5 Steps to Compelling, Informative Illustrations

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1. Plan ahead.
2. Generate ideas — lots of ideas.
3. Look beyond the obvious.
4. Explore your options.
5. Speak with one voice.

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{Step 1}

Plan ahead.
Identify annual story topics and evergreens
and anticipate upcoming big stories.
Ex: new teachers, sports seasons, anniversaries,
elections (levies, school board, student council),
prom, graduation

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High-School Football
Preview Special Sections

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FRIDAY

• AUGUST 22, 2008
$.50

Price may vary outside
Franklin County

Summer conditioning is a distant memory.
Two-a-days have come and gone. Drill after monotonous drill
has been completed. The ﬁelds are lined. The helmets are
shined. The players are primed. It’s time.

INSIDE

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

D I S P AT C H P H O T O B Y F R E D S Q U I L L A N T E

BREAKING NEWS: DISPATCH.COM

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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Insight

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2007

Choosing a winner
When crowning a champion, judges think with their stomachs
By Charlie Zimkus | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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hio’s elite cattle, lambs, pigs and chickens will be on display and auctioned off at the
Ohio State Fair’s Sale of Champions at 2 p.m. today, earning their exhibitors thousands
of dollars. π But what separates a champion from the hundreds of others that compete
in each category during the fair? π The answer lies not only in how they look, but in how they’ll
taste. π A champion market animal should produce the most high-quality meat. Even an
animal’s movements and flexibility are used as signs that it will yield a tasty steak, ham or chop.
π It takes experience to predict such things — as the state fair judges’ lengthy resumes can attest
— but knowing even the basic characteristics of ideal livestock can help you pick a champion.

ON THE WEB
∑ Watch a video of
judge Ron Guenther
inspecting the
Grand Champion
market lamb at
Dispatch.com/
multimedia.

czimkus@dispatch.com

Market beef
When selecting a champion steer or
heifer, Judge Steve Reimer looks for
quality beef and balanced physical traits
— such as muscle definition at the
forearm, shoulder, back and loin.
In addition to judging beef across the
country, Reimer, a rancher in South
Dakota, has judged in Canada, Mexico,
Australia and New Zealand. But the Ohio
State Fair has one of the best competitions, he said.
Why Ohio? “It’s tradition,” he said. “Just
like that Ohio football team, they’re hard
to beat.”
They must be good. Last year’s champion
steer sold for $58,500.

IDEAL MARKET STEER

UNDESIRABLE BODY TYPES

A champion steer has a well-proportioned, balanced body and heavy muscle through his prime beefyielding areas. He also needs the proper foot and leg structure in order to walk gracefully in front of the
judge — not an easy task for an animal that typically weighs 1,150 to 1,325 pounds.

∑ overly fat
∑ square top
∑ heavy through neck
and shoulders
∑ thicker at top than
through lower quarter

full, wide through rump

muscular back and loin

∑ lightly muscled
∑ narrow top
∑ narrow through
lower quarter
∑ legs close together

level top

trim, neat
throat, dewlap
and brisket
trim middle

long, deep,
muscular
quarter

muscular
forearm

heavy boned

wide-set
legs

FOOT AND LEG PLACEMENT (These guidelines also generally apply to lambs and barrows.)
REAR LEG SET

too straight
(posty)

FRONT LEG SET

too curved
(sickled)

structurally
correct

Market lamb
Judge Ron Guenther, a livestock
consultant in Powell, likes a lamb with
“flash, style and presence.”
“If two lambs are equal, you pick the
one that looks good to you, that looks
good to everyone,” he said.
Market lambs are shown sheared, but
judges still have to handle the animals
along the ribs to determine their muscle
and finish, or fat content.
“You want neither too little nor too
much fat,” said Guenther, who has
judged for more than 40 years. “You
need enough finish for good marbling. It
gives the meat longevity in the cooler.”
Last year’s top market lamb fetched
$18,000.

bowlegged

cow hocked

over at the knee
(buck kneed)

back at the knee weak pasterns
(calf kneed)

structurally
correct

bowlegged

knockkneed

splayfooted
(toed out)

IDEAL MARKET LAMB


The target weight for a market lamb is between 115 and 135 pounds, but it’s the location, quantity
and quality of the meat that determines a champion. A lamb should have the perfect combination
of muscle in its leg, loin and rack.

∑ excess fat over ribs
∑ heavy through neck
and shoulders
∑ heavy breasted
∑ too much fat on
inside of leg and
between the legs

pigeon-toed
(toed in)

long hindsaddle
rump
loin

level top
and
underline

muscular
rack
lean
neck

smooth
shoulder
thick,
muscular
loin

ideal amount
of fat over ribs

deep, full,
muscular
leg

heavy boned

Ohio State Fair

∑ lightly muscled
∑ flat ribbed
∑ narrow top
∑ fine boned
∑ legs close together
∑ flat, narrow leg

bulging,
muscular
forearm,
or shank

deep,
full leg

wide-set
legs

Market barrows
“I like a barrow that is structurally
correct,” judge Gary Childs said. “He
should stand square on his feet with all
toes pointing in the same direction.”
When Childs — a show-pig breeder in
Pelham, Ga. — judged his fourth Ohio
State Fair, he was looking for a barrow,
or neutered male pig, with good
volume through the center and a
strong, muscular top.
“I look at them from all angles,” Childs
said, “both sides, front, rear, top and
bottom.”
It’s important that Childs be this
thorough; a lot is riding on his decision.
Last year’s champion barrow sold for
$23,000.

IDEAL MARKET BARROW


The key is to have quality meat in the right places — the ham and rump — and have legs
that are strong and flexible enough to carry around his 260 to 270 pounds.

∑ wide top
∑ lightly
muscled
∑ fat through
center and
lower portion
of ham

square, wide rump

prominent shoulder blade
lean, muscular
top (butterfly
shape)

long, thick,
well-muscled body

When judging, Audrey McElroy,
professor of poultry science at
Virginia Tech, looks for quantity and
quality of meat in the breasts, thighs
and drumsticks.
“I like a bird that is shaped like a
wide shoebox,” she said, “wide at the
front and just as wide at the back.”
Unlike other fair competitions, meat
chickens are judged in threes.
Chicken processing goes more
smoothly if the birds are the same
size and shape, and the exhibitors’
pens should reflect that.
Last year’s champions sold for
$10,000.

∑ wide top
∑ lightly
muscled
∑ overly fat
∑ underdeveloped ham
∑ legs close
together

dimple
flexible
hock

wide chest
deep ham

heavy boned

wide-set
legs

thick, muscular ham

Meat chickens

∑ narrow body
∑ lean top,
but lightly
muscled
∑ legs close
together

IDEAL MEAT CHICKEN

UNDESIRABLE BODY TYPE

This competition is for male broilers, which weigh 7 or fewer pounds at
about 7 weeks old. Using a male White Plymouth Rock as an example,
a champion should exhibit these characteristics:

In addition to being free of dirt, bruises and broken bones, a quality
meat chicken should not display these shortcomings:

broad,
flat back

narrow,
sloping back

healthy comb,
thick at base
bright,
alert eyes
broad, deep
breast
lengthy
keel, or
underbelly

thin, discolored
comb
small, sunken,
cloudy eyes

ample
heart girth

thin, shallow
breast
short keel

well-proportioned
beak, skull

Sources: American Standard of Perfection, by R. George Jaap; Dispatch research; 4-H Livestock Judging Manual; Judging Livestock, Dairy Cattle, Poultry and Crops, by H.G. Youtz; Livestock Judging, Selection and Evaluation, by Roger E. Hunsley

narrow
at hips
narrow
back
narrow
heart girth
narrow
skull

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{Step 2}

Generate ideas
— lots of ideas.
Read the story. Draw in the margins.
Write down words. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Illustrate how
something feels.

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S UNDAY , O CTOBER 7, 2012
COLUMBUS SCHOOLS

District
does 180
on data
scrubbing
By Bill Bush and
Jennifer Smith Richards

Columbus City Schools leaders shifted last week from saying they don’t know whether
administrators were changing
attendance records. Their new
position:
They were
changing
records,
and they
thought it
was OK.
The pivot
came hours An ongoing Dispatch
after the
investigation of
state audistudent data fraud
tor deliverin Ohio schools
ed a critical
interim
COMING
report of his MONDAY
investiga- The damage from
tion’s findings, saying data scrubbing
10 Columbus schools
showed evidence of “scrubbing,” or unlawfully changing
records.
State Auditor Dave Yost also
said that whether he presses for

COUNTING
KIDS OUT

SATURATION POINT

DISPATCH INVESTIGATION

Some collection agencies drown
consumers in bad credit reports as a way
to leverage payments they don’t owe

DEBT DECEPTION
By Jill Riepenhoff and Mike Wagner

Credit reports are primary
weapons for debt collectors. And lax oversight by
credit-reporting agencies
and loopholes in federal
laws allow debt collectors
to ruin the credit of unwitting consumers.
- Today: Strong-arm tactics
- Monday: Courts complicit
- Tuesday: Medical debt
Read the series online at
Dispatch.com/credit.

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ogue debt collectors are chasing
Americans for debts they paid long
ago or never owed, and they are
threatening consumers with ruined credit
reputations if they don’t pay.
They are pursuing innocent people who
share a name or an old address with the real
debtor. They are hounding victims of identity theft and credit-card fraud.
They are illegally pressuring people to pay
debts even without original documentation
that proves they owe something.
Thousands of state and federal complaints
See DECEPTION Page A16

See SCHOOLS Page A4

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Negative
ads’ plus
side: more
substance

Only so much money
available, experts say
By Steve Wartenberg

There were zero casinos in Ohio
five months ago. No brightly lit —
and constitutionally legal — gambling palaces where optimistic
patrons could double down on a
pair of 10s or take a 5-cent spin on
Mermaid’s Kingdom.
All this has changed in what
seems like the blink of an eye.
When the $400 million Hollywood Casino Columbus opens on
- Who nabs
Monday, Ohio will
casino bad
have three casinos
guys? ,B1
and one “racino,”
about 9,200 slot
machines and almost 300 table
games, including blackjack, craps,
roulette and poker.
The state could have four casinos and seven racetracks with
slots, called racinos, by 2014.
All these millions of gamblers,
playing thousands of games, are
expected to bring in billions of
dollars of revenue for the casinos,
which in turn will pay about
33 percent of the take to the state.
Exactly how much this will add
up to is uncertain, as is the question of whether the state’s gamblers can sustain 11 gambling halls.
Hollywood Casino general manager Ameet Patel welcomes the
competition.
See CASINOS Page A4

Casino revenue
The total revenue to date from
Ohio’s two casinos and one racino,
plus the state’s cut.

