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LIFELONG LEARNING The Osher Institute provides classes for adults over 50, without the pressure of tests and homework.

ON BALANCE When addressed early, steps can be taken to prevent falls

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Bite Sighs

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Leap year pie is a low-sugar dessert for the extra day this month.

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Independence, Mo., offers activities for travelers of different generations.

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ON THE COVER: Lawrence resident Thelma Hehn tries to maintain her balance by keeping an eye on her thumb during a Lawrence Memorial Hospital-sponsored session on strength, balance and precautions against falling Feb. 9 at Meadowlark Estates, Folks Road and Sixth Street in west Lawrence.

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t wasn’t until I turned the calendar page for February that I realized we were getting an extra day. With an extra day comes an extra dessert, right?

Yeah, I thought so, too.

Since I’m trying to stay on a reasonably healthy streak diet-wise, I decided to come up with something tasty and low-sugar.

Behold, I bring you Leap Year Pie! In place of sugar, I used little packets of Xylitol. This stuff is pretty neat. Low glycemic impact, plant-derived and possibly good for your teeth. Wanna see what we can do with it? Well, follow along at home!

The night before you plan to bake, line a mesh strainer with damp cheesecloth and set it in a bowl. Scrape in one pound of ricotta cheese and set the whole getup in the fridge. The next day, dump the cheese into your mixer bowl and beat it for a few minutes on medium speed. Add four ounces of cream cheese, four packets of Xylitol (or your preferred sugar substitute), one tablespoon of vanilla and two eggs. Blend on medium speed for two minutes. Pour the mixture into a bowl and chill it in the fridge.

For the crust, cut five tablespoons of cold butter into little pieces and blend them with two eggs. Add one box of chocolate sugar-free cake mix. It’ll take several minutes, but blend and scrape until a stiff dough forms. Press the dough into a ball, bundle it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for 20 minutes.

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of waxed paper and fit it into a greased 9-inch pie pan. Trim the edges and put the excess, with the remaining dough, back in the fridge. You can use the extra dough to make a second pie, or bake it into cookies. They bake up nicely at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Pour the cheese filling into the pie shell and bake it for 40-45 minutes. The center will be set, but still wiggly. Put the pie on a rack to cool. In the meantime, prepare the cherry topping.

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Spread the cherry topping on the pie and chill it until you’re ready to serve.

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Leap year pie You can make a “cold” version of this pie by pre-baking the crust for 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees. Prepare the filling as directed, but replace the eggs with half of a small box of sugar-free vanilla instant pudding. Spread the filling in the cooled crust (no need for further baking) and add the cherry topping.

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Department on Aging Secretary discusses Medicaid reform

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ansas Department on Aging Secretary Shawn Sullivan stopped by the Journal-World on Feb. 6 to discuss the state’s plan to privatize the Medicaid program, and other policies regarding senior care, through a live chat on WellCommons.com.

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, Sullivan which received a state award for its efforts in culture change and person-centered care.

The following is an excerpt from the chat. The full text can be found at http:// ljw.bz/xFDLac. Moderator: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to participate in this online chat. I am health reporter Karrey Britt and will be moderating this chat.

First, can you briefly explain KanCare? In a poll, a majority of people say they don’t understand it.

Shawn Sullivan: Happy to be here.

Thank you for hosting.

Currently, Kansas serves 383,000 seniors, persons with disabilities and low-income family and kids through the state’s Medicaid program. About two-thirds of those 383,000 are in a managed care program. The remaining populations, mainly seniors and persons with disabilities, will be moving to a managed care plan through KanCare vendors effective January 2013. The KanCare system is intended to serve Kansans through a concept called a patient-centered medical health home. The health home will allow for enhanced care coordination, particularly for those with chronic conditions and/or mental health conditions.

All Medicaid consumers will be rolled into one of three KanCare companies. The state will pay these three vendors a set amount per month to manage all of that person’s care through the organizations in their “provider network.”

KanCare is intended to achieve better outcomes through this health home model and decrease utilization of high cost services (emergency room, nursing facilities, etc.),

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increase reliance on home and community based settings, and better integrate the mental health and medical care a person receives.

I could go on and on — but that is a basic summary. gayle: This is a practical question. Once KanCare is implemented, will patients contact their physicians directly to make appointments or go through their medical home? Many clients also need transportation arranged for appointments. Will this be done directly or, again, through their medical home?

Sullivan: It depends on the situation.

In general, the medical home is intended to help a consumer and their family navigate the system and make sure the various needs of the consumer are met and coordinated. They will need to know about an appointment if they are to help the various systems (physicians, speciality physicians, mental health counselors, etc.) communicate and coordinate care. neuhofel: Do you feel physician (or mid-level provider) in-home visits are a valuable and cost-effective mechanism to help keep older adults in their homes? and if so, what existing state-level policies (or proposals) will help encourage providers to offer such services? Thanks, Dr. Neu Sullivan: We do feel that physician extenders are a valuable resource. Research has shown that the use of ANRPs, for example, in an enhanced care coordination role can be a very effective way to better health outcomes, increase care coordination and reduce costs to high cost services.

We did ask in our KanCare request for proposal how the bidders would effectively utilize physician extenders within the new system.

The patient-centered medical health home, in other states, has utilized physician extenders for some populations to increase the care coordination. The proposals for these health homes will be one of the aspects the bids, that came in on Jan. 31, will be evaluated on.

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KU’s Osher Institute offers educational opportunities without homework, tests

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JIM PETERS is the new director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Kansas University, 1515 St. Andrews Drive.

ansas University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which offers courses and special events to people over 50, has a new director and plans to increase its reach and financial base.

Jim Peters became the institute’s director in January and is working on partnerships with community colleges and other organizations across the state of Kansas to broadcast and provide courses beyond northeast Kansas. The Osher Institute already offers courses to 800 students at 16 sites, including KU’s Continuing Education building, 1515 St. Andrews Drive in west Lawrence, and many retirement communities in Kansas City and Topeka, as well as sites in Hutchinson, Hesston and Ulysses.

Peters, who became director after seven years in marketing and professional programs with KU’s Continuing Education, also wants to increase memberships and expand the Friends of Osher fundraising arm of the organization.

The Osher Institute, established at KU in 2004, offers more than 40 courses in its spring catalog,

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“This is the most fun thing that Continuing Education does,” Peters said. “The audience comes for the pure joy of it — they’re not looking for credit or to advance their careers. There is no homework, no tests and no pressure.”

Most courses consist of six hours of class time, broken down into three two-hour sessions.

“It’s just long enough for people to drill down and learn something but not so long that they have to commit for a whole semester,” Peters said.

Peters said that many people kept coming back for courses not only because of the educational opportunity, but also because they established friendships with classmates and instructors.

“Many instructors have groupies,” he joked.

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professor of film studies at the University of Texas-El Paso, teaches about movies of the past and present.

Hilda Enoch, a retired junior high school teacher, searches the course schedule each semester to sign up for classes taught by her favorite instructors. She enjoys the atmosphere the instructors create in the classes.

“The people that come are people that ask good questions and are interested in learning. They are all seniors who don’t really want to retire and they want to keep their minds active,” she said.

Muff Kelly, a retired computer consultant, and her husband, John, a hospital architect, have been taking classes from the Osher Institute since they moved to Lawrence about five years ago.

“The classes looked interesting, so we signed up for some, and we’ve been hooked ever since,” she said. “It’s the beauty of being a student without the stress of being a student.”

KU’s Osher Institute is one of 117 Osher lifelong learning institutes in the United States. They were created with funding from The Bernard Osher Foundation, specifically to reach people over 50 with opportunities for education and the arts.

KU’s Osher Institute achieved a milestone in 2007 when it reached 500 mem-

bers and received a $1 million grant from foundation for doing so. The fund is administered through KU Endowment and subsidizes the courses and resources.

When KU obtains 1,000 members, it will receive an additional $1 million from the Osher Foundation — something Peters is working to achieve.

“Continuing Education underwrites the program now, and we want to become self-sufficient. We want to keep costs low and have more public members,” Peters said.

Peters hopes to increase KU’s Friends of Osher fundraising to be able to expand the Osher Institute’s programming, both in terms of course choices and locations.

For example, he has met with community colleges throughout the state, and they all have expressed interest in offering courses, through closed-circuit television and/or in person. Peters said that he is even reaching out to Kansas State University and hopes to have courses on campus and in a retirement home in Manhattan this fall.

And, of course, Peters is always looking for ways to recruit new participants. Muff Kelly said that she had spread the word to her friends, as well.

“I think it’s a wonderful resource in Lawrence. It is fun and engaging, and I highly recommend it,” she said.

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All parties need sensitivity in coming out Miranda: There may be no harder life situation for a teen than to be gay and at the point of coming out to your family. The overturning of Proposition 8 in California shows how far society has come in accepting same-sex relationships, but many gay teens and young adults still struggle to find social acceptance. While being “normal” may be overrated in the long run, as teenagers it’s what we strive to achieve. Being openly gay throws an extra variable into that plan, as teens deal with accepting themselves, then trying to find acceptance among their parents and peers.

