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IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S ‌ BEANBOY? A Tonganoxie author incorporates comics into a new young adult novel about a gassy teen superhero.

KNOW THE DRILL The Douglas County family who survived a fire that destroyed their house had practiced fire escapes.

Find out how to do the same.

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Offbeat Occupations Being a waver goes beyond donning a Statue of Liberty costume. Page 3

Mind Matters Any relationship involves creating expectations — just make sure they’re realistic. Page 11

Style Off the Cuff Elements of conventional fashion plus creativity make for a unique look. Page 12

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ON THE COVER: In this file photo, Camay Guillory, second from left, and her children look at what’s left of their rural Douglas County home after a fire destroyed the house Dec. 29, 2011. Members of the Guillory family all escaped safely from the fire, something they had practiced in their home.

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Tips for observing snowy owls and other wildlife

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awrence has had some beautiful visitors from the North this brown winter.

Though not unheard of, visits from snowy owls are definitely an exception to the rule in Kansas. These majestic birds range from the upper 48 states into Canada, the Northwest Territories and Alaska.

If seen south of this normal range, they are assuredly starving.

Biologists have conjectured that a spike in last year’s population of lemmings, the owl’s favorite food, may have led to an associated spike in snowy owl breeding.

This year, the tables have turned for both lemmings and owls. The crash in the lemming population has driven snowies far south of their normal range in search of alternative food sources.

Seeing so many people in Lawrence with snowy owl fever has warmed my heart. Witnessing biophilia, a phrase coined by biologist E.O. Wilson that means the love of living things, is always cause for celebration. It evidences our species awareness of the very real biological connection we share with other beings.

The more we can learn about others, the larger and richer our own lives become.

Though seeing such magnificent birds as snowy owls can be an unforgettable experience, we need to be careful not to add to the stress they are already under by getting too close. Wildlife watching remains one of the most rewarding and least expensive of activities. If you want to see an

Go GREEN KELLY BARTH animal behaving in natural ways, though, here are a couple of important things to remember: O Keep your distance. I read a deceptively simple piece of advice in the park guide for Glacier National Park: “If the animal moves away, you’re too close.”

Though we may not be aware of it, other beings watch us, and, except in rare cases, they’re afraid, and wisely so since we’re one of the biggest and loudest things on the planet. Just as you would a shy person at a party, give animals plenty of space, and you’ve given them the ability to carry on their lives in dignity and privacy.

A good set of binoculars or a scope will allow you to bridge the distance from an

animal that has piqued your curiosity.

O Become part of your surroundings.

Sitting quietly at a safe distance for an extended period does require patience, but you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to glimpse the secret lives of animals. Wearing camouflage gear, like a hunter, can help as well. Wildlife and bird photographers even go so far as to construct blinds in a habitat and capture rare glimpses of their subjects. As a landscape painter, my partner, Lisa Grossman, can attest to the power of extended periods of stillness. She’s had up-close sightings of many animals. Painting near Creede, Colo., she once even had a bluebird land on her head, possibly mistaking her for just another fencepost.

So the next time you’re out for a walk or hike and see an animal, give them the gift of a wide berth. They’ll thank you by giving you a glimpse of their lives.

Speaking of wildlife watching, the annual Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is open to citizen scientists of all abilities and ages. Between Feb. 17–20, write down all the bird species you see and report them online at birdsource.org/gbbc.

Another great event you won’t want to miss out on is the Kaw Valley Seed Project Fair on Feb. 11, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.

— Kelly Barth can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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OFFBEAT OCCUPATIONS:

Not the average 9-to-5

Waver dances to beat of his MP3 player

BY CHANSI LONG

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rayvan Sullivan, 29, swaggers up and down the sidewalk near the corner of Wisconsin and Sixth streets. He is wearing a Statue of Liberty costume with a green velour robe and a 7-point crown. Slung on his shoulders is a large white sign that says “Honk if you Love Liberty.”

Sullivan grins, sways and gestures so drivers will honk their horns. The sky is pale, and every now and then, beads of rain fall from fat gray clouds. It’s only 5 p.m., but the sun has faded pink, and the dominating light comes from the orange glow of street lamps and the yellow beams of car headlights.

Suddenly a driver in a blue sedan honks. A few seconds later, the subtle sound of a horn, barely audible, bleats from a small black car sloshing by. Sullivan grins.

“I just listen (to music), jam out, wave to people and smile. I might blow a few kisses or something like that,” says Sullivan.

Sullivan is a waver for Liberty Tax, 1530 W. Sixth St. It’s the second time he’s performed the gig. Last year he was a waver at Liberty Tax in Shawnee.

“They had a mascot uniform you could put over your shoulders,” he says. “That sucker was heavy, especially when it snowed. … Nobody could see who the heck I was, so I didn’t care.”

Most drivers smile or wave at Sullivan. A few honk. But one or two cast looks of disdain or yell.

“It’s just like any other job that you might have where people aren’t going to like what you do,” says Sullivan. “People flip you off, yell obscenities, but the majority of the people are waving and smiling and honking their horns.”

Tucked under Sullivan’s uniform is an MP3 player. Drake, Rascal Flatts, Little Wayne: music

blasts into a set of ear phones, which rest under Sullivan’s Liberty crown.

“I listen to music I can move and groove to.

If you don’t, it’s going to be boring,” he says.

“When people are driving by and they see this sign, they might have got (their taxes) done … somewhere else and then when they see us out here dancing they think, ‘Huh, that looks pretty interesting, let me go check out Liberty Tax.’ I think it’s very effective.”

Jerry Coatney, an accountant at Liberty Tax, says Sullivan is an ideal waver.

“He’s very outgoing,” says Coatney. “That’s what we look for in wavers. Someone who is not afraid to have fun and go out and dance to show the sign around.”

Sullivan never slumps his shoulders or drags his feet. He dances and waves with energy and enthusiasm.

“I am an energetic person,” says Sullivan. “I get on people’s nerves as is because I’m hyperactive. When I come out here, I can listen to my music, and I can pretty much … act a fool and get away with it.”

The job has challenges.

“It’s a lot harder than it looks,” says Coatney.

“Especially with the weather. It can get very cold.”

Sometimes temperatures plunge into the 20s and teens. So Coatney tries to schedule shorter shifts — not longer than four hours — to keep wavers from freezing.

And Sullivan regularly checks the forecast on his phone before trekking to work so he knows what to expect.

“Earlier I could feel the drizzles, and I was starting to freak out because I didn’t even look at the weather (today),” says Sullivan. But the rain abated. And Sullivan strutted from one end of the sidewalk to the next, blaring his music and dancing, offering a bright smile to the drivers coursing by.

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‘Beanboy’ blows away bullies — with gas Tonganoxie author incorporates comics in young adult novel

BY SARAH HENNING

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o Tucker MacBean, beans aren’t just the magical fruit, they’re a gaspowered ticket to saving his cashstrapped family.

Pretty heady stuff for a middle school kid. And pretty hilarious, too.

“The Adventures of Beanboy” is the most recent young adult book by Tonganoxie author Lisa Harkrader. Available Feb. 14 from Houghton Mifflin at bookstores around Lawrence and on Amazon. com, it’s the story of Tucker, who enters the Dark Overload Sidekick Contest while dealing with the wilds of middle school and the pressure of living in a family dealing with financial hardship.

Harkrader says she got the idea for Tucker while listening to National Public Radio one day, when famed host Garrison Keillor was telling a Lake Wobegon tale on “Prairie Home Companion.” The story was one of two high school boys who used their brains to outsmart and frighten the bullies who were making their lives horrific.

“I thought about bullying and I wanted to figure out a way for someone to overcome that, and I started sort of developing the characters,” says Harkrader, who merged the idea with one she’d had about a comic book-obsessed kid. “And, of course, it’s much different — you wouldn’t think of Garrison Keillor when you read ‘Beanboy,’ but you just kind of develop these things and they just kind of go off on their own (way).”

The book has already received a lot of interest from the young adult set, in part because Harkrader’s first midgrade novel, “Airball: My Life in Briefs,” won a boatload of praise. Various accolades for “Airball” include a win for Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, a nomination for the Texas Lonestar Award, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a mention for New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age. The awards for “Airball” were huge for Harkrader, who had previously been a substitute teacher in addition to being a writer. She says now she freelances and works on her novels exclusively.

While working on “Beanboy,” Harkrader started bouncing ideas off fellow freelancer Nancy Pistorius, meaning Pistorius

TONGANOXIE AUTHOR LISA HARKRADER has a new young adult novel “Beanboy” coming out Feb. 14.

Harkrader displayed her book Jan. 12 at Astrokitty Comics, 15 E. Seventh St. Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

got to see “Beanboy” grow from seed to stalk during frequent “write-ins” at local coffee shops. She says success couldn’t have happened to a better person.

“To paraphrase E.B. White, it’s not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Lisa is both,” Pistorius says. “I was thrilled with Lisa’s ‘Beanboy’ plot and characters from the start and am sharing her excitement as the book finally gets out into the hands of eager young readers.”

Getting the work into the hands of the young readers was doubly complicated by the nature of the book. Not only is it a full-length young adult novel, but Harkrader, a former graphic artist, also illustrated the book in such a way that every few pages a drawing or comic book scene or Post-it note from Tucker’s mom appears. Because she was so concerned about authenticity, Harkrader even enlisted her son Austin, who is now 17, to make sure the book’s nuances were spot-on.

“I still ask him things,” says Harkrader, who also passed ideas by Austin while writing “Airball.” “Small things, like when Tucker says, ‘Oh, if I could do a cartwheel, I’d do one.’ And I said, ‘Austin, can any

boys in your grade do cartwheels?’ And he’s like, ‘I doubt it.’ I’m like, ‘OK, that works.’”

Austin also made an impression on the book’s interior art, which his mother created — mostly. The teenager makes an appearance, and, again, it’s all in the name of getting it right.

“When I had Tucker forge his mother’s signature, I actually had Austin write ‘Mrs. MacBean’ on a piece of paper, so he’s an artist in my book, too,” she says, laughing. “He forged Tucker’s mom’s signature for me because I wanted to make sure it looked like a boy’s signature.”

Family also played a role in the detailing of Tucker’s younger brother, Beecher.

In him, Harkrader created a character with special needs, but didn’t want that to outweigh Tucker’s own story. It’s a decision she made on behalf of her own daughter with special needs, Ashley, who is now 28.

“I’ve noticed in books that have special needs characters or movies or TV shows, the whole focus is on that character’s special needs and how you deal with it,” she says. “I don’t know if some people will be upset because I haven’t focused on Beecher’s special needs, but my point was kind

of he’s just another kid in their family. Not to downplay that he has needs of his own, but he’s just part of the family and that’s just kind of what my point was in doing it that way.”

What’s up next for Harkrader and Tucker MacBean? She’s working on a possible sequel to “Beanboy” and says she may even — for the first time — dabble in having a novel driven by a female protagonist.

“I was a true Nancy Drew addict. I loved Nancy Drew. I wanted to be Nancy Drew,” she says. “And I don’t know why, exactly, I tend to gravitate toward middle-grade stories that have boys in them. Maybe it’s because I’m trying to find an alter ego. … I think at some point it might be fun to have Sam, the antagonist in ‘Beanboy,’ I think it might be fun for her to have her own books at some point. I think she’d have a completely different point of view and voice than Tucker does. I haven’t run this by my agent or editor, so that could be totally shot down, but I was thinking, ‘That would be fun.’”

— Staff writer Sarah Henning can be reached at 832-7187.

{ 5 This Valentine’s Day, consider the gift of song MON D AY, FEBR UAR Y 6, 2012

BY KIM COOK, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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his Valentine’s Day, your gift could be one in a million, or one of 189 million.

The latter’s the number of roses bought every February. The former? A personalized song or custom mixtape.

Some musicians have found a niche taking people’s love stories and turning them into verse and tune. Peoria, Ill.-based Black Balloon Studio, for example, has created and recorded more than 400 custom songs since 2001.

Founder William Beran says the process is simple.

“Have an idea what you want to say.

Some clients have helped write lyrics, others have given us a poem that we worked into a song. Others simply tell us a story and leave the lyrics up to us,” he says.

Beran asks clients about their favorite artists, bands and genres. The company often turns out a song in a couple of days, although he guarantees a finished product — including a lyric sheet and a CD with custom-designed case art —

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in 28 days. If you don’t like how the song’s developing, Beran will tweak things, with a different singer or instruments.

Black Balloon charges $329 for a song, regardless of length. As Beran observes, “Some people have a lot to say.

Some would rather say more with less.”

If you don’t want to go all in on an original song, consider giving a mixtape of favorite songs that mean something to both of you. You can create one pretty easily online and then put the song list on a USB drive to wrap up.

ThinkGeek has a thumb drive that looks like an old cassette tape; add some meaningful tunes, don a handmade label and, depending on your vintage, it’ll be an amusingly evocative nod to high school or college romance.

Check out Howto.cnet.com for instructions on how to personalize USB drives for someone special. You can load them with everything from music to video to scanned artwork and even show tickets.

There are lots of designs available in gadget stores. Smediart.com has a 4-gigabyte wine cork drive for $84.

Meritline.com has a range of designs, including sleek mahogany slivers, pave-studded hearts, cellos, playing cards and bracelet styles (all around $12.99 and 8 gigabytes). If your beloved is a nature lover, consider crafting a drive out of wood: instructions at Techcrunch.com.

Mixandburn.com will professionally mix 10 of your songs for under $15.

You can either pick up in store (check the website locations; FYE is a partner) or have the CD shipped. They also have suggestions for artists and songs.

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‘Mean girls’ face consequences later in life Miranda: Teenage girls are mean, and if you survived junior high you know this.

Once a girl hits that 14- to 15-year-old mindset, she can become so devious it leads to destructive behavior.

We tend to be competitive, overthinking creatures as it is, but something about the high school environment turns this toxic.

Anyone seen “Mean Girls”? It’s based on a book by Rosalind Wiseman called “Queen Bees and Wannabes.” Cady likes Aaron, but Regina steals him away by telling him that Cady is stalking him, then Regina proceeds to throw herself at the clueless boy. While the movie is humorous, it points out the flawed way that teenage girls relate to each other.

Stealing a boyfriend is inexcusable. Let others sort out their own relationships because if you choose to ruin someone else’s, then you are giving permission for another girl to ruin yours. Sometimes we get too wrapped up in drama and too consumed by the situation. Take a step back before you choose to do something like this. Ask yourself, “What will I think of myself in a year?”

Now that social media like Facebook and Twitter have given us the ability to put anything out on the Internet at anytime, we’ve developed a phenomenon described as “keyboard courage,” where we say things online that are meaner or more brazen than what we’d say in person.

Here’s a hint: Before you hit “send” on that tweet or text, think about the worst possible consequences. Just turn off your cellphone and your computer, go outside and think. If you can rise above this teenage girl mindset, you will thank yourself down the line.

Dr. Wes: Miranda’s certainly on a roll with this one, and for good reason. She’s hit upon the less-than-civil way teens (and

Double TAKE DR. WES CRENSHAW AND MIRANDA DAVIS a whole lot of adults) show callous disregard for others in our social interplay.

And yet there’s more. Over the last 10 years girls have really taken charge of their sexuality and dating (there’s a quaint old term). This sounds kind of empowering when I put it that way, doesn’t it? But with this new power comes a great many problems and not as much responsibility.

We’ve discussed many times the lowering of the threshold on sex so that an actual relationship is, for many girls now, optional. No wonder some authors have called girls “the new guys.” As one of the old guys, I don’t take that as a compliment.

Unfortunately, this new empowerment has also influenced what I refer to as a “market economy” of dating in which teen girls compete intensely (and as Miranda notes, sometimes viciously) for optimal partners.

I don’t know how to put this delicately, but girls who are willing to hook up easily and without benefit of relationship are essentially undercutting the market, making it more difficult for the rest to compete

and maintain their standards. It sounds crass, but most teenage girls I’ve pitched that concept to agree that it describes Dating 2012 pretty well.

I realize the word “ethics” appears twice a month in our column, but nowhere is it more relevant than in this one. Parents really need to establish from early on a clear guideline for how people interrelate, then practice it themselves and hold their teens accountable to it. If you find that your daughter (or son) is violating those guidelines, study the situation carefully and comment. It’s okay to remind kids of the impact they have on the world. If parents don’t do that, who will?

If being a kind and ethical person isn’t a good enough incentive for your freshman or sophomore, just remind her that she’s going to be stuck in the same high school for the next couple of years with all those other girls, and after that, maybe one of the local colleges. There she’ll have to look some of them in the eye and imagine what’s on their minds when thinking of her. Worse, some of her peers are going to grow up and be in charge of stuff — schools, companies, social groups, courts, etc. She may need that social network someday. And won’t that be an awkward moment when her prospective boss looks over her glasses and says in that special voice of knowing power and disdain, “Oh … I remember you. We went to high school together.”

— Dr. Wes Crenshaw is board certified in family and couples psychology (ABPP) and author of the books “Dear Dr. Wes: Real Life Advice for Teens” and “Real Life Advice for Parents of Teens.” Miranda Davis is a Free State High School senior. Send your confidential 200-word question on adolescence and parenting to ask@dr-wes.com.

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his Valentine’s Day cocktail sports a risque name, is easy on the eyes and drinks like candy.

Even guys will be reaching for this admittedly feminine cocktail. Its flavors are slightly sweet and tangy, much like a glass of pink lemonade. Except that this pink lemonade happens to be powered by vodka, gin and raspberry liqueur.

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PREPARATION KEY TO SAFETY Home fire drills can save lives

PRAIRIE MULLIGAN, 4, AND HER SISTER ARBOR, 6, listen to Lt. Aaron Flory of the LawrenceDouglas County Fire Medical talk about fire escape routes from their bedrooms, and what to do if they have to leave by a window.

BY EMILY MULLIGAN

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hen I first told my husband and children that a firefighter was coming to our house to help us conduct a fire drill, my 6-year-old daughter burst into tears.

It turns out it was not fear of her home burning, but instead fear of smoke alarm noise that set her off crying.

I began to question the wisdom of my decision to do a home fire drill, but I was steadfast in my mission.

A Douglas County family’s recent fire inspired the idea for my home fire drill. During the night Dec. 30, Roger and Camay Guillory’s home in northwestern Douglas County was destroyed by fire, and all seven of the family’s nine children who were home that night got out safely.

Roger Guillory and fire investigators credit Guillory’s regular home fire drills with saving everyone’s lives.

That is exactly why I asked Lawrence fire lieutenant Aaron Flory to come to my home on a recent afternoon to teach my family — myself, my husband, Lou, and our two girls, ages 4 and 6 — about fire safety and home fire drills.

“When I first started with the fire department, it was all about excitement and adrenaline. Now I know that fire is the worst thing that could ever happen to someone,” Flory said.

Knowing about the devastation a fire can cause and being able to relate it to children without scaring them is one of the keys to a successful home fire drill. Flory is a father of three girls and speaks regularly at local schools about fire safety, so I knew his approach would be one to emulate.

IN CASE OF FIRE He started off by having us list the good things fire is used for. We came up with cooking, campfires, heating our water and heating our home. I could see both girls beginning to relax.

“Unfortunately, there are also bad things fire can do,”

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Flory explained. He kept it vague, which was just the right tone.

I was pleased to hear the girls answer Flory’s next two questions correctly. Where is the safest place to be in a fire? Outside. What is the thing in a house that tells you there might be a fire? Smoke alarms.

“Smoke detectors are the number one thing that keeps people safe from a fire,” he said. “Smoke detectors should be on every level of the house and near the sleeping areas.”

That previous statement might be the only thing I already knew about fire safety. We purchased and installed new smoke detectors the day we moved into our house, and the girls knew that as well. In fact, they dutifully informed Flory that the alarm nearest our kitchen goes off almost every time Lou cooks.

Next, we moved our conversation to the girls’ bedrooms so Flory could demonstrate what to do if there is a fire in the night. He said he focuses on practicing nighttime fire drills because it is more difficult at night than during the day to know where the fire originated and to see your way out of the house.

Our vintage 1910 house is a little unique because the girls’ bedrooms are in a finished attic. One of the rooms has a fire escape ladder built onto the side of the house.

Flory recommended having the girls practice climbing down the ladder when they are a little bit older. For now, he had other suggestions.

ESCAPE ROUTES He said that all locations where someone sleeps should have two ways out, a combination of doors or windows, ideally facing different sides of the house. He also recommends sleeping with the bedroom door shut, if the person is comfortable doing so.

“If you don’t have two ways out of where you sleep, you need to find a new place to sleep,” Flory said.

Both girls sat on the bed while Flory demonstrated how to crawl from the bed on hands and knees — stay low from the moment you smell smoke — and feel the door to see if it is hot.

He recommended using the back of the hand to feel the door, especially up high because heat rises. I had both girls

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DISTRICT JUDGE ROBERT FAIRCHILD demonstrates the use of an iPad for receiving and signing warrants from his chambers last week at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The iPad is among several pieces of technology that Fairchild says is speeding up the judicial process.

With iPads, judges in touch any time, any place

By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

Douglas County District Judge Robert Fairchild during his 16 years on the bench estimates he’s signed search warrants at nearly every restaurant in town.

Once while serving as duty judge on a weekend, Fairchild drove back from the Kansas City area and pulled over at a Eudora convenience store off of Kansas Highway 10 to sign one for an officer.

But those days are now over for the county’s six judges.

Fairchild sits at his desk holding a white Apple iPad. He touches his finger to the screen and begins moving it to scroll down to the bottom of a PDF version of a probable cause affidavit form.

Fairchild grips a red pen that has a small clear disc at the end and presses it against the iPad’s screen to sign his name. Then he puts an “X” on another line and writes in a dollar amount for a bond.

This one is just practice, but if it were real, no matter where he was, he would then be able to email the FAIRCHILD DISPLAYS A MOCK WARRANT, which he says is easy to peruse on an iPad. With the use of certain software, Fairchild Please see JUDGES, page 2A can electronically sign the warrant so it can be served.

Pardon denials range from murder to traffic tickets

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Kansans who were denied pardons by Gov. Sam Brownback in 2011 ranged from murderers claiming innocence to traffic law violators claiming police misconduct, according to an open records request filed by the Lawrence Journal-World.

In all, 39 people were denied pardons by Brownback last year; no pardons were granted, according to letters from the governor’s office

to pardon applicants. The Kansas Prison Review Board, which reviews pardons before sending them to the goverRhodes nor, denied a Journal-World open records request for the full pardon applications, citing an exemption in the Kansas Open Records Act. One of the denied pardon applicants, Ronnie Rhodes, was convicted of a 1981 mur-

der in Wichita. He claims he’s innocent. His case has been taken up by a variety of advocates, including a Washburn University School of Law class run by Kansas attorney Rebecca Woodman. Rhodes had exhausted his appeals, and possible DNA evidence from the crime couldn’t be located for testing.

