) ‌Robinson Sectional NEWTON def. KANSAS 25-10, 25-22 At Robinson

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For Newton, kills: Frohning 13, Probst 4, Earnest 3, aces: Meinhart 2, Smith, Hemrich, Frohning, blocks: Kuhl, Bierman, assists: Hemrich 13, Frohning 6, Meinhart 2, digs: Frohning 8, Geltz 5, Probst 5, Hemrich 5.

(Newton — 30-7, next: Friday vs. Carlinville.)

‌Upcoming schedule No games scheduled

‌Thursday, Nov. 2 Friday, Nov. 3 FOOTBALL

Class 1A playoffs Bridgeport Red Hill (10-0) at Cumberland (8-2), 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL Class 1A Farina Super-sectional Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg vs. Cobden, 6 p.m.

Class 2A Vandalia Super-sectional Carlinville vs. Newton, 6 p.m.

Class 3A Salem Super-sectional Belleville Althoff Catholic vs. Mount Zion, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 4

FOOTBALL Class 1A playoffs Tuscola (10-0) at Mount Sterling Brown County (8-2), 2 p.m.

Athens (8-2) at Argenta-Oreana (9-1), 2 p.m.

Class 2A playoffs Eldorado (8-2) at #4 Maroa-Forsyth (9-1), 2 p.m.

Shelbyville (8-2) at Downs Tri-Valley (9-1), 1 p.m.

Class 3A playoffs Monticello (9-1) at Byron (10-0), 2 p.m.

Newton (9-1) at Pleasant Plains (7-3), 2 p.m.

Carlinville (9-1) at St. Teresa (9-1), 2 p.m.

Vandalia (7-3) at Greenville (8-2), 1 p.m.

Pana (9-1) at Anna-Jonesboro (10-0), 2 p.m.

Class 4A playoffs Effingham (9-1) at Highland (10-0), 3 p.m.

Taylorville (9-1) at Herscher (9-1), 5 p.m.

Class 5A playoffs MacArthur (8-2) at Washington (8-2), 2 p.m.

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World’s #2 Smartest Man Reveals Secret “Genius Pill” Supercharge your brain and think better than ever.

BREAKING NEWS: He has one of the highest IQ scores ever recorded.

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Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews, left, scores against Philadelphia Flyers goalie Brian Elliott during the second period Wednesday.

Blackhawks blank Flyers 3-0 Corey Crawford makes 35 saves Associated Press‌

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‌DURHAM, N.C. — Duke starts the regular season in the same place it did a year ago. The goal, though, is to finish the season where its fierce rival did last April.

The defending champion Tar Heels are ranked No. 9 in the preseason poll. They were No. 6 last season before winning it all.

A nationwide media panel voted Duke No.1 in the Associated Press preseason poll for the second consecutive year. After being No. 1 last season, the Blue Devils won the ACC championship but were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in the second round by South Carolina. The Blue Devils then

Illini From D1

“They’re very similar,” the defensive coordinator said. “When it comes to instincts and their understanding of the game and how quickly it translates to the field for him, he’s like a quarterback on defense. He’s very similar to Hardy Jr.“ Williams is pleased Illinois finally took steps to be a better defense last week, even though the Illini lost to fifth-ranked Wisconsin, 24-10. After leading Illinois with 14 tackles the week before against Minnesota, Williams had five tackles and an interception against the Badgers.

“Now it’s about keeping the M 1 foot on the gas pedal,” he said.

Some experts say it’s because his intelligence was almost by accident, the result of an unusual “smart pill” he takes every morning.

New Brain-Booster Flying Off Shelves Al Sears, M.D., recently released a brainboosting supplement based on this pill that has become so popular, he’s having trouble keeping it in stock.

Dr. Sears is the author of over 500 scientific papers on anti-aging and recently spoke at the WPBF 25 Health & Wellness Festival featuring Dr. Oz and special guest Suzanne Somers. Thousands of people listened to Dr. Sears speak on his anti-aging breakthroughs and attended his book signing at the event.

All told, 27,432 bottles of this pill have been sold — and everyone who takes it reports similar mind-blowing results.

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Chicago Blackhawks center Artem Anisimov, right, celebrates with defenseman Cody Franson after scoring his goal against the Philadelphia Flyers during the second period Wednesday. in their previous 18 chances.

Toews then blocked shot a near the blue line and skated in alone on Elliott. The captain slipped a backhander between the goaltender’s legs for his first goal since Oct. 12 against Minnesota, stopping a seven-game drought.

That was more than enough for Crawford, who came up with a couple of big stops as Philadelphia pressed for a score in the third. He made his best save of the night with 1:45 left in the first, doing the splits to get over for a pad stop on Valtteri Filppu-

la’s wraparound.

NOTES: Flyers D Radko Gudas suffered an upper-body injury in the first and did not return to the game. ... Chicago D Connor Murphy’s father, Gord, is an assistant coach for Philadelphia. ...

The Blackhawks and Flyers play again on Nov. 9 in Philadelphia, finishing their two-game season series.

UP NEXT Flyers: Visit St. Louis on Thursday night.

Blackhawks: Visit Minnesota on Saturday night.

Duke begins the season ranked No. 1 STEVE WISEMAN

Yet you have probably never heard of Rick Rosner, officially the world’s second smartest man.

And he agrees. “This pill makes my brain work better,” says Rosner. “By preventing or slowing the brain’s inevitable aging process, it’s sort of like being smarter.”

JAY COHEN

‌CHICAGO — Corey Crawford made 35 saves in his first shutout of the season, and the Chicago Blackhawks stopped a threegame slide with a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.

Artem Anisimov and Jonathan Toews scored 20 seconds apart in the second and Crawford took over from there, helping Chicago kill off three Philadelphia power plays in the last half of the game.

Rookie Alex DeBrincat added an empty-net goal with 1:49 left in Crawford’s 22nd career shutout.

Brian Elliott made 32 stops for Philadelphia, which was coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to lowly Arizona on Monday. The Flyers have dropped four of five heading into Thursday night’s game at Central Division-leading St. Louis.

Chicago had dropped five of six, prompting coach Joel Quenneville to juggle his lines and defensive pairings in search of a spark.

Quenneville also had his team do sprints at the end of practice on Tuesday after he grew frustrated with the effort by the players.

The Blackhawks responded with a workmanlike effort while improving to 4-2-1 at home.

Chicago came up empty on its first four power plays before Anisimov delivered in the second.

With Brandon Manning in the box for holding Ryan Hartman, the rugged center skated behind the Flyers’ penalty killers and slammed home a rebound for a 1-0 lead at 8:58.

Anisimov’s fourth goal of the season was the Blackhawks’ first successful power play since Richard Panik scored at Arizona on Oct. 21. They were unsuccessful

He beats Einstein and Stephen Hawking in the genius directory.

watched rival North Carolina win the national championship, beating Gonzaga in the final game.

Beginning his 38th season at Duke, Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski is far more interested in how his team finishes than how it starts.

“It is an honor to be picked No. 1 in your sport,” Krzyzewski said in statement. “At this time of the year, it truly is a prediction, so you haven’t earned No. 1 yet. More than likely, past teams that have played at Duke have put this team in a position where people might say, ‘How is that team going to do?’ or ‘They have a lot of talent’ and all of the sudden, you’re No. 1. Certainly, it’s an honor and we’ll look forward

to trying to achieve and earn that ranking at some time during the season, hopefully at the end.”

Duke’s ranking will be tested quickly. The Blue Devils face No. 2 Michigan State on Nov. 14 in the Champions Classic doubleheader at Chicago’s United Center. No. 4 Kansas and No. 5 Kentucky will play the second game of a star-studded event.

This is the ninth time Duke is the preseason No. 1 team, matching UNC for the all-time record.

Duke and UNC are among five ACC teams in the top 25. That’s the most of any conference. Joining Duke and UNC are No. 13 Miami, No. 14 Notre Dame and No. 16 Louisville.

“There’s no secret. Feeding off (the Wisconsin) game, I think our defense will feel a lot better about our play. I think we should be a lot more confident against Purdue because that’s a game we could definitely win.”

Williams said he has a great relationship with his father’s former teammate, Hardy Nickerson, but also credited the influence of first-year safeties coach Donnie Abraham, who played nine seasons as an NFL cornerback.

“That’s my guy right there,” Williams said. “He’s not a yeller, not a get-in-your-face guy. But I connect with him really well.

He understands what we’re going through and he really works with us. He’s definitely helped me, I know that.”

At one time, Illinois was start-

ing a freshman safety (Williams) and a pair of true freshmen corners in Tony Adams and Nate Hobbs. Adams is now injured but Hobbs is also getting positive reviews from Nickerson and Lovie Smith.

Adams and Hobbs have each struggled at times, mainly because they need the experience and will benefit by being physically stronger as sophomores.

Williams, on the other hand, is the one player who looks both mentally and physically ready for college football. And he appears to have the same feel for the game that helped Hardy Nickerson Jr., find his way into the NFL. mtupper@herald-review.com|(217) 421-7983

One study found it doubled the memory and cognitive function of 430 patients in just 24 weeks. Another study published in Neurology found it not only stopped agerelated brain shrinkage in over a thousand seniors, it even boosted brain size, especially in the brain’s memory center.

Researchers at a prestigious California university analyzed brain scans from 265 seniors who took this smart pill and compared the group to the placebo and found on average, this made their brains 28 years younger. And that’s with just a single weekly dose. Imagine what it could do for you if you took it every day!

One of Dr. Sears’ patients from West Palm Beach, Florida, was very concerned when his memory started slipping. “I was worried when I started blanking out on things that used to be routine. All those ‘senior moments’ started way too young. But they suddenly stopped when I started taking Omega Rejuvenol. Now, I feel my focus and memory are back at age-30 levels.”

And then there’s Pete, age 69, who had suffered from progressively weaker memory for 11 years. At one point he was unable to remember his locker combination. But within four months of taking this smart pill, he’s now a math wizard. In fact, he went back to work as a CPA at a large corporation.

The best part is, the supplement has no adverse side effects, you don’t need a prescription or a doctor’s visit, and it’s 100% natural.

Powerful ‘Nootropic’ Vital To Brain Health “Omega Rejuvenol is a true wonder drug for brain health,” said Dr. Sears. “This ‘nootropic’ substantially increases brain volume while supporting mental sharpness and memory.”

“The key ingredient of my smart pill is a little-known fatty acid called DHA. Scientists are just beginning to recognize this nutrient as the world’s most powerful ‘nootropic.’”

Your brain is almost entirely made up of fats, 60% of which is DHA. And DHA is essential because it helps your brain grow new branches and renew and rejuvenate itself so you can keep your brain power and sharp thinking.

Top scientists acknowledge we don’t get enough DHA in our modern diet. Over the last several decades, our food supply has dramatically changed. DHA is no longer as available as it used to be, not even in fish oil or fish.

The Search For Better DHA So Dr. Sears went looking for better, more concentrated sources of omega-3 DHA. And he found it where nobody else was looking… literally at the bottom of the earth.

Dr. Al Sears with fellow physician Dr. Oz at the WPBF 25 Health & Wellness Festival held recently in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Krill are tiny shrimp-like creatures that swim in huge biomasses in the pure, cold waters near the South Pole.

Nature magazine hails them as the basic source of energy for almost all marine life in the world’s oceans.

It turns out that DHA found in krill oil is able to penetrate into nearly every cell in your body in a far superior way than fish oil.

In a study published in Nutrition Research, krill oil, fish oil and olive oil were compared to see which one raised omega-3 levels higher.

Seventy-six people took 2 grams of krill oil, fish oil or olive oil every day for four weeks — then their omega-3 levels were tested. The results were surprising, to say the least.

Those taking olive oil saw their omega-3s rise 2.9%. Those taking fish oil saw their omega-3s rise 131.8%. But those taking krill oil saw their omega-3s skyrocket 178.4%. That’s 30% MORE omega-3s absorbed from krill oil than from fish oil!

Second Source Of Rare, Potent DHA Omega Rejuvenol also includes a second unique source of omega-3. The Argentinian squid thrives by the billions in the icy, pure waters off the tip of South America.

What got Dr. Sears’ attention is this mighty mollusk is loaded with DHA. “After this special squid oil is processed, it delivers over 65% DHA — the highest concentration of DHA ever achieved in natural medicine!” said Dr. Sears.

DHA is a lifesaver because every one of your cells has built-in receptors that absorb it, and every one of your cells craves it.

Fueling your body with high levels of DHA can do wonders for your health, and your brain in particular.

With this first-ever combination, you can flood every cell in your brain with the world’s most powerful “nootropic” and get the full range of brain-boosting benefits it has to offer.

Where To Find Omega Rejuvenol Right now, the only way to get this powerful one-two punch for a sharp memory and brain-boosting benefits is with Dr. Sears’ breakthrough Omega Rejuvenol formula.

To secure bottles of this hot, new nootropic, buyers should contact the Sears Health Hotline at 1-888-355-0756 within the next 48 hours. “It takes time to get bottles shipped out to drug stores,” said Dr. Sears.

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Dr. Sears feels so strongly about this product, he offers a 100%, money-back guarantee on every order. “Just send me back the bottle and any unused product within 90 days, and I’ll send you your money back,” said Dr. Sears.

The Hotline will be taking orders for the next 48 hours. After that, the phone number will be shut down to allow them to restock.

Call 1-888-355-0756 to secure your limited supply of Omega Rejuvenol. You don’t need a prescription, and those who call in the first 24 hours qualify for a significant discount. To take advantage of this great offer use Promo Code NPOROCT133 when you call in.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS MAY VARY FROM PERSON TO PERSON. NO INDIVIDUAL RESULT SHOULD BE SEEN AS TYPICAL.

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WCIA four-day forecast

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It will warm up today with more clouds and rain expected. Highs will top out above their seasonal norms.

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Regional Discussion: A cold front will gradually push southeastward through the region today with showers developing across parts of northern and central Illinois. A few showers and embedded storms are expected to work their way into southern Illinois mainly tonight.

Temperatures will be milder ahead of this front with highs ranging from the upper 50s north to the low 70s in far southern Illinois.

Chicago Forecast: Cloudy with a chance of showers today and mostly cloudy tonight. High around 57. Low around 40. Winds S/N 5-10 mph.

St. Louis Forecast: Cloudy with isolated showers and storms possible later today and tonight. High around 72. Low around 50. Winds S 3-8 mph.

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On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (derisively dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. ‌Today’s highlight in history: On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (derisively dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.

On Nov. 2: In 1795, the 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

In 1865, the 29th president of the United States, Warren Gamaliel Harding, was born near Marion, Ohio.

In 1867, Harper’s Bazaar magazine was first published under the title “Harper’s Bazar.”

In 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.

In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a declaration expressing support

for a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.

In 1936, the British Broadcasting Corp. inaugurated “high-definition” television service from Alexandra Palace in London.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.

In 1950, playwright George Bernard Shaw, 94, died in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.

In 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford.

In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released American hospital administrator David Jacobsen after holding him for 17 months.

In 1992, movie producer Hal Roach died in Los Angeles at age 100.

In 2000, American astronaut

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.

H&R FILE PHOTO‌

HISTORY CORNER: A LOOK BACK 1938: Joe Langffeld, an expert assembler at the Union Iron works, puts together a corn sheller, as his part in a major Decatur industry.

Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first residents of the international space station.

In 2007, British college student Meredith Kercher, 21, was found slain in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy; her roommate, American Amanda Knox and Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were later convicted of killing Kercher, but both were later exonerated.

(Rudy Guede, a petty criminal who was convicted separately in the case, remains imprisoned.)

Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, who transformed folk dance into a legitimate art, died in Moscow at age 101.

In 2012, four days before Election Day, President Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of scaring voters with lies, while the Republican challenger warned grimly of political paralysis and another recession if Obama reclaimed the White House. The New York City Mar-

Find your history in our pages Visit herald-review.com/archives to explore more than 1 million historical pages, photos and articles from the Herald & Review and other newspapers athon was canceled when Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed himself and yielded to mounting criticism that it was no time to be running a race in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

In 2016, ending a championship drought that had lasted since 1908, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings at Progressive Field. Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol cars in separate attacks about 2 miles apart; sus-

In 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford. pect Scott Michael Greene later pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to consecutive life prison terms. Garth Brooks was named entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards.

Thought for Today: “If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.”

— Agesilaus II, King of M Sparta (c. 444-360 B.C.) 1

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Fed leaves key rate unchanged Trump expected to announce chair choice today MARTIN CRUTSINGER

AP Economics Writer‌

‌WASHINGTON — With a new Federal Reserve leader about to be announced, the Fed is keeping its key interest rate unchanged. But it is hinting that it’s preparing to resume raising rates as the economy shakes off the effects of recent hurricanes.