By Jessica Wehrman

TOTAL REVENUE, IN MILLIONS


STATE’S SHARE

WASHINGTON — Not that
past presidential candidates
were exactly nice to each other
over the airwaves, but this
year’s crop of TV
ads is the nas- Viewers
tiest in recent
learn how to
avoid ads ,A5 years, a new
study shows.
You probably
won’t find too many Ohioans
who will contest those results.
But voters in Ohio and other
swing states might be surprised
to learn that many of those
commercials actually contain
See CAMPAIGN ADS Page A5

Can Ohio
sustain
all these
casinos?

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Cincinnati
takes lead
in building
green homes

Gardeners have options to replace impatiens / H2
Talkative Carolina wrens nest in odd spots / H3
Real-estate agent starts price-guessing game / H8

At Home
Section H • The Columbus Dispatch • Sunday, May 5, 2013

On the House
Jim Weiker
////////////////////////////

For Cincinnati homeowners,
it pays to be green.
The city, one of the most
aggressive in the nation in encouraging environmentally
friendly homebuilding, grants
tax breaks to owners of homes
receiving the LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental
Design) certification.
Under the Cincinnati program, homeowners can eliminate property taxes for up to 15
years on improvements to a
property, potentially saving tens
of thousands of dollars.
The result: 100 Cincinnati
single-family homes have received the LEED certification.
By contrast, in Columbus, one
LEED single-family home has

Six questions
help you decide
when it’s time
for your
first home

See Weiker Page H11

Garden design

Animal metaphor

CHARLIE ZIMKUS

Choices
can soothe
the senses

DISPATCH

By Kim Cook
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ready to buy?
A
By Jim Weiker •


s homebuying season kicks into high
gear, is it finally time to commit?
Qualifying for a mortgage and
having enough money for a down
payment are only the first steps to a successful experience as a first-time buyer.
Before taking the plunge, experts suggest
answering these six questions.

1. Do you know the true costs
of ownership?

Today’s low mortgage rates are
great, but don’t be seduced into
thinking that the mortgage is the
entire cost of owning a home.
A mortgage on a $150,000
house with 10 percent down will
cost about $600 a month at
today’s rates.
See Questions Page H9

The silky petals of a fragrant
pink shrub rose; the crunchy
texture of a gravel path; a nook
where grass rustles and a
stream runs.
If you’re designing a garden,
consider creating one that is a
feast for the senses.
Public examples that can
provide inspiration include the
William T. Bacon Sensory
Garden at the Chicago Botanic
Garden, and the Lerner Garden
of the Five Senses at the
Coastal Maine Botanical
Gardens in Boothbay.
At the Bacon, a large sycamore tree with mottled bark
sits at the center, while a crab
apple meadow bursts into a
See Senses Page H5

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TOURNAMENT

PREVIEW

After a regular season spanning November to March, the grind of league play and
a frenetic conference tournament, 65 teams (down to 64 as of Tuesday night) earned
the right to enter the labyrinth that is the NCAA Tournament. And now, star players such
as Evan Turner of Ohio State, John Wall of Kentucky and Sherron Collins of Kansas
will try to help their squads navigate the inevitable twists and turns of March Madness,
with a singular goal awaiting at the end: a national championship.

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The Ohio State
men have relied
on six players
almost exclusively
down the stretch

Jantel Lavender
has been a rock
in the middle for
the Ohio State
n
women this season

Former Hoosier
Armon Bassett
is leading the
charge for
Ohio University

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Men’s regional
analyses
PAGES 4-5

Women’s
regional analyses
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FOOD
Coming next week

SAY CHEESE

American creations

WEDNESDAY
MARCH 26, 2008

Healthful grains

Online

COOKING DEMOS

Eat for Life: how to use quinoa ,E2

DispatchKitchen.com

WHAT’S UP
AT THE KITCHEN

Food Editor Robin Davis
will prepare Cheddar
Cheese Risotto (see recipe,
Page E3) on 10TV News HD
at noon today on WBNS-TV
(Channel 10). If you miss
the segment, check it out
on DispatchKitchen.com.

CUTTING EDGE

Pie contest
Pie bakers might be
interested in the Grove City
Pie Bake-Off, set for April 26
at Monterey Care Center,
3929 Hoover Rd. Each contestant is allowed to enter
one recipe — free — in each
category: apple, fruit (nonapple), cream and open. All
recipes must be received by
April 18. After the winners are
announced, pies can be
sampled at the Pie Buffet for
a $5 fee — with proceeds to
benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. For more information,
call 614-875-7700.

A sampling
- Basic Food Group
(Columbus): Jim Legg,
614-447-8168
- Chalice Organics Plus
(Columbus): Mary BoydBrown, 614-447-1608
- Eagle Rock Co-op
(Reynoldsburg): Kathy
Mauerman, 614-755-9916
- New Friends Co-op
(Granville): Teena Jennings,
740-587-4058
- Vitality Food Folk
(Lancaster): Shirley
McClelland, 740-5367448

Wine event

Exaggerate the effects
of something.

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The Cincinnati Wine Festival,
scheduled for Thursday
through Saturday, will feature
winery dinners, grand tastings
and a charity auction and
luncheon. Admission fees
vary. Call 513-723-9463 or
visit www.winefestival.com.

Lycopene love
Red fruits and vegetables are
packed with the phytonutrient
lycopene, which has shown
promise in protecting eyesight
and preventing some types of
cancer, according to Everyday
Food magazine. Lycopene is
found in pink and red grapefruit, red papaya and watermelon. It is also considered
prominent in tomato products
ranging from ketchup to pasta
sauce.

Heat beater
Is the nonstick cooking spray
Pam Professional High Heat
really any different from the
original product? Yes, according to Cook’s Illustrated
magazine: Pans heated at
high temperatures (and foods
cooked in them) became

Bulking up
CHARLIE ZIMKUS, KATHLEEN DLABICK

Families turn to buying clubs
to cut cost of more-healthful eating
By Aaron Beck

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| THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

our years ago, the Fischer family had a
monthly bill for organic groceries that equaled
its mortgage payment — $1,200. ¶ “We knew
we had to find another way to buy organic food
cheaper,” said Sheri Fischer, who with her
husband, Andy, is raising five children on vegan diets,
meaning they don’t consume meat, fish, eggs, cheese or
milk. ¶ In 2005, the Hilliard family joined the Columbus
organic-food buying club Chalice Organics Plus. ¶ The bill


since then: “$700-ish a month,”
Fischer said.
“It wasn’t that it was hard to sustain being vegan or buying in bulk,
and it was always easy finding good
food to eat in Columbus,” she recalled, “but it was cost-prohibitive
to shop in a grocery store. Shaving
$500 off our monthly bill is awesome for a family of seven.”
Organic food today is as common
as Wonder Bread — everywhere
from independent grocers such as
Weiland’s Gourmet Market and the
Hills Market to chains such as Giant
Eagle and Wal-Mart.
Despite its ubiquity, organic food
See BULKING UP Page E3

- Recipes from Chalice Organics Plus members ,E3

For breaking news, visit Dispatch.com.

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WHAT’S UP
AT THE KITCHEN

- Food Editor Robin Davis
will prepare the Grilled
Vegetable Platter With
Summer Vinaigrette (see
recipe, Page E3) at noon
today on 10TV News HD on
WBNS-TV (Channel 10). For
the first time, the cooking
segment will be presented
in high definition. Check
out the segments at
DispatchKitchen.com.

CHRONICLE BOOKS

A grilled-vegetable platter

Grilled
veggies
a snap
to make

- Join the “Wine 101” class
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in
the Dispatch Kitchen in the
North Market, 59 Spruce
St., as part of the market’s
Food Ohio Wine Festival.
Chris Dillman, sommelier at
Rosendale’s, will teach the
class. Wines will be accompanied by foods from chef
John Dornback of Basi
Italia. The cost is $25.
To register, call 614-4639664.

By Diane Rossen Worthington
TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

CUTTING EDGE
Ohio wines

Exaggerate!

Check out the Food Ohio
Wine Festival this weekend
at the North Market,
59 Spruce St. The event
will kick off from 7 to
10 p.m. Friday with a
preview party of some of
the finest Ohio wines.
Tickets cost $20, including
a souvenir glass and
10 tasting tickets. Throughout the day Saturday and
Sunday, customers can buy
a tasting admission for $5
and receive a souvenir
glass and two tasting
tickets while enjoying the
farmers’ market on Saturday and a craft fair on
Sunday. For more information, call 614-463-9664.


