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BOE discusses, approves five-year forecast Will E Sanders

Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Piqua City Schools Treasurer Jeremie Hittle outlined a concerning yet optimistic five-year forecast for members of the Piqua board of education at their monthly meeting Thursday before the measure received unanimous

Covington voters asked to continue fire, EMS support Amy Maxwell

approval.

Hittle noted three major factors taken into account with drafting the forecast, which consists of the state’s new funding formula, 2013 property tax reappraisals by Miami County; and the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

All three factors will have a great impact Piqua City

Schools over the next halfdecade, he said.

Hittle said revenue has had very little growth in recent years and property tax figures have remained stagnant. State funding increases since the last forecast have had “very little growth,” which came from casino revenue, which averages to about $50 for every student in the district.

Concerning property tax reappraisals, Hittle said that since the last reappraisal — reappraisals occur every six years — there has been a 9.8 percent decrease in property tax values in Piqua, combined with a 34 percent increase in agricultural values in the townships.

“What does all of that mean?”

Hittle said. “According to the

county auditor … he believes our property tax revenue will be stagnant. We can’t count on them for any increases in revenue.”

Turning toward the hot-button issue of Obamacare, Hittle informed the board the district is facing a 40 percent increase in health insurance rates, See BOE | Page 2

Career Center students break donation record

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COVINGTON — The Village of Covington will have two very important replace ment levies on the upcoming Nov. 5 ballot. One levy for 1.6 mills and one for 2.2 mills were put into place by voters in 1976 and in 2004, and both levies are used to fund the village’s fire and emergency medical services.

Village Administrator Mike Busse stresses the importance of the funds generated by these two levies.

“The passage of these levies by the voters will allow the village to continue to provide a high level of fire and EMS protection to Covington residents,” Busse said.

The village held an informational meeting regarding the upcoming levies and explained the wording that voters will read on the ballot. The levies are not titled as Fire and EMS levies, rather levies put into place many years ago as general fund levies. Busse reinforced that the funds will be used for the fire and emergency medical services and like many other communities, Covington pays for these services out of the general fund. According to Ohio election laws, the names of the levies cannot be changed on the See LEVIES | Page 2

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Seniors from the Upper Valley Career Center HVAC/R program line up with bags of coats to be loaded into waiting vans from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday. The Career Center tallied a donation total of 905 coats for Operation Coverup 2013, more than doubling the previous record.

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PIQUA — The spirit of Christmas is alive and well … if a bit early, in Miami County.

The Miami County Sheriff’s Office is sponsoring the 23rd year of “Operation Cover-Up”

to help children in need get warm coats for winter.

For the past decade, the Upper Valley Career Center has been the program leader in coat donations.

This 2013 coat drive surpassed organizers’ wildest expectations as Career Center students worked to make their

10th anniversary of donating coats, special.

A total of 905 children’s coats were donated by Upper Valley Career Center juniors and seniors. The total more than doubled the previous donation record.

Mrs. Jennifer Weaver, Student Senate Adviser, said,

Belinda M. Paschal Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Dwayne Thompson is the rare educator who can boast that his school district is part of his past, present and future.

Not only does he have a lengthy resume with Piqua City Schools, Thompson also attended Piqua schools, married a Piqua schoolteacher and is the parent of three Piqua schools students.

“I went to Favorite Hill for K-6, Bennett in 7th and 8th grades and graduated from Piqua High School in 1987,” he said. “I love the history that this area has to offer and I think the people are very supportive of our district and it’s a great place to raise my family.”

Thompson’s wife, Merrianne, teaches fifth grade science at Wilder Intermediate School.

They are the parents of twin daughters in first includes providing updates with Common Core grade at High Street Primary and a son who’s a and State Curriculum in the areas of language kindergartner at Nicklin Learning Center. arts, social studies, art, music and physical eduAs an Ohio University graduate in the early cation. (Common Core State Standards provide a 1990s, Thompson had job offers that consistent, clear understanding of what would have meant leaving Piqua, but students are expected to learn, so teachinstead, he chose to return to his old ers and parents know what they need to stomping ground. do to help them.)

With a degree in elementary educa“I work with the other curriculum tion under his belt, Thompson began director, Dave Shellhaas, to provide prohis career teaching third grade at South fessional development to support district Street School, then switching to kinand state initiatives,” Thompson said. ” dergarten for a couple of years. From The past several years have seen a numthere, he taught fifth grade at Favorite Thompson ber of changes with public education, so Hill Primary School and science and our work with district administrators and Bennett Intermediate before serving as principal teachers to address current state board of educaof Favorite Hill for several years. tion and legislative mandates is important to help These days, Thompson has been the director us remain current and compliant.” of curriculum and instruction for Piqua City Another responsibility of his job is writing Schools, a position he’s held for six years. Simply grants and helping teachers secure funding for put, he supports teachers with their instruction, their programs and classrooms. making sure they have the resources they need.

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“This is the tenth year I’ve been involved with Operation CoverUp Coat Drive and this is the largest response to date.”

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2 Friday, October 25, 2013 Obituaries DANIEL R. MADIGAN TROY — Daniel R. Madigan, 78, of Troy, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at the Upper Valley Medical Center, ER, Troy. He was born on May 12, 1935, in Wapakoneta, to the late James P. and Catherine (Noonan) Madigan.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years of marriage, Florence Evelyn (Moyer) Madigan; four children and their spouses, Mark R. and Rita Madigan of Lewisburg, Maureen A. and William Blankenship of Troy, Nicholas R. and Erin Madigan of Westerville, and Christopher A. and Amy B. Madigan of Troy; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Mary Jane Moyer of Troy and Rita and Gene Groff of Tipp City; three brothers and a sister-in-law, James and Josie Madigan of Sarasota, Fla., Thomas Madigan of Dayton and Robert Madigan of Troy; nine grandchildren, Terri Blankenship of New Carlisle, Luke (Melany) Madigan of Lewisburg, Andy Blankenship of Troy, Brooke Blankenship of Troy, Colin Madigan of Westerville, Alex Madigan of Troy, Morgan Madigan of Westerville, Regan Madigan of Westerville,

and Sam Madigan of Troy; and three great-grandchildren, Blake Morgan of New Carlisle, Alexis Madigan of Lewisburg and Sean Madigan of Lewisburg. He is also survived by his faithful companion, “Boomer.”

In addition to his parents, Mr. Madigan was preceded in death by one sister, Catherine Moloney, and one grandson, Brian Wyer.

He was a 1953 graduate of Troy High School, and a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Troy, and Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Madigan was a proud Irishman.

He retired from Hobart Corporation in 1993, after 26 years of service.

Following retirement, he worked at CAC in Troy.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Troy, with the Rev. Fr. James Duell officiating. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Patrick Catholic Church, 409 E. Main Street, Troy, OH 45373.

DEBORAH K. KILLIAN PIQUA — Deborah K. (Townsend) Killian, 65, of Piqua, died at 8:35 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at her residence. She was born Nov. 6, 1947, in Piqua to the late J. D. and Betty (Shawler) Townsend.

Survivors include two daughters, Kimberly K. Boyd with whom she had made her home, Cynthia Bush of Queen Creek, Ariz.; six grandchildren, Jacob Boyd, Megan Boyd, Bobby Coots, Kiara Bush, Naomi Bush, Xavier Bush; a brother, Jay Don Townsend of Aromas, Calif.; a nephew, Justin Townsend; and an aunt, Beverly Kaser.

Mrs. Killian was a 1965 graduate of Piqua Central High School and worked as a nurses aide at the Piqua

Memorial/Upper Valley Medical Center for more than 33 years. She had been a member of Grace United Methodist Church where she was a choir member. She enjoyed working Sudoku puzzles and was always appreciative of those who worked with her throughout her career as a care-provider.

Private services are being provided to her family through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

NEIL M. BOMHARD TROY — Neil M. Bomhard died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at the Caldwell House in the company of his sons.

He was two weeks from his 93rd birthday, having been born Nov. 3, 1920, in Piqua, to the late Arthur C. and Leota (Peters) Bomhard.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 58 years, Helen (Francis), and a brother, Arthur A. Bomhard of Piqua.

He is survived by his brother, Robert, of Piqua, and son Keith and daughter in law Cheri of Piedmont, Ala., and son Kevin of Troy.

He graduated from Piqua High School in 1938, and was a veteran of the U.S.

Navy where he served as an aviation machinist mate during World War II. He worked for the CSX Railroad for 41 years, including as the freight agent in Troy from 19631966. He enjoyed playing tennis, riding his bicycle, and being with friends and family.

Public visitation will be held from 12-2 p.m. Monday at Baird Funeral Home, Troy. Private family graveside services will take place in Riverside Cemetery, Troy.

Memorial contributions may be made to the donor’s choice of charity.

Friends may express condolence to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

MARY JANE CAMPBELL TROY — Mary Jane Campbell, 88, of Troy, passed away Thursday morning, Oct. 24, 2013, at the Koester Pavilion, Troy.

Jane was born on April 23, 1925, in Troy, and graduated from Troy High School in 1943. She was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Troy.

On June 11, 1971, she married Douglas Campbell and was at his side representing her hometown during his 12 years as mayor of Troy. Jane is remembered by many for her years serving as secretary for Cookson Elementary School, Edison State Community College and Miami County Mental Health Center.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Myrtle and Fred Davis, and son Michael McConnell (New Hampshire). She will be missed and remembered by her children, Skip McConnell and Barb Spigarelli (Kansas), Maryse McConnell (New

Hampshire), Shelley and John Denney (Troy), and Joe McConnell and Erik Haagensen (New York); grandchildren, Monica and Brian Ellis, Jenniffer and Jay Carlage, Josh and Agustina B oehringer, Michelle McConnell, Marc and Kelly McConnell, Sarah and Justin Owens, Alexandra Hedrick, Alexis and Rob Bonner, and Aaron Denney; and 13 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the Riverside Cemetery Chapel, Troy, with interment following. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the cemetery chapel.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 15120 Collections Center Drive, Lock Box 15120, Chicago, ILL 60693.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome. com.

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Fire, police called to the scene of apparent self-inflicted death Will E Sanders

Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — The Piqua Fire Department was dispatched to the 400 block of Glenwood Avenue on the report of a man who was resting lifelessly in the yard of a residence on

Thursday afternoon.

The Piqua Police Department responded to the scene of 412 Glenwood Ave. at 3:41 p.m. after the fire department was dispatched on the call, which originated after a neighbor called 9-1-1.

Officers at the scene discovered a 73-year-old male

in the yard with a revolver in his hands, according to the Piqua Police Department.

The Miami County coroner was called to the scene, but an official cause of death had not been assigned as of Thursday evening.

Piqua Police Chief Bruce

Jamison said the initial indication was the man sustained what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“It’s safe to say that the initial indication was that it was a self-inflicted wound,” Jamison said.

The investigation into the death continues.

Three candidates vying for Covington council Amy Maxwell

COVINGTON — Covington Village Council will have three candidates up for election on the Nov. 5 ballot with four open seats to be filled.

Candidates are incumbents Joyce Robertson and R. Scott Tobias, and new candidate Don Weer.

Current councilmember Tim Angle will not be returning after Jan. 1 as well as council president Doris Beeman. For the fourth open seat on council, the village will review submitted requests for the position.

After the 30-day review period, if they are unable to agree to take action to appoint a council member, then the position will be assigned by mayoral appointment.

Robertson feels her role as council member is to represent the village’s senior population living on a fixed income. “I can sense and feel the financial crush of the economy,” Robertson said. “So I feel it is important to make every attempt to not raise taxes or increase rates unless it is absolutely necessary. Council as a whole really tries to be the best stewards of the revenue generated by the village.”

Robertson has been excited to be a part of a couple of different developments on council recently. The sidewalk program has meant a lot to Robertson as she enjoys taking walks, and feels it is important to get around town safely. She feels the village’s program has empowered residents in the decision making process by giving them the opportunity to make their own choices in contracting companies and also make payment options available to them to ease the financial commitment. Robertson also feels the recycling program has been a very positive development in the village and has generated a great amount of savings for the village.

“I’m excited about our mayor and think he has a lot of good ideas,” Robertson said. “Council really tries to keep an open mind and I strive to represent the residents by sharing the same needs, goals and vision for the village of Covington.”

Tobias is looking forward to continuing to be a part of the updating of the village’s infrastructure. “In the next five years the village plans to develop the downtown area by making it more presentable as well as safe and convenient for travel,” Tobias said.

“The village also hopes to draw in more businesses in the process.”

Tobias also pointed out council’s goal to remain economical in today’s economy.

“You hear of cuts being made in today’s economy, but the village has

continued to run economically and not had to cut back in any of the programs available to residents and is even able to still provide healthcare to employees,” he said. Tobias is also excited about the development of the recycling program that fellow councilmember Marc Basye and Village Administrator Mike Busse worked hard on to implement by exploring various grants for funding.

“I think we really work well together as a council and we always strive to keep communication open with the public,” Tobias said.

New candidate Don Weer may be new to council, but is quite familiar with the village’s government. Weer served on the village’s Board of Public Affairs which handled the functioning of the village’s water and sewer systems. When the village decided to hire Village Administrator Mike Busse to perform many of the duties performed by the board, it was determined by the Ohio Revised Code that the Board of Public Affairs would be dissolved.

Weer fully supported that decision and looks at the opportunity to serve on council as a way to continue to give back to the community and remain involved.

Weer is retired but possesses many years of experience in manufacturing and engineering.

“My vision for Covington is to continue to move forward and improve the lifestyle for the village’s residents,” Weer said.

From page 1 though acknowledged that it is “primarily due to the design of our plan.”

Hittle said the district has done a “great job” of dealing with expenses over the years in maintaining a balanced budget, ensuring a carry-over balance each year, and controlling deficit spending.

“We’ve been successful for six years straight of not having deficit spending, and this year we’re on track to do the same thing,” Hittle said.”The overall picture is expenses are increasing and revenues are remaining stagnant. Even though we are getting a little bit more revenue from the state, it’s not going to keep up with the level of spending.”

Hittle also said the bottom line is the board will continue to keep working on solutions to avoid deficit spending and said “health care costs are the biggest area of concern that we have and we will continue to work with our insur-

ance provider for a solution with this problem.”

Also at the meeting the board approved ceremonial resolutions for Favorite Hill, High, and Springcreek primary schools, which were all recently announced as 2013 Schools of Promise by the Ohio Department of Education.

Piqua Superintendent Rick Hanes congratulated all three principals of each of the schools and told the board how big of an honor it is for those schools and the district.

“This is a great achievement,” the superintendent said. “This is a phenomenal achievement when you look across the Miami Valley.”

In other business: •Through a resolution the board authorized the acquisition of 13.5 acres of land adjacent to the Springcreek school site by the donation of John

S. Garbry. The land will be used in the future for environmental education and will be used as a land lab, Hanes said.

“We will do everything we can to make him (Garbry) proud of that land and what our students do with it,” he said.

•Accepted the resignations of Roger Moubry, special education teacher at Piqua High School, effective Oct. 23; Mindy Fulks, fifth-grade teacher at Bennett Intermediate, effective May 31, 2014; and Elizabeth Gray, science teacher at Piqua Junior High School, effective May 31, 2014.

•Approved the acceptance of $616.90 in donations.

The next regular meeting of the Piqua school board will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Municipal Government Complex in city commission chambers.

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Levies From page 1 ballot without allowing the current levies to expire. Completely new levies would then need to be placed on the ballot. “ The Covington community is blessed with well run fire and EMS,” Busse said.

