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MEDAL OF HONOR HERO DAKOTA MEYER’S NEW FIGHT

IT TAKES A GARDEN

A TALE OF HOPE, DETERMINATION, AND LOVE IN A STRUGGLING NORTH CAROLINA TOWN

HOW TO START YOUR OWN COMMUNITY GARDEN TAKING HER PICK

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ninth and ﬁnal season of Dog Whisperer (Nat Geo WILD, Saturdays, 8 p.m. ET), the dog behavior specialist still works with pooches of the non-famous. “I haven’t forgotten my roots,” says Millan, 42. “I didn’t start with celebrities but with people in the neighborhood, so I don’t think I’ll ever stop because that means a lot to me.” Find out how to get Cesar to train your dog at Parade.com/millan.

Send your questions to Walter Scott at personality@parade.com or P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

Q: What happened to my

favorite X Factor contestant, Rachel Crow? —David

Hall, El Centro, Calif.

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judge Simon Cowell was right when he said audiences would be “hearing a lot more” about Crow after her tearful elimination P Rachel Crow

from the reality singing competition last year. In addition to her budding acting career (Crow has appeared on several Nickelodeon shows), the bubbly 14-yearold released a self-titled EP in June and has been touring with Big Time Rush this summer. Watch the video for her single “Mean Girls” and read her tour blog at Parade.com/crow.

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Remember actually ﬁlmed at the Empire State Building? —Helen

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starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as lovers who agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building, was shot largely on the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles—including the scene in which Grant shows up on the skyscraper’s observation deck. However, Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron’s homage to An Affair to Remember, was ﬁlmed at the famous landmark.

I ALWAYS THINK MEN NEED MORE HELP.”

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MAC AND CHEERS Some of the coolest musical artists around pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac (who say they’ll tour again in 2013) on Just Tell Me That You Want Me. Highlights include the Kills’ bluesy cover of “Dreams” and MGMT’s electrifying nine-minute “Future Games.”

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FIELDS OF

DREAMS How a community garden helped a struggling small town in North Carolina reclaim its pride

BY KATE MEYERS

to his hometown of Lenoir after college and is now a garden manager; Dean Adorno, 24, a tattooed electrician who is reputed to grow the garden’s best tomatoes; and his 4-year-old son, Tristen, known for planting Toy Story action figures amid the beds. John “Doc” Scroggin, 83, a retired general practitioner, perches at a nearby picnic table providing color commentary. “You notice how spry these old folks are?” he asks. “That’s gardening! It keeps you hopping and moving and learning.” Together, Lenoir’s gardeners form a moving patchwork of shapes, sizes, colors, and ages, all brought together by a love for the soil—and each other. “People may come as strangers,” says Werts. “But they leave as friends.” These friendships take many forms.

CULTIVATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY

C OV E R & I NSI DE PHO TO GRAPHS BY PAT RIC I A LYONS

t’s Saturday morning at the community gardens in Lenoir, N.C., and the beds are buzzing. Townspeople are digging, weeding, watering, wiping sweat from their brows, then digging some more. There’s Helen Dickson, a 75-year-old retired seamstress who’s been raising vegetables since her farm-kid days; Eston Werts, 27, who returned

Clockwise from top left: Kaye Reynolds, Lenoir’s communications and resource director; Jacob Norwood, who maintains a plot with his parents and brother; Sara Mursch, who was instrumental in creating the gardens, with her husband, Dick; 3-year-old Madeline Stark; and retired physician John “Doc” Scroggin with four students he mentors, Kaitlyn Carlton, Tanila Carlton, Shantel Harper, and Felicety Carlton.

“I was raised by great-aunts and grandparents, so I love learning from the older folks,” says Paul Norwood, 52, as he pulls up weeds and stakes tomato plants with his wife, Janet, 40, and their two sons, Jacob and Jackson. “Everybody brings something unique.” Before they head home, the Norwoods will drop off a bag of fresh veggies for 86-year-old Elsie Harper, who worked for decades at their church day care center and now watches over the garden from her porch across the street. “The gardens don’t belong to this neighborhood or that neighborhood,” says Charles Beck, 60, Lenoir’s director of public works. “They belong to everyone, and they’re a

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source of pride for the whole town.” Pride has been in short supply in Lenoir in recent years. In the past decade, the once thriving manufacturing community (pop. 18,228) has watched as one factory after another closed its doors, mostly because of outsourcing to China. All told, Lenoir lost a staggering 8,000 jobs; the unemployment rate (which in 1999 was less than 2 percent) now hovers around 12 percent, four points above the national average. Many residents can’t afford fresh food, and two-thirds of the town’s adults and one-third of its children are overweight or obese. The two biggest gardens (located on opposite sides of town) are situated on the remains of a burned-down furniture factory and what was once a segregated playground. “They should be called Phoenix gardens,” says Scroggin, “because they’ve risen from the ashes.”

