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Pastor gets ticket on ‘Idol’ BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@civitasmedia.com

Las Vegas celebrates Year of Snake

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Tipp City resident Caleb Flynn, worship arts pastor at the Living Word Church in Vandalia, practices vocals and keyboard Friday at the church.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas is getting ready for the year of the snake. The casino capital celebrates Chinese New Year also known as lunar new year in a big way, with feasts, exhibits, performances and other events at outdoor festivals and at casino-resorts like Bellagio and The Venetian.

Tipp City resident Caleb Flynn received the phone call of his dreams while eating dinner at Marion’s Piazza one night. “A guy at ‘American Idol’ called and said, ‘Can you be in Chicago on Saturday?’” recalled Flynn, 26, worship arts pastor at the Living Word Church in Vandalia. Flynn, who lives with his wife Ashley, appeared Jan. 17 in an episode showing his performance in one of seven audition cities. He then earned the “golden ticket” to go to Hollywood, though as of now he has to remain mute on how well he fared.

TIPP CITY Showcasing his talents in front of the four judges — Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj — felt surreal, Flynn recalled. “I was covering my face, because I was crying a little bit,” Flynn said. “It was such a relief to get all those yes’s. It was just really satisfying — joy is the best way I could say it.” Flynn said telling Pastor Patrick Murray that he would be out for Sunday services due to “American Idol” was an unusual experience. “When I found out I would be making

State losing high-tech jobs

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March for gun control WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as “Ban Assault Weapons Now,” joined a rally for gun control on Saturday, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

Districts choosing dual enrollment

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In between prom dates and research papers, some local high school students are pursing college credits well before graduation day. Next fall, Troy High School students will have another option to gain college credit as more and more local school districts are turning toward dual enrollment as a way to offer college classes without the travel. Troy High School Principal Bill Overla said the high school will offer several dual enrollment courses with Indiana University as part of the Advance College Project the university offers for the 2013-2014 school year. “It’s pretty exciting that we are taking these steps

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MEDINA (AP) — An analysis of state job data has concluded that Ohio has lost thousands of hightech, high-pay jobs, as industries have shed workers or added few jobs. Data compiled by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services showed that employment declined in 24 of 30 industries categorized by the state as both high technology and high wage, The Medina Gazette reported. The net loss over the decade totaled about 120,000 jobs. That’s nearly a quarter of the approximately half-million employed in those industries in 2000. While most of the hightech industry sectors in Ohio are manufacturers, many lost jobs are in industries such as aerospace, chemical, computers, turbine and power transmission, electronics and medical devices. And although workers in high-tech industries make up only about 10 percent of all Ohio workers, they earn middle-class wages, averaging nearly $67,000 a year in 2011. The chief of workforce STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER American Literature teacher Michael Rasey works with students, including Todd research for the Ohio Norris, while working on a poets research assignment Thursday at Troy High Bureau of Labor Market School.

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Idol • Continued from A1 it to Hollywood, I had to ask my pastor if he’d be OK with it,” Flynn said. “He was 100 percent behind me in total support. He just said you have to walk through every open door and see what happens.” This isn’t Flynn’s first time

partaking in American Idol, as he tried out three years ago but didn’t make it the Hollywood round. For this season, his mother-inlaw Jill Smith had encouraged him to try out online. On the last possible day in August, he submitted his audition. It wasn’t until a month later, in September, that he received the

fateful call. Flynn said his dream has always been to record albums, calling the show a springboard for that possibility. But he wants to ensure that his faith always guides his career choices. “The Lord is the biggest role model of mine, and I want to do music that honors Him,” Flynn

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• Continued from A1 toward offering classes with our own teachers through IU,” Overla said. “In sitting down with teachers and discussing this, we all agreed we wanted to provide an opportunity for the kids to take classes here at the high school and not out of the building.” Both dual enrollment and the Post Secondary Enrollment Option programs allow high school juniors and seniors to earn college credit. Dual enrollment has been gaining in popularity around the county. In its first year, Newton Local School offered five classes with the Advance College with Indiana Project University. The 2011-2012 school year was Newton Local School’s first full year of classes with the ACP at Indiana University. Miami East Local School district is looking to expand its dual enrollment agreement with Urbana University next fall. Dual enrollment permits high school teachers to teach college level courses at the high school as adjunct professors. Teachers who are approved to teach the ACP classes with IU will receive professional training and guidance from department deans at the university. Classes are paid for by students at a low cost. Overla said the district has not decided on how the classes will be paid for by students, but dual enrollment classes will be approximately $75 per class and up for a three-hour course like Composition I, Biology and others. According to the Indiana University’s ACP website, ACP students pay a special off-campus undergraduate resident tuition rate that is lower than the per-credit-hour rate on any

MIAMI COUNTY’S said. “If it’s good for me and my MOST WANTED family, I’m going to follow whatever the Lord brings me.” As for his favorite past performer? That goes to Colton Dixon, also a devout Christian. “That’s what I want to be to someone else,” Flynn said. “He wanted to make sure he was honoring the Lord.”

of the IU campuses because ACP students do not use campus facilities and services. Post Secondary Enrollment Option classes are paid in full by the student’s school district and the student travels off site to the campus for instruction. According to Troy City Schools treasurer Craig Jones, 77 students took college classes at Edison State Community College and three students took classes at Sinclair Community College last school year. In 2011-2012, the Troy City School district spent $132,500 for the off-campus college classes with the PSEO program. For example, Edison State Community College costs $134 per credit hour, according to its website. A general education class like Composition would cost approximately $400, paid entirely by the local school district. All Miami County school districts have high school students enrolled in the PSEO classes through Edison State Community College and Sinclair Community College. Other colleges such as Wright State University and the University of Dayton allow PSEO students as well. Overla said the high school staff was interested in teaching college coursework along with their traditional curriculum. Troy High School English teacher and department head Michael Rasey said he is looking forward to teaching college level composition and literary interpretation classes through Indiana University next fall. Rasey was one of the first teachers to apply and become a dual enrollment teacher at THS. Overla said several other teachers are waiting for clearance in the coming weeks to teach col-

lege level classes along with their traditional curriculum . “It will have a huge impact to keep our kids in the building,” Rasey said. He said all too often many high level English students take the college composition courses off site and have difficulty with the transition between high school work and college credit. “Dual enrollment has the best of both worlds,” he said. “They’ll still have the support of the high school teachers but still be earning credits toward their degree with our help.” The dual enrollment ACP program with Indiana University will host a week per college course training session in the summer at no cost to the teachers such as Rasey, or the district. The ACP training covers room and board costs for the teachers as well. “I see it as a great opportunity to have access to a world-class university,” Rasey said. Teachers like Rasey submit their textbooks and lesson plans so professors can work on building the college level course with the school’s materials to enhance the traditional class to the college level. The training will guide the teacher on how to juggle dual enrollment instruction and traditional instruction, submit grades to the university and communicate with Indiana University’s departments for the Advance College Project. Overla said the school chose to use Indiana University because of the no-cost training for teachers and the district and the ease of the program. Teachers are not compensated by the university or the district for teaching dual enrollment classes, Rasey said. “For me, it’s an opportunity to share my expertise

on another level with the students and something that will really benefit the kids,” he said. “It will allow me to add to my resume — I’m really looking forward to the challenge.” Rasey said the dual enrollment option has appealed to many high school teachers, and especially to him as the English department chairman. Rasey said the ACP will help to allow fellow staff members to delve more in depth in their subject of expertise and then share it with the students. Business classes, chemistry, communication and other humanity classes also will be offered through the with Indiana ACP University next fall and classes still are being approved and added. “It’s a win-win,” Overla said. “There isn’t any travel time for the kids, parents aren’t spending money on gas, they aren’t missing out on their friends and high school experience and it keeps them here in high school as they earn credit for college and they are going to get a transcript with grades and credit with the name Indiana University on it — it’s great.” Overla said many teachers are interested in becoming ACP instructors. Overla said more teachers are expected to apply to be ACP instructors after the 2014 implementation of Ohio’s curriculum overhaul. Overla also said more information about the cost of the program will be finalized before the PSEO and dual enrollment meeting for parents and students. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at the high school. • For more information about the Advance College Project, visit http://acp. indiana.edu/.

manufacturing and colleges and universities have hired few workers. Fewer than 27,000 new jobs were added statewide since 2000, Horner said. Some researchers argue that the basics of the U.S. economy have changed and slower job growth and higher unemployment are the norm. “I think it’s a structural change in economy needed to be globally competitive,” said Mead Wilkins, director of Medina County Job and Family Services. Many workers already have dropped out of the middle class due to pressure on wages in the global economy,

and the proportion of middle-class families has been going down for the past decade and probably will continue to shrink, he said. Wilkins suggests that a better-educated labor force could help. “We just have to be smarter than the rest of the world,” he said. “That’s the only way we’re going to continue to be an economic powerhouse.” But some experts such as Alan Tonelson argue that education alone won’t help American workers get jobs. He maintains that U.S. trade policy gives Third World countries and unfair advantage in global

markets. Developing nations understand the value of improving its population’s education and skill levels, but they retrain such enormous amounts of surplus labor that their wages will remain very low even for highly skilled workers, said Tonelson, a researcher with the United States Business and Industry Council. Bethany Dentler, executive director of the Medina County Economic Development Corp., was more optimistic. She agrees that many jobs are not coming back, but believes “there are other jobs around the corner.”

High-tech • Continued from A1 Information says some jobs, such as maintenance and cleaning, may not have disappeared, but were outsourced to firms in the service sector. “The job is still in the factory, but it’s not counted as being in manufacturing anymore,” Lewis Horner said. Although Ohio’s employment picture has improved overall in the last couple years, the state saw substantial job losses in the past decade. The six hightech sectors that have grown including software publishers, computer system design, drug and medicine

Eric Jordan Date of birth: 9/26/75 Location: Troy Height: 6’3” Weight: 170 Hair color: Black Eye color: JORDAN Brown Wanted for: Receiving stolen property

Joshua Lawrence Date of birth: 3/24/87 Location: West Milton Height: 6’2” Weight: 165 Hair color: Blonde Eye LAWRENCE color: Blue Wanted for: Burglary

Michael Mowery Date of birth: 8/17/49 Location: West Milton Height: 5’11” Weight: 190 Hair color: Brown Eye MOWERY color: Brown Wanted for: Failure to appear — Drug trafficking

Lindsay Stine Date of birth: 12/14/84 Location: Union Height: 5’5” Weight: 195 Hair color: Blonde Eye STINE color: Green Wanted for: Failure to appear — Complicity to breaking and entering

Amber Sweitzer Date of birth: 9/23/75 Location: Dayton Height: 5’5” Weight: 170 Hair color: Brown Eye color: SWEITZER Grey Wanted for: Trafficking drugs • This information is provided by the Miami County Sheriff’s Office. These individuals were still at-large as of Friday. • If you have information on any of these suspects, call the sheriff’s office at 440-6085.

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Ohioans” recognized since 2003, including aviation legends Orville and Wilbur Wright, author Harriet Beecher Stowe, Civil War general William T. Sherman and Olympic track and field standout Jesse Owens. “We hope that every Statehouse visitor is inspired by the accomplishments of each one of the great men and women who we have recognized with this honor,” Charles Moses, chairman of the Capitol Square Foundation, said in a statement. Garfield was born in Orange in 1831 and eventually represented the state in Congress before being elected as the nation’s 20th president, the board said. He died in September 1881 after being shot several months into his presidency. Paul Brown became a football legend, coaching high school, college and pro teams across the state. He created a dynasty with Cleveland’s team in the 1940s and ’50s while introducing pioneering coaching tactics, and moved to later Cincinnati, where he helped found and coached the Bengals. The Columbus-born Woods, considered the leading black inventor of his time, created inventions mainly related to electricity, included several patents for transmitting messages between moving trains. He also was involved in a legal tussle with Thomas Edison that ultimately decided Woods was the original inventor of the multiplex telegraph, the board said. Woods died in 1910. The Great Ohioan Award honors people who played a significant role in a historical event at least 25 years ago. This year’s class was chosen from nominations submitted by people and organizations in Ohio, the advisory board said. The advisory board’s chairman, former Sen. Richard Finan, said the honorees “have made pre-eminent contributions to Ohio and the nation.”

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TUESDAY • OPEN HOUSE: First Kids Christian Cooperative Preschool will hold a regisCivic agendas Community tration/open house from • The village of West 12:30-2:30 p.m. at 110 W. Milton Council will have its Calendar Franklin St., Troy. workshop meeting at 7 p.m. Registrations will be in the council chambers. CONTACT US accepted for the 2013-214 school year with a paid WEDNESDAY registration fee. For more information, call Bridget Call Melody • KIWANIS MEETING: Haines at 335-2826. The Kiwanis Club of Troy Vallieu at • FAMILY QUEST: The will meet from noon to 1 440-5265 to Miami County Park District p.m. at the Troy Country will have its Family Quest list your free Club. Steve Skinner, curator Sunday “Tracks in the of the Miami Valley Veterans calendar Snow” program between 1in Troy, will give an Museum items.You 4 p.m. at Charleston Falls overview of the museum’s Preserve, 2535 Ross can send mission and offerings. For Road, south of Tipp City. more information, contact your news by e-mail to Come to the program and Donn Craig, vice president, vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. discover the different types at (937) 418-1888. of tracks animals leave behind. There will be aniTHURSDAY mals and an animal track trail set in place. Dress for the weather • OPEN HOUSE: An open house and and meet at the falls. Pre-register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, free community dinner will be offered at Liberty Life Church — a non-denominaemail to register@miamicountyparks.com tional church — at 6:30 p.m. at 203 N. 4th or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104. St., Tipp City. • OPEN HOUSE: Troy Christian • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be Schools will hold its annual open house from noon to 6 p.m. at First Lutheran from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at both school locaChurch, 2899 W. Main St., Troy. Those who tions. The early childhood education cenregister will receive a free “You Can Be A ter, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten through sixth grade school is Blood Donor” T-shirt. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidolocated at 1586 McKaig Ave., Troy. The nate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE. junior high/high school is located next Make an appointment at door at 700 S. Dorset Road, Troy. www.DonorTime.com. Teachers and staff members will be on • HAMBURGERS: The Tipp City hand to greet parents and students, American Legion Post No. 586 will serve answer questions and give a tour of the hamburgers with toppings starting at 6 facility. Light refreshments will be offered. p.m. Euchre for $5 will start at 7 p.m. Enrollment for new students begins Jan. • JOINT MEETING: The village of West 25. Contact the school office at (937) 339Milton Council will have a joint special 5692 or check out the website at meeting with the Milton-Union School www.troychristianschools.org for more Board to discuss issues of mutual interest information. beginning at 6 p.m. at the West Milton • BREAKFAST OFFERED: Breakfast Council Chambers, West Milton Municipal will be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Building, 701 S. Main St., West Milton. The Falls, from 8-11 a.m. Made-to-order break- meeting will continue until the beginning of fasts will be offered and everything is ala the monthly workshop session for the vilcarte. lage, which has been rescheduled to begin • BASKET BINGO: The Miami East at 7:30 p.m. FFA Alumni Chapter will sponsor basket • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning disbingo at 2 p.m. in the Miami East High covery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 Cafeteria. Longaberger Baskets will be the a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 prize for the 20 games, with the grand Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, prize being a retired basket feature. Doors education coordinator, will lead walkers as will open at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for they experience the wonderful seasonal the 20 games and a raffle entry. There will changes taking place. Bring binoculars. also be raffles, extra games and concessions sales offered. All winning tie-breakFRIDAY ing cards win a consolation prize of a Longaberger product. Tickets can be pur• CHICKEN FRY: The Pleasant Hill chased by calling the Miami East FFA VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Alumni Chapter at (937) 335-7070, Ext. Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piece 3212, or by purchasing them at the door. chicken dinner with french fries and maca• BREAKFAST SET: An all-you-canroni salad for $7 from 6-8 p.m. Chicken liveat breakfast will be served from 8-11 ers also will be available. a.m. at the American Legion Post No. 586, • FRIDAY DINNERS: Dinner will be Tipp City. Items available will be eggs your offered from 5-8 p.m. at the Covington way, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, panVFW Post 4235, 173 N. High St., cakes, waffles, french toast, biscuits, hash Covington. Choices will include a $12 New browns, cinnamon rolls, juices and fruit for York strip steak, broasted chicken, fish, $6. shrimp and sandwiches, all made-to-0rder. • SPEAKER SERIES: “Coyotes in Your • CHICKEN FRY: The Pleasant Hill Backyard” will be part of Aullwood’s Winter VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Speaker Series starting at 2:30 p.m. with Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piece speaker, Dr. Stanley Gehrt, a certified chicken dinner with french fries and macawildlife biologist and associate professor roni salad for $7 from 6-8 p.m. Chicken livat The Ohio State University and an ers also will be available. expert in urban coyotes. Learn more about • PORK LOIN: The AMVETS Ladies this fascinating study and coyotes in our Auxiliary, 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy, will region, watch video of coyote behavior offer a pork loin dinner with mashed potaand gain a greater understanding of this toes and gravy, green beans, sald and elusive creature. dessert for $8. Meals will be served from 5:30-8 p.m. MONDAY • FRIED CHICKEN: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will serve • BOOK LOVERS: Join the Book deep fried chicken with sides from 6-7:30 Lovers Anonymous adult book discussion p.m. for $7. group at 6 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Library. The group will be reading and dis- FEB. 2 cussing “The Beautiful Mystery,” by Louise Penny. • SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post • MOVIE NIGHT: Children in grades No. 43 baseball will offer an all-you-can-eat kindergarten through fifth grade and their spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. families are invited to the Troy-Miami Market St., Troy. The meal also will include County Public Library for a family friendly salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or movie. The movie will start at 6 p.m. and coffee. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and will last about 90 minutes. The movie title $4 for children under 12. is posted in the children’s department. • SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Miami Popcorn will be served. Call the library at East Alumni Association’s spaghetti din339-0502 to register. ner will be from 4-6 p.m. at Miami East • ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES: If High School. Dinner will be served before you’ve ever been curious about one room schoolhouses, come to the Oakes-Beitman the game against Graham and Troy Pop Memorial Library at 6 p.m. Chuck Martin of Rocks will perform the halftime show. Freewill donations will be accepted. the Pleasant Hill History Center will give a Proceeds will go toward scholarships for presentation on one room schoolhouses 2013 Miami East graduates. throughout the area. Light refreshments • OPEN HOUSE: An open house for will be served. For more information, call potential students for kindergarten at the library at (937) 676-2731. Piqua Catholic School will be at 5 p.m. at • TEXAS TENDERLOINS: Texas tenderloin sandwiches and fries will be served the Downing Street Campus, 218 S. Downing St., Piqua. For more information, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the American Legion call 773-3876. Post No. 586, Tipp City, for $5. • KARAOKE: The American Legion Civic agendas • Tipp City Board of Education will meet Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer fun and snacks while participants sing and dance at 7 p.m. at the board office, 90 S. to Papa D’s Pony Express Karaoke. Tippecanoe Drive. Call 667-8444 for more Participants will be celebrating Papa D’s information. birthday, so come and have some birth• Covington Village Council will meet at day cake and bring a snack. 7 p.m. at Town Hall. • The Covington Street Committee will FEB. 3 meet immediately following the regular council meeting. • Brown Township Board of Trustees will • BREAKFAST OFFERED: Breakfast meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building in will be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Conover. Post 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow • The Union Township Trustees will Falls, from 8-11 a.m. Made-to-order meet in the Township Building, 9497 breakfasts will be offered and everything Markley Road, Laura. 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Newton crowns king, queen Newton High School crowned its 2012–2013 Homecoming king and queen during homecoming festivities Friday evening prior to the varsity basketball game. Tiara Jackson was crowned queen and Michael Unser was crowned king. A dance was held Saturday at the school with a“Hits of Our Generation” theme.

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Makayla Greenway, Morgan Grudich, Nathaniel Hardin, Delaney Hayes, Jhett WEST MILTON — Milton-Union Hillard, Sophie Hobbs, Tyler Hoffman, Elementary has announced the fourth Colten Jacobe, Carter Jacobs, Malia grade honor roll for the second quarter: Johns, Diana Johnson, Ashton Jones, • At least one A or O in a subject Madison Jones, Kirsten Jordan, Dakota area, the rest B’s. No C including conKing, Devin Lambert, Chase Lappies, duct Alyssa Lawson, Tyler Laycox, Rowan Evie Adams, Kylie Aldridge, Tim Artz, McKenna, Brianna Merritt, Christopher Deacon Beckman, Taylor Belt, Nathan Miller, Audrey O’Bryant, Ryan Ogden, Black, Shane Brock, Madison Brown, Malachi Orban, Madison Pennington, Brittany Burnside, Katherine Caillouet, Riley Perkins, Brooke Pickett, Justin Madison Carroll, Lucas Carville, Alexis Randall, Mya Rowland, Cody Ruby, Zac Conley, Katie Craig, Charles Curtis, Ruff, McKinah Rupp, Betty Sanders, Sierra Danes, Kelli Davis, Sully Angel Scott, Madison Silveira, Garrett Dershem, Cody Dohrman, Chloe Donley, Stevens, Jacob Stewart, Jacob Strader, Daven Eason, Brendan Engle, Abbey Dane Studebaker, Kelsie Tomlinson, Evans, Mackenzie Everett, Madison Micah Tracy, Rory White, Gavyn Wirrig, Fisher, Mason Gooslin, Maxwell Grafflin, Jonah Wolf and Bill Yang.

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo., on Lance Armstrong’s TV confession to doping: Public confessions of despicable behavior are all the rage among the rich and famous. Tell the camera tales of drug abuse and alcoholism, preferably with tearful eyes, and all related behavior shall be forgiven. Cyclist Lance Armstrong upped the ante when he confessed to Oprah Winfrey his life as a fraud, liar, cheat and bully who has ruined the lives of others around him. Hey, Armstrong: Owning up to it — especially without a hint of remorse — doesn’t make it OK. You remain a fraudulent, cheating liar who bullied your friends. Armstrong’s confession competed for attention with the bizarre saga of Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o, who told the sad tale of losing his girlfriend to leukemia even though the girlfriend never lived. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods cheated on their wives. Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted numerous boys. Lindsay Lohan stole jewelry, fell out of her sundress on stage and drove drunk. Google “celebrity scandals” and an endless array of stories appear. Famous people are human. Often, though not always, a fall from grace has the amazing ability to revive a stagnating career. Poor behavior of the rich and famous, coupled with the NFL’s unmerciful rejection of Tim Tebow — a successful young quarterback with a talent for flaunting ostensibly good behavior — creates a dilemma for parents. Society must rethink how it chooses heroes. Stop confusing trophies, medals, fortune and fame with character. … Good character isn’t accomplishment. It’s the way we treat the people around us. The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, N.Y., on veteran suicides and unemployment: There were two big news stories recently relating to veterans, one concerning suicides, the other concerning jobs. The subjects are not unrelated. Military suicides rose to record levels in 2012, with as many as 349 (239 confirmed and 110 being investigated as probable). This epidemic, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has rightly called it, is occurring even with the war in Iraq having ended for American troops and the one in Afghanistan winding down. (In fact, the 349 suicides far exceeded the number of combat deaths last year in Afghanistan.) The reasons aren’t necessarily related to the stress of combat, but most of the dead soldiers presumably served in at least one of those extremely challenging war zones, and one of those multiple deployments the military has come to rely on. That’s bound to take a psychological toll, and can easily lead to mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Add to that the difficulty of adjusting to a routine military and domestic life after one’s tour is over, or the prospect of civilian life after one’s military career is over… and the problems are exacerbated. Then add such things as failed romantic relationships, alcohol use and guns, and the chances of suicide become that much greater. … … They also suffer from high unemployment, partly due to the perceptions that they’re unstable and their military skills aren’t transferable to the civilian world. But veterans can be very good employees. They are mission-oriented, quick learners and team players… A nation that spends hundreds of billions to train soldiers and send them to war should be able to bring them home and successfully reintegrate them into society. It must also do more to make sure they get to that point, to keep them from killing themselves before they leave military service.

