The Star - November 28, 2013

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‘Recyclone Returns’ Page A2 Local cartoonist publishes book

Boys Hoops Page B1 Eastside handles Garrett in opener

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GOOD MORNING Pence, Ritz looking for help with dispute INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz is calling a meeting she had with Gov. Mike Pence a first step toward working out an ongoing power struggle, but says much more needs to be done.

Pence and Ritz issued a statement Wednesday saying they have agreed to have the National Association of State Boards of Education help mediate a talk among Indiana State Board of Education members regarding roles, responsibilities and the operations of the board.

Ritz, a Democrat, chairs the board, but Pence, a Republican, has appointment power over 10 of its 11 seats.

Two weeks ago, Pence asked the national school boards group to step in, but Ritz said that would be meaningless unless Pence dealt directly with her. Pence made the request two days after Ritz walked out of a State Board of Education meeting when a Pence appointee tried to transfer certain student assessment powers from her office to a second education department created by the governor.

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Charity show features cars, celebs AUBURN — Carl Casper’s 50th Anniversary Charity Auto Show will take place this weekend at the National Military History Center south of Auburn.

Casper created some of the best-known television and movie cars in the world.

The show will feature celebrity appearances by Mountain Man from the hit TV series “Duck Dynasty,” WWE Hall Of Fame wrestler Ted “The Million Dollar Man” DiBiase, SpongeBob SquarePants, Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders and others.

Organizers said proceeds from the event will benefit families of

wounded military personnel in northeast Indiana.

The show takes place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

Admission costs $12 for adults and $5 for children ages 6-12.

Children ages 5 and under will be admitted free.

The National Military History Center is just to the west of Interstate 69 exit 326 with an entrance off DeKalb C.R. 11-A. The schedule for celebrity appearances includes: • “Duck Dynasty’s” Mountain Man, Saturday 1-4 and 6-8 p.m.; • Ted DiBiase “The Million Dollar Man,” Saturday noon to 4

p.m. and 6-9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.; • Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders, Saturday 2-4 p.m.; • SpongeBob SquarePants, Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m; Sunday noon-5 p.m.; • Monster Truck Mountain Driver “Wildman” Man Jeff Cook and his son, J.J., billed as the world’s youngest monster truck driver; • Singer Fonda, Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Jewelry in Kendallville agreed with Moeller that small businesses can offer customers relationships that the bigger box stores can’t.

“In my business, the relationship is more personal,” Barker said. “Because we get to know our customers, we may end up serving generations of the same family.”

When customers come into his store, Barker said, he usually greets them by their name, and they talk about what’s going on in their lives.

“It’s a friendly relationship.

I don’t pressure people to buy something,” he said.

At Christianson Jewelers in Kendallville, David Christianson said this time of the year, customers are looking for unique items for gifts that small businesses can offer.

“We have a lot of single items,

CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration is delaying yet another aspect of the health care law, putting off until next November the launch of an online portal to the health insurance marketplace for small businesses.

The move, announced Wednesday, was needed because repairs are still under way to the troubled HealthCare.gov website, which is the primary way for individuals to apply for insurance, and that has priority, federal officials said.

In a conference call with reporters, administration officials said employers who want to buy marketplace plans for their workers now will need to go through an agent, broker or insurance company this year, instead of using the government website.

The administration said the plan will still allow small businesses to buy coverage but avoid slowing technical repairs to the hobbled federal online site.

Under the law, most small businesses do not have to provide coverage. But firms with 50 or more employees face a mandate to offer insurance or risk fines from the government in 2015.

The HealthCare.gov site, where individuals without employer-sponsored health care can shop for insurance, is now smoothly handling 25,000 users at the same time and is on track to meet its goal of handling 50,000 simultaneous users by Saturday, said administration spokeswoman Julie Bataille. “We have a lot of work left to do in the next few days,”

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Medical device firm plans new location COLUMBIA CITY — Blue M Medical LLC, a custom medical-device manufacturer, will locate its operations in Columbia City.

The company plans to renovate a former medical office building to house administrative, design, engineering, quality and marketing and sales functions, creating up to 25 jobs by 2016.

The Indiana Economic Development Corp. offered Blue M up to $250,000 in conditional tax credits based on the company’s job creation plans.

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Cindy Shay, owner of Peekers in Auburn, will participate in Small Business Saturday.

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Cars on display during the show will include: a Batmobile from the movie “Batman Returns;” General Lee from the TV show “Dukes of Hazzard;” NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s No. 3 Monte Carlo; K.I.T.T. from the TV show “Knight Rider;” B.A. Baracus’ van from the TV show “The A-Team;” Fonzie’s motorcycle from TV’s “Happy Days;” WASP No. 32, winner of the first Indianapolis 500 race in 1911; and Bigfoot No. 1, billed as the original monster truck.

Hoosier Charities Inc. is sponsoring the show. Its website lists Casper as its CEO and Jeff Cook of Auburn as its president.

They won’t be open on Thanksgiving, and they can’t afford to offer the kind of door-buster holiday bargains the chain stores do, but small, independent merchants are luring customers by offering joint promotions, niche products and a level of service the majors can’t match.

“With us, the building of the relationship is first and foremost,” said Kristi Moeller, owner of Moe’s Bikes & More in Auburn.

Moe’s is one of a number of northeast Indiana businesses participating in Small Business Saturday this weekend. This is the fourth year for the American Express Co. promotion nation-

wide, and the second year for Moeller.

“It was not as good as we hoped it would be last year, but then it’s still fairly new. This year, it seems like people are talking more about it,” she said.

Cindy Shay, owner of Peekers in Auburn, had a good experience with Small Business Saturday in 2012. “It was a very busy day. It was a very good day,” she said.

“It seems like it gets bigger and better every year,” agreed Tracy Boyer, owner of Calicos & Collectibles in downtown Angola.

This year, as it happens, all of Angola’s businesses also are holding their holiday open houses on Saturday, “so it really worked out nicely,” Boyer said.

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Waterloo hires new chief for both town utilities

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WATERLOO — The Waterloo Town Council in a special meeting Tuesday hired an Ohio man for its newly created post as superintendent of the combined water and sewer utilities.

Chris LaLonde of Edgerton, Ohio, will earn a $50,000 annual salary to oversee the two utilities.

LaLonde previously worked for the Village of Edgerton as the

town’s combined water and sewer superintendent.

The new position combines two previous superintendent positions into one. It was born out of the retirement of the town’s sewer superintendent in September and more recently with the 18-monthsearly retirement of water superintendent Jim Rodman, said town manager DeWayne Nodine.

“We just figured it was a good time to combine them and see

how it goes to save some money,” Nodine said about the previously separate jobs.

In other business Monday, the council approved annexing 75 acres of land stretching from Interstate 69 east to South Commerce Drive and south to C.R. 28 on the town’s western edge. The annexation will allow metal recycler MetalX to grow its facility at 225 S. Commerce Drive.

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The council also adopted an interim employee salary ordinance that calls for 2 percent raises for town employees other than police officers, who would receive 6 percent raises in pay. Council members will not receive pay raises, according to the ordinance.

The raises are effective Jan. 1. The ordinance stands on an interim basis, because the council plans to readdress the salary issue early next year.

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Butler Police adopt families Butler Assistant Police Chief Matthew Traster delivers a Thanksgiving meal to a needy family Wednesday.

Butler Police adopted four families this year. Chief James Nichols and Traster delivered complete turkey dinners with all fixings to the four families on Wednesday so the families would have everything in time for Thanksgiving. “I was glad that we could brighten things up for the families this year,” Nichols said.

Real estate sales show mixed results INDIANAPOLIS — The existing home market in Indiana is showing strong signs of recovery, said the president of the Indiana Association of Realtors.

The number of existing, single-family homes sold statewide last month increased 3.7 percent when compared with October 2012. The median sale price of those 6,318 homes is $121,000 — a 3 percent increase from the same month last year, said the monthly Indiana Real Estate Markets Report released by the association Tuesday.

“With just two months left in the year, it’s safe to say 2013 has been remarkable for residential real estate,” said Kevin Kirkpatrick, 2013 president of the state association. “Significant gains in both sales and prices were made in many markets across the state.

Consumers feel empowered by low prices and interest rates, but on the other hand, sellers are starting to have an advantage.”

Locally, for the year to date through October, LaGrange and Steuben counties continue to show gains over 2012, while DeKalb and Noble counties are lagging behind.

Home sale prices locally are mixed, with DeKalb and

Noble counties showing increases and LaGrange and Steuben showing slight declines.

For the year, Steuben County has seen 419 existing home sales compared to 368 for the same period in 2012, an increase of 13.9 percent.

The median price of homes declined to $125,000 from $128,750, a drop of 2.9 percent.

LaGrange County has had 240 home sales this year compared to 222 last year, a gain of 8.1 percent.

Median home prices slipped to $105,000 from $113,700, a decline of 7.7 percent.

Noble County has experienced the greatest decline, through October, compared to the prior year.

There have been 382 home sales this year, compared to 460 last year, a drop of 17 percent. The median price of those sales was up, hitting $93,450 this year compared to $85,500 year to date in 2012, a gain of 9.3 percent.

DeKalb County has had 248 existing homes sold so far in 2013, compared to 291 in 2012, a decline of 14.8 percent. The median value of homes sold is $92,000 so far this year compared to $89,900 last year, an increase of 2.3 percent.

ANGOLA — Twentyfive years ago, Lee Sauer drew his first Recyclone cartoon for KPC Media Group newspapers.

Sauer, of Angola, is marking the occasion by publishing “Recyclone Returns,” a 180-page, large-format book collecting all of his cartoon panels along with amusing stories involving the imaginary superhero.

Along the way, Recyclone became more than imaginary. A physical representation of the environmental muscleman appeared at hundreds of school assemblies and other gatherings to promote recycling for a dozen years before retiring.

As a new reporter for KPC in 1988, Sauer found inspiration for Recyclone when he covered a recycling group started by Karen Farlow of Auburn. She asked if he could place weekly reminders about recycling in the newspaper.

“On the walk back …

I thought of a bumbling superhero. I even had the name Recyclone in my mind,” Sauer recalled.

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AUBURN — The city has granted approval for a contractor to install 12 monitoring wells in Eckhart Park near the new football field to determine if fuel from a tank leak at the neighboring county highway department has leached there.

This summer, the county learned an above-ground fuel tank had been leaking.

Since then, 524 tons of contaminated soil have been excavated from the site, leaving a hole 40-by-44 feet and 8 feet deep The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has taken over investigation of the leak, and recovery and monitoring wells have been installed throughout the highway department grounds to

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ANGOLA — Two conservation grants are available at the Steuben County Community Foundation for public charities, including school systems.

The Ralph Taylor Conservation Fund offers two $1,000 grants to those eligible in Allen, Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells and Whitley counties.

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Lee Sauer of Angola has published a book marking the 25th anniversary of his Recyclone cartoon character, which inspired a live show that ran for 12 years.

1988 through 2000.

“I used to do six a day, sometimes” at schools, Sauer said. He has no idea how many shows he presented in total.

Recyclone once shared the stage with Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh. All three of Sauer’s daughters, very young at the time, participated in the final show.

“I certainly look back on it fondly,” Sauer said. “My mom got to see one show, which was nice, because she

determine the level of the leak.

Now, the monitoring wells will extend onto city property.

The city’s Board of Public Works and Safety on Wednesday granted approval for initial installation of 12 monitoring wells — one row of seven and another row of five — just east of Carr Field at Eckhart Park. The 2-inch wells will be installed deep into the earth and will not protrude above the grass surface, the board learned.

The board voiced concerns about the agreement with the county’s contractor, which is open-ended and calls for as much work as needs to be done. Representatives from the city’s Rocket Football program that plays on Carr Field also voiced concerns about the potential of more

wells being installed on the field and destroying it.

Mayor Norm Yoder explained the city’s hands are largely tied.

“We don’t have a lot of choice,” Yoder said. “They have to clean it up, and they’re going to do what they have to do to clean the site.”

In other business Wednesday, the board learned Auburn Police Officer Roland McPherson has voluntarily resigned his rank as lieutenant to return to the rank of patrolman.

The board also: • approved buying a 2014 Dodge Charger for the police department for $22,656, and a 2014 Dodge Ram truck for the street department for $24,291, both from Auburn Chrysler.

The board approved an additional purchase of a dump bed and snow plow

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made the costume.”

Sauer has left open the possibility of Recyclone making a comeback, “but it’s still a mystery,” he said.

Sauer will appear in person at book signings Friday from 1-3 p.m. at Jeremiah’s Brewed Awakenings in downtown Auburn and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Coachlight Coffee Shop in Angola. “Recyclone Returns” also is available on amazon.com.

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That night, he sketched the first of his 133 Recyclone cartoons.

All of the cartoons appear in the book, thanks to Farlow, who neatly clipped and preserved every one.

Heavily muscled and masked, Recyclone could spy a pile of trash, turn himself into a tornado and leave it neatly stacked and sorted.

Farlow’s “radical approach to recycling” inspired Recyclone’s female sidekick Moonbeam, Sauer said, although he drew the character to resemble his sister, Jane.

Sauer said Farlow impressed him with her methods such as neatly folding margarine foils and reusing them to wrap baked potatoes.

“I never imagined anyone going to those lengths,” he said.

Farlow portrayed Moonbeam in Recyclone’s live presentations two or three times before his then-coworker, Sheryl Prentice, took over the role.

Recyclone’s live shows continued even after he left journalism, extending from

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The grant program intends to distribute funds to nonprofit organizations and/ or school teachers interested in introducing outdoor recreation and conservation to young people who have limited or no experience with natural resource opportunities.

Eligible projects should engage middle school or high school students in learning about Indiana’s fish, forest, wildlife and natural habitats and their conservation.

The approved grant activities should be completed between April 1-Nov. 30, 2014.

The fund was established in 2003 in recognition of Ralph Taylor’s dedicated service of more than 30 years as an Indiana Conservation Officer with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

The grant application submitted should have this information: organization’s name, address and phone number; grant facilitator’s name; grant project name; project summary and budget; how the project relates to outdoor recreation and/or conservation; how the project will actively engage students with hands-on experiences and how the project will support science and other academic concepts.

Grant proposals should be submitted by Feb. 21, 2014, to: Jennifer Danic, Steuben County Community Foundation, 1701 N. Wayne St., Angola, IN 46703.

Grants will be evaluated and awarded no later than March 21, 2014.

For more details, call 665-6656 or email jdanic@ steubenfoundation.org

Peoples Bancorp sets dividend AUBURN — The board of director of Peoples Bancorp, the holding company for Peoples Federal Savings Bank of DeKalb County, has declared a first quarter dividend of 20 cents per share.

The dividend will be paid Jan. 17 to stockholders of record as of Jan. 2.

As of Tuesday, Peoples had 2,313,788 shares outstanding. The closing price of its stock on Tuesday was $24 per share as listed under the symbol PBNI.

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package for the street department truck for $15,595.

• learned an officer has been suspended for three days without pay for a crash while on duty in a police cruiser. Capt. Mark Stump said the officer failed to make sure it was safe to proceed through an intersection despite having the right-of-way. Stump did not reveal the officer’s name.

• approved a non-remonstrance agreement and infrastructure plans for the DeKalb County Horsemen’s Assocation’s new Draft Animal Museum at its farm on C.R. 427 south of Auburn.

• approved a supplemental contract with the Indiana Department of Transportation to extend its Safe Routes to School project an additional five months.

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First gay marriage conducted in Illinois CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago women on Wednesday became the first same-sex couple to say their vows in Illinois after a federal judge granted an expedited marriage license because of one woman’s ailing health.

Patricia Ewert and Vernita Gray took the vows in a private ceremony, days after a judge agreed to expedite their wedding because of Gray’s terminal cancer.

Illinois legalized gay marriage earlier this month, becoming the 16th state to legalize the practice. But the law doesn’t take effect until June 1 — a date both women feared Gray might not live to see.

So the women filed a lawsuit in federal court late Friday last week, citing Gray’s cancer as a reason to get a marriage license quickly. Then on Monday, a judge ordered the license and Cook County clerk officials hand-delivered it.

The two, who are in their 60s, became engaged in 2009.

“This is the realization of a very long cherished dream for them both,” Camilla Taylor, the head of the legal advocacy group Lambda Legal, which helped represent the couple, said before the ceremony.

People • Manuscript of ‘Born To Run’ to be auctioned NEW YORK (AP) — A handwritten working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit “Born to Run” will be offered at auction on Dec. 5, with a presale estimate of $70,000 to $100,000, Sotheby’s said Springsteen Wednesday.

The seller was not revealed.

The auction house said the document used to be in the collection of Springsteen’s former manager, Mike Appel.

Sotheby’s said most of the lines in this 1974 version, written in Long Branch, N.J., are apparently unpublished and unrecorded, but the manuscript does include “a nearly perfected chorus.”

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Hated giant suitcase out of Red Square MOSCOW (AP) — Politicians didn’t like it, the public didn’t like it, so the gigantic Louis Vuitton suitcase is being booted out of Red Square.

The GUM department store on Red Square, which is responsible for 30-feet (nine meters) high and 100-feet (30-meters) long construction, promised in a statement released Wednesday that it would be dismantled.

Politicians and public alike condemned the exhibit, a stone’s throw from the tomb of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. State news agencies reported that the Kremlin had demanded the removal of the display.

