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FLOYD BLEDSOE, CENTER, WALKS OUT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY DISTRICT COURT on Tuesday after a judge overturned his April 2000 conviction in a first-degree murder case. Accompanying Bledsoe are Kansas University Innocence Project attorneys Jean Phillips, left, and Elizabeth Cateforis, right. See Bledsoe speaking after his release at LJWorld.com/bledsoe.

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Tom Bledsoe, 41, admits to killing It’s all just barely sinking in. Zetta “Camille” Arfmann, and says I just want to take everything he accidentally shot her after he had Oskaloosa — Floyd Scott Bledsoe sex with her and learned that she was slow.” was set free Tuesday after a Jefferson only 14. County judge overturned his During the Tuesday hearing, — Floyd Bledsoe, whose life sentence was overlife sentence for the 1999 murFloyd Bledsoe, 39, whose feet der of his 14-year-old sisterwere shackled, remained sitting turned Tuesday in-law. but broke into a broad grin New evidence, includafter Jefferson County District ing DNA evidence and three Court Judge Gary Nafziger, who of the courthouse, Floyd Bledsoe told suicide letters written by his presided over his murder trial reporters that he planned to go back brother Tom Bledsoe, indicate and sentencing, announced “the to “milking cows.” that Floyd Bledsoe was not defendant is to be released.” “It’s all just barely sinking in,” he the killer. Floyd Bledsoe spent Tom Bledsoe The more than 40 people in said. “I just want to take everything more than 15 years in prison. the courtroom broke into apslow.” In the suicide letters that were plause, and some started crying. Please see BLEDSOE, page 8A found with his body in November, During a news conference in front By Karen Dillon

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Incentive package recommended for Menard plant The package comprises a 10-year, 50 percent Twitter: @nikkiwentling property tax abatement; a $549,350 grant to Menard Inc. is another be paid over 10 years; and providing at no cost step closer to building a a bulk warehouse at the site that’s valued at manufacturing campus in $285,963. By Nikki Wentling

Lawrence’s VenturePark — a $25 million project a Menard representative said can’t be done without public assistance. The city’s Public Incentives Review Committee on Tuesday voted to recommend the city approve

an incentives package worth about $2.3 million. Seven members of the eight-member board voted in favor of the incentives. Member Brad

grant to be paid over 10 years; and providing at no cost a bulk warehouse at the site that’s valued at $285,963. Menard Inc. is also asking Douglas County for a $200,000 grant to be paid over a 10-year period. Burnside, with U.S. Bank, Douglas County commisrecused himself from the sioners will consider that vote. request at their meeting The package comprises a today. 10-year, 50 percent properPlease see MENARD, page 5A ty tax abatement; a $549,350

More than 200 Kansas University students, faculty and staff turned out Tuesday for an informational session about concealed carry coming to campus. KU’s University Senate organized and moderated the gathering, where some information about the imminent change in law was shared but many specific questions had to go unanswered because policies that will guide KANSAS implementation of the law UNIVERSITY have yet to be written. Many speakers expressed fear — of mass shootings, of accidental firearm discharges, of arguments escalating into shootings, of a loss of academic freedom, of increased suicide rates and more. Here were two examples, from either side of the debate, of questions with no answers right now. Miranda Ganter, a sophomore from Houston, said she’s an RA, or resident assistant, in Oliver Hall and already sometimes feels afraid to knock on doors of residents whom she suspects of getting drunk in their rooms. Please see GUN, page 2A

Shelter says cuts may be necessary next year By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

The Lawrence Community Shelter, which has already cut its number of staff, salaries and benefits because of a revenue shortfall this year, will have to do that again if it can’t fund a projected deficit for 2016, board members said Tuesday. John Magnuson, a shelter board member, said the organization is currently seeking to hire a development director to coordinate fundraising and other revenue-generating activities. He said the board expects it will be able to fill the gap next year, but, if not, a contingency plan has been put in place. Please see SHELTER, page 5A

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Aldin T. Burch Aldin Burch, 86, died 12/6/15. Visitation 11a-1p, service 1pm, Fri 12/11 Charter Funerals, 5000 Blue Ridge Cutoff, KCMO.

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Marvin E. Copp Sr. Graveside services Fri. 11 am at Oak Hill Cemetery. Potluck Fri. 1-3 at U.P. Depot, N. Lawrence. Visitation Thur. 6-7 pm at Rumsey-Yost. Obit at rumsey-yost.com

Rose MaRie (NewlaNd) Cook Rose Marie died Dec. 5, Topeka. The family plans to meet with friends 6 pm to 8 pm Wed. Dec. 9, at Worden United Methodist Church , Baldwin, Ks.

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“I don’t want to approach that resident if I know they have a gun,” Ganter said. “How am I supposed to do my job if I can’t even talk to that resident?” Tyson Merritt, a freshman from Goddard, said he recently bought his first firearm. He added, in case anyone was worried, that it was currently hundreds of miles away from KU. “What specifically can or will be done to deter a shooter from attacking me or anyone else in this room if we are not allowed to carry some means of self-defense?” Merritt said. University Senate president Mike Williams, associate professor of journalism, said his goal for university governance was to collect feedback from campus and share it with the powers that be, including KU administration and state lawmakers. “I want to be very clear that the university is not in a position to change the law,” Williams said. Tuesday’s information session was a first step, he said. Smaller group discussions will be scheduled in the spring. Students were able to take an online survey last month, and a similar survey is open this month to employees. Williams — who personally does not support allowing concealed carry on campus — also urged attendees not to accept that the law is a done deal and to contact legislators to voice opposition to it. Under state law, public universities in Kansas must allow concealed weapons on campus beginning July 1, 2017. The Kansas Board of Regents has drafted amendments to its current weapons policy and is expected to vote on the policy in January. Guided by the overarching Regents policy, individual universities will craft their own, more specific policies for their respective campuses. Presumably, those policies will address some of the other questions posed at Tuesday’s meeting, including these: l What will be done to protect children on campus, such as those visiting museums or attending Hilltop Child Development Center? l Will a faculty member have the right to prohibit guns in his or her own office or classroom? l Considering that suicides account for most gun deaths in the United States, what will KU do to improve mental health support? l Where will the money come from for things like adequate security measures or additional counseling services once the law is implemented? l Could KU require some kind of gun safety and awareness training? l How can KU be sure that whatever it enacts will actually protect people? In a concern echoed by more than one professor, math instructor Satya Mandal asked how much he will be able to control his own class. “Teaching when somebody has a gun in my class is an infringement on my academic freedom,” he said. “I plan to buy a bulletproof vest and a helmet. And I’m not joking.”

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BRIEFLY Gov. Brownback wants DCF audit Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback says he favors an audit of the state’s foster care and adoption programs. The governor made the comments Tuesday amid criticism that the Department of Children and Families discriminates against same-sex couples in adoptions and foster care. The Kansas City Star reports Brownback disagreed with calls for Phyllis Gilmore to be removed as head of the DCF, saying Gilmore has strong experience and the background for the job. Several same-sex couples have said recently that the DCF treated them unfairly, including removing children from lesbian foster parents who wanted to adopt.

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Topeka — Officials from the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal assured lawmakers Tuesday that they will identify “hundreds of millions of dollars” worth of savings and efficiencies when they present their final report to the Legislature in January. That came as a welcome reassurance on the same day that the Legislative Budget Committee also heard that the state is facing a projected $170 million shortfall in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1 — a shortfall that will have to be filled with either spending cuts or increased revenue. “Obviously you’re going

Christmas meal needs meat, pies Organizers of the annual Community Christmas Dinner are seeking donations of meat and pie for the Dec. 25 event at First United Methodist Church. The dinner, in its 22nd year, includes preparation of about 1,200 meals. In addition to pies, meat donations are needed in the amount of 60 15-pound turkeys and 40 5-pound hams. If you are able to make a donation, call Deb Engstrom at 218-9347. Meat will be collected at the church, 946 Vermont St., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 18. Pies can be delivered to the church after 6 a.m. on Christmas.

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DANIEL SWENDSON, WITH THE LAWRENCE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, plants sun catcher tulip bulbs in front of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., on Tuesday. City employees took advantage of temperatures that neared the 60s to do some planting for the springtime.

Educators back changes to No Child Left Behind The ESSA bill would reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which concentrated on proLocal and state education officials viding equal educational opportunity. support some of the major revisions to Reauthorization was last done under No the No Child Left Behind law that were Child Left Behind, which imposed sancpassed by the U.S. House of Reptions on schools whose students resentatives last week. did not score as proficient on The bill, called the Every Stureading and math assessments. dent Succeeds Act, does away Kansas and many other states with many of the federal controls had temporary waivers from over schools related to addresssome requirements. ing low achievement, and instead Kansas representatives split leaves more of the authority to on the bill. Republicans Lynn SCHOOLS states and local school boards. Jenkins, of Topeka, and Mike The House voted 359-64 to Pompeo, of Wichita, voted for it. Repass the bill. The Senate is slated to vote publicans Tim Huelskamp, of Fowler, on it today, and many expect it to pass. and Kevin Yoder, of Overland Park, If adopted, it would replace the No Child voted against it. Left Behind act passed in 2001 under Please see EDUCATORS, page 4A George W. Bush. By Rochelle Valverde

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Topeka — The Kansas Supreme Court has assigned retired Douglas County Judge Michael J. Malone to sit with the court to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging a new law governing how chief judges in the district Malone courts are chosen. The case of Solomon v. Kansas is one of the most high-profile cases the court has heard in recent years, and it has drawn national attention because the case Nuss threatens to nullify all funding for the state’s judicial branch. Malone will fill in for Chief Justice Lawton

Nuss, who recused himself from the case Monday. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday. Malone served on the Douglas County District Court from 1982 until he retired as a full-time judge in August 2014. He has since taken the position of “senior judge” to the Supreme Court, which means he is available for assignment to cases when conflicts arise. Nuss voluntarily recused himself from the Solomon case, upon a motion by Attorney General Derek Schmidt, because he had made public statements criticizing a Please see JUDGE, page 4A

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purchasing practices, insurance costs and a wide variety of other spending categories. On Tuesday, officials from the firm offered some preliminary recommendations that they said involve potential cost savings as well as ways to maximize revenues flowing into state coffers. Among those recommendations, which officials said could total “tens of millions of dollars,” were: l Filling 67 vacant positions in the Department of Revenue, including 53 revenue officers and 14 auditors. “Employees in these positions ensure that individuals and businesses are following the law and paying the correct amount of taxes,” said J.W. Rust, a senior director of the firm.

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“The Every Student Succeeds Act finally replaces No Child Left Behind and removes any Common Core mandates from our schools by handing more classroom decisions back to local districts, school boards and teachers where they belong,” Jenkins said in a statement. “They know best how to help their students excel in the classroom — not Washington bureaucrats.” Laurie Folsom, president of the Lawrence Education Association, said that doing away with some of the punitive measures of No Child Left Behind addressed some of the biggest stumbling blocks for improving student achievement. “I think a lot of what

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“An insufficient number of auditors and revenue officers has resulted in a backlog of taxpayers whose taxes need to be reviewed.” l Waiting the full allowable 30 days to pay vendors, instead of the current average of 10 days, and negotiating discounts from vendors in exchange for more prompt payments. l Selling off unneeded or underused equipment owned by the Department of Transportation, including wood chippers and crack sealers, and organize schedules to share them among locations, or rent additional ones when needed. l Consolidating all leasing functions among agencies into a central leasing office within the Department of Administration. l And selling sponsorship rights to things such as traveler assist hotlines, road sign logo programs, motorist assist programs

and highway rest stops. One area of spending that A&M did not address Tuesday was the single largest category of state spending: K-12 education. But officials said that would be part of the firm’s final report in January. “As you can imagine, the amount of data and other information we are receiving is enormous and we want to review it thoroughly,” said Melissa Glynn, managing director of the firm. Rust said the firm has been meeting with school officials to review their spending practices, but he insisted they were only looking at “categories of spending” and not attempting to perform a lineby-line audit. He gave few details of what kind of recommendations the firm would make in January, but he did not rule out the possibility of recommending consolidation of some districts or of services within districts.

they’ve done has addressed the most difficult issues,” Folsom said. “No Child Left Behind, being as punitive as it was in order to initiate change, has been addressed in many of the new ESSA recommendations.” Schools have long been required to assess students and break down results by race and socioeconomic status, and No Child Left Behind used the federal sanctions to push for proficiency for all student subgroups. In its initial assessment of the more than 1,000-page bill, the Kansas State Board of Education also supports some key changes, said Denise Kahler, KSBE director of communications. Kahler said in an email that the increased flexibility provided in the act reflects an acknowledgement that states and local educators are better situated than federal officials to

determine how to improve their schools. “The bill sets parameters for state accountability systems but gives each state the flexibility to design a school accountability system that best meets the needs of students in their state,” she said. The bill maintains annual assessments for students in grades 3-8 and high school, requiring them to be broken down into various student subgroups, as well as some performance guidelines. Some representatives who voted against the bill argue that the role of the federal government in public education remains too prominent. “The large federal education bill passed (last) week puts too much power in the hands of Washington bureaucrats to decide the priorities of our local schools,” said Yoder, who voted against the bill, in a statement. “Restoring

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County Commission to consider Menard Inc.’s $200,000 request Douglas County commissioners will consider giving Menard Inc. a grant of $200,000 at their meeting today to help the company build a production plant in Lawrence’s VenturePark. The incentive, if approved, would be paid over a period of 10 years. Lawrence’s Public Incentives Review Committee voted Tuesday to recommend Menard Inc. incentives for the county’s and Lawrence City Commission’s approval. Incentives from the city would total about $2.3 million, and will be considered by city commissioners at their Jan. 5 meeting.

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Also today, County Sustainability Coordinator Eileen Horn will update commissioners on the Market Match program, which matches SNAP benefit dollars spent at participating farmers markets. Horn will ask the commission to sign a letter of commitment to apply for a grant that would allow the program to expand from its current six farmers markets to 15 in eastern Kansas over the next three years. The Douglas County Commission meets at 4 p.m. each Wednesday at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.

bill in the Legislature that included the new statute that is at issue. That law, enacted in 2014, stripped the Supreme Court of its authority to appoint chief judges of the district courts and, instead, provides that they will be elected by the other judges in each judicial district.

Judge Larry Solomon, chief judge of the 30th Judicial District in Kingman County, filed the lawsuit challenging that law as violating the Kansas Constitution, which gives the Supreme Court general authority to supervise the lower courts. In addition, lawmakers attached a provision to this year’s judicial funding bill that said if the judicial selection law is overturned, all funding for the court system will

also become null and void. The Brennan Center for Justice, based at New York University, is serving as co-counsel for Solomon. The American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Kansas have also filed friend of the court briefs in the case.

local control to states and our communities and putting parents and teachers back in charge is the best way to educate our children, not growing the federal government.” Kahler said that although the bill maintains assessments as a means to measure proficiency, it would provide states more flexibility in how the results are used to both identify and support underperforming schools and demographic challenges. “This better reflects our state’s vision that assessments are only part of the equation when it comes to measuring a student’s readiness for post-secondary pursuits,” she said. Folsom said another contentious part of NCLB was how assessment results, particularly “student growth measures” that track a student’s progress over time, were used to evaluate teachers. Some mandates meant to hold

teachers accountable for student achievement didn’t make sense, she said. “Holding a science teacher accountable for what English teachers in that student’s past have or haven’t taught is an example of the kind of nonsensical way that teachers are being held accountable,” she said. The bill opens up the possibility of alternative ways to measure student progress. Kahler said the bill provides for pilots at the state level so states can research new and improved methods of measuring student progress from year to year. Currently, student growth measures make up 20 percent of a teacher’s annual evaluation. Folsom was clear to point out that teachers do need to be evaluated, and she thinks sometimes it is misconstrued that what teacher unions advocate for is no or minimal evaluation, but

that isn’t the case. “In the modern day I think what we want is a fair evaluation, that the effort that most teachers put forth is actually what teachers are evaluated on,” she said. Folsom said that because the bill is allowing more flexibility from the state, it’s going to offer Kansas the opportunity to maybe make more sense of the connection between student growth measures and teacher evaluations, though she noted that doesn’t necessarily guarantee an improvement. “Whether our state chooses to make it a rational choice or not is a completely different thing, but there is going to be that flexibility that could be used as an opportunity,” Folsom said.

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

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

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“We’ve been at capacity all year. We’re not sitting there with empty space; we’re not overstaffed, not oversized,” Magnuson said. “That being said, we’ve talked to some staff and they understand if we get to June or July and we haven’t been able to improve our fundraising and grant-writing, we expect we’ll reduce salary and staffing expenses.” Magnuson and board vice president John Tacha answered a few questions from the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday after commissioners received an audit on the shelter. City Auditor Michael Eglinski was tasked with looking into the shelter’s drastic revenue shortfall

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Committee member Brian Iverson said the new plant was a “fantastic project and a big win for our city.” Vice Mayor Leslie Soden, who is also a member of the committee, said it was the type of project she thought should be given public incentives. It will provide full-time jobs with benefits and pay living wages, she said. Before Tuesday’s vote, interim City Manager Diane Stoddard told the committee that the new Menard’s campus would create momentum in getting more businesses into VenturePark. “It is oftentimes a challenge for communities to get that first anchor tenant in a park,” Stoddard said. “So for us to have a tenant with a great name

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that earlier this year caused the organization to request emergency funds from the city of Lawrence and Douglas County. The city and county each gave about $50,000. In his report, Eglinski noted that the shelter owed $37,000 in back payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. The shelter board learned of the owed taxes in spring of this year, and they were paid in September. Magnuson said Tuesday the back taxes were a mistake, and the shelter contacted the IRS about it. “It wasn’t a situation where money was misallocated or money was missing,” he said. “It was somebody forgot to check a box when running payroll, and it got behind a little bit. We knew we were past due. There were no penalties because we engaged the IRS quickly.” The back payroll taxes

were not brought up in the shelter’s request for emergency funding. Magnuson and Tacha said that was because the taxes were paid with private donations and not city or county contributions. The audit found that moving to a new facility in 2012, which expanded its number of overnight guests from 75 to 125, as well as fewer donations led to the shelter’s financial downturn. Commissioner Matthew Herbert proposed the shelter seek funding from neighboring cities which those who use the shelter come from to stay. Tacha said a high percentage of guests are from Douglas County, but some aren’t. He said the board would explore looking to other municipalities for funding. “I know there’s a lot of neighboring communities that surround Lawrence

that don’t offer the level of service we offer, if any service at all,” Herbert said. “We’re certainly serving their populations and getting no reimbursements for it.” Eglinski recommended the shelter build up a reserve fund to help sustain the operation during times of low fundraising. He said the shelter had 23 days’ worth of cash on hand in 2014. The average for about two dozen other, similar shelters was enough cash to run operations for 53 days. Eglinski said that, when looking through the board’s minutes, he saw where the need for a reserve fund was mentioned several times throughout recent years. Magnuson said it would be a two- to three-year project. Any extra money the shelter may have in 2016 would need to go toward its maintenance

expenses, he said. “Frankly, it’s going to be very challenging,” Magnuson said. “We’ve projected being light on some ongoing maintenance expenses; there’s nothing there if the furnace goes out or something like that. Step one, we need to address our structural deficit, and step two is that reserve fund.” Tacha said the board is trying to find ways for it to have enough staff in place to safely handle the shelter’s population without going over on expenses. The city’s “Housing Vision” calls for the organization to provide 125 units of emergency shelter, and cutting the shelter’s occupancy would not have much effect on the budget anyway, Tacha said. Eglinski noted the expenses per sleeping space slightly decreased with the new facility. “It was the city’s directive to have 125 people

being able to be served,” Tacha said. “We wouldn’t be serving what the city asked us to do if we cut population.” Herbert said at the end of the presentation that he did not “have a ton of confidence” that the shelter would not seek emergency city funding in 2016. Commissioner Stuart Boley, who had joined the shelter’s board after their financial problems became known, said Tuesday he resigned from the position. He said the board did not need a commissioner involved now that the audit had been released and with the recent hiring of the shelter’s executive director, Trey Meyer. “We generated a lot of good information; I don’t think my participation is necessary anymore,” Boley said. “I think the board has the opportunity to take the information that’s been provided and see what the path forward is.”

like Menard… it provides us great forward momentum. We’re very excited about the opportunity, from a staff standpoint.” The review committee set a public hearing for the incentives package for Jan. 5. After the hearing, Lawrence city commissioners will vote that same day on whether to approve it. If everything is approved, construction on the production plant would start in summer 2016 and would likely be complete in late 2017, said Scott Nuttelman, a real estate representative with Menard. Nuttelman told the committee Tuesday the public incentives were “critical” to make the project happen. “We wouldn’t be here asking for assistance to make the dollars work if that wasn’t part of the equation,” he said. “The challenge with these types of facilities — and why other retailers don’t do things this way — is it

is very expensive to develop sites like this.” It was announced late last month that Midwest Manufacturing, a division of Menard, had reached a preliminary deal to purchase 90 acres in VenturePark. According to a city memo, the company would pay market value and add $14.5 million in property improvements. The proposed campus, what Nuttelman called one of the company’s “mini” facilities, would comprise a distribution building, stone and block production facility, a facility to manufacture roof trusses, a wood recycling building and an industrial spur. The bulk warehouse included in the incentives package would be used as a mechanic shop. Nuttelman said some acreage would remain undeveloped to provide room for future expansion. The land, which had previously housed now-defunct Farmland Industries,

is considered a brownfield site. A covered landfill was previously found at the location, and the city had to do environmental remediation. Britt Crum-Cano, the city’s economic development coordinator, said the parcel Menard is considering is VenturePark’s “least desired parcel.” It’s in the northwest corner of VenturePark and has low visibility; its topography is more difficult than the rest of the area; and the city has monitoring wells on site to check groundwater conditions. “We’re a little bit thrilled that what we thought would be the hardest to fill will actually be the first,” CrumCano said. Committee member Aron Cromwell, owner of Cromwell Environmental Inc., said the project was a “great environmental benefit” by taking an already “blighted” spot that couldn’t be used for anything else.