Sugar daddies

I remember the first time I saw
a platter of grilled vegetables.
It was in a little trattoria in
northern Italy, and I thought it
was one of the most beautiful
displays of color I had ever seen.
Scarlet tomatoes and bell peppers, dark-green zucchini and
asparagus, and golden yellow
squash on a simple white platter
— it looked like a painting. At the
time, I remember thinking I had
never seen anything like that on
an American menu.
Years later, grilled vegetables
have become a much-loved dish
in restaurants nationwide. They
are also easy to prepare at home.
The colorful vegetables work as a
side dish or a first course.
The key to perfect grilled vegetables is to make sure they are
branded with grill marks on the
outside and just cooked through
inside. The grill should be
medium-high so the vegetables
can cook evenly.
Be as creative as you like by
selecting the freshest vegetables
available at the market. You can
add husked corn, whole portobello mushrooms and even
peeled avocado halves for a more
elaborate platter.
I like to finish the vegetables
with a drizzling of herbed summer vinaigrette. Fresh basil,
chives and parsley are a welcome
addition to this classic vinaigrette. Any remaining vinaigrette
is wonderful on a simple green
salad; sliced ripe tomatoes or a
pasta salad; or even as a nice
finish to grilled chicken or fish.
If time is short, just drizzle the
grilled vegetables with lemon
juice and a fruity olive oil instead
of the vinaigrette.
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Columbus spends $32M to fix roads / B1
Michigan will play Louisville for title / C1
Wendy’s struggling with breakfast / D1
Shakespeare helps autistic kids / F1
Ohio politics

Support for
term limits
vanishing

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Statewide electricity rates show
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Secret deal with
Pakistan started
CIA’s drone war
In a backroom bargain in June 2004,
a U.S. drone killed a Pashtun tribesman fighting Pakistan’s army. In
exchange, the U.S. got access to
airspace it had long sought to hunt
down its own enemies. The deal
helped move the CIA from spy agency to paramilitary organization, and
launched years of controversy both in
Pakistan and the U.S. • Page A3

Only a third of Ohioans say
the General Assembly has its
priorities straight.
Just a quarter trust lawmakers and others in state government “to do what is right” at
least most of the time.
And a mere sixth believe term
limits enacted by Ohio voters
more than 20 years ago have
made the legislature better.
What do those who have
worked with state legislators for
decades say about that last
finding from a Saperstein Associates poll for The Dispatch?
“I think term limits has been
sort of a disaster,” said Larry
Long, who’s spent the past 39
years with the County Commissioners Association of Ohio.
See Term limits Page A10

Two decades after
prison riot, guard’s
son can’t move on

Public health

Give inanimate
objects emotions.

Emergency
department
waits vary
By Ben Sutherly

Hurry up and wait.
That’s the uncomfortable
reality for many local emergency-department patients. And
which hospital you go to is a
major factor in how long you
wait.
That finding comes from
local hospital data recently
made public for the first time
by the federal government.
A typical patient admitted to
Ohio State University’s Wexner
Medical Center through an
emergency department spends
more than nine hours there
until moving to a room elsewhere in the hospital. That is
from the time someone shows
See Emergency Page A14


Power prices
poles apart
C

By Dan Gearino •


ELINA, Ohio — A household in this city along the
shores of Grand Lake St. Marys pays about $91 for
the same amount of electricity that costs about
$153 in rural parts of Butler County, about 80 miles south.
• The gap is the result of an Ohio electricity system whose
inequity is stark but whose details are not widely known
or understood. • Among the 52 largest electricity utilities,
Celina, in northwestern Ohio, has the lowest rates; several
rural electricity cooperatives See Power prices Page A12
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BY USING OUR INTERACTIVE MAP.

Bobby Vallandingham doesn’t flinch
when telling how he feels 20 years
after his father was killed by inmates
in the Lucasville prison riot. He wants
to forgive, but as prison guard Robert
Vallandingham’s killers wait on Death
Row, Bobby wants vengeance, too,
write Reporters Mike Wagner and Jill
Riepenhoff. • Page E1

Army chaplain
finally gets medal
60 years after war
In the Korean War, chaplain Emil
Kapaun of Kansas pulled wounded
soldiers to safety, stole food so
starving men could eat and kept
soldiers from giving up in a squalid
POW camp. He died there, as the
men he’d helped wept. On Thursday,
he’ll be awarded the Medal of Honor,
which veterans say is long overdue.
• Nation World, A17

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Downtown abuzz for Pride parade / B1
Researchers try to grow hops in Ohio / D1
Gettysburg set to mark 150 years / G1
German Village house showcases art / H1
Law enforcement

Cost limits
high-tech
radios’ use
By Randy Ludlow

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HOSPITALS

The agreement between Ohio State
and Mount Carmel raises questions
over how once-competitors will soon
become collaborators


High: 90 • Low: 68
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Prisoner of war’s
family optimistic
about his return
About 2,000 people gathered yesterday at a rally in Hailey, Idaho, for
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only
current U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan. His Taliban captors offered last week to exchange him for
five who are being detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his family
encouraged the government to accept the deal. • Page A15

Even in a small city such as
Logan, it wasn’t always possible for police officers and
dispatchers to talk to one
another over the low-tech
radio system.
There were dead spots, and
trying to use a portable radio
in a large building, such as
the hospital or a big-box
store, resulted only in static.
The communication glitches, long a problem for firstresponders throughout Ohio,
threatened the safety of both
the public and officers, said
Police Chief Aaron Miller.
But thanks to state grant
money, police in the Hocking
County seat upgraded in April
See Radios Page A13

Drugs

Look for shape
relationships.

Meth labs’
revival
spurs fight
By Holly Zachariah

The plastic bottle in the
ditch looked harmless
enough. So the teenager
clearing trash with fellow FFA
members as a community
service picked it up and
tossed it in his garbage bag.
A fire flashed from inside.
The Muskingum County
boy wasn’t injured last fall
when he unwittingly picked
up the bottle containing the
remnants of a home-brewed
batch of methamphetamine.
But what happened was a
powerful reminder that the
volatile byproducts that meth
makers leave behind endanger people not involved
in making or using the illegal
See Meth labs Page A8

CHARLIE ZIMKUS

DISPATCH

A changing
dynamic

L

By Ben Sutherly •


ast week’s affiliation announcement by two of central Ohio’s three adult hospital systems will no
doubt change the competitive dynamic among the
region’s hospitals. • But just how much remains to
be seen. • In announcing what stops well short of a merger,
leaders of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and
Mount Carmel Health System had few details about the form
their collaboration might take. • The arrangement aims to
help both systems control their spending, in part by achieving economies of scale, said Ken Rodgers, a Standard Poor’s
See Hospitals Page A12

Stunt performer,
pilot killed in
Dayton crash
A plane crashed at a Dayton air show
yesterday, killing the pilot and a
wing-walker in front of thousands of
spectators. The plane turned upside
down as planned just before the
crash, then appeared to have
insufficient air speed to turn over.
Wing-walker Jane Wicker and pilot
Charles Schwenker were from
Virginia. • Page B1

Two quick goals
send Crew to
another loss
A week after upsetting the top team
in the Eastern Conference, the Crew
let a fast start evaporate last night at
home in a 2-1 loss to Chicago.
Dominic Oduro scored in the seventh
minute to put the Crew ahead, but
former Crew player Dilly Duka scored
the first of two Fire goals in the 52nd
minute to drop the home team to
5-6-5 on the season. • Page C1

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Hundreds survive Calif. plane crash / A13
Barricade situations frustrate police / B1
Ex-OSU star teaches kids life skills / C1
Bruno Mars among acts coming soon / F1
Unemployment

State debt
a drag for
businesses

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From prenatal care to cemetery
regulations, the voluminous 2-year
spending plan will affect all of us

By Catherine Candisky

High: 80 • Low: 67
Details on Page B10

Driverless train
explodes in busy
Canadian town
Sixty people were reported missing
yesterday after a runaway train carrying crude oil crashed and exploded
in the tourist town of Lac-Megantic in
Quebec, just across the border from
Maine. Witnesses said the town
center was crowded with people
when the 73-car train from North
Dakota crashed about 1 a.m. Buildings were flattened. • Page A4

Ohio employers have
been shelling out millions in
higher taxes for the state’s
failure to repay a massive
federal loan to cover unemployment benefits during
the recession.
While legislators just
handed small businesses an
annual income-tax break of
roughly $550 million a year
in the budget, the state’s
failure to repay the
$1.5 billion federal debt has
saddled all Ohio employers
with a $272 million tax increase over the past 18
months.
Ohio taxpayers have paid
an additional $136.5 million
See State debt Page A8

Local crime

Out of many, one.

Child killer
free to go
about life
By Lori Kurtzman

In a week, Robert Lee
Wells will be a free man, a
50-year-old child killer who
served his term and owes
nothing more to the state of
Ohio. Wells can go where he
wants. He doesn’t have to
check in with anyone.
Evelyn Caulley is furious.
Until last month, the mother of Wells’ victim thought a
new law meant he could be
labeled a sexual predator,
which would require him to
register where he was living
every 90 days until he died.
But it turns out that Roberta’s Law, a years-long
effort spearheaded by local
victim-advocate Bret VinoSee Killer Page A11

CHARLIE ZIMKUS

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3,747-page
road map
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By Jim Siegel •


he new two-year state budget spends $62 billion, but
it also does so much more.
The measure increases
state general-revenue-fund spending
by 14.6 percent over the previous
two-year budget, including increases
of 9.3 percent this year and 4.8 percent next year. Although it stretches
only two years, three-year state projections show a quartet of tax cuts
total about $5.3 billion, while a dozen
tax increases add up to about

$2.6 billion, for a net decrease of
$2.7 billion.
State budget bills have long been
havens for various policy changes,
and despite a constitutional prohibition against passing bills containing
more than one subject, the practice is
growing. The 3,747-page budget is
nearly 500 pages longer than the one
two years ago, and nearly 1,900 pages
longer than the budget passed in
See Budget Page A10

Meyer says he tried
to help Hernandez
while at Florida
Ohio State football coach Urban
Meyer says he tried to surround
Aaron Hernandez, the former Patriots
player now charged with murder, with
family, faith and support in his three
seasons at Florida. Meyer said criticism that he didn’t do enough is
mind-boggling, Reporter Tim May
writes. • Page C1

Students turn
to crowd-sourcing
for tuition help
A growing number of websites let
students make pleas for crowdfunding to pay for tuition, special
projects and a host of other things,
Reporter Danae King writes. Columbus resident Christopher Thompson
got $6,000 for seminary school, and
Ohio State student Ashley Sandlin
got $1,200 to study abroad in
Morocco. • Page B1

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Spend as much time on the idea as the
execution.

