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University of Cincinnati ROTC cadets honed land-navigation skills at Mt. Airy Forest Park Saturday.

The course was the fi rst of this year’s training, aimed at preparing cadets for the Leadership Development Assessment Course (LDAC).

“This is basic prep for their summer training, Leadership Development Assessment Course, LDAC we call it,” said Ret. Army Major David Ramsey, UC ROTC advisor.

There are 31 cadets in this year’s junior class, Ramsey said.

“It’s one of the biggest, if not the biggest classes we’ve ever had,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey retired from the Army in 2011, and has been advising the UC ROTC program for 10 years. He served as a military policeman, and later an engineer.

The cadets do land navigation throughout the year to prepare for LDAC where they are tested for profi ciency in orienteering by fi nding marked points on the course, Ramsey said.

“We come out here just about every season, and during the fall and spring we go out to Camp Atterbury, Indiana,” said Cadet Landon Grey, offi cer in charge of the daytime portion of the event. “There’s a much bigger [land navigation] course out there, it’s pretty massive actually, and we train on that as well.”

This is the fi rst time Grey was put in charge of a land navigation event, he said. Last year he was charge of a full day of training at Camp Atterbury, where the LDAC is held, Grey said.

The cadets receive prior instruction on how to orienteer themselves in the fi eld, how to plot points on a map and various methods to get to their destination, Grey said.

“Land navigation can be fun,” Grey said. “People stress out about it sometimes, but as long as you know what you’re doing… it’s pretty easy and it’s pretty enjoyable actually.”

The two most common methods of fi nding navigation through the woods are terrain association, where the navigator uses landmarks to orient themselves to the destination, and dead reckoning, where the navigator walks overland directly to the objective, said Cadet Levi Leonard, the student-offi cer in charge of the nighttime portion of the event.

“It’s called dead reckoning when you go straight through the woods, but other cadets just use terrain association and walk along paths till they get in the area of the point,” Leonard said.

“Some people like to walk on the roads, and some people like to blaze through the bushes,” Leonard said. “We leave it up to them, they can do it how they’re most comfortable.”

Though the ROTC program has professional military advisers, it places an emphasis on cadets leading cadets, and for this exercise the fourth-year cadets were in charge of third-year cadets who navigated the course, said Cadet Maria Harford, a fourth-year criminal justice student.

The ROTC program is based on the cadet’s class, Harford said.

“Ones are just new to the program and twos are getting into it, but threes, that’s your main year before you go to camp,” Harford said. “That’s who we’re training today. Fours, we just run the ROTC program.”

The course has 20-25 points and cadets are given fi ve coordinates to plot on their map and fi nd in two hours, said Cadet Tyler Higgins, a fourth-year engineering student.

“The points are on trees usually,” Higgins said. “They’re orange pieces of two by four, you’ll know them when you see them.”

At the points are orange blocks of wood with a number and letter inscribed on the side. When the cadet fi nds the marker they write down the number and letter to prove that they made their way to the correct destination.

Higgins found his fi rst point quickly, but had trouble with the second.

Other cadets had trouble fi nding that same point, and milled around the area trying to fi nd it. Higgins gave up on the point after roughly ten minutes, choosing to save time and fi nd the other points.

Higgins’ third point was several hundred meters away and took him across Mt. Airy.

Roughly an hour later Higgins had found most of his points and headed back to the beginning of the course, where the Military Sciene Level 4’s were waiting to evaluate the cadets’ progress.

“[The event] went pretty well,” Harford said. “They were pretty intense.”

KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR

A man was taken to University Hospital after being shot in the leg Saturday morning.

Five males approached a 22-year-old man on West Charlton Street and engaged in a verbal altercation, said University of Cincinnati Police Department Chief Michael Cureton. One suspect produced a gun and fi red one shot in the air and a second shot that struck the victim’s leg, Cureton said.

The victim, whose name and age were not released, sat conscious on the sidewalk of the 2700 block of Jefferson Avenue when Cincinnati police and UCPD responded to the scene around 12:30 a.m., authorities said.

It is not known why the victim ended up on Jefferson Avenue, Cureton said.

The victim was not a UC student, police said. “My understanding is that it is non-life threatening

injuries,” Cureton said. David Vaughn, a fi rst-year electronic media student,

was on Jefferson Avenue and stumbled upon the victim. “I was walking down the street and all of the sudden, I

saw this guy on the ground screaming and I thought they

were just partying too hard,” Vaughn said. “He was just...screaming. I wanted to help him but I didn’t know what was happening. I was just shocked.”

When severe and frequent crime occurs on the perimeters of campus, it increases fear among students who are aware of the occurrence, Cureton said.

“[The shooting] makes me feel a little unsafe and uncomfortable,” Vaughn said. “But I expect that living in Clifton.”

The shooting isn’t a refl ection of campus safety, said Justin Kay, fi rst-year criminal justice student. Kay heard the gun shots from Daniels Hall and watched police arrive at the scene, he said. Kay doesn’t feel unsafe in the Clifton, he said.

“It was really close to campus,” Kay said. “I feel like the police presence is more than enough.”

UCPD has increased patrol in the area in the sense that patrol isn’t so random but directed where there is activity, Cureton said.

The suspects fl ed the scene, heading toward Short Vine in a white van and a black Honda or Acura, Cureton said.

“That could’ve been me being shot, or anyone,” Vaughn said.

No arrests have been made as of press time.

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JEFFERSON AVENUE SHOOTING Emergency crews help a man who was shot in the leg on Jefferson Avenue.