Menard made headlines in Wisconsin (its home state) a few years ago for environmental violations, including a 2005 case in which the company pleaded guilty to discharging pollutants that spilled into a watershed. Crum-Cano said she knew “environmental questions have come up in the past,” and she listed some of the steps Menard would be taking, including producing zero wastewater, reintroducing defective concrete blocks back into the production cycle and using Energy Star-certified roofing, doors and lighting fixtures. Menard has said the Lawrence campus would create about 100 jobs. Nuttelman said Tuesday it would probably be closer to 150, but that the company wanted to “under-promise and overdeliver.” Starting wages would average $14.61 per hour and include the option for health and dental

insurance. The production plant would supply all Menards stores in Kansas and some stores in western Missouri, Nuttelman said. It would also allow the company to reach into Oklahoma and Colorado as the company grows. He compared the proposed Lawrence campus to established sites in Iron Ridge, Wis., and Bismarck, N.D., which bring in about 30 semitrucks per day. If the City Commission approves the tax abatement for the project, the city and Menard Inc. would need to enter into a performance agreement, Crum-Cano said. If Menard did not follow through on its promised capital investment, job creation, wages and health insurance, fewer or no incentives would be given. — City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ljworld.com.

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Can’t stop neighbors from parking on street Dear Annie: My nextdoor neighbors and their kids (who are adults) always park in front of my house and don’t leave enough space for my car. The family owns four cars, but there is sufficient space in front of their home and in their driveway. We have a narrow driveway (no garage), but my husband parks there because if not, I’m blocking him. I asked that if they do plan to park in front of my house, then they at least leave enough room for my car. They rarely do, so I have to knock on their door and ask nicely that they move their vehicle. They either ignore me or say, “I’m leaving in 10 minutes,” expecting me to wait. Last night, when I got home from work, I saw one of their cars smack dab in front of my home. Again, I knocked

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on the door. They said that they couldn’t move it because it had a flat tire, and that’s where the tow truck dropped it. It wasn’t until I got into my house that I wondered why the tow truck put it there to begin with. This time, I said, “I have always been patient, so I’ll make a deal with you. When your car gets fixed, I’d like you to park it in front of someone else’s house for one week. If they don’t tell you to move it, you can

A real, true holiday variety special Don’t go looking for Andy Williams’ sweater on “Taraji And Terrence’s White Hot Holidays” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14). The stars of “Empire” host a musical-variety special offering contemporary updates of carols and holiday songs from Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Jamie Foxx. This is a great idea! The notion of marrying a popular TV show or hot pop culture phenomenon to a Christmas special is a timehonored tradition that seems to have fallen out of favor. You have to scour YouTube to find clips of “A Very Brady Christmas” or the notoriously terrible “Star Wars Holiday Special” from the winter of 1978. Long considered one of the worst specials ever, it still makes people smile. Rather than airing stand-alone variety specials, TV shows tend to shoehorn their Christmas episodes into the season. In fact, some are airing tonight. Think of the great specials we might have seen? Who wouldn’t have loved a “Jack Bauer Christmas,” where the clock ticked down to Santa’s arrival? Wouldn’t you love to have been “‘Lost’ on Christmas Island”? How about a “Very ‘Game of Thrones’ Christmas,” where Daenerys Targaryen sings “Deck the Halls” in Dothraki while riding a sleigh pulled by dragons? O ABC unwraps its holiday episodes a few weeks early: Frankie decides to forgo an actual church service for a televised Christmas celebration on “The Middle” (7 p.m.). Tired of a humdrum Hanukkah, Beverly turbo-charges the Festival of Lights on “The Goldbergs” (7:30 p.m.). Gloria yearns for an old-fashioned snowy Christmas, just like the ones she used to know from TV shows on “Modern Family” (8 p.m.). Pops tries to teach a lesson by putting an emphasis on giving away and doing without for the holidays on “black-ish” (8:30 p.m.). O The piety of a celebrity pastor and his wife are put on display in the reality series “Rich in Faith” (9 p.m., Oxygen). Tonight’s holiday highlights

O Bill Murray channels his in-

ner Ebenezer in the 1988 comedy “Scrooged” (7 p.m., AMC). O George C. Scott portrays the grasping miser in the 1984 adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” (9 p.m., AMC). O “Christmas Through the Decades” (9 p.m., History, TVPG) moves into the 1980s, the era of Pac-Man, Cabbage Patch Kids and personal computers. Tonight’s other highlights

O The final three scheme on

“Survivor” (7 p.m., CBS). O Performers and sleight of hand experts work their magic on “The Illusionists” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-PG). O Markus may miss another deadline on “Nashville” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

park in front of my house and I’ll never tell you to move it again.” He just stood there and smiled. Am I wrong to ask them to always move the car? — At My Wits’ End Dear Wits: You have tried to be a good neighbor, but they are not cooperating. And you have no guarantee that other neighbors will object to having that car in front of their home, or that the car owners will tell you the truth about it. Your problem is, the street does not belong to you, and you have no control over who takes the spot in front of your house. If the neighbors block your driveway, you are entitled to call the police and have them ticketed or towed, and we recommend doing so. But otherwise, you can only park in another spot or ask your husband to park on the

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Wednesday, Dec. 9: This year your energy creates a new beginning in at least one area of your life. Other times, you will want to pull back and isolate yourself. If you are single, meeting someone you are interested in will take time. If you are attached, as a couple you alternate between being very visible and vanishing for weekends at a time. The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ++++ How you handle a situation could vary from morning to evening. Tonight: Allow your mind to wander. Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ Let go of a need to control. A partner or dear loved one will come through with flying colors. Tonight: Go with a loved one’s choice. Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ You are full of energy, but you need to direct it. Maintain your sense of humor. Tonight: Defer to a friend or loved one. Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++++ Your imagination continues to flow like an endless fountain. A child might want more of your time. Tonight: Be with a loved one. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++++ Your sense of value could prove to be a major factor in the day. Tonight: With a favorite person.

street so you can have the driveway. Sorry. Dear Annie: In your answer to “Know Better,” you mentioned that there are ways to verify someone’s photo online — as well as those flowery, romantic statements used on online dating sites. Please tell me how to do that. I, too, have met a man online who seems too good to be true. — Noreen Dear Noreen: Your best bet is to upload a photo to Google Image search. Some scammers will use pictures of models or others found online. Google will tell you if that photo has appeared in other places. It is not foolproof, but it can help. Also check out romancescam.com. — 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) ++++ You’ll wake up with a heightened sense of optimism and well-being, which proves to be your signature for the day. Tonight: Head home. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ You could be stuck between a rock and a hard place. A discussion becomes possible later. Tonight: Out at a favorite haunt. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++ You’ll feel more together than you have as of late. Lie low and kick back. Tonight: What seems like a great deal might not be. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Resisting a low-energy cycle might not be as difficult as you think with so much happening around you. Tonight: Finally feeling good! Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Use today to go over some past work and make sure that you are heading in your chosen direction. Tonight: Catch up on news. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ Honor a fast change later in the day. Accept an invitation. Tonight: No telling who you could meet. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++++ If you can handle fitting everything in, you’ll be pleased. Tonight: A last-minute request keeps you busy. — The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker December 9, 2015

ACROSS 1 Brother of Cain and Abel 5 Inventory’s place 10 Little leftovers 14 Masseur’s target 15 Jungle inhabitant 16 One of Kelsey’s co-stars 17 Make an appearance 18 Be in concurrence 19 Like supervillains 20 Signal withdrawal 23 Topple from power 24 English noblemen 25 Sotto voce remarks 29 Need renewal 31 “Julius Caesar” setting 32 Use a debit card, perhaps 34 Capture, as a burglar 37 Was heroic, in a way 41 Biathlete’s need 42 Synthetic silklike fabric 43 Wimbledon great Sampras 44 Shave Parmesan

46 Like some collisions 48 Farm measures 50 Dogged little pest 52 Pet bird, e.g. 59 Get ___ (board) 60 Fortuneteller’s deck 61 Low, sturdy cart 62 Antivirus buyer 63 With mouth wide open 64 Dublin’s isle 65 Obsolete “for fear that” 66 Caesar or chef’s 67 Min. divisions DOWN 1 Backtalk 2 Alpine bounceback 3 You, in the Bible 4 Cut, as wood 5 Kind of symbol 6 States of elation 7 Everglades dweller 8 Eye provocatively 9 Liberated 10 Covent Garden performances 11 Venerated 12 Tribulation’s partner 13 Delta deposits 21 Bambi’s mom, for one

22 Native American home 25 Rainbow curves 26 Prewash cycle 27 Changes residency in a big way 28 “A Raisin in the Sun” star Ruby 29 Bank’s protection 30 Boom time for a CPA 32 Eyelid problem 33 “Guess ___?” 35 Something to set a camera on? 36 “Where have you ___?” 38 Recycled stuff 39 Feedbag item

40 Site for a sauna 45 Caustic counter 46 Raised with effort 47 Anvil locale 48 Run ___ of the law 49 Burn a perfume stick 50 Far from domesticated 51 Parkinson’s drug 53 Announcements to passengers 54 Sitarist’s rendition 55 Bad day for Caesar 56 A Great Lake 57 Dealer’s nemesis 58 Some hair-care products

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Talented team Fans are cheering on the KU volleyball team as it advances in the NCAA Tournament.

ansas University fans always like to see a KU team beat Missouri, but it’s especially sweet when that victory advances a team in the NCAA Tournament. It’s not basketball this time, but the KU volleyball team. After defeating the Missouri Tigers in straight sets Friday night, the Jayhawk women are on their way to the Sweet 16. The KU team will take a 28-2 record into its match Friday against Loyola Marymount (24-8) in San Diego. The volleyball team has made it to the round of 16 once before, in 2013, but never advanced to the Elite Eight. This could be the year. The KU team has gone undefeated this season except for two losses to the University of Texas. The Jayhawks’ consistency and camaraderie were obvious as they played before a capacity crowd Friday on their home court in the Horejsi Center. Their determination also kicked in when they faced a 24-20 deficit at the end of the third set and dug in to stage a comeback victory. This team is talented and fun to watch. They have filled Horejsi Center on a regular basis this year and will have many fans following the televised game this Friday. The players are great representatives of KU, as well as great role models for girls and young women who want to play volleyball or other sports. Congratulations to the KU team and coach Ray Bechard on a great start in the NCAA Tournament. It’s already been a great season — and who knows how far this team will go?

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 9, 1915: “The city commissioners are figuring today on plans for an informal welyears come of the interurban line when ago the rails now being laid toward IN 1915 Lawrence are first pushed across the city boundaries. It is expected that this will happen about Saturday. The tracklayers are at work only about a mile from the city limits today and are making such progress that by Saturday the iron train should lead right into town. The nature of the welcome the city officials will give is as yet undecided. They didn’t know this morning whether to take a band to the east city limits and serenade the workmen as they came across the line, whether the mayor should insist on driving the first spike inside the city limits, or whether it would be enough for the commissioners to ride over in the municipal Ford and give some appreciative honks with the Ford horn. But the opinion that the city officials ought in some way to recognize the fact that an interurban had reached town seemed to find general favor.... Present indications are that the Heim company’s plans to have interurban service between Lawrence and Kansas City before the first of the year will be realized.” — Compiled by Sarah St. John

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Technology holds Iran accountable They lied. Is anyone shocked? A much-awaited final report by the United Nations’ nuclear inspection agency on Iran’s past nuclear activities has concluded that Iran worked on a nuclear weapons program until 2009 — although Tehran still insists its nuclear energy program is peaceful. The good news: The nuclear sleuths of the International Atomic Energy Agency, led by their intrepid director, Yukio Amano, managed to ferret out crucial information despite the obstructions of Iranian officials. And the IAEA was

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The report does demonstrate that, with new technologies available, Iran won’t have an easy time cheating in the future.” bold enough to make its skepticism public, despite expectations it might soften its report so as not to jeopardize the nuclear accord that Tehran reached in July.

Don’t trust but verify Yet critics of the deal will ask the obvious question: If Iran won’t come clean about its past, can it be trusted in the future? The obvious answer: Don’t trust but verify, verify, verify. According to the terms of the nuclear accord, the IAEA’s report on Iran’s past activities — even though damning — won’t stop the lifting of economic sanctions, so long as Tehran keeps its pledge to sharply limit its nuclear fuel production and dismantles much of its nuclear infrastructure. “A number of observers will be disturbed that Iran appears to be getting away with the big lie, benefiting from sanctions relief while stonewalling the investigation,” wrote Robert Einhorn, a former State Department

official involved in the nuclear negotiations, in the National Interest. But, Einhorn told me in a phone interview, the West already had good information on Iran’s past activities. The critical need is to focus on future verification. “It is important for the United States to signal it will impose compliance and that violations would mean that sanctions could come back,” he said. The report does demonstrate that, with new technologies available, Iran won’t have an easy time cheating in the future. For a decade, Tehran’s leaders have stonewalled IAEA inspectors, refusing to answer questions about a suspected secret program to design a warhead that could fit atop a nuclear missile.

Inspector visits allowed As part of the nuclear accord, Iran was required to respond to a series of questions about those activities before sanctions could be lifted, especially what went on at the Parchin military complex. Until September, the IAEA was only able to monitor activities using satellite imagery. After the accord was signed, inspectors were finally allowed to visit Parchin, where environmental samples were taken by Iranian officials under IAEA direction. (This was the source of U.S. critics’ inaccurate claim that the Iranians were being permitted to monitor themselves). But by comparing previous satellite images with what they saw at Parchin, the

IAEA was able to conclude that a large cylindrical object that had been installed in 2000 and looked like an explosives firing chamber was no longer present. Inspectors noted that the area where the object had appeared had been recently renovated by the Iranians. And from the environmental samples it took, the IAEA was able to debunk the Iranian claim that the Parchin site was merely storing chemicals for civilian use. The inspectors also identified particles that appeared to indicate nuclear material had been used at the site. “What the report indicates,” says Einhorn, “is that even without Iranian cooperation the inspectors were still able to reach damning conclusions.” However, skeptics fear that once sanctions are lifted, and Western firms establish new economic ties with Iran, the Europeans will be reluctant to recognize violations or to impose new sanctions. Moreover, the provisions for sanctions “snap-back” are complex. And Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has indicated (contrary to the terms of the deal) that any restoration of sanctions for any reason would end Iranian compliance with the accord. This raises serious questions about whether President Obama will be willing to jeopardize his signature foreign policy achievement by pressing Tehran too hard. To counter any such Iranian misconceptions, says

Einhorn, “It is important for the United States to signal it will impose compliance and that violations would mean sanctions could come back. We must make clear there is a strong U.S. commitment to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and that the U.S. is prepared to use military force to stop them.”