THEY SAID IT “That’s one of the great things about working at the center — we can pray. And that’s one of the things that they can take home with them. A child can influence a whole family into being the best that they can be.” — Lincoln Community Center After-School Program Educational Coordinator Liz Stafford “We are here for the call of civil rights and harmony among all people.” — Pastor Charles Carnes of Troy Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, at Troy’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March “I think special trash pickup is a great idea. It will be a plus for our citizens and city.” — Troy City Council President Marty Baker

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Saying goodbye to an icon and a friend Troy

A big cowboy hat. Sunglasses — at midnight. A big black leather duster. When I first met Andy Copp, everything about him screamed underground icon. Fitting, I guess. Since he was. It was 2005, and I had interviewed the local independent horror filmmaker over the phone a few days before to preview the debut of his latest film at the time, “The Atrocity Circle,” at Page Manor Theater for the Fairborn Daily Herald. Enjoying an ultra-rare Friday night off — it was summer — I got the chance to actually attend the premiere, as well as meet the man behind the movie. Once the initial shock of meeting a real director wore off (as an aspiring filmmaker myself) and the more I chatted with him and watched him interact with all his other friends and fans present that night, the more clear it became just what kind of person Andy was, how open, honest, genuine and just plain good. I could never have known at the time just how many people

Josh Brown Sunday Columnist saw and knew the same thing about him, how many lives he’d touched and improved just by his existence. Over the years since, though, I started to get an inkling — particularly because he was such a close friend of my wife, Mandie’s. Last weekend, Andy suddenly and shockingly passed away. He was only 40. He left behind a rich tradition of independent filmmaking in the Dayton area, and he was both an inspiration and a mentor to many local artists who wouldn’t have had the desire, hope or know-how to get their vision out. Andy was a throwback to the 1960s and ’70s

grindhouse exploitation-style genre that he loved so much. As an independent filmmaker, he often — well, OK, always — worked with absolutely no budget, meaning that he had to use every crafty and imaginative trick in the book, as well as writing some of his own into that book, just to get his movies made. And without a major means to distribute his work, Andy used every underground method available and even created a few. Be it old-school fanzines or blogs or Dayton Access Television or random showing at smaller local theaters, he got the word out. And by blazing those trails, he gave other artists ways to do the same — often promoting them directly himself in addition. Andy also hosted a yearly horror movie marathon for charity at the Englewood Theater called Horrorama, introducing many people to genre classics that they would never have heard of before. But Andy the Icon had nothing on Andy the Man. He was as

kind and good as a human being can possibly be, and everyone who knew him loved him. Whether it was encouraging young professionals who wanted to follow his path or helping friends through tough times, he was always there, and he always knew exactly what to say. There were times over the past year when Mandie — who knew Andy before I even met her — was battling depression due to events that were out of our control. And since I was so close to the situations myself, I had trouble finding the right words to help her. He always knew what to say to make her feel better, though. He found the right words. In a sense, I owe Andy Mandie’s continued sanity. He was the best friend anyone could have asked for, either professionally or personally, and I only wish I’d gotten to know the latter side of him better. Rest in peace, Andy. You left us all far too early.

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CAROL JEAN WENRICK PIQUA — Carol Jean Wenrick, 84, of Piqua, went home to be with the Lord at 4:18 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 at the Piqua Manor. She was born April 15, 1928, in Miami County, to the late John H. and Ethel (Hildebran) Aughbaugh. She married Raymond F. Wenrick on Feb. 17, 1952, in Casstown; he survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Lisa Ann (Ray Jr.) Allred of Troy; a daughter-in-law, Sharen Wenrick of Piqua; three grandchildren, Christopher Wenrick and fiancé Rachel Redman, Dustin Wenrick and fiancé Hannah Wyan, and Joseph Burton; a greatgrandson, Jaxen Wenrick; and two sisters, June Keim of Casstown and Ruth (Raymond) Moyer of Ft. Wayne, Ind. She was preceded in death by her son, Jeffery S. Wenrick; a granddaughter, Mia Michelle Burton; two sisters, Margaret Keim and Lorene Penrod; and two brothers, Rev. Olan Aughbaugh and Donald Aughbaugh.

Mrs. Wenrick was a 1946 graduate of Lostcreek Township Schools, and was a homemaker, farmer’s wife, and helped with the family business. She was an active member of Friedens Lutheran Church. Jean was an avid sports fan, and enjoyed gardening, collecting dolls, was a wonderful cook, and loved the Lord and her family. A service to honor her life will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Friedens Lutheran Church, Bloomer, with Pastor Robert Akins officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Friedens Lutheran Church, 11038 W. Versailles Road, Covington, OH 45318; or Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

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Kay had worked for Tuffy TIPP CITY — Kay Imo Brooks Sporting Goods as a (Clase) Garland, 78 of Tipp manager in the lettering City passed away peacefully department. She was a memafter a lengthy illness, ber of Calvary Baptist Church, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, at Tipp City, an Associate Hospice of Dayton. Born Sept. Member of the Korean War 27, 1934, in Van Wert, Ohio, to Veterans Association, Western Maurice F. “Bus” and Imogene Ohio Chapter, Piqua, and a (Layton) Clase Sr. She is pre“Kentucky Colonel.” ceded in death by her parents Funeral services will be at 11 and brother, Maurice “Junior” GARLAND a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, Clase. at Calvary Baptist Church, 445 W. She is survived by her husband, Evanston Road, Tipp City, with Pastor Charles V. Garland; sons, Charles M. Dan Williams officiating. Burial to follow and his wife Christine Garland, Huber Heights, Ohio, Timothy W. Garland, Tipp in Maple Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. City, and daughter, Marla G. and her husband Joel Robins, Macedonia, Ohio; Wednesday at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City, OH along with brother, Dennis and his wife Janice Clase, Logan County; grandchil- 45371 and one hour prior to the service at the church. dren, Michael (Christina) Garland and Contributions may be made in memory Melinda (Steve) Griffin; and great grandof Kay to Hospice of Dayton. children, Bryton M., Deacon S. and www.fringsandbaylff.com Destiny Garland.

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TROY — Judith A. Pelton, 68, passed away Jan. 21, 2013. She was born Oct. 26, 1944, to the late George and Jeanette (Catterlin) Updike in Troy, Ohio. Judy was a graduate of Troy High School, class of 1962. She earned her nursing diploma from the Toledo Hospital School of Nursing in PELTON 1965. Judy then went on to receive her bachelor’s degree from The University of Toledo in 1985, graduating cum laude. She was also in the master’s business program. Judy worked at the Toledo Hospital as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department. She became the clinical supervisor and her hard work and dedication earned her the title of the clinical director of the Emergency Center, then later advancing to clinical director of the Ambulatory Care Division. Judy taught at the University of Toledo Community College and MCO. She worked for BCBS in Utilization Management, and also for Flower Hospital/ ProMedica as a clinical outcomes and resource manager/utilization review administrator. Judy retired from nursing Dec. 31, 2010, having served the nursing community for more than 45 years. Judy had many interests, including volunteering at Aldersgate UMC, The

United Way, American Cancer Society and the Emergency Nurses’ Association. She was also a longtime member of the Eastern Stars. She loved cooking, baking, reading, traveling and Broadway shows. In addition to her parents, Judy was preceded in death by her cousin, Theodore Updike of Troy. Left to cherish her memory is her loving husband of 30 years, Jim; daughters, Sue Pelton Kline of Oxford, Mich., and Anna (John) Pelton Flanigan of Lake Orion, Mich.; grandchildren, John, Matt, Elizabeth and Alexandria Kline, Brennan and Jenna Flanigan; cousins, John Updike of Troy, Sharon Mathes of Troy, and Pamela Boval of Delaware, Ohio; many close friends and family. The family will receive guests from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at Newcomer Funeral Home, 4150 W. Laskey Road, Toledo, Ohio, ((419) 4730300). A funeral service will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Graveside services will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Riverside Cemetery in Troy. The family requests memorial contributions be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church. To leave condolences for Judy’s family, please visit www.NewcomerToledo.com.

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Blaze burns Eldean Road residence The Troy Fire Department responded to a house fire on Eldean Road, west of Washington Road, Saturday afternoon. The fire involved a chimney and flames spread into the attic of the home. According to radio reports, one firefighter was injured fighting the blaze. The Troy Fire Department was assisted by the Covington Fire Department, whch covered Troy Fire Station No. 1 while Troy crews responded to the scene.

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TROY — Kyle Elementary has named honor students for the second grading period of the 2012-13 school year. Fourth grade — Kylee Bertholomey, James Craft, Maddison Davy, Maysha Feltner, Leah Frazier, Jordyn Frees, Skylar Mader, Kelsey Munday, Spencer

Newhouse, Hope Shiltz and Jayden Stidham. Fifth grade — Za’Kya Brewer, Jaden Fisher, Ashley Grooms, Jenna Gross, Nick LeValley, Grace Noon, Blaine Peltier, Elijah Reynolds, Payton Ross, Briana Soto, Elijah Vance, Kevin Walters and Ambrosia Westcott.

Miriam Mundis of Laguna Nigel, Calif.; and ex-husband, Jon Broome, San Marcos of Calif. A remembrance ceremony will be at Moonlight Beach, Encinitas, Calif., The time and date are to be announced. You may also visit her memorial page at www.facebook.com/ MemorialCoraSueBroome In lieu of flowers, make a donation to either The Alzheimer’s Association, www.alz.org/join_the_cause_donate.asp or to the Helen Woodward Animal Center, www.animalcenter.org/donate or call Melissa at (858) 756-4117, Ext. 350.

JOHN WILLIAM ‘WILL’ FORD MOHR TIPP CITY — John William “Will” Ford Mohr passed away on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, of complications of osteosarcoma. He was born in Dayton on April 24, 1990. Will was 22 years old. He was predeceased by his grandparents, Wayne and Mary Mershimer and Harold and Mary Mohr. Will is survived by his parMOHR ents, John and Valerie Mohr of Tipp City; his brothers, Robert of Laurel, Md., Richard of Indianapolis, Ind.; his aunt, Mary Frances Mohr of Cincinnati, Ohio; numerous cousins and friends, and his love and soul mate, Courtney Perkins of Goshen, Ky. Will was a 2008 graduate of Tippecanoe High School, where he played baseball and soccer, and a 2012 University of Dayton graduate. Will and Courtney met on the very first day of classes their freshman year. He loved working with children and looked forward to a career in teaching, serving as a substitute teacher until health issues prevented him from continuing. He loved Kansas basketball, the Indiana Pacers,

the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers, the Ohio State Buckeyes, and the family pets. Will battled cancer for 51/2 years with grace, perseverance, strength and dignity. Always optimistic toward life, Will greeted all with a ready smile and a welcoming attitude. Visitation will be at the Tipp City United Methodist Church, 3rd and Main, Tipp City, from 48 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, and the memorial service will be at the church at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, with visitation one hour before. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Tipp City following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-2961, designated for the Will Mohr Scholarship. Will did not have the gift of time that allowed him to be a teacher. It is hoped that this scholarship will help others with the same dream. Services have been entrusted to Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City, www.fringsandbayliff.com. 2353684

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Cora Sue Broome, 68, of Portland, Ore., died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Forest Grove, Ore. She was born Feb. 23, 1944, in Troy, Ohio, to Manford Leroy Ross and Thelma Viola Tecklenburg Ross. Survivors include two daugters and one son-in-law, Keri Broome of Portland, Ore., and Kirstin Broome and Christopher Loryman of Portland, Ore.; and two grandchildren, Nina Ross Montgomery of Monument, Colo., and James Ross, Morro Bay, Calif. She was preceded in death b her brother, Gerald Ross of Troy; her sister,

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• Write down all the facts: the circumstances of the accident, the date, time, place, the speed of the drivers involved, the direction in which each driver was going, and road conditions. • Draw a sketch of the accident scene, including the positions of each vehicle, or take a photo with your cell phone. • Ask the owners of the other cars involved, as well as passengers and witnesses, to provide you with their contact information (names, addresses, and phone numbers). • Ask the drivers involved in the accident to give you the number of their driver’s license, their license plate number, as well as insurance information (policy number, name of insurance company, and broker’s name). A last piece of advice: stay calm and polite despite all the inconveniences that the accident may cause you.

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• COACHING SEARCH: Tippecanoe High School is seeking to fill its head coaching position in volleyball. A letter of interest, resume and support material may be submitted to Matt Shomper, Athletic Director, 615 E. Kessler-Cowlesville Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371. Phone: (937) 669-6364, Fax: (937) 667-0912, email: mshomper@tippcity.k12.oh.us. The application deadline is noon on Jan. 31. • SOFTBALL: The Newton High School softball team will be hosting a chicken and noodle dinner from 4:30-7 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Newton cafeteria. Presale tickets are $6 for adults or $3 for children under 6, with the cost going up by $1 at the door. Tickets may be purchased from any Newton softball player, high school office or coach Kirk Kadel. Proceeds to help with the spring trip. • BASEBALL: Troy Junior Baseball will be having registration sign-ups for the 2013 season from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 2 at Extra Innings (958 S. Dorset, next to Troy Christian High School). Registration is open to children ages 5-15 years old. Adults interested in coaching are encouraged to sign up at this time and will be required to have a background check done. Anyone 11 years or older wishing to umpire are asked to sign up at one of the above dates, as well. For more information, visit www.troyjuniorbaseball.com. • SOFTBALL: Registration will take place from now until Feb. 8 for the Troy Recreation Department’s Youth Softball Program. The program is for girls in grades 1-8. Practices will begin in late April and games will begin the week of May 6. Register online now at http://activenet.active.com/troyrecdept. Teams will be finalized in March. For more information, please call the Recreation Department at 339-5145. • COACHING SEARCH: MiltonUnion is accepting applications for the position of head varsity football coach. Applications will be accepted until Feb. 8. Candidates should include a cover letter and resume and send them to Athletic Director Tom Koogler at kooglert@milton-union.k12.oh.us. • HALL OF FAME: The MiltonUnion Athletic Department will be honoring its eighth class of Hall of Fame inductees during the boys basketball game against Franklin Monroe Feb. 9. Inductees will include Kim BernerDohrman (class of 1990), Dr. William N. Ginn (class of 1974), Clint Magel (class of 1991) and Dick Overla (class of 1955). The ceremony will take place between the JV and varsity games, with the JV game starting at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity game scheduled to tip off at 8:15 p.m. • BASEBALL: Troy High School will host a baseball clinicfor ages 10-14 from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 23 at the Troy High School auxiliary gym. The cost is $25 if registered by Feb. 16. For more information, contact Ty Welker at welker-t@troy.k12.oh.us or at 332-6710, ext. 6232.

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Buckeyes survive Thomas’ off day With Big Ten-leading scorer Deshaun Thomas having an off day, the lithe 6-7 Sam Thompson stepped up Saturday for No. 14 Ohio State. See Page A9.

Trojans pull away early, hang on late Even with three of its big guns in foul trouble early, Troy found a way. Todda Norris had a double-double, doing most of her damage in the first half even with a pair of early fouls, Kristen Wood hit enough free throws late and the Trojans scratched and clawed their way to a 55-48 victory Saturday. See Page A10.

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Troy builds big lead, hangs on late BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com When it needed to late, Troy flipped the switch. But with the season’s end right around the corner, coach Larrell Walters wants to see that switch stay on from beginning to end. After Sycamore had turned Troy’s three-goal lead entering the third period into a one-goal edge, the Trojans (16-13) answered with a pair of goals — the first coming a mere 12 seconds after the Aviators closed to within one — and held on through an ugly third period for s 5-3 victory Saturday at Hobart Arena.

Troy’s Will Schober balances the puck on his stick while skating up the ice Saturday at Hobart Arena against the Sycamore Aviators. The Trojans went up 3-0 going into the third period and held on for a 5-3 victory.

TROY “We get in here against some of these teams, and tonight we didn’t play our game. We played their game,” Walters said. “We didn’t use our speed as much as we could have — we let Sycamore slow us down — and we didn’t force the issue. Because we didn’t feel like we had to, I think.” Mason Hagen gave Troy an early lead, cashing in the Trojans’ first shot on goal by wristing it between Sycamore’s goalie’s legs. Doug Eardly got an assist on the score that came 3:49 into the game. And with 2:21 left in the first, Hagen

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Record day for Zelnick Staff Reports Saturday, Troy’s After Michelle Zelnick now holds four Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division swim meet records. And on Sunday, Troy coach Chris Morgan thinks she could break some GWOC records.

TROTWOOD “She holds four (GWOC) North Division records,” Morgan said. “She was part of the 200 free relay team that did it, she holds the 200 free record, the 100 free record and the 500 free. It wouldn’t surprise me to see her break a couple conference records (today).” Zelnick shattered the old record in the 500 freestyle Saturday to win the event. She swam a 5:07.43 to break the old record of 5:41.02. Zelnick was first place in the 200 freestyle (1:55.81) and was also apart of the 200 free relay team, along

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Miami East’s Garrett Mitchell pulls up for a shot Saturday night against Fairlawn.

That kind of game Jets’ Caudill hits 7 3s in win over East

MONDAY Girls Basketball Franklin at Milton-Union (7:15 p.m.) Miami East at Wayne (7:30 p.m.) Northwestern at Bethel (7 p.m.) Russia at Covington (7 p.m.) Troy Christian at Xenia Christian (7 p.m.)

BY COLIN FOSTER Associate Sports Editor cfoster@civitasmedia.com Every time Miami East got close to taking the lead on Saturday, Fairlawn’s Brad Caudill was there to hit a big shot. So when the game was on the line, it was only fitting that Caudill had the ball in his hands.

CASSTOWN Miami East’s A.J. Hickman tied the game at 51-51 with a 3pointer, which capped off a 17-9 fourth-quarter run with 35 seconds left to play. But moments later, Caudill — who hit seven 3s in the game — caught the ball in the corner and nailed a triple with 3.1 ticks on the clock as the Jets escaped with a 56-51 win in Casstown. It was the first time any Miami East team has lost in the new gymnasium since it opened two years ago. “We finally fought back and got it tied up, we just weren’t able to finish the deal,” Miami East coach Allen Mack said. “They hit a nice shot after the timeout. They moved the ball,

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Buccs win LCC Invite East’s Seagraves gets solo title Staff Reports LIMA — Miami East’s Allen Seagraves had one last feather to put in his cap. The Covington Buccaneers, meanwhile, wanted the whole outfit. Seagraves (120) claimed an individual championship at the Lima Central Catholic Invitational — the last major regular-season tournament championship he was missing in

MIAMI COUNTY his career that the Vikings regularly attend — while the Buccs had an individual champ and six placers total, good enough to win the team title with 157.5 points Saturday. For Seagraves, it was one last thing he needed to do before the postseason during his senior year. “Allen told me Friday when we were on the way here that he’d won all the other tournaments we go to at some point, but

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Thompson steps up for Buckeyes STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Left open in the corner, Sam Thompson found an uncontested path to the basket along the baseline and contorted his body around 6-foot-9 center Sasa Borovnjak for a layup and three-point play. With Big Ten-leading scorer Deshaun Thomas having an off day, the lithe 67 Thompson stepped up Saturday for No. 14 Ohio State. He scored 16 points on 6of-7 shooting from the field, and the Buckeyes took advantage of cold-shooting

Penn State for a 65-51 victory. “I really did the easy part,” the sophomore said. “Guys found me, I was wide open, and I just knocked down some shots.” Jermaine Marshall had 16 points for the Nittany Lions, who have lost 18 straight to the Buckeyes. Thomas finished with 11 points on 4-of-13 shooting, well below his league-leading average of 20.5. Thompson picked up the slack from the field for Ohio State (15-4, 5-2 Big Ten), while Lenzelle Smith Jr.

helped put away pesky Penn State by hitting 5 of 6 from the foul line over the final 4:13. An 11-minute stretch without a field goal in the first half hurt Penn State. “If you told me that we’d hold Deshaun Thomas to 11 points, I’d tell you we’re in the game with a chance to win,” coach Patrick Chambers said. D.J. Newbill had 15 points and six assists, while Borovnjak added nine points. The Nittany Lions did draw within 59-49 with 2:41 left off two foul shots

from Marshall. But Smith (11 points, eight rebounds) was clutch at the foul line down the stretch, and Thompson hurt the Nittany Lions all day. He answered one Penn State run with a 3 from the wing to keep the lead at double digits. His acrobatic drive around Borovnjak for the three-point play put Ohio State up 43-27 with about 13:30 left. “Sam was tremendous today. I really challenged AP PHOTO Sam to play his best basket- Ohio State’s Lenzelle Smith Jr. (32) works past Penn ball,” coach Thad Matta State’s D.J Newbill (2) during the first half in State said. College, Pa. Saturday.

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Troy’s Mason Hagen wins a faceoff Saturday against Sycamore. ■ CONTINUED FROM A8 centered to a wide-open Andrew Stang in front of the net, who deked once and beat the goalie to make it 2-0. And with less than a minute to go in the second period, Clay Terrill centered to Hagen on a breakaway, and Hagen again wristed it in to give the Trojans a comfortable 3-0 lead with a period to play. Maybe too comfortable. Troy killed the first part of a 5 on 3 penalty, but Sycamore’s Brian Wise stuffed a rebound home in transition seconds after the Trojans got one of their skaters back, making it 3-1 with a power play goal with 12:57 to go. Two more Troy penalties gave the Aviators another 1:14 worth of 5 on 3 play, and even though the Trojans killed the first penalty, Wise again was able to find the net with two seconds left on the other penalty, swatting the puck in from his back to make it a 3-2 game with 5:59 left. “They hit a couple of posts in those first two periods, too,” Walters said. “The game was a lot closer than the score from the first two periods would even indicate.” That second goal woke Troy up, though. Troy Moore won the ensuing faceoff directly to Stang, who centered and set up a blistering onetimer by A.J. Noll to make it a two-goal game again.

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Troy’s Brandon Beaty passes the puck to a teammate Saturday against Sycamore at Hobart Arena.

Troy’s Eric Wright turns the puck away with his stick Saturday against Sycamore. And after Troy killed yet another penalty — four of its six penalties came in the final period, with another one coming with one second left in the second and spanning into the third — the Trojans got one more insurance goal with 1:40 left. Jake Uhlenbrock fired off a high slapshot from the point that Tyler

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — EJ Manuel’s January couldn’t have gone much better on the field. More importantly, he’s hoping for a similarly happy February for his family. The Florida State quarterback passed for a touchdown and rushed for another on the South’s first two drives in a 21-16 victory over the North in the Senior Bowl on Saturday, and was named Most Outstanding Player. Now, he can try to be the MOS Most Outstanding Son. His mother, Jackie Manuel, who was diagnosed with breast cancer before the season, has been recovering from her final round of chemotherapy, and Manuel said she’s scheduled to have surgery on Feb. 1. “That’s kind of been my motivation,” Manuel said. “I call my mom every single day and tell her I love her. I never miss a day.”

Hess deflected down to the ice and in to give the Trojans a three-goal cushion once more. “We answered their run with a quick goal, and then Jake comes back and hits that shot that Tyler deflected in,” Walters said. “That’s just a great, classic hockey play.” With the comfortable

margin again, though, Troy also backed off again. With Troy content to ice the puck to kill the final few seconds, Wise was able to get one more goal with 9.3 seconds remaining directly following a faceoff win in Troy’s defensive zone. And Troy again iced the puck after the ensuing restart, giving Sycamore another faceoff in its zone — and the Aviators very nearly cashed that one in, too. All told, Troy outshot Sycamore 24-23 … but was outshot 12-4 in the third period. “A win is a win, but we got sloppy in the third period, for sure,” Walters said. “It was not as clean a game as I would have liked to have seen. With the postseason tournaments coming up soon, we’ve got to start more consistent hockey.” The Trojans will look to flip the switch early and leave it on today, hosting Alter.

hadn’t,” Miami East coach Jason Sroufe said. “He made his statement here today.” Seagraves scored a key victory in the quarterfinal round, knocking off Archbold’s Damian Short in a 6-4 decision. in the final, he beat Greeneview freshman Logan Lacure 73. “He beat the fifthranked kid in the state (Short) to get to the finals, then he beat a Greenview freshman that had beaten the second-seeded kid Friday,” Sroufe said. “He wrestled his match and controlled every aspect, and when you’re in control, things go your way. He wrestled well all weekend.” Stephen Morrow (126) and Austin Rush (132) added sixth-place finishes for the Vikings, who tied with Carey for 11th with 87.5 points. The Buccs, meanwhile, entered Saturday with a 2.5-point lead in the team

standings and easily outdistanced second-place Greeneview (147.5). Brian Olson (195) led the way with an individual championship, knocking off Carlisle’s Marcus Smith 96 for the crown. Ryan Ford (126) won an 8-1 decision over CHCA’s Zach Alvarado for third place, and Jake Sowers (152) knocked off Dixie’s Cole Vencill 6-2 for third, as well. Daniel Jennings (145) and Ben Miller (170) both took fourth, and Kyler Deeter (160) placed fifth. • GroveportMadison Invitational GROVEPORT-MADISON — The Troy Trojans placed six wrestlers Saturday at the GroveportMadison Invitational, finishing seventh as a team in a tuneup for next week’s Greater Western Ohio Conference meet and beyond. “This was a bracketstyle tournament, not a pool tournament,” Troy

coach Doug Curnes said. “It’s double elimination, just like the GWOC tournament and the sectional, so it helps us get ready for those. “Hats off to the guys that placed. We had six out of the 13 we brought on the podium.” Kevin McGraw (182, 31) and Andrew Kostecka (220, 2-1) both placed second, while Alex Dalton (285, 4-1) placed third. Mason Perkins (126, 2-2) took fifth and Eric Cannaday (132, 2-3) and Matt McGilliray (195, 1-2) were both sixth. Troy faces Beavercreek Wednesday in the second round of the OHSAA Dual Tournament at Sidney. • Eaton Invitational EATON — MiltonUnion placed 17th as a team Saturday at the Eaton Invitational with 37 points. Josh Booker (126) had the Bulldogs’ best individual finish, placing second, while Canaan Berry (132) placed fourth.

