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N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies appeared relaSEOUL, South Korea (AP) Kim tively vigorous Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial in photos and and enigmatic leader whose iron video from rule and nuclear ambitions for his recent trips to isolated communist nation domiChina and nated world security fears for Russia and in more than a decade, has died. He numerous trips was 69. around the Kim’s death was announced country careearly today by the state television fully documentfrom the North Korean capital, JONG IL ed by state Pyongyang.

Kim is believed to have suffered media. The communist country’s a stroke in 2008 but he had “Dear Leader” reputed to have had

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a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.

The news came as North Korea prepared for a hereditary succession. Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994.

In September 2010, Kim Jong Il unveiled his third son, the twentysomething Kim Jong Un, as his successor, putting him in highranking posts.

Kim Jong Il had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of “juche,” or self-reliance.

Even with a successor, there had been some fear among North Korean observers of a behind-thescenes power struggle or nuclear instability upon the elder Kim’s death.

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COMING THURSDAY Troy Mayor Michael Beamish has declared Thursday “Steve Nolan Day” in Troy to honor End of a n Era the recently retired Troy football coach.

As a part of the celebration, the Troy Daily News will release a special commemorative edition that same day looking back at Nolan’s 28 years at Troy. The edition will include a complete career retrospective, along with congratulatory notes from former players, coaches and fans.

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helped in some way.

“We’re in it together. He’s (Jim) an assistant for me at the Y, which is nice. I get to tell him what to do,” she added with a chuckle. “And I help him, too. I’m an assistant for

BY JOSH BROWN TROY him at Troy Christian.”

Sports Editor Which, of course, has led all of jbrown@tdnpublishing.com tried all of the other sports, but they their children to get into swimming, hen most people in Miami just weren’t for us. We found swim- also.

“We have four children, and all County hear the name, they ming and stuck with it. We started four swim,” Pam said. “In addition to at the Y (YMCA) when she was think one thing. nine, and we liked it more than any- Dakota, there’s Zane (17), Gabriella But when people in the Troy (15) and Ezekiel (12). They all have thing else.” sports community hear it, they swam or are swimming for the MCY. “At about six, our oldest took up think something else entirely.

“We always seem to find oursoccer,” Jim Fulton said.

“In three One thing is certain, though — selves near a pool every day.” years, the team was probably 1-29. everyone in the area knows the “It’s something we’ve both So we never really fell in love with Fulton name. learned,” Jim said. “I did triathlons And whether it’s through Fulton soccer.” out of college, so I knew how to “We’ve been very involved ever Farms, one of the more well-known swim in open water. It’s been a long since her first or second year – and recognized businesses in the coaching, officiating, helping in any time of learning. We’ve been around area, or through the many swima lot of coaches, a lot of swimmers. way,” Pam said. ming teams that Jim and Pam We’ve come to a point where we’re And high school isn’t the only Fulton coach for, the couple touches pretty good coaches.” the lives of many of Miami County’s place they’re involved, either.

But as long as they’ve been “I’ve been an assistant for the families — particularly at involved in swimming, the Farms MCY team, then this year they Christmas time. have been open longer. named me head coach,” Pam said.

For one, that’s when high school “I’m the son, I’m a part owner swimming season begins in earnest. “I’ve been the head coach of the and I manage a lot of the affairs on Pam has been an assistant coach Dolphins, coached with the Troy Tidal Waves … basically, any swim at Troy High School for six years team that’s been around, we’ve and also assists at Troy Christian • See FULTONS on Page 2 High School, where her husband Jim is head coach. But they’ve been involved much longer than that.

Next If you know someone who should be profiled in our Next Door feature, contact City Editor “We got into swimming when our Door Melody Vallieu at 440-5265. youngest, Dakota, who is now 21, was six,” Pam Fulton said. “We’d

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The cities of Troy and Piqua continue to study the feasibility of partnering on a regional water system. Both cities agreed in October to enter into and split the estimated $124,896 cost of a comprehensive water system analysis by Cincinnatibased RA Consultants, which is due to be completed early next year.

Piqua is under an Environmental Protection Agency order to replace its aging water treatment system by the end of 2012.

The analysis is expected to provide data and answer a number of questions about the feasibility of a possible water system partnership between Troy and Piqua.

Now Troy City Council and Piqua City Commission appear poised to include a new, additional feature to the overall analysis: A hydrogeological review of Troy’s underground aquifer.

The approximately $30,000 cost of the hydrogeological review also will be split between Troy and Piqua, and if approved by both cities, will be added as an amendment to the initial agreement with RA Consultants, Troy Service and Safety Director Patrick Titterington told members of Troy City Council’s Finance Committee on Dec. 12.

Titterington said RA Consultants recommended adding the hydrogeological review to address concerns with an underground plume of chemical contaminants, including Perchloroethene (PCE), in an approximately 20-block area of east Troy, near the Troy Aquifer.

The area is being investigated by the state and federal Environmental Protection Agency and has been designated as a Superfund cleanup site.

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• CONTINUED FROM A1 Few firm facts are available when it comes to North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world, and not much is clear about the man known as the “Dear Leader.â€?

North Korean legend has it that Kim was born on Mount Paekdu, one of Korea’s most cherished sites, in 1942, a birth heralded in the heavens by a pair of rainbows and a brilliant new star.

Soviet records, however, indicate he was born in Siberia, in 1941.

Kim Il Sung, who for years fought for independence from Korea’s colonial ruler, Japan, from a base in Russia, emerged as a communist leader after returning to Korea in 1945 after Japan was defeated in World War II. With the peninsula divided between the Sovietadministered north and the U.S.-administered south, Kim rose to power as North Korea’s first leader in 1948 while Syngman Rhee became South Korea’s first president.

The North invaded the South in 1950, sparking a war that would last three years, kill millions of civilians and leave the peninsula divided by a Demilitarized Zone that today remains one of the world’s most heavily fortified.

In the North, Kim Il Sung meshed Stalinist ideology with a cult of personality that encompassed him

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In this April 25, 2002 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, applauds with Kim Yong Nam, president of the People’s Congress from the balcony of a building during a military parade, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korean People’s Army in Pyongyang, North Korea and his son. Their portraits hang in every building in North Korea and on the lapels of every dutiful North Korean.

Kim Jong Il, a graduate of Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung University, was 33 when his father anointed him his eventual successor.

Even before he took over as leader, there were signs the younger Kim would maintain and perhaps exceed his father’s hard-line stance.

South Korea has accused Kim of masterminding a 1983 bombing that killed 17 South Korean officials visiting Burma, now known as Myanmar. In 1987, the bombing of a Korean Air

Flight killed all 115 people on board; a North Korean agent who confessed to planting the device said Kim ordered the downing of the plane himself.

Kim Jong Il took over after his father died in 1994, eventually taking the posts of chairman of the National Defense Commission, commander of the Korean People’s Army and head of the ruling Worker’s Party while his father remained as North Korea’s “eternal president.�

He faithfully carried out his father’s policy of “military first,� devoting much of the country’s scarce resources to its troops even as his people suffered from a

EPA that it dumped chemicals at its site, and subsequent testing has confirmed the presence of Trichloroethylene (TCE) and other chemicals.

PCE and TCE are potentially harmful chemicals used in metal degreasing and dry cleaning processes.

Regular testing of the city of Troy’s water supply has found no evidence of contamination.

The issue of a hydroge-

ological review came up in October during discussions between RA Consultants and city of Piqua and Troy staffs. It was also in mid-October that the federal EPA held another in an ongoing series of public meetings at Van Cleeve School on remediation efforts at the Superfund site.

In light of that public “(RA Conmeeting, sultants) suggested the (hydrogeological) review,�

Titterington said Tuesday.

A hydrogeological review could “take the emotion out of the issue� by providing water quality reports and data to confirm that Troy’s Aquifer is not contaminated, Titterington said Dec. 12.

prolonged famine and built the world’s fifth-largest military.

Kim also sought to build up the country’s nuclear arms arsenal, which culminated in North Korea’s first nuclear test explosion, an underground blast conducted in October 2006. Another test came in 2009.

Alarmed, regional leaders negotiated a disarmament-for-aid pact that the North signed in 2007 and began implementing later that year.

However, the process continues to be stalled, even as diplomats work to restart negotiations.

North Korea, long hampered by sanctions and unable to feed its own people, is desperate for aid.

Flooding in the 1990s that destroyed the largely mountainous country’s arable land left millions hungry.

Following the famine, the number of North Koreans fleeing the country through China rose dramatically, with many telling tales of hunger, political persecution and rights abuses that officials in Pyongyang emphatically denied.

Kim often blamed the U.S. for his country’s troubles and his regime routinely derides Washingtonallied South Korea as a “puppet� of the Western superpower.

U.S. President George W. Bush, taking office in 2002, denounced North Korea as a member of an “axis of evil� that also included Iran and Iraq. He later described Kim

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WHAT: Troy City Council WHEN: 7 p.m. today WHERE: council chambers, 2nd floor, city hall, 100 S. Market St. The Finance Committee on Dec. 12 agreed to recommend the full council back spending up to $15,000 to cover Troy’s share of the cost of the review. The Finance Committee’s recommendation will be reviewed by Troy City Council at its meeting Monday.

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as a “tyrant� who starved his people so he could build nuclear weapons. “Look, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person. He’s a man who starves his people.

He’s got huge concentration camps. And ‌ there is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon,�

Bush said in 2005.

Kim was an enigmatic leader. But defectors from North Korea describe him as an eloquent and tireless orator, primarily to the military units that form the base of his support.

The world’s best glimpse of the man was in 2000, when the liberal South Korean government’s conciliatory “sunshine� policy toward the North culminated in the first-ever summit between the two Koreas and followed with unprecedented inter-Korean cooperation.

A second summit was held in 2007 with South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun.

But the thaw in relations drew to a halt in early 2008 when conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in Seoul pledging to come down hard on communist North Korea.

Disputing accounts that Kim was “peculiar,� former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright characterized Kim as intelligent and well-informed, saying the two had wide-ranging discussions during her visits to Pyongyang when Bill Clinton was U.S. president. “I found him very much on top of his brief,� she said.

the farm,� Jim said. “I’m mainly in charge of the Christmas trees, as well.�

And while Fulton Farms is known countywide, the Fultons don’t see it as a celebrity thing. “It’s probably pretty unremarkable. It’s what I grew up with,� Jim said. “There’s a lot of things you take for granted living on a farm.�

Fulton Farms allows customers to cut down their own Christmas tree for $40.

It’s open from 10 a.m.6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Christmas trees are available until Dec. 23. “But that’s a lot of what’s special. It’s a long, hard year, you go through all the labors of harvest – then on Oct. 31, the farm market closes, everyone takes a quick sigh of relief, then on about Thanksgiving you start in with the Christmas trees.

It’s still work, it’s still income, but the stress levels are greatly reduced.

Overall, everyone’s in the Christmas spirit.�

It all leads to the tiniest amount of free time in the world.

And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Swimming is an intense sport, and it takes a lot of time,� Pam said. “It’s not easy. If you don’t love it, you can’t stay.� “As hectic as our lifestyle is, it’s the decisions we’ve made. And given the chance, I don’t think we’d ever do anything different.�

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DEC. 25 • BOARD TO MEET: The Miami County Educational Service • FREE DINNER: A free C o m m u n i t y Christmas dinner will be Center’s Governing Board will meet at 6 p.m. at 4520 offered beginning at noon at Calendar E. State Route 41, Troy.

St. Patrick Soup Kitchen, 409 • EDUCATION BOARD E. Main St., and there also CONTACT US SET: The Miami East will be home deliveries.

Local Schools’ board of Those needing a meal deliveducation will meet for its ered can call 335-7939 to regular meeting at 7 p.m. make a reservation. The Call Melody at the high school lecture menu will include beef Vallieu at hall. brisket, turkey and dressing, 440-5265 to • MOMS & TOTS: The mashed potatoes, sweet Miami County Park potatoes, corn, green beans, list your free District will have the dinner roll, fruit salad and calendar Trailing Moms & Tots propie. items.You gram from 10 a.m. to noon at Charleston Falls DEC. 26 can send Preserve, 2535 Ross your news by e-mail to Road, south of Tipp City.

• SANDWICH AND vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. FRIES: The program is for expecAmerican Legion tant mothers, mothers and Post 586, 377 N. 3rd St., tots newborn to 5 years Tipp City, will offer a texas old. Participants can tenderloin and fries from 6-7:30 p.m. for $5. socialize, play and exercise during this walk. Be sure to dress for the weather.

