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Fiscal ‘cliff’ deal proving elusive WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Hill deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” was proving elusive Sunday as a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every American worker and block sweeping spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and other federal agencies grew perilously near.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell remained at odds on such key issues as the income threshold for higher tax rates and how to deal with inheritance

taxes, among other issues.

McConnell complained that Reid had yet to respond to a GOP offer made Saturday evening and reached out to Vice President Joe Biden, a longtime friend, in hopes of breaking the impasse.

Biden assumed the lead role for Democrats, and a McConnell spokesman said the Kentucky Republican and the vice president were expected to negotiate by telephone into the night.

Rank-and-file lawmakers left the Capitol Sunday night with hopes that their

leaders would give them something to vote on when they returned Monday morning.

One sign of progress came as Republicans withdrew a long-discussed proposal to slow future cost-ofliving increases for Social Security recipients as part of a compromise to avoid the cliff. Democrats said earlier Sunday that proposal had put a damper on the talks, and Republican senators emerging from a closed-door GOP meeting said it is no longer part of the equation.

“I was really gratified to hear that Republicans have taken their demand for Social Security benefit cuts off the table. The truth is they should never have been on the table to begin with,” Reid said late Sunday afternoon. “There is still significant distance between the two sides, but negotiations continue.”

At stake are sweeping tax hikes and across-theboard spending cuts set to take effect at the turn of the year. Taken together, they’ve been dubbed the fiscal cliff, and economists

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ROME (AP) — Rita LeviMontalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years. See Page

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The Zelnick sisters, (from left) Pam, Michelle and Allison, stand in front of the Robinson Branch YMCA pool before Christmas. All three swam for Troy High School —with sophomore Michelle currently swimming for the Trojans — and all three have competed at the state meet.

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The Zelnick sisters were so good, Troy High School could only ever have one at a time.

And the youngest has the potential to be the best yet.

Pam, Allison and Michelle Zelnick have all taken turns leading the Trojan girls swimming team, and even though Michelle is currently only a sophomore, all three of them are state-caliber swimmers. Just never at the same time.

“Our parents spread us out pretty well. Between Shelly (Michelle) and I, we’re about nine or 10 years apart,” said Pam, a 2006 Troy High School graduate that went on to swim at and graduated from Rice University in Houston.

And now they’re spread out all over the country.

Allison was up next, joining the Trojans the

year after Pam graduated and graduating herself in 2010 and going on to swim at Stony Brook University in New York. And after a year without any Zelnick sisters, Michelle joined the team last year and immediately made her presence known by placing in two events at state as a freshman.

All of which makes Christmas a little more special for the family.

“We pretty much only all get together at Christmas,” Allison said.

“We go the whole year without seeing everyone, so it’s something that we really anticipate.”

“It’s what I look forward to every year,” Michelle said. “You never get to see all of us together at once.

It’s like a family reunion from when I was really little.”

As for getting in the pool, it all began as an easy way for their parents to watch over them.

“Mom and dad were already swimming at the Y,

TROY so when I was about three or four, they just put me in lessons,” Pam said. “They were there anyway, so it was meant to make it easy for them. But by the time all three of us were swimming, we had to be at different pools for practices at different times, and it ended up being pretty tough.”

It all paid off, though.

Pam qualified for the state meet in her sophomore, junior and senior seasons at Troy and went to Rice on a swimming scholarship.

She now lives in Houston and works as an environmental consultant and plans on starting medical school soon.

And while she was visiting her family for Christmas, Pam also stopped in to see her swimming family, too.

“I did visit with my old coach and some of my old teammates while I was home,” Pam said. “We spend 25 to 30 hours a week in the pool, so some of the strongest relationships we build are with our swimming teammates. It’s

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Allison followed in Pam’s footsteps and reached the state meet her final three seasons at Troy, also, and went to Stony Brook on a swimming scholarship.

This current semester, however, she got bad news.

“I’m not swimming anymore,” she said. “The swimming program wasn’t cut, but they were going to rebuild our pool – and lost the funding. Now there’s no set date to get it finished, and I’m not swimming anymore. We just found out this semester.

“The first two years I swam, I loved it. But not being able to swim at all, I have more time for studying. And I’m still having fun and still hang out with

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PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said.

The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84, according to the Oregon State Police.

The bus came to rest at the bottom of a snowy slope. More than a dozen rescue workers descended the hill and used ropes to help retrieve people from the wreckage in freezing weather. The bus driver was among the survivors, but had not yet spoken to police because of the severity of the injuries the driver had suffered.

Lt. Greg Hastings said the bus crashed along the west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called Deadman Pass. Stretches of highway in the rural and agricultural area of east Oregon tend to be icy in winter months.

The bus slid down the hill and landed upright, with little or no debris visible around the crash site.

St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton treated 26 people from the accident, including some who were treated and then transported to other medical facilities, said hospital spokesman Larry Blanc.

In addition to the people who were transferred from St. Anthony to La Grand and Hermiston, Ore., and Walla Walla, Wash., Hastings said.

Others were taken directly to hospitals further away, including Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Ore. I-84 is a major eastwest highway through Oregon that follows the Columbia River Gorge.

Umatilla County Emergency Manager Jack Remillard said the bus was owned by Mi Joo travel in Vancouver, B.C., and state police said the bus was en route from Las Vegas to Vancouver.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cleveland Browns coach Pat Shurmur addressed his team a little longer than usual after it closed its season with a 24-10 loss to the rival Steelers.

One player said he thought Shurmur was fighting back tears. Another said he had a personal message. Many reported that the second-year coach told the players how proud he was of them.

None would acknowledge, directly, that they expect Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert to be fired on Monday.

But as receiver Joshua Cribbs said, the players on the 5-11 Browns aren’t entirely oblivious, either.

“It’s the NFL, this is business,” Cribbs said. “It’s not necessarily the feel…

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Zelnicks • CONTINUED FROM A1 all of my swimming teammates.”

And while Allison broke a few of Pam’s relay records at Troy, the two of them swam didn’t overlap in many solo events.

“The 50 free and 100 free were more my specialty,” Allison said. “Pam was more of a breaststroker, and I’m more of a sprint freestyler.”

“I swam the breaststroke and mid-distance

races, and Allison was a sprinter,” Pam said. “Shelly, though, she can do everything. I think she’s more naturally talented and built for it than we were. I got records in some things, Allison got them in other things. Shelly could get them in anything.”

Which gives Michelle the chance to shoot for all of their records.

“Oh yeah, definitely,” Michelle said when asked if she’d gun for her sisters’ records. “A little friendly

sister rivalry. I never really know about the records before a race, but when I hear about it, it’s fun to think about.

“I haven’t found my event yet. Usually it sets in about now, though. I’ve been training in multiple events. I just haven’t found the one that suits me or the one that I like the most.”

“Pam and I both made it to state three years – but not our freshman year,” Allison said. “But Shelly’s already done that. She’ll

probably make it the next three years, too.”

“I hope I can keep it up for that long,” Michelle said. “It gets more competitive every year.”

And one of the more enjoyable parts of the Christmas reunion was getting to see Michelle compete.

Pam was in attendance for Troy’s home meet against Troy Christian and Miami East, while Allison plans on attending Troy’s meet on Jan. 4.

“It’s funny, when I was in high school and college, we didn’t get to watch each other much because we were all swimming somewhere else at the same time,” Pam said. “It wasn’t until I saw her swim this Christmas that I realized just how much better she’s gotten.

“I hadn’t seen her swim at that level before. It’s more exciting. It kind of makes me excited to see where she ends up going to school.”

Not that Pam has any ideas on that topic …

“I’d love to have her here in Texas,” she said.

“I miss having everyone at home,” Michelle said.

“Maybe someday we’ll all be in the same state again and get to see each other more often.”

For now, though, Christmas is the Zelnicks’ time.

“It’s nice to come home,” Pam said. “Being with everyone is something I don’t get to do very often.”

“We have been talking to the Republicans ever since the election was over,” Obama said in the interview that was taped Saturday and aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ”They have had trouble saying yes to a number of repeated offers.”

“The mood is discouraged,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with Democrats. “The parties are much further apart than I hoped they’d be by now.”

The pessimistic turn came as the House and Senate returned to the Capitol for a rare Sunday session. Reid and McConnell had hoped to have a blueprint to present to their rank and file by mid-afternoon.

McConnell and Reid were hoping for a deal that would prevent higher taxes for most Americans while letting rates rise at higher income levels, although the precise point at which that would occur was a sticking point.

Obama had wanted to

raise the top tax rate on individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. In talks with Republican House Speaker John Boehner, he offered to raise that threshold to $400,000.

The estate tax issue was particularly tricky since several Democrats, including veterans like Max Baucus of Montana, disagree with Obama’s proposal to increase the top estate tax rate from 35 percent to 45 percent.

Republicans said Democrats pressed to turn off more than $200 billion in the across-the-board spending cuts over the coming two years.

This so-called sequester is the punishment for last year’s deficit “supercommittee” failure to strike a deal.

Hopes for blocking across-the-board spending cuts were fading and Obama’s proposal to renew the 2-percentage-point payroll tax cut wasn’t even part of the discussion.

Obama pressed lawmakers to start where both sides say they agree sparing middle-class families from looming tax hikes.

“If we can get that done, that takes a big bite out of the fiscal cliff. It avoids the worst outcomes. And we’re then going to have some tough negotiations in terms of how we continue to reduce the deficit, grow the economy, create jobs,” Obama said in the NBC interview.

Gone is the talk of a grand deal that would tackle broad spending and revenue demands and set the nation on a course to lower deficits.

Obama and Boehner were once a couple hundred billion dollars apart on a deal that would have reduced the deficit by more than $2 trillion over 10 years.

Republicans have complained that Obama has demanded too much in tax revenue and hasn’t proposed sufficient cuts or savings in the nation’s massive health care programs.

Obama upped the pressure on Republicans to negotiate a fiscal deal, arguing

that GOP leaders have rejected his past attempts to strike a bigger and more comprehensive bargain.

“The offers that I’ve made to them have been so fair that a lot of Democrats get mad at me,” Obama said.

Boehner disagreed, saying Sunday that the president had been unwilling to agree to anything “that would require him to stand up to his own party.”

The trimmed ambitions of today are a far cry from the upbeat bipartisan rhetoric of just six weeks ago, when the leadership of Congress went to the White House to set the stage for negotiations to come.

But the deal under discussion Sunday appeared unlikely to settle other outstanding issues, including the sequester, which would total more than $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years, divided equally between the Pentagon and other government agencies.

And off the table completely is an extension of the nation’s borrowing limit, which the government is on

track to reach any day but which the Treasury can put off through accounting measures for about two months.

That means Obama and the Congress are already on a new collision path.

Republicans say they intend to use the debt ceiling as leverage to extract more spending cuts from the president.

Obama has been adamant that unlike 2011, when the country came close to defaulting on its debts, he will not yield to those Republican demands.

Meanwhile, a senior defense official said if the sequester were triggered, the Pentagon would soon begin notifying its 800,000 civilian employees that they should expect some furloughs mandatory unpaid leave, not layoffs. It would then take some time for the furloughs to begin being implemented, said the official, who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the internal preparations.

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furloughs if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to avert the cliff. The new Congress will be sworn in on Thursday and would inherit the problem if the current crop of lame-duck lawmakers can’t find an answer before then.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the two sides remained at odds over the income threshold for higher tax rates and tax levels on large estates. Republicans said that Democratic demands for new money to prevent a cut in Medicare payments to doctors and renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed should be financed with cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Republicans also balked at a Democratic proposal to use new tax revenues to shut off the across-the-board spending cuts, known as a sequester in Washingtonspeak.

President Barack Obama, in a televised interview, blamed Republicans for putting the nation’s shaky economy at risk.

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Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market cise science that students and parents think rightly or wrongly will lead to better jobs.

Then, once they’re enrolled, look for other ways to sprinkle the liberal arts magic these colleges still believe in, even if it requires a growing stretch to call yourself a liberal arts college.

“We’re liberal artsaholics,” says Adrian President Jeffrey Docking, who has added seven sports and two pre-professional degree programs since arriving in 2005 and nearly doubled enrollment to about 1,750.

But he’s also a realist.