In a statement after its latest policy meeting ended Wednesday, the Fed left its benchmark rate in a low range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent. With the economy on solid footing, the Fed is expected to raise rates for the third time this year when it next meets in December.

Overall, the Fed’s statement suggested a bright economic outlook, with steady if unspectacular growth and a healthy job market. It noted that a loss of U.S. jobs in September was directly related to disruptions from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Economists have projected that on Friday the government will report a job gain of Yellen 310,000 for October — a dramatic rebound.

It addition, the Fed said that a rise in gasoline prices after the hurricanes would likely prove temporary and that overall price increases remain generally soft. It reiterated its expectation that prices will resume picking up toward its 2 percent inflation target.

The central bank remains confident, the statement said, that the strength of the job market and the overall economy will justify further gradual increases in interest rates.

“The uncertainty about the economic impact of hurricanes has subsided, and the Fed noted the strengthening economy by saying it is expanding at a ‘solid rate,’ said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate. “If that’s not a prerequisite for an interest rate hike next month, I don’t know what is.”

President Donald Trump has said he will announce today his choice to lead the Fed beginning in February. Jerome Powell, a Fed board member, is assumed to be the top contender.

“I think you will be extremely impressed by this person,” Trump said Wednesday.

Trump’s announcement will be scrutinized for what it might mean for the direction of interest rates, and perhaps for the economy. In selecting Powell, Trump would be deciding against offering a second term to Yellen, who has drawn wide approval for her performance as chair. The first woman to lead the Fed, Yellen would also be the first leader of the central bank in decades not to be offered a second term after serving a full first term.

Powell has built a reputation as a centrist policymaker whose stance on interest rate increases would likely deviate little from Yellen’s cautious approach.

Powell would, though, be expected to be marginally more favorable toward easing some of the stricter financial rules that were enacted after the 2008 financial crisis. Trump has complained that those rules have been too restrictive.

In its statement Wednesday, the Fed noted the chronic problem of ultra-low inflation. The problem with too-low inflation is that it can slow the economy by causing consumers to delay purchases if they think they can buy a product or service for a lower price later.

And so far this year, inflation has actually been slowing. The trend that has raised doubts about whether, as the Fed has suggested, lower-than-optimal inflation reflects mainly temporary factors, such as a price war among cellphone service providers, or rather something more fundamental.

Last week, the government estimated that they economy grew at a solid 3 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter despite severe damage from two hurricanes. The economy has now posted two straight quarters of at least 3 percent annual growth — the strongest two-quarter stretch in three years. And the unemployment rate has reached a 16-year low of 4.2 percent.

Those factors, along with a stock market setting record highs, are thought to have put the Fed on a path to raise rates modestly later this year and thereby avoid having to tighten credit more aggressively later to prevent high inflation — something that would risk derailing the economy.

In its statement, the Fed noted that it’s proceeding with a program to shrink its bond portfolio — a move that could mean higher long-term rates over time.

Wednesday’s policy decision was approved 9-0, with Randal Quarles, M 1

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Tax bill push continues House GOP scrambles to gain overhaul support MARCY GORDON AND ANDREW TAYLOR

Associated Press‌

‌WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday scrambled to finalize the first major tax overhaul in three decades amid opposition from GOP lawmakers fearful about constituents losing a cherished deduction for state and local taxes.

Top Republicans vowed to release the measure today after missing a self-imposed Wednesday deadline and dismissed rumors that the unveiling might be further delayed. The ambitious timetable calls for passing the measure in the House by Thanksgiving.

“Failure is not an option,” said Rep.

Chris Collins, R-N.Y. The emerging plan would retain the income tax rate for the wealthiest earners. But for that highest bracket, the tax writers were considering raising the minimum level of income to $1 million from the current $470,000 — a change that would reduce tax revenue.

The plan also would sharply cut tax rates for businesses in hopes of improving U.S. economic competitiveness. Tax rates for individuals would be trimmed as well.

President Donald Trump weighed in Wednesday on Twitter “Wouldn’t it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cuts for the Middle Class.

The House and Senate should consider ASAP as the process of final approval

moves along. Push Biggest Tax Cuts EVER.” The idea of repealing the individual mandate has been pushed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, but was dismissed by key GOP leaders since it would add political complications to an already difficult task of crafting a tax bill that can pass the House and Senate.

“I think tax reform is complicated enough without adding another layer of complexity,” said No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn of Texas.

Tax writers decided to maintain the highest personal income tax rate at its current 39.6 percent and to slash the top tax rate for corporations to 20 percent from 35 percent. They strained to complete other last-minute changes, but failed to finalize details to meet their Wednesday deadline.

A key reason was continuing opposition from GOP lawmakers from New York and New Jersey, many of whom are opposed to repealing a lucrative deduction for state and local taxes that benefits their states more than other.

“I view the elimination of the deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth picking winners and losers,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., who represents eastern Long Island. “I don’t want my home state to be a loser, and that really shouldn’t come as any surprise.”

The lawmakers were haggling over a possible cap to the deduction for local property taxes. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, had offered as a concession keeping the property tax deduction for Please see TAX, Page C3

Retailers set to woo customers ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

AP Retail Writer‌

Amazon continuing to raise the bar of “free shipping” conveniences, from one- or two-day package arrivals to keyless in-home delivery via couriers, the financially beleaguered post office is billing itself as the trusted, lowcost carrier already serving every U.S. household.

The expanded Sunday delivery is aimed at consumers like Susan Dennis, 68, of Seattle. Weary of weekend trips to the mall where she often ends up stuck in traffic or waiting too long in line, the retiree says she buys online whenever possible and isn’t wedded to just Amazon, if the product quality is good and the delivery “fast and inexpensive.”

“More Sunday deliveries would be one of the sweetest deals ever — give me the URL and I will buy whatever,” Dennis said.

Bolstered by e-commerce growth and its Sunday operations, the Postal Service will reach new highs this year

‌NEW YORK — Stores are trying to step up their game online and in person for the critical holiday season, from dangling more discounts to livening up their stores. And Amazon, which is expanding into more areas, has opened its online store of Black Friday discounts.

Department store chain Kohl’s is hoping to woo new customers by emphasizing the exact amount people can save by stacking coupons and other deals. It’s also opening at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, an hour earlier than last year. “Retail is changing. And there is market share to gain,” said CEO-elect Michelle Gass.

The chain, based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin is also delivering more of its incentive Kohl’s Cash than before. The app also features the option to scan ads, store Kohl’s Cash offers and saving offers.

Ailing Sears Holdings Corp., which has struggled to keep up with rivals, says its Sears and Kmart stores launched a “Holiday Blowout” promotion Wednesday that will last through Nov. 25. Sears is also bringing back its Wish Book, last issued in 2011, which features items like toys, games and tools.

Online leader Amazon promised Wednesday that shoppers will find better deals than ever before on hot toys, electronics, home goods and other items as it announced the discounts. Starting Wednesday, Prime members will also have access to Amazon Key, a service that will allow delivery people to leave packages in your home without you having to be there.

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, will have parties for customers at its stores for the first time, around the themes of toys, entertainment and curated gifts. It’s increasing the number of product demonstrations and will expand the role of employees who last year helped find customers the shortest register lines. This year, they’ll assist customers in the toys and electronics areas every weekend and be at the online orders pickup stations as Christmas approaches.

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AP FILE PHOTO‌

In this 2013, file photo, packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office as U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Michael McDonald, gathers mail to load into his truck before making his delivery run, in Atlanta. As consumers demand ever-quicker and convenient package delivery, the U.S. Postal Service wants to boost its business this holiday season by offering what few e-commerce retailers can provide cheap next-day service with packages delivered Sundays to your home.

Postal Service steps up holiday game Pilot program offers next-day Sunday delivery HOPE YEN

Associated Press‌

‌WASHINGTON — As consumers demand ever-quicker and convenient package delivery, the U.S. Postal Service wants to boost its business this holiday season by offering what few e-commerce retailers can provide cheap next-day service with packages delivered Sundays to your home.

Retail giant Walmart says it is considering the Sunday option, which could reshape weekend shopping trips to the mall.

The program, available in 20 major U.S. cities, allows consumers to place online orders with participating retailers before a cutoff time Saturday, the Postal Service said. Postal carriers pick up merchandise from local stores for delivery the following day, similar to the Sunday package deliveries it now handles almost exclusively for online

leader Amazon in much of the U.S. The Postal Service hasn’t disclosed which stores may sign onto the new pilot program, launched in advance of retailers’ most competitive time of the year.

“It’s one of the ideas Walmart is looking at,” company spokesman Ravi Jariwala told The Associated Press, citing the big-box chain’s recent focus on getting goods to shoppers’ front doors quickly. In recent months, Walmart has announced added shipping options to better compete with Amazon, from acquiring a same-day delivery service in New York to testing drop-offs of packages by Uber drivers and Walmart employees.

Best Buy and Target, which recently added speedier holiday shipping options, declined to comment on the program.

The next-day weekend service is part of the Postal Service’s aggressive push into the parcel business at a time when its more lucrative first-class mail is declining in the digital age. With

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955 7,739, unchanged

SOYBEANS 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Nov 17 974.50 984.50 973.75 981 +7.25 Jan 18 984.75 995 983.75 991.25 +6.50 Mar 18 994.75 1005.25 994 1001.50 +6.50 May 18 1004 1014.25 1003.25 1010.50 +6.25 Jul 18 1012.25 1022 1011.50 1018 +5.75 Aug 18 1015.25 1022.50 1015.25 1019 +5.75 Sep 18 1004 1008.75 1004 1008.75 +4.75 Tue’s sales Tue’s open int

349,748 665,573, unchanged

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NEW YORK CITY | BIKE PATH ATTACK

Gruesome stretch for vehicle strikes Tuesday the latest example of automobiles being used as weapons The attack on a bike path Tuesday in New York City, which killed eight and injured about a dozen others, is the latest example of a driver who used a vehicle as a weapon.

Some were orchestrated by extremist groups, others by unstable individuals with unclear motives. Radical groups have urged supporters to use any weapons at hand, including cars, a tactic that presents a major challenge for security forces around the world. Here’s a look at some other recent attacks:

AUG. 17: Barcelona

AUG. 12: Charlottesville, Va.

A car slammed into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-yearold legal assistant Heather Heyer. The driver of the car, James Alex Fields Jr., described as an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, was photographed with white nationalist demonstrators before the deadly crash. Fields is charged with murder and other offenses. Two Virginia state troopers also died in the crash of their helicopter, which was monitoring the rally.

JUNE 19: London

A van attack on a crowd of Muslim worshippers near two north London mosques killed a 51-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant and injured nine other people. The worshippers were spilling out of the mosques following Ramadan prayers. British authorities charged Darren Osborne, an unemployed man from Wales, with murder and attempted murder. Police characterized the incident as a terrorist attack directed at Muslims.

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A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Va. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them.

APRIL 7: Stockholm

A man drove a stolen beer truck into a crowd of afternoon shoppers outside the upmarket Ahlens store in Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15 others. The victims of the attack included an 11-year-old Swedish schoolgirl, a 31-year-old Belgian woman, a 69-yearold Swedish woman and a 41-year-old Briton whom the British government identified as Chris Bevington, an executive at Swedish music-streaming service Spotify. An Uzbek man, Rakhmat Akilov, was later arrested and pleaded guilty to a terrorist crime.

MARCH 22: London

A man identified by police as Khalid Masood ran his rented SUV into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge.

Four people were killed. Masood was eventually shot and killed by police, but not before stabbing a police officer to death on the grounds of Parliament.

Police say Masood was inspired by extremist ideology but that there’s no evidence he had direct links to the Islamic State group or al-Qaida.

JAN. 20: Melbourne, Australia

A man with a history of mental health and drug abuse issues drove into a street

into a crowded Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. It was the first mass casualty attack by Islamic extremists carried out on German soil. Attacker Anis Amri, who had been denied asylum in Germany, was later killed by police in Italy after an international manhunt.

NOV. 28, 2016: Columbus, Ohio

MARKUS SCHREIBER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A destroyed truck is pulled away by a service car after it was driven into a department store April 7 in Stockholm. crowded with pedestrians in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, killing at least four people, including a child, and injuring around 15 others. The 26-yearold man was arrested, and police said the incident had no links to terrorism.

Eighteen-year-old Somali-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car into a crowd of students at Ohio State University. Artan then attacked bystanders with a knife before he was shot and killed by OSU police officer Alan Horujko. Thirteen people were injured in the attack.

JAN. 8: Jerusalem

JULY 14, 2016: Nice, France

A Palestinian truck driver rammed his vehicle into a crowd of Israeli soldiers at a popular Jerusalem tourist spot, killing four people and wounding 17 in the deadliest single attack of more than a year of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

A Tunisian residing in France plowed a refrigerator truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on the beachfront in Nice, killing 86. Attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group, was killed by police. In response, world cities beefed up measures to prevent vehicle attacks.

DEC. 19, 2016: Berlin

A young Tunisian rammed a truck

Attack suspect faces terrorism charges ISIS-related propaganda found on man’s phone COLLEEN LONG AND JENNIFER PELTZ

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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant accused in the truck rampage that left eight people dead, saying he was spurred to attack by the Islamic State group’s online calls to action and picked Halloween because he knew more people would be out on the streets.

Even as he lay wounded in the hospital from police gunfire, Sayfullo Saipov asked to display the Islamic State group’s flag in his room and said “he Saipov felt good about what he had done,” prosecutors said in court papers. Saipov was brought to court in a wheelchair to face the charges, which could bring the death penalty.

Meanwhile, the FBI said it wanted to question a second person from Uzbekistan — 32-yearold Mukhammadzoir Kadirov — and had found him. A law enDAILY SPECIALS!

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A rented van veered into Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas promenade, swerving along the walkway and killing 13 people. Armed with an ax, knives and false explosives belts, attackers then drove a second vehicle to the boardwalk in the resort town of Cambrils early the next day, fatally injuring one person.

Five of those attackers were shot to death. Authorities said a cell of at least nine extremists plotted to combine vehicles and explosives in a direct hit on tourists. The Islamic State claimed the group as its own.

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forcement official said Kadirov may not have a role in the case, but investigators became suspicious when they couldn’t find him as he was one of Saipov’s few friends. The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.

Saipov nodded his head repeatedly as he was read his rights in a brief court proceeding that he followed through a Russian interpreter.

His court-appointed lawyer, David Patton, said Saipov was in “a significant amount of pain” and asked that he get wound care and a wheelchair or crutches in the federal lockup where he’s being held without bail.

Outside of court, Patton called for fair treatment of his client.

“I hope, given all of the attention in this case and all of the attention that it’s sure to continue to receive, that everyone lets the judicial process play out,” he said.

“I promise you that how we treat Mr. Saipov in this judicial process will say a lot more about us than it will say about him.”

Saipov, accused of driving the rented Home Depot pickup truck that barreled down a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, was charged

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John Miller, deputy New York police commissioner for intelligence, said Saipov “appears to have followed, almost exactly to a T, the instructions that ISIS has put out.”

In the past few years, the Islamic State has exhorted followers online to use vehicles, knives or other close-at-hand means of killing people in their home countries. England, France and Germany have all seen deadly vehicle attacks since mid-2016.

A November 2016 issue of the group’s online magazine detailed features that an attack truck or van should have, suggested renting such a vehicle, and recommended targeting crowded streets and outdoor gatherings, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a militant-monitoring agency.

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with providing material support to a terrorist group and committing violence and destruction of motor vehicles, resulting in death.

Prosecutors said he had 90 videos and 3,800 photos on one of his two cellphones, many of them ISIS-related pieces of propaganda, including images of prisoners being beheaded, shot or run over by a tank.

Saipov left behind knives and a note, in Arabic and English, that included Islamic religious references and said, “Islamic Supplication. It will endure,” FBI agent Amber Tyree said in court papers.

“It will endure” commonly refers to ISIS, Tyree said.

Questioned in his hospital bed, Saipov said he had been inspired

by ISIS videos that he watched on his cellphone and began plotting an attack about a year ago, deciding to use a truck about two months ago, Tyree said.

During the last few weeks, Saipov searched the internet for information on Halloween in New York City and for truck rentals, the agent said. Saipov even rented a truck on Oct. 22 to practice making turns, and he

WASHINGTON — Roused by the first major ISIS-inspired attack on U.S. soil since he took office, President Donald Trump urged swift repeal of an immigration program that brought the suspect to America and laid into a political foe he said was responsible for it — though Republican George H. W. Bush signed the law.

Trump insisted Wednesday that Congress must end the visa lottery program under which Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov entered the country, and he ordered still tighter scrutiny of immigrants already subject to what he calls “extreme vetting.”