The construction is part of an exhibition called “The Soul of Travel,” marking Vuitton’s 150th anniversary and was to open on Dec. 2. Louis Vuitton said the construction was a copy of a model owned by a Russian noble, Prince Vladimir Orlov.

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President Barack Obama, with daughters Sasha, second from left, and Malia, right, carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of saving the national turkey, Popcorn, from the dinner table with

a “presidential pardon,” at the White House in Washington, Wednesday as John Burkel, current chairman of the National Turkey Federation in Badger, Minn., looks on.

Obama pardons turkeys WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama spared two turkeys from the brine and the oven Wednesday, fulfilling the annual tradition of a presidential pardon for a couple of lucky birds ahead of Thanksgiving Day. Obama pardoned Popcorn, who shared the stage with the president on the North Portico of the White House on a cold, drizzly day. An alternate turkey, named Caramel, also received a pardon, though it did not have the benefit of a face-to-beak meeting with the president.

“The office of the presidency, the most powerful position in the world, brings with it many awesome and solemn responsibilities,” Obama began. “This is not one of them.

The two turkeys, 38-pound gobblers hatched the same day on a farm

in Badger, Minn., were each up for top billing as the national Thanksgiving turkey. After an online White House crowdsourcing election, Popcorn won.

The event is usually an opportunity for droll commentary by the president and the kind of inside detail that the White House rarely shares with reporters.

Popcorn, the White House said, likes to feed on corn and strut to Beyonce’s “Halo,” while Caramel prefers soybean meal and Lady Gaga.

Good to know.

Popcorn’s victory, Obama said, proves “that even a turkey with a funny name can find a place in politics.”

As for Caramel, “he’s sticking around and he’s already busy raising money for his next campaign,” the president said.

The turkeys will be on display at George Washing-

ton’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens through Jan. 6.

Presidents have spared turkeys off and on as far back as the Lincoln era, according to the White House. The first official pardon was granted by President George H.W. Bush.

House Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, was taking a different tack.

His Twitter account was drawing attention to a CNN article on his special recipe.

“Nice to see the Boehner turkey brine get attention,” he tweeted.

Later Wednesday, Obama, wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson volunteered at a local charity — the Capitol Area Food Bank — distributing bags of sweet potatoes, onions, carrots, apples and small white boxes of the presidential M&Ms.

US, Cuba working to fix interrupted bank services HAVANA (AP) — Washington said Wednesday it is actively working with Cuba to find a new financial institution to handle its diplomatic accounts in the United States, after the Caribbean nation announced that a banking cutoff had forced it to halt nearly all U.S. consular services just ahead of the holiday high season for travel.

The U.S. State Department said in an emailed communique that the U.S. bank that had handled Cuba’s accounts severed the relationship due to a “business decision,” and that the government does not have the power to interfere or order any bank to handle a foreign mission’s account.

It added that Cuba’s

situation is not unique, saying the closure of embassy accounts can hurt operations at other diplomatic outposts.

“The U.S. government seeks to help foreign missions in the United States that have trouble obtaining banking services,” the State Department said, “while ensuring the continued security of the U.S. financial system including through appropriate regulatory oversight. We would like to see the Cuban missions return to full operations.”

On Tuesday, Cuba stopped providing almost all consular services including passport and visa processing at both the Cuban Interests Section in Washington and its Permanent Mission to

the United Nations in New York.

It blamed the 51-yearold U.S. embargo, which outlaws most financial transactions with the Communist-run country, for its banking difficulties.

Havana said it had tried unsuccessfully to move its accounts to multiple other banks, and expressed regret for the “negative impact” that slashing consular services will have for people planning trips to the island.

Analyst Emilio Morales of the U.S.-based Havana Consulting Group told The Associated Press that an estimated 557,000 U.S. travelers will visit the island this year carrying about $2 billion.

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PARIS (AP) — Fireworks erupted in Dubai after the tiny Gulf emirate won the right to host the 2020 World Expo, becoming the first Middle Eastern city to organize the event in its more than 150-year history.

Dubai bested competing bids from Izmir, Turkey; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Yekaterinburg, Russia, after three rounds of voting by delegates of the 168-nation Bureau International des Expositions in Paris.

In line with its reputation for over-the-top glitz, Dubai lit the world’s tallest tower with glimmering lights. The skies around the Burj Khalifa, which towers at 2,717 feet, erupted with fireworks.

The logo of its bid for the 2020 expo was plastered on police cars, convenience store bags, storefronts, taxis, receipts, government buildings and even on a flag on Mount Kilimanjaro.

A spending spree was already underway even before officials announced the host city. Dubai

estimates a successful Expo 2020 bid will generate $23 billion between 2015 and 2021, or 24 percent of the city’s gross domestic product. They say total financing for the 6-month-long event will cost $8.4 billion.

In a statement after the vote, Dubai ruler and U.A.E. vice president Sheikh Mohammed bin Rahid promised to “astonish the world” in 2020.

“Dubai Expo2020 will breathe new life into the ancient role of the Middle East as a melting pot for cultures and creativity,” he said.

Delegates voted behind closed doors over three rounds to choose the winner, with Sao Paolo and Izmir eliminated in the second round.

Sao Paulo had proposed a renewable energy tower to convert solar energy into the electricity needed for the event and a new economic, tourism and education hub with hotels, schools, and shopping malls.

Prime minister of Latvia resigns following tragedy RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Latvia’s prime minister unexpectedly resigned on Wednesday, saying he can no longer lead the country after a supermarket roof collapse killed 54 people and sparked public outrage.

Choking back tears, Dombrovskis told journalists that the country needed a change in leadership.

“Considering the … tragedy and all the related circumstances, the country needs a government that has majority support in Parliament and can solve the situation that has arisen,” Dombrovskis said.

Dombrovskis, Latvia’s longest serving prime minister, has been credited with steering the Baltic country from the brink of economic disaster since taking power in 2009.

But his tough cuts have stung, and critics have suggested the abolition of a

state construction authority by his budget-slashing government weakened oversight that might have caught potential building flaws in the supermarket.

In recent weeks he has also run into difficulties with his ruling coalition, with several nationalist lawmakers demanding changes to how the country issues residence permits in exchange for support for next year’s budget.

Though Dombrovskis survived the standoff, he apparently felt the tragedy at the Maxima supermarket last week left his leadership too damaged to continue.

The announcement triggers the fall of the entire center-right government. But it is not expected to cause a political crisis or disrupt the country’s economy, which over the past two years was the fastest growing in the European Union.

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Deaths & Funerals • Richard Gienger

New Haven; and a sisterin-law, Annette Anglin of AVILLA — Richard Kendallville.

Joseph ‘‘Dick’’ Gienger, He was also preceded age 76, of Avilla died on in death by his sister and Tuesday, November 26, brother-in-law, Dorothy 2013, at his home. and Ben Edsall; a brother, Mr. Gienger was born Merlin “Mert” Gienger; in Kendallville, Indiana, his granddaughter, Tracey on May 2, VanScoder; and a brother1937, to the in-law, Lloyd Heller. late John Visitation will be Friday, Frederick November 29, 2013, from Gienger and 4-8 p.m. at Hite Funeral Berniece Home in Kendallville.

Clara (Keck) Funeral services will Gienger. be Saturday, November He Mr. Gienger 30, 2013, at 11 a.m. at attended Immanuel Lutheran Church Kendallville in Avilla. There will be an High School where he was hour of calling before the on the basketball team. He funeral service. Officiating married Billie Jean Heller the funeral service will be on June 14, 1958, at the Pastor Patrick Kuhlman.

Immanuel Lutheran Church Burial will be at in Avilla and she survives Immanuel Lutheran him.

Cemetery in Avilla.

Dick worked for Newnam Preferred memorials Foundry in Kendallville for may be made to Immanuel 19 years. He was a truck Lutheran Church Cemetery driver with Gage Brothers Fund or to Parkview Noble Construction in Albion Hospice. for ten years and Klink Casketbearers will be Trucking of Ashley for Joshua Hovarter, Jason seven years before retiring Hovarter, Adam King, Ryan in 1997.

Gaerte, Darion Turner and He was an active member Shawn Pfefferkorn. of the Immanuel Lutheran Send a condolence to the Church in Avilla where family at hitefuneralhome. he served as an usher and com. a trustee. Dick was also member of the Fraternal Beverly Rickel Order of Eagles Lodge #2455 in Albion where he SEMINOLE, Fla. — held all offices throughout Beverly (Herberger) Rickel the years including Past of Seminole died Friday, Worthy President in the mid Nov. 22, 2013.

1990s.

Mrs. Rickel was born He enjoyed bowling, in Kendallville March 18, fishing and camping, 1923, to Frank and Matia NASCAR, IU basketball, (Pankop) Herberger and and Colts football. was a graduate of Avilla Survivors include his High School and North wife, Billie Gienger of Manchester College.

Avilla; three daughters, She taught music and Shelia and Randy Hovarter English and played the organ of Kendallville, Johnna and for Lutheran churches in Bob Miller of Avilla and Indiana, Florida and North Pam and Mike Gaerte of Carolina.

Avilla; 12 grandchildren: Surviving are her Jamie and Chris Rorick of husband, James; her children, New Haven; Josh Hovarter Garry (Liz), Lynette (Steve), and Tiffani Lemish, both of Renee (Jimmy), and Todd; Kendallville; Jason Hovarter and four grandchildren. and Amanda Cousino, A service was held both of Whitehouse, Ohio; Tuesday at Bethel Lutheran Tiffany and Donte Turner Church in Clearwater, Fla. of Muncie; Joe VanScoder Memorials are to the of Avilla; Sandy and Shawn music ministries at Bethel Pfefferkorn of Auburn; Lutheran Church in Stacy Miller of Fort Wayne; Clearwater, Resurrection Elizabeth and Alex Perry of Lutheran Church, Box 2215, Cleveland, North Carolina; Franklin, N.C., 28744 or Adam and April King of Suncoast Care Center, 6770 Albion; Ryan Gaerte of 102 Ave. N., Pinellas Park, Fort Wayne; Ashlee and Fla. 33782.

Lucas Anglin of Albion; and Emilee Gaerte of Avilla; Lynnae Figel 20 great-grandchildren; 2 HOWE — Lynnae E. great-great-grandchildren; Figel, 37, of Howe died two sisters, Carolyn and Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, at Wilbur Getts of Kendallher home. ville and Joan and Frank Visitation will be from 3-6 Young of Churubusco; a p.m. Saturday at Carney-Frost sister-in-law, Patty Gienger Funeral Home in LaGrange. of Kendallville; his motherFuneral services will be at in-law, Marie Heller of 11 a.m. Sunday at the funeral Avilla; a brother-in-law, home.

Robert and Jean Heller of Burial will be in Kentucky LaGrange; sister-in-law, at a later date.

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CORUNNA — Stephen Lawrence Binkley, 58, of Corunna died Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, at his home.

Mr. Binkley was a graduate of Franklin High School in Coldwater, Mich.

He was born in Angola on Jan. 21, 1955, Mr. Binkley to James Franklin and Alice Carolyn (Williams) Binkley Survivors include his spouse, Holly Marie Jefferson of Corunna; two daughters, Nancy Binkley of Corunna and Martha Binkley of Corunna; a son, James Binkley of Catonsville, Md.; nine grandchildren; a brother, Wayne Binkley of Battle Creek, Mich.; two sisters, April Conley of Coldwater, Mich, and Nancy Binkley of Tennessee; and his motherin-law, Bonnie Jefferson of Corunna.

He was also preceded in death by his son, Levy Lane Binkley, who died July 29, 2013, and his grandson, Austin Michael Hayes, who died in 2005.

Funeral services and visitation will be Saturday at Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon, with the funeral service beginning at noon. Burial will be at Orange Cemetery near Rome City.

Preferred memorials are to family.

Send a condolence to the family at hitefuneralhome. com.

MIDDLEBURY — Linda R. Wenger, 66, of Middlebury died Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at the Maples at Waterford Crossing, Goshen.

Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday at MillerStewart Funeral Home in Middlebury.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church, Middlebury. Burial will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery, Middlebury.

Memorials are to the American Cancer Society.

Rev. Charles Smith Sr. NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Rev. Charles Smith Sr. of New Port Richey and formerly of Fort Wayne, Ind., died Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Trinity, Fla. Rev. Smith was the pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church of New Port Richey.

He had served Fort Wayne Baptist Temple for 38 years before moving to Florida.

Surviving are a brother John of Palm Bay, Fla.; his wife, Betty Smith; a son Charles Jr. (Karen) of Huntertown; three daughters, Deborah Smith and Connie (Larry) Elder of Fort Wayne and Tammy (David) Cook of Garrett; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

A celebration of life will be Sunday at 4 p.m. at Pathway Community Church, 11910 Shearwater Run, Fort Wayne.

Memorials are to the family.

Janet Baylis MIDDLEBURY — Janet Charlene Baylis, 70, of Middlebury died Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at the Maples Rehabilitation Center at Waterford Crossing, Goshen.

Visitation will be from noon to 3 p.m. Monday, followed by a memorial service, at Miller-Stewart Funeral Home in Middlebury.

Memorials are to Riley Children’s Hospital.

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Court papers: Ohio boy not told he’d be given up HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A couple accused of abandoning the adopted 9-year-old son they raised from infancy didn’t tell him they were giving him to child welfare officials, according to documents filed by a prosecutor.

Court documents filed in Butler County Common Pleas Court in Hamilton say the boy’s mother thought he was a threat to the family’s safety.

Lisa Cox, 52, and her husband, Cleveland Cox, 49, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of nonsupport of dependents.

Authorities allege the couple, from Butler County’s Liberty Township, left the boy with children’s services after saying he was displaying aggressive behavior and earlier threatened the family with a knife.

Documents filed by the prosecutor say the parents didn’t tell the boy when they left him with children’s services on Oct. 24 that he wouldn’t be returning home. The boy believed he was going to a hospital to be “fixed,” according to the documents.

The boy was left with a bag containing some clothes and a handwritten letter from Lisa Cox in which she said that she loved him and would never forget him.

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The couple also had been scheduled for a hearing in juvenile court Wednesday on a civil complaint filed by the county’s children’s services agency. The magistrate granted VanNoy’s request to delay that hearing until after the criminal case is concluded.

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Lincoln proclaimed ‘day of Thanksgiving and Praise’ The following is the “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 3, 1863.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

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Letters to The Editor • Program director for Common Grace thankful for many blessings To the editor: It has been one year since my official start date as the program director of Common Grace Ministries of Noble County.

The year has flown by and I have remembered the Rev. Dr. Dan Barker’s words to me when I was first hired. He said I would be as blessed by the work as those receiving the services. He was so right. The stories are many of people being touched by the services of Common Grace and I am touched by the generosity of the people of Noble County and the people who come to our offices.

I am blessed with a staff that will not stop until they have exhausted every avenue to assist the people who come. The partnerships that we have formed with other agencies and organizations in the past year have given me the absolute pleasure of working with the leadership of Noble County and that is a blessing.

I have had the opportunity to worship with many congregations of several denominations and I can tell you that when it comes to reaching out to people in need, there are no denominational lines.

Recently I worshiped with St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Albion. They not only

give us office space in their building, but the entire congregation laid hands on me and prayed for my leadership and for Common Grace. Here is where I run short on words.

How do you put that kind of blessing into words? All I can say is “Thank you, Jesus!”

I have been blessed to the depth of my soul this year. I look forward to a life of service, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Angie Kidd Program director, Common Grace Ministries of Noble County

grateful to everyone.

Thank you to Steuben County EMS, Angola Fire Department, Volley 4 A Cure, Stick it for a Cure, Delta Waterfowl/DeKalb County Penny’s from Heaven, Wild Turkey Federation, high school soft ball teams, Angola American Legion, Fremont American Legion, Fremont Moose Riders, Ashley/Hudson Lions Club and Fremont Women of the Moose.

Candy Oliver and the Board of Directors of the Steuben County Cancer Association Angola

Steuben County Cancer Association gives heartfelt thanks

Thank you to Save the Strand 5K supporters

To the editor: The month of November is rolling along and Christmas is around the corner. The Steuben County Cancer Association would like to take this time to give our heartfelt thanks to everyone that has donated, volunteered, had a fundraiser or just sent a card to tell us you were thinking about us.

Our association has grown this year by leaps and bounds. We could not take care of the local cancer patients if it wasn’t for the giving hearts of Steuben County and surrounding counties.

Thank you to each and every one of you.

If we miss a name, please realize that we are

To the editor: I would like to thank the community for their support of the Save The Strand 5K Saturday, Nov. 23! We had an amazing turn out, especially with the extra cold temperatures. It was great seeing so many people come together for a great cause!

Special thanks to the following sponsors: Kraft Foods Group, Campbell & Fetter Bank, Staffmark, RunID, City Of Kendallville and Mr. B’s Sports & Design Inc. Teela Gibson, race coordinator Kendallville

Well-kept home has a certain ‘aire’ Stacy tries to keep her house neat and clean. When a neighbor girl came over to play with Josh, 8, and other kids, she said to Josh, “You guys have such a nice place. Your mom must be a thousand-aire!” (Less than a millionaire, but still quite substantial!) — Gale Spence (grandmother of Josh) of Angola

Deegan, 6, said, “Mom, we need to talk about this shirt.” Beth asked, “What do we need to talk about … I love that shirt.”

