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M O N D AY
DECEMBER 21, 2015
161st YEAR • NO. 201
CLEVELAND, TN 18 PAGES • 50¢
Habitat for Humanity takes No. 7 on Newsmakers
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland
Inc. worked through some highs, and
lows, during calendar year 2015. It was
also a hallmark year for the organization, Habitat’s 25th anniversary.
The much-respected organization,
and its year full of headlines, was
voted as the No. 7 story by Cleveland
Daily Banner staff writers and editors
in the Top 10 Newsmakers of 2015 list.
The local affiliate of America’s
Habitat for Humanity organization
enjoyed a positive year with four new
houses being built on the back end of
a very successful Women’s Build at the
start of 2015. These four structures
brought the number of houses sponsored by Habitat over its 25-year history to 124.
The organization lost two of its top
officers in mid-year when they were
released by the board of directors due
to alleged indiscretions. Board
President Jeff Morelock, and other
board members, refused to release
information or to make comment, concerning rumors and allegations which
spread throughout the community.
This action launched a search for a
TOP 10
NEWSMAKERS
NO. 7
new executive director and chief financial officer, which was accomplished
over a period of months.
Rick Smith was hired as the organization’s new financial manager, and
Chip Willis came on board late in the
year as the new executive director.
Smith is well known in the community, having served for years as the
financial supervisor of the Bradley
County School System.
Willis came to Habitat late in the
year, from Florida, with a wealth of
experience in the hospitality, resort
and nonprofit industries. He grew up
in Tennessee, and Willis is a graduate
of the University of Tennessee.
With new officers in place,
Cleveland’s Habitat group closed out
the year with a gala event to celebrate
the organization’s 25 years in the community. The event, held at the Old
Woolen Mill in downtown Cleveland,
recognized Habitat staff members, volunteers and supporters, and led to
some very special first-time awards.
Don Rollens and “Chuck” Haney
were announced as the first recipients
of the local Habitat’s Family Fathers
Award.
Volunteer coordinator LaManda
Bowers presented the awards during
the anniversary celebration.
Bowers said, “Without volunteers
like you, Habitat would not be where it
is today. Thank you, and all the volunSee HABITAT, Page 4
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Inside Today
By RICK NORTON
Associate Editor
Contributed photo
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students and staff gather for a photo before surprising students at Clifton Hills Elementary
School in Chattanooga with gifts for the holidays. The Cleveland school “adopted” Clifton Hills for an effort called “Operation: Unite.” Prospect brings Christmas
Skid snapped
The Atlanta Falcons ended
their six-game losing streak with
a win over Jacksonville. The
Titans were dealt yet another
loss. New Orleans and Detroit are
ready for “Monday Night Football”
action. The Cleveland Blue
Raiders’ weekend ended on a
winning note. The Atlanta Hawks
pulled off a close win over
Orlando on Sunday. See Sports,
Pages 11-13.
Local elementary’s initiative embraces
kids in Chattanooga inner-city school
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
Banner Staff Writer
Forecast
Today looks to be mostly cloudy,
with a high near 55 and a 70 percent chance of rain. Tonight’s forecast calls for rain showers off and
on through the overnight hours,
with a low around 53. Tuesday
should be cloudy, with a 60 percent
chance of rain and a high near 65.
Tuesday night calls for clouds and
an 80 percent chance of rain, with
a low around 59. Index
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Comics...........................................8
Editorials......................................14
Horoscope......................................8
MINI Page......................................5
Obituaries.......................................2
Sports......................................11-13
TV Schedule..................................9
Weather........................................10
Around Town
Doug Storey being protected
by his loving pet pooch as he
took a nap ... Diane Hampton
wishing her Banner friend a
Merry Christmas ...Wendy White
making a new friend ...
Samantha Tilley waiting on a
customer for the first time ...
Dana Teasley having a good
laugh about a childhood event.
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Students and faculty at a local elementary school recently carried out a mission called “Operation: Unite.”
The mission, which Prospect Elementary School chose to
accept, was to spread Christmas cheer by “adopting” students and faculty at another school.
Prospect guidance counselor Michele Dunkle, who helped
organize the effort, said faculty and staff were earlier this
semester refecting on all the support the school has
received from the community.
After the school had received generous support from
local businesses and individuals to make improvements to
the school, faculty began brainstorming ways to “pay it forward.”
“Really, the Lord just gave us the vision to want to bless
another school,” Dunkle said. “We hoped it would also
teach students it is good to give, rather than just to get.”
Prospect raised money for the project by holding a
“penny drive” in October during which students took spare
change to school with them. The successful endeavor
raised some $2,300.
SHOWING OFF their new hats, two students from Clifton Hills
Elementary School in Chattanooga enjoy the festivities during a visit
from students and staff of Prospect Elementary School in Cleveland. See PROSPECT, Page 10
Keeping up with municipal
growth and accommodating the
demands of a diverse service
territory require three commonalities of any public utility:
properly maintained and updated equipment, detailed planning
and the money to pay for both.
Cleveland Utilities is no
exception, as evidenced by a
recent formal session of the
Cleveland
Board
of
Public Utilities
when the fivemember governing body
signed off on
almost $1.5
million
in
spending — all
of which targeted equipWebb
ment,
city
growth and maintenance.
Ken Webb, CU president and
CEO, briefly addressed the
expenditures by pointing out
the local utility doesn’t like to
pose such spending requests to
the board, especially when the
number of bids received for
services or equipment are limited.
One example is the recommended purchase of a 2016
model, 60-foot digger derrick
line truck to replace the utilility’s existing Unit #115. The
equipment replacement was
included in CU’s Fiscal Year
2016 budget at $310,000.
However, the only bid received
came from Terex Utilities in the
amount of $323,496. This is the
same contract price through the
National Joint Power Alliance,
Webb explained.
NJPA is a national cooperaSee UTILITY, Page 4
Sissy Hilliard loves people, best
known for her ‘Fluffy’ personality
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
Dianne “Sissy” Hilliard has multiple
families, and what she calls a “fluffy”
personality.
With a heart as big as a mountain, and
a propensity to help, care and comfort,
Hilliard has developed a following in
Cleveland’s beauty shop community.
She has been the owner-operator of
Sissy’s Beauty Shop on Harrison Pike for
more than 24 years, and was at other
ladies’ care centers prior to that. Right
out of high school she worked at
Burlington Industries and later at Collins
Manufacturing.
PERSONALITY
PROFILE
The big thing about Hilliard, which
you’ll hear more than once when talking
to her, is she loves people, and that’s the
big reason she claims multiple families.
She has her personal family, her beauty shop family, and her church family at
Philippi Baptist.
During the past 10 years she has
gained a nursing home family, Bradley
Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center,
where she journeys regularly to be
around residents, and visit with staff and
administrators. She began with her mom,
then an uncle when he became ill. This
later expanded to include several other
residents.
It all has to do with the mission on
earth she believes God selected for her.
That mission is “To love, care for and
comfort people” she comes in contact
with.
Several of her close friends and
acquaintances know her by the nickname
“Fluffy,” which she acquired years ago.
See HILLIARD, Page 4
Sissy Hilliard
2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, December 21, 2015
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OBITUARIES
Donna Beaty
Donna Anderson Beaty, 78, of
Cleveland died Sunday, Dec. 20,
2015, in a local hospital.
Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by FikeRandolph & Son Funeral Home.
James Blackwell
Minn.; and several nieces and
nephews.
Visitation will be in Bowman
Hills Seventh-day Adventist
Church Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m.
Pastor Dwight Herod will conduct
the service at 6 p.m. at the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to
Bowman Hills Worthy Student
Fund.
Arrangements are by Covenant
Funeral & Crematory, Crox family
owned
and
operated,
www.CovenantFuneral.com.
James Lewis Blackwell, 64, of
Cleveland died Sunday, Dec. 20,
2015, in a local hospital.
Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by FikeRandolph & Son Funeral Home.
Barry Buttrey
Barry Buttrey, 60,
of
Cleveland, died Sunday, Dec. 20,
2015, in a Chattanooga hospital.
Survivors and arrangements
will be announced by Companion
Funeral Home.
ted Edward
Ted Edward, 78, a resident of
Cleveland, died on Saturday, Arthur ‘Elwood’ Mabes
Dec. 19, 2015, at his home.
Arthur “Elwood “Mabes, 88, of
will be announced later by Etowah, passed away peacefully
at Star Regional Hospital, Friday,
Companion Funeral Home.
Dec. 18, 2015, surrounded by his
family.
He was the son of the late
Sarah “Granny” Evans. He was a
self-employed concrete finisher.
His life was filled with blessings
and his faith in God was unwavering. Though he was a man of few
Robert hair
words, his love of Christ was
Robert Hair, 88, of Cleveland, always visible in everything he
died on Sunday night, Dec. 20, did. He was devoted to the Word
of God and through that dedica2015, at his home.
Survivors and arrangements tion, read the complete Bible up
will be announced later by to 10 times per year for a countless number of years. He was a
Companion Funeral Home.
member of Coghill Baptist Church
for more than 73 years. He
served as Sunday school adult
teacher, Training Union adult
teacher, Sunday School superintendent and was on many of the
committees each year. He took
great pride in caring for the
Ernest hartman
church grounds and cemetery for
Ernest F. Hartman, 76, of more 20 years. He loved worshipCleveland, died on Sunday, Dec. ping the Lord and would inten20, 2015, in a local hospital.
tionally tell his daughter, Winona,
Survivors and arrangements “we can only schedule vacation
will be announced by Companion for “Monday through Saturday ”so
Funeral Home.
to be sure not to miss a Sunday
service.
He was also a man who loved
his country. He gave 41 years of
his life proudly serving in the
Army and National Guard both in
Etowah and in Sweetwater. He
was a World War II Veteran, and
an active member of American
John hufschmid
John J. Hufschmid, 76, of Legion Post II, where he served
Ooltewah, died on Saturday, in various positions over the
Dec. 19, 2015, at Erlanger years.
He especially enjoyed working
Hospital.
Survivors and arrangements the annual Christmas Turkey
will be announced by Companion Shoot in Etowah and was a staple
in that event for decades. He was
Funeral Home.
a lifetime member of VFW Post
5146 in Athens.
He was preceded in death by
his mother; his wife, Bonnie
Mabes; and one daughter-in-law,
Mary Mabes.
Survivors include two daughters: Winona Howard and her
husband, Larry and Renee Bain
and her husband, Jimmy, all of
Athens; three sons: Allen and
Keith of Etowah, Doug and wife,
Pam Mabes, of Athens; eight
grandchildren: Lance Howard of
Wisconsin; Angie Tate and her
husband, Adam, of Athens, Chris
Mabes of Nashville; Beth Mager
and husband, Kevin, of Athens,
Chelsey Bain of Athens and her
fiancée, Ben Osburn, Tiffany,
Douglas and Rebecca Sisk, all of
Athens; 10 great-grandchildren;
and a special cousin, Jean
Shopshire of Stoneville, N.C.
The family would like to
express their appreciation to the
staff of Starr Regional Medical
Center of Athens for their compassionate care.
A celebration of Elwood’s life
will be held today, Dec. 21, 2015,
Joy Belle scott Licht
Joy Belle Scott Licht, 72, of at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of
Cleveland, died Thursday, Dec. Serenity Funeral Home in
Etowah, with Brother Joe Hatcher
17, 2015.
She was born on Feb, 28, 1943, and Brother Jerry Stephens officiating.
in Chetek, Wis.
Interment will be held Tuesday
She graduated from Wisconsin
at noon at Coghill Baptist Church
Academy in 1961.
In 1962, she married Del Licht. Cemetery. Military honors and a
After graduating from college she white dove release ceremony will
taught first and second grade for conclude the services.
38 years. She had a special love
The family will receive friends
for music.
from 5 to 7:30 p.m. today prior to
She was preceded in death by
the service.
her parents, Louis and Dora Scott;
In lieu of flowers, the family has
brother, Stephen Scott; and a
asked that memorial contribumuch loved son, Scott Licht.
She is survived by her husband, tions be made to the Coghill
Del Licht of Cleveland; son and Baptist
daughter-in-law, Louis and Stacy
Church Cemetery Fund.
Licht; two wonderful grandsons:
Condolences may be sent to
Asher and Camden (The Love of www.serenityfunerals.com
her life) of Collegedale; three
brothers:
John
Scott
of
Hopkinsville Ky., Richard Scott of
Carson City, Mich. and David
Scott of Clear Lake, Wis.; two sisters: Pat Francis of Phoenix, Ariz.
and Helen Mott of Saint Paul,
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THE BANNER ACTIVITIES
Cleveland Urban Area Transit
System will be closed Thursday
and Friday for Christmas. CUATS
will also be closed Thursday, Dec.
31, and Friday, Jan. 1, for the
New Year’s holiday.
Mount Zion United Methodist
Church, 7223 Georgetown Road
N.W., will have a special service,
“The Eve Of The Eve” candle-lighting service, to be held Wednesday
at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will
follow the service.
Leonard, who created Harvard
affirmative-action policy, dies
Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Rose Jenkins Williams
of Cleveland died on Friday,
Dec.18, 2015, surrounded by her
loving family.
She was born March 5, 1946,
in Hattiesburg, Miss., and attended Hattiesburg High School,
Mississippi State College for
Women (Mississippi University
for Women), and Southern
College (University of Southern
Mississippi).
She and her husband, Jim,
began their life together in
Nashville, where she worked in
the health care field. Their journey later took them to Cleveland,
Chattanooga, and Memphis.
After moving to Cleveland in
1979, she became a member of
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. She
was an involved member
throughout the Cleveland community and served as president
of both the PTO and the
Cleveland-Athens Cotillion. She
was instrumental in the work of
Nancy’s House, serving as a
board member and chairman.
She loved music and the arts;
she served as president of the
Cleveland
Guild
of
the
Chattanooga Symphony and
Opera Board. She was also an
early supporter of and volunteer
for Friends of the Festival and
served on the Riverbend Board.
She was an avid sports fan, as
well as a competitive bridge player and earned a Bronze Life
Masters Designation. She also
loved spending time with her
family at Sanctuary, their home in
Monteagle/Sewanee.
Quick-witted and gregarious,
she was the ultimate and gracious hostess, entertaining hundreds throughout the years in her
homes and other venues. The
most cherished memories of
Carolyn will be of her extraordinary generosity and loyalty to her
family and friends.
She was preceded in death by
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Tillman Rose (Lottie) and Mr. and
Mrs. D. R. Jenkins (Netta); and
by her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin M. Jenkins (Geneva).
She is survived by her husband of 45 years, James O.
Williams (Jim); son, Jay Williams
(Katherine) of Nashville; daughter, Courtney Ondrias (Sam) of
Asheville; and two grandchildren:
Caroline and Oliver Williams of
Nashville; sisters: Sylvia Mills
(John
Wieczorek)
of
Chattanooga, Dolores Duvall
(Carl) of Atlanta; brother, Ed
Jenkins (Cheryl) of Burr Ridge,
Ill.; brother-in-law, Joe Williams
(Azza) of Washington, D.C.; special friends: Stacey and Rocky
Casteel of Chattanooga and their
WASHINGTON (AP) — Walter
Leonard, an attorney and university administrator who designed
an admissions process at
Harvard University that led to
more minority students being
admitted, has died. He was 86.
Leonard died Dec. 8 in
Kensington, Maryland, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease,
said his wife, Betty Leonard. The
couple lived in Chevy Chase,
Maryland.
In 1971, Leonard was named
as a special assistant to Harvard
president Derek Bok. Leonard
had already worked as an assistant dean and assistant director
of admissions at Harvard Law
School, where he was credited
with increasing the number of
black, Latino and female students.
The admissions formula he
created for the entire university
included race or ethnicity as one
of many factors that could weigh
in a prospective student’s favor.
The affirmative-action policy was
emulated by other universities
and has survived four decades of
constitutional scrutiny. However,
similar policies at the University
of Texas are currently under
review by the Supreme Court.
At the time Leonard crafted the
policy at Harvard, the university
was in danger of not meeting federal standards for admission of
minorities. Bok told Harvard Law
Today that Leonard helped the
university become more diverse
both in its student body and on
its faculty.
“The Harvard model provides a
standard,” Ronald Dworkin of the
New York University School of
Law wrote in an essay for the
2002 book “The Affirmative
Action Debate.” ‘’If the admis-
AP photo
In thIs 1979 file photo, President of Fisk University Walter
Leonard congratulates John Hope Franklin of the University of
Chicago during a ceremony in Chicago. Leonard, a man who
designed an admissions process at Harvard University that led to
more minority students being admitted, died at 86 of complications
from Alzheimer’s disease earlier in December 2015, his wife, Betty,
said.
sions officers of other universities
are satisfied that their plan is like
the Harvard plan in all pertinent
respects, they can proceed in
confidence.”
From 1976 to 1983, Leonard
served as president of historically
black Fisk University in
Nashville, Tennessee, where he
raised $12 million to help rescue
the school from financial difficulties.
Leonard was born in Alma,
Georgia, in 1929. At age 15, he
enlisted in the Coast Guard during World War II.
He attended several historically
black universities and earned a
law degree from Howard
University in his mid-30s. He
worked as a waiter in Washington
to earn money for tuition.
In 2011, Leonard and Bok were
awarded Harvard Law School’s
highest honor, the medal of freedom.
Pew: Fewer people using home
broadband due to its high cost
NEW YORK (AP) — More
Americans are shunning costly
home broadband and using
their cellphones to get online, a
new survey shows.
Eighty percent of U.S. adults
had Internet access this year,
whether through a smartphone
or a home Internet connection,
up from 78 percent two years
ago, according to the survey
published Monday by the Pew
Research Center.
But after years of home
broadband growth, slightly
fewer adults in 2015 got
Internet from providers like
home phone or cable company,
mostly because it’s too expensive for them. The number
dropped to 67 percent from 70
percent in the center’s 2013
survey.
Meanwhile, the number of
people relying on cellphones
alone for Internet rose to 13
percent this year from 8 percent
in 2013.
That plateau in home broadband use comes as the Obama
administration has pushed for
greater broadband access and
criticized the lack of competition
among home Internet providers.
The dip in home Internet use
could just be temporary, said
Pew researcher John Horrigan.
Adoption also flatlined five years
ago before picking up again,
which he said likely had to with
economic difficulties in the
aftermath of the recession.
For those without home
Internet, 33 percent say the
biggest reason is the monthly
cost is too high, while 10 percent say a computer is too
expensive.
Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, December 21, 2015—3
In budget deal, health law foes take indirect path
WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
Republican foes of President
Barack Obama’s health care law
may be able to get more by chipping away at it than trying to
take the whole thing down at
once.
That’s one lesson of the budget deal passed by Congress and
signed by the president last
week.
It delayed a widely criticized
tax on high-cost employer
health insurance plans that
hasn’t taken effect yet. And it
temporarily suspended two
taxes on industry already being
collected, which are also part of
the health law.
In contrast to frontal attacks
on “Obamacare” that have
repeatedly failed, this tactic
could well succeed. Delays and
suspensions have a way of
becoming permanent.
Polls show that the public
remains deeply divided over the
Affordable Care Act, or ACA.
Opponents are already looking
for other provisions that could
be separated from the law.
Next could be the “employer
mandate,” a requirement that
larger companies offer coverage
or risk fines. Part of the mandate is a controversial definition
of a full-time worker as someone
who averages 30 hours a week.
Critics say it discourages companies from hiring full-time
employees.
“Maybe Republicans have
come to grips with the idea that
the basic structure of the ACA
has been in place long enough
that simple repeal is not possible,” said economist Joe Antos of
the
American
Enterprise
Institute, a business-oriented
think tank. Perhaps the budget
deal “is practice” for more
changes, he added.
Supporters of the health care
law are trying to downplay the
consequences of the budget deal
as superficial dings. It did not
touch coverage provisions that
have reduced the nation’s uninsured rate to a historic low of 9
percent. Indeed, Obama himself
announced that 6 million people
have already signed up for 2016
coverage, with more than a
month left in open-enrollment
season.
“I think you can make too
much of these particular
things,” said economist Paul
Van de Water of the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities,
referring to the deal. “They don’t
actually have any effect on the
ACA’s coverage expansion. In
that sense, it’s not a blow
against the ACA at all.” The center advocates on behalf of lowincome people.
Yet not too long ago a top
White House adviser was vigorously defending the health law’s
tax on high-cost coverage,
known as the Cadillac tax.
The tax is 40 percent of the
value of employer-sponsored
plans that exceed certain
thresholds: $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for
family coverage. In its first year,
2018, it would have affected 26
percent of all employers and
nearly half of larger companies,
according to the nonpartisan
Kaiser Family Foundation. Since
the tax is indexed to general
inflation, which rises more slowly than health insurance premiums, it would have affected a
growing share of health plans
over time.
Proponents of the tax, including many economists, see it as a
much-needed brake on health
care spending. But business
and labor joined forces to
oppose it. The budget deal
delayed it two years, and its
future is in doubt.
The spirited defense of the tax
came from Jason Furman,
chairman of the White House
Council of Economic Advisers.
“Repealing the tax or delaying its
scheduled implementation ...
would have serious negative
consequences for our health
care system,” Furman warned in
a speech Oct. 7.
Pulling back on cost controls
in the health law would erode
the wages of workers and add to
government deficits, Furman
explained, adding that “the
administration opposes legislation that would repeal or delay
this provision.”
Fast forward to a recent White
House news briefing, when
spokesman
Josh
Earnest
seemed to soften that stance.
While Earnest said the administration strongly opposed repealing the Cadillac tax, he didn’t
address the notion of delaying it.
The health law’s employer
mandate is the next likely focus
for opponents, said Antos, the
economist.
“The really large employers
are not going to stop offering
health insurance, since it’s an
important benefit,” he said.
“Even analysts on the left would
agree that that mandate isn’t
going to accomplish much.”
Similar to the Cadillac tax, the
employer requirement raises
concerns on both sides of the
political divide. That could put
the mandate into play when
Congress again tackles a budget
bill, or some other massive piece
of legislation on which lots of
trades get made behind closed
doors.
The step-by-step approach
has led to other health law
changes. Among them:
— Repealing a long-term care
insurance program that was
financially questionable.
AP photo
STUDENTS CHEER as they
hold up signs, outside of the
Supreme Court in Washington,
supporting the Affordable Care
Act after the Supreme Court
decided that the ACA may provide nationwide tax subsidies.
Republican foes of President
Barack Obama’s health care law
may be able to get more by
chipping away at it than trying to
take the whole thing down at
once. That’s the lesson of the
budget deal passed by
Congress and signed by the
president on Friday. It delayed a
widely criticized tax on high-cost
employer health insurance plans
that hasn’t taken effect yet. And
it temporarily suspended two
taxes on industry already being
collected, which are also part of
the health law.
Obama faces criticism of U.S. strategy against IS
HONOLULU (AP) — President
Barack Obama says criticism of
his strategy to combat the Islamic
State group is legitimate and failure to keep the public informed
has contributed to fears that not
enough is being done.
In a year-end interview with
NPR News, Obama says the most
damage the group can do to the
U.S. is to force Americans to
change how they live or what they
believe in.
“I think that there is a legitimate criticism of what I’ve been
doing and our administration has
been doing in the sense that we
haven’t, you know, on a regular
basis I think described all the
work that we’ve been doing for
more than a year now to defeat
ISIL,” the president said in the
interview released Monday, referring to IS by one of its acronyms.
Obama says that if people don’t
know about the thousands of
airstrikes that have been
launched against IS targets since
August 2014, or aren’t aware that
towns in Iraq once controlled by
the group have been retaken,
“then they might feel as if there’s
not enough of a response.”
“And so part of our goal here is
to make sure that people are
informed about all the actions
that we’re taking,” he said.
To that end, Obama outlined
the strategy against IS in a
nationally televised address from
the Oval Office on Dec. 6, days
after a radicalized married couple
who had pledged allegiance to an
IS leader opened fire on the husband’s co-workers in San
Bernardino, California, killing 14
and heightening people’s fears
about home-grown extremism.