But the White House offered no indication of what new steps the president might be planning.

“We have to get much tougher, much smarter, and less politically correct,” Trump said. He also said the U.S. justice system for dealing with such cases must be strengthened, declaring, “What we have right now is a joke and it’s a laughingstock.”

Again, there was no elaboration from the White House.

Trump denounced the 29-year-old suspect in the truck attack, which killed eight and injured many more, as an “animal,” and said he was open to sending the man to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of to trial in New York. A little later, however, prosecutors in New York filed charges in federal court accusing Saipov with providing material support to a terrorist group and committing violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

On the political front, Trump took to Twitter early Wednesday to blame Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the bipartisan visa program used by the suspect to enter the country in 2010.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Saipov entered the U.S under the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, which gives people from countries with low rates of immigration an opportunity to come to the U.S. Trump branded the program “a Chuck Schumer beauty,” and called on Congress to immediately begin work to end it.

Schumer did back the lottery program as a member of the House when it was approved with the support of both parties in 1990. It was signed by Republican President George H.W. Bush.

Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.

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Trump’s first nominee for the board, taking part in his first interest-rate-setting meeting.

If Trump does announce that Powell will succeed Yellen, most analysts expect the Fed’s pace of rate hikes beginning next year to remain gradual, with perhaps some possibility of a slight acceleration.

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a homeowner’s federal tax bill, though the amount of the deduction that could be taken may be limited.

The ability to deduct state and local income taxes on federal returns, on the other hand, would be ended. The proposed change means there would be three itemized deductions retained: for home mortgage interest, charitable donations and local property taxes.

Talks on the issue seemed to have broken off for now as Brady and other key Republicans scrambled to find offsetting tax revenues to help finance rate cuts.

by President Barack Obama, has been an outspoken advocate for the stricter regulations that took effect in 2010 to prevent another financial crisis. If Powell, as Fed chair, proves more inclined to ease some of those regulations, he would have an ally on the board in Quarles, who has become the Fed’s first vice chairman for supervision — a position from which he can lead the effort to loosen regulations.

The seven-member board has three other vacancies, thereby providing Trump with additional ways to put his imprint on the central bank.

The plan outline released last month by Trump and Republican leaders in Congress called for shrinking the number of tax brackets from seven to three or four, with respective tax rates of 12 percent, 25 percent, 35 percent and to be determined.

The tax system would be simplified, and most people would be able to file their returns on a postcard-sized form.

The plan calls for nearly doubling the standard deduction used by most average Americans to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for families, and increasing the per-child tax credit. In addition to slashing the corporate tax rate, it also seeks to repeal inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, a big break for the wealthy.

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in holiday package delivery, with nearly 850 million U.S. parcels delivered from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, according to figures compiled by industry tracker ShipMatrix Inc. for the AP. That 13 percent increase from 2016 would exceed the single-digit percentage growth for UPS and FedEx, putting the post office on track to capture 45.6 percent market share in peak holiday deliveries, ShipMatrix said.

The post office’s growth is due in large part to its established network in the “last mile,” the final and usually most expensive stretch of a package’s journey to a customer’s door. UPS and FedEx already subcontract a chunk of their lastmile deliveries to the post office. Due to slower growth this holiday season, the two private carriers are expected to drop in market share, to 31.3 percent and 17.8 percent, respectively, according to the ShipMatrix analysis.

UPS, in a dig at the post office’s financial woes, says it is focused on profitable growth and less concerned about expanding market share, “especially if it were to involve loss-making service expansions.” FedEx said it had no comment on market share and would boost

The company, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, says it has tripled the number of products online from last year’s holiday season and is offering more exclusive merchandise.

Rival Target is also being more aggressive about pulling in shoppers. It now has dedicated staff in areas like clothing, beauty and consumer electronics to better service shoppers. And it will offer eight new store brands this holiday season.

While retailers like Target and Best Buy are waiving their minimum for free shipping again, Walmart is sticking to its $35 threshold for free two-day free shipping on 2 million products. Kohl’s is sticking with its $50 minimum threshold for free shipping. Its best customers who spend $600 a year can have items shipped for free during Kohl’s credit events.

Many retailers, including Walmart and Target, haven’t announced specific plans for the Black Friday weekend.

Kohl’s says it based its decision to open early on customer shopping patterns.

“We looked at what the competitive environment was,” said Gass, “and we really wanted Kohl’s to be the first stop.”

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Courier services, such as Uber and Deliv, are expected to rise, delivering about 5.2 percent of the peak holiday packages.

“Having a Postal Service driver on every street every day making deliveries, you can’t really beat that,” said Satish Jindel, founder and president of ShipMatrix.

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Kemmerer Village, a co-ed residential treatment facility for adolescents, has full-time opportunities in its cottage life sector for second shift staff (1:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.) 4 on – 4 off rotating schedule. Responsibilities include facilitating positive interactions among residents, teaching and promoting daily living skills, general supervision and crisis management.

Bachelor degree in a Human Services field or Psychology preferred, and experience working with disadvantaged youth helpful. Other candidates with related education or experience will be considered. Must be 21 years of age or older and have a current, valid IL driver’s license. Drug Screening and criminal background check conducted. $11 - $13.25 per hour starting range.

Full benefit package including medical, dental and vision plans.

Applicants who desire to put their professional skills to work at a modern facility within a casual, supportive team framework should submit a letter of application and resume to: KEMMERER VILLAGE ATTN: Human Resources 941 N 2500 East Road Assumption, IL 62510 Fax: 217-226-3511 EOE

$675 3bd finished basement near Target small down with some credit Nice 520-0828 2, 3, 4 & 5 Bdrms For Rent. Possible Section 8. 217-429-5050 3984 Camelot 3 bdrm townhouse. Laundry hookup Rent Special: $700.

309-678-4614; 309-678-1320 3bd lease/buy remodeled homes $500-$695 north and far ear for details call now 520-0828 639 North 17th St., 2 bdrm, 1 bath, quiet stree, nice 2 bedroom, full basement, $600 mo. + Dep. No pets. 217-972-6438 RENT TO OWN NICE 3 BDRM BRICK RANCH IN HOME PARK, 2 BATHS, SUNROOM, 2 CAR GARAGE. WILL RENT TO OWN $1,000.00 PER MONTH: CALL 217-620-7388

5 Acres 3 BR brick ranch. 2.5ba, barn, fenced. N of Dalton City.

Brown & Burch 756-8202 6 ACRES of Beautiful Country Living. Overlooking 2.5acre stocked pond.

City water, underground power. Mt. Zion schools. 1 mile South of Mt. Zion.

Good road frontage. Lots of wildlife. $99,700 firm.

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CNA NEEDED in my Decatur home.

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Hours needed: Mon.-Fri. 3-5:00 p.m.; every other weekend 9-11 am and 3-5 pm. Light housecleaning and cooking. Background check and references a must.

Call 217-429-0832 The Eastern Star Home in Macon, IL is seeking energetic, enthusiastic individuals who would like to work in a quiet country setting for the following positions: Full and part time CNAs and a full time evening cook . Interested individuals please contact Meribeth Rogers or Tom Mullins at 217-764-3348.

Apts. For Rent Area Towns MT. ZION: 1 or 2 bdrms, water & garbage included. No pets.

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Apts. For Rent Decatur/Mt. Zion/Forsyth FORSYTH Condo-style, ground floor, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, $995/mo.

Pet free. Call: 217-521-1774.

RUNNING A SPECIAL: W. SAWYER 1 bdrm, very nice security building. $375-$425 309-678-4614; 309-678-1320 WHETHER YOU’RE building the future or renovating the past, Classified Ads can show the way home. Our Service Directory will put you in touch with specialists in painting, plumbig, construction, electrical, etc.

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BRAND NEW 2017 MOBILE HOMES BRAND NEW 2017 mobile homes for sale or lease in Decatur, IL. Water and Sewer Available, Lot Rent is $350.00 per month.

Call us today at 217-718-4390.

Mobile Homes for Sale Area Towns AREA PARK OWNER RETIRING: Selling all mobile homes, 2 & 3 bedroom, complete with washer, dryer, refrig, stove, water, heater & central air. Will sell 1 or 18 homes. Financing available.

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Mobile Homes for Sale Decatur/Mt. Zion/Forsyth MOBILE HOME for sale in Moweaqua. Furnished, 1 car garage, fenced yard, $20,000 OBO. Call 217-561-0977.

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DEC - 4729 WISTERIA Ct. Sat Nov 4 8-5. Quality furniture, household belongings, tables, dressers, women's clothing.

ESTATE/RUMMAGE SALE 798 N Rt 105, Bement, IL (1 mi. S of Bement on 105) Thurs, Fri, and Sat November 2,3, and 4 and 9,10, and 11 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Antiques, Collectibles, Furniture, Lots of household, yard, and farm items!

220 SOUTHMORELAND Pl. Decorating for Christmas sale, Fri 9am-2pm

33RD STREET 233 N., Lots of new/like new items. Also a Queen wooden storage bed and nightstands. Fri and Sat from 8:30 to 2:30 MELWOOD AVENUE 5542, Moving Sale! Tools, rollaway bed, crafts, etc. Friday and Saturday only, 8 - 4 and 8 - 3.

NEW DAY Church at 4191 Greenswitch Road in Decatur will be having its fall rummage sale Friday, Nov. 3 from 8 to 4 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 4 from 8 to noon.

44 Brownlow. Dr. Thurs. & Fri. 9-4. Everything must go! Dessers, shelfs, clothing, freezer & misc.

PINE MEADOW CT. 2649 S., Moving Sale. Friday Nov. 3rd only. 8am to ??pm. Furniture, tools, Christmas decorations, many household and kitchen items.

6205 MAYFLOWER Dr. Long Creek, IL Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 8-4pm Rain or Shine!

HUGE SALE. Tools, O Guage train & track, jewelry, women's clothes Med - + sizes, furniture, books, lots of household & misc.

FOR SALE - Power wheelchair & scooter, spatial transport unit.

217-737-2152 LIFT CHAIR - Excellent condition. $300. (217) 946-4124 or (217) 549-7927.

Beautiful PA House Solid Oak Table w/ leaves, pads, hutch & 6 chairs. Perfect condition. $1800. Call: 217-429-4765 DOUBLE Pedestal table 42''x72'' + 4 leaves. Hard maple w/ medium stain. Brand new, 20% discount. Call: Pineview Woodworking: 217-543-3111 MOVING SALE: 6'x5.5'long hutch, glass doors w/light, oval dining room table, 6 chairs, bdrm dresser w/ 2 large mirrors 68" L, 4' roll top desk. All furn solid wood. Sat 9am 2372 Longwood Dr. 217-553-6292

AKC LAB Pups, Black & Yellow, Chocolate, OFA, CERF, CNM, EIC, titled pedigreed parents, shots, microchipped, dewclawed, $800, taking deposits, 217-873-8726; 217-454-5173 BEAGLE PUPPIES REGISTERED, 6 weeks, 1st shots, dewormed. $250.

217-873-8951 BERNEDOODLE Puppies, Registered, Tri color, very fluffy and lovable. Ready for a new home. Shots & wormed. $1200. 217-543-3421 lv mess.

Bichon Shih Tzu puppies.

Shots, wormed, females $450 & males $400. 217-543-2669 BOSTON TERRIER 8 weeks, Reg., 1st shots & wormed.

Very small and cute, 1 Male $550, 1 Female $650.

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BOXER PUPPIES. 8 weeks old. males & females. AKC registered, black color. Shots & wormed. $600 each.

217-415-3206 text or call or 217-544-4953 CHIHUAHUAS, 1 male, 2 females, 1st shots and wormed, $200. 217-254-7315 DACHSHUND mini. Shots & healthy. Adorable, ready now. $450 309-263-0208 ENGLISH MASTIFF & GREYHOUND MIX pups- brindle & fawn, 1st shots & wormed. $200. 217-543-3939 GERMAN SHEPHERD Puppies, shots, dewormed, $600.

217-543-3866 GERMAN SHORT Haired Pointer puppies. all shots, dewormed, ready to go. $400 each. 217-543-3866.

GERMAN SHORT Haired Pointers- UKC/AKC reg. Championship bloodline. 5 female, 4 male. Born 9/2/17. Shots & wormed. Vet checked. $500/ea. Call: 217-855-8906 LAB PUPPIES- chocolate and yellow. $300. Why pay more?

217-232-2996 if no answer: 217-294-2912 LABRADOR RETRIEVERS Yellow, AKC/ACA reg.,8 weeks, 1st shots, wormed, declawed. $500 217-543-2272 leave message

ACROSS 1 Holliday or Severinsen 4 Graduate exams, often 9 Miffed 13 Fragrance 15 Refuse to obey 16 Wood splitters 17 Trait carrier 18 Sorority letter 19 __ years; 2012, 2016, 2020, etc.

20 Without rhyme or reason 22 Mayberry fellow 23 Daytime socials 24 Pork product 26 Horrify 29 Tangiest 34 Like some humor 35 Pigs and hogs 36 __ down; reclined 37 Paints for Rockwell 38 “Nothing __!”; firm refusal 39 19thcentury U.S. president 40 Luau dish 41 Stuffs 42 Syrup flavor 43 Pants

45 Walks leisurely 46 Prefix for treat or lead 47 Farrow & Sara 48 Word with booby or tourist 51 Dividing up 56 Dry ravine 57 Clear the slate 58 In __; destitute 60 Slightly open 61 Wanderer 62 Fence opening 63 Identical 64 Practices for a boxing bout 65 __ away; fled

and clear!”

12 Catch sight of 14 Income properties 21 Peddle 25 Biggest heart 26 Embrace as one’s own 27 __ to; before 28 FDR’s affliction 29 Does the breaststroke 30 Bowler’s target 31 Wed without fanfare 32 Ms. Struthers 33 Little children 35 Fly high 38 Chests of drawers 39 Temporary 41 TV crime series

42 Castle trench 44 Baseball official 45 Bishops’ hats 47 Pennypincher 48 It was, to poets 49 Indian prince 50 Eve’s man 52 __ up; support 53 Molten rock 54 Within reach 55 “__ move on!”; cry to a loiterer 59 Comfy room

DOWN 1 Pooch 2 Some poems Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved of Wordsworth 3 Ice cream scoop holder 4 Traumatic experience 5 Gets dizzy 6 Up to the task 7 “Why don’t we!”

8 Making wide cuts 9 Deli purchase 10 Plow pullers 11 “I __ you ©2017 T ib C t tA LLC loud ©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved.

Auction Sales MALTIPOO PUPPIES We have both male and female maltipoo puppies for sale with sweet personalities.

They are up-to-date on their shots and worming, and have begun their crate training. $300 815-692-4267 Mini St. Bernedoodle puppies, wormed and vaccinated, very cute and playful, $600, 217-254-3204.

MORKIE PUPPIES 1st shots, dewormed. $550.

Brown Morkie- $650. 217-728-7177 PATTERDALE PUPPY: Shots & wormed. 6 weeks old. $175.

Call: 217-268-3393 POMERANIAN puppies- All shots, dewormed, very cute & playful. $600. 217-578-3410 PUG Puppies. Fawn AKC registered. Shots & dewormed. Very well socialized. $795. Leave message. 217-543-3774

PUPPIES POMERIAN Yorkie Mini Schnauzer mix. 1 boy and 1 girl. Born 9/8/17 and ready to go to a new home! $450. 309/296-3011 via text or call REGISTERED BORDER Collie pups, 8 weeks old, excellent blood lines, great livestock dogs, excellent pets, 2 @ $600 each, Call: 217-268-4526

SHIBA INU puppies, good with kids, very playful, shots & wormed, $525. 217-543-2121 SHIH-TZU- pups, playful and cute, ready to go. Shots & dewormed $300. 217-543-2976 SIAMESE KITTEN, registered, male, ready to go, $250.

217-946-4124 or 217-549-7927 YORKIE PUPS- Tiny & playful.

Shots & dewormed, health guarantee $400. 217-543-2976 Classified..............The way to go.

YORKIE & CHORKIE Puppies.

Ready 11/04. Yorkie-1 male, 1 female. Docked & declawed. $500/ea. Chorkies- 1 male, 4 females. Cute & tiny. $300 /ea.

All wormed, ready for shots and to meet their new boy or girl. Call: 217-273-6132 YORKIE, ACA reg, male, vet checked, 1st shots, $600 cash.