It’s a difficult task.

We each have different relationships with our parents or guardians, so it’s hard to predict how any given parent will react to this news. Coming out is a delicate process, especially with parents who are uncomfortable with the idea.

I suggest you start out slow and ease them into it. Remember that this is big news for them, requiring a shift in how they view their child, and how they will continue to view him or her for the rest of their lives.

Parents are supposed to love their children unconditionally. Unfortunately, things aren’t always so idealistic. For a gay teen, the fight to be accepted for who you are is often a tough, uphill battle with parents. So try to give them time and patience to come around. Be ready to stand up for what they may view as your “decision” to be gay. The phrase “hope for the best, and expect the worst,” comes to mind.

There are many resources out there for help, and researching your local area support groups can be a huge aid as well. Being honest with your family is a huge step, and a hard one to take, but undoubtedly necessary and worth it in the long run.

Dr. Wes: In my 19 years of practice, we’ve come a long way as a society in understanding and accepting gay relation-

Double TAKE DR. WES CRENSHAW AND MIRANDA DAVIS ships. Polls indicate that for the majority of under-30s, being gay or straight is really a nonissue. For the rest of society, this trend is either wonderfully liberating or horrifically offensive. For reasons I cannot fathom, we’re sitting around in this country right now debating the wisdom of something as noncontroversial as birth control, so we can assume the issue of gay rights is far from settled in many people’s minds.

I agree with Miranda. The worst thing a parent can do in confronting a gay son or daughter is to condemn them for making a “bad lifestyle choice.” The real choice is whether to be open and honest about one’s orientation, not whether they experience it as real.

At the same time, there’s a growing movement among teens and young adults that leans away from labels of “gay” and “straight” and toward attraction to a given person, regardless of gender. I’ve increasingly met young people who are dating a same-sex peer but would not call themselves “gay.” They simply fell in love with that individual and do not feel encum-

bered by any one sexual expression.

It is my well-honed gut instinct that this is the shape of things to come, as this generation rises from young adulthood and takes control of the world. Whether you see this as a cause for hope and joy, or fear and loathing, these distinctions will become much less prominent in my lifetime.

So my best advice to parents on this topic sounds a great deal like my best advice on most topics: Try to remain calm.

Your teen is learning who she is. She may act as though she’s sure, but she isn’t and the more you push against that exploration, the more she’s likely to galvanize her resistance and quit exploring.

The second worst thing you can say to someone coming out is that he is “just going through a phase,” so I do not mean to imply that teens and young adults are incapable of knowing their own minds. I’m simply speaking from experience. Many teens are quite certain of their sexual orientation at 14 and remain so throughout adulthood. Others struggle mightily to figure it all out. And many are quite certain at 16 and then quite certain again at 21, even though they’ve changed orientation 180 degrees.

Nothing in adolescence is so much a “phase” as it is a journey and one that comes without a clear map. Please try and remember this if your son or daughter asks to have this difficult conversation.

And did I mention, “try to remain calm”?

— 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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Pharmacists weigh in with advice about supplements

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hen it comes to understanding which vitamins are right for you, it can be tricky to know what your body needs. For some, a multivitamin can help fill in gaps in nutrition, for others, extra calcium and vitamin D are needed to help keep bones strong and healthy.

While most Americans will turn to their local pharmacist with questions concerning prescription medicines, few ask about which vitamins and supplements are right for them.

In fact, many Americans don’t realize they have unlimited free access to a health expert — their local pharmacist — who can provide detailed guidance on products sold at the pharmacy. This includes everything from over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medicines to vitamins and supplements.

A recent survey sponsored by Nature Made found that pharmacists estimate they answer questions regarding prescription medications for about half of their customers. By comparison, they estimate they answer questions about OTC products for just one in three customers (35 percent) — and when it comes to answering questions about vitamins and supplements, they estimate they do so for just one in five customers (23 percent).

PHARMACIST TIPS FOR VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more than half of all U.S. adults are now taking supplements, which makes understanding the difference between quality vitamins even more crucial.

Approximately nine in 10 pharmacists (93 percent) agree taking vitamins and supple-

ments is important for maintaining good overall health. When choosing between brands to recommend, pharmacists consider the following:

Product quality. Nearly nine in 10 pharmacists (85 percent) say that product quality is a very important factor when deciding whether or not to recommend a specific brand of vitamin.

Product purity. Many people may not be aware that it’s important to consider a vitamin’s purity. In fact, nearly four in five pharmacists (77 percent) say that product purity is very important in choosing whether or not to recommend a brand, and two in three (65 percent) say the same of product potency as well.

TOP PHARMACIST RECOMMENDATIONS The survey also found that pharmacists were “very” and “somewhat” likely to recommend the following:

In addition to recommending fish oil to support heart health, two in three pharmacists (63 percent) are also likely to suggest flaxseed oil and about half (47 percent) recommend garlic.

Nine in 10 pharmacists recommend certain vitamins and supplements like Vitamin D to fill specific nutrition gaps.

Only about two in five pharmacists (42 percent) recommend ginkgo biloba for mental alertness.

For urinary and immune health, four in five (82 percent) recommend cranberry.

To maintain normal energy levels, nine in 10 (91 percent) recommend a B vitamin complex, and about three in four (72 percent) recommend an iron supplement. In addition, pharmacists are two times more likely to recommend a protein-based product over a caffeine-based product for maintaining energy.

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CHECKING THE BALANCE Steps to maintain equilibrium important to prevent falls

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ome mature health concerns are obvious: osteoporosis, heart problems, loss of hearing, diminished eyesight and weight gain.

One problem that doesn’t get much attention until it’s gone is balance.

At any age, balance-related falls large or small can equal bruises, strains, sprains and broken bones, though they are especially dangerous for those middle-aged and older.

Yet balance just doesn’t get the splashy health headlines or community concern as those other oft-discussed maladies.

“Until there’s been an injury, there’s been a fall — that’s when it becomes a concern,” says Whitney Samuelson, a personal trainer with Studio Alpha, 2449 Iowa, who says balance is usually the least of her clients’ initial concerns.

Yet, addressed early — or at all — balance can be improved, decreasing your chances for a fall or injury as you age.

UNDERSTANDING BALANCE Balance isn’t just a single skill, says physical therapist Dorian Logan. Rather, it’s an ability knitted together primarily from three major body systems.

“The ability to balance takes a number of our body systems. Vision is one. Our tactile sense, or how we feel the ground, is another one. And then our vestibular system, which is the inner-ear system that tells us where we are in space and if our head is upright or horizontal,” says Logan, who works out of the Baldwin City office, 814 High St., of Lawrence and Baldwin Therapy Services. “All of our systems as we age decrease in their functions. Part of the reason our balance decreases and is not so good as we age is just because those three systems that are largely involved are decreasing in their ability to function.”

Thus, if you begin to notice your balance is feeling shaky, it could be the result of one of those systems not working quite as well as it was previously. Logan says that

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LAWRENCE RESIDENT JANNEY BURGESS removes her hands from the chair in front of her during the exercise portion of a session on strength, balance and precautions against falling Feb. 9 at Meadowlark Estates. in her experience, vision is often the culprit — especially for younger individuals — but it would take a trip to a therapist to know for sure what the problem might be.

“We rely so heavily on our visual system,” Logan says.

“Even in an athlete that I might see, if you have them balance on one leg and take away their eyesight by closing their eyes, most people can’t do it for very long, sometimes just a few seconds even before they have to touch down on something or put their foot down.”

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Logan says if a therapist or doctor has identified a specific area that is causing balance issues, the other components of balance can be improved to help a patient compensate.

Other important adjustments? Compensating with athome habits (like turning on lights at night), removing tripping dangers (area rugs and bath mats) and not trying to “hide” an instability or trying to “self-correct” by buying, but not learning to use, something such as a cane or walker.

“I think most people who have instabilities kind of recognize that already. And sometimes they try to hide it,”

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School group looks beyond closings

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The issue of which elementary schools to close in Lawrence is one that won’t go away. But before the school district can decide which schools to consolidate, it needs to create a long-term vision.

That is the lingering conclusion that some members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Group have made.

The working group has been SCHOOLS charged by the school board to recommend a way to reduce six elementary schools — Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill — down to three or four within the next two years.

Today, the working group will meet for the last time before passing its recommendations on to the school board.

A week ago, the working group split into two philosophically different camps.

One group, comprised of Cordley, New York and Hillcrest representatives, believes schools should not close. The other group, made up of Kennedy, Pinckney and Sunset Hill representatives, thinks that consolidating schools remains a valid option, but they won’t name which ones should close. The latter group met on Sunday evening to fine-tune its recommendations to the board.

During the meeting, members admitted to being jaded by the six-month process.

The group is refusing to name which schools should close because the majority of school board members have expressed doubts that school closures are the best option.

The group’s frustration with the school board’s change of heart was clearly stated in the draft recommendation.

“It is simply unfair to allow a group of volunteers to continue toiling at an immensely difficult task when a majority of you no longer see the task as valid,” it stated.

