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Huskies’ biggest game in program history finally here

Region’s lawmakers talk about ‘fiscal cliff’

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren wants cuts in spending to be a part of any deal that comes out of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders.

An agreement that emerged Monday between the White House and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years. The plan also did not address how spending cuts to the Pentagon and numerous domestic agencies would be averted.

While the deadline Rep. Randy to prevent tax increasHultgren, es and spending cuts R-Winfield, was technically midDistrict 14 night, passage of legislation by the time a new Congress takes office at noon Thursday – the likely timetable – would eliminate or minimize any inconvenience for taxpayers.

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A7 Hultgren, a freshman Congressman who won re-election in November in the 14th District, said he found the nature of the negotiations – behind closed doors – to be frustrating. He shared his views Monday afternoon in a phone interview with the Daily Chronicle.

“My fear is that so much focus has been put into increasing taxes and not what got us into this situation,” said Hultgren, R-Winfield. “How do we stop spending money we don’t have – I don’t think that’s happening in those discussions.”

While there is a chance that Congress will meet the midnight

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Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey poses for photos with Obie, the Orange Bowl mascot, when the team arrived Wednesday at Miami International Airport in Miami. Northern Illinois will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl game at 7:30 p.m. today.

DeKalb bars and restaurants going orange

By DAVID THOMAS

dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Area businesses are gearing up for the Orange Bowl with a number of orange-related food and drink specials.

The staff at O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub, 260 E. Lincoln Highway, will be serving $3 drafts of Shock Top Belgian White, with its orange slice logo, said owner Mel Witmer. He and his staff are very enthusiastic about the game.

“It’s going to be a magnificent start to the first of the year,” Witmer said.

The Northern Illinois Huskies will take part in their first BCS bowl game against the Florida State Seminoles. About 1,300 NIU students arrived Monday in Miami, thanks to a fan bus package

The biggest game in NIU history n What: Orange Bowl: No. 15 Northern Illinois

vs. No. 12 Florida State n When: 7:30 p.m. today n Where: Sun Life Stadium in Miami n Listen: ESPN, AM-1360

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Witmer encouraged those remaining to get together with other people to watch the game, because he said nothing is better than a group atmosphere.

“It’s like a Super Bowl for NIU,” Witmer said.

While O’Leary’s is not completely full, Witmer said they are “aggressively taking reservations” – a lot of which are coming from people out of town. There will be plenty of standing room, but “not a lot of tables will be moving,” he added.

Fatty’s Pub & Grille, 1312 W.

Lincoln Highway, will also be packed the 7:30 p.m. kickoff approaches. Owner Jeff Dobie said AM-670 The Score, one of Chicago’s sports radio stations, will be broadcasting at Fatty’s from 3 to 7 p.m.

While not an official alumnus of NIU (he said he attended school here, and his wife is one), Dobie said he is very proud of NIU. He described it as being the perfect scenario as both an NIU fan and a local business owner.

“No matter how we got there ... it’s a great opportunity for the university and a great opportunity for the fans to see some big college football,” Dobie said.

In addition to The Score, a number of former NIU football players

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Kirk’s Senate return after stroke is an inspiration for many

By SARA BURNETT

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (right) emerges from the 103rd floor stairwell at Chicago’s Willis Tower on Nov. 4 during the RIC SkyRise Chicago event, a fundraiser for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where Kirk has been a patient.

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CHICAGO – Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senate’s front door this week – a walk that’s significant not just for Illinois’ junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients.

It’s estimated only one-third of patients return to work after a stroke, said Dr. Elliot Roth, medical director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s New Patient Recovery Unit and AbilityLab, where Kirk recovered.

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The 53-year-old Republican will return to the high-profile, demanding life of a Washington lawmaker after an experimental rehabilitation so intense it’s often compared to boot camp, Roth said. Patients keep grueling schedules, often spending eight hours a day or more relearning how to walk, talk and do other tasks.

Because there are risks to going back to work unprepared, patients do “practice runs” of what it will be like to be back on the job. If and when they successfully return to work, Roth added, “It’s like having a great symphony play and recognizing it’s all the practice beforehand that went into it.”

Kirk will walk back into a Congress that has grappled for weeks

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over how to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff,” a series of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect today. President Barack Obama indicated Monday afternoon that a deal was in sight, but not yet finalized.

The Illinois senator’s return will be inspiring to fellow stroke patients, said Frank Watson, the former Republican leader of the Illinois Senate who resigned from office after his 2008 stroke.

“For us in the stroke fraternity, we’re very happy to see this occur, to see somebody taking their life back,” Watson said. “There are so many people who don’t make it back.”

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today

Because of the holiday, some regularly scheduled meetings may not be held this week.

Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary: 7 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive, DeKalb. Contact: Becky Beck Ryan, president, 815-758-3800.

Easy Does It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Hinckley Big Book Study AA(C): 6 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 801 N. Sycamore St. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Better Off Sober AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous Tuesday Night Fellowship Group(C): 7 p.m. at The Church of St. Mary, 244 Waterman St., Sycamore. 815739-1950.

Barb City Swing Connection Tuesday dances: 7 to 11 p.m. at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Meals, beer and wine can be purchased. Admission is $5 for a lesson followed by social dancing. No partner needed; casual wear and leather-soled shoes recommended. www.BarbCitySwing. com.

Good Vibes Al-Anon group: 7 to 8 p.m. at Gurler House, 205 Pine St., DeKalb. llc904@hotmail.com.

Daily Reflections AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church.

33930 N. State Road, Genoa. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com.

Program of Recovery AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Wednesday

Business Networking International: 8 a.m. at 920 W. Prairie Drive, No. M, Sycamore.

Home-schoolers activities: 8:45 to 11:45 a.m. in Sycamore. All ages are welcome to participate in hands-on classes and field trips.

Contact: Lisa at 815-748-0896 or gakers@tbc.net.

Free Blood Pressure Clinic: 9 to 11 a.m. at Valley West Community Hospital, 11 E. Pleasant Ave., Sandwich. No appointment necessary. 815-786-3962 or www. valleywest.org.

Men and Caregivers Networking Breakfast: 9 to 10 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital Cancer Center. This free group is open to those with cancer for discussion. No registration is required. For information, call 815748-2958 or visit www.kishhospital.org/programs.

Fresh Beginnings AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Blessing Well food and clothing pantry: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Church of the Nazarene, 1051 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb. Meat and food offered, with clothing available in sizes for infants (diapers, too) up to 3X adults. Spanish interpreter also is available. www. dekalbnaz.com. 815-758-1588.

Donations of nonperishable foods and clothing can be left at any time on the front porch.

Toddler Time: 10:30 a.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. No sign-up necessary and walk-ins are welcome. Contact Youth Services at 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org.

Snowflake Craft: 11 a.m.

Wednesday in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Make snowflakes to hang in your house. Contact Youth Services at 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org.

Kishwaukee Kiwanis: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hopkins Park Community Room in DeKalb. www.KishKiwanis.org; contact Amy Polzin at APolzin87@yahoo.com.

Sycamore Rotary Club: Noon at Mitchel Lounge, 355 W. State St. 24 Hour A Day Brown Bag AA(C): 12:05 p.m. at Newman Center, 512 Normal Road, DeKalb.

800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum: 1 to 5 p.m. at 622 Park Ave. in Genoa. Call 815-784-5559 for appointments other days.

Memories of DeKalb Ag: 2 to 4 p.m. at Nehring Gallery, Suite 204, 111 S. Second St., DeKalb. Free admission and open to all. www. dekalbalumni.org.

Weight Watchers: 5 p.m. weighin, 5:30 p.m. meeting at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road, (near Aldi) DeKalb.

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Family volunteers to remember son

By PAUL SWIECH

The Associated Press NORMAL – Since John Lefferts died suddenly and unexpectedly of an aortic dissection at age 22, his family has been on a journey.

“I feel like my heart is truly broken,” said his mother, Vivian Lefferts of Normal. “After my son died, I thought ‘How will I tell people about John? How will I keep his memory alive?’”

A path chosen by Vivian and Larry Lefferts was to keep their son’s memory alive by helping others to live. They agreed that their son would be a tissue donor. His two corneas and 35 bones and tissues have improved the lives of 37 people in 14 states.

“It’s a way for his legacy to live on,” said Eleanor Hess of Normal, John’s sister.

The Lefferts became volunteer-advocates with the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network. They have spent much of the past eight years encouraging people to register to be organ and tissue donors by telling John’s story.

Theyaremembersoftheorganization’s Donor Family Advisory Council and led a letter-writing campaign supporting the bill that created the Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Registry in 2006. Their efforts are being honored with Vivian’s selection to be among 32 riders from throughout the country on the Donate Life Float during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on

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Larry Lefferts examines odds and ends that belonged to his son, John, on a bookcase in his office Dec. 14 in Normal. John died suddenly of an aortic dissection at age 22.

Jan. 1. Riders will include living donors, organ and tissue donation recipients and donor family members.

“The float honors the millions of people touched by organ and tissue donations across the country and the millions of people who are waiting (for a transplant),” said Gift of Hope spokesman Tony Sullivan.

“The Lefferts stand out because of the commitment they have shown to raise public awareness,” Sullivan said.

While Vivian will be on the float, she represents Larry, Eleanor and other family members who will be watching the parade in Pasadena.

“We can’t think of a better representative than Vivian,” Sullivan said. “The theme of this year’s float is Journeys

of the Heart. When John died, the Lefferts started on a journey of the heart and they have been on that journey for more than eight years.”

Vivian said, “It’s an honor to take John’s story to another level.”

John was a likeable young man and loyal friend who would lend money to people in need and pick up friends who needed rides in the middle of the night. He was great with kids and liked helping older adults. At the time of his death on Oct. 11, 2004, he was living in Springfield, working in patient transportation at Memorial Medical Center and studying at Midwest Technical Institute to be a massage therapist.

“After the initial shock [of John’s death], we talked about donation,” his father recalled.

“It fit John, his personality and compassion and how he lived his life,” said Eleanor, now 29 and a music education teacher in Lexington.

Because his organs had been without oxygen for awhile, they couldn’t be donated. But his cornea, bones and tissue enhanced the lives of 37 people in 14 states, including a staff sergeant whose knee was rebuilt.

“He’d be happy with how many lives he’s been able to help,” Eleanor said.

After John’s death, Vivian and Larry – who moved to Normal in 2008 – became involved in Gift of Hope and know that their efforts have convinced others to register to be donors.

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Pentagon float in Rose Parade to honor vets

By JULIE WATSON

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SAN DIEGO – It’s been almost 60 years since James McEachin returned home with a bullet still lodged in his chest, finding an America indifferent toward the troops who fought in Korea.

Now he will get the homecoming parade he had expected.

The Defense Department for the first time will put a float in Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses – one of the most watched parades – to commemorate the veterans from a conflict that still casts a shadow over the world.

“I think it’s a magnificent gesture and it cures a lot of ills,” said McEachin, who will be among six veterans who will ride on the float today. The 82-yearold author and actor starred in Perry Mason TV movies, among other things.

The $247,000 flower-covered float will be a replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon’s debut comes ahead of events marking the 60th anniversary of the July 1953 armistice that halted the bloodshed but did not declare peace.

Col. David Clark said the Pentagon decided to seize the opportunity to sponsor one of the 42 floats in the 124-yearold New Year’s Day parade to raise awareness about what has been called “The Forgotten War.” It has taken decades for the success of the war’s efforts to be recognized, and the department wanted to remind

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The Rose Parade float, “Freedom Is Not Free,” by the Korean War Commemoration Committee is seen in Pasadena, Calif., during the final judging of floats Monday, on the eve of the 124th Rose Parade.

Americans about the sacrifices that were made by the veterans, most of whom are now in their 80s, Clark said.

The war resulted in South Korea developing into a thriving democratic ally in sharp contrast to its bitterly poor, communist neighbor that is seen as a global threat.

“As a nation, this may be our last opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to them and honor their service,” said Clark, director of the department’s 60th Anniversa-

ry of the Korean War Commemoration Committee.

The war began when North Korea invaded the South to try to reunify the nation, a liberated Japanese colony sliced in two in 1945 by the U.S. and Soviet victors of World War II. North Korea had the upper hand at first, almost pushing a weak South Korean-U.S. force off the peninsula, but then U.S. reinforcements poured in and pushed them back.

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Md. same-sex couples prepare for marriages today

By BRIAN WITTE

The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Gay couples are preparing for New Year’s Day weddings in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to allow same-sex marriage, which will become legal today in Maryland.

The new law takes effect at 12:01 a.m. and follows a legislative fight that pitted Gov. Martin O’Malley against leaders of his Catholic faith.

Voters in the state, founded by Catholics in the 17th century, sealed the change by approving a November ballot question.

“It’s been a long time coming,” said Jim Scales, who made a Christmas present of his marriage license to Wil-

“It’s been a long time coming.”

Jim Scales

Will get married today to his partner of 35 years, William Tasker liam Tasker, his partner of 35 years.

Scales, 68, and Tasker, 60, plan to be married at a ceremony at Baltimore City Hall by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake shortly after midnight.

Same-sex couples in Maryland have been able to get marriage licenses since Dec. 6, but they do not take effect until today.

In 2011, same-sex marriage legislation passed in the state Senate but stalled in the House of Delegates.

O’Malley hadn’t made the issue a key part of his 2011 legislative agenda, but indicated that summer that he was considering backing a measure similar to New York’s law, which includes exemptions for religious organizations.

Shortly after, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore wrote to O’Malley that same-sex marriage went against the governor’s faith.

“As advocates for the truths we are compelled to uphold, we speak with equal intensity and urgency in opposition to your promoting a goal that so deeply conflicts with your faith, not to mention the best interests of our society,” wrote O’Brien, who served as archbishop of the nation’s first diocese from October 2007 to Au-

gust 2011.

The governor was not persuaded.

He held a news conference in July 2011 to announce that he would make same-sex marriage a priority in the next legislative session.

He wrote back to the archbishop that “when shortcomings in our laws bring about a result that is unjust, I have a public obligation to try to change that injustice.”

The measure, with exemptions for religious organizations that choose not to marry gay couples, passed the House of Delegates in February in a close vote. O’Malley signed it in March. Opponents then gathered enough signatures to put the bill to a statewide vote, and it passed with 52 percent in favor.

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8BRIEFS Police seek details on Waterman burglary

Police are seeking information a burglary in Waterman between Dec. 17 and 22.

Several items were removed from a home in the 100 block of North Cedar Street while the residents were out of town.

Anyone with information about the crime, items taken or people involved may call Crime Stoppers at 815-8953272 or email crimestoppers@dekalbcounty.org.

You do not have to give your name, and you could receive a reward of up to $1,000.

Elks Hoop Shoot contest Saturday

SYCAMORE – Children ages 8 to 13 are welcome to compete in the Elks Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Contest on Saturday at Sycamore High School.

The free contest will have separate divisions for boys and girls, and age categories will be 8 and 9, 10 and 11, and 12 and 13, based on age on April 1, according to a news release from event organizers. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the competition starts at 10 a.m.

First-place winners in each division will advance to district competition in Rock Falls, and winners in each age group will receive a trophy.

Children must wear gym shoes and clothes, such as a T-shirt with pants or gym shorts. A parent must accompany the child, and a copy of the child’s birth certificate will be required at registration.

Registration forms are available at the Sycamore Elks Club, 126 Sycamore St., or the Sycamore Park District Community Center, 138 N. Fair St. Children also can register the day of the event.

For information, call Greg Prater or Lisa Valle at the Sycamore Elks Club at 815895-4066, or Lisa White at the Sycamore Park District at 815-895-3202.

– Jillian Duchnowski

Lincoln museum offers coupon via Facebook

SPRINGFIELD – Families who download a special coupon found on Facebook will pay a $10 admission fee for the families visiting the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

The deal is valid Sundays in January. Officials say families must consist of at least one parent and can include any number of directly related children. The normal price of admission is $12 an adult and $6 a child.

Museum visitors can see one of the museum’s permanent exhibit galleries, “The Tide Turns,” which features a section on the 13th Amendment. That’s the official act that abolished slavery and the central issue in the recently released “Lincoln” film.

