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Local leaders to legislators: Do no harm in 2016 morning. And if there was one common theme among all of them, it was this: “Please do no more harm.” Those comments came during the Lawrence chamber of commerce’s annual Legislative Priorities Breakfast, where

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Business, government and education leaders in Lawrence shared their wish lists for the 2016 legislative session with area lawmakers Friday

officials from the chamber, the city of Lawrence, Douglas County, the Lawrence school district, Kansas University and Haskell Indian Nations University shared their priorities for the upcoming session. “We’re mostly in a pro-

tection mode,” Lawrence chamber board member Beth Easter told the local delegation. “We’re just hoping to not have anything messed up, especially the economic development incentives.” Please see LEGISLATURE, page 4A

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Please don’t add any additional roadblocks or obstacles to our ability as elected officials of the governing bodies to generate the necessary revenue needed to meet our obligations and responsibilities.” — Douglas County Commission Chairman Jim Flory, speaking to local legislators

Fritzel family takes charge of Alvamar

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LIBERTY MEMORIAL CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL’S P.E.A.C.E. STUDENT GROUP honored representatives of the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, KU Public Safety Office and Kansas Highway Patrol on Friday at the school. BELOW: The students presented the officers with plaques in recognition of Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, which was Friday.

Middle school students show their appreciation for area law enforcement By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

As area law enforcement officers took a step forward on the stage at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, students handed officers small, wooden plaques with a depiction of a badge and the words “protect and serve.” Members of the school’s Conversation P.E.A.C.E. student group honored officers with the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Kansas University Public Safety Office and the Kansas Highway Patrol who visited the school on Friday as part of Law Enforce-

ment Appreciation Day. After a presentation that included a slideshow of photographs showing the officers at work in the community and meeting with students, the group’s six-member leadership council presented the plaques to thank officers for their service and involvement. Since the

group began two years ago, officers have visited students and taken part in some of their conversations, said the group’s sponsor, Rita Rials. “In Conversation P.E.A.C.E., our students come together to talk about difficulties — racial Please see LAW, page 2A

Highway Patrol may allow tattoos to attract applicants By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson

Short on troopers, the Kansas Highway Patrol is looking into new ways to encourage people to join its ranks. That may include allowing those who are inked to pen out an application. Currently, the highway patrol does not allow employees to have any offensive tattoos,

scarification or branding anywhere on their bodies, said Lt. Adam Winters. Nor are employees allowed to have any nonoffensive markings that would be visible when wearing any agency-provided uniform or work attire. Currently the highway patrol has a staff of

our policy says that if you have a tattoo visible you can’t apply or we won’t hire you,” Winters said. “There’s no way of knowing how many people aren’t even applying.” Through the end of the month the highway patrol is asking members of the public to offer their opinions on the tattoo policy in an online Please see TATTOOS, page 2A

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about 419 people statewide, but it would like to get those numbers up closer to 500, Winters said. Looking into a tattoo policy change could be one way to bolster the staff. The agency needs troopers, inspectors and other civilian staff, Winters said. “A lot of people know

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embers of the Fritzel family now own the Alvamar Golf and Country Club, and renovations to the west Lawrence property are already underway. As we previously have reported, a group led by Lawrence businessman Thomas Fritzel has been working to purchase the country club. Members of the club were recently notified by letter that members of “the Gene Fritzel family” have Fritzel bought the property. Gene Fritzel is Thomas’ father and a longtime building contractor in the area. According to records with the county, though, Thomas Fritzel is still very much a major part of the ownership group. A trust of Thomas Fritzel

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and Stacia Fritzel are shown as the new owners of the property near the clubhouses, and a newly formed company called Eagle 1968 LC owns other parts of the club. Thomas Fritzel is listed as the resident agent of the Eagle entity, but it is new enough that the state doesn’t yet have documents on file listing the shareholders of the company. In due time, there will be a lot that is new at Alvamar. As we previously have reported, the Please see ALVAMAR, page 2A

Cafe proposal near levee ‘a dream’ for returning chef By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

A proposed North Lawrence cafe, catering to those using the Kansas River levee trail, gained zoning and parking approvals this week, pushing it another step closer to its anticipated March or April opening. The aptly named Levee Café is the brainchild of Mary Holt, who grew up in Lawrence and recently moved back after 21 years away. Holt, 43, said the cafe would offer healthy and simple fare and include vegetarian and glutenfree options. She said

Drink history A Lawrence couple has opened a bar inside Tonganoxie’s historic Myers Hotel. Page 3A

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The property at 239 Elm St. that will be home to the Levee Café

she’s talked with growers in North Lawrence about getting fresh, local produce from them daily. “We want to have some grab-and-go stuff for people who are using the levee, runners and bikers, and keep it very healthy and simple,” Holt Please see CAFE, page 2A

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Brownback broadens order against refugee resettlements Topeka — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued a new, broader executive order telling state agencies that they can’t assist with resettling refugees who are security risks. The order issued by the governor Friday applies to any refugees presenting a security risk to the state.

Brownback’s office issued a statement saying the order recognizes the threat posed by terrorists or refugees sympathetic to them. The Republican governor issued an executive order in November that applied specifically to Syrian refugees. Like the previous order, the new one also is

aimed at preventing organizations that receive state grant money from helping relocate refugees. The new order says the restrictions will remain in place until Kansas is assured that the federal government has an adequate process for vetting refugees.

to the current driving range of the course. l Four swimming rmagEnE rancis Enton EinEs pools will be added to the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A property. They include a Ermagene Francis 50-by-80-foot pool with a Fenton Deines of ownership group has filed slide, a 30-by-50 foot lap Lawrence, Kansas, plans for major renovapool and a pair of smaller departed this life tions at the club, includpools that are 16-by-24 surrounded by her ing the addition of many and 16-by-16 foot. The loving family, January 7, more apartments and pools will be surrounded 2016. Ermagene Deines living units around the by about 6,000 square was born September course. Several folks who feet of cabana space. The 28, 1925, the youngest have booked events in the pool area also will include child of Edward H. and banquet space of Alvamar a 2,500-square-foot grill Martha (Day) Fenton, in are already being affected area. The pools are proShallow Water, Kansas. posed to be concentrated by the renovations. On October 18, 1947, she was blessed with twelve in an area kind of near A local caterer called grandchildren and eleven married Emil Walter where the public clubme and said several Deines, who preceded g re a t - g ra n d c h i l d re n . people had contacted house is located today. Final inurnment will her in death. They have That clubhouse will be him looking for event six children: Charlotte be in Maple Grove space because the Alremoved. Cemetery in Dodge City, Rae Clackler & Ellis of l Kansas University is vamar banquet facility Evergreen, CO, Anita Kansas — which is in the private proposed to get a larger Condolences may Louise Hills & Craig of training facility for its members’ clubhouse — Colby, Kansas, Deborah be left for the family at has been temporarily golf team. Plans show www.warrenmcelwain. Elaine Maley & Craig of a 4,000-square-foot closed. An employee at Eudora, Kansas, Cynthia com. Alvamar confirmed reno- building for the team. Please sign this Sue McGinley & Jerry of vation work is underway Currently, the team has Topeka, Kansas, Cheryl guestbook at Obituaries. at the clubhouse, and it about 1,300 square feet of LJWorld.com. Rebecca Brown & Dave likely will be closed for a space at the golf course. of Ogallala, Nebraska and The new building will be couple of months. John Hasman Deines of I’ve got a call in to the farther to the east than Grand Junction, CO. She the current facility. general manager of the l A two-story banquet country club to get more facility that will include details, but it sounded ennis llen uDDeR 24 guest rooms. Werner like new flooring, paint previously has said the and other amenities 65, Linwood. Mr. Rudder died January 7, 2016 at were being updated in facility will operate as Lawrence Memorial Hospital. No services are planned the distinctive clubhouse a minihotel that serves at this time. Condolences sent at rumsey-yost.com. wedding parties who are building, which I’m expected to rent the atalmost certain was built tached banquet facilities. by Gene Fritzel several The guest rooms are also decades ago. Sgt. Kristen Dymacek I’ll let you know when expected to be available to said both of their respecgolfers who want to stay I get more information. tive agencies have poliI do have additional in- overnight at the course. cies prohibiting tattoos CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A The plans list the facilformation on some of the or other markings that redevelopment plans that ity at 20,000 square feet, would be visible when have been filed at the city. but the plans don’t make survey, Winters said. The wearing a uniform. it clear whether the total Lawrence architect Paul results of that survey will Neither KU police nor facility is 20,000 square Werner has filed a final help the agency determine the sheriff’s office has feet or whether each development plan for the what steps to take next. plans to change the tattoo floor is 20,000 square portion of the club that In part, the agency’s or body art policy, Anguifeet. The facility is prois near the clubhouses. potential policy change is ano and Dymacek said. posed for an area east It provides more detail due to the changing times According to the Lawabout what’s in store than and south of the existing and increasing prevalence rence Police Department’s any of the other plans filed public clubhouse. of tattoos, Winters said. personal appearance policy, l 2,400-square-foot thus far. Here’s a look: “In law enforcement we tattoos visible in uniform l A new two-story, “sports medicine office” have to be able to adapt are not permissible if they 24,000-square-foot clubthat would be south of and move forward to get “undermine the dignity and house, fitness and wellthe new banquet facilmore applicants,” he said. authority of the office of a ness center is planned for ity. The city’s planning “And I think the patrol police officer,” or “are garthe area near the entrance department said it hadn’t really wants to hire more ish or numerous or particuqualified applicants, and larly prominent, or could if that’s something that cause offense to members opens up the talent pool a of the public or colleagues residential neighborhood little more, then we should and/or invite provocation.” just to the east. consider it.” Lawrence police He said Thursday that “We obviously think spokesman Sgt. Trent with the 10 spaces appublic opinion is very im- McKinley did not say CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A proved, the association portant on this topic,” he Friday whether the decould endorse the plans. added. “We want some- partment was considersaid. “We’re not going to The board did not body who is 18 all the way ing any policy changes have a fryer.” grant approval for develup to 80 to fill out the sur- regarding tattoos. The cafe is planned for opers to use gravel in the vey because that’s going The highway patrol’s a now-vacant building parking lot. Board memto help us with recom- survey can be found onat 239 Elm St. owned by bers said that once develmendations to the com- line at goo.gl/forms/vyfLawrence businessman opers have another permand staff on what the 3JAkwDL. It will be open Jon Davis. Holt will rent vious material in mind, public’s opinion is.” to the public until Jan. 29. the property. such as recycled asphalt, Kansas University The City Commission they could come back and — Reporter Conrad Swanson can be Public Safety Capt. James on Tuesday unanimously would likely be granted reached at cswanson@ljworld.com or Anguiano and Douglas approved changing the approval to use it. Per832-7144. County Sheriff’s Office zoning of the property vious means that water from industrial to com- would be able to pass mercial to allow for the through the material. I thought this would be cafe. Next, developers must a good way to give back On Thursday, the city’s submit to the city a site to them and to continue Board of Zoning Appeals plan application. to build that relationship, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A voted to allow the cafe Holt said the current because they have done to have only 10 park- building at 239 Elm St. many things to help our ing spaces in a proposed would be renovated and issues, classroom issues, students here at LMCparking lot north of the a patio with outdoor seatissues in the community MS,” she said. building, on property that ing constructed on the — anything that they feel is Following the presenDavis also owns. Under building’s east side. troubling them,” Rials said. tation, officers visited city code, the size of the Holt’s husband, Evan The mission of Conver- classrooms at the middle cafe mandates 13 spaces. Holt, told the Board sation P.E.A.C.E. (Purpose, school to speak about Ted Boyle, president of Zoning Appeals on Equity, Accountability, topics such as forensics, of the North Lawrence Thursday that the buildCharacter, Education) is Internet safety and drug Improvement Associa- ing, at about 800 square to give students a place to prevention. And, Rials tion, has previously writ- feet, would contain sevtalk about difficult issues added, some officers also ten to the city asking that eral four-top tables. and bring about a positive stopped in physical eduplans for the restaurant The Holts’ plan is to change through conver- cation classes to play basnot be approved without start with limited hours sation. The group meets ketball with students. the added parking lot. He — 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. — and after school every other Ozioma Ajekwu, a was concerned custom- then determine whether week and is open to all stu- seventh-grader at Liberty ers of the cafe would use there’s a demand for dindents. Memorial and member on-street parking in the ner service. Rials, a paraeducator of the group’s leadership at Liberty Memorial, said council, said having the that officers have used officers around made her their visits to the group’s feel good, and that she meetings to talk with and thought it was important answer questions from to recognize them. students. Rials said that “They’ve been doing building those positive really good with their relationships and opening jobs, so it’s important up conversation is impor- that people know what tant, especially given the they’ve been doing for national climate on the is- our community,” she said. sue of race and policing. — K-12 education reporter Rochelle “So when it came Valverde can be reached at 832-6314 around to Law Enforceor rvalverde@ljworld.com. ment Appreciation Day,

received more information about what would be included in that facility. Sandra Day, the lead planner reviewing the project for the LawrenceDouglas County Planning Department, said the final development plan must win approval from the Planning Commission before the project can move forward. The group hopes to get a hearing at the Planning Commission in February, but Day said planners likely will need to see more details before it is ready to go to the commission. She said the filings don’t yet include elevations showing how each of the new buildings will be designed. It is important to remember that the latest plans are only for a portion of the project at Alvamar. The part of the project that involves building new apartments and living units around the course is not included with this most recent filing. It will be interesting to watch those plans come forward. The city has approved a preliminary development plan that calls for nine multifamily buildings that would house a total of 292 living units. The final development plan will provide more detail about where those buildings are located and what they’ll look like. Also expect significant changes to the golf course design. The new owners have committed to keeping 36 holes of golf at the facility. The new plans, though, do show new locations for both the No. 9 and No. 18 greens. No word yet on when those changes will begin.

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Tie Zhu “Tony” Wang 50, Lawrence. Funeral service will be 9 a.m. Tuesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Mr. Wang died Jan. 6, 2016 in Kearney, Nebraska. More at rumsey-yost.com.

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Mary Holt, now working at Basil Leaf Café, graduated from culinary school and worked in restaurants wherever the family was sent during her husband’s years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now that he’s retired from the military and they’re back in Lawrence, it’s time to realize a dream, she said. “We wanted to go back home,” she said. “It was always kind of a dream of mine to run my own place, to own my own place.” When searching for a location for a restaurant, Evan Holt said the spot near the levee “was perfect.” He described North Lawrence as “underserved and understated.” Nate Clark, a resident on North Lawrence’s Oak Street, agreed that the neighborhood and those using the levee trail need an amenity such as the cafe. “Having something to serve that community, we would love to see that succeed,” Clark said. “We would love to have this in our neighborhood.”

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days. Democrats have speculated the loans might have been timed to inflate Wichita (ap) — Republi- campaign finance reports. can Gov. Sam Brownback’s They came as the Repubcampaign spent more than lican governor in deeply $167,000 in legal conservative Kanfees last year, when sas faced the prosa federal grand pect of losing to jury was investithe well-financed gating loans to his Democratic chalre-election effort, a lenger, Paul Davis. finance report filed The campaign Friday shows. also repaid the The report also governor and his shows the gover- Brownback wife $100,000 last nor made a final month — half of $100,000 repayment last what they loaned to the month on loans from his campaign in October 2014. running mate to their 2014 The Brownback camre-election campaign that paign listed the transacwere the subject of tions in a finance the federal investireport filed Friday, gation. No charges covering all of last were filed. year. Three loans His campaign from Lt. Gov. Jeff received nearly Colyer totaling $1.5 $578,000 in contrimillion attracted butions last year as attention on the it continued fundcampaign trail be- Colyer raising following cause loans in such his re-election to large amounts are rare pay legal fees and other in Kansas political races, debts. It spent $574,000 and because the first two Please see FEES, page 4A loans were repaid within

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LAWRENCE RESIDENTS KATE AND JESSE BRUBACHER have opened a new bar in the historic Myers Hotel in Tonganoxie.

Lawrence couple opens bar in historic Tonganoxie hotel By Shawn F. Linenberger Twitter: @LJWorld

Lawrence resident Kate Brubacher always has enjoyed taking leisurely drives from the college town to points elsewhere. One of those trips always included a drive on U.S. 24-40 to Tonganoxie. She’d pass by the Myers Hotel multiple times. “My infatuation with the building started a long time ago,” she said. “I would take drives outside of Lawrence. I’d always love driving to Tonganoxie. It’s a beautiful drive.” The historic structure that once was the inspiration for William Inge’s “Bus Stop” now is the impetus for Brubacher’s libations and tonics in Tonganoxie. Brubacher, along with husband, Jesse, opened up the Myers Hotel Bar last month. The easygoing venue with a unique list of cocktails is open 5 p.m. to midnight Thursdays

through Saturdays. Business so far has been encouraging. “It’s been wonderful,” Brubacher said. “I think it’s been 80 percent local business. Most are from Tonganoxie or around Tonganoxie. We don’t know a lot of people. “It’s been really exciting. We have had, thankfully, a lot of repeat customers. It’s been really fun to get to know people.” With an occupancy of 40 in the bar’s interior, the space provides an intimate and warm setting. Mellow music plays in the background. That’s how Brubacher likes it for this particular bar. She previously was bar manager at John Brown’s Underground, 7 E. Seventh St., in Lawrence. She set the menu and the concept when that bar initially opened last year. But with two children — Henrietta’s almost 3 and Rhubarb is 8

— the long hours at John Brown’s weren’t jibing with family life. “It wasn’t conducive to our lifestyle,” she said. “Truthfully, we wanted a more inclusive environment. If people want to bring their kids or go on a walk with their dog, they can have a beer on the patio.” Once the new bar gets established, the couple hopes to add food to the mix. That might be in the form of inviting in food trucks or crafting some of their own offerings. In the spring and summer, they’ll look at having a beer garden on the patio and, perhaps, music. For now, the couple is focusing on just getting started. Jesse, originally from Walton, works fulltime as an architect for various national and international events. Kate, 34, grew up in Lawrence and met Jesse, 35, in graduate school at Kansas University.

“I have an expensive degree that I don’t use on a daily basis,” Kate said with a laugh, referring to her architecture degree. The Brubachers’ agreement with Myers Hotel owners Kay Soetaert and Mary Cronemeyer stipulates that they serve at events, so their offerings will be at some hotel happenings. RC Cola is a staple at her bar and is an ingredient in one of Kate’s most popular drinks, the Dog and Squid: a house red wine, Kraken dark rum and her favorite cola. The Sweet Earth, a combination of beet juice, passion fruit and liquors also is popular. The bar features eight signature cocktails along with various wines and beers. Kate hopes the bar will be a regular stop for residents near and far. “We want to be inclusive,” she said. “We want to be inviting to as many people as possible.”

IT specialist ‘just enlivened any discussion’ so fast it was hard to keep up, said longtime colleague Dave Barnhill, KU From professors try- manager of enterprise aping to use some of plications and daKansas University’s tabases. earlier computers “I used to joke to retirees trying we were doing to get on Facebook, stuff that didn’t Jerry Niebaum was have a name yet, eager to help anyand Jerry knew one with technolwhat he was doogy problems. ing,” Barnhill said. Niebaum’s 23- Niebaum “He was very inyear career in KU terested in dissemiInformation Technology nating to the academic saw changes happening community as a whole By Sara Shepherd

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what was happening in computing and how they might use it.” Niebaum, 76, died of cancer Tuesday at his Lawrence home, according to his obituary in the Journal-World. Niebaum retired from KU in 2004 as assistant vice provost for information services, according to the obituary. Among other accomplishments, during his career he’s credited with leading the KAN-ED statewide networking

project for the Kansas Board of Regents, as well as serving as principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant that created the Kansas Research and Education Network, or KanREN, now relied on by all six Regents universities and many other schools and libraries. “Jerry was probably KU’s first unofficial Chief Information Officer, and he left a lasting legacy that Please see NIEBAUM, page 4A

West Middle School principal set to retire By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

A lot of new ideas came along during the 32 years Myron Melton has worked in education. Along with the rise of the Internet and computers was the effect those technologies would have on teaching. “That increase Melton of technology and access to information for teachers and for students is just drastically different than it was when I started,” he said. Melton, who began working in the Lawrence school district in 1984, announced this week that he will retire at the end of the school year. He began his career as a physical education teacher at Sunset Hill Elementary School, working in various roles throughout the district before he began serving as West Middle School’s principal in 2003. Melton said the pace at which education changed during his career,

although difficult to keep up with, was ultimately rewarding. “The challenge and the reward is in keeping up with all the changes that are coming our way and trying to continue to offer our kids the most current and effective education we possibly can,” he said. Melton said technology helped move along other changes, such as more personalized learning and education for students, which he thinks is a needed change in education. Another of the major changes were relationships among teachers, he said. “What used to be more of an isolated experience for teachers in classrooms now is a very collaborative experience,” Melton said. Melton, an Iowa City, Iowa, native, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Northeast Please see PRINCIPAL, page 4A

SATURDAY COLUMN

Project denial raises questions about city’s motives By Dolph C. Simons Jr.

The action of Lawrence city commissioners Tuesday evening to deny zoning and planning changes to allow a shopping center at the south end of Iowa Street is a disappointment and a loss for the city, as well as raising questions about behind-the-scenes actions and motives. The real estate development business can be — and often is — a tough and rough business with all kinds of questionable deals, relationships, power plays, favors and payoffs involved in determining final actions and what the public is told. Those seeking permission to build the south Lawrence shopping center did not request a handout or incentive like those frequently offered by the city to attract new retail, jobs and tax dollars for the city. Theirs

was an above-board effort to make a sizable investment in the city with no ties to influential local developers or city officials. They were shot down twice because their efforts or goals were not good enough for city commissioners, even though the city-county planning commission and staff recommended approval for the project. One of the most disappointing aspects of the commission’s action is the very apparent desire by commissioners to stiff-arm the rezoning request in order to give developers of the northwest Lawrence property known as Mercato more time to put together a retail plan. The Mercato project has been open for business for several years and, at times, has claimed to have a major project ready to break ground, but so far, these promising plans have fallen flat. The news story reporting the

commission action said, “one of the arguments heard against the (South Iowa) development was that it would leave the areas of the city, such as existing empty commercial area near Rock Chalk Park — known as Mercato — underserved.”

COMMENTARY Mercato is a joint project of members of the Fritzel and Schwada families. Fritzel has had a number of development experiences with the city in past years, and it is known those trying to promote the Mercato site have said defeating the South Iowa project was essential to trying to attract or force new sizable retailers to the northwest Lawrence location. Retailers have made it clear they prefer to build in the South Iowa area, but city

officials have now shown their hand that the only major new development they will approve will be at the Mercato site. City Commissioner Matthew Herbert, who cast the only dissenting vote, said the commission was tasked with creating a “level playing field” and honoring the city tax base. He added, “Retailers know where to build retail because that’s what they do for a living. We have Mercato and we need Mercato to be successful, and we can sit and wait, or we can allow development to build where it’s told us they want to build. We’re not in the business of picking winners and losers. We’re in the business of job creation and tax base growth.” It’s unfortunate the images of the city of Lawrence, as well as the commissioners have been tarnished by their motives and partisan action. It’s unfortunate and puzzling that the Lawrence

chamber of commerce didn’t get involved in this important matter. It’s unfortunate the reputation of the city as a friendly and reasonable place in which to develop new businesses is again questioned. And it is unfortunate this situation raises questions about the possibility of questionable relationships between local developers and city hall. The city had enough questionable situations in the past several years relative to building projects, and many had hoped 2016 would start off with a clean slate and a new approach that would reflect well on city hall, city commissioners and local developers. Unfortunately, it appears old practices, old alliances and old ways of doing business are likely to continue. Lawrence deserves, and needs, far better if the city is to have any chance of reaching its potential.

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KU names final candidate for IOA director By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas University has now shared the name of the third and final candidate to become director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, which investigates complaints of sexual violence and discrimination against students. Robinette Kelley is scheduled to give a public presentation at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Alderson

Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Kelley was Title IX coordinator and director of Iowa State University’s Office of Equal Opportunity, which handles sexual violence and discrimination complaints and investigations for that school. She held the position from 2013 until October, according to her LinkedIn resume. Previously she worked at State University of New York at Buffalo for five years as assistant director

of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Affirmative Action Administration (and also deputy Title IX coordinator) and for 10 years in the Employee Relations section of Human Resources, according to a resume shared on the KU website. Kelley received a master’s degree in higher education administration and a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from SUNY at Buffalo. KU’s first two IOA

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we enjoy today in KU IT,” said Bob Lim, KU’s current Chief Information Officer. “Personally, I will miss my lunches with him, as I always learned so much from his insight.” At KU, Barnhill described Niebaum as

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Missouri State University and a master’s in educational policy and leadership from Kansas University. After nine years as a physical education teacher at Sunset, Melton left the district in 1993 and became assistant principal of Tonganoxie Elementary School. He returned to Lawrence in 1995 as principal of the former Centennial Elementary School. In 1999, during the planning and construction

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last year. The campaign reported it had $51,385 left at the end of the year. Brownback’s spokeswoman, Eileen Hawley, did not address any specific questions about the report, saying in an email that the campaign filing was “conducted in full compliance with applicable law and

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In the document, KCP&L said the conversation did not involve any matters that were pending before the commission at the time. But it was filed over the New Year’s Day weekend in conjunction with a new request by KCP&L that would, in effect, offer those customers some relief over the next five years. The notice of communication and the new rate filing were the subjects of extensive discussion Tuesday at a meeting of the Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board, an agency that represents residential consumers and small businesses in utility rate cases. Board members of CURB voted to intervene in the case, expressing concern that the relief given to all-electric customers would come at the expense of “general use” customers who use natural gas or other heat sources in winter. CURB staff members also said that KCP&L had not provided any information explaining how the program would affect individual customers. But McDonald pointed to a document that was filed along with the application, written testimony from Darrin Ives, KCP&L’s vice president for regulatory affairs, explaining how the program would work. In that testimony, Ives said that under the proposed plan, all current rates and discounts would remain in effect. But qualifying all-electric customers would receive a credit based on their winter usage that would be applied toward future bills. Ives said the average all-electric customer would receive credits of about $140 the first year, ratcheting down to about $30 in the fifth year, for a total of about $425 over the five-year period. To pay for that, Ives said, the average “general use” customer would see an increase in electric bills between 0.5 percent and 1.5 percent.