The Islamic State group
claimed responsibility for a series
of attacks that killed 130 people
in Paris about two weeks before
the California shooting.
Before leaving Washington for
his annual Christmas vacation in
Hawaii, Obama tried to soothe
the public’s anxieties about similar attacks on the U.S. through a
series of public appearances with
members of his national security
team following separate briefings
on the Islamic State and on
potential threats to the U.S.
homeland.
After one of those briefings,
which took place at the National
Counterterrorism Center, Obama
said publicly that officials had no
specific, credible information
suggesting a potential attack
against the U.S. He urged people
to be vigilant during the holidays.
In the interview, Obama also
urged keeping the situation in
perspective, saying that IS “is not
an organization that can destroy
the United States.”
“But they can hurt us, and
they can hurt our people and our
families. And so I understand
why people are worried,” he said.
“The most damage they can do,
though, is if they start changing
how we live and what our values
are, and part of my message over
the next 14 months or 13 months
that I remain in office is to just
make sure that we remember
who we are and make sure that
our resilience, our values, our
unity are maintained.,”
“If we do that then ISIL will be
defeated,” Obama said.
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She was with a young family
member when the girl said,
“Look at that fat woman.”
Hilliard admonished her by
saying, “That isn’t nice. You
should never call anyone fat,
overweight, or obese, it might
hurt their feelings. You should
say they’re ‘fluffy.’”
That long-ago advice has
remained with the young girl,
who is now an adult. She even
corrected her mother in a simiBanner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS
situation. It also has left the
THESE ARE TWO of the four houses built by Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc. during the past lar
“Fluffy” moniker with Hilliard,
12 months. They were started during Habitat’s successful Women’s Build early in the spring, with rain as she attempts to see the best
and poor weather handicapping construction during the early weeks. There were 40 Women Build teams, in everything, and everyone.
with 10 members on each team.
Hilliard was born and raised
in Cleveland. She was the
daughter of D.W. and Gladys
Hilliard.
Her dad served in World War
II in North Africa, where he was
wounded by shrapnel which
took out one of his kidneys. He
returned to Cleveland, where
he worked for The Village
Amoco and American Oil.
When he retired, her father
became the camp host for the
U.S. Forest Service at Greasy
Creek Campground.
Her mom worked for 16 years
at Burlington Industries, and
Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS then almost 17 more at
THESE TWO HOuSES are the final two of four built this year by Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Maytag, before her retirement.
Hilliard attended Prospect
Inc. The four in 2015 bring the total built over the past 25 years in Cleveland and Bradley County to 124.
Elementary School, and then
Additional construction is scheduled for 2016, beginning with another Women’s Build in the spring.
Bradley Central High School.
As a 16-year-old, she began
working at Ann’s Beauty Shop,
which was located over Lay’s
5&10 Store in downtown
Cleveland.
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She considered leaving high
school,
before graduation, and
teers, for your contributions.”
Cleveland.
getting her cosmetology degree.
She emphasized that Rollens,
“I invite you all to continue in Her mother pleaded with her to
“It’s a great
a former supervisor with the
your affiliation with Habitat,” he finish high school, which she
opportunity for me to be
Cherokee National Forest, is
emphasized.
did two years later, in 1971.
a part of Habitat. You
still active and involved with
Following the awards, and
Her mom then surprised her by
hear
all
types
of
stories
Habitat. He has served on
Willis’ comments, state Sen.
telling her she had helped get
about
the
wonderful
numerous committees and the
Mike
Bell
provided
a
keynote
her a job at Burlington
work Habitat does in the
building of Habitat’s 124 housIndustries.
address
to
the
crowd
of
celecommunity.”
es.
“I was a draw-in hand, helpbrants
and
well-wishers.
Bell
—
Chip
Willis
“I had no idea this was going
ing
to make designs in the
focused on the accomplishto happen,” said Rollens, when
wool,” she said. “I just loved it,
ments
of
the
organization,
and
he was presented his award.
It was Willis’ first formal
honors it has received, not only and I stayed there until they
“I’m honored. I thank you all.”
appearance before a community
in Cleveland but throughout the closed (in the mid-1970s).”
He continued, “(Habitat) is a
gathering. He said he is origiHilliard then went to work at
region and across the state.
great program. I hope to contin- nally from Columbia, but came
Collins Manufacturing. “I was
State Rep. Dan Howell also
ue for a few more years.”
to Cleveland from Sarasota, Fla.
the only woman in shipping,”
Bowers then named Haney as He said he has enjoyed opportu- attended the event.
she said with pride. “I loved it
the second recipient of the
A special committee was
nities to visit throughout the
also,” she added. “It’s because I
award. He is a former U.S. Air
formed to plan the anniversary
community.
love people, and love to be
Force pilot and a teacher. He
celebration. It included
“I’ve been impressed with the
around people.”
participated in hurricane relief a overall welcome I’ve received,”
Fate then stepped in and
Habitat’s planning committee
few years ago after Hurricane
he said.
and was made up of Lisa Geren, changed the focus of her
Rita struck the Gulf Coast.
“It’s a great opportunity for
future. Gena Lonas and Judy
Tracey Wright, Jola Burch,
“This is a real surprise,” said
me to be a part of Habitat,”
Hooper, who had Gena’s Beauty
Jerry Franitza, “Chuck” Haney,
Haney, as he echoed Rollens’
Willis added. “You hear all types Carolyn Ingram-Franitza, Verrill Cabin on Stuart Road, asked
comments. “It’s been a real treat of stories about the wonderful
Hilliard to go back to beauty
Norwood, Don Rollens and Ron
through the construction of the
work Habitat does in the comschool then come work for
Sellers.
124 homes. I’ve also enjoyed the munity.”
them.
Several additional community
camaraderie.”
The new director said it con“That was what I did,” she
Prior to the awarding of the
tinues to be a huge challenge to sponsors for Cleveland’s Habitat said. “I also had an apartment
affiliate over its 25 years attend- upstairs over the Beauty Cabin,
two awards, Willis discussed his provide homeownership to local
observations over the first few
residents, adding that Habitat is ed the gala and were recogwhich I rented from them.” She
nized.
making that happen in
months he’s been in Cleveland.
stayed at Gena’s Beauty Cabin
Habitat
“I love to tell
good stuff about
the nursing
home. I’d sit with
my mother for
two years (on
visits). I’d fix her
a peanut butter
and jelly
sandwich every
night. She loved
it there.”
— Sissy
Hilliard
for more than 11 years.
In the late 1980s, Hilliard
went to work at Northwood
Hair Fashions, which was
located on Keith Street across
from the current Life Care
headquarters. She stayed there
until 1992, when she opened
Sissy’s Beauty Shop at its
Harrison Pike location.
"I’ve loved being here on
Harrison Pike,” she said,
adding that she has developed
a regular clientele over the
years. That wasn’t too difficult,
because many of her former
customers came with her at the
start.
“This is family,” she said of
her customers. She emphasized
that her philosophy in business
is somewhat different when
compared to some beauty
shops. “I don’t rush them in
and out,” she said. “I visit with
them, and we share stories.”
Prior to establishing her own
beauty shop, Hilliard was married for about five years to
James Hill, who was a truck
driver. Although the marriage
didn’t last, she has two
stepchildren, Scott Hill and
Sherri Hill Bell, she still claims.
“They’re still my stepkids,” she
said.
Her ex-husband now lives in
Florida, and the kids have also
moved out of town.
Hilliard continued to stress
that people are her focus. “I
love taking care of people, she
said.
“They are all my family, and
when I pray, I ask God to be
with my beauty shop family,
and everyone else.”
Asked if she was thinking
about retirement, she quickly
responded, “I’ll retire when God
tells me.
“I’ll continue to work as long
as I can cut straight, and color
right,” she laughed. “I just go
along and take one day at a
time.”
Hilliard is excited by her new
nursing home family, and
enjoys taking care of residents
at BHRC, and visiting with staff
and administrators. “I’ve been
helping them out for about 10
years,” she said.
“I started out sitting with my
mom, and then it was my
uncle, Paul Baldwin, and then
his wife,” she said.
“I go to visit as often as I
can, which is usually when it’s
slow here at the shop, or in the
evenings or the weekends.”
Although she has no official
authority at the nursing home,
her “fluffy” personality still
shows up.
One evening when she was
sitting with a resident, another
resident who is paralyzed from
the neck down had need of
some care. Hilliard asked a
young staff nurse if she could
help.
The nurse said, “This is not
my wing, and he’s not mine.”
Hilliard then provided the
younger woman some sage
advice: “When you come here to
work, they’re all yours,” she
said.
Hopefully, like the fluffy
advice she administered years
before, it remained with the
young nurse.
“I love to tell good stuff about
the nursing home,” Hilliard
continued. “I’d sit with my
mother for two years (on visits).
I’d fix her a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich every night. She
loved it there.”
In closing, Hilliard said she
has been blessed in her life.
“God sent all these people to
me (to care for and comfort),”
she said. “God has been good
to me.”
By bringing her into their
lives, some may feel he has
also been good to the members
of her multiple families.
Utility
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tive serving as a municipal contracting
agency for government and education
agencies. According to the NJPA website, “These cooperative contract
opportunities offer both time and
money savings for their users by consolidating the efforts of numerous
individually prepared solicitations to
one national, cooperatively shared
process. This process leverages the
aggregation of volume from members
nationwide.”
In other words, NJPA members traditionally benefit from lower pricing
made possible by volume purchasing.
In the case of CU’s quest for the
large piece of equipment to replace the
utility’s existing aging model, the price
through NJPA was no better than the
Terex Utilities bid.
“Terex Utilities was the only supplier to submit a bid and is the only
approved manufacturer that can currently meet CU’s minimum specifications on this equipment,” Webb told
board members. “The original bid
price submitted directly from Terex
Utilities is the same as the contract
price through NJPA.”
Board members approved the purchase order on a 5-0 vote, and this
was just the beginning of an expensive
afternoon of decision-making by the
group.
In other actions, all of which included a total of about $1,465,075 in
expenditures, the utility board:
n Approved a purchase order with
Kendall Electric Inc. in the amount of
$120,293.13 for a new “... variable frequency drive and harmonic filter for
the No. 4 high service pump located at
the Cleveland Filter Plant,” according
to the board meeting agenda. The
piece of equipment is included in CU’s
FY 2016 budget at $115,000. Webb
said Kendall Electric is the sole supplier for this type of equipment.
n Approved a purchase order with
Sansom Equipment in the amount of
$190,830 for a new CCTV Truck. The
new truck, which is used for closedcircuit monitoring of underground
lines and checking for blockages and
damage, will replace CU’s current
CCTV truck which is a 31-year-old
model manufactured in 1984. The
truck is included in the utility’s budget for FY 2015 at $190,000. Two bids
were received.
n Approved a resolution authorizing
Webb to enter into an agreement with
Baird Contracting Co. Inc. for the
installation of AMI-AMR water meters
as part of the conversion project’s second phase. Installation cost of this
phase is $298,239.25. Baird is the
contractor that installed the hightech, automatic-read water meters in
the initiative’s opening phase. Four
bids were received.
Both phases of CU’s water meter
conversion project — which includes
more than 30,000 meters — are being
funded with a $2.5 million loan
through the State Revolving Fund loan
program. The SRF, operated through
the federal Clean Water Act, is administered by the Tennessee Department
of Environment and Conservation, in
cooperation with the Environmental
Protection Agency. The loan is being
made available to CU at a low interest
rate (about 1.2 to 1.3 percent), and it
includes an amount of principal forgiveness; this means that some of the
money ($500,000 for Phase 1 and
$170,000 for Phase 2) will not have to
be repaid.
n Approved a contract with
Hampton Backhoe Service LLC in the
amount of $532,217.50 for the construction of approximately 2,760 linear feet of 8-inch gravity sewer on
Pleasant Grove Church Road. The
project is for the installation of sewer
lines to serve an area annexed into the
city of Cleveland in 2010. It is located
in an area where the city is performing
road improvements related to the new
interchange on APD-40. The project is
budgeted for FY 2016. Six bids were
received.
The recent board session wasn’t just
all about spending. Much of it included progress reports and updates by
“However, they rarely
mention the stranded cost of
the existing fixtures that have
been installed and are
working,”
— Bart Borden
division vice presidents.
Board developments included:
n Heard a brief update on Cleveland
Utilities internal policy reviews by
Amy Ensley, administrative assistant
to Webb, and received copies of the
work in progress. Board discussion
included the approval of two of the
policies at staff request. These included policies governing reimbursement
for the cost of employee meals during
periods of after-hour work, and also
general overtime policies.
n Reviewed the new design of the
Cleveland Utilities logo which Webb
credited to Chris Gaylor of the company’s Information Technology division.
n Heard a series of Electric Division
updates from Bart Borden, vice president. These included reports on the
ongoing Harrison building renovation
(to be used for utility equipment storage and other purposes); updates on
the relocation of transmission lines on
the new APD-40 interchange at Stone
Lake Road; updates on the Peach
Orchard Hill Road Community
Development Block Grant project
which involves the design of a new distribution tie-line using high-tech electronic programming; updates on substation
testing
at
Sequoia,
Springbrook and Valleyhead sites;
updates on providing permanent electric service to the new Cleveland High
School gymnasium (Raider Arena) on
Raider Drive; and updates on a variety
of projects involving new residential
apartment complex construction.
n Borden also provided a report on
CU’s continuing cost-savings experiences with LED lighting. He pointed to
an ongoing trend by cities to convert
their street lighting to LED fixtures as
an energy-efficiency move, and said
various reports are now being published about these initiatives.
“However, they rarely mention the
stranded cost of the existing fixtures
that have been installed and are working,” Borden said. “In light of this
information generally being withheld,
we prepared a cost analysis for the
city of Cleveland based on converting
100 percent of the existing Cleveland
Utilities fixtures to LED.”
Borden said the analysis revealed
$872,465 in stranded costs, “... which
would have to be collected for the
labor and materials of the existing
street light fixtures.”
He said the annual energy savings is
$150,625, and the increase above the
existing annual investment is
$137,768, due to the new LED fixture
installation cost.
“Based on our analysis, we have recommended to the city to replace failed
street light fixtures and new required
fixtures with LED,” Borden said. “We
also informed the city that to replace
an existing working street light fixture
with an LED would result in a $162.83
cost to cover the stranded investment.”
He said CU has 5,358 non-LED fixtures in service.
Borden also cautioned, “Not all LED
fixtures are equal.” He said CU tests
have identified some vendors with “...
poor in-service track records, and the
lighting levels and patterns vary.”
n In traffic lighting updates, Borden
reported WaveTronix radar vehicle
detection equipment is being installed
at the Paul Huff Parkway and
Georgetown Road intersection to
replace several of the existing in-pavement loops that have failed due to
asphalt damage.
n Borden also advised a work order
has been issued for an LED upgrade
for the existing traffic signals at the
Inman Street and Parker Street NE
intersection.
n Craig Mullinax, vice president of
the Water Division, reported for the
month of October line crews installed
22 meter sets which is an increase
over the 18 installed in October 2014.
This brings the total of meter sets
installed for the fiscal year (which
began July 1) to 154 which points to a
continuing increase in new construction inside the CU service territory.
A meter set is the physical connection of new or remodeled buildings to
CU’s existing water system. It is a general indicator of trends, and frequencies, of area construction which provides a measure of economic development.
Types of meter sets installed in
October included 13 single-family
homes, seven townhomes, one commercial (for the new Greenway restroom) and one for the new Westmore
Church of God.
n Webb reported CU offices will be
closed Dec. 24-25 and Dec. 31-Jan. 1
for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
n Future Cleveland Board of Public
Utilities meetings will be held on Jan.
7, Jan. 28 and Feb. 25. All dates are
Thursdays and each starting time is 3
p.m. CU board meetings are held in
the Tom Wheeler Training Center.
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Sanders, Clinton move past
bitterness over data breach
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) —
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary
Clinton moved past the rancor
over a breach of her campaign’s
valuable voter data, shifting
Saturday night’s debate into a
pointed but polite discussion of
national security, Americans’
heightened terrorism fears and
the economy.
Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, kept much of her focus
on the general election, sharply
criticizing Donald Trump’s plan
to ban Muslims from entering the
United States. She called the
leader of the GOP race the
Islamic State’s “best recruiter.”
“Mr. Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to
inflame people,” said Clinton, the
former secretary of state.
Clinton and Sanders, her closest challenger, entered the
debate in the midst of one of
their fiercest fights — about the
campaign itself rather than a
national or international issue.
Clinton’s campaign accused
Sanders’ team of stealing information used to target voters and
anticipate what issues might
motivate them. In response to
the breach, the Democratic
National Committee temporarily
cut off Sanders’ team’s access to
its own data, a move the Vermont
senator said Saturday was an
“egregious act.”
Still, Sanders said his staff
had acted improperly.
“This is not the type of campaign that we run,” he said.
Sanders’ campaign fired a worker involved in the breach but also
used the controversy to raise
money, sending an email to supporters that said the national
party had placed “its thumb on
the scales in support of Hillary
Clinton’s campaign.” His campaign said after the debate it had
suspended two more aides.
Clinton quickly accepted his
apology Saturday night, saying,
“We should move on, because I
don’t think the American people
are all that interested in this.”
The debate, the third for
Democrats, was expected to
have low viewership given that it
was scheduled on the last weekend before Christmas, when
many Americans have turned
their attention to the holidays. It
came as Clinton had solidified
her standing atop the field,
shaking off a rocky start and the
controversy about her use of private email at the State
Department.
Clinton and Sanders were
joined onstage by former
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley,
who has struggled to be a factor
in the race. O’Malley was aggressive in seeking to play a role,
repeatedly talking over moderators and accusing his rivals of
having outdated views on foreign
policy.
In a heated exchange on gun
control, O’Malley accused both
Clinton and Sanders of having a
“flip-flopping, political approach”
to the contentious issue.
Clinton also defied moderators’
efforts to cut her off at times,
leading Sanders to call out, “Now
this is getting to be fun.”
While there was broad agreement among the Democratic contenders that the U.S. should not
launch a ground war to defeat
the Islamic State, they differed in
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HillAry Clinton, left, listens as Martin O’Malley speaks during the Democratic presidential primary
debate Saturday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
the tactics they would take and
whether the nation should seek
regime change in Syria, where IS
has a stronghold.
Clinton recommended more
direct action than her competitors, calling for a no-fly zone over
part of Syria and insisting that
the U.S. must seek to remove
Syrian President Bashar Assad
from power.
“If the United States does not
lead, there is not another leader
— there is a vacuum,” she said.
Sanders disagreed, saying the
U.S. should first seek to defeat
the Islamic State, calling Assad a
“secondary issue” that should be
dealt with over the course of
years.
“Yeah, regime change is easy,
getting rid of dictators is easy,”
Sanders said. “But before you do
that, you’ve got to think about
what happens the day after.”
All three candidates stressed
working more closely with
Muslim-American communities
to tackle radicalism at home — a
sharp difference from the rhetoric of some Republican candidates. Returning to her focus on
Trump, Clinton said, “If you’re
going to put together a coalition
in the region to take on the
threat of ISIS, you don’t want to
alienate the very countries you
need to be part of the coalition.”
Saturday’s debate was the first
for Democrats since the shooting
in San Bernardino, California,
where 14 people were killed by a
married couple that authorities
say had been radicalized. The
incident, as well as earlier
attacks in Paris, pushed national
security to the forefront of the
2016 White House race.
The foreign policy focus has
blunted Sanders’ momentum in
the Democratic race. The senator
has deeply loyal supporters who
are drawn to his economic- and
inequality-focused campaign,
but he’s far less comfortable discussing foreign policy issues.
Sanders sought to refocus on
his core message of leveling the
economic playing field for middle
class Americans, including his
call for free college tuition and a
single-payer health care system.
Clinton challenged Sanders on
how he would pay for those proposals, suggesting he’d pass on
AP Fact Check: Glossed-over realities in Democratic debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest Democratic presidential
debate, oversimplification struck
again.
Hillary Clinton spoke of fixing
“glitches” in President Barack
Obama’s health care law to
address rising costs, skimming
over deeper issues on matters of
affordability and the Affordable
Care Act. And in education, fancy
dorms and football stadiums
aren’t the big reason for higher
college costs, as Bernie Sanders
suggested.
A look at some of the statements
Saturday night and how they compare with the facts:
CLINTON on rising premiums
and out-of-pocket costs for the privately insured after enactment of
Obama’s health care law: “I would
certainly build on the successes of
the Affordable Care Act and work
to fix some of the glitches.”
SANDERS on his proposed single-payer health care system: “The
average middle-class family will be
saving thousands of dollars a
year.”
THE FACTS: Obama’s law was
mainly about expanding coverage
for the uninsured, and even former officials of his administration
say major work still has to be done
on cost control. In other words,
rising costs are more than “glitches.”
One of the health care law’s
main brakes on costs — a tax on
high-value workplace coverage —
has been put on hold by the new
federal budget deal. Clinton had
called for complete repeal of that
levy, known as the Cadillac tax.
Many economists believe the tax
would help keep costs in check by
forcing people into leaner insurance plans.
Sanders says his plan for a government-run health care system
along the lines of Canada’s and
Western Europe’s would save
money for families and taxpayers.
But such a major transition would
involve winners and losers, as well
as new taxes in place of premiums.
When
the
nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office
looked at the concept back in the
early 1990s, it concluded that a
single-payer system had the
potential to save money but that
wasn’t guaranteed. Moreover, individuals would have less freedom to
choose their insurance packages,
a trade-off that not everyone
would accept.
—SANDERS: “The cost of college
education is escalating a lot faster
than the cost of inflation. There
are a lot of factors involved in that.
And that is that we have some colleges and universities that are
spending a huge amount of money
on fancy dormitories and on giant
football stadiums.”
CLINTON: “States have been
disinvesting in higher education ...
So states over a period of decades
have put their money elsewhere;
into prisons, into highways, into
things other than higher education.”
THE FACTS: Clinton comes
closest to diagnosing the problem
accurately. College expenses are
unsustainably high, but luxurious
dorms aren’t the big driver that
Sanders portrays. Public universities are charging more because
they receive less in state government support.
Demos, a left-leaning think
tank, said in a May study that the
decline in state funding accounted
for 79 percent of tuition hikes
between 2001 and 2011. Just 6
percent was due to construction
costs.
Sanders would make up that
lost government money by providing free tuition, paid for with a tax
on financial transactions. Clinton
would offer federal dollars to
encourage states to do more and
keep students from having to borrow. It’s unclear how either plan
would control colleges’ costs,
though.
—SANDERS, apologizing for his
campaign improperly gaining
access to Clinton campaign data,
raised the possibility that Clinton’s
campaign may have done the
same thing. “I am not convinced
that information from our campaign may not have ended up in
her campaign,” he said.
THE FACTS: Sanders is speculating, at best. There’s no evidence
so far that Clinton’s campaign has
accessed Sanders’ voter lists.
During a conference call with
reporters on Friday, Clinton’s
campaign manager, Robby Mook,
said he could “unequivocally tell
you that no member of our staff
stole data from theirs.” And the
contractor that manages the campaign data for the Democratic
Party, NGP-VAN, issued a statement Friday saying “our team
removed access to the affected
data, and determined that only
one campaign took actions that
could possibly have led to it retaining data to which it should not
have had access.”
—CLINTON: “Assad has killed
250,000 Syrians.”
THE FACTS: Clinton appears to
be blaming the entire estimated
death toll of the Syrian civil war on
just one side: the forces of Syrian
President Bashar Assad. Yet no
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the brutal regime crackdown.
Rebels in some of these groups are
fighting and killing each other, in
some cases with no involvement
by Assad-backed troops.
The United Nations has estimated a death toll of 220,000 since
2011; other estimates are higher,
and Clinton’s figure is roughly in
line with them. But the death toll
is attributable to all parties, not
just to Assad.
—SANDERS: “Middle class in this
country for the last 40 years has
been disappearing.”