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MILITARY SKILLS TRAINING Tyler Higgins and Megan Howard use maps to navigate the hills and valleys of Mt. Airy Forest Friday, Sept. 21.

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STANDING AT ATTENTION ROTC cadets prepped for Leadership Development Assessment Saturday at Mt. Airy Forest Park.

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Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Toronto collaborated to better understand the rare dry tropical forest forests at the Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar.

Brooke Crowley, an associate geology and anthropology professor for UC, Keriann McGoogan, an anthropology professor at the University of Waterloo and Shawn Lehman from an associate anthropology professor at UT researched stable isotopes and used them to measure environmental effects on the dry, deciduous forests of Madagascar.

Researchers used carbon and nitrogen signatures in leaves from the edges of the forest to gauge the effects of environmental disturbance, Crowley said.

“Along forest edges, trees are exposed to different environmental conditions than those typically found in the forest interior,” Crowley said. “Such conditions, including increased wind and sun, and lower relative humidity, can result in changes in tree size and species composition within the forest edge.”

“Specifi cally, how are common plants responding to varying soil, water, and chemical conditions near and far from the edge,” Lehman said.

These edge effects can be measured using either biotic factors such as tree height, or abiotic factors such as light levels and temperatures, Crowley said. Crowley and her colleagues hope that the stable isotope data can create a chemical signature that combines these two indicators, she said.

“If we can identify these patterns in leaves, then we might be able to use isotope values in fur samples to identify animals foraging in edge habitat,” she said.

All of the information they collected will help in the effort to conserve forests at Ankarafantsika, Crowley said.

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A state investment of $11 million will support educational institutions and business partners that advance learning and job opportunities in Ohio by creating internship and co-op programs.

The initiative, which was passed in June 2012, is part of Gov. John Kasich’s workforce development efforts to align Ohio’s education curriculum with skill sets that are in demand by Ohio’s businesses, said Kim Norris, director of communications at the Ohio Board of Regents.

“What we want is a partnership between business and education,” Norris said. “Co-ops and internships help keep our best and brightest here in Ohio.”

A priority for Kasich is to reform the workforce development system. In February 2012, Kasich signed an executive order to

create the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, said Connie Wehrkamp, deputy press secretary for Kasich.

“With 77 programs scattered across 13 different state agencies, Ohio’s workforce development system is too complex and fragmented, and is a system that has not always met the needs of job creators or workers,” Wehrkamp said. “Reforming this system to ensure we better connect workers to job opportunities is a policy priority for the Governor.”

Undergraduate programs that receive part of this grant will be required to match 100 percent of the funds.

The education partner and the business partner must work together to match these funds by leveraging current funding, Norris said.

“Co-ops and internships give [the businesses] an opportunity to see how these

potential future employees will work for their business,” Norris said. “This is a great opportunity for our public institutions and business to leverage precious resources that they have to their maximum capability to provide the workforce of the future.”

The grant aims to create new partnerships between education institutions and key industries in Ohio that have expressed a need for skilled workers — bio health, banking and insurance services, information technology, consumer goods, advanced manufacturing and food processing.

These target industries were determined through a series of surveys that have consistently identified them as areas in desperate need of skilled workers, Norris said.

The $11 million grant will be divvied up among schools and businesses depending

on how many of these partnerships apply and are eligible for the award, Norris said.

UC, with its already active internship and co-op program, has been invited to apply for part of this grant in order to expand the opportunity for all undergraduate students to be involved in an internship or co-op program, said Kettil Cedercreutz, director of UC’s professional practice department.

By 2019, there is hope that 100 percent of undergrad students at UC will have the opportunity to participate in an internship or co-op program, Cedercreutz said.

“Workforce development is a massive list and the mission is far from accomplished,” said Rob Nichols, press secretary for Kasich. “But this endeavor is taking the necessary steps toward training young people with the skills they need for jobs now and in the future.”

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The Cincinnati Police department will be implementing changes to their regulations after a study showed Taser guns could cause cardiac arrest and death.

The study sparked the initiative to implement stricter policies regarding Taser usage, said Lt. Kimberly Williams, CPd public information officer.

CPd officers are trained to only use tasers in defined situations, to aim at the back of targets and to avoid deploying Tasers in the chest region of individuals, Williams said.

“Tasers are just one of the tools we have to do our jobs, and we are responsible to protect our officers who are in the field,” Williams said.

Tasers will continue to be used by CPd, but understanding that there are risks involved with Taser usage is something that the department took into account with its policy revision, Williams said.

Although CPd only recently determined to decrease Taser usage, Taser usage has declined continuously since they were first implemented in 2004, Williams said.

“As officers and even the public, [we need to] become more aware of what [Tasers] do,” Williams said. “Often times all the officer will have to do is show them the gun, and usually we get compliance.”

The use of Tasers has been banned among the University of Cincinnati Police department following the unexpected death of 18 year-old, Everette howard last summer. UCPd Officer Richard haas deployed a Taser on howard after he refused to comply with the officer.

Although the cause of howards’ death was never officially determined, the event sparked a great deal of controversy surrounding the use of Tasers on campus, said UC Spokesperson Greg hand.

“They [Tasers] were suspended because a lot of questions were raised about their effectiveness,” hand said.

While CPd will continue to use tasers, UCPd will continue to operate without Tasers, said UC Police Chief Michael Cureton.

‘There is certainly a different use for tasers in municipal use verses a campus setting,” Cureton said.

