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Students of Troy Christian Elementary, including infants through sixth grade, gave a presentation during a Thanksgiving chapel Wednesday at the school. It’s a tradition that has continued since 1980 when there were 37 students, according to school superintendent Gary Wilber. Above, Pre-K students of Myers, Phillips and Stacy Patterson perform “Gobble, Gobble.”

A day to feast Annual meal a favorite for Troy Christian students, alums

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com Prayers and pumpkin pie were in abundance at the 33rd annual Thanksgiving Feast at Troy Christian Elementary – and this year was special for the district’s high school senior class.

Troy Christian High School senior Tyler Shinall said he and a few friends were planning on sneaking dressed as Native Americans to take part in the annual feast, but instead got a surprise invitation from Superintendent Dr. Gary Wilber to join the children’s table.

“I remember doing it in preschool — it pretty much was the best day of the year,” Shinall said, complete with an Indian headdress amongst the little Pilgrims. “We were going to sneak back in here during study hall until Dr. Wilber called us in his office and said we could come join the kids — we were pumped.”

Shinall said he was surprised at the invitation to help devour pumpkin pie, turkey and dressing with the elementary students.

“We were surprised that we got to go,” Shinall said.

Shinall joined his classmate “Chief” Matthew Coots at the

City of Troy Operations Supervisor Michael “Scott” Walter has resigned following an investigation into the misuse of city funds, according to a press release.

The press release from city of Troy administrator Sue Knight stated that Walter — who was placed on administrative leave with pay Nov. 14 — had resigned effective Wednesday afternoon.

Troy Police WALTER Department served a search warrant Nov. 14 at the city of Troy maintenance department at 1400 Experiment Farm Road, seizing $1,385 in cash from Walter’s desk drawer, a Dell computer and several files. The Troy Daily News obtained the search warrant

• See WALTER on Page A3

First-grade students of Tara Rench and Sara Jane Johnson’s class perform “It’s Harvest Time.”

“I feel so much older,” Matthew said with a laugh. “It was a cool experience.”

“It’s another great tradition,” fourth grade table. Coots’ mothDr. Wilber said. “It’s neat to see er Deena teaches fourth grade this many come to see the feast at the elementary.

“It was something we always and families who stop in to join us for this special day.” looked forward to,” Matthew Wilber said it was at the Coots said. “It’s a lot of fun urging of board member cause you get to dress up and Michael Cargill to allow the 27 eat as much food as you can high school seniors who were with your friends — we were elementary students at Troy totally going to sneak back in Christian Elementary to join here because we missed it.” the feast.

Sitting at the “kid’s table” Senior Chris Wharton and Matthew Coots and Shinall Branden Garman sat with a said it brought back many memories of their elementary • See FEAST on Page A3 feasts.

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Hamas, Israel agree to Gaza cease-fire Agreement brings an end to eight days of fighting GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and the Hamas militant group agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip.

The deal was brokered by the new Islamist government of Egypt, solidifying its role as a leader in the quickly shifting Middle East after two days of intense shuttle diplomacy that saw U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton race to the region. Under the

• See CEASE-FIRE on Page A3

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BY SHARON SEMANIE For the Troy Daily News editorial@tdnpublishing.com Chestnuts roasting on an open unattended fire this holiday season could spell disaster, according to fire safety experts, whose decorating tips apply to fireplaces, indoor and outdoor lighting, decorations and festive candles, that adorn the dining tables and mantles at Christmastime.

Piqua Fire Chief Michael Rindler said overloaded circuits and holiday lights, that are improperly wired are the two most common fire hazards that occur during the holiday season.

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PIQUA holiday lights, for example, Rindler said he believes the risk of fires would be minimized. Many people, he warned, can have an electrical fire and not blow a fuse.

“If you blow a fuse or wiring becomes hot, don’t ignore it. Call an electrician or, when in doubt, unplug,” Rindler said.

Too often, he suggests, consumers fail to inspect indoor and outdoor lights when beginning to decorate. Frayed wires or excess strings of plugged in lights result in overloading and possible fires.

“When decorations mix with a heat source, you need to be careful

he noted. “People will leave the kitchen, fall asleep or even leave the house. They should take a timer or an oven glove as a reminder.”

Safety also applies to Christmas trees, according to Rindler, whose own family makes a traditional trek to tree farms in Troy to cut down live trees. “Keep it watered daily, unplug lights when you are gone, keep candles away from the tree’s location and, shortly thereafter (end of holiday or else there’s trouble,” Rindler season), remove the tree to avoid said. additional dryness,” he said. Being “We also see way too many careful, Rindler added, is the key extension cords being used and to tree safety. individuals who leave cooking items unattended in the kitchen,” • See SAFETY on Page A3

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When decorations mix with a heat source, you need to be careful or else there’s trouble.

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Lottery numbers were not available by Wednesday’s early holiday deadline.

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BUSINESS ROUNDUP • The Troy Elevator The grain prices listed below are the closing prices of Wednesday.

Corn Month Bid Change Nov 7.5600 - 0.0225 J/F/M 13 7.6500 - 0.0200 NC 13 5.8300 + 0.0025 Soybeans Month Bid Change Nov 13.8300 - 0.0450 J/F/M 13 13.8800 - 0.0450 NC 13 12.1500 - 0.0700 Wheat Month Bid Change Nov 8.2000 + 0.0025 NC 13 8.2650 - 0.0125 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

• Stocks of local interest Values reflect closing prices from Wednesday.

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• Business Highlights Stores try to make holiday shopping cheap and easy NEW YORK (AP) — This holiday season, Burger King won’t be the only place where you can have it your way.

It used to be enough for stores to promise discounts of up to 70 percent to lure shoppers during the busy holiday period. But the ease of ordering online and the sluggish economy changed that. Americans are no longer impressed by discounts alone. Now they want their shopping just like their fast food: not only cheap, but convenient too.

That means they’re no longer afraid to walk away from the cashmere sweater with the perfect fit if the store is crowded. They’re unwilling to buy those suede pumps in just the right shade of blue if shipping costs extra. And they cringe at the prospect of carrying around paper coupons; they’d rather pull them up electronically on smartphones.

Retailers from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) to Macy’s (NYSE:FD) are doing everything they can to make it easier for more finicky shoppers to spend during the holidays. Several are opening on Thanksgiving Day. Some are offering free layaway and shipping. Many are matching in-store prices with cheaper online deals. Others are allowing shoppers to buy online and pick up their merchandise in stores.

— Staff and wire reports

table full of fifth grade pilgrims and shared their fond memories of their feasts.

“I was really excited! This brings back so many memories and I’ve enjoyed talking to these guys too,” Wharton said.

“Seeing our old teachers we had,” Garman said. “There’s a lot to be thankful for — just being here was fun.”

Fourth grade teacher Deena Coots said as a teacher she

enjoys the annual tradition, which many students remember well after their elementary days have passed. She said she enjoyed watching her son Matthew eat with her class.

“My older two sons have already graduated from college and their favorite memory of Troy Christian is Feast Day,” Mrs. Coots said. “It’s a neat day for everyone. This is our family time at the feast — our school family tradition.”

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Fourth grade teacher Ann Lamb said she was thankful for the annual tradition she has enjoyed for the 13 years as a teacher at Troy Christian Elementary School.

“Seeing the kids make their different themes and then looking for their items at the tables is always fun,” Lamb said.

Jacob Johns, 10, simply said his favorite part of the feast is “the food, the pie and the Lord.”

“I’m thankful for the Lord because he’s been good to me this

year,” Johns said. “There’s been a lot of miracles this year.”

Fellow classmate Emma Eckert, 10, said she enjoys dressing up as pilgrims and Indians for the feast.

“I do like dressing up because at recess we play around like we were pilgrims and Indians,” Eckert said. “I liked the Chapel too. The sixth graders’ part was really funny.”

For more information about Troy Christian Schools, visit www.troychristianschools.org

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• CONTINUED FROM A1 Candles are also a source of concern and, according to Rindler, one of the “fastest growing causes of fires.” He cautions individuals to never place lit candles, for example, in a bedroom. Safety-conscious consumers can now purchase candles which are battery-operated and run upwards to 62 hours with a timer.

Don Smith of the Allliston Manor Flower Box offers three sizes — each 4 to 8 inches in height — with batteries included. There are attractive faux flame waxed pillar candles which operate five hours on and 19 hours off. Iridescent column candles are also available with faux flickers along with year round fragrant pillar candles.

When hosting family gatherings, Rindler recommended residents heed his advice in the event of a fire.

“Don’t breathe the smoke, get down beneath the smoke and exit a back door or window as quickly as possible.

Also make sure you have working smoke detectors,” he said.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that as many as 12,500 people are treated annually in hospital emergency rooms for injuries such as falls, cuts and shocks, related to holiday lights, decorations and Christmas trees. In addition, they warn, candles account for about 11,600 incidents each year resulting in deaths and injuries and $173 million in property loss.

“Sometimes people are having such a nice time during the holidays that they forget to extinguish candles,” said CPSC Chairman Hall Stratton. “Always put out lit candles before leaving a room or going to bed. Always keep burning candles within sight. And, make sure your holiday lights bear the mark of a recognized testing lab to show they meet safety standards.”

The following tips can make your holiday a safe one: Trees • When purchasing an artificial tree, look for the label “fire resistant.”

Although this label does not mean the tree won’t catch fire, it indicates the tree will resist burning and should extinguish quickly.

• When purchasing a live tree, check for freshness. A free tree is green, needles are hard to pull from branches and do not break when bent between your fingers. The trunk butt of a fresh tree is sticky with resin and, when

tapped on the ground, should not lose many needles.

• When setting up a tree at home, place it away from fireplaces and radiators.

Because heated rooms dry live trees out quickly, be sure to keep the stand filled with water. Place the tree out of the way of traffic and do not block doorways.

Lights • Indoors or outside, use only lights that have been tested for safety by a recognized testing laboratory, which indicates conformance with safety standards. Use only lights that have fused plugs.

• Check each set of lights, new or old, for broken or cracked sockets, frayed or bare wires, or loose connections and throw out damaged sets. Always replace burnedout bulbs properly with the same wattage bulbs.

• Use no more than three standard-size set of lights per single extension cord.

Make sure the extension cord is rated for the intended use.

• Never use electric lights on a metallic tree. The tree can become charged with electricity from faulty lights and a person touching a branch could be electrocuted.

• Before using lights outdoors, check labels to make sure they have been certified for outdoor use.

• Stay away from power or feeder lines leading from utility poles into older homes.

• Fasten outdoor lights securely to trees, house walls or other firm supports to protect the lights from wind damage.

• Turn off all holiday lights when you go to bed or leave the house. The lights could short out and start a fire.

Decorations • Use only non-combustible or flame-resistant materials to trim a tree.

Choose tinsel or artificial icicles of plastic or nonleaded metals.

• Never use lighted candles on a tree or near other evergreens. Always use nonflammable holders and place candles where they will not be knocked down.

• In homes with small children, take special care to avoid decorations that are sharp or breakable, keep trimmings with small removable parts out of the the reach of children and avoid trimmings that resemble candy or food that may tempt a child to eat them.

Fireplaces • Use care with “fire salts,” which produce colored flames when thrown on wood fires.

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Miami County Prosecutor Gary Nasal said he was awaiting a full investigation from the Troy Police Department to determine what charges, if any, would be filed.

He expected to receive the case file by the end of this week.

The investigation began in October when an anonymous employee of the Miami County garage told detectives that scrap metal from the garage had been deposited at Urban Elsass and Son in Piqua and that Walter allegedly was pocketing the cash payments. Twenty receipts were made out to the city of Troy, equalling about $4,517 from July 2011 through October 2012.

City auditor John Stickel confirmed that city garage management had no paperwork to support the cash deposits during that time.

Another employee reiterated information about scrap metal being transported to the scrap yard in Piqua.

Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington said foremen in the street department would be reporting to Tom Funderburg, assistant director of public service and safety and human resources director.

“He’ll start every day over there to check in and monitor how things run,” Titterington said. Based on Funderburg’s observations, the city will determine whether a new hire is needed or if reorganization is possible, among other options.

Cease-fire • CONTINUED FROM A1 agreement, Egypt will play a key role in maintaining the peace.

Standing next to Clinton, Egypt’s foreign minister, Mohammed Kamel Amr, announced the breakthrough and said the deal was set to take effect at 9 p.m. local time. (2 p.m. EDT), capping days of intense efforts that drew the world’s top diplomats into the fray.

The agreement will “improve conditions for the people of Gaza and provide security for the people of Israel,” Clinton said at the news conference in Cairo.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he agreed to the cease-fire after consulting with President Barack Obama.

Israel launched the fierce Israeli offensive in Gaza on Nov. 14 to stop months of intensifying rocket attacks. Even after the deal was announced, air raid sirens continued to wail in southern Israel.

In the last-minute burst of fire, Palestinian militants fired several bursts of

rockets, Israeli authorities said. One rocket hit a house in the southern city of Beersheba, police said. No injuries were reported.

Israel launched well over 1,500 airstrikes and other attacks on targets in Gaza, while more than 1,000 rockets pounded Israel. In all, more than 140 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, were killed, while five Israelis died in the fighting.

According to a copy of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press, Israel and all Palestinian militant groups agreed to halt “all hostilities.” For the Palestinians, that means an end to Israeli airstrikes and assassinations of wanted militants.

For Israel, it brings a halt to rocket fire and attempts at cross-border incursions from Gaza.

After a 24-hour cooling off period, it calls for “opening the crossings and facilitating the movement of people and transfer of goods, and refraining from restricting residents free movement.”

Hamas officials said details on the new border arrangements would have to be negotiated.

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Trustees to attend winter conference Vote to keep rental rates same For the Troy Daily News The Monroe Township Trustees and the fiscal officer have been authorized to attend the 2013 Ohio Association Township Winter Conference in Columbus on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1. At their Nov. 19 meeting, the board also agreed for the township to pay the conference fees and associated costs per the Ohio Revised Code and the township’s policy manual; and the 2013 Ohio Township Association

MONROE TOWNSHIP annual dues for the three trustees and fiscal officer.

Other financial action by the trustees included a vote to keep the 2013 township rental rates the same as in 2012 and payment of bills equaling $8,949.79.

At the final Monroe Township recycling event on Nov. 10 at the Michaels Road maintenance facility, participants numbered 102.

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far this month has been busy dealing with township road upkeep issues, township voting precinct assistance and multiple burials at Maple Hill Cemetery.

Township offices will be closed Thursday, November 22 in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

The next township trustees meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 3.

The board has also announced the setting of the township’s year-end meeting at 9 a.m. Dec. 31.

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• COMMUNITY MEAL: • DIABETES TALK: A El Sombrero restaurants, 1 Talk,” a group of type “Type located at 1700 N. County C o m m u n i t y 1 diabetics, will meet from 2Road 25-A, Troy, and 1274 4 p.m. at the Troy-Hayner E. Ash St., Piqua, will offer Calendar Cultural Center. The meeta free community ings serve as times for those Thanksgiving meal to the CONTACT US with type 1 and their loved public from 11 a.m. to 4 ones to get to know each p.m. The meal will include other and discuss the many all of the traditional makaspects of the disease in a ings of a traditional turkey Call Melody friendly, non-judgmental dinner with all of the trimenvironment. For more inforVallieu at mings. mation, contact Jennifer 440-5265 to Runyon at 397-7227.

FRIDAY list your free • BREAKFAST SET: American Legion Post No. calendar • FRIDAY DINNER: 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp items.You The Covington VFW Post City, will have an all-you-cancan send No. 4235, 173 N. High St., eat breakfast by the Sons of Covington, will offer dinner your news by e-mail to the American Legion from 8from 5-8 p.m. For more vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. 11 a.m. for $6. Items availinformation, call 753-1108. able will be eggs, bacon, • GRAND ILLUMINAsausage, pancakes, waffles, TION: The 2012 toast, biscuits, sausage Hometown Holiday Celebration will take gravy, french toast, hash browns, fruit, cinplace beginning at 6:30 p.m. in downtown namon rolls and juices.

Troy. A parade, grand illumination, phone • ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: The calls to the North Pole, visits with Santa, American Legion Auxiliary, 377 N. 3rd St., carriage rides, holiday music, refreshments, Tipp City, will host an organizational meetshopping and Mayor Beamish’s special hol- ing of all young women under the age of iday reading all will be part of the evening.

18 eligible and interested in becoming junFor more information, visit www.troymainior members of the American Legion street.org or call 339-5455.

Auxiliary at theTipp City Post at 2 p.m. To • FISH DINNER: An all-you-can-eat fish be eligible you must be a daughter, sister, dinner will be offered from 5:30-8 p.m. at granddaughter or great-granddaughter of a AMVETS Post No. 88, 3449 LeFevre Road, veteran who is a member of an American Troy.