“Our hard working volunteers dedicate their spare time keeping our community safe. Their dedication and hard work have saved our community thousands of dollars and many lives over the years.”

Busse said the village realizes that residents have worked hard for what they own and value the health and safety of their families and that it is the goal of the village’s emergency services to provide the highest level of service possible and to be there in times of need.

“Realistically, it is imperative to have these levies in place to support these services,” Busse said.

“We are asking for residents to continue to support the great services here in the village of Covington.”

Donation

From page 1 in Career Center students making more than 2000 coats available to children in need.

Of some 25 career programs available at the Upper Valley Career Center, 20 participated this year.

Seniors in the HVAC/R program rounded up the most coats this year, donating 206 to the cause. Placing second were Medical Information Management juniors who donated 164. Running close behind, for third place were junior students in Medical Technologies, with 161 coats donated.

HVAC/R students credit Reick Services for offering support to their efforts.

Although students engage in friendly competition to see who can bring in the most donated coats, all students at the career center understand the reason for the program.

“A student from a program that didn’t win commented to me that it was ok, (to not win),” said Weaver, ” It was just nice to know they all helped people.”

Rena Gumerlock of the Miami County Sheriff’s Office said while the Upper Valley Career Center is usually the largest single donation of coats, this year’s total was

amazing.

Gumerlock said, “It is great to see students show such pride in their community and wanting to help others.”

“It also means that we have enough coats (for those in need),” said Gumerlock, who coordinates the program for the sheriff’s office, “It is a huge relief.

The winning HVAC/R seniors earned a special day in November. The will enjoy a “dress-down” day (no uniforms required.)

They will have donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and a movie, courtesy of the Student Senate.

Working side-by-side with the sheriff’s office in Operation Cover-Up is Sunset Cleaners. In addition to serving as a dropoff point, Sunset Cleaners will dry clean or launder all of the coats donated on the drive.

The deadline to donate children’s coats to Operation Cover-Up 2013 is October 29.

Coats will be distributed at the Miami County Fairgrounds Shop and Crop building on November 2, from 9 - 11 a.m.

Anyone having questions regarding Operation Cover-Up can contact Rena Gumerlock at 937-440-6078.

Class Act From page 1 Overseeing curriculum and instruction for an entire school district is no small task, but one of the perks of the job for Thompson is interacting with teachers and students.

“I like working with the teachers and having an impact on students through them. In every aspect (of education) that I’ve ever done, I’ve always put students first,” he said. “I try

to find different things to get involved with the students.”

Thompson is a major proponent of getting students involved in their community and region. To that end, he has been built bridges between students and such programs and organizations as D.A.R.E, Piqua Arts Council, Johnston Farm and Indian Agency, Piqua Public Library, Mission:

Veterans to D.C.; Piqua Taste of the Arts; Miami County Parks District and Dayton Muse Machine.

“Any time I can work with students is a good thing,” he said. “The nice thing is a lot of the students at the high school are students I had at Favorite Hill, so I get to work with them at a different level and see how they’ve grown in this district.”

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Civic Hall of Fame Partly sunny and chilly recipients honored PIQUA — Three individuals who contributed greatly to the City of Piqua were inducted posthumously into the Piqua Civic Hall of Fame on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, on the fourth floor of the Fort Piqua Plaza, where plaques honoring the three individuals and previous recipients will be on display permanently.

According to Jim Oda, director of the Piqua Public Library, being included as a Civic Hall of Fame member is significant because it is the local residents who vote to choose the honorees.

During the ceremony, Mayor Lucy Fess read a proclamation from the city, for each one of the recipients, which include: •Granville Moody (1812-1887) — Moody

was born in Maine, moved to Ohio and became a Methodist minister in 1833. He served at the Piqua Greene Street Church from 18571861 and 1863-1865. In the Civil War, he commanded the 74th Ohio Infantry Regiment. For his bravery during the Battle of Stone River, he became known as the “Fighting Parson”and was promoted to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.

In Philadelphia in 1863, Moody met President Lincoln. Moody was a featured speaker at the Piqua Union Party rally in 1863.

He retired from the active ministry in 1883 and wrote his autobiography in 1890.

•Joseph W. Yost (1842-1923) — Yost was a Columbus-area archi-

tect who was responsible for designing some of the area’s most striking structures. In 1885, he designed the Miami County Courthouse in Troy. His impact on Piqua included the First Presbyterian Church (1889), the Slauson Building (1889), North Street School (1889), Schmidlapp Library (1889), the Plaza Hotel on the square (1890), and the Barber home (1891).

He is best known for his massive structures done in the Richardsonian Romanesque Style.

•Harrison “Harry” Franklin Reser (18961965) — Reser was born in Piqua in1896, and was playing the guitar at the age of 5. By 16, he had mastered the violin, cello, piano, trumpet,

saxophone and banjo. He played with a number of local dance bands. Reser moved to New York City in 1921 and was known as one of the finest banjo players of the era, recording more than 800 records and writing 10 instructional books. He probably was best known as the director and lead musician of NBC Radio’s Cliquot Club Eskimos, which broadcast live from 1925-1935.

Accepting on behalf of the three honorees were: Pastor Kenneth Stewart, pastor of Greene Street Methodist Church, accepting for Moody; Curt South, architect for the new Piqua City Schools, accepting for Joseph Yost; and Richard Allen of the Kettering Banjo Society, accepting for Reser.

Covington Halloween event set for Saturday Jennifer Runyon

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COVINGTON – The spirit of Halloween is alive and well in Covington, and Saturday promises to be a day filled with friendly spooks, candy and lots of fun.

The festivities begin at the elementary school with Fields of Grace Church’s Trunk or Treat at 1 p.m. A Halloween costume contest, sponsored by the Covington Noon Optimists, will then be held at 3:30 p.m. on Wright Street. And, for the first time ever the Covington Middle School will be open from 7-9 p.m. for the Haunted Middle School. Admission to the Haunted Middle School costs $1. Proceeds benefit the Bucc Club, a group of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students who participate in community service projects. In the past, the BUCC club has made donations to various organizations such as Make a Wish, Eagles Wings and the Covington Outreach Association. With money from the Haunted Middle School as well as other fundraisers, they plan to help more charities this year than in previous.

The idea for the Haunted Middle School started when staff members began discussing how scary it is to be in the building in the evening.

Building Secretary Stephanie

Robinson commented on the strange noises that can be heard after hours such as toilets flushing all by themselves.

“It’s just such an old building. It’s really neat. Just with it being dark, it’s scary all by itself,” she said.

But Saturday there will be some help bringing out the fright of the building. According to Robinson, there will be a graveyard outside the school, a haunted dance in the gym, screams coming from the basement and zombies on the roof that can be seen from third floor classroom windows.

“Nothing too gory,” Robinson said adding that she believes the event would be suitable for elementary students.

Middle school students will be working in the graveyard outside.

High school students from the Student Council, National Honor Society, Key Club and Drama Club will be serving in various roles including tour guides.

The middle school was built in 1932 and an addition was put on in the mid ‘50s. It served as the high school until January 1975. Thirty parents will be helping to bring out the haunts at the middle school on Saturday. Many of these parents have memories to share from their own days at the school.

Principal Jason Ahrens knows that every person who passes

through the building creates memories. Ahrens took the administrative position a little more than one month ago. Prior to this, he served as a math teacher in the building.

His new position has caused him to notice new things.

“With me moving into this spot, I’m here later and you hear things you don’t hear in the day,” he said.

Ahrens added that he likes the fact that the haunted middle school idea helps to inform younger generations about the past and the memories formed during their school days.

Before leaving his room to move into the principal’s office, Ahrens told his students, “I’m always going to be a part of this room just like you are. We all kind of make up that history.”

The fate of the middle school following completion of the building project is not yet known.

According to Superintendent Dave Larson, students will be in the new building at the start of the 2016-17 school year. At this time, the current middle school may be demolished.

“We thought this would be really neat because they may be getting rid of this building in a few years,” Robinson said of the Haunted Middle School. She added if the event is a success this year, it will most likely make a return next year.

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Cindy Dobo, left, owner of Dobo’s Delights on Main Street in Piqua serves a piece of cake to Owen Swigert, 12, of Houston on Thursday.

Dobo was serving cake to celebrate customer appreciation day following the store’s selection, along with customer Amanda Swigert, as the prize winner for the “Make a Cake Face” competition hosted by General Mills. A presentation was made by Mark Richman, Senior Territory Manager for the company’s Speicalty Channels Group, of a check, in the amount of $2,500 to both Dobo and Swigert.

PIQUA — The YWCA travel group will experience the magic of Christmas on their holiday trip on Wednesday, Dec. 4. There will be stops at the Warm Glow Candle Company, home of handpoured scented candles, and then off to Indianapolis to celebrate Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s 40th anniversary season with “A Beef & Boards Christmas.” The variety show format with live entertainment and luscious food will be sure to get you into the holiday spirit.

The group will then travel to The Fashion Mall at Keystone with

nearly 100 stores, a unique mix of high-end stores and luxury specialty retailers. On the trip back to Piqua, travelers will be treated to a light dinner from the YWCA kitchen. All gratuities for lunch and the bus driver are included. Trip prices are available for members and non-members.

The YWCA is currently accepting names to put on a waiting list for this holiday travel experience.

Stop at the YWCA Piqua at 418 N. Wayne St., call 773-6626 or e-mail info@ywcapiqua.com to add your name to the list or for additional information.

Extended Forecast Saturday Partly sunny

HIGH: 53 LOW: 30

Sunday Mostly sunny

HIGH: 51 LOW: 34

Fall events planned at Brukner Nature Center TROY — Brukner Nature Center is hosting the following upcoming events: •Nature Art Gallery: The autumn art exhibition featuring Charley Harper, the Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist, will continue through Dec. 15. Harper is best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.

From his groundbreaking mid-century illustrations for Ford Times Magazine and Golden Books, posters for the National Parks and his whimsical serigraph and giclée prints, Charley Harper’s art is a beloved treasure and an inspiration to an entire generation of artist and designers. A percentage of sales of the artists’ work will support Brukner Nature Center’s mission of wildlife conservation through preservation, education and rehabilitation. Free admission.

•Haunted Woods, 6-8 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday: Come enjoy a kidfriendly evening from 6:308 p.m. filled with guided walks, live animals and costumed characters. A guide will lead you along the gently rolling, luminary-lit trail and stop at five stations along the way so you and your family can learn all about the wild creatures of the night. But the fun doesn’t stop there; activities also include free face

painting, crafts and games, wildlife viewing, storytelling at a campfire plus cookies and cider after the hike.

This program is $3 per person for BNC Members and $5 per person for nonmembers. Please be sure to have your membership card ready. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis on the night of the event, handed out in the order that you arrive at the gate at our entrance, so if you want to join your friends please ride together or meet and drive in together. Gate opens at 6 p.m. with the first group leaving at 6:30 and every five minutes after that. Parking is limited, so load up the van and carpool.

•Creature Feature: Brukner Nature Center will present “Northern Bobwhite Quail” on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2-3 p.m.

Bobwhite Quail populations are decreasing at an alarming rate. As a species of concern in Ohio, factors such as habitat destruction and short life expectancies are grave influences to transitioning this grassland bird into a threatened conservation status. Join us as we explore the natural history of the diminishing Northern Bobwhite Quail, how it contributes to their decline, and about some conservation initiatives to help maintain and restore their populations. Free with admission to the center.

Parade participants invited to trick or treat

GM delighted with Dobo’s

“A Magical Christmas” trip planned by YWCA

High temperatures will continue to run about 15-degrees below normal through the end of the week.

High 47, Low 28

PIQUA — Mainstreet Piqua and downtown Piqua merchants invite participants in the annual Kiwanis Halloween parade to come and trick or treat on Main Street prior to the annual Kiwanis Parade on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Various departments at the City of Piqua will be handing out candy from 4-5 p.m. to visitors at the Municipal Government Complex. Downtown merchants will be handing out candy from 5-6 p.m., allowing the costumed parade participants to make it over to the judging area prior to the parade.

The preliminary list of North Main Street businesses participating in trick or treat include: •In the 300 block: Uniforms Plus, Susie’s Big Dipper, Knobby’s Shop, the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce, Barclays Men’sWomen’s Clothiers, Lovely Variety.

•In the 400 block: Piqua Guitar, Readmore’s

Mulligan’s seeks Sunday sales

Craft bazaar at A.B. Graham

PIQUA — Voters in Piqua will decide a local option for Sunday sales for a new Piqua business on the Nov. 5 ballot on Election Day. Mulligan’s Pub, 110 W. High St., Piqua, is seeking voter approval for the sale of wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor on Sundays between the hours of 11 a.m. through midnight.

The site is seeking to obtain a D-6 liquor permit.

CONOVER — The A.B. Graham Memorial Center in Conover will host a craft bazaar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9.

Table space is $15 per vendor.

There also will be light concessions available.

A raffle will be held for a basket of goodies donated by vendors.

To rent a space or for more information, contact Heather Treon-Moore at 657-4676 or email at hrvsrv@aol.com.

Staff report

Hallmark, Dobo’s Delights, Glamour on Mane, Jerry Anthony’s Edward Jones Office, the law office of Stephanie Gunter •In the 500 block: Liberty Tax Service, Morris Comfort Systems, Papa John’s Pizza, Style and Polish Salon, Somewhere in Time Dan’s Shell in the 600 block of North Main Street, Hand to Hand Consignment store at 101 E. High St., and Stonebridge Church, 105 E. Greene St. also will be participating. The Piqua Public Library will hand out trick or treat candy at the circulation desks on the first floor and the children’s department, as well as at the information desk on the second floor.

Questions about the downtown trick or treat may be directed to Mainstreet Piqua at 773-9355.

The Kiwanis Halloween Parade will start at the intersection of Main and Market streets at 7 p.m. and make its way to the YMCA where the prizes will be awarded.

Practice Tai Chi at YWCA PIQUA — Tai Chi students who have participated in Fred and Linda Verceles’s classes at the YWCA are invited to take a four-week Tai Chi practice session facilitated

by John Hirby beginning Monday, Nov. 4, from 7-8 p.m.

For more information on class fees or registration, stop at the YWCA Piqua at 418 N. Wayne St., call 773-6626 or e-mail info@ ywcapiqua.com.

Opinion

Contact us For more information regarding the Opinion page, contact Editor Susan Hartley at 773-2721, or send an email to shartley@civitasmedia.com.

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Reader urges support for Holfinger

Serving Piqua since 1883

“There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

(Proverbs 14:12 AKJV)

Mother of the Munchkins

Born to ride

After the Big D in After a while, the 2010, certain childhood endless outcries were stepping stones fell enough to drive me back behind schedule, such inside the house in a as one Ms. wee Emma huff, feeling every bit learning to ride a bike of empathy for Morgan without trainFreeman as ing wheels. he drove In an effort Ms. Daisy to catch up, about town.