“Until we get more information on the proper use, that includes officers be trained in the appropriate use of the Tasers, they will continued to be banned on campus,” Cureton said.

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Obama for America designed a new initiative to engage America’s youth called the For All campaign. Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are now outlets for users to express the issues and values most important to them.

The movement involves writing an idea on one’s hand then tweeting or posting a picture with the hand over one’s heart and incorporating the hashtag For All.

The campaign has gained celebrity recognition, participants such as Jared Leto and Jessica Alba are summing up ways to advance our nation and show support for Obama at the same time.

In a press conference call Thursday, Leto explained his reason for believing why love is important.

“Love is the driving force behind kindness, acceptance, tolerance, forgiveness, passion, equality,” Leto said. “There is a love for others, love for family, love for country and that was important to me.”

Along with the For All initiative, the Obama campaign strives for people, especially the younger generation, to get out and vote, according to the campaign.

“I think that’s incredibly important for younger people to participate in this election because they are going to be a very important factor in the president winning” Leto said. “I think that a lot of the young people are too busy,

they don’t feel like their vote really counts, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with school and other things going on and to not realize the impact of your vote. Every vote matters. Every single vote is incredibly important.”

Vote director for the Obama campaign, Buffy Wicks, reaches out to potential voters by knocking on doors and making phone calls, but the For All campaign is a new way to involve our youth.

To follow the presidential election and how issues are being shaped for college students, check out newsrecord.org.

EARNING ITS STRIPESPhoto Essay: ROtC Cadets traverse Mt. airy forest

TYLER BELL | staff PHOtOGRaPHER1. top, Ryan Kruer, left, Chris dinkelacker, center, and tyler Higgins, right, look over a map before they plan to navigate through My airy forest.

2. top left, University of Cincinnati ROtC Cadet, Justin valentine, uses a map to navigate through Mt. airy forest friday, sept. 21.

3. above left, Kelsea Killin, left, Catie lenhart, center, and Jacob saint-Blancard, right, walk back to Mt. airy Pavilion during a land navigation training day at Mt. airy forest..

4. above left, University of Cincinnati ROtC Cadet, tyler Higgins, uses a map to plot a course through Mt. airy forest friday, sept. 21.

5. left, University of Cincinnati ROtC cadets sit down to review their maps before starting their land navigation training at Mt. airy forest..

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LOS ANGELES — Despite complaints over a new Maps app and a smaller dock connector, hundreds of Apple fans spent the night outside Apple stores hoping to be among the first to grab the iPhone 5.

One of the first to emerge from the Apple store at Los Angeles’ Grove shopping center Friday was 25-year-old Tyler Allen, who triumphantly raised his new phone in the air to loud cheers.

The manager of a pizza shop said he waited nearly 12 hours in line and played video games to stay awake.

“This phone is so sexy. It’s so sexy,” the Los Angeles resident said afterward, in near disbelief. “I feel like I have a Bentley in my hand.” More than 250 customers lined

up at the Grove. About 50 people were lined up by 6

a.m. on Beverly Boulevard outside Beverly Center in Los Angeles. At the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., the line snaked down to Wilshire Boulevard, half a block away, where it wrapped around a Banana Republic store.

Shoppers set up folding chairs and coolers, bought takeout from nearby restaurants and befriended others waiting in line.

As self-professed die-hard Apple fans, many passed the time on their iPads, MacBook Pros and older-generation iPhones. It was a scene repeated across the country as Apple opened its stores at 8 a.m. Friday.

Although most of those in line were

there to buy the phone for themselves, some showed up early hoping to make some easy money.

They included George Adams, 19, and about 10 of his friends. He arrived at the Grove at 6 p.m. Thursday to be the first in line, hoping to sell about half of the group’s spots for $300 each.

He ended up selling five spots, but only for $100 each.

“It was less than what I wanted, but it was a good profit,” Adams said. With limited inventory in stores, some shoppers showed up only to find Apple didn’t have exactly what they wanted.

Steve Merlow, 21, arrived at the Grove on Thursday night with his girlfriend. He had been hoping to buy a 16GB black iPhone 5 on the Sprint network, but found out Friday morning that the store didn’t have any in stock. He settled for a white model instead.

Merlow, a nightclub cashier from Hollywood, said he was a little disappointed.

“I still got my iPhone,” he said. “I didn’t wait 10 hours for nothing.”

Many Apple fans noted they could have pre-ordered the phone online or waited a few days for the crowds to abate, but admitted they wanted to be part of the in-store excitement.

“I have to have it, Day 1,” Danny Lopez, 26, said Thursday night at the Third Street Promenade. He was one of the first in line after arriving around 2 p.m.

“It’s always really festive; that’s why you come,” said Paul Hall, a movie producer from Santa Barbara, Calif., who has gone to an Apple store on the first day of every iPhone release.

He arrived at the Beverly Center at 6 a.m. Friday and waited outside on the sidewalk with several dozen people until the mall opened its doors.

Apple is expected to release initial sales numbers next week.

Last year, the company announced that it had sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S units in the three days after that phone’s

launch. Earlier this week, Apple reported that

more than 2 million iPhone 5s had been ordered on the first day of pre-sales, on Sept. 14, a company record.

Several analysts have predicted that Apple could sell as many as 10 million iPhone 5s through the weekend, though there could be inventory problems.

“Given indications for demand, iPhone sales this weekend should far surpass prior sales records, although we acknowledge the risk that supply constraints and stock-outs could cause the record figure to actually be lower than it really should be,” Barclays analyst Ben A. Reitzes wrote in a note to investors.