217-433-6422

HONDA HS724 2 stage snow blower,-Hydro Static drive-used twice, on tracks not wheels, very nice, $1850,217-345-1537

2012 Speed Concept 2.5M bicycle. It has never been ridden, except for around the parking lot at Decatur Bicycle Shop. I am asking for $1,000 OBO. 217-358-3599

AUCTION COINS, jewelry, sports autographs auction November 5th 12 pm. 763 E. Pells, Paxton, IL Gold rings with diamonds, necklaces, silver currency, paper money, sports autographs, more! Details and photos@www. strebeckauctions.com NOVEMBER 3, Friday night 6pm. Bankruptcy & Estate Auction. Gold & Silver coin collection. U.S. $500 + $1,000 Bills, Ruger, Colt, Winchester, Browing Guns, large Diamond Rings, collectibles, at VFW, Rt. 32, Sullivan. Mike Bickers, Auctioneer, 348-0288 PUBLIC AUCTION November 4th 9am, 176 N Pattonsburg Rd. Toluca, IL. Coins, vehicles, trailers, antiques, collectibles, BB guns, household, toys, outdoor items, jewelry, furniture, more! www.calkaufmanauction. com THREE DAY Auction Event! November 9th, 10th, 11th, Union, IL. Live & Online. 20+ Antique and Vintage Cars, Slot Machines, Pinballs, Amusement Rides & Tons more cool stuff!

Details, photos & bedding @ www.donleyauctions.com

Tools/Equip. & Machinery 1941 Oliver 70. $1100 OBO. Always kept inside, mechanically good, has not been running in years. Call 217-794-5590.

EARTHQUAKE 2-MAN Auger, 190 cc Briggs & Statton, 4 cycle, New in Box $429.99 or best offer. 217-972-9550.

WANTED TO BUY: WWII US, German, Japanese Relics: Uniforms, helmets, medals, swords, etc. 217-851-3177.

WANTED: Wild Ginseng. Kirchhofer Ginseng & Co. Shumway, IL. 217-246-1835

Auction Sales CIA AUCTION Center. Thurs.

November 2nd at 10am.

Large sale. Dean Rhoades & Lester Crandall 620-4827. See auctionzip.com/ 12596.

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1988 Mustang GT 5.0. Original interior. Automatic. 3 year old black cherry paint. New tires.

New shocks & struts.

Flowmaster exhaust. Nice car, always garaged, daily driver.

No rust! $4,500 obo. Call: 217-358-3001

1930 FORD pickup truck. All original.

In good shape.

Gray/black color. $5,500 OBO. 217-377-8363 CONVERTIBLE PICKUP Truck1990 Dodge Dakota. V6 Automatic. 150,000miles. Great daily driver! Driven regularly. $3995 or trade for van.

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For sale by owner $128,500.

Adorable 3 br 2 ba ranch home. 1,280 square feet.

Nicely landscaped yard with great curb appeal. Attached garage, open concept living room and kitchen. Newer furnace, hot water heater, garbage disposal, siding, roof, and gutters. Bathroom remodel in 2017. Come check out this move in ready home!

217-779-4233

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A Veteran’s Day salute to the men and women who have served our country in the past and to the ones who are serving our country now.

13.00 per column inch Publication Date 11/11/17

2240 Thunderbird Drive-Decatur, IL. 3 Bedroom-3 Bath ($169,000) Warrensburg Schools (217-855-8646)

3/4 Rat Terrier, 1/4 Mini Pinscher, will be 6 weeks old 10/28, $150. 217-578-3722 ADORABLE Labradoodle F1B, all colors, Vet checked, vaccine, raised in our home. $850.

Decatur 217-454-4354 AKC GERMAN Rotweiler, female, 4 months old, black/tan, $500 best offer. 217-329-2959 AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD/ HEELER Mixed Puppies, $125.00 Call 217-578-3378

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Cleaning LORE'S CLEANING SERVICE Residential & Commercial Insured. 217-520-3205

WILLIAM JOHNSTON William Johnston served in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1942-1945. He was stationed in Ft. Warren, WY for basic training. Bill received his Quartermaster training in the 58th Engineer Construction Co. He was later sent to Newfoundland for the duration of the war.

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Garage Doors MIDSTATE OVERHEAD Doors, Garage door/opener install & serv. 422-8030;800-420-4800

OVER 45 YRS. exp! We blow insulation. Loose insulation removal. Free est. 217-877-7176

AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN 25 yrs exp. Fully insured.

No job too small, free est.

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CONCRETE AND Landscaping.

CS Landscaping, driveways, sidewalks, patios curbing, hardscapes, fall cleanups, gutter cleaning. 217-201-1033.

Call today.

Landscaping/Lawn 50 YRS exp! Plaster patching, drywall repair, painting, texturing, wallpapering. 877-7176.

MACON COUNTY FENCE CO. Insured FREE ESTIMATES American owned and operated!

217-201-8924

Firewood/Coal/Fuel FIREWOOD: Split hardwood. Face cord $100 delivered local Call: 217-475-1102

217-521-9495; Hauling & delivery, Experienced & Insured.

Mon-Fri 8 to 6. Discounts avail.

Flooring Yoder's Hardwood Flooring: sanding/staining/refinish.Install, new, pre-finish. 217-273-0515.

BIG JOE'S Hauling, furniture, appliances, cleanups, junk, etc. 217-358-4639.

Guitar/ Piano Lessons- Now taking students. Learn to play fast. All ages. 217-425-1616 ILLINI PAINT COMPANY Insured, Free Estimates Since 1986. Call 217-422-8500 A Buck in the hand is worth more than a garage full of junk. Call the Classified Department today.

QUALITY AFFORDABLE Pet Services. Your pet deserves only the best. Family owned, insured. Call 217-521-0456 217-519-4794 LAKESIDE Tree Ser LLC. Trimming, removal, cleanup,free estimates,insured.

ROMER BROS. Tree Service.

Removal, stump grinding. Firewood. Mulch. Free estimates, insured. 2 Certified Arborists.

Family Business for 48 Years. 217-877-1596 MIDWEST SIDING & WINDOWS Replacement Windows.

Since 1950! 217-877-4646 BOLD FACE Can make your classified ad stand out. A minimal charge for a GOODS INVESTMENT.

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www.FOURWINDSRV.com Maroa (US 51) 217-794-2292 A Route 66 Dealer

HARLEY 2001 DAVIDSON Sportster 883, 6000 miles, new exhaust, extra chrome, new condition. $3400. Trade?

217-358-2816

JEFF HOWARD 872-5000 MERCURY SABLE LS 2002- All options.132k miles. DOHC. 24valve engine. 4 door. 80% tires. Runs great. $3,500 obo.

Call: 217-246-4885

CHEVROLET 1979 Corvette, glitter green, bought from collector's auction years ago.

72,xxx mi, auto, air, mirror T-tops, everything works, runs and drives great, sharp car. $8500. 217-358-2816

Trucks/SUVs/Vans

2006 FORD Mustang-Custom hood, rims, & pipes. 5 Speed.

Blk/Blk Leather. All power. 6CD system. 90K miles. $7500 OBO 217-358-5345 call/txt

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma extended cab. 84,500 miles, blue, 4 cylinder, power locks and windows.

Great condition. $10,500 OBO. 217-412-0730 2016 SILVERADO: 5.3 v8 25mpg 4x4 Red, 2 door, Like brand new. 6,000k $27,500 Call: 217-232-2996

2010 DODGE Challenger RT. 9,400 miles, $21,500. Plum crazy color. Mint-condition.

Must see! Call: 309-432-3215 2013 CHRYSLER 200 Limited V6. 4 door, power windows, power lock, tilt cruise, leather, silver color. Excellent condition, 56,000 miles. $7,500 217-232-0290

PONTIAC 2005 G6, V6, power roof, loaded, $2988. M&M Motors, 429-2000

HONDA 2009 Odyssey EX-L DVD, 1 owner, rear view mirror camera, power roof, leather, $5988. M&M Motors 429-2000 CHEVROLET 2002 Express Van Chevrolet 2002 Explorer Conversion Van 2WD 5.7 liter V8 fully loaded one owner excellent condition new flip-down tv/dvd player= tires 7-passanger all leather power sofa bed no wrecks or major mechanical issues reason for selling: need vehicle suitable for North Dakota 159,300 miles $9500 OBO 217-423-2221 by phone 217-423-2221

CHEVROLET 1979 Corvette, glitter green, bought from collector's auction years ago.

72,xxx mi, auto, air, mirror T-tops, everything works, runs and drives great, sharp car. $8500. 217-358-2816 CHEVROLET 2015 Sonic LTZ Hatchback. Pearl White. Great visibility and back-up camera.

Excellent condition with only 25,000 miles. $11,600 obo 217-521-1314 BUICK 2003 LeSabre 160,000 miles, V6, tan, new tires last year. Well maintained. LOTS of new stuff put on. Good Condition. $6500.00 firm. Call 309-454-1977. Never have to wax car.

HONDA 2004 Civic EX Honda Civic EX with sunroof, alloy wheels, and CD player. Body and interior in extremely good shape. 128,000 miles. New timing belt. Passed recent inspection 100%. Asking $3850.

Call 309-268-9404, or email s.williamson10@comcast.net HYUNDAI 2016 VELOSTER Turbo, 18000 miles, fully loaded with: panoramic sun roof, 19" alloy wheels, heated leather seats, premiun sound system, and navigation system. 3 door with hatch back.

This is a must see due to its excellent condition. Color is burnt orange. Very sporty sharp looking car. $15,500.

Call or text 812-630-9524 TOYOTA 2007 RAV4. 54,000 miles. One owner. 4 cylinder. $6,500. Call 217-875-6608

Reserve considers a number of factors in deciding whether to approve the notice.

You are invited to submit comments in writing on this notice to Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60604. The comment period will not end before and November 22, 2017 may be somewhat longer. The Board's procedures for processing applications may be found at 12 C.F.R. Part 262.25. To obtain a copy of the Federal Reserve Board's procedures, or if you need more information about how to submit your comments on the notice, contact Alicia Williams, Vice President of Community Development and Policy Studies at (312) 322-5910; to request a copy of the notice, contact Colette A. Fried at (312) 322-6846. The Federal Reserve will consider your comments and any request for a public meeting or formal hearing on the notice if they are received in writing by the Reserve Bank on or before the last day of the comment period.

1650 W WILLIAM ST DECATUR, ILLINOIS 62522.

Dated: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Stephen M. Bean COUNTY CLERK

5th Wheel 2008 Forest River Flagstaff 8526 RLS classic super-lite, 29.5 ft Double slides, Off-white interior $9,900 OBO. 309-825-2113 DAMON 2005 CHALLENGER 327W Workhorse Chasis w/Chevrolet 8.1 Vortec V-8.

Has 2 slides. 25,000 miles. $29,500 or Best Offer 309-828-6177 FOREST RIVER INC. 2003.

2003 Ford F-450, Class C motor home. Sunseeker by Forest River, 48,000 miles. $18,000. 217-232-0001

Get your fun car from our Paw Paw!

12 FORD Fusion. 55K miles, 1 owner, no wrecks, new Michelin tires and battery. Gun metal blue. $9,900. Windsor.

Please call: 217-459-2902 2001 PONTIAC Montana.

190,000 miles, white color, good condition. $1,800 OBO 217-232-2996

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16 FT. Skeeter, 175 HP Evinrude, trolling motor, live wells, new tarp. $6,500 or best reasonable offer.

Call: 217-875-1869 RINKER 1992 CAPTIVA 206 SKI BOAT $3,900 Open Bow with 4.3L Mercruiser engine. Red and white with extended swim platform and Bimini top. Includes trailer and boat cover. Boat is in good condition. Seats 7-8 people. Includes two-person tube, kneeboard, skis, ropes, and life jackets. Winterized every year and kept indoors during off-season. Text for pics or more info. 309-826-7127

KEYSTONE 2005 Springdale 298BH (Bunk House with Slideout) - $9,500 Very good condition. Sleeps 8-10. Queen bed in front and 2 sets of bunk beds in back (Great for the kids!). Slideout for dining area and couch giving you more space.

H a s 3 - w a y a u t o refrigerator/freezer, microwave, 4 burner stove and oven, double sink, water heater, AC/heat. 2 propane takes, bath with tub and shower, 3 connections for TVs, radio/CD player, 18’ awning, lots and lots of storage space.

Includes weight distribution hitch with sway bar.

Located in Shelbyville.

Call or text 309-826-7127

1970 CHEVELLE Super SportBlack cherry. Professionally built, new motor, new tires/wheels, new suspension, new brakes & shocks, new sheet metal & paint. turbo 350 trans automatic (rebuilt) 406 small block chevy motor.

Motor/body #'s do not match.

73,000mi. $45,000 or best offer. Call: 309-723-6317

DECATUR, ILLINOIS

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20915488 ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Macon County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the businss known as: Mclean Subsurface Utility Engineering, 2150 N Main St, Decatur, IL 62526.

Dated: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Stephen M Bean County Clerk 20915655 ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Macon County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office addresses of all the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: LUDICROUS K9S 1112 E HARRISON AVE DECATUR, IL 62526 Dated: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Stephen M. Bean COUNTY CLERK 20916377 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 6TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MACON COUNTY - DECATUR, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Mickey L. Tate; Town and Country Bank; Illinois Housing Development Authority; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Donna D. Tate; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Craig W. Runyon, as Special Representative for Donna D. Tate (Deceased) DEFENDANTS 17CH 193 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Donna D. Tate Mickey L. Tate Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1804 W Grand Ave Decatur, IL 62522 and which said Mortgage was made by: Donna D. Tate executed the mortgage, however this individual is deceased and is not named as a defendant in this lawsuit the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nominee for Town and Country Banc Mortgage Services, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Macon County, Illinois, as Document No. 1843168 Book 4255

Page 167; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

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YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR RIGHT TO MEDIATION WILL TERMINATE. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Lois Durbin Clerk of the Circuit Court 253 East Wood St. Room 129 Decatur, IL 62523 on or before November 27, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-17-12872 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

I3065704 20916733 SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH ANN LATCH, DECEASED NO. 17-P-260 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to claimants of the death of JUDITH ANN LATCH of Decatur, Illinois. Letters of Office were issued on October 5, 2017 to BURKE J. LATCH, whose address is 3 B Club Centre Court, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025-3519, as Executor of the Estate of JUDITH ANN LATCH, whose attorney is Paul H. Lauber, Attorney at Law, 3 B Club Centre Court, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025-3519.

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BURKE J. LATCH, BY: PAUL H. LAUBER #03122916 Attorney at Law #3B Club Centre Court Edwardsville, Illinois (618) 692-9080 20918044 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, PLAINTIFF, VS. ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY; BUSEY BANK; MELISSA TATRO A/K/A MELISSA M TATRO; MELINDA M WEDDLE; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JENNIFER J. JONES A/K/A JENNIFER JILL JONES, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS; ANDREW R. WEATHERFORD, SOLELY AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATE OF JENNIFER J. JONES A/K/A JENNIFER JILL JONES (DECEASED), DEFENDANTS. 15 CH 48 2045 WEST CENTER STREET DECATUR, IL 62526 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Jennifer J. Jones A/K/A Jennifer Jill Jones, If Any defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOTS EIGHT (8) AND NINE (9) IN BLOCK TWO (2) OF FLOWERDALE FIRST ADDITION, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN BOOK 536, PAGE 62 OF THE RECORDS IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MACON COUNTY, ILLNOIS, EXCEPT THE EAST 40 FEET

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UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Lois A. Durbin 253 East Wood Decatur, IL 62523 on or before December 4, 2017, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, THE PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1 N. Dearborn St. Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 Ph. (312) 346-9088 File No. 258576-74186 I3066542 20918102 NOTICE Timothy Derwin Murphy, Atwood, Illinois, joining Boulevard Financial, L.P., a qualified limited family partnership, as a general partner intends to apply to the Federal Reserve Board for permission to acquire 25 percent or more of the shares and thereby control of TNB Bancorp, Inc., and indirectly control TNB Bank, both of Tuscola, Illinois. The Federal

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Drought may have aided storm that walloped Northeast PATRICK WHITTLE

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‌PORTLAND, Maine — Drought conditions across much of Maine may have contributed to the large numbers of trees that toppled during a storm that walloped the Northeast this week, officials said.

The storm cut power to nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses in the region at its peak. It left more Mainers in the dark than even the infamous 1998 ice storm, but the long-term effects will likely be much different.

Because of dry conditions, the trees’ roots weren’t healthy, and ground con-

ditions along with foliage that remained on the trees made them more susceptible to wind, said Peter Rogers, acting director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency.

Virtually all of New England is either experiencing a moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The driest conditions are along the coast, where the wind gusts were the strongest.

“It was kind of a perfect storm,” Rogers said.

Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage will be touring storm-damaged areas on Wednesday. He had declared a state

Gov. Gina Raimondo said utility National Grid was probably “caught a little flat-footed” by an unexpectedly strong storm.

