https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/843df5d504b190e37236b93638022029.pdf 02f33ecdf4689f2c10171a33dd2e980c PDF Text Text LOG ONTO WWW.MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM FOR ARCHIVE s�GAMES s�FEATURES s�E-EDITION s�POLLS & MORE INSIDE STORY WEATHER Locals volunteer for Making a Difference Day... Page 3 Sunny. High near 38. Low around 22...Page 2 C_ZZb[fehjšFec[heo"�E^_e SPORTS OBITUARIES Local sports action... Page 6 Donald J. Baird, 74 Madge E. Boggs, 79 David Lee Richards, Sr., 77 50 cents daily WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013 Vol. 63, No. 182 Middleport Council acts on ladder truck purchase Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@civitasmedia.com MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Village Council at its Monday night meeting made arrangements to move forward on the purchase of a new ladder truck for the Middleport Fire Department. Payment for the truck will come from funds generated by a three-mill additional levy for fire protection passed in the Nov. 5 election. Fire Chief Jeff Darst met with Council where details relating to the purchase, the financing, the possible delivery date, the equip- ment to be salvaged from the current ladder truck and its possible sale, were discussed. During the meeting it was proposed that a committee of Darst, Middleport Mayor Mike Gerlach, and financial officer Susan Baker be authorized to proceed with setting up the finances in a way to be best handled by the village, and then to move forward on the purchase. Since delivery will not take place until about a year from now, it was noted by Baker that payments on the new truck, expected to cost about $850,000, would not begin until 2015. The financing is expected to extend over a 15 year period. It was noted that the village which is currently still paying on the pumper truck will have that paid in full in 2016. The payments for that truck are $35,972 paid twice a year. It will be paid off in October 2016. During the meeting Councilman Roger Manley asked for some specific figures relating to employees and village expenditures. He requested information on employee overtime in 2013, a list of current employees, and an accounting on what has been spent from the sewer grant funds as they related to the “forgiven loan” which the village received. Baker explained that several pieces of equipment relating to sewer maintenance and servicing have been purchased with funds from the forgiven loan account but noted that the village does not hold any money in a fund, since it is released only as related purchases are approved. A report showing revenue from Mayor’s Court over the past five months was presented at the meeting. The figures were as follows: June, $5,181 total revenue with the village’s share, $3,819; July $8,219 total revenue with the village’s share of $7,216.31; August, $2,769 total revenue with Honoring our Veterans $2,465.10 village share; September $6,768.50 total revenue, with village share of $5,559.42, and October, $7,623 total revenue with $6,736.562 the village share. Some of the total amount of revenue from Mayor’s Court goes to the county and to the state. A letter of appreciation to Middleport Council and the police department from Terri Hockman, former clerk, was read during the meeting. Attending the meeting were Mayor Gerlach and Baker along with Council members, Rae Moore, Sandy Brown, Roger Manley, Penny Burge, and Craig Wehrung. Two arrested on meth charges Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — Two people have been arrested following the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Pomeroy last night. According to Pomeroy Police Chief Mark Proffitt, Paul K. Flora, 31, of Pomeroy and Arden R. Stewart, 21, of Middleport, were arrested at Flora’s residence on Ebenezer Street in Pomeroy. Both men are facing felony charges of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of methamphetamine. Flora and Stewart are currently in the Middleport Jail awaiting an initial court appearance. Proffitt added that the investigation is continuing and more charges or arrests are possible. The Middleport Police Department and the Pomeroy Fire Department assisted on the scene. Sarah Hawley | Daily Sentinel Students at Meigs Primary School held an assembly on Monday morning to honor veterans on Veteran’s Day. Students were encouraged to invite veterans to attended the event. Feeney Bennett Post 128 of Middleport conducted the service with the posting of the colors prior to the singing of the Star Spangled Banner by the students. Dewey Smith from Feeney Bennett Post 128 was the speaker for the event, talking to the students about veterans and taking part in service to the country. The names of the Veterans in attendance were read with each veteran and the student who invited them standing as the names were called. Following the assembly, students lined the hall to create a “Walk of Honor” for the veterans to walk through. Veterans and the students representing them were then treated to cookies and punch. Sheriff sales help to collect delinquent taxes Staff Report tdsnews@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — A delinquent property tax sale resulted in the collection of approximately $60,000 in back taxes earlier this month. On Nov. 1, property belonging to Home Creek Enterprises was sold at a Sheriff ’s sale due to the delinquent taxes. The property located in the area of Ohio 7 and Hiland Road, sold for $205,000. As a result of the sale, the county collected approximately $60,000 in delinquent property taxes. The majority of this delinquency was owed to Meigs Local Schools. “I am delighted by the results. Although I never enjoy having to foreclose on someone’s property, I look forward to seeing what the property will be used for in the future. Meigs Local Schools will definitely benefit from our actions,” said Meigs County Prosecutor Colleen Williams. Those who are delinquent in real estate taxes can contact Meigs County Treasurer Peggy Yost at (740) 992-2004 to set up a payment plan prior to a foreclosure action being filed. Medicare Check-up Day comes to Meigs County Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — The free “Medicare Check-up” event came to Meigs County Tuesday with numerous residents turning out at the Senior Citizens Center for assistance in understanding Medicare changes and determining the right coverage for them in 2014. The event was handled by representatives of the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP). It coincided with Medicare’s Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 annual enrollment period. Topics of discussion at the event included the recent changes to Medicare such as the deductibles, co-pay and coinsurance amounts, along with available financial assistance. The emphasis was on helping seniors understand the various options for coverage available and determine what ones were right for them. As pointed out by Mary Taylor, Department of Insurance Director, there are many different types of Medicare coverage and it can be complicated and confusing and the role of the OSHIIP representatives is to explain and assist in identifying the coverage that best meets the individual’s need. For those who missed Medicare Check-up day, a toolkit is available at www.insurance. ohio.gov. The Meigs County Council on Aging also has on staff a person who can assist seniors with information on changes to Medicare. OSHIIP representatives advise seniors on Medicare changes and costs. Charlene Hoeflich | Daily Sentinel �Page 2 s The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Meigs County Church Calendar Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Meigs County Local Briefs Revival POMEROY — A revival will be held at Calvary Pilgrim Chapel, State Route 143, from Nov. 12-17. Services will be at 7 p.m. nightly, except for Sunday which will be at 6:30 p.m. Rev. Roger Hatfield evangelist. Singing by The Daltons on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Pastor Rev. Charles McKenzie, 992-2952. Long Bottom fall dinner LONG BOTTOM — The fall dinner of the Long Bottom Community Association will be held Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Long Bottom Community Building. Serving will begin at 5 p.m. The menu will include meatloaf and pulled pork, along with a variety of side dishes, desserts and beverages. The health department cannot accept Ohio Medicaid or Managed Medicaid companies Molina or United Healthcare Community Plan for Flu Shots for those aged 19-64 years. The company supplying us the vaccine, VaxCare, cannot bill Medicaid. The Ohio Department of Health is not providing flu shots for this age group during the 2013-2014 flu season. Operation Christmas Child Immunization/Flu Shot Clinic COOLVILLE — Operation Christmas Child will be POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct a childhood/adolescent immuniza- in operation at the Coolville United Methodist church, Community Dinner POMEROY — A free community dinner of soup and tion clinic and flu shot clinic from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 26460 W. Main Street, Coolville, from Nov. 18-25 . Hours to receive contributions will be varied, Nov. sandwiches will be held Thursday, November 14, with p.m. on Tuesday at the health department. High dose 18 , 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Nov, 19, Nov. 21 and Nov. 24 flu vaccines are also available for those age 65 and serving from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, older. Please bring children’s shot records. Also, bring 6 to 8 p.m.; Nov. 20, 4 to 6 p.m; Nov. 20, 4 to 6 p.m; Pomeroy. The public is invited. medical cards/insurance for flu and pneumonia vac- Nov. 22, 2 to 4 p.m; Nov. 23, 10 and 2 p.m. and Nov. 25, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. cines otherwise there will be a fee associated. Thanksgiving Community and Youth Outreach HEMLOCK GROVE — Hemlock Grove Christian Church will host a free Thanksgiving dinner following the morning service on Sunday, Nov. 17. Church service will start at 10 a.m. and will be lead by the youth. The service will include a puppet show, singing, and special speaker Andrya McDonald, Christian Education Director at RipPOMEROY — The Gallia-Jackson- to help meet the needs of homeless Ford F-150 and Runner-up for Class ley Marantha Church. Meigs-Vinton Continuum of Care children and families in Meigs Coun- 2 was Brad and Krinda Bowman with held their sixth annual “Driving out ty and our neighboring counties. their 2007 Ford Mustang GT Meigs Co-operative Parish Homelessness” fundraiser at the Those needs include food, clothing, Class 3 Motorcycle category: Ranevents/service projects Kountry Resort Campground near and other living necessities. Also in- dy Gillespie, Best of Show with his POMEROY — The Meigs Co-operative Parish hosts a Pomeroy recently. cluding weresome educational which 1978 Triumph Bonneville variety of events and service projects available throughLocal businesses, entertainers, car cannot bet through other resources. Winners in the Top 20 category: out the week at the Mulberry Community Center. Some show registrants and individuals all The car show winners were: Class Brad and Krinda Bowman with their of those are as follows, contributed to make the fund-raiser 1 up to 1989 – Richard Johnson, Best 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo SS, Greg Meals at the Mulberry Community Center — 11:30 a success. of Show with his 1927 Star (Durant) Stamper with his 1972 VW Super a.m.-1 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. The event raised $2,107.70 Sedan and Runner-up for Class 1 was Parish Shop — 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday-Friday and 9 through activities which including Walter (Buddy) Ellis with his 1942 Beetle and James Will with his 1977 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday. Ford F-250 High Boy. a car show, Chinese auction, lottery Plymouth Buness Coup Comfort Club — 9 a.m.