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Grenades hurled at U.S. base Afghani protestors angry over burning of Muslim holy book KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Demonstrators hurled grenades at a U.S. base in northern Afghanistan, and a gun battle left two Afghans dead and seven NATO troops injured Sunday in the escalating crisis over the burning of Muslim holy books at an

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American airfield.

More than 30 people have been killed, including four U.S. troops, in six days of unrest. Still, the top U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan said the violence would not change Washington’s course .

“Tensions are running very

high here, and I think we need to let things calm down, return to a more normal atmosphere, and then get on with business,” Ambassador Ryan Crocker told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“This is not the time to decide that we’re done here,” he said. “We have got to redouble our efforts.

We’ve got to create a situation in which al-Qaida is not coming back.”

The attack on the base came a

Schools await Kasich’s new funding plan

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Jim and Roberta Hufford, center, with their extended family at their wedding in 2003.

Forever Tenacious

How much does it cost to properly educate Ohio schoolchildren? What percentage of taxpayer dollars should go into classrooms or reading help, counseling or the arts? Should struggling districts get more than comfortable ones? How much more?

All huge questions. All without answers. See Page 7.

Second book is a monument to author’s daughter and late wife

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hen Jim Hufford realized that his braininjured daughter Marcia could pass away without leaving her mark on the world, he decided to change that.

“She’s never done WEST anything — MILTON Marcia was dealt a bad hand of cards Next and can’t even play her Door own hand,” Hufford said, If you know “I just someone thought I’d who should like to make be profiled her known.” in our The former Next Door longtime West feature, Milton resicontact City dent wanted Editor his book, Melody “Forever Vallieu at Tenacious,” to 440-5265. be a monument to both Marcia and his deceased first wife, Gloria.

“If we don’t sell a book, my goal was accomplished,” he said, holding the published copy in his hand.

Jim’s first foray into writing was his memoir “Life on the Sea Gnat” — which was written about his service in the Navy during World War II. It was a present to his daughter Kristine, who wanted a record of what he lived through to give to her own children. Although he tried to type some of that almost 100-page book, it ended up being written by hand.

For “Forever Tenacious,” Jim didn’t even bother with the computer. The 250-page book was written entirely in long-

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Tipp City Officer in Charge Michelle Arnold said a free Grow Your Business seminar will show small business owners how to harness the power of direct mail from 1-2 p.m.

March 8. See Page 7.

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Remains of last missing soldier in Iraq are identified

Christopher Plummer became the oldest acting winner ever at Sunday’s Academy Awards for his supporting performance in “Beginners,” while veteran bit player Octavia Spencer earned the supporting-actress prize for her breakout role in “The Help.”

The 82-year-old Plummer won for his role as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in “Beginners.”

“You’re only two years older than me, darling,” Plummer said, addressing his Oscar statue in this 84th year of the awards. “Where have you been all my life? I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother’s womb, I was already rehearsing my Oscar speech.” See Page 10.

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day after two U.S. military advisers a lieutenant colonel and a major were found dead after being shot in the head in their office at the Interior Ministry in the heart of the capital. The building is one of the city’s most heavily guarded buildings, and the slayings raised doubts about safety as coalition troops continue their withdrawal.

The incident prompted NATO,

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BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S military announced Sunday that it has recovered the remains of the last American service member who was unaccounted for in Iraq, an Army interpreter seized by gunmen after sneaking off base to visit his Iraqi wife in Baghdad during the height of the insurgency.

The remains of Staff Sgt. Ahmed alTaie, who was 41 when militiamen seized him on Oct. 23, 2006, were positively identified at the military’s mortuary in Dover, Del., the Army said in a statement released Sunday. Army officials said they had no further details about the circumstances surrounding his death or the discovery AL-TAIE of his remains.

Al-Taie’s brother, Hathal Al-Taie, told The Associated Press the military officer who visited the family’s home to inform them about the remains said they are still in Dover, but that he didn’t know the circumstances surrounding his brother’s death.

“We have no information right now, not even how the body looks like or when they’re going to release him,” Hathal AlTaie said by phone from Ann Arbor, Mich., where the family settled after leaving Iraq for the U.S. when his brother was

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Roberta (Matthews) Hufford, left, with what was then client Marcia Hufford. She has since married into the family. lapsed lung and a hole in her heart, a condition both the pediatrician and obstetrician missed the first three days.

Although the hole closed all by itself by the time she was four days old, the lack of oxygen those first few days and a debilitating stroke on the third left her permanently brain-damaged. Her mother, Gloria, refused to send her to a state institution (mental health homes were almost non-existent in the ’60s), so Marcia spent the next 37 years at home.

As a baby, Jim gave her the hand. It took him two years to nickname “marshmallow” complete. because of the softness of her The title came in a much body. Although Marcia still shorter time. Jim woke up one can’t speak coherently, she has morning and thought “tenaa sense of humor and always cious.” That day, Kristine was laughs at the right time. looking on the Internet and one “She knows what’s going on; of the first things she saw was she just can’t express it,” he a hummingbird. said, “There’s a hidden person The tiny, energetic bird in there.” became a “golden thread” Jim refers to the 1960s as throughout the book, a symbol the “stone age of treatment for of the fight the Huffords brain injury.” The only treatbrought to do what they had to ment or doctor the Huffords do for their family. found who helped was a clinic “It’s been a long, long road,” 60 miles away, with a graduate Jim said.

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Referendum vote in Syria deemed a farce by West Clinton calls poll a ‘cynical ploy’ DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.S. and its allies dismissed the Syrian regime’s referendum on a new constitution Sunday as a “farce” meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent.

But voters in government strongholds suggested why some Syrians have not joined the uprising against President Bashar Assad: Loyalty, distrust of the opposition and fear his fall will ignite a civil war.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the poll “a cynical ploy” and urged Syrians who still support Assad to turn against him. A “farce” and a “sham vote” was how German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle described it.

“It’s a phony referendum and it is going to be used by Assad to justify what he’s doing to other Syrian citizens,” Clinton said in an interview with CBS News in Rabat, Morocco.

“The longer you support the regime’s campaign of violence against your brothers and sisters, the more it will stain your honor,” she added, addressing Assad supporters, especially the military. “If you refuse, however, to prop up the regime or

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of the Doman Delacato Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential. This evaluator described what Marcia deals with like someone who is watching television, and then the picture scrambles.

The Institute introduced patterning, which used physical exercise repetitions in an effort to stimulate the pathway to the brain. The Huffords first started working with patterning treatments in 1970.

Soon they were informed of a woman in Piqua who also was using this method for her mentally handicapped son. That woman was Ruth Hahn, who actually went to school with Jim and Gloria at Newton.

In 1972, the Huffords and Hahns joined forces to open the Rehabilitation Center, the forerunner of what is now the HahnHufford Center of Hope. It was first housed in the basement of St. Paul’s Church in Piqua.

In his book, Jim wrote “little did Gloria and I know when the Center began that we stepped out of our own story of seeking help for Marcia and her life would help many others for infinity.” The group quickly outgrew the basement, and during an open house found a sponsor in Dimitri Nicholas.

Nicholas owned the Orr Felt Company, and visited the open house with his whole entourage. At the end of the tour, he turned to

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“I have always been tenacious in my life — as a child, through the Navy years and even today as I fight a reocurrence of illness. I never give up. I am forever tenacious.”

— From “Forever Tenacious”

by Jim Hufford

Gloria with tears in his eyes and asked, “You guys don’t have enough space anymore, do you?”

Nicholas then offered them the use of one of his facility showroom spaces.

“He said, ‘I’ll lease it to you for a dollar a year, and I’ll pay the dollar’,” Jim recalled, “When we saw the space it was like manna from heaven.”

The next step was the need for a school. According to the center’s website, Nicholas School, a product of the Rehab Center, began serving special needs children in 1976. The school is a state chartered K-8 special needs school.

For the next 20 years, the Huffords and Hahns helped other families like them, fought battles with red tape, and continued to expand the center’s reach.

Then in 1997, the Hufford tenacity had to step into high gear when Gloria was killed in a car wreck.

She was on her way to Miami County Human Services to deliver paperwork for turning half of their house into a special home for

Britain and France to recall hundreds of international advisers from all Afghan ministries in the capital.

The advisers are key to helping improve governance and preparing the country’s security forces to take on more responsibility.

A manhunt was under way for the main suspect in the shooting of an Afghan man who worked as a driver for an office on the same floor as the advisers who were killed, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said. He did not provide further details about the suspect or his possible motive.

The Taliban claimed that the shooter was one of

their sympathizers and that an accomplice had helped him get into the compound to kill the Americans in retaliation for the Quran burnings.

Afghanistan’s defense and interior ministers were to visit Washington this week, but they called off the trip to consult with other Afghan officials and religious leaders on how to stop the violence, Pentagon press secretary George Little said.

The protesters in Kunduz province in the north threw hand grenades to express their anger at the way some Qurans and other Islamic texts were disposed of in a burn pit last week at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul.

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Their uncle, Entifadh Qanbar, said he was told by the Army major who informed the family in Ann Arbor that the remains were received at Dover on Feb. 22.

“I asked if it was an accident or if he was killed, and he said they didn’t know, that they are investigating,” Qanbar said by phone from Beirut, where he lives. “He said he had the same questions that I have.”

Family members say that like many Iraqi exiles, Ahmed al-Taie was eager to help his native land rebuild after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ouster of Saddam Hussein.

He met his wife during a trip to Iraq shortly Saddam fell, while he was still a civilian, and in December 2004 he joined an Army reserve program for native speakers of Arabic and other strategic languages. He was deployed to Iraq in November 2005 and was assigned to a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Baghdad until he was kidnapped the following year. At the time he was seized, kidnappings for ransom or political motives,

mostly of Iraqis but also many foreigners, were common. The February 2006 bombing of a Shiite mosque

by Sunni insurgents caused retaliatory bloodshed to spiral, and death squads roamed the streets.

Al-Taie’s in-laws say he often met secretly with his wife at her family’s home despite warnings that he was in danger of being attacked by the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

It was during one of those visits that al-Taie disappeared. Masked gunmen hiding in an abandoned Saddam-era army building seized him as he went to find his wife at her uncle’s house, less than two blocks away in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah.

“A neighbor saw the gunmen and went to my family and informed them. My parents, brothers and sisters all came at once and pleaded with them to let him go,” alTaie’s sister-in-law Shaimaa Abdul-Sattar, who witnessed the abduction, told the AP during an interview last year at her Baghdad apartment.

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Marcia’s care was too much for Jim to handle by himself, especially since he was recovering from leukemia (Jim has had to deal with two bouts of leukemia, four bypasses, and losing a finger to infection).

Marcia ended up in Mumford House, where she still resides today and is regularly visited by her father.

“They take wonderful care of her — I’ve never had a complaint,” said Jim. He was given a second chance on love through one of Marcia’s former nurses, Roberta Matthews, also of West Milton. Roberta would get Marcia ready for school when Gloria was recovering from an operation. She continued to help with Marcia until Gloria passed away.

“Gloria always said about Roberta, ‘God puts the nicest people in my path’,” Jim said.

Roberta and Jim’s lives crossed again when he read an obituary for her husband Ted in 1999. He called

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As an American soldier and a Sunni Muslim, al-Taie faced a double risk when he left the protection of his base inside the Green Zone, a well-guarded area that houses the U.S. Embassy, Iraqi government offices and the parliament.

American commanders immediately launched a massive manhunt, locking down Karradah and the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City. Within days, the military arrested four of the kidnappers. But by then, alTaie had already been handed off to another group and transported to the Shiite heartland of southern Iraq, according to people familiar with the case.

About a week after his abduction, a family member received a ransom demand, the U.S. military told the AP. The relative then met with members of the group behind the kidnapping. They showed him a grainy video on a handheld device of a man they claimed was alTaie but he demanded solid evidence that al-Taie, who was 41 at the time, was alive and well.

Qanbar, Al-Taie’s uncle who is a spokesman for a controversial Iraqi politician, denied during in an interview last year that any ransom demand had been made. Al-Taie was last seen four months after his abduction in a video posted on the Internet by a Shiite militant faction called Ahl al-Bayt Brigades.

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up to offer his condolences, and she asked how Marcia was doing. Jim took her to see Marcia at Mumford — and three and a half years later, they were married. They now live in Union.

Jim calls Roberta his “nurseaneer.”

He explained in his book, “though she was a nurse I believe she has the skill of an engineer in everyday life.”

At the turn of the century, the Center made another huge change.

Executive Director Carla Bertke let it be known that the Center had grown too big for its space once again. In March of 2000, an anonymous benefactor gave five acres on Garby. Four years and several fundraising campaigns later, the Hahn-Hufford House of Hope opened.

The complex houses the Rehabilitation Center, Nicholas School, Brain Wellness Center, and Aquatic and Wellness Center.

“People come from all over the United States to bring their kids here,” said Jim. He said those people will often ask him how the Center gets such “wonderful people” on their staff.

He replies, “They just have that feeling in their hearts.”

For more information about the Center, visit www.rcnd.org or call (937) 773-7630.

Jim’s books can be found in Jay and Mary’s Book Store in Troy, or online at www.sunkingmedia.com and www.amazon.com.

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The Miami East FFA Chapter recently hosted a State Leadership Night for its FFA member with the theme of “The Value of Me. The Value of We.” Several members from Miami East FFA attended the activities. State FFA officers coordinated the workshops.

The FFA members enjoyed a pizza party prior to the event.

Representing the Ohio FFA Association were State FFA Vice President Brent Stammen and District 5 President Devon Alexander. During the activities, members completed team building activities, discussed the personal values of themselves and how they can utilize those natural talent more and what opportunities

exist that will allow them benefit their own personal abilities.