– Wire report

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Players find winter home Indoor batting cages keep skills sharp

Know more For information about renting the facility, contact Cindy Slinkard at 815-739-0877 or cindys@pinkstontadd.com.

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Haley Tadd, 16, of DeKalb waits for a pitch at batting practice Dec. 16 at Pinkston-Tadd Roofing Services in Sycamore. nels are available for rent to any softball team, group or

individual who needs batting, pitching or catching

practice.

“We train year-round,” said Mike Taylor, coach for the DeKalb Hurricanes 16U softball team. “Gary said he had a place inside and that he had a vision for us to succeed.

“Being able to hit in the off-season and working on the fundamentals and mechanics of hitting keeps the girls sharp,” Taylor said.

In addition to playing shortstop for the Hurricanes, Haley, 16, also played softball for DeKalb High School last season and lettered on varsity.

“He has added a lot more stuff and it really helps us, especially in the winter,” Haley said.

Cindy Slinkard, manager of the roofing company, said users are charged per hour per tunnel, and she can work with almost any team or individual’s schedule.

“We are really just starting to get out there,” Slinkard said. “This is the second year we have made it open to the public.”

“We invite people to come and take a look,” Tadd said.

Tribune leaves bankruptcy after 4 years The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – More than four years after crushing debt and plunging advertising sales forced it to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Tribune Co. has emerged with a new television-focused board and more than $1 billion in new financing.

Led by such creative and technology heavyweights as Ross Levinsohn, the former interim CEO of Yahoo Inc., and Peter Murphy, former strategic officer of The Walt Disney Co., the board’s roster suggests a focus on the company’s TV assets rather than newspapers, which haven’t managed to turn around declines in readership and advertising. Peter Liguori, a former TV executive at Discovery Communications Inc. and News Corp.’s Fox, is expected to be named CEO in the next several weeks.

The exit closes a dark period for Tribune, which was founded in 1847 with a handcranked print run of 400 copies of the Chicago Tribune.

It founded the WGN broadcasting brand with a radio station in 1924 and a TV station in 1948. The call letters stood for “World’s Greatest Newspaper.” Tribune first went public in 1983 valued at $206 million — one of the biggest IPOs of its day — and expanded over the years into a media giant through acquisitions of TV stations such as KTLA in Los Angeles and newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun and Newsday. It also owns a stake in the Food Network and online job site

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE The Associated Press

By CURTIS CLEGG

SYCAMORE – Gary Tadd was looking for a way to help his daughter, Haley, a freshman at DeKalb High School, keep her softball skills sharp in the off-season.

“My daughter wanted to play softball, and I had that empty unit over there so I found a company in Washington state that made the netting,” he said. “I also found a company that made turf on the East Coast.”

With the addition of two pitching machines, Tadd, the owner of Pinkston-Tadd Roofing in Sycamore, converted his empty warehouse space on Prairie Drive into a state-of-the-art indoor batting facility, with two tunnels where batters can face a machine or balls thrown by a coach or teammate, workout stations and an upper-level viewing room.

While he made the facility to benefit Haley and her teammates on the DeKalb Hurricanes, he now is opening it to the public.

“It’s ideal for girls softball teams,” Tadd said. The tun-

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Tribune Co. emerged from a Chapter 11 restructuring Monday, more than four years after the media company sought bankruptcy protection. The reorganized company is starting with a new board of directors and ownership that includes senior creditors Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo, Gordon and Co., and JPMorgan Chase and Co. CareerBuilder.com.

In 2006, pressured by its long-sagging stock price and dissident shareholders, Tribune put itself on the block.

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate mogul who made his fortune in commercial real estate but had little experience with the media industry, took the company private in a leveraged buyout that valued Tribune at about $8.2 billion.

But the deal ballooned Tribune’s debt load from $5 billion to more than $13 billion just as the Great Recession hit. Advertising revenue plummeted across the industry, which also was struggling with steep declines in circulation as readers found free access to news, sports and entertainment online.

Less than a year after Zell

closed the deal, Tribune filed for Chapter 11 protection.

The company’s restructuring dragged on for years due to fraud allegations and dueling lawsuits between creditors. In the end, the parties agreed to a plan that included payouts of nearly $3 billion in cash to creditors and turned ownership over to senior lenders including Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo Gordon and Co., and JPMorgan Chase and Co. The emerging Tribune is estimated to be worth about $4.5 billion, with television assets generating most of its value. Newspapers – seen as accounting for less than 15 percent of its value today – are expected to be sold off in a process that likely will see several bidders.

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“Tribune is the poster child for the demise of the metropolitan newspaper,” said Ken Doctor, a newspaper industry analyst with Outsell Inc. “Tribune remains a media company but likely drops the part of media that gave it its name and its birth, which is its newspapers.”

Doctor says he expects that the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune could be sold for around $600 million to $700 million. Interested bidders include News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch, Freedom Communications owner Aaron Kusher, who bought the Orange County Register this summer, and Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who invested in The New York Times Co., Doctor said.

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The kind of blood clot in the skull that doctors say Hillary Rodham Clinton has is relatively uncommon but can occur after an injury like the fall and concussion the secretary of state was diagnosed with earlier this month.

Doctors said Monday that an MRI scan revealed a clot in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind Clinton’s right ear.

The clot did not lead to a Hillary stroke or neu- Rodham rological dam- Clinton age and is being treated with blood thinners, and she will be released once the proper dose is worked out, her doctors said in a statement.

Clinton has been at New York-Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday, when the clot was diagnosed during what the doctors called a routine follow-up exam.

At the time, her spokesman would not say where the clot was located, leading to speculation it was another leg clot like the one she suffered behind her right knee in 1998.

Clinton had been diagnosed with a concussion Dec. 13 after a fall in her home that was blamed on a stomach virus that left her weak and dehydrated.

The type of clot she developed, a sinus venous thrombosis, “certainly isn’t the most common thing to happen after a concussion” and is one of the few types of blood clots in the skull or head that are treated with blood thinners, said neurologist Dr. Larry Goldstein.

He is director of Duke University’s stroke center and has no role in Clinton’s care or personal knowledge of it.

The area where Clinton’s clot developed is “a drainage channel, the equivalent of a big vein inside the skull – it’s how the blood gets back to the heart,” Goldstein explained.

It should have no long-term consequences if her doctors are saying she has suffered no neurological damage from it, he said.

Dr. Joseph Broderick, chairman of neurology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, also called Clinton’s problem “relatively uncommon” after a concussion.

He and Goldstein said the problem often is overdiagnosed.

They said scans often show these large “draining pipes” on either side of the head are different sizes, which can mean blood has pooled or can be merely an anatomical difference.

“I’m sure she’s got the best doctors in the world looking at her,” and if they are saying she has no neurological damage, “I would think it would be a pretty optimistic long-term outcome,” Broderick said.

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Gunman’s body claimed; resting place a mystery

By MICHAEL MELIA The Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. – The body of the man who massacred 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school was claimed by his father, a family spokesman said Monday, b u t t h e p u blic may never know what happened with the remains.

L i k e f a m iAdam Lanza lies of other mass killers, Adam Lanza’s father has to balance his own mourning with consideration for the victims, intense media scrutiny and the risk that a public gravesite could be desecrated.

“I know it’s very sensi-

“I know it’s very sensitive for the family.

They have many, many concerns and it’s a very sad time for them.”

Donald Briggs

Kingston, N.H., police chief tive for the family. They have many, many concerns and it’s a very sad time for them,” said Kingston, N.H. Police Chief Donald Briggs, a family acquaintance who helped the Lanzas coordinate services for Lanza’s slain mother.

Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy, inside their Newtown home Dec. 14 before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School, shooting his way in and gunning down 20 first-graders and six school employees.

He committed suicide as police arrived. The massacre claimed more lives that any school shooting in U.S. history, except for the 2007 Virginia Tech rampage that left 33 people dead.

Lanza’s father, Peter Lanza, of Stamford, Conn., claimed his son’s body Thursday, and there were “private arrangements” over the weekend, according to the family spokesman. He would not elaborate on what those arrangements were.

For some in Newtown, it would be just fine to not have any public reminder of Adam Lanza.

“People are sad enough around here,” said Robin Houser, 52, who was working at a center coordinating Newtown volunteers. “I would have donated his body to science and let them see what made him tick inside. And then have them take care of it.”

A private service was earlier this month at an undisclosed location in New Hampshire for Nancy Lanza, who was divorced from Peter Lanza. Briggs said a public memorial service also is planned for her sometime in the spring.

Authorities have not offered a motive for the killings.

State police say they have been exploring all aspects of Adam Lanza’s life including his education, family history and medical treatment for clues. Authorities have said it could take months to produce a final report on their investigation.

The state’s chief medical examiner has sought help from the University of Connecticut genetics department to study Lanza’s DNA and determine if there is any identifiable disease associated with his behavior.

Concern about gravesite vandalism has weighed on the families of other notorious killers, including one of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado. Dylan Klebold’s family had him cremated, ac-

cording to the Rev. Don Marxhausen, who presided over his funeral.

“He couldn’t publicly go in a cemetery,” Marxhausen said. “There is that issue of people who would desecrate.”

Marxhausen said a policeman escorted him to the funeral, and others took circuitous routes to avoid being followed by the media. Marxhausen’s role at the funeral sparked an outcry and he later lost his position as pastor at the St. Philip Lutheran Church in Littleton, Colo., but he said he does not regret his role.

“Christ always goes where it’s darkest. You do your job,” he said.

The family of the other Columbine shooter, Eric Harris, has never publicly revealed his final resting place.

Suspect in NYC death arrested before Elgin police officer

alleges discrimination

Erika Menendez in jail without bail after shoving man in subway

By COLLEEN LONG

The ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday.

Erika Menendez, 31, was being held without bail on a murder charge in the death of Sunando Sen. She told police she pushed the 46-yearold India native because she thought he was Muslim, and she hates them, according to prosecutors.

They never had met before she suddenly shoved him off the subway platform because she “thought it would be cool,” prosecutors said. The victim was Hindu, not Muslim.

It wasn’t clear whether Menendez had a diagnosed mental condition. But her previous arrests and legal troubles paint a portrait of a troubled woman.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly would not say what medication she was taking or whether she had a psychiatric history. Authorities were called to her home five times since 2005 on reports of an emotionally disturbed person.

In one instance, police said, she threw a radio at the responding officers.

Menendez had been arrested several times, starting when she was young. In 2003,

CHICAGO – A veteran suburban Chicago police officer alleges two fellow officers at the Elgin Police Department used racial slurs and made jokes about the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.

Officer Phillipp Brown, who is black, claims the comments and actions of two white officers contributed to “creating and perpetuating a hostile work environment.”

Attorneys for Brown filed the lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago. It names Lt. Sean Rafferty and Internal Investigator James Barnes.

City officials in the suburb about 40 miles northwest of Chicago dismissed the allegations. The police department has about 175 officers.

“The lawsuit is disappointing and without merit,” said Elgin City Manager Sean Stegall.

The lawsuit calls for “prompt and severe discipline against those officers who engage in racially discriminatory conduct toward other officers or the public,” along with punitive damages. It also seeks to force the police department to provide racial sensitivity training for all employees.

Brown’s attorneys, who did not immediately return messages seeking comment Monday, also have asked the court to enforce a three-year monitoring period to track how it improves the alleged racially hostile work environment.

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New York City Police Department detectives escort Erika Menendez (second from left) out of the 112th Precinct on Satuday in the Queens borough of New York. Menendez was arraigned Saturday night on a charge of murder as a hate crime. Judge Gia Morris has ordered that the 31-year-old be held without bail and be given a mental health exam. she was arrested on charges she punched a 28-year-old man in the face inside her Queens home, but the case was later dropped. She pleaded guilty later that year to assaulting a stranger on the street near her home. The victim, retired Fire Department official Daniel Conlisk, said the attack was violent and relentless.

He said he was sorting recyclables outside his home

one night when Menendez approached him and punched him in the face, screaming that he was having sex with her mother.

“It was such a shot,” Conlisk said. “And I was surprised she hit so hard, because she was just a girl.”

He said he tried to fend her off as she clawed at his skin.

He eventually broke free and went inside his home, where

he called police. When they arrived, he said, she still was outside screaming about him having sex with her mother, and saying he had stolen jewelry from her in high school.

“That’s when everyone realized there’s really something wrong with her,” he said. Conlisk, 65, said he took out two restraining orders against her but never saw her after he was attacked.

33600 block of West Pine Circle in Genoa, was charged Sunday, Dec. 30, with driving with a suspended license, operating an uninsured vehicle and failing to secure a child in a safety belt or restraint system.

Kelvin Hester, 50, of the 2300 block of West 1st Street in Chicago, was charged Sunday, Dec. 30, with the theft of mislaid

property.

Seaver M. Mattison, 24, of the 900 block of Seaman Avenue in DeKalb, was charged Sunday, Dec. 30, with two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and improper lane use.

Brittny Pionto, 18, of the 700 block of Park Avenue in Sycamore, was charged Sunday,

Dec. 30, with retail theft.

Alberto Aquino, 49, of the 800 block of North 14th Street in DeKalb, was charged Monday, Dec. 31, with domestic battery.

Marissa A. Voris, 27, of the 400 block of West Navaho Street in Shabbona, was arrested Monday, Dec. 31, on an original warrant for domestic battery.

8POLICE REPORTS

Editor’s note: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

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It’s not the first time Brown has claimed discrimination or that Rafferty has been accused of racist behavior.

Brown, who has worked for the Elgin Police Department since 1996, filed a similar complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2011. In response, the city said some of Brown’s allegations were outdated due to legal time frames and some incidents were not racially motivated. It also defended an internal investigation as prompt and fair.

Rafferty served an unpaid, five-day suspension in 2011.

The lawsuit and EEOC complaint said that during a trip officers took to attend a football game, Rafferty and another officer posed for a photo next to a historical marker honoring the Indiana Times for its work exposing the Ku Klux Klan. In the photograph, Rafferty is smiling and making “K’’ signs with his fingers.

The photograph was “widely disseminated” around the police department, according to the lawsuit.

The incident – along with race-based jokes and use of racial slurs, among other things – are mentioned in the federal lawsuit.

A message left Monday at a number listed for Rafferty wasn’t immediately returned.

A number listed for Barnes went unanswered and didn’t have voicemail.

A police union official did not return a message Monday.

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8OBITUARIES WILLARD J. ‘BABE’ OLLMANN

Born: July 28, 1923, in Genoa, Ill. Died: Dec. 29, 2012, in Rockford, Ill.

GENOA – Willard J. “Babe” Ollmann, 89, of Genoa, Ill., died at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford, surrounded by his loving family.

Born July 28, 1923, at his lifelong home on his family’s farm in Genoa, the son of Edward Carl Sr. and Harriet (Miller) Ollmann, he attended Arbuckle School, a one-room schoolhouse in Kingston, and graduated from Kingston High School in 1941. He married Elizabeth “Betty” Gormley on Feb. 3, 1951, at St. John Lutheran Church, Sycamore; she preceded him in death May 6, 2007.

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Babe was a farmer and a toll collector for the Illinois Tollway in Belvidere and Rockford for 25 years, retiring in 1982, and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Genoa. In his younger years, he enjoyed reading the Antique Trader magazine and collecting china, collector plates, Hummels and coins.

Babe loved gardening, travel and his lunches with Don and Larry.

He is survived by his daughter, Dianne (Joe) Bloyd; brother and best friend, Edward Jr. (Jean) Ollman of Monticello, Ind.; nieces, Donna, Nancy, Janet and Tammy; and nephews, Richard and David.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Ann in 1971.

Special thanks to the fourth floor staff of OSF St. Anthony Hospital for their care and concern; to Don and Larry Fowler and Larry Mathey

for their friendship; and to Jim Harris for being a great neighbor.

Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State Road, Genoa, with pastor Jeremy Heilman officiating. Burial will be in Highland Garden of Memories, Belvidere. A visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd., Cooper-Quiram Chapel, 202 E. Main St., Genoa.

The family prefers memorials to Trinity Lutheran Church.

Arrangements by Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd., CooperQuiram Chapel. To share a memory or condolence, visit www.OlsonFH. com or call 815-784-2518.

