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The biggest and best solar eclipse in American history ar-rives a year from today, and plans for celebrations, parties and fes-tivities are well underway.. Save the date: Great America

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Got eclipse fever? You’re going

to need to wait a bit.

The biggest and best solar

eclipse in American history

ar-rives a year from today, and plans

for celebrations, parties and

fes-tivities are well underway

Organizers of the Oregon

So-larFest are calling it “a rare,

mind-blowing cosmic

experi-ence,” while Nashville promises visitors “a once-in-a-lifetime ce- lestial event.”

On Aug 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will be visible from coast

to coast, according to NASA It will be the first total eclipse visi- ble only in the USA since the country’s 1776 founding

It will also be the first total lar eclipse to sweep across the en- tire country in 99 years, NASA says And not since 1970 has there been an opportunity to see a total solar eclipse in such easily acces- sible and widespread areas.

so-A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon gets in the way of the sun, turning day to an eerie

twilight Barring pesky clouds, more Americans should be able

to see this one than ever before as

it passes through 12 states.

The eclipse will start on the West Coast in Oregon and trace a

67-mile-wide path east, finally iting the East Coast in South Car- olina At any given location, the total eclipse will last for around 2

ex-or 3 minutes.

It will pass directly over cities such as Salem, Ore., Idaho Falls, Lincoln, Neb., Kansas City, Nash- ville and Columbia and Charles- ton, S.C Places within a one- or two-hour drive of the eclipse in- clude Portland, Ore., Boise, Chey- enne, Rapid City, Omaha, Topeka,

St Louis, Louisville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Charlotte.

An estimated 12 million people live within the path of totality, ac- cording to Space.com The num-

ber of people within just one day’s drive of the totality zone is around 200 million.

Outside the narrow shadow track, a partial eclipse will be visi- ble from all of North America, parts of South America, western Europe and Africa, according to eclipse expert Fred Espenak Nashville, the largest city di- rectly in the eclipse path, is gear- ing up with special programs and activities Check its slick website devoted to the eclipse, nick- named “Music City Solar Eclipse.” After this one, the next total solar eclipse, visible across portions of the southern and eastern U.S., occurs April 8, 2024.

Save the date: Great American eclipse is a year off

Get in line now for

‘mind-blowing’ event

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A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon gets in the way of the sun

u ABC’s This Week:

Kellyanne Conway, campaign

man-ager for Democratic

presi-dential nominee Hillary

Clin-ton; Green Party presidential

candidate Jill Stein

u NBC’s Meet the Press:

Pre-empted by Olympics

coverage

u CBS’ Face the Nation:

Priebus; Mook; Sen Jeff

Sessions, R-Ala.

u CNN’s State of the Union:

Conway; Mook; Gov John Bel

Edwards, D-La.

u Fox News Sunday:

Con-way; Sen Ben Cardin, D-Md.

The researchers are tracking travel patterns of the Aedes ae- gypti, the tiny human-feeding mosquito and main carrier of the Zika virus Much is known about the Aedes aegypti, including how

it prefers human blood and lives

in close proximity to humans But frustratingly little is known about the insects’ day-to-day move- ments and precise locations, said Megan Wise de Valdez, an asso- ciate professor of biology at Texas A&M-San Antonio leading the study.

“What’s novel about this search this summer is that we are using these (traps) across the sev- enth-largest city in the United States,” she said “We’re looking

re-at distribution of Aedes aegypti across the city, and we are shar- ing these data with our metropol- itan health districts.”

As Zika continues to spread both in and out of the USA, any intel about its carrier’s where- abouts is increasingly valuable Health officials fear Zika, which can cause devastating birth defects, could spread quickly in cities with large populations of foreigners, such as Houston, San Antonio or Miami Miami’s Wyn-

Researchers gather intel on mosquito M.O to fight disease

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RIO DE JANEIRO As if winning five Olympic medals and meeting Zac Efron didn’t do enough to make a memorable Games for Simone Biles, she adds one more experi- ence to her time in Rio.

Biles was chosen as the Team USA flag bearer for the closing ceremony

Sunday, capping off a whirlwind two weeks that have seen the gymnast emerge as one of the most successful athletes in Rio.

“It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates,” Biles said

in a statement “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consid-

er it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olym- pic Committee and USA Gymnas- tics by carrying our flag I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the entire country of Brazil, for hosting an incredible Games.”

Biles is only the second can gymnast to carry the flag in

Ameri-an opening or closing ceremony

after Alfred Jochim in 1936

Though it was largely expected given her dominance in the sport over the past three years, Biles’

competition here was a ing success She led the Ameri- cans to a second consecutive team gold medal by an eye-pop- ping eight points before winning the all-around title, gold medals

resound-on vault and floor exercise and bronze on balance beam.

Her five-medal feat matches

marks set by Nastia Liukin in

2008, Shannon Miller in 1992 and Mary Lou Retton in 1984 Her success here only added to the consensus that she’s the best gymnast of her time and probably the best ever Biles, 19, entered these Games as the three-time defending world all-around champion Her 10 gold medals earned over that span is a record for any gymnast, and she has 14 total medals from world champi- onship competition

After Biles finished tion Tuesday, she met Efron, her celebrity crush, whom NBC invit-

competi-ed to Rio to meet her After the Games, Biles and the Final Five embark on a 36-city Kellogg’s Tour, starting in New York.

Biles to wave flag in Rio finale

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Is only 2nd U.S.

gymnast to earn role of honor

“This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and

my team.”

Simone Biles, U.S gymnast

and five-time Olympic medalist

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With Hillary Clinton’s lead in

polls looking increasingly difficult

to overcome, Donald Trump tried

to revitalize his White House bid

last week, bringing in Breitbart

News’ Stephen Bannon as

cam-paign CEO and promoting

ad-viser Kellyanne Conway to

campaign manager While the

campaign initially said chairman

Paul Manafort was not being

pushed out, by the end of the

week he stepped down

Mean-while, the GOP nominee sought

to re-emphasize his message of

restoring “law and order.”

Will it work? Time will tell In

the meantime, more news from

the world of politics:

REGRETS, HE’S HAD A FEW

TOO FEW TO MENTION

In his first speech after the

shake-up, Trump stood at a podium in

Charlotte and apologized for

sometimes being abrasive.

“Sometimes, in the heat of

debate and speaking on a

multi-tude of issues, you don’t choose

the right words or you say the

wrong thing,” Trump said “I have

done that — and, believe it or

not, I regret it And I do regret it

— particularly where it may have

caused personal pain.”

Trump didn’t offer an apology

for any specific insult, and

Demo-crats said they doubted his

sin-cerity The question is whether

this marked a shift in the

candi-date’s tone or just a short detour

from his usually combative tone.

CLINTON-KAINE UNVEIL

TRANSITION TEAM

The next president won’t take

office for nearly five months, but

the transition teams for both

nominees are taking shape.

John Podesta, chairman of

Hillary Clinton’s campaign,

an-nounced Tuesday that Ken

Sala-zar, a former Interior secretary,

will chair the transition team for

Clinton and her running mate,

Virginia Sen Tim Kaine.

The Clinton-Kaine Transition

Project was formed this month

and will be based in

Washing-ton

Rounding out the hierarchy of

the transition team are co-chairs

Tom Donilon, a former national

security adviser to President

Obama; Jennifer Granholm, a

former Michigan governor;

Nee-ra Tanden, president of the

Cen-ter for American Progress; and

Maggie Williams, director of

Harvard University’s Institute of

Politics, who was Clinton’s chief

of staff as first lady.

Trump unveiled the chairman

of his transition effort months

ago: New Jersey Gov Chris

Christie.

GOP SEEKS TO BOOST ITS

APPEAL TO HISPANICS

Following its Republican loss in

2012, boosting the party’s

ap-peal with Hispanics was a top

priority for the next presidential

election That task has been,

shall we say, a bit complicated

given their nominee’s often

pro-vocative rhetoric on immigration

Still, the Republican National

Committee last week made clear

it’s determined to engage

His-panic voters with a new social

media campaign.

“As we at the RNC continue to

deepen our commitment to

engaging with the Hispanic

community, we are expanding

our efforts in social media to

generate greater conversation

and understanding of what the

Republican Party stands for,”

party Chairman Reince Priebus

$104 million to promote the mer secretary of State and to blis- ter Trump, data compiled by NBC News shows.

for-Priorities alone has ten about $43 million of the tele- vision ads aiding Clinton.

underwrit-Top donors to Priorities in July included Slim-Fast founder Dan- iel Abraham and financier Donald Sussman Each gave $3 million, records show.