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222 or phancock@ljworld.com.

resources and the will to cause that to happen.” Niebaum also is credited with pushing to rename KU’s Computer Services Facility to Price Computing Center in honor of Griffith Baley Price — the former KU math department chairman who brought the first computer to KU back in 1957. Niebaum himself worked on that computer, an IBM 650, as an

undergraduate student, according to his obituary. After retiring, Niebaum continued helping others in his area of expertise. He was president of the KU Endacott Society, an organization of KU retirees, from 2008 to 2009 and often talked technology with members. “His knowledge was endless,” said Jennifer Sanner, senior vice president for communications at the

KU Alumni Association. “He was generous about sharing what he knew about computers and technology in the digital communication era, and was always eager to learn and teach others.” Sanner, a longtime friend of Niebaum’s daughter, said Niebaum was a Renaissance man interested in music and poetry and involved with his family and grandchildren.

“He just enlivened any discussion,” Sanner said. “When you talked with Jerry, you always learned something.” A memorial service for Niebaum is planned for 10 a.m. Feb. 6 at First United Methodist Church, followed by a graveside service at Pioneer Cemetery.

of Langston Hughes Elementary School, Melton was selected principal of the new school, which opened in 2000. He said that experience was one of the most memorable of his career. “I had one year to really help plan and develop everything that went into opening Langston Hughes Elementary School,” he said. “That’s a rare opportunity for a principal to get to do that, to see that school start from the very beginnings and working its way through to that opening year.” Since leaving Langston Hughes, Melton has spent the past 12 years in his

current role as principal at West Middle School. “Myron can be proud of the outstanding academic reputation that he has helped to build at West Middle School in collaboration with teachers, staff and school families,” said Lawrence schools Superintendent Rick Doll. Melton said if he had to describe the environment at West in one word, it would be collaborative. And it’s that atmosphere, and the relationships that came of it, that Melton said he will miss most about working in education. “I’ll miss the relationships that you develop

with families, staff and students over this many years in being in one spot,” he said. During his time with the district, Melton has also served as a mentor principal and a member of the Inclusion, Assessment and Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration committees. “As one of our most veteran principals, we have come to rely on Myron’s leadership at the elementary and middle school levels, as well as at the district level through his service on various committees, including the Superintendent’s Advisory, District Equity Leadership and Negotiations

Teams,” Doll said. As Melton starts his last semester at West, he said he’s still feeling energetic and ready to make sure the school is left in good shape and ready for the next person to step in. Though he said he thinks retiring while he still really enjoys what he’s doing is the right move, it will still be hard. “It’s mixed emotions,” he said. “I’ve been here for a number of years and I really have loved my time at West. Leaving the students, staff and parents who I’ve worked with for many, many years is going to be difficult.” Melton’s wife, Lisa, who

teaches fifth grade at Sunflower Elementary School, will continue to work in the district. Melton said though he doesn’t have definite plans for his retirement yet, he sees himself continuing to work to some degree. “I could see myself still working in some capacity, staying busy and being able to reduce hours and enjoy retirement at the same time,” he said. The district will immediately begin a search to fill the vacancy at West for the upcoming school year.

ethics regulations.” Davis, a Lawrence attorney who went back to practicing law after the race, said Friday that his campaign did not incur any legal fees. He called the more than $167,000 that the Brownback campaign paid to various law firms last year “a lot of money” for legal fees. “As somebody who is a practicing lawyer, I can tell you that is a lot of attorney time,” Davis said. “It is hard to determine

what exactly those fees were related to, but clearly there was a lot of attorney time that was being spent on something.” The Associated Press was first to report about the federal investigation into the loans in January 2015, after obtaining through an open records request a copy of a grand jury subpoena sent to the executive director of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. The U.S. attorney’s office said

in June it had completed its investigation into loans made to Brownback’s reelection campaign by his lieutenant governor and planned to bring no criminal charges. Earlier finance reports indicate that Colyer made his first $500,000 loan on Dec. 31, 2013, the last day covered by a finance report due in early January 2014. It was repaid on Jan. 2, 2014. Colyer then made a second $500,000 loan on

July 23, 2014, the secondto-last day covered by a finance report due in late July of that year. That loan was repaid two days later, when a new reporting period started. The third $500,000 loan from Colyer was made on Aug. 13, 2014, and a campaign finance disclosure filed in January 2015 indicated that $400,000 of that loan was repaid on Nov. 21, 2014. Davis said the amount of contributions Brownback’s

campaign raised after the election was over is significant and indicated a robust fundraising operation last year. “People in elected office do have expenses, campaign-related, that are often ongoing,” Davis said. “But it really depends on the manner in which the dollars are raised and whether that relates to any preferential treatment or access that those dollars may grant the contributor.”

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KCP&L: Nothing improper about private meeting Kansas City Power and Light says the private meeting it had Nov. 18 with a member of the Kansas Corporation Commission, in which they discussed a matter now pending before the regulators, was “absolutely” appropriate and allowable under Kansas law. And KCP&L’s spokeswoman said an attorney from the KCC’s general counsel office was present during the discussion. “Obviously we wouldn’t have had an inappropriate conversation and invited the KCC’s attorneys there as well,” said KCP&L spokeswoman Katie McDonald. “We wanted to make sure that it was absolutely an appropriate conversation, and so we waited until the rate case was completely over.” The document disclosing the private conversation was filed over the New Year’s Day weekend, about the same time KCP&L filed a new rate case, officially known as a “tariff,” in which KCP&L seeks to give its Kansas customers who use electric heat during the winter a break on their utility bills. The document does not mention that a KCC attorney was present in the meeting, but it is co-signed by Samuel Feather, KCC’s deputy general counsel. The proposed new tariff is aimed at giving those customers some relief from the rate shock they experienced when the KCC drastically cut the all-electric discounts that had been in place since the 1980s. The conversation between KCP&L officials and KCC Commissioner Pat Apple took place just after the KCC had closed a 2015 rate case in which, on a 2-1 vote, the commission declined to revisit the issue of those discounts. Apple was the one commissioner who wanted to reinstate all or part of those discounts.

out-think and out-work the opLegislature position. “We mustThey’re pretty lazy, and they’re not

ter the 2015 session, when Kansas lawmakers enacted several measures that Lawrence officials viewed as harmful — raising the state sales tax; cutting funding for Lawrence public schools; and imposing a property tax lid on local governments that is scheduled to take effect in 2018 — the idea of a quiet, uneventful session may now seem like a lofty ambition. “Flat funding through the block grant system isn’t sufficient, especially if you anticipate growth in student populations,” said Lawrence school board president Vanessa Sanburn, referring to last year’s decision to repeal the old perpupil funding formula and replace it for two years with block grants. “Our district is growing, which is really great,” she said. “But when they have more students coming, and we’re not using our per-pupil funding basis, then we have to continue utilizing the same teaching staff that we have in order to educate those students. Class sizes go up, and that does not help us meet our academic goals for kids.” Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx and Douglas County Commission Chairman Jim Flory both said they hope for a quiet session. And one thing they do not want to see happen is to move up the effective date of the looming property tax lid.

director candidates, both attorneys, gave public presentations this week. Ebony Calloway-Spencer, a supervisor for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in Atlanta, spoke Wednesday. Abigail Byman, director of academic labor relations at California State University, presented on Monday. KU’s new IOA director will replace the office’s first director, Jane McQueeny, who resigned in October.

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— Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence That law effectively limits local governments from increasing property tax revenues by more than the rate of inflation, except for a few specific purposes, without a public vote. The Kansas Association of Realtors is urging lawmakers to move up the effective date of that law. “Please don’t add any additional roadblocks or obstacles to our ability as elected officials of the governing bodies to generate the necessary revenue needed to meet our obligations and responsibilities,” Flory said. “The tax measures adopted during the 2015 legislative session present unworkable constraints for our local governments,” Amyx said. KU Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Tim Caboni noted that higher education is one area of state government that has not taken significant budget cuts in recent years. He simply asked lawmakers to continue that pattern. “Flat, in this context, is the new up,” Caboni said. “We ask the Legislature again to do no harm to our budget, even though if you look at our numbers over time, given inflation, the per-student appropriation is really down 40 percent. Given where we are with the state budget,

holding us harmless would be a huge win.” Haskell University President Venida Chenault didn’t ask for much from the Legislature, noting that Haskell is funded and administered under the Bureau of Indian Education within the U.S. Department of Interior. But she did say the school wants to have a more visible presence within the Lawrence community and the state. “Certainly Haskell makes a tremendous impact within this community,” she said. “We’d like to make a larger impact.” Chenault said being a university within the federal government is a challenge, and that Haskell is seeking federal legislation that would give it more autonomy to operate as a university. “We’re currently operating on a budget that I believe has now fallen below the football budget of KU,” she said, “and in order to expand and provide the kind of opportunities that are needed, we’ve got to have support from the community.” Lawmakers responded, saying they did not expect much action this session on major issues facing the state. “We’re going to have a real mess on our hands in

hands-on and thoughtful, the type of leader that made staffers excited to get on board with his projects. “Jerry was genuinely visionary,” Barnhill said, noting his efforts to bring KU into the Internet age, acquire supercomputers and establish labs where the KU community could use technology before many had personal computers. “And he went out and he found the

2017 because, quite honestly, with this being an election year, and with there being the largest tax increase in state history passed by a lot of conservatives, they’re going to want to run away from that,” said Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City. “So you’re not going to see a meaningful discussion of tax reform or fixing our budget. I don’t think we’re going to get anything done substantively when it comes to school finance.” Rep. Tom Sloan, RLawrence, acknowledged that the Legislature as a whole is more conservative than Lawrence and Douglas County, and that’s something that local voters need to confront. “We must out-think and out-work the opposition,” he said. “They’re pretty lazy, and they’re not always very bright. But they have a lot more votes than we do, so we have to be smarter and work harder.” Rep. John Wilson, DLawrence, said the most challenging task in 2016 will come after the session, when the 2016 campaign season gets into full swing. “For some key issues, whether we’re talking Medicaid expansion or removing the sales tax on food, I don’t think anything will change until we change the makeup of the Legislature, and that means (electing) reasonable, thoughtful people, regardless of what letter is before or after their name,” he said.

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187 or sshepherd@ljworld.com.

– K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314 or rvalverde@ljworld.com.

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Dan and Kristin Wethington of Lawrence are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Nicole Wethington, to Daniel Hunter Clausing, son of Kathy Clausing-Willis and Jerry Willis, and Kurt Clausing and Lana Britz. The bride is the granddaughter of David and Marcelyn Bangle and Robert and Lois Wethington. The groom is the grandson of the late Ernest and Betty Waner and Nancy Clausing and the late Richard Clausing. The couple are both 2012 graduates of Lawrence Free State High School. The future bride is currently attending the University of Arkansas and

Erin Lesley Cottrell, daughter of Kevin and Gwen Tucker of Topeka, KS, and Keith Allen Larkin, son of Raymond and Gloria Larkin of Hoisington, KS, were joined in marriage on October 10th at Most Pure Heart of Mary Parish in Topeka, KS. The ceremony was officiated by Father Greg Hammes. The bride holds a bachelor’s degree in English/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Stud-

Lauren Wethington and Daniel Clausing will graduate in May, 2016 with a degree in Kinesiology. The future groom attends Kansas State University and is studying Electrical Engineering/Pre-Med. He will graduate in May, 2017 and they both plan to pursue graduate degrees. A June 2016 wedding is planned in Lawrence, at Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

ANNIVERSARY McNeive-Odell 2015 AWARD WINNERS OF THE LAWRENCE BOARD OF REALTORS are pictured Friday. From left, Robin Pickett, Newcomer of the Year; Jane May, Salesperson of the Year; Jean Collins, Distinguished Service Award; Bev Hill, Good Neighbor Award; and Henry Wertin, REALTOR of the Year.

Ryan McNeive proposed to Heather Odell on their 4 year anniversary, December 23, 2015, at Renee Kelly’s Harvest in Shawnee, KS. The couple live in Overland Park, KS with their son, Oscar McNeive, a 2 year old Lab mix.

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ies from the University of Kansas. The groom holds a Masters of Education from the University of Kansas and a Masters of Special Education from Penn State. The couple reside in the Kansas City Metro area.

ENGAGEMENT Karlin-May Engagement It is with great joy that Cal and Jan Karlin of Lawrence and Kirk and Susie May of Kansas City announce the engagement of their children, Katelin Miller Karlin and Blake Joseph May. Katelin is a graduate of Free State High School and the University of Kansas, and received her Master’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Colorado. She is employed as a Clinical Practice Consultant with United Healthcare in Kansas City. Blake is a graduate of Rockhurst High School and the Uni-

versity of Missouri and received his Masters Degree from The University of Missouri- Kansas City Henry W. Bloch School of Management. He is employed as a Risk Management Consultant with Brush Creek Partners. A June 2016 wedding is planned in Kansas City.

Library exhibit puts onlookers under surveillance

ig Brother is watching you. At the Lawrence Public Library, the oftquoted line from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984” isn’t just text from a book lining its shelves. Not since Sunday, with a public art project exploring similar themes installed in the library’s atrium. Created by Lawrence artists and 2015 Rocket Grant recipients D. Bryon Darby, Aaron Long, Cotter Mitchell and Aaron Paden, “Rest Assured, You Are Under Video Surveillance” will end its weeklong run at the library today. (You might remember the project’s appearances at the Cider Gallery and Lawrence Arts Center, among others, during last summer’s Free State Festival. The installation involves a trio of raised platforms in which three cameras and a motion sensor are concealed among faux rocks, the whole thing resembling a deceptively serene zen garden. Library patrons are invited to “relax” within the space under the “safe and watchful eye” of the cameras, each broadcasting their respective feeds to a publicly accessible website (watch.restassuredvideo. com) for potentially the whole world to see. The idea, says Lawrence Public Library marketing director

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Heather Kearns, is to engage participants in questions about our “love/hate” relationship with surveillance as well as privacy, rights and individual liberties. The response, so far, has been positive, she says. “I’ve gone through over 200 handouts that I stuck out there (next to the installation) in two and a half days,” Kearns told the Journal-World earlier this week. She’s seen parents talk to their children about “what it means to be watched and what it means to watch others,” especially with the ubiquity of cellphones and social media. A few days ago, a group of teenagers, after checking out the installation, decided to check out some books on surveillance — that was a “big one” in terms of response, she says. Because the project deals with the duality of society’s relationship with video surveillance (the need to feel safe versus the need

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for privacy), interaction is encouraged. Some participants have stuck Post-It Notes over the cameras or repositioned them out of the way. “Rest Assured, You Are Under Video Surveillance” gives participants the choice to decide whether they want to be filmed. For what it’s worth, the artists — who can watch the live stream from inside the library in a staff workroom — aren’t bothered by it, Kearns says. They seem to be “really enjoying the interactivity,” especially the children who move the rocks around throughout each day. “One of the things I think is really interesting is that I keep finding

people congregating there who wouldn’t normally stop and stand in the atrium space,” she says. “I’m finding that people are hanging out and talking more. It’s kind of cool.” — This is an excerpt from features reporter Joanna Hlavacek’s Out & About blog, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

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Dear Annie: I’m a 70-year-old woman, respectable, attractive, well-educated, retired and totally self-sufficient. I owe no one anything and ask for nothing. The problem is my family. Although I have always treated them with kindness and respect, they are extremely disrespectful and spiteful to me. My narcissistic drama queen “victim” sister, who brags how “competitive” she is, sobbingly tells our relatives that I am “so mean” and that I have said derogatory things about her and her husband. This is completely untrue. I have never said such things. I don’t know exactly what she told them, but my relatives now barely speak to me. My sister has a history of going behind people’s backs and mak-

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ing false accusations, but my extended family is unaware of this. She lied about poor treatment at her job and got several people fired. She is so manipulative and believable that no one ever questions the validity of her false accusations. Meanwhile, she looks like a helpless little victim, needing desperately to be rescued. What can I do to about this? — Sister Scapegoat Dear Scapegoat: Very little. The more

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you protest, the more everyone will believe that you are bullying your poor, little sister. We are surprised, after all these years, that your family hasn’t caught on to her manipulations. You can try sending a letter to other family members, explaining the situation and saying you regret that your sister has succeeded in alienating them from you. We guarantee you, however, that one of the things your sister most enjoys is your angry and frustrated reaction. So do your best to stop giving her the satisfaction. Dear Annie: In the past year, I have been invited to several large, informal dinner events. The host of the last event made two turkeys and all the fixings. At the end of the dinner, several adults got up from the table, leaving

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their dirty paper plates and cups on the table, even though there was a trash can nearby. How do you educate adults to throw their plates and cups away after they are finished eating? — Ms. Etiquette Here Dear Ms. Etiquette: At casual, informal dinners where food is served on paper plates, most folks will clean up after themselves because it is so easy to do. But some hosts prefer to clean and would rather their guests enjoy themselves with conversation. If you think the host would appreciate your assistance, set an example by being the first one to toss her plate and cup, and feel free to suggest that others do the same. — Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You will say what you think, but recognize that you could be asking for feedback without realizing it. Tonight: Act like a wild thing. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Be aware of what someone else is really saying. This person might be suggestive and flirtatious. Tonight: Order in. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Return calls in the morning. Share your ideas and caring with someone at a distance. Tonight: Hang out. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Weigh the pros and cons of making a big purchase. You don’t want to damage your financial stability. Tonight: Make it your treat. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH A new beginning becomes possible. Tonight: Say when you have had enough. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You’ll continue to want to be invisible. You will find that a friend will do his or her best to get you out of your cocoon. Tonight: At home. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH A friend could push you in a new direction. You might have your mind made up as to which way would be best to go. Tonight: Go where you want. — The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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ACROSS 1 Worship from ___ 5 Style of apparel 9 Sea anemone, e.g. 14 ___ lily (Utah state flower) 15 It’s good for the skin 16 Senora’s sayonara 17 Petty criminals 20 Microphone inventor Berliner 21 Home office cord 22 Become nervous 25 Young boy 26 More willing 28 Poi base 32 Backer of Columbus 37 Indiana cager 38 “A Christmas Carol” role 41 Dust collector 42 Becomes more severe, as weather 43 Sharpen 44 Pick-me-up 46 Orchestra’s area 47 Add water 53 1988 Connery film (with “The”) 58 Clear away condensed moisture 59 Just a bit, if that

62 Forearm bones 63 Spoke the words 64 Bearer of the Golden Fleece 65 Smelting leftovers 66 European river 67 Coffee source DOWN 1 Thing in the plus column 2 ___ fatale 3 Piano teacher’s demand 4 Moves on wheels 5 Hood’s handgun 6 Champ who could “sting like a bee” 7 Apple variety 8 Bug on the road? 9 Trimmed a pippin 10 Olfactory property 11 Griffin half 12 Oxen harness 13 “Hey, Mac!” 18 “House of the Long Shadows” actor Christopher 19 Overcook on purpose 23 Unattractive citrus fruit 24 Hand part

27 Like a Stallone character 28 Where to read RPMs 29 Liniment target 30 Strap for horse control 31 Doggie bag morsels 32 Irritation for one in a cast 33 Cylindrical storehouse 34 Bartlett’s abbr. 35 Megafollower 36 Ordinal number ender 37 TDs are worth six 39 Allergy indication 40 Bohemian 44 ___ one’s time

45 Serving no purpose 46 Sorted laundry accumulations 48 Banned insecticide 49 Betty Ford Clinic specialty 50 Blazing 51 Kingdom east of Fiji 52 Encourage 53 Calculator key 54 Small brook 55 Highest active volcano of Europe 56 “Guys only” party 57 Verbally 60 Fountain pen part 61 Poetry 101 reading

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AFRICAN CAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

St Luke African Methodist Episcopal 900 New York Street 785-841-0847 Rev. Verdell Taylor, Jr. Sun. 11:00 am, Sun. School 10:00 am Bible Study Wed. 12:30 pm

ANGLICAN

Lawrence Anglican Mission Meadowlark Chapel 4440 Bauer Farm Rd Saturday, 3:30 PM 816-797-2237 www.stjamesanglican.net

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Calvary Temple Assembly of God

606 W. 29th Terrace 785-832-2817 Pastor Don Goatlay Sunday Service 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Wed Service 6:30 pm

Eudora Assembly Of God 827 Elm Street 785-542-2182 Pastor Glenn Weld Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening 7:00 pm

Lawrence Assembly of God 3200 Clinton Pkwy 785-843-7189 Pastor Rick Burwick Sunday 10:00 am www.lawrence3620church.com

New Life Assembly Of God Church

5th & Baker Baldwin City (785) 594-3045 Mark L. Halford Sun. 11:00 am 6 pm Wed. Family Night 6 pm

Williamstown Assembly of God 1225 Oak St. 785-597-5228 Pastor Rick Burch am wagc@williamstownag.org Sunday Worship 10:30 am

BAHA’I FAITH Baha’i Faith

BIBLE

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Community Bible Church 906 N 1464 Rd. Pastor Shaun LePage Worship 10:30 am community-bible.org

Lawrence University Ward (Student)

Lawrence Bible Chapel

505 Monterey Way *785-841-2607 John Scollon 785-841-5271 Lord’s Supper Sunday 9am Sun. School 10:10am Bible Hour 11:10am Supper: 6:15 PM; Prayer meeting 7pm

BUDDHIST

Kansas Zen Center

1423 New York St. Guiding Teacher Judy Roitman Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am Orientation for beginners 9 am kansaszencenter.org

CATHOLIC

Annunciation Catholic Church 740 N 6th Street Baldwin City (785) 594-3700 Fr. Brandon Farrar Sunday 10:30 am & 6:00 pm www.annunciationchurch.org

6001 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-6286 Fr. Michael Mulvany Sat. 4:00 pm * Sun. 8:30 am & 10:00 am www.cccparish.org

Holy Family Catholic Church 311 E 9th Street, Eudora 785-542-2788 Fr. Pat Riley Service Sat. 5:00 pm Sun. 9:30 am holyfamilyeudora@sunflower.com

CHRISTIAN

Lawrence Heights Christian Church

BAPTIST

Morning Star Christian Church

Fellowship Baptist Church 710 Locust Street 785-331-2299 Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Prayer 7:00 pm

Lawrence Baptist Temple

3201 W 31st Street Rev. Gary L. Myers Pastor Sun. School & Worship 10:00 am Sun. Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wed. Evening 7:30 pm

Lighthouse Baptist Church 700 Chapel Street 785-594-4101 Pastor Richard Austin Sunday Worship 10:30 am llbt115@embarqmail.com.

Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

901 Tennessee St (785) 843-6472 Pastor Eric A. Galbreath Sun. School 9:30am * Worship 10:45am nsmbclk.org

BAPTIST - AMERICAN

First American Baptist Church 1330 Kasold Dr. * 785-843-0020 Rev. Matthew Sturtevant www.firstbaptistlawrence.com Sunday Worship 8:30 am & 10:45 am Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

BAPTIST - INDEPENDENT Heritage Baptist Church

1781 E 800th Rd. (785) 887-2200 Dr. Scott Hanks Sunday Worship 10:30 am www.heritagebaptistchurch.cc

BAPTIST - SOUTHERN

Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church 802 West 22nd Terrace (785) 843-0442 Pastor Gary O’Flannagan Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.cornerstonelawrence.com

Eudora Baptist Church

525 W 20th Street 785-542-2734 Pastor Jeff Ingle Sun. School 9:00 am * Worship 10:15 am eudorabc.org

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

1470 N 1000 Rd. 785-843-3940 Bob Giffin, Senior Pastor Celebration & Praise Service 10:15 am www.lawrencefirstnaz.org

711 W. 23rd in the Malls Shopping Center 785-843-7535 Pastor Marilyn Myers Sunday Worship 10:00 am

University Community Of Christ 1900 University Drive 785-843-8427 Pastor Nancy Zahniser Sunday Worship 10:00 am Sunday Classtime 9:00 am

5700 W. 6th St. 785-865-5777 Father Matt Zimmermann 8 am & 10 am Holy Eucharist www.saintmargaret.org

Trinity Episcopal Church

1011 Vermont St (785) 843-6166 The Reverend Rob Baldwin, Rector 8 am; 10:30 am; 6:00 pm Solemn High Mass www.trinitylawrence.org

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA Christ Community Church

1100 Kasold Drive 785-842-7600 Jeff Barclay Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 10:30 am www.ccclawrence.org

ISLAMIC

North Lawrence Christian Church

Islamic Center Of Lawrence

7th and Elm Charles Waugh, Minister Bible School 10:00am Worship 10:55 am www.nlawrencechristianchurch.com

1917 Naismith Drive (785) 749-1638 Najabat Abbasi Director Friday 1:30 pm www.islamicsocietylawrence.org

Perry Christian Church

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

603 East Front Street Perry Kansas 785-597-5493 Pastors Will Eickman and Alan Hamer

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Lone Star Church of the Brethren 883 E 800 Rd Lawrence, Ks Jane Flora-Swick, Pastor Worship 10:30 * Sun. School 10:45am www.lonestarbrethren.com

CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST First Christian Church 1000 Kentucky Street 785-843-0679 www.fcclawrence.org Reverend Dale Walling Sunday 9am & 11am

Southern Hills Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 1:30 pm Public Talk & Watchtower Study

River Heights Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 10:00 am Public Talk & Watchtower Study Tues. 7:30, TMS, & Service Mtg

Chabad Center for Jewish Life 1203 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-TORA (8672) www.JewishKU.com “Your Source for Anything Jewish!” 917 Highland Drive 785-841-7636 www.LawrenceJCC.org Worship Friday 7:30pm Religious School Sunday 9:30am

Church Of Christ

201 N. Michigan St. 785-838-9795 Elders Tom Griffin & Calvin Spencer Sunday 10 am & 6:00 pm, Wed. 7 pm www.lawrencecoc.org

Church Of Christ of Baldwin City 820 High Street, Baldwin City (785) 594-4246 Sunday Worship 11:00 am

Bridgepointe Community Church 601 W 29th Terrace Lawrence (785) 843-9565 Pastor Dennis Carnahan Sunday 10:45 am www.bridgepointcc.com

1245 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4150 The Rev. Brian Elster, Lead Pastor Sun. 8:30 & 11:00am; Wed., 6:30 p.m. www.tlclawrence.org

Immanuel Lutheran Church

4300 W. 6th Street (785) 843-8167 Pastor Joe Stiles Worship Service 8:30 am & 11:00 am www.fsbcfamily.com

646 Alabama Street * 749-0951 Rev. William A Dulin Sun. School 10:30 am Worship 12:15 pm Tue. 7:00 pm Prayer & Bible Study Thur. 7:00 pm Worship & Pastoral Teaching

Victory Bible Church

Praise Temple Church of God in Christ

Redeemer Lutheran Church

1942 Massachusetts St www.victorybiblechurch.net (785) 841-3437 Pastor Leo Barbee Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Calvary Church Of God In Christ

315 E. 7th St. * 749-0985 Pastor Paul Winn Jr. SS 10:00 am * Worship 11:15 am Wed. & Fri. Bible Teaching 7:00 pm Call early for ride to church

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245 North Elm Street 785-843-1756 Pastor Daniel Norwood Sunday Worship 11:00 am centenarylawrence@yahoo.com

Central United Methodist Church

1501 Massachusetts St 785-843-7066 New Pastor Moon-Hee Chung Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.centralumclawrence.org

Clearfield United Methodist Church 297 E. 2200 Rd. Eudora 785-883-2130 Rev. Kathy Symes Worship 9:00am Sunday School 10:30am

Eudora United Methodist Church 2084 N 1300th Rd. Eudora 785-542-3200 * eudoraumc@gmail.com Sunday Worship 9:00 & 10:45 a.m. Sunday School for All Ages 10:00 a.m. www.eudoraumc.org

First United Methodist Church

704 8th Street; Baldwin Rev. Paul Badcock Sunday School each Sunday 9:30 am Traditional Worship 8:30 am Contemporary Worship 10:45 am Combined Worship 10:45 last Sunday month

First United Methodist Church Downtown 946 Vermont St. Rev. Dr. Tom Brady Pastor Traditional 10:30 am Contemporary 9:30 am West Campus 867 Highway 40 Contemporary 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.fumclawrence.org

Ives Chapel United Methodist 1018 Miami St Baldwin City (785) 594-6555 Rev. Kate Cordes Sunday Worship 11:00 am Church School 9:45 am

402 Elmore Street, Lecompton 785-887-6327 Pastor Billie Blair Sunday 8:30 am & 10:45 am www.lecomptonumc.org

Stull United Methodist Church

1596 E 250 Rd. Lecompton (785) 887-6521 Pastor Faye Wagner Worship 11:00am * Sun. School 10:00am www.stullumc.org

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416 Lincoln Street 785-842-4926 Pastor Dan Nicholson Sun. Worship 10:00 am * Wed. 7:00 pm lawrencechristiancenter.org

Lawrence Life Fellowship

911 Massachusetts Basement below Kinkos 785-838-9093 Gabriel Alvarado Worship 10:30 am AWANA, Wednesday, 6:00

Morning Star Church

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

Mustard Seed Church

700 Wakarusa Drive 785-841-5685 www.mustardseedchurch.com Wed. Youth Service 7:00 pm Sun. Morning Service 10:00 am

New Life In Christ Church At Bridge Pointe Community 601 W. 29 Terrace 10:30 a.m. Sunday Pastor Paul Gray 785-766-3624 www.newlifelawrence.com

New Hope Fellowship

1449 Kasold Dr. Lawrence 785-331-HOPE (4673) Darrell Brazell Pastor 10:15 am Sundays www.newhopelawrence.com

The Salvation Army

946 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4188 Lts. Matt & Marisa McCluer Sun. School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am lawrence.salvationarmy.us

United Light Church 1515 West Main Street Lawrence, KS 66044 785-393-3539

Velocity Church

fresh. modern. relevant. 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS Meeting at Lawrence Arts Center Sundays @ 9:30 am & 11:00 am www.findvelocity.org

ORTHODOX - EASTERN

Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church 1235 Iowa Street 785-218-7663 Rev. Dr. Joshua Lollar Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30am www.saintnicholaschurch.net

REFORMED-PRESBYTERIAN

Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church 2312 Harvard Road; Lawrence (785) 766-7796 Pastor John M. McFarland Sun. Worship 10:45 am; Classes at 9:30 am www.ChristCovenantChurchRPC.org

PRESBYTERIAN - USA Clinton Presbyterian Church 588 N 1200 Rd. Pastor Patrick Yancey Worship Sunday 11:00 am www.clintonchurch.net

2415 Clinton Parkway 785-843-4171 Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton Sun. Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am www.firstpreslawrence.org

West Side Presbyterian Church 1024 Kasold Drive (785) 843-1504 Rev. Debbie Garber Worship 9:55 am * Sun. School 10:15 www.westsidelawrence.org

PRESBYTERIAN-EVANGELICAL Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church 3312 Calvin Drive 785-843-2005 Pastor William D. Vogler Worship 8:15 am & 10:45 am www.gepc.org

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Hesper Friends Church

2355 N 1100th Rd. 2 Mi. South. 11/2 Mi. East Eudora Rev. Darin Kearns Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Oread Friends Meeting 1146 Oregon Street Loring Henderson, Clerk 785-764-2095 Meeting for worship, 10:00 am Sunday www.oreadfriends.org

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence 1263 N 1100 Rd. (785) 842-3339 Rev. Jill Jarvis 9:30 am Program & RE; 11:00 am Service www.uufl.net

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - UCC

Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC 925 Vermont Street 785-843-3220 Rev. Dr. Peter Luckey Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 11:15 am www.plymouthlawrence.com

St John’s United Church-Christ 396 E 900th Rd. Baldwin City (785) 594-3478 Pastor Heather Coates Sunday School 10:00am Worship 11:00am

St Paul United Church-Christ 738 Church St. Eudora 785-542-2785 Rev. Shannah McAleer Sunday Worship 10:00 am stpaulucceudora.com

UNITY

Unity Church of Lawrence 900 Madeline Lane 785-841-1447 Sunday Meditation Service 9:30 am Sunday Worship 11:00 am Sunday Child/Nursery Care Available Wednesday Meditation 7:00 pm Moment of Inspiration 785-843-8832 www.unityoflawrence.org

WESLEYAN

Lawrence Wesleyan Church 3705 Clinton Parkway 785-841-5446 Pastor Nate Rovenstine Worship 9:00, 10:00 & 11:15 am lawrencewesleyan.com

NON-DENOMINATIONAL Called to Greatness Ministries P.O. Box 550 Lawrence KS 66044 785-749-2100 info@calledtogreatness.com www.calledtogreatness.com

Christ International Church 1103 Main St. Eudora KS 66025 785-312-4263 Sunday 10:30 am Wednesdays 6:30 pm

Country Community Church

878 Locust St Lawrence 913-205-8304 Pastor, John Hart Sun. School 9 am, Fellowship 10 am, Worship 10:30 am

Eagle Rock Church

1387 N. 1300 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 785-393-6791 www.eaglerocklawrence.com Sundays at 10:00 am

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First Presbyterian Church

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906 North 1464 Rd. * 843-3325 Pastor: Ron Channell Worship 10:30 am Afterglow & Youth Group 6:00 pm www.FCLHome.org

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Centenary United Methodist Church

Worden United Methodist Church

2104 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-0620 Pastor Randy Weinkauf Wors. with Holy Communion 8:30 am & 11:00 am Sun. School & Christian Ed 9:45 am Nursery Available & Wheelchair Accessible Ministry to Blind Outreach 3 Thur. 5:30 pm www.immanuel-lawrence.com

First Southern Baptist Church

96 Highway 40 * 785-887-6823 January Kiefer Pastor Traditional Sun. 9:00am Contemporary call for information www.bigspringsumc.org

LUTHERAN - ELCA

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CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

Big Springs United Methodist Church

1724 North 692 Rood 785-594-3256 Pastor Joni Raymond Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Trinity Lutheran Church

CHURCH OF GOD

METHODIST - UNITED

722 New Hampshire Street (785) 749-5397 Rabbi’s Neal Schuster www.kuhillel.org

2211 Inverness Dr. * 785-843-3014 Pastor Ted Mosher Worship 2.0 9:30 am Classic Worship-11:00 am www.gslc-lawrence.org

Corner of 25th & Missouri 785-843-0770 Chris Newton, Minister Sun. Bible School 9:15 am Sun. Worship 10:20 am & 5:00 pm Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm

950 E. 21st Street 785-832-9200 Pastor Jami Moss Sun School 10 am *Worship 11 am Thurs Bible Study 7 pm

Family Church Of Lawrence

Vinland United Methodist Church

K U Hillel House

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Southside Church of Christ

Lawrence Free Methodist Church

Lecompton United Methodist Church

JEWISH

Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation

CHURCH OF CHRIST

METHODIST

Lawrence Indian Methodist Church

St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church

1229 Vermont ST 785.843.0109 www.saint-johns.net Weekend Mass: Sat 4:30 pm Sun. 7 am, 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 5 pm

615 Lincoln St 785-841-8614 Pastor Joanna Harader Service 10:30 am peacepreacher.wordpress.com

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

EPISCOPAL

St. John Evangelist Catholic Church

Peace Mennonite Church

3655 West 10th St. Lawrence 1st Ward 785-842-4019, 2nd Ward 785-3315912, Wakarusa Valley 785-842-1283 LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

Lawrence Community of Christ

Corpus Christi Catholic Church

MENNONITE MENN

3001 Lawrence Ave 785-842-2343 Pastor Bill Bump Blended 9:00 am * Contemporary 10:35 am www.lfmchurch.org

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST

Baha’i Worship Service most Sundays at 10-00 Call 785-843-2703 or friendsoflawrencebahais@gmail.com

1646 Vermont St • 843-5811 Pastor Arsenial Runion Sunday School 9:30 am Wednesday 7:00 pm Prayer Service and Bible Study

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene

2321 Peterson Road 785-843-1729 Pastor Steve Koberlein Sunday Worship 8:45 am & 10:30 am Lawrence-heights.org

First Regular Missionary Baptist Church

Church Of Jesus Christ Of LDS 1629 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-9622 Sacrament Worship 11:00am LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

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Opinion

Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Saturday, January 9, 2016 Lawrence City Commission Mike Amyx, mayor 2312 Free State Lane 66047 843-3089 (H) 842-9425 (W) mikeamyx515@hotmail.com Leslie Soden, vice mayor 715 Connecticut, 66044 (913) 890-3647 lsoden@lawrenceks.org Stuart Boley, 1812 W. 21st Terr., 66046, 979-6699 sboley@lawrenceks.org Matthew Herbert 523 Kasold Dr., 66049 550-2085 matthewjherbert@gmail.com Lisa Larsen, 1117 Avalon., 66044, 331-9162 llarsen@lawrenceks.org

Douglas County Commission Jim Flory, 540 N. 711 Road, Lawrence 66047; 842-0054 jimflory@sunflower.com Mike Gaughan, 304 Stetson Circle, 66049; 856-1662; mgaughan@douglas-county.com Nancy Thellman, 1547 N. 2000 Road 66046; 832-0031 nthellman@douglas-county.com

Lawrence School Board Vanessa Sanburn, president 856-1233 765 Ash St., 66044 vsanburn@usd497.org Marcel Harmon, vice president; 550-7749 753 Lauren Street, 66044 mharmon@usd497.org Kristie Adair, 840-7989 4924 Stoneback Place, 66047 kadair@usd497.org Jessica Beeson, 691-6678 1720 Mississippi St. 66044 jbeeson@usd497.org Jill Fincher, 865-5870 1700 Inverness Dr. 66047 jfincher@usd497.org Rick Ingram 864-9819 1510 Crescent Rd. 66044 ringram@usd497.org Shannon Kimball 840-7722 257 Earhart Circle 66049 skimball@usd497.org

Area legislators Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-44th District) Room 451-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-0063; Topeka: (785) 296-7697 barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov Rep. Tom Sloan (R-45th District) Room 149-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-1526; Topeka: (785) 296-7654 tom.sloan@house.ks.gov Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger (D-46th District) Room 174-W, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7122 BoogHighberger@house.ks.gov Rep. John Wilson (D-10th District) 54-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7652; john.wilson@house.ks.gov Rep. Ken Corbet (R-54th District) 179-N, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7679; ken.corbet@house.ks.gov Sen. Marci Francisco (D-2nd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 842-6402; Topeka: (785) 296-7364 Marci.Francisco@senate.ks.gov Sen. Tom Holland (D-3rd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 865-2786; Topeka: 296-7372 Tom.Holland@senate.ks.gov Sen. Anthony Hensley (D-10th District) Room 318-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-3245 Anthony.Hensley@senate. ks.gov

Weak U.S. responses make allies uneasy Washington — If you’re going to engage in a foreign policy capitulation, might as well do it when everyone is getting tanked and otherwise occupied. Say, New Year’s Eve. Here’s the story. In October, Iran test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile in brazen violation of Security Council resolutions prohibiting such launches. President Obama does nothing. One month later, Iran does it again. The administration makes a few gestures at the U.N. Then nothing. Then finally, on Dec. 30, the White House announces a few sanctions. They are weak, aimed mostly at individuals and designed essentially for show. Amazingly, even that proves too much. By 10 p.m. that night, the administration caves. The White House sends out an email saying that sanctions are off — and the Iranian president orders the military to expedite the missile program. Is there any red line left? First, the Syrian chemical weapons. Then the administration insistence that there would be no nuclear deal unless Iran accounted for its past nuclear activities. (It didn’t.) And unless Iran permitted inspection of its Parchin nuclear testing facility. (It was allowed self-inspection and declared itself clean.) And now, illegal ballistic missiles. The premise of the nuclear deal was that it would constrain Iranian actions. It’s had precisely the opposite effect. It has deterred us from offering

in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and support for terrorism. Obama seems not to understand that disconnecting the nuclear issue gave the mullahs license to hunt in the region. For the Saudis, however, it’s not just blundering but betrayal. From the very beginning, they’ve seen Obama tilting toward Tehran as he fancies himself Nixon in China, turning Iran into a strategic partner in managing the Middle East. This is even scarier because it is delusional. If anything, Obama’s openhanded appeasement has encouraged Iran’s regional adventurism and intense anti-Americanism. The Saudis, sensing abandonment, are near panic. Hence the reckless execution of the firebrand Shiite insurrectionist, Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, that has brought the region to a boil. Iranians torched the Saudi Embassy. The Saudis led other Sunni states in breaking relations with Tehran. The Saudis feel surrounded, and it’s not paranoia. To their north, Iran dominates a Shiite crescent stretching from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean. To the Saudi south, Iran has been arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels since at least 2009. The danger is rising. For years, Iran has been supporting anti-regime agitation among Saudi Arabia’s minority Shiites. The Persian Gulf is Iran’s ultimate prize. The fall of the House of Saud would make Iran the undisputed regional hege-

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even the mildest pushback to any Iranian violations lest Iran walk away and leave Obama legacy-less. Just two weeks ago, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards conducted live-fire exercises near the Strait of Hormuz. It gave nearby U.S. vessels exactly 23 seconds of warning. One rocket was launched 1,500 yards from the USS Harry S. Truman. Obama’s response? None. The Gulf Arabs — rich, weak and, since FDR, dependent on America for security — are bewildered. They’re still reeling from the nuclear deal, which Obama declared would be unaffected by Iranian misbehavior elsewhere. The result was to assure Tehran that it would pay no price for its aggression in Syria and Yemen, subversion

mon and an emerging global power. For the United States, that would be the greatest geopolitical setback since China fell to communism in 1949. Yet Obama seems oblivious. Worse, he appears inert in the face of the three great challenges to the post-Cold War American order. Iran is only the most glaring. China is challenging the status quo in the South China Sea, just last week landing its first aircraft on an artificial island hundreds of miles beyond the Chinese coast. We deny China’s claim and declare these to be international waters, yet last month we meekly apologized when a B-52 overflew one of the islands. We said it was inadvertent. The world sees and takes note. As it does our response to the other great U.S. adversary — Russia. What’s happened to Obama’s vaunted “isolation” of Russia for its annexation of Crimea and assault on the postCold War European settlement? Gone. Evaporated. Kerry plays lapdog to Sergei Lavrov. Obama meets openly with Vladimir Putin in Turkey, then in Paris. And is now practically begging him to join our side in Syria. There is no price for defying Pax Americana — not even trivial sanctions on Iranian missile-enablers. Our enemies know it. Our allies see it — and sense they’re on their own, and may not survive. — Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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Rising costs To the editor: This letter is in regards to my cost of health insurance since the Affordable Care Act became effective. Two years ago, prior to the ACA start date, I was paying $286 per month for a Coventry major medical plan. It had a $1,000 deductible. Now, two years later, after being forced out of that plan when ACA was implemented, my premium is $450 per month with a $6,600 deductible. Let me do the math for you. Under my new plan, I have to pay $5,400 in premiums and incur $6,600 in a deductible, before I benefit from my health insurance. That’s $12,000 per year before I benefit from my health care. Now for some good news. My plan is required to cover me for what the ACA refers to as “essential benefits.” These include: doctor visits, prescriptions, hospitalization, preventative care and maternity and newborn care. Thank goodness my plan covers me for maternity and newborn care, because my plan prior to the ACA didn’t cover me for that. This is of particular benefit to me since I’m a 57-year-old male. You never can be too safe. The ACA has done some good things like removing the lifetime limit on benefits paid by the insurance company, as well as removing the pre-existing condition limitation so people can switch carriers without being discriminated against. My concern is not a political one but an economic one. If you don’t qualify for a tax credit, the cost of health insurance through the exchange is becoming prohibitive. Kevin Kaye, Lawrence

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on TV commercials each day. But the off-roading explanation (Journal World, Dec. 23) for the cause of the ruinous condition of the road(s) to the Rock Creek boat ramp was misleading. Fires, littering and illegal woodcutting, as well as off-roading, occur at Clinton Wildlife Management area. These illegal activities do not keep those of us who are safe and sane users of this amazing resource away from the benefits of outdoor activities: hiking, canoeing, kayaking, birding, fishing and hunting. Lack of maintenance is why the road is a wreck at Rock Creek. I have used this road many times in each of the last 11 years (until its closure). I have seen it deteriorate and call with complaints each year. If Douglas County or other locales with many gravel secondary roads did zero maintenance, we would see the roads turn to useless potholes. The state of Kansas has a contract to manage this property, which is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. I believe both sides share certain obligations, and I suspect that getting the resource users who ultimately pay the bills into a great spot with a good boat ramp would be part of the contract. Mark King, Lawrence

To the editor: There is illegal off-roading at Clinton Lake as Americans love this form of fast-paced and environmentally deleterious “recreation” that we see

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MEXICAN DRUG KINGPIN RECAPTURED Pre-dawn house raid leads to ‘El Chapo’ Guzman “Mission accomplished The assault team was DEA said on Twitter. David Agren and fired upon from inside The statement by the Doug Stanglin the structure. Mexican navy did not — we have Five suspects were mention Guzman by killed and six others arname, only referring to him.” USA TODAY

Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who broke out of a maximum security prison through an elaborate tunnel seven months ago, was recaptured Friday. “Mission accomplished — we have him,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Twitter. The Mexican navy said in a statement that marines, acting on a tip, raided a home before dawn in the city of Los Mochis in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa. MEXICO CITY

rested. One marine was “alleged members of orwounded but did not ganized crime.” The assuffer life-threatening sault team also found injuries. Orso Ivan Gastelum AFP/GETTY IMAGES Marines seized two Cruz, the alleged boss of armored vehicles, eight Joaquin the north zone of the Silong guns, one handgun Guzman naloa drug cartel, but and a rocket-propelled said he escaped, accordgrenade launcher, the navy said ing to the statement. in a statement. Guzman’s escape in July The U.S. Drug Enforcement through a tunnel carved beneath Administration said it was “ex- the shower stall in his cell was a tremely pleased” with the news. humiliating embarrassment for “We congratulate the MX Peña Nieto, who had said GuzGovernment and salute the brav- man’s escape would be ery involved in his capture,” the “unforgivable.”

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, announcing on Twitter the capture of “El Chapo” Guzman

It was Guzman’s second escape from prison. The governor of the prison and several guards were arrested. The diminutive Guzman, whose nickname means “Shorty,” wielded so much power as head of the Sinaloa drug cartel that the Chicago Crime Commission called him Public Enemy No. 1, a label applied to gangster Al Capone in 1930.

After breaking out of Puente Grande prison in 2001, he spent more than a decade on the run, rising to lead the Sinaloa cartel, which smuggles large quantities of drugs into the USA. The cartel is a key player in a drug war that has ravaged parts of Mexico for years and cost thousands of lives. Guzman escaped in 2001 with the help of prison guards, who possibly hid him in a laundry cart. He was recaptured in February 2014 and held at Altiplano before his escape in July. The Justice Department had no immediate comment on whether it will push to extradite Guzman to the USA, where he faces charges in multiple jurisdictions. Stanglin reported from McLean, Va.

Jobs report could signal stability FIRST TAKE

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Number of positions created in December far exceeds experts’ forecast Adam Shell USA TODAY

In a sea of global gloom to start the new year, the U.S. job market remains a ray of sunshine. Dark clouds may be sitting over China, the Middle East and Wall Street, but there is a glimmer of hope — thanks to a blowout December jobs report. It looks like the USA has a good shot at fending off all the negative global economic news and avoid the one thing Wall Street fears most: a recession. Indeed, the American job machine was very much alive and well at the end of 2015. Proof arrived Friday when the federal that government reported 292,000 jobs were created last month — way above the 200,000 jobs forecast by economists. To

add to the upbeat message, the government revised up its job count in November by 41,000 and October by 9,000. That’s an additional 50,000 new jobs. For a third straight month, the nation’s unemployment rate stayed steady at 5%. “The (strong jobs report) should put to (rest) any fears that the U.S. recovery is in serious difficulty, even if fourth-quarter GDP growth ends up being fairly lackluster,” Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, told clients in a note. The report is exactly the kind of news Wall Street needs as the bruised stock market, which is off to its worst first five days to a year, looks for reasons to stabilize. It helped for a while Friday morning before selling returned to slam stocks again. “The job report suggests the

“The U.S. economy isn’t all sunshine, but there are some positive stories to tell.” Bankrate.com senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick

U.S. labor market continues to be quite healthy,” UBS economist Drew Matus says. “That should bode well for consumption and housing. While wages disappointed, other areas of the report — notably manufacturing jobs — suggested that recent gloom regarding the outlook may be overstated.” The message the strong reading on the jobs market sends is that the U.S. economy remains strong and is weathering the global storm — at least for now. More important, it shows that the array of problems overseas — especially those centered in China, the world’s second-biggest economy — has yet to spill over into the U.S. economy in a major way. What the strong jobs number doesn’t do is make all of China’s problems go away. “With storm clouds remaining over much of the global economy, the U.S. economy isn’t all sunshine, but there are some positive stories to tell with the unemployment rate at 5%,” Bankrate.com senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick says. “Now with the surprisingly firm December report behind, we know that 2015 was a year of solid job growth with about 2.7 million jobs added.” A super strong job market does pose a risk: It could keep the Federal Reserve on track to hike short-term rates four times this year, which is more than Wall Street is betting on. “The economy is stronger than you think. The risks from China are overblown. Four rate hikes are coming this year, bet on it,” says Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Union Bank. The key question is whether there will be more good news after the jobs report. The answer might come next week when the earnings reports for the fourth quarter of 2015 start rolling in. If the profit numbers remain strong — and CEOs provide a constructive outlook for 2016 and downplay risks — stocks might finally find their footing.

Airstrikes choke off oil revenue that funds Islamic State Raid helped U.S. learn how system worked Jim Michaels USA TODAY

An air campaign aimed at crippling the Islamic State’s lucrative oil smuggling business has reduced the terror group’s revenue from a peak of about $1.3 million a day to less than $1 million, a top State Department official said. Damage to the group’s oil infrastructure and distribution networks causes blackouts and fuel WASHINGTON

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Residents speak with a Kurdish soldier while an oil well burns Nov. 10 in Syria.

shortages in areas controlled by the Islamic State, said Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s special envoy for energy affairs. “I believe we can take it further and further down,” Hochstein told USA TODAY. The coalition got a major boost from a raid last year that provided a trove of useful information about how the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, makes money from oil. That helped military analysts choose effective targets. Revenue from oil represents the bulk of the organization’s budget, funding terror operations

and providing it with the resources to govern territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. The Islamic State’s key oil-producing facilities are in Deir ezZor in eastern Syria. The group also controls large swaths of territory in Iraq, but oil-producing regions there have been recaptured by Kurdish or Iraqi forces. The U.S.-led air campaign has targeted oil infrastructure from the start of its airstrikes more than a year ago. The strikes were initially aimed at oil refineries and other infrastructure in the hopes of crippling production. The Pentagon estimates the campaign has reduced production to

34,000 barrels a day from a peak of 45,000. Still, military and intelligence analysts concluded the Islamic State was able to quickly repair production facilities within territory it controlled. The terror group has recruited chemical engineers and oil workers from around the world. Intelligence gleaned from a U.S. special operations raid against Abu Sayyaf, a top Islamic State leader in Syria, provided the U.S.-led coalition with a much more detailed understanding of the group’s oil business, allowing the coalition to better target distribution networks.

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2015 one of USA’s warmest, wettest

Year saw 10 weather disasters causing at least $1B in damage Doyle Rice USA TODAY

Scientists announced Thursday that 2015 was the secondwarmest and third-wettest year on record in the U.S. Some states hit all-time records. Florida, Montana, Oregon and Washington each had their warmest year on record, while Oklahoma and Texas had their wettest, climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Overall, every state across the contiguous U.S. was warmer than average. The national average temperature of 54.4 degrees is topped only by the 55.3 average of 2012. Almost every state was also wetter than average, placing the year behind only 1973 and 1983.

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A stalled car sits at a flooded Dallas gas station on May 30.

In addition, 10 weather and climate events caused at least $1 billion each in damage, including the Western drought, wildfires in the West and Alaska, a February storm in the Northeast, two flooding events and five severe storm outbreaks. More than 150 people were killed by the disasters. Only 2008, 2011 and 2012 had more $1 billion disasters. Last month was also the warmest and wettest December in the U.S. The global climate report will be released Jan. 20.