-noon, Wednesday. Numerous volunteers assisted in Class 2- 1990 and up – Mark Sinticket tree, concessions, and 50/50 Food Pantry — 9-11 a.m., Tuesday-Friday. drawing. The money raised is used natt, Best of Show with his 2001 staging the fund raiser. Celebrate Recovery — 7-9 p.m., Monday. Shape-Up — 9-11 a.m. and 5-7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Zumba — 6:30 p.m., Tuesday. Driving Out Homelessness fund drive a success Search to start for WVU interim president Meigs County Community Calendar Thursday, Nov. 14 POMEROY — Alpha Iota Masters, 11:30 a.m. meeting at the New Beginnings Methodist Church. Hostesses, Vera Crow and Julie Houston. POMEROY — The Meigs County American Cancer Society Relay for Life Planning Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the conference room of the Meigs County Health Department. Anyone interested in helping with the 2014 event, which will take place on June 13-14 at the fairgrounds, is welcome to attend. For more information, contact Courtney Midkiff at 740-992-6626 Ext. 24. CHESTER — Shade River Lodge 453 will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the hall. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. Friday, Nov. 15 POMEROY — The Pomeroy High School Class of 1959 will be having their 3rd Friday lunch at noon at Fox Pizza. Saturday, Nov. 16 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange #878 will hold their fun night and potluck supper with potluck at 6:30 p.m. followed by fun night. Monday, Nov. 18 POMEROY — There will be a free Look Good Feel Better session from 1-3 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. Ladies currently undergoing cancer treatment can register by calling the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345. Friday, Nov. 29 LEBANON TWP. — Lebanon Township will be holding their monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at the Township Building. Birthdays LONG BOTTOM — Ernest Griffin will observe his 96th birthday on Nov. 15. Cards may be sent to him at 36606 P. O. Road, Long Bottom, Ohio 45743. PORTLAND — Adaline Summers will celebrate her 98th birthday on Nov. 16. Cards may be sent to her at 56345 State Route 124, Portland, Ohio 45770. Ohio Valley Forecast Free Zip ID Case November 12 – December 24: www.mydailysentinel.com 60464022 Receive a Zip ID Case in select colors with your purchase of a $100 gift certificate! 418 Silver Bridge Plaza Gallipolis, OH accomplished,” Dailey said. “Because of Jim’s leading, I think it will make us better and bigger as far as a unified group, as far as succeeding.” The university is in the midst of nearly $1 billion in construction projects on campus, its university health system and student housing. In a statement released to the WVU community on Monday, Clements said the projects “are building a better future for the generations that follow us.” Most financing for current projects will come from bond issues and donations. The vision includes new buildings for engineering research, agriculture sciences and sports sciences, an addition to the law school, a new art museum, a new greenhouse and 200 added parking spots on the Evansdale campus. WVU Hospitals is adding 114 beds at Ruby Memorial Hospital and WVU Healthcare is building an outpatient center near Morgantown. Last month the university broke ground on a new baseball stadium. A public-private housing complex that will cater to nontraditional students is expected to open next fall. WVU also is planning a housing and retail complex in Morgantown’s Sunnyside section that will cater to students of a more traditional age. Enrollment at the Morgantown campus hit a record 29,707 students in fall 2012. This year’s enrollment of 1,802 international students is a record and is up 10.5 percent from last year. In June 2012, Clements and WVU Foundation officials announced the university’s most ambitious fundraising campaign. With two years left in the “State of Minds” campaign, donations have reached 91 percent of the goal of $750 million. WVU also announced last year that it had used up $35 million in available matching research funds allocated by the state in 2008. WVU’s research program has resulted in 160 separate endowments resulting in $70 million in combined funds. The money is invested with the interest used to fund various programs and initiatives set up by donors. In 2010, Clements hired athletic director Oliver Luck and together they ushered in the university’s affiliation from the Big East Conference to the Big 12 last year. Next April, the university will undergo a reaccreditation process by a national accreditation body. WVU’s last accreditation was in 2003-04. When an accreditation team reviewed the school in 1994, one of the criticisms was that leadership turned over too frequently. The next president will be WVU’s third since David Hardesty left in September 2007 after 12 years. Garrison spent less than a year in the job, resigning in 2008 in the wake of a scandal involving an unearned master’s degree awarded to Gov. Joe Manchin’s daughter. Clements said he wasn’t looking to leave WVU, but when Clemson offered him a job, “this is an opportunity that we couldn’t pass up.” Dailey understands the move. Clements’ teenage daughter, Grace, the youngest of his four children, was born with apraxia, a neurological speech disorder. Clements’ wife, Beth, has several relatives near Clemson. “With his wife having significant family down there, it really will help them in terms of their caregiving of their very special child,” Dailey said. “That weighs a great deal on what’s important to them.” Bishops elect Louisville archbishop new president Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 38. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 22. Light southwest wind. Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 49. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 30. Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. 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WVU Board of Governors Chairman Jim Dailey said procedures are in place to form a search committee for an interim president “in the immediate near future.” When Mike Garrison announced his resignation as WVU’s president in June 2008, an interim president was named a month later and served until Clements took over in June 2009. Clements was named Clemson University’s 15th president on Monday. “With every little setback, you obviously move forward,” Dailey said. In its next president, the board will undoubtedly look for someone to advance its goals the same way Clements did. Dailey said Clements understood how a public land-grant university changes lives “and he has brought people together to make that mission a very powerful one on our campus.” He also called him a “natural born leader.” “Since the hiring of Jim Clements in 2009, West Virginia University has experienced unprecedented success in many areas — private giving, enrollment, academics, research funding, health care, community service, economic development and so much more,” Dailey said. During Clements’ tenure, the board endorsed the university’s vision for the year 2020 that included strengthening academic programs and expanding student diversity. “For the first time in a long time, everybody is on the same page and striving to accomplish what needs to be BALTIMORE (AP) — The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on Tuesday elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Kentucky to be their new president as they grapple with changing priorities under Pope Francis. Kurtz, who leads the Archdiocese of Louisville, won just over half the votes in a field of 10 candidates during a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds New York Cardinal Timo- thy Dolan, who is ending his three-year term. The new vice president is Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas. The conference president is the main spokesman on national issues for the Catholic Church in the United States and acts as a representative of the American church to the Vatican and the pope. Kurtz, 67, takes on the role at a time when the Local Stocks AEP (NYSE) — 47.37 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 24.92 Ashland Inc. 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Member SIPC. bishops are struggling with what direction they should take in the new pontificate. Francis, elected last March, has said he wants pastors not ideologues, and an emphasis on mercy over divisive social issues. American bishops have made a priority of fighting same-sex marriage and abortion, saying they have been forced to do so in a society they consider hostile to faith. The bishops have vigorously fought the Obama administration over a requirement that employers provide health insurance that covers artificial contraceptives. Dozens of Catholic charities and dioceses, along with evangelical colleges and businesses, are suing for a broader religious exemption from the rule. The issue is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. In a news conference after the election, Kurtz underscored the bishops’ commitment “to serve the voiceless and vulnerable,” including advocating for immigrants and the poor. But he also said they would continue to fight abortion and wage their religious freedom campaign. He noted many of the key legislative fights are happening on a state level, where bishops have Catho- lic conferences to work on public policy. “The conference responds to the challenges that are presented to us,” Kurtz said. For the last three years, Kurtz has served as vice president of the bishops’ conference. It is customary for the vice president to move on to the top job. A Pennsylvania native, the archbishop earned a master’s degree in divinity and another in social work, worked for more than two decades in the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., before becoming bishop of Knoxville, Tenn. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to lead Louisville in 2007. The Louisville archdiocese serves 200,000 Catholics. DiNardo, whose archdiocese serves 1.3 million Catholics, was elevated to cardinal by Benedict in 2006. He has been especially active on immigration reform. American bishops will continue to meet in Baltimore through Thursday, but only in private. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., said he anticipated a change in tone under Francis but no change in substance. He said the pope’s call for compassion must be understood “in its entirety.” O O O �Wednesday, November 13, 2013 The Daily Sentinel s Page 3 www.mydailysentinel.com Locals volunteer for Make a Difference Day Spanish pianist could face jail for practicing MADRID (AP) — To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation. The woman has taken her neighbors in the apartment below — a 27-year-old pianist and her parents — to court. Now prosecutors want to send all three to jail for over seven years on charges of psychological damage and noise pollution. In a country known for its exuberant noisiness, the case has raised eyebrows. Neighbors often complain about street and bar noise in Spain, but prosecutors seeking jail time for someone practicing the piano is unheard of — especially since that musician is now a professional concert pianist. At the trial in the northeastern city of Gerona, Sonia Bosom claimed she suffered noise pollution from 2003 to 2007 due to the five-days-a-week, eight-hour practice sessions of Laia Martin, who lived below her in the northeastern town of Puigcerda. Martin, 27, denies that she played at home that often, saying she took regular classes in other towns. She claims she mostly practiced at home on the weekends. On Monday, the first day of the trial, the El Pais newspaper reported that Bosom told the court she now hates pianos so much she can’t even stand to see them in a film. The prosecution claims that years of hearing constant playing has caused Bosom “psychological injury.” Medical reports showed she suffered from a variety of problems, including insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks and gynecological problems. Bosom and her family moved in 2007 and she says she has had to take time off work, reportedly due to her problems. The prosecutor said tests by local authorities found that the sound levels made by the piano were repeatedly up to 10 decibels higher than the 30-decibel limit laid down for musical instruments in the town. City authorities asked the family several times to either stop the piano playing or soundproof the room. The family told the court they carried out soundproofing work twice but the complaints continued, the newspaper reported. Nuria Blanes, an environmental scientist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said noise around 40 decibels “is not very much.” A normal conversation produces 55-60 decibels, with MARIETTA — Two graduates of Eastern High School now attending Marietta College were among the volunteers at this fall’s annual “Make a Difference Day” at Marietta College. They were Breea Buckley (Class of 2014) of Reedsville, a graduate of Eastern Local High School, majoring in Biology, and Kyle Connery (Class of 2015) of Coolville a graduate of Eastern Local High School who is is majoring in Health Science. Make a Difference Day was coordinated by the McDonough Center’s Office of Civic Engagement, and organizers said the volunteers worked at one of 20 service sites in the Mid-Ohio Valley on Oct. 26. Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a fouryear liberal arts college. noise in a bar reaching 65-70 decibels and an airplane in flight producing 110-120 decibels, she said. However, she also noted that some studies have established links to health problems such as sleep disturbances and cardiovascular disease if someone faces a constant noise level of over 40 decibels during the night. “The norm is for 30 decibels as a nighttime limit inside a house, but some authorities are widening it to daytime, which is surprising,” said Fernando Simon Yarza, a constitutional law professor at Navarra University. He said that may be due to the high fines that courts have forced some towns to pay for not taking action against excessive noise levels. “Protection against noise and environmental quality is considered a human right,” he told The Associated Press. The prosecutors have asked for all three defendants to be sentenced to six years in jail for noise pollution and an additional one-and-a-half years for psychological damage. They have also demanded that all three be prohibited from playing the piano professionally for four years. A Catalonia Justice Tribunal spokeswoman said the trial will end Nov. 15 with the verdict issued at a later date. GOP ready to block key Obama court nominee Tons of aid in Philippines, but not where needed Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said relief goods were getting into the city, and the supply should increase in coming days now that the airport and a bridge to the island were open. “We are not going to leave one person behind — one living person behind,” he said. “We will help, no matter how difficult, no matter how inaccessible.” Doctors in Tacloban said they were desperate for medicine. Beside the ruined airport tower, at a small makeshift clinic with shattered windows, army and air force medics said they had treated around 1,000 people for cuts, bruises, lacerations and deep wounds. “It’s overwhelming,” said Air Force Capt. Antonio Tamayo. “We need more medicine. We cannot give anti-tetanus vaccine shots because we have none.” The longer survivors go without access to clean water, food, shelter and medical help, the greater chance of disease breaking out and people dying as a result of wounds sustained in the storm. The official death toll from the disaster rose to 1,774 on Tuesday, though authorities have said they expect that to rise markedly. They fear estimates of 10,000 dead are accurate and might be low. More than 9 million people have been affected across a large swath of the country, many of them made homeless. Tacloban, a city of about 220,000 people on Leyte island, bore the full force of the winds and the tsunamilike storm surges. Most of the city is in ruins, a tangled mess of destroyed houses, cars and trees. Malls, garages and shops have all been stripped of food and water by hungry residents. The loss of life appears to be concentrated in Tacloban and surrounding areas, including a portion of Samar island that is separated from Leyte island by a strait. It is possible that other devastated areas are so isolated they have not yet been reached. In Cebu, to the southwest, the Philippine air force has been sending three C-130s back and forth to Tacloban from dawn to dusk, and had delivered 400,000 pounds of relief supplies by Tuesday, Lt. Col. Marciano Jesus Guevara said. A lack of electricity in Tacloban means planes can’t land there at night. Guevara said the C-130s have transported nearly 3,000 civilians out of the disaster zone, and that the biggest problem in Tacloban is a lack of clean drinking water. “Water is life,” he said. “If you have water with no food, you’ll survive.” There is also growing concern about recovering corpses that are still rotting throughout the disaster zone. “It really breaks your heart when you see them,” said Maj. Gen. Romeo Poquiz, commander of the 2nd Air Division. “We’re limited with manpower, the expertise, as well as the trucks that have to transport them to different areas for identification,” Poquiz said. “Do we do a mass burial, because we can’t identify them anymore? If we do a mass burial, where do you place them?” Most Tacloban residents spent the night under pouring rain wherever they could — in the ruins of destroyed houses, in the open along roadsides and shredded trees. Some slept under tents brought in by the government or relief groups. “There is no help coming in. They know this is a tragedy. They know our needs are urgent. Where is the shelter?” said Aristone Balute’s granddaughter, Mylene, who was also at the airport. “We are confused. We don’t know who is in charge.” Damaged roads and other infrastructure are complicating the relief efforts. Government officials and police and army officers are in many cases among the victims themselves, hampering coordination. The typhoon destroyed military buildings that housed 1,000 soldiers in Leyte province. There were other distractions, including a jailbreak in Tacloban. Army Brig. Gen. Virgilio Espineli, the deputy regional military commander, said Tuesday he wasn’t sure how many of the 600 inmates fled. At Matnog, the port for ferries leaving to Samar island, dozens of trucks piled high with aid were waiting to cross. In the capital, Manila, soldiers tossed pallets of water, medical supplies and foods into C-130 planes bound for the disaster area. The United Nations said it had released $25 million in emergency funds to pay for emergency shelter materials and household items, and for assistance with the provision of emergency health services, safe water supplies and sanitation facilities. It’s launching an appeal for more aid. The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is headed toward the region with massive amounts of water and food, but the Pentagon said it won’t arrive until Thursday. The U.S. also said it is providing $20 million in immediate aid. Aid totaling tens of millions of dollars has been pledged by many other countries, including Japan, Australia and Britain, which is sending a Royal Navy vessel with aid. For now, relief has come to a lucky few, including Joselito Caimoy, a 42-year-old truck driver. He was able to get his wife, son and 3-yearold daughter on a flight out of Tacloban. They embraced in a tearful goodbye, but Caimoy stayed behind to guard what’s left of his home and property. “People are just scavenging in the streets. People are asking food from relatives, friends. The devastation is too much … the malls, the grocery stories have all been looted, “he said. “They’re empty. People are hungry. And they (the authorities) cannot control the people.” The dead, decomposing and stinking, litter the streets or remain trapped in the debris. The storm also killed eight people in southern China and inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to farming and fishing industries, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, but Haiyan was an especially large catastrophe. Its winds were among the strongest ever recorded, and it may have killed more people than the previous deadliest Philippine storm, Thelma, in which about 5,100 people died in the central Philippines in 1991. Paid for by Larry C. Smith crats have enough votes to do so, with some senior lawmakers warning that the change would boomerang against them should the GOP recapture the Senate majority and the White House. The D.C. circuit court is generally considered second in clout only to the Supreme Court. It rules on White House and federal agency actions, and some of its judges customarily have been elevated to Supreme Court justices. Republicans have accused Obama of trying to tilt the court’s balance in his direction to protect the fate of his administration’s policies. They say the D.C. circuit has a lighter caseload than other districts, and have proposed legislation eliminating one of its vacant judgeships and moving the two others to busier circuits. Democrats say the GOP objections are purely political and say Republicans did not object to filling D.C. circuit vacancies when George W. Bush was president. They cite other statistics to argue that the D.C. circuit’s workload has changed little in recent years. Pillard worked twice in the administration of President Bill Clinton — at the solicitor general’s office, which handles Supreme Court cases, and later in the Justice Department. She’d previously worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two weeks ago, Republicans successfully blocked a vote on Patricia Millett, a private attorney who served in both GOP and Democratic administrations, to the same court. Another Obama nominee for the D.C. circuit, U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins, is expected to be considered by the Senate in coming days and seems likely to be blocked. Do we have your attention now? Advertise your business in this space, or bigger Call us at: The Daily Sentinel 740.992.2155 Larry C. Smith Thanks the People of Sutton Township for your Support Thank You! 60464549 TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — The day after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippine coast, a team of 15 doctors and logistics experts was ready to fly here to the worst-hit city to help. On Tuesday, five days into what could be the country’s deadliest disaster, they were still waiting to leave. Aid is coming to Tacloban: medical supplies, pallets of water and food piled on trucks, planes and ferries, sent by the Philippine government and countries around the world. But the scale of the disaster and challenges of delivering the assistance means few in this city, strewn with debris and corpses, have received any help. A team from Médecins Sans Frontières, complete with medical supplies, arrived in Cebu island on Saturday looking for a flight to Tacloban, but hadn’t left by Tuesday. A spokesman for the group said it was “difficult to tell” when it would be able to leave. “We are in contact with the authorities, but the (Tacloban) airport is only for the Philippines military use,” Lee Pik Kwan said in a telephone interview. At the medics’ intended destination, thousands of typhoon victims were trying to get out. They camped at the airport and ran onto the tarmac when planes came in, surging past a broken iron fence and a few soldiers and police trying to control them. Most didn’t make it aboard. “We need help. Nothing is happening,” said Aristone Balute, an 81-year-old who didn’t get on a flight out of the city. “We haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon.” Her clothes were soaked from the rain, and tears streamed down her face. An Associated Press reporter drove through the town for around 7 kilometers (4 miles) on Wednesday and saw more than 40 bodies. He saw no evidence of any organized delivery of food, water or medical supplies, though piles of aid have begun to arrive at the airport. Some people were lining up to get water from a hose, presumably from the city supply. “There is a huge amount that we need to do. We have not been able to get into the remote communities,” U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said in Manila. “Even in Tacloban, because of the debris and the difficulties with logistics and so on, we have not been able to get in the level of supply that we would want to. We are going to do as much as we can to bring in more.