■ CONTINUED FROM A8 with Mackenzie Rice, Cassie Rice and Meredith Orozco, which ended up winning the GWOC North (1:50.77). The Trojans boys and girls teams both placed second overall to Butler. On the boys side, Butler finished with a score of 555 compared to Troy’s 421. The Butler girls scored 553, while the Trojans had 398. Emma Brumfield won the 200 IM (2:39.34), Mackenzie Rice finished second in the 100 free (1:02.71), Meredith Orozco placed third in the 200 free (2:19.60) and also took third in the 50 free (28.18 seconds). Lindsey Orozco got second in the 100 butterfly (1:08.91), while Courtney Carmack got third (1:09.71). In the 100 backstroke, Lindsey Orozco got second (1:10.64). The girls 400 relay team of Mackenzie and Cassie Rice, Carmack and Lindsey Orozco was second (4:19.26). The boys 200 medley relay team of Tommy Jackson, Joel Evans, Matt Roetter and Will Armstrong placed second

(1:47.52). Armstrong found success as an individual, capturing the GWOC North title in the 500 free (5:36.09). “That was probably one of the most exciting races of the day,” Morgan said. “Will was behind the whole race, but he ended up catching up to the Butler kid and outtouching him in the end.” Jared Liew got second in the 200 IM (2:19.72), Roetter took second in the 50 free (24.12 seconds). Jackson (57.05) and Roetter (1:00.50) went 2-3 in the 100 buttfly, Evans got second in the 100 free (53.31). Jackson got second in the 100 backstroke (1:00.5) and Evans was third in the 100 breast (1:05.90). Evans, Jackson, Jared Liew and Roetter also finished second in the 200 free relay (1:37.69). Armstrong, Jon Liew, Jared Liew and Will Metzger placed second in the 400 relay (3:47.64). The top two in each division automatically qualify for today’s GWOC meet, while the rest of the places are decided by best times. The meet starts up today at 2 p.m. in Trotwood.

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Dayton routs Duquesne, 72-56 DAYTON (AP) — Josh Benson’s 17 points led five Dayton scorers in double figures as the Flyers defeated Duquesne 72-56 Saturday. Trailing 20-13 with 7:48 left in the first half, Dayton (12-7, 2-3 Atlantic 10 Conference) outscored Duquesne 17-4 to take a 30-24 halftime lead. The Flyers then began the second half with an 11-2 run for a 41-26 advantage. Ohio 69, Kent St. 68 KENT — D.J. Cooper made two free throws with 55 seconds left and Ohio remained undefeated in Mid-American Conference play with a 69-68 victory over Kent State on Saturday night. Ohio took a 60-52 lead its largest of the game when Nick Kellogg scored on a layup with 7:46 left in the second half. But the Bobcats had a tough time holding off Kent State, which kept the score close and eventually took a onepoint advantage on Kris Brewer’s layup with 1:14 remaining. But Ohio (15-5, 6-0) pull ahead for good after two free throws by Cooper, who led the Bobcats with 23 points and five assists. Reggie Keely finished with 20 points and Kellogg added 10 points. Ball State 82, Miami (Ohio) 62 OXFORD — Majok Majok scored 21 points and Jesse Berry had 20 points to lead Ball State to an 8262 win over Miami (Ohio) on Saturday. Chris Bond finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and five steals for the Cardinals (8-10, 2-4 M i d - A m e r i c a n Conference), who snapped a four-game losing streak. Jauwan Scaife had 14

points and seven assists. Toledo 75, Bowling Green 62 TOLEDO — Dominique Buckley scored 20 points to lead four Toledo players in double figures as it beat Bowling Green 75-62 in a Mid-American Conference game Saturday night. Julius Brown had 14 points and seven assists, Rian Pearson added 14 points and nine rebounds and Nathan Boothe chipped in 10 to help Toledo (7-10, 3-3) snap a four-game losing streak. Akron 68, Buffalo 64 AKRON — Alex Abreu scored 13 points, including three key free throws in the closing seconds, as Akron won its 11th straight game, beating Buffalo 68-64 in MidAmerican Conference action Saturday night. Akron (15-4, 6-0) has won its first six MAC games for only the third time. The Zips entered Saturday with the third longest active winning streak in the country, and the program’s longest since 1972-73. Illinois-Chicago 55, Wright State 49 FAIRBORN — Gary Talton scored a game-high 18 points to lead IllinoisChicago to a 55-49 victory over ice-cold Wright State Saturday night in Horizon League play. The Raiders made just 33 percent of their shots from the floor, hitting 18 of 54 attempts. That included a frigid 2 for 19 performance (10.5 percent) from 3point range. Reggie Arceneaux missed all seven of his 3-point attempts while Cole Darling who led Wright State with 11 points missed all four of his shots from long range.

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Trojans hang on, Red Devils get revenge Troy Christian’s Salazar hits career milestone in Eagle victory Staff Reports

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WEST CARROLLTON — Even with three of its big guns in foul trouble early, Troy found a way. Todda Norris had a double-double, doing most of her damage in the first half even with a pair of early fouls, Kristen Wood hit enough free throws late and the Trojans (9-9) scratched and clawed their way to a 55-48 victory Saturday night at West Carrollton. Troy looked poised to run away with the game before foul trouble became an issue. “We were up 16-5 in the first, but Todda, Kristen and Morgan Taylor were all in foul trouble early,” Troy coach Nathan Kopp said. “We had about a sixminute stretch where we scored one point. It was tough. We’ve basically been playing six girls, but Mackenzie Armstrong came off the bench and gave us some valuable minutes during that time

— and Todda stayed in the game and scored 15 points in the first half.” Norris finished with a game-high 18 points and 13 rebounds, while Wood added 12 points. Mackenzie Schulz scored eight points and Taylor and Sierra Besecker each added seven. West Carrollton fought back, though, scoring 21 in the fourth quarter — aided by six 3s in the game. “Offensively we scored some points, but we gave up 17 offensive rebounds. We gave up way too many second chances,” Kopp said. “But in the end, we did just enough to win.” Troy returns home Wednesday to host Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division rival Butler. Troy — 55 Schulz 3-2-8, Besecker 3-1-7, Norris 6-6-18, Mo. Taylor 2-3-7, Ma. Taylor 1-1-3, Wood 1-10-12. Totals: 16-23-55.

West Carrollton — 48 Cochrane 9-0-23, Lane 1-3-6, Bennett 3-0-6, Patton 2-3-7, Tincher 1-0-2, Handley 2-0-4. Totals: 18-6-48. Score By Quarters Troy ....................17 30 39 55 WC........................8 19 27 48 3-point goals: Troy — none. West Carrollton — Cochrane 5, Lane. Records: Troy 9-9. West Carrollton 1-14.

Tippecanoe 62, Bellefontaine 50 TIPP CITY — Tippecanoe avenged an early-season Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division loss Saturday night, pulling away from Bellefontaine early and holding on for a 62-50 victory. Erica Comer had the hot hand on the night, scoring 23 points. Halee Printz added 17 and Carly Clodfelter had 13 for the Red Devils, who lost to the Chieftains 64-57 on Dec. 13, 2012. Now Tippecanoe (11-8, 5-3) faces a stiff test Thursday night leading up to the postseason tournament draw over the week-

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Irving, Cavs win 3rd in a row

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TORONTO (AP) — Kyrie Irving made a 3pointer with 0.7 seconds left to give the Cleveland Cavaliers a 99-98 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday night. Headed to his first AllStar game, Irving added to his credentials by calmly draining a pull-up jumper from the top of the arc to send the Cavaliers to their third straight win. Irving finished with 32 points and Marreese Speights had 17 for the Cavs. Tristan Thompson scored 14 and Wayne Ellington had 12. Toronto had five players score in double figures. Amir Johnson had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Alan Anderson scored 17 and Ed Davis finished with 16. The Raptors had won seven of their previous nine meetings with the Cavaliers. Anderson’s layup to begin the fourth gave the Raptors an 11-point cushion but Ellington hit two 3pointers as Cleveland answered with a 12-2 run,

cutting it to 79-78 with 9:21 left. The Cavaliers took their first lead since the first quarter on a layup by Thompson, but Terrence Ross restored Toronto’s lead with a 3 less than a minute later. Ellington’s third 3-pointer of the fourth put the Cavaliers in front again, making it 88-87 with 4:44 left. Irving followed with a pair of free throws and then a driving layup for Cleveland’s biggest lead of the game, but another 3 by Ross cut it to 92-90 with 3:19 remaining. The Raptors reclaimed the lead on a driving dunk by Johnson with 1:16 to play. Irving tied it again on a driving layup but Calderon promptly answered with a layup at the other end, putting the Raptors up 98-96 with 12 seconds to go. The Cavaliers then called timeout and Irving made the decisive 3 while topping 30 points for the third straight game.

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Blue Jackets fall COLUMBUS (AP) — Jonathan Toews scored the game-winner early in the third period and Corey Crawford had 24 saves to help Chicago match the best start in franchise history with a 3-2 victory Saturday night over the Columbus Blue Jackets, running the Blackhawks’ record to 5-0-0. The only other time the Blackhawks began a season 5-0-0 was 1971-72. Patrick Kane had two assists for the Blackhawks, who have a 40-23-7 record all-time

against the Blue Jackets. Crawford, who won for the fourth time this season, was solid all night but particularly when the Blackhawks were a man down. Steve Mason held his own with 21 saves for the Blue Jackets, who lost their third in a row. A goal by Derick Brassard was waved off in the second period when the officials ruled Nick Foligno interfered with Crawford. That decision caused a sellout crowd of 18,381 to boo throughout the game.

■ CONTINUED FROM A8 and all night long, Caudill shot pretty well down along the baseline. He got loose down there. In that case, they simply reversed the ball, but earlier it had been a lot of inside-out stuff from the high post kick-out. “We adjusted on that, but in that case, they reversed it around and he was able to get a little space. We were close to getting there. It was a contested shot, but he stepped up and made it.” It was just that kind of night for the Vikings. East entered the fourth down 42-34 but started it on a 5-0 run, which was once again answered by a long-range shot from Caudill. Only this time around, the Vikings weren’t going away. Conner Hellyer, who scored six of his nine points in the fourth, responded by hitting a 3. Luke House followed with a layup, then Hellyer collected an offensive rebound and scored to cut the Vikings’ deficit to 4746 with three minutes to play. The Jets spurted off four straight points to go on top by five before Miami East’s Garrett Mitchell hit two free throws to set up Hickman’s game-tying 3pointer. Following Caudill’s trey, Miami East had the chance for one last play, but Fairlawn’s Anthony Gillem intercepted Mitchell’s deep pass attempt to Hickman then iced the game at the foul line for the Jets. “We wanted to get the ball down the court to get a good look with three seconds left,” Mack said. “The Fairlawn kid made a heads-up play and came

end, hosting Anna. Riverside 41, Bethel 26 BRANDT — The Bethel Bees couldn’t keep Riverside away from the 3point line Saturday afternoon, giving up six shots from long range in a 41-26 loss. Tia Koewler led the Bees (1-17) with eight points, Emily Mongaraz added seven and Jill Callaham and Erin Floyd each had four as Bethel went down 15-6 after the first quarter and never recovered. Bethel hosts Northwestern Monday. Riverside — 41 Ledley 4-0-11, Hickey 4-1-10, Robison 1-0-3, Hurley 2-2-7, Castle 0-2-2, Harshbarger 1-0-2, Giles 3-0-6. Totals: 15-5-41. Bethel — 26 Mongaraz 2-2-7, Whetstone 01-1, Callaham 1-2-4, Weinert 1-02, Koewler 2-4-8, Floyd 2-0-4. Totals: 8-9-26. Score By Quarters Riverside ............15 24 31 41 Bethel...................6 10 16 26 3-point goals: Riverside — Ledley 3, Hickey, Robison, Hurley. Bethel — Mongaraz. Records: Riverside 2-11.

Bethel 1-16.

• Boys Troy Christian 56, TC North 36 TROY — Even without Grant Zawadzki, the Troy Christian Eagles are still formidable. They showed that Saturday. The Eagles hits nine 3pointers as a team — one away from the school record in a single game — Christian Salazar became Troy Christian’s all-time leading rebounder and the defense shut down TriCounty North for a 56-36 victory. Salazar finished with nine points, 12 rebounds and six assists, giving him 426 career rebounds. “It’s been fun to watch Christian grow up,” Troy coach Ray Christian Zawadzki said. “He’ll always be special to me because he was one of the players here when I first got here. It’s been exciting to watch how hard he’s worked to become the basketball player we’ve asked

him to be.” Spencer Thomas hit three 3s and scored a game-high 14 points, while Holden Varvel, Logan George and Nathan Kirkpatrick each added eight. “We shared the ball well tonight and had it moving well against their zone, which is evidenced by our nine 3s,” Zawadzki said. “We were getting a lot of inside-outside movement.” Troy Christian travels to Xenia Christian Tuesday. Tri-County North — 36 Derringer 4-2-10, Woodyard 5-4-14, Hutchins 1-2-4, Booth 4-08. Totals: 14-8-36. Troy Christian — 56 Coots 2-1-6, Varvel 3-0-8, Horn 0-1-1, Thomas 4-3-14, George 3-2-8, Kirkpatrick 2-2-8, Boone 1-0-2, Salazar 4-0-9. Totals: 19-9-56. Score By Quarters TCN......................8 18 26 36 TC.......................16 27 42 56 3-point goals: Tri-County North — none. Troy Christian — Coots, Varvel 2, Thomas 3, Kirkpatrick 2, Salazar. Records: Tri-County North 5-12. Troy Christian 13-2.

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Miami East’s Nick Beard looks to pass the ball into the post against the Fairlawn defense Saturday night at MIami East High School. up with it. Unfortunately, we came up a bit short tonight.” After Miami East’s Nick Beard hit a 3 to open the second half, the Jets rolled off six in a row to tie their largest lead of the game at nine. The Vikings rallied to get within three points twice during the quarter, but five straight points by Caudill to close out the third gave the Jets momentum entering the final period. With Miami East leading 16-13 early in the second quarter, Fairlawn’s Trey Everett threw down

a two-handed jam, which jump-started 13-1 rally to put the Jets up 26-17, before Hellyer hit a triple before half to put the Vikings down six. Caudill had three 3s in the second quarter alone and ended the game with 23 points. House led the way for the Vikings, scoring 14 on the night, nine of which came in the second half. Mitchell had 12 points, while Hickman and Hellyer each added nine. Miami East (10-5) hosts five of its final seven games, starting with Franklin Monroe Friday.

Fairlawn — 56 Trey Everett 1-0-2, Brad Caudill 7-2-23, Jesse Hughes 1-03, Luke Brautiem 3-0-6, Anthony Gillem 4-4-14, Cockroft 4-0-8. Totals: 20-6-56. Miami East — 51 Ross Snodgrass 0-0-0, Nick Beard 2-0-5, A.J. Hickman 3-1-9, Garrett Mitchell 4-4-12, Luke House 5-4-14, Brandon Mack 0-00, Conner Hellyer 2-1-9, Braxton Donaldson 1-0-2. Totals: 18-10-51. Score By Quarters Fairlawn ..............13 26 42 56 ME .......................12 20 34 51 3-point goals: Fairlawn — Caudill (7), Gillem (2), Hughes. ME — Hellyer (2), Hickman (2), Beard. Records: Fairlawn 11-6. Miami East 10-5. Reserve score: Miami East 31, Fairlawn 22.

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Fog wipes out day at Farmers SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger Woods is going to have to wait to pursue another win at Torrey Pines. A thick fog shrouded the course along the Pacific bluffs on Saturday and essentially wiped out the entire day at the Farmers Insurance Open. Woods, a six-time winner of this tournament, had a two-shot lead and never even bothered coming to the golf course. Three players completed one hole and that was after a three-hour delay. Players were to resume the third round Sunday morning and go as long as daylight allowed, and then finish Monday.

And that’s a best-case scenario. In a bizarre twist, tour officials were hopeful of rain and a little wind Sunday morning, two elements that most golfers dread. That’s what is needed, however, to keep the fog away from Torrey Pines and allow the tournament to resume. “When Mother Nature doesn’t want you to play, you can’t play,” said Mark Russell, the tour vice president of competition. They did just about everything else. Lucas Glover warmed up three times, at one point passed the time with a little trickery. He lined up two

balls in the direction of the range, and hit them with a wedge so that one ball went straight in the air, and Jerry Kelly took a baseball swing with an inverted club and made contact. Through four tournaments this year, the PGA Tour already had had its share of weather problems. This will be the second tournament that doesn’t finish on the scheduled day. The Tournament of Champions at Kapalua didn’t even start until Monday, the day it was supposed to end, because of 40 mph gusts. It had to be reduced to 54 holes and was completed on Tuesday. Woods was at 11-under

133 and didn’t need to come to the course with all the delays because he was in the last group with Billy Horschel and Casey Wittenberg. Horschel spent part of his day getting advice through text messages on how to play with Woods. He’ll get to see plenty of Woods over the next two days. Russell said there would not be a 54-hole cut for 87 players typically there is a cut when the field is more than 78 players on Saturday. Instead, they will take a short lunch break and go back out, racing time when fog allows.

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A fan walks across a fog-enshrouded fairway on the North Course at Torrey Pines during a delay preventing the start of the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open Saturday in San Diego.

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In New Orleans, an unwelcome mat for Goodell NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An effigy of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell dangles from the front porch of a New Orleans home that is otherwise festively decorated with Saints paraphernalia. With restaurants and bars gearing up for an influx of Super Bowl XLVII visitors, the “Refuse to Serve Roger Goodell” page on Facebook had 107 likes as of Friday. A portrait of Goodell covers the bull’s-eye on the dart board at Parkview Tavern. And floats in the unabashedly lowbrow Krewe du Vieux parade in the French Quarter last

weekend displayed largerthan-life likenesses of Goodell in acts that defy polite description. New Orleans is celebrating the return of Saints coach Sean Payton after a season of NFL banishment as a result of the “bountygate” scandal when the team ran a pay-for-hits program. But Goodell, who suspended Payton and other current and former Saints players and coaches last year for their roles in the system, is being ridiculed here with a vehemence usually reserved for the city’s scandal-scarred politicians. “They believe he completely used the Saints as an

example of something that was going on league-wide,” said Pauline Patterson, coowner of Finn McCool’s, an Irish Bar in the Mid-City neighborhood where the words “Go To Hell Goodell” are visible over the fireplace. Some of Goodell’s critics say the disarray resulting from what they believe were unfair suspensions led to the Saints’ 7-9 performance this year and a missed chance to make history. “We had a real shot of being the first team in history to host the Super Bowl in our own stadium,” Parkview Tavern owner Kathy Anderson said.“He can’t give that back to us.”

Goodell suspended the coaches and players after an investigation found the Saints had a performance pool offering cash rewards for key plays, including big hits. The player suspensions eventually were overturned, but the coaches served their punishments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu is among those saying that people in this city, known for its hospitality and history, should mind their manners and remember the not-toodistant past. “Roger Goodell has been a great friend to New Orleans, and it’s a fact that he’s one of the people instrumental to making sure that

the Saints stayed here after Hurricane Katrina,” Landrieu said in a statement. It was a reference to the days after the storm, when 80 percent of the city was underwater and the damaged Superdome became a shelter for thousands of the displaced. Then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and his second-incommand, Goodell, are credited with working to keep the team from abandoning New Orleans for San Antonio. “If not for Roger Goodell, we would not have this Super Bowl,” Landrieu added. “And we will need him since we want to host

another one.” Saints quarterback Drew Brees said the game is validation of everything the city’s gone through to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. “There’s no question, yeah. And I think people will see that when they come down, as soon as people come down that haven’t been there in a while,” Brees said Friday while in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl. “The city knows how to entertain, knows how to treat people right. The tourism industry’s huge, so we’re excited to host this big game. Obviously it’s the biggest sporting event in the world, and the city will be ready for it.”

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Lots of fireworks

Djokovic, Murray meet again in final

Azarenka wins Australian final in three strange sets M E L B O U R N E , Australia (AP) — Victoria Azarenka had the bulk of the crowd against her. The fireworks were fizzling out, and when she looked over the net she saw Li Na crashing to the court and almost knocking herself out. Considering the cascading criticism she’d encountered after her previous win, Azarenka didn’t need the focus of the Australian Open final to be on another medical timeout. So after defending her title with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over the sixth-seeded Li in one of the most unusual finals ever at Melbourne Park, Azarenka understandably dropped her racket and cried tears of relief late Saturday night. She heaved as she sobbed into a towel beside the court, before regaining her composure to collect the trophy. “It isn’t easy, that’s for sure, but I knew what I had to do,” the 23-year-old Belarusian said. “I had to stay calm. I had to stay positive. I just had to deal with the things that came onto me.” There were a lot of those things squeezed into the 2hour, 40-minute match. Li, who was playing her second Australian Open final in three years, twisted her ankle and tumbled to the court in the second and third sets. The second time was on the point immediately after a 10-minute delay for the Australia Day fireworks — a familiar fixture in downtown Melbourne on Jan. 26, but not usually coinciding with a final. Li had been sitting in her chair during the break, while Azarenka jogged and swung her racket around before leaving the court to rub some liniment into her legs to keep warm. The 30-year-old Chinese player had tumbled to the court after twisting her left ankle and had it taped after falling in the fifth game of the second set. Immediately after the fireworks ceased, and with smoke still in the air, she twisted the ankle again, fell and hit the back of her head on the hard court. The 2011 French Open champion was treated immediately by a tourna-

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Victoria Azarenka holds her trophy after winning the women’s final against Li Na at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia Saturday. ment doctor and assessed for a concussion in another medical timeout before resuming the match. “I think I was a little bit worried when I was falling,” Li said, in her humorous, self-deprecating fashion. “Because two seconds I couldn’t really see anything. It was totally black. “So when the physio come, she was like, ‘Focus on my finger.’ I was laughing. I was thinking, ‘This is tennis court, not like hospital.’” Li’s injury was obvious and attracted even more

support for her from the 15,000-strong crowd. Azarenka had generated some bad PR by taking a medical timeout after wasting five match points on her own serve in her semifinal win over American teenager Sloane Stephens on Thursday. She came back after the break and finished off Stephens in the next game, later telling an oncourt interviewer that she “almost did the choke of the year.” She was accused of gamesmanship and manip-

ulating the rules to get time to regain her composure against Stephens, but defended herself by saying she actually was having difficulty breathing because of a rib injury that needed to be fixed. That explanation didn’t convince everybody. So when she walked onto Rod Laver Arena on Saturday, there were some people who booed, and others who heckled her or mimicked the distinctive hooting sound she makes when she hits the ball.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic remembers when he was about 11 and meeting a boy his age named Andy Murray. The young Murray from Dunblane, Scotland, was “quite pale,” recalled the Serbian, known as “The Joker” for his wisecracks. Back then, they were playing on the juniors’ circuit “just trying to play tennis and enjoy the game,” Djokovic said. Little did either know that later in life they would keep running into each other on tennis’ biggest stages. On Sunday, Djokovic and Murray meet for their third Grand Slam final at the Australian Open. It is the latest rematch in a rivalry that Djokovic as unique describes because they’ve known each other since childhood. “It’s nice to see somebody that you grew up with doing so well,” the 25-yearold Serbian player said Saturday. “We know each other since we were 11, 12 years old. I guess that adds something special to our rivalry.” Djokovic rose to stardom first, winning the 2008 Australian Open at the age of 20. Now, the No. 1-ranked player owns five Grand Slam trophies and is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three in a row at Melbourne. The third-ranked Murray is the latest addition to the so-called Big Four of men’s tennis, which also includes No. 2 Roger Federer and 11-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal. The group has combined to win 33 of the last 34 Grand Slams. Murray is striving for his second Grand Slam title after winning at the U.S. Open, where he beat Djokovic in the final to end a 76-year drought for British men at the majors. Murray’s road to the final in Melbourne included one of the tournament’s highlights a five-set win in the semifinals over Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam winner. It was Murray’s first victory against Federer at a Grand Slam event and so physically draining that Murray was too exhausted afterward to crack a smile. “It (was) a long, long

match. It’s a very late finish. I’m tired,” said Murray, when asked why he seemed so subdued. During the intensely tactical and physical match, Murray served a stunning 21 aces against the Swiss star. “I don’t want to be wasting any energy, because I’ll need all of it if I want to win against Novak on Saturday,” he said, adding that despite his lack of emotion he was pleased. “Obviously, I was happy. It was a tough match.” Murray reached the Australian Open semifinals last year, losing to Djokovic. He has made the Melbourne finals on two previous occasions, losing to Federer in 2010 and Djokovic in 2011. Before arriving in Melbourne last year, Murray teamed up with tennis great Ivan Lendl whose coaching has helped produce a new aggressiveness in Murray and a willingness to take chances on court. It was under Lendl’s tutelage that Murray made his breakthrough, winning a career-changing gold medal for singles at the London Olympics and then riding a wave of confidence to win his first major at the U.S. Open. He expects a long, tough fight from Djokovic, who soundly beat No. 4-seeded David Ferrer in a Thursday semifinal, which gave the Serbian an extra day to rest and recover for the final. “Every time we play each other it’s normally a very physical match,” Murray said. “I’ll need to be ready for the pain. I hope it’s a painful match that’ll mean it’s a good one.” Djokovic agreed. “Every time we played … It was always long matches, physically very demanding,” said Djokovic, who shrugged off the idea that his extra day for recovery would be a factor in the final. “He’s considered one of the physically strongest and fittest guys around. So I’m sure he’s going to be fit,” said Djokvic, who played one of the tournament’s other thrillers in the fourth round, when he needed five hours to beat another inspired Swiss player, Stanislas Wawrinka, in five sets.