Deegan replied, “Mom, the arms are freakishly short. This is the last time I’m wearing it.” — Beth Munk of rural Kendallville

Bev’s nephew was approximately 6 or 7 at the time of State-ranked golfer Katie this story. He would come Sharp graduated from East Noble spend the weekend with Aunt last spring. Around the time of Their routine on Sunday GRACE Bev. high school and college graduamorning would be to go to tion ceremonies, First Christian followed by lunch at HOUSHOLDER church Church in Kendallville invited all McDonald’s before driving him the graduates to go to the front of home 45 minutes away. One the church and share their name Sunday on the way home about and future plans. When she was 5 or 10 minutes after leaving handed the microphone, Katie said, “I’m McDonald’s Bev pulled over into a rest Katie Sharp and I’m going to Michigan area. As she looked for a parking spot, her State University to play golf and I don’t nephew asked what they were doing. She know what I’m going to do — my mother told him that she had to use the restroom. always did everything for me!” Needless to From the back seat comes this advice, say, that brought much laughter from the “You should have gone before we left congregation, according to her grandfather McDonald’s.” — Aunt Bev of Syracuse who shared the story. We are happy to report that Katie is doing well in college.

Thanksgiving blessings to all readers.

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Recovering drug addict creates website of hope On Jan. 13 this year Randy Wooten, 59, of Kendallville, an admitted drug addict, was jailed on drug charges and faced 18 years in prison.

“I thought I would never see the outside world, my family or friends ever again,” he said.

Wooten started using drugs when he was 17 and continued off and on for about 30 years.

He managed to quit most of them on his own except for crystal methamphetamine.

“Meth has a way of getting a hold of you and it won’t let go. It drags you down into a dark hole. Though it destroys you physically, it makes you think you feel great and makes you think you can accomplish anything.”

He was deep in the dark hole of a jail cell unemployed,

unemployable, no friends, lost Wooten spent 64 days in love, lost family with jail and told his fellow no new beginning in inmates something about the foreseeable future. him had changed.

“I won’t say I was ever He learned about a a religious man. I did program that gives a not go to church every second chance for those Sunday, but I did always willing to work at it. believe in God,” said He went to a counseling Wooten. center and lived in a One night while lying house for five INSIDE recovery in his jail cell bunk he months.

COMMENT Wooten is now free began to pray. “I asked God to come into my life from meth’s hold on his and take control of my life. He has a full-time life because I had done Dennis Nartker job at a local manufacsuch a lousy job.” turing facility, and his God apparently employer said he’s a responded, according good worker. to Wooten. “It was a That’s not the end of miracle,” he said. “A feeling of this success story. complete peace fell over me. I An idea came to Wooten one was at peace with myself and day how to help other recovering where I was.” drug addicts like him meet

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He was deep in the dark hole of a jail cell unemployed, unemployable, no friends, lost love, lost family with no new beginning in the foreseeable future.

• people in similar situations. “No one understands a person in recovery better than a person in recovery,” he said.

Wooten searched online forums for people to connect and help each other with their issues. He thought there should be a website where people can

be open and honest with each other. “We will be the passage light for each other, helping each other through our issues by understanding there is hope for tomorrow,” he said.

He decided to put a website together for friendships — www.passagelight.com. A relative financially supported Wooten’s venture. He hopes the website can connect people with resources such as recovery and rehabilitation centers. “Bottom line for me is even if I help just one person make a change for a brighter future, passage light will be a success. Everyone deserves a second chance at life.”

DENNIS NARTKER is a reporter for The News Sun. He can be reached at dnartker@kpcmedia.com.

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Travelers catch the bus for the holiday CHICAGO (AP) — As millions of Americans hurtle through the jumble of transportation arteries for Thanksgiving, many are discovering that bus travel may be the cheapest, comfiest and even coolest way to stay Zen during the nation’s largest annual migration.

After nearly half a century of decline in the bus industry, a new breed of sleek, Wi-Fi-pumping intercity coach is transforming the image of buses as the much-ridiculed travel option of last resort. With free Internet connections, tickets as cheap as $1 and decent legroom, companies such as Megabus.com and BoltBus are luring holiday travelers disenchanted with the hair-pulling rituals of airports and driving.

“I’ve been doing it for a couple of years and it is a nice ride,” said theater student Natalie Sienicki, 22, sitting inside a blue double-decker Megabus idling on a windy, snowy street corner near the grand colonnades of Chicago’s Union Station.

Her journey on Tuesday was not only cheaper than flying ($56 roundtrip) but also took her all the way to her destination in Ann Arbor, Mich. If she had traveled by air, Sienicki would have had to make a side trip through Detroit.

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Holiday travel blitz on to Sunday FROM STAFF REPORTS

INDIANAPOLIS — Stepped patrols on highways across northeast Indiana and the rest of the Hoosier state will be in effect through Sunday, the Indiana State Police reminded residents in a news release issued Tuesday.

The effort to make the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday travel period safer, the ISP partnered with approximately 250 other law enforcement agencies AP statewide in participating Passengers board a Megabus headed to St. Louis, and Memphis, Tuesday, in the annual Safe Family Travel, Operation Pull in Chicago. Millions of Americans are hurtling along the nation’s jumble Over campaign. The of transportation arteries for Thanksgiving, and more of them are discovering that a bus, of all things, is the cheapest, comfiest and coolest way to campaign began Nov. 8.

Police will be stay Zen during the nation’s largest annual human migration. conducting high visibility The new bus services are capitalenforcement efforts each seat. Megabus.com has slapped izing on generational and technological including sobriety check GPS tracking devices on its fleet of shifts: younger urbanites are espousing points and saturation 300 double-decker buses, allowing a car-free lifestyle, and gadget-wielding patrols looking for travelers and the people waiting for travelers of all ages increasingly expect impaired drivers and them on the other end to track the trip to buy tickets online and stay connected unrestrained motorists. in real time with a smartphone app. for the duration of their trip.

To help ensure the “Those kinds of things we feel “Young people have no great psycho- really matter,” said Mike Alvich, safety of all motorists during this holiday period, logical connection with the car,” said Megabus.com’s vice president for transportation trends researcher Joseph the Indiana State Police marketing. Such innovations along will also be participating Schwieterman of DePaul University in with the prices, he said, are why in Operation CARE, Chicago. “They just want to get from Megabus.com has enjoyed so much Combined Accident Point A to Point B, and being able to use success pulling people out of their Reduction Effort. The their electronic device on the way is a cars. The company says 30 percent of bonus.” its customers are people who otherwise operation is a federally funded program and will Many new bus carriers offer free would have taken a car for the same allow additional troopers Wi-Fi and have electrical outlets at trip.

to patrol Hoosier roadways through the upcoming holiday weekend.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, safety belt use is the most effective strategy a person can employ to prevent death and minimize injury resulting from traffic collisions.

Make the Thanksgiving holiday travel period safe by observing the following safety rules: • when planning to travel, make sure you are well rested; • increase your following distance; remember the two-second rule; • decrease your speed according to traffic and road conditions; • beware of bridges, overpasses and intersections where ice tends to form first in cold inclement weather; • don’t use cruise control on slick roads; • make sure everyone in your vehicle is properly restrained; • pull over and stop to use electronic devices; • have a designated driver; and • move over and slow down for emergency and highway service vehicles.

Let Us Give Thanks This Holiday Season

Thanksgiving in Plymouth In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River.

One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of

establishing a village at Plymouth.

Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease.

Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory

expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.

In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now

remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. While no record exists of the historic banquet’s exact menu, the Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow wrote in his journal that Governor Bradford sent four men on a “fowling” mission in preparation for the event, and that the Wampanoag guests arrived bearing five deer. Historians have suggested that many of the dishes were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of 1621, the meal did not feature pies,

cakes or other desserts, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations.

Thanksgiving Becomes an Official Holiday Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast.

Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well.

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Menus, food change to satisfy finicky eaters NEW YORK (AP) — Three different types of stuffing will be offered on Stacy Fox’s table this Thanksgiving: traditional, glutenfree and vegan.

There will be steak for people who don’t like turkey. No eggs will be used in the latkes, or Jewish potato pancakes. And the sweet potato pie will be topped with vegan marshmallows she buys at a health food store. “My life used to be simple,� said Fox, who’s entertaining 18 guests in Suffern, N.Y. At homes across the country today, tables will be set to accommodate everyone from vegans and vegetarians to those trying to eat like cavemen. The increasingly complicated feasts reflect the growing ranks of Americans who are paying closer attention to the food they put into their bodies.

The reasons vary. With two-thirds of the U.S. population either overweight or obese, many find setting rules helps ward off temptation. In other cases, people steer clear of ingredients such as dairy to alleviate bloating or to boost energy. Others worry about the long-term impact of artificial dyes, preservatives and antibiotics in their food.

While the dietary quirks of relatives or friends may seem like a mere curiosity on Thanksgiving, they’re reshaping the food industry. Sales of organic packaged foods rose 24 percent to $11.48 billion over the past five years, according to market

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This Oct. 15, 2012, file photo, shows a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner, in Concord, N.H. In homes across the country on Thanksgiving Day, tables will be set to accommodate everyone from vegans and vegetarians to those trying to eat like a caveman.

Increasingly complicated Thanksgiving feasts reflect the growing ranks of Americans who are paying closer attention to the food they put in their bodies.

researcher Euromonitor International. Gluten-free packaged foods, made for those who are sensitive to wheat, more than doubled to $419.8 million. And the broader market of packaged foods targeted toward people with food intolerances to things like wheat, dairy or sugar rose 12 percent to $2.89 billion.

By introducing gluten-free varieties of Chex cereal in recent years, General Mills says it was able to reverse years of declines and get sales growing again. So far

this year, the company says sales are up 6 percent from the same time last year, although it did not give the actual figure.

Hillshire Brands has expanded the number of sausages and meatballs made without antibiotics under its higher-end Aidells brand, which has been a bright spot for the company. And sales of Tofurky, the tofu-based turkey alternative for vegetarians, have grown each year since it was introduced in 1995, said founder and president Seth Tibbott.

Back when Tofurky was rolled out, only about 500 were sold in health food stores in Portland and Seattle. This year, Tibbott expects to sell about 350,000 of the loaves, which resemble round, boneless turkey breasts filled with stuffing. “People do say it’s close to turkey,� Tibbott said, noting that the company has worked to achieve the hint of gaminess that distinguishes turkey from chicken.

Even with all the new food options, however, many remain Thanksgiving traditionalists. As a result, some with dietary restrictions find that they still have to make concessions when eating at relatives’ houses.

Alison Johnson, for instance, realizes it would be unreasonable to expect her in-laws to cater to her many preferences this holiday.

She’s a vegetarian and she and her husband are on a Paleo diet that shuns processed foods, legumes and most sugars. So for Thanksgiving, she plans to relax her rules a bit, stick to the side dishes and bring along her own Paleo-friendly pumpkin bars for dessert. “When you start saying you’re diabetic and Paleo and vegetarian, they would just throw their hands up and give up,� said Johnson, who runs a recruiting firm in the Albany, N.Y., region. “I have to accommodate myself.�

In other households, those with dietary restrictions have taken control. Daniel Albaugh, personal trainer in Houston, said his family feasts on Tofurky and stopped bothering with a turkey a few years

ago. He and his fiance are vegans, as are his mother and sister. “We outnumber them now,� said Albaugh, 31, of his stepfather and grandmother. “They don’t mind it.

We gradually stopped accommodating the meat eaters.�

Making special dishes for those with dietary restrictions isn’t just about pacifying the squeaky wheel either. When one family member makes a change to their diet, it can have a ripple effect, particularly during the holidays when food is center stage.

Eddie Garza, a sustainability coordinator for a real estate company in Dallas, said he became a vegan 10 years ago after growing up on the “typical American diet.�

Over the years, he made it a point to educate his family about the health, environmental and ethical reasons for his lifestyle.

And while there will still be a turkey on the table this year, a tofu alternative is now a staple too. In fact, Garza, 36, is bringing four Gardein-brand tofu alternatives to dinner because his relatives always end up eating some.

His mother, Emma Martinez, says she grew up on a meat-centric diet in Mexico. But the retired school nurse has cut down on significantly on meat and other animal products, even when Eddie isn’t at home. She even likes the tofu roast as much as the turkey. “I don’t really see too much of a difference, it’s just a matter of getting used to something,� said Martinez, 64.

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noted magazine editor and proliďŹ c writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lambâ€?—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln ďŹ nally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strifeâ€? and to “heal the wounds of the nation.â€?

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Thanksgiving Traditions In many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious signiďŹ cance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and

friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stufďŹ ng, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate. Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented

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It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate oats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters. Beginning in the mid-20th century and perhaps even earlier, the president of the United States has “pardonedâ€? one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sparing the birds from slaughter and sending them to a farm for retirement. A number of U.S. governors also perform the annual turkey pardoning ritual.

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Mary Hohler, right, Robin Beck, director of nursing at Wesley Healthcare, and Patti McGill, marketing director at Wesley Healthcare, prepare meals for the guests at the Heimach Senior

Center’s Thanksgiving dinner Tuesday.

The administrative staff of Wesley Healthcare provided the homecooked meal to more than 100 guests.

Wesley Healthcare dishes out Thanksgiving meal AUBURN — The administrative staff at Wesley Healthcare started early Tuesday morning to prepare a homecooked meal for guests at the Heimach Senior Activity Center’s annual Thanksgiving dinner.

The staff started at 6 a.m. cooking turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing and cranberry salad.

When Meg Zenk, the director of the Heimach Senior Activity Center, needed someone to cook the meal for Tuesday, she called Patti McGill at

Wesley Healthcare a few weeks ago.

McGill said she didn’t hesitate to sign up Wesley to provide the meal. At first, Wesley planned on using its food service provider, but after hearing people wanted a homecooked meal, the administrative staff decided to make the dinner.

The staff cooked a meal for more than 120 people, with homemade apple and pumpkin pie.

Zenk said each year a community organization or business provides the Thanksgiving meal.

Volunteers at the Heimach Center have made the meal before, and last year the boys basketball team from Lakewood Park Christian School provided the meal.

The meal is free of charge, Zenk said, adding “It’s a blessing for us.”

The Scott and Tanya Hepworth Family, longtime volunteers at the Heimach Center, served the meal to guests.

After the meal, guests had the opportunity to listen to the Fort Wayne Philharmonic String Ensemble and play turkey bingo.

Free Thanksgiving Meal: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Warm a Heart and the Waterloo Community will provide a free meal at the Waterloo Historic Depot. Downtown Waterloo.

Bingo: 6 p.m. Open to the public; food and drinks available. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn.

Youth Movie Night: 6:30 p.m. Ashley Church of God, 101 N. Gonser Avenue, Ashley.

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Kiwanis Club Santa Visit: 11 a.m. Santa Claus will arrive in downtown Garrett at 11 a.m. and the Garrett Fire Department will escort him to the Silver Screen Cinema.

Children should bring Christmas lists, and parents are welcome to take photos during the session. The Kiwanis Club will pass out free treats, and Deb Argast will provide face painting in the theater lobby. Canned food donations and other nonperishable items will be accepted. 111 S. Randolph St., Garrett.

Auburn Community Band: 2 p.m. The Auburn Community Band will perform during the Embassy Theatre’s Festival of the Trees. $7 adults, $3 children; Embassy Theatre, 125 West Jefferson Blvd, Fort Wayne.

Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early birds at 6:30 p.m. Call 908-5575 for more information. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Each of the five scholarships have specific requirements.

Academic Scholarship To qualify for the academic scholarship, a student must have a strong academic record, strong goal statement, work experience and extra-curricular activities.

Key Scholarship The Key Scholarship is granted to a nontraditional student. Students must have no previous undergraduate degree and must have an interruption in education for at least five years.

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In God’s Praise • School plans bazaar fundraiser Dec. 7 AUBURN — The Auburn First United Methodist School of Early Learning will host its seventh annual craft bazaar Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The school is currently accepting vendors looking to rent space. All proceeds benefit the School of Early Learning.

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AUBURN — The Auburn Tri Kappa chapter is providing the opportunity for area students to sign up for several state Tri Kappa scholarships.

The state Tri Kappa organization offers five awards: Academic Scholarship, Key Scholarship, Fine Arts Scholarship, the Twanette Nutter Leming Award and the Beryl Showers Holland Fellowship.

To apply for a state scholarship, students must meet the basic criteria: Students must be enrolled full time at an accredited college, offering a baccalaureate or graduate degree.

Students must be a sophomore, junior, or senior or graduate student at the time of application and be enrolled full-time during the subsequent year.

All students must be U.S. citizens and residents of Indiana from within the jurisdiction of the sponsoring chapter.

WATERLOO — Waterloo Freewill Baptist Church will host The Parsons Sunday, Dec. 8, at 10:45 a.m.

The church is on C.R. 27, between Auburn and U.S. 6.

Alvarado plans bazaar Dec. 7 HAMILTON — The annual Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale at Alvarado Methodist Church is Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The church is at 8045 E. 500S, one mile northeast of Hamilton on S.R. 427 to

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Church hosting bazaar, cookie walk FORT WAYNE — Lifeway Wesleyan Church, 7722 Moeller Road, Fort Wayne, will host the Craft Bazaar and Cookie Walk, Dec. 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Breakfast and lunch will be served. The cookie walk costs $7 per box and benefits the youth’s mission trip in the summer of 2014.