DEC. 27 • AUDITIONS SET: Auditions for the next Troy Civic Theatre performance, • MOTHER NATURE’S PRESCHOOL: “Blithe Spirit,” will be at 7 p.m. at the Barn The Miami County Park District will hold in the Park in Troy Community Park. A first the Mother Nature’s Pre-school program reading will be Jan. 4 and performance “Circle of the Sun” from 10–11 a.m. at dates will be March 2-4 and 9-10. For information on open roles, contact Niccole Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross at scarlettraven@juno.com or 615-9463 or Road, south of Tipp City. Children 3-5 years old and an adult companion are invitBecca at 470-1259. ed to attend and enjoy learning about • TRUSTEES TO MEET: The Tipp City where all the animals have gone for the Public Library Board of Trustees will have winter. There will be a story and crafts. a special meeting at 7 p.m. at the library Dress for the weather. Pre-register for the to discuss personnel matters. program by sending an email to regisCivic Agenda ter@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) • Pleasant Hill Board of Public Affairs will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the village council 667-1286, Ext. 115. room, 200 W. Walnut St., Pleasant Hill.

DEC. 29 • Milton-Union Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the elementary • PROJECT FEEDERWATCH: Project school.

FeederWatch will be offered from 9:30• Monroe Township Board of Trustees 11:30 a.m. at Aullwood. Participants are will meet at 7 p.m. at the Township invited to count birds, drink coffee, eat Building. doughnuts, share stories and count more • The Tipp City Council will meet at birds. This bird count contributes to scientif7:30 p.m. at the Government Center. ic studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

• The Piqua City Commission will meet Check out the Cornell web site at at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more informa• The Troy City Council will meet at 7 tion. p.m. in the meeting room in Council Chambers.

DEC. 30 • The Staunton Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Staunton • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Township building.

Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, • The Miami County Educational Service Center Governing Board will meet will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108. at 5 p.m. at 2000 W. Stanfield Road, Troy.

• SEAFOOD DINNER: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, TUESDAY Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piece fried fish dinner, 21-piece fried shrimp or a • EXPLORATION WALK: The Miami fish/shrimp combo with french fries and County Park District will have an adult coleslaw for $6 from 6-7:30 p.m. Frog legs, exploration walk at 9 a.m. at Stillwater when available, are $10.

Prairie Reserve, 9750 State Route 185, • PROJECT FEEDERWATCH: Project north of Covington. Join naturalists as FeederWatch will be offered from 9:30they head to explore nature.

11:30 a.m. at Aullwood. Participants are • PARK DISTRICT MEETING: The invited to count birds, drink coffee, eat Miami County Park District will conduct its doughnuts, share stories and count more next board meeting at 9 a.m. at the Lost birds. This bird count contributes to scienCreek Reserve Cabin, 2645 East State tific studies at the Cornell Lab of Route 41, east of Troy. For more informaOrnithology. Check out the Cornell web tion, contact the Miami County Park site at www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more District at 937-335-6273. information.

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• KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Lunch is $10.Dick Phillips will present Christmas music. For more information, contact Kim Riber, vice president, at (937) 974-0410.

• NATURE CLUB: The Home School Nature Club will meet from 2-4 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center to explore the changes in the land through the process known as succession. Senses, and how animals use them in the wild, will be the topic. The fee is $5 for nonmembers.

• TCT AUDITIONS: Troy Civic Theatre will have auditions for “Blithe Spirit” at 7 p.m. at the Barn in the Park in Community Park. For more information, contact Niccole at scarlettraven@juno.com or 615-9463 or Becca at 470-1259. The performance dates are March 2-4 and 9-10.

• LITERACY COUNCIL TO MEET: The Troy Literacy Council, serving all of Miami County, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Hayner Cultural Center in Troy. Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, can contact the council’s message center at (937) 660-3170 for further information.

THURSDAY • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be offered from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will guide walkers as they experience the seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

• WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERT: Come celebrate the new season with wine, nature and song in the candlelit Heidelberg Auditorium at Brukner Nature Center and enjoy songs of the season with Rum River Blend at 7 p.m.. Admission is $5 for BNC members and $10 for nonmember.

Refreshments are included.

FRIDAY • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108.

• DINNER OFFERED: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer dinner from 6-7:30

JAN. 4 • ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: Elizabeth Township will have an organizational meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m., the Regular Scheduled Township Meeting will follow at 7 p.m. at the township building.

JAN. 7 • SPAGHETTI DINNER: Troy Post No. 43 Baseball will offer an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner will be offered from 37:30 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include a salad bar, drink and dessert. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children 12 and younger. All proceeds will benefit the Troy American Legion baseball.

JAN. 8 • TURKEY SHOOT: The Troy VFW Post 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, will offer a turkey shoot beginning at noon. Sign ups will begin at 11 a.m. The women’s auxiliary will offer an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon for $5.

JAN. 9 • FINANCIAL AID MEETING: The Milton-Union High School Guidance Department has planned a college financial aid meeting for 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Connie Garrett, a financial aid representative from Wright State University, will conduct the meeting. There will be a time for questions after her presentation. For more information, call the high school at 884-7940.

SCHOOL MENUS • BETHEL Tuesday —Cook’s choice. High school only — Domino’s pizza.

Wednesday — Vegetable beef soup, wheat dinner roll, carrot sticks with dip, choice of fruit, milk.

• BRADFORD SCHOOLS Tuesday — Spaghetti with meat sauce or peanut butter and jelly, green beans, fruit cup, breadstick and milk.

Wednesday — Chicken quesadilla or chef salad, carrot sticks with dip, fruit cup and milk.

Thursday — Cheese sticks with pizza sauce or peanut butter and jelly, green beans, fruit cup, cookie and milk.

• COVINGTON SCHOOLS Tuesday — Pepperoni pizza, corn, applesauce and milk.

• MIAMI EAST SCHOOLS Tuesday — Chicken patty sandwich, rice, cheese slice, carrots, peaches and milk.

Wednesday — Broasted chicken, peas, dinner roll, Jell-O, cookie and milk.

SENIOR MENUS • SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION OF DAYTON MEALS ON WHEELS Lunch is served Monday through Friday at 11 a.m. to seniors 60-plus at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

To reserve a meal, call (888) 580-3663.

A suggested donation of $2 is asked for meals.

• NEWTON SCHOOLS No school, holiday break.

• PIQUA SCHOOLS Tuesday — Turkey and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, pumpkin custard, roll and milk.

Wednesday — Galaxy pizza, tossed salad, fruit juice, raisins and milk.

• ST. PATRICK Tuesday — Turkey and noodles, mashed potatoes, corn, grapes, milk.

Wednesday — Popcorn chicken, salad, peaches, cheese stick, holiday sugar cookie, milk.

• TROY CITY SCHOOLS No school — Holiday break.

• TIPP CITY HIGH SCHOOL Tuesday — Cheeseburger on a bun,

baked potato wedges, choice of fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Mini corn dogs, green beans, choice of fruit, milk.

• UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER Tuesday — Nachos supreme or chicken fajitas, refried beans, tomato, salsa, assorted fruit and milk.

Wednesday — Pizza or quesadilla, side salad, assorted fruit and milk.

Thursday — Swiss chicken breast or fish sandwich, whole grain brown or wild rice, steamed broccoli, multigrain roll or bun and milk.

Friday — Loaded potato wedges or baked chicken nuggets and potato wedges, assorted fruit, multi-grain roll and milk.

COLLEGE BRIEF

Eastern University ST. DAVIDS, Pa. — Kelsey Hofer of Tipp City achieved recognition of being on the dean’s list at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa., for the spring semester 2011.

Hofer is majoring in psychology with a minor in communications. She is the daughter of John and Sue Hofer.

At Eastern, Hofer is a member of the Templeton Honors College and a student chaplain. She attends True Vine Community Church.

AREA BRIEF

Financial aid meeting planned at Milton-Union WEST MILTON — The Milton-Union High School Guidance Department has planned a college financial aid meeting for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9, 2012, in the high school cafeteria.

Connie Garrett, a financial aid representative from Wright State University, will conduct the meeting.

There will be a time for questions after her presentation.

For more information about the meeting, contact the high school at 884-7940.

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Brain strain: Christmas shopping when money tight NEW YORK (AP) — Chennel King, a nurse from Norwalk, Conn., went Christmas shopping the other day with a new holiday companion: a budget.

Despite a tough economic situation her husband was laid off almost a year ago King didn’t want to disappoint her five children. So she still went to a mall in suburban New Jersey, but with a limit of $200 per child.

Plenty of Americans are having to hold back this year as the lure of flashy ads, tempting bargains and family expectations clashes with the realities of the economy.

Experts in consumer behavior say that situation can strain the brain.

Scientists say we are to some extent wired for shopping. It seems to tap into circuits that originally spurred our ancestors to go out looking for food, says Brian Knutson, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University.

“We are built to forage, just like rats, just like dogs,”

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It may not be easy, but many shoppers are choosing to adhere to a budget when they head out to do their Christmas shopping this year.

Knutson said. So we have brain circuitry that “compels us to go out there … to get good stuff, even if we don’t know what that good stuff is.”

Brain scanning in his lab shows deep brain circuitry called the nucleus accumbens goes to work when people are considering products and prices. When brain cells in that area release a chemical called dopamine, people are motivated to take action,

he said.

So the very prospect of shopping maybe brought on by ads and other marketing tools may arouse that circuitry and put us in a mood to hit the stores, and then to keep on shopping, he said. “You feel good… It’s exciting,” Knutson said.

Other circuitry reacts to excessively high prices and dampens the enthusiasm to buy, he said. The competing signals buy and don’t-buy are

passed to the front of the brain, in the prefrontal cortex, where a decision about whether to purchase something is apparently made, he said.

But how does that decision get made when money is tight? Knutson said he hasn’t studied that question. But he notes that yet another area of the brain, called the cingulate cortex, responds to conflicts like wanting to buy something that costs too much. So maybe it pitches in when a shopper feels restrained by a budget.

King, the recent mall shopper, isn’t sure how much she spent last year but it was a lot, with new bedroom sets, a camera for one daughter, a camcorder for one son, and four PlayStations. This year, she turned down the requests of her oldest two for an iPad. But she didn’t consider cutting out Christmas totally. And she’s mindful to buy the same number of presents for each kid.

“You only live once,” King said. “If it’s something my kids really want, I try to get

With tidings of peace and joy, we wish you and yours all the blessings of this holy season. For the goodwill you’ve shown us, we are sincerely grateful.

it at the lowest possible price.”

From what experts recommend about holding down spending, King was smart to set a budget ahead of time, but she probably made her task tougher by going to a mall.

When you’re surrounded by attractive goods and crowds of people buying them, “natural human desires can trigger off intense cravings” to buy, says George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. “Not spending when you’re tempted to spend is exhausting and miserable,” like not eating when you’re hungry, he says.

Trying to apply will power “should be your last resort,” he said. Much better is to stay away from the mall in the first place, “and it will be much easier to exert self-control.”

It might be preferable to shop on the Internet so you’re not surrounded by buyers, although the convenience of online shopping

holds its own temptations, he said.

If you do go to a mall, commit yourself beforehand to a hard limit on spending, Loewenstein recommends.

“Generally, people tend to be a lot more tempted when there is some kind of uncertainty about whether you’re going to get whatever it is you’re tempted by,” he said.

A definite budget removes that uncertainty when a shopper spots something extra, and so it’s easier for the brain to say no, he said.

But how to make that budget limit stick? “The last thing you want to do is spend with a card, especially a credit card, or even a debit card,” he said. “It doesn’t feel like spending.”

Much better to count out some cash and put it in an envelope. When the cash is gone, you’re done shopping.

Even before then, the act of forking out cash introduces “the pain of paying,” which can make a shopper more rational and less vulnerable to impulse purchases, he said.

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PERSPECTIVE

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

— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

ANALYSIS

Iran’s fortunes in post-US Iraq clouded CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military’s departure from Iraq opens the door to expanded Iranian influence in the Middle East, though that door could close fast if Iran’s closest Arab ally Bashar Assad falls from power in Syria.

That’s among the uncertainties looming over the Middle East in the wake of President Barack Obama’s decision to remove all U.S. troops by the end of this month, fulfilling a campaign promise to end the unpopular war and abandoning efforts to negotiate an extension of the year-end deadline agreed to by the Bush administration in 2008.

At first glance, that would make Iran the big winner, especially if the U.S. move heralds a tectonic shift of power in the strategic Persian Gulf region as the United States shifts its military focus to East Asia and the Pacific. But the tumult from the Arab Spring, on top of the end of the nearly nine-year Iraq War, has made the rivalry between Iran and the U.S.’s Arab allies even trickier and predictions more cloudy.

No longer will tens of thousands of American troops be stationed along Iran’s western border. They are leaving behind an Iraqi government dominated by Shiite Muslim parties beholden to the Iranians, who sheltered them for years when Saddam Hussein and his Sunnidominated Baath regime were in power.

With the American military presence reduced to a few hundred members of an embassy-based liaison mission, Iran is likely to step up infiltration of Iraq’s intelligence services the key to manipulating Iraq’s internal politics and expand its links to both Shiite and Kurdish politicians, to the alarm of the country’s Sunni minority.

As the second most populous country in the Gulf, with some of the world’s largest proven petroleum reserves, an avowedly pro-Iranian Iraq would be a game changer in the power struggle between Iran and the U.S.-backed, conservative Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia.