Rhodes’ application was denied, but Woodman said attorneys have resubmitted a pardon application that includes the findings of an extensive investigation.

For Rhodes, a pardon, sometimes referred to as clemency, is likely the last option, and Woodman said she hopes the governor takes a serious look at Rhodes’ case.

“Clemency is intended to be the fail-safe in the criminal justice system,” Woodman said.

Rhodes is joined by nine others denied pardons who were convicted of murder or manslaughter charges, as

On the lawn of the Tuckaway Apartments at Frontier, it looks like Tiger Woods could play through at any moment.

Even in early February, the lawn at the West Lawrence apartment complex is golfcourse green. Every blade of grass, every straight edge along a sidewalk appears to be precisely cut like a course only the pros play.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that is true at Lawrence City Hall. Despite its fairwaylike appearance, the landscaping job at this apartment complex near Sixth and Frontier is being labeled by City Hall planners as an errant shot.

The grass, of course, isn’t grass. It is synthetic turf, and other than for use We do have on sports fields, concerns with the the city’s commercial landscape maintenance and code says it is pro- the appearance of it hibited. The city’s planning depart- over time. We think ment is recom- there are some mending the apart- practical concerns.” ment complex, which was developed by a group — Scott McCullough, the city’s led by longtime director of planning and Lawrence busi- development services nessman Thomas Fritzel, tear up thousands of square feet of the artificial turf.

“We do have concerns with the maintenance and the appearance of it over time,” said Scott McCullough, the city’s director of planning and development services. “We think there are some practical concerns.”

At their Tuesday evening meeting, city commissioners will be asked to decide whether the fake grass can stay or go. At stake will be whether several thousand dollars of the material — the developers haven’t provided an actual cost estimate — must be removed.

But an attorney for Fritzel said the commission really is being asked to figure out how comfortable it is with change.

“Anything new is hard to get used to, but it is successfully used in other communities that have more severe water problems than we do,” said Jane Eldredge, an attorney for the apartment complex. “It is a product the community really needs to consider because as we become a drier and drier climate, I think more people are going to be interested in it.”

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Limited use Planning staff members are proposing a change that would allow synthetic turf to be used in bits and pieces as part of a landscaping plan, if it can be shown that natural

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KU students designate SafeBus as preferred ride

By Aaron Couch acouch@ljworld.com

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MICHAEL HARDY and his cousin Kayla take a ride on SafeBus in December. They say the transportation service, provided by Kansas University, is something they use often.

SafeBus is not a normal bus: It’s a party where the guests change every 10 minutes.

It’s early Sunday morning, 12:30 a.m., and SafeBus has just pulled up to Sixth and New Hampshire streets. Sitting near the front is Joshua, 19. Asked to describe a typical weekend night, he says: “We just randomly walk

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around, drink a lot and call SafeBus when we have to go home. That’s pretty much it, really.”

KU students each pay $12.10 in student fees every semester to fund SafeBus and its taxi-like sister program, SafeRide. Routes run from downtown hot spots to the KU campus. In 2008, the first year SafeBus operated, it gave the equivalent of 10,000 student rides. The program has become much

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more popular. Last semester, it provided more than 42,000 student rides.

The bus pulls up to Lewis Hall, Joshua’s stop. He and his friends are about to get off when he stops them.

“Hold up, we gotta clean up,” Joshua says, pointing to the empty beer cans that litter the bus floor.

He puts the cans into his backpack, and he and his friends stumble off the bus and into the night, yelling

their thanks to the bus driver.

Tonight’s SafeBus crowd might be rowdy. They might be drunk. But they are a courteous bunch.

The SafeBus driver is in her mid-20s, and she’s kind of an older-sister figure.

She’s constantly telling riders to have a good night and to be safe. They usually respond in kind.

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form from his iPad to the Douglas County Jail and to prosecutors to let them know the suspect’s bond amount.

“All of the judges thought it was cool,” he said. “All of us figured it out easily.”

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“If you’re in a good mood and you’re dealing with drunk people, then it puts them in a good mood,” she says.

A new batch of students bursts onto the bus, and a guy named Dakota recognizes the driver.

“You gave us that speech that one night,” Dakota says, happy to see her.

She insists it wasn’t a speech, really — just some friendly advice.

“Be safe. Have fun. If you make mistakes, don’t make them lifelong,” she says.

Nationally, about 1,800 college students die from alcohol-related causes every year. That’s a fraction of a percent of the 17 million undergraduates in the U.S., but tens of thousands more students report assaults, sexual abuse and injuries stemming from alcohol use, according to research published in 2005 by the Annual Review of Public Health.

KU has suffered its own losses. In March 2009, 19-year-old freshman Jason Wren died of alcohol poisoning. Six weeks later, 18-year-old Dalton Eli Hawkins, also a freshman, died after a fall from Watkins Scholarship Hall, and alcohol was reportedly in his system.

Tonight on SafeBus, there’s a lot of passing talk about DUIs and responsibility. A young man in the back points out several

cars that have been pulled over by police behind the Daisy Hill residence halls on Irving Hill Road.

“There are always a lot of cops pulling people over here,” a girl tells him.

In the front of the bus, two shirtless guys give their friend a sobriety test, making her stand on one foot while saying the alphabet. She can’t do it.

“Ma’am, you’re under arrest,” one says, doing his best cop impression.

She cracks up.

Even through all the joking, the riders seem to see themselves as making the responsible choice. Of course, there’s the obvious question: Why do the students, most of them under 21, need to party and drink at all?

Dakota, a junior studying economics, says he knows it doesn’t sound good — the going out, the partying. But to him, the people riding SafeBus are the ones doing the responsible thing.

“SafeBus is the better option if you are going to party,” Dakota says. “It’s not worth risking somebody’s life.”

The bus stops back at Sixth and New Hampshire, and all of the riders exit.

Alone for a few moments, the driver relaxes, waiting for the next bunch.

“We have very different lifestyles,” she says about the riders. “If I drink, I definitely don’t get hammered. But they’ll grow up. They’ll learn.”

because officers would often have to find another officer to leave a suspect with or even bring the person in tow to a judge’s neighborhood.

Now, the judges can take care of the paperwork through their iPads.

“It’s been great, and it worked even better than we thought it would,” Fairchild said.

The iPads are also handy for reading over affidavits from officers on Saturdays when the judge on duty will review recent arrests and set bond amounts.

Technology has been a priority for Douglas County District Court leaders for several years, said Fairchild, who serves as the chief, or administrative, judge. Douglas County commissioners have supported the addition — gradually over the years — of 60-inch flat-screen TVs and cameras in most courtrooms that have jury trials.

Fairchild said that equipment makes a big difference in being able to show exhibits in trials because attorneys can put them on the large screen where everyone can see, as opposed to passing them around the jury box, for example.

It’s common now to see several attorneys in a courtroom at a docket call in the audience checking their smartphones or iPads as they wait for their cases. But Fairchild said some attorneys, especially ones who have practiced for several years, can be skittish about using the new equipment at jury trials.

“I’ve just said you’ve got to use it,” Fairchild says.

“We can teach you in 15 minutes what you need to know.”

Night and weekend use The crackdown has also significantly increased the need for judges to sign a warrant, often late at night or on weekend hours, when one judge is on typically one call.

In the past, officers brought the paperwork to the judge to sign.

“They arrive at our house between 2 and 4 a.m.,” Fairchild said, “because that’s when most of them occur.”

That created problems

Rapid expansion of use Fairchild’s courtroom, for example, has videoconferencing equipment that can allow witnesses to testify from outside the courtroom. A prisoner at Larned State Hospital testified at a hearing last year, eliminating a pos-

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well as 11 with sex offense convictions.

Then there’s Eddie Mendia, a 63-year-old Wichita man who for years has been fighting a 2008 right-of-way traffic ticket given in Wellsville. Mendia, who operates the Wichitabased nonprofit Homeless Search Corp., says he was pulled over not because of a traffic violation, but because of his Mexican heritage.

“My evidence didn’t matter at all,” Mendia said of his trial that resulted in a conviction.

The Kansas Constitution gives the governor sole authority to issue pardons, which do not erase a person’s conviction but free him or her from prison or parole obligations.

Pardons are uncommon in Kansas.

Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius issued only one pardon during her six years as governor. Gov. Mark Parkinson, Sebelius’s successor, — Reporter Aaron Couch can be reached issued four, all related to at 832-7217. decades-old cases.

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L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD sible security risk and also monetary costs if he would have been brought to Lawrence for the hearing.

Doctors in civil cases have also testified via video in civil cases. The quality of the picture and audio has made it much more feasible.

“It’s like the witnesses are sitting there talking to you,” Fairchild says.

More extensive use of technology in the courtroom and law enforcement investigations can present some issues with Supreme Court procedures and rules, he said.

Judges also have to consider, for example, whether or not the use of certain electronic methods in the courtroom violates a defendant’s constitutional right to confront his or her accusers in court.

If a witness in another state is testifying via video, they often have a notary public or a court official still swear in the witness in person.

“There’s also a question of is there somebody there coaching them?” Fairchild said. “We have to figure out a way to deal with that.”

The U.S. Supreme Court also recently ruled it was unconstitutional for police to attach a Global Positioning System tracking device to a suspect’s vehicle without a search warrant. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her concurring opinion wrote that the courts will likely be looking at many investigative techniques in the future because of the advancements in technology and how prevalent it has become in people’s lives.

Fairchild says the Douglas County judges are working to keep up with the technological world that continues to change.

As for the judges’ iPads, he doesn’t believe they will be one-dimensional.

“We’re probably going to find new uses for them,” he said.

— Reporter George Diepenbrock can be reached at 832-7144. Follow him at Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock.

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Hospital adds window film for safety PITTSBURG — An extremely close call with one of the deadliest tornadoes on record has led officials at a southeastern Kansas hospital to invest in a special film to protect staff and patients against flying glass in case of another window-smashing storm.

Virtually every window at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., was shattered when an EF-5 tornado slammed the city last May 22.

Winds of more than 200 mph propelled millions of shards of glass into rooms and hallways.

The tornado sirens also sounded that day about 25 miles away in Pittsburg, where registered nurse Miranda Johnson helped move patients from rooms at Via Christi Hospital into hallways and interior spaces of the medical-surgical floor.

Within 90 days of the Joplin tornado, officials at Via Christi decided to protect windows with security film that won’t stop them from shattering in tornadic winds but will catch and hold bits of glass that would otherwise fly into rooms.

Woman takes parking ticket to appeals court JUNCTION CITY — A Junction City woman has taken a $55 parking ticket all the way to the Kansas Court of Appeals — and won.

Mary Somrak got the ticket for parking over the line in her parking space at a townhome complex. Somrak said she fought the ticket through three courts and almost two years because she didn’t think it was right for the city to write tickets in a private parking lot at 2 a.m. — especially when the car she parked too close to was her own second car.

The Wichita Eagle reports Somrak also fought the ticket because her neighbors got similar tickets and many of them are military dependents..

Local courts said she didn’t file her appeal notice in time, but the appeals court ruled she did.

Little Lions prepare for big performance

Brownback, Branstad backing tax credit

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SIX-YEAR-OLD NAOMI RICE PLAYS A GAME OF ROLLER COASTER during the Little Lions Dance Clinic Sunday at Lawrence High School. Participants learned dances and chants at the clinic and will perform them live during halftime of the LHS boys basketball game Tuesday. See more photos at LJWorld.com.

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Baldwin High’s culinary arts program at risk under proposal

By Elvyn Jones ejones@theworldco.com

Baldwin High School’s culinary arts program is popular, successful and may not be around much longer.

The threat to the program is Gov. Sam Brownback’s K-12 school finance reform proposal. Should that pass as presented to the Kansas Legislature, the local program could be threatened despite its full classrooms and four state titles in

Kansas Restaurant Association70 percent of jobs in sponsored high school competithe state that don’t tions in the past five years. require a bachelor’s Although most of the focus on degree. the governor’s proposal is on its “One of the high overhaul of the state funding fordemand areas for mula, it also suggests changes to job is in health Gregory technical education. care,” Gregory said.

Rep. TerriLois Gregory, R“RNs don’t need a Baldwin City, told Baldwin school bachelor’s degree.” board members Jan. 23 that the proThe concern is the expense posed changes would help provide of technical education, she said. students with the education needPlease see CULINARY, page 4A ed to prepare them for the nearly

Gov. Sam Brownback and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, both Republicans, are urging key members of Congress to extend the wind energy production tax credit.

“The wind energy sector is an American success story that is helping Brownback us build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs, and strengthen our energy security,” the governors said in a letter to 20 members of the HouseSenate panel that is negotiating the payroll tax extension.

Brownback and Branstad said wind development will grind to a halt without extension of the credit.

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“That just doesn’t meet my test of rationality.”

— State Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, on a proposed congressional redistricting map that puts Wyandotte County in the 1st U.S. House district.

Congressional redistricting on tap The state Senate will vote this week on a new, bipartisan congressional redistricting Please see CAPITOL, page 4A

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Road work planned this week Lawrence !"Kansas River levee closed for construction of Bowersock Mills & Power Co.’s new plant on the north bank. Users will be detoured to city streets crossing at the controlled intersection of North Second and Locust streets. Completion: late 2012. !" Water lines will be replaced along 23rd Street from approximately Barker Avenue to just east of the Douglas County Maintenance yard, 711 E. 23rd St. Sanitary sewer piping will be reconstructed along the Burroughs Creek align-

ment north and south of East 23rd Street. These projects will close North Perimeter Road and East 23rd Street Frontage Road throughout construction. Completion: June 2012.

U.S. Highway 59 !" North 200 Road closed at U.S. Highway 59 for frontage road construction work.

Completion: late 2012.

U.S. Highway 69 !" Northbound left lane closed from 103rd Street to 91st Street in Overland Park for reconstruction work.

Completion: spring 2012.

Aging dept. leader to chat on WellCommons Kansas Department on Aging Secretary Shawn Sullivan will be available today to discuss the state’s plan to privatize the Medicaid program and other policies regarding senior care.

He will be participating in an online chat at 3 p.m. on WellComSullivan mons.com.

You can submit your questions anonymously at anytime at WellCommons.com/ chats. Make sure to log back on to WellCommons.com during or after the chat to see if your questions were answered.

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plan that has won the ire of the Kansas Republican Party and Kansas Chamber of Commerce.

The state GOP said the plan, which puts all of Lawrence in the 2nd U.S. House District, will hurt the reelection changes of U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka.

The proposal would reduce the percentage of registered Republicans Jenkins in the 2nd from 42 percent to 40 percent and increase Democrats and unaffiliated voters from roughly 29 percent each to 30 percent each.

But Senate Majority Leader Jay Scott Emler, R-Lindsborg, said the criticism was off base given the small change in voter registration percentages.

“I have a lot more confidence in Lynn Jenkins than that,” Emler said.

He said the GOP statement that the proposal would lead to a Democratic victory in the 2nd “is really very insulting to her (Jenkins),” he said.

Angst growing over Medicaid changes The decision by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, the largest insurer in the state, to not bid on the proposed Medicaid managed care contracts, has added to the concerns of some legislators over the privatization plan.

Several legislators have said there needs to be legislative oversight of Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to hand over to private companies management of health care of 350,000 Kansans under Medicaid.

What’s next: !" 9 a.m. today — Hearing on House Bill 2437 requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, before House Elections Committee, room 546-South, Capitol. !" 1:30 p.m. today, Tuesday and Wednesday — Hearing on Gov. Sam

Sullivan heads the Department on Aging, which is responsible for administration of Older Americans Act programs, distribution of Medicaid long-term care payments, and regulation and survey processes for several different adult care home licensure categories.

Sullivan has been involved with aging services for 18 years. Before heading the Department on Aging, he was executive director of Kansas Masonic Home in Wichita, which received a state award for its efforts in culture change and personcentered care.

Brownback’s school finance plan, before Senate Education, room 152-South. !" 3:30 p.m. Tuesday — Briefing by Jonathan Williams, director of tax and fiscal policy task force for the American Legislative Exchange Council before House Taxation Committee, room 783. !" 9 a.m. Wednesday — Hearing on House Bill 2224, requiring candidates for state and federal offices to provide proof of citizenship, before House Elections, room 546-South, Capitol.

Docking Building. ! 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Friday — Hearings on Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax overhaul before House Taxation Committee, room 783 Docking Building. ! 1:30 p.m. Thursday — Hearing on Democratic school finance plan, before Senate Education Committee, room 152-South.

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

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Brownback’s plan would attempt to tie high school vocational education to the state’s 26 technical schools.

Should the proposal be approved, state funding would “follow the students,” Gregory said.

Baldwin Superintendent Paul Dorathy said he understood the governor’s goal of saving money through the consolidation of duplicate programs, but it would have consequences at Baldwin High School.

One of those would very likely be the end of the Baldwin High School culinary program because the proposal would dictate a high school would not get state funding for a vocational program if a technical school within 30 miles distance was offering the same program.

The nearest program that would qualify for state funding offering a culinary program now is Neosho County Community College in Chanute, which is outside the 30mile window. But Dorathy said he could foresee that school or another eyeing Johnson County and the Kansas side of the metropolitan area as an opportunity and starting a satellite program in the area.

Should the proposal pass and an area satellite program be established, it was unlikely the district could afford to offer the culinary program, or other vocational programs, without state funding.

“We could potentially lose all programs offered by a technical school within 30 miles,” he said.

“I can’t tell you that’s a good thing or a bad thing for kids. It is a significant change and will change inhouse what we offer and force students to travel to get those programs.

“Right now I see a lot of issues that have to be decided on this.”

Of concern would be time students spend traveling to and from a technical school. Dorathy said that could infringe on the time needed for core classes in math, science, social studies and language arts.

Gregory told the board one way to help with that dilemma was to “embed” math and science classes in technical courses.

Dorathy explained that plan would offer “technical” math for students in technical courses. That would work for those students entering the workforce on graduation or going on for more technical training, but not for students like those in Lawson’s classes who are college-bound but in the culinary program, to get a leg up on a part-time job or personal enrichment.

“Technical math would satisfy a technical school, yes,” he said. “A four-year university is not going to look at that like a calculus class.

“I think you have to be up front with students, that they will be taking courses that doesn’t get them in the door at KU or some other state regent school.”

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MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Devin Mitchell Tweedy, 28, Lawrence, and Melanie Sue Bilby, 22, Lawrence.

Ahouah Alexis Amoa, 24, Metuchen, N.J., and Rachel Boahemah, 21, Lawrence.

Jomain Edward Rouser, 39, Lawrence, and Emily Kay Dietz, 23, Lawrence.

Joseph Andrew Campbell, 26, Lawrence, and Mitsey Marie Smith, 24, Lawrence.

Daniel Dale Caton Jr., 27, Lawrence, and Julia Dawn Treaster, 24, Lawrence.

Mazen Samir Iskandrani, 30, Kansas City, Mo., and Missa Khaled Hdaib, 20, Lawrence.

Caleb Ives Leiker, 28, New York, and Laura Elizabeth Stephens, 27, New York.

DIVORCES GRANTED Wendy M. Smith, 43, Lawrence, and Theodore R. Smith, 44, Lawrence.

Tracy L. Ewy, 41, Eudora, and Robert Alan Ewy, 44, Eudora.

Jessica Deann Wilson, 29, Lawrence, and Joseph Dean Snow, 39, Lawrence.

Barbara Aleen Markus, 69, Ottawa, and Thomas L. Markus, 68, Ottawa.

Paul Edward Perry, 39, Eudora, and Jessica Rene Perry, 36, El Monte, Calif.

Stella M. Miner, 35, Lawrence, and Matthew D. Miner, 36, Lawrence.

Joseph Edward Munoz, 33, Lawrence, and Theryn Lyn Spomer, 33, Lawrence.

Tristan Scott Bland, 30, Eudora, and Marilyn Bland, 24, Lawrence.

Sandy Lea Beiter, 37, Lawrence, and James Roy Beiter, 40, Lawrence.

Taj Merrill Heckler, 26, Lawrence, and Melody Anne Savage, 23, Lawrence.

BANKRUPTCIES Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas: • Eric Eugene Rochester, 1003 Elm St., Eudora.

• Kelly Ray Stratton, 4959 Stoneback Drive, Lawrence.

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Ballard Community Services is seeking a skilled carpenter who can fix some steps in the back of Penn House that have become unstable. A volunteer is needed to assess the issue and get the steps fixed as soon as possible so that they can continue being used safely by Penn House staff and volunteers. If you are able to help, contact Doug Davison at 842-0729 or doug@ ballardcenter.org. !" The Helping Hands Support Group, facilitated through Kansas Children’s Service League (KCSL), is looking for volunteers

intergenerational community based on the “Village Concept.” For more details about the council and its current projects, contact to assist with child care. Stacey Hunter-Schwartz The support group is in- at 841-0333 or Bonnie Ufftended for couples and man at 856-0057. individuals who have ad— For more volunteer opporopted children through tunities, contact Shannon Reid the state system or who at the United Way’s Roger Hill are in the process of doing Volunteer Center, at 785-865so currently. Volunteers 5030 or volunteer@rhvc.org, or are needed on a monthly go to volunteerdouglascounty. basis to provide superviorg. sion for the children of parents attending the support group. Meetings will take place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the third Friday of each month at 360° Church, 3200 Clinton Parkway. All volunteers will be screened through KCSL, which will include a background check. For more information or to get signed up as a volunteer before the first meeting Feb. 17, contact Jery Marquez at 785-431-6228 or jmarquez@kcsl.org. !" The Lawrence-Douglas County Advocacy Council on Aging is looking for volunteers to help with a variety of tasks and projects. Volunteers with a passion for making the Lawrence-Douglas County community a great Neuvant House of Lawrence is an assisted living residence purposefully designed for persons with place for seniors to live are dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to providing a safe and engaging environment, we sought to serve as board utilize enriching programs to help individuals live life to the fullest. members, help identify seNeuvant House of Lawrence—personal dignified service, 24-hours a day. nior-friendly restaurants, publicize senior issues in Come visit us and see the difference we can make. local media, make vulnerable community members Learn how Tai Chi is enriching lives aware of shelter locations at www.neuvanthouse.com. in case of a disaster and to work on planning for an

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vegetation can’t be feasibly grown in the area.

But the proposal would limit the use of the synthetic turf to no more than 10 percent of a site’s total.

That is far different than how it has been used at the new West Lawrence apartment complex, which has used the material in place of natural sod around each of the complex’s apartment buildings.

McCullough said he understands the argument that the synthetic turf, most of which is made out of recycled materials, is environmentally friendly because it uses less water and chemicals than a traditional lawn. But he said for people who want to use less water and pesticides in their landscaping, there are more natural ways to do so.

“There are a lot of xeriscaping and natural plant options that can accomplish that goal,” McCullough said.

McCullough said he’s also concerned there is research suggesting the use of synthetic turf causes the soil covered by the turf to significantly degrade. McCullough said if an area covered by artificial turf were to be planted back to grass, the soil likely would need significant rehabilitation.

