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VALUE OF STATE PROPERTY

Was prison-farm sale a ‘ﬁre sale?’ By Alan Johnson

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Ohio’s century-old prisonfarm system is history. The roughly 12,500 acres of state-owned farmland haven’t been sold, and may be leased out instead, but all the livestock and most of the farm equipment are

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gone, essentially ending a once-thriving prison farming operation that dated back to 1868 at the old Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. Auction records obtained by The Dispatch from the Ohio Department of Administrative Services show the SEE FARM, A11

SHIFTING STANDS

A field of corn is harvested outside the front entrance of the London Correctional Institution in 1995. DISPATCH FILE PHOTO

GUN VIOLENCE

Trump has veered from early viewpoints By Lisa Lerer

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump spent the past two years attacking rival Hillary Clinton as crooked, corrupt and weak. But some of those attacks seem to have already slipped into the history books. From installing Wall Street executives in his Cabinet to avoiding news conferences, the president-elect is adopting some of the same behavior for which he criticized Clinton during their fiery presidential campaign. SEE TRUMP, A12

PAUL E. PFEIFER

Retiring justice has left mark Seven-year-old Karisma Bowden was grazed by a bullet in November while in a car in South Linden. BROOKE LAVALLEY/DISPATCH

Scarred and scared Local hospitals see increase in young people being shot

By Beth Burger | The Columbus Dispatch

The bullet that tore the skin from Karisma Bowden’s slender left shoulder was not meant for her.

Her father was in jail and his friends were sent to pick up the 7-year-old girl from Imagine Academy of Columbus on the Northeast Side. They were in South Linden when bullets began flying last month near the intersection of Cleveland and Blake avenues. “I got down on the floor,” the

second-grader said in a soft voice. Crouched in the back seat, she felt the sting of the bullet. Police say they heard that at least one of the men in the car had been involved in a shooting just days before. If this was retaliation,

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By Randy Ludlow

The Columbus Dispatch

Justice Paul E. Pfeifer leaves the Ohio Supreme Court with a legacy as a colorful contrarian, doubter of the death penalty and author of powerful dissents that skewered the majority’s rulings. SEE PFEIFER, A5

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GEORGE MICHAEL / 1963-2016

Singer rode success with WHAM! into solo stardom By Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Gregory Katz The Associated Press

LONDON — George Michael, who rocketed to stardom with WHAM! and went on to enjoy a long and celebrated solo career lined with controversies, has died, his publicist said Sunday. He was 53. Michael died at his home in Goring, England. Publicist Cindi Berger said he had not been ill. No other details were released. Michael enjoyed immense popularity as a teenybopper idol, delivering hits such as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Young Guns (Go For It)” and “Freedom.” Lauded by critics for his vocal range, he sold well over 100 million albums globally, earned numerous Grammy Awards and British singer George Michael also was known for his charity work, such as here in 2012 when he sang at a recorded duets with legends concert in Paris to raise money for an AIDS charity. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO like Aretha Franklin, Ray homosexuality at that time 20 million copies, and he Charles, Luciano Pavarotti run-ins with police, many of made him more popular with enjoyed several hit singles, and Elton John. them stemming from drivsome fans. including the raunchy and Much of his early chart ing-under-the-influence Born in north London, explicit “I Want Your Sex.” success was based on his sex incidents, including several The song also was conappeal to young women. His Michael, with good looks crashes. Michael was a user and an easy stage manner, troversial because it was look was raw and provocaof marijuana and prescripformed the boy band seen as encouraging casual tive, with tight jeans, tight tion sedatives and several sex and promiscuity during T-shirts, black leather jack- WHAM! with his school times was found slumped friend Andrew Ridgeley the AIDS epidemic. Michael over his car’s steering wheel. ets and designer stubble. in the early 1980s. Helped and his team tried to tamp But his drug use and taste His driver’s license was by MTV, the cheerful duo down that view by having for risky sex brought him revoked for five years in became popular in the the singer write “Explore into frequent brushes with 2010 after Michael drove his United States. Monogamy” on the leg and the law, most famously in Land Rover into the side of Michael started his back of a model in the song’s a photo shop. A passer-by 1998 when he was arrested solo career shortly before video. for public lewdness in Los wrote the word WHAM on WHAM! split, with the He remained a musiAngeles. Yet, he turned the the spot the SUV had hit. cal force throughout his incident into a popular song release of the megahit Michael raised money to single “Careless Whiscareer, releasing dozens of titled “Outside” that poked combat AIDS, assist needy per.” His first solo album, records and touring to ador- children and support gay fun at his behavior, and 1987’s “Faith,” sold more ing crowds despite more his acknowledgment of his rights.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Trumps spend Christmas Eve at familiar church The Washington Post

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, attended Christmas Eve services at the historic Palm Beach church where they were married 11 years ago. The Trumps arrived at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for

Saturday’s final service, at 10:30 p.m., sparking a round of applause from fellow congregants as they entered the sanctuary. The Trumps took Communion. The service largely avoided references to politics, but one message in the sermon of the Rev. James Harlan might have had some relevance to

the president-elect, who is known to hold grudges against his perceived enemies. “All of us have some hurts, some resentments, some fears, some ways that someone has hurt us or offended us in the past that we won’t let go of,” Harlan said. He added, “I can tell you over time those little

hurts, those little slights, those little things consume us, and they will push out that space for God’s love all too easily.” The service ended after midnight, and the Trumps returned to their Mar-aLago resort, where they celebrated Christmas with family and friends at the private club.

ROYALTY

Ill queen has to skip traditional service By Kristy Wigglesworth and Gregory Katz The Associated Press

SANDRINGHAM, England — A bad cold kept Queen Elizabeth II from attending the traditional Christmas morning church service near her Sandringham estate in rural Norfolk, England, raising some concerns about her health. It’s extremely rare for Elizabeth, now 90, to miss the service, which is a cornerstone of the royal family’s Christmas celebrations and brings the monarch into contact with locals who gather outside for a glimpse of her. “The Queen continues to recover from a heavy cold and will stay indoors to assist with her recovery,” Buckingham Palace said. “Her Majesty will participate in the royal family Christmas celebrations during the day.” Those festivities included a gala lunch. In past years, the royal family would often go for extended walks in the countryside. Elizabeth has been in generally good health and has maintained an active schedule in the past year despite traveling less often. Recently she stepped down as patron for about 20 charities and groups to lighten her workload. Her husband, 95-year-old Prince Philip, also has cut back on his public schedule and his charitable works. He was also suffering from a severe cold earlier in the week, the palace said. Philip did attend the Sunday morning Christmas service, waving to wellwishers on his way out of the church. Prince Harry spent time talking to locals after the service and stopped to pet a dog. There was no sign of his girlfriend, American actress Meghan Markle, who recently visited him in London. Elizabeth and Philip were joined in Sandringham by other senior royals, including Prince Charles. Prince William and his wife, Kate, along with their two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, were celebrating Christmas with Kate’s parents at their home in Bucklebury, a village west of London.

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AVIATION / 92 FEARED DEAD

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WWII REMNANT

Massive old bomb defused in Germany By David McHugh

The Associated Press

Russian rescue workers collect wreckage Sunday from the crashed plane at a pier just outside Sochi. VIKTOR KLYUSHIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Russia examines all possible reasons for Black Sea jet crash By Vladimir Isachenkov and Veronika Silchenko The Associated Press

SOCHI, Russia — Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched Sunday for victims after a Russian plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff. Investigators said they were looking into every possible cause for the crash, including a terror attack. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military’s Tu-154 plane are believed to have died when it crashed two minutes after taking off at 5:25 a.m. in good weather from the southern Russian city of Sochi. The passengers included dozens of singers in Russia’s worldfamous military choir. More than 3,000 rescue workers on 32 ships — including over 100 divers flown in from across Russia — were searching the crash site at sea and along the shore, the Defense Ministry said. Helicopters, drones and submersibles were being used

A woman lights a commemorative candle Sunday at the headquarters of the well-known military choir that perished in the plane crash in the Black Sea. PAVEL GOLOVKIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

to help spot bodies and debris. Powerful spotlights were brought in so the operation could continue all night. Emergency crews found fragments of the plane about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from shore. By Sunday evening, rescue teams had recovered 11 bodies and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said fragments of other bodies were also found. Asked if a terror attack was a possibility, Sokolov said investigators were looking into

every possible reason for the crash. Several experts noted factors that suggested a terror attack, such as the crew’s failure to report any malfunction and the fact that plane debris was scattered over a wide area. The plane was taking the Defense Ministry’s choir, the Alexandrov Ensemble, to perform at a New Year’s concert at Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia. Those on board also included nine Russian journalists and a

Russian doctor famous for her work in war zones. Russian President Vladimir Putin went on television to declare Monday a nationwide day of mourning. “We will conduct a thorough investigation into the reasons and will do everything to support the victims’ families,” Putin said. The Black Sea search area — which covered over 10 square kilometers (about 4 square miles) — was made more difficult by underwater currents that carried debris and body fragments into the open sea. Sokolov said the plane’s flight recorders did not have radio beacons, so locating them on the seabed was going to be challenging. The Tu-154 is a Sovietbuilt three-engine airliner designed in the late 1960s. More than 1,000 have been built, and they have been used extensively in Russia and worldwide. The plane that crashed Sunday was built in 1983, and underwent factory check-ups and maintenance in 2014 and this year, according to the Defense Ministry.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Explosives experts on Sunday defused a large World War II aerial bomb in the southern German city of Augsburg — clearing the way for thousands of evacuated residents to return to their Christmas celebrations at home. City police tweeted that they had “good news at Christmas” just before 7 p.m. local time Sunday. They had earlier been unable to say how long residents would have to stay away. Some 32,000 households with 54,000 residents in the city’s historic central district were forced to leave by 10 a.m. Christmas morning so experts could handle the bomb. They had to clean seven decades of muck off the bomb so they could find and disable its three detonators. The munition’s large size — 1.8 tons — suggested it was a so-called blockbuster of the type dropped by British forces, with the aim of blowing surrounding buildings apart so that accompanying incendiary bombs could start fires more easily. The bomb was uncovered last week during construction work in the city’s historic central district. Police said Christmas Day was the best time to defuse it because there was less traffic and it was more likely that people could stay with relatives. Police rang doorbells and used vans with loudspeakers to urge procrastinators to leave ahead of a 10 a.m. deadline. Schools and sports facilities were opened as shelters but most people appeared to have left on Christmas Eve.

Sandbags and a fence secure the bomb location next to a construction site in Augsburg, Germany, on Sunday. A World War II bomb was uncovered there last week during construction work. TOBIAS HASE/ DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTUR

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PHILIPPINES

It wasn’t just US that went against Israel

Powerful typhoon tarnishes Christmas

By Josef Federman

By Jim Gomez

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government’s furious reaction to the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of a resolution opposing Jewish settlements in occupied territory underscores its fundamental and bitter dispute with the international community about the future of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists there is nothing wrong with his controversial policy of building Jewish towns in occupied areas that the Palestinians, with overwhelming world support, claim for their state. But Friday’s U.N. rebuke was a stark reminder that the rest of the world considers it a crime. The embattled leader is now placing his hopes in the incoming American administration of Donald Trump, which is shaping up as the first major player to embrace Israel’s nationalist right and its West Bank settlements. In a series of statements, Netanyahu has criticized the Obama administration for letting Resolution 2334 pass Friday by abstaining, using unprecedented language that has turned a policy disagreement into a personal vendetta. “From the information that we have, we have no doubt that the Obama Administration initiated it, stood behind it, coordinated on the wording and demanded that it be passed,” Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday. In turning his anger toward Israel’s closest and most important ally, Netanyahu has underplayed the embarrassing fact that all 14 other nations on the Security

MANILA, Philippines — A powerful typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Christmas Day, spoiling the biggest holiday in Asia’s largest Catholic nation, where a governor offered roast pig to entice villagers to abandon family celebrations for emergency shelters. Typhoon Nock-Ten was packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers (114 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 255 kph (158 mph) when it made landfall Sunday night in Catanduanes province, where fierce winds and rain knocked down the island’s power and communications, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. After Catanduanes, the typhoon, which had a 500-kilometer (300-mile) rain band, was expected to barge westward across the mountainous southern plank of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon and blow close to the capital, Manila, on Monday, before starting to exit toward the South China Sea. NockTen may weaken after hitting the Sierra Madre mountain range in southern Luzon. Heavy rainfall, destructive winds and battering waves were threatening heavily populated rural and urban regions, where the Philippine weather agency raised typhoon warnings, stranding thousands of people in ports as airlines canceled flights and ferries were prevented from sailing. Officials warned of storm surges in coastal villages, flash floods and landslides, and asked villagers to evacuate to safer grounds. Christmas is the biggest holiday in the Philippines, which has Asia’s largest Roman Catholic population, making it difficult for officials to get people’s attention to heed the warnings. With many refusing to leave high-risk communities, some officials said they decided to carry out forced evacuations.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second from right, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday. DAN BALILTY/POOL PHOTO

Council voted in favor of the measure. Those votes came from countries that Netanyahu loves to boast of cultivating relations with, including Russia and China and nations across the developing world. “This is the same prime minister who told us dozens of states are on board with us,” former Prime Minister Ehud Barak told Channel 2 TV on Saturday. “I looked for Russia, China, England, France. Where are all the friends that were meant to stand with us?” The resolution marked a sharp international rebuke of Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians as parts of a future independent state. Some 600,000 Israelis now live in the two areas, complicating any partition of the land between Israel and a future Palestine. Netanyahu routinely dismisses international criticism of the settlements, saying that the dispute with the Palestinians goes back to long before the 1967 war. He also notes that when Israel dismantled its Gaza

settlements in 2005, Hamas militants responded by firing rockets and subsequently seizing control of the territory from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. With Friday’s resolution, however, the world sent a strong message that it rejects these arguments. The resolution said the settlements have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation” of international law. It also urged all states to distinguish between Israel and “the territories occupied since 1967.” In the short term, the resolution is largely symbolic. It did not include talk of sanctions or any other punitive measures against Israel. “The importance of the resolution is to remind Israel, at least at the rhetorical level, that the international community is not completely happy, to say the least, with the ongoing status quo,” said Arie Kacowicz, a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Riad Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, said Netanyahu was being disingenuous by calling the resolution anti-Israel.

Fake news sets off Israel-Pakistan Twitter feud The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — A fake news story has touched off a tense Twitter confrontation between nuclear power Pakistan and Israel, widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal of its own, in an episode that underlines the potentially harmful impact of such stories in sensitive global affairs

In an apparent response to a fake story claiming Israel’s former defense minister threatened a nuclear attack against Pakistan if it sends troops to Syria, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif reminded Israel that “Pakistan is a nuclear state too.” Israel’s Defense Ministry tweeted back Saturday, saying the original story

on the site AWD News was “totally fictitious.” AWD has been identified by fact-checking organizations as a fake news site. Israel maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying the existence of an arsenal. Pakistan became a nuclear power in 1998. The countries have no diplomatic ties.

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CHRISTMAS TRADITION

Obama, ﬁrst lady visit Marine base The Associated Press

President Barack Obama spent Christmas afternoon visiting with Marines and their families. The White House said the president and first

lady Michelle Obama visited Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, to thank troops for their service. It became an annual Christmas Day tradition for the president. The visit was the first

PFEIFER Continued from A1

The Crawford County cattle farmer will retire on Jan. 2 as the court’s longest-serving justice — being forced out by the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70 — after 24 years of service, the sixth-longest tenure on record. After 16 years in the Ohio Senate and missing out on election as attorney general by 1,234 votes in 1990 to Democrat Lee Fisher, Pfeifer turned to the Ohio Supreme Court almost as an afterthought. He quickly came to love the research, argument and writing underlining the law. Pfeifer’s most-dramatic transformation centered on the state’s foremost power — taking the lives of those deemed the most heinous of the state’s killers. As a lawmaker, a tough-on-crime Pfeifer sponsored legislation that reinstated Ohio’s death penalty in 1981 after state laws were wiped off the books by the U.S. Supreme Court. As a justice, Pfeifer said he eventually came to see the shortcomings and unequal application of capital punishment, constituting what he once famously denounced as a “death lottery,” one partly dependent on “geography — the prosecutor’s attitude” toward seeking death sentences. While Pfeifer has upheld more death sentences than those in which he dissented, he said the Supreme Court “was really not exercising its statutorily mandated obligation to independently determine whether the death penalty was appropriate” when compared with other cases and defendant backgrounds. “This court was not doing that. The attitude was, ‘All murders

Justice Paul Pfeifer, shown here commenting on a schoolfunding case in 1999, will be remembered partially for his conversion against the death penalty. DISPATCH FILE PHOTO

major outing for the president this Christmas. The White House said Obama and his wife and daughters spent the morning at their vacation rental playing games and opening Christmas gifts. leeway in deciding damages in civil cases and judges should be given more freedom and discretion to make the right calls. Pfeifer bad-mouthed legislative limits on painand-suffering damages in a recent case in which a teenage girl raped by her Delaware County minister had her jury award of $3.5 million reduced to $250,000 to comply with a “tort reform” cap on noneconomic damages. “I think we should have faith in jurors. The legislature obviously has no faith in juries when it comes to civil cases, but they have no problem trusting your life and liberty to a jury” in criminal cases, he said. Judges also have been hobbled by mandatory sentencing and other laws that leave them little leeway to make appropriate decisions in some cases, Pfeifer said. “We’ve handcuffed them. We need to return more discretion to let our judges be judges instead of just sitting there reading from the rule book.” In “retirement,” Pfeifer will become executive director of the Ohio Judicial Conference, in which he will plans to offer “the thoughtful and reasoned input” of the state’s 722 judges to the General Assembly and the Ohio Supreme Court on legislation and court rules, respectively. Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger, a Republican who has served 12 years, also is leaving the court, the only person ever to have served at every level of the state’s judiciary. Pfefier and Lanzinger will be succeeded by a pair of Republican appellate court judges from Cincinnati who won election on Nov. 8, Pat DeWine and Pat Fischer. The GOP will maintain its 6-1 control of the court.

are terrible and all the facts are horrific, so how can we say one is worse than the other?’” he asked. “I’m a strong advocate for us to just get rid of it.” Pfeifer, 73, also became known as one of the court’s best writers, particularly in his sharply worded dissents. “You’ve never seen my best dissents because they flipped (the vote on) the case,” he said. “A memorable, sometimes stinging dissent helps judge and lawyers remember what the case was about.” Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor observed, “Rather than beat around the bush, which isn’t Paul’s style, he went right after the majority’s argument and stated his case plainly, clearly, and often in a clever way. Even when we disagreed, his dissents shined a light on the court’s work.” The senior justice’s favorite part of the judicial process was oral arguments, when some of the state’s best lawyers go head-to-head in a bid to persuade the justices their side was in the right while entertaining questions from the court. “It sharpens the discussion (between the justices). It also was an opportunity to focus my colleagues on what I believe was a weakness in the side I believe should lose,” Pfeifer said. He leaves the court after nearly a quarter rludlow@dispatch.com century saying jurors @RandyLudlow should receive more

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Karisma Bowden pulls her shirt from her shoulder to show the scar left by the bullet that grazed her. BROOKE LAVALLEY/DISPATCH

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Karisma was the one left bleeding. The friends didn’t return Karisma to her mother for several hours after the shooting. She took the girl, yet another child wounded by gunfire in central Ohio, to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Years ago, doctors said, it was unusual to see young patients with gunshot wounds. Now, they’re noticing a rise in young victims, whether it be a homicide, unintentional shooting or suicide. “Everybody’s noticing that more kids are getting shot,” said Dr. Jonathan Groner, trauma medical director and a surgeon at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. “But we’re not really sure why.” As of October, 58 patients younger than 21 had been treated for gunshot wounds this year at the hospital’s trauma center. That was the highest number in five years. In 2015, there were 48 gunshot-wound patients at Children’s. Some of the other shootings this year include: ■ A 15-year-old girl who was asleep in bed when someone in a car opened fire. A bullet struck her in a leg. ■ A 2-year-old girl who was fatally shot in the head when two men entered her house and opened fire. ■ Two teens who were shot and wounded outside Linden-McKinley STEM Academy as school let out for the day. Two other teens were charged. ■ A 2-year-old boy who picked up his father’s gun and shot himself in the head. While Columbus police keep statistics on homicides, they do not track shootings that result in injury. But the city might do so in the future. Columbus Public Health is planning to hire a part-time epidemiologist next year for a “monitoring/tracking system for neighborhood violence and related risk factors” using police and other data sources, said spokesman Jose Rodriguez. “This initiative would be groundbreaking since there currently is no local, state or national data set because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was barred from collecting or sharing any gun-violence data in the early 1990s,” he said.

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Statistics from Franklin County’s Child Fatality Review show the number of children shot and killed by guns has been trending upward during the past six years, with 11 children killed last year. Of 266 gunshot-wound admissions at Nationwide Children’s trauma center from January 2011 to October this year, more than half occurred inside a home. Gunshot injuries inside the home increased 26 percent from 2014 to October 2016, compared with the previous three years. Most of the gunshot victims were 10 to 18 years old. Most were male. Most were black. “The overall numbers (nationally) are declining every year,” Groner said, citing CDC national data. “The problem is in ... mainly inner-city, largely AfricanAmerican populations.” Columbus City Councilwoman Jaiza Page, who grew up in the Linden area and worked on programs for at-risk youth, said there are many reasons for the violence. “Some of them have parents who are addicted to drugs, they are victims of a cycle of poverty due to their family situation, and they unfortunately may look to other ways to express themselves and their anger,” she said. A map of paramedic calls for gunshot-wound victims shows that most calls go to high-poverty neighborhoods in the city. “Firearm trauma is a disease of poverty,” said Groner, who has worked at Children’s since 1993. “It doesn’t happen in Upper Arlington. It doesn’t happen in Bexley. It doesn’t happen in New Albany.” Census-tract data show that where Karisma was shot, nearly 38 percent of the residents live below the poverty level. About 76 percent of the population is black, and 27.4 percent of the adult population did not finish high school. In the past three years, at least nine children have been shot within four blocks of where Karisma was wounded, according to Columbus fire medic records for gunshot-wound victims 18 or younger. There have been no arrests in her shooting. “She’s a nice little girl,” said Detective Scott Polgar of the Columbus Police assault unit. Polgar is hoping to make an arrest in Karisma’s case. SEE SHOOTINGS, A9

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SHOOTINGS

high-stress situations. Still, cases involving Continued from A8 children and those in which witnesses aren’t Karisma’s mom, talking can be tough to Rayona Thompson, work. isn’t counting on it. “The code of silence She said her daughter’s wears on you with a uncle, who was at the case like this,” Polgar scene of the shooting, said. “I need to catch a knows the gunman. couple of breaks that I “He knows the guy haven’t caught on this very well ... but he’s not one yet.” going to say anything. So Sometimes, teens there will probably never shoot teens. Guns, be an arrest,” she said. police say, are easy to That’s part of the find. Sometimes parchallenge, police inves- ents keep them at home. tigators say. Victims Others are bought on often know the shooters the street. but won’t tell police. Last month, a Some witnesses won’t 15-year-old boy told volunteer informapolice he found a gun in tion that could lead an alley and was showto an arrest, fearing ing it off to his brother retribution. at home when it went “We’ve got a pretty off. The 11-year-old good idea who did this. was shot in a leg. We give them a photo Criminals somepack with a six-person times toss guns after array. They don’t point using them. In the past to anyone,” Polgar said. several months, there “Then, there’s another have been two homicide shooting.” cases in which guns Detectives are trained have shown up half a to “investigate the block away from a crime crime, and not the scene days later, said person,” said Sgt. James Sgt. Stan Latta, who Jardine, who oversees oversees the secondthe second-shift assault shift homicide unit. squad. Police typiJardine said police cally compartmentalize don’t track shootings resulting in injury, even emotions and handle

Karisma Bowden survived her brush with violence, but some local youngsters aren’t as fortunate. A 2-year-old girl was fatally shot in the head this year when two men entered a house and opened fire. BROOKE LAVALLEY/DISPATCH

those involving children. It comes down to time. “There’s no single way to glean them. We would have to literally parse out and read 1,200 case packages in just our unit alone,” Jardine said. Police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner said police are busy investigating the crimes, and that keeping track of the shootings wouldn’t have any bearing on individual investigations. “We’re not the researchers. We’re the responders,” he said.