Planting the First Seeds Lenoir could be a small town anywhere. Neighbors leave baked goods by the door when you’re new in town, and casseroles when you’re sick. Church suppers are plentiful. There are block parties and free Friday night concerts in summer and a Christmas parade down Main Street in winter. But driving through those same streets, you also come across boarded-up furniture and textile factories, painful reminders of the town’s decline. “I remember when they announced the big Lenoir [Furniture Corporation] plant was closing during Christmas 2006. That was the one plant people said would never shut its doors,” says Kaye Reynolds, 65, the town’s communications and resource director. “For some families, three generations had worked there. These were proud people who had never been on public assistance. What do you say when something like that happens?” Sara Mursch, 76, a retired air force nurse, saw how her neighbors were hurting during her volunteer work at Lenoir’s Helping Hands Clinic, where many patients had trouble paying their bills. So three years ago, Mursch, a longtime gardener, came up with the idea of a community garden. “I like to see people eat right, and I knew it would be more meaningful to people if they could grow the food themselves,” says Mursch. “Gardening gives you a sense of satisfaction, and

folks here could use that.” So that spring, she rallied a few fellow gardening enthusiasts from her church, and they pitched the idea to the city manager, Lane Bailey, who donated a half-acre

HOW TO START A COMMUNITY GARDEN WHERE YOU LIVE Recruit like-minded neighbors. “You could have a piece of land that’s perfect, but without a core group of committed people, it will be hard to get the project off the ground,” says Sean Cummings, program coordinator of VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments), a community garden organization based in Binghamton, N.Y.

Green up your thumbs. Newbies can learn the ropes by volunteering at other nearby community gardens or taking free or low-cost workshops run by state cooperative extension ofﬁces. (Find yours at nifa.usda.gov/extension).

Draft a mission statement.

It should spell out who can participate, what’s expected of members (a minimum hourly commitment, for example), and what the garden will grow (ﬂowers, veggies, or both?).

Look for a sponsor. Reach out to local businesses that support agricultural or ecological causes; a sponsor can contribute tools, seeds, and other supplies. If you can’t ﬁnd one, you’ll need to come up with another way to raise funds, such as charging a membership fee.

Scout out potential sites.

Consider factors such as exposure to light (many vegetables require a minimum of six hours of full sun a day), proximity to water, and the condition of the soil.

For more information, and to ﬁnd out if there’s already a community garden near you, visit the American Community Gardening Association’s website, communitygarden.org. —Madonna Behen

plot for just $1 a year, as well as city workers to help clear and terrace the hilly, weed-filled land. Soon, a handful of people became a hundred— including church groups, staff from the local hospital, 4-H club members, even a busload of Google employees (the company had recently set up a collection of computer servers nearby)—who all pitched in to help build beds, plant trees, and nurture seedlings. The first garden was so successful that in spring 2010 another one, spanning 5.6 acres, was added across town, on the site of an old Singer furniture factory that had been destroyed in a fire. In the three years since the gardens were established, eyesores have been transformed into plots bursting with lettuces, onions, squash, okra, tomatoes, beets, and carrots. Mounds of rubble have been replaced by a 150-tree orchard of apples, pears, and plums. The city cares for the land surrounding the beds and supplies water; seeds are donated or are purchased from the sale of surplus crops. Today, there are nearly 100 beds, and anyone in the community can sign up to tend one at little to no charge. “I grew up on a farm, and eating fresh food every day was just a blessing,” says Helen Dickson. “I come here and it’s so nice to pick a good, fresh tomato.” She and her best friend, Mary Norwood, 71, also a retired textile worker, each have their own plots of green beans, peppers, tomatoes, and okra. And they’re happy to share their harvest. “If anyone wants to pick something out of our beds, they’re welcome to it!” says Norwood.