“I say this with regret,” said Docking, an ethicist by training. But “you really take your life into your own hands thinking that a pure liberal arts degree is going to be attractive enough to enough 18-year-olds that you fill your freshman classes.”

In ancient Greece, liberal arts were the subjects that men free from work were at leisure to pursue.

Today, the squishy definition still includes subjects that don’t prepare for a particular job (but can be useful for many). English, history, philosophy, and other arts and sciences are the traditional mainstays.

But these days, some prefer a more, well, liberal definition that’s more about teaching style than subject matter.

“I refer to it as learning on a human scale,” said William Spellman, a University of North Carolina-Asheville histori-

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In this photo provided by Adrian College, students work at the main lecture hall in the school's center for communication and media arts in Adrian, Mich. For today’s increasingly career-focused students, a liberal arts education is a tough sell. So, many small liberal arts colleges such as Adrian are shifting toward a preprofessional curriculum. an who directs a group of 27 public liberal arts colleges. “It’s about small classes, access to faculty, the old tutorial model of being connected with somebody who’s not interested only in their disciplinary area but culture broadly defined.”

Does it work? It’s true that research tying college majors to salaries can make the generic liberal arts degrees look unappealing. But technical training can become obsolete, and students are likely to change careers several times. These schools argue you’re better off, both in life and work, simply learning to think.

Research does point to broader benefits of studying liberal arts in small settings, in areas like leadership, lifelong learning and civic engagement.

Liberal arts colleges are proven launching pads to

the top of business, government and academia (graduating 12 U.S. presidents, six chief justices and 12 of 53 Nobel laureates over a recent decade who attended American colleges, by one researcher’s count).

Foreign delegations often visit to observe, and big U.S. universities are trying to recreate mini-liberal arts colleges within their campuses.

But outside a secure tier of elites with 10-figure endowments the Swarthmores, Amhersts, Wellesleys of the world many schools are in trouble. The liberal arts still account for about one-third of bachelor’s degrees, but the experience of getting one in these small settings is increasingly atypical.

Definitions vary, but liberal arts colleges today probably account for between 100,000 and 300,000 of the country’s roughly 17 mil-

lion undergraduates. There are more students at the University of Phoenix, alone.

These schools “are all getting to around $40,000 a year, in some cases $50,000, and students and their families are just saying ‘we can’t do it,’” Docking said. Small classes make these schools among them most expensive places in higher education, though they often offer discounts to fill seats (Adrian’s list price is $38,602, including room and board, but the average student pays $19,000).

Other pressures are geographic and generational.

Many liberal arts colleges are clustered in the Northeast and Midwest, in towns like Adrian, founded by optimistic 18th- and 19th-century settlers who started colleges practically as soon as they arrived. But where the country is growing now is the South and West, where the private college tradition isn’t as deep.

Meanwhile, students these days expect the climbing walls and highend dorms that smaller, poorer schools can’t afford.

And a growing proportion of college students are the first generation in their family to attend. They’ve proved a tougher sell on the idea they can afford to spend four years of college “exploring.” In UCLA’s massive national survey of college freshman, “getting a better job” recently surpassed “learning about things that interest me” as the top reason for going to college. The percentage

calling job preparation a very important reason rose to 86 percent, up from 70 percent in 2006, before the economy tanked.

Politicians have reinforced the message. Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott recently proposed public colleges charge more for degrees in subjects like anthropology that he said were less economically valuable to the state than science and engineering (though in fact, those subjects usually cost much more to teach).

So, with varying reluctance, colleges have adjusted. In his 2011 book “Liberal Arts at the Brink,” former Beloit College president Victor Ferrall calculated that in 1986-87, just 30 of 225 liberal arts colleges awarded 30 percent or more of their degrees in vocational subjects. By 2007-2008, 118 did so.

Even at a consortium called the Annapolis Group, comprised of the supposedly purest liberal arts colleges, the percentage of vocational degrees jumped from 6 percent to 17 percent.

“What’s new in the past few years,” said Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges, “is people are beginning to wonder in the places that have remained liberal arts colleges whether that’s enough.”

Schools like Adrian that had already shifted to a more vocational approach “are asking whether the balance is right, whether they need to tip more to the professional side.”

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ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — They’re the places you think of when you think of “college” leafy campuses, small classes, small towns.

Liberal arts colleges are where students ponder life’s big questions, and learn to think en route to successful careers and richer lives, if not always to the best-paying first jobs.

But today’s increasingly career-focused students mostly aren’t buying the idea that a liberal arts education is good value, and many small liberal arts colleges are struggling. The survivors are shedding their liberal arts identity, if not the label. A study published earlier this year found that of 212 such institutions identified in 1990, only 130 still meet the criteria of a “true liberal arts college.” Most that fell off the list remained in business, but had shifted toward a pre-professional curriculum.

These distinctively American institutions educating at most 2 percent of college students but punching far above their weight in accomplished graduates can’t turn back the clock.

But schools like Adrian College, 75 miles southwest of Detroit and back from a recent near-death experience, offer something of a playbook.

First, get students in the door by offering what they do want, namely sports and extracurricular opportunities that might elude them at bigger schools. Offer vocational subjects like business, criminal justice and exer-

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New Year’s Games GUESSING THE RESOLUTIONS Make each of your guests write down resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a basket at a time and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made each resolution. At the end of the readings, the person who guessed the most correctly wins a prize. Read some of the wrong guesses out loud for fun!

CELEBRITY HUNT Everyone writes the name of a celebrity, famous person or character on a piece of paper and then they stick to the forehead of the player on their left (use tape or office Post-It notes). Make sure they don’t see the name. Now the game starts. Everyone else can see your forehead. The objective is to work out who you are. Going around the table, each payer takes a turn to ask the party questions about who they are – answers can be YES or NO only. If you get a YES you may continue asking, if you get a NO play moves on to the left. Last person to guess their name is the loser.

Many countries have traditions that they believe will bring good luck for the new year.

In Puerto Rico, children enjoy throwing pails of water out the window at midnight. Some believe that this rids their home of any evil spirits!

In Spain, when the clock strikes midnight, the people eat 12 grapes. One grape for every stroke of the clock to represent each month in the year. Each grape is said to bring good luck in the new year.

In Switzerland, they believe that good luck comes from letting a drop of cream land on the floor on New Year's Day. In France, people eat a stack of pancakes for luck and good health.

In Belgium, farmers wish their animals a Happy New Year for blessings.

In Armenia, the Armenian women cook a special bread for their family.

The bread is kneaded with luck and good wishes pressed into the dough before it is cooked.

In Northern Portugal, children go caroling from home to home and are given treats and coins. They sing old songs or "Janeiros," which are said to bring good luck.

In Romania, the Romanians have a tradition of listening to hear if the farm animals talk on New Year's Day. If the animals talk, it is considered bad luck.

So they are always relieved when they do not hear any talking animals!

In Bolivia, families make beautiful little wood or straw dolls to hang outside their homes to bring good luck.

In many countries, it is thought that

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a person can affect the luck they will have throughout the coming year by what they do or eat on the first day of the new year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if the first visitor happened to be a tall, darkhaired man.

Traditional New Year foods also are thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes coming full circle – that is completing a

year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating doughnuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the United States celebrate the new year by eating blackeyed peas. They are usually eaten with ham or some cut of pork meat. Blackeyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog and its meat is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity.

Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves also are considered a sign of prosperity.

Cabbage is representative of paper money! In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.

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• ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING CHANGED: The Elizabeth Township Trustees have rescheduled the Jan. 2 organizational and regular meeting to Jan. 7 at the township building with the organizational meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m., and the regular meeting following at 7 p.m.

• REORGANIZATION MEETING: The Newton Township Trustees will hold a reorganization meeting at 3:30 p.m. at the township building, 210 W. Walnut St., Pleasant Hill.

THURSDAY • ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: The annual organizational meeting of the Tipp City Exempted Village Board of Education will be at 6 p.m. at the board of education office, 90 S. Tippecanoe Drive, Tipp City.

There will be a records commission meeting held at 5:45 p.m. preceding the meeting at the same location.

JAN. 5 • SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post No. 43 baseball will offer an all-you-caneat spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or coffee. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

• PRAYER BREAKFAST: The Commmunity Men’s Prayer Breakfast will be at 7:30 a.m. at First Place, Troy.

JAN. 6 • BREAKFAST OFFERED: The Sons of AMVETS will offer an allyou-can-eat breakfast from 8:30-11 a.m. for $6 at the AMVETS Post No. 88, 3449 Lefevre Road, Troy.

Proceeds will benefit Operation Care Pacakge for the troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

JAN. 8 • LITERACY COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at the Hayner Cultural Center in Troy at 7 p.m. Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are asked to contact our message center at (937) 660-3170 for further information.

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• COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at p.m. at the TroyHayner Cultural Center.

Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are asked to contact the message center at (937) 6603170 for more information.

• ALUMNI LUNCHEON: The Staunton School alumni will meet at 11:30 a.m. at Friendly’s in Troy.

• FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOP: Covington High School will host a financial aid workshop for college bound seniors and their parents at 6:30 p.m. A member of the Wright State financial aid counseling staff will conduct a presentation on college scholarship scholarship and loan processes, application procedures, sources and types of financial aid and FAFSA instructions. A question and answer session will follow.

JAN. 13 • TURKEY SHOOT: The Troy VFW Post No. 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer a turkey shoot with sign ups beginning at 11 a.m. The shoot will begin at noon. An all-you-can-eat breakfast, by the auxiliary, will be available from 9 a.m. to noon for $6.

JAN. 14 • ANNUAL INVENTORY: Elizabeth Township will have its annual inventory meeting at 7 p.m. at the township building.

• COLLEGE MEETING: The Milton-Union High School Guidance Department will offer a college financial aid meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

Connie Garrett, a financial aid representative from Wright State University, will conduct the meeting. There will be a time for questions after her presentation. For more information, call the high school at 884-7950.

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Lindsay Woodruff, outreach coordinator of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley will speak about her work and the program in Miami County. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

Homeland Security helps Ohio prepare for threats COLUMBUS (AP) — Homeland Security in Ohio has teamed up with the state Department of Education to post informational resources for school administrators in the wake of the elementary school massacre in Connecticut.

The resources have been posted at http://homelandsecurity.ohio.gov/printed_material.stm.

They include a quick guide on how to respond when there’s an active shooter, such as having an escape route in mind, leaving belongings behind, hiding in a locked area and silencing electronics.

There’s also a guide on how to respond to school violence, and an awareness poster that schools can print out that advises, “If you see something, say something,” and a phone number to report suspicious activity.

Ohio Homeland Security Director Richard Baron says the effort is designed to increase Ohioans’ awareness of potential threats and readiness to respond.

have an active shooter,” DeWine said. “It is how you stop an active shooter from being there. It’s how you identify an active shooter.”

Parents and guardians have to believe their children are safe at school, said Michael Sawyers, acting state schools superintendent.

“Productive learning environments cannot occur in our state without having safe learning environments for school,” he said.

The head of Ohio’s largest teachers’ union said it agrees with prioritizing school safety but doesn’t believe workers should be armed in schools.

“Policy makers should re-examine the expanded availability of weapons in public places, not add schools to the list,” Ohio Education Association President Patricia Frost-

Brooks said in a statement. “Instead of arming they can educators, enhance school safety with more counselors, better mental health services and partnering with local police to deter violence in schools.”

The announcement follows last week’s Connecticut massacre in which a gunman shot his mother at home, then entered Sandy Hook Elementary School where he fatally shot 20 students and six adults before taking his life.

DeWine said the announcement was also a follow-up to school safety issues raised by last February’s shooting in Chardon that killed three students.

The teen suspect, T.J. Lane, goes on trial next month. Investigators have said Lane, who filed an insanity plea, admitted shooting at students but couldn’t say why.

Utility regulator’s seat draws 26 applicants

COLUMBUS (AP) — Engineers, lawyers, executives and two state lawmakers are among contenders to become Ohio’s next utilities regulator.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio received 26 applications for the seat Commissioner JAN. 30 Cheryl Roberto is set to vacate Monday. Applicants • KIWANIS MEETinclude Sen. Shirley Smith ING: The Kiwanis Club and Rep. Sandra Williams, of Troy will meet from both Cleveland Democrats. noon to 1 p.m. at the Outgoing Congressman Troy Country Club. Steve Skinner, curator of the Dennis Kucinich’s (koo-

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SIN’-ich-ihz) long-time senior counsel, PUCO staffers, an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency environmental lawyer, and those listing experience in energy, telecommunications, transportation and fossil fuels also applied.