THE FACTS: It’s no secret that
the middle class is struggling. The
costs of college, health care and
housing continue to rise, while
wages have barely budged for two
decades. The Pew Research Center
reported earlier this month that
the majority of Americans are no
longer “middle income.”
Things are not quite as dire as
Sanders suggests.
Pew found the share of
Americans that it defines as middle income — a family of three
earning $73,392 — has slipped.
It’s down to 50 percent of households from 61 percent in 1971.
More Americans are low
income, but more are also upper
income. “The closer look at the
shift out of the middle reveals that
a deeper polarization is under way
in the American economy,” Pew
concluded.
Pew defines the median upper
income as starting at $174,625 —
a lot of money, but hardly the billionaire class attacked by Sanders.
—SANDERS: “One of the heroes
who we should recognize in the
Middle East is King Abdul II of
Jordan. This small country has
welcomed in many refugees.”
THE FACTS: With each new
debate, the presidential candidates come closer to getting the
Jordanian king’s name right.
Among
Republican
and
Democratic contenders alike, King
Abdullah II is considered an
important figure in the struggle for
stability in the Middle East. But
darned if they can nail down his
name.
Sanders said Abdul instead of
Abdullah. Invoking the king again,
he mumbled the name.
Still, that was an improvement
from the Republican debate earlier
in the week, when New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie vowed: “When
I stand across from King Hussein
of Jordan and I say to him, ‘You
have a friend again sir, who will
stand with you to fight this fight,’
he’ll change his mind.”
the costs to states and middle
class Americans.
She pledged that as president,
she wouldn’t raise taxes on families making $250,000 or less per
year. “That is a pledge that I’m
making,” she said.
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Police: Driver hit Vegas pedestrians on purpose
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman
intentionally swerved her car
onto a busy sidewalk two or
three times Sunday and mowed
down people outside a Las Vegas
casino, killing one person and
injuring at least 30 others,
police said.
The vehicle was in the northbound lanes of Las Vegas
Boulevard near Bellagio Way
when it drove up onto the sidewalk about 6:30 p.m. in front of
the Paris Hotel & Casino and
struck pedestrians, Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department
Lt. Peter Boffelli said. The person killed was an adult, he said.
Police believe this was an
intentional act by a woman in
her 20s who “went up and off
these streets, two or possibly
three times,” Lt. Dan McGrath
said. Police did not give a possible motive.
The woman is being interviewed and is having her blood
drawn, police said. She is being
held in the Clark County jail
with charges pending.
“This is a huge tragedy that
has happened on our Strip,”
Boffelli said.
The crash in front of the Paris
and Planet Hollywood hotels
occurred on a busy stretch of
the Las Vegas Strip across from
the dancing water fountains of
the Bellagio hotel-casino where
visitors crowd sidewalks as they
walk from one casino to anoth-
er. The Miss Universe pageant
was being held nearby at the
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Resort & Casino at the time of
the crash.
Police are reviewing video
from casino-hotel surveillance
cameras,
Capt.
Brett
Zimmerman said. “We know this
was not an act of terrorism,” he
said. “We will comb through
that footage to get a detailed
idea of what occurred. “
After the crash, the vehicle
continued to head east on
Flamingo Road before it was
found at a hotel, McGrath said.
The driver was taken into custody at the hotel, police said. A
3-year-old child was in the vehicle with her but was not hurt,
Zimmerman said.
McGrath said the 1996
Oldsmobile was registered in
Oregon and the driver had
recently moved to the area.
The pedestrians were not in
the road and were not at fault,
McGrath said.
Justin Cochrane, a property
manager from Santa Barbara,
California, said he was having
dinner at a sidewalk restaurant
outside the Paris Hotel and
across the street from the
famous Bellagio Fountain when
the incident took place.
The car appeared to be going
30 to 40 mph when it first hit
the pedestrians on Las Vegas
Boulevard, Cochrane said. “It
was just massacring people,” he
said.
The vehicle then went farther
down the road and drove back
into another crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk, he said.
Cochrane said he couldn’t
understand why the car went
into the crowd a second time.
“Why would it slow to go around
and then accelerate again?” he
said. “I thought it’s a crazy person.”
Cochrane said he saw children and adults injured and on
the ground as the car drove
away.
Joel Ortega, 31, of Redlands,
California, said he and his wife,
Carla, were in Las Vegas for the
weekend and found themselves
blocked from walking on the
sidewalk toward the Paris Hotel
& Casino. They could see police
investigating about a block away
from the scene of the crash.
“At first, I thought it was a
movie shoot,” Joel Ortega said,
“I thought maybe we’d see
someone famous.”
But then they learned that it
was a crash scene. Joel Ortega
said it made them remember
how their neighborhood was
disrupted after the Dec. 2 mass
shooting in San Bernardino,
California, near their home.
Clark County Fire Chief Greg
Cassell said the call for help
came in at 6:38 p.m. and 70
emergency crew workers were
sent to the scene.
Those in critical condition
were treated at University
Medical
Center,
Sunrise
Hospital and Medical Center
and Spring Valley Hospital.
Sunrise Hospital and Medical
Center spokeswoman Stacy
Acquista said it has treated 13
people, including nine men and
four women. So far, 10 have
been treated and released, but
three were downgraded from
good to fair condition and will
remain hospitalized.
Danita Cohen, spokeswoman
for University Medical Center,
said 15 crash victims were
brought to its trauma center,
one of whom died. Three
remained in critical condition as
of 11 p.m. Two others were
treated and released.
The nine patients who
remained in serious condition
included an 11-year-old child.
The others were adults. Some
were from Montreal and needed
a French translator.
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care for minor injuries and were
being discharged as of 10:50
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On Oct. 24, a woman was
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during Oklahoma State’s homecoming parade in Stillwater.
Four people were killed, including a 2-year-old boy, and more
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Stillwater, was this month
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Miss Universe mistake crowns wrong contestant
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The
Colombian contestant was
already wearing this year’s Miss
Universe crown when host Steve
Harvey returned to announce
on live television that he had
mistakenly read from a cue
card, and that the contestant
from the Philippines was actually this year’s winner.
In the following moments, the
crown was removed and placed
on the head of a mystified Pia
Alonzo Wurtzbach of the
Philippines, other contestants
rushed to console Ariadna
Gutierrez Arevalo of Colombia
and a sheepish Harvey felt compelled to apologize on Twitter
and to reporters assembled
backstage.
“I feel horrible for this young
woman,” he said.
Harvey said it was his mistake and that he would take
responsibility for not correctly
reading the card, which said
that Wurtzbach was this year’s
winner and Colombia was actually the first runner-up.
He held up the card for Fox
network cameras to see up close
afterward.
Talking
with
reporters afterward, Harvey and
an executive for pageant owner
WME-IMG called it human
error.
“Nobody feels worse about
this than me,” he said.
Wurtzbach appeared stunned
as she walked to the front of the
stage alongside the crownwearing Arevalo before last
year’s Miss Universe from
Colombia removed the crown
and placed it on Wurtzbach’s
head.
Wurtzbach later said she felt
conflicting emotions as the mistake happened: joy when she
was told she had indeed won,
concern for Colombia contestant Ariadna Gutierrez Aravelo
and confusion at the whole situation.
Wurtzbach said she tried to
approach Aravelo onstage afterward, but the Colombian was
crying and surrounded by a
crowd of women. She said she
realized it was, “probably bad
timing.”
“I did not take the crown from
her,” Wurtzbach told reporters
after the pageant concluded,
saying she wished the contestant from Colombia well and
hoped the Latin American community understands that “none
of this was my fault.”
“None of this was done on
purpose. It was an honest mistake,” she said, apologizing on
behalf of the organization she
now represents. She said
Harvey told her afterward that
she “should just enjoy the
moment.”
Harvey also apologized on
Twitter, but at first misspelled
the home countries of both contestants before also fixing that.
“I’d like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia &
Miss Philippines for my huge
mistake,” he wrote. “I feel terrible.”
Harvey, who was hosting the
contest for the first time, said
he re-read the card and noticed
it said “first runner-up” next to
the Colombia contestant’s name
before he asked producers if he
had made a mistake.
An executive with pageant
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mistake and corrected it on his
own, saying he wanted to make
a wrong into a right.
“It was humiliating for the
women. It was humiliating for
him,” he told reporters after the
pageant.
As all this was unfolding, a
car drove up onto a sidewalk
and struck dozens of people
just outside the Planet
Hollywood hotel-casino where
the pageant was taking place.
The Las Vegas Strip was soon
jammed with ambulances and
fire trucks, and authorities said
at least 30 people were taken to
a hospital to be treated for
injuries and one person was
killed.
Even before Sunday night’s
oops moment, the pageant was
involved in another controversy
when a backlash against the
pageant’s former owner Donald
Trump led Univision to pull out
of the broadcast and the busi-
nessman to sell it in September.
The competition started with
women representing 80 countries between the ages of 19 and
27. For the first time, viewers at
home weighed in, with their
votes being tallied in addition to
four in-person celebrity judges.
NBCUniversal and Donald
Trump co-owned the Miss
Universe Organization until
earlier this year. The real-estate
developer offended Hispanics in
June when he made anti-immigrant remarks in announcing
his Republican presidential
run.
That led Spanish-language
network Univision to pull out of
the broadcast for what would
have been the first of five years
airing the pageants and NBC to
cut business ties with Trump.
The former star of the
“Celebrity Apprentice” reality
show sued both companies, settling with NBC in September,
which included buying the network’s stake in the pageants.
That same month, Trump
sold the organization that
includes the Miss Universe,
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA
pageants to entertainment company WME-IMG.
Shortly after Sunday night’s
confusion, Colombian President
Juan Manuel Santos tweeted a
message on his official account
to Ariadna Gutierrez. “For us,
you will continue being miss
universe! We are very proud!”
Philippines
presidential
spokesman Edwin Lacierda didn’t address the controversial
win but said, “in bagging this
victory, Ms. Wurtzbach not only
serves as a tremendous source
of pride for our people, but also
holds up the banner of our
women and of our country-as a
true representative of what the
Filipina can achieve.”
It’s the third time a contestant from the Philippines has
won the title. It could have been
the second win in a row for
Colombia.
The pageant’s contestant
from the United States, Olivia
Jordan, was named second runner-up.
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life and future. Anger and regret are a
waste of time. Learn all you can and
move on. Expand your knowledge
through travel, seminars and conferences geared toward engaging in conversations with like-minded individuals.
This is a year to expand your mind and
your friendships. Your numbers are 5,
16, 20, 23, 31, 34, 48.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Tend to
business whether you are updating
your resume, setting up meetings or
tidying up your paperwork before the
year comes to a close. An opportunity
will come out of nowhere. Mix business
with pleasure and you will excel.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stay on
top of your game and be open to what's
going on around you. Don't let your
emotions lead to confusion. Offering to
help a charity will work in your favor.
Romance looks promising and lifestyle
changes look inviting.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Life may
be hectic, but you need to stay focused
regardless of distractions. Giving in to
poor habits won't help you close out the
year in tip-top shape. Question anyone
who tries to persuade you to be indulgent.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Use
your energy wisely. You'll end up arguing or doing something that is likely to
end in injury or insult. Concentrate on
maintaining what you have, not on
changing things impulsively. Selfimprovement is your best option.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don't force
your will on others. As long as you go
about your business and allow others
to do the same, you will avoid an emotional scene. Make important changes
in your personal life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Share
your thoughts and mingle with friends,
colleagues and loved ones. The more
expressive you are, the easier it will be
for others to relate to you. An interesting encounter could occur if you are out
picking up last-minute items.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take care
of personal responsibilities and documents that need tending to before the
year comes to a close. Don't bicker
over trivial matters. Understanding that
this can be a stressful time of year for
some people should make it easier to
avoid confrontations.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take a
moment to remember what's transpired
this year and you will find a way to
reconnect with people you miss. Make
choices that will allow you to pursue the
personal changes you've been longing
to make. Romance is encouraged.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Listen to proposals, but don't jump into
a joint venture. You can make changes,
but only for the right reason. Do your
best to stick to a budget and a plan you
can control.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Industry events will be the perfect place
for you to experience both personal
and professional encounters. Your ability to be precise and express your
ideas enthusiastically will ensure that
others will take notice. Put your best
foot forward.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep
your secrets for now. Don't share personal information or let your emotions
get the best of you. Stick close to home
and protect your assets and your possessions. Concentrate on getting your
house ready to host a party.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Delays
can be expected if you are traveling.
Don't let anyone talk you into taking on
responsibilities that aren't yours. Focus
on your mental, emotional and physical
well-being. Plan something special with
someone you want to impress.
Birthday Baby: You are strategic,
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Crabbs
Rodriguez
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Franklin
J. Duplantis ›› “Mary of Nazareth” (1995, Drama) Myriam Muller.
Joel Osteen Perry Stone
Around Town
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Friends ’
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Family Feud Family Feud The Middle
Penn & Teller: Fool Us ’
Penn & Teller: Fool Us ’
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Crazy Talk
Hollywood
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Paid Program
Martha Speak Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
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PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
Lidia Celebrates America ’ Antiques Roadshow Å
Choir
Christmas at Belmont (N) ’ Southern Celtic Christmas Tales-Royal Wardrobe
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Bill Winston Love a Child Jewish Voice Hour of Sal
Creflo Dollar Perry Stone John Hagee Rod Parsley Joni Lamb
Planetshakers Live Å
J. Duplantis Ron Carp.
Kenneth W. K. Copeland Life Today
Joyce Meyer
Dr. Phil ’ Å
News
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Jeopardy! (N) The Great Christmas Light Fight (Season Finale) (N) Å
Great Holiday Baking Show News
(:35) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (:37) Nightline
Odd Squad
Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts
World News Business Rpt. PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
Antiques Roadshow Å
Choir
Great Houses With Julian
History
World News Charlie Rose (N) ’ Å
“My Dad Is Scrooge” (2014, Comedy) Brian Cook. Å
›› “A Christmas Carol” (1999) Patrick Stewart. Å
›› “Together Again for the First Time” (2008) Å
››› “Untamed Heart” (1993) Christian Slater. Å
››› “Music of the Heart”
The Dr. Oz Show ’ Å
Judge Judy Judge Judy News 12 at 6 CBS News
Prime News Andy Griffith Big Bang
Big Bang
Supergirl “Livewire” Å
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Corden
Microsoft Xbox One
Express Delivery Hol. Gifts Problems Solved
Microsoft Xbox One
Express Delivery Hol. Gifts Microsoft Xbox One
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(3:30) Key Capitol Hill Hearings Speeches. ’
Landmark Cases ’
Key Capitol Hill Hearings Speeches. ’
Landmark Cases ’
Blue Bloods “Innocence” ’
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››› “Apollo 13” (1995, Historical Drama) Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon. Å
How I Met
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How I Met
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Benefit Cosmetics Gifts (N) Benefit Cosmetics Gifts (N) Carol’s Daughter Holiday (N) The Monday Night Show
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American Ninja Warrior
››› “Will You Merry Me?” (2008) Wendie Malick. Å
“Merry In-Laws” (2012) Shelley Long, George Wendt. Å
“Becoming Santa” (2015, Romance) Michael Gross. Å
(:02) “The Christmas Gift” (2015) Michelle Trachtenberg.
(12:02) “Becoming Santa”
Dateline: Real Life Mysteries Dateline: Real Life Mysteries Dateline on TLC ’ Å
Women Behind Bars: 20/20 Women in Prison: Extra
Women in Prison: Extra
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Amer. Dad
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Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Amer. Dad
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Castle “Law & Murder” ’
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Major Crimes Å
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Major Crimes Å
Legends Å
NCIS “Playing With Fire” ’
NCIS “Up in Smoke” ’
NCIS “Till Death Do Us Part” Mod Fam
Mod Fam
WWE Monday Night RAW (N) ’ (Live) Å
Colony: Wall Chrisley
Donny!
Santa’s Little
Two Men
Two Men
Mike & Molly Mike & Molly ›› “Christmas With the Kranks” (2004) Tim Allen.
›› “The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Comedy) Tim Allen.
›› “The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Comedy) Tim Allen.
“Christmas-Krank”
College Football: Miami Beach Bowl
Monday Night Countdown (N) (Live) Å
(:15) NFL Football Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live)
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NHL Hockey Montreal Canadiens at Nashville Predators. (N) (Live)
Postgame
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PGA Tour Golf Final Round of the 2015 WGC Cadillac Championship.
Golf Central Special
PGA Tour Golf
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College Basketball North Texas at Creighton. (N) Å
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Hawks Live! NBA Basketball Portland Trail Blazers at Atlanta Hawks. ’
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Think You’d Survive?
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Prospectors “Topaz Envy”
Prospectors “Jackpot!”
Prospectors
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Fast Money (N)
Mad Money (N)
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Shark Tank ’ Å
Undercover Boss “ADT” ’
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MSNBC Live (N)
Hardball Chris Matthews
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All In With Chris Hayes
The Rachel Maddow Show
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The Situation Room (N)
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Anthony Bourdain Parts
CNN Tonight w/ Don Lemon Anderson Cooper 360 Å
Dr. Drew Å
››› “Dinosaur 13” (2014)
Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Anthony Bourdain Parts
Your World With Neil Cavuto The Five (N)
Special Report
Greta Van Susteren
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The Kelly File (N)
Hannity (N)
The O’Reilly Factor Å
The Kelly File
American Facts
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101 Gadgets That Changed the World ’ Å
Atlantis Found ’ Å
Secret Earth: Yellowstone
The Real Story of Christmas (12:01) Atlantis Found Å
Hack My Life Hack My Life Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Super Into (N) Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers
The First 48 ’ Å
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The First 48 “Heartless” ’
The First 48 ’ Å
The First 48 ’ Å
(:01) The First 48 “Cranked” (:02) The First 48 ’ Å
(12:01) The First 48 Å
Street Outlaws ’ Å
Street Outlaws Big Chief hosts a “Cash Days.” ’ Å
Alaska State Troopers
Diving Into Noah’s Flood
Search for Noah’s Ark
Relic Quest (N)
Floods, Fire, and Fury (N)
Relic Quest
Floods, Fire, and Fury
Bizarre Foods/Zimmern
Rev Runs
Rev Runs
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Bizarre Foods Å
Barefoot Contessa
The Pioneer Woman
Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy’s Grocery Games
Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Guilty Pleas. 5 Restaurants Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive
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Love It or List It Å
Hunters
Hunters Int’l Hunters
Hunters Int’l Love It or List It Å
River Monsters ’ Å
Santa 3
››› “Snowglobe” (2007, Fantasy) Christina Milian.
››› “Elf” (2003, Comedy) Will Ferrell, James Caan.
(:45) ››› “The Santa Clause” (1994) Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold.
The 700 Club ’ Å
›› “Jack Frost” (1998)
Austin & Ally Jessie ’ Å
Mickey
(5:47) “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” ’ Toy Story
Year Without a Santa Claus Rudolph’s Shiny New Year Holiday
Best Friends Girl Meets
K.C. Under. Jessie Å
Jessie Å
SpongeBob SpongeBob Alvinnn!!! and Alvinnn!!! and Henry Danger Thundermans Talia, Kitchen “Santa Hunters” (2014, Fantasy) ’ Å
Full House
Full House
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Friends ’
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(:33) Friends
Teen Titans Supernoobs Gumball
Gumball
Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare
Regular Show King of Hill
Burgers
Burgers
Cleveland
Amer. Dad
Amer. Dad
Family Guy Family Guy Chicken
Aqua Teen
Bonanza Å
(:09) Bewitched Å
Bewitched
Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life (:12) The Facts of Life Å
Raymond
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King
King
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King
(3:00) ›› “Last Holiday” (2006) ‘PG-13’
››› “Miracle on 34th Street” (1994) Richard Attenborough. ‘PG’ Å
›››› “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) Maureen O’Hara.
(:15) ›››› “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) Maureen O’Hara. ‘NR’ Å
Miracle-34 St.
›› “Period of Adjustment” (1962) Tony Franciosa. Å
››› “Sunday in New York” (1963) Cliff Robertson. Å
››› “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953)
(:45) ›› “Where the Boys Are” (1960) Dolores Hart.
›› “Girlfriends” (1978) Melanie Mayron.
Hollywood Christmas Parade (N) Å
“A Christmas Melody” (2015, Comedy) Mariah Carey. Å
“12 Gifts of Christmas” (2015, Romance) Katrina Law. Å
“A Very Merry Mix-Up” (2013) Alicia Witt, Mark Wiebe. Å
“9 Lives-C’mas”
(3:59) Snapped Å
Snapped “Rebecca Sears”
Snapped “Kathleen Wise”
Snapped “Michelle Knotek”
Snapped Å
Snapped Å
Snapped “Shellye Stark”
Snapped “Keisha Jones”
Snapped “Omaima Nelson”
(3:59) Vanderpump Rules
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Vanderpump Rules
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Vanderpump Rules (N)
Après Ski “Last Run”
Happens
After Show
Vanderpump Rules
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›› “Spawn” (1997, Fantasy) John Leguizamo. Å
››› “Hellboy” (2004, Fantasy) Ron Perlman, John Hurt. Å
›› “Men in Black II” (2002) Tommy Lee Jones. Å
››› “Attack the Block” (2011) John Boyega. Å
Cops Å
Cops Å
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Jail ’ Å
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Archer Å
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(:35) Teen Mom ’ Å
(:45) Teen Mom Maci struggles to keep up.
(8:55) Teen Mom ’ Å
Teen Mom ’ Å
Teen Mom “Stay With Me”
Teen Mom “Time Out” ’
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Love & Hip Hop (N) ’
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Black Ink Crew: Chicago ’ Love & Hip Hop ’
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Reba Å
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Reba Å
Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing ››› “Gran Torino” (2008) Clint Eastwood. A veteran faces his longtime prejudices.
Last-Standing Cowboys Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders
House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne “A Very Larry Christmas” (2014) DeRay Davis, Tatyana Ali. Martin Å
Martin Å
Martin Å
Martin Å
House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne The Wendy Williams Show
What on Earth? ’ Å
Biblical Mysteries Explained Biblical Mysteries Explained Biblical Conspiracies Å
Biblical Conspiracies Å
Biblical Mysteries Explained Biblical Conspiracies Å
Unfinished Business
(:37) Book Discussion on Adios, America
(10:46) Race In America ’
Cheney on Exceptional
The Chimes We Catholic Feasts
Bookmark
EWTN News Christmas
Daily Mass - Olam
The Journey Home (N)
EWTN News Holy Rosary World Over Live
Choir
Women of
Daily Mass - Olam
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Criminal Minds ’ Å
Criminal Minds “Paradise”
Criminal Minds “Memoriam” Criminal Minds ’ Å
Criminal Minds “52 Pickup”
Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls ›› “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” (2009, Fantasy)
›› “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” (2009, Fantasy)
Two More
Two More
Deal or No Deal ’ Å
Chain Rea.
Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Idiotest
Idiotest
Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud
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Eat St. Å
Unique Eats Unique
Donut
Best Thing
Unwrapped
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Best Thing
Unique
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Unwrapped Fact or Fict Good Eats
Good Eats
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CSI: Miami “Man Down”
CSI: Miami “Broken Home”
CSI: Miami ’ Å
CSI: Miami “Triple Threat”
CSI: Miami “Bloodline” ’
CSI: Miami “Rush” ’ Å
CSI: Miami “Just Murdered”
CSI: Miami “Man Down”
CSI: Miami “Broken Home”
Noticiero Con Paola Rojas
La Rosa de Guadalupe
El Chavo
La Familia
La Familia
La Familia
La Familia
La Familia
La Familia
La Familia
Noticiero Con Joaquin
Rayito de Luz
María Celeste
Caso Cerrado Caso Cerrado Decisiones
Noticiero
Caso Cerrado: Edición
Celia (N) ’ (SS)
Bajo el Mismo Cielo (N) ’
Señora Acero (N) ’ (SS)
Al Rojo Vivo Titulares
Bajo el Mismo Cielo (SS)
El Gordo y la Flaca (N)
Primer Impacto (N) (SS)
Hotel Todo
Noticiero Uni. Muchacha Italiana Viene
Antes Muerta que Lichita (N) Pasión y Poder (N)
Yo no creo en los hombres Impacto
Noticiero Uni Contacto Deportivo (N)
Premier League Soccer
Premier League Goal Zone Pro Ftb Talk NASCAR
Big Red: Outlaw Racer
Motorsports Hour
Eye of Hunter Hunting TV
RacerTV
Premier
Blazers
Premier League Review
Blazers
Hoarding: Buried Alive
The Girl With Half a Face ’ Son’s Face- Stop Growing
Kids With Tourettes Å
Transgender Kids ’ Å
Son’s Face- Stop Growing
Kids With Tourettes Å
Monday Best Bets
8 p.m. on (WTVC)
The Great Christmas Light Fight
Given how much electricity is expended
on these literally dazzling displays, it’s
hard to watch this engaging seasonal
competition series and not picture powercompany executives carting boatloads of
cash to the bank while caroling “Joy to the
World.” As this season wraps with its final
double episode, judges Taniya Nayak and
Carter Oosterhouse award their last pair
of $50,000 grand prizes, based on use of
lights, overall design and Christmas spirit.