Family life plays a part

as more donor blood was administered. She later walked out of the Groner said he hospital. remembers years ago “With some kids, you working on a young worry a lot. You look patient who he wasn’t at family history and sure would live. notice several other A bullet had ripped relatives have also been open the girl’s pulmoshot or got things that nary artery, but he had look like gang tattoos trouble finding the hole. on them,” Groner said. The girl was bleeding to “You worry about them death. going back into an Her blood covered environment.” his shoes. Donor blood Jardine said he sees was being used as soon that, too. as bags were brought in “A lot of the families the operating room. ... have experienced At one point, her death, experienced a heart just stopped. brother, a cousin, a son Groner squeezed it that has been shot and

killed,” he said. The trauma center at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center also has seen an increase in the number of older teens treated for gunshot wounds. Through October, 77 gunshot-wound victims ages 10 to 21 had been admitted to the hospital. Dr. Michael Shay O’Mara, who oversees trauma and acute-care surgery for the OhioHealth system, said every victim saved has another chance. “The reality is they don’t have a chance to make a better choice if they die. I mean, that’s what we’re here for,” he said. “I can’t say most of these kids created a culture of violence they live in.” Karisma’s wound healed. She’s self-conscious about the small round scar, and sometimes asks her mother to take photos of it so she can see it. “We’re basically taking it day by day,” Thompson said. “There’s no answers.” bburger@dispatch.com @abburger

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Vacancies give new president chance to reshape judiciary as an unprecedented level of obstruction in blocking the Democrat president’s court picks. Donald Trump is set The result is a multo inherit an uncommon titude of openings number of vacancies throughout the federal in the federal courts in circuit and district addition to the open courts that will allow Supreme Court seat, the new Republican giving the presidentpresident to quickly elect a monumental make a wide array of opportunity to reshape lifetime appointments. the judiciary after State gun-control taking office. laws, abortion restricThe estimated 103 tions, voter laws, judicial vacancies anti-discrimination that President Barack measures and immiObama is expected to grant issues are all hand over to Trump in matters that are the Jan. 20 transition of increasingly heard by power is nearly double federal judges and will the 54 openings Obama be influenced by the found eight years ago new composition of after George W. Bush’s the courts. Trump has presidency. vowed to choose ideoConfirmation of logues in the mold of Obama’s judicial nomi- the late Supreme Court nees slowed to a crawl justice Antonin Scalia, after Republicans took a conservative icon — a control of the Senate prospect that has activin 2015. Obama White ists on the right giddy. House officials blame “I’m optimistic he’ll Senate Republicans for come at this right out what they characterize of the gate,” said Carrie By Philip Rucker and Robert Barnes

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Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative group that has opposed many of Obama’s court choices. The Supreme Court vacancy created by Scalia’s death in February was a motivating issue for many conservative voters, especially evangelical Christians, to turn out for Trump. Senate Republicans refused to hold even a hearing on Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, for the Scalia seat. Twenty-five of Obama’s court nominees were pending on the Senate floor, after having been approved out of committee with bipartisan support, but did not get a vote before the Senate adjourned, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

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NATION&WORLD REPORT

—The Associated Press,

New York Times

AFGHANISTAN

Officials doubt female pilot’s US asylum case where she and her family have received death threats. For the past 15 months, she has KABUL, Afghanistan — been training at air bases in Contending that her “life Arkansas, Florida and Texas. isn’t at risk at all,” military Rahmani said that her officials in Afghanistan have Afghan male colleagues in the asked that the United States air force treated her with conreject the asylum case of tempt and that she felt at risk. Capt. Niloofar Rahmani, the “Things are not changing” first female fixed-wing pilot for the better in Afghanistan, in the Afghan air force. Rahmani said in an interview On Thursday, Rahmani Friday. “Things are getting revealed she had applied for worse and worse.” asylum this summer, saying Gen. Mohammad Radshe felt unsafe in Afghanistan, manish, a Defense Ministry By Jawad Sukhanyar The New York Times

Actress Fisher in stable condition, mother says LOS ANGELES — Carrie Fisher is in stable condition days after suffering a medical emergency, according to her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds. Reynolds tweeted Sunday that the family would share any updates on Fisher and thanked the public for its “prayers & good wishes.” Earlier in the day, Oscar winner Sally Field tweeted that she was thinking of the “Star Wars” actress with all her “heart and soul.” Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill of “Star Wars” fame are among many others who have expressed hope that the 60-year-old Fisher recovers after falling ill on a ﬂight and being admitted Friday to a Los Angeles hospital. Fisher is also known for such books as “Postcards from the Edge” and “Wishful Drinking.”

Christmas Day blizzard hits Dakotas, Montana CHICAGO — It’s been a white — but slick and messy — Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states. Most of the Dakotas and southwest Minnesota had turned into a slippery mess due to freezing rain Sunday morning before snow arrived later in the day as temperatures fell. “Between the ice and snow, and winds howling like crazy, there will be nothing moving” until late afternoon Monday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Gust in Grand Forks, North Dakota. “Then it’s dig-out time.” Gust’s advice to holiday travelers: “Stay put.” A blizzard warning was in effect for most of North Dakota, western South Dakota and a small section of eastern Montana through Monday, with

spokesman, disputed her claims of being in danger. “I am sure she lied by saying she was threatened, just to win the asylum case,” Radmanish said Sunday. “It is baseless that she claimed her life was at risk while serving in the Afghan air force.” “Since Capt. Rahmani’s claim is new, we expect her to change her mind and return to her own country and continue serving as a pilot,” the general said. “We request from our American friends

and government to reject her asylum case and send her back, because knowing the truth, Capt. Rahmani’s life isn’t at risk at all.” The U.S. government has celebrated Rahmani as an example of its success in advancing women’s rights in Afghanistan. In 2015 the State Department honored her with its annual Women of Courage award, and Michelle Obama praised her courage. In Afghanistan, few supported her decision, and there

Historic crossing

suburban New York City nightclub, killing two people and wounding four others. Authorities say the suspect may have been ejected from the Mansion nightclub in Mount Vernon shortly before the 4:26 a.m. shooting on Christmas Day. Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas said in a statement Sunday that the establishment’s owner, O’Neal Bandoo, was killed. He says the name of the second person who died is being withheld pending family notiﬁcation. Police say the shooting victims were found in the lobby and on the street outside the club. Ofﬁcials haven’t named the suspect, but say he is a Bronx resident with a pending attempted murder case.

As spectators line a bridge Sunday, a sentry in Washington Crossing, Pa., watches from the brambles during the re-enactment of Gen. George Washington’s Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River to Titusville, N.J. The annual Christmas tradition drew large crowds of families and fans of history to both sides of the Delaware. Boats ferried 2,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 18 cannons across the river during the original crossing in 1776. MEL EVANS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

expected snow totals of 8 to 15 inches and winds up to 55 mph. The South Dakota Department of Transportation announced the closing Sunday night of Interstate 90 from the Wyoming border to Chamberlain — a stretch of about 260 miles.

Sheriff: 2 sought after 7 shot at NC party MADISON, N.C. — Two suspects were being tracked down Sunday after North Carolina investigators say they shot seven people during a private Christmas party attended by hundreds of people. None of the victims appeared to suffer life-threatening injuries after being shot early Saturday at a Moose Lodge in Madison, about 25 miles north of Greensboro, deputies said. The two men were still at large Sunday

and no other details were being made public, Rockingham County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Kevin Suthard said. Deputies said a ﬁght broke out during the party attended by 250 to 300 people. Witnesses told investigators that both gunmen attended the party. They covered their faces with ski masks and opened ﬁre before speeding away from the scene in a silver car driven by a woman. The car’s make and model weren’t known.

Officials ID 4 fatally shot in eastern NC home WILSON, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina have identified the four people fatally shot in a home about 50 miles east of Raleigh. Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Staff Wanda D. Samuel said in a news release that the

were worries that her asylum request would affect the process of training Afghan pilots outside the country. “Capt. Rahmani’s claim that she was harassed in the workplace is not true, because in the air force all the pilots and staff are welleducated and highly trained people,” said Col. Ayan Khan, a helicopter pilot in the Afghan air force. “How can they harass their female colleague who serves alongside them?”

victims all lived at the residence where they were found by a family member Saturday afternoon. Those slain are 54-yearold Tammy Lynette Pearce, 28-year-old Paul Shane Pearce, 47-year-old Selby Gene Outland and 23-year-old Dominique Nicole Privette. No details were given about their relationships. The release said the shooting near Wilson seems to have happened late Friday night or early Saturday morning. Police are investigating and have not determined a motive but believe it is an isolated incident.

2 killed, 4 wounded in nightclub shooting MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Police have arrested a man they say opened ﬁre on a packed

Pope wishes Christmas peace for those scarred VATICAN CITY — Decrying the suffering in Syria, Pope Francis on Sunday wished Christmas peace and hope for all those scarred by war and terrorism, which he said is sowing “fear and death in the heart of many countries and cities.” Some 40,000 tourists and Romans calmly endured long security lines to enter St. Peter’s Square to see the pope on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, where he delivered the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” (“to the city and to the world”) Christmas message and blessing. Francis spoke sorrowfully of the suffering caused by the Syrian war, especially in Aleppo, pressing the international community to help negotiate a solution. He urged Israelis and Palestinians to “write a new page of history, where hate and revenge give way” toward building a future of understanding and harmony. He also cited the “brutality of terrorism” in Iraq, Libya and Yemen.

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state received nearly $4.5 million from the sale of 3,186 dairy and beef cattle and hundreds of pieces of farm equipment. The mostexpensive component, a juice-processing plant, sold for $128,350. The auctions occurred over the summer and into the fall. What the numbers don’t show is whether taxpayers got their money’s worth from the sales. The state apparently doesn’t know the answer or is making no attempt to find out. Neither Administrative Services, which as the business arm of state government handled the sales, nor the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction could answer the question about taxpayer value versus sale proceeds. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, the union representing state employees at prisons and other agencies, called the auctions “a fire sale.” “Relatively new equipment sold for

The state has returned to buying its milk for inmates, but at one time prisoners at the Lebanon Correctional Institution carried fresh milk from the farm to newborn calves at the prison farm in Lebanon. DAYTON DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO

pennies on the dollar,” said OCSEA President Christopher Mabe. “Hay was sold at a fraction of its value. The cattle sale didn’t even cover the cost of the recent upgrades. And now milk will cost the state about $2.6 million annually to purchase. Ohio taxpayers got the short end of this deal. “If DRC had done what it had planned to do and expanded our

dairy and beef operation, we could have saved millions for the taxpayer,” Mabe said. “This has always been a solution looking for a problem.” Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr made the surprise announcement April 12 that the state would phase out farming at 10 prisons across the state. The move affected about 70 employees, most of them union members, and 220 inmates who worked on the farms during the peak season. There were no employee layoffs; inmates moved to other jobs inside prisons. Mohr said at the time that farming, while historically valuable to keep inmates working and provide food for the prison population, is

outdated and no longer in sync with the goal of preparing inmates for life after prison. Equally important, Mohr said, the farms had become security risks with people dropping off drugs, tobacco and other contraband to be picked up by farmworker inmates and smuggled back into prison. “Farming has not been an area where we’re placing people when they go out in the community. We want to focus more on prison enterprises inside the walls,” Mohr said at the time of the announcement. “It makes a lot of sense to me to do this. We owe the taxpayers who are paying our salaries to do the best we can do.” Eight of the 10 closed sites were active

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of Foodbanks. But hundreds of pieces of farm equipment, from tractors, fences and hay wagons to milking equipment, concrete feeders and a warmer for bull semen, were sold at auction. After selling off the dairy herd, the prisons agency had to spend an extra $2.6 million a year to buy milk for 50,000 inmates. An existing state contract with four Ohio dairies was expanded May 31. Prisons need roughly 1.3 million gallons of milk annually for inmates. The timing of the closure announcement was curious because, as The Dispatch reported in May, prisons officials were in the final stages early this year of completing nearly $9 million in improvements to the prison farms. The upgrades included a new milking parlor with a 6,500-gallon tank and two massive barns for 1,299 dairy cattle at the London Correctional Institution, and a 200stall barn at the Marion Correctional Institution. The sale of the land is up in the air. The General Assembly, as required, has acted to authorize the sale of the land. But it is unclear whether the land will be sold or leased. Union officials said open houses were held recently at prisons to discuss potentially leasing the land to farmers to grow crops.

farming operations: Allen Correctional, Allen County; Lebanon Correctional, Warren County; London Correctional, Madison County; Mansfield Correctional, Richland County; Marion Correctional Institution, Marion County; Pickaway Correctional, Pickaway County; Chillicothe Correctional, Ross County; and Southeastern Correctional Complex, Fairfield County. Two prisons had crops-only farms: Grafton Correctional, Lorain County; and Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Scioto County. The prisons kept a small amount of farm equipment to help in growing fruit and vegetables under an agreement ajohnson@dispatch.com with the Ohio Association @ohioaj

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Family ties

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Here’s a look at what Trump said then — and what he’s doing now:

Goldman Sachs Then: “I know the guys at Goldman Sachs,” Trump said at a South Carolina rally in February, when he was locked in a fierce primary battle with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. “They have total, total control over him. Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton.” Now: A number of former employees of the Wall Street bank will play a key role in crafting Trump’s economic policy. He’s tapped Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn to lead the White House National Economic Council. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary nominee, spent 17 years working at Goldman Sachs, and Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, started his career as an investment banker at the firm. Trump is following in a long political tradition: If Cohn’s nomination is approved, he’ll be the third Goldman executive to run the NEC.

Big donors Then: “Crooked Hillary. Look, can you imagine another

As president-elect, Donald Trump has left himself open to charges of flip-flopping on his stated campaign positions. ANDREW HARNIK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

four years of the Clintons? Seriously. It’s time to move on. And she’s totally controlled by Wall Street and all these people that gave her millions,” Trump said at a May rally in Lynden, Washington. Now: Trump has stocked his Cabinet with six top donors — far more than any recent White House. “I want people that made a fortune. Because now they’re negotiating with you, OK?” Trump said, in a Dec. 9 speech in Des Moines. The biggest giver? Incoming small business administrator Linda McMahon gave $7.5 million to a super PAC backing Trump, more than a third of the money collected by that political action committee.

News conferences Then: “She doesn’t do news conferences, because she can’t,” Trump said at an

August rally in Ashburn, Virginia. “She’s so dishonest she doesn’t want people peppering her with questions.” Now: Trump opened his last news conference on July 27, saying: “You know, I put myself through your news conferences often, not that it’s fun.” He hasn’t held one since. Trump skipped the news conference a president-elect typically gives after winning the White House. Instead, he released a YouTube video of under three minutes. He also recently abruptly canceled plans to hold his first postelection news conference, opting instead to describe his plans for managing his businesses in tweets. “I will hold a press conference in the near future to discuss the business, Cabinet picks and all other topics of interest. Busy times!” he tweeted in mid-December.

Then: “It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins. It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money,” Trump said at an August rally in Austin, Texas. Now: While Trump has promised to separate himself from his businesses, there is plenty of overlap between his enterprises and his immediate family. His companies will be run by his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. And his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have joined Trump at a number of meetings with world leaders of countries where the family has financial interests. Ivanka, in particular, has been caught making early efforts to leverage her father’s new position into profits. After an interview with the family appeared on “60 Minutes,” her jewelry company, Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, blasted out an email promoting the $10,800 gold bangle bracelet that she had worn during the appearance. The company later said they were “proactively discussing new

policies and procedures.” Ivanka is also auctioning off a private coffee meeting with her to benefit her brother’s foundation. The meeting is valued at $50,000, with the current top bid coming in at $25,000. Trump on Saturday said he would dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.

Clinton investigations Then: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor,” Trump said in the October presidential debate. Now: Since winning office, Trump has said he has no intention of pushing for an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state or the workings of her family foundation. “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about,” he told the New York Times. “She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways,” he said. “I’m not looking to hurt them.”

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YOUR SCHOOLS

Central Ohio districts still growing By Shannon Gilchrist

The Columbus Dispatch

The scenery along Route 16 leaving Franklin County and entering Licking

County is all grain silos, horses wearing charming blankets, tractor-crossing signs and a smattering of planned developments. A sign advertising 47 acres

for sale is the first hint that this bucolic setting might not last. At Licking Heights High School, teenagers brave the cold to enter and exit six modular classrooms in the

schoolyard. The same goes for Central Middle School, just a few miles away; trailers help accommodate the SEE DISTRICTS, B2

REFUGEES IN AMERICA

Is jailed salvager gaming system? By Earl Rinehart

The Columbus Dispatch

What is Tommy Thompson thinking? In 1988, the former Battelle scientist was the darling of the international treasure hunting set after recovering gold, silver and historical items from the wreck of the SS Central America. The strapping Thompson young adventurer’s haul from the 19th century ship was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But these days, Thompson, 63, is a shell of his former self. His hair and beard are gray. He relies on a wheelchair to get around the federal courtroom where he tells a judge that he can’t remember where he placed the 500 gold coins he kept. “Mr. Thompson has nothing further to say,” his latest attorney, Todd A. Long, told U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley at a Dec. 12 hearing. It’s a common refrain. The judge already has called Thompson a malingerer who “is being intentionally deceptive with respect to the whereabouts of the gold.” SEE SALVAGER, B4

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Alaa Qamar holds his sons Hussein, 4, left, and Abas, 1, in their apartment in Columbus. Qamar and his, wife, Nisreen, brought Hussein and Abas with them to Columbus in September from Baghdad. The process to get to the U.S. took the former Baghdad policeman four years. KYLE ROBERTSON/DISPATCH

To live in peace

Iraqi family grateful for safety, comfort of brand new life in Columbus By Mike Wagner

The Columbus Dispatch

laa Qamar was standing on a Baghdad street talking to a friend when four men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head and threw him in the back of a vehicle. For almost eight hours, the terrorists took turns beating him and accusing him of being a spy for the American

forces because he helped U.S. soldiers communicate with the Iraqi people. He was convinced he would be tortured and beheaded, but without explanation he was thrown back onto the same street where they found him. A year later, another terrorist group threatened to kill him and his family if he didn’t stop working for an American security company. Qamar knew he must move his

family to a safer part of the world. “In Iraq, you are always thinking, ‘Who is going to blow themselves up next?’” Qamar said. “You are always worried about suicide attacks and car bombs. It’s hard to know your friends from your enemies. I knew my children would have no future if I didn’t find them a new home.” SEE REFUGEES, B3

Columbus tries to revive Brice Road By Mark Ferenchik

The Columbus Dispatch

Taxes generated by new developments in the struggling commercial districts off Brice Road south of Interstate 70 will pay for needed road and streetscape improvements and utilities in the latest attempt to revive the area. The Columbus City Council recently approved what’s called a tax-increment financing district for the area that provides for a 100 percent property tax exemption on nonresidential properties for 30 years. SEE ROAD, B10

Monday, December 26, 2016

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968 students using a building made for 760. Buildings that are intended to hold 3,700 students are squeezing in 4,200. Enrollment is projected to reach 4,600 by the 2019-20 school year. Where are the hot real estate markets in the U.S.? The April issue of Realtor Magazine listed 30 “boom town” ZIP codes in the next five years. No. 11 was 43004 for Blacklick, on the edge of the Licking Heights district. It’s right after Atlanta and ahead of Denver. The story is the same with many central Ohio school districts. Even as 528 of Ohio’s 609 This campaign sign in a front yard in the Licking Heights school district is left over from November’s defeat of a school districts have lost stuballot issue that would have paid for a new high school. The sign reads: “NO NEW TAX Licking Height$. Permadents in recent years, central nent! Forever! After Bonds Paid Off?” SHANNON GILCHRIST/DISPATCH Ohio’s schools are growing. Most of Franklin County’s an “early literacy campus” for Rising enrollment traditional public districts have preschool through first grade Most central Ohio school districts have added students using Kae Avenue Elementary gained students, and so have since 2010 and some are dealing with overcrowding. many others in the region. and the C. Ray Williams Early According to data collected Childhood Center. The other School 2015 Percent change by the Ohio Department of two elementary schools will district enrollment since 2010 Education, Olentangy schools house grades 2 through 5. The near Powell grew by more 21.8% district has tallied up the space Olentangy 19,660 students than any other in the and says the students will fit. 19.7% Whitehall 3,534 state between 2010 and 2015, And to handle the population 16.6% Licking Heights 4,026 adding 3,513 kids on top of boom moving into Rosemore 13.1% Upper Arlington 5,899 the 16,147 students it already Middle School within a few 11.2% Reynoldsburg 6,828 served. years, Whitehall is consulting Also in the top 10 for growth with the Ohio Facilities Con10.9% New Albany-Plain 4,834 are South-Western schools (up Bexley struction Commission about 8.3% 2,283 1,195 students), Dublin (1,104), adding on to the building. 7.7% Dublin 15,372 Reynoldsburg (685), Upper Percentage-wise, Lick5.8% South-Western 21,868 Arlington (682), Whitehall ing Heights, with more than 4.9% Worthington 9,867 (581), Licking Heights (573), half of its students living in New Albany-Plain (474) and Franklin County, is one of the 2.6% Gahanna-Jefferson 7,393 Worthington (463). No. 10 fastest-growing in the state. 2.5% Canal Winchester 3,733 is Hamilton City Schools in Enrollment went up by nearly 1.5% Hilliard 15,875 Butler County (453), the only 17 percent between 2010 and 0.0% Westerville 14,769 district in the top 10 outside 2015, and 71 percent over a -2.2% central Ohio. decade. The school board has Groveport Madison 5,655 Olentangy is used to growbeen asking voters to fund a -2.8% Hamilton Local 3,144 ing, starting from one building new high school building, and -3.1% Grandview Heights 1,078 in 1989. It passed a bond issue could obtain $20.7 million from -3.9% 49,184 in March and is constructing its Columbus the state for the project. -4.9% Pickerington 10,185 fourth high school, Olentangy Voters have said no twice Berlin, scheduled to open in this year. Source: Ohio Department of Education GATEHOUSE MEDIA 2018. After the November levy A committee is looking at quality education we provide.” acres there for a future elemen- defeat, board President Nicole how to redraw the boundRoth wrote in an open letter: Dublin schools is bracing tary and middle school. ary lines for all 25 Olentangy “We know because student for growth, too. The week Dublin schools can’t conschool buildings. Superintenovercrowding is so signifibefore Christmas, the district’s struct any more, however, dent Mark Raiff will get the cant, we will continue to see registration center was booked until the money is available to recommendation in March, a direct impact resulting in solid by families enrolling their do so, Miller said. That might and expects to make a decision children. At 15,600 students, lower student performance require a levy. soon after. Dublin is expecting another Even inner-ring suburbs are and lower rankings on the state The growth can be expected report card. This is not accept3,000 within a decade, said looking for solutions. Upper to continue, Raiff said. able to the Board of Education, Tracey Miller, director of Arlington schools, with about Depending on the number of our superintendent, teachers, operations. 5,900 students, expects to new housing starts per year, staff and, we believe, the entire Building takes time, and “if grow by another 1,000 in the projections show enrollment community.” you’re not planning for that next decade. The school board topping out in 20 or so years at (growth), you’ll be caught A campaign sign is left over just approved a multiyear facilaround 30,000 students. in a front yard on Graham behind the eight ball,” Miller ities plan, likely costing more Construction of 2,500 Road, not far from the Licksaid. than $300 million, that makes single-family homes and 730 ing Heights offices: “NO NEW Dublin added 22 classrooms room for that expansion. condos and apartments has last school year onto several Whitehall schools now serve TAX Licking Height$. Perbeen approved, according to a manent! Forever! After Bonds elementary schools — the about 3,500 students, up from November presentation to the equivalent of a new school 2,950 in 2010, and it projects it Paid Off?” Olentangy school board. Plus, The school board hopes to — but the demand is still outwill reach 4,000 by 2024-25. 18 square miles of farmland try a third time in May, said stripping the space. Kindergarten through third within the district still could be Superintendent Philip Wagner, Jerome Village, 1,500 acres grade is where the boom is developed. but the specifics of the ballot under development in Jerome happening. “It’s a great problem to issue are yet to be decided. Township, is expected to have To solve an academic probhave,” Raiff said. “I truly think 2,200 homes. Dublin schools lem at the same time, Whitehall people are moving into our sgilchrist@dispatch.com has until February to decide announced on Wednesday school district because of the @shangilchrist whether it wants to buy 40 that in 2017-18, it will create

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VITAL STATISTICS BIRTHS This list is compiled from voluntary submissions by parents to hospitals. LICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (NEWARK) Bowen, Stephanie/Hall, Chris: boy, Dec. 22 Price, Shelby/Smith, Jason: boy, Dec. 22 Vansickle, Tara/Padgett, Robert: girl, Dec. 21 MOUNT CARMEL EAST Defacha, Birhamesh/Kenov, Markos: boy, Dec. 10 Fisher, Toni: boy, Dec. 24 Hawes, Angela and Da’Shawn: boy, Dec. 22 Pace, Lakesha: boy, Dec. 12 Parsley, Alauna: boy, Dec. 13 Randall, Allison/Mohnar, Coven: boy, Dec. 23 Shaffer, Ashton/Hutchings III, Darnell: girl, Dec. 14 Smith, Lacee/Jordan, Christopher: boy, Dec. 21 MOUNT CARMEL ST. ANN’S Chorey, Casey and Michael: boy, Dec. 24 France, Abbie and Chris: boy, Dec. 24 Mosley, Raequel: girl, Dec. 22 Robal, Lisa/Stone, James: girl, Dec. 24 Turner, Barbie/Murphy, Ian: boy, Dec. 23 Weimer, Brooke and Ryan: girl, Dec. 24 WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER AT OSU Bibb, Reva/Davey, Troy: girl, Dec. 20 Lovett, Heather and Timothy: girl, Dec. 8

HOLIDAY CLOSINGS The federal holiday for Christmas is today. Because of the holiday: ■ Parking meters in Columbus

are free. ■ City, county, state and federal ofﬁces are closed. ■ All Columbus Metropolitan Library branches are closed. ■ There is no trash collection in Columbus. The trash-color collection schedule will rotate forward one weekday until the next holiday, which will be observed for New Year’s Day on Monday, Jan. 2. ■ Rumpke curbside recycling and yard-waste collection for Columbus will be delayed by one day. Friday’s collection will be on Saturday. ■ COTA buses are operating on a Sunday schedule. ■ Columbus City Schools and most other districts are closed. ■ Columbus State Community College and Ohio State University are closed.