Hope Takes Root Across the country, community gardens are blooming—an estimated 1 million of them dot places from Homer, Alaska, to Brooklyn, N.Y., according to the National Gardening Association. “Community gardens make neighborhoods more livable. They become a gathering spot for people, like a pocket park,” says Bruce Butterfield, research director at the NGA. But in a city like Lenoir, the gardens also offer bountiful evidence of its citizens’ hardworking, hospitable spirit. “This is a town that could easily feel sorry for itself,” says Rose Noakes, 64, who runs the local bed-and-breakfast. “But it doesn’t. What this town does is take care of its own.” Barbara Stark, 55, is unemployed and babysits

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her 3-year-old granddaughter, Madeline; the pair walk down the hill from her home to the garden almost every day. “Growing here helps me feed my family,” says Stark, who weeds and waters some of the 35 to 40 communal beds used to help stock the local food pantries and soup kitchen. “Many of the folks who come here are trying to make food stamps stretch, so they often bypass stores’ produce sections,” says the pantry’s executive director,

Sharon Osborne. “You have never seen people get so excited about beans or potatoes.” “Last fall I took 100 pounds of turnips to our food pantry and they were all taken home within 30 minutes,” says Werts. “It was so moving to see that even something like turnips, which many people would turn up their noses at, went to people in need within an hour of picking.” Shortly after the gardens’ ﬁrst harvest, David 94872

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HELPING THE TOWN TURN OVER A NEW LEAF From left: Retired factory workers (and best friends) Helen Dickson and Mary Norwood; Dean Adorno and his 4-year-old son, Tristen. (Tools and other supplies provided by Gardener’s Supply Company.)

Horn, who with his wife grows okra, zucchini, cantaloupe, peppers, and sweet potatoes, noticed how often people asked for pointers on cooking their fresh vegetables. So Horn, vice president of business development at Caldwell Memorial Hospital—and a cohost of a popular cable access show called Two Men and a Stove—created a monthly cooking column in a local paper. And last November, the gardens spread their tendrils even further when 12-year-old Daniela Berry asked her dad, Andy, who is the principal at Lenoir’s Whitnel Elementary School, if she could create a plot for the after-school program. With help from her mom, Daniela cleared a 1,700square-foot parcel of land behind Whitnel, where 85 percent of the students are on free or reducedprice lunches. Soon after, she began giving lessons to other kids on how to tend the new beds. “A lot of them didn’t even know what a garden was,” says Daniela, “but they were so excited, running around, jumping, hugging me. It really made me feel like I’d done something special.” On one such afternoon last spring, mother and daughter distributed trowels and supervised as

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W hen I was growing up, brown-speckled bananas were treasures in the eyes of my mom. She used them to make banana bread during the fall and winter months. Even today, it’s something I look forward to seasonally. A slice of banana bread is a treat whether hot out of the oven or cut from the loaf days later. It’s a “cake” you never have to feel guilty about eating. Since being diagnosed with celiac disease, I’ve had to swear off foods that contain gluten. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy this taste of childhood. It took a bit of tinkering to get the texture and density of this loaf just right. Whenever I’ve made the recipe (which appears in my cookbook, Deliciously G-Free) for my husband and children, Grace, Taylor, and Isaiah, they’ve loved it. And when the kids want more, you know you’ve got it right—you have a hit on your hands!

Banana Bread 5 Tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 11∕2 cups mashed banana (about 4 small, very ripe bananas) 1 cup brown rice ﬂour 3 ∕4 cup millet ﬂour

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low for 1 minute. Sprinkle brown rice ﬂour, millet ﬂour, baking soda, salt, xanthan gum, and baking powder over batter. Add nuts, if desired. Stir batter just until ingredients are combined. 4. Spoon into pan and bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until center of loaf springs back to the touch. 5. Transfer pan to a wire rack and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Lift bread out of pan and let it cool completely on rack. SERVES: 10 | PER SERVING:

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some 30 students planted okra and picked potatoes. The kids took their work seriously, little faces flushed and not one electronic screen in sight. Two hours later, Bryant, a first grader with a big smile that sports an incoming row of teeth, proudly clutched some potatoes to take home. Now he and his pals know where french fries come from. “We feel like we’re helping to feed these kids, and feeding their spirit at the same time,” says Daniela’s mom, Darlene. Since the Whitnel garden was established, ﬁve other county schools have planted their own campus vegetable plots. Scroggin, who holds a master gardener’s certiﬁcate, estimates that he’s delivered thousands of Lenoir’s children over the decades, and he loves to see them tending the soil. “I remember one little girl who didn’t trust the advice I gave her grandmother about burying tomato seedlings because she was convinced they wouldn’t grow,” he says. “She kept saying: ‘Don’t do it, Granny!’ So I told her, ‘You think a baby grows sideways? These plants straighten themselves up just like you.’ ” Even as Scroggin recalls the economic blight of recent years, his voice is tinged with pride. “I brought a county agent down here to see what we were doing and he said to me, ‘You know what? The vegetables aren’t the most important part. What you’ve raised here is a good crop of community.’ ”