Although the phone is expected to be a bestseller, there have already been some complaints.

Users are upset over the iPhone 5’s smaller dock connector; although Apple is selling adapters, it has warned that they won’t work with all iPhone accessories.

And there are also big gripes with the new Maps app on the iOS 6 operating system that comes on the iPhone 5.

The app, Apple users say, is inferior to the previous Google Maps apps, with misplaced locations and visually confusing images (such as an apocalyptic depiction of the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge).

Apple shares rose $1.39, or less than 1 percent, to close at $700.09 Friday.

Among those getting an iPhone 5 on its first day was Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who lined up outside an Apple store in Queensland, Australia, where he was traveling.

Reached on his cellphone, Wozniak said he bought two 64GB versions, one in white and one in black, because he couldn’t decide from photos which he liked better.

“I want to use it for a while — not half an hour, not a day. I want to use it for at least a week to see if it seems quicker and more responsive,” he said. “It’s hard to imagine because my current phone works so well already.”

iPhone 5 debuts, joy ensuesChUCK LIddY | RALIEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER

IT’S FInALLY here Following a 58-hour wait Jonathan Myers, 20, of Morrisville, revels at purchasing the iPhone 5 at the Streets at Southpoint in Durham, North Carolina, Friday, September 21, 2012. Business analysts have not made definitive estimates on iPhone 5 sales figures, but Apple is confident sales for its newest phone will be in the millions.

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WAITIng In LIne Zack Britt, center, clasps his hands as he waits in line with other customers for the new iPhone 5 outside of Apple Store, Mall at Millenia, early morning, Friday, September 21, 2012, in Orlando, Florida.

Romney seeks hispanic, minority voteFrAnCO OrdOnez | MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney appears to be banking this week on Latinos having short-term memories — unveiling a softer tone on immigration during the Republican presidential candidate’s strongest push yet to cut into President Barack Obama’s commanding lead for the Latino vote.

The GOP nominee ratcheted up advertising in Latino markets, addressed the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and appeared on the leading Spanish-language networks, Univision and Telemundo.

He caught skeptics’ attention when he spoke of immigration in ways that appeared at odds with some of the statements he made during the primaries, including suggesting he’d support the DREAM Act — which would give a path to citizenship for those who immigrated as children and attend college or serve in the military — after previously saying he’d veto the measure. The messages seemed so different that, for some, it brought back memories of the “Etch A Sketch” comment made last spring by a Romney aide, who described how his boss could shake things up after the brutal primaries and start a new moderate campaign for the general election.

“It’s hard to see it as anything but flip-flopping because he was just saying something different 10 to 12 months ago,” said Greg Weeks, chairman of the political science department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

There appears to be no question that Obama will win the greatest share of the Latino vote. Romney is doing his best to cut into that lead, but experts say he isn’t making up much ground among the fraction of undecided Latinos. And becoming too immigration friendly could turn off conservative voters.

But Obama faces his own challenges in energizing a less enthusiastic voting bloc that helped him win four years ago. He’s also getting grilled for failing to pass immigration reform.

Obama commands nearly 70 percent of Latino support, which could be critical in swing states with large Hispanic populations, such as Nevada and Colorado. But Romney hopes to grab some of those

votes by appealing to Latinos’ concerns about the economy, which polls show is Latinos’ greatest issue. But the economic message is tougher to get across when the perception of many Latinos is that Republicans don’t like them, Weeks said.

Romney expressed support for Arizona’s tough immigration law — which requires police officers, while enforcing other laws, to question the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally — and other policies that encourage the undocumented to “self-deport,” or return to their countries of birth. He has said he’d veto the federal DREAM Act. The bill failed, but Obama implemented a policy this summer that would halt deportations of young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

This week, Romney said he supported giving legal permanent residence to illegal immigrants who serve in the military. He suggested to Univision that he could support legislation similar to the DREAM Act that has been proposed by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

“I’m not going to be rounding people up and deporting them,” Romney said. “We’re going to put in place a permanent solution. And, unlike the president, when I’m president I will actually do what I promised.”

Romney hosted several prominent Latino Republican elected officials at the Republican National Convention last month in Tampa, Fla. But at the same convention, the party formally adopted a platform saying that more states should adopt laws like Arizona’s, which the vast majority of Latinos strongly oppose.

“Part of the problem is that a lot of Latino voters are not in his corner for things that have nothing to do with him,” said Sylvia Manzano, a senior analyst at Latino Decisions, which is conducting a weekly Latino tracking poll with

impreMedia. The Republican Party’s approach with immigrants over the past several years makes it difficult for Romney or any candidate to make up ground in one campaign, let alone 45 days, Manzano said.

Romney’s approach also risks alienating supporters.

“There is a reason why he took the position that he took during his campaign for the nomination,” said Ira Mehlman, communications director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “If the people who took him at face value back then find they’ve been betrayed, it might not sit well with them.”

Obama faces his own challenges with Latinos. His actions don’t always match his words. Despite a message of compassion, his administration has deported more illegal immigrants than any other administration.

He was pressed repeatedly Thursday by Univision anchors over a promise to deliver immigration reform. Obama admitted his “biggest failure so far” was not passing immigration reform.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine foreign nationals and their Afghan driver were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-packed car into their mini-bus near the Kabul airport, government officials said. Two Afghan bystanders were also killed, said a statement from Afghanistan’s interior ministry.