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and Abas in 2014. This past spring, she discovered she Continued from B1 was expecting a third boy; the couple plan to name him Ilia. Flash forward to two weeks It made the trip from Baghbefore Christmas, half a world dad to Jordan to Chicago to away. Qamar is shopping for Columbus — 6,429 miles in a tree on Columbus’ North total — all the more rewarding. Side. As Kurdish Muslims, he “We were very tired. We and his family don’t celebrate didn’t know anyone. We Christmas. But they love didn’t have much,” said the spirit and joy the holiday Qamar, who learned how brings to people here. The to speak English with some 35-year-old can’t find a tree friends in high school. “But he can afford on his $12-anarriving here was the best day hour salary. of our lives.” Yet he is not sad, because Qamar is very aware of in September, he received the the mixed feelings those in only gift that really mattered: America have about Muslims. a life in America. He knows about the political His apartment is small division in his new country and sparsely furnished. His and that not everyone agrees 20-year-old car has 177,000 with refugee families being miles on it. His assemblyallowed to move here. He is line job making fences is not aware that in central Ohio, the exactly the dream career for a tensions intensified following former policeman who speaks an attack by a Muslim student three languages. at Ohio State University that But his family no longer injured 13 people. hears bombs exploding But over the past four outside their walls. His wife, months, Qamar said, everyone who spent the better part of they have encountered around two years barricaded in their their neighborhood and at his home, can now take their two job site has been welcoming Alaa Qamar and his family have so enjoyed their entry into American life young boys outside on walks. and loving. He wants people to And their third child, a son due that they recently went shopping for a Christmas tree, even though they’re understand that true MusMuslim. KYLE ROBERTSON/DISPATCH in January, will be born into a lims believe in peace and are future with hope. accepting of others cultures. through the United Nations, Nisreen, to finish her classes They have very little, but It’s why he went looking for the U.S. Department of at Baghdad University when the ability to live in peace, at that Christmas tree. a car bomb exploded. A police least to them, means they have Homeland Security, the U.S. And beyond the holidays, Department of State and the officer panicked and started everything. the Qamars’ American dream The Qamars are just some of FBI. If granted refugee status, shooting wildly. Two innois simple. They would like to they undergo further security cent people were killed before become citizens. They want 325 refugees from the Middle checks and a medical screenQamar was able to wrestle East, Asia and Africa that their sons to learn English and ing. They are allowed to travel the officer’s gun away. In the the World Relief of Columattend public schools. They with one or two suitcases and decade since, the situation has want to go to the movies withbus organization has helped eventually must pay the govonly worsened. relocate this year. Of the milout fear of being shot. Qamar ernment back for their travel The Qamars, who married lions who apply, only about 1 would like to get a job as a expenses to America. in 2006, applied for refugee percent are actually granted driver. They would like a more “Things we take for granted, status in 2012. Alaa’s mother refugee status by a United warm clothing for their sons to safety and security, are begged him not to go, knowing battle the winter weather they Nations commission and the what mean so much to these she wouldn’t see her grandhost country. have never before experifamilies,” said Kay Lipovsky, sons grow up. But his father Many come from refuenced. And they want to buy a office director of World Relief and other relatives encouraged blender when they can afford gee camps, and the average Columbus. “God calls on him to leave and start a new time it takes to apply and be one. us to love thy neighbor and life. relocated is six to eight years. love strangers. And it’s a real The couple lived in limbo If someone is considered to To help refugee families like the benefit for us to start new for several years, not knowing Qamars, contact World Relief be in imminent danger or in relationships and friendships where the future would take a life-threatening situation, Columbus at 614-337-2448 or them. But they didn’t let the relocation can be expedited to with people from different visit their website at worldrecultures.” uncertainty stall their family two years. During that time, liefcolumbus.org About 10 years ago, Qamar plans. Nisreen gave birth applicants are subjected to was waiting for his wife, to their sons Husein in 2012 21 different security checks mwagner@dispatch.com

CRIME STOPPERS

Vandals are damaging Green Lawn Cemetery By Beth Burger

The Columbus Dispatch

Repeated vandalism at Green Lawn Cemetery is this week’s Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week. On several occasions over two summers, vandals have crept into historic Green Lawn Cemetery and kicked, pushed and broken stones and monuments, causing more than $1.25 million in damage. The nonprofit Green Lawn Cemetery Association has turned to

Central Ohio Crime Stoppers — and the public — for help. Green Lawn Cemetery, established in 1848, is 360 acres of rolling hills designed by a landscape architect. Many notable people are buried there, including Samuel Bush, the grandfather of President George H.W. Bush; former Ohio governor and U.S. Sen. John Bricker, who was the running mate of presidential candidate Thomas Dewey in 1944; World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker; and humorist James Thurber.

Green Lawn hired a private security company to patrol the cemetery after hours. On Nov. 26, security guards came across two young men who looked suspicious. According to Crime Stoppers, the men assaulted the guards and fled. Several more monuments were discovered to have been vandalized. Anyone who turns over information leading to the arrest or conviction of a cemetery vandal or thief will receive a $1,000 cash reward. It will be an ongoing partnership

between the two groups, with Crime Stoppers collecting information from tipsters, who will be kept anonymous, and the cemetery funding the rewards. Anyone with information can call 614-461-TIPS (8477), submit a tip online at stopcrime.org or text a tip to CRIMES, or 274637, and use the keyword CMH. Tipsters can remain anonymous. bburger@dispatch.com @abburger

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Marbley had dismissed Thompson’s claim that his chronic fatigue syndrome affected his memory. Two medical experts, including one hired by the defense, could find no medical reason for his lack of recall. So once again, Marbley this month sent Thompson back to jail, where he has been since Marbley found him in civil contempt in December 2015 for refusing to reveal the gold’s location to investors who had put up at least $12.7 million for Thompson’s salvage operation. Marbley ordered Thompson to meet again with attorneys representing investors and creditors to tell them the location of the coins, estimated between $2.5 million and $4 million, and any other treasure. But what if he can’t remember, or doesn’t want to? What happens if Thomp- A gold bar refined by a Gold Rush-era assayer and cast for shipment to the son continues to stonewall Philadelphia mint and a privately struck $50 gold piece recovered from the the investors? shipwreck of the SS Central America COIN WORLD Marbley once told Thompson, “As long as you’re Conceivably, Marbley could coast of South Carolina in content to be the master of continue to detain Thomp1857; 471 crew members and misdirection and deceit, I’m son until he cooperates with passengers died. It came to content to let you sit.” attorneys. rest in 8,000 feet of water. So, how long can he stay in “We don’t have debtor’s Whatever happens, Kane’s jail? Marbley could end the prison,” said Assistant U.S. mission is to recover as civil contempt and send him Attorney Doug Squires, much of the assets as he can to prison for two years on a who is pursuing the crimiand maximize their value for criminal contempt charge nal contempt case against investors and other parties for fleeing the state after his Thompson. who deserve payment. arrest almost a year ago in Then again, the judge “If Mr. Thompson has sigFlorida. could keep Thompson in jail nificant holdings in the U.S. If so, would Thompson as long as he believes doing and otherwise that belong wait out his sentence and so might eventually provide to the receivership, I will go then fly off to some couninvestors with an answer, for it,” the Columbus lawyer try from which he can’t be Squires said. “I’ve seen civil said. “If he has gold sitting extradited and where a stash contempt that lasted several in a vault, and going after it of gold awaits him? years.” outweighs the cost, I will. If Another ploy could be to There are rulings suggest- there are dollars that he is continue to delay the case ing a maximum of 18 months hiding, I want every penny in hopes the cost of paying for a “recalcitrant witness” of it.” a court-appointed receiver who refuses to cooperate. Does he believe Thompson becomes too high to con“He’s not a recalcitrant is trying to game the system? tinue the pursuit. witness,” attorney Steven “I don’t know how Tommy “I can’t read Mr. ThompW. Tiggs said. “He’s vioThompson thinks,” Kane son’s mind,” said Ira Kane, lating an order of the court said. the receiver tasked with to comply with his plea The 1988 treasure has been finding the assets from the agreement. That’s a comestimated at between $100 salvage for investors, credi- pletely different set of million and $200 million. tors and others. circumstances.” Thompson once said $400 “Why is he going through As part of his guilty plea to million. all of this only he knows,” the fleeing charge, ThompInsurance companies that Kane said. “It make no sense, son promised to help find the paid claims after the ship unless he’s hiding sometreasure. sank got about 8 percent. thing. But why would you Tiggs represents The DisThompson’s company, want to sit in jail all these patch Printing Co., former Recovery Limited, held months with a $1,000-a-day owners of The Dispatch and about 97 percent, which fine.” a major investor in Thomphe sold to a California gold Marbley imposed the son’s Columbus-America company for around $50 fine a year ago. It’s reached Discovery Group. million. $350,000. Even if Thompson does The gold coins, he said, None of his former lawa two-year prison stint, he were sent to a trust account yers — there are at least five still faces a civil lawsuit in in Belize, but the financial — would comment on the Franklin County Common institution there said it never record. Pleas Court filed by a group received them. If Thompson is trying to of scientists who found the A court-approved second game the system, a couple shipwreck with Thompson. dive, in 2014, by Odyssey of things stand in his way. The sidewheel steamer Marine brought up 15,000 For one, the civil contempt laden with gold from Caligold and silver coins, 45 gold has no maximum term. fornia sank in a storm off the bars, and gold nuggets. The

Thompson’s odyssey ■ 1857: The SS Central America steamer sinks with the loss of 427 lives and a cargo of gold, then valued at $1.2 million. ■ 1985-86: Shipwreck enthusiast Thomas G. “Tommy” Thompson persuades 161 people and companies, mostly in central Ohio, to invest $12.7 million to find the Central America wreck. ■ 1987-88: Thompson and his crew find the wreck off the Carolina coast. ■ 1989: Thompson recovers gold coins and bars from the wreck. Reports indicated that 3 tons were retrieved and 21 tons remained at the bottom of the ocean. ■ 1989-91: Thompson recovers more treasure. Estimates of value ranged from $100 million (California Gold Group estimate) to $400 million (Thompson). To fund the recovery, Thompson raises $9 million and sets up a second partnership group, with 90 investors. ■ 1998: After years of litigation over what was found and its value, Thompson and his companies are awarded 92.2 percent of the recovered gold. The remainder goes to insurance companies that paid claims after the ship sank. Investors take steps to obtain money and to make Thompson accountable. ■ 1999: Thompson obtains an injunction against sale of the 8 percent of treasure awarded to insurance companies, saying the gold should be preserved as a collection. Sotheby’s had planned to sell 250 lots of gold bars, coins and nuggets, expected to net $10 million. ■ 2000: Thompson sells his companies’ portion of the gold to California Gold Group for $52 million. ■ 2005: The Dispatch Printing Co. and investor Donald C. Fanta sue the four directors of Columbus Exploration, the second partnership formed by Thompson. The lawsuit, filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, seeks an accounting of the company’s finances. ■ 2006: Nine gold-ship technicians, led by Michael H. Williamson of Seattle, sue Thompson’s original partnership, Recovery Limited, in federal court, seeking millions they say they are owed for helping to find the wreck. ■ 2006: U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. orders Thompson and other company directors to turn over an inventory of the gold to the technicians, Dispatch Printing and other defendants. Years of appeals follow. ■ August 2012: Sargus orders Thompson’s arrest on a contempt charge after he doesn’t show at a hearing in the Williamson case. ■ October 2012: U.S. marshals learn that Thompson had been living in a Vero Beach, Fla., mansion with his assistant, Alison Antekeier, but had fled a few months earlier. ■ May 2013: A Franklin County judge appoints a receiver to take over Thompson’s companies. ■ March 2014: Court-appointed receiver for Recovery Limited hires Odyssey Marine Exploration to return to the Central America shipwreck. ■ April to September 2014: Odyssey Marine pulls up 15,500 gold and silver coins, 45 gold bars, gold nuggets and artifacts from the wreck. ■ Jan. 27, 2015: Thompson and Antekeier are arrested at a hotel in Boca Raton, Fla., where they reportedly had lived for more than a year. ■ April 8, 2015: Thompson pleads guilty to criminal contempt for not appearing at the Williamson hearing. The agreement requires him to tell plaintiffs’ attorneys the gold’s location. ■ Dec. 15, 2015: U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sentences Thompson to two years in prison for criminal contempt but withholds imposing sentence. He instead finds Thompson in civil contempt, orders him held in jail indefinitely and to pay a $1,000-aday fine until he reveals the location of the gold. ■ June 23, 2016: Todd A. Long becomes Thompson’s attorney. He’s the latest in a string of lawyers Thompson has fired and hired, delaying his case. ■ Nov. 4, 29016: After two examinations find no medical reason for Thompson’s inability to cooperate with plaintiff’s lawyers, Marbley decides Thompson “is being intentionally deceptive with respects to the whereabouts of the gold.” ■ Dec. 13, 2016: Marbley orders another round of depositions. The judge, who is growing tired of Thompson’s “malingering,” doesn’t say what he’ll do if the treasure hunter again doesn’t cooperate. Thompson’s fine has exceeded $350,000.

Sources: court records; Dispatch archives estimated salvage award was $48.2 million. The actual value will be known once it’s offered for sale. “What started out as an extraordinary event ... has turned into a tragedy in a

way,” Kane said. “What happened here is bizarre.” Investors will be the last to ever see any money. erinehart@dispatch.com @esrinehart

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Public has right to police videos Ohio high-court rulings favor access

hile a Tuesday decision by the Ohio Supreme Court stopped short of declaring that police bodycamera videos are public records, the logic of the court’s decision and a previous court ruling involving police dashboard-camera video clearly points to this as a conclusion. Law-enforcement agencies should act accordingly, and promptly make dashcam and body-cam video available to the public when requested. In Tuesday’s case, justices were asked to decide whether Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters acted improperly when he delayed the release of body-cam video of a University of Cincinnati police officer shooting and killing a motorist as the driver tried to pull away from a traffic stop on July 19. Basing her argument on public-records law, Justice Judith Lanzinger noted that the law does not set a deadline for the release of public records, except to specify that release be made “in a reasonable period of time,” which is dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. In this case, Lanzinger declared that six days was a reasonable time for Deters to review the video to determine if any parts of it qualified for an exemption from release as spelled out in Ohio’s public-records law. Arguing this case within the context of publicrecords law is consistent with a more explicit decision made by the court earlier this month. On Dec. 6, justices ruled unanimously that police dashboard-camera videos are public records, with a narrow exemption for portions of recordings that truly constitute “investigative work product.” The ruling came after The Cincinnati Enquirer sued the State Highway Patrol for its refusal to

release dash-cam video of a January 2015 police pursuit that ended in a crash. The Patrol finally released the video after about 14 months, and two months after the fleeing driver was convicted on a variety of charges. The Patrol said it based its refusal to hand over the video on a 2014 appeals-court ruling that said dash-cam video is not a public record. The high court said otherwise, and noted that of the hour or so of dashcam video of the pursuit, only about 90 seconds could be exempted from public scrutiny because it qualified as an investigative work product. This snippet recorded a trooper questioning the driver after the crash. With the Dec. 6 ruling, there is no question that dash-cam video is a public record. And if video recorded by a camera attached to an officer’s car is a public record, there is no reason why video recorded by a camera attached to an officer’s uniform should be treated differently. One baleful outcome of the Tuesday decision will be if it is interpreted by authorities as establishing a “six-day rule” meaning that they can sit on video for up to six days before releasing it to the public. Authorities should review, redact and release videos promptly, not sit on them for six days simply because they believe they can. In both the high-court rulings, the justices declined to impose financial penalties on authorities for withholding public records from the public, arguing that Deter’s six-day response was reasonable and that the State Patrol was acting in good faith based on a ruling by an appeals court. But a policy of stonewalling the public’s right to know is a very strange kind of good faith.

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Federal regulations cost $1 trillion

he federal regulatory state has just surpassed a dubious milestone. Since 2005, the total net cost of the 4,432 regulations finalized has now topped $1 trillion, according to the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank with a focus on limited government and free markets. That translates to a long-term total cost of $3,080 per person, or an annual per capita cost of $540. “In other words, each year every person, regardless of age, in the nation is responsible for paying roughly $540 in regulatory costs,” AAF Director of Regulatory Policy Sam Batkins writes. “These burdens might take the form of higher prices, fewer jobs or reduced wages.” It was fitting that the Environmental Protection Agency’s second round of heavy-duty truck standards, with an estimated cost of at least $29.3 billion, put federal regulations over the top of the $1 trillion threshold. EPA has been one of the worst offenders, having been responsible for six of the top eight most expensive rules by total cost, and all of the top five by annual cost, since 2005. There is also the cost in terms of lost time, for the hours spent on paperwork and compliance would

otherwise be spent on more productive pursuits. The federal regulations during this period racked up a total burden of more than 754 million paperwork hours, enough for about 350,000 full-time jobs, AAF estimates. “That’s roughly the population of Anaheim, Calif. devoted solely to federal paperwork,” Batins notes. It seems that President Barack Obama is going out with a bang, too. As of last week, the Federal Register, which includes the federal government’s final and proposed rules and regulations, reached 91,642 pages, the highest in its 81-year history and more than 10,000 pages higher than the previous record set under Obama in 2010, the Competitive Enterprise Institute reports. Many of these regulations are silly and nonsensical, as revealed by some of the recent entries from CEI’s “This Week in Ridiculous Regulations” series on its blog. There are rules for removing the word “midget” from California raisin standards, changing the size requirements for olives, another potato-handling regulation (the 345th since 1995) and another “Egg Research and Promotion” rule (the 549th during this time).

Other rules include requiring movie theaters to have closed captioning and audio-description devices, imposing energy-efficiency test procedures for electric cooking tops, mandating that hybrid and electric vehicles make more noise (so that blind pedestrians will be able to hear them), banning smoking in public housing, and revising the Food and Drug Administration’s procedures for approving over-thecounter sunscreens. To address this regulatory bloat and economic drain, CEI recommends some common-sense measures such as requiring Congress to vote on all new regulations costing more than $100 million a year, establishing a bipartisan, independent commission to evaluate the 178,000-page Code of Federal Regulations and recommend a package of rules for repeal and requiring that the cost of new regulations must be offset by repealing one or more existing regulations, which has been utilized in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and the U.K. This would be a great start, and would help Presidentelect Donald Trump make good on his promise to eliminate government waste and burdensome regulations. — The Orange County Register

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Unfortunately the legislature left out one of the most important recommendations of the infant mortality commission in the recent bill: to increase taxes on cigarettes and restrict youths’ access to them in a hope to reduce infant smoke exposure. This recommendation was made due to the reality that babies exposed to smoke during pregnancy and/or after birth

have a significantly higher rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than those who are not exposed to cigarette smoke. Studies show that having a parent who smokes can increase the risk of SIDS by five times, this number is much higher if you include all the negative outcomes from intrauterine exposure. We are making strides in

Ohio to reduce infant mortality, and this legislation will help continue that fight. But if we are going to truly protect our babies we need to recognize the deadly effects before and after birth of exposure to cigarette smoke and do something about it.

cried. And then I cried again when I paid for the groceries with the money I’d set aside for the well-child visit. My daughter Lydia was born 13 years ago, and she was a baby who wouldn’t grow. At 1, she weighed 11 pounds and was still wearing newborn clothes. Babies are supposed to triple their birth weight in the first year, and she hadn’t even doubled hers. By the time she was diagnosed, she had been tested for so many terrifying things that Turner Syndrome was a relief. That is, until I saw the tests she would have

to get and the long-term care that she would need to stay healthy. My first thoughts were how will she get insurance? How will she keep a job without being dropped? How long can we put off these tests, so she doesn’t have a pre-existing condition on the record? How will she work? How will she afford to live? Who will insure her? I had just spent 18 months being reminded daily, on a visceral level, that not one moment is promised to us, that she could be gone in a finger-snap. And when I got the news that she had a

long and potentially happy lifetime of treatable medical issues ahead of her, my first thoughts weren’t the flood of relief that you’d expect. My first thought was how will she get insurance with a preexisting condition? When I found out that, under the ACA, she can’t be refused coverage because of her TS, I cried again. We can’t go backward. We can’t let the past we just heard about become Lydia’s future.

I grew up on an American military base in Berlin, Germany during the Cold War. I grew up knowing that America represented the force of good, and of protecting freedom. I heard military folks say: “I may not agree with what you’re saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” I was there when President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate and asked Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear down this Wall.” Now I hear American crowds, with the encouragement of our president-elect, demanding to “build a wall.” The candidate who won the popular vote is not the candidate taking office, yet peaceful protesters are called cry-babies. The Ohio legislature is shoving bills through lame-duck sessions with no oversight or feedback from the people, yet those who question this are called whiners. I grew up pledging allegiance to a country that promised “liberty and justice for all.” The halls of my high school were filled with faces more diverse and integrated than any high school I’ve seen in the states, and our parents worked side by side to protect our country. The crowds at the rallies of the presidentelect to do not reflect this same diversity. There are calls to deport those who come from specific countries or belong to a certain religion. Those who do not agree are called un-American and unpatriotic. No political faction has a monopoly on patriotism. No political faction has a monopoly on love of country. I choose to believe that the American heart still beats with decency. I choose to believe that people still have the power to change the government; otherwise, the democracy I grew up so proud of is dead. Let’s not give up hope. Let’s not call each other names. Let’s remember what truly makes America great.

Sue Flatt Columbus

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Infant-mortality bill insufficient I commend the Ohio General Assembly for recently passing the bipartisan Bill 332 sponsored by Sens. Shannon Jones and Charleta B. Tavares that implements some of the recommendations made by the Commission on Infant Mortality. This marks a step in the right direction toward combatting infant mortality in the state of Ohio, which has one of the highest rates in the country.