The scope of the damage in Maine made comparisons to the 1998 ice storm inevitable. According to the Maine Emergency Management Agency, that storm resulted in six deaths and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to public utilities, private property and the forest industry. All 16 Maine counties were declared federal disaster areas.

Tree limbs fell from the weight of the ice during that storm, while this storm

of emergency on Monday, the day the storm peaked during the early morning hours.

Maine’s two major utilities were still reporting more than 200,000 customers without power early Wednesday morning. But they said favorable weather and extra crews will allow them to complete the task of restoring power this weekend.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017 | herald-review.com/entertainment | SECTION D

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Nov. 2 birthdays‌ Singer Jay Black (Jay and the Americans), 79; political commentator Patrick Buchanan, 79; actress Stefanie Powers, 75; author Shere Hite, 75; country-rock singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, 72; actress Kate Linder, 70; rock musician Carter Beauford (The Dave Matthews Band), 60; actor Peter Mullan, 58; singer-songwriter k.d. lang, 56; rock musician Bobby Dall lang (Poison), 54; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, 53; actress Lauren Velez, 53; actor Sean Kanan, 51; actor David Schwimmer, 51; Christian/jazz singer Alvin Chea (Take 6), 50; jazz singer Kurt Powers Elling, 50; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 50; rock singer-musician Neal Casal, 49; rock musician Fieldy, 48; actress Meta Golding, 46; rock singer-musician John Hampson (Nine Days), 46; actress Marisol Nichols, Souther 46; rhythm-and-blues singer Timothy Christian Riley (Tony Toni Tone), 43; rapper Nelly, 43; actor Danny Cooksey, 42; rock musician Chris Walla, 42; actress Reshma Shetty, 40; country singer Erika Jo, 31; actor-singer Kendall Schmidt, 27.

Nature takes over arts center Gallery features painter’s wildlife work DONNETTE BECKETT

Herald & Review‌

‌DECATUR – Nature will be seen throughout the Anne Lloyd Gallery during November. Artist Kellie Rae Theiss and her exhibit “Love of Nature” are the feature of the Madden Arts Center exhibit.

The paintings capture details of wildlife creatures and their surroundings. Images include fish, birds, dragonflies and turtles.Theiss portrays the artistry of nature in her paintings. The subjects come in many shapes and expressions.

“However, they are all creations of absolute poetry,” Theiss said.

The public will be allowed to see and learn more about the exhibit during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3, in the gallery.

The third floor gallery will feature the artwork from “Our Voice Through Art,” a program highlighting adult artists with disabilities.

In keeping with the theme of nature, music for the gallery walk will be provided by the acoustic band, Rock Spring Dulcimer Group.

Another added feature will be a visit from Ken Frye, director of Scovill Zoo. Frye will have a barn owl with him at the gallery walk. “So that people can see one up close and personal,” said Sue

Powell, Gallery Director for Decatur Area Arts Council. “It will look just like the one in Kellie Rae’s painting.”

Powell invited Theiss to the gallery because of her artistic background.

“She is an accomplished artist,” Powell said. “She uses techniques reminiscent of the Renaissance period. She has a lot experience and major training. ” Theiss’s formal art education began at the University of Nebraska.

“Or maybe as a student of my beloved Grandmother Fuzzy Johnston-Way,” she said.

Her education took her to more than 27 countries as well as Accedemia de Riaci in Florence, Italy, and the University of Minnesota. “I have worn many hats for the arts as an educator,

as owner and director,” Theiss said. “I am a master painter, a teacher, a writer and a poet, also a woodcarver.”

Although she has studied various styles and subjects, her work for the past 30 years has focused on fish, birds, insects and botanicals, many of which surround her Minnesota studio.

“I paint portraits of the kings and queens of the natural world,” Theiss said. “I am but a student of their kingdom.”The artist’s focus is to provide images of how fragile and brief the creatures are in their physical world.

She also parallels the human existence with the natural world.

“We are responsible to observe, Please see EXHIBITS, Page D6

State Farm Center‌ Justin Moore performs Friday, Nov. 3, at at Champaign’s State Farm Center.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $42.25 and $22.25.

Foo Fighters play the venue Wednesday, Nov. 8. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $99 and $49.

Tickets are available at the box office and at statefarmcenter.com.

CLAY JACKSON PHOTOS, HERALD & REVIEW‌

Amanda Donohoe, left to right, Jacob Melssen, and Lexi Johnson during a rehearsal for ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at Millikin University in Albert Taylor Theatre.

Millikin revisits 1980 film ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ will be presented next weekend

If You Go WHAT: “9 to 5: The Musical”

DONNETTE BECKETT

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 9 through 11; 2 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12

Herald & Review‌

EmiSunshine‌ EmiSunshine & The Rain perform Saturday, Nov. 4, at Effingham Performance Center.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $31, $21 and $16, and are available at the box office and via Ticketmaster.

At The Castle‌ In shows this week at Bloomington’s Castle Theatre: Real Estate performs tonight. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $25.

Elizabeth Cook plays at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3. Tickets are $15, $18 the day of the show.

The Milk Carton Kids play Monday, Nov. 6. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $28, $32 the day of the performance.

Tickets are available at www.thecastletheatre.com.

Oak Ridge Boys‌ The Oak Ridge Boys perform Saturday, Nov. 4, at Peoria’s Limelight Eventplex.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $40 and $25 and are available at limelighteventplex.com.

Mason City comedy‌ Pat Godwin appears Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4 at Mason City Limits Comedy Club.

Showtime is 8 p.m. both days. Tickets are $18.50 and $16 and are available at www.mclimits.com.

Canopy Club‌ In shows this week at Urbana’s Canopy Club: Lukas Nelson performs tonight.

Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $20.

G Jones and Eprom appear at 9 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 3. Tickets are $18, $21 the day of the show.

Whethan performs Wednesday, Nov. 8. Tickets for the 9 p.m. concert are $15, $20 the day of the show.

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‌DECATUR — What is it like to have a boss who is a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot?

This question doesn’t just apply to current stories in the media. It is the basis of the 1980 movie “9 to 5.” The Millikin University cast will be on stage Nov. 9 through 12 in Albert Taylor Theatre for “9 to 5: The Musical.”

The story follows three female co-workers as they scheme to get rid of their chauvinistic boss. Patricia Resnick wrote the script for the musical and the movie. The music was written by country music artist Dolly Parton, who was also one of the actors in the movie nearly 40 years ago.

The Millikin show has approximately 20 song and dance numbers incorporating a cast of 25 actors. Although choreographer Anna Corvera was inspired by the dances popular in 1979, she uses influences of other dances to tell the story. Corvera was given full

WHERE: Albert Taylor Theatre, Millikin University’s Shilling Hall COST: $16, $17 ON THE WEB: millikin.edu/mevents/9-5-musical

The ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ ensemble. creative license to design the choreography.

“We are handed and script and a score,” she said. “As far as dance, we are not handed anything.”

The script stays as true to the original movie as possible. “But there are one or two nods to the 21st century,”

said musical director Kevin Long.

Shelby Barros, who plays Violet, one of the main characters, believes they are making the story more applicable to 2017, even though it is set in 1979.

“It is a very apparent and important play,” she said. “Women are still not making the same amount has men.

Women are still be oppressed in many different ways. With the fun of the music, the play kind of brings it to light.”

Millikin directors have been developing their version of “9 to 5” for nearly a year, before many of the current headlines featured alleged assaults by prominent male authority.

“The work that we are doing might be set in 1979, but the audience is viewing it in 2017,” said director Tom Robson.

“What does it mean for an audience to watch a play about workplace sexual Please see “9 TO 5”, Page D3

Children’s play encourages imaginations to run wild DONNETTE BECKETT

Herald & Review‌

‌ ECATUR — Millikin University stuD dents enjoy a good children’s program as much as most children, especially when they get to do the pretending.

Millikin’s School of Theatre and Dance will present two performances of the children’s play “Blue Horses”

by Kathryn Schultz Miller at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, and Sunday, Nov. 5, in Millikin University’s Kaeuper Hall in Perkinson Music Center.

The story is about four children using their active imaginations and learning about themselves along the way. Their game “Wish Upon a Star” sends them on adventures, with their friends helping them through their trips. One rides his bike to other planets. Another dreams he has a twin. Still another simply wants to learn how to jump rope.

Throughout the stories, the friends act out the adventures with help from each other. Each child discovers self confidence and gains new friends.

The play was created to entertain children. However, Millikin students appreciate a good story too.

As a Millikin director, Denise Myers

If You Go WHAT: Millikin University children’s play “Blue Horses” WHEN: 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, and Sunday, Nov. 5 WHERE: Kaeuper Hall in Millikin University’s Perkinson Music Center COST: $4 per child; $6 per adult provides the students learning opportunities through various acting disciplines.

“This play has lots of action,” she said. “And our students get to learn about how to put on a children’s program.”

According to Myers, Millikin has presented an annual children’s play for 25 years. The shows are produced by Millikin as well as the School of Theatre and Dance. Other civic groups, such as the Optimist Club, have co-produced throughout the years. For nearly 10 years, the Golden K Kiwanis of Decatur has helped support the plays. The organization’s mission is to help chil-

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Children and their families watch a play. dren through various opportunities of volunteering and fundraising. Myers is grateful for their partnership in creating the children’s plays.

“They provide money for costumes

and sets,” Myers said. “In turn, the money goes back into the community.” dbeckett@herald-review.com| (217) 421-6983

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LIFE

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DECATUR HERALD & REVIEW

DEAR ABBY

Wife refuses to be family’s communicator

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ear Abby: My husband is a nice guy, but he’s not particularly good at planning ahead. This means that special events, holidays and birthdays often go unmarked because he doesn’t remember in time to get something sent.

In my parents’ marriage, all family communications fell to my mom. It was her job to send the Christmas cards, birthday gifts for nieces and nephews and to remember her mother and her mother-in-law on Mother’s Day. Our marriage is more egalitarian, and I don’t want the job of communicator-in-chief.

My husband knows this and agrees that he should share some responsibility, but doesn’t act on it, even after being reminded. I feel guilty when an

important milestone in one of his parents’ lives goes by and they receive no acknowledgement from our household.

The source of my guilt is surely the nagging feelJEANNE ing that it’s my job as PHILLIPS the wife to make these connections and that I am judged when the things are not sent.

How do I let go of the guilt, or at least let my in-laws know I love them and their son is the one who is letting them down? I want absolution.

— No Calendar Girl in California Dear No Calendar Girl: Not everyone excels at every task. That’s why there is division of labor in

partnerships, including marriage. If you think you will look better after explaining to your in-laws that the reason they haven’t heard from the two of you is their son didn’t remember, you are dreaming. Because you are better at planning ahead, deal with the chore. I’m sure he does things for you that are a pain in the neck (and even below). In this day of automation, sending “something” to relatives is practically a no-brainer. And it certainly beats feeling guilty because your husband isn’t up to it.

Unhealthy choices Dear Abby: My parents are in their late 60s and suffer from multiple lifestyle-related illnesses. Although

they had every opportunity to make healthy changes, they chose not to. I live on the other side of the country, and I am busy with my career and family.

I love my parents and accept our relationship for what it is. However, I do not feel obligated to disrupt my life and upset my children to be with them as they die slow, painful deaths.

If their illnesses were not directly related to their own poor choices, I might feel and behave differently toward them. Knowing it won’t change their behavior, should I tell them why I won’t be with them for what appears will be prolonged and terrible deaths?

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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Among the massive number of caped and cowled characters who make up the heroic stars in the Marvel Comics universe, Thor exists on the more somber end of the emotional scale. That somberness has been a foundation for bringing Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to the big screen in both “Thor” (2011) and “Thor: The Dark World” (2013).

Generally, surly has surpassed silly.

That’s changed in a big way with “Thor: Ragnarok.” Thanks to the success of the comedy-heavy Marvel productions of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Deadpool” and the unbridled direction of Taika Waititi, “Thor Ragnarok” is the funniest film in the Thor franchise and it’s funnier than most of the other comic book movies that have come from the studio. Mix in a stunning new villain in Hela, as portrayed with wicked abandoned

by Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, and enough big action scenes to fill a half dozen movies and “Thor: Ragnarok” rocks.

Eric Pearson’s screenplay blends elements of the “Planet Hulk” storyline with the “Ragnarok” tales from the Marvel Comics lines.

Putting those two storylines together is the first of many smart moves because going strictly with “Planet Hulk” would have required a complete change in direction and would not have made this one of the oddest buddy movies ever made. Thor and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) are able to bond as they are forced to fight.

“Ragnarok” is an ancient prophecy about the destruction of Thor’s home world and the end of the Asgard civilization. That prophecy looks to be coming true when Thor and Loki’s (Tom Hiddleston) sister, Hela (Blanchett), the goddess of death arrives and drives the brothers out of the home for the Norse gods. Even the all-seeing Heimdall (Idris Elba) has gone into hiding.

In Marvel mythology, there are not many heroes more powerful than Thor. But even he can’t stand up to the onslaught of Hela as Blanchett plays the character with almost invincible power and nearly pure evil. It’s another chameleon like effort by Blanchet as she transforms herself into one of the most formidable foes to face any Marvel champion.

The film is filled with first-rate performances from Hemsworth’s continued easiness at playing either a scene for laughs or with pounding action. Hiddleston has found just the right tone for Loki; he never lets the moviegoer forget that while he can show signs of a good heart, at his core he will always be the god of mischief.

Hemsworth and Hiddleston have never been given the credit they deserve because comic-book movies are not seen as serious challenges for actors. But both manage to slip into garish costumes, deliver heroic lines and fight giant creatures while still maintaining the humanity of the characters.

Even the addition of an underling for Hela in Skurge (Karl Urban of “Star Trek” fame) ends up being more than just another lackey.

Urban plays this supporting role with multiple layers to make his personal journey one of the most interesting.

In contrast is Jeff Goldblum’s uninspired performance as the Grandmaster, the leader of the planet where Thor and Hulk are forced to battle. There’s nothing sinister or scary about the way Goldblum plays him. It’s just another example of Goldblum not being able to stretch beyond just being himself no matter the role.

He’s is by far the weakest link in the production.

“Thor: Ragnarok” is packed from the opening sequence to the secret scene credits at the end.

Waititi manages to dodge and

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ weave his way from moments of high impact action to quieter moments that bank as much on laughs as landed punches. It would have been easy for all these elements to crash together but Waititi moves through the mirth and mayhem with great skill.

Seeing “Thor: Ragnarok” is like riding the world’s fastest and tallest roller coaster that keeps looping through a funhouse. That’s a ride not to be missed.

(PG-13, 3 ½ of 4 stars, 2 hr. 15 min.)

– Rick Bentley, Tribune News Service

‘Bad Moms Christmas’ In “A Bad Moms Christmas,” it’s double the moms, double the bad.

Last time around, a year and change ago, the “Bad Moms” were just a trio of Wine Moms — Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell) and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) — letting loose with some shots while letting go of perfectionism.

Now their moms — Ruth (Christine Baranski), Sandy (Cheryl Hines) and Isis (Susan Sarandon) — are in town for the holidays, and we’ve got a veritable cornucopia of naughty mommies.

“Bad Moms”: now with more emotional manipulation.

One has to wonder if co-writers and co-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have ever even met human women. These characters are cartoonish campy drag personae of women, categorized by their attributes, like Santa’s reindeer or the Smurfs: Stressy, Crazy, Slutty, Critical, Clingy and Drifter.

Kunis stars as Amy, always harried, always “busy.” She’s divorced with a couple of kids (Oona Laurence and Emjay Anthony) whom she warily apprises, as if she’s not quite sure who they are or why they’re in her house. She shares the same chemistry with Baranski and Peter Gallagher, who play her parents, treating them like a couple of wayward strangers.

With her gal pals, it’s all forced fun, loud laughing, cheers-ing and declarations of “let’s take back Christmas!”

When the “twerking on Santa” sequence is over within the first 10 minutes, the film is adrift, filled with so much tedious male stripper filler material. It’s the “Bad Moms” Meet “Magic Mike” Holiday Extravaganza, only with truly ghastly dancing.

“A Bad Moms Christmas” is a poorly gift-wrapped Pinterest fail of a movie. The Scotch tape in the equation, bravely straining to hold things together, are the emphatic line deliveries, made to trick us into thinking lines that are not jokes are, actually, jokes. The bows and trim, attempting to distract from obvious seams, are the

endless slow-motion montages of mayhem set to pop tunes.

Baranski is wonderfully sharp as the monstrous Type A 1 percenter Ruth, and she does get a few amazing lines (“those ornaments are from the Titanic! That ice is from the moon! Moon ice!” she shrieks, as she and her daughter symbolically tussle over a Christmas tree).