Legion or who plans to join, or a deceased • SOUP AND SANDWICH: The Troy veteran who served during certain periods Order of the Eastern Star will offer a soup of time, set by the United States Congress. and sandwich dinner, along with a vendor Step relatives are eligible also. sale, beginning at 6 p.m. At the Masonic • CANDLE DIPPING: Candle dipping Temple, second floor, Troy. The building is will be offered beginning at 2:30 p.m. at handicapped accessible. The menu will Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. include hot dogs, coney dogs, barbecue, The cost is a general admission fee of $5 chili, potato and chili soup, hot chocolate foe adults and $3 per child, plus $1 for and coffee. each candle made. Call (937) 890-7360 for • FISH OR SAUSAGE: American reservations.

Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will host an all-you-can-eat fish and MONDAY fries or sausage and kraut dinner from 67:30 p.m. for $7.

• BOOK LOVERS: Join the Troy-Miami County Book Lovers Anonymous adult SATURDAY book discussion group at 6 p.m. Members will be reading and discussing “The Devil • STEAK FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW All the Time,” by Donald Ray Pollock for Post No. 6557, 7578 W Fenner Road, the month of November. Light refreshLudlow Falls, will offer a T-bone steak dinments will be provided. ner with salad, baked potato and a roll for • CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty $11 from 5-7 p.m.

Listeners, a group of women who get • NANOWRIMO: Are you an aspiring together on Mondays from 1-2:30 p.m., will novelist? Join others from 12:30-4:30 p.m. meet at the Milton-Union Public Library. at the Troy-Miami County Public Library for Participants listen to an audio book and National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo work on a project, such as needlework or is a month-long novel writing program making greeting cards. designed to help participants brainstorm, • TRAVEL ABROAD: Dr. Vivian Blevins plot and write their next novel. Bring your will speak about the college’s Travel laptop or writing tools and the library will Abroad program and answer questions provide refreshments and resources to about the itinerary and logistics of the help you get started. group’s upcoming trip to England at 7 p.m.

• BREAKFAST WITH SANTA: First in the college’s library.

United Church of Christ will offer its second • ROWDY MEETING: The Fort Rowdy annual Breakfast with Santa from 9-10:30 Gathering will have its “Gold Medallion” a.m. at the corner of Market and Canal ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Covington City streets. The breakfast will feature pancakes Building. The event will honor the 2012 voland sausage, cereal along with juice, milk, unteers. hot chocolate and coffee. There also will be • TENDERLOIN SANDWICH: American a special activity for all the children who Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer a meet Santa. The church is handicapped tenderloin sandwich and fries for $5 from accessible. Enter at the Canal Street 6-7:30 p.m. entrance. For more information, call 3395871.

TUESDAY • CHICKEN FRY: The Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St., will offer a chicken fry from • ANNUAL MEETING: The Elizabeth 5:30-7 p.m. for $7. The meal will include Township Historical Society will host its four pieces of chicken, fries, coleslaw and annual membership meeting in the multiroll. purpose room of the Elizabeth Township • KARAOKE: American Legion Post No. Community Center.

Following a short 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will present business meeting, a presentation will be Papa D’s Pony Express karaoke for free made entitled “The Roaring ’20s from 7 p.m. to close. through the Carver’s Eyes.” Sue Curtis, • CANDLE DIPPING: Candle dipping board member of the ETHS, will provide will be offered at 1:30 and 3 p.m. at excerpts from the George Carver jourAullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. nals covering the decade 1920-1930.

The cost is a general admission fee of $5 The social events of the period as well for adults and $3 per child, plus $1 for each as fashion, commerce, fads and transcandle made. Call (937) 890-7360 for portation will be shared including reservations. antiques from the period. Light refreshments will be provided.

SUNDAY • FREE SEMINAR: A free seminar on probate and estate law, administration • SKATE-A-THON: The Troy High and tax issues will be from 8 a.m. to School Hockey Team and the Troy Bruins noon in the Robinson Theater at Edison Youth Hockey program will host a skateCommunity College. To register, contact a-thon benefit for the Michael Walter fam- Roger Luring at 339-2627. ily. He is suffering from metastatic bone • BOARD MEETING: The Miami cancer. His son, Michael, is a senior on County Park District will hold its next the THS hockey team. The public is invit- board meeting at 9 a.m. at the Lost ed to support the cause by donating Creek Reserve Cabin located at 2645 E. and/or skating from 6:45-8:45 p.m. at State Route 41, east of Troy.

Hobart Arena. Donations will be accepted at the door and skate rental is available for NOV. 28 $2.50. For more information, contact Sharon Morgan at 272-6774 or sharong• RACHEL’S CHALLENGE: While her garden@aol.com.

• BREAKFAST SERVED: Breakfast will life was tragically cut short during the Columbine High School shooting on be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post April 20, 1999, Rachel Joy Scotts’s shinNo. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow ing example lives on. Come at 7 p.m. at Falls, from 8- 11 a.m. All breakfasts are made-to-order and everything is a la carte. Miami East Junior High auditeria to hear the inspiring true story of one girl’s • FAMILY QUEST: The Miami County dream being fulfilled over a decade after Park District will have its monthly Family Quest Day “Rock Hounds Fun with Fossils” her death. The program is free. For more information, call 335-7070. program between 1-4 p.m. at Charleston • COMMISSION MEETING: The Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Miami County Veterans Service Tipp City. This series of fun, family activiCommission will meet at 3 p.m. at 510 ties in the park is designed for busy famiW. Water St., Suite 140, Troy. lies; drop in anytime between 1-4 p.m. at • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis your convenience. A roving naturalist will be on-site. Participants can investigate real Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. John fossils and all different kinds of strange Terwilliger will speak about the newly rocks. Dress for the weather and meet at created Troy High School Athletic Hall of the falls. Pre-register for the program Fame. For more information, contact online at www.miamicountyparks, email to Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) register@miamicountyparks.com or call 418-1888.

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

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EDITORIAL The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee on super PAC reform: To the glee of many of his detractors, Karl Rove and the multimillionaires and billionaires who fattened his super PAC and nonprofit political arm had a horrible election night.

The return on investment was abysmal, or so the argument went, given that Mitt Romney lost, along with most Senate and House candidates backed by the bloated political action committees and taxexempt “social welfare” corporations established by Rove and other consultants.

Schadenfreude is powerful. There is pleasure to be gained in reveling in the blunders of others who have such high opinions of themselves.

However, we who care about the political system all suffered wounds at the hands of super PACs, and not just those controlled by Republicans.

The tone of the attack ads coarsened the political discourse. The $6 billion raised and spent to control the White House and Congress had a corrosive impact on As I the U.S. system of government.

Billionaires assumed their money could buy the See It election. They failed, thankfully. But the record■ The Troy shattering spending degraded democracy …

Daily News The 113th Congress should redouble efforts to welcomes require disclosure of hidden campaign money, columns from although with the Senate controlled by Democrats our readers. To and the House by Republicans, we hold out little submit an “As I hope for much change. …

See It” send No act of Congress or of the Legislature will your type-writstop the corrosive flow of money into politics. But ten column to: at least voters ought to know who is trying to ■ “As I See It” c/o Troy Daily sway their opinion as they decide how to vote.

News, 224 S. Market St., The Gadsden (Ala.) Times on voting lines: Troy, OH 45373 Nearly 120 million people in the U.S. voted ■ You can also recently, and the endurance course many of them e-mail us at had to negotiate in doing so would test the hardieditorial@tdnpu est and toughest Marine. blishing.com.

Voters across the country stood in line for ■ Please hours, in heat and cold, some of them literally include your full passing out, just to cast their ballots. name and teleIt happened in red states and blue states; large phone number. states and small states; swing states and those where the outcome never was in doubt; states where there was an explanation (Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New Jersey and New York) and others where there was no apparent reason other than a lot of people were motivated to vote.

The biggest mess was in Florida, which had a huge turnout of voters and a bloated, 12-page ballot for them to consider. …

Four-hour waits were reported in Colorado, Michigan, South Carolina and Virginia. There were three-hour waits in Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Texas. …

The biggest issue may be the sheer scope of trying to get 120 million voters in 50 states and the District of Columbia to the polls for an election. It cannot be done within a 12-hour window on a single day anymore.

Some states have tried to ease the pressure with early voting, an idea we’ve said is worth considering, along with moving Election Day to a weekend or making it a national holiday to give people more flexibility in getting to the polls. …

There are folks who think this isn’t a major problem, who describe those who complain as whiners unwilling to expend any effort to vote.

Expending effort to vote is one thing. Going through an ordeal to do so is another.

LETTERS

I apologize for earlier letter To the Editor: I apologize for my earlier letter prior to the November election.

This election was not about

freedom but rather it was about mediocrity.

The 51 percent who elected the current administration were satisfied with a lack luster record and are willing to settle for a lack luster economy.

And as many are finding out

at this time jobs will be harder to find!

I will continue to hope for freedom and as for the 51 percent you got what you wanted so good luck.

— Bill Hershberger Troy

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It’s time to be ‘thankful’ for family and friends Ah, Thanksgiving … that joyous time of year when we are surrounded by loved ones. Family members come from near and far to gather together and indulge in that grand old holiday tradition of reminding you how much better their lives are than your’s.

Thanksgiving, of course, is held in the home of one of your loved ones. This is the perfect opportunity to see all the stuff you will never have. At my aunt and uncle’s house — where we have traditionally held our Thanksgiving festivities — this includes a number of plush-looking pieces of furniture.

Notice I say “plush-looking” and not “plush-feeling,” because you are not allowed to actually sit on them, for fear you will somehow ruin them. And God forbid any of your children actually go near any of their belongings. It’s fine for your children to go near your swap-meet quality possessions at home, but keep their grubby paws away from Aunt Tilly’s faberge replication of the Arc de Triomphe.

I am not making this up — my aunt and uncle actually have written instructions on their toilets.

Apparently there are these things called “low-flow” toilets which have to be flushed in a certain way.

David Fong Troy Daily News Executive Editor Needless to say, I’ve never been very good at following instructions — and let’s just say that turned out to be one very messy Thanksgiving for everyone involved.

Of course, your family members all have nicer things than you because they have better jobs than you. There’s nothing better than sitting down to eat a Thanksgiving feast and spending the next hour hearing about the four promotions your cousin Matt has received down at the law firm. Heck, by next year, he’s probably going to be made a full junior associate partner!

Talking about jobs, of course, is particularly fun when you work in the newspaper business. You know, I would never ask my second

cousin the doctor how many patients she’s had die on her or how many government bailouts my uncle the banker has had in the last year, but apparently nobody in my family has any trouble not only asking about how quickly the newspaper industry is “dying,” but how they are doing their part to help it to the grave.

“So, how’s the newspaper business going?” is how these conversations usually begin. This is usually followed by, “I don’t read the newspaper anymore myself. There’s nothing really in it. I get everything I need to know by watching Fox News.”

Of course, these lead into an entirely new conversation. Half of my family is firmly convinced I work for “liberal media,” whose only agenda is the further destruction of morals and values in America. The other half of my family is convinced I work for the “conservative media” and serve only as a mouthpiece for would-be fascist corporate overlords.

Either way, I work for an evil industry. When we are not destroying political candidates — and trust me, we destroy both sides — we are out clubbing baby seals to make papers and squeezing the

ink out of baby octopi to make the newsprint.

Once that’s all out of the way, it’s time to sit down to dinner. This is always fun because there’s always one person who brings a gourmet dish to the festivities.

Usually they start working on this dish sometime right after Halloween ends. They have grown the vegetables, raised and slaughtered the livestock and churned the butter themselves. This is because they are married to the aforementioned lawyer with the four promotions and have time to sit around the house and do these sorts of things all day.

We come from a home in which we have two small children and both parents work (in the evil newspaper industry). We are bringing store-bought pies to Thanksgiving.

Before dinner, however, everyone holds hands and says what they are thankful for.

What am I thankful for this year?

I’m thankful Thanksgiving only comes once per year.

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Nov. 11 • FRAUD ATTEMPT: A Tipp City resident called 9-1-1 to report that a collection company contacted him about a delinquent credit account.

Officials arrived at the home located in the 8000 block of Wildcat Road, Tipp City and met with resident.

He stated that he received a call from someone referring to himself as Andy Gomez from MCM Credit Management.

The resident was told that he had a delinquent Credit 1 Bank credit card. The listed address for the alleged credit card was 428 Holt St, Apt. C, Dayton, Ohio.

According to the resident, the address was valid, but the collection company’s phone number was not.

Officials advised the resident to check the three major credit bureaus for this fraudulent Credit 1 Bank credit account to validate the collection company’s claim. If the account doesn’t exist, then it is likely that the caller is attempting to defraud the resident out of money.

The resident was advised to call after he checks with the credit bureaus.

• DON’T CALL ME MAYBE?: The resident of South Main Street, Potsdam, reported that she was receiving unwanted and harassing telephone calls from a private number.

She stated that she has no idea who might be

calling her but the person knew her kids’ names and where they lived according to the resident.

Officials told her to contact her telephone provider to see if they can look up the number and block it. The deputy also advised her not to answer calls from private numbers the rest of the night.

Nov. 13 • EXTINGUISHERS DISCHARGED: While on patrol, officers located two fire extinguishers that had been discharged on the side of the road near the 1900 block of West State Route 36, Piqua. The extinguishers had markings indicating that they belonged to the old K-mart building on W. State Route 36. In checking the building it was found that the bottom of the west garden center overhead door had been kicked in.

Inside of the building several more extinguishers were found to have been discharged.

The key holder responded and checked the building finding nothing else missing or damaged. He also advised that he had someone en route to repair the door and secure the building.

Nov. 14 • DOG GONE IT: A resident located in the 5500 block of Davis Road, West Milton, reported an unknown subject removed his dogs from the property. Brown had left the residence for two hours and upon his return, the dogs were missing.

He checked his fence and stated that they could not have gotten out.

He said he believed that the dogs were stolen.

The only way for the dogs to get out would be through the house or the gate in the front yard.

Both were secure upon his arrival home. The gate does not lock and can simply be unlatched.

The resident was advised to contact the animal shelter. He was also advised to call should the dogs be returned.

• WOOD MISSING: The resident of 403 N. Main St., Pleasant Hill, reported someone trespassed on his property and stole two chords of firewood.

The property is an open lot west of Newton Local School. The property is located just southeast of his rental property located at 403 N. Main St., Pleasant Hill, and has its own gravel driveway. The resident requested extra checks of the area during patrol details. He stated he will erect “No Trespassing” signs. Nov. 15 • TRAFFIC STOP YIELDS HEROIN: On Nov. 15 at 12: 15 a.m.,

officers observed a white Pontiac mini-van traveling in the slow lane of North County Road 25-A. Upon approaching the intersection of the entrance ramp, the vehicle was just about in the intersection when the driver turned on the left turn signal and cut across three lanes of travel and then turned right onto the entrance ramp of northbound I-75.

Officials activated emergency lights and the vehicle came to a stop in the middle of the entrance ramp. The driver, after a few seconds, then pulled the vehicle partially onto the berm.

Officers approached the vehicle and made contact with the driver of the vehicle, Earmel Dotson, front passenger Jessica Daum and rear passenger Randall Daum. The deputy explained to the driver for the reason for the traffic stop. Mr. Dotson stated that they were moving property from DeGraff to Troy for Mr. Daum and his daughter. He asked him if they were returning to DeGraff tonight and he stated that they were going back to a hotel in Piqua called the Red Roof Inn. Officers then returned back to the vehicle to run all the occupants through the computer. Upon approaching the vehicle a second time, the officer again asked them where they were heading to and they stated that they had just moved down here.

Officers asked the owner Mr. Daum permission to search the vehicle and he consented to the search.

All the occupants exited the vehicle and went to the back of the minivan while another officer watched them.

Officers observed a clear gel capsule on the passenger side floor board with a small amount of white powdery substance inside.

The officer went back and spoke with Jessica Daum about the capsule and she admitted that there was heroin inside it and she snorted the heroin yesterday.

Jessica stated that she was just released from prison last Wednesday for possession of heroin.

Jessica was placed into the back seat of a cruiser.

The officer spoke with both Randall and Earmel about anything else that might be inside the vehicle, but was unable to locate any other drug paraphernalia. Both Earmel and Randall denied knowing anything about any drugs located inside the vehicle.

The officer spoke with Jessica further about the gel capsule and read Jessica her Miranda rights and she agreed to speak with the officer

about the incident. She stated that she had purchased it yesterday in Sidney and had snorted it that same day. She stated that she had used it because it was hard dealing with her release and also with coming back to her family. The gel capsule was field tested with Cobalt and tested positive with a blue color. The capsule was booked into evidence and will be sent to the Miami Valley Crime Lab to be tested further.

Jessica was placed into custody and transported to the Miami County Jail where she was incarcerated for possession of drugs.

• 100 GRAMS OF POT IN THE CAR: At 2:28 a.m., officers initiated a traffic stop on a black 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche for failing to have a proper working rear license plate light at the intersection of Oak and East Franklin streets in Troy.