■ National Football League

Players loose on day before Pro Bowl HONOLULU (AP) — Adrian Peterson signed and tossed miniature footballs into the Aloha Stadium stands, then chatted up Hall of Famers Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen. Arian Foster played Peyton Manning’s bodyguard for stadium cameras and told fans he recently walked on hot lava. The Pro Bowl players practiced a little, too, on a sunny Saturday in Honolulu one day before an all-star game that will likely be used to determine its own future.

But the game’s main purpose is fun, said several players including Minnesota tight end Kyle Rudolph and Kansas City running back Jamaal Charles. “I feel like there’s no responsibility, it’s just all about fun,” Charles said. “You work hard during the year it’s not like a competitive game.” Competition or at least the appearance of it is exactly what the NFL is looking for from its stars on Sunday as it uses the game as a measurement of

whether it’s worth putting on in future years. Commissioner Roger Goodell has said the game will stop if play doesn’t improve, drawing mixed reactions from top players all over the league. Chicago cornerback Charles Tillman says he doesn’t want this year’s Pro Bowl players to be known as the group who led to the game’s cancellation, taking away an honor and privilege for future players. “I don’t want this to happen on my watch,” he said. Rudolph said the play-

ers’ natural competitiveness will help make the game entertaining. “It’s a game we want to win, so it’ll be fun,” Rudolph said. The game should see plenty of scoring, thanks to limits on blitzing and defensive schemes. Bookmakers in Las Vegas expect a combined 81 1/2 points scored, with the AFC squad slightly favored. The NFC and AFC have won five Pro Bowls each in the last 10 meetings. Houston tight end Owen Daniels says fans won’t see

many big hits. “You’re not going to see people play dirty or giving it up like a playoff game, but that’s just the way it is,” Daniels said. “I think you’ve got to accept that and . know that we love being out here and I think you’ve got to know that the people here love having us out here.” Daniels said he’s been motivated to return to the Pro Bowl after making his first all-star team in 2009. He said he sees the Pro Bowl as a good consolation for players who would

rather be in the Super Bowl. Peterson said moments like his chat with two NFL greats are what make the trip worthwhile for him. “It’s the best part,” he said. “It’s a bonus, man.” Charles said he’s enjoyed watching the leadership of other Pro Bowl players as he’s been taking on a bigger leadership role with the Chiefs. “I’m just trying to keep grinding and working hard,” he said. “Trying to be where I’m at right now trying to get back here next year.”

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FOOTBALL NFL Playoff Glance All Times EST Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 5 Houston 19, Cincinnati 13 Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10 Sunday, Jan. 6 Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9 Seattle 24, Washington 14 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 12 Baltimore 38, Denver 35, 2OT San Francisco 45, Green Bay 31 Sunday, Jan. 13 Atlanta 30, Seattle 28 New England 41, Houston 28 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 20 San Francisco 28, Atlanta 24 Baltimore 28, New England 13 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 At New Orleans Baltimore vs. San Francisco, 6 p.m. (CBS) College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Alabama 42, Notre Dame 14 Saturday, Jan. 19 RAYCOM College Football All-Star Classic At Montgomery, Ala. Stripes 31, Stars 3 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. West 28, East 13 Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South 21, North 16

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L New York 26 15 .634 — Brooklyn 26 18 .591 1½ 20 23 .465 7 Boston 18 25 .419 9 Philadelphia Toronto 16 28 .364 11½ Southeast Division Pct GB W L 28 12 .700 — Miami 25 18 .581 4½ Atlanta 14 28 .333 15 Orlando 11 31 .262 18 Washington 11 32 .256 18½ Charlotte Central Division Pct GB W L 26 17 .605 — Indiana Chicago 26 17 .605 — 23 19 .548 2½ Milwaukee 16 27 .372 10 Detroit 13 32 .289 14 Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB W L San Antonio 36 11 .766 — 28 14 .667 5½ Memphis Houston 24 22 .522 11½ 18 25 .419 16 Dallas 14 29 .326 20 New Orleans Northwest Division Pct GB W L Oklahoma City 34 10 .773 — 26 18 .591 8 Denver Utah 23 20 .535 10½ 21 21 .500 12 Portland Minnesota 17 24 .415 15½ Pacific Division Pct GB W L 32 12 .727 — L.A. Clippers 26 17 .605 5½ Golden State L.A. Lakers 18 25 .419 13½ 16 28 .364 16 Sacramento Phoenix 15 29 .341 17 Friday's Games Washington 114, Minnesota 101 Atlanta 123, Boston 111,2OT Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 108 Miami 110, Detroit 88 San Antonio 113, Dallas 107 Chicago 103, Golden State 87 Memphis 101, Brooklyn 77 Houston 100, New Orleans 82 Oklahoma City 105, Sacramento 95 L.A. Lakers 102, Utah 84 Saturday's Games Philadelphia 97, New York 80 Cleveland 99, Toronto 98 Washington 86, Chicago 73 Charlotte 102, Minnesota 101 Houston 119, Brooklyn 106 San Antonio 108, Phoenix 99 Milwaukee 109, Golden State 102 Sacramento at Denver, 9 p.m. Indiana at Utah, 9:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10 p.m. Sunday's Games Miami at Boston, 1 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m. New Orleans at Memphis, 6 p.m. Detroit at Orlando, 6 p.m Atlanta at New York, 6:30 p.m. Phoenix at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Monday's Games Memphis at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Golden State at Toronto, 7 p.m. Sacramento at Washington, 7 p.m. Orlando at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m. Indiana at Denver, 9 p.m. Houston at Utah, 9 p.m. College Basketball Scores Saturday SOUTH Alcorn St. 61, Southern U. 57 Ark.-Pine Bluff 79, Grambling St. 67 Belmont 85, E. Kentucky 74 Charleston Southern 79, Liberty 7 Coastal Carolina 73, Campbell 59 Coll. of Charleston 79, Wofford 50 Davidson 79, Appalachian St. 56 Delaware St. 68, Bethune-Cookman 52 Duke 84, Maryland 64 ETSU 89, North Florida 75 Elon 70, The Citadel 66 Florida 82, Mississippi St. 47 Florida A&M 55, Md.-Eastern Shore 54 Gardner-Webb 63, VMI 49 Georgia Southern 72, W. Carolina 66 Georgia Tech 82, Wake Forest 62 Jacksonville St. 65, Murray St. 64 James Madison 56, Old Dominion 46 Kentucky 75, LSU 70 La Salle 69, VCU 61 Memphis 73, Marshall 72 Mercer 71, Lipscomb 65 Middle Tennessee 72, W. Kentucky 53 Mississippi 63, Auburn 61 Morehead St. 78, Tennessee St. 69 Morgan St. 55, NC A&T 52

N. Kentucky 64, Kennesaw St. 53 NC Central 84, Coppin St. 75 NC State 91, North Carolina 83 New Orleans 94, Champion Baptist 54 Nicholls St. 70, Sam Houston St. 67, OT Norfolk St. 74, Hampton 67 Northwestern St. 61, Stephen F. Austin 57 Notre Dame 73, South Florida 65 Presbyterian 82, Longwood 71 Radford 58, Winthrop 57 SC-Upstate 79, Jacksonville 64 SE Louisiana 67, Texas A&M-CC 53 Savannah St. 64, SC State 49 South Carolina 75, Arkansas 54 Tennessee 54, Alabama 53 Tennessee Tech 70, Austin Peay 52 Troy 71, Louisiana-Monroe 64, OT Tulane 73, Rice 66 UCF 74, SMU 65 UNC Asheville 69, High Point 58 UTEP 68, East Carolina 67 Virginia 65, Boston College 51 William & Mary 63, Towson 56 FAR WEST Arizona 74, Southern Cal 50 Arizona St. 78, UCLA 60 Gonzaga 66, San Francisco 52 Hawaii 78, UC Santa Barbara 73 Long Beach St. 81, UC Irvine 59 Nevada 75, Boise St. 59 North Dakota 81, N. Arizona 79 Oregon 81, Washington 76 Saint Mary's (Cal) 84, Pepperdine 72 San Diego St. 55, New Mexico 34 Santa Clara 64, San Diego 50 Washngton St. 71, Oregon St. 68 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 63, FAU 38 Baylor 82, TCU 56 Cent. Arkansas 88, Lamar 59 Georgia 59, Texas A&M 52 Houston 66, UAB 61 Houston Baptist 94, Ecclesia 40 Oklahoma St. 80, West Virginia 66 Oral Roberts 75, McNeese St. 54 Prairie View 74, Alabama St. 72 Southern Miss. 62, Tulsa 59 Texas 73, Texas Tech 57 UALR 62, North Texas 57 MIDWEST Akron 68, Buffalo 64 Ashland 67, Tiffin 64 Augustana (SD) 82, Minn. St.Mankato 79 Aurora 85, Milwaukee Engineering 60 Baker 62, Missouri Valley 56 Ball St. 82, Miami (Ohio) 62 Bethany Lutheran 72, Minn.-Morris 64 Bethel (Minn.) 74, Carleton 73 Butler 83, Temple 71 Calvin 50, Adrian 47 Cardinal Stritch 62, Ind.-South Bend 45 Carthage 71, Millikin 47 Chicago St. 62, Utah Valley 54 Concordia (Moor.) 88, Augsburg 68 Concordia (St.P.) 74, Wayne (Neb.) 65 Crown (Minn.) 89, Martin Luther 72 Culver-Stockton 76, Avila 71 Dakota Weslyn 87, Doane 83 Davenport 64, Cornerstone 56 Dayton 72, Duquesne 56 Detroit 75, Loyola of Chicago 63 E. Illinois 78, SE Missouri 72, OT E. Michigan 42, N. Illinois 25 Edgewood 75, Dominican (Ill.) 63 Ferris St. 50, Saginaw Valley St. 47 Findlay 74, Malone 62 Hope 92, Alma 74 IPFW 80, IUPUI 79, OT Ill.-Chicago 55, Wright St. 49 Illinois St. 67, Evansville 62 Indiana St. 59, N. Iowa 58 Indiana-East 93, Berea 80 Iowa St. 73, Kansas St. 67 Kansas 67, Oklahoma 54 Lake Erie 69, Ohio Dominican 50 Marquette 81, Providence 71 Marygrove 64, Madonna 57 Michigan Tech 83, Lake Superior St. 79, OT Minn. St.-Moorhead 71, Minn.Crookston 48 Minot St. 62, Minn. Duluth 58 Missouri 81, Vanderbilt 59 Nebraska 64, Northwestern 49 Nebraska-Omaha 67, UMKC 59 North Central (Minn.) 77, St. Scholastica 61 Northern St. (SD) 58, Bemidji St. 55 Northwestern (Minn.) 102, Northland 60 Northwood (Mich.) 81, N. Michigan 48 Oakland 67, W. Illinois 60 Ohio 69, Kent St. 68 Park 89, Benedictine Springfield 71 Rockford 88, Maranatha Baptist 78, OT S. Dakota St. 69, N. Dakota St. 53 Spring Arbor 57, Marian, Ind. 53 St. Cloud St. 68, Mary 51 St. John Fisher 71, Houghton 49 St. John's (Minn.) 59, Gustavus 57 St. Olaf 95, Macalester 73 St. Thomas (Minn.) 81, Hamline 46 Toledo 75, Bowling Green 62 Trine 63, Kalamazoo 51 UT-Martin 65, SIU-Edwardsville 62 Upper Iowa 82, Sioux Falls 74 Viterbo 74, Iowa Wesleyan 70 W. Michigan 76, Cent. Michigan 59 Walsh 75, Hillsdale 73 Wayne (Mich.) 65, Grand Valley St. 56 Wichita St. 73, Bradley 39 Winona St. 75, SW Minnesota St. 60 Wis. Lutheran 68, Lakeland 64 Wis.-La Crosse 80, Wis.-Oshkosh 59 Wis.-Parkside 60, Kentucky Wesleyan 59 Wis.-Platteville 84, Wis.-River Falls 71 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 82, Wis.-Superior 55 Wis.-Stout 60, Ashford 35 Wis.-Whitewater 72, Wis.-Eau Claire 63 Wisconsin 45, Minnesota 44 Youngstown St. 73, Cleveland St. 59 EAST Army 77, American U. 64 Boston U. 81, UMBC 75 Bucknell 65, Holy Cross 58 CCSU 72, St. Francis (NY) 70 Catholic 54, Merchant Marine 42 Cheyney 83, Mansfield 66 Colgate 70, Navy 56 Concordia (N.Y.) 85, Wilmington (Del.) 77 Cornell 66, Columbia 63 DeSales 73, King's (Pa.) 61 Delaware Valley 57, Wilkes 54 Dickinson 82, Ursinus 63 Dominican (NY) 94, Chestnut Hill 86< Drexel 68, Georgia St. 57 E. Nazarene 76, Wentworth Tech 71 Edinboro 62, Slippery Rock 59 Farmingdale 64, Russell Sage 60 Fordham 66, Rhode Island 63 Gannon 65, Clarion 53 George Washington 82, Charlotte 54 Georgetown 53, Louisville 51 Gettysburg 77, Swarthmore 69 Harvard 82, Dartmouth 77, OT

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 9 a.m. SPEED — Rolex Sports Car Series, 24 Hours at Daytona, end of race, at Daytona Beach, Fla. BOWLING Noon ESPN — PBA, league play, round 1, at Allen Park, Mich. CYCLING 12:30 p.m. NBCSN — Tour Down Under, final stage, at Adelaide, Australia EXTREME SPORTS 2 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Aspen, Colo. 9 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Aspen, Colo. GOLF 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, final round, at San Diego 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, final round, at San Diego MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1 p.m. CBS — Michigan St. at Indiana 3:30 p.m. FSN — California at Colorado NBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ABC — Miami at Boston 3:30 p.m. ABC — Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers 6:30 p.m. ESPN — Atlanta at New York NFL FOOTBALL 7 p.m. NBC — Pro Bowl, at Honolulu NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. NBCSN — Minnesota at St. Louis WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1 p.m. FSN — TCU at Texas Tech 2 p.m. ESPN2 — North Carolina at Miami 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Purdue at Michigan St. Hobart 76, Vassar 59 Ithaca 75, Hartwick 54 LIU Brooklyn 79, Bryant 78 Maine-Farmington 102, Castleton St. 94 McDaniel 95, Washington (Md.) 87, 3OT Millersville 74, Kutztown 68, 2OT Montclair St. 76, Rutgers-Camden 62 Moravian 82, Goucher 55 NJIT 64, Texas-Pan American 51 New Hampshire 63, Binghamton 45 New Haven 50, Bentley 48 Nichols 100, W. New England 92 Ohio St. 65, Penn St. 51 Old Westbury 72, Purchase 56 Philadelphia 84, Caldwell 61 Pittsburgh 93, DePaul 55 Post (Conn.) 76, Goldey Beacom 72 Quinnipiac 58, Fairleigh Dickinson 56 Ramapo 73, College of NJ 72 Regis 58, Mitchell 54 Robert Morris 76, Mount St. Mary's 68 Rowan 74, William Paterson 64 Sacred Heart 82, Monmouth (NJ) 68 Saint Joseph's 59, Xavier 49 Saint Louis 67, St. Bonaventure 57 Sciences (Pa.) 85, Felician 73 Scranton 81, Juniata 60 Stony Brook 79, Maine 69 Susquehanna 74, Drew 66 Thiel 67, Washington & Jefferson 58 UNC Wilmington 57, Hofstra 51 Vermont 50, Albany (NY) 43 Villanova 75, Syracuse 71, OT Wagner 81, St. Francis (Pa.) 56 West Chester 88, Bloomsburg 82, OT Yale 76, Brown 64, OT Saturday's Scores Boys Basketball Ansonia 60, Xenia Christian 55 Arcanum 59, Brookville 51 Arlington 55, Delphos Jefferson 38 Beaver Eastern 60, Portsmouth Clay 44 Bellville Clear Fork 61, Mansfield Madison 58 Belpre 67, Racine Southern 56 Berlin Hiland 42, Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 32 Bethel-Tate 64, New Richmond 60 Bloom-Carroll 77, Cols. Hamilton Twp. 30 Brunswick 57, Akr. Firestone 48 Bucyrus Wynford 67, Lucas 33 Cadiz Harrison Cent. 63, Weir, W.Va. 28 Cambridge 46, Dover 33 Carlisle 82, Hamilton New Miami 54 Centerburg 44, Plain City Jonathan Alder 38 Chillicothe Unioto 74, Bainbridge Paint Valley 39 Chillicothe Zane Trace 65, Williamsport Westfall 55 Cin. Christian 78, Cin. College Prep. 32 Cin. La Salle 57, Clayton Northmont 36 Cin. Western Hills 61, Cin. Elder 46 Cin. Woodward 69, Day. Jefferson 49 Circleville 45, Ashville Teays Valley 34 Cle. Cent. Cath. 85, Cle. Hay 49 Cle. John Adams 53, Bedford 52 Cle. Max Hayes 64, Fairview 57 Cle. St. Ignatius 64, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 46 Cle. St. Martin De Porres 53, Ashtabula St. John 20 Coldwater 58, Celina 51 Cols. Bexley 83, Hebron Lakewood 73 Cols. Brookhaven 69, Westerville N. 63 Cols. Grandview Hts. 71, Sugar Grove Berne Union 43 Cols. Marion-Franklin 67, St. Paris Graham 37 Cols. South 69, Cols. East 61 Convoy Crestview 56, Continental 34 Copley 62, Akr. Ellet 50 Creston Norwayne 66, Wooster Triway 48 Dalton 50, Kidron Cent. Christian 48 Day. Ponitz Tech. 86, Spring. Greenon 52 Day. Thurgood Marshall 77, Tol. Rogers 73 Defiance 79, Hamler Patrick Henry 30 Delaware Buckeye Valley 45, Cardington-Lincoln 43 Delphos St. John's 54, Spencerville 35 Edgerton 59, Edon 36 Findlay Liberty-Benton 64, Rossford 40 Frankfort Adena 42, Chillicothe Huntington 30 Ft. Recovery 35, Ft. Loramie 34 Galion 64, Mt. Blanchard Riverdale 63 Gallipolis Gallia 56, Logan 46

Germantown Valley View 59, Oxford Talawanda 39 Granville Christian 50, Madison Christian 26 Greenwich S. Cent. 60, Mansfield Christian 50 Huber Hts. Wayne 102, Day. Belmont 33 Ironton 73, Akr. Buchtel 64 Lancaster Fairfield Union 50, Circleville Logan Elm 45 Leipsic 40, Kalida 34 Lima Bath 93, Marion Harding 53 Lima Cent. Cath. 84, Van Buren 42 Lima Perry 65, Harrod Allen E. 64 London 72, Washington C.H. Miami Trace 58 Lorain 59, E. Cle. Shaw 57 Lore City Buckeye Trail 72, Byesville Meadowbrook 40 Lucasville Valley 67, Seaman N. Adams 44 Mansfield St. Peter's 58, Plymouth 54, OT Maple Hts. 62, Eastlake N. 59 Maria Stein Marion Local 40, Pitsburg Franklin-Monroe 37 McComb 60, Tiffin Calvert 40 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 57, N. Baltimore 21 Milford Center Fairbanks 46, N. Lewisburg Triad 43 Minster 73, Wapakoneta 67 Monroe 48, Camden Preble Shawnee 27 Mt. Gilead 62, Marion Elgin 48 N. Robinson Col. Crawford 51, Bucyrus 37 N. Royalton 73, Solon 55 New Knoxville 72, Ft. Jennings 48 New Lebanon Dixie 46, New Paris National Trail 44 New Middletown Spring. 64, Hanoverton United 26 Norwalk 51, Tol. Whitmer 43 Oak Hill 57, McDermott Scioto NW 32 Ohio Deaf 40, Minnesota Academy for the Deaf, Minn. 15 Ontario 52, New Washington Buckeye Cent. 37 Ottawa-Glandorf 54, Columbus Grove 35 Parma Hts. Valley Forge 56, Parma Hts. Holy Name 46 Paulding 38, Ottoville 32 Peebles 61, Lynchburg-Clay 52 Pickerington N. 53, Cols. Eastmoor 42 Piketon 65, Southeastern 47 Port Clinton 66, Sandusky St. Mary 59 Powell Olentangy Liberty 60, Cols. DeSales 38 Richmond Hts. 74, Warren JFK 59 Saegertown, Pa. 76, Conneaut 65 Shekinah Christian 86, Gilead Christian 36 Sidney Fairlawn 56, Casstown Miami E. 51 Sparta Highland 61, Galion Northmor 49 St. Marys Memorial 64, Sidney 44 Swanton 99, Genoa Area 55 Tol. Cent. Cath. 71, Elida 54 Troy Christian 56, Lewisburg TriCounty N. 36 Uhrichsville Claymont 68, Caldwell 56 Upper Sandusky 49, Crestline 41 Van Wert Lincolnview 46, Rockford Parkway 38 Versailles 80, Russia 44 Villa Madonna, Ky. 74, St. Bernard 54 Wahama, W.Va. 62, Stewart Federal Hocking 59 Waynesfield-Goshen 71, Dola Hardin Northern 34 Westlake 51, Avon 44 Wooster 52, Orrville 49 Worthington Christian 51, Marion Pleasant 43 Zanesville Maysville 60, Zanesville Rosecrans 41 Saturday's Scores Girls Basketball Ada 57, Waynesfield-Goshen 56 Akr. Coventry 64, Akr. East 34 Akr. Hoban 38, Parma Padua 27 Akr. Kenmore 54, Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 53 Akr. Springfield 54, Atwater Waterloo 41 Alliance Marlington 51, Alliance 32 Amherst Steele 50, Berea 43 Arcadia 56, Sycamore Mohawk 47 Aurora 66, Orange 20 Avon 48, Elyria Cath. 46 Beachwood 45, Independence 41 Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan 54, Urbana 47 Bellevue 41, Willard 33 Beloit W. Branch 51, Salem 36 Berlin Hiland 47, Sugarcreek Garaway 33 Beverly Ft. Frye 56, Woodsfield