Hines is also delightfully surreal as the overprotective Sandy.

What’s offensive about “A Bad Moms Christmas” (and “Bad Moms”) is just how shoddily made it is. Female audiences deserve better movies than this. Furthermore, it positions the enemies of moms as other moms — not the rigidly gendered social structures and expectations that demand women do the majority of the domestic and emotional labor.

Rather than men or money being the enemy, it’s other women, and that’s not fair. Here’s to hoping for “A Bad Moms Revolution” as the final installment.

(R, 1½ of 4 stars, 1 hr. 44 min.)

– Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service

‘ Goodbye Christopher Robin’ What Charles Dickens was to Ebenezer Scrooge, what J.M. Barrie was to Peter Pan, the English author A.A. Milne was to Christopher Robin. Each writer published popular tales of iconic characters, earning roaring applause and trainloads of money. “Goodbye Christopher Robin” digs into the origins and consequences of Milne’s mythic Winnie-the-Pooh stories in ways that are charming and ultimately poignant.

Creating a character permanently engraved in our collective memories might seem like a writer’s dream come true, but for the Milne family, it came at a cost.

Unlike Scrooge and Peter Pan, Christopher Robin Milne was a real person.

This British period film’s deeply personal look into the origins of the small young boy in the Hundred Acre Wood offers childish joys shadowed by tragedy. If you’re expecting a lighter-than-air Pooh spinoff, the opening should get you to pack away your childish fantasies.

As we watch grisly nighttime combat during World War I, A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) comes of age in unrelating hell. The film follows him through the first third of the 20th century as he wrestles with the psychological horrors of war, what was then called shell shock and now known as post traumatic stress.

Transformed by the war, he re-enters a London social life of moneyed self-indulgence into which he no longer fits. A playwright of some acclaim, he moves his wife and son to the English

countryside. While taking a walk in the woods with son Christopher (played at this age by the adorable Will Tilston), inspiration for a trifle of a story to entertain the youngster strikes like lightning.

He recruits a friend to add illustrations of a boy and his toy animals and begins discussing the best approach for a story that can lift Britain’s morale after the war.

“Are you writing a book?”

Christopher asks. “I thought we were just having fun.” “We’re writing a book and we’re having fun,” his father replies. “I didn’t know you could do both at the same time,” Christopher replies, foreshadowing the stormy weather brewing.

The small book surpasses the wildest expectations, spawns three sequels and becomes a global brand. Christopher’s father is elbowed aside by the adoring public, with “the real Christopher Robin” becoming the focus of all the attention. “He must be the happiest boy on earth,” one onlooker sighs.

Of course, the moral of the film is that fame and success can extract a huge price. It was impossible for the Milne family to find privacy. Every major player here to some degree suffers the burden of people’s expectations, but none so much as Christopher.

“Goodbye Christopher Robin” is a film with a good supply of heart, plucking our emotional strings through the essential sweetness of the story and its darker elements of conflict. It’s a fresh footnote to the story that may change hearts and minds about the cherished character.

(PG, 3 of 4 stars, 1 hr. 47 min.)

– Colin Covert, Star Tribune

‘LBJ’ Director Rob Reiner’s “LBJ,” starring Woody Harrelson facially encased in latex and makeup best categorized as a good try, arrives in theaters a year after its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and 16 months after “All the Way” (Bryan Cranston reprising his juicy Tony Award-winning performance) debuted on HBO. The timing puts this latest LBJ screen portrait at a disadvantage.

It’s a passably engaging biopic focusing on a few short and hugely eventful years in the life of the 36th U.S. president. But it wouldn’t raise questions about Harrelson’s prostheses and makeup, for starters, if the drama carried more urgency.

HBO’s “All the Way” began with Johnson’s momentous Nov. 27, 1963, address to Congress, five days after the JFK assassination.

“LBJ” uses that speech, part eulogy and part declaration of civil rights principles, as a climax, not a prologue. The script by Joey Hartstone returns to the assassination

at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, over and over, as a motif, while focusing on Johnson’s vice presidency under Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan, all lockjaw vowel sounds, every second). The film’s especially harsh in its portrayal of attorney general Robert F. Kennedy (Michael Stahl-David) as a steely weasel of an operator, initially uncomprehending of Johnson’s usefulness.

Here’s what you don’t get in “LBJ.” You don’t get any conspiracy theories regarding the assassination. You don’t get more than a muttered sentence or two about the war in Vietnam (Johnson’s ultimate political undoing).

What you get is a straightfoward, frustratingly mild portrait of a big man who, in “Hamilton”-speak, wanted to be in the room where it happened, but who really just wanted to be loved and respected.

The dialogue frequently falls out of the mouths of the actors like blocks of wooden irony. Decked out in the requisite lobe job, hairline and horn rims, Harrelson valiantly creates a performance halfway between impersonation and suggestion. He’s often touching, and he clearly enjoys the ribald side of Johnson. Johnson was, in his own words, the only politician in Washington fluent in the languages of both Kennedy and Dixiecrat. Richard Jenkins sidles up to the role of Johnson’s longtime crony, Democratic U.S. Sen. (and former governor) Richard Russell of Georgia. “LBJ” uses their evolving relationship for a good deal of screenwriter acreage, with Johnson trying to drag Russell and his segregation-minded constituents into the 1960s and a more equal society.

It’s fun to watch Jenkins and Harrelson lock horns over drinks and dinner and good ol’ boy conversation. But it’s unmistakable: Jenkins (though a little light and wobbly on the dialect) relaxes into an easy-breathing performance.

Harrelson never quite gets there; he’s locked inside a second-rate makeup job, and all too aware of expectations involving the portrayal of an extremely famous figure.

(R, 2 of 4 stars, 1 hr. 38 min.)

– Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

‘Jigsaw’ The “Saw” series has lost some teeth (so to speak) since the first film slashed its way into horror history in 2004. Blame a succession of convoluted sequels, which compensated for a repetitive “bad folks stuck in elaborate torture chambers” formula by venturing outside the slaughterhouse to pad out the backstory of the maniacs behind the murders.

After a seven-year layoff, the eighth “Saw” movie, “Jigsaw,” is meant to be a fresh start — though not until a last-minute twist does

it became clear what sets this entry apart. Until then, the picture looks very familiar, jumping between scenes of ordinary people in a deadly maze and scenes of cops trying to figure out who’s scattering corpses around their city.

Directors Michael and Peter Spierig are confident filmmakers, and they build suspense from the sequences where victims are goaded into playing the villain’s no-win games. The raison d’être for any “Saw” will always be the clever traps, which here include a chain that pulls prisoners toward a buzzsaw-wall and a silo that fills first with grain and then with various sharp implements.

But while Callum Keith Rennie and Matt Passmore give polished performances as the detective and forensic scientist working the case, the tension’s broken every time the Spierigs cut away from where the action is. That preoccupation with marginalia is what led the series to flag a decade ago.

(R, 1 of 4 stars, 1 hr. 32 min.)

– Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times

‘Let There Be Light’ For its intended audience, “Let There Be Light” should prove an involving bonanza of conservative, Christian-centric ideals, mores and speechifying. For others, this often heavy-handed family affair, executive produced by Fox News’ Sean Hannity (who also appears), will likely be a nonstarter.

Director-star Kevin Sorbo brings puckish charm and credible warmth to his role as best-selling author Sol Harkens, a hard-partying New Yorker and celebrity atheist who split from devout wife Katy (real-life spouse Sam Sorbo, who co-wrote with Dan Gordon) after the death of their young son, Davey.

But when a car crash leaves Sol clinically dead for four minutes, he has a heavenly encounter with Davey, whose haunting message is “Let there be light.” This drives Sol back toward his faith, into the arms of Katy and their surviving sons (Braeden and Shane Sorbo, Kevin and Sam’s actual kids), and inspires a unique Christmas Eve light show with global reach. Unfortunately, another grave challenge awaits the Harkenses.

Despite frequent self-seriousness, a melodramatic third act and a seeming fixation with Islamic State, this unevenly acted, Alabama-shot film is not without its stabs at humor. That is, if you’re amused by Sol’s crass, foppish agent (Daniel Roebuck); a mobster-turned-pastor (Michael Franzese) who says “bada bing”; or a sideways swipe at Bill Maher’s height.

(PG-13, 1½ of 4 stars, 1 hr. 41 min.)

– Gary Goldstein, M Los Angeles Times 1

OBITUARIES

Decatur Herald & Review

Taylor

DEATHS LISTED ‌ URRUS, Thomas M., Forsyth B DAVENPORT, Jerry Allen, Forsyth FOMBELLE, Patricia E., Decatur FORD, Noemi Josefa, Decatur GOLDEN, Derimus, Decatur GREENSLATE, Donald Smith, Lincoln HARDING, Robert, Decatur HOLLINGSWORTH, Janet, Arthur

KARLOSKI, Annalee, Decatur McPHEETERS, Judy L., Sullivan SHEETS, Roberta Elaine “Birdie,” Mount Zion TAYLOR, Steve “Unkie,” Decatur THOMPSON, Chester Francis, Shelbyville TOMLINSON, Sandra K., Macon

Karloski

DECATUR — Annalee Karloski ‌ passed away peacefully at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, IL on Monday, Oct 30 2017 after a short visit with her family. She was 89 years old. She was a lifelong resident of Decatur born on January 8, 1928 to Edward J. and Mary E. Gray. She is survived by her beloved husband of 69 years, Walter W. Karloski, son Daniel (Susan) Karloski of Pearland, TX, daughters Kathryn (Stephen) Gannaway of Joliet, IL, JoAnn (Thomas) Krueger of Sturgeon Bay, WI, Jennifer (Joe) Herl of Seward, NE, her grandchildren Amy Gannaway (Bruce Broker) of Madison, WI, Zachary (fiancé Roxanne Parker) Gannaway of Chicago, IL, Raymond (Jenny) Krueger of Sturgeon Bay, WI, Hannah (Steven) Andrews of Stewartville, MN, Juliana Karloski and Matthew Karloski of Pearland, TX and Anna and Mary Herl of Seward, NE. Her great-grand children Tori, Tobin, Lydia, Ruth, John, Talia, and Eliana. Her sister Bonnie Griffin (Ray Tebussek, deceased and Al Griffin, deceased) of Cedar Rapids, IA, sisters-inlaw Norma Karloski of Decatur, and Ruth Karloski of Carlinville, IL. She is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her infant grandson Edward Karloski, her parents, her brothers Albert (Doris), Carl, and Earl (Eileen), sisters Dorothy (Victor) Ostrander, May (Robert) Colbeck, Minnie, Esther (William) Mueller, Vivian (Arvis) Gadberry, and Alma (Howard) Miller, her father and mother-in-law, Herman and Mamie Karloski, her brother-in-law Robert Karloski, and sister-in-law Helen (Melvin) Thomas.

Annalee graduated from Decatur High School and attended the University of Illinois before her marriage to Walter in 1948.

Later she resumed her education and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Millikin University. She taught in the Decatur Public Schools for 20 years at Excelsior and Baum schools.

She was an active member at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church serving her church as Women’s Bible Class leader, Mt. Calvary Ladies Guild, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, choir member, Sunday School and VBS teacher and in many other ways as God enabled her.

She loved to read, take care of her yard, knit, sew, do woodworking, cook, and keep up with all of her large extended family.

Annalee was a tireless worker for her family and church and will be missed by all, but we have much joy that she is now with our Lord in heaven.

Funeral services will be 12:00 noon Saturday, November 4, at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church with visitation 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, November 3 at Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home, Decatur and one hour prior to service time on Saturday at the church. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, IL. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church.

Condolences may be made to the family at www.brintlingerandearl.com

Golden

‌ ECATUR — Derimus Golden, 44, D of Decatur departed this life on Tuesday, October 24, 2017. Services: 12:00 Noon Saturday, November 4, 2017 12:00 Noon at Community Temple Church of God in Christ with visitation one hour before service. Burial: Greenwood Cemetery. Professional Services entrusted to Walker Funeral Service. Please visit www.walkerfs. com for complete obituary.

Sheets

‌MOUNT ZION — Roberta (Birdie) Elaine Sheets, 81, of Mt. Zion passed away Sunday, October 29, at Heritage Health.

A Memorial Visitation will be held from 11:00 AM—1:00 PM, Saturday, November 4, at Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home, Cerro Gordo. Memorials in Roberta’s honor may be made to Macon Resources, American Heart Association, Barnes Jewish Hospital or Mayo Clinic.

Roberta was born March 18, 1936 in Cisco, IL, the daughter of Fred and Lena (Himmelbauer) Benjamin. She married Leroy Sheets on February 12, 1955 in Oakley, IL. He preceded her in death on December 26, 2007.

She is survived by her children Terri (Jeff) Kearney of Assumption, Tamara Kemp (fiancé Lynn Larimore) of Farmer City, and Cody (Laurie) Sheets of Oakley; grandchildren, Wren (Matt) Bradley, Cody Wade (Kayla) Sheets, Katlyn Kearney, Brooke (Chad) LaVarier, Turner Chase Kemp; step-grandchild, Kandice Cox; great grandchildren Lennon LaVarier, Lillian Bradley, Brooklyn, Brynnan and Emerson Leroy Sheets; step-great-grandchildren Lynna Kearney and Layton Cox; sister Rosemary (Al) Williams of McLeansboro ; and many nieces and nephews.

Roberta was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and one sister.

Her family was always first, she always gave them all she had.

She enjoyed cooking, gardening, sewing, crocheting, and working outdoors. Leroy and Birdie’s home never met a stranger. Anyone that visited was treated to a fresh cup of coffee and a hot meal any time of the day. We will miss her dearly. We would like to thank Heritage Health for all of their kindness and care of our mother.

Condolences and memories may be shared with the family in care of Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes at www.brintlingerandearl.com

FUNERALS PENDING ‌ REENSLATE, Donald Smith, 49, Lincoln, formerly of Vernon, Wisc., G died Monday (Oct. 30, 2017). Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln.

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HARDING, Robert, 79, Decatur, died Tuesday (Oct. 31, 2017). Moran & Goebel Funeral Home.

‌DECATUR — Steve “Unkie” Taylor, 58, of Decatur passed away on Sunday, October 29, 2017 in his home.

A graveside service to celebrate and honor Steve’s life will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, 2017 at Lester Barnett Cemetery, Decatur, IL. Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home North Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements. Memorials can be made to the Cancer Care Specialists of Central Illinois.

Phillip Steven Taylor was born on September 12, 1959 in Macon County, Illinois the son of Phillip Nolan and Peggy E. (Luttrell) Taylor. Steve worked for Mueller Company, PPG and Securitas for Ameren over the years. Most of all Steve loved doing his crafts and going to set up at shows. This love of crafts led to a family business which included both Grandma’s Attic and Wicks & Gifts.

Steve is survived by his sister: Sherry Bolin and her husband Steve of Decatur, IL; nieces: Jessie Ramsey and her husband Jermey of Arlington, TN, Ashley Bolin and her fiancé Bryson Kessinger of Decatur, IL and Rachel Gundy of Decatur, IL; great niece: Kylie Ramsey.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at www. dawson-wikoff.com.

Tomlinson

‌MACON — Sandra K. Tomlinson, 71, of Macon, IL passed away on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at Decatur Memorial Hospital.

A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 3, 2017 at Holy Family Catholic Church.

She will be laid to rest at South Macon Township Cemetery. Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Macon is assisting the family with the arrangements. Memorials can be made to the family.

Sandra was born on April 17, 1946 in Taylorville, IL the daughter of John H. and Margaret (Osborn) Speagle.

Sandra worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse, a job she loved, at many locations in the Macon County area but the majority of her time was spent at the Eastern Star Home of Macon as the ADON before her retirement on December 31, 2016. She married James Tomlinson and were together for over 50 years. Sandra was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church. In her spare time she enjoyed traveling, reading and watching NASCAR. Surviving is her husband, James of Macon; children: Charles C. Hunt; James F. Tomlinson, Jr.; LaVelle D. (Tracie) Hunt; Kristi K. (James) Curry; Randolph A. (Wendy) Tomlinson; sisters: Gloria Shadowens, Myrna (Joe) Byers and Sharon Cagle; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers: LeDon, John and Curtis, four brother-in-laws, two sister-in-laws, mother-in-law: Lois C. Tomlinson; father-in-law: John B. Tomlinson.

A special thank you to the doctor’s, nurses and the staff of Decatur Memorial Hospital, ICU for their loving care.

NPR news chief Oreskes ousted ‌NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Oreskes was ousted Wednesday as National Public Radio’s news chief following accusations by two women that he suddenly kissed them while they were discussing job prospects when he was Washington bureau chief at The New York Times in the 1990s.

Oreskes, who had been placed on leave by NPR following Tuesday’s report in the Washington Post on the harassment allegations, said that he was deeply sorry to the people he hurt.