Trump and his allies are ing catch-up.

play-On Friday, the Republican gan airing his first ads of the gen- eral election, spending

be-$4.8 million on commercials that will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania,

WASHINGTON Priorities USA tion, the leading super PAC back- ing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said it col- lected nearly $9.3 million last month and began August with more than $38 million in avail- able cash to continue its advertis- ing barrage against Republican rival Donald Trump.

Ac-Priorities’ July haul is a drop from the $11.9 million the group raised in June In all, Priorities has raised more than $110 million during the election cycle, includ- ing nearly $1 million through a joint fundraising arrangement with EMILY’s List, which backs

North Carolina and Florida, tlegrounds where Trump needs

bat-to close the gap with Clinbat-ton.

Some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors have shunned the Republican nominee and instead are plowing money into helping imperiled congressional incum- bents.

Paul Singer, a hedge-fund lionaire who has been one the

bil-party’s largest benefactors,

donat-ed a total of $2 million last month

to two groups focused on ing the Republican majority in the Senate: the Senate Leader- ship Fund and Freedom Partners Action Fund, a super PAC aligned with industrialist Charles Koch The first Trump ad, called

preserv-“Two Americas: Immigration,” paints an image of a country overrun by rule-breaking immi- grants during a Clinton presiden-

cy and argues Trump will make

“America safe again.”

The Senate Majority Fund, a super PAC focused on seizing control of the Senate for Demo- crats, had its best fundraising month of the election, collecting

$7.3 million in July Its ure donors included Thomas Murphy, the father of Rep Pat- rick Murphy, a Democrat vying to face Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in November.

seven-fig-The senior Murphy gave the group $1 million on July 13.

Super PAC supporting Clinton notched $9.3 million for July

Ad ammo tops $38M for August as Trump aims to catch up

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LAS VEGAS NEWS BUREAU VIA EPA

Clinton and outside groups backing her have dominated the airwaves since June

wood neighborhood has been dealing with a Zika outbreak and,

on Friday, Florida health officials announced a new batch of cases

in touristy Miami Beach.

Around 2,200 Zika cases have been reported in the continental U.S and more than 13,000 in Puerto Rico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Most of the cases within the continental U.S in- volved individuals who contract-

ed the virus while traveling in another country, while most of the Puerto Rico cases were locally acquired, according to the CDC.

Though the Aedes aegypti is found in abundance in Gulf Coast states and resides alongside hu- mans, little is known about its movements because it tends to reside on private property, said Kacey Ernst, an epidemiologist at the University of Arizona Besides Zika, this species of mosquito is known to spread dengue, chikun- gunya and yellow fever

“In the United States, we don’t know precisely where it is,” she said of the mosquito, adding the San Antonio study is “really valuable.”

Tracking and studying the mosquito in the U.S has been mostly left up to local municipal- ities, said Joe Conlon of the American Mosquito Control As- sociation Past global efforts to corral the virus involved mass government interventions.

In the late 1950s, health cials in South America eradicated the Aedes aegypti and the dis- eases the species carried in 21 countries through a widespread program that included going onto people’s property and uprooting nesting areas, he said Cuban offi- cials, in the early 1980s, deployed military troops into neighbor- hoods to help stem a dengue out- break by the mosquito after more than 300,000 cases were reported

offi-on the island, he said.

Those obtrusive measures, however, wouldn’t be particularly popular or even allowed in the U.S., Conlon said “(Controlling Zika) can be done, but it takes a lot of manpower and government coercion to do it,” he said.

For now, the task of stemming and studying Zika’s spread is fall- ing to local officials and research- ers like Wise de Valdez Her team

of researchers have so far

count-ed more than 15,000 mosquitoes.

Ferried to the U.S on slave ships 500 years ago, the Aedes aegypti prefers human environ- ments and human blood and has populated the southern Gulf States, she said.

Wise de Valdez launched her study in June but needed permis- sion to place traps on private property She went on TV asking for volunteers: 420 homeowners offered their front lawns She placed traps on 120 of those yards and dispatched research students to start tracking them.

One thing the study has shown: The Aedes aegypti doesn’t care much for the traps used in the research, known as “autocidal

gravid ovitraps.” The traps sist of a length of sticky paper in- side a bucket with waterlogged hay, to lure pregnant females, and were given to Wise de Valdez free

con-of charge by the CDC The traps are widely used in Puerto Rico.

Instead, the Zika-carrying mosquitoes much prefer the BG Sentinel traps, which are battery- operated and omit a human-like scent to draw hungry Aedes ae- gypti Those are costlier, scarcer and more labor-intensive, she said “The big take-home mes- sage I’m seeing is that trap type really matters,” Wise de Valdez said.

As classes start this month, the research project will likely scale back to 60 homes and conclude

in September, she said She’ll be sharing study results at the Soci- ety for Vector Ecology meeting in Alaska next month and hopes the tracking methods are picked up across the country.

“This was a grass-roots thing.

This fell in our lap and we just said, ‘Hey we’re going to go for it,’ ” she said “I think it’s going to

be easy to replicate anywhere.”

PHOTOS BY RICK JERVIS, USA TODAY

Jessica Buitron, a recent graduate from Texas A&M University-San Antonio, checks a mosquito trap for signs of the Aedes gypti mosquito, the main carrier of the Zika virus The research team is tracking the mosquito’s movements across San Antonio

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Americans are donating their lawns for the grass-roots study that corrals Aedes aegypti mosquitos in San Antonio.

“(Controlling Zika) can be done, but it takes a lot of

manpower and government coercion

BEIJING Even though China ended its controversial one-child policy last year, Chinese women aren’t free to get pregnant when they choose.

Last week, a maternity hospital

in Beijing was caught trying to control when its female staff could have babies, the latest in a string of Chinese companies that set so-called fertility schedules.

The Tongzhou Maternity and Child Health Institute required female doctors and nurses to ap- ply for permission to become pregnant, then fined them if they failed to conceive in the three- month window allotted to them, the Beijing News reported.

Public outrage prompted the hospital to cancel the policy as of Friday, and authorities said all fines would be paid back to the employees

“We get the right to have other baby but we do have the freedom to have it when we want,” a woman by the name of OuNiDou wrote on Weibo, Chi- na’s equivalent of Twitter

an-Another, by the name of zong2878, put the policy in the context of China’s long, brutal at- tempt to control population growth “A fine is not too bad,”

Shu-she said “At least they didn’t force you to get an abortion.”

In May, staff at a hospital in the southern city of Dongguan were

told they would have their salary docked and would not be consid- ered for promotion if any had a baby out of turn Also in May, teachers in the central Henan province were told there would

be a quota for the number of women who could be pregnant at one time.

Such moves may stem from the sudden lifting of a decades-old policy that limited most families

to one child Many families rushed to have a second.

“In schools, 90% of the ers are female If the school does not set a timetable, some classes might simply have to be scrapped,” the People’s Daily quoted an unnamed education of- ficial as saying in May

teach-Even before the one-child

poli-cy was lifted, setting pregnanpoli-cy schedules was common in indus- tries with mostly female employ- ees The Beijing hospital had been setting reproductive sched- ules for about a decade.

In July 2015, before all families were given permission to have a second child, a bank in Henan dictated when its female cashiers could have children.

“An employee birth plan has been established and will be strictly enforced,” the bank said

in a notice that was widely lated online “Employees who do not give birth according to the plan and whose work is impacted will face a one-time fine of 1,000 yuan ($150) and will not be con- sidered for promotion,” it said.

circu-Chinese hospital caught regulating pregnancies

HOW HWEE YOUNG, EPA

A Chinese woman helps her child with a water bottle in a park in Beij- ing on June

15, 2012, when China's one-child policy was still in effect

Telling women when they could conceive was once common

Hannah Gardner

Special for USA TODAY

“A fine is not too bad At least they didn’t force you

to get an abortion.”

Shuzong2878,

writing on Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent

IN BRIEF

‘TERROR ATTACK’ KILLS 22

AT WEDDING IN TURKEY

An explosion at a wedding

cer-emony hall late Saturday in

Tur-key’s southeastern city of

Gaziantephas left at least 22

peo-ple dead and injured 94,

govern-ment officials said.

The governor of Gaziantep, Ali

Yerlikaya, called the explosion a

“terror attack,” and other officials

said it could have been the work

of either Islamic State or Kurdish

militants One called it a suicide

bombing.

Gaziantep is about 76 miles

from Aleppo, Syria

— Laura Mandaro

BROTHER OF SYRIAN BOY IN

ICONIC ALEPPO PHOTO DIES

Ali Daqneesh, the older

broth-er of a Syrian boy whose face has

become a symbol of the horror of

the country’s civil war, died

Sat-urday of injuries sustained in the

same airstrike that destroyed the

family’s home, according to the

Aleppo Media Center.