Dr. Katy Howell Columbus

Kids’ coverage is lifesaver I have one medically fragile child and another on the spectrum. The Affordable Care Act has helped me in a million little ways that would be as boring for me to list as they are for you to hear. So I’m going to stick with the two most important things to me — free preventative care and coverage for pre-existing conditions. Eight years ago, I’d just gotten tenure at my dream job and had my dream family. I met and married my husband in undergrad, we took turns going to grad school while raising six kids. Six years ago, still at my dream job, I found myself raising six children — two of whom have special needs — alone. Seven people on one paycheck is a challenge. At the end of many of those paychecks, I found myself selling my jewelry and other collectibles to pay for groceries. Little things like well-child visits became big things, reasons to plan carefully. My thought process was something like this: “Ok, so I get paid on Wednesday, if we eat rice and beans and pasta, no meat, I can get Gideon and Adrian in to the doctor.” I put off well-child visits so we could eat and keep the lights on. Forty extra dollars took some serious planning and belt-tightening. One hundred twenty dollars to get them all in within a few weeks of each other was impossible. Then, shortly after the ACA, I took them in for a well-child visit and there was no copay. First, I

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Small voting margins yield big policy changes N ow that the 538 electors have voted — and, with only the most minor of exceptions, for the expected candidates — we can marvel at how such a huge difference in public policies can be made by just a few votes, the 77,744 votes by which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the 46 electoral votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump’s narrow victory means a significantly more conservative Supreme Court, a rollback of Obamacare and reams of regulations, abandonment of policies disfavoring fossil fuel usage — and hundreds of consequences that can only be guessed at. This isn’t the first time this has happened. If Al Franken had not been ruled the winner of the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota by 302 votes, there would have been no 60th vote to push through Obamacare in 2010. And let’s not start relitigating the count in Florida in the 2000 presidential race. Our political system is one that produces big policy

presidential contests since 1856 (and one 50 percent candidate, Samuel Tilden in 1876, lost by one electoral vote). Democrats have been especially unhappy this year because, like Republicans in 1948, they had MICHAEL BARONE pretty good reason to think they’d win. But Thomas consequences from little, even Dewey’s Hollywood celebrity supporters didn’t run microscopic, vote margins. ads begging electors to vote This has been strengthened against Harry Truman. Only in recent decades by increasnow has understandable ing partisan polarization. A disappointment led to utter half-century ago, political scientists said we should have derangement. Christmastime and the one clearly liberal and one holiday season may be a good clearly conservative party — time to provide some suggesand boy, did they get their tions for how commentators wish. and citizens can go forward But binary choices, at a time when, even more with sharply varying conthan usual, narrow margins sequences, tend to be seem to be producing widely characteristic of two-party different outcomes. politics. And we have a One suggestion is inspired two-party politics, which by social media accounts incentivizes each party to aim for more than 50 percent of how distraught Clintonsupporting parents are of the vote. That helps bind together a disparate country, explaining Trump’s victory to their disappointed (but probbut it also emphasizes what ably less distraught) children. divides us. And that is to back up and And often neither party do the explanation the other gets to 50, as with 15 of the way. Explain beforehand to 41 Democratic-Republican

your children — or to your friends or just yourself — how a good person could support the candidate you, for good reasons of your own, oppose. What values are other good people trying to advance? Why do they think their choice would be good for the country? Going through this exercise won’t change your mind. But it could change your view. A second suggestion is directed at the punditocracy especially — and maybe to people beyond. And that is that it’s a good time to stop playing team ball. Over much of the past 20 years, there’s been a close alignment between the views of liberal commentators and elected Democrats and those of conservative commentators and elected Republicans. That’s less likely in the near future. There’s clearly a gulf between Trump’s views and those of many conservatives and elected Republicans. And with no incumbent Democratic president, liberals will have no single leader setting an agenda. Back when I started

reading about politics, National Review was ambivalent about Richard Nixon, and the New Republic was repeatedly critical of John F. Kennedy. Both magazines did less cheerleading and had more interesting things to say than many counterparts have had lately. Let’s have more of that now. The third suggestion is: Don’t get strung out on process arguments — for example, the recent brouhaha about the Electoral College. Everyone knows that if Trump had a plurality in the popular vote and Clinton a majority of electoral votes, Democrats would have argued that Democratic electors should vote for her. It’s an illustration of one of my long-standing rules of politics: All process arguments are insincere. Attentive readers may object that I haven’t always followed this advice myself. Let me know if I fail to do so going forward. Michael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner.

Media have been reporting fake hate crimes for years

ere’s a paradox for you. Whenever there’s a terrorist attack, the immediate response from government officials and the media is: “Let’s not jump to conclusions.” Yet when there are breaking reports that Muslim or Arab Americans were allegedly victimized by bigots in some hate crime, the response is instant credulity, outrage and hand-wringing. This doesn’t really even scratch the surface of the double standard. When there’s a terrorist incident, there’s deep skepticism at every stage of the unfolding story. At first we’re told there’s no evidence that the attack is terrorrelated. Then, when reports come in that a shooter shouted “Allahu akbar!” or has an Arabic name, we’re assured there’s no evidence that the shooter is tied to any international terror groups. Days go by with talking heads fretting about “self-radicalization,” “homegrown terror,” and

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“lone wolves.” This narrative lingers even as the killer’s Facebook posts declaring allegiance to ISIS emerge. Now, truth be told, I think some of this skepticism is understandable. Often, the media and the pundit class on the left and right are too eager to win the race to be wrong first. It’s perfectly proper to not want to get ahead of the facts. More annoying is the Obama administration’s studied practice of slow-walking any admission that the war on terror isn’t over, but at least it’s understandable. President Barack Obama came into office wanting to end wars and convince Americans that terrorism isn’t such a big deal. It

seems to be a sincere belief. It took Obama six years to admit that the shooting at Fort Hood was terrorism and not “workplace violence.” Regardless, my point here is that I can understand why politicians and the media want to be skeptical about breaking news events and even why they try to frame those events in ways that fit a political agenda. The best defense of that agenda isn’t the sorry effort to pad the legacy of our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. It’s the desire to err on the side of caution when it comes to stigmatizing lawabiding and patriotic Muslims with the stain of acts of terror in the name of their religion. The media don’t want to give credence to the idea that all Muslims are terrorists, not least because that attitude will only serve to radicalize more Muslims. And that brings me back to the media’s instant credulity for stories of anti-Muslim bias. According to the FBI,

in every year since the 9/11 attacks, there have been more — a lot more — antiJewish hate crimes than anti-Muslim ones. Which have you heard about more: the anti-Jewish backlash or the anti-Muslim backlash? Amazingly, the “experts fear an anti-Muslim backlash” stories keep popping up after every Islamic terror attack, despite the fact that the backlash never arrives. To be sure, there have been hateful and deplorable acts against Muslims. But evidence of a true national climate of intimidation and bigotry has always been lacking. What has not been lacking is evidence that many activists want to convince Americans that such a climate exists. This effort has been old hat for the media-savvy spokesmen of the Council on American Islamic Relations for years. But since Donald Trump’s election, there has been an explosion of freelance antiMuslim hate-cime hoaxes. A Muslim girl fabricated

an attack by three Trump supporters on a New York subway. A young man pulled a similar stunt on a Delta flight last week. False fraud claims by Asian and Hispanic students at various universities have popped up as well. The media, still in the throes of anti-Trump panic, have been quick to credit these hoaxes and grudging in clearing the air when they’ve been debunked. It’s time the media applied at least the same level of skepticism that they reserve for real terror attacks to fake hate crimes. Why? First, because their job is to report the facts. Second, because if they’re really concerned about not alienating or radicalizing American Muslims, they shouldn’t hype the propaganda efforts of the idiots who are doing exactly that. Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. goldbergcolumn@gmail.com

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Today’s weather

Daily report

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Today’s fronts and temperatures

Today’s forecast

Central Ohio roundup

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Expect a mild but windy Monday with highs on either side of 60 and showers arriving in the afternoon. Cooler with with highs closer to average on Tuesday and decreasing clouds. Partly cloudy with highs in the low to mid-40s on Wednesday. Chance for a wintry mix on Thursday and highs near freezing on Friday.

Yesterday’s national extremes: 89˘ McAllen, Texas; -15˘ Tuolumne Meadows, Calif.

YESTERDAY’S OBSERVATIONS Readings from midnight to 9 p.m. at Port Columbus

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Hi ........47 3:00 p.m. Lo........37 1:00 a.m.

Cleveland

57/30

BY CHRIS BRADLEY DOPPLER 10 CHIEF METEOROLOGIST Chilly with patchy fog.

Afternoon

A few showers will be possible.

Overnight

Mostly cloudy skies.

Afternoon showers, much warmer.

Tuesday

Partly cloudy, much cooler.

Wednesday Partly cloudy skies.

41° 36° 43° 28°

Friday

32° 27°

Saturday

39° 24°

A wintry mix late in the day.

Sunday

Early rain then cloudy.

Lake Erie forecast

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42° 32°

For a more detailed forecast, visit 10TV.com.

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Albuquerque ...........41/25s (48/28s) Anchorage, AK ......28/23sf (27/17c) Atlanta .................... 63/57r (72/52c) Atlantic City, NJ ...51/49c (60/33sh) Austin, TX ........... 76/58ts (71/60sh) Baltimore ............49/45sh (61/32sh) Birmingham, AL......71/62c (70/51c) Bismarck, ND ........15/-1c (21/19pc) Boise, ID .............20/10pc (30/19sn) Boston.................38/37pc (53/32sh) Brownsville, TX ..83/68pc (81/67pc) Buffalo, NY ............51/35r (36/27sf) Burlington, VT ........ 36/35r (43/29c) Casper, WY ...........25/17s (32/21pc) Charleston, SC .....70/58c (75/59pc) Charleston, WV .... 67/57r (57/33sh) Charlotte, NC..........55/51c (68/48c) Chicago ...............53/27pc (35/25pc) Columbia, SC ......60/52sh (73/58pc) Concord, NH .......31/30sn (46/27pc) Dallas ......................68/47c (65/53c) Denver ....................39/21s (52/28s) Des Moines, IA ....38/24pc (42/30s) Detroit....................56/31r (36/27sf) Duluth, MN ...........34/10sn (17/12c)

El Paso, TX ...........54/32s (60/38pc) Fairbanks, AK ............9/0pc (5/-3sn) Flagstaff, AZ ...........34/15s (46/19s) Fort Myers, FL....87/66pc (85/66pc) Hartford, CT ..........37/37i (51/28pc) Helena, MT ...........24/14c (32/21sn) Honolulu................80/72pc (80/69s) Houston ................79/67c (76/65pc) Indianapolis............ 62/32r (40/26s) Intl. Falls, MN ..........34/4sn (12/5c) Jackson, MS.......76/62pc (72/57sh) Jacksonville, FL..77/58pc (80/57pc) Juneau, AK .........34/29sn (37/34sn) Kansas City, MO .....44/25s (47/31s) Las Vegas ...............48/36s (51/37s) Little Rock, AR.......70/45ts (56/38c) Los Angeles ..........62/44pc (69/48s) Louisville, KY ........69/38sh (47/29s) Madison, WI.........43/23pc (28/22c) Memphis, TN .........72/49ts (56/40c) Miami ..................83/73pc (83/71pc) Milwaukee ............47/25pc (31/22c) Minneapolis ..........31/17sn (25/18s) Myrtle Bch, SC ...61/57sh (71/55sh) Nashville, TN ..........71/52c (52/34c) New Orleans ......76/62pc (73/61pc) New York ............46/45sh (56/35sh) Norfolk, VA ...........58/53c (68/45sh) Oklahoma City......60/31s (56/40pc)

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Winds: Southwest at 10 to 20 knots Waves: 1 to 3 feet. Water temp: Toledo 33˘; Cleveland 39˘

A bit of snow will fall across the Upper Midwest today as gusty winds blow and drift snow left by the Christmas blizzard in the Dakotas. An icy mix will glaze the interior Northeast as more rain and mountain snow move into the Northwest.

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Omaha, NE..............37/22s (45/29s) Orlando, FL .........83/63pc (83/62pc) Philadelphia ........49/46sh (59/35sh) Phoenix ...................61/43s (68/46s) Pittsburgh ............. 60/46r (47/28pc) Portland, ME.......32/31sn (47/25pc) Portland, OR ............41/38r (46/36r) Providence, RI....40/40pc (56/30pc) Raleigh, NC .............56/51c (70/46c) Richmond, VA .........54/48c (69/39c) Sacramento, CA .....50/29s (54/33s) St. Louis................63/32pc (46/32s) Salt Lake City .......27/14s (32/28pc) San Antonio...........75/62ts (71/63c) San Diego .............64/45pc (70/48s) San Francisco ........53/39s (55/42s) San Jose.................56/36s (59/38s) Santa Fe, NM .........39/19s (47/25s) Sault Ste. Marie..41/25sn (30/16sf) Seattle .....................42/39r (45/38r) Sioux Falls, SD .....26/16pc (34/25s) Spokane, WA......27/25pc (35/24sn) Tallahassee, FL...81/61pc (80/58pc) Tampa, FL .............84/67pc (82/65s) Tucson, AZ ..............62/41s (72/44s) Tulsa, OK...............61/30s (54/41pc) Washington, DC ...52/48c (63/37sh) Wichita, KS.............50/24s (51/30s) Wilmington, DE ..49/47sh (59/33sh)

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Acapulco .................. 87/73pc (87/75pc) Amsterdam.............. 48/41pc (49/36pc) Athens.......................... 57/44s (59/45s) Baghdad................... 61/43pc (59/42pc) Beijing .......................... 38/17c (36/13s) Berlin........................51/39sn (46/38sh) Cape Town................. 83/65s (80/64pc) Cairo........................... 65/52s (62/49pc) Copenhagen ............46/39pc (45/37sh) Hong Kong ................. 75/59s (67/55pc) Jerusalem................51/41pc (45/40sh) Lima.......................... 78/66pc (79/67pc) London ......................... 48/31s (45/32s) Madrid...................... 58/34pc (59/34pc) Mexico City.............. 73/47pc (72/50pc) Moscow ...................32/29sn (34/26sn) Mumbai .................... 91/71pc (90/71pc) Nassau..................... 83/72pc (83/71pc) Oslo .......................... 38/33pc (39/26pc) Paris ............................. 53/30c (45/30s) Rome.......................... 60/42s (61/37pc) Seoul ...........................39/23r (32/16pc) Singapore ..................88/76ts (84/75ts) Sydney ......................... 86/68s (82/71s) Tokyo...........................57/54pc (65/39r) Toronto ........................49/32i (33/25sf)

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environmental remediation. “This really is a first step for us in setting the stage,” said Steve Schoeny, Columbus’ development director. “There’s a lot of infrastructure work that needs to be done up there.” Jennifer Chamberlain, who leads the Far East Area Commission, said the idea is a good one. “The whole area over there is hurting,” she said. Many of the retailers have moved to East Broad Street and

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interchange was vacant. Redeveloping the area has been a challenge. The former Consumers Square East shopping center at the southeast corner of Brice and I-70 was bulldozed years ago and has remained a barren gateway to the city from the east. The J.C. Penney outlet store closed in May 2015; that site sits within this new district. The former Bob Evans and Chi-Chi’s restaurants north of I-70 have been empty for years. But a Front Room Furnishings store continues to thrive after it moved into an old Meijer store south of the interchange, and Lindsay Honda redeveloped the former Scarborough Mall/Brice Outlet Mall property. The money generated in the district can go toward new roads and parking lots, sidewalks, bike paths, utilities, parks and streetscape improvements such as sidewalk lighting, demolition and

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Instead, that money will pay for the improvements. Auto dealer Steve Lindsay, who also is president of the East Columbus Business Association, said the hope is the new district will attract more businesses to the area. “I think it’s going to give much-needed energy and focus communitywide,” Lindsay said. “It’s a catalyst, a missing piece that sparks development efforts.” Lindsay said the boundaries don’t include the area along Brice north of Interstate 70 because that is mostly Reynoldsburg. A 2015 market study of the area recommended tax-increment financing as an incentive the city could offer. At the time, more than a third of the retail space and almost half of the office space in the area near the

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other areas, she said. The Columbus, Reynoldsburg, Pickerington and Groveport Madison school districts will receive the amounts of tax money they would have received. But agencies such as the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Metro Parks and Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities will lose out because the property taxes they might have received will be diverted to pay for the improvements in

Source: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

WEATHER HISTORY Miami, Fla., was in the grip of a cold snap on Dec. 26, 1983. The 33-degree low temperature was a record for December. It was cold again two years later, when Miami’s low was 38 F.

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the tax-increment financing district. Larry Marshall, the Far East Area Commission’s zoning chairman, said he’s waiting to see work done to improve the I-70 interchanges at Brice Road and I-270. Now, for example, westbound traffic entering I-70 from Brice Road has to cross over traffic trying to exit I-70 to I-270, leading to tricky situations. “The whole interchange is supposed to be revamped,” Marshall said. “I’m surprised there aren’t more bad accidents.” The state’s Far East Freeway study calls for $220 million of improvements at the I-70 interchanges at I-270 and Brice Road. The Ohio Department of Transportation should hear in January if it receives funding developing plans, which would begin in late 2017 or 2018. mferench@dispatch.com @MarkFerenchik

See how local stocks are performing / C3

Wolverton: Shopping around leads to choosing new TV service / C2

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

California adopts new rules for computers

Business

Section C | The Columbus Dispatch | Monday, December 26, 2016

By Rob Nikolewski ■

The California Energy Commission has passed energy-efficiency standards for computers and monitors in an effort to reduce power costs, becoming the first state in the nation to adopt such rules. The regulations promise to reduce energy consumed by computers by about one-third, saving power customers about $373 million in utility bills by 2027, and figure to have effects far beyond California. Computers and computer monitors in the state use an estimated 5,610 gigawatt-hours of electricity, representing up to 3 percent of residential electricity use and 7 percent of commercial use. “Such efficiency improvements are good for consumers, good for the electric system, good for the environment and frankly good for the green credentials of the manufacturers,” said Andrew McAllister, a commission member who helped guide the new rules through a four-year process of consultations

HOW SEATTLE BECAME ‘CLOUD CITY’

Tom Nguyen, IT manager at the Seattle Aquarium, has been plugging its technology into cloud-computing services, which gives him more time to work with exhibits. He’s in a server room being upgraded and rewired to new servers. STEVE RINGMAN/THE SEATTLE TIMES

Amazon and Microsoft leading tech revolution aerospace customers fly and take care of their planes. An engineer with a record book SEATTLE — In a Seattleand a manual knows roughly area conference room earlier when to replace a part. But this year, Washington state’s an engineer equipped with two largest employers started software that can help make sketching out the future. sense of decades of mainteIn a daylong series of meet- nance data could do a more ings at Microsoft’s campus, precise job, the thinking goes, engineers from the software improving aircraft maintecompany knocked heads and nance and fuel consumption. keyboards with their counBoeing is hoping to build terparts at Boeing. The goal: web-based variants of its tapping in to Microsoft’s aviation analytics tools on Azure, the software maker’s Microsoft’s Azure. network of on-demand com“If you’re not building puting power, to build a new (tools) that are keeping up generation of software. with your customers on a Boeing for years has made daily or weekly basis, you’re tools, from paper navigafalling behind,” said Corey tional aids to maintenance Sanders, a Microsoft manager software, that help its who leads a cloud-computing By Matt Day

The Seattle Times

The Los Angeles Times

team working with Boeing. “Because your competitors are.” Cloud computing, or tapping in to rented computer power and data storage over the internet, has existed for more than a decade. Most people know the cloud as the unseen servers that store the emails in their Gmail account or back up their iPhone photos. But enabled by increasingly sophisticated technologies — and billions of dollars’ worth of factory-sized server farms being built around the world — cloud computing is changing from a consumer phenomenon to one that’s reshaping big business. Thanks to the growth

of Amazon.com, Microsoft and a roster of Silicon Valley transplants, it’s also reshaping Seattle. Technologists compare the shift now under way to the advent of electrical utilities a century ago that sparked rapid advances in fields from agriculture to medicine and entertainment. Electricity rapidly changed from an expensive good available only to those with the wherewithal to generate it themselves to a ubiquitous commodity only noticed when it goes down.

Competing for cash Sales of internet-accessed SEE CLOUD, C6

SEE ENERGY, C4

BUSINESS REPORT

North Market’s local focus helps economy COLUMBUS — The North Market is supporting hundreds of jobs and generating millions in payroll, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Columbus economist Bill LaFayette, owner of Regionomics, noted that North Market is different than other hubs of retail shops and restaurants in that it focuses on local ownership and entrepreneurship, which keeps more of the money spent there in the local economy. North Market merchants had sales of $15.4 million in 2015, and 83 percent of that money stayed in central Ohio, according to Lafayette. One of the reasons the retention of dollars spent at North Market is so high is that the businesses are locally owned and buy the majority of their goods in central Ohio. SEE REPORT, C2

Monday, December 26, 2016 |

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH •

THIS WEEK

ON TECHNOLOGY

Ending the year at new highs, lows

The financial media doesn’t give the bond market the respect it deserves. It’s just not as sexy as the stock market. It lacks the personality of publicly traded stocks and their management. It’s a confusing mix of lingo and financial math. But the bond market is huge, and a key benchmark may hit levels not seen all year in the week ahead. Pension funds, insurance companies and investors of all sizes buy bonds, relying on a steady stream of income as the IOU is paid back. That’s the interest rate. For buy-and-hold bond investors, that rate is locked into place at the time the bond was purchased. Over the past year, that’s been an incredibly low rate. But it’s been rising. The interest rate on the 10-year U.S. government bond is up 1 percent since September. That may not sound like much, but when the bond was earning just 1.5 percent three months ago and now earns 2.5 percent, that’s a big change. Oh yeah, as a bond’s interest rate rises, its price drops. So the value of that same government bond is near its lowest level of the year. The benchmark 10-year Treasury bond has lost about 9 percent since July, while the stock market has rallied more than 4 percent to hit records. —Tom Hudson, The Miami Herald

BY THE NUMBERS

Stock summary A weekly look at a central Ohio-based stock: Diamond Hill Friday’s close $211.20 52-week high $217.68 52-week low $140.98 Market cap $676.8 million Price-to-earnings ratio 16.33

Source: Yahoo Finance

CONTACT US BUSINESS EDITOR Ron Carter............................... 614-461-5156 Email: rcarter@dispatch.com ASSISTANT BUSINESS EDITOR Barbara James................... 614-461-5243 Email: bjames@dispatch.com

Search for new TV service ends in a switch

’m changing television providers again. My two-year contract with Dish expired last month. Wanting a better deal, I shopped around. After considering all the alternatives, I’m switching to AT&T. My search didn’t have to end up that way. And if the options keep improving, I may not be with AT&T for very long. Before shopping around, I drew up some criteria for what I wanted in my next television service. The most important thing for me was to save money. As longtime readers may recall, I signed a service agreement with Dish in late 2014. My Dish deal was a typical one. It started with a low introductory price that ballooned in the second year of the contract. For the last year, I’ve been paying about $91 a month for my television service, before taxes. That might seem reasonable to many people, but it’s felt increasingly absurd to me. My wife and I rarely watch television of any kind; some programs have sat on our DVR unwatched for more than a year. So, I was looking for a pay TV service that offered a DVR and gave me access to all or nearly

and, at $35 a month, has a great price, it doesn’t include the local PBS, CBS or CW channels and it doesn’t offer a DVR. So it was out too. For $40 a month, we could get Sling TV’s “All Channels” service, which offers all but one TROY WOLVERTON of the cable channels we watch. But that service lacks the same all of the channels we watch. local channels as DirecTV But I was open to alternatives. Now. And its new DVR service I was particularly intrigued by is still being tested and is only the new online pay TV options, available by invitation and only because they seemed like they if you have a Roku digital media might be a good option for con- player, which I don’t. sumers like me. Perhaps the most compelling Over the last two years, Dish, of the online options is PlayComcast, Sony and, most Station Vue. For $40 a month, recently, AT&T, have begun its “Access” bundle offers offering television service not only a DVR service, but a over the internet. These serdecent selection of cable and vices — Sling TV, Stream TV, local channels. PlayStation Vue and DirecTV But some of channels it lacks Now, respectively — resemble — Comedy Central, Lifetime the traditional bundles of and the local CW and PBS stachannels you’d get from your tions — are among those that cable or satellite provider. But we watch most frequently. they generally cost a lot less, So, that left me back with the because they offer fewer chan- traditional providers. We got nels and don’t require you to services from all three major rent a pricey set-top box. TV providers in our area; we But for us, the online altersubscribed to Dish for TV, natives weren’t great options. Comcast for broadband and Comcast doesn’t offer AT&T for cell phone service. Stream TV where I live, in Cali- So I called all three to see if they fornia’s Bay Area, so that was could offer a good price to a out. While DirecTV Now offers returning customer. all the cable channels we watch As I’ve experienced in the

past, the response was uneven. The best deal I could get from Dish for the service options I wanted was $67 a month. But I would have lost access to a channel I like a lot and I would have been paying $25 a month more than I would for PlayStation Vue, which seemed like an expensive premium. Comcast offered a deal that seemed to be too good to be true — and turned out to be. After discussing it with my wife, I called back the next day to sign up. But as has happened repeatedly in the past, Comcast refused to honor the deal, instead insisting that I’d have to pay an extra $10 for the faster broadband speed. Even then, it wasn’t a bad deal, but as a frustrated Comcast customer I hung up and went with my other choice. That was AT&T. With its U-verse U-200 service, we’ll get all the channels we watch and a DVR. I only have a oneyear contract, so I can change service next year if I don’t like it. The cost is nominally $70 a month. But the deal includes a $200 gift card that I can use to pay my service costs. If you average that amount over the one-year contract period, the monthly price comes down to about $53 a month.

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that had been decentralized, we will be able to better leverage diverse skill sets across multiple businesses and industry segments on behalf of our global customers,” said Craig Morrison, chairman, president and CEO, in a statement. “We have a strong track record of partnering with our customers, and the new technology center will further accelerate our ability to collaborate with customers on new productdevelopment initiatives.” The new facility will house research and development activities, including the Transportation Research and Application Center, which develops technology solutions to enable the growth of composites for the auto industry.

Business Park next year. It’s the ﬁrst development at that site, which once was home to an old Navistar factory, the Springﬁeld News-Sun reported. The company will manufacture high-strength steel parts for the Acura MDX. Honda previously said it will begin production of that SUV at its plant in East Liberty beginning next year. Initially, Topre workers will produce the front bulkhead for the vehicle, Vice President Brad Pepper said. The company hopes to pick up additional work from Honda, Pepper said, and it does, the plant could expand rapidly.

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The market also supports about 315 jobs; 130 are full time. That is 100 more positions than would be expected if the products bought at North Market were instead bought elsewhere from chain stores and restaurants, LaFayette said. The city and the market are looking to develop the market’s 130-space parking lot and have solicited proposals for projects. The city hopes the project will “provide opportunities to augment and expand the North Market’s services and operations, and create a sustainable, long-term structure to ensure the ﬁnancial viability of the North Market.” The city plans to select a developer early next year.