Specific U.S. sanctions Moreover, he says, it is fully within U.S. rights to impose specific sanctions on Iran for egregious behavior in the Mideast region, such as aiding terrorist groups, including Hezbollah. Such sanctions were not excluded by the nuclear agreement. “We need to show Iran we are not so protective of this deal that we won’t implement our own rights for fear of jeopardizing it,” says Einhorn. That doesn’t mean congressional critics should try to kill the deal by reimposing economic sanctions whose lifting was part of the accord. But it does mean using all intelligence means (in close cooperation with Europe and Israel) to watch for Iranian cheating. And instead of dissing the IAEA, critics of the deal should urge that the U.N. watchdog be given all the resources it needs in the future. Amano and his team have shown that Iran will have a hard time conducting secret operations in the dark. — Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

PUBLIC FORUM

Backward view

ISIS action

To the editor: Fourteen years ago, when the United States suffered the greatest infliction of loss of life on its own soil in our history, President George W. Bush, visited a mosque in Washington, D.C. While there, he said, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.” Let’s contrast this with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. He’s supported the idea of surveilling mosques and establishing a database for all Muslims in the U.S. On Monday, he continued his prejudiced comments by calling for a ban on all Muslims from entering the United States. Trump fails to see that the terrorists’ malevolence, viciousness and violence are not due to Islam, but to a politicized form of it. It’s the distorted belief that everyone outside of my group is evil. Make no mistake about it: To the right audience, ISIS has charisma. And whether or not the U.S. should take away some of ISIS’s charisma by handing them some sort of defeat on the battlefield, the way we did to al-Qaida in Iraq, is a legitimate discussion to be had. Regardless, as an American, I find Trump’s notion of banning all Muslims trying to enter the country backward, small-minded and embarrassing. We have to win the battle of ideas. That has been true since 9/11, and it’s still true today. We need a president who understands this. Mr. Trump does not. Chris Orlando, Lawrence

To the editor: On June 6, 1944, President Roosevelt and our allies in WWII arranged a massive invasion of France to defeat Hitler’s Fortress Europa. Today, we have an enemy as dangerous, more so even than the Third Reich. Hitler never succeeded in arranging attacks inside the United States against innocent people. President Obama says he is “making efforts to defeat ISIS.” Baloney. We are wringing our hands and doing nothing. All talk no action. “No boots on the ground.” Baloney..... We need a similar massive invasion against the cancer known as ISIS (or ISIL to some). We need to go in and clean out the entire “Islamic State” down to the bare dirt. Leave nothing. No one in 1944 was concerned about “collateral damage.” Just destroy the Third Reich again. But I need to agree with one (just one) assertion of Trump: “Our leaders are not getting it done.” Fred Whitehead Jr., Lawrence

Climate future To the editor: What if countries worked together to solve global challenges? Fortunately, cooperative efforts do occur, such as the UN climate conference (UNFCCC) in Paris. Unfortunately, there are challenges of globally compelling magnitude. The results of this meeting of nearly 50,000 participants from over 190 countries will largely determine the future of life on Earth. It “represents an historic

opportunity to put the world on course to meet the climate change challenge. The world needs a new model of growth that is safe, durable and beneficial to all,” said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of UNFCCC. “Our fellow citizens know … later will be too late. (W) e must find the path to an ambitious compromise … the whole planet is expecting,” said Laurent Fabius, presidentdesignate of next UNFCCC. A “fee and dividend” approach to limiting use of fossils fuels, by pricing each ton at the time of extraction, is becoming widely endorsed internationally. The Lawrence chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby is one of over 200 North American chapters working to pass this type of legislation. At last year’s UN Summit in New York, 73 national and 11 regional governments and over 1,000 businesses and investors showed support for pricing carbon. They represent 52 percent of global GDP, 54 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 50 percent of the world population. The U.S. contributes, by far, the most emissions per capita of any country, yet has been minimally supportive of global efforts to limit greenhouse gases. Your encouragement could get legislators to support crucial global efforts. Sandy Sanders, Lawrence

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McCook 67/43

Kearney 63/41

Oberlin 67/44

Beatrice 62/45

Centerville 56/46

St. Joseph 61/47 Chillicothe 58/47

Sabetha 61/47

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Clarinda 58/44

Lincoln 63/43

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Temperature High/low 54°/28° Normal high/low today 42°/23° Record high today 68° in 1940 Record low today -15° in 2005

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest. 0.00 Month to date 0.00 Normal month to date 0.46 Year to date 39.76 Normal year to date 38.75

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gun discharged, hitting her in the back of the head. He did not explain why she had three bullet holes in her chest. “All I can say is sorry,” he wrote. “I seek forgiveness, but I don’t deserve it.” Vernon said the Jefferson County Sheriff’s detectives along with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are continuing the investigation. Tom Bledsoe’s letter had included a diagram of the murder scene, explaining that a shell casing was still there. Detectives 16 years ago had recovered only three of the four shell casings, Vernon said. Recently investigators returned to the site and found a shell casing compatible with the 9mm gun used in the killing. They are now trying to determine if the casing and the gun match. In addition, detectives are continuing to have discussions with the brothers’ father and mother, who live in Texas. On Tuesday, Floyd Bledsoe was asked how he feels about his brother. He declined to comment. “I’m ready to move beyond the last 15 or 16 years and into the next 50, 60, 70 years,” he said. “I can’t do anything about the past. All I can do is change the future.” — Enterprise reporter Karen Dillon can be reached at kdillon@ljworld.com or at 832-7162.

economist Doug Stucky, who is visiting farms across the region working on year-end planning. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted in November that net farm income in the country will drop about 40 percent to $55.9 billion this year,

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Tom Bledsoe. The DNA also implicated the brothers’ father, also named Floyd CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A Bledsoe; the odds are one in 20 sextillion that The case has had many DNA evidence found on twists and turns. the girl’s left sock was After Arfmann went not the father’s, Vernon missing in 1999, Tom testified. Bledsoe confessed to the After the Project for crime and told authoriInnocence report was ties that they could find released, a hearing to her body in a ditch that consider releasing Floyd was used as a dump, Bledsoe was scheduled Kirk Vernon, Jefferson for Tuesday. County captain of detecBut on Nov. 9, Tom tives, testified Tuesday. Bledsoe’s body was found Vernon was a young dein his car in the Bonner tective when the murder Springs Wal-Mart parking occurred and followed lot. He had died by suicide. up on some of the leads. He was found with a bag Tom Bledsoe was on his head, and his left arm charged with the girl’s was bandaged from where murder but a few days he had apparently tried to later changed his story take his own life a few days and said his brother, Floyd before, Vernon said. Bledsoe, told him he had In the letters to his done it. Floyd Bledsoe wife, his parents and “To was married to Arfmann’s Whomever Cares,” he sister at the time. said he had been tortured At the trial, the only by the guilt of what he evidence that the prosehad done. cution had against Floyd Vernon read each of Bledsoe was his brother’s the letters into the court testimony. record. Floyd Bledsoe was “I sent a (sic) innocent convicted in April 2000 man to prison,” Tom of first-degree murder, Bledsoe wrote. “The CA aggravated kidnapping (county attorney) made and aggravated indecent me lie.” liberties. He added that the JefAttorneys with the ferson County attorney, Project for Innocence who was Jim Vanderbilt and Post-Conviction at the time, also “told me Remedies at Kansas Uni- to keep my mouth shut.” versity joined the legal Bledsoe wrote that the fray for Floyd Bledsoe, shooting was accidental, and a report released in that he had taken the late October showed that girl to the dump, that semen from Arfmann’s he pushed her down to body likely belonged to scare her, and that the

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention replaced its longtime director of national lab regulation in the wake of several high-profile incidents involving bioterror pathogens and an internal review that identified areas of improvement for the oversight program, USA TODAY learned. In a statement Tuesday, the

CDC declined to say why it replaced Robbin Weyant on Nov. 9 as director of the agency’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins, which regulates hundreds of U.S. labs working with the organisms that cause anthrax, plague, Ebola and other deadly diseases that are deemed to pose bioterror risks. The change occurred 18 days after the completion of an internal CDC review of the national lab oversight program that was launched after a USA TODAY investigation NETWORK prompted congressional probes and revealed that CDC inspectors have allowed labs to keep experimenting despite failing to meet key safety requirements on

inspection after inspection, sometimes for years. Weyant served as select-agent director since 2006, according to his LinkedIn profile, and he lists his current job with CDC as a senior adviser in the agency’s newly created lab safety office. Weyant declined to comment on the reason for the job change. In a statement, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and oversight subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., said, “We’ll be taking a close look at CDC’s actions and are disappointed the agency did not consult with the Committee prior to its announcement.

Strong and effective management of the select agent program is our top priority, and we want to know whether this signals deeper problems that CDC has not yet disclosed.” Biosafety experts have complained that the oversight of “select agent” labs focused too much on paperwork reviews and bureaucratic minutiae, rather than meaningful measures of safety and security. Select agent is the government’s term for viruses, bacteria and toxins that are subject to regulation because they could be used as bioweapons. Read USA TODAY’s investigation at biolabs.usatoday.com.

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Pope Francis hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, right, before pushing open the Holy Door.

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday, marking the start of the Jubilee of Mercy — a special Holy Year for Catholics — amid heightened security. An extra 5,000 security officers were deployed around Rome, and a no-fly zone has been imposed to protect the millions of pilgrims.

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WASHINGTON Donald Trump not only continues to lead the Republican presidential field in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, the overwhelming majority of his supporters say they would vote for him if he bolted the GOP and ran as an independent. The national poll was taken before the latest Trump firestorm, this time over his statement Monday calling for a “complete and total shutdown” on all Muslims entering the USA until concerns about terrorism can be addressed. In TV interviews Tuesday morning, he refused to back down in the face of criticism, not only by Democrats but also leading Republicans. He likened his actions to those taken by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II against Japanese Americans and others. “If you look at what he was doing, it was far worse,” he said on MSNBC. In a chilling sign for the GOP, 68% of Trump’s supporters say they would vote for the billionaire businessman if he ran as an independent rather than a Republican; just 18% say they wouldn’t. The telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters, taken Wednesday through Sunday, finds a trio of Republican candidates who show emerging national strength — Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — as other once-serious contenders struggle for traction. Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to 56%-29%.

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Anti-Muslim attacks are on the rise since last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., and recent comments by presidential candidate Donald Trump could make the situation worse, Muslim and Arab-American leaders said Tuesday. Recent vandalism and threats at mosques represent a spike in

anti-Muslim sentiment, said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has asked American Muslims to report incidents of bias. “We don’t literally have time to issue a statement on every incident because they’re coming in so fast and furious,” Hooper said. “When the leading Republican presidential candidate can say, ‘Bar all Muslims coming to America’ and know he can get more support for it — it is truly frightening.” The Anti-Defamation League has reports of about two dozen anti-Muslim attacks since the

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terror attacks Nov. 13 in Paris, ranging from a cab driver shot in Pittsburgh to vandalism against mosques and other buildings, plus verbal or written threats.

“When the leading Republican presidential candidate can say, ‘Bar all Muslims coming to America’ and know he can get more support for it — it is truly frightening.” Ibrahim Hooper, Council for American-Islamic Relations

“We’re definitely seeing antiMuslim bigotry escalating around the country,” said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation

League’s Center on Extremism. Trump called Monday for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Tuesday, the candidate said his plan has “tremendous support” by his followers, despite condemnation from Republicans, Democrats and world leaders. Trump’s words came as Philadelphia police and the FBI investigated who left a severed pig’s head at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society mosque. Sarker Haque, who owns Fatima Food Mart in New York said he was beaten by a customer who promised to “kill Muslims.”

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A look at the man who might be Venezuela’s next president Governor led election effort that toppled entrenched leftists Peter Wilson

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Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles has twice run — and lost — elections for president of Venezuela. After a victory in parliamentary elections that he helped orchestrate, Capriles may prove the adage that the third time is the charm. The Democratic Unity coalition, politicians opposed to the leftist government in power for 16 years, won 112 seats in the 167seat National Assembly, a twothirds super-majority that will enable lawmakers to rewrite the constitution and turn back the socialist system under President Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor and mentor, the late Hugo

Chávez. Maduro’s party claimed 55 seats from Sunday’s vote. The final election results announced Tuesday vindicated Capriles’ strategy of gaining power through the ballot box rather than through demonstrations — that at times turned violent — favored by more radical political opponents of the government, said Caracas-based political consultant Tareq Yorde. “The elections approach won out over street protests,” Yorde said. The crushing defeat for Maduro reflected voter frustration with an economy in shambles in this oil-rich nation. There are chronic shortages of food, medicine and other basics, and the inflation rate is the world’s highest at nearly 100%. Maduro’s presidential term does not end until 2019, but the opposition coalition may try to oust him sooner through a recall referendum, which would provide an opening for Capriles to

“The elections approach won out over street protests.” Political consultant Tareq Yorde

seek the presidency again. Nicknamed El Flaco, or “skinny,” Capriles, 43, came to national attention in 1998, when he became the youngest member elected to the old Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Venezuela’s legislature. He later was elected vice president of the chamber before it was dissolved by Chávez’s constitutional assembly in 1999 and replaced by the single National Assembly. Elected mayor of the Caracas borough in 2000, Capriles was briefly arrested and charged with participating in an aborted coup against Chávez when he and supporters stormed the Cuban consulate, looking for government officials said to be hiding there. He was detained for 119 days before being acquitted in court. Elected governor of Miranda in 2008, he beat Diosdado Cabello, one of Chávez’s most trusted lieutenants and current president of the outgoing National Assembly.

Capriles subsequently ran for president against Chávez in 2012, losing by about 10 percentage points. After Chávez died from cancer in March 2013, Capriles ran against Maduro for president, losing by less than 2 percentage points. Capriles has never recognized that defeat. Eight months later, he was re-elected governor of Miranda, besting another Chávista stalwart. During all campaigns, Capriles has been the subject of government slurs that claim he is gay and Jewish. He is a bachelor and Catholic.

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Fighting between Ukraine’s military and separatist forces in the east has escalated with scant notice this fall as world attention is focused on increased terrorism and a refugee crisis caused by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Fighting that dropped off in September after Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists agreed to a cease-fire plan picked up again in November, causing multiple deaths and injuries to Ukrainian troops, according to Ukrainian military spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko. Vice President Biden, who announced a $190 million aid package for Ukraine during a visit to the capital, Kiev, on Monday, said Russia holds the key to peace. “The United States continues to stand with the people of Ukraine in the face of continued ... aggression from Russia and Russianbacked separatists,” Biden said. The fighting and a failure by Russia-backed separatists to implement measures of the ceasefire agreement reached in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, make it unlikely the two sides will meet a self-imposed year-end deadline to end the conflict, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove said last week. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned of renewed war after a meeting about Ukraine with foreign ministers of the U.S.-led alliance last week. “Russian-backed separatists have not yet withdrawn their troops and equipment. Illegal groups in eastern Ukraine have not been disarmed. And Ukraine has not been able to re-establish control over its border,” Stoltenberg said. The fighting in Ukraine will be a factor when the European Union decides in January whether to continue economic sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflict, which has resulted in 8,000 deaths since it began in April 2014, according to the United Nations. The fighting subsided in September after ramping up during the summer. The lull coincided with Russia’s preparations for its air campaign in Syria as it sought overflight rights from Eastern European nations for Russian aircraft transporting personnel and supplies to Syria. The low point in fighting came during October, when Russia lobbied for international acceptance of its air campaign in Syria. When fighting picked up in mid-November, it was “too large and coordinated to be random,” said Phillip Karber, president of the Potomac Foundation, a military consultancy that has advised Eastern European countries preparing to join NATO. Karber, who has traveled more than a dozen times to assess Ukrainian military performance since 2014, attributes the cease-

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Aviation experts meeting in Germany said they want to improve psychological and medical testing of pilots after the Germanwings crash in March that killed 144 passengers and six crewmembers. The proposals from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which met this week at a workshop for 150 aviation experts, including pilots, suggest mandatory psychological evaluation for all pilots at the start of their careers, strengthening regular medical exams and the creation of a medical database on pilots that countries could share.

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A pro-Russian rebel patrols an area at the front line with Ukrainian government troops in Zaicevo in eastern Ukraine on Saturday.

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“The fact remains both sides do not respect the ceasefire all the time and everywhere.” Alexander Hug, Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

fire violations to shooting that began on the separatist side. The repeated violations of the peacekeeping agreement have contributed to “Ukrainian jitters and declining faith in Western negotiated cease-fires,” he said. Despite evidence from journalists, NATO and U.S. leaders showing Russian military involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, Moscow denies it has given any military backing to the separatists. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has a monitoring mission in Ukraine staffed by European, Ukrainian and Russian personnel, says it’s impossible to verify who’s at fault. Since the beginning of November, OSCE monitors registered an increase in fighting, mostly around what’s left of the airport in Donetsk, a separatist stronghold, Alexander Hug, the principal deputy chief monitor of the

OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, told USA TODAY. Most violations involved exchanges of small-arms fire, and some have escalated to artillery and multiple rocket launchers, Hug said. “It’s an exchange of fire,” he said. “It’s difficult, if not impossible, to find in which direction (it begins). The fact remains both sides do not respect the cease-fire all the time and everywhere.” The OSCE and the Ukrainian government have yet to gain full access to 250 miles of the Ukraine-Russia border, he said. John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who’s at the Atlantic Council, a think-tank in Washington, said the level of violence in Ukraine is up to Russia, which is preoccupied with Syria. “Moscow has the ability to get these guys largely under control,” Herbst said.

Vice President Biden pays his respects Monday at a monument in Kiev that is dedicated to Ukrainian activists who were killed during antigovernment protests in 2014.

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Investigators work amid the debris of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps in March. The European safety agency hopes to finalize its proposals in early 2016 so changes can be implemented next year. The proposals also will consider any information about the Germanwings crash released by French investigators, the agency said. “We need to act quickly if we want to minimize the risk of a catastrophe such as the Germanwings accident to happen again,” said Patrick Ky, executive director of EASA. Germanwings Flight 9525 slammed into the French Alps on March 24 while heading from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Germany, killing all 150 people on board the Airbus A320. German prosecutors have said co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, who had been treated for depression, locked out the pilot and intentionally crashed the plane. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said at the time that Lubitz was 100% qualified but that the airline did not require psychological testing. Lufthansa and other European airlines began requiring two crewmembers in the cockpit, as U.S. carriers do already. In the U.S., airline pilots get medical tests every six months or a year, depending on their age. Pilots must report physical or psychological conditions and medications, and doctors ask mental health questions.

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TRUMP DOES BETTER ON BAD NEWS Front-runner tightens grip on lead; Rubio, Cruz still loom Paul Singer

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(last week): 1 Donald Trump (1) 2 Ted Cruz (2) 3 Marco Rubio (3) 4 Ben Carson (4) 5 Chris Christie (6) 6 Jeb Bush (5) 7 John Kasich (8) 8 Carly Fiorina (7) 9 Rand Paul (9) 10 Mike Huckabee (10) 11 Lindsey Graham (11) 12 Rick Santorum (12) 13 George Pataki (13) 14 Jim Gilmore (14)

“Every time things get worse, I do better,” Donald Trump said in Iowa over the weekend. That is certainly the case in our USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings. Each week since early September we have asked a group of smart political analysts who is the strongest candidate in the Republican field. After the deadly attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Trump took a larger share of the firstplace votes (20 out of 27 votes cast) than at any time since Week 1. (The survey was taken before Trump called Monday for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.) “Donald Trump’s saber-rattling in the face of terrorism continues to earn him support in the polls,” said Emory University’s Andra Gillespie. “I would be remiss if I didn’t note his widest margins ever this week in the CNN/ORC poll.”

“(Trump) is organizing in the early states ... If he pulls it off, he will gain momentum that will be very tough to stop.” Democratic strategist Maria Cardona

Trump “could very well be the GOP nominee. It is hard to see at this point how that does not happen,” said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona. “He is organizing in the early states, leads in most of them by quite a large margin — except for Iowa where he is tied with (Ted) Cruz — but if he pulls it off, he will gain momentum that will be very tough to stop.” Iowa State University’s Dianne Bystrom said voters “are still at-

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., received 20 first place votes out of 27 cast by USA TODAY’s political analysts.

tracted to Donald Trump’s ‘tough talk,’ ” and “they are seemingly less likely to favor the soft-spoken Dr. Ben Carson.” But Bystrom adds, “Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are still rising among Iowans likely to caucus.” Rubio received four first-place votes this week, and Ted Cruz received three. Some still believe Trump is a passing fad. “I now believe Cruz is the most likely nominee,” said GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak. “He is the front-runner in Iowa, surging ahead. He will be strong in South Carolina and is best positioned to be the overall delegate leader after the March 1 ‘SEC primary.’ ” Several major Southern states vote March 1, including Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Cruz’s home state of Texas. “Not sure what (Jeb) Bush is still doing in the race,” said Carroll University’s Lilly Goren, “since he doesn’t seem to be bringing anything that Rubio isn’t, and it is clear he isn’t enjoying running for president.” Our panelists also note that there is another GOP debate Dec 15, which provides an opportunity for someone else to break out of the pack. But it is getting late for that: The Iowa caucuses are less than eight weeks away.