The officer approached the driver side of the vehicle and made contact with a male driver. Upon making verbal contact with the driver and advising him the reason for the stop.

The officer could smell a very strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from him. The vehicle also was occupied by two other males. At this point the deputy requested the driver and his passengers’ driver’s license or identification.

The driver was identified as Matthew Custer, 19, and his passengers were Joseph Burton, 28, and 21-year-old Justice Schricker.

The officer requested Matthew to exit the vehicle. Once he exited the vehicle, the deputy advised him that he could smell a very strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from him.

The deputy then asked him where he and his passengers were coming from.

He advised, “We are coming from the bar.” The officer then asked him how much alcohol he has consumed and he answered,” I had a couple earlier.”

Matthew was asked to perform three field sobriety tests. The first test that was explained and then administered was the walk and turn test.

He was able to follow the directions he was given and complete the test. The second test that was explained and then administered was the one leg stand.

While balancing on his left leg, he had to put his right foot down two times to keep from falling over.

The third test that was explained and then administered was the horizontal gaze and nystagymus test and the offi-

cer read all six clues on his eyes.

Before taking him into custody for operating a vehicle while under the influence, the officer asked him if there was anything inside of his vehicle that would be considered illegal. He answered by saying “There is nothing that belongs to me in there that I know of.” The officer then asked him for consent to search the vehicle. Matthew advised, “Yes, but if you find something it does not belong to me.” Before the consent search was conducted, both passengers were escorted form the vehicle and patted down for weapons. While officers were patting down the front seat passenger, Joseph Burton, officers could smell a very strong odor of marijuana coming from him. When asked about the smell, he stated “I smoked some earlier.”

Once both passengers were out of the vehicle and patted down the consent search was started.

While searching the vehicle officers located a multi-color pipe in the glove compartment.

A plastic baggie containing approximately 6 grams of marijuana was located in the center console.

Also in the backseat of the vehicle was a black bag. Inside of the bag were three separate plastic baggies that contained marijuana inside all of them and an electronic scale that had pieces of marijuana on it. The marijuana in those bags added up to weigh approximately 109.04 grams.

At the conclusion of the vehicle search the listed items were the only things located.

The driver and two passengers were read their Miranda rights.

Matthew agreed to talk to officers first. He advised that the bag containing the 6 grams of marijuana was his, along with the pipe. He further advised that the bag in the backseat that contained the three separate plastic baggies belonged to Justice.

Justice also agreed to speak with officers about what was found in the car. He admitted that the three bags of marijuana found in the backseat where he was sitting were his, along with the scales.

At this point, Randy’s Towing was called to come get the vehicle and Matthew was taken into custody for OVI and underage alcohol consumption, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Justice was told that he would receive his summons in the mail for the drug possession and possession of drug parapher-

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He and Joseph were then released.

Once at the Miami County Sheriff’s Office Matthew was read the BMV 2255 form and agreed to give a breath sample. His breath sample revealed that his BAC was .086 percent.

He then was given copies of all of his paper work and given a court date. Matthew was further cited for the improper working rear license plate light. He was then escorted to his residence by an officer.

The evidence that was collected was booked into the Miami County Sheriff’s Office property room.

• FAKE CHECK FOR REAL PUPPY: A resident located in the 9400 block of Lena Palestine Road, Conover, called to file a fraud report in reference to her being scammed over the Internet.

The resident stated that she advertised some puppies on the Internet for sale.

She was contacted through email by a person that said their name is Wendy. She stated that she lives near Lansing, Mich.

A deal was made for one of the puppies and a final purchase price of $1,000 was agreed upon by both sides.

The resident received an envelope in the mail from “Wendy,” which contained a check from a business in Idaho. The check was for $1,870. The resident inquired about the price discrepancy and was told the extra $870 was to cover shipping fees.

The resident was then given instructions on who to send the shipping fees to and everything else would already be arranged to pick up the puppy. The resident went to her bank and was able to cash the check for $1,870.

The resident then sent the $870 to a person named Troy in Brooklyn, N.Y. Later in the week, the resident learned from her bank that the $1,870 check was fake and did not process.

Her bank is now requesting that she return the full $1,870 to them, which she has already sent $870 of it away.

The resident stated that she now realizes that this was a scam that she fell for and asked that a report be filed on the incident.

She still has the puppy and she said that the “buyer” has been sending her messages, but she has not replied to them.

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The resident stated that on Nov. 10, he noticed several old and different types of vehicle batteries tossed on the side of his driveway.

The resident said certain people have permission to take scrap and other materials down his driveway and drop off for him. He has spoke with all those people and no one has dropped batteries off. Leon told me his neighbors also have not seen anyone stop and do this.

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ment. He said Rwanda has become a key international player under President Paul Kagame, including supplying troops for the African Union mission in Darfur.

“The international community needs to stop pretending like Kagame is a benign leader and realize that the green light given to his unacceptable behavior in the past is allowing him to get away with literally murder,” said Longman, a former director of the Human Rights Watch office in Rwanda.

The U.S. suspended its military aid albeit only $200,000 to Rwanda after parts of the U.N. preliminary report were leaked last month. Other European countries followed suit, suspending humanitarian aid to Rwanda.

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

The M23 movement, which was born in April when hundreds of troops defected from the Congolese armed forces, now has some 1,250 troops, according to the report.

the U.N. General Assembly to serve a two-year position on the 15-member Security Council beginning in January, which will complicate efforts by the council to come to grips with the country’s intervention in Congo.

The Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to impose travel bans, assets freezes and other sanctions on the leaders of M23 and called for an end to external support for the rebellion, but without naming Rwanda or Uganda.

Rwanda’s representative spoke to the council after the vote to deny that his country is involved in the Congolese rebellion. Uganda has previously denied involvement and said it would pull its troops out of U.N. peacekeeping operations if it was named in the report.

Timothy Longman, director of Boston University’s African Studies Center, said the U.S. and other countries have been reluctant to confront Rwanda out of lingering sympathy for its 1994 genocide and because the country is considered a successful model for develop-

Syrian warplanes bomb Damascus suburbs Turkey first backed Assad in the uprising, but then called for his resignation as opposition gained strength earlier this year, throwing its support behind the rebels.

Ankara has also been retaliating for shelling and mortar fire from Syria. The first incident was Oct. 3, when shells from Syria struck a Turkish village near the Syrian border, killing two women and

News agency reports army is continuing pursuit of terrorists

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But U.N. officials say the U.N. force commander in Goma ordered the peacekeepers not to shoot Tuesday in order to avoid provoking a major firefight in the city after Congolese troops retreated.

Meece said the M23 rebels were “well provisioned,” uniformed and supplied with weapons, including night-vision goggles, which clearly came from some outside party.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes bombed Damascus suburbs and rebelheld areas in the country’s north Wednesday as the government blasted the European Union for endorsing a newly formed opposition coalition.

The raids struck several eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital and the strategic northern city of Maaret alNuman, a key supply route linking Damascus and the commercial hub of Aleppo, said two activist groups. Both the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees also reported violence elsewhere in Syria.

The state-run news agency SANA said the army continued its pursuit of “terrorists” a government term for rebel fighters in the Damascus suburb of Arbeen, inflicting casualties on the enemy. The report also said that attackers targeted a mosque in Daraya suburb.

Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime, inspired by other Arab Spring revolts.

The crisis has since morphed into a civil war, with scores of rebel groups across the country fighting government troops. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the 20 months of unrest, according to activists.

The civil war has often spilled over to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to the three neighboring countries as violence in Syria rages, raising fears of a wider war in the volatile

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NATO doesn’t want to be drawn into the Syrian conflict, saying it would consider deploying the missiles purely to protect Turkey, a member country.

between Rwandan soldiers and M23 combatants, the experts said. One member of the U.N. Group of Experts witnessed an M23 commander communicating by radio with Rwandan troops for reinforcements.

Earlier Wednesday, the U.N.’s special representative for Congo said the 19,000strong U.N. peacekeeping force there is being stretched thin by multiple rebel militias in the eastern part of the country, including Goma.

Roger Meece made the assessment in a live videoconference linkup to the Security Council from Kinshasa.

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Congolese citizens look at tank shells lying next to the roadside, left behind by retreating government troops in eastern Congo, Wednesday.

Thousands of Congolese soldiers and policemen defected to the M23 rebels Wednesday as rebel leaders vowed to take control of all Congo, including the capital, Kinshasa.

The U.N. report accuses the M23 commanders of recruiting hundreds of young boys and girls as soldiers and ordering the extrajudicial executions of dozens of recruits and prisoners of war.

The document cites members of the Congolese army, current and former M23 members and former members of the Rwanda military who attested to Rwandan weapons deliveries to the rebels and the deployment of Rwandan troops to help consolidate rebel control over territory. It said senior Ugandan officials have also provided direct troop reinforcement, weapons delivery and technical and political assistance to the rebels.

Rwandan support was critical to the M23 capture of four eastern Congo towns in July, the report said. The Rwandan army deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to help seize Bunagana, and Rwandan commanders provided machine guns, antitank and anti-aircraft launchers ahead of the attack, it said.

Prior to the July assaults, Ntaganda and other rebel commanders flew to Rwanda to meet with Kabarebe, the Rwandan defense minister, the report said.

The report said that Rwandan soldiers and M23 rebels communicate through commercial radio sets that the rebels obtained while in the Congolese armed forces.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) The Rwandan military is commanding and supporting the rebel force that overtook a major city in eastern Congo this week, a United Nations report released Wednesday said. The report also said Uganda is providing more subtle but nonetheless decisive backing support to the M23 rebels.

The report’s release, just one day after the violent takeover of Goma, is sure to increase pressure on the international community to confront the two eastern African countries over their role in neighboring Congo’s conflict. Both Rwanda and Uganda have repeatedly denied supporting the M23 movement and have faced little international criticism over the allegations.

The highly anticipated report from the U.N. Group of Experts said both Rwanda and Uganda have “cooperated to support the creation and expansion of the political branch of M23 and have consistently advocated on behalf of the rebels. M23 and its allies include six sanctioned individuals, some of whom reside in or regularly travel to Rwanda and Uganda.”

The document said that Rwanda is funneling weapons and providing direct troops reinforcements to the M23 rebels. It is facilitating recruitment and encouraging desertions from the Congolese armed forces.

“The de facto chain of command of M23 includes (rebel leader) Gen. Bosco Ntaganda and culminates with the Minister of Defence of Rwanda, Gen. James Kabarebe,” the report said.

The report puts the U.N. in an uncomfortable position.

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Pressure cooker speeds up classic Hanukkah dish The nice thing about cooking a monster brisket for Hanukkah aside, of course, from the fact that the meat can be mouth meltingly delicious is that it is a dish you can mostly ignore as it cooks.

Season a massive hunk of brisket, toss it in a Dutch oven with some liquid, then pop it in a 275 F oven for the better part of a day. Done. And delicious.

And that’s what I planned to do for this recipe.

Until I realized that while that approach does leave the cook free to do other things, it also monopolizes the oven. And it does so at such a low temperature that it becomes difficult to share the space with other dishes you might want to prepare.

So instead, I turned to that most terrifying and misunderstood of kitchen tools, the pressure cooker.

Modern pressure cookers are quite safe.

Basically, they lock in moisture and thanks to the pressure seal are able to cook at a higher temperature.

The result is fast, even cooking that won’t dry out your food.

Which means my sweet-and-tangy barbecue brisket sliders cook in about 1 1/2 hours instead of all day. And the handson time is the same.

SWEET-AND-TANGY BARBECUE BRISKET SLIDERS Start to finish: 1 hour 45 minutes (15 minutes active) Servings: 10 4-pound brisket, trimmed of fat, cut into 3 or 4 pieces Kosher salt and ground black pepper

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Cook for 1 1/2 hours.

Remove the pressure cooker from the heat and place in the sink under cool running water. Once the pressure cooker has cooled enough to open, remove the lid.

Test the meat; it should be fork tender.

Carefully transfer the meat to a platter and use 2 forks to pull it apart into bite-size chunks.

Meanwhile, return the cooker to the heat and simmer, uncovered, until the liquid has reduced and thickened.

Return the shredded brisket to the cooker and toss well. Serve with slider buns.

Nutrition information per serving: 470 calories; 110 calories from fat (23 percent of total calories); 12 g fat (3.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 90 mg cholesterol; 46 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 24 g sugar; 44 g protein; 790 mg sodium.

Gun season opens today for the deer hunters, which meant lots of activity in this household.

Daughter Susan went hunting with her friend Mose, which was the first time she had ever gone hunting. Even Elizabeth didn’t have to work at the factory, which closed because of opening day of deer season. Her friend Timothy went hunting but she decided to stay home to get caught up on things.

Being gone five days a week every week she enjoys a day off. It is nice to have her home today otherwise I would be here alone. Nice to have someone to visit with while you work.

My husband Joe is working and the six youngest are in school.

Timothy was lucky to get a deer on Saturday and again this morning. We heard a lot of gun shots this morning so there are probably some more lucky hunters. Elizabeth and I saw some deer across the road in the field. They were busy eating in the corn fields and didn’t seem concerned about the surrounding gun shots. Last Friday daughter Loretta went with me to help with the sub drive.

There wasn’t any school due to the teachers having meetings. A lot of people showed up to help make the subs. A total of 9,000 subs were made that day.

It had one shift of people until 1-2 p.m. Then the next shift came in to do the rest. It made it easier on everyone to trade off.

Before we started putting the subs together 9,000 sandwich bags each of diced green onions, diced peppers and diced lettuce were filled to go with each sub. They made two different kinds of subs. One was a chicken and the other a club. There were eight lines of people filling the baggies with around 8 people in each line. Then there were a lot of people keeping things on the table for each line. One line at a time stopped to take a break.

They had all kinds of sweet treats there such as whoopee pies, cinnamon rolls, all kinds of cookies and bars and coffee and hot chocolate to drink as a reward for the workers.

Around noon everyone stopped to have lunch.

Most of the lunch was all brought in by the workers.

All kinds of casseroles, salads, fruits, puddings and pies were served. I

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Lovina Eicher Troy Daily News Guest Columnist brought some subs home for our supper but they were also delivered the next day to all of the Amish homes in the area.

A donation was taken for the subs and proceeds will go to a family in our church district to help with medical expenses It was an enjoyable day to help out and visit. Loretta had to quit a little earlier.

Standing in the same spot too long really wore her out with wearing the braces. I was even glad to prop my feet up after I came home.

I imagine the ones that held the sub drive at their house were really tired.

Sunday we attended church services at the parents of Susan’s friend Mose. They live 21 miles from here. This was the first time we had met Mose’s parents. We appreciated their hospitality.

Mose drives 21 miles back and forth with his horse and buggy almost every weekend to see Susan. It is almost a two-hour drive depending on the horse.

We then had a pizza, cake and ice cream supper at Jacob’s house in honor of his 40th birthday. His birthday was Nov. 1.

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Add all the remaining ingredients and mix well.

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In a large pressure cooker over mediumhigh, heat the oil. When the oil is hot, add the brisket and sear for 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until well browned.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk together the water, tomato sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, apricot preserves, vinegar, cumin, mustard powder, paprika and garlic powder. Once the brisket has been seared, add the tomato sauce mixture to the pressure cooker.

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TV chef Art Ginsburg, Mr. Food, dies at 81 WESTON, Fla. (AP) — Art Ginsburg, the delightfully dorky television chef known as Mr. Food, died at his home in Weston, Fla., Wednesday following a struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81.

Ginsburg who enticed viewers for decades with a can-do focus on easy weeknight cooking and the tagline “Ooh! It’s so good!� was diagnosed just over a year ago. The cancer had gone into remission following early treatments and surgery, but returned earlier this month. had an Ginsburg unlikely formula for success in this era of reality cooking shows, flashy chefs and artisanal foods. With a pleasantly goofy, grandfatherly manner and a willingness to embrace processed foods, Ginsburg endeared himself to millions of home cooks via 90second segments syndicated to 125 local television stations around the country.

And though he published 52 Mr. Food-related cookbooks, selling more

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In an Oct. 14, 2010, file photo Art Ginsburg, known as Mr. Food, is shown during TV rehearsal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Ginsburg died at his home in Weston, Fla., Wednesday. than 8 million copies, he was little known to the nation’s foodies and mostly ignored by the glossy magazines. That was the way he liked it. “They’re on the Food Network. They’re getting a lot of national publicity.

And they’re getting big money,� he said of fellow food celebrities during a 2010 interview with The Associated Press. “I was always the hometown guy.

I don’t want to be the super celebrity. When you need bodyguards, that’s not my

deal.�

Ginsburg grew up in the meat business, and eventually started his own catering company. He made his television debut in 1975 in upstate New York on a local morning program.

His Mr. Food vignettes

were syndicated in nine television markets by 1980.

His popularity peaked in 2007, when he was appearing on 168 stations.