The highlight for the night was the awarding of 25 computer jump drives donated by sponsors of the statewide events. One of those 25 students earning the jump drive will receive $50 in Dekalb clothing.

Miami East’s winner was freshman Brady Anderson.

He will select clothing for free. This is a special project of the Ohio FFA Foundation.

Attending from Miami East FFA were: Jayda Burch, Danielle Danielson, Seth Drake, Austin Harleman, Austin Honeyman, Caleb Johnson, Brittany Taylor, Nicholas Woolever, Jennifer Brown, Adam Everett, Amy Hahn,

Grant Hodge, Emma Rife, Chris Teaford, Robbie Adams, Dan Bodenmiller, Alex Brewer, Libby Everett, Dylan Kinnison, Andrew Kowalak, Shane Richardson, Austin Rush, Devin Staley, Macaleh Thompson, Lauren Williams, Brady Anderson, Ashlee Bussen, Colin Gump, Katie Jenkins, Allie Patton, Megan Smock, Allyson Supinger, Jarrett Willoughby, Kelly Rindler, Meagan McKinney, Emily Johnson, Kendra Beckman, Kolin Bendickson, Bekah Eidemiller, Amber Elsass, Chris Harleman, Colin Hawes, Brandon Nales, Trenton Tigner, Corrine Melvin, Sarah Pyers, Jenifer Slone, Amanda Bartel, Jake Eidemiller, Brooke North, Danielle Sands, Heather Skaggs and several others.

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TIPP CITY — The Tipp City Seniors will have a pot pie supper from 4:306:30 p.m. March 10 at the Tipp City American Legion Post Office No. 586, Tipp City. seminar aimed at The $7 meal will include mashed potatoes, small businesses coleslaw or applesauce, TIPP CITY — The U.S. green beans, pie and bevPostal Service is reaching erage. Carry-outs will be out to local businesses to available. help them attract new Scholarships to customers.

Tipp City Officer in be available for Charge Michelle Arnold said a free Grow Your students Business seminar will show small business ownTROY — The Troy ers how to harness the Foundation has announced power of direct mail from that more than 140 scholarships totaling more than 1-2 p.m. March 8.

The seminar will $200,000 will be awarded include a demonstration through the foundation this year to assist graduat- of the easy-to-use online tools of The Direct Mail ing seniors in pursuing Hub and Every Door their higher education Direct Mail, both new lowgoals. cost services that are For scholarship inforaimed to help businesses mation and applications, in the area to grow. seniors may contact their Staff will show particihigh school guidance department, visit the foun- pants how they can easily target a specific audience dation’s website at www.thetroyfoundation.or or market to every g for details and an appli- address in their neighborcation or call the Troy Foundation office at (937) 339-8935.

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For more information about the free seminar, contact Tipp City Post Office at (937) 667-3012.

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The assessment is the first step for enrollment in the kindergarten program. Each assessment will take approximately one hour.

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• THEATRICAL PRODUC• BOARD MEETING: CONTACT US TION: The Troy Civic Theatre The Miami County Park will present “Blythe Spirit,” by District will hold its next Noel Coward, at 8 p.m. at the board meeting at 9 a.m. at Barn in the Park. The romantic the Lost Creek Reserve Call Melody comedy pits the wife of a sucCentral Office, 2645 E. State cessful novelist against the Vallieu at Route 41, east of Troy. For spirit of his first, now dead 440-5265 to more information, contact wife. Tickets are $12, and the Miami County Park list your free reservations can be made by District at 937-335-6273. calling 339-7700. calendar Civic agendas • PANCAKE DAYS: The items.You • Tipp City Board of 2012 Piqua Kiwanis Pancake Education will meet at 7 can send Day will be from 6 a.m. to p.m. at the board office, 90 your news by e-mail to 2:30 p.m. at the Upper Valley S. Tippecanoe Drive. Call Career Center, Piqua. Tickets 667-8444 for more informa- vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. are $6 for adults and $3 for tion. children 10 and younger. The • Covington Village meal will include all-you-canCouncil will meet at 7 p.m. eat pancakes, sausage, applesauce and at Town Hall. drink. For tickets, call Dean Brewer at 615• The Covington Street Committee will meet immediately following the regular coun- 1034 or Ryan Ratermann at 773-1671.

• PRIME RIB: The Pleasant Hill VFW cil meeting.

Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, • Brown Township Board of Trustees will Ludlow Falls, will offer a prime rib dinner with meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building in salad, waffle fries, roll and chocolate pudding Conover. for $12 from 5-7 p.m.

• The Union Township Trustees will meet • PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The Pleasant at 1:30 p.m. in the Township Building, 9497 Hill United Church of Christ, one block west Markley Road, P.O. Box E, Laura. Call 698of the intersection of State Route 48 and 4480 for more information.

State Route 718, will hold its monthly pancake and sausage breakfast from 7:30-11 TUESDAY a.m. The cost is $4 for the standard adult breakfast of pancakes, sausage, juice, and • RETIREES TO MEET: The BFGoodrich coffee, tea or milk. A deluxe breakfast is availretirees will meet at 8 a.m. at Lincoln able for $5 and includes scrambled eggs.

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The meal is all the pancakes you can eat and • BAND CONCERT: The Troy High free refills on drinks. Participants also can School Jazz I band will perform at 7 p.m. in get a standard breakfast of eggs, sausage the Troy High School auditorium. Songs to be and toast if prefer not to have pancakes. performed will be “Four,” “Oop Bop Sh’Bam,” Children’s portions also are served. Contact “Moten Swing” and “Riding On a Blue Note.” the church office at (937) 676-3193 for more All concerts are free and open to the public. information.

Contact Kathy McIntosh at 332-6061 for • SHARE-A-MEAL: The First United more information.

Church of Christ’s monthly Share-A-Meal will Civic agendas be offered from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at • The village of West Milton Council will the church, corner of South Market and Canal have its workshop at 7 p.m. on the in council streets, Troy. The meal will feature jackpot chambers. noodles, mashed potatoes and gravy, applesauce, cake and beverages. Share-A-Meal is WEDNESDAY a program to reach out to the community by providing nourishing meals to anyone wishing • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club to participate while giving an opportunity to socialize with others in the community. Use of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the the Canal Street entrance where we the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. church is handicapped accessible.

Lunch is $10. Shane Carter will speak on • EARTH ADVENTURES: Classes from 5the Lincoln Community Center. For more 7 p.m. will offer age-appropriate, hands-on information, contact Kim Riber, vice presiactivities that enable children to explore the dent, at (937) 974-0410.

• BW3 FUNDRAISER: Those who eat at world of nature and farming in the winter at Aullwood. Fees vary. Prepaid registration is BW3’s any time today, and take a flier, will required by calling Aullwood at (937) 890earn 10 percent of their bill for Brukner 7360 for more information.

Nature Center. The flier will be available on the center’s website at www.bruknernaturecenter.com. Additional fliers will be available MARCH 4 at the center.

• ART EXHIBIT: A Kids’ Nature Art THURSDAY Gallery exhibit will feature Piqua students in grades first through sixth at Brukner Nature Center. The exhibit will feature creations by • CLUB MEETING: The Brukner Gem students in grades first through third at and Mineral Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the Springcreek Elementary and grade fourth center. The speaker will be David Lacko, a through sixth at Wilder Intermediate. Works specialist in meteorites and rocks from of art range from sunflower drawings inspired outer space. There is no charge for attendby Van Gogh to paper collage field mice ing, and guests are invited to attend.

• ANNUAL BANQUET: The Milton-Union inspired by a Leo Lionni picture book.

• CREATURE FEATURE: The red-tailed Alumni Association will meet at 9 a.m. at hawk will be featured from 2-3 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library to work on Brukner Nature Center, Troy. As spring draws the association newsletter. The group also more near, many animals have been preparis making plans for the 124th annual baning for the upcoming breeding season. One quet scheduled for May 19. If you know of a of these animals which will begin breeding change in address of an alumni member, and nesting season very soon is the red mail information to M-U Alumni, P.O. Box tailed hawk. Come discover more about this 383, West Milton, OH 45383. bird of prey, including some mating behav• SENIOR LUNCHEON: A senior lunchiors and how and where they raise their eon will be offered at the A.B. Graham young. There will even be an opportunity to Memorial Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route 36, meet one of these remarkable raptors. This Conover. The program will begin at 11 a.m. event is free and open to the public. with Kenneth Lawler of St. Paris speaking • GLEE CLUB: The Ohio State on beekeeping. Lunch will be served at University’s Men’s Glee Club will offer a connoon. Call (937) 368-3700 for pricing and cert at 2:30 p.m. at the First United reservations.

Methodist Church in Troy. The program is free and a free will offering will be taken.

FRIDAY • SUNDAY BREAKFAST: Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, • CHICKEN FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Ludlow Falls, will offer a made-to-order Post No. 6557, 7578 W, Fenner Road, breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Everything is a la Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piece chicken carte. dinner with french fries and coleslaw for $7 • BREAKFAST SET: Boy Scout Troop from 6-8 p.m. Chicken livers also will be No 586 of the American Legion Post No. available.

586, Tipp City, will present an all-you-can-eat • FISH DINNER: American Legion Post breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon for $6. Items No. 586, Tipp City, will offer all-you-can-eat available will include eggs, bacon, sausage, fish and sausage with fries, kraut and home fries, sausage gravy and biscuits, dessert at the post home. The meal will be toast, cinnamon rolls, fruit, juice, waffles and $7 and serving starts at 6 p.m. Carry-outs pancakes. will be available.

• THEATRICAL PRODUCTION: The Troy • MUSIC PLANNED: Berachah Valley Civic Theatre will present “Blythe Spirit,” by and Rum River Blend will perform at 7:30 Noel Coward, at 4 p.m. at the Barn in the p.m. at the Clifton Opera House, 5 S. Clay Park. The romantic comedy pits the wife of a St., Clifton. For more information, call (937) successful novelist against the spirit of his 767-2343. first, now dead wife. Tickets are $12, and • THEATRICAL PRODUCTION: The Troy reservations can be made by calling 339Civic Theatre will present “Blythe Spirit,” by 7700.

Noel Coward, at 8 p.m. at the Barn in the Park.

The romantic comedy pits the wife of a sucMARCH 6 cessful novelist against the spirit of his first, now dead wife. Tickets are $12, and reserva• BAND CONCERT: The Troy High tions can be made by calling 339-7700.

School concert band wind ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. in the Troy High School auditoMARCH 3 rium. Songs to be performed include “Who’s Who In Navy Blue,” by Sousa, “The Morning • SPAGHETTI DINNER: Troy Post No. 43 Trumpet,” “Rhapsody on American Shaped Baseball will offer an all-you-can-eat Note Melodies,” “Havendance,” “Electricity,” spaghetti dinner will be offered from 3-7:30 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also “Bandology and Ode,” “Fanfare and Festival.”

All concerts are free and open to the public. will include a salad bar, drink and dessert.

Contact Kathy McIntosh at 332-6061 for Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children 12 and younger. All proceeds will bene- more information.

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John Herschel Glenn (born July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.) the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962.

(Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the first person in space, had made a single orbit of Earth in 1961).

Glenn joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943, and flew 59 missions during World War II and 90 missions during the Korean War. He was a test pilot from 1954 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1959. Of the seven U.S. military pilots selected in that year for Project Mercury astronaut training, he was the oldest. Glenn served as a backup pilot for Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Virgil I. Grissom, who made the first two U.S. suborbital flights into space. Glenn was selected

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for the first orbital flight, and on February 20, 1962, his space capsule, Friendship 7, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its orbit ranged from approximately 99 to 162 miles (159 to 261 km) in altitude, and Glenn made three orbits, landing in the Atlantic Ocean near The Bahamas.

Glenn retired from the space program and the Marine Corps in 1964 to enter private business and to pursue his interest in politics. In 1970, he sought the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio but lost narrowly in the primary. He was elected U.S. senator from that state in 1974, and was reelected three times thereafter. Glenn was unsuccessful, however, in his bid to become the 1984 Democratic

Mercury vs. Earth

presidential candidate.

On October 29, 1998, Glenn returned to space as a payload specialist on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The oldest person ever to travel in space, Glenn at age 77 participated in experiments that studied similarities between the aging process and the body's response to weightlessness.

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QUESTIONS: 1. What is the difference in diameter between Mercury and Earth?

2. How far apart are Mercury and Earth from each other?

3. How many more days does it take the Earth to orbit the sun?

4. If it takes Mercury 58.7 Earth days to spin around its own axis, how many Earth hours is that?

5. Why do you think the temperature on Mercury is so much hotter than the Earth’s temperature?

BONUS QUESTION: If Mercury is smaller than Earth, why does it take longer to spin around its own axis?

Can you name the planets of our solar system?

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On Aug. 3, 2004, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging Spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Center in Florida.

Better known as the MESSENGER spacecraft, its purpose is to study and gain more information about the planet closest to the sun, Mercury.

MESSENGER has had a long journey and it’s not over. The spacecraft has had fly-bys of Earth (Aug. 2005). Venus (Oct. 2006 and June 2007) and Mercury itself (Jan. 2008 and Oct. 2008) since its mission started. In Sept. 2009, MESSENGER flew

by Mercury for the final time before entering the planet’s orbit in 2011.

MESSENGER is the first spacecraft to study Mercury since the space probe Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975. Scientists want to study Mercury because so little is known about it. Why do you think this is?

Mercury, along with Venus, Earth and Mars, is a terrestrial planet. Terrestrial planets are the innermost planets of our solar system. They have a solid surface and are denser than the other planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, meanwhile, are Jovian planets and are more commonly known as gas giants. The Jovian planets have much larger radiuses than terrestrial planets and are mostly comprised of gas.