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans seemed ready to block another of President Barack Obama’s picks for one of the nation’s top courts on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a nominations battle that has intensified partisan tensions in the Senate. Senators planned to vote on Obama’s selection of Georgetown University law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Majority Democrats were expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP procedural blockade against Pillard’s nomination. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the vote on Pillard “a political exercise designed to distract the American people from the mess that is Obamacare,” a reference to the 2010 health care law that is getting off to a troubled start. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Republicans were making “cynical arguments in an effort to maintain an ideological edge” among judges on the D.C. circuit. The D.C. circuit’s eight current judges are evenly divided between those appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the GOP was blocking approval of “yet another talented female jurist.” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, called that argument “offensive,” adding that Democrats’ “last line of defense is to accuse Republicans of opposing nominees based upon gender or race.” Democrats have been threatening that if Republicans continue derailing Obama’s nominations, they might unilaterally rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the chamber’s minority party to do that. It is unclear that Demo- �The Daily Sentinel OPINION Page 4 Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Low-rate policies fueling Q&A: Ethanol, oil and world growth carry risks what it means to be green Dina Cappiello and Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Q: What is the ethanol mandate? A: In 2007, Congress passed a law requiring oil companies to blend corn ethanol into the gasoline supply. That requirement started at 9 billion gallons and has risen each year since. This year, it’s about 13 billion gallons. Barack Obama, who was running for president against a crowded field of Democrats in the Iowa caucuses, was a champion for this law. And with oil prices high and imports climbing, President George W. Bush signed it. Politicians in both parties predicted homegrown corn would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and help wean the country off foreign sources of oil. Q: Sounds straightforward. Green energy, right? A: Not really. From the beginning, environmentalists were skeptical of this program. Even people on Obama’s environmental team had doubts. Ethanol comes with all kinds of environmental baggage, like the fertilizer used to grow corn and the coal and natural gas that fuel ethanol plants. The ethanol policy also helped send corn prices rising, which encouraged farmers to plant more corn, in some cases on native prairies and land set aside for conserving habitat. In Des Moines, Iowa, the water utility was strained to the brink this summer as it tried to remove the nitrogen fertilizer residue from drinking water to keep it within safe standards. Some of that fertilizer runs into the nation’s rivers, worsening a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that can no longer support marine life. Farmers also planted on hilly, erodible soil, which encouraged erosion and the loss of topsoil. Q: But ethanol helps reduce global warming? A: That was the intent. But sometimes farmers create cropland by plowing over grassland. Grassland keeps carbon dioxide locked up in the soil. Plow over it, and that gas is released. It can take decades to make up for that loss. Under Obama, more than 5 million acres of land that had been set aside as conservation land was transformed from grass field back into farmland. That’s the size of Yosemite, Yellowstone and Everglades National Parks combined. At least another 1.2 million acres of prairieland in the Great Plains have been plowed over for corn. Many environmentalists and scientists now question whether the ethanol mandate will ever accomplish its primary environmental goal: reducing greenhouse gases. Q: The ethanol industry disputes those numbers and says no virgin land has been lost. What gives? A: The government only started tracking this in 2012. The USDA concluded 38,000 acres were lost that year. And farmers in the Dakotas told AP reporters that they were plowing into pristine prairieland. So it’s not a question of whether it’s happening. The question is on what scale. The government has made it impossible to determine that number precisely. So the AP used the only method available to estimate it: Government crop data collected by satellite. The AP identified tracts of land that were cornfields in 2012 and had been grassland in 2006. 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According to the Department of Agriculture, which has been tracking this for decades, 2010 was the first year on record in which more corn went to fuel than to livestock feed. That was true again in 2011 and 2012. This year, about 43 percent of corn went to fuel and 45 percent to livestock feed. The ethanol industry argues those figures are misleading because the distillation process leaves behind a residual byproduct that can be used for livestock feed. That byproduct is not measured in the official government data. But however you run the numbers, it’s true that more corn is going toward ethanol. Q: You don’t hear a lot about this. A: Maybe because green is definitely a hot color: Green energy, green jobs, the green economy. But the truth is all energy has costs associated with it. Everyone knows the environmental cost of oil and natural gas. But the Obama administration rarely acknowledges that its green initiatives have costs, too. And the government allows green companies to do not-sogreen things. For wind power, that means the government looks the other way as turbines kill eagles in violation of federal law. For ethanol, the government accepts the environmental consequences in hopes the industry will develop cleaner next-generation biofuels. Elaine Kurtenbach, Joe McDonald and Paul Wiseman AP Business Writers WASHINGTON — Five years after a global financial crisis erupted, the world’s biggest economies still need to be propped up. They’re growing and hiring a little faster and creating more jobs, but only with extraordinary aid from central banks or government spending. And economists say major countries may need help for years more. From the United States to Europe to Japan, central banks are pumping cash into economies and keeping loan rates near record lows. Even fast-growing China has rebounded from an uncharacteristic slump with the help of government money that’s poured into projects and made loans easily available from state-owned banks. For now, thanks in part to the intervention, the world economy is improving. The International Monetary Fund expects global growth to rise to 3.6 percent in 2014 from 2.9 percent this year. The improvement “does not mean that a sustainable recovery is on firm footing,” Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, warned last month. He said major economies will need stimulus from “extraordinary monetary policies” to sustain momentum into 2014. Many economists think stimulus will be needed even longer. Yet these policies carry their own risks: Critics, including some of the Fed’s own policymakers, note that the cash the central banks are pumping into the global financial system flows into stocks, bonds and commodities like oil. Their prices can escalate to unsustainable levels and raise the risks of a market crash. Other analysts warn that the easy-money policies could cause runaway inflation in the future. Here’s a look at how the world’s major economies are faring: —UNITED STATES The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly solid 2.8 percent annual pace from July through September, though consumers and businesses slowed their spending. And U.S. employers added a surprising strong 204,000 jobs in October. The Fed has been debating whether hiring is healthy enough to justify slowing its monthly bond purchases. Despite the solid October jobs report, most economists think the Fed won’t reduce its bond buying before early next year. Janet Yellen, who faces a confirming hearing this week for her nomination to lead the Fed starting in January, is expected to sustain its low-rate policies. Even at reduced levels, the bond purchases would continue to stimulate the economy by adding money to the financial system and lowering loans rates to encourage borrowing and spending. The Fed’s purchases have helped offset U.S. govern- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor should be limited to 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsigned letters will be published. Letters should be in good taste, addressing issues, not personalities. “Thank You” letters will not be accepted for publication. ment spending cuts. Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, thinks the U.S. economy will be strong enough to manage without any help from Fed bond purchases by the end of 2014. He sees the Fed raising short-term rates, which it’s kept at a record low near zero since late 2008, sometime in 2015. But weaning the U.S. economy off Fed support, he says, is “tricky … If you do it too slowly, you could ignite inflation. If you do it too quickly, you run the risk of killing the recovery.” — EUROPE After enduring two recessions since 2009, the 17 countries that use the euro currency are expected to eke out their second straight quarter of growth from July through September. But many economists say the eurozone’s growth might not meet even the feeble 0.3 percent quarterly pace achieved from April through June. The latest quarterly figure will be announced Thursday. The European Central Bank surprised investors last week by cutting its benchmark refinancing rate to a record 0.25 percent. It acted after economic reports exposed the weakness of the recovery. Inflation last month was a scant 0.7 percent. That raised the risk of deflation — a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and homes. The rate cut “signals that the ECB is not prepared to accept the risk that the euro area falls into deflation,” says Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Once prices begin to fall, you start to see consumers and businesses change their behavior,” Kirkegaard says. “Why should you buy a car today if the price of the car is going to fall tomorrow? Falling into the trap can be very difficult to get out of.” — JAPAN Japan’s economic recovery has gained momentum since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in late 2012. Under “Abenomics,” the government and central bank have injected money into the economy through stimulus spending and rate cutting. The economy grew at a robust 3.8 percent annual rate from April through June. But economists worry about whether the recovery can be sustained and whether Japan can grow enough to make up in tax revenue what it’s spending on stimulus. Noriko Hama, a professor at Kyoto’s Doshisha University, contends that only higher wages and rates will give people the income and confidence they need to spend more and restore the economy’s health. Like the Fed, the Bank of Japan could struggle with how to time