Bank deposit linked to San Bernardino shooter Greg Toppo and Kevin Johnson USA TODAY

Federal authorities are examining a deposit of $28,500 into an account linked to California shooter Syed Farook shortly before Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik launched last week’s deadly assault that left 14 dead and 21 others wounded in San Bernardino, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday. The official, who is not authorized to comment on the developing investigation, said the money 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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appeared to be a loan. The connection, if any, as a possible funding source for the attacks, was not immediately clear. The deposit VIA GETTY IMAGES turned up in inSyed Rizwan vestigators’ Farook analysis of the San Bernardino couple’s financial and personal records as part of a wide-ranging effort to determine how they were radicalized and what drove them to mount the attack on a

holiday party packed with many of Farook’s co-workers. Los Angeles FBI chief David Bowdich said earlier this week that the couple had been radicalized for “quite some time.” Meanwhile, a San Bernardino public school official said that within a day of the Dec. 2 attack, bomb-detecting dogs swept through local schools that Farook had visited in recent weeks. The “extra precaution” was necessary, city schools spokeswoman Linda Bardere said, after the district learned that Farook was a health inspector for San Bernardino County’s Environ-

mental Health Services and had visited 10 sites, nine of which were schools. The visits were made in late October and early November. County records provided to USA TODAY show that Farook inspected the cafeterias from Oct. 22 through Nov. 5. Bardere said the district sent bomb-detecting dogs through a local high school that Farook inspected on Oct. 23. A canine unit searched the pool and kitchen at Arroyo Valley High School on Dec. 3, “as an extra precaution,” she said in an email. School district officials learned

less than a day after the shootings that Farook had inspected the high school. FBI officials have said they have no evidence so far that Farook, 28, and Malik, 27, had other targets in mind, yet school security consultant Ken Trump told USA TODAY that if terrorists “want to strike at the heart of America, they will strike at our children. “Schools remain soft targets and sustained resources for comprehensive school emergency planning have been all but eliminated from federal and state budgets,” he said.

IN BRIEF AIR FRANCE FLIGHT GETS ALL-CLEAR AFTER THREAT

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A Paris-bound Air France flight from San Francisco was diverted to Montreal after an anonymous threat that later was determined to be bogus, the airline said. “After a full security search, false alert confirmed by local authorities following an anonymous threat,” the airline said in a statement. The plane left Montreal shortly before 7 a.m. ET Tuesday to complete its journey to France. Flight 83 left San Francisco with 246 people aboard at 6 p.m. ET on Monday. The pilot decided “per safety regulations to land in Montreal as a precaution,” the airline said. It landed in Montreal at about midnight and all the passengers had to exit the plane for the security check. — John Bacon

ALLIGATOR KILLS BURGLARY SUSPECT HIDING FROM COPS

PISTORIUS GRANTED BAIL AFTER MURDER CONVICTION

A judge at a court in South Africa on Tuesday granted bail to Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius after he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Aubrey Ledwaba said the double-amputee had proved that he is not a flight risk, at a hearing in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Last week, the Supreme Court

of Appeal found Pistorius guilty of murdering Steenkamp, overturning a previous manslaughter conviction. Pistorius is under house arrest after spending a year of a fiveyear sentence in jail. — Jane Onyanga-Omara

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British war veterans get rid of their service medals Tuesday outside Downing Street in London. They are protesting their country’s involvement in airstrikes in Syria.

Brevard County, Fla., deputies have determined that Matthew Riggins, 22, was killed by an alligator in Barefoot Bay lake on Nov. 23 while possibly hiding to avoid law enforcement. Investigators say that Riggins had told his girlfriend he would be in Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another suspect who is now in custody but not cooperating with officials, according to Maj. Tod Goodyear with BCSO. Deputies responded to calls in Barefoot Bay on Nov. 13 that there were two men dressed in black walking behind area houses, who ran from responding officers. Later that day, Riggins was reported missing to the Palm Bay Police Department. Police searching the area reported hearing “yelling” but could not determine the source that night, Goodyear said. Ten days later, Riggins’ body was found in the lake. — Tyler Vazquez, Florida Today

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MONEYLINE CHIPOTLE STOCK FALLS AFTER LATEST FOOD-SAFETY BLOW Chipotle closed another location this week — this time in Boston — raising more questions on whether consumers are getting sick on the food. Shares closed down $9.51, or 1.7%, Tuesday to $542.24, knocking them down a crushing 28.5% from their high point over the past year. The company has been hammered by complaints associated with food safety, including E. coli contamination. The latest episode, connected with 80 ill Boston College students, is likely connected with norovirus and not E. coli, the company says. REPORT: YAHOO BACKS OFF ON ALIBABA SPINOFF Yahoo has decided to forgo its spinoff of its $30-billion-plus stake in Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba, according to a report by CNBC. As a result of pressure from shareholders, who are concerned about the tax risks of the spinoff, the company will not move forward with the share sale and instead will look at a spinoff of Yahoo’s core business, CNBC’s David Faber said Tuesday, citing sources close to the situation. USA TODAY could not immediately confirm the report. An announcement could come Wednesday, CNBC said. IBM BEEFS UP VIDEO ABILITIES IBM continues to bolster its cloud-technology portfolio. The Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant said Tuesday it has acquired cloud video provider Clearleap. The Duluth, Ga., firm developed a platform for online video services for HBO, the NFL, Verizon and other content providers. Clearleap’s technology will become part of IBM’s Cloud platform to make it easier to deliver and monetize video online and on mobile devices, the company says. Terms of the deal were not released. IBM shares closed off about 1% at $138.05. DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG. 17,750

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“If we can’t stop this dumping (of Chinese steel) into the country, that could be fatal for the industry.” Mario Longhi, CEO of U.S. Steel

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matic emergency braking and lane-departure warning. That’s significant for the automotive industry because it could prod manufacturers to turn often-op-

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The NHTSA’s proposed overhaul for safety ratings would go into effect for 2019 models.

tional but highly profitable safety systems into standard technology. It could also increase the average price tag of a new car. uNew advanced test dummies with improved sensors to better predict injuries. uA new frontal-oblique crash test to address what NHTSA described as a type of angled crash “that continues to result in deaths and serious injuries despite seat belt use, air bags and crashworthy structures of latemodel vehicles.” “Achieving that coveted 5-star rating is going to be tougher than ever, but that’s the way it should be,” NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind said.

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day it proposed revising the current ratings system from a single overall score of 1 to 5 into a multifaceted scorecard that includes the score on crash-avoidance systems and a mark for pedestrian safety. It signals a strategic shift for the auto-safety industry from simply measuring what happens to vehicles during collisions to how well vehicles can avoid accidents in the first place. The overhaul, now open to a public-comment period, would go into effect for the 2019 model year. The changes include: uA new rating to gauge a vehicle’s use of nine advanced technologies — such as forward-collision warning, auto-

he oil industry isn’t the only one reeling from the plunge in crude prices, which hit new seven-year lows this week. Steelmakers are suffering their worst downturn in 15 years, partly because oil producers have slashed drilling activity and have less need for steel pipes. This week’s drop in oil prices below $40 a barrel could intensify the pain for steel manufacturers by delaying a rebound in energy investment, says Barclays Capital analyst Matthew Korn. Yet the oil slump only partly explains the steel industry’s woes. Steel producers have been hit by a global nose-dive in commodity prices exacerbated by a massive glut of Chinese steel that the industry says is being illegally unloaded below cost around the world, including in the U.S. Industry officials have asked the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration to impose hefty tariffs on Chinese and other countries’ steel in hopes of avoiding a wave of bankruptcies and consolidation that would rival the sector’s bruising shake-up in the late 1990s. “If we can’t stop this dumping... that could be fatal for the industry,” U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi said in an interview. U.S. steel shipments were down about 11% through the first nine months of 2015 compared to the year-ago period, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). The industry, which employs about 150,000,

CHINA PHOTOS VIA GETTY IMAGES

Steel from China has poured into the U.S. market, driving down prices. Some claim it’s being illegally unloaded below cost.

STEEL IMPORT FLOOD Steel imports into the U.S. rose sharply last year, snaring market share from U.S. producers. Net tons Year (in millions) 2007

33.2

2008

31.9

2009

16.2

2010

23.9

2011

28.5

2012

33.5

2013

32.1

2014

44.3

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has announced 12,000 layoffs the past year, the group says. About 67% of plant capacity is being used, down from a historical average of 85%. Manufacturers including U.S. Steel, AK Steel and ArcelorMittal have announced temporary and permanent plant shutdowns this year and laid off several thousand workers. Perhaps no firm has been hit harder than the iconic U.S. Steel, which depends on the oil and gas industry for 15% to 20% of its revenue and had a $173 million loss in the third quarter. The number of oil-drilling rigs in the U.S. was down 62% last week from a year ago, according to oil services firm Baker Hughes. Near-record auto sales are offsetting at least part of the misery for steelmakers. Longhi says U.S. Steel would be profitable if not for the crash in prices. Although steel consumption in China is falling now that a government-led real estate boom is over, the government continues to subsidize rising steel production, AISI says. The country has about half the world’s steelmaking capacity at 1.1 billion tons and will consume 700 million of the 800 million tons it will make this year, exporting the rest, Barclays estimates. China is the top con-

tributor to excess global capacity of about 650 million tons, World Steel Association figures show. Much of it is shipped to the U.S., where steel prices had been relatively high. Yet imports — which comprise 30% of the U.S. market — have driven the price of hot-rolled coiled steel to $366 a ton from $684 in May 2014, according to AISI and Bloomberg. U.S. Steel is coping with the slump by cutting costs and increasing efficiency, while Steel Dynamics is adding value to raw steel by painting or purifying it, Korn says. Austrian maker Voestalpine, with about 20 U.S. plants, largely has been insulated from the troubles because it shapes steel parts for the auto, railroad and other sectors, besides making raw steel. We “focus on the less cost-sensitive high-tech products,” says CEO Wolfgang Eder, though he adds coming months “will really be more difficult.” Ultimately, the industry is relying on the dumping cases for a turnaround. A preliminary ruling on coated steel in favor of the U.S. firms came last month, and decisions on other steel-related trade cases are likely by early next year. Yet Korn says that won’t alleviate the broader global overcapacity, keeping U.S. imports elevated.

Amid flat market, 11 stocks total 1,900% gain Matt Krantz USA TODAY

It’s been a bore of a year for most investors: The S&P 500 is up just 1%. But it’s been a barnburner of a year for investors luckily enough to pick the year’s best stocks. Had you bought the best stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 each month this year, including industrial gas business Airgas in November, memory card maker SanDisk in October and cable operator CableVision in September, you would have scored a gain of 1,892%. That’s enough to turn a $10,000 investment at the start of

the year into $199,200 now. Who says this market is flat? Hindsight is 20-20, for sure. The odds of actually buying the best stock each month, much less selling it at the end of the month and buying the best one the following month, are practically nil. Yet, it’s fascinating to see how picking the month’s best stocks for the first 11 months of the year would have generated a whopping return while the Standard & Poor’s 500 has been practically dead money. A few interesting trends: uBoring has been beautiful — thanks to buyouts. Several behind-the-scenes stocks have turned out to be eye-pop-

Hindsight is 20-20. The odds of buying the best stock each month, selling it at the end of the month and buying the best one the next, are practically nil. ping champs. Part of that is due to takeovers. Cablevision shares soared in September by 29% after the buyout by Netherlands’ Altice. Same goes with SanDisk, which makes memory storage de-

vices for computing devices. The stock soared 42% in October as storage company Western Digital announced plans to buy the company. And November’s big winner, Airgas, with a 44% gain, was pumped up by the $13.4 billion buyout by France’s Air Liquide in November. uInsurers have been big monthly winners repeatedly this year. Going along with the boring-is-beautiful theme, iInsurers Humana, Cigna and Chubb were the best stocks in the S&P 500 in the months of May, June and July, respectively. Some of these gains have been slipping since investors have worried over the costs connected with health

care benefits. Humana shares have slipped since June but are still up 19% for the year. uMega-cap tech stocks haven’t been the top stocks. Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft have been champion stocks this year, boosting the tech sector. But none of these stocks were the champ stocks in any one month. Video streamer Netflix is the exception as this stock — in the running to be one of the year’s best — was the best S&P 500 stock in April. It jumped 34% in April and is up 151% this year. Just a reminder: Even when broad markets look uneventful, opportunities abound under the surface.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

’Twas the month before investors find out how retailers did during the holiday season. But this week, investors get a taste of what retail sales looked like going into this pivotal time. Late this week, investors get retail sales statistics from November and an indication of how shoppers were feeling in the month ahead of the busiest season of the year for many retailers. Investors aren’t looking for much — practically flat growth — but will be unnerved if November was shakier than expected. Investors are in a bit of a holding period with retail stocks as consumers have a few weeks to wrap up their shopping and data are scarce. So far, investors aren’t

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all that optimistic. Retail stocks are down an average 1.6% since Black Friday kicked off the holiday season, based on stocks in the retailing and foods and staples retailing industries in the Russell 1000 index, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. Although investors seem to be holding back their enthusiasm for retail stocks, analysts still think there is profit potential from the consumer. Analysts are calling for 7.7% adjusted earnings fourthquarter growth from the consumer discretionary sector, which includes retailers, says S&P Capital IQ. That is the second-highest expected growth rate among all 10 industry sectors, only behind telecom at 18% expected quarterly profit growth. To put expectations into perspective, retail profit growth in the fourth quarter of this year is still below where it was last year at 13%.

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Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) 188.72 Wins FDA approval on rare genetic disease drug.

+9.57

+5.3

+2.0

Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) 2015 forecast raised; rebounds from 2015 low. Baxalta (BXLT) FDA approves drug for bleeding disorder.

17.56

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Lam Research (LRCX) Added to US 1 list at Bank of America.

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-77.5

Celgene (CELG) 112.05 +3.00 Revlimid seen as mainstay for multiple myeloma therapy.

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-2.03

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Norfolk Southern (NSC) Dips as fund manager comments on CEO.

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Southwest Airlines

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) Sinks to 2015 low as oil and copper slip.

Alcoa (AA) Shares dip as China aluminum exports jump.

61.80

The company behind the Redbox $80 DVD rental machines cut its fullyear 2015 guidance, announced a management transition and said it will discontinue its SampleIt cou- $40 Nov. 10 pon and sampling business.

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NAV 191.19 51.54 189.32 51.51 189.34 104.94 45.43 14.61 20.79 56.26

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Type 30 yr. fixed 15 yr. fixed 1 yr. ARM 5/1 ARM

Close 6 mo ago 3.25% 3.25% 0.13% 0.13% 0.25% 0.01% 1.66% 1.71% 2.22% 2.38%

Close 6 mo ago 3.84% 4.11% 3.01% 3.25% 2.76% 2.66% 3.14% 3.40%

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Commodities Close Prev. Cattle (lb.) 1.22 1.22 Corn (bushel) 3.70 3.69 Gold (troy oz.) 1,076.30 1,076.40 Hogs, lean (lb.) .55 .55 Natural Gas (Btu.) 2.07 2.07 Oil, heating (gal.) 1.26 1.28 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 37.51 37.65 Silver (troy oz.) 14.09 14.31 Soybeans (bushel) 8.77 8.82 Wheat (bushel) 4.71 4.70

Chg. unch. +0.01 -0.10 unch. unch. -0.02 -0.14 -0.22 -0.05 +0.01

% Chg. unch. +0.4% unch. unch. unch. -1.6% -0.4% -1.5% -0.6% +0.1%

% YTD -26.2% -6.8% -9.1% -31.9% -28.4% -31.8% -29.6% -9.5% -14.0% -20.2%

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Close .6668 1.3589 6.4182 .9183 123.05 17.0075

Prev. .6640 1.3514 6.4077 .9223 123.33 16.9015

6 mo. ago .6522 1.2408 6.2087 .8868 124.61 15.6340

Yr. ago .6382 1.1462 6.1727 .8111 120.43 14.3542

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

Close 10,673.60 21,905.13 19,492.60 6,135.22 42,236.74

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A: Organic food wasn’t a fad. It’s just gone mainstream, which is good for consumers but terrible for dedicated organic food companies. Organic food distributor United Natural Food late Monday stunned investors by reporting adjusted quarterly profit of 63 cents a share, missing expectations by 7%. The company also warned that revenue in fiscal 2016 would miss Wall Street targets by about 1% and also trimmed expectations for profit in the year. Investors were not pleased, pushing the stock down 17% to $36.59 on the news. It’s not a United Natural Foods problem. Even the industry giant Whole Foods Market (WFM) has seen its shares lose about a third of their value in the past year as competition heats up. Organic food wasn’t a fad. Sales of organic food has increased by a doubledigit percentage every year since the 1990s and hit $39 billion in 2014, says the Organic Trade Association. Nearly 85% of consumers in the USA buy organic food. But the popularity of organic food, interestingly, has been a problem for the companies that focus on selling it. Giant retailers, including the grocery store giant Kroger (KR), have aggressively boosted their organic offerings at prices lower than some of the smaller entrenched players.

Norfolk Southern dismisses Canadian Pacific’s new bid Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) revised its unsolicited offer for Norfolk Southern in a deal that would create a transcontinental rail giant, but the two sides are split over whether the new bid is better or worse than the original offer. Norfolk Southern (NSC), which rejected the initial bid, on Tuesday swiftly dismissed Canadian Pacific’s latest offer as a “reduced proposal.”

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“improved.” In addition to a disagreement over whether the new deal is richer than the first, the two sides are locked in a dispute over whether Canadian Pacific’s proposal to create a voting trust to complete the accord is legal. “Canadian Pacific’s revised, reduced proposal is not only less than what the Norfolk Southern board has already found to be grossly inadequate, it is even more uncertain and risky given the decrease in the cash consideration,” Squires said in a statement. In a conference call with inves-

tors, Harrison declined to say whether Canadian Pacific would pursue a hostile proxy fight to force Norfolk Southern into a deal. “I don’t want to speculate and draw lines in the sand about what might be next,” he said. “I personally think the offer is awful nice. It’s very generous.” Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, a Canadian Pacific shareholder, called Harrison the “greatest railroader of all time” on a conference call, saying the 71-year-old veteran CEO is uniquely suited to turn around Norfolk Southern. He blasted

Squires for fighting “to keep his job.” “What happens in situations like this is pride gets in the way,” Ackman said. A Norfolk Southern spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. In the new offer, Canadian Pacific said it would pay $32.86 in cash and allocate 0.451 shares in the combined company for every share of Norfolk Southern stock. The previous proposal was $46.72 in cash and 0.348 shares in the new company. Both sides confirmed details of the offer but disagree over how much it’s worth.

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“To Sinatra, a microphone is as real as a girl waiting to be kissed,” E.B. White observed in The New Yorker in 1952. Frank Sinatra had not yet reached his peak as an artist and was at a professional low point: That same year, Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar would call him “a dead man,” noting, “Even Jesus couldn’t get resurrected in this town.” Sinatra — who would have turned 100 on Dec. 12 (he died in 1998, at 82) — could, of course, and did. Over the next 15 years, the blue-eyed son of Hoboken, N.J., would confirm his place as one of the greatest performers of the 20th century (or since) and take the art of interpretive singing to new and still-unsurpassed heights. The sweet lyric baritone that had made bobby soxers swoon in the ’40s ripened into a darker, more rugged instrument that Sinatra wielded with astonishing emotional and rhythmic dexterity. His singing reflected the gamut of human feeling, from profound sadness to exuberant joy, without missing any of the crucial nuances in between. Some proposed that Sinatra’s tempestuous, doomed romance with Ava Gardner, his second wife and great love, played a central role in his evolution. “It was Ava who taught him how to sing a torch song,” Nelson Riddle, his most famous arranger, famously theorized. But as longtime Sinatra chronicler Will Friedwald notes, “Many guys have their hearts broken, and they don’t learn to sing like that.” The larger truth, Friedwald says, is that Sinatra “was maturing both physically and as an artist, looking for deeper means of expression.” Sinatra resisted sentimentality by bringing a cool, intuitive intelligence, a tough but playful spirit and a sharp wit to that search, all evident in his peerless phrasing. White pop singers had absorbed jazz before him, notably Bing Crosby, whose work paved the way for his. But Sinatra injected something more muscular and dangerous, a sexual brio that made his singing revolutionary. Sinatra sustained that vitality into middle age, along with a rest-

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ic roles he played in films such as From Here to Eternity (which earned him an Oscar), The Man With the Golden Arm and The Manchurian Candidate. Sinatra tackled these parts with the same forthright naturalism, the insistence on direct and honest expression, that distinguished his singing. There were, of course, the four marriages and many more affairs, the reports of Mafia ties and bad, sometimes violent behavior. There also was, by numerous accounts, Sinatra’s lavish generosity and devotion to friends and colleagues, and his dedication to causes such as civil rights. “If he loved you, there was nothing he wouldn’t do for you,” Jones recalls. “If he didn’t like you he would run over you like a Mack truck, three times.” Answering questions for Playboy in 1963, Sinatra noted (through ghostwriter Mike Shore) that most of what had “been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe.” He made us believe as well, and his music continues to do so.