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Lotus recovery center launching

Bethany Rehabilitation & Health Care Center will launch its new holistic postsurgical rehabilitation program, Lotus, with a ribboncutting ceremony at 1 p.m.

Jan. 11 at the facility on Resource Parkway in DeKalb.

The ceremony will be officiated by State Representative Bob Pritchard.

Lotus integrates conventional health care with spacentered holistic wellness programming to offer postsurgical rehabilitation pa-

tients a more enjoyable stay during their recovery. In addition to specialized care, Lotus at Bethany is partnering with Dolce Vita, an Aveda Concept Salon to offer salon and spa services.

“Holistic wellness programming uses yoga, healthy meals, soothing music, aromatherapy and other services to sooth the mind, body and spirit,” Bethany Marketing Coordinator Jen Babos said according to a news release.

“I think the community

will appreciate having a luxury-style rehabilitation center that is completely separate from the skilled nursing facility and offers amenities that make this typically difficult and uncomfortable process more enjoyable and relaxing,” said Babos in the release.

Bethany’s parent company, Tutera Senior Living & Health Care, has launched two other successful Lotus facilities in the past two years, both in Kansas City, Mo.

Lotus at Bethany officially opens their doors to guests Jan. 14.

Bethany is located at 3298 Resource Parkway in DeKalb. Bethany offers postsurgery rehabilitation services including short-term and long-term care through restorative and therapy-tohome programs.

Specialized services include respite care; wound care therapy; IV therapy; and physical, occupational and speech therapy. Bethany of-

fers patients rehabilitation suites, on-site physicians, an on-site beauty salon, restaurant-style dining, Wi-Fi and a computer lounge.

Tutera owns and manages independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities with specialized programs in memory care, rehabilitation and home heath and hospice.

With more than 35 locations, Tutera facilities span across the U.S. from the Midwest to the East Coast.

Sycamore orthodontist treats patients to movie

Orthodontist Dr. Todd Curtis began the holiday season celebration by treating his orthodontic patients to a special movie day Dec. 1 at Sycamore State Street Theater.

Attendees filled two of the theater’s three viewing rooms to see “The Rise of the Guardians,” a family film featuring the characters Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

“Our practice is focused on families and improving the lives of people one smile at a time,” said Curtis ac-

cording to a news release. “I really enjoy seeing all of the kids smiling when they exit the theater after watching the movie. It brings them so much happiness and I’m glad I get to share in that.”

More than 175 patients and parents viewed the movie while enjoying popcorn and soda, all provided by Curtis.

Attendees were asked to bring food donations in exchange for admission to the movie. More than 400 food items were collected and they will all be donated to local food pantries.

“I hope they all enjoyed the movie and the popcorn, but the Tooth Fairy did remind the kids to floss in the movie, I’m glad I’m not the only one reminding them!” said Curtis in the release.

Located in downtown Sycamore, Curtis has been providing professional and personal orthodontic care to children, adolescents and adults since 1987.

To learn more about the services offered by Curtis Orthodontics, visit www.

CurtisOrtho.com or call 815895-7660.

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Molly and Weston Bramm, patients of Dr. Todd Curtis, prepare to watch a movie Dec. 1 at Sycamore State Street Theatre.

Northern Rehab delivers donated coats to ministry Northern Rehab Physical Therapy Specialists, recently voted 2012 DeKalb County’s Best Physical Therapists, recently held a drive to collect needed winter coats, hats, mittens and gloves for Sycamore United Methodist Church Coat Ministry during this holiday season.

The Coat Ministry is open Mondays from noon to 4 p.m. during Food Pantry hours at the church located at 160 Johnson Ave., in Sycamore.

For more information about Sycamore United Methodist Church Coat Ministry, Food Pantry, or other information, visit www.Syc-

amoreUMC.org or call 815895-9113.

Northern Rehab extends its gratitude to all of the community members that generously donated winter coats and items in support of SUMC Coat Ministry.

For additional information about how Northern Rehab Physical Therapy Specialists can help you regain your freedom to move and for all of your physical therapy needs, visit www.

NorthernRehabPT.com, call the main office at 815-7568524, or connect on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and Google+.

Northern Rehab’s Marketing Director Deb Loitz delivers more than 10 large bags of coats and winter gear collected from the community to Julie Sgarlata of Sycamore United Methodist Church.

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Meet and greet at Wisoma

The Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a Meet and Greet for new member Wisoma Massage & CranioSacral Therapy. Wisoma is owned by Kelli A. Burke, L.M.T., a Sandwich-area resident for 24 years. The event was attended by more than 40 people – friends, clients, massage therapists and Chamber of Commerce members.

Wisoma is a professional and relaxing local destination offering relief for chronic pain, injuries and touch-sensitive individuals. Burke has been in the massage field for more than 10 years and com-

bines the gentle techniques of craniosacral therapy and massage to increase the profound level of support for the body’s ability to safely rest and correct soft tissue restrictions that can cause symptoms of pain and discomfort.

Wisoma is at 605 E. Market Street, Suite B, Somonauk.

For more information about Wisoma, call 815-786-7829 or visit www.wisoma.com .

The Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce can be reached at 815-312-4963, www. sandwich-il.org, at facebook. com/sandwichchamber or on Twitter @ILSandwich.

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The Sycamore Chamber Ambassador Club recently held a ribbon cutting at Think Driven located at 1730 Afton Road, Unit 3 in Sycamore. Think Driven offers complete auto repair for domestic and import vehicles, light and medium duty trucks, engine and vehicle rebuilds, and performance and enhancement modifications.

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(From left to right) Mark Stamberger, Nelson Multimedia; Norm Johnson, Independence Renewable Energy; Sue Connley; Paul Legler; John Lux, Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce; Pete Dell, Caywood & Associates; Colleen Aeppli; Kelly Burke LMT, Wisoma Massage Therapy and CranioSacral Therapy; Joanne Burke; Lanette Yingling, Mid Day Play Pet Sitting; Rich Ramme, RDS Communications; Denise Sterling, Swept Away Cleaning Services; Valerie Justice, BMO Harris Bank; Sue Bottoms; Wilda Murdock; Sandi Menzel, Oswego Massage & Rehab; Freeman Weakley, Creative Design; Tonya Weakley, Premier Designs Jewelry; Sandi Curtin; Jackie Eade, Fox Valley YMCA; Janeen Henrichs, Just In Time HVAC; Sarah Bish, Healing Kneads Massage; Eliza; Hazel; Brenda Walsh, Brenda’s Catering; Tom Churchill, Nelson Multimedia; Mary Botts; Justin Norquist, Just In Time HVAC; Kathy Martin, Country Financial; Alice Graver; Mike Botts, PJS Financial & Energy; and Roland Menzel and Alethia Hummel, Aha! Marketing & PR

The Sycamore Chamber and DeKalb Chamber recently held a combined ribbon cutting to celebrate the grand opening of the Kishwaukee College Student Center. This new facility will accommodate increased student demand for services related to financial aid, registration and counseling, as well as an expanded bookstore, dining facilities and student activity space.

Pozzi earns service award

Pozzi Chimney Sweep Inc., of Hinckley, has earned the service industry-coveted 2012 Angie’s List Super Service Award, an honor awarded annually to approximately 5 percent of all the companies rated on Angie’s List, the nation’s leading provider of local service companies.

“It’s a select group of companies rated on Angie’s List that can claim the exemplary customer service record of being a Super Service Award winner,” Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks said according to a news release. “Our standards for the Super Service Award are quite high.

The fact that Pozzi Chimney Sweep Inc. earned this recognition speaks volumnes about tits dedication providing great customer service to its customers.”

Angie’s List Super Service Award 2012 winners have met strict eligibility requirements, including earning a minimum number of reports, an excellent rating from their customers and abiding by Angie’s List operational guidelines.

Service company ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List. Companies are graded on an A through F scale in areas ranging from price to professionalism to punctuality.

Members can find the 2012 Super Service Award logo next to company names in search results on AngiesList.com.

8BrieFS VP named at 1st Farm Credit Services

Tyler Studebaker has been named a vice president at the Sycamore Branch of 1st Farm Credit Services.

Studebaker will work with clients in DeKalb, Kane, Lake, DuPage, McHenry and Cook counties to provide agricultural lending needs – including real estate loans, operating lines of credit Tyler and building Studebaker and equipment leases. He will work alongside Randy Panzer, Mark Ringhouse and Brad Slutz.

Studebaker has been with the association since May. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a degree in Agribusiness Economics. He grew up in Livingston Country.

Studebaker and the rest of the Sycamore Branch can be reached at 800-766-3276.

Bockman again named ‘Marketer of the Year’

Jon Bockman was awarded the “Marketer of the Year” for 2012 by Chicagoland’s Sharpest Entrepreneurs. This is Bockman’s second year in a row for receiving this award. This bright group of nearly 200 business owners, marketers and entrepreneurs elected Bockman based on his successful marketing of Bockman’s Auto Care.

Since moving from DeKalb to Sycamore almost three years ago, Bockman’s Auto Care has increased sales by more than 75 percent. His creativity and innovation leads to great success in his marketing efforts.

Bockman uses an integrated marketing plan. A few notable campaigns include the IRS Mailer and the Christmas in July Card. These tools designed to mimic an IRS check and a child’s letter, respectively, were eye-catching direct mail that grabbed consumers’ attention.

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8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

With apologies to sharks, solve pensions in ’13

8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR petitioners in the community Glad government entities are corroborating, listening and the 450 who have given To the Editor: At the last DeKalb School District 428 board meeting before winter break, goodwill was in the air.

Citizens, board members and administrators were treated to the talented DHS Madrigal Singers, blending in sweet harmony.

The atmosphere brought a smile to everyone’s faces, a smile that continued with the announcement that District 428 and the DeKalb Park District were working together to protect the precious green space of Kiwanis Park, which benefits the DeKalb area.

Those of us in attendance (along with the 600-plus signed

a thumbs up to the “Keep Our Green; It’s Not for ShoDeen” page on Facebook) were delighted to hear this wonderful news.

To know that our governmental bodies listened and were responsive to community pleas to find a way to shift ownership of this vibrant recreational space to the hands of the park district was gratifying. To see board members personally approaching citizens before and after the meeting to discuss the issue was equally heartening.

The school board faced a complicated situation this fall with the land swap proposal, and we appreciate that board members and the park district have

weighed the options and are negotiating transfer of the property to park district ownership.

Having attended City Council, park district and school board meetings to address this issue and having communicated with elected representatives on this matter have reassured us as taxpayers of the following: When conflicts or unexpected situations arise, these bodies and individuals are good listeners, critical thinkers and responsive to those they serve; our governing bodies are not only capable but also motivated to work together; these elected representatives are willing to change their minds and make difficult decisions in the best interests of the community.

The latter quality is especially

challenging in a political climate that tends to value immediate, bottom-line, black-and-white solutions to complex problems.

In this season of harmony, we applaud both groups for working together for the common good.

That’s democracy in action, as is their receptiveness to the public’s rights to petition and assemble. (The U.S. Congress could learn much from them.)

We are thankful for the proactive position they are taking to preserve a remarkable space that has served the community for nearly four decades and will now continue to do so for generations to come.

Art and Laurie Erdmann

DeKalb

Government ‘help’ often makes a mess

There’s a natural human impulse to help people who need a hand. In the political world, that often translates to an impulse to have government help people who need a hand. Who wants to argue with that?

But experience tells us that it’s not always easy to help. Individuals’ good intentions go awry. Government programs sometimes produce unintended consequences that make things worse for the intended beneficiaries.

Consider what could be called the three H’s: health care, housing and higher education.

Over the last generation and more, government has stepped in to help ordinary individuals and those with special problems on all three issues. The results have been, well, not as good as intended.

Take health care. Just about every health care expert from right to left believes that government’s first real foray into the field has been counterproductive.

That was the decision, made during World War II, when defense contractors were looking desperately for workers but were barred from raising wages, that the cost of health insurance policies would be deductible for employers and not taxable to employees.

Seven decades later, that’s still the law.

People whose employers provide health insurance effectively pay less for it than people whose employers don’t.

And those with employer-provided health insurance tend to be insulated from knowledge of the costs of treatment. That’s one of the things pushing health care costs up more rapidly than inflation.

In contrast, prices of health care procedures not covered by insurance – Lasik eye surgery, cosmetic surgery – have been falling because of technological advancements and free-market competition.

VIEWS Michael Barone Government’s efforts to help people – military contractors and their employees – created a mess.

Then there’s housing. For more than two decades, government policies have tried to make it easier for modest-income people to get mortgages to buy houses. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations pushed this hard.

They were aided and abetted by the government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose willingness to buy up such mortgages and sell them to investors pushed literally trillions of dollars into the housing market.

But this housing bubble burst when prices unexpectedly dropped and Fannie’s and Freddie’s mortgage-backed securities suddenly became unsaleable. This was the proximate cause of the financial crisis of 2008.

Meanwhile, thousands of new homeowners faced foreclosure and eviction. Government’s efforts to help people – especially minorities with subpar credit – created a mess.

Finally the third H, higher education.

Going back three decades, government has subsidized college loans in a way that has pumped money into the nation’s colleges and universities. The argument was that college degrees enabled people to make better livings and that government should help everyone who wanted one.

But as government pumped more and more money in, institutions have been raising tuition and fees faster than inflation for three decades. That leaves college unaf-

fordable for almost every family without government-encouraged loans.

The result has been administrative bloat – colleges and universities have had more administrators than teachers since 2005 -- and students with college loan debt that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy.

Many students leave school without degrees but with plenty of debt. Many who do earn degrees do so in subjects that, in our sluggish new normal economy, don’t lead to jobs after graduation.

But the debts remain and can build up for a lifetime. Government’s efforts to help people have produced a mess.

Not all policies attempting to help people produce such results. The G.I. Bill of Rights providing higher education benefits and housing loans after World War II worked because it rewarded not only past service but also strenuous effort.

The original FHA home mortgage program worked well because it limited loans to those with good credit ratings.

But policies trying to extend the benefits of health insurance, housing and higher education that tended to sever the connection between effort and reward have backfired and hurt many of the intended beneficiaries.

Government policymakers failed to anticipate the responses of third parties attempting to game the system and grab some of the money government was making available.

The impulse to help those in need is one of mankind’s better traits. But the impulse to have government help them is often selfdefeating.

• Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of “The Almanac of American Politics.”

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Our state’s biggest problem – its yawning, multibillion pension shortfall – remains unsolved, but our state lawmakers did accomplish a few things in 2012.

More than 150 new laws will take effect this year, and most Illinoisans will be affected by them in one way or another.

Many new laws are aimed at protecting public safety. New restrictions on gun permits require that authorities be notified if a person has a “mental disability” that would make it dangerous for them to possess a gun. There also are stronger penalties for adults who allow underage drinking on their property.

Possession, sale and distribution of shark fins – for use in shark-fin soup – also become illegal in Illinois this year. There is a thriving market for the delicacy, which often is served as a display of social status, but the harvesting of the fins is inhumane, environmentalFor the record ists say.

Stricter punishments for However, we also want child sex crimes also will a solution to the public take effect, along with sevpension obligations. If 2013 eral laws aimed at preventing elderly abuse, including brings no other legislation than a reasonable solution a training course for police on that issue, we’ll take it. to teach them ways to spot abuse.

There also are new rules designed to raise money, or reinforce the state’s right to raise it. There will be a $2 increase in fees for basic license plates. The increase is expected to raise $20 million for the state park system. The state Department of Natural Resources is also raising other fees to generate another $15 million.

A new $3 entry tax on people who visit strip clubs also takes effect this year, and sales tax evasion by retailers will become a felony crime.

On the personal privacy front, potential employers will be prohibited from asking for a job applicant’s social media passwords when they are considering an application.

Although new fees are rarely welcome, most of these laws passed because they are relatively easy to agree upon. We want child sex offenders to be punished harshly, we want to keep guns out of the hands of unstable people, and we want there to be consideration for our personal privacy when applying for a job.

However, we also want a solution to the public pension obligations. If 2013 brings no other legislation than a reasonable solution on that issue, we’ll take it.