Even if the group had been told to recommend closing just one school instead of two or three, the process

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No matter the outcome of NCI bid, state better off for treatment

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

Kansas University’s Cancer Center, which faces one last hurdle this week in its ongoing quest to achieve National Cancer Institute designation, will remain focused on its mission regardless of the outcome.

“No matter how things shake out, we’re going to be a better cancer center next year Jensen than we were this year and a better cancer center than that several years from now,” said Roy Jensen, the director of the KU Cancer Center.

The cancer center at its core is a place where dedicated scientists and doctors collaborate on the best ways to fight cancer on research and clinical fronts.

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THIS UNION PACIFIC CROSSING is northeast of Lawrence and clearly marked. The rest of the country has seen dramatic drops in train fatalities in the past two decades, but Kansas’ numbers have remained steady, with about 16 fatalities per year.

Kansas fatality rate stubbornly steady

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

On a clear Friday afternoon last February, Kyle Snyder, 22, of Lecompton, hit the brakes on his pickup truck as he approached the railroad tracks on East 950 Road northwest of Lawrence.

Sliding on the snowpacked gravel road, Snyder’s truck couldn’t stop in time, and he was killed after

colliding with a BNSF train chugging away at 50 mph.

The crossing where the fatality occurred is identified by crossbuck signs but does not have flashing lights or gates.

Snyder’s death was the second train-related fatality in Douglas County in the past decade. In 2006 Jeannie NewMoon, 53, was struck and killed by a train while walking on the North

Second Street overpass in North Lawrence.

Snyder would be one of 19 people killed by trains in Kansas through the first 11 months of 2011, according to statistics from the Federal Railroad Administration.

While the rest of the country has seen dramatic drops in train fatalities during the past 20 years — from Please see TRAINS, page 2A

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Cures for tomorrow The research programs at KU’s Cancer Center are broken down into different categories: cancer biology, cancer prevention, cancer control and population health, and drug discovery and delivery and experimental therapeutics, said Lisa Harlan-Williams, assistant director for administration at the KU center.

Economic development analysts look to the center as a job creator for the area.

Externally funded scientific research can bring in those high-paying jobs.

In 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available, the cancer center had 143 faculty members, 430 research staff in labs and 81 administrative workers, for a total of 637 jobs in the research sector alone, said Please see CANCER, page 2A

Mother of CLO client files lawsuit claiming wrongful death

By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

A McLouth woman has filed a lawsuit against Community Living Opportunities Inc. alleging her son, who had mental and physical disabilities, died in 2010 because of injuries he suffered at a west Lawrence residential facility.

Leaders of Community Liv-

ing Opportunities, or CLO, are denying the lawsuit’s claims.

The suit filed in Douglas County District Court on behalf of Josephine VanDruff claims an employee of CLO’s Monterey Way Cottage on Feb. 16, 2010, was transporting her son, Timothy D. Gibson.

Because of Gibson’s physical abilities, he needed assistance to move or walk.

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servant or employee, (Gibson) was caused and/or allowed to fall.”

As a result of the fall, Gibson suffered from quadriparesis, a muscle weakness affecting all four limbs, and he died about two months later, “as a direct and proximate result of the injury,” according to claims in the lawsuit.

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CLO officials said they would fight the allegations in court.

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Teresa Christenson, associate director for administration at the center.

The hours can be long.

It’s not unusual for Shrikant Anant, associate director of cancer prevention and control at the cancer center, to perform administrative duties during the day and then work on the research in his lab into the night.

The cancer center supports its research with four so-called “shared resources.” A biospecimens shared resource, for example, keeps several tissue or blood samples on hand in case a researcher needs some for his or her research.

One such resource, the lead development and optimization resource, helps support the drug development and delivery operations, which KU officials see as one of the highlights of their research portfolio.

“It’s definitely one of our differentiating aspects,” Harlan-Williams said.

Helping patients today Ever since a merger in June 2011 with the Kansas City Cancer Center, the KU Cancer Center has been able to greatly expand the number of patients it serves, bringing in 8,000 to 9,000 new patients.

“That’s a pretty huge organization,” Jensen said.

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would have been easier, Pinckney representative Andrea Albright said.

“But to add more moving parts to that just made it quite a bit more difficult,” she said.

In its recommendation, the group urges the school board to develop a sustainable vision for elementary schools.

The key issues the board needs to address include: ! Finding a way to more widely distribute English as a Second Language services throughout the district. ! Examining ways to change the school boundaries to alleviate overcrowding in some schools and boost capacity at other ones.

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that he left,” Chief Executive Officer Mike Strouse said.

“We are not in agreement, of course, in any of the claims.”

Strouse said CLO has operated the small residential facility at 1121 Monterey Way since 1991.

In the suit, Sexton wrote that VanDruff suffered

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The numbers probably put KU in the top 20 of all the cancer centers in the country in terms of patients served.

KU’s new clinical research trial facility will add the capacity to treat between 200 and 300 patients in Phase I Clinical trials, which offer for the first time the latest drugs being tested in humans.

Before the new building came on line, the cancer center had 11 Phase I trials in operation. The building will add the capacity to grow to 25 to 30 such trials.

Leaders at the cancer center said the whole thing has been possible because of the financial support received from the state, the philanthropic community and others, including the voters of Johnson County, who approved a sales tax that funded the new clinical trials building.

“I’m not aware of any other center in the country that has this level and mix of support,” said Raymond Perez, who’s leading the new clinical trials building.

In the end, leaders said, they’re looking to provide a place where people can go to get the best cancer treatments. That’s something the state and the region didn’t have before KU’s efforts.

“We’re very proud of what we’ve built and what we’ve accomplished,” Jensen said.

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

! Considering which schools will likely accommodate an increasing number of students and which schools could close before any significant facility upgrades are made to schools.

The recommendations should act as a road map to help the district create a long-term vision for funding its elementary schools, Albright said.

“Right now, the district may be running in the black, but I think a larger picture to this is a general trajectory toward just a lack of funding. That hasn’t changed,” Albright said.

At today’s meeting, the working group will look for similarities in the two groups’ recommendations, which will then be presented to the school board at its Feb. 27 meeting.

— Reporter Christine Metz can be reached at 832-6352.

mental anguish, suffering and bereavement because of her son’s death and also incurred expenses for his funeral and burial.

VanDruff is seeking monetary damages in excess of $75,000.

Chief District Judge Robert Fairchild has not scheduled any hearings in the case.

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

BRIEFLY Pilot Club’s antique show this weekend The Pilot Club’s semi-annual Antique Show and Sale will be Friday and Saturday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 21st and Harper streets.

Organizers said the show will feature antiques and collectibles, including furniture, silver, vintage jewelry, dishes, pottery, buttons, postcards and linens.

The show will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Admission is $3. Proceeds from the show and food sales will benefit the club’s community service projects.

Wichita-area thieves targeting police cars WICHITA (AP) — Thieves have been breaking into law enforcement vehicles in the Wichita area and making

off with weapons and other equipment.

The Wichita Eagle reported that the recent thefts from cop cars have raised concern in the law enforcement community and signal there’s a market for stolen police equipment.

But it’s not clear how many of the thefts are related.

Wichita police have recorded about six law enforcement vehicle breakins in the past year. The cars belonged to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Goddard police, KBI and Wichita police.

Wichita police also heard of a series of burglaries last summer in Reno County, which includes Hutchinson.

Stolen equipment has included a semi-automatic rifle, binoculars, protective gear and ammunition.

The thefts have led the Butler County sheriff to have new sheriff’s cars equipped with alarms.

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Kansas officials open to NBAF funding alternatives

By John Milburn Associated Press

TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas legislative leaders are regrouping after the proposed 2013 federal budget failed to include construction dollars for a new biosecurity lab, raising questions about the project’s future.

President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal put no new money in for building the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan near Kansas State University.

In fact, the budget recommendation requires the Department of Homeland Security to reassess the project, its scope and alternatives.

The news was a setback for Kansas leaders who see the new $650 million research lab as the crown jewel of the state’s efforts to be a world leader in animal health research and related industries. The project would replace an aging facility at Plum Island, N.Y. Suggestions are circulating in the Statehouse that Topeka may have to step up to fund the lab if Washington is unable in the coming years.

“It’s going to be a fight.

That’s the nature of what it’s going to be,” Brownback said. “I think we’re going to get this done. It’s going to be difficult as we work through the process.

This is going to be an ongoing discussion, the top of everybody’s list for the state of Kansas.”

Brownback was on the phone with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to win assurances that the administration was still intent on building the NBAF and that the reassessment had nothing to do with building the lab in Kansas and everything to do with money.

Kansas has already transferred land to DHS for the project, which has been cleared, and authorized $105 million in bonds to pay for construction of a central utility plant.

Senate President Steve Morris, one of the biggest supporters of the project in the Legislature, said he had discussions with Brownback last week about what Kansas might

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do to keep the NBAF on track. Morris declined to give details about those talks, but isn’t ready to rule out any funding sources.

Morris, a Hugoton Republican, said he doesn’t “have a problem doing what we need to do, if it’s increasing our debt level modestly.”

“NBAF is so important that we need to consider every viable alternative to make sure it goes forward,” he said.

