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anta’s gone, and now Baby New Year is coming to town. In his honor, I created baby onesies for a house divided.

Actually, these onesies are for the new nephew of Lawrence.com editor Trevan McGee. He came up with the idea for a reversible onesie, and I figured out how to implement it.

These have Kansas University and Kansas State University logos on the front and back, so the baby can represent the loyalties of both parents at the same time.

You’ll see one logo when holding the baby and the other when burping him.

Parents don’t have to quarrel over which school he’ll support that day — he can do both at once. A veritable Baby Switzerland.

I created appliques by fussy cutting fat quarters of KU and K-State fabric. Fussy cutting just means cutting out a specific part of the fabric’s pattern. You could also cut the fabric into any shape.

I explained how to applique in October for the trick-or-treat tote (http://ljw.bz/tbtuLB), but I’ll go over the basics again.

The hardest part of this project was getting ahold of K-State cotton fabric in Lawrence. I was able to lay my hands on some at Stitch On Needlework Shop, 926 Mass.

SUPPLIES Cotton fabric Interfacing Scissors Iron 2 onesies Sewing machine Thread Satin stitch foot, if you have one

Onesie fronts — the Jayhawk has a Powercat on the back and vice versa

KATIE BEAN INSTRUCTIONS 1. Place cotton fabric right-side down and lay interfacing adhesive-side down on the back of the cotton fabric in the area you want to cut out. The interfacing’s adhesive side usually has raised dots. Attach the two by pressing with a warm or hot iron. Don’t move the iron around on the interfacing — put it in one spot, hold for about 10 seconds, then lift and move to another area.

2. When all your fabric is prepared, cut out the parts you want as an applique. Pin one applique to the front of the first onesie.

3. Take the onesie to the sewing machine and decide whether you want to sew from the head hole or the bottom. Either way, be sure you don’t sew the front and back together — keep the other layer clear of the presser foot.

4. Sew a satin stitch around the edge of the applique. A satin stitch is a close,

Onesie backs wide zigzag stitch. Backstitch a little at the beginning and the end. I found it worked better to have the needle in the applique rather than the jersey of the onesie when turning corners. When finished with the applique, clip the thread close to the fabric.

5. Turn the onesie over and pin the applique from the opposite team to the back.

Repeat step 4.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for a second onesie, with the placement of the team appliques reversed. You’ll have a set of two to give to expecting parents.

— Go! editor Katie Bean can be reached at go@ljworld.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/LJW_Go.

KU’s website offers fun stuff for kids to do Need something to entertain the kids while they’re home from school?

Check out Kansas University’s “Fun Stuff” on their website.

In Winter Fun category, the site offers printable patterns for snowflakes and garlands for kids to cut out and decorate the house.

There are other projects available, too — Hawkigami, paper airplanes, paper football and a tangram.

All require a printer and scissors, and perhaps some tape.

It’s all found at funstuff.ku.edu.

— Katie Bean

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PASTRY CHEF APPRECIATES SWEET JOB

BY CHANSI LONG

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hen Juan Carlos Tovar-Ballagh, 23, was a young boy, he would experiment in the kitchen — often to the dismay of his own taste buds: he would mix flour and water in a bowl then zap it in the microwave to create bread.

“As a kid, I was a horrible cook,” says Tovar-Ballagh, a pastry chef at Pachamamas, 800 N.H., who now bakes quality breads professionally.

Tovar-Ballagh has been a cook at Pachamamas since early 2009. He started as a bar chef and has hovered from station to station — from salad to pizza to grill to sauté to pantry — until he finally landed in the dessert category, where he specializes in pastries and breads.

Tovar-Ballagh has only worked two sorts of jobs: food production and house maintenance. Before he began dicing and paring and blending and baking at Pachamamas, he was heaving and stooping and clutching a brush while painting houses with his father.

The difference in professions, as far as Tovar-Ballagh is concerned, was stark. So when he was hired at Pachamamas, he shed the other job like one would a winter coat on a hot summer day.

Now instead of slinging paint, he slings dough. As pastry chef, Tovar-Ballagh writes the dessert menu for the restaurant. For inspiration, he looks to restaurants he respects for ideas. Among them are Bluestem in Kansas City, Mo., and Niche in St. Louis.

“I like to look locally as well as abroad,” he says.

Tovar-Ballagh also peruses food magazines — “Art Culinaire,” “Food and Wine,” “Saveur” — reads a heap of cook books and watches cooking shows like “Top Chef” and “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” when he has the time. Food is often on the forefront of his thoughts and conversations, and he likes to talk with foodies, friends and chefs alike about the craft of cooking.

When developing a dessert, Tovar-Ballagh considers many food characteristics: flavor, texture, temperature and size are a few of them.

“I like to pick a main component and branch off of complementary flavors and textures,” he says. “Then after it tastes right, you gotta make it look good, so you have

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JUAN CARLOS TOVAR-BALLAGH is the pastry chef at Pachamamas, 800 N.H. to think shapes. Classic shapes or newer crazier shapes?”

Tovar-Ballagh says appearance is almost as important as taste when creating a well-crafted dessert. He considers the plateware, the color and the shape of each dish he prepares. And when crafting new dessert items, he tries to offer exciting choices that aren’t so different they scare consumers away. To do that, he takes a classic dessert and adds a few twists to make it his own.

One of his favorite concoctions was a chocolate bread pudding dome with gianduja (a sweet chocolate hazlenut paste) center, a smoked strawberry coulis and amaretto ice cream.

But there are some classic desserts that don’t need

tweaks that consumers consistently order, says TovarBallagh. Apple tart and molten brown sugar cake are among them.

“Apple tart has been on the menu, I believe, since the restaurant’s inception,” he says.

Tovar-Ballagh pictures himself hunched over a kitchen counter, mixing bowl in tow, for a long time.

“Working in a kitchen is always an even mix of exciting and stressful,” he says. “Working in an office just sounds boring. … I’ll probably work in a kitchen because it sure … beats painting.”

— Chansi Long can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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Friends gather to fete food

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t is dinner time on a quiet Saturday. While many families and friends are out on the town, grabbing a bite to eat at local restaurants, a group of foodie friends are gathering to enjoy a home-cooked meal that they think is as good or better than dining out.

The group call themselves a dinner club, but the dinners they prepare and eat are not your average supper club meals. Participants — many of whom work at The Merc — often spend several days, if not more than a week, researching, practicing and preparing the food they will serve at their monthly themed gatherings.

On this Saturday evening, the theme is Korean food, and 20 minutes before dinner time is organized chaos in Josh Kendall’s small galley kitchen. No fewer than four people are cooking and prepping in the approximately 6-by-12-foot space.

The countertops are littered with mirin, sesame seeds, soy sauce and scallions. The cooks are chopping, sautéing, tasting and plating food at a frenetic pace. The sounds of sizzling beef and banging pots emanate to the rest of the house, along with exotic tangy and meaty aromas.

Group members relish the opportunity to sit in a quiet space and have time to discuss their culinary adventures. Sometimes they play a foodie trivia game or discuss table topic cards, but mostly they dish, well, about the dishes.

“We were all into food even before the group formed,” said Shawn Hill. “At work, we did a lot of talking about, ‘What did you make?’ And we noticed each other buying cool things in the store.”

Group members, who have been meeting for a little more than a year, all agree that they enjoy eating good food, but just as much, they enjoy the planning and cooking processes. Over time, they have devised some guidelines, like rotating to a different house each month, where the evening’s host prepares most of the entrée and sides, and others bring appetizers and beverages.

“I have always been into food; my family and relatives all cook, and food is a big part of get-togethers,” says Leah Betzen. “Being an amateur cook, I’ve learned a lot being in the group. I have to practice what I cook, so it’s good to have a reason to. We are a group of people who love talking about food and learning about food.”

November’s theme was Roman food, which included octopus prepared by one of the group’s founders, Lowen Millspaugh — a first for her. Previous themes have spanned the globe and the U.S. “One time, I prepared a Southern meal, and I smelled like fried chicken for a week,” Betzen says. That meal included biscuits, collard greens with ham and pecan pie.

Hill played host to a West African theme, for which he made peanut chicken stew and spicy black-eyed peas called red-red, among other things.

“It is almost more fun to make stuff than to eat it. The creative aspect is what I get into,” Hill says. “You put all this energy into what you make, and it’s nice to see everyone enjoying it.”

Kendall is the last one in the kitchen as dinner time arrives. While others are finding their places among sake

ABOVE, MEMBERS OF A FOODIE CLUB made up mostly of Merc employees toast before eating Dec. 3. The theme of this month’s feast was Korean food.

AT LEFT, HOST JOSH KENDALL prepares a Korean dish called Kongnamul Bap in his Lawrence kitchen.

Kendall, along with other Merc employees, partake in a monthly foodie club to cook, eat and talk about food.

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glasses and Asian dishes on the beautifully arranged table, Kendall tends to each individual plate of his kongnamul bap — sticky rice with bean sprouts, green onion, sautéed beef tri-tip and an over-easy fried egg.

Before tonight, he never had cooked Korean food before. Not one to use recipes, he watched numerous videos on a website about how to cook, chop and plate the food.

He also prepared steamed Korean buns and a spicy seafood salad, which are served with kimchi that Millspaugh made.

Group members are quick to come to a consensus that their favorite meal so far in the club is a previous Thai meal also cooked by Kendall. He has lived in Thailand, so his colleagues say he brought flavors they hadn’t experienced.

Kendall is branding manager at The Merc and designs the co-op’s visuals and collateral materials.

“I feel most comfortable in the kitchen,” he says. “This way, I get to design with food. I love to cook, so any excuse to get together to cook is great.”

Once the food is on the table, the group toasts with their sake glasses. The salad, kimchi and buns are passed around, and then everyone digs in. A rare quiet moment arises as each person takes in the flavors. More than one person utters “oh my God” between chews — a compliment to the chef.

Millspaugh says that in this age of technological isolation, food still breeds interpersonal relationships.

“It’s fun to have conversations about food. It brings us all together. It shows a sense of friendship,” she said.

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Help next generation of entrepreneurs get started today

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o your kids keep asking what they can do to earn more allowance? Do they know how to save up for something they want? You might have a budding entrepreneur on your hands.

From setting up a lemonade stand on the corner to creating smartphone apps, kids are learning the ropes of running a business early.

The 2011 Free Enterprise National Survey found that 64 percent of high school juniors were interested in starting or owning their own businesses. And, in fact, 15 percent of respondents had already started their own business.

The 2010 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Youth Entrepreneurship Survey found that 40 percent of students between the ages of 8 and 24 would like to start a business in the future or already have done so.

Yet with all this interest in entrepreneurship, few students are getting this information from school. According to the Council for Economic Education, only 15 states require public high schools to offer a personal finance course, and there are no national standards for an entrepreneurial education.

WHAT CAN YOU DO? If you have a budding entrepreneur in the family, what can you do to encourage and equip them to take on the

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PARENTS CAN ENCOURAGE and steer kids with entrepreneurial aspirations. challenges of starting and running a business?

Kim Danger, personal finance expert and founder of MommySavers.com, says that even if you’re not a business-minded person, you can help your child or teen grow in this area.

“It’s never too early to start learning about financial matters, whether it’s managing their allowances or starting their own dog-sitting service,” Danger says. “In addi-

Foundations for the Future!

tion to talking with them about money matters and being a good role model when it comes to finances, there are some things you can do to help them get some real-world business experiences.”

Take them seriously. If they have an idea for a product improvement or a service they can provide to neighbors, don’t dismiss it. Listen to the idea and ask them questions to help them figure out how to make that idea a reality. Even if they don’t make a dime, they’ll get a boost in confidence and some lessons in planning and critical thinking that will pay off later.

Don’t do too much. It can be very tempting for adults to take over a project and “do it right,” but kids need to learn from mistakes, and to take responsibility for decisions and their consequences. Entrepreneurship means facing a lot of challenges that require persistence, patience, determination and creative problem solving. They’ll miss out on all those lessons if you do the legwork for them.

Make sure it’s a labor of love. It’s one thing to come up with an idea to make some short-term pocket money. But starting a business takes a lot of time and effort, so it needs to be something that they can be passionate about. Starting a pet-care business when they don’t really love dogs will not end well.

“Kids have energy, imagination and creativity that could very well lead to the next big idea or make a big difference in their world,” Danger says. “All they need is some encouragement from you and they can start creating their own future today.”

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Decide what to share about relationships before heading to family gatherings Miranda: Getting that week and a half off for break is something that high school students cherish. It means more time than usual with the extended family, which in turn presents a unique challenge to teens: How much do I tell my whole family about my relationships?

I’d like to start by saying that while it can be annoying when people are pestering you about your private life at the Christmas dinner table, it just means that your family cares about you. Keeping that in mind, here are some ways to handle the inevitable onslaught of prying relatives.

Decide what you want them to know ahead of time. If you have a big family and they all want to know about your new significant other, plan ahead.

Maybe your relatives knew your last boyfriend and you haven’t gotten around to telling them that you broke up. Some teens feel comfortable telling extended family about every encounter they have with every possible person of interest, while some choose to tell only about serious relationships.

Every family dynamic is different. Some teens are friends with their aunts and uncles on Facebook, and some only see their families once or twice a year. It’s ultimately your decision what they know about your love life.

Talk it over with your parents. Your parents usually know more than your aunts, uncles or grandparents. So once you’ve decided what information you want all of your relatives to know, sit down with your parents and get them on message. Be ready with some backup topics (e.g., college applications, grades, extra-curricular activities, etc.) so you can keep the conversation right where you want it.

The holiday season should be a time

Double TAKE DR. WES CRENSHAW AND MIRANDA DAVIS to relax and enjoy yourself. If you have a game plan before the big dinners or vacations, then you can focus on spending time with everyone and not about when the next question will come your way.

Dr. Wes: Think of the number of movies made about the arrival of extended family into the placid flow of daily life.

Many are set around the holiday season, in fact. There’s just something really funny about people who are supposed to be just like us, yet come from a whole different culture (or planet, in some cases). So Miranda is wise to advise teens and young adults to think ahead on this.

The biggest problem with over-publicizing a relationship is expectation, and that only gets worse the older you get.

By the time young people are in their late teens, Auntie Em begins to ask if a June wedding is in the plan, and Uncle Bert begins to call your b.f. “Sonnie.”

Far worse, however, are the situations

where extended family members don’t like your guy or girl and feel strangely empowered to just let everyone know that, including your new love. Where parents wisely heed our advice to embrace dating partners, Grandma may be more inclined to run him out on a rail whether he deserves it or not. Her mom did it, and she just thinks it’s the right thing to do.

When considering a discussion of love, kids have to base their decision on the best estimate of how fun, embarrassing or horrifying the environment will be. If relatives are the kindly, inviting type, I think it’s nice to share more. It brings back memories of youth, and most of us are very fond of fresh stories of romance. Even better, inviting the beloved over for an evening with family gives an unparalleled test of his or her courage and ability to adapt to challenging social situations.

If, on the other hand, there’s serious worry about the impression a dating partner will make on the family, or the one they’ll make back, I say the best strategy is to SPIN. Change the subject to politics, blush and giggle, or ask the elders to share stories of their own dating life. That usually keeps the cat in the bag, and for some awkward holiday gatherings, that’s exactly where he belongs.

— Dr. Wes Crenshaw is board certified in family and couples psychology (ABPP).

Read about his writing and clinical practice at dr-wes.com. Follow him at Twitter. com/wescrenshawphd. Miranda Davis is a Free State High School senior. Send your 200-word confidential question about adolescence and parenting to ask@dr-wes. com. Double Take opinions and advice are not a substitute for psychological services.

Teens offer parents tips to encourage driver safety An estimated 35 percent of teen casualties are due to vehicular driving accidents, making it the leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Through their participation in a high school program called Project Ignition, thousands of young people have worked to change the driving behaviors of their peers.

Here are some tips from students in Project Ignition:

Ask your teen about what it’s like being in the car with other teens and what distractions there are to handle.

Role-play with your teen so that he can become comfortable saying things like, “We both want to live, so let me answer your phone or text while you drive.”

Help your teen get involved with programs at school like Project Ignition.

Set family ground rules for texting and calling while driving.

Your teen needs to know what the consequences will be if the rules aren’t followed.

Model the behavior you want your teen to exhibit.

Additional information can be found atsfprojectignition.com.

— Family Features

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BEER SHOULDN’T BE RELEGATED to a pint glass, experts say. A sampling of fruit-flavored brews shown in fluted glasses are, from left: Boulevard’s cherryinfused, barrelaged quadruple; Schlafly’s Raspberry Hefeweizen; and Unibroue’s Emphemere Apple.

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SHAPE SHIFT: Trade thick, clumsy pint for tulip or traditional Belgian beer glass

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ack when American beer was largely terrible, which wasn’t so long ago, how it was served didn’t matter. And the pint glass became standard.

But now that domestic beer is a cause for celebration, pint glasses remain the standard — needlessly. Matthew Kaner, general manager of Covell, a Los Angeles beer and wine bar, called such glasses “an elemental shame.”

“I see far too many places pouring 8 percent India pale ales and imperial stouts into pint glasses because they think their customers expect it,” Kaner said. “The reality is that you just need to educate them about why high-octane beer is poured into a tulip or a traditional Belgian glass.”

Covell uses four different glasses for its eight rotating taps, pairing beer and glass by style, alcohol content and rarity.

Though most of the best beer bars do the same, many believe it’s time for such practice to become mainstream, all the way down to the sports bars that serve Sierra Nevada pale ale and Anchor Steam.

Beating that drum are people like Matthew Rutkowski, vice president of Spiegelau in the U.S., a high-end glassmaker.

Rutkowski has dedicated much of his life

to “demonizing” pint glasses because “they work against beer.”

A pint glass’s thickness warms beer too quickly, he said. The glass from which it is made is usually cheap and porous, drawing out effervescence and degrading the way a beer tastes and feels in your mouth.

Pint glasses result in “flatter, warmer beer with a more acrid quality,” Rutkowski said.

Among the gripes with pint glasses is how little they do for a beer’s aroma.

The best glasses enhance a beer’s smell (and smell is an underrated component of drinking well). The pint glass’s megaphone shape does little to “coalesce aroma,” Rutkowski said.

So what are the alternatives? A wellcrafted lager or pilsner works well in a stemless wine glass, which is an unfussy and sturdy vessel that offers a more savory experience than the thick and clumsy pint glass.

For something bolder, say a double IPA or imperial stout, Spiegelau’s beer tulip is a faultless choice. It’s marvelously thin and silky, kind to a beer’s flavor, and it captures the aroma in the belly of the glass — something you’re reminded of each time you sip.

When out and drinking cheaply, stick with the bottle; there’s not much worse than Budweiser in a pint glass.

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WARDROBE OVERHAULS Consultant provides local ‘What Not To Wear’ experience

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efore the new year rolls in, many of us get into a zone of cleaning or purging around the house. It brings on feelings of freshness and starting anew.

One of the main centers of this action is in the bedroom closet.

Adina Morse, a wardrobe consultant in Lawrence, has taken her childhood creativity and turned it into her passion for empowering mostly women and a few male clients to tackle their “I have nothing to wear problem! I bought this months ago, and I don’t know what to wear with it.”

Beginning in New York with her first clients, the former litigator began transforming her family and friends at their requests. Now back in Lawrence, Morse is attaining success with her personalized business.

“Love Lawrence, love downtown, really believe in shopping locally,” she says.

With her positive energy, Morse is able to go through a private “What Not To Wear,” the long-running TLC show.

Morse believes you do have a choice about how you look, and sometimes this involves taking a chance or risk: “Set yourself apart.”

The episode begins in your closet and ends in the closet. In between is thoughtful, affordable and mostly local shopping. The amount of time for the process is

WARDROBE CONSULTANT ADINA MORSE and her daughter Channing, 4, look over some clothing options and outfit combinations at their home Thursday.

between five hours and 25 hours, depending on the individual client’s needs.

Stephanie, a mother of two, recently experienced Adina’s professional guidance. After “running her butt off,” she said, with a fitness program and her friends’ support, p Stephanie struggled with finding the right fit of jeans or believing she could wear certain clothing. Her shopping experiences were also overwhelming. “Especially after having kids, shopping was difficult. If I did try on clothes, I would n cry or buy something 4 sizes too big.”

Stephanie would also stick to basic colors because h she wasn’t sure how to pull off color or prints. Follow- l ing total cleanout of her closet, trying on every piece of clothing and having Morse help her make a list of what primary pieces she needed, the two scheduled their b shopping adventure.

“Adina took me shopping locally. She helped me discover you don’t have to leave (Lawrence) to find afford- l able and good clothing,” Stephanie said. i The consignment stores of Lawrence held fabulous p finds for Stephanie, as well as other local retailers. Today, Stephanie is confident in putting together outfits by mixing and matching several pieces of clothing and accessories and shopping on her own.

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WARDROBE ADVICE FROM ADINA MORSE TIPS FOR CLOSET ORGANIZATION

Take everything out of your closet and try each

item on. Does it fit? If not, get rid of it. Does it have holes or stains? If so, it needs to go. Remember, consignment stores are an option for those quality clothes items that no longer fit right.

Make a pile of the items you haven’t worn in the last year. Ask yourself, Why haven’t I worn this item?

Are there clothes remaining you save for only special occasions? Be creative and draw pieces out of this pile to mix or accessorize with during the week.

Rotate clothing items every few months. If you

can’t see it, you might not ever wear it. This jump starts your creativity and reminds you of items you have.

Place your jackets, purses and scarves where you will grab them going out the door.

For changing purses on the go, keep a basket handy to dump everything in. Take only the items you need for your next outing.

Remember cedar blocks to avoid moth holes.

When you periodically rotate your clothes, brush the cedar blocks with sandpaper to release the aroma for moth prevention.

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Buy classic pieces off season.

Buy for the size you are now.

Buy pieces you will wear again.

Host a clothes swap party with your friends.

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Woman sticks to resolution to stop buying

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f you need a charge of encouragement or inspiration for your 2012 New Year’s resolution, look no further than Shari Quick.

When Jan. 1 arrives, Quick, a Lawrence resident, will be celebrating her 2011 New Year’s resolution by shopping at one of her favorite local boutiques, Spirit Girl, 1502 W 23rd St. She will be purchasing her first item of clothing (minus the undergarment necessities) since Dec. 21, 2010.

At the boutique, Quick will have her dear friend and supporter Carolyn Stewart by her side.

“Carolyn got a kick out of the noclothes-buying resolution, She has been very supportive,” Quick said.

“She is there to help me maintain my focus. I am going in with a monetary limit I am not going to exceed. That is my goal going forward. To be more purposeful in my spending.”

With support the support of her friends and a strong determination, Quick began her 2011 New Year’s resolution when she honestly realized her average-sized closet that she shares with her husband Glen could not accommodate another purchase.

“The primary defining moment was when I went into my closet and I literally could not get another item in there,” she said.

There wasn’t an article of clothing in her closet she wasn’t wearing, but she realized at this moment she was just buying.

“At that point, I decided to check my checking account and see how much I had spent on clothes the last year.”

With her eyes open to the amount of money she had put towards clothing purchases, Quick uncovered her challenge for the new year: “I’ve got to stop buying!”

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Could you go a whole year without buying clothes?

“When I was unemployed for a year, I just made alterations to the clothes I had to make them look fresh. So I could probably go a year.”

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— Valerie Metzler, archeologist, Lawrence

SHARI QUICK went without buying any clothes in 2011 as part of her resolution this last year. But come Jan. 1, she said she will go shopping for herself. For tips to help maintain any resolution, go to LJWorld.com.

A year later, she is able to reflect and share her personal experience with laughter and honesty.

During the early weeks of her resolution challenge, Quick put into place strategies to conquer any purchasing impulse, including sharing her resolution with friends and co-workers.

“I started telling people at the end of the year what I was planning.

This held me accountable,” she said.

“Friends thought I was crazy or I wouldn’t last. Another friend did it with me through tax season.”

Laughing, Quick even says a few of her friends’ husbands wished their spouses would take on a resolution such as hers.

Another strategy for Quick was keeping herself out of tempting shopping opportunities, such as home clothing parties or favorite stores. It wasn’t easy when she started.

“The first couple of weeks I would wake up from dreaming about shopping,” she said.

After the fourth month, the urge to shop or purchase a new item of clothing wasn’t there. One telling sign success was being made was when Quick had an event to attend in April and recycled one of her dresses from a previous year.

“At this point I had gone almost four months, and I was bound and determined I wasn’t going to stop.”

As Quick headed into the home stretch, she reflected on how her success has added to her list of valuable life lessons: “Be happy and content with what you have. Such an important lesson for all of us.

Materialism and consumerism is not what happiness is about. Faith, family and friends are happiness for me.”

What does Quick have in mind for 2012?

“This year it is more of the traditional stuff. I do really well with exercise; I just want to ramp it up to the next level.”

“It would probably be a big deal not to.”

— Gretchen Frick, Lawrence High School sophomore, Lawrence

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AGING IN PLACE: A little help can go a long way

BY DAVID CRARY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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N.J. — Retirement communities may have their perks, but Beryl O’Connor says it would be tough to match the birthday surprise she got in her own backyard when she turned 80 this year.

She was tending her garden when two little girls from next door — “my buddies,” she calls them — brought her a strawberry shortcake. It underscored why she wants to stay put in the house that she and her husband, who died 18 years ago, purchased in the late 1970s.

“I couldn’t just be around old people — that’s not my lifestyle,” she said. “I’d go out of my mind.”

Physically spry and socially active, O’Connor in many respects is the embodiment of “aging in place,” growing old in one’s own longtime home and remaining engaged in the community rather than moving to a retirement facility.

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BERYL O’CONNOR, RIGHT, PLAYS CARDS with her friends including June Szabo, left, Nov. 11 in her home in Verona, N.J. O’Connor, 80, is among a group of seniors who are embracing the concept of “aging in place” — maximizing the prospects for growing old in one’s own longtime home rather than move to a retirement community or assisted-living facility.

AGING IN PLACE According to surveys, aging in place is the overwhelming preference of Americans over 50. But doing it successfully requires both good fortune and support services — things that O’Connor’s pleasant hometown of Verona has become increasingly capable of providing.

About 10 miles northwest of Newark, Verona has roughly 13,300 residents nestled into less than 3 square miles. There’s a transportation network that takes older people on shopping trips and to medical appointments, and the town is benefiting from a $100,000 federal grant to put in place an aging-in-place program called Verona LIVE. Administrated by United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey, the program strives to educate older people about available services to help them address problems and stay active in the community. Its partners include the health and police departments, the rescue squad, the private and public schools, and religious groups.

Among the support services are a home maintenance program with free safety checks and minor home repairs, access to a social worker and job counselor, a walking club and other social activities. In one program, a group of middle-school girls provided one-on-one computer training to about 20 older adults.

