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he same month that Toledo Free Press launched — February 2005 — saw the closing of Lakeside Centre, a property better known as North Towne Square Mall. A great many things have changed during the past seven years, but one thing remains the same — the abandoned mall sits empty, rotting, collapsing in on itself as its California-based owners stall and shirk their business and community responsibilities.

It’s an eyesore and a hindrance to development. But should the City of Toledo make a deal and spend money to demolish it? I rarely to never want to see taxpayer money used to reward a neglectful business, especially when money is tight and there is a long list of needed capital improvements.

While most of the demolition money is proposed to come from money the Environmental Protection Agency provides for brownfield development, cost Thomas F. POUNDS overruns would most likely come from city coffers.

And what should taxpayers make of the effort by Mayor Mike Bell’s administration to justify what it wants at North Towne by claiming that the also long-dormant Southwyck Mall property is suddenly drawing business? Having Deputy Mayor Tom Crothers publicly reference a deal that reportedly has no funding and is more of a dream than reality is, for this mayor, uncharacteristically disingenuous.

With Southwyck, the owners borrowed the money for demolition and paid it back. With North Towne, the city could wait for years before the demolition money goes back into the brownfield revolving loan fund and no matter how many years it takes, not one penny of interest would be earned by the city.

That Southwyck gambit also seems to be a low-blow political attempt to make it appear that Councilman D. Michael Collins doesn’t know what’s happening in his own district. Councilwoman Lindsay Webb does not seem to be heeding Collins’ protests that he has actually spoken to one of the principal owners of Southwyck and that there is nothing yet to celebrate. Collins has consistently opposed these types of deals with the city being the landlord or owner.

There are legal means to force responsibility on the owners of North Towne Mall/Lakeside Centre. There may be no question that the property needs to be cleared, but there are several doubts as to whether the proposed deal is beneficial to the city and the proposed changes need to be looked at carefully. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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t the risk of sounding on the verge of shouting at one store had nice pajama sets for the kids at less than $4 kids to get offa my lawn, this year’s Black Friday hype a pair and one store had buy-one-get-one-free software for the LeapFrog learning tablet Santa is bringing. made me nostalgic for the old days.

Our first view of the Walmart in Hallandale Beach By the old days, I mean a time when just about everyshould have been a signal for us to turn thing was closed on Thanksgiving Day and around and go home. Police cruisers lined the day-after sales meant an optional trip to the parking lot, which was so full of circling the mall, not a federally mandated competicars it looked like an overcrowded shark tank tion involving fists, knife fights and Ndamuat feeding time. kong Suh-style chest stomping.

We parked just inside the county line, I remember Toledo Thanksgivings and walked through the parking lot like “Frogger” Christmases when just about everything was players and entered. The store was packed closed so people could spend the day with and stacked with people; yellow police tape their families. If you had not stocked up on forced a flow of traffic through clothing areas groceries and gas by Wednesday night, you back to electronics, where many people were waited until Friday. It was a suspension of Michael S. MILLER waiting and where we had no desire to go. commerce that is unthinkable today.

As we searched for the boxes of pajamas, which were Just about anything you could desire was available Thanksgiving Day last week, as many if not most stores strewn about and tossed on every surface, we heard a commotion across the aisle in electronics. Police officers moved stayed open and got a jump on the Black Friday sales.

“Black Friday,” which has been used historically to label in, but the crowd, scores of people deep, was rushing toward everything from financial disasters to fires to massacres to something we couldn’t see, shouting and yelling. Suddenly, bombings to an 1881 tragedy in which nearly 200 fishermen a medium-size box flew up in the air like a bride’s bouquet died. Our modern Black Friday, which since 2005 has re- at a wedding reception, and people began jumping for it like portedly been the busiest shopping day of the year, increas- they had a chance to spike a winning point in an Olympic ingly seems like a speeding train headed for a derailment. volleyball game. We could not see the employee who was It was interesting to see the news footage of people camped serving up what turned out to be computer printers, but he out at Best Buy and Toys ‘R’ Us, juxtaposed with images must have decided the best course for survival would be to of protestors at various “Occupy” locations. We could have move the crowd back, so he began tossing boxed printers in saved a lot of time and effort by employing the Occupy 99 the air, away from himself, which caused a rush of people in percenters to hold spots in line for the 1 percenters who whichever direction the boxes flew.

I have seen crowds in riot situations a number of times were lined up for Blu-ray players and laptop computers to (I once saw a spring break crowd weary of rain start tossing give as presents to their servants.

This was a particularly ugly Black Friday in many parts furniture out of hotel windows, which culminated in people of the country. In Los Angeles, a woman blasted fellow lighting fire to rolls of toilet paper and throwing them at shoppers with pepper spray so she could step over them to thatched cabana roofs) but the sight never loses its power. get an Xbox. According to a CBS News report, “The woman We found the sets of pajamas, which suddenly seemed like got away in the confusion, but it was not immediately clear a trivial reason to be exposed to the Walmart production whether she got an Xbox.” In South Charleston, W.Va., a of “Lord of the Flies,” and headed for the checkout line … man collapsed at a Target and people kept shopping, sev- which wound, Cedar Point-style, through several lanes.

As people grew impatient with waiting, the cursing, eral of them stepping over him to get their goodies. The man later died, but it was not reported if disgust was a yelling and restlessness became unnerving. There’s a tipfactor. There were also reports of people in Black Friday ping point for time investment, and we had not quite lines being shot, but that seems to happen almost anywhere reached it when we finally got to the front of the line … to see that someone ahead of us had urinated right on the people gather these days.

My family spent this Thanksgiving with relatives in floor in the aisle.

When we finally got back to our car, having found our South Florida. It has been part of our tradition to sneak out at the ungodly (but warm) hours before dawn with a items but having had no fun at all, we pulled back onto the shopping list for Black Friday deals. But the experience has road, toward the scores of big-box stores that were open and offering bargains and deals. We drove past them all, become a lot less fun as crowds have grown.

Now that we have young children, our list has changed choosing to go back home, get some sleep and wait for the less-crazed and less-crowded deals of Cyber Monday. ✯ from toys for us (me) to toys for the boys.