Hexion to build R&D center in Germany COLUMBUS — Hexion Inc., a Columbus-based chemical manufacturer, has announced a plan to build a research and development center in Germany. The center will be in KampLintfort, Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, and it will consolidate work from other locations in Europe. “By consolidating activities

Germain, Jackets extend partnership The Columbus Blue Jackets has signed a multiyear renewal and expansion of the team’s corporate partnership with Germain Lexus. The central Ohio-based luxury dealership has been afﬁliated with the Blue Jackets since the 2008-2009 season. The partnership includes name sponsorship of the Lexus Lounge, the arena’s dining and bar space available to designated lower-bowl seating

sections. It also includes a Lexus vehicle display on the arena’s main concourse during all games, and on-ice drives during some intermissions.

Ohio Transmission buys two companies COLUMBUS — Ohio Transmission Corp., an industrial-equipment service provider and distributor, recently bought C & C Industrial Sales and Midway Industrial Supply. C & C Industrial Sales has its headquarters in Gallatin, Tennessee, and has a second location in Raleigh, North Carolina. It specializes in spray ﬁnishing systems, installation, service and repair in the South and Southeast. Midway Industrial Supply, based in Minneapolis, also specializes in spray ﬁnishing systems and other functions.

Japanese supplier to Honda plans plant SPRINGFIELD — A Japanese auto-parts firm that supplies Honda will invest more than $10 million and bring 20 jobs to a Springfield business park, and local leaders said the manufacturer has the potential for significant growth. Topre America will open a plant at the Champion City

Skin center opens New Albany ofﬁce COLUMBUS — Timeless Skin Solutions is set to open a second location on Jan. 10 at 150 E. Main St., New Albany. Its ﬁrst location was founded in 2004 in Dublin by Dr. Carol Clinton. The skin-care practice uses several kinds of laser cosmetic therapy, topical skin-care products and injectables to erase lines and wrinkles, clear up acne and diminish dark circles, unwanted hair and leg or facial veins. Other treatments focus on non-surgical procedures for body sculpting and fat reduction.

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Abbott Labs . . . . . 38.42 0.84 Abercrombie & Fit . . 11.94 –10.29 Advanced Drainage . 20.35 0.00 Aetna. . . . . . . . . . 125.95 –0.68 Alliance Data Sys 233.64 2.10 Amer Electr Power. . 63.17 0.57 Anheuser-Busch In 103.49 0.48 Ascena Retail . . . . . 6.26 –11.83 Ashland Global . . 110.02 –0.07 AT&T . . . . . . . . . . . 42.73 2.54 Big Lots. . . . . . . . . . 51.30 –7.10 Bob Evans Farms . . . 53.94 0.00 Bravo Brio Restrnt . . . 4.00 –3.61 Cardinal Health . . . . 72.88 –1.19 CenturyLink . . . . . 24.06 –0.46 Charter Comm . . 290.43 0.69 Citigroup. . . . . . . . 60.99 2.08 Comm Vehicle Grp. . . 5.33 0.38 Core Molding . . . . . 17.38 –0.69 DCB Financial . . . . . 18.15 1.68 Diamond Hll . . . . . 211.20 0.61 Discover Fin Svcs 72.64 1.33 DSW . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.84 –5.62 Emerson Electric 56.80 1.92 Express. . . . . . . . . . 10.87 –5.07 Fifth Third Bncp . . 27.68 3.28 Fiserv . . . . . . . . . 108.00 0.91 GE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.88 0.41 Greif . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.00 –0.69 Heartland BncCorp 69.00 –5.48 Honda Motor Co. . 30.21 0.27 Huntington Bncs . . . 13.42 3.07 IBM . . . . . . . . . . . 166.71 –0.01 InstalledBldngPrd . . 41.25 1.60 JPMorgan Chase . 87.05 2.48 KeyCorp . . . . . . . . 18.47 1.71 Kroger . . . . . . . . . . 35.08 –2.39 L Brands . . . . . . . . . 66.69 –3.88 Lancaster Colony. . 140.69 3.32 M/I Homes . . . . . . . 25.75 –1.45 Macy's . . . . . . . . . 36.48 –2.64 McDonald's. . . . . 123.14 –0.08 McGraw Hill . . . . 109.02 –3.61 Mettler-Toledo . . 426.07 0.97 NiSource . . . . . . . . 22.30 1.23 Nokia. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.88 0.00 Owens Corning. . . 52.57 1.41 Park National . . . . 119.53 1.54 PNC Fin Svcs Grp 117.96 2.70 Rocky Brands . . . . . 11.30 0.89 Scotts Mircle-Gro . . 95.99 1.05 State Auto Fin . . . . . 27.04 1.96 Target . . . . . . . . . . 73.50 –4.23 United Parcel Svc 115.97 0.14 US Bancorp. . . . . . 52.20 0.89 Verizon . . . . . . . . . 53.68 2.70 Wal-Mart. . . . . . . . 69.54 –2.03 Washington Prime . . 10.16 –0.97 Wendy's Co. . . . . . . 13.78 0.22 Worthington Indst . . 49.18 –10.97

–1.44 –22.42 –4.24 –2.61 –0.60 7.40 1.06 –5.94 –4.14 10.33 –2.45 20.08 –5.88 3.30 –1.39 6.65 7.59 2.30 6.69 11.01 4.44 6.39 –8.64 3.16 –21.23 5.29 0.37 1.72 –1.30 18.66 5.33 6.42 2.92 –1.55 10.39 5.42 4.09 –7.48 1.00 12.20 –18.77 2.50 –9.31 1.48 3.05 16.47 –0.68 4.80 6.14 0.89 6.41 4.16 –6.35 0.25 5.78 6.87 –1.82 –0.39 7.99 –20.33

–14.45 –55.78 –15.31 16.49 –15.52 8.41 –17.21 –36.45 7.13 24.18 33.11 38.84 –55.56 –18.36 –4.37 43.42 17.86 93.12 35.46 142.32 15.00 35.47 –4.27 18.75 –37.09 37.71 18.08 2.34 72.02 53.33 –5.39 21.34 21.14 66.13 31.83 40.03 –16.14 –28.68 21.85 17.47 4.29 4.23 10.59 25.64 14.30 –30.48 11.78 32.11 23.76 –2.25 48.80 31.33 1.23 20.51 22.33 16.14 13.44 –4.24 27.95 63.17

CDS VS. TREASURIES 6-month CDs . . . . . . . . . . 0.19% Treasuries . . . . . 0.65%

1-year 5-year 0.31% 0.91%

0.83% 2.07% PCT. YIELD

Government retail money funds National average Vanguard Federal MMF (800) 662-7447 Vanguard Treasury MMF (h) (800) 662-7447

Prime retail money funds

National average Fidelity Inv Money Market/Instit (k) (h) (800) 544-6666 BlackRock MMP/Instit CI (k) (h) (800) 441-7762

Tax-free retail money funds

National average Federated Muni Oblig Fund/Wealth (k) (h) (800) 341-7400 Vanguard Tax-Exempt MMF (800) 662-7447

0.04 0.42 0.35 0.32 0.87 0.79 0.24 0.59 0.55

SAVINGS YIELD 2%

9% 6 3 0

–3

5-year CD 0.81%

–6

Columbus....6.5%

Cleveland ....4.7%

Cincinnati....5.0%

U.S. STOCK MARKETS Dow Jones 19,990

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Close: Thursday

19,933.81 Friday

19,950 19,870 19,830

1-year CD 0.31% MMA 0.11% 0%

N D J F M A M J J A S O N 25 30 20 24 23 27 25 22 27 24 28 26 16

2015 2016

19,910

LOAN RATES 1 Week:90.40

1 Week: 0.46%

Year-to-date: 14.4%

Close:

S&P 500 2,272

New car loan 4.21%

2,263.79 5%

2,268 2,264 2,260

2,256

1 Week: 0.25%

1 Week: 5.72

Year-to-date: 10.8%

Nasdaq

Close:

5,495

5,462.69

5,475

30-year mortgage 4.01% 1-year ARM 3.42%

N D J F M A M J J A S O N 25 30 20 24 23 27 25 22 27 24 28 26 16

2015 2016

5,435

1 Week: 25.53

1 Week: 0.47%

Year-to-date: 9.1%

75.65% 20.87% 16.44% 15.64% 15.49%

Yields are based on method of compounding and interest rate on Tuesday for the lowest minimum deposit available. CD ﬁgures are for ﬁxed rates only. For compound method: CD daily; CM - monthly; CQ - quarterly; CH - half year; SI - simple interest.

S&P 500 INDUSTRY GROUP SNAPSHOT S&P 500 INDUSTRY GROUP SNAPSHOT

Percentage change over the past week for leading and lagging sectors 2.71% 2.40% 1.92% 1.91% 1.60% –1.80% –1.93% –2.33% –2.53% –4.23%

COMMODITIES Close %ChgWk Futures

Lean Hogs (per lb.). . . . . . . Corn (per bushel). . . . . . . . Soybeans (per bushel). . . . Nat Gas (per MMBTU) . . . .

0.63 3.46 9.98 3.66

–2.32 –2.95 –4.71 7.23

Nat’l Avg

HIGHEST YIELDS NATIONWIDE

–12.70% –13.46% –13.75% –13.87% –17.31%

Semiconductors & Semi Eqp Diversiﬁed Telecomm Construction Materials Personal Products Road & Rail Health Care Technology Construction & Engineering Leisure Equipment & Prod Distributors Multiline Retail

Ohio

10-year T-note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.54 30-year Mtg . . . . . . . . . . 4.16 . . . . . . . 4.17 1-year ARM . . . . . . . . . . . 4.20 . . . . . . . 3.05 Money market . . . . . . . . 0.26 . . . . . . . 0.26 6-month CD . . . . . . . . . . . 0.28 . . . . . . . 0.32 1-year CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.50 . . . . . . . 0.56 New car loan . . . . . . . . . 2.91 . . . . . . . 2.85 Home equity loan . . . . . . 4.91 . . . . . . . 5.14

Close Percentage change over the past week

Fred’s Inc 20.20 Pioneer Energy Services 6.95 LSC Communications Inc 27.76 CARBO Ceramics 10.50 Calamos Asset 8.50 Northern Oil & Gas Inc 2.75 The Finish Line 19.41 Bed Bath & Beyond 40.77 Tidewater Inc 3.54 Ciber Inc 0.69

CONSUMER RATES Rates

WINNERS & LOSERS FROM THE S&P 1500 INDEX Company

Futures

5,455

Industry

MONEY FUNDS INSTITUTION, PHONE

3-month performance of companies with a large presence in select Ohio cities October November December

Close %ChgWk

Oil (per barrel) . . . . . . . . . 53.02 Copper (per lb.) . . . . . . . . . 2.48 Gold (per oz.) . . . . . . . . 1,133.60 Silver (per oz.) . . . . . . . . . 15.76

2.16 –3.33 –0.33 –2.81

NAME, PHONE ANN.

MIN RATE YIELD

1,000 Money Dime Community market/ Bank, 1-800-321-3463 10,000 savings ﬁrstcentral.direct 866-400-3272 10,000 6 month VirtualBank, 877-998-2265 CD 1,000 TAB Bank 1-800-837-4136 10,000 1 year VirtualBank, 877-998-2265 CD My e-BAnC by BAC 15,000 Florida Bank, 855-512-0989 0 2.5 year Capital One 360 Bank, 800-289-1992 CD EverBank, 5,000 855-228-6755 5 year CD

State Farm Bank, 877-734-2265 EverBank, 855-228-6755

1.09 1.10 1.05 1.06 0.93 0.93 0.92 0.92 1.30 1.31

Largest investor - class funds, $10K or less min. investment - latest available data

1.44 1.45

500

2.08 2.10

5,000

2.08 2.10

NAV 1Mo YTD

Fund

American - The Growth Fund 42.50 American AMCAP. . . . . . . . . 27.46 American Balanced . . . . . . . 24.94 American Capital Income . . 58.07 American EuroPacific Growth 45.02 American Funds - Bond Fund 12.65 American Funds - Cap World 43.82 American Funds - Fundamental 55.04 American Funds - Investment 36.53 American Funds - New World 50.92 American Income Fund . . . . 21.73 American Mutual . . . . . . . . . 37.07 American New Perspective . 35.44 American SmallCap World. . 45.75 American Washington Mutual 41.38 BlackRock Global Alloc . . . . 18.30 Davis New York Venture. . . . 30.88 Dodge & Cox Balanced . . . 104.08 Dodge & Cox Income . . . . . . 13.53 Dodge & Cox Intl Stk . . . . . . 38.02 Dodge & Cox Stock. . . . . . . 186.60 Eaton Vance Large-Cap Val. . 18.13 Fidelity 500 Index Fd-Iv . . . . 79.08 Fidelity Adv New Insights . . 26.70 Fidelity Advisor Total Bd-A. . 10.47 Fidelity Balanced . . . . . . . . . 22.11 Fidelity Contrafund . . . . . . . 99.69 Fidelity Diversified Intl . . . . . 33.08 Fidelity Equity-Income . . . . . 57.76 Fidelity Freedom 2020 . . . . . 15.29 Fidelity Growth Company . 146.10 Fidelity Low-Priced Stock . . 49.69 Fidelity Magellan . . . . . . . . . 92.31 Fidelity Puritan . . . . . . . . . . . 20.71 Fidelity Total Bond Fund . . . 10.47 Fidelity Total Mkt Idx-Iv . . . . 65.08 Fidelity US Bind Index-I . . . . 11.43 First Eagle Global-A . . . . . . . 54.20 First Eagle Overseas . . . . . . 22.20 Franklin Income Fund-Ad . . . . 2.29 Hartford Capital Apprec . . . 35.94 Ivy Asset Strategy . . . . . . . . 19.75 Lord Abbett Shrt Dur Inc-C . . 4.33 Metropolitan West T/R Bond-M 10.47 Mfs Intl Value-A . . . . . . . . . . 34.77 Mfs Value Fund-B . . . . . . . . . 36.17 Mutual Global Discovery . . . 30.68 Oppenheimer Developing Mkt-A 31.77 Pimco Income Fund-A . . . . . 12.03 PIMCO Low Duration . . . . . . . 9.82 T Rowe Pr Blue Chip Grow . . 73.37 T Rowe PR Mid Cap Gr-Inv. . 75.85 T Rowe Pr New Income . . . . . 9.32 T Rowe Price Capital Apprec 26.29 T Rowe Price Eqty Idx 500 . . 60.67 T Rowe Price Equity Income 31.77 T Rowe Price Growth Stock. . 53.76 Templeton Global Bond . . . . 12.06 Templeton Growth Fund . . . 23.68 Thornburg Intl Value . . . . . . 23.06 Vanguard 500 Index . . . . . . 208.54 Vanguard Balanced Index-Inv. . 31.38 Vanguard Dev Mkt Indx-Adm 11.69 Vanguard Dividend Growth-Inv 24.03 Vanguard Ext Mkt Indx-Inv 73.07 Vanguard GNMA. . . . . . . . . . 10.53 Vanguard Growth Index-Inv. . 57.82 Vanguard Health Care-Inv. . 194.62 Vanguard Inflation-Protect . . 13.32 Vanguard Intl Growth. . . . . . 21.23 Vanguard Intm Trm Inv G-Inv 9.68 Vanguard Mid-Cap Index. . . 36.19 Vanguard Primecap Fund-Inv 111.40 Vanguard Reit Index Fund-Inv. . 26.79 Vanguard S/T Bnd Indx-Inv. . 10.40 Vanguard Short-Term Invest 10.62 Vanguard Sml Cap Indx-Inv 62.03 Vanguard Tot Int St Idx-Inv 14.61 Vanguard Total Intl Bnd-Adm. . 21.60 Vanguard Total Stock Mkt . . 56.54 Vanguard Wellesley Inc-Inv. 25.94 Vanguard Wellington . . . . . . 40.21 Vanguard Windsor II . . . . . . 37.90

1.6 1.8 1.4 2.2 0.4 –0.6 1.7 2.0 2.5 –0.2 2.1 2.9 0.7 –0.5 3.2 1.0 2.0 2.6 0.1 2.5 3.6 4.4 2.8 1.1 –0.2 1.6 0.9 0.8 3.4 0.9 1.1 0.8 1.9 1.3 –0.2 2.6 –0.7 0.4 –0.4 3.2 1.4 0.9 0.0 –0.7 1.3 2.6 3.7 –1.6 0.7 –0.1 –0.1 –0.2 –0.6 0.8 2.8 3.0 0.0 5.0 4.0 2.4 2.8 1.3 2.1 2.1 1.8 –1.0 1.2 –1.6 –1.0 –1.3 –0.7 1.0 1.5 2.8 –0.3 –0.2 2.1 1.3 0.1 2.6 1.2 2.7 3.1

9.6 10.0 9.0 6.7 0.5 2.1 6.0 13.3 15.5 2.8 10.8 14.9 2.2 5.2 14.6 4.2 13.6 17.4 5.1 8.0 22.8 10.0 12.9 7.4 4.8 7.5 4.7 –4.4 18.3 7.2 7.0 9.2 6.3 5.5 5.1 13.6 1.7 10.5 4.7 16.6 4.8 –5.9 3.0 1.6 3.5 13.9 13.0 4.7 7.9 1.2 2.0 7.0 2.0 8.6 12.8 20.4 2.4 6.8 9.6 –2.7 12.9 8.9 2.0 8.3 16.5 1.0 6.9 –9.5 3.8 0.6 3.2 11.9 11.7 6.0 1.1 2.5 18.7 3.8 4.3 13.5 8.0 11.4 14.4

CROSS CURRENCY RATES USD

1.28 1.29 1.44 1.45

Monday, December 26, 2016

MUTUAL FUNDS

USD

EUR

GBP

CAD

JPY

1.045

1.229

0.739

0.009

1.175

0.707

0.008

EUR 0.957 GBP 0.814

0.851

CAD 1.353

1.414

0.602 1.662

JPY 117.360 122.630 144.157 86.719

0.007 0.012

Monday, December 26, 2016

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AUTO INDUSTRY

Millennials warming up to car market vehicles,” said Brian Maas, president of the California New Car SAN DIEGO — Finally Dealers Association, relenting, 32-year-old “but they’re still going Branden Matlock bought to enter the market.” a car for what might be The spike is not that the most millennial of surprising. After all, it’s reasons. only natural to presume “I wanted to supplethat as 20-year-olds ment my income, so I turn into 35-year-olds, decided to drive for Uber they become more likely and Lyft part time,” to buy cars, just as every Matlock said. generation before them. The inner workings of a Mercedes Smart car draw the attenSo after going two “When you think tion of young men at this year’s Chicago Auto Show. years without a vehicle, about it, people are ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Matlock bought a used having families later, 2012 Prius V last month major downturn for the the description is too they’re getting marfor $10,000. flippant. ried later, they may be industry. “It made getting groAfter initial hesitation, leaving their home later The caricature of ceries easier,” Matlock it appears that millenni- — all of those factors,” millennials has become said. “There’s a grocery all too familiar: entitled als are not so car-averse Maas said. “So it makes store near where I live, after all. logical sense that they young people indulged and I literally had to buy throughout their lives This year, a study might buy their cars groceries one backpack from J.D. Power’s Power later, too.” with participation at a time.” Information Network But there are indicatrophies, permanently Typically associreported that the share tions that millennials attached to iPhones; ated with people born of millennials in the look at cars in a more lovers of technology between 1980 and 2004, who have embraced the new-car market jumped utilitarian way than millennials — also called sharing economy to such 28 percent. By 2020, motorists from previous Gen Y — have produced an extent they have little millennials are expected generations, who often plenty of anxiety for to make up 40 percent of consider what they drive interest in buying cars automakers in recent an extension of their to drive to the latest hip the nation’s car sales. years over the risk that “They’ve been delay- personality or social urban hot spot. they might kick-start a ing their purchases of status. Like any stereotype, By Rob Nikolewski

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ENERGY

amount of power a monitor or display can consume even when they are in sleep mode. The standards also with industry that culminated in Wednes- apply to laptops, but day’s 5-0 vote in it’s estimated that Sacramento. about three-quarters of notebook computers The first of the new standards will start Jan. on the market already meet the requirements. 1, 2018, to be comBy 2021, the commispleted in stages by July 1, 2021. sion estimates, the new rules will make each One of the rules’ chief targets is desktop desktop about $14 more computers, which use expensive, but consumers would save more about four times as much power as a typithan $55 over five years cal laptop or notebook in reduced energy bills. Monitors will cost computer. Sometimes called about $5 more but are expected to lead to $30 “energy vampires” in savings over seven by efficiency experts, desktops are switched years, the commission said. It said laptops will on 77 percent of the cost about $1 more, but time but sit idle for 61 percent of those that energy savings in minutes, according to four years will be more a recent study from a than $2. The Consumer research team at the Federation of America University of California, Irvine. praised the regulations Under the new rules, and said the cost savings more than make up for desktops must reduce how much power they the increase in prices. “Believe me, the draw by about 30 peraverage consumer who cent when idle by the beginning of 2019 and can barely get 2 percent on his CD today, nearly 50 percent by mid-2021. that’s a pretty darn Most computer good investment,” Mark Cooper, the monitors will also be affected, with the federation’s director new rules establishof research, said in a ing thresholds for the teleconference after Continued from C1

the commission passed the rules. Representatives from Intel Corp. and HP Inc. also took part in the teleconference, with HP environmental compliance manager Paul Ford calling the energy limits “ambitious but achievable.” The California Energy Commission has emphasized that manufacturers will have flexibility to meet the standards. The rules apply only to computers in California, but the state’s share of the computer market is so formidable — California by itself accounts for 25 million computer monitors, 23 million laptops and 21 million desktops — the new standards almost certainly will have ripple effects. “It will have a global impact and significantly change the way future energy-efficient desktops and all-inone computers are designed and manufactured,” said Andrea Deveau, vice president of state policy and politics for TechNet, a trade group whose members include Cisco Systems and Microsoft among its members.

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software and technology services are expected to total about $118 billion this year, researcher Gartner estimates. That sum represents an industry in its infancy. Gartner estimates that business will direct more than $1 trillion of cash toward cloud computing between now and 2020. The technology industry is fiercely competing for that cash, a race pitting traditional business computing giants like IBM and Oracle against relative newcomers Salesforce.com and Dropbox, and hundreds of startups. Seattle is at the forefront of this revolution, largely thanks to Amazon.com. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all built their own search engines, email

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platforms and other global web services that relied on massive data centers, but it was Amazon that first started renting that kind of infrastructure to other businesses. In 2006 the company launched Amazon Web Services, or AWS, which at first amounted to a big, webaccessed hard drive where other businesses could store their data. A few months later the company added a service where businesses could also rent the processing power available on Amazon-maintained servers. At the time, the world of business technology was structured like this: corporate information-technology departments bought servers and the expensive software that made them tick and installed on top of that the specific applications that the business needed to run,

be it word-processing tools, accounting databases or other software. Office workers accessed the whole pile of technology from a personal computer. Amazon’s alternative was simple: Don’t bother with most of that; rent it from us instead. Employees, who can still access the whole system via the web or their PC, won’t notice. That premise was a hit among technology startups, an alternative to shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for servers and software, and spending days or weeks setting it up.

reaping from business software sales, was caught flat-footed. A watershed moment arrived in 2013 when the Central Intelligence Agency awarded a large data-center contract to Amazon over IBM, a company with decades of experience providing technology services to giant customers. The vote of confidence from the spy agency helped ease business-technology buyers’ worry about the reliability and security of Amazon, a company better known as an online bookstore than a technology provider.

Caught ﬂat-footed

When a big competitor did come calling, it was a familiar name. After a decade of flubs in consumer technology, and a few false starts in cloud computing, Microsoft has gone all-in on the cloud, investing

AWS built dozens of services, replicating in cyberspace the functions of all sorts of outof-the-box software. Much of the rest of the industry, living well off the high margins they were used to

Microsoft jumps in

billions of dollars in data centers from Australia to Germany and Quincy, Washington. While it built that infrastructure, Microsoft also changed its approach, reorienting a company that built its business around massive software releases delivered every few years to one that pushed out new products every week — and suddenly had to listen to customers at the same time. Scott Guthrie, the Microsoft executive vice president who oversees the company’s Cloud and Enterprise unit, says the payoff has started to arrive in the past couple of years. “There’s almost no cloud (buying) conversation anywhere that we’re not part of,” he said in an interview. This year, those conversations have made customers out of companies like BMW, General Electric and Boeing.