Social worker Connie Pifher, Verona’s

health coordinator, said a crucial part of the overall initiative is educating older people to plan ahead realistically and constantly reassess their prospects for successfully aging in place.

“There are some people who just can do it, especially if they have family support,” Pifher said. “And then you run into people who think they can do it, yet really can’t.

You need to start educating people before a crisis hits.”

GROWING POPULARITY There’s no question that aging in place has broad appeal. According to an Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll conducted in October, 52 percent of baby boomers said they were unlikely to move someplace new in retirement. In a 2005 survey by AARP, 89 percent of people age 50 and older said they would prefer to remain in their home indefinitely as they age.

That yearning, coupled with a widespread dread of going to a nursing home, has led to a nationwide surge of programs aimed at helping people stay in their neighborhoods longer.

Verona LIVE is a version of one such concept: the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community, or NORC. That can be either a specific housing complex or a larger neighborhood in which many of the residents have aged in place over a long period of time and need a range of support services in order

to continue living in their homes.

Verona is an apt setting. Roughly 20 percent of its residents are over 65, compared with 13 percent for New Jersey as a whole.

Another notable initiative is the “village” concept. Members of these nonprofit entities can access specialized programs and services, such as transportation to stores, home health care, or help with household chores, as well as a network of social activities with other members.

About 65 village organizations have formed in the U.S. in recent years, offering varying services and charging membership fees that generally range between $500 and $700 a year.

CHALLENGES One of the potential problems for people hoping to age in place is that their homes may not be senior-friendly “It becomes a challenge because we live in Peter Pan houses, designed for people who never grow old,” said Susan Bosak, a social scientist who is overseeing a program to boost intergenerational engagement in Tulsa, Okla.

Many older people live in homes that are 40 or more years old, abounding with narrow interior doorways, hard-to-reach kitchen cupboards and potentially hazardous bathroom fixtures.

“If you’re a boomer person, with money

to remodel, think about making your house more user-friendly, not just more beautiful, for when you have your knee replacement or a chronic condition,” said Nancy Thompson of AARP. “We’re talking smart, convenient. It doesn’t have to look institutional or utilitarian.”

To promote this outlook, AARP has teamed up with the National Association of Home Builders to create a designation for certified aging-in-place specialists trained in designing and modifying residences for the elderly. Several thousand builders, contractors, remodelers and architects have been certified. Building or remodeling homes can include such details as touchless faucets, trim kitchen drawers instead of cupboards, grab bars and nonslip floors in the bathrooms.

Arizona’s Pima County, along with a few other local governments, has gone a step further, passing an ordinance requiring that all new homes in the unincorporated areas around Tucson offer a basic level of accessibility. They must have at least one entrance with no steps. Minimum heights and widths are set so that light switches can be easily reached and doorways are passable in a wheelchair.

IN GOOD COMPANY For now, Beryl O’Connor’s two-story, four-bedroom Cape Cod house, built in the 1940s, poses no physical challenges for her. Her own bedroom is on the ground floor, and she recently had a safety bar installed in her bathtub, so she thinks prospects are good for staying put over the long term.

Plus, she’s got company at home — a 26-year-old granddaughter lives upstairs and commutes to a job in New York — and many friends around town, where she has a busy schedule of club meetings, group lunches, card games and occasional bus trips to casinos.

“You’ve got to socialize,” she says.

“There are things out there to do — you’ve got to look for them.”

Ira and Roseanne Bornstein, who live a few blocks from O’Connor, also think their longtime home can accommodate them suitably for many years to come. There’s a room on the ground floor they could convert to a bedroom, and space upstairs to house a livein aide if one were needed.

“It’s a modest home, but it’s always worked for us,” said Rosanne Bornstein, 63, who was a school counselor and teacher for 25 years. “We’re very strong in wanting to stay here.”

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hope that you are enjoying this holiday season. Even with all of its excesses, the month of December is magical and the extra time spent with family and friends will be remembered all year long.

It’s because I don’t want your body to bear the brunt of these remembrances all year long, however, that I still am going to write about ending this year in a fit fashion.

Since November, we have covered a variety of exercises that can be done in small spaces with minimal, if any, equipment.

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nival food if they want to lose weight.” She is funny! And she is absolutely correct.

Get rid of the junk food. Be aware of what you are eating. Make the decision to put better food into your body. You need to fuel your body for your workouts, so why not make it run more efficiently? Why not make it work for you?

Set some goals. Make a plan. Strive for moderation and look for easy ways to incorporate more movement into this last week of 2011.

And then, at midnight on Dec. 31, let go of all of the negative ideas you have about fitness and workouts. Let them go. It’s a new year now, and let’s start it strong.

— Jennifer Osborn can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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— Sister Josephine Plazzer

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ne wouldn’t normally associate the word “nun” with “rebel,” but Sister Josephine Plazzer, a 23-year-old Catholic nun, considers herself just that.

“I grew up in a liberal parish that believed wearing a habit oppressed women. That actually made wearing a habit seem really attractive to me. I wanted to wear one, and I assumed I would when I became a nun,” she said.

However, the religious community she ended up joining, The Apostles of the Interior Life, do not wear habits. Instead, they rely on “providence” — the divinely inspired generosity of other people — to fill their closets.

“Receiving clothes from other people is great because we get to rely on God and receive peoples’ gifts with gratitude — to accept life as a gift,” Plazzer said.

While the habit is a sign of consecration, an outward symbol of a person’s inner commitment, Plazzer dresses the way she does to show her pledge to God. The clothes she puts on every day broadcast her inner ideals.

“I like to dress elegant but simple. Elegance denotes beauty, and simplicity denotes being a creature of God. My style is all about recognizing the beauty that surrounds us and is in us from God,” she said.

From a strictly visual perspective, it seems as though Plazzer keeps up with the latest trends. When I met her, she was wearing mid-calf height, brown leather boots with leggings, a pencil skirt that hit just at her knees, a gray cardigan and a scarf to finish off the out-

fit. However, she is quick to point out that style is not about following the crowd.

“Fashion is very externally focused. Some women present themselves as objects and just follow whatever fashion dictates. Fashion should be about bringing out interior beauty,” she said.

And that’s exactly what the entire group of The Apostles of the Interior Life strive to do.

“We are The Apostles of the Interior Life. Our focus is on the interior formation of a person.”

Plazzer works at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road, and her job focuses on helping college students determine their internal identity in God. She works with students as a spiritual director to help them “grow closer to Jesus,” leads retreats, visits other churches, and helps students through the process of determining whether or not they are called to the “religious life” — becoming a priest or nun.

Before her junior year of high school when she discovered her calling to become a nun, her dream was to go to college, study politics and international relations and some day work for the United Nations. Instead, she now has a degree in philosophy and is working toward a degree in theology.

“I’ve always wanted to do something noble with my life. I’m not going to work for the U.N., but my desire for living a noble life is being fulfilled by following God’s will.”

— Ali Edwards can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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SISTER JOSEPHINE PLAZZER is a member of The Apostles of the Interior Life and works at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road.

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Shania Twain kicked off Jan. 1 by yet again marrying someone who was not my husband, much to his dismay.

I did not marry Shania either, but I did get a new(ish) minivan, complete with a sunroof and a three-month XM radio subscription.

Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for what many assumed would be his final time; I watched it even though the only nominated movie I had seen was “Toy Story 3.” (See: minivan.)

We quickly forgot about Gervais in February when Charlie Sheen hit talk shows, the Internet and a few goddesses. Our insatiable curiosity about bi-winning led Charlie to set a Ticketmaster record in March by selling out his national self-promotion tour in 18 minutes while our forefathers spun wildly in their graves.

Highly distractible as we are, though, we soon swapped our tiger blood for tea.

By April 29, nearly every man I knew had heard enough about William and Kate.

And by April 30, nearly every woman I knew had heard enough about Pippa.

And, apparently, by May 1, President Obama had had enough with both Donald Trump and Osama bin Laden, releasing his birth certificate and the Navy SEALS, respectively, upon them.

In other political news, Sarah Palin toured Paul Revere’s old British-warning stomping grounds while the rest of the Republicans announced their candidacies for president. Democrats were too distracted by a package belonging to the unfortunately named Anthony Weiner to notice.

Congress spent the summer warning us

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On the home front, our summer ended with a drive to Yellowstone, where we joined the ranks of families who have seen a bear, slept in a cabin and renewed their XM radio subscription halfway through their family vacation.

We returned in time for school and in autumn said goodbye to Erica Kane and Steve Jobs. Both society-shaping, once-in-a-generation legends, one was better known for getting married and the other for dictating what I should buy for Christmas every year.

Fortunately, holiday shopping was still alive and well here in Lawrence, as any one of the hundreds of people standing outside Best Buy on Thanksgiving night can attest.

Which brings us to December 2011, when professional basketball players and franchise owners ended the NBA lockout in an act thus far unmatched by Congress by successfully negotiating an agreement, allowing our country to finally move forward and our forefathers to once again rest in peace.

Have your cake pop and eat it too, and don’t forget that a cup of kindness is best enjoyed with (Words with) Friends. #Seeyounextyear — Julie Dunlap can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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The mandate contained in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has successfully created a plethora of lighting options for consumers. Saving energy by replacing outdated incandescent bulbs is as easy as screwing in a new light bulb.

Option 1: Save 25 watts of power by replacing a standard 100 watt bulb with a 75 watt incandescent bulb. This will reduce the available ambient light but save you from adjusting to new technologies sooner than absolutely necessary.

Option 2: Save 28 watts of power by choosing a 72 watt halogen light bulb.

These relatively new A-line bulbs resemble the shape, size and color of incandescent bulbs but use 28 percent less energy to produce the same amount of light. Halogen bulbs last 25 percent longer and provide a seamless transition into energy efficiency.

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percent less energy and lasting 94 percent longer than the equivalent incandescent bulb. CFL bulbs do not always fit into existing light fixtures because of their spiral shape and larger base size. CFLs’ delayed start and warm up time can also be problematic for applications requiring instant light.

Option 4: Combat some of the disadvantages of regular CFLs by purchasing instant-on CFLs instead. These turducken-like bulbs merge the convenience of halogen with the more attractive energy saving components of fluorescent by wrapping a halogen bulb inside a florescent spiral and incasing it all within a standard A-line shell. The halogen bulb turns on instantly and then turns off once the CFL portion of the bulb has reached its optimum brightness. Hybrid bulbs appear similar to incandescent bulbs in shape and size, but use 75 percent less energy and last 90 percent longer.

Option 5: Watch for 100 watt equivalent LED light bulbs that use 91 percent less energy and last 20 times longer than standard incandescent bulbs. These state-of-the-art bulbs should be available to consumers before the end of 2012 and offer a brighter and convenient energy efficient future. — Linda Cottin can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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Fridays: Jan. 6 and The trees are Jan. 13. In the past, used for wildthe city has picked life habitat in a up trees on the two closed-down Mondays follandfill site lowing the holinorth of Lawdays, but this rence. year they’ve Trees can changed the be dropped day because off in McLouth Monday falls so at Rose Park. close to New Year’s Leavenworth JefDay. ferson Electric CoThe trees should be placed operative will chip the trees at the curb or alley for collec- into mulch.

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JUSTINE BURTON HAS FOUNDED STOPGAP INC., which assists kids who age out of foster care by preparing them to live on their own as adults. Burton works out of her Lawrence home, where she is photographed with her dog Grizzly on Dec. 16.

StopGap aids transition from foster care to adulthood

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Lawrence resident Emily Jacobs, now 22, spent her four high school years in the foster care system, leaving when she “aged out” upon graduation.

There S h e just wasn’t m o v e d out on her anyone own, but there for it’s been a me if my tough adjustment. car broke “ S u p down.” porting yourself — Emily Jacobs, isn’t easy,” 22, who spent four she said. years in foster Jacobs care before aging has been working out after high and going school. to Johnson County Community College on and off for the past few years.

She said life’s little setbacks have thrown her off course a time or two.

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For more information, visit stopgapincorporated.org, or call 785-331-3545.

broke down,” she said.

More than 1,000 Kansas teens between the ages of 16 and 18 were in foster care this past year because they were abused or neglected.

Such teens can come with a variety of challenges that could make life outside of state custody difficult.

They often have little work history, poor family support, no credit history and psychological issues resulting from abuse.

That’s why former social worker Justine Burton founded the nonprofit organization StopGap Inc. in 2008. After a few years of building support, the group will host its first series of courses for teens in foster care who are getting ready for life on their own.

The five-week course, for those 16 to 18, will focus on topics like job skills, financial planning, education and a variety of other life skills.

The program is needed, said Diana Frederick, executive director of the Douglas County Court Appointed Special Advocates.

“We definitely see this as an area of concern,” said Frederick, who works with teens through her program.

“That’s a very young age to be thrust on your own.”

A 2010 study organized by the University of Chicago, the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Function of Former Foster Youth, shows that teens who age out of foster care do much worse than other young

adults in a variety of measures.

For instance, former foster kids had a 7 percent chance of ending up in jail by the time they are 24, compared with fewer than 1 percent of those who weren’t placed in foster care. And a quarter of former foster care kids spend some time homeless as they get older.

Burton, who runs the nonprofit on a shoestring budget out of her home, said she’d like to reverse those trends and see former foster care children become stable and productive members of the community. In the coming years, Burton said, StopGap will try to establish a transitional living program in the area that could house former foster care kids.

“There has to be something a little bit better for these kids,” she said.

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TORY RUNNELLS, LAWRENCE, works a Christmas Day shift at the FastLane Conoco on Sixth Street. Runnells, who opened the shop, said business was a little slow early but picked up around noon. “Batteries have been popular,” he said.

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Essential services — and battery sales — must be maintained on Christmas

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

I thought about all the wrapping paper flying all over in the houses that I passed coming in to work just before 7 a.m. on Sunday, Christmas Day. On the one day that this country comes closest to standing still, I’m going to work. And I’m — Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at not alone. Since I had to work, 832-7173. Follow him at I decided to catch up with a Twitter.com/shaunhittle. whole bunch of other people

who were at work, too, and give them a chance to talk a bit about the whole experience, or, at the very least, break up the boredom.

For me — and several others I talked to Sunday — this was a matter of volunteering for a shift. After all, someone’s got to do it. Reporting is becoming even more of an around-theclock job than it used to be. You Please see WORKERS, page 2A

5 years later, murder case may get some resolution

By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

A Douglas County judge is scheduled to sentence Major C. Edwards Jr. on Tuesday for his role in the 2006 shooting death of Lawrence hiphop artist Anthony Vital.

It will presumably bring closure to a five-year legal drama in Douglas County, but some questions still remain about

A landowner found the body of Vital, 28, the next morning in his rural driveway west of Lawrence, starting a lengthy investigation

by Douglas County Sheriff’s investigators.

A key question during Tuesday’s hearing will be Edwards Jones whether Edwards, the only person convicted in the case, what exactly transpired the will be sentenced to serve night of Oct. 14, 2006. additional prison time or

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whether he will be released for the years he’s already served.

“Major didn’t pull the trigger,” defense attorney Branden Bell said. “He shouldn’t be punished like he did.”

Edwards, 32, of Lawrence, in March 2010 pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a plea deal that would shave four years from his prison sentence in exchange for

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his testimony against his codefendant at the time, Durrell Jones, 24, of Kansas City, Kan. Edwards testified in the March jury trial that Jones shot and killed Vital to collect on a drug debt for PCP. Officers had arrested Edwards in Mississippi days after Vital was shot, but Jones did not publicly come into the picture until prosecutors filed charges against

both men in 2008. During the Jones trial, defense attorney John Kerns often referred to Edwards as “Frontpage Mage” for the amount of news coverage the case received, attacked Edwards’ credibility and accused him of trying to pin the shooting on Jones.

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DEATHS VIRGINIA KASPAR DOLEZAL Graveside services for Virginia Kaspar Dolezal, 93, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Wilson City Cemetery in Wilson.

Mrs. Dolezal died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, at

Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Friends may call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and 8 a.m. until the service time Tuesday at Foster Mortuary in Wilson.

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The Journal-World publishes obituaries of residents or former longtime residents of the newspaper’s circulation area, as well as obituaries for others who have survivors within the circulation area. Information should be supplied by a mortuary. We welcome photos to run with obituaries. More information about what the newspaper accepts and other guidelines, including costs for obituaries, can be obtained through your mortuary, by calling the Journal-World at 785832-7151, or online at LJWorld.com/obits/policy/.

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against Jones, and Douglas County prosecutors in August dropped their case against him because they said Edwards had developed credibility issues.

Still, Edwards’ defense attorney has accused prosecutors of throwing Edwards “under the bus” because they couldn’t convict Jones.

Bell plans to ask Chief District Judge Robert Fairchild not to consider two of Edwards’ juvenile convictions as part of his criminal history, meaning Edwards possibly could be released because of the time he’s spent in custody while the Vital case was pending. At the time of his plea, attorneys anticipated Edwards would face 18 years in prison based on state sentencing guidelines, but they would agree to subtract four years from that sentence for his cooperation against Jones.

Prosecutors Tuesday are expected to ask for the 14year sentence considering that earlier this year they requested Fairchild’s permission to oppose the fouryear reduction in the plea deal because they believed Edwards’ testimony against Jones was no longer credible.

They cited allegations from a jail mate, Joe Hunter, who alleged Edwards told him Edwards was the one who shot Vital.

“The exact truth of what occurred in connection with the murder of Anthony Vital may never be known at this point, but we have no doubt that Edwards and Jones played an active role

Shawnee County chase Shawnee County authorities arrested a 44-year-old Auburn man on several felony charges after a Shawnee County police chase ended in Douglas County on Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 40 near Big Springs.

The chase began just after 9:30 a.m. after a Shawnee County Sheriff’s deputy spotted a stolen gold 1989 Honda Accord near 10th Avenue and Wanamaker Road in Topeka, according to a release from the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Department.

The car fled onto Interstate 70 and back into Topeka, where an officer deployed spike strips near 21st Street and MacVicar Avenue, causing one of the rear tires on the car to deflate.

The driver of the car ran a red light in Topeka and struck another car at the intersection of 17th Street and Western Avenue in Topeka.

The chase continued onto U.S. Highway 40, and a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy deployed more spike strips near the county line, and caused the remaining tires on the car to deflate.

in what happened,” Branson said in August when he dismissed Jones’ case. “We also do not doubt Major Edwards knows what happened but his various and contradictory accounts to others make the use of his testimony too unreliable for us to ethically present to a jury.”

The Jones mistrial did spark animosity between Edwards and prosecutors. Edwards sought to withdraw his guilty plea and alleged prosecutors misled him about how much prison time he faced. A judge later ruled against allowing Edwards to withdraw his plea.

Prosecutors then filed a motion asking to oppose the four-year reduction in his sentence and called Hunter as a witness at a hearing in October. Edwards in a handwritten letter to Fairchild denied he spoke to Hunter about the Vital case. Hunter, who is serving a prison sentence for theft and burglary cases, then declined to testify, and Fairchild ruled prosecutors could not back out of the plea agreement.

Fairchild is scheduled to sentence Edwards — also serving time on a federal gun charge from 2006 — at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Jones was released from federal prison Nov. 1 after serving time on federal drug charges, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

There is no statute of limitations in Kansas for murder, and Branson has said that if prosecutors ever uncover new evidence against Jones in the Vital case, they could refile charges.

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Former A.G. Kline files ethics response, quotes Bible TOPEKA (AP) — A former Kansas attorney general who is accused of violating state ethics rules while investigating abortion providers has filed a 175-page response in which he quotes from the Bible and denies any wrongdoing.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Phill Kline, a Republican who gained national attention for his investigations, filed his response Thursday to a disciplinary panel’s report Oct. 13 that he repeatedly misled other officials or allowed subordinates to mislead others, including a grand jury, to further investigate abortion providers.

In its finding, the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys had recommended that Kline’s law license be suspended indefinitely, an issue that will be decided by the Kansas Supreme Court. He has already allowed his Kansas law license to lapse.

Kline, who is now a visiting professor of law at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., denies breaking ethics rules during his investigations of clinics in Overland Park and Wichita while he was attorney general, and later as Johnson County district attorney. He has said the complaint was politically motivated.

On the title page of his response, Kline quoted Psalms 70, in which King David asks God, “May those who seek my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back

in disgrace.”

(New International Version).

K l i n e went on in his response to deny misconduct, violating rules Kline dealing with trial publicity, prosecutorial responsibilities, mishandling of evidence during the investigation, conflict of interest, lack of candor toward a court and lack of truthfulness in statements to others. He also denied misleading the Johnson County grand jury about provisions of a law regulating abortions.

The grand jury had investigated Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, a Johnson County abortion clinic, in late December 2007 and early 2008.

As district attorney, Kline filed 107 criminal charges against the Planned Parenthood clinic in 2007, accusing it of performing illegal abortions and falsifying records.

The clinic says the allegations are baseless.

The criminal charges came from Kline’s investigations of the late Dr. George Tiller, who was one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers, and a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. Tiller eventually was acquitted, though dozens of counts in

the Planned Parenthood case are pending. Tiller was murdered in May 2009 by an antiabortion activist.

Last month, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said he had no choice but to ask that 49 of 107 charges against Planned Parenthood’s Overland Park clinic be dismissed because both the state health department and attorney general’s office destroyed reports on individual abortions filed with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in 2003.

The judge dismissed 23 felony counts of falsifying such reports, as well as 26 misdemeanor charges that the clinic had failed to maintain its own copies, as required by law. But 58 misdemeanor charges remain, accusing the clinic of performing illegal abortions and failing to follow a state law restricting late-term abortions.

Kline said in his response that there was no violation when an investigator for the attorney general’s office did not disclose details of the investigation to another Kansas agency.

The panel had said Kline violated rules of professional conduct by appearing on Fox television’s “The O’Reilly Factor” just before the November 2006 election to discuss his investigation of Tiller. Kline said his statements to the “O’Reilly Factor” weren’t a violation and that he cooperated with the disciplinary investigation.

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into who works on the holiday, she said. If it’s not your day off, then you work.

“I don’t mind working at all,” she said. “I get off at 3 so I can still sit down with my family.”

I’d read that many Starbucks were open on Christmas — but not the one near the Journal-World offices at Seventh and Massachusetts.

“We are taking Christmas Day off,” a sign read. “Visit one of these nearby Starbucks open on the holiday.”

And then it had a blank with a big “N/A” written on it. I could hardly blame them, though. Downtown looked like a ghost town around 9 a.m. The only other human I saw was a jogger who waved kindly as we wished each other merry Christmas.

I went off to find a clerk at a convenience store, and found 22-year-old Tory Runnells behind the counter of the Fast Lane convenience store at 1414 W. Sixth St. He’d volunteered, too, as his family usually celebrates Christmas on the weekend after Christmas Day. So he got that off in exchange for working on Christmas Day. “So far, I’ve just celebrated with my girlfriend and her family,” he said.

And, yes, business was slow. The store carries batteries, which helped bail out a lot of forgetful parents. One person did some extremelylast-minute shopping, even though the pickings for gifts were kind of slim at the Fast Lane. The woman settled on a candle and a Honey Bun. Runnells said he thought it was a gag gift, though, as a fellow last-minute shopper; I’m not sure if it was.

Patrick Avila, a Kansas University student from Garden City, was at the front desk at the Days Inn at 730 Iowa. He volunteered, too.

He’s not particularly religious, he said, so he let his bosses and others take the day off while he scooped up the extra hours. Not many people were staying in the hotel, he said, though they did have a few.

“A lot of people that stay here have families in Lawrence,” he said. “But they don’t get along, so they stay here.”

He just seemed happy to talk to someone, and mentioned he’d read the bit online about the Applecroft fire.

So that was nice.

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never know what’ll happen, and when, but people want the constant updates. Unlike several reporters here, I’m not newly married and I don’t have young children, so I thought I’d help others enjoy the day.

As the only reporter on duty, the day began with some “cop checks,” looking into things that had happened since our overnight reporter left earlier Sunday morning. Sure enough, we had a two-alarm fire early Sunday morning at Applecroft Apartments on 19th Street, and so I put in a call to LawrenceDouglas County Fire Medical for more information.

And in so doing, I encoun— Reporter George Diepenbrock can be tered one of the first few reached at 832-7144. Follow him at folks also working that day.

Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock. Joe Hoelscher, a division chief, was actually working past his shift to create the report on the fire. ends in Douglas County “It’s what it is,” he said of working the holiday. “SomeThe car body’s got to do it.” was then He was very helpful — and stopped just even called me back later after 10 a.m. when he determined a dameast of Big age estimate for the fire, Springs on and said was heading home U.S. Highway around 8 a.m. or so.

40, where “My kids are in their 20s,” the driver he said. “And they’re at home and a passenger, a 17-year-old sleeping.” girl from Topeka, were arrested without incident. Police Vital services I told Hoelscher what I recovered a handgun and trace amounts of methamphetamine was planning for this story, and he sounded intrigued. from the car.

He suggested I go beyond the The girl was later released usual sorts of folks who get after deputies determined mentioned in these kinds of she was not involved with the stolen car or the driver’s inten- stories, like law enforcement, firefighters and health care tions to flee police. workers, even though they The Honda Accord was certainly deserve credit. I reported stolen on Dec. thought that was a good idea.

16 from Hook’s Garage in I hung up and continued to Auburn. make the telephone rounds, The 44-year-old man was talking to our usual cadre of initially booked on felony dispatchers who tell us if anycharges, including possession thing major has happened. of a stolen car, attempting to flee and elude an officer, crimi- Nothing to report in Franklin nal possession of a firearm and County, though dispatcher Janet Mills told me she’d aggravated endangerment of been working as a dispatcher a child. He was also charged for nine years and worked on with other misdemeanor Christmas on about half of charges and numerous traffic them. Nothing special goes violations.

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If you open, they will come Business was brisk at the CVS Pharmacy at 23rd and Iowa. I counted eight customers in the store, and the batteries were prominently displayed there, too. People were buying all kinds of items, including Christmas cookies, a cloud pillow (more last-minute shopping?) and some toilet paper. I bet that person was glad the CVS was open.

It was so busy that Alexey Sergiyenko, the store’s supervisor on duty, had only about a minute to talk to me before he had to go help on the register.

“I like working Christmas morning,” he said. For one thing, he said, it means holiday pay.

I always hear about people flocking to movies on Christmas Day, and apparently, that’s true. Jon Ratzlaff, general manager at the Hollywood South Wind 12 Theaters at 3433 Iowa, told me he had a slightly larger-than-normal crew of 14 people working on Christmas, including box office employees, popcorn poppers and ushers.

“When people are hired, people understand they’re either going to work on Thanksgiving or on Christmas,” he said.

In about 20 years of working in the movie theater business, working on Christmas has never really bothered him much.

“It’s part of the job,” he said.