Roberto was appointed by former Gov. Ted

Strickland and specialized in energy efficiency and the environment. Her seat can’t go to a Republican because the party already controls three of five seats.

The panel charged with sending four finalists to Gov. John Kasich (KAY’sik) meets Jan. 17. Kasich makes the final selection.

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Attorney General Mike DeWine also said he would JAN. 16 support allowing a trained school official access to a • KIWANIS MEETING: gun during the school day if he were a school board The Kiwanis Club of Troy member, but said such will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country decisions should be up to Club. Dave Pinkerton will each district. give a demonstration of Statistics show school handbell ringing with shooters do most of their information on its history damage in the first minute and manufacturing. For or two of entering a school, more information, conso it’s unrealistic to think tact Donn Craig, vice a traditional first responpresident, at (937) 418der will be there in time, 1888.

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“We cannot unless we JAN. 19 barricade every school in this country assure that • APPRAISAL FAIR: there’s never going to be a An appraisial fair will be problem,” DeWine said. offered at 12:30 p.m. at “But what we can do, and the Tipp City American what it’s our moral obligaLegion Post No. 586, 377 tion to do as citizens, as N. Third St., Tipp City, elected officials, is to minisponsored by the mize the risk, increase our Tippecanoe Historical odds of kids surviving and Society. Robert decrease the odds of someHoneyman, a Miami thing happening.”

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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.”

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The San Diego Union-Tribune on the GM bailout: The announcement that the federal government would sell 200 million shares of General Motors back to GM for $5.5 billion and then dispose of its remaining 300 million shares by early 2014 makes a vast taxpayer loss close to a certainty. If the remaining shares sell for the same $27.50 as the initial block of 200 million shares — and GM’s many headaches make a big stock surge unlikely — the hit would be $12.5 billion.

Was this worth it? If you believe the 1-million-jobs-were-saved claim, you may say yes. But that claim is based on the very dubious idea that GM would have disappeared without federal intervention.

The decision by first President George W. Bush in 2008 and then President Barack Obama in 2009 to have the federal government invest in the automaker allowed GM to avoid the sort of normal bankruptcy process that would have helped it leverage a lower wage structure from the United Auto Workers, one that would have put GM on a par with most of its competitors.

Who agrees that the union made out very well from the taxpayer bailout? Stephen Rattner, the As I executive Obama chose to oversee the GM deal.

See It “We should have asked the UAW to do a bit more.

■ The Troy We did not ask any UAW member to take a cut in Daily News their pay,” he said. welcomes Here’s one more twist on the outcome of the columns from Troubled Asset Relief Program: Taxpayers made our readers. To billions after the federal government was paid submit an “As I back with interest by the most reviled recipients of See It” send relief — big banks and the American Insurance your type-writGroup. But not with General Motors, whose fundaten column to: mentals were bad far before the housing bubble ■ “As I See It” collapsed in 2007. c/o Troy Daily Keep this in mind when you hear simplistic News, 224 S. talk about the “success” of the auto bailout.

Market St., Troy, OH 45373 The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette on GOP political contributions: ■ You can also e-mail us at Radical filmmaker Michael Moore says the editorial@tdnpu wealthy 1 percent elite may rule America’s econoblishing.com. my, “but they have only 1 percent of the vote.”

■ Please Thus they can’t win elections through their numinclude your full bers. So they must do it with their money — virtuname and teleally all donated to Republican candidates. phone number.

However, the 2012 national confrontation showed that billionaire cash isn’t enough to carry an election. Billions spent to sell the GOP ticket produced mostly losses.

For example, Karl Rove induced the rich to give $400 million to his two “Crossroads” committees backing Republicans — to no avail.

After returns were counted, Donald Trump sneered by Twitter: “Congrats to Karl Rove on blowing $400 million this cycle. Every race Crossroads ran ads in, the Republicans lost. What a waste of money.”

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife gave an estimated $150 million in a failed attempt to elect a GOP president — and he told The Wall Street Journal he’s prepared to spend twice as much next election.

Billionaires Harold Simmons and Bob Perry each invested more than $20 million in the 2012 lost cause. A mysterious firm created just two months before the election, Specialty Group Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn., gave $10.6 million to a tea party Republican committee that backed losers.

Part of this astronomical spending sprang from the controversial “Citizens United” Supreme Court case of 2010, in which conservative justices ruled that corporations are “persons” with unlimited “free speech,” meaning the right to buy political ads. …

We can’t guess how future balloting will turn out. But, for now, it’s gratifying to see that fat-cat money wasn’t able to purchase the 2012 election.

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following support group to educate the populace about Troy’s history.

The Overfield Tavern To the Editor: Museum, Museum of Troy To follow up on Alan Clark's History, WACO Museum, kudos to the volunteers of Miami Valley Veterans Troy, let me focus on those volMuseum, Local History unteers who have dedicated their time to the historical ele- Library, Hayner Cultural Center, Hobart Gallery of ments of Troy.

There are eight partners in History and The Troy Historical Society are all partThe Troy Historical Alliance ners in the Troy Historical that support each other and Alliance. Each has their own bring notice to Troy’s history. focus and story to tell of the Each of these partners are rich history of Troy and the organized with their own volvolunteers help them to prounteer board of directors and volunteer base and also have a vide all of this information.

Troy is rich in character and community participation. With out the volunteers that we have in Troy we wouldn’t have the quality of life that we all appreciate and enjoy. The volunteers don’t get the recognition they deserve, but then most don’t do it for any kind of accolades. They do it because they love to. However, a thank you now and then is always appreciated and warms the heart.

Thank You!!!

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End of the year has me teetering on the edge The entire nation is anxiously waiting today to see if we all will go over the cliff.

Too late for me. I’ve already gone over the edge.

No, not the fiscal cliff. The sugar bomb cliff.

It happens every year. For the first 11 months of the year I do a pretty good job of watching what I eat and how much I eat.

Then Thanksgiving hits and my resolve weakens. Then it’s December and I end up with about as much spine as a bunch of congressmen facing a tough decision.

It’s not all my fault. I just get overwhelmed with food that somehow shows up at my house.

It starts with my wife. For some reason, when December arrives she gets into a baking frenzy. I beg her to stop but to no avail. Waves of cookies, brownies, buckeyes and cinnamon rolls fly out of the oven.

She gives a bunch of it away, of course, but enough stays in the house to make it impossible for me to ignore.

The problem with giving food away is that other people give their food to you. My wife is a

David Lindeman Troy Daily News Columnist teacher, so she brings home all kinds of things from her students. There’s candy, red velvet cake, tins full of cookies, hot chocolate and all kinds of other stuff.

Her parents bring us a chocolate cream pie. Things arrive in the mail – cookies, even salmon and preserves and lemon curd.

I’ve never eaten lemon curd in my life. I had to look it up to find out what to do with it.

Then there is banana nut bread from relatives. My wife, not wanting to lose her touch, starts whipping out homemade dinner rolls and another round of cookies.

Since my daughter and her family are coming to town, we have to get her favorite ice

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cream which is not available in Denver, where she now lives. It would be impolite of me to make her eat it by herself.

And since everyone is doing all this cooking all the time, sometimes when supper time comes around you have to do something else. So we get pizza.

Lots of pizza. I try to tell myself that pizza is health food since it includes all the food groups, but deep down inside I know it can’t be good for you, mainly because it tastes too good.

Do you see what I mean? I don’t just go off the cliff, I jump off Mount Everest.

I suppose I could try to exercise more to counteract my sugar intake, but since it’s winter I actually am getting less exercise. My bike is in the basement on a trainer ready for action, but somehow I seldom can make it down there. I have to go through the kitchen to get to the basement steps and something always distracts me on the way. I end up eating again instead of exercising.

There is some hope, though.

Once December is over, my wife will stop baking. It’s some kind

of biological clock, I guess. Also, the combination of the meltdown of the nation’s economy from the fall off the fiscal cliff and the meltdown of our bank account from December will force us to tighten our belts, so to speak. Once I clean up all the remaining cookies and candy and lemon curd and crawl around on the kitchen floor to get the last crumbs, there just won’t be much food left in the house – at least, not much worth eating. Just soup and salad and maybe some fruit, things like that. I never seem to have any trouble resisting that kind of stuff.

I suspect that I will manage to get myself back into some kind of decent shape – about 11 months from now. Then we all know what is going to happen again.

So here’s to 2013 – better diet, more exercise! Of course, 2013 doesn’t start until tomorrow, so I have some big plans for tonight …

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JOAN LEE FOX LUDLOW FALLS — Joan Lee Fox, 82, of Ludlow Falls, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at Heartland of Piqua. She was born March 25, 1930, in Dayton. P receded in death by her parents Forrest and Stella (Allen) Carver, husband Ralph Dean Fox, sons Robert Wolf, David Baker Fox and Roger Fox, brothers Harry Robert Carver and Roger L. Carver, sister Muriel E. Martin. She is survived by her loving family, daughters and sons-in-law Debora and Charlie Adams, Ludlow Falls, Deanise and Will Adams, Covington, sons and daughter-in-law William (Bill) and Becky

Wolf, West Milton, Robert Fox, Ludlow Falls, Toby Fox, Ludlow Falls; ten grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law Jack and Ann Carver, N.Y. Joan was a foster parent to many children, an avid nascar fan, enjoyed gardening and her flowers, sewing and spending time with her children and grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Hale-Sarver Family Funeral Home, 284 N. Miami Street, West Milton.

Friends may call one hour prior to the service Saturday at the funeral home.

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DEGRAFF — Ronald E. Mitchell, 44, of DeGraff, passed away unexpectedly Friday, Dec.28, 2012 at Mary Rutan Hospital, Bellefontaine.

He was born in Troy on Nov. 27, 1968, a son of Virgil and Carolyn Allen Mitchell, who survive in Christiansburg.

On April 6, 1996, he married the former Gloria Orsborne at Stoney Creek Church of the Brethren in Bellefontaine and she survives. He is also survived by two stepchildren, Mathew (Melissa) Eaton of Belle Center, Ohio, and Mandy (Adam) Gammell of DeGraff, four grandchildren, Austin and Nash Eaton, and Bailey and Hayden Gammell, two brothers, Tony (Melissa) Mitchell of Christiansburg, and Philip (Shannon) Mitchell of Trotwood, three nieces, Alicia Thompson, Heather Knight, and Suvannah Mitchell, and a great niece, Haley Thompson.

A 1988 graduate of Graham High School, he was an associate at Honda

Transmission in Russells Point, Ohio. He served first as a junior firefighter and later as a volunteer firefighter with the Christiansburg Fire Department. He also worked many winters at Mad River Mountain in Bellefontaine. He enjoyed racing and working on race cars, photography and attending the Midwest Truck Show in Louisville, Ky. He loved being with his family and the time he spent with his grandchildren.

Pastor Kymberly James will officiate a funeral at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 at the Rexer-Riggin-Madden Funeral Home, DeGraff, where visitation is from 2-4 and 68 p.m. Wednesday.

Burial is in Greenwood-Union Cemetery, DeGraff.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Christiansburg Fire Department or Riverside EMS. Express condolences at www.timeformemory.com/madden.

In this photo from files, taken on April 18, 2009, Italian neurologist and senator for life Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, is seen at DEATHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST a press conference for her one hundredth birthday, in Rome. Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in Jan. 13. worked to preserve the • Jesco von defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping Puttkamer • Steve Bryles tribe’s customs and culturunlock the mysteries of the cell, has died at her home in the city. She was 103.

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Nobel Prize winner dies in home city ROME (AP) — Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, announcing her death in a statement, called it a great loss “for all of humanity.” He praised her as someone who represented “civic conscience, culture and the spirit of research of our time.”

Italy’s so-called “Lady of the Cells,” a Jew who lived through anti-Semitic daiscrimination and the Nazi invasion, became one of her country’s leading scientists and shared the Nobel medicine prize in 1986 with American biochemist Stanley Cohen for their groundbreaking research carried out in the United States.