By studying Mercury, scientists can find our more about how the planets, including Earth, formed. It will also give scientists more insight into the terrestrial planets.

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The Earth Day Groceries Project gives students a chance to create their own environmental messages, using paper grocery bags as their medium. The Miami County Solid Waste District/Green Gals is working with Kroger to provide the bags.

All a school has to do to participate in this free activity is to designate a coordinator and fill out the request form below. Requests should be made no later than Friday, March 2 by calling Cindy Bach at 440-3488 x8705 or sending and email to cbach@miamicountysed.com.

The paper grocery bags will be delivered to your school the week of March 12th (hopefully). Once the bags are decorated, someone from your school should take the bags either to the Kroger store in Piqua or Troy. The stores will distribute the bags to shoppers during the week of April 23rd - 28th.

Hundreds of schools nationwide have been involved in this project for years.

Students can be as creative as they want in sharing their thoughts on how to respect the Earth. For more information and for ideas on how to decorate the bags, take a look at the website: www.earthdaybags.org.

This activity is also open to organizations other than schools. Cub Scout packs, 4-H groups, environmental camps, homeschooling groups, after-school programs and many other can join in. All are welcome!

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John Glenn Returns to Space On October 29, 1998, the first American to orbit the Earth made history again. John Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space by serving as a payload specialist on STS-95 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

The nine-day mission supported a variety of research, including the deployment of the Spartan Solar Observing Spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope orbital

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of this got back to Columbus and officers there sent out four hundred soldiers to “quell the rebellion.” When the Copperheads got word of this, most just took off. But some decided to stay and set up to fight in an old farmhouse they chose to call Fort Vallandigham. They named it after Clement Vallandigham, a Dayton, Ohio, Congressman and Copperhead leader. Once the Union soldiers got there, there was even a battle … if you can call it that. It only lasted about a minute; maybe five, then the Copperheads jumped out the window and ran away into the woods. It seems that Fort Vallandigham wasn’t everything they’d hoped it would be and it earned a new nickname with the locals.

They called it Fort Fizzle.

Josh Franklin’s Far Out Family Blog Written by Steven Coburn-Griffis Illustrated by Isaac Schumacher Chapter Six: Week Six June 18, 1863 Wilf, I swear that I will never understand the way some people think. Here we are, my fellow soldiers and I, fighting for the right of things, for the freedom of all men. Fighting and dying, Wilf.

Yet here, back in my very own and beloved Ohio, the state of my birth, there are people resisting the Union and our efforts.

I do not understand these Butternuts, Wilf, these Copperheads.

They are as wrong-headed in their way as any Johnny Reb. I pray for peace as much as any man. Of this you must surely be aware. But to plead for peace at the cost of our own souls, for how can any less be at stake here should we turn our backs on our brethren, is no plea at all, but a deal with the Devil himself.

God love you, Wilf. Should I ever find that you sided with these ignorants, I will give you such a thrashing as you would never dare have dreamed.

Ethan It seems that every war has its protestors, even the Civil War. I have to admit that I was pretty surprised when I read this. And that sent me right to the computer to find out what’s what. I mean, “Butternut” and “Copperhead”?

systems test platform and several microgravity experiments from NASA Glenn (then Lewis).

Glenn spent most of his time in space participating in investigations on the aging process.

Scientists recognize several parallels between the effects of spaceflight on the human body and the natural changes that take place as a person ages. Glenn's experiments were designed to test how his body responded to the microgravity environment. They focused on balance, perception, immune system response, bone and muscle density, metabolism, blood flow and sleep.

Joining Glenn on the shuttle were Mission Commander Curt Brown, Pilot Steve Lindsey, Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski, Steve Robinson and European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque, and payload specialist Chiaki Mukai from the Japanese Space Agency.

The flight aboard the shuttle was quite different from Glenn's first mission. It lasted nine days and orbited the Earth 134 times, traveling a distance of 3.6 million miles in 213 hours and 44 minutes. The landing was also different. The shuttle Discovery eased through re-entry at a mere 3 Gs, half of what he experienced aboard Friendship 7.

The mission concluded with a safe landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

As it turns out, what my Uncle Ethan was so upset about was a fringe group of the Democratic party, the Peace Democrats. They were teed off about a lot of stuff that the federal government was doing at the time.

Conscription, the draft, was at the top of their list. So they protested and encouraged people to either resist the draft or to desert the army, if they’d already been drafted.

Because they felt these kinds of protests were dangerous, even poisonous, to the Union, Republicans at the time called the Peace Democrats “Copperheads”, like the snake. From what I could find out “Butternut” was more about the color of the Confederate uniforms.

At any rate, some of the rowdier Peace Democrats really got up to some trouble. In Holmes County, hundreds of Copperheads gathered in what is now Glenmont to fight the draft. News

Glenn works with the Advanced Organic Separation (ADSEP) experiment inside the Spacehab facility on Discovery. Credit: NASA

VOCABULARY WORDS Butternuts Copperheads brethren conscription quell

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CHAPTER SIX: QUESTIONS & ACTIVITIES Locate Glenmont and Holmes County on a map. How far from your school is Glenmont? Traveling at 55 mph, how long would it take you and your class to visit there?

Do you think it was important to put down this rebellion? Why or why not?

Uncle Ethan has slang terms for enemy soldiers, including “Johnny Reb”. Josh is surprised by this.

Research past wars and conflicts to discover slang terms used for the opposition. Why do you think people did this? Do we still? Why or why not?

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

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Social issues may haunt GOP in fall MESA, Ariz. (AP) — The longer GOP presidential candidates compete for conservative activists’ favor, the more they risk alienating centrist voters who might feel that arguments over birth control are crowding out talk about how to create jobs.

Wednesday’s televised debate highlighted the dilemma. The four contenders engaged in long, sometimes dense discussions of Planned Parenthood, education policy and congressional earmarks. Talk of jobs and the economy seemed to consume less time and stir less passion.

That’s partly because of the questions asked by CNN moderator John King. But in general, his topics closely tracked the news coming from the campaign trail, and the candidates rarely tried to change the subject.

Rick Santorum’s recent rise in the polls has focused new attention on social issues, especially abortion and birth control. Those topics fire up the religiously conservative crowds he often draws, but they might turn off more moderate voters worried about finding or keeping jobs for themselves and their families.

Meanwhile, there are signs that President Barack Obama may be benefiting from the increased GOP focus on social issues, at least a bit. A new Associated Press-GfK Poll found Obama with an 8-point lead over Mitt Romney, 9 points over Santorum and 10 points over Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. The survey showed the president dominating among independents, a group central to his 2008 victory. Their support for Obama had faltered in recent months.

Obama is far from safe, of course, and any number of problems starting with a possible economic dip could undo him before November. But his supporters had to be happy with a two-hour Republican debate that often showed the candidates quarreling over congressional procedures, a distasteful topic to many Americans.

The debate, which came six days ahead of the Arizona and Michigan primaries, was especially difficult for Santorum. The former Pennsylvania senator got pinned down trying to explain his nowregretted vote for President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” education program.

“I have to admit, I voted for that,” Santorum said. “It was against the principles I believed in, but, you know, when you’re part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team.”

Santorum also got bogged down explaining how he voted for a massive spending bill with funding for Planned Parenthood a group he strongly opposes because it was the only legislative vehicle to fund vital programs elsewhere. “I think I was making it clear that, while I have a personal moral objection to it even though I don’t support it that I voted for bills that included it,” Santorum said to scattered boos.

It was reminiscent of John Kerry’s infamous 2004 remark, “I actually voted for the bill before I voted against it.” Like Kerry, Santorum was trying to explain parliamentary realities that leave many voters cold.

The debate went much better for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and the Republican establishment’s preferred candidate. But Romney also spent precious time trying to explain why he supported bailouts for banks but not the auto industry, and why he attacks Santorum’s congressional earmarks even though Romney successfully sought earmarks for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich chided Romney on that point. “I just think it’s kind of silly for you to then turn around and run an ad attacking somebody else for getting what you got,” Gingrich said.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Denver Post on the English-only debate: If you go to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s website, SBA.gov, you’ll see a “Translate” button in the upper right-hand corner. Proceed to the drop-down menu and click on one of the many languages there and soon you’ll be reading — or gazing at — the same SBA material in Greek, Italian, Yiddish, Malay or Maltese, among other possibilities.

We consider the translation service a neat use of advanced technology. Unfortunately, that’s not the view of those pushing

legislation to make English the nation’s official language so that all “official functions” of government are conducted only in English. They’d outlaw that “translate” option. Indeed, their definition of “official” includes “any function that is otherwise subject to scrutiny by either the press or the public” — so goodbye to the translation software.

The English Language Unity Act, which is supported by Colorado Republican Congressmen Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn, is the sort of bill that probably sounds appealing to many voters but that mostly

fails to address their actual concerns. For example, some voters no doubt worry about whether immigrants are assimilating fast enough to preserve a common American culture. We think the answer is yes, but even if we’re wrong, this bill won’t really help.

If Congress wants to toughen the English-language requirement for naturalization, so be it.

That may be desirable. But is it really necessary that newcomers master 18th century patterns of speech as well?

The English Language Unity Act is a badly flawed bill that should never make it into law.

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They risk their lives to bring us the story It’s a long way from Troy to Syria.

Yet it might not be quite so far as we think. It certainly isn’t a long way for Tyler Hicks, a former Troy Daily News photographer who was back in the news last week.

You might remember that last year Tyler was one of the four journalists who were captured by Libyan soldiers while covering the revolution in that country. For a while, their fates were unknown, but eventually they were released after spending six days in Moammar Gadhafi’s prison cells.

Last week, Tyler was attempting to cover another conflict, this time in Syria. He snuck into the country with reporter Anthony Shadid, who had also been with him during the Libyan adventure. On their way back out, Shadid suffered a fatal asthma attack and Tyler, according to the New York Times, carried his body across the border back to Turkey.

David Lindeman Troy Daily News Columnist

The Times described how they entered Syria: Shadid and Tyler were helped by smugglers through the border area in Turkey adjoining Syria's Idlib Province. They were met by guides on horseback after they had slipped through a barbed wire fence that marked the border between the two countries.

It’s a far cry from shooting pictures at a Troy High School football game.

Why, you might ask, do reporters and photographers do these kinds of things? Well, to start they have to be a little bit crazy, so Tyler fits that requirement. But it’s not just some advanced form of thrill

seeking.

Tyler and his companions are determined to “tell the story.” Most of us here in the United States have virtually no clue of what is going on in the rest of the world, or even in other parts of our own country.

We go through our normal routines and complain if the television reception goes bad or we have to take a detour to work for a few months because a bridge is being repaired.

It’s also an American trait to think that things that happen in Libya or Syria or Thailand really don’t matter. Sure, China and Europe matter and even sometimes a place like Greece seems important when it screws something up, but those other places are just names on a map.

Tyler Hicks and his coadventurers don’t feel that way. They have seen firsthand the suffering and triumphs of what appears to be almost another world and they want to make sure that the rest of

the world knows about those events, too. The stories and pictures that come out of places like Libya or Syria or Afghanistan are among the most potent forces of change.

They capture for the rest of us the reality of what the world really is like.

There’s a small group of people who make this their life’s work. If you look up Tyler’s photos on the Internet, you’ll see he’s been to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, the Sudan, Haiti, Syria ... even New York City. How’s that for bravery?

So, to Tyler and the late Anthony Shadid and the late Chris Hondros, thanks for doing the kind of work most of us never would do and thanks for showing us the things we sometimes don’t want to see.

And one more thing, Tyler: Stay safe. We’d like to keep seeing your pictures for a long time to come.

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THOMAS A. STALEY Company until he founded the Staley PIQUA — Thomas A. Staley, 80, of Plumbing Company in 1977, which 212 Sharon Drive, Piqua, died at 5:46 continues to be a family business. a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, at the He was a devoted member of St. Springmeade Health Center.

He was born Feb. 12, 1932, in Piqua, Mary Catholic Church, where he to the late John and Helen (Shanesey) served on a vast number of boards and committees for many years.

Staley. He married Janet J. He was a member of the Boney at St. Boniface Catholic Knights of Columbus Church July 25, 1953, and she Council No. 3344, Knights survives. of St. John Commandery Other survivors include three No. 194, American Legion sons, George K. (Susan E.) Post No. 184, and had Staley, Thomas W. (Mary C. served on the plumbing “Cathy”) Staley, and Joseph G. board for the city of Piqua.

(Kimberly A.) Staley all of A Mass of Christian Burial Piqua; four grandchildren, will be celebrated Thursday, Anthony “Tony” (Kristen) March 1, 2012, at 11 a.m. at Staley, Nicolas Staley, Joseph STALEY St. Mary Catholic Church, Thomas Staley, and Shannon with Rev. Fr. Thomas J. Grilliot Ciara Staley; two great grandchilas the Celebrant. Burial will foldren, Andrew and Elyssa; two low at Forest Hill Cemetery, brothers, Richard (Lois) Staley of where full military honors will be Piqua, and John (Lora) Staley of provided by the Veterans Elite Tipp City; and two sisters, Connie Tribute Squad.

Evans and Judy Weigel, both of Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m.

Piqua.

Wednesday at the Jamieson & He was preceded in death by three AP Yannucci Funeral Home, where a This is a 2006 file photo of Swedish actor Erland Josephson, pictured during a brothers and two sisters. prayer service will be conducted at 4 press conference for the play ‘Blomsterplockarna’ at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Mr. Staley graduated from Piqua p.m. Memorial contributions may be Catholic High School in 1951 and Stockholm. made to Piqua Catholic School, 503 W. attended the University of Dayton. He North St., Piqua, OH 45356, or was a United States Marine Corp vetLehman Catholic High School, 2400 St. eran having served as a corporal during the Korean War. Early in his career Mary’s Ave., Sidney OH 45365.