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Kennections By Ken Jennings HOW TO PLAY

All five correct answers have something in common. Can you figure out what it is? 1

What kind of business did Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John Ringling found in 1884? 2

“Citius, altius, fortius”— meaning “faster, higher, stronger”—is the motto of what sporting event?

What literary hero outwits the dragon Smaug and later disappears from Bag End on his eleventy-first birthday? 4

Titan, the second-largest moon in our solar system, orbits which planet, the second-biggest? 5

William Howard Taft, the heaviest U.S. president, famously installed in the White House what custom-made item measuring 7 by 3.5 feet?

Calling All Trivia Buffs! Want to beat the Jeopardy! champ at his own game? Create your own Kennections puzzle and we’ll post the best ones at Parade.com/ken. ANSWERS: 1. CIRCUS; 2. THE OLYMPICS; 3. BILBO BAGGINS; 4. SATURN; 5. A BATHTUB KENNECTION: ALL HAVE RINGS

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What I see in the mirror and what I see when I view a photo of myself are so different. Generally, I’m satisﬁed with the “live” version, but I usually dislike that same face in a photo. Why? —Janet Bunn, Muscatine, Iowa

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Because your photographed face looks backward to you. What you see in a mirror is your image reversed from left to right, and you’re familiar with that look. A photo, however, shows you what others see. When you see your face

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slightly smaller than the other, which is common. Because you’ve seen your eyes that way in the mirror all your life, you don’t perceive any difference. But when you view a photo, something about your eyes looks wrong. And when your face is the subject, “wrong” equates to “bad”!

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Mission Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer is fighting for a new cause: helping veterans find jobs back home

ith his marine unit caught in an ambush, Dakota Meyer knew what he had to do. In September 2009, Meyer and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez drove their Humvee into the thick of the action in the Afghan village of Ganjgal, stopping repeatedly under murderous fire so that Meyer could leave the vehicle to pick up stranded Afghan soldiers. Using a machine gun and grenade launcher to ward off the swarming Taliban militants, Meyer darted house to house searching for four missing Americans. They were dead, and while the precise details of the action have been a matter of controversy, an ofﬁcial review of the battle credited Meyer with saving the lives of numerous fellow marines and Afghan troops. Last September President Obama bestowed the Medal of Honor on Sgt. Meyer, 24, the ﬁrst living marine to receive the award since the Vietnam War. Suddenly the farm boy from Kentucky had become a celebrity— greeted like a rock star, even becoming fishing buddies with

“If I can help veterans get jobs, I will,” says Meyer, whose memoir, Into the Fire, will be published this fall.

Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts. But as it turned out, Dakota Meyer had just begun to ﬁght. His new mission: to use his fame to draw attention to the alarming unemployment rate among veterans who have served since 9/11. “I don’t care anything about being a Medal of Honor recipient,” says Meyer, who also served in Iraq, “but if I can use that to help veterans get jobs, I will.”

Certainly, there is no denying the need for solutions. Consider these sobering statistics: Among post-9/11 veterans, unemployment stands at 9.5 percent, compared with a national average of 8.2 percent. Among younger vets, the problem is even more dire: Those 24 and younger have an unemployment rate of 29 percent; their civilian peers are closer to 17 percent. Meyer well knows

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the hurdles that vets face. Since leaving the Marine Corps in June 2010, he has bounced among several jobs. Though he is in demand as a motivational speaker and recently became a liaison between Toyota and the military community, he has also worked in construction to make ends meet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I faced the same struggles getting jobs,â&#x20AC;? he says. But he is emphatic on one point: The last thing he or any vet wants is charity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see that anyone owes me anything for my service,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel any sense of entitlement.â&#x20AC;? In Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, veterans havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been given the proper tools to market themselves to civilian employers. He points out that in the Marine Corps he was a sniperâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not an occupation in great demand outside the military. So the challenge is to cast his experience in a

show vets where the jobs are.â&#x20AC;? For Schmiegel, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an added urgency to get vets employment help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see this as a national security issue,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many people are going to want to serve in an all-volunteer force if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 50 percent more likely to be

unemployed?â&#x20AC;? The hope is that Meyer, who will be speaking at selected job fairs, can be the face of change. As was the case that day in Ganjgal, he shows no signs of ducking the challenge. Asked what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to do for his career, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make a difference.â&#x20AC;? Legal Notice