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Monroe Cent. 46 Bowerston Conotton Valley 44, Magnolia Sandy Valley 35 Brookville 56, Lewisburg Tri-County N. 32 Brunswick 51, Strongsville 28 Camden Preble Shawnee 59, Monroe 36 Canal Fulton Northwest 55, Barberton 48 Canfield 80, Warren Champion 28 Carrollton 53, Louisville 48 Chagrin Falls Kenston 63, Perry 48 Chillicothe 61, Portsmouth 45 Chillicothe Unioto 59, Bainbridge Paint Valley 47 Cin. Glen Este 66, Loveland 29 Cin. Madeira 49, Cin. Indian Hill 44 Cin. Mt. Healthy 58, Wilmington 51 Cin. N. College Hill 48, Cin. Seven Hills 33 Cin. Princeton 70, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 56 Cin. Shroder 55, Cin. Clark Montessori 28 Cin. Summit Country Day 49, Waynesville 39 Cin. Sycamore 49, Fairfield 35 Cin. Western Hills 47, Butlerville Methodist Church School 39 Cin. Wyoming 49, N. Bend Taylor 33 Circleville Logan Elm 70, Cols. Hamilton Twp. 39 Clarksville Clinton-Massie 55, Washington C.H. 38 Cle. Hts. 65, Maple Hts. 23 Cle. Hts. Lutheran E. 44, Cle. Max Hayes 40 Coldwater 57, Lima Shawnee 54 Cols. DeSales 48, Cols. Ready 36 Cols. Eastmoor 53, Cols. Hartley 47 Continental 40, Pandora-Gilboa 39 Continental 40, Pandora-Gilboa 39 Creston Norwayne 37, Dalton 36 Crown City S. Gallia 57, Willow Wood Symmes Valley 48 Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 72, Chardon NDCL 42 Cuyahoga Hts. 42, Wickliffe 30 Day. Carroll 58, Day. ChaminadeJulienne 45 Day. Miami Valley 39, Yellow Springs 34 Day. Thurgood Marshall 37, Beavercreek 36 Defiance 60, Sherwood Fairview 42 Dover 55, Coshocton 26 Dublin Jerome 32, Lancaster 27 Fairborn 54, Clayton Northmont 30 Fairview 42, Rocky River Lutheran W. 35 Fredericktown 51, Johnstown Northridge 17 Gates Mills Hawken 49, Richmond Hts. 45 Georgetown 73, Batavia 34 Glouster Trimble 55, Wahama, W.Va. 31 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 62, W. Lafayette Ridgewood 48 Greenfield McClain 46, Lees Creek E. Clinton 35 Hamilton Badin 72, St. Bernard Roger Bacon 8 Hamler Patrick Henry 66, N. Baltimore 48 Harrison 60, Hamilton Ross 54 Hilliard Bradley 40, Cols. Watterson 33 Hilliard Davidson 42, Hilliard Darby 39 Hillsboro 66, London 41 Hudson 48, Stow-Munroe Falls 38 Ironton 44, S. Point 38 Jackson 55, Gallipolis Gallia 33 Greeneview 59, Jamestown Mechanicsburg 37 Johnstown-Monroe 70, Centerburg 48 Kalida 40, Miller City 31 Kenton 65, Spencerville 43 Kettering Alter 47, Middletown Fenwick 23 Kettering Fairmont 81, Cols. Africentric 65 Kings Mills Kings 47, Milford 41 Kirtland 53, Burton Berkshire 37 Lancaster Fairfield Union 55, Cols. Mifflin 28 Leavittsburg LaBrae 64, Vienna Mathews 57 Lebanon 56, Franklin 37 Leipsic 64, Bluffton 33 Lewis Center Olentangy Orange 64, Lewis Center Olentangy 60 Lima Sr. 58, Fremont Ross 35 Lodi Cloverleaf 40, Richfield Revere 31 Lorain 41, E. Cle. Shaw 33 Lyndhurst Brush 42, Cuyahoga Falls 35 Madison 73, Akr. Buchtel 27 Malvern 47, Newcomerstown 44 Mansfield Madison 73, Akr. Buchtel 27 Mansfield Sr. 56, Marion Harding 48 Maria Stein Marion Local 74, Elida 38 Mason 68, Hamilton 40 Morgan 55, McConnelsville Nelsonville-York 35 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 65, Dola Hardin Northern 19 Mentor Lake Cath. 73, Cle. Hts. Beaumont 21 Miamisburg 45, Germantown Valley View 43 Michigan School for the Deaf, Mich. 28, Ohio Deaf 11 Middleburg Hts. Midpark 42, Olmsted Falls 21 Middletown Madison 66, Anna 56 Millersport 40, Wellington 28 Millersport 40, Cols. Wellington 28 Minford 92, Rose Hill Christian, Ky. 33 Mogadore 67, Akr. Elms 33 Mt. Notre Dame 43, Day. Oakwood 29 Mt. Orab Western Brown 59, Goshen 28 N. Olmsted 54, BrecksvilleBroadview Hts. 43 N. Ridgeville Lake Ridge 79, Tol. Scott 20 N. Royalton 50, Medina 25 New Bremen 52, Sidney Lehman 34 New Knoxville 46, St. Marys Memorial 32 New Madison Tri-Village 53, St. Henry 44 New Paris National Trail 56, Day. Northridge 32 Newark 38, Cols. Upper Arlington 35 Newbury 52, Fairport Harbor Harding 35 Norwalk 63, Sandusky 40 Norwalk St. Paul 64, Plymouth 37 Norwood 42, Batavia Amelia 37 Orrville 67, Wooster Triway 48 Ottoville 78, Delphos Jefferson 35 Oxford Talawanda 54, Trenton Edgewood 38 Parma 41, Parma Hts. Valley Forge 38 Parma Normandy 65, Shaker Hts. Laurel 55 Pickerington N. 53, New Albany 32 Piketon 45, Southeastern 33 Pomeroy Meigs 45, Point Pleasant, W.Va. 39 Powell Village Academy 27,

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TENNIS Australian Open Results Saturday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $31.608 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Women Championship Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, def. Li Na (6), China, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Doubles Men Championship Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Robin Haase and Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4. Junior Singles Boys Championship Nick Kyrgios (3), Australia, def. Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

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MBAs play poker in Vegas to win job

New-home sales fall Caesars uses in Dec., weekend to sales up recruit hires LAS VEGAS (AP) — for year Forget the firm handshake

and networking chit chat. Business students who want a job at Caesars Entertainment need to work on their poker faces. Nearly 300 Master of Business Administration students and alumni anted up for a three-day Texas Hold ‘em poker contest last weekend in hopes of hauling in a corner office. Hiring managers and corporate executives schmoozed with candidates during breaks in the action. The annual MBA tournament on the Las Vegas Strip was little more than a marketing gimmick until last year, when Caesars decided to add cocktail hours and high-level interviews, said Tijuana Plant, who works in the company’s human resources department. Now, the event is a serious recruitment tool. The festive atmosphere and real-money stakes help the company screen for the critical thinking ability and social aptitude needed in the gambling industry, where business is often mixed with pleasure, Plant said. “We like to see analytical people,” she said. “Poker players are analytical and are willing to take strategic risk, and that is what we’re looking for.” Caesars held a networking reception Friday and a two-hour presentation about its corporate culture Saturday. On Sunday, 20 lucky MBAs were invited to formally interview with casino bigwigs for a spot in the company’s 10-week

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new U.S. homes cooled off in December compared with November but for the entire year were the best since 2009. The Commerce Department said Friday that new-home sales fell 7.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000. That’s down from November’s rate of 398,000, which was the fastest in 2 years. For the year, sales rose nearly 20 percent to 367,000. That’s the most since 2009, although the increase is coming off the worst year for newhome sales since the government began keeping records in 1963. Sales are still below the 700,000 level that economists consider healthy. The housing market began to recovery last year, roughly five years after the housing bubble burst. Stable job gains and record-low mortgage rates encouraged more people to buy homes. Prices have been rising on a sustained basis. And builders started to increase construction of new homes, partly because the supply of homes had thinned to extremely low levels. Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the December decline wasn’t cause for worry. She still expects sales to improve this year.

executive director of MBA career management at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Last fall, a division of Amazon.com Inc. sponsored a Friday-night party for Haas students, she said. Neutrogena Corp. invites students to write essays about skin care to win admission to a cocktail party. And one real estate investment management firm in Newport Beach, Calif., flies standout students to a golf tournament. These events are designed to tell a story about the company, Feldman said, and the Caesars tournament told one, too. “The gesture of having a buy-in kind of says, ‘We’re about real money,” she said. John Unwin, CEO of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, which competes with Caesars, said his hiring managers also like to observe candidates interacting with one other, but they create those situations without a mound of chips. He said poker fit more directly in Caesars’ wheelhouse. “They love poker. They own the World Series of Poker,” he said. The game also seems to have taken hold in MBA programs, with schools such as Wharton and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business setting up their own regular card games. Plant said Caesars has always used the tournament to attract students’ attention, even before adding the interview component. She added that poker may one day eclipse golf as the preferred pastime of the business elite.

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Rajashree Todmal of Carnegie Mellon University plays poker during the MBA Poker Championship and Recruitment Weekend Jan. 19 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. management trainee program, which pays $16,000. Apprentices perform a variety of high-level jobs, including masterminding marketing strategies and working with general managers to troubleshoot on properties, Plant said. Last year, four of the 12 people accepted into the trainee program played in the tournament. Students flew in from prestigious programs Harvard including School, the Business Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. But executives were on the alert for nerds. “We’re not selling insurance. This is a fun industry, and we’re selling a lifestyle,” Plant said. “We’re watching for whether they’re not having a good time at all and just focusing on the job, or if they’re having fun and looking for a job at the same time. It’s kind of our test.”

Caesars Entertainment Corp. operates more than 40 casinos around the world, including Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the Emerald Casino Resort in South Africa and Harrah’s casinos all over the country. Ashish Gupta was among the students who interviewed Sunday. He said he lasted a few hours in Friday’s tournament but spent most of the weekend making friends and learning about the casino industry. “I just made my bid and had a good time,” said Gupta, who is in his second year at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. “I was not really stressed out about losing my buy-in. It was cool just meeting people in an environment where you wouldn’t normally have that interaction.” Some aspiring business moguls who did not land interviews still walked away from the tournament

at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino with cash prizes approaching $8,000. Candidates had to ante from $85 to $225 to enter the eighth annual tournament, depending on how much they hoped to win. Caesars appears to be the only casino to pit potential hires against each other around a card table. But more companies are turning to this kind of “event recruiting” to compete for top candidates, though job seekers are not usually required to pay to play, said Emily Taylor, who teaches career management at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “I think it’s a great strategy by Caesars,” she said. “The economy is improving and we’re starting to see firms trying to distinguish themselves in different ways.” Creative gambits also allow recruiters to establish a cultural match more quickly, said Lisa Feldman,

French Oil Mill Machinery appoints president, elects director French Oil Mill Machinery Co., a manufacturer of hydraulic presses, oilseed and polymer equipment, took important actions last week at its annual meeting of stockholders, followed by the annual meeting of directors. At the latter, Daniel P. French recommended Jason P. McDaniel succeed him as the company’s president, and the board of directors appointed McDaniel as president and chief operating officer. French will remain actively involved with the business as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. “I am very pleased to have Jason McDaniel step into the role of president,” French said. “His critical

PIQUA thinking, knowledge of our markets and products, and his dedication to customer service and French Oil makes this move well deserved. I served 31 years as president, and am excited to turn the job over to a worthy successor, and the future of our company.” “I am honored and excited about this opportunity to lead French Oil into the future,” McDaniel said. “Thank you, Dan, for your extraordinary leadership over the last 31 years. Your forward thinking and significant contributions to the company propelled French Oil past the 112-year mark and set us up to provide our customers with superior

products and services for many years to come.” At the French Oil annual stockholders meeting, Taylor French Lutz was elected to serve on the company’s board of directors. This addition increases the number of directors to nine. McDaniel joined French in 1996 as a manufacturing engineer in the Oilseed Group. He received multiple promotions since, serving as project engineer in early 1998 and project

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supports hydraulic presses for molding rubber and composite materials, rubber mixers, screw presses for synthetic rubber processing and for the separation of liquids from solids, and oilseed equipment used to extract vegetable oil from seeds and nuts, and to produce biofuels. For more than 112 years, French has partnered with their stakeholders, in more than 80 countries worldwide, to provide products with superior value and superior service that improve customers’ productivity and reduce their overall production costs. The company’s 225,000square-foot corporate office and manufacturing facility are located in Piqua.

Lutz joined French in 2010 as marketing coordinator. She came to French with experience in marketing, business analysis, sales and buying in the fashion industry, having worked for both Donna Karan International and Bloomingdale’s in New York. Lutz graduated from the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., with a bachelor of science degree in management in business marketing. She is the fourth generation of the French family to be employed by FOMMCO. French Oil Mill Machinery Co. is an ISOcertified, family-owned company that custom designs, manufactures and

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2013. There are 338 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 27, 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris. On this date: In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1888, the National Geographic Society was incorporated in Washington, D.C.

In 1944, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. In 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat. In 1967, astronauts Virgil I.

“Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft. In 1977, the Vatican issued a declaration reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on female priests. In 1984, singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Thousands march for gun control in Washington WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as “Ban Assault Weapons Now,” joined a rally for gun control on Saturday, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. Leading the crowd were marchers with “We Are Sandy Hook” signs, paying tribute to victims of the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials marched alongside them. The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue. Participants held signs reading “Gun Control Now,” ”Stop NRA” and “What Would Jesus Pack?” among other messages. Other signs were simple and white, with the names of victims of gun violence. About 100 residents from Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six teachers, traveled to Washington together, organizers said. Participant Kara Baekey from nearby Norwalk, Conn., said that when she heard about the Newtown shooting, she immediately thought of her two young children. She said she decided

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People walk from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday, during a march on Washington for gun control. she must take action, and that’s why she traveled to Washington for the march. “I wanted to make sure this never happens at my kids’ school or any other school,” Baekey said. “It just can’t happen again.” Once the crowd arrived at the monument, speakers called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition and for universal background checks on gun sales. Education Secretary Arne

Duncan told the crowd it’s not about taking away Second Amendment gun rights, but about gun safety and saving lives. He said he and President Barack Obama would do everything they could to enact gun control policies. “This is about trying to create a climate in which our children can grow up free of fear,” Duncan said. “This march is a starting point; it is not an ending point … We must act, we must act, we

must act.” Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s non-voting representative in Congress, said the gun lobby can be stopped, and the crowd chanted back, “Yes, we can.” “We are all culpable if we do nothing now,” Norton said James Agenbroad, 78, of Garrett Park, Md., carried a handwritten sign on cardboard that read “Repeal the 2nd Amendment.” He called it the only way to stop mass killings because he thinks the Supreme Court will strike down any other restrictions on guns. “You can repeal it,” he said. “We repealed prohibition.” Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington’s Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march. Organizers said that in addition to the 100 people from Newtown, buses of participants traveled from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others flew in from Seattle, San Francisco and Alaska, they said. While she’s never organized a political march before, Smith said she was compelled to press for a change in the law. The march organizers support Obama’s call for gun control measures. They also want lawmakers to require gun safety training for all buyers

of firearms. “With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it’s as if I move on,” Smith said. “And in this moment, I can’t move on. I can’t move on. “I think it’s because it was children, babies,” she said. “I was horrified by it.” After the Connecticut shootings, Smith began organizing on Facebook. The group One Million Moms for Gun Control, the Washington National Cathedral and two other churches eventually signed on to co-sponsor the march. Organizers have raised more than $50,000 online to pay for equipment and fees to stage the rally, Smith said. Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland rallied the crowd, along with Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor from the Virginia Tech massacre. Goddard said he was shot four times at Virginia Tech and is motivated to keep fighting for gun control because what happened to him keeps happening and nothing’s been done to stop it..”

Once GOP stronghold, West veers into Dems’ column DENVER (AP) A political generation ago, the West signaled the nation’s rightward swing, from the emergence of Ronald Reagan to the success of tax-limitation ballot measures in California and Colorado. Now, however, the fabled expanse of deserts, jagged peaks, and emerald coastlines is trending in a different direction. The West has become largely Democratic terrain. Voters in Washington state in November legalized marijuana and upheld the legality of gay marriage. New Mexico was once a tightly contested state, but Republicans ceded it to Democrats in

the presidential campaign. There are, as always, exceptions. Lightly populated Idaho and Wyoming remain strongly Republican, as does Utah. Democrats are struggling in Arizona, where the immigration debate has given Republicans a lock on statewide offices but may provide Democrats an opening by firming up their support among the state’s growing Hispanic population. Still, the overall trend is clear, according to analysts on all sides of the political spectrum. “It’s just a different world,” said Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist in Los Angeles who has worked widely in the

region. “Nevada became the next California and now Arizona looks like it will become the next Nevada. … It’s just pushing the West further and further from Republicans.” The shift in a region already imbued with a libertarian spirit is the result of several factors. One is the growing number of people who are seeking a better quality of life by moving from more liberal states. Also, the expanding immigrant population is turned off by increasingly hardline Republican immigration proposals. “Look at the migration patterns,” said Sig Rogich, a Republican consultant in Las Vegas who worked on

Reagan’s presidential campaigns. “You’re seeing the aftermath of a new generation of young men and women whose parents moved westward.” Western states generally have weak political parties, part of the legacy of their political maturation during the progressive era at the start of the 20th century. Most local elections are nonpartisan affairs and voters often have the right to set policy unilaterally via ballot initiative. Western voters long have cherished nonpartisan independence, even when they voted a relatively straight party ticket. “The West is the most

American part of America,” said Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute, a libertarian think tank in Denver. “It is a place where you have much more respect for individual choice and you have more ability to be who you want to be.” During the 1980s and 1990s, that libertarian streak fed a series of Republican victories as voters approved tax-limitation initiatives, protested federal environmental rules and kept statehouses firmly in the GOP’s hands. But nowadays it means something else, Carrick said. “The libertarian thing is no longer about property rights or gun rights,” he

said. “It’s now about letting people live their lives as they choose.” Ironically, Republicans’ success may have contributed to that shift. The party managed to enshrine staunch anti-tax measures in several states’ constitutions through ballot initiatives, making it very difficult to raise taxes in California, Colorado and Washington state. As a result, Democrats can’t easily raise revenue, but they also can’t be attacked for doing so, said Ron Dotzauer, a Seattlebased Democratic strategist. “They can’t be defined as the pro-tax group because they can’t tax,” he said.

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Trainers offer advice for sticking to those New Year’s resolutions BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com

gym again,” while the ultimate goal is better health in the guise of losing weight. Set SMART short-term goals that will help ou’ve done a you achieve that long-term good job keeping goal.” — Lil Carson, certified your New Year’s personal trainer at the Fitness Resolution to Zone, located at the A.B. exercise for 27 Graham Center, 8025 E St. Rt. days … but you 36, Conover. Call 368-3700 for may need a little help for the class and membership informanext 338. tion for fitness classes includCertified personal trainers ing Zumba, Pilates, Boot Camp from around Miami County and others. shared their tricks of the trade “Going out to eat? I have a on how to stay dedicated to a client who goes out for lunch or healthier lifestyle 365 days a dinner for business a lot. She year and beyond. Some of the will look up the menu and caloadvice was traditional. Eat ries online before she goes out. right. Drink water. Make shortShe’ll also order a to-go box term goals. Others were a new when her meal gets to the table spin on the timeless resolution to take half of it home so she to eat better, move more and doesn’t eat the entire meal in reap the benefits of health. one sitting.” – Pence Below is a list of tips and “Give yourself at least six tricks that local certified perweeks to see results.” – Heather sonal trainers have found that Ramsay, Certified Personal have worked for themselves Trainer at La Bella Viaggio and for their clients. “We allow one ‘cheat meal’ a “I have clients who will take week. What I’ve found is that at a picture of their treadmill the beginning some people think miles and times with their about that ‘cheat meal’ all week phones and forward it to me or whether it’s pizza or going out their workout buddy every to dinner. Eventually, they morning. They are time phase out the cheat meal stamped so they can’t send their because it isn’t worth it for that time from two weeks ago and Miami County YMCA Robinson Branch Health and Wellness Director Kaci Harpest demonstrates one day. Food is not a reward.” cheat!” tricep pulldowns with Carol Hanagan of Tipp City. “This is my new part-time job,” Hanagan said, — Pence — Tammy Pence, certified “Focus on daily and weekly adding, “This is what I have to do to be fit and fight aging.” personal trainer and owner of goals that you can accomplish Faith Driven Fitness, 9030 that will ultimately help you to Looney Road, Piqua. Pence can achieve your goal! Small goals be reached by phone at 606like: eating five or more serv0293 or by email at tamings of vegetables a day, drinkmypence80@yahoo.com. ing eight glasses of water a day, “Be realistic about your or working out five times a goals. Focus on getting fit on week.” the inside first.” — Kaci Harpest, certified — Karen Hunter , owner of personal trainer/Health & La Bella Viaggio. The gym and Wellness Director at the Miami hair salon is located at the corCounty YMCA Robinson ner of West Franklin and Branch. For a list of classes Cherry streets in downtown offered at the Miami County Troy. For more information, YMCA branches, visit visit www.labellaviaggio.com. www.miamicountyymca.net. “Make a commitment to hire “Don’t look at the 70 pounds a personal trainer or sign up you want to lose. Let’s do it for a 5K race. Once you make month by month. Instead, let’s that commitment to do someset a goal of 10 pounds in thing, it will keep you accountFebruary, which is obtainable able because of the investment.” and not overwhelming.” — — Pence Pence “A New Year’s Resolution is a “Depriving yourself sets one goal. And when setting goals, up for failure, and you’ll binge they should be SMART. on it eventually. If you have a real weakness, like chocolate, Specific. Measurable. try not to keep it at home Adjustable. Realistic. Timebecause it’s too tempting. Buy based. You should also set short-term and long-term goals. Certified Personal Trainer Heather Ramsay, background, conducts training with Sandy Stefanko of it somewhere, like a little In most cases, the resolution is West Milton and Cynthia Willhelm of Tipp City. Both said they have been members of La Bella “I’m going to start going to the Viaggio for approximately two years. • See ADVICE on B2

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Six tips to get out from under holiday debt BY ALEX VEIGA Associated Press A wallet-emptying shopping binge and New Year’s debt hangover are mainstays for many consumers. And now that the holiday bills have arrived, many face the daunting task of whittling down the mountain of often highinterest credit card debt before it gets out of control. That task is made more difficult this year because most paychecks have been reduced because Congress and the White House allowed a two-year reduction in Social Security payroll taxes to lapse at the end of December. Although many cardholders have kept their credit card debt relatively low since 2010, their average debt is expected to grow by roughly 8 percent to $5,446 by the end of this year. That’s the highest level in four years, according to credit reporting firm TransUnion. That suggests some consumers could end up carrying at least a portion of their 2012 holiday debt, and paying interest on it, well into 2013. “The worst thing you can do is stick your head in the sand and not begin to change,” says Norma Garcia, manager of the financial services program for Consumers Union, pubof Consumer lisher

Reports. Here are six tips on how to detox your finances this year. 1. TALLY UP WHAT YOU OWE First on the debt to-do list is to take stock of the damage. That means reviewing credit card bills, bank statements, and other accounts to determine how much you owe and how that translates into monthly payments. Experts also recommend getting a copy of your credit report if you haven’t done so in more than a year. “That way, you’ll know exactly where you are, in terms of what’s being reported to the credit reporting companies,” says Rod Griffin, director of public education for credit reporting firm Experian. Consumers are entitled to get a credit report from the three nationwide credit reporting companies free of charge every 12 months. Copies can be obtained at AnnualCreditReport.com. A credit report can help you understand how your debt, and your payment history, will be perceived by potential lenders. It also underscores the need to bring down card balances, as high balances are viewed as a sign of risk. 2. DRAW UP A PAYMENT PLAN Paying down credit card debt requires discipline.

One oft-advised strategy for borrowers carrying balances on two or more credit cards is to rank the cards by their interest rates and then make the biggest monthly payment on the card with the highest interest rate. For the rest, only make the minimum monthly payment. The process is repeated once the card with the highest rate is paid off. This approach reduces the portion of payments going toward interest. Griffin says some borrowers might be better off funneling the biggest payments to the card with the lowest overall balance. That enables a cardholder to pay off a card entirely more quickly. This can provide a psychological boost and reaffirm that it’s possible to conquer your debt. Remember this: If you used credit cards to take advantage of holiday sales, you may quickly lose any savings because you’re allowing balances to linger. 3. CONSIDER A BALANCE TRANSFER A survey by Consumers Union found that half of the respondents are racking up interest charges by carrying a balance. For those who don’t have a pile of cash that they can draw upon to pay down their debt, the next best option is to lower the interest charges. You can ask your credit

card issuer to do you the favor, but don’t count on it. A more realistic option is to consolidate your card balances into another card with a lower interest rate. Many card issuers extend balance transfer offers, with some providing an introductory period of a year or more to pay off the transferred balances at no interest. However, that’s not set in stone. “Your introductory period is usually forfeited if you miss a payment,” says Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com. Banks also will typically charge a fee of 3 percent to 4 percent on the amount transferred. The average interest rate on balance transfer cards is 12.59 percent, to according CreditCards.com. That’s the rate borrowers can expect to pay after the introductory period on their cards ends. On cards offering a variable interest rate, borrowers can end up having a lower or higher interest rate. Worried about taking on more credit cards? Griffin of Experian says credit scores put less emphasis on the number of accounts borrowers have than on how those accounts are used, namely, if your balances are high relative to the amount of credit you have available. Experts differ on the

wisdom of resorting to other options. “With a credit card, the worst thing that can happen is you default, your credit will go down,” says Garcia. “With a home equity line of credit, that could have implications for your homeownership and your continued relationship with that bank.” 4. MAKE A BUDGET, FOLLOW IT Make a budget of your fixed household expenses, such as your mortgage or rent, utilities, car loan, insurance, and so on. Carve out a realistic amount of money for more variable costs, such as gas, groceries and entertainment. Once you figure out a monthly plan that allows you to pay down your card debt, even if it means scrimping here and there, stick with it. The key to doing that is to remain on top of expenses. Computer and mobile phone apps designed for tracking expenses abound. Your bank likely already has an app that can help you to keep up with charges on your accounts. Some of the most popular apps include Mint.com and Pageonce, which draw data from bank, credit card and other accounts to give users a comprehensive view of their finances and spending. They also help organize and track expenses, sending e-mail alerts

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Advice • Continued from B1 chocolate-covered cherry cordial at the counter at the store. Usually one of something will satisfy you. Or if it’s a special occasion, share a dessert with someone. Balance is key.” — Karen Hunter “Keep a food journal and log what you eat every day. Sometimes you don’t think all the little things which add up. Once you write it all down, you see how fast it adds up, and it makes you more aware of your eating habits.” — Pence “Make it a habit that can stay with you for life. Make it fun and different.” — Erin Brooks, Certified Personal Trainer at La Bella Viaggio. “It is important to reward yourself along the way, and not just for reaching your end result. Some fun rewards I choose are: new tennis shoes, new workout music, or a massage! Keep in mind, rewards shouldn’t be foodrelated, especially if your goal is weight loss.” — Harpest “People get bored with their workout routine, and that’s a big reason people quit. Try something new. We’ve been open for five

when bills are due, among other features. Both are available for iPhones and smartphones running Google’s Android operating system. Garcia suggests one way to remove temptation from ill-advised impulse spending is to open a separate bank account without debit card privileges and have a portion of your paycheck directly deposited there. Then, you use that account to pay down your cards. USE CREDIT, 5. DON’T ABUSE IT The best way to get back on the right financial track is to get in the habit of paying off any charges on cards right away. It helps to reframe one’s understanding of what credit is, Garcia says. “When you use a credit card, you’re tapping into a deficit unless you plan to pay for it rather than a reservoir of savings,” she says. “The person should ask themselves, ‘Can I pay off that balance every month?’ and if I can’t, what’s that going to cost me?” 6. GET HELP Feeling overwhelmed by debt? Counseling agencies approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offer free credit counseling, advice on making a personal budget and dealing with creditors. They can be found on www.hud.gov.