The bazaar will feature homemade crafts and a door prize raffle.

For booth reservations, call Jenna Geissler at 749-0363 or the church at 749-9758.

Garrett churches join for showcase GARRETT — Eight Garrett churches have joined together to present the first “Showcase of Churches” on Sunday, Dec. 8, from 1-4 p.m.

The community is invited to take a Christmas walk through the churches to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

The event is at no charge to the public, but each

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Participating churches are: • First Baptist Church, 1357 S. Randolph St.; • First Church of Christ, 213 E. King St.; • Church at Garrett, 1370 S. Randolph; • Garrett Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Franklin St.; • Garrett United Methodist Church, 110 W. Houston; • St. Joseph Catholic Church, 300 W. Houston St.; • Living Waters Community Church, 711 S. Randolph St.; and • Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1349 S. Randolph St.

Church plans soup kitchen Dec. 14 BUTLER — Seabreeze Ministries, 404 S. Federal St., will host a community soup kitchen from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14.

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The best fly ever invented?

If anyone of lesser stature had made the statement, I would have dismissed it.

But Rick Robbins is the most talented fly fisherman I know. He is as familiar with the trout streams in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado as he is with the classic waters in JAMES H. Pennsylvania, New York PHILLIPS and other eastern locales. He has practiced the art of fly fishing for decades.

He also makes exquisite bamboo fly rods that sell for $2,500 apiece — and every year turns down prospective buyers because he has more orders than he can handle.

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Thus, when Robbins casually mentioned in recent conversation that in his judgment a certain fly “may be the single best trout fly ever invented,” it set my angling antenna quivering. I am always keen to discover a hot, new pattern. Coming from Robbins, the fly had to be stellar.

Of course, naming one fly as the “best” is closely related to a more familiar question encountered occasionally in fishing magazines: “If you had to fish with only one fly, which one would you choose?”

Phrased in this manner, the question allows for too much personal bias to enter into the equation.

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Nearly all of us harbor the false illusion of a magic fly (or lure) that will catch fish after fish, day after day, season after season. It does not exist – and never will.

Various elements come into play in getting a trout to strike – presentation, fly color, fly shape, fly size and so on. If I had to choose one as the most important, it would be presentation. In my opinion, it matters more than pattern or size or color.

Trout are picky about the behavior of the food they eat.

Having said this, I will confess that my fly vest contains more flies than I need, and many whose names I have forgotten.

Robbins “best fly ever” wasn’t one of the usual candidates – an Adams, a Royal Coachman, a Wooly Bugger, a Muddler Minnow, a Pheasant-tail Nymph or a Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear. Nor was it particularly new. But I had never heard another angler mention it.

Robbins’ choice is known as the “Firefly.” It is basically a somewhat elongated beetle pattern with a fluorescent yellow butt like a lightning-bug, It is the invention of Harrison Steeves III, a highly talented, wonderfully creative and unique fly designer. A retired biology professor, he eschews traditional trout-angling biology by ignoring the aquatic insects, minnows and crustaceans that are the daily diet of a fish, the foods that most flies try to imitate.

Instead, Steeves focuses on terrestrial insects, land-dwelling bugs like ants, beetles and grasshoppers that occasionally fall into the water to be preyed

upon by hungry trout.

Steeves also shuns the fur-and-feathers that are the building blocks of traditional patterns. He crafts easy-to-tie patterns mostly from closed-cell foam, needlework braids and tinsels.

In the world of fly-design, there is Steeves – and then there is everyone else.

What separates the Firefly from the also-rans is its efficacy. Catches of 100 or more trout a day on are not uncommon, and these are educated trout brought to net on hard-fished streams, not freshly released, easy-tocatch stockers.

The one drawback involves visibility. As Robbins says, “It can be difficult to detect a strike.”

The fly, generally tied in sizes ranging from 14-19, rides low in the water and under certain conditions can be difficult to see. In his book, Steeves recalled one fellow who “missed 27 strikes in a row.”

This produces a somewhat steep learning curve for beginners. But once you have mastered the art of fishing the fly, the difficulties disappear.

Is it really the “best” trout fly ever invented? I cannot answer that with authority. I can tell you that I am now at my vise tying a bunch of them.

You can tie some for yourself. Order a copy of Steeves’ book from Amazon.com for instructions. The results could amaze you.

JAMES H. PHILLIPS is a columnist for this newspaper.

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Thousands bury 3 militants shot by Israeli troops HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of mourners attended the funerals Wednesday of three suspected Palestinian militants who were killed in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank the day before.

The three were jihadi Salafis, or followers of a militant stream of puritanical Islam, and had planned attacks on Israelis and on the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian self-rule government in the West Bank, said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman.

Lerner said the group had started putting together a terrorist infrastructure, including assembling weapons and explosives. He said the cell was the “first substantial indication” of violent activity by jihadi Salafis in the West Bank.

A Palestinian security official said jihadi Salafis in the West Bank are a cause of concern, but declined to give an estimate on how many there are.

Jihadi Salafis are on the rise in the Gaza Strip, which is run by the Islamic

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militant Hamas. The trend opposes Hamas as too pragmatic because it has observed cease-fires with Israel and has stopped short of imposing Islamic

his funeral procession, in the West Bank village of Yatta south of Hebron, Wednesday.

religious law, or Shariah, in Gaza.

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The three alleged members of the West Bank cell were killed late Tuesday near the city of Hebron.

Lerner said Israeli special forces stopped the car the three were riding in and shot out the tires.

He said the men in the car acted suspiciously and that soldiers opened fire, killing two, while the third escaped on foot. The fugitive was later killed in a hideout several kilometers (miles) away, Lerner said.

Palestinians identified the three killed as Mohammed Nairouh, 29, Mahmoud al-Najjar, 23, and Moussa Makhamreh, 22.

Palestinian security forces previously had attempted to arrest the three, but they escaped, said Nairouh’s brother Obeidallah and al-Najjar’s uncle, Taleb.

Palestinian police have arrested 22 suspected jihadi Salafis in Hebron and the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin in the last three weeks, the

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Obeidallah Nairouh said his brother had served six years in an Israeli prison for Hamas-related activities.

In prison, Mohammed quit Hamas and drifted toward the Salafis, his brother said.

He said his brother was upset with Hamas for not imposing Shariah law in Gaza and spoke frequently about the need to engage in jihad, or holy war.

Despite Nairouh’s apparent falling out with Hamas, the militant group dominated his funeral march in Hebron. Several thousand mourners joined the procession, many of them raising the green flag of Hamas and chanting “revenge, revenge.”

The other two men were buried in the nearby town of Yatta, where several thousand turned up for the funeral procession.

In Yatta, clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces.

Advocates press Obama for fewer deportations WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates are demanding that President Barack Obama use his powers as chief executive to stop deportations of more people among the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally. The president is obliging, but in a bit-by-bit way that doesn’t satisfy groups frustrated by Republicans’ slow-walking of immigration legislation in the House.

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he talks with reporters outside Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop in Washington.

Biden seeks the center in Obama’s sphere of influence WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders for an urgent meeting last month, at the height of a fiscal crisis, Joe Biden wasn’t initially mentioned as a participant. The vice president’s staff quickly followed up with reporters, in case any had been wondering: Biden would be there, too.

On another occasion, Biden boasted at a sandwich shop that Delaware’s subs are superior to those in Chicago and Philadelphia. Then, he let the crowd know he couldn’t linger.

“The president is waiting,” he announced to the room. “I’m having lunch with him today.”

The two moments are emblematic of a vice president who has sought to make himself as central as possible in the White House sphere of influence, without overstepping the vice president’s role in ways he has said had left a terrible aftertaste from the Bush White House.

It’s a delicate balance that has at times paid off for Biden. Obama has turned to his leadership and judgment at critical junctures in his presidency, validating Biden both publicly and privately.

At other times, it’s meant being relegated to lower-profile tasks or conspicuously absent at key moments, such as during the problem-plagued health overhaul rollout.

Constitutionally, the vice president has only as much power as the president cares to share. But as Obama’s two-term deputy, Biden will see his political fortunes forever linked to the president, whose approval ratings are sagging amid the health care troubles. How the public ultimately perceives Obama’s presidency — and Biden’s role in it — will be critical to Biden if he runs for president again in 2016, as he plans to consider.

When Time magazine

asked Biden what he was thankful for this Thanksgiving, Biden said he was grateful to be someone who wakes up in the morning knowing that what he’s about to do really matters.

“I’m thankful for my personal relationship with the president. I guess it’s a funny way to say it, but it is personal,” Biden said, adding that Obama “has entrusted me with some significant responsibilities.”

In a departure from some previous vice presidents, his aides say, Biden has never sought out specific assignments from the president. A particular topic is not what’s important to Biden. What matters is being where the action is, a key player on the issues of utmost importance to the administration, the aides said.

How you get there matters, too. When he first walked through the doors of the White House, Biden was determined to be different from his immediate predecessor.

Dick Cheney’s heavy-handed accumulation of power had drilled a “San Andreas fault” through the Bush administration, Biden said.

“I don’t think the measure is whether or not I accrete the vestiges of power. I think it matters whether or not the president listens to me,” Biden said in January 2009, not long before he was sworn in.

He also said he didn’t want to have a portfolio, consigned to low-priority projects that would underutilize his vast experience built up over decades in the Senate crafting laws and building relationships with world leaders. Nor did he want to lead a task force to reinvent government, Biden said, alluding to an Al Gore initiative that attracted little excitement.

So Biden set his sights on fashioning himself into president’s most influential adviser, aides and friends

say, trying to integrate his staff with Obama’s to maximize the vice president’s footprint without creating a competing power center within the White House. Where Cheney had amassed a large national security team reporting to him, Biden returned some of those positions to the president’s national security staff.

Nearly five years later, it’s not hard to find signs that Obama has relied heavily on Biden and his staff at pivotal moments.

Obama called on Biden to lead his gun control campaign, a top priority at the start of the second term. The push in Congress failed, but the vice president emerged as a prominent voice for a signal liberal cause.

Obama has also turned repeatedly to Biden’s brain trust to fill key roles. In January, Obama tapped longtime Biden aide Tony Blinken to be his own deputy national security adviser.

The White House sent Biden’s top foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, to meet secretly this year with Iranian officials about a possible nuclear deal while Biden aggressively lobbied his former Senate colleagues to hold off on new sanctions.

And on Sunday, Biden will depart for a week in Asia to meet with key leaders in a region where Obama has prominently committed to ramp up America’s influence. Biden’s visit to China, Japan and South Korea comes two months after Obama had to cancel his own Asia trip because of the partial government shutdown, leaving the White House seeking ways to prove it’s still serious about the Asia rebalance.

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be busier here. But there’ve been no lines, and it has been really quiet all morning,” said Fleisher, whose plan was to fly to Pittsburgh.

“Our flight is still on time, but we are checking the app every couple minutes,” she said. “We are nervous, as we are traveling with two 1-year-olds, and any extra time on a plane would be horrible.”

The storm was expected to heap around 6 inches of snow onto parts of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania and up to a foot in a pocket of upstate New York.

On Wednesday, damaging winds gusting up to 60 mph are expected to rip through Boston and other coastal areas.

Safety rules enacted in New York after a spectator was killed in 1997 in an accident involving a windblown balloon could prevent the giant inflatables from taking flight this year at the Macy’s parade.

Flight cancellations piled up at East Coast hubs.

By midday Wednesday, around 250 flights to, from or within the U.S. had

Christmas Parade. The sons of Mike and Sarah Payne of Auburn served as the official lighters of “Frosty.”

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Rain, snow hit East during Thanksgiving travel rush PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A wet and blustery storm along the East Coast made driving hazardous and tangled up hundreds of flights Wednesday in the middle of the Thanksgiving travel frenzy but didn’t cause the all-out gridlock many had feared.

Many travelers marveled at how orderly and anxietyfree the airports were during what is typically one of the busiest days of the year.

One big question lingered in New York: Will high winds ground Snoopy and the other giant cartoon-character balloons at the Macy’s parade on Thanksgiving Day? The storm for the most part unleashed wind-driven rain along the Northeast’s heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor from Richmond, Va., to the tip of Maine.

Emerging from the weather gantlet was Katie Fleisher, who made it by car from Portsmouth, N.H., through rain and fog to Boston’s Logan Airport with little trouble and discovered to her amazement that the panicked, cranky crowds she expected were nonexistent.

“We thought it would

Lighting Frosty the Snowman Parade-goers watch as brothers Charlie and Tucker Payne light “Frosty” Tuesday night after the downtown Auburn

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been canceled, according to the tracking website FlightAware.com. But that was a small fraction of the thousands of planes airborne over the U.S. at any given moment.

Most of the cancellations involved Newark, N.J., Philadelphia and New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

The longest delays affected Philadelphia-bound flights, which were being held at their points of origin for an average of about two hours because of the weather, according to the website.

The Philadelphia area was under a flood watch, with 2 to 3 inches of rain forecast before falling temperatures turn precipitation to snow.

Roads there were snarled. A multi-vehicle crash closed the westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway for a while, and the eastbound lanes were closed temporarily because of flooding.

The storm, which developed in the West over the weekend, has been blamed for at least 11 deaths, five of them in Texas.

Police seek owner of 2 wayward cows

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WATERLOO — The American West has been romanticized for its free-ranging wild horses.

For the last three weeks or so, DeKalb County has become home to a pair of free-ranging … cows.

County police have been chasing down reports of two black angus cows — one of them a steer with horns — in the areas of C.R. 61 between C.R. 4 and C.R. 12 and near the intersection of C.R. 35 and C.R. 12.

The on-the-lamb cows are a potential safety hazard.

The pair have been reported in roadways by motorists, and a run-in with the large animals could seriously damage a car and perhaps injure the occupants, said Capt. Michael Keesler of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department.

“We’ve been looking for the owner of these two cows since the first of November,” Keesler said. “Nobody has come forward.”

Keesler said the cows are skittish.

“They’ll bolt when somebody gets close,” he said.

Keesler responded to one of the calls himself, and

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said he saw the animals in the middle of a field on a day when it was raining too heavily to attempt to get haulers out to the animals.

When he returned the next day, the cows had moo-ved on.

Attempts to contact farmers in the area have led nowhere, and Keesler said

the sheriff’s department wants the owner of the cows to come forward before the animals begin damaging property or become a safety risk to motorists.

Anyone with information regarding the two cows is asked to call the county’s central dispatching center at 333-0702.

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Tracy Boyer, owner of Calicoes and Collectibles, Angola, poses in her shop on Tuesday. Boyer will be taking part in Small Business Saturday to kick

off the holiday shopping season. This year, Boyer is marking her 25th year of offering shopping at Christmastime in downtown Angola.

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but not a lot of the same thing like the bigger stores,” Christianson said.

His store doesn’t have the crowds of shoppers, but his customers will know they are being served by store employees who are very knowledgeable about the

jewelry business and what’s available, he said..

Small businesses also support the local community with donations and personal time devoted to community activities, said Christianson.

Thanksgiving weekend, the official start of the holiday sales season, can

be problematic for small businesses, Boyer reflected.

In her 25 years of experience in retail, shoppers are more likely to flock to the big-box stores for the bargains that small businesses can’t even begin to match, “and then we get busier the closer it gets to Christmas.”

she said.

The small business marketplace, also called SHOP, was supposed to provide employers a new way to shop for coverage.

The website was to make comparison shopping easier while promoting competition and keeping premiums down. The delay was met with frustration.

“It’s disappointing that the online portion of the federal small business marketplace through Healthcare.gov will be delayed, and it’s important it get up and running as soon as possible,” said John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group that supports the health care law.

“However, it doesn’t change the fact that the marketplace can offer the most competitive combination of price and quality for small businesses purchasing health insurance.”

The National Retail Federation, which has been working to ease the law’s requirements for its members, was less generous.

“If the law is so burdensome for the administration to implement, just think how hard it is for small businesses, which are focused on growing a company, hiring new employees and assisting

customers,” said Neil Trautwein, the group’s top health policy official, in a statement.

Small businesses buying coverage will still be eligible for tax credits to bring down the cost, according to the administration. Starting next year, small businesses can claim a credit of up to 50 percent of their contributions to premiums for insurance purchased through the SHOP, and the administration is telling business owners that buying marketplace plans through brokers, agents and insurers will count for that tax credit.

Wednesday’s setback was the latest in a stream of missed deadlines, including a postponement for a Spanish-language sign-up tool announced this week.

The administration also recently pushed back the enrollment deadline for individuals: People who sign up by Dec. 23 can get coverage that starts on Jan. 1. In an earlier delay, businesses with more than 50 workers were given until 2015 to meet the requirement to provide health insurance without paying a penalty. And the deadline date for individuals to avoid penalties for failing to get coverage was pushed back six weeks.

Last week, the administration also announced a schedule change in next year’s open enrollment season. It will start on Nov. 15, 2014, a month later than originally scheduled, and finish on Jan. 15, 2015, about five weeks later than originally scheduled. The midterm congressional elections are Nov. 4, and congressional Republicans accused the administration of shifting the dates for political reasons, to hide any spike in 2015 premiums.

The administration earlier had announced it will allow insurance companies to extend for another year coverage under individual policies that don’t meet new coverage requirements. That move was a response to anger over a wave of more than 4 million policy cancellations.

The series of delays was seized upon by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., chairman of the House Small Business Committee.