McCullough envisions future use of the product in Lawrence to be in places like shady spots next to a commercial building or in locations where natural vegetation is likely to get trampled.

But even then, the proposed regulations would require the turf to meet certain standards. They include: ! Installation by a licensed professional with special training in synthetic turf. ! A base that allows at least 14 inches of water to drain per square yard, per hour. ! A product that comes with at least an eight-year “no-fade” warranty.

McCullough said the proposed code does give the city the ability to order a property owner to remove the turf and replace it if the color begins to fade or other appearance problems arise. But McCullough said he does have concerns about how easy it would be to enforce the provision, especially if the product wears out faster than what owners envision.

“That has been one of the chief concerns. How often will it really have to be replaced?” McCullough said.

A test case Eldredge is urging the city to allow the synthetic turf to remain in place at the apartment complex as a test case.

“I think newness is a big part of what is going on here,” Eldredge said.

“I think once people see how it performs, they’ll be more comfortable with it.

I think it would be a wonderful trial for the community, if we’re allowed the chance.”

Eldredge said the developers of the apartment complex mistakenly thought the code allowed the use of artificial turf at the apartment complex.

The Oread hotel, which also was developed by Fritzel, was given a special exemption to use artificial turf in some limited areas.

But McCullough said the Oread’s use of the material didn’t clear the way for it to be used at the apartment complex. City inspectors notified the developers that the turf was not an allowed use once an inspection discovered it was being installed. The

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I think once people see how it performs, they’ll be more comfortable with it. I think it would be a wonderful trial for the community, if we’re allowed the chance.”

— Jane Eldredge, attorney for Tuckaway Apartments at Frontier, on her argument to let the city allow the synthetic turf at the complex to remain in place as a test case

developers were allowed to continue installing the turf, with the understanding they could lobby for a code change that would make it legal. The city, though, issued only a temporary occupancy permit for the apartments based on the unresolved issue, McCullough said. Technically, the city could revoke the occupancy permit for the apartments if the synthetic turf isn’t removed.

Eldredge said the developers have lobbied for the artificial turf to remain because they are convinced it is more beneficial to the environment because it uses far less water than a traditional lawn.

“We think it is a good idea to conserve water, and we also want to remind people that what we

think of as a natural lawn isn’t natural at all,” Eldredge said. “A lot of irrigation and chemicals goes into that type of lawn.”

Home use The controversy at Tuckaway at Frontier has brought to light there is nothing in the city code that stops homeowners from installing the artificial turf on their property.

The portion of city code that prohibits the material applies only to commercial projects and other large developments that require a site plan.

McCullough said the city isn’t proposing regulations to prohibit the use of artificial turf at private residences.

“I think time will tell whether we need to ad-

dress it,” McCullough said. “If it did really catch on and start impacting issues like stormwater management, we would have to look at it.”

Ryan Domnick with Lawrence-based Low Maintenance Landscape said he thinks some homeowners will be intrigued by the idea.

“There are definitely quite a few properties in Lawrence where it is difficult to grow grass,” Domnick said.

At least one residential property in Lawrence has installed the artificial turf.

The home at 641 La. has synthetic turf. The house is owned by Fritzel.

Domnick said he hasn’t seen the product enough to know whether it would be a good fit for Lawrence.

But he says he’s interested in finding out.

“I hope the city allows for some properties to experiment with it,” Domnick said.

Commissioners meet at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.

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GOP race turns to Colorado, Minnesota LAS VEGAS — Now it’s on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.

With back-to-back victories fueling him, Republican presidential front-runner Romney Mitt Romney is looking toward the next states that hold GOP nominating contests as main Gingrich rival Newt Gingrich brushes aside any talk of abandoning his White House bid — all but ensuring the battle will stretch into the

spring if not beyond.

Shortly after losing big to Romney here, the former House speaker emphatically renewed his vow to campaign into the party convention in Tampa this summer.

His goal, he said, was to “find a series of victories which by the end of the Texas primary will leave us at parity” with Romney by early April.

Gingrich continued to shrug off Nevada’s caucus results Sunday on “Meet the Press.”

But first, Gingrich must make it through Colorado and Minnesota, which both hold caucuses Tuesday. Maine follows on Saturday during a month that promises to be as plodding as January was rapidfire in the presidential race.

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Obama: Israel has not decided on Iran attack

By Ben Feller

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge.

The president sought to assure allies and foes alike that the United States was working in lockstep with Israel to solve the crisis, “hopefully diplomatically.”

Obama’s comments came as Israel’s major allies in Obama the West are working hard to talk it out of a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would only strengthen the regime in Tehran. Israel fears that Iran is fast approaching a point at which a limited military strike would no longer be enough to head off an Iranian bomb.

“I don’t think that Israel has made a decision on what they need to do,” Obama said during a preSuper Bowl interview with NBC. He reiterated that the United States has removed no option from consideration in dealing with Iran — an allusion to military intervention — but emphasized that the United States wants a diplomatic solution built around a world coalition.

Iran insists its nuclear pursuits are for peaceful civilian purposes, not a bomb.

After years of worries about Iran’s nuclear program, world leaders are now showing real concern that Israel could attack the Islamic republic imminently — a move that might trigger a broader war and disrupt the international economy.

Iran’s regime says it wants to extinguish the Jewish state, and the West accuses it of assembling the material and knowhow to build a nuclear bomb. Just last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta would not dispute a report that he believes Israel may attack Iran this spring in an attempt to set back the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.

Obama refused to say whether the United States would get notice from Israel before any potential strike on Iran.

“I will say that we have closer military and intelligence consultation between our two countries than we’ve ever had,” Obama said, adding, “We are going to be sure that we work in lockstep as we proceed to try to solve this — hopefully diplomatically.”

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After U.N. veto, U.S. proposes coalition

By Lee Keath and Matthew Lee Associated Press

BEIRUT — The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syria’s opposition Sunday after Russia and China blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed, raising fears that violence will escalate. Rebel soldiers said force was now the only way to oust President Bashar Assad, while the regime vowed to press its military crackdown.

The threat of both sides turning to greater force after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution raises the potential for Syria’s turmoil to move into even a more dangerous new phase that could degenerate into outright civil war.

The uprising inspired by other Arab Spring revolts began in March with peaceful protests against Assad’s regime, sparking a fierce crackdown by government forces. Soldiers who defected to join the uprising later began to protect protesters from attacks. In recent months the rebel soldiers, known as the Free Syrian Army have grown bolder, attacking regime troops and trying establish control in pro-opposition areas.

That has brought a heavier government response.

Well over 5,400 people have been killed since March, according to the U.N., and now regime opponents fear that Assad will be emboldened by the feeling he is protected by his top ally Moscow and unleash even greater violence to crush protesters. If the opposition turns overt-

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The situation is terrifying; makeshift hospitals are full.”

— Fares, an activist in the town of Zabadani, which is north of Damascus, on government forces firing mortars and machine guns ly to armed resistance, the result could be a dramatic increase in bloodshed.

At least 19 people were killed in new violence Sunday, including five children and a woman who was hit by a bullet while standing on her balcony as troops fired on protesters in a Damascus suburb, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group.

Government forces firing mortars and heavy machine guns also battered the mountain town of Zabadani, north of Damascus, a significant opposition stronghold that fell under rebels’ control late last month. Bombardment the past two days has wounded dozens and forced scores of families to flee, an activist in the town said.

“The situation is terrifying; makeshift hospitals are full,” said the activist, who only gave his first name, Fares, for fear of government reprisal. He said the town has been under siege for the past five days and there is lack of food and heating fuel during the cold winter.

The commander of the Free Syrian Army told The Associated Press that, after the vetoes at the U.N., “there is no other road” except military action to topple Assad.

Blast kills husband, sons of missing woman GRAHAM, WASH. — Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a house with all three inside — a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the man’s wife went mysteriously missing in Utah.

A social worker brought the two boys, ages 5 and 7, to Josh Powell’s home for what was to be a supervised visit, and Powell let his sons inside — but then blocked the social worker from entering, Graham Fire and Rescue Chief Gary Franz told The Associated Press.

The social worker called her supervisors to report that she could smell gas, and moments later the home exploded.

Sgt. Ed Troyer, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman, said emails that Powell sent authorities seemed

to confirm that Powell planned the deadly blast.

Troyer didn’t elaborate on the contents of the emails.

Jeffrey Bassett, who represented Powell in the custody case, said he received a brief email from his client just minutes before Powell and the two boys died. It said, “I’m sorry, goodbye.”

The email arrived at 12:05 p.m. Sunday, about 10 minutes before the explosion, but he didn’t see it until two hours later, when others told him Josh and the boys had been killed.

He said he knew Josh was upset after being ordered to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation recently, but he didn’t see this coming.

Powell was under investigation in the disappearance of his 28-year-old wife Susan from their West Valley City, Utah, home in December 2009. He claimed he had taken the boys on a midnight excursion in freezing temperatures when she vanished.

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Oread parking A parking permit system for the Oread neighborhood is at least worth a look.

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awrence city commissioners certainly have had no shortage of discussion about the Oread neighborhood east of the Kansas University campus.

High levels of acrimony between a group of landlords and a group of resident homeowners in the neighborhood have resulted in many contentious items on Lawrence City Commission agendas.

Now, however, it is time for city commissioners to put a broader focus on setting a sensible course for Oread’s future.

The city recently has adopted an Oread neighborhood plan, but that document leaves much of the nitty-gritty detail to the formation of overlay districts, which will create special planning rules for different segments of the neighborhood.

City planners will begin drafting those regulations this year.

As that process begins, city commissioners should insist on raising another issue: parking. During a recent City Hall discussion about boarding houses and the appropriate parking standards for such developments, City Commissioner Mike Dever brought up an interesting idea.

Why doesn’t the city require motorists to have a permit to park on the city streets in Oread? Many of the people who park in Oread on a daily basis don’t live there, Dever said. Clearly, many either work at or attend KU and want to avoid university parking fees. Simply put, the Oread neighborhood serves as a KU parking lot. Is that good planning for the future?

The idea isn’t entirely new. It likely has been brought up at City Hall in past decades, but there is a new twist. Unlike in past decades, KU now has a robust public transit system. It includes a large park-and-ride lot on West Campus that makes it convenient to park and catch a bus to the main campus. Never has the university been in a better position to encourage its students and staff to stop parking in the Oread neighborhood. Legitimate and feasible alternatives, including the city’s own bus system, exist to get students and staff to campus.

Reducing parking congestion won’t be a cure-all for the Oread neighborhood.

Improving the behavior of students who live in the neighborhood also is a critical component. Greater acceptance from everyone involved that the neighborhood is destined to have dense development and be dominated by student rentals also would be helpful. But parking has been a source of frustration for years, and city commissioners should at least seriously attempt to address the problem.

A permit system might even help fund greater enforcement of city codes in the neighborhood. Even if the city provides permits at no charge to neighborhood residents, additional permits may be available for purchase. The money from those sales could help fund additional enforcement activity in the neighborhood. The same principle could apply for parking fines levied in the neighborhood, and maybe the parking attendants could be cross-trained to spot obvious code violations, such as littered lawns.

There may be a multitude of reasons why a permit system won’t work in the Oread neighborhood, but the city should seriously explore the idea before dismissing it. Examining such new ideas is the job of a good City Commission.

And, if nothing else, city commissioners need to send the message that the time for bickering in the Oread neighborhood is over. The time for planning has arrived.

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Gingrich may shift GOP’s course There was a discredited president, distrusted by his own party, portrayed by even his fondest allies as a disappointing underachiever. There was an Eastern governor, decorated with breathtaking academic credentials and a star turn in the nonprofit sector, mounting a serious challenge. There was the threat of minor-party candidacies, with charismatic leadership and a core of devoted supporters who could skew the contest. It was perhaps the greatest election in American history.

It was exactly a century ago.

That year, 1912, stands as a hinge in American history.

It was when the Republican Party reverted from its new identity as the party of reformers back to being the party of business, when the Democrats transformed themselves from outsider social critics to insider social activists, when questions about the character of capitalism filled the air, and when the power — and limits — of personality in politics were glimpsed.

Often we view the past not so much through a mirror as through a magnifying glass — Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, the combatants from 1964, for example, seeming so much bigger and more substantial than their counterparts from our own time — but in truth the principals of Election 1912 were larger than life, arguably larger than their equivalents from Election 2012.

2012 echoes 1912 American politics rarely repeats itself, but in the few occasions it does, it sometimes happens with almost eerie century-long congruity. The elections of 1828 and 1928, for example, were both about the accessibility of the White House to outsiders, just as the elections of 1864 and 1964 both were choices between continuity and radical departure. This election in 2012 has strong echoes of 1912, with the Republican Party holding a remarkable, completely unexpected seminar, perhaps even a public hearing, about the capacities and dangers of

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It has been great sport to argue that this year’s early political contests have been dominated by farcical characters. But no one can plausibly argue that the contests themselves have been about peripheral issues.” capitalism — and about the capacities and dangers of government regulation.

Only once or twice in a generation does the country examine with such searing rhetoric and sharp-eyed judgment these kinds of fundamental questions about business and government. It has been great sport to argue that this year’s early political contests have been dominated by farcical characters. But no one can plausibly argue that the contests themselves have been about peripheral issues. These are the bedrock questions of a democracy and of a mature economy.

Such were the issues a century ago, when President William Howard Taft veered from the one true progressive, reformist religion of the GOP predecessor who hand-picked him, Theodore Roosevelt.

Both Taft and Roosevelt were vast, important departures from the Republican presidents who preceded them, smaller men like William McKinley (an unlikely role model for George W. Bush to have chosen) and Chester A. Arthur (nobody’s role model), and from the Republican presidents who would succeed them, commerce-oriented men like Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover.

Roosevelt was so alienated from his onetime protege that he broke, like a bull moose,

from the Republican Party he had transformed and mounted an independent candidacy.

The Democratic nominee was the misty-eyed idealist from Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, perhaps the greatest reformer to cling to the odious racial values of the segregated South. Also on the ballot was Eugene V. Debs, who had played a cameo role in many of the signal struggles of the time, including the Pullman Strike, and would later help to form the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies. Debs would draw almost a million votes.

Using centralized power These were major, enduring figures on the American scene. “Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson invented the activist modern presidency,” Bard College political scientist James Chace wrote in the authoritative account of the 1912 election. “TR’s commitment to use Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends was not unlike Wilson’s use of executive power to promote free competition that would prevent big business from stifling local economies. Their legacy was the use of centralized power to create greater democracy.”

That is no mere achievement, nor an irrelevant aspect of our politics today, for in the wake of the bruising Florida primary, the very existence of centralized power and the definition of greater democracy once again are at the heart of American politics.

President Barack Obama may be, as his onetime allies on the left believe, a reluctant progressive, but he remains firmly in the Theodore Roosevelt camp, as his December 2011 journey to Osawatomie, Kan., the site of TR’s “New Nationalism” speech of 1910, vividly demonstrated. Though the president disavowed “a view that says we should punish profit or success or pretend that government knows how to fix all society’s problems,” in Kansas as in the capital, he believes in a large regulatory role in American commerce.

And though the Republi-

cans are engaged in a vital debate about business and responsibility, the prevailing GOP ethos is deep skepticism about regulation and devout conviction that centralized power is inimical to greater democracy.

But the role that former Speaker Newt Gingrich is playing — his remorseless critique of former Gov. Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital standing as a symbol of a new stream of business skepticism within the modern Republican Party — does have historical antecedents.

After the election a century ago, the Republicans, as University of Wisconsin historian John Milton Cooper Jr. put it in his classic “The Warrior and the Priest,” a dual biography of Roosevelt and Wilson, “reverted to pre-1912 patterns.”

But a strain of business skepticism, personified by figures with GOP roots such as Sens.

Robert M. La Follette, George W. Norris, and William E. Borah, endured for a time.

Repeat of history?

Gingrich, like Roosevelt, may not have sorted out whether he is, in the formulation the late Yale historian John Morton Blum developed for TR, a conservative radical or radical conservative. Some days he is more the one, some days more the other, and some days the two converge in a fantastic melange never before seen on the American political stump.

And though the questions he is posing about Romney’s business experience are designed to achieve a narrow goal — to advance his candidacy and diminish Romney’s — Gingrich nonetheless has had a broad and important effect, changing the dynamic of the 2012 race, providing it with echoes from the 1912 race on the right to match those Obama set in motion on the left, and perhaps setting the Republican Party, maybe even setting all of American politics, on a new course. It is a rare primary fight that does so much.

— David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh PostGazette.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 6, 1912: “The proposition of the various civic organizations of the city to YEARS secure a portion of South Park for AGO playground purposes was brought IN 1912 up before the city council again last night and the indications are that this time the matter will be disposed of. This is a question that has been brought up several times before the city fathers, but they have always been unable to reach a conclusion.... City Attorney Mitchell told the council that he did not believe they have a legal right to surrender any part of this park to a civic organization as the ground which makes up South Park was granted to the city for park purposes only, and that the city did not buy it.”

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Backward plan To the editor: State unemployment and income tax data refute Gov. Brownback’s claim that Kansas will have more jobs if it lowers taxes on corporations and the rich and raises them on the middle class and working poor. Three states — Nevada, Texas and Wyoming — have neither individual nor corporate income or income-type taxes. Yet, according to the most current figures available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada has the highest unemployment rate of all states at 12.6 percent compared to the national average of 8.7 percent. Nevada, Texas and Wyoming have an average unemployment rate of 8.73 percent.

Four states — Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire and

South Dakota — tax corporate income but not individual income. Their average unemployment rate is 6.33 percent, a whopping 2.37 percentage points lower than nationally. If these statistics have any meaning on the issue of jobs, they show that states that tax corporations but not individuals offer the best economic environment for jobs. Gov. Brownback’s tax plan has it exactly backwards.

Mark Rockwell, Lawrence

Pay it forward To the editor: Just an hour ago, I was treated to an act of pure, completely unselfish kindness by a stranger, a woman at the Phillips 66 car wash at Ninth and Iowa. She was cleaning out the inside of her car with her 3-year-old daughter in

the back seat of her mini van and happened to witness my bicycle’s inner tube explode at the adjoining air hose. The front tire was now inoperable, and I was trying to figure out how to get my mountain bike home to North Lawrence and thanking the stars that it was a freakishly warm January day. The woman in the mini van asked me if I wanted a ride home, and I said no on impulse, not wanting to be a burden but also because I didn’t trust strangers. I thanked her and walked across the street, looking for a phone so I could call a cab and then realizing that a cab most likely couldn’t accommodate me and my bike. Totally out of character for me, I walked back to the woman vacuuming her car and swallowed my pride and fear and asked her for that ride she’d offered.

She gave it to me without

hesitation and wouldn’t accept any money. Kim (she only gave me her first name), I want to give you credit where credit is due and thank you graciously for saving my afternoon off and mainly, for opening my eyes and heart to the power of potential goodness in everyone. I’ll assuredly be paying this forward and looking for every opportunity to do so.

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High 39° Low 20° POP: 55%

High 38° Low 18° POP: 5%

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McCook 45/18

Kearney 45/16

Oberlin 46/20

Clarinda 46/25

Lincoln 47/24

Grand Island 45/17

Beatrice 47/24

Concordia 48/25

Centerville 45/28

St. Joseph 49/29 Chillicothe 48/28

Sabetha 46/27

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 50/32 48/31 Salina 53/26 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 51/27 46/20 51/28 Lawrence 50/31 Sedalia 51/29 Emporia Great Bend 49/31 50/29 50/26 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 51/32 50/24 Hutchinson 50/31 Garden City 51/26 50/22 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 51/32 51/28 54/29 53/23 52/31 50/33 Hays Russell 47/24 49/25

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Through 8 p.m. Sunday.

Temperature High/low 48°/31° Normal high/low today 42°/20° Record high today 70° in 2009 Record low today -10° in 1982

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

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REGIONAL CITIES

Today Tue. Today Tue. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 52 32 s 50 26 sh Atchison 49 29 s 38 19 c Fort Riley 53 26 s 36 16 c Belton 51 33 s 42 23 c 50 32 s 42 23 c Burlington 51 32 s 44 22 sh Olathe Coffeyville 50 33 s 51 27 sh Osage Beach 51 28 s 47 29 pc 50 30 s 40 19 c Concordia 48 25 s 33 16 sn Osage City 50 32 s 41 23 c Dodge City 50 24 pc 35 16 sn Ottawa Wichita 51 28 s 41 22 c Holton 49 28 s 39 20 c Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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Minneapolis 38/15

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: While showers occur from Florida to the southern Appalachians today, dry and mild weather will grace the Northeast and Midwest. The West Coast will be dry with stagnant air covering the interior Northwest.

Today Tue. Today Tue. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 54 38 pc 58 39 pc Albuquerque 48 28 pc 44 28 s 81 68 t 83 70 pc Anchorage 35 23 pc 35 21 pc Miami Milwaukee 45 25 s 33 21 c Atlanta 59 39 pc 60 43 s Minneapolis 38 15 s 23 9 pc Austin 56 38 c 62 38 c Nashville 52 31 pc 58 35 s Baltimore 52 32 s 52 32 s New Orleans 63 48 c 64 48 pc Birmingham 58 35 pc 63 42 s New York 52 36 s 50 34 s Boise 44 27 s 43 27 s Omaha 45 25 s 31 15 c Boston 50 35 s 46 27 s 81 61 c 80 60 pc Buffalo 44 27 s 32 19 sf Orlando 52 33 s 50 34 s Cheyenne 37 4 pc 26 9 sn Philadelphia Phoenix 67 47 pc 70 52 pc Chicago 46 29 s 34 25 c 48 29 s 44 28 pc Cincinnati 49 30 pc 47 31 pc Pittsburgh Cleveland 45 29 s 38 26 pc Portland, ME 42 26 s 41 16 pc Portland, OR 50 32 pc 48 35 pc Dallas 55 39 pc 58 37 c 50 28 pc 48 28 c Denver 34 7 pc 29 8 sn Reno Richmond 57 37 pc 59 36 pc Des Moines 45 25 s 32 18 c 61 43 pc 57 40 r Detroit 44 27 s 35 21 pc Sacramento St. Louis 49 32 s 46 30 pc El Paso 55 36 pc 59 36 s Salt Lake City 37 22 pc 41 26 s Fairbanks 18 -3 s 20 -7 s 68 51 pc 61 53 c Honolulu 79 66 pc 81 67 sh San Diego San Francisco 61 49 c 56 46 r Houston 60 44 c 64 43 c 49 34 s 51 33 pc Indianapolis 46 30 s 44 29 pc Seattle Spokane 36 22 pc 33 20 pc Kansas City 50 31 s 40 22 c Tucson 66 41 pc 69 49 pc Las Vegas 59 41 pc 59 43 c 53 31 s 57 30 c Little Rock 56 34 pc 56 34 pc Tulsa Wash., DC 55 36 s 53 36 s Los Angeles 73 50 pc 65 48 r National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Sanford, FL 84° Low: Clayton Lake, ME -24°

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Losses on successive Saturdays — combined with winning streaks of Baylor (four games) and Missouri (three) — have dropped Kansas University’s basketball team into a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference.