There’s no additional money that the state could spend in this year’s budget, but House Speaker Mike O’Neal said bonding could be part of the solution. No one is willing to say how much of the $650 million price tag the state would be willing to pick up.

“I’m all for looking at other alternatives in light of the fact that the feds aren’t being very kind right now,” said O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican. “I’m with the governor. I think the thing gets built (as planned) or built with a different financing scheme.”

Much at stake The lab is expected to be the western anchor of the so-called Animal Health Corridor stretching from Kansas State to the University of Missouri in Columbia. The corridor consists of hundreds of animal health companies researching and developing the latest and best advancements in livestock production.

Kansas has banked on the NBAF serving as a global magnet for increased bioscience activity along the corridor for the next 25 years or more.

Kansas overcame several challenges to win the NBAF project. It was competing with other states with much more political clout, including Texas, where President George W. Bush had been governor and many felt the lab would be awarded.

But Kansas was chosen because of its proximity to cattle, a research institution and the growing animal health and bioscience industry. State officials contend they didn’t offer more to DHS for the project monetarily, but they had the intangibles that

made it more attractive.

Critics haven’t relented since 2010 and they continue to pick flaws with the Kansas selection in risk assessments presented by the National Academy of Sciences. A second report is under review and expected to be released this spring or summer.

Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, whose name is on the building housing Kansas State’s Biosecurity Research Institute, said this past week in Washington during a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting that he was confident that any concerns about the NBAF’s safety would be addressed during the design process. He also said Kansas would look at alternatives for funding.

Partisan jabs State Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley said it was ironic that the Kansas congressional delegation — all Republicans — were upset with Obama’s budget when they have been “beating the drum” for him to cut federal spending since he took office.

“I don’t think it should come as any surprise that the president’s going to try to balance the budget and there are certain things that he’s going to do,” said Hensley, a Topeka Democrat. “Certainly, the decision that the administration made is one at some point that we hope will be reversed, but they have their own budget problems.”

Hensley said Kansas has been a partner with the federal government in past projects and he would support doing that again with the NBAF should it come to that.

“We certainly want to be a partner in this. It would just depend on how much and what the proposal would be,” Hensley said.

Morris said the Obama administration is being “short-sighted” in delaying funding and construction of the NBAF, adding that the need for a research facility of this magnitude is important for the nation’s food safety and to protect public health.

“Cost and scope is all relative. Can you put a cost on people’s health?”

Morris said.

TRAIN ACCIDENTS, BY THE NUMBERS

! Nonfatal accidents in Kansas in 2011: 232 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A ! Fatal: 19 ! Nonfatal accidents in the United States in 2011: 10,038 1,170 in 1992 to 644 in 2011 ! Fatal: 644 — Kansas’ numbers remain steady, about 16 per Kansas counties with highest year. Douglas County has number of fatality train acnine fatalities over than cidents since 1992: time, and Johnson County leads the state with 19. at intersections equipped There doesn’t seem to with gates or other warnbe a clear reason why the ing devices, she said. In Kansas numbers haven’t Snyder’s collision, where dropped. he tried to stop but slid, “Your guess is as good gates or lights may not as mine,” said Darlene have made a difference.

Osterhaus, director of the In Kansas, about 65 train-safety organization percent of the roughly Kansas Operation Life- 5,200 train crossings are saver. Since joining the equipped only with stop organization in 2006, Os- signs or “crossbucks,” the terhaus has helped coor- white X sign with “raildinate hundreds of work- road crossing” written on shops across the state to them, said Mitch Sothers, increase awareness of the engineer with the Kansas dangers of trains.

Department of TransThe two types of inci- portation. Sothers helps dents that are not related install other warning deto a train malfunction or vices, paid for with federal derailment are categorized money. But the funding is as crossing collisions, such limited, and Sothers said as Snyder’s crash, and KDOT is only able to add trespass incidents, when warning devices to about someone is struck by a 50 train crossings per year. train as he or she walks on Marmie Edwards, the tracks, such as in New- spokeswoman for the naMoon’s case. tional branch of Operation In addition to education Lifesaver, said the perand trainings, adding gates centage of train crossings and lights to intersections with warning devices varcan help reduce incidents ies by state, from 20 perand fatalities, Osterhaus cent to 50 percent. But it said, but that’s not always wouldn’t be economically enough. feasible to place devices at Some drivers will drive all crossings nationwide, around gates, or, if road she said. conditions are hazardous, When it comes to those might slide through inter- killed when walking on sections. Nearly 50 per- train tracks, it’s not clear cent of collisions occur how many are suicides,

! Johnson: 19 ! Sedgwick: 16 ! Shawnee: 16 ! Butler: 15 ! Sumner: 10 ! Douglas: 9

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Edwards said, as those statistics historically were not kept. In Kansas, trespass deaths account for about a quarter of trainrelated fatalities.

In the nonsuicide cases, Edwards said a lack of safety awareness comes from a public perception of slow moving trains blowing their whistles and flowing through small towns at 30 or 40 mph. But with time, trains have sped up, and in a state like Kansas, they move through frequently, she said.

“The public hasn’t caught up with that,” she said. “There’s still a ways to go.”

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Groups mull lawsuit against voter ID law WICHITA — A coalition of Kansas groups has been considering a legal challenge to the state’s new voter photo identification law, apparently because of the costs of documents required to get the free ID. The Kansas Voter Coalition won’t discuss specific legal strategies against the law, but Ernestine Krehbiel, president of the Kansas League of Women Voters, told The Wichita Eagle the group opposes “barriers to voting and requirement to have to pay for documents in order to vote.”

“Paying to vote is a poll tax,” Krehbiel said.

More than a half-dozen groups, including the Kansas chapters of the League of Women Voters and American Civil Liberties Union, make up the coalition. The Kansas coalition is consulting about the issue with the Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy and law institute at New York University.

Regents: FHSU fastest growing university HAYS — A report from the Kansas Board of Regents shows that Fort Hays State University is the fastest growing university in the state system.

The Hays Daily News reports that enrollment at Fort Hays State during fiscal year 2011 was 14,707, up nearly a thousand from the year before.

That increase of 5.8 percent was by far the largest increase of any regents universities.

The only other institutions that grew during FY2011 were Wichita State University, up 1.8 percent, and Kansas State University, up .2 percent.

FHSU has been setting enrollment records since the turn of the century, more than doubling enrollment of 5,800 during that time to 13,062 at the end of the 2011 spring semester.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Victims of domestic violence will not call the police if they are afraid of the police.”

— Angela Ferguson, immigration attorney, testifying against a bill that would require police to check citizenship status of people they stop and suspect of being an illegal immigrant.

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THE NEW BUSINESS, ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, OR BEST, BUILDING on Kansas University’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park is pictured. The new 75,000-square-foot building features 10 classrooms, five lecture halls, 36 offices and four computer labs.

New building to showcase ‘BEST’ of KU’s Edwards Campus new 75,000-square-foot Business, Engineering, Science and Technology, or BEST, building.

A new building on Kansas The building has one 32-seat University’s Edwards Campus classroom, one 40-seat classwill fully open room, eight 45-seat classrooms, soon, and will four 65-seat tiered lecture halls house students and and one 100-seat lecture hall. faculty for what It has space for 36 faculty and will become 10 new administrative support offices degree programs along with four computer labs. to be offered at the KANSAS It is the third major educationUNIVERSITY campus. al space on the Overland Park Classes are alcampus, joining 55,000-squareready being conducted in the foot Regents Center and

82,000-square-foot Regnier Hall.

Bob Clark, vice chancellor for the Edwards Campus, said he has taught a class in the new building. His class is conducted one-third online and two-thirds in person, and he said he particularly enjoyed a new feature of the building that allowed for courses to be recorded. Video cameras in the classrooms and microphones hanging from the ceilings record classes to be posted online

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Lawrence is the ball in redistricting pingpong Democratic-voting Lawrence is getting batted backand-forth in the congressional redistricting battle being waged by the Republicandominated Legislature.

Split 10 years ago between the 2nd and 3rd U.S. House districts, Lawrence would rest entirely in the 2nd under a bipartisan plan approved by the state Senate. Problem is, the Kansas Republican Party, Kansas Chamber of Commerce, and U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Republican who repreJenkins sents the 2nd, don’t like that plan.

House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, has a plan that would put Lawrence entirely in the 3rd, but it has generated a lot of opposition because

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Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners 231 110 Heat See. Heat See. Diners House House Hunters My House Price This House House 229 112 Love It or List It (N) House Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends 299 170 Fred Suite/Deck 292 174 ››› Spy Kids (2001) h Antonio Banderas. Phineas Phineas I’m in Band Suite Life Zeke Shake It Jessie Jessie Wizards-Place Good Luck Good Luck Wizards Wizards 290 172 Radio 296 176 Hall-Game Level Up King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Family Guy Family Guy Chicken Boondocks American Chopper Toughest Trucker 278 182 American Chopper American Chopper Toughest Trucker Prince Prince 311 180 Pretty Little Liars (N) The Lying Game (N) Pretty Little Liars The 700 Club h 276 186 CIA Confidential h Alaska State Troopers Outlaw Bikers h CIA Confidential h Alaska State Troopers Frasier Frasier Frasier Gold Girls Gold Girls 312 185 Little House on Prairie Little House on Prairie Frasier 282 184 Finding Bigfoot: Birth of a Legend: Further Rattlesnake Republic Finding Bigfoot: Birth of a Legend: Further Creating J. Franklin Duplantis Praise the Lord (Live).