He also was generous with the enviably broad reach of his culinary pul-

pit, frequently inviting upand-coming celebrities to do guest appearances with him. “Art Ginsberg was a warm, gregarious man who knew food is more about love and sharing than a fancy ingredient list,� said Rachael Ray, who Ginsburg invited on air long before she was a huge celebrity. “He was a supportive and loyal friend and I’ll miss his smile and warm hugs.

This Thanksgiving I’m thankful I knew him.�

In recent years, eased his Ginsburg involvement in the day-today operations of the company he founded, Ginsburg Enterprises Incorporated, which produces the television segments and oversees his many other ventures, including a line of housewares.

The company also produced television segments that did not star Ginsburg, billing them as the “Mr. Food Test Kitchen.� It plans to continue producing and syndicating those segments.

Panhandles hope interest sparked by ‘Dust Bowl’ OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, the geographic center of the 1930s Dust Bowl, are hoping that a recent documentary about what many call the nation’s worst man-made disaster could spark renewed tourism in the region.

PBS’ two-part television series, “The Dust Bowl,� concluded Monday night. The film by Ken Burns featured interviews with several Panhandle residents who lived through a decade’s worth of drought and wind storms.

Jada Breeden, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce in Guymon, a town in the center of the Oklahoma Panhandle, said she has been fielding more calls from tourists and others seeking information about the area since the documentary began airing. A

native of the region, she acknowledged that even she learned a few things from the series. “The wind is who we are,� said Breeden, whose grandparents lived through the Dust Bowl. “We’ve had a lot of interest. And I’m sure it’s going to pick up.�

The No Man’s Land Museum in nearby Goodwell has experienced jumps in visitors when other movies and documentaries have focused on the period, noted museum director Sue Weissinger.

The Oklahoma Panhandle was once called No Man’s Land after various treaties and federal declarations left no one in charge, though the term seemed appropriate due to the harsh climate, with 20 inches or less of rainfall in the typical year. After the area was opened up to settlement,

farmers tilled up native grasses and planted wheat, disrupting the ecosystem to the point that the land suffered.

The Dust Bowl was blamed on poor farming practices and a severe drought that let the Plains’ high winds scrape up dirt and carry it, at times, thousands of miles away. Conservation efforts, tiered farming and better weather helped the area recover.

A drought has gripped part of the area for the past year, though not on the same scale as the 1930s. And unlike the Dust Bowl years, new farming technologies and conservation methods are helping to prevent the same kind of erosion during the ongoing drought. “Our land isn’t blowing away,�

Breeden said.

Across the border at the XIT Museum in Dalhart, a town in the far northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle, about 4,000 people visit each year and many are interested in the Dust Bowl, said museum director Nick Olson. The museum showcases artifacts from the XIT Ranch, a cattle ranch spanning more than 3 million acres in the Texas Panhandle that operated from 1885 to 1912. “They look at our photographs of the black clouds coming across or the sand dunes and they can’t believe that could happen,� Olson said, adding that he also hopes the documentary brings people to the area.

The No Man’s Land Museum, operated by a historical society established in 1934, has photographs from the period and a col-

lection of oral histories. It has few newspaper articles from the decade, Weissinger said, because local papers sought to concentrate on happier news - not calamity and the Depression. “The articles are from the 60s,�

Weissinger said. “People didn’t talk about the Dust Bowl as it was going on.�

The heart of the Dust Bowl included adjacent portions of Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico, but at times storms raged throughout the Midwest.

The Smithsonian and the National Endowment for the Humanities held a summit in the fall for students in nine states, including California, to where many from the Plains migrated on the Mother Road at the height of the disaster.

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• HOCKEY: The Troy High School hockey team and the Troy Bruins Youth Hockey program are hosting a Skatea-thon benefit for the Michael Walter family. Walter is suffering from metastatic bone cancer. His son, Michael, is a senior on the THS hockey team. The public is invited to support the cause by donating and/or skating from 6:45-8:45 p.m. on Nov. 25 at Hobart Arena. Donations accepted at the door and skate rental is available for $2.50. For more information contact Sharon Morgan at (937) 2726774 or sharonggarden@aol.com.

• BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe basketball team will be honoring the 1973 SWBL champions on Jan. 19, 2013. The Red Devils face Versailles that night at 7:30 p.m. Any member of the team, cheerleaders or coaches need to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information.

• LACROSSE: The Dayton Lacrosse Club will be holding a free informational seminar and clinic. Information to be covered at the seminar includes differences in boys and girls lacrosse, length of season, and also it will include a question and answer session for parents, among other topics. The hands on clinic is for boys and girls grades K-12. The Dayton Lacrosse Club’s goal is to field teams in Miami County for 2013 and to educate parents and students about the sport. The event will be held at No Limit Sports Academy, which is located at 650 Olympic Drive in Troy, 2 p.m Sunday. It will last between 60-90 minutes. RSVP is encouraged, but not necessary.

RSVP to daytonlacrossetroy@gmail.com. Visit www.daytonlacrosse.org for more information.

Bringing the heat New coaches fueling rivalry fire

BY JIM NAVEAU jnaveau@limanews.com COLUMBUS — If childhood memories of watching Ohio State-Michigan games aren’t enough to remind OSU football coach Urban Meyer how big the game is, he has a living, breathing reminder.

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

Bradford at Newton (8 p.m.)

Houston at Covington (7:30 p.m.)

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

Riverside at Lehman (6 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at CVCA (at Kettering) (11 a.m.)

SATURDAY Girls Basketball Troy at TBA (at Wapakoneta) (TBA) Covington at Fairlawn (6 p.m.)

Piqua at Thurgood Marshall (1 p.m.)

Lehman at Sidney (7 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at Kenston (at Kettering) (8 a.m.)

Troy at Beavercreek (at Kettering) (4 p.m.)

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BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Most teams with nearly half of their roster being new players coming into the season would be worried.

That’s far from the situation the Troy Trojans are in.

After one of the most successful seasons in the program’s history — Troy won its first Southwest Ohio High School Hockey League North Division championship last season and was the runner-up in the post-

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1986, never lets anyone forget the importance it has.

“I get one of these almost every day when I see him,” Meyer said on Monday, balling his right hand into a fist. “I got one yesterday and it almost hit me,” he said, with a laugh.

Not that Meyer needs anyone or anything to remind him of how big a deal beating Michigan is at Ohio State. But this year it

season SWOHSHL tournament — the Trojans have plenty of firepower returning this year, and its only challenge may be getting the newbies up to speed with the rest of the team.

“We’ve got a very strong team this year, and we’re looking to be very competitive,” Troy coach Larrell Walters said. “We’ve got a lot of new players — this is the first year with us for nine of the 21 players on our roster — and we’ve just got to get our new players acclimated into the systems we play and the things we want to do.

“You could say we had one of Troy’s Clay Terrill led the team in scoring as a freshman last

■ See TROJANS on 12 season.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hector “Macho” Camacho was clinging to life Wednesday after being shot in the face while in a car, with doctors and his family expected to decide whether to remove the former boxing champion from life support.

Doctors initially had said Camacho was in critical, but stable condition and expected to survive after he was shot Tuesday night in his hometown of Bayamon. But his condition worsened overnight and his heart stopped at one point, said Dr. Ernesto Torres, director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan.

“He’s battling minute to minute. This is the most important fight of his life,” Torres told The Associated Press outside the hospital in the Puerto Rican capital.

The 50-year-old Camacho was shot as he and a friend sat in a Ford Mustang parked outside a bar.

Police spokesman Alex Diaz said officers found nine small bags of cocaine in the friend’s pocket, and a 10th bag open inside the car.

Torres said doctors were CAMACHO trying to determine the boxer’s level of brain activity.

The specialists will then consult with other doctors and Camacho’s mother, who flew in Wednesday from New York, to discuss whether he should be removed from life support, said Ismael Leandry, a longtime friend and former manager who was also at the hospital.

“We just have to wait to see if ‘Macho’ gets better. It’s a hard battle,” Leandry told AP. Torres said Camacho’s mother, Maria Matias, spent about 20 minutes with her son, one of the most dynamic boxing personalities of his era, and was expected to return for a second visit on Wednesday night.

“His mother came and she is devastated,” he said. “She knows the prognosis is not at all favorable.”

A godson, Widniel Adorno, said the family has discussed the possibility of organ donation but no final decision has been made.

Camacho’s friend, identified as 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, was killed in the attack. Police said two assailants fled in an SUV but no arrests have been made and no motive has been disclosed.

■ College Football

ESPN inks deal to televise new playoffs in 2014 Youth sports an ‘athletic arms race’ Shawn Worthy admits he’s a competitive guy — and a competitive parent, sometimes.

Yet even he was floored when a couple of moms he met at a pro junior golf tournament told him that their teen daughters would be entered in 30 such events this past summer.

See Page A11.

NEW YORK (AP) — The college football playoff system will be televised on ESPN for 12 years once it starts after the 2014 season, the network said Wednesday.

The title game will be played on a Monday, at least a week after the semifinals.

The deal is worth about $470 million a year, a person with knowledge of the terms said. The person spoke on condition of

anonymity because the fee had not been announced.

“Folks are going to love this playoff and the attention ESPN will give to it,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock said in a statement.

ESPN’s current four-year contract to air the Sugar, Orange and Fiesta bowls along with the BCS title game is worth about $125 million per year.

ESPN will own the rights to all six bowls involved in the fourteam playoff system. Conference commissioners had decided that the two semifinals would rotate among those half-dozen sites; the four not involved each year will host major bowl games similar to the current BCS contests. The title game will be bid out each season through a separate process, as the Super Bowl is for

the NFL. There will be three “contract bowls” that offer automatic bids to particular conferences in years they don’t host one of the semifinals: the Rose, Sugar and Orange.

The network already had separate deals for the same 12-year period through the 2025 season for those games, which are affiliated with the Pac-12, Big 12, Big Ten, ACC and SEC.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Burress back with Steelers

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Plaxico Burress (17) catches a pass for a touchdown in front of Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha (24) Dec. 18, 2011 in Philadelphia. The Pittsburgh Steelers signed Burress on Tuesday to provide depth at a position decimated by injuries.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The No. 80 jersey Plaxico Burress walked away from eight years ago still fits.

It’s everything else that’s changed for the former and suddenly current Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver.

The talented but immature kid who bolted as a free agent for the New York Giants in 2005 is 35 now, his resume complete with a Super Bowl ring and a 20month jail stint stemming from a gun charge. Burress returned to the team that drafted him a dozen years ago on Wednesday hungry, humble and eager to prove there’s still some life left in a

career that’s never quite lived up to his own outsized expectations.

“I can’t say I was ever going to come back to Pittsburgh … but literally and physically the opportunity to finish what you started, how many guys get that?” Burress said 24 hours after the Steelers signed him to bolster an injury depleted receiving corps.

Despite not taking a live snap in more than 10 months, Burress thinks he can play as early as Sunday when the Steelers (6-4) travel to Cleveland (2-8).

“I don’t see why not.”

Burress said.

Neither does the guy who will throw him the ball.

“He’s played, he’s won in this league,” said quarterback Charlie Batch, who will start in place of injured Ben Roethlisberger. “The speed of the game is not going to be new to him. When you say the play, he can line up and go and make the play without thinking about it.”

Not thinking, however, is something that dogged Burress even before accidentally shooting himself in a New York club four years ago. During his five seasons in Pittsburgh there were times when the smallness of the city got to him and his

mental lapses on the field annoyed the coaching staff.

Those days, he insists, are over.

“I’m an old man,” Burress said. “I have a wife, a family.

I’m in just a total different direction. I’m happy to be out here playing football. My wife is excited. My son is excited.”

And Burress is excited to be back in a uniform, regardless of the color. He spent the past three months watching the NFL go on without him after the New York Jets declined to re-sign him following a productive and quiet return to the league last fall.

Homecoming for RG3 Griffin III returning to home state to face Cowboys

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New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski (87) blocks against Buffalo Bills' Leodis Mckelvin (21) as Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski (3) attempts a field goal Sunday in Foxborough, Mass.

No relief for Jets vs. Pats

brought a quarterback like Griffin into this game in a long time. Statistically, he’s ahead of the other four rookies who began the season as starters, and he’s right there with most of the veterans.

He’s one of six quarterbacks with a rating of at least 100, completing 67 percent of his passes with 12 touchdowns and just three interceptions.

The Redskins lost six of eight after Griffin’s remarkable debut in a win at New Orleans, so maybe it was easy to forget about him. He sort of reminded everyone by picking apart the Eagles.

He’s also in the top 20 in rushing in the NFL with 613 yards. The next quarter-

back is Cam Newton at 394.

The Cowboys have faced both.

“You can’t really go into a game worried about this guy scrambling because it will slow you up and probably put you in a worse situation than just trying to go after him,” said Dallas defensive end Marcus Spears. “Obviously, we have to have awareness of where he is and where he can escape.”

Griffin isn’t the only runner the Redskins have.

Another rookie, Alfred Morris, is fifth in the league with 869 yards rushing, and Washington is one of four teams with two games of

200-plus yards on the ground this season.

The Dallas running game is struggling through the extended absence of starter DeMarco Murray and an offensive line that is also battling injuries.

Murray is likely to miss his sixth straight game against the Redskins, and backup Felix Jones is battling a knee injury that could limit him. Without those two, the Cowboys would have to rely on a pair of undrafted players in rookie Lance Dunbar and Phillip Tanner. In five games without Murray, the Cowboys have rushed for 100 yards once.

Texans closing on playoff berth DETROIT (AP) — The Houston Texans have put themselves in a position to be the NFL’s first team to seal a spot in the playoffs and to move a step closer toward earning home-field advantage in the AFC. Houston (9-1) has won four straight and is 4-0 on the road this season, giving the Texans a great shot to be in consecutive postseasons for the first time.

“It shows the progress we’ve made,” said tight end Owen Daniels, who has been with the franchise for seven of its 11 years of existence. “A few years ago, it took us until the end of the season to get that ninth win. We’re at that ninth win already.

“We’re trying to stack ‘em up, but it’s good that those are possibilities this early in the season.”

Houston needs to win at Detroit (4-6) on Thursday and have a handful of teams lose, or tie, to earn a postseason bid by the end of the weekend.

The Lions, meanwhile, will have to pull off a string of upsets against a slew of good teams to reach the franchise’s goal of making it to consecutive postseasons for the first time since the mid-1990s.

Just when it looked like Detroit was living up to the hype generated with last year’s breakout season by winning three of four games to climb back .500 earlier this month, the Lions lost two in a row. And that has made last season seem more like an aberration than the start of successful run for a floundering franchise that hit rock bottom in 2008 as the

NFL’s first 0-16 team.

“We’re not thinking about playoffs or anything else,” Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. “We’re thinking about the Houston Texans and that’s plenty for us to think about right now.”

Like all good teams, the Texans have proven they can win even when they don’t play well.

Houston trailed the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars last week at home by 14 points in the fourth quarter before rallying for a 43-37 win in overtime.

The Texans’ defense, which has been among the NFL’s best all year, struggled until it made stops when they were needed. It didn’t hurt that quarterback Matt Schaub and receiver Andre Johnson had career-best games.

Schaub connected on 43 passes for 527 yards passing, both totals tying for second most in league history, and Johnson set a personal best with 273 yards receiving. His franchiserecord fifth touchdown pass was a screen to Johnson, who did the rest on a 48yard score for the gamewinner.

“You just never know in this league week to week what kind of game you’re going to be in and we got caught in a shootout type of game with a lot of offense,” Houston coach Gary Kubiak said. “We were fortunate enough to find a way to win.”

Detroit did enough to lose 24-20 to the Green Bay Packers last week at home, where it had plenty of opportunities to get a much-needed win.

SPRINGFIELD

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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III runs with ball during the second half against the Philadelphia Eagles in Landover, Md. Sunday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — There were no sighs of relief, no jumps for joy when the New York Jets found out they wouldn’t have to worry about Rob Gronkowski this week.

Sure, the New England Patriots lost perhaps the league’s top playmaking tight end for a few weeks with a broken forearm.

But Rex Ryan’s team knew better than to celebrate.

“I don’t know,” Ryan said, shaking his head.

“They have five tight ends on their roster, so I don’t know if they’ll put another guy in that role. I’m not sure how they’ll do it.”

If Ryan has learned anything in his nearly four seasons as coach of the Jets, it’s that Bill Belichick usually finds a way to win no matter who’s out there or isn’t on the field for the Patriots. Ryan also knows New England can change the personnel, but as long as it’s still Tom Brady’s bunch, it’ll be a tough task.

“When you look at him,” Ryan said, “you can almost say he’s a machine back there.”

And Ryan is right about the Patriots’ glut of tight ends. Aaron Hernandez could return for the game against the Jets (4-6) Thursday night at MetLife Stadium after missing the last three with a sprained right ankle, and New England also has Daniel Fells, Visanthe Shiancoe and Michael Hoomanawanui at the position.