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Certified Personal Trainer Erin Brooks conducts a Spin Boot Camp Tuesday at La Bella Viaggio. www.tammyoga.com. “Keep adding variety and make it fun. We do spinning and incorporate TRX (a resistance exercise which uses suspension bands) in the middle to keep it interesting. You may not like what we do today, but tomorrow will be different.” — Brooks “Find an app like My Fitness Pal or Couch to 5K.

years and I don’t think I’ve witnessed my clients doing the same set of exercises twice.” – Hunter “Find something you love to do and then challenge yourself.” — Tammy Shellhaas, Certified Personal Trainer at Le Bella Viaggio and owner of TammYoga at 16 E. Water St., Troy. For more information, visit

Sign up for one and use it every day.” — Shellhaas “I don’t own a scale. I go by how my clothes fit and how I feel.” — Hunter “Use a before and after picture. I take pictures of my clients during their first fitness assessment and then we take another picture six weeks later. They don’t like seeing themselves in the first picture. But

they like seeing how much they’ve changed and how far they’ve come in the second picture — it’s a good feeling.” — Shellhaas “Clean eating works. There is no magic $50 pill to make you skinny. If so, everybody would buy it. There’s no magic potion. All those powders and stuff are a short-term fix. Leave them be.” — Pence

TROY — Join the TroyHayner Cultural Center for a romantic evening of classic American popular songs. The dinner begins at 6 p.m. followed by the show at 7:30, offered Feb. 15-16. It’s a tuneful Valentine all wrapped-up in a retro radio show hosted by Mark Flanders with special guest Joan Ellison … “brought to you by the makers of Jell-O!” Among the evening’s heart-throb hits are “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “You Made Me Love You,” “Love Is Here to Stay,” and “My Romance,” all served up as they were originally sung and played in the ’40s. Fees for the meal do apply. Limited seating for The Valentine Radio Hour performance-only are available at no cost. Paid reservations are now being accepted. Seating is limited, so the center recommends reservations early. For more information or to make a reservation, call 339-0457 or visit www.TroyHayner.org.

Play Cupid on Valentine’s Day without breaking the bank rious cashmere sweaters, or leather accessories like gloves at up to 80 percent off, Sakraida says. The winter merchandise will be gone if you wait much longer. You can also scoop up holiday candy in the clearance bins, remove the big Christmas bow and redecorate the box with big red hearts instead. Buying now applies to jewelry, too. According to research done by dealnews.com, prices usually tick up for jewelry in the first two weeks of February from January levels. If you can’t buy now, you can try to offset those

price hikes by looking for a coupon from sites like ice.com, Limoges Jewelry and Netaya.com. So start looking now for coupons that can take an extra 15 percent to 30 percent off. Most of the coupons came out in the last week of January a year ago, according to Dealnews.com’s research. SEARCH FOR SPECIAL FINANCING: WalMart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will offer for the first time interest-free financing deals for six, 12 or 18 months on a jewelry purchase made in the store with a Wal-Mart credit card, Feb. 1 through Dec.

31. Kay Jewelers is also offering special financing. USE YOUR SMARTPHONE TO COMPARE PRICES: Sites like thefind.com, a search engine that allows shoppers to get the best prices for over 320 million products from more than 500,000 stores. Thefind.com is now offering a new price match feature, which will let you know which stores are matching their rivals. Thefind’s app lets you scan bar codes in stores and will provide a list of retailers that carry the item, prices, and whether it is eligible for a price match at a specific retailer.

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Hearing loss a possible harbinger of mental decline BY LEE BOWMAN Scripps Howard News Service When the ability to hear fades in older adults, it may well be a signal that declines in memory and thinking ability are not far behind. Several studies have noted that older adults with greater hearing loss were at substantially increased risk for cognitive impairment compared with individuals with normal hearing. The latest findings were published online Jan. 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine, part of a long-term aging study that began in 1997, and involved 1,984 men and women between the ages of 75 and 84 who got their hearing and brain function checked beginning in 2001. Led by Dr. Frank Lin of the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging

and Health in Baltimore, the team did repeated cognition tests over six years. Among those with hearing loss, memory abilities declined some 30-to-40 percent faster than in those for whom hearing was not impaired. Lin said the results underscore how important it is for physicians treating the elderly to address hearing declines. As many as 27 million Americans over 50 — and two-thirds of men and women aged 70 and older — suffer from hearing loss. Only about 15 percent of those who need a hearing aid get one. While Lin’s study is one of the largest and most comprehensive looks at hearing loss and dementia risk, it’s not the first. Dr. George Gates, a hearing specialist at the University of Washington, published results

from a similar trial involving 271 patients in 1996. The fouryear follow-up identified 21 people with Alzheimer’s disease among those who had hearing that made it difficult for them to follow a conversation in a crowded room. Gates says it’s impossible to separate hearing and cognition. We hear with our brains. And other studies have shown that we see with our brain in much the same way. Some scientists think there may be some common, underlying damage in the brain that contributes to both hearing and cognitive problems. Other recent studies indicate that dementia spreads along nerve cells linking different regions of the brain. Curiously enough, a team of Boston researchers recently reported that it succeeded in

restoring some hearing function to deafened mice using an experimental drug first developed for Alzheimer’s disease. Called gamma secretase inhibitors, the product was ineffective against dementia, but helped mice regrow about 20 percent of the hair-like cells that convert sound into electrical signals in the brain. Lin, who has reported on dementia risks for people with milder hearing impairment, says it’s not clear how hearing loss impacts mental function. While there may be some common structures in the brain, he said hearing loss could simply lead to social isolation, which in itself contributes to dementia. In fact, diagnosing Alzheimer’s can be more difficult in people who are hard of hearing, since they may miss ques-

tions or verbal cues during testing. It’s also possible that parts of the brain are overtaxed when people with hearing loss try to compensate in other ways. The researcher said the brain may actually shift resources to help with hearing at the expense of cognition, just as the brain is known to respond to other sensory losses such as sight. Lin’s team is now working on another study that will try to determine if hearing aids and or other interventions can delay cognitive decline among people experiencing hearing loss. More than 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s and related dementias, a number that’s expected to more than double by 2050 if no preventive measures or cures are identified.

Teens reach out to help peers with depression INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At her worst, she felt isolated. Cutting her body was a way to feel alive even though there were days when she wished she were dead. “I believed I was worthless, unloved.” Sarah Wood, 17, hid her inner pain well. So well that the day after she was released from the hospital for the outer, physical pain, a classmate told her she had never looked happier. But it was a best friend someone who had known her since third grade who recognized the warning signs. Audrey Muston, 18, was the one who first sought help for Sarah. That was nearly six years ago. Now the two seniors at Lawrence North High School are weeding through college applications and counting down the days to graduation. Wood’s depression didn’t stem from a traumatic loss. Instead, it just appeared and enveloped her as she entered her teen years. “My family was there for me I have the greatest family in the world,” she told The Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/VluInZ ). “I know they felt guilt that they didn’t recognize

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Sarah Wood, 17, left, and Audrey Muston, 18, are reaching out to help middle school students identify and deal with depression through an awareness program. When Sarah was a freshman, she began talking to students about the struggles she had had with depression, self injury and thoughts of suicide. The Lawrence North High School seniors developed the "A Life Worth Living" depression awareness program for middle school homeroom periods. things, but it was easy to hide it. “Depression is a mental illness. It can hurt anyone.” The memory still burns in the minds of Sarah’s parents, Jim and Karen Wood. “As any parent knows, it is very hard to see your child in pain,” Karen Wood said. “My husband and I were unaware of our

daughter’s pain for months before she started to reach out for help. As soon as we did know, we wanted to fix everything as quickly as possible. We soon realized that we had to go through the pain and depression with her and live through the process of recovery.” A key part of Sarah Wood’s ongoing “recovery”

is through a program she started three years ago with Muston. Together, the two have reached some 3,600 Lawrence Township middle school students struggling with depression, self-injury and thoughts of suicide. Wood was one of five students across the country recently recognized with a

Thursday – Stuffed crust pizza, romaine salad, mixed vegetables, pears, milk. Friday – Country steak sandwich, baked beans, celery, grapes, milk. • COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Monday – Corn dog, green beans, potato smiles, peaches, raisins, milk. Tuesday – Grilled chicken sandwich, sweet fries, broccoli, fruit mix, orange, Goldfish, milk. Wednesday – Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, carrot sticks, applesauce, pineapple, roll, milk. Thursday – Stuffed crust pizza, romaine salad, mixed vegetables, pears, fruit mix, milk. Friday – Country steak sandwich, baked beans, celery, grapes, applesauce cup, milk. • MIAMI EAST SCHOOLS Monday – Hot dog, baked beans, mixed fruit, milk. Tuesday – Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, applesauce, Teddy Grahams, milk. Wednesday – Taco salad with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, Tostito chips and sour cream, peaches, graham cracker, milk. Thursday – Turkey and ham sub, carrot with dip, banana, milk. • NEWTON LOCAL SCHOOLS Monday – Chicken patty on whole grain bun, cosmic

creation potatoes, chocolate pudding, mixed fruit, juice, milk. Tuesday – Beef ravioli, breadstick/cheese stick, carrots, green beans, diced peaches, oranges, (high school: juice), milk. Wednesday – Pita pocket with meat, cheese slice, lettuce and tomatoes, Fritos, diced pears, juice, milk. Thursday – Nachos and cheese with taco meat and refried beans, green beans, pineapple tidbits, apples, (high school: juice), milk. Friday – Stuffed crust pizza, broccoli, corn, applesauce, juice, pretzel twists, milk. • NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL Monday – Chicken patty on whole grain bun, cosmic creation potatoes, chocolate pudding, mixed fruit, juice, milk. Tuesday – Beef ravioli, breadstick/cheese stick, carrots, green beans, diced peaches, oranges, (high school: juice), milk. Wednesday – Pita pocket with meat, cheese slice, lettuce and tomatoes, Fritos, diced pears, juice, milk. Thursday – Nachos and cheese with taco meat and refried beans, green beans, pineapple tidbits, apples, (high school: juice), milk. Friday – Stuffed crust pizza, broccoli, corn, applesauce, juice, pretzel twists, milk.

• PIQUA CITY SCHOOLS K-8 Monday – Chili, fruit, green beans, roll, milk. Tuesday – Sweet and sour chicken with rice, corn, California blend, fruit, milk. Wednesday – Chicken alfredo, fruit, garlic broccoli, milk. Thursday – Tostada, fruit, tossed salad, cookie, milk. Friday — Chicken pot pie, fruit juice, carrots, roll, milk. • PIQUA HIGH SCHOOL Monday — Barbecue pork sandwich, baked beans, vegetable blend, fruit, milk. Tuesday – Sweet and sour chicken with rice green beans, fruit, milk. Wednesday – Chicken alfredo, tossed salad, garlic broccoli, roll, fruit, milk. Thursday – Taco quesadilla, corn, tortilla scoops with salsa, milk. Friday – Grilled chicken sandwich, fresh veggies, sweet potato soufflé, fruit, milk. • PIQUA CATHOLIC Monday – Meatball sub, green beans, choice of fruit, milk. Tuesday – Grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup, crackers, choice of fruit, milk. Wednesday – Cavalier pizza sandwich, sliced carrots, choice of fruit, milk. Thursday – Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, dinner roll, choice of fruit, milk. Friday – Beef and cheese

Power of Children award by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Each recipient was given a $2,000 grant toward his or her work. Recipients included a teen who helped military veterans find jobs and a young woman who helped East Coast schools recover from Hurricane Sandy. Although Wood’s efforts are directed toward middle school students, she’s also helped educate teachers, administrators and parents. “It goes beyond words to say how grateful we are that we still have our daughter and that she is using God-given talents to help others,” Karen Wood said. “We are very proud of Sarah and are confident that her story of finding hope will allow other families to be open with each other when help is needed.” Using the slogan: “Speak out. Get Help. There is Hope,” Wood and Muston produced a video where people of varying ages held up hand-painted signs that read, “We Support You,” ”You are Different” and “You are Loved.” The idea is to illustrate that depression spans all ages.

And for teens, it’s often a taboo subject. When they relate their story, the two friends both stress how it felt to be in Wood’s shoes (the one battling depression) and how important Muston’s role was (to seek help for your friend). “Looking back she didn’t want to do anything like go to the movies,” Muston said. When Wood asked her friend how many pills she would need to kill herself, Muston immediately talked to her parents, expressing her concerns. She then sought the help of a school counselor. “I tried to hide everything,” Wood said, as she talked in a secluded room at Lawrence North and fidgeted with a three-ring binder. On the cover is a message in her handwriting: “Life is Worth Living.” She acknowledges there is “a lot of stigma” about mental illness. But she’s quick to point out that one of the challenges is that the people who survive the pain often don’t talk about it. That’s where she’s different. “I look back, and I’m thankful I went through it. I see it as a blessing, because it’s shaped who I am.”.”

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Feasts, flowers for Lunar New Year Las Vegas celebrates Year of the Snake LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas is getting ready for the year of the snake. The casino capital celebrates Chinese New Year also known as lunar new year in a big way, with feasts, exhibits, performances and other events at outdoor festivals and at casino-resorts like Bellagio and The Venetian. While the new year holiday falls on Feb. 10, some of the offerings are under way already and will continue through much of February. Las Vegas also hosts a three-day Chinese New Year in the Desert festival downtown, Feb. 8-10, and a oneday event in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 17. Asians and Asian-Americans are an important and growing demographic in Las Vegas, in terms of both residential population and tourism. More than 6 percent of the 589,000 people who live in Las Vegas are Asian, according U.S. Census estimates. About 3 percent of the city’s 39 million annual visitors totaling over a million people a year are Asian or Asian-American, according to the 2011 Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study. International tourists include 188,000 annual airport arrivals from China, 132,000 from Korea and 107,000 from Japan, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, with even more flying into California airports and heading to Las Vegas by bus or car. While Asian tourists visit Las Vegas throughout the year, the period surrounding the lunar new year holiday is a particularly popular time for leisure travel, especially among China’s growing middle class. “They want to leave their homes and go travel during holidays,” said Jan-Ie Low, who is helping to organize the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fremont Street Experience. She said that according to tradition, if you travel during the new year holiday, “it’s a sign that you’re going to be doing this the whole year.” This is the second year for the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival. Cultural performances are scheduled for the Third Street Stage on Feb. 8 from 5 p.m.-10 p.m., and on Feb. 9 and 10, noon to 9 p.m. A dragon dance Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. will kick off with virtual fireworks on the 90-foot-high (27- meter) LED display canopy at Fremont Street Experience, the downtown pedestrian mall and entertainment area. A parade with floats steps off at 8 a.m. on Feb. 10. The festival also includes food vendors and other activities and events. Las Vegas’ Chinatown is not

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The Chinese New Year floral display at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas welcomes the year of the snake. The display includes a money tree decorated with gold coins, red lanterns, a 9-foot snake, a waterfall and wooden boat. It’s one of a number of exhibits and events around Las Vegas marking the year of the snake, which begins on Feb. 10. a historically ethnic residential neighborhood like Chinatowns in New York or San Francisco. But it is a commercial area worth visiting for Asian restaurants and businesses, located along Spring Mountain Road west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Chinatown Year of the Snake festival takes place Feb. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., with cuisine from around Asia, arts and crafts, and performances drawing on a variety of traditions, including Chinese lion and dragon dances, martial arts, Japanese taiko drummers and Polynesian dance. Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens annual floral display welcoming the lunar new year is up through March 3. The display, incorporating principles of the Asian design philosophy feng shui, includes large hanging red lanterns, an 18-foottall (5.5-meter) money tree decorated with gold coins, a 9-foot (3meter) blue-and-yellow snake, a waterfall, incense pots, and a wooden boat with a 38-foot (11.5-meter) mast in a pond of koi fish inspired by 15th century Chinese fishing vessels. Also on display are figures of six children wearing outfits made from hundreds of colorful carnations and chrysanthemums. Bellagio will host a dragon and lion dance on Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m., and a $500 per person new year dinner is being offered at Bellagio’s Tuscany Kitchen, prepared by the culinary team from Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, recreating dishes that have been served there to visiting dignitaries. The waterfall atrium connecting The Venetian and Palazzo resorts hosts an art installation featuring a 98-foot-long (30 meters) animatronic snake

IF YOU GO … • LAS VEGAS TOURISM: http://www.lasvegas.com • CHINESE NEW YEAR IN THE DESERT: Feb. 8-10, Las Vegas, http://www.cnyinthedesert.com . • LAS VEGAS CHINATOWN: http://www.lvchinatown.com/ • BELLAGIO CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDENS: http://www.bellagio.com/attractions/botanical-garden.aspx . Earthcam view of Chinese New Year display: http://www.earthcam.com/client/bellagio/

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A Chinese New Year art installation welcomes the year of the snake in the waterfall atrium connecting The Venetian and The Palazzo resorts in Las Vegas. The display features an animatronic snake coiled in a tree decorated with flowers, lanterns and coins. named Sophie Chow coiled throughout a massive peach tree decorated with flowers, lanterns and coins, on display through Feb. 25. On Feb. 9, drummers and firecrackers will launch a

dragon dance at 3:30 p.m. through The Venetian lobby, casino and atrium, ending at the Palazzo. On Feb. 10 at 1 p.m., at The Shoppes at The Palazzo’s Chloe rotunda, a traditional

Chinese fan dance will be followed by distribution of 500 red envelopes with gift cards, chocolate coins and other surprises. Special menus for the new year around Las Vegas include a $28.88 dinner (eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture) at Monte Carlo’s Dragon Noodle Co. & Sushi Bar; a Chinesethemed four-course prix fixe at Fleur by Hubert Keller at Mandalay Bay; a four-course prix fixe at Rice & Company at Luxor Hotel and Casino; and a “China Poblano” menu by chef Jose Andres at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Other events and special offerings in Las Vegas marking year of the dragon include themed treatments at Mandarin Oriental’s Forbes Five-Star spa; a parade through the MGM Grand Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. by the Cirque du Soleil dance troupe; a dragon dance visiting retailers at ARIA and Crystals at CityCenter, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 11; and a dragon and lion dance at 6 p.m. Feb. 12 at Wynn Las Vegas.

African-American tradition returns to Carnival NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The “baby dolls,” an onagain, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans’ African-American community, are on again. The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters, and skimpy or short, ruffled dresses on Fat Tuesday also are being spotlighted in a new book and museum exhibit that trace their history and modern rebirth. When the predominantly African-American Zulu krewe hits the streets on Fat Tuesday Feb. 12 its marchers will include the Baby Doll Ladies, a troupe formed after Hurricane Katrina. They play tambourines and cowbells to accompany their dance, a hip-hop style called bounce. Though Mardi Gras celebrations date from the city’s

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This 2010 photo provided by Jeffry Dupuis shows the Baby Doll Ladies performing in the Zulu krewe parade at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The tradition had died out, but is seeing a modern revival. French founding in 1718, historians say the baby doll tradition started in 1912 when black prostitutes who worked just outside the legal

red-light district called Storyville dressed up on Mardi Gras to outdo their legal rivals. Storyville was closed in

1917, but the baby doll costumes caught on and survived for decades in AfricanAmerican neighborhoods. In the years of segregation, blacks celebrated Carnival in their neighborhoods with informal parades of the brightly feathered and beaded Mardi Gras Indians, picnics and parties centered around the floats of the Zulu parade and costume traditions such as the baby dolls. The end of segregation in the 1950s and ’60s and new economic opportunities brought new avenues for African-Americans to participate in Mardi Gras. Debutante presentations at gala balls and more traditional float parades sprung up. And the revival of Lundi Gras celebrations the day before Mardi Gras brought together the monarch of the predominantly white Rex

krewe to meet with the king of Zulu to toast the coming festival. As times changed, the baby doll tradition faded. But not everyone forgot the dolls, or what they meant to Carnival in New Orleans. One new group the 504 Eloquent Baby Dolls of New Orleans, named in part for a telephone area code will march with a tribe of Mardi Gras Indians and the Skull and Bones club, maskers clad as skeletons in another revived black tradition. “I’ve got a wonderful group of women who want to educate our youth, who want to bring our culture back to the streets of New Orleans,” said Denise Trepagnier, a heavy crane operator and part-time seamstress who organized the group.

Around New Orleans neighborhoods, you might catch a glimpse of other baby doll troupes with names like the Gold Digger Baby Dolls, the Treme Million Dollar Baby Dolls and the Ernie KDoe Baby Dolls. Trepagnier is planning a route for her group. But, unlike the float parades, many baby dolls go where the mood takes them. Like Trepagnier, dancer and choreographer Millisia White had education as a goal when her New Orleans Society of Dance began performing as the Baby Doll Ladies in 2009. She said she first saw baby dolls as a child in the 1980s. “That was my first glance of a woman out in the street, expressing herself independent of the men. That was exciting to me,” she said.