J. Osteen MannaFest 372 260 Behind World Over Live Vaticano Women of Daily Mass: Our Lady 370 261 The Journey Home (N) Genesis Rosary Meet the Press IYC IYC Fraud Fraud Meet the Press IYC IYC Capital News Today 351 211 Commun Tonight From Washington 350 210 Politics & Public Policy Today Stolen 285 192 Disappeared h Disappeared (N) h Stolen Disappeared h Disappeared h JFK: Inside the Target Saving Ronald Reagan 287 195 JFK: Inside the Target Saving Ronald Reagan (N) 279 189 Dr. Phil h Oprah’s Oscar Special h Oprah’s Oscar Special h 362 214 Full Force Full Force Weather Weather Weather Center Live Full Force Full Force Weather Weather General Hospital Young & Restless Days of our Lives General Hospital 262 253 Days of our Lives 256 132 ››› The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) ›››› The Third Man (1949) Orson Welles. ›››› Amadeus (1984) 501 300 Real Time/Bill Maher ››‡ The Book of Eli (2010) Denzel Washington. Too Short F. Roach ›› Sex and the City 2 Emmanuelle Through Time 515 310 ››› Big Stan (2007) h Rob Schneider. ››‡ Paul (2011) Simon Pegg.

Shameless (iTV) Lies Californ. Shameless (iTV) 545 318 Homeland (iTV) h Californ. Lies 535 340 ››› Air Force One (1997) Harrison Ford. ››› The American President (1995) ››‡ Body Double Spartacus: Vengeance Bad 527 350 ›‡ Friday After Next Spartacus: Vengeance ›› Man of the House (2005)

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Potential DCAP volunteers should attend meeting tonight Staff Reports

Agency: Douglas County AIDS Project Contact: Chad Steele at 785-843-0040 or dcap@ “church service” on the sunflower.com. second Friday morning of each month for Brandon Douglas County AIDS Woods South residents.

Project (DCAP) is hosting The residents like to sing a volunteer orientation to- old, traditional hymns, night at the United Way and while there is an elecCenter, 2518 Ridge Court. tric piano at the facility, The session runs from 6 there is no one to play it p.m. to 9 p.m. during the service. If you DCAP staff will be dis- are well-versed in playing cussing all kinds of new traditional church hymns opportunities for current on the piano and can make and potential volunteers a monthly commitment to this spring. DCAP relies provide accompaniment on volunteers to provide to the residents’ song sermuch-needed support in vices at 10 a.m. on the secvarious ways, including ond Friday of the month, helping with awareness contact Sarah Rooney days in March, staffing at 843-3738 or sarahro@ information tables, prepa- kansasvna.org. ration for the annual fun!" GaDuGi SafeCenter draising walk in April, Inc. is seeking volunteer assisting in the office and advocates for its upcommore. Because of the na- ing training. Advocates ture of volunteers’ work are a vital part of the vicand the level of confiden- tim-centered services that tiality involved, all vol- GaDuGi provides to comunteers must complete munity members affected a thorough application by sexual violence. Advopacket that includes ref- cates are on-call for one erence forms, and attend week at a time, every 4 to an agency orientation and 6 weeks, and must commit an HIV 101 Basic Training to being available from 5 session. The first step to p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekday finding out more is to at- nights and 24 hours over tend tonight’s orientation the weekend while on and find out how to pro- call. Volunteer advocates ceed in becoming one of answer crisis calls that DCAP’s dedicated volun- can range from providing teers. For any questions, support and service referplease contact Chad Steele rals over the phone to acat 843-0040 or dcap@ companying someone to sunflower.com. the hospital, police station or court. Volunteers are Immediate needs also provided regular op!" Douglas County Vis- portunities to assist with iting Nurses is seeking a prevention and education, piano accompanist to pro- community awareness and vide music once a month. outreach services. GaDuGi The Visiting Nurses hos- SafeCenter’s next training pice chaplain provides a will take place from 6 p.m.

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promoted to bank manager at Landmark National Bank, 4621 W. Sixth. She began work at Landmark in 2009 as a personal banker. Before that, Moore was a project coordinator for a construction company. She was also a brokerage services supervisor for Forrest T. Jones & Co., and provided technical support and processed claims for Centennial Life Insurance Co. Moore has a bachelor’s degree from Pittsburg State University. !"Peggy Johnson, a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial, 3200 Mesa Way, Suite B, ranked in the top 25 percent of 3,791 participating advisers who scored 95

— For more volunteer opportunities, contact Shannon Reid at the United Way’s Roger Hill Volunteer Center, at 785-8655030 or volunteer@rhvc.org, or go to volunteerdouglascounty. org.

‘Riverdance’ saying goodbye to North America ————

Farewell tour of production to stop in Kansas City

By Mark Kennedy Associated Press

NEW YORK — When Julian Erskine last saw the American touring company of “Riverdance,” he had to smile.

He was in the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on an October night in Costa Mesa, Calif., watching the high-stepping cast electrify the crowd once again despite more than a dozen years crisscrossing the nation.

“To be at the back of a hall with the audience jumping to their feet at the end of the show after all these years, it’s just so gratifying and just so pleasing,” says Erskine, the show’s senior executive producer, by phone from Dublin.

Even so, the end of the road is nearing. “Riverdance” is currently on an 82-city farewell North American tour that’s winding across the U.S. and Canada and ends in June. This month, the show left Texas, hit the Southeast and next goes to the Plains.

“It’s certainly emotional to be saying goodbye,” says Erskine.

The show has been touring continuously

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PADRAIC MOYLES PERFORMS in the Irish dance production “Riverdance” in this 2003 image released by Riverdance. “Riverdance” is currently on a 75-city farewell U.S. tour that’s winding across the country and ends in June. The show has been touring continuously in North America since 1996. in North America since 1996, sometimes with two companies simultaneously. While organizers insist there’s still interest in the U.S., new markets beckon in South America, India and China.

The touring company includes six principal dancers, 18 troupe dancers, a live five-piece band, flamenco dancer and two

Building

conference center will allow the campus to expand its rental business.

The space will accommodate 400 people with theater-style seating and 240 people with banquetstyle seating, said Laurie Brown, facilities marketing manager for the campus. The campus typically hosts anywhere between three to 10 groups in a week, Brown said.

The groups that use the space must be business or educational in nature.

“We don’t do weddings, that kind of stuff,” Brown said.

The new area will also provide space for KU and KU Medical Center to host events.

The campus intends to use the money generated from the rental space to pay down the bond on the new building, Brown said.

American tap dancers, one of whom is also a baritone soloist.

Padraic Moyles, one of the principals, is dancing with a heavy heart. He joined “Riverdance” in 1997 and fell in love with his co-star and now wife, Niamh O’Connor, while in the show. While he has performed elsewhere, he says American audiences are special.

“Riverdance” opened at Dublin’s Point Theatre on Feb. 9, 1995, at a time of renewed Irish optimism and pride surrounding the onset of the booming “Celtic Tiger” economy. Years of relative poverty were disappearing and being Irish had a new cool, thanks to a new generation of athletes and musicians like U2 and The Cranberries.

The final North American tour — at least for now — will take the show to such Irish-heavy cities as Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Boston, and will conclude at Wolf Trap National Park in Vienna, Va., which will represent the 14th time “Riverdance” has played there.

Cold case Topeka murder trial starts March 5 TOPEKA — About 800 people are expected to be summoned as possible jurors to hear the trial of a 51-year-old Oklahoma woman charged with killing her former husband and his fiancée.

Dana L. Chandler, of Duncan, Okla., is charged with

two counts of premediexpected to tated first-degree murder in last three the July 7, 2002, slayings of weeks.

47-year-old Mike Sisco and A court official says from 53-year-old Karen Harkness the 800 proin Topeka.

COURTS spective jurors The Topeka Capital-Jourcalled, 12 jurors nal reports that Chandler’s and as many as five alternate trial starts March 5 with jurors will hear the trial. jury selection. The trial is

AROUND & ABOUT IN LOCAL BUSINESS

percent or higher based on overall client satisfaction in a recent Ameriprise financial adviser client relationship study. The study was conducted by an independent research organization. !"Suzanne Green Johnston has been appointed director at Vintage Park at Tonganoxie Assisted Living Community and Skilled Healthcare. Green Johnston holds a master’s degree in speech/language pathology.

She has worked for 20 years in nursing homes, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and residential settings. She also owned a private in-home therapy practice. !"The Kansas University Small Business Develop-

All of the bachelor’s degree programs will include agreements CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A with Johnson County Community College later. It’s not a live stream, to help students there Clark said, but it’s an improvement over the exist- transition to the KU programs. ing facilities.