9 p.m. on (WDEF)
Supergirl
It’s Thanksgiving in National City, but it’s
not necessarily the happiest occasion for
Kara (Melissa Benoist) in “Livewire.” Her
foster mother (Helen Slater) comes for a
visit, armed with skepticism about Kara’s
new, heroic status. Supergirl’s abilities are
needed, though, when a CatCo worker
(guest star Brit Morgan) is transformed by
an accident into the malevolent Livewire.
“American Idol” alum Kevin Covais also
guest stars.
9 p.m. on (TNT)
Major Crimes
A new romance takes wing in the fall finale,
a new episode called “Penalty Phase,” but
in the main story line, Sharon (Mary McDonnell) and her team are on the trail of a
deranged killer who is making his own film
with his victims as the decidedly unwilling
stars. G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison and Phillip P. Keene also star.
10 p.m. on (WTVC)
The Great Holiday Baking Show
In “Final Week” — the season finale of
this American adaptation of a hit British
show — you can bet that the remaining
amateur bakers don’t have visions of sugarplums, but rather dreams of being crowned
Holiday Baking Champion dancing in their
heads. England’s “Royal Queen of Baking,”
Mary Berry, joins fellow judge and pastry
chef Johnny Iuzzini to decide which of the
kitchen competitors will be coronated. Nia
Vardalos and Ian Gomez host.
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Legends
Martin (Sean Bean) worries that Kate (Aisling Franciosi) has been abducted when
she suddenly goes missing, so he makes a
dicey proposition to Nina and Simon (Kelly
Overton, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr) in the
new episode “The Second Legend of Dmitry
Petrovich.” Elsewhere, Gabi (Winter Ave
Zoli) discovers that there may be a dangerous connection between Tamir (Nikola Djuricko) and Blazek. Steve Kazee also stars.
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Nightly News Ent. Tonight Inside Edition Hollywood Game Night ’
Chicago Med “Derailed” ’
Chicago Fire “I Walk Away” News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Seth Meyers
John Hagee Prophecy
“A Christmas Snow” (2010) Catherine Mary Stewart.
Supernatural Potters
Trinity Family Joyce Meyer Prince
S. Furtick
God Came... The Perfect Gift
War &
World Impact
Around Town
Body
Southern-Fit The Best of Rick & Bubba
Misty- Kr.
Bluegrass
Around Town Around Town Around Town Texas Music Around Town
Around Town Around Town
Judge Mathis ’ Å
Friends ’
Friends ’
Mod Fam
Family Feud Family Feud The Middle
The Flash ’ Å
iZombie “Max Wager” Å
Tosh.0 Å
Crazy Talk
Hollywood
Believer
Anger
Paid Program
Martha Speak Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts
PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
History Detectives
Prohibition Enforcing Prohibition creates problems.
Frontline ’ Å
Frontline Life of Jesus; rise of Christianity. Å (DVS)
Dare to Love Bill Winston Love a Child Jewish Voice Guillermo
Creflo Dollar TBA
John Hagee Rod Parsley Joni Lamb
Marcus and Joni
Joel Osteen Å
John Hagee K. Copeland Life Today
Joyce Meyer
Dr. Phil ’ Å
News
News
News
World News Wheel
Jeopardy! (N) Fresh-Boat
The Muppets The Year: 2015 Memorable moments from 2015. (N) Å
News
(:35) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (:37) Nightline
Odd Squad
Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts
World News Business Rpt. PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
Prohibition Enforcing Prohibition creates problems.
Frontline ’ Å
A-List
World News Charlie Rose (N) ’ Å
››› “The Mighty” (1998, Drama) Sharon Stone. Å
››› “Defence of the Realm” (1985) Gabriel Byrne. Å
››› “Leon: The Professional” (1994) Jean Reno. Å
››› “Colors” (1988, Crime Drama) Sean Penn, Robert Duvall. Å
Stop-Loss
The Dr. Oz Show ’ Å
Judge Judy Judge Judy News 12 at 6 CBS News
Prime News Andy Griffith NCIS “Lost in Translation”
NCIS: New Orleans Å
Limitless ’ Å
News
Late Show-Colbert
Corden
Gold Jewelry Clearance “All Easy Pay Offers”
Isaac Mizrahi Live!
Tuesday Night Beauty
The Find With Shawn Killinger
Linen Clearance
Key Capitol Hill Hearings ’ Key Capitol Hill Hearings Speeches. ’
Key Capitol Hill Hearings ’
Blue Bloods “The Uniform”
Blue Bloods “Leap of Faith” Blue Bloods “The Job” ’
Person of Interest ’ Å
›››› “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Henry Thomas. Å
How I Met
How I Met
How I Met
How I Met
How I Met
Fashion & Accessories
Jewelry Clearance
Kardashian
Kardashian
Kardashian
E! News (N) Å
› “Coyote Ugly” (2000) Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia.
Christina Milian Turned Up E! News (N) Å
NCIS: Los Angeles ’
NCIS: Los Angeles ’ Å
Knife Fight
Knife Fight
Knife Fight
Knife Fight
› “Fool’s Gold” (2008) Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson. Å
Bars-America
“On Strike for Christmas” (2010) Daphne Zuniga. Å
“With This Ring” (2015, Romance) Jill Scott, Eve. Å
››› “The Christmas Hope” (2009) Madeleine Stowe.
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Prospect
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Dunkle said her school
decided to reach out to a
school in another county, so
she contacted the main office
of the Hamilton County
Schools system and asked
which school might most benefit from such a project. She
said Clifton Hills Elementary
School was quickly recommended.
While she said the Hamilton
County officials did not elaborate on their recommendation,
a large percentage of the students may come from lowincome families. According to
the Tennessee Department of
Education, 99.8 percent of the
579 students there are considered “economically disadvantaged,” meaning they are eligible for free or reduced-cost
lunches at school.
The mission then was to
“adopt” Clifton Hills and give
gifts to students whose families
may not be able to afford gifts
for the holidays.
She and the other faculty
and staff decided to purchase
toys and other items to give to
the Clifton Hills’ students as
gifts, as well as gift cards to
give to their faculty and staff.
The $2,300 turned out to be
enough to ensure every single
person would receive a gift or
gift card.
“It was really exciting,”
Dunkle said. “These kids
amaze me in their willingness
to give.”
“It was so fun. It made me feel happy to see them
happy. I learned that whenever you give, you might get
something good back out of it.”
— Malory Heifner, fifth-grader
The gifts ranged from board
games and stuffed animals to
wearable gifts like hair accessories and hats. Each classroom teacher was allotted a
$25 gift card, while $10 cards
were purchased for all the support staff.
In November, Prospect students made and sent cards to
the students of Clifton Hills to
both spread some Christmas
cheer and introduce them to
the Cleveland students they
would be meeting in December.
On Dec. 7, students from
Prospect’s “leadership crew”
and Junior Beta Club chapter
ventured to Chattanooga with
faculty and staff.
The Clifton Hills students
assembled in their cafeteria,
where they were treated to a
special breakfast which included a chocolate cake a parent of
a Prospect student had donated. Then, the gift-giving began.
“It was so fun,” said Prospect
fifth-grader Malory Heifner. “It
made me feel happy to see
them happy. I learned that
whenever you give, you might
get something good back out of
it.”
Fourth-grader Garrison
Rodgers explained how students from Prospect set up different stations in Clifton Hills’
cafeteria, including stations for
giving away candy canes and
different types of toys.
He said it was “really cool” to
be able to give gifts to other
children who “maybe don’t
have any toys.”
Rodgers also pointed out
many students at Clifton Hills
come from different backgrounds than those of students
at Prospect.
“I loved getting to meet a lot
of new people who were different than me,” Rodgers said.
“They’re really nice.”
Figures from the Tennessee
Department of Education show
51.3 percent of students there
are black or African-American,
and 41.6 percent are Hispanic
or Latino. White students make
up the majority — 84.9 percent — at Prospect.
While faculty at Clifton Hills
could not be reached for comment before press time, the
school’s website has a prominently displayed thank-you
message addressed to
Prospect.
“We are so appreciative for
Prospect’s generosity,” it reads
in part. “Thanks so much to all
Prospect Elementary students,
faculty and staff!”
Prospect Principal Steve
Montgomery said the feedback
on the project was positive
from those at his school, and
he said a conversation with
leaders at Clifton Hills led him
to believe they are considering
“paying it forward” by doing a
similar project for another
school.
He added that it was “probably one of the top 10 days” he
had ever experienced during
his time at Prospect. He got to
see his students experience
giving, and he got to see the
Chattanooga students’ reactions as they received the gifts.
“It was our way of giving
back,” Montgomery said. “And
it just grew and grew. It was
amazing.”
He and Dunkle both
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China says
lower business
costs coming
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders
promised Monday to promote economic growth by cutting business
costs and reducing surplus production capacity in some industries as they try to reverse an unexpectedly sharp downturn.
After an annual planning meeting, Communist Party leaders also
promised to reduce financial risks
and rein in rising debt that has
prompted concern about possible
threats to China’s financial system.
The leadership under President
Xi Jinping is in the midst of a
multi-year effort to nurture slower,
more sustainable growth based on
domestic consumption instead of
trade and investment. Growth has
slowed more abruptly than expected over the past two years, forcing
the party to juggle competing
demands of shoring up the expansion while keeping reforms on
track.
The pledges in Monday’s brief
statement weren’t new, but they
indicate where the ruling party’s
priorities will lie in 2016.
The statement also gave no
details of how key issues such as
the status of state companies that
dominate industries from banking
to energy to telecoms would be
affected.
Economic growth decelerated to
a six-year low of 6.9 percent in the
quarter ending in September and
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GIVING GIFTS to students at Clifton Hills Elementary School in and private sector forecasters
Chattanooga, students from Prospect Elementary School carry out a expect it to fall as low as 6 percent
service project dubbed “Operation: Unite.”
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Falcons beat Jaguars,
end six-game slump
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) —
Matt Ryan would have understood if his Atlanta teammates
doubted whether they would
hold on against Jacksonville.
After all, the Falcons had
dropped six in a row and seven
of eight and blown several late
leads along the way. But Ryan
felt like the team was confident
down the stretch, calling it the
key to Atlanta’s first win in nearly two months.
Julio Jones set the franchise
record for receptions in a season,
and the Falcons ended a sixgame skid with a 23-17 victory
against the Jaguars on Sunday.
“It’s very difficult not to allow
doubt to happen when we
haven’t had success the last couple of weeks or the last two
months,” Ryan said. “But I didn’t
feel that from anybody today.
The reason you are so proud and
you’re so pumped up for the
other guys is we know how easy
it is to doubt yourself in those
situations.
“But I didn’t sense that from
anyone, and I think that’s why
we won.”
Jones was a huge factor, too.
He finished with nine receptions
for 118 yards and his first touch-
down in seven weeks. He now
has 118 catches, breaking teammate Roddy White’s mark of 115
set in 2010.
“The record means nothing,
nothing,” Jones said. “It’s just
numbers. I go out there to try
and help my team win. Roddy
has been like a mentor to me.
Records are made to be broken.
One of these young guys will
probably break mine.”
The Falcons (7-7) had lost six
straight and even had some wondering whether they had given
up after losing 38-0 last week at
Carolina. But they showed
resiliency against Jacksonville
and won for the first time since
Oct. 25.
The Jaguars (5-9), meanwhile,
lost ground in the muddled AFC
South and were all but eliminated in the division race.
Jacksonville had all the
momentum Sunday after tying
the game with consecutive
touchdowns to start the second
half. Blake Bortles, rebounding
from a costly turnover just
before the break, ran for a touchdown to cut the lead to single
digits. He followed with a 10yard TD pass to Allen Robinson
to knot things up at 17.
Bortles’ 31st touchdown pass
of the season and 13th to
Robinson had Jacksonville in
position to be the latest to deal
Atlanta a defeat.
But Ryan and the Falcons
responded, getting a pair of field
goals in the final frame. They
used a 31-yard pass interference
penalty to set up a 33-yard field
goal with about 10 minutes
remaining, and then Shayne
Graham added a 46-yarder with
1:42 remaining.
“When it comes down to it,
those missed opportunities —
whether it’s fumbles or whatever
it is — are haunting us right
now,” said Jaguars receiver Allen
Hurns.
Ryan completed 22 of 35 passes for 246 yards, with a touchdown and an interception.
Devonta Freeman ran for 56
yards and scored for the first
time since Week 6.
Jacksonville had a final
chance and looked like it might
pull off the comeback when
Marqise Lee made a juggling
catch down the sideline. But
Bortles overthrew Hurns down
the middle of the field on third
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AP photo
AtlAntA FAlCOns runnIng BACk Devonta Freeman (24) scores a touchdown on a 5-yard run
past Jacksonville Jaguars middle linebacker Paul Posluszny, right, during the first half in Jacksonville,
Fla., Sunday.
Hawks survive scare in Orlando
AP photo
tItAns tIgHt End Delanie Walker crosses the goal line for a touchdown ahead of New England
Patriots defensive back Jordan Richards (37) after catching a pass in the second half Sunday in
Foxborough, Mass.
Titans outdone in New England
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) —
The New England Patriots know
they’ll get a first-round bye in
playoffs.
The Tennessee Titans’ future
is even more in doubt.
Tom Brady threw for two
touchdowns to help the Patriots
hold onto the top spot in the
AFC, beating Tennessee 33-16
on Sunday after knocking Titans
quarterback Marcus Mariota out
with a knee injury.
The 2014 Heisman Trophy
winner and the No. 2 overall pick
in this year’s draft, Mariota left
the game and did not return
after being sacked to stop consecutive second-quarter possessions. He said after the game he
could have returned, but agreed
with interim coach Mike
Mularkey that it wasn’t worth
the risk.
“I wanted to go in right away,”
Mariota said, adding that he
deferred to the wishes of the
training staff. “I don’t expect to
be out for the rest of the year.”
The Patriots (12-2) clinched a
first-round bye in the postseason
when Denver lost to Pittsburgh
later Sunday. New England
could clinch home-field throughout the playoffs with one more
win, either next week at the Jets
or the final weekend at Miami.
Brady completed 23 of 35
passes for 267 yards for New
England. James White caught
seven passes for 71 yards,
including a 30-yard catch-andrun touchdown, and Keshawn
Martin had a 75-yard kickoff
return to set up another score.
White was filling in at No. 1
running back, a job that had
been held by Dion Lewis and
LeGarrette Blount before they
both sustained season-ending
injuries. The big Patriots losses
on Sunday were linebacker
Dont’a Hightower (knee), receiver
Danny Amendola (knee) and
safety Patrick Chung (hip).
All three left the game and did
not return. No information about
their conditions was immediately
available.
“Guys are going out and guys
are coming in,” Brady said.
“You’re just trying to do what you
can to be productive.”
The Patriots have won two in a
row since stumbling to consecutive losses — their first two-game
losing streak since 2012.
Instead, they have recorded their
sixth straight season with at
least 12 wins.
“Twelve wins, that’s on the
right track here,” coach Bill
Belichick said.
Rob Gronkowski caught a 5yard touchdown pass, and
Akiem Hicks fell on the ball in
the end zone after Jamie Collins’
strip-sacked Mariota for New
England’s other TD.
The rookie quarterback was
sacked to end the next drive, too.
Zach Mettenberger replaced him
and completed 20 of 28 passes
for 242 yards, two touchdowns
— both to Delanie Walker — and
two interceptions.
Walker had a 7-yard catch in
the third quarter and then a 57yard rumble down the right sideline with 7 minutes left in the
game. Ryan Succop missed the
extra point, leaving Titans (3-11)
with a 27-16 deficit.
But Brady led the Patriots to
the Tennessee 23, and Stephen
Gostkowski put one through off
the upright to make it a twotouchdown game. After Collins
intercepted Mettenberger and
ran it back 51 yards to the
Titans 16, Gostkowski added
another field goal.
Already mired in a lost season,
with coach Ken Whisenhunt
fired midway through the season, the only thing left for the
Titans is to get Mariota some
experience — and add a high
draft pick such as Ohio State
defensive lineman Joey Bosa to
the roster. Mariota has already
missed two games this season
with a left knee injury.
“We discussed bringing him
back in,” Mularkey said. “I’d
rather err on the side of caution.”
Brady took the Patriots 79
yards on their first possession,
connecting with Gronkowski
from 5 yards to make it 7-0. They
made it 14-0 when Chandler
Jones strip-sacked Mariota at
the Tennessee 17; Hicks chased
the ball and knocked it into the
end zone before falling on it for
the touchdown.
Tennessee’s drive stalled
again, but Danny Amendola
fumbled the punt and the Titans
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — One of
coach Scott Skiles' biggest worries heading into the Magic's
first meeting with division rival
Atlanta was allowing Hawks
sharpshooter Kyle Korver to get
hot at the wrong time.
It proved to be a valid concern.
Korver scored 13 of his 19
points in the fourth quarter,
including a tiebreaking 3-pointer in the final minute, and
Atlanta rallied to defeat Orlando
103-100 on Sunday night.
Korver had four 3s in the last
period and six for the game.
Mike Scott added 15 points off
the bench, and Al Horford and
Jeff Teague scored 14 apiece in
Atlanta's third straight victory.
"I haven't quite found my
rhythm yet so it was good to see
the ball go in the basket," Korver
said. "I'll keep trying to find my
rhythm and find my shot, and
you try to stay confident."
Hawks
coach
Mike
Budenholzer saw that confidence emerge in the fourth
quarter.
"When he's making shots it
creates
space
for
us,"
Budenholzer said. "Obviously if
Kyle gets a good look, you feel
like it's going to go in."
Skiles said those good looks
— especially Korver's final one
— weren't supposed to be available.
"We weren't supposed to leave
(him)," the coach said. "We just
kind of got brain locked and left
him. But overall our defense
was terrible, if not laughable."
The Magic had the ball and a
chance to tie with 7.3 seconds
remaining, but the Hawks
smothered an inbounds pass to
Evan Fournier. The ball eventu-
Raiders score big at
Oak Ridge tournament
STAFF REPORTS
OAK RIDGE — Another win
was added to Cleveland’s
books as the Blue Raiders
picked up a 67-49 victory
against Dobyns-Bennett on
Saturday.
They finished the weekend
2-0 at the Oak Ridge basketball tournament after taking a
thrilling win on Friday night
over Science Hill.
Cantrel Ware led the Raiders
in scoring in tallying 15 points,
while KK Curry and James
McRee both put up nine
points.
It was a close game after one
half of play, but Cleveland rallied its troops in the third
quarter and grabbed a 15point lead (48-33) heading to
the fourth.
The Indians tried to make a
run at the Raiders in the
fourth period, but the attempted rally was largely countered
by Ware’s nine points.
With the win, Cleveland is
now 6-2 on the season and will
look to get some much-needed
rest before getting set to play
again on Dec. 28, in the Powell
Christmas Classic.
GAME SUMMARIES
BOYs
Cleveland 16 13 19 19 — 67
dobyns-Bennett 12 10 11 16 — 49
rAIdErs (67) —Cantrel Ware 15, Curry 9, McRee 9,
Constant 8, Wykle 8, K. Ware 7, Davis 4, D. Ware 3, Hill 2,
Bradford 2.
IndIAns (49) — Carter Holt 14, Jacoby Thompson 11,
Cassell 8, Gilliam 7, Webb 4, Rogers 3, Foreman 2.
3-point goals: Cleveland 5 (Wykle, Ware, Curry, Davis, D.
Ware); Dobyns-Bennett 1 (Thompson).
Free throws: Cleveland 18-of-25; Dobyns-Bennett 12-of24.
records: Cleveland 6-2; Dobyns-Bennett 2-6.
AP photo
AtlAntA HAwks guArd Jeff Teague (0) shoots over Orlando
Magic forward Evan Fournier (10) during the second half in Orlando
on Sunday. Atlanta won 103-100.
ally found its way to Nik
Vucevic, who failed to get off a
shot before time expired.
Vucevic led Orlando with 20
points and 11 rebounds.
Fournier added 17 points, and
Elfrid Payton had 14 points, six
assists and five steals.
The loss ended a three-game
winning streak for the Magic.
Orlando did a good job of
matching Atlanta's pace in the
first three quarters, responding
to each Hawks run with one of
its own.
The Magic found an offensive
groove in the third quarter and
used a 16-0 spurt to take a 6863 lead.
The Hawks answered with
eight straight points of their
own, and the Magic took a onepoint lead into the final period
after a steal and layup by
Fournier ended the third.
Fournier had 15 points in the
quarter, connecting on four of
his five field goal attempts.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Atlanta shot 50 percent (39 of 78) for the game. ...
Ten of Horford's 14 first-half
points came on dunks.
Magic: Orlando had 24 points
off 20 Atlanta turnovers. ...
Skiles was called for a technical
foul by referee Eric Lewis with
3:31 remaining in the third
quarter. ... Payton had four
steals in the first 6 minutes. ...
Orlando has made at least one
3-pointer in 683 consecutive
games dating to March 17,
2007.
DEFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT
One of Skiles' goals entering
this season was to have the
Magic ranked in the top five in
opponents' field goal percentage. Entering Sunday, Orlando
ranked fifth in the NBA, holding
opponents to 42.8 percent from
the field — and 33.7 percent
from the 3-point line (ninth in
the league). The Magic ranked
28th and 29th, respectively, in
those categories last season. "If
that holds at the end of the season, that would be a great
accomplishment for these guys,
for sure," Skiles said. "We don't
really see any reason why it
can't hold. We want to move up.
We don't want to just be fifth;
we'd like to be first."
STAT WATCH
Paul Millsap entered as the
only player in the NBA averaging
at least 18 points, eight
rebounds, three assists, one
steal and one block per game.
He posted his 12th double-double on the season against the
Magic with 13 points and 13
rebounds.
UP NEXT
Atlanta hosts the Portland
Trail Blazers on Monday.
Orlando plays at the New York
Knicks on Monday.
Gonzaga holds off Tennessee
SCOREBOARD
on air
Sports on Tv
Monday, dec. 21
ColleGe BaSKeTBall
7 p.m.
BTN — Sacred Heart at Northwestern
CBSSN — Providence at UMass
ESPN2 — Appalachian St. at North Carolina
ESPNU — E. Kentucky at West Virginia
FS1 — Chicago St. at Marquette
9 p.m.
ESPN2 — Pepperdine at Gonzaga
ESPNU — Oregon vs. Alabama (at Birmingham, Ala.)
FS1 — North Texas at Creighton
ColleGe fooTBall
2:30 p.m.
ESPN — Miami Beach Bowl, South Florida vs. W. Kentucky,
at Miami
nBa BaSKeTBall
7:30 p.m.
NBA — Minnesota at Boston
10:30 p.m.
NBA — Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers
nfl fooTBall
8:15 p.m.
ESPN — Detroit at New Orleans
SoCCer
2:55 p.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester City at Arsenal
woMen'S ColleGe BaSKeTBall
5 p.m.