I spent this And with the previous sumsame results mer running for weeks on up and down end, whenthe alley ever Emma behind our requested our house with going outsaid 10-year- bethany j. royer side for more old on her training time Columnist elder sister’s on the bike, old bike to absolute I began to find every exhaustion. Mind you, excuse possible, wheththis alley is paved so I er it was homework, the was not attempting to dog needed a bath, or teach her to ride her alien abduction. bike on gravel but it Even the former sure felt like it. And I husband/ex-husband/ can now appreciate as now fiance decided to to why parents need take his turn with one to teach bike riding Ms. wee Emma, under skills to their children the same delusion he’d early — the weight. have her biking on two Emma may be a slip of wheels in no time, only thing but you add in for him to discover he a double-digit age and is allergic to the great a much larger bike and outdoors. the task quickly became As is often the case, something even Rambo summer passed in a would find tiresome. blink of an eye with Granted, I was over- Emma no closer to ridconfident from the start. ing on her own and Since my babysitting my pretty much having years an eon ago and given up on the whole seemingly in a galaxy thing. At least until my far, far away, I’ve helped mother offered to tackmany a child learn to le the project which I ride their bike, includ- took as an insult and ing the elder sibling, was bolstered to give it one Ms. Brianne. I was another shot. But once certain things would go more, Emma showed smoothly and that in a her lack of trust in my few tries Emma would methodology as I ran be well on her way. her up and down the Um … no. alley, trying to look like Over and over again I was enjoying the expeI fail to remember rience for the sake of Emma is the reincar- our neighbors. The ones nation of my maternal undoubtedly laughing grandmother who was from behind closed curwell-known for being tains in the sanctuary of unabashedly vocal and their homes. extremely picky, among Still no results. her far more positive Then a few weekattributes such as hav- ends ago one of Emma’s ing been both a won- school friends came over derful cook and tireless for a visit and the two community activist at went outside to play. her church.

Now imagine if you Love you, grandma! will, the phone rings and Anyway, while runit is my mom. I stroll out ning back and forth to the kitchen to sneak a behind the house, throwpeek at the kids playing ing out suggestions and in the backyard only to such, Emma proceeded see a dark-haired child to make outraged comof thin build riding her mentary on everything bike up and down the from my lack of running alley. fast enough behind her I cannot repeat here to not holding on tight what I said into my mothenough to the back of er’s ear, as it involved her seat. four-letter words on the She backlashed against the bike for little stinker riding her not going straight on bike unaided and quite its own and shared her well up and down the alarm over my having alley like she had been the nerve to let go. born to ride.

Cause this action was Bethany J. Royer is the mother of two risking her life in an munchkins and third-year psycholeffort to teach her to ogy student. She can be reached at broyer@civitasmedia.com. ride a bike.

Moderately Confused

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National Perspective

When to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em?

The drama of the last two weeks has many of the House rebels believed fervently been about the future of nationally man- that they had to undertake this battle, that dated health insurance, resuming govern- to bow to the practical was to sacrifice the ment spending, extending the debt ceiling principle. and avoiding national default. These are This is an enduring theme, and not all important matters — any one of them only in conservative circles. Throughout could be enough to stop a counthe late 1980s, after two terms try dead in its tracks — and the of Reaganomics, some conserordeal of October 2013 surely vatives argued that the only will be studied by scholars for thing wrong with supply-side years to come. economics was that it hadn’t But in a way this month’s been tried yet. In more recent crisis has been about even days, Republican political figgreater issues, not the sort that ures have argued that the GOP’s are debated on the floor of the repeated retreat to the center in House or Senate or even in presidential elections (nominatpolitical science classes, but ing Sen. Robert Dole in 1996 instead are the preoccupation David M. Shribman or former Gov. Mitt Romney in of the philosophy department 2012) had won the party nothColumnist and the pulpit. We have been ing but defeat. so consumed with avoiding default, or Often such arguments have been no charting the barometric pressure inside the more resonant than the bleats from acaHouse Republican conference, or watching demic socialists and communists that pure John Boehner balance what he wanted to Marxism has yet to be attempted and that do with what he needed to do, that we have their cause has been besmirched by leaders overlooked the more enduring questions like Lenin and Stalin, who warped a prethis episode has posed. cious principle and were tyrants and not We knew from the start of this struggle ideologues. that eventually the government would open — When does standing for one principle and that eventually Washington would pay violate other principles? its bills. But we also know that this crisis From the Republican viewpoint, the has raised but not answered these ques- showdown that gripped the Capitol pit one tions, unavoidable in our private lives even widely held principle (antagonism toward if they are avoidable in lawmakers’ public Obamacare) against another one (financial lives: responsibility). In cases like this, lawmak— When does principled resistance ers have to weigh not only the moral value become stubbornness and intransigence? of one against the other, but also the practiHouse Republicans angered Democrats cal consequences of one against the other. and some Republicans for their determinaIn the minds of mainstream Republicans, tion not to allow the regular functions of the tea partiers made the wrong choice. But government to proceed until Obamacare in the minds of the rebels, they made the was, variously, repealed, trimmed back or right choice, calculating that the sense of adjusted. Many of these lawmakers were financial responsibility of their rivals would elected from devoutly conservative districts make them fold. where resistance to Obamacare is genuine These rebels weren’t the only ones playand strong and where their election to ing that game, however. The Democrats Congress was fueled by their vows to fight made the same calculation, convincing Obamacare on the beaches, on the landing themselves that the party of business would grounds, in the fields, in the streets and in bend to business values, allowing them to the hills. keep Obamacare free from fetters. Of such Many of you will recognize that the calculations are crises made. latter was paraphrased from Winston — When do we prize steely determinaChurchill’s June 1940 “we shall never tion and when do we condemn it? surrender” speech, which is saluted (as That sounds like a hard one, but it’s really Churchill would say) by English-speaking easy, which is why the country faced such people as the ultimate expression of politi- a threat this month. We prize steely detercal and moral determination. We celebrate mination when we like a cause (integration it because we admire the cause in which he is a good example) and we condemn it enlisted those brave words: the defeat of a when we revile a cause (segregation, for brutal tyranny bent on world domination instance). and the extermination of its enemies, both — When does a leader’s responsibility military and civilian. rest with expressing the will of his followers Only a very few would create a moral and when does it rest with serving a greater equivalency between the drive to defeat good? And does a leader have the right, or Hitler and the drive to defeat Obamacare; responsibility, to discern a greater good? there is a legitimate case to be made for Welcome to John Boehner’s world — and proportion and for distinctions made on to the prison of his position. ethical grounds, for there is a grave differFrom the beginning he knew what his ence between government-mandated insur- conservative wing wanted, and he knew ance and government-sponsored genocide. that financial default was a political, finanBut in questions of acknowledged lesser cial and moral disaster. If he did not know consequence, it is not as easy as the tea it at the beginning, he surely knew a week party critics say it is to draw the line into the struggle that there was little likebetween resistance and intransigence. lihood of reconciling what some of his — When does the practical trump the supporters wanted and what the nation principle? needed.

From the start, Sen. John McCain of Boehner knew that his was a conundrum Arizona told his Republican colleagues that for the ages, a choice, like so much else in their effort was doomed to fail, that their this episode, between competing perspecone-House challenge to Obamacare was tives — and a test case in one of the hardquixotic but doomed. “We were demand- est decisions in life, and in politics: when ing something that was not achievable,” to fight on principle and when to quit in he said in exasperation Tuesday night as principle. he declared the GOP had “lost this battle.”

His words had greater force after a fort- David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Post-Gazette night of struggle than they did at the begin- (dshribman@post-gazette.com, 412 263-1890). Follow him on ning of the capital confrontation. And yet Twitter at ShribmanPG.

The First Amendment

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 the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Public officials can be contacted through the following addresses and telephone numbers: n Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, warD5comm@piquaoh.org, 773-7929 (home) n John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 937-570-4063 n William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner, ward2comm@piquaoh.org, 773-8217 n Joe Wilson, 3rd Ward Commissioner, ward3comm@piquaoh. org, 778-0390 n Judy Terry, 4th Ward Commissioner, ward4comm@piquaoh. org, 773-3189 n City Manager Gary Huff, ghuff@piquaoh.org, 778-2051

n Miami County Commissioners: John “Bud” O’Brien, Jack Evans and Richard Cultice, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373 440-5910; commissioners@co-miami.oh.us n John R. Kasich, Ohio governor, Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 644-0813, Fax: (614) 466-9354 n State Sen. Bill Beagle, 5th District, Ohio Senate, First Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-6247; e-mail: SD05@sen. state.oh.us n State Rep. Richard Adams, 79th District, House of Representatives, The Riffe Center, 77 High St. 13th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 466-8114, Fax: (614) 719-3979; district79@ohr.state.oh.us n Jon Husted, Secretary of State, 180 E. Broad St. 15th floor, Columbus, OH 53266-0418 (877) 767-6446, (614) 466-2655

To the Editor: Soon we who live in this (Washington) township are being asked to vote for a trustee to serve a new term. I would like to urge all voters to reelect Paul Holfinger to that term. Paul was the leader that got the township removed from the city some 18 years ago and has been a leader in keeping it well-managed ever since.

Anyone in the township knows that if Paul is made aware of a problem that it gets attention promptly.

I urge you to re-elect Paul Holfinger for one more term.

Jim Apple Washington Township vvvvv

Writer takes a look at library levy To the Editor: I would like to draw attention to the TroyMiami County Public Library renewal tax levy on November’s ballot. I think the promotion of this tax levy has been misleading. Usually tax levies stipulate a certain period of time, such as four years, when they expire. The current ballot language proposes “continuing ” as the period of time, which means once it passes, you will probably be paying for the tax forever. As claimed, it is a renewal tax with no tax increase, but there is no expiration date. I feel definite expiration dates on levies keep government more accountable to the taxpayers. That kind of levy is a way to touch base with citizens on how their money is being used. I discovered this fiasco when completing my absentee ballot. It appears that Washington, D.C.’s shenanigans are rubbing off on the local folks.

Bonnie Sullenberger Fletcher

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Underwood will Sean Combs begins his star on live TV in all-music network ‘Sound of Music’ David Bauder AP Television Writer

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The end of the year looks busy for Carrie Underwood, and she couldn’t be happier.

The six-time Grammywinning singer will host the Country Music Association Awards for the sixth time. You can see her singing the opening on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” And for one night in December, she’ll star in a live television version of “The Sound of Music.”

The 30-year-old star told the Associated Press on the red carpet Tuesday night at the TJ Martell Foundation gala, where she was one of the night’s honorees, that she nervous doing something she’s never done before. But then she realized, “None of us have.

This is a live show on TV. So this is definitely a challenge for all of us.”

She said the live singing and acting was like “going to a Broadway show, but you’re in your living room.”

“The Sound of Music” airs Dec. 5 on NBC with Underwood playing Maria alongside “True Blood” vampire Stephen Moyer. He portrays Captain von Trapp.

Broadway veterans — and Tony winners — Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti and Christian Borle round out the cast as Mother Abbess, Elsa and Max. While the Nashville, Tenn.-based Underwood is no stranger to performing before millions of people on live television — she won the fourth season of “American Idol” — she felt she needed more preparation, so she showed up in New York three weeks early.

“I wanted to be here and have all my lines memorized and everything and be ready for it. It’s been really wonderful,” Underwood said. “Audra and Laura are incredible. Stephen’s great. It’s nice to be surrounded by that much talent.”

Before doing that show, the multiplatinumselling artist returns to

Greg Allen, Invision | AP

Carrie Underwood seen at the T.J. Martell Foundation 38th Honors Gala, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in New York.

her hosting duties on the CMAs. She’s nominated for three awards, including album of the year and song of the year.

While she and co-host Brad Paisley have it down to a science, she doesn’t see the experience as old hat.

“You never know what’s going to happen with us hosting,” Underwood joked.

She added: “I think being nominated — especially when hosting the CMAs — you just never know.”

The CMAs take place Nov. 6 in Nashville.

Underwood also spoke about recording the opening number this season for “Sunday Night Football.” She claims doing it was a nobrainer.

“It’s a lot of fun. I grew up watching football. I’m from Oklahoma, it’s what we do,” she said with a big smile.

The conversation then turned to hockey and her husband Mike Fisher’s team, the Nashville Predators.

“They got off to a little bit of rocky start, but definitely getting some momentum. I feel like my husband right now. I know what he feels like now. I feel there’s some really great, new young talent,” Underwood said.

And what about the team’s star center?

“My hubby, he’s been out for the past couple of games with a foot fracture thing. But he’ll be back on the ice, ASAP. I hope he does, because that’s the only way I get to see him, other than iChat.”

n Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

NEW YORK (AP) — S ean Combs’ new Revolt channel launched with a nod to big dreams and its founder’s musical past, bringing a new outlet for music to television.

Despite some technical glitches in its opening Monday, Combs aspires to nothing less than making Revolt the ESPN of music, with well-curated playlists and a strong focus on industry news.

“I want to know, who is Taylor Swift?”

Combs said. “Why is Miley Cyrus twerking? Why did Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake go on tour? Why did Kanye West call his daughter ‘North’? The industry of music is just as important, or more important, as the industry of sports.

Sports are covered in a serious manner and we want to follow in those footsteps.”

Most fans watch videos online or on demand these days, despite the existence of MTV’s networks, Fuse and BET. The struggling music industry doesn’t spend as much producing flashy videos as it did in MTV’s heyday. Networks that have started out primarily with videos moved on, primarily because the format is unattractive to advertisers.

“We’re just going to do it better,” said Val Boreland, Revolt’s chief programming executive. Combs said he wants a network where people program from the gut instead of sales charts, citing legendary DJ Frankie Crocker and “Soul Train.” His

Chris Pizzello, Invision | AP

In this July 26, 2013, file photo, Sean “Diddy” Combs of Revolt TV waits to take the stage for a news conference about the new channel during the Television Critics Association summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills. It was fitting that the rap impresario Combs opened his new Revolt TV music channel Monday, Oct. 21, on the steps of the Notorious B.I.G.’s old home, introducing a video for the late artist’s 1994 song, “Juicy.”

executive team is heavy on industry experience, with former ESPN executive and Vibe magazine president Keith Clinkscales, former Warner Bros. and MTV executive Andy Schuon and Boreland, who worked at Comedy Central.

Boreland said Revolt will stay in contact with viewers through social media and said Fuse, for example, does not have a strong connection with fans. A Fuse spokeswoman declined to make an executive available to talk about Revolt, or the difficulties of beginning a new network.

At its start, Revolt is available only on Time Warner and some Comcast cable outlets.

The channel’s website is live streaming the first three days. Combs is encouraging fans to contact cable and satellite operators to urge them to begin airing Revolt.

M o n d ay n i g h t ’s online launch was marred by technical

problems that operators blamed on demand.

The picture repeatedly froze as Combs talked from the front steps of a Brooklyn home where the late Notorious B.I.G. grew up. The opening video was Biggie’s 1994 song “Juicy,” a song Combs produced in his Puff Daddy days, where the artist looked back on an improbable journey that began with big ambitions.

From there, Combs and former MTV VJ LaLa Anthony played tracks from the French DJ and producer Gesaffelstein, the California hip-hop duo Audio Push and the British electronic music duo Disclosure.

Revolt will air videos almost exclusively with a few news reports sprinkled in until January, when a new studio in Los Angeles opens for artist interviews and concerts.

Combs was compelled to release a video a few weeks ago making clear that Revolt will cover

Baby’s birth is source of joy, anxiety for new dad DEAR ABBY: My wife and I are about to welcome our first child and we are overjoyed.

However, as her due date nears and we start talking about the birth, hospital, etc., I’m getting nervous and anxious. I’m worried, I guess, that something will happen to my wife and I won’t be able to cope with everything.

I had a rough childhood. Expressing emotions sometimes is pretty hard for me, so my wife doesn’t know about this.

Any advice on how to express my fears without sounding like I’m scared of losing her and the baby and expecting the worst?