The next shark-fin-soup-style problem can be solved in 2014.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Will ‘perfect’ 2013 follow years of being ‘awesome’?

Young children, defined as anyone under the age of about 50, might find this hard to believe, but there was a brief time when “groovy” was used without irony as a term of approbation.

“Feelin’ groovy” was a good way to feel.

This didn’t last. They never do. Dating back at least to “cool” in the 1950s, there has been some word that is shorthand for approval among younger people.

The life cycles of these words are generally similar, although always somewhat mysterious. They surface among teenagers, are adopted by their younger siblings and parents, spread to the adult population generally, and end up in television commercials for mundane products, at which point they are no longer suitable for use by teenagers because they are uncool.

The life span of these terms seems to be about three or four years.

“Cool” had a double run. First in the 1950s, when it was associated with jazz, which was coolness incarnate.

Then it had another good run in the 1990s or so, when the irony came from the fact it was such an antiquated term. At the turn of the present century there was “hot.”

The most obviously ironic term was “bad” – meaning good, a usage popularized by blacks in the late 1960s and 1970s. Its appeal was partly the mock sense of speaking in code to fool the Man. But the Man caught on soon enough. When college marching bands took up “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” to play at halftime, it was definitely time to move on.

As for the 21st century: The first decade or so was dominated by “awesome.” Nothing was too mundane and too obviously not awesome to avoid this label. Have you picked up the dry cleaning? You have? Awesome. Is it raining today? Awesome. There’s a dead body in the middle of the living room? Awesome.

Two crucial elements here are one-upmanship and secrecy. By definition, once grown-ups start to use a word, it is past its sell-by date. Any assertion on this subject cannot be authoritative.

Nevertheless, we proceed and state that the word most likely to succeed in the tradition of “cool” is “perfect.” Once again, the joke lies in the inherent exaggeration.

Nothing is really perfect. But perfect it is, and all we can say is, “cool.”

Bloomberg View

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– U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment

NEWS

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 • Page A7

Democratic officials: ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal reached

By DAVID ESPO

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Racing the clock, the White House reached a New Year’s Eve accord with Senate Republicans late Monday to block acrossthe-board tax increases and spending cuts in government programs due to take effect at midnight, according to administration and Senate Democratic officials.

Under the deal, taxes would remain steady for the middle class and rise at incomes of more than $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples – levels higher than President BarackObamahadcampaigned for in his successful drive for a second term in office.

Spending cuts aimed at the Pentagon and domestic programs would be deferred for two months. That would allow the White House and lawmakers time to regroup before plunging very quickly into a new round of budget brinkman-

Businesses will have game-day specials • NIU

Continued from page A1

have reserved the backroom at Fatty’s, and will give out autographs, Dobie said. But Dobie is expecting the restaurant to be packed without the sports broadcasters and athletes.

Fatty’s and O’Leary’s will give out a select amount of NIU Orange Bowl memorabilia.

At Pizza Pros, 1205 W. Lincoln Highway, people can chow down on 10-inch, one-topping pizzas for $5 and 50-cent buffalo wings while watching the game, owner Arthur Alberts said.

The deal applies to dine-in customers only. He also will offer orange-related drink specials, including any orange liquor at $3.

P.J.’s Courthouse Tavern in Sycamore is breaking its tradition of being closed on New Year’s Day, owner John Schwartz said. Schwartz said it will open at 4 p.m.

“We’re hoping for a nice crowd and a Huskies victory,” Schwartz said.

The bar will be open, but the kitchen won’t be, he said.

He wanted to give the staff a day off, so he will order pizzas and appetizers. His establishment simply couldn’t be closed for NIU’s first Orange Bowl, he said.

“I’d hate to miss that game,” Schwartz said.

ship certain to revolve around Republican calls to rein in the cost of Medicare and other government benefit programs.

Democratic officials said that barring opposition from majority Democrats, a latenight Senate vote was possible on the deal, which was broMitch kered by Vice McConnell, Senate minor- President Joseph Biden and ity leader Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

Passage would send the measure to the House, where Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, refrained from endorsing a package as yet unseen by his famously rebellious rankand-file.

The House Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, issued a statement saying that when legislation clears the Senate, “I will present it to the House Democratic caucus.”

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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about the “fiscal cliff” Monday in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington.

Without legislation, economists in and out of government warned of a possible recession if the economy were allowed to fall over a fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts.

And while the deadline to act was technically midnight, Obama’s signature on

Continued from page A1

Kirk, who won President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat in 2010, checked himself into a hospital in January 2012 after feeling dizzy.

Tests revealed that the avid swimmer had suffered a major stroke.

Surgeons had to remove two small pieces of destroyed brain tissue, and temporarily removed a 4-inch by 8-inch portion of his skull to allow for swelling.

Doctors said movement in Kirk’s left side was severely limited. He was in intensive care and would need speech therapy, but they expected he would make a full mental recovery.

Within days, they said Kirk was asking for his Blackberry.

In May, Kirk released a video updating his progress and showing footage of him walking with the help of a harness, a cane and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago staff.

It also included clips of Kirk speaking while sitting in a

Democratic rank and file.

Earlier, McConnell had agreedwithObamathatanoverall deal was near. In remarks on the Senate floor, he suggested Congress move quickly to pass tax legislation and “continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending.”

The White House and Democrats initially declined the offer, preferring to prevent the cuts from kicking in at the Pentagon and domestic agencies alike.

A two-month compromise resulted. Officials in both parties said the agreement would prevent tax increases at incomes below $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.

At higher levels, the rate would rise to a maximum of 39.6 percent from the current 35 percent.

The deal also would also raise taxes on the portion of estates exceeding $5 million to 40 percent. At the insistence of Republicans, the $5 million threshold would rise each year with inflation.

Violence scars Chicago community in ’12

By SHARON COHEN The Associated Press

CHICAGO – It was February, the middle of lunch hour on a busy South Side street.

The gunman approached his victim in a White Castle parking lot, shot him in the head, then fled down an alley.

The next month, one block away, also on West 79th Street: Two men in hooded sweatshirts opened fire at the Bishop Golden convenience store.

They killed one young man and wounded five others, including a nephew of basketball superstar Dwyane Wade. The shooters got away in a silver SUV. In July, a Saturday night, two men were walking on 79th when they were approached by a man who killed one and injured the other. This shooting resulted in a quick arrest; police had a witness, and a security camera caught the shooting.

These three violent snapshots of a single Chicago street are not exceptional. It’s been a bloody year in the nation’s third-largest city.

A spike in murders and shootings – much of it gangrelated – shocked Chicagoans, spurred new crime-fighting strategies and left indelible images: Mayor Rahm Emanuel voicing outrage about gang crossfire that killed a 7-year-old named Heaven selling candy in her front yard.

Panicked mourners scrambling as shots ring out on the church steps at a funeral for a reputed gang leader. Girls wearing red high school basketball uniforms, filing by the casket of a 16-year-old teammate shot on her porch.

A handful of neighborhoods were especially hard hit, among them AuburnGresham; the police district’s

AP photo

Bobby McComb sits on the sofa with her 14 year-old daughter, Cerria, at their home Wednesday in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side. In the wrong place at the right time, Cerria and a friend were wounded when gunfire aimed at a reputed gang member struck them, with a bullet exploding in Cerria’s right leg.

The toll

Among the dead

Among the living

Chicago’s murder count reached 500 Friday – the first time since 2008 it hit that mark. In 2011, there were 435 homicides. More than 2,400 shootings have occurred.

Gang-related arrests are about 7,000 higher than in 2011.

An 18-year-old walking on a sidewalk. A 36-yearold at a backyard party. A 28-year-old in a car two blocks from the police station. A 40-year-old convenience store clerk, on the job just two months.

A 17-year-old hit in the leg, wrist and foot while in a park. A 13-year-old struck in the back while riding his bicycle. A 38-year-old shot in the face while driving.

43 homicides (as of Dec. 21) ranked highest in the city, and represent an increase of about 20 percent over 2011.

The outbreak, fueled partly by feuds among rival factions of Chicago’s largest gang, the Gangster Disciples, rippled along 79th street, the main commercial drag. That single corridor offers a window into the wider mayhem that claimed lives, shattered

Kirk will walk the steps when Congress convenes Jan. 3 • KIRK

legislation by the time a new Congress takes office at noon Thursday would eliminate or minimize any inconvenience for taxpayers.

Even by the dysfunctional standards of government-bygridlock, the activity at both ends of historic Pennsylvania

Avenue was remarkable as the administration and lawmakers spent the final hours of 2012 haggling over long-festering differences.

“One thing we can count on with respect to this Congress is that if there’s even one second left before you have to do what you’re supposed to do, they will use that last second,” the president said in a mid-afternoon status update on the talks.

As darkness fell, Obama, Biden and their aides were at work in the White House, and lights burned in the House and Senate. Democrats complained that Obama had given away too much in agreeing to limit tax increases to incomes of more than $450,000, far more than the $250,000 level he campaigned on. Yet some Republicans recoiled at the prospect of raising taxes at all.

A late dispute over the estate tax produced allegations of bad faith from all sides. After hours of haggling, Biden briefed the

“For us in the stroke fraternity, we’re very happy to see this occur, to see somebody taking their life back. There are so many people who don’t make it back.”

Frank Watson

Ex-Republican leader of the state Senate who resigned after his stroke chair, his left shoulder lower than his right and the left side of his face still largely paralyzed.

Kirk said in the video that his staff had counted the steps from the parking lot to the front door of the Senate.

It was his hope to climb all 45 of them someday, “to fight for the people of Illinois.”

In a separate video released three months later, Kirk was shown climbing stairs at the RIC and working in his home office. He said he had moved back to his home in the north Chicago suburbs, and that he was talking to his staff several times a day and keeping up with business in Washington via email. He also touted the experimental therapy, through which he had logged almost 15 miles and 145 flights

of stairs.

Roth said the study represents a new approach to stroke rehabilitation, which has traditionally been slower and more cautious. In the study, one group – which included Kirk – was pushed harder and walked more, in an effort to see if it led to a quicker recovery.

In November, Kirk climbed 37 floors of stairs inside Chicago’s Willis Tower as part of an RIC fundraiser. One of his therapists called it “remarkable progress.”

Kirk has said little to the media throughout his rehabilitation. Through his staff, he declined to comment about his return to Washington.

They have said he’ll walk the steps Thursday, when the new Congress convenes.

families and left authorities scrambling for answers.

The scars aren’t obvious, at first. Drive down West 79th and there’s Salaam, a pristine white building of Islamic design, and The Final Call, the restaurant and newspaper operated by the Nation of Islam.

Leo Catholic High School for young men. A health clinic. A beauty supply store. Around the corners, neat brick bun-

galows and block club signs warning: “No Littering. No Loitering. No Loud Music.”

Look closer, though, and there are signs of distress and fear: Boarded-up storefronts.

Heavy security gates on barber shops and food marts. Thick partitions separating cash registers from customers at the Jamaican jerk chicken and fish joints. Police cars watching kids board city buses at the

end of the school day.

Go a few blocks south of 79th to a food market where a sign bears a hand-scrawled message: “R.I.P. We Love You Eli,” honoring a clerk killed in November in an apparent robbery. Or a block north to the front lawn of St. Sabina church where photos were added this year to a glassenclosed memorial for young victims of deadly violence over the years.

Then go back to a corner of 79th, across the street and down the block from where two killings occurred, both gang-related. There, in an empty lot, a wooden cross stands tall in the winter night.

Painted in red is a plea: “STOP SHOOTING.” As grim as it is, Chicago’s murder rate was almost double in the early 1990s – averaging around 900 – before violent crime began dropping in cities across America. This year’s increase, though, is a sharp contrast to New York, where homicides fell 21 percent from 2011, as of early December.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says while murders and shootings are up, overall crime citywide is down about 9 percent. He says crime-fighting strategies against gangs – some just put into place this year – are working, but they take time.

“The city didn’t get in this shape overnight,” he says. “I think that we’re doing ourselves a disservice by advertising a Vietnam-type body count. I’ve got to tell you when I speak to people ... they generally say, ‘You know what? We don’t even hear that anymore.

It’s white noise.’... The fascination unfortunately seems to be in the media and it’s become a national obsession.”

Lawmakers hopeful deal will be reached soon • LAWMAKERS

Continued from page A1 deadline, Hultgren had said he’s prepared to cast votes either late Monday or sometime today. His spokeswoman Laura Finch said Monday afternoon that House leadership asked members to stay close to the Capitol tonight.

“If the Senate passes something tonight, the House will be here to address it in one way or another,” Finch said.

With markets closed because of the holiday, that gives Congress a little breathing room, Hultgren said.

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Manteno, of Illinois’ 11th District, said it’s time for the Senate and White House to act on the impending fiscal cliff.

“The House has acted time after time after time – well before the Jan. 1 deadline – to offer a balanced approach that stops the defense ‘sequester’ and tax hikes on all Americans,” Kinzinger said Monday afternoon.

Under the tentative agreement discussed Monday, the Bush-era tax cuts would be ex-

tended to individuals and couples earning up to $400,000 and $450,000 a year. People earning more than that would be taxed at 39.6 percent, not 35 percent.

Hultgren, who represents a portion of DeKalb County, said he is not a fan of tax increases, but added that he would approach any plan with an open mind.

“I’ll look at it,” Hultgren said. “I am convinced that our problems are not because we’re under-taxed. Our problem is that we spend too much. Both our parties have been spending too much for far too long.”

That said, Hultgren said he would not want to see planned spending cuts totaling $109 billion go through.

He described this as a “meat ax approach” and said there are more effective ways to cut spending.

Like his congressional counterparts, state Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, said he also thought the spending in Washington was unsustainable. He hoped for a permanent solution because a temporary one would just deepen the cliff. “[The deal] doesn’t solve

the problem,” Syverson said.

“It doesn’t address Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

That’s the frustrating thing. It raises very little revenue when you look at the total budget.”

Syverson compared the fiscal cliff with Illinois’ unfunded pension liability, which is reportedly approaching $100 billion and increasing by $17 million a day. The lonState Sen. ger it takes to Dave solve the probSyverson, lem, the harder R-Rockford the fall will be, Syverson said.

“Every time we push it off, it becomes more painful and painful,” Syverson said.

Hultgren and Kinzinger said they are hoping for a resolution.

“I’m hopeful that we can come to a conclusion that will avert another recession, but it’s unclear at this time whether that is possible,” Kinzinger said.

• The Associated Press contributed to this report.

WEATHER

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An arctic front will makes its way through the region early, bringing the coldest air mass of the season. A few flurries are possible early, but the big story will be cold temperatures, with wind chills near zero. Another clipper system will arrive late Wednesday into Thursday, bringing some light snow and another round of chilly temperatures. It will warm up by the weekend.

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Sports

Luol Deng (center) and the Bulls have lost three of their last four after suffering a 10-point loss to the Charlotte Bobcats.

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Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com

8MORNING KICKOFF

BEARS

Bears to start over, fire Smith after 9 seasons Smith’s coaching record with Bears

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Boise State to stay in Mountain West

Boise State has backed out of a commitment to join the Big East and will remain a member of the Mountain West in 2013 – and San Diego State could be next to reverse course.

Boise State and the Mountain West announced Monday they had come to an agreement to keep the Broncos playing in the league they have been a part of the past two seasons.

“Without question, conference affiliation has been an odyssey for Boise State, with all the unexpected turns and changes that term suggests,” Boise State University President Robert Kustra said in statement. “The benefits of geographic footprint, revenue, and national exposure have to be balanced against the changing circumstances of conference realignment. I am confident that our Mountain West membership is the very best decision for Boise State University, our student-athletes and our incredible fan base.”

Boise State left the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West after 2010.

The Broncos were scheduled to join the Big East next year for football only. Boise State’s other sports were going to compete in the Big West. But more recent defections from the Big East made Boise State reconsider. And the Broncos were able to cut a sweet deal with the Mountain West that could allow Boise State to cashin on its popular and perennially powerful football program.

“As I’ve stated many times, I have had the utmost trust that the university would make the right decision in what is best for Bronco football and all our sports at Boise State,” football coach Chris Petersen said in the statement. “This innovative proposal to get football the maximum exposure on national television will be a tremendous boost to our program as we continue to grow the Bronco brand.”

–Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH

College football Orange Bowl, Northern Illinois vs. Florida State, at Miami, 7:37 p.m., ESPN The Huskies will play their biggest game in program history when they face the Seminoles.

Also on TV...

College football Gator Bowl, Mississippi State vs. Northwestern, at Jacksonville, Fla., 11 a.m., ESPN2 Capital One Bowl, Georgia vs. Nebraska, at Orlando, Fla., noon, ABC Outback Bowl, South Carolina vs. Michigan, at Tampa Bay, Fla., noon, ESPN Rose Bowl, Wisconsin at Stanford, at Pasadena, Calif., 4:07 p.m., ESPN

Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Totals

W 5 11 13 7 9 7 11 8 10 81

L 11 5 3 9 7 9 5 8 6 63

Playoff appearances 2005 (lost to Panthers in NFC Divisional game); 2006 (lost to Colts in Super Bowl XLI); 2010 (lost to Packers in NFC Championship game)

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

LAKE FOREST – The Bears reached the Super Bowl under coach Lovie Smith and consistently boasted a formidable defense.

However, they missed the playoffs too many times, never solved their problems on offense and even after a 10-win season they are moving on without him.

The Bears fired Smith on Monday after the team missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.

General manager Phil Emery delivered the news to Smith on the day after the Bears beat Detroit to finish

the Bears 36-7 loss to the New England Patriots on Dec. 12, 2010. Smith was fired Monday as the Bears’ coach after nine seasons.

See SMITH, page B3

ORANGE BOWL: NORTHERN ILLINOIS VS. FLORIDA STATE

Waiting game is over

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Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch runs drills during practice Thursday in Miami. The Huskies face Florida State today in the Orange Bowl.

Biggest game in Huskies’ history finally here BCS bowl countdown

0 days No. 15 Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. No. 12 Florida St. (11-2), 7:30 p.m. today in Miami, ESPN, AM-1360 Fact of the day: 0 – Number of BCS bowl games NIU has participated in ... until 7:30 p.m. today.

By ROSS JACOBSON

rjacobson@shawmedia.com Four months ago, Northern Illinois started its season as an underdog, playing on a neutral field in an NFL stadium against a team from one of the sport’s power conferences.

Few people thought the Huskies would cap their season in the same circumstances.

But Northern Illinois is here in Miami at the Orange Bowl, ready to take on Florida State, the Atlantic Coast Conference champion and one of the premier

college football programs over the past two decades.

All the motivation NIU needed was provided by ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit just moments after its Orange Bowl bid officially was announced. But senior tight end Jason Schepler said most of the players have had a deeper fuel since the day they stepped on campus as freshmen.

“I think this whole team is made up of guys who someone has told them at some point in their life that they’re not good enough to play here,” Schepler said.

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10-6 but still didn’t make the playoffs.

Hired in 2004, Smith led the 2006 team to the Super Bowl, but he also saw his team collapse in the second half of the past two seasons.

He was let go with a year left on his contract, ending a nine-year run that produced an 81-63 record, three division titles and two appearances in the NFC championship game.

The Bears scheduled a news conference with Emery for today to discuss the move. Smith was not available for comment, but talkSandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com ed to the team after he was Bears coach Lovie Smith looks to the scoreboard in the second half of fired.

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Former Northern Illinois linebacker Pat Schiller (left) was hoping to make a trip to Miami with former NIU running back Michael Turner, Schiller’s teammate on the Atlanta Falcons, to see the Huskies’ Orange Bowl game today against Florida State.

Pat Schiller knows Miami is nice this time of year, and he hears it’s even better now with a rush of fellow Northern Illinois football alumni in town for tonight’s Orange Bowl.

Regrettably, the linebacker from Geneva won’t be one of them. He’s still sporting red, black and white for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons.

Schiller, a practice squad linebacker, explored the idea of zipping to and from south Florida for the game with teammate Michael Turner, a Huskies running back in the early 2000s. Although the Falcons have clinched home-field advantage throughout the

VIEWS Kevin Druley NFC playoffs and a bye from the upcoming wild-card weekend, the team still is practicing Wednesday morning, keeping Schiller and Turner at home for NIU’s New Year’s date with Florida State.

“It’s unfortunate,” Schiller said, “but we’ve got to be thankful for the opportunity to be able to still play the game.”

Schiller signed with the Falcons practice squad in September after surviving all

but the final round of training camp cuts with the eventual NFC South champions.

He’s the sixth linebacker on a team that dresses five.

Should Atlanta activate him for a playoff game, it would mark the first time he has dressed since preseason.

“There have been a few times where I’ve been approached [preliminarily],” Schiller said. “With injuries, you just never know. It’s a tough job. You don’t want to get comfortable being inactive, because the minute you get comfortable, they activate you and you’re not ready.

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SPORTS

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8UPCOMING PREPS SPORTS SCHEDULE ThuRSday Girls Basketball H-BR at Newark, 7 p.m.

Indian Creek at LaMoille, 6:45 p.m.

Boys Swimming DeKalb at Byron, 5 p.m.

Wrestling DeKalb hosts meet, 5:30 p.m.

Rochelle at Kaneland, 5:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling DeKalb at La Salle-Peru, 3:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling DeKalb at La Salle-Peru, 3:30 p.m.

Sycamore at Kaneland, 4 p.m.

FRiday Boys Basketball Yorkville at Kaneland, 5:30 p.m.

Morris at Sycamore, 7 p.m.

Rochelle at DeKalb, 7 p.m.

Eastland at H-BR, 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball Yorkville at Kaneland, 4 p.m.

Morris at Sycamore, 5:30 p.m.

Richmond-Burton at G-K, 7 p.m.

Rochelle at DeKalb, 5:30 p.m.

Wrestling Morris at Sycamore, 5:30 p.m.

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COLLEGE FOOTBaLL BOWL ROuNduP

Clemson edges LSU on last-second FG The aSSOCiaTEd PRESS ATLANTA – Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired to give No. 14 Clemson a wild 25-24 win over No. 9 Louisiana State on Monday in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

Trailing 24-22, Clemson (11-2) took possession on its 20 with 1:39 remaining. Tajh Boyd completed a pass for 26 yards to DeAndre Hopkins on a fourthand-16 play during the decisive 10-play drive.

Catanzaro’s kick set off a wild celebration on the field and in the stands. Some players collapsed on the field in apparent disbelief while most of

Clemson’s orange jerseys met in a midfield circle.

Liberty Bowl – Tulsa 31, Iowa

State 17: At Memphis, Tenn., Tulsa capped one of the greatest seasons in school history by relying on the two strengths that carried the Golden Hurricane all season: Running the ball and rushing the passer.

Trey Watts rushed for 149 yards, Alex Singleton ran for three scores and Tulsa avenged a season-opening loss to Iowa State in the rainy Liberty Bowl.

Tulsa’s defense recorded five sacks, forced three turnovers and held Iowa State scoreless over the final three quarters as the Golden Hurricane erased

an early 10-point deficit.

The Golden Hurricane (11-3) posted the second 11-win season in school history. Tulsa, which has the smallest enrollment of any Football Bowl Subdivision program, also finished 11-3 in 2008.

Music Bowl – Vanderbilt 38,

North Carolina State 24: At Nashville, Tenn., the Southeastern Conference is so strong that even Vanderbilt, yes Vandy, is winning like the Commodores haven’t in nearly a century.

And coach James Franklin says everyone better get used to it.

Jordan Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as the Commo-

8SPORTS SHORTS

Chiefs with first pick in April’s draft, Jags next

NEW YORK – The Kansas City Chiefs own the No. 1 pick in next April’s draft, with the rest of the order set for nonplayoff teams.

Kansas City and Jacksonville finished 2-14 each, but the Chiefs had the weaker schedule, earning them the top selection.

The rest of the top 20 picks were announced Monday by the NFL. Oakland is third, followed by Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Arizona, Buffalo, the New York Jets and Tennessee.

Then come San Diego, Miami, Tampa Bay, Carolina, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Dallas, the New York Giants, and the Bears. The draft will be April 25 to 27.

Former AL MVP Tejada says he has deal with Royals

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Former AL MVP Miguel Tejada says he has reached a deal with the Kansas City Royals and is ready to return to the majors.

The 38-year-old infielder told The Associated Press that he has a one-year contract for $1.1 million and another $400,000 in performance bonuses.

The six-time All-Star last played in the big leagues in 2011 with San Francisco, hitting .239 with four home runs and 26 RBIs in 91 games.

ESPN’s Storm returns 3 weeks after accident

NEW YORK – ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year’s Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.

Storm suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands, and first-degree burns to her face and neck. She lost her eyebrows and eyelashes, and roughly half her hair.

Storm will host ABC’s telecast of today’s 2013 Rose Parade.

Her left hand will be bandaged and she said viewers might notice a difference in her hair texture where extensions have been added.

“I’m a little nervous about things I used to take for granted,” she said by phone this weekend from Pasadena, Calif. “Little things like putting on makeup and even turning pages on my script.”

– Wire reports

Sun Bowl – Georgia Tech 21,

USC 7: At El Paso, Texas, Southern California was ranked No. 1 at the beginning of the season, and Matt Barkley was a strong contender for the Heisman Trophy. The year ended with Barkley on the sideline as the Trojans lost to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl.

NIU’s lone loss came in opener against Iowa

SaTuRday

Boys Basketball Burlington Central at Kaneland, 5:30 p.m.

Sycamore at Rock Falls, 8:30 p.m.

G-K at Indian Creek, 6:45 p.m.

(Hoopapalozza IV) Girls Basketball Burlington Central at Kaneland, 4 p.m.

H-BR at Seneca, 6 p.m.

Sycamore at Hampshire, 2:30 p.m.

G-K at Indian Creek, 5 p.m. (Hoopapalooza IV) DeKalb at Montini, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling DeKalb at Rolling Meadows quad Sycamore, Kaneland at 38th Sycamore Invitational, 9 a.m.

Girls Bowling Sycamore hosts Matt Clark Bowling Invite, 9 a.m. w/ DeKalb

dores capped their best season since 1915 by defeating North Carolina State in the Music City Bowl.

The Commodores finished 9-4 for their best record since going 9-1 in 1915, and it’s only the third time the smallest and only private university in the SEC has won as many as nine games in a season.

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Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald (center) talks to his team during the fourth quarter of an Oct. 6 game against Penn State. The Wildcats face Mississippi State today in the Gator Bowl.

GaTOR BOWL: NORThWESTERN vS. MiSSiSSiPPi ST., 11 a.M. TOday, ESPN2

Bowl streaks on line for Northwestern, Miss. State

By MaRK LONG

The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just getting to a bowl game no longer matters to Northwestern.

The 21st-ranked Wildcats want to win one and end a decades-long losing streak.

Northwestern (9-3) hasn’t won a bowl since it beat California in the 1949 Rose Bowl.

The Wildcats have dropped nine in a row since, matching the longest streak in NCAA history.

They get a chance to stop that skid when they face Mississippi State (8-4) today in the Gator Bowl.

“It’s the next step in where we want to go as a program,” Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “The consistent success we’ve had in the program of being in the postseason for five successive seasons is something we’re proud of. Winning a bowl game is the next step.”

Northwestern has come close the past four years, losing 30-23 in overtime against Missouri in the 2008 Alamo Bowl, falling 38-35 to Auburn in overtime in the 2010 Outback Bowl, dropping a 45-38

“The consistent success we’ve had in the program of being in the postseason for five successive seasons is something we’re proud of. Winning a bowl game is the next step.”

Pat Fitzgerald

Northwestern football coach decision to Texas Tech in the 2011 Ticket City Bowl and then losing 33-22 to Texas A&M in last season’s Meineke Care Car Bowl.

But as Fitzgerald and his players were quick to point out, close means little.

“I feel like everyone on this team is motivated to be that first team to get that bowl win for the first time in a long, long time,” quarterback Kain Colter said. “The seniors have done a good job in building the foundation that we have. We’re on the rise right now and a lot of that is credited to them. If we could send them off the right way and add another part to their legacy and continue on to our legacy, that would be great.”

Mississippi State dropped four of its final five games to end the regular season, but

it has won five consecutive bowl games – the longest current streak in the country.

“We’ve had a lot of big wins this year and some tough losses this year,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. “Our guys want to go out there and finish it off the right way and send our seniors out winning a bowl championship.”

The Bulldogs haven’t lost a bowl game since the 1999 Peach Bowl. They rebounded the next year to beat Texas A&M in the Independence Bowl and since have postseason wins against Central Florida (2007 Liberty Bowl), Michigan (2011 Gator Bowl) and Wake Forest (2011 Music City Bowl).

Mississippi State’s last trip to Jacksonville ended with a 52-14 romp over the Wolverines.

“For me, personally, I went to all the Big Ten schools for their senior one-day camps and every one of them told me I wasn’t good enough,” Schepler said. “One of my favorite games was when we beat Purdue a couple years ago, because that was one of the schools that told me I wasn’t good enough to play there.

“People saying that we’re not good enough to be here is just another day for us and everyone on the team.”

The Huskies’ motivation is unquestioned. But the most important game in program history will come down to the Huskies’ ability to execute against an opponent with more athleticism and speed.

That is something NIU struggled with against the two Jason Schepler teams they played from BCS conferences this season. Their only loss of the season came against Iowa, 1817 in the season opener, and junior quarterback Jordan Lynch had to lead a furious fourth-quarter rally to salvage a 30-23 win against lowly Kansas at home.

“You have to play more people against [Florida State’s] offense because you have to chase them down, tackle them and get them down,” said NIU coach Rod Carey, who will be making his head coaching debut tonight. “Then you have to put someone else who’s fresh so you don’t lose a step, because if you lose a step against FSU, it could be worth 80 yards.”

Despite being a heavy underdog, a couple of stats do favor the Huskies. Florida State has a negative turnover margin and averages two turnovers a game this season. After a lackluster start to the year, NIU’s defense of late has been opportunistic in creating turnovers, and the offense has converted those gamechanging plays into points.

NIU doesn’t have to wait any longer. After a month off, the biggest game in program history finally has arrived.

“This is probably the top [moment in my career]. I can’t wait for Jan. 1, to step out on the field in front of everybody, and play Florida State,” Lynch said upon arriving in Florida on Wednesday. “I can only imagine that it’s going to be at the top.”

Schiller played in four bowl games with Huskies • dRuLEy Continued from page B1 “I don’t like to see anybody get hurt, but it is a business. so if one guy goes down, I feel that I can come in right away and be able to fill his shoes.”

Schiller started 27 of the 48 games in which he played during four seasons at NIU. He led the team with 115 tackles in his senior season of 2011 – 10th-best in the Mid-American Conference – and finished with 239 stops in his career.

Playfully asked if there was an NIU bar in Atlanta where he and Turner could watch tonight’s game, Schiller chuckled and said, “They don’t even know what MAC football is down here.”

That might not be hyperbole in SEC country.

Even if he were more than just a year removed from college, Schiller figures he’d still

carry the torch for his conference, a nonautomatic BCS qualifier. NIU stunned several national college football analysts with its landmark bid to Miami last month. Schiller was among those listening when ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit opined that the Huskies’ spot in the Orange Bowl was “a joke.”

“We definitely feel that we were kind of disrespected, but that’s kind of the mindset that we have going into NIU anyways,” Schiller said. “You’re an underdog going into the program and not given the opportunity you felt like you deserved out of high school, so a lot of guys already play with a chip on their shoulder, no matter what.”

Schiller was part of bowl teams after each of his collegiate seasons. The Huskies lost to Louisiana Tech (Independence) and South Florida (International) before defeating

Fresno State (Humanitarian) and Arkansas State (GoDaddy. com) in the past two winters.

A third straight bowl win tonight arguably would be the biggest victory in program history.

City where the heat is on:

While Miami has doubled as the center of Patrick Brown’s universe for the past month, it doesn’t seem there’s been a time when the city was even trivial to his life.

An offensive lineman from St. Charles North and the older brother of Huskies left tackle Ryan Brown, Patrick Brown signed with the Dolphins in early December. His fiancée is from Miami, and both are set to attend tonight’s game.