Ali, 10, had been in critical

con-dition since Wednesday, when

the blast hit the apartment in the

Qaterji neighborhood of the

northern Syrian city of Aleppo,

the anti-government opposition

group confirmed to USA TODAY

by email.

Photos of Ali’s 5-year-old

brother, Omran, quickly spread

worldwide after the media center

posted a YouTube video showing

him, dazed and bloodied, being

put into an ambulance

Omran suffered head wounds

but no brain injury, and was later

discharged.

The boys’ mother remained in

critical condition.

— Doug Stanglin

ARIZONA SHERIFF MAY FACE

CRIMINAL CONTEMPT CHARGE

PHOENIX A federal judge said

Friday that he will refer Maricopa

County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the

U.S attorney’s office to be

charged with criminal contempt

of court.

The decision comes after U.S.

District Judge G Murray Snow

found that Arpaio intentionally

violated various orders rooted in

an 8-year-old racial-profiling

case The ruling additionally fers Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, Arpaio’s former defense attorney Michele Iafrate, and Capt Steve Bailey for criminal contempt prosecution as well.

re-— Megan Cassidy The Arizona Republic

JUDGE DISMISSES CIVIL SUITS AGAINST CLERK KIM DAVIS

LOUISVILLE A federal judge has dismissed three lawsuits filed against Kentucky’s Rowan Coun-

ty Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples last year.

Davis drew international tention in 2015 when she said her Christian religious beliefs pre- vented her from providing mar- riage licenses to same-sex couples despite the U.S Supreme Court ruling that said the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the U.S Constitution.

at-And Davis was jailed briefly for contempt of court by U.S District Judge David Bunning.

Couples who were denied censes filed the federal lawsuits claiming a violation of civil rights.

li-On Thursday, Judge Bunning issued an order dismissing the lawsuits Bunning noted that last January Gov Matt Bevin signed

an order removing names of county clerks from marriage li- censes, and that the General As- sembly later passed legislation creating a new marriage license form that does not require the county clerk’s signature.

— Tom Loftus The (Louisville) Courier-Journal

MAX BECHERER, AP

Daniel Stover, 17, wipes his head as he helps Laura Albritton rescue personal belongings in Sorrento, La.,

on Saturday.

Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devas- tating floods, with search parties going door-to-door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding.

GODSEND AMID FLOODS

INDIANAPOLIS The U.S women’s gymnastics team leaves the Rio Olympics with a record nine medals, a legion of fans and a le- gal trademark on the nickname

“The Final Five.”

USA Gymnastics, which erns the sport at all levels nation- ally, will come home to questions about its handling of sexual abuse allegations.

gov-After an investigation by The Indianapolis Star, breakfast-food maker Kellogg Co., a key USA Gymnastics sponsor, has added its voice to a chorus of state and federal lawmakers seeking assur- ances that the organization is do- ing enough to protect young gymnasts from sexual predators.

The investigation, first lished Aug 4, revealed that offi- cials of the Indianapolis-based non-profit routinely dismiss alle- gations of child abuse unless they receive a complaint signed by a victim or a victim’s guardian The investigation uncovered four in- stances in which USA Gymnastics was warned about abusive coach-

pub-es but did not forward the tions to authorities.

allega-All four coaches went on to abuse underage gymnasts.

“We are deeply troubled by the report,” Kellogg’s spokeswoman Kris Charles said in an email “We have expressed our concerns to USAG, and we will continue to watch this situation closely.”

The company sponsors the crative Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnas- tics Champions, which starts Sept 15 Tax forms for USA Gym- nastics do not break out how much the 36-city tour brings in.

lu-But USA Gymnastics revenue creased significantly in 2012, the previous Olympic year.

in-USA Gymnastics did not spond to questions for this story.

re-On the day the women’s team won the Olympic gold medal, USA Gymnastics filed for the trademark “The Final Five.”

Kellogg’s did not elaborate on its concerns.

In addition to Kellogg’s, state and federal lawmakers also have asked USA Gymnastics for an-

swers and called for tighter porting laws Two key Indiana lawmakers said they want to know whether USA Gymnastics broke child-abuse reporting laws.

re-Greg Steuerwald, chairman of the Indiana House Judiciary Committee, criticized USA Gym- nastics’ policy for handling of complaints.

“If they have reason to believe

it happened, then it’s their job to report,” said Steuerwald, a Re- publican “Law enforcement should investigate what hap- pened and whether USA Gym- nastics followed the law Both aspects should be turned over to law enforcement immediately.”

He added: “It certainly appears they did not act reasonably.”

Steuerwald, who played a key role in the recent rewrite of Indi- ana’s criminal code, said the state’s reporting threshold does not require firsthand knowledge

of a crime.

“We have one of the lowest standards requiring them to re- port,” he said “It doesn’t get any lower than that.”

David Long, the state Senate’s top lawmaker, said, “I’m not call- ing for a witch hunt, but if the law has been broken, we need to know, and there should be conse-

quences I trust local law ment to handle this case and respond as they deem necessary.” However, federal, state and lo- cal law enforcement officials ei- ther declined to say if they intend

enforce-to investigate or would not swer the question directly Josh Minkler, U.S attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said in a statement that he couldn’t comment directly on USA Gymnastics but added a warning.

an-“I would strongly recommend that anyone with knowledge of a crime immediately report that crime to law enforcement,” Minkler said “Further, it is a seri- ous federal crime to knowingly conceal evidence of a federal crime or obstruct the investiga- tion of a federal crime Such a crime would be fully investigated

by the United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

Capt David Bursten, man for the Indiana State Police, also did not comment directly about USA Gymnastics but said his agency “aggressively investi- gates crimes against children.” Concerning USA Gymnastics’ policy of forwarding complaints only with the signature of a vic- tim or victim’s guardian, Randall Taylor, assistant chief of the Indi- anapolis Metropolitan Police De- partment, said, “We don’t require

spokes-a signspokes-ature for us to investigspokes-ate anything.” The department tries

to make it as easy as possible for people to report allegations of child abuse, he said.

“We, of course, encourage ple to make that call even if they’re not sure,” Taylor said Indianapolis police did address USA Gymnastics’ handling of one

peo-of the cases that the Star ered They praised USA Gymnas- tics for reporting former coach Marvin Sharp in 2015, but the Star revealed that USA Gymnas- tics had received allegations about Sharp four years earlier By then, he had made more than 125 pornographic images of six of his underage gymnasts, the 2015 po- lice investigation revealed Sharp committed suicide in jail last year.

uncov-USA Gymnastics’ abuse policy criticized

ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAY

Four coaches abused gymnasts after USA Gymnastics did not report allegations

to authorities, an investigation by the Indianapolis newspaper revealed

Kellogg’s, Indiana legislators

say group sets bar too high

on reporting of allegations

Mark Alesia, Tim Evans, Marisa Kwiatkowski and Tony Cook

USA TODAY Network

KELLOGG'S

The U.S.

women’s nastics team won a gold medal in team compe- tition Aug 9

gym-at the Rio Olympics

LONDON The southwestern urb of New Malden has emerged

sub-as the North Korea of the West.

That’s because hundreds of North Korean defectors live there — more than anywhere outside of South Korea.

New Malden’s community of residents who escaped the isolat-

ed nation thousands of miles away was in the news again Wednesday because of a report that Thae Yong Ho, the deputy to North Korea’s ambassador to Britain, defected with his family

to South Korea.

Thae, the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect to the South, was “sick and tired” of the regime of Kim Jong Un, South Korean government spokesman Jeong Joon Hee told reporters Wednesday.

Nearly 700 North Koreans live legally in the United Kingdom, along with several hundred who are here illegally, said Michael Glendinning, director of the U.K.- based European Alliance for Hu- man Rights in North Korea, a charity that supports North Ko- rean refugees.

Glendinning said most of the North Koreans in Britain live in New Malden, joining at least 20,000 South Koreans who live there The popularity of the area with Koreans can be traced to the 1970s, when people followed the lead of the South Korean ambas- sador to Britain in moving to the area The U.K headquarters of the South Korean electronics firm Samsung also was in New Malden until 2005.

The U.K government tries to disperse North Korean refugees

to other parts of the country but most eventually make their way back to New Malden, Glendin- ning said “Political reasons for defections are pretty rare,” he added “More often, people leave North Korea because of a lack of food and for better economic op- portunities elsewhere.”

He said many of those who end

up in the U.K are “double tors” who may have first gone to South Korea before deciding to come here.

defec-Those who come straight to

the U.K do so because of tionally neutral relations with North Korea Family members left behind are less likely to be persecuted by the North’s govern- ment than if they had defected to countries with tense relations with the totalitarian regime, such

tradi-as South Korea, the United States and Japan.