“It’s not good with the conference situation — the race. Still, we’ve been here before,” said KU coach Bill Self, whose Jayhawks have scratched and clawed their way to seven consecutive league crowns.

The Jayhawks, who fell to Iowa State, 72-64, on Jan. 28 in Ames, and Missouri, 7471, on Saturday in Columbia, travel to Baylor on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. tipoff in Ferrell Center. The Bears, like the Jayhawks, take an 8-2 league mark into that showdown.

Baylor (21-2, 8-2) has games remaining at Missouri, Texas and Iowa State and at home versus KU, ISU, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.

KU (18-5, 8-2) still must play at BU, Kansas State, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State and at home against OSU, Texas Tech, Missouri and Texas.

MU (21-2, 8-2) travels to Oklahoma, Texas A&M, KU and Texas Tech, with home games against Baylor, Oklahoma State, K-State and Iowa State.

Surprising Iowa State (17-6, 7-3) plays at Oklahoma State, Baylor, K-State and Missouri and has home games left versus A&M, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Baylor.

Kansas State currently sits alone in fifth place at 5-5, followed by Texas and OSU (46), OU and A&M (3-7) and Tech (0-10).

“One thing that should give us confidence,” Self said, “is we know when we play a certain way, inside/ out, we are pretty good, because Missouri has a terrific team. They are well-coached, can score from all spots. This was our game to win. We leave here (Columbia) disappointed, but also knowing we’ve got a good team.”

KU, which has gone a nation’s-best 227 games without consecutive losses, will face an ultra-talented Baylor team that was blitzed by KU, 92-74, on Jan. 16 in Allen Fieldhouse.

“We’ve got to bounce back Wednesday,” KU senior guard Tyshawn Taylor

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Eli Manning now can say he did not get lucky the first time around.

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The Giants, who squeaked into the NFL playoffs, put a stamp on another miracle run through the postseason with a 21-17 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.

With the victory, the Giants

became the first team that went 9-7 in the regular season to emerge as Super Bowl champion. And at 65, Coughlin passed Dick Vermeil (63) as the oldest coach to win the Super Bowl.

The Patriots could not avenge their loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, when Manning pulled off the upset of the century with a game-

winning drive that ruined New England’s shot at a perfect season.

In winning the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player award Sunday, Manning upstaged Tom Brady, who was denied a fourth ring that would have tied him with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the Please see GIANTS, page 4B

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Coaches: McCay waiver-worthy

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

By now, Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis has said all he can say about the situation surrounding Oklahoma transfer Justin McCay, a wide receiver from Bishop Miege High who is appealing the NCAA for a hardship waiver that, if granted, would allow him to play at Kansas without sitting out a season.

“Because he has red-shirted for a year, if he were to win a hardship through his letter to the NCAA, that would allow him to have three years to play three,” said Weis

of the 6-foot-3, 220-pound sophomore. “He is finishing his letter and sending that in, so we will see how the ruling goes. That is the only status that I can give at this time.”

Fortunately for KU fans, there’s someone on the KU coaching staff who can say a little more — offensive line coach Tim Grunhard, who coached McCay in high school.

Thursday morning, when Grunhard and the rest of Weis’ coaching staff sat down with the media for the first time, Grunhard shared his thoughts on McCay, whom he continually described as caring, genuine, loving and a great person.

“We’re hoping that he can play next year,” Grunhard said. “If you read the story and you read the letter and you read about some of the things he’s gone through in his life, I want to meet the NCAA compliance person that says no to him. Because if you say no to him, then obviously you don’t understand what’s so important to this kid and what a great person he is. We’re hoping it all works out.”

Although he stopped short of giving specific details about the content of McCay’s letter, Grunhard painted a picture of a young man having been through more

in his first two decades of life than most people endure during far longer stretches of time.

“He’s had a rough go of it,” Grunhard said. “Here’s a kid that pretty much couchsurfed all through high school and never had a home.

His father passed away going into his senior year. He’s down in Oklahoma. He had some family issues. I think he was homesick. He was red-shirted, and he lost that Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo football instinct for a little bit. But he’s the same old Jus- RECEIVER JUSTIN MCCAY, A TRANSFER FROM OKLAHOMA, listens as his teamtin being back here.”

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Stanley rallies, wins Phoenix Open SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. (AP) — Kyle Stanley knew exactly how Spencer Levin felt.

Taking advantage of Levin’s final-round meltdown, Stanley rebounded from a devastating loss to win the Phoenix Open on Sunday, overcoming an eightstroke deficit in a comeback as unlikely as his collapse last week at Torrey Pines. “I really feel for him, experiencing that,� Stanley said about Levin, echoing what Brandt Snedeker said about Stanley last week.

“You don’t want to wish that upon anybody. He’s a very good player. Way too good of a player to not bounce back or recover.�

Stanley closed with a bogeyfree 6-under 65, holing a fourfoot par putt on the par-4 18th to Stanley finish at 15-under 269. He earned $1,098,000 for his first PGA Tour title. “You go from a very low

Seattle revisits NBA options SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town — possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a satisfactory deal for a new arena, newly released documents show.

The city turned over the documents to The Seattle Times on Friday under a public records request. The documents included the agenda for a meeting between the parties on Dec. 13, with topics including “Review of Basic Deal Structure,� ‘‘City Debt Capacity� and “Financing Issues.�

A Seattle native who now lives in San Francisco, 44-year-old hedge-fund manager Christopher Hansen, approached the city about his desire to buy an NBA team and build an arena south of Safeco Field, the documents show. Hansen told city officials an arena could be built with minimal impact on taxpayers. “I really appreciate it and look forward to making this happen in Seattle. I genuinely mean that and am confident that with a little effort and creativity we can find a solution that meets our needs and the City’s/State’s desire to get a team back to Seattle without a large public outlay,�

Hansen wrote in a June 16 email to Julie McCoy, chief of staff to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, and Ethan Raup, the mayor’s director of policy and operations.

Seattle hasn’t had an NBA team since 2008, when owner Clay Bennett moved the Sonics to Oklahoma City and renamed them the Thunder.

Hansen, who heads Valiant Capital Management LLC, offered to provide information on recent arena deals that have been put together.

The Dec. 13 meeting was attended by McCoy and Raup and set up by Carl Hirsh, a New Jersey arena consultant hired by the city in July. The agenda also included discussion of KeyArena, where the Sonics played, and which could be used as a temporary home for a new team with the permission of the NBA. The league considered it unsuitable even before the Sonics departed.

The documents don’t mention how Seattle would obtain a team, but the Times reported that they show the city has been following developments in Sacramento, which is under a March 1 deadline to come up with a proposal to build an arena for the Kings.

In addition, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has expressed interest in placing a team in Seattle, leading to speculation the financially struggling Phoenix Coyotes could move to the city and possibly share an arena with a basketball team.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said Saturday he is taking the proposal seriously, but doesn’t want the city left “holding the bag.� “It’s a pretty substantial commitment that would have to be made by the investors,� McGinn said, emphasizing that the city budget can’t be tapped to fund an arena.

point to a high point,� Stanley said. “I’m not sure I expected to maybe recover this quickly. ... I think the biggest challenge was seeing if I could put last week behind me. I think I did.�

Ben Crane had a 66 to finish a stroke back.

Levin, six strokes ahead entering the round and seven in front after one hole, shot a 75 to finish two strokes behind Stanley. “It just wasn’t my day, obviously,� Levin said. “But I gave it away, simple as that. You have a six-shot lead and lose, you gave it away. My hat’s off to Kyle. He

played a great round. He went and got it. But if you’ve got a sixshot lead and don’t win, then I think it’s on the player with the lead, for sure.�

In tears seven days ago in San Diego after blowing the big lead — dropping the final strokes with a triple-bogey 8 on the final hole — and losing to Snedeker in a playoff, Stanley cried again Sunday — this time tears of joy.

Former Kansas University golfer Gary Woodland put together a 5-under 66 in the final round to jump up 25 spots. He finished tied for 26th place.

TWO-DAY SPORTS CALENDAR

KANSAS UNIVERSITY TUESDAY • Tennis vs. UMKC, 4 p.m.

FREE STATE HIGH TUESDAY • Girls/boys basketball at Leavenworth, 5:30/7 p.m.

LAWRENCE HIGH TODAY • Girls basketball vs. Shawnee Mission West, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY • Boys basketball vs. Shawnee Mission West, 7 p.m.

SEABURY ACADEMY TUESDAY • Girls/boys basketball vs.

Wetmore, 6:30/8 p.m.

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TODAY • Girls basketball at Midland Adventist in Shawnee, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY • Boys basketball at St. Mary’s Academy, 8 p.m.

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HASKELL TUESDAY • Women’s/men’s basketball at Central Christian, 5:30/7:30 p.m.

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PETE CARDASCO GETS NEW YORK GIANTS QUARTERBACK HELMETS READY before Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots on Sunday in Indianapolis.

Venus Williams cruises in first match since August WORCESTER, MASS. — After hitting her first competitive serve in five months just long, Venus Williams relaxed, recoiled and fired off another that was too much for Anastasiya Yakimova.

Williams’ comeback was off to a good start that just got better as she teamed with Liezel Huber for a 6-1, 6-2 doubles victory over Yakimova and Darya Kustova that capped a 5-0 Fed Cup shutout for the United States against Belarus on Sunday. “It was perfect conditions,� Williams said.

Williams’ U.S. teammates, including younger sister Serena, had already secured the victory and swept through four rounds of singles, relieving any pressure Venus Williams may have felt in her first match since she withdrew after the opening round of the U.S. Open because of an autoimmune disease.

The fatigue and joint pain of Sjogren’s Syndrome weren’t an issue on Sunday for Williams, V. Williams who was welcomed onto the court by thousands of cheering fans that stuck around to see her return hours after the Americans had already clinched a victory.

Williams said she felt great and hopes to ride her comeback all the way to the Olympics. She’s not sure yet when she’ll be up for singles competition, but Sunday certainly felt like she was headed in the right direction. “I’m not sure what my plans are,� she said. “For me it’s kind of week-by-week and just see what happens. I try not to put pressure on myself.�

By blanking Belarus in World Group II, the Americans head to a playoff in April in hopes of playing their way back into the top tier of the Fed Cup, which they were bounced from last year.

Serena Williams had already guaranteed a U.S. victory earlier in the day by defeating Yakimova 5-7, 6-1, 6-1. Serena blew a 4-1 lead in the opening set and slammed her racket on the court after one point, then returned to form in the next two sets. She didn’t allow a point in two straight games of the final set, which she closed with an overhead slam. “That just goes to show you how frustrated I was out there today,� she said. “I haven’t done that in a match in a long time.�

Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, the Australian Open champion, sat out all five matches with a back injury.

Venus Williams’ win almost overshadowed the team victory, which the U.S. players celebrated with a quick parade around the court with the American flag after Serena Williams’ win.

Once Christian McHale cruised through Kustova 6-0, 6-1 in the next match, the only pressure on Venus Williams was to help Huber preserve the shutout. “It felt great,� Williams said. “It was everything I expected. I’m really glad the team got to the 4-love lead.�

In the first round of World Group play, Russia beat visiting Spain 3-2; Serbia won 3-2 at Belgium; Italy downed visiting Ukraine 3-2; and the Czech Republic won 4-1 at Germany.

Although a U.S. victory was assured after the first singles, most of the 2,279 fans at Worcester’s DCU Center stuck around through another round of singles to see Venus play. It was barely two hours before Super Bowl kickoff and for those fans, Venus’ comeback trumped seeing the start of the New England Patriots’ game against the New York Giants.

Fans crowded the entrance to snap photos as she strolled onto the court. One fan shouted, “Welcome back, Venus!� after warmups. That was followed by a loud round of applause and some foot-stomping when she and Huber returned from the bench to open the match.

Williams served first and after hitting her first attempt long, she delivered a winner on her second to start her comeback with a 15-0 lead. Williams faltered briefly the next time she served, falling behind love-40 before rallying with Huber to win the next four points and clinching the game with an ace.

Belarus won the first two games of the second set, but Williams and Huber reeled off six straight games, ending it with Williams holding serve.

NFL

Commish: Pro Bowl might go INDIANAPOLIS — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he is disappointed in the quality of last week’s Pro Bowl and changes must be considered, perhaps even dropping the game altogether.

Speaking on ESPN Radio, Goodell says this year’s Pro Bowl wasn’t “the kind of football we want to be demonstrating to our fans, and you heard it from the fans, the fans were actively booing in the stands.�

Goodell made his remarks on Sunday, hours before the start of the Super Bowl.

Goodell has spoken to the NFL Players Association about his disappointment, adding, “We are going to either have to improve the quality of what we are doing in the Pro Bowl or consider other changes, or even consider eliminating the game if that is the kind of quality of game we are going to provide.�

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1970 — The NBA expands to 18 teams with the addition of franchises in Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland.

2005 — The New England Patriots win their third Super Bowl in four years, 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles. It’s their ninth straight postseason victory, equaling Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers.

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Miami stuns Duke in OT The Associated Press

Miami 78, No. 7 Duke 74, OT DURHAM, N.C. — Reggie Johnson scored five of his career-high 27 points in overtime, and Miami upset Duke on Sunday.

Kenny Kadji added 15 points for the Hurricanes (14-7, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who blew a 16-point lead in the second half, then regrouped to claim their first victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium and just their second win over Duke since joining the ACC. Seth Curry scored 22 points and freshman Austin Rivers added 20 for the Blue Devils (19-4, 6-2), who missed all six of their free throws in overtime and were beaten by a Florida-based conference rival for the second time this season.

Rivers and Ryan Kelly

missed threes in the final seconds for Duke and Johnson added a free throw with one-tenth of a second remaining.

Johnson had 12 rebounds. Durand Scott added 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting for the Hurricanes, who had a chance to win it in regulation but couldn’t get a shot off before the buzzer.

MIAMI (14-7) Kadji 5-8 1-3 15, Johnson 11-17 5-10 27, Larkin 2-8 1-2 7, Scott 3-12 5-6 11, McKinney Jones 1-4 0-0 2, Grant 1-9 0-0 2, Jones 3-5 3-4 9, Brown 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 28-67 15-25 78.

DUKE (19-4) Mas. Plumlee 2-7 2-3 6, Hairston 1-4 0-0 2, Rivers 7-15 5-9 20, Thornton 1-3 0-0 3, Dawkins 1-5 0-0 3, Cook 3-9 2-4 8, Mi. Plumlee 1-2 0-0 2, Curry 7-13 4-6 22, Kelly 3-10 0-0 8. Totals 26-68 13-22 74.

Halftime-Miami 42-28. End Of Regulation-Tied 69. 3-Point GoalsMiami 7-23 (Kadji 4-5, Larkin 2-6, Brown 1-2, Johnson 0-1, Scott 0-1, McKinney Jones 0-3, Grant 0-5), Duke 9-31 (Curry 4-7, Kelly 2-7, Thornton 1-3, Dawkins 1-4, Rivers 1-7, Cook 0-3). Fouled OutKadji. Rebounds-Miami 48 (Johnson 12), Duke 43 (Mas. Plumlee 13). AssistsMiami 11 (Larkin 4), Duke 12 (Cook, Curry 4). Total Fouls-Miami 19, Duke 22. A-9,314.

No. 9 Michigan St. 64, No. 23 Michigan 54 EAST LANSING, MICH. — Draymond Green had 14 points and 16 rebounds to lead Michigan State.

The Spartans (18-5, 7-3 Big Ten) ended a threegame skid in the rivalry and moved into sole possession of second place in the conference behind third-ranked Ohio State.

The Wolverines (17-7, 7-4) haven’t won or lost consecutive games in nearly a month.

Green, who matched Michigan’s rebound total by himself, played after spraining his left knee on Tuesday in a loss to Illinois.

Michigan’s Tim Hardaway Jr. missed his first six shots and had a season-low four points on 1-of-10 shooting. Freshman Trey Burke finished with 11 points on 4-of-11 shooting.

The Spartans took control with a 17-7 run early in the first half and pulled away with eight straight points to take a 57-40 lead with just under three minutes left.

Michigan State outrebounded the Wolverines 40-16, including 12-3 on the offensive glass.

MICHIGAN (17-7) Morgan 4-6 3-3 11, Novak 5-8 1-2 14, Douglass 2-6 0-0 5, Burke 4-11 1-3 11, Hardaway Jr. 1-10 2-2 4, Vogrich 1-2 0-0 2, Bartelstein 0-0 0-0 0, McLimans 0-0 0-0 0, Smotrycz 2-5 2-2 7, Person 0-0 0-0 0, Christian 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-48 9-12 54.

MICHIGAN ST. (18-5) Green 7-11 0-0 14, Payne 2-4 1-2 5, Appling 3-5 4-6 10, Thornton 0-1 5-6 5, Dawson 4-6 2-4 10, Byrd 0-0 0-0 0, Kearney 1-1 0-0 2, Trice 1-3 0-0 3, Nix 3-8 0-0 6, Wood 3-7 2-2 9, Ianni 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 24-46 14-20 64.

Halftime-Michigan St. 30-22. 3-Point Goals-Michigan 7-22 (Novak 3-5, Burke 2-6, Douglass 1-3, Smotrycz 1-4, Vogrich 0-1, Hardaway Jr. 0-3), Michigan St. 2-10 (Wood 1-3, Trice 1-3, Thornton 0-1, Appling 0-1, Green 0-2).

Fouled Out-Novak. Rebounds-Michigan 16 (Smotrycz 4), Michigan St. 40 (Green 16). Assists-Michigan 15 (Douglass 5), Michigan St. 15 (Green, Thornton, Wood 4). Total Fouls-Michigan 16, Michigan St. 14. Technicals-Michigan Bench, Michigan St. Bench. A-14,797.

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light returning to McCay’s eyes to his ability to be around his family more often — even when it means being put in charge of taking care of his baby sisters — and the fact that he has been given a fresh start in football as well.

“I think football has been his escape for so many years, and he really thrives on that when he’s in the right situation,” Grunhard said. “He may have gone to Oklahoma

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY BIG MAN THOMAS ROBINSON (0) HOWLS in frustration late in the Jayhawks’ loss to Missouri. MU outscored KU 11-0 in the final minutes of a 74-71 victory over the Jayhawks on Saturday in Columbia, Mo., an outcome which forced a three-way tie atop the Big 12 standings

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Baylor Missouri Kansas Iowa State Kansas State Oklahoma State Texas Oklahoma Texas A&M Texas Tech Today’s Games Missouri at Oklahoma, 6 p.m.

Texas at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Iowa State at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Texas Tech at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Game Kansas at Baylor, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Oklahoma State at Kansas, 3 p.m.

Baylor at Missouri, 12:30 p.m.

Kansas State at Texas, 1 p.m.

Texas A&M at Iowa State, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

said. “We’ve lost two tough road games. We get another opportunity to play another good team on the road.”

The date of the Missouri rematch will be Saturday, Feb. 25, in Allen Fieldhouse. That game will be a 3 p.m. start on CBS. “You can’t dwell on this too long. We’re going to Baylor Wednesday,” KU junior center Jeff Withey said. “We know we’ll play them (Tigers) again, may- Dreiling, Darnell Valenbe twice — our place and tine, Antoine Carr, Ricky the Big 12 Tournament.”

Ross and Aubrey Sherrod. !

Other City League standEllis closing in on mark: outs include Taj Gray, KoKansas University signee rleone Young and Adrian Perry Ellis, a 6-foot-8 se- Griffin. nior forward from Wich! ita Heights, is now just Frankamp hits for 47: 38 points from becoming Future KU guard Conthe No. 1 scorer in Wich- ner Frankamp scored 47 ita City League history. points in Wichita North’s Former KU center Greg 69-66 victory over Wichita Dreiling of Wichita Ka- East on Friday in North’s paun scored 1,963 points. gym. Frankamp hit 13 of Ellis’ next game is Tues- 21 shots. At one point, he day at Wichita West. iced seven straight threeHeights has won 57 con- pointers. Frankamp, a secutive games. junior, moved into fifth Ellis, who is averaging place on the Wichita 25 points a game off just City League career scor13 shots per outing, is ex- ing list with 1,476 points. pected to be invited to the Frankamp has topped McDonald’s All-America the 40-point mark in four game in coming weeks. A games this season. ! recent Wichita Eagle arSampson to visit: Jaticle listed Ellis as possibly the greatest player in karr Sampson, a 6-8, City League history, join- 220-pound senior forward ing the conversation with from Brewster Academy

attend the KU-Missouri game as part of an official recruiting visit, according to Rivals.com. He has a list of KU, Baylor, Pitt, Louisville and St. John’s. !

Marcus in D-League again: Houston Rockets first-round draft pick Marcus Morris, who practiced Thursday for the first time since suffering a severely sprained ankle on Jan. 12, is back with the NBA Development League’s Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

“He hasn’t been able to practice for two weeks with a sprained ankle and we go on a two-week road trip and he needs to go down there and play and get some conditioning,” Rockets’coach Kevin McHale told the Houston Chronicle.

A reporter asked McHale if he’d “gotten feedback from Marcus that he’s not happy about it?”

“No. I just assume that if they tell you what to do, you do it. Maybe I’m just stupid,” McHale said. “I forgot to ask him that, but I will next time.

“The D-League is a place for guys to go down and play and get in good shape. That’s where Marcus needs to be right now.

We’re going on a long road trip. For him to go on a road trip with hardly any practice time it is going to be very difficult for him to improve and all these young guys do need to improve.”

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DUKE’S MASON PLUMLEE, LEFT, and Miami’s Durand Scott struggle for possession. Miami beat No. 7 Duke, 78-74, on Sunday in Durham, N.C.

for the wrong reasons, and it kind of snow-balled. He needs to build that back up, and he will.”

McCay, a former fivestar prospect who participated in the U.S. Army All-American game as a senior at Bishop Miege, red-shirted during the 2010 season and played only sparingly last season. He appeared in three games for the Sooners and did not record any statistics.

When he met with the media a few weeks ago, the dynamic wide receiver, whom many have said could make a major impact on the KU offense right away, did not look

or seem like a young man with a chip on his shoulder or someone who was bitter about the hand life had dealt him. Instead, he was everything Grunhard described him to be and, more than anything, he appeared happy to be sitting in Lawrence, wearing a KU shirt.

“Being close (to home) was a factor, and coach Weis and coach Grunhard were factors as well,” McCay said. “I’m glad I’m here. I’m not looking back, on it and I’m not mad I left or anything. I have a great opportunity here. I had to go with what my family and my heart needed. This was the best place for me.”