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NEW YORK Filming a lightsaber battle meant a great day at the office for John Boyega. The new star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is obsessed with the laser swords of the sci-fi franchise; he has a half-dozen replicas in his collection. As former First Order Stormtrooper-turned-hero Finn, Boyega faces off with the villainous Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) — brandishing blue and red lightsabers, respectively — in a key scene of the seventh Star Wars film (in theaters Dec. 18). The final frame of the last trailer depicts Finn’s trepidation when confronted with a skulking, attacking Kylo, and “that’s something great to capture,” the actor says. “If you see Adam Driver dressed in black coming toward you, just swinging that thing, it makes you go, ‘Oh, shhh …’ So, yeah, I was genuinely scared.” Like the inevitable gunfight in a Western, the lightsaber se-

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It’s game on for Finn (John Boyega) in The Force Awakens. quence is a hallmark of the six Star Wars movies going back to the 1977 original. The films in George Lucas’ initial trilogy were filled with battles that tended toward the emotional — for example, Imperial enforcer Darth Vader (voice of James Earl Jones, body of David Prowse) vs. his old mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) in the first Star Wars, and later Vader taking on his son, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), in the climax of 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Lucas’ prequels, however, were artier affairs; smooth moves marked such scenes as Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) taking on Darth Maul (Ray Park)

in 1999’s The Phantom Menace. “Somersaults and backflips — there’s so much finesse and pizzazz to those fights that it felt like, ‘OK, I can’t really top that,’ ” says Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams. “I can’t go there because (Lucas) outdid himself in those.” Instead, he focused on lightsaber fights that felt less choreographed and more brutal. “I tried to go rougher and more primitive, more instinctual rather than highly trained.” Given the characters involved, Abrams wanted the action between Finn and Kylo to be a dramatic conversation. Boyega found a rhythm in working with Driver, who had a distinct physical advantage.

VISIT LIFE.USATODAY.COM “Adam is way taller than me,” Boyega says. “I’m only 5-foot-9 and Adam is 6-foot-something, so my reach, my hold has to be pretty strong to take a blow from that dude when it comes to the sabers.” Much of their match was mapped out, yet the most important thing was making sure audiences knew it was a ferocious tête-à-tête between two guys trying to kill each other. “The aim is not to play and have a little danceoff. I think it was Ewan McGregor who said, ‘Oh, we didn’t need hilts in the prequels.’ Well, we didn’t need dance steps,” Boyega says with a laugh. “Brutality and reality are the best way to go.”

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Simple logic — in the form of comparative scores — suggests tonight’s Kansas University-Holy Cross basketball game may be a bit closer than the records and the polls would indicate. “They beat Harvard. I personally thought Harvard was a good team that played great against us,” KU coach Bill Self said in previewing today’s 7 p.m., home battle between the No. 2-ranked Jayhawks (6-1) and unranked Holy Cross Crusaders (3-5). KU nudged Harvard, 7569, on SaturUP NEXT day in Allen Fieldhouse. H o l y Who: Holy C r o s s Cross (3-5) tripped the vs. Kansas same Crim(6-1) When: 7 p.m. son team, 5049, on Nov. today 29 in Holy Where: Allen Cross’ gym Fieldhouse in WorcesTV: Jayhawk ter, Massa(WOW! chusetts. channels 37, “This is a 226) team that’s a little bit unique. If you are not alert, they can certainly give you a lot of problems,” Self stated of the Crusaders, who are coached by former Princeton assistant and Northwestern head coach Bill Carmody. Carmody is a believer in a precision offense which includes a bunch of cutting that sometimes results in easy baskets. “Anytime you play that Princeton style, there are some automatics you’ve got to be able to defend,” Self said. “You’ve got to eliminate layups and eliminate threes. That’s easier said than done. Holy Cross does their backdoors very very well (in averaging 63.2 ppg off 39.4 percent shooting; KU averages 90.9 ppg off 50.7 percent marksmanship. KU has hit 65 of 143 threes; Princeton 63 of 194). “I would be shocked if they don’t get some (layups) just because you’ve got to kind of go away from your principles how you defended for the first two months of the season. You may defend the first four well and the fifth time they may get an uncontested layup. You’ve got to be really disciplined to defend the entire clock,” Self added. The Jayhawks enjoy scheduling teams that run varied styles of offense and defense. “It’s a style you could run into later in the season,” Self said of the NCAAs. “When you think of the Princeton style you think of Pete Carril obviously but Bill Carmody was assistant (at Princeton). Bill knows this better than anybody,” Self added, noting KU went against the style when Colorado and coach Jeff Bzdelik played in the Big 12, also against Georgetown last year and Michigan in the 2013 NCAAs. “They do a lot of backcuts. I think it will be a little bit hard to guard them,” KU sophomore guard Svi Mykhailiuk said. The Princeton offense could prevent a challenge for KU’s freshman bigs — Carlton Bragg and Cheick Diallo — who are still learning the college game. “Could be,” said KU junior forward Landen Lucas, “but the thing is our young big guys are so athletic and gifted if they play hard it shouldn’t matter. At the end

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ANTHONY HARVEY JR. PASSES THE BALL THROUGH TRAFFIC against Grandview (Missouri) during the first round of the Blue Valley Shootout. The Lions won, 62-50, on Tuesday night in Stilwell.

Lions overcome deficit, prevail 62-50 By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Stilwell — There’s just something about crunch time that brings out the best in Lawrence High senior point guard Justin Roberts. When Lawrence’s boys basketball team needs a boost, Roberts has found a way to deliver time after time during his four-year career. Tuesday was no different when he scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to lift the Lions to a 62-50 victory over Grandview (Missouri)

in the first round of the Blue Valley Shootout at Blue Valley High. In the fourth quarter, Roberts opened with a fourpoint play, hit all three free throws after being fouled on another three-point attempt, banked in a short jump shot, and drilled a triple from the top of the arc for a 52-45 lead with four minutes left. He added a steal and assisted on a layup-and-the-foul bucket by senior forward Fred Brou. “He’s a bulldog,” LHS coach Mike Lewis said of Roberts. “He wants the ball in his

hands. Our team knows how to work together and get him the basketball, and he knows how to distribute when needed. He was the aggressor and it was his time to shine.” Roberts has a knack for drawing fouls — “For the most part, I’m not really exaggerating. They are just coming into me,” he said — but he wasn’t shooting well until the final period. Roberts scored 11 points in the first three quarters on 3-of-12 shooting. But in the fourth quarter, he drilled shot after shot.

“My teammates were just getting me open,” said Roberts, who scored a game-high 25 points. “They were setting great screens so I was able to get on the wing and knock down some threes, finally. ... I knew I just had to keep doing what I was doing, and know that it was going to fall sooner or later.” The Lions (2-0) trailed by as many as 12 points in the first half, but they scored on five of their last six possessions to cut their deficit Please see LIONS, page 2C

KU volleyball seeks uncharted territory By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

It’s only fitting that a Kansas University volleyball season that featured a handful of firsts has reached the point where the Jayhawks are on the of anSWEET 16 brink other. When No. Who: Kansas 9 overall (28-2) vs. seed KanLoyola sas fires the Marymount first serve (24-8) at LoyolaWhen: 7:30 Marymount p.m. Friday at 7:30 p.m. Where: San Friday in the Diego Sweet 16 in San Diego, the Jayhawks (28-2) will be playing for a spot in their first ever Elite Eight. This time, however, unlike in 2013, when the Jayhawks reached their first ever Sweet 16 but were launched out of Los Angeles before they even really Please see HOOPS, page 3C knew they had arrived, KU

coach Ray Bechard believes his team is better position to make some noise. “I do think any time you have a great libero, a great setter, you have good ball control and then you have a player who can go get kills at any time against anybody, it gives you a chance,” Bechard said Tuesday, one day before his team hopped on a plane for southern California. “Maybe we’re better equipped, from that sense, to go deeper into the tournament.” Junior Cassie Wait, who enters this weekend with 513 digs on the season, is the libero Bechard spoke of, and she is one of just a couple of players on this roster who was around for KU’s last trip to the Sweet 16. Asked what she remembered about the 2013 exJohn Young/Journal-World Photo perience that ended with KU being swept by Final KANSAS UNIVERSITY VOLLEYBALL COACH RAY BECHARD shouts instrucFour-bound Washington, tions during a match against Kansas State on Sept. 23 at Horeji Center. Bechard and the Jayhawks will head to San Diego to face Loyola Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 3C Marymount in the NCAA Sweet 16 on Friday night.

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Warriors 131, Pacers 123 Indianapolis — Klay Thompson scoring a season-high 39 points, Stephen Curry had 29 points, seven rebounds and 10 assists, and Golden State extended its perfect start with a victory over Indiana on Tuesday night. The Warriors improved to 23-0. They have won 27 straight dating to last season, tying the 2012-13 Heat for the secondlongest streak in NBA history. Thompson scored 29 points in the first half. Golden State led by 28 in the fourth quarter before the Pacers pulled within six in the final 25 seconds. The Warriors next play on Friday night in Boston. Indiana was led by Paul George with 33 points and C.J. Miles with 24. Indiana tied a dubious franchise record in its NBA era by allowing 44 first-quarter points and barely avoided another record-breaking defensive low when it trailed 79-60 at the half. GOLDEN STATE (131) Rush 5-10 0-0 13, Green 4-13 0-0 8, Bogut 7-8 0-0 14, Curry 11-23 4-6 29, K.Thompson 13-21 3-3 39, Iguodala 3-4 0-0 6, Ezeli 5-8 2-4 12, Livingston 3-3 2-2 8, Clark 1-5 0-0 2, Speights 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 52-95 11-15 131. INDIANA (123) Miles 8-15 3-3 24, George 11-27 6-7 33, Mahinmi 3-5 2-2 8, G.Hill 4-10 1-1 12, Ellis 4-11 1-2 9, J.Hill 4-7 2-4 10, Stuckey 1-5 3-3 5, S.Hill 3-8 0-0 6, Allen 2-5 0-0 4, Budinger 4-7 3-4 12. Totals 44-100 21-26 123. Golden State 44 35 32 20—131 Indiana 28 32 23 40—123 3-Point Goals-Golden State 16-36 (K.Thompson 10-16, Rush 3-6, Curry 3-11, Clark 0-1, Green 0-2), Indiana 14-33 (Miles 5-11, George 5-13, G.Hill 3-4, Budinger 1-1, Stuckey 0-2, Ellis 0-2). Rebounds-Golden State 51 (Bogut 10), Indiana 57 (S.Hill 9). AssistsGolden State 29 (Curry 10), Indiana 23 (George 6). Total Fouls-Golden State 19, Indiana 18. Technicals-Green, Golden State defensive three second. A-18,165 (18,165).

Cavaliers 105, Trail Blazers 100 Cleveland — LeBron James had 33 points and 10 rebounds, and the Cavaliers rallied from an 18-point first-half deficit to get the win. Kevin Love added 18 points, and a second-half lineup adjustment by coach David Blatt helped Cleveland break a three-game losing streak. James, who didn’t play Saturday in Miami to rest, scored 14 points in the fourth quarter, including a 3-pointer and a threepoint play down the stretch. He shot 14 for 24 from the field. Damian Lillard scored 33 points for Portland, which blew a late lead Monday in Milwaukee and appeared to run out of gas as Cleveland came back in the second half. PORTLAND (100) Aminu 1-3 1-2 4, Vonleh 1-1 0-0 2, Plumlee 2-6 6-10 10, Lillard 14-27 1-1 33, McCollum 10-19 0-0 24, Crabbe 6-11 1-1 14, Leonard 3-6 0-0 7, Davis 3-5 0-2 6, Harkless 0-0 0-0 0, Frazier 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-79 9-16 100. CLEVELAND (105) James 14-24 4-4 33, Love 5-12 8-10 18, Mozgov 0-0 0-0 0, Dellavedova 7-12 0-0 17, Smith 3-9 0-0 8, Thompson 1-3 0-0 2, Varejao 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 5-10 2-2 13, Jefferson 3-6 0-0 7, Cunningham 2-3 2-4 7. Totals 40-79 16-20 105. Portland 25 31 19 25—100 Cleveland 17 30 30 28—105 3-Point Goals-Portland 11-26 (McCollum 4-8, Lillard 4-9, Aminu 1-2, Leonard 1-3, Crabbe 1-3, Frazier 0-1), Cleveland 9-21 (Dellavedova

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to three points following a buzzer-beating three-pointer from Roberts before halftime. Brou added a putback and junior guard Jackson Mallory added two free throws in an 8-0 run over the final two minutes. “We were executing but our shots weren’t really falling,” Brou said. “Anytime you are down, you can try to play

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CLEVELAND FORWARD LEBRON JAMES (23) SHOOTS against Portland forward Al-Farouq Aminu (8) during the first half of the Cavaliers’ 105-100 win Tuesday in Cleveland.

Jeff Withey, Utah Min: 13. Pts: 0. Reb: 5. Ast: 0.

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Nets 110, Rockets 105 New York — Brook Lopez scored 24 points, Joe Johnson had 22, and Brooklyn beat Houston to sweep the season series for the first time in 14 years. Thaddeus Young finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Nets, who have recorded two of their six victories this season against Houston. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points in place of injured rookie Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. Marcus Thornton scored a season-high 32 points for the Rockets, who fell behind by 18 points and got quiet nights from stars James Harden and Dwight Howard. Corey Brewer had 22 in extended minutes after starting forward Trevor Ariza was lost to a bruised lower back after 4 minutes. HOUSTON (105) Ariza 1-3 0-0 2, Capela 3-8 0-2 6, Howard 4-5 2-4 10, Beverley 4-10 0-0 10, Harden 2-9 5-6 10, Motiejunas 0-0 0-0 0, Brewer 9-16 0-0 22, Lawson 0-3 0-0 0, Jones 2-5 0-0 5, Thornton 12-18 3-3 32, Terry 2-5 2-2 8. Totals 39-82 12-17 105. BROOKLYN (110) Johnson 9-15 2-3 22, Young 10-13 0-0 20, Lopez 9-14 6-6 24, Jack 4-8 2-2 10, Bogdanovic 8-16 0-2 19, Robinson 1-3 1-1 3, Larkin 0-2 2-2 2, Ellington 3-8 0-0 7, Brown 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 45-81 13-16 110. Houston 24 22 26 33—105 Brooklyn 31 26 23 30—110 3-Point Goals-Houston 15-35 (Thornton 5-8, Brewer 4-8, Terry 2-4, Beverley 2-7, Jones 1-2, Harden 1-5, Ariza 0-1), Brooklyn 7-18 (Bogdanovic 3-7, Johnson 2-5, Brown 1-2, Ellington 1-3, Jack 0-1). Rebounds-Houston 42 (Capela, Howard 9), Brooklyn 45 (Young 12). Assists-Houston 26 (Harden 9), Brooklyn 27 (Jack 9). Total Fouls-Houston 15, Brooklyn 17. A-13,319 (17,732).

Thunder 125, Grizzlies 88 Memphis, Tenn. — Kevin Durant had 32 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma City, and Russell Westbrook added 13 points while matching his

through the adversity or crumble under it, and I thought we did a good job of handling it.” In the first quarter, the Bulldogs (0-2) made their first four shots and frustrated the Lions with their ability to slash into the paint and grab offensive rebounds. Junior guard Tyreese Davis scored 24 points on 8-of14 shooting. Looking to stop Grandview’s drives to the rim, the Lions switched to a 2-3 zone defense. It forced the Bulldogs to settle for long-range jumpers and limited ball movement. Brou

coasted to their second straight win. Serge Ibaka scored 17 for Oklahoma City, and D.J. Augustin had 13. Dion Waiters finished with 12 points. Mario Chalmers led Memphis with 19 points, and JaMychal Green and Marc Gasol had 11 apiece. It was the most points given up by Memphis this season. The Thunder lead was large enough that the starters, including Westbrook and Durant, sat out the fourth quarter.

OKLAHOMA CITY (125) Durant 11-14 6-6 32, Ibaka 8-15 0-0 17, S.Adams 1-5 2-4 4, Westbrook 5-7 2-2 13, Roberson 4-7 2-3 10, Kanter 3-6 0-2 6, Collison 0-1 0-0 0, Waiters 4-8 3-3 12, Augustin 4-7 2-2 13, Morrow 3-4 1-1 8, Singler 1-3 0-0 2, Payne 2-3 0-0 5, Novak 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 47-84 18-23 125. MEMPHIS (88) Je.Green 4-10 1-1 9, Randolph 3-10 3-4 9, Gasol 4-9 3-3 11, Conley 0-7 0-0 0, Allen 2-6 0-0 4, Lee 4-13 0-0 9, Barnes 2-3 0-0 5, Chalmers 6-8 7-8 19, Ja.Green 4-7 3-4 11, Carter 3-7 0-0 7, Smith 1-1 2-2 4. Totals 33-81 19-22 88. Oklahoma City 28 31 39 27—125 Memphis 25 22 16 25 — 88 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 13-26 (Durant 4-5, Augustin 3-5, Morrow 1-1, Novak 1-2, Westbrook 1-2, Payne 1-2, Ibaka 1-2, Waiters 1-3, Singler 0-1, Kanter 0-1, Roberson 0-2), Memphis 3-14 (Barnes 1-2, Carter 1-3, Lee 1-4, Je.Green 0-1, Chalmers 0-1, Conley 0-3). Rebounds-Oklahoma City 53 (Durant 10), Memphis 40 (Randolph 10). Assists-Oklahoma City 31 (Westbrook 16), Memphis 14 (Conley 6). Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 17, Memphis 17. Technicals-Memphis defensive three second 2. A-16,415 (18,119).

Magic 85, Nuggets 74 Denver — Nikola Vucevic had 18 points and 13 rebounds, Evan Fournier hit a big 3-pointer late and Orlando beat Denver. Elfrid Payton finished with 18 points as the Magic snapped a five-game skid against the Nuggets. With the Magic up by two with 2:38 remaining, Fournier knocked down a 3-pointer to give them some breathing room. Orlando has made a 3-pointer in 677 straight games

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for 16 from 3-point range. Reserve Will Barton scored 23 points for the Nuggets, who fell to 0-11 this season when scoring less than 100 points. Kenneth Faried had a rough shooting night, finishing 2 of 12 for seven points.