Condolences to the family may also Tom worked for the M.J. Gibbons be expressed through jamiesonandyanSupply Company, then as a branch nucci.com. manager for the W. H. Kefaber tion, Josephson continued Sacrifice.”

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The actor won several to appear in several Swedish actor Erland DONNA S. BLEVINS Swedish film prizes and Josephson, who collaborat- Bergman stage plays in received an honorary the 1940s and 50s, and ed with legendary film worked for Reliable Castings.

SIDNEY — Donna S. Blevins, 60, of award at the Rimini film director Ingmar Bergman received a minor part in She also had previously worked as Sidney, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, in more than 40 films and 1946 film “It Rains on Our festival in 1986. an STNA at several area nursing at her residence.

Two years later, he plays, has died. He was 88. Love.” homes, including Piqua Manor and She was born June 30, 1951, in received the Off-Broadway Covington, Ky., to the late Garrett In the late 50s he The award-winning Koester Pavilion. Donna enjoyed the Theater Award for best actor died at a Stockholm played larger roles in time spent with her family and grandCarnes and the late Ohma (Jackson) performance for his role as Carnes Epperson. Her stepmother, Bergman’s films “The hospital on Saturday folchildren.

Gajev in Peter Brooks New Ruth Carnes, also preceded Magician” and “Brink of lowing a long battle A funeral service to honor York production of “Cherry her in death.

Life,” but first shot to against Parkinson’s disher life will be conducted at Farm.” ease, said Royal Dramatic international stardom 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, Mrs. Blevins is survived by Josephson also pubwith the role of Johan in Theatre spokeswoman 2012, at the Jamieson & a son, Garrett (Amber) “Scenes from a Marriage,” lished many novels and Christina Bjerkander.

Yannucci Funeral Home, Asher of Piqua; a daughter, autobiographical books, in 1973.

Josephson was born Piqua, with Rev. Charles Susan (Mark) Gibboney of two poetry collections and Troy; eight grandchildren; After that, he received into a family of artists and Jarrett officiating. around 40 scripts for offers to appear in many culture workers in Burial will follow in four great-grandchildren; two international film produc- stage, radio and television. sisters, Emma (Buster) Hale Stockholm in 1923 and Beechwood Cemetery, He served as head of tions and played Friedrich would become the actor Lockington. of Medway, Sharon (James) Nietzsche in Italian direc- Sweden’s Royal Dramatic who had the longest-runVisitation will be from 4-7 Gambrel of Knox Co., Ky.; a BLEVINS Theatre between 1966 and brother, Millard (Dianne) tor Liliana Cavani’s 1977 ning collaboration with p.m. Tuesday at the funeral 1975, and was director of “Beyond Good and Evil.”

Bergman. home.

Carnes of Sidney; and numerous the Swedish Film Institute nieces and nephews. She was precedThe two first met when Josephson appeared in Memorial contributions may be made in the 1990s.

Josephson was just 16 and Philip Kaufman’s 1988 to the American Cancer Society, 2808 ed in death by two sisters, Shirley Josephson is survived “The Unbearable participated as an amaMuhlenkamp and Beulah Hubbard; and Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH 45206. by his wife Ulla Aberg and a daughter, Sharon Hobbs. teur actor in the play “The Lightness of Being” and Condolences to the family may also made memorable perform- five children.

Merchant of Venice,” be expressed through jamiesoDonna attended Solid Rock Funeral arrangements ances in Andrey directed by Bergman. nandyannucci.com.

Pentecostal Church of God, and had weren’t immediately Although he never had Tarkovskiy’s 1980s films known.

“Nostalghia” and “The any formal acting educa-

Bergman’s favorite actor, Josephson, dies at age 88

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Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at SalmMcGill and Tangeman Funeral Home in Sidney.

OBITUARY POLICY In respect for friends and family, the Troy Daily News prints a funeral directory free of charge. Families who would like photographs

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Ohio districts await Kasich’s new school funding formula COLUMBUS (AP) — How much does it cost to properly educate Ohio schoolchildren? What percentage of taxpayer dollars should go into classrooms or reading help, counseling or the arts? Should struggling districts get more than comfortable ones?

How much more?

All huge questions. All without answers.

Since 2009, Ohio has been effectively without a school funding formula, the equation that answers vexing policy questions and doles out dollars accordingly. The decisions that go into calculating what’s paid to Ohio’s 613 school districts and 353 charter schools have the potential to affect many Ohioans’ tax bills, home values, and the ultimate quality of the education Ohio children receive.

Republican Gov. John Kasich scrapped his Democratic predecessor

Ted Strickland’s attempt at a solution last year. Kasich made no mention of a replacement during his recent State of the State speech, though an education adviser initially predicted a draft plan could be ready by October 2011.

Damon Asbury, legislative director for the Ohio School Boards Association, said, “I think people realized it was more complicated than originally thought.”

During a January forum sponsored by The Associated Press, Kasich said the state has “a long way to go” to prepare the public for the change that’s required.

“The solutions lie in more money into instruction, the solutions lie in more parental involvement, so we have to keep working on this,” he said. “This is going to take a long time, to

get people to where they need to be to understand that there are additional reforms that need to be made.”

In the two decades since the Ohio Supreme Court first declared the state’s school funding system unconstitutional, many attempts have been made to come up with a workable solution. The high court said Ohio’s system relied too heavily on property taxes, which can vary widely between rich and poor districts.

One plan looked to spending by academically successful schools as the benchmark for districts statewide. Another sent a set amount per student to each district, with additional weight given to how many pupils a district had in poverty or in special programs.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Boyfriend shows all the signs of being an abuser Dear Annie: In my 22 years, I have had only two serious boyfriends. After both relationships ended in heartbreak, I decided to give myself a breather from men.

Nine months later, I met Chris.

We grew close in a short period of time, but the relationship had its flaws. Once, we were arguing, and I said I was leaving. Chris tried to block me from the door and smacked a cup out of my hand. I walked out and didn't answer any of his calls for the rest of the day.

He apologized, and we got back together. That was five months ago, and he's not done anything like it since.

However, Chris constantly accuses me of cheating (which I am not), calls me nonstop, texts me all day and repeatedly asks where I am going, why I'm going there and who I'll be with.

I'm scared that he is starting to become overly possessive. I don't think he would ever hurt me, but we're planning to move in together soon, and I fear his possessiveness will not subside and I'll be trapped.

I love him and want to be with him, but am I doing the right thing? — Scared and Confused in Omaha Dear Omaha: Get. Out. Now. Chris shows all the signs of becoming an abuser. He is possessive and controlling, and it wouldn't take much for him to become physically violent. He puts you in the position of constantly feeling you must reassure him of your fidelity. If you move in with him, these things will only get worse. Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) for information and help on safely extricating yourself from this relationship.

Dear Annie: I am 68 and have been dating "Ken," age 71, for three years. We go out to dinner, movies and sporting events regularly. He's very generous and kind.

I know he takes a lot of medication, so I've never questioned what appears to be a lack of interest in sex.

Ken's house is always neat. He told me he has a housekeeper who comes twice a month. She never comes when I'm there, and I had not even thought about her.

However, his sister recently informed me that the housekeeper is Ken's ex-wife.

I don't want to cause any problems in what appears to be a closeknit family, so how should I handle this unexpected news? — Just Another Senior Moment Dear Senior: It's possible the ex-wife is only cleaning the bedroom, not using it, but still, it's quite an unusual arrangement, and we think it deserves to be addressed. If you don't want to implicate his sister, ask Ken when the housekeeper is due to come, as you'd like to meet the woman who keeps his home so neat. When he tells you it's his ex-wife, ask him to explain his reasoning.

Dear Annie: We have a number of grandchildren, and we love them all equally. Do we appear to favor some over others? Probably.

If the parents really want to know why, perhaps they should look at their children's behavior.

Some grandchildren really enjoy their grandparents, discuss their lives and show concern for them.

Other grandchildren grudgingly visit, refuse to interact and often sit and sulk while texting their friends. They never say thank you for anything. All efforts to be more involved in their lives are rejected.

So, before the children's parents complain to the grandparents about favoritism, they should examine how their children are inadvertently damaging the relationship. — Trying To Be Fair Dear Trying: Of course some grandkids are easier to like than others, but that's why it is so important not to show your favoritism, whether it exists or not, particularly when the children are young. Even unpleasant, remote children need to believe their grandparents love them as much as their siblings and cousins.

Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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What is the safest way to wash old china?

Dear Heloise: I have a set of old china from my grandmother stamped “Made in Occupied Japan.” The pieces are from the World War II era.

Would they be able to go into the dishwasher if I decided to use them? I don’t know if I should use them for everyday dishes. However, since I have them, why not use them? — Debbie in California Good question! I have some, too, and I use them often. You should always hand-wash fine china, old dishes like yours and delicate pieces. Dishwashers pose many potential hazards to china, so it is best to avoid, if

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To hand-wash, place a towel in the sink to avoid mishaps, and use a soft sponge and mild detergent. Wash and rinse one dish at a time to avoid chipping. Make sure to dry with a dish towel rather than air-dry.

Enjoy that beautiful china, and use it often! — Heloise

FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Want some ways to reuse coffee-can lids?

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• As a coaster.

• Cover a cup to keep your coffee warm.

• Let kids decorate several and make a mobile.

• Place in between dishes to prevent scratching. — Heloise SOUND ON Dear Readers: Have you noticed that instead of metal lids that need to be opened with a can opener, more and more products are being made

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HOROSCOPE Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 A progressive individual who will become your friend in the year ahead is likely to be the catalyst that will help you trigger your imagination and seek success in a new area. Once you branch out, you’ll find the perfect career for yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you feel that it’s necessary for someone to be more assertive in making a group decision, step forward. There’s no need to be tentative — your judgment is good and you’ll make the right call.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Although most of your personal endeavors will easily be accomplished, you may have to put in some extra hours and/or resources on your work-related efforts in order to get what you want.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — If there is someone you recently met whom you find to be quite appealing, don’t keep Dan Cupid waiting in the wings. Instead, you should be the one who makes the first move.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve been lucky so far in that you’ve been getting away with neglecting a responsibility entrusted to you. Before the powers that be find out about it, you need to halt your procrastination and get crackin’.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — That restless spirit of yours won’t easily be appeased unless you use your time productively. Why not make efforts to acquire some new knowledge that you can use to enhance your skill set?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It isn’t likely to be easy for you to dismiss a certain commercial matter from your thoughts. In order to remove it from your mind, take care of it as soon as you can.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll have no trouble attracting others to your banner once they see how fervently you believe in your cause. Get on your soapbox and start proselytizing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Should you discover that an associate is doing a better job than you can do in a joint endeavor, don’t hesitate to relegate yourself to the sidelines and let him or her take the lead. Be a valuable backup.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — If you believe there is something that could be of mutual benefit to you and a partner, don’t allow too much time to go by without checking it out. It could be exactly what you both need.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — It’s imperative that you make all of your own major decisions instead of delegating any of them to others. A surrogate’s thinking might be inferior to yours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Sometimes it’s difficult to learn anything new from someone whose ideas parallel yours, but today could be an exception. It’s OK to stick with people who think as you do.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Instead of waiting for others to get things rolling, take the initiative and do so yourself. Once you do, the entire group will be glad you did, and will happily jump on board.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Monday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2012.

There are 308 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1942, the Battle of the Java Sea began during World War II; Imperial Japanese naval forces scored a decisive victory over the Allies.

On this date: • In 1911, inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrated his electric automobile starter in Detroit

by starting a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

• In 1912, author Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, was born in India.

• In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

• In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif.

(The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

• In 1991, President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.

• Today’s Birthdays: Actress Joanne Woodward is 82. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 78. Chelsea Clinton is 32. Singer Josh Groban is 31.

Actress Kate Mara is 29.

Plummer, Spencer win supporting-acting Oscars “You’re only two years older than me, darling,” Plummer said, addressing his Oscar statue in this 84th year of the awards. “Where have you been all my life? I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother’s womb, I was already rehearsing my Oscar speech.”

The previous oldest winner was best-actress recipient Jessica Tandy for “Driving Miss Daisy,” at age 80.

Completing an awardsseason blitz that took her from Hollywood bit player to star, Spencer won for her role as a headstrong black maid

whose willful ways continually land her in trouble with white employers in 1960s Mississippi.

Spencer wept throughout her breathless speech, in which she apologized between laughing and crying for running a bit long on her time limit.

“Thank you, academy, for putting me with the hottest guy in the room,” Spencer said, referring to last year’s supporting-actor winner Christian Bale, who presented her Oscar.

Her brash character holds a personal connection: “The Help” author Kathryn

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christopher Plummer became the oldest acting winner ever at Sunday’s Academy Awards for his supporting performance in “Beginners,” while veteran bit player Octavia Spencer earned the supportingactress prize for her breakout role in “The Help.”

The 82-year-old Plummer won for his role as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in “Beginners.”

Stockett based some of the woman’s traits on Spencer, whom she met through childhood pal Tate Taylor, the director of the film.

Before taking the stage, Spencer got kisses from “The Help” co-stars Viola Davis, a best-actress nominee, and Jessica Chastain, a fellow supporting nominee.

Martin Scorsese’s Paris adventure “Hugo” won five Oscars, including the first two prizes of the night, for cinematography and art direction. It also won for visual effects, sound mixing and sound editing.

It was a great start for Scorsese’s film, which led contenders with 11 nominations.

“Marty, you’re a genius as usual,” said “Hugo” cinematographer Robert Richardson, who won his third Oscar after previous wins for “JFK” and Scorsese’s “The Aviator.”