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Manning, champs best at both ends

By Dan Pompei Chicago Tribune

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GIANTS QUARTERBACK ELI MANNING CELEBRATES HIS TEAM’S 21-17 VICTORY over the Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday in Indianapolis.

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only quarterbacks to win that many.

Manning, who won on the field his brother Peyton called home, became the 11th quarterback to start and win multiple Super Bowls. He also became the fifth player to win multiple MVP awards, joining Montana, Bradshaw, Brady, and Bart Starr.

“This isn’t about one guy,” Manning said. “This is about the team coming together and getting this win.”

Brady will have to settle for being Manning’s equal on this night, although his team wasn’t. At 31, it isn’t beyond reason to suggest that Peyton’s little brother will be back on this stage with a chance at ring No. 3.

Manning was magnificent. He completed 30 of 40 passes for 296 yards and a touchdown. He did not toss an interception and completed passes to nine receivers. He ended the season in much the same way he played it,

SUMMARY N.Y. Giants 9 0 6 6—21 New England 0 10 7 0—17 First Quarter NYG-Team safety, 8:52.

NYG-Cruz 2 pass from Manning (Tynes kick), 3:24.

Second Quarter NE-FG Gostkowski 29, 13:48.

NE-Woodhead 4 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), :08.

Third Quarter NE-Hernandez 12 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 11:20.

NYG-FG Tynes 38, 6:43.

NYG-FG Tynes 33, :35.

Fourth Quarter NYG-Bradshaw 6 run (run failed), :57.

A-68,658.

NYG NE First downs 26 21 Total Net Yards 396 349 Rushes-yards 28-114 19-83 Passing 282 266 Punt Returns 1-10 0-0 Kickoff Returns 4-75 3-73 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 30-40-0 27-41-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-14 2-10 Punts 4-40.8 3-41.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-24 5-28 Time of Possession 37:05 22:55 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-N.Y. Giants, Bradshaw 17-72, Jacobs 9-37, Ware 1-6, Manning 1-(minus 1). New England, Green-Ellis 10-44, Welker 2-21, Woodhead 7-18.

PASSING-N.Y. Giants, Manning 30-400-296. New England, Brady 27-41-1-276.

RECEIVING-N.Y. Giants, Nicks 10-109, Manningham 5-73, Pascoe 4-33, Cruz 4-25, Bradshaw 2-19, Hynoski 2-19, Ballard 2-10, Ware 1-8. New England, Hernandez 8-67, Welker 7-60, Woodhead 4-42, Branch 3-45, Gronkowski 2-26, Green-Ellis 2-15, Ochocinco 1-21.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

by driving the Giants to a fourth-quarter comeback victory.

And he did it again in the Super Bowl. Manning

and the Giants got the ball back late, trailing, and again they put together a drive for the ages.

“We’ve won so many games like this, though, at the end of the game, the fourth quarter,” Coughlin said. “We talk about finishing all the time and winning the fourth quarter, being the stronger team, making the plays in the fourth quarter. It happened again tonight.”

The comeback drive got off to a splendid start when Manning pitched a 38-yard strike to wide receiver Mario Manningham (five catches, 73 yards), who managed to get both feet in at the sideline.

“They were in Cover 2,” Manning said. “Usually that is not your matchup. They had us covered pretty well to the right. I looked that way. I saw I had the safety cheated in a little bit and threw it down the sideline. Great catch by (Manningham), keeping both feet in.”

Two plays later, the pair hooked up again for 16 yards, and the Giants were in field-goal range at the New England 34.

But the Giants didn’t sit

on the ball. Manning hit receiver Hakeem Nicks (10 catches, 109 yards) for 14 yards. Running back Ahmad Bradshaw motored 7 yards to the 11. And then three plays later, on second and goal at the 6, the Patriots let Bradshaw walk into the end zone with 57 seconds to go.

The running back realized what was happening just before he crossed the goal line, but it was too late and he awkwardly fell in for the score.

The Giants failed on the two-point conversion, but they led, 21-17.

The drive — nine plays for 88 yards in 2 minutes, 49 seconds — mirrored the 12 plays for 83 yards in 2:07 from four years earlier. In that game-winning drive, though, New York, trailing by four, needed a touchdown and got one when Manning completed a 13-yard pass to Plaxico Burress.

Sunday, in a quarterback battle for the ages, Manning once again outdueled Brady.

The Patriots had the ball with 57 seconds left, and Brady got them to midfield, but his Hail Mary pass wasn’t caught as time expired.

Pats missed too many chances INDINAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Brady’s two long incompletions in the final minutes, and several missed chances throughout the game cost the New England Patriots a chance at another Super Bowl victory.

It also resulted in their second loss to the New York Giants in the big game in four years, 21-17 on Sunday.

“We just came up a little bit short,” Brady said.

“There were some missed opportunities out there.

It was a very hard-fought game. We fought ‘til the end. I’m very proud of that.”

With just over four minutes left, Brady tossed a pass to the left side to a wide-open Wes Welker near the Giants 20-yard line. But Brady’s most reliable receiver — and the NFL leader with 122 catches — couldn’t hang on.

Paul Sancya/AP Photo

NEW ENGLAND QUARTERBACK TOM BRADY WALKS OFF THE FIELD after the Patriots’ 21-17 loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday in Indianapolis.

After the game, Welker sat at a podium and stared straight ahead. His eyes were red. His hands were folded in his lap.

He blamed himself.

“It comes to the biggest moment of my life, and (I) don’t come up with it,”

Welker said. “Most critical situation, and I let the team down.”

Minutes later, the Giants marched for the goahead touchdown with 57 seconds remaining.

But Brady had one last chance. He threw a des-

peration pass half the length of the field into the end zone. Aaron Hernandez went up among three defenders, and the ball was tipped — out of reach of a lunging Rob Gronkowski as the ball fell to the ground and time ran out.

“I felt like I was close,” Gronkowski said. “But close isn’t there.”

Added Brady: “We got to the 50, and ran out of time.”

There were plenty more wasted chances by a normally disciplined team that prides itself on not making mistakes.

“I thought we played very competitive, had our moments where we moved the ball and stopped them,” coach Bill Belichick said. “We were in the lead for a good part of the game. We just came up a couple of plays short.”

INDIANAPOLIS — Super Bowls most often are won and lost at two points of the game.

The first point is the beginning. That’s when teams make statements, establish patterns and take control or lose it.

In the opening minutes, Giants quarterback Eli Manning was so precise you would have felt comfortable if he were putting a scalpel to your sternum.

He was, in fact, operating on the Patriots.

He completed his first nine passes, which set a Super Bowl record. More importantly, he helped the Patriots to a 9-0 lead, first by setting up his defense for a safety, and then by completing a 2-yard touchdown pass to Victor Cruz.

Early on, the only way to prevent Manning from completing a pass was to put him on the ground before he could unload it.

The second point when Super Bowls are won and lost is, of course, crunch time.

Or should we call it Eli time?

As good as Manning was after the opening bell, he was better near the closing bell.

By the time 9:35 was left in the game, Manning was down two tight ends and had used two of three timeouts. The Giants trailed 17-15.

The odds were against him.

But odds don’t matter to Manning, whose Giants came into the game as a 3-point underdog.

They came into the Super Bowl four years ago as a 12-point underdog and won.

A nice fourth-quarter drive broke down when Mario Manningham couldn’t get his feet inbounds on a beautiful Manning throw, and then Sterling Moore broke up a pass intended for Manningham. It appeared Moore interfered, but the Giants did not get the call.

After a Patriots’ possession, the Giants took over on their own 12 with 3:46 left.

Manningham made up for his previous plays with a spectacular grab against Moore on the sideline. It went for 38 yards, which made it the longest play of the game.

It was ruled a completion on the field, but Bill Belichick challenged the call. The ruling was upheld.

It was the first play of a nine-play, 88-yard drive in which Manning was just brilliant. Just as Kelly Clarkson hit the high notes at the end of the national anthem, Manning

COMMENTARY hit the high notes at the end of the game.

Manning also had completions of 16, 2, 14 and 4 yards on the drive, which culminated with a 6-yard touchdown run by Ahmad Bradshaw with 57 seconds left.

That gave Tom Brady the ball and enough time for an Eli imitation.

But this one belonged to Manning.

“That was quite a drive that he was able to put together,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “He deserves all the credit in the world because he really has put his team on his shoulders all year and performed very well.”

It would have been easy to understand if frustration had set in on the Giants’ sideline. The Giants went more than 47 minutes between touchdowns.

Manning said he never doubted his offense would get it done.

“Stayed positive,” he said. “I knew we were moving the ball. We just weren’t getting touchdowns.”

Manning should not have lacked for confidence. In fact, he has been the NFL’s king of the fourth quarter.

In 2011, he threw 15 fourth-quarter touchdown passes to set an NFL record. He also had six fourth-quarter comebacks, which accounted for 67 percent of their victories. His fourth-quarter passer rating for the year was 110.

“He’s had a remarkable year for a fourth-quarter quarterback rating,” Coughlin said. “He’s done an exceptional job. We’ve had this goal of finish, finish, finish. He’s done it.”

Manning completed 30 of 40 passes for 296 yards and had a 103.8 passer rating.

“I’m just happy for the guys,” he said. “I’m happy for everyone in this organization, Coach Coughlin, all of my coaches, all of the players getting a chance to win the Super Bowl. Some of these guys are getting their first one.

I feel great for them. I feel great for everybody.”

The only other time Manning played in a Super Bowl, he led his team back from a 14-10 deficit with 2:42 remaining. His 83-yard touchdown drive gave the underdog Giants a 17-14 victory over these same Patriots.

He was the most valuable player in that game, and the most valuable player in this one.

Manning in the fourth quarter? That’s Reggie Jackson in October.

Super Bowl ads pale in comparison to game NEW YORK (AP) — The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between.

The Super Bowl may have been a nail biter, but the ads were a snooze.

Actor Clint Eastwood waxed for two minutes about Detroit and Chrysler. An M&M candy stripped “naked” at a party. And stars from the 90s were everywhere, as were dogs and babies, of course.

Companies paid an average of $3.5 million for a 30-second spot for the right to duke it out Sunday in front of the expected 111 million-plus fans. But it was all so ordinary with fewer surprises.

That’s mostly because nearly half of the 70 Super Bowl advertisers put

hosting site GoDaddy shows racecar driver Danica Patrick and fitness expert Jillian Michaels body painting a nude woman. A spot for clothing retailer H&M features soccer star David Beckham in blackand-white in his undies.

And online florist Teleflora and automaker Kia both use Victoria Secret’s model Adriana Lima in their Super Bowl ads.

But perhaps the two most blatant examples of “letting it all hang out” came from car companies.

Toyota’s spot for its “reinvented” Camry features a “reinvented” couch Sex sells — or at least made up of women wearadvertisers hope it does ing bikinis. “It also comes Advertisers showed a in male,” a voiceover in little skin in their Super the ad says while showing Bowl. a couch of shirtless men.

An ad for domain nameAnd among the few

their spots out online in the days leading up to the game. And the companies that did wait until game day for the “big reveal” didn’t take many risks. In fact, most settled on cliché plots with kids, celebs, sex and humor.

“Advertisers this year are playing it very safe,” said Tim Calkins, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University.

“They’re running spots that are clearly designed to appeal to a broad audience and not to offend.”

Here’s a look at the game’s ads, play by play:

shows a man being bribed by a dog with the chips to keep the animal’s dirty secret about a cat’s disappearance. In another spot, a grandmother uses a slingshot to hoist a baby up to grab a bag of Doritos that belongs to a boy in a tree who had been taunting the baby with the chips.

Those two ads were crowd favorites, said Peter Dabol, who analyzes advertising effectiveness at research firm Ace Metrix. The firm polled 500 viewers about the ads to find the most popular.

“It’s a typical Super Babies and dogs, oh my Bowl, funny carries the Who doesn’t love cute day,” he said. “Advertisers animals and babies? Ad- are driving for attention vertisers are banking there and likeability.” aren’t many among us.

That’s why Doritos used The stars were out Celebrities always draw both. One Doritos spot standouts for the night was a Fiat ad that equated seeing the car for the first time with making out with a sexy Italian super model. The tagline: “You’ll never forget the first time you see one.”

“They did a good job of showing that some decisions are made with the heart, some decisions are made with the head and the Italian car decision resides in the groin,” said Greg Dinoto, chief creative officer of advertising agency Deutsch in New York. “It was sexy and surprising and fun.”

attention. And advertisers took a gamble that using stars would be enough to grab attention.

Chrysler, one of nine automakers advertising during the game, aired a Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood. The aging actor talks about the rebirth of Chrysler and Detroit. The two-minute “Imported from Detroit” ad, one of the few spots that weren’t released before the game, follows the company’s ad last year that starred rapper Eminem.

“How do we come from behind, how do we come together and how do we win?” he asks. “Detroit is showing us it can be done.

What’s true about them is true about all of us.”

Chrysler’s ad was among the few standouts Sunday.

SPORTS

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

SCOREBOARD NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 17 7 .708 — Boston 13 10 .565 3½ New York 9 15 .375 8 New Jersey 8 17 .320 9½ Toronto 8 17 .320 9½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 18 6 .750 — Atlanta 16 8 .667 2 Orlando 15 9 .625 3 Washington 4 20 .167 14 Charlotte 3 21 .125 15 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 20 6 .769 — Indiana 16 7 .696 2½ Milwaukee 10 13 .435 8½ Cleveland 9 13 .409 9 Detroit 6 20 .231 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 16 9 .640 — Dallas 14 11 .560 2 Houston 13 11 .542 2½ Memphis 12 12 .500 3½ New Orleans 4 20 .167 11½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 18 5 .783 — Denver 15 9 .625 3½ Utah 13 9 .591 4½ Portland 14 10 .583 4½ Minnesota 12 12 .500 6½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 14 7 .667 — L.A. Lakers 14 10 .583 1½ Phoenix 9 14 .391 6 Golden State 8 13 .381 6 Sacramento 8 15 .348 7 Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 98, Atlanta 87 Orlando 85, Indiana 81 L.A. Clippers 107, Washington 81 Cleveland 91, Dallas 88 Detroit 89, New Orleans 87 New York 99, New Jersey 92 Minnesota 100, Houston 91 San Antonio 107, Oklahoma City 96 Chicago 113, Milwaukee 90 Phoenix 95, Charlotte 89 Utah 96, L.A. Lakers 87 Sacramento 114, Golden State 106, OT Portland 117, Denver 97 Sunday’s Games Boston 98, Memphis 80 Miami 95, Toronto 89 Today’s Games L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Utah at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

NBA Leaders THROUGH FEB. 4 Scoring

G Bryant, LAL 24 James, MIA 22 Durant, OKC 23 Love, MIN 24 Rose, CHI 21 Anthony, NYK 21 Aldridge, POR 24 Westbrook, OKC 23 Griffin, LAC 21 Ellis, GOL 20 Howard, ORL 24 D. Williams, NJN 24 Bosh, MIA 23 Jennings, MIL 23 Martin, HOU 22 J. Johnson, ATL 24 Pierce, BOS 19 Jefferson, UTA 19 Lee, GOL 20 Gay, MEM 23 FG Percentage Chandler, NYK Bynum, LAL Gortat, PHX Howard, ORL James, MIA Nash, PHX Okafor, NOR Griffin, LAC Millsap, UTA Boozer, CHI Rebounds

G Howard, ORL 24 Love, MIN 24 Bynum, LAL 20 Varejao, CLE 22 Cousins, SAC 22 Griffin, LAC 21 Gasol, MEM 23 Humphries, NJN 23 Gortat, PHX 23 Gasol, LAL 24 Assists Nash, PHX Rondo, BOS Paul, LAC Rubio, MIN D. Williams, NJN Calderon, TOR Rose, CHI Lowry, HOU Parker, SAN Wall, WAS

Big 12 Men

FG 256 233 221 192 177 164 226 189 188 159 173 166 177 172 151 167 112 151 154 173

FT 159 159 140 175 111 134 101 105 72 85 143 104 99 59 85 66 91 49 59 56

PTS 705 642 616 601 496 489 554 498 449 426 489 485 460 458 437 447 351 351 367 420

AVG 29.4 29.2 26.8 25.0 23.6 23.3 23.1 21.7 21.4 21.3 20.4 20.2 20.0 19.9 19.9 18.6 18.5 18.5 18.4 18.3

FG 89 137 151 173 233 121 98 188 153 172

FGA 125 244 269 313 423 222 180 347 291 330

PCT .712 .561 .561 .553 .551 .545 .544 .542 .526 .521

OFF DEF 84 279 100 228 62 178 103 158 95 152 65 164 51 190 89 152 56 180 66 175

TOT 363 328 240 261 247 229 241 241 236 241

AVG 15.1 13.7 12.0 11.9 11.2 10.9 10.5 10.5 10.3 10.0

G 21 14 16 24 24 24 21 22 25 24

Conf.

W L 8 2 8 2 8 2 7 3 5 5 4 6 4 6 3 7 3 7 0 10

AST AVG 208 9.9 129 9.2 143 8.9 213 8.9 211 8.8 210 8.8 173 8.2 179 8.1 192 7.7 170 7.1

Overall W L 21 2 21 2 18 5 17 6 16 6 11 12 14 9 13 9 12 10 7 15

Baylor Missouri Kansas Iowa State Kansas State Oklahoma State Texas Oklahoma Texas A&M Texas Tech Saturday’s Games Missouri 74, Kansas 71 Baylor 64, Oklahoma State 60 Kansas State 64, Texas A&M 53 Iowa State 77, Oklahoma 70 Texas 74, Texas Tech 57 Today’s Games Missouri at Oklahoma, 6 p.m.

Texas at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 7 Iowa State at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Texas Tech at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 8 Kansas at Baylor, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11 Oklahoma State at Kansas, 3 p.m.

Baylor at Missouri, 12:30 p.m.

Kansas State at Texas, 1 p.m.

Texas A&M at Iowa State, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Big 12 Women

Conf.

Overall W L W L Baylor 10 0 23 0 Oklahoma 7 3 15 6 Texas A&M 7 3 16 5 Kansas State 6 4 15 7 Kansas 5 5 16 6 Texas Tech 4 6 16 6 Oklahoma State 4 6 12 7 Iowa State 4 6 13 8 Texas 3 7 13 9 Missouri 0 10 10 11 Saturday’s Games Texas A&M 62, Kansas 51 Oklahoma 80, Oklahoma State 71 Iowa State 71, Texas 56 Baylor 70, Kansas State 41

Sunday’s Game Texas Tech 76, Missouri 49 Today’s Games Oklahoma at Baylor, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 8 Texas at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Iowa State at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Kansas State at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

College Men

SOUTH Christopher Newport 85, Ferrum 78 McNeese St. 66, Stephen F. Austin 56 Miami 78, Duke 74, OT Rhodes 71, Birmingham-Southern 69 Washington (Mo.) 92, Emory 83 Washington Adventist 88, Apprentice 82 MIDWEST Cleveland St. 70, Ill.-Chicago 42 Michigan St. 64, Michigan 54 Minnesota 69, Nebraska 61 Northwestern 74, Illinois 70 Youngstown St. 80, Loyola of Chicago 63 EAST Fairfield 64, Siena 56 Loyola (Md.) 66, St. Peter’s 55 Penn St.-Abington 95, Keuka 78 Pittsburgh 79, Villanova 70 Rider 74, Niagara 73 West Virginia 87, Providence 84, OT

College Women

SOUTH Florida 84, Mississippi 55 Florida St. 78, Virginia Tech 60 Georgia 81, Alabama 66 James Madison 49, George Mason 45 LSU 61, Kentucky 51 Miami 68, Clemson 47 Southern Miss. 67, East Carolina 57 Tennessee 82, Auburn 61 Tulane 75, SMU 63 UAB 50, Marshall 45 UNC Wilmington 80, William & Mary 77 Vanderbilt 65, Mississippi St. 59 Virginia 55, NC State 47 MIDWEST Dayton 74, Xavier 65 Iowa 83, Indiana 64 Michigan St. 65, Michigan 63 Notre Dame 90, DePaul 70 Penn St. 68, Minnesota 65 Purdue 77, Illinois 66 Saint Louis 56, Duquesne 55 SOUTHWEST Texas Tech 76, Missouri 49 Tulsa 67, Houston 53 UTEP 45, Rice 41 FAR WEST Washington 67, Southern Cal 61 EAST Delaware 68, VCU 49 Drexel 63, Northeastern 41 Hartford 63, Vermont 52 Old Dominion 81, Hofstra 79 Towson 63, Georgia St. 59, OT Wake Forest 73, Boston College 60

Kansas Men

Exhibition Pittsburg State, W 84-55 Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 10152 Regular season Towson (first-round Maui Invitational), W 100-54 (1-0) Kentucky in New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden), L 65-75 (1-1).

Georgetown (Maui Invitational), W 67-63 (2-1) UCLA (Maui Invitational), W 72-56 (3-1) Duke (Maui Invitational), L 61-68 (3-2) Florida Atlantic, W 77-54 (4-2) South Florida, W 70-42 (5-2) Long Beach State, W 88-80 (6-2) Ohio State, W 78-67 (7-2) Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), L 74-80 (7-3) USC, W 63-47 (8-3) Howard, W 89-34 (9-3) North Dakota, W 84-58 (10-3) Kansas State, W 67-49 (11-3, 1-0) at Oklahoma, W 72-61 (12-3, 2-0) at Texas Tech, W 81-46 (13-3, 3-0) Iowa State, W 82-73 (14-3, 4-0) Baylor, W 92-74 (15-3, 5-0) at Texas, W 69-66 (16-3, 6-0) Texas A&M, W 64-52 (17-3, 7-0) at Iowa State, L 64-72 (17-4, 7-1) Oklahoma, W 84-62 (18-4, 8-1) at Missouri, L 71-74 (18-5, 8-2) Feb. 8 — at Baylor, 6 p.m., ESPN2.

Feb. 11 — Oklahoma State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 18 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 22 — at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Feb. 25 — Missouri, 3 p.m., CBS. Feb. 27 — at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 3 — Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 7-10 — Big 12 championship, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas Women

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0) SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1) Wisconsin, W 73-44 (8-1) UMKC, W 77-52 (9-1) Oral Roberts, W 85-68 (10-1) Sam Houston State, W 87-59 (11-1) at Texas, W 72-67 (12-1, 1-0) Kansas State, L 57-63 (12-2, 1-1) Iowa State, W 74-67, 2OT (13-2, 2-1) at Missouri, W 72-63 (14-2, 3-1) at Oklahoma State, W 65-60 (15-2, 4-1) Texas A&M, L 65-76 (15-3, 4-2) Texas Tech, W 62-43 (16-3, 5-2) at Baylor, L 46-74 (16-4, 5-3) Oklahoma, L 68-74, OT (16-5, 5-4) at Texas A&M, L 51-62 (16-6, 5-5) Feb. 8 — Texas, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 12 — at Kansas State, noon (FSN) Feb. 15 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 — Missouri, 1 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 21 — at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSN) Feb. 29 — Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

(Metro) March 4 — at Oklakhoma, TBA March 7-10 — Big 12 championship at Kansas City, Mo.