A spokesman for the Afghan insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said was carried out by a young woman. Zubair Sediqi told McClatchy Newspapers in a phone interview that the bombing was in retaliation for the crude YouTube video that insults the prophet Muhammad, Islam’s most revered figure.

Eleven Afghan civilians were wounded in the blast and taken to the hospital, the Interior Ministry said. It said the deceased foreign nationals worked for an airline company.

A statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai said eight of the dead were South African and one was from Kyrgyzstan. Sediqi claimed they were all U.S. citizens. “They were American intelligence agents,” Sediqi said.

Tuesday’s attack underscores how perceived insults against the Prophet Muhammad can be used as justification for violent acts. The 14-minute video, “Innocence of the Muslims,” has been cited as the cause for attacks on U.S. embassies in Eygpt, Yemen and Sudan.

Reaction in Afghanistan has been muted, however. Afghan officials took steps to block access to the video on YouTube, and religious leaders in Kabul and the country’s second-largest city, Kandahar, have urged people to show restraint.

A demonstration outside a U.S. military base in Kabul on Monday saw outbreaks of violence and minor injuries

to a small number of policemen and protesters. However, most demonstrations against the video have been relatively peaceful.

Tuesday’s suicide bombing — which took place around 6.40 a.m. — also underscores the apparent ease with which insurgent groups can penetrate security in Kabul, supposedly the most secure city in Afghanistan. It follows an audacious attack by Taliban insurgents dressed in American army uniforms that penetrated security at a heavily-guarded U.S.-led coalition base in restive Helmand province. Two U.S. Marines were killed and at least six Harrier jets were destroyed.

The Taliban also claimed the attack on the coalition base at Helmand was in response to the video.

Describing Tuesday’s suicide attack at Kabul, Abdul Rahim, 40, told McClatchy Newspapers he was selling juice and energy drinks from his cart when the bomb went off less than 50 yards away.

“I heard a powerful explosion, and the area was covered with dust. I saw pieces of the cars everywhere,” Rahim said. “It was early morning and there weren’t many people around, otherwise the casualties would have been much higher.”

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the attack, aside from the carnage at the scene, was that Hezb-e-Islami — one of the three major Afghan-based insurgent groups, whose political wing is the largest bloc in Afghanistan’s Parliament — had previously denounced suicide bombing and refused to use it as a tactic.

Sediqi, the Hezb-e-Islamic spokesman, said that his organization still rejected suicide attacks that targeted civilians, but “We support suicide bombers against the Americans.”

“Of course we support killing Americans,” Sediqi said. “We killed Americans, and we take responsibility for that.”

Afghan suicide attack kills nineAn explosive-laden minibus detonated at the entrance to Kabul International Airport

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SAN JUAN, Nicaragua — Boom and bust cycles are no stranger to this small town, which once played an outsized role in distant affairs.

Set in a protected harbor in Nicaragua’s remote southeast corner, the town in the mid-19th century was briefly the most important port in Central America. Tens of thousands of Americans with gold fever passed by its wharf.

Then a bust hit. Tropical jungle thick with jaguar and peccary overtook the town as civil war gripped Nicaragua. Three decades ago, just one family remained.

Now San Juan may be on the cusp of another boom.The government is putting the finishing touches on a 4,900-foot

runway and airport valued at $12 million, part of a race to develop the region as it maneuvers with neighboring Costa Rica over a disputed border. Shimmering mirage-like is an even greater yearning: Nicaragua again talks of building an inter-oceanic waterway to compete with the Panama Canal, with one terminus here.

The waterway would allow ships to transit from the Atlantic up the San Juan River to Lake Nicaragua, then across an 11-mile isthmus to the Pacific Ocean, or vice versa.

Even if the waterway remains an illusion — skeptics abound — the 1,800 people who now reside in San Juan voice gratitude for the renewed attention. Less than half a decade ago, boats provided the only access to the town. A single telephone was the lifeline to the outside world. Electricity flickered on and off.

Now there is reliable power and blanket cellular telephone service. The airport has cut the journey to the rest of Nicaragua and opened the doors to tourists, who come for sport fishing, bird watching and rousting around historic ruins.

“This corner of Nicaragua is a treasure trove,” said Eden Pastora, a onetime guerrilla commander who is the region’s biggest promoter.

President Daniel Ortega, head of the leftist Sandinista Front, appointed Pastora to head a commission seeking global financing for the $30 billion inter-oceanic waterway. Pastora, for his part, is delving into all manner of private development, including plans to build an international marina with scores of slips.

San Juan lies below the Caribbean hurricane belt, offering a safe harbor for yachts seeking shelter or long-term harborage.

Pastora, a fit-looking 75-year-old with a shock of white hair, said the airport, which is operational but so new that it has yet to be inaugurated, would facilitate the use of the marina.

“The gentlemen millionaires will come on their executive jets, get on their yachts and go all over the Caribbean,” Pastora said. “All kinds and sizes of yachts will come — and they will pay.”

Far more primitive vessels brought Spanish explorers, who discovered the San Juan River delta in 1539, and christened a settlement as San Juan del Norte in 1541. More than three centuries later, Great Britain laid claim to the region under the guise of protecting native Miskito Indians.

A Miskito king renamed the settlement Greytown in homage to the governor of Jamaica, a British subject, and the name lingers unofficially today.

What propelled the port into world headlines was the 1848 California Gold Rush. Would-be prospectors flocked from the U.S. East Coast to Central America in their quest to reach the California mines.