The visual-effects prize had been the last chance for the “Harry Potter” franchise to win an Oscar. The finale, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” had been nominated for visual effects and two other Oscars

but lost all three. Previous “Harry Potter” installments had lost on all nine of their nominations.

The teen wizard may never have struck Oscar gold, but he has a consolation prize: $7.7 billion at the box office worldwide, including $1.3 billion from “Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” last year’s top-grossing movie.

“And yet they only paid 14 percent income tax,” Oscar host Billy Crystal joked about the “Potter” franchise.

Another beloved bigscreen bunch, the Muppets, finally got their due at the Oscars. “The Muppets” earned the best-song award for “Man or Muppet,” the sweet comic duet sung by Jason Segel and his Muppet brother in the film, the first big-screen adventure in 12 years for Kermit the frog and company.

Earlier Muppet flicks had been nominated for four music Oscars but lost each time, including the song prize for “The Rainbow Connection,” Kermit’s signature tune from 1979’s “The Muppet Movie.”

“I grew up in New Zealand watching the Muppets on TV.

I never dreamed I’d get to work with them,” said “Man or Muppet” writer Bret McKenzie of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords,” who joked about meeting Kermit for the first time. “Like many stars here tonight, he’s a lot shorter in real life.”

Alexander Filmmaker Payne picked up his second writing Oscar, sharing the adapted-screenplay prize for the Hawaiian family drama “The Descendants” with cowriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Payne, who also directed “The Descendants,” previously won the same award for “Sideways.”

Woody Allen earned his first Oscar in 25 years, winning for original screenplay for the romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris,” his biggest hit in decades.

Michel Hazanavicius has won the Academy Award for directing for his silent film “The Artist.”

Claiming Hollywood’s topfilmmaking honor Sunday completes Hazanavicius’ sudden rise from popular moviemaker back home in France to internationally celebrated director.

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Octavia Spencer accepts the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for “The Help” during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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ATTN: BABY PAGES 224 S. Market St., Troy, OH 45373

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280 Transportation

305 Apartment

Fidelity Health Care, a leader among home health care agencies currently is seeking applicants who are interested in providing physical care, along with light housekeeping and meal preparation duties, for patients in their homes.

All shifts, including weekends are available for Private Duty. The successful candidate must have one year previous experience in home care, excellent customer service skills and reliable transportation. Positions are available in the Tipp City, Troy, Sidney and Greenville areas.

Fidelity Health Care offers a competitive pay rate with flexible hours. Qualified applicants may send a resume to: Fidelity Health Care 3832 Kettering Blvd.

Dayton, Oh 45439 Attention: Quin Bailey

305 Apartment

BEAUTIFUL, 2 bedroom apartment in Tipp City, wood floors, appliances, water, sewage, trash included, (937)238-2560, (937)778-1993

HOME CARE AIDE For Rent

305 Apartment

1,2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Troy and Piqua ranches and townhomes. Different floor plans to choose from. Garages, fireplaces, appliances including washer and dryers.

Corporate apartments available.

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PIQUA, large 1 bedroom, upstairs, with/ without w/d hookup, appliances, utilities included, no pets, (937)552-7006.

PIQUA, 2 Bedroom, second floor , 726 North Downing, No dogs. $375 + utilities. (937)657-8419

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

or you may fax a resume to (937) 208-6539 or send and email to QJBAILEY@MVH.ORG

Columbus, Ohio Office of Contracts Legal Copy Number: 120196 Sealed proposals will be accepted from pre-qualified bidders at the ODOT Office of Contracts until 10:00 a.m. on March 22, 2012. Project 120196 is located in Miami County, LR-CHARLESTON FALLS PRESERVE and is a PARKING AREAS project. The date set for completion for this work shall be as set forth in the bidding proposal. Plans and Specifications are on file in the Department of Transportation.

Member of Premier Health Partners EOE M/F/V/H

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DRIVERS 40 CPM

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Continental Express in Sidney, OH is accepting applications for CDLA drivers. Minimum 1 year OTR experience. Our drivers enjoy:

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4 weeks vacation/yr Home weekly Health/Dental/Vision Assigned Truck Direct Deposit $.40/mile

Mostly run in the Midwest and Southeast.

Call Continental Express 800/497-2100 or apply at www.ceioh.com

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PUBLIC HEARING APPLICATION FOR PLACEMENT OF FARM LAND IN AN AGRICULTURE DISTRICT A public hearing will be held by the Council of the City of Troy, Ohio on Monday, March 5, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, City Hall, on the application filed by EMARC AN OHIO LIMITED FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (Sheafer Family Partnership, Evelyn Sheafer, General Partner) for approval of placing 83.18 acres in an Agriculture District for taxing purposes. The property is parcel number D08-104384, located on Washington Road. This application has been filed in accordance with Chapter 929 of the Ohio Revised Code.

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TROY, 1 bedroom upstairs, older home, private entrance, stove, refrigerator and utilities included $495 a month.

(937)335-0791

1 & 2 Bedroom apts. $410 to $450 NO PETS

TROY, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, AC, 1 car garage, appliances, W/D hookup, $600/mo. (937)433-3428

Park Regency Apartments 1211 West Main (937)216-0398

FIRST MONTH FREE! 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms Call for availability attached garages Easy access to I-75 (937)335-6690

RIVER VIEW Downtown Troy, 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, kitchen, living room, utility room.

Includes stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer. Off street parking, no pets. $550 including utilities.

(937)418-2379

2 BEDROOM in Troy, Stove, refrigerator, W/D, A/C, very clean, cats ok. $525. (937)573-7908

305 Apartment

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DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

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SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

To Advertise In The Classifieds That Work Call 877-844-8385 925 Legal Notices PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby provided, that the West Milton Council intends to conduct a Special Meeting during the monthly workshop session, scheduled February 28th, 2012 at 7:00 p.m., for the purpose of adjourning into Executive Session to discuss a Personal Matter as requested by the Village Charter.

Linda L. Cantrell CAP-OM Clerk of Council 2/27/2012

TROY, 1 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 month.

TROY, 2 bedrooms, upstairs, all electric, stove and refrigerator.

Metro accepted. $490/month, deposit $300.

(937)339-7028

WEST MILTON Townhouse. 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. $495 month plus deposit (937)216-4233.

$200 Deposit Special!

(937)673-1821

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to the satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on March 14, 2012 On or after 9:00 am at the Extra Space Storage facility located at: EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, 21 Kings Chapel Drive North The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances.

Unit 2215 Joshua Jump 1243 Hilltop Circle Apt #1 Troy OH 45373 bed set, dresser

LEGAL NOTICE The Bank Of New York Mellon fka The Bank Of New York, As Trustee For The Certificateholders Of CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2005-3CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-3CB,

Unit 2315 Beth Weatherhead 2508 Newcastle Drive Troy OH 45373 boxes, toys

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Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. Auctioneer Joseph C. Tate as executive administrator.

Michael C Brokschmidt, et al.

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The Defendants, Michael C Brokschmidt, Unknown Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Executors, Administrators and Assigns and their Spouses, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, and Unknown Spouse, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, but whose current address are unknown, will take notice that on January 18, 2012, the Plaintiff, The Bank Of New York Mellon fka The Bank Of New York, As Trustee For The Certificateholders Of CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2005-3CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-3CB, filed its Complaint in Case No. 12CV40, in the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, seeking a foreclosure of its mortgage interest in the real property located at 319 North Jay Street, West Milton, OH 45383, Permanent Parcel No. L39002910,("Real Estate"), and alleged that the Defendants, have or may have an interest in this Real Estate.

The Defendants, Michael C Brokschmidt, Unknown Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Executors, Administrators and Assigns and their Spouses, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, and Unknown Spouse, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, are required to answer the Plaintiff's Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last date of publication of this notice. In the event that the Defendants, Michael C Brokschmidt, Unknown Heirs, Legatees, Devisees, Executors, Administrators and Assigns and their Spouses, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, and Unknown Spouse, if any, of Michael C Brokschmidt, failed to respond in the allotted time, judgment by default can be entered against them for the relief requested in the Plaintiff`s Complaint.

Council of the City of Troy, Ohio Sue G. Knight Clerk of Council

Matthew C. Gladwell (0075591) Carrie L. Rouse (0083281) Ryan F. Hemmerle (0079721) Michael J. Lubes (0077672) Attorney for Plaintiff Reisenfeld & Associates, LPA LLC 3962 Red Bank Road Cincinnati, OH 45227 voice: (513) 322-7000 facsimile: (513) 322-7099

2/27/2012

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO CIVIL DIVISION Case No.: 11-269 Judge: Robert J. Lindeman Kimberly Arnold Plaintiff, -vsSamantha E. Koverman, et al Defendants.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION TO: Defendant, Samantha E. Koverman, whose last known address is 701 S. Stanfield Road, Apt. 187, Troy, Ohio, otherwise the place of residence being unknown, will take notice that on April 14th, 2011, Plaintiff Kimberly Arnold, filed a Complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, alleging that Defendant negligently operated her motor vehicle in violation of O.R.C. 4511.21A resulting in serious injury to Plaintiff Kimberly Arnold.

Plaintiffs demand judgment against the Defendant in a sum in excess of $50,000.00, plus interest and costs.

The Defendant named above is required to answer on or before the expiration of twenty-eight days after the last publication of this notice, which date will be April 4th, 2012.

Respectfully submitted, Thomas W. Kerrigan, II (0011848) Kerrigan, Boller, Beigel & Schneble Co., L.P.A. 126 N. Main Ave., P.O. Box 987 Sidney, Ohio 45365-0987 Telephone: (937) 492-6125 Facsimile: (937) 492-2532 E-mail: tkerriganii-kbsg@ woh.rr.com Attorney for Plaintiff 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5-2012

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800 - Transportation

320 Houses for Rent

510 Appliances

583 Pets and Supplies

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 3214 Magnolia. $1000 a month plus deposit.

(937)339-1339

CHEST FREEZER, small Estate by Whirlpool $75 (937)335-1073

LAB PUPPIES, First shots/ wormed. Friendly, ADORABLE! Black and yellow left. Going fast!

Call/ text/ email. $100 blankenship.erin@ y m a i l . c o m .

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NICE 3 BEDROOM 1.5 bath, 1 car garage, C/A, Candlewood, $650 month, deposit. Available March 1st. (937)615-0402

545 Firewood/Fuel FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, (937)844-3756.

FREE FIREWOOD, Pine.

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577 Miscellaneous

TROY, 1/2 double, 2 bedroom, garage, C/A, nice.

All appliances, washer and dryer. $650 plus deposit.

No Metro (937)339-2266

KITCHEN CABINETS and vanities, new, oak and maple finish. All sizes, below retail value.

(330)524-3984

TROY, 1/2 double, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, C/A, 1900 sq. ft. Refrigerator and stove included. pets negotiable. $650 plus deposit. Two story, vinyl. c g r e e n @ w o h . r r. c o m .

(937)216-1794.

SHOES, SAS dress shoes size 10m new, New Balance shoes like new size 10m, Copier, used 1 year, call (937)492-2844 after 5pm

TROY 1309 W. Main Street. 3 bedroom, 1 bath, large yard. No pets. $550 (937)440-6868

VASE, hand painted antique, 15" tall, SMF68 Germany 68, large gilt, antique frame and paperweights. (937)335-6993

583 Pets and Supplies

330 Office Space DOWNTOWN, TROY Executive Suite. Utilities, kitchenette, included.

Nice (937)552-2636

500 - Merchandise

AUSTRILIAN SHEPHERD puppies, 8 weeks old. Tails docked, vet checked, shots.

Blue Merles, Red Merles and Tris. (937)726-6289 or (937)693-1515 MIXED BASSET Puppies, 2 males, 3 females, call (937)498-9973 or (937)638-1321

586 Sports and Recreation CCW CLASS March 24th 8:00am - 4:00pm & March 25th 8:00am-12:00. Piqua Fish & Game $60 parthelynx@aol.com (937)760-4210

805 Auto 2000 JEEP Grand Cherokee, white with black leather interior, loaded, good condition. $3795 (937)287-4374

TICKETS, Bristol Race, 4 sets. Each set includes 1 Nationwide March 17th, $30. 1 Food City March 18th, $60. (937)492-0804

592 Wanted to Buy

890 Trucks

BUYING: 1 piece or entire estates: Vintage costume or real jewelry, toys, pottery, glass, advertisements.

Call Melisa (419)860-3983 or (937)710-4603.

2007 FORD F-150 4x4 dark green with grey interior, 30,000 miles. 4x4, 5.4 TRITON, gas, automatic, loaded inside and out.

Chrome running boards, bedliner, chrome wheels, trailer hitch, power windows and seats, nice stereo, bench seat second row. Remote keyless entry plus touchpad, cruise, much more. $22,500. (937)394-2999 marigney@yahoo.com.

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2006 HARLEY DAVIDSON XL1200C SPORTSTER Vance Hines, Shortshots, Staggered, H-D bike cover, 19,250 miles, Tons of chrome!

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2001 ROCKWOOD 5TH WHEEL 25 feet, sleeps 6. 1/2 ton towable, one slide out.

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(937)658-2434

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TODAY’S TIPS

CONTACT US ■ Sports Editor Josh Brown (937) 440-5231, (937) 440-5232 jbrown@tdnpublishing.com

JOSH BROWN

February 27, 2012

■ College Basketball

■ Golf

• BASKETBALL: There will be a girls AAU basketball tryout Sunday.

Visit www.miamivalleyhawks.com for more information.

• SOCCER: Registrations are now being accepted for the Youth Indoor Soccer League held at Hobart Arena.