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Classical Music
Choir to mark
its 25th year
with concert / F3

Movies

Sports

Theater

Dining

‘Nite Owl
Theatre’ back
at Studio 35 / F16

Crash-a-Rama
should live up
to its name / F9

Available Light
puts spin on
‘Jane Eyre’ / F7

At Sidebar 122,
South American
fare shines / F13

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Section F • The Columbus Dispatch • Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013


Stories inside
Classical music
Violists step
into spotlight
at OSU / F8

Families

Theater

Sports

Dining

Bike ride
provides history
lesson / F3

Bard receives
post-apocalyptic
update / F11

Run helps
people beat
addiction / F9

American fare
worth a salute
at Stars / F13

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Weekender
Section F • The Columbus Dispatch • Thursday, July 18, 2013


Stories inside
Classical music
Lancaster gala
to feature singer
Bowersox / F9

Sports

Dining

Families

Theater

Strikes, spares
to pile up at
U.S. Open / F3

Cutting-edge
cuisine stars
at Veritas / F14

Kids get days
to rehearse,
perform / F13

Killer musical
taking the stage
at Otterbein / F7

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Explosive QB Braxton Miller
will lead what should be
a potent, proliﬁc offense
as the Buckeyes make a run
for a national championship
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egardless of how you prefer
your summer entertainment —
indoors, outdoors or both — plenty of
options await.
Justin Bieber, Big Time Rush, Bob
Dylan, Bruno Mars and the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir are just a few of the
acts scheduled for indoor venues.
Grab a blanket or lawn chair for
these, all outdoors: Chaka Khan,
Kenny Chesney, Pink Martini and the
Ohio State University marching band.
And we haven’t even mentioned the
festivals: Arts, Asian, Hot Times, Jazz
Ribs, Latino and more.
Time to mark your calendars for your
summer in the city.

INSIDE

May • J2
June • J3-5
July • J6-7
Aug. • J8-9
Sept. • J10

Central
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest

Outdoor action,
indoor respites

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• J21-23
• J24-25
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rab your sunglasses and get ready
for some outdoor adventures.
Whether your tastes run from mild to
wild, we offer ample ways to get the
most out of the longer summer days.
For the fourth year in a row, we’ve
teamed with newspaper and media
colleagues from all corners of the state
for suggestions.
The result is a cornucopia of ideas —
from ATV-riding to zip lining.
To help guide you, we’ve divided the
Buckeye state into five regions. Each
highlights activities and attractions.
And for rainy days? We’ve got you
covered, with plenty of ways to cool
your heels indoors as well.

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No greenhorns
The band Green Day
has grown up on its
latest album, the
Grammy-winning
American Idiot | B4

THURSDAY
MAY 5, 2005

B

SO TO SPEAK

Women learned
to play hardball
on softball fields
of 1930s
I had lunch recently with two
women in their 80s who regaled me
with tales of softball glory, including
the time one of them decked an
opponent.
In the 1930s, Erma and Josephine
played softball for the DiPaolo
Grocers Girls,
which won the
Girls Independent
League title in
1935. (Yes, softballcrazy Columbus
had female teams
back then.)
But the two,
along with friends
in their neighborJOE
hood on St. Clair
Avenue, didn’t limit
BLUNDO
themselves to
single-sex competition.
‘‘We used to play the boys, too,’’
said Josephine Dauer (then Salini), 86.
‘‘Sometimes we even beat the boys.’’
Erma, once a 100-pound spitfire,
remembers following a coach’s order
to run over an opposing team’s first
baseman for hogging the bag.
‘‘I took her out,’’ said Erma Kruse
(then Wenger), 87. ‘‘She never stood
on first base after that.’’
Her grandchildren enjoy that story.
Neither woman played beyond
high school. By that time, they were
less interested in beating men than
marrying them, they said.
Kruse said they used to ride to
games in the back of a dump truck.
On the return trip one night, she
exited the dump truck to find two
suitors waiting for her at home.
‘‘One was on the front porch, and
one was on the back porch. I ended
up with the one on the front porch.
We will celebrate our 65th wedding
anniversary.’’
They’ll share more memories Tuesday at the St. Clair Athletic Club
sports banquet.

Reason for smiles

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CHARLIE ZIMKUS | DISPATCH

POLITICAL PUNCH
Jon Stewart gives clout to ‘Daily Show’ but still delivers laughs

By Molly Willow

recaps Bush’s remarks on technology while
forcing himself not to laugh.
Stewart shows no such restraint.
he clip shows President Bush telling a
‘‘Is anyone at CNN awake?’’ he asks. ‘‘Is that
group from the Small Business Admin- an irony-free zone?’’
istration that technology is the ticket
Since his arrival in 1999, the mock cableto the nation’s energy independence.
news show on Comedy Central has mined the
The host of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart foibles and foul-ups of politicians (on both
agrees, adding: ‘‘Technology, would you care
sides of the aisle) as well as media types.
to respond?’’
In the process, Stewart and the program
The president continues speaking in the
have moved from the funny fringe to the
CNN footage until the screen suddenly goes
comic mainstream — earning social relevance
dark, suffering a ‘‘technology’’ glitch.
and political heft.
Sitting at his fake anchor desk, Stewart holds
‘‘It’s more than just good entertainment,’’
his head in his hands as the audience roars.
See STEWART Page B3
The clip plays on: An anchorman dutifully

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PUBLIC ART

∑ The Daily Show With Jon
Stewart is shown at 11 p.m.
Mondays through Thursdays
— with reruns at 10 a.m.
weekdays and 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays — on
Comedy Central.
∑ Jon Stewart will present
two shows Friday in the
Palace Theatre, 34 W.
Broad St. Both are sold out.
∑ Stephen Colbert of The
Daily Show is getting his
own half-hour | B3

CARTOONS

April Lewis, 26, is so embarrassed
by her blackened, decayed teeth, she
doesn’t even smile at her three children. But that will soon change.
Lewis, of Shawnee Hills, has won a
‘‘smile makeover’’ from dentist
Timothy Moore, 2508 Bethel Rd., by
writing a 100-word essay explaining
why she needs help.
Lewis, a restaurant cook and
mother of a 4-year-old boy and twin
3-year-old girls, will receive $25,000
to $30,000 worth of work, including
new crowns donated by Michael
Kovalchik of Techniques Dental Labs.
The procedure will take about two
months.
The contest, advertised on WCVO
(104.9 FM), drew more than 118
entries. Moore intended to name one
winner, but the stories were so touching that he is helping four entrants
and has enlisted the aid of another
dentist and an orthodontist to help
two others.
‘‘I only have 112 to go,’’ he said.
Dentists interested in helping other
entrants can call his office at 614459-5205.

Journey of remembrance
Caroline Van Deusen of Grandview
Heights made it a point to be in the
Peterson House in Washington on
April 15. Abraham Lincoln died there
140 years ago on that date.
Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre
on the evening of April 14, 1865. He
was carried across the street to the
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More Ohioans plan to vote for Republicans in the election, and
they are excited to do so. But a lot can happen before Nov. 2.

Portraiture

By Darrel Rowland | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

FOR SENATOR

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epublican candidates have grabbed
double-digit leads in the races for governor and the U.S. Senate, and the
swelling red tide could lead to a GOP sweep of
statewide offices, the first Dispatch Poll of the
2010 campaign shows.
With voter enthusiasm running nearly three
times higher among Republicans than Democrats, GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich leads by 12
- U.S. Dems
want to focus points over Gov. Ted Strickland
on races they while GOP Senate hopeful Rob
Portman tops Lt. Gov. Lee Fishcan win ,A3
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“I am enthusiastic about the
upcoming election because it will kick out
many of the incumbents,” said survey participant Aivars Vimba, 70, a retired technician
from suburban Cincinnati and a Republican.
“My wife, who hasn’t voted in years, will vote
See GOP Page A4

37%
LEE FISHER
Democrat

50%
ROB PORTMAN
Republican

Source: Dispatch Poll
of 1,622 Ohioans
from Aug. 25
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FLIP

Humorist Andy Borowitz is a regular
commentator on CNN and National
Public Radio. Here is his latest twisted take on the news of the day:
GUANTANAMO
TO HOLD REPORTERS
New York Times’ Judith Miller
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Bowing to congressional critics
who have pushed for a shutdown of
the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, the White House today
announced that the facility would
no longer house enemy combatants
but would instead be used to hold
reporters who refuse to identify their
sources.
Vice President Dick Cheney
made the announcement, calling
the decision to reinvent Guantanamo as a detention center for
journalists a ‘‘win-win situation.’’
‘‘For weeks, people have been
calling for us to stop holding enemy
combatants at Guantanamo, while
at the same time, the jailing of journalists has raised the specter of
prison overcrowding,’’ Cheney said.
‘‘Holding reporters at Guantanamo
should kill two birds with one
stone.’’
The New York Times reporter
Judith Miller, recently jailed for
refusing to name her sources,
would be the first inmate of the
journalistic detention center at
Guantanamo, Cheney said, adding
that the blindfolded Miller would be
transferred there today.
While the vice president refused
to speculate as to whether Miller
might change her mind about
divulging her sources while at
Guantanamo, he added with a
smile, ‘‘Let’s put a hood on her and
see what happens.’’
Cheney brushed aside a question about whether holding
reporters at Guantanamo represented inhuman treatment that could
be in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
‘‘There’s no way that reporters will
be treated any worse there than
they are already treated here at the
White House,’’ the vice president
said.
Elsewhere, NASA officials said
that the launch of the space shuttle
would be put on hold indefinitely,
citing problems with ‘‘a fuel thingy.’’

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— www.borowitzreport.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD
In April, Brian F. Monfort, 27, was


∑ Exhibit athleticism: David
Lee Roth (Van Halen), who
specialized in roundhouse
kicks and flying leaps off
drum risers, wrote the book.