AMTRAK’S SOUTHWEST CHIEF KEEPS ROLLING ON NEW TRACKS PHOTOS BY TREVOR HUGHES, USA TODAY

The rising sun illuminates newly laid tracks running across Kansas where Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train runs its route. Trevor Hughes USA TODAY

GARDEN CITY, KAN. Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train is rumbling through the pre-dawn darkness just east of the Colorado border when a pickup pulls into view on U.S. Highway 50, which parallels the tracks. The truck slowly catches up to the train, then passes it, taillights disappearing toward the Rockies. We’ll never catch up because our 268,000-pound locomotive isn’t allowed to go that fast. “We’re just moseying along,” conductor Marcelino Martinez says. Welcome to cross-country train travel, circa 2015. On the plains of Kansas, one of the country’s premier train routes is limited to no more than 79 mph. Much of the time, the train runs far slower on the scenic eight-state route tracing portions of the pioneer Santa Fe Trail from Chicago to Los Angeles. The tracks have deteriorated to the point where federal officials limited the train’s speed across Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, in some cases to 30 or 40 mph, lengthening the trip by two hours. For rail enthusiasts, things could be much worse. In 2012, the tracks’ owner, BNSF Railway, told Amtrak it needed to come up with $100 million to upgrade the tracks if it wanted to keep using the rails. Amtrak, a federal agency that runs the U.S. rail system, didn’t have that kind of money. Unlike Europe or Asia, where

Small towns feared they would lose their ‘lifeline’ route, but states bonded to save a much more scenic, leisurely mode of travel

A worker uses a torch to cut through a portion of old railroad track being replaced along the route of the Southwest Chief. rail systems are highly subsidized by national governments, America’s railroad system remains largely private and almost entirely focused on freight. Passenger rail is generally a money-loser because people prefer to travel by car or airplane. That’s created a vicious cycle in the West: Amtrak’s federally funded service isn’t as convenient, which means fewer people take it, leaving the agency with less money to maintain its system, forcing it to consolidate routes and cut service, which makes it less attractive. Most of Amtrak’s success comes on the heavily populated East Coast, where 10 cities are responsible for two-thirds of all ri-

dership on short commuter routes. In the West, trains are emptier and cover vast distances between tiny towns. Many Western leaders worry Amtrak will cancel even more service, in some cases further isolating small towns that depend heavily on access to the train and the tourist dollars it can bring. “It’s a lifeline out of our community but also coming into our community,” says Roger Stagner, mayor of Lamar, Colo., pop. 7,700. “A lot of people who come to visit, end up coming back.” The Southwest Chief carries about 350,000 passengers annually. The trains run across the fruited plains and give riders a

chance to see the purple mountain majesty of Pikes Peak and the Rockies. The train rumbles through former frontier towns such as Dodge City, Kan., across southern Colorado, then into northern New Mexico before winding past the Grand Canyon and onto L.A, knitting together communities far from airports or major highways. Residents of those small towns were shocked in 2012 to hear Amtrak was considering rerouting or canceling the service as the tracks slowly degraded. They held emergency meetings in which officials across three states pledged to work together to save the service by fixing the tracks. Local and state taxpayers found millions of dollars to get the work started. A pair of federal grants provided $27 million to make a major dent in the maintenance needs. Workers cut out older sections of rails and replace them with newly forged track that provides a quieter, faster ride. For most Southwest Chief riders, speed isn’t the attraction. Rather, it’s the largely hassle-free world of traveling by train. There are no invasive security checks, no constant reminders to avoid congregating near the restrooms, no other drivers checking their cellphones and drifting across lanes. The trains instead are filled with riders free to move around, to walk the aisles and to watch the country roll past. “It’s a chance to see the countryside and make it memorable,” rider Wes Smith says.

Cancer survivor advocate dies Woman who fought off disease three times spent decades striving to improve care for others who were afflicted Liz Szabo

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Ellen Stovall, a longtime advocate for the USA’s 15.5 million cancer survivors, died Tuesday of heart complications related to her cancer treatment. She was 69. Stovall, who survived three bouts of cancer, spent 30 years advocating to improve the care of others with the disease. She served as the president and CEO of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship from 1992 to 2008. At the time of her death, Stovall was a senior health policy adviser at the coalition. Stovall passionately argued for greater research funding into the needs of people who survive cancer, who are sometimes at high risk for second cancers and often suffer from long-term complications related to treatment, as well as from psychological and financial stress. “Ellen Stovall was a passionate advocate for the unique needs of cancer survivors,” said Richard Schilsky, chief medical officer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology. “As a longterm cancer survivor herself, she understood the concerns and fears of cancer survivors, the chronic disabilities they experience and the impact of surviving cancer on a person’s ability to return to a normal, productive and satisfying life after cancer. Through her work with NCCS, Ellen worked tirelessly to draw attention to and address the medical, psychological and societal challenges faced by cancer survivors and to ensure they have access to the support and services they need.” Stovall was a founding mem-

TIM DILLON, USA TODAY

Ellen Stovall, a longtime advocate for cancer survivors, died Tuesday of complications related to cancer treatment. ber of the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Board and its successor, the National Cancer Policy Forum. She co-edited the Institute of Medicine’s influential report, “From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition,” which articulated many of the challenges people face after cancer. Stovall knew these challenges firsthand. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 24, six weeks after giving birth to her

“As a long-term cancer survivor herself, she understood the concerns and fears of cancer survivors.” Richard Schilsky, American Society of Clinical Oncology

first child. At that time, doctors treated this type of cancer with high doses of radiation to the chest. Though the treatments often cured patients’ lymphoma, the high radiation doses put women at high risk of breast cancer. Stovall suffered some of these complications, including breast cancer and heart damage, both of which, she said, were related to her earlier cancer treatment. Today, doctors try to use lower radiation doses to reduce women’s risk of future cancer. Advocates such as Stovall worked to educate cancer survivors about their increased risk. Doctors encourage women who undergo chest radiation to begin breast cancer screening at an earlier age. Many in the cancer community remember Stovall fondly. “To many of us — likely thousands — she was a trustworthy friend, a mentor, a collaborator, a visionary,” Sandy Welton, chairman of the board at the NCCS, said in a statement. “Ellen was all of this and more, and always with a generous heart, a keen mind, a quick wit and unswerving ethics. How fortunate we were to know her; how grateful we are for her thinking and her work for all cancer survivors. Now is the time to honor Ellen. Each in our own way. At NCCS, we will carry on, inspired by Ellen’s lengthy leadership and incredible legacy.” In a remembrance in Oncology Times, Stovall’s friend, journalist Peggy Eastman, wrote, “Ellen could cut through Washington’s alphabet soup of acronyms and speak clearly about complicated topics to the lay public. ... If she sometimes found her responsibilities and demanding schedule tiring, it never showed. She was always composed, always prepared, always on top of the complex issues facing cancer

patients and survivors. She had high standards, believing that patients and survivors deserved the very best care and nothing less.” Stovall volunteered for the American Society for Clinical Oncology. At the time of her death, she was a patient representative to a committee on palliative care, the field of medicine dedicated to alleviating symptoms and improving quality of life for people with life-threatening illnesses. In 1995, Stovall shared her research with Richard Klausner, who was then director of the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Klausner founded the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute. While Stovall led the NCCS, she pushed for changes in the Medicare program to improve cancer care quality, reorganization of cancer drug reviews at the Food and Drug Administration and health care coverage for individuals participating in clinical trials. President Clinton appointed Stovall to the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board. She served as a board member of the Leapfrog Group and the National Committee on Quality Assurance. In a statement, the NCCS said, “Ellen was never too busy to talk to an individual cancer survivor about health care, family life after cancer or how to pay the bills. But her greatest impact is in changing the language of cancer and attitudes toward cancer survivors and in encouraging those with cancer to take charge of their lives and their care.” Stovall is survived by her husband, John, son Jonathan and daughter-in-law Briana Black of Bethesda, Md. Stovall’s funeral service will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Police: Officer shot ‘in the name of Islam’ Man accused of firing 13 shots in ambush, injured in return fire Doug Stanglin USA TODAY

The suspect in the wounding of a Philadelphia police officer told officers he carried out the ambush “in the name of Islam,” Police Commissioner Richard Ross said Friday. Ross said the suspect, Edward Archer, 30, fired 13 shots from a semiautomatic pistol that hit officer Jessie Hartnett, 33, and his car Thursday night. Hartnett returned fire, hitting the gunman at least three times. Archer was quickly taken into custody by other officers.

Archer, who wore a long white robe over dark pants, “confessed to committing this cowardly act in the name of Islam. He said he believes that the police defend laws that are contrary to the teaching of the Quran,” Ross said at a news conference Friday afternoon. Hartnett, who was hit three times in his left arm, sustained “very serious injuries,” Ross said. Surveillance video shows the gunman running into the street and right up to Hartnett’s police car. He put the gun directly into the driver-side window and fired. Ross said the weapon was a stolen police gun. Mayor Jim Kenney played down the Islam connection. “This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers,” he said. “It has nothing to

do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.” Archer’s mother, Valerie Holliday, told The Philadelphia Inquirer her son suffered head injuries from playing football and in a moped accident. He has “been acting kind of strangely lately, talking to himself ... laughing and mumbling,” she said. During the attack, Hartnett shouted on the police radio, “Shots fired! I’m shot! I’m bleeding heavily,” KYW-TV reported. “This is absolutely one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen,” Ross said Friday. “This guy tried to execute the police officer. The police officer had no idea he was coming.” Kenney, who is in his first week as mayor of Philadelphia, said, “There are just too many guns on the streets.”

JOSEPH KACZMAREK, AP

Police investigate the scene of a shooting Friday in Philadelphia. A police officer was shot multiple times.

‘Sesame Street’ has face lift for new season Greg Toppo USA TODAY

Floodwaters cover Interstate 44 in Valley Park, Mo., on Dec. 30. Damage in Missouri’s Greene County was almost $1 million.

As the Mississippi rolls, tally on destruction keeps climbing Winter flooding among costliest disasters in U.S. history Doyle Rice USA TODAY

As floodwaters continue to rise along the lower Mississippi River, it’s clear the slow-motion disaster will be among the costliest wintertime flood events in U.S. history. Officials are simply trying to tally the price tag. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday that damage from the floods will top $1 billion. That number is likely to climb as the unpredictable and overflowing Mississippi continues its march south. Over the weekend and into next week, floodwaters will continue to rise along the river in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, including the cities of Greenville and Natchez, Miss., Corrections & Clarifications USA TODAY is committed to accuracy. To reach us, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones at 800-8727073 or e-mail accuracy@usatoday.com. Please indicate whether you’re responding to content online or in the newspaper.

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and Baton Rouge, according to AccuWeather. Minor-to-moderate flooding is possible south of Baton Rouge to New Orleans this month. In recent weeks, the floods severely damaged homes, businesses and farms that line the Mississippi and its tributaries in Missouri and Illinois, where at least 25 deaths were blamed on the weather. Once all the costs of lost business and damaged roads, bridges and public buildings are added up, it’s a “safe bet” the total will exceed $1 billion, said Steve Bowen, a meteorologist with Aon Benfield, a global reinsurance firm based in London. That estimate comes from preliminary damage assessment information from federal and local officials and on early insurance claims in affected areas.

In and around the St. Louis area, floods have damaged or destroyed an estimated 7,100 structures, according to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, and at least a half-million tons of debris will need to be removed. Repairs to roads in St. Louis County will top $200 million. In southwestern Missouri’s Greene County, flood damage cost almost $1 million, according to the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management. Government officials are calculating damage in Illinois, where Gov. Bruce Rauner issued disaster declarations for 23 counties, mainly in central and southern parts of the state. Most of the costliest wintertime flood disasters on record occurred in the West. The highest price tags occurred with the Cali-

fornia floods in 1995 that cost $5 billion, and the El Niño-driven West Coast floods in 1997 that cost $4 billion, Bowen said. “That is what has made this current event so unique, since we don’t expect this kind of flooding in the Midwest and Mississippi Valley until the spring,” he said. Missouri picked up almost three times its average rainfall in November and December, said Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Mo., set an alltime flood record of 48.86 feet last week, breaking a record set in 1993, the National Weather Service said. The floods stem from heavy rains linked to El Niño and manmade climate change, Trenberth said. Such unusual rain and flooding at this time of year would have been outside the realm of possibility were it not for those outside factors, he said.

ASTORIA , N.Y. This season, Sesame Street is brought to you by the number “1” and the letters “A,” “B” and “R.” As in 1BR, 1BA. As always, the characters of the beloved children’s show will teach preschoolers valuable lessons. But when the 46th season debuts Jan. 16, a refurbished and expanded set will overtly show where each of the main characters lives on the renowned block. The move reinforces the “realness” of the neighborhood and helps children form closer bonds with the characters, creators say. That helps make lessons stick.

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Big Bird has a home in a tree next to 123 Sesame Street.

“We’ve always been this real neighborhood,” said Carol-Lynn Parente, executive producer. “And though we compete with animation ... what resonated with people was that we had this very wonderful, real place.” Sesame Street has long been taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. But the new, greener, more spacious, light-filled set might as well be a kid-friendly block in Brooklyn Heights. It’s close to the subway and brimming with locally owned stores — Big Bird shopped at Mr. Hooper’s before it was cool. Bike shop? Check. Bridge views? To die for. Episode have been trimmed to 30 minutes and will be built around a single theme.

IN BRIEF RECORD POWERBALL PRIZE CLIMBS TO $800 MILLION

Frenzied buy-ins for the USA’s largest lottery prize raised the Powerball jackpot Friday to $800 million. No one has won the top prize in the twice-a-week drawings in nine weeks. Buzz about the game has vaulted sales so high that the pot has popped up in $50 million or more increments all week. Thursday, it was $700 million, and officials wouldn’t speculate on what it could be by 10:59 p.m. ET Saturday at the next drawing. “I tell people that say, ‘Oh, I never played it. I’m never going to win,’ I tell them I’d rather be one in a million than none in a million,” said Tony Signh, owner of the Columbia News Stand in downtown Columbia, S.C. Though $800 million is an eyepopping number, that’s the amount the Multi-State Lottery Association will pay out in a 30year annuity. If a winner elects to take a lump sum, the payoff is $496 million before taxes. —WTLV- and WJXX-TV, Jacksonville

THE DREAM SO FAR: $800,000,000

ed her son and urged him to flee out of fear that coalition forces would soon sweep in, the observatory said. Islamic State authorities ordered Saqr to execute her in front of the post office where she worked, the observatory said. —Alan Gomez 2 IRAQI REFUGEES FACE TERROR-RELATED CHARGES

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The Powerball jackpot climbed Friday to a record $800 million, as shown on this display in Oakland. The drawing for the record jackpot is Saturday. REPORTS: ISIL FIGHTER EXECUTES HIS MOTHER

A member of the Islamic State, notorious for its gruesome public executions, killed his mother this week after she tried to get him to leave the terrorist organization, according to reports.

The man, identified as Ali Saqr, 21, executed her in front of hundreds of people in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and another Syrian rights group cited by The New York Times. The groups said she confront-

A 24-year-old Iraqi refugee was arraigned in federal court Friday on charges of attempting to assist terror groups, including the Islamic State. A second refugee was to face a similar hearing in California. Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan of Houston was charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, according to documents released Thursday. Prosecutors say he received machine-gun training from the terror group. Aws Mohammed Younis AlJayab, 23, of Sacramento was charged with making false statements involving travel to Syria to assist terror organizations. —Michelle Homer, KHOU-TV, Houston, and Doug Stanglin

MONEYLINE SAUDI ARAMCO MAY ISSUE SHARES IN PUBLIC OFFERING The Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s largest oil producer, said Friday it is considering selling shares in an initial public offering, part of the kingdom’s efforts to privatize industries amid sinking oil prices and a move that could create the world’s most valuable company. “It has been studying various options to allow broad public participation in its equity through the listing in the capital markets of an appropriate percentage of the company’s shares,” the company, commonly known as Saudi Aramco, said in a statement.

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REPORT: VW TO OFFER UP TO 115,000 DIESEL BUYBACKS Volkswagen Group could be preparing to buy back as many as 115,000 diesel-powered cars in the U.S. as part of the fallout from its emissions scandal, a German newspaper reports. That number would represent about a fifth of the 580,000 cars and crossovers with diesel engines that are believed to violate their certification levels, says the newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, as reported by Reuters. VW would either have to offer the refund price or a deep discount on a new vehicle, the newspaper said.

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2016 GIVES MARKET WORST ANNUAL START

Early rally snuffed out, and stocks return to dismal doldrums

“This bout of weakness should spill over at least into next week.”

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Americans are getting better at preparing for secure later years

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Retirement report card improves: 45% on track

ROUGH WEEK FOR U.S. MARKETS

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SEC BANS STEVEN COHEN FROM SUPERVISING FUNDS The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen will be prohibited from supervising funds that manage outside money until 2018, a sanction to settle charges that Cohen BLOOMBERG failed to suSteven Cohen pervise a former portfolio manager who engaged in insider trading while working at his firm, SAC Capital Advisors. A federal judge last year approved a record $1.8 billion insider-trading settlement with SAC Capital. Accepting the two-year ban, Cohen is neither admitting nor denying the SEC’s finding that he “failed reasonably to supervise” Mathew Martoma, the SEC said.

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close at 1922. The benchmark U.S. stock gauge fell 5.97% this week @adamshell — also a record-setting dive to USA TODAY start the new year. The Nasdaq composite index fell 46 points, or The U.S. stock market — off to 1.0%, to 4644, falling deeper into its worst-ever start to a year — correction territory. saw an early rally evaporate and “It’s been a very rough start to finished sharply lower Friday af- 2016 for the global stock markets, ter a big late-day sell-off, dashing and I don’t think it’s over just hopes for a market rebound de- yet,” Paul Schatz, president of spite a strong U.S. jobs report and Heritage Capital, told clients in a a 2% rebound in Chinese stocks note after Friday’s closing bell. that provided a brief but short- “This bout of weakness should lived respite to a turbulent, his- spill over at least into next week before even a trading low is seen. toric week of trading. The Dow Jones industrial aver- From there, we will see when and age closed down 168 points, or how the market tries to hammer 1.0%, to 16,346, putting it more in a low and the quality of the ralthan 10% below its record close ly that ensues. What we are seelast May and back in correction ing is a market event rather than territory. The blue-chip barome- an economic or systemic event. ter had been up Think of it as a by almost 140 repricing of points earlier in risk.” the session. Stocks got a The Dow finbig sentiment ished the first boost before week of trading the opening in 2016 down bell when the 6.2% — its government reworst five-day ported that the kickoff to a year, U.S. economy ANDREW BURTON, GETTY IMAGES according to created A trader works on the floor of 292,000 jobs in S&P Dow Jones the New York Stock Exchange. December, way Indices. The late-day above the flush was a “fitting end to the 200,000 estimate. The early gains Dow’s worst opening week in his- didn’t hold up. Job gains were tory,” Josh Selway, analyst at also revised up 41,000 in NovemSchaeffer’s Investment Research ber and 9,000 in October. The unnoted after the bleak week was employment rate stayed steady at 5% in December for a third over. The massive sell-off this week straight month. Investors were anxious before adds up to paper losses of roughly $1.3 trillion for the Wilshire 5000 the final trading session of the Total Stock Market Index, ac- week in China after panic selling cording to Wilshire. resulted in trading on the ChiThe Standard & Poor’s 500 in- nese stock market being suspenddex tumbled 21 points, or 1.1% to ed on Monday and Thursday. Adam Shell

Americans are finally doing something right when it comes to saving for retirement. Though seemingly countless reports detail Americans’ dismal hopes for financially sound golden years, recent data show we’re actually getting better at prepping for retirement. More households are on track to cover essential expenses in retirement than in 2013, according to a Fidelity report out Thursday that analyzed retirement preparedness based on survey responses from 4,650 people. Fidelity issued each household a score based on how well they’ll be able to cover basic expenses — food, shelter, health care — in retirement. The number of households that scored an 81 or above, meaning they can cover at least the basics, increased to 45%, up from 38% in 2013, the last year Fidelity conducted the study. The results are an encouraging sign in a financial landscape that often points out how ill-equipped Americans are to support themselves into old age. An improving economy and recognition of the burden of retirement planning on the individual are both probably leading to an increased savings rate, says John Sweeney, executive vice president of retirement and investment strategies at Fidelity. “People are becoming more aware of the fact that they need to take control of their own retirement, and they need to save more,” he says. Americans’ median savings rate increased to 8.5% in 2015 from 7.3% in 2013, according to Fidelity. Millennials, defined by Fidelity as 25- to 34-year-olds, made the most improvement, increasing their savings rate from 5.8% to 7.5%. The data also show

More than half of American households are at risk of not covering essential expenses in retirement:

ON TRACK

On track to cover more than 95% of total estimated expenses.

NOW: 27% 2013: 23%

GOOD

On track for essential expenses but not discretionary expenses such as travel, entertainment, etc.

NOW: 18% 2013: 15%

FAIR

Not on track and modest adjustments to planned lifestyle are likely.

NOW: 23% 2013: 19%

NEEDS ATTENTION

Not on track and significant adjustments to planned lifestyles are likely.

NOW: 32% 2013: 43% SOURCE: FIDELITY

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Americans are making smarter investments — 62% had age-appropriate asset allocation in 2015, compared with 56% two years earlier. Americans’ median preparedness score, at 76, is still below the “good” range, meaning many people still need to make adjustments to get on track. And nearly a third are in the “I need serious help” boat.

A new study from Fidelity finds that Americans have improved their retirement preparedness in recent years. They are saving more.

Campbell Soup to label GMO ingredients Company supports disclosure laws Roger Yu

USA TODAY

Campbell Soup has taken a stand in the fray over food labeling, saying it will disclose its ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The maker of brands such as Pepperidge Farm, V8 and Prego said it will advocate for federal legislation that would standardize GMO labeling rules for all food and beverage manufacturers operating in the USA, deviating from its competitors who are fighting such efforts and seeking

to circumvent states’ actions to enact their own laws. Some federal and state lawmakers have sought legislation that would mandate foodmakers to disclose ingredients — such as corn and soybeans — whose DNA was artificially altered by including genes from other plants, animals, viruses or bacteria. In 2013, Vermont became the first state to pass a bill that would require foodmakers to label GMO ingredients. Gov. Peter Shumlin, whose signature is re-

quired, has declared his support of the bill, which will go into effect this year. Proponents of GMO-labeling laws, such as the Vermont Right to Know GMOs Coalition, said foods using GMO ingredients are not adequately tested for toxins, allergens or other substances that aren’t suitable for human consumption. “Campbell is optimistic a federal solution can be established in a reasonable amount of time if all the interested stakeholders cooperate,” it said. “However, if that is not the case, Campbell is prepared to label all of its U.S. products for the CAMPBELL SOUP

presence of ingredients that were derived from GMOs, not just those required by pending legislation in Vermont.” Campbell said it will withdraw from all efforts led by coalitions and groups opposing measures on GMO labeling. The Camden, N.J.-based company will continue to oppose state-by-state labeling laws, calling them “incomplete” and “impractical.” They “create unnecessary confusion for consumers,” Campbell said. The company said it considers GMO ingredients safe. “Campbell continues to recognize that GMOs are safe, as the science indicates that foods derived from crops grown using genetically modified seeds are not nutritionally different from other foods,” it said.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch David Craig @davidgcraig USA TODAY

For anyone still wondering why the big drop in oil prices is good for consumers yet bad for the stock market, this should help. Goldman Sachs has just lowered its earnings estimate for the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index by $3 for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 to $106, $117 and $126, respectively. The reason? “Energy is the leading driver of our reduced profit outlook,” Goldman’s U.S. equity research team said in a note to clients late Thursday, adding that the energy “sector will post a decline in operating (earnings per share) for the first time in 48 years.” The Wall Street bank says 2015 NEW YORK

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is going to be the worst year for S&P 500 earnings since 2008 during the financial crisis, falling 7%. If you exclude energy, earnings “will grow by a healthy 7%,” Goldman says. The price of oil is trading at its cheapest level since 2004, and Friday, a barrel of crude set another 12-year-low just above $33. If the first week of the year is any indication, things could get even worse. Oil has dropped in all of the first 5-day five trading days of avg.: -3.03 2016, dragging the price of crude 6-month avg.: -7.83 down almostLargest 11%. holding: AAPL The stockMost market also is AAPL off to bought: an awful start to 2016, turning in Most sold: AAPL its worst opening five-day performance. China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran were the primary drivers for that, but sliding oil prices were a contributing factor. What’s good at the pump is not so good for the stock portfolio.

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54.45

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Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) 17.20 Up again and makes up loss on dividend declaration.

+.62

+3.7

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Kinder Morgan (KMI) Rebounds from 52-week low.

14.77

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Discovery Communications (DISCK) Share rating upgraded at Zacks.

25.00

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Scripps Networks (SNI) Strong Friday makes up this year’s loss.

53.56

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CBS (CBS) Up as Summer Redstone offers buyout.

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47.88

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Barracuda Networks

Price: $10.73 Chg: -$5.70 % chg: -34.7% Day's high/low: $11.67/$10.52

The security and data storage company reported disappointing earnings, prompting several brokerages to downgrade the stock.

Seagate Technology (STX) 32.54 Bank of America lowers estimates on weak PC market.

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Valero Energy (VLO) 68.26 Loses momentum and erases gain in December.

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Tesoro (TSO) 101.62 Dips in not-too-strong sector, boosts Nevada position.

-5.41

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Signet Jewelers (SIG) Erases gain on lifting fourth-quarter forecasts.

126.93

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Nordstrom (JWN) May be cut by S&P on weak holiday sales.

46.24

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Endo International (ENDP) 53.78 Extends losing streak in 2016 and leads sector down.