Phoenix Open

Sunday At TPC Scottsdale Scottsdale, Ariz.

Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,216; Par: 71 Final FedExCup points in parentheses Kyle Stanley (500), $1,098,000 69-66-69-65—269 Ben Crane (300), $658,800 69-67-68-66—270 Spencer Levin (190), $414,800 65-63-68-75—271 D.J. Trahan (135), $292,800 72-70-64-66—272 Brendan Steele (100), $222,650 71-69-69-64—273 Kevin Na (100), $222,650 66-73-69-65—273 Bubba Watson (100), $222,650 66-70-67-70—273 Bo Van Pelt (78), $170,800 65-71-71-67—274 John Rollins (78), $170,800 70-70-65-69—274 Jason Dufner (78), $170,800 64-72-68-70—274 Webb Simpson (78), $170,800 65-69-68-72—274 Trevor Immelman (61), $128,100 67-70-69-69—275

John Huh (61), $128,100 68-66-69-72—275 Chris Stroud (61), $128,100 68-70-66-71—275 Bryce Molder (55), $100,650 70-69-71-66—276 Keegan Bradley (55), $100,650 68-70-71-67—276 Rod Pampling (55), $100,650 67-71-71-67—276 Harris English (55), $100,650 70-69-68-69—276 Chris Couch (49), $68,843 70-68-72-67—277 Pat Perez (49), $68,843 69-73-66-69—277 Martin Flores (49), $68,843 71-68-68-70—277 Bill Haas (49), $68,843 69-68-69-71—277 Mark Wilson (49), $68,843 70-69-74-64—277 Marc Leishman (49), $68,843 70-68-68-71—277 Greg Chalmers (49), $68,843 68-69-67-73—277 Jeff Quinney (0), $43,310 69-71-70-68—278 Rickie Fowler (42), $43,310 69-69-71-69—278 Derek Lamely (42), $43,310 66-70-72-70—278 Gary Woodland (42), $43,310 71-71-70-66—278 Harrison Frazar (42), $43,310 66-67-73-72—278 Jeff Maggert (42), $43,310 70-68-68-72—278 Phil Mickelson (42), $43,310 68-70-67-73—278 Matt Kuchar (35), $31,546 69-68-72-70—279 Robert Allenby (35), $31,546 71-69-70-69—279 Carl Pettersson (35), $31,546 70-69-70-70—279 George McNeill (35), $31,546 71-70-70-68—279 Heath Slocum (35), $31,546 73-69-69-68—279 Charles Howell III (35), $31,546 69-68-71-71—279 Seung-Yul Noh (35), $31,546 67-72-68-72—279 Sunghoon Kang (29), $23,790 67-73-69-71—280 Josh Teater (29), $23,790 68-69-71-72—280 Jarrod Lyle (29), $23,790 66-72-70-72—280 Ricky Barnes (29), $23,790 71-70-71-68—280 Matt Jones (29), $23,790 67-72-67-74—280 Ian Poulter (24), $17,861 72-69-70-70—281 Sean O’Hair (24), $17,861 74-68-70-69—281 D.A. Points (24), $17,861 69-73-70-69—281 J.B. Holmes (24), $17,861 71-70-72-68—281 Chez Reavie (24), $17,861 66-76-72-67—281 Bill Lunde (19), $14,713 67-73-69-73—282 Bud Cauley (19), $14,713 72-67-72-71—282 Scott Piercy (19), $14,713 68-70-70-74—282 Ken Duke (19), $14,713 69-72-71-70—282 Brandt Snedeker (19), $14,713 71-70-73-68—282 Johnson Wagner (14), $13,725 68-69-73-73—283 Billy Mayfair (14), $13,725 68-73-70-72—283 J.J. Killeen (14), $13,725 70-70-72-71—283 Graham DeLaet (14), $13,725 71-69-72-71—283 Ryan Palmer (14), $13,725 64-72-76-71—283 Kevin Kisner (14), $13,725 69-71-74-69—283 James Driscoll (9), $13,115 67-70-71-76—284 Dustin Johnson (9), $13,115 68-70-74-72—284 John Merrick (9), $13,115 69-73-72-70—284 Martin Laird (9), $13,115 72-70-73-69—284 Cameron Beckman (4), $12,566 69-69-73-74—285 David Hearn (4), $12,566 69-69-73-74—285 Blake Adams (4), $12,566 69-70-74-72—285 Aaron Baddeley (4), $12,566 72-67-74-72—285 Kenny Perry (4), $12,566 70-72-72-71—285 Ted Potter, Jr. (1), $12,078 71-69-73-75—288 Kevin Sutherland (1), $12,078 71-70-72-75—288 Kevin Stadler (1), $12,078 70-71-76-71—288 Camilo Villegas (1), $11,773 71-67-75-76—289 Kevin Streelman (1), $11,773 68-74-78-69—289 Bobby Gates (1), $11,590 73-67-75-75—290 Charley Hoffman (1), $11,468 71-71-77-72—291 StephenGangluff(1),$11,346 69-73-74-79—295 Ryan Moore (1), $11,224 72-70-77-78—297

Fed Cup

WORLD GROUP First Round Winners to semifinals, losers to WG playoffs, April 21-22 Russia 3, Spain 2 At Olympic Stadium Moscow Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Maria Sharapova, Russia, def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-2, 6-1.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def.

Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 6-3, 6-1.

Reverse Singles Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, def.

Nadia Petrova, Russia, 6-0, 6-3.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def.

Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

Doubles Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova, Russia, 6-3, retired.

Serbia 3, Belgium 2 At Spiroudome Charleroi, Belgium Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 7-5, 7-5.

Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def.

Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, 6-4, 6-4.

Reverse Singles Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def.

Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-1, 6-0.

Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def.

Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-2, 6-4.

Doubles Bojana Jovanovski and Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Alison van Uytvanck and Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-1.

Italy 3, Ukraine 2 At Lauretana Forum Biella, Italy Surface: Clay-Indoor Singles Sara Errani, Italy, def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-3.

Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, def.

Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-1, 6-2.

Reverse Singles Francesca Schiavone, Italy, def.

Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4.

Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, def. Sara Errani, Italy, 6-1, 3-0, retired.

Doubles Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci, Italy, def. Olga Savchuk and Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 7-5, 0-6, 6-1.

Czech Republic 4, Germany 1 At Porsche Arena Stuttgart, Germany Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Iveta Benesova, Czech Republic, def.

Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

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NBA ROUNDUP Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, def.

Julia Goerges, Germany, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8.

Reverse Singles Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, def.

Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-1.

Angelique Kerber, Germany, def.

Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Julia Georges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

WORLD GROUP II First Round Winners to WG playoffs, losers to WGII playoffs, April 21-22 United States 5, Belarus 0 At DCU Center Worcester, Mass.

Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Christina McHale, United States, def.

Anastasiya Yakimova, Belarus, 6-0, 6-4.

Serena Williams, United States, def.

Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 7-5, 6-0.

Reverse Singles Serena Williams, United States, def.

Anastasiya Yakimova, Belarus, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

Christina McHale, United States, def.

Darya Kustova, Belarus, 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles Liezel Huber and Venus Williams, United States, def. Darya Kustova and Anastasiya Yakimova, Belarus, 6-1, 6-2.

Japan 5, Slovenia 0 At Bourbon Beans Dome Hyogo, Japan Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, def.

Polona Hercog, Slovenia , 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Ayumi Morita, Japan, def. Nastja Kolar, Slovenia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Reverse Singles Ayumi Morita, Japan, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

Kurumi Nara, Japan, def. Petra Rampre, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles Rika Fujiwara and Ayumi Morita, Japan, def. Nastja Kolar and Petra Rampre, Slovenia, 6-3, 5-7, 6-0.

Slovakia 3, France 2 At Aegon Arena Bratislava, Slovakia Surface: Hard-Indoor Singles Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, def.

Pauline Parmentier, France, 5-7, 6-1, 9-7.

Virginie Razzano, France, def. Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-4.

Reverse Singles Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def.

Pauline Parmentier, France, 6-4, 6-3.

Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, def.

Virginie Razzano, France, 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles Kristina Mladenovic and Virginie Razzano, France, def. Jana Cepelova and Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-1, 6-2.

Australia 4, Switzerland 1 At Forum Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland Surface: Clay-Indoor Singles Sam Stosur, Australia, def. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 6-2, 7-5.

Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, def.

Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 6-0, 6-7 (8), 8-6.

Reverse Singles Sam Stosur, Australia, def. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-2.

Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, def.

Amra Sadikovic, Switzerland, 6-3, 3-6, 8-6.

Doubles Casey Dellacqua and Jelena Dokic, Australia, def. Belinda Bencic and Amra Sadkovic, Switzerland, 7-5, 6-4.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Alfredo Aceves on a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Returned D Peter Harrold to Albany (AHL).

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SOUTH Catawba 14, Mars Hill 2 Catawba 7, Pfeiffer 5 Hampden-Sydney 4, Mary Washington 2 Pfeiffer 10, Mars Hill 8

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers50 33 12 5 71 141 102 Philadelphia52 30 16 6 66 173 156 Pittsburgh 53 30 19 4 64 161 138 New Jersey 52 30 19 3 63 149 148 N.Y. Islndrs 51 21 22 8 50 125 150 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 51 33 16 2 68 180 111 Ottawa 55 27 21 7 61 161 171 Toronto 52 27 19 6 60 161 152 Buffalo 52 22 24 6 50 126 154 Montreal 53 20 24 9 49 137 145 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 51 24 16 11 59 131 145 Washington 52 27 21 4 58 145 149 Winnipeg 54 24 24 6 54 129 150 Tampa Bay 51 23 23 5 51 147 173 Carolina 54 20 25 9 49 137 165 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 53 35 16 2 72 171 126 Nashville 53 32 17 4 68 149 136 St. Louis 51 30 14 7 67 126 105 Chicago 53 29 17 7 65 169 158 Columbus 52 14 32 6 34 120 174 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 52 32 15 5 69 167 130 Minnesota 52 25 19 8 58 121 133 Colorado 54 26 25 3 55 135 151 Calgary 52 24 22 6 54 124 141 Edmonton 52 21 26 5 47 138 152 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 50 29 15 6 64 145 117 Los Angeles 53 25 18 10 60 115 116 Dallas 51 27 22 2 56 136 144 Phoenix 52 23 21 8 54 136 141 Anaheim 51 19 24 8 46 132 154 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Vancouver 3, Colorado 2, SO Buffalo 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO Dallas 2, Minnesota 1, SO Edmonton 5, Detroit 4, SO Pittsburgh 2, Boston 1 New Jersey 6, Philadelphia 4 Washington 3, Montreal 0 Toronto 5, Ottawa 0 Carolina 2, Los Angeles 1 Tampa Bay 6, Florida 3 Nashville 3, St. Louis 1 Phoenix 5, San Jose 3 Sunday’s Games Boston 4, Washington 1 New Jersey 5, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Rangers 5, Philadelphia 2 Montreal 3, Winnipeg 0 Today’s Games Edmonton at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 8 p.m.

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BOSTON’S PAUL PIERCE (34) GOES UP TO SHOOT against Memphis’ O.J. Mayo in the second half on Sunday in Boston. The Celtics won 98-80.

Celtics vets sink Grizzlies The Associated Press

Celtics 98, Grizzlies 80 BOSTON — Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers could see that Kevin Garnett was looking and feeling spry.

Running the floor and looking strong on the glass, the 35-year-old Garnett matched his seasonhigh with 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Celtics to their fourth straight win, a victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.

“He was feeling good.

It’s a still a kids’ game. He was having fun,” Rivers said of Garnett, a 14-time All-Star. “He was having a ball playing today and you don’t want to tell him you have to come in because the lights are on, so we let him play in the dark a little bit.”

Garnett was 9-of-12 from the field, including his third three-pointer of the season on three tries.

He hit one in Friday’s win over New York.

“He’s shooting it well,” Rivers said, before joking about Garnett’s recent three-point success.

“Gives us another option at the end of the game — don’t tell him that.”

Paul Pierce scored 21 points, moving nine behind Hall of Famer Larry Bird for second place on the club’s all-time list, and Ray Allen added 12. Rajon Rondo had 14 assists and reserve Chris Wilcox chipped in with 12 points.

Boston took charge with a 21-7 run early in the fourth quarter that turned a six-point lead to 90-70 on Garnett’s jumper.

Relying on a combination of reserves and two of their usual stars — Garnett and Pierce — the Celtics controlled the glass and outran the Grizzlies for transition baskets.

“I thought we put together some really good runs and got the ball moving,” Pierce said.

Rudy Gay paced the Grizzlies with 21 points and seven rebounds, and O.J. Mayo scored 15 points for Memphis, which has lost six of eight.

MEMPHIS (80) Gay 8-16 4-4 21, Speights 2-10 0-0 4, Gasol 3-14 1-4 7, Conley 2-8 0-0 4, Young 4-9 2-2 10, Mayo 6-12 1-1 15, Cunningham 4-8 2-2 10, Pondexter 0-0 0-0 0, Pargo 0-4 0-0 0, Haddadi 3-4 3-3 9, Selby 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 32-87 13-16 80.

BOSTON (98) Pierce 5-12 10-10 21, Garnett 9-12 5-6 24, O’Neal 2-5 0-0 4, Rondo 2-6 1-2 5, R.Allen 4-14 1-1 12, Wilcox 5-5 2-2 12, Pietrus 2-5 0-0 6, Bradley 1-3 0-0 2, Johnson 5-8 0-0 10, Pavlovic 0-1 0-0 0, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Stiemsma 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 36-73 19-21 98.

Memphis 16 19 26 19—80 Boston 24 19 26 29—98 3-Point Goals-Memphis 3-14 (Mayo 2-4, Gay 1-3, Cunningham 0-1, Selby 0-1, Young 0-2, Conley 0-3), Boston 7-20 (R.Allen 3-9, Pietrus 2-5, Garnett 1-1, Pierce 1-4, Rondo 0-1). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Memphis 44 (Gay 7), Boston 53 (Garnett 9). Assists-Memphis 13 (Conley 4), Boston 28 (Rondo 14).

Total Fouls-Memphis 17, Boston 15.

Technicals-Mayo. A-18,624 (18,624).

How former Jayhawks fared Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 11. FGs: 4-7. FTs: 0-0.

Paul Pierce, Boston Pts: 21. FGs: 5-12. FTs: 10-10.

Josh Selby, Memphis Pts: 0. FGs: 0-2. FTs: 0-0.

Heat 95, Raptors 89 MIAMI — LeBron James took a hard foul and clearly was not happy. So the next time he saw the ball, he made sure no Toronto player could reach him.

James’ steal and dunk with just more than two minutes left gave Miami some breathing room, and the Heat held on to defeat the Toronto Raptors.

James finished with 30 points and Dwyane Wade added 25 for the Heat (186), who won for the 10th time in its last 12 games and moved within one game of Chicago (20-6) for the best record in the Eastern Conference.

“We stuck with our principles,” James said.

“And that’s to defend.”

Chris Bosh scored 12 points against his former team, which saw a 15-point edge trimmed to three in the final minutes but never surrendered the lead.

Mario Chalmers added 11 for Miami.

DeMar DeRozan scored 25 for the Raptors, who got 17 apiece from Jerryd Bayless and Linas Kleiza.

The Heat finally took control in the third quarter — not surprisingly, when the defense picked up a notch.

Toronto missed all but one of its shots over a seven-minute stretch of the third, a span where Miami started with a 55-54 lead and increased it 73-57.

Chalmers hit back-to-back three-pointers late in the 18-3 run, James made a fadeaway with 3:27 to play in the period to close the flurry.

TORONTO (89) DeRozan 8-16 9-11 25, J.Johnson 2-4 0-0 4, Gray 2-5 0-0 4, Calderon 4-8 0-0 8, Bayless 6-16 1-2 17, Davis 4-5 0-0 8, A.Johnson 1-3 0-0 2, Barbosa 1-8 0-0 2, Kleiza 5-13 5-6 17, Butler 0-0 0-2 0, Forbes 1-1 0-0 2, Magloire 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 34-79 15-21 89.

MIAMI (95) James 10-17 10-12 30, Bosh 3-13 6-6 12, Anthony 1-1 0-0 2, Chalmers 4-7 0-0 11, Wade 8-14 9-12 25, Battier 0-4 0-0 0, Haslem 2-3 4-4 8, Miller 1-5 0-0 3, Cole 2-5 0-0 4, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-69 29-34 95.

Toronto 27 21 14 27—89 Miami 31 22 22 20—95 3-Point Goals-Toronto 6-22 (Bayless 4-8, Kleiza 2-5, J.Johnson 0-1, DeRozan 0-1, Calderon 0-3, Barbosa 0-4), Miami 4-12 (Chalmers 3-5, Miller 1-3, James 0-1, Cole 0-1, Battier 0-1, Wade 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Toronto 46 (Davis 8), Miami 48 (James, Haslem 9). Assists-Toronto 17 (J.Johnson 4), Miami 15 (Bosh, Chalmers 4). Total Fouls-Toronto 25, Miami 19. A-19,802 (19,600).

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Mathematical Statistician The Department of Veterans Affairs-Health Resource Center in Topeka, KS has an opening for a Mathematical Statistician GS-1529-05/07/09.

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The incumbent will oversee the data warehouse development, adoption of BI and reporting tools and the delivery of self-service reporting and analytic solutions for the organization. The incumbent will be responsible for the preparation of quantitative and qualitative analyses and research studies to include a wide array of benefits and health care related issues.

The incumbent is responsible for the selection of statistical techniques, report formats, validity of data and accuracy of results. The Mathematical Statistician assists in the interpretation, analysis, evaluation and internal presentation of study results. Salary range is from $31,315 to $61,678 commiserate with applicable education and experience as listed in the vacancy announcement.

You must be a US citizen.

The VA offers excellent benefits including competitive salary, 10 paid holidays, excellent leave programs, life and health insurance, and a tax-deferred retirement program.

Applications must be received by closing date listed in the vacancy announcement.

Please refer to: www.usajobs.gov Announcement #VZ-12-TDC-594574for additional information.

REAL ESTATE SALES SPECIALIST Advertise Events, Services, Gifts in our eye-catching Special Section Thru February For 1 column ad, up to 1.5 inches tall Includes color graphics, print & online

Cost: 1 week for $30 2 weeks for $55 3 weeks for $80 4 weeks for $100 Email: classifieds@ljworld.com Call 785-832-2222

The World Company seeks an individual who has a proven track record of successful cold calling and building immediate relationships to sell across print and digital platforms. Specialist will provide advertising and marketing solutions with new and innovative approaches to real estate segments in Lawrence, Kansas and surrounding communities. We are looking for winners who are driven to succeed and possess a proven track record of consistently exceeding sales quotas and a timeless work ethic.

As a Real Estate Sales Specialist some of what you would be doing includes: • Develop and maintain partnerships with new and existing customers such as real estate firms, apartment communities and property management companies in the multifamily industry; • Initiate creative solutions to grow print and online revenue for our real estate clients; • Develop new sales leads to expand the existing market and make follow up sales and customer service calls; • Prepare timely and accurate sales materials and/or research to present solutions to new and existing clients and demonstrate to them how to promote their products and services to support new revenue streams; • Obtain and study information about clients’ products, needs, problems, advertising history and business practices to offer effective sales presentations and appropriate product assistance; • Present to clients appropriate research, contract status, and analytical reports to validate their buying decisions; • Maintain knowledge of market data, competitive activity, advertising rates, pertinent new items and company policies; • Provide exemplary customer service to your client list and take care of all of their billing, tearsheet, creative and informational needs; and • Consistently meet sales goals for accounts on your list and for new business.

Ideal candidates will have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; online media sales experience; remarkable communication skills; enjoy networking; effective time management and interpersonal skills; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling; self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit; strong presentation and closing skills; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

The World Company offers a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

Apartments Unfurnished Chase Court

19th & Iowa, Lawrence Great Campus Locations Applecroft Abbotts Corner Chamberlain Court MacKenzie Place Melrose Court Ocho Court

Apartments Unfurnished CAMPUS LOCATIONS! 1, 2, 3 BRs

Briarstone Apts.

1010 Emery * 785-749-7744

Regents Court

Furnished 3 & 4BRs Washer/dryer included 19th & Mass., on bus route

Houses 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9BR houses available for August 2012.

See www.kawrentals.com Call for appt. 785-979-9120

1st Class, Pet Friendly Houses & Apts.

www.vintagemgmt.com 785-842-1069

785-842-4455

2BR, 1111 Randall Rd. 2,300 sq. ft., skylights, executive style. No pets. $895 w/yard work provided 785-979-7474

2001 W. 6th. 785-841-8468 www.firstmanagementinc.com

Fall & Immediate Avail.

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

3BR, 2,500 sq.ft., country home 5 mi. W. of Lawrence. $1050/mo. + utils.

Avail. Feb. 1. No smoking & No pets. 785-843-7892

LIVE IN LUXURY

Canyon Court Apts

785-843-8220

chasecourt@sunflower.com

HIGHPOINTE APTS

New Downtown Lofts

901 New Hampshire Studios, 1 & 2 Bedrooms 785-830-8800 www.firstmanagementinc.com

Mass Street Lofts NOW LEASING for FALL & IMMEDIATE MOVE-IN 785-830-8800

www.firstmanagementinc.com

PARKWAY COMMONS Available Now! 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence

785-842-3280

Great Locations! Great Prices!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

Call for SPECIALS

785-838-3377, 785-841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE

Start at $495 One Bedroom/studio style Pool - Fitness Center -On-Site Laundry - Water & Trash Pd.

785.856.7788

Available Spring 2012

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1 - 4 BRs

Garages - Pool - Fitness Center • Ironwood Court Apts.

• Park West Gardens Apts • Park West Town Homes • Homes at Monterey Bluffs and Green Tree Call for more details 785.840.9467

2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 2BR - 3054 W. 7th, newly remodeled, 2 plus BRs, 2 full bath, FP, 2 car garage, 2nd floor, CA, W/D hookup. $750 /mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR - 3503 W. 7th Court, 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup, garage, 1 pet ok. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4plex, CA, W/D hookup, offst. parking. $410-$420/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797

Ask about 2-person Special!

www.meadowbrookapartments.net

LEASING FOR FALL! Luxury 1, 2 & 3 BR 700 Comet Ln. 785-832-8805

Special for 2012!

Rentals Available Now!!!

1BR.........$600 2BR.........$700 3BR.........$800

Small pets allowed.

On bus route.

Reserved parking space, pool, playground, total electric with reasonable utility costs, washer, dryer, and dishwasher in every unit.

PERFECT for The Serious Student and/or GREAT for Families.

785-842-9199

DOWNTOWN LOFT

Studio Apartments 600 sq. ft., $675/mo.