There are many other folks I didn’t get to talk to — I know the IHOP restaurant opened at 2 p.m. for those who didn’t (or can’t) cook, and I’m sure other places like Chinese restaurants were open as well.

So here’s my shout-out to all of you who were at work on Christmas: I felt it, too.

But now, if you’ll excuse me, my shift is over and I have to go eat some Christmas dinner.

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU.

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Police find 7 dead in apartment Seven people believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot to death in a suburban Fort Worth apartment, police said Sunday.

Authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead, but got a warrant before doing a full search on the small chance that it was otherwise.

Four women and three men, aged 18 to 60, were found in an adjoining kitchen and living room area when police entered the apartment around midday, said Grapevine Police Sgt. Robert Eberling. Two handguns were found near the bodies in the apartment that was decorated for the holiday with a tree, he added.

“It appears they had just celebrated Christmas.

They had opened their gifts,” Eberling said.

The victims have not yet been identified, but Eberling said it appears they all died of gunshot wounds.

He said authorities still don’t know what sparked the incident.

Grapevine Police Lt. Todd Dearing said investigators believe that all the victims were related, but that some were only visiting and didn’t live in the apartment. He said police are looking for other relatives to inform.

By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com

The Lawrence school district is heading into the new year with plenty of institutional learning expected to come:

How or when to consolidate its roster of elementary schools.

What upgrades or expansions should be slated for remaining elementary schools and perhaps whether a new school or schools should be built.

How to pay for such projects and everything else — teacher

salaries, program expansions and more — in a district that has endured budgets cuts from the state during the past three years.

All while Gov. Sam Brownback takes a new school-finance formula to the Kansas Legislature for consideration, a financing plan billed as offering schools districts more flexibility but feared by some as an method for the state to cut its financial responsibilities.

Talk about a complicated assignment.

“There’s a lot of potential for a lot of change,” said Vanessa Sanburn, vice president of the Lawrence school board.

To address such issues and continue striving to provide the best education for students, district leaders plan to remain focused on a list of goals established earlier this year. The list includes items in three categories:

Raise achievement for all students.

Close achievement gaps.

Engage the community.

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Choice looms on 9/11 health lawsuits

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Santa trackers have record holiday Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve as he raced across the globe on his traditional holiday mission.

Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said they fielded about 102,000 telephone queries beginning early Saturday on his progress, breaking the previous mark of 80,000.

And his NORAD Facebook page recorded about 999,000 “likes,” compared with 716,000 a year ago.

Twitter followers increased from about 53,000 last year to more than 89,000.

Officials said records set this year were likely generated by people passing the word as well as social media interest.

“I think what happens is that every year the ones that participated” tell others, Canadian Navy Lt. Al Blondin. “There’s word of mouth.”

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Fire at exec.’s home kills kids, parents A fire tore through the home of an advertising executive in a tony neighborhood along the Connecticut shoreline Sunday, killing her three children and both of her parents on Christmas morning.

Madonna Badger, who bought the large Victorian home last year, was able to get out of the house, along with an acquaintance.

Stamford Police Sgt. Paul Guzda said Badger’s three daughters — a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins — were killed. He said her parents, who were visiting for the holiday, also died. Police officers drove Badger’s husband, Matthew Badger, from New York City to Stamford on Sunday morning.

Guzda said the male acquaintance was a contractor who was doing work on the home. Badger, an ad executive in the fashion industry, is the founder of Badger & Winters Group. A supervisor at Stamford Hospital said she was treated and discharged.

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JAZMINE DILLON, 8, LEFT, TAKES A LICK OF MASHED POTATOES as she and her mother, Tammy Bevens, Lawrence, enjoy a Christmas meal at the annual Lawrence Free Community Christmas Dinner at First United Methodist Church. “It’s fun,” Bevens said about the holiday shared meal. “I’ve been coming since my daughter was a year old.”

Volunteers help make free community dinner a success

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

Hundreds of volunteers helped dish out a free Christmas dinner Sunday to anyone who cared to partake of the Lawrence Free Community Christmas Dinner.

This was the 18th year for the dinner at Lawrence’s First United Methodist Church, 946 Vt. It took “only” 55 turkeys and 40 hams to feed everyone, said Deb Engstrom, a volunteer who helped with the organization of the event.

That’s not to mention the stuffing, potatoes and gravy and all the rest of the trimmings.

The free meal is offered every year to everyone, she said.

Hundreds of people request meal deliveries, and many more show up to eat at the church.

“I just happen to believe that fellowship is really important

people. That was most of the meals they had planned to deliver, Engstrom said, but they would continue to answer the phones until the meal wrapped up around 2 p.m.

Sarah Schmille, a 24-yearold Lawrence resident, was one of many volunteers who helped deliver meals throughout the county to those who requested them.

She came with three of her cousins from Raleigh, N.C., and her grandmother — “We call her Nana,” Schmille said VOLUNTEERS IRMA TESAR, left, and Dorothy Monaghan, distribute — from Bangor, Maine. She said she was happy to volunpies during the annual Lawrence teer her time to give back on Free Community Christmas Day Christmas and was prepared to Dinner at First United Methodist use her GPS navigating system Church. to help deliver meals wherever they needed to go. for people on holidays,” she “We don’t eat until 3, so it’s said. “And fellowship usually fine,” she said. happens around a meal.”

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More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide

by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund.

For some, the choice is fraught with risk.

Federal lawmakers set aside $2.76 billion last winter for people who developed illnesses after spending time in the ash-choked disaster zone.

But to be considered for a share of the aid, all potential applicants must dismiss any pending lawsuits by the deadline and give up their right to sue forever over 9/11 health problems. Anyone with a lawsuit still pending on Jan. 3 is barred from the program for life.

The government program is attractive because it spares the sick from having to prove that their illness is related to 9/11, and that someone other than the terrorists put them in harm’s way. But applicants won’t know for months, or even years, how much money they might eventually receive from the program. That means some people may give up their lawsuits and find out later that they only qualify for a modest payment.

Such goals may be broad and their reach extensive, but district leaders know they’ll once again be addressing them while operating under mounting financial pressures after cuts of $3 million and $3.4 million, for example, during each of the past two years.

“In the big picture, we have the continuing challenge of limited resources and increasing needs,” Rick Doll, district superintendent, said.

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Dr. Kipp Van Camp, an interventional radiologist in Topeka, is frustrated with the health care system, and instead of just grumbling about it, he decided to write a book.

Among his frustrations are the high costs for care and the need for tort reform. He’s really irked about global health care rankings.

He said often organizations are not comparing apples to apples, especially for infant mortality and life expec- Van Camp tancy. He said the U.S. should be near the top in both categories.

“That’s been insulting. Health care in America is good, and someone needs to talk about this stuff,” he said.

Van Camp said the book, “Misdiagnosis: A Practicing Physician’s Case Study in Health Care Reform,” covers the history of how we got to where we are, identifies what’s wrong and right with the system, provides details about the Affordable Care Act, and provides solutions.

“My goal is to bring about an awareness, to educate and to debunk some myths,” he said.

Van Camp, 48, grew up in Colby and graduated from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.

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To help make the most of its relatively scarce revenues, the district plans to pursue creating a Budget Advisory Committee, one whose members will be expected to include interested and educated professionals and others.

The group will be tasked with advising both district administrators and board members, the folks responsible for seeing that the district’s limited resources are spent as effectively as possible.

In January, board members are scheduled to receive recommendations from the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group, an advisory panel formed earlier this year to study how to shrink a list of six elementary schools — Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sun-

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Monaghan watched over the many slices of pie. Those present for the feast had, to put it mildly, a wide variety of pie options. Blueberry,

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In the big picture, we have the continuing challenge of limited resources and increasing needs.”

— Rick Doll, Lawrence school district superintendent set Hill — by two or three within the next few years.

That group’s work, if embraced by the school board, could lead to formation of a package of renovations, expansions and even new construction projects designed to accommodate the district’s overall elementary needs in all remaining schools. Closing one school, for example, could mean adding more classrooms somewhere else; other schools could need new cafeterias, expanded libraries or other physical resources to meet both basic needs and equity demands.

Such projects would need financing, of course, and the working group’s recommendations are being formed under the assumption that the board would propose a bond issue to address elementary needs districtwide. The

working group also has been told to make recommendations under the assumption that voters would approve such a bond issue.

Sanburn said that any plan taken to voters would need to provide:

The best way for using the district’s money most efficiently, showing that the board is serving as a good steward of the public’s willingness to invest.

Additional programs and services for students — such as full-time social workers, counselors, librarians or other personnel and services — so that students can be at their best.

“We have to satisfy both of those,” Sanburn said.

blackberry, peach, pumpkin, apple, key lime, raisin, coconut cream, chocolate cream, sweet potato and gooseberry all were on the menu.

“You forgot cherry,” Monaghan said.

It was all tasty for Tammy Bevens and her 8-year-old daughter, Jazmine Dillon, who came for a meal. They

both agreed it was good stuff.

“We wanted to come down and be around people,” Bevens said. “We went to church this morning and then we came here.”

— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be reached at 832-7188. Follow him at Twitter.com/MarkFaganLJW.

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU.

Radiologist to chat on WellCommons.com Dr. Kipp Van Camp, an interventional radiologist in Topeka, will be available Jan. 11 to discuss his new book, “Misdiagnosis: A Practicing Physician’s Case Study in Health Care Reform.”

He said the book covers the history of how we got to where we are, identifies what’s wrong and right with the system, provides details about the Affordable Care Act, and provides solutions.

Van Camp will be participating in an online chat at 3 p.m. Jan. 11 on WellCommons.com. And, you can submit your questions anonymously at any time at Well-

patients. He became a radiologist and then an interventional radiologist, who does image-guided procedures.

For example, if a woman finds a lump in her breast, an interventional radiologist does the biopsy to see if it’s cancerous.

Van Camp owns a radiology company called Critical Imaging Associates in Topeka. He’s also one of two hosts on a medical radio talk show called Doctor’s Orders, which airs on stations in Toand America wants technolpeka and Kansas City. ogy,” he said.

Book highlights

Decision-making — In a 45-minute telephone While everyone wants the interview this week, Van best medicine and tests, not Camp covered a variety of everyone gets it. He said topics contained in his book. insurance companies have Here are a few of the high- started making those decilights: sions instead of doctors and

Pushing paperwork — patients. Van Camp said He said navigating the in- if an insurance company creasing mandates for insur- won’t pay for a drug, we ance coverage is reducing have the ability to appeal it the time doctors are caring at the state level. He fears for patients. In 1979, there with health reform that apwere 252 state mandates in peals process will be taken place across the country, an away.

Mandating insurance — average of five requirements per state. By 2009, there He believes there is merit to were 2,133, an average of 42 a mandate because there are per state. “Patients are notic- Americans who can afford ining the impact when they are surance but choose to spend money elsewhere. increasingly being treated by their nurse practitioners and not When those Americans end physicians,” he said. “It’s a up in the emergency room, hospitals are required to care trend that’s not going away.

Tort reform — He said for them. He said there may Congress should have includ- be years of wrangling over ed tort reform in the Afford- the bill but if it’s not paid, it able Care Act. “There are so costs the taxpayers. Under many frivolous lawsuits that health reform, Van Camp come in this country that it’s thinks there should be an opabsolutely ridiculous,” Van tion to buy just catastrophic Camp said. He said doctors coverage. are afraid they will get sued if He’s also concerned about they don’t do every high-tech the exemptions that fall untest possible, which drives up der the Affordable Care Act. costs. He said Texas has done Among them: Christian Scian overhaul of its legal sys- entists, American Indians, tem, and studies have shown Muslims and Scientologists. “I it’s lowered health costs and could claim Scientology and drawn more doctors to the not have to buy insurance. state. “Tort reform affects That’s ridiculous,” he said.

Insurance portability — everyone because of the unnecessary costs it adds to al- Under health care reform, insurance will become porready costly health care.”

High-tech generation table, meaning if you have — Van Camp also blames insurance in Kansas and the high cost of health care move to Missouri, providers on society. He said Ameri- have to accept your insurcans want the latest, great- ance. That’s a good thing, he est technology and medicine said.

All or nothing — Instead and as quickly as possible, but they aren’t willing to pay of passing the Affordable for it. “When you have high Care Act, he said the country technology, you are going to should have tried changing spend a whole lot of money, just one area, like tort reform

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Dr. Van Camp owns a radiology company called Critical Imaging Associates in Topeka. He also is owner and medical director of Rejuvenate Medical Spa, providing minimally invasive cosmetic medical procedures. He serves as an adjunct professor at Washburn University and Kansas University.

Van Camp is one of two hosts on a medical radio talk show called Doctor’s Orders, which airs on stations in Topeka and Kansas City. or outlining what’s considered basic health care under insurance. Does it include: all vaccines, high blood pressure, smoking cessation and weight loss? That’s still to be determined.

“We never do anything in steps. We didn’t try something in one area, instead we pass this monstrous bill that’s out of control and affects the whole country,” he said.

Solution: Less government Van Camp, a Republican, said he tried not to play politics in his book, although he does “throw stones” at Congress for a lot of problems. “I tried to be as objective as a person can be carrying with them all of their biases,” he said.

Van Camp believes less government involvement is one of the keys to fixing the broken system. “My philosophy and my belief is that the private sector works.

Get out of the way and don’t regulate too much, and they will find the most costeffective way to get things done,” he said.

He thinks people should be able to put money into health savings accounts for medications and procedures without being taxed for it.

Van Camp said he’s spent his medical career — 25 years — working on the book, but it only took six weeks to write.

“What I’ve realized is the system is broken, but what I’ve been so upset about is that the system isn’t broken because the quality of care is bad,” he said.

The book is available online at drkipp.com.

Douglas County Senior Services LIFESTYLE – BASED TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION Thursday, Feb. 23, 4 – 6 p.m. Fee: Free. Location: Carnegie Library. Dr. Ilardi will talk about his clinical research in developing a lifestyle-based treatment for depression, Therapeutic Lifestyle change (TLC), which has shown great promise as an alternative (or addition) to antidepressant medication. Don’t miss this popular class, call today and reserve your seat.

Coffee with Experts- What’s happening at Watkins Museum Now and in the Future?

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Come listen and learn about basic home repair from Home Depot. Location: Eldridge Hotel. This monthly program is co-sponsored with The Eldridge Hotel and Lawrence Parks and Recreation. Pre-registration is highly recommended. Prior to the event….Please joins us at The Eldridge for the “Early Riser 50+” breakfast from 7a-9:30am. Only $4.95 per person including coffee!

Key Issues for 2012 Legislative Session Tuesday, Jan. 31, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library, Marvin Auditorium. The panel will focus on Redistricting in Kansas, 2012 Election, Social Service Issues, Arts Funding and Education. Senator Steve Morris, Representative Paul Davis, Representative Brenda Landwehr, Professor Mike Lynch from Political Science Dept., Journalist Martin Hawver and Charles Jones from KU’s School of Public Administration will moderate. The event is open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by KU College of Liberal Arts & Science, League of Women’s Voters and Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library. Douglas County Senior Services will be providing transportation, if interested call 842-0543 to reserve a spot.

Basic Personal Finance & Investing Wed. Jan. 25, 11a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Location: Lawrence Senior Center. Instructor: Attorney Robert Ramsdell, previously taught Economics at West Point. This class will provide a basic overview of financial goal setting; stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs; diversification and asset allocation; Roth and tax-deferred investment options; the “4% Guideline” for retirement withdrawals; and related topics. The presentation lasts about an hour, followed by a question-and-answer period. Enrollment is highly encouraged.

Fundamentals of Estate Planning Thursday, Feb. 2, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Fee: None. Location: Lawrence Senior Center.

Facilitator: Attorney Robert Ramsdell. What happens if you die without a Will? What can a Will or Revocable Living Trust accomplish? What are durable Powers of Attorney for financial affairs and healthcare decisions? A Living Will? Would any of them be useful for you? Learn the answers to these questions and others at the presentation on Fundamentals of Estate Planning by Attorney Robert Ramsdell. The presentation lasts about an hour, and will be followed by an open question-and-answer period.

Facebook Tuesdays, Feb. 21 – Feb. 28, 6 – 7 p.m. Fee: $12. Location: River Front Plaza Computer Lab. Instructor: Peter Shenouda. Learn how to socialize online with your friends and family. You never have to worry about finding addresses and you can look for an old friend by name! Surprise your grandkids across the world or another state as you invite them to your Facebook page. Find old friends, relatives or discover groups you can join. In order to use Facebook you will need to bring an email address with you to class.

Computer 101 Tuesdays, Jan. 17 – Feb. 7, 6 -7 p.m. Fee: $25. Location: River Front Plaza Computer Lab. Instructor: Peter Shenouda. A course designed for those with no or little experience with computers. We use hands-on instruction to make you comfortable operating the computer. You will learn terminology, parts of the computer, use of the mouse and keyboard, and get a general understanding of the computer.

Acrylic Painting Class Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Fee: $20 per session. Location: Lawrence Senior Center…

Instructor: Lori Dalrymple (local area and national artist). Join Lori as she teaches acrylic painting to students of all levels of expertise. No need to pre-register. Supplies not included. If you already have supplies please bring them and if you are starting out and need assistance in getting supplies, please call Lori at 785-917-0118.

Downtown Tuesday Painters Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Location: Senior Center Conference Room. Bring your painting project and supplies and join the Downtown Tuesday Painters.

Theatre Lawrence Dress Rehearsal Call 842-0543 for more information.

HEALTH & FITNESS: Chair Exercise Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 – 11:30 a.m. Fee: None. Location: Lawrence Senior Center, Conference Room.

Laughter Yoga Tuesdays, Jan. 17 - Mar. 27, 11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Location: Lawrence Senior Center, Dining Center. Instructor: Janet Gibson. Laughter is the best medicine; it increases the body levels of endorphins (natural pain killer) and lymphocytes (soldiers of the immune system). It is a gentle body workout and strengthens the respiratory system , fosters positive and sound social behaviors and brings peace to mind ( laughter is a social glue that connects people). Laughter yoga boosts self- confidence as well as the moral of participants. Laughter yoga exercises are simple, structures and entertaining. It is appropriate for all regardless of their cognitive, sensory or motor abilities/ limitations. Come unite and share in the inter-change of encouragement through laughter with us.

Yoga Mondays, Jan. 9 – Mar. 12, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Fee: $38. Location: Community Building 11th & Vermont., Instructor: Annie Wilsey. Register at Community Building.

Tai Chi Beginning Wednesdays, Jan. – Mar. 7, 10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Fee: $38. Location: Lawrence Senior Center: Wendy Griswold. Register at South Park Recreation Center.

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Zumba Gold Tuesdays & Thursdays, Jan. 3 – Mar. 8, 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Cost: $46. Location: Lawrence Senior Center, MPR. Register at South Park Recreation Center.

Pilates Silver Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan. 3 – Mar. 8, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Fee: $23. Location: Holcomb Rec. Center. Instructor: Pat Middaugh. Pilates is a modern approach to body conditioning that will keep you on the cutting edge of times. Class will focus on core muscles such as hips, thighs, and abdominals that will strengthen and tone by stretching as the moves. Main principles include following motion, breathing, flexibility, precision, centering and control. This class not only strengthens your body but your mind as well. Call 832-7930 for more information.

Pickleball Thursdays, Jan. 19 – Feb. 23, 10 – 11 a.m. Fee: $35. Location: East Lawrence Center.

Instructor: Evan Jorn. Pickleball is played with perforated plastic baseball, similar to a whiffleball, and wood or composite paddles. It is a combination of tennis and badminton with different rules and equipment. It is a great game for individuals of all ages and easy for beginners to learn, but can develop into a quick, fast-paced, competitive game for experienced players.

TRAVEL CLUB New Dinner Theatre, Overland Park, KS Thursday, Jan. 26, 10:45 a.m. – 5 p.m. $50. Presenting Gregory Harrison from Trapper John MD and One Tree Hill in 60-Pump Boys & Dinettes There’s So Much in Saint. Jo! Friday, Mar. 16, Cost: $82, includes Motor Coach and lunch. Optional trip cancelation Insurance: $11. Join us for this “MOJO Getaway” as wet travel to historic Sot. Joseph, MO. This tour includes and is not limited to a Tour Director; tour Glore Psychiatric Museum, Sot. Joseph Museum & Black Archives, Pony Express Museum, Patee House and Jesse James Home Museum. A more detailed flier is available at DCSS. Costa Rica: A World of Nature Departs from KCI International Airport Feb. 2, 2012 and returns Feb. 16, 2012 at a low price of $2,699 for double occupancy; $3,099 for single occupancy and $2,699 for triple occupancy. Highlights’ of the trips Features but not limited to Tortuguero National Park, Sarapiqui Rain Forrest & Manuel Antonio National Park. , pineapple Plantation, Bat Tour, Cacao Plantation, Cooking Demonstration, River Rafting, Farm Tour, Cheese Making Demonstration, Arenal Volcano Rain Forrest or Monteverde Cloud Forest and Coffee Plantation. Detailed trip flier is available at DCSS. ONGOING GROUPS AND DROP-IN-ACTIVITIES: Anyone 55 and over is welcome to participate in these friendly and low-keyed activities. Specified times listed below. No fees required for some activities; programs are dependent upon donations. Some supplies are provided and equipment is available for participants. Please contact the department for further information on these activities.

LAWRENCE SENIOR CENTER, 745 Vermont, Phone (785) 842-0543.

MONDAY: Pool & Coffee: 8:30 am – 11a.m. Poolroom.

Card Game: 1 -3:30p.m. Dining Center.

TUESDAY: Downtown Tuesday Painters: 9 am –1p.m. Studio, Beginning or established artist welcome.

Bingo: 11 - 11:45 a.m., Dinning Center.

WEDNESDAY: Pool & Coffee: 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Pool Room.

Chair Exercise: 11:00 a.m. –11:30 am Multipurpose Room FRIDAY: Pool & Coffee: 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Pool Room.

Chair Exercise: 10:30-11am, Multipurpose Room Clarinet: 2:45 – 4 p.m.

New Horizon’s Band: 4 – 5 p.m.

BABCOCK PLACE: 1700 Massachusetts, 842-6976 Autoharp: 9:45 a.m. – 11: 00 a.m., Hobby Room. (Contact Berta Call- 785- 8834271) Legal Services: 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1-4p.m. at Babcock Place.

Bingo, Wednesdays, 1p.m.

BALDWIN SENIOR CENTER: 1221 Indiana, Baldwin City (785)-594-2409 Cards, 3rd Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m.

Pool: Monday – Friday 9a.m.-1p.m.

Bunko, Last Thursdays of the month, 1p.m.

PINECREST APARTMENTS: 924 Walnuts, Eudora (785) 542-1020 Bingo: Wednesday 12:30-1p.m.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 353 Elmore, Lecompton. (785) 887-6327 Bingo: Thursday 12-1p.m.

Hot noon meals are served Monday through Friday to anyone 60 years old and their spouse, regardless of spousal age. Meals are served on a suggested donation rate of $2.50, but no one will be denied because of inability to pay.

Please call one day in advance before 1:00 pm to reserve a meal for the following day. Volunteers also deliver these same meals to eligible homebound seniors. Locations and phone numbers are listed above.

We want your input! Please let us know if you are interested in starting an activity at your meal site. We can provide the materials, equipment, and facilities needed to implement a program tailor-made to fit your meal site situation. Contact the Leisure and Learning Department for details. (785) 842-0543.

The Leisure and Learning Department welcomes suggestion for trips and classes. Call DCSS at (785) 842-0543.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital Community Education HEALTHY ACTIVE LIVING PROGRAMS, SPECIAL EVENTS AND CLASSES Preventing Falls

Tuesday January 31, Lunch: 12:30 pm, Presentation: 1:30 pm. Program to be held at Meadowlark Estates, 4430 Bauer Farm Drive One third of those over age 65 and one-half of those over age 75 have a fall each year.

Falls are the leading cause of injuries resulting in death for senior adults. Join LMH Community Education, LMH Therapy Services and the staff of Meadowlark Estates for a free program to educate about the prevention of falls in the senior population.

A limited number of lunches will be available at 12:30 pm. Advance reservation by January 24 is required for lunch. Call (785) 842-2400 for a lunch reservation. The educational program will be held at 1:30 pm.

WELLNESS CLASSES

10,000 Steps a Day Saturday January 7, 9:00-10:30 am A program designed to increase daily steps to 10,000 and thus improve health. Those participants who need a pedometer to log steps can buy one for $10. Program is free.

Advance enrollment required.

The Steps to Successfully Quitting Smoking Monday January 9, 6:00-8:00 pm

A free one session class that covers the basic steps to successfully quitting smoking.

Advance registration required.

Ask-a-Registered Dietitian About Nutrition and Wellness or Weight Loss

Tuesday January 10, 3:00-6:00 pm (by advance appointment) LMH Registered Dietitian Patty Metzler will meet with community members for a free private consultation regarding personal wellness and nutrition questions or weight loss issues. Advance appointments required, are limited in availability and restricted to 15 minutes.

PREDIABETES CLASS

Thursday January 12, 12:00-1:30 pm A free class for those at risk for developing diabetes or have already been told that they have prediabetes. Topics include preventing or delaying Type 2 diabetes, diet, exercise, weight loss, medications and avoiding potential complications. Sponsored

by LMH Diabetes Education Center.

Seven Steps to Stress Mastery – A Basic Stress Management Course

Tuesdays January 17 & 24, 6:00-8:00 pm Do you have difficulty managing the stress in your life? Plan to attend this two session class that offers basic stress management information. Registration in advance required due to class space limitations. $20/person

HEALTH SCREENINGS Know Your Numbers – Cholesterol Screening

Wednesday January 4, 8:30-10:00 am Drop into LMH HealthSource room for fingerstick total only cholesterol (does not include HDL or LDL) screening. $6.

Bone Density Screening

Heel screening for plus education about osteoporosis. $15. Appointment required.

FITNESS PROGRAMS

LMH Therapy Services offer a variety of fitness and aquatic programs. Dates and times vary. Registration for aquatic programs is through the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department. www.lprd.org or (785) 832-SWIM). Program options include: Aqua Fit- class for those recovering from surgery or with chronic diseases. Focuses

on balance, flexibility and strength.

Jivin’ Joints – an aquatic program for those with arthritis or a similar conditions.

Fit for Life – personalized and supervised exercise program for those not comfortable in traditional exercise environments. Five separate program options including personal training, individual exercise programs and small group classes – Body Balance & Functionally Fit. For more information call (785) 505-2712.

FOR EXPECTANT AND NEW PARENTS

Call for dates and times for these programs. Those interested in childbirth preparation and related classes should plan to enroll at least 4 months in advance of their due date. Fee applies to all classes.

Online Childbirth Preparation: new option for those unable to attend group classes.

Web-based class done in your own home and at your own pace. Includes optional one-time class with tour of hospital and chance to ask questions.

Traditional Childbirth Preparation – both 5 week and weekend options available.