The program is for ages 4-8, begins in early April and runs through mid-May. Register online at www.hobartarena.com on the “Registrations” page. For more information, call the Recreation Department at 339-5145.

• SOFTBALL: Registrations are now being taken for the Troy Recreation Department Girls Youth Softball program. This program is for girls currently in grades first through eighth.You may register online at: http://troyohio.gov/rec/ProgramRegFor ms.html. Contact the recreation department at 339-5145 for more information.

• HOCKEY: Registrations are now being taken for the Troy Recreation Department Introduction to Youth Hockey program. The three-week instructional program for those who have never played in an organized hockey program before is for the beginning hockey player ages 5-10.

Dates are March 14, 21 and 28.

Rental equipment is available through the Junior Hockey Parents’ Association.

Contact the Recreation Department at 339-5145 for more information, or register online at http://hobartarena.com/registration_hobart_arena.html.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@tdnpublishing.com.

AP PHOTO

Hunter Mahan hits off the eighth fairway against Rory McIlroy in the final round of the Match Play Championship golf tournament Sunday in Marana, Ariz.

Mahan beats McIlroy Wins the Match Play championship

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY No events scheduled TUESDAY Boys Basketball Division IV Troy Sectional Troy Christian vs. Arcanum (6:30 p.m.)

Division IV Piqua Sectional Lehman vs. Houston (6:30 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY Boys Basketball Division I Trotwood Sectional Troy vs. Fairborn (8 p.m.)

Division II Springfield Sectional Tippecanoe vs. Graham (6:30 p.m.)

Division III Tippecanoe Sectional Miami East vs. Stivers (6:30 p.m.)

Bethel vs. Greeneview (8 p.m.)

Division IV Piqua Sectional Bradford vs. Jackson Center (6:30 p.m.)

THURSDAY Division III State Troy Christian, Miami East, Covington, (TBA)

WHAT’S INSIDE Scoreboard ............................15 Television Schedule..............15 National Hockey League ......16 NBA......................................16 Major League Baseball.........16

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Wisconsin’s Jared Berggren, left, drives the baseline as Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger defends during the first half Sunday in Columbus.

Badgers get even No. 16 Wisconsin beats No. 8 Ohio State, 63-60 COLUMBUS (AP) — A lot of coaches would go ballistic if their 6-foot-10 center stepped outside and took a 3 with the clock running down and their team behind on the road.

Not Bo Ryan, however.

Berggren scored Jared Wisconsin’s final five points — including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds left — and the 16th-ranked Badgers beat No. 8 Ohio State 63-60 on Sunday, assuring Michigan State of at least a share of the Big Ten title.

“Wasn’t that huge?” Ryan

gushed later. “Give the kid a lot of credit. He’s done that before.”

In Ryan’s offense, the big men have to carry their share of the load at the offensive end and that doesn’t necessarily mean with their backs to the basket down on the block. The Badgers have a history of big men who aren’t afraid to step outside and take aim.

“We always — if we have an open look — we have to be aggressive,” said Berggren, who finished with 18 points. “They’re a good defensive team so you

know open looks can be hard to come by. So when we get an opportunity like that, you have to step up with confidence.

Jordan (Taylor) found me on the wing and I had a little space. I just stepped up and knocked it down.”

It was a huge win for the Badgers (21-8, 10-6), who were discouraged after losing at Iowa on Thursday night. Wisconsin had not beaten a top-10 team on the road since topping No. 4 Ohio State 72-71 on Jan. 26,

■ See BUCKEYES on 16

MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Hunter Mahan stopped Rory McIlroy’s march to No. 1 by winning the Match Play Championship on Sunday.

Mahan won four holes in a five-hole stretch starting with a 9-iron to 2 feet on the sixth hole, building a 4-up lead through 10 holes. Even as McIlroy threw his best stuff at him on the back nine, Mahan responded with two clutch birdies to stay in control.

Mahan won, 2 and 1, to capture his second World Golf Championship title.

“He’s the best player in the world right now,” Mahan said. “I knew he’d made a charge, and he did.”

McIlroy defeated Lee Westwood in the semifinals Sunday morning, a high-stakes match because if either of them won the Match Play Championship, they would replace Luke Donald atop the world ranking.

Mahan made sure that didn’t happen this week.

He played 96 holes in his six matches and had 35 birdies on his scorecards. Mahan defeated Mark Wilson in his semifinal match Wilson was his only opponent all week who had not played in a Ryder Cup or a Presidents Cup.

■ Auto Racing

Daytona 500 postponed to Monday

Reds ready to make run in 2012 Reclining in his office before the Reds’ morning workouts, Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker gnawed on one of his trademark toothpicks and pulled a pair of redand-white No. 12 wristbands over his forearms, looking much the way he did when he played.

Baker was relaxed, confident. Didn’t seem to have a care in the world.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR postponed the Daytona 500 because of rain, the first time in the 54-year history of the event that it has been delayed a day.

Heavy rain soaked Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, and NASCAR never had a big enough window to dry the track.

Rain saturated the famed speedway, sending fans scattering for cover and leaving everyone in wait-and-see mode.

Puddles of water formed in parts of the infield, and many fans got drenched as they tried to make the best of a less-than-ideal situation.

The 500-mile race was rescheduled for noon Monday. It will be aired on Fox. Carl Edwards, runner-up to Tony Stewart in last year’s championship race, will start from the pole. Former IndyCar

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Race cars are parked and covered on pit road during a rain delay before the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday. star Danica Patrick will make her Daytona 500 debut.

The last shortened Daytona 500 was Matt Kenseth’s 2009 victory, when rain stopped the event 48 laps from the finish. He

was declared the winner while the cars were parked on pit road.

The 2010 race had more than two hours in delays as NASCAR twice stopped the event to fix a

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Jamie McMurray held off Earnhardt Jr. to win that race.

This time around, drivers retreated to their motorhomes, relaxing while keeping an eye on developments. Former Daytona 500 winners Jamie McMurray and Trevor Bayne did in-studio interviews with Fox. “Obviously, you want to go race,” driver AJ Allmendinger said. “We get to race when we race. I know it (stinks) for the people sitting out there because they’ve got to sit in the rain. But for us, we go in here and we have push-up contests, we eat a lot of food and we have a good time.”

Now, NASCAR fans will have to wait an extra day for the sport’s most prestigious event.

This one comes with several intriguing story lines for a racing series trying to capitalize on the success of last season’s captivating championship race.

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L 20 14 .588 — Philadelphia 17 18 .486 3½ New York 15 17 .469 4 Boston 10 23 .303 9½ Toronto 10 25 .286 10½ New Jersey Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 27 7 .794 — 22 13 .629 5½ Orlando 20 14 .588 7 Atlanta 7 26 .212 19½ Washington 4 28 .125 22 Charlotte Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 27 8 .771 — Indiana 21 12 .636 5 Cleveland 13 18 .419 12 13 20 .394 13 Milwaukee 11 24 .314 16 Detroit WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB W L 23 10 .697 — San Antonio Dallas 21 13 .618 2½ Houston 20 14 .588 3½ Memphis 19 15 .559 4½ 8 25 .242 15 New Orleans Northwest Division Pct GB W L Oklahoma City 26 7 .788 — 18 16 .529 8½ Portland Denver 18 16 .529 8½ Minnesota 17 17 .500 9½ Utah 15 17 .469 10½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB 20 11 .645 — L.A. Clippers 20 13 .606 1 L.A. Lakers 13 17 .433 6½ Golden State 14 20 .412 7½ Phoenix 11 22 .333 10 Sacramento Saturday's Games No games scheduled Monday's Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Houston, 8 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

This Week's Top 25 Fared Sunday 1. Kentucky (28-1) beat Mississippi State 73-64; beat Vanderbilt 83-74.

2. Syracuse (29-1) beat South Florida 56-48; beat UConn 71-69.

3. Missouri (25-4) lost to Kansas State 78-68; lost to No. 4 Kansas 8786, OT. 4. Kansas (24-5) beat Texas A&M 66-58; beat No. 3 Missouri 87-86, OT. 5. Duke (25-4) beat No. 15 Florida State 74-66; beat Virginia Tech 70-65, OT. 6. Michigan State (24-5) beat Minnesota 66-61; beat Nebraska 6234.

7. North Carolina (25-4) beat N.C. State 86-74; beat No. 25 Virginia 54-51.

8. Ohio State (23-6) beat Illinois 8367; lost to No. 16 Wisconsin 63-60.

9. Georgetown (21-6) lost to Seton Hall 73-55; beat Villanova 67-46.

10. Marquette (24-5) beat Rutgers 82-65; beat West Virginia 61-60.

11.

Michigan (21-8) beat Northwestern 67-55, OT; lost to Purdue 75-61.

12. Florida (22-7) beat Auburn 63-47; lost to Georgia 76-62.

13. Baylor (24-5) beat Texas 77-72; beat Oklahoma 70-60.

14. Murray State (28-1) beat Tennessee State 80-62; beat Tennessee Tech 69-64.

15. Florida State (19-9) lost to No. 5 Duke 74-66; lost to Miami 78-62.

16. Wisconsin (21-8) lost to Iowa 6766; beat No. 8 Ohio State 63-60.

17. Louisville (22-7) lost to Cincinnati 60-56; beat Pittsburgh 57-54.

18. New Mexico (22-6) lost to Colorado State 71-63; lost to TCU 8364.

19. Wichita State (26-4) beat Illinois State 68-55; beat Drake 81-58.

20. Notre Dame (20-9) beat West Virginia 71-44; lost to St. John's 61-58.

21. UNLV (24-6) beat Boise State 7558; beat Air Force 68-58.

22. Temple (22-6) beat La Salle 8079, OT; lost to Saint Joseph's 82-72.

23. Indiana (22-7) beat N.C. Central 75-56; beat Minnesota 69-50.

24. San Diego State (22-6) beat Wyoming 67-58, OT; beat Colorado State 74-66.

25. Virginia (21-7) beat Virginia Tech 61-59; lost to No. 7 North Carolina 5451.

Women's Top 25 Fared Sunday 1. Baylor (29-0) did not play. Next: at No. 14 Texas A&M, Monday.

2. Stanford (26-1) did not play. Next: vs. Seattle, Wednesday.

3. Notre Dame (27-2) did not play.

Next: at No. 4 UConn, Monday.

4. UConn (26-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 3 Notre Dame, Monday.

5. Miami (25-4) vs. Boston College 88-42. Next: vs. Wake Forest or Virginia Tech, Friday.

6. Maryland (25-4) beat N.C. State 65-50. Next: vs. Virginia or Boston College, Friday.

7. Duke (24-4) beat North Carolina 69-63. Next: vs. Florida State or N.C. State, Friday.

8. Ohio State (24-5) lost to No. 23 Nebraska 71-57. Next: vs. Michigan or Illinois, Friday.

9.

Delaware (26-1) beat Northeastern 89-71. Next: at William & Mary, Wednesday.

10. Tennessee (21-8) beat Florida 75-59. Next: vs. Vanderbilt or Mississippi State, Friday.

11. Penn State (23-5) beat Minnesota 74-51. Next: vs. Minnesota or Wisconsin, Friday.

12. Green Bay (25-1) did not play.

Next: at Loyola of Chicago, Wednesday.

13. Kentucky (24-5) beat Mississippi State 76-40. Next: vs. Florida or Auburn, Friday.

14. Texas A&M (20-7) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 1 Baylor, Monday.

15. Georgetown (22-6) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 20 St. John's, Monday.

16. Louisville (20-8) did not play.

Next: at Seton Hall, Monday.

17. Georgia Tech (22-7) beat Clemson 62-50. Next: vs. North Carolina or Clemson, Friday.

18. Georgia (22-7) beat LSU 62-46.

Next: vs. South Carolina or Alabama, Friday.

19. St. Bonaventure (27-2) did not play. Next: vs. La Salle or Xavier, Saturday.

20. St. John's (20-8) did not play.

Next: at No. 15 Georgetown, Monday.

21. DePaul (20-9) did not play. Next: vs. Cincinnati, Monday.

22. Purdue (21-8) beat Indiana 9058. Next: vs. Michigan State or Indiana, Friday.

23. Nebraska (21-7) beat No. 8 Ohio State 71-57. Next: vs. Northwestern, Thursday.

24. Rutgers (20-8) did not play. Next: vs. Marquette, Monday.

25. Gonzaga (25-4) did not play.

Next: WCC semifinals, Saturday.

GOLF WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Results Sunday At Dove Mountain, The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Marana, Ariz.

Yardage: 7,791; Par: 72 Seeds in parentheses Championship Hunter Mahan (21), United States, def. Rory McIlroy (2), Northern Ireland, 2 and 1.

Third Place Mark Wilson (40), United States, def.

Lee Westwood (3), England, 1 up.

Semifinals Mahan def. Mark Wilson, 2 and 1.

McIlroy def. Westwood, 3 and 1.

Match Play Glance Championship match: Hunter Mahan def. Rory McIlroy, 2 and 1.

Third-place match: Mark Wilson def. Lee Westwood, 1 up.

Morning semifinals: Mahan def.

Wilson, 2 and 1; McIlroy def.

Westwood, 3 and 1.

Shot of the day: Mahan hit a 9-iron to 2 feet on the 158-yard sixth in the championship match. He took the lead with the birdie and won the next two holes.

Hunter's path: Mahan beat Zach Johnson (19 holes) in the first round, Y.E. Yang (5 and 3) in the second, Steve Stricker (4 and 3) in the third, and Matt Kuchar (6 and 5) in the quarterfinals.

Top spot: Luke Donald remained No. 1 in the world ranking when Mahan beat McIlroy. McIlroy and Westwood were in position to take the top spot with a tournament victory.