A few years ago, Brown was visiting Miami when he encountered Chris Browning – head of Batavia-based Pro Force Sports Performance Training – by chance at a bar.

“I met him randomly, we started talking about St. Charles and we’ve been striking up a friendship,” Brown said.

One immediate result: an ongoing training partnership.

After the Minnesota Vikings cut him at the end of training camp, Brown stayed in shape with a regular regimen at Pro Force.

“It’s great to have Chris in my corner,” Brown said.

A handful of Huskies, including Ryan Brown, planned to “Train Insane” at Pro Force during NIU’s holiday break from team activity before last week’s flight to Miami.

Browning also helped Schiller prepare for the 2012 NFL Draft combine.

• Kevin Druley is a sports writer for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or kdruley@shawmedia.com.

NFL NaTiONaL CONFERENCE

North W L T 11 5 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 4 12 0 East W L T W L T y-Washington 10 6 0 N.Y. Giants 9 7 0 Dallas 8 8 0 Philadelphia 4 12 0 South South W L T y-Atlanta 13 3 0 Carolina 7 9 0 New Orleans 7 9 0 Tampa Bay 7 9 0 West W L T y-San Francisco11 4 1 x-Seattle 11 5 0 St. Louis 7 8 1 Arizona 5 11 0 y-Green Bay x-Minnesota Bears Detroit

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PF Pa PF PA 436 388 429 344 376 400 280 444

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PF Pa 397 273 412 245 299 348 250 357

aMERiCaN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF Pa y-New England 12 4 0 .750 557 331 Miami 7 9 0 .438 288 317 N.Y. Jets 6 10 0 .375 281 375 Buffalo 6 10 0 .375 344 435 South W L T Pct PF Pa y-Houston 12 4 0 .750 416 331 x-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 357 387 Tennessee 6 10 0 .375 330 471 Jacksonville 2 14 0 .125 255 444 North W L T Pct PF Pa y-Baltimore 10 6 0 .625 398 344 x-Cincinnati 10 6 0 .625 391 320 Pittsburgh 8 8 0 .500 336 314 Cleveland 5 11 0 .313 302 368 West W L T Pct PF Pa y-Denver 13 3 0 .813 481 289 San Diego 7 9 0 .438 350 350 Oakland 4 12 0 .250 290 443 Kansas City 2 14 0 .125 211 425 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday's Results Tennessee 38, Jacksonville 20 Carolina 44, New Orleans 38 Buffalo 28, N.Y. Jets 9 Cincinnati 23, Baltimore 17 Pittsburgh 24, Cleveland 10 Indianapolis 28, Houston 16 N.Y. Giants 42, Philadelphia 7 Bears 26, Detroit 24 Tampa Bay 22, Atlanta 17 San Diego 24, Oakland 21 San Francisco 27, Arizona 13 Seattle 20, St. Louis 13 Denver 38, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 37, Green Bay 34 New England 28, Miami 0 Washington 28, Dallas 18

PLayOFF GLaNCE WiLd-CaRd PLayOFFS

Saturday Cincinnati at Houston, 3:30 p.m., NBC Minnesota at Green Bay, 7 p.m., NBC Sunday Indianapolis at Baltimore, noon (CBS) Seattle at Washington, 3:30 p.m. (FOX)

diviSiONaL PLayOFFS

Jan. 12 Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at Denver, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Washington, Seattle or Green Bay at San Francisco, 7 p.m. (FOX) Sunday, Jan. 13 Washington, Seattle or Minnesota at Atlanta, noon (FOX) Baltimore, Indianapolis or Houston at New England, 3:30 p.m. (CBS)

CONFERENCE ChaMPiONShiPS AFC, TBA, CBS NFC, TBA, FOX

Jan. 20

PRO BOWL

Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m., NBC

SuPER BOWL

Feb. 3 At New Orleans AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6 p.m., CBS

NBA EaSTERN CONFERENCE

Central division W L Pct 18 13 .581 16 13 .552 16 13 .552 11 22 .333 7 25 .219 atlantic division W L Pct New York 21 9 .700 Brooklyn 16 15 .516 Boston 14 16 .467 Philadelphia 14 17 .452 Toronto 11 20 .355 Southeast division W L Pct Miami 21 8 .724 Atlanta 19 10 .655 Orlando 12 19 .387 Charlotte 8 23 .258 Washington 4 24 .143

Indiana Bulls Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

GB — 1 1 8 11½ GB — 5½ 7 7½ 10½ GB — 2 10 14 16½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest division W L Pct San Antonio 25 8 .758 Memphis 19 9 .679 Houston 17 14 .548 Dallas 12 19 .387 New Orleans 7 23 .233 Northwest division W L Pct Oklahoma City 24 6 .800 Denver 17 15 .531 Minnesota 14 13 .519 Portland 15 14 .517 Utah 15 17 .469 Pacific division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 25 6 .806 Golden State 21 10 .677 L.A. Lakers 15 15 .500 Sacramento 11 19 .367 Phoenix 11 21 .344

GB — 3½ 7 12 16½ GB — 8 8½ 8½ 10 GB — 4 9½ 13½ 14½

Monday’s Results Charlotte 91, Bulls 81 Indiana 88, Memphis 83 Miami 112, Orlando 110, OT Houston 123, Atlanta 104 San Antonio 104, Brooklyn 73 Oklahoma City 114, Phoenix 96 Today’s Games Dallas at Washington, 5 p.m.

Portland at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Sacramento at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Portland at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Utah, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

PRO FOOTBALL

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Names to watch Bears general manager Phil Emery will be busy in the coming days and weeks as he searches for Lovie Smith’s replacement. Emery could decide to hire an offensive-minded, upand-coming assistant to work with Jay Cutler.

Mike McCoy, Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Emery reached out to the Broncos on Monday morning for permission to interview McCoy, according to a Fox Sports report. McCoy, 40, has worked well with a wide range of quarterbacks including Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning.

Greg Roman, San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator As one of Jim Harbaugh’s top lieutenants in San Francisco, Roman has helped to establish a multifaceted offensive scheme that picked apart the Bears in Week 11. Roman, 40, also worked alongside Harbaugh during two seasons at Stanford.

Darrell Bevell, Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Much like McCoy and Roman, the 42-yearold Bevell has proved that he can excel with quarterbacks of all styles. He helped Brett Favre thrive late in his career with Green Bay and Minnesota, and now he is calling plays for rookie Russell Wilson.

Kyle Shanahan, Washington Redskins offensive coordinator If Emery really wants to go young, he could hire Mike Shanahan’s 33-year-old son. Kyle Shanahan spent two years as Houston Houston Texans’ offensive coordinator before joining the Redskins, where Robert Griffin III has taken the league by storm.

Tom Clements, Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator One of Smith’s biggest flaws was his inability to beat the Packers in recent years.

That said, if you are Emery, why not steal one of Green Bay’s best minds?

Clements is 59 years old, but he has thrived with Aaron Rodgers and deserves a shot at a top job.

Dirk Koetter, Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Koetter did not work with Emery in Atlanta, but both men have common ties after decades of experience at both the college and professional levels. Koetter, 53, has helped Matt Ryan enjoy the best season of his five-year career and could do the same for Cutler in Chicago.

Other options: Keith Armstrong (Falcons special-teams coach), Jay Gruden (Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator), Chip Kelly (Oregon coach), Jon Gruden (ESPN analyst), Bill Cowher (CBS analyst), Andy Reid (ex-Philadelphia Eagles coach) -Tom Musick

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Next move looms large for Bears VIEWS Tom Musick LAKE FOREST – Look down to see the Kansas City Chiefs.

Now, look up to see the Green Bay Packers.

Let’s hope that the Bears know which path leads to the penthouse.

Happy New Year, Bears fans. While I’m at it, Happy New Coach and Happy New Coordinators and Happy New Era for one of the NFL’s charter franchises.

After nine seasons, Lovie Smith has been tossed aside like last night’s party hat.

Smith routinely provided a good foot-bawl team, to use his east Texas parlance, but he always seemed to find a way to fall short against the league’s top competition.

Still, my first reaction to Smith’s firing Monday morning was surprise.

It shouldn’t have been.

Bears general manager Phil Emery is serious about developing a sustainable winner, and Smith was leading the team sideways after missing the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.

Above Emery on the flow chart is chairman George McCaskey, whose everyman personality masks his burning desire to win multiple championships.

“That’s the goal every year: To win the Super Bowl,” McCaskey told me in his office as he prepared for his first season as chairman in 2011.

“Not to make the playoffs. Not to get to the Super Bowl. To win the Super Bowl.”

In the two nonchampionship seasons that have followed, longtime general manager Jerry Angelo and Smith both have been shown the door.

This is serious business.

Emery knows what’s at

“It’s disappointing. It’s very sad to see him go. If you’re a player in the NFL for any number of years, even if it’s just a couple years, he’s a guy that you would want to play for.”

– Linebacker Nick Roach “It was difficult, but Coach Smith is a real man, and he stood up and thanked us for everything we’ve done, and he said he was so proud to be a Chicago Bear. He thanked us, and as we move forward, he said he’d be there for us if we needed anything.”

– Tight end Kyle Adams AP file photo

Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy talks with quarterback Kyle Orton in an Aug. 21, 2011, preseason game in Denver. The Bears could target McCoy as their next coach after firing Lovie Smith today. stake as he embarks on his first coaching search as a general manager. He will have at least a couple of seasons to prove himself, but another prolonged dry spell will elicit a handshake and a one-way ticket out of Halas Hall.

Hire the right coach who can mold the Bears into a perennial title contender, and Emery will look like a genius.

Hire the wrong coach, and he will look like a fool.

In-between is not an option. That’s what Smith represented.

Signs posted in the Bears’ locker room warn players and coaches about the consequences of gambling on football, but general managers do it every offseason.

The Packers gambled (and won) when they fired coach Mike Sherman and replaced him with untested assistant Mike McCarthy in 2006. The Chiefs gambled (and lost) when they fired coach Herm Edwards and replaced him with untested assistant Todd Haley three seasons later.

Now, the Packers are aiming for their second Super Bowl title in the past three seasons. The Chiefs are scouting for their No. 1 draft pick as the NFL’s lousiest team.

It’s tough to know what Emery will do because he never has been in this position.

High-profile coaching options such as Jon Gruden and Bill Cowher and Andy Reid sound nice in theory, but each comes with baggage and could seek more front-office influence than the Bears can provide. College coaches such as Oregon’s Chip Kelly or Penn State’s Bill O’Brien could draw interest for at least a few vacancies in the NFL, but success at the college level doesn’t always translate.

If I were Emery, I would pursue the league’s top offensive-minded assistants.

Have a chat with Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy about his success in the mile-high city.

Ask San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Greg

Roman about how he devised a scheme to pick apart the Bears’ defense in Week 11.

Call up the Packers’ Tom Clements or the Falcons’ Dirk Koetter or the Seahawks’ Darrell Bevell to hear what they would have in mind for Jay Cutler and company.

Now more than ever, the NFL is geared toward offense and quarterbacks and scoring points. An opportunistic defense is great (see: Smith, 200412), but Super Bowl MVPs in six of the past nine seasons have been named Eli Manning (twice) or Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees or Peyton Manning or Tom Brady.

Maybe Cutler can add his name to that list. Maybe he can’t.

It’s time to find out.

It’s time for Emery to deliver some happier New Years to Bears fans.

Hester mulls retirement after Smith firing

By TOM MUSICK

LAKE FOREST – Devin Hester wore a black hood over his head and stood facing his locker with his back to a half-dozen TV cameras.

Hester was angry, and he had no intentions of hiding his displeasure. Less than an hour earlier, he sat in a team meeting as ousted coach Lovie Smith said goodbye.

“The media, the false fans, you all got what you all wanted,” Hester said without making eye contact. “The ma-

jority of you all wanted him out. As players we wanted him in. I guess the fans – the false fans – out-ruled us.”

It was a bad ending to a bad season for Hester, who caught 23 passes for 242 yards and failed to score on special teams for the first time since 2009. It was enough to make him talk about quitting, even though he is under contract through 2013.

“I’m going to go home and get away from football right now,” said Hester, who turned 30 years old in November. “I don’t even know

if I want to play again, man.

It’s [been] on my mind now for two years now.”Asked whether football had stopped being fun, Hester didn’t hesitate to answer.

“It’s not. … I’ve got my workers’ comp papers in my pocket,” Hester said. “We’ll see how I feel. I’m going to go home and talk to my wife, my family. We’ll see where we go from there.

“I’ve got two beautiful kids, man. Two boys. A lot of stress has been on my mind lately.”

Bus tossing: Bears quar-

“Everybody was kind of shocked a little bit to see it really happening. This is my first situation going through something like this. I didn’t know how it would be. I’m just depressed.”

– Nickelback D.J. Moore

“There are a lot of opportunities out there for him. Obviously, he wants to be here, but that’s not the scenario. Coach Lovie Smith is a great coach and a great man and he’ll get an opportunity somewhere.”

– Center Roberto Garza “No one really wants to change or think about changing. Now that it’s upon us, we’ve got to be positive about it. It is what it is. We’ve just got to keep moving forward, and whoever it is, we’ve got to make the most of it.”

– Quarterback Jay Cutler

• Tom Musick covers Chicago professional sports for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at tmusick@shawmedia.com.

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Reaction to Lovie Smith’s firing on Monday

terback Jay Cutler took a not-so-subtle shot at offensive coordinator Mike Tice when he was asked about the possibility of learning a new system this summer.

Tice’s offense finished fifth-to-last in the league with an average of 310.6 yards a game.

“We’re going to have to make do with it,” Cutler said of a possible personnel change. “I think we’ve got a lot of good pieces offensively, personnel-wise. Once we get a good coordinator and playcaller, we’ll make it work.”

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Bears quarterback Jay Cutler (left) talks to coach Lovie Smith (second from left) and offensive foordinator Mike Tice (second from right) during the fourth quarter of the Bears’ 21-13 loss to the Packers on Dec. 16 at Soldier Field.

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“He earned even more respect from me, if it was possible,” quarterback Jay Cutler said. “He handled it the right way. A lot of character in that man, and it showed up.”

Emery appears to be moving quickly in the search for a replacement.

A person familiar with the situation said Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy will interview for the Bears and Arizona Cardinals jobs this week. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to publicly speak about the interviews, said the talks

would take place in Denver.

Even though the Bears closed with a win, they needed a loss by Minnesota to get into the playoffs.

The Vikings, though, beat Green Bay to clinch a postseason spot, leaving the Bears as the second team since the postseason expanded to 12 teams to miss out after a 7-1 start.

The other was Washington in 1996.

Smith ranks third on the Bears’ wins list behind George Halas and Mike Ditka.

The highlight of his tenure was the run in 2006 to Super XLI that ended with a loss to the Indianapolis Colts. It was the first time two black coaches met for the championship, with Smith going against his mentor Tony Dungy.

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MAC ROUNDUP

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Bobcats hold on to beat Bulls Next for the Bulls

By TRAVIS MILLER

TOLEDO, Ohio – Jamere Dismukes scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half, when Chicago State rallied to beat Toledo, 58-53, on Monday.

With Toledo leading 45-38 and 6:16 remaining, Dismukes hit back-to-back 3-pointers bring the Cougars (4-12) within one.

After Julius Brown hit two free throws for Toledo (4-7), Dismukes tied it with another 3-pointer and Matt Ross added another with 2:26 left to give Chicago State a 50-47 lead it never relinquished.

Dismukes, who exceeded his previous career high by a point, finished 7 of 9 from the floor, including 5 of 7 on 3-pointers. Chicago State won for the first time in 11 road games this season.

Rian Pearson scored 14 points and Nathan Boothe and Matt Smith 12 each for Toledo.

Temple75,BowlingGreen57: At Philadelphia, Temple won the 1,800th game in its program’s history, becoming the sixth school to reach that milestone, by defeating Bowling Green in a nonconference game.

Only Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Syracuse have won more games than the Owls (10-2), who beat thenNo. 3 Syracuse 83-79 in their last game Dec. 22.

Jake O’Brien scored a careerbest 15 points to lead five players in double figures for Temple. Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson and Scootie Randall scored 11 points each, and Anthony Lee and Dalton Pepper had 10 apiece.