Childbirth Basic – a condensed version of five week childbirth classes; held over one weekend on a Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.

Refresher Prenatal – personal class; set up as needed. Call (785) 505-3081 for this class only.

Babycare Workshop Breastfeeding Your Baby Newborn Safety – includes infant CPR. Fit for 2 – eight week fitness program for expectant mothers.

Fit for You – one to one personal training sessions for mothers who have recently delivered a baby.

SAFETY CLASSES

American Heart Association First Aid: for the public. Completion card issued. $50 American Heart Association Friends & Family CPR – for the general public; does not provide certification. $25.

American Heart Association Heartsaver AED CPR – certification for non-medical profession purposes such as childcare providers. $35.

Child Passenger Safety – free monthly sessions by appointment to check for safe and correct child safety seat installation.

Free Support Groups

Bereavement Support – meets 1st and 3rd Mondays from 4:00-5:00 pm. For more information, call (785) 505-3140. No meeting January 2.

Breastfeeding/New Parent Support – meets most Mondays from 10:00-11:30 am.

For more information, call (785) 749-5800.

Build Your Village – for mothers experiencing postpartum adjustment challenges.

Meets in eight week sessions on Monday evenings. For more information and upcoming session dates, call (785) 505-3081.

CLIMB® (Children’s Lives Include Moments of Bravery) – free education and support sessions for children who have parents or other loved ones with cancer. For more information, call (785) 505-2768.

Diabetes Education Group – meets 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:00-7:00 pm. New discussion topic each month. For more information, call (785) 505-3062.

January topic: “Diabetes and Exercise and Overcoming Barriers.” Presented by Mike Walters, Exercise Physiologist, LMH Cardiac Rehab Stroke Support Group – meets 3rd Tuesday of the month from 4:00-5:30 pm. For more information, call (785) 505-2712.

Lawrence Public Library BOOKTALKS

Join Pattie once a month at one of the following locations for an informal discussion of a variety of materials available from the main library collection. You need not be a resident of the site to attend. The public is invited!

Third Tuesday of each month: 10:00am 11:00am 2:00pm 3:00pm

Midland Day Care* 319 Perry St. Vermont Towers 1101 Vermont St. Cottonwood Retirees 1029 New Hampshire St. Babcock Place 1700 Massachusetts St.

Third Wednesday of each month: 10:30am 1:00pm 2:15pm

Brandon Woods 1501 Inverness Dr. Prairie Commons 5121 Congressional Circle The Windsor* 3229 Peterson Rd.

Fourth Wednesday of each month: 9:45am

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— Health reporter Karrey Britt can be reached at 832-7190. Read her health blog at WellCommons.com, and follow her at Twitter.com/WellCommons.

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1:00pm 2:30pm

Presbyterian Manor 1429 Kasold Dr-Library Presbyterian Manor--Assisted Living 1429 Kasold Dr. Pioneer Ridge-Assisted Living 4851 Harvard Rd. Drury Place 1510 St.Andrews Dr.

*These are secured sites; please call for more information.

BOOKVAN SCHEDULE MONDAY 9:00-10:00am

Prairie Commons 5121 Congressional Circle 10:30-11:30am Presbyterian Manor 1429 Kasold Drive 11:00-Noon Vermont Towers 1101 Vermont Street *Please note: Due to the New Year’s holiday, the bookvan will NOT run on Jan.2, 2012 WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:00am Brandon Woods 1501 Inverness Drive 10:30-11:30am Drury Place 1510 St.Andrews Drive 1:00-2:00pm Babcock Place 1700 Massachusetts Street

FRIDAY

9:00-10:00am

Clinton Place Apartments 2125 Clinton Parkway Wyndham Place Apartments 2551 Crossgate Drive 1:30-2:30pm Peterson Acres 2930 Peterson Road The bookmobile is available to the public. You need not be a resident of the site to use the bookmobile. For information on any of these services or programs, contact Pattie at the Library Senior Outreach Services, 843-3833.

10:30-11:30am

Douglas County Health Department B.I.B.S- Breast is Best Social

B.I.B.S.- Breast is Best Social, a peer group for women seeking to learn about breastfeeding, meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Health Department, 200 Maine St. in Lawrence. Both pregnant women seeking information and women currently breastfeeding are encouraged to attend to learn and share their experience.

The free group is facilitated by certified breastfeeding counselors and is held in a relaxed, come-as-you-are environment.

Come as often as you like. For more information on B.I.B.S., go to the Health Department’s website at ldchealth.org, look for Douglas County Breastfeeding Connection on Facebook or call (785) 843-3060.

“Kids Need to Know”- Family-based Sexuality Education

This five-week course for fifth- and sixth-graders helps parents be the primary

sexuality educators for their children. The course begins with a “parents only” night to provide information and answer questions. A parent attends each of the following four sessions with the child. A comprehensive, decision-making model of sexuality education is used. Teachers are registered nurses and social workers.

A girls’ class will start Tuesday, Jan. 17. Classes meet from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Health Department. Call (785) 843-3060 or e-mail fbsinfo@ldchealth.org to register. For more information, go to: www.ldchealth.org/sexualityeducation.php

Child Care Licensing Orientations

Child Care Licensing orientation meetings for prospective providers are held from 1 to 3 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month in the first floor meeting room of the Community Health Facility, 200 Maine St. in Lawrence. The next meeting is Jan. 10.

There is no fee to attend. Please pre-register by calling (785) 843-3060.

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HOW TO HELP

Volunteers needed to help clear 40-acre wooded area

Douglas County Public Works has been in touch with Berry Plastics. The company said Staff Reports recently its contractor will address the soil tracked onto Agency: Friends of Hidden North 1800 Road as soon as Valley possible.

Contact: Durand Reiber at 785-842-5342 or durandi@ with teens in order to creSOUND OFF sunflower.com ate an open dialogue about healthy relationships and get If you have a question, call The Friends of Hidden a sense of what the commu832-7297 or send email to Valley group is seeking vol- nity believes are important unteers to assist the camp topics to address with this soundoff@ljworld.com. manager in fence-line inspec- new programming. The fotions and clearing in a 40- cus groups will last between acre wooded area that is sur- one and a half to two hours; rounded by a barb wire fence. dates are still being schedEach winter, volunteers are uled. Teens ages 15-19 are ON THE RECORD LJWORLD.COM/BLOTTER needed to help walk along the needed, as well as adults who inside of the fence, cutting are at least 20 years old and smaller trees and new who work with adolescents.

LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT back growth within 5 feet of the For more details about these A Lawrence-Douglas County fence, treating the stumps, focus groups and to volunteer Fire Medical official said no one removing downed branches as a participant, contact Kaywas injured in a two-alarm fire and hauling debris into the lyn Wright or Holly Santee at at Applecroft Apartments, 1741 woods. While cutting back, teen@wtcskansas.org.

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Small World is in need of some time will be spent inFire Medical Division Chief specting/repairing the fence, a volunteer or two to perform Joe Hoelscher said the blaze picking up litter, and remov- admission and administrative was reported at 2:11 a.m. ing larger, invasive honey- tasks beginning Jan. 24 at its Sunday, and crews responded suckle shrubs in the under- twice-weekly classes held at at 2:14 a.m. Firefighters found occupants exiting the building story of the woods, as time First Presbyterian Church, and smoke showing. The fire permits. Tools provided are 2415 Clinton Parkway. Rewas quickly brought under conloppers, hand saws and a bat- sponsibilities include protrol by about 2:30 a.m., and firetery-operated reciprocal saw; cessing applications, collectfighters worked on ventilating a volunteer with a chain saw ing tuition, entering student smoke from the building.

Hoelscher said the fire was would be a great addition. information into a database, in the first floor hallway area Workdays will be each Thurs- greeting new students, proof building A in the apartment day afternoon of the week viding building tours, maincomplex. Crews requested a until the work is complete, or taining the mailbox and other second alarm because of the until March 15, weather and correspondence with staff, volume of residents affected, conditions permitting. For and more. Volunteers must Hoelscher said. One resident had to be moved to a nearby more information about how be able to commit to Tuesday apartment building, but was to get involved, contact Du- and Thursday mornings beexpected to be able to re-enter rand Reiber at 785-842-5342 tween 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. To the building later Sunday, find out more about Small or durandi@sunflower.com.

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Immediate needs tional women and their chilInitial estimates placed the

Douglas County Senior dren adjust to the Lawrence amount of property damage Services is in need of vol- community, contact Kathy caused by the fire at around unteers who can schedule Mulinazzi at 785-841-3645 or $19,500. appointments for local se- kathymulinazzi@aol.com.

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Grassland Heritage Founniors to have their taxes filed DISTRICT COURT through the AARP Tax-Aide dation is looking for volunMARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED program.

Volunteers will teers to assist with layout Dale Lambert Sipple, 24, schedule appointments Mon- and story development for its Junction City, and Molly day through Thursday from quarterly newsletter. All volChristine Warren, 25, Lawrence.

Jan. 17 through April 15. If you unteers would work under the Edward Lyle Ethington, 32, are available for any period of direction of the newsletter edSmithville, Mo., and Susannah time each week to help, con- itor, and will receive a proper Elise Ricks, 31, Kansas City, Mo. orientation to the organization tact Criss at 785-842-0543.

Meng Hu, 30, Lawrence, and Dan Chen, 25, Lawrence.

The Willow Domestic and newsletter specifications Steven Edward Pate, 41, Violence Center and GaDu- upon starting the volunteer Lawrence, and Esmeralda Gi SafeCenter are develop- position. To view some of Vizuet, 29, Lawrence. ing programming to educate GHF’s previous newsletters, William Douglas Byrn, 42, teenagers in Lawrence about go to www.grasslandheritage.

Lawrence, and Rachel Irene Paradies, 29, Lawrence. dating violence and healthy org and click on the “NewsletMark Shannon Collins, 50, no relationships.

Volunteers ters” tab on the left side of the city listed, and Carolyn Mary are needed to participate in a homepage. Prior writing and/ Whitaker, 40, Lawrence. series of focus groups in late or design experience is preJanuary and early February. ferred. Contact Kim BellemeDIVORCES GRANTED There will be separate focus re for more details at 785-840Ronna Marie Crosby, 47, groups conducted for both 8104 or grasslandheritage@ Lawrence, and Donald Franklin Street, 39, Lawrence. teens and adults who work gmail.com.

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BANKRUPTCIES Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records: • Reid Scott Walter and Michelle Renee Walter, 945 Pamela Lane, Lawrence.

• Johnathan Dewayne Crocker, 420 North St., Lot 68, Lawrence.

• Sheri Ann Longabach, 2522 Ala., Lawrence.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed.

The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name.

• The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged.

• Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported.

• Holdups and robberies.

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Jamie Berr and Steven Kibbe, Gardner, a boy, Saturday.

Matt and Colette Wedan, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday.

Taylor and Jason Backofen, Lawrence, a boy, Sunday.

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LONDON — The loose-knit hacking movement “Anonymous” claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals’ accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards.

Anonymous boasted of stealing Stratfor’s confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses.

Austin, Texas-based Stratfor provides political, economic and military analysis to help clients reduce risk, according to a description on its YouTube page. It charges subscribers for its reports and analysis, delivered through the web, emails and videos.

The company’s main website was down, with a banner say-

ing the “site is currently undergoing maintenance.”

Proprietary information about the companies and government agencies that subscribe to Stratfor’s newsletters did not appear to be at any significant risk, however, with the main threat posed to individual employees who had subscribed.

“Not so private and secret anymore?” Anonymous taunted in a message on Twitter, promising that the attack on Stratfor was just the beginning of a Christmasinspired assault on a long list of targets.

Anonymous said the client list it had already posted was a small slice of the 200 gigabytes worth of plunder it stole from Stratfor and promised more leaks. It said it was able to get the credit card details in part because Stratfor didn’t bother encrypting them — an easy-toavoid blunder which, if true, would be a major embarrassment for any security-related company.

Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice president of intelligence, said the company had reported the intrusion to law enforcement and was working with them on the investigation.

Stratfor has protections in

place meant to prevent such attacks, he said.

“But I think the hackers live in this kind of world where once they fixate on you or try to attack you it’s extraordinarily difficult to defend against,” Burton said.

Hours after publishing what it claimed was Stratfor’s client list, Anonymous tweeted a link to encrypted files online with names, phone numbers, emails, addresses and credit card account details.

“Not as many as you expected? Worry not, fellow pirates and robin hoods.

These are just the ‘A’s,” read a message posted online that encouraged readers to download a file of the hacked information.

The attack is “just another in a massive string of breaches we’ve seen this year and in years past,” said Josh Shaul, chief technology officer of Application Security Inc., a New York-based provider of database security software.

Still, companies that shared secret information with Stratfor in order to obtain threat assessments might worry that the information is among the 200 gigabytes of data that Anonymous claims to have stolen, he said.

Drinks and joy as defectors from N. Korea embrace Kim’s death

By Sam Kim Associated Press

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — More than 21,000 North Koreans now live in South Korea. For many, the news of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death stirred mixed emotions.

Several interviewed in Seoul by The Associated Press described a burst of joy upon hearing that Kim had died, but also a surge of unease over the fate of relatives and friends and even a shadow of homesickness.

There was celebration — one man had drinks with a friend— and hope for a better future for their homeland.

For one woman, there was sadness as she envisioned little girls cramming to memorize the Kims’ feats.

South Korea is no paradise for the defectors either; facing prejudice and lacking job skills, they rarely feel welcomed by their capitalist brethren.

Here, in their own words, are what three of them had to say:

The painter “I felt rather calm after hearing of Kim Jong Il’s death,” said Song Byeok, 42, a painter who learned his art drawing propaganda posters in North Korea. “I thought to myself about him: ‘You, too, are human in the end.’

“It was his destiny. He couldn’t avoid it. ... He was praised like a god, but in the end, he was only a human who fell like an autumn leaf.”

Desperate for food in 2000, Song and his father tried to cross the river into China — not to defect but just to get something to eat from relatives on the Chinese side.

He still believed Kim Jong Il was a good leader.

However, when his father

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If unification happens, I would like to find out if my son is still alive. If I find him, I will ask him to hit me for leaving him.”

— Kim Seung-cheol, North Korean defector was swept away by the current and drowned, border guards ignored Song’s pleas to help rescue him; instead they beat Song up and detained him.

The experience persuaded him to leave for good in 2002.

“I thought to myself after hearing Kim died that a wind of democratization may finally blow in North Korea,” he said. “Reforms may come because Kim Jong Il has died.

“Kim Jong Un is young and he may lean toward reforms.

But I still think he may not last long because he’s too inexperienced. He only had a year or so to be groomed as successor.

“It may have been better for him if Kim Jong Il had lasted longer.”

Song Byeok is the name he paints under and is widely known by in South Korea; he refused to divulge his real name for fear of retaliation against relatives and friends still in North Korea.

The student “I believed North Korea was the best country in the world,” said Lee Hyeon-seo, who was 13 when late President Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il, died in 1994.

“I really believed in the theory of self-reliance,” she said.

“When Kim Il Sung died, I saw many foreign guests crying on TV, which made me feel like Kim Il Sung was a god,” she said. “But as days passed, I felt I wasn’t as sad as I was supposed to when I

stood in front of his statue.

“Everybody was crying but I couldn’t cry, so I dabbed my face with my spit. It was a hot day, and some girl fainted and was sent to a hospital.”

Lee, now 30, fled the North in the mid-1990s and lived for a decade in China before moving to South Korea in 2008.

Now she studies Chinese at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.

“I remember the propaganda education vividly even though I was a girl,” she said.

“In North Korea, excelling at math or English is less important than being good at the history of Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary steps. Now I know it’s fake, but we had to cram as much of the history in our heads as possible. We struggled to get high marks on the subject in school.

“I used to believe unification was a pipe dream. But now it may be possible.”

The activist “I know a person’s death is usually something that shouldn’t be celebrated, but this time it was completely different,” said Kim Seungcheol, 50.

“Kim’s death meant that North Korea would start changing,” he said. “It was a hopeful sign for a change.”

Kim went out with a friend to celebrate over sausages and “soju,” a popular Korean liquor. They laughed with joy.

When he defected 20 years ago, he left behind his wife and son.

“If unification happens, I would like to find out if my son is still alive,” he said. “If I find him, I will ask him to hit me for leaving him.

“And if I’m reunited with my wife, I will sing a song out of joy. But I have to ask forgiveness of her, because I’ve married another woman here in South Korea.”

Men trade same Christmas card for decades WHITEHOUSE, TEXAS — A Christmas card that crisscrossed the country as part of an old joke between two Texas men will rest this holiday for the first time in 61 years.

Acker Hanks mailed the card to his former neighbor Lee Kelley in 1950. Kelley, a prankster, mailed it back a year later.

The two continued sending the card back and forth, and when Kelley died, his widow mailed the tattered message for over a decade.

Last year, it returned to Hanks unread. He believes Kelley’s widow moved to a

nursing home.

A list of dates and places in the worn card documents its journey. Hanks plans to frame it.

“I always looked forward to getting the card,” he told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. “I don’t think it’ll ever leave me now.”

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Church blasts mar pope’s Christmas peace appeal

By Nicole Winfield Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI issued pleas for peace to reign across the world during his traditional Christmas address Sunday, a call marred

by Muslim extremists who bombed a Catholic church in Nigeria, striking after worshippers celebrated Mass.

The assault on the Catholic church left 35 dead in Madalla, near the Nigerian capital. A failed bombing also occurred near a church in the city of Jos, followed by a shooting that killed a police officer. The blast came a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombs in Jos claimed by Islamist militants killed 32.

Benedict didn’t refer explicitly to the Nigerian bombings in his “Urbi et Orbi” speech, Latin for “to the city and to the world” in which he raises alarm about world hot spots. But in a statement, the Vatican called the attacks a sign of “cruelty and absurd, blind hatred” that shows no respect for human life.

Elsewhere, Christmas was celebrated with the typical joy of the season: In Cuba, Catholics had plenty to cheer as they prepared for Benedict’s March arrival, the first visit by a pontiff to the Communist-run island since John Paul II’s historic tour nearly 14 years ago.

“We have faith in God that we will be allowed to have this treat,” said Rogelio Montes de Oca, 72, as he stood outside the Cathedral in Old Havana. “Not every country will have the chance to see him physically and receive his blessing.”

And in the Holy Land, pilgrims and locals alike flocked to Jesus’ traditional birthplace in numbers not seen since before the Palestinian uprising over a decade ago, despite lashing rains and wind.

“We wanted to be part of the action,” said Don Moore, 41, a psychology professor from Berkeley, Calif., who came to Bethlehem with his family.

“This is the place, this is where it all started. It doesn’t get any more special than that.”

The holy town of Bethlehem is no stranger to violence. Like the rest of the West Bank, it fell on hard times after the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation broke out in late 2000.

But as the violence has subsided, tourists have returned in large numbers. On Saturday, turnout for Christmas Eve festivities in Bethlehem was at its highest since the up-

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1941 fruitcake sells for $525 CINCINNATI — A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company’s online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

Elite Estate Group sold the cake in an auction on its website. Company owner Larry Chaney says the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, probably bought the cake as an investment. Chaney says he doubts anyone would eat a 70-year-old fruitcake even though it was vacuum packed and contained rum that probably helped preserve it.

The cake was made in 1941 by The Kroger Co. It was returned unopened to a Kroger store in 1971. The manager took it home and kept it until recently when his son was helping him get rid of some things and gave the cake to Chaney.

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The Holy Land and the entire Mideast were very much on Benedict’s mind as he delivered his Christmas speech from the sun-drenched loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. The 84-year-old pontiff appeared in fine form, just hours after celebrating a two-hour long Christmas Eve Mass that ended around midnight.

“May the Lord come to the aid of our world torn by so many conflicts which even today stain the earth with blood,” Benedict said.

He said he hoped that the birth of Jesus, which Christmas celebrates, would send a message to all who need to be saved from hardships: that Israelis and the Palestinians would resume peace talks and that there would be an “end to the violence in Syria, where so much blood has already been shed.”

He called for international assistance for refugees from the Horn of Africa and flood victims in Thailand, among others, and urged greater political dialogue in Myanmar, and stability in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa’s Great Lakes region, which includes Congo, Uganda and Rwanda.

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Authorities on Sunday acknowledged they could not bring enough emergency medical personnel to care for the wounded outside St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla near Nigeria’s capital. Elsewhere, a bomb exploded amid gunfire in the central Nigeria city of Jos, and a suicide car bomber attacked the military in the nation’s northeast as part of an apparently coordinated assault by the sect known as Boko Haram.

The Christmas Day violence, denounced by world leaders and the Vatican, shows the threat of the widening insurrection posed by Boko Haram against Nigeria’s weak central government. Despite a recent paramilitary crackdown against the sect in the oil-rich nation, it appears that Africa’s most populous nation remains unable to stop the threat.

The White House condemned what it called a “senseless” attack, offered its condolences to the Nigerian people and pledged to assist authorities in bringing those responsible to justice.

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delivered Christmas greetings in 65 different languages, from Mongolian to Maori, Aramaic to Albanian, Tamil to Thai. He finished the list with Guarani and Latin, as the bells tolled from St. Peter’s enormous bell towers.

In the piazza below, thousands of jubilant tourists and pilgrims, and hundreds of colorful Swiss Guards and Italian military bands mingled around the Vatican’s giant Christmas tree and larger-than-life sized nativity scene.

In the U.K., the leader of the world’s Anglicans, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the summer riots in Britain and the financial crisis had abused trust in British society.

In his Christmas Day sermon, Rowan Williams appealed to those congregated at Canterbury Cathedral to learn lessons about “mutual obligation” from the events of the past year. He said Sunday that “the most pressing question” now facing Britain is “who and where we are as a society.”

“Bonds have been broken, trust abused and lost,” he said.

Britain’s royal family, meanwhile, celebrated Christmas with one notable absence. Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip remained hospitalized after having a coronary stent put in after doctors determined the heart pains that sent him to the hospital on Friday were caused by a blocked artery.

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Foreign Secretary William Hague said, “These are cowardly attacks on families gathered in peace and prayer to celebrate a day which symbolizes harmony and goodwill towards others.”

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called in a statement for an end to sectarian violence in the country.

The first explosion on Sunday struck St. Theresa Catholic Church just after 8 a.m.

The attack killed 35 people and wounded another 52, said Slaku Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.

Though billions of dollars of oil money flow into the nation’s budget yearly,

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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD LJWorld.com Monday, December 26, 2011

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Elementary efficiencies Simply spending more money on local elementary schools doesn’t address the district’s — and the taxpayers’ — goal.

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n a scientific poll conducted across Kansas last week, 55 percent of the respondents indicated they would be unwilling to pay higher property taxes even if the additional tax revenue went directly to local schools.

The question in the SurveyUSA poll, which was sponsored by the KWCH television station in Wichita, was posed in connection with Gov. Sam Brownback’s new school finance plan, but it may have some relevance for the Lawrence school district and its working group that is considering the consolidation of local elementary schools.

Following several months of meetings and nearing a deadline at the end of January to present a plan, the members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group have yet to reach consensus on any plan that would reduce the number of elementary schools in the district. After their most recent meeting Monday night, the one thing they were able to agree on was that the district must pursue a bond issue for elementary schools. Even if no funds are needed to build a new school, or schools, to facilitate consolidation, they concluded, a bond issue is needed to upgrade existing buildings.

It seems that, somewhere, this working group has gotten off the track. The charge of this group was to come up with a plan to consolidate elementary schools, period. The possibility of a bond issue to fund construction of a new school or two was dangled as a carrot to help their deliberations, but the odds of such a bond issue receiving a positive vote from taxpayers has always been in doubt.

Providing an excellent education for elementary school students in the district always is the top priority, but a primary goal of looking at consolidation was to bring about efficiencies that would save the district money in the long run. That goal was driven by declining state funding in the last several years, but it will be no less important to local taxpayers if the governor gains approval for a plan that will shift more responsibility for funding local schools onto local property tax levies.

The plan now being floated at the state level would eliminate all limits on local property tax levies to support local schools, but that doesn’t mean taxpayers in Lawrence or anywhere else should be expected to support — or will approve — large local school tax increases on top of the continuing state property taxes levied for schools.

If the Lawrence district is going to float a bond issue for elementary schools, it should be for the purpose of creating efficiencies that will produce long-term savings for the district.

Members of the elementary working group, as well as the school board, need to refocus their efforts on that goal.

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Envoy’s exit strains U.S.-Pakistan ties The scary decline of relations between the United States and Pakistan — the world’s most dangerous nuclear-armed country — is illustrated by the perilous plight of one man.

Husain Haqqani was, until recently, the savvy and energetic Pakistani ambassador to Washington, dubbed by Bloomberg “the hardest working man in DC.” His job was thankless: trying to maintain ties between two countries that deeply distrust each other.

Pakistan’s military disliked Haqqani because of his longstanding opposition to its ties with Islamist groups. He was also regarded as too “pro-American.” But the generals apparently recognized that only someone like Haqqani could ease tensions with Washington and keep the U.S. aid flowing.

So they let him keep working to prevent U.S.-Pakistani ties from breaking. Until now.

Haqqani has resigned and returned home. He’s accused by the military and the media — no formal charges — of drafting an unsigned memo asking Washington in May to help block a military coup in Pakistan. In return, Pakistan’s civilian government supposedly would have cracked down on its military and ISI intelligence agency.

Haqqani is forbidden to leave the country and could be charged with treason. But the “Memogate” affair is so bizarre, one has to ask whether it’s merely a pretext for the Pakistani mil-

Trudy Rubin

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trubin@phillynews.com

The more details that emerge about this alleged scandal, the more fishy it looks.”

itary to unseat the civilian government and rupture ties with the United States.

The more details that emerge about this alleged scandal, the more fishy it looks. A Pakistani American businessman named Mansoor Ijaz passed the memo to President Obama’s former national security adviser, Jim Jones, in May 2011; Jones gave it to Adm. Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Ijaz ignited the firestorm by writing about the memo in the Financial Times in October. He says he was following Haqqani’s instructions to convey a message from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari; he claims he has text messages that back up his story. But the tale is full of holes.

Haqqani denies he had anything to do with the memo. Jones denies Ijaz ever mentioned Haqqani. And Mullen says he paid the unsigned

document no attention. But even putting all that aside, the story makes no sense.

For one thing, Zardari had tried once before and failed miserably to gain control of the ISI; neither he nor Haqqani would have been likely to court another failure. Moreover, the memo was passed just after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, which left the Pakistani military weakened and unlikely to make a coup.

Most telling, the well-connected Haqqani had no need to use an unreliable cutout to deliver messages. Which brings us to the central weakness of the story: the credibility of Mansoor Ijaz.

Ijaz, who once managed an investment firm, had cultivated well-placed political friends in both parties. He seems like a clone of Walter Mitty, the Thurber character who had heroic daydreams and tried to convince others they were true.