“In the midst of the angst and uncertainty that small businesses and Americans feel about Obamacare, today’s news of yet another last-minute delay is just more proof that the law is unworkable and bad for small businesses,” Graves said in a statement.

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES INDIANA ....................................99 CHARLOTTE ........................... 74 CHICAGO..................................99 DETROIT....................................79 L.A. LAKERS............................99 BROOKLYN .............................94 MEMPHIS .............................100 BOSTON....................................93 ORLANDO .............................105 PHILADELPHIA ....................94 MIAMI ..........................................95 CLEVELAND............................84

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES DETROIT.......................................6 BOSTON.......................................1 NASHVILLE.................................4 COLUMBUS ..............................0 MONTREAL.................................3 BUFFALO .....................................1 CAROLINA...................................4 NEW JERSEY ............................3

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BUTLER — The Eastside Blazers got off to a slow start, but once they started hitting from the field, not even the chilly November night could cool them off.

The Blazers shot 61 percent from the field (23-of38), including 10-of-19 from three-point range (53 percent), in a 64-43 win over cross-county rival Garrett Wednesday in the seasonopener for both teams.

“The turkey’s going to taste pretty good tomorrow, but we need to understand this is the first step,” Eastside coach Ryan Abbott said afterwards. “Our goal is to get better every game, and I think we got better tonight from our scrimmage with Dwenger.”

Early in the first quarter, it was all Garrett — namely junior Justin McCoy — as the Railroaders steamed to a 10-2 lead before the game was five minutes old.

McCoy hit two three-pointers, a baseline jumper and two free throws in the early barrage.

By the time the opening period ended, the Blazers had closed the gap to 12-9.

A three by Garrett’s Kordell Kessler and two driving scores by McCoy early in the second pushed the Railroader lead to 19-12 before the Blazers cut loose.

Preston “P.J.” Dean got the Eastside surge going with a bucket at 5:55. Kadis Renier nailed a three — his first of six for the game — then Dean scored, Renier hit another three, and Cade Willard added a bomb of his own for a 25-19 advantage.

Garrett had few chances to

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Eastside’s Preston “P.J.” Dean, guarded by Garrett’s Jared Estep, looks for an opening during Wednesday’s basketball game. Dean had 23 points in Eastside’s 64-43 win.

answer, turning the ball over on four straight possessions in that spree.

After a Dean three from the wing, Garrett’s Matt Singleton finally snapped the nearly five-minute dry spell with two free throws, but the Blazers got four

more points from Dean before the half ended with a 32-23 lead.

The Railroaders got the first points of the third on Karsten Cooper’s jumper, but the Blazers’ lead reached double figures on an Ethan Moughler score from the wing. Austin Baker got into the

act, hitting a three from the key, and two Willard free throws had Eastside ahead 45-30 with a quarter to play.

“In the first six minutes (tonight), we learned a lot about ourselves. We weren’t trusting our offense or trusting each other,” Abbott said.

“Our guys showed so much composure and maturity that once we trusted ourselves on both sides of the ball, we were hard to guard.”

“They hit shots and we didn’t,” Garrett coach John Bodey said afterwards. “We settled on too many threes and we didn’t attack the basket. We just wanted to pass the ball on the perimeter and shoot three-pointers.”

McCoy led all scorers with 25 points. He was held to seven in the second half. Cooper was next highest for Garrett with eight.

Dean led the Blazers with 23 points, Renier had 18 and Singer scored nine.

The Railroaders will have to adjust in time for Saturday’s home game with Prairie Heights.

“They have kids that can drive the ball just like Dean did and they have kids that can shoot the ball just like Renier did,” Bodey said.

“We have to play much better defense or it will be more of the same.”

The Blazers visit DeKalb Saturday.

Eastside 39, Garrett JV 30 Tyler Beard scored 17 points and Conner Dove added eight to lead the Blazers to the victory.

Kamron Yarian scored eight points, Mason Wichman had seven and Drake Lucarelli had six for Garrett.

WINNIPEG ..................................3 N.Y. ISLANDERS .....................2 OTTAWA ........................................6 WASHINGTON .........................4 TAMPA BAY.................................4 PHILADELPHIA .......................2 N.Y. RANGERS .........................5 FLORIDA.......................................2 PITTSBURGH...........................6 TORONTO....................... 5 (SO)

Briefly • Bulls rout Pistons AUBURN HILLS, Mich.

(AP) — Taj Gibson had a career-high 23 points and the Chicago Bulls pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Detroit Pistons 99-79 Wednesday night.

The Pistons stayed close for most of the game, but managed only seven points in the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter. That allowed Chicago to increase their lead to as many as 24 points as they ended a four-game losing streak.

Luol Deng led the Bulls with 27 points. Rodney Stuckey finished with 25 off the bench for Detroit but no one else had more than 13.

Josh Smith had 13 points and 11 rebounds and Andre Drummond had 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons.

Neither team played much defense in the first half, with the Pistons shooting 58.5 percent to Chicago’s 52.4 percent.

Stuckey and Gibson both had 15 points off the bench, and each team also had two starters in double figures by halftime.

Area Events • FRIDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL Eastside at Churubusco, 6 p.m.

Lakeland at Angola, 6 p.m.

West Noble at Fremont, 6 p.m.

Westview at Prairie Heights, 6 p.m.

Woodlan at Garrett, 6 p.m.

Northrop at DeKalb, 6:15 p.m.

WRESTLING Angola, Prairie Heights at Harrison Invitational, 11 a.m.

Bruins down DeKalb

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FORT WAYNE — Fort Wayne Northrop did not let the loss of the Scott twins from last season, Bryson and Brenton, slow them down one bit in Wednesday night’s season opener against DeKalb.

The Bruins’ pressure defense, in both the full-court and half-court, held the Barons to two significant scoring droughts: a five-minute stretch in the second quarter and a six-minute stretch in the third quarter.

Northrop built its lead up to 17 during the latter one and used that to help them win, 59-46.

“It simply came down to the pressure that they applied defensively, and the rebounding,” said DeKalb coach Jon Everingham of Northrop’s 31-15 rebounding advantage. “I can talk until I’m blue in the face to the guys about things that we needed to do to win this basketball game, and we knew those two things

were going to be the keys in this game.”

Northrop (1-0) also forced DeKalb (0-1) into 16 turnovers, but it was more about forcing DeKalb into tough shots and preventing rebounds that caused the Barons problems.

“It’s the quickness and our inability to attack the basket,” Everingham said.

“You can see in the second half we spread the floor a little bit, trying to create just a little more space to get guys to the basket. We ran no offense in the first half. We were trying to pass it laterally instead of attacking the basket. When you play tentatively and pass and you don’t attack, bad things are going to happen.”

DeKalb entered the third quarter trailing 30-21, but Northrop would go on an 8-0 run over the first four-plus minutes to take a 38-21 lead with 3:47 left in the period. Junior JuJuan Starks scored all eight points in the run, throwing down a thunderous dunk

on one bucket and, on the next possession, putting down a follow-up dunk off a rebound to bring the Bruin crowd to their feet.

The Barons would score the next six points on two three-point plays from junior Cole Hartman to bring it within 38-27 at the end of the quarter.

DeKalb would eventually cut the lead down to nine points when Northrop’s 6-foot-7 center, Aaron Thomas, was called for a foul, complained to the ref and received a technical for his fifth personal foul. Hartman drilled all four free throws to bring DeKalb within 40-31 with more than seven minutes left in the game.

After Northrop pushed the lead back up to 15, DeKalb then ripped off a 10-2 run over a 52-second stretch to get within 50-43.

Sophomore Hunter Cone was the catalyst, hitting two 3-pointers to go along with baskets from Hartman and Carson Forrest. But SEE BARONS, PAGE B2

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DeKalb senior Tanner Moore drives in for a lay-up during Wednesday night’s game against Fort Wayne Northrop.

Pacers thrash Charlotte Bobcats, 99-74 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — C.J. Watson needed a night like this.

The sixth-year NBA pro wasn’t knocking down shots and didn’t feel like much of a contributor this season for the Indiana Pacers.

That all changed Wednesday night.

Watson hit five 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and finished with a season-high 18 points to help the Pacers to their fifth straight victory, a 99-74 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.

“I have been struggling and I knew I’d been struggling,” Wilson said. “But I just stayed in the gym, stayed focused and just kept working and stayed confident. I tried to go out there, be aggressive and take what the game gave me.”

Watson had made just 6 of 29 3-pointers this season coming into the game. He was 6 of 8 against the Bobcats.

“I think he was just looking for it and we drew some plays up for him,” Pacers coach Frank

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Indiana Pacers’ C.J. Watson, left, and Charlotte Bobcats’ Ramon Sessions, right, chase a loose ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday.

Vogel said. “One of them was in transition and we got him one early when we got him a corner flare.

Sometimes, when you hit the first shot, it changes your momentum of the game. He’d been struggling

with his shot but he’s kept working.”

Lance Stephenson had 15 points and 10 rebounds and Roy Hibbert added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers. Paul George had 15 points to surpass 3,000 for his career.

Al Jefferson had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Bobcats, who have lost six of their last seven at home.

The NBA’s best defense limited the Bobcats to 31 percent shooting as the Pacers improved to 14-1, the best start in franchise history.

Indiana held Charlotte’s backcourt duo of Kemba Walker and Gerald Henderson to a combined 6 of 32 from the field.

“They keep you from getting into the paint and they have long, strong defenders on the perimeter,” Henderson said. “And then they really protect the basket well with Hibbert. Playing a team like that, if your jump shot is not falling then it’s going to be tough to beat them.”

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Prep Roundup • Prep Swimming Hornet girls, Baron boys win WATERLOO — DeKalb’s boys defeated Angola 116-36 Tuesday at the YMCA of DeKalb County while the Hornet girls got past the Barons 95-75.

The DeKalb boys won all three relays. Brycen Spangler (200- and 500-yard freestyles) and Seth Gillespie (50 and 100 freestyle races) each won two events for the Barons. Freshman Nathan Bourne won the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke for the Hornets in their season opener.

In the girls’ dual, Mackenzie Simmons (50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke) and Sydney Robinson (500 freestyle, 100 butterfly) won two events each for Angola. The Hornets won the 200 medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay.

Nicole Gillespie won the 100 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley and was part of DeKalb’s winning 400 freestyle relay team.

On Saturday, the Hornet girls were fourth in the Goshen Relays with 64 points. The host Redskins won with 152

points. Angola took third-place finishes in the 200 freestyle relay, the 400 medley relay and the 600 freestyle relay.

Girls: Angola 95, DeKalb 75 200 medley relay — 1. AHS (M. Clemens, Simmons, Robinson, Beckwith) 2:11.74, 2. DeKalb (N. Gillespie, Rieke, Vonholten, R. Ramos) 2:16.06, 3. AHS (Olson, McMillen, Watkins, Blue) 2:24.59, 4. DeKalb (High, Blair-Lewis, S. Edmonds, K. Snyder) 2:36.97, 5. AHS (C. Merritt, Schmidt, Raugh, McElroy) 2:40.69, 6. DeKalb (Liberty, McKinly, A. Bainbridge, T. Jones) 3:05.18. 200 freestyle — 1. Robinett (D) 2:22.17, 2. Raugh (A) 2:27.54, 3. Lounds (D) 2:45.1, 4.

Stanley (A) 2:51.36, 5. Frederick (D) 3:07.21, 6. C. Merritt (A) 3:11.1. 200 indiv. medley — 1. N. Gillespie (D) 2:38.8, 2. Watkins (A) 2:47, 3. McMillen (AQ) 2:49.86, 4. Beckwith (A) 2:59.25, 5. Blair-Lewis (D) 3:14.36, 6. A. Bainbridge (D) 3:40.49. 50 freestyle — 1. Simmons (A) 28.27, 2. R. Ramos (D) 30.49, 3. Rieke (D) 32.06, 4. J. Stadtmiller (A) 32.15, 5.

K. Snyder (D) 32.16, 6. Sauer (A) 35.48, 7. Bell (D) 35.64, 8. McKinly (D) 37.92, 9. T. Jones (D) 40.94, 10. Ballard (D) 46.36, 11. Ricketts (D) 46.69.

100 butterfly — 1. Robinson (A) 1:15.8, 2. Beckwith (A) 1:16.93, 3. Vonholten (D) 1:17.26, 4. Watkins (A) 1:22.26, 5. High (D) 1:29.22, 6. S. Edmonds (D) 1:36.97. 100 freestyle — 1. M. Clemens (A) 1:02.72, 2. R. Ramos (D) 1:08.66, 3. Blue (A) 1:09.25, 4. Blair-Lewis (D) 1:13.17, 5.

K. Snyder (D) 1:14.37, 6. McElroy (A) 1:22.19, 7. McKinly (D) 1:29.67, 8. T. Jones (D) 1:38.89. 500 freestyle — 1.

Robinson (A) 6:26.63, 2. Robinett (D) 6:32.76, 3. Raugh (A) 6:42.5, 4. Schmidt (A) 8:07.03, 5. Bell (D) 8:32.78.

200 freestyle relay — 1. Angola (M. Clemens, Beckwith, Watkins, Raugh) 1:58.03, 2. DeKalb (Lounds, Rieke, K. Snyder, Robinett) 2:07.67, 3. Angola (McMillen, Schmidt, Stanley, Simmons) 2:09.63, 4. Angola (Sauer, C. Merritt, Olson, J. Stadtmiller) 2:14.62, 5. DeKalb (Liberty, McKinly, S. Edmonds, A. Bainbridge) 2:37.29, 6. DeKalb (Ricketts, Ballard, Camarena, T. Jones) 2:58.27.

100 backstroke — 1. N. Gillespie (D) 1:11.94, 2. M.

Clemens (A) 1:15.86, 3. Vonholten (D) 1:21.25, 4. Olson (A) 1:21.28, 5. High (D) 1:22.62, 6. Stanley (A) 1:32.75.

100 breaststroke — 1. Simmons (A) 1:24.6, 2. Rieke (D) 1:27.91, 3. Lounds (D) 1:34.38, 4. McMillen (A) 1:37.21, 5. Frederick (D) 1:39.63, 6. J. Stadtmiller (A) 1:40.28.

200 freestyle relay — 1. DeKalb (N. Gillespie, R. Ramos, Vonholten, Robinett) 4:36.15, 2. Angola (Blue, Stanley, J. Stadtmiller, Robinson) 4:54.97, 3. Angola (Sauer, C. Merritt, Schmidt, Olson) 5:15.76, 4. DeKalb (Blair-Lewis, Lounds, Frederick, High) 5:24.05, 5. DeKalb (A. Bainbridge, Liberty, S. Edmonds, Bell) 6:15.11.

Boys: DeKalb 116, Angola 36 200 medley relay — 1. DeKalb (Turner, M. Burris, Goldsmith, S. Gillespie) 1:55.2, 2. Angola (Crody, K. Stadtmiller, Bourne, B. Thompson) 2:12.61, 3. DeKalb (G. Burris, W. Edmonds, Lockwood, S. Kennedy) 2:17.86. 200 freestyle — 1. Spangler (D) 2:10.33, 2. J. Bainbridge (D) 2:16.76, 3. B. Thompson (A) 2:19.74, 4. D. Ramos (D) 2:45.18. 200 individual medley — 1. Bourne (A) 2:15.35, 2.

Turner (D) 2:19.19, 3. Goldsmith (D) 2:28.36, 4. M. Burris (D) 2:57.32. 50 freestyle — 1. S. Gillespie (D) 24.21, 2.

Crody (A) 27.34, 3. G. Burris (D) 28.7, 4. B. Thompson (A) 29.65, 5. Lockwood (D) 30.72, 6. Ridenour (A) 32.03, 7.

S. Kennedy (D) 32.98, 8. Ta. Elkins (D) 40.45, 9. M. Elkins (D) 46.94. 100 butterfly — 1. Goldsmith (D) 1:05.97, 2. W. Edmonds (D) 1:24.81.

100 freestyle — 1. S. Gillespie (D) 54.75, 2. Crody (A) 1:01.69, 3. M. Burris (D) 1:03.08, 4. G. Burris (D) 1:13.69, 5. K. Stadtmiller (A) 1:14.23, 6. S. Kennedy (D) 1:21.34, 7.

Albers (D) 1:50.68. 500 freestyle — 1. Spangler (D) 6:08.64, 2. J. Bainbridge (D) 6:10.31, 3. Lockwood (D) 7:26.63, 4.

K. Stadtmiller (A) 8:04.06. 200 freestyle relay — 1. DeKalb (M. Burris, J. Bainbridge, W. Edmonds, Spangler) 1:52.8, 2.

AHS (Bourne, Ridenour, Crody, B. Thompson) 1:55.32, 3.

DeKalb (Lockwood, G. Burris, Albers, D. Ramos) 2:07.12.

100 backstroke — 1. Turner (D) 1:02.97, 2. Ta. Elkins (D) 1:32.79. 100 breaststroke — 1. Bourne (A) 1:10.01, 2.

W. Edmonds (D) 1:23.33, 3. D. Ramos (D) 1:36.38, 4.

Ta. Elkins (D) 1:52.72. 200 freestyle relay — 1. DeKalb (S. Gillespie, Spangler, Turner, Goldsmith) 3:57.6, 2. DeKalb (Ta. Elkins, S. Kennedy, M. Elkins, Albers) 5:55.84.