“My behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility,” he said.

Jarl Mohn, NPR’s president and CEO, said that he had asked for and accepted Oreskes’ resignation. Chris Turpin, NPR’s vice president of news programming and operations, was appointed temporary leader of the radio network’s newsroom.

The Post’s story said the two women, who talked to the newspaper on condition of anonymity, had reported Oreskes’ behavior to NPR last month.

CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW‌

Tanner Hake is Dwayne and Hope Klessig is Doralee Rhodes in ‘9 to 5: The Musical.’

“9 to 5”

Hollingsworth

‌ RTHUR — Janet Hollingsworth, 83, of Arthur, passed away on A Monday, October 30, 2017 at Mason Point, Sullivan.

Private family graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 4, 2017 at the Bourbon Cemetery with Rev. John Stewart officiating. Shrader Funeral Home, Arthur, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Janet was born May 13, 1934 in Lodi, Ohio, the daughter of Otis and Janet Watson Tilden. She married Merle L. Hollingsworth in Cayuga, Indiana, in February, 1961; he preceded her in death on May 2, 2015.

She is survived by 2 sons, David O. (Susan) Hollingsworth of Cerro Gordo; Scott (Angie) Hollingsworth of Arthur; 5 grandchildren, Matt (Holly) Hollingsworth of St. Louis, Missouri; Diann (Scott) Durbin of Oakley; Brittanie (Nic) Lough of Tuscola; Macy and Jake Hollingsworth of Arthur; and 6 great grandchildren.

The family would like to give thanks to the nurses, aids, and staff at Mason Point.

Memorials may be given to Mason Point, One Masonic Way, Sullivan, IL 61951.

Online condolences to the family may be sent to www.hilligossshraderfh.com.

McPheeters

‌SULLIVAN — Judy L. McPheeters, 71, of Sullivan, died 11:10 a.m.

Monday, October 30, 2017 in HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital, Decatur.

Graveside memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Greenhill Cemetery. Visitation will from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Friday at the Reed Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Decatur Obedience Training Club, 130 Warren St., Warrensburg, IL 62573. View full obituary and send online condolences to the family at reedfuneralhome.net.

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According to Robson, Millikin has a large group of talented females in the School of Theater and Dance. “To tell a story about strong women has been fun,” he said. “Women are often sidelined or they are there as arm candy for the man.”

The actors are preparing to graduate from Millikin, taking what they’ve learned from the school, life lessons and “9 to 5.”

What will they do differently than other women in their field?

“Never be silent,” Barros said.

The women in the play go through changes and find friendships along the way, something the actors find necessary not only for their careers but for themselves. “They find a community of women to back them up,” Klessig said.

“There is so much strength within yourself that you don’t realize is there,” Williams said.

harassment, to watch a play about not feeling like they are being listened to by their bosses?

What is it like for a woman to be silenced?”

Directors keep the humor of the play. “It’s fun, but it has a point of view,” Robson said. “It had a point of view in 1980 when the movie came out and in 2008 when the Broadway production came out.”

Hope Klessig, who plays Doralee, believes the goal for the cast is to tell the story and the seriousness, but with the comedic tones and lines. “People can still see the truth in it,” Klessig said.

“It’s iconic, but there’s a lot of heart in it,” said Hannah Williams, who plays Judy. “We are trying to find the treat underneath it.” dbeckett@herald-review.com | More than a year ago, Rob- (217) 421-6983 son was studying scripts for upcoming productions. He thought “9 to 5” was a fun period play. He soon decided TOYOTA/SCION the story was current. “This is where we are,” he said. “It’s a world that isn’t nearly as difSales Associate ferent as we think it is.”

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FUNERALS TODAY ‌ URRUS, Thomas M., 68, Arenzville, 11 a.m. in Grace B United Methodist Church, Jacksonville.

DAVENPORT, Jerry Allen, 70, Forsyth, 10 a.m. in Calvert Funeral Home, Clinton.

Following the Post report, NPR reported that Oreskes had been reprimanded after a separate incident in 2015 in which a female producer complained she was made to feel uncomfortable during a dinner when Oreskes talked about sex and asked about her personal life.

“Some have asked me if it took published news reports for us to take action,” Mohn said.

“The answer is that it did not.

We have been acting. Some of the steps we took were visible and others weren’t. We have a process in place and we followed that process.”

Mohn said he wouldn’t give more details on the case because the only way to encourage staff members to come forward with issues was to keep the process confidential.

Oreskes was a vice president and senior managing editor at The Associated Press from 2008 until he joined NPR in 2015. He held several jobs at The Times, whose spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said Tuesday that the news organization is looking into the case.

THOMPSON, Chester Francis, 91, Shelbyville, 11 a.m. in Howe and Yockey Funeral Home, Shelbyville.

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FOMBELLE, Patricia E., 72, Cobden, 7 p.m. in Rendleman & Hileman Funeral Home, Anna.

FORD, Noemi Josefa, 87, Decatur, formerly of Tampa, Fla., 10 a.m. in Boza & Roel Funeral Home, Tampa, Fla.

Births Decatur Memorial‌ AJURIA, Carlos and Aileen Sandoval, Decatur, boy, Oct. 30.

FRYDENGER, Jordan Duane and Meganne (Holt), Decatur, girl, Oct. 30.

MARLER, Amy Marie, Decatur, boy, Oct. 30.

WALKER, Charles David and Lisa Marie Dent, Clinton, girl, Oct. 31.

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CALENDAR This week’s best bets ‌SATURDAY, NOV. 4

Moscow Ballet “Great Russian Nutcracker,” 2 and 7:30 p.m., Millikin University Kirkland Fine Arts Center. $10-$65.

WHAT’S AHEAD

SUNDAY, NOV. 5

“Blue Horses,” 1 p.m., Millikin University Kaeuper Hall Perkinson Music Center. $4-$6.

TUESDAY, NOV. 7

Gregory Maguire, author, 7 p.m., Millikin University Kirkland Fine Arts Center. Free.

EVENTS

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Veterans Day celebration, 11 a.m.

Thursday, Nov. 9, Richland Community College. ‌THURSDAY, NOV. 9 Veterans Day celebration, 11 a.m., Richland Community College.

FRIDAY, NOV. 10 “9 to 5 The Musical,” 7:30 p.m., Millikin University Albert Taylor Theatre. $16-$18.

SATURDAY, NOV. 11 Bird of a feather hike, 10 a.m., Rock Springs Conservation Area. Free. Register.

SUNDAY, NOV. 12 “12 Angry Women,” 2:30 p.m., Monticello Theatre Association. $12.50.

MONDAY, NOV. 13 ARTini, 6 p.m., Paco’s Sol Bistro. $40-$45.

Live music, food, raffle, silent art auction, hand painted glasses.

TUESDAY, NOV. 14 Country line dance class, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus. $6.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15 November birthdays, noon, Decatur-Macon County Senior Center.

THURSDAY, NOV. 16 Blood drive, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Maroa-Forsyth High School.

FRIDAY, NOV. 17 A Golden Spike and a Silver Hammer- Riding the Rails with Barry Cloyd, 3 p.m., Decatur Public Library SATURDAY, NOV. 18 Turkey Trot, 8 a.m., Fairview Park. $16-$26.

SUNDAY, NOV. 19 Snake and turtle show, 2 p.m., Rock Springs Conservation Area. $2.

MONDAY, NOV. 20 Cards, 1 p.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center TUESDAY, NOV. 21 Wintertide by Opus 24, 7:30 p.m., St. Patrick Catholic Church. $5-$10.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22 Bake sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center

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SATURDAY, NOV. 18: Turkey Trot, 8 a.m., Fairview Park. $16-$26.

MEETINGS

Monday, Nov. 6: Barn Colony Artists, 7 p.m., Madden Arts Center. ‌TODAY Decatur Needle Arts Chapter of Embroiderer’s Guild of America, 6:30 p.m., Central Christian Church Room 207. Guests are welcome.

SATURDAY, NOV. 4 Forsyth American Legion Post 2008, 9 a.m., Forsyth Public Library.

MONDAY, NOV. 6 Barn Colony Artists, 7 p.m., Madden Arts Center. (217) 853-9608. Activities for Barn Colony members at their weekly meetings include: lectures, demonstrations, and instruction by professors, professional artists and area art teachers. We also have instruction by our own members. Visitors welcome.

TUESDAY, NOV. 7 Kiwanianne Club, 9:30 a.m., Hickory Point Golf Course Club House, Decatur.

Knit Nite, 7 p.m., Decatur Area Arts Council.

Arts Council membership is $35 per year. Free for members; $3 nonmembers. Junior high school age and older.

Noon Kiwanis, noon, Decatur Club.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8 Decatur Quilt Guild Day Meeting, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Soy Capital Bank. $20 per year.

Golden K Kiwanis Club, 9:30 a.m., Salvation Army.

Staley’s/Tate & Lyle Retirees, 11:30 a.m., Decatur DAV Club.

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Second Saturday Book Sale, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, Decatur Public Library 2nd Floor Book Sale Room. Proceeds support the Library and local literacy programs. Sale moved up one week due to Veteran’s Day.

‌TODAY ETC. Adult Coloring Night: De-Stress and Express, 5 to 7 p.m., Decatur Public Library Coloring Room.

Coloring pages, supplies, background music and light refreshments provided.

Call to Duty: The EIU Wind Symphony and Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., Doudna Fine Arts Center, Dvorak Concert Hall, Charleston. $5-$13.

Dealing With Addiction, 5:45 to 7:30 p.m., Decatur Public Library. Speakers from the Tyler Yount Foundation and the Macon County At Risk Services will be leading a discussion on the consequences of addiction and the services offered by At Risk Services. Not dealing with addiction? Come find out what your community is doing about this growing problem.

Kitchen Warriors, 6 p.m., Richland Community College. $30. This culinary competition begins with a lineup of local chefs competing with their signature dishes. The top two chefs, whose dishes are judged to be the best, will then battle in a head to head competition. With just 30 minutes to prepare their dishes in front of the audience, the competition is sure to get heated. Their culinary masterpieces will be judged and there can be only one winner. A cash bar will be available. Casual dress.

All proceeds benefit the Culinary Arts Institute at Richland Community College.

Mount Zion Community Food Drive, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mount Zion Lutheran Church. (217) 4334785. Donations of nonperishable food items, paper products, personal care supplies and monetary gifts help stock food pantries at Northeast Community Fund and the Mount Zion United Methodist Church.

Staley Striders Cross Country Running Club, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m., Fairview Park Tennis Complex. $22-$25. For ages 6 to 18.

StoryTime, 10 a.m., Mount Zion District Library.

(217) 864-3622. For ages 3 to 5 with their caregiver. Stories, crafts and more. Register.

MUSIC Wind Symphony and Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., Eastern Illinois University Dvorak concert hall. $5-$13.

NIGHT LIFE Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m., Donnies. Sign up starts around 9 p.m.

Piz-zazz Band 7 p.m., VFW Post 99. $5.

Stand Up and Laugh: Comedy DVD Taping for Netflix: 7 p.m., Infusion. $12. Featuring Comedians Seen on hit comedy stand-up shows such as…BET Comic View, Showtime, Comedy Central, HBO Def Comedy Jam, more.

SENIORS Adult Coloring, 9 a.m. to noon, Decatur-Macon County Senior Center. Class is open to persons 55 years of age and older. All materials provided or you can bring your own.

Cards: 1 p.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center.

Peace Meal Lunch, noon to 12:30 p.m., LifeSpan Center, Charleston. Senior Nutrition Program. Illinois Link accepted. Reservations. Monday meals must be reserved by the Thursday before. $6; $3.50 age 60 and older.

Watercolor Painting Class, 9 to 11 a.m., Johns Hill Center. $25 per quarter. Taught by Don Gruber,

artist and owner of Moon Dog Studio.

ETC. 3D Animal Archery, 2 to 4 p.m., Rock Springs Conservation Area Homestead Prairie Farm. $7.

Deer, bears, turkey and more. equipment provided. For ages 10 and older. Register.

Fletcher Park Splashpad Fundraiser, 6 to 11 p.m., Mt. Zion Convention Center. $100 per couple. Tickets include: 1 raffle ticket and dinner for 2 adults. $1,000 VIP Table package includes: 5 raffle tickets, VIP table bar service (no waiting in line), choose & decorate your VIP table before the event (contest for best table decor). 50/50 raffles, Basket raffles, music & dancing, Angelos Catering, & cash bar.

Veterans Parade, 11 a.m., downtown Argenta.

(217) 433-9860. Veterans and spouses eat free at the Old Grade School.

Guy Fraker, author, 1:30 p.m., Mount Pulaski Courthouse. New book, “A Guide to A. Lincoln’s 8th Judicial Circuit.” Copies will be available for sale and signing.

Kard Krazy Sports Cards Show, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Cross County Mall, Mattoon.

Odd Market Art Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuscola Community Building. Proceeds from art sales benefit Hospice Hearts. Food proceeds will benefit Douglas County Museum.

Second Saturday Book Sale, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Decatur Public Library 2nd Floor Book Sale Room. Proceeds support the Library and local literacy programs.

Super Saturday Recess, 10 a.m. to noon, DISC. $4 per child; free for members. For youth ages 4 to 11, inflatables, scooters, basketball, tumbling, rock wall.

Take a dip, 10 to 11 a.m., Mount Zion District Library. Make and taste healthy holiday dips for ages 7 and older. Register.

The Sangamon River Watershed Celebration, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Macon County Extension Office and National Sequestration Education Building, Richland Community College. (217) 877-5640. $20 for afternoon, $35 for afternoon and evening. “One River Unites Us All the Sangamon Watershed Celebration.” Free morning events, booths, displays and activities for kids from 9 a.m. to noon. Evening reception at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m., and a presentation of “Floating Through Time: The Sangamon River” from keynote speaker Mike Wiant, Illinois State Museum. Tim Grimm concert.

Throttle Time, 8:30 a.m. to 3:10 p.m., Monticello Railway Museum. $150. You can be the engineer of the train. Must be at least 18.

Tour of Monte Rosa, 2 to 3 p.m., Decatur Public Library. Tour of Monte Rosa with Bruce Nims and Jo Carter. Monte Rosa in Western Europe, comprising 10 peaks over 4,000 meters in height, in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy.

Turkey Supper and Bazaar, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Cisco Center. Dinner $12.50 adult. The meal consists of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn or green beans, cranberries, rolls & drink.

MUSIC Heather and Marty, 7 p.m., Olde Country Church Opry, Findlay. (217) 756-8852. Country music.

Snacks and soft drinks available. Donations.

NIGHT LIFE Comedy show, 6:30 p.m., Lions Club Community Center, Bement. $20. Doors open at 6:30 and the show starts at 8 p.m. The featured comedians are Tim Cavanagh and Mike Mercury.

Docta LD, 9 p.m., Curly’s. Karaoke / DJ. West End Boogie, 4 to 8 p.m., Feeling Lucky Lounge.

Saturday. (217) 424-2900. Upstairs Gallery: Doug Bergeron photography for November. History room 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Historical pictures and memorabilia on local subjects, including Fairview Park bears, Carnegie Library, South Side County Club and history of Coca-Cola Bottling in Decatur. A vintage baseball display will be in front of History Room.

Flourishes Gallery and Studios, downtown Shelbyville. (217) 827-5690. Hours by appointment.

Artist Annette Russo titled “Reigning Cats and Dogs” in the gallery. Studio D will display the “A Tribute to Sue McConnell.” The artwork Carol Kessler will be featured in the Beaux Arts Ballroom along with the Illinois Student Art Association. The exhibits will be displayed until Jan. 13.

Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Decatur, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday. (217) 422-1509. Jessica Disbrow watercolors for November. First Friday Gallery 5 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3.

Lincoln Art Institute, Lincoln. (217) 651-8355.

Hours by appointment. Holiday Show and sale until Dec. 17.

Macon County History Museum and Prairie Village, Decatur. 1 to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Adults, $2; ages 12 and younger, $1. Children free with paid adults (per child) on Wednesday.

(217) 422-4919. Local sports teams and professional sports locals.

Madden Arts Center, Decatur, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. (217) 423-3189. Anne Lloyd Gallery: Minnesota artist Kellie Rae Theiss paintings “Love of Nature.” The First Friday Gallery Walk will be 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3. The third floor of the arts center will feature “Our Voice

FRIDAY, NOV. 3 ETC. Election 2018 spaghetti supper, 5 p.m., Sullivan American Legion, Sullivan. $7 adults, free for veterans and children younger than 12. Glenn Poshard, Julie Curry, Mike Frerichs, Bill Houlihan, Chad Beckett, Kevin Gaither, Carl Spoerer, Antony March.