New Malden’s main shopping street is dotted with Korean res- taurants, a Korean supermarket and several other Korean shops,

as well as the usual British chain stores Many signs are in both English and Korean and a free Korean newspaper — The Hanin Herald — can be picked up from a display bin

Sophie Kim, who works at a real estate company on the high street called Residential Seoul, told USA TODAY that all the staff there are South Korean.

She said the firm caters to eryone, but has a number of cli- ents from both North and South Korea “Mostly (our Korean cli- ents) have lived here for a long time Some people are from the north of the U.K.,” she said.

ev-“Many people would like to live here or (nearby) Wimbledon.

Most of them are families.”

Jihyun Park, 48, who lives in

Manchester in northwestern England and works for Glendin- ning’s charity, has lived in the U.K since 2008, after fleeing twice to China She first escaped because of hunger and economic problems in 1998, but was report-

ed to the Chinese authorities in

2004 and returned to North rea As many as 3 million North Koreans died of hunger in a fam- ine in the 1990s.

Ko-Park escaped a second time cause she had left her son behind

be-in Chbe-ina and had grown sioned with the North’s oppres- sion “I lost all my family,” she said in an interview “My father died My brother left but I didn’t know what happened to him.”

disillu-After Park returned to China in

2007, she was was introduced to a United Nations officer, who asked her where she wanted to go.

“They asked me — America, South Korea and England,” she said.

“When I learned about

Ameri-ca in North Korea, (we were told)

it was an enemy country,” Park said “I never heard that in China.

I wanted to go to South Korea but it’s a dangerous journey, so I chose Europe It’s also a difficult journey, but better than the South Korea journey.”

London suburb a haven for many N Koreans

JANE ONYANGA-OMARA, USA TODAY

New Malden’s main retail street is a mix of English and North Korean nesses Many signs are in both languages.

busi-JIHYUN PARK

Jihyun Park escaped from North Korea twice She now lives in the United Kingdom

Jane Onyanga-Omara

USA TODAY

HAMPTON , N H The running striptease in presidential politics began Oct 22, 1987, when Donald Trump’s big, black heli- copter touched down here.

longest-A local Republican named Mike Dunbar had started a

“Draft Trump for President”

movement and arranged for the developer to speak at a Rotary luncheon in this early primary state So was planted a seed that would flower with a vengeance 28 years later.

WINDSOR CHAIR KING

Dunbar, now 69, is known

to woodworkers as a master craftsman, teacher and author and a key figure in the late-20th- century revival of the handmade Windsor chair

Dunbar discovered his passion when, trying to cheaply furnish his college apartment, he bought

a wooden chair for $15 It turned out to have been made around

1800 by a craftsman on Boston’s North Shore It was worth hun- dreds It was beautiful.

He’d planned to get a Ph.D and teach French But now, “I had to re-create how this guy made this chair,” he recalls

Dunbar had gotten into politics

as a neighborhood ist in nearby Portsmouth He worked on several successful con- gressional campaigns.

preservation-In the mid-1980s, he started reading about Trump He became entranced by the businessman’s success at bringing projects in be- fore schedule and under budget.

He was brash He made things happen He should be president.

Dunbar had met all the 1988 candidates, including George H.W Bush, Bob Dole and Pat Robertson None impressed him

as a winner He raised money to start a Draft Trump campaign and collected 1,000 signatures to put Trump on the primary ballot, and arranged for the Portsmouth Rotary Club speech.

On Oct 22, Dunbar picked Trump up at the landing field and whisked him to the restaurant.

Trump began his speech by nouncing he was not interested in running for president.

an-“It was sort of like,

‘ohhhhh ’ ” Dunbar sighs, his voice dipping But he insists he

did not feel betrayed by Trump, who knew he wasn’t going to run and had other things to promote, includ- ing his soon-to-be-released book The Art of the Deal

Trump

extemporaneous-ly delivered a speech that would be familiar to audi- ences now: America’s allies don’t pay a fair share of their own defense; America is being ripped off in trade deals by an Asian nation (then Japan, now China); America is pushed around and laughed at.

In the White House, “I want someone who is tough and knows how to negotiate,” Trump said “If not, our country faces disaster.”

es-“You have created a very exciting part of my life On to the future.”

Dunbar eventually ran for Portsmouth City Council He got

a contribution from Trump (he

says he doesn’t recall how much) and a note of congratulations when he won his first term.

After his second term, Dunbar dropped out of politics He didn’t like what politicians do — “divide people and make problems worse

by exaggerating them” — or what politics does to politicians: “It creates an alternate reality in which you’re so important the world can’t run without you.”

But when Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Mike and his wife, Sue, watched on TV.

“I said, ‘My word, he finally did it!’ That’s when I began to think again about what it (1987) was all about.”

Dunbar’s disenchantment with politicians does not extend to Trump He voted for him in the primary and will vote for him in November His reason is simple:

Trump’s not a politician “He’s never talked the political speak

we all hate,” he says

Recent polls indicate Trump’s language has lost some magic.

But Dunbar says he’s struck by the similarity between Trump’s message now and in 1987.

“He was America First then and America First now It’s a form of nationalism that’s not dangerous like the kind in the 1930s It’s a nationalism every politician should have.”

MARY SCHWALM FOR USA TODAY

Mike Dunbar, the man who claims to have first pitched the idea of a Don- ald Trump presidential campaign in

1987 and recruited him

to New Hampshire for a visit, poses for a photo as he leans over a handcrafted Windsor chair in his home

Woodworker

was Trump’s

first key backer

COURTESY MIKE DUNBAR

Mike Dunbar and Donald Trump in New Hampshire in 1987

North Korea, in its first sponse to the defection of a senior diplomat to South Ko- rea, branded the deputy envoy

re-as an zler, child rapist and all around

embez-“human scum.”

The based diplo- mat, Thae Yong

London-Ho, whose job was to burnish the image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, ar- rived in South Korea last week.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Wednesday that he was the second-highest North Korean official at the embassy and the most senior North Korean diplomat ever to defect

to South Korea.

In 1997, the North Korean ambassador to Egypt fled but resettled in the United States, the Associated Press reported The ministry said Thae decided to defect because of his disgust with the Kim Jong

Un regime, his yearning for South Korean democracy and concerns about his children’s future, Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, reported.

In its commentary Saturday, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), without mentioning Thae by name, said the diplomat had been recalled to Pyongyang because

of a long list of transgressions.

“The fugitive was ordered in June to be summoned for embezzling a lot of state funds, selling state secrets and com- mitting child rape,” KCNA said.

“This one clearly deserves legal punishment for crimes he has committed but he proved that he is human scum that has

no basic loyalty as a human and no conscience and moral- ity by running away to survive and abandoning the home- land and parents and siblings that raised and stood by him.”

DIPLOMAT WHO DEFECTED CALLED

‘HUMAN SCUM’

AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The Korean Central News Agency calls Thae Yong

Ho a fugitive

Doug Stanglin

@dstanglin USA TODAY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS MARS JUPITER JUPITER SATURN SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO SUN

ASTEROID BELT

ASTEROID

An unmanned spacecraft about the size of a household

toolshed will travel 4.4 billion miles to bring back

samples from Bennu, an asteroid orbiting our sun

OSIRIS-REx's seven-year mission will tell us more

about the asteroid's composition and the creation

of the solar system.

SEEKING A RENDEZVOUS

WITH AN ASTEROID

TOTAL COST:

$800 million

excluding launch vehicle

WHERE ASTEROIDS AND COMETS COME FROM

OSIRIS-REx SPACECRAFT

Asteroids and comets are debris fragments left over from the formation of the planets and moons about 4.6 billion years ago

Shifts in gravity can cause them to pass the Earth As some of these asteroids travel near Earth, scientists seek to learn more about their composition.

ORBITS OF ASTEROID BENNU WHAT ASTEROIDS

ARE MADE OF

OSIRIS-REx will match Bennu's speed and orbit the asteroid and begin a months-long survey in October

2020 Extensive mapping, from an altitude of about

3 miles, will determine where the sample will be taken.

OSIRIS-REx LAUNCH

Beginning Sept 8, OSIRIS-REx has 34 days to launch

The craft will be carried into space atop an Atlas V

rocket from Cape Canaveral Once in space, the craft

will orbit the sun for a year, then head toward its

rendezvous with Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx is expected to bring home 4.4 pounds

of Bennu’s surface debris

of Bennu’s surface debris

When parts of an asteroid crash into Earth, they’re called meteorites.

NOTE Not to scale.

SOURCE NASA; Space.com; Theplanets.org

RAMON PADILLA, GEORGE PETRAS AND JANET LOEHRKE, USA TODAY

Every day, the Earth is bombarded with more than

100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles.

Asteroids

in the asteroid belt can range in size from 20 feet

to about

583 miles across.