Clark said one of the new programs, a bachelor’s degree in business administration, is already operational. A second, a bachelor’s degree in information technology, is pending approval from the Kansas Board of Regents. Potential programs in the future could include a professional science master’s degree in environmental impact or engineering project management.

A bachelor’s degree in exercise science is also a possibility, he said, which could tie into a physical therapy program at KU Medical Center.

All of the bachelor’s degree programs will include agreements with Johnson County Community College to help students there transition to the KU programs, Clark said.

The new building was paid for using funds from the Johnson County Education Research Triangle sales tax.

A 4,000-square-foot

to 9 p.m. on the following dates: March 13, March 16, March 27 and March 29. Advocates must be at least 18 years old; own or have access to a car; have a cellphone with voice mail; be able to complete 30 hours of training and skill enhancement; have a commitment to providing nonjudgmental, supportive listening and empowerment-based advocacy for victims; and commit to at least one year as a volunteer advocate upon training completion. For more details about GaDuGi SafeCenter and its services, and for a volunteer application, visit www. gadugisafecenter.org, or contact Pam Lawrence at 843-8985, ext. 320, or directservices@sunflower. com. !" Lawrence Habitat for Humanity is in need of volunteers on a weekly basis for its current house build. Work days are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Volunteers are especially needed on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week.

All volunteers must be at least 16 years old. Contact Mana Uchida at 832-0777 or vista@lawrencehabitat. org for more information about the build site and any other requirements before volunteering. Do your part to complete the building of Lawrence Habitat’s 79th house for a local family!

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ment Center will host a free seminar on the Yin and Yang of Entrepreneurship.

It’s planned for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the center, 646 Vt., Suite 200. Preregister by calling 843-8844.

The seminar will focus on a number of topics, including funding, marketing, writing a business plan, characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and what makes a successful business.

In addition, KU’s Students In Free Enterprise Club, in conjunction with the KU Small Business Development Center, recently received a grant from Sam’s Club. The 2012 Sam’s Club Step Up for Small Business Partnership Award was pre-

sented to KU SIFE and local businessman Tyler Reynolds of OJOS Eyewear. The KU club is working with OJOS on the launch of a new line of eyewear, to be rolled out in March. For every pair of sunglasses sold, OJOS will donate a pair of frames for prescription eyewear to Physicians for Peace.

For more information, visit ojosmovement.com or facebook.com/kuksbdc. !"Midwest Custom Pools, Lawrence, has received a silver medal from the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals. The national association certifies people and businesses in the pool industry. The APSP design awards include

residential and commercial pools in both fiberglass and custom concrete. Midwest’s 2011 award was in the fiberglass division, 250 to 600 square feet. !"Jay Smith has been named the market president for Lawrence locations of Central National Bank.

Smith, who has been with the bank for several years, will continue to office at the 3140 Nieder Road bank. Smith has 14 years of banking experience and has worked as a commercial lender since joining Central National Bank in 2009. For seven years, he was a lender for Security Bank of Kansas City. Smith earned a business administration degree

from Pittsburg State University majoring in finance and business management. !"Chris Marshall, vice president of account management at Callahan Creek, Lawrence, has been recognized as a 2012 Rising Star

by KC Business magazine.

Chosen by an independent panel of area business and civic leaders, the honorees are Kansas City professionals under the age of 40 who are selected based on their dedication to corporate success, accomplishments in professional endeavors and commitment to community and philanthropic activities. Marshall has worked at Callahan Creek for seven years.

Capitol

administration as a holders to bring their way to prevent the weapons on college government from campuses and other public buildings. infringing on personal Gun-rights adreligious beliefs. vocates say the But a number of LEGISLATURE measure will increase advocacy groups say it will lead to the safety, but caminvalidation of local ordipus police departments, nances set up to protect representatives of local gays and lesbians from governments and other discrimination. Lawrence public officials say just the officials have testified opposite is true.

In testimony to the Legagainst the bill. islature, Richard Johnson, The fiscal note from Steve Anderson, director of chief of university police at the budget, notes that the Kansas University Mediattorney general’s office, cal Center, said he feared Office of Judicial Adminiswhat would happen if police tration and League of Kanresponded to a situation sas Municipalities say the where several people had bill could increase litigation. drawn weapons.

The attorney general’s ofJohnson stated: “We are fice says the legal expenses particularly concerned with being able to distinguish the could exceed $100,000, ‘good guys’ from the ‘bad while the other groups say they can’t predict the guys.’ A person with a connumber of additional court cealed-carry license doesn’t cases that could arise. have a badge or uniform. How A vote on the measure, does a responding police ofwhich was introduced by ficer know which person with Rep. Lance Kinzer, Rthe gun is the threat?”

Olathe, could occur today in Kinzer’s House Judiciary Brownback agenda Committee.

they said. In addition, they said the Legislature needs to move cautiously on proposed changes to the public pension system.

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it would place most of another Democratic voting county, Wyandotte, in the 1st.

State Rep. Anthony Brown, R-Eudora, has a plan that would put Lawrence in the 1st, tying it to the mostly rural western Kansas district.

House Democratic Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence has a plan dubbed Davis “Free Willie” that puts Manhattan in the 2nd along with Lawrence.

It was named after Kansas State University’s mascot, Willie the Wildcat. Manhattan, currently in the 2nd, was placed in the 1st under the Senate-approved map.

Bill would probably raise litigation costs

A fiscal note attached to House Bill 2260, the “Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act,” says the measure, if enacted, would probably increase litigation costs for the state — Higher education reporter Andy and cities.

Hyland can be reached at 832-6388.

The bill has been touted Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU.

by Gov. Sam Brownback’s

slowing down

Guns on campus As the Legislature comes the halfway point of the vote likely this week to 2012 session this week,

A measure strongly opposed by higher education officials will probably be debated this week in the Kansas House.

House Bill 2353 would allow concealed-carry license

Senate leaders have said Gov. Sam Brownback’s agenda has slowed down.

Brownback’s proposed overhauls to the tax system and school finance formula simply need more scrutiny,

What’s next This is “turnaround” week, when most bills must clear their house of origin. ! 9 a.m. today: Discussion on House Bill 2545, enacting the Kansas public employee retirement system act of 2014, before House Pensions and Benefits, Room 142-South, Capitol. !" 1:30 p.m. today: Final action on House Bill 2598, creating the no taxpayer funding for abortion act, before House Federal and State Affairs, Room 346-South, Capitol. !" 1:30 p.m. today and Tuesday: Working on Gov. Sam Brownback’s school finance plan, before Senate Education Committee, Room 152-South, Capitol. !"3:30 p.m. today: Hearing on House Bill 2652, granting in-state tuition to military veterans, before House Education Budget, Room 159-South, Capitol.

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When does Knology plan to update the “info” displayed on the channels in Topeka that they dropped.

Right now, the info display still shows what’s on the Topeka channels but when you turn to that channel, something else is on.

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lowing time for customers to change their recordings to the Kansas City affiliates so they don’t miss their favorite shows in the middle of the network season.

“DVRs are engineered to record the broadcaster’s Source ID, not the channel number. This is how we ensure we don’t break DVR recordings when we have to move a station or network to a different channel number.

“The Source ID for KSNT and KTKA will go away at the end of February if we still do not have an agreement to rebroadcast these stations. Customers need to make sure their NBC and ABC shows are set up to record NBC on Channel 14 or 214 and ABC on Channel 9 or 209 so they don’t miss a future recording.”

Rodger Kutemeier, Knology of Kansas general manager, provided this answer (which was edited for length): “We have chosen to leave the guide information for KSNT and KTKA on our lineup for two reasons.

“The first is we continue to have hope that the operator of these stations will again allow us to rebroadcast their signals.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT • A 21-year-old transient man was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and possession of stolen property after breaking into a residence in the 1400 block of Coventry Manor on Sunday morning.

The resident of the home called police about 7 a.m. after she saw the suspect inside her home, according to Sgt. Kirk Fultz of the Lawrence Police Department. The suspect left the home without incident and was found nearby by police. Fultz said the suspect admitted to entering the home after police took him into custody.

The suspect was booked into the Douglas County Jail about 7:30 a.m.

DOUGLAS COUNTY DISTRICT COURT MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Patrick Jerome Miller, 23, Hutchinson, and Ann Kathryn Kovar, 21, Lenexa.

Kent Edward Kummer, 50, Eudora, and Deborah Kay Whalen, 46, Eudora.

Shawn Alan Hiatt, 44, Lawrence, and Shelly Donnell Robinson, 47, Lawrence.

Bobby Dion Riley, 41, Lawrence, and Margaret Elizabeth Kimball, 44, Lawrence.

John Karanicolas, 35, Lawrence, and Raia Rene Frances Noski, 28, Lawrence.

John William Trieu, 20, Lawrence, and Elizabeth Anne Turner, 22, Lawrence.

DIVORCES GRANTED Shannon Vanlandingham, 51, Lawrence, and Samuel B. Vanlandingham, 57, Basehor.

Christifer Lynn Beach, 37, Baldwin City, and Cheryl Louise Beach, 36, Baldwin City.