Columbus’ Roslovic to play in Green skips out on Bengals prestigious hockey tourney / D4 game when made inactive / D33

CAVALIERS 109 WARRIORS 108

Irving’s late shot completes Cavs’ rally

Sports

Section D | The Columbus Dispatch | Monday, December 26, 2016 01 16 ■

By Tom Withers

The Associated Press

OHIO STATE FOOTBALL

Elﬂein, Price in line for trees

on an OSU line since tackle Kurt Schumacher and center Steve Myers on the 1974 This already has been team, according to school a special season for two records. members of the Ohio State “That’s really cool,” offensive line, and a tour Elflein said. “I told Bill right through Buckeye Grove in after he learned he was an future years will tell the tale. All-American, ‘Hey, we’ll Going into the College probably get our buckFootball Playoff semifinal eye trees right next to against Clemson on Satureach other.’ So, yes, it’s day night, Pat Elflein — the awesome.” Rimington Award winner as Each Ohio State player the nation’s top center — and selected first team to an right guard Billy Price will be All-America team is honored All-American linemen Billy Price (54) and Pat Elflein take on Wisconsin’s the first two standing AllConor Sheehy during the Buckeyes’ 30-23 overtime win over the Badgers Americans to play together SEE OHIO STATE, D8 on Oct. 15. KYLE ROBERTSON/THE DISPATCH By Tim May

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BLUE JACKETS

This seat is occupied

CLEVELAND — With another clutch shot, Kyrie Irving took the Warriors on a trip down memory lane. Irving dropped a short, turnaround jumper over Klay Thompson with 3.4 seconds left, and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied just the way they did in June’s NBA Finals to defeat Golden State 109-108 on Sunday in a marquee Christmas matchup that more than lived up to the hype. Down by 14 early in the fourth quarter, the Cavs chipped away and then put the ball in the hands of Irving, whose step-back threepointer over Stephen Curry on June 19 helped seal Game 7 and gave Cleveland its first major pro sports championship since 1964. This time, Irving went deep in the lane before spinning and making his shot over Thompson, one of the league’s best defenders. “The kid is special,” LeBron James said of his SEE CAVS, D6

By Tom Reed

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The sixth-largest crowd to witness a Blue Jackets regular-season game packed Nationwide Arena on Thursday night. One of the few vacant seats in the sold-out building was reserved for a woman who’s been dead five years. Season-ticket holder John Kennedy would have it no other way. The 76-year-old former Ohio State professor sits in the front row of Section 223 with his binoculars and transistor radio to feel close to two great loves of his life — hockey and his late girlfriend, Jane Williams. Some might wonder how a fan could pay $1,500 a season to keep the chair next to him unoccupied. It’s a small price, Kennedy said, on nights like this one when the upstart Blue Jackets score four third-period SEE SEAT, D5

STEELERS 31 RAVENS 27

Last-second victory gives Pittsburgh division title By Will Graves

The Associated Press

Season-ticket holder John Kennedy still buys a seat in Section 223 for his late girlfriend, Jane Williams, who died five years ago. The two shared a love of each other, hockey and the Blue Jackets. FRED SQUILLANTE/DISPATCH

PITTSBURGH — The clock ticking and a season filled with promise evaporating, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger took the snap, turned to his left and put the AFC North title in the hands of Antonio Brown. The star wide receiver caught the ball at the Baltimore 1 and waited for the hit he knew was coming. When it arrived from Ravens safety Eric Weddle and linebacker C.J. Mosley, Brown ducked his head and stretched the ball across the goal line for a playoff-clinching touchdown SEE STEELERS, D3

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OVERHEARD “I think better days are going to come. We see improvement. It’s not maybe in our record, but I think we’re closer than people think.” — Chicago Bears coach John Fox, whose team fell to 3-12 with a 41-21 loss to the Washington Redskins on Saturday

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Red Sox, Yankees may play in London The Sports Xchange

The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees might be taking their rivalry overseas. Red Sox owner John Henry and Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner have been discussing the possibility of playing a series in London as soon a 2018, the Boston Herald reported. “The Yankees have been at the forefront of suggesting that we bring the great game of baseball to London,”

Yankees president Randy Levine said, via ESPN.com. “There have been some meaningful attempts to do so, and we are hopeful and confident that we can play there soon. Playing the Red Sox in London would be a unique and special event.” Red Sox president Sam Kennedy downplayed the report while admitting interest in an international series with New York. “There’s nothing to the story at this point,” Kennedy

said. “However, if MLB decides that we are a good fit for it down the road, the team would love to do it.” The series would have to be played at a soccer or rugby arena, the Herald reported. Olympic Stadium, which was built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, is reportedly a leading candidate to host the games. MLB’s newly ratified collective bargaining agreement includes a commitment to playing multiple

games internationally, with London being the only city mentioned. Commissioner Rob Manfred has also indicated interest in playing games in London in October. “I think we would be popular in London,” Manfred said, via ESPN. “I think we could sell the games. I think we could make money with the undertaking. So it’s something that we’ll continue to discuss with the players’ association.”

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NHL

Downie rants against Cherry, Coyotes TORONTO — Former NHL forward Steve Downie went on a lengthy Twitter rant Friday night, taking aim at hockey commentator Don Cherry and the Arizona Coyotes. Downie, who played parts of eight seasons in the NHL, criticized the culture of violence that he believes Cherry perpetuates through his “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em” series of videos. In response to some of his tweets, a fan tweeted an animated gif of Downie bodychecking Pittsburgh Penguins forward Dean McAmmond in 2007, a play that left McAmmond concussed and Downie suspended for 20 games. Downie retweeted the gif and then spoke about his regrets from the play. “That hit is what happens when you watch don cherry rock em sock em videos from age 5 to 18. Nothing good comes from those vids,” Downie said from his veriﬁed account. “I just did what I had to do to play. I still think about what I did to Dean macomond and what I caused him to go through with his family. “But again, I did what don cherry said to do every Saturday night. Just ... disgusted when I look back. Wish I never played.”

MLB

Mel Stottlemyre ‘doing much better’ after scare Mel Stottlemyre’s son Todd revealed through various social media posts on Friday that the former Yankees pitcher was ﬁghting for his life in his battle with a rare blood cancer. However, published reports

Clowning around

A man dressed as a clown jumps into the Mediterranean Sea as he takes part in the Copa Nadal in the Spanish port of Barcelona. The Copa Nadal (Christmas Cup) is a traditional swimming competition that takes place in Barcelona every Dec. 25th, where participants swim 200 meters in the open sea. MANU FERNANDEZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and Todd Stottlemyre himself indicated that he was feeling better Saturday. Todd Stottlemyre wrote on Facebook on Saturday: !!!!!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!!!! “Our family has been overwhelmed with Joy at the amount of love and prayers for my father and family. Please know that the greatest warrior I have ever known is doing a lot better. He is recovering at God speed and he is looking forward to getting out of the hospital. It’s just a matter of time before he is ﬁshing again. Please share this post so that all the people who have been praying know that their prayers have been answered and that our family is forever grateful. We will continue to pray for the less fortunate during this

holiday season. May God Bless You and Merry Christmas.” On Friday, he had written: “Calling all prayer warriors during this holiday season. My father is in the hospital ﬁghting for his life. He has battled cancer for 16 years. He is the greatest champion that I have ever met. I’m praying hard for you Dad. I love you pops. Please lock arms with me and pray for all our loved ones who are ﬁghting.”

RUNNING

Ethiopian legend Yifter dies at 72 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Miruts Yifter, an Ethiopian running legend who inspired world-class athletes like

Haile Gebreselassie, has died in Canada at age 72, his family and Ethiopian Athletics Federation ofﬁcials told the Associated Press on Friday. The athlete known widely by the nickname “Miruts the Shifter” won two gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics at age 40 and won bronze medals earlier at the 1972 Munich Games. “Miruts has been everything to me and my athletics career,” said Haile Gebreselassie, the double Olympic 10,000-meter champion, who struggled with his tears while talking to the AP by phone. “When I started running, I just wanted to be like him. He is the reason for who I’m now and for what I have achieved.”

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NFL

| Monday, December 26, 2016

TONIGHT’S GAME Detroit Lions at Dallas Cowboys When: 8:30 p.m. Where: AT&T Stadium

TV: ESPN Radio: WBNS-FM (97.1)

NOTEBOOK

Green ﬂies home rather than watch team play Texans Nelson in that first half, Vikings secondary ignored Zimmer’s plan as the Packers cruised to

From wire reports

Cincinnati’s A.J. Green wanted to play on Saturday night against the Houston Texans. When the team decided otherwise, the star receiver decided to fly home for Christmas Eve rather than watch the game from the sidelines. Randy Bullock missed a 43-yard field goal attempt as time expired and the Texans held on for the 12-10 win. Green had missed the last four games with a hamstring injury but said earlier this week that he planned to play against Houston. “He just had further testing during the week, and I conferred with the doctors and so forth, and they just thought the best thing for A.J. to have a full recovery was not

The Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill carries the ball as the Broncos’ Dekoda Watson (57) closes in. Kansas City won 33-10 Sunday night to eliminate defending Super Bowl champion Denver from the playoffs. For full coverage, go to Dispatch.com. ED ZURGA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

to risk him this week,” coach Marvin Lewis said. Lewis was asked why the team didn’t make the decision before allowing

Green to fly to Houston with the team. “We had a lot of discussions and so forth, and A.J. hoped to play,”

Lewis said. “We ended up flying here and made the decision, and he asked for the opportunity to go home.”

Just when it looked as if things couldn’t get any worse for the Minnesota Vikings, it appears there may be something of a mutiny in the locker room. After the Vikings dropped a 38-25 decision to the Green Bay Packers — ending their remote playoff hopes — cornerback Xavier Rhodes confessed to reporters that he and his fellow defensive backs decided to eschew Coach Mike Zimmer’s game plan to have Rhodes shadow Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson in the first half, choosing instead to do it their own way. The Vikings’ DBs choice to ignore their coach resulted in seven catches, 145 yards and two touchdowns for

a 28-13 lead. “We felt as a team, as players, we came together and we felt like we’d never done that when we played against the Packers. Us as DBs felt like we could handle him,” said Rhodes after the game, per the StarTribune.

Hyde out after suffering knee injury San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde tore his MCL against the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday, ESPN reported. Hyde rushed for 988 yards this season, leaving him just 12 shy of his first 1,000-yard season. In his first two seasons with the 49ers, the second-round pick in 2014 from Ohio State rushed for 803 yards.

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that symbolized his team’s considerable resilience. Reeling in November. Heck, reeling early in the fourth quarter at home on Christmas against an archrival that’s more than had their number in recent years, the Steelers are heading to the playoffs anyway. Brown’s lunging 4-yard score with nine seconds left lifted Pittsburgh to a gripping 31-27 victory, delivering just as Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell predicted Brown would. “Over there by the heaters before the final drive, he said ‘AB, you got to go down there and get the game-winner,’” Brown said. It was a play Brown’s teammates have seen many times, just never with so much on the line. “That’s AB,” wide receiver Damarcus Ayers said. “He does it so much in practice, it doesn’t ‘wow’ you in a

Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown reaches the ball across the goal line for the winning touchdown with nine seconds left. FRED VUICH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

game. In this particular moment it’s like, `he’s done it again.”’ Brown finished with 10 receptions for 96 yards to join Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison as the only players with four straight 100-catch seasons. Roethlisberger shook off a pair of third-quarter interceptions to finish with 279 yards passing and three touchdowns. Bell ran for 122 yards and a score and hauled in another

on an ad-libbed play by Roethlisberger as Pittsburgh rallied from a 10-point deficit to win its sixth straight. The Steelers (10-5) host during wild-card weekend on either Jan. 7 or 8, heady territory considering they were 4-5 after falling to Dallas on Nov. 13. As New Year’s nears, they haven’t lost again. “I think today showed some resolve,” Roethlisberger said. “I think

we showed some fight, no quit.” The Ravens took the lead on Kyle Juszczyk’s 10-yard burst up the middle with 1:18 remaining. But Roethlisberger calmly led the Steelers 75 yards in 10 plays to eliminate Baltimore (8-7), the last 4 yards on a play that could live on in team history depending on how far Pittsburgh’s momentum can carry it.

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NHL

JOINING THE TOP 10

NEXT GAME

Center Brandon Dubinsky has 51 goals and 117 assists in 257 games with the Blue Jackets, tying him with former Jacket Geoff Sanderson for 10th on the franchise’s all-time points list with 168.

Opponent: vs. Boston Bruins When: 7 p.m. Tuesday TV: Fox Sports Ohio Radio: WBNS-FM (97.1)

Follow the Jackets online at BlueJacketsXtra.com WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

NHL GLANCE

Event will further Roslovic’s development Coyotes) and center Sean Kuraly (Boston Bruins) as local players who have Jack Roslovic’s first played in this internaseason as a pro has gone tional tournament. exceedingly well. But Last season, Roslovic now it’s time for a break. was invited to summer Roslovic, the first camp for the U.S. team, Columbus born and but not to the midseason raised player to be a first- camp where the final round NHL draft pick, selections are made. will represent the United This year, he was a States in the World pretty clear choice. Junior Championships In 25 games with beginning today in Mon- the Manitoba Moose, treal and Toronto. Roslovic leads the team “This is going to be with eight goals and 19 a great experience,” points. Roslovic said. “There “Jack’s earned everywas some debate about thing he’s gotten,” said whether I was going to Winnipeg Jets general play in the American manager Kevin ChevHockey League or be eldayoff, who drafted sent to major junior this Roslovic with the No. 25 season, but there was overall pick in the 2015 never any doubt that draft. they wanted me to expe“The one thing that rience this. really drew us to him is “And I want to experi- how well he played with ence it, too. It’s one of talent, how well he saw those lifetime experithe ice and how well he ences that every young made plays at top speed. hockey player should And that has really have.” transferred to the AHL Roslovic, 19, will for him at a young age.” follow in the steps of Roslovic said he’s defenseman Connor grateful the Jets sent him Murphy (Arizona to the AHL instead of By Aaron Portzline

The Columbus Dispatch

the junior club that owns his rights, London of the Ontario Hockey League. Pro hockey, he said, is all about the finer points. Whereas college and junior games are often decided on pure skill, the pro game comes down to performance and situational decision making. “There are things we’re working on still, rounding out my whole game before I get into (Jets coach) Paul Maurice’s hands,” Roslovic said. “(Moose coach) Pascal (Vincent) has softer hands. “There’s more leeway, more rope in the AHL, but (Vincent) wants to get that rope short so when I get up there (to the NHL) I’m ready to go.” But first things first. The U.S. won the bronze at this tournament last year and most recently won the gold in 2013. After the United States flamed out at the World Cup of Hockey in the fall, Roslovic said the pressure is on for the youngsters to restore

the red, white and blue's standing in the hockey world. “There’s tons of pressure on us, to be honest,” Roslovic said. “The World Cup didn’t go very well, so it’s our job to show the world that was just one tournament. “We haven’t won this tournament in a while, either, so there’s pretty heavy pressure on us. It will be fun to play under.” The Blue Jackets will be represented by three players from the past two drafts. Center Pierre-Luc Dubois, the No. 3 overall pick last June, will represent Canada. Defenseman Gabriel Carlsson, a first-round pick (No. 29 overall) in 2015, will play for Sweden. Center Calvin Thurkauf, a seventhround pick (No. 185 overall) last June, will play for Switzerland. aportzline@dispatch.com @aportzline

All Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP Montreal 34 Ottawa 34 Boston 36 Tampa Bay 35 Florida 35 Toronto 33 Detroit 34 Buffalo 33

W 21 20 18 17 15 14 15 12

L 9 11 14 15 14 12 15 13

OT 4 3 4 3 6 7 4 8

Pts 46 43 40 37 36 35 34 32

GF 104 88 85 100 85 97 83 71

GA 76 89 87 98 97 95 96 91

Home 15-3-2 11-5-3 8-9-0 9-5-1 9-6-1 9-6-2 7-9-3 7-7-3

Away 6-6-2 9-6-0 10-5-4 8-10-2 6-8-5 5-6-5 8-6-1 5-6-5

Div 8-1-3 6-5-0 9-5-0 7-3-1 7-6-3 5-3-1 3-7-2 3-5-3

Metropolitan Columbus Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Washington Philadelphia Carolina New Jersey N.Y. Islanders

W 23 22 23 20 20 15 13 13

L 5 8 12 8 12 11 14 14

OT 4 5 1 4 4 7 7 6

Pts 50 49 47 44 44 37 33 32

GF 110 121 119 87 110 88 80 90

GA 65 100 89 69 108 90 102 102

Home 13-3-1 15-2-2 12-6-1 12-5-0 12-5-3 10-3-1 9-2-2 10-7-4

Away 10-2-3 7-6-3 11-6-0 8-3-4 8-7-1 5-8-6 4-12-5 3-7-2

Div 5-0-0 8-4-0 8-5-0 4-4-3 4-3-0 2-5-2 3-2-2 3-5-2

W 22 21 18 15 14 16 12

L 9 8 12 13 14 17 20

OT 5 4 5 5 7 3 1

Pts 49 46 41 35 35 35 25

GF 102 102 98 94 89 95 67

GA 86 66 103 94 106 105 106

Home 13-3-4 12-3-0 13-2-4 10-4-3 10-5-3 10-6-1 4-11-1

Away 9-6-1 9-5-4 5-10-1 5-9-2 4-9-4 6-11-2 8-9-0

Div 7-4-1 6-3-2 7-5-2 8-6-0 7-7-3 8-4-1 5-10-0

Paciﬁc GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 34 21 12 1 43 87 75 Edmonton 36 18 12 6 42 105 97 Anaheim 35 17 12 6 40 96 99 Los Angeles 34 17 13 4 38 87 84 Calgary 36 18 16 2 38 94 103 Vancouver 35 14 18 3 31 86 109 Arizona 34 11 18 5 27 75 108 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Home 12-4-0 8-7-1 10-4-1 10-4-1 8-9-0 10-6-2 6-8-2

Away 9-8-1 10-5-5 7-8-5 7-9-3 10-7-2 4-12-1 5-10-3

Div 6-4-1 5-3-2 8-2-2 5-3-0 6-5-1 3-4-1 4-5-4

GP 32 35 36 32 36 33 34 33

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central GP Chicago 36 Minnesota 33 St. Louis 35 Nashville 33 Dallas 35 Winnipeg 36 Colorado 33

Sunday’s Games None scheduled Today’s Games None scheduled Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Boston at Columbus, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 8 p.m. Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 9 p.m. San Jose at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Through Dec. 25 SCORING LEADERS GP G A PTS Connor McDavid, EDM 36 13 29 42 Evgeni Malkin, PIT 35 14 25 39 Sidney Crosby, PIT 29 24 14 38 Vladimir Tarasenko, STL 35 16 22 38 Artemi Panarin, CHI 36 15 21 36 Cam Atkinson, CLS 32 15 20 35 Jakub Voracek, PHI 36 11 24 35 Phil Kessel, PIT 35 11 23 34 Patrick Kane, CHI 36 10 24 34

Wednesday’s Games Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Toronto at Florida, 7 p.m. Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

CALENDAR

Jan. 1 — NHL Centennial Classic, BMO Field, Toronto. Jan. 2 — NHL Winter Classic, Busch Stadium, St. Louis. Jan. 28-29 — All-Star Weekend, Staples Center, Los Angeles. Feb. 25 — NHL Stadium Series, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh. April 9 — End of regular season.

ASSISTS Name Connor McDavid Evgeni Malkin Ryan Getzlaf Patrick Kane Erik Karlsson Jakub Voracek

Team Edmonton Pittsburgh Anaheim Chicago Ottawa Philadelphia

GP 36 35 32 36 34 36

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goals to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 7-1. As the crowd roars and the cannon thunders, he envisions Jane turning to fellow fan Kim Carter to slap hands in celebration like they always did. “I keep it because it’s her seat,” said Kennedy, swaddled in his familiar Blue Jackets coat, scarf and cap. “She is there, she is at the game. Can you ever imagine what will happen when we get into the Stanley Cup final and she doesn’t have a seat?” Although many seated around Kennedy understand it’s a coping mechanism, there’s also a sense of what they are watching on the ice has entered the realm of mystical. A franchise that could not get out of its own way for 15 years suddenly is steamrolling the NHL. A season after finishing among the league’s bottom four teams, the Blue Jackets (23-5-4) possess balanced scoring, a wondrous rookie defenseman in Zach Werenski and a coach in John Tortorella who doesn’t allow his players thinking past the next opponent. “Hockey is John’s whole life and it’s helped ease his pain,” said season-ticket holder Chris Sparks, who sits near Kennedy.

“And the winning always helps.” It’s the type of team the roughly 3,400 season-ticket holders since the inaugural 2000 season have dreamed of supporting. Kennedy is among them. He just never thought he would see this day absent his partner and best friend. Jane Williams, a Newark native, was an educator, artist and former student of Kennedy’s. Each had been previously married. Neither saw the need to wed again. They hiked together. They traveled the world. They attended the theater and movies at the Drexel. Their real passion, however, was hockey. They started dating when Columbus was home to minor-league teams — driving to Wheeling, West Virginia, to stay in dingy Best Westerns to watch the Chill — before graduating to the Blue Jackets. Jane loved the tough guys and never quite got over the Jody Shelley trade in 2007. Kennedy likes the grinders such as Matt Calvert. Derek MacKenzie is his favorite all-time Blue Jacket. They went to Nashville, Chicago, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, even Sweden to see the Jackets. “We lived and died with the team,” said Kennedy, who grew up with hockey in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Among the fan base’s most colorful characters, he listens to radio play-by-play man Bob McElligott through his ear buds and talks to everyone around him. He barks at officials and sometimes leaps from his seat so quickly in the first row of the second deck fellow fans want to tether a bungee cord to his waist. Kennedy has more opinions than Jeff Carter has Columbus detractors. He likes Tortorella, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen and team president John Davidson, but takes a dim view of the arena’s game-night operations, which he believes have grown stale. He wishes the organization treated season-ticket holders the way it did in the early seasons. “I look at the Blue Jackets management as temporary stewards to our game,” Kennedy said. “They might run the team, but it’s our game.” Five years ago, Kennedy nearly walked away from it. Williams was diagnosed with cancer in March 2011 and died six weeks later at 64. His world unraveled. He went to preseason games that year and was reduced to tears when fans, unaware of Jane’s death, inquired about her. Kennedy was prepared to give up his seats, originally in the third row, until a ticket

broker suggested he try another location. He agreed, but refused to relinquish Jane’s ticket. “In the beginning it was really rough on him,” Sparks said. “The first year he got the seats in the front row, he kept looking back at the old two seats. Over time, he’s gotten better with it.” Kennedy belongs to a support group for men who have lost their wives and partners. Once or twice a season, he will invite a fellow member to sit with him in Jane’s seat. He also occasionally offers it to someone from Section 223 who has a friend in from out of town. He and Jane always enjoyed introducing friends to the game. Otherwise, the seat remains empty. As the final seconds ticked from the clock Thursday night, Kennedy and the other 19,112 fans in attendance stood and shouted their approval. “We should have had so many more nights like this over the years, where there was so much intensity in the building,” Kennedy said. “This is what it’s all about.” Tortorella says the Blue Jackets are building a bridge from hope to belief. John Kennedy, sans bungee cord, is ready to cross it, knowing he will never walk alone. treed@dispatch.com @treed1919

| Monday, December 26, 2016

Monday, December 26, 2016 |

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S GAMES

Top 25 Notre Dame (2) at Chattanooga, 6:30 p.m. Washington St. at Washington (9), 10 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff at Oregon St. (25), 9 p.m.

BIG TEN STANDINGS

CONFERENCE TEAM W L PCT Maryland 0 0 .000 Northwestern 0 0 .000 Penn State 0 0 .000 Michigan 0 0 .000 Michigan State 0 0 .000 Indiana 0 0 .000 Ohio State 0 0 .000 Iowa 0 0 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000 Purdue 0 0 .000 Illinois 0 0 .000 Wisconsin 0 0 .000 Nebraska 0 0 .000 Rutgers 0 0 .000

OVERALL W L PCT 12 0 1.000 11 2 .846 10 2 .833 11 3 .786 10 3 .769 10 3 .769 10 4 .714 9 4 .692 9 4 .692 9 5 .643 5 8 .384 5 8 .384 4 8 .333 3 10 .231

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Bruin Classic AT BRIGGS Columbus Academy vs. Whetstone, 6:40 p.m.; Westland vs. Briggs, 8:40 p.m. Bobcat Holiday Classic AT GRANDVIEW Wellington vs. Johnstown, 6 p.m.; Centerburg vs. Grandview, 7:30 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY’S GAMES

St. Petersburg Bowl Mississippi St. (5-7) vs. Miami, OH (6-6), 11 a.m. Quick Lane Bowl Boston College (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6) at Detroit, 2:30 p.m. Independence Bowl N.C. State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6) at Shreveport, 5 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Heart of Dallas Bowl Army (6-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), noon

MEN’S BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S GAMES

Big Ten Rutgers at Wisconsin (14), 7 p.m. Northwestern at Penn State, 3 p.m. Illinois at Maryland, 5 p.m. Michigan State at Minnesota, 9 p.m. Top 25 Lander at South Carolina (22), 7 p.m. MAC Kent State at Texas, 7 p.m.