Iran already wielded considerable influence in Iraq even when U.S. troop strength approached 170,000. The U.S.-led invasion of 2003 produced a strange alliance between the Americans and religiously based Shiite parties tied simultaneously to both Washington and Tehran.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite who had been cool toward Iran, has moved closer to the pro-Iranian groups since a political crisis in 2010 nearly cost him his job.

With the American military gone, Tehran’s prospects for bolstering those ties in Iraq look bright.

At closer examination, however, the future appears less certain.

Much will depend on how the key players including the United States maneuver diplomatically through the new environment created by the end of the Iraq War. “The United States must succeed in limiting and countering Iranian influence in Iraq and in creating Iraqi forces that can defend the country,” wrote analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Center for International and Strategic Studies. “The United States must also restructure a mix of forward-deployed U.S. forces and ties to regional powers that can contain every aspect of Iran’s military forces and political ambitions.”

Iran’s ability to manipulate a post-America Iraq is by no means unlimited, in part due to a flowering of Iraqi nationalism which survived the horrific bloodshed of the Sunni-Shiite sectarian war.

Many ordinary Iraqi Shiites harbor bitter memories of the 19801988 war with Iran, when young Shiite soldiers bore the brunt of the casualties. Among the Sunni minority, hostility to Iran runs even deeper, and much of the talk of Iranian domination stems from overblown comments by Sunni politicians seeking to discredit their Shiite political rivals.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on trade policy: While the decision to station a contingent of Marines in Australia drew much attention during President Barack Obama’s recent trip to the Pacific region, the longer term interests of the United States may have been more advanced by a pacific policy in the Pacific, through freer trade.

At the Honolulu summit conference of Pacific rim nations, Obama won commitments from Japan and Canada to join talks aimed at binding nine Pacific Rim nations to a trade pact in the next year.

Whether that happens is still a big “if.” But carry it off, and American exports — both goods and services — can expand significantly in the region.

America already has separate free-trade agreements with Australia, Chile, Peru and Singapore. Four that would be added would be Malaysia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Brunei.

Economists say it would be the largest free-trade area since that formed by the union of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.

While the stationing of more Marines in the Pacific

region is seen as a check on aggressive moves by the communist government of China, the principal competition in the area is between the Almighty (sort of) Dollar and the Rising Renminbi, China’s currency. China’s efforts to expand its influence, both in trade and political ties, needed not involve a clash with American interests, but certainly raise that possibility — and many of China’s neighbors look at their giant neighbor with some suspicion.

We applaud Obama for this initiative and suggest it deserves bipartisan support should the negotiations prosper next year.

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You can take the boy out of Troy, but ...

You never know when you’re going to run into a little bit of Troy, Ohio.

A few years back, my wife and I were in Hawaii and paid a visit to Pearl Harbor. While there, we toured the World War II era submarine that is tied up next to the visitor’s center. We were squeezing through the submarine and I was doing my best to keep from hitting my head on the various doorways when we came to the tiny galley. That’s when my wife saw it.

“Hey, look at this,” she said.

There was a Hobart mixer.

There was something neat about seeing that piece of Troy in a submarine. I’m sure you can find a Hobart mixer in a restaurant in just about every country on the globe, but you just don’t think about running into one in the confined space of a World War II submarine. I bet if we could have plugged it in, it would still have worked.

On another occasion, we were in an airport on some little island in the Philippines. This was the kind of airport where they don’t even bother to put glass or screens or anything in

David Lindeman Troy Daily News Columnist the windows. Actually, there weren’t windows as much as there was just a roof over a floor with open sides to the building.

So there we were, waiting to board the plane, when we noticed the Hobart Brothers Ground Power Equipment on the runway. It made me feel a little more confident knowing the guys from back home were taking care of us.

Here’s a different kind of example. If you happen to read The Help, the book about black maids in the 1960s South, you’ll read about the kitchens in those southern homes where the maids and cooks worked. As you read about those kitchens, you’ll discover that they had Kitchen

Aid mixers. I know they don’t make Kitchen Aids in Troy anymore, but back in the 1960s they did, so this qualifies.

It just seems like no matter where you go, there’s a bit of Troy there. Why, there’s even a Trojan Manufacturing Co. in Piqua.

The latest example for me took place last week and it again happened in a book. I was reading Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zukoff. It’s the story of the survivors of a World War II plane crash in New Guinea. The plane went down in a lost valley in the middle of uncharted mountains. Only three of the more than 20 people on board survived. The story tells about how they survived the crash and managed to stay alive in a rainforest. The most intriguing part of the story is their interaction with a group of stone-age natives. You might say the natives were people who the world forgot, except the world had never known them — their valley had been a secret, hidden place since the beginning of the world.

Eventually, rescuers from the

air find the survivors. They drop supplies and even medics and some paratroopers to rescue them. But there’s a problem.

How do they get out? There was nowhere to land a plane. The valley was so high that the air was too thin for helicopters to get in and out. The survivors were too injured to hike out and, besides, there were Japanese troops on one side of the valley and headhunters on the other.

Then, much to my amazement, Troy came to the rescue.

I don’t want to give it all away, but I will say this: the WACO saves the day. If you want to know exactly how that happens, you’ll have to read the book.

I’m sure most of you who are reading this have had the experience of running across something or someone from Troy in an unexpected place. There’s just something comforting about knowing you’re never really far from home.

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OBITUARIES

LOUIS WAYNE ‘PETE’ EMERICK fishing, archery and target CHRISTIANSBURG — shooting. Pete will be Louis Wayne “Pete” sadly missed by all who Emerick, age 61, of knew him.

Christiansburg, passed Funeral services will be away at 4:04 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, in conducted at noon Wednesday, Dec. 21, Miami Valley Hospital, 2011, at the Atkins-Shively Dayton.

Funeral Home, 216 S. Born Oct. 16, 1950, in Springfield St., St. Paris, Kansas, Pete was a son with Pastor Mike Gross of of the late Carrol “Carl” and Mary (West) Emerick. Trinity Community Church presiding.

He married Cathy E. Burial will follow in Smith Gilliam on Dec. 1, 1972, Cemetery, Christiansburg. and she preceded him in There will be two hours death on Nov. 11, 2008.

Together they raised three of visitation prior to the children, two of whom sur- service in the funeral home beginning at 10 a.m. vive: Kevin and Kurtis on Wednesday.

Emerick, both of Memorial contributions Christiansburg. may be made to the He also survived by AP American Heart many nieces, nephews Young woman places candle next to St. Wenceslas statue at Wenceslas square in Prague, Czech Republic, on and extended family mem- Association, Great Rivers Sunday, to pay tribute to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has died early morning Sunday at his counAffiliate, P.O. Box 163549, bers. try seat in Hradecek.

In addition to his parents Columbus, OH 432163549, or to Helping Hands and wife, Pete was preFood Panty, C/O Trinity ceded in death by a son, Community Church, 622 Kenneth Emerick, and a stepsister, Connie Zipola. Gordon St., Piqua, OH Pete attended the Trinity 45356. Envelopes will be available in the funeral Community Church of home.

Piqua. He was a mainteCondolences to the faminance technician for PRAGUE (AP) — The prevail over lies and ly may be sent to Fukuvi USA, Huber end of Czechoslovakia’s hatred,” Havel famously Heights. He enjoyed work- www.shivelyfuneraltotalitarian regime was said. It became his revolu- ing with young children, fly homes.com. called the Velvet Revolution tionary motto, which he because of how smooth the said he always strove to FUNERAL DIRECTORY transition seemed: live by.

Communism dead in a mat“It’s interesting that I • Deborah M. Latimer • Dorothy Jane ter of weeks, without a shot had an adventurous life, COLUMBUS — Wesbecher fired. But for Vaclav Havel, even though I am not an SIDNEY — Dorothy Deborah M. (Simon) it was a moment he helped adventurer by nature. It Latimer, 61, of Columbus, Jane Wesbecher, 93, of pay for with decades of sufwas fate and history that fering and struggle. caused my life to be adven- Ohio, and formerly of Dorothy Love Retirement The dissident playwright turous rather than me as Community, Sidney, died Sidney, died at the Ohio spent years in jail but someone who seeks adven- State University Medical at the retirement communever lost his defiance, or ture,” he once told Czech nity on Saturday, Dec. 17, Center, Columbus, on his eloquence, and the govradio.

2011.

Wednesday, Dec. 14, ernment’s attempts to Havel first made a A Mass of Christian 2011. A memorial mass crush his will ended up name for himself after the will be conducted on Burial will be conducted expanding his influence. He 1968 Soviet-led invasion Wednesday, Dec. 21, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 became a source of inspirathat crushed the Prague 2011 at Holy Angels at Holy Angels Catholic tion to Czechs, and to all of Spring reforms of Catholic Church in Church in Sidney. SalmEastern Europe. He went Alexander Dubcek and Sidney. Salm-McGill and McGill and Tangeman from prisoner to president other liberally minded Tangeman Funeral Home Funeral Home in Sidney in 1989, the year the Berlin communists in what was in Sidney is handling the is handling the funeral Wall fell and communism then Czechoslovakia. funeral arrangements. arrangements. crumbled across the region.

Havel’s plays were Havel died Sunday banned as hard-liners morning at his weekend installed by Moscow DEATHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST AP home in the northern Czech In this Nov. 24, 1989 file photo, Vaclav Havel, leader of snuffed out every whiff of Republic. The 75-year-old the Prague opposition, right, and Alexander Dubcek, rebellion. But he continued • Dan Frazer on television in “Sanford & former chain-smoker had a leader of the ill-fated Prague Spring, left, toast as they to write, producing a series NEW YORK (AP) — Son” has died in New history of chronic respiratoof underground essays that celebrate the resignation of the Czech Polit Bureau the Veteran film and television Jersey. He was 87. ry problems dating back to stand with the work of same night. actor Dan Frazer, best Barbara Montgomery often his time in prison.

Soviet dissident Andrei known for his role as appeared with Brown on the Shy and bookish, with a and lit candles at Havel’s Sakharov as the most inciAlbright, who is of Czech Captain Frank McNeil on stage and had power of wispy mustache and sive and eloquent analyses villa in Prague. A black flag origin. the long-running 1970s tele- attorney on his behalf. She unkempt hair, Havel helped of mourning flew over Havel was his country’s of what communism did to vision series “Kojak,” has says he died Tuesday of draw the world’s attention Prague Castle, the presifirst democratically elected society and the individual. died in New York. He was pulmonary failure at the to the anger and frustraOne of his best-known dential seat, and Havel was president, leading it 90.

Lillian Booth Actors’ Fund tion spilling over behind essays, “The Power of the also remembered at a mon- through the early chalFrazer’s daughter, Nursing Home in the Iron Curtain. While he ument to the revolution in lenges of democracy and its Powerless,” was written in Susanna Frazer, says her Englewood. was president, the Czech the capital’s downtown. peaceful 1993 breakup into 1978. It borrowed slyly father died of cardiac arrest Brown often appeared in Republic split from from the opening line of “Mr. President, thank you the Czech Republic and at his home in Manhattan stage productions of the Slovakia, but it also made for democracy,” one note Slovakia, though his image the mid-19th century on Dec. 16. She called him New York-based Negro dramatic gains in economic read.

Communist Manifesto, suffered as his people disa wonderful, naturalistic Ensemble Company and might. writing: “A specter is Lech Walesa, former covered the difficulties of character actor. was a founding member of “His peaceful resistance Polish president and the transforming their society. haunting eastern Europe: Frazer started playing the Guthrie Theater in shook the foundations of an Nobel Peace Prize-winning the specter of what in the He was an avowed character roles in various Minneapolis. empire, exposed the empti- founder of the country’s West is called ‘dissent.’” peacenik who was close television series and films in He played a school princiness of a repressive ideolo- anti-communist Solidarity In the essay, he dissectfriends with members of the 1950s. His films include pal on the 1970s sitcom gy, and proved that moral ed what he called the “dicmovement, called Havel “a the Plastic People of the “Cleopatra Jones,” ”Take the “Sanford & Son” and a leadership is more powerful great fighter for the freeUniverse, a nonconformist tatorship of ritual” the ossiMoney and Run” ”Gideon’s judge on “Law & Order.” He dom of nations and for rock band banned by the than any weapon,” said fied Soviet bloc system Trumpet” and also had roles in movies democracy.” communist regime, and President Barack Obama. under Leonid Brezhnev “Deconstructing Harry.” including “Malcolm X,” “Amid the turbulence of whose heroes included “He also embodied the aspiand imagined what hapBesides “Kojak,” Frazer’s tel”Clockers” and “The modern Europe, his voice rockers such as Frank rations of half a continent pens when an ordinary evision appearances include Muppets Take Manhattan.”