“New England is so multiple, they give you sometimes it could be four wides, five wides, could be a bunch of tight ends and all that,” Ryan said. “So, we’ll see as the game goes how it affects them.”

Belichick was typically tight-lipped when asked if the loss of Gronkowski will

change the offense for the Patriots (7-3).

“Well, we’ll see,” he said.

“I don’t know. We’ll see.”

Sounds as though Belichick, one win from becoming the eighth NFL coach with 200 victories, has something up his hoodie. Just as he always does. Gronkowski or no Gronkowski, the Patriots still have Brady, of course, and that’s enough for anyone in New England to feel confident.

Brady was asked earlier this week if Gronkowski seemed to be in a decent mood when the two spoke.

“I haven’t been thinking about his spirits,” Brady said. “I’ve been thinking about the Jets.”

Uh-oh.

A focused and determined Brady is certainly cause for concern for the Jets.

“He’s going to be Brady,” safety LaRon Landry said.

“He’s going to complete passes and he’s going to be great out there. We are going against a tough quarterback.”

Talk about an understatement. Brady needs one touchdown pass to extend his streak with at least one to 43 straight games third-longest in league history behind Drew Brees (53 and counting) and Johnny Unitas (47). He has 51 career 300yard passing games in the regular season, and one more would put him into tie for fifth place with Kurt Warner. Brady also needs 86 yards passing to move past Dan Fouts (43,040) for 10th place on NFL’s career list.

“The thing about him is he’s a machine, yet he’s passionate and a fiery leader and all that type of stuff, so you wish he was just a machine,” Ryan said.

“His competitive side elevates his team as well.”

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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Robert Griffin III, the Texas-bred quarterback who won the Heisman Trophy at Baylor, comes to his home state for the first time as a pro for the most traditional of Thanksgiving rivalries Cowboys vs.

Redskins.

Hold on a minute with all that drama and emotion building for Thursday’s game. The Washington rookie grew up in Central Texas rooting for the Denver Broncos.

“It’s one game and that’s what we’ve got,” Griffin said. “We’ve got the Dallas Cowboys, and that’s what I’m going to play like.”

Hold on another minute before deciding he is completely blowing off the pretty cool idea that he’s coming home for a big game on a unique stage. He gets it.

“It will be fun. I’ll see a lot of familiar faces,” Griffin said.

“It’s CowboysRedskins or RedskinsCowboys, whatever way you want to put it. Me being a Texas kid, I know how big the rivalry is and I get my fair shot at it.”

Griffin has practical reasons for approaching Thursday’s game as one Washington needs to win.

Dallas quarterback Tony Romo does, too.

The Redskins (4-6) kept themselves in the playoff conversation by coming off the bye with a 31-6 blowout of Philadelphia, sparked by 14 of 15 passing and four touchdowns from Griffin. A win puts the Cowboys (5-5) a half-game behind the New York Giants in the NFC East five days after they risked ruining their season against last-place Cleveland before winning 23-20 in overtime.

“It started for us two weeks back,” Romo said.

“We’ve been putting our head down and grinding, going forward and trying put together win after win.”

The Cowboys have played the Redskins more than any other team in their annual Thanksgiving home game, and Dallas has won all six previous meetings.

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Trojans ■ CONTINUED FROM 10 the most successful seasons in Troy history. We won our first ever SWOHSHL North title, we were second in the SWOHSHL tournament to Springboro, we beat Bowling Green — the first time a SWOHSHL team has done that. And we expect this year’s team to be pretty good, too.”

Helping to ease the transtion for all of the new players to the team — which include not only five freshmen but at least one new player at each other grade level — will be a strong crop of veterans, some that have been in the system for years and some that fit right in after only one season.

Leading the senior class is forwards Brandon Beaty and Andrew Stang and defensemen Logan Tiderington and Michael Walter. Junior forward Eli Walters and defenseman Ellie Walters add depth, while a sopho-

more class that set the ice on fire last season provides even more punch. Clay Terrill led the team in scoring last season, and Will Schober was high on the list, too. Ian Ward added even more depth at the forward position, while defenseman Drew Morgan was second on the team in plus-minus last season.

And one position with a breadth of experience and young talent is the goalie position.

Senior Jake Eldridge and junior Eric Wright shared duties last season, and they will be joined by freshman William Wilkerson.

“Eric was tremendous in goal last year, and Jake has had two exceptional seasons with us,” Walters said. “He’s looking for a third.”

New to the team this season are senior forward Evan Spahr, junior forward Mason Hagen, sophomores Alex Smith (forward) and Jake Uhlenbrock (defenseman),

freshman defenseman Troy Moore and freshmen forwards Doug Eardly, Tyler Hess and A.J. Noll.

“Some of the freshmen on the squad this year are pretty good and will be pushing for time on the ice,” Walters said. “Alex (Smith) and Jake (Uhlenbrock) didn’t play last year and are both starting quality players, as is Mason (Hagen).”

For the Trojans — who rode strong defensive play to success last year — the focus this season will be more on fine-tuning their offensive capabilities.

“We’re going to have a lot of speed again, and we’ve been working a lot on our skating,” Walters said. “We have a lot of talent up front, and we may concentrate more on our offensive punch.”

But that’s not saying they’re forgetting what made them so strong in the first place.

“If you want to succeed at

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Troy’s Logan Tiderington skates up the ice with the puck during a game last season. any level, you have to keep the puck out of the net,” Walters said. “With the goaltending we have, if we can get strong play in front of them, we’re going to be competitive in every game we

play. We’re going to try to keep the puck out of the net and take advantage of the opportunities we’re given.

That’s just the game we play.”

And when looking to

defense their SWOHSHL North title, the Trojans are going to need everything they can muster.

“Springboro is going to be tough again. They return a lot of players, including their leading scorer,” Walters said.

“This is probably a rebuilding year for Beavercreek, and Centerville will be tough, but maybe not as tough as a traditional Centerville team.

“In the South, St. Xavier is always tough, Sycamore is right there, Talawanda will be good as always and Elder is much improved. Plus we play a lot of tournaments in Columbus and host our own tournament here in January with a lot of good teams coming to Troy.”

The Trojans open the season this weekend at Kettering Rec Center in the Frozen Creek Tournament.

Troy faces CVCA Friday, takes on both Kenston and Beavercreek on Saturday and Alter on Sunday.

■ Youth Sports

■ College Football

‘Athletic arms race’

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Overzealousness turning youth sports into something sinister MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer Shawn Worthy admits he’s a competitive guy — and a competitive parent, sometimes.

Yet even he was floored when a couple of moms he met at a pro junior golf tournament told him that their teen daughters would be entered in 30 such events this past summer.

“Why are these young ladies out on the golf course playing competitively four or five days a week?”

Worthy asked himself.

His own 16-year-old daughter, Soleil, holds down a job while participating in a few tournaments each summer. She and the other young women are good, Worthy says, maybe talented enough to play in college.

But 30 tournaments?

“If you’re a future Olympian, I get it. But for these kids who will never reach that level, that’s what I don’t get,” says Worthy, a professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver with an interest in sports psychology.

“What does it say about our culture that we go to this extreme?” he asks.

“And that we push our kids to this extreme?”

It’s not just golf. Many parents, coaches and researchers see a steady upping of the ante in youth sports, with kids whose families can afford the time and cost involved playing more, practicing more and specializing in one sport at younger ages.

Parents are driven by a desire to help their children stand out and the fear that, if they don’t, their kids will be left behind. To keep pace, they’re often traveling hundreds if not thousands of miles a year for games and tournaments. Some parents send their children to personal trainers, or to the growing number of “elite” training facilities that have opened in recent years.

Often, the goal is to simply land a spot on the local high school team, an accomplishment once taken for granted. Or, a young person may try to get on a roster in the growing private club team system — an even more exclusive route that some top teenage athletes are choosing, especially when high schools cut coaches and opportunities.

“It’s an athletic arms race,” says Scott VanderStoep, a psychology professor at Hope College in Holland, Mich., who studies youth sports.

And it starts early.

“It sort of spreads throughout the community and then it reduces down in age,” VanderStoep says. “If it’s OK for 14-year-olds, then it’s OK for a 12-yearold, or a 10-year-old.”

How can this obsession with playing sports exist in a country where the

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Shawn Worthy watches as his 16-year-old daughter Soleil practices putting at a golf course near their home Oct. 22 in Aurora, Colo. Worthy, a professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver with an interest in sports psychology, questions the extreme emphasis that parents put on youth in sports.

Centers for Disease Control say more than a third of young Americans are overweight or obese? The juxtaposition seems unlikely, but a longstanding survey from the National Sporting Goods Association found that youth participation in most team sports has steadily dropped in the last decade.

The number of 12- to 17year-olds who played baseball in any kind of setting has, for instance, dropped 36 percent from 2001 to 2011, according to the survey. Basketball participation has dropped nearly 20 percent. Swimming and tackle football each dropped about 10 percent, volleyball participation 2 percent and soccer 1.4 percent.

Nonetheless, it would be oversimplifying to say the United States has become a nation of couch potatoes.

Experts who track youth sports say many young people simply don’t have the chance to play, or resources to do so.

Some schools in cashstrapped districts have cut back on sports and physical education. And even in some wealthier districts, high school populations have grown, leaving more kids to vie for fewer spots on teams.

These dwindling opportunities have only fed the hyper-competitive atmosphere, says VanderStoep, who admits that, as a dad of two daughters who play volleyball, even he feels beholden to the system.

For his daughters, that has meant weight-lifting camps and tournaments, required practices and

schedules packed with games that could be any night of the week — and have made it more difficult for his youngest daughter to find the time to play other sports.

“You feel obligated to do it. You want to give your kids the opportunity,” he says. “And if they don’t show up, they lose opportunities to play.”

Corinne Henson, a mom in suburban Chicago, knows about those hard choices. Her sons, 11-yearold Tyler and 14-year-old Dylan, play year-round baseball on different traveling teams and also manage to squeeze in basketball and football for their local park district.

The boys do it because they love it — live for it, really.

“I wouldn’t give up sports for anything,” Dylan says as he sits on the couch in his living room waiting for football practice to start.

“Me either,” his younger brother quickly adds.

But there are sacrifices, especially for their parents.

Time spent on sports has meant giving up their longtime campsite in Indiana where they’d kept a travel trailer. They simply have no time to go there. “Our vacations are baseball trips,” Henson says.

The toughest compromise came in July when their town, Oak Forest, Ill., had a fundraiser for Dylan’s best friend, who was seriously injured when he was hit by a hit-and-run driver. Dylan, a catcher who is captain of his traveling baseball team, had four tournament games that day. He decided he had to

be at the tournament, and showed up at the fundraiser as it was wrapping up.

His friend understood. “I would have done the same thing,” he told Dylan. The traveling team won the tournament, likely because Dylan stayed, his mom says.

“But it’s so hard, as a parent.”

There is, however, one rule in the Henson house that does not bend: “Homework first,” says mom, who’s a teacher.

And that’s a perspective that Jon Butler, executive director of Pop Warner Little Scholars, an international youth football and cheerleading program, hears less and less.

He used to worry about overzealous coaches. But in more recent years, he’s watched as parents have clamored to find ways to improve their children’s athletic prowess. He says his advice to them — “don’t hire a speed coach, hire a tutor” — is often met with disgust.

“It’s not what they want to hear,” he says.

Bill Jaworski, a dad who’s also a youth baseball coach in New Jersey, says he is often “shocked and chagrined” at how easily some parents lose perspective about their kids’ sports.

“These are people you see at the pub, or on the train, or out on the street.

They’re just normal folks — and then you get them to the game and they turn into these rabid freakazoids,” says Jaworski, a philosophy professor at Fordham University.

He remembers learning baseball at the local park with friends or in the backyard. Today, he’s seeing kids as young as age 7 learning the skills at elite training facilities, some that focus on specific sports and others on overall fitness.

Billy Hirschfield, now 16, was 11 when his dad first took him to an establishment called NX+Level, in Waukesha, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee.

The atmosphere at NX+Level, can be intense.

Pro athletes train there.

Signs on the gym walls say things like, “You can only be a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge.”

But it was exactly the kind of atmosphere Billy craved back then, says his dad Ronnie Hirschfield. “He was a chunky kid, and he didn’t like that,” dad says.

Today, his son is a high school junior and varsity football player being recruited by major college football teams.

Now a 6-foot-6, 270pound defensive tackle and end, he’s so big and muscular — and so dedicated to his training — that his friends call him “the freak.”

“I never in a million years thought it would be like that,” says his dad, who

figures he spends $8,000 to $10,000 a year on sports, including training and travel to tournaments.

But, he adds, “Why wouldn’t you spend that on your son to make him a better person? And if he ends up walking away with a scholarship, it was the best investment I could have ever made.”

Brad Arnett, the owner of NX+Level, knows there are those who question whether kids should train in his facility. But he makes it clear that they have to want to be there, as Billy did.

“We don’t bring them in and work them until they puke,” Arnett says. “There is a means to an end.”

He says training in a club like his helps kids develop more strength and agility — and also avoid injury because they’re in better shape.

But others think the training should be done in a different type of setting, with less emphasis on competitiveness.

“Things are going down a dangerous path,” says David Finch, a certified strength and conditioning specialist who recently left his job as a school psychologist in Chicago to open his gym in Middleton, Wis., outside Madison.

If parents bring younger kids in, he often suggests learning a few overall fitness techniques and working on them at home.

He says the focus should be on fun and developing long-term healthy habits.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a parent who’d disagree with that. But with competition all around, parents don’t just worry about a child’s athletic career or getting into a good college.

Many worry about getting them into a decent elementary school.

Sports can be seen as a way to set a kid apart from the pack.

“You try and build the perfect kid,” says Adam Naylor, a clinical assistant professor of sports psychology at Boston University who works with parents and athletes, some as young as age 12.

And that, he adds, can lead to “overtraining, overuse and an over-committed kid, which has fallout.”

As psychologist Wendy Grolnick sees it, that’s just parents doing what they’re wired to do — responding to a very primal instinct to protect their children and ensure their survival.

“Parents love their kids and they don’t want them to miss out,” says Grolnick, a professor at Clark University who wrote the book “Pressured Parents, Stressed-out Children: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child.”

“There’s just so much competition in the air,” she says. “Very nice people are feeling this way.”

■ CONTINUED FROM 10 might be something bigger than normal. It might be unique in the history of the series.

With a win on Saturday, Ohio State can finish 12-0. It would be the sixth perfect season in OSU football history. But coming after a 6-7 season and all the turmoil of the last two years, it would be in a category of its own.

When Michigan broke a seven-year Ohio State winning streak last season, it signaled a revival of the Wolverines’ fortunes under first-year coach Brady Hoke, who grew up a Michigan fan in Ohio.

Hiring Meyer and going 11-0 to start this season has delivered a message that OSU’s 6-7 record last season is an aberration. After two or three years of the intensity tank being half full, it’s back to a high level and appears likely to stay there.

Part of that is that the two coaches, both Ohio natives, seem to understand the depth of the rivalry.

“In the era when I grew up, there really wasn’t much other than three channels on your television,” Meyer said.

“There was this game. It was Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes, Pete Johnson, Archie Griffin. That’s all.”

And when assembling his staff, Meyer hired eight coaches who had a connection with Ohio State or Ohio.

Meyer let the Big Ten know it was not business as usual when he began recruiting other teams’ verbally committed players. He never says Michigan, preferring instead “That Team Up North.” Hoke has tweaked Ohio State fans since the day he was hired by referring to it as “Ohio” and insists his players do the same. He tells verbal commitments if they visit any other school he will withdraw their scholarship offer.

Game on. When No. 4 Ohio State (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten) plays No. 19 Michigan (8-3, 6-1 Big Ten) Saturday at Ohio Stadium, the rivalry will be looking very healthy.

“Everybody talks about rivalry games. It was that team up north (Toledo) when I was at Bowling Green. At Utah, there was a team down south (BYU) and there was the team out west (Florida State) at Florida. I think this is just a pure, intense rivalry.

“We’re just talking about winning this game. We’re not talking about what everybody is going to think a week from now, two weeks from now. Our kids are focused in.

“The pregame speech isn’t going to get these kids fired up to play this game.

That’s where a lot of people get confused, saying, ‘Hey, what are you going to do special for this week?’ We’ve got to get real good at offense, defense and kicking. That’s what we’re going to do special,” he said. “We have more conversation about games that aren’t quite as appealing. If we had to motivate them for this one, we wouldn’t be 11-0.”