Ijaz claims that he got Sudan in the mid-1990s to offer the Clinton administration intelligence on al-Qaeda, and that Sudan offered to arrest bin Laden.

The 9/11 Commission found no “credible evidence” of any such Sudanese offer.

Peter Bergen, CNN’s national security analyst, has detailed a long list of sensational claims

by Ijaz to Fox News, CNN, and British newspapers that were baseless. Example: Ijaz told Fox in 2003 that “unimpeachable eyewitness sources” placed bin Laden in Iran; later he admitted

this was in error.

This month Ijaz claimed, in a Newsweek interview, that the United States told Haqqani and Zardari in advance about the raid on bin Laden. Given the intense secrecy in which this raid was held, such a claim is ludicrous. It undercuts everything else Ijaz has said.

Yet Pakistan’s military and intelligence leaders are fanning the Memogate furor, which further inflames anti-Americanism in their country. They seem unaware that their hot pursuit of Haqqani (and Zardari) is likely to boomerang against their own interests, and their country’s interests as well.

Pakistan needs to maintain its ties with the United States, no matter how fragile. If they break, Pakistan’s generals lose military aid that won’t be replaced by China. Without strategic cooperation between the two countries, neighboring Afghanistan will collapse into chaos after U.S. troops leave, a chaos that will blow back into Pakistan.

Husain Haqqani was no traitor; he understood the need to prevent a U.S. rupture with Pakistan. His forced resignation could bring that rupture closer. By blindly pursuing Memogate, Pakistan’s military leaders are boxing themselves into a situation that is as dangerous for their country as it is for America. Is that what the generals really want?

— Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Destiny plays a role in both life, politics CRAWFORD NOTCH, N.H. — Strange things happen in these hills. There are occurrences beyond comprehension, events that defy explanation. They stick in the mind, haunt the memory, shape the way we look at the world and cling to our culture.

We sometimes think that what New Hampshire will do in its primary two and a half weeks from now will have a great effect on our lives. But what happened here more than 185 years ago — witnessed by no one, remembered by nearly everyone — did more than almost anything else in the year 1826 to govern the way we look at the great mysteries of that time and ours: the role of God in our daily lives, the fallibility of man’s judgment, the power of human will, the irresistibility of destiny.

For in that year a terrible landslide altered the landscape of New Hampshire and of our inner selves. In that year an avalanche of mud and rock destroyed a fleeing family of seven even as it left standing the family’s mountain home, underlining the dominion of nature and the weakness of human reasoning, the power of Providence and the futility of prudence.

Nature’s cruelty This cruel phenomenon of nature is known to history as the Willey Slide, and to this day it lingers in the American subconscious and in American folklore.

Had the Willey family — living in what Nathaniel Hawthorne called “a cold spot and a dangerous one” — done nothing and remained in its cottage, it would have survived serenely and would be remembered by no one. But because it fled the slide all seven were killed and live on in American literature and memory.

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We sometimes think that what New Hampshire will do in its primary two and a half weeks from now will have a great effect on our lives.”

This story has been told and retold, by masterly storytellers from Hawthorne to Hammett, but only in recent years has the key to the legend been recognized. Like so many vital details, it was right before our eyes all the time.

For decades, this story has been repeated. Tens of thousands of tourists have traveled to Crawford Notch to contemplate the vanity of human wishes even as they imagined where the Willey House stood and the path the avalanche took.

Then, an old postcard showed the location of the boulders that split the slide, allowing the dirt and rocks to avoid the house but hit the frightened family.

Park authorities realized that the boulders were right there all along. They were hidden in thick brush in an area covered by new forest growth, only a few dozen steps from the tourist wayside that for years had been selling trinkets celebrating the sad fate of the Willeys and the cruel beauty of the White Mountains.

Literary theme Hiding in plain sight, in other words, were the geological keys to the story that Nathaniel Hawthorne transformed into his classic “Ambitious Guest” and that appears in altered form in Dashiell Hammett’s “Maltese Falcon.” All that was required was an excavation effort to expose the boulders.

“They looked like a bunch of rocks,” says John Dickerman, who for three decades has been manager of the Crawford Notch State Park, “but we realized these were important rocks.”

In the Hammett story, a falling beam transforms the life of a man who was not hit. “He knew then,” Hammett wrote, “that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them.”

The Hawthorne story has a more direct Willey tie, set as it is “in the bleakest spot of all New England.”

Hawthorne was drawn to the tale during a White Mountain vacation tour, but already the tragedy that defined these hills as dangerous to the body and to the soul had raised fulsome commentary — on the caprice of life, the mortality of man, and the world’s capacity to infuse a spot of reverie and beauty with the curses of danger and despair.

“Like Dashiell Hammett, Hawthorne liked the kind of twist of fate at the center of this story,” says Robert L. Gale, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia. “He saw human existence as being full of irony.”

It was a twist of fate — and faith.

In his landmark 1855 work “Historical Relics of the White Mountains,” still available at booksellers across this region, John H. Spaulding speaks of the

isolation of the site of the Willey tragedy, which first was explored after the Revolutionary War and, then as now, was characterized by sharp cliffs and deeply forested slopes.

“How lonely there is the dirge of the high wind, as it sweeps down that solitary chasm; and the wail of the sunset breeze, with the loud requiem of the on-rushing hurricane, is most mournful, for human bones are there palled in an avalanche’s ruins.”

For years the residents of New Hampshire’s North Country have exalted their hardiness, independence and self-sufficiency. “The granite core of strength and resilience projected by our mountains define and shape the strength and character of its people,” wrote Suzanne Moberly, a writer and teacher from Orford, N.H. Hardly anyone would contest that.

Primary comparisons But as another New Hampshire primary approaches — when the state’s independence and character are being employed once again in the nation’s service in helping to select a presidential nominee — it is wise to be cautioned that, in politics and in our own journey, we travel what Hawthorne in his story from this remote part of the world calls “a wild and bleak road, at nightfall and alone.”

We remember, too, that this state, with its peculiar mix of romance and ruin, also has tested man’s faith, challenged his assumptions, toyed with his selfconfidence, made folly of his judgment and reminded us that God’s plan is not necessarily our own.

— David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittburgh Post-Gazette.

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MORT, GREG & BRIAN WALKER

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TODAY

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Monday, December 26, 2011

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

CALENDAR

FRIDAY

THURSDAY

26 TODAY

Mostly cloudy

Sunshine and patchy clouds

Sun and some clouds

Partly sunny and mild

Partly sunny and mild

High 48° Low 22° POP: 25%

High 44° Low 21° POP: 0%

High 48° Low 27° POP: 5%

High 53° Low 28° POP: 5%

High 54° Low 31° POP: 5%

Wind S 6-12 mph

Wind NNW 6-12 mph

Wind SSW 7-14 mph

Wind W 8-16 mph

Wind SSW 8-16 mph

POP: Probability of Precipitation

Kearney 46/18

McCook 48/14 Oberlin 47/15 Goodland 44/16

Beatrice 46/23

Oakley 45/17

Russell Salina 44/19 49/21

Manhattan 51/19 Topeka 48/22 Emporia 47/23

Great Bend 42/19 Dodge City 44/20

Chillicothe 46/27 Marshall 44/29

Lawrence Kansas City 46/26 48/22

Chanute 46/25

Hutchinson 47/21 Wichita Pratt 47/23 45/24

Garden City 42/20 Liberal 43/19

Kansas City 47/29

Sedalia 43/29

Nevada 47/27

Coffeyville Joplin 46/25 50/27

Springfield 47/30

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

High/low Normal high/low today Record high today Record low today

54°/21° 38°/20° 67° in 2008 -7° in 1914

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date

0.00 2.99 1.36 29.40 39.65

Seattle 47/38

SUN & MOON Today

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset First

Tue.

7:38 a.m.

5:04 p.m.

8:59 a.m.

7:33 p.m.

Full

7:38 a.m.

5:05 p.m.

9:35 a.m.

8:38 p.m.

Last

New

NATIONAL FORECAST Billings 46/25 Minneapolis 42/23

San Francisco 54/43 Los Angeles 73/49

Jan 1

Jan 9

Jan 16

LAKE LEVELS

Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

Level (ft)

873.70 891.64 973.31

Discharge (cfs)

9 500 15

INTERNATIONAL CITIES Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Today Hi Lo W 89 75 pc 48 41 c 47 44 c 61 36 s 85 69 s 37 18 s 45 43 c 49 39 c 77 64 s 62 48 pc 36 30 pc 52 48 pc 44 37 pc 64 54 s 54 39 sh 52 23 s 54 45 pc 55 34 s 75 41 pc 28 21 pc 34 25 sn 68 39 pc 45 33 c 51 39 pc 80 71 r 53 36 s 27 16 s 82 76 sh 45 37 pc 84 63 t 43 34 pc 38 35 pc 43 41 r 39 38 pc 37 30 sh 40 1 sn

Hi 89 42 50 58 86 41 48 43 80 62 45 52 51 66 57 47 48 54 76 36 37 70 35 45 83 53 30 83 45 73 45 38 49 50 41 12

Tue. Lo W 74 s 34 r 42 sh 37 s 71 s 21 pc 38 c 37 pc 66 s 44 s 33 pc 42 pc 37 s 57 s 38 s 21 s 44 pc 36 s 41 s 28 sn 28 pc 45 pc 23 s 43 pc 71 r 36 s 19 s 75 r 34 pc 61 pc 34 s 28 sf 46 r 41 pc 36 r 5 pc

New York 45/34

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for today.

Houston 55/39

Fronts Warm Stationary

Miami 82/69

Precipitation Showers T-storms

Rain

Flurries

Snow

Ice

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: Soaking rain will spread across the Arklatex today. High pressure will provide dry weather to the bulk of the East except for morning snow showers in New England. It will stay dry across the Rockies and Southwest as rain moves into the Northwest late in the day.

Today Tue. Today Tue. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 52 41 r 50 32 c Albuquerque 47 27 s 49 28 s Miami 82 69 pc 81 68 t Anchorage 17 9 sf 19 9 sf Milwaukee 43 29 s 39 25 c Atlanta 61 43 pc 53 36 r Minneapolis 42 23 s 28 17 s Austin 52 31 r 61 29 s Nashville 54 40 pc 51 33 r Baltimore 48 28 s 48 35 r New Orleans 68 52 r 60 41 pc Birmingham 60 47 r 54 34 r New York 45 34 s 49 39 r Boise 39 30 s 43 34 c 44 22 s 39 22 pc Boston 44 33 s 49 35 pc Omaha 76 62 pc 81 55 t Buffalo 39 31 sf 44 21 sn Orlando 47 33 s 49 38 r Cheyenne 46 21 s 46 26 pc Philadelphia Phoenix 65 42 s 65 44 s Chicago 42 32 s 37 28 c Pittsburgh 41 30 s 42 28 sn Cincinnati 45 33 pc 42 27 r Cleveland 40 32 pc 40 25 sn Portland, ME 40 23 pc 42 31 pc Portland, OR 46 39 c 46 41 r Dallas 49 34 r 57 32 s 50 24 s 54 36 c Denver 50 20 s 50 25 pc Reno Richmond 52 32 s 52 42 r Des Moines 44 27 s 39 23 s Sacramento 55 34 s 57 45 c Detroit 40 31 s 43 24 c St. Louis 45 34 pc 45 30 sn El Paso 46 30 s 53 32 s Salt Lake City 42 24 s 43 30 pc Fairbanks -18 -23 c -16 -21 sf San Diego 70 46 s 63 47 s Honolulu 81 69 pc 80 68 s San Francisco 54 43 s 57 48 c Houston 55 39 r 64 41 s 47 38 r 48 42 r Indianapolis 44 33 pc 42 23 sn Seattle Spokane 33 25 c 35 33 sh Kansas City 46 26 c 45 26 s Tucson 62 36 s 66 38 s Las Vegas 60 37 s 60 40 s 48 28 r 51 28 s Little Rock 48 36 r 53 30 pc Tulsa Wash., DC 47 34 s 47 39 r Los Angeles 73 49 s 67 49 s National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Fort Myers, FL 85° Low: West Yellowstone, MT -18°

WEATHER HISTORY

Miami, Fla., was in a cold snap on Dec. 26, 1983. The 33-degree low temperature was a record for December. Two years later, Miami’s low was 38 degrees on the same date.

Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Lawrence City Commission meeting, 9 a.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Lawrence Masonic Center blood drive, 2:30-5:30 p.m., 1301 E. 25th St. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers.

For more information, call 843-7359.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Trivia Night at the Jayhawker, 8-10 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Teller’s Family Night, 9 p.m.-midnight, 746 Mass.

Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa.

Live jazz at The Casbah, 9 p.m., 803 Mass.

28 WEDNESDAY

El Paso 46/30

Cold

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Detroit 40/31 Washington 47/34

Atlanta 61/43

Jan 23

As of 7 a.m. Sunday

Denver 50/20

Chicago 42/32 Kansas City 46/26

WEATHER TRIVIA™

was the largest ice accumulation from freezing rain?

Q: What 8 inches. Northern Idaho in January 1961.

Temperature

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Tue. Today Tue. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 46 25 c 50 24 s Atchison 46 22 c 43 20 s Fort Riley 51 19 pc 48 20 s Belton 47 27 c 45 28 s Olathe 47 27 c 45 27 s Burlington 47 24 c 48 26 s Osage Beach 43 30 c 50 27 pc Coffeyville 46 25 c 50 24 s 47 23 c 44 25 s Concordia 45 22 pc 43 25 pc Osage City Ottawa 47 26 c 44 26 s Dodge City 44 20 pc 46 23 s Wichita 47 23 pc 47 25 s Holton 48 22 c 43 23 s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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LAWRENCE ALMANAC Through 8 p.m. Sunday.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

Eudora City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Eudora City Hall, 4 E. Seventh St.

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Centerville 43/27

St. Joseph 46/22

Sabetha 45/23

Concordia 45/22 Hays 43/19

Clarinda 47/23

Lincoln 50/20

Grand Island 47/19

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers. For more information, call 8437359.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Dark Times at The Granada with Jay Maus, 8 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mass.

Free salsa lessons, 8:309:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

29 THURSDAY

Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Blood Drive, 2-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m.,

Mudstomp Mondays Mudstomp Mondays, the premier event in Lawrence for local and touring acoustic musicians, comics and dancers, has moved to a new location: Barnyard Beer at 925 Iowa behind the Merc. Stop in for its first show at its new spot at 9 tonight for open mic sessions, followed by a featured Americana/bluegrass band at 10:30 p.m. Admission is free for this 18-andolder show.

Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

30 FRIDAY

Open mic poetry night at The Mirth CafĂŠ, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., 745 N.H. Josh Vowell & the Rumble, 9 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St.

31 SATURDAY

Red Dog’s Dog Days, 7:30 a.m., meet in strip mall at 19th Street and Haskell Avenue.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Mass.

1 SUNDAY

Poker tournament, 7 p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 410 N. Second St. Smackdown! trivia, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Acoustic Open Mic Night, free entry, signup at 9 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

Karaoke Sunday, 11 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

ONGOING

The Territorial Capital Museum Christmas display, with three floors of vintage Christmas decorations including 21 trees with various period decorations; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, through Jan. 1, 640 E. Woodson Ave., Lecompton.

Watkins Community Museum of History exhibit: “It Happened on Mass Street: 150 Years in Lawrence,�

by Scott Adams

DILBERT

Store clerk killed on Christmas Eve TOPEKA (AP) — A Topeka liquor store employee is dead after being attacked with what appeared to be a blunt object on Christmas Eve. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports several people were inside Hudson Liquor when the clerk was killed. Officers were called to the store at 1:43 p.m. and found the victim dead behind the counter.

Police Capt. Jerry Stanley says investigators believe the attacker was intoxicated and may live in the neighborhood in which he ran away from the liquor store.

The killer is described as a slender white man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a blue stocking cap and pajama or cargo pants, which witnesses say he had to stop at least once to pull up.

Stanley says robbery appears to be the motive.

featuring historic photographs and objects illustrating the growth of downtown Lawrence, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 1047 Mass.

Freedom’s Frontier exhibit, Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. Lawrence Arts Center exhibits: Yesnomaybe Exhibition, collaborative works

by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam, Dec. 2 through Jan. 14; Lived: Living, works by Isadora Stowe and Jordan Schranz Dec. 2 through Jan. 14; Learning is Remembering, works

by Amber Hansen, Dec. 2 through Jan. 14; Constellation, an aerial installation by Juniper Tangpuz; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 940 N.H. Lawrence Public Library storytimes for December: German storytime, 4 p.m.

Tuesdays; Toddler storytime, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; Library storytime, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Fridays; Storytime in Spanish and English, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays; Family storytime, 3:30 p.m. Sundays; Books & Babies, 10:30 a.m. Mondays and 9:30 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.

Wednesdays, 707 Vt. Lawrence Public Library teen programs for December: Monday Movies for Teens, 4 p.m. Mondays; Wii Olympics for Teens, 7 p.m.

Tuesdays; Gaming with the Pro, 3 p.m. Wednesdays; Teen Zone Cafe, 4 p.m.

Fridays; Teen tutoring, 3 p.m.

Sundays, 707 Vt. Lawrence Public Library bookmobile schedule (open to the public): 9-10 a.m. Monday, Prairie Commons, 5121 Congressional Circle; 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, Babcock Place, 1700 Mass.; 9-10 a.m. Wednesday, Brandon Woods, 1501 Inverness Drive; 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive; 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, Drury Place, 1510 Andrews Drive; 11:15-noon Friday, Vermont Towers, 1101 Vt.; 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, Peterson Acres, 2930 Peterson Road.

Spencer Museum of Art exhibits: Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place, Sept. 10 through Jan 15. Museum open until 4 p.m. daily, 8 p.m. on Thursdays, 1301 Miss.

The Impact of the King James Bible, Quayle Bible Collection exhibit, 518 Eighth St., Baldwin City, 1-4 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, through July 2012.

KU Natural History Museum exhibits: Bug Town, third floor; Explore Evolution, fifth floor; Mosasaur Munchies, self-guided tour; Darwin’s Journey, sixth floor.

Museum open until 5 p.m. daily, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.

Now taking reservations for

New Year’s Eve Sample of our Three Course Menu $45 per person

(Regular and Vegetarian Menu also Available)

Antipasti

Creamy Maine Lobster Soup with diced shrimp, bread crumbs & drizzled with white truffle oil.

Grilled Fresh Sea Scallop served over butternut squash cake alla plancha, roasted pear sauce & Sage.

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Chiefs: Plenty to play for in finale KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were eliminated from playoff contention Saturday, their roller-coaster season taking one more dip when they lost to the Oakland Raiders in overtime.

That doesn’t mean they don’t have something to play for in their finale.

The Chiefs might well be playing for the future of interim coach Romeo Crennel, who led them to a victory over the Green Bay Packers a couple weeks ago.

The defensive coordinator has provided a calm, cool presence in the locker room after the firing of Todd Haley spun the team into turmoil.

Kyle Orton might also be auditioning for a job. The quarterback is a free agent after this season, and general manager Scott Pioli might try to sign him to create competition for Matt Cassel, who went down with a season-ending injury to his throwing hand earlier this season.

Crennel, who was 24-40 in four seasons as head coach in Cleveland, has said he wants the Kansas City job on a permanent basis, and Pioli has already indicated he’ll be formally interviewed for the position after the season ends next Sunday at Denver.

If it was up to the guys in the locker room, the formal interview would be a formality.

“He’s very motivating. He treats us like men,” star linebacker Tamba Hali said. “He does expect a lot from us, but he knows what it takes to work this business and how the body feels and we’re people, too. We love Romeo. If that’s the question you asked, then we love Romeo.”

Defensive back Brandon Flowers said he thinks Crennel would be a good fit for the franchise, and offensive coordinator Bill Muir said he would vote for his old friend to get the job.

“I don’t know how to put it,” Hali said. “He’s got five Super Bowls. With that type of resume, you want someone around that can help us get to the top.”

Crennel isn’t the only one who could earn a job in the finale.

Orton has been solid, though somewhat inconsistent, in the

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FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERBACK TODD REESING GREETS Jayhawk fans after a 44-16 win over Duke in this file photo from Sept. 19, 2009 at Memorial Stadium. Reesing said he is impressed with new KU coach Charlie Weis and the potential of KU’s recent quarterback recruits.

Ex-Jayhawks Reesing, Whittemore excited for future KU QBs

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

As the starting quarterbacks in three of the 12 bowl games the Kansas University football program has played during its 121-year history, Todd Reesing and Bill Whittemore certainly are qualified to talk about what it takes to play quarterback at KU. And both are more than impressed by the upgrade that new KU coach Charlie Weis has brought to the position during his first three weeks on the job.

By adding former Notre Dame QB Dayne Crist and former BYU QB Jake Heaps — both transfers and five-star prospects coming out of high school — Weis has returned to the program the kind of hope and excitement that Reesing and Whittemore once made common during their five combined seasons as KU starters.

With the pieces in place, it’s time to see if the new guys can deliver the same type of results.

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... (KU is) a great school and there’s no reason why they can’t compete at that level ... I think it’s an exciting time, with a new coach, and I think this just proves that.”

— Former Kansas University quarterback Bill Whittemore on KU’s recent recruiting successes that’s possible, even if they can’t quite believe KU now has two blue-chip QBs on its roster.

“If they were recruiting fivestar quarterbacks back when I was around, I wouldn’t have been there, so I’m obviously glad that wasn’t the case,” said Whittemore, now a quarterbacks coach at a private high school in Nashville, Tenn. “But I think KU has always had potential to recruit those types of kids. It’s a great college town, it’s a great school and there’s no reason why they can’t compete at that level. Obviously,

Whittemore they don’t have the backyard that Texas and schools like that have, but I think it’s an exciting time, with a new coach, and I think this just proves that.”

Reesing, who owns every major passing record in KU history, said the addition of such high-profile players not only brings talent to the field but also provides a sense of pride for the program.

“These guys still have to go out and play and prove themselves,” Reesing said. “But when you have guys that have the five-star ratings, whether they live up to them

or not, they still bring that kind of attention. They’re the guys that are talked about, fans know their names and they’re being recruited by all the big schools. So when you get those kinds of guys to your school, and beat out schools like Texas and Florida and Alabama, it means a lot.”

Reesing, a former three-star recruit out of Lake Travis, Texas, and Whittemore, a former threestar recruit out of Fort Scott Community College, brought stability and skill to the team’s most important position during their stints at Kansas.

Whittemore, who started during Mark Mangino’s first two seasons at KU and led the Jayhawks to the 2003 Tangerine Bowl, threw for 4,000 yards and 29 touchdowns while bringing grit, toughness and leadership to a team that had cycled through QBs with regularity during the decade that preceded his arrival.

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One feel-good story during the pre-Christmas portion of Kansas University’s 2011-12 basketball schedule had to be the emergence of fifth-year senior Conner Teahan as a regular rotation player.

He’s the same guy who, as an invited walk-on, played precious few minutes in his previous seasons at KU. “It is so much fun being out there helping this Kansas basketball team. Being able to wear the jersey and everything is a dream come true,” said Teahan, a 6-foot-6, 212-pound shooting guard out of Kansas City Rockhurst.

He’s averaged 7.8 points (off 42.2 percent shooting; 21 of 51 from three for 41.2 percent) and 2.8 rebounds while logging 21.9 minutes a game in 11 games for the 8-3 Jayhawks. He played a career-high 35 minutes in the Jayhawks’ 88-80 victory over Long Beach State on Dec. 6 in Allen Fieldhouse.

“I think that was a once-inevery-now-and-then thing,” Teahan said, with a smile, referring to playing nearly the entire game.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD CONNER TEAHAN PULLS UP for a three prior to tipoff against South Florida on Dec. 3 at Allen Fieldhouse. Teahan, a fifth-year senior, said he has enjoyed playing almost 22 minutes a game for the Jayhawks this year after starting his KU career as a walk-on.

Lutz recently put Teahan’s minutes into perspective. He pointed out that in Teahan’s first four seasons at KU, which included his 2010-11 red-shirt year, the Jayhawks played 149 games and, including overtimes, 5,990 minutes.

Of those 5,990 minutes, Teahan was on the floor for 218 minutes or 3.6 percent of the total time.

The meager minutes never bothered Teahan.

“Like I said, I’ve always wanted to be a contributor on the team, no matter what that was,” Teahan said. “If that meant playing in games, great. Being able to play 15 minutes plus a game ... yeah it’s a dream come true and being able to score and help the team win.”

He grinned when asked if he’s finally “arrived.”

“I don’t know about that. I’m just happy to be out there. I don’t look at it any other way,” he said. “I just want to help the team win. It’s a lot of fun.”

In past seasons, other players have been in his way.

“Brady (Morningstar) and Tyrel (Reed) did a great job when they were in there. You can’t take that away from them at all,” Teahan said. “I don’t sit back and look at the past, if I could have gotten in or whatnot.

I’m happy with this year and think this is the best situation for me.”

KU coach Bill Self said he considers Teahan (who is on scholarship this year for the second straight year) one of KU’s “six starters.” Self did not agree when Teahan personally blamed himself for KU’s loss to Davidson last Monday in Sprint Center.

“Conner cares. He didn’t lose us that game,” Self said. “No one person lost the game. We all lost together. When somebody screws up in practice, Conner always says, ‘My bad,’ just to take the pressure off the other guys. He’s unbelievable that way. He really gets it.”

KU’s next game will be Thursday versus Howard. Tip is 7 p.m., in Allen Fieldhouse.

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LANDOVER, MD. — The most significant scene from an otherwise pleasant Christmas Eve for the Minnesota Vikings came on the first play after halftime of their 33-26 victory over Washington.

That’s when Adrian Peterson took a handoff from Christian Ponder and was drilled in the left knee

by Redskins safety DeJon Gomes.

Peterson’s left leg was planted at the time and had little give. Instead, it bent sideways and left the Vikings’ superstar face down on the grass writhing in agony.

A magnetic resonance imaging exam Saturday night confirmed Peterson suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament. That injury could keep Peterson from being

available to the Vikings at the start of the 2012 season.

His first thoughts? “Oh Lord,� Peterson said after the game, before he received the diagnosis. “I just knew something bad happened.�

Percy Harvin knew immediately Peterson was in trouble, promptly waving for the Vikings’ medical staff to rush out.

“You don’t ever want to see that,� Harvin said. “As soon as he went down, with the pain he was grimacing with, you know something was wrong. ... I kind of (glanced at) his whole body, saw his leg and knew it was bad.�

Peterson seemed downright disconsolate as he stood on crutches and talked to reporters in the locker room after the game.