In 1801, the Ceres asteroid was first discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi

Comets usually come from the Kuiper Belt, which

is 3 billion to 5 billion miles from Earth

SIZE COMPARISON

1,454 feet

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

METAL ASTEROID

STONY ASTEROID

SUN

VENUS EARTH

ASTEROID BENNU

ASTEROID BENNU

Map asteroid surface

Measure deviations in asteroid’s orbit

Compare asteroid data with

Earth-based data

BENNU SURFACE SAMPLING

Spacecraft size to human

1 in 2,500

Comes close to Earth every

6 years

Orbits the sun every

1.2 years

(432.6 days)

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft

Atlas V vehicle

The OSIRIS-REx will fly in formation with the Bennu asteroid in August 2018 The TAGSAM arm will deploy and make contact with the surface

of Bennu for five seconds The TAGSAM will release a burst

of nitrogen gas, causing loose rocks and surface soil to be collected.

ASTEROID BENNU

OSIRIS-REx

Surface debis

TAGSAM

AGE:

4.5 billion years old

DETROIT She’s got that Motown sound and that Detroit swagger.

Melody Ellison, American Girl’s newest historical BeForever doll, is set to make her debut on Saturday in Detroit The charac- ter is a 9-year-old Detroit girl and aspiring singer who finds her voice amid the civil rights move- ment in the 1960s, according to the company

It’s fitting that the story can Girl chose to tell to define the mid-1960s is based in Detroit, ac- cording to Gloria House, profes- sor emerita of African-American studies at the University of Mich- igan-Dearborn, who was active during the civil rights movement.

Ameri-“Why not have her be a little Detroit girl?” she said “Detroit was so much the mecca of civil rights and movement activities during that period from the ’60s right until the ’80s.”

House notes that Martin Luther King Jr did a trial run

of his “I Have a Dream”

speech in Detroit in 1963 and that many families with Southern roots migrated to Detroit

At the time, Detroit also had one of the nation’s largest NAACP branches and it had the most black-owned businesses in the country along with a growing black middle class.

Yet, said Juanita Moore, dent and CEO of the Wright Mu- seum, “there were still these significant issues around race and discrimination, even in De- troit, with all of that progressive- ness that was happening here.”

presi-Moore said the story of

Melo-dy and her family, written by Denise Lewis Patrick, shows that discrimination wasn’t a problem only in the South dur- ing the ’60s, but also an issue in the North.

Through historical fiction, the books “really show what democracy is all about — that one voice and one person can work for change and to make things better,” Moore said.

To ensure local children will be able to read Melody’s story and learn the lessons in her books, American Girl do- nated $100,000 worth of books — its two paperback volumes, No Ordinary Sound and Never Stop Singing — to Detroit’s 22 public library branches, said Julie Parks, a company spokeswoman Any child who visits the library can get a free copy of either book un- til the end of the year Branches

will stock copies of the books

to loan to patrons with a brary card.

li-Free dolls will be awarded to winners of the library’s summer reading program, said Jo Anne Mondowney, executive director

of main Detroit Public Library branch.

Parks said American Girl was concerned about the historical accuracy of Melody and her story So the company con- sulted with an advisory board that had a rich knowl- edge of Detroit’s history and the history of the civil rights movement The board in- cluded Moore, House, civil rights leader Julian Bond and JoAnn Watson, a former De- troit city councilwoman who also served as executive direc- tor of the Detroit Branch NAACP, Parks said.

Together, they helped mine how Melody should look, deciding details about her clothing, accessories and the texture of her hair.

deter-“In the late ’60s, the ity of African Americans did have straight hair,” said Moore.

major-“It may not have been straight, but it was straightened.

bone-In addition to our own tions growing up as ’60s girls, there also was historical research.”

recollec-Moore said they changed the texture of the doll’s hair several

times She noted that Melody could have had ponytails or braids, but many “little girls want

to play with their doll’s hair.”

“I can’t wait to see a little girl playing with this doll, and I can’t wait to see them connect and in- teract with her story,” she said Melody joins 15 other histori- cal American Girl dolls the com- pany has issued over the past 30 years The doll, which sells for

$115, comes with a hound’s-tooth tricolored dress, matching head- band, patent blue shoes, white socks and underwear, along with

move-’60s and ’70s left off,” she said.

Latest American Girl doll tells civil rights tale

Based in Detroit in 1960s, she resonates with new movement

Kristen Jordan Shamus

@kristenshamus Detroit Free Press

AMERICAN GIRL PHOTOS

Doll designers fussed with the texture of the doll’s hair Many “little girls want to play with their doll’s hair,” says Juanita Moore, president and CEO of the Wright Museum.

Melody Ellison, the new doll, has straightened hair in keep- ing with the mid-1960s style

American Girl released three books tied to its latest histori- cal BeForever doll.

“Detroit was so much the mecca

of civil rights and movement

activities from the ’60s right until the ’80s.”

Gloria House, professor at the

University of Michigan-Dearborn

BUT FOR $22M, DOES IT COME

WITH A CASSETTE DECK?

A historic Jaguar that won the

famed Le Mans race in the 1950s

— a 1955 D-Type — sold for $21.78

million at auction Friday in

Mon-terey, Calif., setting a record for

the most ever paid for a British

car, according to auctioneers

While it was the most ever

paid for a British car at auction,

it still was under RM Sotheby’s

estimates that it could go for as

much as $25 million, reports our

Chris Woodyard RM Sotheby’s

says it was only the fourth British

car to sell for more than $10

mil-lion at auction.

ROCK LEGEND: YOU CAN KEEP

YOUR DRIVERLESS CAR

Jeff Beck, 72, is contemplating a

future filled with self-driving cars.

But the prospect leaves the

guitar legend and life-long

hot-rod aficionado steaming

mad, reports our tech reporter

Marco della Cava.

“There’s driverless cars all over

the place right now — with

driv-ers in them!” says Beck, cooling

off before a sound check in

San-ta Rosa, Calif., the latest stop of a

tour he’s co-headlining with his

blues idol, Buddy Guy, 80 (Beck

plays Sunday at Seattle’s

Wood-land Park Zoo Amphitheater).

“Cruise control is bad enough.

If you can’t pay attention for

long, you should not be driving,”

says Beck, on the heels of news

last week that Ford and Uber are

both pushing aggressively to

deliver self-driving vehicles.

provided their credit card

details using public Wi-Fi

NEWS

MONEY

AUTOS TRAVEL

SPORTS LIFE

broad stock market — as sured by the S&P 500 index — gained 4.4% Such a wide diver- gence is rare — and significant.

mea-It certainly seems plausible that the transportation sector would be a leading indicator of the economy as a whole The Committee on National Statistics

of the National Research Council explained why in a 2002 book en- titled Key Transportation Indica- tors: Not only are transportation industries “major economic ac- tivities in themselves,” the com- mittee wrote, transportation also

“is a cost, to a greater or lesser tent, of virtually every other good

ex-or service in the economy.”

This theory was confirmed tistically by the U.S Department

sta-of Transportation In a December

2014 study, that Department’s Bureau of Transportation Statis- tics reported that trend changes

of the transportation sector tween 1979 and 2013 led trend changes in the economy by an av- erage of approximately four months The bureau based its study on the Transportation Ser- vices Index, which it calculates it- self; that index hit its all-time high in July of last year.

be-The stock market’s recent

surge to new all-time highs may

be nothing more than the silver

lining in a very dark cloud:

weak-ness in the transportation sector.

Many advisers consider that

weakness to be ominous, on the

theory that the sector is a leading

economic indicator If so, then

the sector is warning us of

immi-nent economic trouble.

Consider the Dow Jones

Transportation Average, one of

the lesser-known Dow Jones

in-dexes that consists of a basket of

stocks from the airline, trucking,

railroad and shipping industries

with stocks such as Delta Air

Lines, FedEx, Norfolk Southern

and Ryder System Even as the

better-known Dow Industrials

were recently hitting another

high, the Dow Transports were

trading 15% below their all-time

high set in December 2014

Over the same period, the

To be sure, the U.S economy has not entered a recession, at least as measured by gross do- mestic product, but other broad measures of economic activity paint a less sanguine picture To- tal revenue at publicly traded cor- porations reached a peak in 2014 and has been declining ever since.

Corporate profits have plunged:

Earnings per share of S&P 500

companies over the past 12 months were 18% lower than where they stood two years ago.