Is this a common thing for first-time dads? — OVERLY EMOTIONAL IN TEXAS

DEAR OVERLY your anxiety. But please EMOTIONAL: Of course understand that all of the it is. You’re not experi- feelings you’re experiencencing anything different ing right now are very than what other expect- normal. ant fathers feel. But please understand that the inciDEAR ABBY: My dence of maternal and granddaughter asked me infant mortality in a tough question the U.S. is VERY today. She lives LOW. primarily with her Because your mother and stepfawife may have conther. Her biologicerns or anxieties cal father sees her of her own, it would two nights a week be better not to and every other discuss your fears weekend.

When right now. If you Dear Abby he asks her if she have male friends Abigail Van misses him, she or relatives who says she has to lie Buren are parents, they and say she does. might be willing to listen She hates lying and asked and offer support. Your me how she can tell him family doctor could also she doesn’t miss him very listen and, if necessary, much without hurting his refer you to someone who feelings. Can you give me can help you cope with some ideas? — STUCK FOR A RESPONSE IN NEVADA DEAR STUCK: Your granddaughter should say, “Dad, please don’t worry about me because I’m fine. I am adjusting.”

Period. It’s the truth, it’s not unkind and she won’t have to feel like she’s saying anything that should upset him.

DEAR ABBY: An exfriend of mine recently apologized for some bad behavior toward me, saying she had been going

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all forms of music. One of its two announced shows will focus exclusively on rock.

“People have made an assumption, because I’m a hip-hop artist and I’m African-American, that I’m going to try to make a second version of BET,” Combs said, “which I’m not.”

He said he’s wanted to start a music channel for several years, and looked into acquiring a struggling network and changing its format. His dreams meshed with Comcast, which was seeking networks with minority ownership.

At a party a few weeks ago, Combs ran into Oprah Winfrey and asked if she recognized his look of a stressed-out entrepreneur. Winfrey, whose own network got off to a rocky start, advised him to stay tough.

“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Combs said, “and it’s the most exciting thing I’ve done in a long time.”

through a rough time. She wants to renew our friendship and said she misses it. I was taken aback and didn’t know what to say.

I replied, “I’ll get back to you about this,” because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Abby, I have no desire to renew a friendship with her because I have had it with her volatile personality and her needy and clingy nature.

How do I eventually respond? I was thinking of saying I have a full plate of responsibilities and commitments right now and can’t make plans. I value your opinion, so what do you think? — NEEDS THE RIGHT WORDS IN MICHIGAN DEAR NEEDS THE RIGHT WORDS: You are under no obligation to resume a relationship with a troubled woman you’re glad to be away from.

Unless she has given you a deadline or manages to put you in a corner, you don’t have to say anything more about it. However, if she does trap you into making some kind of statement, the one you related to me would be appropriate.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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Making birthdays parties manageable A recently celebrated birthday difficult in this setting. A house in the McElwee house brought full of rambunctious children up an age-old question…how can isn’t a pleasant situation, and we celebrate our child’s birth- this caused some hesitation on our part. The other day without going difficult quality is crazy in the proweather in autumn. cess? Kids typicalGames can be ly have one vision played outside in of how birthday good weather, but festivities should in Ohio, you just transpire and the never know what parents have anothMother Nature will er. My hubby and bestow.

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We had to consider our own held away from home.

Our choice of venue provided needs, too. Money, location, and ease of function were things we some happy benefits that helped had to ponder. Both of us work to make this an easy party. Paper full time, so we needed this party products, pizza and drinks were part of the deal. We had a room to be as easy as possible.

We started to think through of our own for celebrating, and the location. For our eldest a personal attendant who even daughter, we’d hosted several cleaned up at the end. We made friend parties at our house. This life easy for ourselves by buying does provide a level of ease in the cake at the local grocery that it’s easy to manage food store. When the party was over, and decorations at your own we paid the bill and walked out house. Entertainment is more the door. It was an amazingly

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Plan a birthday party that both you and your child can live with, and it will be a happy celebration for everyone.

stress-free party.

So, how to manage your own birthday celebration? Walk yourself through the steps that we used. Talk to your child about their vision for the party. Narrow it down to their list of absolutes and the list of their wishes. Let them know from the beginning that all party planning is contingent on price.

Next, think about your own requirements for a party event.

If a house full of other people’s children gives you nightmares,

then look for an off-site venue.

There are wonderful places in the region where a party can be hosted. Get creative….a party at the park provides built in entertainment. If baking is a strength for you, then skip the store-bought cake, but look for other easy food items that will be simple to serve. Set a limit on the number of friends if you want to keep the cost and stress down. The more friends you allow, the higher the level of chaos is likely to be.

Finally, don’t let your child get roped into the fantasy of the big birthday party with clowns, ponies, and a million friends in attendance. These may look amazing on TV, but in reality they put the wrong focus on the day. A birthday is a celebration of your child’s growth and development, not on material items. Plan a party that fits your family and budget, not one fit for a movie screen.

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Give kids info they need, when asked

A radio talk show recently called to ask how parents should explain school shootings to their kids.

My answer: It depends. I prefer, for the most part, for parents to say nothing unless their children ask questions. And then, when a child asks, for parents to say as little as possible. My rule of thumb has always been to give children only the information they need, when the absolutely need it.

An aside: The selectivity of this question says more about the media’s tendency to create drama than any real need on the part of children. For example, when 10 children are killed in a school bus accident somewhere, no one in the media calls to ask me how parents should explain school bus accidents.

To “explain” school shootings to a child who has not asked questions about them accomplishes nothing of value and is very

likely to cause a sharp spike in anxiety. This is a very bad thing that’s happened.

After all, it is a given that the parent in No one understands these things very question is explaining because she is anx- well. I certainly don’t.” ious, and it is also a given “What if a child asks what that anxious parents precipihe should do if a shooting tate anxiety in children. occurs at his school?”

The question, then, Commonsense dictates becomes: What should a that the parent should say, parent say about school “You should follow instrucshootings if a child has tions from your teacher. Do heard and expresses worry what your teacher tells you about them? Under those to do.” circumstances, the response “What about kidnapshould be reassuring (“Your pings? Shouldn’t parents Living With Children school is safe”) and brief warn their children about because lots of words can the possibility of a kidnapJohn Rosemond confuse a child and lead, ping?” again, to anxiety.

That’s a special category because there Something along these lines, perhaps: are things children can do to prevent “There are people in the world who do being kidnapped. My mom warned me bad things. Sometimes these people are of kidnappers. She told me to never get bad and sometimes they’re just confused. in cars with, allow myself to be led by, or

accept candy from strangers. That warning saved my life when I was five years old and a man tried to lure me into his car with the promise of a soda if I would direct him to a certain store. I immediately turned and ran and the man sped off.

My mother — single at the time — said she was proud of me for following her instructions. She went around the neighborhood telling the other parents what had happened and also, of course, told the police. I remember a policeman coming to our house and asking me for a description of the man and his car. I’m sure there was increased vigilance in the neighborhood for the next few weeks, but all the kids were out playing the next day. I’m sure it worried my mother greatly, but she never let on. Thanks, Ma. Family psychologist John Rosemond: www.rosemond.com

Poll: Youth online abuse falling but prevalent Anne Flaherty Associated Press

WASHINGTON — More young people are reaching out to family members after being harassed or taunted online, and it's helping.

At least a little.

A poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV found incidents of "digital abuse" are still prevalent but declining somewhat. It found a growing awareness among teenagers and young adults about harm from online meanness and cyberbullying, as well as a slight increase among those

willing to tell a parent or sibling.

The findings come a week after two Florida girls, ages 12 and 14, were arrested on felony charges for allegedly bullying online a 12-yearold girl who later killed herself by jumping off a tower at an abandoned concrete plant.

"I feel like we're making progress. People should be encouraged," said Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center and professor at Florida Atlantic University.

The AP-NORC/MTV poll found that some 49 percent of all teenagers and young adults in the United States say they

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have had at least one brush with some kind of electronic harassment, down from about 56 percent in 2011. Of those who have encountered an incident, 34 percent went to a parent — compared to 27 percent just two years ago. And some 18 percent — up from 12 percent in 2011 — asked a brother or sister for help.

When asked what helped, 72 percent of those encountering digital abuse said changing their email, screen name or cell number, while 66 percent said talking to a parent. Less than a third of respondents found retaliation helpful, while just as many said it had no effect and 20 percent said getting revenge actually made the problem worse.

Girls were more likely than boys to be the targets of online meanness — but they also are more likely to reach out for help.

Sarah Ball was a 15-year-old high school sophomore at Hernando High School

in Brooksville, Fla., when a friend posted on Facebook: "I hate Sarah Ball, and I don't care who knows."

Then there was the Facebook site dubbed "Hernando Haters" asking to rate her attractiveness, the anonymous email calling her a "waste of space" and this text that arrived on her 16th birthday: "Wow, you're still alive? Impressive.

Well happy birthday anyway."

It wasn't until Ball's mom, who had access to her daughter's online passwords, saw the messages that Ball told her everything.

"It was actually quite embarrassing to be honest," remembers Ball, now an 18-year-old college freshman. But "really, truly, if it wasn't for my parents, I don't think I'd be where I'm at today.

That's for sure."

The poll also indicated that young people are becoming more aware of the impact of cyberbullying. Some 72 percent, up from 65 percent in 2011, said online abuse was

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a problem that society should address. Those who think it should be accepted as a part of life declined from 33 percent to 24 percent.

Hinduja credits school programs that are making it "cool to care" about others, and increased awareness among adults who can help teens talk through their options, such as deactivating an account or going to school administrators for help in removing hurtful postings.

That was the case for Ball, whose parents encouraged her to fight back by speaking up.

"They said this is my ticket to helping other people," Ball said.

With their help, Ball sent copies of the abusive emails, texts and Facebook pages to school authorities, news outlets and politicians and organized a local antibullying rally. She still maintains a Facebook site called "Hernando Unbreakable," and mentors local kids identified by the schools as victims of cyberbullying.

Ball said she thinks if other teens are reaching out more for help, it's as a last resort because so many kids fear making the situation worse. That was one reason Jennifer Tinsley, 20, said she didn't tell her parents in the eighth grade when another student used Facebook to threaten to stab and beat her.

"I didn't want them to worry about me," Tinsley, now a college student in Fort Wayne, Ind., said of her family. "There was a lot of stress at that time. ... And, I just didn't want the extra attention."

According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, every state but Montana has enacted anti-bullying laws, many of which address cyberbullying specifically. Most state laws are focused on allowing school districts to punish offenders. In Florida, for example, the state legislature this year passed a provision allowing schools to discipline students harassing others off campus.

In Florida's recent cyberbullying case, the police took the unusual step of charging the two teen girls with thirddegree felony aggravated stalking. Even if convicted, however, the girls were not expected to spend time in juvenile detention because they didn't have criminal histories.

The AP-NORC Center/ MTV poll was conducted online Sept. 27 through Oct. 7 among a random national sample of 1,297 people between the ages of 14 and 24. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. Funding for the study was provided by MTV as part of its campaign to stop digital abuse, "A Thin Line."

The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel, a probability-based online panel. Respondents are recruited randomly using traditional telephone and mail sampling methods.

People selected who had no Internet access were given it for free.

Associated Press Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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Healthcare.gov failures surface at Hill hearing Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leading contractors on the Obama administration’s troubled health insurance website told Congress Thursday that the government failed to thoroughly test the complicated system before it went live.

Executives of CGI Federal, which built the federal HealthCare. gov website serving 36 states, and QSSI, which designed the part that helps verify applicants’ income and other personal details, testified under oath before the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The contractors said they each tested their own components independently but that the Health and Human Services department was responsible for testing the whole system from end to end.

That kind of testing didn’t happen until the last couple of weeks before the system’s Oct. 1 launch.

It quickly crashed once consumers tried to use it.

Representing QSSI, Andrew Slavitt told the committee that ideally, end-to-end testing should have occurred well before the launch, with enough

time to correct flaws.

How much time?

“Months would be nice,” said Slavitt.

“We would have loved to have months,” concurred CGI vice president Cheryl Campbell.

The administration’s determination to go live on Oct. 1 despite qualms about testing quickly became a focus of the hearing, which turned sharply partisan at times.

Republicans, still committed to repealing Obama’s health care law, approached the questioning with a prosecutorial tone, leading New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone to call the whole exercise a “monkey court.”

The contractors did say the problems can and are being fixed on a daily basis, and they expressed confidence that uninsured Americans would have coverage by Jan. 1, when the law’s benefits take effect, though they would not be held to a timetable.

The hearing comes as President Barack Obama’s allies are starting to fret about the political fallout.

Democrats had hoped to run for re-election next year on the benefits of the health care law for millions of uninsured Americans.

Instead, computer

problems are keeping many consumers from signing up through new online markets.

One House Democrat says the president needs to “man up” and fire somebody, while others are calling for signup deadlines to be extended and a reconsideration of the penalties individuals will face next year if they remain uninsured.

Rep. Richard Nolan, D-Minn., told The Associated Press the computer fiasco has “damaged the brand” of the health care law.

“The president needs to man up, find out who was responsible, and fire them,” Nolan said. He did not name anyone.

The focus on the contractors is a first step for GOP investigators. After the failure of their drive to defund “Obamacare” by shutting down the government, Republicans have suddenly been handed a new line of attack by the administration itself.

Administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, are to testify next week.

Slavitt, representing QSSI’s parent company, said the operation’s virtual back room, known as the federal data hub, is working well despite

some bugs.

But his company was also involved with another part of the system, a balky component for registering individual consumer accounts that became an online bottleneck.

Slavitt acknowledged the registration system had problems but said they’ve largely been cleared away.

And he also laid blame on the administration, saying that a late decision to require consumers to create accounts before they could browse health plans contributed to the overload.

“This may have driven higher simultaneous usage of the registration system that wouldn’t have occurred if consumers could window-shop anonymously,” he said.

Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., chairman of the panel’s health subcommittee, said he wants to focus on the administration’s decision not to allow browsing, or window-shopping.

That’s a standard feature of e-commerce sites, including Medicare.gov for seniors.

Lack of a browsing capability forced all users to first go through the laborious process of creating accounts, overloading that part of the site.

“Who made that deci-

sion? When was it made?

Why was it made?” Pitts asked.

Without proof, some Republicans are suggesting it was done for political reasons, so shoppers could first see tax credits that work a like discount on their premiums.

Acknowledging what’s been obvious to many outside experts, the administration now says the system didn’t get enough testing, especially at a high user volume.

It blamed a compressed time frame for meeting the Oct. 1 deadline to open the insurance markets.

Basic “alpha and user testing” are now completed, but that’s supposed to happen before a launch, not after.

Meanwhile, House Democrats are starting to worry aloud about persistent problems with the rollout.

Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley, interviewed Thursday on “CBS This Morning,” said that Obama “can’t just get stuck on this for the next several weeks.”

As for calls that Sebelius be fired, Daley said that would be like firing the captain of the Titanic “after the ship hit the iceberg.”

Obama says he’s as frustrated as anyone and has

promised a “tech surge” to fix the balky website.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the administration will be more transparent about the problems.

After more than 20 days without briefing the media, HHS will start regular sessions on Thursday, he said.

In light of the computer problems, some Democrats are saying Obama should consider extending open enrollment season beyond March 31 and revisit the penalties for individuals who don’t sign up and remain uninsured.

Under the law, virtually all Americans must carry health insurance starting next year or face fines.