As INXS begins its search for a new frontman,
prospects would be wise to adopt these strategies

∑ Cuss like a sailor: Chrissie
Hynde (the Pretenders)
exhibits unladylike behavior
every time she takes a stage,
and she’s all the better for it.

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Pint-size prodigies

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T UESDAY, J UNE 15, 2004

Mall was target, U.S. says
Family says suspect
loves U.S. but is
being mistreated as
part of ‘witch hunt’

Ashcroft says Somali detainee
among three men who planned
catastrophe in Columbus area

By Encarnacion Pyle

By Kevin Mayhood,
Jonathan Riskind
and Robert Ruth


Courtroom sketch

Nuradin Abdi loved this country so much that he dreamed of
the day he could apply for citizenship, family members said
yesterday.
“Nuradin came to the United
States for a better life, but he fell
in love with the freedom,’’ said
Abdi Karani, 27,
∑ Muslims fear
one of Nuradin
they’re being
Abdi’s six sibpersecuted | A2
lings. “He’s the
only one of our
family members in the United
States who isn’t a citizen — and
that killed him.’’
Abdi, 32, a Somali immigrant,
is charged with four counts of
conspiring with admitted alQaida member Iyman Faris and
others to detonate a bomb at a
Columbus-area shopping mall.
Karani said his entire family,
including Abdi, knew Faris from
the Omar Ibnelkhttab Mosque
on the Northwest Side, where
they all worshipped.
“Iyman is an outgoing, friendly, likable guy,’’ he said.
Karani said his brother, who
owns a cell-phone business with
two friends at the Global Mall on
Morse Road, frequently spoke
with Faris on the phone and
occasionally fixed his computer.
“(Abdi) is a whiz with technology — a real computer
guru,’’ Karani said. “But that
doesn’t make him a terrorist.’’
Karani and his mother, Nadifa
Hassan, 60, said that if federal
agents have proof Abdi was in-


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Somali native Nuradin Abdi, 32, in a painting from a sketch made yesterday in U.S. District Court

A secret cell of al-Qaida terrorists plotted to bring “death
and destruction’’ to Columbus
by blowing up a shopping mall,
federal authorities announced
yesterday.
An indictment unsealed in
U.S. District Court in Columbus
says Somali immigrant Nuradin
Abdi and admitted al-Qaida
member Iyman Faris plotted
with a third Columbus man to
bring down a mall, perhaps during the Christmas season. Faris,
a Columbus truck driver, is serving a 20-year sentence after admitting last spring that he
scouted the Brooklyn Bridge in
New York and other potential
terrorism targets for al-Qaida.
In preparation for violence
against targets here and abroad,
Abdi traveled to a military camp
in Ethiopia for training in guns,
bombs and guerrilla warfare,
court papers say.
Authorities believe they
moved against the plotters
before a target was chosen.
“There is no indication of a
specific mall,’’ said Kevin R.
Brock, chief of the FBI office in
Cincinnati. Brock also oversees
the Columbus FBI office.
Mall officials and the public
were not alerted in November
because the scheme was not
near the execution stage, Brock
said. “We weren’t facing a timeline or deadline,’’ Brock said.
Still, he characterized the
plans as “ominous threats.’’

‘‘The American heartland
was targeted for death
and destruction by an
al-Qaida cell which
allegedly included a
Somali immigrant who
will now face justice.’’
JOHN ASHCROFT
attorney general
In Washington, Attorney General John Ashcroft was grim as
he outlined the alleged plot.
“The American heartland was
targeted for death and destruction by an al-Qaida cell which
allegedly included a Somali immigrant who will now face justice,’’ Ashcroft said.
He discounted the possibility
that any co-conspirators still
could carry out such an attack.
“We believe that the activities of
local law enforcement, together
with federal authorities, have
addressed this matter comprehensively and successfully.’’
Authorities picked up Abdi, of
4657 Tamarack Blvd., Apt. B2,
on the North Side, early on the
morning of Nov. 28 on an immiSee MALL Page A2

Key dates in local terrorism case
The federal government alleges Nuradin Abdi plotted with admitted terrorist Iyman Faris to blow up a shopping mall in the Columbus area on behalf of al-Qaida.
United Arab Emirates.
∑ April 27: Abdi applies to U.S. immigration for permission to travel to Germany
and Saudi Arabia. The government
believes he went to a terrorist training
camp in Ethiopia instead.

1994
∑ May: Iyman Faris,
who was born in
Kashmir, enters the
United States.
1999
∑ January: Somali
native Nuradin Abdi
enters the United
States from the

Nuradin Abdi
in 1999.

INSIDE
Presidential pleasantries
Political claws were sheathed as
President Bush welcomed former

2000
∑ March: Abdi returns to the United
States. Faris picks him up at Port
Columbus.

Bridge, which he determines will not
succeed.

∑ Late 2000: Faris
meets Osama bin
Laden at an al-Qaida
training camp in
Afghanistan.
2002
∑ April: Faris returns
to the United States
and researches an
attack on the Brooklyn

Iyman Faris

2003
∑ April 17: Faris pleads guilty to charges
of providing material support to al-Qaida;
he is serving a 20-year prison term.
∑ Nov. 28: Federal agents pick up Abdi at
his North Side home and take him to
Cincinnati; he is charged with lying on his
application to enter the United States.

2004
∑ Jan. 28: A closed-door hearing, which
Abdi’s attorney describes as a deportation proceeding, is held in federal immigration court in Detroit.
∑ Yesterday: The U.S. attorney’s office
unveils an indictment accusing Abdi of conspiring with Faris and providing material
support to al-Qaida, a terrorist organization.
Sources: Attorney General John Ashcroft, government
documents, news reports

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Son is sought

‘Under God’
kept in pledge

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∑

EUROPEAN
STARLING

A15

ASIAN TIGER
MOSQUITO

Sturnus vulgaris

∑ Native range: Eurasia and
North Africa
∑ Pathway: The starling was
introduced to North America
about 1890, when 100 birds were
released in New York City’s Central
Park. The population now exceeds
200 million and has spread over
most of the continent.
∑ Impact: Starlings boldly take over
nests of native birds _ occupied or
not _ and lower the numbers of
wrens, swallows and bluebirds. Their
large roosts, often located on buildings, may number in the tens of
thousands. Noisy flocks damage
vegetable and fruit crops, consume
feed intended for domestic livestock
and contaminate it with waste. On
the plus side, starlings help control
insects that damage crops.
∑ Response: Several methods
discourage starlings from roosting:
fireworks, noise bombs, flashing
lights, helium-filled balloons,
audiotapes of starling distress calls,
and thinning of roost vegetation.

An adult Asian
tiger mosquito is
about ⁄-inch long.

Aedes albopictus
∑ Native range: Much of Asia,
including parts of India, Pakistan,
China and Japan
∑ Pathway: The mosquito was introduced into Hawaii sometime before
1902 and was discovered in Houston
in 1985. It likely entered the United
States in shipments of used tires from
northern Asia, probably Japan; 4.5
million tires were imported from Asia
between 1983 and 1985. Now it
thrives in the American Southeast
and Midwest, including Ohio, and is
spreading to the Caribbean.
∑ Impact: They carry disease and
can infect humans with encephalitis,
dengue fever and yellow fever.
∑ Response: Federal law requires that
tire casings imported from Asia be
dry, clean and free of insects. Asian
tiger mosquitoes need water to breed;
sites include old tires, cans, bottles,
children’s swimming pools and
watering cans. Other areas include
birdbaths, clogged gutters and holes
in tree trunks.

NEAR RIGHT: The European
starling can grow 8 inches
tall and weigh 3 ounces.
CENTER OF PAGE: The
brown tree snake is
about 18 inches long
at hatching and can
grow to 3 feet
within the first
year. Adults grow
up to 11 feet long
and weigh up to
5 pounds.

BROWN
TREE SNAKE
Boiga irregularis

∑ Native range: Solomon Islands,
New Guinea, northern and eastern
coasts of Australia and eastern
Indonesia
∑ Pathway: During World War II,
U.S. military ships likely introduced
the snake to the island of Guam.
It stowed away in wheel wells and
cargo on aircraft, and in cargo on
ships and military vehicles. Now
Guam is home to as many as
13,000 brown tree snakes per
square mile.
∑ Impact: The snakes have virtually
wiped out the native forest birds
of Guam. Twelve species of birds
unique to the island have disappeared. The snakes also cause
frequent power outages by scaling
power lines and transformers. More
than 1,200 outages have occurred
since 1978, with each costing up
to $4 million.
∑ Response: Predators include pigs
and monitor lizards. Current efforts
include traps and barriers to keep
snakes away from sensitive areas
such as transformers.

The water hyacinth generally
grows to about 1› feet tall but
can reach more than 3 feet.

WATER HYACINTH

FIELD GUIDE
TO FOREIGN SPECIES

Eichhornia crassipes

WORLDWIDE
INVADERS
Illustrations by Aaron Harden | Research by Eboni A. Francis

People move plants and animals around the globe — deliberately or
accidentally — through trade and travel. Sometimes, foreign species
create huge problems in their adopted homes. An estimated 7,000 invasive
species have been documented in the United States alone. Here, The
Dispatch spotlights a sampling of invaders around the world. On Monday,
land pests will be highlighted. On Tuesday, water invaders will be examined.
Additional profiles, sources and resources are posted at www.dispatch.com.

∑ Native range: Amazon River basin
∑ Pathway: The plant was introduced to the United States at the
World’s Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition of 1884-85
in Louisiana. A visitor from Florida
returned home with water hyacinths
and released them, and they spread
rapidly to neighboring states. Water
hyacinths are now cultivated in most
warm-weather countries.
∑ Impact: Water hyacinths form
dense mats that interfere with
navigation, recreation, irrigation and
power generation. The mats also
compete with other aquatic species
for nutrients, light and oxygen, and
impede water flow. Even so, many
nurseries in the West still sell them,
because consumers like their
unusual appearance.
∑ Response: Herbicides are commonly used; mechanical controls
such as harvesting have been tried in
Florida for nearly 100 years but are
largely ineffective. Three insects —
two types of weevil and a moth —
have been released for biological
control.