Shipping baron Cornelius Vanderbilt made three trips to San Juan to bring his Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Co., which already was operating to Panama. Vanderbilt’s Nicaragua route was cheaper and at least two days shorter than the journey through Panama, and throngs

clambered aboard his vessels.“More than 150,000 people arrived from New York and passed

through here,” said Misael Morales Sequeira, the town’s 34-year-old mayor. “The Gold Rush lasted 15 years, and it left no benefit for the town.”

History books note, though, that among the notables to pass by San Juan through the centuries were English privateer Francis Drake, Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, writer Mark Twain, Italian Gen. Giuseppe Garibaldi and Robert E. Peary, who would go on to fame as the first explorer of the North Pole.

Remnants of San Juan’s heyday lie in rusty decrepitude in the lagoons and jungles. Still visible above water is the skeletal hulk of a sunken dredge and an iron-hulled steamship. Elsewhere, one sees rusted boilers and abandoned steam engines.

Wrought-iron fencing protects four cemeteries with headstones mostly in English. The cemeteries hold tombs of British and American sailors, Masons and Catholics.

A tragic period hit San Juan after the triumph of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution. U.S.-financed Contra rebels rose up (some under the leadership of Pastora), and both Sandinista and Contra fighters laced the area with landmines.

“The population of San Juan de Nicaragua decided to flee to Costa Rica,” Morales said. “They abandoned the town.” Most houses were burned to the ground.

When voters tossed the Sandinistas out of power in 1990, some 30 families returned, joining the single clan that had stayed. With United Nations help, the town was established on the banks of the Rio Indio about a mile and half from the original settlement. The name was subsequently changed from San Juan del Norte to San Juan de Nicaragua, although Greytown is still in common use.

Pastora was a crucial figure in a recent episode involving the region, perhaps fitting for a man whose personal history has oscillated like that of the port. Pastora, a onetime fisherman, became renowned as Commander Zero in the Sandinista uprising in the 1970s, only to turn on the Sandinistas in the 1980s as an armed foe. He returned to the Sandinista fold in recent years, rekindling a close friendship with Daniel Ortega. Through that back-and-forth, he found time to father 21 children with 10 women, four of whom he married.

“I know how to fish, to fight, to sin and to love,” he said.In late 2010, while Pastora’s company dredged the San Juan River that

demarcates the border, it ignited a dispute with Costa Rica, testing the neighbor’s sovereignty over an island in the delta, Isla Calero. The incident led to a buildup of Nicaraguan troops and police from Costa Rica, which has no standing army.

Eager to rally nationalist feelings ahead of elections in 2011, the Ortega government and the Sandinista Front set up outposts around and on the disputed island, defying requests from the Organization of American States to withdraw.

“This is 100 percent Nicaraguan soil. We must fight for every centimeter,” said Jose Luis Argenal, a Sandinista in charge of dozens of young men deployed to the island. Signs and graffiti on shacks described the island as worth dying for.

Both nations took the matter to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and a verdict is expected in the spring of 2013. Yet to be seen is whether the decision will be accepted by both nations.

Pastora, meanwhile, earns $80,000 a month from the Ortega government for operating dredges along the San Juan River — a sum he considers insufficient.

“It is nothing,” Pastora said. “I’m asking for $200,000 a month.”

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on ComebaCk trail A former U.S. ship captain is among the foreigners buried at one of the cemeteries in San Juan de nicaragua, a ghost town that is coming back to life. the remote city was once home to a gold rush, but fell on tough economic times as nicaragua experineced civil war.

nicaraguan village could become economically successful in future

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PARIS — Rats feed a type of genetically modified corn died younger, and suffered a range of tumors and cancers, a new French study found Wednesday.

The report in the online edition of the International Journal of Food Toxicity by a team of researchers at the university of Caen in northern France looked at rats fed on the GM crop for two years.

“The results are alarming. We observed a typical two to three time higher mortality rate among females,” researcher Gilles-Eric Seralini told AFP news agency.

“There are two to three times more tumors in rats of both sexes,” he added.

Two hundred rats were fed a GM corn strain named NK603 for two years, as well as the herbicide Roundup.

Both products are owned by the U.S. company Monsanto.

“For the first time ever, a GM and a pesticide were evaluated for their health impact for longer than health agencies, governments and industry have done,” Seralini said.

According to the professor, NK603 has only been tested for up to three months previously. “These are the best tests you can have, before going on to test on humans,” he added.

In Brussels, a spokesman for the EU Health Commissioner John Dalli said the European Commission would be examining the study.

“The European Food Safety Authority will have to study precisely under which conditions this study was carried out. ... If this study proves to have a scientific foundation and offers a scientific novelty, then the commission will have to draw its conclusions,” he said.

Anais Fourest, a campaigner at Greenpeace, said: “This study reinforces our concerns over the significantly negative impacts of GMOs on human and animal health.”

“New scientific studies are needed quickly to confirm these results. We must not play with the health of Europeans,” she said.

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HOROSCOPEHOROSCOPEHOROSCOPEToday’s Birthday (10/21/12). The lessons for

the next two and a half years revolve around responsible money management: budgeting, saving, minimizing debt and planting seeds for future growth. Educational adventures tempt exploration and expansion. Learn from mentors and grow your passions.