BIG TEN STANDINGS

CONFERENCE TEAM W L PCT Maryland 0 0 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000 Purdue 0 0 .000 Wisconsin 0 0 .000 Rutgers 0 0 .000 Northwestern 0 0 .000 Indiana 0 0 .000 Ohio State 0 0 .000 Illinois 0 0 .000 Michigan 0 0 .000 Michigan State 0 0 .000 Penn State 0 0 .000 Iowa 0 0 .000 Nebraska 0 0 .000

Holiday Bowl Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington St. (8-4) at San Diego, 7 p.m. Cactus Bowl Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6) at Phoenix, 10:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES OVERALL W L PCT 12 1 .923 12 1 .923 12 2 .857 11 2 .846 11 2 .846 11 2 .846 10 2 .833 10 3 .769 10 3 .769 10 3 .769 9 5 .643 9 5 .643 8 5 .615 6 6 .500

GIRLS BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S GAMES

Area nonleague Northland vs. East Cleveland Shaw at Cincinnati Woods, noon; Worthington Kilbourne vs. St. Louis Acadcemy at Cincinnati Woods, 6 p.m.; Africentric vs. Potter’s House Christian, Fla. at Cincinnati Woods, 7:30 p.m.; Whetstone at Centerburg; Detroit Country Day vs. Eastmoor Academy at Detroit Collegiate Prep; Ready at Granville Christian; Tri-Valley at Big Walnut; Marysville at North Union; Grove City Christian at West Jefferson; Gahanna Christian at Millersport; Harvest Prep at Mansﬁeld Christian; Mountain Top Christian, Wis. vs. Shekinah Christian at Arthur-Okaw Christian, Ill.; London vs. Madison Plains at Jamestown Greeneview; Kenton at Marion Harding; Pleasant at Highland; East Knox at Loudonville Watterson Christmas Classic Hilliard Darby vs. New Albany, 1:30 p.m.; Hilliard Bradley vs. Cincinnati Mother of Mercy, 3 p.m.; Cincinnati Seton vs. Watterson, 4:45 p.m. DeSales Holiday Classic Cincinnati Colerain vs. DeSales, 12:45 p.m.; Barberton vs. Beechcroft, 4:15 p.m. Jeff Sheets Holiday Classic AT TEAYS VALLEY Jonathan Alder vs. Amanda-Clearcreek, 3 p.m.; Dublin Jerome vs. Grove City, 4:30 p.m.; Dublin Scioto vs. Lancaster, 6 p.m.; Olentangy Orange vs. Teays Valley, 7:30 p.m. Newark Holiday Tournament South vs. Nelsonville-York, 6 p.m.; Dayton Chaminade Julienne vs. Newark, 7:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S GAMES

Military Bowl Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3) at Annapolis, 3:30 p.m.

Area nonleague Beechcroft at Queens Teaching, N.Y.; Eastmoor Academy vs. Brooklyn Boys & Girls, N.Y. at Queens Teaching; Northland vs. Macomb (Mich.) Dakota at Detroit Renaissance; Watkins Memorial at Mifﬂin; Jonathan Alder at South; Independence at Bloom-Carroll; Barberton at DeSales; Dublin Coffman at Perry; Dublin Scioto at Grove City; Dublin Jerome vs. Munhall (Pa.) Steel Valley at Bethel Park, Pa.; Groveport at Bethel Park, Pa.; Upper Arlington vs. Beaver Falls (Pa.) Blackhawk at Bethel Park, Pa.; Worthington Kilbourne vs. Lincoln County, Ky. at Mount Sterling, Ky.; Lancaster vs. Fort Frye at Philo; AmandaClearcreek at Huntington; Fairﬁeld Union at Unioto; Newark Catholic at Liberty Union; Westfall at Circleville; Logan Elm at Athens; Granville Christian at Berne Union; Harvest Prep vs. Pottsgrove, Pa. at West Chester (Pa.) Rustin; Northridge at Mount Gilead; Licking Valley at Sheridan; Danville at Fredericktown; Cardington at Ridgedale; Washington C.H. at Marion Harding

Pinstripe Bowl Northwestern (6-6) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4) at New York, 2 p.m. Russell Athletic Bowl Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2) at Orlando, 5:30 p.m. Foster Farms Bowl Indiana (6-6) vs. Utah (8-4) at Santa Clara, 8:30 p.m. Texas Bowl Kansas State (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (8-4) at Houston, 9 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Birmingham Bowl S. Florida (10-2) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m.

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Orange Bowl Florida State (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2) at Miami, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Citrus Bowl LSU (7-4) vs. Louisville (9-3) at Orlando, 11 a.m. TaxSlayer Bowl Kentucky (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (8-4) at Jacksonville, Fla., 11 a.m. PLAYOFF SEMIFINALS Peach Bowl Alabama (13-0) vs. Washington (12-1) at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Fiesta Bowl Clemson (12-1) vs. Ohio State (11-1) at Glendale, 7 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 2

SATURDAY, JAN. 7

FCS Championship AT FRISCO, TEXAS James Madison (13-1) vs. Youngstown State (12-3), noon

MONDAY, JAN. 9

CFB Championship Game Semiﬁnal winners at Tampa, 8:30 p.m.

FAVORITE LINE O/U TODAY’S GAMES St. Petersburg Bowl Mississippi St 14 58 ½

Miami, Ohio

Quick Lane Bowl Maryland 2 43 ½

Boston College

Independence Bowl NC State 6

UNDERDOG

Vanderbilt

North Texas

Military Bowl Temple 11 ½

Wake Forest

Holiday Bowl Washington St. 10

Minnesota

PF PA 329 269 374 356 218 350 286455S

Cactus Bowl Boise St.

Baylor

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Sunday’s results Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 27 Kansas City 33, Denver 10 Today’s game Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

STEELERS 31, RAVENS 27

Baltimore 3 3 11 10—27 Pittsburgh 7 0 3 21—31 FIRST QUARTER: Pit—Grimble 20 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 7:12. Bal—FG Tucker 41, 5:50. SECOND: Bal—FG Tucker 38, :18. THIRD: Bal—S.Smith 18 pass from Flacco (S.Smith pass from Flacco), 13:26. Pit—FG Boswell 36, 9:35. Bal—FG Tucker 46, 1:28. FOURTH: Bal—FG Tucker 23, 14:18. Pit—Bell 7 run (Boswell kick), 11:41. Pit—Bell 7 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 7:16. Bal—Juszczyk 10 run (Tucker kick), 1:18. Pit—Brown 4 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), :09. A: 66,276. RUSHING—Baltimore, Dixon 12-57, West 10-27, Campanaro 1-23, Juszczyk 2-15, Koch 1-0. Pittsburgh, Bell 20-122, Rogers 1-6, Roethlisberger 1-(minus 1). PASSING—Baltimore, Flacco 30-44-1-262. Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 24-33-2-279. RECEIVING—Baltimore, Pitta 8-75, S.Smith 7-79, Wallace 4-21, Perriman 3-32, West 3-28, Juszczyk 2-10, Waller 1-11, Boyle 1-5, Dixon 1-1. Pittsburgh, Brown 10-96, Rogers 4-84, James 4-49, Bell 3-15, Grimble 1-20, Ayers 1-9, Hamilton 1-6.

LATE SATURDAY

Outback Bowl TEXANS 12, BENGALS 10 Florida (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4) at Tampa, 1 p.m. Cincinnati 0 3 0 7—10 Houston 0 0 3 9—12 Cotton Bowl SECOND QUARTER: Cin—FG Bullock 43, :00. Western Michigan (13-0) vs. Wisconsin THIRD: Hou—FG Novak 25, 9:05. (10-3) at Dallas, 1 p.m. FOURTH: Hou—FG Novak 22, 13:31. Cin—LaFell 86 pass from Dalton (Bullock Rose Bowl kick), 10:45. Penn State (11-2) vs. USC (9-3) at Hou—Blue 24 run (kick blocked), 8:41. Pasadena, 5 p.m. A: 71,836. Sugar Bowl Oklahoma (10-2) vs. Auburn (8-4) at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

DAILY LINE COLLEGE FOOTBALL

PF PA 301 285 401 364 289 297 269361S

Sunday, Jan. 1 Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Alamo Bowl Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Colorado (10-3) at Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. San Antonio, 9 p.m. Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. New England at Miami, 1 p.m. FRIDAY’S GAMES Arizona at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m. Liberty Bowl Kansas City at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Georgia (7-5) vs. TCU (6-6) at Memphis, New Orleans at Atlanta, 4:25 p.m. noon N.Y. Giants at Washington, 4:25 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Sun Bowl Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. North Carolina (8-4) vs. Stanford (9-3) at Green Bay at Detroit, 8:30 p.m. El Paso, 2 p.m.

Arizona Bowl Air Force (9-3) vs. South Alabama (6-6) at Tucson, 5:30 p.m.

COWBOYS: DNP: CB Morris Claiborne (groin), DT Tyrone Crawford (shoulder, hamstring), LB Justin Durant (elbow), DE Demarcus Lawrence (back), QB Mark Sanchez (not injury related), T Tyron Smith (back, knee), DT Cedric Thornton (ankle). LIMITED: DE Jack Crawford (foot), LB Sean Lee (knee). FULL: WR Dez Bryant (back), S Barry Church (forearm), G Ronald Leary (back), S J.J. Wilcox (thigh).

TUESDAY’S GAMES Heart of Dallas Bowl Army 11 48 ½

Belk Bowl Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5) at Charlotte, 5:30 p.m.

Music City Bowl Tennessee (8-4) vs. Nebraska (9-3) at Nashville, 3:30 p.m.

LIONS: DNP: RB Theo Riddick (wrist), CB Darius Slay (hamstring), C Travis Swanson (concussion). LIMITED: DE Ezekiel Ansah (shoulder), LB DeAndre Levy (knee). FULL: S Rafael Bush (back), DT Haloti Ngata (quadricep), QB Matthew Stafford (ﬁnger/ right hand), DT Khyri Thornton (illness).

RUSHING—Cincinnati, Burkhead 12-42, Hill 7-8. Houston, Blue 21-73, Savage 1-11, A.Hunt 1-6, Prosch 1-5. PASSING—Cincinnati, Dalton 28-41-1-268. Houston, Savage 18-29-0-176. RECEIVING—Cincinnati, Core 8-39, LaFell 6-130, Uzomah 5-28, Burkhead 4-25, Boyd 2-25, Hewitt 1-8, Wright 1-8, Erickson 1-5. Houston, Fiedorowicz 4-42, Blue 4-17, Hopkins 3-43, Fuller 3-39, A.Hunt 2-28, Mumphery 2-7. MISSED FIELD GOAL—Cincinnati, Bullock 43.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Pinstripe Bowl Pittsburgh 5 ½ 65 ½

Northwestern

Russell Athletic Bowl Miami 2½ 57

West Virginia

Texas Bowl Texas A&M St

2½

Kansas

Indiana

THURSDAY’S GAMES Birmingham Bowl South Florida 10 62

South Carolina

Belk Bowl Virginia Tech

Arkansas

Alamo Bowl Colorado

Oklahoma St

FRIDAY’S GAMES Liberty Bowl TCU PK

Georgia

Sun Bowl Stanford

North Carolina

Arizona Bowl Air Force 13 ½

57 South Alabama

Music City Bowl Tennessee 6 58 ½

Nebraska

Orange Bowl Michigan

Florida St

7 52 ½

SATURDAY’S GAMES Citrus Bowl LSU 3 59 ½

Louisville

Taxslayer Bowl Georgia Tech

Kentucky

CFP Semiﬁnals Fiesta Bowl Ohio State

3 59 ½

Peach Bowl Alabama

14 ½

Clemson Washington

MONDAY, JAN. 2 Outback Bowl Florida 3 40 ½

Iowa

Cotton Bowl Wisconsin

7½

W. Michigan

Rose Bowl USC

6 ½ 60 ½

Penn St

Sugar Bowl Oklahoma

Auburn

NFL

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Thursday’s games Michigan vs. Michigan Tech at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Western Michigan vs. Michigan State at Detroit, 7 p.m.

teammate. “It was never in doubt.” Golden State had one last chance, but Kevin Durant, who led all scorers with 36 points, lost his balance coming off a screen and couldn’t get off a shot as time expired. Durant felt he was fouled by Richard Jefferson. “I was trying to make a move,” he said. “I didn’t fall on my own.” James scored 31 points with a seasonhigh 13 rebounds, Irving added 25 points and Kevin Love 20 for the Cavs. Thompson added 24, Draymond Green 16 and Curry 15 — on 4-of-11 shooting — for the Warriors, who had their winning streak stopped at seven and fell to 9-1 against Eastern Conference teams. Irving drained a three from the wing that looked a lot like the one he made on June 19, but his bucket over Thompson had a higher degree of difficulty. “That’s a really hard shot,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I thought Klay played tremendous defense. You don’t do anything different.” The Warriors set up a game-winning chance for Durant, but he stumbled with pressure applied by

Jefferson and fell to the floor. “We all think we’re fouled on every play in every single game,” Jefferson said. “That’s why I say I know the referees have a very hard job. I switched to his body. He looked like he lost his balance. He was trying to regain his balance and as soon as I saw him start to stumble, I ran off.” To remind their guests of what happened in June, the Cavs left a door propped open just down the hallway from Golden State’s locker room where a large photo of James’ game-changing, career-defining block of Andre Iguodala in Game 7 was on display. The picture had been doctored with a Cavs championship ring taped over James’ left index finger. If there was any doubt that this game meant more than the other 81 to both squads and fan bases, Green took care of that in the opening minutes. After being called for his second personal foul, Green stormed off the floor, cursing with every step on his way to the bench. Green, whose suspension from Game 5 of the Finals helped swing the series to Cleveland, was slapped with a technical and several of his teammates came over to calm him down before things got worse.

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NBA ROUNDUP

Aldridge’s 33 help Spurs hold off Bulls The Associated Press

The Spurs demand selfless play from the entire roster — except LaMarcus Aldridge. In fact, San Antonio likes it when the 6-foot-10 forward gets a little aggressive, and his performance Sunday showed why. Aldridge had a seasonhigh 33 points and the Spurs held on to beat the Chicago Bulls 119-100 after nearly blowing a hot start. “When a player goes off like LaMarcus did today, it opens things up,” Spurs center Pau Gasol said. “It definitely creates an impact right away on the game.” Chicago rallied from a San Antonio Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge shoots over 20-point deficit to lead Chicago Bulls center Robin Lopez during the first half Sunday by three points midway in San Antonio. DARREN ABATE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS through the third quarter but could not sustain at times to manage his a guy’s guarding me. I’m the push, taking its third aggression with coach trying not to be myself as straight loss. Gregg Popovich’s much to take those tough Aldridge had his “good-to-great” shot shots. Try to mix in some second-highest scorphilosophy, but he found good-to-great shots. I’m ing output since joining a balance against the getting better at it.” the Spurs prior to last Bulls. season. He made his “Pop is very picky on CELTICS 119, KNICKS 114: first nine attempts while what is a good shot at When the Knicks tried scoring 20 points in the times,” Aldridge said. to make a Christmas opening period, his most “Of course, I have a little comeback, the Celtics’ in any quarter with the leeway, but it’s tough for response was strong and Spurs. me because I always feel Smart. Isaiah Thomas Aldridge has struggled like I’m open even when scored 27 points, Marcus NBA GLANCE All Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Team W L Toronto 21 8 Boston 18 13 New York 16 14 Philadelphia 7 22 Brooklyn 7 22 Southeast Division Team W L Charlotte 17 13 Atlanta 15 15 Washington 13 16 Orlando 14 18 Miami 10 21 Central Division Team W L Cleveland 23 6 Milwaukee 14 14 Indiana 15 16 Chicago 14 16 Detroit 14 18 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Team W L San Antonio 25 6 Houston 22 9 Memphis 20 12 New Orleans 11 21 Dallas 9 21 Northwest Division Team W L Oklahoma City 19 12 Utah 18 13 Portland 13 19 Denver 12 18 Minnesota 9 21 Paciﬁc Division Team W L Golden State 27 5 L.A. Clippers 22 9 Sacramento 13 17 L.A. Lakers 11 22 Phoenix 9 21

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Saturday’s Games None scheduled Sunday’s Games Boston 119, New York 114 Cleveland 109, Golden State 108 San Antonio 119, Chicago 100 Oklahoma City 112, Minnesota 100 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late

Today’s Games Memphis at Orlando, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Houston, 8 p.m. Toronto at Portland, 10 p.m. Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.

Golden State 27 28 32 21 — 108 Cleveland 25 27 28 29 — 109 3-Point Goals—Golden State 9-30 (K.Thompson 5-11, Curry 2-7, Durant 2-8, Green 0-2, Iguodala 0-2), Cleveland 12-35 (James 4-8, Love 3-7, Frye 2-5, Irving 2-5, Shumpert 1-5, Jefferson 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 42 (Durant 15), Cleveland 44 (James 13). Assists—Golden State 25 (West 5), Cleveland 20 (Irving 10). Total Fouls—Golden State 24, Cleveland 19. Technicals—Green, Jefferson. A—20,562 (20,562).

SUNDAY’S BOX SCORES CELTICS 119, KNICKS 114

SPURS 119, BULLS 100

BOSTON (119) Crowder 5-9 3-4 16, Johnson 3-6 3-4 9, Horford 7-13 0-0 15, I.Thomas 9-23 6-8 27, Bradley 5-12 0-0 11, Green 3-6 0-0 8, Brown GB 0-1 0-0 0, Jerebko 1-5 0-0 2, Olynyk 7-9 0-0 16, — Smart 5-9 3-4 15. Totals 45-93 15-20 119. 8½ NEW YORK (114) 9 Anthony 9-24 9-9 29, Porzingis 9-16 2-2 22, 9½ Noah 3-4 2-3 8, Rose 10-19 5-6 25, Lee 4-9 1-2 10½ 11, Kuzminskas 1-3 0-0 3, L.Thomas 1-3 1-1 3, O’Quinn 3-4 0-0 6, Hernangomez 0-0 0-0 0, Jennings 0-2 0-0 0, Holiday 1-3 4-4 7. Totals 41-87 24-27 114. GB Boston 22 34 32 31 — 119 — New York 28 20 34 32 — 114 3 3-Point Goals—Boston 14-36 (Crowder 5½ 3-6, I.Thomas 3-13, Olynyk 2-3, Green 2-3, 14½ Smart 2-4, Bradley 1-1, Horford 1-3, Jerebko 15½ 0-3), New York 8-23 (Porzingis 2-4, Lee 2-6, Anthony 2-7, Kuzminskas 1-2, Holiday 1-2, GB Jennings 0-1, L.Thomas 0-1). Fouled Out— — None. Rebounds—Boston 39 (Horford 7), New 1 6½ York 49 (Porzingis, Noah 12). Assists—Boston 6½ 25 (Smart 7), New York 11 (Rose 3). Total 9½ Fouls—Boston 20, New York 23. Technicals— Horford, Lee, Anthony, O’Quinn. A—19,812 (19,812). GB — CAVALIERS 109, WARRIORS 108 4½ GOLDEN STATE (108) 13 16½ Durant 11-23 12-12 36, Green 7-9 2-2 16, Pachulia 2-3 0-0 4, Curry 4-11 5-6 15, 17 K.Thompson 9-16 1-2 24, Looney 0-0 0-0 0, West 1-3 3-3 5, McGee 1-3 0-2 2, Livingston 0-2 2-2 2, Clark 2-3 0-0 4, McCaw 0-0 0-0 0, Iguodala 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 37-77 25-29 108. CLEVELAND (109) James 12-22 3-7 31, Love 5-13 7-8 20, T.Thompson 2-5 4-6 8, Irving 11-27 1-1 25, Liggins 0-1 0-2 0, Jefferson 2-11 4-4 8, Frye 4-7 0-0 10, Shumpert 1-9 4-4 7. Totals 37-95 23-32 109.

CHICAGO (100) Gibson 5-13 2-2 12, Lopez 4-6 2-4 10, Rondo 3-7 0-0 6, Butler 8-19 2-2 19, Wade 9-16 5-5 24, McDermott 2-5 0-0 5, Zipser 0-0 0-2 0, Mirotic 4-10 0-0 11, Felicio 2-4 4-5 8, Portis 0-0 0-0 0, Grant 2-6 0-0 5, Valentine 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-86 15-20 100. SAN ANTONIO (119) Leonard 7-14 8-8 25, Aldridge 15-20 3-6 33, Gasol 5-8 1-3 12, Parker 6-15 0-0 13, Green 2-4 0-0 6, Bertans 0-1 0-0 0, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Lee 4-5 1-1 9, Dedmon 4-5 1-1 9, Murray 2-2 0-0 4, Mills 1-3 0-0 2, Simmons 1-4 0-0 3, Ginobili 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 48-85 14-19 119. Chicago 25 25 26 24 — 100 San Antonio 36 19 32 32 — 119 3-Point Goals—Chicago 7-18 (Mirotic 3-6, McDermott 1-2, Grant 1-3, Butler 1-3, Wade 1-3, Rondo 0-1), San Antonio 9-19 (Leonard 3-6, Green 2-4, Gasol 1-1, Parker 1-2, Simmons 1-2, Ginobili 1-3, Bertans 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 38 (Gibson 7), San Antonio 43 (Leonard 10). Assists—Chicago 20 (Wade 6), San Antonio 29 (Parker 7). Total Fouls— Chicago 19, San Antonio 19. Technicals— Chicago defensive three second, Chicago team. A—18,428 (18,418).

THUNDER 112, TIMBERWOLVES 100

MINNESOTA (100) Wiggins 10-20 3-8 23, Towns 10-20 6-6 26, Dieng 3-7 0-0 6, LaVine 5-11 3-3 16, Rubio 1-4 1-1 3, Muhammad 5-8 5-5 15, Bjelica 1-2 0-0 2, Hill 2-7 0-0 4, A.Payne 0-1 0-0 0, Dunn 1-2 0-0 3, Jones 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 39-83 18-23 100. OKLAHOMA CITY (112) Sabonis 1-5 1-1 3, Adams 9-12 4-4 22, Westbrook 11-25 8-9 31, Roberson 2-5 0-0 4, Morrow 1-4 0-0 2, Grant 3-5 2-2 9, Singler 0-0 0-0 0, Lauvergne 3-4 0-0 8, Kanter 8-10 4-7 20, Christon 1-3 0-0 3, Abrines 3-9 1-1 10. Totals 42-82 20-24 112. Minnesota 27 26 2225—100 Oklahoma City 23 34 2926—112

Smart made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 47 seconds left after Boston blew a late lead, and the Celtics beat New York 119-114 on Sunday. The Knicks wiped out a late nine-point deﬁc with an out-of-nowhere 11-2 run in a little more than a minute, but Smart answered with his shot and Avery Bradley and Al Horford made big defensive plays afterward. “We did a good job of just being calm and gutting out the win,” Thomas said. Jae Crowder and Kelly Olynyk each had 16 points for the Celtics, who won for the ﬁfth time in six games. Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points and Derrick Rose had 25 for the Knicks, who fell to 22-29 in their NBA-record 51 Christmas appearances. “You don’t want to lose at all but to lose today, it was a tough loss,” Anthony said. Crowder made three straight 3-pointers in the second quarter as Boston took a 56-48 halftime advantage. The Celtics rarely built the lead much bigger in the second half, but also never let the Knicks make much of a dent in it, always coming up with some stops and points whenever it got within a couple of possessions.

3-Point Goals—Minnesota 4-12 (LaVine 3-5, Dunn 1-2, Muhammad 0-1, Wiggins 0-2, Towns 0-2), Oklahoma City 8-24 (Abrines 3-7, Lauvergne 2-2, Christon 1-1, Grant 1-2, Westbrook 1-4, Kanter 0-1, Roberson 0-1, Morrow 0-3, Sabonis 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Minnesota 36 (Towns 8), Oklahoma City 42 (Sabonis, Westbrook 7). Assists— Minnesota 19 (Rubio 10), Oklahoma City 25 (Westbrook 15). Total Fouls—Minnesota 21, Oklahoma City 24. Technicals—Minnesota defensive three second, Minnesota team, Westbrook. A—18,203 (18,203).