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Walking out of the victorious locker room and into the bright glow of the afternoon sun, Hue Jackson sighed with relief. His goal remains within reach. And the inspirational words of his mentor still echo in his heart. “People keep expecting us to fall,� the coach was saying of his Raiders, who were pushed to the edge of defeat Saturday before summoning the resolve to post a 16-13 overtime victory over Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium. “I’m telling you, our guys won’t go away easy,� the coach continued. “They come to work. They don’t always do everything right. We (the coaching staff) don’t always do everything right. But we are not going to quit. We are going to keep fighting until we get it right.�

The Raiders in this game did more wrong than right, botched more details than they aced. They committed 15 penalties, including one that nullified a touchdown. They threw two interceptions.

The defense often was messy, the offense generally unspectacular.

But snapping their three-game losing streak was the ultimate result. And that is enough to offset the ugliness, especially when the victory came minutes after Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop attempted a game-winning field goal.

That kick, on the last play of regulation, was smothered by big Richard Seymour, his second block of the game. The Raiders won the overtime coin flip, gained 58 yards on three plays, and finally exhaled when Sebastian Janikowski’s 36-yard field goal attempt sailed through the uprights.

The kick kept Oakland alive in the playoff race. Moreover, the events of the day — winning as they did, while AFC West competitors Denver and San Diego both were routed — can give the Raiders an actual reason to believe they should win the division.

Even if they don’t buy into that “team of destiny� palaver, these players and coaches realize they’re still in it despite often looking as if they didn’t deserve to be in it.

Jackson, however, points to another factor behind the unfolding events. He invoked the late Al Davis, citing the words of the former owner who 11 months ago promoted Hue from offensive coordinator to head coach. “The man told me, ‘Hue, we will win it in the end,’ and I believe that,� Jackson said. “I don’t know how it’s going to happen. But I know this much: I truly believe in the guy who was my leader, who told me that before he passed. “That’s what he told me. He said: ‘Hue, we will win in the end.’ I’ve shared that with the football team, and they played like that today.�

The Raiders were outgained 435-308 and managed only 13 first downs, while the Chiefs marched for 26. Kansas City punter Dustin Colquitt even outperformed Oakland’s reliably strong Shane Lechler.

Oakland won mostly because it had the right components — shoestrings, duct tape and plenty of pluck — when it absolutely needed them. “I don’t know what it is about us,� safety Tyvon Branch said. “We just seem to find a way to make it interesting. We overcame a lot. We all stuck together. We all kept believing.�

If Kansas City defeats the suddenly beatable Broncos and the Raiders stop the Chargers, Jackson will be a division winner in his rookie season as a head coach. “We still have a lot to fix,� he said. “But I believe we’ll find a way. The man told me, and there’s no reason to stop believing now.�

Maybe believing, in this instance, is being. Davis’ words carry significance for at least another week. Oakland won when it had to, preserving a chance to end its eight-year absence from the postseason.

The words danced in Jackson’s head as he exited Arrowhead. If the sentiment was credible last week, it is even more credible this week after a win that fairly defies logic.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS RUNNING BACK MAURICE JONES-DREW, LEFT, is tackled

by Tampa Bay linebackers Quincy Black, center, and Mason Foster during a Dec. 11 game in Jacksonville, Fla. Jones-Drew says he would try to hide a concussion if the situation arose.

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Some NFL players would hide concussions Ask Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew whether he would try to play through a concussion or yank himself from a game, and he’ll provide a straightforward answer. “Hide it,� the NFL’s leading rusher said. “The bottom line is: You have to be able to put food on the table. No one’s going to sign or want a guy who can’t stay healthy. I know there will be a day when I’m going to have trouble walking. I realize that,� Jones-Drew said. “But this is what I signed up for. Injuries are part of the game. If you don’t want to get hit, then you shouldn’t be playing.�

Other players say they would do the same: Hide it.

In a series of interviews about head injuries with The Associated Press over the last two weeks, 23 of 44 NFL players — slightly more than half — said they would try to conceal a possible concussion rather than pull themselves out of a game. Some acknowledged they already have. Players also said they should be better protected from their own instincts: More than two-thirds of the group the AP talked to wants independent neurologists on sidelines during games.

challenge of the week. No, it’s not getting ready for Baltimore. It’s trying to get somebody to come and watch.

The Bengals (9-6) drew another lessthan-capacity crowd for their 23-16 win over Arizona on Saturday that secured only their third winning record in the last 21 years. With a victory Sunday against Baltimore, they would clinch the final AFC wild-card berth for a chance to win their first playoff game since the 1990 season.

Only 41,273 fans showed up on a sunny, 38-degree afternoon to watch the breakthrough victory Saturday. Paul Brown Stadium was more than one-third empty, and that’s been the norm all season. Players buoyed by the chance to make the playoffs wasted no time lobbying for an audience.

Even quarterback Andy Dalton, who is steadfastly reserved in his comments, decided to stump for public support. “It’s going to be a big week, and we’re going to need everyone to come out and support us,� Dalton said. “Everyone in Cincinnati needs to come out for this big game.�

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Mississippi St ............. 6 1/2 (48) ........... Wake Forest Insight Bowl Sun Devil Stadium-Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma ...............14 (58) ................... Iowa Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Texas Bowl Reliant Stadium-Houston Texas A&M .............10 (67) ..... Northwestern Sun Bowl Sun Bowl Stadium-El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech ..................3 (50).............................. Utah Fight Hunger Bowl AT&T Park-San Francisco Illinois ........................... 2 1/2 (47) ........................... Ucla Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium-Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt ....................1 1/2 (49)................ Cincinnati Chick Fil-A Bowl Georgia Dome-Atlanta Auburn .............................3 (49)........................ Virginia Monday, Jan. 2 Ticket City Bowl Cotton Bowl-Dallas Houston ...........................6 (57)........................ Penn St Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium-Tampa, Fla. Georgia ......................... 3 1/2 (50) ............ Michigan St Capital One Bowl Citrus Bowl Stadium-Orlando, Fla. South Carolina ..............2 (46).................... Nebraska Gator Bowl Everbank Field-Jacksonville, Fla. Florida ..............................2 (44)......................... Ohio St Rose Bowl Rose Bowl-Pasadena, Calif.

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Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans Michigan .......................2 1/2 (51).......... Virginia Tech Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium-Miami Clemson ....................... 3 1/2 (60) ......... West Virginia Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl Cowboys Stadium-Arlington, Texas Arkansas ................ 8 (63)............ Kansas St Compass Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh .......................3 (47)............................... Smu Sunday, Jan. 8 Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd Peebles Stadium-Mobile, Ala. Arkansas St .................1 1/2 (63).................. N. Illinois Monday, Jan. 9 BCS Championship Game Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans Alabama ...........................1 (40) ................................. Lsu NBA Favorite ................. Points............ Underdog WASHINGTON ..............4 1/2 (190) ........... New Jersey Milwaukee ...................2 1/2 (180) ........... CHARLOTTE ORLANDO ....................... 5 (200) .................... Houston CLEVELAND .................3 1/2 (197)................... Toronto INDIANA ...........................8 (196)........................ Detroit Oklahoma City ..........5 1/2 (209) ........... MINNESOTA DALLAS ........................4 1/2 (202) .................... Denver SAN ANTONIO .............5 1/2 (195) ................ Memphis PHOENIX .......................7 1/2 (194).......... New Orleans SACRAMENTO ................6 (194)................... LA Lakers PORTLAND ......................4 (188).............. Philadelphia Chicago ........................6 1/2 (191) ............. GOLDEN ST NHL Favorite ..................Goals ............ Underdog MINNESOTA .................. Even-1/2 .................. Colorado BUFFALO ....................... Even-1/2 ............. Washington NY RANGERS .................... 1/2-1 ............... NY Islanders CAROLINA ..................... Even-1/2 ............. New Jersey ST. LOUIS .......................... 1/2-1 ............................ Dallas Detroit ........................... Even-1/2 ............... NASHVILLE CHICAGO ...........................1-1 1/2 ................... Columbus VANCOUVER ....................1-1 1/2 ................... Edmonton LOS ANGELES .............. Even-1/2 .................... Phoenix SAN JOSE .........................1-1 1/2 ...................... Anaheim Home Team in CAPS (c) 2011 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

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1943 — Sid Luckman throws five touchdown passes to lead the Chicago Bears to a 41-21 victory over the Washington Redskins for the NFL championship.

1946 — The United States wins the Davis Cup with a 5-0 sweep of Australia, the worst defeat for a defending champion.

1954 — Otto Graham scores three touchdowns and passes for three more to lead the Cleveland Browns to a 56-10 rout of the Detroit Lions for the NFL title.

1955 — The Cleveland Browns intercept six passes, one of which is returned 65 yards for a touchdown by Don Paul, in a 38-14 victory over the Los Angeles Rams for the NFL championship. Otto Graham of the Browns passes for two touchdowns and scores two more.

1960 — The Philadelphia Eagles come from behind twice, on a 35-yard pass to Tommy McDonald from Norm Van Brocklin and a 5-yard run by Ted Dean, to beat the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, for the NFL title.

1964 — Wray Carlton and Jack Kemp each score touchdowns and Pete Gogolak kicks two field goals to give the Buffalo Bills a 20-7 victory over the San Diego Chargers in the AFL championship.

1965 — The Buffalo Bills win their second straight AFL championship with a 27-0 victory over the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers are able to get inside Buffalo’s 25-yard line only once.

1999 — Mike Vanderjagt’s 21-yard field goal with 4 seconds left gives the Indianapolis Colts a 29-28 win over the Cleveland Browns. Indianapolis, which went 3-13 in 1998, makes NFL history by winning 10 more games than it did the previous season.

2004 — Peyton Manning breaks Dan Marino’s single-season touchdown pass record when he throws his 48th and 49th of the season, rallying Indianapolis from a 31-16 fourth-quarter deficit to win 34-31 in overtime over San Diego.

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FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERBACK TODD REESING SCAMPERS past Virginia Tech defenders during the Orange Bowl in this file photo from Jan. 3, 2008, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

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— including a 12-1 record during the 2007-08 Orange Bowl championship season — and threw for 11,000 yards and 90 touchdowns while delivering three consecutive seasons of more than 3,400 yards.

Both were leaders on their teams, and both operated as KU’s unquestioned, first-andonly choice at quarterback throughout their careers.

While having that kind of a role helped them perform on the field, both said it also helped their teams tremendously.

“I do think there has to be a guy that the coaches believe in and back, and, as a response to that, I think it’s important that the players do, too,” Whittemore said.

“The team has to believe in the quarterback or else the defense will be playing for just their side and not for the team and things become more individualized.”

Added Reesing: “When the team knows who their quarterback is, who their leader is, it makes everybody else around them play well. They have the ability to motivate people, to lead, to get everybody excited. It’s a lot of responsibility. It’s a tough position to play. And most of the teams that have been really, really successful have had a good quarterback.”

— Former Kansas University quarterback Todd Reesing While it’s too early to tell if either Crist, who will play one year at Kansas and will be eligible next season, or Heaps, who has to sit out 2012 and will have two years remaining beginning in 2013, will match, or even exceed, what Reesing or Whittemore were able to do, Reesing said both will come to KU with a huge advantage.

“The thing is, these two guys are seasoned veterans,” Reesing said. “They have played a lot of college football and they’ve been around Charlie Weis. Dayne Crist knows Weis’ offense, he knows the system, and he’s going to come in and be miles ahead of everyone on the team, which is going to give him the ability to step in and be a leader right away.”

Will all of the impressive traits along with the incredible hype surrounding his arrival mean more pressure for Crist from the start?

“For a young guy who’s been playing at Notre Dame, with the attention that that program gets, he’s not going to feel any pressure,” Whittemore said.

While the two former Jayhawks were impressed by the new players who will step into their old positions, that paled in comparison to the thoughts each had about KU’s new head coach.

“I was actually at work and I got online and happened to read it somewhere, and it just completely caught me off guard,” said Reesing, recalling the moment he first heard about the Weis hire. “It was kind of like, ‘Oh my gosh.

Where did this come from?’

It kind of takes your breath away. You know who Charlie Weis is. You know what he’s done, you know what his pedigree is and it’s exciting that he’s bringing that to our school.”

Added Whittemore: “I think we’re probably catching him at the right time. I think he’s figured out the college game and realizes that he only has some much time to spend with the kids, so he’s probably tweaked his offensive schemes for them. I’m interested to see what they do and how it evolves.”

With his coaching staff only half complete and somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 new players still on his wish list, there clearly is more work for Weis to do. But both Reesing and Whittemore said, from their perspective, one of the hardest things to achieve already is in the bag.

“I don’t think there’s been this much buzz surrounding KU football since the middle of our 2007 season,” Reesing said. “And that’s exciting to see.”

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two games he’s started since being picked up off waivers from Denver. He threw for 299 yards without a turnover in the 19-14 victory over the Packers, and 300 yards and a touchdown against the Raiders, running the two-minute drill flawlessly to set up a potential winning field goal by Ryan Succop on Saturday.

The 49-yard attempt at the end of regulation got blocked.

Orton also threw two costly interceptions, though, reminding many fans why the Broncos waived him and the Chicago Bears traded him away. He finished 21 of 36 for a 71.5 quarterback rating.

“Kyle and the offense did a great job of getting us in position to kick a field goal at the end,” Succop said. “For whatever reason, that’s how it worked out.”

Orton will be a free agent after this season, and Pioli must decide whether it makes sense signing him.

Cassel will be in the fourth year of a six-year, $63 million contract that includes $28 million guaranteed, but he was unspectacular before getting hurt.

Bringing in Orton — or perhaps drafting a quarterback early — might create some competition for Cassel that was sorely lacking during training camp this season.

“I haven’t been here that long, but these guys fight,” Orton said. “It’s an honor to play with them. The competitive spirit that everybody has in that locker room is a great thing.”

Orton downplayed next week’s matchup against Tim Tebow and the Broncos.

Ed Zurga/AP Photo

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS QUARTERBACK KYLE ORTON (8) CALLS OUT A PLAY to his team during a game against the Oakland Raiders on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo. It was Tebow who supplanted him as the starting quarterback earlier this season, which ultimately resulted in Denver coach John Fox’s decision to waive him.

Tebow has gone on to become the face of the franchise, helping the Broncos climb into playoff contention.

“You only get 16 games in the NFL, so every one of them is meaningful,” Orton said. “For a player, coach or the organization, they are all important. I am sure that guys will be ready to play.

“If you ask my teammates, I’m motivated quite a bit ev-

ery game. I don’t think that’ll change.”

With questions surrounding their coach and quarterback, not to mention having the chance to play spoiler against a division rival, the Chiefs have plenty to play for against Denver — even though the playoffs are no longer a possibility.

“We’ve been working hard out on that field with each other since training camp. We’re not going to go out next week and just lay down,” Flowers said. “We’re just going to play Chiefs football and try to win us a game. We definitely want to get a win for Romeo.”

HONOLULU (AP) — Rodney McGruder scored a careerbest 28 points and Kansas State used a big first-half run to beat Long Beach State 7760 on Sunday and win the Diamond Head Classic.

McGruder finished 10 of 11 from the field, including 2 of 3 from three-point range. He also went 6 of 7 from the line.

Will Spradling added 17 points for the Wildcats (10-1).

Larry Anderson and Casper Ware each scored 17 points for the 49ers (7-6).

The Wildcats went on a 29-13 run for a 38-22 lead with 2:27 left in the first half.

McGruder had eight points, including two three-pointers, during the surge.

In the first half, the Wildcats shot 17 of 33, forced 10 turnovers and outscored the 49ers 22-10 in the paint.

Spradling’s three-pointer gave Kansas State its biggest lead at 49-31 with 15:43 remaining. Long Beach State got as close as 62-52 with 6:41 to play.

LONG BEACH ST. (7-6) Phelps 1-4 0-0 2, Ennis 2-5 2-4 7, Robinson 4-8 0-0 8, Anderson 5-11 4-8 17, Ware 5-18 5-7 17, Caffey 4-7 0-0 8, Jackson 0-2 0-0 0, Dervisevic 0-2 1-2 1, Vantrimpont 0-0 0-0 0, Starkey 0-0 0-0 0, Shepherd 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-57 12-21 60.

KANSAS ST. (10-1) Irving 3-4 0-0 6, McGruder 10-11 6-7 28, Samuels 4-8 3-4 11, Gipson 2-6 1-2 5, Spradling 4-7 6-7 17, Southwell 1-3 1-2 3, Ojeleye 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Rodriguez 0-6 0-0 0, Diaz 0-1 0-0 0, Henriquez 2-5 3-4 7, Jones 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-52 20-26 77.

Halftime-Kansas St. 40-28. 3-Point GoalsLong Beach St. 6-19 (Anderson 3-6, Ware 2-6, Ennis 1-4, Caffey 0-3), Kansas St. 5-13 (Spradling 3-5, McGruder 2-3, Jones 0-1, Samuels 0-1, Rodriguez 0-3). Fouled OutEnnis. Rebounds-Long Beach St. 32 (Caffey 9), Kansas St. 39 (Samuels 8). Assists-Long Beach St. 10 (Anderson 4), Kansas St. 14 (Samuels 4). Total Fouls-Long Beach St. 21, Kansas St. 20. A-6,270.

Eugene Tanner/AP Photo

LONG BEACH STATE FORWARD EUGENE PHELPS, LEFT, BLOCKS the path of Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez (13) in the first half on Sunday in Honolulu.

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Holloway paces No. 14 Xavier to win over Southern Illinois HONOLULU (AP) — Tu Holloway was feeling the Christmas spirit.

Sporting green and white shoes with red laces, Holloway poured in 21 points to lead No. 14 Xavier to a 87-77 victory over Southern Illinois on Sunday in the seventhplace game of the Diamond Head Classic.

Before a sparse, morning crowd on Christmas Day, the Musketeers snapped a three-game skid, winning for the first time since Dec. 10, when they beat Cincinnati in a game cut short in the closing seconds by brawling and mayhem on the court.

“That was as good a game as we played offensively all year,” Xavier coach Chris Mack said. “On the defense end, we need to get back to being a team that keeps teams to a low field-goal percentage.”

It was the first three-game losing streak for Xavier un-

der Mack and first since the 2007-08 season.

Mark Lyons had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Musketeers (9-3). Andre Walker and Travis Taylor added 13 apiece for Xavier, which made 36 of 48 free throws.

Walker also had 10 rebounds.

The Salukis (3-8), losers of three in a row, were led

by Dantiel Daniels with 22 points.

“We really needed this one,” Lyons said. “We got the W. That’s what matters.”

Southern Illinois drew to 68-64 at 8:45 after a threepoint play by Daniels, but an 8-1 run gave the Musketeers a comfortable cushion. Holloway’s two free throws with a minute to go gave the Musketeers their largest lead, 83-69.

Holloway finished 14 of 15 from the line. He took just six shots from the field, making three. He also had seven assists.

“I try to do that every

game,” Holloway said. “Today my teammates were finishing a lot. I’m the point guard of the team, so that’s where it starts for us, passing the ball and sharing the ball.”

SIU coach Chris Lowery had high praise for Holloway.

“Tu Holloway is an NBA guy,” Lowery said. “That’s the difference between their club and our club. Their thinker is an NBA guy. He never wavered (or) got shook up, and he ran the team.”

XAVIER (9-3) Lyons 6-19 4-7 17, Martin 0-0 0-0 0, Frease 3-7 0-0 6, Holloway 3-6 14-15 21, Walker 3-3 7-10 13, Davis 1-5 1-2 3, Taylor 4-7 5-8 13, Redford 2-2 0-0 5, Robinson 2-2 5-6 9, McKenzie 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-51 36-48 87.

S. ILLINOIS (3-8) Seck 6-12 0-0 12, Drinkard 1-7 2-2 4, Goff 0-3 2-3 2, Daniels 7-8 8-8 22, Swan 1-6 1-3 4, Brown-Surles 4-11 1-2 12, Bryer 0-0 0-0 0, Lindsay 5-11 0-0 11, Early 0-0 0-0 0, Bocot 3-7 1-2 7, Taylor 0-1 0-0 0, Whitt 0-2 0-0 0, Setty 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 28-70 16-22 77.

Halftime-Xavier 42-36. 3-Point GoalsXavier 3-8 (Redford 1-1, Holloway 1-2, Lyons 1-4, Davis 0-1), S. Illinois 5-20 (Brown-Surles 3-7, Swan 1-2, Lindsay 1-5, Goff 0-1, Setty 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Bocot 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Xavier 36 (Lyons, Walker 10), S. Illinois 40 (Seck 10). Assists-Xavier 13 (Holloway 7), S. Illinois 15 (Bocot 6). Total Fouls-Xavier 16, S. Illinois 28. A-NA.

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Sunday’s games New York 106, Boston 104 Miami 105, Dallas 94 Chicago 88, L.A. Lakers 87 Oklahoma City 97, Orlando 89 L.A. Clippers 105,Golden State 86

Today’s games Toronto at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Houston at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Bulls rush Lakers, win 88-87 The Associated Press

Bulls 88, Lakers 87 LOS ANGELES — Derrick Rose scored 22 points and hit a short go-ahead jumper with 4.8 seconds to play, and the Bulls rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final four minutes.

Luol Deng scored 21 points and blocked Kobe Bryant’s short shot right before the buzzer as the Bulls hung on for a thrilling finish to both clubs’ first-ever Christmas meeting.

Bryant scored 28 points and committed eight turnovers while playing with a torn wrist ligament for the Lakers, who nearly shook off their tumultuous preseason for a surprising win. Instead, Los Angeles was outscored 17-5 in the final 3:36.

CHICAGO (88) Deng 7-19 6-6 21, Boozer 7-13 1-4 15, Noah 3-12 0-0 6, Rose 9-13 0-0 22, Hamilton 3-8 0-0 6, Brewer 3-6 0-1 6, Asik 1-5 1-1 3, Watson 2-6 0-0 6, Gibson 1-4 1-2 3, Korver 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 36-89 9-14 88.

L.A. LAKERS (87) Ebanks 4-5 0-0 8, McRoberts 3-6 0-2 6, Gasol 6-14 2-6 14, Fisher 1-5 0-0 2, Bryant 11-23 6-7 28, World Peace 2-6 0-0 4, Murphy 3-5 1-2 7, Blake 4-9 2-3 12, Goudelock 2-3 0-0 6. Totals 36-76 11-20 87.

Chicago 22 34 12 20—88 L.A. Lakers 20 29 20 18—87 3-Point Goals-Chicago 7-15 (Rose 4-6, Watson 2-3, Deng 1-4, Korver 0-2), L.A. Lakers 4-16 (Goudelock 2-3, Blake 2-6, Bryant 0-1, World Peace 0-1, Murphy 0-1, Fisher 0-2, Gasol 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Chicago 52 (Noah 9), L.A. Lakers 55 (Murphy, McRoberts, Gasol 8). AssistsChicago 21 (Rose 5), L.A. Lakers 22 (Bryant 6). Total Fouls-Chicago 21, L.A. Lakers 20.

Technicals-Chicago defensive three second. A-18,997 (18,997).

Heat 105, Mavericks 94 DALLAS — LeBron James and the Miami Heat couldn’t keep the Dallas Mavericks from winning the most recent NBA championship.

They did a nice job, however, of getting the Mavs’ title New Jersey at Washington, defense off to an ugly start.

6 p.m.

James had 37 points, 10 Oklahoma City at Minnesota, rebounds and six assists as 7 p.m. the Heat beat the Mavericks Denver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday in a game that was Memphis at San Antonio, 7:30 hardly ever as close as the fip.m. nal score might suggest.

New Orleans at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

The newly minted champs L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, were down by 15 after one 9 p.m. quarter, 21 at halftime, and Philadelphia at Portland, 35 a few minutes into the 9 p.m. second half. Miami scored at Chicago at Golden State, least 30 points in each of the 9:30 p.m. first three quarters.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Oklahoma City (did not play — coach’s decision) Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 3. Ast: 4. Stl: 4.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Pts: 4. FGs: 2-3. Reb: 2.

Paul Pierce, Boston Celtics (did not play — heel injury) Brandon Rush, Golden State Pts: 12. Reb: 3. Blk: 2.

Dwyane Wade had 26 points, eight rebounds and six assists as the Heat cemented their status as the preseason favorite to win it all.

Jason Terry led Dallas with 23 points. Dirk Nowitzki scored 21 in three quarters.

MIAMI (105) James 11-19 15-19 37, Bosh 2-9 0-0 4, Anthony 2-3 2-3 6, Chalmers 1-1 1-1 3, Wade 11-21 4-6 26, Cole 3-8 0-1 7, Haslem 3-6 3-5 9, Howard 2-3 0-0 4, Battier 0-1 0-0 0, J.Jones 3-6 0-1 9, Harris 0-0 0-0 0, Pittman 0-1 0-0 0, Gladness 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 25-36 105.

DALLAS (94) Marion 6-10 0-0 12, Nowitzki 6-15 9-10 21, Haywood 0-2 0-0 0, Kidd 2-5 3-3 9, Carter 2-6 0-2 5, Odom 1-6 1-3 4, Terry 9-18 1-2 23, Mahinmi 1-3 0-1 2, West 3-7 3-3 10, Cardinal 0-2 4-4 4, Wright 0-1 0-0 0, Beaubois 0-4 0-0 0, D.Jones 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 31-82 23-30 94.

Miami 32 30 35 8—105 Dallas 17 24 24 29—94 3-Point Goals-Miami 4-7 (J.Jones 3-5, Cole 1-1, Battier 0-1), Dallas 9-28 (Terry 4-10, Kidd 2-5, Odom 1-2, Carter 1-3, West 1-3, D.Jones 0-1, Beaubois 0-2, Cardinal 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Miami 65 (Haslem 14), Dallas 44 (Marion 6). AssistsMiami 18 (Wade, James 6), Dallas 23 (Kidd, Carter, Nowitzki, Marion, West, Beaubois, Terry 3). Total Fouls-Miami 28, Dallas 29.

Technicals-Miami defensive three second, Odom 2, West, Dallas defensive three second 2. Flagrant Fouls-Haslem. Ejected— Odom. A-20,421 (19,200).

Knicks 106, Celtics 104 NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points, including a pair of free throws with the game tied and 16 seconds left, and New York survived a seesaw season opener to beat Boston.

Amare Stoudemire added 21 points, and Toney Douglas had 19 for the Knicks, who led by 17 in the first half, trailed by 10 in the fourth quarter, then pulled out a thrilling Christmas victory

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

LOS ANGELES LAKERS GUARD KOBE BRYANT (24) PUTS UP A SHOT against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13), forward Luol Deng (9), guard Ronnie Brewer (11) and forward Taj Gibson as time expires on Sunday in Los Angeles. Bryant’s shot was blocked and the Bulls won 88-87. in the delayed opener to the 2011-12 season.

Rajon Rondo had 31 points and 13 assists, nearly leading the Celtics back without an injured Paul Pierce. But Kevin Garnett missed a jumper just before the buzzer, the kind of shot Boston always seems to make against the Knicks.