Aries (Mar. 21-April 19) -- Balance work and romance. Relax with someone instead of going out, and save money. Defi ne success to include where you’re winning, and use failure to show what’s missing.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Choose love you can depend on. Don’t worry if you make mistakes; practice builds much-needed skills. Launch a new project. Improve household communications. Change your hairstyle.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Others acknowledge your charm. Your communication skills are getting better. Write a love letter, and seal it with a kiss. Don’t be afraid to do the job over to get it right.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Listen carefully to one who loves you. Go for what you believe in. Not everybody may agree with you, but you’ll be happier for following your heart.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- It’s easy to lose track of time when you’re having fun ... set an alarm so you won’t forget an important appointment. A tender moment arises. Everyone wins.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Let a partner take the lead. Don’t waste your old stuff; repurpose it. There’s money in there to be saved or given away. Start by fi xing leaks.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Relax. You’re surrounded by love, and you can fi gure it out. Let the girls have their say, and accept their encouragement. You have more than expected.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- You have more money than you thought. Hone your skills while having fun. Call a

family member, and ask for what was promised. You draw love to you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Communication channels are open and available for you to profi t. Good food and friends make the day even more enjoyable. Find motivation in love.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your focus and determination make you especially attractive. Everyone wants to be at your house. Don’t get so distracted that you forget to invest in your career.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- - All work and no play could make Jack and Jill very boring. Increase the fun. Don’t be afraid to roll around or do headstands. Great ideas are the result.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) --Play with friends and move up a level. Work your plan, and provide information. Start by listing what’s overdue. Others have skills you lack. Show your appreciation.

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The University of Cincinnati volleyball team opened Big East play over the weekend, falling to Notre dame 3-2 Friday and defeating DePaul 3-1 Sunday at Fifth Third Arena.

UC lost to Notre Dame in an extremely close match, which ended with an extremely rare red-card.

“I thought we played phenomenal tonight. As we grow and get better, we need to capitalize on opportunities sooner,” said UC head coach Molly Alvey.

UC utilized an early 7-point run to defeat the Irish in the fi rst set, 25-17.

Cincinnati and Notre Dame were tied for the majority of the second set, but a late three-point run by the Irish gave Notre Dame the set, 25-21, and evened the match.

UC took a 2-1 advantage after the third set, winning 25-21. The set started off with an early fi ve-point UC lead, but Notre Dame tied the score at 20 and three straight kills from UC senior Jordanne Scott at the end of the set proved to be the deciding factor.

The fi fth set played out relatively even, but ended abruptly when the down-referee charged one of UC’s players with a red card.

With the score tied at 14, UC senior Megan Turner was whistled for an attacking error. The error gave Notre Dame a 15-14 lead, but Turner was shown the red-card before the next point began and Notre Dame was awarded the set, and the match, 16-14.

“There are multiple things that can happen for a red card,” Alvey said. “It’s basically just a penalty card where the other team is awarded a point.”

Seniors Jordanne Scott and Emily Hayden led the Bearcats in kills with 21 and 17 kills respectively.

UC rebounded from the loss, defeating Depaul Sunday for its fi rst conference win of the season.

Scott followed up her solid performance against Notre Dame with her second double-double of the season, registering 24 kills and

16 digs. DePaul won a high scoring fi rst

set, which fi nished 28-26 in favor of the Blue Demons. UC had two opportunities to serve out the set, but couldn’t capitalize.

UC rebounded well, dominating a quick second set, 25-13.

The third set was far more

competitive, with UC using 3 straight kills from Scott and an ace from senior Rachel Rohlfs to complete the come from behind victory, 25-23.

Cincinnati comfortably handled the fourth game, 25-20, to seal its fi rst home win of the season.

Alvey was happy to get the win

on the heels of UC’s heartbreaking loss to Notre Dame, she said.

“We’re happy to have played well together and come out on the winning side,” Alvey said. “I thought we responded really well”

The Bearcats will be back in action Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. against Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

With the NFL season offi cially underway, the most controversial members of the League have become the replacement referees.

The NFL locked out the regular offi cials in June after their contract with the league expired. The league then brought in replacement offi cials, mostly from small colleges, handed them NFL rulebooks and set them loose.

The results have been mixed — and that’s being generous.

The replacement offi cials have drawn criticism from around the league. Players, coaches, and fans are all clearly fed up.

Roger Goodell and his band of merry idiots have released statements in support of the job the replacement refs are doing and the vast improvements they’ve made — oblivious to the joke the refs are becoming.

One of the most infamous milestones of this controversy was the Brian Stropolo debacle. The side judge set to referee the New Orleans-Carolina game was relieved of his duties just hours before kickoff after it was discovered he was a Saints fan.

Pictures were posted on Stropolo’s Facebook page that showed him tailgating in full Saints attire before a pre-season game. He also posted his game assignment, which is a direct violation of league offi ciating policies.

The worst part of this particular incident is that the league did not discover Stropolo’s previous allegiance, ESPN did. The league then, in an effort to play catch-up, launched a full investigation of all replacement offi cials’ involvement with social media sites.

An even more disturbing, but less well-known event came from Eagles running back LeSean McCoy. In an interview with SportsRadio 94 WIP in Philadelphia, McCoy said one referee went too far in his pre-game banter with the players.

“I’ll be honest, they’re like fans,” McCoy said. “One of the refs was talking about his fantasy team, like, ‘McCoy, come on, I need you for my fantasy.’”

To say a fantasy team is a confl ict of interest would be putting it lightly. I am a fantasy football fanatic, and it’s a good thing players can’t hear what I’m saying as I watch them. Having offi cials with personal interests making the calls is unacceptable. The league agrees.

NFL’s Senior Vice President of Communications, Greg Aiello, released a statement to ProFootballTalk.com stating offi cials are not permitted to play fantasy football.