On that point, a change in the timeline for signing up for coverage is underway, the White House said.

Consumers have until Dec. 15 to apply for coverage that’s effective Jan. 1.

Even though open enrollment lasts until March 31, people would face a penalty if they postpone buying coverage beyond mid-February. Calling that a “disconnect,” the White House said officials will soon issue policy guidance allowing consumers to sign up by the end of March without penalty.

Detroit on 'razor's edge' weeks before bankruptcy

Ed White

Associated Press

DETROIT — Short of cash, Detroit was delaying payments to vendors and "operating on a razor's edge" weeks before it filed for bankruptcy protection, the head of the city's turnaround team testified Thursday.

Ken Buckfire, a Wall Street investment banker and Detroit-area native, gave the most detailed testimony so far on the second day of a trial that will determine whether the city can stay in bankruptcy court and eventually unsaddle $18 billion in debt.

Detroit must show it's broke and tried in good-faith to negotiate with creditors.

Unions and pension funds with much money at stake claim the city didn't hold genuine talks and therefore the case should be thrown out.

Buckfire's firm, Miller Buckfire, got involved in Detroit's finances before the bankruptcy. He arrived in 2012 as the state of Michigan signed an agreement with the city to make certain changes in exchange for financial support. The deal fell apart and eventually led to the appointment of an emergency manager last March.

Buckfire said many city assets were considered for possible sale but none were viable, including a small airport — "effectively worth nothing" — and the water department, which he described as a "very complicated situation."

He said art is being appraised at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum that is operated on the city's behalf.

By last spring, there were estimates that Detroit soon would be down to just $7 million, a small vein of cash in an annual budget of more than $1 billion, while payments to vendors were repeatedly delayed, Buckfire said.

"The city was operating on a razor's edge of liquidity. ... There was nothing of significance that could be converted

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This Oct. 1, 2013, photo shows the James Scott Fountain on Belle Isle in Detroit. With Detroit facing bankruptcy, all the city's assets are being assessed; the Scott Fountain is valued at $43,560.

to cash to avert a cash crisis in June or July," he said.

Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, appointed by the Michigan governor to run Detroit, announced in June that the city would stop making payments on $2.5 billion in unsecured debt. The Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing came a month later.

Lawyers opposed to the bankruptcy asked that much of Buckfire's testimony be stricken. They said he offered too much opinion about finances that went

beyond the scope of his role in Detroit.

"Part of our job here is to set forth the story of the decisions that were made and the reasons they were made," Detroit attorney Thomas Cullen Jr. told the judge. "This witness has done that.

He was an operative figure in real time. ... It has to be admissible."

Judge Steven Rhodes said he would defer a decision until Friday.

Another witness, Charles Moore, a turnaround specialist from the Detroitarea firm Conway MacKenzie, talked

about his experiences at City Hall.

"A number of departments were severely broken ... unable to perform basic functions," he said.

Moore said it would cost $500 million over six years to knock down blighted or abandoned buildings and improve vacant properties.

A decision on Detroit's eligibility appears to be weeks away. The trial could end next week, but the judge has set a Nov. 13 deadline for lawyers to file legal briefs on certain issues.

Town mourns after teen charged in teacher’s death Jay Lindsay Associated Press

DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — Grief counselors met Thursday with students mourning the death of a popular high school math teacher who authorities say was killed by one of her 14-year-old students.

Classes won’t resume until Friday at Danvers High School, where 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer was described as a caring teacher who stood outside her classroom and said hello to even students she didn’t teach.

Authorities have not said whether she had any run-ins with Philip Chism, a student new to the school who is charged with murder.

Ritzer was reported missing Tuesday after she did not return home from school.

Blood in a second-floor bathroom helped lead investigators to her body, which was dumped in the woods behind the school in a close-knit com-

munity about 20 miles north of Boston.

Authorities have not released a cause of death or a motive.

Chism, who was also reported missing, was found walking along a state highway overnight.

Fellow students said Chism had moved to Massachusetts from Tennessee before the start of the school year and was a top scorer on the school’s junior varsity soccer team.

Jean McCartin, a Danvers School Committee member, said the school has extensive programs to help ease the transition for new students who may have problems, but there was no information about Chism that would have presented any red flags.

“He just presented himself to us like any other student would,” she said Thursday.

“And that’s what I think is so hard for the administration right now. You know, their hearts are breaking because

they just didn’t know he was in need, if he was in need.

We don’t know. We just don’t know what his motive was, nobody knows at this point. No one knows why he would have behaved in this way and done such a terrible thing.”

Students were also puzzled.

“From what I know about him and seeing him every day, it just doesn’t add up that he would do such a thing, unless this was all an act to fool somebody,” said Ryan Kelleher, 17, who played soccer with Chism.

Chism appeared briefly in court Wednesday for arraignment on a murder charge and was ordered held without bail. His attorney and family declined to comment.

Kyle Cahill, a junior who also plays soccer, said the team wondered where Chism was when he skipped a team dinner Tuesday night.

“We’re all just a family. It just amazes me really,” Cahill said. “He wasn’t violent at all.

He was really the opposite of aggressive.”

The Boston Red Sox held a moment of silence for Ritzer on Wednesday at Fenway Park before Game 1 of the World Series.

Hundreds of people later turned out for a candlelight vigil at the school parking lot, many wearing pink sweatshirts, bows or T-shirts in tribute to Ritzer and her favorite color.

“She supported all of us.

We should be there to support her,” said Danvers senior Courtney Arnoldy, 18, who had Ritzer for a teacher.

Ritzer lived at home with her 20-year-old brother and her sister, a high school senior.

Her family said they are mourning the death of their “amazing, beautiful daughter and sister.”

“Everyone that knew and loved Colleen knew of her passion for teaching and how she mentored each and every one of her students,” the family

said in a statement provided by her uncle Dale Webster.

Ritzer had a Twitter account where she gave homework assignments, encouraged students and described herself as a “math teacher often too excited about the topics I’m teaching.”

She was a 2011 magna cum laude graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, a school spokeswoman said. The college will hold a reflection to remember her Friday.

One of her former students, Chris Weimert, 17, said she was a warm, welcoming person who would stand outside her classroom and say hello to students she didn’t teach.

“She was the nicest teacher anyone could ever have. She always had a warm smile on her face,” he said.

Ritzer is the second teacher allegedly killed by a student in the U.S. this week. A Sparks, Nev., middle school teacher was shot Monday, allegedly by a 12-year-old student.

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In brief n PressPros to air game

PressProsMagazine.com will air the Greenville-Troy football game Friday night from Memorial Stadium.

Air time is 6:30 p.m., with kickoff at 7 p.m.

The game can also be heard at the game on Stadium Fm 107.3.

n Buccs JH wins title

The Covington junior high football team finished the season 8-0 by winning the CCC title with a 54-6 victory over National Trail.

The Buccs averaged 36 points a game on offense, while giving up less than six points a game.

It was a great effort by everyone.

n Piqua bowlers to sell donuts

The Piqua high school bowling team will be selling Ulbrich’s donuts starting at halftime of tonight’s football game against Vandalia Butler. They are $5 per dozen.

For each dozen you buy you can purchase a coupon for $1.00 to buy a dozen get a dozen free at a later time.

n Team Atlantis to hold tryouts

Team Atlantis Volleyball Club will be holding tryouts this Sunday Sunday Nove. 3 for the 10-14 age group.

Tryouts will be held at Lehman High School. 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. (10’s-12’s year old), 10:30 - noon 13 year old (seventh graders), and 12:30p.m. - 2p.m. 14 year olds (eighth graders).

For more information please visit our website at teamatlantisvbc.com.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Lady Cavaliers make history

Lehman blanks Bethel 5-0 for district title Rob Kiser

Sports Editor rkiser@civitasmedia.com

BELLBROOK — Taylor Lachey’s rifle shot from 30 yards out let the air out of Bethel’s upset hopes against Lehman in a D-III district final Thursday night at Bellbrook High School and the Lady Cavaliers rode that momentum into Shelby County history.

Lachey’s goal broke a scoreless deadlock late in the first half and Lehman went on to win 5-0 to become the first girls soccer team from Shelby County to win a district title — joining Lehman boys as the only district champions from the county in soccer.

The Cavaliers will play Summit Country Day, a team they beat 2-1 during the season, in a regional semifinal at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at Hamilton High School.

“This feels great,” Lachey, a senior who was on the Lehman team that was district runnerup last year. “That definitely was a big goal of ours.”

And while Lehman dominated throughout — outshooting the Bees 25-6, the Cavaliers didn’t break through for almost 38 minutes.

With just 2:17 remaining in the first half, Lachey was in the right place at

the right time.

Ashley Keller took a throw-in from Madeline Franklin down the right side and somehow got the ball through a Bethel player to Lachey, standing five yards from her.

“I was just getting ready to cross towards the goal to follow (a shot by Keller),” Lachey said. “I saw the ball roll through (the Bethel girls legs). I don’t think she (Ashley Keller) meant to do that.”

Lachey instantly turned and rifled a shot into the upper right side of the net, well out of the Bethel keeper’s reach.

“It felt great (seeing the ball go into the net),” Lachey said.

It put Lehman up 1-0 and the Cavaliers just continued to build on that in the second half.

“That was a rip,” Lehman coach Tony Schroeder said of Lachey’s shot. “That gave us momentum going into the locker room.”

Just 5:32 into the second half, Keller made it 2-0.

She took a perfect thru ball from Jenna Kronenberger and hammered a shot at the net.

The keeper deflected it, but Keller followed for an easy shot into an empty net.

“That was a great ball

by Jenna (Kronenberger) and Ashley (Keller) did a

Katie Edwards (15) controls the ball against Bethel’s Katelyn Kahle.

nice job,” Schneider said.

Lehman made it 3-0 at the 16:543 mark when Franklin, near the backline, did a beautiful touch to Katie Edwards for a goal.

“That was a really nice touch by Madeline (Franklin),” Schroeder said.

Jordi Emrick made it 4-0, taking a perfect corner kick by Marla Schroeder and heading it into the goal.

“We had been close on several of the corners,” Tony Schroeder said. “It was really well done by both players.”

Kassie Lee closed the scoring, outmaneuveing several Bellbrook defenders with some nifty moves dribbling and putting it into the net.

“That was a nice goal by Kassie (Lee),” Schroeder said.

And while Grace Frantz needed just four saves in recording the shutout, to Bethel’s credit, she was put to the fire immediately.

Bethel controlled the

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ball for the first four minutes and had a point-blank shot in the early going that Frantz was able to save.

“You have to give Bethel credit,” Schroeder said.

“They came out with high intensity. Once we settled down, we were fine.”

And while Lehman will enjoy the moment, the Cavaliers aren’t satisfied yet.

“We are four wins from our goal,” Lachey said.

And some more history.

n Brown to offer lessons

Frosty Brown will be starting private pitching/ batting lessons, beginning Nov. 11.

For more information on his lessons, go to www. frostybrownbaseball.com, email ibrown@woh.rr.com, or call (937) 474-9093 or (937) 339-4383.

n Piqua hoops fundraiser

The Piqua boys basketball program will hold an “All You Can Eat” pancake breakfast made by Chris Cakes of Ohio on Nov. 16 from 8-11 a.m. in the Piqua High School commons.

Tickets will be $7 and can be purchased in the Piqua High School office.

Stumper did the Q: Who New York

Mets beat in the 1969 World Series?

A: Baltimore Quoted “I’m pretty confident in myself and my teammates.

That’s where that comes from.”

— Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith on the swagger he plays the game with

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Lehman’s Marla Schroeder (8) heads the ball against Bethel’s Kelsey Hackney

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Lehman’s Jenna Kronenberger moves the ball upfield.

Cardinals sloppy in series opener Boston rolls to 8-1 victory

BOSTON (AP) — An easy toss on a sure out that skittered away. A routine popup that somehow dropped between Gold Glovers.

And something even more startling — umpires reversing a key call.

Most everything fell into place for the Boston Red Sox in the World Series opener.

Mike Napoli hit a three-run double right after a game-changing decision in the very first inning, Jon Lester made the early lead stand up and the Red Sox romped past the sloppy St. Louis Cardinals 8-1 Wednesday night for their ninth straight Series win.

A season before Major League Baseball is expected to expand instant replay, fans got to see a preview. The entire six-man crew huddled and flipped a ruling on a forceout at second base — without looking at any video.

“I think based on their group conversation, surprisingly, to a certain extent, they overturned it and I think got the call right,” Boston manager John Farrell said.

David Ortiz was robbed of a grand slam by Carlos Beltran — a catch that sent the star right fielder to a hospital with bruised ribs — but Big Papi later hit a two-run homer following third baseman David Freese’s bad throw.

The Red Sox also capitalized on two errors

by shortstop Pete Kozma to extend a Series winning streak that began when they swept St. Louis in 2004. Boston never trailed at any point in those four games and coasted on this rollicking night at Fenway Park, thanks to a hideous display by the Cardinals, It got so bad for St. Louis that the sellout crowd literally laughed when pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina, who’ve combined to win six Gold Gloves, let an easy popup drop untouched between them.

Serious-minded St. Louis manager Mike Matheny didn’t find anything funny, especially when the umpires changed a call by Dana DeMuth at second base.

“Basically, the explanation is that’s not a play I’ve ever seen before. And I’m pretty sure there were six umpires on the field that had never seen that play before, either,” Matheny said.

“It’s a pretty tough time to debut that overruled call in the World Series. Now, I get that they’re trying to get the right call, I get that.

Tough one to swallow,” he said.

DeMuth said he never actually saw Kozma drop the ball.

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right? So I was assuming,” DeMuth told a pool reporter.

There was no dispute, however, that the umpires properly ruled Kozma had not caught a soft toss from second baseman Matt Carpenter on a potential forceout.

That’s what crew chief John Hirschbeck told Matheny.

“I just explained to him … that five of us were 100 percent sure,” Hirschbeck said.

“Our job is to get the play right. And that’s what we did.”

“I said, ‘I know you are not happy with it, that it went against you, but you have to understand that the play is correct,’” he said.

The normally slick-fielding Cardinals looked sloppy at every turn. Wainwright bounced a pickoff throw, Molina let a pitch trickle off his mitt, center fielder Shane Robinson bobbled the carom on Napoli’s double and there was a wild pitch.

The Cardinal Way? More like, no way.

“We had a wakeup call. That is not the kind of team that we’ve been all season,” Matheny said. “And they’re frustrated. I’m sure embarrassed to a point.”

Game 2 is Thursday night, with 22-yearold rookie sensation Michael Wacha starting for St. Louis against John Lackey. Wacha is 3-0 with a 0.43 ERA this postseason.

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Considering eliminating single-car qualifying CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR told its competitors Thursday it is considering eliminating single-car qualifying next season in an overhaul that would likely implement road course-style qualifying at all but two tracks.

Drivers from all three national series met with top NASCAR officials for almost two hours at the R&D Center in Concord to discuss several different ideas under consideration for 2014. The only thing officially announced by NASCAR was that it will mandate baseline concussion testing for drivers starting next season.

But series officials also outlined potential changes to qualifying procedures everywhere except Daytona and Talladega.

NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said the field would likely be set at Daytona and Talladega with an "open qualifying session" that would allow for a 60-minute drafting session.

"It's not written in stone at this point in time," Tharp told The Associated Press. "We just talked about some ideas that would make things more interesting. Today was an opportunity for us to talk to the drivers about ideas, and I'm sure other ideas will come up over the next few weeks."