This year, most of the South Florida retailers were open for the day or started Black Friday sales by 9 or 10 p.m. Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and ToThanksgiving Day. We narrowed our agenda to two stops; ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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Revolving front-runners

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find it a little amusing that after Rick long to make W. look good in 4,568 GOP debates, there is still the thinkin’ department. He just a new front-runner every week. kept going from bad to worse in And after all those lead changes, none debate to debate, appearing to even have polled higher than the low 20s. be somewhat inebriated in one of Each seems to revel in making absurd them, and forgetting his own plans statements, hoping that the more ri- and asking the other candidates to diculous the statement, the more likely help him out in the memory departthey will be to “vault” into the lead. ment. His excuse was he was worn It’s obvious that the presumed crown out from all this debatin’ stuff. I prince of the GOP, Mitt Romney, is guess being president would be a having trouble gaining traction. He’s lot less stressful. He did have some flip-flopped on so many issues that he nice-looking boots, though. Hopeis beginning to resemble a frog tossed fully, one of his assistants wrote clear instructions on into a hot frying pan. the heel for pouring Not content to do water out of them. a mere 180 on virtuBefore Rick came ally any position, he’s along, Michele Bachshown that — if need mann had her brief be — he’s willing to moment in the sun, redo a complete 360 if galing one and all with someone doesn’t like her staggering lack of what he said yesterday. knowledge of history He doesn’t seem to and a stunning array think that the posof made-up facts. How sibility of his having Don BURNARD she was ever taken seevery position on any given subject might be part of the riously for even a moment as the problem he has getting traction. His possible leader of the free world is only recourse now seems to be to bash beyond me, and apparently, finally, Obama in generic ways and tailor for all but the most hardcore TPers.

Ron Paul has flirted with fronthis messages and positions to please whatever he thinks the audience du runner status, and even shown some jour wants to hear. He seems to have popularity with younger voters, who no strong positions on anything that for the most part have glommed on he’s not willing to change. Kind of to his war positions and studiously makes you wonder how he’d deal with ignored some of his more radical the international community if he had ideas. Evidently, he even scares the mainstream media moguls, as they to negotiate as president.

Herman Cain spent a couple of seem to studiously ignore him as well.

Now, rising like a phoenix from weeks as the front-runner. With a mix of half-evangelist, half-huckster the ashes, we have the Second panache, he seems to have finally (Third? Fourth?) Coming of Newt played out his hand as the sexual Gingrich. Newt is sure that he is misconduct allegations continue to the smartest guy in any room, and pile up. Then add in his complete is willing to pontificate at length lack of knowledge on such presiden- on any subject in a stream of contial prerequisites as foreign policy, for sciousness way that often gets him example. His bizarre campaign Web accolades or condemnation. To me, posts became YouTube hits, but re- he is the quintessential example of ally didn’t show much that anyone mouth in motion before mind is in other than the hard-core tea drinkers gear. Just last week, his latest brilwould deem presidential caliber. His liant idea was to do away with child simplistic 9-9-9 plan sounded great in labor laws and turn poor kids into sound bites, but on closer examina- school janitors.

Never mind that they would tion by persons having actual knowledge of economic matters was shown possibly have to work with danto be just another sales pitch that gerous chemicals and be up all night would only help the rich if enacted. It cleaning the school they should be did provide a handy answer if he was attending the next day.

I have an idea, Newt. Why don’t asked a question he didn’t know the they run for the GOP nomination for answer to or didn’t want to answer.

Before the Hermanator, the Guv president? They’re sure to be as good of Texas, Rick Perry, had his 15 as any of the front-runners so far.

What a sad state the GOP has minutes of fame. I thought the last governor of Texas who won the presi- devolved into, when these top GOP dency was, shall we say, intellectually contenders for the highest office in challenged. It didn’t take good ol’ boy the land are the best it has to offer. ✯

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Mary Lou Kroll’s pig collection started as a joke between in-laws.

My uncle made a comment about marrying into a family that used to be farmers. Then he took a photo of pigs, turned it into a postcard and sent it to my mom. A year later, he returned from Greece with a small, marble oinker.

And it was on. The hogs began showing up for her birthdays and all holidays, including National Pig Day, which is March 1.

So when my mom passed in 2008, my dad was left with a lifetime of memories — and a house full of nearly four decades’ worth of pigs.

As a major contributor of swine, I haven’t wanted to disband the herd.

Visions of a pig museum wallowed in my mind; that might work if our family was rich and lived in Iowa or Cincinnati, also known as Porkopolis.

Still wanting to show off her litter, I thought about how my mom loved to visit the decorated Manor House at Wildwood Preserve Metropark in December. When her health was good, she walked daily in the park, which was just down the street from the house.

Last winter, I sent an application to be a decorator; in the spring, I was invited for an interview, where I was asked to explain my concept and show some decorations.

I think the Manor House representatives were overwhelmed by the fourminute slideshow that had more than 100 images of porkers celebrating the yuletide. They thanked me and said they’d let me know in a month or two.

A letter arrived and said the pigs were in; at first, I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. The piggies were assigned the master bathroom.

When I called my sister to share the news, there was a long pause, then Marcia said, “I don’t know where the public restrooms are.”

I should have been specific and said “master bathroom.” For the record, the public restroom is in the basement.

In retrospect, the master bathroom turned out to be perfect: My mom’s collection included toilet paper with pigs on it. Really.

If you want to see porcine décor du jour, stop by Holidays at the Manor House at Wildwood Preserve Metropark on Dec. 4-11 between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is free.

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holiday, old-timey Santa Clauses and an artful Christmas.

This is the 36th year for the event, which draws some 15,000 visitors annually and is made possible by more than 500 volunteers, according to Beckie Finch, programs director at Metroparks of the Toledo Area.

“I love that [Holidays at the Manor

House] really is a tradition,” she said.

“We have families and different groups and sometimes businesses that come back year after year; they just love it.”

Don’t forget to bring new mittens, gloves, hats and scarves to decorate a tree in the basement. Everything on the mitten tree will be donated to Toledo Public Schools and distributed to

children in need, Finch said.

The holiday café and craft show will also take place in Metroparks Hall during the week. There will be a trolley to carry visitors from the parking lots to the front door of the Manor House.

Once inside, be prepared to see a small part of my mom’s piggery. ✯

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Injury ends season for UT star Shafir

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The senior season of storied point guard Naama Shafir came to an abrupt end when a knee injury suffered Nov. 25 at Indiana was diagnosed as an ACL tear.

“It is probably the lowest,” Shafir said. “It’s hard. I never thought I’d be injured like that. You can’t really prepare for it. I’m trying to stay positive and be there for the team and my teammates.”

“When I saw the injury occur, it was pretty obvious that was going to be the outcome,” Toledo head coach Tricia Cullop said.

“She’s not one to get hurt, lie on CULLOP the floor and not get up. She’s a very tough kid, and we’ve all witnessed her take hundreds of charges in her career, get up and act like it wasn’t a big deal. When she laid there, we knew it was serious.”

Shafir, a native of Hoshaya, Israel, displayed that toughness when she attempted to return to the game.

“I think out of adrenaline, she was able to move laterally for the trainer before she went back in,” Cullop said.

“It was obvious the first time the play went the other way she couldn’t do it.