First Friday Gallery Walk, 5 to 7:30 p.m., downtown Decatur. Love of Nature by Kellie Rae Theiss. “Our Voice through Art” student exhibit. An art program for high school students and adults with special needs. Artist Talk 6 pm. Musicians: The Rock Springs Dulcimer Group. Sydney Doherty, figural paintings, Lea Cameron, abstract paintings.

Kard Krazy Sports Cards Show, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Cross County Mall, Mattoon.

Voice Through Art Show, 5 to 7 p.m., Decatur Area Arts Council, 3rd floor gallery. An Evening Art Program for teens and adults with disabilities.

MUSIC Eric Gordon, 7 p.m., Bement Country Opry. (217) 377-0550. $10. Dinner at 5 p.m. $9; show starts at 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.

Midwest Trombone Euphonium Conference: 7:30 p.m., Doudna Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall, Charleston. Opening Night Artists Reception and Recital Recital Hall and Concourse Reception. EIU Tuba/Euphonium/Trombone Ensembles Intermission I: Musical Interlude (Zugger Trio). Artist Recital: Ben Pierce, euphonium and Yoko Yamada, piano. Intermission II: Musical Interlude (Zugger Trio). Recital: Gerry Pagano, bass and contrabass trombone, and Yoko Yamada, piano. Late night jazz EIU Crossbones (Jazz Trombone Quintet and Rhythm), Austin Seybert and Ben Carrasquillo Jazz Duo. NIGHT LIFE Docta LD, 9 p.m., Curly’s. Karaoke / DJ. ON STAGE “Lizzie,” 7:30 p.m., Millikin University Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre. $12. On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter, Lizzie Borden, was the prime suspect.

SENIORS Adult Coloring, 9 a.m. to noon, Decatur-Macon County Senior Center. Class is open to persons 55 years of age and older. All materials provided or you can bring your own.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center.

Fitness Class, 10 a.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center.

Peace Meal Lunch, noon to 12:30 p.m., LifeSpan Center, Charleston. Reservations. $6; $3.50 age 60 and older. Senior Nutrition Program. Illinois Link accepted.

Rules of the Road Drivers Review, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Decatur-Macon County Senior Center.

SATURDAY, NOV. 4

ON STAGE “Blue Horses,” 1 p.m., Millikin University Kaeupper Hall, Perkinson Music Center. $4-6. On a summer evening four young people don’t want to go home just yet. One invents a game of “wish upon a star” which demands that each friend tell a life story in which the others can take roles and help the central characters achieve their goals. Each person’s story helps him or understand and assist one another in the trials and tribulations of grow up, gaining self-confidence and making friends.

“Lizzie,” 7:30 p.m., Millikin University Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre. $12. On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter, Lizzie Borden, was the prime suspect.

“Moscow Ballet: The Great Russian Nutcracker,” 2 and 7:30 p.m., Kirkland Fine Arts Center, Millikin University. (217) 424-6318. $10-$65. Christmas classic with hand-selected area young dancers, a local children’s choir, and a full musical accompaniment from the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra.

SUNDAY, NOV. 5 ETC. Conservation Area Fall Tours, 2 to 4 p.m., Rock Springs Nature Center. (217) 423-7708. Ride with the naturalist at Rock Springs Conservation Area and see some of Macon County’s hidden gems. Look for wildlife and learn about ongoing restoration efforts. All ages welcome. Register.

Kard Krazy Sports Cards Show, noon to 5 p.m., Cross County Mall, Mattoon.

Museum Tour, 12:30 to 4 p.m., Teutopolis Monastery Museum. $5; $1 children.

Throttle Time, 8:30 a.m. to 3:10 p.m., Monticello Railway Museum. $150. You can be the engineer of the train. Must be at least 18.

NIGHT LIFE Nigel Mack and the blue attack, 3 to 6 p.m., Pop’s Place.

ON STAGE “Blue Horses,” 1 p.m., Millikin University Kaeupper Hall, Perkinson Music Center. $4-6. On a summer evening four young people don’t want to go home just yet. Each person’s story helps him or understand and assist one another in the trials and tribulations of grow up, gaining self-confidence and making friends.

“Lizzie,” 2 p.m., Millikin University Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre. $12. On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter, Lizzie Borden, was the prime suspect.

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EXHIBITS ‌African-American Cultural and Genealogical Society, Decatur. 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. $.50-$2, members free. (217) 429-7458.

Bicentennial Art Center, Paris. 63rd Annual Fall Show Juried Exhibition through Nov. 10.

Blue Connection, 117 N. Water St. (217) 4280112. Paintings of Millikin art students Sydney Doherty and Lea Cameron. Both artists will be available during the First Friday Gallery Walk at 6 p.m. Nov. 3.

Chevrolet Hall of Fame Museum, Decatur.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Ages 13 and older, $9; ages 3-12, $3. (217) 791-5793.

Decatur Airport Gallery, 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sue Watts painting for November.

Decatur Public Library, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and

Through Art,” an art program for young adults with disabilities.

Perkinson Art Center, Kirkland Fine Arts Center (Millikin University), Decatur, noon to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday. (217) 424-6318. Millikin Art Department and Center for Entrepreneurship high school art exhibition. Art work from local students until Nov. 18.

Rock Springs Nature Center, Decatur, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. (217) 423-4913.

North wing art gallery: work of the Barn Colony Artists. South gallery: David Castor photography.

Both exhibits will be on display until the end of the December.

Tarble Arts Center (Eastern Illinois University), Charleston, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 1 to M 1 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. (217) 581-2787.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Decatur Herald & Review

PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

By Dana Simpson

By Mort, Greg & Brian Walker

By Dean Young

GARFIELD

By Jim Davis

BORN LOSER

By Art and Chip Sansom

DILBERT

By Scott Adams

THE FAMILY CIRCUS

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

PICKLES

MUTTS

By Bil Keane ONE BIG HAPPY

By Rick Detorie

By Stephan Pastis

By Brian Crane

MARMADUKE

FRANK AND ERNEST

DECATUR, ILLINOIS Thursday, FEATURES D5 November 2, 2017 | D5

By Brad Anderson ZIGGY

By Tom Wilson

By Bob Thaves

By Patrick McDonnell

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By Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly

It is said that the least favorable time to go to the grocery store is when you’re hungry.

Ravenous people go off the list, act on impulse, are more susceptible to marketing and buy way too much. Tomorrow’s full moon in Taurus, the sign of appetites, will be a bad shopping day. Avoid it by eating well and then shopping well today.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 2).

Your desire to maximize your potential will be answered by a teacher and a path to doing just that. You’ll find new ways to express your feelings, work through your frustrations and make your joy contagious. There will be a favorable financial shift in 2018 after the spotlight swings to showcase your talent. Aries and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 40, 22, 28 and 35.

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

With so much going on in your life, it may be challenging to pick out which is the most relevant thing to discus with the different people with whom you’ll interact. Make a shrewd choice. There will be a prize for getting it right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

In order for someone to really understand you, they need a little context. Tell them where you’re coming from so that they can have a glimpse of who you were before this time you’re experiencing together.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Like Dorothy on the farm, you’ve the sneaking suspicion that there’s something better out there for you. Are you willing to follow the yellow brick road knowing that it’s going to lead you right back home?

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

The tension will rise. There’s more to gain; there’s more to lose. Then again, you never were in this for the easy glory. And there’s nothing that beats the confidence you get from having walked through the fire.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

The magic number will be, once again, three. You’ll need to try three times before you give up, include three examples to support your idea and work in groups of three wherever possible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

A longer story isn’t a better story. Too much information can dilute your purpose.

You’ll be remembered and respected for keeping things short and to the point.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You’ve been pursuing a goal for a while, and today your work will take a major turn toward completion. This home stretch of a project or working dynamic is an excellent time to focus on the purpose and meaning of it all.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

As of now, you’re probably still not sure what the best next step will be. Brainstorming with a pen and paper or conversing with trusted friends will be the

ideal way to begin forming your plan.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Formalities will get in the way of forming bonds. Wherever possible, use an easy, natural manner of being.

Forget the fussy extras that distract people from the main goal, which is to make a connection.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Dynamics aren’t just for musicians. Your attempts to change up the pace and volume at which you live your life will make things mighty interesting for you and yours.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You don’t have to always be the same person. Part of the fun of interacting with total strangers is that you can reinvent yourself on the spot and they won’t know the difference.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You’ll be happy with some parts of what you’re doing and disappointed with other parts. This is a process. Take the best; chuck the worst; and rework whatever you can to make it better.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Since “Friends,” David Schwimmer has been an animated giraffe in “Madagascar,” a film and Broadway director and the star of the television crime drama series “Feed the Beast.”

Schwimmer has his sun, moon and Venus all in Scorpio, indicating a deep soul, charisma and a talent for transformation that he applies in his role as an active director for an organization that helps women and children who have been victims of violent crime.

Holiday Mathis writes for Creators Syndicate

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D6 | Thursday, November 2, 2017

Third Reich dealer’s trove on display ‌GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss art museum on Wednesday showcased a new exhibit of artwork deemed “degenerate art” by the Nazis, drawn from a collection of some 1,500 works found hidden in the homes of German collector Cornelius Gurlitt five years ago.

The Bern Kunstmuseum exhibit features over 200 modern art pieces confiscated in a Nazi crackdown in the late 1930s against so-called “degenerate art” — deemed inferior because they were un-German, Jewish or Communist or, in the case of impressionist and other modernist works, didn’t employ traditionally realistic forms.

But the Nazis were all too happy to sell such works to help fund their war machine.

The art on display in Bern includes Expressionist and Constructivist paintings by artists such as Otto Dix and Franz Marc.

It is part of parallel exhibits linked to the Gurlitt collection, which came to light in 2012. His father, Hildebrand, was a leading art dealer in the Third Reich.

The other exhibit opens on Friday in Bonn, Germany, with a focus on art looted and stolen by the Nazis — much from Jews. That show includes works from masters including Claude Monet and Albrecht Durer that were hidden from public view for decades.

Authorities stumbled onto Gurlitt’s collection five years ago while investigating a tax case.

Cornelius Gurlitt, who died in 2014, had tucked away more than 1,200 works in his Munich apartment and another 250 or so in Salzburg, Austria. A will bequeathed the works to the Bern fine arts museum, but a German government-backed foundation has worked with it to ensure that any pieces looted from Jewish owners were returned to their heirs.

Experts initially identified more than 90 works that were likely looted by the Nazis, including pictures by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Rembrandt.

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appreciate and protect them,” she said. “I hope that my work reflects these statements, and that I am creating a stronger connection to nature and a sense for protecting it.”

November Art Exhibits‌

ANNE LLOYD GALLERY. Minnesota artis Kellie Rae Theiss paintings “Love of Nature” will be displayed in the Madden Arts Center throughout the month. The First Friday Gallery Walk will be 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3.

The third floor of the arts center will feature “Our Voice Through Art,” an art program for young adults with disabilities.

BICENTENNIAL ART CENTER. The Paris art center will display the 63rd Annual Fall Show Juried Exhibition until Nov. 10.

Beginning Nov. 17, “Works

by Paris Artist Millie Arp” will be featured. An open reception will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17. The work will be displayed until Dec. 29.

BLUE CONNECTION. The Millikin University’s student-run art gallery will feature the paintings of Millikin art students Sydney Doherty and Lea Cameron. Both artists will be available during the First Friday Gallery Walk at 6 p.m.

DECATUR AIRPORT GALLERY. The paintings of Sue Watts will be displayed at the Airport Gallery throughout November.

FLOURISHES GALLERY AND STUDIOS. The downtown Shelbyville gallery will feature exhibits from artist Annette Russo titled “Reigning Cats and Dogs” in the gallery. Studio D will display the “A Tribute to Sue McConnell.” The artwork Carol Kessler will be featured in the Beaux Arts Ballroom along with the Illinois Student Art Association. The exhibits will be displayed until Jan. 13.

For an appointment, call (217) 827-5690.

GALLERY 510. Jessica Disbrow’s watercolors will be featured at the Gallery 510 throughout November. She will be available during First Friday Gallery Walk, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3. An artist’s talk will be at 6:30 p.m.

GIERTZ GALLERY. Beginning Nov. 13, Parkland College Gallery will feature the sculp-

Kellie Rae Theiss painting ‘Tanger Nest’ will be displayed in the Anne Lloyd Gallery throughout November.

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‘Barn Swallow’ by Kellie Rae Theiss will be featured in the Anne Lloyd Gallery during November.

Kellie Rae Theiss’ painting ‘Barn Owl’ will be featured during the November exhibits. ture exhibit “2017 State of the Art: Ceramics Invitational.” A reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16.

The exhibit will be displayed until Feb. 3.

For more information, visit www.artgallery.parkland.edu.

HISTORY ROOM. Decatur Public Library’s local history room will feature historical pictures and memorabilia on local subjects, including Carnegie Library, South Side County Club, Decatur subways, remembering the Mule Barn and history of Coca-Cola Bottling in Decatur.

gallery as well as in the Gelvin Noel Annex and Light Court.

The exhibit will be displayed until Dec. 22.

LINCOLN ART INSTITUTE. The Lincoln Art Institute will display the the Holiday Show and Sale at the Lincoln Art Institute, 112 S. Mclean St. The exhibit will be available until Dec. 17.

Call (217) 651-8355 for an appointment.

PERKINSON ART GALLERY. Kirkland Fine Arts Center’s art gallery will feature the work of the Millikin Art Department and Center for Entrepreneurship high school art exhibition. Art work from local students will be on display until Nov. 18.

Beginning Nov. 27, Art Therapy student, Taryn Pepping will display her paintings and ceramics.

ROCK SPRINGS NATURE CENTER. Rock Springs Nature Center’s north wing art gallery will display the work of the Barn Colony Artists.

Photography of David Castor will be featured in the south gallery of the nature center.

Both exhibits will be on display until the end of the December.

UNIVERSITY GALLERIES. Illinois State University art gallery will feature Dianna Frid’s exhibit “It Takes Time” and Erin Washington’s “Light Touch.”

The exhibits will be featured in the gallery until Dec. 17.

UPSTAIRS GALLERY. The photography of Doug Bergeron will be displayed at the Decatur Public Library’s second floor gallery throughout November.

WILDFLOUR ARTISAN BAKERY AND CAFE. Judy Kimmons paintings by will be featured at the artisan cafe throughout the month.

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM. The University of Illinois art museum will display the main level Contemporary Gallery the exhibit “Coveting Nature.” Nature works of early European countries will be the focus. The display will be open until Dec. 22.

The east gallery will feature the exhibit “World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean” until March 24, 2018.

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Moscow Ballet will perform ‘Great Russian Nutcracker’ Saturday at Kirkland Fine Arts Center.

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hours before the performances.

They will experience all of the pre-show preparations of professional dancers, such as costume fittings, hair and makeup. “All the ballerina stuff,” Morari said.

Other personalized features to the ballet performance include the Millikin University children’s choir. The 40-member group will not only sing during the ballet performances, but will be caroling in the lobby of Kirkland Fine Arts Center.

The Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra will also be joining the performances. Conductor Sergey Bogza has been involved in the process since the ballet company was scheduled more than a year ago.The Moscow Ballet rarely performs with a live orchestra due to the high cost of such a feature. The dancers often dance to pre-recorded music.

Bogza understands the important element of the symphony.

According to the conductor, ballet music is different than a concert symphony. The musicians need to be careful with cues and tempo. “The orchestra dictates the speed for the dancers,” Bogza said.

The orchestra may need to make small adjustments on the spot.

“The orchestra makes it a living breathing organism,” Bogza said. “It is set by human beings, not by pre-recorded music.”

‌DECATUR — The Moscow Ballet will be returning to Decatur, introducing the holiday season with the “Great Russian Nutcracker.”

Two performances will be on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Millikin University’s Kirkland Fine Arts Center. The international ballet company will perform the Christmas classic of a girl who dreams of a nutcracker prince and a battle with a mouse king.

The Decatur performance will be unique. Joining the award winning international dancers will be more than 100 community dancers from various dance studios around Illinois.

Maria Morari, audition director for Moscow Ballet’s “Dance with Us” program, visited the area for auditions in August.

“It is a big concept and project,” she said. “It is not easy to arrange this.”

Children, ages 7 to 17 with at least one year of ballet training, auditioned. Roles for the dancers include party children, mice, snowflakes and snow maidens.According to Morari, discipline is important for ballet performances. The dancers needed to know ballet terms and moves.

She understands the young dancers’ hopes for becoming professional ballerinas.

“It is a great experience to be backstage with real ballerinas,” Morari said. dbeckett@herald-review.com|(217) The young dancers will arrive 421-6983

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