NASCAR also informed drivers of a Dec. 9 test at

Charlotte Motor Speedway to continue work on its intermediate track package, with Dec. 10 held as a rain date. NASCAR tested a variety of different packages Oct. 14 at Charlotte and discussed the results of those tests with drivers Thursday.

"We are just trying to do everything we can to make the racing better, particularly at the intermediate tracks," Tharp said.

NASCAR this year implemented road course qualifying for its Sprint Cup Series at Sonoma and Watkins Glen for the first time. Under the new format, which had previously been used in the Nationwide Series, cars attempting to qualify were divided into groups. The number of groups, and the number of cars in each, depended on the number of cars that practiced for the event.

Group assignments were based on final practice times. Each qualifying group was on-track for a set period of time, determined by the series director. A car's best lap time during the group session was the qualifying lap time of record.

NASCAR used heat races in the Truck Series to set qualifying at Eldora Speedway in July for the first time. Fans enjoyed it, but there doesn't seem to be a push to bring it to the Sprint Cup Series.

NASCAR to require concussion testing

Could be mandatory in 2014

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR will require baseline concussion testing for its drivers starting next season.

NASCAR had only recommended the testing this season, but indicated to drivers that a preseason baseline screening could become mandatory as early as 2014. The baseline test will be compared with test results taken after a driver has crashed to help diagnose a concussion.

"NASCAR made this decision because we think it is important to drivers' health for doctors to have the best information and tools available in evaluating injuries," said Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR vice president of racing operations.

Drivers were informed of the mandate during a Thursday meeting at the R&D Center in Concord with top NASCAR officials that lasted nearly two hours and covered a variety of topics concerning 2014 changes.

The baseline testing will be performed through the widely used neurocognitive assessment ImPACT test, which evaluates an athlete's verbal and visual memory, processing speed and reaction time.

"Before announcing this rule, we provided drivers concussion and baseline testing education and created opportunities for them to ask any questions they may have to a top neurosurgeon that specializes in traumatic brain injuries," O'Donnell said.

"ImPACT tests are not new to our sport and have been used for treatment through the years."

O'Donnell said in February that NASCAR had identified 32 concussions in its top three national series since 2004, including three in 2012. One suffered by Dale Earnhardt Jr. forced NASCAR concussions into the spot-

light.

Earnhardt was injured in a crash during an August 2012 tire test at Kansas, but didn't seek treatment for a mild concussion. His stubborn streak instead kept him behind the wheel, and he was then part of a 25-car pileup in October at Talladega that triggered lingering headaches and other recognizable warning signs.

Earnhardt went to a doctor, and he was ultimately benched for two races.

Earnhardt's plight led four-time series champion Jeff Gordon to voluntarily take the ImPACT test, which has long been mandatory in the IndyCar Series.

"I just think whether it's voluntary or not, it's a good idea to have," Gordon said in February. "I don't think that NASCAR necessarily has to make it mandatory, but if you're a race car driver, and you feel you're going to be here for a while, you need to make it mandatory to yourself."

Drivers this year were invited to two concussion education sessions featuring Dr. Vinay Deshmukh of Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates, a member of NASCAR's medical advisory group.

Drivers were presented with an overview of what concussions are, their causes, treatment and the role that baseline tests play in the comprehensive evaluation of concussions.

"We are extremely confident that our concussion protocol is among the best in sports," O'Donnell said.

"We regularly review all of our practices involving safety and health to see if there is anything that we can do better, or should do differently moving forward. Implementing baseline testing is a primary example of our philosophy to protect our competitors the best that we can."

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Postseason Glance Postseason Baseball Glance All Times EDT WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 1: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday, Oct. 2: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0 Monday, Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Thursday, Oct. 10: Detroit 3, Oakland 0 National League St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Sunday, Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday Oct. 9: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 1 Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 Sunday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 Monday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Boston 4, Detroit 2 Saturday, Oct. 12: Detroit 1, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 13: Boston 6, Detroit 5 Tuesday, Oct. 15: Boston 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Detroit 7, Boston 3 Thursday, Oct. 17: Boston 4, Detroit 3 Saturday, Oct. 19: Boston 5, Detroit 2 National League St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2, 13 innings Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 1, Los Angeles 0 Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0 Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 Friday, Oct. 18: St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 0 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Boston 1, St. Louis 0 Wednesday, Oct. 23: Boston 8, St. Louis 1 Thursday, Oct. 24: St. Louis at Boston Saturday, Oct. 26: Boston (Buchholz 12-1 or Peavy 125) at St. Louis (Kelly 10-5), 8:07 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27: Boston (Peavy 12-5 or Buchholz 12-1) at St. Louis (Lynn 15-10), 8:15 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 28: Boston at St. Louis, 8:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: St. Louis at Boston, 8:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 31: St. Louis at Boston, 8:07 p.m.

Football

NFL Standings

National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East New England N.Y. Jets Miami Buffalo South Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville North Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh West Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

W 5 4 3 3

L 2 3 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .571 .500 .429

PF 152 134 135 159

PA 127 162 140 178

W 4 3 2 0

L 2 4 5 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .429 .286 .000

PF 148 145 122 76

PA 98 146 194 222

W 5 3 3 2

L 2 4 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .429 .429 .333

PF 148 150 131 107

PA 135 148 156 132

W L T Pct PF 7 0 0 1.000 169 6 0 0 1.000 265 4 3 0 .571 168 2 4 0 .333 105 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

PA 81 158 144 132

East Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants South New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay North Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota West

W 4 3 2 1

L 3 4 4 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .571 .429 .333 .143

PF 200 169 152 126

PA 155 196 184 216

W 5 3 2 0

L 1 3 4 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .500 .333 .000

PF 161 139 153 87

PA 103 83 157 132

W 4 4 4 1

L 2 3 3 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .571 .571 .167

PF 168 186 213 132

PA 127 167 206 181

W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 6 1 0 .857 191 116 San Francisco 5 2 0 .714 176 135 St. Louis 3 4 0 .429 156 184 Arizona 3 4 0 .429 133 161 Thursday, Oct. 24 Carolina at Tampa Bay, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27 Cleveland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Miami at New England, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Jacksonville at London, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, San Diego, Tennessee Monday, Oct. 28 Seattle at St. Louis, 8:40 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31 Cincinnati at Miami, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3 Minnesota at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 4:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New England, 4:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday, Nov. 4 Chicago at Green Bay, 8:40 p.m.

BCS Poll 1. Alabama 2. Florida St. 3. Oregon 4. Ohio St. 5. Missouri 6. Stanford 7. Miami 8. Baylor 9. Clemson 10. Texas Tech 11. Auburn 12. UCLA 13. LSU 14. Virginia Tech.

15. Oklahoma 16. Texas A&M 17. Fresno St. 18. N. Illinois 19. Oklahoma St. 20. Louisville 21. South Carolina 22. Michigan 23. UCF 24. Nebraska 25. Oregon St.

Avg .9841 .9348 .9320 .855 3 .8219 .7414 .7200 .7120 .6249 .6220 .5058 .4807 .4552 .4408 .4204 .3666 .3379 .3032 .2687 .2556 .2161 .1637 .1394 .1354 .1042

Pv — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

AP Top 25 Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 19, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (55) 7-0 1,495 1

Prep Tournament Schedule SATURDAY Regional Cross Country At Troy Division III Girls, 11:30 a.m.

Teams Covington: Carly Shell, Anna Dunn, Hannah Retz, Julianna Yingst, Heidi Cron, Cassidy Cain, Briana Grilliot.

Versailles: Murphy Grow, Madison Grilliot, Lexi Fliehman, Brooke Pothast, Katelyn Goettemoeller, Jadyn Barga, Camille Watren.

Miami East: Marie Ewing, Abigail Amheiser, Lorenza Savini, Abby Hawkins, Sami Sands, Erin Augustus, Abby Bollinger.

Lehman Catholic: Caroline Heitmeyer, Jenna Zimmerman, Janelle Gravunder, Katie Heckman, Theresa Schmiesing, Julia Harrellson.

Russia: Emily Borchers, Lauren Heaton, Molly Kearns, Karissa Voisard, Claudia Monnin, Kirstin Voisard, Emilie Frazier.

Individuals Bailey Brewer, Bradford; Division III Boys, 1:30 p.m.

Teams Russia: Caleb Ball, Jordan Gariety, Steven Stickel, Trevor Monnin, Bryan Drees, Alex Seger, Ethan Monnier.

Covington: Lane White, Nate Dunn, Alex Schilling, Steven Shane, Sam Sherman, Daniel Jennings, Tyler Henry.

Lehman: Joe Fuller, Nick Elsner, Gabe Berning, Isiaiah Winhoven, John Schmiesing, Brandon Simmons, Teddy Jackson.

Versailles: Richie Ware, Andrew Kramer, Tyler Rose, Noah Pleiman, Cole Albers, Matt Mangen, Jacob Rose.

Individuals Josh Ewing, Miami East; Devon Jester, Houston; Troy Riley, Houston; Brady McBride, Newton.

District Volleyball Finals Tippecanoe D-III Versailles vs. Roger Bacon, 4 p.m.

Miami East vs. Badin/Reading winner, 5:30 p.m.

Troy D-IV Russia vs. Jackson Center, 2:30 p.m.

Lehman Catholic vs. Newton-Catholic Central winner, 5:30 p.m.

2. Oregon (3) 7-0 1,427 2 3. Florida St. (2) 6-0 1,395 5 4. Ohio St. 7-0 1,309 4 5. Missouri 7-0 1,197 14 6. Baylor 6-0 1,189 12 7. Miami 6-0 1,130 10 8. Stanford 6-1 1,118 13 9. Clemson 6-1 927 3 10. Texas Tech 7-0 904 16 11. Auburn 6-1 867 24 12. UCLA 5-1 832 9 13. LSU 6-2 739 6 14. Texas A&M 5-2 683 7 15. Fresno St. 6-0 550 17 16. Virginia Tech 6-1 509 19 17. Oklahoma 6-1 501 18 18. Louisville 6-1 428 8 19. Oklahoma St. 5-1 382 21 20. South Carolina 5-2 381 11 21. UCF 5-1 345 NR 22. Wisconsin 5-2 258 25 23. N. Illinois 7-0 220 23 24. Michigan 6-1 169 NR 25. Nebraska 5-1 117 NR Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 108, Notre Dame 82, Oregon St. 79, Michigan St. 73, Georgia 30, Mississippi 27, Florida 17, Utah 4, Washington 4, Texas 2, BYU 1, Ball St. 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 19, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (57) 7-0 1,544 1 2. Oregon (4) 7-0 1,482 2 3. Florida State (1) 6-0 1,410 5 4. Ohio State 7-0 1,382 3 5. Baylor 6-0 1,255 12 6. Miami (Fla.) 6-0 1,186 11 7. Missouri 7-0 1,184 14 8. Stanford 6-1 1,117 13 9. Texas Tech 7-0 981 15 913 4 10. Clemson 6-1 11. UCLA 5-1 710 10 12. Oklahoma 6-1 695 18 13. Oklahoma State 5-1 688 17 13. LSU 6-2 688 8 15. Texas A&M 5-2 622 7 16. Louisville 6-1 571 6 17. Auburn 6-1 537 NR 18. Fresno State 6-0 532 19 19. Virginia Tech 6-1 499 20 20. South Carolina 5-2 468 9 21. Nebraska 5-1 385 21 22. Northern Illinois 7-0 298 23 23. Michigan 6-1 268 24 24. Wisconsin 5-2 195 NR 25. Central Florida 5-1 151 NR Others receiving votes: Michigan State 102; Oregon State 91; Notre Dame 62; Arizona State 51; Georgia 37; Mississippi 17; Texas 11; Houston 6; Florida 4; Brigham Young 3; Ball State 1; Boise State 1; Louisiana-Lafayette 1; Rutgers 1; Tennessee 1.

College Schedule College Football Schedule All Times EDT (Subject to change) Friday, Oct. 25 FAR WEST Boise St. (5-2) at BYU (5-2), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26 EAST Delaware (5-2) at Rhode Island (3-5), Noon Houston (5-1) at Rutgers (4-2), Noon Sacred Heart (7-1) at St. Francis (Pa.) (2-4), Noon Robert Morris (2-4) at Wagner (2-5), Noon Brown (3-2) at Cornell (1-4), 12:30 p.m.

Duquesne (4-2) at Bryant (3-4), 1 p.m.

Lehigh (6-1) at Bucknell (2-4), 1 p.m.

Salve Regina (5-1) at CCSU (2-5), 1 p.m.

Colgate (2-5) at Georgetown (1-6), 1 p.m.

Princeton (4-1) at Harvard (5-0), 1 p.m.

Lafayette (1-5) at Holy Cross (3-5), 1 p.m.

Stetson (1-5) at Marist (4-3), 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh (4-2) at Navy (3-3), 1 p.m.

Yale (3-2) at Penn (3-2), 1 p.m.

Maine (5-2) at Villanova (4-3), 1 p.m.

Columbia (0-5) at Dartmouth (2-3), 1:30 p.m.

W. Michigan (0-8) at UMass (1-6), 3 p.m.

New Hampshire (3-3) at Stony Brook (3-3), 4 p.m.

SOUTH Wake Forest (4-3) at Miami (6-0), Noon Towson (7-1) at Richmond (3-4), Noon Louisville (6-1) at South Florida (2-4), Noon UConn (0-6) at UCF (5-1), Noon Georgia Tech (4-3) at Virginia (2-5), 12:30 p.m.

Charlotte (4-3) at Charleston Southern (6-2), 1 p.m.

Delaware St. (3-4) at Hampton (2-5), 1 p.m.

Morgan St. (2-5) at Howard (2-5), 1 p.m.

Davidson (0-7) at Jacksonville (3-4), 1 p.m.

Dayton (5-2) at Morehead St. (3-4), 1 p.m.

Old Dominion (4-3) at Norfolk St. (2-5), 1 p.m.

Liberty (3-4) at Gardner-Webb (4-3), 1:30 p.m.

Samford (5-2) at Wofford (5-2), 1:30 p.m.

The Citadel (2-5) at Chattanooga (5-2), 2 p.m.

NC A&T (3-3) at Florida A&M (2-5), 2 p.m.

Point (Ga.) (3-4) at Presbyterian (2-4), 2 p.m.

NC Central (3-4) at Savannah St. (1-7), 2 p.m.

Jacksonville St. (5-2) at Tennessee Tech (3-5), 2:30 p.m.

Texas Southern (1-6) at Grambling St. (0-7), 3 p.m.

Ark.-Pine Bluff (0-7) at MVSU (1-6), 3 p.m.

Tennessee (4-3) at Alabama (7-0), 3:30 p.m.

Alabama A&M (2-5) vs. Alabama St. (5-2) at Birmingham, Ala., 3:30 p.m.

Georgia Southern (4-2) at Appalachian St. (1-6), 3:30 p.m.

NC State (3-3) at Florida St. (6-0), 3:30 p.m.

Clemson (6-1) at Maryland (5-2), 3:30 p.m.

Boston College (3-3) at North Carolina (1-5), 3:30 p.m.

Tulsa (2-4) at Tulane (5-2), 3:30 p.m.

Duke (5-2) at Virginia Tech (6-1), 3:30 p.m.

Elon (2-6) at W. Carolina (1-7), 3:30 p.m.

James Madison (5-2) at William & Mary (4-3), 3:30 p.m.

SC State (5-2) at Bethune-Cookman (6-1), 4 p.m.