and carry out a reversal of its easy money policy once the economy improves or if inflation or asset bubbles emerge as a threat. “They have placed themselves in a very difficult situation indeed,” Hama says. “It’s a double-edged sword.” The Daily Sentinel Ohio Valley Newspapers 111 Court Street Pomeroy, Ohio Phone (740) 992-2156 Fax (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Sammy M. Lopez Publisher 740-446-3242, ext. 15 slopez@civitasmedia.com Stephanie Filson Managing Editor �Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Obituary Death row inmate denied wish to donate organs DAVID LEE RICHARDS, SR. MILTON, W.Va. — David Lee Richards, Sr., 77, of Milton, W.Va., passed away Friday, November 8, 2013, in Huntington, W.Va. David was born December 12, 1935, to David and Blanche Richards in Glouster, Ohio. David was a hard working man who began working at an early age on his family farm, it was here he developed his strong work ethic. David went to work for the railroad, moved to Meigs County and retired from the Railroad some 44 years later. During those 44 years he was blessed with a loving wife Janette, five children and nine grandchildren. He was also a man of strong faith and a Pentecostal Minister, he preached at many churches including the Staunton Street Pentecostal Church in Guyandotte, W.Va. David is survived be his loving wife, Janette; children, David Lee Richards Jr., Daniel “Danny” Paul Richards, Mark Anthony Richards, Drema Kay Richards, and Sherry Lynn Richards; nine grandchildren; and several fiends and family members that will deeply miss him. Visitation for David will be held from 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, November 13, 2013, at Crow-Hussell Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va., with the funeral service beginning at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 14, 2013, at the funeral home. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crow-Hussell Funeral Home. Friends may register online at: crowhussellfh.com. Death Notices BAIRD GALLIPOLIS — Donald Junior Baird, 74, of Gallipolis, died Sunday afternoon, November 10, 2013, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 16, 2013, at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home with Pastor Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will follow in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. Military funeral honors will be conducted at the The Daily Sentinel s Page 5 www.mydailysentinel.com cemetery by the Gallia County Veterans Funeral Detail. BOGGS GALLIPOLIS — Madge E. Boggs, 79, of Gallipolis, died on Monday, November 11, 2013, at Holzer Assisted Living. Services will be 2 p.m., Sunday, November 17, 2013, at the Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Jim Chapman officiating. Burial will follow in Centenary Cemetery. Friends may call on Saturday, November 16, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Defense rests in Ohio $100M charity fraud trial CLEVELAND (AP) — The mysterious defendant charged in a $100 million, cross-country veterans charity fraud wanted to tell jurors his side of the story at his trial, but he skipped testifying Tuesday as his defense rested without calling witnesses. His attorney said the defendant, who identifies himself as Bobby Thompson, 67, changed his mind about testifying, worried about his mental state if he faced an aggressive cross-examination. The defendant, identified by authorities as “I would like Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody, to put myself bloodied himself last week while pounding his in physical head against the wall in appearance a holding cell, with the noise audible in the adjastate I think is cent courtroom, defense attorney Joseph Patireasonable” tuce said during a break in the trial. The judge — Defendant said the defendant was checked by the jail medical staff. The judge began instructing the jurors on the law Tuesday afternoon but recessed until Wednesday. The jury will get the case after both sides have a chance to make final statements. The five-week trial drew to a close Tuesday with the defendant walking slowly into the courtroom after a 90-minute delay, his shirt unbuttoned to the waist, his hair disheveled and his long, baggy pants bunched around his ankles. The judge suggested a break to provide time for him to clean up. He did so, returning with a fresh shirt and hair combed. “I would like to put myself in physical appearance state I think is reasonable,” the defendant said. The former fugitive is charged with looting the United States Navy Veterans Association charity that he ran in Tampa, Fla. The charges include racketeering, money laundering, theft and identity theft. Authorities believe he defrauded donors of up to $100 million in 41 states since 2001, including $2 million in Ohio, on the guise of helping Navy veterans. A fraction of the money has been found. Authorities said they traced the name Bobby Thompson to a man who wasn’t connected to the charity case. Authorities say he had his identity stolen, including his Social Security number and date of birth. The defendant, eventually identified through military fingerprint records, disappeared for almost two years after his 2010 indictment. He was arrested last year in Portland, Ore., where agents and deputy marshals found fake IDs and a suitcase containing $980,000 in cash. The defendant showered politicians, often Republicans, with political donations. The judge rejected a defense request to subpoena testimony from leading Ohio Republicans including U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. Politicians who received donations from him, according to campaign finance filings, include former President George W. Bush and former presidential contenders Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, whose office handled the trial prosecution, said he believes that photos the defendant had taken with high-profile Republicans such as Bush, Boehner and GOP strategist Karl Rove were used to soften up potential donors. Besides Boehner, political donations went to almost every member of the state’s GOP congressional delegation and two of DeWine’s predecessors as attorney general. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned child killer will not be allowed to donate organs to his ailing mother and sister before or during his execution this week, Ohio prisons officials said Tuesday after determining the process would pose significant security and logistical challenges. The request from Ronald Phillips to donate a kidney and his heart came Monday, less than 72 hours before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection. Phillips has said through his attorneys that the request was not a delay tactic, but rather an attempt to make a final gesture for good. Prison officials scrambled to review Phillips’ last-minute request, which they called unprecedented, but ultimately could not figure out a way to get the 40-year-old to and from an offsite hospital while following security procedures leading up to an execution. Phillips is scheduled to die Thursday by an injection of a sedative and painkiller that has never been used in a U.S. execution. The department says it will be up to his family whether the organs are donated after his death. It is unclear whether they would be viable when Phillips’ body is turned over to his family. The prisons department “has reviewed the options and has determined that the department is not equipped to facilitate organ donation pre- or post- execution,” said spokeswoman JoEllen Smith. Prisons officials consider the matter to “He’s been very reflective and prayerful over the last several weeks. I think he was very hopeful that he was going to be granted clemency and/or get relief from the court, so this never really had to come to a head. The disappointment on those fronts made this obviously more relevant.” — Phillips’ Cleveland attorney, Tim Sweeney be private among Phillips, his family and his attorneys, she said. Transporting an inmate so close to his execution date outside prison walls for an off-site medical procedure would pose “significant security concerns and risks,” Stephen C. Gray, general counsel of prison risk management, wrote in a Tuesday reply to Phillips’ request. Phillips had never requested to donate his organs earlier although the option is available under prison medical policy, Gray wrote. Phillips was sentenced to die for the rape and death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in Akron in 1993. Ohio Gov. John Kasich last week rejected Phillips’ request for mercy, and all his appeals have been dropped. Phillips’ Cleveland attorney, Tim Sweeney, said that Phillips did not propose donating his or- gans earlier because he was hopeful his case would go another way. “He’s been very reflective and prayerful over the last several weeks. I think he was very hopeful that he was going to be granted clemency and/or get relief from the court, so this never really had to come to a head,” Sweeney said. “The disappointment on those fronts made this obviously more relevant.” His mother has kidney disease and is on dialysis and his sister has a heart condition, the Monday letter said. In 1995, Delaware death row inmate Steven Shelton was allowed to donate a kidney to his mother while in prison, though he was not facing imminent execution. Following successful appeals, his death sentence was reversed and he was resentenced to prison time in 2011. Clinton: Obama should honor health care pledge WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding pressure to fix the administration’s problem-plagued health care program, former President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let people keep their health coverage, even if it means changing the law. Clinton says Obama should “honor the commitment that the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.” The former president, a Democrat who has helped Obama promote the 3-yearold health law, becomes the latest in Obama’s party to urge the president to live up to a promise he made repeatedly, declaring that the if Americans liked their health care coverage, they would be able to keep it under the new law. Instead, millions of Americans have started receiving insurance cancellation letters. That, coupled with the troubled launch of the health care law’s enrollment website, has prompted Republican critics and frustrated Democrats to seek corrections in the law. House Republicans have drafted legislation to give consumers the opportunity to keep their coverage. Ten Senate Democrats are pushing for an unspecified extension of the sign-up period and in a private White House meeting last week several pressed Obama to do so. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has proposed legislation that would require insurance companies to reinstate the canceled policies. The White House says it is working on changes that would ease the impact of the cancellations for some people. But the fixes under consideration are administrative actions, not congressional changes to the law. White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday reiterated the White House argument that the cancellations apply to only about 5 percent of Americans who obtained health care insurance. He also argued that more than half of those people receiving termination notices would benefit from better insurance at lower prices either through expanded Medicaid or through new health care marketplaces. For the remainder, Carney said, “The president has instructed his team to look at a range of options.” The issue facing the administration now is how to ease the impact on people who are losing their plans and don’t qualify for subsidies to cover higher premiums. Carney said the White House opposes a House Republican bill, proposed by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., that would allow insurers to keep selling insurance that doesn’t offer the type of benefits required by the new law. “Any fix that would essentially open up for insurers the ability to sell new plans that do not meet standards would create more problems than it fixed,” he said. Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who advised the Obama administration on the health care law, said the White House has few if any administrative options available. One solution, he said, would be to offer a “transitional tax credit” to those consumers who are losing their insurance and must pay more for new coverage that meets the law’s standards. “I don’t know how you do that without Congress’s permission, and they’re not going to give it to you,” he said. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second ranking Democratic leader in the Senate, on Tuesday said that while the law does face problems, he said some of the changes proposed by Republicans “are not friendly proposals. They’re designed to derail this effort.” In an interview with CNN, Durbin cautioned that if consumers are permitted to keep policies that don’t meet the law’s minimum requirements “it’s going to be difficult for the insurance industry to produce a product that really is going to serve our needs and that they can adequately tell us what it costs.” Asked whether Obama lied to the public when he promised people that they could keep their policies, Durbin said: “A couple more sentences added would clarify it.” In his interview with the website www.OZY.com , Clinton overall praised the health care legislation. “The big lesson is that we’re better off with this law than without it.” Carney noted that Clinton’s own efforts to pass health care legislation during his presidency were blocked. “The goal here is to achieve what President Clinton and presidents both Democratic and Republican sought to achieve in the past,” he said. US doctors urge wider use of cholesterol drugs (AP) — The nation’s first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes call for twice as many Americans — onethird of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. The guidelines, issued Tuesday by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, are a big change. They use a new formula for estimating someone’s risk that includes many factors besides cholesterol, the main focus now. They take aim at strokes, not just heart attacks. And they set a lower threshold for using medicines to reduce risk. The definition of high cholesterol isn’t changing, but the treatment goal is. Instead of aiming for a specific number, using whatever drugs get a patient there, the advice stresses statins such as Lipitor and Zocor and identifies four groups of people they help the most. “The emphasis is to try to treat more appropriately,” said Dr. Neil Stone, the Northwestern University doctor who headed the cholesterol guideline panel. “We’re going to give statins to those who are the most likely to benefit.” Doctors say the new approach will limit how many people with low heart risks are put on statins simply because of a cholesterol number. Yet under the new advice, 33 million Americans — 44 percent of men and 22 percent of women — would meet the threshold to consider taking a statin. Under the current guidelines, statins are recommended for only about 15 percent of adults. Some doctors not involved in writing the guidance worry that it will be tough to understand. “It will be controversial, there’s no question about it. For as long as I remember, we’ve told physicians and patients we should treat their cholesterol to certain goal levels,” said the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Steven Nissen. “There is concern that there will be a lot of confusion about what to do.” The government’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute appointed expert panels to write the new guidelines in 2008, but in June said it would leave drafting them to the Heart Association and College of Cardiology. New guidelines on lifestyle and obesity also came out Tuesday, and ones on blood pressure are coming soon. Roughly half the cholesterol panel members have financial ties to makers of heart drugs, but panel leaders said no one with industry connections could vote on the recommendations. “It is practically impossible to find a large group of outside experts in the field who have no relationships to industry,” said Dr. George Mensah of the heart institute. He called the guidelines “a very important step forward” based on solid evidence, and said the public should trust them. Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. High cholesterol leads to hardened arteries that can cause a heart at- tack or stroke. Most cholesterol is made by the liver, so diet changes have a limited effect on it. Millions of Americans take statins, which reduce cholesterol dramatically and have other effects that more broadly lower the chances of heart trouble. The patents on Lipitor, Zocor and other statins have expired, and they are widely available in generic versions for as little as a dime a day. One that is still under patent protection is AstraZeneca’s Crestor, which had sales of $8.3 billion in 2012. Despite a small increased risk of muscle problems and accelerating diabetes in patients already at risk for it, statins are “remarkably safe drugs” whose benefits outweigh their risks, said Dr. Donald LloydJones, preventive-medicine chief at Northwestern. Current guidelines say total cholesterol should be under 200, and LDL, or “bad cholesterol,” under l00. Other drugs such as niacin and fibrates are sometimes added to statins to try to reach those goals, but studies show they don’t always lower the chances of heart problems. “Chasing numbers can lead us to using drugs that haven’t been proven to help patients. You can make someone’s lab test look better without making them better,” said Yale University cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz, who has long urged the broader risk approach the new guidelines take. �The Daily Sentinel WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013 SPORTS mdssports@civitasmedia.com Rio’s Bonar named MSC Player of the Week Randy Payton Special to OVP COLUMBIA, Ky. — Rio Grande (Ohio) sophomore Sarah Bonar is the Mid-South Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, conference officials announced on Tuesday. This week’s award is the first for the 2013-14 women’s basketball season. Bonar averaged 26.5 points and nine rebounds per game in a pair of Rio Grande wins last week. The Hartford, Ohio, forward made 13-of-19 shots from the field in her season debut en route to a careerhigh 32 points in a 113-98 win over Wilberforce (Ohio). She added eight rebounds in the win. In the RedStorm’s 127-67 win over Miami-Middletown (Ohio), Bonar recorded a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds in just 18 minutes of action. Her performance helped Rio Grande improve to 2-0 on the season. Bonar completed the week shooting 71 percent (22-of-31) from the field, including a perfect 2-for-2 from beyond the 3-point arc. She also made 7-of-8 free throws. Bonar becomes just the third Rio Grande player to ever receive the weekly honor from the league, joining Jenna Smith, who was honored during the week of November 15, 2010 and Shardai Morrison-Fountain, who received the award for the week of November 12, 2012. Alex Hawley | Daily Sentinel Gallia Academy senior Wade Jarrell (13) runs for a touchdown during the Blue Devils victory over Fairland at Memorial Field. GAHS lands four on All-SEOAL team Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Blue Devils earned four first team selections on this year’s All-Southeastern Ohio Athletic League team, selected by league coaches. Senior quarterback Wade Jarrell is the only Blue Devil to repeat on the All-SEOAL first team and he is joined by fellow Gallia Academy seniors Logan Allison, Reid Eastman and Owen Moore. Junior Josh Johnson and Sophomore Wes Jarrell each were named honorable mention for Gallia Academy. GAHS finished 5-5 this season with a 1-3 SEOAL record. League champion Logan was represented by Evan DeLong, Brock Emerson, Nick Kost, Bryce McBride, Austin Scarberry, Isaac Schmeltzer and Reggie Wesselhoeft on the first team, while Charles Paulsen and Gabe Smith each made honorable mention. Logan went 4-0 in the league this season. Logan head coach Billy Burke was named coach of the year, while Chief senior Isaac Schmeltzer was player of the year. Jackson was second in the league at 3-1 and was represented by Austin Fairchild, Gabe Griffiths, Alan Parana, Hunter Sexton, Reagan Williams and Elijah Woolum on first team. Cole Bachtel and Raymond Potter were both named honorable mention for the Ironmen. Warren was 1-3 in the league and was represented on first team by Austin Klintworth, Jared Isner, Brandon Pahl and David Ryan. Jake Powell and Jake Scott were honorable mention for the Warriors. Portsmouth was also 1-3 in the SEOAL and was represented by Sky Oliver and Johnnie Charles on first team. Alex Grashel and Brandon Wedebrook were named honorable mention for the Trojans. The team was selected in a recent vote of league coaches. Each team received two automatic honorable mention selections. OVP Sports Schedule Submitted photo Members of the Eastern girls cross country team pose for a picture after winning the Division III district championship Saturday morning at the University of Rio Grande. Standing from left are Asia Michael, Laura Pullins, Keri Lawrence, Taylor Palmer and Kourtney Lawrence. OVP area lands 12 on district CC teams Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com Meigs and Gallia counties landed a total of 10 people on the AllSoutheast District Cross Country squads for the 2013 campaign, as determined by the results from the Division II and III district competitions held at the University of Rio Grande. Eastern led the way with an area-best seven recipients, while Gallia Academy earned three spots and Southern came away with two honorees. Neither River Valley nor Meigs had an all-district honoree, and South Gallia does not participate in cross country. The top 16 finishers in each of the two district races earn alldistrict honors in their respective divisions, and coach of the year honors go to the coaches whose teams win the district title in each race. There are two runners of the year in each division, which is the individual champion from each of the two races. The Lady Eagles had six honorees after winning their third consecutive Division III district title, which allowed EHS frontman Josh Fogle to earn coach of the year honors along with Rocky Exline from Trimble. EHS junior Taylor Palmer won her third straight district crown and joined Rachel Ball of Southeastern as the D-3 runners of the year. Senior Keri Lawrence, junior Asia Michael, sophomore Kourtney Lawrence and freshman Laura Pullins also earned spots on the D-3 girls squad. Southern senior Joyce Weddle was also an all-district recipient in Division III after placing in the top-16. Eastern junior Tyson Long and Southern junior Bradley McCoy Bryan Walters | Daily Sentinel Gallia Academy senior Madison Holley, left, and Hannah Watts run side by side at the 2013 GAHS Coaches Corner Classic held in Centenary, Ohio. both earned all-district honors in Division III boys. Cray Sistrunk of Belpre and Michael Mangus of Leesburg Fairfield were the D-3 runners of the year, while James Cunningham of Belpre and Raymond Friend of Leesburg Fairfield were the D-3 coach of the year recipients. Gallia Academy seniors Madison Holley and Hannah Watts were the only girls from the area to qualify for the D-2 squad. Allyson Malone of Alexander and Kimmy Wolfe of Zane Trace were the runners of the year, while Fitz Read of Athens and John Williams of Zane Trace were the D-2 girls coaches of the year. GAHS junior Michael Edelmann was the lone all-district recipient in D-2 boys. Sam Stevens-Jones of Athens and Matt Bromley of Sheridan were the D-2 runners of the year, while Fitz Read of Athens and J.D. Walters of Sheridan earned coach of the year accolades. Rio Grande’s Filho honored by MSC Randy Payton Special to OVP COLUMBIA, Ky. — Rio Grande’s Luiz Filho and Thursday, Nov. 