The leafy spurge grows
up to 3 feet tall.

KUDZU
Pueraria lobata

GIANT SALVINIA
Salvinia molesta

Digital illustration

∑ Native range:
Southeastern Brazil
∑ Pathway: The plant
was likely introduced
in the United States
for use in aquariums,
landscaping and water
gardens. Experts believe that
people dumped giant salvinias
into waterways after they outgrew
aquariums or koi ponds. Now
salvinias are found in many warmer
areas of the world.
∑ Impact: The aggressive ferns
rapidly cover lakes and streams,
forming floating mats that shade
and crowd out native plants. The
thick mats reduce oxygen and
degrade water quality for fish and
other aquatic life. They also hinder
boating, fishing, water-skiing and
swimming, and clog intakes for
irrigation and power plants.
∑ Response: Herbicides and freezing generally fail to kill the ferns.
Removal by hand or harvesting
equipment offers varying success.
Removed plants must be dried,
burned or disposed of where reintroduction to a waterway is impossible. Salvinia weevils, which eat the
plants, have been used with great
success in some parts of the world.
Mats of giant salvinia have
measured as large as 96
square miles and 3 feet deep.

NILE PERCH
Lates niloticus

The Nile perch can grow up to 440 pounds and 6› feet long.

GOLDEN
APPLE SNAIL
Pomacea canaliculata

∑ Native range: South America,
especially Brazil and Argentina
∑ Pathway: Between 1982 and
1984, farmers hoping to reap big
profits in the escargot industry
introduced the snail to Taiwan
and the Philippines. After escaping into waterways and irrigation
canals, the snail found its way
into rice fields. It has spread to
Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia,
Hong Kong, southern China and
Japan. The 1989 introduction of
the species to Hawaii wreaked
havoc on rice and taro fields.

∑ Impact: The snails threaten
rice production by devouring the
base of young rice plants. They
can consume a whole field of
young plants in one night. Nearly
4 million acres of fields in the
Philippines are infested. The
snails have few natural enemies.
∑ Response: Predators include
red ants, which eat the eggs;
ducks, which consume young
snails; and field rats, which bite
on the shell and eat the flesh.
Humans also eat the flesh of
cooked snails. In addition, rice
fields in Taiwan have been
treated to try to kill the snails.
Nets and traps have been used
to prevent entry into fields.

LEAFY SPURGE
Euphorbia esula

∑ Native range: Nile River
system and most major
West African river systems
∑ Pathway: The perch was
introduced to Lake Victoria in
1954 by the British colonial
administration to bolster
fishing. Since then, it has
spread to the three
countries surrounding
Lake Victoria: Tanzania,
Kenya and Uganda.
∑ Impact: The predator is
responsible for the extinction of
at least 200 native fish species,
with several others threatened.
It has no natural enemies in the
lake, and because it’s so big, it
must eat constantly _ eliminating food for other species.
∑ Response: The economic
reliance of Lake Victoria’s
fisheries on Nile perch, a
$300 million industry, makes
the removal of the species
untenable.

∑ Native range: Europe
and Eurasia
∑ Pathway: Leafy spurge was
brought to the United States as
an impurity among other seeds
and first noted in 1827 in Massachusetts. It now grows throughout
the world, except in Australia, and
is present in two Ohio counties,
Noble and Richland.
∑ Impact: It has infested nearly
2.5 million acres in North America, displacing native vegetation
by creating shade and using water
and nutrients. It also produces
toxins that prevent the growth
of other plants beneath it. Its
milky, latex sap can irritate skin
in humans and cattle, and can
kill cattle when they eat too much.
Even if its foliage is destroyed,
the living root tissue grows new
shoots.
∑ Response: The U.S. Department
of Agriculture has successfully
used six natural enemies of leafy
spurge, imported from Europe,
as a biological control. The results
are not as immediate as with
herbicides but can be impressive
if pesticides are kept to a minimum. In addition, a chemical
treatment in the fall followed by
a spring burn to reduce seed
germination shows promise.

The golden apple snail
can grow to the size of
a pingpong ball.

∑ Native range: Japan
∑ Pathway: Kudzu was introduced
in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where it was
promoted as a forage crop and an
ornamental. From the mid-1930s
through the mid-1950s, Southern
farmers were encouraged to plant it
to reduce soil erosion. Now it grows
throughout most of the Southeast
and as far north as Pennsylvania.
∑ Impact: Kudzu threatens natural
areas by crowding and shading and
can stifle agricultural and timber
production.
∑ Response: For long-term control,
kudzu’s root system must be
destroyed. Mechanical methods
involve cutting the vines just above
ground level and destroying all cut
material. Kudzu may be fed to
livestock, burned or
disposed of in
plastic bags in
a landfill.

A kudzu vine grows up to 60 feet in
a season and can climb as high as
50 feet, covering trees and buildings.
The roots can grow 12 feet deep and
weigh as much as 300 pounds.

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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2008 BREAKING NEWS: DISPATCH.COM

SCIENCE BRIEFS

Cracks getting bigger in
Earth’s magnetic field
Recent satellite observations
have revealed the largest breach
yet seen in the magnetic field
that protects Earth from most of
the sun’s violent blasts, researchers reported last week. Last
summer, a fleet of five small
NASA satellites calculated a layer
of solar particles to be at least
4,000 miles thick in the outermost part of Earth’s magnetosphere. Data from the Themis
satellites found that 20 times
more solar wind passed into
Earth’s protective shield when
Earth’s and the sun’s magnetic
fields were aligned than when
they were in opposite directions,
said scientist Marit Oieroset of
the University of California, Berkeley. The results could have a
bearing on how scientists predict
the severity of solar storms and
their effects on power grids,
airline and military communications, and satellite signals.

Biodiesel from coffee
grounds? It can happen
Scientists at the University of
Nevada, Reno, have made diesel
fuel from used coffee grounds.
Researcher Mano Misra and
fellow scientists collected about
50 pounds of used grounds and
found that they contained about
10 percent to 15 percent oil by
weight. The researchers then
used standard chemistry techniques to extract the oil and
convert it to biodiesel. The researchers estimated that biodiesel could be produced for about
a dollar a gallon. Although they
say there is enough coffee to
make several hundred million
gallons of biodiesel annually, it
would be less than 1 percent of
the diesel used in the United
States a year. Their work was
reported in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.


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digital color

Saturn’s largest moon might have
active or recently active ice
volcanoes, observations from the
international Cassini spacecraft
suggest. Radar images point to
flows on the surface of Titan that
could result from volcanoes
spewing chilled liquid from the
interior, mission scientists reported last week. Previous Titan
flybys suggested ice volcanoes
existed, and scientists think they
would erupt with ammonia,
methane and water. The spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn
and studying its rings and moons
since 2004.

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Another underwater
quake could be due
Based on growth patterns of coral
reefs, scientists are forecasting
another major earthquake along
the Sunda fault off Sumatra, like
the one that spawned the catastrophic tsunami of Dec. 26,
2004. Kerry Sieh, of Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore, and colleagues write in the
journal Science that a 2007
quake along a more southerly
stretch of the fault represented
only a first, partial rupture of that
400-mile section, which had
been quiet for nearly two centuries. Coral growth shows a pattern about every 200 years going
back to the 14th century, suggesting cycles of activity.
— From wire reports

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A look at what’s rockin’ inside your
Christmas tree (at least before it’s cut down)

By Jennifer Smith Richards

L

et’s get this out of the way: A live Christmas tree is a living
thing. ¶ That means lots of stuff — of the furry, feathered,
crawly and fungal varieties — call Christmas trees home. But
mostly, critters like to hole up in trees before they’re cut down
and dragged into living rooms. ¶ Once the tree is tied to the top of
the family wagon, it should be creature-free. ¶ Mostly. ¶ The fear of
bringing the outdoors inside with your holiday cheer is pretty common, said Joe Boggs, horticulture specialist at Ohio State University
Extension in Cincinnati. ¶ For the most part, though, there’s little to
fear, he said. ¶ “Don’t let entomophobia ruin your Christmas.” ¶ But,
technically, it could happen. It’s possible — though as unlikely as
seeing a reindeer at the breakfast table — that something could cling
tightly to a branch deep within your Fraser fir.

Mammals and birds
A Christmas tree, especially one covered in snow, is an ideal place for mice
and meadow voles to stay warm in winter, said Marne Titchenell, wildlife program specialist for OSU Extension in
Columbus.

Weasels, chipmunks and rabbits also
might take cover there.
Warm air gets trapped in the branches at night, she said, making conifers
attractive to songbirds and snowbirds,
too. These include cardinals, nuthatches, wrens, chickadees and dark-eyed

juncos.
It’s not uncommon to find a nest resting in the branches.
“You’re probably not really gonna pull
in a lot of these animals from outside.
The only animal you could probably drag
inside is maybe a squirrel, but that is
highly, highly doubtful,” Titchenell said.
It happened in the movies. Remember
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?
Clark W. Griswold famously battled a
kamikaze squirrel in his living room.
“I have had a flying squirrel in my
cabin, but it didn’t come through the
tree,” said Denise Pagura, a Christmastree grower who operates four tree lots in
central Ohio. “It came in through the
fireplace.”
Pagura, who owns Northern Lights Tree
Farm and manages Slocum Brothers Tree
Farm (both are in Michigan), said she’s
seen deer leap out from under tree
branches before.
But here’s why you should be safe from
leaping mammals, she said: the mechanical tree shaker.
“Anything with needles, we try to clean
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From humorist Andy Borowitz,
a twisted take on the news of
the day:

DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS
AGREE TO TAKE TIME OFF
Two Parties Find Common Ground
in Not Working for Two Years
Nancy Pelosi
and Dennis
Hastert:
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JUST PLAIN MEAN

Q: How many Ohio State
alumni does it take to screw
in a light bulb?
A: Three. One to screw it in
and two to argue about how
Woody would’ve done it.