Zappa. that had been cut off by the was the most consistent greengrocer stops displayand compelling endlessly He never quite shed his ing communist slogans and “Car 54, Where Are You,” Iron Curtain, and helped • Patrick V. Murphy ”Route 66,” ”Barney Miller” searching for the best in flower-child past and often begins “living in truth,” unleash tides of history NEW YORK — Patrick V. and “Law & Order.” himself and in each of us,” signed his name with a that led to a united and rediscovering “his supMurphy, who battled police He was a member of The said former U.S. Secretary small heart as a flourish. democratic Europe.” pressed identity and dignicorruption and urged offiAcademy of Motion Picture of State Madeleine K. “Truth and love must Mourners laid flowers ty.” cers to hold their fire as Arts and Sciences and an head of the New York, adviser to The Workshop Detroit and Washington Theatre Co. forces during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, died LISBON, Portugal (AP) — last year. recorded in France where things,” Evora told The • Randy Preddy WACO, Texas — Former Friday. He was 91.

Cesaria Evora, who started She sang the traditional she first found popularity, Associated Press in a 2000 Murphy died of a heart singing as a teenager in the music of the Cape Verde launched her international interview at her home. “Some Waco Tribune-Herald bayside bars of Cape Verde in Islands off West Africa, a for- career. say it’s like the blues, or jazz. Publisher Randy Preddy attack at a hospital in the 1950s and won a mer Portuguese colony. She Her 1995 album “Cesaria” Others says it’s like has died at the age of 71.

Wilmington, N.C., his son, Grammy in 2003 after she mostly sang in the version of was released in more than a Brazilian or African music, According to a statement Gerard Murphy, said. took her African islands creole spoken there, but even dozen countries and brought but no one really knows. Not from Grace Gardens “Pat Murphy was the music to stages across the audiences who couldn’t her first Grammy nomina- even the old ones.”

Funeral Home, Preddy died visionary embodiment of world, died Saturday. She understand the lyrics were tion, leading to a tour of Evora was 7 years old at his home Saturday. The police reform,” New York was 70. moved by her stirring rendi- major concert halls around when her father died, leaving Tribune-Herald Police Commissioner Ray Evora, known as the tions, her unpretentious the world and album sales in a widow and seven children. (http://bit.ly/uRmv8N) Kelly said in a written state“Barefoot Diva” because she manner and the music’s the millions.

At 10, with her mother reports he died early ment. “In the face of fierce always performed without infectious beat.

She won a Grammy in the unable to make ends meet, Saturday after a sudden illopposition from entrenched shoes, died in the Baptista de Her singing style brought World Music category of the she was placed in an orphan- ness. police leadership nationally, Sousa Hospital in Mindelo, comparisons to American 2003 awards for her album age. At 16, when Evora was Preddy was the top execu- he revolutionized policy to on her native island of Sao jazz singer Billie Holiday. “Voz D’Amor”. doing piecework as a seam- tive of the newspaper from restrain the use of deadly Vicente in Cape Verde, her “She belongs to the aristocraEvora, known to her close stress, a friend persuaded 1978 to 1996 before he force.” label Lusafrica said in a cy of bar singers,” French friends as Cize (pronounced her to sing in one of the retired to teach journalism Murphy was born in statement on its website. It newspaper Le Monde said in see-ZEH), was the best- many sailors’ taverns in her at Baylor University.

Brooklyn and became a gave no further details.

1991, adding that Evora had known performer of “morna,” town. As her popularity grew, The Waco native grew up police patrolman after servEvora retired in “a voice to melt the soul.”

Cape Verde’s national music. she was also rowed out into in Little Rock, Ark., where ing as a Navy pilot in World September because of health Evora’s international It is a complex, soulful sound, the bay to sing on anchored he began his journalism War II. He rose through the problems. In recent years she fame came late in life. Her mixing an array of influences ships. career covering the integraranks of the NYPD, then left had had several operations, 1988 album “La Diva Aux arising from the African and She received no pay just tion of Central High School to become the top police including open-heart surgery Pieds Nus” (“Barefoot Diva”), seafaring traditions of the 10 free drinks. She used to smile in 1957. official in Syracuse, N.Y., in volcanic islands. when she recalled her fame 1962. He later headed the Evora was born Aug. 27, as a heavy cognac drinker. • Graham Brown forces in Washington and 1941, and grew up in And she sadly recalled the ENGLEWOOD, New Detroit.

Mindelo, a port city of 47,000 exact day Dec. 15, 1994 she Jersey — Graham Brown, He became known as a people on the island of Sao had to give up drinking for who appeared on stage at fighter against corruption Vicente, where sailors from her health’s sake.

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Report: Doctor, nurse shortages unlikely

BY LEE BOWMAN Scripps Howard News Service Among the dire assumptions about the future of health care in the United States, one of the more persistent has been that the numbers of doctors and nurses are dwindling rapidly.

But several new reports released this fall suggest the shortfalls among key health workers may not be so great as once feared, at least on a national scale.

Think no one wants to work hard enough to be a doctor anymore?

At the nation’s 135 accredited medical schools, the number of first-time applicants increased to an all-time high this year, with nearly 33,000 students and just under 44,000 applicants. Actual enrollment was up 3 percent, to 19,230, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges surveys released in October and December.

At the other end of the physician work span, the percentage of physicians who are 60 and older remained at about 25 percent in 2010. Although

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These findings were a real surprise and are a very positive development for the future health care workforce in the U.S. — David Auerbach

most doctors in recent decades have retired in their 60s and few are active into their 70s, several recent studies suggest that trend is slowing, helping to stave off doctor shortages.

According to the AAMC, in 2010 there were 244 active physicians and 215 physicians active in patient care for each 100,000 people in the U.S., up by about 5 percent and 2 percent, respectively, since 2008.

Even with continued growth in the number and class sizes of medical schools, the association and other groups still fear the nation could face a shortage of some 90,000 physicians by mid-century.

In early December, researchers reported in the journal Health Affairs a more dramatic trend gleaned from census surveys: the number of 23- to 26-year-olds who became

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registered nurses increased by 62 percent between 2002 to 2009, a rate not seen since the 1970s.

The new corps of nurses in that age group reached 165,000 in 2009, closing on a 1979 peak of 190,000.

Researchers at the RAND Corp, Vanderbilt University and Dartmouth College say that if the trend continues, there should be enough nurses to meet the country’s projected needs rather than face a shortage of up to 400,000 RNs by 2020.

“These findings were a real surprise and are a very positive development for the future health care workforce in the U.S.,” said David Auerbach, the study’s lead author and an economist at RAND. “Compared to where nursing supply was just a few years ago, the change is just incredible.”

The researchers said initiatives to encourage

nursing careers, coupled with new and expanded training programs, have helped fuel the increase in young nurses. A bad economy with fewer opportunities for jobs in manufacturing has also played a role.

However, a second study in the same journal showed that the new crop of nurses may not be as evenly distributed as might be desirable, particularly for patients in rural areas.

A survey by researchers at New York University’s College of Nursing found that more than half of newly licensed RNs were working within 40 miles of where they attended high school. Most also attend nursing school close to home.

Among nurses with associate degrees, more than 78 percent were working in the same state where they attended high school; and 76 percent of those with bachelor’s degrees practiced in their home state.

The researchers said the results suggest training programs need to be focused in areas with nursing shortages and give new incentives to students who will stay in underserved areas after their graduate.

Upper Valley Women’s Center welcomes Gubbi TROY — Ajit Gubbi, D.O., has joined the offices of Upper Valley Women’s Center in practice with Katherine Bachman, M.D.; Eunji Seward, M.D.; and Clinical Nurse Specialist Kimberly Diltz.

Dr. Gubbi is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology.

GUBBI He received his medical degree from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, Calif., and completed an internship and residency at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, West Islip, N.Y., and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, N.Y, Dr. Gubbi comes to Upper Valley Women’s Center from Wright

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Doctors accused of bilking Medicaid, Medicare NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted several people, including two elderly doctors, who allegedly netted more than $21 million in a phony Medicaid and Medicare billing scam.

The grand jury handed out the indictments on Friday.

The Times-Picayune reports that the defendants allegedly schemed to bill the government for thousands of tests that were never performed, and for others done unnecessarily, the indictment alleges.

According to federal prosecutors, people involved in the scam would take patients to clinics in Metairie and Kenner in exchange for prescription drugs and cash.

Prosecutors say patients also were shuttled among various clinics for redundant tests.

Prosecutors say unneeded neurology tests, pulmonary tests, echocardiograms and other exams were rampant in the

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scheme, which ran in 2009 and 2010, according to the 44-count, 78-page superseding indictment. An earlier indictment in April named nine defendants and placed the cost of the alleged scam at about $12 million.

Dr. Jerry Haskin, 79, of New Orleans, and Dr. Jack Voight, 80, of Metairie, each could face more than a century of prison time if convicted for their roles in allegedly bilking the government through various New Orleans clinics: Health Plus Consulting, Saturn Medical Group, New Millenium Medical Group and Metairie Health Center.

Dr. Yelena Ivanova, 56, of Kenner, was part of the same scheme while working at Health Guard in Kenner, according to the complaint.

Executives for a California company Solo Lucky Claims Processing submitted the phony claims for the clinics, and money was laundered through another California

company, Med-Tech, through inflated purchases of old or obsolete medical equipment charged to the clinics, the indictment alleges.

The clinics would bill the government for the same, extensive battery of tests for the vast majority of patients, regardless of their complaints, the indictment alleges.

The indictment alleges that one clinic billed for about 1,000 Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, another for 1,100, and two others for about 1,500, although the numbers overlap, with some patients visiting more than one clinic.

Voight, a general physician, is jailed in St. Charles Parish, unable to make $500,000 bond, said his attorney, John Musser IV. Voight worked on salary, making $140,000 at two clinics. If anything, Musser said, Voight was exploited in the alleged scheme. He said Voight either conducted or ordered all of the tests he

claimed, and that federal prosecutors have wrongly portrayed him as the mastermind.

“He thought he was just doing some general medical tests, and at age 80, that’s about what doctors do,” Musser said. “I think that’s why he was exploited, because of his age.

There are a lot of bright people involved in this.

Whenever they talked about this stuff, they mostly talked Armenian.”

Haskin, out on bond, is an anesthesiologist. He has been practicing for nearly 35 years. His attorney, Robert Habans, declined to comment.

All of the defendants face a conspiracy charge and numerous counts of health care fraud.

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People may help if they realize you’re in dire need Dear Annie: I am a single mother of three, trying desperately to make ends meet. My paycheck is normally gone before I get back to work on Monday.

I've been trying to find a parttime job to supplement my income, to no avail. Since my annual salary is right above the poverty line, I do not qualify for government assistance. What little money my ex gives me is not enough. When I ask him for more, he subtracts it from the next month's support. Now that the holiday season is here, I'm sinking deep into depression. I have no extra money for a Christmas dinner, let alone presents.

There are several members of my family, as well as my ex's, who are well off, but no one offers or even asks if I could use some help. These people know my situation is difficult. Many days I go without eating, and sometimes I can't cook dinner because there's nothing in the house to prepare. I've tried not to be bitter, but I can't help wondering what I have done in my life to be scrimping and barely able to get by when I see people in the grocery with carts full of food.

I'm under a doctor's care for depression, but my situation is really starting to get the best of me. I've been turned down for a raise at work. I'm not asking for handouts. What's a mother to do when no one is willing to help?

— Need a Bigger Piece of the Pie Dear Need a Bigger Piece: Can your child support be increased through the courts? It might be possible to adjust the payments. Is there a food depository in your area for which you are eligible? Can you talk to your doctor about your medical bills or medication costs? Are your relatives aware of your financial situation? People don't offer to help if they don't realize help is needed or wanted. Also, you might be able to fine-tune your monthly budget with some assistance.

Talk to your family, and also try the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (nfcc.org) at 1800-388-2227.

Dear Annie: I have had it, umm, with people who, umm, cannot get a sentence out without saying "umm."

You would think educated people would not do this, but they seem to do it just as much as those with less education. I've heard both celebrities and college professors using "umm" when interviewed on the national news. Any suggestions? — Against Umm Dear Against: People tend to say "umm" as a way to process their thoughts before speaking, but it can become so habitual that they don't realize they are doing it. In order for this to change, a person must be aware of the habit and make an effort to stop. Unfortunately, we don't see this happening anytime soon.

Sorry.

Dear Annie: I would like to add my comments to the letter from "Saddest Man in the World," whose wife died suddenly while on vacation. He said people often say they know how he feels because they are divorced.

I would first like to extend my condolences to him. I, too, recently lost my husband very suddenly. He was 49. The comments I hear all the time are, "I know how you feel. I lost my mom/dad/dog/etc."

While I understand that people mean well, please do not tell me how you feel unless you planned to spend the rest of your life with your mom or dad. You do not go to bed with them every night, get up with them every morning, become intimate and prepare for a future together.

I, too, have lost both my parents, and while each of their deaths was difficult, my husband's is so much different. To those who say they know how I feel, I truly hope you never do. — Thinking of You in N.D. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Assisted living facility will take leftover flowers Dear Heloise: The recent tip on donating wedding flowers to a local hospital or Ronald McDonald House after the event was great.