825 sq. ft., $855/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

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3 BEDROOMS Quality thru-out - like new in NW Lawrence at FHS No pets, $1175.

785-843-4798

RENT SPECIAL!

2BR starting at $525 W/D included. Pool

The Woods of Old West Lawrence 785-841-4935

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Near K-10, W/D hookups & fenced courtyard.

2BRs Avail., 1 with garage

MOVE IN SPECIALS

Call NOW 785-842-1322

Now Leasing for 2012!

Use Tax Refund to Invest in a Co-op

1, 2, & 3BR townhomes avail. in Cooperative. Units starting at $412 - $485/mo.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

FIRST MONTH FREE! Back patio, CA, hard wood floors, full bsmt., stove, refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal, Reserved parking. On site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity Fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) www.pinetreetownhouses.com

Office Space Available 785-841-4785

Cars-Domestic

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

PARKWAY 4000

Move-In Specials!

• 2 & 3BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722

Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

2859 Four Wheel Drive Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standing townhome w/ courtyard, cathedral ceilings, skylights, & W/D. Most residents professionals.

Pets ok. Water & trash pd. $750/mo.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

AVAIL. Now

Bob Billings & Crestline

3BR Townhomes Avail.

Sunrise Place Sunrise Village

Apartments & Townhomes 2, 3 & 4BRs

Call for Specials!

2 Bedrooms near KU. Pool, microwave, DW, and laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4 Bedrooms FREE wireless internet, DW, W/D, pool, on KU bus route. Some with garages.

660 GATEWAY COURT

Call 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com Sunrise Terrace — 951 Arkansas, so close to KU! 2BR w/study or 3rd BR, 2 full bath, CA, DW, laundry, lots of parking, some with W/D. $550 - $750/month.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

Adam Ave. 2 bath, 2 car, 1,700 sq. ft., some with fenced yards, $995/mo. Pets okay with paid pet deposit. www.garberprop.com 785-841-4785

LUXURIOUS TOWNHOMES * 3 BR, 1,700 sq. ft.

Kitchen Appls., W/D 2-Car Garage * Small Pets Accepted Showings By Appointment

www.mallardproperties lawrence.com

Call 785-842-1524

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

PARKWAY 6000

CALL FOR SPECIALS! Winter is here No high gas bill to pay, all electric units only!

• Small dog welcome • Income restrictions apply • Students welcome

• 3 Bedroom, 2 bath • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Maintenance free 785-832-0555, 785-766-2722

Saddlebrook & Overland Pointe

LAUREL GLEN APTS

LUXURY TOWNHOMES SPECIAL: 1/2 OFF DEPOSIT & 1st MO. RENT

3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

625 Folks Rd • 785-832-8200

For Current Rent Specials Call 785-838-9559 EOH

Chevrolet 2011 Cruze LTZ RS, GM certified, loaded up! Save thousands over new and get the next two years of maintenance paid for!

Stk#19390 only $19,844 and only 9k miles!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2008 Taurus Limited AWD one owner, only 14k miles, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, home link, very nice!

Stk#343681 only $18,855.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2009 Taurus SEL 56K, Dark Ink Blue Swear By Your Car, Not At It! Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2010 Malibu’s 32 mpg hwy, nicely equip’d.

Like new throughout with remainder of 5yr/100,000 mile factory warranty. 2 available price as low as $13,841. 1.9% apr financing available.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

OWNER WILL FINANCE 3BR, 2 bath, CH/CA, appls., shed, clean, move in ready!

Lawrence 816-830-2152

Farms-Acreage 6 acres with 4 Martin Bldgs. & 2 large barns near Big Springs/Hwy 40. Includes utilities. 785-554-9663

100% GUARANTEED APPROVAL FINANCING Conventional Financing APPLY ONLINE www.danddautosonline.com IT’S EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo LT, leather heated seats, ABS, traction control, spoiler, alloy wheels, very sharp, stk#168771 only $10,995.00 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

D and D Auto Sales 1111 N. Kansas Ave. 785-233-8270 Topeka, KS 66608

Appliances Freezer, 8.8 cubit ft. freezer, brand new, upright, $250. 913-262-5017

Building Materials

$4,500

More for Your Trade, Plus

$500

Need Down Payment?

NO PROBLEM!

We’ll Do Your Tax Return

FREE!

Come In Now Before Our Accountant Says “Enough!”

Buick 2007 Lacrosse CXL, ABS, traction control, remote start Chrome Tech alloy wheels, On Star, very sharp and only $10,850.00 stk#304751 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Buick 2002 LeSabre Custom, 73k, White Lifetime Engine Warranty Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2006 Monte Carlo LT, local trade, alloy wheels, spoiler, sunroof, ABS, traction control, cd changer and much more! Stk#500993 only $9,444 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2005 Civic VP sedan, one owner, great commuter car, great gas mileage, stk#378131 only $8,800 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chrysler 2011 300 Limited only 3592 miles!!

One owner, loaed up, save thousands over new!

Stk#340492 only $28,444.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 G6 sedan, 4cyl, great gas mileage and room for the family, stk#16670 only $10,854.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chrysler 2010 300 Touring Inferno Red, 36K Enjoy a “Fear Free” Car Buying Experience at www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Buick 2003 Regal LS, leather, power equip, 3.8 V6, very dependable, alloy wheels, nice car!

Stk#142161 only $7,750.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Computer Desk, $15, Please call for more information, 785-979-0859 Cadillac 2004 CTS loaded up with sunroof, leather heated memory seats, alloy wheels, and more. Very affordable luxury at only $10,500. stk#379351 .

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mitsubishi 2008 Ecplise GS 48K, Sunset Pearl Metallic You Have the Right to a Fear-Free Car-Buying Experience! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2005 Altima SE, 69K, White, V6, Alloys, Leather, Moon Roof, Sonoma Metallic.

You Have the Right To the Most Money For Your Trade-In www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2010 Sentra 2.0 43K, Red Brick 3 Sentra’s to Choose From Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2010 Versa 1.8 S 30K, Brilliant Silver etallic, Swear By Your Car, Not At It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2007 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two starting at only $12,762. stk# 14043.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Hyundai 2006 Sonata GLS, 1owner, V6, FWD, Lthr, Moon, Heatd. Seats, CD, Trac. Control, 117k $9,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2010 Focus SE 33K, Sterling Grey Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Cadillac 2007 DTS very nice, very luxurious!

With out the luxury price! Stk#164601 only $13,841.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Music-Stereo

Ford 1998 Mustang Cobra Convertible SVT, leather, power seat, premium alloy wheels, very sharp and low miles!

Stk#376431 only $10,888 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pianos, Winter Company Spinet or Acrosonic Spinet, $525. Acrosonic Spinet, $475 Price includes tuning and delivery. Call: 785-832-9906

There’s nothing More romantic Than a beautiful Grand piano!

800-950-3774 piano4u.com

To a piano this year!

Grands, Verticals, And Digitals too!

785-537-3774 piano4u.com

Mercedes 2000 CLK 430, Cpe, Leather, Moon, Heated. Seats, Cruise, PW,PL, Dealer maintained, 87k $11,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Dodge 2007 Magnum Stone White, 57K. Love Your Car!

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Medical Equipment

Treat your Valentine

Hyundai 2006 Sonata GLS. Nicely equipped with tinted windows, chrome wheels, side air bags, Moonroof, Mach DSP Audio and more. Popular Pewter Gray color. Super midsize sedan on sale now. Under $8000.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2007 RX8 sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, spoiler, Bose sound, and much more, stk#564932 only $15,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Nissan 2008 350Z Nismo, 6sp, one owner, very sharp! You have got to see this one, come on in for a test drive!

Stk#564932 .

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Church Pews (2) - 16 feet long, Padded.

Excellent Condition You Haul them.

Call 785-843-0442

Humidifier, brand new, $25, Portable closet organizer never been used or opened, $30. 913-262-5017

Hyundai 2005 Elantra GLS four door automatic. ONE OWNER. Nice clean, gas saving, car. Front AND side airbags, and 32 MPG highway EPA rating. Good clean car priced right! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2007 Mazda 5 Sport 46K, Brilliant Black 6 Passenger Comfort, Can You Imagine?

And Fuel Economy Too! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Cars-Imports

Furniture

Miscellaneous

Honda 1993 Accord EX Sedan, for sale “As Is”. Car runs good, good gas mileage. Asking $1,200 - cash.

Call 785-218-0813

Dodge 2010 Caliber SXT 44K, Inferno Red Are You Drowning In Choices? No More! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Firewood: Mixed firewood and/or hedge, cured for 1 year. More than a cord for $180. 785-766-4272 Lawrence

Toilet, Toto brand toilet. $100. Please call until 7:00 P.M. 785-843-0728.

Honda 2010 Accord EXL, one owner local trade, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, very nice!

Stk#306421 only $21,988.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2009 G3, automatic, talk about fuel economy and room!

You’ve gotta try this one to believe it! Stk#328851 only $10,914.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Dale Willey Automotive 2840 Iowa Street (785) 843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Firewood, FREE, already cut. You pickup and haul.

913-634-1040

Wooden King Size headboard & footboard. $100. 2 twin mattresses w/headboard & frames (all handpainted wood) incl. nightstand, 2 chests & (brand new) bedding $200.

Charcoal propane grill, used twice $50.

785-856-0185

Honda 2009 Accord EX 52K, Alabaster Silver Love Your Car! Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Drive It In Bonus

Firewood-Stoves

Dining Set - Period Walnut dining set with 2 leaves to extend the table to 9 ft.

Two master & 6 side chairs with wicker backs and covered seating. Excellent condition. 785-393-1363

GMC 2009 Acadia SLT, sunroof, abs, remote start, alloy wheels, On Star, Bose sound, very nice!

Stk#490711 only $27,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2009 Civic LX Alabaster Silver, 34K Perfect! And Just for YOU! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Antiques

Houses

3BR, Great location just 1/ 2 2 & 3 BR homes available. block to KU. Avail. now, $800/mo. & up. One near June or August. 2 full bath downtown Lawrence. Call 1433 Ohio. 785-841-2532 Jo at 785-550-7777

Great Selection of cash cars under $3000

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

423B E 4th Street Tonganoxie, KS 66086 913-704-5037 Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Furniture, Treasures

Chevy 2002 Impala LS, FWD, Auto, Moon, Spoiler, CD, Cloth, PW, PL, 168k $5900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

GET YOUR CAR COVERED From the tires to the roof from Bumper to Bumper.

0% FINANCING AVAILABLE on all service contracts.

NO CREDIT CHECKS! CALL FOR DETAILS. 785-843-5200 ASK FOR ALLEN

TAX TIME REWARDS

Seasoned Firewood for sale. hedge, oak, locust, & 2 & 3BR, Newer units avail. other mixed hardwoods.

Spacious floor plan, gas FP, $160/cord. Split stacked & all appls., garage. No pets. Delivered. Call Ryan at 785-418-9910 $750-$895/mo. 785-766-9823

Country Home - 3BR, 2 bath $950/month includes internet, water, & propane Call 785-766-1017

785-842-4200

Ford 2008 Mustang GT this is one hot ride!

Leather heated seats, Shaker sound system, local trade, very nice!

Stk#58041A2 only $16,654.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Academy Cars EZ Trade

Mobile Homes

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 7B Cars-Imports Kia 2008 Spectra EX. ONE owner, NO accident, very clean four door automatic.

Still has factory warranty!

32 MPG highway and side airbags. Lot of car for under $10k. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

RV's

KIPP’S TREASURES

3BR, 2 bath, major appls., FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505

www.meadowbrookapartments.net

TV, Toshiba 27” Television for sale. 8 years old. Not a flat screen. Works great. $50 Cash. 785-979-2312

at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

Townhomes

Studio, 1, 2 & 3 BRs

Fast, Reliable Maintenance On-site Management Close to KU, 3 Bus Stops

Pool Table, Bailey 8’ Oak w/leather shield pockets, 21 oz. black cloth, 1” Slate, includes wall rack w/pool cues, excellent condition.

(ORIGINAL $3500) Pool table reduced to $1800. bobbyb43@att.net 913-441-6364

Office Space

STEEL BUILDINGS -Save 2BR — 909 Missouri or 1305 Thousands on 2011 CloseKentucky, in 4-plex. Have outs!! Limited availability, CA & DW. No pets. $450/ 20x30, 30x40, others. Save month. Call 785-841-5797 2BRs from $600 - $800/mo. $$$, buy now for spring.

West side or close to KU. Discounted shipping. Dis2BR, 1310 Kentucky. CA, DW, 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360 play savings also! Call laundry. Close to KU. $550/ www.lawrencepm.com 866-352-0469 mo. One Month FREE. $200 Deposit. Call 785-842-7644

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES

Sports-Fitness Equipment

Cars-Imports

Chevrolet 2002 Cavalier, Automatic 2 door in very clean condition. A very nice car, with good gas mileage for under $5000.

Come for a test drive. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

More than 100 Pianos on sale!

Mid-America Piano 800-950-3774 Piano4u.com

4BR, 2,400 sq. ft. Executive 2 Story Home, New in 2011 NW Lawrence, 4 Bath, FP, 2 FR, Granite, 2 Car, Deck, Finished Bsmt. No pets. $1,800/mo. 785-865-6064

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

785-843-4798

785-841-1155

724 Folks Road

Cars-Domestic

Will you be mine?

3BR, 813 Crestline Ct. CA, 1 bath, garage, fenced yard. TreadMill, Weslo Cadence Avail. Now. $775/mo. 1/2 off EX-18,Target Pulse AnalyDeposit. Call 785-842-7644 sis System. Power Incline.

4+BR, beautiful, remodeled Call-785-841-3332. farm home. 1.5 bath, 2 car, garden space. $950/mo. off Hwy 40 between Lawrence TV-Video / Topeka. Call 785-843-0369 TV, JVC 32” television.

Works great. Not a flat screen. $40 cash.

785-979-2312. Lawrence.

www.lawrencerentals.com

at Harvard Square Starting at $595. No pets.

Parkway Properties

VALENTINES SALE

Enjoy special pricing On grands, digitals, and Vertical pianos!

800-950-3774 Piano4u.com

Cars-Domestic

Studios — 2400 Alabama, all Born Free 2005 Built For elect., plenty of parking, AC, Ottawa Two motor home, 22 foot, laundry. $390, water/cable 20,575 miles. New tires. paid. No pets. 785-841-5797 4BR, 3BR, 2BR, and 1BR $39,500. (Topeka) Call for Houses for Rent. $700 - more info 785-267-2150 $375, Section 8 OK. 20 mi.

Duplexes to Lawrence. 785-242-2727

2BR - LARGE & CLEAN

Lg. 2BR Apts. with on-site laundry, on bus route. $500/mo. $300 deposit.

785-841-4785

4BR, 3-1/2 bath home at 6333 Candy Lane.

1,700 sq. ft., 1 car garage.

Pets ok w/pet deposit. www.garberprop.com 785-841-4785

Westgate

2BR — 934 Illinois, In 4-plex, 2BR, 2 bath, 2 car in beauti1st floor, DW. $490/month. ful retirement community.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 LR w/FP, den, W/D, extra www.rentinlawrence.com amenities. Nice Pet ok. No smoking. Jan 785-423-1215

www.lawrencerentals.com

1628 W. 19th Terrace

Avail. NOW. 4BR + study, 2 car garage, fenced yard. finished bsmt. $1,600/mo.

4641 W. 6th, Lawrence behind Blockbuster

Music-Stereo

Cadillac 2005 STS Luxury Performance, heated and cooled seats, remote start, Bose sound, get all the luxury that you deserve!

Stk#414382 only $16,850.

GM CERTIFIED is not like any other dealer backed warranty. Don’t let the other dealers tell you any different. Dale Willey Automotive is the only dealer in Lawrence that GM Certifies their cars and trucks.

Come see the difference!

Call for details.

785-843-5200 ask for Allen

Audi 2004 TT Quattro, Cpe, AWD, Bose 6disc, Lthr, 17” Alloy, PW, PL, Trac.

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Thicker line?

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Color background or Logo?

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Repairs and Services

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Carpet Cleaning

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Cleaning “If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

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STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

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Vacuum Service & Repair DAVE BALES Vacuum Cleaner, Sewing Machine, Lamp Sales & Repair. All makes & models All Panasonic, Royal, Sanitaire vacuums on sale “now!”

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Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell anniesmailbox@comcast.net

little schemes.

I recently joined a support group and have gathered the courage to file for divorce. My question is: Do I tell my grown children and family the truth? I’ve been too humiliated to admit any of this and don’t want to deal with a lot of questions and drama now. — Without Common Sense, You Ain’t Got Nothin’ Dear Without: Your grown children are probably more aware of what’s been going on than you think. But they still love their father and don’t want to be stuck in the middle of feuding parents. It is OK to correct misimpressions or lies that Mama or your soon-to-be-ex may circulate about you. But otherwise, please take the high road. Simply say the divorce has been percolating for a long

NBC puts on a really big show There’s nothing particularly wrong with “Smash” (9 p.m., NBC), except that nothing about it feels quite right.

Somebody convinced himself that viewers who love “American Idol” and “Glee” would flock to “Smash.” So why do I have the feeling the makers of “Smash” have never really watched “Idol” or “Glee”? If they had, they’d know that “Idol” competitors who come on “too Broadway” or “cabaret” always get a respectful pat on the head but rarely advance. “Idol” is about finding the next Beyonce, not the next Kristin Chenoweth. And “Glee” is an absurdist comedy far more likely to celebrate the music of Lady Gaga than Stephen Sondheim. ‘‘Smash” takes its Broadway seriously — reverently, even.

And that’s odd at a time when even Broadway audiences don’t worship in that pew any longer. The biggest original musicals of the past decade — “The Producers” and “The Book of Mormon” — were written by parodists Mel Brooks, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They aren’t so much musicals as brilliant spoofs of the idea of musicals. “Smash” doesn’t seem to get that. As a result, the musical numbers seem both antique and devoid of knowing irony.

The show stars “Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee as Karen, a waitress and aspiring singer up for the part in a stage musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Too bad her competition, Ivy (Megan Hilty), seems like a natural for the part.

Sadly, “Smash” is a backstage melodrama that sorely lacks drama, with a capital “D.” What “Smash” really lacks is a good villain — or, more to the point, a villainess. ‘‘Smash” just isn’t good enough to be great. And it’s not bad enough to be fun.

Tonight’s other highlights

Auditions continue on “The Voice” (7 p.m., NBC).

A medical mishap puts House under the microscope on “House” (7 p.m., Fox).

A guard returns and confronts some old acquaintances on “Alcatraz” (8 p.m., Fox).

The investigation into a teen’s suicide offers grim revelations in the 2012 message movie “Sexting in Suburbia” (9 p.m., Lifetime).

Danno’s in the crosshairs on “Hawaii Five-O” (9 p.m., CBS).

A cave yields clues dating to 1947 on “Castle” (9 p.m., ABC).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is 95. Actor Patrick Macnee is 90. Actor Rip Torn is 81. Actress Mamie Van Doren is 81.

Actor Mike Farrell is 73. Former NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw is 72.

Singer Fabian is 69. Singer Natalie Cole is 62. Actress Kathy Najimy is 55. Actor-director Robert Townsend is 55. Rock singer Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses) is 50.

time, and you feel it’s the best decision for everyone.

Dear Annie: My husband and I will be celebrating our anniversary in a few months with a big party. We will be inviting family and friends to this affair.

The problem is, we are friends with two people who divorced each other 10 years ago.

They each married other people, and both couples are now part of our social circle. But the exes still avoid being in the same room. We want both couples to attend, but how do we invite them without making all four of them uncomfortable?

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Monday, Feb. 6: This year you open up to different perspectives. At the same time, you open up to different voices within you. You often wonder which voice to listen to — the cool, logical one, or the emotional, passionate humming in your mind. If you are single, your desirability is unquestionable. If you are attached, do remember that it takes two to make a relationship work. LEO often cares about what you do but approaches these comparable concerns differently.

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) You have a lot of bottled-up creativity. You might be somewhat reticent to let it come out. Don’t be. Tonight: Let this same energy flow into the night.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Could you be restricting your thinking? Consider the possibility. Instead of slamming doors shut or thinking in either/or terms, make a situation possible.

Tonight: Cocoon a little.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Keep doors open, and continue to encourage a conversation. You might not agree with a loved one, nor do you need to. Respect where this person is coming from and understand your long-term goals for the two of you.

Tonight: Hanging out is fun to do.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Issues surrounding funds or a financial matter come up, forcing some thought and decision-making. You alone know your limits, but perhaps you don’t see the possibilities. Find a money guru or friend you respect and get some feedback. Tonight: Treat yourself well.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You might want to think through an idea that works well for you. Don’t let your morning mood float into your day. You can accomplish what you want.

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We’re afraid if we tell one set of friends we are inviting the other, neither set will show up. — Massachusetts Dear Massachusetts: Invite whomever you wish. Do not volunteer information about the guest list, but if someone should ask, it’s OK to tell them. If they say, “We won’t come if Soand-So is invited,” your response should be, “We understand. We’ll miss you.”

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker February 6, 2012

ACROSS 1 Game with trump cards 5 Spread with cocktails 9 West Indies island 14 Name on many jeans’ labels 15 Laid up, so to speak 16 Passover month 17 “Once ___ a time ...”

18 Yin’s complement 19 “God bless us ___ one” 20 Part of a Copenhagen cleaning cycle?

23 Open-faced jacquelinebigar.com sandwich with cheese Tonight: Where the fun is.

24 Lubricate 25 New York Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) city where Assuming a low profile Mark Twain might feel good and gives you lived time to think and evaluate. You 28 Gull-like might not like everything that you predator 30 Silent hear, but it will be OK. Tonight: Take some much-needed time for 33 Raccoon relative yourself.

34 Make the Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) initial bet Once you get past a 35 Destiny problem, you will be off dealing 36 They are clean when with a new possibility. You beam, they come and others respond. Your unin? derstanding opens up a new set 39 marching Is a cast of possibilities. Tonight: Where member people are.

40 ___ d’oeuvre 41 Uses a towel Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) 42 Start of You are on top of your many titles game. Listen to what is happening

within your immediate circle. You also might want to note others’ motivation. Tonight: Late, late, late.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Impulsiveness often draws mixed results, yet this afternoon it could draw exactly what you desire. Do nothing halfway, and remain realistic about your limitations. Tonight: The only answer is yes.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You think in terms of success through employing another approach. You might wonder why you often get a certain result. Remain sensitive to a family member who could be acting in an erratic manner right now. Tonight: Go along with a loved one’s desires.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When everyone starts acting on his or her desires, you start smiling. You like unpredictability, which you seem to be drawing into your life right now. Tonight: You, too, can be spontaneous.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Pace yourself, knowing the limits of a situation and your energy. A partner could be having a case of the blues. Be supportive without being overly indulgent.