Q: What’s black and brown
and looks good on an Ohio
State fan?
A: A Doberman pinscher.
Q: What’s the difference between a Michigan fan and a
carp?
A: One is a bottom-feeding
scum sucker and the other is a
fish.

Q: How many Michigan
freshmen does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s a sophomore
course.

Q: What’s the difference between an Ohio State opponent
and a pothole?
A: Woody Hayes would try to
avoid hitting potholes.

Q: What did the Michigan
grad say to the Ohio State
grad?
A: “Welcome to McDonald’s.
May I take your order?”
In a landmark agreement that has
raised hopes for bipartisan cooperation in the new Congress, Democrats and Republicans have agreed
to take the next two years off.
After a bruising battle this fall in
which both parties exchanged
vicious charges, few observers
expected such bitter enemies to find
common ground in something as
basic as their desire not to work.
But at a ceremony in the Capitol
building, incoming Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and
outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert,
R-Ill., vowed to dedicate the next
two years to recovering from a
grueling midterm election campaign.
“The American people did not
send us to Washington to see us
fight with each other,” Pelosi said.
“And so, we’re getting out of here
and going on vacation.”
Hastert agreed, adding, “It would
be great if we could work together,
but not working at all is the next
best thing.”
“Two years from now, we will be
tanned, rested and ready,” Hastert
said. “Then we can roll up our
sleeves and do what the American
people elected us to do: making
negative ads for 2008.”
Elsewhere, with the USS Intrepid
mired in mud and unable to budge,
officials were considering a variety of
options, including renaming it the
USS George W. Bush.
— www.borowitzreport.com

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
(hidden punchline)
In Great Britain, London Mayor Ken
Livingstone defended his downtown
anti-pigeon program, which consisted of empowering two hawks to
scare the birds away. The three-year
cost of the program — including a
handler — was the equivalent of
more than $400,000, which
reduced the menace by 2,500
pigeons, or about $170 a bird.
— Chuck Shepherd
Universal Press Syndicate

Q: Where was O.J. hiding right
before the famous white Bronco chase?
A: On the Michigan campus.
That’s the last place you would
find a football player.

Q: How do you get a Michigan graduate off your front
porch?
A: Pay for the pizza.
Q: What do you have when
you have an Ohio State fan
up to his neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.

Q: What does an Ohio State
player do after college?
A: Five to 10 years.

Q: What should you do if you
find three Michigan fans
buried up to their necks in
cement?
A: Get more cement.

Q: What’s the No. 1 pickup line
in a Michigan bar?
A: “Nice tooth.”
Q: Four of the Great Lakes
border Michigan. What keeps it
from floating away and becoming an island?
A: Ohio sucks.

ON THE FIELD
Q: How do you make Michigan cookies?
A: Put them in a big bowl
and beat for three hours.

Q: What does the average
Michigan student get on his
SAT?
A: Drool.

Q: What kind of car does Jim
Tressel own?
A: A Lloyd Carr.
Q: Why should Michigan
change its mascot to a
possum?
A: Because they play dead at
home and get killed on the
road.
Q: Why did Ohio State replace the artificial turf at the
’Shoe with grass?
A: So the Michigan cheerleaders could graze.

BREAKING NEWS
- Did you hear about the
power outage at the University of Michigan library?
Forty students were stuck on
the escalator for three hours.
- Did you hear about the fire
at Michigan’s football dorm?
It destroyed 20 books. The
real tragedy: 15 of them
hadn’t been colored yet.
- Did you hear that Lloyd
Carr is dressing only 20
players on Saturday? The rest
of the players will have to
dress themselves.
- Did you hear that a Michigan football player was
almost killed in a tragic
horse-riding accident? He
fell off and was nearly trampled to death. Luckily, the
Wal-Mart manager came out
and unplugged the horse just
in time.

STORY TIME


JEST IN TIME FOR
THE GAME . . .
Jokes work on both sides of rivalry road

By Nick Chordas

W

hat do you get when you
ask people to send in
their favorite Ohio StateMichigan jokes?
A lot more Wolverine walloping
than Buckeye bashing.
But, then, this is Buckeye country. (One e-mailer couldn’t bring
himself to even type the word
Michigan, going instead with
mi . . . gan.)

ONLINE YUKS
- Check out more Ohio State-Michigan
jokes at www.dispatch.com/thegame.

Most of the cracks submitted by
readers could go either way.
In fact, an Ohio State supporter
and a Michigan fan sent in the
same joke — concerning a headon collision and a bottle of liquor
— with the punch line altered to
suit each team.
nchordas@dispatch.com

One foggy night, a Buckeye fan
was driving north from Columbus and a Michigan fan was
driving south from Ann Arbor.
While crossing a narrow
bridge, they hit each other
head-on. Miraculously, both
drivers were uninjured.
The Wolverine fan walked over
to the Buckeye fan and said, “I
think this is a sign that we
should put away our petty
differences and live as friends
instead of rivals.” The Buckeye
fan thought for a moment and
said, “You know, you’re absolutely right. We should be
friends.”
The Buckeye fan then popped
open his trunk and removed a
full, undamaged bottle of Jack
Daniel’s. “I think this is another sign,” the Buckeye fan said.
“Let’s drink to our newfound
friendship.” The Wolverine fan
agreed and sucked down half
the bottle. He handed the
bottle back to the Buckeye fan
and said, “Your turn!” The
Buckeye fan calmly twisted the
cap back on the bottle and
threw it over the bridge. “Nah, I
think I’ll just wait for the cops
to show up.”
Note: Reverse the fans’ roles
and replace Jack Daniel’s with
Yukon Jack for the submitted
Michigan-friendly version.

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Mask appeal
Halloween revelers don’t
have to spend lots of
dough on disguises: The
Flip Side has some easyto-make costumes | D8

TUESDAY
OCTOBER 26, 2004

D

TELEVISION

NBC

Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood
on the set of LAX

Drama of ‘LAX’
makes work
at big airport
seem alluring
By Bridget Byrne
ASSOCIATED PRESS


SO TO SPEAK

Battle of the bumpers
Chevys, Volkswagens park along partisan sides of the road

D

emocratic challenger John Kerry is
running strong among Volkswagens
and Volvos, but President Bush has a solid
lead among Chevrolets and Cadillacs,
according to the new So To Speak Bumper
Sticker Survey.
The survey, conducted in recent weeks
by So To Speak and trusted deputies,
recorded the make, model and candidate
for every vehicle seen bearing a Bush or
Kerry bumper sticker.
The survey was unscientific, of course,
so drawing conclusions would be risky.
But let’s do it anyway: If your neighbor
drives a Volvo station wagon, figure that
he’s a Kerry supporter. If she tools around

Photo collage

Entertaining best bets in the
next 72 hours:

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Whooo! Accompany your
canine friends to Howl at
the Moon, a naturalist-led
2-mile hike along the pet trail at BattelleDarby Creek Metro Park, starting in the
parking lot at 2914 GeorgesvilleWrightsville Rd. in Galloway. The howling will
begin at 6:30 tonight. Call 614-891-0700.

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Be perverse: Take a coffee
break to see the views of
photographer Lee Friedlander in the exhibition ‘‘At Work,’’ on display
at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E.
Broad St. The museum has Wednesday
hours of 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission:
$4 and $6. Call 614-221-6801.

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A new treat? BalletMet
Columbus will present the
premiere of Carmina
Burana by choreographer Dwight Rhoden at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Riffe Center’s
Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St. The classical
Raymonda is on the bill, too. Tickets cost
$25.50 to $37.50; call 614-229-4848.

in a Chevy TrailBlazer,
expect a vote for Bush.
Before elaborating on
the results, let’s review
method and purpose:
˙ So To Speak tried to
stick to nonpartisan
roads and parking lots.
Obviously, a long line of
JOE
cars heading to a bullriding contest would yield
BLUNDO
more Bush stickers, and
vehicles parked near a vegan peace rally
would tilt toward Kerry. We avoided both.
˙ Because safety comes first, we did not
chase bumper stickers that flashed by at

speeds exceeding 70 mph. As a result, a
few stickers eluded capture.
˙ The purpose of the study was not to
determine which candidate is winning.
Thus, So To Speak hesitates to disclose
overall bumper-sticker numbers.
OK, you talked us into it: Kerry won
239-173.
The results could mean that the Massachusetts senator will be elected. Or they
could mean that Bush supporters don’t
like to gum up their cars with adhesives.
The study’s real importance, though,
lies in its potential to promote national

LOS ANGELES — Officials at Los
Angeles International Airport have their
share of glamour and excitement, but
they hardly approach the world of their
TV counterparts on LAX.
One recent day, as the cameras
rolled, the striking Heather Locklear
and the dashing Blair Underwood
sprinted through the
∑ LAX has moved
airport in search of a
to 8 p.m. Wednes- missing woman.
days on WCMH-TV
Do the people in
(Channel 4).
charge of major airports really look like
the LAX characters?
‘‘I’ve seen no similarities at all,’’ Kim
Dey said.
The two stars, noted the interim
executive director of the real LAX, have
redefined the dress code.
Yet, while Dey may not rush around
in a suit with a plunging neckline, she
approves of the day-to-day issues portrayed on the stylish new series.
‘‘Both Blair and Heather have really
impressed us with their depth of questioning about what we do, about what
we feel and what we think,’’ Dey said.
‘‘They have tried very hard to try to
understand the pressure, the responsibility, . . . the sense of public service.’’
Besides the leads, the attraction of
LAX is the airport itself: Most of the
locations seen on the drama are real,
despite the high security involved.
In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, the
sprawling, city-owned facility disallowed filming there.
An initiative by Mayor James Hahn to
keep TV and movie production in Los
Angeles has since prompted a renewed
cooperation with Hollywood.
‘‘One of the things we really like
about this show is that the combination
of Blair and Heather is helping to make
aviation glamorous again,’’ said Paul
See LAX Page D3

CHANNELING

Jeepers, do you know these creepers?