Her research increased the understanding of many conditions, including tumors, developmental malformations, and senile dementia.

Italy honored LeviMontalcini in 2001 by making her a senator-for-life.

A petite woman with upswept white hair, she kept an intensive work schedule well into old age.

“At 100, I have a mind that is superior thanks to experience than when I was 20,” she said in 2009.

“A beacon of life is extinguished” with her death, said a niece, Piera LeviMontalcini, who is a city

councilwoman in Turin.

She told the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa that her aunt passed away peacefully “as if sleeping” after lunch and that the scientist had kept up her research studies several hours a day “right up until the end.”

Levi-Montalcini was born April 22, 1909, to a Jewish family in the northern city of Turin. At age 20 she overcame her father’s objections that women should not study and obtained a degree in medicine and surgery from Turin University in 1936.

She studied under top anatomist Giuseppe Levi, whom she often credited for her own success and for that of two fellow students and close friends, Salvador Luria and Renato Dulbecco, who also became separate Nobel Prize winners. Levi and LeviMontalcini were not related.

After graduating, LeviMontalcini began working as a research assistant in neurobiology but lost her job in 1938 when Italy’s Fascist regime passed laws barring Jews from universities and major professions.

Her family decided to stay in Italy and, as World War II neared, LeviMontalcini created a makeshift lab in her bedroom where she began studying the development of chicken embryos, which would later lead to her major discovery of mechanisms that regulate growth of cells and organs.

With eggs becoming a rarity due to the war, the

young scientist biked around the countryside to buy them from farmers.

She was soon joined in her secret research by Levi, her university mentor, who was also Jewish and who became her assistant.

“She worked in primitive conditions,” Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack told Sky TG24 TV in a tribute to her fellow scientist. “She is really someone to be admired.”

Italy’s premier, Mario Monti, paid tribute to LeviMontalcini’s “charismatic and tenacious” character and for her lifelong battle to “defend the battles in which she believed.”

Only a few months ago, she helped sponsor an appeal to the government for more attention of fundstrapped young scientists in Italy.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi praised Levi-Montalcini’s civil and moral efforts, saying she was an “inspiring” example for Italy and the world, the ANSA news agency said.

An Italian scientist, who worked for some 40 years with Levi-Montalcini, including in the United States, said the work the Nobel laureate did on nerve growth factor was continuing. The protein assists portions of the central nervous system that have been damaged by disease or injury.

“Over the years, this field of investigation has become ever more important in the world of neuroscience,” Pietro Calissano was quoted by ANSA as saying.

(AP) — A member of Wernher von Braun’s rocketry team in Alabama has died.

NASA says Jesco von Puttkamer died Thursday after a brief illness. He was 79.

Von Puttkamer moved to Huntsville in 1962 and worked with von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center. He was an engineer.

Von Puttkamer transferred to NASA Headquarters in Washington in 1974. He most recently worked as a technical manager for the International Space Station.

Von Puttkamer is survived by his wife, Ursula.

• Jane Holmes Dixon WASHINGTON — Jane Holmes Dixon, who became a priest in her late 40s and later became the second female bishop in the Episcopal Church, has died. She was 75.

The Diocese of Washington confirmed that Dixon died early Christmas morning at her Washington home.

Dixon served as bishop pro tempore of the Washington Diocese in 2001 and 2002.

Her tenure included a standoff with a parish whose rector refused to recognize female clergy.

She filed a federal lawsuit against the pastor that was resolved in her favor.

Dixon was a stay-athome mother when she enrolled at Virginia Theological Seminary at age 40.

She became the pastor of a church in Laurel, Md., in 1982.

She was elected bishop suffragan, the secondhighest rank among bishops, for the Washington diocese in 1992.

• Clifford J. SiJohn SPOKANE, Wash. — A Coeur d’Alene elder who

Clifford J. SiJohn was 67 when he died Monday evening in Coeur d’Alene.

SiJohn was the tribe’s cultural awareness director.

Tribe chairman Chief Allan says the tribe is thankful for SiJohn’s efforts to preserve and share their culture with the world.

Culture director Quanah Matheson called SiJohn “was one of our last storytellers.”

SiJohn was born May 24, 1945, in Spokane. He was a Vietnam War veteran, a former police detective and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs before returning to work for the Coeur d’Alene tribe in 1985.

• Bill Forrest DENVER — Climbing legend Bill Forrest, who also made notable innovations in mountaineering equipment, died while snowshoeing near Colorado’s Monarch Pass.

The Denver Post reports (http://bit.ly/ZGEW4h ) the 73-year-old Salida resident was with his wife, Rosa, when he collapsed Dec. 21. Other hikers performed CPR, but Forrest died at the scene.

Forrest was known for the first ascent of the Painted Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River in 1972 a 2,500-foot climb on sheer granite that took nine days.

Kris Walker, his climbing partner during the ascent, says Forrest never quit, adding “that word was not part of his vocabulary.”

Forrest pioneered the “Friends” active cam-nut protection system, a climbing aid, and was behind the Mjolnir, the first rock-and-ice hammer with interchangeable picks.

A memorial service is scheduled in Salida on

Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission Director Steve Bryles a former state senator has died at age 55.

Poultry commission deputy director Fred Wiedower says Bryles died early Friday after a battle with cancer.

Bryles was elected to the state Senate from a Blytheville area district in 2001 and served until 2011 when he became deputy director of the poultry commission. He was appointed commission director in March by Gov. Mike Beebe.

Beebe issued a statement saying Bryles was always deliberate, levelheaded and “a good friend with a gentle heart.”

Wiedower said funeral arrangements have not been made.

• Claude-Anne Lopez NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Author and scholar of Benjamin Franklin’s papers ClaudeAnne Lopez has died at age 92.

Lopez started her studies of Franklin’s papers at Yale University with secretarial-type work and rose to a top editor’s job. Her son, Larry Lopez, says she had Alzheimer’s disease and died Friday at her New Haven home.

Lopez spent years working on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a project at the university to collect, edit and publish Franklin’s writings. She specialized in the American founding father’s private life, and wrote a handful of books about him.

Former Yale colleague Jonathan Dull ranks Lopez as one of the 20th century’s great Franklin scholars.

She also helped found a Philadelphia-based network of people interested in Franklin’s life.

Carlson, free spirit known as ‘The Waver,’ dies south to Carson City, where he waved before hitching back to Reno the same day.

“He was one of the kindest, most cheerful people I’ve ever known,” Layton told The Associated Press.

“He was just the embodiment of disciplined love. He never judged people. He accepted everybody as they were.”

Carlson also waved to motorists on his many walks across the U.S. as well as in Sedona, Ariz., where he spent considerable time, said Layton, who put him up in her Reno home for some 30 years.

“My sister said she remembered seeing him

wave on the George Washington Bridge out of New York City in the early 1980s,” Layton said. “He waved all over the country.”

Carlson’s daughter, Kristina Butterfield of Cedar Rapids, said he slowed down after he underwent open-heart surgery in 1998. But he continued to wave to motorists even after he moved to Iowa in 2007.

“He went back to waving after the surgery, but not for the distances he was doing prior to that,” she said, adding he was “very spiritual, very funny and very smart.”

Carlson wrote a book

about his experiences titled “I Walked to the Moon and Everybody Waved.” The title came from his claim that he had walked 225,000 miles about the distance between Earth and the moon.

The Army veteran, who worked everywhere from oil fields to New York delis, began his waving after he experienced an “awakening” after a family crisis.

“There was an incredible brilliance one night and he heard, ‘Go forth and spread God’s love.’ That was his mission in life to spread God’s love,” said Layton, adding he didn’t adhere to any faith.

The family believes he died of a heart attack, Butterfield said.

“We were shocked because we thought he was young,” she said. “He was doing hundreds of sit-ups

and push-ups throughout the day up until the end.”

Survivors include two other daughters, two sisters and a brother. Services in Cedar Rapids and Reno were pending.

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Carlson became an institution in Reno, which was his home base from the 1970s to 2007 when he moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to be close to family.

He died Friday.

Close friend Betty Layton of Reno said the Burlington, Iowa, native used to wave for miles around Reno and then hitch a ride 25 miles to the

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• COACHING SEARCH: Troy Christian Schools have two coaching positions available. It is looking for a head varsity softball coach and is accepting applications until Jan. 16 for the position, as well as a head varsity volleyball coach with an application deadline of Feb. 20. Applications can be found on the Troy Christian Schools website at http://troychristianschools.org/fileadmin/content/athletics/documents/Empl oyment_Application.pdf. A resume and references should be attached with the applications. For more information, contact Athletic Director Mike Coots at mcoots@tcmail.org or (937) 339-5692.

• COACHING SEARCH: Newton High School is looking for a reserve and varsity volleyball coach for next year. If interested, please contact Bob Huelsman or Larry Powell at Newton High School at (937) 676-5132, or by e-mail at bob_heulsman@newton.k12.oh.us or larry_powell@newton.k12.oh.us.

• BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe basketball team will be honoring the 1973 SWBL champions on Jan. 19.

The Red Devils face Versailles that night at 7:30 p.m. Any member of the team, cheerleaders or coaches need to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information.

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Trojans handle Beavers Beaty, Terrill reach 100-point mark Staff Report Senior Brandon Beaty and sophomore Clay Terrill became the 11th and 12th players in the history of Troy High School hockey with 100 points as the Trojans rolled to a 4-1 victory over Beavercreek Sunday at South Metro in Springboro.

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Colts roll to victory in Pagano’s return The Indianapolis Colts made Chuck Pagano a winner in his return to the sideline.

Andrew Luck threw for two touchdowns and Deji Karim swung the game with a 101yard kickoff return in the third quarter, giving the Colts a 28-16 victory over Houston. It was Pagano’s first game back as coach since starting treatment for leukemia Sept.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Andy Dalton, A.J. Green and the rest of the Bengals playmakers watched from the sideline as their backups pulled another victory out with the defense leading the way, of course.

It’s been their way during one breakthrough win after another.

Carlos Dunlap returned an interception 14 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter Sunday, sending Cincinnati to a 23-17 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in a regular-season finale that had more of a preseason feel.

“It’s definitely different,” said left tackle Andrew Whitworth, who also sat out the second half.

“It’s a situation where both teams have gotten in the playoffs and you really want to look forward to next week having people fresh and ready and not have any injuries.”

With little at stake, both

playoff-bound teams rested a lot of their starters to get ready for their first-round games.

The Ravens (10-6) had already clinched their second straight AFC North title and decided to use the final game to get healthier. They had several stars inactive and pulled quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice after only two series.

They’ll host Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts next weekend, reuniting them with former defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano. The Colts head coach has returned from three rounds of chemotherapy.

“Chuck’s like a dad to me,” Ravens safety Ed Reed said. “He means a lot to me. I would have much rather seen them in the AFC championship game than the first game.”

The Bengals (10-6) are locked into the sixth seed as the final wild-card team. They wouldn’t

know their first-round destination until the later games were completed.

They went into preseason mode on a 26-degree afternoon with a wind chill of 16 and got their seventh win in the last eight games.

“I’m glad that’s over,” coach Marvin Lewis said. “That’s a difficult situation to be in. I thought our guys handled it about as well as you can handle it.”

Josh Brown kicked three field goals in the second half.

Dunlap tipped one of Tyrod Taylor’s passes to himself and returned it for a clinching touchdown with 6:06 left, jumping into the stands and sitting there for several seconds while fans smacked his back.

“I wanted it to be a highlight to remember,” Dunlap said.

The Bengals headed into the

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Terrill netted two goals in Sunday’s win and added an assist.

A.J. Noll had two assists and a goal, Beaty added two assists and Will Schober scored a goal. Mason Hagan and Jake Uhlenbrock both had assists.

Jake Eldridge stopped 11 shots in goal as the Trojans mounted a 48-12 shot advantage on the Beavers.

Troy (9-7) hosts the Miami Valley Freeze Tournament at Hobart Arena this weekend. On Friday, the Trojans have a rematch with the Beavers at 6 p.m.

■ NFL

Nine yards short of history Vikings’ Peterson shy of breaking record MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson’s remarkable comeback season now has a magic number to punctuate it.