The reason the broad stock market averages have been able

to reach all-time highs even as earnings were declining: Inves- tors have been willing to pay more per dollar of earnings than they were before Two years ago, for example, the S&P 500’s price-

to-earnings ratio — based on trailing 12-month, as-reported earnings — was below 19 The comparable ratio today is above

25 The average over the past 100 years has been 16.1.

Higher P/E ratios, of course, mean the stock market is that much more vulnerable to any un- expected economic weakness Richard Moroney, editor of the Dow Theory Forecasts service, is one adviser who is paying close attention to the transportation sector’s weakness He notes that the Dow Transportation Average has been unable to surpass its high from this past April, much less its all-time high from late

2014

Until and unless that average can jump over even that lower hurdle, he argues, investors should brace themselves for a market decline by keeping at least some portion of their equity port- folios in cash or a short-term bond fund.

Hulbert, founder of the Hulbert nancial Digest, has been tracking investment advisers’ performances for four decades For more information, email him at mark@hulbertratings.co- mor go to www.hulbertratings.com.

Fi-Are Dow transports a caution signal for economy?

TASIA WELLS, WIREIMAGE

PATRICK ERNZEN, RM SOTHEBY'S

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016

Dealing with the person who just said “I quit” can be really tough if you enjoyed working with them and feel let down by their leaving.

That said,

in the same way that there are best practices for leaving your job, so there are for dealing with the short-timer or the “soon to be departed.”

Mellon is author of “Early Stage Professional: Starting Off Right,”

a book for professionals in their early career years.

THEY QUIT!

FOR CO-WORKERS LEFT BEHIND

uManage your relationships There’s a good chance you’ll run into

the leaver again In addition, LinkedIn has made the professional

world truly tiny Also, one of those “bright young things” could end up

being the founder of a multimillion-dollar start-up or, who knows,

your manager at some point

uLet bygones be bygones During your time together with the

leaver, you may have had arguments or just disliked how they

oper-ated When they quit, it is too late to correct this So be graceful You

gain nothing from settling old scores.

uA shout-out If you enjoyed working with the leaver or they

achieved a lot for your organization, acknowledge it and let them

know they will be missed

uKeep the faith A friend or manager who leaves your company

may trigger the thought of “If they leave then I should, too.” Hold

tight People leave companies for all types of personal reasons That

doesn’t mean you should follow No company is perfect Stick where

you are until you’re sure you need to try another option

u Goodbye drinks Turn up for them! This is not just a chance to

celebrate and respect the work a

co-worker did but is also a way

to lift the whole of the team’s

spirits.

FOR MANAGERS IN MOURNING

GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCKPHOTO

It can feel as if you are being deserted But don’t take it personally There are many, many reasons why people leave their roles.

uBe positive If they were good, let them know you will miss them and even that you would welcome them back in the future In my first real job out of college, my CEO said I could come back anytime, and he gave me a bonus to help pay for business school It was an amazing gesture If I ever have the chance to refer a client to his company I will uBe realistic If you make a counteroffer, know it is unlikely to be successful Once an employee says they are leaving it is really difficult

to change their mind Do not feel rejected for a second time

uAsk for feedback Take the opportunity to see what you can prove on You will get a more candid version of the truth from the leaver You may learn you need to tweak your communication style for Early Stage Professionals, for example, and this will help you become a better leader And if you get the feedback directly, it could take the sting out of any formal exit interview your company conducts.

im-A friend or manager who leaves your

company may trigger the thought of “If they

leave then I should, too.” Hold tight

uHow about a goodbye gift? It doesn’t need to be extravagant, but

a nice mug — or, for extra credit, a goodbye video — could be an

amaz-ing send-off I recently left my company after a fantastic experience

with an amazing group of people, and they made a wonderful goodbye

video It was humbling.

uDon’t speak ill of the departed Try your best not to blame the

“absent friend” for any issues that come up later It is not professional.

HOW TO HANDLE A WORKER’S DEPARTURE GRACEFULLY

Fergus Mellon

Special for USA TODAY

Few would debate the need for people to become familiar with their credit reports and their cred-

it scores during their working years But what about retirees? Do they need to worry about such things?

Yes, indeed, says Gerri

Detweil-er, head of market education for Nav, which provides free business and personal credit scores “It is a mistake to think that retirees don’t need to stay on top of their credit reports or credit scores,” she says.

QUALIFY FOR LOWER RATES

According to Detweiler and others, a significant portion

of retired Americans still have debt For instance, the Urban Institute report-

ed in a 2013 study that the share of adults 65 and older with outstanding debt in- creased from 30% to 46%

from 1998 to 2010; the tion-adjusted median val-

infla-ue of debt grew 56% over the pe- riod; and the av- erage ratio of total house- hold debt over total household

assets more than doubled.

Another report, an AARP Public Policy Institute/Demos paper published in 2013, showed that more than half of those age 50 and

up carry medical expenses ing prescription drugs and dental expenses) on their credit cards.

(includ-Plus, one-third of older Americans use credit cards to pay for basic living expenses such

as rent, mortgage ments, groceries and utili- ties, according to that report.

pay-Given all that debt, weiler says good credit scores can help older Americans qualify for low-

Det-er rates, which in turn can allow them to pay off debt faster.

“With strong credit scores you’ll be able to get low-cost financing so you, hopefully, don’t end up on the minimum-payment treadmill,” she says.

WATCH OUT FOR IDENTITY THEFT

Although the likelihood of identity theft decreases with age, Detweiler says, it can be a significant con- cern for older Americans.

For instance, Bureau of Justice Statistics reported the number of retirement-age vic- tims of identity theft increased to 2.6 million in 2014

“Changes in your credit scores can be one of the fastest ways to catch identity theft,” she says

Others agree

“The No 1 reason retirees should be concerned about their credit report/score is identity theft,” says Sandra Bernardo, man- ager of consumer protection at Experian.

According to Bernardo, most tirees probably do not use credit as they did when they were younger, and thus aren’t paying as close at- tention to their accounts “This makes retirees especially vulner- able to identity thieves, who know these account holders are likely not monitoring their accounts and are easi-

re-er targets,” she says “By monitoring their credit re- ports on a regular basis, retirees can watch for

signs of identity theft, such as new accounts that they did not open, and resolve these cases before the theft has an impact on their nest egg.”

CREDIT FOR CREDIT’S SAKE

Bernardo says retirees should monitor their reports and scores

and “work to maintain their credit health so they can live their retire- ment years to the fullest.”

For example, she says, many older Americans don’t want to fully retire, and instead they may want to finally start their own business “Unless they want to risk drain- ing their retirement sav- ings, many will need to apply for a small-busi- ness loan to get started,” Bernardo says “Of course, one of the major factors in qualifying for a loan is your credit score Your credit score will not only determine if you qualify, but also what interest rate you pay Maintaining credit health so they can quali-

fy for better loans can mean monetary savings post-retirement.”

THE REWARDS

Many Americans plan on traveling once they retire And this, says Bernardo, is certainly another rea- son to worry about credit “Travel rewards credit cards can save trav- elers a ton of money and offer valuable perks,” she says “But re- tirees must first qualify for these cards, and without a good credit score they likely will not be able to secure the best cards and rewards.”

THE BOTTOM LINE

“Credit health is important at ery age, and retirees and young people alike should always work to maintain a healthy credit report and score and watch their report

ev-as well ev-as all financial accounts for any sign of identity theft,” Bernar-

do says.

Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly Got questions? Email Bob at rpo- well@allthingsretirement.com.

Gerri Detweiler,

head of market education for Nav

PERSONAL FINANCE

8T USA TODAY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016

TECH

Hyundai announced last week

that it has partnered with

Ama-zon to let motorists use their

home digital assistant Alexa to

boss around their new Genesis

luxury car.

From inside their homes,

own-ers of Hyundai’s Genesis G90

se-dan will able to use voice

commands through their

Ama-zon Echo speakers to command

the Alexa system to have their

cars perform certain basic

func-tions, Hyundai says.

So, for instance, the customer who wants the car running and air conditioning blasting for a dai-

ly commute need only say thing like, “Alexa, tell Genesis to start my car at 70 degrees.” Or an owner might bark, “Alexa, tell Genesis to lock my car” from the comfort of their living room.

some-In addition, Alexa can flash the car’s headlights, honk the horn or turn off a running engine.

The feature, which went live Thursday, shows that Hyundai is serious about setting Genesis apart since it announced last year that it would become a stand- alone luxury division, much like Toyota’s Lexus or Nissan’s Infin- iti The automaker’s officials say they are first with the feature, which is an accomplishment giv-

en how makers of prestige cars compete vigorously for any edge

when it comes to technology.

Plus, they say the feature is a perfect fit for Genesis Being able

to order basic functions by voice

remotely will keep owners from having to run outside to do it themselves.

“The Genesis brand is about

convenience for the owner,” says Barry Ratzlaff, executive director

of digital business planning and connected operations “Time is the ultimate luxury.”