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 3 0 .700 358 225 4 6 0 .400 202 241 N.Y. Jets 4 6 0 .400 230 299 Buffalo 4 6 0 .400 187 205 Miami South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 9 1 0 .900 293 180 Indianapolis 6 4 0 .600 210 260 Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 219 311 1 9 0 .100 164 289 Jacksonville North W L T Pct PF PA 8 2 0 .800 267 206 Baltimore Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 217 190 Cincinnati 5 5 0 .500 248 237 Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 189 234 West W L T Pct PF PA 7 3 0 .700 301 212 Denver 4 6 0 .400 232 221 San Diego 3 7 0 .300 208 322 Oakland Kansas City 1 9 0 .100 152 284 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 6 4 0 .600 267 216 N.Y. Giants 5 5 0 .500 211 224 Dallas 4 6 0 .400 257 254 Washington Philadelphia 3 7 0 .300 162 252 South W L T Pct PF PA 9 1 0 .900 270 193 Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 287 230 Tampa Bay New Orleans 5 5 0 .500 287 273 2 8 0 .200 184 243 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 263 207 Chicago 7 3 0 .700 249 165 6 4 0 .600 238 221 Minnesota 4 6 0 .400 236 246 Detroit West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 7 2 1 .750 245 134 Seattle 6 4 0 .600 198 161 Arizona 4 6 0 .400 163 196 3 6 1 .350 174 237 St. Louis Thursday's Game Buffalo 19, Miami 14 Sunday's Games Dallas 23, Cleveland 20, OT N.Y. Jets 27, St. Louis 13 Houston 43, Jacksonville 37, OT Cincinnati 28, Kansas City 6 Washington 31, Philadelphia 6 Green Bay 24, Detroit 20 Atlanta 23, Arizona 19 Tampa Bay 27, Carolina 21, OT New Orleans 38, Oakland 17 Denver 30, San Diego 23 New England 59, Indianapolis 24 Baltimore 13, Pittsburgh 10 Open: Minnesota, N.Y. Giants, Seattle, Tennessee Monday's Game San Francisco 32, Chicago 7 Thursday, Nov. 22 Houston at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 25 Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Miami, 1 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 26 Carolina at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

4; Fresno State 3; Middle Tennessee 3; Arkansas State 2; Cincinnati1; Texas Tech 1.

AP Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 17, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Pts Pv .................................Record 1. Notre Dame (60) ..11-0 1,500 3 2. Alabama................10-1 1,399 4 3. Georgia.................10-1 1,316 5 4. Ohio St..................11-0 1,292 6 5. Oregon..................10-1 1,246 1 6. Florida...................10-1 1,171 7 7. Kansas St. ............10-1 1,064 2 8. LSU .........................9-2 1,048 8 9.Texas A&M..............9-2 1,028 9 10. Florida St. ...........10-1 1,026 10 991 14 11. Stanford ................9-2 12. Clemson .............10-1 874 11 13. South Carolina......9-2 795 12 734 13 14. Oklahoma .............8-2 624 17 15. UCLA ....................9-2 16. Oregon St. ............8-2 599 15 17. Nebraska ..............9-2 559 16 498 18 18.Texas .....................8-2 362 20 19. Louisville ...............9-1 20. Michigan ...............8-3 282 23 21. Rutgers .................9-1 265 22 22. Oklahoma St. .......7-3 240 NR 23. Kent St. ...............10-1 155 25 24. N. Illinois..............10-1 144 NR 25. Mississippi St........8-3 82 NR 25. Utah St..................9-2 82 NR Others receiving votes: Boise St. 20, Northwestern 20, Washington 20, Arizona 13, Southern Cal 12, Tulsa 10, San Jose St. 8, Fresno St. 7, Louisiana Tech 4, Wisconsin 4, San Diego St. 2, Baylor 1, Iowa St. 1, TCU 1, Vanderbilt 1.

College Football Schedule All Times EST (Subject to change) Thursday, Nov. 22 SOUTH Tuskegee (0-1) at Alabama St. (7-3), 4 p.m.

SOUTHWEST TCU (6-4) at Texas (8-2), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 23 EAST Syracuse (6-5) at Temple (4-6), 11 a.m.

Cent. Michigan (5-6) at UMass (110), 3 p.m.

MIDWEST Ohio (8-3) at Kent St. (10-1), 11 a.m.

Nebraska (9-2) at Iowa (4-7), Noon N. Illinois (10-1) at E. Michigan (2-9), 1 p.m.

Ball St. (8-3) at Miami (Ohio) (4-7), 1 p.m.

Buffalo (4-7) at Bowling Green (7-4), 2 p.m.

West Virginia (5-5) at Iowa St. (6-5), 3:30 p.m.

South Florida (3-7) at Cincinnati (73), 7 p.m.

SOUTH Marshall (5-6) at East Carolina (7-4), 2 p.m.

SOUTHWEST LSU (9-2) at Arkansas (4-7), 2:30 p.m.

FAR WEST Utah (4-7) at Colorado (1-10), 3 p.m.

Washington (7-4) at Washington St. (2-9), 3:30 p.m.

Arizona St. (6-5) at Arizona (7-4), 10 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 24 EAST Rutgers (9-1) at Pittsburgh (4-6), Noon Wisconsin (7-4) at Penn St. (7-4), 3:30 p.m.

MIDWEST Illinois (2-9) at Northwestern (8-3), Noon Michigan (8-3) at Ohio St. (11-0), Noon Indiana (4-7) at Purdue (5-6), Noon Michigan St. (5-6) at Minnesota (6-5), 3:30 p.m.

SOUTH Georgia Tech (6-5) at Georgia (10-1), Noon UConn (4-6) at Louisville (9-1), Noon UAB (3-8) at UCF (8-3), Noon Virginia (4-7) at Virginia Tech (5-6), Noon Kentucky (2-9) at Tennessee (4-7), 12:21 p.m.

Miami (6-5) at Duke (6-5), 12:30 p.m.

North Texas (4-7) at W. Kentucky (65), 1 p.m.

Grambling St. (1-9) vs. Southern U. (3-7) at New Orleans, 2:30 p.m.

Boston College (2-9) at NC State (65), 3 p.m.

Maryland (4-7) at North Carolina (74), 3 p.m.

Auburn (3-8) at Alabama (10-1), 3:30 p.m.

Florida (10-1) at Florida St. (10-1), 3:30 p.m.

Troy (5-6) at Middle Tennessee (7-3), 3:30 p.m.

Vanderbilt (7-4) at Wake Forest (5-6), 3:30 p.m.

Southern Miss. (0-11) at Memphis (38), 4:30 p.m.

South Alabama (2-9) at LouisianaLafayette (6-4), 5 p.m.

Louisiana-Monroe (7-4) at FIU (3-8), 6 p.m.

South Carolina (9-2) at Clemson (101), 7 p.m.

Mississippi St. (8-3) at Mississippi (56), 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Tulsa (9-2) at SMU (5-6), Noon Texas St. (3-7) at UTSA (7-4), 2 p.m.

Texas Tech (7-4) vs. Baylor (5-5) at Arlington, Texas, 2:30 p.m.

Tulane (2-9) at Houston (4-7), 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma St. (7-3) at Oklahoma (82), 3:30 p.m.

Missouri (5-6) at Texas A&M (9-2), 7 p.m.

Rice (5-6) at UTEP (3-8), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Idaho (1-10) at Utah St. (9-2), 3 p.m.

Air Force (6-5) at Fresno St. (8-3), 3:30 p.m.

BYU (6-5) at New Mexico St. (1-9), 3:30 p.m.

Oregon (10-1) at Oregon St. (8-2), 3:30 p.m.

San Diego St. (8-3) at Wyoming (47), 3:30 p.m.

Stanford (9-2) at UCLA (9-2), 6:30 p.m.

New Mexico (4-8) at Colorado St. (38), 7 p.m.

Notre Dame (11-0) at Southern Cal (7-4), 8 p.m.

Louisiana Tech (9-2) at San Jose St. (9-2), 10:30 p.m.

UNLV (2-10) at Hawaii (1-9), 11 p.m.

FCS Playoffs First Round Colgate (8-3) at Wagner (8-3), Noon Coastal Carolina (7-4) at BethuneCookman (9-2), 2 p.m.

Eastern Illinois (7-4) at South Dakota State (8-3), 3 p.m.

Villanova (8-3) at Stony Brook (9-2), 3 p.m.

USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 17, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: ..............................Record Pts Pvs 1. Notre Dame (56) ..11-0 1,469 3 2. Alabama (2)..........10-1 1,386 5 3. Georgia (1) ...........10-1 1,348 4 4. Oregon..................10-1 1,227 1 5. Florida St. .............10-1 1,199 6 6. Florida...................10-1 1,166 7 7. LSU .........................9-2 1,062 8 8. Kansas St. ............10-1 1,056 2 9. Clemson................10-1 1,029 9 10.Texas A&M............9-2 994 10 11. Stanford ................9-2 934 13 12. South Carolina......9-2 853 11 13. Oklahoma .............8-2 798 12 14. Nebraska ..............9-2 654 14 15.Texas .....................8-2 593 15 16. UCLA ....................9-2 590 16 17. Oregon St. ............8-2 563 17 18. Louisville ...............9-1 453 18 19. Rutgers .................9-1 408 20 20. Michigan ...............8-3 289 23 21. Oklahoma St. .......7-3 258 24 22. Boise St. ...............9-2 243 22 23. Northern Illinois..10-1 149 NR 24. Mississippi St........8-3 99 NR 25. Kent St. ...............10-1 86 NR Others Receiving Votes: Utah State 74; Northwestern 59; Louisiana Tech 36; Washington 36; Southern California 14; Tulsa 14; San Jose State 7; San Diego State 6; Arizona 5;Vanderbilt 4;Wisconsin

OHSAA Football State semifinals Pairings The regional final pairings below include the seeds and won-lost records of the qualifiers. Neutral sites were selected by the OHSAA. Home teams are listed first and appear at the top of the brackets at OHSAA.org.

Division I State Semifinals, Sat., Nov. 24: Mentor vs.Tol. Whitmer Pickerington N. vs. Cin. Colerain Division I State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division II State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Aurora vs.Toledo Central New Albany vs.Trotwood-Madison Division II State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Division III State Semifinals, Sat., Nov. 24: Akr. SVSM vs. Dover Bellevue vs. Day.Thurgood Marshall Division III State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 11 a.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division IV State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Creston Norwayne vs. St. Clairsville Cols. Hartley vs. Clarksville ClintonMassie Division IV State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 3 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division V State Semifinals, Sat., Nov.

Scores AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN — TCU at Texas GOLF 3 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, DP World Tour Championship, second round, at Dubai, United Arab Emirates MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, West Virginia vs. Marist, at Orlando, Fla. 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, Vanderbilt vs. Davidson, at Orlando, Fla. 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, first round, Drexel vs. Saint Mary's (Cal), at Anaheim, Calif.

7 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, UTEP vs.

Oklahoma, at Orlando, Fla. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, first round, Memphis vs. VCU, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, Clemson vs. Gonzaga, at Orlando, Fla. 9:30 p.m. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, first round, Louisville vs. N. Iowa, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 11:30 p.m. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, first round, Drake vs. California, at Anaheim, Calif.

NFL FOOTBALL 12:30 p.m. CBS — Houston at Detroit 4:15 p.m. FOX — Washington at Dallas 8:30 p.m. NBC — New England at N.Y. Jets

FRIDAY AUTO RACING 11 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, practice for Grand Prix of Brazil, at Sao Paulo COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11 a.m. ESPN2 — Syracuse at Temple Noon ABC — Nebraska at Iowa 2:30 p.m. CBS — LSU at Arkansas 3 p.m. FX — Utah at Colorado 3:30 p.m. ABC — West Virginia at Iowa St. FOX — Washington at Washington St. 7 p.m. ESPN — South Florida at Cincinnati 10 p.m. ESPN — Arizona St. at Arizona GOLF 3 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, DP World Tour Championship, third round, at Dubai, United Arab Emirates MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 12:30 p.m. ESPN — Old Spice Classic, semifinal, teams TBD, at Orlando, Fla. 2:30 p.m. ESPN — NIT Season Tip-Off, third place game, teams TBD, at New York 3:30 p.m. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, semifinal, teams TBD, at Anaheim, Calif.

5 p.m. ESPN — NIT Season Tip-Off, championship game, teams TBD, at New York 5:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, consolation round, teams TBD, at Orlando, Fla. 7 p.m. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, semifinal, teams TBD, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, semifinal, teams TBD, at Orlando, Fla. 9:30 p.m. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, semifinal, teams TBD, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 10 p.m. ESPN2 — Las Vegas Invitational, first round, Creighton vs. Wisconsin 12 Mid. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, semifinal, teams TBD, at Anaheim, Calif.

PREP FOOTBALL 10:30 p.m. FSN — Teams TBA

THE BCS RANKINGS As of Nov. 18 Rk 1. Notre Dame 1 2 2. Alabama 3 3. Georgia 4. Florida 5 5. Oregon 4 7 6. Kansas St. 8 7. LSU 8. Stanford 11 9. Texas A&M 10 6 10. Florida St. 11. Clemson 9 12. South Carolina12 13. Oklahoma 13 14 14. Nebraska 15. Oregon St. 15 16. Texas 17 16 17. UCLA 18. Rutgers 19 19. Michigan 20 20. Louisville 18 21. Oklahoma St. 22 22. Boise St. 21 23. Kent St. 25 24. Arizona 31 25. Washington 30

Harris Pts 2863 2732 2573 2242 2483 2161 2077 1897 1909 2231 1953 1647 1530 1275 1202 1088 1144 756 575 898 425 426 196 21 53

Pct .9958 .9503 .8950 .7798 .8637 .7517 .7224 .6598 .6640 .7760 .6793 .5729 .5322 .4435 .4181 .3784 .3979 .2630 .2000 .3123 .1478 .1482 .0682 .0073 .0184

24: Kirtland vs. Baltimore Liberty Union Findlay Liberty-Benton vs. Coldwater Division V State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 3 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Division VI State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Mogadore vs. Newark Cath.

McComb vs. Maria Stein Marion Local Division VI State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 11 a.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 8 1 .889 Brooklyn 6 3 .667 Philadelphia 7 4 .636 Boston 6 5 .545 Toronto 3 8 .273 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 8 3 .727 Atlanta 5 4 .556 Charlotte 5 4 .556 Orlando 3 7 .300 Washington 0 9 .000 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 6 3 .667 Chicago 5 5 .500 Indiana 5 7 .417 Cleveland 2 8 .200 Detroit 2 9 .182 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

GB — 2 2 3 6 GB — 2 2 4½ 7 GB — 1½ 2½ 4½ 5

Rk 1 2 3 6 4 8 7 11 10 5 9 12 13 14 17 15 16 19 20 18 21 22 25 34 28

USA Today Pts Pct 1469 .9959 1386 .9397 1348 .9139 1166 .7905 1227 .8319 1056 .7159 1062 .7200 934 .6332 994 .6739 1199 .8129 1029 .6976 853 .5783 798 .5410 654 .4434 563 .3817 593 .4020 590 .4000 408 .2766 289 .1959 453 .3071 258 .1749 243 .1647 86 .0583 5 .0034 36 .0244

Computer BCS Rk Pct Avg Pv 11.0000 .9973 3 3 .9100 .9333 4 6 .8200 .8763 5 2 .9600 .8434 6 7 .8000 .8318 2 4 .8400 .7692 1 8 .7500 .7308 7 5 .8300 .7077 13 10 .6200 .6526 8 17 .3200 .6363 10 15 .4400 .6056 11 11 .6100 .5871 9 9 .6300 .5677 12 12 .5500 .4790 14 12 .5500 .4499 16 14 .4900 .4235 15 16 .3500 .3826 17 21 .1900 .2432 22 19 .2800 .2253 21 26 .0300 .2165 19 18 .2900 .2042 24 30 .0000 .1043 NR 22 .1600 .0955 NR 20 .2400 .0836 NR 23 .1500 .0643 25

W L Pct GB Memphis 8 2 .800 — San Antonio 8 3 .727 ½ Dallas 6 6 .500 3 Houston 4 7 .364 4½ New Orleans 3 6 .333 4½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 8 3 .727 — Minnesota 5 4 .556 2 Utah 6 6 .500 2½ Portland 5 5 .500 2½ Denver 5 6 .455 3 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 8 2 .800 — Golden State 6 5 .545 2½ L.A. Lakers 6 5 .545 2½ Phoenix 4 7 .364 4½ Sacramento 2 8 .200 6 Tuesday's Games Philadelphia 106, Toronto 98 New York 102, New Orleans 80 L.A. Lakers 95, Brooklyn 90 Wednesday's Games Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Orlando, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

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

Portland at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Brooklyn at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday's Games

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 No games scheduled Friday's Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Houston, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Indiana, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 10 p.m.