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YTD 1 -5.9% -6.1% -5.9% -6.1% -5.9% -6.5% -6.4% -6.6% -3.7% -3.6%

Close 191.92 24.83 29.51 22.10 104.01 11.44 103.85 14.52 2.75 9.40

Chg. -2.13 +1.23 -0.32 -0.35 -0.86 -0.25 -1.82 -0.36 -0.09 +0.87

% Chg %YTD -1.1% -5.9% +5.2% +23.5% -1.1% -8.3% -1.6% -7.3% -0.8% -7.0% -2.1% -5.6% -1.7% -7.8% -2.4% +5.8% -3.2% -30.4% +10.2% +50.2%

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Close 6 mo ago 3.50% 3.25% 0.36% 0.13% 0.19% 0.01% 1.56% 1.49% 2.12% 2.20%

Close 6 mo ago 3.80% 4.19% 3.00% 3.20% 2.85% 2.69% 3.12% 3.32%

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Commodities Close Prev. Cattle (lb.) 1.33 1.34 Corn (bushel) 3.57 3.53 Gold (troy oz.) 1,097.80 1,107.70 Hogs, lean (lb.) .60 .60 Natural Gas (Btu.) 2.47 2.38 Oil, heating (gal.) 1.05 1.07 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 33.16 33.27 Silver (troy oz.) 13.91 14.34 Soybeans (bushel) 8.80 8.77 Wheat (bushel) 4.79 4.68

Chg. -0.01 +0.04 -9.90 unch. +0.09 -0.02 -0.11 -0.43 +0.03 +0.11

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FOREIGN CURRENCIES Close .6888 1.4135 6.5973 .9172 117.67 17.9005

Prev. .6843 1.4089 6.5929 .9152 117.50 17.7868

6 mo. ago .6513 1.2742 6.2102 .9040 120.67 15.8050

Yr. ago .6629 1.1839 6.2165 .8486 119.67 14.6960

FOREIGN MARKETS Country Frankfurt Hong Kong Japan (Nikkei) London Mexico City

Close 9,849.34 20,453.71 17,697.96 5,912.44 40,265.37

$10

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Prev. 9,979.85 20,333.34 17,767.34 5,954.08 40,661.57

Change -130.51 +120.37 -69.38 -41.64 -396.20

%Chg. -1.3% +0.6% -0.4% -0.7% -1.0%

YTD % -8.3% -6.7% -7.0% -5.3% -6.3%

SOURCES: MORNINGSTAR, DOW JONES INDEXES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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It looks like Santa delivered a mixed bag to retailers this holiday season. The final months of the year gave cash-wrapped gifts to American Eagle and J.C. Penney. But Gap, Urban Outfitters and Macy’s were left with a lump of coal. Gap shares fell more than 10% Friday after the retailer announced Thursday that samestore sales fell 5% in the fiveweek period ended Jan. 2. That compares with a 1% increase in

DAVID PAUL MORRIS, BLOOMBERG

Pedestrians pass a sale sign Dec. 28 in San Francisco.

the same period a year ago. Sales were dragged down particularly by poor showings from Banana Republic and Old Navy, where

sales fell 9% and 7% respectively. Old Navy has typically been Gap’s strongest brand but may have been the most affected during the holidays by unseasonably warm weather, according to a note out Thursday from financial services firm Cowen Group. Gap itself has been struggling to roll out apparel compelling enough to get customers to buy. Urban Outfitters’ eponymous brand and its Anthropologie brand saw sales fall in November and December, bringing comparable sales for the company down 2%. The company said store traffic fell in the period, which led to

$27.80 Jan. 8

Don’t be scared off by recent performance

Q: Are emerging markets stocks a bad idea? Matt Krantz

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A: Shares of companies based in lessdeveloped nations are getting clobbered. It might be tempting to write them off. That would be a mistake. Emerging markets stocks are certainly suffering. The Vanguard Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund, a measure of stocks from countries such as China, India and Brazil, has lost about a quarter of its value over the past year. Over the past three years, it has done even worse. But don’t let recent performance convince you these stocks are a bad investment. Emerging markets stocks are one of the most volatile major asset classes you can invest in, carrying risk that’s higher than that of the U.S. market, according to Index Fund Advisors. But emerging markets stocks are one of the few asset classes that generate enough excess return to justify the extra risk. Another added bonus: Emerging markets stocks often zig when U.S. markets zag. That’s bad now but could be welcome when U.S. stocks sputter. Just because emerging markets have had a bad run doesn’t mean that will continue. Emerging markets stocks dropped 29% in 2000, making them the worst asset class, Index Fund Advisors says. Three years later, the group turned into one of the best with a 60% gain in 2003, 30% gain in 2004 and 30% in 2005.

Gap, Urban Outfitters sales fall, American Eagle rises Hadley Malcolm

Jan. 8

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The chipmaker, which gets most of $35 its business from supplying audiorelated chips to gadgetmaker Apple, warned late Thursday that fiscal third-quarter earnings would $25 Dec. 11 miss expectations.

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$22.91

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Newmont Mining (NEM) Rating downgraded to sector perform at RBC.

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The retailer said same-store sales fell 5% in the five-week period $30 Price: $22.91 ended Jan. 2, dragged down by Chg: -$3.83 poor showings from Banana Re% chg: -14.3% Day's high/low: public and Old Navy, where sales $20 fell 9% and 7%, respectively. Dec. 11 $25.29/$22.63

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weaker sales. Macy’s was hit hard by warm weather and said this week that sales fell 4.7% in November and December. The results provide an early look at a holiday season that wasn’t expected to post as much sales growth as last year — the National Retail Federation predicted a 3.7% sales increase, down from a 4.1% increase in 2014. Still, overall results are “generally better than relatively low expectations,” says Ken Perkins, president of research and data firm Retail Metrics. American Eagle Outfitters said Friday that comparable sales have

increased 4% in the fourth quarter, citing a strong showing online and the effect of omnichannel initiatives on the customer experience. J.C. Penney, which is in turnaround mode after a botched strategic overhaul a couple of years ago, reported Thursday that same-store sales for November and December were up 3.9% over the year-ago period. Penney CEO Marvin Ellison said that although the retailer saw the effects of warm weather on apparel sales, the company had record online sales and benefited from strength in its private brands and selection of gifts.

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MUSIC

ROYALS REPORT ROYAL TRAVEL PLANS

THESE ARTISTS IN 2016 Another year, another chance for newcomers to make their marks. Fetty Wap, Charlie Puth and Tori Kelly are a few of the artists who broke out in 2015, but what about the next crop of newbies waiting in the wings? USA TODAY’s Patrick Ryan rounds up five up-and-comers to keep on your radar.

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Duchess Kate, Prince William and Prince Harry have an exotic foreign travel schedule this spring. Kate and Will are going to India and Bhutan, and Harry will visit Nepal, the palace announced Friday. Their hosts in tiny, remote Bhutan: King Jigme and Queen Jetsun Pema, known as the “Will and Kate of the Himalayas.” MAKING WAVES Emma Watson started a feminist Twitter book club, so naturally she asked her followers for name suggestions. “I’ve decided to go with EPA ‘Our Shared Shelf.’ I absolutely loved this. Thank you, thank you x,” she tweeted. Her first book: Gloria Steinem’s ‘“My Life on the Road.”

ANDRA DAY

AGE: 31 BASED: Los Angeles WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: She’s a brassy-voiced singer with pin-up style and a throwback sound, pulling from jazz, blues and pop influences on her debut album, Cheers to the Fall, nominated this year for a best R&B album Grammy Award (one of two nods she received, along with best R&B performance for Rise Up). Since catching the attention of Warner Bros. Records with YouTube covers of Eminem (Lose Yourself) and Jessie J (Mamma Knows Best), the San Diego native has opened for Lenny Kravitz on tour and appeared in an Apple commercial with one of her earliest champions, Stevie Wonder, singing his Someday at Christmas. MYRIAM SANTOS

HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY BEYONCÉ FANS She will strut at the Super Bowl again. Coldplay is the headliner for Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, Calif., but Queen Bey will be the guest at halftime, sponsor Pepsi confirmed Friday.

DAN HARRIS

JACK GARRATT

JAMIE MCCARTHY, GETTY IMAGES, FOR TIDAL

BAD DAY CAITLYN JENNER She had to cancel her upcoming five-city speaking tour because of scheduling “conflicts,” said spokesman Alan Nierob.

AGE: 24 BASED: London WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: The soulful British singer recently was crowned the 2016 Brit Awards’ Critics Choice — an honor bestowed upon pop superstars Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding in past years. Blending dusky pop melodies with downtempo electronic beats, the adroit producer and multi-instrumentalist has been named to MTV’s Brand New list for the coming year and secured a nomination on the BBC’s prestigious Sound of 2016 poll. Next up, the bristly-bearded Garratt will support his forthcoming debut album, Phase, out Feb. 19, on a headlining U.S. tour in February.

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TROYE SIVAN

AGE: 20 BASED: Perth, Australia WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: Few pop acts in recent memory have had the viral success of this introspective Australian singer, who got his start on YouTube when he was 13, and where he has amassed 3.8 million subscribers and 230 million views since 2007. Sivan, who is openly gay and incorporates LGBT themes into his videos, received his biggest endorsement yet from Taylor Swift last fall, when she tweeted and posted about his Wild EP on Instagram. He has since made his late-night debut performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and released his debut album, Blue Neighbourhood, which he will support on a nearly sold-out U.S. tour this winter.

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CONRAD SEWELL

AGE: 27 BASED: Los Angeles WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: Like Aloe Blacc and Bebe Rexha before him, Sewell was launched into stardom on an EDM track. Kygo’s Firestone, co-written and sung by the long-maned Aussie troubadour, has racked up 350 million streams on Spotify and 165 million YouTube views since it burned up the Top 40 last fall. With opening slots for Ed Sheeran and Maroon 5 under his belt and a handful of shows on December’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour, Sewell will next join Jess Glynne on select U.S. tour dates this winter. Sewell’s All I Know EP, featuring latest single Start Again, was out Friday.

LEANN MUELLER

MAREN MORRIS

AGE: 25 BASED: Nashville WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: She has written songs for Tim McGraw (Last Turn Home) and Kelly Clarkson (Second Wind), but now the Texas native with booming vocals is shaking up Nashville as a singer. Named an “artist to watch” this year by Spotify and SiriusXM and one of the “next women of country” by CMT, Morris reached the top of the Billboard Heatseekers chart with her self-titled EP, which has tallied 10 million Spotify streams since November. She opened shows for Chris Stapleton and Loretta Lynn last fall and will hit the road this month with Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley.

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Home sweet (smart) home While most Americans imagine fingerprint or voice-recognition security,

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men would employ a robotic guard to secure their home of the future.

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Well, it was fun while it lasted. We’ve been on quite a TV run in this still admittedly young year. New Year’s Day gave us a fascinating if TV PREVIEW somewhat flawed ROBERT Sherlock special deBIANCO signed to tide us over until the series makes its delayed PBS return. Sunday gave us a satisfying season premiere of PBS’ Downton Abbey for what is likely to be a satisfying final stint. And Wednesday brought the relaunch of ABC’s terrific American Crime — which immediately launched itself into Emmy contention. Now we come back to earth with Shades of Blue, a thoroughly ordinary reworking of pretty much every crooked cop show and movie you’ve ever seen. To be fair, Jennifer Lopez is not (and never has been) ordinary: She lights up the screen and almost manages to carry this show over its repetitive plot hurdles. But almost is not enough.

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Harlee Santos (Jennifer Lopez) lays down the law in Brooklyn. At least Shades starts well — once you get past the tired toldin-flashback framing device that introduces us to a battered Detective Harlee Santos (Lopez) as she’s taping what appears to be a home-video confession. Over the next 13 episodes, you’ll find out what she has to confess, which turns out to be quite a lot. Harlee, you see, is part of a Brooklyn cop crew led by Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta, who bulls through the role in entertaining

fashion) that believes in taking the law into its own hands. These cops will make deals with drug dealers if that means keeping them away from school zones and cutting down on violent turf battles. They also take bribes — which is how Harlee gets turned into a mole by an FBI agent (Warren Kole) who may be excessively fond of her. Though who can blame him, considering that Lopez practically shimmers in every scene?

Harlee, as you’d expect, is torn between her loyalty to Woz and her desire to stick around to raise her teenage daughter. So we’re off on a cat-and-mouse game with Harlee trying to avoid discovery while trying to prevent Woz from suspecting someone else on the team, including The Sopranos’ Drea de Matteo. That raises two main problems. The first is that, like most of her castmates beyond Lopez and Liotta, de Matteo has so little of interest to do, it’s hardly worth learning her character’s name. The second is that after two good episodes directed by Barry Levinson, Blue begins to struggle to fill its hours. The writers’ lessthan-happy solution is to pad the series with weekly cases that are uniformly dull; a story built around a guilt-ridden rookie that defies belief; and diversions into Harlee’s single-mother struggle that seem shoehorned in from another show. With each episode, the thread gets thinner until, should you make it to Episode Six, you’ll find a twist that practically shouts “This far and no further.” Should you make it past that point, good luck and God bless. All else are advised to seek fun elsewhere.

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Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com/sports l Saturday, January 9, 2016

Tech presents worthy opponent for KU

By Gary Bedore

gbedore@ljworld.com

Lubbock, Texas — Picked to finish last in the Big 12 in a preseason vote of league coaches, Tubby Smith’s third Texas Tech basketball team has to be considered the surprise squad in the conference. Sure, it’s early, but the Red Raiders, who play host to Kansas University in an 8 p.m. tipoff today in United Supermarkets Arena, check in at 1-1 after an 82-74 home victory over Texas and narrow 76-69 setback Wednesday at league-title UP NEXT c o n t e n d e r Who: Kansas Iowa State. Overall, (13-1, 2-0) Tubby’s vs. Texas troops own Tech (11-2, an 11-2 mark, 1-1) with wins When: 8 over Missisp.m. today sippi State, Where: Lub- Minnesota, bock, Texas Hawaii and Richmond TV: ESPNU on the résu(WOW! channels 35, mé, as well as losses 235) to ISU and Utah. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has taken notice, currently projecting Tech as a No. 10 seed in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. “It’s the same team as last year. I think they’re just older. Their players individually have gotten a lot better,” KU coach Bill Self said of the Red Raiders, who are led by senior guards Devaugntah Williams and Toddrick Gotcher, who average 14.8 and 11.8 points a game. “They have athletic guards who can really guard and pressure, especially in the halfcourt,” Self added. Williams, 6-foot-4 from Canton, Ohio, has 24 assists, 20 turnovers and 16 steals, and Gotcher, 6-4 from Garland, Texas, has 34 assists, 10 turnovers and 12 steals. Zach Smith, a 6-8 sophomore forward from Plano, Texas, averages 10.2 points and 6.5 boards, and Norense Odiase, a 6-9 sophomore center from Fort Worth, Texas, contributes 9.8 points and 5.0 boards. “Their bigs have really improved. They play two legitimate bigs,” Self said, adding, “I don’t think they’re going to beat themselves. “Tubby will will them to be better and will them to be good,” Self continued. “They’re really a nice team. They’re definitely an NCAA Tournament-potential team. Look at their RPI ... they are fourth or fifth (sixth) in the country strength of schedule as well (10). They’ve improved a lot.” The Jayhawks (13-1, 2-0), who have won 12 straight games versus the Red Raiders and lead the all-time series 29-4, realize it can be tough to win in Lubbock. KU cruised, 73-51, at United Supermarkets Arena last season, but just 64-63 in 2014. “We played pretty well down there last year,” Self said. “Year before, Joel (Embiid) missed a short shot, Wiggs (Andrew Wiggins) tipped it in at the buzzer, and we won by one.” Senior forward Perry Ellis said he remembers the recent close call in Lubbock. “Coach mentioned that yesterday, mentioned something about that so we know,” Ellis said. “We know Please see HOOPS, page 3C

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

To the rescue

Kevin Anderson/Special to the Journal-World

LAWRENCE HIGH’S JACKSON MALLORY (31) BRINGS THE BALL DOWN-COURT during the Lions’ game against Olathe South on Friday night in Olathe. LHS won, 62-50.

Lions get needed boost in win over O-South By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

Olathe — Without one of its key starters and suddenly in a tie game late in the third quarter on the road Friday night, Lawrence High’s boys basketball team needed someone to step into the spotlight and keep a scrappy Olathe South team at arm’s length. Cue LHS junior guard Jackson Mallory, who drove in for a bucket, chased down an offensive rebound that set up an Anthony Harvey threepointer and drilled a three of his own from the left corner.

With Mallory’s energy and execution, the Lions closed the third on an 11-0 run, giving them enough breathing room to win, 62-50. “It turned the game our direction,” Lawrence coach Mike Lewis said of the stretch, “when (the Falcons) were scratching and clawing and getting right back into it.” Mallory, senior point guard Justin Roberts and senior forward Fred Brou scored 14 points apiece for the Lions (7-1) on a night senior big man Price Morgan wasn’t available to play. After watching Mallory,

who also chased down 12 rebounds, picked up some floor burns and hustled on defense in the win, team leader Roberts called the junior guard Lawrence’s “glue guy,” as well as the Lions’ new defensive version of graduate John Barbee. “He’s one that really makes everyone stick together,” Roberts said of Malory, a 6-foot-2 junior who shot 5-for-7 from the floor and hit both of his three-pointers at O-South. “He doesn’t always put up the most points, but he always does the little things that really matter. He’s a great rebounder, he plays

great defense, so we know we can always count on him when it comes to making big plays.” The Lions also learned they could count on 6-5 senior Brou, who delivered seven rebounds, protected the rim and knocked in eight of his 10 free throws to hold down the paint when Morgan was out of town, visiting Air Force on a football recruiting trip. Brou’s tip-in in the final seconds of the third quarter gave Lawrence a 40-29 lead entering the fourth. Said Lewis: “Fred was a Please see LHS BOYS, page 4C

FSHS girls focused in 57-27 victory By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Holding a size advantage at every spot and knowing that good enough would probably prevail, the Free State High girls basketball team refused to let complacency be a factor in Friday night’s home game against Olathe North. Instead, the Firebirds played like a state championship was on the line and routed the Eagles, 57-27, in a game that featured meaningful contributions from just about every player who stepped onto the floor.

As she typically does, junior Madison Piper led Free State with 22 points and seven rebounds, but it was the play of sophomore Cameryn Thomas that set the tone for the night. Thomas, who scored six points and grabbed five rebounds, made her biggest contribution on defense, where her six steals — three in the first quarter — inspired the rest of her team to elevate its intensity from the jump and prevented ONorth from ever challenging the Firebirds, who improved to 5-1.

“We turn up our defense basically by letting Cameryn go trap, and then everybody else feeds off of that,” Free State coach Bryan Duncan said. Added Piper: “She just has a way of changing the game for us.” Most of Thomas’ steals came in the half-court, where she simply dug in, refused to let her player go by her and harassed the smaller Eagles (2-5) every trip down the floor. “Defense is my favorite part of the game,” Thomas said. “And whatever I can do to put my team in the best

position to win, I’m going to do.” According to Thomas, the focus for the Firebirds on Friday was to crash the glass and move the ball on offense on every possession. That, they believed, would keep the Eagles from even entertaining the idea of competing. For the most part it worked. Even though the Firebirds shot just 5-of-20 in the first quarter, they still led 14-6 thanks to a 15-6 rebounding edge. “They were just working,” Please see FSHS GIRLS, page 4C

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Cavaliers 125, T’wolves 99 Minneapolis — J.R. Smith scored a season-high 27 points, and Kevin Love had 20 points, nine rebounds and four assists in his return to Minnesota to help Cleveland to its sixth straight win. Andrew Wiggins scored 35 points for the Timberwolves. CLEVELAND (125) James 5-12 3-4 13, Love 4-11 10-11 20, Thompson 2-3 2-2 6, Irving 5-12 2-2 13, Smith 10-12 2-2 27, Dellavedova 4-5 0-0 10, Mozgov 3-4 1-2 7, Shumpert 9-19 2-2 23, Jefferson 0-1 2-2 2, Cunningham 1-2 2-2 4, J.Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-81 26-29 125. MINNESOTA (99) Prince 0-5 0-0 0, Garnett 1-2 0-0 2, Towns 11-14 0-0 22, Rubio 2-6 2-2 8, Wiggins 12-19 8-12 35, Pekovic 1-4 0-0 2, Dieng 1-3 0-0 2, Muhammad 6-13 8-10 22, LaVine 1-6 0-0 2, Martin 0-4 2-2 2, Bjelica 0-1 0-0 0, Payne 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 36-79 20-26 99. Cleveland 35 27 33 30—125 Minnesota 27 19 30 23 — 99 Three-Point Goals-Cleveland 13-27 (Smith 5-6, Shumpert 3-6, Dellavedova 2-3, Love 2-4, Irving 1-3, Jefferson 0-1, James 0-4), Minnesota 7-16 (Wiggins 3-7, Rubio 2-2, Muhammad 2-3, Payne 0-1, Prince 0-1, Martin 0-1, Bjelica 0-1). Rebounds-Cleveland 47 (James 12), Minnesota 43 (Towns, Dieng 6). Assists-Cleveland 23 (James 8), Minnesota 24 (Rubio 6). Total FoulsCleveland 19, Minnesota 21. A-16,768 (19,356).

Pacers 91, Pelicans 86 New Orleans — Ian Mahinmi had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Indiana defeated a reeling New Orleans team that lost Anthony Davis to a lower back bruise early in the game. Davis was hurt diving into the stands to stop a ball from going out of bounds on the defensive end. He went to the locker room and never returned. INDIANA (91) George 3-13 6-7 13, Allen 3-3 1-2 7, Mahinmi 7-12 3-4 17, G.Hill 2-9 2-2 7, Ellis 5-11 0-0 10, Miles 6-12 0-0 15, Turner 2-3 1-2 5, Stuckey 4-9 0-0 8, Robinson III 2-6 1-2 5, J.Hill 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 36-81 14-19 91. NEW ORLEANS (86) Cunningham 2-5 0-0 4, Davis 1-2 0-0 2, Asik 0-1 1-2 1, Evans 10-19 4-4 27, Gordon 3-11 1-2 8, Anderson 7-17 3-4 21, Ajinca 2-7 0-0 4, Holiday 5-12 4-6 15, Cole 1-9 2-2 4, Gee 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-83 15-20 86. Indiana 16 22 30 23—91 New Orleans 30 13 27 16—86 Three-Point Goals-Indiana 5-21 (Miles 3-8, G.Hill 1-2, George 1-7, Robinson III 0-1, Ellis 0-1, Stuckey 0-2), New Orleans 9-29 (Anderson 4-10, Evans 3-5, Holiday 1-2, Gordon 1-6, Ajinca 0-1, Cole 0-2, Cunningham 0-3). Rebounds-Indiana 61 (Mahinmi 10), New Orleans 46 (Ajinca 12). Assists-Indiana 21 (Ellis 8), New Orleans 21 (Evans 5). Total Fouls-Indiana 17, New Orleans 18. Technicals-New Orleans defensive three second. A-16,895 (16,867).

Raptors 97, Wizards 88 Washington — DeMar DeRozan scored 21 of his season-high 35 points in the second half, Kyle Lowry had 21 points and 10 assists, and Toronto beat Washington. TORONTO (97) Johnson 4-6 0-0 8, Scola 4-10 3-3 11, Valanciunas 1-4 5-6 7, Lowry 8-18 2-2 21, DeRozan 11-24 12-13 35, Patterson 0-2 0-0 0, Ross 3-4 0-0 7, Biyombo 0-1 0-0 0, Joseph 3-6 2-2 8. Totals 34-75 24-26 97. WASHINGTON (88) Porter 6-10 3-3 16, Dudley 1-4 2-2 5, Gortat 5-11 2-2 12, Wall 8-20 3-3 21, Temple 3-9 0-0 7, Neal 1-9 0-0 2, Gooden 1-3 0-0 3, Sessions 5-11 3-3 14, Nene 2-5 0-0 4, Oubre Jr. 1-2 1-2 4. Totals 33-84 14-15 88. Toronto 18 29 26 24—97 Washington 26 21 14 27—88 Three-Point Goals-Toronto 5-14 (Lowry 3-6, Ross 1-2, DeRozan 1-4, Scola 0-1, Joseph 0-1), Washington 8-25 (Wall 2-5, Temple 1-2, Oubre Jr. 1-2, Porter 1-3, Sessions 1-3, Gooden 1-3, Dudley 1-3, Neal 0-4). Rebounds-Toronto 59 (Lowry 10), Washington 36 (Gortat 10). AssistsToronto 11 (Lowry 4), Washington 18 (Dudley, Wall 4). Total Fouls-Toronto 18, Washington 22. Technicals-Toronto defensive three second 3, Washington defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls-Patterson. A-17,064 (20,308).

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Grizzlies 91, Nuggets 84 Bucks 96, Mavericks 95 Memphis, Tenn. — Zach RanMilwaukee — Khris Middledolph scored 16 of his 24 points ton’s driving layup with less in the second half, and Mario SOUTH than 10 seconds to play carried Chalmers made a pair of three- Milwaukee to a victory over pointers in the final 1:30 to lead Dallas. Memphis to a victory over Middleton scored 27 points, Denver. John Henson 16 and Michael Chalmers scored 12 points in Carter-Williams added 15 the game, with eight in the last points and a season-high 12 re90 seconds to keep the Nuggets bounds as Milwaukee snapped at bay. Dallas’ six-game winning Danilo Gallinari had 29 streak against them. SOUTH points for Denver, while Dar- DALLAS (95)SOUTH rell Arthur finished with 12 Parsons 1-8 1-2 3, Nowitzki 6-17 4-4 20, Pachulia 4-6 1-2 9, Williams 2-5 1-2 5, Matthews points, all in the second half. AL EAST 4-12 1-2 12, Powell 2-3 0-0 4, Felton 3-10 1-2 9,

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• Reports from the Kansas-Texas Tech men’s game • Coverage of the Chiefs’ playoff game with Houston

Cliff Alexander, Portland Did not play (inactive)

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Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 26. Pts: 12. Reb: 9. Ast: 2. Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Did not play (inactive)

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Mario Chalmers, Memphis Min: 40. Pts: 12. Reb: 6. Ast: 4. BOSTON RED SOX

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Drew Gooden, Washington Min: 10. Pts: 3. Reb: 3. Ast: 0. CLEVELAND INDIANS

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Georgia v. Mississippi 7:30p.m. SEC 157 Auburn v. Missouri

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Kansas v. Texas Tech 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235

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Magic 83, Nets 77 New York — Victor Oladipo and Nikola Vucevic each scored 20 points to lead Orlando to a victory over Brooklyn, which has lost nine straight home games. ORLANDO (83) Harris 3-15 2-4 9, Frye 1-4 0-0 2, Vucevic 9-23 2-2 20, Oladipo 7-11 0-0 20, Fournier 5-8 0-0 13, Nicholson 0-3 0-0 0, Gordon 6-9 0-0 14, Hezonja 1-2 0-0 3, Napier 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 33-83 4-6 83. BROOKLYN (77) Johnson 5-12 0-0 13, Young 5-7 1-2 11, Lopez 6-15 5-8 17, Larkin 5-8 1-2 12, Bogdanovic 0-6 2-2 2, Ellington 3-7 0-0 8, Reed 1-2 0-0 2, Sloan 1-4 0-2 3, Robinson 3-8 0-0 6, Brown 0-4 3-4 3. Totals 29-73 12-20 77. Orlando 26 11 23 23—83 Brooklyn 17 21 24 15—77 Three-Point Goals-Orlando 13-27 (Oladipo 6-8, Fournier 3-6, Gordon 2-3, Hezonja 1-1, Harris 1-4, Nicholson 0-2, Frye 0-3), Brooklyn 7-22 (Johnson 3-7, Ellington 2-4, Sloan 1-2, Larkin 1-4, Brown 0-2, Bogdanovic 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Orlando 53 (Harris 12), Brooklyn 51 (Young 9). Assists-Orlando 25 (Harris 8), Brooklyn 17 (Sloan 5). Total FoulsOrlando 22, Brooklyn 14. A-13,907 (17,732).