ORLANDO (85) T.Harris 7-13 3-3 17, Frye 0-3 0-0 0, Vucevic 9-14 0-1 18, Payton 8-15 2-2 18, Fournier 1-7 0-0 3, Oladipo 5-14 1-2 11, Nicholson 4-7 0-0 8, Hezonja 1-3 0-0 2, Smith 0-5 2-2 2, Napier 3-7 0-0 6. Totals 38-88 8-10 85. DENVER (74) Gallinari 5-14 2-2 13, Faried 2-12 3-6 7, Hickson 4-10 2-6 10, Mudiay 2-5 2-2 6, Foye 2-3 0-0 5, Barton 9-23 2-4 23, Arthur 0-1 0-0 0, Nelson 2-8 0-0 6, Jokic 2-6 0-0 4, Miller 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 28-84 11-20 74. Orlando 26 14 22 23—85 Denver 26 21 16 11—74 3-Point Goals-Orlando 1-16 (Fournier 1-4, Nicholson 0-1, Frye 0-2, T.Harris 0-2, Napier 0-3, Oladipo 0-4), Denver 7-24 (Barton 3-10, Nelson 2-5, Foye 1-2, Gallinari 1-4, Mudiay 0-1, Miller 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Orlando 60 (Nicholson 14), Denver 57 (Hickson, Faried 11). Assists-Orlando 14 (Payton 4), Denver 19 (Nelson 5). Total Fouls-Orlando 19, Denver 16. A-13,925 (19,155).

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KANSAS (6-1) F — Perry Ellis (6-8, Sr.) F — Jamari Traylor (6-8, Sr.) G — Frank Mason III (5-11, Jr.) G — Wayne Selden Jr. (6-5, Jr.) G — Devonté Graham (6-2, Soph.)

Tipoff: 7 p.m. today, Allen Fieldhouse. TV: Jayhawk (WOW! channels 37, 226).

Rosters HOLY CROSS 1 — Karl Charles, 6-8, 200, Fr., F, Piscataway, New Jersey. 2 — Anthony Thompson, 5-10, 150, Jr., G, Glenn Dale, Maryland. 4 — Thomas Kennedy, 6-2, 175, Jr., G, East Northport, N.Y. 5 — Cullen Hamilton, 6-2, 185, Sr., G, Washington, D.C. 10 — Pat Benzan, 5-11, 170, Fr., G, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 12 — Christopher Morgan, 6-7, 215, Sr., F, Gloucester, Va. 14 — Marcellis Perkins, 6-4, 185, Fr., G/F, Chesapeake, Virginia. 15 — Patrick Reilly, 6-0, 175, Jr., G, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 20 — Jehyve Floyd, 6-7, 212, Fr., F, Sayreville, New Jersey. 21 — Malachi Alexander, 6-7, 217, Jr., F, Bowie, Maryland. 22 — Robert Champion, 6-6, 203, Jr., G, Charlotte, North Carolina. 24 — Eric Green, 6-4, 191, Sr., G/F, Mountain House, California. 25 — Isaiah Baker, 6-8, 240, Sr., F, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. 31 — Matt Zignorski, 6-2, 170, Fr., G, Sparta, New Jersey. 42 — Matt Husek, 6-11, 240, Jr., C, Stewartsville, New Jersey. Head coach: Bill Carmody. Assistants: Kevin Driscoll, Joe Kennedy, Freddie Owens.

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of the day they can make up for it with other things. If they go out there and want to hustle and use their athletic ability they’ll find a way to defend just fine.” KU lost the rebounding battle against Harvard on Saturday, 39-31. “It’s very disappointing to me we’re not a great rebounding team yet,” Self said. “I thought we’d be a better rebounding team, but if Jamari (Traylor) is starting, he’s not a big guy (6-8). Perry (Ellis) is not a ‘go out and get you 10 boards a game’ guy. Some of our better rebounders are on the bench. We’ve got to do a better job of doing that.” Self did note it was hard to get rebounds against Harvard the first half because KU forced 15 turnovers, decreasing the number of shots. KU has, however, been working on rebounding this week. “Two-on-two rebounding (drills). You have a manager throw it up and miss a shot and we go head-to-head, two-ontwo,” Lucas said. “It’s good for ’em (young bigs). It’s physical and that’s how it should be because that’s how it is in games. They just have to get used to that.” l More on minutes: Self said he may tinker with the starting lineup tonight. He’s had a regular five of Traylor, Ellis, Frank Mason III, Devonté Graham and Wayne Selden Jr. “Jamari tweaked his ankle yesterday. Landen is nursing a toe (injury). There’s no reason to think they can’t play,” Self said, reiterating he wants to get Hunter Mickelson, Diallo and Bragg more minutes. “Why would we want

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.

to go into conference play without seeing what he can do, because he hasn’t really had a chance to show it?” Self said of the 6-10 Mickelson. “You could say the same thing for Carlton. You could say the same thing for Cheick. Landen to me has had a chance. Perry has had a chance obviously. Jamari has had chances. I’m not saying those guys aren’t going to play. They are going to play, don’t get me wrong. I’m not demoting. None of that stuff. “I do think we need to make a conscious effort to try to get those other guys as many minutes so that way we have a true understanding of what our team is,” Self said. “I don’t want to go into February saying, ‘You know ... I think ... maybe,’ because that’s not the best way to do it. Anybody who thinks it’s easy to squeeze six guys (bigs) into 80 minutes, doesn’t really understand. It’s kind of hard to do when one of them is a preseason All-American.” He added: “We don’t want to lose games at the expense of guys’ playing time. I don’t care what anybody says. The guys we played the other night (vs. Harvard) gave us the best chance to win the game.” l About Holy Cross: Patriot League member Holy Cross is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, with an enrollment of 2,904 ... The Crusaders are coached by Bill Carmody who is in his first season at Holy Cross with a 3-5 record and his 18th season overall with a 287-250 mark. ... Junior forward Malachi Alexander leads Holy Cross with an 11.1 scoring average and 6.0 rebounds per game. He is also the team leader with 24 assists through eight games and is second with 11 threepointers made. Senior G Cullen Hamilton averages 10.0 ppg.

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Wait painted the picture of a team that did not quite know what to expect. “Definitely just the fact that we can play our game,” said Wait of what she learned from her previous regional appearance. “We control what’s going on on our side of the net, fall back on what we’ve learned all season and keep doing that. If we control our side of the court, we control that first contact (and) we can play with anyone in the nation.” Added Bechard: “Anytime you do something for the first time, there’s a

little bit of road of discovery and we didn’t play our best against Washington. I think we got caught up a little bit in the style and what they were doing.” Big 12 setter of the year Ainise Havili is one of the main reasons Bechard believes this time around could be different. Bechard called the sophomore setter a silent assassin and said that her ability to perform at a high level and compete at levels beyond that set the tone for this team all season. Havili, who ranks second in the nation in assists per set and was a two-time Big 12 player of the week, was remarkably consistent throughout the season. She, along with sophomore outside hitter Kelsie Payne — another

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 first-team all-Big 12 selection — led the Jayhawks to a school-record .313 hitting percentage (third in the NCAA) and also fueled an attack that ranked second nationally in kills per set at 15.4. “I don’t think we’ve had too many peaks and valleys,” Bechard said. “That gives you hope, as a coach, that your team’s gonna show up and not lay an egg and be very competitive.” The goal, of course, is to be more than competitive. But the Jayhawks are trying to keep things as simple as possible. The weekly routine will be the same in terms of team meals and meetings and strategy sessions, and the hope, according to Bechard, is that the team emerges

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from the weekend with a 2-0 record. Sure, if that happens, it will tack two more firsts onto an already remarkable season — first Elite Eight and first Final Four. But the way this group achieved all of those others was by focusing on the smallest details — “Essential Intent” was the slogan they emphasized all season — and letting the big picture sort itself out. “We’ve gotta be hungry,” Bechard said. “I know at home at Horejsi, there’s obviously a lot of stimuli going on and there’s not gonna be that type of crowd in San Diego, but the stakes are higher. We need to sense that, the team needs to be hungry and I think we will be.”

JAYHAWK VOLLEYBALL AT A GLANCE By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com The following is a closer look at the 16 Jayhawks who helped the Kansas University volleyball team reach its second ever Sweet 16 in NCAA Tournament play. Today, ninth-ranked KU will head to San Diego, where it will face Loyola-Marymount at 7:30 p.m. Friday with a spot in the Elite Eight on the line. 1 – Anna Church Year: Senior Height: 5-foot-8 Position: Defensive Specialist Hometown: Fairway, Kansas Season highlight: Recorded 15 digs twice this season, at Oklahoma and at Kansas State. Noteworthy: Transferred to KU from St. Louis during the offseason. 2 – Tori Miller Year: Sophomore Height: 5-foot-8 Position: Defensive Specialist/Libero Hometown: Derby, Kansas Season highlight: Recorded an ace and two digs in four sets at Oklahoma. Noteworthy: Has competed in 10 different USA Volleyball tournaments, including winning the 2011 USAVB Show Me Junior National Qualifier. 3 – Kayla Cheadle Height: 6-foot-1 Year: Sophomore Position: Middle Blocker Hometown: Columbia, Missouri Season highlight: Finished with six kills and a .500 hitting percentage in win over South Dakota State. Noteworthy: Twin sister Chayla plays for the KU women’s basketball team. 5 – Cassie Wait Height: 5-foot-8 Year: Junior Position: Libero Hometown: Gardner, Kansas Season highlight: Her 513 digs this season made her just the second Jayhawk in history (Bri Riley) to record 500+ digs in back-to-back seasons. Noteworthy: Wait is the first

person in her family to attend KU. Father, Darrell, and brother, Kyle, both ran track at Kansas State. 6 – Ashlyn Driskill Year: Senior Height: 6-foot Position: Outside Hitter Hometown: Valley Center, Kansas Season highlight: Recorded three aces and five kills in a win over Western Illinois. Noteworthy: Before coming to KU, Driskill graduated from Wichita State in three years with a chemistry degree. 7 – Tiana Dockery Year: Senior Height: 5-foot-10 Position: Outside Hitter Hometown: Richmond, Texas Season highlight: Became the first Jayhawk in school history to play in the NCAA Tournament during all four years of her career. Noteworthy: Earned a spot on the 2012 all-Big 12 freshman team and honorable mention honors on the 2014 all-Big 12 team. 8 – Kelsie Payne Year: Sophomore Height: 6-foot-3 Position: Right-side Hitter Hometown: Austin, Texas Season highlight: Delivered a three-match stretch of 20 kills or more in early November, including recording 23 in a five-set thriller against Texas. Noteworthy: Owns nearly a dozen school records at John B. Connally High in Austin, where she was named the District MVP as a junior and twice named to the All-District and Academic-All-District teams. 9 – Claire Carpenter Height: 5-foot-9 Year: Sophomore Position: Defensive Specialist/Libero Hometown: Rockwall, Texas Season highlight: Aced McNeese State three times in eight tries during an earlyseason victory. Noteworthy: Was the team captain for her club team, Skyline Juniors, for three consecutive seasons and earned club MVP honors in 2012.

10 – Tayler Soucie Height: 6-foot-1 Year: Junior Position: Middle Blocker Hometown: Osawatomie, Kansas Season highlight: Recorded 100-plus blocks for the third consecutive season and moved into sixth place on KU’s alltime blocks list. Noteworthy: Became one of just five Big 12 players to earn a spot on the All-Big 12 first team for the second year in a row. 11 – Ainise Havili Height: 5-foot-10 Year: Sophomore Position: Setter Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas Season highlight: Named Big 12 Setter of the Year honor after leading KU’s offense to a school-record .313 hitting percentage, more than 50 points higher than the previous record of .254. Noteworthy: Earned honorable mention All-America nod from the AVCA as a true freshman in 2014. 12 – Ashley Smith Height: 6-foot Year: Freshman Position: Outside Hitter Hometown: Las Vegas Season highlight: Red-shirting 2015 season. Noteworthy: Led her Shadow Ridge High Mustangs to the first state championship in school history with doubledoubles in kills and digs in the regional final, state semifinal and state title match. 13 – Patricia Montero Height: 5-foot-10 Year: Freshman Position: Outside Hitter Hometown: Ponce, Puerto Rico Season highlight: Red-shirting 2015 season. Noteworthy: Father, Efrain Montero, was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1990 MLB Amateur Draft. 14 – Madison Rigdon Height: 6-foot Year: Sophomore Position: Outside Hitter Hometown: Pflugerville, Texas

Season highlight: Named Big 12 offensive player of the week after recording a career-best .733 hitting percentage in a win over West Virginia. Noteworthy: Was an elitelevel gymnast with Capital Gymnastics in fourth and fifth grade. 16 – Janae Hall Height: 6-foot-1 Year: Junior Position: Middle Blocker Hometown: Centennial, Colorado Season highlight: Recorded seven blocks and seven kills in a September victory over Northern Colorado. Noteworthy: Father, Darryl, played for the NFL’s Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers during an 11-year pro career. 19 – Maggie Anderson Height: 5-foot-8 Year: Junior Position: Setter Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska Season highlight: Served successfully while facing three straight set points in the third set of last week’s secondround victory over Missouri. Thanks to Anderson’s serving touch, KU went on to sweep the Tigers and won the third set, 27-25. Noteworthy: Red-shirted in 2012 and has become known, both in matches and in practice drills, as the player the Jayhawks would want on the line in a tough serving situation. 20 – Addison Barry Height: 5-foot-4 Year: Sophomore Position: Defensive Specialist/Libero Hometown: Topeka Season highlight: Recorded six digs and a perfect 1.000 serve percentage in Sunflower Showdown victory over Kansas State in Lawrence. Noteworthy: Nicknamed “Addie,” Barry won Hayden High’s 2010 Hayden Award, which goes to one male and one female per grade based upon excellence in all phases of student life: academics, spiritual life, activities and athletics.

Free State wrestlers take pair of victories By Chris Duderstadt cduderstadt@ljworld.com

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Big 12 men No. 10 Virginia 70, No. 14 West Virginia 54 New York — Anthony Gill had season highs of 20 points and 12 rebounds, London Perrantes returned from a twogame absence to score 13 points, and Virginia beat West Virginia Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic. In the first game between the schools in 30 years, the Cavaliers (8-1) had trouble all game with West Virginia’s pressure and switching defenses. They trailed by as many as 12 points late in the first half. WEST VIRGINIA (7-1) Holton 3-6 1-2 8, Carter 1-9 2-3 4, Miles Jr. 1-8 2-4 4, Ahmad 2-4 0-1 4, Williams 3-6 4-4 10, Paige 7-11 1-2 16, Adrian 1-1 0-0 2, Phillip 2-4 1-1 5, Watkins 0-0 0-0 0, Macon 0-1 1-4 1. Totals 20-50 12-21 54. VIRGINIA (8-1) Gill 9-11 2-4 20, Brogdon 5-10 4-4 14, Perrantes 5-6 0-0 13, Salt 1-2 0-0 2, Thompson 4-7 2-2 10, Hall 1-2 2-4 4, Shayok 0-1 0-0 0, Tobey 0-0 0-0 0, Nolte 0-1 1-2 1, Wilkins 2-3 2-4 6, Reuter 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-43 13-20 70. Halftime-West Virginia 36-30. 3-Point Goals-West Virginia 2-14 (Holton 1-3, Paige 1-4, Carter 0-2, Miles Jr. 0-5), Virginia 3-8 (Perrantes 3-3, Shayok 0-1, Thompson 0-1, Brogdon 0-3). Fouled Out-Williams. ReboundsWest Virginia 24 (Carter 5), Virginia 29 (Gill 12). Assists-West Virginia 10 (Holton 4), Virginia 13 (Perrantes 4). Total Fouls-West Virginia 24, Virginia 22. A-NA.

No. 16 Baylor 75, Northwestern State 62 Waco, Texas — Rico Gathers scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 21 rebounds, helping Baylor pull away for the win. Gathers was 12 of 20 from the field in his fourth consecutive double-double and had a season high in rebounds. NORTHWESTERN ST. (1-7) Lane 4-6 0-1 8, Hall 5-9 2-2 12, Thompson 2-7 6-6 11, Woodley 8-19 3-3 21, Walker 0-2 0-0 0, Yancy 2-2 0-0 4, Welcome 2-4 2-2 6, Killian 0-0 0-0 0, Metoyer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-49 13-14 62. BAYLOR (7-1) Gathers 12-20 7-8 31, Prince 5-13 1-1 11, Medford 2-5 2-2 6, Wainright 4-11 0-0 8, Freeman 6-13 2-3 15, Lindsey 1-2 0-0 2, Motley 0-1 0-0 0, McClure 0-1 0-0 0, Maston 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 31-67 12-14 75. Halftime-Baylor 39-38. 3-Point GoalsNorthwestern St. 3-13 (Woodley 2-6, Thompson 1-3, Walker 0-1, Hall 0-1, Welcome 0-2), Baylor 1-13 (Freeman 1-5, Medford 0-1, McClure 0-1, Prince 0-3, Wainright 0-3). ReboundsNorthwestern St. 18 (Hall 5), Baylor 47 (Gathers 21). Assists-Northwestern St. 16 (Hall 8), Baylor 19 (Medford 7). Total Fouls-Northwestern St. 15, Baylor 14. A-4,627.

Texas 116, Texas-San Antonio 50 Austin, Texas — Cam Ridley scored 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds as Texas produced a season-high points in defeating Texas-San Antonio. The Longhorn center converted 9 of 12 shots — including five dunks — while posting a seasonbest in scoring. He also made four blocks. Freshman Tevin Mack added a season-high 17 points. TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO (1-8) Allen 0-2 0-0 0, O’Brien 0-2 0-0 0, Littles 2-5 2-3 6, Karrer 1-3 0-1 2, Bowie 2-10 5-7 10, Scruggs 0-1 0-0 0, Matthews 5-8 1-1 12, Massie 1-2 1-2 3, Jones 1-5 1-4 3, Ringholt 0-0 0-0 0, Cockrell 3-8 0-2 6, Billingsley 2-6 4-7 8. Totals 17-52 14-27 50. TEXAS (5-3) Lammert 1-4 0-0 2, Ridley 9-12 1-2 19, Taylor 3-4 2-2 8, Holland 3-4 0-2 8, Felix 1-4 0-0 3, Mack 7-11 1-2 17, Newsome 3-4 0-0 9, Yancy 2-2 0-0 4, Davis Jr. 3-7 2-2 11, Roach Jr. 4-5 4-6 14, Schwartz 0-2 1-3 1, McClurg 2-2 0-1 4, Cleare 2-2 0-0 4, Barnett 4-5 2-2 12. Totals 44-68 13-22 116. Halftime-Texas 56-17. 3-Point GoalsTexas-San Antonio 2-17 (Matthews 1-3, Bowie 1-6, Littles 0-1, Massie 0-1, Scruggs 0-1, Allen 0-1, Billingsley 0-1, Jones 0-1, O’Brien 0-1, Karrer 0-1), Texas 15-30 (Newsome 3-4, Davis Jr. 3-5, Holland 2-3, Barnett 2-3, Roach Jr. 2-3, Mack 2-5, Felix 1-4, Schwartz 0-1, Lammert 0-2). Fouled Out-Cleare. Rebounds-Texas-San Antonio 27 (Bowie 5), Texas 42 (Ridley 9). AssistsTexas-San Antonio 6 (Littles 3), Texas 23 (Davis Jr., Taylor 5). Total FoulsTexas-San Antonio 21, Texas 24. A-9,657.