If You Own or Owned Land Under or Next to Railroad Rights of Way Where Fiber-Optic Cable Was Installed You Could Receive Money from a Class Action Settlement

Meyer, seen here receiving his Medal of Honor, will be making appearances on behalf of Hiring Our Heroes. For more information, go to uschamber .com/hiring ourheroes.

different light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m good at task management in a stressful environment.â&#x20AC;? Enter the U.S. Chamber of Commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new guide to personal branding, sponsored by Toyota, which answers such basic questions as what to wear on a job interview but also gives more nuanced tips, like how to frame oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military experiences to a potential boss. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all part of the chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hiring Our Heroes campaign, which encourages businesses to employ veterans and military spouses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many younger veterans, those who enlisted right out of high school, are stepping in front of an employer for the ďŹ rst time,â&#x20AC;? says Kevin Schmiegel, a vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and a veteran himself of 20 years in the Marine Corps. The response so far has been promisingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pledges to hire have topped 156,000. To keep the numbers moving in the right direction, the chamber will host 400 job fairs for veterans around the country, and in a ďŹ rst, 60 of those events will be held on military bases. Private sector volunteers will be on hand to help service members and vets craft more effective rĂŠsumĂŠs and improve their interview skills. On Labor Day, the chamber is also unveiling the Fast Track Program, which will identify for vets the 100 U.S. cities with the greatest job growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been taking the time,â&#x20AC;? says Schmiegel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to

State-by-state Settlements have been reached in class action lawsuits challenging the installation of ďŹ ber-optic cable within railroad Rights of Way. Under the Settlements, Sprint, Qwest, WilTel, or Level 3 Communications (together called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defendantsâ&#x20AC;?) will pay valid claims for persons in 24 states who own or owned land next to or under railroad Rights of Way where ďŹ ber-optic cable owned by Sprint, Qwest, WilTel, or Level 3 Communications is buried. Who Is Included? Class Members include current or previous owners of land next to or under a railroad Right of Way at any time since the cable was installed in the 24 states listed below. To ďŹ nd where the Rights of Way included in the Settlements are located and when ďŹ ber-optic cable was installed in a particular Right of Way, visit www.FiberOpticSettlements.com. If you still have questions, call 1-800-378-1670. What Are the Proposed Settlement Terms? Class Members who submit a valid claim will receive cash based on factors that include: (a) the length of the Right of Way where the cable is installed, (b) the length of time they owned the property, and (c) whether the Right of Way was created by a federal land grant. The Settlements provide Defendants with a permanent Telecommunications Easement. The Easement will grant any rights the Defendants donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already have to use the Rights of Way for Telecommunications Facilities.

What Are Class Member Rights? opportunity to claim cash beneďŹ ts. You will be bound by the decisions of the Court. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sue Defendants or the railroads in the future for any claims in this lawsuit, and a Telecommunications Easement will be granted on the railroad Right of Way next to or through your property. If you think you are a member of the Class, but did not receive a mailed notice, call 1-800-378-1670.

means you cannot ďŹ le a claim for cash beneďŹ ts but will keep the right to sue the Defendants in the future. part of the Settlement in a state where you own or owned property. writing by September 14, 2012. Who Represents Class Members? Class Counsel have been appointed by the Court to represent you. They will request an award of attorneysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fees, which will vary by state, to be paid by Defendants. If you wish, you or your own attorney may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost. See the website for more information on attorneysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fees. Will an Approval Hearing Be Held? Approval hearings will be held in each state for which there is a Settlement. Refer to the chart below for the dates of each hearing. Please visit the website or call the toll-free number to ďŹ nd out the time and location of the hearing in the state where your property is.

Dates of Final Approval Hearings Arkansas Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Indiana Iowa Kansas

12/6/12 12/19/12 12/7/12 11/7/12 12/5/12 11/16/12 12/7/12 11/14/12

Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Jersey New York

11/30/12 11/5/12 11/9/12 1/16/13 1/15/13 11/20/12 11/14/12 11/15/12

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