I know how she normally moves, and it just wasn’t the same.”

‘Let’s win this game’ Cullop didn’t have much time to react to the injury, which happened in the first minute of play, as the Rockets rallied for a 69-58 win.

“My heart sank in the moment,

but then the coach in me had to click back over to coaching the rest of the team,” she said. “Unfortunately, the game wasn’t going to stop just because she got injured. My immediate reaction was ‘OK, let’s win this game.’ I was proud of our players for pushing through and getting a win despite her injury. Afterward, my heart broke for her. She’s worked so hard to put herself in this position. Especially her senior year, to get that taken away from you is very difficult to stomach. She means an awful lot to our team.”

Senior guard Courtney Ingersoll stepped up in Shafir’s absence against Indiana with 20 points and eight rebounds, including shooting 5 of 8 from three-point range.

“Courtney can score, but she can score in a different way than Naama,” Cullop said. “It’s our coaching staff ’s job to put Courtney in positions to score whether she’s playing the wing or playing the one. She had to play some point in that game, and she doesn’t practice the point. That just tells you what a great kid she is. She pays attention to all those positions and knew how to run everything we ran.

“I think she is a determined senior that’s going to give it everything she has. Whether she does or she doesn’t [score], there’s no question in my mind that she’s going to die trying.”

Sophomore point guard Andola Dortch scored 13 points with seven steals against Indiana. She will be counted on to distribute the ball to players like Ingersoll and to create her own chances.

“Andola has always been important,” Cullop said. “She and I had a talk when we got home from the trip.

I noticed that she’s been waiting until the second half to score the majority of her points.

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â&#x2013; SHAFIR CONTINUED FROM A6 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I talked to her about being more of a threat from the tip. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not afraid in crunch time. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit some big baskets late in games, but she has to do that from the tip.â&#x20AC;?

Dortch scored 10 points with five assists Nov. 27 as the Rockets lost 64-56 at Arkansas State in the first full game without Shafir. Ingersoll led the team again with 15 points and five rebounds in 37 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just had some questions,â&#x20AC;?

Cullop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One advantage to our program is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never based it on one person. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always created opportunities for everyone to score.â&#x20AC;?

With Shafir out, Cullop will have to tweak the offense to continue creating opportunities for everyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to learn how to win in different ways now,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The good thing is she hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been someone thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had to score 20 or 30 for us to win. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had other people scoring all along. We just have to score in different ways now. Now the pressure is on the coaching staff, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we get paid to do.â&#x20AC;?

Shafir led the Rockets last season with averages of 15.3 points and 5.1 assists per game. She was named the tournament MVP after scoring a career-high 40 points against USC in the WNIT championship game April 2.

She is fourth in school history with 569

assists, fifth with 441 free throws made and 10th with 1,452 career points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anytime any player has ever been injured, we talk about their statistics and how if we all divide them up amongst the whole team, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as demanding to fill those shoes,â&#x20AC;? Cullop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If everybody makes a few more assists and takes a few more charges and make up for all the little things Naama did, not one person has to fill the shoes. We all fill them.â&#x20AC;?

Shafir has the option of redshirting, sitting out this year and returning next season, but she has not decided. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been only a few days,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to be around people that make me happy and make me laugh and not think about it too much. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m waiting. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to think about it right now.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The important thing is she already knows weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to have her back,â&#x20AC;?

Cullop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have a player thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never missed a game for an injury before, you can only imagine what she is dealing with. She has to learn how to stomach the injury before she even thinks about the future. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just trying to make it day by day. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating to know you spent this much time working to become the player you are and to help your team and the rug gets pulled out from underneath you.â&#x20AC;?

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the Rockets or a professional team, Cullop said the

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most important thing is for Shafir to fully heal before resuming her career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told her this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end of the world,â&#x20AC;? Cullop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not the end of your career. You still have a lot of basketball to play. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to give you the best medical care we can so you can come back as quickly as possible. My main thing to her was take your time coming back and let yourself heal. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in no hurry here.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need her to come back for the end of the season. That would be unfair. She deserves to have a tremendous senior year if she chooses to come back. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only human to need some time. The worst thing anyone can do is try to force that on her right now.â&#x20AC;?

Shafir plans to help the team however she can while recovering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard when you really want to help and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how,â&#x20AC;? Shafir said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You try and talk to them, but you want to be the one to do it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to explain. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change anything. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing I can do about it. I just have to stay strong for my teammates.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I applaud her in still showing leadership qualities with our team,â&#x20AC;? Cullop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At practice she is instructing and teaching. During the game she was cheering her tail off. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing everything in her power to help our team right now. When the time is right, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll talk about next year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x153;Ż

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When Hollywood Casino Toledo began building near Rossford, some may have wondered what type of neighbor it would be. Just a few months away from its estimated spring 2012 opening, the 290,000-square-foot casino did its best to erase any doubts.

Penn National Gaming announced Nov. 28 that it is making a $200,000 grant to Rossford in conjunction with the opening of Hollywood Casino Toledo.

“Contractually, Rossford is not obligated to receive any money from the way the [Ohio] Constitution was worded,” said former Rossford Mayor Bill Verbosky Jr., who recently retired. “I have had many conversations with the Penn people during the last two years, and in our talks they have said that they would be a good neighbor.”

“This goodwill gesture is a reflection of our ongoing commit-

ment to being a good corporate citizen in both Toledo and Rossford,” said Eric Schippers, the senior vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, in a news release. “As we’ve experienced in our other jurisdictions, we SCHIPPERS fully anticipate Hollywood Casino will serve as an economic catalyst and a magnet for additional growth and opportunity within both Toledo and Rossford.”

The grant money will go toward Rossford’s personnel costs for the city’s police and fire departments.

“We recognize that Hollywood Casino serves as a gateway to downtown Rossford and we made a commitment to Mayor Verbosky and the Rossford City Council during our successful 2009 ballot initiative that we would help address the potential burden on local fire and police ser-

vices from the increased visitation to the area,” Schippers said in the release. “While this likely will have a positive impact on the local Rossford businesses and city hotels, we want to help the city prepare for the potential increased volume on its roads, which is typical of any major new economic development project.”

Schippers also said that Penn National will again examine the regional impact a year after the casino’s opening and when it is more stabilized, typically around the third year.

“I would encourage the incoming administration to work closely with Penn National Gaming to accept this gesture as a first step in developing a positive relationship between Penn and the City of Rossford,” Verbosky said.

Hollywood Casino Toledo is a $320 million project that plans to create approximately 2,100 jobs with 90 percent of hires being local.