BOSTON (104) Pavlovic 0-0 0-0 0, Garnett 6-13 3-6 15, O’Neal 2-5 2-3 6, Rondo 11-19 9-12 31, Allen 7-12 4-4 20, Daniels 2-8 0-0 4, Bass 9-13 2-2 20, Wilcox 2-3 0-0 4, Dooling 0-1 4-4 4, Bradley 0-2 0-0 0, Moore 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-76 24-31 104.

NEW YORK (106) Anthony 10-17 13-15 37, Stoudemire 8-11 3-4 21, Chandler 1-2 5-8 7, Douglas 8-19 1-2 19, Fields 3-7 0-0 7, Jeffries 1-3 0-0 2, Shumpert 3-13 5-5 11, Walker 0-1 0-0 0, Harrellson 0-0 0-0 0, Balkman 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 35-74 27-34 106.

Boston 23 29 35 17—104 New York 34 28 17 27—106 3-Point Goals-Boston 2-5 (Allen 2-3, Rondo 0-1, Daniels 0-1), New York 9-20 (Anthony 4-7, Stoudemire 2-2, Douglas 2-6, Fields 1-3, Walker 0-1, Shumpert 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Boston 50 (Bass 11), New York 40 (Anthony 8).

Assists-Boston 28 (Rondo 13), New York 17 (Douglas 4). Total Fouls-Boston 28, New York 25. Technicals-Allen, O’Neal, Pavlovic, Chandler, Douglas, Stoudemire. A-19,763 (19,763).

Thunder 97, Magic 89 OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant scored 30 points to help the Oklahoma City Thunder win their season opener over Orlando.

The Thunder held Orlando star Dwight Howard to just 11 points.

ORLANDO (89) Turkoglu 3-10 0-0 8, Anderson 9-17 1-1 25, Howard 4-12 3-8 11, Nelson 7-13 4-4 18, J.Richardson 1-10 0-0 2, Davis 3-9 0-0 6, Redick 0-3 8-8 8, Duhon 0-2 0-0 0, Clark 1-3 0-0 2, Q.Richardson 0-0 0-0 0, Wafer 2-2 5-5 9. Totals 30-81 21-26 89.

OKLAHOMA CITY (97) Durant 11-19 6-11 30, Ibaka 0-1 0-0 0, Perkins 2-2 2-2 6, Westbrook 6-17 1-1 14, Sefolosha 3-5 0-0 8, Harden 4-11 10-12 19, Collison 2-3 0-0 4, Maynor 3-5 0-0 8, Mohammed 1-4 0-0 2, Cook 2-5 0-0 6. Totals 34-72 19-26 97.

Orlando 22 19 22 26—89 Oklahoma City 27 28 26 16—97 3-Point Goals-Orlando 8-28 (Anderson 6-12, Turkoglu 2-5, Duhon 0-1, Davis 0-1, Howard 0-1, Redick 0-2, Nelson 0-2, J.Richardson 0-4), Oklahoma City 10-19 (Sefolosha 2-2, Maynor 2-3, Cook 2-4, Durant 2-4, Westbrook 1-2, Harden 1-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Orlando 52 (Howard 15), Oklahoma City 49 (Mohammed, Westbrook 7). Assists-Orlando 18 (Nelson 6), Oklahoma City 21 (Westbrook, Durant 6). Total Fouls-Orlando 25, Oklahoma City 22. Technicals-Orlando defensive three second 2, Mohammed, Perkins, Oklahoma City defensive three second. A-18,203 (18,203).

NFL

Rodgers slings five touchdowns as Packers rout Bears GREEN BAY, WIS. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw five touchdown passes for the first time in his career to help the Green Bay Packers nail down the No. 1 seed in the NFC and claim another round of bragging rights in the NFL’s most storied rivalry by knocking the Chicago Bears out of the playoff chase.

Rodgers threw a pair of touchdowns to Jordy Nelson, another two to James Jones, and found tight end Jermichael Finley for a score as the Packers beat the Bears 35-21 on Sunday night.

“To be able to be a part of something special like this has been incredible,” Rodgers said in a television interview. “Great night tonight for us, securing that No. 1 seed.”

Clay Matthews made a key first-half interception for the Packers (14-1), who needed the win to tie down homefield advantage in the NFC. The loss eliminated the Bears (7-8) from playoff contention and put the Atlanta Falcons in the playoffs as at least a wild card.

Third-string running back Kahlil Bell rushed for 121 yards for the Bears, who trailed by only four early in the third quarter. But Rodgers drove the Packers for touchdowns on their next three possessions to put the game out of reach.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy said the team’s run defense will be examined, but added the final score told the story.

“We won big,” McCarthy said. “That’s the bottom line.”

Rodgers was 21 of 29 for 283 yards and five touch-

SUMMARY

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GREEN BAY PACKERS QUARTERBACK AARON RODGERS (12) THROWS while being pressured by Chicago Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher (54) during the first half on Sunday in Green Bay, Wis. downs with no interceptions when backup Matt Flynn took over for Rodgers with 7:54 left in the game.

“Now we’re going to enjoy the rest of our Christmas with our families,” Rodgers said.

Chicago came into Sunday on a four-game losing streak and beset by injuries. But the Bears were able to stay in the game with solid defense and

tough running by Bell, who started because of injuries to Matt Forte and Marion Barber.

Rodgers’ second-half fireworks proved to be too much for Chicago.

“Thirty-five points on that defense, that’s a good night,” McCarthy said.

The victory was the Packers’ fourth over the Bears in 2011. Green Bay also beat

Chicago in the 2010 regularseason finale, the NFC Championship game, and at Soldier Field on Sept. 25.

Rodgers’ offensive feats came behind a patchwork offensive line, as the Packers were without three of their top four tackles.

Chad Clifton returned to practice this week after sitting out since October because of hamstring and back

injuries, but isn’t ready to play. Bryan Bulaga was inactive Sunday because of a left knee sprain, and backup Derek Sherrod is out for the season with a broken right leg.

Green Bay also was missing wide receiver Greg Jennings, because of a sprained left knee, and defensive lineman Ryan Pickett because of a concussion.

Chicago 0 3 7 11—21 Green Bay 7 7 14 7—35 First Quarter GB-Finley 2 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 10:26.

Second Quarter Chi-FG Gould 35, 1:56.

GB-J.Jones 2 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), :16.

Third Quarter Chi-E.Williams fumble recovery in end zone (Gould kick), 11:35.

GB-Nelson 55 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 10:02.

GB-J.Jones 7 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 1:54.

Fourth Quarter GB-Nelson 2 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 14:53.

Chi-K.Davis 1 pass from McCown (McCown run), 7:54.

Chi-FG Gould 30, 1:11.

A-70,574.

Chi GB First downs 24 19 Total Net Yards 441 363 Rushes-yards 42-199 21-81 Passing 242 282 Punt Returns 2-7 1-8 Kickoff Returns 5-117 1-34 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-23 Comp-Att-Int 19-28-2 21-29-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 1-1 Punts 2-49.0 4-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-28 0-0 Time of Possession 35:48 24:12 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Chicago, Bell 23-121, Allen 11-40, McCown 8-38. Green Bay, Grant 8-44, Rodgers 4-18, Starks 6-13, Saine 1-8, Flynn 2-(minus 2).

PASSING-Chicago, McCown 19-28-2-242.

Green Bay, Rodgers 21-29-0-283.

RECEIVING-Chicago, R.Williams 6-81, Sanzenbacher 4-51, Bell 4-38, K.Davis 3-21, Bennett 1-49, Clutts 1-2. Green Bay, Nelson 6-115, J.Jones 4-50, Finley 3-20, Grant 2-34, Driver 2-29, Cobb 2-22, Crabtree 1-7, Starks 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Chicago, Gould 49 (WR).

The Bears have lost five straight games since losing quarterback Jay Cutler to a broken right thumb in a Nov. 20 victory over San Diego.

Chicago was 7-3 after that win, but came into Sunday’s game barely alive in the playoff chase.

The Bears started McCown on Sunday after backup Caleb Hanie struggled to fill in for Cutler.

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seeks President & CEO Full-time position reports to DMI Board of Directors. Please submit cover letter and resume electronically to dmisearch@visitlawrence. com.

Review of applications begins January 3, 2012.

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The mission of DMI is to promote tourism in Lawrence & Douglas County by focusing fiscal, management and community resources on heritage and cultural assets in an effective and collaborative manner.

Douglas County, the City of Lawrence, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area are the stakeholders with representation on DMI’s Board of Directors.

The President and CEO of DMI has responsibility for the operating functions of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau (LCVB), Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) in accordance with bylaws and coordinates funding for Douglas County Historical Societies FFNHA responsibilities include management of the work of the Trustees, staff and volunteers to fulfill the mission and implementation of the ten-year management plan, grant-making, marketing, research, interpretation and fundraising. Leadership in the cultivation and maintenance of relationships with constituencies on local, state and national levels in addition to nonprofits, businesses, and foundations to assure effective program performance is expected.

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Starts early January. Requires experience teaching and supervising elementary age children, good group management and curriculum planning skills.

Contact Hilltop Child Development Center, 785-864-4940 (leave message) or ppisani@ku.edu for application information. EOE.

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The East Central Kansas Cooperative in Education is accepting applications for paraeducators to work with students with special needs in Eudora and Baldwin District.

EOE If interested, please complete an application online through our website: www.eckce.com

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941 Indiana - 2BR 1 bath $650/mo. 785-841-4935 Parkway Terrace Apts.

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3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence

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SOCIAL S OCIAL M MEDIA EDIA SPECIALIST SPECIALIST The World Company is hiring for a Social Media Specialist to be responsible for designing and implementing social media strategies, products and tools to be used by the sales team to be sold to our advertisers.

Specialist will work directly with advertising and media marketing departments on effective use of social tools to promote our products, content and services to be sold to advertisers; and support the company’s ongoing efforts to integrate social and news media as a key component of our client services.

Ideal candidate will have at least two year’s experience working with social media tools and techniques with proven ability to create and execute online social media campaigns; leadership experience with strategic planning and marketing of successful online communities; proven track record for managing online communities and creating positive and successful community engagements; expertise publishing or participating on blogs, social news, video/photo sharing, social networking applications with a strong personal online reputation; strong results-driven project management experience plus proven public relations skills; detail-oriented and excellent verbal and written communication skills; outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines; bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communication, Marketing Public Relations or related field preferred; and ability to drive with valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and safe driving record.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. Please include links to online communities/accounts you have been responsible for managing. We offer an excellent benefits package including medical insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts and more!

Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. EOE

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WEB DESIGNER Looking for a new gig? Well, regardless of whether you are or are not “in search of” that next great place to work… We are looking for you!

Want to be our next web designer and be part of our rapidly expanding digital development team? The team designs/develops our digital products, provides maintenance/support of existing websites, and implements third-party digital initiatives. The World Company’s online operation is considered to be among the most innovative of news and media organizations in the country. Our websites include LJWorld.com, Lawrencemarketplace.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com and WellCommons.com. We are in search of a designer that is fairly technical and not afraid of the command line when dealing with front-end development and that can also provide creative concept and design solutions after ramping up.

What we want to see: • A few years of web design experience is ideal (preferably using open-source technologies).

Obviously - proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Experience in designing for mobile platforms a plus).

• Knowledge and hands on experience with content management systems is extremely helpful (Django templates would be ideal).

PERMANENT AND 2012 HELP START IMMEDIATELY

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2BR, lower in 4-plex, 1725 Tennessee. $465/mo. Has DW. Quiet & clean. No pets.

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Sales-Marketing

Assistant/ Customer Service

We need your Positions avail. in 5 departments for our 2 locations.

Must be over 18 & avail. to start Wed. Interviewing Mon. & Tues. Only.

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No pets. Call 785-841-5797

1BR & 2BR Remodeled Units All utilities paid, includes high speed Internet.

Starting at $560/month

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One Month FREE Rent Available Now! 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

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Dale Willey Automotive Management Positions has an opening for a full time office assistant Pro-Cuts now hiring a full or part time stylist to join /receptionist.

Saturdays our fun, energetic team! will be apart of the work Apply at 2500 Iowa schedule. Dealership expein Lawrence rience is not necessary.

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Medical Assistant We Can Help. Licensed For full description see Busy dermatology pracAgents Standing By www.ku.edu/employment& tice seeking an experi1-800-951-2167 search for position # enced, energetic person 00005450. Review begins to assist physician with 01/04/2012. EO/AA. patients. Must be familiar with medical terminology, sterile technique, and be Driversadept at taking patient Transportation histories. Call Mon. - Fri. 8AM-Noon at: 785-842-7001

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• Strong preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience. However, we will train the right person who demonstrates passion for their work and a willingness to learn.

• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git).

Some of what you will do here: • Varied design work and maintenance in addition to design processing from concept to implementation.

• Respond to non-technical users on a variety of technical issues and status updates.

• Identify research and resolve technical problems.

• Document, monitor and follow-up on issues to ensure a timely resolution.

The World Company is a communications and media company based in Lawrence, Kansas. We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

DISTRIBUTION TEAM LEADER Lawrence Journal-World is hiring a Team Leader in our distribution center. We are a family-owned operation with a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, several weekly community newspapers, a Commercial Printing division, and a contract print site for USA TODAY. Team Leaders are responsible for handling the processing and bundling of newsprint products from the press to distributors; troubleshoot machinery; and assist with supervising and providing training to team members.

Candidates must be available to work between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.

We are looking for talented and hardworking individuals who are looking to grow in their career with a fastpaced company. Ideal candidate will have leadership experience; a team player; self starter with strong organizational skills; experience operating machinery and maintenance skills preferred; strong communication skills; good attention to detail and able to multi-task; a high school diploma or GED; able to lift up to 70 lbs.; stand for long periods of time and frequently twist and bend; and proficient with MS Office products.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com or complete an employment application at 609 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS. We offer an excellent benefits package including health insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, opportunities for career advancement and more!

Background check, pre-employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required. EOE

6B MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2011 Apartments Houses Unfurnished 1BR farm house,

near Lawrence. Stove, refrig., W/D hookups. NO PETS! $560/ mo. +deposit. 785-842-3626 Leave name, phone#, msg.

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Limited Time Special All Units: Pool, on KU bus route, DW, & microwave 2BRs - 1/2 Mo. Rent FREE near KU, laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4BRs - Special Prices W/D, FREE wireless internet 660 GATEWAY COURT

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3BR, Remodeled old farm house, huge kitchen/LR, 1 bath. 7 mi. S. of Lawrence on all blacktop. $800/mo.

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Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

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2859 Four Wheel Drive Pets Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standToy Poodles, Chihuahuas, ing townhome w/ courtYorkies. Older puppies yard, cathedral ceilings, Dresser, reduced. 785-883-4883.

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Pets ok. Water & trash pd.

785-393-1992 Care-Services$750/mo.

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Baby & Children's

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Items Newer spacious unit. All appls. No pets. Avail. now. Toys, Little Tikes mailbox $895/mo. Call 785-766-9823 Shape sorter, $8. Little Tikes small house w/2 people $5, FP Shape Sorter AVAIL. Now - $5, Zyclone Zing Ring 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., Blaster $15, Marshmallow FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505 Crossbow $12, children’s 12” bike, $8. 785-865-2813

Feeder & Keeper, LeBistro gallon water feeder retails $20.00+ selling for $10.

Petmate Kibble Keeper sealed bin holds up to 10# - $10 both like new 785-865-2813

with paid pet deposit www.garberprop.com 785-841-4785

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Firewood-Stoves A Full Cord Seasoned Hedge, Oak, Locust & mixed hardwoods, stacked & delivered, $160. Call Landon, 785-766-0863

Firewood, Mixed hardwoods, full cord: $150. You haul. Or small delivery fee.

Oak & hedge cords slightly 1, 2, & 3BR townhomes avail. in Cooperative. Units more. 35 years in business.

Call Bill at 816-810-3673 starting at $412 - $485/mo.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

Firewood: Mixed hardFIRST MONTH FREE! woods, mostly split.

Back patio, CA, hard wood Stacked/delivered. $85 -1/2 floors, full bsmt., stove, cord. James 785-241-3530 refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal, Reserved Red Oak/White Oak Mix, $210/cord parking. On site manage- $150/truck, ment & maintenance. 24 hr. Stacked & delivered. Cured & Seasoned.

Adam emergency maintenance.

816-547-1575 Membership & Equity Fee Required. 785-842-2545 Firewood for (Equal Housing Opportunity) Seasoned sale. hedge, oak, locust, & www.pinetreetownhouses.com other mixed hardwoods. $160/cord. Split stacked & Delivered. Call Ryan at 785-418-9910

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Mattress, New Full size Limited Edition I Ortho-Firm-Posture series mattress for sale. Perfect condition.

Downsizeing guest room to twin size. $499.95 new. Selling for $100/offer. 785-691-7316

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Holiday Decor Dancing Jingle Bell Rock Santa - New in box - retail $50/NOW $10, Mr. & Mrs. Snowman handmade Dolls $5/pr. New 6 reversible Tartan Plaid /Red Chair Pads Org. Price $8ea. $4ea or all $20 785-865-2813

Chevrolet 2000 Corvette Coupe, Automatic, chrome wheels, leatehr, 117K, Winter priced at only $12,888.

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Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

3BR Townhomes Avail.

Adam Ave. - 2 bath, 2 car, Clothing 1,700 sq. ft., some with fenced yards, $895/mo.

Letter Jacket, Lawrence Bainbridge Cir. - 1,200 - High letter jacket, men’s 1,540 sq. ft., 1.5-2.5 bath, 1 size XL in excellent condicar, $695 - $775/mo. tion. $95 (new price is over $170). 785-843-0257 Pets okay

Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo LT, leather heated seats, ABS, traction control, spoiler, alloy wheels, very sharp, stk#168771 only $10,995.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2005 Tahoe LS SUV, Stk#B6867B Special Price $13,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Cadillac 2007 CTS leather heated memory seats, 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Units On Star, plenty of com• No Application Fee • fort that only a Cadillac Short-term Leases avail. can give you!!

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Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Locally owned & operated.

Green Grass Lawn Care

Pet Services

Free estimates/Insured.

MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

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Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee - Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals We take glass!

1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

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Repairs and Services

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Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

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Lawn, Garden & Nursery

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Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

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Interior/Exterior Painting

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Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

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• Mold or Mildew on your house?

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Moving-Hauling

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Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning.

Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

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Medical-HealthTherapy

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Electrical

Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

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Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

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Home Improvements

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Year round storage

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On-Site Cooking Available

Child Care Provided

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

Decorative & Regular concrete drives, walks, & patios. 42 yrs. exp.

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Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

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Trimmed, Shaped, Removed Shrubs, Fenceline Cleaned

No Job Too Small Free Est. Lic. & Ins. 913-268-3120 Chris Tree Service 20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

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2008 MAZDA Stk#T96620B Special Price $15,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Nissan 2010 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two only $14223.00 stk#s13257 or 14043 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports

2008 Toyota Yaris 5spd. manual, white Carfax 1 owner $10,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Nissan 2007 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two starting at only $12,762. stk# 14043.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2008 Mini Cooper S, 2 Door, 6speed manual, heated seats, cloth, Moon, CD, Bluetooth, Trac, Spoiler, 25K, $19,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Mitsubishi 2008 Ecplise GS 48K, Sunset Pearl Metallic You Have the Right to a Fear-Free Car-Buying Experience! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2006 Trailblazer LT 4WD, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, great miles, very affordable, stk#612081 only $11,841.

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Volkswagen 2009 Passat Sedan 4dr Auto Komfort FWD Sedan Stk#T6696A Sale Price $20,995

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Chevrolet 2006 Uplander LT, FWD, leather heated seats, dual power seats, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, DVD, XM radio, & more, stk#117531 only $12415 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chrysler 2009 PT Cruiser 40K, Surf Blue Pearl You Have the Right To Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Volkswagon 2008 Jetta 2.5, local trade in, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, very sharp, stk#308742 only $13,700.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Volvo 2009 V50 Wagon.

ONE local owner, super clean, silver, and a long lit of options. Priced way below comparable Volvos.

Take a look at this NICE, safe Volvo. Great reviews on this model. 75K miles.

See website for photos.

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Saturn 2004 Ion Quad Coupe, 4cyl, FWD, spoiler, power equipment, very sporty & great gas mileage!

Stk#581581 only $7700.

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The Selection

2010 Mitsubishi Galant ES 4Cyl, Auto,7,000 mi Carfax 1 owner $14,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer ES V6, 5speed manual Silver $7,495 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Premium selected automobiles Specializing in Imports www.theselectionautos.com 785-856-0280 “We can locate any vehicle you are looking for.”

Toyota 2000 Camry LE Automatic. 4cyl. 198K, Runs great! Non-smoker. Very clean interior & exterior.

Timing belt & water pump were changed at 153k.

Newer brakes & tires.

Heater & AC work great!

Power driver seat. Sun Roof. Factory radio & CD. Power windows & mirrors.

Cruise control. Excellent gas mileage. $4,200. Contact AJ 913-568-2981

Toyota 2006 Camry LE 65k, Dark Grey Metallic From Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2002 NISSAN ALTIMA NADA retail price $6175, Buy it NOWfor $4800 Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder, only at

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Nissan 2005 Altima SE, 69K, White, V6, Alloys, Leather, Moon Roof, Sonoma Metallic.

You Have the Right To the Most Money For Your Trade-In www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2010 Sentra 2.0 Magnetic Grey, 47K Who Could Say Not To… www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2010 Versa 1.8 S 30K, Brilliant Silver etallic, Swear By Your Car, Not At It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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2007 Toyota Camry XLE Auto, gray, Carfax 1 owner $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Toyota 2010 Corolla, CE Barcelona Red, 48K Can you believe It?! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

TOYOTA 2004 Prius Hatchback HYBRID - no photo.

Stk#T7056A Sale Price $12,000

Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder, only at

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Ironhorse 2003 Texas Chopper.

I can’t say enough about this bike.

You have to see in person! Absolutely Amazing.

Thousand below Value.

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Pontiac 2006 Grand Prix GT, this is a fantastic luxury sedan, plenty of room for the family and power for the driving enthusiast!

Stk#424761 only $9,412.

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Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

Ford 2008 Edge Limited AWD, ultra sunroof, leather heated seats, power liftgate, navigation, very nice!

Stk#414381 only $25,887.

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HUMMER 2006 H2.

Stk#D8763.

Sale Price $31,999,

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Chevrolet 2008 Silverado LT 4WD, Black exterior with black interior, 5.8 Liter V8, Automatic Trans.

Power windows front and back, New Tires, Bedliner, 67,000 miles. This is a nice running clean truck and is loaded. I live in Ottawa, Ks. but would be willing to bring it to you to see. Priced at $23,500. Please call 785-214-9789/785-242-6439

Jeep 2004 Grand Cherokee Special Edition.

Local trade-in.

4X4, Heated Seats, leather, dual power seats, moonroof, and tow package, and lots more.

Very nice condition. V8.

See website for photos.

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Jeep 2007 Liberty Limited 4x4, 54K, Stone White. Perfect for today’s busy gal! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Jeep 2005 Liberty RENEGADE model with tons of fun options. Nice silver color, clean condition and history.

Automatic and 4X4. Light rack, skid plate package, and lots more!

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Chevrolet 2009 Silverado LT 4wd, ext cab, running boards, tonneau cover, tow package, ABS, power equipment, stk#353661 only $22,995 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2002 Avalanche 4wd LT, crew cab, leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, and lots of extra’s stk#600642 only $13,481.

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Chevrolet 2008 Colorado LT 2WD, crew cab, power equip, alloy wheels, bed liner, hurry before this one is gone! Stk#132031 only $15,842.

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Toyota 2007 RAV4 Limited, V6, FWD, 3rd row seat, DVD, 79K, Excellent Condition. $15,500.

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2003 CHEVROLET S10 EX CAB NADA retail price $8950 Buy it NOWfor $7500

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Buick 2008 Enclave FWD 4dr CXL Stk#D8742 Sale Price $24,918

2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4x4, V6, Auto, Carfax 1 owner $29995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2006 Toyota 4Runner SPORT, 4WD, Moon, tow, CD, PL, PW, cruise, spoiler, 120K, new tires, clean! $14,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Honda 2008 CRV AWD EXL sunroof, leather heated seats, ABS, alloy wheels, stk#311621 only $21,444.

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Volkswagen 2011 TIGUAN SEL 4Motion w/Pre SUV AWD Stk#T97237A Sale Price $28,000

Honda 2009 Pilot EXL 4wd, 2nd row bench, 3rd row, alloy wheels, CD changer, leather heated seats, and more!

Stk#37542A3, only $25,840 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Dodge 2007 Nitro SLT 4X4, 61K, Brilliant Black Metallic Perfect for Today’s Busy Family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

GMC 2008 DENALI AWD SUV Stk#D8782 Special Price $40,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Dodge 2008 Ram 1500 Quad Bright Silver You Have the Right to “Love Your Truck” www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2003 Ram 1500 SLT, Hemi, Atlantic Blue Buy a Truck, From a Truck Dealer www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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2007 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XLT, V6, Auto, $13995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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2010 Ford Escape LTD V6, Auto, Carfax 1 owner $23,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Chevrolet 2004 Silverado LT 4wd, leather heated seats, steering wheel controls, running boards, Bose sound, power equip, tow package, & more stk#52071A1 only $18,877.

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Chevrolet 2007 Silverado LT 4x4, quad cab, 80,388.

Put it to work or carry the Family around excellent condition & well equipped. $21,988.

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Jeep 2007 Commander 4x4 Rocky Mountain edition, sunroof, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, 2nd row bench with a 3rd row, plenty of room. Boston sound, cd changer, and much, much more! Stk#150391 only $17,774.

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2009 Audi Q7 Premium 3.2 Quattro, AWD, panoramic sunroof, lthr, 3rdrow, htd seats, Bose, Navi/Back U cam, pwr liftgate, 43k $39900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2005 Highlander Sport Utility 4D Ext. Color: Blue Int. Color: Tan Mileage: 87,100 miles Features: V6 3.3 Liter Automatic 2WD Third Seat Power Door Locks Dual Front Air Bags Alloy Wheels Tilt Wheel Cruise Control Traction Control Power Steering title: clean. Please email me at smofeel@gmail.com

Toyota 2000 4Runner- ONE OWNER, Silver, Moonroof, GREAT condition for it’s age and 180K miles. NO accidents, looks and runs great. Best body style ever for 4Runner. 4X4. See Chevrolet 2007 Silverado Jeep 2005 Cherokee website for photos.

LT 4WD, crew cab, ABS, Laredo Rueschhoff Automobiles traction control, alloy 4WD, alloy wheels, steerrueschhoffautos.com wheels, bed liner, power ing wheel controls, sun2441 W. 6th St. equip. stk#369512 only roof, leather heated 785-856-6100 24 4/7 $21,500. seats, tow package.