Amazon’s Echo has proved to

be a hit and is believed to be ing rivals to scramble to create their own home digital assistants The system works much like Siri

forc-on Apple iPhforc-ones: Ask a questiforc-on, get an answer Alexa can field tri- via questions or play music from

a playlist The Genesis function takes it into a new realm.

An Amazon spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

To sign up, owners of the new Genesis G90 need only link their Amazon account to their Genesis connected services account, Rat- zlaff says Connected service comes free for three years.

Alexa, please boss around my new car

CALIF For half a

decade, the launch of

an Apple iPhone

triggered the same

kind of global hysteria once

re-served for beloved music groups

— customers camping for days in

front of a store, often in

Apple-themed costumes

That may be changing Low

ex-pectations for major changes to

the next upgrade, and data

show-ing consumers are holdshow-ing onto

their smartphones longer,

sug-gest the Apple buzz is fading.

Apple has reached the point

where “the phone is so good,

I’m just not as stoked to get

the new version,” says

Blake Rose, who recently

moved west from

Ket-tering, Ohio He owns

the iPhone 6S, released

last September

Sales of Apple

prod-ucts dropped more

than 20% at Target

Corp during the

retail-er’s quarter ended July

30, Target CEO Brian

Cor-nell said Wednesday,

contrib-uting to a 7% drop in total sales

Apple historically introduces

new iPhones shortly after Labor

Day, and if it follows past years’

patterns, it would launch a phone

with a major redesign and

up-grade, say the iPhone 7

This fall, however, some

ana-lysts, including Tim Bajarin of

Creative Strategies, expect Apple

to hold off on a major upgrade,

waiting for 2017 and the 10th

an-niversary of the phone instead.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if next

year, Apple skips 8 and 9 and

in-troduces the iPhone 10, for the

anniversary,” Bajarin says

Apple didn’t respond to USA

TODAY’s request for comment

Analysts expect three key

add-ons for the next iPhone:

u A dual-camera sensor that is designed to dramatically improve low-light images and make it easi-

How does Apple sell

a new edition with minimal new features?

If the camera is really good, “consumers will respond,” Bajarin says.

“It depends upon the quality.”

Sales for the latest iPhone, the 6S and 6S Plus, didn’t catch fire with consumers

as did previous models Apple has reported slumping sales for the previous two quarters, a first for the company, which sent revenue down 15% for the June quarter.

iPhone unit sales fell to 40.4 lion in the recent quarter, down 15% year over year.

mil-Earlier this year, Apple duced the smaller iPhone SE, which introduced no new fea- tures but carried a lower price in

intro-a smintro-aller body Although Apple says sales have been strong for the SE, they haven’t been enough

to push iPhone unit numbers higher than previously

The last major redesign for the iPhone was in 2014’s iPhone 6

and 6 Plus models, which remain Apple’s best-selling iPhone mod- els Consumers loved the larger screens and improved camera.

But 2015’s 6S and 6S Plus failed to impress in an equal way, with new features such as 3-D Touch shortcuts and the ability to add short seconds of video clips

to your photos.

“They don’t really change thing except the camera and speed,” Lala O’Malley of Los An- geles said “It ended with the 4S.”

any-For the next version, Maya Borski of Riverside, Calif., doesn’t mind losing the headphone jack.

“Now you’ll only have to worry about one hole in the phone get- ting wet instead of two and ruin- ing the whole phone,” she says

Many of the consumers we spoke to here on Ocean Front Walk said they would love to see a 100% waterproof iPhone — such

as the new Samsung Galaxy Note

7, unveiled this week

“Where’s Apple with that?”

Rose asks.

But even though the tion from Apple over the past few years has slowed, Apple fans are still out there.

innova-Ryan Seron of Boynton Beach, Fla., says he’ll be “standing on- line” on opening day to get the latest iPhone.

“Everyone always wants the newest thing,” he said.

And O’Malley, though she seemed ho-hum about a new iPhone’s prospects, admitted that she, too, would probably opt for the new model How often does she get a new one? “Sadly, every year,” she says.

SPENCER PLATT, GETTY IMAGES

Customers shop at the new Apple Store at the 350,000-square-foot World Trade Center shopping mall on

open-ing day Tuesday in New York City Historically, Apple introduces new iPhones shortly after Labor Day

APPLE’S IPHONE BUZZ FADES

AS OLD MODELS KEEP TICKING

Some analysts say

Apple may wait until

2017 for big upgrade

MICHEL KOFSKY

Blake Rose, right, says the current iPhone is so good that he’s

“just not as stoked” for a new one.

it first goes

on sale

NEW YORK The era of munication carriers charging you once you top the data limit is coming to a close

telecom-Last week, AT&T announced Mobile Share Advantage plans that won’t charge you extra for going over your data limit, in- stead slowing down your data for the remainder of your billing month The plans come with oth-

er changes — they strip out the cheapest, offering more data for higher prices, while lowering the cost for some higher-data plans.

AT&T is likely betting ers will switch to get rid of annoy- ing charges when they go over the limits They’re following in well- trodden footsteps: T-Mobile, Sprint and most recently Verizon have eliminated what’s known as overages for consumers in new plans Verizon is the only one to charge for the feature, with a $5 fee to enable “Safety Mode.”

consum-The change comes amid a renewed in- crease in com- petition among wireless carri- ers, led by ag- gressive plays

by T-Mobile and Sprint to lure customers.

Those moves have worked In the most recent quarter T-Mobile added 1.12 million phone custom- ers, and AT&T added 185,000

Similar to the other carriers, AT&T will slow users’ speeds to anemic, 2G-like speeds of 128kbps — on par with other car- riers — until the end of the cus- tomer’s billing cycle or until the user decides to upgrade to a larg-

er plan With those speeds, users can check email or do light browsing on the Web, but video watching and other data hungry tasks will be painfully slow AT&T declined to comment further

AT&T now charges customers more if they use more data than they’ve signed up for under their tiered plans For instance, under AT&T’s current Mobile Share Val-

ue plans, the company charges

$20 for an additional 300 MB on its 300 MB plan or $15 per addi- tional 1 GB on its larger plans.

AT&T will still send text messages

to alert users when they are at 75%, 90% and 100% of their monthly data bucket (or at 90%

and 100% for businesses).

As part of the new Mobile Share Advantage, AT&T is re- vamping its data offerings The smallest and cheapest 300 MB and 2 GB plans ($20 and $30 per month, respectively) will be going away They’ll be replaced by 1 GB plan for $30 per month and a 3

GB plan for $40 per month The 5

GB for $50 plan will be replaced

by a new 6 GB for $60 option

Users happy with existing plans don’t need to switch to the new plans, though they won’t get the benefit of avoiding charges for exceeding data allowances.

New plans

to end data overages

at AT&T

Change comes amid a renewed increase in competition among wireless carriers

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Similar to the other carri- ers, AT&T will slow users’ speeds until the end

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cus-Donald Trump loves to batter the media, the corrupt media, the pathetic media that’s forever distorting what he’s saying and underreporting the size of his tre- mendous crowds.

While the Republican dential candidate often seems to lump together the diverse media

presi-as a miserable monolith, he

clear-ly makes some distinctions.

So when he needed to reboot his faltering campaign last week,

he turned to a media figure Meet Stephen Bannon, Team Trump’s newly minted CEO.

But not just any media figure.

Bannon has been executive chairman of Breitbart News, as enthusiastic and consistent a booster of The Donald as can be found A local Breitbart is proba- bly what Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov Mike Pence, was looking for when he briefly tried

to set up a state-run news service that was quickly dubbed “Pravda

on the prairie.”

What’s more, there is word Trump will be trained for his cru- cial debate confrontations with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton

by none other than Roger Ailes, the all-powerful CEO of Fox News until he was brought down last month by a sexual harass- ment lawsuit You can’t get much more media than that.

When I read about the new Trump-Ailes alliance, I thought for a moment I must be reading The Onion In what cosmos could

a candidate by far trailing with women in the polls think it was a

good idea to bring on a man who has been the target of a wide ar- ray of sexual harassment alle- gations?

But it turned out I was reading The New York Times, which said

it had been told about Ailes’ new gig by “four people briefed on the move,” none of them named in the Times story Trump says Ailes has “no role” and suggests he doesn’t need any help preparing for the debates.

While Fox News long has served as a Full Employment Act for failed GOP presidential hope- fuls, I wouldn’t expect a huge in- flux of media people joining the Trump campaign Particularly unlikely to come on board are conservative columnists such as David Brooks, George Will and Michael Gerson, who have been fulminating against Trump for months.

It’s no wonder the Ailes story brought to mind The Onion, because this whole cam- paign has had an Onion-like feel

Trump-to it A blustery billionaire with

no political credentials running the table in the GOP primary?