Key stat: Mahan made 35 birdies in 96 holes.

Quoteworthy: "I played well from tee to green, putting to chipping to driving, irons, everything was there. I needed everything to win." — Mahan.

Mayakoba Golf Classic Scores Sunday At Mayakoba Resort, El Camaleon Golf Club Playa del Carmen, Mexico Purse: $3.7 million Yardage: 6,987; Par: 71 (x-won on 8th playoff hole) Final Round x-J. Huh (250), $666,000......67-70-71-63—271 R. Allenby (150), $399,600...69-67-70-65—271 Matt Every (83), $214,600....67-71-69-66—273 Colt Knost (83), $214,600 ....69-71-67-66—273 A. Canizares, $129,963 ........67-72-69-66—274 Dicky Pride (48), $129,963...68-72-68-66—274 Chris Stroud (48), $129,963.69-66-68-71—274 Summerhays (48), $129,96369-65-67-73—274 Michael Allen (38), $99,900..68-71-66-71—276 Will Claxton (38), $99,900....66-68-71-71—276 J.J. Henry (38), $99,900 .......72-69-68-67—276 Briny Baird (30), $74,925......71-69-67-70—277 Rich Beem (30), $74,925 .....70-71-69-67—277 Johnson (30), $74,925..........70-66-72-69—277 Billy Mayfair (30), $74,925....70-68-70-69—277 S. Ames (25), $46,990..........69-70-70-69—278 M. Anderson (25), $46,990...67-72-73-66—278 C. Howell III (25), $46,990 ....67-71-69-71—278 Tom Lehman (25), $46,990..70-72-70-66—278 S.Yul Noh (25), $46,990........68-70-73-67—278 Greg Owen (25), $46,990 ....67-67-73-71—278 Tim Petrovic (25), $46,990 ...72-72-66-68—278 Kevin Stadler (25), $46,990..68-68-72-70—278 Vaughn Taylor (25), $46,990.71-69-72-66—278 Marc Turnesa (25), $46,990 .67-72-67-72—278 M. Bettencourt (22), $27,93569-72-72-66—279 C. Campbell (22), $27,935....70-71-71-67—279 Brian Harman (22), $27,935 71-71-65-72—279 William McGirt (22), $27,93569-72-73-65—279 Billy Horschel (20), $23,495 .69-72-70-69—280 S. Kang (20), $23,495...........68-76-69-67—280 Russell Knox (20), $23,495..74-67-68-71—280 J.Wagner (20), $23,495 .......73-70-71-66—280 Spencer Levin (18), $19,98073-71-69-68—281 P. Sheehan (18), $19,980 .....70-73-71-67—281 Esteban Toledo, $19,980 ......72-69-71-69—281 Craig Barlow (15), $15,170 ..71-68-71-72—282 Nathan Green (15), $15,17073-69-68-72—282 Hunter Haas (15), $15,170...68-75-71-68—282 Troy Kelly (15), $15,170........72-73-68-69—282 Jarrod Lyle (15), $15,170......73-69-71-69—282 John Merrick (15), $15,170 ..71-67-74-70—282 Heath Slocum (15), $15,17073-71-69-69—282 S.Wheatcroft (15), $15,170..75-70-70-67—282 Garrett Willis (15), $15,170...70-72-69-71—282 Martin Flores (12), $10,779..77-67-73-66—283 Billy Hurley III (12), $10,779.73-71-69-70—283 M.Thompson (12), $10,779.72-72-71-68—283 Gary Christian (10), $9,040..73-70-73-68—284 David Hearn (10), $9,040.....68-73-77-66—284 Fred Funk (10), $9,040.........73-71-72-68—284 Skip Kendall (10), $9,040 .....71-72-70-71—284 Will MacKenzie (10), $9,040 72-73-69-70—284 Chris Riley (10), $9,040........73-72-70-69—284 Erik Compton (7), $8,362.....71-69-76-69—285 Brian Gay (7), $8,362 ...........72-68-74-71—285 Tim Herron (7), $8,362 .........70-74-70-71—285 John Peterson, $8,362..........73-72-72-68—285 J. Jesus Rodriguez, $8,362..71-73-70-71—285 Brandt Jobe (5), $8,066........74-70-72-70—286 Jerry Kelly (5), $8,066...........73-71-72-70—286 Josh Teater (5), $8,066.........68-75-71-72—286 C. Beckman (3), $7,733........72-71-71-74—288 Gavin Coles (3), $7,733........71-71-76-70—288 Robert Damron (3), $7,733..73-72-71-72—288 Edward Loar (3), $7,733.......69-74-68-77—288 J. Olazabal (3), $7,733..........72-72-74-70—288 Brett Wetterich (3), $7,733....71-72-73-72—288 Charley Hoffman (1), $7,43775-70-72-72—289 Paul Stankowski (1), $7,437.72-70-74-73—289 Charlie Beljan, $7,289 ..........73-67-79-71—290 HSBC Champions Scores Sunday At Tenah Marah Country Club Singapore Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,547; Par: 72 Final x-won on third playoff hole x-A. Stanford, $210,000...66-70-71-71—278 Na Yeon Choi, $102,564..68-71-71-68—278 S. Feng, $102,564 ...........69-71-69-69—278 Jenny Shin, $102,564......69-67-71-71—278 Yani Tseng, $60,780........71-72-67-69—279 Ai Miyazato, $45,677.......69-70-73-69—281 I.K. Kim, $45,677..............68-72-71-70—281 Vicky Hurst, $33,030 .......69-73-71-69—282 Hee Young Park, $33,03071-68-73-70—282 Jiyai Shin, $33,030 ..........70-70-70-72—282 So Yeon Ryu, $26,705.....68-73-71-71—283

SCOREBOARD

Scores AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ESPN — Notre Dame at Georgetown 7 p.m.

ESPN — Kansas at Oklahoma St. 9 p.m.

NHL NBCSN — New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers 7:30 p.m.

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ESPN2 — Baylor at Texas A&M 7 p.m.

ESPN2 — Notre Dame at UConn Katie Futcher, $26,705 ....69-67-71-76—283 Momoko Ueda, $23,427..68-75-72-69—284 Sun Young Yoo, $23,427..70-70-73-71—284 Karen Stupples, $20,235.72-72-72-69—285 Sandra Gal, $20,235 .......72-71-71-71—285 Ji-Hee Lee, $20,235........71-69-73-72—285 Julieta Granada, $16,37670-73-74-69—286 Chella Choi, $16,376.......72-70-74-70—286 C. Matthew, $16,376........74-70-72-70—286 Se Ri Pak, $16,376..........72-72-72-70—286 AmyYang, $16,376..........68-75-73-70—286 Stacy Lewis, $16,376 ......71-75-68-72—286 Azahara Munoz, $16,37670-70-74-72—286 S.Pettersen, $13,040.......73-69-78-67—287 Morgan Pressel, $13,04074-72-71-70—287 Karrie Webb, $13,040......72-72-73-70—287 Maria Hjorth, $13,040......73-74-69-71—287 Inbee Park, $13,040 ........70-72-72-73—287 K.McPherson, $11,567....69-75-73-71—288 A.Blumenherst, $10,461..73-74-72-70—289 Jimin Kang, $10,461........71-75-71-72—289 Brittany Lang, $10,461....72-70-73-74—289 Anna Nordqvist, $10,461 71-72-71-75—289 Cristie Kerr, $8,878..........69-74-77-70—290 Meena Lee, $8,878 .........72-74-73-71—290 Amy Hung, $8,878...........72-74-70-74—290 Mika Miyazato, $8,878.....72-70-71-77—290 B. Lincicome, $7,662 .......71-74-76-70—291 Natalie Gulbis, $7,662.....78-71-71-71—291 Candie Kung, $7,662.......74-74-72-71—291 Beatriz Recari, $6,925.....74-73-71-74—292 S. Gustafson, $6,925.......72-72-73-75—292 Christel Boeljon, $6,483..73-75-72-73—293 Melissa Reid, $6,262.......75-72-74-73—294 Katherine Hull, $6,041.....74-72-77-72—295 Ryann O'Toole, $5,599....74-79-71-72—296 P.Phatlum, $5,599............71-75-78-72—296 Hee-Won Han, $5,599 ....70-76-75-75—296 Hee Kyung Seo, $5,083..74-76-73-74—297 Wendy Ward, $5,083.......74-72-75-76—297 Mindy Kim, $4,862...........73-77-75-73—298 Laura Davies, $4,714 ......72-72-75-80—299 Eun-Hee Ji, $4,568..........72-77-77-74—300 Tiffany Joh, $4,420 ..........79-71-75-76—301 Paige Mackenzie, $4,27277-76-75-75—303 Christina Kim, $4,126......81-81-71-71—304 Mina Harigae, $3,978......77-76-77-78—308 Michelle Wie, $3,832 .......79-81-75-75—310

AUTO RACING Daytona 500 Lineup After Thursday qualifying; race Monday at noon At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 194.738.

2. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 194.087.

3. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 193.607.

4. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 193.245.

5. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 194.028.

6. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 191.063.

7. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 193.999.

8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.449.

9. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 192.777.

10. (33) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 191.27.

11. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 190.99.

12. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 192.868.

13. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 192.914.

14. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 191.873.

15. (22) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 193.121.

16. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 193.803.

17. (7) Robby Gordon, Dodge, 188.229.

18. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 193.224.

19. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 191.84.

20. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 192.583.

21. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 193.665.

22. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 193.503.

23. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 192.992.

24. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 191.506.

25. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 193.249.

26. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 193.665.

27. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.382.

28. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 191.363.

29. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 191.738.

30. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota.

31. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 191.127.

32. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 190.022.

33. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 190.046.

34. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 191.16.

35. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 192.6.

36. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 193.844.

37. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 193.374.

38. (93) David Reutimann, Toyota, 189.235.

39. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 190.605.

40. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 193.615.

41. (26) Tony Raines, Ford, 192.534.

42. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 191.963.

43. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, Past Champion.

Failed to Qualify 44. (40) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 191.18.

45. (23) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota, 188.438.

46. (97) Bill Elliott, Toyota, 189.95.

47. (37) Mike Wallace, Ford, 189.853.

48. (09) Kenny Wallace, Toyota, 191.567.

49. (49) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 187.954.

HOCKEY National Hockey League All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 60 39 15 6 84167124 Pittsburgh 62 36 21 5 77198163 Philadelphia 61 34 20 7 75203187 New Jersey 61 35 22 4 74172168 N.Y. Islanders 62 26 28 8 60146184 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 60 37 20 3 77200139 Ottawa 64 33 23 8 74198192 Toronto 62 29 26 7 65184190 Buffalo 62 27 27 8 62154180 Montreal 63 24 29 10 58163175 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 61 29 20 12 70153169 Winnipeg 64 30 26 8 68163181 Washington 62 31 26 5 67169176 Tampa Bay 62 28 28 6 62174212 62 23 26 13 59162187 Carolina WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 63 41 19 3 85197149 62 38 17 7 83158125 St. Louis 62 36 19 7 79176160 Nashville 63 33 23 7 73192186 Chicago Columbus 62 18 37 7 43144207 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 63 40 16 7 87203154 63 32 27 4 68164172 Colorado 62 28 23 11 67150170 Calgary Minnesota 62 28 25 9 65139163 Edmonton 61 24 31 6 54162181 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 62 32 21 9 73164155 Phoenix 61 32 22 7 71177159 San Jose 63 33 26 4 70165171 Dallas Los Angeles 62 28 22 12 68133135 61 26 25 10 62157173 Anaheim NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday's Games Anaheim 3, Carolina 2, SO Minnesota 3, Florida 2, SO Vancouver 4, Detroit 3, SO St. Louis 3, Nashville 2, SO Phoenix 4, Calgary 3, SO San Jose 2, Toronto 1 Winnipeg 4, Tampa Bay 3 Dallas 3, Chicago 1 Edmonton 2, Philadelphia 0 Saturday's Games St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2, SO Florida 3, Carolina 2, SO Philadelphia 5, Calgary 4, SO Pittsburgh 8, Tampa Bay 1 Phoenix 3, Edmonton 1 Washington 4, Toronto 2 Boston 5, Ottawa 3 N.Y. Rangers 3, Buffalo 2, OT Colorado 4, Detroit 3 Los Angeles 4, Chicago 0 Nashville 6, San Jose 2 Sunday's Games Tampa Bay 4, New Jersey 3 Pittsburgh 4, Columbus 2 Dallas 3, Vancouver 2, OT Ottawa 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 4, Montreal 2 Minnesota 4, San Jose 3 Chicago 3, Anaheim 1.

Monday's Games New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Colorado, 9 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Tuesday's Games Ottawa at Boston, 7 p.m.

Florida at Toronto, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Sunday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES_Assigned OF Chris Dickerson outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

National League W A S H I N G T O N NATIONALS_Agreed to terms with 3B Ryan Zimmerman on an eight-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS_Assigned D Andrew Bodnarchuk and F Josh Hennessy to Providence (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES_Assigned C Alexandre Bolduc and D David Rundblad to Portland (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES_Traded G Ben Bishop to Ottawa for a 2013 secondround draft pick.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING_Recalled D Evan Oberg from Norfolk (AHL).

W A S H I N G T O N CAPITALS_Assigned F Keith Aucoin to Hershe (AHL).

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE_Reassigned F Joe Devin to Cincinnati (ECHL).

COLLEGE MIAMI_Declared basketball C Reggie Johnson ineligible after an investigation revealed that members of his family took impermissible travel benefits.

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Blackmon brings intriguing skill set to NFL draft INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Justin Blackmon has a tough job trying to be himself.

