https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/c50d975ae43a94137b34cb33ace75e32.pdf aa7f5edffc6ff6d60e931ff29f969ad9 PDF Text Text log onto www.mydailysentinel.com for archive • games • features • e-edition • polls & more Middleport•Pomeroy, Ohio INSIDE STORY WEATHER SPORTS Dr. Brothers .... Page 2 Rain. High near 46. Low around 26. ........ Page 2 Local, regional sports .... Page 6 Vol. 62, No. 234 OBITUARIES Jeremiah L. Bentley, 32 Vernon E. Bing, 47 Barbara A. Carter, 61 Gladys L. Gerlach, 72 Rose M. Grindstaff, 78 Orlyn G. ‘Bo’ Wallace, 79 50 cents daily WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012 Eastern approves agenda items; honors retirees Sarah Hawley shawley@heartlandpublications.com TUPPERS PLAINS — The Eastern Local Board of Education approved several agenda items during last week’s meeting. Recent retirees and high school students of the month were also honored at the meeting. Retirees honored at the meeting included Linda Smith, 11 years of service; Glenn Easterling, 17 years of service; Florrilla Baker, 14 years of service; Carl Barringer, 26 years of service; Jayne Collins, 18 years of service; and Mary Price, 34 years of service. Students receiving the High School Student of the month awards were Mallory Nicodemus, Kiana Osborne, Rebecca Chadwell, and Alex Amos. Nicodemous was also recognized with the Outstanding Humanitarian award for her work to benefit residence in the county of Haiti. She also gave a presentation on the work that is taking place in the county. More on Nicodemous and her efforts to benefit Haiti will appear in a later edition of The Daily Sentinel. Personnel matters approved include the letters of retirement from Pamela Douthitt, effective May 31, 2013; and Cindy Chadwell, effective at the end of the 2012-13 school year. Letters of resignation, effective at the end of the 2012-13 school year were approved from Stephen C. Jewell, Marteena Baum, and Wanda Shuler. Substitute teachers approved for the 2012-13 school year, pending proper certification, were, Ann E. Barr, Sarah J. Carleton, Tyler J. Deeter, Janel Kennedy, Scott Nevil, and Dwayne Wadley. Substitute aides approved for the 2012-13 school year ,pending proper certification, were Holly K. Bickenheuser, Paula Dunfee, and Sharon L. Kukoleck. Jordan Moore was approved as a long term substitute teacher in Spanish effective January 3, 2013, pending proper certification and ODE mandated background check and credentials. Dwayne Wadley was approved as an Academic Specialist for the after school SOAR program pending proper certification. David Burt was approved as a substitute mechanic for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year pending See EASTERN ‌| 5 Santa visits Southern Elementary Sarah Hawley | Daily Sentinel Retirees honored at the recent Eastern Local Board of Education meeting were (from left) Glenn Easterling, Florrilla Baker and Carl Barringer. They are pictured with Eastern Local Board of Education President Adam Will. Recognized, but unable to attend, were Linda Smith, Mary Price and Jayne Collins. Area residents celebrate with family traditions Carrie Wolfe Special to Heartland Publications mdsnews@heartlandpublications.com Submitted photos Students at Southern Elementary got a visit from Santa Claus. Santa read a story to students, who were treats from AEP Philip Sporn Plant, the school’s Partner in Education, and PTO. OHIO VALLEY — Every year Christmas rolls around, and it means a time to gather with relatives for many. Everyone has different traditions and things that are meaningful to them. Area residents were asked what they do at Christmas. For some, it is gathering on Christmas Eve and opening one present. For others, it involves giving all the gifts that night. “On Christmas Eve my family gathers at our house, and we listen to Christmas music, watch classic Christmas movies and open a gift. It’s all about enjoying time together as a family,” Cari Justis said. The sentiment was shared by many as holiday shopping gives way to holiday goodies, family stories and Christmas sweaters. Each family has unique traditions that make the holiday special. They are a reminder of childhood dreams. “We all put up the tree, decorate it and plug in the Christmas lights. Then we turn out all the lights in the house, and we all lie down on the floor on our backs and stare up through the tree. It is strange, but peaceful and relaxing, and we’ve always done it — since I was little,” April Bush of Meigs County said. Decorating for the holidays, especially the outside of homes and businesses, is a tradition in the area. Homes and businesses become dressed with lights, tinsel, snowmen and stars for the holidays. The holidays would not be the holidays without music. Listening to and singing Christmas music are a part of many family traditions. “Singing Christmas songs with my grandma, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” said Shawntay Garnes. Faith also plays an important part in many family traditions, old and new. “It’s a ‘new’ tradition for us, as we are just now establishing our family traditions, but it is one from my childhood. Before Christmas Eve services we open one little gift to take to service with us, and we sing Christmas songs and then read scripture from the Bible relating to gifts from Christ. Then, we lay our family Bible open under the tree, say a prayer and turn out all the lights except the tree. When we come home, the whole house is dark except the Bible lit up by the tree’s lights. It was always a great, warm feeling to see before going to bed on Christmas Eve as a kid,” said Miranda McKnight. The holidays are a time to share with family and friends moments of life. It is life that is so precious, and Christmas is a time to reflect together on those moments that bring laughter, tears and opportunity to remember one another. ODOT: Mild winter leaves motorists out of practice Staff Report mdsnews@heartlandpublications.com COLUMBUS — As Ohioans faced the first winter storm this season over the weekend, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) reminds motorists in ice and snow to take it slow, especially on Interstates and state-maintained highways where speeds are faster and traffic volumes are higher. Research shows by the time the first winter storm hits, most motorists have forgotten their safe winter driving skills. “Because of last year’s mild winter, many of Ohio’s motorists haven’t driven in significant ice and snow in about 20 months,” said ODOT Director Jerry Wray. ODOT will make history this winter by being the first state in the na- tion to use green-colored strobe lights on its snowplow trucks. Studies show green lights are more easily detected by the human eye than other colors. The new green lights, along with new white lights, will be added to the existing amber lights creating a color combination unique to ODOT. According to ODOT Public Information Officer David Rose, the department invested approximately $4 million in this safety project. Drivers can also stay safe — whether it’s the first storm or last — by following these tips: Plan ahead: Before leaving home, find out about driving conditions by going to ODOT’s website www.BuckeyeTraffic.org. Safe drivers know the weather, and their limits. Also, you can follow ODOT on Facebook and Twitter. See and be seen: Remove any snow on your vehicle’s windows, lights, brake lights and signals. Check the clock: Leave plenty of time to reach your destination safely. It’s not worth putting yourself and others in a dangerous situation just to be on time. Turn on your lights: If you need to turn on your wipers, turn on your headlights. It’s the law. During last year’s winter season, there were 16,167 winter-related crashes on Ohio’s roadways. Ice and snow related fatalities on ODOTmaintained roads decreased by nearly 20 percent — from 21 to 17. Although crashes on ODOT-maintained roads make up only 33 percent of all snow and ice crashes, in the 2011-2012 winter season nearly 57 percent of all winter driving related fatalities occurred on Interstates, U.S. routes and state routes. Submitted photo ODOT is busy installing new pulsing green lights on select snowplow trucks throughout District 10’s nine-county area. The remaining trucks will be retrofitted with the new equipment next year. �Wednesday, December 26, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 2 Meigs County Community Calendar Thursday, Dec. 27 RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees will hold their year end and reorganizational meetings at 5 p.m. at the Rutland Fire Station. CHESTER — The Chester Township Trustees will hold their year end and reorganizational meetings at 7 p.m. at the town hall. Local Briefs Friday, Dec. 28 BEDFORD TWP. — The Bedford Township Trustees will hold their end of year meeting at 2: p.m. at the town hall. Birthdays Saturday, Dec. 29 POMEROY — Kathleen Wells will celebrate her 94th birthday on Dec. 29. Cards can be sent to her at 34719 Ball Run Road, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. Monday, Dec. 31 SYRACUSE — Jane Ask Dr. Brothers Job interview strays from qualifications ‘Food for Fines’ POMEROY — The Meigs County District Public Libraries will be accepting non-perishable food items in lieu of fines during the month of December. These items will Dear Dr. Brothers: University, which found be distributed to area food banks. For more information I had a job interview at that after basic job qualiplease contact (740) 992-5813. a jeweler where there fications are considered, were quite a few young the recruiters or human Boil advisory lifted people working. The resources people often POMEROY — All boil advisories for the Village of manager asked me turned to their own feelPomeroy water customers have been lifted. all sorts of questions ings of validation, excitethat weren’t related to ment or comfort around Upcoming blood drives my strong retail backthe job applicant as deciMEIGS COUNTY — Two upcoming blood drives have ground, but were about sive in making a decision been scheduled in Meigs County. The first will be from my social life, sports to hire. This may be the 1-6 p.m. on Dec. 26 at the Mulberry Community Center. and hobbies. The atmocase at the job you went The second is scheduled from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Dec. 31 at sphere in the store was for. Workers may have the Middleport Church of Christ professional but very been hired as much for friendly, and I saw the their desirability socially manager and some of Dr. Joyce Brothers as for the level of knowthe sales associates gohow they brought to the Syndicated ing out to the tavern job. Always adjust your Columnist next door as I left afpresentation to try to ter their workday. Is it match what the employChristmas Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 44. possible that my resume is almost er is looking for. There will be plenty Calm wind becoming northeast around 6 mph in the af- meaningless to employers? — L.F. of people who are qualified on paper ternoon. Dear L.F.: Some businesses, by for any job you go after, so the edge Tuesday Night: A chance of rain, mainly after 3 a.m. their very nature, are more social might go to you if you can open up Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Northeast wind 6 than others, where employees are and show some of your personal side. to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. New concerned. There are buttoned-up *** precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an corporations where everyone sits in Dear Dr. Brothers: I’m a mom in inch possible. their cubicle and barely says “good my 50s who uses a cellphone to keep Wednesday: Rain. High near 46. Chance of precipita- morning” and “goodnight” to one track of my teenagers, call my intion is 90 percent. New precipitation amounts between a another. Other places are filled with laws and remind my husband to stop quarter and half of an inch possible. lots of interaction, friendly coffee at the dry cleaner’s. My daughter is Wednesday Night: Rain and snow showers likely, and lunch breaks, and an abundance a different story. She seems to be atbecoming all snow after midnight. Cloudy, with a low of celebrating each other during or tached to her phone in an unhealthy around 26. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. after work. Know the corporate cul- way. She left it in a store yesterday, Thursday: A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a ture. Being friendly, open and inter- and I thought she’d have a stroke runhigh near 35. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. esting because of your hobbies or ning back to retrieve it. She spends Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. social skills is always appropriate if hours on it every day and loudly Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. objects if we tell her to get off the there is a job to be had. Friday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly You might be interested in the re- phone. Could she be overly depencloudy, with a low around 25. Chance of precipitation is sults of a new study at Northwestern dent on it? — D.C. 40 percent. Saturday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. Saturday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. Sunday: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, CINCINNATI (AP) — Fewer strict collective bargaining rights with a high near 31. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. dollars for Ohio schools has for teachers and other public emmeant fewer teachers in class- ployees amid criticism of teacher rooms in many districts across unions for making it difficult to target ineffective teachers for the state. State records show the num- cuts. Personnel costs are usually the ber of full-time teachers in public schools fell by nearly 6 percent major portion of a district’s budover a decade ending in the 2010- get, so any significant budget cuts 11 school year, and surveys by usually mean job losses. The state education associations and The School Boards Association surAssociated Press indicate the veyed districts this year and, with downward trend has continued 268 of the state’s 613 districts O’Toole said it would WASHINGTON (AP) — the last two school years. There’s responding, found they have reWorkers probably won’t feel take most employers two little expectation of immediate duced staff by an average of 13 the full brunt of next year’s weeks to four weeks to upimprovement as districts grapple full-time employees each since tax increases in their Janu- date their payroll systems, with reduced state funding, de- 2008, with some big city districts ary paychecks, but don’t be once new tax withholding clines in property tax revenues cutting hundreds of employees. fooled by the temporary re- tables are released. For and voter reluctance in many Cleveland Municipal Schools prieve. some small businesses, it districts to approve new levies as slashed 658 jobs, to 3,311 total, No matter what Con- could take longer. households slowly recover from according to the survey. Lakota gress does to address the “Employers can’t really Local Schools, a major northern the Great Recession. year-end fiscal cliff, it’s al- just come up with withhold“There’s no bright light on the Cincinnati suburban district, says ready too late for employ- ing tables on their own, dehorizon,” said Damon Asbury, it is down to 915 full-time teachers to accurately withhold pending on what the rates legislative services director for ers, 236 fewer than the 2007-‘08 income taxes from January are,” O’Toole said. “The the Ohio School Boards Associa- school year. paychecks, unless all the smaller companies that do Ohio Department of Education tion. “Schools will continue to do current tax rates remain not use a payroll processstatistics show full-time public more with less.” unchanged, which is an un- ing service probably would The results of cuts for many school teachers totaled 115,453 likely scenario. have more problems than schools: more students per teach- statewide in 2001-2002, then Social Security payroll anyone else.” er, fewer electives in areas such as were at 108,888 by 2010-11 aftaxes are set to increase On Friday, the IRS said it foreign languages and arts class- ter falling to 107,924 in 2007-08 on Jan. 1, so workers plans to issue guidance by amid the national financial meltes, reduced support staff. should immediately feel the the end the year, though it squeeze of a 2 percent cut won’t be early enough to afGov. John Kasich and his ad- down. Enrollment fell slightly bein their take-home pay. But fect paychecks in early Januministration have urged schools tween ‘01 and 2010-‘11, by about as talks drag on over how to ary. to focus their dollars on class- 6,000 students, to nearly 1.75 address other year-end tax room instruction, raise standards million statewide. And recent AP “We are aware that emincreases, the Internal Rev- ployers have questions with such as lower-elementary reading sampling of 30 school districts enue Service has delayed respect to 2013 withholdproficiency, and to stretch their across the state found that 24 rereleasing income tax with- ing,” the agency said in a budgets by pooling resources in ported fewer teachers compared holding tables for 2013. such areas as technology, office to the last academic year, with written statement. “Since As a result, employers Congress is still considering four districts increasing teaching functions and transportation. are planning to withhold changes to the tax law, we “We do need to manage our staff numbers and two staying the income taxes at the 2012 continue to closely monitor schools better financially,” the same. rates, at least for the first the situation. We intend to It’s not just Ohio. Republican governor said in June one or two paychecks of the issue guidance by the end A nationwide survey by the while signing an education reform year, said Michael O’Toole of the year on appropriate package including a “guarantee” American Association of School of the American Payroll Aswithholding for 2013.” that third-graders will be able to Administrators in 2011 found that sociation. About three-quarters of read before being passed ahead. 74 percent of respondents expectIf employers don’t withtaxpayers got tax refunds “And in addition to that, what are ed to cut jobs, with the majority hold enough taxes in Januwe teaching kids in kindergarten, being teachers or teacher aides. ary, they will have to with- this year, averaging $2,707, first and second grade if we’re not Thousands of teachers have been hold even more taxes later according to the IRS. That laid off in recent years in budgetteaching them to read?” in the year to make up the gives most taxpayers some Ohio voters last year turned strapped states such as California difference. Otherwise, tax- leeway to manage their payers could get hit with income tax withholding. back a Republican-led effort to re- and Michigan. President Barack big tax bills, and possibly However, many people rely penalties, when they file on tax refunds to pay bills or make major purchases. their 2013 returns. “The reality is, the vast The tax increases could majority of Americans do be steep. If Congress fails to act, workers at every in- live paycheck to paycheck come level face significant and that tax refund is their HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A spe- gram is being used as intended. Ohio tax increases next year as most significant payday of part of the year-end “fiscal the year,” said Bob Mei- cial squad is targeting food stamp officials say every county has a food ghan, vice president of Tur- fraud in a southwest Ohio county, stamp fraud investigator, but state cliff.” A taxpayer making be- boTax, an online tax prepa- and authorities say it’s already head- spokeswoman Angela Terez said she tween $50,000 and $75,000 ration service. ed off nearly $200,000 in what would wasn’t aware of any other counties Most of the expiring tax have been spending on things other with a special squad set up. would get an average tax increase of $2,400, according breaks were first enacted than food aid. Butler County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike to the Tax Policy Center, a under President George W. The Butler County squad formed Craft says drug users will often sell Washington research group. Bush and extended under in July includes one full-time and one their their benefits cards to get quick If the worker is paid every President Barack Obama. two weeks, that’s about $92 Obama campaigned for re- part-time sheriff’s detective, an assis- cash. “A large part of it is drugs,” Craft election on extending the tant prosecutor and a county Job and a paycheck, on average. Someone making be- tax cuts on incomes below Family Services employee. One me- said. “They wouldn’t hesitate to sell tween $75,000 and $200,000 for individuals dia outlet reports the squad’s investi- their cards for cash, even if it’s half on the dollar, to get money to sup$100,000 would get a tax and $250,000 for married gations have led to 17 arrests so far. With about one in seven Ameri- port their drug habit.” increase averaging nearly couples. Obama would Now called the Supplemental Nu$3,700. If the worker is let the tax cuts expire cans getting federal food aid after paid every two weeks, that’s on incomes above those the Great Recession, authorities say trition Assistance Program, food about $142 a paycheck. amounts. it’s important to make sure the pro- stamp aid is distributed by states not Ohio Valley Forecast Teaford will celebrate her 93rd birthday on Dec. 31. Cards can be sent to her at PO Box 261, Syracuse, Ohio, 45779. Dear D.C.: If your daughter is overly dependent on her phone — which she very well might be — she is far from alone. It’s the rare teen or young adult who isn’t attached at the ear to her cellphone or computer, with their popular and compelling range of applications and capabilities for instant and exciting communication within the peer group. That’s a very powerful force. If you believe the phone is interfering with her life — keeping her from doing homework, studying for tests or interacting with her family — it could have taken on some pretty undesirable characteristics. There’s an ongoing debate in the mental-health community about whether such interference constitutes anything that could be called an addiction. Today most every behavior carried to extremes will be labeled an addiction by somebody. According to a Baylor University study, published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, cellphone use falls into the same category as compulsive shopping or overuse of a credit card. It points to the two problem areas — impulsiveness and materialism — that drive behavior that we might call addictive. With teens checking their phones an average of 60 times a day, it’s no wonder the little tool has taken on a nature of being essential to a teen’s well being. (c) 2012 by King Features Syndicate Schools’ budget squeeze means fewer teachers Don’t be fooled by January pay — higher taxes loom Obama said in August that as many as 300,000 local education jobs, many of them teachers, had been lost nationally since 2009. “There’s nothing more important to our country’s future than the education we give our kids,” Obama said at the time. “And there’s no one more important than the person in the front of the classroom.” A veteran Columbus City Schools teacher, Rose Bokman, said in a recent letter to The Columbus Dispatch that she has seen kindergarten classroom sizes rise from 22 students for one teacher helped by a full-time assistant to work with struggling students to 29 students a class with a part-time assistant. She wrote that that makes it tougher to “develop the relationships and attention needed for urban children to succeed.” With decreasing numbers, teachers also are facing increasing demands in the next few years, such as revised and toughened Ohio school and district report cards, and new proficiency tests for students. “We feel strongly that it’s important to keep enough teachers to meet the individual needs of the students,” said Melissa Cropper, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers. “Just in general, when you start cutting programs like arts and electives, you’re not developing the whole child. We’re developing kids who are good at taking tests, not developing their full potential.” Kasich has indicated that he will tackle the long-standing issue of reforming Ohio’s school funding next year. Meanwhile, Asbury said a recent meeting of superintendents in northeast Ohio found consensus that the schools will keep adjusting. “We just have to get it done,” Asbury said. “We still have these youngsters to educate.” Southwest Ohio county goes after food stamp fraud in stamps but in Electronic Benefits Transfer cards that work like debit cards. Investigators say fraudsters sometimes claim they have lost their cards and get a new one after selling their old one. The state has found counties sometimes don’t follow up on tracking reports on replacement cards. In November, Butler County distributed $6.1 million in food assistance to 47,000 households. “It was very important for the county commissioners that we take a firm stance on those folks that were defrauding this program,” said Jerome Kearns, director of Butler County’s Job and Family Services agency. �Wednesday, December 26, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 3 Yet another Senate race on the horizon in Mass. BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters weary from one of the nation’s costliest and most divisive U.S. Senate races are all but certain to find themselves thrown back into another tumultuous election now that President Barack Obama has nominated Sen. John Kerry for secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate, as expected, Democrat Kerry would have to resign the seat he’s held for nearly three decades, meaning a special election that will be the state’s third Senate contest since 2010. Jockeying already is well under way. The big question is whether Republican Sen. Scott Brown will go for the seat after losing his last month to Democratic Elizabeth Warren. He kept the door wide open to another run during a farewell address on the Senate floor, declaring that both victory and defeat are “temporary” things. “Depending on what happens, and where we go, all of us, we may obviously meet again.” Perhaps as soon as next year. Brown would be a formidable candidate. He has a statewide political organization and more than $400,000 left in his campaign account. He remains popular and demonstrated an ability to raise millions of dollars in campaign donations. But he would still have to contend with all the hurdles facing any Republican in Massachusetts. Still, he’d probably have a clear path to the GOP nomination. “The candidacy is his for the asking,” said Rep. Brad Jones, the Republican leader in the Massachusetts House. “If he runs, then get out of the way and put your oar in the water and row in the same direction.” Should Brown opt out, former Gov. William Weld, former gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker and Richard Tisei, who lost a narrow race to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Tierney, are among the Republicans waiting in the wings for a possible run. Democrats don’t have a clear front-runner, given that Gov. Deval Patrick doesn’t plan to break his pledge to serve out the last two years of his term. He still could play a pivotal role. Patrick could use his sway in the party to clear what looks like a potentially crowded Democratic field. His backing of Warren was seen as giving her a critical edge by helping energize Democratic voters. On Friday, however, he said he’d probably not endorse anyone in a Democratic primary. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who lost to Brown in the 2010 special election, pulled her name out of contention on Friday. Several Democratic members of the state’s congressional delegation have said they would seriously consider running, including Reps. Michael Capuano, Edward Markey, Stephen Lynch, and Niki Tsongas. Most of those House members would begin a campaign with a financial edge. Markey has one of the largest war chests with more than $3.1 million. Capuano has nearly half a million dollars in his account while Lynch has more than $740,000. Tsongas has about $166,000. But all would have to work quickly to expand their appeal outside of their home districts. Others mentioned by Democratic insiders as potential candidates are U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Ted Kennedy Jr., a son of the late senator, an advocate for the disabled and co-founder of the New York-based Marwood Group, which describes itself as “a health care-focused strategic advisory and finan- cial services firm.” The governor will be required to fill Kerry’s seat temporarily with an interim appointment, while setting a day for the special election between 145 days and 160 days after Kerry’s resignation. In the 2010 special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Patrick required his interim appointee, former Democratic Party Chairman Paul Kirk, not to run for a full term. Patrick said he expects anyone he appoints on a temporary basis this time would also not run in the special election. Former Gov. Michael Dukakis, retiring Rep. Barney Frank and Victoria Kennedy, widow of Sen. Kennedy, have been mentioned in Democratic circles as possible interim senators. This past week, Dukakis played down interest in the post while Kennedy declined comment. Although Democrats are riding high off Warren’s victory, several of the arguments they brought to bear in the 2012 campaign wouldn’t apply in a special election. They can’t say, as they did in the Warren campaign, that defeating Brown might tip the balance of power in the Senate. Or that electing him would strengthen the hand of a Republican president. Still, the Democratic Party chairman, John Walsh, said the party has a wide pool of candidates and attributed Brown’s loss to a rejection of his voting record. “I don’t think Scott Brown is any kind of prohibitive favorite,” Walsh said. But he’d “certainly be a front-runner.” If there is a special election, whoever wins shouldn’t get too comfortable. The senator will face re-election in 2014, when Massachusetts voters will endure yet another Senate election. Gunfire kills young children daily in US WASHINGTON (AP) — Before 20 first-graders were massacred at school by a gunman in Newtown, Conn., first-grader Luke Schuster, 6, was shot to death in New Town, N.D. Six-year-olds John Devine Jr. and Jayden Thompson were similarly killed in Kentucky and Texas. Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, died in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., while 6-year-old Kammia Perry was slain by her father outside her Cleveland home, according to an Associated Press review of 2012 media reports. Yet there was no gunman on the loose when Julio Segura-McIntosh died in Tacoma, Wash. The 3-year-old accidentally shot himself in the head while playing with a gun he found inside a car. As he mourned with the families of Newtown, President Barack Obama said the nation cannot accept such violent deaths of children as routine. But hundreds of young child deaths by gunfire — whether intentional or accidental — suggest it might already have. Between 2006 and 2010, 561 children under 12 were killed by firearms, according to the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Reports. The numbers each year are consistent: 120 in 2006; 115 in 2007; 116 in 2008, 114 in 2009 and 96 in 2010. The FBI’s count does not include gun-related child deaths that authorities have ruled accidental. “This happens on way too regular a basis and it affects families and communities — not at once, so we don’t see it and we don’t understand it as part of our national experience,” said Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. The true number of small children who died by gunfire in 2012 won’t be known for a couple of years, when official reports are collected and dumped into a database and analyzed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to release its 2011 count in the spring. In response to what happened in Newtown, the National Rifle Association, the nation’s largest gun lobby, suggested shielding children from gun violence by putting an armed police officer in every school by the time classes resume in January. “Politicians pass laws for gunfree school zones … They post signs advertising them and in doing so they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,” said NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. Webster said children are more likely to die by gunfire at home or in the street. They tend to be safer when they are in school, he said. None of the 61 deaths reviewed by The Associated Press happened at school. Children die by many other methods as well: violent stabbings or throat slashings, drowning, beating and strangulation. But the gruesome recounts of gun deaths, sometimes just a few paragraphs in a newspaper or on a website, a few minutes on television or radio, bear witness that firearms too, are cutting short many youngsters’ lives. One week before the Newtown slayings, Alyssa Celaya, 8, bled to death after being shot by her father with a .38-caliber gun at the Tule River Indian Reservation in California. Her grandmother and two brothers also were killed, a younger sister and brother were shot and wounded. The father shot and killed himself amid a hail of gunfire from officers. Delric Miller’s life ended at 9 months and Angel Mauro Cortez Nava’s at 14 months. Delric was in the living room of a home on Detroit’s west side Feb. 20 when someone sprayed it with gunfire from an AK-47. Other children in the home at the time were not injured. Angel was cradled in his father’s arms on a sidewalk near their home in Los Angeles when a bicy- clist rode by on June 4 and opened fire, killing the infant. Most media reports don’t include information on the type of gun used, sometimes because police withhold it for investigation purposes. Gun violence and the toll it is taking on children has been an issue raised for years in minority communities. The NAACP failed in its attempt to hold gun makers accountable through a lawsuit filed in 1999. Some in the community raised the issue during the campaign and asked Obama after he was re-elected to make reducing gun violence, particularly as a cause of death for young children, part of his second-term agenda. “Now that it’s clear that no community in this country is invulnerable from gun violence, from its children being stolen … we can finally have the national conversation we all need to have,” said Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP. This year’s gun deaths reviewed by the AP show the problem is not confined to the inner city or is simply the result of gang or drug violence, as often is the perception. Faith Ehlen, 22 months, Autumn Cochran, 10, and Alyssa Cochran, 11, all died Sept. 6. Their mother killed them with the shotgun before turning it on herself. Police said she had written a goodbye email to her boyfriend before killing the children in DeSoto, Mo., a community of about 6,300. In Dundee, Ore., Randall Engels used a gun to kill his estranged wife Amy Engels and their children, Jackson, 11, and Bailey, 13, while they were at the table eating pizza on the Fourth of July. The children were each shot twice. Engels also shot and killed himself. The town of more than 5,000 boasts on its website that it is a semi-rural town with “the cultural panache of a big city.” Many of the children who died in 2012 were shot with guns that belonged to their parents, relatives or baby sitters, or were simply in the home. Webster said children’s accidental deaths by guns have fallen since states passed laws requiring that guns be locked away from youths or have safeties to keep them from firing. But even people trained in gun use slip up — and the mistakes are costly. A Springville, Utah, police officer had a non-service gun in his home that officials said did not have external safeties. His 2-year-old son found the gun and shot himself on Sept. 11. The names of the father and son were not released at the time of the shooting. Obama has long work list to tackle when he returns “Americans are yearning for leadership,” said Gil Troy, a presidential scholar at McGill University. As a president dealing with policy, he said, Obama has generally failed to give “that visionary, powerful address that we came to know and love and expect in the 2008 campaign.” Rather than let Congress take the lead on big issues, as it did in drafting the 2009 health care overhaul, Obama should be more forceful in pushing new legislation or using his executive powers to bypass Congress where possible, Troy said. “The gun control issue is a major opportunity for Obama to make his mark on history — and solve a problem that has frustrated Democrats for decades,” he added. Other presidential historians, however, think Obama is severely constrained by political realities. They say he will have to carefully pick and choose which goals to emphasize in his second four years. “I see Obama as almost uniquely handcuffed by circumstances,” said John Baick of Western New England University. The number of big, unresolved problems facing the nation, coupled with a deeply divided public and Congress, he said, leave Obama with fewer viable options than most presidents have enjoyed. At best, Baick said, the U.S. government “is a gigantic cruise liner, and the most he can do is keep us from hitting ice bergs.” For instance, Baick said, “if he goes big on gun control, then it’s 1994 all over again.” Then-President Bill Clinton pushed an assault weapons ban through the Democratic-led Congress that year, prompting fierce pushback from gun-rights groups. Clinton later would credit the NRA with shifting the House majority to the GOP for the first time in 40 years. However, other factors — including a House bank scandal — played big roles, too. Paul Rego, a political scientist at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn., largely agrees with Baick. “While President Obama does not face the same cataclysmic events that Abraham Lincoln faced, or that FDR encountered in the form of the Great Depression and World War II, his challenges are many and significant,” Rego said in an email. He said Obama “faces a hurdle that neither Lincoln nor Roosevelt had to overcome during the tumultuous years of their respective presidencies: divided government.” Today’s Democrats and Republicans differ so sharply about government’s proper role, Rego said. He said that Obama’s job “is actually harder than that of his most illustrious predecessors.” Politicians of all stripes say Obama’s first priority is to resolve the deep partisan divide over tax-andspending issues, exemplified by repeated impasses over two years that led to this week’s showdown on the “fiscal cliff.” An even higher-risk conflict may arise in a few months. Congress again must either raise the federal debt ceiling or see the government default on its loans. Beyond that, lawmakers and interest groups are watching for signs of how hard Obama might push to restrict firearms and expand illegal immigrants’ rights. Obama said last Wednesday that gun control will be a central issue in his second term. “I will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this,” he said of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass killings. The president named an interagency task force to recommend anti-violence legislation within weeks. The strategy gives him room to distance himself somewhat from its recommendations if he wants, even though he named Vice President Joe Biden to chair the panel. Americans’ affinity for firearms runs deep, and many political activists think Obama could have more sweeping success with immigration changes. He won a big majority of Hispanics’ votes in both his elections. The trend alarms Republican strategists, who fear their party won’t win another presidential election until it re- pairs its bad relations with Latinos. With Democrats and Republicans increasingly aware of Hispanics’ growing political clout, “this might be an historic opportunity,” Troy said. Chris Dolan, a political scientist at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, agrees. He said he expects Obama to be “incredibly ambitious on comprehensive immigration reform.” The effort, Dolan said, could “build a lasting Democratic support group. You can’t do that with gun control.” Still, opposition to granting citizenship to illegal immigrants runs deep in many circles, especially the Republican Party’s base. Bids for “comprehensive immigration reform” have gone nowhere in Congress in recent years. Several advocacy groups want Obama to make the most of his executive powers to enact measures that don’t require congressional action. The Migration Policy Institute earlier this year made several suggestions regarding immigrants. They included “establishing uniform enforcement priorities,” defining “what constitutes effective border control,” and “allowing applicants for immigrant visas to file in the United States.” Now that Obama has won re-election, however, the advocacy group wants him instead to push a broader agenda through Congress. “With the issue teed up for possible action,” said Doris Meissner, a former commissioner at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, antagonizing congressional Republicans with executive actions “would not be politically smart.” The political climate for sweeping immigration changes “is significantly better,” Meissner said, “but that