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Prv ...............................Record 1. Indiana (46) ...........3-0 1,602 1 2. Louisville (19) ........3-0 1,579 2 3. Ohio St. .................3-0 1,404 4 4. Michigan ................3-0 1,388 5 5. Duke ......................3-0 1,372 9 6. Syracuse................2-0 1,291 8 7. Florida....................3-0 1,203 10 8. Kentucky................2-1 1,166 3 9. North Carolina.......3-0 1,064 11 10. Arizona ................2-0 983 12 11. UCLA...................3-0 845 13 12. Kansas ................2-1 797 7 13. Missouri ...............3-0 794 14 14. Creighton.............3-0 721 15 15. Michigan St. ........2-1 692 21 16. NC State..............3-1 600 6 17. Gonzaga..............3-0 559 19 18. UNLV ...................2-0 556 18 19. Memphis..............2-0 548 17 20. Oklahoma St. ......4-0 449 — 21. UConn .................4-0 321 23 22. Cincinnati.............3-0 265 24 23. Colorado..............4-0 237 — 24. Baylor...................4-1 202 16 25. San Diego St.......2-1 98 25 Others receiving votes: Minnesota 93, Wisconsin 60, Pittsburgh 43, Notre Dame 40, Texas 25, Saint Joseph's 24, Florida St. 15, Alabama 13, Marquette 13, Wichita St. 13, Saint Mary's (Cal) 9, Kansas St. 7, Ohio 7, Xavier 7, New Mexico 6, Bucknell 5, Murray St. 4, N. Iowa 2, Tennessee 2, Maryland 1.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 18, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Pvs ...............................Record 1. Indiana (26) ...........3-0 770 1 2. Louisville (5) ..........3-0 745 2 3. Ohio State .............3-0 666 4 4. Michigan ................3-0 643 5 5. Duke ......................3-0 642 9 6. Syracuse................2-0 603 8 7. Kentucky................2-1 547 3 8. Florida....................3-0 541 10 9. North Carolina.......3-0 488 11 10. Arizona ................2-0 482 12 11. Kansas ................2-1 458 7 12. Creighton.............3-0 390 13 13. UCLA...................3-0 377 14 14. Missouri ...............3-0 363 15 15. N.C. State ............3-1 323 6 16. Gonzaga..............3-0 305 19 17. Memphis..............2-0 288 16 18. UNLV ...................2-0 254 18 19. Michigan State ....2-1 239 22 20. Cincinnati.............3-0 117 24 21. Baylor...................4-1 116 17 22. Oklahoma State ..4-0 113 — 23. UConn .................4-0 101 — 24. Wisconsin ............2-1 79 20 25. San Diego State..2-1 77 23 Others receiving votes: Texas 61, Colorado 59, Notre Dame 31, Pittsburgh 28, Minnesota 23, Saint Mary's 18, New Mexico 16, Kansas State 15, Alabama 12, VCU 12, Florida State 11, Marquette 11, Murray State 10, Bucknell 9, Maryland 9, Ohio 5, Tennessee 5, Stanford 4, Belmont 3, Saint Joseph's 3, Colorado State 2, South Alabama 1.

GOLF World Golf Ranking Through Nov. 18 1. Rory McIlroy .................NIr 12.59 9.06 2. Luke Donald ...............Eng 3. Tiger Woods...............USA 9.00 4. Lee Westwood............Eng 6.60 6.59 5. Adam Scott .................Aus 6.15 6. Louis Oosthuizen ........SAf 7. Justin Rose.................Eng 6.08 8. Jason Dufner .............USA 5.83 5.71 9. Webb Simpson ..........USA 10. Brandt Snedeker .....USA 5.64 11. Bubba Watson.........USA 5.49 5.21 12. Phil Mickelson..........USA 5.16 13. Ian Poulter ................Eng 14. Steve Stricker ..........USA 5.08 15. Keegan Bradley.......USA 4.97 16. Nick Watney.............USA 4.94 17. Matt Kuchar .............USA 4.88 18. Dustin Johnson .......USA 4.81 19. Peter Hanson...........Swe 4.77 20. Ernie Els....................SAf 4.69 21. Zach Johnson..........USA 4.64 22. Sergio Garcia............Esp 4.60 23. Bo Van Pelt ..............USA 4.44 24. Graeme McDowell .....NIr 4.37 25. Hunter Mahan .........USA 4.17 26. Jim Furyk.................USA 3.95 27. Paul Lawrie ...............Sco 3.79 28. Rickie Fowler ...........USA 3.61 29. Francesco Molinari......Ita 3.61 30. Martin Kaymer ..........Ger 3.55 31. Carl Pettersson ........Swe 3.53 32. Charl Schwartzel.......SAf 3.44 33. Fernandez-Castano..Esp 3.38 34. Jason Day .................Aus 3.33 35. Nicolas Colsaerts ......Bel 3.29 36. Bill Haas ..................USA 3.25 37. John Senden.............Aus 3.09 38. Branden Grace..........SAf 3.08 39. David Toms ..............USA 3.07 40. Robert Garrigus ......USA 3.04 41. Ryan Moore.............USA 3.00 42. Scott Piercy .............USA 2.91 43. Matteo Manassero......Ita 2.76 44. Thomas Bjorn...........Den 2.74 45. David Lynn................Eng 2.70 46. K.J. Choi.....................Kor 2.67 47. Hiroyuki Fujita............Jpn 2.45 48. Jamie Donaldson......Wal 2.40 49. George Coetzee........SAf 2.36 50. Fredrik Jacobson .....Swe 2.36 51. Geoff Ogilvy ..............Aus 2.34 52. Alexander Noren......Swe 2.32 53. Rafael Cabrera Bello Esp 2.29 54. Thorbjorn Olesen .....Den 2.29 55. Martin Laird...............Sco 2.29 56. Richie Ramsay .........Sco 2.27 57. Shane Lowry................Irl 2.25 58. Marcus Fraser...........Aus 2.24 59. Miguel Angel JimenezEsp 2.23 60. Marcel Siem..............Ger 2.22 61. Bae Sang-moon ........Kor 2.22 62. Greg Chalmers .........Aus 2.21 63. Kevin Na ..................USA 2.19 64. Anders Hansen ........Den 2.19 65. Bud Cauley..............USA 2.19

66. Padraig Harrington.......Irl 67. Bernd Wiesberger .....Aut 68. Simon Dyson............Eng 69. Aaron Baddeley ........Aus 70. John Huh .................USA 71. Henrik Stenson ........Swe 72. Kyle Stanley.............USA 73. K.T. Kim......................Kor 74. Jonas Blixt................Swe 75. Vijay Singh...................Fji

2.14 2.14 2.13 2.09 2.08 2.06 2.05 2.02 2.00 1.97

PGA Tour Money Leaders Final .......................................TrnYTD Money 1. Rory McIlroy ...............16 $8,047,952 2.Tiger Woods ...............19 $6,133,158 3. Brandt Snedeker........22 $4,989,739 4. Jason Dufner..............22 $4,869,304 5. Bubba Watson............19 $4,644,997 6. Zach Johnson ............25 $4,504,244 7. Justin Rose.................19 $4,290,930 8. Phil Mickelson ............22 $4,203,821 9. Hunter Mahan ............23 $4,019,193 10. Keegan Bradley........25 $3,910,658 11. Matt Kuchar..............22 $3,903,065 12. Jim Furyk..................24 $3,623,805 13. Carl Pettersson ........26 $3,538,656 14. Luke Donald.............17 $3,512,024 15. Louis Oosthuizen.....19 $3,460,995 16. Ernie Els...................22 $3,453,118 17. Webb Simpson.........22 $3,436,758 18. Steve Stricker ...........19 $3,420,021 19. Dustin Johnson........19 $3,393,820 20. Robert Garrigus.......26 $3,206,530 21. Rickie Fowler............23 $3,066,293 22. Nick Watney .............26 $3,044,224 23. Bo Van Pelt...............24 $3,043,509 24. Lee Westwood .........15 $3,016,569 25. Adam Scott...............16 $2,899,557 26. Ryan Moore..............24 $2,858,944 27. Scott Piercy ..............28 $2,699,205 28. John Huh..................28 $2,692,113 29. Sergio Garcia ...........16 $2,510,116 30. Ben Curtis ................19 $2,494,153 31. Graeme McDowell...16 $2,408,279 32. Kyle Stanley..............27 $2,351,857 33. Bill Haas ...................23 $2,349,951 34. Jonas Blixt................21 $2,255,695 35. Johnson Wagner......27 $2,225,007 36. Martin Laird ..............22 $2,172,883 37. Mark Wilson .............25 $2,144,780 38. Kevin Na ...................25 $2,029,943 39. Brendon de Jonge...31 $2,015,252 40. Matt Every................25 $1,972,166 41. Marc Leishman ........23 $1,933,761 42. John Senden............22 $1,916,651 43. Charlie Wi.................25 $1,845,397 44. Bud Cauley...............28 $1,774,479 45. Ian Poulter ................15 $1,715,271 46. Ben Crane................23 $1,701,365 47. David Toms...............19 $1,658,428 48. Jimmy Walker...........28 $1,638,419 49. Seung-Yul Noh.........28 $1,629,751 50. Jonathan Byrd..........21 $1,616,789 51.Vijay Singh................27 $1,586,305 52. Jeff Overton..............29 $1,563,670 53. Padraig Harrington...18 $1,546,272 54. Kevin Stadler ............25 $1,546,036 55.Tommy Gainey .........32 $1,540,749 56. D.A. Points ................29 $1,533,361 57. Ken Duke..................30 $1,511,628 58. Ryan Palmer.............24 $1,501,215 59. John Rollins..............26 $1,489,155 60. Michael Thompson ..25 $1,408,374 61.Tim Clark ..................20 $1,407,028 62.Ted Potter, Jr.............25 $1,383,170 63. Charlie Beljan...........22 $1,373,528 64. Brian Davis...............29 $1,318,032 65. J.J. Henry..................28 $1,297,802 66. Scott Stallings ..........27 $1,293,739 67. Charles Howell III.....29 $1,284,578 68. Spencer Levin ..........26 $1,283,616 69. Charley Hoffman......27 $1,276,663 70. Dicky Pride ...............19 $1,259,712 71. Geoff Ogilvy .............20 $1,255,223 72.Tom Gillis ..................23 $1,238,058 73. Blake Adams............32 $1,234,345 74. William McGirt..........30 $1,228,947 75. Cameron Tringale.....26 $1,225,737 76. Aaron Baddeley .......22 $1,215,753 77.Troy Matteson...........32 $1,198,953 78. Chris Kirk..................27 $1,197,562 79. Harris English...........27 $1,186,003 80. J.B. Holmes ..............25 $1,179,505 81. Greg Chalmers ........25 $1,166,627 82. Bryce Molder............25 $1,166,115 83. Sang-Moon Bae.......25 $1,165,952 84. Sean O'Hair..............24 $1,160,981 85. Greg Owen...............27 $1,151,622 86. John Mallinger..........25 $1,146,852 87. Brian Harman...........30 $1,146,448 88. Jason Day ................17 $1,143,233 89. Charl Schwartzel......16 $1,138,844 90. Rory Sabbatini .........29 $1,128,820 91. George McNeill........25 $1,119,535 92. Daniel Summerhays26 $1,111,522 93. John Merrick.............26 $1,084,628 94. Pat Perez..................23 $1,064,053 95. Graham DeLaet .......23 $1,051,951 96. Martin Flores............30 $1,035,569 97. David Hearn.............28 $1,012,575 98. Josh Teater...............30 $1,011,430 99. Bob Estes.................23 $1,009,769 100. Davis Love III..........20 $989,753 101. Andres Romero .....22 $970,919 102. K.J. Choi .................21 $969,057 103. Brian Gay ...............28 $960,658 104. Fredrik Jacobson ...17 $953,494 LPGA Money Leaders Final .......................................Trn 1. Inbee Park ..................24 2. Na Yeon Choi..............22 3. Stacy Lewis ................26 4.Yani Tseng ..................24 5. Ai Miyazato.................23 6. So Yeon Ryu...............24 7. Jiyai Shin ....................18 8. Azahara Munoz..........26 9. Suzann Pettersen ......24 10. Shanshan Feng .......19 11. Mika Miyazato..........20 12. Karrie Webb .............20 13. Amy Yang..................22 14. Cristie Kerr................23 15. Paula Creamer.........23 16. Angela Stanford .......26 17. Sun Young Yoo..........23 18. Catriona Matthew.....20 19. Anna Nordqvist ........27 20. Chella Choi...............27 21. Lexi Thompson.........23 22. Hee Kyung Seo........25 23. Brittany Lincicome ...24 24. Brittany Lang............25 25. Sandra Gal...............26 26. I.K. Kim .....................21 27. Karine Icher..............24 28. Candie Kung ............25 29. Haeji Kang................24 30. Jenny Shin................25 31. Julieta Granada........26 32. Beatriz Recari ..........27 33. Se Ri Pak .................12 34. Hee Young Park .......25 35.Vicky Hurst ...............27 36. Eun-Hee Ji ...............25 37. Katherine Hull ..........26 38. Meena Lee...............26 39. Giulia Sergas............22 40. Ilhee Lee...................22 41. Jessica Korda...........20 42. Natalie Gulbis...........22 43. Karin Sjodin..............23 44. Mina Harigae............26 45. Morgan Pressel........23 46. Hee-Won Han ..........25 47. Katie Futcher............23 48. Gerina Piller..............23 49. Lindsey Wright .........17 50. Jennifer Johnson......23

Money $2,287,080 $1,981,834 $1,872,409 $1,430,159 $1,334,977 $1,282,673 $1,234,597 $1,230,751 $1,182,860 $1,101,147 $1,098,749 $884,973 $844,305 $837,314 $815,574 $794,294 $781,587 $714,272 $688,703 $634,622 $611,021 $600,403 $581,631 $575,263 $574,323 $561,302 $541,532 $485,963 $456,425 $447,731 $445,685 $444,620 $430,338 $427,717 $401,457 $382,597 $376,192 $374,312 $362,659 $355,780 $339,320 $321,472 $310,599 $304,057 $271,548 $269,771 $262,576 $258,395 $257,052 $245,999

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

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Happy Turkey Day to everyone

Today: 5 p.m.: Miami Valley Events Calendar 8 p.m.: Have History Will Travel 11 p.m.: Tales of the Strange

Dear Readers: Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! We hope you are fortunate enough to be spending the holiday with family and friends.

We also hope you remembered those who are alone today and would love to be part of your family on this occasion. If it's too late to include them this year, please make a note on your calendar to invite them next year.

Our special thanks to those readers who are spending the day volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens. Bless you for your kind hearts and generosity of spirit.

Dear Annie: A few times in the past, you have printed a Thanksgiving Prayer. The first time I saw it, I cut it out of the paper and read it at our Thanksgiving table. It perfectly expressed what I wanted to say.

Unfortunately, I misplaced the poem last year. With all of the chaos after the big meal, I think it was accidentally thrown out. Would you please print it again? This time I will be sure to put it in a very special place so I can have it to read every year. — Grateful in Arizona Dear Grateful: With pleasure. Here it is: Thanksgiving Prayer We come to this table today, O Lord, humble and thankful and glad.

We thank Thee first for the great miracle of life, for the exaltation of being human, for the capacity to love.

We thank Thee for joys both great and simple — For wonder, dreams and hope; For the newness of each day; For laughter and song and a merry heart; For compassion waiting within to be kindled; For the forbearance of friends and the smile of a stranger; For the arching of the earth and trees and heavens and the fruit of all three; For the wisdom of the old; For the courage of the young; For the promise of the child; For the strength that comes when needed; For this family united here today.

Of those to whom much is given, much is required. May we and our children remember this.

Amen.

Dear Readers: Here's one more poem, on the lighthearted side, sent in by a longtime reader. We hope you enjoy it: Twas the Night of Thanksgiving, author unknown Twas the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn't sleep.

I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep.

The leftovers beckoned -- the dark meat and white, but I fought the temptation with all of my might.

Tossing and turning with anticipation, the thought of a snack became infatuation.

So, I raced to the kitchen, flung open the door and gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore.

I gobbled up turkey and buttered potatoes, pickles and carrots, beans and tomatoes.

I felt myself swelling so plump and so round, till all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.

I crashed through the ceiling, floating into the sky with a mouthful of pudding and a handful of pie.

But, I managed to yell as I soared past the trees...

Happy Eating to all! Pass the cranberries, please!

Annie's Snippet for Thanksgiving (credit Dick Gregory): "One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people."

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

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Readers respond with potpourri of perfume ideas Dear Readers: In a recent column, I explained how to layer scents of a favorite perfume. I asked how many perfumes you have, and the responses varied greatly! You wrote in with not only the number of perfumes, but also asking for a reminder that many people are highly sensitive to perfumes. Here are some comments: • A Reader, via email, said, “I counted three perfumes on my makeup counter.â€? • Kathy in California wrote: “I’m a perfume junkie. I have 45 bottles. Each morning, I choose a fragrance for the day. I don’t feel dressed without my perfume.â€? • Jan in Texas wrote, “I have

Hints from Heloise Columnist been wearing the same perfume since I was a senior in high school back in 1969, which means I have been wearing it 43 years or so.â€? • Jody, via email, said, “I have well over 200-plus full-size bottles of fragrances ... as I LOVE having a choice.â€?