Mercer (6-1) at Campbell (1-6), 4 p.m.

McNeese St. (6-1) at Nicholls St. (4-3), 4 p.m.

Troy (4-3) at W. Kentucky (4-3), 4 p.m.

UT-Martin (4-3) at Austin Peay (0-7), 5 p.m.

E. Illinois (6-1) at Tennessee St. (7-1), 5 p.m.

Jackson St. (5-2) vs. Prairie View (5-3) at Shreveport, La., 5 p.m.

VMI (1-6) at Coastal Carolina (7-0), 6 p.m.

Louisiana Tech (2-5) at FIU (1-5), 6 p.m.

Alcorn St. (6-2) at Southern U. (4-3), 6:30 p.m.

Furman (3-4) at LSU (6-2), 7 p.m.

Georgia St. (0-7) at Louisiana-Monroe (3-4), 7 p.m.

North Texas (4-3) at Southern Miss. (0-6), 7 p.m.

FAU (2-5) at Auburn (6-1), 7:30 p.m.

Idaho (1-6) at Mississippi (4-3), 7:30 p.m.

Lamar (3-4) at SE Louisiana (5-2), 8 p.m.

MIDWEST Ball St. (7-1) at Akron (2-6), Noon Northwestern (4-3) at Iowa (4-3), Noon Oklahoma St. (5-1) at Iowa St. (1-5), Noon Nebraska (5-1) at Minnesota (5-2), Noon Valparaiso (1-6) at Drake (3-4), 2 p.m.

South Dakota (4-3) at Illinois St. (3-4), 2 p.m.

Miami (Ohio) (0-7) at Ohio (5-2), 2 p.m.

E. Kentucky (4-3) at SE Missouri (1-6), 2 p.m.

Toledo (4-3) at Bowling Green (5-2), 2:30 p.m.

N. Iowa (4-3) at S. Dakota St. (4-4), 3 p.m.

N. Dakota St. (7-0) at Indiana St. (1-6), 3:05 p.m.

Michigan St. (6-1) at Illinois (3-3), 3:30 p.m.

Buffalo (5-2) at Kent St. (2-6), 3:30 p.m.

E. Michigan (1-6) at N. Illinois (7-0), 3:30 p.m.

West Virginia (3-4) at Kansas St. (2-4), 3:45 p.m.

Baylor (6-0) at Kansas (2-4), 7 p.m.

South Carolina (5-2) at Missouri (7-0), 7 p.m.

Missouri St. (2-6) at W. Illinois (3-5), 7 p.m.

Penn St. (4-2) at Ohio St. (7-0), 8 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Vanderbilt (4-3) at Texas A&M (5-2), 12:21 p.m.

Temple (1-6) at SMU (2-4), 3 p.m.

Texas Tech (7-0) at Oklahoma (6-1), 3:30 p.m.

UTEP (1-5) at Rice (5-2), 3:30 p.m.

UAB (2-4) at UTSA (2-5), 5 p.m.

South Alabama (3-3) at Texas St. (4-3), 7 p.m.

Texas (4-2) at TCU (3-4), 7:30 p.m.

FAR WEST Butler (6-2) at San Diego (4-3), 4 p.m.

Utah (4-3) at Southern Cal (4-3), 4 p.m.

UC Davis (3-5) at Montana St. (5-2), 4:05 p.m.

Notre Dame (5-2) at Air Force (1-6), 5 p.m.

UNLV (4-3) at Nevada (3-4), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (4-2) at Colorado (3-3), 7 p.m.

UCLA (5-1) at Oregon (7-0), 7 p.m.

Wyoming (4-3) at San Jose St. (3-3), 7 p.m.

Abilene Christian (5-3) at New Mexico St. (0-7), 8 p.m.

N. Arizona (5-2) at Cal Poly (3-4), 9:05 p.m.

Stanford (6-1) at Oregon St. (6-1), 10:30 p.m.

Fresno St. (6-0) at San Diego St. (3-3), 10:30 p.m.

California (1-6) at Washington (4-3), 11 p.m.

Colorado St. (3-4) at Hawaii (0-6), 11:59 p.m.

Hockey

NHL Standings

National Hockey League All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 7 3 0 14 34 24 Detroit 6 4 1 13 25 30 Boston 6 2 0 12 25 12 Tampa Bay 5 3 0 10 26 21 Montreal 5 4 0 10 29 19 Ottawa 4 3 2 10 27 25 Florida 3 6 1 7 22 35 Buffalo 1 9 1 3 15 33 Metropolitan Division W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 7 2 0 14 31 20 Carolina 4 2 3 11 22 26 N.Y. Islanders 3 3 3 9 29 28 Columbus 4 5 0 8 23 23 Washington 4 5 0 8 26 29 New Jersey 1 5 3 5 18 30 N.Y. Rangers 2 5 0 4 11 29 Philadelphia 1 7 0 2 11 24 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L OT Pts GF GA 16 28 12 Colorado 8 1 0 Chicago 6 1 2 14 26 21 St. Louis 5 1 1 11 27 19 Nashville 5 4 1 11 19 24 Minnesota 4 3 3 11 21 22 Winnipeg 4 5 1 9 26 30 Dallas 3 5 0 6 20 28 Pacific Division W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 8 0 1 17 40 16 Anaheim 7 2 0 14 32 23 Phoenix 6 2 2 14 31 28 Vancouver 6 4 1 13 32 33 Los Angeles 6 4 0 12 26 25 Calgary 4 3 2 10 28 32 Edmonton 3 6 1 7 30 39 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday's Games San Jose at Boston Vancouver at New Jersey N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia Anaheim at Montreal Chicago at Tampa Bay Winnipeg at Nashville Carolina at Minnesota Calgary at Dallas Washington at Edmonton Phoenix at Los Angeles Friday's Games N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Golf

CIMB Classic

PGA/Asian Tour-CIMB Classic Scores Thursday At Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club, West Course Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Purse: $7 million Yardage: 6,924; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Ryan Moore 32-31—63 Keegan Bradley 31-34—65 Sergio Garcia 33-33—66 Rory Sabbatini 30-37—67 Boo Weekley 35-32—67 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 31-36—67 Chris Kirk 32-35—67 Chris Stroud 36-31—67 Gary Woodland 33-35—68 K.J. Choi 32-36—68 Martin Laird 36-32—68 Charley Hoffman 33-36—69 Nicholas Thompson 34-35—69 Shiv Kapur 32-37—69 Charles Howell III 34-35—69 Stewart Cink 35-35—70 Hideki Matsuyama 33-37—70 Camilo Villegas 33-37—70 Richard H. Lee 34-36—70 Wade Ormsby 35-35—70 Jerry Kelly 32-39—71 John Huh 33-38—71 Lucas Glover 33-38—71 Russell Henley 36-35—71 Kevin Stadler 35-36—71 D.A. Points 37-34—71 Phil Mickelson 37-34—71 Rickie Fowler 37-34—71 Harris English 38-33—71

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Brown puts ‘trust issues’behind him Receiver has bought in Meyer, Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Even though he still harbored doubts about the coaching staff, Corey “Philly” Brown was a very productive player for Ohio State a year ago.

He had a team-best 60 catches for 669 yards and three touchdowns.

Yet he showed so little conviction and commitment that head coach Urban Meyer said he wouldn’t even walk across the street for him — a sentiment that Brown also shared about Meyer and his assistants.

“It’s hard to just trust somebody, right off. Especially me. I have a hard time trusting people right away,” Brown said of Meyer, who was in his first season as Ohio State’s head coach. “He’s a guy who came in here and it wasn’t the most pleasant meeting that we had. I guess everybody just looked at him, like, ‘Who are you to just come in here and just change this and change that?’ At the time we didn’t know that he knew what he was doing.”

But now Brown has come full circle heading into Saturday night’s game against the big team from his home state, Penn State.

He’s a much happier, better adjusted person, and also one of the team’s figureheads.

“He’s 180 degrees from where he was,” Meyer said. “He’s an absolute leader of this team, unchallenged, unquestionable. If you said that a year ago, we would have gotten in an argument, because that’s not who he was in his development as a person, a player, as a student.”

Need evidence of how far the senior from Upper Darby, Pa., has come?

The Buckeyes, riding an 18-game win-

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Ohio State wide receiver Corey Brown runs against Iowa during an NCAA college football game this year,

ning streak, trailed at home to 17½-point underdog Iowa at halftime last week, 17-10.

After the assistants met with their units, Meyer — admittedly more of a “yeller” than an inspirational speaker — got a few things off his chest.

Brown then asked for permission to get up and speak. He didn’t mince words.

“We came in and you could kind of tell that the locker room was dead,” fellow wide-out Devin Smith said. “Nobody was really saying anything, everybody was just looking at each other. Philly stood up and basically just said, ‘This is not how we play.’

He was screaming, just letting it pour out, really. He was saying, ‘This is not us. This

is not how we play. We need to come up this half and really show them what we’re about.’”

Brown can’t give a verbatim rendition of the speech — “there were some bad words in there” — but touches on the high points.

“I promised the defense that we were going to score when we got the ball. And we did,” he said. “I told them to get a stop and we’d score again. That happened. So I basically challenged everybody to come out and execute. And they did.”

Brown had a huge second half — throwing the key block on Carlos Hyde’s pinballlike go-ahead touchdown run — as Ohio State came back for a 34-24 victory.

“For a player to really jump on a whole team like that, and really go out on the second half and back up what he said in the locker room, it shows the character that he has,” Smith said. “That example will always be looked up to.”

Offensive tackle Taylor Decker said Brown’s words lit a fire.

“It was powerful because for a leader to stand up and say that we’re not carrying our weight as a team, we all need to pick it up,” Decker said. “Stuff like that doesn’t happen a lot. Because we hadn’t been down, really, at half. It was kind of moving.

It did kind of motivate guys, ‘All right, let’s get going now.’”

Brown has 33 catches for 453 yards and six touchdowns, almost perfectly matching Smith’s 30 receptions for 434 yards and six scores.

But the numbers only scratch the surface.

Brown has transformed himself into a team player.

“It’s night and day,” Meyer said. “He’s a guy that it’s not just on the field but off the field. His leadership, his attention to detail in academics and leadership — I mean he’s one of the most improved guys I’ve ever been around. And it’s really a pleasure to coach him.”

That probably won’t be the last time Brown gets up and berates his team, either.

He knows the power of hearing it from a kindred soul.

“When a coach screams, you kind of blank them out and not really hear what they’re trying to say,” he said. “But when a person that’s actually out there on the field with you grinding and in the war with you, when they say it, that’s when you know it’s real.”

Kirkpatrick ready for opportunity Injuries force defensive backs into action CINCINNATI (AP) — Dre Kirkpatrick is getting his chance to show that he was worth a firstround pick.

The Bengals need help at cornerback with Leon Hall sidelined by another Achilles tendon injury. They’re counting on Kirkpatrick, who has missed much of his first two seasons with injuries. Now, it’s his chance.

“I feel like I have been ready,” Kirkpatrick said.

“I am not going to broadcast it or get pouty about it. I am just going to continue to work, continue to practice and just go every day like it’s my last day out there.”

The 2012 17th overall pick from Alabama hasn’t been on the defense very much.

He missed most of his rookie season with knee injuries and a concussion that limited him to five games. With the knee fully recovered, he made impressive plays during training camp, an indication he was ready to start playing a part in

one of the league’s best defenses.

With Hall, Terence Newman and Adam “Pacman” Jones established as the top three cornerbacks, Kirkpatrick was still limited mostly to special teams when the season started. He missed two games with a hamstring injury.

Kirkpatrick got in for nine plays on defense during a win at Buffalo two weeks ago and had a season-high 10 plays during a 27-24 victory in Detroit, where Hall severely injured his right Achilles tendon.

Kirkpatrick would cover top receivers at Alabama. The Bengals have used him more as an extra cornerback covering receivers in the slot, something he’d never done until he got to the NFL. The Bengals have to decide how they’re going to reconfigure their secondary — safety Chris Crocker also can play as an extra cornerback.

The Bengals (5-2) play the New York Jets (4-3) on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium.

“I think we’ll be all right,” Jones said. “Of course we’ll miss Leon.

He made a whole bunch

of plays, so there’s no way you replace that guy. But there’s a lot of guys in here that are just ready to step up.”

Kirkpatrick had an especially tough time during a preseason game against Dallas that has stuck with him. He’s gone back and reviewed the video on several occasions to remind himself what happens when he doesn’t do everything correctly in coverage.

“It was one of those games and one of those days that lots of great players have,” said Kirkpatrick, who repeatedly gave up completions.

“You’ve got to continue to work through it and improve every day. I learned my lesson. I look at my notes and continue to still watch that game.

“I know what a buttwhipping feels like, and I don’t want that feeling no more.”

Calvin Johnson, the league’s top receiver, caught a 27-yard touchdown pass with Kirkpatrick in coverage Sunday, but there wasn’t much any cornerback could do to stop it.

“He played good this week when he had to come in the fire,” Jones

Dre Kirkpatrick (27) tries to make a play against Detroit Sunday.

said. “The one catch Calvin caught, he had perfect coverage on him.

He came in and played the nickel (defense) real good for his first time coming in. As long as he’s playing with confidence, he’ll be all right.”

Defensive backs coach Mark Carrier said Kirkpatrick has improved a lot since that bad game in Dallas.

“Leaps and bounds better,” Carrier said. “And it’s ironic because after that situation in Dallas, one of the first persons

Browns receiver tires of trade talk

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Already dealing with cornerbacks, double coverage and defenses targeting him, Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon has spent the past month trying to shake free from trade rumors.

It’s been exhausting.

“I’m tired of it,” Gordon said.

With Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline approaching, Gordon remains the subject of speculation that won’t go away. The talented second-year receiver with All-Pro potential has become a coveted commodity, and as he prepares for Sunday’s game at Kansas City, Gordon doesn’t know if it will be his final one with the Browns (3-4).

“I honestly wish if it was going to happen, I wish it would happen already instead of dragging on,” he said. “If a trade offer came in and that’s what the Browns want to do, so be it. If not, then let it be known this is where I’m going to be. It’s part of the game. I’m dealing with it.”

Browns coach Rob Chudzinski has insisted the Browns won’t trade Gordon. CEO Joe Banner

recently said he would be “completely shocked” if the Browns traded the 22-year-old, but the team has continued to receive offers for Gordon, who has 27 catches for 450 yards and two touchdowns in five games.

Cleveland’s trade of running back Trent Richardson last month to Indianapolis for a firstround pick underscored the team’s willingness to build for the future, and Gordon understands he might not be a part of it.

“Ultimately it’s up to Joe Banner and (owner) Jimmy Haslam and the guys up top, but I do feel comforted in my head coach wants me to be here,” Gordon said. “But the reality of it is anybody can make a deal and they’re saying they’re open to listening to people, so anything can happen.”

Gordon’s off-field issues could play a role in whether he stays in Cleveland.

He was suspended for the first two games this season for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, and it’s his understanding that another failed drug test could

result in a one-year suspension. Gordon’s checkered past could prompt the Browns to move him before he makes another mistake. But his background may make teams leery of taking a chance on him.

It appears to be a gamble either way. Also, there have been questions about Gordon’s commitment and whether he always gives 100 percent effort. Last week in Green Bay, Gordon had just two catches for 21 yards and his performance included a mistimed jump on a 4thand-15 play when he failed to extend his arms and had the ball knocked away by a Packers defender.