does not mean it will happen.” Even with a full plate of challenges and a hostile party controlling the House, she said, “I think Obama absolutely has to go big on immigration.” The White House has declined to detail the president’s plans for a secondterm agenda. Once the deficit-spending problems known as the “fiscal cliff” are addressed, said White House spokeswoman Jamie Smith, “President Obama looks forward to working on a number of issues that are critical to our future, from immigration to energy, to education and national security direction.” New Year New Career www.gallipoliscareercollege.edu 60369668 WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hardly a secret that Barack Obama, like every president no doubt, muses about his ultimate legacy and spot in the presidential pantheon. He approaches his second term confronting tough and shifting challenges that will play big roles in shaping the rest of his presidency and his eventual place in history. In the coming months, Obama will have to decide where to be ambitious, where to be cautious, and where to buy time. He draws political strength from his surprisingly easy re-election in a bad economy. It’s partly offset, however, by Republicans’ continued control of the House, plus their filibuster powers in the Senate. Some of the big issues awaiting the president’s decisions are familiar, long-simmering problems. They include immigration and the need for a tenable balance between taxes, spending and borrowing. Another issue, gun control, jumped to the national agenda’s top tier this month following the massacre of first-graders and teachers in a Connecticut school. And the issue of climate change remains unresolved. Veteran politicians and presidential historians say it’s almost impossible for Obama to “go big” on all these issues. Indeed, it might prove difficult to go big on even one. While some counsel caution, others urge the president to be as bold and ambitious as possible. �The Daily Sentinel Opinion Page 4 Wednesday, December 26, 2012 ‘Fiscal cliff’ leaves Boehner Top business story in ‘12: Sluggish global economy a wounded speaker The Associated Press Alan Fram The Associated Press WASHINGTON — John Boehner is a bloodied House speaker following the startling setback that his own fractious Republican troops dealt him in their “fiscal cliff” struggle against President Barack Obama. There’s plenty of internal grumbling about the Ohio Republican, especially among conservatives, and lots of buzzing about whether his leadership post is in jeopardy. But it’s uncertain whether any other House Republican has the broad appeal to seize the job from Boehner or whether his embarrassing inability to pass his own bill preventing tax increases on everyone but millionaires is enough to topple him. “No one will be challenging John Boehner as speaker,” predicted John Feehery, a consultant and former aide to House GOP leaders. “No one else can right now do the job of bringing everyone together” and unifying House Republicans. The morning after he yanked the tax-cutting bill from the House floor to prevent certain defeat, Boehner told reporters he wasn’t worried about losing his job when the new Congress convenes Jan. 3. “They weren’t taking that out on me,” he said Friday of rank-and-file GOP lawmakers, who despite pleading from Boehner and his lieutenants were shy of providing the 217 votes needed for passage. “They were dealing with the perception that somebody might accuse them of raising taxes.” That “somebody” was a number of outside conservative groups such as the Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America, which openly pressured lawmakers to reject Boehner’s bill. Such organizations often oppose GOP lawmakers they consider too moderate and have been headaches for Boehner in the past. This time, his retreat on the tax measure was an unmistakable blow to the clout of the 22-year House veteran known for an amiable style, a willingness to make deals and a perpetual tan. Congressional leaders amass power partly by their ability to command votes, especially in showdowns. His failure to do so Thursday stands to weaken his muscle with Obama and among House Republicans. “It’s very hard for him to negotiate now,” said Sarah Binder, a George Washington University political scientist, adding that it’s premature to judge if Boehner’s hold on the speakership is in peril. “No one can trust him because it’s very hard for him to produce votes.” She said the loss weakens his ability to summon support in the future because “you know the last time he came to you like this, others didn’t step in line.” Boehner, 63, faces unvarnished hostility from some conservatives. “We clearly can’t have a speaker operate well outside” what Republicans want to do, said freshman Rep. Tim Huelskamp, RKan. Huelskamp is one of four GOP lawmakers who lost prized committee assignments following previous clashes with party leaders. That punishment was an anomaly for Boehner, who is known more for friendly persuasion than arm-twisting. He said Boehner’s job would depend on whether the speaker is “willing to sit and listen to Republicans first, or march off” and negotiate with Obama. Conservative Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said one of the tea party’s lasting impacts would be if Boehner struggled to retain his speakership due to the fight over the fiscal cliff, which is the combination The Daily Sentinel Reader Services Correction Policy Our main concern in all stories is to be accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call the newsroom at (740) 992-2156. Our main number is (740) 992-2155. 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This year, they’ve suffered in the polls for resisting the extension of wideranging tax cuts unless the wealthiest earners were included, which Obama opposes. They saw their House majority whittled by eight seats in last month’s elections. “He’s doing a good job in a tough situation,” said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a Boehner friend. He said the speaker’s challenges include “independent individuals” among House Republicans and the increased willingness of outside conservatives to pressure GOP leaders, not defer to them. Portman said he didn’t know if Boehner’s tax bill debacle would weaken him. “It proved to the president what he’s been saying, that there are limits to how far he can go” in making concessions in fiscal cliff bargaining, said Portman. “But a win would have improved chances for an agreement” by demonstrating that Boehner could deliver votes. “His own Republican team let him down and that always hurts a leader,” said veteran Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. This would be the year when the global economy finally regained its vigor. At least that’s what many had hoped. It didn’t happen. The three largest economies — the United States, China and Japan — struggled again in 2012. The 17 countries that use the euro endured a third painful year in their financial crisis and slid into recession. Emerging economies slowed. President Barack Obama defied predictions by sailing to re-election. And his landmark health care plan surprisingly survived Supreme Court review. Obama’s re-election triggered a face-off with Republicans over averting the “fiscal cliff” — the drastic spending cuts and tax increases that were set to kick in Jan. 1. The tech world dueled over smartphones and tablets and saw Facebook’s IPO sour as fast as it had sizzled. The housing market inched toward recovery. And Americans suffered both a catastrophic drought and a catastrophic superstorm. Least surprisingly, perhaps, another gallery of rogues brought investigative scrutiny to Wall Street. The achingly slow global economic recovery was chosen as the top business story of the year by business editors at The Associated Press. The U.S. presidential election came in second, followed by the Supreme Court’s upholding Obama’s health-care plan. 1. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Worldwide growth was slack again in 2012. The global economy grew just 3.3 percent, down from 3.8 percent in 2011 and 5.1 percent in 2010, the International Monetary Fund estimates. The U.S. economy, the world’s largest, failed to gain traction. Five years after a recession seized the economy and more than three years after it ended, growth in the United States was only about 2 percent. Unemployment remained a high 7.7 percent. 2. U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Obama vaulted to a re-election victory over Mitt Romney, who had staked his bid on the weakest U.S. economic rebound since the Great Depression and had pledged to slash taxes. Unemployment under Obama topped 8 percent for 43 straight months. Yet he won despite the highest unemployment rate of any president seeking re-election since World War II. Voters assigned him higher marks on the economy as the year progressed, perhaps encouraged by job gains. As the fiscal cliff neared, Obama fought to raise taxes on the highestearning Americans. He also demanded aid for the long-term unemployed and money for roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Economists raised hopes that if the fiscal cliff was averted, the gloom would lift in Obama’s second term. 3. OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN UPHELD: The Supreme Court caught many by surprise when it backed Obama admin- 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. istration’s health care reform in a 5-4 vote. The law requires Americans to buy insurance or pay a tax, while subsidizing the needy. Hospitals and health insurers will likely benefit from 30 million new customers. Medical device makers, though, will face a new sales tax. And some small businesses say the law will discourage hiring because it requires companies to provide health care once they employ more than 50. 4. THE FISCAL CLIFF: A dreaded package of tax increases and deep spending cuts to domestic and defense programs loomed over the economy in the year’s final months. Negotiators struggled to forge a budget deal to avert those measures. If they failed, the tax increases and spending cuts would kick in Jan. 1. That threat was intended to be so chilling that it would force Congress and the White House to take the painful budgetary steps needed to avoid it. Economists warned that if the fiscal cliff measures remained in place for much of 2013, they would cause a recession. 5. FACEBOOK’s IPO: Years of anticipation led to Facebook’s initial public offering of stock — the hottest Internet IPO since Google’s in 2004. Many of the billion or so users of the world’s largest online social network craved a chance to buy in early. On the eve of its first trading day, Facebook’s market value was $104 billion — more than Amazon.com’s or McDonald’s at the time. Yet the IPO bombed. Its debut was marred by technical glitches with the Nasdaq exchange, allegations that a revenue gap wasn’t publicly disclosed and complaints that the IPO had been priced too high. Traders lost confidence fast. Within three months, Facebook’s stock had shed more than half its IPO value. 6. HOUSING RECOVERY: After a sixyear slump that sent more than 4 million homes into foreclosure and shrank home prices about one-third nationwide, the U.S. housing market began to recover in mid-year. Modest job gains and record-low mortgage rates fueled demand. And the supply of available homes sank. By June, prices began rising. And builders broke ground on the most homes in four years. Housing boosted economic growth this year for the first time since 2005. 7. THE RETURN OF BIG OIL: Domestic crude oil production achieved its biggest one-year gain since 1951, driven by output in North Dakota and Texas. The United States is on pace to pass Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer within two years. Credit goes to drilling improvements, like those that have fed a boom in domestic natural-gas production — horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The new production helped cut natural gas prices to their lowest levels in more than a decade. Higher oil production helped reduce oil imports to 1992 levels and hand record profits to U.S. refiners. Gasoline prices declined in the last three months of the year. But for all of 2012, the average gallon was a record $3.63. The Daily Sentinel Ohio Valley Publishing Co. 111 Court Street Pomeroy, Ohio Phone (740) 992-2156 Fax (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Sammy M. Lopez Publisher Stephanie Filson Managing Editor �Wednesday, December 26, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 5 Obituaries Jeremiah Lee Bentley Jeremiah Lee Bentley, 32, of Middleport, Ohio, passed away on December 21, 2012. He was born on November 29, 1980, in Athens, Ohio, son of Jerry Bentley and Donna Bentley. He is survived by his wife, Jesi Bentley of Middleport; mother, Donna Bentley of Albany, Ohio; father, Jerry (Rhea) Bentley of Pomeroy; sisters, Nikki (Greg) Tribe of Albany, Billi (Shawn) Arnott of Pomeroy, and Jerri (Jeremy Dingey) Bentley of Middleport; mother-in-law, Tammy (Dennis) Butcher of Middleport; sister-in-law, Kelsey Butcher of Middleport; nieces and nephews, Shawntee, Alex, Will, Cole, Emiliana, Kai, Juliet and Rosalee; best friend, JT Humphreys; and his special pets, Brianna, Achilles and Hunter. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, December 28, 2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastor Justin Roush officiating. Visiting hours will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Vernon E. Bing Vernon E. Bing, 47, of Gallipolis, died Monday, December 24, 2012, at his residence. Arrangements will be announced later by Willis Funeral Home. Barbara A. Carter Barbara A. Carter, 61, of Gallipolis, Ohio, died Monday, December 24, 2012, at the Abbyshire Place. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 29, 2012, at Willis Funeral Home, with Minister Mike Lynn officiating. Burial will follow in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. on Friday December 28, 2012. Gladys Louise Gerlach Gladys Louise Gerlach, 72, of Letart, West Virginia, died December 24, 2012. Private funeral services will be held. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson Funeral Home. Rose Marie Grindstaff Rose Marie Grindstaff, 78, of Racine, Ohio, died December 19, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 28, 2012, at the Racine United Methodist Church. Visiting hours will be Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy. Orlyn Glenn ‘Bo’ Wallace Orlyn Glenn ‘Bo’ Wallace, 79, of Bidwell, died Monday morning December 24, 2012, at his son’s home in Gallipolis. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday December 29, 2012, at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home with Rev. Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will follow in Macedonia Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from noon until the time of service. Military Funeral Honors will be presented at the cemetery by the Gallia County Veterans Funeral Detail. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to either Holzer Hospice 100 Jackson Pike Gallipolis, Ohio 45631 or to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718 Oklahoma City, OK 73123. Oregon mall shooting survivor tells her story PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A teen who survived the Dec. 11 shooting at an Oregon shopping mall says she didn’t realize the gun that shot her was real until bullets started whizzing past. One media outlet shared on Saturday 15-year-old Kristina Shevchenko’s perspective on what happened that day, when two other people died. The teen was walking home from school and took a shortcut through the Clackamas Town Center. When she heard the first shots, she hid behind a pillar with her best friend, but when she looked down, she realized she had been shot in the chest. “I did feel a huge amount of pressure and pain but honestly it feels like — you can’t describe what it feels like,” she said. She says she initially thought Jacob Roberts, who was dressed in black and wearing a mask, was pulling a prank. The teen struggles with why she survived and two others died. “It is hard to think that, why should they have to be the ones that weren’t able to run away. They were just passing by like all other people, why should it be that they have to be the ones that didn’t get away,” Shevchenko said. When asked about the man who shot her, she harbors no hate. Instead she’s hoping to remind others just how precious life is. “He might have had a hard life, I don’t know what his life was like or his reasons for doing what he did. I can’t exactly blame him. It only shows how prepared we have to be, and how we have to cherish every moment because you never know when it could be the last,” Shevchenko said. The Shevchenkos expressed their condolences to the families of Steve Forsyth and Cindy Yuille and thanked the community for its continued support. Her father says it’s a miracle that she survived. He says Kristina is the family’s Christmas gift. Cincinnati Freedom Center’s outlook improves CINCINNATI (AP) — A museum merger has meant a brighter outlook for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The long-struggling museum and information center on Cincinnati’s riverfront united in July with the Cincinnati Museum Center. That has helped save money on shared operating costs, and the center also has seen more community and outside support. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that attendance is up, finances are solid, and the center is now looking at plans for improvements and expansion. “The community really rallied around us,” said Kim Robinson, the executive director. More than a dozen companies helped out with donated or deeply discounted services, including lending accountants, architects, marketers and others. “People really wanted to help this place,” said Maria Beatriz Rodriguez, a Procter & Gamble Co. executive loaned by the Cincinnati-based consumer products company to be the Freedom Center’s chief growth officer. Combining finance, human resources, information technology and visitor services saved some $570,000, while job cuts meant another $340,000. All together, some $1.3 million in savings is projected from the merger, after a $1.5 million budget shortfall a year ago had led to dire predictions that the center might have to close. The merger has also helped finances for the Cincinnati Museum Center, which includes arts, cultural and historical organizations at the Cincinnati Union Terminal. Projections for the last six months of 2012 are that Freedom Center attendance will run 5.4 percent higher than the same period a year ago, growing to 40,690 for the six months. The Freedom Center has focused on improving interaction with guests, and it also is looking at more improvements and new uses for the building. Among possibilities are a major restaurant and showing theater offerings on outside walls. There could be enhanced exhibits with more storytelling and music. The center is also expanding its international brand that links the story of the 19th century battle against slavery by AfricanAmericans to contemporary global slavery and human trafficking. One example is a documentary “Journey to Freedom” that was co-produced with the U.S. State Department to call attention to forced labor and sex trafficking. Ranchers split over US border security plan NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — When Dan Bell drives through his 35,000-acre cattle ranch, he speaks of the hurdles that the Border Patrol faces in his rolling green hills of oak and mesquite trees — the hours it takes to drive to some places, the wilderness areas that are generally off-limits to motorized vehicles, the environmental reviews required to extend a dirt road. John Ladd offers a different take from his 14,000-acre spread: the Border Patrol already has more than enough roads and its beefed-up presence has flooded his land and eroded the soil. Their differences explain why ranchers are on opposite sides of the fence over a sweeping proposal to waive environmental reviews on federal lands within 100 miles of Mexico and Canada for the sake of border security. The Border Patrol would have a free hand to build roads, camera towers, helicopter pads and living quarters without any of the outside scrutiny that can modify or even derail plans to extend its footprint. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill authored by Utah Republican Rob Bishop in June. But prospects in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate are extremely slim and chances of President Barack Obama’s signature even slimmer. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified in Congress this year that the bill was unnecessary and “bad policy.” Still, an idea that House Republicans kicked around for years has advanced farther in the legislative process than ever before and rekindled discussion over how to balance border security with wildlife protection. The debate raises some of the same ques- tions that will play out on a larger scale when Congress and the president tackle immigration reform: Is the U.S. border with Mexico secure, considered by some lawmakers to be a litmus test for granting legal residency and citizenship to millions? Has the U.S. reached a point of border security overkill? Heightened enforcement — along with a fewer available jobs in the U.S. and an aging population in Mexico — has brought Border Patrol arrests to 40-year lows. The U.S. has erected 650 miles of fences and other barriers on the Mexican border, almost all of it after a 2005 law gave the Homeland Security secretary power to waive environmental reviews. The administration of President George W. Bush exercised its waiver authority on hundreds of miles after years of court challenges and environmental reviews delayed construction on a 14-mile stretch in San Diego. The Border Patrol, which has doubled to more than 21,000 agents since 2004, has also built 12 “forward operating bases” to increase its presence in remote areas. Instead of driving long distances from their stations every shift, agents stay at the camps for several days. Lots more needs to be done, according to backers of Bishop’s bill to rewrite rules on millions of acres of federal land managed by the Interior and Agriculture departments, including more than 800 miles bordering Mexico and 1,000 miles bordering Canada. The bill would waive reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and 14 other laws in dozens of wilderness areas, national forests and national parks. Sarah Hawley | Daily Sentinel Eastern High School senior Mallory Nicodemus, pictured with board member Floyd Ridenour, was recognized a a high school student of the month and an outstanding humanitarian. Eastern From Page 1 proper certification. Sam Thompson was approved as the junior high track coach. Student teachers approved were Sarah Mitchell with Debbie Weber (fourth); Leah Glanzman with Debbie Pratt (third); Erin Poling with Betsy Jones (first); Jessica Scheidler with Sandy Needs (third); Katelyn Walls with Bonnie Owens (third). Four days off without pay were approved for Mary Anne Moore. Christie Casto was ap- proved as a part-time paraprofessional at he negotiated salary schedule, effective Jan. 7, 2013. Open enrollment students approved were Rebecca Bissell and Ben Bailey, both current students in the district. The SOAR field trip to Movies 10 on Jan. 25, 2013, was approved for students and chaperones. Minutes of the previous meeting, financial reports, and an amendment to the permanent appropriation resolution and certified additional revenue to the Meigs County Auditor, were approved as presented. Membership with the Ohio School Board Association Legal Assistance Fund for Calendar Year 2013 in the amount of $250 was approved. A donation of $550 from the Meigs County Fish and Game Association for National Archery in School Program was accepted. The organizational meeting, budget hearing, and regular Jan. meeting were set for Jan. 9, with the budget hearing to begin at 5:30 p.m. and meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Eastern Library Conference Room. Mark W. Nolan, MD OB/GYN Returning with the same GREAT staff: Brenda, Kathy and Kara!! 60378995 �The Daily Sentinel Sports WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012 mdssports@heartlandpublications.com Weeden, Richardson injured in Browns’ loss DENVER (AP) — The already injury-ravaged Cleveland Browns lost their two best playmakers in quarterback Brandon Weeden and running back Trent Richardson to injuries in their 34-12 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Weeden hurt his right shoulder when he was sacked by linebacker Von Miller in the third quarter and Richardson, a fellow rookie, hurt his left ankle when backup quarterback Colt McCoy fell into him in the final minute of the blowout. McCoy was hit hard by safety Mike Adams just as he released a pass, and Richardson, who was in the backfield in pass protection, emerged from the pile hopping on his right foot as he made his way to the sideline. He was carted off the field after the game. Richardson appeared to be in significant pain as he was helped back onto the cart after being examined in the X-ray room. Reports out of Cleveland an hour after the game said Richardson left the stadium in a walking boot but said his ankle wasn’t broken. “None of these injuries I have much information on … so we’ll have to evaluate them as we go and see where we’re at,” Cleveland coach Pat Shurmur said. Richardson carried nine times for 53 yards but had just four carries after the Browns’ first series, and having a franchise-type player in the game at the end of a blowout will certainly draw more scrutiny to Shurmur. Weeden was knocked from the game in the third quarter when he couldn’t avoid the heavy rush and went down hard. After walking off the field, the rookie slammed his helmet on the bench. Weeden was examined by trainers on the sideline and then taken into the locker room. “I’m all right,” Weeden said as he made his way to the shower. He was replaced by McCoy, who completed his first pass of the season in the fourth quarter. McCoy later threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Greg Little to cut the Broncos lead to 31-12. Earlier in the game, Browns cornerback Sheldon Brown left with a concussion after colliding with Broncos receiver Brandon Stokley. Brown was trying to cover Demaryius Thomas over the middle of the field when he bumped into Stokley, who drew an offensive pass interference penalty. Broncos cornerback Tracy Porter left with a concussion in the first quarter after playing just three snaps in the nickel defense in his first game since Oct. 7. Porter was banged up when he hit Josh Gordon after the Browns receiver caught a pass for a short gain. Porter had been deactivated for the previous nine games after experiencing symptoms similar to those he had last summer that preceded a seizure. Nhat V. Meyer | San Jose Mercury News | MCT photo USA’s Gabby Douglas competes on the balance beam during the women’s gymnastics team final during the Summer Olympic Games in London, England, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Jeff Siner | Charlotte Observer | MCT photo Spectators and fans watch as Michael Phelps walks to the starting blocks prior to the Men’s 200 LC Meter Freestyle A-Final race on May 11. The heat was part of the 2012 NC Charlotte UltraSwim held at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Douglas wins AP Michael Phelps voted AP male athlete of year female athlete of the year honors Paul Newberry AP Sports Writer Nancy Armour The Associated Press When Gabby Douglas allowed herself to dream of being the Olympic champion, she imagined having a nice little dinner with family and friends to celebrate. Maybe she’d make an appearance here and there. “I didn’t think it was going to be crazy,” Douglas said, laughing. “I love it. But I realized my perspective was going to have to change.” Just a bit. The teenager has become a worldwide star since winning the Olympic all-around title in London, the first African-American gymnast to claim gymnastics’ biggest prize. And now she has earned another honor. Douglas was selected The Associated Press’ female athlete of the year, edging out swimmer Missy Franklin in a vote by U.S. editors and news directors that was announced Friday. “I didn’t realize how much of an impact I made,” said Douglas, who turns 17 on Dec. 31. “My mom and everyone said, ‘You really won’t know the full impact until you’re 30 or 40 years old.’ But it’s starting to sink in.” In a year filled with standout performances by female athletes, those of the pint-sized gymnast shined brightest. Douglas received 48 of 157 votes, seven more than Franklin, who won four gold medals and a bronze in London. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open two years after her career was nearly derailed by a series of health problems, was third (24). Britney Griner, who led Baylor to a 40-0 record and the NCAA title, and skier Lindsey Vonn each got 18 votes. Sprinter Allyson Felix, who won three gold medals in London, and Carli Lloyd, who scored both U.S. goals in the Americans’ 2-1 victory over Japan in the goldmedal game, also received votes. See DOUGLAS ‌| 8 Now that he’s away from the pool, Michael Phelps can reflect — really reflect — on what he accomplished. Pretty amazing stuff. “It’s kind of nuts to think about everything I’ve gone through,” Phelps said. “I’ve finally had time to myself, to sit back and say, ‘… that really happened?’ It’s kind of shocking at times.” Not that his career needed a capper, but Phelps added one more honor to his staggering list of accomplishments Thursday — The Associated Press male athlete of the year. Phelps edged out LeBron James to win the award for the second time, not only a fitting payoff for another brilliant Olympics (four gold medals and two silvers in swimming at the London Games) but recognition for one of the greatest careers in any sport. Phelps finished with 40 votes in balloting by U.S. editors and broadcasters, while James was next with 37. Track star Usain Bolt, who won three gold medals in London, was third with 23. Carl Lewis is the only other Olympic-related star to be named AP male athlete of the year more than once, taking the award for his track and field exploits in 1983 and ‘84. The only men hon- ored more than twice are golf’s Tiger Woods and cyclist Lance Armstrong (four times each), and basketball’s Michael Jordan (three times). “Obviously, it’s a big accomplishment,” Phelps said. “There’s so many amazing male athletes all over the world and all over our country. To be able to win this is something that just sort of tops off my career.” Phelps retired at age 27 as soon as he finished his final race in London, having won more gold medals (18) and overall medals (22) than any other Olympian. No one else is even close. “That’s what I wanted to do,” Phelps said. “Now that it’s over, it’s something I can look back on and say, ‘That was a pretty amazing ride.’” The current ride isn’t so bad either. Set for life financially, he has turned his fierce competitive drive to golf, working on his links game with renowned coach Hank Haney as part of a television series on the Golf Channel. In fact, after being informed of winning the AP award, Phelps called in from the famed El Dorado Golf & Beach Club in Los Cabos, Mexico, where he was heading out with Haney to play a few more holes before nightfall. “I can’t really complain,” Phelps quipped over the phone. Certainly, he has no complaints about his swimming career, which helped turn a sport that most Americans only paid attention to every four years into more of a mainstream pursuit. More kids took up swimming. More advertisers jumped on board. More viewers tuned in to watch. While swimming is unlikely to ever match the appeal of football or baseball, it has carved out a nice little niche for itself amid all the other athletic options in the United States — largely due to Phelps’ amazing accomplishments and aw-shucks appeal. Just the fact that he won over James shows just how much pull Phelps still has. James had an amazing year by any measure: The league MVP won his first NBA title with the Miami Heat, picking up finals MVP honors along the way, and then starred on the gold medal-winning U.S. basketball team in London. Phelps already had won the AP award in 2008 after his eight gold medals in Beijing, which broke Mark Spitz’s record. Phelps got it again with a performance that didn’t quite match up to the Great Haul of China, but was amazing in its own right. After the embarrassment of being photographed taking a hit See PHELPS ‌| 8 OVP Sports Schedule Colts, Bengals make playoffs with wins Thursday, Dec. 27 Boys Basketball PPHS at Wyoming East Tourney, 6 p.m. Girls Basketball Alexander at River Valley, 6 p.m. Gallia Academy vs. Meigs at South Gallia Tourney, 6 p.m. Point Pleasant at South Gallia, 8 p.m. Hannan at Federal Hocking, 6 p.m. Wrestling Coaches Corner Classic at Gallia Academy, 10 a.m. Quad at Wahama, 8 a.m. Swimming River Valley at U. of Charleston, TBA Friday, Dec. 28 Boys Basketball Meigs at Southern, 6 p.m. Hannan at Wahama, 6 p.m. River Valley vs. Belpre at Marietta College, 9:30 Symmes Valley at South Gallia, 6 p.m. Eastern at Alexander, 6 p.m. OVCS vs. Huntington Ross at Wellston, 6 p.m. PPHS at Wyoming East Tourney, 6 p.m. Wrestling PPHS at Wheeling Park Duals, 6 p.m. URG Sports Men’s Basketball at Cleveland State, 7 p.m. Barry Wilner The Associated Press One year after putting together the NFL’s worst record, the Indianapolis Colts are headed to the playoffs. Joining them on Sunday were the Cincinnati Bengals, finishing out the field in the AFC. The Colts (10-5) equaled the 2008 Miami Dolphins as the only teams to win at least 10 games after losing 14 or more the previous season. Top overall draft pick Andrew Luck completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Wayne late in the fourth quarter for a 20-13 victory at Kansas City. Cincinnati qualified for a second straight postseason berth for only the second time in franchise history, edging archrival Pittsburgh 13-10. The Bengals have never gone to the playoffs in successive years that did not involve a strike-shortened season. Luck finished with 205 yards passing to break Cam Newton’s year-old rookie record of 4,051 yards in a season. He also extended his rookie record for fourth-quarter comebacks to seven by leading his team downfield in the closing minutes. “Mission accomplished. That’s all I can say,” Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said. “Without getting emotional again, knowing that (coach Chuck Pagano) is going to be back Monday, the work week shouldn’t be as stressful.” Pagano has been sidelined since a loss to Jacksonville in Week 3. For the Bengals (9-6), Andy Dalton hit A.J. Green with a 21-yard pass in the final moments, setting up Josh Brown’s 43-yard field goal with 4 seconds remaining. The loss eliminated the Steelers from contention. “A lot of people talked about we hadn’t been in in back-to-back seasons in 30 years,” Green said. “I don’t worry about that stuff. I’ve been here two years and we made the playoffs all two years. That’s all we can control.” Minnesota’s 23-6 win at Houston prevented the Texans from earning home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. AFC South champion Houston (12-3) still can get that by winning at Indianapolis in the season finale. New England has won the AFC East, Denver the West. 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The office number and fax number remain the same, but the new email contacts for the sports department are Alex Hawley at ahawley@civitasmedia.com and Bryan Walters at bwalters@civitasmedia.com Mason County Youth Wrestling signups POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The signups dates for the Mason County Youth Wrestling League are as such: First Point Weigh In from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on January 3 at Hartley Wrestling Building. Second Point Weigh In from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on January 8 at Hartley Wrestling Building. Last Chance Weigh in from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. on January 15 at Hartley Wrestling Building. There is a registration fee. NFL’s ‘nice little story’ gets even better Jim Litke AP Sports Columnist The Colts were a nice little story six weeks ago. That’s when a team that started 1-2 and had “rebuilding” written all over it responded to the loss of rookie coach Chuck Pagano with one of those how-did-they-do-it winning streaks — and that was supposed to be that. Considering the Colts finished 2-14 a year ago, then said goodbye to Peyton Manning and turned the rest of the roster upside-down, the season was already a success. Fans in Indianapolis knew can’tmiss rookie quarterback Andrew Luck was bound to improve, but explaining the 4-1 run after Pagano left the team to deal with leukemia was tough enough, especially because there was precious little room elsewhere for improvement. The Colts still can’t run the ball, and they still start rookies at nearly every one of the skill positions. The defense? Don’t ask. Yet the story just got better. Indianapolis was outgained by more than 200 yards Sunday in Kansas City. The Colts lost the time-ofpossession battle but still won 20-13 and locked up an improbable playoff spot. “Mission accomplished,” Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said, as though he expected as much. “That’s all I can say. It’s a fantastic feeling.” And the story is about to get better still. Pagano has been cleared to return, perhaps as early as Monday. He might have been the only guy in the entire organization who was expecting great things when he took over, but an entire squad and staff have come over to his side in his absence. Arians, who stepped in for his close pal and consulted Pagano throughout his ordeal, is a candidate for coach of the year. And Luck, who threw for a modest 205 yards and a touchdown, still made up a lot of ground in his race against similarly impressive first-year quarterback starters Robert Griffin III of Washington and Russell Wilson of Seattle because of something he didn’t do — throw a costly interception. Even the much-maligned defense got into the act, with Darius Butler picking off Brady Quinn’s pass and returning it for a touchdown five plays into the game, and whole unit rising up to stuff Quinn on a quarterback sneak late in the game, turning the ball back over to Luck in time for a rookie-record seventh winning drive. “Whenever teams go for it on fourth down, the defense takes it personal,” Indianapolis end Dwight Freeney said. If the defensive stand was a surprise, what Luck did with the opportunity wasn’t. The Colts’ running game is still little more than a chance for Luck to catch his breath, and despite the emergence of receivers T.Y. Hilton and Dwayne Allen, just about everybody in Arrowhead Stadium was looking at veteran wideout Reggie Wayne. So was Luck, who saw him cut through a seam in the middle of the defense, then fired a high, hard pass that Wayne latched onto in the end zone for a 7-yard score. Luck owns the rookie records for most yards, most 300-yard games, most winning drives, and the strike to Wayne put him closer to the rookie record of 26 touchdown passes set by none other than Manning. And just like Manning, to whom Luck was often compared before the season, the rookie knew exactly what to say about all of them. “I think it definitely means something. After the season I’ll have a chance to reflect back on it. Obviously, it is nicer to be in the playoffs and know that,” Luck said, “but it is nice to have a couple records that I’m sure will be broken in the next year.” What he said next, though, came as something of a surprise. “I think we were confident in the locker room from day one. I remember going in, trying to gauge the feel of what it was going to be like. Guys were confident on this team, like Reggie Wayne who had never missed a playoff until that year. Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis, those guys are winners, they know how to win, so I think they imparted some of that magic, if you will, on some of the younger guys, the newer guys. “It was a confident bunch, we never prepared to lose a game, we always prepared to win, and I guess that worked out.” It’s still a mystery exactly how, but Luck wasn’t going to spend much more time dwelling on that than he did on accumulating records. “I guess it will be an extra special Christmas,” he said, referring to Pagano’s return. “There will be a lot of emotions when he comes through the door. It’s funny, there are probably 10 guys who have never met Chuck on the team, but I think they will be emotional too because I’m sure they feel like they know him, too, because his presence is felt so much in the building out here, and wherever we go.” Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano watches game action in the first half. The Indianapolis Colts take on the St. Louis Rams in their first preseason game on Sunday, August 12, 2012, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Phelps From Page 6 from a marijuana pipe and questioning whether he still had the desire to go on, Phelps returned with a vengeance as the London Games approached. Never mind that he was already the winningest Olympian ever. Never mind that he could’ve eclipsed the record for overall medals just by swimming on the relays. He wanted to be one of those rare athletes who went out on top. “That’s just who he is,” said Bob Bowman, his longtime coach. “He just couldn’t live with himself if knew he didn’t go out there and give it good shot and really know he’s com- petitive. He doesn’t know anything else but to give that kind of effort and have those kind of expectations.” Phelps got off to a rocky start in London, finishing fourth in the 400-meter individual medley, blown out of the water by his friend and rival, Ryan Lochte. It was only the second time that Phelps had not at least finished in the top three of an Olympic race, the first coming way back in 2000 when he was fifth in his only event of the Sydney Games as a 15-year-old. To everyone looking in, Lochte seemed poised to become the new Phelps — while the real Phelps appeared all washed up. But he wasn’t going out like that. No way. Phelps rebounded to become the biggest star at the pool, edging Lochte in the 200 IM, contributing to a pair of relay victories, and winning his final individual race, the 100 butterfly. There were two silvers, as well, leaving Phelps with a staggering resume that will be awfully difficult for anyone to eclipse. His 18 golds are twice as many as anyone else in Olympic history. His 22 medals are four clear of Larisa Latynina, a Sovietera gymnast, and seven more than the next athlete on the list. Heck, if Phelps was a nation, he’d be 58th in the medal standings, just one behind India (population: 1.2 billion). “When I’m flying all over the place, I write a lot in my journal,” Phelps said. “I kind of relive all the memories, all the moments I had throughout my career. That’s pretty special. I’ve never done that before. It’s amazing when you see it all on paper.” Four months into retirement, Phelps has no desire to get back in the pool. Oh, he’ll swim every now and then for relaxation, using the water to unwind rather than putting in one of his famously grueling practices. Golf is his passion at the moment, but he’s also found time to cheer on his hometown NFL team, the Baltimore Ravens, and start looking around for a racehorse that he and Bowman can buy together. Phelps hasn’t turned his back on swimming, either. He’s got his name attached to a line of schools that he wants to take worldwide. He’s also devoting more time to his foundation, which is dedicated to teaching kids to swim and funding programs that will grow the sport even more. He’s already done so much. “His contribution to the way the world thinks about swimming is so powerful,” Bowman said. “I don’t think any other athlete has transformed his sport the way he’s transformed swimming.” Phelps still receives regular texts from old friends and teammates, asking when he’s going to give up on this retirement thing and come back the pool as a competitor. He scoffs at the notion, sounding more sure of himself now than he did in London. And if there’s anything we’ve learned: Don’t doubt Michael Phelps when he sets his mind on something. “Sure, I could come back in another four years. But why?” he asked, not waiting for an answer. “I’ve done everything I wanted to do. There’s no point in coming back.” Playoffs From Page 6 defending Super Bowl champions to the brink of elimination. Washington’s 27-20 win at Philadelphia, combined with New Orleans beating Dallas 3431 in overtime means the Redskins will win the NFC East by beating the Cowboys next week. But Dallas takes the division by winning that game at Washington. “They know what it means,” coach Mike Shanahan said. “They’ve been working toward this opportunity to win the division. Any time you win the divi- sion, everybody knows you have a home game in the playoffs. We talked about that from Day 1. They knew what we had to do to get there. We haven’t accomplished anything yet.” Green Bay clinched at least the third seed in the NFC when it routed Tennessee 55-7. The NFC North champs (11-4) still could wind up second overall in the conference and get a bye. “We have momentum going for us, particularly what we’ve done over the last nine weeks, 10 weeks,” coach Mike McCarthy said of Green Bay’s nine wins in the last 10 games. “So we wanted to take the next step as a football team and I felt we were able to accomplish that today.” On Saturday night, NFC South winner Atlanta won 3118 at Detroit to clinch homefield advantage throughout the conference playoffs. Douglas From Page 6 “One of the few years the women’s (Athlete of the Year) choices are more compelling than the men’s,” said Julie Jag, sports editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Douglas is the fourth gymnast to win one of the AP’s annual awards, which began in 1931, and first since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. She also finished 15th in voting for the AP sports story of the year. Douglas wasn’t even in the conversation for the Olympic title at the beginning of the year. That all changed in March when she upstaged reigning world champion and teammate Jordyn Wieber at the American Cup in New York, showing off a new vault, an ungraded uneven bars routine and a dazzling personality that would be a hit on Broadway and Madison Avenue. She finished a close second to Wieber at the U.S. championships, then beat her two weeks later at the Olympic trials. With each competition, her confidence grew. So did that smile. By the time the Americans got to London, Douglas had emerged as the most consistent gymnast on what was arguably the best team the U.S. has ever had. She posted the team’s highest score on all but one event in qualifying. She was the only gymnast to compete in all four events during team finals, when the Americans beat the Russians in a rout for their second Olympic title, and first since 1996. Two nights later, Douglas claimed the grandest prize of all, joining Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin as what Bela Karolyi likes to call the “Queen of Gymnastics.” But while plenty of other athletes won gold medals in London, none capti- vated the public quite like Gabby. Fans ask for hugs in addition to photographs and autographs, and people have left restaurants and cars upon spotting her. She made Barbara Walters’ list of “10 Most Fascinating People,” and Forbes recently named her one of its “30 Under 30.” She has deals with Nike, Kellogg Co. and AT&T, and agent Sheryl Shade said Douglas has drawn interest from companies that don’t traditionally partner with Olympians or athletes. “She touched so many people of all generations, all diversities,” Shade said. “It’s her smile, it’s her youth, it’s her excitement for life. … She transcends sport.” Douglas’ story is both heartwarming and inspiring, its message applicable those young or old, male or female, active or couch potato. She was just 14 when she convinced her mother to let her leave their Vir- ginia Beach, Va., home and move to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with Liang Chow, Shawn Johnson’s coach. Though her host parents, Travis and Missy Parton, treated Douglas as if she was their fifth daughter, Douglas was so homesick she considered quitting gymnastics. She’s also been open about her family’s financial struggles, hoping she can be a role model for lower income children. “I want people to think, ‘Gabby can do it, I can do it,’” Douglas said. “Set that bar. If you’re going through struggles or injuries, don’t let it stop you from what you want to accomplish.” The grace she showed under pressure — both on and off the floor — added to her appeal. When some fans criticized the way she wore her hair during the Olympics, Douglas simply laughed it off. “They can say whatever they want. We all have a voice,” she said. “I’m not going to focus on it. I’m not really going to focus on the negative.” Besides, she’s having far too much fun. Her autobiography, “Grace, Gold and Glory,” is No. 4 on the New York Times’ young adult list. She, Wieber and Fierce Five teammates Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney recently wrapped up a 40-city gymnastics tour. She met President Barack Obama last month with the rest of the Fierce Five, and left the White House with a souvenir. “We got a sugar cookie that they were making for the holidays,” Douglas said. “I took a picture of it.” Though her busy schedule hasn’t left time to train, Douglas insists she still intends to compete through the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016. No female Olympic champion has gone on to compete at the next Summer Games since Nadia Comaneci. But Douglas is still a relative newcomer to the elite scene — she’d done all of four international events before the Olympics — and Chow has said she hasn’t come close to reaching her full potential. She keeps up with Chow through email and text messages, and plans to return to Iowa after her schedule clears up in the spring. Of course, plenty of other athletes have said similar things and never made it back to the gym. But Douglas is determined, and she gets giddy just talking about getting a new floor routine. “I think there’s even higher bars to set,” she said. Because while being an Olympic champion may have changed her life, it hasn’t changed her. “I may be meeting cool celebrities and I’m getting amazing opportunities,” she said. “But I’m still the same Gabby.” �Wednesday, December 26, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 9 Wednesday, december 26, 2012 COMICS/ENTERTAINMENT BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun BEETLE BAILEY FUNKY WINKERBEAN HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI & LOIS Mort Walker Today’s Answers Tom Batiuk Chris Browne Brian and Greg Walker THE LOCKHORNS MUTTS William Hoest Patrick McDonnell Jacquelene Bigar’s HOROSCOPE ZITS THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman CONCEPTIS SUDOKU by Dave Green HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012: This year you often view effectiveness as a goal. Sometimes you could glide right over the deeper meaning of a situation. Emotions will dominate your day-to-day routine. More often than not, they will be positive feelings; however, sometimes they point you in the direction of overindulgence. Be open. If you are single, you could meet someone important through your work. It could take a while to recognize this person, though — perhaps even until the second half of the year. If you are attached, the two of you make an excellent team when it comes to practical matters. Allow this excellence to float into your emotional bond. GEMINI often irks you, as he or she seems to miss profound issues. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You still might be going to extremes and might find yourself floating on the wave of excitement left over from all the celebrating. Work with a loved one who feels stressed financially. Help this person see the light at the end of the tunnel. Tonight: Avoid a fight at all costs. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Curb a tendency to want everything to go your way. This need for control could distance others. Do you really want that to happen? Trying to dictate to others seems nearly impossible, yet some people might decide to go along with your wishes. Tonight: Make calls. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Your smile attracts many people. A conversation could make someone feel misunderstood on some level. Allow heavy issues to float over you. You know that there is much more going on here than meets the eye. Tonight: Whatever knocks your socks off. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Much is going on behind the scenes. You might not be ready to discuss these issues. A child or loved one might reflect your mood. Do not attribute this person’s behavior to control games. He or she simply is echoing your energy. Tonight: How about some extra sleep? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Do not hesitate to ask for what you want, even if you already feel indulged. Listen to your instincts with a family member. This person needs someone to pitch in. You can make quite a difference; you know what to do. Let go of a misunderstanding. Tonight: Where people are. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Take charge of a situation. Others simply have a hard time moving in and handling difficult matters. Adjust your schedule. A loved one could be miffed that you are not spending more time with him or her. Explanations might not work, either. Tonight: Could be late. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Return calls, and focus on plans for a potential trip. Go with your feelings, even if you believe yourself to be rather vulnerable. The reception you receive might be much different from what you expected, and in a sense, it will be calming. Tonight: Let your mind relax to a movie. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Deal with a partner directly. Yes, there might be an inherent misunderstanding, but right now, it might be best to let it go; otherwise, it could become worse. Let your feelings be known in a nonconfrontational manner rather than hold them back. Tonight: Be half of a duo. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Defer to others, and you might be surprised at what happens as a result. You could be more negative than you realize, and it will affect your relationships. Be willing to get in touch with your vulnerable feelings rather than get defensive. Tonight: Let bygones be bygones. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might be thinking about tomorrow already. You have, on some level, made an important decision that you are anxious to act on. Time is your ally. You might want to see if you feel the same way in a couple of days. Tonight: Do for you. AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.18) HHHHH Your mischievous personality emerges once more. You might have had a difficult realization about someone in your life, but try to think positively. You could feel differently on a deeper level. The situation could be less challenging than you think. Tonight: Lighten up! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to slow down after the recent hectic pace of the holidays. A friend could decide to breeze right in through your door. The end result will be a change of plans. Go for what you want. Be careful, as confusion marks a relationship. Tonight: Make it early. Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com. �Wednesday, December 26, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 10 Defense says ‘Bama fan competent for trial OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Defense attorneys said Thursday that a University of Alabama fan is mentally competent to stand trial on charges of poisoning Auburn University’s landmark oak trees, but they still plan to use an insanity defense. Harvey Updyke, 64, understands the charges against him, the role of the court and can assist with his defense, said Margaret Brown, one of two lawyers representing Updyke. But his mental health now and his mental health at the time of the offense are “completely different” issues, Brown told a judge. Lawyers still plan to argue that Updyke was suffering from mental problems when the trees were poisoned about two years ago. With two doctors waiting in court to testify about Updyke’s mental condition, Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob A. Walker III canceled a scheduled competency hearing. Walker said he would meet with attorneys in the case on Jan. 9 to discuss a trial date for Updyke, possibly in the spring. Updyke, wearing a crimsoncolored shirt in court, didn’t speak during the 30-minute session except to whisper to his lawyers. He previously pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to charges that include criminal mischief and desecrating a venerable object. The judge said it was “very important” for Updyke to maintain a health regimen recommended by experts that the state-run mental health facility that evaluated him, and defense lawyer Andrew Stanley said Updyke was taking medications and doing other things recommended by doctors. Updyke is accused of poisoning the Toomer’s Corner oak trees with a powerful herbicide during Auburn’s national championship run in the 2010 football season, which included a 28-27 win over his beloved Alabama team. Auburn football fans roll the trees with toilet paper after a big win, but the oaks are now gnarly and brown; the school already is making plans to replace them. The judge said Updyke can remain free in the care of a daugh- ter with restrictions that include not driving, but District Attorney Robert Treese said his office still wanted the judge to revoke the bond for Updyke. In September, Updyke was charged with terrorizing after allegedly making a threatening comment at a Lowe’s store in Hammond, La., when workers refused to give him the amount of money he wanted when returning a lawn mower. He is free on bond in that case, and Alabama prosecutors asked the judge to revoke his bond in the tree-poisoning case because of the arrest. Updyke was once a state trooper in Texas, and Brown said the defense needs mental health records from that state in planning Updyke’s court strategy. Brown said the defense also will need to hire an expert to evaluate opinions and demographics in Lee County since statistical evidence could be a key part of a continuing defense bid to move the trial elsewhere. “I’m not a statistician. I have an opinion but I don’t have the statistics to prove it,” Brown told the judge. The judge stopped Updyke’s trial in the summer during jury selection after the student newspaper at Auburn reported that Updyke admitted poisoning the trees in remarks during a break outside the courtroom. Updyke’s lawyer later said he denied making the confession. A&M’s Johnny Football is AP’s Player of the Year Kristie Rieken The Associated Press Johnny Manziel ran for almost 1,700 yards and 30 touchdowns as a dualthreat quarterback his senior year of high school at Kerrville Tivy. Who would have thought he’d be even more impressive at Texas A&M when pitted against the defenses of the Southeastern Conference? On Tuesday, Manziel picked up another major award for his spectacular debut season. He was voted The Associated Press Player of the Year. As with the Heisman Trophy and Davey O’Brien Award that Manziel already won, the QB nicknamed Johnny Football is the first freshman to collect the AP award. Manziel’s 31 votes were more than twice that of second place finisher Manti Te’o, Notre Dame’s start linebacker. He is the third straight Heisman-winning quarterback to receive the honor, following Robert Griffin III and Cam Newton. Manziel erased initial doubts about his ability when he ran for 60 yards and a score in his first game against Florida. “I knew I could run the ball, I did it a lot in high school,” Manziel said in an interview with the AP. “It is just something that you don’t get a chance to see in the spring. Quarterbacks aren’t live in the spring. You don’t get to tackle. You don’t get to evade some of the sacks that you would in normal game situations. So I feel like when I was able to avoid getting tackled, it opened some people’s eyes a little bit more.” The 6-foot-1 Manziel threw for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and ran for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to help the Aggies win 10 games for the first time since 1998 — and in their inaugural SEC year, too. Ryan Tannehill, Manziel’s predecessor now with the Dolphins after being drafted eighth overall this season, saw promise from the young quarterback last year when he was redshirted. But even he is surprised at how quickly things came together for Manziel. “It’s pretty wild. I always thought he had that playmaking ability, that something special where if somebody came free, he can make something exciting happen,” Tannehill said. “I wasn’t really sure if, I don’t think anyone was sure if he was going to be able to carry that throughout an SEC season, and he’s shocked the world and he did it.” After Manziel sat out as a redshirt in 2011, Texas A&M’s scheduled seasonopener against Louisiana Tech this year was postponed because of Hurricane Isaac. That left him to get his first taste of live defense in almost two years against Florida. He responded well, helping the Aggies race to a 17-7 lead early using both his arm and his feet. 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All new customers are subject to a one-time, non-refundable processing fee. mance was enough for Texas A&M’s coaching staff to realize that his scrambling ability was going to be a big part of what the Aggies could do this season. “The first half really showed that I was a little bit more mobile than we had seen throughout the spring,” Manziel said. “Me and (then-offensive coordinator) Kliff Kingsbury sat down and really said: ‘Hey we can do some things with my feet as well as throwing the ball.’ And it added a little bit of a new dimension.” Manziel knew that the biggest adjustment from playing in high school to college would be the speed of the game. Exactly how quick players in the SEC were was still a jolt to the quarterback. “The whole first drive I was just seeing how fast they really flew to the ball and I felt like they just moved a whole lot faster,” he said of the Florida game. “It was different than what I was used to, different than what I was used to in high school. So it was just having to learn quick and adjust on the fly.” He did just that and started piling up highlight reel material by deftly avoiding would-be tacklers to help the Aggies run off five consecutive wins after that. His storybook ride hit a roadblock when he threw a season-high three interceptions in a 24-19 loss to LSU. But Manziel used it as a learning experience, taking to heart some advice he received from Kingsbury. “He just told me to have a plan every time, before every snap,” Manziel said. “Make sure you have a plan on what you want to do and where you want to go with the ball.” “I feel like as the year went on, I just learned the offense more and knew exactly where I wanted to go, instead of maybe evading the blitz and just taking off running for the first down instead of hitting a hot route or throwing it underneath to an open guy and doing things a lot simpler and cleaner.” The Aggies and Manziel rebounded from the loss to LSU by winning their last five games, highlighted by their stunning 29-24 upset of top-ranked Alabama on Nov. 10. By the time Manziel wrapped up a 253-yard passing and 92-yard rushing performance to lead Texas A&M to the victory in Tuscaloosa, you could hardly call him a freshman anymore. “You keep growing and growing every week,” he said. “By the time I played Alabama I had a much better grasp of the game than I did in the first one.” The 4,600 yards of total offense Manziel gained in 12 games broke the SEC record for total yards in a season. The record was previously held by 2010 Heisman winner Newton, who needed 14 games to pile up 4,327 yards. The output also made him the first freshman, first player in the SEC and fifth player overall to throw for 3,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a season. Manziel, who turned 20 two days before taking home the Heisman, has been so busy he hasn’t had a second to step back and digest the historical significance of his accomplishments this season. Robert Duyos | Sun Sentinel | MCT photo New York’s Tim Tebow stretches before the Jet’s game against the Dolphins at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on Sunday, September 23, 2012. The New York Jets defeated the Miami Dolphins, 23-20, in overtime. Jets’ Tebow was ‘3 or 4’ since playing so little EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — It has been a while since Tim Tebow only watched this much from the sideline. The popular backup quarterback didn’t play a snap for the New York Jets for the fourth time in five games, a mere spectator despite being active Sunday for the 27-17 loss to the San Diego Chargers. New York will either trade or release Tebow after the season, a disappointing one-year stint with the Jets that just seems to get worse for Tebow. He was asked after the game if he could remember the last time he had played so little on the football field. “Three or 4 years old, probably,” Tebow said. “Since I started.” The former Heisman Trophy winner and two-time national champion at the University of Florida spent his first two seasons with the Denver Broncos, who used Tebow in occasional situations until he became the starter last season and led the team to the playoffs. “My rookie year, I got opportunities doing stuff,” Tebow said. “You know, goal-line, third down, fourth down and stuff like that.” Tebow was leapfrogged by Greg McElroy on the team’s depth chart when Rex Ryan chose to have the third-stringer make his first NFL start in place of the benched Mark Sanchez. All three quarterbacks were active, but only McElroy played — and Tebow never got into the game in the team’s wildcat package. Tebow said “it just happened” that he didn’t play in the package usually reserved for him, but ESPN New York reported that he actually asked out of running the wildcat earlier in the week, according to sources. The Jets used wide receiver Jeremy Kerley in the wildcat as Tebow remained on the sideline. Kerley completed a 42-yard pass to Clyde Gates out of the wildcat, and had a few other snaps out of the scheme. “Well, it’s been disappointing,” Tebow said of the season. “Obviously, it didn’t go as we thought, as I had hoped, but sometimes in life you have that. Sometimes you have setbacks and you just have to look at them as another opportunity for you to step back up and keep working and figure out what to do.” Tebow was acquired from Denver in a trade last March and expected to be a major contributor to the offense. He has been only a role player — whenever he actually plays. He took three snaps at St. Louis on Nov. 18, a week after breaking two ribs, but has played in just one game since — getting a full offensive series for the first time all season last Monday night in Tennessee. Otherwise, it has been a lot of standing around for Tebow. There were several moments throughout the game Sunday when the defense was on the field and McElroy and Sanchez went over the game plan with offensive coordinator Tony Sparano, while Tebow was off to the side talking with other teammates. “I think first and foremost, you try to do what’s right and you try to do your best and you try to treat others the way you want to be treated,” Tebow said. “Those were three things that my high school football coach taught me and it’s still just as true to this day.” Tebow was then asked if he feels he has been treated right by the Jets, and he then laughed twice. “I have a lot of great relationships with people in the Jets organization and this team,” he said. “It’s been a privilege to be a part of this team.” He also avoided a question about whether he thinks he has been given a fair chance in New York, saying he wants to focus on the future. That future could include his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars, who will pursue Tebow in the offseason, according to an ESPN report. He laughed off the rumors that he could be heading back to his hometown and the only other team besides the Jets that tried to acquire him last offseason. “We’ve just got to find a way to beat the Buffalo Bills next Sunday,” Tebow said. Tebow was asked if it was perhaps his agent Jimmy Sexton who is floating out those rumors, and the quarterback strongly defended him saying he has “Jimmy’s back.” He also disagreed with the notion that perhaps the situation was a distraction to the team as they prepared for Sunday’s game. “You look around and see all the reports and, golly, there’s a lot of random news going out there,” Tebow said. “Guys in this locker room, they don’t pay attention. So, to say it was a distraction I think is false. I don’t think it’s a distraction to anybody in this locker room. That’s the first I even heard of it. 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