14 Cumberland’s Ian Hamilton College Soccer Campbellsville vs. URG men at Lindsey Wilson, 8:30 p.m. are the Mid-South Conference Men’s Soccer Players of the Week, conference offiFriday, Nov. 15 cials announced on Monday. Football The weekly honor is Logan at Point Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. the second of the season College Basketball for both Filho and HamilBevo Francis Invitational, 2 p.m. ton. Filho also earned the award on Sept. 30 while Saturday, Nov. 16 Hamilton picked up the Football honor on Oct. 28. Clay-Battelle vs. Wahama at Point Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. Filho scored three goals College Basketball in the RedStorm’s 6-0 win Bevo Francis Invitational, 11 a.m. over Bluefield (Va.) to earn Mid-South Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week. The hat trick is the sixth of the season for the Sao Paulo, Brazil, sophomore forward. Filho’s scoring enabled Rio Grande to advance to the Mid-South Conference Tournament semifinals later this week. Filho leads the conference and the NAIA in points (55) and goals (26) this season. He is tied for the conference lead with six game-winning goals. No. 6-ranked Rio Grande improved to 13-2-2 overall with last week’s win. The RedStorm are the No. 2 seed in the MSC Tournament and faces thirdseeded Campbellsville (Ky.) on Friday in Columbia, Ky. Hamilton’s play between the pipes helped the Bulldogs to a 2-1 overtime win over Cumberlands (Ky.) last week and earned him the Mid-South Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week. The Chester, Ohio, junior goalkeeper finished the match with eight saves while allowing just the one goal. Hamilton helped the fifthseeded Bulldogs upset No. 4-seed Cumberlands in the tournament quarterfinals. Hamilton is second in the Mid-South and 27th in the NAIA with 91 saves this season. He ranks sixth in the conference with a 2.21 goals against average. Cumberland improved to 6-12-1 overall. The Bulldogs advance to the MSC Tournament semifinals to face top-seeded Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) on Friday in Columbia, Ky. This week’s MSC Men’s Soccer Player of the Week awards concluded the weekly honor for the 2013 season. �Wednesday, November 13, 2013 The Daily Sentinel s Page 7 www.mydailysentinel.com Rio Grande CC duo named Academic All-MSC Randy Payton Special to OVP RIO GRANDE, Ohio — Two members of the University of Rio Grande cross country team - one each from the men’s and women’s side - have been honored for their accomplishments in the classroom. Junior Brittany Piccone and sophomore Kyle Sanborn have both been named to the Mid-South Conference Academic AllConference Team. Piccone, a native of Crooksville, Ohio, is carrying a 3.915 GPA as an Education major. Sanborn, a native of Dover, Ohio, is majoring in Sports & Exercise and currently holds a 3.667 GPA. Piccone was the top finisher for the RedStorm ladies all season long, with her most recent finish placing her 13th overall in the Mid-South Conference championship meet. Sanborn has been solid for head coach Bob Willey’s team all season long and posted his best finish of the season (18th out of 56) at the Patty Forgey Invitational to open the season. In order to be nominated by an institution, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.25 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved at least sophomore academic status. Twenty-nine student-athletes were honored on the men’s side, while 28 females were honored. Campbellsville (Ky.) and Georgetown (Ky.) produced the most men’s cross country academic honorees from one school with six each, while Campbellsville (Ky.) and Shawnee State (Ohio) had six female honorees each. AP Sports Briefs George Bridges | MCT Drew Brees (9) of the New Orleans Saints warms up before a preseason game against the Houston Texans on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2011, in Houston, Texas. Unpredictable nature of NFL on display in Week 10 Barry Wilner The Associated Press If there’s one thing you can be sure about in the NFL, it’s that nothing is a sure thing. The spiraling Steelers, coming off a defensive collapse in which they allowed a franchise-worst 55 points to New England, slam down the Steel Curtain the next week on Buffalo. Defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore follows three tight losses, in which it shows little resilience and no finishing touch, by winning in overtime against Cincinnati — after allowing a last-second desperation TD pass at the end of regulation. Clubs that look good in Week 9, such as the Titans, Redskins and Bears, fall flat in Week 10. Hey, even the Jaguars win after eight flops. Not long ago, the Panthers were considered a contender with Tampa Bay for the basement in the AFC South. Now, they have won five straight and might just win the division. The Giants opened the season with six losses, convincing their fans the sky was falling on the Jersey Meadowlands. Now they’ve won three in a row and — get this — are a contender in the awful NFC East. The only true trend in pro football is that there is no such thing as a true trend. “You win and lose as a team, and that’s the only common thread,” Bill Parcells said last summer when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. “Every week, every game, is a separate thing, a separate entity. Even if you have won a whole bunch (in a row) or lost a whole bunch, it doesn’t mean there’s a tendency to have the same things happen again.” Inconsistency is the bane of all coaches and, by extension, their players. They all are creatures of habit, so much so that looking beyond the upcoming game and opponent is a recipe for failure. Yet they can’t seem to string together solid performances; other than a handful of teams this year — Kansas City, Denver and Seattle — who has found any consistency in a positive way? Perhaps the best examples of the unpredictability running rampant throughout the NFL are the Jets and Cowboys. Rex Ryan’s club should be pleased with its 5-4 mark as it comes off its bye, considering where New York was projected to finish. Yet it is maddening to the Jets that they have alternated wins and losses each week, tying an NFL mark through nine games. Even wilder, they can go from losing to winless Pittsburgh to beating archrival New England to getting blown out by Cincinnati to outplaying New Orleans in the last month. “You want to find that consistency where you are able to get things going and keep them going,” Ryan says. “We’re always searching for that.” With a young roster on a rebuilding team, steadiness is particularly elusive. The Jets have a solid defense, Ryan’s coaching strength, but it was annihilated by the Bengals. Then it shut down the Saints, who in their next game set a record for first downs and routed Dallas. Geno Smith has been a revelation at quarterback in some weeks, and a rookie bust in others. That kind of up-and-down performance can be expected from a first-year QB, of course, and the rest of the roster needs to come through when Smith hasn’t. Sometimes, that has worked for the Jets, sometimes not. Dallas has far more talent than New York on offense — none of the Jets would start at a skill position for the Cowboys — and is not a collection of youngsters in a retooling program. That makes the Cowboys’ streakiness more confounding, although injuries to their defense have been significant. In a division where 9-7 almost certainly will be good enough to make the playoffs, Dallas keeps coming back to a weak pack. There have been some strong performances, particularly in a 51-48 loss to Denver and a 17-3 smackdown of Philadelphia. And there have been some ugly meltdowns in defeats against San Diego and Detroit. And then the debacle Sunday night in the Big Easy, punctuated by more injuries and some strange strategies. Now the Cowboys have their bye, and they’d better figure things out during their week off. “We have a chance to sit back and assess what we are doing on offense, defense and the kicking game,” coach Jason Garrett says, “and who we are doing it with, and how we are doing it, and how we can do it better.” Or at least how they can find some consistency. The good kind. Virginia Tech tops West Virginia 87-82 BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — On a day in which Virginia Tech athletics director Jim Weaver announced his retirement effective at the end of the year, he received a rather sweet retirement gift courtesy of one of the Hokies’ teams. “It was a good day to give him a victory over West Virginia,” Virginia Tech coach James Johnson said. “That’s a good retirement present from the men’s basketball team.” Freshman Ben Emelogu scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Hokies past the Mountaineers 8782 on Tuesday. Adam Smith added 19 points for the Hokies (1-1), who rallied from a 17-point deficit in the first half and avenged last season’s 6867 loss to West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va. Smith scored seven of Virginia Tech’s last nine points, making several key plays in the final minute. His three-point play with 33.2 seconds to play gave the Hokies an 83-79 lead. West Virginia’s Remi Dibo then hit a 3-pointer with 23.7 seconds left to cut the lead to one, but Smith answered, hitting two free throws to push the lead to 85-82 with 16.2 seconds remaining. West Virginia (1-1) had a chance to tie the game, but Nathan Adrian’s 3-pointer was short, and Virginia Tech freshman Devin Wilson got the rebound. Wilson made two free throws with 5 seconds left to seal the game for Virginia Tech. “I think this is a sign,” Johnson said. “We’ve got to continue to get better. We’ve got some young guys who can do some things, and we’ve got to continue to hang in there. It’s going to be up and down for them, but at least we’ve got multiple guys. If one guy is down, we’ve got some guys who maybe can step up. Tonight, we were able to get those three young guys (Emelogu, Wilson and Smith, who is a redshirt sophomore) in double figures, and that was encouraging.” Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens to be sold LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. 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For 3 months.* 2013 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. 