ESPNU — Florida St. at Arizona St.
on TaP
Monday, dec. 21
BaSKeTBall
Cookeville Tournament
Bradley Central boys participating, TBA
north Murray holiday Tournament
Walker Valley participating, TBA
Tuesday, dec. 22
BaSKeTBall
north Murray holiday Tournament
Walker Valley participating, TBA
Monday, dec. 28
BaSKeTBall
Cleveland vs. Knox West (at Powell), 5:30 (Boys only)
Maryville Tournament
Bradley Central Boys participating
Panama City tournament
Bradley Central girls participating
Tuesday dec. 29
BaSKeTBall
Cleveland vs. Shelbyville (at Lincoln County), 3 (Girls only)
Cleveland at Powell, 5:30 (Boys only)
wednesday, dec. 30
BaSKeTBall
Cleveland at Lincoln County, 3:30 (Girls only)
Cleveland vs. Cumberland Gap (at Powell), 5:30 (Boys only)
Thursday, dec. 31
BaSKeTBall
Saturday, Jan. 2
BaSKeTBall
Lee University at University of West Georgia, TBA
BaSKeTBall
national Basketball association
eaSTern ConferenCe
atlantic division
w
l
Pct
GB
Toronto
17
12
.586
—
Boston
14
13
.519
2
New York
14
14
.500
2½
Brooklyn
7
20
.259
9
Philadelphia
1
28
.034
16
Southeast division
w
l
Pct
GB
Miami
16
10
.615
—
Atlanta
17
12
.586
½
Charlotte
15
11
.577
1
Orlando
15
12
.556
1½
Washington
11
14
.440
4½
Central division
w
l
Pct
GB
Cleveland
18
7
.720
—
Indiana
16
10
.615
2½
Chicago
15
10
.600
3
Detroit
16
12
.571
3½
Milwaukee
11
18
.379
9
weSTern ConferenCe
Southwest division
w
l
Pct
GB
San Antonio
23
5
.821
—
Dallas
15
12
.556
7½
Memphis
15
14
.517
8½
Houston
14
14
.500
9
New Orleans
8
19
.296 14½
northwest division
w
l
Pct
GB
Oklahoma City
18
9
.667
—
Utah
11
14
.440
6
Denver
11
16
.407
7
Minnesota
11
16
.407
7
Portland
11
18
.379
8
Pacific division
w
l
Pct
GB
Golden State
26
1
.963
—
L.A. Clippers
16
12
.571 10½
Phoenix
12
17
.414
15
Sacramento
11
16
.407
15
L.A. Lakers
4
23
.148
22
Monday’s Games
Sacramento at Washington, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Charlotte at Houston, 8 p.m.
Portland at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Indiana at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Utah, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Memphis at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m.
Top 25 fared
Sunday
1. Michigan State (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. Oakland,
Tuesday.
2. Kansas (9-1) did not play. Next: at San Diego State,
Tuesday.
3. Oklahoma (8-0) did not play. Next: at Washington State,
Tuesday.
4. Kentucky (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 19 Louisville,
Saturday.
5. Iowa State (9-1) did not play. Next: at No. 23 Cincinnati,
Tuesday.
6. Maryland (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Marshall, Sunday.
7. Duke (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Elon, Monday, Dec. 28.
8. Virginia (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. California, Tuesday.
9. Purdue (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. Vanderbilt, Tuesday.
10. Xavier (11-0) did not play. Next: at Wake Forest,
Tuesday.
11. North Carolina (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Appalachian
State, Monday.
12. Villanova (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. Delaware,
Tuesday.
13. Arizona (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. Long Beach State,
Tuesday.
14. Providence (11-1) did not play. Next: at UMass,
Monday.
15. Miami (9-1) did not play. Next: at La Salle, Tuesday.
16. Baylor (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. New Mexico State,
Wednesday.
17. Butler (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. Southern Utah,
Tuesday.
18. SMU (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. Kent State, Tuesday.
19. Louisville (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. UMKC, Tuesday.
20. West Virginia (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. Eastern
Kentucky, Monday.
21. George Washington (10-1) did not play. Next: at
DePaul, Tuesday.
22. UCLA (8-4) did not play. Next: vs. McNeese State,
Tuesday.
23. Cincinnati (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 5 Iowa
State, Tuesday.
24. Texas A&M (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Cal Poly,
Tuesday, Dec. 29.
25. UConn (7-3) beat UMass-Lowell 88-79. Next: vs.
CCSU, Wednesday.
women’s Top 25 fared
Sunday
1. UConn (8-0) did not play. Next: vs. LSU, Monday.
2. South Carolina (11-0) beat East Carolina 88-57. Next: vs.
Elon, Tuesday.
3. Notre Dame (9-1) did not play. Next: at Saint Joseph’s,
Monday.
4. Baylor (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. James Madison,
Monday.
5. Texas (10-0) beat Arkansas 61-50. Next: vs. Sam
Houston State, Sunday.
6. Maryland (11-0) beat Maryland-Eastern Shore 107-30.
Next: vs. No. 1 UConn, Monday, Dec. 28.
7. Oregon State (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Cal Poly,
Monday.
8. Kentucky (10-0) beat No. 13 Duke 71-61. Next: vs.
Tennessee State, Monday, Dec. 28.
9. Mississippi State (10-1) beat Western Michigan 90-68.
Next: vs. SMU, Monday.
10. Ohio State (7-3) did not play. Next: vs. Virginia,
Monday.
11. Florida State (9-2) did not play. Next: at No. 21 Arizona
State, Monday.
12. Northwestern (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. UMKC,
Tuesday.
13. Duke (9-3) lost to No. 8 Kentucky 71-61. Next: vs.
Western Carolina, Tuesday, Dec. 29.
14. Tennessee (8-3) did not play. Next: vs. Stetson,
Wednesday, Dec. 30.
15. Stanford (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. Cal State
Bakersfield, Tuesday.
16. DePaul (8-4) did not play. Next: vs. Loyola of Chicago,
Monday.
17. Oklahoma (9-2) lost to No. 18 Texas A&M 74-68. Next:
vs. Kansas, Wednesday, Dec. 30.
18. Texas A&M (8-3) beat No. 17 Oklahoma 74-68. Next:
vs. UALR, Tuesday.
19. UCLA (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 21 California,
Monday.
20. South Florida (7-2) beat Oklahoma State 68-46. Next:
at No. 9 Mississippi State, Wednesday, Dec. 30.
21. Arizona State (7-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 11 Florida
State, Monday.
21. California (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 19 UCLA,
Monday.
23. Miami (11-1) beat Indiana 89-75. Next: vs. FIU, Tuesday.
24. Michigan State (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. Detroit,
Monday.
25. St. John’s (8-2) did not play. Next: vs. Fairfield, Tuesday.
BoXinG
fight Schedule
dec. 29
At Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Naoya Inoue vs. Warlito
Parrenas, 12, for Inoue’s WBO junior bantamweight title;
Javier Mendoza vs. Akira Yaegashi, 12, for Mendoza’s IBF
junior flyweight title; Takuma Inoue vs. Rene Dacquel, 12,
junior bantamweights; Satoshi Hosono vs. Akifumi
Shimoda, 10, featherweights.
dec. 31
At Osaka, Japan, Kazuto Ioka vs. Juan Carlos Reveco, 12,
for Ioka’s WBA World flyweight title; Katsunari Takayama
vs. Jose Argumedo, 12, for Takayama’s IBF World minimumweight title; Takahiro Yamamoto vs. Yuki Strong
Kobayashi, 12, bantamweights.
At Tokyo, Takashi Uchiyama vs. Oliver Flores, 12, for
Uchiyama’s WBA Super World super featherweight title;
Ryoichi Taguchi vs. Luis De la Rosa, 12, for Taguchi’s WBA
World light flyweight title.
Jan. 9
At Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Vincent Feigenbutz vs.
Giovanni De Carolis, 12, for the interim WBA World super
middleweight title.
Jan. 16
At Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (SHO), Deontay Wilder
vs. Artur Szpilka, 12, for Wildre’s WBC heavyweight title.
Jan. 23
At Staples Center, Los Angeles (FOX), Danny Garcia vs.
Robert Guerrero, 12, welterweights.
Jan. 30
At Bell Centre, Montreal, Sergey Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal,
12, for Kovalev’s IBF-WBA Super World-WBO light heavyweight titles.
feb. 27
At Manchester, England, Carl Frampton vs. Scott Quigg,
12, for Frampton’s IBF-WBA Super World bantamweight
titles.
fooTBall
national football league
aMeriCan ConferenCe
east
w
l
T Pct
y-New England
12
2
0 .857
N.Y. Jets
9
5
0 .643
Buffalo
6
8
0 .429
Miami
5
9
0 .357
South
w
l
T Pct
Houston
7
7
0 .500
Indianapolis
6
8
0 .429
Jacksonville
5
9
0 .357
Tennessee
3
11
0 .214
north
w
l
T Pct
x-Cincinnati
11
3
0 .786
Pittsburgh
9
5
0 .643
Baltimore
4
10
0 .286
Cleveland
3
11
0 .214
west
w
l
T Pct
Denver
10
4
0 .714
Kansas City
9
5
0 .643
Oakland
6
8
0 .429
San Diego
4
10
0 .286
naTional ConferenCe
east
w
l
T Pct
Washington
7
7
0 .500
Philadelphia
6
8
0 .429
N.Y. Giants
6
8
0 .429
Dallas
4
10
0 .286
South
w
l
T Pct
y-Carolina
14
0
0 1.000
Atlanta
7
7
0 .500
Tampa Bay
6
8
0 .429
New Orleans
5
8
0 .385
north
w
l
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x-Green Bay
10
4
0 .714
Minnesota
9
5
0 .643
Chicago
5
9
0 .357
Detroit
4
9
0 .308
west
w
l
T Pct
y-Arizona
12
2
0 .857
x-Seattle
9
5
0 .643
St. Louis
6
8
0 .429
San Francisco
4
10
0 .286
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Monday’s Game
Detroit at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, dec. 24
San Diego at Oakland, 8:25 p.m.
Saturday, dec. 26
Washington at Philadelphia, 8:25 p.m.
Sunday, dec. 27
Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
New England at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Indianapolis at Miami, 1 p.m.
San Francisco at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Dallas at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at New Orleans, 4:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.
Green Bay at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
2015-16 Bowl Glance
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435
344
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278
Pa
269
272
336
361
Pf
275
285
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Pa
301
372
380
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378
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Saturday, dec. 19
Celebration Bowl
atlanta
NC A&T 41, Alcorn State 34
new Mexico Bowl
albuquerque
Arizona 45, New Mexico 37
las vegas Bowl
Utah 35, BYU 28
Camellia Bowl
Montgomery, ala.
Appalachian State 31, Ohio 29
Cure Bowl
orlando, fla.
San Jose State 27, Georgia State 16
new orleans Bowl
Louisiana Tech 47, Arkansas State 28
Monday, dec. 21
Miami Beach Bowl
South Florida (8-4) vs. Western Kentucky (11-2), 2:30 p.m.
(ESPN)
Tuesday, dec. 22
famous idaho Potato Bowl
Boise
Akron (7-5) vs. Utah State (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Boca raton (fla.) Bowl
Temple (10-3) vs. Toledo (9-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
wednesday, dec. 23
Poinsettia Bowl
San diego
Northern Illinois (8-5) vs. Boise State (8-4), 4:30 p.m.
(ESPN)
Godaddy Bowl
Mobile, ala.
Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Georgia Southern (8-4), 8 p.m.
(ESPN)
Thursday, dec. 24
Bahamas Bowl
nassau
Middle Tennessee (7-5) vs. Western Michigan (7-5), Noon
(ESPN)
hawaii Bowl
honolulu
Cincinnati (7-5) vs. San Diego State (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturday, dec. 26
St. Petersburg (fla.) Bowl
Marshall (9-3) vs. UConn (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN)
Sun Bowl
el Paso, Texas
Miami (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 2 p.m. (CBS)
heart of dallas Bowl
Washington (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (9-4), 3:20 p.m.
(ESPN)
Pinstripe Bowl
Bronx, n.Y.
Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
independence Bowl
Shreveport, la.
Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN)
foster farms Bowl
Santa Clara, Calif.
Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN)
Monday, dec. 28
Military Bowl
annapolis, Md.
Navy (10-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Quick lane Bowl
detroit
Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 5 p.m.
(ESPN2)
Tuesday, dec. 29
armed forces Bowl
fort worth, Texas
Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN)
russell athletic Bowl
orlando, fla.
North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)
arizona Bowl
Tucson
Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ASN)
Texas Bowl
houston
Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN)
wednesday, dec. 30
Birmingham (ala.) Bowl
Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), Noon (ESPN)
Belk Bowl
Charlotte, n.C.
NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Music City Bowl
nashville, Tenn.
Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
holiday Bowl
San diego
Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, dec. 31
Peach Bowl
atlanta
Houston (12-1) vs. Florida State (10-2), Noon (ESPN)
orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal)
Miami Gardens, fla.
Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 4 p.m. (ESPN)
Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal)
arlington, Texas
Alabama (12-1) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
friday, Jan. 1
outback Bowl
Tampa, fla.
Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), Noon (ESPN2)
Citrus Bowl
orlando, fla.
Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)
fiesta Bowl
Glendale, ariz.
Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio State (11-1), 1 p.m. (ESPN)
rose Bowl
Pasadena, Calif.
Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN)
Sugar Bowl
new orleans
Oklahoma State (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 8:30 p.m.
(ESPN)
Saturday, Jan. 2
TaxSlayer Bowl
Jacksonville, fla.
Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), Noon (ESPN)
liberty Bowl
Memphis, Tenn.
Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 3:20 p.m. (ESPN)
alamo Bowl
San antonio
Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)
Cactus Bowl
Phoenix
West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 10:15 p.m.
(ESPN)
Monday, Jan. 11
College football Championship Game
Glendale, ariz.
Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 8:30 p.m.
(ESPN)
Saturday, Jan. 23
east-west Shrine Classic
at St. Petersburg, fla.
East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)
nflPa Collegiate Bowl
at Carson, Calif.
National vs. American, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)
Saturday, Jan. 30
Senior Bowl
at Mobile, ala.
North vs. South, 2:30 p.m. (NFLN)
Golf
Philippines open leading Scores
Sunday
at luisita Golf and Country Club
Tarlac, Philippines
Purse: $300,000
Yardage: 7,042; Par: 72
final
Miguel Tabuena, Philippines
67-69-66—202
Scott Barr, Australia
69-66-68—203
Himmat Rai, India
71-70-63—204
Chinnarat Phadungsil, Thailand 67-70-67—204
Baek Seuk-hyun, South Korea 69-71-66—206
Simon Griffiths, England
70-68-68—206
Jeunghun Wang, South Korea 67-70-69—206
Niall Turner, Ireland
69-68-69—206
Keith Horne, South Africa
69-68-69—206
Lu Wei-chih, Taiwan
70-70-67—207
Charlie Wi, South Korea
70-69-68—207
Khalin Joshi, India
70-67-70—207
Gaganjeet Bhullar, India
67-69-71—207
Kalle Samooja, Finland
69-67-71—207
Lindsay Renolds, Canada
66-68-73—207
Charles Hong, Philippines
71-68-69—208
Mardan Mamat, Singapore
68-71-69—208
also
Brett Munson, United States
70-69-70—209
Sam Cyr, United States
72-70-71—213
John Catlin, United States
72-71-77—220
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national hockey league
eaSTern ConferenCe
atlantic division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Montreal
34 20
11
3 43 103 82
Boston
32 19
9
4 42 104 83
Detroit
33 17
9
7 41 86 85
Florida
34 18 12
4 40 93 80
Ottawa
34 17 12
5 39 104 102
Tampa Bay
34 17 14
3 37 86 80
Buffalo
34 14 16
4 32 79 89
Toronto
31 11
13
7 29 77 86
Metropolitan division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Washington
32 24
6
2 50 103 70
N.Y. Rangers
35 19 12
4 42 101 91
N.Y. Islanders
34 18
11
5 41 91 80
New Jersey
34 16 13
5 37 79 84
Philadelphia
33 14 12
7 35 70 89
Pittsburgh
32 15 14
3 33 71 82
Carolina
33 13 15
5 31 79 99
Columbus
35 13 19
3 29 86 107
weSTern ConferenCe
Central division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Dallas
33 24
7
2 50 114 85
St. Louis
34 20 10
4 44 87 81
Chicago
34 19
11
4 42 92 80
Minnesota
31 17
8
6 40 86 73
Nashville
33 16
11
6 38 85 85
Colorado
34 17 16
1 35 95 90
Winnipeg
32 15 15
2 32 90 97
Pacific division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Los Angeles
32 20 10
2 42 81 71
San Jose
32 16 15
1 33 85 87
Vancouver
35 12 14
9 33 89 102
Arizona
32 15 15
2 32 87 102
Calgary
33 15 16
2 32 87 112
Edmonton
34 14 18
2 30 88 105
Anaheim
31 12 14
5 29 58 77
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Monday’s Games
Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Columbus at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
St. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.
Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Montreal at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Toronto at Arizona, 9 p.m.
San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
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contact coach Foster at (317)650-1064 or email [email protected].
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contact Dewayne Lowe at 423-715-5772.
SEATTLE (AP) — The entirety
of a 19-point lead was gone and
Gonzaga was on the verge of
blowing another second-half
lead.
Domantas Sabonis wasn’t
about to let it happen again.
Sabonis scored a career-high
36 points and grabbed 16
rebounds, Kyle Wiltjer added
24 points and the Bulldogs
held on late for an 86-79 win
over Tennessee on Saturday
night.
Playing their annual game at
Seattle’s
KeyArena,
the
Bulldogs (8-3) dominated the
first half only to be challenged
in the closing minutes after
Tennessee rallied to take a 6159 lead with 9:42 remaining.
Quiet for most of the second
half, Sabonis scored 14 points
in the final 8:37 as the
Bulldogs held on after losing at
home to Arizona and UCLA in
the past two weeks.
“We have a tendency to make
things really dramatic but you
know what, we dug our heels in
and played great basketball
down the stretch,” Gonzaga
coach Mark Few said. “
It was the finest performance
of Sabonis’ young career. He
made 12 of 16 shots, was 12 of
15 at the free-throw line, scoring 20 points in the first half
when Tennessee had no
answers on how to slow
Sabonis down.
His previous career-high was
26 against Northern Arizona
earlier this season.
“We knew that we had an
advantage inside and we just
had to take care of it,” Sabonis
said.
Kevin Punter Jr. led
Tennessee (5-5) with 23 points.
Devon Baulkman added 17
points and Armani Moore had
16
for
the
Volunteers.
Tennessee remained winless on
the road this season and while
coach Rick Barnes was pleased
with the rally he was unhappy
with the effort in the first half.
“I’m just disappointed we
didn’t give ourselves a chance
in the first half,” Barnes said.
“We truly felt we could win this
game and the first half we
weren’t engaged with our
scouting report and they don’t
need help here.”
Down 16 at halftime, the
Volunteers outscored the
Bulldogs 28-10 to open the second half. Tennessee trimmed
Gonzaga’s lead to 58-54 when
Moore raced for a layup with
12:25 left and Baulkman cut
Gonzaga’s lead to two with a
steal and layup. After Wiltjer
split free throws, Moore hit a
left-handed runner to pull
Tennessee within 59-58 with
10
minutes
left
and
Baulkman’s 3 off an inbound
play gave the Vols their first
lead since the opening
moments of the game.
Gonzaga responded with two
straight baskets from Sabonis,
the Bulldogs’ first field goals in
more than five minutes.
Wiltjer’s basket in the lane off
an offensive rebound by
Sabonis with 5:15 left pushed
Gonzaga’s lead to three. After a
pair of defensive stops the
Bulldogs went ahead 73-67
with 3:43 on Sabonis’ dunk
while being fouled off a pass
from Wiltjer.
It took less than 2 minutes
for Tennessee to pull even at
75-all on free throws from
Punter with 2:04 remaining,
but Sabonis scored on the
baseline with 1:42 left and
Gonzaga hit 9 of 10 free throws
in the final 1:03 to pull away.
“We kind of grew up a little
bit,” Wiltjer said. “Hopefully we
can ball out now.”
STELLAR SABONIS
Sabonis simply went over the
aP photo
GonzaGa forward Domantas Sabonis (11) shoots over
Tennessee forward Derek Reese (23) during the first half of their
game Saturday in Seattle.
top of the shorter Vols in the
first half. He made 7 of 9 shots,
scoring 20 points and grabbing
seven rebounds in just 13 minutes. His first half production
could have been more if not for
foul trouble that forced him to
the bench with 4:08 left in the
half.
“I made my first couple of
shots and my confidence came
up so I kept shooting,” Sabonis
said.
Tennessee aggressively double-teamed Sabonis when he
caught the ball in the post in
the second half and the shots
that came so easy before were
regularly contested.
TIP INS
Tennessee: The Volunteers
played on the West Coast for
the first time since 2009 when
they lost at USC. Tennessee’s
last West Coast win was in
2007 against Gonzaga in
Seattle. ... Baulkman has now
made a 3-pointer in nine
straight games. He’s shooting
nearly 35 percent on 3s this
season.
Gonzaga: Gonzaga played
without
center
Przemek
Karnowski for the sixth straight
game as he continues to suffer
from back problems. ... Crowd
of 16,770 was largest of the 13
regular season games Gonzaga
has played at KeyArena.
UP NEXT
Tennessee: The Volunteers
host East Tennessee on
Tuesday.
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs open
WCC on Monday hosting
Pepperdine.
Colts close out year with
tournament championship
Special to the Banner
The Ocoee Middle School
sixth-grade Colts swept through
their own Christmas basketball
tournament with a 50-point
record.
The offense was on fire all
week, averaging 50 points per
game. The Colts’ aggressive
defense led to numerous
turnovers in each contest.
The final game was a challenge with the Colts having to
win back-to-back games. The
first game was a crowd-pleaser,
with the Lake Forest Bruins taking the Colts to the wire before
losing a heartbreaker in over-
time, 47-43.
After a couple hours of rest,
the Colts suited up for one more
challenge, this time from a
quick and talented Dalton, Ga.,
quintet.
After the smoke cleared, the
home team Colts accepted a
very rewarding first-place trophy. The 52-36 final score
closed out the season for the
Colts with a 16-2 record.
Coach Ed Coates said, “The
wonderful teamwork exhibited
all year and great support
received from our loud and loyal
fans was the key to the successful season.”
TranSaCTionS
Sunday’s Sports Transactions
BaSeBall
national league
CINCINNATI REDS — Promoted senior director of baseball
operations Nick Krall and senior director of baseball analytics Sam Grossman to assistant general managers.
BaSKeTBall
national Basketball association
DETROIT PISTONS — Recalled G Brandon Jennings and
Fs Reggie Bullock and Darrun Hilliard from Grand Rapids
(NBADL).
fooTBall
national football league
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released G Craig Watts from
the practice squad. Signed QB Brad Sorensen to the practice squad.
hoCKeY
national hockey league
EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled D Mark Fayne from
Bakersfield (AHL).
MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled D Guillaume Gelinas from
Quad City (ECHL) to Iowa (AHL).
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned F Zach Pochiro from
Chicago (AHL) to Quad City (ECHL).
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled C Tanner Richard
from Syracuse (AHL).
american hockey league
CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Returned F Ryan Rashid to
Greenville (ECHL).
QUAD CITY MALLARDS —
SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned D Gabriel
Beaupre to Fort Wayne (ECHL).
eChl
SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Loaned F Joe Devin to
Lake Erie (AHL).
ColleGe
GEORGIA SOUTHERN — Named Tyson Summers football
coach.
MARYLAND — Named Walt Bell offensive coordinator.
MISSISSIPPI — Announced DL Robert Nkemdiche will
enter the NFL draft.
Contributed photo
Cleveland Middle SChool capped off its season with a bang by winning the Smoky Mountain
Middle School Duals. In a field that consisted of 11 all-star teams, Cleveland came out on top, winning
five-straight dual meets. In the finals, Cleveland took on an all-star team from Georgia, Storm
Wrestling, which had beaten an all-star team from Nashville to reach the finals. Trailing in the finals by
18 points, Cleveland won five of the last six bouts to pull within three points entering the final match.