Here is another possible donation site: an assisted-living facility.

My mother resides in one, and someone in the family brings her fresh flowers almost weekly. They really brighten her room and her day.

I almost feel guilty when I see some of the other residents’ faces. I know they would enjoy bouquets, too.

Hopefully, her facility and

Hints from Heloise Columnist others can include this tip in their newsletters. — Thanks from a reader in Stroudsburg, Pa. Yes, I’m sure flowers certainly can brighten a room!

Call or ask about bringing flowers for others or for the public areas. — Heloise

FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Here are some helpful uses for old pillowcases: • A changing-table pad cover.

• Place where a pet likes to sleep in order to reduce hair.

• Use as a small laundry bag.

• Cover couch cushions to protect from stains.

• Use to store summer or winter clothing.

— Heloise POTLUCK Dear Heloise: I have enjoyed your and your mom’s

column for many years with the great hints.

With so many people trying to visit friends and relatives and take a dish, I wanted to share the perfect way to transport the food.

When shopping in the grocery store, ask the employees if you can have the bottom portion of the cardboard cases for canned goods.

These are great for any size pot, bowl or container, and if the item happens to spill, you won’t have a mess to clean up in your car. — Sandi in Spring, Texas

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HOROSCOPE Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 Getting involved with large groups or organizations in the year ahead could produce a number of excellent, peripheral benefits for you, such as many new friends. This is an especially good time to become a joiner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you don’t appear to be overly anxious or eager a buyer, you should be able to negotiate a much better price for what you want. Don’t hesitate to dicker like the dickens.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Because you’re full of new ideas and especially good at conceptualizing what to do with them, there’s little doubt you’ll implement your plans in a sober, prudent and feasible manner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Don’t hesitate to remind someone of his or her obligations if it seems like this person is ignoring them. If you don’t, your chances of receiving what is owed you will be slimmer than a supermodel.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Something that you’re hoping to obtain is in your grasp if you are able to regroup and try again when necessary.

Don’t give up on the first go-around.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — To your credit, you have the stick-toitiveness necessary to face and conquer the most challenging situations, mostly because of your persistence and ability to think on the fly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Follow the same game plan that led you to sweet victory before, because there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work again.

There’s an old saying: “When it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — In endeavors where you are trying to develop a second source of income, operate along familiar lines where you know you have a chance for success. Stick to what you know.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Of all the signs, you are the one who usually derives the greatest benefits from being protective of those who mean a lot to you. This is likely to be true for you once again.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Adopt an industrious attitude, because your earning potential is especially strong at this time, and it should be taken advantage of. Operate along your usual lines and you’ll have success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Opportunities exist for you to revitalize an old relationship that once meant a lot to you. Don’t ignore this chance, because who knows how long it’ll be before you’ll get it again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Use your imagination to visualize the manner in which an important situation could resolve itself. Chances are you should be able to successfully follow its blueprint to rock-solid success.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Treat an important situation with the seriousness it deserves, especially when you know reorganization is called for.

Once you make the necessary changes, favorable results will occur.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Monday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2011. There are 12 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 19, 1843, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.

On this date: • In 1777, Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.

• In 1813, British forces captured Fort Niagara during the War of 1812.

• In 1910, the artificial fiber rayon was first commercially produced by the American Viscose Co. of Marcus Hook, Pa. • In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• In 1971, “A Clockwork Orange,” Stanley Kubrick’s controversial movie adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel, had its world premiere in the U.S. • In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the Republicancontrolled House for perjury and

obstruction of justice (he was later acquitted by the Senate).

• Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens is 91.

Actress Cicely Tyson is 78. Rhythmand-blues singer-musician Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 70.

Actor Tim Reid is 67. Singer Janie Fricke is 64. Actor Mike Lookinland is 51. Actress Jennifer Beals is 48.

Magician Criss Angel is 44. Actress Kristy Swanson is 42. Model Tyson Beckford is 41. Actress Alyssa Milano is 39. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

Actress Marla Sokoloff is 31.

Rapper Lady Sovereign is 26.

Philippine storm death toll exceeds 650 ILIGAN, Philippines (AP) — As a storm that killed more than 650 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cellphones just kept ringing and later went dead.

Limbago, 21, rushed home as soon as the flash floods receded and confirmed her worst fear: Her

parents and seven other relatives were gone, swept away from their hut by the river. They had eagerly planned a small Christmas dinner in that hut just days earlier.

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Most of the dead were children and women, Red Cross Secretary General Gwendolyn Pang said.

The government’s Office of Civil Defense placed the number of dead at 516 with 274 missing and 431 others rescued. Its head, Benito Ramos, said he expected the toll to rise and added that the government count was slower because authorities try to identify each casualty by verifying it with relatives.

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didn’t expect these many dead,” said Ramos, adding that authorities were continuing to find bodies floating at sea.

Although the disasterprone Philippines is lashed by about 20 typhoons and storms annually, the devastation shocked many, coming close to Christmas the predominantly Roman Catholic nation’s most-awaited time for family reunions. Army officials in the south said they canceled Christmas parties and would donate the food to homeless survivors.

Limbago said she and her mother, Jean, 50, and father Amancio, 63, planned to have a simple Christmas dinner of spaghetti. Those plans had evaporated Sunday as she and surviving relatives checked crowded morgues, hospitals and evacuation centers for any sign of her missing parents.

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December 19, 2011

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• BASEBALL: The Major League Holiday Baseball Camp will conduct a two-day camp for hitting, pitching, catching and fielding for ages 10-18 from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 29-30 at the Darke County YMCA in Greenville.

Registration is at 11:30 a.m., and the cost is $95. For more information, call (937) 423-3053.

• HALL OF FAME: The MiltonUnion Athletic Department will be honoring its seventh class of Athletic Hall of Fame inductees during the Covington-Milton-Union boys basketball game on Jan. 7. The induction ceremony will take place between the JV and varsity contests. Inductees will include Lori Kinnison-Meyer, Dave Fine, Ralph Hildebrand and Ed Lendenski.

• BASEBALL: The Troy Post 43 baseball team is holding an all-youcan-eat spaghetti dinner on the first Saturday of every month. Items include a large salad bar, bread, dessert, coffee and soft drinks. The price is $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12. All proceeds go to the Troy Post 43 team baseball team.

• BASEBALL: The Troy Post 43 baseball team is holding the 27th Annual Troy Legion Baseball Christmas Wreath Sale. Items include custom decorated or plain wreaths of every size, poinsettias, grave blankets, grave stands, center pieces and white pine roping. All proceeds go to the Troy Post 43 baseball team. To place an order or find out more information, call Frosty or Connie Brown at (937) 3394383 or send an email to ibrown@woh.rr.com.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Girls Basketball Fairborn at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Franklin Monroe (7:30 p.m.)

Middletown Christian at Troy Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Stebbins at Piqua (7:30 p.m.)

Swimming Troy Christian, Botkins at Troy (5:15 pm.)

TUESDAY Boys Basketball Greenville at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

Carlisle at Milton-Union (7:15 p.m.)

Miami East at Covington (7:30 p.m.)

National Trail at Bethel (7:30 p.m.)

Middletown Christian at Troy Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Arcanum at Newton (7:30 p.m) Bradford at Mississinawa Valley (7:30) Butler at Piqua (7:30 p.m.)

Bowling Troy at Centerville (4 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Spr. Shawnee (4 p.m.)

Piqua at Lebanon (4:30 p.m.)

Hockey Springboro at Troy (8:50 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball Troy at Sidney (7:30 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Graham (7:30 p.m.)

Bowling Troy/Wayne at Xenia (4 p.m.)

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Kansas City Chiefs running back Jackie Battle (26) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second half against the Green Bay Packers Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.

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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green, left, carries the ball past St. Louis Rams safety Darian Stewart after catching a pass for a 30-yard gain during the first quarter Sunday in St. Louis.

Staying alive Bengals top Rams, remain in playoff race ST. LOUIS (AP) — All but counted out near halftime, A.J. Green re-emerged and reached a nice rookie milestone. Helped the Cincinnati Bengals get off the mat, too.

The rookie wide receiver had six catches for 115 yards to top 1,000 yards and the Bengals held an offense led by a quarterback still learning his own team’s personnel to 2 for 13 on third down in a 20-13 victory Sunday, allowing them to keep pace in the AFC playoff race.

Green had been questionable to return with a sprained right shoulder from getting tripped up on a pass interference play.

He had only two catches after the break, but both were for first downs.

“Just a mild sprain,” Green said. “It’s nothing serious. I wouldn’t miss these games for my life.”

Brandon Tate’s 56-yard punt return set up Bernard Scott’s go-ahead touchdown run late in

the third quarter and Cedric Benson added a short scoring run in the fourth for the Bengals (8-6), who won for only the second time in six games.

Cincinnati was among three teams that entered a game behind the New York Jets, who were playing at Philadelphia, for the final AFC wild-card berth. The Bengals closed it out when Tate fielded Josh Brown’s onside kick with 1:08 left and are at home the rest of the way against the Cardinals and Ravens.

“If we finish strong, we’ll give ourselves a chance,” cornerback Nate Clements said. “Guys are going to be focused on the opponent at hand.”

Green caught a 55-yarder from Andy Dalton to set up a field goal for the game’s first score. He has 1,006 yards receiving, leaving him 3 shy of Cris Collinsworth’s franchise rookie record in 1981.

Kellen Clemens was 25 for 36

for 229 and a late touchdown pass to Danario Alexander for the Rams (2-12), who have lost five in a row. Clemens made his first start in two years after joining the Rams last week.

Starter Sam Bradford (ankle) missed his fourth start after not practicing all week and backup A.J. Feeley (broken thumb) was out for the second straight week.

“Third down was obviously an issue,” Clemens said. “Very unacceptable. So, I’ll start there and I’ll stop.”

Coach Steve Spagnuolo is 1036 winding down his third season. He had only positives for Clemens, who has had only seven practices.

“I know all the offensive guys,” Clemens said. “I literally have gone home at night and just looked at a roster because I think that’s important from a leadership standpoint.”

The Rams totaled 6 yards on

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers’ perfect season came to a crashing halt on Sunday against the beleaguered Kansas City Chiefs, who rallied behind interim coach Romeo Crennel and new quarterback Kyle Orton to a shocking 19-14 victory.

Orton finished 23 of 31 for 299 yards in his first start for the Chiefs (6-8), who fired coach Todd Haley last Monday with the team having lost five of its last six games. The loss also ended the Packers’ 19-game winning streak.

But behind an inspired performance by the defense, four field goals by Ryan Succop and Jackie Battle’s short touchdown run with 4:53 left in the game, Kansas City managed to hand the Packers (13-1) their first loss since Dec. 19, 2010, at New England exactly one day shy of a full year.

Aaron Rodgers was just 17 of 35 for 235 yards and a touchdown, and he also scampered eight yards for another touchdown with 2:12 left in the game.

But the Packers were unable to recover the onside kick and then pick up a couple of first downs to secure the victory.

COLTS 27, TITANS 13 INDIANAPOLIS — Dan Orlovsky threw one touchdown pass and the key block on an 80yard TD run, leading the Colts to their first win of the season.

Indianapolis (1-13) avoided becoming the second team in NFL history to go 0-16. The loss dealt a serious blow to the

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Browns fall in OT Arizona tops Cleveland, 20-17 Oral Roberts tops No. 8 Xavier Dominique Morrison scored 19 points Sunday, leading Oral Roberts to a 64-42 victory over previously unbeaten and eighth-ranked Xavier, which couldn’t do much with three of its starters suspended.

The Musketeers (8-1) didn’t have point guard Tu Holloway, shooting guard Mark Lyons or freshman forward Dez Wells, who account for 40 percent of their points. The trio was suspended for a brawl eight days earlier against crosstown rival Cincinnati.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Overtime was Arizona’s time again.

And it’s got the Cardinals at .500 for the first time since the second week of the season.

Patrick Peterson returned a punt 32 yards and John Skelton threw 32 yards to Larry Fitzgerald to set up a 22-yard field goal by Jay Feely that gave the Cardinals a 20-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday in their third overtime win in seven games.

Arizona became the ninth team in NFL history to win three overtime games in a season and just the second to win all three at

home.

The Cardinals (7-7), winners of six of their last seven, trailed 17-7 entering the fourth quarter.

They have been behind in the second half in all seven of their victories.

“We have a flair for dramatics,” Fitzgerald said. “Today was kind of typical Cardinals fashion.”

By that, he means the offense starts slowly, the defense plays well and all heck breaks loose at the finish.

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Bengals ■ CONTINUED FROM 11 third down, and didn’t convert until late in the fourth quarter. Plus, they were whistled for 109 yards on 10 penalties, including a handful of critical calls in the second half. The teams combined for 21 penalties for 210 yards.

Tackle Harvey Dahl was whistled for consecutive penalties in the fourth quarter, one for holding and another for unsportsmanlike conduct for complaining after barging in during referee Jerome Boger’s call on a live microphone.