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Ford 2006 Escape Limited - a nice ride. Be the Envy of all your Friends in this fully loaded Escape.

82,000 miles, leather, sunroof. All the Goodies! $13,995.

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Chevrolet 2006 HHR LT, running boards, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, power seat, and more, stk#631502 only $10,850.

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Kawasaki Vulcan 500cc, 7K, 1 owner nice bike only $2,488.

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2006 Acura MDX Touring, V6, AWD, 2-Owner, well-maintained, leather, Moon, 3rd row, Bose, 92K, $17,900.

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2008 Buick Enclave CXL 1-Owner, AWD, Pearl White, 3rd row, Leather, 2nd Row Buckets, rear ac, Bose, htd seats, power, park assist 92K, $20,900.

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2007 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic Fire Fighter Special Edition 6 Speed manual, Sharp! $14995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Buick 2008 Enclave CXL AWD CERTIFIED Stk#D8770 $27,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Ducati 2004 1000 DS only 1K miles on multistrada like new.

Save money only $5,988.

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Nissan 2009 Rogue SL 4 Cyl, Auto, Silver, Carfax 1 owner $20,988 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

NADA retail price $9650, Buy it NOWfor $6200

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Toyota 2009 Yaris Silver, 70K Fuel Economy PLUS A Cheap Payment! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Sport Utility-4x4

Toyota 2008 RAV4, 4WD, 40K, Super White, Perfect for Today’s Busy Gal! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Toyota 2010 Corolla CE 21K, Barcelona Red Can You Afford to NOT Buy Your Next Car On-Line at Academy? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2009 Corolla XLE 46K, Capri Sea Metallic From Your Partner in On-Line Car Buying! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Ford 2009 Escape Limited, leather, ABS, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, roof rack, stk#588491 only $17,653 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportsback GTS Auto, Black, Carfax 1 owner $14,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Motorcycle-ATV

Chevrolet 2011 Traverse, Nobody beats us on selection! We’ve got 7 to choose from starting at $22,774 and GM certified!

Hurry for best selection!!

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Crossovers Mitsubishi 2009 Galant ES, alloy wheels, power equipment, great fuel economy and dependability!

Only $9,774.. stk#10854.

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Hyundai 2010 Santa Fe GLS 4 cyl. Auto, Blk, Carfax 1 owner $18,998 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

2010 Mitsubishi Endeavor LS V6, Auto, white $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Saab 2006 9.5, 4Dr wagon 2.3T Sport SUV Black, 76K, $12,900.

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Crossovers

Toyota 2005 Highlander AWD, with very clean leather interior. Popular navy blue outside, charcoal inside. moonroof, alloy wheels, and clean history. NICE SUV by Toyota.

See website for photos.

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Volkswagen 2009 New Beetle 42K, Candy White, Now More Than Ever, Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2008 Mercedes R350 1999 Boxster.

4Matic (AWD), panorama Porsche roof, Navi, Harman ONLY 32K miles! Local car Kardon, 6disc, heated. kept in garage by a meticulous professional. Guards seats, 54K, $30,900 Red is very shiny. Excellent View pictures at condition with all keys and www.theselectionautos.com books. Would make a 785.856.0280 great Christmas present!

845 Iowa St. Includes big red bow! See Lawrence, KS 66049 website for photos.

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Losing weight is a do-it-yourself project Annie’s Mailbox

performance because three people in front of me insisted on standing.

I put my hand on the shoulder of one of these men and asked him to please sit down.

He responded by telling me that if I touched him again, he would call the cops. He then got rather cheeky and shook his booty in my face. After the concert, I finally located an usher who said I could have gone to guest services anniesmailbox@comcast.net on the other side of the arena, although the only thing there anything we can do? — they would have done is find Desperate To Help me another seat. I contacted Dear Desperate: It must management and was told, be terribly frustrating to know that you cannot force Timothy to change his ways, even for his own sake. Your comments only create pressure. Please stop pushing him to exercise or polish his résumé. Instead, suggest he get a complete checkup because he seems depressed. Let him know how much you value and enjoy his company. Pick him up after work and take a long walk together and chat, or offer to be his workout buddy. Invite him over for a nutritious meal without lecturing him about it. Losing weight is the ultimate do-ityourself project.

Dear Annie: I recently attended a concert at a large venue. Unfortunately, I was unable to see much of the

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell

E! where celebrity weddings never cease “The E! Entertainment Special: Fascinating Celebrity Weddings” (8 p.m., E!) has all the makings of becoming its own weekly special, if not its own cable channel. It has that special combination of well-known names and the designers they are buying and wearing. It’s a double-dose of boldfaced name-dropping.

No glance back at recent ceremonies can forget the royal wedding between Pippa’s sister and that guy. But there are also Chelsea Clinton’s big day, Reese Witherspoon’s marriage, and celebrations of celebrity brides, including Monica, Chely Wright, Sherri Shepherd, Shannon Tweed and Brooke Burke.

We’re reminded that Kellie Pickler got married in the sea and that Miranda Lambert made a point of arriving for her ceremony in a pickup truck. Not to be outdone, Katy Perry rode an elephant on her way to the altar.

Celebrities have to work overtime to keep the prying eyes of paparazzi from ruining their day. Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey applied for a fireworks permit to keep the helicopters at bay. Apparently, an anti-aircraft battery would ruin the decor.

Look for plenty of obsessing over dresses, including those worn by Hilary Duff, Nicole Richie, Molly Sims, Carrie Underwood and Ivanka Trump.

And don’t forget Kim Kardashian, whose marriage has already been toe-tagged!

If E! ever launches a Celebrity Wedding Channel, it might spin off a Celebrity Divorce Network, too.

O Anthony Bourdain spends some downtime in Montreal on “The Layover” (8 p.m., Travel). Why would Tony spend 24-36 hours between flights in Quebec when it’s only a seven-hour drive to his home in Manhattan? Because somebody’s paying him to!

This new series, while informative, puts entirely too much emphasis on consumerism over culture. It’s all about where to eat, where to stay and what to buy. As such, it’s the product placement version of “No Reservations” (9 p.m., Travel). Of course, I never miss an episode.

Tonight’s other highlights O The voices of Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin and Morey Amsterdam animate the 1976 special “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” (7 p.m., ABC).

O On two helpings of “House” (Fox): Cuddy’s mother (Candice Bergen) becomes a patient (7 p.m.), Thirteen’s friend needs help (8 p.m.).

O The season ends for “You Deserve It” (8 p.m., ABC). And we deserve that.

O Brenda’s lawyer stumbles in court on “The Closer” (8 p.m., TNT).

O A hostage crisis turns deadly on “Hawaii Five-O” (9 p.m., CBS).

O Scheduled on “Rock Center With Brian Williams” (9 p.m., NBC): webbased philanthropy; a giant in regional theater; awaking from a “vegetative” state.

O Art, insurance and murder collide on “Castle” (9 p.m., ABC).

HORROR SHOW By Potter Stern

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unique ability to demand a change in the status quo.

Tonight: Relax. You need some downtime.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++++ Deal with a partner or associate directly when handling a touchy matter. This party might be capable of the unexpected, causing you to overcompensate. Tonight: Talk away.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Others clearly are drawn to you, yet they could challenge you. Tonight: Indulge a loved one.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) ++++ Others might have the day off, but you feel the need to accomplish a little more. Some of you will be working, while others will be tackling a home project. Tonight: Mellow out.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ You have a different, flamboyant style.

Somehow your decisions could be provocative. Tonight: Give a child or loved one extra time.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Pressure builds.

Inadvertently, you make judgments that increase the tension. Realize your limits and stop worrying

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker December 26, 2011

ACROSS 1 Tap-on-theshoulder alternative 5 Be looselipped 9 Metal to be recycled 14 Superman’s lady friend, Lois 15 Composer Schifrin 16 Brownishgray color 17 Plant used in cosmetics 18 Supports 19 Get in the game 20 Bat man?

23 Complete 24 Reduce, as jacquelinebigar.com prices 27 With the about what others expect. greatest of ___ Tonight: Close to home.

29 Andrew Sagittarius (Nov. 22Lloyd WebDec. 21) ber title +++++ Others come villain forward and express their 31 Domineering 34 Drill for preferences. A friend or penetrating associate could be a bit much to handle. Tonight: 36 rock ___ Khan Look at what saunters (Islamic through the door! leader) Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 37 Engrossed 38 Big blunder 19) +++ You might be bent 39 Polygraph flunker on tallying up the damages 40 “From ___ of the past few days, or Zinc” (multivitamin ad returning an item or two. phrase) Relax and don’t put any 41 Feel in the more stress on yourself than in the past. Tonight: 42 gut Horse-donTreat yourself to somekey hybrid

thing you want that you didn’t get.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ You are full of excitement. Someone at a distance might hold back or do something very different. Tonight: As you want.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++ You might feel down. Don’t over-think the situation. You could be tired or reacting to a grumbling loved one. Tonight: Be careful with a financial risk.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Actor Donald Moffat is 81. Actor Caroll Spinney (Big Bird on TV’s “Sesame Street”) is 78. Rhythmand-blues singer Abdul “Duke” Fakir (The Four Tops) is 76. Record producer Phil Spector is 72.

“America’s Most Wanted”

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“Every guest has the right to their chair and the space in front of it, even if the majority of other guests choose to be seated.” I grew up in an era when no guest had the right to be inconsiderate of those around them. Has society changed that much? — A Fan Dear Fan: We suspect it changed with the advent of rock concerts, when patrons felt encouraged to get up and yell, sing or dance along. Is it inconsiderate? Yes. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do other than change your seat or attend more sedate concerts. Sorry.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Monday, Dec. 26: Expect to flip from being very creative to practical this year. Both sides are part of you and can work as a team. If you are attached, your sweetie might not have the flexibility that you do this year.

Be kind, and let him or her adjust to the morphing you. If you are single, a relationship could evolve.

Capricorn often can demand a lot.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ++++ Meetings activate an unusual resourcefulness and creativity in you. Someone who often plays devil’s advocate appears to have shut down.

Tonight: Where the action is.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ You will need your positive attitude in order to leap over a difficulty or problem. Understand the liabilities when dealing with a higher-up or a respected relative. Tonight: To the wee hours.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ When eyeing a situation, you have the

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host John Walsh is 66.

Country musician Bob Carpenter is 65. Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk is 64. Retired MLB All-Star Chris Chambliss is 63. Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith is 57.

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membership 41 How 007 doesn’t like his martinis 42 Makes a quick retreat 44 Jungle expedition 46 Gets under the skin of 49 Decompose 50 Feudal figure 51 Drew to a close 53 Informal letter 54 Make baby booties 55 Explosive Italian landmark 56 Grappling site 57 “___ to Billy Joe” 58 Cut (off), as a branch

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Dear Annie: We have a 54-year-old friend we are desperately trying to help. “Timothy” is morbidly obese at nearly 300 pounds. He suffers from related health issues: sleep apnea, high blood pressure, joint pain and constant fatigue.

He is probably diabetic but refuses to seek medical care. He also has a terrible, self-defeating attitude.

Timothy insists he’ll start an exercise regimen but never does. He purchased an expensive stationary bike and a bench to do sit-ups, but the bench is in the closet, buried under tons of boxes and clothing, and the bike was never put together. He couldn’t do a sit-up if you paid him a million dollars. He admits he cannot bend down to tie his shoes Timothy works at a lowpaying job that he hates. We have been after him for years to freshen up his résumé and find better work. He says no one would hire him. The way he looks, he is probably right.

Anytime we mention that he should start exercising, watch what he eats or start looking for better employment, it just makes him angry. He says he’ll do it when he’s ready.

We love him. He has a great sense of humor and a good heart. But at this rate, we doubt he will see 60. Is

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Print your answer here:

Ind., is 56. Humorist David Sedaris is 55. Rock musician James Kottak (The Scorpions) is 49. Country musician Brian Westrum is 49. Rock musician Lars Ulrich is 48. Actress Nadia Dajani is 46. Rock musician J is 44.

Saturday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: PURGE UPEND ACCORD GENIUS Answer: She liked seeing all the presents, she really liked everyone’s — PRESENCE

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SPORTS

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SCOREBOARD Big 12 Men W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Conf.

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Overall W L 12 0 12 0 10 1 9 1 9 3 9 3 8 3 8 3 6 5 5 5

Missouri Baylor Kansas State Oklahoma Texas Iowa State Kansas Texas A&M Oklahoma State Texas Tech Sunday’s Game Kansas State 77, Long Beach State 60 Tuesday’s Game CSU Bakersfield at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Oklahoma State vs. SMU at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Baylor vs. Mississippi State at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Big 12 Women

Conf. Overall W L W L Baylor 0 0 12 0 Texas Tech 0 0 10 0 Oklahoma State 0 0 7 0 Kansas 0 0 10 1 Missouri 0 0 9 1 Texas 0 0 9 2 Texas A&M 0 0 8 2 Iowa State 0 0 7 2 Oklahoma 0 0 7 3 Kansas State 0 0 7 4 Wednesday’s Games Sam Houston State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Delaware State at Texas, 7 p.m.

TCU at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

College Men

TOURNAMENT Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Class Seventh Place Xavier 87, Southern Illinois 77 Fifth Place Hawaii 75, Clemson 68 Third Place UTEP 83, Auburn 76 Championship Kansas St. 77, Long Beach St. 60

Kansas Men

Exhibition Pittsburg State, W 84-55 Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 101-52 Regular season Towson (first-round Maui Invitational), W 100-54 (1-0) Kentucky in New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden), L 65-75 (1-1).

Georgetown (Maui Invitational), W 67-63 (2-1) UCLA (Maui Invitational), W 72-56 (3-1) Duke (Maui Invitational), L 61-68 (3-2) Florida Atlantic, W 77-54 (4-2) South Florida, W 70-42 (5-2) Long Beach State, W 88-80 (6-2) Ohio State, W 78-67 (7-2) Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), L 74-80 (7-3) USC, W 63-47 (8-3) Dec. 29 — Howard, 7 p.m., JTV. Dec. 31 — North Dakota, 3 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 4 — Kansas State, 7 p.m., Big 12 network.

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Jan. 7 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 11 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 14 — Iowa State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Jan. 16 — Baylor, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 21 — at Texas, 3 p.m., CBS. Jan. 23 — Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 28 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m., ESPN/ ESPN2.

Feb. 1 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Feb. 4 — at Missouri, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 8 — at Baylor, 6 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2.

Feb. 11 — Oklahoma State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 18 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 22 — at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Feb. 25 — Missouri, 3 p.m., CBS. Feb. 27 — at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 3 — Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 7-10 — Big 12 championship, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas Women

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0) SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1) Wisconsin, W 73-44 (8-1) UMKC, W 77-52 (9-1) Oral Roberts, W 85-68 (10-1) Dec. 28 — Sam Houston State, 7 p.m.

(Knology) Jan. 4 — at Texas, 8 p.m. (Longhorn) Jan. 7 — Kansas State, 7 p.m. (Metro) Jan. 11 — Iowa State, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 15 — at Missouri, 11:30 a.m. (FSN) Jan. 18 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 — Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 25 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 28 — at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Jan. 31 — Oklahoma, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 4 — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Feb. 8 — Texas, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 12 — at Kansas State, noon (FSN) Feb. 15 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 — Missouri, 1 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 21 — at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSN) Feb. 29 — Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. (Metro) March 4 — at Oklakhoma, TBA March 7-10 — Big 12 championship at Kansas City, Mo.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W N.Y. Rangers 33 21 Philadelphia 34 21 Pittsburgh 35 20 New Jersey 34 19 N.Y. Islanders 33 11 Northeast Division GP W Boston 33 23 Toronto 35 18 Ottawa 36 17 Buffalo 34 16 Montreal 36 13

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L OT Pts GF GA 8 4 46 99 72 9 4 46 118 99 11 4 44 114 91 14 1 39 95 99 16 6 28 77 108 L OT Pts GF GA 9 1 47 119 63 13 4 40 110 113 14 5 39 111 122 15 3 35 92 101 16 7 33 88 101

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Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 36 18 11 7 43 94 98 Winnipeg 35 16 14 5 37 96 104 Washington 33 17 14 2 36 98 101 Tampa Bay 34 14 17 3 31 90 116 Carolina 36 11 19 6 28 91 121 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 35 22 9 4 48 118 102 St. Louis 34 20 10 4 44 87 74 Detroit 34 21 12 1 43 111 78 Nashville 35 18 13 4 40 95 99 Columbus 34 9 21 4 22 85 117 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 36 20 11 5 45 86 82 Vancouver 35 21 12 2 44 115 85 Calgary 36 17 15 4 38 90 98 Colorado 36 18 17 1 37 96 105 Edmonton 34 15 16 3 33 93 91 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 32 19 10 3 41 95 77 Dallas 34 20 13 1 41 92 96 Phoenix 35 18 14 3 39 92 92 Los Angeles 35 16 14 5 37 76 85 Anaheim 34 9 19 6 24 80 113 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games Colorado at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L y-New England 12 3 N.Y. Jets 8 7 Buffalo 6 9 Miami 5 10 South W L y-Houston 10 5 Tennessee 8 7 Jacksonville 4 11 Indianapolis 2 13 North W L x-Baltimore 11 4 x-Pittsburgh 11 4 Cincinnati 9 6 Cleveland 4 11 West W L Denver 8 7 Oakland 8 7 San Diego 7 8 Kansas City 6 9 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L N.Y. Giants 8 7 Dallas 8 7 Philadelphia 7 8 Washington 5 10

T Pct PF PA 0 .800 464 321 0 .533 360 344 0 .400 351 385 0 .333 310 296 T Pct PF PA 0 .667 359 255 0 .533 302 295 0 .267 224 316 0 .133 230 411

South W L T Pct PF x-New Orleans 11 3 0 .786 457 x-Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 341 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 389 Tampa Bay 4 11 0 .267 263 North W L T Pct PF y-Green Bay 14 1 0 .933 515 x-Detroit 10 5 0 .667 433 Chicago 7 8 0 .467 336 Minnesota 3 12 0 .200 327 West W L T Pct PF y-San Francisco 12 3 0 .800 346 Seattle 7 8 0 .467 301 Arizona 7 8 0 .467 289 St. Louis 2 13 0 .133 166 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Indianapolis 19, Houston 16 Saturday’s Games Oakland 16, Kansas City 13, OT Tennessee 23, Jacksonville 17 Pittsburgh 27, St. Louis 0 Buffalo 40, Denver 14 Carolina 48, Tampa Bay 16 Minnesota 33, Washington 26 Baltimore 20, Cleveland 14 New England 27, Miami 24 N.Y. Giants 29, N.Y. Jets 14 Cincinnati 23, Arizona 16 Detroit 38, San Diego 10 San Francisco 19, Seattle 17 Philadelphia 20, Dallas 7 Sunday’s Game Green Bay 35, Chicago 21 Today’s Game Atlanta at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 1 Chicago at Minnesota, noon Carolina at New Orleans, noon Detroit at Green Bay, noon San Francisco at St. Louis, noon Tennessee at Houston, noon Buffalo at New England, noon N.Y. Jets at Miami, noon Indianapolis at Jacksonville, noon Washington at Philadelphia, noon San Diego at Oakland, 3:15 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 3:15 p.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 3:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 3:15 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

END REGULAR SEASON

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PA 383 395 351 335

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NFL Calendar

Jan. 1, 2012 — Regular season ends.

Jan. 7-8 — Wild-card playoffs.

Jan. 14-15 — Divisional playoffs.

Jan. 22 — Conference championships.

Jan. 29 — Pro Bowl, Honolulu.

Feb. 5 — Super Bowl, Indianapolis.

Feb. 22-28 — NFL combine, Indianapolis.

Bowl Games

Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Ohio 24, Utah State 23 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego State 30 Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall 20, FIU 10 Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Saturday’s Game Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Southern Mississippi 24, Nevada 17 Today’s Game Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday’s Games Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday’s Games Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday’s Games Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday’s Games Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 5:40 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

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Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5), 9 p.m.

(ESPN) Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 1 p.m.

(CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (10-3), noon (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), noon (ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

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their regularly scheduled meeting on January 19, 2011, in the City Commission Room of City Hall, 6 E. Petition Pursuant to 6th Street at 6:30 p.m. The K.S.A. Chapter 59 Olathe Buick - GMC description of the property, KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer location of the environs TITLE TO 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS and the case file for the REAL ESTATE INVOLVED 800-536-5346 public hearing items are 913-782-1500 NOTICE TO CREDITORS available in the Planning www.brogdenauto.com Office for review during THE STATE OF KANSAS TO regular office hours, 8 a.m.

- 5 p.m., Monday through ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: Friday.

You are hereby notified that on December 19, 2011, The following agenda items a Petition for Issuance of will be considered: Letters of Administration What’s GM Certified? was filed in this Court by Regular Agenda: 2yrs of free regular DR-11-175-11 1344 TennesRocky Russell. maintenance see Street; Bullwinkles Tent 172 Pt. Inspection Addition; Certified Local You are required to file 12 Mo./12,000 Mi. your written defenses to Government Review.

Bumper-to-Bumper the Petition on or before Warranty January 19, 2012, at 10:00 DR-12-184-11 645-647 Mas100,000 mi./5-yr. a.m. in the District Court, sachusetts Street; Sign Perlimited Douglas County, Kansas, at mit; Certified Local GovPowertrain warranty, which time and place the ernment Review and Downno deduct. cause will be heard. Should town Urban Conservation 24-hr. Roadside you fail to file your written Overlay District Review.

Assistance defenses, judgment and deCourtesy cree will be entered in due DR-12-187-11 1325 Tennestransportation. see Street; Demolition and course upon the Petition.

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General Motors. dent are notified to exhibit Dale Willey their demands against the Miscellaneous Items: 785-843-5200 comment on Estate within the latter of *Provide www.dalewilleyauto.com four months from the date Board of Zoning Appeals of first publication of notice applications received since under K.S.A. 59-2236 and December 15, 2011. amendments thereto, or if *Review of any demolition the identity of the creditor permits received since the is known or reasonably as- December 15, 2011 meeting. certainable, 30 days after *Review of Administrative actual notice was given as and Architectural Review provided by law, and if Committee approvals since their demands are not thus December 15, 2011: exhibited, they shall be forLawrence DR-11-178-11 920 & 920.5 ever barred.

Delaware Street; Rezoning, (First published in the LawPlatting & Variance; Certirence Daily Journal-World Respectfully submitted, fied Local Government ReDecember 12, 2011) view and Certificate of ApTHE LAW OFFICE OF propriateness Review.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DAVID J. BROWN, LC BY: /s/ David J. Brown DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS DR-11-179-11 716.5 MassaS. Ct. #14409 chusetts Street; Sign Per1040 New Hampshire, In the Matter of the mit; Certified Local GovSuite 14 Fern A. Carney, ernment Review, Certificate Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Deceased. of Appropriateness Review, 785-842-0777 Djbrown@davidbrownlaw.com and Downtown Urban Case No. 11-PR-201 Attorneys for Petitioner Conservation Overlay DisDivision No. I _______ trict Review.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Published in the Lawrence 947 New Daily Journal-World Decem- DR-11-180-11 Hampshire Street; Sign PerThe State of Kansas To All ber 26, 2011) mit; Certified Local GovernPersons Concerned: ment Review, Certificate of NOTICE OF Appropriateness Review, You are hereby notified ANNUAL MEETING and Downtown Urban that a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Let- THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: Conservation Overlay District Review. ters Testamentary under ALL LANDOWNERS AND the Kansas Simplified Es- QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE Vermont tates Act was filed in this WAKARUSA WATERSHED DR-11-181-11 1328 Court on December 8, 2011, JOINT DISTRICT NO. 35 AND Street; Replace rear exteby Jesse L. Carney, an heir, ALL OTHER PERSONS CON- rior stairway; Certified Local Government Review and devisee and legatee, and CERNED: Certificate of AppropriateExecutor named in the “Last Will and Testament of You and each of you are ness Review.

Fern A. Carney,” deceased. hereby notified that the Annual Meeting of the DR-12-182-11 305 E 7th All creditors are notified to Wakarusa Watershed Joint Street; Hume Tax Service exhibit their demands District will be held on Sign; Certified Local Govagainst the Estate within Tuesday, January 10, 2012, ernment Review and Certiffour months from the date at 12:00 p.m. at Conrad’s in icate of Appropriateness of the first publication of Overbrook, Kansas, for the Review. this notice as provided by purpose of electing direclaw, and if their demands tors whose terms expire DR-12-183-11 305 E 7th are not thus exhibited they and for the purpose of con- Street; Hume Tax Service shall be forever barred. ducting any other business that may legally and prop/s/ Jesse L. Carney erly come before the board.

Jesse L. Carney Six (6) members will be Petitioner elected to the Board of Directors of said District for a Prepared by: term of three (3) years, and /s/ James E. Rumsey said election will be by James E. Rumsey #07535 written ballot.

840 B Connecticut Street PO Box 612 This notice is given pursuLawrence, Kansas 66044 ant to K.S.A. 24-1211.

785-856-3264 Attorney for Petitioner Larry Butel _______ President Wakarusa Watershed (First published in the LawJoint District No. 35 rence Daily Journal-World _______ December 26, 2011) (Published in the Lawrence IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Daily Journal-World DecemDOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS ber 26, 2011)

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Lawrence Sign; Certified Local Government Review and Certificate of Appropriateness Review.

DR-12-186-11 1741 Massachusetts Street; Sign Permit; Certified Local Government Review.

Lawrence/Douglas County Planning Office, 6 E. 6th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 832-3151 Lynne Braddock Zollner Historic Resources Administrator lzollner@ci.lawrence.ks.us ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 21, 2011) Douglas County, Kansas Request for Proposals No. 11-F-0020 Douglas County, Kansas, is soliciting proposals from interested and qualified contractors to plan, design, implement and evaluate a regional hazardous materials full-scale exercise.

Sealed proposals must be received in the Office of the Douglas County Clerk’s Office, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044 before 3:00 p.m. CST, Monday, January 9, 2012.

The Board of County Commissioners reserve the right to accept or reject any proposal, all or part of any proposal, and to waive minor technicalities in proposals received.

The Board of County Commissioners BY: Jackie Waggoner Purchasing Director ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 19, 2011) The following list of vehicles will be sold by Bob’s Imports at public auction for repairs and storage fees on January 6, 2012, at 10:00am, at 714 W. 6th St., Lawrence, KS. 2000 VOLKSWAGEN 3VWCF21C9YM439574 1986 GMC 1GDJK34W2GS528079 1990 AUDI WAUFC58A8LA068098 1998 CHEVROLET 1GNCT18W4VK129459 1996 CHEVROLET 1GNDT13W9T2275980 1999 BMW WBAAM5339XEJ40036 1992 ISUZU 4S2CY58Z3N4331892 ________

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