BARONS: Gutsy performance by Hunter Cone vs. host Northrop FROM PAGE B1

DeKalb wouldn’t get any closer with Northrop hitting 6 of 8 free throws in the final two minutes.

“We did some nice things in stretches, but when you don’t do the things you need to do to win games, good teams will take advantage of that. And you can see that’s exactly what Northrop did,” Everingham said.

Cole Hartman led the Barons with 25 points, 11 coming in the first quarter.

He also scored eight in the fourth quarter before fouling out.

“He’s a legit player,” Everingham said. “He’s playing hard and he’s full of potential.”

Cone was also in double figures with 13 points, nine coming in the fourth quarter.

Johnson’s crew chief Chad Knaus rises to the top of his class with sixth Sprint Cup championship

NOTEBOOK

Wix Filters to sponsor Newman at RCR Wix Filters is moving its sponsorship dollars from Stewart-Haas Racing to Richard Childress Racing, continuing its relationship with Ryan Newman, who is moving from Stewart-Haas to RCR, where he will replace Jeff Burton as driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet. Wix will be the primary sponsor of the No. 31 for three Cup races as well as another for Brendan Gaughan in the Nationwide Series.

Crew member Curtis Martin Jr. suspended Curtis Martin Jr., a crew member in the Camping World Truck Series, has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body’s substance abuse policy. The violation was discovered on Nov. 12, according to a statement from NASCAR.

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Jimmie Johnson’s sixth Sprint Cup championship moved him to within one title of NASCAR’s all-time leaders, Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt, and it also moved his crew chief, Chad Knaus, to just two behind Dale Inman, who has eight championships — seven with Petty and one with Terry Labonte.

But just as it’s difficult to compare the accomplishments of Johnson’s to Petty’s because they came in different eras of the sport, the jobs performed by Knaus and Inman bear few similarities.

“I’m not even close to [Inman],” Knaus said during the champion’s interview at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “He’s an amazing individual. He actually stopped me [Sunday].

“He’s like, ‘Son, you don’t know what hard work is.’ I said, ‘You’re exactly right, sir. I have no idea.’ ” Knaus pointed out that Inman won titles with different drivers and different teams, and did it in a time when crew chiefs actually were hands-on mechanics and often hauled the race cars to the tracks themselves.

“Yeah, we work hard,” Knaus said of crew chiefs today. “We get headaches.

I work on a computer. That dude was in there cutting with a torch; cutting, building, stuff like that. No matter what we’re able to do with the 48 car, it will never surpass what those guys did.”

Veteran team owner Eddie Wood, who co-owns his family’s No. 21 Ford, has lived through both eras of crew chiefs.

He’s watched his own uncle, Leonard Wood, and Inman, as both went through their Hall of Fame careers. And he’s seen Knaus and his generation at work.

“I wouldn’t want to be a crew chief in either era,” Wood said. “The jobs were different, but in many ways, they’re the same. And the pressure is the same for both of them.”

For today’s crew chief, there’s the added pressure of the spotlight that surrounds a Cup team, Wood said. “If you make a mistake now — or do something good — everybody knows about it within seconds because of TV and Twitter and things like that,” he said.

Wood said that early crew chiefs did far more hands-on work. “Leonard

“Hunter Cone showed a ton of guts (Wednesday night),” Everingham said. “As he continues to heal from an ankle injury, his poise and toughness is amazing as a sophomore. He doesn’t come much tougher than what he’s doing right now.”

Dahlton Daub scored four points, and Tanner Moore and Forrest had two points each to round out the Baron scoring. Hartman led with six rebounds and Daub had five assists and three steals.

Enis Becirevic caused problems in the post all night long for DeKalb, as he led the Bruins with 26 points on 12 of 18 shooting.

Starks had 14 points, Jacoby Claypool had nine points and Dominick Scott four.

Thomas had 11 rebounds and blocked three shots.

Chad Knaus, right, crew chief for 2013 Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, left, is a big part of the success of the No. 48 team. changed tires on pit stops until he was 55, and I think Inman was in his 40s before he stopped,” Wood said. “But I’m also amazed at what Knaus has been able to do. It’s something to win six Cup championships, as competitive as this series is today.”

Wood is not alone in saying that Knaus, who once changed tires, too, early in his career, has risen to the top of his class in the current environment.

His driver is the first to acknowledge that he’s a big part of the No. 48 team’s success. It’s evident, Jimmie Johnson said, when one considers that the other three teams at Hendrick Motorsports, as well as the three at Stewart-Haas Racing, all have the same tools and technology as Johnson and Knaus, but haven’t achieved nearly as much.

“We all have the same equipment,”

Johnson said. “We do develop our own styles as far as a driver, a crew chief, the way we set our cars up. We kind of migrate off into different directions, although they are close together. We do end up with differences in our cars.

That boils down to the crew chief and driver styles.”

Johnson, like many in the sport, appreciates the positive results that come from good chemistry between driver and crew chief.

“Over the years, we’ve seen pairings that work, and I feel fortunate to have that happen with me and Chad,” he said. “There’s something magical there and it works.

“I say this confidently: I would not have the success I’ve had in this sport if it wasn’t for Chad and our relationship together.”

Crew chief shuffle underway among Sprint Cup teams for 2014 Tony Stewart isn’t the only driver getting a new crew chief next season. Stewart-Haas Racing, in addition to pairing Stewart with Chad Johnston, has promoted Daniel Knost from race engineer for Ryan Newman’s No. 39 to crew chief for the No. 41 and incoming driver Kurt Busch. Rodney Childers, who, like Johnston, most recently worked at Michael Waltrip Racing, will be crew chief for Kevin Harvick.

Tony Gibson will return as crew chief for Danica Patrick.

Stewart’s former crew chief, Steve Addington, has moved to the No. 51 Chevrolet at Phoenix Racing. The driver lineup for that car has not been announced.

At Roush Fenway Racing, Mike Kelley, who has been crew chief for the team’s No. 6 Nationwide Series car, will move to the Cup Series and serve as crew chief for Rookie of the Year Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who worked with Kelley when he was in the Nationwide Series.

Chad Norris will take Kelley’s old job at the No. 6 team, where he will work with Trevor Bayne. Scott Graves, who worked with Stenhouse in Cup this year, will return to the

Nationwide Series and work with Chris Buescher. Seth Barber will work with Ryan Reed on the No. 16 Nationwide team.

Jimmy Fennig will remain as Carl Edwards’ crew chief, and Matt Puccia returns to Greg Biffle’s team.

“As with any season, we always sit down at the end of the year and evaluate where we are, what we have and what we think are the best options to put our teams in the best position to compete for wins and championships,” team owner Jack Roush said in a release announcing the changes. “In this case, a reorganization that realigns Ricky and Mike, allows Scott to work with Chris, and reunites Chad with Trevor, made the most sense.

“Scott will help provide Chris with the type of guidance that helped Ricky improve throughout this season and close out the rookie award. Chad will bring veteran leadership and a steady hand to the No. 6 team with Trevor that we feel will be beneficial, and Seth and Ryan have exhibited a strong chemistry that the team is excited to build on in 2014.”

Chase Elliott named Driver of the Year by Georgia Auto Racing Hall of Fame Chase Elliott has been named Driver of the Year by the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame.

Elliott, the 17-year-old son of former Sprint Cup champion Bill Elliott, won a Camping World Truck Series race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. He became the youngest superspeedway winChase Elliott ner in ARCA history with a victory at Pocono Raceway and won numerous Late Model races, including the All American 400 at the Nashville Fairgrounds, which gave him victories in all four of Late Model racing’s major events.

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9 Top-10 finishes for Sprint Rookie of the Year 3 Cup Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Top-10 finishes for Sprint champion Jimmie 24 Cup Johnson, tops among all Top-20 finishes this season for Danica Patrick.

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Top-5 finishes for Greg Biffle, the fewest of any driver who made the 2013 Chase for the Sprint Cup.

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Weekly High Scores Nov. 17-23 SUNDAY NITERS Team Gutter Ratz 943 game Pinseekers 2669 series Individual Ashley Terry 231 game, 640 series Sam Anglin 286 game, 707 series Doug Terry 707 series 1st place Gutter Ratz 33.5-10.5 MONDAY NIGHT SALLIES Team Breakfast House 1150 game, 3243 series Individual Tina Marcelles 213 game Teri Fitzgibbon 537 series 1st place We Five 4-0 MONDAY NITE FOOTBALL LEAGUE Team Sparely Legal 710 game, 2019 series Individual Zula Findt 139 game, 399 series Dean Gillespie 246 game Bob Campbell 663 series 1st place Average Joes 27-13 A Toddler 27-13 BUD CAMPBELL MEM. LEAGUE Team Dependable Metal 1287 game, 3498 series

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Individual Rebecca Godsey 226 game Lisa Terry 584 series Aaron Ackerman 269 game Keith Schmidt 717 series 1st place Team #2 8-0 INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Team Campbell’s by Shadow Bowl 1226 game, 3456 series Individual Brian Nodine 269 game Jim Jarman 710 series 1st place Campbell’s by Shadow Bowl 29-15 BUD & MAXINE CAMPBELL MEMORIAL YOUTH LEAGUE Bantam League Individual Jessica Willavize 112 game, 305 series Christopher Willavize 97 game, 254 series JR/SR LEAGUE Team Team #5 1059 game, 2958 series Individual Melinda Smith 188 game Morgan Campbell 459 series Matthew Sparkman 224 game, 523 series 1st Place Team #4 33-11

Prep Basketball Scores BOYS BASKETBALL Adams Ctrl. 58, Churubusco 56, OT Argos 49, Bremen 46 Barr-Reeve 53, Washington 42 Bloomfield 50, Union (Dugger) 33 Bluffton 56, Eastbrook 52 Carmel 54, Brownsburg 41 Cass 83, N. Miami 41 Clay City 85, S. Vermillion 59 Columbia City 49, Whitko 31 Connersville 51, Union Co. 44 Covington 50, Western Boone 45 Crawford Co. 48, Forest Park 42 Crown Point 78, Andrean 43 Culver 60, Rochester 45 Danville 57, S. Putnam 41 Delphi 61, Clinton Central 38 Eastside 64, Garrett 43 Ev. Central 71, Terre Haute North 50 Ev. North 71, N. Posey 50 Fountain Central 56, Riverton Parke 33 Frankfort 78, Clinton Prairie 44 Franklin Central 36, Martinsville 34 Frankton 83, Eastern (Greentown) 44 Ft. Wayne Concordia 69, Woodlan 56 Ft. Wayne Northrop 59, DeKalb 46 Ft. Wayne Wayne 93, Bellmont 56 Greencastle 62, Crawfordsville 57 Hamilton Hts. 60, Lebanon 37 Huntington North 69, Homestead 53 Indpls Park Tudor 90, University 52 Indpls Pike 67, Indpls N. Central 63 Indpls Scecina 62, Indpls Lutheran 39 Indpls Tech 67, Warren Central 65 Indpls Washington 62, Indpls Arlington 45 Knightstown 70, Tri 18 Kokomo 72, Western 50 Lafayette Jeff 71, Pioneer 41 Logansport 91, Peru 47 Madison 85, Southwestern (Jefferson) 34 Madison-Grant 52, Northwestern 50 Manchester 68, Mississinewa 62, 2OT Marion 102, Indpls Irvington 42 McCutcheon 86, W. Lafayette 51 Monroe Central 63, Northeastern 58 Monrovia 52, Eminence 44 Munster 68, Hammond Gavit 27 N. Judson 67, Knox 44 N. Putnam 56, Southmont 40 Noblesville 74, Indpls Northwest 57 Northridge 73, Elkhart Central 72 Peoria Manual, Ill. 54, Michigan City Marquette 42 Portage 54, Highland 36 Rossville 82, Sheridan 61 Rushville 67, Shelbyville 64, OT S. Bend Adams 73, Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 64 Scottsburg 67, Austin 61 Shenandoah 57, Daleville 31 Southwood 70, Southern Wells 42 Speedway 63, N. Montgomery 24 Sullivan 61, S. Knox 46 Tippecanoe Valley 54, Warsaw 52 Tri-West 72, Cascade 41

Triton 74, Oregon-Davis 30 Triton Central 61, Morristown 52 Union City 64, S. Adams 57 W. Vigo 47, N. Vermillion 46, OT W. Washington 63, Salem 52 Wabash 68, Oak Hill 55 Wes-Del 63, Cambridge City 49 White River Valley 72, Shoals 35 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS S. Bend Clay vs. Glenn, ppd.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Bloomfield 56, Union (Dugger) 29 Covenant Christian 75, S. Putnam 29 Decatur Central 59, Whiteland 54 E. Central 75, Greensburg 36 Greenfield 61, Avon 51 Hagerstown 41, Winchester 30 Hamilton Southeastern 37, Fishers 27 Indpls Ben Davis 60, Indpls Perry Meridian 43 Indpls Chatard 60, Indpls Cathedral 51 Indpls Pike 49, Indpls N. Central 43 Indpls Roncalli 69, Indpls Ritter 41 Indpls Shortridge 64, Indpls Attucks 37 Knightstown 51, Tri 41 Lapel 74, Alexandria 34 Lowell 66, Hanover Central 44 Madison 71, Southwestern (Jeffsn) 41 Monroe Central 62, Northeastern 27 Monrovia 64, Eminence 17 Morgan Twp. 46, Hebron 28 N. Harrison 54, Silver Creek 38 Northridge 46, Elkhart Central 21 Plainfield 57, Greenwood 54, OT Providence 69, S. Central (Harrison) 48 SB Washington 102, Gary West 20 Triton Central 76, Morristown 52 Union (Modoc) 72, Seton Catholic 32 Vincennes Rivet 66, Washington Catholic 17

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 6 8 .429 — Philadelphia 6 10 .375 1 Boston 6 11 .353 1½ Brooklyn 4 11 .267 2½ New York 3 10 .231 2½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 12 3 .800 — Atlanta 8 8 .500 4½ Washington 7 8 .467 5 Charlotte 7 9 .438 5½ Orlando 6 9 .400 6 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 14 1 .933 — Chicago 7 7 .500 6½ Detroit 6 9 .400 8 Cleveland 4 11 .267 10 Milwaukee 2 12 .143 11½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 13 2 .867 — Houston 11 5 .688 2½ Dallas 10 6 .625 3½ Memphis 8 7 .533 5 New Orleans 6 8 .429 6½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 13 2 .867 — Oklahoma City 10 3 .769 2 Denver 8 6 .571 4½ Minnesota 8 9 .471 6 Utah 2 14 .125 11½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 10 5 .667 — Golden State 9 7 .563 1½ L.A. Lakers 8 8 .500 2½ Phoenix 7 7 .500 2½ Sacramento 4 9 .308 5 Tuesday’s Games Washington 116, L.A. Lakers 111 Brooklyn 102, Toronto 100 Orlando 109, Atlanta 92 Golden State 102, New Orleans 101 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 105, Philadelphia 94 Indiana 99, Charlotte 74 L.A. Lakers 99, Brooklyn 94 Memphis 100, Boston 93 Miami 95, Cleveland 84 Chicago 99, Detroit 79 Denver 117, Minnesota 110 Houston 113, Atlanta 84

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Oklahoma City 94, San Antonio 88 Washington 100, Milwaukee 92, OT Dallas 103, Golden State 99 Portland at Phoenix, late New York at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games San Antonio at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Houston, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 8 p.m.

New York at Denver, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at Utah, 9 p.m.

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

NBA Pacers Summary INDIANA (99) George 6-15 2-3 15, West 3-9 5-8 11, Hibbert 4-14 6-7 14, G.Hill 2-10 2-2 7, Stephenson 5-10 5-7 15, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Scola 3-6 2-2 8, Watson 6-9 0-0 18, Copeland 0-3 0-0 0, Mahinmi 0-4 3-3 3, Sloan 2-2 0-0 5, S.Hill 0-0 0-0 0, Butler 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 32-84 25-32 99.

CHARLOTTE (74) Kidd-Gilchrist 2-4 1-1 5, McRoberts 2-4 0-4 4, Jefferson 7-15 2-4 16, Walker 3-17 7-7 15, Henderson 3-15 4-4 10, Taylor 2-7 0-0 4, Adrien 0-1 0-0 0, Zeller 2-7 3-4 7, Sessions 2-5 0-0 4, Tolliver 0-4 0-0 0, Biyombo 1-1 2-4 4, Pargo 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 26-83 19-28 74.

Indiana 22 21 17 39—99 Charlotte 11 27 14 22—74 3-Point Goals—Indiana 10-25 (Watson 6-7, Butler 1-1, Sloan 1-1, George 1-4, G.Hill 1-5, Johnson 0-1, Copeland 0-3, Stephenson 0-3), Charlotte 3-9 (Walker 2-4, Pargo 1-1, Taylor 0-1, McRoberts 0-1, Tolliver 0-2).

Rebounds—Indiana 71 (Stephenson, Hibbert 10), Charlotte 54 (Jefferson 9).

Assists—Indiana 20 (George, G.Hill 4), Charlotte 13 (Walker 3). Total Fouls— Indiana 23, Charlotte 27. Technicals—Indiana delay of game, Charlotte Coach Clifford, Charlotte delay of game. A—15,170 (19,077).