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CHICAGO – Squandering a healthy lead is nothing new to the Charlotte Bobcats – hanging onto one is.

Kemba Walker had 18 points and eight rebounds, and the Bobcats ended an 18game losing streak with a 91-81 Monday win over the Bulls.

Gerald Henderson added 16 points and reserve Ben Gordon had 15 to help Charlotte snap the second-longest skid in team history. It was the Bobcats’ first win in their past 10 road games.

“We’re a desperate team right now,” Henderson said.

“This losing streak has been very tough on us.”

Luol Deng scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Bulls. Carlos Boozer also had a double-double with 19 points and 14 boards.

Charlotte fended off several rallies by the Bulls, who never held a lead, to win for the first time since Nov. 24.

Tied at 65 heading into the fourth quarter, Bobcats coach Mike Dunlap decided to try something different.

“I put the playbook in the freezer and just let our guys go at them,” he said.

Charlotte went on a 10-0 run to pad its lead as boos began raining down from the irritated Bulls faithful, who have endured inconsistency as they await the return of former MVP Derrick Rose, who is recovering from knee surgery.

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The Bulls began intentionally putting Charlotte on the line in hopes of mounting a comeback, to no avail.

“They weren’t shooting free throws well,” Thibodeau said. “You’re just searching for anything that can get you going.”

The Bobcats finished 21 of 38 from the stripe – worse than mediocre, but enough to get the job done.

The Bulls have lost three of their past four.

“We’re in a funk right now, we’ve been up and down this season,” said Taj Gibson, who had eight points and nine rebounds. “Tonight, we let down a lot on defense and we just have to find our way out of it.”

Notes: Bulls G Kirk Hinrich was ruled out before the game because of “a compilation of things,” according to Tom Thibodeau. He is considered day-to-day. ... Thibodeau said he was “sad” to hear about the firing of Bears coach Lovie Smith. “You hate to see anyone lose their job, but that’s the nature of the beast,” he said.

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Bulls guard Nate Robinson (2) and the Charlotte Bobcats forward Hakim Warrick go for a loose ball during the first half Monday at the United Center. at a 12-point deficit in the third quarter, eventually tying the game on Richard Hamilton’s second-chance jumper with 39 seconds left, but the Bulls went ice-cold from the field in the fourth, shooting 23.1 percent.

The Bulls (16-13) shot 35.1 percent overall and hit just four of 16 3-point attempts.

“You can deal with the shots. Some nights you’re going to shoot better than others,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. “But the defense and rebounding is not where it needs to be.”

Charlotte led by as many as 21 in the first half Saturday against New Orleans, eventually losing 98-95.

It looked to be the same old story for the Bobcats heading into the fourth, but the 10-0 run to start the quarter gave the Bobcats enough momentum to stop a seemingly neverending losing streak.

The new year couldn’t come quick enough for Charlotte (8-23), which narrowly avoided posting a 0-16 calendar month for the second time in 2012. The Bobcats went 0-16

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Ramon Sessions scored 11 first-half points to give Charlotte a five-point advantage at the break. He finished with 15.

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Wring out old bad habits, bring in new ones

Dear Readers: Welcome to 2013! While the last year has been a stressful one for many, a new year has begun, bringing with it our chance for a fresh start.

Today is the day we have an opportunity to discard destructive old habits for healthy new ones, and with that in mind, I will share Dear Abby’s often-requested list of New Year’s resolutions that were adapted by my mother, Pauline Phillips, from the original credo of Al-Anon: JUST FOR TODAY, I will live through this day only. I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once.

I know that I can do some-

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips thing for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will be happy. I will not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind fills with clouds, I will chase them away and fill it with sunshine.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will accept what is. I will face reality. I will correct those things that I can correct and accept those I cannot.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will improve my mind. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. I will not be a mental loafer.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will make a conscious effort to be agreeable. I will be kind and courteous to those who cross my path, and I’ll not speak ill of others. I will improve my appearance, speak softly, and not interrupt when someone else is talking. Just for today, I will refrain from improving anybody but myself.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will do something positive to improve my health. If I’m a smoker, I’ll quit. If I’m overweight, I will eat healthfully – if only for today. And not only that, I will get off the couch and take a brisk walk, even if it’s only around the block.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will gather the courage to do what is right and take the responsibility for my own actions.

And now, Dear Readers, I would like to share an item

that was sent to me by I.J. Bhatia, a reader from New Delhi, India: Dear Abby: This year, no resolutions, only some guidelines. The Holy Vedas say: “Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bondages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the true eternal laws of nature.”

The prayer of St. Francis (of which there are several versions) contains a powerful message: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope.

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood, as to understand; To be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

And so, Dear Readers, may this new year bring with it good health, peace and joy to all of you. – Love, Abby

• Dear Abby is written

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

Write Dear Abby at www.

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Sprained ankle treatment depends on severity

Dear Dr. K: I recently sprained my ankle. I know I twisted it and that it hurts when I walk on it, but what exactly happened to my foot?

Dear Reader: Many people use the words “sprain” and “twist” interchangeably.

Though you may sprain your ankle by twisting it, the words do not mean the same thing. A sprain is a tear of ligaments, which are the tough bands of fibrous tissue that connect bones to one another at a joint.

Your ankle is the meeting place for a bunch of bones.

There are the two long bones of your lower leg and a group of small bones in the foot.

They’re all connected to give the ankle flexibility and the

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff strength it needs to support your weight.

It’s the ligaments connecting these bones that give the ankle both flexibility and strength. The ligaments stabilize a joint. When a joint is sprained, its torn or stretched ligaments can lose part or all of their ability to reinforce the joint and to keep it moving normally. In severe cases, the sprained joint can become unstable and loose.

A common ankle sprain is caused by an inversion injury. To get a sense of how

this happens, sit down and place your right foot on the ground. Then move your knee outward (to the right). Feel how the weight no longer is on the sole of your foot?

Instead, it’s on the outer side of your foot. If that happens when you’re standing, your ankle will suddenly turn and injure ligaments.

Sprains cause pain and swelling. Additional symptoms depend on the severity of the sprain: • A mild sprain causes only microscopic tears in a ligament. These tiny tears can stretch the ligament and cause some pain, but they do not significantly affect the stability of the injured joint.

• With a moderate sprain,

the injured ligament is partially torn, and there is mild to moderate joint instability.

• With a severe sprain, the ligament is either torn completely or pulled away from the place where it attaches to bone. There is significant joint instability.

How long a sprain lasts depends on many factors, including its location and severity. If you have a mild or moderate sprain, your doctor probably will recommend the RICE rule: • Rest the joint.

• Ice the injured area soon after the injury to reduce swelling.

• Compress the swelling with an elastic bandage.

• Elevate the injured joint.

A temporary sling or a brace, along with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), can also help. As joint pain subsides, a rehabilitation program can help to strengthen the muscles around your injured joint, reducing your risk of reinjury.

Treatment for a severe sprain depends on which ligament has been torn. Some torn ligaments can be repaired surgically with stitches; others must be replaced surgically.

Still others are treated with rehabilitation and a temporary cast or brace.

• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.

Early school years were miserable due to name Dr. Wallace: I am 15 and an only child, but not for long. My mother will have her baby in a month, and I’ll have a little sister. I’m very happy because I never liked being an only child. But my dad is disappointed the baby will be a girl; he really wanted a son.

Last week he announced he was going to name the baby Sidney, after his father.

He says Sidney can also be a girl’s name. My mother and I hate the name, but Mom says not to worry because she’ll override him on this. We both like the name Hannah.

My mom doesn’t want

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace my dad to feel bad when she overrides him, however. She said she remembers reading a letter in your column from a girl who was mad at her parents for giving her a masculine name and told of the grief and trouble it caused her. Would it be too much trouble to reprint that letter?

It really would help us. That way, my father can hear it from someone who was hurt by having a dumb name. –

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TODAY – What you’ve learned from experience can be effectively used to your advantage in the year ahead, if you’re brave and canny. Knowledge has much power, as you’ll be able to prove. cAPRIcORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Should you find yourself involved in an incident where you’re tempted to respond to pettiness with the same, do your best to rise above temptation and instead act responsibly.

AQuARIuS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – By sizing up business situations realistically, you’ll quickly discover that you don’t have to bargain from weakness. Don’t give the other party an edge that isn’t there.

PIScES (Feb. 20-March 20) – A pleasant surprise might be in store, when you discover that someone whom you thought unaware of your existence instead has some very nice things to say about you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Appearances won’t matter so much at present, but a good performance will really count. You’ll have little to fear if your efforts and industry live up to your promises.

TAuRuS (April 20-May 20) – If a wily antagonist tries to pull something cute over you in front of your friends today, let this person know immediately that you’re onto what s/he is trying to do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Opportunities could be lurking in unexpected places. Don’t hesitate for one minute to transform something questionable into what you always knew it could be. cANcER (June 21-July 22) – Speak up and say what you believe needs to be said, and not just what you think others want to hear. Sincerity serves a constructive purpose, while evasion causes problems.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – An adversary who usually succeeds using shifty tactics will be no match for you. You’ll be ready for this person’s guile and will easily circumvent his or her schemes. vIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Arousing the spirit of cooperation in others is something you do best when you’re fully engaged.

Don’t hesitate to go after the support of some enthusiastic allies if you need it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – When you are motivated by unselfishness, any arrangement you take on is likely to turn out a success. This is because you gain strength from giving and not taking.

ScORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You are able to easily adapt to unfamiliar people or groups. Anyone who lacks your talent will be eyeing you with envy for your skill.

SAGITTARIuS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Allowing yourself to be intimidated by uncertainties or challenges will only cause more problems, especially where your work or career is concerned.

Stay strong.

Diana, Milwaukee, Wis. Diana: It took a little time, but I think I found the letter your mother was referring to. If this one isn’t it, it will certainly suffice: Dr. Wallace: I’m writing this letter for all the teens who have been handicapped by parents who, for selfish motives, gave their children stupid names. I’m a 19-yearold woman who was named Raymond by my parents. I have four older sisters, and my father wanted a son very much. He said the new baby would be named Raymond after his father.

This might have made my

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dad feel good, but it made my early school years miserable.

When I was in first to fifth grade, my mom kept my hair short, and all the kids in my class would tease me and make fun of me. They would call me a boy and tell me I had to use the boy’s restroom and wear long pants instead of skirts and dresses.

If I had a penny for every tear I shed over this stupid name, I’d be a millionaire today. I hated my name and despised my parents for giving it to me. When I told them I didn’t like my name, they said, “Someday you will thank us for giving you an

unusual name.” Well, I’m 19, and I still hate the name Raymond, and I’m very bitter that it ruined my childhood.

I have not changed my name legally, but I now just go by Rae. I never sign Raymond.

Would you, if you were a girl?

So, for all you parents who want to give your child an unusual name – think three times before you do! – Rae, Birmingham, Ala.

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg. net. He will answer as many letters as possible in this column.

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Voids galore in goulash deal

First, a happy and healthy New Year to all of my readers.

When you play Chicago and everybody passes, it can be fun to have a goulash (or ghoulie). Each player sorts his hand: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. The cards are stacked, cut once, and dealt in groups. (I like 4-3-3-3/3-43-3/3-3-4-3/3-3-3-4, but some people prefer 5-5-5-5/5-5-55/3-3-3-3.) Long suits abound, and bidding must be adjusted because most suits will break something-zero.

This deal occurred during one of my play classes after a passout. South opened four spades. West, the most cautious player in the group, characteristically passed. He should have overcalled four no-trump, showing a two-suited hand. This would presumably have resulted in a final contract of five hearts by East after five clubs – five diamonds (both red suits) – five hearts.

No doubt South would have doubled and the likely result would have been down one.

The play in four spades was fascinating. West led the diamond ace and East discarded the club two. South ruffed, cashed the spade ace, and continued with the spade queen, throwing diamonds from the board. East won and shifted to the heart king, which declarer brilliantly ducked.

South took the next heart trick with his ace and played three more rounds of spades, giving East the lead when he had only clubs left. He had to bring the dummy to life, and declarer’s three remaining hearts evaporated. Contract made!

Did you see East’s resource? Under the spade ace, he should have kept the spade two. Then when South led the fifth spade, trying for the endplay, East would have been able to underplay with his two, leaving South on lead, forced to lose three more heart tricks and go down two.

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On April 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 300 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 25, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire April 25, 2013.

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This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition of Tax Deed on the following described property:

Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

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FOR SALE: BRICK 4 BDRM RANCH HOME

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 (Published in the Daily Chronicle December 31, 2012; January 1, & 2, 2013)

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TAKE NOTICE To: JOHN J. ACARDO, DEKALB COUNTY CLERK; CITIFINANCIAL SERVICES INC.; LARRY W. PEMBERTON; LAUREN L. PEMBERTON; OCCUPANT; ANDREW PEMBERTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS.

This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition of Tax Deed on the following described property:

Lot 3 IN BLOCK 1 OF JAHN'SCLARK SUBDIVISION IN SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 5, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 6, 1954 IN BOOK “I” OF PLATS, PAGE 31, AS DOCUMENT NO. 273642, SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 09-05-203003.

Part of the North 40 acres of the Southeast Quarter of Section 17, Township 40 North, Range 5 East of the Third Principal Meridian, more particularly described as follows: Commence at the Southwest corner of the North 40 acres of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17; thence Northerly along the West line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17 for a distance of 198.0 feet to the point of the beginning; thence continuing Northerly along the West line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17 for a distance of 198.0 feet; thence Easterly and parallel to the North line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17 for a distance of 220.0 feet; thence Southerly on a line parallel to the West line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17 for a distance of 198.0 feet; thence Westerly and parallel to the North line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 17 for a distance of 220.0 feet to the point of beginning; situated in the County of DeKalb and State of Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-17-400007

On April 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 300 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 25, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire April 25, 2013.

On April 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 300 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 25, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire April 25, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586

(Published in the Daily Chronicle December 31, 2012; January 1, & 2, 2013)

(Published in the Daily Chronicle December 31, 2012; January 1, & 2, 2013)

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Page B8• Tuesday, January 1, 2013 PUBLIC NOTICE Tax Deed No. 12-TX-65 Filed December 20, 2012 TAKE NOTICE To: JOHN J. ACARDO, DEKALB COUNTY CLERK; DEKALB COUNTY CREDIT UNION; JERRY R. MANESS; RHONDA S. MANESS; OCCUPANT; UKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition of Tax Deed on the following described property: Lots 8 and 9 in Block 1 in Hinkcley and Boyle's Addition (also known as the First Addition) to the Village of Lee, according to the plat therof recorded in Book “B” of Plats, Page 6, on August 17th , 1846, situated in Dekalb County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 13-06-331003.

On April 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 300 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 25, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire April 25, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 (Published in the Daily Chronicle December 31, 2012; January 1, & 2, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Tax Deed No. 12-TX-66 Filed December 20, 2012 TAKE NOTICE To: JOHN J. ACARDO, DEKALB COUNTY CLERK; FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY; LOREEN A. POPP; OCCUPANT; UKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition of Tax Deed on the following described property: LOTS 7, 8, AND 9 IN BLOCK IN MILLERS SECOND ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE OF HINCKLEY, EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE WEST 15 FEET OF LOFT 9, IN THE VILLAGE OF HINCKLEY, COUNTY OF DEKALB, STATE OF ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 15-15-427010.

On April 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 300 the Petitioner intends to make application for an orde th titio that Ta

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Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 (Published in the Daily Chronicle December 31, 2012; January 1, & 2, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Tax Deed No. 12-TX-67 Filed December 20, 2012

Sy courtroom occupied by the presiding judge, Britny Allyson Kinner will file his/her petition requesting that his/her name be changed from BRITNY ALLYSON KINNER to NICHOLAS ROBERT KINNER pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Any persons interested in said request for change of name may appear at said time and place, if they so desire.