Tonight: Whatever works for you.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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type 12 Tree part 13 “Pick a card, ___ card” 21 Spookily strange 22 Animal, vegetable and mineral 25 Dazzle 26 Aquarium cleaner-fish 27 Filmmaker’s special effects shot 28 Flint-striker’s creation 29 Coral islets 30 Wild enthusiasm 31 Express audibly 32 Unpleasantly difficult 34 Skunk’s defense 35 Lightning bugs 37 Parallelogram with

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Dear Annie: I have been married nearly 30 years to someone who is a self-centered, selfish, immature mama’s boy.

Mama is so controlling, and yet so needy, that every time we’ve moved, she’s moved nearby. She has switched to the same doctor and even goes to the same hair salon her “baby” uses. She gets to know the employees at these places and then interrogates them and blabs our business to everyone.

My husband has had several affairs over the years, and Mama has met every one of these women. Most of these affairs begin as a way to get these women to buy him items we cannot afford, such as cameras and computers. He gives them my old jewelry, thinking I won’t notice.

As soon as he gets what he wants, he dumps them.

My husband tells everyone we are in debt because I don’t know how to handle money.

The truth is, I am very frugal, but am unable to keep up with all the debt he has accumulated through his Internet spending. I’ve been on the receiving end of STDs three times. My mother-in-law is happy to be involved in all his

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Midfirst Bank Plaintiff, vs.

Beau Goldsmith; Emily (First published in the Law- Sims; John Doe rence Daily Journal-World (Tenant/Occupant); Mary January 23, 2012) Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Unknown spouse, if any, of Millsap & Singer, LLC Beau Goldsmith; Unknown 11460 Tomahawk Creek spouse, if any, of Emily Parkway, Suite 300 Sims; Joan Hawkins; Leawood, KS 66211 Thaddis L. Rawls; State of (913) 339-9132 Kansas, Department of Rev(913) 339-9045 (fax) enue, Defendants.

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MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ATTORNEYS FOR CITIMORTGAGE, INC. IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. ________

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at The Jury Assembly Room located in the lower level of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building, Kansas, on February 16, 2012, at the time of 10:00 AM, the following real estate: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 13 SOUTH, RANGE 20 EAST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 27 MINUTES 23 SECONDS EAST, 1,347.41 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER; THENCE CONTINUING NORTH 89 DEGREES 27 MINUTES 23 SECONDS EAST, 251.12 FEET, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER AND THE CENTER LINE OF SPRING CREEK; THENCE SOUTH 5 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF SPRING CREEK 124.79 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 70 DEGREES 39 MINUTES 25 SECONDS EAST, 147.07 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 9 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 17 SECONDS WEST, 123.88 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 2 DEGREES 14 MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST, 275.23 FEET; THENCE NORTH 74 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 42 SECONDS EAST, 155.72 FEET; THENCE NORTH 49 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 34 SECONDS EAST, 126.76 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 46 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 53 SECONDS EAST, 55.13 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 20 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 28 SECONDS EAST, 213.60 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 39 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 11 SECONDS EAST, 137.78 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 13 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 21 SECONDS WEST, 212.88 FEET, SAID POINT BEING THE CENTER LINE OF SPRING CREEK; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 27 MINUTES 23 SECONDS WEST, 563.12 FEET; THENCE NORTH 11 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST, 1,022.13 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. 023-106-13-0-00-00-006.04-0, Commonly known as 1927 N 1275 Rd, Eudora, KS 66025

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

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: A portion of Lot 74, in Alvamar Estates, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest Corner of said Lot 74; thence North 26 degrees 43’ 00” East 124.42 feet; thence South 65 degrees 50’ 00” East 71.35 feet; thence South 42 degrees 15’ 50” West 132.44 feet; thence North 63 degrees 17’ 00” West 35.78 feet to the point of beginning in Douglas County, Kansas, commonly known as 3416 Augusta Drive, Lawrence, KS 66047-2126 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 12th day of March, 2012, 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 Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Brian R. Hazel (KS # 21804) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys For Plaintiff (139783) ________

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kneel by the door and put the backs of their hands to it.

“If the door is hot, it’s just like there’s a scary monster Halloween costume on the other side, and you don’t want to open the door and see it,” Flory told the girls.

So we headed to the windows. It occurred to me that I didn’t even know if the girls could open the windows by themselves. So I had them both try. Success. And I showed them how to unlock the windows. Success again.

My own anxiety level about their ability to respond to a fire was diminishing by the minute.

Flory emphasized that although we want to get out of the house quickly in a fire, we don’t want to do anything that might hurt us more than necessary.

“Jumping is the last option we want to do,” he said.

The first thing to do after opening the window is to yell for help. Firefighters are circling the building, looking and listening for people when they arrive at a fire.

Flory paused and looked at the girls and asked, “If there’s a fire, should you go look for your sister?” Both girls answered “no,” but with a bit of hesitation (they are very close). So I interrupted and reiterated, “Did you hear that? Don’t look for your sister.”

Window screens that are sticky or have latches can be tricky for children to remove. Pushing the screen out could result in the child falling out the window. So, Flory had each girl find something in her room that she could throw against the screen to break it out. Both located small wooden stools to do the job.

Flory made it clear that regardless of whether they can get the screen off, staying by the window is one of the best places to be, even if it is getting difficult to breathe. There is fresh air there, and moreover firefighters will get ladders to windows very quickly, and they can rescue people most easily if they are right next to the window.

The girls had both been troopers up to this point, answering questions and hanging on every word Flory said.

But right around the time we were talking about finding an object to break the screen, I saw my 6-year-old twisting her face around to keep from crying. The thought of losing her beautiful stool was almost too much to take at that moment. I gave her a hug and reminded her that this is just in case. I will discuss materialism with her at another juncture.

Back at the window, Flory told the girls that if they absolutely need to get out of the house, the best way to go through the window is to sit and straddle the sill, lower themselves down slowly until they are hanging by their fingertips, drop to the porch roof below.

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Do you know what you would do if your home was on fire?

“Yes. We’ve talked about it and have a plan.”

Dar Williams, retired, Lawrence

KNOW THE DRILL Just being outside is not the end. There is one more very important step: going to the meeting place. Every household should choose a meeting place somewhere not too far away: a mailbox or tree in the yard or any landmark close by.

We went outside and chose a large redbud tree in front of the house. Flory told the girls to stay at the meeting place, even if they are the only one there at first. That was a good message for each of us — I could see having a very hard time sitting at that tree all by myself.

That redbud tree, now deemed the meeting place, is where we wrapped up our time with Flory. The girls showed no signs of trauma after talking about a potentially traumatic event, and I feel much more comfortable about our family’s ability to respond to a fire, should we need to.

Do try this at home.

“Absolutely. We’ve lived in the same house since 1975. I have a plastic tub with valuables that I would take. I’m good to go.”

Karen Lyerla, project coordinator, Lawrence

HOME FIRE DRILL HOW-TO

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Make a home fire escape plan. Find all exits

Walk through the plan with every member of

from each bedroom and talk about different routes to outside the house.

the family.

Do the drill. Everyone should meet at the

Test smoke alarms. Fire lieutenant Aaron

designated meeting place.

Flory says smoke detectors are the No. 1 thing that helps people survive fires.

Talk about the drill.

Clear the way. Make sure all doors and win-

dows operate properly. Remove clutter from stairs and hallways.

“I’m not sure. I know to get to down as low as possible and get out.”

Michelle Gleason, sales, Lawrence

Sources: Home Safety Council website and Lawrence fire department

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Clever disguises hide decorating problems

BY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE, AKRON BEACON JOURNAL

avoiding the grout lines.

This isn’t the best approach for surfaces such as shower walls that are subjected to a lot of moisture, however. In that case, you can use a marine-grade coating such as a polyurethane oil-based enamel on both tile and grout. If you want contrasting grout lines, you’ll need to paint them in by hand.

It might just be easier to hide unsightly tub or shower tile by hanging a pretty shower curtain, Haught said. It’s also a good way to hide an unattractive shower door, she said.

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ust about every home has an eyesore.

Maybe it’s a wonky window or flooring that’s seen better days. It grates on your nerves, but fixing or replacing it is too expensive, too impractical or too far down the priority list.

Still, that doesn’t mean you have to look the other way. We’ve gathered a few solutions for disguising some common decorating problems, so put on your can-do attitude and get ready to tackle that trouble spot.

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WEIRD WINDOWS Windows that are oddly shaped or just plain unattractive can get a greatly improved view with clever window treatments.

Bath Township, Ohio, interior designer Alan Garren offers this trick for hiding those too-short, too-high, too-plain windows that are common in ranch homes from the 1960s: Extend the window frame all the way to the floor, then install a twopart shutter. One part covers the window; the other covers the wall below it. Keep the bottom part closed, and no one will know there isn’t a window behind it.

Or cover the window with an attractive shade that extends below the window, suggested Christine Haught, who operates Christine Haught Ltd. Interior Design in Bath. Adding drapery panels on either side would give the windows more visual weight, she said.

Haught took a similar tack on an ’80sstyle round-top window for which a client had lost the love. She mounted a woven wood shade to cover both the half-round window and the window below it, and flanked the shade with silk panels that extended from ceiling to floor. The shade didn’t entirely obscure the window when the sun shone through, but it made the window less apparent.

CRUDDY CARPET Renters, in particular, are often stuck with carpet that doesn’t suit their taste.

You can cover part of it with a rug, but it’s pretty hard to blanket an entire room without spending just as much as you would to replace the carpet.

That’s when a little distraction is called for.

Interior designer and home stager Lynn

SHUTTERS can help disguise ugly windows.

Koerner of Interiors by Lynn in Streetsboro, Ohio, recommended starting by anchoring a seating area with an area rug.

Choose a solid-color rug if the carpeting is busy, or a patterned rug on solid-color carpeting. A budget-friendly approach is to buy a carpet remnant and have the carpet store bind the edges to create a rug, Haught said.

Then perform a little sleight of hand, Koerner said. Create interest higher in the room to draw attention up and away from the floor. She did that in one client’s living room by covering a fireplace wall in a subtle patterned wallpaper and creating an eye-catching arrangement of artwork and accessories on the mantel.

Cathedral ceilings look great in photographs, but sometimes they can make a room feel too cavernous for comfort.

Haught recommended making the ceiling less obvious by painting it the same color as the walls, but in a lighter tint. Ask the paint store to mix the ceiling paint in a half formula of what’s used on the walls. And choose flat paint for ceilings, so it doesn’t draw attention by reflecting light.

You can also create the perception that the ceiling is lower by hanging a largescale lighting fixture that brings the eye down, she said.

Drapery panels that extend only partway up the tall walls will also help bring the living space down to human scale.

OVERBEARING FIREPLACES Brick fireplaces that cover most or all of a wall were the rage a few decades ago.

Now that look can seem dated and the dark brick oppressive.

Neither Koerner nor Haught has any qualms about painting the brick. Usually a neutral color is best, Koerner said, so the fireplace becomes less dominant in the room.

If you like a more contemporary appearance, consider removing or changing the mantel or other moldings, Haught said.

She once filled in the flutings in an oak fireplace surround and painted it to create the more updated appearance her client wanted.

UGLY WALL TILE The durability of ceramic tile is both a blessing and a bane. It lasts and lasts and lasts, even decades after your tastes have changed.

Painting it is possible, but it’s important to do so carefully so the paint job doesn’t look obvious.

Before you paint, clean the tile thoroughly with trisodium phosphate, a heavy-duty cleaner sold at paint stores.

Then prime both tile and grout with a good primer.

Author Cohen recommends using a paintbrush to cover the tile edges and grout with the primer, and a roller on the tiles to create a smooth finish. Then paint only the tiles with satin paint and a gloss roller, applying in thin layers and avoiding the grout lines, she says.

When all the layers are dry, roll over the tiles with a high-gloss clear enamel, again

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ever idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” — Leo F. Buscaglia Expectations can be helpful when creating guidelines in a relationship. Whatever the type of relationship — intimate, friendship, work or casual — expectations are intended to help us feel safe and secure and able to anticipate. However, unmet expectations are almost always the cause of anger, frustration and disappointment, often leading to painful and perhaps unnecessary endings.

It is important to understand that our expectations are based in our individual experiences, values, unmet needs, fears, hopes and dreams. So when we place expectations on others, we are placing a lot of pressure on someone to protect those underlying pieces. Do you really want to put your hopes and dreams in someone else’s hands? Whenever we give someone that much power, it feels very personal when they don’t deliver.

This can be seen so clearly in our political discourse that is often filled with anger. At every turn, our leaders make deci-

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JENA AND ED BLOCH sions that are not up to the expectations of millions of us and may only meet some of the expectations of the rest of us. It would be impossible for them to meet each of our individual or group expectations. Yet many of us expect and demand that they do. Many of us take the action of our leaders quite personally, as if they have singled us out in some way.

Personalizing the failure of someone to

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meet your expectations is what leads to pain and suffering. Who then is the cause of the pain and suffering? Is it the person who created the expectation, or the individual who failed to live up to the expectation? What if this was an agreed-upon expectation, like fidelity within a marriage? As the Buddhist may say, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”

The defining moment comes when the offended party makes a choice whether or not to personalize the failure of another to meet an expectation. With an unmet, agreed-upon expectation, it makes it even more difficult to avoid personalizing the actions of the other person and experiencing betrayal. In relationships, expectations and betrayal go hand in hand.

As Leo Buscaglia suggests, it may be better to not have any expectations. However, it is unlikely that we will ever really avoid having expectations. So what can we do to minimize the pain and suffering when someone has not met our expectations?

Be honest. Was your expectation reasonable? Did you set up the other person and yourself by idealizing him or her?

Avoid personalizing the other person’s action. Ask yourself, would the other

person likely do this with someone other than you? The answer is probably yes.

The actions of another person are rooted in his or her own experience. You can lovingly remind yourself, “This is not about me.”

You may feel powerless over the other person’s actions; however, you are not powerless over your response. You have the power to decide if this is somebody you want in your life or if you are going to let their actions cause you suffering.

When it comes to smaller unmet expectations (neatness, for example), challenge yourself to stay out of resentment. When you get to resentment, you know you have made it personal.

Another person’s lack of neatness is not about you. You have different views and come from different experience. Don’t make it a story about a lack of respect or lack of appreciation. If the other person truly lacks respect for you, or you for the other person, then why are you together?

Be clear about the real issue.

Helpful books are “The Presence Process” by Michael Brown and “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz.

— Jena and Ed Bloch can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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One of the great aspects of living in the Midwest is our ability to pick and choose from the rest of the country.

DAVID HALL

CONVENTION VS. CREATIVITY T here are a necessary two sides to every argument. As men’s style continues to evolve out of its marginalized niche and into the mainstream consciousness, there are an obvious two parties of thought.

For the next few articles, I hope to explore and explain the differences between the two. This month, I am offering up a quick overview of each.

Understand firstly, however, that this matter falls heavily in the realm of opinion, and I present these as mine.

On one hand you’ve got your traditionalists — those who are happily in the midst of a heritage revival. We are in the midst of rediscovering the more ethical manufacturing methods of old, enjoying the quality materials and construction that Levi’s, Pendleton, Gant and others were originally founded upon.

These brands have now created modern offshoots like the Levi’s Vintage Clothing, the Pendleton Portland Collection and Gant Rugger that offer up clothing staples that not only resemble their ancestors, but

also replicate the quality that had long lay dormant.

On the other hand, there are those smitten with the aesthetic creativity inherent in the fashion industry. Where traditionalists are champions of “proper” fit and composing an outfit that will stand up to the test of time, those approaching a wardrobe from fashion’s perspective are most typically more interested in forging into new territories, in risk-taking and challenging conventional sartorial wisdom.

Often by taking traditional pieces like the blazer, the oxford shirt or the wingtip and recreating them with modern fits and bold colors, fashion’s pioneers make it their responsibility to breathe life into what would otherwise be, in their minds, more lifeless regurgitations of a past generation’s creativity.

One of the great aspects of living in the Midwest is our ability to pick and choose from the rest of the country.

We pull from the east and west coasts, we moderate our country’s otherwise fanatical parties of thought (and occasion-

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I have personally enjoyed borrowing from both fashion’s modernity and the tried and true efforts of tradition when it comes to dressing myself. This winter, it has been all about tradition’s rich fabrics and patterns repurposed into fashion’s slim, tailored silhouettes and fits. This spring will be about fashion’s bold colors and creative pattern pairing painted onto classics like the barracuda jacket and deck shoes.

The Midwest is a living, breathing celebration of the values and style our country was founded upon, and I love dressing the part. But who hasn’t experienced the joy of laughing over the gullible fashion of past decades?

If you ask me, the perfect sartorial recipe reads like this: one part tradition, one part trend, let simmer.

— David Hall can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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No hablo español, in reality

River City Jules

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wo days into our vacation in Mexico, I had feared my communication skills would be limited to locating a bar but soon found myself effortlessly conjugating verbs in the present tense as Spanish lessons, dormant for 20 years, came flooding back.

By the sixth day I no longer felt trapped by any language barrier and confidently scheduled a snorkeling trip for mi esposo y yo. After waiting over an hour for our shuttle to pick us up (not my fault, pero Pablo’s), we arrived in Akumal to swim.

Our guide, Manilee, spoke fluent Spanish and English. And French, Hindi and German. His English accent was a very unique blend of each of those and took a bit of concentration on my part to comprehend. Still, I was rocking the non-English so far and felt no reason to worry.

I donned my flippers per his directions, cleaned my mask as he instructed and promised not to touch anything, especially any part of the nearby stingrays, as we swam seaward.

Our lives in his hands, Manilee knew exactly where to go, and within minutes we were swimming side-by-side with sea turtles. These lumbering yet graceful creatures paid no attention to us, happy to graze around the seaweed on the ocean floor and come up for air on occasion. Manilee bobbed up for air too to explain that the fish attached to the turtles were eating algae off of their shells.

Manilee then led us further out to the coral reefs, rising from the water to warn us of the fragility of the coral, some of which was even poisonous, and instructing us to keep our appendages close to the surface.

As we approached a boat about 150 yards from shore, Manilee popped his head up again and started talking. I was a little slower to clear my ears this time though

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and, through the sound of water draining from them, heard Manilee say, “There is a lot of coral under the boat.”

Excited to find Nemo and friends frolicking in an anemone or two, I headed straight for the boat so quickly that I beat my husband there.

I hovered 15 feet away from the boat, but I saw no coral, no clown schools, nothing. The only thing under the boat was a four-foot-long fish floating completely still. It had mean eyes, sharp teeth and a creepy grin.

I replayed Manilee’s last words in my head, realizing that “a lot of coral” and “a barracuda” sounded very similar under water just as my husband swam up beside me, giving me the universal sign for “Swim away!”

“What are you doing?” mi esposo asked when we resurfaced.

“I thought he said ‘a lot of coral,’” I explained.

“That’s a barracuda!” he shouted in very simple English into my waterless ear canals.

We swam away before the scene could turn into an episode of “Pesca Mortal” and joined the less-deadly tangs swimming nearby, resolved to leave delusions of multilingual vacationing safely en la cantina.

— Julie Dunlap can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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LINDA COTTIN

Adjustable steel poles can support sagging floors

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djustable steel columns, also called jack posts or lally columns, can be installed in basements and crawl spaces to support sagging floors or can be used as a fulcrum beneath heavy appliances.

Though originally designed as a temporary solution, adjustable columns are frequently used by homeowners and contractors for more permanent applications.

Step 1: Measure the distance between the floor and the floor joist in need of support. Columns come in various sizes; select one that can adjust slightly larger than the desired height.

Step 2: For applications with dirt floors, it may be necessary to pour a concrete footing. Often a couple of concrete blocks topped with a block of wood to disperse the weight will suffice.

Step 3: Assemble the post in its shortest position. If the post has multiple height adjustment holes, do not insert the height adjustment pins at this time.

Step 4: With the larger portion of the column nearest the floor, position the post atop a wooden block cut from a 1- or 2-inch-thick board.

Step 5: Once the post is in place, raise the top portion of the column and insert any height adjustment pins through the column. At this point, the top plate of the

column should be several inches below the sagging floor joist.

Step 6: Insert an additional block of wood between the column’s top plate and the floor joist to disperse the pressure when the post is fully extended.

Step 7: Use an adjustable wrench or manually turn the screw post levers to slowly raise the top plate until it is resting snuggly beneath the floor joist.

Step 8: Make sure the column is vertical, plumb and perfectly centered under the beam.

Step 9: Use an adjustable wrench or manually turn the screw post levers to raise the top plate another quarter of an inch.

Step 10: For sagging floors, continue to raise the top plate of the post one quarter of an inch each day until the floor is level.

Never raise a floor joist more than a quarter of an inch on any given day.

Adjustable steel columns are not designed to be the primary means of support.

If the column is being used in a lifting type situation, consult a licensed engineer to determine the safe allowable load.

Step 11: Use lag screws or masonry screws to anchor the base plate and top plate into position.

— Linda Cottin can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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Travelers in Northern California can now find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport.

The quiet, dimly lit studio officially opened last week in a former storage room just past the security checkpoint at SFO’s Terminal 2.

Airport officials believe the 150-square-foot room with mirrored walls is the world’s first airport yoga studio, said spokesman Mike McCarron.

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Underwear for men getting a little extra attention YORK (AP) — Some things are fashion, and some are necessity.

Where do men’s undergarments fall? Increasingly, right in the middle.

There’s a guaranteed market that needs to replenish supplies no matter what the economy is doing. But innovation in style and technology has made boxers, briefs and undershirts that were once an afterthought into a buzz-worthy category of men’s clothes. So much so that H&M debuted ads for its new undergarment collection by David Beckham during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and Jockey wasted no time signing football star Tim Tebow as its new spokesman.

It makes sense as a growth category, says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with market research firm The NPD Group, but it took the right conditions to get on the fashion industry’s radar: streamlined design, comfortable stretch fabrics, the idea that dressing starts at the base layer and that shabby-chic doesn’t cut it anymore.

Men, in general, aren’t as interested in fleeting trends, he adds. They are, however, willing to buy an “evolved” product if they need to replace an old one. And, Cohen says, as has happened with smartphones or athletic apparel, sometimes men will trade up if they think there’s genuine newness.

It’s a purchase men are likely to make for themselves, although creating products that appeal to women — either on a business level or a more personal one — is a factor, and that’s why you’ll see models such as sports figures as top ambassadors, he says.

“Undergarments are relatively inexpensive so everyone can participate,” Cohen says. “It’s something that’s easy for a woman to buy for a guy, something for the guy to buy for himself, there’s need. It hits a large swath of demographics.”

The total men’s underwear and undershirt market for 2011 was up more than 7 percent over the previous year, totaling almost $3.3 billion, NPD numbers show.

H&M must see the potential. The collaboration with Beckham launches with not only boxers, briefs and Ts, but also vests, pajamas and long johns. Beckham said in a statement that it took him and his design team 18 months to come up with just the right initial styles. The plan is for new products each season to expand on these basics.

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