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Five great movies about deception LOS ANGELES (AP) — When scandalous tales of fraud involving superstar athletes Lance Armstrong and Manti Te’o were exposed in the last week, connections to films were immediate and obvious. The story of Notre Dame Football hero Te’o falling for a fake dead girlfriend on the Internet called to mind the documentary “Catfish.” And disgraced cyclist Armstrong, who has finally admitted to doping in winning the Tour de France a record seven times, is already the subject of a biopic that’s in the works. It’s a huge topic that’s been explored in myriad ways on screen, and you’d probably come up with five entirely different choices, but here are my picks for five great movies about deception: • “Vertigo” (1958): Speaking of fake dead women. … One of Alfred Hitchock’s best, it also feels incredibly personal stylish and frightening, of course but also achingly sad. Yes, Jimmy Stewart is being manipulated, being duped into serving as part of a murder plot. And he’s foolish enough to let himself fall in love with Kim Novak’s doomed, quintessentially icy Hitchcockian blonde not once, but twice. But he’s also deceiving himself, allowing his need for love to feed his obsessive quest to recreate that sensation all over again. Much is made of some of the film’s most famous images — the push/pull effect as Stewart’s character fights off his vertigo in the bell tower, the eerie, neon-green haze of the hotel room. But at its core, “Vertigo” is about needing

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In this 1959 file photo provided by United Artists, Tony Curtis, left, and Marilyn Monroe are shown in the hilarious, milestone comedy “Some Like It Hot,” produced, directed and co-scripted by Billy Wilder. director Bryan Singer on the map and it won both of the Oscars for which it was nominated: for Christopher McQuarrie’s clever and complex original screenplay and for Kevin Spacey’s chilling supporting turn as the chatty (and unreliable) witness Verbal Kint. • “Infernal Affairs” (2002): A loyal young member of the mob infiltrates the police force and an undercover cop works his way deep within the mafia. Years later, each man must sniff out the mole in the other’s organization each man must find the other. Sound AP PHOTO/PARAMOUNT PICTURES, FILE This undated film image released by Paramount shows, Jimmy Stewart, left, and familiar? That’s because this hugely suspenseful Kim Novak, in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film “Vertigo.” Hong Kong thriller was the basis for “The • “The Usual Daphne and join Sweet to feel secure and loved. Departed,” the 2006 film Suspects” (1995): The • “Some Like It Hot” Sue’s All-Girl Orchestra, that finally earned Martin movie itself is one big lie (1959): Named the great- where they befriend sexy Scorsese his long-overdue — a seemingly simple singer Sugar Kane est comedy of all time by caper mystery that grows Academy Award for best Kowalczyk, played by the American Film director (along with prizes enormously complicated Institute, the Billy Wilder Marilyn Monroe in one of for best picture, adapted her most Marliynish roles with layer upon layer of classic is also predicated twists and tricks. I am not screenplay and editing). on one big, wacky lie. Tony ever. The laughs come from how utterly unbeliev- even going to begin to try The lies and cover stories Curtis and Jack Lemmon must remain airtight, to explain the plot — if able these men are as pretend to be women to escape the clutches of mob women, but also from how you’ve seen it, you know it, even as crises of identity and purpose begin to and if you haven’t, you thugs after they witness a they try to maintain this should. And then you, too, creep into the characters’ elaborate ruse as both massacre. Musicians Joe consciousness. Andy Lau can say out loud, “Aha!” their emotions and their and Jerry change their and Tony Leung are both enemies close in on them. It’s the movie that put names to Josephine and

great as two sides of the same coin who must tap into their resourcefulness as the danger of being exposed increases. • “Compliance:” This movie made me so angry while I was watching it. How could anybody be so stupid? How could anybody be tricked into falling for such outlandish manipulation? But that’s where the power comes from in writer-director Craig Zobel’s startling film with its understated performances: This did happen, over and over, across the country. He’s just exposing an element of human nature we’d rather suppress. A prank phone caller pretending to be a police officer (Pat Healy) tells the middle-aged manager of a fast-food restaurant (Ann Dowd) that a young, pretty employee (Dreama Walker) has stolen money from a customer, and leads her though a series of increasingly invasive, degrading investigative steps. Everyone goes along with this charade, no one thinks to question it and all you can do is sit in your seat and watch, and squirm.

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‘Parker’ seems rather perfunctory

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“Parker” plays like the bloodiest promotional video ever made for Palm Beach tourism. Stabbings, explosions and furnituresmashing brawls occur at some of the ritziest (and name-checked) locations within the sun-splashed, pastel-soaked slab of Florida opulence. Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the idea of The Breakers. The city is the setting for an elaborate, $50 million jewel heist as well as some revenge doled out with the usual machinelike efficiency by Jason Statham. As the title character, the anti-hero of many of the novels by Richard Stark (the pseudonym of the late Donald E. Westlake), Statham is stepping into a well-known persona. But he’s not exactly pushing himself outside his comfort zone; he’s on auto-pilot here, despite the obvious physical demands of the part. Parker is the kind of thief who lives by a civilized, self-imposed code one he expects others to adhere to, as well. But this is the same character Statham always plays: quietly cool, dryly British, powerfully lethal. Director Taylor Hackford’s rather perfunctory action film is actually more compelling before it even gets to Palm Beach, as Parker makes his way from Ohio to Texas to New Orleans before reaching

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This film publicity image released by FilmDistrict shows Jason Statham in a scene from “Parker.” his final destination. This is where the character’s resourcefulness comes in handy, as he goes from one stolen car and one cheap motel room to the next, navigating sundry lowlifes in between. Parker has been double-crossed by his partners (including Michael Chiklis and Wendell Pierce) on a daring robbery of the Ohio State Fair. Although these guys have serious mob connections, he seeks his revenge by tailing them to their next job: hitting the auction of some major jewels that belonged to a late

Palm Beach society maven. Jennifer Lopez co-stars as local real estate agent Leslie Rodgers, who’s been struggling financially and emotionally since her divorce. When Parker pretends to be a rich Texan looking for a vacation home (complete with a big ol’ cowboy hat and an obviously fake drawl), Leslie shows him around and hopes for a hefty commission. But once she starts snooping into her intriguing new client’s background, she learns too much and wants a

piece of the action. Lopez gets a couple of amusing lines, and theoretically is here to provide some comic relief as the wide-eyed fish out of water. (An underused Patti LuPone classes things up a bit as her sassy Latina mama.) But playing weak and girlish isn’t exactly Lopez’ strong suit, and she never functions as a potential romantic interest for Parker because it’s been well-established that he’s in love with Claire (Emma Booth), the daughter of his grizzled mentor (Nick

Nolte), who is well aware of the dangers of the life he’s chosen and sticks by him nonetheless. So basically, we’re just here to ogle J.Lo’s worldfamous derriere as she turns around slowly in a polka-dotted bra and panty set. It is also a popular tourist destination. “Parker,” a FilmDistrict release, is rated R for strong violence, language throughout and brief sexual content/nudity. Running time: 118 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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White, Underwood, Lumineers join Grammy lineup SCHEDULE SUNDAY 1/27 ONLY

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy nominees Jack White, Carrie Underwood and the Lumineers will hit the Grammys stage next month. The Recording Academy announced

Thursday that those acts will join previously announced performers including fun., The Black Keys and Taylor Swift at the Feb. 10 awards show in Los Angeles. White is nominated for

album of the year and the Lumineers are up for best new artist. U.K. newcomer Ed Sheeran and Elton John will perform together. Sheeran’s “The A Team” is nominated for song of the

year. Country singers Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley will also join forces onstage. The Black Keys, Rihanna and Mumford & Sons are also set to per-

form. Frank Ocean, Jay-Z, fun., Kanye West, Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and Mumford & Sons lead with six nominations each.

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DATES TO REMEMBER TODAY • DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixth-grade. • AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open. • AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. • AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. • AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. • Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion . • Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville. • Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy. • Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons. Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building. For more information, call 667-1069, Ext. 21. • A Spin-In group, practicing the art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 6675358. • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

MONDAY • Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. • An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • An evening grief support group meets the second and fourth Monday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any grieving adult in the greater Miami County area and there is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit the website at homc.org. • AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The discussion is open to the public. • AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy. • AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). • AA, West Milton open discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible. • Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. • Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. • Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 3396761 for more information. • Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion. • Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion. • Public bingo, license No. 010528, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m. Instant tickets also will be available. • Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available. Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959. • DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 335-8397. • Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

339-6761. • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. School-age children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy. There is no charge for this program. More information is available by calling 339-6761. • Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 2526766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www.region5oa.org. • Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. • A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from 5:306:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 6692441. • Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104. Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance. Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 667-4678 for more information. • Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200. A 12-week video series using WEDNESDAY Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and TUESDAY Dr. John Townsend. Offers practical • Skyview Wesleyan Church, help and encouragement to all who • Deep water aerobics will be 6995 Peters Road, Tipp City, will a healthy, balanced life and seek offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible practice in being able to say no. For Community Center, 110 Ash St., study will begin at 7 p.m. more information, call Linda Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcc• An arthritis aquatic class will troy.com for more information and be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Richards at 667-4678. • The Troy Lions Club will meet programs. Lincoln Community Center, Troy. at 7 p.m. the second and fourth • Hospice of Miami County Call 335-2715 or visit “Growing Through Grief” meetings www.lcctroy.com for more informa- Wednesday at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. For more informaare at 11 a.m. on the first, third and tion and programs. fifth Tuesdays of each month, and 7 • The “Sit and Knit” group meets tion, call 335-1923. • A free employment networking p.m. the second and fourth from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at will be offered from 8-9 a.m. group Tuesdays and are designed to pro- Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers each Wednesday at Job and Family vide a safe and supportive environ- Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All Services, 2040 N. County Road 25ment for the expression of thoughts knitters are invited to attend. For A, Troy. The group will offer tools to and feelings associated with the more information, call 667-5358. tap into unadvertised jobs, assisgrief process. All sessions are avail• Grandma’s Kitchen, a hometance to improve personal presenable to the community and at the cooked meal prepared by voluntation skills and resume writing. For Hospice Generations of Life Center, teers, is offered every Wednesday 550 Summit Ave., second floor, Troy, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the activity cen- more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at with light refreshments provided. No ter of Hoffman United Methodist 440-3465. reservations are required. For more Church, 201 S. Main St., West information, call Susan Cottrell at Milton, one block west of State THURSDAY Hospice of Miami County, 335Route 48. The meal, which includes 5191. a main course, salad, dessert and • The Upper Valley Medical • A daytime grief support group drink, for a suggested donation of meets on the first, third and fifth $6 per person, or $3 for a children’s Center Mom and Baby Get Together group will meet from 9:30Tuesdays at 11 a.m. at the meal. The meal is not provided on 11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm Generations of Life Center,, second the weeks of Thanksgiving, House, located northwest of the floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The Christmas or New Year’s. main hospital entrance and next to support group is open to any griev• The Kiwanis Club will meet at the red barn on the UVMC campus. ing adults in the greater Miami noon at the Troy Country Club, County area and there is no partici- 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-mem- The meeting is facilitated by the pation fee. Sessions are facilitated bers of Kiwanis are invited to come lactation department. The group offers the opportunity to meet with by trained bereavement staff. Call meet friends and have lunch. For other moms, share about being a 573-2100 for details or visit the more information, contact Bobby new mother and to learn more website at homc.org. Phillips, vice president, at 335about breastfeeding and the baby. • Quilting and crafts is offered 6989. from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday • The Troy American Legion Post For more information, call (937) 440-4906. at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First No. 43 euchre parties will begin at • Deep water aerobics will be St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for 7:30 p.m. For more information, call offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln more information. 339-1564. Community Center, 110 Ash St., • The Miami Shelby Chapter of • AA, Pioneer Group open disthe Barbershop Harmony Society cussion will meet at 9:30 a.m. Enter Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene down the basement steps on the Street United Methodist Church, north side of The United Church Of programs. • The Generations of Life Center 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men Christ on North Pearl Street in interested in singing are welcome Covington. The group also meets at of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local and visitors always are welcome. 8:30 p.m. Monday night and is restaurants on the second For more information, call 778-1586 wheelchair accessible. or visit the group’s Web site at • AA, Serenity Island Group will Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Locations vary, so interested www.melodymenchorus.org. meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster • Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash parties can call the office at 5732100 for details. This is a social Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The event for grieving adults who do not Troy. Video/small group class discussion is open. designed to help separated or • AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu. divorced people. For more informa- for closed discussion, Step and • An open parent-support group tion, call 335-8814. Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step • AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy. p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Parents are invited to attend Room. • AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., • AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent supp.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, port group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Piqua. Use the alley entrance, discussion. • AA, The Best Is Yet To Come upstairs. • Tipp City Seniors gather to Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 • Al-Anon, Trinity Group will play cards prior to lunch every Step Room at Trinity Episcopal meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Thursday at 10 a.m. at 320 S. First Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, St., Tipp City. At noon will be a The discussion is open. 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion carry-in lunch and participants • Men’s Anger/Rage Group will Lutheran Church, Main and Third should bring a covered dish and meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 table service. On the third discussion (participants must have E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues Thursday, Senior Independence a desire to stop drinking). addressed are physical, verbal and offers blood pressure and blood • Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney sugar testing before lunch. For emotional violence toward family Group, Presbyterian Church, corner members and other persons, how more information, call 667-8865. North and Miami streets, Sidney. • Best is Yet to Come open AA to express feelings, how to commu• AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal nicate instead of confronting and the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. how to act nonviolently with stress Troy. Open discussion. • AA, Tri-City Group meeting will and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for • An Intermediate Pilates class take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the more information. will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. cafeteria of the former Dettmer • A Domestic Violence Support at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For Group for Women will meet from Hospital. The lead meeting is open. more information, call Tipp-Monroe 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse For more information, call 335Community Services at 667-8631 9079. Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. or Celeste at 669-2441. • AA, Spirituality Group will meet Franklin St., Troy. Support for bat• Women’s Anger/Rage Group at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian tered women who want to break will meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at free from partner violence is Church, Troy. The discussion is the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami offered. There is no charge for the open. County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. • Health Partners Free Clinic will program. For more information, call

• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. New members welcome. For more information, call 335-9721. • Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401. • Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. • Parenting Education Groups will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and age-appropriate ways to parent children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program. • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door. • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public. Must currently be in therapy. For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 • Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

offer a free clinic on Thursday night at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer patients to other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 3320894 for more information. • Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. • Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

FRIDAY • An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • A “Late Night Knit” meeting will be from 7-10 p.m. on the first and third Friday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. • AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. The discussion is open. • AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 South Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym. • Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Open discussion. Fellowship from 7-8 p.m. • A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 910 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 6672441. • Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6. For more information, call 640-3015 or visit www.groupia.org. • Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday. Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants may bring instruments and join in. A small donation is requested at the door. For more information or directions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624.

SATURDAY • Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings are offered at 8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City. • AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Road and State Route 41. The meeting is closed (members must have a desire to stop drinking). • AA, Troy Winners Group will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy for discussion. The meeting is open. • AA, Troy Beginners Group meets at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting. • Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m. • Pilates for Beginners (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney. • Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25A. • The Next Step, a worship celebration for people on the road to recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • Yoga classes will be offered from 10-11 a.m. at the First United Church of Christ, Troy. The public is invited. • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

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Crais’ ‘Suspect’ full of action BY BRUCE DESILVA AP Book Reviewer “Suspect” (Putnam), by Robert Crais: Los Angeles police officer Scott James and his partner, Stephanie Anders, were searching for an all-night noodle house late one night when they ran straight into a gun battle. Five masked men were raking a Bentley with automatic weapons, cutting the occupants to pieces. The officers jumped from their patrol car to intervene, but when the shooting was over, Stephanie lay dead in the street, and Scott was badly wounded. On the other side of the world, Maggie, an 85pound German shepherd trained to sniff out explosives, went on alert as an old man approached her Marine patrol. Before the dog and her handler could stop him, the man detonated a bomb he’d concealed beneath his clothing. As Maggie stood guard over her dying master, terrorists shot her. Months later, Scott and Maggie, both hobbling from their wounds and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (yes, dogs get it, too), are united as a new team in the Los Angeles police department’s K-9 platoon. Defying their orders, they set out together to solve Stephanie’s unsolved murder. Crais, one of the masters of modern crime fiction, unwinds his plot slowly at first, devoting the first half of the book to developing the relationship between the two damaged but determined partners. But in the second half, the suspense is high and the pace blistering, culminating in an action scene as hot as anything in a “Lethal Weapon” movie. Still, the best part of the book is the interaction between Scott and Maggie as they struggle to overcome PTSD; learn to trust, love and rely on one another; and discover that each offers the other the best chance for a new start in life. Maggie is a strong character in her own right, with Crais even writing several chapters from her point of view. “She had ranged ahead to protect him, but now her heart soared when Scott entered the room. They were a pack. A pack of two, they were one.” This risky device would be a disaster in a lesser writer’s hands, but Crais, who did a lot of research about doggie behavior and psychology, pulls it off brilliantly. The result is a story that is action-packed, deeply touching and sure to be one of the best-written and most original crime novels of the year. Bruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, is the author of “Cliff Walk” and “Rogue Island.”

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Reader sues Armstrong over denial in books SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An aide to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was so taken by Lance Armstrong’s first memoir of battling back from cancer to win the Tour de France multiple times that he immediately read it “cover to cover” and recommended it to several friends. Now he wants his money back and then some. Rob Stutzman and several others who bought Armstrong’s “It’s Not About The Bike” and “Every Second Counts”

have filed a lawsuit in Sacramento federal court. It alleges Armstrong duped them into believing the books were inspirational true accounts of the cyclist’s accomplishments done without performance-enhancing drugs. The lawsuit accuses Armstrong and the books’ publishers of committing fraud, false advertising and other wrongdoing for publishing the cyclist’s vehement denials that he wasn’t a cheat. Armstrong admitted to cheating throughout his career in a televised inter-

view last week. His lawyer Tim Herman didn’t immediately respond to inquiries for comment Thursday. The lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of all readers who felt misled by Armstrong’s denials of drug use in “It’s Not About The Bike,” published in 2000, and “Every Second Counts,” published three years later. “Although Stutzman does not buy or read many books, he found Armstrong’s book incredibly compelling and recommended the book to sever-

al friends,” the lawsuit stated. The lawsuit filed Tuesday says Stutzman met Armstrong when the cyclist visited with Schwarzenegger. “At that time, Stutzman thanked Defendant Armstrong for writing his book and told him it was very inspiring and that he had recommended it to friends who were fighting cancer,” the suit says. “In response, Armstrong thanked Stutzman.” At least two authors have faced similar law-

suits when their supposed works of nonfiction were alleged to contain fabrications. James Frey, author of “A Million Little Pieces,” and his publisher settled a class-action lawsuit in 2006 alleging he made up parts of his best-selling memoir by offering to refund the cost of the book. In April, a federal judge in Montana tossed out a lawsuit alleging fraud filed against “Three Cups of Tea” author Greg Mortenson as imprecise, flimsy and speculative.

BOOK REVIEW

Chevalier’s latest novel ‘Last Runaway’ disappoints BY KIM CURTIS AP Book Reviewer

Railroad during the mid1800s. Heroine Honor Bright “The Last Runaway” leaves England for (Dutton), by Tracy America, settles in Ohio Chevalier: Tracy and becomes intimately Chevalier’s “Girl With a involved in the movement Pearl Earring,” which helping runaway slaves brought Dutch painter reach freedom. Sounds Johannes Vermeer to life, great, right? But despite has become a near-classic this compelling fictional in contemporary historical backdrop, Chevalier’s stofiction. And her latest rytelling just doesn’t do it novel, “The Last Runaway,” justice. takes on similarly fascinatBright, despite her ing and little-known subname, is anything but. Her ject matter — the Quakers’ character is flat and dull and spends much of her role in the Underground

time longing for home, harshly judging her new American friends and family and talking about how she really shouldn’t be complaining about it. This criticism seems all the more confusing when we learn that Chevalier intended her latest novel as her “love letter home.” (She’s made her home in England for nearly 30 years.) The rest of the characters are similarly unsympathetic and undeveloped. And the quilting.

Clearly, the discussion of quilting the patterns, the styles, the methods is intended as a motif to carry the reader seamlessly through the story. Instead, it feels obvious, annoying and overdone. That said, it’s a quick read as Chevalier’s writing is solid and compelling. “The Last Runaway” remains a page turner as readers are anxiously waiting for something to hapAP PHOTO/DUTTON This book cover image pen. But when things do shows “The Last Run happen, the action seems away,” by Tracy Chevalier. trite and well-trodden.

BESTSELLERS FICTION 1. “A Memory of Light” by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (TorBooks) 2. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 3. “Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the

Radioactive Robo-Boxers” by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic) 4. “The Fifth Assassin” by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing) 5. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishing Group) 6. “Tenth of December” by George Saunders (Random House) 7. “The Husband List” by Janet

2. “Jesus Calling: Enjoy Peace Evanovich, Dorien Kelly (St. Martin’s in His Presence” by Sarah Young Press) 8. “The Third Bullet” by Stephen (Thomas Nelson Publishers) 3. “Killing Kennedy” by Bill Hunter (Simon & Schuster) O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt and Co.) NONFICTION 4. “My Beloved World” by Sonia 1. “Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes” by Sotomayor (Knopf) 5. “Eat More of What You Love” Ian K. Smith (St. Martin’s Press)

by Marlene Koch (Running Press Book Publishers) 6. “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.) 7. “I Declare” by Joel Osteen (Faith Words) 8. “StrengthsFinder 2.0” by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

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Peek, Bartley exchange wedding vows

Studebakers wed for 70 years

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Carmen Suzanne Peek and Greg Alexander Bartley, both of Alexandria, Va., were united in marriage on Nov. 4, 2012, outdoors at Homewood in Asheville, N.C., with Chris Deaton officiating. The bride is the daughter of John Peek and Donna Peek, formerly of Asheville, N.C., now living in Alexandria, Va. Robin and Rusty Bartley of Troy are parents of the groom. The bride was given in marriage by her father. Maralee Peek, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Meghan Bartley, sister of the groom, Kerry Sparrow, Natalie Ernst and Allison Gee. Best man was Ian Edington, friend of the groom. Groomsmen were Matt Horvath, Kevin Albertson, Ryan Miller and Brian Smith. Ushers were Chris Weisel and Quinn Morris. The bride is a graduate of East Henderson High School, holds a bachelor of science degree in English education from North Carolina University, a master of education degree from Wake Forest University and is an English teacher at Annandale High School, Annandale, Va. The groom is a 2002 graduate of Troy

TROY — Paul and Margaret (Grove) Studebaker of Troy will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Feb. 25, 2013. They were married Feb. 25, 1943, in Troy, with the Rev. Hook officiating. They have two daughters, Linda (Steve) Shinkle of Tipp City and Kathie (Robert) Yancey of Troy; three grandaughters; one grandson; two great-grandsons; and one great-grandaughter. Twin great-grandsons are deceased. He is retired from A.O. Smith Corp. She is retired from Troy City Schools. In addition to their anniversary, Paul will cel-

High School, has a bachelor of science degree in English education from Miami University and a master of education degree from Wake Forest University. He is an English teacher at Robert E Lee High School, Alexandria, Va. A reception followed at Homewood in Asheville, N.C. The couple honeymooned in Naples, Fla.

ENGAGEMENT

Brandenburg, Hiegel set Aug. 31 wedding date TROY — The engagement of Michelle Nicole Brandenburg and Joseph Tyler Hiegel, both of Casstown, is announced by her parents, Robert E. Brandenburg and Bonnie K. Brandenburg of Troy. Robert J. Hiegel and Connie R. Hiegel of Casstown are parents of the groom-to-be. The bride-elect is a graduate of Tippecanoe High School, and attends Wright State University studying to be an education/intervention specialist. She is managing cosmetologist at Market St. Hair Co. in Troy. Her fiance is a graduate of Miami

East High School. He is a grain handler at Troy Grain Elevetor-Division of Mennel Milling in Troy. They have set an Aug. 31, 2013, wedding date.

PUBLIC RECORDS: MARRIAGE LICENSES

Carnes celebrate 60 years TROY — Bishop Donald and Shirley Carnes of Troy celebrated 60 years of marriage on Jan. 24, 2013. They were married Jan. 24, 1953, in Troy. They retired in 1998 from the pastorship of the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, Troy, after 36 years of service. The Carnes were blessed with nine children, Crystal, Cameron, Roxane (Mark) Kenner, Dan (Thiel), Jenifer (Benny) Michael, Jack (Andrea), John (Lisa), the Rev. Charles (Rose Mary) and Rebecca (Keith) Harrison; 32 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. The family, church and friends will host a small

dermatologists, Dr. Julian Trevino, we can provide specialized care to meet the unique dermatological needs of children and adolescents. Dr. Trevino is now seeing child and adult dermatology patients in Troy.

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dinner for the Carnes at 2:30 p.m. today, Jan. 27, in the fellowship hall of the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, 1628 N. County Road 25-A, Troy, following the Sunday service.

Couples celebrating anniversaries, weddings or engagements wishing to have their announcements in the Troy Daily News may pick up information forms at the newspaper office, 224 S. Market St., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Troy Daily News announcement forms must be filled out completely in order to be published. Information also may be sent by e-mail to tdneditorial@civitas media.com (subject line: engagement, wedding, etc.) or filled out on the form provided at www. troydailynews.com. A glossy blackand-white or good quality color photo is requested. The Troy Daily News reserves the right to judge whether photo quality is acceptable for reproduction. Couples celebrating anniversaries may submit a wedding photo and a recent photo for publication. Photos may be picked up at the newspaper office after they are used or returned by mail if they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Six ways to put those unwanted gift cards to use

NEW YORK (AP) — Gift cards are easily forRobert Laverne Swartz Ryan David Perry, 27, of 43, of 124 Gordon St., gotten. III, 29, of 416 1/2 N. Piqua, to Holl Rochelle 5295 David Drive, Tipp All too often they’re Merzke, 20, of 805 S. Main College St., Piqua, to City, to Sarah Elizabeth placed in drawers or Allena Marie Walker, 22, of stuffed into wallets, never St., Piqua. Scherer, 30, of same Landon Douglas Good, same address. address. to be seen again. Some Curt David Jones, 24, of $1.7 billion of the $110 Larry Moore, 60, of 119 24, of 760 Bridgeport Ave. billion gift cards bought 1501 Echo Lake Drive, No. 204, Streetsboro, to Lumber St., Pitsburg, to in 2012 will go unused, Piqua, to Sarah Lynn Molly Lynn Grise, 24, of Julie Janelle Benning, 29, according to estimates of 515 E. Franklin St., Troy. 1538 East U.S. State Route Salyer, 23, of 4311 from research company Versailles Road, Piqua. 36, Piqua. Sean Michael Pogue, Joshua T. Wainscott, 22, CEB TowerGroup. John Michael Ortze, 39, 23, of 1763 Paradise Trail, If you’re not happy of 7210 S. Tipp Cowlesville of 303 Drury Lane, Troy, to Troy, to Cara Melissa about the store your gift Kristen Michelle Walter, 21, Road, Tipp City, to Edith Jackson, 22, of 550 of 2803 Wagon Wheel Way, card is from, don’t let the Renee Ortez, 36, of same Brookwood Drive, Troy. money go to waste. You Troy. James Edward Dotson, address. have options, such as trading it in for cash or airline miles. But the first step to take when you get a gift is to register it on the company’s website, says Scott Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com. Registration creates a record of how much money is on the card and will protect you in case you lose the card. Many companies, including coffee chain Starbucks, offer gift card registration. Just check the card provider’s website to see if it’s offered. Mobile apps can also help you keep track of your cards. The Gyft app, will even alert you if you are near a store that you have a card for. It stores Wright State Physicians dermatologists are uniquely trained to examine both electronic and plasand treat thousands of conditions—from the child with eczema to the tic gift cards. teenager with acne to the baby boomer with sun-damaged skin. Here are six ways to put a gift card to use: Our board-certified dermatologists teach the next generation of doctors, 1. TURN IT INTO so you can be sure they are current in the latest advances in quality care CASH and treatments. If you have an unwanted gift card, websites like And with one of the region’s only board-certified pediatric PlasticJungle.com,

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ebrate his 90th birthday on Feb. 27. The couple will celebrate with family. They would welcome cards at their home, 1609 Peters Ave., Troy OH 45373.