7 3 �Page 10 s The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Analysis of Evan Spencer’s ‘wipe the field’ quote COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — What’s brewing with the 2013 Ohio State Buckeyes … BUCKEYES BUZZ: Whenever a college athlete says something provocative or colorful, some fans question the kid’s intelligence and others wonder if the player wasn’t backed into a corner by reporters. Here is the exact exchange between media and Ohio State WR Evan Spencer on Monday: Reporter: Did you watch any football this weekend? Spencer: “Oh, yeah. I got to. I got to sit on my couch and just watch other college teams and then, yesterday, watched all the pro teams. It’s a good, relaxing few days.” Reporter: Obviously, you watched Alabama and LSU. Your thoughts on that. Spencer: “I mean, both teams are really good. LSU seemed to have some momentum at the beginning in being able to move the ball up and down the field. But Alabama, they’re one of the best technical teams in the country. So they kinda broke them down a little bit. But I saw holes in both teams and strengths in both teams.” Reporter: Does it happen when you’re watching a game, envision how Ohio State would play against Alabama or what you might do against them? Spencer: “Oh, yeah. Really since like midway through high school, every time I watch somebody else play, I always think about what I could have done there or what we would have done there as an offense or what we would have done there as a defense or what have you. It’s good to look at other competition and kind of mentally play a game while you’re sitting on the couch.” Reporter: So you did watch the Alabama game, and the Oklahoma-Baylor game and Stanford-Oregon. How do you think you guys would do against those teams. Spencer: “I guess I’m a little biased, but I think we’d, uh, we’d wipe the field with both of them. But that’s just my bias speaking.” (laughs) Reporter: That’s Alabama and who’s the other team? Spencer: “Whoever. Whoever.” Reporter: How much do you follow this, rooting for Stanford or rooting for an LSU? Spencer: “I was the biggest Cardinal fan for 3 hours because we needed a little bit of help but at the same time we still have to take care of our business. We have to go out there and show them that we’re one of the best offenses in the country, one of the best defenses in the country, and one of the best kicking games in the country. We know we have to go out there and take care of business that we have to handle, but we also know we need a little bit of help as well.” THE UPSHOT: The word “wipe” was trending on social media sites in Columbus. The fallout from other regions varied dramatically. Most fans in Southeasten Conference territory, home to Alabama, laughed at anyone saying they might easily defeat the two-time defending national champions. Some fans were angry that Spencer said it, others were pleased that he was so confident. Needless to say, some pointed out that Ohio State is officially 0-9 against SEC teams in bowl games. (Note: The Buckeyes beat Arkansas 31-26 in the 2011 Sugar Bowl, but that outcome was vacated due to the NCAA violations committed under coach Jim Tressel.) MEYER’S BALLOT: Coach Urban Meyer was asked on Monday if he is uncomfortable with his USA Today coaches vote — which is part of the Bowl Championship Series formula — helping to decide who Back from bye, Browns get ready for Bengals BEREA, Ohio (AP) — There were no new bumps or bruises that needed icing, no quarterback issues to manage, no critical decisions to be second-guessed. No, this was not your typical Monday for the Browns, who returned from their bye week refreshed and refocused. They’re still very restless, though. While the calendar flipped to November while they were away, the season’s third month begins with Cleveland in position to play meaningful games the rest of the way. For the first time since 2007, the Browns are in contention. And of all the unexpected things to happen so far this season, that might be the most startling development yet. “It’s time,” linebacker D’Qwell Jackson said. The Browns (4-5) returned to work healthier and a little closer to the top of the erratic AFC North. With Cincinnati losing in overtime at Baltimore on Sunday, the Browns gained ground on the first-place Bengals (6-4), setting up an important game this week at Paul Brown Stadium against their cousins in southern Ohio. It’s Cleveland’s most important game in six years and the first major test and moment for these improved Browns, who beat the Bengals earlier this season. This is a chance for the Browns to earn respect and gain relevance, sweep the Bengals for the first time in 11 years and move a little deeper into the playoff picture. “It’s been awhile, man,” Browns nose tackle Phil Taylor said. “Everybody talking about Cleveland this, the mistake on the lake, all this other stuff, man. It’s time for a change. We’re tired of losing around here. We’ve got the talent in here to go all the way to the top, we’ve just got to get it done.” Browns quarterback Jason Campbell came back from the week off with his bruised ribs feeling much better after massive Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata belly-flopped on him. Coach Rob Chudzinski said Campbell’s ribs have improved and he was “full speed” in practice. Campbell made all the throws during the portion of practice open to reporters as the Browns worked out on a blustery, bitterly cold afternoon. Campbell’s unexpectedly strong performances in Cleveland’s past two games — a close loss at Kansas City and win over Baltimore — has stabilized the Browns and renewed hopes that this season could wind up being special after a turbulent first nine weeks. Campbell has brought calm and confidence to the Browns, who believe they’re prepared to handle the pressure that comes with any big game. “I think guys are tired of that culture and that mindset of not being relevant in November,” tight end 60458345 Jordan Cameron said. “It’s time, and we’ve just got to keep this rolling.” Just the fact that they’re playing a significant game in November is a major step forward for the Browns, who have lost at least 10 games in nine of the past 10 seasons. In his first year, Chudzinski has Cleveland headed in the right direction and his players came back from their brief vacation motivated to finish strong. That hasn’t been the case around here in a long time. “When you’re not in this position, let’s say last year of being out of the playoff race, you still love the game, you still love to compete and you feel like you can win every ballgame,” Jackson said. “Now you still have that same mindset. Now you’re actually in the hunt. You’re actually in the middle of the pack. It just makes coming to work that much easier.” As one of the team’s leaders, Jackson’s objective in the days ahead is to keep his teammates focused on the present. It’s too early to start figuring out playoff scenarios. Way too early. Jackson wants to the Browns to keep following Chudzinski’s lead. He has spent the season preaching to his players to “Win the one,” asking them to focus on nothing other than the next practice repetition, the next play, the next game and not think too far ahead. Jackson doesn’t want his teammates to start talking postseason just yet. There’ll be time for that, but not now. Not with the Bengals ahead. “I want them to think that way,” Jackson said. “I want them to work that way. Walk it. Prepare like it. Play like it. But let it come. Let the chips fall where they may because we’re too young to keep talking about it because we’ve still got to go out and play the game. Once we get to that point, then I’ll be the first in line to talk about it. “When that time comes, I’ll be chanting and hollering and doing all that, man. Trust me.” NOTES: Browns LB Quentin Groves was placed on injured reserve and will miss the rest of the season with a left ankle injury that kept him out of four games. Chudzinski said Groves needs surgery. The club promoted LB Brandon Magee to the active roster from the practice squad. … Return specialist/WR Travis Benjamin will have surgery this week on his torn right anterior cruciate ligament. Benjamin got hurt returning a punt on Oct. 27 against the Chiefs. … Chudzinski said he didn’t receive any “concerning calls” during the bye week, when players are on their own and coaches get worried. Jackson was confident the Browns would act professionally. “We’ve had too many examples of what not to do, too many scares around the locker room to know you’ve better take care of your business. Guys did. Everyone showed up on time.” plays in the national championship game. “Am I uncomfortable? No. Just at times I don’t get to watch everybody, so it sometimes puts you in a hard position,” Meyer said. “This last week I did get to watch everybody. There’s some very good teams in the country, and I believe we’re a very good team.” Meyer said he voted Alabama No. 1, followed by Ohio State and then Florida State. He had Stanford and Baylor as the next two teams on his ballot, but was unsure which was fourth and which was fifth. INJURY SITUATION: Coach Urban Meyer said on Monday that several Buckeyes with bumps and bruises were fine and returning to action to prepare for Saturday’s noon start at Illinois. Taylor Decker sprained a ligament in his knee at Purdue and sat out last week. “He’s good. He practiced today,” Meyer said. “We took him out of full contact. Tomorrow is full contact. He should be ready to go.” LBs Curtis Grant (ankle sprain, back spasms) and Josh Perry (dislocated finger) also had lingering injuries. Perry had surgery on his finger and said he was fine. Grant is expected to return to practice on Tuesday. Spencer: Buckeyes would wipe field with ‘Bama, FSU COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Bring on ‘Bama. Florida State, too. Ohio State wide receiver Evan Spencer made it clear Monday that he believes the Buckeyes are better than No. 3. Spencer had a chance to watch twotime defending national champion Alabama and second-ranked Florida State last weekend while the Buckeyes had an open date. “I guess I’m a little biased but I think we’d wipe the field with both of them,” said Spencer with a chuckle. The junior, who is the son of former Ohio State and NFL player and coach Tim Spencer, added, “That’s just my bias speaking.” Actually, Spencer didn’t mention Florida State. Asked if he was referring to the Seminoles, he said, “Whoever.” Urban Meyer took a very different approach to making it known that he thinks the Buckeyes deserve a chance to play for the national title. Meyer said he voted the Buckeyes (9-0, 5-0 Big Ten) No. 2 on his USA Today coaches’ poll ballot — behind Alabama but ahead of Florida State. “I believe we have Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State,” Meyer said of his ballot. He couldn’t remember the order of the next two teams, between Stanford and Baylor. Asked for his rationale in voting that way, Meyer said, “I had us (No.) 2 all year. I just think we’re playing like one of the top teams in the country right now.” The coaches’ poll is used in the BCS standings formula. The Buckeyes are clearly a confident group, going into a game at Illinois on Saturday. The Illini (3-6, 0-5) have lost 19 consecutive Big Ten games, while Ohio State owns the nation’s longest winning streak at 21 in a row. Ohio State has dominated the Big Ten over the past two years, winning close games and winning blow-outs alike. That has worked against the Buckeyes, since many voters — both in media and among the coaches — believe the Big Ten has fallen on hard times in terms of talent. For much of this season, the Buckeyes have been the only Big Ten team ranked among the top 15 in the polls. The Southeastern Conference, meanwhile, has won the last seven national championships, with Alabama winning three of the last four. The Crimson Tide and Florida State, which has powered its way back to national prominence this season, are both unbeaten. The top two teams in the Bowl Championship Series rankings will play in the national championship game at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 6. The off week enabled Ohio State’s players and coaches to watch most of the other top teams in action. On Thursday night, they watched then-No. 2 Oregon lose to No. 5 Stanford, 26-20, and undefeated and fifth-ranked Baylor pound No. 12 Oklahoma, 4-12. On Saturday, most of the Buckeyes were watching as Alabama broke free in the second half to take a convincing 38-17 win over No. 10 LSU and Florida State, which is second in the BCS standings behind Alabama, roll over Wake Forest, 59-3. “We’re football junkies,” Ohio State assistant coach Kerry Coombs said. “That was enjoyable. You do watch those guys. You want to watch good teams play and see how their kids stack up against your kids.” Coombs declined to say if he felt Ohio State could hold its own against the likes of the Crimson Tide and Seminoles. “I’m not in a place to evaluate that,” he said. “I’d like to think we could hold our own against anybody. We’re looking forward to playing anybody and everybody that shows up.” The Buckeyes remaining schedule after Illinois is home against Indiana (4-5, 2-3) and then the annual late-November feud with rival Michigan (6-3, 2-3) at The Big House. After that will likely come the Big Ten championship game — the Buckeyes have the inside track at winning the Leaders Division title and the same goes for Michigan State in the Legends — before the final BCS rankings come out along with the bowl bids. Meyer said the bar is raised as the season builds to a crescendo. “The message is you have to play great,” he said. “You’re held to (a higher standard) to be even mentioned with those other teams. 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