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Boston 25 16 7 2 34 69 52 Tampa Bay 24 15 8 1 31 72 61 Detroit 26 12 7 7 31 69 71 Montreal 25 14 9 2 30 67 52 Toronto 24 14 9 1 29 66 60 Ottawa 25 10 11 4 24 74 81 Florida 26 7 14 5 19 58 86 Buffalo 26 5 20 1 11 45 82 Metropolitan Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 25 15 9 1 31 72 58 NY Rangers 25 13 12 0 26 53 61 Washington 25 12 11 2 26 76 74 Carolina 25 10 10 5 25 53 70 New Jersey 25 9 11 5 23 53 62 Philadelphia 23 10 11 2 22 50 56 Columbus 25 9 13 3 21 62 75 NY Islanders 25 8 14 3 19 70 85 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Chicago 25 17 4 4 38 92 71 St. Louis 23 17 3 3 37 82 50 Colorado 22 17 5 0 34 69 45 Minnesota 25 15 6 4 34 64 58 Nashville 25 13 10 2 28 60 69 Winnipeg 27 12 11 4 28 72 78 Dallas 23 12 9 2 26 67 68 Pacific Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Anaheim 27 17 7 3 37 83 71 San Jose 23 15 3 5 35 79 52 Los Angeles 25 16 6 3 35 67 53 Phoenix 24 14 6 4 32 80 78 Vancouver 26 12 9 5 29 67 68 Calgary 23 8 11 4 20 64 84 Edmonton 25 7 16 2 16 65 89 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Dallas 6, Anaheim 3 Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 6, Toronto 5, SO Montreal 3, Buffalo 1 Carolina 4, New Jersey 3 Winnipeg 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Ottawa 6, Washington 4 Nashville 4, Columbus 0 Detroit 6, Boston 1 Tampa Bay 4, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Rangers 5, Florida 2 Phoenix 3, Minnesota 1 St. Louis at Colorado, late Chicago at Calgary, late Los Angeles at San Jose, late Thursday’s Games Vancouver at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games Winnipeg at Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at San Jose, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Washington, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 3 0 .727 288 230 N.Y. Jets 5 6 0 .455 186 287 Miami 5 6 0 .455 229 245 Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 236 273 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 263 260 Tennessee 5 6 0 .455 250 245 Jacksonville 2 9 0 .182 142 324 Houston 2 9 0 .182 199 289 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 7 4 0 .636 275 206 Pittsburgh 5 6 0 .455 243 256 Baltimore 5 6 0 .455 227 215 Cleveland 4 7 0 .364 203 265 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 9 2 0 .818 429 289 Kansas City 9 2 0 .818 270 179 San Diego 5 6 0 .455 269 260 Oakland 4 7 0 .364 213 269 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 6 5 0 .545 298 279 Philadelphia 6 5 0 .545 276 260 N.Y. Giants 4 7 0 .364 213 280 Washington 3 8 0 .273 252 338 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 9 2 0 .818 305 196 Carolina 8 3 0 .727 258 151 Tampa Bay 3 8 0 .273 211 258 Atlanta 2 9 0 .182 227 309 North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 6 5 0 .545 286 277 Chicago 6 5 0 .545 303 309 Green Bay 5 5 1 .500 284 265 Minnesota 2 8 1 .227 266 346 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 10 1 0 .909 306 179 San Francisco 7 4 0 .636 274 184 Arizona 7 4 0 .636 254 223 St. Louis 5 6 0 .455 266 255 Monday’s Game San Francisco 27, Washington 6 Thursday, Nov. 28 Green Bay at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.

Oakland at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 1 Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

New England at Houston, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Buffalo at Toronto, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Local Sports Briefs • Boys Basketball Cougars fall in opener FORT WAYNE — Central Noble fell 58-48 at Canterbury in the season opener for both squads on Tuesday. Blackhawk held a slim lead throughout, then posted a strong fourth-quarter to wrap up the win.

Sophomore Elijah Andrews led the Cougars with 13 points.

Brock Noe added 12 points and Connor McCoy had eight points and a team-high 10 rebounds.

Also scoring for CN were Zack Robinson (8 points), Kaleb Smith (5) and Jeremy Coney (2).

Girls Swimming EN falls at Wawasee WAWASEE — The East Noble girls lost to 16th-ranked Wawasee 129-57 on Tuesday to bring the Knights’ record to 1-1.

Earning first-place finishes for the Knights were Kari Guthrie in 100-yard breaststroke and Mackenzye Dafforn-Koebler in the 100 freestyle.

Dafforn-Koebler also had a second in the 200 free and the

squad also got second places from Ashley Nichols in the 100 butterfly and Sirahia Ostermeyer in the diving competition. Thirds went to Alyn Clark in the 50 free and Kari Guthrie in the 500 free.

Middle Schools East Noble wins tourney EMMA — East Noble’s eighth-grade boys basketball team used a fourth-quarter rally to defeat Angola 38-24 to claim first place in a tournament at Westview on Saturday.

East Noble started slow in the championship game, trailing by double digits much of the way.

But the squad would outscore Angola 18-4 in the final period to capture the tournament title.

Oakley Kearst led all scorers with 16 points. Andrew McCormick added 12 points for East Noble, with six points for Isaac Brown and four points for Chevy Wright.

East Noble advanced to the title game with a 51-24 victory over Garrett. McCormick led the way with 18 points. Other East Noble scorers were Brown (11 points), Colton Wright (8),

Braun regretful MILWAUKEE (AP) — Ryan Braun ended his silence Wednesday, speaking to the media for the first time since accepting a season-ending, 65-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s anti-drug agreement.

Braun was taking part in a holiday food drive at Miller Park and said he was “deeply remorseful” for his actions but declined to offer specific answers to most questions.

“The goal for me is just being able to move forward,” Braun said. “I wish that I could go back and change things but I don’t have that opportunity to do that, so I’m just going to do everything in my power to move forward.”

Braun was the first star to be suspended as part of the doping scandal surrounding the now-closed Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic in Florida.

The five-time All-Star tested positive for elevated testosterone in October of his 2011 NL MVP season, but his 50-game suspension was overturned when an arbitrator ruled the urine sample was mishandled. All along, Braun maintained his innocence and heavy criticism fell on the urine sample collector, Dino Laurenzi Jr. Braun said he reached out to Laurenzi and the two are moving forward.

“I have not made any payments to him,” Braun said.

“I’ve had some really productive and positive conversations with him. The Laurenzi family was actually gracious and kind enough to have my fiancee Larisa and I over to their house for dinner last night, and we had some really good conversation. We’ve made amends and I think we’re both excited to be able to move forward and put this behind us.”

Garrett Maag (6), Kearst (4) and Drew Devers (4).

The East Noble eighth graders followed with a 46-23 win at Garrett on Monday. Brown led East Noble scorers with 10 points. Also scoring were Chevy Wright (8), Devers (8), Colton Wright (7), McCormick (5), Maag (4) and Kearst (4).

Oak Farm tops Garrett AVILLA — Oak Farm’s seventh-grade boys basketball team overcame a 10-point deficit in the first half to beat Garrett 28-23.

The Falcons trailed the Locomotives 10-0 with 1:31 left in the first half. Ben Axel converted a steal into a three-point play and then Joe Kovets followed with another steal and three-point play. Axel finished the late surge with another basket and free-throw to complete the third three-point play of the quarter and cut the lead to 10-9 at the half.

Axel and Kovets each scored twelve points to lead the Oak Farm Falcons’ scoring. Emerson Dietsch added four points. Evan Russell led the Falcons with seven rebounds and Ridley

Zolman and Reagan Albright each had key steals. The Falcons are now 2-0 on the season.

Club Bowling EN girls, Angola boys lead league standings AUBURN — The East Noble girls bowling team beat Garrett 18-2 to remain undefeated at 5-0 in the Northeast Indiana High School Bowling Conference.

Leading EN was Ashlen Cramer with a 417 series.

DeKalb girls defeated Eastside 19-1 to go 4-1 in conference play.

In boys competition, DeKalb beat East Noble 19-1 in match play. Cory Rhodes had a 327 for East Noble.

Garrett beat Cornerstone 10-1 in match play. Trevor Bonar posted a 290 to lead Cornerstone.

Eastside beat Central Noble 18-2 in match play. Devin Adair shot a 371 for Central Noble.

Angola beat Lakeland 17-3 in match play. Brenden Dickeson had a 356 for Lakeland. Angola leads the boys’ standings in the conference at 5-0.

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SPORTS BRIEFS • No. 3 Wildcats beat EMU LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Aaron Harrison scored 22 points, Willie CauleyStein added 15, and third-ranked Kentucky earned its 500th Rupp Arena win by beating Eastern Michigan 81-63 on Wednesday.

Two days after escaping Cleveland State with a late rally, the Wildcats (6-1) was more methodical in improving to 500-62 lifetime in the 37-year-old home named for legendary coach Adolph Rupp. Leading just 35-32 at halftime, Kentucky steadily built it to double digits with 12:52 left and led by as many as 21 with 2:39 remaining.

Kentucky controlled the glass, outrebounding the Eagles 52-33 including 19 offensive and scoring 23 second-chance points.

On The Air • TODAY C OLLEG E BAS K ETBALL Old Spice Classic Purdue vs. Oklahoma St ate, E S P N2, noon Butler vs. Washington St ate, E S P N2, 2 p.m.

Memphis vs. Siena, E S P N2, 6:3 0 p.m.

LS U vs. Saint Joseph’s, E S P N2, 8:3 0 p.m.

Wooden Legacy Marquette vs. Cal St ate-Fullerton, E S P N2, 4:3 0 p.m.

Creighton vs. Arizona St ate, E S P N2, 11 p.m.

Battle 4 Atlantis Xavier vs. Iowa, E S P N2, 7 p.m.

Tennessee vs. UTE P, N BCS N, 9:3 0 p.m.

N F L FO OTBALL Green Bay vs. Detroit, Fox, 12:3 0 p.m.

Oakland vs. Dallas, CB S, 4:3 0 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, N BC, 8:3 0 p.m.

SO C CE R U E FA Europa, Tottenham vs.

Tromso, Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.

U E FA Europa, Zulte Waregem vs. Wigan, Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

C OLLEG E FO OTBALL Mississippi St ate vs. Mississippi, E S P N, 7:3 0 p.m.

Texas Tech vs. Texas, Fox Sports 1, 7:3 0 p.m.

F R I DAY C OLLEG E FO OTBALL Iowa vs. Nebrask a, ABC, noon S M U vs. Houston, E S P N2, noon Ark ansas vs. LS U, CB S, 2:3 0 p.m.

Florida International vs. Florida Atlantic, Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

Miami vs. Pittsburgh, ABC, 3:3 0 p.m.

Washington St ate vs. Washington, Fox, 3:3 0 p.m.

Oregon St ate vs. Oregon, Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.

South Florida vs. Central Florida, E S P N, 8 p.m.

C OLLEG E BAS K ETBALL Fairfield vs. Providence, Fox Sports 1, 12:3 0 p.m.

Old Spice Classic semifinals, E S P N, 1:3 0 p.m.; and E S P N2, 5:3 0 p.m.

Ark ansas-Little Rock vs.

Oklahoma, F S N, 3 p.m.

Barclays Center Classic, Georgia Tech vs. Mississippi, N BCS N, 4:3 0 p.m.

N IT Season Tip- Off championship, E S P N, 6 p.m.

Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals, N BCS N, 7 p.m.

Florida St ate vs. Florida, E S P N2, 7:3 0 p.m.

Wooden Legacy semifinal, E S P N2, 9:3 0 p.m.

Las Vegas Invit ational, Northwestern vs. UCLA, E S P N2, 11:3 0 p.m.

N H L HO CK EY N.Y. Rangers vs. Boston, N BC, 1 p.m.

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At The Movies • Kendallville FROZEN (PG) — Strand I. Tonight at 7:15, Fri.-Sun. at 2 and 7:15, Mon.-Thurs. at 7:15.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG-13) — Strand II. Tonight at 7, Fri.-Sun. at 2 and 7, Mon.-Thurs. at 7.

Auburn JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (R) — NCG Cinemas.

Fri.-Sun. at 10:35, 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55, Mon.-Thurs. at 10:35, 5:35 and 7:45.

FREE BIRDS (PG) — NCG Cinemas.

Fri.-Thurs. at 11:35 and 1:50.

LAST VEGAS (PG-13) — NCG Cinemas. Fri.-Sun. at 4, 6:40 and 9:25, Mon.-Thurs. at 4 and 6:40.

THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG-13) — NCG Cinemas. Fri.-Thurs. at 11, 4:25 and 7:10.

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG-13) — NCG Cinemas. Fri-Sun. at 1:40 and 9:50, Mon.-Thurs. at 1:40.

DELIVERY MAN (PG-13) — NCG Cinemas. Today-Sun. at 10:15, 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 and 9:55, Mon.-Thurs. at 10:15, 12:35, 2:55, 5:15 and 7:35.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG-13) — NCG Cinemas. Fri.-Sun. at 10:45, 11:45, 2, 3, 5:10, 6:10, 8:20 and 9:20,Mon.-Thurs. at 10:45, 11:45, 2, 3, 5:10 and 6:10.

FROZEN (PG) — NCG Cinemas.

Fri.-Sun. at 11, 12:45, 3:10, 4 and 9, Mon.-Thurs. at 11, 12:45, 3:10 and 4.

FROZEN 3D (PG) — NCG Cinemas.

Fri.-Thurs. at 1:30 and 6:30.

HOMEFRONT R (R) — NCG Cinemas. Fri.-Sun. at 11;15, 1:50, 4:25, 7 and 9:35, Mon.-Thurs. at 11:15, 1:50, 4:25 and 7.

Garrett CATCHING FIRE (PG-13) — Silver Screen. Fri. at 7, Sat. and Sun. at 2 and 7, Mon.-Thurs. at 7.

Fort Wayne 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) — Carmike.

Today through Tues. at 1, 4, 7 and 10.

BLACK NATIVITY (PG) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 12:30, 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10; Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 and 10:05, Fri. and Sat. at 9:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 and 10:05.

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13) — Carmike. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 1:45, 4:45 and 7:45, Fri. and Sat. at 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10:45.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (PG) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 1:25 and 4.

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (R) — Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 1, 4:10, 7:05 and 10:15, Fri. and Sat. at 10:10 a.m., 1, 4:10, 7:05 and 10:15.

DELIVERY MAN (PG-13) — Carmike.

Today, Sun.-Tues. at 12:30, 1:20, 3, 4, 5:30,

6:30, 8 and 9, Fri. and Sat. at 12:30, 1:20, 3, 4, 5:30, 6:30, 8, 9 and 10:30; Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:50, Fri. and Sat. at 9:15 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:40 and 9:50.

ENDER’S GAME (PG-13) — Carmike.

Today, Sun.-Tues. at 12:30, 3, 5:30 and 8:15, Fri. and Sat. at 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:15 and 11.

FREE BIRDS (PG) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 1:10, 3:20, 5:30 and 7:50.

FROZEN (PG) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 1, 1:45, 4, 4:40, 7, 7:30 and 9:35; Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 7:10 and 9:40, Fri. and Sat. at 10 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 7:10 and 9:40.

FROZEN 3D (PG) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 12:30, 3, 5:30 and 8; Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 and 10:10, Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 a.m., 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 and 10:10.

GRAVITY (PG-13) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 12:35, 2:55, 5:10, 7:30 and 10.

HOMEFRONT (R) — Carmike.

Today-Tues. at 1:50, 4:25, 6:55 and 9:25; Coldwater Crossing. Today, Sun.-Tues. at 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 7:10 and 9:40, Fri. and Sat. at 9:20 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:45.

JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (R) — Carmike. Today-Tues. at 6:30 and 9.

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If there were ever a season to learn, via the movies, about crucial periods of history, it’s this one. Last month we were introduced to “12 Years a Slave,” Steve McQueen’s unforgettable look at American slavery, through one man with an incredible story.

And now we have “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” a film about another vital chapter in the world’s history — the struggle against apartheid in South Africa — also through the incredible story of one man, albeit one we know well, and an adored hero of our times.

Cinematically, “Mandela,” directed by Justin Chadwick and based on Mandela’s

Review • autobiography, is not nearly as groundbreaking, nor as powerful, as “12 Years a Slave.” But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t handle its subject with admirable ambition and scope.

It is, though, that ambition and scope that also bogs down the movie a bit. Mandela’s life is portrayed here from his beginnings in a rural village to his election as president in 1994 at age 75. That’s a huge amount of ground to cover, even without the newsreel-like scenes of historical context.

And so, the film can feel too much like a stock, traditional biopic, with little time to delve into any one thing.

The happy news here is Idris Elba’s magnetic performance as Mandela, portraying both the man’s heroic aspects and, at times, his faults: The younger Mandela was rather a playboy, it appears, and the film does not portray his behavior toward his first wife in a favorable light.

Most of all, Elba finds the core of humanity, wisdom, strength and patience that made this one man capable of changing his country’s history. By the end of this 139-minute film, Elba has so inhabited the character that you might be stunned to see photos of the real man, during credits, and realize the extensive physical differences.

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In this 2005 file photo, country music legend Willie Nelson performs at the 20th anniversary Farm Aid concert in Tinley Park, Ill. Nelson’s famous guitar “Trigger,” a Martin N-20 nylon-string

acoustic, is so worn from strumming over the years that there’s a hole in the body. The guitar is among those featured in a book entitled “108 Rock Guitars” by Lisa S. Johnson.