On the other side: • Tracey, via email, said: “Too

bad you didn’t discourage use of perfumes and scented lotions instead of showing how to layer fragrances to make it ’more.’ Too many, including myself, are overly sensitive to chemical fragrances and can barely stand to even walk near a perfume-wearing person.â€? • Donna, via email, said: “Please ask your readers (especially those who work around others) to go light on these, as many of us are allergic to them. For me, perfume makes my nose burn and eyes water, and then I get a headache.â€?

This is an ongoing and very common complaint. — Heloise P.S.: Visit my website,

www.Heloise.com, for links to my Facebook and Twitter pages — hints, fun facts and more! Come see photos and check out what’s happening.

STRONGER SCOOP Dear Heloise: If you have an indoor cat (or cats), invest in a heavy-duty litter scoop. I purchased one that is larger than the typical plastic one. It is made of metal, with a rubberized material on the handle. It provides a better grip and is larger and longer, so you don’t have to bend down quite so far. The metal does not flex like plastic does, making the scooping easier. It will last forever and is money well-spent. — Nancy in New Hampshire

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be careful that you don’t say anything that you will later regret when talking to authority figures. Guard against knee-jerk reactions and impulsive, rebellious behavior. Don’t quit your day job.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Travel plans might be canceled or rescheduled today. Ditto for schedules with higher education. Be careful when traveling. Equipment breakdowns could affect medicine, publishing and the media.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Disputes about shared property, taxes, debt and insurance matters are likely today. (They won’t be a pretty picture.)

Go gently. Avoid sudden outbursts of indignation.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Difficulties with partners and close friends might erupt into an argument today. Keep your temper in check to avoid saying or doing something you will regret later.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Computer crashes, power outages, canceled meetings and staff shortages are just some of the reasons your day at work will be unpredictable. Machinery breakdowns are likely. (Be careful.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an accident-prone day for your children, so be very careful. Know where they are at all times. Remove potential hazards. Be vigilant!

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Small appliances could break down at home today, or minor breakages could occur. Your home routine definitely will be interrupted. Avoid family disputes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is an accident-prone day for your sign — no question. Pay attention to everything you say and do. Slow down, and give yourself extra wiggle room.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Watch your money and cash flow today. You are very tempted by impulse buying and spontaneous purchases, which you might later regret.

Be careful!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You feel restless and rebellious today.

Guard against accidents that could happen because you are hasty or impulsive. Take an extra moment to rethink things and pay attention to what you’re doing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Feelings of restlessness are like an undercurrent to your entire day. This makes it hard to settle down and focus on whatever you want to do. Don’t worry; everyone feels this way today.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) A friendship might break up today, or you could have a sudden dispute in a group situation — classroom, meeting or convention. Because you feel so independent, you don’t want others telling you what to do.

YOU BORN TODAY You are free-spirited and independent, which is why you respect the independence of others. You have a great sense of humor and can laugh at yourself as well as others. You thrive best with a regular daily schedule, because it stabilizes your restless nature. In the year ahead, you will build or construct something that’s important to you.

Your rewards soon will follow.

Birthdate of: Salli Richardson, actress; Bruce Hornsby, musician; Steven Brust, novelist. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2012.

There are 39 days left in the year.

This is Thanksgiving Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same open car as the president, was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested.

On this date: • In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach better known as “Blackbeard” was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.

• In 1928, “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel was first performed, in Paris.

• In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48.

• In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.

• In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced her res-

ignation.

• One year ago: Baseball players and owners signed an agreement for a new labor contract, a deal making baseball the first North American professional major league to start blood testing on human growth hormone and expanding the playoffs to 10 teams by 2013.

• Today’s Birthdays: Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 72. International Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 69. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little Steven) is 62.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 54.

Actress Mariel Hemingway is 51.

Actor Mark Ruffalo is 45. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 28.

Deadline extended for vote counting in NJ TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Election officials across New Jersey are getting more time to verify and count ballots because of special arrangements the state made this month for voters displaced by Superstorm Sandy, The state Division of Elections on Tuesday granted extensions for votecounting in 14 of the state’s 21 counties. The deadlines statewide had already been extended from Sunday to Wednesday.

The pushed back deadlines mean suspense will linger even longer in some

close elections such as a township council race in Moorestown.

Election Day was eight days after Superstorm Sandy made landfall on New Jersey’s shore, knocking out power to millions and displacing thousands.

That meant election officials had to scramble to figure out how to let displaced voters cast ballots.

They ordered county clerks’ offices to remain open in the weekend before the election so voters could pick up mail-in ballots in person and submit them on the spot.

They allowed voters to cast provisional ballots but just on statewide elections at any polling place in the state. And displaced voters were allowed to use a program set up initially for members of the military and residents living overseas: Faxing or emailing their votes.

The electronic option caused some bottlenecks on Election Day as election officers’ email inboxes and fax lines were clogged with requests. Eventually, the state gave counties an extra three days to send out the electronic ballots, meaning

that some voters were casting ballots three days after Election Day. Then came new logistical concerns about counting the unconventional ballots.

Counties had to sort out where to send the out-ofcounty provisional ballots.

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The counties that requested the extensions have until next week to get results to the state.

And the state’s final election certification has been pushed back from Dec. 4 to Dec. 11.

On top-of-the-ballot races such as President, U.S. Senator and U.S. House, there were no results close enough to be swayed by more votes.

But The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 10 votes separated Democrat J. Greg Newcomer and Republican Phil Garwood for a seat on the Mooretown Township Council. Some 300 provisional ballots were still uncounted.

In other news related to Superstorm Sandy: • TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Residents began reclaiming vehicles that were towed during Superstorm Sandy free of charge Wednesday under an agreement reached

by New Jersey’s Consumer Affairs Division.

The state has launched an investigation into whether APK Auto Repair and Towing engaged in price gouging.

Some people claimed they were asked to pay as much as $900 to get their vehicles back.

APK will release all vehicles to registered owners that were towed from

Seaside Heights between noon on Oct. 27 and midnight Nov. 9.

Investigators were available at each of the company’s three lots.

The company does not admit any wrongdoing under terms of the agreement.

But Don Buckley says the company snatched his gray Hyundai from his driveway in Seaside Heights.

• NEW YORK — It will be a subdued Thanksgiving for families hit hard by Superstorm Sandy.

Many plan to gather with friends and strangers alike, seeking to celebrate the people and things that were spared when so much was lost. But they will not be left to fend for themselves.

Restaurants are donating meals, strangers and churches are opening their doors, and people from across the nation have sent an outpouring of donations for storm victims who aren’t able to roast their own turkey this year.

Five-thousand bleacher seats along the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade route have been set aside for families affected by Superstorm Sandy. The city has also set up dozens of food distribution sites and food trucks in the Rockaways, Coney Island and other areas hit hard by the storm.

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(937)335-5440.

PIQUA, 2200 Navajo Trail, 3 bedroom townhouse, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, 1850 sqft, $975 month, one month's deposit.

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(937)335-9096.

PIQUA OR Troy, Studio Senior apartment, $449 Monthly, all utilities included, No Pets, (937)778-0524 TROY, 2 Bedroom with attached garage, LR, DR, FR, appliances, W/D, A/C, screen porch, very clean, no pets, one year lease, $650 (937)339-6736 or (937)286-1199 TROY, 1633 Brook Park, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, appliances. $695.

(937)335-0261.

305 Apartment

320 Houses for Rent

PIQUA, 307 Fourth Street. 3 bedroom. $500 month, $250 deposit.

(937)214-0431

425 Houses for Sale

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LOCATION: N. Bradford Bloomer Rd., Covington, Ohio DIRECTIONS: St. Rt. 48 north of Covington to Versailles Rd., turn west (left) to Bradford Bloomer Rd. The property is located on the northeast corner of Versailles Rd. and Bradford Bloomer Rd.

TIPP CITY TROY, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 & $525 monthly. $200 Deposit Special!

(937)673-1821

TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, No dogs $475. (937)339-6776.

72.239 acres Approx. 55 acres tillable Approx. 17.239 acres pasture/woods Parcel: H16-016100 Taxes: $514.82 TERMS: 10% down day of sale. Balance due in 30 days or on delivery of deed. Buyers to have financing approved prior to the sale date. Owners have the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Sale to be held in office, located at 525 N. Main St., Piqua, Ohio 45356.

385 W. KESSLER COWLESVILLE RD.

WONDERFUL UPDATED HOME, nestled on 1/2 Acre lot, full super clean Basement, Lots of Beautiful kitchen cabinets, New carpet and flooring thru-out, Freshly painted, New ceiling fans, New windows, New Furnace/C/A, Just Installed & enclosed new bathtub/shower surround and toliet in basement, Updated 220 Electric, Attached Garage, New Storage Shed,Porch and Deck, MOVE IN READY, YOU NEED TO CALL TO SEE FOR YOURSELF THIS DELIGHTFUL HOME!!! Super Clean home!! Priced at $123,500

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320 Houses for Rent

PIQUA, 910 New Haven.

3 bedroom, 1.5 car, CA, fenced yard. $850, deposit.

(937)778-9303, (937)604-5417.

TROY MeadowLane ranch with basement, just completely remodeled, $875 month or possible land contract (937)308-0679

925 Public Notices

925 Public Notices

FINDINGS AND ORDER OF REVOCATION

The Superintendent of Insurance issued a Notice of Opportunity for Hearing to each of the individuals listed below. The Notice was served on each individual pursuant to section 119.07 of the Revised Code. More than thirty (30) days have elapsed from the date of service or from the last date of publication and each of the individuals listed below has not requested a hearing.

After reviewing the records in these cases, the Superintendent finds that: 2001 FORD EXPLORER XLT

Red, 4 door, all wheel drive, automatic, towing package, moon roof, excellent condition, 102k miles, ready for winter, $5295 OBO (937)676-3230

2003 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY LX Silver w/ grey int, 102k miles, front wheel drive, 6 cyl, 3.8, 4 sp auto, quad seat, pwr tail gate & door, $5495.

(937)867-0104 wgarlow@woh.rr.com

Each of the individuals listed below is licensed in this state as an insurance agent.

Each of the individuals listed below failed to comply with the continuing education requirements of section 3905.481 of the Revised Code for the 2008/2009 compliance period.

2005 FORD EXPLORER XLT

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that pursuant to section 3905.482 of the Revised Code, the Ohio insurance license of each individual listed below be and hereby is revoked. The revocation shall be effective December 14, 2012.

Loaded, 96k, Excellent condition, asking $11,500 Call (937)538-0026

ANDREJCIO, MEGAN DEVON DOB: 06/17/1979 121 LONG STREET #5A TROY, OH 45373 COOL, SHAWN DOB: 04/26/1979 320 ½ W. ASH ST. PIQUA, OH 45356 CURTIS, MONICA J DOB: 10/18/1952 3710 WALNUT GROVE RD TROY, OH 45373 SHEPARD WILLIAM BRIAN DOB: 01/01/0001 8925 EAST STATE ROUTE 55 CASTOWN, OH 45312

2006 SAAB 9.3 AREO

A copy o this Order may be obtained from Darcy Moulin, Ohio Department of Insurance, 50 West Town Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Columbus, OH 43215.

75,000 miles, leather, 6 speed manual, sunroof, alloy wheels, excellent condition, $13,750

As set forth in O.R.C. 119.12, an appeal of this Order may be taken by filing a notice of appeal with the Department of Insurance. A copy of the notice of appeal shall also be filed with the appropriate court of common pleas. Such notices of appeal shall be filed within fifteen (15) days of the third date of publication of this notice and Order. Each individual listed above may appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which his or her business is located or the county in which he or she is a resident. If he or she is not a resident of and has no place of business in Ohio, he or she may appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County. The notice of appeal shall set forth the order appealed from and the grounds of the appeal.

(937)473-3293

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(937)526-3073

BUYERS

This Order is hereby entered in the Journal of the Ohio Department of Insurance.

&

MARY TAYLOR Superintendent of Insurance

SELLERS

11/15, 11/22, 11/29-2012

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500 - Merchandise

535 Farm Supplies/Equipment

MANURE SPREADER, International Model 550 manure spreader with optional slop gate. $2500 may trade.

(937)489-1725 PROPANE TANK, 1000 gallon propane tank, good condition. $1250 (937)489-1725

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, $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.

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879 FIREWOOD seasoned and split. $150 cord delivered, $80 half cord delivered. (Miami County). Call (937)559-6623, Thank you.

SEASONED FIREWOOD, $120 a cord you pick up, $140 a cord delivered.

(937)339-5198 or (937)552-1303

SEASONED FIREWOOD, $150 cord split/delivered, $80 half cord, stacking $25 extra. Miami County deliveries only.

(937)339-2012

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SEASONED FIREWOOD $155 per cord. Stacking extra, $125 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047

560 Home Furnishings

583 Pets and Supplies

CAPTAINS BED, Twin, 3 drawers, bookcase headboard, Ohio made, solid wood, white, $100, (937)335-5454

ENGLISH BANTAM Bulldog puppies, registered, $700, (937)539-2175 or (937)539-6019.

586 Sports and Recreation

GUN & KNIFE SHOW, Shelby County Fairgrounds, Saturday, November 24th, 8 : 3 0 a m - 3 p m .

(937)418-2179

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LAWN TRACTOR, Sears, snow blade, cab, chains, weights, 42" mowing deck, $1100.

(937)368-2220 leave phone number in message.

588 Tickets

OHIO STATE/MICHIGAN tickets (4) section 34B, $500 each (937)524-3473

577 Miscellaneous

3 & 1 PLAYER, Black with pink roses, very good condition, $35, Call before noon or after 7pm, (937)615-9496

592 Wanted to Buy

WANT TO BUY: Motorized treadmill in good condition. Also looking for exercise bike.

(937)339-7792

BERNINA 810 sewing machine, Covington, (937)251-9643.

800 - Transportation

CRIB, changing table, cradle, swing, doorway swing, high chair, booster chair, pack-n-play, travel bassinet, tub, child rocker, clothes, blankets (937)339-4233

805 Auto

1994 FORD F250 4 Wheel Drive pick-up, 7.3 diesel engine. Good wood truck. $2750.

(937)492-7713

DESK, Roll top desk, small dark oak, good shape, $35, call before noon or after 7pm, (937)615-9496

1998 CADILLAC Eldorado (classic), excellent condition, factory 12 CD disc sound system, am/fm radio, powered rear view mirrors, starfire engine, powered memory leather seats, cruise control.

I can no longer drive, $4950 must see to appreciate (937)335-3202 after 11am

DRESSES Stunning, beautiful formal dresses. $35 each.

Size 7 (937)335-4081

SPA Hot Springs Sovereign Spa. 6 adults, 230W, 50AMP, 335 Gallon. Retractable cover.

Manuals, chemicals. 80% OFF NEW LIST PRICE. $2050. (937)492-2443

2000 MERCEDES BENZ E320, silver with black interior, 79,000 miles. Excellent condition, new tires, $8900.

(937)698-0879

TOTAL GYM, many extras, CD and instructions, used 3 times, new $275, asking $175 (937)615-9496 before noon or after 7pm

2008 TOYOTA CAMRY, fully loaded, navigation, heated leather seats, 70k miles, $12,000 (937)216-0284

WALKER, wheel chair, tub, shower and transfer benches, commode chair, toilet riser, grab bars, canes, entertainment center and more (937)339-4233

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WAS $41,965 NOW $35,198

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1998 GMC SONOMA PICK UP, #CP-13223-AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $6,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $3,950 1998 BUICK PARK AVENUE, #CP-13186-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $6,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $3,950 1999 CHEVY PICK UP #CP-13206-T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $10,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $7,950 2001 FORD TAURUS #CP-13183-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $5,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $3,450 2001 CHRYSLER SEBRING CONV. #AB13153-AB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $6,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $3,950 2004 FORD F-150 PICK UP, #CP13130-AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $9,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $8,450 2004 JEEP LIBERTY LIMITED, #26568-AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $9,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $8,450 2004 CHRYSLER PACIFICA #26531-A, LOADED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $10,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $8,950 2005 MAZDA 6I #CP-13202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $9,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $7,950 SOLD! 2006 HONDA CRV #CP-13204-T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $16,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $13,950 2006 DODGE STRATUS #26425-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $7,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $5,750 2006 CHRYSLER T&C VAN #26539-AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $11,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $9,950 2007 MAZDA CX7 SUV #CP-13096 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $16,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $14,850 2007 CHRYSLER T&C VAN #26263-AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $9,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $6,750 2008 DODGE CALIBER #CP-12933-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $10,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $9,250 2009 DODGE AVENGER SXT, #26557-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $16,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $13,950 2009 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER #CP-13167 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $12,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $10,850 2010 FORD FOCUS #CP-13184 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $13,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $12,850 2011 NISSAN VERSA #AB-12124 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WAS $14,900 . . . . . . . . . . . NOW $12,950 Subject to credit approval. Tax, title and license fees extra. Good through December 10, 2011.

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