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Big Shoes to fill Fisher ‘very impressed’ by niu’s Carey

By STEVE NITZ

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Jimbo Fisher Hired: Jan. 7, 2010 Career record: 30-10

aCComPliSHmentS 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference champions 2011 Champs Sports Bowl champions 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl champions 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic Division champions

PreviouS exPerienCe Offensive coordinator / QB coach FSU, 2007-10 Offensive coordinator / QB coach LSU, 2000-06 QB coach Cincinnati, 1999 QB coach Auburn, 1993-98 Offensive coordinator Samford, 1991-92 Notable: On Dec. 10, 2007, Fisher was named “head coach in waiting.” He would be the eventual successor to legendary Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden, who stepped down after 34 seasons.

Congrats Northern Illinois Huskies

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Dave Doeren accomplished a ton in his short, two-year stint at Northern Illinois.

A 23-4 record. Two Mid-American Conference titles. A bowl win last season and a berth in a BCS bowl game this year.

In steps Rod Carey, a coach who was the offensive line coach/run game coordinator at the start of the year. With how far the Huskies program has come under Joe Novak, Jerry Kill and Doeren, Carey has a lot to step into.

Today, when No. 15 NIU takes on No. 12 Florida State at 7:30 p.m. in the Orange Bowl, he’ll be a head coach for the first time, in possibly the biggest game in school history.

For Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher, he’s coaching the school’s first BCS bowl game since January 2006, when Florida State lost to Penn State at the Orange Bowl.

In 2010, Fisher had the opportunity to step in for Bobby Bowden, owner of an NCAA record 377 wins. He’s leading his program into an Orange Bowl, and Florida State looks like it’s headed back to prominence.

Coaches in situations similar to Fisher’s, and to a lesser extent Carey’s, are going to face a certain amount of pressure. Huskies fans might not expect another BCS berth next season, but a third straight Mid-American Conference title will certainly be on their list.

Carey understands the whole deal. At Monday’s Orange Bowl news conference, Carey also talked about how good of a situation he’s in. He’s got the premier job in the MAC, a talented group coming back in 2013, and a possible Heisman candidate in quarterback Jordan Lynch.

He’s also gotten plenty of advice from Doeren on making this leap in such a short time.

“Well, what it’s like is that if we didn’t go 23-4, I don’t get this job. I can tell you that. So it means the program is in good shape,” Carey said. “We’re obviously headed in more than just the right direction. We’re going down a path that we want to be, what we’ve worked for.

“And how much has Dave helped me?

A lot. You know, I’ve learned a ton from him. He’s a good man, he’s a good football coach, and we have a good relationship that will change now, and it already has since we’re both head coaches at different universities, but excited about that change and what that will bring to our relationship, too.”

Bowden has two pages dedicated to his accomplishments in Florida State’s media guide, and the accolades are endless. There is of course the victory to-

tal, but also the national titles in 1993 and 1999, and the 28 consecutive bowl games from 1982-2009. There’s also the 12 Atlantic Coast Conference titles and 14 straight top 5 Associated Press poll finishes from 1987-2000.

Doeren certainly did a lot in his short career at NIU, winning more MAC titles in two years than what the Huskies had won in their history prior to 2011. But Bowden is a legend.

Fisher’s career is off to a good start, and he said in this day and age, when you’re at a high-profile program, there’s always going to be pressure.

“Our world today is what have you done for me lately, and that’s just the nature of the beast. You’re a high-profile, that goes with the territory and you want to win them all, but coach Bowden was a legend. Coach Bowden is a one-ofa-kind guy,” Fisher said. “You don’t replace coach Bowden. I have to be Jimbo Fisher and move on and do the things we do, and we’ve done some great things, and some people like it. And we do them a little different.”

Fisher and Carey have gotten to meet each other in south Florida leading up to the Orange Bowl. Monday, Fisher was asked about Carey’s meteoric rise in the coaching ranks. He said there will be more to deal with next season. NIU had already developed a certain routine under Doeren, and Fisher said the challenge for Carey will be developing his own routine in 2013.

“I think next year from a head coaching plan, I think from an organizational standpoint it’ll be, not harder, but there’s a lot more work to do because now you put your stamp on the program,” Fisher said. “This one here, they’ll kind of run status quo and do the things that they do and everyone knows what the roles are, everyone knows everything.

“Next year I think will be even more of a transition because they have to reinvent those roles and tell everybody what they’re doing, and it’s a different group.”

Today, Carey will call the plays from the sideline and make the decisions as the school’s head coach. Should the Huskies pull off the upset, it could be considered the biggest win in school history.

Carey and Fisher have had the chance to get together this week, and posed for pictures at Monday’s news conference.

The two will meet for a final time during the postgame handshake at Sun Life Stadium.

“I think [Carey]’s done a great job. In meeting him the few times I have, I’ve been very impressed,” Fisher said. “I think he’s a great guy, and developing a good friendship. I really enjoy being around him.”

Rod Carey Hired: Dec. 2, 2012 Career record: 0-0

PreviouS exPerienCe Offensive coordinator / run game coordinator NIU, 2012 Offensive line coach NIU, 2011-12 Offensive line coach North Dakota, 2008-10 Offensive line coach Illinois State, 2007 Offensive coordinator Wisconsin-Stout, 2000-06 Graduate assistant Minnesota, 1998-99 Notable: Carey was hired a mere 24 hours after former NIU coach Dave Doeren accepted the head coaching position at North Carolina State. On the same day Carey was hired, NIU learned about its bid to the Orange Bowl.

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Orange BOwl upsets

Northern Illinois comes in as heavy underdogs against Florida State, owners of an 11-2 record and the Atlantic Coast Conference champions. Oddsmakers have made the Huskies a 13-point underdog against the Seminoles, one of the largest lines in recent Orange Bowl history. But the Orange Bowl has had its share of upsets. Here’s a look at five of them over the past 25 years.

1988

miami (fla.) 20, Oklahoma 14 the line: Oklahoma -3

recap: Miami won its second national championship in five years. Michael Irvin’s 23-yardtouchdown catch put the Hurricanes up by 10 in the third quarter as Jimmy Johnson’s Miami squad outplayed Barry Switzer and the Sooners.

2001

2010

Oklahoma 13, florida st. 2

iowa 24, georgia tech 14

recap: Oklahoma’s defense dominated a Florida State team that led the nation in total offense. The Seminoles only score came on a safety as a result of a bad long snap in the final minute. The win gave Oklahoma the national championship.

recap: Iowa’s defense solved Georgia Tech’s triple-option offense as Adrian Clayborn recorded two sacks and nine tackles in the win. Iowa QB Ricky Stanzi threw two touchdowns in the first quarter, and RB Brandon Wegher’s 32-yard touchdown run sealed the win for the Hawkeyes.

the line: Florida St. -11

the line: Georgia Tech -6

2008

2012

kansas 24, Virginia tech 21

west Virginia 70, clemson 33

the line: Virginia Tech -3

the line: Clemson -3

recap: The Jayhawk defense recorded three interceptions on the night, including a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown

by Aqib Talib. Kansas QB Todd Reesing scored on a 2-yard touchdown run to clinch the win for Kansas.

recap: Led by Geno Smith’s six touchdown passes, West Virginia set an all-time bowl record with 70 points in the blowout win. The Mountaineers scored 35 points in the second quarter alone and led, 49-20, at halftime.

– Ross Jacobson, rjacobson@shawmedia.com

face off Old teammates

By STEVE NITZ

snitz@shawmedia.com

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – When Northern Illinois wide receiver Tommylee Lewis found out the Huskies were going to the Orange Bowl, he called Florida State tight end Nick O’Leary, his teammate at Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Lewis said O’Leary didn’t believe the Seminoles would be facing the Huskies at Sun Life Stadium on New Year’s Day. “He thought I was playing around. I called him right before the announcement,” Lewis said after Sunday’s practice at Barry University in Miami Shores. “He was like ‘No you’re not serious,’ like that.

Once they announced it I called him again. He was just like ‘That’s crazy.’ ” Lewis said he speaks to O’Leary via phone or text roughly every other day. Lewis got to talk to O’Leary, who has 19 catches for 223 yards and three touchdowns this season, at a breakfast function during bowl week.

He expects to see him during pregame warmup and chat with O’Leary for a little bit before the two square off.

“It’s going to be fun, exciting,” Lewis said. “He’s excited, I’m excited. It’s going to be fun.”

NIU’s south Florida natives come from high school teams that feature multiple Division I players.

Naturally, there’s a decent chance players such as Lewis will see a former teammate somewhere on the

Huskies’ schedule.

Lewis is one of six Huskies who will play against a high school teammate that plays for Florida State.

Linebacker Jamaal Bass played with Seminoles defensive back Owen Harris at Miramar High School in the Miami area. Huskies safety Jimmie Ward was a teammate of Florida State defensive end Chris Casher at Davidson High in Mobile, Ala. Two NIU true freshmen in the process of redshirting, wide receiver Charlie Miller and defensive back Charles Ivory, played on the same squad as FSU offensive lineman Brian Stork in Vero Beach, Fla. NIU redshirt freshman wideout Angelo Sebastiano, who handles the Huskies punt return duties, was a high school teammate of three Seminoles – defensive back Colton Woodall, punter Dillon Kidd and long snapper Dax Dellenbach, at North Broward Prep in Coconut Creek, Fla. Sebastiano will have Dellenbach running right at him on punt returns tonight. Dellenbach’s father, Jeff, also coached Sebastiano in high school, so the NIU freshman will get the chance to play in front of him as well.

“I’ve been good friends with the Dellenbach family. His dad did a lot for me,” Sebastiano said. “I’ve been actually fairly close with him. It’ll be fun to square off against him.”

While some of these players know and keep up with each other, in the end, they’re enemies tonight.

“It’s cool, it’s a competition,” Ward said with a big smile. “We aren’t friends on the field.”

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OLD TEAMMATES Some Northern Illinois players are more than familiar with Florida State’s roster. Six Huskies played high school football with teammate(s) who went on to play at Florida State.

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LB Jamaal Bass

Miramar

DB Owen Harris

WR Tommylee Lewis

W.T. Dwyer

TE Nick O’Leary

S Jimmie Ward

Davidson (Ala.)

DE Chris Casher

WR Angelo Sebastiano

N. Broward Prep

DS Dax Dellenbach P Dillon Kidd DB Colton Woodall

WR Charlie Miller DB Charles Ivory

Vero Beach

OL Brian Stork

Good Luck Huskies!

Beat the Seminoles!

Congratulations on a Great Season!

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new Year’s Day resolutions Ten Huskies

New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep for an entire calendar year.

Inevitably, most commitments fall off by the time February rolls around and the holiday spirit has worn off. But Northern Illinois’ season ends today, so here are 10 New Year’s resolutions the Huskies need to keep for tonight’s game against Florida State.

1. Force multiple turnovers

The Huskie defense’s inability to create turnovers is long in the rear-view mirror as NIU has forced at least one turnover in each of the past nine games. The Seminoles have a penchant for being careless with the football and have committed 26 turnovers on the season, an average of two a game.

6. Get to the quarterback

Basically a sub-point of the previous New Year’s Day resolution, NIU’s defensive line has been productive all season, recording 40 sacks. Florida State’s offensive line has been susceptible to good pass-rush teams, yielding two sacks a game. If the Huskies can stop the Seminoles’ run game early on, it will give their pass rush more opportunities to get to Manuel.

2. Handle crowd noise

Tallahassee is just a seven-hour drive from Sun Life Stadium, so Florida State fans are bound to give the Seminoles an unofficial home-field advantage. The offensive line committed only one false start penalty in a similar situation on a neutral field against Iowa and will have to produce similar results tonight because Florida State’s “Tomahawk Chop” will likely make an appearance in Miami.

7. More second-half magic

NIU’s second-half comebacks have been well-documented as the Huskies fought back from deficits against Kansas, Toledo, Army and Ball State In Florida State’s two losses, Florida rallied from a seven-point deficit in the fourth quarter and North Carolina State came back from 13 points to win in the final minute.

8. Pass protect

3. Win the red zone battles

NIU scores touchdowns on 70 percent of its trips into the red zone and will have to continue that trend because settling for field goals won’t get it done against the Seminoles. The Huskies also rank as the nation’s sixth-best team in red zone defense, so NIU will have to keep limiting the Seminoles inside their own 20-yard line.

The Huskies’ young offensive line has played beyond expectations all season, yielding only 14 sacks in 13 games. They will have their biggest challenge to date, trying to keep All-American DE Bjoern Werner from getting to Jordan Lynch. The junior quarterback does a great job of keeping plays alive with his mobility, but couldn’t avoid a couple of costly sacks against Kent State.

9. Keep being aggressive

4. Use a timely trick play

We saw it a few times from NIU during the season when the Huskies used a fake punt and fake field goal against Central Michigan and almost attempted one against Kent State Bowl games often have coaches digging deep into the playbook and visions of Boise State - Oklahoma come to mind.

Former NIU coach Dave Doeren brought an aggressive mentality to his play calling, showing lots of faith in his offense to convert on fourth down. The Huskies are 18 for 23 on fourth down this year, the second-best percentage in the nation. There likely will be a couple of big opportunities for NIU to keep drives alive on fourth down.

10. Stay out of 3rd-and-long situations

5. Force Manuel’s hand

E.J. Manuel may be a senior and in his second year as the starter, but he still makes poor decisions from time to time at quarterback. He has thrown 10 interceptions and lost five fumbles, including four turnovers in the Seminoles’ loss to Florida. He also threw an interception in the Seminoles’ loss against North Carolina State.

Lynch’s ability to be a dual-threat quarterback has given defenses trouble all season.

The Seminoles boast one of the best defenses in the country, allowing opponents to convert only 27 percent of third downs. Getting to shorter third downs will keep Florida State off balance and make NIU’s play calls more unpredictable.

– Ross Jacobson, rjacobson@shawmedia.com

no upset here: Huskies don’t have enough to beat Florida State

Jacobson: Steve, the Orange Bowl has finally arrived. It seems like an eternity ago that we were in Detroit watching Northern Illinois come away with a double-overtime win over Kent State for its second consecutive Mid-American Conference Championship. In reality, it’s been exactly one month. Do you think the long layoff benefits one team more than the other? I would lean toward NIU only because of the coaching change. nitz: I think people make too big of a deal out of stuff like this. I guess if I had to say, it benefits NIU because of the whole transition.

But let’s be honest, in the end, talent and coaching play out. When whoever wins, it will be because of talent and coaching. Once the game starts, the big break between games won’t really matter.

Jacobson: Fair enough.

Both teams may be a bit rusty at the start, but again it’s a level playing field.

Everyone knows that as Jordan Lynch goes, NIU goes.

He struggled against Iowa in the Huskies’ only loss of the year. But there are certainly a number of other players to watch. What is an in-game matchup that may not be getting a lot of publicity, but could have a large impact

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Ross Jacobson and Steve Nitz face off tonight? nitz: That’s easy. NIU right tackle Matt Krempel against Florida State All-American defensive end Bjoern Werner.

Krempel split time at right tackle with Ryan Brown the first 11 games of the season.

When left tackle Tyler Loos suffered a leg injury in the Toledo game, Brown moved

to the left side with Krempel taking his place.

It’ll be interesting to see how Krempel handles a guy like Werner.

Jacobson: OK, enough beating around the bush. It’s prediction time. Steve, your record this year has been sparkling, correctly picking the winner for every NIU

game this season on the HuskieWire live blog.

Who you got and by what score? nitz: You know, I’ve gone back and forth on this for a while. Florida State is obviously the better team, but the Huskies could very well be more motivated. I mean, in reality this is a bigger game for NIU, right? People also rip the Mid-American Conference, but let’s not act like the Atlantic Coast Conference is loaded.

The thing is, NIU wasn’t very impressive in its two contests against BCS teams, losing to a 4-8 Iowa team and barely beating a Kansas team

that won one game. Knowing that, I just can’t pick the Huskies. I’m going with Florida State 31, NIU 14.

Ross, what’s your prediction? Are you going chalk or taking the upset?

Jacobson: We’ve taken the chalk in every game this season, and we’ve been correct.

No reason to stop now ...

I don’t think this game will be the blowout that many people predict. Florida State has a tendency to shoot itself in the foot with untimely turnovers. It’s been a heck of a season for the Huskies, but I think it ends the same way it started, with a loss.

Florida State 30, NIU 21.

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