Gordon’s body language wasn’t good, and it may have been because the trade talk had affected his play.

“I would think it would bother him,” said running back Willis McGahee.

“From what I’ve seen, I think he wants to be here.

I’m hoping he wants to be here. When you hear you’re about to get traded your spirits change a little bit, but the only thing I can tell him is that it’s a

to go up to him and share some things with him was Leon Hall. He kind of let him know about his tough day he had back when he first came into the league. He said you can learn from it and get better from it, and I think Dre did.”

Given his limited time on the field last season, Kirkpatrick is still a rookie in terms of on-field experience. Carrier has watched him improve in practice as this season goes along.

“He’ll be the first one

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to tell you: When he’s healthy, he can go out there and play (well),” Carrier said. “Everyone’s time comes, and he knew his time was coming soon.”

Notes: DE Wallace Gilberry (knee) and WR Marvin Jones (shoulder) were held out of practice Thursday. Jones landed hard on his left shoulder while making a touchdown catch in Detroit. … CB Terence Newman (ankle) and MLB Rey Maualuga (hamstring) were limited in practice.

business and anybody is expendable. Just got out and do your job. Do what you do. Don’t let people see you all bent out of shape and things like that.”

McGahee, who signed with Cleveland last month following the Richardson trade, said Gordon would benefit from having a veteran player to mentor him. He’s confident that at some point Gordon will mature into a dependable professional.

“Everybody gets it. It just depends on when,” McGahee said. “I didn’t get it until my fourth or fifth year. And I was like, ‘All right, I’ve got to start eating right and got to start doing this.’ That’s part of life. That’s part of growing. He has the talent. You can see it in him. He’s going to put it AP Photo together in a minute.”

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon (12) breaks away Browns offensive coordinator Norv Turner from Detroit Lions defensive back Darius Slay (30) recently. doesn’t doubt that Gordon be the Josh when he’s at young receivers that I’ve has been giving his all. He his best. I do, Josh does, been around, it’s in the knows there may be times everyone does,” Turner third or fourth year when when it appears the 6-foot- said. “I’ve been with young you start seeing all of 3, 225-pounder is coast- receivers and I don’t know those things happen.”

It remains to be seen if ing, but it’s not because that that’s realistic. He’s working hard. Josh is mak- they’ll happen for Gordon he’s not trying.

“Everyone wants Josh to ing great progress and the in Cleveland.

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For Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Wrap up loose details surrounding shared property, taxes, debt, inheritances and anything you own jointly with others. You'll be surprised how quickly you can do this.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Because ex-partners might be back on the scene, be willing to compromise. This might be an opportunity for closure or further explanation about something.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Do whatever you can to get better organized, because Mercury retrograde is causing havoc in your efficiency at work. However, it will help you to finish old projects.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions about children, social events, the arts and sports are a focus now. You can make headway on plans that were already started. It's time to wrap things up.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a good time to make repairs at home or catch up on things that you've been putting off for ages.

Some of you might be sifting through stuff you haven't seen for a while.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Because you're busy, silly errors, confused communication and misplaced items are frustrating you! Just grin and bear it. (Slow down, and give yourself enough wiggle room to cope with everything.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a good time to wrap up financial matters that you've been planning for a while. However, it's a poor time to begin new ideas, especially opening a business.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Old friends are back in your world again. You might have a sense of deja vu with quite a few things now, because Mercury is retrograde in your sign.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Your ability to research anything, study the past or delve into history is excellent now. Look for solutions to old problems.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a good time to deal with a problem you might have with a friend or members of a group. People are willing to discuss this now. They want to clear up misunderstandings.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You look good to others now, especially people in authority. If someone wants you to repeat something you did before or to perform again, you can do it.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Travel plans might be delayed now.

Ditto for plans related to higher education, publishing, medicine and the law. Instead, focus on wrapping up old business.

YOU BORN TODAY You are a planner and a doer. You also have excellent money savvy. You want your world to be organized smoothly around you and will clean up whatever is not working. You work well with groups, especially if they coincide with your own goals and success. You are brave, fearless and intense. This year will be beautifully social, and all your relationships will improve.

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COLUMBUS —A former Ohio doctor accused of killing a pregnant woman last year by injecting her with heroin after she answered a Craigslist ad pleaded guilty Thursday in her death and that of her nearly full-term unborn child.

Ali Salim entered the pleas in Delaware County Court north of Columbus ahead of his trial scheduled for next week. He faces 37 years in prison at a December sentencing.

Salim, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Deanna Ballman and her unborn daughter, who was to be named Mabel Lilly.

Ballman, 23, was nine months pregnant when she died.

Salim also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. He also entered a type of guilty plea to a charge of rape under which he maintains his innocence but acknowledges prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.

The tampering with evidence charge alleges Salim erased photos and video of Ballman from his phone, though the images were later recovered by investigators, said Kyle Rohrer, assistant Delaware County Prosecutor.

The guilty pleas avoid any uncertainties from a trial and gave Salim the chance to take responsibility in court, Rohrer said.

Ballman's mother and sister attended the hearing but declined to comment. The family appreciates the work of investigators and will speak at sentencing, their lawyer Greg Helser said Thursday. Salim remains free on house arrest on $1 million bond.

Ballman was last seen alive on July 31, 2012,

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Ballman's body was found in the back of her car the next day on a rural road a few miles from Salim's house in an upscale neighborhood.

Salim's attorney, Sam Shamansky, has said Ballman was prostituting herself to feed a drug habit. He said Thursday the guilty plea avoided the possibility of consecutive life sentences for Salim, who was originally charged with two counts of murder.

Shamansky said he'll present evidence favorable to Salim at sentencing, but in a dignified manner given the Ballmans' loss.

Salim "is extremely remorseful and has obviously accepted complete

responding to a personal ad, not a job ad.

Rohrer declined to discuss the allegations Thursday. He said a full presentation of the state's case would be made at sentencing.

Women who previously answered ads placed by Salim reported being accosted, sexually assaulted or asked to be alone in the house while he painted the human digestive system on their abdomens, according to police records.

Salim is also the target of a $40 million lawsuit filed by Ballman's family earlier this year blaming him for her death.

That lawsuit, which also named Salim's employer and Craigslist, has been on hold during the criminal case.

3 states tussle over bragging rights to 1st flight Bruce Smith Associated Press

Ohio and North Carolina drew a line on the tarmac Thursday in the fight over who was first to make a powered airplane flight.

Ohio license plates proclaim the state is the "Birthplace of Aviation" while North Carolina tags say the state is "First in Flight." Connecticut believes both are wrong.

There, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a law this summer saying German-born aviator and Bridgeport, Conn., resident Gustave Whitehead was the first to make a powered flight.

The state went on record saying Whitehead made his flight in 1901 — two years before Wilbur and Orville Wright lifted off on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The brothers were from Ohio.

On Thursday, Ohio state Rep. Rick Perales and North Carolina state Sen. Bill Cook held news conferences in their respective states to dispute Connecticut's action and reassert that the Wright Brothers were first.

"It's important to protect the truth," said Cook, whose district includes the Outer Banks. "Nowadays it seems like there are an awful lot of people who are trying to rewrite history.”

"If the Connecticut legislature hadn't changed the law to acknowledge Whitehead as the first in flight, I think we would have just let it slide," said Perales, whose district includes Huffman Prairie, where the Wright Brothers had a hanger and tested their planes.

Recent interest in Whitehead came as a documentary aired in the spring by an Australian historian, John Brown, who reviewed photographs, documents and newspaper articles to make his determination that Whitehead was first.

After looking at the research, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, an influential industry publication, agreed.

In the summer, as Connecticut passed its measure, Tom Crouch, senior curator for aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution, said Whitehead's backers were "absolutely wrong." The Wrights' plane is displayed at the National Air and Space Museum.

"Whitehead's legend has spawned much speculation and hearsay," Crouch said then. "People who have looked at this over the years ... almost unanimous-

ly reject the claim."

But the Smithsonian is forbidden by a contract with the Wright brothers' estate to admit that anyone else was the first to fly, in part because they had previously fought off other claims.

Both lawmakers said the Whitehead claim is based on a grainy photo that is inconclusive.

Cook said what is supposed to be Whitehead's plane in the photograph "looks like a frog to me." After their flight, the Wright brothers took their plane to Europe to show folks the newfangled flying technology but Whitehead did little, he said.

"He didn't go anywhere or do anything," Cook said. "If it was me, and I had invented a machine to fly and was the first one to do it, I would be out there crowing and telling everyone what was going on."

Whitehead's supporters said he had bad judgment when he tried to commercialize his design.

Perales said he is an engineer and is willing to consider evidence that perhaps the Wright brothers were not the first.

"If there is substantial evidence that leads us to believe it may be different then we're all comfortable with that," he said. "But there's absolutely nothing."

Connecticut state Rep. Larry Miller, who introduced the bill that became law, released an email statement this week saying that is not the case.

"Mounting evidence including over 100 contemporary published accounts of the event and supporting photographs were sufficient for Jane's All the World Aircraft, the Bible of aviation, to declare in March of this year that Whitehead should be credited with the first flight which took place right here in Stratford, Conn., on August 14, 1901," the statement said.

Perales and Cook said the Connecticut legislature is not the first to weigh in.

"This thing comes up every 20 years or so," Perales said.

Cook said that in 1985, the North Carolina legislature passed a resolution repudiating any contention that Whitehead was the first in flight.

"I think it's a silly issue but an issue worth talking about because it's so important to North Carolina," Cook said. "North Carolina is defined by several things and one of the big ones is where the first flight occurred."

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US spying has shattered allies’ trust: Merkel Geir Moulson

have to think about.”

“The United States of America and Europe face common challenges. We are allies,” the German leader said. “But such an alliance can only be built on trust. That’s why I repeat again: spying among friends, that cannot be.”

Other leaders arriving for the 28-nation meeting echoed Merkel’s displeasure. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called it “completely unacceptable” for a country to eavesdrop on an allied leader.

If reports that Merkel’s cellphone had been tapped are true, “it is exceptionally serious,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told national broadcaster NOS. “We want the truth,” Italian Premier Enrico Letta told reporters. “It is not in the least bit conceivable that activity of this type could be acceptable.”

Echoing Merkel, Austria’s foreign minister, Micheal Spindelegger, said, “We need to re-establish with the U.S. a relationship of trust, which has certainly suffered from this.”

France, which also vocally objected to allies spying on each other, asked that the issue of rein-

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BRUSSELS (AP) — European leaders united in anger Thursday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies — allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial transAtlantic relationship.

The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel’s own cellphone brought denunciations from the French and German governments.

Merkel’s unusually stern remarks as she arrived at the European Union gathering indicated she wasn’t placated by a phone conversation she had Wednesday with President Barack Obama, or his personal assurances that the U.S. is not listening in on her calls now.

“We need trust among allies and partners,” Merkel told reporters in Brussels. “Such trust now has to be built anew. This is what we

forcing Europeans’ privacy in the digital age be added to the agenda of the two-day summit. Before official proceedings got underway, Merkel held a brief one-on-one with French President Francois Hollande, and discussed the spying controversy.

The Europeans’ statements and actions indicated that they hadn’t been satisfied with assurances from Washington. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama personally assured Merkel that her phone is not being listened to now and won’t be in the future.

“I think we are all outraged, across party lines,” Wolfgang Bosbach, a prominent German lawmaker from Merkel’s party, told Deutschlandfunk radio. “And that also goes for the response that the chancellor’s cellphone is not being monitored — because this sentence says nothing about whether the chancellor was monitored in the past.”

“This cannot be justified from any point of view by the fight against international terrorism or by averting danger,” Bosbach said.

In the past, much of the official outrage in Europe about rev-

elations of U.S. communications intercepts leaked by former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden seemed designed for internal political consumption in countries that readily acknowledge conducting major spying operations themselves. But there has been a new discernible vein of anger in Europe as the scale of the NSA’s reported operations became known, as well as the possible targeting of a prominent leader like Merkel, presumably for inside political or economic information.

“Nobody in Germany will be able to say any longer that NSA surveillance — which is apparently happening worldwide and millions of times — is serving solely intelligence-gathering or defense against Islamic terror or weapons proliferation,” said Hans-Christian Strobele, a member of the German parliamentary oversight committee.

“Because, if you tap the cellphone or the phone connection of the presidents of France or Brazil, or the cellphone of the chancellor, then this is no longer about collecting intelligence about international terrorism, but then that is about competition, about getting

advantages in this competition and winning. That’s why today is a watershed moment.”

European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Borroso said for many Europeans, eavesdropping on their phone calls or reading their emails is particularly objectionable because it raises the specter of totalitarian regimes of the recent past.

“At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter. We cannot, let’s say, pretend it is just something accessory,” Barroso told a presummit news conference.

Referring to the East German Communist secret police, the feared Stasi, Barroso said, “to speak about Chancellor Merkel, in Germany there was a part of Germany where there was a political police that was spying on people’s lives every day. So we know very recently what totalitarianism means. And we know very well what comes, what happens when the state uses powers that intrude in people’s lives. So it is a very important issue, not only for Germany but for Europe in general.”

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis temporarily expelled a German bishop from his diocese on Wednesday because of a scandal over a 31-million-euro project to build a new residence complex, but refused calls to remove him permanently.

The Vatican didn’t say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg and gave no information on where he would go or what he would do. It said he was leaving pending the outcome of a church commission investigation into the expenditures and his role in the affair.

Limburg’s vicar general, the Rev. Wolfgang Roesch, who had been due to take up his duties on Jan. 1, will instead start work immediately and will run the diocese during Tebartz-van Elst’s absence, the Vatican said.

At the center of the controversy is the 31-million-euro ($42 million) price tag for the construction of a new bishop’s residence complex and related renovations.

Tebartz-van Elst has defended the expenditures, saying the bill was actually for 10 projects and that there were additional costs because of regulations on buildings under historical protection.

But in a country where Martin Luther launched the Reformation five centuries ago in response to what he said were excesses and abuses within the church, the outcry has been enormous. The perceived lack of financial transparency has also struck a chord since a church tax in Germany brings in billions of euros a year to the German church.

The head of the German bishops’ conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, has

been particularly blunt in his criticism of the expenditures and the credibility problem it was causing the church.

Zollitsch has said the church commission will investigate the costs of the renovation, the financing and how decisions about the restoration evolved. Canon lawyers are to determine if Tebartz-van Elst violated church law regarding the use of church money, Zollitsch said in Rome after meeting with Francis last week.

In a statement Wednesday, Zollitsch didn’t elaborate on Tebartz-van Elst’s future or the length of his time-out but pledged that the commission would do its work “quickly and carefully.”

Francis’ decision opens “a space to return to inner calm and create a new basis for talks,” he said.

The Vatican stressed that Francis took the decision based on “objective” information, suggesting that the Vatican wasn’t being swayed by the popular outcry over the scandal. At the same time, though, Francis has made clear he expects his bishops to live simply, setting as an example his own humble lifestyle.

He has said he wants his church “poor and for the poor” and has urged his priests to shun fancy cars for modest ones.

Tebartz-van Elst met with Francis on Monday.

Germany’s main lay Catholic group, the Central Committee of German Catholics, praised the decision as creating “the necessary space to clear up completely and firmly the events in Limburg,” said the group’s head Alois Glueck.

“Pope Francis’ decision offers the chance of a first step toward a new beginning in the Limburg diocese, because the situation had become an increasing burden for the faithful there and in all of Germany over recent weeks,” Glueck said.

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