The casino will include around 2,000 slot machines, 60 table games and 20 poker tables. ✯

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Casino dealer candidates face final test In a class at Owens Community College, prospective dealer candidates are nearing the finish line to becoming full-time employees of Hollywood Casino Toledo. The $200 class, which had its first meeting Oct. 31, is a week away from the audition phase, the candidates’ final test before gaining employment.

“Everything is going really well,” instructor Amy Marinov said. “The students are doing very good. They are winding down now, going into the last week when they will be taking their auditions.”

The casino does not limit the number of dealers passing the class. Everyone in the class is eligible to pass and become a dealer.

Students were able to join the course at Owens only if they received an invite from Hollywood Casino Toledo after participating in a group interview in October. After passing their upcoming audition, the top students will move on to learn craps, an 8-12 week process. Those selected for fulltime employment after their audition will receive a salary between $35,000 and $40,000.

Hollywood Casino Toledo will open in spring of 2012 and will feature 2,000 slot machines, 60 table games and a poker room with 20 tables.

For more information about the upcoming $320 million Hollywood Casino Toledo, visit www.HollywoodCasinoToledo.com. ✯ — Zach Davis

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‘Wine, Dine & Shopping Divine’ event planned The Real Seafood Co. is hosting the “Wine, Dine & Shopping Divine” event from 5:30-9 p.m. Dec. 5.

The event will include the opportunity to visit with local sales consultants for shopping opportunities.

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are $3. Some of the local sales consultants include Mary Kay, Silpada Designs, The Pampered Chef, Tastefully Simple and Home Made Candles.

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OPINION: COMMUNITY OMBUDSMAN

No truth to stolen guns rumor

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: This is an “anonymous source” tip for you: It was a hopping Halloween & TPD was running all over town last night answering distress calls. There were two crimes involving guns last night. There was a shooting in the Arlingtonz neighborhood (no injuries), and a woman was robbed at gunpoint near the museum. I asked an insider about the increase in gunBrandi related crimes since July (you may recall there were a couple of shootings over 4th of July weekend).

The answer was that someone robbed a train car in late June or early July and

happened to nab a box with 140 guns in it. Police haven’t recovered these yet.

Do not know if this is true, but that’s the scuttlebutt.

A: Thanks for the anonymous tip.

This email got stuck in my mailbag for a bit, and I apologize for the delay. Since your inquiry, even more gun violence has occurred, in particular during November. I talked with Toledo Police BARHITE Sgt. Joe Heffernan, the new public information officer (PIO), to find out the truth behind the stolen guns scuttlebutt.

“That is news to me,” he said Nov.

30. “I haven’t heard that and my gut feeling is that it is not accurate.”

Before taking the PIO job, Heffernan worked in narcotics and would know about a missing box of guns, he said.

Heffernan said crimes happen in cycles. Nothing will happen for a while and then there will be a rash of gun violence, for instance. Usually, Toledo has 25-30 homicides per year and as of Nov. 30 it was up to 31. This

statistic is actually good compared to other cities the size of Toledo, he said.

Heffernan also emphasized the importance of understanding what is classified as a homicide. The homicides in Toledo this year include when a carryout owner killed a robber with a gun, even though that was justifiable homicide, he said. A person who kills someone while driving drunk also makes the homicide list, he said.

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Heffernan cited several reasons for what seems like more crime. While the economy could be a factor, crimes usually happen when people aren’t at their best, which could mean relationship strain, financial worries or drug or alcohol addiction.

How about that box of stolen guns, though?

“Let’s just put it this way,” he said.

“I would have heard about it.” ✯

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Christopher Perry and his staff at Perry Prosthetics in Perrysburg are making a difference for patients who have lost limbs.

After a motorcycle accident claimed his right leg below the knee, Perry wanted to help others who had experienced a loss of limbs. He began studying prosthetics, going from the lab to the clinical stages of that field and understanding what he needed to do.

“I was riding my motorcycle home from school when my life changed forever. My leg was severely damaged and I was taken by Life Flight from a small town to a hospital in Toledo. I have made it a life goal to provide the same level of care to my patients that I experienced after my accident,” Perry said.

Perry became a certified prosthetist in 1998 and opened his own practice in 2000. Today, his firm helps hundreds of patients deal with their physical challenges.

The majority of its nearly 100 current patients have experienced limb loss from vascular problems or the onset of Type 2 diabetes. Only about 23 percent of amputations result from accidents or trauma, Perry said.

Most of the patients are fitted for prosthetics following amputation without revision surgery while some require limb revisions to allow the prosthetics to work for them.

Perry said he and his team are working to create an arm for a 14-monthold patient with congenital limb loss.

They also helped a 14-year-old athlete to play football, hockey, and run track with two artificial feet, he said.

Currently, the firm is working with Eileen Ueberroth of Toledo, a patient since November 2010, to provide prosthetic legs, arms and hands for her. Ueberroth demonstrated her progress with two prosthetic legs at a walk-in clinic held Nov. 22 at Perry Prosthetics.

The firm holds the monthly walkin clinics working with patients from their practice and outside it. The clinics are offered free to all prosthetic

patients in the community, Perry said.

The most recent clinic included several patients with prosthetics, a doctor with a prosthetic leg and a physical therapist who works at rehabilitating such patients.

Dr. Sydney Fernandes of Perrysburg lost his left leg from above the knee in January 2010 due to acute vascular blockage.

“It was a big shock and changed my entire life. It’s a difficult process,” Fernandes said. “I would handle amputee patients differently now after what I experienced. Most doctors who are not actively involved with them think rehabilitation is a breeze and it’s not.”

He had to close his practice in Oregon after his surgery while he continues his rehabilitation. He recently went from using a walker to walking with a cane.

His goal is to return to his practice after this winter, Fernandes said.

Fernandes said he is very grateful to Perry and his staff for the care they have provided him.

“We don’t do typical prosthetics here. We use a complete custom process that includes the design, production, fitting and alignment of prosthetics for patients,” Perry said.

All of the prosthetics are fabricated in the firm’s laboratory by certified technicians. Perry said that people with mechanical or technical backgrounds who can visualize the work to solve problems make the best technicians.

Perry has one technician, Julie Rubel, who just completed her residency with his firm.

Perry and his staff of 11 full-time employees are dedicated to helping their patients become as mobile and self-sufficient as possible with the prosthetics they provide. They operate out of a 7,000-square-foot facility.

It includes an Amp-U-Fitness Walking Clinic that was created to improve the health and well-being of their patients.

“We provide them with an outlet where they may interact with other amputees who face and overcome the same obstacles they may face,” Perry said.

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OPINION COLUMN: THE VIEW FROM THE GULCH

Inflation is Uncle Sam’s friend

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or a while now I have been talking about inflation and the consequences of the federal government printing money as fast as it can. Contrary to what the politicians say, the government likes inflation for several reasons, not the least of which because it allows it to pay off the debt with cheaper dollars. (That is, if it ever paid off any debt.)