TODAY’S LINE

Favorite at Chicago at Orlando at Washington Cleveland Charlotte at New Orleans at Houston at Minnesota at Portland at Sacramento at L.A. Clippers

Line 2½ Off 5 4½ 6½ 4½ 13½ Off Off Off Off

O/U 204 Off 213 206½ 216 198½ 228 Off Off Off Off

Underdog Indiana Memphis Milwaukee at Detroit at Brooklyn Dallas Phoenix Atlanta Toronto Philadelphia Denve

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Through Dec. 24 SCORING AVERAGE LEADERS G FG FT Westbrook, OKC 30 313 269 Davis, NOR 30 318 236 Cousins, SAC 29 288 215 DeRozan, TOR 29 290 212 Harden, HOU 31 249 258 Lillard, POR 32 280 223 Thomas, BOS 26 217 205 Durant, GOL 31 284 176 James, CLE 26 243 125 Butler, CHI 29 220 236 Curry, GOL 31 246 147

PTS 953 891 843 805 849 865 701 802 657 709 757

AV 31.8 29.7 29.1 27.8 27.4 27.0 27.0 25.9 25.3 24.4 24.4

REBOUNDS Whiteside, MIA Drummond, DET Howard, ATL Jordan, LAC Gobert, UTA

TOT 461 416 339 404 369

AVG 14.9 13.4 13.0 13.0 11.9

ASSISTS Harden, HOU Westbrook, OKC Wall, WAS Paul, LAC James, CLE

G 31 31 26 31 31

OFF 131 117 121 106 95

DEF 330 299 218 298 274

G 31 30 27 30 26

AST 369 323 261 288 227

AV 11.9 10.8 9.7 9.6 8.7

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with a buckeye tree planted in his honor in the grove just south of Ohio Stadium. Elflein, a fifth-year senior who switched from guard to center this season, was a consensus pick while Price, a fourth-year junior, was named to the America Football Coaches Association team. “Every player has a checklist of what they want to do, what they want to accomplish,” Price said. “That was another one of those ‘check it off, you worked your butt off so much and you’re being acknowledged as one of the best in the nation’. That’s such a huge honor for me, and I was super excited about it.” It is enhanced by his opinion that he is playing next to one of the better linemen in the history of Ohio State, Price said, citing the way Elflein was thrust into duty as a redshirt freshman in 2013 in the Michigan game to replace to ejected, middle-fingerwaving Marcus Hall, and

Pat Elflein (65) and Billy Price (54) will have buckeye trees planted in their honor for being named All-Americans. JOSHUA A. BICKEL/DISPATCH

rose from there. “That’s not a traditional way in how you start here at Ohio State,” Price said. “He took that role on and absolutely just dominated.” Price became a starter the next season, and he and Elflein helped power a 2014 OSU offense that rolled through the first College Football Playoff to the national championship. This year, they have been the stabilizing force on an offensive line that otherwise had three new starters. “It’s cool to be next to a player like Bill. He’s a freak athlete, a really good football player.” Elflein said. “Having him

next to me, that’s helped me get to where I am.” Now the two, who were named among the seven team captains earlier in the year, will be celebrated forever as All-Americans. “You’re putting your stamp on history,” Price said. “We have an All-America wall in the Woody (Hayes Athletic Center), and my face mug shot is going to go sitting right there next to Joey (Bosa) and Taylor (Decker) and Zeke (Elliott) and all these ridiculous athletes that have come through this place.” Elflein said he knows such recognition means

he and Price also will be tested, especially by a Clemson defensive front which, with 342pound freshman Dexter Lawrence and Carlos Watkins at the defensive tackles, prides itself on commanding the “A” gaps, the spaces on either side of the center. “I do like it, it’s a fun challenge, and it makes the game more exciting for us,” Elflein said. “But being at Ohio State you always have a target on your back, whether you’re an All-American or not, so we’re kind of used to it.” tmay@dispatch.com @TIM_MAYsports

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Play about depression explored in ﬁlm / E8

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Fisher frank in revealing 1970s affair with Ford

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Section E | The Columbus Dispatch | Monday, December 26, 2016

By Meredith Woerner ■

HOBBIES

Within arm’s reach

Knitting without needles provides easy introduction to the pastime By Allison Ward

The Columbus Dispatch

n a Sunday morning earlier this month, Gail Kelley made her way inside Sew To Speak, a fiber-arts shop in Worthington. Just an hour later, she left the store with a newly knitted heather-gray cowl wrapped around her neck — a perfect fit for the wintry weather that awaited her. Although she hadn’t knitted for more than three decades (she prefers sewing), Kelley made the chunky wool scarf with her own hands. Or, more accurately, her arms. No needles were necessary. Kelley, of Clintonville, followed the instructions of Nikki Hartnett during a recent armknitting class at Sew To Speak. “You have to get your brain wrapped around that you’re using your (arms) as the needles,” Kelley said. “And once you just trusted the instructor that the initial mess you had would become something, it got easier.” The “quick and simple” process of arm knitting — a technique in which bulky yarn is knitted over the arms using a basic stitch — can be adopted by most anyone, even non-knitters, say fiber art aficionados. The process has been around awhile (the first mentions of it on the knitting forum www. ravelry.com date back about seven years), and arm knitting has gained steam the past year or so as the chunky-style SEE KNITTING, E2

Los Angeles Times

The blaster-wielding Princess Leia was just 19 years old when she began shooting “Star Wars.” Fans often forget that when actress Carrie Fisher was fighting her way out of imperial prisons and ordering the dashing 33-year-old Harrison Ford to jump — “into the garbage chute, fly boy!” — she was still in her teens. Something about Fisher’s no-nonsense leadership of an intergalactic rebellion made the woman behind Leia’s iconic bun appear older than she was. Fisher has a blunt, tellit-like-it-is public persona; she has always been fierce in speaking her truth, even calling out the feminist critics of “slave Leia” as asinine. This is a woman who, as the daughter of one of Hollywood’s midcentury tabloid couples — Debbie Reynolds SEE FISHER, E2

FASHION

Country stars championing affordable, comfy lines By Kristin M. Hall

The Associated Press

JOSHUA A. BICKEL/DISPATCH PHOTOS

ABOVE: Gail Kelley of Clintonville checks her progress on a cowl during an arm-knitting class at Sew To Speak in Worthington. LEFT: Before the recent class, store owner Anita Gastaldo uses a yarn swift and ball winder to create a “cake,” or yarn ball.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A new generation of country musicians — mostly young and female — is changing the look of fashion in Music City with clothing lines designed with fans in mind. Fashion has tended to be exaggerated and designed for the screen or the stage. Obvious examples are Dolly Parton’s body-hugging denim and rhinestones, Loretta Lynn’s sparkly ball gowns, and Shania Twain’s midriff-bearing leopard outfit. “I think country artists, mainly women, have always really dressed well,” said Karen Fairchild of the Grammy-winning vocal group Little Big Town. “It’s been over-the-top and full of fabulous sequins and rhinestones, but it also SEE FASHION, E3

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DAILY ALMANAC Today is Monday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of 2016. There are ﬁve days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.

Highlights in history ■ In 1865, James H. Nason

of Franklin, Massachusetts, received a patent for “an improved coffee percolator.” ■ In 1908, Jack Johnson became the ﬁrst AfricanAmerican boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia. ■ In 1966, Kwanzaa was ﬁrst celebrated.

■ In 1996, 6-year-old beauty

queen JonBenet Ramsey (above) was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. (The slaying remains unsolved.) ■ In 2004, more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a 100-foot-high tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean.

Birthdays ■ 83: Caroll Spinney, actor

(Big Bird on “Sesame Street) ■ 77: Phil Spector, record producer ■ 54: James Kottak, rock musician (the Scorpions) ■ 49: Audrey Wiggins, country singer

Thought for today “The people can never understand why the president does not use his supposedly great power to make ‘em behave. Well all the president is, is a gloriﬁed public relations man who spends his time ﬂattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.” — President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

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KNITTING

a cowl in the 90-minute class time. At first blush, an onlooker saw mostly a tangled mess. product it yields has become But as the students moved more popular for garments the string from one arm to and blankets. A heightened the other, creating wristinterest in knitting in general sized loops along the way, a has also played a part, said garment began to take shape. Kay Baxter, owner of Kay’s The hardest part, Kelley Crochet Patterns in Heath. said, is “casting on,” or “It’s a new trend,” she said. making the base. Yet HartOne scarf that Baxter nett assured her that the crocheted using her arms same holds true for knitting went viral online, she said, with needles. with the photo being shared “Once you get started, it’s repeatedly on Pinterest. She fun, really fast — and you has sold so many of them, she Instructor Nikki Hartnett, right, helps Tiara Jordan with her cast. walk away with something said, that she has lost count. pretty and practical,” said JOSHUA A. BICKEL/DISPATCH “I’ve sold 20 in a week,” Kelley, who planned to use Studio 614, a gallery and art- the newly learned skill to said Baxter, who also sells the More online class space in the University pattern. “It’s in for people make gifts. ■ To learn more about the Sew District. to wear and in for people to That’s one of the greatest To Speak arm-knitting class, Sharbaugh began teachmake.” benefits of the technique, visit www.dispatch.com/videos. ing arm knitting as part of a The loose loops and said knitting experts. Arm “Pinterest series” of classes chunkiness that the approach knitting, in its simplicity, can the studio offers. creates certainly appealed to introduce people to the fiber “Arm knitting is all over Ashleigh Nelson. arts in a non-intimidating ‘How did you do these?’” Pinterest,” she said. “A lot of way. The Delaware resident, who Nelson recalled. “’Did you bloggers have posted about had not knitted before, saw “Arm knitting comes in at use needles?’ ‘No, I used my a YouTube video of a person the most beginning level,” arm.’ They were really inter- it. People sell it on Etsy.” At the twice-monthly arm-knitting a scarf and Sharbaugh said. “When ested in arm knitting since classes, people can learn in a you’re using your arms taught herself the technique. it’s a new thing.” relaxing environment while A fan of scarves, she figinstead of needles, it helps The bulky yarn, she said, sipping wine or mimosas ured that she could peddle people who think they’re not is a bit more expensive than with friends. For $40, they some warm, bulky cowls as coordinated.” typical knitting yarn, but choose a color of yarn and on her Etsy.com site and at She has had customers tell she needn’t buy needles and leave with a finished product. her that they learned to knit craft shows. In the past year, other supplies. (The next classes are schedNelson has sold more than or crochet with needles after “It takes me about 15 uled for Jan. 8 and 20.) 200 scarves, in addition to the arm-knitting class and minutes to whip out a scarf, “I’ve never had anyone not now make baby blankets. having made some for relaand I’m done,” the Pinterest be able to finish their scarf,” tives and friends. “It kicks it off if you want junkie said. Sharbaugh said. Her scarves were a big hit, to start a hobby.” Pinterest and Etsy.com Indeed, the five women she said, at a holiday market have helped spread the last December. award@dispatch.com interest in arm knitting, said who gathered at Sew To Speak last week all completed @AllisonAWard “People stopped to ask me, Megan Sharbaugh, owner of Continued from E1

FISHER

Continued from E1

and Eddie Fisher, who broke up his marriage for Elizabeth Taylor — has been a bit of an open book, writing about her prickly relationship with her mother in “Postcards From the Edge” and being open about her mental-health issues and the solution she has found: radical-sounding electroshock therapy. So imagine the public’s surprise when Fisher cracked open the literal long-lost diaries from her time filming on the 1976 set of “Star Wars” to reveal a secret affair between the young starlet and her married co-star, Ford. How did a movie phenomenon this large and a writer this candid manage to keep a secret like this for so many years? “The Princess Diarist,” Fisher’s eighth book, is an unflinching, sometimes-painful, sometimes-hilarious look inside the mind of a 19-year-old actress in the throes of a Hollywood locationship. Fisher offers up her

■ “The Princess Diarist” (Blue

Rider Press, 272 pages, $26) by Carrie Fisher

unfiltered thoughts, poems and past missives, discovered while expanding her bedroom “stored romantically beneath the floorboards,” for public consumption. Sandwiched between hilarious recollections from the early days making “Star Wars” magic with the reserved George Lucas are the retyped passages straight from the actress’ personal diaries. No one gets a pass — most of all Fisher, who spends countless pages torturing herself for falling in love with a space pirate. “We could come to a full stop now if you think that would help,” reads one short

paragraph from Fisher’s diary. “Because like any other B-movie heroine, I can’t go on like this. Can you understand? I don’t want to hurt you anymore than I want you to hurt me. It’s now a question of surviving each other’s company instead of enjoying it.” Most of the book centers on the fact that Fisher can’t decipher what’s going on inside the notoriously stoic Ford. She writes endearingly about one night at an English pub where the pair have gone looking for a dark corner to practice scenes. Instead, Fisher spends the evening simply trying to make Ford laugh. These passages read like a repressed high-schooler with an astounding amount of self-awareness because, quite frankly, that is exactly what they are. It’s invasive, juicy, sad, nostalgic and gripping all at once. Fisher’s ability to selfanalyze at such an early age balances the burning passion that exists only in the early days of one’s romantic life. Thankfully, “The Princess Diarist” doesn’t get dirty. There are plenty of heated moments and flowery

phrases that glaze over their nights together, but this isn’t that kind of book. “Having grown up around show business, I knew that there were stars and there were stars,” Fisher wrote. “Harrison was one of that epic superstar variety, and I wasn’t. Was I bitter about this? Well ... not so you’d notice.” No doubt this book is a kind of wish fulfillment for copious “Star Wars” fanatics — especially when it’s dotted with Fisher’s stories from sitting in the makeup chair, discovering Leia’s bun look. What Fisher has penned is a bold and deeply personal story from the lens of one of the few women on the “Star Wars” set. Fisher explains why she waited so long to reveal the three-month affair. “I’ve spent so many years not telling the story of Harrison and me having an affair on the first ‘Star Wars’ movie that it’s difficult to know exactly how to tell it now. I suppose I’m writing this because it’s 40 years later and whoever we were then — superficially, at least — we no longer are now.”

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Karen Fairchild of the group Little Big Town is among the country performers ushering in a new wave of style. KRISTIN HALL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FASHION

with Macy’s and give girls strong, iconic pieces that feel a little glamorous but that they was attractive and could wear in an everyendearing. day situation.” “And that’s why, if The collection you came to the Grand includes cocktail Ole Opry, you didn’t dresses, faux leather, want to see Dolly walk faux fur jackets and out in something that vests, metallic leggings, wasn’t sparkly. You and sheer and lacy tops. want her to be Dolly.” Prices start at less than But Fairchild and $50. others are leading a new One standout piece wave of fashion style. is a burgundy faux fur The Fair Child collection jacket. — launched this year at “People get intimiselect Macy’s stores nd dated,” Fairchild said. online — reflects her “They think, ‘Where am love of high fashion, I going to wear this fur?’ vintage clothes and and I am like, ‘Wear it to glamour, but is affordthe grocery store. Come able and tailored to be on!’” approachable. Breakout country Fairchild said she duo Maddie & Tae were wanted many of her tapped by Bloomingpieces to be easily paired dale’s to help inspire with denim jeans and a new AQUA capsule T-shirts, which she says collection of clothing is her fashion uniform. that includes embroi“I feel like every girl dered bomber jackets, likes to feel glamorsequined dresses with ous,” she said. “With plunging necklines Fair Child, we tried and velvet slip dresses. to do that at a really Prices range from $38 to affordable price. We $498. were able to do that “I don’t think Maddie Continued from E1

and I were really thinking about anything other than music until Bloomingdale’s came along, which just seemed to fit perfectly,” Tae Dye said. The singers, who attended their first fashion shows during New York Fashion Week this year, said the collection incorporates a bit of both of their styles. “Tae normally goes with a romantic look and I normally go for an edgier look, and that kind of fits our personalities, too,” Maddie Marlow said. Known for their breakout hit, “Girl in a Country Song,” the duo said they wanted fans to be bold and feel good at the same time. “The goal with this line was just to make a whole bunch of different pieces that are in different price ranges so there is a piece for everyone,” Marlow said. “We love high-end clothing, but we also love a bargain.”

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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

Continued loss of bone density signals need to do other testing Dear Dr. Roach: In 2012, I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in my hip and osteopenia in my spine. My doctor put me on alendronate. I was on that for two years, but it made me feel very achy and stiff. So I quit taking it. My chiropractor suggested strontium to be taken with vitamin D-3, vitamin K-2, magnesium and fish oil. I have been doing that for almost two years. I just had another bone-density scan done, and it showed that I went from a moderate risk (-2.2) to high risk (-2.6). I eat a variety of fruits and vegetables and exercise regularly, but no matter what I do, my bones do not absorb the nutrients they need to stay strong. I am only 59 and weigh 112. I know that is a factor. I know that when I see my doctor at the end of the month, she will suggest that I go back on alendronate. I really do not want to do that. Are there any alternatives? — M.S. Answer: There are many options for treatment of osteoporosis, but I am concerned that your bone density went down during treatment, which suggests that you may have a separate problem. Before trying another medication, I would want to see that

DR. KEITH ROACH

your calcium intake was adequate, that your vitamin D level is where it should be and that you do not have a high level of parathyroid hormone, which can weaken bones. I also would be concerned that you have a problem absorbing nutrients. Strontium increases bone density even if it doesn’t improve the strength of the bone, because strontium absorbs X-rays better than calcium. An increase in bone density on strontium does not always mean stronger bones. A decrease in bone density while on strontium is concerning because there may be a larger decrease in bone strength than expected. Although there are other options, such as denosumab and teriparatide, you first need to evaluate why the current treatments have not seemed to work. Dear Dr. Roach: If a woman were to be injected with a man’s semen, would her body create antibodies against sperm cells

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Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:

By Bob Jones

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Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ A 8 4 3 2 ♥ J 8 ♦ K 6 ♣ J 10 9 4 NORTH EAST SOUTH 1NT Pass 2♥* ♠ 2♠ Pass ? *Transfer to spades

which would thus prevent her from becoming pregnant? If a man were to be injected with his own semen, would he create antibodies against his own sperm cells and cause himself to become sterile? — M.H. Answer: Both men and women can develop antibodies to sperm. It sounds like you are considering its use as a contraceptive. Several scientists have looked at this possibility as a contraceptive vaccine. In animal studies, the approach was found to be successful in both males and females. The animals’ fertility returned once the vaccinations were stopped, which probably is good news for its use as a contraceptive choice in humans. Unfortunately, we are a long way from proving it reliable for pregnancy prevention in humans. Finally, contraception is different from protection from sexually transmitted disease.

WEST Pass

What call would you make? A - This hand is worth forcing to game, and we would bid three clubs. Second choice — three no trump. Two no trump is not enough. Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ Q 8 5 ♥ 7 2 ♦ K 10 5 ♣ K 9 8 7 2 Partner opens one no trump, 15-17, and right-hand opponent passes. What call would you make? A - This hand is not quite worth a game force. Make an invitational raise to two no trump.

♠Q♥ QJ984♦ AJ4 ♣A873 With the opponents passing, you open one heart and partner responds one spade. What is your rebid? A - Some would choose one no trump, but we prefer to keep describing our hand. Bid two clubs. Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠A753♥ J872♦ 42 ♣542 Partner opens one no trump, 15-17, and right-hand opponent passes. What call would you make? A - Should you have a 4-4 ﬁt, this hand will play better in the major. You may not have one, however, and this hand is not strong enough to look for it. Pass.

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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis Creators Syndicate

Your birthday today

Big projects will move forward. You’re the glue of your social network, and you can expect to also be the frequent host. Financially, June and October will be highlights. Libra and Cancer people adore you. Capricorn

Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Go forward, even if you have to go alone. It won’t be long before you’re joined by one who sees the significance of your journey. Aquarius

Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Expanding your mind may require that you let go of some dearly held beliefs. They may have been comforting, but they are limiting. Pisces

Feb. 19-March 20 It’s a good day to ignore the bad habits of those close to you. Your refusal to pay attention will free you up for a block of time in which you can focus on what fortifies you.

Aries

March 21-April 19 Instead of wanting something from another person, want something for that person. This shift of intention will make a difference in your ability to persuade. Taurus

April 20-May 20 Ask any ballerina; balance requires core strength. Core strength is also needed in your dance through life. You’ll get it in character-building moments. Gemini

May 21-June 21 When you put your mind to it, you usually amaze yourself, and today will be no different. Cancer

June 22-July 22 You’re too busy looking at what you have to notice what you may have missed. It’s the way to grow your love and appreciation into a very interesting future. Leo

July 23-Aug. 22 Why should you get hooked into other

people’s bad moods that have nothing to do with you? Ignoring provocation is not defeat; it’s actually productivity. Virgo

Aug. 23-Sept. 22 You’ll benefit from setting clearly defined objectives. Decide how you will know you’ve arrived at the goal, and then choose the actions that will get you there. Libra

Sept. 23-Oct. 23 What was lost and longed for has been found. It’s one of the most satisfying emotions of all — relief. Scorpio

Oct. 24-Nov. 21 It only takes a small action to advance the plot of a storyline of your life. The specific gesture you make will change or reinforce the way someone feels about you. Sagittarius

Nov. 22-Dec. 21 What you want wants you right back. You still have to take action to get it, though. The first action will be to communicate clearly.

| Monday, December 26, 2016

Monday, December 26, 2016

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

| Monday, December 26, 2016

Monday, December 26, 2016 |

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

What’s on the air EVENING BROADCAST

TALK SHOWS TELEVISION ■ 7 a.m., WCMH-TV (Channel 4): “Today” — senior scams; 9 — musical guest: Nick Lachey; 10 — keeping kids entertained (N) ■ 9 a.m., WSYX-TV (Channel 6): “Rachael Ray” — a large family’s selﬂess act ■ 9 a.m., WBNS-TV (Channel 10): “Live With Kelly” — favorite clips (N) ■ 9 a.m., WWHO-TV (Channel 53): “The Real” — co-host Adrienne Bailon and her marriage to Israel Houghton ■ 11 a.m., Channel 6: “The View” — actor Neil Patrick Harris (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”) ■ Noon, Channel 4: “The Doctors” — Ross Mathews and Garcelle Beauvais (“Hollywood Today Live”) discussing Hollywood health fads ■ 2 p.m., Channel 4: “The Wendy Williams Show” — singer and TV-show

host Rita Ora (“America’s Next Top Model”) ■ 3 p.m., Channel 10: “The Dr. Oz Show” — new cancer research and therapy that saves lives ■ 11 p.m., Bravo: “Watch What Happens Live” — TV personalities Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz (“Vanderpump Rules”) ■ 11:30 p.m., WOSUTV (Channel 34): “Tavis Smiley” — musical guest: Freddy Cole ■ 12:37 a.m., Channel 10: “The Late Late Show With James Corden” — actor Andrew Garﬁeld (“Silence”) RADIO ■ 8 a.m., WYTS (1230 AM/103.5 FM): “Auto Smarts” — Bob Pockrass, autoracing writer, ESPN. com ■ 7 p.m., WOSA (101.1 FM): “Essential Classics” — Handel: “Music for the Royal Fireworks”

TV REVIEW / EVERY BRILLIANT THING

Documentary revisits play about depression By David Wiegand

San Francisco Chronicle

There is so much to live for. How often have we heard variations of this statement? The sentiment is obvious — but only to those not lost in depression or contemplating suicide. When the night of the soul is dark, as it becomes for all of us at some point, platitudes about life’s bounty fall flat. Duncan Macmillan has turned that notion on its head with the one-character play “Every Brilliant Thing,” by restoring insistent meaning to things, large and small, that make life worth living and by making the rejection of all of them — suicide — heartbreaking (as one would expect) but also funny. British comic Jonny Donahoe starred in the offBroadway hit, which was filmed for HBO by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato and will be shown tonight. I didn’t want to watch it: Suicide and comedy? How can that make sense, — and, even if it does, it’s the holiday season. Which is the point.

British comic Jonny Donahoe starred in the off-Broadway hit “Every Brilliant Thing.” HBO

At a glance ■ The documentary “Every

Brilliant Thing” will be shown at 8 tonight on HBO.

Many people are felled by challenging bouts of depression during the holidays, and that’s just one reason to allow yourself to laugh and cry through “Every Brilliant Thing.” To call “Every Brilliant

Thing” a one-person play isn’t entirely accurate, because its execution takes audience participation to a new level of inclusiveness. Donahoe waits as the audience settles in, then darts about New York’s Barrow Street Theatre, where performances of the play were filmed last year, distributing paper slips to patrons. Each piece contains a number and a descriptive word, phrase or sentence, such as “ice

cream,” “surprises,” “falling in love,” Donahoe tells his story, of having the blissful ignorance of early childhood disrupted by his mother’s first suicide attempt. He re-creates his inability to understand the situation at that age by assigning a man in the audience to play Donahoe as a young boy, with Donahoe playing the father. The man is told to ask “why” after every attempt by “Father” to

explain Mum’s actions. The “boy” can’t process why his mother would want to end her life, nor can he as a man. So he begins a list of “every brilliant thing” life has to offer to convince his mother that there are thousands of reasons to go on. Here is where the audience participates, with an people responding each time Donahoe calls out a number. But this is not “just” a play about depression and suicide. The story is universal because most everyone experiences moments of depression. But Macmillan takes it further as the list grows, becoming as useless for Donahoe’s character to cope with the dissolution of his marriage as it was for his mother trying to take her life. Reminders of beautiful things are only effective if the only reason for depression is that you’ve momentarily forgotten about the taste of ice cream. If life were that easy, ice cream would be a panacea for everything. We know that it is not, no matter how brilliant it might otherwise be.