Bradley Fiveash secured the championship with a second-period fall that put Cleveland ahead 43-40.
Saints, Lions insist Monday night clash is important to them
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew
Brees doesn’t want to hear about
how winning late-season games
might hurt New Orleans’ draft
position come next spring.
Regardless of the playoff picture, Brees said, the Saints’ roster is full of young or relatively
new players who need to learn
what it takes to win together
now.
That would mean a lot more to
the franchise’s future than a
draft pick that may or may not
pan out, he added.
“Confidence is gained from
demonstrated ability. The more
that you can demonstrate the
ability to go out, execute a game
plan, do the right thing, make
the plays and win, you gain confidence,” Brees asserted this
week, as New Orleans (5-8) prepared to host the struggling
Detroit Lions (4-9) on Monday
night.
“The more confidence you
gain, that will carry on with you
for your whole career. In many
cases, it might just be a game, a
moment or a play that is a turning point for a player in his
career or a team, in regards to
building the foundation of something.”
Only a couple of years ago, it
appeared the Saints had a strong
foundation as they finished their
2013 season in the playoffs for
the fourth time in five seasons.
Now, however, New Orleans is
one loss away from a second
straight losing season — something that has never happened
since coach Sean Payton arrived
in 2006.
The Lions are already guaranteed their third losing season in
four, although they did win 11
games just one season ago. So
it’s unclear what the future holds
for coach Jim Caldwell. Perhaps
a strong finish will save his job,
perhaps not.
“There’s no, ‘Down the road,’
for us,” Caldwell said. “It’s a here
and now and what helps us at
this particular point to get in the
best position to win this particular game.”
As long as players such as
quarterback Matthew Stafford
and receiver Calvin Johnson are
on the field, Detroit has the
potential to be dangerous.
Some things to know about
Lions-Saints:
COMPROMISED
CALVIN?:
Detroit’s Johnson is banged up
and hasn’t been as prolific as
usual lately. This week, he’s been
listed as questionable with a sore
ankle. In last week’s loss to St.
Louis, Johnson had only one
catch for 16 yards. “I’m feeling
alright. I will leave it at that,”
Johnson said. Saints safety
Jairus Byrd said his unit will
keep a close eye on Johnson as
long as he’s on the field. After all,
he still has 981 yards and seven
TDs receiving this season. “He
hasn’t changed. You know, 6(foot)-5. ... I don’t care if it’s a
down year or whatever. He can
make it happen, so he’s definitely
got our attention.”
BUSY COOKS: Second-year
Saints receiver Brandin Cooks,
whose rookie season was cut
short by a hand injury, continues to fulfill the potential that
made him a first-round draft
choice in 2014. This season, he
leads the Saints in catches with
64, yards receiving with 869 and
TDs with seven.
“He’s good. Fast. Explosive,”
Lions safety Glover Quin said.
“They like going to him deep, and
they find ways to get the ball to
him in other ways, too, because
he makes things happen with his
hands on the ball.”
MOORE’S RETURN: The game
marks Detroit receiver Lance
Moore’s first in the Superdome
since he left New Orleans —
where he spent his first eight
NFL seasons — after 2013.
Moore, who has 27 catches for
321 yards and four TDs this sea-
AP photo
Detroit’s lAnCe Moore catches a TD pass in front of Green Bay’s Casey Hayward during their game at Green Bay in this Nov. 15
file photo. New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton sees several similarities between one of his favorite former New Orleans receivers,
Moore, and young Willie Snead, who has burst onto the scene with the Saints this year. Both pass catchers play in the Superdome on
Monday night when the Lions pay a visit.
son, said it will be “weird going
back to the place that pretty
much it all started for me.”
“It’s somewhere that is really
important to me and always will
be, but my focus is on the game
and not so much on my emotions,” he added.
COMPELLING COMEBACK:
Saints running back Tim
Hightower became New Orleans’
featured back last week, scoring
his first touchdown since 2011.
He spent three seasons out of the
league because of complications
from a major knee injury. The
Saints have had him on the roster for five games, but didn’t give
him much action until Mark
Ingram (shoulder) went on
injured reserve. Hightower
responded with 95 yards from
scrimmage in a victory at Tampa
Bay.
PRIME TIME: Even during seasons in which the Saints struggle
they still seem to play well in
night games at home. The Saints
have won both such games this
season. Including the playoffs,
they’ve won 16 of their past 17
night games in the Superdome.
Carolina hangs on for win over Giants, stays perfect
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
(AP) — Graham Gano's 43-yard
field goal as time expired kept
Carolina perfect this season with
a wild 38-35 victory over the New
York Giants on Sunday.
Cam Newton threw for five
touchdowns in building a 28point lead before New York
stormed back to tie it with 1:46
remaining. The rally tied the NFL
record set by San Francisco
against New Orleans in 1980.
The big difference: The 49ers
won their game; the Giants lost.
Newton led the Panthers (140) to their 18th straight regularseason victory. He has thrown
for 19 touchdowns in the last
five games and a career-best 33
in this so-far special season.
Carolina visits Atlanta and
hosts Tampa Bay to finish the
schedule. All three previous NFL
teams to reach 14-0 — Miami in
1972, New England in 2007 and
Indianapolis in 2009 — made
the Super Bowl.
The Giants (6-8) fell one game
behind Washington in the NFC
East.
STEELERS 34, BRONCOS 27
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben
Roethlisberger passed for 380
yards and three touchdowns as
the Steelers rallied.
Antonio Brown caught 16
passes for 189 yards and two
scores as Pittsburgh (9-5) moved
into the AFC's second wild-card
spot by dominating the NFL's
best defense after spotting the
Broncos 17-point lead.
The Steelers controlled the
second half, finally taking the
lead when Ryan Shazier intercepted Brock Osweiler to set up
a
23-yard
dart
from
Roethlisberger to Brown with
3:34 to go.
Osweiler threw for 296 yards
with three touchdowns passing
and another on the ground but
struggled in the second half as
the Broncos (10-4) lost their second straight and failed to lock up
the AFC West title.
CARDINALS 40, EAGLES 17
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — David
Johnson ran for 187 yards and
three touchdowns, Carson
Palmer threw a TD pass and
Arizona beat Philadelphia to
clinch the NFC West title.
The Cardinals (12-2) will earn
a first-round bye with a win over
Green Bay next week. They still
have a chance to secure the No.
1 seed if they win out and
Carolina loses its last two
games. The Eagles (6-8) would
win the NFC East title if they
beat Washington at home and
the Giants on the road.
The Cardinals outclassed
Philadelphia in every way on
their way to their eighth straight
win.
Johnson, a rookie filling in for
injured backs Chris Johnson
and Andre Ellington, had a pair
of 1-yard TD runs and a 47-
yarder. Palmer gave Cardinals
fans a brief scare when he came
out for one play after injuring his
right index finger on a throw.
But he returned to toss a 16yard TD pass to John Brown and
finished 20 of 32 for 274 yards.
Deone Bucannon returned Sam
Bradford's interception 39 yards
for a touchdown to give Arizona
a 37-10 lead early in the fourth
quarter, sending fans to the
exits.
SEAHAWKS 30, BROWNS 13
SEATTLE (AP) — Russell
Wilson continued his record
pace by throwing three touchdown passes, two to Doug
Baldwin, and the Seahawks
clinched a playoff spot for the
fourth straight season.
Seattle (9-5) won its fifth
straight and, thanks to losses
this week by Tampa Bay and the
New York Giants, wrapped up a
postseason berth.
Wilson was 21 of 30 for 249
yards. He found Baldwin on TDs
of 6 and 3 yards in the first half,
then hit Tyler Lockett on a 27yard TD strike on the first play of
the fourth quarter. Wilson
became the first quarterback
with three or more TD passes
and no interceptions in five
straight games.
Johnny Manziel threw a 7yard TD to Gary Barnidge on the
first drive for the Browns (3-11).
PACKERS 30, RAIDERS 20
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Aaron
Rodgers threw a touchdown pass
and
Damarious
Randall
returned an interception for
another score to help Green Bay.
Green Bay (10-4) clinched a
spot in the postseason in the
first quarter when the New York
Giants lost to Carolina. But the
Packers still have their eyes set
on a division title and remain
one game ahead of Minnesota in
the NFC North.
Derek Carr threw two early
interceptions to put Oakland (68) in a hole but then had a pair
of touchdown passes to Amari
Cooper. It wasn't enough as the
Raiders were eliminated from
playoff contention for the 13th
straight season.
BENGALS 24, 49ERS 14
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) —
Jeremy Hill ran for a pair of 1yard touchdowns to back AJ
McCarron's first career start,
and the Bengals clinched a fifth
straight postseason berth,
As Andy Dalton watched from
the sideline with a large cast
over his broken right thumb,
McCarron threw a 20-yard
touchdown pass to Tyler Kroft
just before halftime as the
Bengals (11-3) forced three second-quarter turnovers by San
Francisco (4-10) to take command.
Vontaze Burfict and Adam
"Pacman" Jones each made
interceptions on balls that
deflected off the hands of tight
end Vance McDonald. Cincinnati
capitalized with touchdowns on
two of the turnovers, including
Kroft's TD catch one play and
five seconds after the second
pick.
VIKINGS 38, BEARS 17
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Teddy
Bridgewater threw a career-high
four touchdowns and ran for
another, and the Vikings took a
big step toward clinching playoff
spot.
Bridgewater completed 17 of
20 passes for 231 yards without
a turnover, connecting twice
with Stefon Diggs for scores.
Jerick McKinnon and Zach Line
had the other touchdown catches on a remarkably productive
afternoon for all of Minnesota's
running backs.
Adrian Peterson missed some
time because of an injury to his
left ankle, but finished with 63
yards to maintain his NFL rushing lead. The Vikings are 9-5.
The Bears are 5-9.
CHARGERS 30
DOLPHINS 14
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Danny
Woodhead had his first career
four-touchdown game and Philip
Rivers recovered a fumble on a
play that began with him throwing an interception in what
might have been the final NFL
game in San Diego.
Woodhead caught TD passes
of 20, 9 and 9 yards, and scored
on a 2-yard run for the Chargers
(4-10), who failed to score a
touchdown in each of their previous two home games. Miami (59) lost for the fourth time in five
games.
The Chargers Cannon went
off. The disco ditty "San Diego
Super Chargers" blared for what
might be the final time.
It could all be over after 55
seasons if NFL owners allow
Chargers
Chairman
Dean
Spanos to move to an industrial
suburb of Los Angeles and build
a stadium with the rival Oakland
Raiders.
REDSKINS 35, BILLS 25
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Kirk
Cousins equaled his career high
with four touchdown passes and
ran 13 yards for another score,
helping Washington win consecutive games for the first time in
more than a year and stay atop
the NFC East.
While the Redskins (7-7)
moved closer to a playoff berth,
the Bills (6-8) are now assured of
missing the postseason for the
16th year in a row, the NFL's
longest active drought.
Making first-year Bills head
coach Rex Ryan's defense look
inept, and helped by a key
fourth-down
encroachment
penalty on Buffalo, the Redskins
scored TDs on each of their first
three possessions for the first
time since September 1999,
grabbing a 21-0 lead in the second quarter.
CHIEFS 34, RAVENS 14
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kansas
City capitalized on a variety of
miscues by Baltimore, extended
its winning streak to eight games
and remain in the thick of the
playoff picture.
AP Photo
Tyvon Branch returned a fumCArolinA PAnthers QB Cam Newton, right, and receiver
ble 73 yards for a touchdown in
the first quarter and Marcus Devin Funchess, (17), react after connecting for a touchdown as
Peters clinched the victory with a New York’s Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (41) looks on during the
90-yard interception return for a first half Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J.
score with 4:36 left.
The battle of backup quarterKansas City (9-5) also scored late in the first half and threw a
touchdowns following a drive- go-ahead 8-yard TD pass to backs didn't earn style points.
extending penalty by Baltimore Jaelen Strong with 10:36 to play Yates was 6 of 10 for 68 yards
as Houston won at Indianapolis with one interception before
and a failed fake punt.
hurting his left knee. Weeden
With the win, the Chiefs for the first time in 14 tries.
The Texans (7-7) took sole went 11 of 18 with 105 yards,
became the first NFL team to follow a five-game slide with eight possession of the AFC South leading the Texans to three field
successive wins in the same sea- lead by snapping a two-game goals and the decisive TD.
Hasselbeck was 17 of 30 with
losing streak.
son.
The Colts (6-8) have lost three 147 yards and one interception
Baltimore (4-10) is 2-5 at
home — the first time in its 20- straight and need help to make and briefly gave way to Charlie
Whitehurst in the fourth.
year history the team has lost the playoffs.
five home games.
TEXANS 16, COLTS 10
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP)
—
Brandon Weeden replaced
injured quarterback T.J. Yates
Falcons
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took over at the New England 26.
Unable to move — and again giving up a third-down sack of
Mariota — they settled for a 49yard field goal by Succop that
helped them avoid the fate of
their previous trip to New
England, a 59-0 shutout in
2009.
But Mariota went to the sideline and never returned.
And things got worse on the
field, too: Martin ran the kickoff
back 75 yards to the Titans 30.
On the next play, Brady threw a
swing pass to White out of the
backfield, and he ran it in to
make it 21-3.
Notes: Brady was listed as
questionable with an illness on
Friday, but he started and played
the whole game. ... Gostkowski
missed just his second field goal
attempt of the season and his
first from inside of 50 yards. ...
Other injuries in the game:
Patriots WR Amendola (knee), LB
Dont’a Hightower (knee) and S
Patrick
Chung
(hip).
...
Indianapolis had a record seven
straight seasons of 12 or more
wins from 2003-09. ... Brady
needs to average 297.5 yards in
the final two games of the regular
season to reach 5,000 yards for
the second time in his career.
down and then misfired to
Robinson on fourth down.
“Probably for a touchdown to
win it,” Bortles said of the pass
to Hurns. “Just missed him.”
The biggest miss came on the
penultimate play of the first half.
The Jaguars moved the ball 87
yards in less than 2 minutes and
had first-and-goal at the 1.
Bortles stared down tight end
Marcedes Lewis in the end zone,
and when he finally threw it,
safety Kemal Ishmael stepped in
front and intercepted the pass.
Ishmael scampered down the
sideline and looked like he
might score, but Bortles managed to tackle him at the 16yard line. Initially, it appeared
that the clock ran out on the
return. But officials reviewed
the play and put 2 seconds back
on the clock, allowing Graham
to end the half with a 34-yard
field goal that put Atlanta up
17-3 and on their way to ending
the six-game slide.
“This was huge,” Ryan said.
“It’s been tough. It’s been difficult. The only way to get out of it
is to keep working hard, keep
grinding. Everybody has continued to do that, and that’s why it
feels so good to get the win.”
NOTES: Falcons scored on
their opening possession for the
first time this season. ...
Freeman’s 10th rushing touchdown of the season was his first
since Week 6. ... Jaguars have
helped end four losing streaks
this season: Tampa Bay and
Tennessee snapped 11-game
skids
at
home
against
Jacksonville, and San Diego
ended a six-game slide against
the Jaguars last month.
Yes, it’s true; police officers have senses of humor
There is a group of men and women
in every community of any size in the
country who deserve our respect and
appreciation because they put their
lives on the line every day for our safety and well-being.
I'm talking about the men and
women who have chosen a career in
law enforcement. Many people refer to
them as "cops," but I prefer the words
"police officer" because I believe these
words are more respectful and more
clearly define who and what they are:
officers who are sworn to uphold the
law.
We have a great police force here in
our community as well as the officers
who serve our county as deputies,
whose beat is the county outside the
city limits. One of my good friends is
Conway Police Chief Randall Aragon,
who has been very helpful and encouraging since the day I first met him,
and later as I began to really know
him. Hopefully, he would say the same
about me.
While enforcing the law is serious
business, there are lighter times that
come along in the course of a police
officer doing his job. A friend sent me
some quotes that will illustrate what I
mean.
GUEST
ColUmniST
Jim
Davidson
Before I get to those, my all-time
favorite police story is about this officer who had been on a long, tiring
shift and it was about time for him to
be off duty. As he was driving down
the highway on his way home, he
clocked a motorist coming in the opposite direction driving 86 mph in a zone
clearly marked as 55 mph speed limit.
So he whipped his car around and, in
hot pursuit, finally caught up with the
speeding motorist.
As he approached the male driver,
he asked him for his license and as he
stood there going over it, everything
seemed to be in order. Because he was
in an unusually charitable mood, he
said, "I clocked you at 86 in a 55-mileper-hour speed zone. Now I know you
were in a hurry, and I will let you go
with a warning ticket if you can give
me just one good reason I have not
heard before for going that much over
the speed limit.”
This fellow thought for a moment
and said, "About three weeks ago my
wife ran off with a policeman. When I
saw those blue lights in my rear view
mirror, I thought you were bringing
her back."
At this point, the policeman just
smiled and said, "Have a nice day."
While this may not be a true story,
in some circumstances it does not
hurt to have a sense of humor.
Here are those quotes, and as you
will see, some police officers do have a
sense of humor. In each case, an officer is speaking.
1. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight
because they are new. They will
stretch out after you wear them for
awhile."
2. "If you run, you will only go to jail
tired."
3. "Fair? You want me to be fair?
Listen, fair is a place where you go to
ride on rides, eat cotton candy and
step in monkey poop."
4. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more
tickets and my wife gets a toaster
oven."
While these may not be funny to
you, I really chuckled the first time I
read them. I might add, nothing was
funny the day I got stopped for speeding down in Louisiana many, many
years ago. Here are a few more that
might at least evoke a smile:
1. "In God we trust, all others we
run through NCIC."
2. "Just how big were those two
beers?"
3. "No sir, we don't have quotas any
more. We used to have quotas, but
now we are allowed to write as many
tickets as we want."
4. "I'm glad to hear the chief of
police is a good personal friend of
yours. At least you know someone who
can post your bail."
5. "You didn't think we give pretty
women tickets? You're right, we don't.
Sign here."
6. "So you don't know how fast you
were going. I guess that means I can
write anything I want to on the ticket,
huh?"
7. "Yes sir, you can talk to the shift
supervisor, but I don't think that will
help. Oh, did I mention that I am the
shift supervisor?"
And finally here is the last one I
have room for today: "The answer to
this last question will determine
whether you are drunk or not. Was
Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"
Again, true or not, so end the quips
that might be funny to some, but not
funny at all to the people apprehended
by a police officer when caught breaking the law.
As the Greek philosopher Socrates
once said, "I have never taught anyone
anything. All I can ever hope to
achieve is to make men think."
That is the attitude I would like to
leave with you as I close this edition.
When we take time to observe and
obey the law, those who wear the uniform of our nation's law enforcement
agencies should be viewed as some of
our best friends; not necessarily personal friends, but those who are sworn
to protect us and to ensure our safety.
So many of these people go beyond
the call of duty to collect toys, raise
money and otherwise provide a multitude of good things in their local community.
The next time you meet an officer of
the law, why not take a moment to let
him know how much you appreciate
the good job they do?
———
(About the writer: Jim Davidson is a
motivational speaker and syndicated
columnist. He may be contacted at 2
Bentley Drive, Conway AR 72034.)
ANNIE’S
MAILBOX
Viewpoint
Some reprogramming tips
for changing habits in 2016
S
ome people start each
Here are some tips for getting
day with an early morning started going into the New Year:
1. Conscious breathing. I
jog.
made
conscious breathing the
Others begin with a cup of
coffee and a donut.
centerpiece of Wellativity, which
Everyone knows that people is what I call my personal
are creatures of habit. But too method for helping people overoften, the habits we nurture are come afflictions such as obesilaziness, procrastination, self- ty, smoking, lethargy, eating disserving biases, justification and orders and any other behavior
rationalization.
that inhibits wellness. This is
Such behaviors put people much like the advice people
on a path to destruction, all the hear their entire lives to “take a
while making them look forward deep breath” when they face
to the trip. In the process, they stressful moments.
are robbed of essential happiThe core focus is conditioning
ness and joy.
ourselves to stay as connected
The trick to improving isn’t to conscious breathing as posjust by ridding yourself of habits, sible and to clear away anything
but by replacing the bad ones negative or detrimental.
with good ones.
Breathing awareness in itself
I really believe people can helps reduce bodily tension,
use practical methods to repro- improve rational thinking and
gram themselves for life-enrich- increase oxygen to the entire
ing habits and overcome any body.
affliction they suffer from. After
2. All in good time. One of the
all, we all know the things that most common pitfalls people
hurt us and we know that we
face when they want to improve
shouldn’t be doing those things.
their lives is trying to do too
So why don’t we stop? Because
we don’t know how to go about much too soon. That’s especialmaking these changes happen. ly true with exercise or physical
The key is for people to fitness programs, but it applies
become conscious of some- to other areas of life as well. It’s
thing they take for granted — fine to be ambitious about tradbreathing. By conditioning your- ing bad habits for good, but
self to improve the quality of don’t set yourself up for failure
your breathing, you do a better by creating unrealistic goals.
3. Healthy boundaries. When
job of taking in oxygen. A lack of
you
are establishing a healthier
sufficient oxygen in our cells is
lifestyle,
it’s important that you
known to contribute to many
have healthy boundaries. An
health issues.
The important thing to alcoholic in recovery shouldn’t
remember is you don’t need join the crowd at the bar while
pills, potions, gadgets or gizmos waiting for a dinner table. A perto make a change for the better son with a gambling problem
happen. Your desire for a better shouldn’t vacation in Las
life and a system that helps you Vegas.
As much as possible, when
achieve it are all you need — if
you’re willing. It’s a matter of you are trying to trade bad
getting your mind, body and habits for good, put yourself in
spirit working together in a prac- the best position to be successful.
tical way.
———
(About the writer: Scott Morofsky is the author of the books
“The Daily Breath: Transform Your Life One Breath at a Time” and
“Wellativity: In-Powering Wellness Through Communication.” He
created the concept of Wellativity, which uses 12 principles to target crossover afflictions such as obesity, smoking, lethargy, procrastination and any behavior that inhibits wellness. He has
national certification as a personal trainer by the American
Council on Exercise and various other certifications in the health
and fitness field. He is a New York State licensed massage therapist and a graduate of the Swedish Institute of Massage and
Allied Health Sciences. For over 30 years, he has maintained a
private practice specializing in joint replacement rehab and physical training for seniors, as well as fitness training and massage
therapy, and has lectured and taught seminars on them. Opinions
expressed in guest “Viewpoints” do not necessarily the views of
the Cleveland Daily Banner.)
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, Dec. 21, the
355th day of 2015. There are 10
days left in the year. Winter
arrives at 11:48 p.m. Eastern
time.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 21, 1945, U.S. Army
Gen. George S. Patton, 60, died in
Heidelberg, Germany, 12 days
after being seriously injured in a
car accident.
On this date:
In 1620, Pilgrims aboard the
Mayflower went ashore for the
first time at present-day
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In 1864, during the Civil War,
Union forces led by Maj. Gen.
William T. Sherman concluded
their “March to the Sea” as they
captured Savannah, Georgia.
In 1879, the Henrik Ibsen play
“A Doll’s House” premiered at the
Royal Theater in Copenhagen.
In 1914, the first feature-length
silent film comedy, Mack
Sennett’s “Tillie’s Punctured
Romance,”
starring
Marie
Dressler, Mabel Normand and
Charlie Chaplin, premiered. The
U.S. government began requiring
passport applicants to provide
photographs of themselves.
In 1937, Walt Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs,” had its world
premiere in Los Angeles.
In 1940, author F. Scott
Fitzgerald died in Hollywood,
California, at age 44.
In 1958, Charles de Gaulle was
elected to a seven-year term as the
first president of the Fifth
Republic of France.
In 1968, Apollo 8 was launched
on a mission to orbit the moon.
In 1971, the U.N. Security
Council chose Kurt Waldheim to
succeed U Thant as SecretaryGeneral.