BANKRUPTCIES Douglas County residents or businesses filing for bankruptcy protection recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Kansas, according to court records: • Suzanne Jeanette Nelson-Smith, 1412 Fir St., Eudora.

• Angela D. Brown, 2100 Heatherwood Drive, F-6, Lawrence • Roy Edgar Hinkle, 2408 Ala., Apt C2, Lawrence.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed. The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name.

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

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

• Holdups and robberies.

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Jerely Mosso Ramos, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday.

Leander and Eve Bonner, Lawrence, a boy, Sunday.

Jamie Loehr, McLouth, a girl, Sunday.

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The JournalWorld found gas prices as low as $3.43 at several stations. If you find a lower price, call 832-7154.

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2 judicial officials slain in Syria

By Bassem Mroue and Brian Murphy Associated Press

BEIRUT — Gunmen in Syria staged a guerrillastyle ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge Sunday in an attack that suggested armed factions are growing bolder and more coordinated in their uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime.

The roadway slayings — reported in an oppositiondominated n o r t h e r n Assad region by the Syrian state news agency — came a day after a deadly hit-andrun attack on a political figure in the heart of the pro-Assad city of Aleppo.

The targeted killings have not reached Assad’s inner circle, but they indicate a growing shift toward violent tactics by the opposition as it brings aboard more military defectors and seeks to tighten control over the small pieces of territory in its hands.

The fears of a looming civil war have neighbor-

ing Jordan racing to finish a refugee camp near the Syrian border to handle a possible exodus of people fleeing for safety.

Meanwhile, Egypt became the latest Arab nation to publicly snub Assad by ordering the withdrawal of its ambassador in Damascus.

The Syrian government has offered some concessions, including proposing a referendum next week that could allow more political voices to challenge Assad’s Baath Party. But the opposition demands nothing short of Assad’s resignation. And the regime has not eased off its attacks on the opposition forces, which it describes as “terrorists” carrying out a foreign conspiracy to destabilize the country.

In Homs in central Syria, government forces sent in reinforcements as they shelled the rebelheld Baba Amr district that has been under near constant barrage for nearly two weeks, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group said at least 14 people were killed Sunday across Syria, half of them by government troops.

Can the stock market pick the next president?

By Matthew Craft Associated Press

NEW YORK — The number has been repeated so often by presidential prognosticators that it’s an article of faith: No president has been re-elected since World War II with an unemployment rate higher than 7.2 percent.

But the stock market turns out to be a pretty good predictor, too.

The Dow Jones industrial average has soared 62 percent since President Barack Obama took the oath of office during some of the darkest days of the Great Recession.

The Dow was just below 8,000 then and stands near 13,000 today.

If a recent study of stock markets and presidential elections is any guide, Obama can start preparing his second inaugural address.

“There’s something to this,” says Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors, the $370 billion investment firm.

There are plenty of other signs often consulted for their political forecasting power, like whether a team from the National Football Conference or

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GOP presidential candidate says he was questioning ‘world view,’ not faith

By Steve Peoples Associated Press

CUMMING, GA. — Rick Santorum on Sunday condemned what he called President Barack Obama’s world view that “elevates the Earth above man,” discouraging increased use of natural resources.

The GOP presidential candidate also slammed Obama’s health care overhaul for requiring insurers to pay for prenatal tests that, Santorum said, will encourage more abortions.

A day after telling an Ohio audience that Obama’s agenda is based on “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible,” Santorum said he wasn’t criticizing the president’s Christianity.

“I’ve repeatedly said I don’t question the president’s faith. I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the president’s Christian,” Santorum told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“I am talking about his

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GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RICK SANTORUM appears on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. Santorum condemned what he called President Barack Obama’s world view that “elevates the Earth above man.” world view and the way he approaches problems in this country. I think they’re different than how most people do in America,” he said in the broadcast interview.

The former Pennsylvania senator said Obama’s environmental policies

promote ideas of “radical environmentalists,” who, Santorum argues, oppose greater use of the country’s natural resources because they believe “man is here to serve the Earth.” He said that was the reference he was making Saturday in his Ohio campaign appearance when he denounced a “phony theology.”

When pressed by reporters after he made the initial remark, however, Santorum made no mention of the president’s environmental policies.

Instead, he suggested that Obama practices one of the “different stripes of Christianity.”

Santorum walked back those comments on CBS Sunday morning.

But later in the day, he again criticized Obama’s “theology” — with no reference to his environmental policies — while speaking to more than 2,000 supporters gathered at a suburban Atlanta megachurch.

The president is “tram-

pling on a constitutional right,” Santorum said of the Obama administration’s recent decision to allow employees of religious schools and hospitals to have birth control covered by their insurance policies.

“It is imposing his ideology on a group of people expressing their theology, their moral code,” Santorum told those gathered in the First Redeemer Church, a megachurch that hosted former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee four years ago.

Obama’s campaign said Santorum’s initial remarks were another attack on the president’s faith by Republican rivals in a nominating contest that has grown increasingly bitter and negative.

“It’s just time to get rid of this mindset in our politics that, if we disagree, we have to question character and faith,” said Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former press secretary, on ABC’s “This Week.”

Romney faces questions about intensity of support

By Thomas Beaumont Associated Press

D ES M OINES , I OWA — If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, he’ll face the urgent task of inspiring the par- Romney ty’s conservative core and rallying them to beat President Barack Obama.

Judging by his performances in the primaries and caucuses so far, and the challenge he faces next week, he’s got his work cut out for him.

Even Republicans who think he’ll be the nominee worry about whether

he can generate the intensity required to beat the Democratic incumbent.

These party leaders and activists, from the states voting Feb. 28 and the most contested ones ahead in the fall, say Romney has made strides toward addressing this problem. But, they say, he needs to do more to convince the Republican base that he’s running to fundamentally reverse the nation’s course, not simply manage what they see as the federal government’s mess.

“I think Romney will be the nominee, but there is still tremendous work to be done,” said Sally Bradshaw, a Florida Republican and adviser to former Gov. Jeb Bush. “He has

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(Romney) has got to find a way to unify the party and increase the intensity of support for him among voters who have supported Newt Gingrich, or Rick Santorum or Ron Paul or someone else. And that is going to be the key to how he does in the fall.”

— Sally Bradshaw, a Florida Republican and adviser to former Gov. Jeb Bush

got to find a way to unify wide margin in private the American Football the party and increase polling ahead of the AriConference wins the Suthe intensity of sup- zona primary Feb. 28. per Bowl. port for him among vot- But the rising challenge This one makes a little ers who have supported from former Pennsylvamore sense: When the Newt Gingrich, or Rick nia Sen. Rick Santorum economy picks up and unSantorum or Ron Paul or in the contest also that employment falls, confisomeone else. And that day in Michigan, where dent investors put money is going to be the key to Romney was born and into riskier investments how he does in the fall.” raised, underscores and stocks rise. Voters are Romney leads in the doubts about Romney’s likely to reward the sitting delegate count for the ability to ignite fervor in president with another nomination, and by a the GOP base. four years.

The study was backed by the Socionomics Institute, a think tank studying how a shared mood among a group sways its members’ actions. Their researchers dug up data on economic output, prices, unemployment and stock-market performance and matched them to presidential elections.

They went all the way back to the first re-election in 1792, when George Washington beat John Adams and won a second term as the president.

The researchers found a solid connection between the stock market’s direction in the three years leading up to Election Day and the election results.

Gains of 20 percent or more for the Dow nearly assured victories for sitting presidents. Drops of Boris Grdanoski/AP Photo 10 percent or worse got PEOPLE ENJOY THE SUN AND THE VIEW at the top of Vodno Mountain above the town of Skopje, Macedonia, on Sunday. them tossed out.

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Arizona sheriff facing long odds after gay outing

By Bob Christie Associated Press

FLORENCE, ARIZ. — Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu built a reputation as a rising, conservative star by taking a hardline stance against illegal immigration, attacking the Obama administration and appearing alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 re-election ad in which McCain urged federal officials to just “complete the danged fence.”

But, on Saturday, Babeu’s conservative image took a beating as he was forced to admit publicly that he is gay and was involved in a relationship with a Mexican immigrant who claims the sheriff threatened to have him deported if he revealed their relationship.

Babeu denies any wrongdoing and has vowed to continue his battle for the GOP nomination in an extremely conservative rural congressional district. He

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recognizes he is fighting an uphill battle, especially in a state where family values, as defined by a large evangelical Christian and Mormon population, often battle fierce, anti-immigrant beliefs to define conservatism.

At a lengthy press conference, Babeu said he hopes voters will overlook his personal lifestyle and stick with him.

PINAL COUNTY SHERIFF Paul Babeu speaks at a news conference, Saturday in Florence, Ariz.

Babeu, who’s seeking the GOP nomination for an Arizona congressional seat, has been forced to confirm he is gay amid allegations of misconduct.

His competitors think voters will reject him, with Arizona Sen. Ron Gould saying he’s sure to lose major support among the family-values voters who oppose gay marriage.

Babeu previously avoided a public stance on gay rights but came out in favor them Saturday.