No. 12 Xavier 90, Wright State 55 Cincinnati — Trevon Bluiett scored a careerhigh 22 points, and Xavier went on a 25-point run during a runaway victory that moved the Musketeers to 9-0 for the first time in seven years. Bluiett also had 11 rebounds in his second straight double-double and his third of the season. Xavier pulled ahead by 42 points before resting its starters. WRIGHT ST. (3-6) Yoho 0-5 0-0 0, Karena 5-7 0-0 10, Minnis 3-6 1-2 7, Benzinger 2-6 2-3 6, Thomasson 1-6 0-0 3, Collie 0-0 0-0 0, Hughes 0-4 0-0 0, Vest 1-3 0-0 2, Mitchell 3-7 1-1 7, Mortensen 2-6 0-0 5, Stacey 2-2 0-0 6, Ernsthausen 0-1 0-0 0, Alstork 1-6 0-0 3, R. Davis 3-4 0-2 6. Totals 23-63 4-8 55. XAVIER (9-0) Reynolds 4-10 2-3 10, Sumner 1-6 1-1 3, Bluiett 7-12 3-3 22, Abell 1-5 6-6 8, Davis 3-6 5-5 13, Austin Jr. 1-4 3-6 5, Farr 2-6 3-3 7, London 1-2 0-0 3, Stainbrook 0-0 0-0 0, Gates 0-3 0-0 0, O’Mara 2-2 3-5 7, Macura 4-8 2-2 12. Totals 26-64 28-34 90. Halftime-Xavier 49-21. 3-Point GoalsWright St. 5-27 (Stacey 2-2, Alstork 1-2, Thomasson 1-5, Mortensen 1-5, Ernsthausen 0-1, Minnis 0-1, Vest 0-2, Yoho 0-2, Benzinger 0-3, Hughes 0-4), Xavier 10-23 (Bluiett 5-8, Macura 2-4, Davis 2-4, London 1-2, Sumner 0-1, Gates 0-1, Abell 0-3). Fouled OutBenzinger, Karena. Rebounds-Wright St. 31 (Alstork, Thomasson 6), Xavier 54 (Bluiett 11). Assists-Wright St. 13 (Minnis, Mitchell 3), Xavier 20 (Abell 4). Total Fouls-Wright St. 25, Xavier 13. A-10,178.

No. 6 Maryland 76, Connecticut 66 New York — Melo Trimble scored a seasonhigh 25 points and freshman Diamond Stone had 16 as Maryland took a 20-point lead in the first half and went on to beat Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.

No. 17 Miami 66, Florida 55 Coral Gables, Fla. — Sheldon McClellan scored 24 points, and Miami overcame an off night offensively with scrappy defense. The Hurricanes held Florida to 39 percent shooting, including 1 for 12 from 3-point range. Miami shot a season-low 39 percent overall, but made 7 of 17 3-pointers and shot 79 percent from the line.

MARYLAND (8-1) Carter 4-6 0-1 8, Layman 3-9 2-2 8, Dodd 1-1 1-2 3, Sulaimon 3-6 2-3 8, Trimble 5-10 14-15 25, Brantley 0-0 0-0 0, Nickens 2-3 0-0 6, Bender 0-0 0-0 0, Cekovsky 1-4 0-1 2, Ram 0-0 0-0 0, Stone 6-16 4-5 16. Totals 25-55 23-29 76. UCONN (5-3) Hamilton 8-19 4-4 23, Miller 5-12 2-2 12, Brimah 1-2 0-0 2, Gibbs 4-10 2-2 12, Purvis 4-11 1-4 11, Nolan 0-0 0-0 0, Adams 2-5 0-0 4, Cassell Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Facey 1-1 0-0 2, Enoch 0-0 0-0 0, Calhoun 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-60 9-12 66. Halftime-Maryland 38-22. 3-Point Goals-Maryland 3-14 (Nickens 2-3, Trimble 1-4, Carter 0-1, Sulaimon 0-3, Layman 0-3), UConn 7-17 (Hamilton 3-6, Gibbs 2-5, Purvis 2-6). ReboundsMaryland 45 (Carter 11), UConn 24 (Brimah 7). Assists-Maryland 9 (Trimble 3), UConn 8 (Adams, Hamilton, Purvis 2). Total FoulsMaryland 14, UConn 18. TechnicalUConn Bench. A-19,812.

FLORIDA (6-2) Hill 1-7 2-3 4, Robinson 5-10 1-1 11, Allen 2-7 0-0 4, Finney-Smith 4-7 3-8 12, Egbunu 5-10 4-4 14, Walker 0-0 0-0 0, Francis-Ramirez 2-7 0-0 4, Chiozza 1-4 0-0 2, Hodskins 0-0 0-0 0, Hayes 1-2 0-0 2, Leon 1-3 0-0 2, Rimmer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-57 10-16 55. MIAMI (8-1) Reed 2-8 0-0 5, McClellan 7-12 7-8 24, Rodriguez 5-8 4-4 17, Murphy 3-7 2-4 8, Jekiri 3-4 3-4 9, Newton 0-2 3-4 3, Palmer 0-3 0-0 0, Izundu 0-3 0-0 0, Cruz Uceda 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 20-51 19-24 66. Halftime-Miami 33-24. 3-Point Goals-Florida 1-12 (Finney-Smith 1-2, Robinson 0-1, Allen 0-1, Leon 0-1, Francis-Ramirez 0-2, Chiozza 0-2, Hill 0-3), Miami 7-17 (McClellan 3-4, Rodriguez 3-5, Reed 1-4, Murphy 0-1, Palmer 0-1, Cruz Uceda 0-2). Fouled Out-Chiozza, Hill. Rebounds-Florida 31 (Finney-Smith, Robinson 6), Miami 42 (Jekiri 9). Assists-Florida 7 (Chiozza 3), Miami 9 (Newton 3). Total FoulsFlorida 23, Miami 17. A-7,972.

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No. 19 SMU 82, Michigan 58 Dallas — Jordan Tolbert got most of his 23 points on rim-rattling slam dunks and had nine rebounds as SMU stayed undefeated. Nic Moore had 15 points, including backto-back 3-pointers before assisting on consecutive dunks by Tolbert during a 13-2 run late in the first half that put the Mustangs (7-0) in total control. Tolbert had nine dunks and finished 11-of-12 shooting. MICHIGAN (6-3) Abdur-Rahkman 6-10 1-4 15, Irvin 4-10 0-0 9, LeVert 1-13 3-6 5, Dawkins 1-4 2-2 5, Doyle 2-4 0-0 4, Albrecht 1-2 0-0 3, Chatman 1-4 0-0 2, Wilson 0-1 0-0 0, Wagner 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson 5-10 0-0 15, Donnal 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-60 6-12 58. SMU (7-0) B. Moore 2-4 4-4 8, Brown 4-6 0-0 9, Frazier 5-12 3-4 15, Kennedy 0-1 0-0 0, N. Moore 5-11 2-2 15, Milton 1-4 0-0 3, Foster 3-4 2-4 9, Tolbert 11-12 1-2 23. Totals 31-54 12-16 82. Halftime-SMU 36-22. 3-Point GoalsMichigan 10-36 (Robinson 5-9, AbdurRahkman 2-6, Albrecht 1-2, Dawkins 1-4, Irvin 1-5, Donnal 0-1, Wilson 0-1, Chatman 0-2, LeVert 0-6), SMU 8-15 (N. Moore 3-4, Frazier 2-6, Brown 1-1, Milton 1-2, Foster 1-2). ReboundsMichigan 20 (Dawkins, Doyle 4), SMU 45 (Brown, B. Moore 10). AssistsMichigan 12 (Irvin 9), SMU 21 (N. Moore 7). Total Fouls-Michigan 13, SMU 10. Technical-Frazier. A-7,245.

Kalim Dowdell had 22 points to lead three Eagles in double figures as Veritas Christian’s boys basketball teamdefeated Eagle Heights Christian 82-59 on their home court Tuesday. Miles Dressler scored 19 points and Chad Steiben added 13 as Veritas led throughout

the game. Dowdell also pulled down 16 rebounds for Veritas. “We were a little sluggish, but we figured out how to play basketball the last 12 minutes,” Veritas coach Carl Huslig said. Paris Parker and Nic Shipman scored 22 points apiece for the visitors. Veritas (3-0) will host Topeka Cornerstone on Friday.

Eagle Heights 11 16 17 15—59 Veritas 16 19 23 24—82 Veritas scoring: Kalim Dowdell 22, Miles Dressler 19, Chad Stieben 13, Trey Huslig 9, Mark Weinhold 6, Michael Rask 5, Weston Flory 4, River Welch 2, Peyton Donohoe 2.

Bonner Springs 52, Eudora 45 Eudora — Seniors Austin Downing and Jomain Rouser both scored 12 points each, but Eudora High’s boys basketball team lost, 52-45, against

MONTANA (3-4) Breunig 7-12 6-7 20, Krslovic 3-6 0-0 6, Wright 6-16 0-0 14, Oguine 0-8 0-2 0, Gfeller 3-11 0-0 9, Moorehead 1-3 0-0 2, Lopez 2-3 2-2 7, Boehning 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-61 8-11 58. GONZAGA (6-2) Sabonis 5-7 6-6 16, Wiltjer 6-16 2-2 16, Dranginis 0-5 0-0 0, Perkins 5-11 2-4 13, McClellan 4-8 2-2 11, Melson 0-5 0-1 0, Alberts 0-0 0-0 0, Edwards 2-2 0-0 4, Triano 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 22-55 13-17 61. Halftime-Gonzaga 29-23. 3-Point Goals-Montana 6-21 (Gfeller 3-10, Wright 2-5, Lopez 1-1, Moorehead 0-2, Oguine 0-3), Gonzaga 4-15 (Wiltjer 2-5, McClellan 1-2, Perkins 1-4, Triano 0-1, Melson 0-1, Dranginis 0-2). ReboundsMontana 36 (Krslovic 9), Gonzaga 41 (Sabonis 10). Assists-Montana 12 (Wright 3), Gonzaga 9 (Perkins 3). Total Fouls-Montana 21, Gonzaga 13. A-6,000.

Bonner Springs in the Eudora Invitational semifinals. The Cardinals (1-2) will face Olathe Northwest in the third-place game at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Bonner 9 19 13 11—52 Eudora 23 10 2 10—45 Bonner Springs scoring: A. McGee 7, D. McGee 16, Roark 13, Byers 2, Jackson 14. Eudora scoring: Downing 12, J. Rouser 12, Tolefree 11, Fawcett 6, Elston 4.

BRIEFLY more setter Ainise Havili, sophomore right-side hitter Kelsie Payne, and junior middle blocker Tayler Kansas University volSoucie. leyball added to its list Bechard and the trio of of accomplishments this Jayhawks will now be conseason as head coach sidered for AVCA national Ray Bechard was named coach of the year and AllAmerican Volleyball CoachAmerica status. es Association Midwest coach of the year and three KU’s Sanni earns Jayhawks were named to the AVCA All-Midwest Retrack & field honor gion first team on Tuesday. Kansas University junior Bechard earns AVCA regional coach of the year Zainab Sanni was named award for the third time in the national female athlete of the week by the U.S. the past four years. Also Track & Field and Cross the 2015 Big 12 coach of Country Coaches Associathe year, Bechard is leadtion on Tuesday. ing ninth-ranked Kansas Sanni had a stellar into its second all-time season debut last week at appearance in the NCAA the Bob Timmons ChalChampionship Regionals lenge. She kicked the with a program-record day off with a win and a .933 winning percentage personal-record time in (28-2). KU’s all-midwest region the 60 meters in a time of 7.41. She picked up another honorees include sopho-

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individual win in the 200 meters (24.18). She closed out her meet running the leadoff leg for the Jayhawks’ 4x400-meter relay squad. Kansas passed the baton around in 3:44.69 to take the win by more than five seconds.

Baker’s Didic is All-American Baldwin City — 2015 Heart of America Conference MVP and defensive player of the year Amer Didic has been named a first-team NAIA Men’s Soccer All-American. Didic was named a third team All-America team in 2014. Joining Didic on the All-America list this season is teammate goalkeeper Ryan Emme, who was named to the third team.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 13 9 .591 — Boston 12 9 .571 ½ New York 10 12 .455 3 Brooklyn 6 15 .286 6½ Philadelphia 1 21 .045 12 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 12 7 .632 — Charlotte 12 8 .600 ½ Atlanta 13 9 .591 ½ Orlando 12 9 .571 1 Washington 9 10 .474 3 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 14 7 .667 — Chicago 11 7 .611 1½ Indiana 12 8 .600 1½ Detroit 12 10 .545 2½ Milwaukee 9 13 .409 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 18 4 .818 — Dallas 13 9 .591 5 Memphis 12 10 .545 6 Houston 10 12 .455 8 New Orleans 5 16 .238 12½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 13 8 .619 — Utah 9 10 .474 3 Minnesota 8 12 .400 4½ Portland 9 14 .391 5 Denver 8 14 .364 5½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 23 0 1.000 — L.A. Clippers 12 9 .571 10 Phoenix 9 13 .409 13½ Sacramento 8 15 .348 15 L.A. Lakers 3 18 .143 19 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 105, Portland 100 Golden State 131, Indiana 123 Brooklyn 110, Houston 105 Oklahoma City 125, Memphis 88 Orlando 85, Denver 74 Sacramento 114, Utah 106 Today’s Games Chicago at Boston, 6 p.m. Houston at Washington, 6 p.m. Miami at Charlotte, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Memphis at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. New York at Utah, 8 p.m. Orlando at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Chicago, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. New York at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

No. 20 Gonzaga 61, Montana 58 Spokane, Wash. — Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis each scored 16 points and Gonzaga held off Montana. Wiltjer made two free throws with 7.5 seconds left for the final points Big 12 Men Big 12 of the game. A 3-point W L attempt by Montana’s Iowa State 0 0 Brandon Gfeller bounced Oklahoma 0 0 Baylor 0 0 off the front rim as time West Virginia 0 0 expired. Kansas 0 0 0 0 Sabonis had 10 re- Kansas State Texas Tech 0 bounds and Wiltjer nine Oklahoma State 0 0 0 0 0 for the Bulldogs (6-2). Texas 0 0 Josh Perkins scored 13 TCU Monday’s Games points and Eric McClelOklahoma 78, Villanova 55 Iowa State 84, Buffalo 63 lan had 11. Tuesday’s Games

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Didic led Baker in goals scored with 10 and shots on goal with 26. He was also key to a Wildcat defense that collected 13 shutout victories. Emme ranked No. 5 in the country in goals against per game at .059 and he ended the season with 43 saves and a 10-2 record in goal.

Honorable mention for two Wildcats Baldwin City — Baker University’s Krista Hooper and Jessica Hillebert were both named to the 2015 NAIA Women’s Soccer honorable mention All-America team. The pair of Wildcats helped lead Baker to a 165-1 record this season and an appearance in the NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championships.

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Virginia 70, West Virginia 54 Baylor 75, Northwestern State 62 Texas 116, UTSA 50 TCU at Washington (n) Today’s Games Coppin State at Kansas State, 7 p.m. (FSKC) Holy Cross at Kansas, 7 p.m. (JTV) Tennessee-Martin at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (FSSW+) Thursday’s Game Iowa at Iowa State, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Friday’s Game Prairie View at TCU, 7 p.m. (FSSW+)

College Men

EAST Army 77, Bryant 55 Duquesne 89, UMBC 70 Fordham 89, LIU Brooklyn 84, OT George Washington 76, Penn St. 66 Harvard 75, Boston U. 69 Maryland 76, UConn 66 Mount St. Mary’s 81, Bucknell 73 Rhode Island 67, Houston 57 Rutgers 75, CCSU 59 Saint Joseph’s 62, Princeton 50 St. Bonaventure 80, Vermont 68 Syracuse 78, Colgate 51 Towson 65, Loyola (Md.) 54 Virginia 70, West Virginia 54 Wagner 65, Rider 64 SOUTH Chattanooga 91, Tenn. Wesleyan 63 Furman 79, Liberty 56 Georgetown (Ky.) 101, Washington Adventist 75 Georgia 74, Winthrop 64 Louisiana Tech 82, LSU-Shreveport 49

Miami 66, Florida 55 N. Iowa 73, George Mason 65 The Citadel 89, Voorhees 85 UCF 67, UMass 63 MIDWEST Bowling Green 79, SE Missouri 52 E. Michigan 86, Rochester (Mich.) 58 Marquette 80, San Jose St. 62 Notre Dame 86, Stony Brook 61 Ohio St. 74, Air Force 50 S. Dakota St. 84, Minnesota 70 South Dakota 79, UMKC 70 Xavier 90, Wright St. 55 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 89, Evansville 76 Baylor 75, Northwestern St. 62 SMU 82, Michigan 58 Stephen F. Austin 87, Henderson St. 54 Texas 116, UTSA 50 Texas-Arlington 97, Bradley 61 Tulsa 90, Iona 81 FAR WEST Gonzaga 61, Montana 58 Grand Canyon 70, Southern U. 56 Idaho St. 66, Portland 65

Big 12 Women

Big 12 Overall W L W L Baylor 0 0 9 0 Oklahoma State 0 0 7 0 Texas 0 0 7 0 Kansas State 0 0 7 1 Oklahoma 0 0 7 1 Texas Tech 0 0 5 1 TCU 0 0 6 2 West Virginia 0 0 6 2 Kansas 0 0 4 3 Iowa State 0 0 4 3 Monday’s Game Kansas State 61, Texas Rio Grande Valley 43 Today’s Games Idaho at Texas Tech, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Tulsa, 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at TCU, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Game UMKC at Kansas, 7 p.m. (TWCSC) Friday’s Game Iowa at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

College Women

Maryland 97, Loyola (Md.) 47 SE Missouri 84, Lipscomb 69 Virginia 68, Bowling Green 39 Bradley 68, Kent St. 60 Grand Canyon 76, N. Dakota St. 67 Illinois 78, S. Illinois 64 Indiana 53, Indiana St. 50 Nebraska 85, Evansville 40 North Dakota 78, W. Illinois 67 Wright St. 107, Cincinnati Christian 44

High School

Tuesday at Eudora Invitational Wellsville 14 6 13 16—49 Paola 24 22 16 13—75 Truman Olathe NW

21 10 15 15—61 11 15 15 17—58

Harmon Harrisonville

8 13 15 6—42 16 15 13 12—56

NFL

Monday’s Game Dallas 19, Washington 16 Thursday, Dec. 10 Minnesota at Arizona, 8:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 Detroit at St. Louis, 1 p.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Cleveland, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Seattle at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Dallas at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. New England at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14 N.Y. Giants at Miami, 8:30 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Extended their working agreement with Delmarva (SAL) through the 2018 season. BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned RHP Roman Mendez outright to Pawtucket (IL). DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Mark Lowe on a two-year contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Zack Greinke on a six-year contract. Designated RHP A.J. Schugel for assignment.

BHS takes two in tourney Boys

Girls

Baldwin 72, Anderson County 53 Louisburg — The Baldwin High boys basketball team has matched its win total of a year ago three games into the season. The Bulldogs improved to 3-0 on the year with a 72-53 victory Tuesday against Anderson County in the second game for each team in the BulldogWildcat Classic.

Baldwin 62, Anderson County 39 Louisburg — The Baldwin High girls forced Anderson County into 19 first-half turnovers as they cruised to a 62-39 victory Tuesday in the Bulldog-Wildcat Classic. Baldwin senior Kyna Smith led all scorers with 18 points and connected on five three-pointers.

Baldwin 16 22 23 11—72 Anderson Co. 11 17 18 7—53 Baldwin scoring: Jackson Barth 14, Tanner Jackman 11, Braxton George 4, Jeremy Williams 15, Jayce Dighans 10, Nick Pattrick 6, Austin Ward 6, Hunter Ramirez 6.