In 1976, the Liberian-registered
tanker Argo Merchant broke apart
near Nantucket Island, off
Massachusetts, almost a week
after running aground, spilling
7.5 million gallons of oil into the
North Atlantic.
In 1988, 270 people were killed
when a terrorist bomb exploded
aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, sending
wreckage crashing to the ground.
In 1995, the city of Bethlehem
passed from Israeli to Palestinian
control.
Ten years ago: The Senate
rejected opening the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling. The Senate approved a
six-month extension of the USA
Patriot Act to keep the anti-terror
law from expiring on Dec. 31,
2005.
Five years ago: The Census
Bureau announced that the
nation’s population on April 1,
2010, was 308,745,538, up from
281.4 million a decade earlier. A
divided Federal Communications
Commission approved, 3-2, new
rules known as “net neutrality”
meant to prohibit broadband
companies from interfering with
Internet traffic flowing to their
customers. The No. 1-ranked
Connecticut women’s basketball
Chile poll: Bachelet approval
rebounding from record low
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The
approval rating of Chilean
President Michelle Bachelet is
rebounding after plunging to its
worst level since she took office
in March 2014, the South
American country’s most influential pollster has reported.
The latest survey by pollster
CEP said Bachelet’s overall
approval rose 2 percentage
points to 24 percent in November
from the previous survey in
August.
Bachelet was once one of the
world’s most popular politicians
and ended her 2006-10 administration with an approval rate
of 84 percent. But in her second
presidency, her popularity has
been dented by an influencepeddling scandal involving her
family.
In the poll, 64 percent of
respondents said they don’t trust
Bachelet, while 66 percent said
she lacks the leadership to confront crisis situations.
Since taking office for a second
time, Bachelet has also had to
deal with a drought in the south,
floods in the northern desert, an
earthquake and two volcanic
eruptions.
Her government also has
struggled to fulfill promises for
ambitious reforms amid slowing
economic growth and record-low
prices and waning global demand
for copper, Chile’s top export.
The poll surveyed 1,449 people
between Nov. 4 and Dec. 6. It has
an error margin of 3 percentage
points.
team topped the 88-game winning
streak by John Wooden’s UCLA
men’s team from 1971-74, beating
No. 22 Florida State 93-62. Chip
Kelly, in just his second season
leading Oregon, was voted AP
Coach of the Year.
One year ago: Jordan Axani, a
28-year-old businessman from
Toronto, and a woman he’d never
met before, Elizabeth Quinn
Gallagher, a 23-year-old student
from Nova Scotia, set out on a
round-the-world trip. (Axani had
advertised on social media for a
travel companion after breaking
up with his girlfriend, also named
Elizabeth Gallagher; the companion was required to be a Canadian
named Elizabeth Gallagher to take
advantage of the non-refundable,
non-exchangeable airline tickets.)
Actress Billie Whitelaw, 82, died
in London.
Today’s Birthdays: Country
singer Freddie Hart is 89. Talk
show host Phil Donahue is 80.
Movie director John Avildsen is
80. Actress Jane Fonda is 78.
Actor Larry Bryggman is 77.
Singer Carla Thomas is 73.
Musician Albert Lee is 72.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
is 71. Actor Josh Mostel is 69.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson is 67.
Movie
producer
Jeffrey
Katzenberg is 65. Singer Betty
Wright is 62. International Tennis
Hall of Famer Chris Evert is 61.
Dear Annie: My husband and
I live in the house where I was
raised. I feel fortunate that most
of my neighbors are people I grew
up with. One neighbor is a very
good friend. We’ve known each
other since childhood. She is in
bad shape physically and financially, and does not drive. The
grandkids she raised still live
with her. Neither of them has a
car.
The 21-year-old grandson
walks three miles to and from
work every day, rain or shine. On
some days, I drop my grandson
off at school, which is within a
half mile of where my neighbor’s
son works. I offered to give the
young man a ride on those days
when I’m going in that direction
anyway.
My husband feels this is
wrong. He says no one would
approve if he offered to give the
18-year-old granddaughter a
ride.
Annie, this young man is the
same age as my grandkids (who I
wish had the oomph to walk anywhere). I don’t know why it’s any
different than when I take his
grandmother shopping or to the
bank. My husband and I have
been married for 30 years and
have no trust issues. He says it
has nothing to do with trust. It’s
just not right. I’m confused.
What do you say? — M.
Dear M.: We say, give the kid a
ride. We understand your husband’s perspective and agree
that there is a double standard
here. When Grandpa gives a
young woman a ride, there is a
presumption that he might be
sexually interested in her and
could take advantage. But the
same presumption doesn’t hold
for Grandma, probably because
society
considers
postmenopausal women to be asexual beings and more likely, that
the young man can defend himself.
However, your husband is
talking in generalities, and your
issue is very specific. You are not
interested in this young man
other than to help him get to
work. If your husband is worried
about what the neighbors will
think, he can come along for the
ride. It’s a shame that we’ve
become so suspicious of one
another that we cannot do a good
deed without raising such fears.
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AP Investigation: U.S. power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —
Security researcher Brian Wallace
was on the trail of hackers who
had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare:
Cyberattackers had opened a
pathway into the networks running the United States power
grid.
Digital clues pointed to Iranian
hackers. And Wallace found that
they had already taken passwords, as well as engineering
drawings of dozens of power
plants, at least one with the title
“Mission Critical.” The drawings
were so detailed that experts say
skilled attackers could have used
them, along with other tools and
malicious code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of
homes.
Wallace was astonished. But
this breach, The Associated Press
has found, was not unique.
About a dozen times in the last
decade, sophisticated foreign
hackers have gained enough
remote access to control the operations networks that keep the
lights on, according to top experts
who spoke only on condition of
anonymity due to the sensitive
nature of the subject matter.
The public almost never learns
the details about these types of
attacks — they’re rarer but also
more intricate and potentially
dangerous than data theft.
Information about the government’s response to these hacks is
often protected and sometimes
classified; many are never even
reported to the government.
These intrusions have not
caused the kind of cascading
blackouts that are feared by the
intelligence community. But so
many attackers have stowed
away in the systems that run the
U.S. electric grid that experts say
they likely have the capability to
strike at will.
And that’s what worries
Wallace and other cybersecurity
experts most.
“If the geopolitical situation
changes and Iran wants to target
these facilities, if they have this
kind of information it will make it
a lot easier,” said Robert M. Lee, a
former U.S. Air Force cyberwarfare operations officer. “It will also
help them stay quiet and stealthy
inside.”
In 2012 and 2013, in well-publicized attacks, Russian hackers
successfully sent and received
encrypted commands to U.S.
public utilities and power generators; some private firms concluded this was an effort to position
interlopers to act in the event of a
political
crisis.
And
the
Department
of
Homeland
Security announced about a year
ago that a separate hacking campaign, believed by some private
firms to have Russian origins,
had injected software with malware that allowed the attackers to
spy on U.S. energy companies.
“You want to be stealth,” said
Lillian Ablon, a cybersecurity
expert at the RAND Corporation.
“That’s the ultimate power,
because when you need to do
something you are already in
place.”
The hackers have gained
access to an aging, outdated
power system. Many of the substations and equipment that
move power across the U.S. are
decrepit and were never built with
network security in mind; hooking the plants up to the Internet
over the last decade has given
hackers new backdoors in.
Distant wind farms, home solar
panels, smart meters and other
networked devices must be
remotely monitored and controlled, which opens up the
broader system to fresh points of
attack.
Hundreds of contractors sell
software and equipment to energy
companies, and attackers have
successfully used those outside
companies as a way to get inside
networks tied to the grid.
Attributing attacks is notoriously tricky. Neither U.S. officials
nor cybersecurity experts would
or could say if the Islamic
Republic of Iran was involved in
the attack Wallace discovered
involving Calpine Corp., a power
producer with 82 plants operating in 18 states and Canada.
Private firms have alleged other
recent hacks of networks and
machinery tied to the U.S. power
grid were carried out by teams
from within Russia and China,
some with governmental support.
Even the Islamic State group is
trying to hack American power
companies, a top Homeland
Security official told industry
executives in October.
Homeland Security spokesman
SY Lee said that his agency is
coordinating efforts to strengthen
grid cybersecurity nationwide and
to raise awareness about evolving
threats to the electric sector
through industry trainings and
risk assessments. As Deputy
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
acknowledged in an interview,
however, “we are not where we
need to be” on cybersecurity.
That’s partly because the grid
is largely privately owned and has
entire sections that fall outside
federal regulation, which experts
argue leaves the industry poorly
defended against a growing universe of hackers seeking to access
its networks.
As Deputy Energy Secretary
Elizabeth Sherwood Randall said
in a speech earlier this year, “If we
don’t protect the energy sector, we
are putting every other sector of
the economy in peril.”
—THE CALPINE BREACH
The AP looked at the vulnerability of the energy grid as part of
a yearlong, AP-Associated Press
Media Editors examination of the
state of the nation’s infrastructure. AP conducted more than
120 interviews and examined
dozens of sets of data, government reports and private analyses to gauge whether the industry
is prepared to defend against
cyberattacks.
The attack involving Calpine is
particularly disturbing because
the cyberspies grabbed so much,
according to interviews and previously unreported documents.
Cybersecurity experts say the
breach began at least as far back
as August 2013, and could still be
going on today.
Calpine spokesman Brett Kerr
said the company’s information
was stolen from a contractor that
does business with Calpine. He
said the stolen diagrams and
passwords were old — some diagrams dated to 2002 — and presented no threat, though some
outside experts disagree.
Kerr would not say whether the
configuration of the power plants’
operations networks — also valuable information — remained the
same as when the intrusion
occurred, or whether it was possible the attackers still had a
foothold.
According to the AP investigation, the hackers got:
—User names and passwords
that could be used to connect
remotely to Calpine’s networks,
which were being maintained by a
data security company. Even if
some of the information was outdated, experts say skilled hackers
could have found a way to update
the passwords and slip past firewalls to get into the operations
network. Eventually, they say, the
intruders could shut down generating stations, foul communications networks and possibly
cause a blackout near the plants.
—Detailed engineering drawings of networks and power stations from New York to California
— 71 in all — showing the precise
location of devices that communicate with gas turbines, boilers
and other crucial equipment
attackers would need to hack
specific plants.
—Additional diagrams showing
how those local plants transmit
information back to the company’s virtual cloud, knowledge
attackers could use to mask their
activity. For example, one map
shows how information flows
from the Agnews power plant in
San Jose, California, near the
San Francisco 49ers football stadium, to the company headquarters in Houston.
Wallace first came across the
breach while tracking a new
strain of noxious software that
had been used to steal student
housing files at the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
“I saw a mention in our logs
that the attackers stored their
malware in some FTP servers
online,” said Wallace, who had
recently joined the Irvine, Calif.based cybersecurity firm Cylance,
Inc., fresh out of college. “It
wasn’t even my job to look into it,
but I just thought there had to be
something more there.”
Wallace started digging. Soon,
he found the FTP servers, typically used to transfer large numbers
of files back and forth across the
Internet, and the hackers’ ill-gotten data — a tranche of more
than 19,000 stolen files from
thousands of computers across
the world, including key documents from Calpine.
Before Wallace could dive into
the files, his first priority was to
track where the hackers would
strike next — and try to stop
them.
He started staying up nights,
often jittery on Red Bull, to
reverse-engineer malware. He
waited to get pinged that the
intruders were at it again.
Months later, Wallace got the
alert: From Internet Protocol
addresses in Tehran, the hackers
had deployed TinyZbot, a Trojan
horse-style of software that the
attackers used to gain backdoor
access to their targets, log their
keystrokes and take screen shots
of their information. The hacking
group, he would find, included
members in the Netherlands,
Canada, and the United
Kingdom.
The more he followed their
trail, the more nervous Wallace
got. According to Cylance, the
intruders had launched digital
offensives that netted information
about Pakistan International
Airlines, the Mexican oil giant
Pemex, the Israel Institute of
Technology and Navy Marine
Corps Intranet, a legacy network
of the U.S. military. None of the
four responded to AP’s request for
comment.
Then he discovered evidence of
the attackers’ most terrifying
heist — a folder containing
dozens of engineers’ diagrams of
the Calpine power plants.
According to multiple sources,
the drawings contained user
names and passwords that an
intruder would need to break
through a firewall separating
Calpine’s communications and
operations networks, then move
around in the network where the
turbines are controlled. The
schematics also displayed the
locations of devices inside the
plants’ process control networks
that receive information from
power-generating
equipment.
With those details, experts say
skilled hackers could have penetrated the operations network
and eventually shut down generating stations, possibly causing a
blackout.
Cylance researchers said the
intruders stored their stolen
goods on seven unencrypted FTP
servers requiring no authentication to access details about
Calpine’s plants. Jumbled in the
folders was code that could be
used to spread malware to other
companies without being traced
back to the attackers’ computers,
as well as handcrafted software
designed to mask that the
Internet Protocol addresses they
were using were in Iran.
Circumstantial evidence such
as snippets of Persian comments
in the code helped investigators
conclude that Iran was the source
of the attacks.
Calpine didn’t know its information had been compromised
until it was informed by Cylance,
Kerr said.
Iranian
U.N.
Mission
spokesman Hamid Babaei did not
return calls or address questions
emailed by AP.
Cylance notified the FBI, which
warned the U.S. energy sector in
an unclassified bulletin last
December that a group using
Iran-based IP addresses had targeted the industry.
Whether there was any connection between the Iranian government and the individual hackers
who Wallace traced — with the
usernames parviz, Alireza, Kaj,
Salman Ghazikhani and Bahman
Mohebbi — is unclear.
—A ‘LUCRATIVE’ TARGET
Cyberattacks designed to steal
information are steadily growing
in scope and frequency; there
have been high-profile hacks of
Target, eBay and federal targets
such as the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management. But
assaults on the power grid and
other critical infrastructure aim
to go a step further.
Trained, well-funded adversaries can gain control of physical
assets — power plants, substations and transmission equipment. With extensive control,
they could knock out the electricity vital to daily life and the economy, and endanger the flow of
power to mass transportation,
military installations and home
refrigerators.
In the summer of 2014, a hacker of unknown origin, using
masking software called Tor, took
over the controls of a large utility’s wind farm, according to a former industry compliance official
who reviewed a report that was
scrubbed of the utility’s name.
The hacker then changed an
important setting, called the
automatic voltage regulator, from
“automatic” to “manual,” he said.
That seemingly simple change
to any power plant can damage
the generator and destabilize
parts of the nearby grid if the
plant’s output is high enough.
Last year, Homeland Security
released several maps that
showed a virtual hit list of critical
infrastructure, including two
substations in the San Francisco
Bay area, water and gas pipelines
and a refinery. And according to a
previously reported study by the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, a coordinated
attack on just nine critical power
stations could cause a coast-tocoast blackout that could last
months, far longer than the one
that plunged the Northeast into
darkness in 2003.
“The grid is a tough target, but
a lucrative target,” said Keith
Alexander, the former director of
the National Security Agency who
now runs a cybersecurity firm.
The number of sophisticated
attacks is growing, he said.
“There is a constant, steady
upbeat. I see a rising tide.”
AP photo
SYSTEM CONTROL CENTER operator Ryan Cox sits at his computer workstation at an AEP
Transmission Operations Center in New Albany, Ohio in May. Like most big utilities, AEP’s power plants,
substations and other vital equipment are managed by a network that is separated from the company’s
business software with layers of authentication, and is not accessible via the Internet. Creating that separation, and making sure that separation is maintained, is among the most important things utilities can
do to protect the grid’s physical assets.
No one claims that it would be
easy to bring down the grid. To
circumvent companies’ security,
adversaries must understand the
networks well enough to write
code that can communicate with
tiny computers that control generators and other major equipment. Even then, it’s difficult to
cause a widespread blackout
because the grid is designed to
keep electricity flowing when
equipment or lines go down, an
almost daily occurrence that customers never see.
Because it would take such
expertise to plunge a city or
region into darkness, some say
threats to the grid are overstated
— in particular, by those who get
paid to help companies protect
their networks. Still, even those
who said the risks of cyber
threats can be exaggerated agree
it is possible for cyberattackers to
cause a large-scale blackout.
And nearly everyone agrees
that there are weaknesses that
open the door to malefactors.
Traditional central power stations and transmission systems
include equipment that is
decades old and physically
unable to handle electronic
threats. Some run on machines
that use software that is so old
that malware protections don’t
exist, such as Windows ‘95 and
FORTRAN, a programming language developed in the 1950s.
At the Tennessee Valley
Authority, a corporation owned
by the federal government that
powers 9 million households in
the southeastern U.S., a former
operations security expert said in
recent years he saw passwords
for some key operating systems
stored on sticky notes.
“Some of the control systems
boot off of floppy disks,” said
Patrick Miller, who has evaluated
hydroelectric dam cybersecurity
for the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation and Army Corps of
Engineers. “Some dams have
modeling systems that run on
something that looks like a washing machine hooked up to tape
spools. It looks like the early
NASA stuff that went to the
moon.”
The rush to tie smart meters,
home programmable thermostats
and other smart appliances to the
grid also is causing fresh vulnerabilities.
About 45 percent of homes in
the U.S. are hooked up to a smart
meter, which measures electricity
usage and shares information
with the grid. The grid uses that
information to adjust output or
limit power deliveries to customers during peak hours.
Those meters are relatively
simple by design, mostly to keep
their cost low, but their security
is flimsy. Some can be hacked by
plugging in an adapter that costs
$30 on eBay, researchers say.
FERC recently raised concerns
about another area that is not
covered by federal cybersecurity
rules: contractors that sell energy
companies software and equipment. As is evident from the
Calpine incident, attackers have
used outside companies to pull
off hacks against energy companies.
“We’ve got these vulnerable systems out there that are old and
never had security built into
them, and now we’re exposing
them to a wider audience,” said
Justin Lowe, a utility cybersecurity expert at PA Consulting Group.
“That wider audience is getting
much more hostile.”
—DEFENDING THE GRID
The full extent of the attacks
on the grid is not public knowl-
edge. A Freedom of Information
Act request by the AP for information regarding any FBI investigations of such hacks was not
fulfilled. The Department of
Justice said that agency kept no
record of how often any such
cases had been prosecuted.
The North American Electric
Reliability Corporation, which
oversees the reliability of the
electrical sector, collects information about cyber incidents
involving utilities and other
users, owners, and operators of
the bulk power system — but it
is scrubbed of identifying information and details are confidential and exempt from disclosure
under FOIA.
Authorities say they take the
threat seriously. In response to
a FOIA request, Homeland
Security said it had helped more
than 100 energy and chemical
companies improve their cyber
defenses, and held both classified and unclassified briefings in
June 2013 and late 2014 on
threats to companies associated
with power grid operations.
A small DHS team compiles
statistics about hacks and vulnerabilities on control systems
powering the grid and other
public infrastructure, and
responds to some attacks. But
former federal employees who
spoke on the condition of
anonymity because the information was sensitive said government red tape kept the team
from thoroughly responding to
the smaller municipal and rural
utilities that most needed their
help, and that the statistics
overstated the agency’s grasp of
the problem.
The companies themselves
say they are vigilant — though
they caution no fortifications are
foolproof.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The
humming is constant; a lowpitched drone from 155 miles of
conveyer belts racing packages
in every direction. Boxes shift
from one belt to another and
bump into a metal wall. Thud.
Thud. Thud. In the background,
trucks beep and jet engines roar.
Forget jingling bells and hoho-hos, these are now the
sounds of the holidays.
As more gift-givers shop
online, there are more packages
to ship. Online sales now
account for 10 percent of all
shopping and 15 percent during
the holidays, according to
research firm Forrester. That
leaves FedEx and UPS with a
combined 947 million packages
to deliver between Black Friday
and Christmas Eve — up 8 percent from last holiday season’s
forecasts.
For UPS, the key to getting all
those last-second orders delivered on time is Worldport, a
massive sorting facility located
between the Louisville airport’s
two main runways. On a typical
night, 1.6 million packages pass
through. Just before Christmas,
there can be 4 million, peaking
on Monday night.
(UPS plans to deliver about 36
million packages on Tuesday, its
busiest day of the year, up from
35 million last year. That
includes all of Worldport’s shipments plus those traveling by
truck.)
Standing next to the runways
just after midnight, jet headlights can be seen lined up miles
away. Every 60 seconds another
plane lands on one of the two
parallel runways and pulls up to
the facility — the size of 90 football fields — to unload its goods.
If everything goes right, the
packages are just touched twice
by humans: first when pulled
out of large aircraft shipping
containers and then again at the
end of their journey through the
conveyors and into a new bin
Obama administration enacts protections for lions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Obama administration is expected
to extend Endangered Species Act
protections for two breeds of lions,
in response to a large decline in
their numbers in Africa over the
past two decades.
The listings are to be
announced Monday and include
an order that appears to touch on
circumstances surrounding the
killing of a well-known lion named
Cecil in Zimbabwe earlier this
year. The order states that the
Fish and Wildlife Service will deny
a permit to import a sport-hunted
lion to anyone who has been convicted or pleaded guilty to violating
federal or state wildlife laws.
Walter Palmer, the Minnesota
dentist who shot Cecil with a bow
and arrow, had pleaded guilty in
2008 to making false statements
to the Fish and Wildlife Service
about a black bear fatally shot in
western Wisconsin outside an
authorized hunting zone.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
cautioned against linking the
order with Cecil’s death, describing the action instead as a redoubling of efforts to ensure that violators of wildlife laws don’t reap
future benefits from importing
wildlife and wildlife products.
The administration signaled it
would protect lions in Africa long
LEGAL PUBLICATION
INVITATION TO BID
Cleveland Utilities will be accepting sealed bids for
the following:
To provide recycling services for a period of one
year from the date of agreement at Cleveland Utilities’ property at 2450 Guthrie Drive NW, Cleveland,
TN 37312.
Interested bidders should contact Amy Ensley by
telephone at (423) 478-9330 to obtain bid instructions and specifications. All bidders must be qualified, licensed contractors.
Please identify as Bid No. CU011216-1 in the lower
left corner of the envelope. BIDS MUST BE RETURNED IN A SEALED ENVELOPE to the attention
of:
Kirk Gobble
Cleveland Utilities
P.O. Box 2730
Cleveland, TN 37320-2730
Bids will be opened in the Cleveland Utilities Tom
Wheeler Training Center on Tuesday, January 12,
2016, at 2 p.m. e.s.t.
Cleveland Utilities reserves the right to waive all
formalities and informalities in any bid received, to
reject any and all bids for any reason whatsoever
and to accept any bid which in its opinion may be
in the best interest of Cleveland Utilities.
“Cleveland Utilities does not discriminate based on
AP photo
UPS WORKERS guide a container across a floor containing casters after it was unloaded from an air- race, color or national origin in federal or state
sponsored programs, pursuant to Title VI of the
plane at Worldport in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 20.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d).”
Christmas. Some third-party the Kentucky Derby, the city December 20, 21, 22, 2015
and another jet.
The past two years have been tracking services have signaled a does, however, have relatively
few issues with 2015 deliveries good weather and a geography
rough for express shippers.
LEGAL PUBLICATION
In 2013, they underestimated but UPS spokesman Mike that is perfect for shipping.
NOTICE OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE'S SALE
American’s growing fervor for Mangeot said last week that (FedEx has a similar operation
online shopping. Throw in bad more than 96 percent of pack- in Memphis, Tennessee.)
WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance
“It’s just an ideal location for of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of
weather, and deliveries backed ages are being delivered on time
up. Some gifts didn’t arrive in in December and that UPS us,” says Gary Kelley, manager Trust Note dated September 23, 2010, and the
time for Christmas. UPS and expects packages to arrive by of the UPS next day shipping Deed of Trust of even date, securing said Deed of
division at Worldport. “We are Trust Note recorded in Book 2000, at Page 74-86,
Fedex spent heavily last year to Christmas.