Commonly referred to as monetizing the debt, the government has the ability to simply print money to pay its bills. If only we as individuals could do this. Imagine if you had a press or a printer that printed money that was acceptable to your creditors.

What limitations would you have on your spending? Especially, if you were spending the money on your friends and family (read: voters).

With the prevalent attitude of Keynesian economics in this country and particularly in Washington, D.C., this spending is often confused with economic growth (the GDP) which is then confused with economic health.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office says it adjusts GDP for inflation but that doesn’t mean much when the inflation figures are misrepresented.

The government has some very good reasons for hiding inflation even though it loves it and actually needs it to survive.

By keeping the inflation number low it keeps interest rates low on the national debt. If inflation num-

bers were reported higher, lenders would demand higher interest rates on the debt to keep the real rate of return nominal.

Social Security benefits and other government transfers are generally indexed for inflation and measured by the understated Consumer Price Index (CPI), thereby costing the government less.

Income tax brackets and personal exemptions are indexed for inflation. Gary L. Lower costs of inflation keep interest rates lower for everyone in the economy, allowing the debt-dependent consumer to continue to spend confidently and give the illusion of economic expansion.

Our former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stated in a 1966 essay, “Gold and Economic Freedom,” that inflation is “a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.”

This was back when Greenspan was a student of free-market economics and an objectivist, studying Ayn Rand and part of her inner circle. He later got “religion” and enjoyed the power of politics and adopted more of a Keynesian slant to his policies.

On Aug. 16, 2006, Richard W. Fisher, president of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, in a speech stated, “inflation is a sinister force that has the

capacity to charm and romance the heck out of you, but in the end wreaks only havoc.” Inflation creates a false feeling of wealth and comfort.

In reporting inflation the government uses some tricks that are important to be aware of so you can protect yourself and your wealth appropriately. The government has what it calls the “core” inflation rate from which it excludes the most volatile comRATHBUN ponents, food and energy, from the basket of goods it regularly prices. While an argument can be made for evening out some of the volatility of the items, it is important to understand the math so you can determine the real numbers.

The other interesting tactic that the government uses in determining inflation is that it substitutes items that have gone up in price with items that have not gone up in price. The logic is that, as prices for goods and services change, consumers change their spending habits. Let’s look at an extreme example to make the point.

Let’s say you are sitting in a comfortably heated room, at your table, lit by a chandelier eating a nice steak. Now jump ahead a few years of high inflation and you are in the same room but with no heat, you are wrapped in a blanket; having no electricity, you are

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According to the government you are spending the same amount of money in both situations so there is no inflation. This is referred to as the “Chain-Type Price Index” or Deflator of Personal Consumption Expenditures, PCE for short.

If you really want to see the effects of inflation, just look around you. The prices are going up everywhere you look, yet the government says otherwise with the CPI, the Producer Price Index (PPI) and the PCE. The indexes do not really measure how much prices rise, but how much the government wants us to think they rise.

Paying attention to these indexes is like leaving your house on a rainy day without your umbrella because the government says that it is sunny.

Uncle Sam wants you to think there is deflation and maybe temporarily we will see some international strengthening in the dollar and we may also see some prices in the market actually decrease, such as housing. As anyone who actually spends money to maintain their lifestyle knows, prices are increasing and will continue to increase in the future due to direct and purposeful actions by the federal government. ✯ Gary L. Rathbun is the president and CEO of Private Wealth Consultants. He can be heard every day at 4:06 p.m. on After the Bell with Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive, and every Thursday evening at 6 p.m. on Eye on Your Money, both on 1370 WSPD. He can be reached at 419-842-0334 or at garyrathbun@ privatewealthconsultants.com

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D3’S CORNER

NOTE: This is the 16th installment of a weekly series in which staff writer Mike Bauman will follow sixth-year Toledo senior cornerback Desmond Marrow for the 2011 season.

By Mike Bauman TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER mbauman@toledofreepress.com

While sixth-year senior cornerback Desmond Marrow and Toledo fell short of their goal of playing in the 2011 Mid-American Conference Championship, the season was not a failure. In Marrow’s final year with the Rockets (8-4, 7-1 MAC), who still have the opportunity to end the season as champions with a likely bowl berth for the second-straight year, the Youngstown native earned First-Team All-MAC honors.

“Man, it feels sweet just to finally make it,” Marrow said. “Like, I always wanted to make First-Team [AllMAC]. I didn’t even make any teams last year. I thought I would make something, but just to come back and finally get it, it’s, like, amazing.”

Marrow was one of six Toledo players to earn All-MAC honors in 2011 as he led UT with 78 tackles and 17 pass deflections. He also ranks second in the conference with 14 pass breakups and is tied for seventh in the MAC with three interceptions.

“Yeah, man,” Marrow said when asked if he got emotional when he received the news. “I always wanted to do good and I kept getting hurt, getting set back. I kind of thought that maybe, like, this wasn’t for me or I made a bad choice for coming here, but I just never gave up, man. I just

tried to stay positive.”

The Rockets’ 14-2 record in MAC competition over the past two years is the best since Toledo went a combined 10-0 in conference play in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. UT also ranks No. 8 in the nation in total offense with 493.17 yards per game and set a school record by scoring 40 or more points in five-straight contests, making it an attractive bowl participant.

“When I found out I got my sixth year, I was just like, ‘I’m going to make the best of it; I’m going to have my best season yet and just try to help the team as much as I can,’” Marrow said. “And then, I guess, leading in all those categories, I guess I did that. I just had a good time this year to come back with the guys winning.”

The Rockets earned a share of the MAC West Division title with Northern Illinois but missed the MAC Championship since the Huskies defeated Toledo 63-60 on Nov. 1. UT will likely earn a spot in one of the conference’s three automatic bowl tie-ins: the GoDaddy.com Bowl (Jan. 8 in Mobile, Ala.), the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Dec. 27 in Detroit) and the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Dec. 17 in Boise, Idaho).

The GoDaddy.com Bowl has the first choice among MAC teams this year and will likely take the winner of the MAC Championship to face Arkansas State. The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl is supposed to feature the MAC’s No. 2 team vs. the Big Ten’s No. 8 team, while the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl is supposed to pit the MAC’s No. 3 squad against Utah State.

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“That’d be nice to play against Northwestern,” Marrow said. “I think coach Ayeni, he played there, so he’s got some ties with Northwestern. And then the Big Ten game, just another chance for us as a team to see how good of a team we are against a Big Ten opponent.”

Getting the chance to end his collegiate career as a champion and receiving All-MAC honors aren’t the only things that have Marrow smiling.