Spurs 100, Knicks 99 San Antonio — Kawhi Leonard had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and San Antonio held off New York to remain undefeated at home. San Antonio won its franchise-record 22nd straight home game to open the season, but this was its most difficult victory yet. NEW YORK (99) Anthony 5-15 8-10 20, Porzingis 11-21 3-4 28, Lopez 6-13 0-0 12, Calderon 2-9 0-0 4, Afflalo 3-8 0-0 8, Thomas 4-9 0-0 10, Galloway 5-9 1-1 11, Grant 2-4 2-2 6, Williams 0-3 0-0 0, O’Quinn 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-91 14-17 99. SAN ANTONIO (100) Leonard 8-19 3-4 19, Aldridge 8-17 0-0 16, Duncan 3-5 1-2 7, Parker 7-16 2-2 16, Green 3-9 0-0 8, Ginobili 6-12 2-2 16, Mills 0-1 2-2 2, Diaw 3-6 2-2 8, West 2-6 2-2 6, Simmons 1-2 0-1 2. Totals 41-93 14-17 100. New York 30 19 25 25 — 99 San Antonio 26 26 27 21—100 Three-Point Goals-New York 9-21 (Porzingis 3-7, Afflalo 2-3, Anthony 2-3, Thomas 2-3, Galloway 0-1, Grant 0-1, Calderon 0-1, Williams 0-2), San Antonio 4-13 (Green 2-3, Ginobili 2-5, Mills 0-1, Parker 0-2, Leonard 0-2). ReboundsNew York 52 (Anthony 12), San Antonio 59 (Leonard 12). Assists-New York 19 (Calderon 5), San Antonio 23 (Parker 8). Total Fouls-New York 14, San Antonio 16. A-18,420 (18,797).

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9, 209 33, 233 5, 13, 205,213

Heat 103, Suns 95 Phoenix — Dwyane Wade scored 27 points, and Miami beat Phoenix for the 11th straight time. Former Suns guard Goran Dragic added 22 points, and Gerald Green, also a former Sun, had 21. They were returning to Phoenix for the first time as opposing players.

MIAMI (103) Deng 3-6 4-4 10, Bosh 5-11 2-3 14, Whiteside 2-8 1-2 5, Dragic 8-15 3-4 22, Wade 9-14 9-10 27, Winslow 2-4 0-0 4, Green 7-11 5-7 21, Johnson 0-3 0-0 0, Stoudemire 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-73 24-30 103. PHOENIX (95) Tucker 2-7 1-2 5, Leuer 4-9 0-0 9, Chandler 4-7 0-0 8, Knight 11-24 3-3 26, Booker 6-17 3-4 16, Goodwin 4-6 1-2 9, Len 2-5 1-2 5, Warren 1-6 0-0 2, Morris 1-3 0-0 2, Teletovic 5-8 0-0 13. Totals 40-92 9-13 95. Miami 21 32 24 26—103 Phoenix 20 20 33 22 — 95 Three-Point Goals-Miami 7-18 (Dragic 3-5, Bosh 2-4, Green 2-5, Deng 0-1, Winslow 0-1, Johnson 0-2), Phoenix 6-24 (Teletovic 3-6, Leuer 1-2, Knight 1-6, Booker 1-7, Warren 0-1, Tucker 0-2). Rebounds-Miami 45 (Winslow 10), Phoenix 54 (Tucker 11). Assists-Miami 23 (Dragic 7), Phoenix 15 (Knight, Goodwin 4). Total Fouls-Miami 13, Phoenix 22. TechnicalsPhoenix defensive three second 2. A-16,866 (18,055).

Warriors 128, Blazers 108 Portland, Ore. — Klay Thompson scored 36 points, making seven three-pointers, and Golden State beat Portland. GOLDEN STATE (128) Rush 8-9 0-0 20, Green 4-6 3-4 11, Bogut 2-2 1-2 5, Curry 8-18 6-6 26, K.Thompson 13-22 3-4 36, Iguodala 0-1 2-2 2, Speights 4-7 0-0 8, Livingston 2-7 1-1 5, Barnes 2-10 2-2 7, Clark 2-3 0-0 6, Ezeli 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 46-87 18-21 128. PORTLAND (108) Aminu 3-5 1-2 8, Vonleh 0-3 0-0 0, Plumlee 2-8 3-4 7, Lillard 12-27 10-12 40, McCollum 7-23 0-0 17, Harkless 1-3 2-4 5, Leonard 2-4 0-0 5, Crabbe 8-14 2-2 18, Davis 2-3 1-2 5, Henderson 0-3 1-2 1, Connaughton 1-2 0-0 2, Frazier 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-96 20-28 108. Golden State 38 36 32 22—128 Portland 21 31 35 21—108 Three-Point Goals-Golden State 18-32 (K.Thompson 7-10, Rush 4-4, Curry 4-11, Clark 2-2, Barnes 1-3, Green 0-2), Portland 12-33 (Lillard 6-15, McCollum 3-7, Leonard 1-1, Harkless 1-2, Aminu 1-3, Connaughton 0-1, Crabbe 0-4). Rebounds-Golden State 55 (Green 13), Portland 55 (Aminu, Davis 7). AssistsGolden State 36 (Green 10), Portland 21 (Lillard 10). Total Fouls-Golden State 20, Portland 17. A-20,035 (19,980).

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4 p.m. BTN 147,237

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Chiefs looking to end playoff woes Houston (ap) — The previous time the Kansas City Chiefs won a playoff game, Bill Clinton was president, and Tonya Harding’s ex-husband had just been arrested for hiring someone to attack figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. Kansas City (11-5) has lost eight postseason games since that win over the Oilers in Houston on Jan. 16, 1994, and will return to the city to face the Texans today in the wild-card round, looking to snap this lengthy skid. The Chiefs, who have won a franchise-record 10 straight games, insist they won’t be thinking about their years of playoffs woes when they line up to meet the AFC South champion Texans. “I don’t think this team’s carrying that weight, to be honest,” quarterback Alex Smith said. “Those were the other 22 years and 22 teams. This is us.” So instead of thinking

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every game we play, every team is going to give us their best shot. We’ve got to go there and compete.” Veteran coach Smith, 64, would love to take the Raiders to the NCAAs for the first time since 2007. A win over KU, of course, would help the cause greatly. “The difference has been that we’re more experienced,” Smith told the Lubbock AvalancheJournal. “Devaugntah and Toddrick are really stepping up and giving us quality minutes. We don’t really have an All-American player that can step up and put the ball in the basket, although Devaugntah is showing that.” Smith added: “Last year we had five freshmen in the program. We have four sophomores not playing a lot of minutes — Justin Gray (forward 7.3 ppg), Zach Smith, Norense Odiase and Keenan Evans (guard, 8.5 ppg). We’re very fortunate to have those young men that believe in the program. We’re building a good bench. That’s always important.” Back-to-back home wins over Texas and KU would certainly be two of the most impressive performances in recent Tech history. “I think we can be as good as we want to be,” Smith, whose team went 13-19 a year ago, told the Dallas Morning News. l

Assist-to-TO ratio: Texas Tech, which averages 76.2 ppg and allows 66.1, has totaled 178 assists to 156 turnovers. “We made it an emphasis in the offseason, developing better ballhandling and getting to the line,” Smith said. “Assist-to-turnover ratio is always probably one of the major factors in winning a basketball game. The team with the least amount of turnovers is usually going to end up winning the game. We’ve gotten stronger. We’re limiting who is handling the ball. All those ingredients have been the reasons why we are taking care of the ball and having a better assist-toturnover ratio.” l

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I don’t think this team’s carrying that weight, to be honest. Those were the other 22 years and 22 teams. This is us.” — Kansas City quarterback Alex Smith, on the Chiefs’ playoff drought about playoff failures that include Lin Elliott’s three field-goal misses against Indianapolis in 1995 and the 28-point lead they blew against the Colts two years ago, they’re simply focusing on the challenge of dealing with Houston. “Since 1-5, it’s been a playoff atmosphere,” Kansas City linebacker Derrick Johnson said. “It was kind of a win or go home type deal. We’ve been winning for 10 weeks straight — that doesn’t guarantee us an 11th win, but we do have some momentum ... (but) we have to play our best game if we’re going to win in Houston.” The Texans are perhaps this season’s most improbable playoff team

after winning seven of their last nine games to rebound from a terrible start to finish 9-7 and return to the postseason for the first time since 2012. They did it with four different quarterbacks and after losing running back Arian Foster to a season-ending Achilles tendon injury in October. Houston received a boost from a defense led by NFL sack leader J.J. Watt that finished strong, allowing a league-best 12.7 points a game in its last nine games. Today’s game will be the season’s second meeting after a 27-20 win by the Chiefs in the opener. “We were down 27-9 in the first half. That’s not going to win any play-

off games,” coach Bill O’Brien said of that first meeting. “I think we have to look at it to learn from some of the things we did there. But ... we have to make sure we know both teams are very different.” Savoring the moment: Houston’s youngest player, 21-year-old rookie receiver Jaelen Strong, knows to appreciate being in the playoffs because there’s no guarantee of returning. If he wasn’t already savoring the moment, he was reminded to do so by the story of 39-year-old punter Shane Lechler, who hasn’t been to the postseason since 2002 with the Oakland Raiders. Strong was in elementary school that year. “As a rookie, I just want to do what they tell me to do, do my job and work as hard as I can because I know there are guys that haven’t been to the playoffs since I was probably like 8 years old,” Strong said.

CHIEFS-TEXANS CAPSULE KANSAS CITY (11-5) at HOUSTON (9-7) 3:35 p.m. today, ABC/ESPN (WOW! channels 9, 209, 33, 233) LINE — Chiefs by 3 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Chiefs 8-8, Texans 9-7 SERIES RECORD — Chiefs lead 4-3 LAST MEETING — Chiefs beat Texans 27-20, Sept. 13, 2015 LAST WEEK — Chiefs beat Raiders 23-17; Texans beat Jaguars 30-6 AP PRO32 RANKING — Chiefs No. 3, Texans No. 12 CHIEFS OFFENSE — OVERALL (27), RUSH (6), PASS (30). CHIEFS DEFENSE — OVERALL (7), RUSH (8), PASS (9). TEXANS OFFENSE — OVERALL (19), RUSH (15), PASS (18). TEXANS DEFENSE — OVERALL (3), RUSH (10), PASS (3). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Chiefs look for first playoff win since 1994. They have won franchise-record 10 straight games, longest current streak in NFL. ... QB Alex Smith has thrown for 873 yards with nine touchdowns and no interceptions in three career playoff games. ...

Smith is 3-0 against Texans as starter. ... WR Jeremy Maclin set franchise record with career-high 87 catches for 1,088 yards and eight touchdowns. ... TE Travis Kelce had career-high 72 catches to join Tony Gonzalez as only Kansas City tight ends with 70 or more receptions in single season. Kelce had six receptions for season-high 102 yards with two touchdowns in first meeting with Houston. ... Rookie CB Marcus Peters tied for first in NFL with eight interceptions and had two interception returns for touchdowns. Peters led NFL with franchise-record 280 interception return yards. ... LB Justin Houston has 22 1/2 sacks, four forced fumbles and two interceptions in his last 21 games. He is expected to return today after missing last five games with knee injury. ... LB Tamba Hali had 6 1/2 sacks to give him 86 in career, ranking second in franchise history. ... Houston won AFC South for third time and first since 2012. ... Saturday will be third playoff appearance in franchise history. Texans are 2-0 at home in postseason. ... QB Brian Hoyer, who threw for a career-high 19 TDs in 2015, will make playoff debut.

Kansas University vs. Texas Tech Probable Starters KANSAS (13-1, 2-0) F — Perry Ellis (6-8, Sr.) F — Hunter Mickelson (6-10, Sr.) G — Frank Mason III (5-11, Jr.) G — Wayne Selden Jr. (6-5, Jr.) G — Devonté Graham (6-2, Soph.)

TEXAS TECH (11-2, 1-1) F — Zach Smith (6-8, Soph.) C —Norense Odiase (6-9, Soph.) G — Devaugntah Williams (6-4, Sr.) G — Keenan Evans (63, Soph.) G — Toddrick Gotcher (6-4, Sr.)

Tipoff: 8 p.m. today, United Supermarkets Arena, Lubbock, Texas. TV: ESPNU (WOW! channels 35, 235).

Rosters KANSAS 0 — Frank Mason III, 5-11, 185, Jr., G, Petersburg, Virginia. 1 — Wayne Selden, Jr., 6-5, 230, Jr., G, Roxbury, Massachusetts. 2 — Lagerald Vick, 6-5, 175, Fr., G, Memphis. 4 — Devonté Graham, 6-2, 175, Soph., G, Raleigh, North Carolina. 5 — Evan Manning, 6-3, 170, Sr., G, Lawrence. 10 — Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, 6-8, 195, Soph., G, Cherkasy, Ukraine. 11 — Tyler Self, 6-2, 165, Jr., G, Lawrence. 13 — Cheick Diallo, 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Kayes, Mali, Africa. 14 — Brannen Greene, 6-7, 215, Jr., G, Juliette, Georgia. 15 — Carlton Bragg, Jr., 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Cleveland. 21 — Clay Young, 6-5, 205, Soph., F, Lansing. 22 — Dwight Coleby, 6-9, 240, Jr., F, Nassau, Bahamas. 31 — Jamari Traylor, 6-8, 220, Sr., F, Chicago. 33 — Landen Lucas, 6-10, 240, Jr., F, Portland, Oregon. 34 — Perry Ellis, 6-8, 225, Sr., F, Wichita. 42 — Hunter Mickelson, 6-10, 245, Sr., F, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Head coach: Bill Self. Assistants: Kurtis Townsend, Norm Roberts, Jerrance Howard.

In that game, Gotcher had 18 points, Williams 23. “When they are clicking, both playing like that, we’re tough to beat,” Smith said. l

Weather delay: The Jayhawks’ charter flight to Lubbock was delayed because of weather problems Friday night. The 150-seat MD-80 aircraft, which originally was slated to depart Topeka Regional Airport with the Jayhawks on board at 7:30 p.m., actually took off at 10:10 p.m. The plane was late in arriving to Topeka from a city with winterweather concerns, KU officials were told. The Jayhawks landed in Lubbock at 11:17 p.m.

Confident bunch: The win over Texas has really boosted the Raiders’ confidence. “It’s huge,” Gotcher told the Avalanche-Journal. “You see we’re coming together. It’s a new millennium for Texas Tech basketball. I’ve been l here so long. I’m happy to This, that: Tech is 9-0 at see things turn around.” home this season. ... Smith

TEXAS TECH 0 — Devaugntah Williams, 6-4, 205, Sr., G, Canton, Ohio. 2 — Devon Thomas, 6-0, 170, Jr., G, Silver Springs, Maryland. 3 — C.J. Williamson, 6-6, 200, Fr., G, Orlando, Florida. 4 — Donovan Ham, 6-2, 200, Fr., G, Atlanta. 5 — Justin Gray, 6-6, 210, Soph., F, Tampa, Florida. 11 — Zach Smith, 6-8, 215, Soph., F, Plano, Texas. 12 — Keenan Evans, 6-3, 180, Soph., G, Richardson, Texas. 15 — Aaron Ross, 6-8, 225, Jr., F, North Little Rock, Arkansas. 20 — Toddrick Gotcher, 6-4, 205, Sr., G, Garland, Texas. 21 — Rokas Ulvydas, 6-11, 235, Soph., F, Kaunas, Lithuania. 22 — Jordan Jackson, 6-3, 180, Fr., G, Houston. 30 — Andrew Sorrells, 6-3, 170, Fr., G, North Richland Hills, Texas. 32 — Norense Odiase, 6-9, 260, Soph., C Fort Worth, Texas. 34 — Matthew Temple, 6-10, 235, Jr., F, Wichita Falls, Texas. Head coach: Tubby Smith. Assistants: Joe Esposito, Vince Taylor, Pooh Williamson.

is 38-39 in his third season at Tech and 549-265 in his 25th season overall. ... KU is 11-4 against Tech in games played in Lubbock, including a 7-3 record in United Supermarkets Arena. ... Since the inception of the Big 12 Conference in 1997, KU is 22-4 against Tech; 19-4 in regular-season matchups and 3-0 in league tourney meetings. ... The first meeting between the two schools took place in Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 7, 1959, an 85-71 KU victory. ... Self is 16-6 alltime against Texas Tech, including 15-3 while at KU. Smith is 2-7 versus KU, 0-4 while at TTU. ... KU has won 12 straight games, longest streak since the 2012-13 squad won 18 in a row. ... KU is 6-2 under Self as the No. 1 team in the country.

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LAWRENCE HIGH BOWLER MIRANDA KROM completes a game of 237 during the Free State Invitational on Friday at Royal Crest Lanes.

Lawrence High bowlers claim tournament title By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Lawrence High’s girls bowling team didn’t forget the runner-up finishes at the Free State Invitational over the past two seasons. When the Lions advanced to the finals of the Baker-formatted match play, they knew they weren’t going to let another opportunity slip away. The Lions won the 18-team tournament at Royal Crest Lanes on Friday, defeating Washburn Rural in the championship. After rolling a threegame series, the tournament went to the Baker format, where five teammates alternate bowling toward one score. In match play, two schools went head-to-head in a best-of-three series. The Lions saved their best for last. They rolled five straight strikes in the first championship game against Washburn Rural for a 214-157 win. They won the second game for the title, 178-150. “I’m really happy,” said Diamonique Vann, who was ninth overall during the three-game series before match play. “Last year I didn’t get to have this experience because I was on JV. Now that I’m on varsity, it’s a really great accomplishment.” LHS junior Morgan Daniels was eighth overall, rolling a 587 series, and senior Miranda Krom took 14th with a 563 series. “I’m very happy for them because right now you’ve got the team bonding going on,” LHS coach Paula Bastemeyer said, “which at this time of the season is fabulous. Usually that comes in at the big tournaments at the end.” The Lions were the top seed for match play after knocking down 3,450 pins

FREE STATE BOWLER GENTRY JORDAN celebrates after rolling a strike Friday at Royal Crest Lanes. in their three-game series and six Baker games prior to match play with Vann, Daniels, Krom, Holly Evans, Izzy Schmidtberger and Hannah Reed. In the first two rounds of match play, the Lions split the first two games before cruising to wins in the third and final game. “We feed off each other a lot,” Vann said. “When someone strikes, that just builds everyone’s confidence.” The Firebirds fell short of eight-team knockout rounds, finishing in 11th place with 2,792 pins during the qualifying period. Senior Gentry Jordan was 23rd overall with a 532 three-game series. “I feel like I could’ve done better individually,” Jordan said. “As a team, with Baker bowl, we didn’t do too hot.” Senior Jamie Souders knocked down 504 pins during her three-game series, and freshman Sydney Jordan rolled a 451. “We definitely thought we should’ve made match play,” FSHS coach Burton Gepford said. “But the girls know what they did wrong, and we know what to look forward to at our next tournament.”

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Free State Invitational Friday at Royal Crest Lanes Three-game series Varsity team scores: Washburn Rural 2318, Olathe North 2311, Lawrence 2302, Topeka Seaman 2246, Shawnee Heights 2204, St. James 2034, Topeka West 1976, SM Northwest 1966, SM West 1934, Topeka 1932, Free State 1922, SM North 1721, Mill Valley 1654, Topeka Hayden 1641, Atchison 1616, Highland Park 1514, BV West 1467. Junior Varsity team scores: Olathe North 1573, Lawrence 1572, Shawnee Heights 1558, Washburn Rural 1511, St. James 1477, Topeka Seaman 1438, Mill Valley 1432, Free State 1428, Topeka West 1374, SM West 1353, SM Northwest 1322, Topeka 1287, SM North 1263, Topeka Hayden 1079, Atchison 1069, BV West 1065, Highland Park 808. Lawrence High varsity: 8. Morgan Daniels, 133-237-217 — 587; 9. Diamonique Vann, 180-184-214 — 578; 14. Miranda Krom, 150-237-176 — 563; Holly Evans, 191-157-160 — 508; Izzy Schmidtberger, 123-175-178 — 476; Hannah Reed, 163-105-153 — 421. Free State varsity: 23. Gentry Jordan, 157-188-187 — 532; Jamie Souders, 177172-155 — 504; Sydney Jordan, 147133-171 — 451; Brianna Burenheide, 142-135-146 — 423; Morgan Wright, 122-128-158 — 408; Ashley Givens, 135112-149 — 396. Lawrence High JV: 4. Renea McNemee, 105-157-161 — 423; 5. Carli Stellwagon, 138-94-190-422; Ashley Dykes, 99-113-135 — 347; Sofia Rommel, 109-115-115 — 339; Kira Auchenbach, 113-108-109 — 330; Sierra Magdaleno, 118-83-113 — 314. Free State JV: 3. Hailey Jump, 123144-162 — 429; 12. Sapphie Knight, 127-124-138 — 389; Mamie Rupnick, 116-76-111 — 303; Lexie Lockwood, 83-104-93 — 280; Raegan Finkeldei, 110-71-86 — 267; Baily Murphy, 70-4957 — 176.

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SEABURY SOPHOMORE ZACH MCDERMOTT, LEFT, STEPS IN FRONT of Veritas junior Kalim Dowdell for a steal during Seabury’s 76-73 victory Friday at Corpus Christi Church.

Seabury boys hold off Eagles By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Bishop Seabury Academy’s boys basketball players were looking for a challenge on Friday, and Veritas Christian gave them everything they could handle. After winning three games by double digits before winter break, the Seahawks knew there would be nothing easy in a rivalry game, surviving for a 76-73 victory over Veritas at Corpus Christi. “We needed a dog fight, and that’s what they gave us,” Seabury coach Ashley Battles said after his team improved to 4-0. Like a heavyweight prize fight that goes the distance and both sides raise their arms up at the final bell, both schools fought through the momentum swings and refused to back down. The Eagles (6-4) rallied from a 10-point deficit with under three minutes left. Senior forward Kalim Dowdell started the spurt with a putback. More than a minute later, junior Michael Rask dropped in a floater, and senior Miles Dressler and Dowdell drained threepointers on back-to-back possessions, cutting the score to 74-73 with 33 seconds remaining. After a missed free throw by Seabury, Rask tried another floater from the middle of the paint, which bounced off of the rim and into the arms of Dressler, who was under the left side of the hoop.

Dressler tried an up-andunder layup, but the ball hung on the rim for seemingly an eternity before it dropped into the arms of Seabury sophomore Thomas diZerega. “Extremely proud of our effort,” Veritas coach Carl Huslig said. “Proud of the way we played the last three minutes. I feel like we won the game.” The Seahawks (ranked No. 6 in Class 2A) looked unstoppable in the first quarter, drilling threepointers over Veritas’ 1-22 zone defense. Sophomore point guard Zach McDermott had four of his game-high six assists in the period, while junior guard Mikey Wycoff scored nine points. The Eagles led for only eight seconds in the contest, 32-30, on a threepointer from Rask. “Our team just competes, and sometimes I think we’re just better off when we go down 10-0,” Carl Huslig said. “What I really like about my team is we can be down no matter how much, and we’ll make a game out of it at the end.”

Piper said of her teammates’ defensive intensity and work on the glass. “Everyone just kind of played hard and found their shot, and we were getting great looks.” Peyton Brown (6), Hannah Walter (4) and Jaelyn Two Hearts (4) joined Thomas and Piper to lead the Free State rebounding effort. And in the early going, before Piper found her stroke from the outside, Two Hearts drilled three three-pointers to kickstart the Firebirds offensively. Duncan said those extra contributions, from rebounding to defense and a handful of intangibles, allowed Free State to be a more complete team. “We certainly know that Madison’s going to lead us in scoring,” he said. “But we’ve talked a lot about how we can’t just expect to go out and have her outscore teams. It just doesn’t work that way. And it’s been a lot of fun watching everybody else kind of find their happy places offensively.” Jaycie Bishop (7) and Caiti Schlesener (3) rounded out the scoring from Free State’s regular rotation, and Caroline Patton’s bucket inside in the final minute highlighted the contributions from the final few players on the FSHS bench, as Erin Cushing, Ny McAdoo, Molly Murray and Calli Bowen joined Patton in finishing off the Eagles. Asked what she thought of the Free State subs closing things out, Thomas, one more time, demonstrated her unselfish demeanor. “It was the best part of the game,” she said.

Free State boys on fire vs. O-North By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Generally speaking, a coach knows it was a pretty good night when he looks down at the box score after a game and sees that four of his players missed just one shot apiece. That was the good fortune heaped upon firstyear Free State High boys basketball coach Sam Stroh on Friday night, when seniors Hunter Gudde and Chrision Wilburn paced the Firebirds to 58 percent shooting during a 54-41 victory over visiting Olathe North. Gudde, who led all scorers with 20 points, finished 7-of-8 from the floor and made all five of his free throws. Wilburn, whose 6-foot-3 frame and incredible athleticism makes layups a breeze, made eight of the nine shots he attempted, and fellow starters Kristian Rawls and Jacob Pavlyak also each missed just one field-goal attempt while pushing Free State to 4-1 with a hard-fought victory over O-North, which shot just 29 percent. “We don’t really take stupid shots,” said Gudde, asked if the hot night was characteristic of his team. Added Wilburn: “When we can shoot like that, we’re pretty dangerous.”