“In many cases customers are within two hours (flying time) of in the Register's office for Bradley County, Tennesensure better performance, but
still had some major hiccups. receiving the packages earlier 75 percent of the population and see, executed by LINDA ROSE SCOGGINS and
Staples, Toys ‘R Us, Best Buy, than promised as we are within four hours of 95 percent.” LEWIS PIRL SCOGGINS SR conveying the certain
And when you are rushing property described therein to KERRY WEBB, TrusCrate & Barrel, J.C. Penney and advancing deliveries to make
Kohl’s were among the retailers sure the network remains ready packages overnight, that prox- tee, for the benefit of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
who missed delivery to at least for any spikes as last-minute imity to the country’s largest REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS A
one part of the country, accord- Christmas shipping approach- cities matters.
NOMINEE FOR ACOPIA, LLC, A CORPORATION and
A plane from Seattle might be to Robert S. Coleman, Jr., having been appointed as
ing to industry tracking firm es,” says Mangeot.
At first glance, Kentucky carrying overnight packages Successor Trustee by instrument of record in the
StellaService.
To prevent similar mishaps, doesn’t seem like the epicenter bound for New York, Miami or Register's office for Bradley County, Tennessee in
Chicago. It will stop in Book 2338, at Page 50-854, as Document
UPS and FedEx have been work- of holiday shipping.
After all, Louisville isn’t the Kentucky. All the boxes and #15014355.
ing with major retailers to hone
their forecasts and have sched- geographic center of the U.S. envelopes are unloaded, likely WHEREAS, the owner and holder of the Deed of
uled their extra holiday workers And this city of 600,000 people by college students pulling the Trust Note has declared the entire indebtedness
to better meet the shipping is hardly the largest in the coun- ultimate all-nighter — they due and payable and demanded that the hereinafter
spikes right after Thanksgiving try. Best known for its wooden make up 70 percent of the described real property be advertised and sold in
and the weekend before baseball bats and being home to employees here.
satisfaction of indebtedness and costs of foreclosure in accordance with the terms and provisions of
the Deed of Trust Note and Deed of Trust.
Legal Publications
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that an
agent of Robert S. Coleman, Jr., as Successor TrusLEGAL PUBLICATION
STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF
tee, pursuant to the power, duty and authority
help other children. It was an Polka Dot. Lillian’s family lost all
CHILDREN’S SERVICES v.
vested in and conferred upon said Successor Trusamazing experience.”
their belongings in a recent house
ADAM KENNETH RIZZA
tee, by the Deed of Trust, will on January 11, 2016
This event was funded through fire.
Case No. 2015-JC-215
at 11:00 a.m. at the front door of the Bradley
donations from Wal-Mart, Sam’s
Marissa Council couldn’t
The State of Tennessee, Department of ChilClub, Angels for Protectors, decide what “Frozen” toys she dren’s Services has filed a petition in Hamilton County Courthouse in Cleveland, Tennessee offer
Juvenile Court, seeking to terminate the
for sale to the highest bidder for cash, and free
PATCO, McDonald’s and several should choose. Finally, she set- County
parental rights of AMANDA EASTERLY to the
from all legal, equitable and statutory rights of reprivate individuals who wished to tled on Elsa’s Ice Skating Rink.
child, LOGAN L., born 8/16/2003.
A trial in this case is set for FEBRUARY 9, 2016.
remain anonymous.
“I love this!” she exclaimed as AMANDA EASTERLY must appear before this demption, exemptions of homestead, rights by vir“I am truly blessed to be able to she wrapped her arms around Court on that date to determine whether her pa- tue of marriage, and all other exemptions of every
rental rights to the subject child should be termikind, all of which have been waived in the Deed of
serve my community as a police the box.
nated and forever ended. The Court is located at
Trust, certain real property located in Bradley
officer. To have the opportunity to
Before shopping, the children 17214 State Highway 58N, Decatur, TN 37322.
If AMANDA EASTERLY does not come to the
spend time with these kids out- ate a buffet breakfast at Farmers trial, the state will ask the Court to allow it to pro- County, Tennessee, described as follows:
without contest. That means that the state
THE FOLLOWING REAL ESTATE LOCATED IN THE
side of the traditional role of a Restaurant. The sheriff thanked ceed
will ask the Court to let it present proof without
police officer and show them that Toot’s and all the sponsors who having any lawyer appear and defend AMANDA FIRST CIVIL DISTRICT OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENrights in Court.
NESSEE, TO-WIT:
we are good people made this donated money to fund the event. EASTERLY’S
Any appeal of this Court’s final disposition of the
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE NORTHEAST LINE
complaint
or
petition
for
termination
of
parental
Christmas special,” officer Chris He thanked the SROs and everyrights will be governed by the provisions of Rule
one who helped the children 8A, TRAP, which imposes special time limita- OF WEATHERLY SWITCH ROAD, SAID POINT BEING
Williams said.
tions for the filing of the transcript or statement of LOCATED ALONG THE NEW RIGHT OF WAY 2272
At Target, it was the county’s shop.
evidence, the completion and transmission of the
“It was heart-warming to watch record on appeal, and the filing of briefs in the FEET MORE OR LESS; SOUTHERLY FROM ITS INlaw enforcement moving the chilappellate court, as well as other special proviTERSECTION WITH THE CENTERLINE OF THE
these children become so excited sions for expediting the appeal.
dren through the aisles.
SOUTHERN RAILROAD; THENCE NORTH 19 DEG.
You
may
obtain
a
copy
of
the
Petition
and
any
Ivo Johnson, 7, clutched the about buying Christmas pressubsequently filed legal documents or hearing
Batman T-Rex Robot he selected ents,” Arnold said. “Many of the dates in the Juvenile Court Clerk’s Office at the 10 MIN. EAST, 838.2 FEET TO AN IRON PIN;
shown above. This will constitute approTHENCE SOUTH 82 DEG. 0 MIN. EAST, 260 FEET
for Christmas during the annual children chose presents for their address
priate service on her for all future filings in this
TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE 21 DEG. 21 MIN. WEST,
Shop with the Sheriff trip at brothers and sisters and their case.
856.3 FEET TO A POINT LOCATED IN THE NORTH
parents. They showed the true December 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015
Target.
LINE OF WEATHERLY SWITCH ROAD ABOVE RE“I don’t need many presents,” meaning of giving.”
FERRED TO; THENCE NORTH 79 DEG. 13 MIN.
LEGAL PUBLICATION
MPD and the Sheriff’s Office
Ivo said. “I have been waiting for
IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF BRADLEY
this day for a couple of months.” don’t hold the monopoly on cop COUNTY, TENNESSEE, IN RE: The adoption of WEST ALONG THE NORTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF
DWIGHT DYE, DOB: 06/13/2015, A miSAID ROAD 224.7 FEET TO THE POINT OF THE BEIvo was one of 33 children who philanthropy. On Dec. 21, AUSTIN
nor child under the age of eighteen, DOCKET
shopped at Target with Sheriff Smyrna police will be shepherd- NO. J-15-200, SARAH JUNE OSBORNE-IN- GINNING.
GRAM And KIMBERLY DAWN INGRAM, PetiRobert Arnold, school resource ing children through the Smyrna tioners, Vs. PAMELA LYNN DYE, Biological LESS AND EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO
Respondent and UNKNOWN FATHER,
BRADLEY COUNTY FOR ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY AS
officers and RCSO employees and Wal-Mart at 7 a.m. as part of its Mother
Respondent, ORDER FOR PUBLICATION, The
RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 254, PAGE 466 IN THE
Petitioners, Sarah June Osborne-Ingram and
volunteers during the annual Shop with a Cop program.
Kimberly Dawn Ingram, by and through counsel,
“We will meet for wrapping the have filed a petition in this Court, seeking to ter- REGISTER`S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENevent, which is funded by donathe parental rights of Respondents PamNESSEE.
tions collected at Toot’s locations. gifts that evening at the Town minate
ela Lynn Dye, and Unknown Father, to the child
The students were chosen based Centre around 5 p.m. and deliv- Austin Dwight Dye. The Petitioners informed the BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED INTO
Court in its sworn petition that it does not know
on need by the county schools.
ery will take place the following where Respondent Unknown Father is or his LEWIS P. SCOGGINS, SR. AND WIFE, LINDA ROSE
so he can personally be served with a
SCOGGINS
DATED
08/20/1997,
RECORDED
Student Lillian Kennedy morning,” said Sgt. Bobby name
copy of the petition. The Petitioners requested
grinned as she showed Arnold a Gibson, spokesman for Smyrna this Court order that Unknown Father be served 08/22/1997, IN O.R. BOOK 386, PAGE 529, OF
by publishing an advertisement in The Cleveland
BRADLEY COUNTY, TN RECORDS.
stuffed Dalmatian she named police.
Daily Banner, a local newspaper. The Court finds
the above Motion to be valid, it is therefore ORMore Commonly Known As: 491 WEATHERLY
DERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that a
SWITCH RD SE, CLEVELAND, TN 37323-0000
copy of the following notice, be published for four
(4) consecutive weeks in the Cleveland Daily
Said sale shall be held subject to all matters shown
Banner, a newspaper of general circulation published in Bradley County, Cleveland, Tennessee.
on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes;
SARAH JUNE OSBORNE-INGRAM and KIMbefore Cecil’s case caught the lions. The bar for an import permit BERLY DAWN INGRAM v PAMELA LYNN DYE any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback
UNKNOWN FATHER, DOCKET NO.
lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of
public’s attention. The Fish and would be highest with the endan- AND
J-15-200. Petitioners, Sarah June Osborne-Ingram
and
Dawn Ingram, have filed a
redemption of any governmental agency, state or
Wildlife Service proposed a rule in gered group, with permits granted petition in Kimberly
the Bradley County Juvenile Court,
October 2014 to list the African if importing the animal would seeking to terminate the parental rights of Pam- federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as
ela Lynn Dye and Unknown Father to the child,
any priority created by a fixture filing; to any matlion as threatened. After getting enhance the species’ survival.
Austin Dwight Dye. A trial in this case is set for
at 9:00 a.m. and Unknown Father must
ter that an accurate survey of the premises might
feedback, the agency revised its
The permitting process for the 1/12/16
appear before this Court on that date to deterfindings.
threatened group would require mine whether his parental rights to the subject disclose; and subject to, but not limited to, the folshould be terminated and forever ended.
lowing parties who may claim an interest in the
It determined that two sub- the import to come from nations child
The Court is located Bradley County, Cleveland,
If Unknown Father does not come to
above-referenced property: none.
species of lions live in Africa. One that have sound conservation Tennessee.
the trial, the Petitioners will ask the Court to allow
group, found primarily in western practices and use trophy hunting it to proceed without contest. That means that The following individuals or entities have an interstate will ask the Court to let it present proof
est in the above-described property: (1) LINDA
and central countries, is more revenue to sustain lion popula- the
without have any lawyer appear and defend UnFather's rights in court. If the Court beROSE SCOGGINS, (2) LEWIS PIRL SCOGGINS SR (3)
genetically related to the Asiatic tions and deter poaching. known
lieves the Petitioners have proved their case,
lion. Only about 1,400 remain in Currently, sport hunters don’t then Unknown Father's parental rights will be for- TENANTS OF 491 WEATHERLY SWITCH RD SE,
terminated and he will never be able to see
CLEVELAND, TN 37323.
Africa and India. The agency is need a permit from the U.S. to ever
the child or object to his adoption. If the Court issues an order granting the motion, Unknown FaTo the best of the Trustee’s knowledge, informalisting that subspecies as endan- bring in a trophy lion.
ther will have 30 days from entry of the order to
gered, meaning it risks extinction.
Ashe said trophy hunting can contact the Court and appeal. Copies of all or- tion, and belief, there are no other Federal or State
and motions filed in this case will be left for
tax lien claimants or other claimants upon the subA second subspecies, number- and does contribute to the survival ders
Unknown Father with the Clerk of the Juvenile
Court.
will constitute appropriate service on
ject property which would require notice pursuant
ing between 17,000 and 19,000 of species in the wild as part of a them forThis
all future filings in this case. Entered this
and found across southern and well-managed conservation pro- 17th day of November, 2015. JUDGE SUBSTI- to the terms and provision of T.C.A. § 35-5-104 or
JUDGE. Gayla Miller, Clerk, E.G. Deputy
T.C.A. § 67-1-1433 or 26 U.S.C. § 7425.
eastern Africa, will be listed as gram. The new permitting require- TUTE
Clerk. APPROVED FOR ENTRY, SHERRY L.
PARK,
BPR 25624, Attorney for Petitioners,
The Successor Trustee may postpone the above refthreatened.
ments in the U.S. will encourage 8921 Hiwassee
St, Charleston, Tennessee
The Endangered Species Act African countries to improve their 37310, (423)336-1011. CERTIFICATE OF erenced sale from time to time as needed without
I hereby certify that the foregoing infurther publication. The Successor Trustee will anrequires the Fish and Wildlife lion management programs. The SERVICE,
strument was delivered to the Respondent Pamela
Lynn
Dye
her attorney, Berry A. Fosnounce the postponement on the date and at the
Service to list species as endan- agency said hundreds of sport- ter, at P.O. Boxthrough
15307, Chattanooga, TN 37415.
gered or threatened regardless of hunted trophy lions are brought This 17th day of November, 2015. Sherry L. time and location of the originally scheduled sale.
Park.
This is an attempt to collect a debt, and any inforthe country where they live.
into the U.S. each year.
December 14, 21, 28, 2015; January 4, 2016
mation gathered in connection herewith will be
“If we want to ensure that
utilized for that purpose.
healthy lion populations continue
LEGAL PUBLICATION
DATED this 16th day of December, 2015
to roam the Africa savannas and
Invitation to Bid
forests of India, it’s up to all of us Cleveland City Schools is requesting bids for Raider Prepared by:
Robert S. Coleman, Jr.
— not just the people of Africa and Arena Network Cabling . RFP and
Marinosci Law Group, P.C.
India — to take action,” said Dan Bid
specifications
can
be
found
at 1405 North Pierce, Suite 306
Ashe, the agency’s director.
http://www.clevelandschools.org/cleveland-cityThe listings will bring extra pro- schools-bids/. Bid responses can be sent to 4300 Little Rock, Arkansas 72207
tection for both subspecies: A per- Mouse Creek Rd. Cleveland, Tn 37312. Responses Robert S. Coleman, Jr.
Successor Trustee
mit would be required before are due 1/22/2016.
December 21, 28, 2015; January 4, 2016
importing any live or sport-hunted December 21, 2015
Kids shop with police for Christmas
MURFREESBORO (AP) — On
the morning of Saturday, Dec.
12, there were cops everywhere.
City patrol officers, county
deputies, lieutenants, sergeants,
captains, detectives — there were
enough officers in and around
Wal-Mart and Target to provide
extras for every cop show on TV.
But the people they were leading
through the aisles weren’t
shoplifters — they were children.
Lots and lots of children. More
than 50, in fact, and each one
was getting a special holiday treat
from either the Murfreesboro
Police Department or the
Rutherford County Sheriff’s
Office.
MPD took 19 children shopping as part of the department’s
annual Shop with a Cop program.
The children, their parents and
the officers started their morning
being treated to breakfast at
McDonald’s inside Wal-Mart on
South Rutherford Boulevard in
Murfreesboro.
Accompanied by officers, the
children were given $250 each to
purchase games, toys and clothing items. Each child was also
given a bicycle.
“Even though we were helping
the kids buy presents, it was the
officers who received the real
gift,” officer Haley Alden said.
“The child I shopped with purchased games and clothing, but
was concerned about wanting to
Afghan official:
Foreign troops
killed in attack
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP)
— A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed three foreign troops
in an attack on a joint AfghanNATO foot patrol on Monday, a
senior Afghan official said.
The eight-man patrol was
rammed by the explosive-laden
motorcycle as they moved
through a village near Bagram
Airfield, 45 kilometers (28 miles)
north of Kabul, said Mohammad
Asim Asim, governor of Parwan
province.
The Taliban claimed responsibility in an email to The
Associated Press.
The nationalities of the dead
NATO personnel were not immediately clear. Bagram is the
biggest U.S. military base in
Afghanistan.
Asim said that two NATO personnel and three Afghan policemen were also wounded in the
attack.
NATO confirmed the attack
took place, but gave no further
details. The spokesman for
NATO’s Resolute Support base
in the capital, Kabul, U.S. Army
Col. Mike Lawhorn said only
that “the incident is under investigation.”
It is the first major attack on a
NATO military convoy since
August 22, when three American
contractors with the RS base
were killed in a suicide attack on
their convoy in Kabul. On
August 7 and 8, Kabul was the
scene of three insurgent attacks
within 24 hours that left at least
35 people dead. One of the
attacks, on the Qasaba U.S. special operations base outside
Kabul left one soldier and eight
civilian contractors dead.
Monday’s attack came as
Taliban gunmen and government forces battled for control of
a strategic district in the southern province of Helmand, after it
was overrun by Taliban insurgents, delivering a serious blow
to government forces.
Mohammad Jan Rasulyar,
Helmand’s deputy governor, said
insurgents took control of
Sangin district on Sunday. Only
Afghan army facilities in the district had not been taken by the
insurgents, he said. Casualties
among Afghan security forces
were high, he added, though he
gave no figures.
Afghanistan’s Chief Executive
Abdullah Abdullah met with
security advisers early Monday
and urged “immediate action,”
his deputy spokesman Javid
Faisal said. Faisal said Afghan
forces had launched a counteroffensive to retake control of the
district.
Rasulyar on Sunday took the
unusual step of using his
Facebook page to warn President
Ashraf Ghani that the entire
province of Helmand was in danger of falling to the insurgents if
central authorities failed to send
help.
In Helmand, more than 90
members of the Afghan security
forces died fighting in recent
days, with hundreds killed in the
past six months, he said in his
open letter to Ghani.
Helmand is an important
Taliban base as it produces most
of the world’s opium, a crop that
helps fund the insurgency.
Sangin district has bounced in
and out of Taliban control for
some years, and fighting there
has produced high casualties
among both Afghan and international forces. British forces in
particular saw intensive fighting
there at the height of the war in
2006 and 2007. Britain lost
more than 450 troops during its
combat mission in Afghanistan,
more than 100 of them in
Sangin.
The head of Helmand’s provincial council, Muhammad Kareem
Atal, said that 28 members of
the Afghan security forces —
usually a reference to army and
police who also fight on the front
lines across the country — were
killed fighting on Sunday.
Another 15 were critically
wounded, he said.
“Around 65 percent of
Helmand is now under Taliban
control,” Atal said. “In every district either we are stepping back
or we are handing territory over
to Taliban, but still, until now,
no serious action has been
taken,” he said, echoing
Rasulyar’s plea to the central
authorities for help.
Important districts across
Helmand province, including
Nad Ali, Kajaki, Musa Qala, Naw
Zad, Gereshk and Garmser, have
all been threatened by Taliban
takeover in recent months.
Insurgents are also believed to
be dug in on the outskirts of the
provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Taliban fighters, sometimes
working with other insurgent
groups
like
the
Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan, have
managed to overrun many districts across the country this
year, as well as staging a threeday takeover of the major northern city of Kunduz. They rarely
hold territory for more than a
few hours or days, but the
impact on the morale of Afghan
forces is substantial.
Atal said more than 2,000
members of the security forces
had been killed fighting in
Helmand in 2015.
He said a major reason “that
our forces are losing” was that
many soldiers and police were
deserting their posts in the face
of the Taliban onslaught.
“There is a big difference
between the number of both soldiers and police recorded as on
duty, and the real number,” he
said, saying the official record
was stuffed with “ghost police
and soldiers.”
The Taliban insurgency has
spread across the country this
year, following the withdrawal of
international combat forces at
the end of 2014. This has
stretched government resources,
leading to high casualties and
low morale.
The Pentagon released a
report last week warning that
the security situation in
Afghanistan would deteriorate as
a “resilient Taliban-led insurgency remains an enduring
threat to U.S., coalition, and
Afghan forces, as well as to the
Afghan people.”
The U.S. now has about 9,800
troops in Afghanistan, some of
which are involved in counterterrorism missions. With NATO
contributions, there are about
13,000 foreign troops in
Afghanistan.
5 more people detained
in Paris attacks probe
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian
authorities announced Monday
that they have detained five people, including two brothers, after
two days of raids related to the
Paris attacks.
The federal prosecutor’s office
said two people were detained following a house search Monday in
the Laeken district of Brussels.
On Sunday evening, another
Brussels house was searched on
orders from an investigating
judge specializing in terrorism.
Two brothers found there were
taken in for questioning, as well
as a friend.
The prosecutor’s office said an
analysis of phone records led to
Sunday’s search. Authorities said
they found no weapons or explosives at either residence, and did
not identify those detained.
The investigating judge will
decide later on whether to keep
the five in custody. Eight other
people detained earlier in
Belgium have been ordered held
in preventive custody.
The Islamic State group
claimed responsibility for the
Nov. 13 Paris attacks, which left
130 people dead. A European
Union summit last week resolved
to continue the EU’s effort
against violent extremism, and
called for wide-ranging measures
including systematic checks on
people crossing Europe’s external
frontiers.
In France, people traveling on
high-speed trains from France to
Belgium and the Netherlands
now must pass through new
metal detectors. As of Monday,
the detectors were operational at
Paris’ Gare du Nord station for all
passengers taking Thalys TGV
trains, which connect Paris,
Brussels and Amsterdam.
The open French-Belgian border has been under special
scrutiny since the attacks by
extremists with ties in both countries. In August, a Paris-bound
Thalys was the scene of a thwarted attack when American passengers subdued an Islamic
extremist gunman who had
boarded in Brussels.
There are already security
checks on high-speed trains from
France to Britain. There aren’t
any metal detectors for slow
trains between France and
Belgium, or on routes from
France to other neighboring
countries.
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Anchor Club holidays...
Contributed photos
tHe Cleveland HigH sCHool Anchor Club had the privilege of celebrating Christmas with
their second-grade Blythe Bower “Buddies” recently. The young students were treated to a tour of
the school, game time, craft time, picture with Santa, lunch, and a special presentation by the
Cleveland High School Renaissance Show Choir and others. In the dance routine above, the five
high school students facing the camera include, from left, Seaton Dasher, Ethan Lawson, Colton
Parks, John Bennett and Andrew Markham. The photograph just below shows the Renaissance
Show Choir performing, while another dance group entertains below the choir. At the very bottom,
the lady in the red scarf and the four main girls in the foreground include, from left, Riley Calandrino,
Ashley Mays, Madeline Fleming, Amanda Hanshew and Cynthia Linley.
Contributed photo
tHe stUdents in Amber Montgomery’s classroom at Yates Primary used a special project to get in
the mood for Christmas. They collected gift cards for the Mercy Tree Foundation. Students said they
were excited to show compassion and generosity during the Christmas season.
Contributed photo
Cleveland HigH Cosmetology students of Becky Davis earned the top three honors at the
Winter Wonderland competition at Bradley Square Mall. Participants included, Kierra Mullinax, Sarai
Luna, Akhori Wells, Jasmine Nino, teacher Becky Davis, Ashton Barton, Haley Dunn and Skyla Hyatt.
Contributed photo
sCienCe nigHt participants
at Stuart Elementary included
this group as they were measuring the impact craters of comet.
Working this station during the
evening’s activities were two Lee
University students, Amanda
Tatum, left, and Kaity Giles, right.
The students in front are Jason
Knoll and Sky Emerton.
Contributed photo
tHis gRoUP was excited by the Science Night activities conducted recently at Stuart Elementary
mRs. PHilliPs and Yates Primary’s second-grade classes took their annual Christmas shopping trip School by Lee University instructor Jason Robinson. Participants include, back row from left, Kristy
to the Dollar Tree recently. Students make a shopping list for family members, then use their money- Broomfield, Jessica Lamb and Shasta Pullian. On the second row, from left, are Noah Jones, C. Melton
counting skills to purchase gifts.
and Dakota Cooley. In front are Shyenne Pullian and Madison Lamb.
Contributed photo

Prospect brings Christmas

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