He recently learned that his sports apparel company M.P.O.D. — which stands for “Make Plays Or Die” — with longtime friends Derrell JohnsonKoulianos and Kevin Moses has a potential marketing deal of $2.5 million.

“We’ve got a bunch of investors lined up that are ready to invest money into the company and get us going in the right direction,” Marrow said. “We’ve got like three or four lined up. I’ve got a couple meetings once I’m done with the season and go from there.”

According to Marrow, the $2.5 million offer came from one person. M.P.O.D., which had more than 700 followers on its Twitter account in August, has now grown to more than 1,300 followers. His company’s growth is just the icing on the cake for the All-MAC performer.

“It’s crazy,” Marrow said of the M.P.O.D. movement. “The following’s getting bigger and things are just getting on a roll at the right time. It’s, like, perfect timing, really.” ✯

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UT mens basketball team improves to 5-1with win against UNC-Wilmington Toledo won its fifth-straight game Nov. 30 after a secondhalf comeback to take down UNC-Wilmington 75-73 at Savage Arena. The win streak matches its longest since 2006.

“The great thing about tonight is we are disappointed in a win,” UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “That hasn’t happened a whole lot around here.

“I don’t think we played very well. Give Wilmington credit, I thought they were really hard to guard. They did a lot of things in the first half and kind of broke our spirit with tough shots. I was disappointed with our energy and disappointed in our enthusiasm but I give our guys credit

because they never got negative and when we had to make plays they did and that’s a sign of a good team.”

The Rockets (5-1) were led by junior guard Dominique Buckley, who had a career-high 21 points and seven assists, including 9-of-10 free throws against the Seahawks (0-5).

“He hit a couple of tough shots,” Kowalczyk said. “That’s the Dominique Buckley we saw all last year. He played with that swagger tonight — that’s good for us.”

Toledo faces Great West Conference foe Chicago State on Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. ✯ — Zach Davis

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“Your speed should be geared to the conditions of the roadway,” said Sgt. Brian Foltz of the Toledo post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, located on Airport Highway. “You

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“Drive with your headlights on in inclement weather as it’s important for you to see and be seen,” Foltz added.

Not only does state law require seat belt usage, statistics show usage helps decrease serious injuries and fatalities in vehicle accidents, Foltz said.

If you are involved in a crash on a highway or busy street, you are advised to move the vehicle off the roadway if possible to avoid causing additional accidents, FOLTZ Foltz said.

Drivers involved in any accident should call 911, a local law enforcement agency or 1-877-7-PATROL to report the incident and request appropriate help. Drivers can also report stranded motorists at that number.

Upon approaching a stationary public safety, emergency or road service vehicle with flashing lights, drivers should proceed with caution, slowing to a safe speed for road, weather and traffic conditions.

If driving on a road with two or more lanes going in the same direction, drivers should change lanes away from the lane closest to the safety or emergency vehicles.

“The safety of the motoring public is our primary concern at an accident or breakdown,” Foltz said. “It is not recommended for citizens to direct traffic if they don’t have proper equipment or training.”

Foltz said there have been two fatalities this year when pedestrians

were struck at accidents. One emergency worker was struck and killed while directing traffic at a local accident scene recently.

“It all boils down to use common sense to get to your destination safely,” Foltz said.

It’s also important to prepare for winter driving by making sure your vehicle is properly equipped and maintained. Check headlights and windshield wipers to make sure they are working, all fluids levels, especially antifreeze, and brakes and tires for wear, Foltz recommended.

Winterize the vehicle and follow the suggested manufacturer maintenance schedule. Make sure the transmission is working properly, and lubricate the door and trunk locks to prevent freezing.

Wipers, tires, brakes and adequate washer fluid are common things inspectors look for when inspecting vehicles, said Mike Rodriguez, a retired patrolman who now inspects vehicles for the Highway Patrol.

Drivers can have their vehicles inspected for safety at any Ohio State Highway Patrol post.

“In snow or winter weather, drivers should double their stopping distance,” Rodriguez said.

Keep a winter car kit in your vehicle in case you become stranded during a storm. The winter kit should include a flashlight with extra batteries, flares or roadway reflectors, jumper cables, small shovel, ice scraper, antifreeze, flat tire repair, windshield washer fluid, nonperishable food, blanket, candle, matches and first aid kit.

The State Highway Patrol is constantly looking for stranded motorists.

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If there are runners on your holiday shopping list, area running shops are stocked with plenty of gift options, including shoes, GPS-enabled sports watches, reflective garb, winter necessities and more.

Among the new gear generating buzz this holiday season is outerwear from Nike made from an ultra-reflective material.

The jacket, which is lightweight, silver and fully refl ective, is pricey — $350 — but extremely visible, said Emily Minard, sales associate at Dave’s Performance Footgear in Sylvania.

“There’s no way you won’t see a person wearing this running by the side of the road. In fact, it might blind you,” Minard said with a laugh. “It’s brand new. We just got it in. Reflection is huge for winter because we don’t see much daylight.”

For those without such deep pockets, Nike also offers a hat made of the same material for about $30. Another option is the traditional reflective vest for about $25, Minard said.

Sports watch An item that continues to be popular with runners is the Garmin Forerunner 110, a GPS-enabled sports watch that tracks speed, distance, pace and calories burned, said Matt Folk, general manager and coowner of Second Sole at Levis Commons in Perrysburg.

The device plugs into a computer USB port to allow the runner to view routes run.

A model with a heart-rate monitor is also available.

“The big attraction to them is you put them on your wrist, walk out the front door and they tell you exactly how far and how fast you’re going,” Folk said. “It’s a nice thing a lot of runners like because it gives them the freedom to go wherever and track.

“It’s especially nice if you go out of town regularly or even for the holidays. You can know how far and how fast you’re going even if you’re in an unfamiliar area.”

The watch costs about $230 with the heart-rate monitor and $180 without the monitor. The heartrate monitor is also available as a separate add-on.

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GPS-enabled watch, winter wear among gifts for runners

Minimalist shoes Last year’s hottest running product, the Vibram FiveFinger shoe ($75-$140), still draws plenty of customers, but continuing that trend are several new lines of lightweight, minimalist shoes minus the toe separation, Minard said.

The PureProject line from Brooks ($90-120) has been popular, Minard said. Like the FiveFinger, the shoes are designed to force the runner closer to a barefoot running style.

“The idea is some people try to aim for more of a mid-foot strike instead of a heel strike when they run because they think it’s a more natural way of running,” Minard said. “If you’d pop off your shoes and run barefoot, you would never strike on the heel. By taking away cushion on the heel, the body starts to automatically go to more of a mid-foot strike.”

The New Balance Minimus line ($100) is another popular line of minimalist shoes, Minard said.