Peterson became the seventh player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season, plowing through the Green Bay Packers for a 20-yard gain that put him over the top in the third quarter Sunday. He finished with 199 yards and a touchdown in the 37-34 victory, leaving him nine yards shy of breaking Eric Dickerson’s single-season record.

Peterson needed 208 yards when the day began to break

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Steelers beat Browns PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cleveland Browns coach Pat Shurmur addressed his team a little longer than usual after it closed its season with a 24-10 loss to the rival Steelers.

One player said he thought Shurmur was fighting back tears.

Another said he had a personal message. Many reported that the secondyear coach told the players how proud he was of them.

None would acknowledge, directly, that they expect Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert to be fired on Monday.

But as receiver Joshua Cribbs said, the players on the 5-11 Browns aren’t entirely oblivious, either.

“It’s the NFL, this is business,” Cribbs said. “It’s not necessarily the feel…

“You just know.”

Cleveland’s third-string quarterback, Thaddeus Lewis, passed for 204 yards with a touchdown and an interception in his first NFL start. But the Browns dropped their third straight in what is likely Shurmur’s final game on the sideline.

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But the second-year coach also was also somewhat emotional and defiant in what very well could end up his final postgame press conference as Cleveland’s head coach.

Shurmur pointed and said, “The future is bright for that group of guys,” at one point. He later dismissively told reporters, “You need to call your league sources,” when asked about his job status.

“I’m looking forward to this team next year if that’s the case,” Shurmur said. “If not, then what I’m going to do is help coach and help inspire a team to win games in some role. I have kids in college, I have mouths to feed and this is my profession and this is what I choose to do. That’s it. That is how simple it is in my mind.”

Ben Roethlisberger threw three short touchdown passes, denying Cleveland its first sweep of the AFC North rival Steelers since 1988.

Pittsburgh won for only the second time in its past seven games to avoid its first losing season since 2003.

Antonio Brown, Leonard Pope and Plaxico Burress scored for the Steelers (8-8), whose top-ranked defense forced

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Peterson ■ CONTINUED FROM 8 Dickerson’s record of 2,105 yards set in 1984. His 26yard run late in the fourth quarter set up Blair Walsh’s winning field goal, a kick that clinched a playoff berth for the Vikings.

He’ll have to settle for the second-best total 2,097 yards and a trip to Lambeau Field for a playoff rematch next week.

“Ultimately we got the ‘W,’” Peterson said after carrying the ball a careerhigh 34 times. “We said during the week, if it happens, it happens. Don’t

focus on it.”

Peterson came in 102 yards shy of joining O.J. Simpson, Dickerson, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis, Jamal Lewis and Chris Johnson in the 2,000-yard club. Peterson is the only one to do it after reconstructive knee surgery.

The Vikings punted a few plays after Peterson’s big run, and the crowd gave him a standing ovation when the achievement was announced. Peterson took it all in stride, waving politely, but otherwise not making anything special

out of it in a game the Vikings needed to win to make the playoffs. He simply didn’t have time to reflect on the long, arduous path it took for him to get there after tearing the ACL in his left knee.

It was only last December when Peterson crumpled to the turf in Washington, two ligaments torn, leaving many to wonder if his career would ever be the same.

Well, it hasn’t been.

Peterson vowed from the very beginning to return better than ever

from an injury that has ended the careers of so many before him. There weren’t many believers, including in his own locker room.

But a combination of uncommon genetics, unshakable determination and a smart rehabilitation plan from Vikings athletic trainer Eric Sugarman had Peterson back in the starting lineup on opening day.

Peterson scored two touchdowns in the opener, but didn’t top 100 yards in a game until Week 4 when he went for 102 against the

Lions. As the season went on, the scar tissue in his knee started to break up and Peterson took off like a purple rocket.

His cuts are sharper, his vision better and his patience is making the difference between a 4-yard plunge through the line and a 40-yard dash down the sideline.

He went on a breathtaking eight-game run, amassing 1,313 yards and topping 200 yards twice in four games to vault into the MVP discussion and make 2,000 yards a possibility.

• Wilson Ties Rookie TD Record SEATTLE — Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has tied Peyton Manning’s NFL record for most touchdown passes by a rookie with 26 after a third-quarter score on Sunday against St. Louis, helping lead Seattle to a 20-13 win.

After struggling to get Seattle’s offense started for most of the game, Wilson found fullback Michael Robinson out of the backfield on a 10-yard TD with 2:09 left in the third quarter to give the Seahawks a 1310 lead.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts made Chuck Pagano a winner in his return to the sideline.

Andrew Luck threw for two touchdowns and Deji Karim swung the game with a 101-yard kickoff return in the third quarter, giving the Colts a 28-16 victory over Houston. It was Pagano’s first game back as coach since starting treatment for leukemia Sept. 26.

Indianapolis (11-5) heads into the playoffs as the No. 5 seed and on a roll. The Colts will open the postseason next weekend against the Baltimore Ravens.

Slumping Houston (12-4) won’t know its playoff seed until later Sunday. The Texans lost three of their last four games, and J.J. Watt failed to break Michael Strahan’s single-season sacks record.

The game turned on two big plays: Karim’s kickoff return, which wiped out a 16-14 Houston lead, and Luck’s 70-yard TD pass to T.Y. Hilton.

BEARS 26, LIONS 24 DETROIT — Jay Cutler threw for 257 yards and a touchdown and helped seal the game with a late scramble.

The Lions (4-12) lost their last eight games and turned the ball over four times in the finale. Calvin Johnson fell short in his attempt to become the first player with 2,000 yards receiving in a season.

Cutler’s 19-yard run on third down helped Chicago run out the clock late in the fourth quarter.

GIANTS 42, EAGLES 7 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There will be no Super Bowl repeat for the Giants. Not even a playoff berth despite Eli Manning’s career-high five touchdown passes.

The Giants (9-7) playoff hopes ended minutes after routing the Eagles in what may have been coach Andy Reid’s final game for Philadelphia. Chicago’s win

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BUCCANEERS 22, FALCONS 17 ATLANTA — The Falcons couldn’t follow through with their plan to gain momentum for the playoffs as Josh Freeman threw a touchdown pass to Mike Williams and Doug Martin ran for 141 yards.

The Falcons (13-3) had little to play for as they already have home-field advantage through the NFC playoffs. Coach Mike Smith said he wanted to “finish the regular season the right way,” and he stayed with his starters through the game.

BILLS 28, JETS 9 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — C.J. Spiller scored on a 66-yard catch and run in helping underachieving Buffalo, while Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez had two more turnovers.

Safety Bryan Scott also returned an interception 20 yards for a touchdown for the Bills (6-10), who snapped a three-game skid.

Both AFC East rivals had already been eliminated

from playoff contention.

TITANS 38, JAGUARS 20 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee became the first NFL team with two players scoring twice on returns in closing out the season with two wins in its final three games.

Darius Reynaud scored on two punt returns and rookie linebacker Zach Brown returned two interceptions for touchdowns.

PANTHERS 44, SAINTS 38 NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees made more NFL history, but so did the Saints’ porous defense in a loss to Carolina.

DeAngelo Williams rushed for 210 yards, including touchdown runs of 54 and 12 yards, for Carolina (7-9), which closed the season with four straight wins. His 65-yard gain set up the first of three 1-yard scoring runs by Mike Tolbert.

Brees passed for 396 yards, giving him 5,177 this season. That makes him the first player to eclipse 5,000 yards three times. His four

TD passes gave him 43 in 2012, and he’s the first player with 40 TD passes in consecutive seasons.

49ERS 27, CARDINALS 13 SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yards and finished with a career-high 172 yards, leading the San Francisco 49ers to a second straight NFC West title with a 27-13 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.

Colin Kaepernick overcame a slow start to throw for a career-best 276 yards and two TDs as the Niners (11-4-1) did their part to control the postseason picture but were still waiting on Green Bay’s result at Minnesota to know whether they would earn the NFC’s No. 2 seed.

BRONCOS 38, CHIEFS 3 DENVER — Peyton Manning threw for 304 yards and three touchdowns Sunday to lift Denver to a 38-3 win over Kansas City that sealed the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs for the Broncos.

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Top RBs Ball, Taylor highlight Rose Bowl LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although Montee Ball and Stepfan Taylor have barely met, Taylor is pretty sure they would get along famously.

“We had a quick hello this week, but you can tell we’ve got a lot in common,” the Stanford running back said. “At least on the field.”

In an era of college football dominated by spread schemes and prolific quarterbacks, these two tailbacks personify an old-fashioned, smash-mouth approach to offense.

Running behind similar massive offensive lines at Wisconsin and Stanford, both backs persevered through slow starts to their careers to earn prominent spots in the record books heading into their big finales in the 99th Rose Bowl.

“You can’t really have a

better running back matchup in college football than this one,” Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez said.

Ball and Taylor expect to get to know each other while they prepare for the upcoming NFL draft, where they’re both likely to be high picks. They’ll first finish up their college careers against each other when the surprising Badgers (8-5) make their third straight Rose Bowl appearance Tuesday against the favored No. 8 Cardinal (112).

When Ball is asked about Taylor’s abilities, he realizes he might as well be describing himself.

“We’re both not blazing fast, but we both do a good job playing to our strengths,” Ball said. “We run behind our pads, run between the tackles and always stay physical. We’ve

got a lot of similarities, so it’s good to see him have success. Just hopefully not too much success in the game.”

The Rose Bowl is a culmination of two resilient tenures at a notoriously fickle position. Both backs are playing in their third straight BCS bowls: Ball was outstanding in both of the Badgers’ previous trips to the Rose Bowl, while Taylor had big games in Orange and Fiesta bowls over the past two years.

Ball, who won the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back this season, has scored 82 touchdowns — more than anybody in FBS history.

Taylor is merely the leading rusher in Stanford history — and one score shy of becoming the school’s career touchdowns leader — as an incredibly durable

performer who almost never leaves the field when the Cardinal have the ball.

Yet neither Ball nor Taylor started his college career as the main man, instead winning their starting jobs through persistence and hard work.

Taylor was a backup to Toby Gerhart as a freshman, getting just 56 carries.

He was overshadowed for most of his first three seasons on The Farm with Heisman contenders Gerhart and Andrew Luck in the same backfield before getting the spotlight this year.

Taylor broke Darrin Nelson’s Stanford career rushing record in the Pac-12 title game, getting 78 more yards to give him 4,212 in his career. With a touchdown against Wisconsin, he’ll break his career tie with Gerhart at 44 TDs.

the playoffs.

The Ravens sat some of their banged-up playmakers and started pulling others from the game after only two series. Receiver Anquan Boldin, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata and linebacker Terrell Suggs were inactive, giving them a week to rest.

The Bengals went with a conservative approach.

Dalton didn’t even throw toward Green until the final drive of the first half, keeping the Pro Bowl receiver out of harm’s way.

Bruce Gradkowski took over in the second half for Dalton, who was 10 of 15 for 78 yards with a pair of sacks.

Brown kicked field goals of 47, 32 and 38 yards in the second half.

Brown will be the Bengals’ kicker in the playoffs with Mike Nugent sidelined by a calf injury. Brown is 11 for 12 on field goal tries since he signed as a free agent, the only miss on a 56-yard attempt in Pittsburgh.

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Browns ■ CONTINUED FROM 8 four turnovers.

Pittsburgh will sit out the postseason for the first time since 2009, but the Browns extended their run of non-playoff seasons to 10.

The overhaul in Cleveland is already underway. Haslam, who took over as owner in late summer, pushed out team president Mike Holmgren last month, and it appears Shurmur and Heckert could soon follow Holmgren out the door.

“It’s safe to say there have been rumors since the beginning of training camp,” Shurmur said. “We really didn’t win enough games, and we’re not competing next week (in the playoffs). I was never really worried about (job security) and I have no regrets.”

The Browns are 9-23 under Shurmur, the lone highlight a three-game winning streak spanning late November and early

December that had some in Cleveland doing the complicated math necessary to put the Browns in the playoffs.

The optimism died just as quickly as it arose.

Cleveland came back to Earth in a 38-21 whipping at the hands of the Washington Redskins two weeks ago, followed by a blowout loss in Denver.