Everyone else wants to think of him as the next Calvin Johnson, Dez Bryant or Terrell Owens. Some even want to know if the No. 1 receiver in this year’s draft might be as polished as A.J. Green and Julio Jones were in their rookie seasons.

To Blackmon, the comparisons don’t mean a thing. What he wants to do is develop his own style on the field.

“I’m me. I’m not going to try to be anybody but me,” Blackmon said during this week’s annual NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. “I’m going to tell them what I’ve got to offer and see what they’ve got to say about it.”

The Oklahoma State receiver possesses a tantalizing combination of size, speed and skill.

Blackmon, a two-time All-American and twotime Biletnikoff Award winner as the nation’s top receiver, needed only three seasons to break the school’s career records for receptions and yards receiving.

His next goal is running a 4.2 in the 40-yard dash, though even he admits that it’s more likely he’ll be clocked at 4.4 or 4.5.

The only glaring blemish on an otherwise impeccable resume is Blackmon’s size. He measured in at 6-feet, 207 pounds in Indianapolis, slightly smaller than last year’s listed size of 6-1, 215, though that’s still big enough to be the playmaking receiver everyone expects him to be.

“They could get a guy who would go out there and compete and fight

every play and be a good team player,” Blackmon said when asked specifically about going to the Rams in April’s draft.

“Someone talks to me, I will probably talk back.

I’m one of those guys that likes to get everybody going.”

Blackmon doesn’t plan to run during Sunday’s workout at Lucas Oil Stadium after hurting his hamstring last week, and though he will participate in some other drills, he’s not planning to do much.

His decision still isn’t likely to affect his draft stock despite being surrounded by a talented class of receivers.

Michael Floyd caught 100 passes for Notre Dame last season. South Carolina’s Alshon Jeffery has lots of potential and prototypical size at 6-2 1/2 and even showed up at the combine 16 pounds lighter than last year’s playing weight (232). Baylor’s Kendall Wright doesn’t possess the size of Blackmon, Floyd or Jeffery, but he does have top-end speed, a 42-inch vertical jump, a basketball pedigree and experience in the slot.

All could go in the first round.

“I’ve been running routes for a long time,” Wright said. “Sunday will tell a lot. I’m waiting for Sunday to get out there and show what I can do.”

Blackmon offers a different kind of combination, though.

Some believe he can be as physical a receiver as Johnson, the Lions’ star wideout, or as good a route-runner as Owens was in his prime. Others see the obvious connection between Blackmon and Bryant, who are former college teammates.

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SEC defenders renewing rivalry at NFL combine INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The LSU-Alabama rivalry didn’t end in New Orleans. It moved to Indianapolis.

After playing twice for the No. 1 ranking last season, repeatedly being dubbed college football’s two best defenses and eventually settling the national championship between them, the top defensive players from those teams are ready to start Round 3 at the NFL scouting combine.

“Right now, it’s just mental, but when we get back on the field, it’s going to be just like the way it was,” Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpartick said Sunday with a smile.

Scouts couldn’t ask for a better scenario.

Players from both teams are out to impress team executives, hoping to improve their draft stock.

The stakes couldn’t be higher.

The winners will be rewarded with a bigger paycheck and perhaps some big-time endorsement deals, too.

Bragging rights are also in play.

Kirkpatrick and LSU’s Morris Claiborne are going head-to-head to become the No. 1 cor-

nerback chosen in April.

Alabama safety Mark Barron and outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw are generally regarded as the No. 1 players at their positions, as is LSU defensive tackle Michael Brockers. And high school recruits undoubtedly will pay attention to which school produces more NFL players and the highest draft picks, maybe giving the current prospect’s alma maters a recruiting bump.

That’s not all.

Six of the 59 defensive backs invited to Indy came from these two SEC programs, and that doesn’t include LSU Heisman Trophy finalist Tryann Mathieu, a sophomore.

For the Tigers, it’s a chance to reaffirm their self-proclaimed reputation as DB University.

“Patrick (Peterson) gave us the name, and we just kept it going,” Claiborne said, laughing after one of his teammates ruined the secret.

The Alabama and LSU players who spoke Sunday chuckled when asked about renewing one of college football’s most bitter rivalries this week. The reality is most like seeing familiar faces around an unfamiliar environment.

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Buckeyes â– CONTINUED FROM 14 1980. Ryan was an assistant coach on that team.

It was also another heartbreaker for Ohio State (23-6, 11-5), which has dropped three of its last five. “In today’s game, (it

was) just our inability to sustain what needed to be sustained,� coach Thad Matta said. “Be it offensive execution or defensive stops, we weren’t able to get those things done.�

With Ohio State up by a point, Berggren swished a shot from beyond the arc on

the left wing. The Badgers were only 15 seconds into the shot clock, but the big man was feeling it. “They were putting a lot of attention on Jordan,�

Berggren said. “I made a read, found some space and knocked it down.�

Ryan didn’t have a prob-

lem with the shot selection, either. “Best available shot,� he said. “Ohio State’s that good defensively that you don’t pass up a whole lot of open shots against them.�

The Buckeyes called a timeout, with the Badgers and a small contingent of

fans celebrating. “It was a great shot,� said Deshaun Thomas, who led Ohio State with 23 points. “I looked over to the right and he was wide open and he shot the 3 and he hit the big shot.�

After inbounding, Thomas ended up with the

ball at the top of the key. He went up for the shot but Ryan Evans, who had 10 points and 10 rebounds for Wisconsin, rushed at him and closed fast, throwing off his shot. It hit off the back of the iron, with Berggren grabbing the rebound.

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Red alert

Indians closer Perez out for 4 to 6 weeks

Cincinnati ready to make run

GOODYEAR, Ariz.

(AP) — Chris Perez couldn’t even finish his first bullpen session without trouble.

Now he has to save opening day.

Cleveland’s All-Star closer will miss at least one month and possibly six weeks with a strained left side muscle he injured throwing off the mound for the first time in spring Perez said training.

Sunday he had thrown about 30 pitches Thursday when he pulled up with what he thought was a cramp.

Instead, he strained an oblique muscle. “Just one of those fluke things,� he said.

It’s the second significant medical setback in camp already for the Indians, who were ravaged by injuries last season. On Friday, the club announced that center fielder Grady Sizemore will not be ready for opening day because of a strained lower back.

Trainer Lonnie Soloff said there’s still a chance Perez will be ready for opening day on April 5, depending on how he does with treatments.

Asked if Perez would miss the opener against Toronto, Soloff said, “I wouldn’t say that.� “We’ll have to see how things go and how he responds with his throwing sessions once he gets back on a mound,� he said.

Soloff said Perez will need four to six weeks to recover and the hope is

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Reclining in his office before the Reds’ morning workouts, Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker gnawed on one of his trademark toothpicks and pulled a pair of red-and-white No. 12 wristbands over his forearms, looking much the way he did when he played.

Baker was relaxed, confident. Didn’t seem to have a care in the world.

And maybe with good reason.

While the NL Central’s top two teams lost superstars Albert Pujols from St. Louis, Prince Fielder from Milwaukee this winter, the Reds reloaded.

They’re ready to make a championship run. “I feel like this is our year,� second baseman Brandon Phillips said Sunday. “We have the talent.�

The Reds failed to defend their division title in 2011, undone in part when an injury to starter Johnny Cueto and illness to Bronso Arroyo during camp dragged into the season and one-time MVP Joey Votto got little protection and had to carry too much of the offensive load.

Cincinnati finished in third place at 79-83, the Reds’ 10th losing season in 11 years General manager Walt Jocketty was not going to let it become 11 in 12.

With holes to fill, particularly in the rotation and bullpen, Jocketty got to work in December. Not long after Pujols flew from the Cardinals’ nest and before Fielder donned Tigers stripes in Detroit, Jocketty risked a significant portion of Cincinnati’s future to improve the Reds’ present.

First, he acquired righthander Mat Latos from San Diego for four players: infielder Yonder Alonso, starter Edinson Volquez, catcher Yasmani Grandal and right-hander Brad Boxberger. Less than a week later, Jocketty was at it again, getting reliever Sean Marshall from the Chicago Cubs for left-hander Travis Wood and two

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Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips reacts after fielding a ball during a baseball spring training workout Friday in Goodyear, Ariz. prospects.

Next, Jocketty replaced closer Francisco Cordero by signing free agent Ryan Madson, who had 32 saves last season for Philadelphia. He signed outfielder Ryan Ludwick in January, an addition that will help the Reds’ depth.

The moves strengthened Cincinnati’s few apparent weaknesses, and signaled a belief this season can last deep into October. “Hopefully, we’ll go to the playoffs and beyond,�

Baker said.

To do that, the Reds will need to stay healthy, find a way to close the gap on the Central’s frontrunners and get a little lucky.

Although the Cardinals and Brewers enter this season missing their biggest bats, Phillips expects both clubs to come out swinging. “With Fielder and Pujols not being in our division, I feel like those guys are going to be even hungrier than they were before,�

Phillips said. “It’s not going to be a walk in the park. We still got to go out there and get as many wins as possible, but what we did this

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off-season was a great thing. “We filled our gaps that we had been missing for quite a while. I agree with everything Walt and Dusty did to make this team better and we have a good chance. I feel like we have no excuses this year. So as long as we go out there and play the game and do the right things, I can see us in the playoffs.�

Unlike past seasons, Baker doesn’t have to worry about facing Pujols and Fielder in multiple series. But he was quick to point out that the Reds will play an interleague set against Detroit, so there will be a few games spent in the dugout counting outs so he makes the right pitching moves to avoid Fielder. “That’s what you do with all those big boys,� he said.

Votto is Cincinnati’s big boy.

The league MVP in 2010, the 28-year-old was almost as good in 2011, batting .309 with 29 home runs and 103 RBIs while in 161 games. He led the league in doubles, walks and on-base percentage.

Toss in a Gold Glove for his play at first and he’s one of the game’s best, a player who could cash in as a free agent after the 2014 season.

Votto is signed for two more seasons, but in light of the megadeals for Pujols and Fielder, some Reds fans are already worried about his future. The Reds have said they hope to open talks on a possible extension with Votto some time this season.

After reporting to camp this week, Votto made it clear that he’s focused on this season and this season only. Any contract speculation is just that. “I’m going to make it pretty simple for just about anybody,� said Votto, who signed a three-year, $38 million deal last year. “I’m going to leave all that to the Reds front office and my agent and myself. I will try to keep it as private as possible. I don’t think it’s fair to the fans. I don’t think it’s fair to myself. It’s certainly not fair to the team for any of that type of stuff to creep into the season and become a distraction.�

the hard-throwing righthander will be able to pitch in games “toward the end� of the exhibition season.

Perez, who had 36 saves in 40 chances and a 3.32 ERA in 64 games last season, believes he can return in time to start the season closing games for manager Manny Acta. “Opening day is not out of the question for me,�

Perez said. “Four to six weeks is on the long side of when I want to be back out there. Obviously, I have to listen to my body.

Now, it’s just go out and bang out my rehab.�

Soloff said Perez was pushing himself too hard so early in camp. “His body was clearly not ready for the intensity of that bullpen session,� said Soloff, who was asked if he meant Perez was not in shape. “No,� he said. “I’m just saying he wasn’t prepared for the intensity of the bullpen session.�

Perez later said he was just too aggressive. “What he (Soloff) means by that is it was the first day, I was going 100 percent,� Perez said. “He probably wanted me to go 75 or 50 percent, but that’s not who I am. I get work in throwing 100 percent. I’m not going to go throw a bullpen at 50 percent and pretty much just waste a day. “I was doing what I normally do when I throw a bullpen It wasn’t because I came in out of shape or anything.�

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West tops East in All-Star game ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kobe Bryant took Michael Jordan’s record, then nearly lost the game to LeBron James.

Bryant and the best of the West held off a furious East comeback, winning 152-149 in the NBA All-Star game on Sunday night.

Bryant scored 27 points, moving past Jordan as the career scor-

ing leader in the game.

MVP Kevin Durant had 36, and Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook finished with 21.

James and the East cut a 21-point deficit to one in the closing seconds, but weren’t able to move in front. James had 36 points and fellow Heat star Dwyane Wade finished with a triple-double.

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Penguins dump Blue Jackets PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have no plans to make a splashy trade before Monday’s deadline, figuring the possible return of star Sidney Crosby before the playoffs far outweighs anything they could get in a cluttered market.

Considering the way they’re playing at the moment, the Penguins look pretty formiable even without their captain.

Evgeni Malkin scored his 37th goal of the season, Brad Thiessen made 21 saves in his NHL debut and the Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 42 on Sunday.

Pascal Dupuis, Kris Letang and Joe Vitale also scored for Pittsburgh, which found the back of the net four times in the last 21 minutes to win for

the ninth time in its last 10 home games. Steve Sullivan added a pair of assists as the Penguins completed a weekend sweep of Tampa Bay and Columbus with ease. “That’s two big consistent wins for us,�

Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. “I thought we had two good responses.�

The Penguins won their third straight overall behind Thiessen, who earned his first career start in play of usual backup Brent Johnson, who is dealing with an illness.

The 25-year-old Thiessen showed no jitters against the league’s worst team.

His first NHL save smacked against his mask about 4 minutes into the game and he quickly settled in.

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Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Brad Thiessen (39) blocks a wraparound shot by Columbus Blue Jackets’ Derek Dorsett (15) with the help of Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin (71) in the first period Sunday in Pittsburgh. “I tried just to stay focused and enjoy the moment,� Thiessen said. “It was everything I expected and more.�

While Thiessen said hello, Columbus captain Rick Nash may be saying

goodbye. The veteran is pressing the team for a trade. If Sunday was his last game in Columbus, he went out with a bang, scoring in his 654th and perhaps final game with the Blue Jackets.