“I made a bad situation worse,” Dahl said.

“Obviously, you’ve got to stay composed there. I didn’t know the microphone was on.”

About a dozen former teammates from the Rams’ 2000 Super Bowl championship team attended a halftime ceremony in which Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk was added to the ring of fame in the Edward Jones Dome. Several others, including Kurt Warner, Dick Vermeil and Isaac Bruce, weighed in with video tributes.

“I know you watched the guys with the ball,” Faulk said to fans, “but I watched the guys without the ball. The guys without

the ball, they made the guy with the ball look very good.”

The Rams wore throwback uniforms honoring that era, hoping to recapture the form from their best game of the year, an out-of-nowhere upset of the Saints in Week 7 for their first victory. Though technically a sellout, attendance of 56,431 was about 9,000 shy of capacity and the stadium looked to be little more than halffull.

Cincinnati won despite an off-game from Dalton, who was 15 for 26 for 179 yards with an interception and no touchdowns to end a pair of lengthy streaks.

He had gone 107 passes before Josh Gordy’s interception in the third quarter, and had thrown at least one TD pass in 10 consecutive games.

Tate’s punt return, plus a personal foul on James Butler for pushing him while out of bounds, put the Bengals at the 12 and set up Scott’s 1-yard run for a 13-6 lead in the final minute of the third quarter. Two unnecessary roughness calls on linebacker Chris Chamberlain put the Bengals on the doorstep for Benson’s 4yard scoring run with 9:14 to go.

The teams were a combined 0 for 10 on third

■ College Basketball

down in the first half, with the Rams failing six times, and each totaled just 132 yards.

Green got behind two safeties on what might have been busted coverage on a 55-yard reception to the 2 to set up a field goal for the game’s first score, not long after Eugene Sims was called for roughing the passer call and keeping a drive alive.

Brown missed a 45yard attempt, but connected from 26 and 43 yards late in the first half to give the Rams a 6-3 lead. The first field goal was set up on rookie Robert Quinn partially blocked punt, which resulted in a 21-

yarder to the Bengals 39.

Quinn, the Rams’ firstround pick, has three blocked punts one shy of the franchise record for a single season. He also has five sacks.

Notes: Rams DE Chris Long got his 13th sack, which matches his Hall of Fame father Howie’s top season total in 1983. …

Tate has five punt returns of 20 or more yards. …

Steven Jackson had 71 yards on 18 carries, leaving him 34 yards shy of a seventh consecutive 1,000-yard season. Benson had 76 yards on 22 carries and needs 41 yards for his third career 1,000-yard season.

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Oral Roberts stuns Xavier Conn.

HARTFORD, (AP) — Dominique Morrison scored 19 points Sunday, leading Oral Roberts to a 64-42 victory over previously unbeaten and eighth-ranked Xavier, which couldn’t do much with three of its starters suspended.

The Musketeers (8-1) didn’t have point guard Tu Holloway, shooting guard Mark Lyons or freshman forward Dez Wells, who account for 40 percent of their points.

The trio was suspended for a brawl eight days earlier against crosstown rival Cincinnati.

The depleted lineup couldn’t get in sync or keep up with the experienced Golden Eagles (84), who start three seniors and two juniors.

Travis Taylor scored 11 points for Xavier, which lost for only the second time in the last 46 games at the Cintas Center. It was the Musketeers’ worst loss at Cintas, which opened for the 2000-01 season.

Xavier had the week off since its 76-53 win over Cincinnati, a game that was called with 9.4 seconds left when the brawl broke out. Each team suspended four players.

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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Greg Little (15) runs in a touchdown as Arizona Cardinals inside linebacker Daryl Washington (58) pursues during the second half on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.

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MANSFIELD, CT — Freshman Andre Drummond scored a season-high 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Connecticut extended its home winning streak to 40 games against nonconference opponents.

Alex Oriakhi added 15 points and Shabazz Napier had 13 assists for UConn (9-1), which is 117-4 under Jim Calhoun in home games against non-conference opponents from New England, including 114 wins in the last 115 such games.

R.J. Evans had 15 points for the Crusaders

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Xavier forward Andre Walker (54) drives against Oral Roberts center Damen Bell-Holter in the first half on Sunday in Cincinnati. Oral Roberts won 64-42 (4-7).

Connecticut committed just one foul in the first half and finished with eight.

UConn used an 18-0 run to pull away to a 4324 halftime lead.

scored a career-high 30 points and Missouri is off to its best start in two decades.

Missouri (11-0) jumped to a 19-0 lead over the Tribe, who missed their first eight NO. 10 MISSOURI 94, shots while committing WILLIAM & MARY 56 five fouls and 10 COLUMBIA, Mo. — turnovers and didn’t Sixth-man Michael Dixon score until nearly 12 min-

utes into the game.

William & Mary (2-9) made just five first-half baskets.

Kim English added 17 points for Missouri, which last started a season with 11 straight wins under coach Norm Stewart 20 years ago.

Tim Rusthoven led the Tribe with 14 points.

■ CONTINUED FROM 11 the game, especially in the second half,” coach Ken Whisenhunt said. “The way our team fights back is really something special. What I told them is their will to win is pretty strong.”

The win kept alive Arizona’s long-shot hopes for the playoffs.

Both teams were without their starting quarterbacks because of concussions. Skelton, in relief of Kevin Kolb, completed 28 of 36 for 313 yards with a touchdown and interception.

Seneca Wallace, starting for Colt McCoy, was 18 of 31 for 226 yards, including a 76-yard TD play to rookie Greg Little, Cleveland’s longest play from scrimmage in four years.

“We had them on their heels and when it gets to that point, it is about not making mistakes,” Wallace said, “not turning the ball over and giving them some easy points, and making plays. They played well on defense and made some plays. I need to help us out a lot

more and make some more plays for our team.”

Little caught five passes for a career-best 131 yards in the Browns’ fourth straight loss and seventh in eight games.

Peyton Hillis gained a season-high 99 yards on 26 carries for Cleveland (4-10).

Skelton, a second-year pro out of Fordham, improved to 7-2 as a starter, including 4-1 this year. That doesn’t count the previous week’s 21-19 victory over San Francisco, when he came in after Kolb took a knee to the head on the Cardinals’ third play. Todd Heap, sidelined most of the season with hamstring problems, caught seven passes for 69 yards.

Arizona’s offense, so slow to start even through the team’s recent success, scored the final 13 points of the game.

Skelton completed 5 of 7 for 82 yards in the 11play, 87-yard drive that culminated in Beanie Wells’ 1-yard touchdown run that cut the lead to 17-14 with 8:33 remaining in regulation.

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Roundup ■ CONTINUED FROM 11 Titans’ playoff hopes.

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck was picked off twice and Chris Johnson rushed for only 55 yards for Tennessee (7-7).

Orlovsky gave Indy a 10-6 lead with an 18-yard TD pass to Reggie Wayne in the third quarter, and Jacob Lacey made it 17-6 with a 32-yard interception return for a TD. Jake Locker got the Titans within 20-13 with a 7-yard TD pass to Nate Washington with 3:43 to go. But on the next play from scrimmage, with Donald Brown reversing field, Orlovsky threw a block that helped Brown get to the corner and sprint 80 yards to seal the win.

PATRIOTS 41, BRONCOS 23 DENVER — Tom Brady and the Patriots shut down Tim Tebow and clinched a playoff berth with their sixth straight victory.

The Patriots (11-3) won another AFC East title by bouncing back from an early 17-6 deficit and an awful first quarter in which they were outgained on the ground 167 yards to 4.

This time, there was no last-minute magic from Tebow, Denver’s enigmatic quarterback who had guided the Broncos (8-6) to four straight fourth-quarter comebacks and six straight wins.

Instead of another slow start followed by a fantastic finish, the Broncos started out fast and then fizzled. They scored on their first three possessions and then were done in by a trio of second-quarter turnovers.

EAGLES 45, JETS 19 PHILADELPHIA — LeSean McCoy ran for three touchdowns to set two team records and keep Philadelphia alive in the NFC East race.

The Eagles (6-8) have

won two straight for the second time this season and somehow still have a chance to repeat as division champions despite underachieving most of the year. But they have to catch Dallas (8-6) and the New York Giants (7-7).

The loss snapped New York’s three-game winning streak, dropping the Jets (8-6) into a tie with Cincinnati for the final wild-card spot in the AFC. Michael Vick threw for 274 yards and a touchdown, and also ran for a score.

LIONS 28, RAIDERS 27 OAKLAND, Calif. — Matthew Stafford threw a 6-yard TD pass to Calvin Johnson with 39 seconds remaining to cap a 98-yard scoring drive as Detroit rallied from 13 points down late in the fourth quarter.

The win wasn’t sealed until Ndamukong Suh blocked Sebastian Janikowski’s 65-yard field

goal attempt on the final play. Suh threw his helmet in celebration after providing a perfect exclamation in his return from a twogame suspension.

The Raiders (7-7) appeared in control of the game when Aaron Curry returned a fumble 6 yards for a touchdown to make it 27-14 with 7:47 remaining.

But Stafford led two late scoring drives to win it and give the Lions (9-5) a two-game lead in the NFL wild-card race.

SEAHAWKS 38, BEARS 14 CHICAGO — Red Bryant returned an interception 20 yards for the goahead TD in the third quarter and Seattle kept its faint playoff hopes alive.

Chicago quarterback Caleb Hanie was hit hard on the play by K.J. Wright and threw the ball right into Bryant’s arms as Seattle (7-7) scored two TDs in a 50-second span early in the third quarter.

Brandon Browner returned another interception 42 yards for a TD in the final quarter as the Seahawks outscored Chicago 31-0 in the second half.

Marshawn Lynch added two touchdown runs for Seattle.

SAINTS 42, VIKINGS 20 MINNEAPOLIS — Drew Brees threw for 412 yards and five touchdowns to New Orleans to its sixth win in a row.

Brees completed 32 of 40 passes to help the Saints (11-3) overcome a slow and sloppy start and stay two games ahead of Atlanta in the NFC South.

Brees is 304 yards from breaking Dan Marino’s single-season record for yards passing with two games to play.

REDSKINS 23, GIANTS 10 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Rex Grossman threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Santana

Moss and Washington hurt New York’s playoff hopes.

Grossman threw a 20yard scoring pass to Santana Moss, Darrel Young scored on a 6-yard run after one of three interceptions by the Redskins (5-9) and Graham Gano kicked three field goals.

It was Washington’s second win in its last 10 games.

The loss knocked the Giants (7-7) out of first place in the NFC East.

Dallas (8-6) now leads the division by a game with two to go, including one with Giants on the final weekend. If New York beats the Jets and the Cowboys in its final two games it will win the division.

PANTHERS 28, TEXANS 13 HOUSTON — Cam Newton threw two touchdown passes, DeAngelo Williams ran for a score and Carolina ended Houston’s seven-game winning streak.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England11 3 0 .786 437 297 N.Y. Jets 8 6 0 .571 346 315 5 9 0 .357 286 269 Miami 5 9 0 .357 311 371 Buffalo South W L T Pct PF PA y-Houston 10 4 0 .714 343 236 7 7 0 .500 279 278 Tennessee 4 10 0 .286 207 293 Jacksonville 1 13 0 .071 211 395 Indianapolis North W L T Pct PF PA x-Baltimore 10 3 0 .769 320 202 x-Pittsburgh 10 3 0 .769 282 198 8 6 0 .571 305 283 Cincinnati Cleveland 4 10 0 .286 195 274 West W L T Pct PF PA 8 6 0 .571 292 343 Denver 7 7 0 .500 317 382 Oakland San Diego 6 7 0 .462 324 299 Kansas City 6 8 0 .429 192 319 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 8 6 0 .571 348 296 N.Y. Giants 7 7 0 .500 334 372 Philadelphia 6 8 0 .429 342 311 5 9 0 .357 252 300 Washington South W L T Pct PF PA x-New Orleans11 3 0 .786 457 306 9 5 0 .643 341 281 Atlanta 5 9 0 .357 341 368 Carolina Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 247 401 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 13 1 0 .929 480 297 9 5 0 .643 395 332 Detroit Chicago 7 7 0 .500 315 293 Minnesota 2 12 0 .143 294 406 West W L T Pct PF PA y-San Francisco10 3 0 .769 307 182 Seattle 7 7 0 .500 284 273 Arizona 7 7 0 .500 273 305 2 12 0 .143 166 346 St. Louis x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday's Game Atlanta 41, Jacksonville 14 Saturday's Game Dallas 31, Tampa Bay 15 Sunday's Games New Orleans 42, Minnesota 20 Seattle 38, Chicago 14 Cincinnati 20, St. Louis 13 Carolina 28, Houston 13 Kansas City 19, Green Bay 14 Indianapolis 27, Tennessee 13 Miami 30, Buffalo 23 Washington 23, N.Y. Giants 10 Detroit 28, Oakland 27 New England 41, Denver 23 Arizona 20, Cleveland 17, OT Philadelphia 45, N.Y. Jets 19 Baltimore at San Diego, 8:20 p.m.