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Playing in a full-court press, Veritas Christian’s girls basketball team makes full use of its lineup filled with quick and athletic guards. The Eagles trap ballhandlers along the sidelines, fill passing lanes and speed up their opponents to an uncomfortable pace. Once they cause turnovers, they quickly race to the offensive end to turn them into points. The defensive pressure worked like a charm against Bishop Seabury Academy, and the Eagles cruised to a 63-42 victory on Friday at Corpus Christi. In the first seven minutes, the Eagles raced to a 19-2 lead by forcing six turnovers and turning them into layups. Starters Nefetiti Shepherd, Alyssa Krestan, Chloe Holland and Tori Huslig each finished with multiple steals. “It’s very difficult to counter speed,” Veritas coach Kevin Shelton said. “When we have good speed on the floor, it creates a lot of opportunities for us to get a lot of steals and easy looks at the basket. That’s what we want.” The Seahawks (2-2)

The focus for Free State was to start fast and never let up. Wilburn made sure that happened. The senior scored six of his 16 points in the opening quarter, and Gudde added five, included three on a threepoint play that started with a steal and ended with a display of pure power, to push the Firebirds to a 12-7 first-quarter lead. The lead grew to 21-11 midway through the second quarter before O-North ripped off a 7-0 run that pulled the Eagles within three. But a late three-pointer from Gudde in the far corner gave the Firebirds a sixpoint halftime lead and helped the home team keep the visitors at a safe distance the rest of the night. “Coach really wanted us to fight through that first four minutes with a lot of energy and get off to a great start, and I thought we did that,” Wilburn said. “It’s a lot of fun fighting and competing like that.” At halftime, the talk shifted from starting fast to finishing. Free State has struggled to close teams out, and Stroh said he was still trying to teach his players — many of whom are inexperienced when it comes to varsity minutes — how to have that killer instinct to put teams away.

Thanks to a full-court press by O-North that forced the Firebirds to attack, that was not a problem Friday. Free State scored 20 points in the final quarter and never let Olathe North trim the FSHS lead to fewer than five points. “I liked the way we finished,” Stroh said. “We’re a good team right now, and we think we can be a great team, but we still have a long way to go.” Asked if he saw any extra spark in the eyes of his players in the locker room following Friday night’s feel-good victory, Stroh smiled and said, “Not yet.” “That’s a good team we just beat by double figures,” he added. “But we know there’s a lot of room for us to improve, and I just told the guys after the game, ‘As long as we keep working to get better, we’re headed in the right direction.’” FREE STATE BOYS (54) Kristian Rawls 1-2 2-2 4, Chrision Wilburn 8-9 0-0 16, Sloan Thomsen 0-4 0-0 0, Jacob Pavlyak 2-4 1-2 5, Hunter Gudde 7-8 5-5 20, Shannon Cordes 2-5 0-0 4, Darian Lewis 0-0 0-0 0, Drew Tochtrop 2-4 0-0 5, Simon McCaffrey 0-0 0-0 0, Reece White-Downing 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-38 8-9 54. OLATHE NORTH (41) Storey Jackson 0-2 1-2 1, Danny Baker 1-6 0-0 3, Alonzo Williams 5-16 7-9 17, Kenny Byers 2-4 1-2 5, RJ Smith 6-20 1-2 13, Haran Thompkins 1-1 0-2 2, Jake Campbell 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 15-51 10-17 41. Olathe North 7 11 7 16 — 41 Free State 12 12 10 20 — 54 Three-point goals: Free State 2-8 (Gudde, Tochtrop 1 each); O-North 1-13 (Baker). Turnovers: Free State 15, O-North 7.

O-South holds off LHS girls By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

Olathe — For long stretches Friday night, Lawrence High’s girls BISHOP SEABURY (76) Mikey Wycoff 7-14 8-9 23, Zach basketball team looked McDermott 7-18 1-5 16, Thomas Uhler like it had the kind of size 5-7 0-1 10, Bansi King 6-9 0-0 16, Austin and defensive effort to go Gaumer 0-1 0-0 0, Thomas diZerega 3-4 2-2 8, Max Easter 1-3 0-0 3. Totals toe-to-toe with perennial 29-56 11-17 76. Sunflower League powerVERITAS CHRISTIAN (73) Weston Flory 3-4 0-0 6, Chad Stieben house Olathe South. 6-14 2-4 14, Miles Dressler 7-10 0-0 The Lions outscored 15, Kalim Dowdell 6-12 4-10 17, Mark Weinhold 1-7 0-0 2, Trey Huslig 5-10 the Falcons in the sec0-1 14, Michael Rask 2-3 0-0 5. Totals ond and third quarters, 30-60 6-15 73. Seabury 27 12 23 14 — 76 with sophomore E’lease Veritas 17 19 14 23 — 73 Stafford, freshman ChiThree-point goals: Seabury 7-18 som Ajekwu and senior (King 4, Wycoff, McDermott, Easter); Veritas 7-19 (Huslig 4, Dressler, Alexis Boyd often botherDowdell, Rask). Turnovers: Seabury ing their foes inside. But 11, Veritas 19. a fourth-quarter lapse cost LHS the chance at a marquee victory, and OSouth prevailed, 44-32. Lawrence’s defense didn’t suffer a letdown in the fourth quarter, when the Lions held the Falcons to 1-for-9 shooting. But the visitors’ eight turnovers in the final eight minutes led to a fourpoint fourth, after LHS closed the third trailing by four points. Second-year Lawrence coach Jeff Dickson witnessed his team win the second quarter, 13-9, and the third, 9-6, meaning he couldn’t quite believe his eyes when the Lions (4-4) John Young/Journal-World Photo only made two baskets in the fourth and finished VERITAS JUNIOR NEFERTITI SHEPHERD (3) SWIPES THE BALL the game with 25 turnfrom Seabury junior Kayleigh Boos during Veritas’ 63-42 overs. victory Friday at Corpus Christi Church. “Surprised would not be a good word to detook time to adjust to the pick up any momentum scribe it,” Dickson said. full-court pressure be- for a potential comeback. “When O-South went to fore their offense found “You can’t let up on their delay game that eara rhythm. Senior guard Seabury,” said Holland, Regan Zaremba scored a who scored a team-high game-high 19 points, driv- 16 points. “They are a ing to the rim for layups good, aggressive team. and knocking down a pair It was great to get that of threes. Junior Kayleigh lead.” Boos added 11 points and BISHOP SEABURY (42) eight rebounds, and juCelia Taylor-Puckett 3-10 2-7 8, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C Zaremba 8-21 2-3 19, Tanisha nior guard Celia Taylor- Regan Kaur 1-5 0-0 2, Kayleigh Boos 4-12 Puckett had eight points 3-3 11, Peggie Zeng 0-2 0-0 0, Allison warrior. I’m not sure we Eckert 1-1 0-0 2, Enni Huang 0-0 0-0 0, subbed him, and his moand six rebounds. Cavan McCabe 0-0 0-0 0, Hilary Griggs tor was running tonight. However, the Eagles 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-51 6-13 42. We needed it with Price (6-3) never slowed down VERITAS CHRISTIAN (63) Nefertiti Shepherd 4-8 0-0 8, Alyssa after their quick start. Af- Krestan 5-8 0-1 10, Emma Wilson 3-4 being gone.” Junior center Kobe ter the Seahawks pulled 1-2 7, Chloe Holland 8-18 0-0 16, Tori 5-15 3-4 13, Merav Edmonson 0-0 started in within 11 points in the Huslig 0-0 0, Nefetari Shepherd 0-0 0-0 0, Holly Buffalomeat second quarter, Veritas Scott 3-6 0-0 7, Delaeny Shelton 0-3 0-0 Morgan’s absence and Allison Swisher 1-1 0-0 2, Katelyn never let the score get 0,Hammer 0-0 0-0 0, Alison Tichenor 0-0 provided a pair of easy 0-0 0, Ashley Stieben 0-3 0-0 0, Alexis buckets as well as four any closer. 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-66 4-7 63. rebounds. In the second Despite the early Avila Seabury 8 12 9 13 — 42 23 11 23 5 — 63 half, freshman Noah But17-point lead, the Eagles Veritas Three-point goals: Seabury 2-10 never wanted to allow (Zaremba 2); Veritas 1-6 (Scott). ler came in off the bench, blocked a shot and scored their in-town rivals to Turnovers: Seabury 25, Veritas 16. FREE STATE (57) Cameryn Thomas 3-6 0-0 6, Jaycie Bishop 3-7 0-0 7, Madison Piper 9-19 0-0 22, Hannah Walter 0-3 1-2 1, Jaelyn Two Hearts 4-7 0-0 11, Caiti Schlesener 1-5 0-0 3, Peyton Brown 2-6 0-0 4, Erin Cushing 0-0 1-2 1, Ny McAdoo 0-1 0-0 0, Molly Murray 0-1 0-0 0, Caroline Patton 1-1 0-0 2, Calli Bowen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-56 2-4 57. OLATHE NORTH (27) Jaida Kenana 0-3 3-4 3, Lexy Watts 2-12 0-0 4, Hope Watts 1-3 0-0 2, Quintella Neal 5-13 0-0 13, Maya Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0, Diana Langat 1-4 0-0 2, Sireen Kenana 0-1 0-0 0, Leyanna McGinnis 0-0 3-4 3, Audrey Burks 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 9-36 6-8 27. Olathe North 6 10 6 5 — 27 Free State 14 11 15 17 — 57 Three-point goals: Free State 9-20 (Piper 4, Two Hearts 3, Bishop, Schlesener 1 each); O-North 3-10 (Neal 3). Turnovers: Free State 9, O-North 16.

Veritas girls hound BSA By Bobby Nightengale

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LAWRENCE HIGH’S GRACIE REINSCH (23) FIGHTS FOR A REBOUND in the Lions’ 44-32 loss Friday at Olathe South. ly, we lost our composure a little bit for a 90-second stretch, and when we did get stops, some of our young guards got a little too excited. O-South is an incredibly poised and well-coached, experienced team. And that made all the difference in those final moments. But we will get there, and we took a huge step in that direction tonight.” Although LHS didn’t have enough offense (15for-39 shooting, 38.5 percent) to pull off an upset, its defense left Dickson feeling good about the weeks ahead. O-South made just 13 of 47 shots (27.7 percent). “Our team ‘D’ was what we have been build-

ing toward since day one last year,” the coach said. “Our girls battled and fought and scrapped with tremendous team defense. I could not be more proud of a group than I was of our kids tonight. They were sensational.”

five points in the fourth quarter, as LHS closed out its win. “Everyone that got in stepped up,” Mallory said. “Most teams don’t have that. We have seven to nine guys that can step in any night, be that man, score four to six points, do the little things like defense and rebound for us.” Lawrence held O-South to 18-for-49 shooting, too, but the team’s depth impressed Lewis. “That’s a sign of a good basketball team,” the coach said, “when you can balance it and they

were obviously really physical with Justin and going after him, and we made the extra pass and played as a team.”

LAWRENCE (32) Hannah Stewart 1-5 0-1 2, Olivia Lemus 0-2 0-1 0, Skylar Drum 0-0 0-0 0, E’lease Stafford 5-10 1-2 11, Chisom Ajekwu 3-5 1-3 7, Alexis Boyd 4-7 0-0 8, Emma Bentzinger 1-1 0-0 2, Gracie Reinsch 0-0 0-0 0, Talima Harjo 1-7 0-0 2, Lesle Ostronic 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 15-39 2-7 32. OLATHE SOUTH (44) Kaiti Butaud 0-5 0-0 0, Kala Holder 2-7 2-2 6, Zoe Matje 1-5 0-1 2, Kacey Kennett 4-10 7-10 17, DeJanae Roebuck 5-12 3-4 13, Lindsey Bartels 1-5 1-2 3, Makayla Gooch 0-3 3-6 3. Totals 13-47 16-25 44. Lawrence 6 13 9 4 — 32 O-South 17 9 6 12 — 44 Three-point goals: LHS 0-2; O-South 2-12 (Kennett 2). Fouled out: LHS: Boyd. Turnovers: LHS 25, O-South 7.

LAWRENCE (62) Justin Roberts 5-14 4-5 14, Fred Brou 3-6 8-10 14, Anthony Harvey 3-5 2-4 9, Jackson Mallory 5-7 2-2 14, Kobe Buffalomeat 2-4 0-0 4, Braden Solko 0-1 0-0 0, Austin Miller 0-0 2-2 2, Noah Butler 2-4 1-1 5. Totals 20-41 19-24 62. OLATHE SOUTH (50) Nic Slavin 4-17 2-2 12, Mat Baldeh 2-5 2-4 7, Zack Fields 7-12 3-4 19, Brian Sullivan 2-6 1-1 5, Jake Gardner 0-1 0-0 0, Shane Sweany 0-2 0-0 0, Tre Adger 3-6 1-4 7. Totals 18-49 9-15 50. Lawrence 13 14 13 22 — 62 O-South 11 8 10 21 — 50 Three-point goals: LHS 3-9 (Mallory 2, Harvey); O-South 5-12 (Slavin 2, Fields 2, Baldeh). Fouled out: LHS: Buffalomeat; O-South: Baldeh, Fields. Turnovers: LHS 8, O-South 5.

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KU WOMEN’S HOOPS AT A GLANCE When: 7 p.m. today Where: Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa Who: Iowa State Series: Jayhawks lead 47-32 overall and trail 2116 at Hilton. Won’t back down: With tough games night in and night out the rest of the way, it’s possible the Jayhawks will be underdogs until the end of the season. Rather than look at that as a negative, first-year coach Brandon Schneider has spun it into a positive and used it as a rallying cry for his young team. “Our big thing (is), just don’t be timid in anything we do, don’t secondguess yourself,” Schneider said. “Even though you’re that team that’s not supposed to win doesn’t mean you have to back down or be timid. You still have to be aggressive.” Double trouble: Iowa State junior Seanna Johnson is one of just two Big 12 players averaging a double-double (17.4 points and 10.3 rebounds), and she has topped the 20-point mark in scoring five times this season. The most recent came during a 75-54 loss to No. 4 Texas on Wednesday, when Johnson scored 23 points but could not top the Longhorns by herself.

Iowa State’s loss to Texas snapped the Cyclones’ eight-game winning streak. The bulk of the Iowa State offense runs through Johnson, who leads ISU in fieldgoal attempts, field goals made, free-throw attempts and free throws made. Streaking: Sophomore forward Chayla Cheadle enters tonight on the heels of her second strong outing in a row. A starter to open the season, Cheadle came off the bench for games 3-6, was back in the starting lineup for three games after that, back on the bench for four games after that and returned to the starting lineup Wednesday night against Baylor. She led the Jayhawks in scoring (12) and rebounding (5) in the 18-point loss to the Bears and is averaging 11 points and six rebounds since KU began playing Big 12 foes. “So far, since we’ve started conference play, my confidence has kind of been lifted,” Cheadle said. “I’ve been in and out of the lineup and just try to do whatever I can to help the team.” Slumping: Sophomore point guard Lauren Aldridge. Three games ago, KU’s leading scorer was averaging 14.1 points per game and coming

off of a stretch of five straight games in double figures. But that average is down to 11.4 points per game now after Aldridge struggled to a four-point night in the nonconference finale and has been shut out of both Big 12 games so far. Wednesday night, in an 18-point loss to Baylor, Aldridge played just eight minutes in the first half because of foul trouble and never got going on the offensive end. Aldridge has made just one of 22 shots during her three-game slump.

Probable starters Kansas (5-9 overall, 0-3 Big 12) G — Lauren Aldridge, 5-7, so. G — Asia Robertson, 5-7, fr. G — Kylee Kopatich, 5-10, fr. G — Chayla Cheadle, 6-0, so. F — Caelynn ManningAllen, 6-4, jr. Iowa State (10-4 overall, 2-1 Big 12) G — Jadda Buckley, 5-8, so. G — Seanna Johnson, 5-10, jr. G — Nicole Blaskowsky, 5-7, sr. G — Bridget Carleton, 6-1, fr. C — Bryanna Fernstrom, 6-5, so.

BRIEFLY KU swimming drops double dual Miami — Bryce Hinde swam to a pair of secondplace finishes, and fellow Kansas University swimmers Haley Bishop and Madison Straight added two more, but the Jayhawks dropped a pair of decisions in a double dual on Friday at Biscayne Bay Aquatic Center. KU fell to No. 13 North Carolina State, 161-119, and to Florida International, 150.5-148.5. Hinde, a senior captain from Fort Scott, was the runner-up in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke. Straight was second in the 400 individual medley with a time of 4:24.51, just two seconds behind NC State’s Hannah Moore at 4:22.40. Bishop (55.81) nearly claimed the Jayhawks only victory of the day in the 100 butterfly, but was out-touched by NC State’s Yurie Nakano (55.75). “It was a humbling experience,” Kansas coach Clark Campbell said. “To practice the back-to-back racing is really important as we look ahead to the Big

12 Conference meet. Today was not a shining moment, but we have another opportunity to put this race out of our minds and go for it again tomorrow. This time of the year the results can be volatile, you just kind of live and learn.” KU will face Miami and Rutgers today in Coral Gables, Florida. l Results in Score-

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Redwine said. “There were some people that took big strides over the break, and those were the ones that had good outings today. In all, it was a good way to start the year.” l Results in Score-

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Baldwin girls hammer Louisburg, 66-35 Paola 74, Ottawa 53 Ottawa — Perry CarBoys roll scored a game-high 25 points, and Isaac McEudora 60, De Soto 37 Cullough added 11, but it Eudora — Austin wasn’t enough for Ottawa Downing scored 21 points (4-3). to lead Eudora High past De Soto in area high Paola 16 15 19 24 — 74 12 13 14 14 — 53 school boys basketball on Ottawa Paola — Mason McDow 23, Justin Friday Criddle 21, Alex Wilson 12, Alex J-W Staff Reports

Slawson 7, Tanner Moala 4, Kyle Wokutch 3, Noah Bell 2, Brandon Wilkes 2, Garon Johnson 2. Ottawa — Perry Carroll 25, Isaac McCullough 11, Krys Johnson 5, Cooper Diel 4, Drew Boeh 4, Andrew Soderberg 2, Devion Bethea 2.

Paola 62, Ottawa 47 Ottawa — Three Ottawa players scored in double figures, but only one other OHS player scored. Paola 13 17 15 17 — 62 Ottawa 4 11 14 18 — 47 Paola — T. Williams 12, Karr 12, Laudan 10, Leckner 8, Morgan 6, Williams 5, Edwards 4, Hendrickson 3, Ohlmeier 2. Ottawa — Ferguson 16, Shaffer 15, White 10, Devore 6.

Lansing 52, Tonganoxie 47 Tonganoxie — Tongie led by a point at halftime but ultimately fell to 0-6. The Chieftains will play Tuesday at Kansas City (Kan.) Turner

Baldwin 66, Louisburg 35 Baldwin City — Kyna Smith and Madeline Neufeld scored 16 points Girls apiece, and Abby Ogle De Soto 54, Eudora 22 added 15 points to lead Eudora — Mariah Baldwin. Grizzle scored 21 points Baldwin (5-2) will host to lead De Soto Ottawa on Tuesday. Liz Kendall scored sevLouisburg 11 11 8 5 — 35 en to lead EHS (1-7). Baldwin 22 9 18 17 — 66

Lansing 16 6 16 14 — 52 Tonganoxie 7 16 9 15 — 47 Lansing — Turner 11, Majure 8, Robison 2, Young 5, Jenkins 10, Figeroa 3, Douglas 3. Tonganoxie — Williams 10, Rickard 3, Staatz 4, Johnson 8, Burge 9, Novoty 7, Caldwell 6.

De Soto 16 13 13 12 — 54 Eudora 3 6 7 6 — 22 De Soto — Grizzle 21, Deal 6, Saucerman 15, Johnson 10, Plake 2. Eudora — Corrinne Yoder-Mulkey 3, Chloe Fewins 3, Sadie Pitman 2, Liz Kendall 7, Catherine Grosdidier 4, Alina Howe 3.

Louisburg — C. Buffington 7, Hankinson 3, Holtzen 7, Reece 3, Simpson 9, P. Buffington 2, Roy 2, Overbay 2. Baldwin — Abby Ogle 15, Taylor Cawley 4, Megann Lawrenz 6, Kyna Smith 16, McKinley Markley 2, Madeline Neufeld 16, Lily Fursman 1, Riley O’Rourke 2, Kayla Kurtz 4.

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Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City (11-5) at Houston (9-7), 3:35 p.m. (ABC/ESPN) Pittsburgh (10-6) at Cincinnati (124), 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle (10-6) at Minnesota (11-5), noon (NBC) Green Bay (10-6) at Washington (9-7), 3:30 p.m. (FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 Cincinnati, Houston or Kansas City at New England (12-4), 3:35 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay at Arizona (13-3), 7:15 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Jan. 17 Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at Carolina (15-1), 12:05 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh, Kansas City or Houston at Denver (12-4), 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC, 2:05 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 5:40 p.m. (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 6 p.m. (ESPN) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif. TBD, 5:30 p.m. (CBS)

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Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz. Clemson (14-0) vs. Alabama (13-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif. National vs. American, 5 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 30 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

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Friday at Miami Florida International 150.5, Kansas 148.5 North Carolina State 161, Kansas 119 Kansas Results (KU-NC State placings in parenthesis) 200 medley relay — 1. (3) Kuchkarova, Hinde, Pavlic, Bishop, 1:44.57. 3. (4) Angell, Pocisk, Pfitzer, Driscoll, 1:48.48. 1650 free — 2. (2) Libby Walker, 17:14.52. 4. (5) Lindsay Manning, 17:54.86. 200 free — 2. (4) Haley Molden, 1:53.80. 4. (5) Madison Straight, 1:54.74. 6. (6) Cassaundra Pino, 2:00.90. 100 back — 2. (3) Yulduz Kuchkarova, 57.72. 4. (5) Hannah Angell, 58.84. 5. (6) Pia Pavlic, 58.92. 100 breast — 1. (2) Bryce Hinde, 1:05.01. 2. (4) Lycia Pocisk, 1:06.84. 4. (6) Gretchen Pocisk, 1:07.40. 200 fly —1. (3) Haley Bishop, 2:05.08. 3. (4) Walker, 2:06.21. 5. (6) Chelsie Miller, 2:08.76. 50 free — 1. (4) Leah Pfitzer, 24.53. 3. (5) Molden, 24.64. 4. Hannah Driscoll, 24.76. 100 free — 3. (4) Breonna Barker, 53.03. 5. (5) Molden, 53.46. 200 back —2. (3) Kuchkarova, 2:05.09. 4. (4) Straight, 2:06.07. 5. (5) Angell, 2:06.89. 200 breast — 1.(2) Hinde, 2:21. 2. (4) G. Pocisk, 2:24.25. 5. L. Pocisk, 2:27.81. 500 free — 2. (4) Sammie Schurig, 5:09.38. 4. (5) Pino, 5:15.20. 5. Manning, 5:20.00. 100 fly — 1. (1) Bishop, 55.81. 2. (2) Pavlic, 56.84. 3. (3) Pfitzer, 58.17. 400 IM — 1. (1) Straight, 4:24.51. 2. (2) Walker, 4:32.77. (3) Laura Bilsborrow, 4:43.77. 200 relay —2. (1) Bishop, Molden, Pavlic, Kuchkarova, 1:36.42. 4. (2) Sieperda, Barker, Driscoll, Pfitzer, 1:39.05. One-meter diving — 2. (1) Graylyn Jones, 250.85. 4. (2) Nadia Khechfe, 190.9. Three-meter diving — 3. (1) Jones, 226.45. 5. (2) Khechfe, 213.75.

Wilber Everett scored 18 points to lead four Kansas track Haskell Indian Nations men’s basketball dominates meet University players in double figures Kansas University’s track as Haskell edged Grace and field teams combined University, 71-69, on Friday for 22 event victories, inat Coffin Complex. cluding 15 of 19 events on Tsalidi Sequoyah addthe women’s side, as the ed 17 points, and Ralston Jayhawks kicked off 2016 Moore and Duelle Gore at the Bill Easton Classic had 12 each for HINU (4on Friday inside Anschutz 11). Pavilion. Gore had a team-high The KU women were 11 rebounds, while Everett nearly perfect on the track, added nine. claiming wins in 11 of the Grace fell to 4-11. 12 running events, while Grace 31 38 — 69 11 Jayhawk men turned in Haskell 38 33 — 71 College Grace (4-11) — D.J. Hanes 18, BILL EASTON CLASSIC career-best marks in their Austin Shappell 14, Markese Fields Friday at Kansas’ Anschutz Pavilion first outing of the year. 10, Hakeem Steart 9, Galat Toang 8, Kansas Leaders Treston Mayo 5, Jacob Heck 3, Jamil WOMEN “There some good and 2. 60 — 1. Zainab Sanni, 7.43. 2. Sydney not-so-good performances Santiel Haskell (4-11) — Wilber Everett 18, Conley, 7.49. 4. Allanah McCorkle, 7.70. Tsalidi 17, Ralston Moore 12, Duelle 200 — 1. Tianna Valentine, 25.56. today, but overall I was Gore 12, Marcus Middleton 5, Justin 2. Whitney Adams, 25.62. 3. Adriana pleased with what we did Narcomey 3, Dallas Rudd 2, Ethan Newell, 25.66. 7. Daria Cook, 26.08. 10. today,” KU coach Stanley Candyfire 2. Megan Linder, 26.26.

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De Soto 13 5 11 8 — 37 Eudora 18 19 16 7 — 60 Eudora — Austin Downing 21, Brian Tolefree 12, Jomain Rouser 14, Avery Rouser 10, Mason Fawcett 1, Ben Vandiest 2.