Given a chance to sweep their biggest rivals for the first time in 24 years, the Browns instead lost to the Steelers in the regular-season finale for the fourth time in the last five seasons.

“You just wish you could go out with a win for him,” linebacker D’Qwell Jackson said.

Many of the players were also auditioning for jobs next year. The Browns played a lively, chippy game against their rivals that included plenty of pushing and shoving after the whistle and during play.

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■ CONTINUED FROM 8 playoffs for the second straight season after beating rivals Pittsburgh and Baltimore in back-to-back weeks a breakthrough for a franchise that had been 0-6 against those top rivals the past two seasons.

The defense has led the way, scoring more touchdowns than the offense over the past two weeks.

Cornerback Leon Hall returned an interception for the only touchdown against Pittsburgh, and Dunlap clinched the win on Sunday with his return.

“I think we’ve found ways to win games, and that’s the thing we needed to learn as a young team,” Whitworth said. “This young team has learned how to win games.”

The Bengals wanted to get their running game tuned up for the playoffs, but BenJarvus Green-Ellis had a hamstring tighten up during pre-game warmups and was held out of the game. Lewis didn’t know how it would affect him in

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England12 4 0 .750 557 331 7 9 0 .438 288 317 Miami 6 10 0 .375 281 375 N.Y. Jets 6 10 0 .375 344 435 Buffalo South W L T Pct PF PA 12 4 0 .750 416 331 y-Houston x-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 357 387 6 10 0 .375 330 471 Tennessee 2 14 0 .125 255 444 Jacksonville North W L T Pct PF PA y-Baltimore 10 6 0 .625 398 344 x-Cincinnati 10 6 0 .625 391 320 Pittsburgh 8 8 0 .500 336 314 5 11 0 .313 302 368 Cleveland West W L T Pct PF PA 13 3 0 .813 481 289 y-Denver 7 9 0 .438 350 350 San Diego 4 12 0 .250 290 443 Oakland Kansas City 2 14 0 .125 211 425 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Washington 9 6 0 .600 408 370 N.Y. Giants 9 7 0 .563 429 344 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 358 372 Philadelphia 4 12 0 .250 280 444 South W L T Pct PF PA 13 3 0 .813 419 299 y-Atlanta 7 9 0 .438 357 363 Carolina New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 461 454 7 9 0 .438 389 394 Tampa Bay North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 11 5 0 .688 433 336 x-Minnesota 10 6 0 .625 379 348 Chicago 10 6 0 .625 375 277 Detroit 4 12 0 .250 372 437 West W L T Pct PF PA y-San Francisco11 4 1 .719 397 273 11 5 0 .688 412 245 x-Seattle 7 8 1 .469 299 348 St. Louis 5 11 0 .313 250 357 Arizona x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday's Games Tennessee 38, Jacksonville 20 Carolina 44, New Orleans 38 Buffalo 28, N.Y. Jets 9 Cincinnati 23, Baltimore 17 Pittsburgh 24, Cleveland 10 Indianapolis 28, Houston 16 N.Y. Giants 42, Philadelphia 7 Chicago 26, Detroit 24 Tampa Bay 22, Atlanta 17 San Diego 24, Oakland 21 San Francisco 27, Arizona 13 Seattle 20, St. Louis 13 Denver 38, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 37, Green Bay 34 New England 28, Miami 0 Dallas at Washington, 8:20 p.m.

NFL Playoff Glance All Times EST Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 5 or Sunday, Jan. 6 Minnesota at Green Bay, TBA (TBA) Indianapolis at Baltimore, TBA (TBA) Cincinnati at Houston, TBA (TBA) Seattle at Dallas-Washington winner, TBA (TBA) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 12 or Sunday, Jan. 13 Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at Denver, TBA (CBS) Baltimore, Indianapolis or Houston at New England, TBA (CBS) Dallas-Washington winner, Seattle or Minnesota at San Francisco, TBA (FOX) Dallas-Washington winner, Seattle or Green Bay at Atlanta, TBA (FOX) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 20 AFC, TBA (CBS) NFC, TBA (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 At New Orleans AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6 p.m. (CBS) NFL Single Season TD Passes Through, Dec. 30, 1012 No. .......................................Year 50 Tom Brady, N.E.............2007 49 Peyton Manning, Ind.....2004 48 Dan Marino, Mia. ..........1984 Drew Brees, N.O...........2011 46 Aaron Rodgers, G.B. ....2011 45 Dan Marino, Mia. ..........1986 44 43 Drew Brees, N.O..........2012 41 Kurt Warner, StL ...........2000 Matthew Stafford, Det...2011 41 Brett Favre, G.B. ...........1996 39 Tom Brady, N.E.............2011 39 Aaron Rodgers, G.B. ....2012 39 College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State 41, Toledo 15 Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego BYU 23, San Diego State 6 Friday, Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. UCF 38, Ball State 17 Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34 Las Vegas Bowl Boise State 28, Washington 26 Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU 43, Fresno State 10 Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan 24, Western Kentucky 21 Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington San Jose State 29, Bowling Green 20 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati 48, Duke 34 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Baylor 49, UCLA 26 Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Ohio 45, Louisiana-Monroe 14

Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech 13, Rutgers 10, OT Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31 Saturday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth,Texas Rice 33, Air Force 14 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona State 62, Navy 28 Pinstripe Bowl At NewYork Syracuse 38, West Virginia 14 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Texas 31, Oregon State 27 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Michigan State 17, TCU 16 Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville,Tenn.

Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso,Texas Georgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (75), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis,Tenn.

Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At DallasPurdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), Noon (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. State (8-4) vs.

Mississippi Northwestern (9-3), Noon (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (84), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (102), 8 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (9-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, TBA (NFLN) NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 24 Wagner 31, Colgate 20 Coastal Carolina 24, BethuneCookman 14 South Dakota State 58, Eastern Illinois 10 Stony Brook 20, Villanova 10 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 1 Wofford 23, New Hampshire 7 Georgia Southern 24, Cent. Arkansas 16 Old Dominion 63, Coastal Carolina 35 Illinois St. 38, Appalachian St. 37, OT North Dakota State 28, South Dakota State 3 Sam Houston State 18, Cal Poly 16 Eastern Washington 29, Wagner 19 Montana State 16, Stony Brook 10 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 7 Sam Houston State 34, Montana State 16 Saturday, Dec. 8 Georgia Southern 49, Old Dominion 35 North Dakota State 14, Wofford 7 Eastern Washington 51, Illinois State 35 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20 Saturday, Dec. 15 Sam Houston State 45, Eastern Washington 42 Championship Saturday, Jan. 5 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco,Texas North Dakota State (13-1) vs. Sam Houston State (11-3), 1 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 21 9 .700 Brooklyn 16 14 .533 Boston 14 15 .483 Philadelphia 14 17 .452 Toronto 11 20 .355 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 20 8 .714 Atlanta 19 9 .679 Orlando 12 18 .400 Charlotte 7 23 .233 Washington 4 24 .143 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 16 12 .571 Indiana 17 13 .567

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon ESPN — Music City Bowl, NC State vs. Vanderbilt, at Nashville, Tenn.

2 p.m. CBS — Sun Bowl, Southern Cal vs. Georgia Tech, at El Paso, Texas 3:30 p.m. ESPN — Liberty Bowl, Iowa St. vs. Tulsa, at Memphis, Tenn.

7:30 p.m. ESPN — Chick-Fil-A Bowl, LSU vs. Clemson, at Atlanta MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon ESPN2 — Cincinnati at Pittsburgh 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Michigan St. at Minnesota 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Indiana at Iowa 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Gonzaga at Oklahoma St. 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Harvard at Saint Mary's (Cal) NBA BASKETBALL 3 p.m. WGN — Charlotte at Chicago

TUESDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon ESPN2 — Gator Bowl, Mississippi St. vs.

Northwestern, at Jacksonville, Fla. 1 p.m. ABC — Capital One Bowl, Georgia vs. Nebraska, at Orlando, Fla. ESPN — Outback Bowl, South Carolina vs. Michigan, at Tampa Bay, Fla. 5:07 p.m. ESPN — Rose Bowl, Wisconsin vs. Stanford, at Pasadena, Calif.

8:37 p.m. ESPN — Orange Bowl, N. Illinois vs. Florida St., at Miami

WEDNESDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Sugar Bowl, Louisville vs. Florida, at New Orleans MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Duke at Davidson SOCCER 2:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Sunderland at Liverpool 16 13 .552 ½ Milwaukee 11 22 .333 7½ Detroit 7 25 .219 11 Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB W L 24 8 .750 — San Antonio 19 8 .704 2½ Memphis Houston 16 14 .533 7 Dallas 12 19 .387 11½ New Orleans 7 23 .233 16 Northwest Division Pct GB W L Oklahoma City 23 6 .793 — 17 15 .531 7½ Denver 14 13 .519 8 Minnesota 15 14 .517 8 Portland 15 16 .484 9 Utah Pacific Division W L Pct GB 24 6 .800 — L.A. Clippers 21 10 .677 3½ Golden State 15 15 .500 9 L.A. Lakers 11 20 .355 13½ Phoenix 10 19 .345 13½ Sacramento Saturday's Games Atlanta 109, Indiana 100 New Orleans 98, Charlotte 95 Toronto 123, Orlando 88 Brooklyn 103, Cleveland 100 Chicago 87, Washington 77 Oklahoma City 124, Houston 94 Memphis 81, Denver 72 Minnesota 111, Phoenix 107 Milwaukee 104, Miami 85 Portland 89, Philadelphia 85 Golden State 101, Boston 83 Sunday's Games San Antonio 111, Dallas 86 Detroit 96, Milwaukee 94 Boston at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday's Games Charlotte at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Memphis at Indiana, 3 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Tuesday's Games Dallas at Washington, 6 p.m.

Portland at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

This Week's Top 25 Fared 1. Duke (12-0) beat Santa Clara 9077.

2. Michigan (13-0) beat Central Michigan 88-73.

3. Arizona (12-0) beat No. 17 San Diego State 68-67.

4. Louisville (12-1) beat Kentucky 8077.

5. Indiana (12-1) beat Jacksonville 93-59.

6. Kansas (11-1) beat American U. 89-57.

7. Missouri (10-2) lost to UCLA 9794, OT. 8. Cincinnati (12-1) lost to New Mexico 55-54.

9. Syracuse (11-1) beat Alcorn State 57-36.

10. Ohio State (10-2) beat Chicago State 87-44.

11. Minnesota (12-1) did not play.

12. Illinois (13-1) beat Auburn 81-79.

13. Gonzaga (12-1) beat Baylor 9487.

14. Florida (9-2) beat Air Force 7861.

15. Georgetown (10-1) did not play.

16. Creighton (12-1) beat Evansville 87-70.

17. San Diego State (11-2) lost to No. 3 Arizona 68-67.

18. Butler (10-2) beat Vanderbilt 6849.

19. Michigan State (11-2) did not play.

20. UNLV (11-2) lost to North Carolina 79-73.

21. Notre Dame (12-1) did not play.

22. Oklahoma State (10-1) did not play.

23. N.C. State (10-2) beat Western Michigan 84-68.

24. Pittsburgh (12-1) did not play.

25. Kansas State (10-2) beat UMKC

52-44.0 Men’s College Basketball Scores EAST American International 96, LIU Post 94, 2OT Colgate 65, New Hampshire 63 Concordia (N.Y.) 98, Bentley 81 Cornell 79, Binghamton 77 DeSales 80, Centenary (NJ) 57 Edinboro 88, Thiel 66 Frostburg St. 74, Washington (Md.) 73 George Washington 77, Sacred Heart 38 Hobart 74, Hartwick 59 Rutgers-Newark 82, Hunter 50 S. New Hampshire 71, Wilmington (Del.) 57 Sciences (Pa.) 83, Kutztown 75, OT Slippery Rock 122, Ohio-Eastern 60 St. Francis (NY) 89, NJIT 87 St. Michael's 83, Caldwell 64 West Virginia 74, E. Kentucky 67 SOUTH Alabama A&M 59, Mississippi St. 57 Appalachian St. 71, Milligan 51 Birmingham-Southern 82, Maryville (Tenn.) 76 Coastal Carolina 85, Greensboro 65 Dallas 79, Berry 66 Harding 66, Christian Brothers 48 Morehead St. 114, Union (Ky.) 67 Mount Olive 72, Augusta St. 69 Rhodes 59, Austin 43 SC-Upstate 85, Coastal Georgia 55 Tulane 53, Alabama 50 UNC Asheville 95, Bluefield 66 Virginia 74, Wofford 39 Virginia Union 72, St. Thomas Aquinas 49 Winthrop 50, Hampton 43 MIDWEST Akron 62, Princeton 58 Detroit 83, Canisius 78 Green Bay 84, Ill.-Springfield 43 Ind.-South Bend 65, William Woods 59 Indiana St. 77, Illinois St. 75 Kent St. 77, Fairmont St. 75 Lakeland 74, Macalester 61 Marian (Wis.) 71, Northwestern (Minn.) 69 Miami (Ohio) 84, Wilmington (Ohio) 67 Missouri St. 70, S. Illinois 59 Tiffin 80, California (Pa.) 71 Wichita St. 66, N. Iowa 41 Wis.-Stout 62, Concordia (Wis.) 42 Wright St. 58, Mount St. Joseph 49 SOUTHWEST SMU 72, Furman 53 TCU 67, MVSU 64 FAR WEST Boise St. 105, Corban 49 CS Bakersfield 60, NC A&T 52 Fresno St. 89, Sonoma St. 64 Hawaii 74, CS Northridge 71 Saint Mary's (Cal) 78, Yale 62 TOURNAMENT Bojangles Holiday Challenge Second Round Hampden-Sydney 73, Johns Hopkins 58 Randolph 75, Huntingdon 73, OT NYU Holiday Classic Second Round NYU 69, Clark U. 67 Wentworth Tech 68, Widener 63 This Week's Women's Top 25 Fared 1. Stanford (11-1) lost to No. 2 UConn 61-35.