Monday's Game Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 22 Houston at Indianapolis, 8:20 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 24 Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Denver at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Miami at New England, 1 p.m.

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

Arizona at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Detroit, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 25 Chicago at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 26 Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Ohio 24, Utah State 23 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego State (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (66), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (11-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (66), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (84), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl

At Nashville,Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 6:40 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5), 10 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (66), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso,Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis,Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia (8-4) vs.Auburn (7-5), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), Noon (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (102), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (103), 1 p.m. (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), 1 p.m.

(ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs.Virginia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (102), 8 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, TBA, (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 2 p.m. (CBSSN) NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 26 James Madison 20, Eastern Kentucky 17 Old Dominion 35, Norfolk State 18 Stony Brook 31, Albany (N.Y.) 28 Central Arkansas 34, Tennessee Tech 14 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 3 Georgia Southern 55, Old Dominion 48 Montana 41, Central Arkansas 14 Maine 34, Appalachian State 12 Sam Houston State 34, Stony Brook 27 Montana State 26, New Hampshire 25 Lehigh 40, Towson 38 North Dakota State 26, James Madison 14 Northern Iowa 28, Wofford 21 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 9 Montana 48, Northern Iowa 10 Saturday, Dec. 10 Sam Houston State 49, Montana State 13 Georgia Southern 35, Maine 23 North Dakota State 24, Lehigh 0 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 16 or Saturday, Dec. 17 Sam Houston State 31, Montana 28 North Dakota State 35, Georgia Southern 7 Championship Friday, Jan. 7 At Pizza Hut Park Frisco,Texas Sam Houston State (14-0) vs. North Dakota State (13-1), 1 p.m.

NCAA Division II Football Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 19 North Greenville 63, Albany State (Ga.) 14 California (Pa.) 44, Elizabeth City State 0 Kutztown 17, Concord 14 North Alabama 43, West Alabama 27 Northwest Missouri State 35, Missouri Western 29 Minnesota-Duluth 30, Saginaw Valley 27 Wayne State (Mich.) 48, St.Cloud State 38 Washburn 52, Abilene Christian 49 Second Round Saturday, Nov. 26 New Haven 44, Kutztown 37 North Greenville 58, at Mars Hill 32 Northwest Missouri State 38, Midwestern State 31 Wayne State (Mich.) 38, NebraskaKearney 20 Winston-Salem 35, California (Pa.) 28 Delta State 42, North Alabama 14 Pittsburg State 31, Washburn 22 Minnesota-Duluth 24, Colorado StatePueblo 21 Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 3 Winston-Salem 27, New Haven 7

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 p.m. FSN — Southern Miss. at Arizona St. NFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Pittsburgh at San Francisco NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. VERSUS — Anaheim at Dallas

TUESDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl, FIU vs. Marshall, at St. Petersburg, Fla. MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Samford at Kentucky 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Butler at Gonzaga NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. VERSUS — Chicago at Pittsburgh WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 p.m. FSN — Tennessee at Stanford

WEDNESDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — Poinsettia Bowl, TCU vs. Louisiana Tech, at San Diego MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Texas at North Carolina 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Oklahoma St. vs. Alabama, at Birmingham, Ala. NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. VERSUS — Philadelphia at Dallas Wayne State (Mich.) 31, MinnesotaDuluth 25 Delta State 28, North Greenville 23 Pittsburg State 41, Northwest Missouri State 16 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 10 Wayne State 21, Winston-Salem 14 Pittsburg State 49, Delta State 23 Championship Saturday, Dec. 17 At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Pittsburg State (Kan.) 35, Wayne State (Mich.) 21 NCAA Division III Football Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 19 Franklin 24, Thomas More 21 Kean 34, Christopher Newport 10 Salisbury 62, Western New England 24 St. John Fisher 23, Johns Hopkins 12 Delaware Valley 62, Norwich 10 Wesley 35, Hobart 28 Wabash 38, Illinois College 20 Mount Union 47, Benedictine (Ill.) 7 Wis.-Whitewater 59, Albion 0 Monmouth (Ill.) 33, Illinois-Wesleyan 27 Mary Hardin-Baylor 34, Redlands 13 McMurry 25, Trinity (Texas) 16 North Central (Ill.) 59, Dubuque 13 Linfield 30, Cal Lutheran 27 Second Round Saturday, Nov. 26 Salisbury 49, Kean 47 St. John Fisher 27, Delaware Valley 14 Mount Union 30, Centre 10 Wabash 29, North Central (Ill.) 28 Wesley 49, Linfield 34 Wis.-Whitewater 41, Franklin 14 St. Thomas (Minn.) 38, Monmouth (Ill.) 10 Mary Hardin-Baylor 49, McMurry 20 Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 3 Mount Union 20, Wabash 8 Wis.-Whitewater 34, Salisbury 14 St. Thomas (Minn.) 45, St. John Fisher 10 Wesley 27, Mary Hardin-Baylor 24 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 10 Mount Union 28, Wesley 21 Wis.-Whitewater 20, St. Thomas (Minn.) 0 Championship Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Friday, Dec. 16 At Salem Stadium Salem,Va. Wisconsin-Whitewater 13, Mount Union 10 NAIA Football Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 19 Marian (Ind.) 31, Grand View (Iowa) 0 St. Francis (Ind.) 28, Missouri Valley 14 Georgetown (Ky.) 21, Benedictine (Kan.) 7 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 40, Southern Nazarene (Okla.) 28 St. Xavier (Ill.) 51, Bethel (Tenn.) 13 St. Francis (Ill.) 21, Morningside (Iowa) 17 Carroll (Mont.) 47, Valley City State (N.D.) 0 Azusa Pacific 49, Ottawa (Kan.) 26 Quarterfinals Saturday, Nov. 26 Marian (Ind.) 49, St. Francis (Ill.) 7 Georgetown (Ky.) 26, St. Francis (Ind.) 14 St. Xavier (Ill.) 22, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 14 Carroll (Mont.) 17, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)

14 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 3 St. Xavier (Ill.) 30, Marian (Ind.) 27 Carroll (Mont.) 35, Georgetown (Ky.) 3 Championship Saturday, Dec. 17 At Barron Stadium Rome, Ga. St. Xavier (Ill.) 24, Carroll (Mont.) 20

BASKETBALL The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Prv 1. Syracuse (51).......10-0 1,607 3 2. Ohio St. (7)..............8-1 1,478 2 3. Kentucky (4)............8-1 1,468 1

4. Louisville (2)............9-0 1,374 5 5. North Carolina (1) ..8-2 1,373 4 6. Baylor ......................7-0 1,284 6 7. Duke........................9-1 1,273 7 8. Xavier ......................8-0 1,122 8 9. UConn.....................8-1 1,087 9 10. Missouri ................9-0 1,030 10 988 11 11. Marquette..............9-0 945 13 12. Kansas..................7-2 13. Florida...................7-2 891 12 728 14 14. Wisconsin..............8-2 696 15 15. Pittsburgh..............9-1 602 18 16. Georgetown..........8-1 17. Mississippi St........9-1 574 17 462 — 18. Indiana ..................9-0 375 24 19. Illinois ..................10-0 354 20 20. Michigan ...............7-2 21. Michigan St...........8-2 310 — 270 22 22.Texas A&M............8-1 204 16 23. Alabama................8-2 93 — 24. Murray St. ...........10-0 25. Creighton ..............7-1 88 19 25.Vanderbilt ..............6-3 88 — Others receiving votes: Harvard 73, San Diego St. 59, Virginia 57, UNLV 41, Stanford 39, Saint Louis 26, Gonzaga 25, Memphis 13, Cleveland St. 7, N. Iowa 7, Arizona 5, California 3, Long Beach St. 3, Northwestern 2, Wichita St. 1.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 11, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Pvs 746 3 1. Syracuse (28).......10-0 671 2 2. Ohio State (2).........8-1 3. Kentucky .................8-1 665 1 4. Louisville .................9-0 658 4 618 5 5. Duke........................9-1 608 6 6. North Carolina ........8-2 7. Baylor ......................7-0 539 7 8. Missouri...................9-0 512 10 503 8 9. Xavier ......................8-0 485 9 10. Connecticut...........8-1 11. Marquette..............9-0 466 11 12. Kansas..................7-2 441 13 418 12 13. Florida...................7-2 356 14 14. Pittsburgh..............9-1 317 16 15. Wisconsin..............8-2 16. Mississippi State...9-1 251 18 246 21 17. Georgetown..........8-1 185 19 18. Michigan ...............7-2 19. Illinois ..................10-0 182 22 20. Indiana ..................9-0 171 — 143 15 21. Alabama................8-2 108 25 22.Texas A&M............8-1 107 — 23. Michigan State......8-2 24. Creighton ..............7-1 54 17 25.Vanderbilt ..............6-3 51 — Others receiving votes: Harvard 43, Murray State 42, California 29, Memphis 27, San Diego State 26, Purdue 14, Gonzaga 13, Virginia 12, Saint Louis 9, UNLV 9, Saint Mary's 5, Saint Joseph's 5, Stanford 5, Oklahoma 4, Northern Iowa 3, Northwestern 3.

The Women's Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Prv 1. Baylor (39) ............10-0 975 1 2. UConn.....................9-0 930 2 3. Notre Dame............9-1 896 3 4. Stanford...................6-1 852 4 5. Maryland...............11-0 803 5 6.Tennessee...............5-2 773 7 7. Miami.......................8-1 723 9 8. Kentucky ...............10-0 717 10 9. Duke........................7-2 637 6 10.Texas A&M............7-2 575 8 11. Rutgers .................9-1 560 11 12. Ohio St..................8-0 547 13 13. Georgia.................8-1 480 14 14. Louisville ...............8-2 457 15 15.Texas Tech ............8-0 451 16 16. Penn St. ................8-2 364 17 17. Georgetown..........9-2 316 19 18. North Carolina......7-1 313 18 19. Green Bay ............8-0 241 21 20.Vanderbilt ............10-0 220 23 21. Delaware...............8-0 209 22 22. Purdue ..................7-3 206 12 23. DePaul ..................8-2 166 20 24.Texas .....................6-2 130 25 25. Nebraska ..............9-1 54 — Others receiving votes: California 21, Virginia 11, LSU 8, Oklahoma 8, Southern Cal 7, Arizona St. 4, Arkansas 4, Georgia Tech 3, Northwestern 3, Tulane 3, BYU 2, Gonzaga 2, Michigan 2, Florida St. 1, Kansas 1.

USA Today/ESPN Women's Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN women's college basketball poll,

Monday, December 19, 2011 with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 12, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Pts Prv .................................Record 1. Baylor (29) ............10-0 773 1 745 2 2. Connecticut (2).......9-0 713 3 3. Notre Dame............9-1 4. Stanford...................6-1 679 4 639 6 5. Maryland...............11-0 590 8 6.Tennessee...............5-2 582 10 7. Kentucky ...............10-0 560 9 8. Miami.......................8-1 9. Duke........................7-2 524 5 516 7 10.Texas A&M............7-2 463 11 11. Rutgers .................9-1 12. Georgia.................8-1 429 12 389 13 13. Louisville ...............8-2 14. Ohio State.............8-0 348 15 321 16 15. Green Bay ............8-0 285 17 16. North Carolina......7-1 17. Penn State............8-2 259 18 255 19 18.Vanderbilt ............10-0 19. Georgetown..........9-2 226 20 179 22 20.Texas Tech ............8-0 148 21 21. DePaul ..................8-2 22. Purdue ..................7-3 131 14 115 25 23. Delaware...............8-0 24.Texas .....................6-2 109 24 28 25. Gonzaga...............7-2 Others receiving votes: Nebraska 19, Georgia Tech 16, Kansas 12, Michigan 6, California 5, Oklahoma 4, Duquesne 2, Southern California 2, West Virginia 2, Villanova 1.