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400 — 1. Adams, 56.40. 2. Newell, 57.37. 5. Dorie Dalzell, 59.68. 600 — 1. Nicole Montgomery, 1:23.05. 2. Omawumi Omare, 1:25.75. 1,000 — 1. Malika Baker, 2:57.52. 3. Jasmine Edwards, 3:10.49. Mile — 1. Nashia Baker, 5:03.60. 2. Hannah Dimmick, 5:04.87. 3. Kelli McKenna, 5:04.94. 5. Lydia Saggau, 5:08.84. 7. Kayla Funkenbusch, 5:22.51. 3,000 — 1. Courtney Coppinger, 10:10.65. 2. Jennifer Angles, 10:21.42. 3. Emily Downey, 10:29.87. 5. Julia Dury, 11:04.33. 60 hurdles — 1. Cook, 8.63. 7. Talia Marquez, 9.43. 8. Gabrielle Dabney, 9.49. 4X400 relay — 1. Cook, Sanni, Caraline Slattery, Omare, 3:56.67. Distance medley relay — 1. McKenna, Dalzell, Saggau, M. Baker, 12:15.95. 2. N. Baker, Megan Linder, Hannah Dimmick, Funkembusch), 12:34.89. High jump — 1. LaTyria Jefferson, 5-7. 4. Slatter, 5-5. 6. Grace Pickell, 5-3. 9. Marquez, 4-11. 10. Dabney, 4-11. Pole vault — 2. Morgan Griffiths, 11-11.75. 4. Laura Taylor, 11-5.75. 5. Hannah Swift, 11-5.75. Long jump — 1. Conley, 19-9. 2. McCorkle, 19-7.5. 4. Kelly McKee, 17-8.75. Triple jump — 3. McKee, 38-6. 4. Deanna Dougherty, 37-2.25. 7. Taryn Tempel, 35-10.75. 10. Hayley Krumwiede, 34-3.50. Shot put — 1. Anastasiya Muchkayev, 47-6.5. Weight throw — 2. Dasha Tsema, 54-2. MEN 200 — 1. Tre Daniels, 22.11. 2. Drew Matthews, 22.29. 3. Jaime Wilson, 22.32. 400 — 1. Jaron Hartley, 49.70. 7. Matthew Anyiwo, 51.81. 600 —2. Athonio Humphrey, 1:12.32. 7. Alex Wilson, 1:15.47. 10. Tanner Wilson, 1:17.19. 1,000 — 2. Bryce Richards, 2:31.80. 4. Markeen Daine, 2:34.21. 8. Adel Yoonis, 2:41.03. Mile — 1. Brandon Bernal, 4:23.76. 6. Ben Brownlee, 4:30.32. 3,000 — 1. Dylan Hodgson, 8:30.61. 3. James Hampton, 8:40.55. 5. Jacob Ryan, 8:51.64. 4X400 relay — 1. D. Matthews, Wilson, J. Wilson, Anyiwo, 3:18.54. Distance medley relay — 1 Hodgson, Yoonis, Bernal, Hampton, 10:34.21. High jump — 2. Kai Shean, 6-6.75. 5. Joel Long, 6-4.75. 7. Lane Macari, 6-4.75.

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Big 12 Overall W L W L Kansas 2 0 13 1 West Virginia 2 0 13 1 Oklahoma 1 1 12 1 Iowa State 1 1 12 2 Texas Tech 1 1 11 2 Baylor 1 1 11 3 Oklahoma State 1 1 9 5 Texas 1 1 9 5 Kansas State 0 2 10 4 TCU 0 2 8 6 Today’s Games Oklahoma State at West Virginia, noon (ESPNU) Baylor at Iowa State, 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Kansas State at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m. (ESPNEWS) Texas at TCU, 6 p.m. (ESPNU) Kansas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Tuesday’s Games Kansas at West Virginia, 6 p.m. (ESPN2) Texas Tech at Kansas State, 7 p.m. (FSKC) Iowa State at Texas, 8 p.m. (ESPN2)

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Big 12 Overall W L W L Texas 3 0 14 0 Baylor 2 1 15 1 Oklahoma State 2 1 12 2 Oklahoma 2 1 11 3 West Virginia 2 1 12 4 Iowa State 2 1 10 4 TCU 2 1 10 4 Kansas State 0 3 10 4 Texas Tech 0 3 9 5 Kansas 0 3 5 9 Today’s Games TCU at Baylor, 11 a.m. (FSN) Texas at Oklahoma State, 5 p.m. (FOX Oklahoma) Texas Tech at West Virginia, 6 p.m. Kansas at Iowa State, 7 p.m. (Cylcones.tv) Sunday’s Game Kansas State at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. (SSTV)

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Abilene 63, Marysville 43 ACCA 40, Ponca City, Okla. 37 Andale 53, Wichita Collegiate 42 Andover 53, Goddard 44 Andover Central 63, Arkansas City 48 Ashland 59, Pawnee Heights 41 Attica 49, Pratt Skyline 38 Axtell 65, Frankfort 33 Baldwin 66, Louisburg 35 Basehor-Linwood 69, KC Bishop Ward 22 Beloit 92, Russell 63 Bennington 63, Sedgwick 43 Berean Academy 52, Moundridge 33 Bishop Miege 65, BV North 49 Bonner Springs 67, Mill Valley 65 Buhler 75, Winfield 48 Burlingame 55, Southern Coffey 51 Burrton 63, Fairfield 50 BV Northwest 71, Blue Valley Stillwell 54 BV West 63, Gardner-Edgerton 53 Cair Paravel 73, Whitfield, Mo. 40 Cedar Vale/Dexter 40, Oxford 39 Central Plains 73, Macksville 37 Centralia 61, BV Randolph 30 Cheney 62, Chaparral 50 Cherryvale 59, Neodesha 51 Chetopa 67, Altoona-Midway 12 Circle 82, Wellington 75 Clay Center 67, Chapman 62 Clearwater 70, Mulvane 38 Coffeyville 64, Parsons 56 Conway Springs 56, Medicine Lodge 37 Council Grove 76, Northern Heights 46 Crest 77, Marmaton Valley 63 Deerfield 72, Granada, Colo. 47 Derby 60, Newton 46 Dodge City 62, Cimarron 49 Doniphan West 56, Clifton-Clyde 32 Douglass 56, Belle Plaine 52 Ellsworth 39, Republic County 29 Eudora 61, DeSoto 37 Flinthills 45, Derby Invasion 42 Fort Scott 54, Labette County 46 Fowler 45, Rolla 22 Fredonia 76, Eureka 56 Girard 53, Prairie View 21 Goddard-Eisenhower 77, Valley Center 55 Goessel 49, Pretty Prairie 39 Great Bend 66, Garden City 54 Greeley County 61, Hoxie 41 Hanover 59, Valley Heights 58 Hartford 62, Madison/Hamilton 50 Haven 66, Hoisington 48 Hays 55, Liberal 54 Hays-TMP-Marian 49, Ellis 32 Hesston 50, Halstead 41 Hiawatha 47, Atchison County 31 Highland Park 76, Emporia 52 Hodgeman County 50, Satanta 43 Holcomb 76, Ulysses 57 Horton 54, Pleasant Ridge 50 Hugoton 57, Goodland 36 Ingalls 61, Bucklin 23 Inman 58, Canton-Galva 22 Jackson Heights 85, McLouth 24 Johnson-Stanton County 56, Wichita County 51 KC Christian 75, Oskaloosa 39 KC Sumner 56, Atchison 54 Lamar, Mo. 79, Frontenac 65 Lansing 52, Tonganoxie 47 Larned 55, Hillsboro 34 Lawrence 62, Olathe South 50 Lawrence Free State 54, Olathe North 41 Lebo 68, Waverly 51 Lincoln 57, Osborne 52, OT Logan 65, Northern Valley 48 Lyons 43, Smoky Valley 40 Maize 59, Salina South 43 Manhattan 66, Topeka 56 Marion 64, Hutchinson Trinity 62 McPherson 50, Augusta 38 Nemaha Central 52, Holton 32 Nickerson 58, Kingman 44 Northeast-Arma 71, Southeast 33 Olathe East 57, Olathe Northwest 35 Olpe 58, Marais des Cygnes Valley 45 Osage City 62, Lyndon 42 Osawatomie 60, Iola 49 Pike Valley 39, Lakeside 34 Pittsburg 60, Chanute 55 Pittsburg Colgan 62, Columbus 23 Plainville 59, Phillipsburg 57 Pratt 59, Sterling 53 Remington 56, Ell-Saline 43 Riverside 60, Jefferson West 58, OT Riverton 60, Baxter Springs 48 Rock Creek 76, Silver Lake 46 Rock Hills 57, Chase 52 Rose Hill 49, El Dorado 45 Sabetha 42, Royal Valley 31 Salina Central 59, Wichita Campus 44 Santa Fe Trail 41, Central Heights 24 Scott City 74, Colby 38 Sedan 59, Udall 34 Shawnee Heights 65, Junction City 55 SM North 69, SM East 49 SM Northwest 51, Leavenworth 46 SM West 74, SM South 56 Smith Center 64, Oakley 40 South Gray 58, South Central 50 Southeast Saline 64, Minneapolis 36 St. John 53, Ness City 39 St. John’s Beloit 55, Hill City 50

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High School Girls

Abilene 60, Marysville 49 Andale 30, Wichita Collegiate 14 Ashland 50, Pawnee Heights 38 Attica 54, Pratt Skyline 25 Axtell 65, Frankfort 47 Baldwin 66, Louisburg 35 Basehor-Linwood 71, KC Bishop Ward 33 Baxter Springs 48, Riverton 40 Beloit 46, Russell 37 Beloit 46, Russell 37 Bennington 35, Sedgwick 31 Bishop Miege 63, BV North 35 Bonner Springs 47, Mill Valley 44 Cair Paravel 47, Whitfield, Mo. 17 Caney Valley 66, Yates Center 6 Canton-Galva 46, Inman 39 Central Plains 75, Macksville 23 Centralia 59, BV Randolph 30 Centralia 59, Blue Valley Stillwell 30 Centre 44, Peabody-Burns 11 Chanute 50, Pittsburg 45 Chase 36, Rock Hills 28 Chase County 55, West Franklin 48 Cheney 57, Chaparral 26 Clay Center 51, Chapman 36 Clearwater 39, Mulvane 25 Clifton-Clyde 42, Doniphan West 31 Colby 36, Scott City 31 Conway Springs 38, Medicine Lodge 33 Council Grove 60, Northern Heights 30 Derby 50, Newton 46 DeSoto 54, Eudora 22 Dighton 37, Quinter 20 Dodge City 72, Cimarron 34 Douglass 57, Belle Plaine 34 Elyria Christian 51, Rural Vista 22 Emporia 47, Highland Park 31 Fairfield 50, Burrton 46 Flinthills 56, Derby Invasion 31 Fredonia 59, Eureka 31 Frontenac 46, Lamar, Mo. 36 Garden Plain 50, Bluestem 16 Goddard 42, Andover 25 Goessel 61, Pretty Prairie 25 Golden Plains 49, Triplains-Brewster 20 Granada, Colo. 57, Deerfield 32 Great Bend 48, Garden City 35 Hartford 41, Madison/Hamilton 36 Hays-TMP-Marian 53, Ellis 38 Herington 41, Mission Valley 35 Hesston 40, Halstead 23 Hiawatha 52, Atchison County 22 Hill City 59, St. John’s Beloit 40 Hillsboro 42, Larned 32 Holcomb 38, Ulysses 33 Hoxie 90, Greeley County 12 Hugoton 70, Goodland 43 Ingalls 55, Bucklin 20 Iola 64, Osawatomie 22 Jackson Heights 54, McLouth 24 Jefferson West 56, Riverside 22 KC Piper 71, KC Turner 21 KC Sumner 69, Atchison 19 Kingman 61, Nickerson 31 Kinsley 30, Cunningham 27 Labette County 67, Fort Scott 37 Lansing 46, Tonganoxie 26 Lawrence Free State 57, Olathe North 27 Leavenworth 52, SM Northwest 47, OT Lee’s Summit Community Christian, Mo. 59, Maranatha Academy 13 Liberal 56, Hays 51 Lincoln 36, Osborne 35 Linn 45, Wetmore 39 Maize 52, Salina South 30 Manhattan 57, Topeka 38 Marion 42, Hutchinson Trinity 21 Marmaton Valley 42, Crest 33 Maur Hill - Mount Academy 36, Jefferson North 21 McPherson 50, Augusta 32 Moundridge 37, Berean Academy 24 Nemaha Central 52, Holton 45 Neodesha 62, Cherryvale 43 Ness City 49, St. John 41 Northeast-Arma 60, Southeast 37 Northern Valley 47, Logan 29 Olathe East 45, Olathe Northwest 30 Olathe South 44, Lawrence 32 Olpe 79, Marais des Cygnes Valley 31 Osage City 48, Lyndon 47 Oskaloosa 34, KC Christian 15 Oswego 44, Jayhawk Linn 25 Oxford 40, Cedar Vale/Dexter 37 Paola 62, Ottawa 47 Parsons 56, Coffeyville 55, OT Phillipsburg 72, Plainville 45 Pike Valley 55, Lakeside 51 Pittsburg Colgan 49, Columbus 35 Pleasant Ridge 50, Horton 42 Remington 68, Ell-Saline 43 Republic County 48, Ellsworth 27 Riley County 62, Rossville 56 Rolla 46, Fowler 30 Rose Hill 69, El Dorado 51 Sabetha 51, Royal Valley 38 Salina Central 69, Wichita Campus 52 Santa Fe Trail 43, Central Heights 29 Satanta 61, Hodgeman County 50 Sedan 59, Udall 34 Shawnee Heights 64, Junction City 36 Silver Lake 56, Rock Creek 50 SM North 49, SM East 46 SM West 49, SM South 36 Smith Center 47, Oakley 34 Smoky Valley 36, Lyons 33 South Central 59, South Gray 44 Southeast Saline 44, Minneapolis 34 St. Thomas Aquinas 47, Blue Valley Southwest 40 Sterling 66, Pratt 53 Sublette 67, Elkhart 49 Sylvan-Lucas 47, Tescott 34 Topeka Hayden 68, Topeka West 48 Uniontown 41, Erie 23 Valley Center 64, GoddardEisenhower 26 Valley Falls 48, Immaculata 17 Valley Heights 69, Hanover 67 Veritas Christian 63, Bishop Seabury Academy 42 Victoria 37, Otis-Bison 35 Wabaunsee 64, St. Mary’s 40 Wakefield 41, Little River 29 Wallace County 36, Rawlins County 34 Wamego 39, Concordia 35 Washburn Rural 50, Topeka Seaman 38 Washington County 56, Troy 34 Waverly 56, Lebo 24 Wellington 51, Circle 47 Wellsville 46, Anderson County 42 Weskan 68, Cheylin 60, 2OT Wichita Bishop Carroll 62, Wichita West 22 Wichita Heights 63, Wichita East 25 Wichita Independent 39, Wichita Trinity 37 Wichita South 54, Kapaun Mount Carmel 20 Wilson 37, Glasco/MiltonvaleSouthern Cloud 35 Winfield 53, Buhler 42

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MV TRANSPORTATION ......................... 20

BRIGGS AUTO ................................... 15

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QUANTITATIVE ANALYST This position may be filled as a level I, II, or III, depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate. The individual in this position will manage the quantitative support bridge with the Market Risk Analysis (MRA) operations group, participate in data management functions, manage testing, participate in model review, and manage the assessment and remediation efforts between FHLBank and third-party contributors of derivative valuations. This individual is a key contributor to the development and production of accurate and timely market risk metrics/measurements that are critical to the determination of the FHLBank’s market risk profile. This position also provides the essential analysis to be used in order to develop strategies to modify the existing market risk profile to a desired level under various market conditions.

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Level I One to three years of similar or related experience. Four-year college degree plus a graduate degree required. Knowledge of financial markets, including interest rate derivatives. Proficiency in mathematical modeling. Ability to apply database and spreadsheet applications. Ability to independently compose algorithms in compilable form. Knowledge of financial modeling techniques and products, including theoretical constructs and the associated relational terms and applications. Level II Same as level I plus the following:

The Director of Community Engagement ECKAN is accepting applications for Director of Community Engagement located at the central office in Ottawa, Kansas. The Director of Community Engagement has the responsibility of the administration of the Volunteer Center, all youth programs and social media, etc. Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience. $35,500/year, 40 hours/week with agency benefits. A complete job description and employment application is available at www.eckan.org. (job listings), 785-242-7450, ext. 7100. EOE/MFHV

Ph.D. strongly preferred. Three to seven years of similar or related experience. Level III Same as Level I and II plus the following: Seven to ten years of relevant experience with advanced knowledge of ﬁnancial modeling techniques and products. In addition to a rewarding, team-oriented work environment, FHLBank Topeka offers opportunities for growth and development, an attractive beneﬁt package including health and dental insurance, 401(k), short-term incentive plan and much more. To see a more detailed job summary and apply for this position, go to the Bank website at

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CLASS A CDL TANKER DRIVERS Due to GROWTH CHS Transportation is looking to hire multiple Class A CDL drivers in the Kansas City area. Haul full hazmat loads regionally. You will be home most nights and rewarded for your hard work with profit sharing, pension plans, 3 weeks PTO and full benefits. $19.00 per hour and $.38 per mile. For more information call Carrie at 651.355.8148 Or view our website and apply at CHSINC.com/Careers

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Family Medicine and Urgent Care of Basehor LPN or MA FT with benefits, PTO, sick leave, competitive pay. Must be CPR certified. Excellent opportunity. Apply in person or Fax resume to: 913-774-3366 or email: hr@jcmhospital.org www.fwhuston.com 408 Delaware Winchester, KS 66097

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OPEN HOUSE Sat & Sun 1 - 5 PM 1004 Andover St Lawrence $274,990 5 Bed / 3 Bath, 3175 sqft. Spacious home, beautifully landscaped. Large 2 car garage, 2 workshops (man caves), sprinkler system, big kitchen with island, breakfast nook, and bay window. New AC, stove, dishwasher, windows. Newer roof, deck and siding. Full fin-ished basement - could be mother-in-law apartment. School districts: Southwest Elementary and Jr. High and Free State High School. Sue 785-220-2066

SALES POSITION

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General inside sales duties: handling phone inquiries & walk-in customers. Exp. in Ag or Green Industry a plus. Salary based on experience. Benefits available including a 401K match!

Smell Clean Brush Teeth Clean clothes Deodorant

Send or email resume to: scottallen@westheffer.com

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Healthcare

Westheffer Co. Inc PO BOX 363 Lawrence, KS 66044 or fax 785-843-4486

CNA & Personal Care Attendant wanted. Full or Part-Time positions. Call 785-842-3301 Professional Sitters Home Health.

Apartments Unfurnished Cedarwood Apts 2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious 1 & 2 Bedrooms Start at $450/mo. * Near campus, bus stop * Laundries on site * Near stores, restaurants * Water & trash paid ——————————————

CALL TODAY (Monday - Friday)

Townhomes

FIRST MONTH FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom Units Available Now! Cooperative townhomes start at $446-$490/mnth. Water, trash, sewer paid. Back patio, CA, hardwood floors, full bsmnt., stove, refrig., w/d hookup, garbage disposal, reserved parking. On-site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance. Membership & Equity fee required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) pinetreetownhouses.com

3 and 4 Bedroom Townhouses and Single Family Homes Available Now $1200-$1800 a month. Garber Property Management

785-843-1116

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Duplexes

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2BR in a 4-plex New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop. W/D is included.

3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA W/D hookups, Fireplace, Major Appliances. Lawn Care & Dbl Car Garage! Equal Housing Opportunity

1st Month FREE!

Mon - Fri • 8 am - 5 pm

Clean clothes No holes Modest Cover tats Remove piercings

classiﬁeds@ljworld.com

785.832.2222

RENTALS Apartments Unfurnished

1, 2 & 3 BR units Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

785-838-9559 EOH

Lawrence

 NOW LEASING  Spring - Fall TUCKAWAY APARTMENTS

Tuckawayapartments.com 785-856-0432 TUCKAWAY AT BRIARWOOD

Tuckawayatbriarwood.com HARPER SQUARE Harpersquareapartments.com HUTTON FARMS Huttonfarms.com

785-841-3339

Equal Housing Opportunity. 785-865-2505

785-865-2505 grandmanagement.net

Houses

Townhomes

SUNRISE VILLAGE & PLACE

LAUREL GLEN APTS All Electric

785-842-2475

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable. Pet under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

Now Leasing 2 BR’s Close to Campus & Downtown

Pool, On KU Bus Route, Spacious Floorplan, Patios/Decks. Great location: 837 Michigan $200 OFF First Month Rent

Call now! 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Country Home: 4 BD, 3 BA 7 mi. South of Lawrence. Nestled between beautiful hills, farms, & beside working ranch. Granite countertops, refreshed interior. No indoor pets. No smoking. $1300/ mo. 785-893-3708

SERVICES TO PLACE AN AD: Adult Care Provided

Carpentry

785.832.2222 Concrete

Decks & Fences

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting. Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB. Free Estimates Since 1962 Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepairks.com

The Wood Doctor - Wood rot repair, fences, decks, doors & windows - built, repaired, or replaced & more! Bath/kitchen remodeled. Basement finished. 785-542-3633 • 816-591-6234

CTi of Mid America Concrete Restoration & Resurfacing Driveways, Patios, Pool Decks & More CTiofMidAmerica.com 785-893-8110

Cleaning

Stamped & Reg. Concrete, Patios, Walks, Driveways, Acid Staining & Overlays, Tear-Out & Replacement Jayhawk Concrete Inc. 785-979-5261

Downsizing - Moving? We’ve got a Custom Solution for You! Estate Tag Sales and Cleanup Services Armstrong Family Estate Services, LLC 785-383-0820 www.kansasestatesales.com

Auctioneers

Decks • Gazebos Siding • Fences • Additions Remodel • Weatherproofing Insured • 25 yrs exp. 785-550-5592

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

Golden Rule Lawncare Mowing & lawn cleanup Snow Removal Family owned & operated Call for Free Est. Insured. Eugene Yoder 785-224-9436

Deck Drywall Siding Replacement Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors & Trim Commercial Build-out Build-to-suit services

Painting D&R Painting interior/exterior • 30+ years • power washing • repairs (inside & out) • stain decks • wallpaper stripping • free estimates Call or Text 913-401-9304

913-488-7320

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Plumbing RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work. Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Snow Removal Snow Removal Residential Lawrence Free Estimates 785-766-5285

Tree/Stump Removal cutdown • trimmed • topped • stump removal Licensed & Insured. 20 yrs experience. 913-441-8641 913-244-7718

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Remodeling Specialist Handyman Services • 30 Yrs Exp Residential & Commercial 785.608.8159 rrodecap@yahoo.com

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery Serving KC over 40 years

913-962-0798 Fast Service

Foundation Repair

DECK BUILDER

800-887-6929 www.billfair.com

STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

Guttering Services

New York Housekeeping Accepting clients for weekly, bi-weekly, seasonal or special occasion cleaning. Excellent References. Beth - 785-766-6762

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Fredy’s Tree Service

Construction

Linda’s Cleaning Done Right For over30 yrs. Dependable, honest and thorough. Free Estimate 785-312-4264

Home Improvements

Fully Insured 22 yrs. experience

Stacked Deck

Decks & Fences

Auctioneers

Foundation Repair FOUNDATION REPAIR

Semi-retired social worker seeks position as in-home caregiver. Meal prep, light housekeeping, personal care, errands. Ref. available. Call Mary 785-979-4317

Antique/Estate Liquidation

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Over 25 yrs. exp. Licensed & Insured. Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs. Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com

JAYHAWK GUTTERING Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

785-842-0094 jayhawkguttering.com

Higgins Handyman Interior/exterior painting, roofing, roof repairs, fence work, deck work, lawn care, siding, windows & doors. For 11+ years serving Douglas County & surrounding areas. Insured.

785-312-1917

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash 785-766-5285

Family Tradition Interior & Exterior Painting Carpentry/Wood Rot Senior Citizen Discount Ask for Ray 785-330-3459 Interior/Exterior Painting Quality Work Over 30 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

Foundation and Masonry Specialist Home Water prevention systems Improvements Landscaping for basements, Sump pumps, foundation supports & repair and more. AAA Home Improvements YARDBIRDS LANDSCAPING Call 785-221-3568 Int/Ext Repairs, Painting, Father (retired) & Son Tree work & more. We do it Operation W/Experience & Needing to place an ad? all! 20 Yrs. Exp. w/ Ins. and Top of the Line Machinery local ref. Will beat all est. Snow Removal 785-832-2222 Call 785-917-9168 Call 785-766-1280

KansasTreeCare.com Trimming, removal, & stump grinding by Lawrence locals Certified by Kansas Arborists Assoc. since 1997 “We specialize in preservation & restoration” Ins. & Lic. visit online 785-843-TREE (8733)

SERVICE DIRECTORY 6 LINE SPECIAL! 1 MONTH $118.95/mo. + FREE LOGO 6 MONTHS $91.95/mo. + FREE LOGO 12 MONTHS $64.95/mo. + FREE LOGO CALL 785-832-2222

AUCTIONS

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“I love the whole experience an auction offers; from the drive to the location, the hunt for treasure, to the bidding excitement! It’s an honor for me to help you and your sale gain exposure.”

Ariele Erwine Classified Advertising Account Executive + Auction Enthusiast

The Lawrence Journal-World reaches 100,000 print and digital readers every single day. Contact Ariele today to promote your auction and make our audience your audience.

785-832-7168 aerwine@ljworld.com

Special Notices SEEKING RENTAL Walkout basement or similar setup. Seeking long-term arrangement. West Lawrence area ideal. Mature quiet male. Established job.

785-842-3257 or 785-840-6401

YOUR NEXT APARTMENT IS READY. FIND IT HERE.

Improvement Association

Monthly Meeting

Monday, Jan. 11, 7 pm Peace Menonite Church

615 Lincoln St

Guest speaker & storm water engineer Matt Bond will discuss Maple Street pump & flood plain map.

All Welcome!

Info: 785-842-7232

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(First published in the Douglas County. Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on January 9, 2016) BizFuel is a public and private partnership that NOTICE OF works to assist Small to ABANDONMENT Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to start, grow, add The following personal jobs, and succeed by property of Kathleen Jes- building an entrepreneursica Lewis will be sold and ial environment that will or disposed of on January spur educational advance25, 2016. The property con- ment, networking, technisists of 2 Sofas, Kitchen cal assistance, research, Appliances, Video Equip- advocacy, and/or work to ment, and Miscellaneous foster SME collaboration Household Goods. and connections. _______ BizFuel Partner and Lead (First published in the Contact for RFP: The Lawrence Daily Journal- Chamber of Lawrence KanWorld January 7, 2016) sas, Attn: Brady Pollington, Economic Development REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Project Manager, 646 Ver(RFP) mont St #200, Lawrence, KS 66044, The Chamber of Lawrence bpollington@lawrencecham Kansas on behalf of ber.com, 785.865.4425. BizFuel partners are seek- Proposals will only be acing to hire an advertising/ cepted from January 7thmarketing agency or 29th, received by 4:30p.m. individual team to provide C.S.T. via local dropoff or strategic implementation of postmark date, (RFP bids messaging, advertising and must be between marketing strategies as $10K-$12K). needed for promoting the ________ BizFuel Partnership in