Never happen, right? Walls on the border, Muslim bans, blood coming out of wherever, a candi- date feuding with Gold Star par- ents, calls for help from the Russians (the Russians!), Second Amendment people to the rescue, President Obama inventing the

Islamic State? Then there’s the campaign chairman who, hand- written ledgers indicate, was to receive $12.7 million in cash from

a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party

You really can’t make this stuff

up And it’s not even Labor Day.

And while candidate Trump truly is in a class by himself, it could only be in a parallel uni- verse where someone thought it was a good idea for a secretary of State to exclusively use a private email server, not to mention evade and obfuscate when that fact came to light.

Hillary Clinton, blindsided by the Obama juggernaut in 2008, has been an exceedingly lucky candidate this time around With her high negatives and lack of ex- citement and vision, it’s hard to imagine her with a clear lead at this point against a candidate who didn’t specialize in self-in- flicted wounds and unforced er- rors

Trump’s steady stream of rages have totally overshadowed the Clinton email albatross, and not because of that crooked media Often when there is a damaging email development, Trump emerges with another I-didn’t-really-say-that outburst that sucks up all the oxygen

out-In the extraordinary weeks of Trump self-immolation since the conventions, Clinton has been

content to play rope-a-dope, largely staying out of the limelight.

If you like your elections heavy

on policy debates, there’s no doubt this one has been a disap- pointment for you Trump, as is his wont, has made it about Trump

And all that wishful thinking

by the GOP about a Trump — you should excuse the expression —

“pivot” to a more traditional paign stance has been just that Every old-school teleprompter speech is followed by fireworks And the new Trump leaders — Bannon and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway — are big dev- otees of “Let Trump Be Trump,”

cam-of all guns blazing Not that the now back-burnered campaign chairman Paul Manafort, he of the Ukrainian millions, has had much success keeping him on the straight and narrow.

But there is one development that is really encouraging for those who care about the public debate For too long, the press was content to stick to the com- fort of he-said-she-said — candi- date X said this, candidate Y responded, and that’s that.

In recent years, thanks largely

to FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and The Washington Post Fact Check-

er, we’ve seen a dramatic rise of political fact-checking, of going the extra mile and sorting out who is telling the truth and who isn’t.

This time around, as Duke fessor and former PolitiFact head honcho Bill Adair points out, we’re seeing much more fact- checking in real-time political re- porting Adair points to a number

pro-of examples pro-of news outlets ing out Trump for the preposter- ous, I mean “sarcastic,” claim that Obama and Clinton founded ISIL.

call-That’s a vital, if long overdue, step in the right direction.

JOHN EHLKE, AP

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump concludes a speech at a campaign rally Tuesday in West Bend, Wis.

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week-er landed a patient in hweek-er ICU.

The patient eventually died — and she had to decide what to tell the patient’s family.

Should she apologize? How much detail should she share about the mistake? Would a frank discussion put the hospital at risk

of a lawsuit?

“I had never really been in that situation before,” said O’Brien, recalling the 2004 incident She decided to tell the patient’s family about the error, bracing herself to face their anger Although the family was stricken by grief, they appreciated her honesty.

“I spent a lot of time with the patient’s family supporting them

and explaining what had pened, and yet I felt so unsup- ported in that experience,” said O’Brien, a physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

hap-Hospitals have traditionally been reticent to disclose to pa- tients or relatives the specifics of how a medical procedure didn’t

go as planned for fear of tice lawsuits In recent years, though, many are beginning to consider a change Instead of the usual “deny-and-defend” ap- proach, they are revamping poli- cies to be more open.

malprac-To help them move in this rection, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released in May an online toolkit.

di-Hospitals’ interest in the proach has been fueled by studies showing that patients want to know when an adverse event has occurred and that doctors suffer from anxiety when there are re- strictions and concerns about what they are allowed to discuss.

ap-Some studies have found that tients are more likely to sue when they perceive a lack of honesty.

pa-MedStar Health, which is

among the largest health ers in Maryland and the Wash- ington, D.C., region, was a pioneer

provid-in settprovid-ing up such programs at its

10 hospitals, starting in 2012.

O’Brien was among the first to sign up as a volunteer, at George- town University Hospital.

A team of physicians — called the “Go Team” — complete a four-hour initial training pro- gram and then annual booster courses every six to eight months

to prepare for these tough versations After that, Go Team members are on call 24/7 to pro-

con-vide guidance Another program,

“Care for the Caregiver,” provides psychological support for staff Training involves role-playing exercises with professional actors who simulate patient scenarios O’Brien remembers clearly one session when she had to confront actors portraying a patient’s fam- ily almost hysterical with anger The patient had suffered from se- vere burns due to a fire in the op- erating room.

“It’s scary to be in that room even though I knew it was a simu- lation,” she said

David Mayer, vice president of quality and safety for MedStar Health, said by creating an open environment, the doctors have been able to learn from past events and improve their perfor- mance He has seen a 60% reduc- tion in serious safety events in four years But openness has a cost The hospital might have to pay for remedies, such as waiving medical bills.

Kaiser Health News is a health policy news service, part of the non-partisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.

Doctors, hospitals prepping for tough talk on mistakes

They are finding honesty is best policy, despite fear of suits

Zhai Yun Tan

Kaiser Health News

MOLLY RILEY, AP

MedStar Health has been a pioneer setting up programs

to deal with medical mistakes

— and discussing them.

There are more than 11,000

athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics

and almost three times as many

journalists Among these 30,000

storytellers are a group that are

not professionals but hope to be

soon — student journalists that

prepared rigorously while at their

campuses in the U.S to find

sto-ries in Brazil

“The Olympic Games have

been something close to my heart

my whole life, and to be able to

experience it firsthand is

emo-tional,” said Ella Fox, a senior at

Queens University of

Char-lotte, who traveled with a group

of peers to cover the Games

There are two types of stories

at the Olympics: obvious ones —

Simone Biles emerging as the

best gymnast in the world, for

example And those like the ones

Queens students are working on

— about the impact of the

Olym-pics on low-income communities

in Rio or on taxi and Uber drivers

that drive spectators to events.

While these journalists have

done their share of athlete and

team profiles, they often wake up

with no idea what to write about

until later that day.

“I have never been in an

envi-ronment where I didn’t have a

plan, but it’s been a lot of fun,”

said Robby General, a junior at

Ball State University “As a

sports writer, I normally cover

games and have exclusive access

to post-game interviews and

press box or sideline seats But

that’s not true here.”

General is a part of the blog

“Ball State at the Games.” He is

simultaneously a writer,

photog-rapher and videogphotog-rapher and

does not have a fixed set of duties.

As website designer and

man-aging editor of “Queens in Rio,”

Queens University senior Hiwot

Hailu directs a team of writers,

provides technical support and is

responsible for managing all the

content posted to the website.

In the past week or so,

profes-sional journalists have been

heavily criticized for allowing

sexist or racially biased coverage

of athletes to slip through the

cracks Hailu said she doesn’t

ex-perience the same pressures.

“I think that our situation

al-lows us to feel that pressure

dif-ferently,” said Hailu “As student

journalists, we are producing the

stories that we want and find

in-teresting That allows us the

free-dom to focus on the impact of the

Games, rather than the news of

the Games itself.”

While many of these student

journalists will have spent only a

little over a month in Rio de

Ja-neiro by the end of the Olympics,

several consider their experience

to be a glimpse into their lives as

professional journalists.

They are reminded that if it is

possible to report at an

interna-tional event where cultural

differ-ences can complicate stories, it is

most definitely possible back at

home The students who have

ventured into Rio’s slums or told

the stories of those who felt

bur-dened by the Olympics feel

espe-cially rewarded in their work.

“This experience really has

helped me to see that journalism

can change lives by telling the

stories of those around you,” said

Fox “And I know for a fact this

experience is changing my life.”

Student

journalists

on Olympic

beat in Rio

Going beyond the

headlines, they have

freedom to dig, grow

Anjali Bhat

USA TODAY College

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Some students have ventured

into Rio’s slums or told the

stories of locals who felt

burdened by the Olympics

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coun-a few weeping willows coun-and gruous evergreens

incon-and flowering cacti and end up at his pillared, two-story place, a motorcycle parked nearby and Cyrus himself grinning from the front door.

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His wife, Tish, is

in California with their daughter Mi- ley, who is taping her debut season

as a judge on The Voice The first season of his new show, Still the King, has just fin- ished airing on CMT His next al- bum, Thin Line, is out Sept 9

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Round bales of hay populate the landscape outside his kitchen window A circular Native Amer- ican artwork hangs on the wall, overlooking a wooden table, also round, where Cyrus seats himself.

“We’ve had this table since I moved here in 1994,” he says.

“That chair by the wall? That’s where Waylon Jennings always sat when he came to visit He was right there one day when he told

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