‘108 Rock Star Guitars’ reveals battle-ax beauty NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand songs.

The supersized book “108 Rock Star Guitars” (Glitterati Inc.) demonstrates that six-stringed instruments owned by celebrities and virtuoso sidemen can look as good as they rock.

The 17-year undertaking by photographer Lisa S. Johnson partly benefits the Les Paul Foundation. Paul, the Rock Hall musician-inventor, wrote the foreword before he died.

Not a guitar geek?

Don’t fret.

Whether you define “pickup” as a truck, a dating technique or a guitar part, you can revel in the glitz-and-grit world where these prized possessions reside.

The instruments (one’s named Baby) evoke tender talk from macho musicians. But some of these battle-ax beauties have seen more action than a roller derby queen: They bear the gashes and sweat stains to prove it.

The author, who grew up in a musical family, underscores musicians’ emotional attachment to their instruments.

“I don’t believe any serious musician feels that his instrument is an inanimate object,” Tom Scholz of the group Boston tells Johnson.

Steve Vai, who went solo after playing with Frank Zappa’s band, once described his guitar as “the voice of my heart” in moments of depression, euphoria and “divine love. … I have cried, screamed, prayed and bled through that instrument.”

The book lauds the instrument-makers, called luthiers, and the techs, along with the guitars.

Pawnshop wallflowers blossom into unbridled

stardom. There are kaleidoscopic, patriotic and wildcat patterns; gorgeous maple and mahogany; delicate carvings of leaves and acorns; a stuck-on Chinese cookie fortune; python skin; fake fur; little-girl superheroes.

Some seem to revel in musical masochism: — Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) — blowtorch burns, hammered-on bottle caps.

— Slash (Velvet Revolver, Guns N’ Roses) — cigarette carelessness.

As the story goes, the guitarist was “one with the music” while accidentally inflicting a “charred reminder of rock ‘n’ roll nirvana.”

John Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls) resurrected a broken Stratocaster into a 4-string.

The word “OUCH!” is splayed over its torso; it’s now named Halfcaster.

“I was amazed when I threw the guitar in the air and the top portion split right off,” Rzeznik recalled via email. “I had my guitar tech take it to a luthier in LA who sanded off the rough edges and fixed the electronics.

“I used it on a song called ‘Big Machine’ for a couple years after that.

Surprisingly, the tone didn’t really change; it was a cheap guitar that didn’t sound that great to begin with. Haha!”

The appreciation of instruments as visual art is an age-old concept.

They “may evoke status, identity, or indicate events — sacred or profane,” comments J. Kenneth Moore, the Frederick P. Rose curator in charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

“They become sounding, tangible works of art —

telling many stories of the life and times of those who used them,” he said.

A guitar owned by James J.Y. Young of Styx bears an elaborate carving of Cerberus, ancient mythology’s three-headed Underworld guard dog.

A double-neck owned

by Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen has a quirky folk art feel. Its two-pronged top forms the legs of Nielsen’s upside-down caricature. The figure, named Uncle Dick, displays a thumbs-up, but his expression looks maniacal.

When Mom made young Nils Lofgren a Nehru jacket and bell-bottom pants out of drapes, he proudly stuck leftover fabric on his guitar so it matched his new suit.

The book also features a famous, battered Fender Esquire owned

by Lofgren’s boss, Bruce Springsteen.

Before a Rage Against the Machine performance, Tom Morello scrawled “Arm the Homeless” on his guitar.

The jarring jargon co-exists with Morello’s drawings of happy hippos.

Like most art, it invites interpretation. In Johnson’s view, he’s contrasting the have-nots and the haves (rotund creatures “gobbling their food”).

Willie Nelson’s Trigger, named for movie-cowboy Roy Rogers’ horse, bears dozens of autographs, including Leon Russell, Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Gene Autry, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. Trigger’s top is worn clear through; Nelson chooses to leave it that way.

“The two of them,” notes the book, “continue to mature together.”

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Black Friday is like ‘a retail arms race’ Fremont that will be open for shopping all night long, starting at 10 p.m. today Black Friday, which is still an important day for retailers, is losing its claim as the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. “When does it actually begin? No one really knows any more,� said John Talbott, associate director for the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Thanksgiving used to be one of the few days when retailers remained closed. But based on retail-industry data, shopping may be turning into a new Thanksgiving Day tradition.

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BY SARA ANNE CORRIGAN Evansville Courier & Press AND STAFF REPORTS

EVANSVILLE — In the Black Friday of the not-so-distant past, shoppers lined up for store openings at 6 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving. If a retailer was really pushing the envelope, its stores might open at 5 a.m.

That seems pretty quaint now.

In recent years, retailers have pushed opening hours ever earlier, and this year is no exception.

Retailers in the area and nationwide are experimenting with a variety of approaches, including Thanksgiving Day openings and pre-Thanksgiving special events, in an attempt to maximize holiday sales.

There are even stores, like those at the Outlet Shoppes at

of Thanksgiving Day shoppers climbed dramatically in recent years. In 2009, the survey said, 18.1 million people shopped on Thanksgiving Day. That number has increased every year, hitting 35.4 million last year.

Talbott described Black Friday as “a retail arms race� that has retailers extending their hours and offering big doorbusters in a competition for consumer dollars. “Once one guy gets the weapon, the other guy has to get the same thing.�

The competition is fierce for a couple of reasons, Talbott said.

For one thing, he said, consumers have a set amount of money to spend on holiday shopping. In other words, someone with a gift budget of $500 will spend about the same amount no

matter when the stores open. So retailers may choose to open early in hopes of getting some of those sales before the customer’s wallet runs dry. “It’s effectively a zero-sum game,� Talbott said.

Another factor, he said, has to do with the fact that most major U.S. retailers are public companies. How does this make a difference? First, a bit of background: In the retail industry, a metric called comparable-store sales is considered an important measure of performance. This measures a retailer’s sales only at its stores that have been open for the past 12 months, which eliminates the year-to-year variance caused by store openings and closings.

Black Friday is not an

especially profitable day for retailers, Talbot said, because much of the merchandise is offered at a discount. But it is a day when retailers typically see higher-than-normal sales numbers.

So retailers always want their stores to sell more than they did a year ago. If they don’t have a good sales day on Black Friday, same-store sales for the month may decline. If same-store sales decline, Wall Street will take notice and the retailer’s stock price will likely drop.

Even if the retailer comes back with good results on its next quarterly earnings report, Talbott said, by that time the stock price has already been affected. “Once you take a hit like that, sometimes it’s tough to get it back.�

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‘Tis the holiday season, which officially starts on Black Friday, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.

Many retailers have already been aggressive with pre-Black Friday sales.

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scour advertisements for deals. Also, check online for price comparisons. • Know the store’s return policies. • Determine a budget in advance and stick to it. • Dress comfortably.

Plan to be walking and standing a lot. • Carry some beverages and/or snacks for long waits. • Request gift receipts for purchases to enclose with the gift, in case the receiver wants to return or exchange it. • If gift wrapping is offered at the store, take advantage of it. It can save time. • Become an expert on

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China says it monitored US bomber flights BEIJING (AP) — China acknowledged Wednesday it let two American B-52 bombers fly unhindered through its newly declared air defense zone in the East China Sea despite its earlier threat to take defensive measures against unidentified foreign aircraft.

The U.S. flights, which tested the Chinese zone for the first time since it was declared over the weekend, raised questions about Beijing’s determination to enforce its requirement that foreign aircraft identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions.

China’s lack of any action suggested that it was merely playing out a diplomatic game to establish ownership over the area rather than provoke an international incident.

The flights followed days of angry rhetoric and accusations over Beijing’s move, designed to assert Chinese claims to a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan.

The U.S. and Japan have said they don’t acknowledge the zone, and Taiwan and South Korea, both close to the U.S., also rejected it.

A Chinese Defense Ministry statement said the U.S. planes were detected and monitored as they flew through the area for two hours and 22 minutes. It said all aircraft flying through the zone would be monitored and that “China has the capability to exercise effective control over the relevant airspace.”

Asked repeatedly about the incident at a regularly scheduled briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said it had been handled according to procedures laid out in the Saturday statement but offered no specifics.

“Different situations will be dealt with according to that statement,” Qin said.

The U.S., which has hundreds of military aircraft based in the region, described the flights as a training mission unrelated to China’s announcement of the zone. U.S. officials said the two unarmed B-52 bombers

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took off from their home base in Guam around midday and were in the zone that encompasses the disputed islands for less than an hour before returning to their base, adding the aircraft encountered no problems.

The bomber flights came after State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said China’s move appeared to be an attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea. “This will raise regional tensions and increase the risk of miscalculation, confrontation and accidents,” she told reporters.

Australia, meanwhile, said it called in

the Chinese ambassador to express concern about the sudden zone declaration.

“The timing and the manner of China’s announcement are unhelpful in light of current regional tensions, and will not contribute to regional stability,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.

Beijing’s move fits a pattern of putting teeth behind its territorial claims and is seen as potentially leading to dangerous encounters depending on how vigorously China enforces it — and how cautious it is when

Italian Senate bans Berlusconi ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate on Wednesday expelled three-time ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi from Parliament over his tax fraud conviction, ending his two-decade legislative run for now, but not his political career.

Berlusconi has warned that the unprecedented move would embarrass Italy internationally, and he maintained his defiance even as the Senate voted, addressing a cheering crowd outside of his Roman palazzo a short walk away.

“We are here on a bitter day, a day of mourning for democracy,” Berlusconi declared.

Even though he won’t hold a seat in Parliament for at least six years, the 77-year-old Berlusconi pledged to remain involved in

politics and urged his followers not to despair — noting that other political leaders are not lawmakers. He has relaunched his Forza Italia party and he still commands millions of loyal supporters.

“Also from outside the Parliament, we can continue to fight for our liberty,” he said, citing the founder of the 5 Star Movement, Beppe Grillo, who is not a lawmaker, and Matteo Renzi, the Florence mayor who is a Democratic Party star widely tipped as a future premier candidate.

Supporters, including Berlusconi’s 28-year-old girlfriend, who had a Forza Italia flag wrapped around her shoulders against the cold, were treated to a video montage of Berlusconi’s greatest political hits from a career that

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“For us, he will always be there,” said Marilda Antonello as she held a banner reading “The law is not equal for everyone. Sick justice.”

“He is our only leader. He is the only man who can take Italy forward,” she said.

The Senate vote on whether to remove Berlusconi from the chamber stems from a 2012 law that bans anyone sentenced to more than two years in prison from holding or running for public office for six years.

His lawyers claim the law is unconstitutional and have questioned why the rush to expel him while legal challenges are still pending.

intercepting aircraft from Japan, the U.S. and other countries.

China is sending its sole aircraft carrier to the South China Sea for its first sea trial, alarming the Philippines, which has conflicting claims with Beijing over parts of the region.

Manila said the aircraft carrier’s presence in the sea threatens regional stability.

Chinese reaction to the U.S. bomber flights was predictably angry, with some recalling the 2001 collision between a Chinese fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace off China’s southeastern coast — the kind of accident some fear China’s new policy could make more likely. The Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, was killed in the crash and the U.S. crew forced to make a landing on China’s Hainan island, where they were held for 10 days and repeatedly interrogated before being released.

“Let’s not repeat the humiliation of Wang Wei. Make good preparations to counterattack,” wrote Zheng Daojin, a reporter with the official Xinhua News Agency on his Twitter-like Weibo microblog.

Businessman Li Pengliang said the island dispute had heightened anti-Japanese sentiment, but doubted the chances of an open conflict.

“The public is outraged, but I still believe that the leaders in power are sober minded. They will not act on impulse,” Li said.

Still others criticized the government’s handling of what they termed a battle of psychological pressure and international public opinion.

“China is terrible at telling its side of the story. The silent one is the loser so why don’t they better explain our response to the American bomber flight,” wrote Hu Xijin, editor of the nationalist tabloid Global Times, on his blog.

Ukrainian protesters demand the release of Tymoshenko KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of people on Wednesday kept up their nearly week-long protest against the Ukrainian government’s decision to ditch an agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia, but officials showed no signs of relenting to their demands.

About 5,000 people gathered on Independence Square despite freezing temperatures, listening to music and singing. A couple of thousand demonstrators also rallied earlier in the day outside the Ukrainian

government building to call for the release of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The EU had made the release of Tymoshenko, the political rival of President Viktor Yanukovych, a condition for signing the association agreement at a summit that begins Thursday in Vilnius, Lithuania.

But Yanukovych has made no move to do so and says that Ukraine wants a better deal than the one offered by the EU. He still plans to attend the summit.

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Brazil has been plagued by a series of setbacks including cost overruns, stadium delays, accidents, labor strife and massive street protests in the run-up to the June tournament, once envisioned as a coming out party for South America’s largest nation, which is also scheduled to host the Olympics in 2016.

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The accident could delay delivery of the stadium, which was practically finished before Wednesday’s collapse. FIFA has set a December deadline for all 12 World Cup venues to be ready. The World Cup begins on June 12 with Brazil playing at the Sao Paulo stadium.

Officials said there were no major structural damages to the stadium but declined to say how much the accident may affect the delivery.

“I don’t want to know about FIFA right now, we are worried about the families of the victims,” former Corinthians president Andres Sanchez told a news conference.

Sanchez said two people were confirmed dead and nobody else was injured. A fire department official had said earlier that three people had died.

One of the workers, 42-year-old Fabio Luis Pereira,

was inside a truck that was hit by the metal structure. The other, 44-year-old Ronaldo Oliveira dos Santos, was resting in an area which was supposed to be isolated.

“Unfortunately nobody saw him and he himself knew that he was not supposed to be there,” Sanchez said. “He was napping and unfortunately there wasn’t time for him to get out.”

The accident happened at lunchtime, so not many of the nearly 1,700 employees working on the venue were on site when the crane collapsed on top of the metal structure, causing the deadly domino effect.

“The sound was as loud as a thunderclap or a huge explosion,” said Rodrigo Vessoni, a reporter with sports daily Lance who said he had just walked out of the stadium after interviewing Sanchez.

“There was a lot of running around, a lot of shouting.”

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Fake pregnancy lures man into relationship DEAR ABBY: A friend of mine faked a pregnancy to get a man to stay with her. Once he moved in, she told him she’d had a miscarriage. She even went so far as to name this so-called baby.

He now has the baby’s name tattooed on his arm!

She goes on Facebook and talks about how she misses her “little baby boy,” and counts every month as though it is his birthday.

Every time I read it I get a sick feeling.

I want to tell this man the truth. I know for a FACT she was not pregnant. I’m not sure how to go about this. If I say something, I know I will end up the bad guy. Should I mind my own business or let this man know he’s living with a maniac? — WANTS TO TELL THE TRUTH DEAR WANTS: Your friend may have told this lie

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She is now doing the same thing with my boyfriend of four years. She refused to spend this past Easter with us, including my children, if he was around. I told her that it was her choice and she is always welcome to attend.

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The heart is a fist-sized muscle. It has four chambers, each with walls of muscle.

Each chamber pumps when the muscle of the chamber gets an electrical signal to do so.

When everything is working properly, an electrical ASK signal DOCTOR K. initiates a heartbeat.

This signal from Dr. Anthony comes the heart’s node, Komaroff sinus located in the right atrium (one of the two upper chambers of the heart, the atria).

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the signals as if they were a copper wire. The signal first travels to the atrioventricular (A-V) node, located between the atria.

Then the signal travels through another bundle of cells (called the bundle of His) that is located between the ventricles (the heart’s lower chambers). From there, the signal travels to the muscular walls of the ventricles, which respond to the signal by pumping.

A problem in the sinus node can cause bradycardia.

Or it can result when signals don’t properly pass through the A-V node and bundle of His. Bradycardia also can be a side effect of certain medications.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: Last time I went to the doctor, my heart rate was 55 beats per minute. What could be causing my slow heartbeat? Is it dangerous?

DEAR READER: A normal heart rate at rest is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. A slow heart rate, of less than 60 beats per minute, is called bradycardia.

You have just a slight bradycardia.

Bradycardia can be normal if you’re a well-conditioned athlete. A patient of mine bicycles 50 miles a week and has a resting heart rate of 50. Regular exercise improves the heart’s ability to pump blood efficiently.

As a result, the heart doesn’t need to beat as often to supply the body’s needs.

But sometimes bradycardia is caused by an abnormal heart condition.

To understand what can go wrong, you need to understand how the heart is

so often that she has come to believe it herself. Or, she may be acting this out in order to hang onto the man. While I don’t think she is a maniac, I do think she may be unbalanced.

I agree the man DEAR has a right know.

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*Buy payments figured at 4.99% for 75 months plus tax and title. See dealer for complete details.

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Terry Ayers • Chip Baker Al Ehlinger • Brad Karris • Kim Langham Harold McDougle • Tod Perry Deb Gloor • Rudy Straley

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013

*24 Mo. Ford Lease.

21,000 Miles.

With Approved Credit.

Plus Tax. Security Deposit waived. $2,537 trade or cash due at signing. Ends 12/2/13.

*24 Mo. Ford Lease. 21,000 Miles. With Approved Credit. Plus Tax. Security Deposit waived. $2,530 due at signing. Ends 12/2/13.

*24 Mo. Ford Lease. 21,000 Miles. With Approved Credit. Plus Tax. Security Deposit waived. $2,537 trade or cash due at signing. Ends 12/2/13.