2. UConn (11-0) beat No. 1 Stanford 61-35.

3. Baylor (10-1) beat Southeastern Louisiana 106-41.

4. Duke (11-0) beat Monmouth (N.J.) 73-32.

5. Notre Dame (10-1) beat No. 11 Purdue 74-47.

6. Georgia (12-1) lost to Illinois 7059.

7. Kentucky (11-1) beat Alcorn State 90-23; beat Marist 78-56.

8. California (10-1) beat George Washington 70-43.

9. Maryland (9-2) beat Brown 76-36.

10. Penn State (10-2) did not play.

11. Purdue (11-2) lost to No. 5 Notre Dame 74-47.

12. Louisville (11-2) did not play.

13. Tennessee (9-3) beat Davidson

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14. Oklahoma State (10-0) beat Harvard 92-62; beat San Diego State 80-72.

15. Dayton (12-1) lost to Bowling Green 65-40.

16. North Carolina (13-1) beat East Tennessee State 85-44; beat Clemson 65-58.

17. UCLA (8-2) beat Pepperdine 7746.

18. Oklahoma (10-2) beat Cal State Northridge 79-57.

19. South Carolina (12-1) beat Western Carolina 66-44.

20. Texas (8-4) lost to Iowa 86-63; lost to Central Michigan 73-65.

21. Florida State (11-1) beat Boston College 76-70.

22. Kansas (9-2) did not play.

23. Colorado (11-0) beat New Mexico 84-39.

24. Texas A&M (9-4) beat Prairie View 74-52.

25. Arkansas (11-1) beat Coppin State 71-57.

Women’s College Basketball Scores EAST American U. 48, Mount St. Mary's 46 Army 67, Bryant 51 Boston U. 72, Lehigh 44 Cornell 60, William & Mary 56 Fairleigh Dickinson 54, Binghamton 41 NC State 70, St. Bonaventure 66 NJIT 48, Rhode Island 44 Navy 67, Marshall 51 SMU 88, Harvard 70 Sacred Heart 61, Siena 60 Seton Hall 57, Wofford 53 Stony Brook 70, Iona 64 Syracuse 87, Boise St. 48 Towson 69, Maine 64 MIDWEST Adrian 67, Anderson (Ind.) 56 Bowling Green 65, Dayton 40 Cleveland St. 70, Lake Erie 51 Davenport 84, Finlandia 42< DePauw 73, Rockford 43 Green Bay 63, Wichita St. 42 IPFW 80, W. Illinois 49 Illinois St. 65, Butler 57 Indianapolis 78, Michigan Tech 74, 2OT Iowa St. 86, Alabama St. 47 Mary 108, Dakota St. 37 Minnesota 88, Creighton 81, 2OT Minot St. 92, Brandon 42 Missouri St. 88, Coppin St. 75 Oakland 68, IUPUI 59 Ohio St. 67, Howard 50 Robert Morris 60, Kent St. 51 S. Dakota St. 76, N. Dakota St. 57 South Dakota 62, Nebraska-Omaha 57 William Woods 66, AIB 57 Wis.-Parkside 89, Indiana-Northwest 52 SOUTH Catawba 76, Livingstone 54 Clayton St. 56, Barton 46 Duke 73, Monmouth (NJ) 32 Florida St. 76, Boston College 70 Holy Cross 63, Bethune-Cookman 54 Kentucky 78, Marist 56 Lincoln Memorial 71, Milligan 62 Mount Olive 78, Fayetteville St. 71 North Carolina 65, Clemson 58 Richmond 53, UNC Wilmington 42 Tennessee 66, Rutgers 47 UAB 80, UNC-Greensboro 62 SOUTHWEST Rice 62, Lamar 56 Stephen F. Austin 73, Tulsa 69 Texas Tech 86, Houston 56 UTEP 83, Texas-Pan American 56 FAR WEST Arizona St. 60, Idaho St. 53 Oklahoma St. 80, San Diego St. 72 Penn 61, Air Force 39 Sacramento St. 66, UC Davis 65, OT Saint Mary's (Cal) 79, George Washington 49 TOURNAMENT Blue Sky Classic Championship Delaware 60, Duquesne 45 Third Place Villanova 60, Dartmouth 37 FIU Sun & Fun Classic Championship Georgia Tech 65, FIU 63 Third Place Quinnipiac 83, Northeastern 72 Fordham Holiday Classic Championship Providence 66, Lafayette 54 Third Place Fordham 64, Colorado St. 59, 2OT GSU Holiday Tournament Championship Toledo 46, Georgia St. 43 Third Round Charlotte 63, MVSU 48 Maggie Dixon Surf N Slam Classic Championship Iowa 83, San Diego 73 Third Place Cent. Michigan 73, Texas 65 Tulane/DoubleTree Classic Championship Tulane 69, McNeese St. 63 Third Place Mississippi 61, E. Michigan 58

BASEBALL Baseball Calendar Jan. 9 — Hall of Fame voting announced.

Jan. 9-10 — Owners meeting, Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Jan. 15 — Salary arbitration filing.

Jan. 18 — Salary arbitration figures exchanged.

Feb. 1-21 — Salary arbitration hearings, Phoenix.

Feb. 12 — Mandatory reporting date for players participating in the World Baseball Classic in Asia. Mandatory reporting date for all other pitchers and catchers participating in the WBC. Voluntary reporting date for pitchers and catchers not participating in the WBC. Feb. 15 — Mandatory reporting date for WBC players not participating in Asia. Voluntary reporting date for position players not participating in the WBC. Feb. 20 — Mandatory reporting date for players not participating in the WBC. March 2-11 — Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players.

March 2-19 — World Baseball Classic.

March 13 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days.

March 27 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2013 salary.

March 31 — Opening day. Active rosters reduced to 25 players.

June 6 — Amateur draft.

July 12 — Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign.

■ NHL

Parties to resume lockout talks NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL and the players’ association are ready to get back to the bargaining table.

There were no formal negotiations Sunday, but all signs pointed to talks on Monday in an effort to end the lockout and save the season.

“There will be no further face-to-face meetings today,” the union said in a statement Sunday. “The plan is for the sides to meet tomorrow.”

Those would be the first negotiations since the sides met with a federal mediator Dec. 13.

The league and the union had informational discussions by conference call and in meetings with staff members that lasted much of Saturday and concluded Sunday. Those talks were spurred by the nearly 300page contract proposal the NHL presented to the union Thursday.

All games through Jan. 14 have been canceled, claiming more than 50 percent of the original schedule.

The NHL wants to reach a deal by Jan. 11 and open the season Jan. 19, with a 48game schedule.

Bargaining sessions with only the NHL and union haven’t been held since Dec. 6, when talks abruptly ended after the players’ association made a counterproposal to the league’s previous offer. The league said that offer was contingent on the union accepting three elements unconditionally and without further bargaining.

The NHL then pulled all existing offers off the table.

Two days of sessions with mediators the following week ended without progress.

A person familiar with key points of the offer told The Associated Press that the league proposed raising the limit of individual freeagent contracts to six years from five seven years if a team re-signs its own player; raising the salary variance from one year to another to 10 percent, up from 5 percent; and one compliance buyout for the 2013-14 season that wouldn’t count toward a team’s salary cap but would be included in the overall players’ share of income.

■ C. Basketball

Flyers fall to USC in overtime LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Wise scored a seasonhigh 19 points and Aaron Fuller added 12 points as USC defeated Dayton 6361 in overtime Sunday night.

Fuller scored the goahead points on free throws and put back a miss for a 59-55 lead. Jio Fontan completed a threepoint play on a spin move near the free throw line to make it 62-58, and the Trojans (5-8) held on for their second win in nine games.

The Flyers (9-4) had the last shot, but Kevin Dillard’s shot was wide left. Dillard led Dayton with 13 points, and Devin Oliver had 11 points, 12 rebounds.

Wise was ejected after he received two technical fouls at 5:29 of the second half.

USC took a 53-51 lead with 5.5 seconds remaining when Fontan scored.

Dayton came out of a timeout, and Dillard fed Oliver for a layup as time expired on a play that was reviewed and upheld.

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Call to describe and claim properly (937)773-9277.

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We will be conducting on the spot interviews on Monday, January 7th from 4 pm to 6 pm and again on Tuesday, January 8th from 6 am until noon. These will be conducted on a first completed application and math test basis.

Application and math test must be completed by 6pm on Monday the 7th and noon on Tuesday the 8th to be interviewed. We have approximately 15 positions to start with more to come.

We offer: • Medical/ Dental/ Vision Insurance • 401K • Weekend Shift Differential

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Expectations from our employees include excellent attendance, high productivity and a passion for meeting and exceeding company goals.

In return we provide an excellent benefit package including Health, Dental and 401(k), PTO and paid holidays, and a great work environment.

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TIPP CITY, Nice 2 bedroom, 1 bath, AC, appliances included, W/D hookup, garbage disposal, dishwasher. $490 month, $450 deposit. No pets, Metro accepted, (937)902-9894.

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New Manufacturing Company Coming to Piqua in Early 2013 We are a growing company based out of Minnesota and opening a manufacturing plant in Piqua, in early 2013.

We are looking for hard working individuals that enjoy having fun in the process. We have 1st shift job openings for experienced

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POLICY: Please Check Your Ad The 1st Day. It Is The Advertiser’s Responsibility To Report Errors Immediately.

Publisher Will Not Be Responsible for More Than One Incorrect Insertion. We Reserve The Right To Correctly Classify, Edit, Cancel Or Decline Any Advertisement Without Notice.

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All Display Ads: 2 Days Prior Liners For: Mon - Fri @ 5pm Weds - Tues @ 5pm Thurs - Weds @ 5pm Fri - Thurs @ 5pm Sat - Thurs @ 5pm Miami Valley Sunday News liners- Fri @ Noon

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LIVE-IN NURSES AIDE to comfort clients in their own home, stays to the end. 20 years experience, references. Dee at (937)751-5014.

12 • Troy Daily News • Classifieds That Work • Monday, December 31, 2012 925 Public Notices

500 - Merchandise

925 Public Notices

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: 12CV00733 Judge: Robert J. Lindeman

525 Computer/Electric/Office

COMPUTER SET, Windows XP, loaded, CDROM, DSL Internet, USB. 90 day warranty on parts, $100. Ask about laptops.

(937)339-2347.

OneWest Bank, FSB Plaintiff, -vsThe Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or Incompetent Heirs of Jerry L. Stager Defendants.