The in-game situation is no better.

Missed calls, extensive replays and challenges of often incorrect calls have caused games, such as the Monday Night Football matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons — which lasted three and a half hours — to take much longer than usual.

But forget personal allegiances and forget games that never end. The bottom line is these offi cials are not qualifi ed. It is hard to offi ciate a game you don’t completely understand.

One of the most poignant examples of this came in the St. Louis Rams-Washington Redskins game. Rams head coach Jeff Fischer challenged a Steven Jackson fumble near the goal line, and it got overturned.

One slight problem there: Coaches are not allowed to challenge a play when a turnover is ruled on the fi eld. It should have been an automatic 15-yard penalty on Fischer.

Instead, the Rams kicked a fi eld goal, which proved to be the difference in the Ram’s 31-28 victory.

Botched calls due to ignorance are happening all around the league. The once grand tradition of tuning in on Sundays to watch our favorite teams has been marred by the paranoia that goes along with these offi cial’s allegiances.

Roger Goodell — and other league offi cials — please take your heads out of the sand. Stop congratulating these idiots on “improvement” and negotiate with the referee’s to restore my beloved football to its former glory.

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6UC begins Big East campaign

ANNIE MOORE | SENIOR REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team continued Big East play this weekend at Gettler stadium, winning Friday before losing Sunday.

The Bearcats beat St. John’s University 1-0 Friday night in double overtime. Freshman forward Laura Rose scored with two seconds left in the second overtime to lead UC to its fi rst Big East win this season.

St. John’s outshot the Bearcats 14-6 in the fi rst half, but UC fl ipped the script at halftime, outshooting St. John’s 29-6 the rest of the way.

Despite an abundance of shots, the match remained scoreless throughout regulation and the fi rst overtime. Rose’s goal in the waning seconds of the game sealed the Bearcats’ victory. Rose leads the team with fi ve goals on the season.

UC lost its second game of the weekend, falling to Syracuse 1-0.

Syracuse started the match aggressively, taking its fi rst shot in the third minute, and continued to put pressure on the

Bearcats throughout the match.It didn’t take long for that

pressure to pay off when Syracuse freshman forward Maya Pitts scored in the fi fth minute.

UC’s head coach Michelle Salmon said the team was prepared for early attacks from the Orange.

“We talked about how Syracuse scores primarily most of their goals in the fi rst fi fteen minutes,” Salmon said. “We came out fl at, Syracuse punished us for that and then we were chasing the game.”

The Bearcats took 13 shots on goal, 10 in the second half, but none resulted in a goal. UC also had two corner kicks it failed to capitalize on.

“We need to rebound [from this],” Salmon said. “We need to rise up.”

The Bearcats will take on the University of South Florida at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Tampa, Fla.

For more information on UC soccer and all its other athletic teams, check out newsrecord.org.

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LEAVING IT LATE University of Cincinnati defender Christi Howard battles for possession during UC’s 1-0 loss to Syracuse Sunday.

UC Soccer defeats PittJOSHUA A. MILLER | SPORTS EDITOR

The Cincinnati Reds won the race for the National League Central Division championship Saturday, with a 6-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

A sellout crowd of 41,117 fans at Great American Ball Park saw Cincinnati claim its second division title in the past three years and its 15th in franchise history.

Mat Latos pitched eight innings of scoreless baseball — he didn’t allow a single runner to advance to second base — while Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce homeruns put the game out of reach for Los Angeles.

Cincinnati pushed its record to 92-60, despite playing without manager Dusty Baker, who is recovering from a

health scare that took place last week against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Baker returned to Cincinnati Sunday, but is not expected to return to full managerial duties for at least a few more days.

With 10 regular season games remaining and no less than four playoff games now guaranteed, the Reds have a chance to reach the 100 win plateau for the first time since 1976. That year Cincinnati swept the New York Yankees in four games to claim back-to-back World Series titles, finishing the season with a record of 102-60.

The Reds currently sit ½ game behind the Washington Nationals in the race to secure home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

Reds clinch divisionSURYANARAYANA PAPPU | CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team opened its Big East campaign with a 1-0 win over the University of Pittsburgh Saturday Sept. 22.

UC freshman forward John Manga gave the Bearcats (4-4-1, 1-0-0 Big East) the lead in the 43rd minute, scoring his fi rst career goal for UC. Pitt’s (6-1-2, 0-1-0) goalkeeper Lee Johnston saved Matt Remaley’s initial shot but Manga hit the rebound off the keeper and into the net.

The goal handed Pitt its fi rst loss of the season and stretched UC’s win streak to three. The game marked the fi rst time since 2010 UC kept three consecutive clean sheets.

UC held on to the lead in the second half despite being tested by severe weather conditions and a potent Pittsburgh attack. Bearcat’s goalkeeper Taylor Hafl ing made seven saves and, along with the back four, kept the Panthers scoreless.

“We had a great team effort tonight,” said UC head coach Hylton Dayes. “It is tough to get a win on the road in the Big East. Congrats to John Manga on his fi rst career goal and credit to Taylor Hafl ing and our back four for the clean sheet. Pitt is an explosive team that can score goals, so to get the shutout was a credit to those guys.”

UC will return to action Tuesday at Gettler Stadium against the Cleveland State University Vikings in a non-conference clash. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

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LEAVING IT LATE University of Cincinnati senior Becca Refenes keeps the point alive for the Bearcats against Depaul on Sunday.

UC wins fi rst home match of season against Depaul