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Winter clothing With colder weather approaching, the holidays are a perfect time for gifting basic winter running wear, including socks, gloves, hats or jackets, with the most important factor being moisture-wicking, Folk said.

For socks, SmartWool is a popular choice, Folk said.

“You want to avoid cotton and go for something that wicks moisture,” Folk said. “If it gets mucky and yucky out, SmartWool does well with keeping feet dry when you start sweating, whether outside or inside on a treadmill.”

Jackets are typically lightweight with windproof fronts and breathable backs, Minard said.

Moisture-wicking gloves, which also feature wind protection on the front and breathable backs, come in a variety of weights, with mittens the warmest option, Minard said.

“The key factor is to keep your hands warm,” Minard said. “Once you’re wet, you’re sunk. Wet and cold is never a good thing.”

Shoe treads, such as Yaktrax ($30), that can be strapped to the bottom of shoes to help with traction on icy surfaces are also popular with winter runners, Minard said.

Recovery products Recovery products, such as compression gear and self-massage tools, are also useful, Minard sad.

“Runners are always looking to recover faster,” Minard said. “These move the lactic acid out of muscles that cause you to be sore as well as get more blood flowing.”

Massage tools ($32-$140) reach deeper into muscles than normal stretching positions can, Minard said.

Some compression gear ($35-$120), including socks and tights, are made to wear while running, while others are put on after.

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Stocking stuffers Running shops also carry a variety of stocking stuffers. Some popular items this season have been ornaments, pint glasses and stickers bearing slogans like “Runner girl” and “13.1,” “26.2” to reference marathon distances, Folk said.

Many runners log workout notes in a calendar or journal to see progress as well as notice trends, Minard said.

Body Glide ($9) balm helps prevent chaffing, Minard said.

Gift certificates are also available.

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Video games offer wide variety of choices for gift-giving

By Michael Siebenaler TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Video games continue expanding on multiple consoles and on computer, so shoppers have several entertaining options this holiday season. Note: All items and release dates are subject to change.

Several high-profile games are in high-deg mand and include several accompanying materials.

Batman Arkham City players can get the specially designed Batarang controller.

Rocksmith takes music playing to a whole new level by utilizing a special cable so players can use real guitars for the game, which adapts to each player’s abilities.

Inspired by Disney and Pixarr films, Disney Universe featuress more than 45 popular characters rs and unlockable content in multii player game modes for all ages.

Just Dance 3 and GoldenEye 007 expand from the Nintendo Wii to the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 this year. The uDraw Gametablet with uDraw Studio that now features Disney Princess (only on Wii) with Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat and Pictionary: Ultimate Edition.

Deepak Chopra’s Leela, available on the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360, lets players customize full body relaxation exercises combined with unique visuals designed to enhance the experience.

Get your dance groove on with Michael Jackson The Experience, The Black Eyed Peas Experience, Dance Dance Revolution II, Nickelodeon Dance, Grease Dance and Karaoke Revolution Glee: Kar Volume 3 bundle, which inVol cludes a microphone, downclu loadable content options, loa online leaderboards, and bigon gest song set yet. Victorious: ge Time to Shine features hit Ti songs from the show, music so vvideo creation, and vocal/ dance performances. d El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron offers thirdperson, single-player action with amazing visuals where the main goes after rogue angels in an character Enoch En easier, more story based mode or more difficult action based mode.

Role-playing game (RPG)/adventure fans can pick from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Lord of the Rings: War in the North and dungeon crawler Dark Souls that feature huge inventory option allowing players get to carry everything they find and unique character de-

velopment throughout the game.

Racing fans can get coast to coast excitement with Need for Speed: The Run plus Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With An Engine, F1 2011, DiRT 3, Ram Racing, D Pure, MX vs ATV Alive, P DreamWorks Super D Star Kartz BEN 10 GaS lactic Racing and Cars 2: la the Video Game, where th Lightning McQueen and L his friends expand into h international adventures in full of gadgets, tricks, fu backwards driving, and b eeven weapons.

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Other action games include Tekken Hybrid, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3, King of Fighters XIII, Power Rangers Samurai, Saint’s Row: The Third, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Dragonball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi, L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition and Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

Exciting platform games include Sonic Generations, Rayman Origins, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Game, Happy Feet Two — The Video Game, Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic Park — The Game featuring quick time event cinematics and dinosaur showdowns.

Sports games include the always popular Madden NFL Football plus FIFA Soccer 12, WWE ’12, NBA 2K12 and MotionSports: Adrenaline, available on PS3 & Xbox 360, where risk equals great reward amid famous worldwide settings.

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OPINION COLUMN: MEDIA WATCH

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s self-proclaimed media expert for Toledo Free Press, I am here to help those who suffer from a common ailment — Bad Gift Givingitis. You know who you are. You gave the gift of Big Mouth Billy Bass in 1998.

In 2006 you decided to get everyone Zune MP3 players instead of iPods.

Your fall-back gifts are robes and/or slipper socks.

Here is a gift guide to help you transform from “Thank you, Aunt Helen” — horribly moaned like Ben Stein from “Ferris Bueller,” to “Holy sh*t, Aunt Helen!” In fact, if you buy any of the below listed items, please sign the gift tag, To: Bobby. From: Holy sh*t, Aunt Helen!

Roku The absolute home run for anybody who has wireless Internet at home is a Roku. The Roku may be the greatest invention since the iPhone. Roku is a small black box that streams HD content straight from the Internet to your TV. Roku features “channels” from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, UFC,

MLB, NHL and YouTube. The Roku is replacing cable boxes across the country — prices start at $59. The new Roku 2 even features games like Angry Birds with a remote control that is motion activated. You can buy it at Roku.com, Best Buy and Target.

and this family will steal your heart. No matter what religion you belong to, a man bold enough to try to keep four women happy is TV gold.

Bonus: If you give the gift of Roku, then you give the gift of Jeremy BAUMHOWER “Sister Wives” as Netflix streams the show.

‘Sister Wives’

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Give the craziest show that proves the power of reality TV: give “Sister Wives” seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. “Sister Wives” follows the Brown family, led by a man who is married to three wives and fathered 13 kids then decides to add an additional bride, who has three kids herself. If you have not figured out the math, the Browns are polygamists who live in Utah and are all under one roof.

Now, before you cast the first stone, as we all want to, watch three episodes with a semi-open mind

“I arrived on the day Fred Hampton died, real ni**as just multiply” might be the best lyric from 2011 and if you roll up next to my black Town and Country minivan, with standard wheels and an English D on the back, you may just hear Jay-Z say it.

As a 36-year-old white father of four, I can unequivocally say that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Watch the Throne” is the best album of the year.