LEGAL NOTICE IN SUIT FOR FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE

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The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or Incompetent Heirs of Jerry L. Stager and The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or Incompetent Heirs of Wilma D. Stager, whose last known address is Address Unknown, and cannot by reasonable diligence be ascertained, will take notice that on the 1st day of November, 2012, OneWest Bank, FSB filed its Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio in Case No. 12CV00733, on the docket of the Court, and the object and demand for relief of which pleading is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff's mortgage recorded upon the following described real estate to wit:

925 Public Notices

To Advertise In The Classifieds That Work Call 877-844-8385

545 Firewood/Fuel

FIREWOOD, $125 a cord pick up, $150 a cord delivered, $175 a cord delivered and stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237 FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up, (937)726-2780.

SEASONED FIREWOOD $150 per cord. Stacking extra, $120 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available, (937)753-1047

925 Public Notices

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 January 16th 2013 at or after 9:00 am at the Extra Space Storage facility located at:

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, 21 N Kings Chapel Drive, Troy OH 45373 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances.

Unit 4413: Kim-Rae Ketcham, 317 South Virginialee Rd. Columbus, OH 43209, bed frame, sweeper, high chairs Unit 1117: Irene Knisley, 426 Grant St. Piqua, OH 45356, piano, exercise equipment, chairs Unit 1318: Mareda Lux, 105 ½ Roosevelt Ave Piqua, OH 45356, futon, high chair, clothes Unit 1325: Rita Sullivan, 429 Locust Lane Troy, OH 45373, recliners, lamps, cooler; Unit 2324: Tyler McFadden, 1589 Mckaig Rd Troy OH 45373, mattress, weights, tennis rackets Unit 4315: Jeff Santiago, 5029 Lincoln St Troy, OH 45373, mower, microwave, gun rack.

Property Address: 825 South Clay Street, Troy, OH 45373 and being more particularly described in plaintiff's mortgage recorded in Mortgage Book 1382, page 932, of this County Recorder's Office.

All of the above named defendants are required to answer within twenty-eight (28) days after last publication, which shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks, or they might be denied a hearing in this case.

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.

Paul M. Nalepka, Trial Counsel Ohio Supreme Court Reg. #0040796 LERNER, SAMPSON & ROTHFUSS Attorneys for Plaintiff P.O. Box 5480 Cincinnati, OH 45201-5480 (513) 241-3100 attyemail@lsrlaw.com 12/17, 12/24, 12/31-2012

12/31/2012, 1/07/2013

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545 Firewood/Fuel

SEASONED FIREWOOD for sale. $135 per cord, delivered. (937)638-6950

560 Home Furnishings

LOVESEAT, black reclining and red loveseat and chair both purchased at Front Room Furnishings in Dublin, Ohio. Like new excellent condition. Just moved to Sidney and don't have room for them.

Each set $550 jlentz61@yahoo.com.

(937)538-0601.

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583 Pets and Supplies

KITTEN Male, tabby, 4 months old, brownish with charcoal stripes. Sweet and funny. Needs a good home. (937)473-2122

LABRADOR RETRIEVER puppies, AKC, born 10/31, first shots & wormed, 2 black females, 2 black males, $225.

Call/text (937)638-0496.

805 Auto

2005 Cadillac Cts Silver, with Black leather interior, 125,000 miles.

2005 Cadillac CTS fully loaded Nav, DVD, Leather, Heated Seats, Dual climate control, sirius radio and much more! Silver with Black interior wood trim 125,000 miles. She's a beauty dont pass her up!! $9000 OBO. Please contact me if interested! $9000. (937)418-4029

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One Captains chair, $125.

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SNOW BLADE with chains, John Deere L130, used once, $150 OBO, (937)773-5248.

2001 GMC Sonoma, new tires, 119,000 miles, tool box, great gas mileage! $3000.

Call (937)214-5065.

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CASH, top dollar paid!

Junk cars/ trucks, running/ non-running. I will pick up.

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I buy guns, gold and silver coins and jewelry. Fair prices. (937)698-6362

2000 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE

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2011 FORD F350

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Be graceful and let father visit with his children Dear Annie: My husband and I lived with a very dysfunctional situation for several years. His children from a prior marriage were encouraged by their mother to tell falsehoods about our home life. She was planning to leave the state and needed full custody in order to take them, and she ultimately accomplished this.

We went to counseling and considered legal action, but realized that even if we won, we no longer agreed on how to parent these kids. The constant discord did some damage to our marriage. My husband put up with a lot of nastiness as long as the kids would see him. I tried to help, but couldn't tolerate their continuing dishonesty and disrespect. The kids eventually developed problems in their personal lives, school and jobs. Slowly, my husband rebuilt a relationship with them, but in doing so, he allowed me to be viewed as the enemy. I stopped being included in family plans.

Now his ex-wife and grown children treat my husband as if he is single. The holidays are fine, since the grown children spend them with their mother, and my husband spends his with our little family. However, he attends his children's graduations, weddings and birthdays without me.

I love my husband. He is happy with us and lets us know. Most of all, he thanks us for allowing him to be a normal parent. He has his adult children in his life and sees them once or twice a year, but the situation is becoming increasingly untenable to me. I no longer know what line to draw. Where do we go from here? — The Second Wife Dear Second: Actually, the line was drawn some time ago: Your husband attends his grown children's functions without you.

This is not ideal, but it also doesn't have to be cause for constant misery. It would show tremendous grace for you to tell your husband to go and spend time with his adult children, without any residual bitterness on your part. It's only once or twice a year, and we suspect Hubby would be enormously grateful.

Dear Annie: My husband, whom I love, has sleep apnea, snores loudly and refuses to wear a CPAP. He also won't see his doctor about alternatives. How am I supposed to get any sleep? I need my rest. — Tired in Nebraska Dear Tired: We trust your husband is aware of the severe health risks of having untreated sleep apnea. However, you cannot force him to do anything about it, so we recommend that you invest in earplugs or that one of you sleep in another room.

Dear Annie: I'm responding to "Want My Husband Back," whose married life turned to hell when her husband retired.

When I married my wife, I was very sports minded and adventurous with several hobbies. My wife was not interested in those things. I managed to teach her cribbage, but that was about it.

Now, we are both retired and work part time a couple of days a week. I started to explore some "on the edge" sports, and I forgot about her. After she called me on the carpet about it, I realized she had a point. All of my activities were directed toward me, and she was on the outside.

We decided on a course adjustment, and now I'm enjoying the opera while she is learning about extreme sports. She has even expressed some interest in trying one.

The best part is, we're together so much more often that it's like we went back in time 45 years.

And our private time together has really improved.

We have an agenda every day, even when we work. So my advice for retired couples is to call a timeout, make some adjustments and have fun. — Enjoying Retirement in New England 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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The Flintstones John Goodman. (:35)

The Island of Dr. Moreau (:15) Teen Wolf Too (PLEX) Movie Veronica Mars (R) Young & Restless Days of Our Lives General Hospital Young & Restless Days of Our Lives General Hospital (SOAP) Veronica Mars (R)

Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ('83) Mark Hamill.

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The Apartment ('60) Jack Lemmon.

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Transformers ('07) Shia LeBoeuf.

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SATURDAY’S SOLUTION:

HINTS FROM HELOISE

Is there a simple solution to cure flour frustration?

Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound Off, about flour bags: “Why can’t flour manufacturers create a bag or other container that is easy to open and close again?

“Many flour canisters aren’t large enough to hold 5 pounds of flour, so the partially full bag must be reclosed and stored. It is so frustrating to grapple with the glued seam to get it unsealed, then try to fold the top part of the bag back down and secure it. Opening was much easier when the top seam was sewn and the string could simply be pulled

Hints from Heloise Columnist to open the bag neatly. — Peggy in Nebraska” I’m in agreement! Sugar bags are just as frustrating!

— Heloise WHEN TO GET A NEW MATTRESS Dear Heloise: Are the mattress ads now running about needing to replace your

mattress every eight years just a sales ploy to replace your mattress sooner?

With the use of sheets, mattress covers, etc., I find it hard to believe what they say in the advertisements. — Pam in Dallas Yes, they are a ploy and are misleading! It is an exaggeration that a mattress doubles in weight every eight years! Give me scientific evidence!

There really is no set formula for when to buy a new mattress. Just remember to check the manufacturer’s recommended care guidelines and warranty before purchas-

ing a new mattress.

According to the Better Sleep Council (www.bettersleep.org), you should factor in how often the mattress was used and if it was cared for correctly. You also should ask yourself a few key questions, provided by the Council: Are you waking up with aches and pains?

Are there obvious signs of wear on your mattress?

Is your sleep better or worse than it was a year ago?

If you answered “yes” to any of these, you should look into getting a new mattress.

— Heloise

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

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DENNIS the MENACE

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Give yourself a chance to enjoy art galleries, parks, museums and architectural buildings, because today your appreciation of beauty is heightened.

Get out and enjoy yourself!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) If you have to divide or share something with someone today, you will be more than generous, because you feel sympathetic to others. Just remember: True generosity is giving what is needed.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a good day to mend broken fences and patch up problems with friends and partners. People will be cooperative and ready to hear the other person’s side of things.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) If you can help a co-worker today, you will. Or perhaps you are the one who needs help from others? Either way, coworkers and employees are mutually supportive.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Tackle creative projects, because your imagination is in excellent form today.

It’s easy for you to visualize what you want to create. You’ll also feel very sympathetic to the needs of children.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You might be confused about fixing something at home today. Or perhaps conversations with someone are a bit confusing. Nevertheless, family members are sympathetic today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Don’t be frustrated if you spend a lot of time daydreaming or woolgathering today. It’s just par for the course. (Your psychic powers also might be heightened.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Be careful when spending money today, because you could go overboard with luxurious, elegant purchases. It’s easy to talk yourself into thinking that you deserve the best. (But you also deserve the best credit rating.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You feel idealistic today and are very sympathetic to others. Because of this, you will look for ways to do the most good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your intuition is heightened today, and this could help you in research or searching for things. Trust your gut instincts to tell you where to look.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Relations with others today, especially in group situations, will be very friendly and mutually sympathetic.

You’ll enjoy lending your efforts to a worthy cause.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Be very clear in your communication with bosses, parents and authority figures today. However, this is a good day to appeal to their better side to help you in some way.

YOU BORN TODAY You are comfortable with authority and giving orders to others both at home and on the job.

Basically, you like form, structure and organization. You are honest, loyal and reliable. Be careful about taking on more responsibilities than you can handle. (Personally, you’re very sensitive.) Your year ahead might be one of the most powerful years of your life.

Dream big!

Birthdate of: E.M. Forster, novelist; B. Kliban, cartoonist; Deepa Mehta, filmmaker. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Today

Tonight

Chance of p.m. sniw High: 28°

Chance of late snow Low: 18°

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Monday 7:57 a.m. ...........................

Sunset tonight 5:22 p.m. ...........................

Moonrise today 7:52 p.m. ...........................

Moonset today 9:07 a.m. ...........................

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Partly cloudy High: 24° Low: 12°

Partly cloudy High: 25° Low: 12°

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Beach, Fla. Low: -26 at Alamosa, Colo.

Portsmouth 30° | 21°

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Cleveland 30° | 25°

Toledo 25° | 18°

Cloudy

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................30 at 4:31 p.m.

Low Yesterday............................26 at 10:29 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................35 Normal Low ......................................................21 Record High ........................................62 in 1984 Record Low..........................................-5 in 1983

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m..............................0.18 Month to date ................................................3.76 Normal month to date ...................................2.92 Year to date .................................................32.58 Normal year to date ....................................40.85 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Monday, Dec. 31, the 366th and final day of 2012.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 31, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an enabling act paving the way for Virginia’ western counties to become the state of West Virginia, which took place in June 1863.

On this date: In 1759, Arthur Guinness founded his famous brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin.

In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, the British

repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec; Montgomery was killed.

In 1909, the Manhattan Bridge, spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, was officially opened to vehicular traffic.

In 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II. In 1951, the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.

In 1969, Joseph A.Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was shot to death with his wife and daughter in their Clarksville, Pa., home by hitmen acting at the orders of UMWA president Tony Boyle.

In 1972, Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he’d chartered and was traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashed shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico.

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