Men’s College Basketball Scores Sunday MIDWEST Canisius 90, South Dakota 80, OT Illinois St. 68, Norfolk St. 36 Iowa St. 59, Cent. Michigan 52 Missouri 94, William & Mary 56 Northwestern 87, E. Illinois 72 Oral Roberts 64, Xavier 42 FAR WEST S. Dakota St. 92, Washington 73 Virginia 67, Oregon 54 SOUTH Apprentice 89, Pfeiffer 84 Birmingham-Southern 86, Sewanee 65 Centre 65, Oglethorpe 55 Florida St. 77, Loyola Marymount 61 Huntingdon 79, Berry 63 IPFW 82, UT-Martin 76 N. Kentucky 98, Salem International 53 Wake Forest 67, Gardner-Webb 59 Wofford 63, Jacksonville 57 SOUTHWEST Prairie View 88, Dallas Christian 55 Women’s College Basketball Scores Sunday FAR WEST Idaho 65, Wyoming 59 Oklahoma 89, Ohio 57 Syracuse 70, Xavier 67 SOUTH Austin Peay 58, Belmont 56, OT Clemson 68, NC Central 48 East Carolina 70, Jacksonville 64 FIU 73, Delaware St. 57 James Madison 71, CCSU 64 LSU 77, Lamar 35 Lipscomb 76, Gardner-Webb 65 Mercer 69, Troy 59, OT Middle Tennessee 94, Tennessee St. 53 Morehead St. 75, Robert Morris 69 NC State 66, Vanderbilt 59 North Florida 63, Jacksonville St. 47 Old Dominion 71, NC A&T 58 Purdue 62, Auburn 54 SC State 61, Coastal Carolina 59 South Carolina 79, North Carolina 48 Southern Miss. 67, South Alabama 62 UCF 41, Virginia Tech 32 UT-Martin 91, S. Illinois 70 VCU 74, Coppin St. 66 Virginia 92, Radford 43 SOUTHWEST Arizona 67, Ark.-Pine Bluff 37 New Mexico 65, Houston Baptist 38 Oklahoma St. 74, Texas-Pan American 35 SMU 73, Texas A&M-CC 64 Texas A&M 71, Southern Cal 70 EAST Boston College 67, Holy Cross 58 Colgate 54, NJIT 44 Cornell 65, Bucknell 45 Hofstra 66, St. Peter's 52 Loyola (Md.) 70, George Washington 62 New Hampshire 52, Rhode Island 33 Penn St. 103, Wagner 42 Rutgers 62, Iona 29 St. Bonaventure 67, Marist 56 Yale 72, St. Francis (NY) 41 TOURNAMENT Beach Classic First Round Long Beach St. 76, W. Michigan 56< St. John's-Chartwells Holiday Classi Championship St. John's 64, Memphis 60 Third Place Louisiana Tech 89, Prairie View 83, 3OT

GOLF Australian Masters Scores Sunday At Victoria Golf Club Melbourne, Australia Purse: $1.02 million Yardage: 6,886; Par: 71 a-amateur Final Ian Poulter ...............65-68-69-67—269 Marcus Fraser .........70-69-69-64—272 Geoff Ogilvy.............71-66-63-73—273 Adam Crawford .......74-68-69-66—277 Peter Senior.............69-70-68-70—277 Brad Kennedy .........71-69-69-69—278 Kieran Pratt..............67-70-69-72—278 Ashley Hall...............66-70-68-74—278 Kurt Barnes .............70-71-70-68—279 Peter Lonard............67-70-69-73—279 Nathan Green .........69-68-67-75—279 Robert Allenby ........73-70-67-70—280 Peter Fowle..............71-67-71-71—280 Luke Hickmott..........70-71-68-71—280 Jarrod Lyle...............67-71-70-72—280 Cameron Percy .......70-69-69-72—280 Luke Donald ............69-70-69-72—280 David Smail .............70-73-65-72—280 Brent McCullough ...71-66-70-73—280 John Senden...........70-70-67-73—280 Greg Chalmers........69-70-67-74—280 Leigh Deagan..........74-70-69-68—281 Daniel Fox................74-70-68-69—281 Brendan Jones........69-68-71-73—281 Steven Bowditch .....70-69-67-75—281 Peter Wilson ............74-67-70-71—282 Nick Cullen ..............72-68-69-73—282 Matthew Giles .........67-68-71-76—282 Stephen Leaney......72-70-74-67—283 Matteo Manassero..76-67-72-68—283 Craig Parry ..............75-69-71-68—283 James Nitties...........69-70-72-72—283 Gareth Paddison.....69-71-70-73—283 Craig Scott...............72-69-69-73—283 Josh Younger...........75-69-71-69—284 Rod Pampling..........68-73-72-71—284 Rohan Blizard..........70-74-69-71—284 Steve Collins............74-70-68-72—284

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Matthew Millar .........77-67-67-73—284 a-B. MacPherson ....73-71-74-67—285 Brad McIntosh.........74-70-72-69—285 Michael Hendry.......71-72-71-71—285 Anthony Brown........74-67-71-73—285 Steve Jones.............71-69-76-70—286 Doug Holloway........71-67-76-72—286 Josh Geary..............73-68-73-72—286 Stephen Dartnall.....72-70-70-74—286 Brett Rumford..........71-71-70-74—286 Neven Basic ............71-71-72-73—287 Marcus Cain............73-69-71-74—287 Alistair Presnell........72-70-71-74—287 Matthew Griffin........67-75-73-73—288 Phil Tataurang..........69-71-74-74—288 Daniel Beckmann....73-67-69-79—288 Andrew Martin.........72-70-74-73—289 Brad Shilton.............74-70-73-73—290 a-Matt Stieger..........69-73-75-74—291 Mahal Pearce ..........67-71-75-78—291 Will Strickler.............73-70-76-73—292 Richard Green.........68-74-76-74—292 Tim Wood ................73-69-74-76—292 Bradley Hughes ......75-69-76-73—293 Ben Wharton ...........74-70-76-74—294 Peter Tomasulo........71-73-74-76—294 Thailand Golf Championship Leading Scores Sunday At Amata Spring Country Club Bangkok Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,322; Par: 72 Final Lee Westwood.........60-64-73-69—266 Charl Schwartze .....69-66-66-72—273 Michael Thompson .69-66-69-70—274 Chawalit Plaphol .....73-71-65-67—276 Simon Dyson...........69-70-68-69—276 Guido Van der Valk .71-69-66-73—279 Daisuke Maruyama.73-68-68-70—279 Alex Cejka ...............71-71-71-67—280 Jeev Milkha Singh...71-68-72-70—281 Tetsuji Hiratsuka......71-72-68-70—281 Gregory Bourdy ......68-71-72-71—282 Prom Meesawat......72-68-69-73—282 Jyoti Randhawa.......73-70-65-75—283 Prayad Marksaeng..71-74-70-69—284 C. Phadungsi...........72-69-72-71—284 John Daly.................65-73-72-75—285 Rikard Karlberg.......72-71-66-76—285 Also Sergio Garcia ..........76-71-70-71—288 Jonathan Moore......73-69-77-69—288 Berry Henson..........75-71-76-70—292 Charley Hoffman.....71-70-76-78—295 Darren Clarke..........71-76-73-77—297

HOCKEY National Hockey League All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Philadelphia 31 20 8 3 43110 91 N.Y. Rangers 30 18 8 4 40 87 67 Pittsburgh 33 18 11 4 40107 88 New Jersey 32 18 13 1 37 90 92 N.Y. Islanders 30 10 14 6 26 69 97 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 31 21 9 1 43108 61 Boston 32 16 13 3 35 89 94 Buffalo Toronto 32 16 13 3 35100105 33 15 14 4 34102116 Ottawa 33 13 13 7 33 85 89 Montreal Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 33 18 9 6 42 90 84 32 15 13 4 34 89 97 Winnipeg Washington 31 16 14 1 33 91 96 Tampa Bay 32 14 16 2 30 87107 34 10 18 6 26 86116 Carolina WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 33 21 8 4 46111 98 Chicago 32 19 9 4 42 82 69 St. Louis Detroit 31 20 10 1 41104 69 32 17 11 4 38 85 84 Nashville Columbus 33 9 20 4 22 80111 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 33 20 8 5 45 84 72 Vancouver 32 19 11 2 40106 80 33 14 15 4 32 82 94 Calgary Edmonton 32 14 15 3 31 87 87 33 15 17 1 31 88100 Colorado Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 30 17 10 3 37 86 74 San Jose 31 18 12 1 37 80 86 Dallas 32 16 13 3 35 84 85 Phoenix Los Angeles 32 14 14 4 32 69 79 Anaheim 32 9 18 5 23 75105 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday's Games Nashville 2, St. Louis 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 2, Minnesota 1, SO Boston 6, Philadelphia 0 Vancouver 5, Toronto 3 New Jersey 5, Montreal 3 Pittsburgh 8, Buffalo 3 Winnipeg 5, Anaheim 3 Detroit 8, Los Angeles 2 Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Phoenix 2 Colorado 2, Washington 1 San Jose 3, Edmonton 2 Sunday's Games Florida 3, Carolina 2, OT Chicago 4, Calgary 2 St. Louis 6, Columbus 4 Monday's Games Montreal at Boston, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Tuesday's Games N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Washington, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 9 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS_Waived F Tyrell Biggs and F Kyle Goldcamp.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS_waived Gary Flowers, Julian Khazzouh, Tim Pickett and Tommy Smith.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS_Recalled F Jeremy Morin from Rockford (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD_Recalled F Jed Ortmeyer and F Chad Rau from Houston (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING_Reassigned D Evan Oberg to Norfolk (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS_Assigned F Cody Eakin to Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN_Signed D Derrick LaPoint. Released Ryan Palmer.

COLLEGE TCU_Named Eric Bell women's soccer coach.

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The diamonds are formed about 125 miles deep in the earth’s upper mantle. There intense pressure and heat cause the carbon to crystallize over a long period of time. Once the diamonds were formed, they traveled to the earth’s crust many years ago in violent volcanic eruptions that brought them to

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the earth’s surface very quickly. Once the diamonds reached the earth’s surface they waited until they were first discovered around 500 B.C. After a supply of diamonds is discovered, a mine is dug to get the diamonds out of the earth. At first, diamonds are not pretty with lots of sparkle like the ones you see in a jewelry store, if you found one on the ground you would probably think it was a dirty rock. A diamond cutter has to take the diamond and cut it to bring out its beauty. Diamond cutting is a very skilled science and the most beautiful diamonds are still cut by

1. What does the word ‘diamond’ mean?

The word comes from the Greek word ‘adamas,’ and this means ‘unconquerable and indestructible.’ Very fitting as diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.

skilled craftsmen who cut them by hand to bring out their brilliance. Each cut, called a facet is made to bring out the most sparkle in the diamond. A round brilliant cut, the most beautiful and popular of all the diamond shapes, typically has 57 or 58 facets. Once the diamond has been cut and polished it is ready to go to the jewelry store and onto some lucky ladies finger.

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In 1477, the Archduke of Austria gave a diamond to Mary of Burgundy.

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• Diamond is an allotrope (different form) of carbon.

• Around 26,000 kilograms (57,000 lb) of diamonds are mined around the world every year. They are worth billions of dollars to the powerful companies that control their production.

• Discovered in the Kimberley Mine in South Africa, the Tiffany Yellow Diamond weighed an amazing 287.42 carats (57.484 g) when discovered. It was later sold to a New York jeweler named Charles Tiffany who had it cut into a cushion shape of 128.54 carats (25.708 g) with 90 facets to show off its beauty.

• The word diamond comes from the Greek word meaning unbreakable.

• The carbon atoms in diamonds are arranged in a strong, tetrahedral structure.

• Diamond is the hardest natural material known

and is often used for industrial cutting and polishing tools.

• Diamond has a hardness of 10 on Mohs scale of mineral hardness, with 1 being the softest (talc) and 10 being the hardest.

• Diamond is the best known thermal conductor (heat transfer) among naturally occurring substances.

• Under the normal pressures and temperatures we experience on the Earth’s surface, diamonds are actually thermodynamically unstable, slowly transforming into graphite.

Yes, you read that correctly, diamonds are indeed turning into graphite, but thankfully for all those diamond owners out there it’s a process that is far too slow for humans to notice.

• Diamonds have often been a source of conflict and controversy, the term blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in an unstable area and sold to finance war. This issue was brought to public attention in the 2006 movie named Blood Diamond (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly).

• Most of the Earth’s natu-

• Diamond is the world’s most popular and sought after gemstone. They are frequently worn as part of jewelry such as rings and necklaces. As well as their rarity, they are also well suited to jewelry because they polish well and can only be scratched by other diamonds.

• Diamonds are cut with considerable precision to optimize the luster and attention gathering shine of each specific diamond.

• Diamonds are valued according to their cut, color, carat and clarity.

• Over the years there have been many famous (and very expensive) diamonds. The following are four well known examples: • The Koh-i-Noor diamond was found in India and once thought of as the largest diamond in the world. It is now part of the British Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

• The 45.52 carat Hope Diamond appears blue because of boron in its crystal structure and is

• After being originally found by a slave in an Indian mine, the now 140.64 carat (28.1 g) Regent Diamond has been through an epic history including an English sea merchant and French royalty. It is now on display at the Louvre, where it has been on display since 1887.

• Naturally occurring diamonds are formed over billions of years under intense pressure and heat.

They are often brought to the Earth’s surface by deep volcanic eruptions.

• The technology for synthetic diamonds was researched in the 1940s and the first synthetically created diamond was produced in the 1950s.

• There are a number of techniques for producing synthetic diamonds, these include high-pressure high-temperature synthesis, chemical vapor deposition and detonation synthesis (literally blowing up carbon with explosives to create extremely small diamond grains).

• The synthesized material known as cubic zirconia is a crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). It is at times in competition with diamond because as well as being hard, optically flawless and colorless, it is also durable and cheap.

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