The better part is that I am not usually a Hip-Hop fan — I love The Beatles, Elvis Costello and Pearl Jam. “Watch

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Bonus: If you are giving a gift to someone you can’t stand, might I suggest “Lulu” by Lou Reed and Metallica, the worst album in the history of rock music. Don’t believe me? Listen to the 90-second preview of each song on iTunes and try to figure out if Lou and the boys were ever in the same room together.

Double this gift up with a “Kidz Bop” CD for their kids and you will win the War of Xmas 2011.

will Auto-Tune any child’s voice to sound just like the rapper T-Pain ...

SHAWTYYYYY. Not only is it the most obnoxious thing I have seen since the Big Mouth Billy Bass, it’s super loud, the audio is very good and it plugs into any USB port to get new “updated” music.

The “I Am T-Pain Microphone” is sure to need plenty of batteries, as they tend to come up missing — wink, wink, parents — so make sure to buy extra batteries and hand them to that special child with clear instructions — “hide these batteries ASAP from mom and dad and remember ... nothing says ‘Good Morning!’ at 6 a.m. better than you Auto-Tuned over some TPain beats!”

You’re welcome. ✯

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what happened to me uit your the other day ...” pitching. Let’s People learn from tell great stostories and compare ries for online visitors themselves via anecwith social media. If we dotal information. just build simple posts You can’t build a great for our websites and online community blogs based on checkwithout passionate stolist, how-to and glosrytellers. Stories rally sary templates, we’re tribes, inspire people to halfway there. You can Kevin CESARZ act and produce value also add simple stories based on case studies. Use these for- for your organization.

A crystal clear picture of your goal mats to generate great social media is not complete without a sizzling sharp content every day.

But add great stories and you won’t vision. Is the following a plant opening go wrong. Resist the urge to broad- or a story?

The workers watched the grainy cast, interrupt or bore your online audience. Stories are irresistible. You footage of empty and stilted strucusually lean in, quiet down and can’t tures, litter-swept streets and a help but tune your ears to the sound broken and defeated populace sorting of someone saying, “Let me tell you through recycle bins.

But on this day, they stood atop the clean, unbroken line of new equipment, haloed by bright lights and the steady hum of power that equaled opportunity.

They were alive and plugged in to a new result. Each second that the hum continued was an eternity that soothed the struggle of the preceding years. Each bright light gave a salute to their new lives.”

Storytelling (and social media) is about humans. It’s about emotional response. The good news about social media and storytelling is that it has made it possible for anyone to have a

unique voice when telling their own story on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or blogs. Three paragraphs accomplished this in the above story.

In addition to great stories, people find checklist-type posts, learning or how-to posts and glossary posts to be very useful (and sharable).

Tell me five things to check before calling customer service, or three examples of our product in use in a checklist post. Create a how-to storytelling video that answers a simple question. Explain basics for laymen, foreign nationals or admin personnel tasked with discovering initial information. What terms

are consistent in conversation with customers? They don’t know your business and products like you do. Help educate them with a glossary post.

Choose an entirely different way to communicate ideas for your organization or business. Stop your pitching and tell me a good story or give me something useful by creating great online content and sharing it with social media. ✯ Kevin Cesarz is director of social media and Web project manager at Thread Marketing Group in Maumee (threadgroup.com). Find more at klcesarz.wordpress.com.

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When it comes to music, Adam

Granduciel is like a mad scientist, obsessively concocting sounds, snagging samples and mixing and layering it all to create sonic wonders in his home studio in Philadelphia.

The frontman for The War on Drugs worked four years on “Slave Ambient,” which was released on Secretly Canadian in August.

“I was just spending a lot of time

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channels Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine.

Granduciel described the quartet’s sound: “It’s a fairly enjoyable modern take on classic rock radio or classic American songwriters or classic rock in general. I think in a way it could be considered easy listening, depending on the song.”

Granduciel said the band’s name gets mixed reviews.

“It’s an easy name to love or hate or make a joke out of,” he said. “There’s something to it, the way it sounds — the music could be anything.”

But there was that one time the group was pulled over while driving early in the morning in the middle of nowhere in Texas. “[The policeman] was like, ‘What’s the name of the band?’ And I said, ‘The War on Drugs.’ And he said, ‘I’m going to assume here that you’re against drugs.’ And you could tell he was getting ready, not for a fight, but he was getting ready,” Granduciel recalled. “Then he asked what we sounded like, and I said we sound like Tom Petty. And he said, ‘Oh, I love Tom Petty; you guys go.’”

The War on Drugs — Granduciel, bassist Dave Hartley, drummer Steven Urgo, and keyboardist and guitarist Robbie Bennett — will come to Mickey Finn’s Pub, 602 Lagrange St., for an 8 p.m. show Dec. 8. Still Corners and Arc in Round will open.

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in my little studio experimenting with different techniques and accumulating a library of sounds and ideas,” the guitarist said. “I was doing a lot of sampling of my own recordings and experiments, just trying to come up with sounds that couldn’t be recreated anywhere else.

“But the songs kind of poke through sometimes then you have a little a-ha moment.”

The singer-songwriter is all about the creative process — and improvisation. He leaves songs unfinished until it’s time to record.

“I was working on the songs for so long, I would always have these little lines in my head as I’m listening to it back in my house — I love listening to rough mixes while I’m cleaning the kitchen or something, I just always come up with these little lines in my head or when I sit down at the mic to do it, these little gems just fly out sometimes.

“And I think that’s the stuff I can’t really sit down and write in a moment; it doesn’t come to me the same way as it does when I’m closing my eyes with the headphones on listening to the music,” Granduciel said during a phone interview from his Philly home.

“Slave Ambient” washes over listeners.

“I just wanted [the disc] to be something that whenever I listened to all the songs, I got something out of it; it made me feel something,” Granduciel said.

Critics say The War on Drugs

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DECEMBER 4, 2011 State of Ohio Ohio School Facilities Commission NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids will be received by the Toledo Public School District (the “District or TPS”), at the School Board Of fice, Treasurers Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608 for the former Beverly, East Side Central, East Toledo and Washington Schools Pre-Demolition Asbestos/HazMat Abatement Project in accordance with the Drawings and Specifications prepared by: TTL Associates, Inc. 1915 N. 12th Street Toledo, Ohio 43604 Phone No. 419-324-2222 Fax No. 419-321-6252 The Construction Manager for the Project is: Lathrop/Gant/Barton Malow, LLC 701 Jefferson, Suite 302 Toledo, Ohio 43604 Phone No. 419-776-5600 Fax No. 877-281-0784 Any Proposed Equal for a Standard shall be submitted to the Consultant, no later than ten (10) days prior to the bid opening. If no Addendum is issued accepting the Proposed Equal, the Proposed Equal shall be considered rejected.

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