Baldwin 19 17 13 13—62 Anderson Co. 6 12 13 8—39 Baldwin scoring: Fayth Peterson 2, Abby Ogle 10, Taylor Cawley 11, Kyna Smith 18, Madeline Neufeld 7, Lily Fursman 3, Riley O’Rourke 6, Kayla Kurtz 5.

Free State girls cruise, 59-12 J-W Staff Reports

Kansas City, Mo. — Madison Piper scored 21 points, and Free State High claimed a 59-12 girls basketball victory over Central Academy on Tuesday night.

Free State 13 15 22 9 — 59 Central Academy 5 2 4 1 — 12 Free State — C. Thomas 2 0-0 4, C. Schlesener 4 (1) 0-0 9, J. Bishop 2 (1) 0-0 5, M. Piper 9 (3) 0-0 21, H. Walter 1 0-2 2, J. McKay 2 (1) 0-0 5, S. Jadlow 1 1-2 3, P. Brown 3 0-0 6, E. Cushing 1 0-0 2, C. Bowen 1 0-0 2. Totals 25 (6) 1-4 59. Central Academy — Willard 1(1) 0-0 3, Martin 1 0-0 2, James- Lewis 2 1-2 5, Roath 0 1-2 1, Kenny 0 1-2 0. Totals 4 (1) 3-6 12.

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(First published in the certain tract of real estate “City”), hereby gives noLawrence Daily Journal- located in Clay County, tice of its intent to enter World December 9, 2015) Kansas. into a Lease Agreement with 800 New Hampshire, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Our office represents your LLC or assigns in connecCLAY COUNTY, KANSAS sister, KIM Y. KRAMER, as tion with the proposed isthe representative of your suance of taxable indusIn the Matter of the mother’s estate. trial revenue bonds by the Estate of City. The bonds are proAUDREY DOBERER Would you please contact posed to be issued by the Deceased our office immediately, our City under the authority of address and phone num- K.S.A. 12 1740 et seq., as Case No. 15 PR 32 ber is: amended. A copy of this Notice, together with a NOTICE TO HEIR AT LAW RYAN & MULLIN, P.A. copy of the inducement AND BENEFICIARY 509 Court St., P.O. Box 205 resolution adopted by the Clay Center, KS City for the proposed projTO KEVIN S. DOBERER, you 67432 (785) 632-5666 ect will be on file in the ofare notified that: Attorney for fice of the City Clerk and Representative will be available for public Your mother, AUDREY ________ inspection during normal DOBERER died on October business hours. Dated: De(First published in the 17, 2015. The family has cember 8, 2015 Lawrence Daily Journalnot been able to locate you in order to inform you, World December 9, 2015) City of Lawrence, Kansas KEVIN S. DOBERER, of your Brandon McGuire NOTICE OF INTENT TO mother’s death. Acting City Clerk ENTER INTO LEASE ________ AGREEMENT KEVIN S. DOBERER, you are (First published in the also a named devisee and legatee in your mother’s Public notice is hereby Lawrence Daily JournalLast Will and Testament given in accordance with World December 9, 2015) 12-1744e, as and you are entitled to re- K.S.A. ceive a distribution from amended, that the City IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, her estate. You are also a Commission of the City of Kansas (the KANKSAS remainderman owner of a Lawrence,

DIVISION 1 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MARK WESLEY CLINE, Deceased. Case No. 2013 PR 91 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition has been filed in this Court by JULIET E. CLINE, the duly appointed, qualified and acting Administrator of the Estate of MARK WESLEY CLINE, deceased, requesting that Petitioner’s acts be approved; an account be deemed waived; the heirs be determined; the Valid Settlement Agreement be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorney’s fees and expenses are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate

classiﬁeds@ljworld.com be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as the Executor of the Estate of MARK WESLEY CLINE, deceased, and the Petitioner and the surety on Petitioner’s bond be released from further liability. You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before December 31, 2015, 9:00 A.M. in the Douglas County District Court, at 111 E 11th, Lawrence, KS 66044-2966, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition. Kathleen R. Urbom #10804 URBOM LAW OFFICES CHARTERED 3024 SW Wanamaker Road, Suite 103 Topeka, KS 66614 Telephone: 785.861.7100 Facsimile: 785.215.6122

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THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, (First published in the creditors and assigns of Lawrence Daily Journal- any deceased defendants; World December 9, 2015) the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unIN THE DISTRICT COURT known officers, succesOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, sors, trustees, creditors KANSAS CIVIL and assigns of any defendDEPARTMENT ants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corpoNew Penn Financial, LLC rations; the unknown exd/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage ecutors, administrators, Servicing devisees, trustees, crediPlaintiff, tors, successors and assigns of any defendants vs. that are or were partners or in partnership; the unLarry D. Kelley; John Doe known guardians, conser(Tenant/Occupant); Mary vators and trustees of any Doe (Tenant/Occupant); defendants that are Unknown spouse, if any, of minors or are under any leLarry D. Kelly; Donald E. gal disability; and the unClark, known heirs, executors, Defendants. administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and asCase No. 15CV422 signs of any person alCourt Number: leged to be deceased, and all other persons who are Pursuant to K.S.A. or may be concerned. Chapter 60

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate: LOTS 20 AND 21, IN BLOCK 4, BELMONT ADDITION, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, commonly known as 1436 Prospect Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 19th day of January, 2016, in the District Court of Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt

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785.832.2222 of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered 15CV312, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 12/17/2015, the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building, 111 E. 11th St., Lawrence, Kansas Douglas County Courthouse, the following described real estate located in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to wit:

PASSED BY THE COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 7th day of LOT 6, IN BLOCK 1, IN December, 2015. WESTGATE SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF LAWTHE HONORABLE RENCE, DOUGLAS Sandra Jacquot, Mayor COUNTY, KANSAS. ATTEST: Property Address: 812 Justin Street, Lawrence, LYNLEY SANFORD, KS 66049, Douglas (First published in the City Clerk ________ Lawrence Daily JournalSHERIFF OF DOUGLAS World November 9, 2015) (First published in the COUNTY, KANSAS ORDINANCE NO. 818 Lawrence Daily JournalRespectfully Submitted, World November 25, 2015) AN ORDINANCE FIXING By: SOLID WASTE RATES FOR IN THE DISTRICT COURT Shawn Scharenborg, THE CITY OF LECOMPTON, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS # 24542 KANSAS, AMENDING ORDIKANSAS Michael Rupard, NANCE NO. 809 AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC KS # 26954 Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152 OR Plaintiff, Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN (St. Louis Office) CONFLICT THEREWITH. vs. 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE Erica R. Wheat, Patrick S. Phone: (314) 991-0255 GOVERNING BODY OF THE Wheat , et al., Fax: (314) 567-8006 CITY OF LECOMPTON, KANDefendants. Email:mrupard@km-law.com SAS: Attorney for Plaintiff Case No. 15CV312 _______ SECTION 1. Ordinance No. Division 1 809, which amended ChapK.S.A. 60 ter XV, Article 4, Section Mortgage Foreclosure (First published in the 15-421 (Title to Real Estate Lawrence Daily Journalof the Code of the City of Involved) World December 9, 2015) Lecompton, Kansas is NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S_SALE

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ment in Lot 1, Cornerstone Plaza 2, A Subdivision, in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas (aka 1918 E. 23rd Street) Notice of Hearing The State of Kansas to all persons who are or may be concerned: Take notice that on the 5th day of January, 2016, at 5:45 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, will convene in the Commission meeting room, 1st floor, City Hall, 6 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas for the purpose of conducting a hearing on the petition of Cornerstone Plaza LLC, wherein prayer is made to vacate a portion of a utility easement in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, located at 1918 E 23rd Street. Description of area to be vacated: A PORTION OF AN EXISTING EASEMENT TO BE VACATED IN LOT 1 CORNERSTONE PLAZA 2, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SUBDIVISION; THENCE WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SUBDIVISION SOUTH 87°02’28” WEST, 10.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01°47’59” WEST 84.00 FEET TO POINT ON THE EXISTING 10 EXISTING UTILITY EASEMENT AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 01°47’59” WEST 65.50 FEET ALONG SAID EASEMENT; THENCE NORTH 87°02’28” EAST, 3.25 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01°47’59” EAST 65.50 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 87°02’28” WEST, 3.25 FEET;TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. CONTAINS 212.8 SQUARE FEET That said petition has been filed in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, and referred to the Governing Body of the City of Law-

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LOT 2, BLOCK 3, IN CHAPARRAL, AN ADDITION TO SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, (First published in the COUNTY, KANSAS IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, Case No. 15CV112 Lawrence Daily JournalKANSAS. K.S.A. 60 World November 25, 2015) Respectfully Submitted, Property Address: 2736 Mortgage Foreclosure IN THE DISTRICT COURT By: Maverick Lane, Lawrence, (Title to Real Estate OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Shawn Scharenborg, KS 66046-5150, Douglas Involved) KANSAS KS # 24542 Michael Rupard, NOTICE OF SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. KS # 26954 SHERIFF’S_SALE COUNTY, KANSAS Plaintiff, Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. Under and by virtue of an Respectfully Submitted, vs. (St. Louis Office) Order of Sale issued by the 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 Clerk of the District Court By: John Starkey (Deceased), St. Louis, MO 63141 in and for the said County Shawn Scharenborg, et al., Phone: (314) 991-0255 of Douglas, State of Kan- KS # 24542 Defendants. Fax: (314) 567-8006 sas, in a certain cause in Michael Rupard, Email:mrupard@km-law.com said Court Numbered KS # 26954 Case No. 15CV70 Attorney for Plaintiff 15CV112, wherein the par- Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152 K.S.A. 60 _______ ties above named were re- Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. spectively plaintiff and de- (St. Louis Office) Mortgage Foreclosure fendant, and to me, the un- 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 (First published in the (Title to Real Estate Lawrence Daily Journal- dersigned Sheriff of said St. Louis, MO 63141 Involved) County, directed, I will of- Phone: (314) 991-0255 World November 25, 2015) fer for sale at public auc- Fax: (314) 567-8006 NOTICE OF tion and sell to the highest Email:mrupard@km-law.com IN THE DISTRICT COURT SHERIFF’S_SALE bidder for cash in hand at Attorney for Plaintiff OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, 10:00 AM, on 12/17/2015, _______ KANSAS Under and by virtue of an the Jury Assembly Room Order of Sale issued by the of the District Court loWILMINGTON SAVINGS Clerk of the District Court cated in the lower level of in and for the said County FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 9, 2015) said Court Numbered 15CV70, wherein the parThe following list of vehicles will be sold by Midwest Tow & Recovery at a public ties above named were resealed bid auction for tow, storage and auction fees on December 9, 2015 at 10am at spectively plaintiff and de2401 Ponderosa Dr Lawrence, KS 66046. Bid cards are $20. fendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said 1992 Buick 2G4WB54L3N1445250 Hercha, Jeaneen County, directed, I will of- 1993 Buick 1G4CW53l1p1618149 Gragg, Jackson Loan Max fer for sale at public auc- 1994 Ford 1FTCR14A5RPB26323 Arnold, Nicholas tion and sell to the highest 1997 Dodge 3B7HC13YXVG787544 Mooney, David bidder for cash in hand at Check into Cash of KS LLC 10:00 AM, on 12/17/2015, 1997 Ford 1FALP4041VF150857 Rogers, Shawndra/Jimmy the Jury Assembly Room EZ Payday Advance of the District Court lo- 1997 Acura JH4KA9647VC009528 Saylors, Lisa cated in the lower level of 1999 Mercury 4M2XV11T9XDJ49129 Carter, Billy the Judicial and Law En- 1999 Dodge 4B3AU42N9XE110521 Drake, Barbara forcement Center build- 2000 Pontiac 1G2WR1210YF307757 Out of State ing, 111 E. 11th St., Law- 2001 Honda JHMCG56611C017020 Out of State Douglas 2004 Kia rence, Kansas KNAFB121445309122 Brown, Douglas County Courthouse, the 2005 Honda 5FNRL38215B064918 Augustine, Michael following described real Harris Bank Barrington NA estate located in the 2008 Nissan 1N4BL21E78C166280 Nguyen, Thu/Kenny County of Douglas, State of Import Automotive Kansas, to wit: ________

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Making chicken stock out of leftovers is a great way to cut down on food waste.

WASTE MANAGEMENT How to keep your leftovers out of the garbage this season

ccasionally I get caught up in the food TV shows available on the Internet. Recently while doing some research for this column, I came across a luring episode of “Chopped.” The mystery theme of this edition challenged the contestants to make a threecourse meal with leftovers. Growing up low-income, I immediately scoffed and declared myself the fantasy winner before I let the competition unfold. The problem I found was in the challenge. These leftovers were more like unused snacks from a celebrity chef’s hotel room

and far from what most of us typically think of as standard, neglected refrigerator throw-outs. I had to look away. Disappointed the purpose of the show wasn’t what I hoped, I turned to thinking about all the leftovers that never get consumed. In the U.S., 40 percent of the food we buy is never eaten, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. That’s an average of 20 pounds of food per person each month. Whatever point the Food Network is trying to message, it doesn’t appear that food waste is an issue they

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Rick Martin

to justify any level of food waste. Maybe the easiest and most effective solution are trying to tackle. is to simply waste less at At least they call it a home and demand that our challenge. suppliers do the same. Governments and organiHere are some helpful zations constantly struggle ways to prevent food waste with ways to reduce food during the busy holiday waste on a large scale but season: where does the responsibilThe simple pantry ity really fall? Producers, It’s easy to waste less if consumers, restaurants you buy fewer groceries and institutions are all somewhat accountable. We and choose food that stores well. Keeping a simple know there are too many hungry people in the world pantry not only strength-

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Mexican Hot Chocolate

Spice up hot chocolate for winter

ozy new Christmas jammies, a stack of stories like “Rudolph” and “The Night Before Christmas,” and steamy mugs of hot chocolate with magical melting islands of whipped cream — that’s the vision, right? That’s what gives you the holiday warmfuzzies. Let me tell you how that vision went down one year at our house. We made a huge ceremony of opening our Christmas pajamas in early December — because I like to see my son scamper around like a cozy little elf all month — but the set my husband chose for me was, um, shall we say a bit matronly? Trying to hide my disappointment, I headed to the kitchen to whip up a pot of hot chocolate while the boys got started reading the shiny new Christmas storybooks I’d just bought. Once the hot

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Soup For centuries soup was a second-tier food made from the least expensive ingredients and lots of leftovers. Now it’s a crafted, destination item on many menus. Soup was never meant to be made from ingredients you intentionally went to buy. It was made from the scraps, bones and broth of things left over from the main dishes you made. Get creative with soups and try to only use ingredients from your fridge and pantry. Stock A basic stock is often the most beautiful thing in a chef’s repertoire and the key element of soup. The soul of an efficient kitchen rests in the flavors of an easier-thanyou-think broth. Composting is great, but how many of those veggie scraps could be used for stock? Keep a container of stock scraps in your freezer and always save bones. Portions Quality is so much more important than

Cooking From Scratch

Meryl Carver-Allmond chocolate was ready, I put an ice cube in my son’s to cool it, then took it to the table. But apparently hot chocolate and books were too much to focus on at once. With a clumsy clatter, my son’s hot chocolate went straight down the front of his cuddly new pajamas. My husband rescued the books. My son wailed — heartbroken about his spilled treat — as we stripped the wet

quantity. Food that gets scraped off the plate didn’t even get a chance to be leftovers and that’s a shame. Choose nutrient-dense foods that satisfy in smaller doses and build your plate less than what your stomach demands. You can always get seconds.

Eating out Many of us order with leftovers in mind when dining at restaurants. This is a clever and economical choice to make. But do you ever wonder what your favorite restaurant or grocer is tossing in the garbage while you eat cold pizza for lunch? Ask about the efforts they are making to reduce their waste stream. Some businesses will have a “green” statement displayed on a menu or table tent while

flannel off him and into the washer. His sobbing continued through a smaller mug of hot chocolate and a bath, and we finally — neither of us in cute Christmas jammies — sacked out into bed. I can only share this memory because of all that I’ve learned from it. The next year, there was no ceremony. There wasn’t even really anything you could call a plan. I had some Mexican chocolate in the house because I happened to have used it for another recipe. My son and I both happened to be awake early — both in our usual ratty sleepwear — and I thought, “Why not?” I put his hot chocolate in a sippy cup to avoid spills. But we did read his very favorite Christmas book, “The Polar Express.” And as I half-whispered the familiar words and we cuddled on the couch while the winter

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Donate food Once while teaching a class at Just Food, the Douglas County food pantry, I asked the client/students if they ever donate or share food with others. Everyone in the room raised their hand. An entire classroom struggling to feed their own families made it a point to give to others. Consider donating before you toss perfectly good food. With the holidays in full swing, cooking large meals at home, dining-out and being given unneeded food as a gift are just a part of the season. Buy smart, cook efficiently and give everything you can

sun peeped up, well, I felt some definite holiday warmfuzzies.

Mexican Hot Chocolate Mexican hot chocolate is a spicier, warmer version of its north-of-the-border cousin. It’s based on Mexican chocolate, which contains extra granulated sugar and cinnamon. Abuelita is a good brand to look for, and you can find it in the international section of most of the local Dillions stores.

Ingredients 2 cups milk 1 tablet Abuelita Mexican chocolate (or approximately 3 ounces dark chocolate chips, mixed with a pinch of cinnamon and a teaspoon of sugar) Nutmeg Ground cloves Cayenne pepper

to someone who might need it more. Hopefully you too will rest better knowing everyone was fed and not a crumb was wasted.

Chicken Stock Don’t over-think a stock. If you are using leftovers you are completing the mission. You will get better as you dial in your personal tastes. Reduce stocks for more concentrated flavors. Refrigerate or freeze in increments likely to be used in a recipe. Kitchen Basics is a great store-bought stock if you don’t make your own. Use scrap equivalents when possible.

Ingredients Chicken bones and scraps from one roasted chicken

Optional for serving: Whipped cream 1 cinnamon stick Additional nutmeg Directions Put the milk into a small pot to simmer. Chop or break up the chocolate with your hands. Add the chocolate to the milk, stirring gently until it melts. Add a small pinch of each of the spices, then whisk the hot chocolate mixture furiously to make it nice and frothy. Pour into mugs and top with a generous dollop of whipped cream. Add a cinnamon stick and an extra sprinkle of nutmeg for garnish if you wish. Makes two large mugs of hot chocolate, but you can easily double or triple the recipe for a larger crowd. — Meryl Carver-Allmond writes about chickens, babies, knitting, gardening, food, photography, and whatever else tickles her fancy on any given day at mybitofearth.net.

1 onion, chopped 1 or 2 carrots, peeled and chopped 3 or 4 ribs of celery, chopped 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, cracked Optional: thyme, sage, parsley, leeks, mushroom stems, salt

Directions Combine all ingredients in a 4-quart pot cover with water, and cook over low heat for 3 to 4 hours (don’t boil or stir) or bring to a

simmer and put it in a low oven (below 200 F) for 4 to 6 hours. If you want to strain it, strain it. If you want to skim the fat off the top, fine. If you don’t, don’t. — Rick Martin is executive chef and owner of Limestone Pizza. He is a contract trainer for Lawrence Public Schools Food Service and the Kansas Department of Education Child Nutrition and Wellness, as well as a consulting chef for Just Food Kansas. He has been preparing food for the Lawrence community for over 20 years.

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