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GiftCards.com and CardPool.com will pay you up to 92 percent of the card’s value, depending on how easy it is to resell. For a $100 Target gift card, all three are paying $92. Depending on the store the gift card is for, you may have to mail the plastic card in, but in many cases just typing in the card number works. You’re then paid through PayPal or by check. You need to have at least a $25 balance on the card to sell it on PlasticJungle.com and CardPool.com and $20 to sell it on GiftCards.com. Anyone living near Phoenix, Chicago or Columbus, Ohio, can get hard cash quickly by trying Alula, a new supermarket kiosk that’s being tested by Coinstar Inc., the company behind the RedBox DVD rental machines. Alula pays 65 percent to 85 percent of a card’s value, depending on demand. The kiosk only accepts plastic cards that are inserted into the machine. They must be worth at least $20. The kiosk will print out a receipt that you can exchange for cash at the register. 2. THINK OUTSIDE THE CARD Even though a card has a specific store name on the front, you might be able to use it in the parent company’s other stores. For example, an Old Navy gift card can be used at Gap, Banana

Republic, Athleta stores and on Piperlime, the company’s online store. Similarly, TJX Cos. Inc. gift cards can be used at TJ Maxx, Marshalls or at Home Goods stores. 3. TRADE FOR MILES A lingering gift card balance can bring you closer to a dream vacation. United Airlines customers enrolled in their MileagePlus program can exchange gift cards for award miles through the airline’s website. A $25 gift card is currently worth 1,000 award miles. United Airlines accepts gift cards from more than 100 stores. The gift card must have at least $15 on it for the airline to accept it. 4. GIVE TO THOSE IN NEED Many charities, such as Goodwill, will take your gift card and distribute it to those who can put it to use. Call your favorite charity and see if it has a gift card program. 5. SWAP FOR ANOTHER CARD Cards can also be flipped for another retailer. On PlasticJungle.com, you can quickly convert your card into an electronic gift card for Amazon.com. PlasticJungle.com also charges less if you want to make the switch. Even though the website will pay $92 for a $100 Target gift card, it will give you $94.50 if you choose to turn it into an Amazon card. 6. RE-GIFT IT You can always re-gift a card to someone who would appreciate it more. You’ll get rid of the card and you won’t have to buy a gift. The Gyft app, which stores gift cards on smartphones, also enables you to re-gift the cards. The recipient doesn’t need to have the Gyft app downloaded. The gift card can be emailed as an electronic gift card or it can be posted on a Facebook account.

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Rate on 30-year loan rises to 3.42 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on the U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage last week dipped closer to the lowest on record, a trend that is making home buying more affordable and also enabling more Americans to refinance their loans. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 3.35 percent from 3.37 percent last week. That’s not far from the 3.31 percent rate of about a month ago, the lowest on records dating to 1971. The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage was unchanged at 2.65 percent. The record low is 2.63 percent. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 3.66 percent this year, Freddie Mac said, the lowest annual average in 65 years.

Emerald the hue for you (SHNS) — The great Oz of color pronouncements, Pantone, has declared Emerald the hue for you in 2013. This gemstone green replaces last year’s Tangerine Tango and is packed with potential. The color of money, envy and environmentalists, it promises to bring new life to tired wardrobes and rooms while adding depth and sophistication. Like the Emerald Isle or the Emerald City or the emerald cut, it’s a color with romantic magical qualities. “The prevalence of green has been steadily rising for several seasons now, especially in the fashion and couture markets, and even on the red carpet,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, the color-standards division of X-Rite Inc. “Emerald was chosen for 2013 because it is the color of balance and harmony, enhancing one’s sense of well-being and inspiring insight and clarity. Green is the most abundant hue in nature — the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrum. Emerald is a lively, radiant and lush green.” Most often associated with the precious gem, the perception of emerald is sophisticated and luxurious, according to Pantone. Since antiquity, it’s been the color of beauty and new life in many cultures and religions. It’s also the color of growth, renewal and prosperity. But, interestingly, during the 19th century it became the color of death.

BY MARY CAROL GARRITY Scripps Howard News Service When I’m not using my dining table for entertaining, I like to keep it decorated with a centerpiece that is eyecatching but understated, something that harmonizes with the season. For January and February, those quiet months nestled between the opulence of holiday decorating and the vibrancy of spring decor, I prefer a centerpiece that is clean and crisp but intriguing. Here are two great wintercenterpiece looks to inspire you. A Treasure Trove of Textures Start with a medium-sized wooden dough bowl. Wooden dough bowls are one of my top decorating tools because they can be used over and again in new and different ways in year-round decorating. I keep one on top of the bookcase in my study to hold seasonal greens. I also use them when I entertain to hold iced drinks. They are rugged and chunky and look marvelous paired with any accents in any style of home. Next, we filled the back half of the dough bowl with a tumble of wicker accents to give us touchable texture in a monochromatic color palette. Be sure to create a visual high point in your display. We positioned a bottle in the center that is almost standing straight up. I’m captivated by bottles encased in natural reeds because the organic lines and patterns are so rich. It’s easy to tuck a bottle or two into an existing display, maybe on a mantel or in a bookcase. In the front half of the bowl, we created a nest of sorts out of creamy old books and manuscripts, pages invitingly open, creating soft, loose rolls. Then we filled in the remaining open space with a

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You can’t pass by this captivating centerpiece without wanting to stop and peek through all the curious objects cradled in the wooden dough bowl. sprinkling of wire-covered candleholders. I really like to use hanging candleholders in my decor because they create a magical effect yet are easy to work with. In the warmer months, you’ll find them dangling from trees and bushes in my garden. In the fall and winter, I work them into seasonal displays to add sparkle and shine. Winter Lights During the winter months, with their long, dark nights, there’s nothing like filling a table with sparkling candles. All good centerpieces incor-

porate a variety of heights. To achieve dramatic height, you need risers. I’m head-overheels in love with carved wooden bases right now because they deliver a soft, more organic statement. Next, add candleholders, mixing in a variety of sizes and shapes, placing some on top of the risers, the rest around the sides of the display. We popped in votive candles in small clear glass votive holders to prevent them from dripping onto the tabletop. You could stop here for a streamlined statement, but

we wanted to create a story with more interest, so we surrounded the base of our display with a handful of the smallest-sized candleholders. To finish, we filled them with found treasures, white river rocks and bare twigs from the woods. Anything natural would look perfect in these little glass showcases, like seashells or acorns or stones you pick up on a winter hike. The column has been adapted from Mary Carol Garrity’s blog at www.nellhills.com.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Ashley Blythe, Dustin Blythe to Ashley Blythe, Dustin Blythe, a part lot, $0. Estate of Shirley Ann Harmony Properties to 75 Gibboney, Daniel Lee Gibboney, Development LLC, one lot, executor to Samantha House, $71,300. one lot, $76,000. Dortha Hoy, Geoffrey Hoy, Anthony Hagen, Lisa Hagen Daniel Swank, Joan, John to Rachel Sidwell, two part lots, Swank, Joyce Swank, Rebecca $152,000. Yannitell to Sandra Ehrlich, two Richard Steineman to Saint part lots, $94,600. Patrick Soup Kitchen Inc., 0.137 Secretary of Housing and acres, a part lot, $75,000. Urban Development to Ashlyn Rebecca Doyle to Cynthia Wright, Lynne Wright, one lot, $0. Wingert, Howard Wingert, a part CRJ Investments LLC to lot, $55,000. Community Property Group Wendalia LLC to Wendalia Miami LTD., one lot, $242,000. Realty LLC, three lots, three part Benjamin Bell to Clarence lots, $1,350,000. Bramlette, two part lots, $71,700. David McKitrick, Valerie Bradley Koopman, Joyce McKitrick to Joshua Hobbs, one Koopman a.k.a. Joyce Kremer to lot, $73,000. Dustin Wilker, Kelli Wilker, one lot, Estate of Karl E. $139,900. Allmandinger, Kevin E. Bertram Hensel, Shirley Allmandinger, executor to Hensel to Jason Otis, one lot, Jeanette Keesee, Paul Keesee, $160,000. Estate of Jonifer A. Hobart, one lot, $174,000. TROY

Tiffiny Peltier, executor, to Saint Patrick Soup Kitchen Inc., a part lot, $12,800. Edward Hobart, Marilyn Hobart to Saint Patrick Soup Kitchen Inc., a part lot, $14,400. Charles C. Hobart Trust, David Fisher, co-trustee, Carolyn Hobart, co-trustee to Saint Patrick Soup Kitchen Inc., a part lot, $12,800. Doris Kremer, Mark Kremer to Eric Cotterman, Michelle Cotterman, one lot, $157,000. Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Jonathan Woodard, Patricia Woodard, one lot, $249,100. Jason Rue to Joshua King, Schira King, three part lots, $141,900. PIQUA

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Hymer • Continued from C1 agreements to sell real estate are not binding. Most purchase contracts include contingencies that provide buyers a time period to comply with certain parts of the transaction. The most common contingencies are for inspections and investigations, loan approval, appraisal of the property, and the sale of another property. Usually, if the buyers use their best efforts to satisfy these contingencies but are unable to do so, they can withdraw from the contract without penalty and have their good faith deposit returned to them. You should fully understand any purchase offer you sign as well as the impact of the buyers removing or not removing contingencies before you sign the contract. Not all contingencies contain the same language. For example, some inspection contingencies give the sellers the right to remedy a defect; others allow the buyers to withdraw from the contract for any reason at the end of the inspection contingency period. Any questions should be direct-

ed to a real estate attorney. HOUSE HUNTING TIP: Even though the ratified contract is legally binding on both the buyer and seller, circumstances can change during the transaction that may result in renegotiation. The most common occurs when the buyers’ inspection contingency is due. If buyers’ inspections reveal new information about the property, the buyers may agree to remove the inspection contingency but only if the sellers repair defects or contribute financially to repairs. This puts the contract in limbo and requires good faith negotiation to salvage the transaction. Otherwise, the buyers and sellers agree in writing to cancel the contract. The sellers put their home back on the market and the buyers look for another home to buy. Not all buyers renegotiate the contract when the inspection contingency is due. If the sellers have provided presale inspection reports and thorough disclosures before the buyers made an offer, it’s less likely that the buyers will make further requests from the sellers.

Another trigger for further negotiations can occur when an appraisal ordered by the buyers’ lender values the property at a price that’s lower than the purchase contract price. The effect of this is that the buyers’ lender will lend less than it said it would before the appraisal was done. The buyers could ask for another appraisal, withdraw from the contract or try to negotiate a solution with the sellers. This might mean that the buyers agree to put more cash down, or they could ask the sellers to lower the purchase price, or a combination of the two. The goal is to reach a price that will work with the lower loan amount. Buyers who feel they overpaid for the property may be more inclined to request a reduction to the appraised value and hold firm at that price. THE CLOSING: If the sellers won’t agree, the transaction will fail. Dian Hymer, a real estate broker with more than 30 years’ experience, is a nationally syndicated real estate columnist and author.

Chad Messer, Karen Messer, one lot, $10,000. Sever Realty LLC to Earl Sever III, Nancy Sever, one lot, $0. Earl F. Sever III, Nancy Sever to Sever & Sons Realty LLC, one lot, $0. Ann Grabeman to Victor Grabeman, a part lot, $0. John Garbry to HCF Realty of Garbry Ridge Inc., two lots, $266,200. Benjamin Detrick to Alicia Detrick, one lot, $0. Estate of Margaret Stein, Susan Peltier, co-executor, Thomas Stein, co-executor to John Gregory Stein, one lot, $122,000. Jane Lavy, Terry Lavy to RFC Rental LLC, a part 1.237 acres, $232,000. Estate of Robert J. Hirt, John J. Hirt, executor to David M. Evans Jr., one lot, $87,000. Sharon Weaver to Keith Bowman, Lisa Bowman, two part lots, $0.

Mark Fornshil to Velma Fornshil, a part lot, $0. Julie Gary a.k.a. Julie Jordan, Robert Jordan to Joel Lyman, Traci Lyman, one lot, $128,900. Mary Von Aschen, Sandra Sue Von Aschen, attorney in fact to Cecil Hager, Melanie Hagar, one lot, $30,000. Traci Chester a.k.a. Traci Lyman, Joel Lyman to Kelli Carter, Bradley Hill, one lot, $82,000. Park National Bank, Unity National Bank to Andrea Karn, Trenton Karn, one lot, $157,000. TIPP CITY

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Add a new area rug to spruce up the place BY ROSEMARY SADEZ FRIEDMANN Scripps Howard News Service Ah, those New Year’s resolutions! So far, I’m sure many have failed, but we keep trying, don’t we? Perhaps one resolution that can succeed is upgrading your living quarters a bit. Sprucing up home decor is always in vogue, and this lull between holidays is a good time to do a little uplifting for the home. Let’s explore one possibility. It actually is easy to bypass expensive home-decor updating and still achieve a new, fresh, comfortable look. A small change or addition such as an area rug or two could be the answer. And for the do-it-yourselfer, this is a great decorating idea. Since the buying market has so many choices it might be wise to prepare before going shopping. There are several things you can ask yourself to get you pointed in the right direction. Color is important.

If you are adding to an existing decorated room, stay with the color scheme already present. You should choose one color, your favorite, to play up in the rug. In this way you have not only added some perk to the room, you’ve also spruced up the color scheme with your favorite hue. If you are starting fresh, create a color scheme with at least three colors that best fit your personal palette, then build from there. If you have colors that you are using in the room, take swatches with you so you can choose the colors correctly rather than relying on memory. Then there is the choice of fiber. Area rugs are made from a variety of fibers but the best and most durable fibers are wool, sisal and bamboo. They are all resilient, easy to maintain and have a long life. To make that long life even longer, consider putting a slip pad under the rug. The pad not only helps keep the rug in place, but also gives a little

cushion under the rug. Size is always something that poses a question. Do you want a small rug just under the cocktail table in the living room? Do you want the rug to fit up to the sofa and extend just beyond the cocktail table? Do you want the rug to fill a good amount of the room and have the sofa sit on the rug, with the rug being like a wellmatted picture frame and the furniture being the picture or artwork itself? If the rug is going under the dining table, be sure to allow for a big enough rug so the chairs sit on the rug even when pulled out and in use. If you aren’t positive what size you want, create a template out of newspapers and place that template on the floor where the rug will actually go. Visual is always good for making a decision. Rosemary Sadez Friedmann, an interior designer in Naples, Fla., is author of “Mystery of Color.”

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125 Lost and Found

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205 Business Opportunities

NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info: (985)646-1700, Dept. OH-6011.

245 Manufacturing/Trade

American Trim, is a leading manufacturer servicing the automotive and appliance industries. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the following opportunities at our Sidney, OH facility: Forming the Future

Maintenance Responsible for the installation, change over, troubleshooting, preventive and regular maintenance and/or repair of machinery and mechanical equipment located throughout the production facility. • Journeyman or equivalent (minimum 10 yrs. exp.) • Blueprint reading ability for electrical, hydraulic, mechanical and pneumatic systems as well as engineering drawings

Toolmaker Maintains, repairs & sharpens tools, dies, transfer units, & molds used in the forming of material specializing in the operation of machine tools, jig bore grinders, surface grinders, lathes, mills and shapers. • 7+ years experience • Journeyman card preferred American Trim offers a competitive, market-based wage and benefit package, including comprehensive medical, vacation, holidays, 401K, tuition reimbursement, and performance incentive opportunity.

Please submit your resume along with salary requirements to:

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LABORERS CDL TRUCK DRIVERS

Industrial contractor hiring for hard hat environment. Training provided. Apply at: 15 Industry Park Court Tipp City

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Quality Assurance Weld Technicians Select-Arc, Inc. is expanding and seeking qualified Welding Technicians to work at its Fort Loramie Quality Assurance Laboratory. Candidates will be responsible for conducting weld inspection and the evaluation of products. Candidates must also have general weld training or possess general weld knowledge and experience to perform conformance evaluations. Process training in FCAW or GMAW a plus. Competitive wage and comprehensive benefits package offered. Apply here, email or fax resume to Human Resources at Select-Arc, Inc., 600 Enterprise Drive, P.O. Box 259, Fort Loramie, OH. 45845. Fax: (888) 511-5217. Email: hr@select-arc.com. No calls, please.

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Buckeye Insurance Group has two positions available in our home office in Piqua, Ohio.

ACCOUNTING CLERK Job duties include (but are not limited to): processing invoices and generating payments (both check and electronic form) for multiple companies, monitoring daily cash activity and maintaining online banking functions for multiple companies, processing entries into multiple companies’ general ledger systems; performing account reconciliations, answering questions from outside parties regarding payments (agents, vendors, etc.) and providing general support to the Accounting Department. Successful candidates will have an Associate degree, proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) as well as have a good understanding of general ledger/accounts payable systems. Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must. P&C insurance experience a plus.

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8-5

has an immediate opening for an EXPERIENCED PANEL BUILDER. Mail resume to: Panel Control Inc. Attn: Amy Johnson, Human Resources 107 Shue Drive Anna, Ohio 45302 Fax to: (937)394-2375 Email to: amyj@wellsbrothers.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE EOE PLC PROGRAMMER

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The remaining 40% of job duties will involve assisting mail room and front desk as needed. Mailroom duties involve delivery and pick-up of mail from post office, sorting incoming mail, processing outgoing mail and processing policy print jobs. Front desk duties involve directing phone calls via switchboard and greeting visitors to our office. Successful candidates will have an Associate degree, valid Ohio driver license with acceptable driving record and ability to lift up to 30 pounds. Other requirements include excellent communication and grammar skills, the ability to identify, analyze and troubleshoot production system issues, proficiency for accuracy and attention to detail and professional telephone skills.

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Miami County Board of DD

Works with teacher to implement educational activities and assist in daily care of preschool students in classroom. NO PHONE INQUIRIES, please see website www.riversidedd.org for further qualifications needed.

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TITLE COMPANY POSITION

Long standing Troy Title Company seeks a motivated individual to work with all aspects of real estate closings and title insurance. Title experience preferred. Interested individuals should send resume to: PO Box 310 Troy, OH 45373

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250 Office/Clerical The Sterling House Clare Bridge of Troy is hiring

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WELDERS

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Premier manufacturer of commercial food equipment is seeking qualified candidates with tig and mig welding skills. Responsibilities include performing a variety of welding operations or robotic welding while observing safety, housekeeping and quality management system Working procedures. from prints, be able to follow written and verbal instructions, organize and plan own work and work effective with other members in a team environment.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. Apply in person at:

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280 Transportation DRIVER HOME DAILY Driver needed for LOCAL tractor trailer driving position, home daily. Work hours may vary but primarily 2nd shift hours. Must have CDLA, at least 1 year recent experience and be extremely dependable. Call Dave during the week at 800-497-2100 or on the weekend/evenings at 937-726-3994 or apply in person at: Continental Express 10450 St Rt 47 Sidney, OH www.ceioh.com

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SCHEDULER/ RECEPTIONIST Upper Valley Family Care is currently accepting applications for medical scheduler/receptionist for approximately 32 hours weekly. Requires excellent written and spoken command of English. Excellent typing, customer service skills, medical terminology, and attention to detail. Send cover letter detailing interests and resume to UVFC 700 S Stanfield Rd Troy, OH 45373 Independently owned and operated.

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510 Appliances

MICROWAVE & OVEN Whirlpool wall double unit microwave and oven, 30", self-cleaning, beige, $350. (937)667-8719.

545 Firewood/Fuel

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

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HARDWOODS: split, seasoned and delivered locally. $135 cord $70 half. Call (937)559-6623 or (937)418-5122. Thank you. SEASONED FIREWOOD $140 per cord. Stacking extra, $120 you pick up. Taylor Tree Service available, (937)753-1047

560 Home Furnishings

APPLIANCES, FURNITURE, freezer, refrigerator, stove, living room suite, and more. Call for details (937)451-0151

SOFA BED, Simmons, good condition, floral design with queen size mattress, $100. Call (937)773-9300.

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Center for Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine

Social Worker Highland District Hospital is seeking a part-time (40 hours per pay) Social Worker (LISW or MSW)(Primarily in the Home Health Department). Applicants must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or related health and human services and Ohio licensure. Two (2) years experience in a hospital setting preferred. We offer excellent wages and a generous benefits/ retirement package.

Please direct inquiries to (937) 393-6479 (Toll Free 1-866-393-6100) Fax resume to: (937) 840-6511 Or email to: dgermann@hdh.org

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SYSTEMS SUPPORT/HELP TEAM Approximately 60% of job duties will involve systems testing: perform Diamond systems testing, reproduce problems in-house, test system for errors, test modifications and enhancements, test new features and functionality.

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HIGHLAND DISTRICT HOSPITAL 1275 NORTH HIGH STREET HILLSBORO, OH 45133 (937) 393-6100 Fax: (937) 840-6511 1-866-393-6100 EOE

Highland District Hospital currently has a full-time position for a Physical Therapist. Must be a graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program and have current Ohio Licensure. Minimum of one (1) year experience as a staff therapist preferred. Excellent wage benefits package. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS).

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FIREARMS FOR SALE, Marlin model 336W Rifle, .30-30 lever action, Capacity 6+1, like new, with camo soft case, 20 rounds of ammo, my cost $475 asking $425, Walther, PPK/S, 380 Pistol, stainless steel, upgraded walnut handle, 150 round ammo, like new in case, my cost $740 asking $700, Walther P22 Pistol with laser, well cared for, great first gun, my cost $350 asking $300. Call or text (937)418-5329.

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The Miami County Board of Development Disabilities which is a public body intends to submit a Proposal for a capital grant under the provision of 49 USC Section 5310 of the Federal Transit Act to provide transportation service for the elderly and disabled within the Miami County area. The grant Proposal will request three mini-buses. It is projected that up to fourteen elderly and disabled people will use the service up to seven days a week, 52 weeks a year for transportation to employment, adult service providers and recreation activities.

A public hearing on this proposal will be held on February 1, 2013 at 10:00a.m. in the Springcreek Room at the Troy-Sidney facility, 1625 Troy-Sidney Road, Troy, Ohio.

NASCAR DIECAST collection. Over 225 1/24 diecast. Some autograph cars, Autograph picture cards. NASCAR card collection and lots more. 3 curio cabinets. (419)629-2041

586 Sports and Recreation

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810 Auto Parts & Accessories 583 Pets and Supplies

AUSSIE-POO PUPPIES Miniature Aussie Poo puppies. Males and female. Vet checked. Up to date on immunizations. $350. (567)204-5232 OBEDIENCE CLASSES by Piqua Dog Club Starts February 4th at Piqua Armory. Bring current shot records but No dogs the first night www.piquadogclub.com (937)773-5170

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The Miami County Board of Developmental Disabilities invites comments and proposals from all interested parties within our service area.

Parties interested in submitting proposals should contact Sharrie Hines, Transportation Manager at Riverside of Miami County, 1625 Troy-Sidney Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 to obtain full details of the type of vehicle that is being requested prior to preparing a proposal.

Written proposals must be submitted within 30 days to the agency at the above address with a copy to the Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Transit, 1980 West Broad Street, Mail Stop 3110, Columbus, Ohio 43223: Attention: Administrator. 01/27/2013

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