∑ How They Won, 9 p.m.,
History Channel — Does a
hairstyle make or break a
presidential campaign?
What type of pet attracts
more votes? Does a
drunken criminal for a
brother provide a benefit
on Election Day? Mo
Rocca, a comedian and
Mo Rocca
pop-culture observer,
explores less-weighty factors in winning or losing a political race — and discerns seven
secrets to securing the White House.

By Gayden Wren

∑ TV grids | D5

See BLUNDO Page D3

MOVIE TRIVIA

NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE

Just in time for Halloween, why
not get wrapped up in a couple of
scary movies on video or DVD —
away from the ghosts and goblins
lurking out and
∑ Answers | D3
about?
Before you do,
test your knowledge of such films
past, present and — given
the recent popularity of
horror-movie remakes —
future with a lucky 13question quiz:
1. What do Bela Lugosi
and Boris Karloff have
in common with
Martin Landau and
Jack Betts?
2. Lugosi
famously rejected
the role of
Frankenstein’s
monster in

Frankenstein (1931), which he
viewed as not offering the sufficient scope for his talents. In
doing so, he launched the career
of rival Boris Karloff. For what film
did Lugosi finally accept the part
of the monster?
3. What do the Japanese call the
rampaging, fire-breathing
dinosaur known to Americans as
Godzilla?
4. ‘‘Watch out! They’re coming
to your town next!’’ is remembered as the classic closing
line of what oft-remade film?
5. Why didn’t Lugosi
attend the premiere of
Plan 9 From Outer Space
(1959)?
6. What draws Marion
Crane (Janet Leigh) to
the Bates Motel in
Psycho (1960)?
Bela Lugosi as
Frankenstein’s
monster

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7. The Dakota, the creepily
Gothic apartment building in New
York where John Lennon was shot,
provides a setting for what two
Hollywood films?
8. What do Alan Arkin and
Brian Cox have in common with
Peter Sellers and Anthony
Hopkins?
9. Who plays Buffy the Vampire
Slayer in her debut?
10. According to the opening
scene of Scream (1996), what
does Sidney Prescott (Neve
Campbell) consider her favorite
scary movie?
11. How do the police finally
catch the serial killer in Seven
(1998)?
12. Who plays the deranged
patient who murders the Bruce
Willis character in The Sixth Sense
(1999)?
13. What is depicted as the only
way to avoid death after a viewing
of the mysterious videocassette in
The Ring (2002)?

LIFE, PAGE D1

‘Jeopardy!’ watch
An update on Ken
Jennings, who passed
the $2 million mark as
his record-breaking run
continued last night on
the syndicated game
show Jeopardy!:
∑ Consecutive shows as
winner: 59
∑ Winnings yesterday: $30,000
∑ Winnings to date: $2,006,300
∑ Final Jeopardy!: ‘‘The brother of this
leader is believed to be the first known
European to have died in the Americas.”
Question: “Who is Leif Ericson?”
(Jennings correctly questioned.)
Jeopardy! airs at 7 p.m. weekdays on
WBNS-TV (Channel 10).

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Mixed mediums: Do guns save lives? Artist asks / F6
Parenting: Monitoring of social media a must / F9

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Section F • The Columbus Dispatch • Sunday, March 24, 2013

Professor
not sheepish
about love of
rural world

So To Speak
Joe Blundo
////////////////////////////

GAMBIER, Ohio — The terms
sociology professor and sheep
farmer don’t easily go together
in my mind, so I had to meet
Howard Sacks of Kenyon
College to make sense of it.
It now makes sense but still
takes some explaining.
Sacks, 63, is urban by birth —
his first home was a row house
in Philadelphia — and rural by
temperament.
The pace of life and sense of
community in Knox County,
See Blundo Page F3

DISPATCH

Photo heads,
drawn bodies

CHARLIE ZIMKUS

iterers?
How to Handel lo
of the classics
Give ’em a blast

CH OFF, BUSTER!
BA
By Kevin Joy •

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n a recent Tuesday evening, two men were
arguing on the sidewalk outside the
Downtown YMCA. • As the exchange grew
more heated, Sue Darby turned up the
volume on a set of speakers affixed to the building
exterior. • The defuser: Antonio Vivaldi. • The delicate orchestral strains of the Four Seasons concertos
prompted the opponents to walk away. • “I feel like
it’s a positive approach,” said Darby, executive
director of the Y, at 40 W. Long St. “People don’t tend
to stand around. There’s a sense of security.”

Since January at the Y, an
iPod loaded with classical
music has played repeatedly
from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily.
The speakers on the building
were donated by the Capital
Crossroads Special Improvement District, which represents
Downtown property owners.
Although such a soundtrack
might be regarded as a pleasant
diversion — a welcome cultural
boost, even — by many people,
another motive is at play.
The music is designed as a
social deterrent.
See Classics Page F3

Joe’s Egg Hunt
RIDDLE NO. 8
On the eighth day of Joe’s
Mildly Entertaining Egg Hunt,
here’s another riddle containing clues to the location of
an imaginary egg:
Take a walk on Grandma’s
path
To see where Satan takes a
bath
And two sandstone overhangs
Popular with tourist gangs.
Now find the egg upon a rock
Where the preachers liked to
talk.
Where is the egg hidden?
Solve all 10 riddles. After the
last one is published on Tuesday, send your guesses — by
10 a.m. Wednesday — to
jblundo@dispatch.com. Include your name, address, age
and daytime phone number.
To catch up, go to Dispatch.
com/eggs.

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FLIP

phrases not found in Webster’s. We
pass them along for educational
purposes only.

BAD CLOONEY

GOOD CLOONEY

ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

- gullible: the only real word not in
the dictionary
Usage example:
“I swear that gullible is not in the
dictionary. Go look.”

Forget that new car you’ve been
eyeing. “OH58 Bell Helicopter
T63-A-720 Turbine Engine OH-58
A+” (item No. 190211496659)
guarantees that you’ll reach the
neighborhood supermarket in style.
The helicopter includes: Aeronautical Accessories High Skid Gear,
Dual Controls, Aeronautical Accessories Range Extender, PS Engineering Incorporated PMA 6000
audio selector panel and — best of
all — Bendix King KY96A TSO com
transceiver. The auction, ending
Friday, sports a reserve price of
$75,100. Alas, the seller won’t fly
the bird to you: The buyer is responsible for vehicle pickup or
shipping.
— Nick Chordas
nchordas@dispatch.com

Photo combined with WEIRD
NEWS OF THE
paint, drawings

A production of Ladies Gents,
staged by Irish director and playwright Paul Walker, opened last
month in New York — 29 blocks
north of Broadway in a Central Park
restroom. The play, set in 1950s
Dublin, requires a standing
audience — up to 25 people —
near a row of stalls. Walker
acknowledged wanting to take
spectators “out of their comfort
zone.” Rehearsals were deemed
difficult by actor John O’Callaghan:
“One man actually came in and
had a pee right in front of us.”
— Chuck Shepherd
Universal Press Syndicate

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0

Batman Robin (1997)
Clooney’s campy Batman
made Adam West’s
rendition of the Caped
Crusader look like
Laurence Olivier by comparison. The unwatchable
movie is a blight not only
on moviedom but on
mankind as a whole.
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
“Just stop.” It’s a phrase I
mentally blasted at the
screen throughout the
awful caper film, willing it
to halt in its self-obsessed
tracks, but my hatred only
made the experience take
longer. Ocean’s Thirteen
was at least blandly
disappointing, an infinite
improvement over this
mess.

Syriana (2005)
Clooney picked up a bestsupporting-actor Oscar for
the near-comprehensive
look at the relationship
among terrorism, oil and
U.S. foreign policy. He put
on weight and sported
facial hair, showing some
real range.

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OF THE WEEK

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Michael Clayton (2007)
The final shot of the film,
with Clooney’s frazzled
corporate-fixer character
sitting in the back of a cab
looking on after a long,
hard go-round, is already
approaching legendary
status. He picked up a
well-deserved best-actor
Oscar nomination for a
dynamic performance.

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From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996)
Some deride the vampirecrime mash-up as schlock,
but it’s one of my favorites.
Clooney plays a slick shyster who kidnaps a family,
takes it to Mexico and finds
himself joining with it in an
all-out battle against creatures of the night.
Three Kings (1999)
In one of the few movies
based on the Gulf War,
Clooney plays one of four
soldiers on the hunt for
stolen gold that was taken
from Kuwait. It was one of
the first performances that
showed his vast potential
as a serious actor.


SWOONY
GOONY
VS

The Perfect Storm (2000)
It’s not that the movie was
awful, just mediocre. The
real problem with the film
is how it introduced an
overused catchall phrase
into the lexicon. Now
everything is “the perfect
storm of this” and “the
perfect storm of that.”
The Peacemaker (1997)
There’s a reason Clooney
and Nicole Kidman aren’t
about to make The Peacemaker 5 together right
now. Little chemistry exists
between him as an Army
colonel and her as a
civilian who’s looking after
him.

Actor’s hits balance his misses

Good Night, and
Good Luck (2005)
Clooney co-wrote and directed the superb black-andwhite look at Edward R.
Murrow’s 1950s standoff
with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Clooney plays a small but
effective supporting role as
news executive Fred Friendly.

By Phil Villarreal ,ARIZONA DAILY STAR

T

here’s good Clooney and there’s bad Clooney.
George Clooney is often the very definition of
cool — he can speak volumes with a raised
eyebrow or sideways glance — but sometimes can
be so cloyingly self-aware. Where his newest film,
Leatherheads, fits in remains to be seen.

Return of the Killer
Tomatoes! (1988)
Sure, it’s sort of a cheap
shot to knock someone for
what he does early in his
career when he’s just
trying to get by, but c’mon,
George. Wouldn’t it have
been better to munch on
Ramen than resort to this?

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