“I can be a supporter and get out there and help articulate as we progress as a culture and a society,

that there should be individual liberties and there should be individual freedoms,” Babeu said. “For any other person to define somebody else’s relationship and say it’s not OK, that is not who we are as Americans.”

Saturday’s revelation already forced Babeu to call presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s staff to say he would step down from his post as state campaign co-chairman. Some political observers think his career could be over.

“There is no question that his budding congressional campaign is over,” longtime Arizona Republican political consultant Sean Noble wrote on his blog. “Because it is a Republican primary in a conservative district, it’s likely that the thing that hurts him the most is that he was in a gay relationship.”

Others aren’t sure it’s the end, but they said there’s no doubt he will be hurt.

FDA to review inhalable caffeine BOSTON — U.S. Food plastic canister contains B and Drug Administration vitamins, plus 100 milliofficials plan to investigate grams of caffeine powder, whether inhalable caffeine about the equivalent of the sold in lipstick-sized caniscaffeine in a large cup of ters is safe for consumers coffee.

AeroShot’s inventor, and if its manufacHarvard biomedical turer was right to engineering professor brand it as a dietary David Edwards, says supplement. the product is safe and AeroShot went on doesn’t contain taurine the market late last and other common month in MassachuHEALTH additives used to setts and New York, enhance the caffeine effect in and it’s also available in France. Consumers put one energy drinks.

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TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran has halted oil shipments to Britain and France, the Oil Ministry said Sunday, in an apparent pre-emptive blow against the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on Iran’s crucial fuel exports.

The EU imposed tough sanctions against Iran last month, which included a freeze of the country’s central bank assets and an oil embargo set to begin in July.

Iran’s Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi had warned earlier this month that Tehran could cut off oil exports to “hostile” European nations.

The 27-nation EU accounts for about 18 percent of Iran’s oil exports.

However, the Iranian action was not likely to have any significant direct impact on European supplies because both Britain and France had already moved last year to sharply curtail oil purchases from Tehran to less than 3 percent of their daily needs.

The EU sanctions, along with other punitive measures imposed by the U.S., are part of Western efforts to derail Iran’s disputed nuclear program, which the West fears is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Iran denies the charges, and says its program is for peaceful purposes.

The spokesman for Iran’s Oil Ministry, Ali Reza Nikzad-Rahbar, said on the

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Iran’s targeting of Britain and France appeared to be a political decision to punish the two countries for supporting tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

ministry’s website Sunday that “crude oil exports to British and French companies have been halted.”

“We have our own customers and have no problem to sell and export our crude oil to new customers,” he said.

Britain’s Foreign Office declined comment, and there was no immediate response from French officials.

The semiofficial Mehr news agency said exports were suspended to the two countries Sunday. It also said the National Iranian Oil Company has sent letters to some European refineries with an ultimatum to either sign long-term contracts of two to five years or be cut off.

Mehr did not specify which countries were sent the ultimatum, but Spain, Italy and Greece are among Europe’s biggest buyers of Iranian oil.

Iran’s targeting of Britain and France appeared to be a political decision to punish the two countries for supporting tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

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CHICAGO — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.

It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.

An 8-year-old secondgrader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18

months, “I a boy” and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.

Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment, said Dr. Norman Spack, author of one of three reports published today and director of one of the nation’s first gender identity medical clinics, at Children’s Hospital Boston.

“If you open the doors, these are the kids who come. They’re out there.

They’re in your practices,” Spack said in an interview.

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A DANCER PERFORMS at left during the parade of Gavioes da Fiel samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. Sao Paulo Carnival celebrations feature parades of samba schools. Gavioes da Fiel samba school made a tribute to former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. ABOVE, Carnival dancers perform on a float during a parade by the Perola Negra samba school Sunday. AT TOP, a drummer performs during a parade by the Perola Negra samba school early Sunday.

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Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children.

But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.

Spack Some are labeled with “gender identity disorder,” a psychiatric diagnosis. But Spack is among doctors who think that’s a misnomer. Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex.

Spack said by some estimates, 1 in 10,000 children

Yosemite waterfall turns to ‘lava’ during period of time in February THE FIREFALL FROM GLACIER POINT is shown in Yosemite National Park in this undated photo provided by the Yosemite National Park Service during a window of time when nature photographers capture the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon.

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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF. — A window of time just opened in Yosemite National Park when nature photographers wait, as if for an eclipse, until the moment when the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon.

This marvel of celestial configuration happens in a flash at sunset in midFebruary — if the winter weather cooperates. On those days the setting sun illuminates one of the park’s lesser-known waterfalls so precisely that it resembles molten lava as it flows over the sheer granite face of the imposing El Capitan.

Every year growing numbers of photographers converge on the park, their necks craned toward the ephemeral Horsetail Fall, hoping the sky will be clear so they can duplicate the spectacle first recorded in color in 1973 by the late renowned outdoors photographer Galen Rowell.

“Horsetail is so uniquely situated that I don’t know of any other waterfall on earth that gets that kind of light,” said Michael Frye, who wrote the book “The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite.”

“How many are perched on a high open cliff? Most

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are in an alcove or canyon and won’t get the sun setting behind it. Yosemite’s special geography makes this fall distinctive,” he said.

Four decades ago, photographers had only to point and shoot to capture another famous Yosemite firefall — a man-made cascade of embers pushed from a bonfire on summer nights from Glacier Point.

But photographing Horsetail is a lesson in astronomy, physics and geometry as hopefuls consider the azimuth degrees and minutes of the earth’s orbit relative to the sun to determine the optimal day to experience it. They are

BRIEFLY 1st phase of ship’s fuel removal done ROME — The first phase of fuel removal from the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia has been completed off Italy’s coast.

Italy’s civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation, said all fuel had been removed by Sunday evening from the tanks in the front part of the ship. Those tanks held roughly two-thirds of the fuel.

The Concordia had around 500,000 gallons of fuel when it struck a reef near the Tuscan island of Giglio Jan. 13 and capsized.

Fuel removal from less accessible tanks in the rear of the ship will follow, but choppy seas predicted for today could delay the start.

Divers searching the wreck hope to find bodies of the 15 people missing.

Seventeen bodies were found over the last few weeks.

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looking for the lowest angle of light that will paint Horsetail the colors of an iridescent sunset as rays reflect off granite behind the water. It materializes in varying degrees of intensity for the same two weeks every year.

“If you hit it at just the right time, it turns this amazing color of gold or red-orange,” said Frye, a photo instructor with the Ansel Adams Gallery in the park.

Adams photographed the fall, but his iconic black and white images do not capture its fiery quality, and it’s unclear whether he ever noted it.

have the condition.

Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents’ motives need to be closely examined, said Dr. Margaret Moon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bioethics committee. She was not involved in any of the reports.

Some kids may get a psychiatric diagnosis when they are just hugely uncomfortable with narrowly defined gender roles; or some may be gay and are coerced into treatment by parents more comfortable with a sex change than having a homosexual child, said

Moon, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

It’s harmful “to have an irreversible treatment too early,” Moon said.

Doctors who provide the treatment say withholding it would be more harmful.

These children sometimes resort to self-mutilation to try to change their anatomy; the other two journal reports note that some face verbal and physical abuse and are prone to stress, depression and suicide attempts.

Spack said those problems typically disappear in kids who’ve had treatment and are allowed to live as the opposite sex.

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Government, opposition agree on new president in a dictatorship ... is now called BERLIN — Germany’s to become government and the two the head major opposition parties of state,” said Sunday they would Gauck said. jointly nominate for- Gauck “This is of mer East German human course a rights activist Joachim very special day in my Gauck to be the country’s life.” next president.

Merkel, who as Gauck The 72-year-old Gauck grew up in then-commuis a former Lutheran priest nist East Germany or the who opposed East Germa- GDR, said their life stories ny’s then-communist re- strongly connect them. gime and became head of “We have both spent a a federal agency dealing part of our life in the GDR with the painful past of and our dream of freedom the Communists’ ubiqui- has become true in 1989.” tous domestic intelligence The chancellor stressed service after Germany’s that clergymen such as reunification in 1990.

Gauck were at the foreChancellor Angela front of the protests that Merkel said at a hastily eventually brought down called news conference the Communist regime. that her center-right coChristian Wulff, 52, quit alition government, and as president Friday after the center-left opposition prosecutors asked parliarallied behind Gauck, who ment to strip him of his was initially proposed immunity from prosecuby the opposition Social tion over accusations of Democrats and Greens. improper ties to businessHe is not a member of any men. The move followed political party. two months of allegations “What moves me the he received favors such as most, is that a man who a favorable loan and hotel was still born during the stays from friends when gloomy, dark war, who he was state governor of grew up and lived 50 years Lower Saxony.

By Juergen Baetz

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MOSCOW — Hundreds of cars circled central Moscow during an opposition demonstration on Sunday to demand that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allow free elections in Russia.

Putin As they traveled along the wide Garden Ring, which makes a nearly 10-mile loop around the Kremlin, the cars flew the white ribbons and balloons that have become a symbol of the peaceful anti-Putin protest movement. One family held up their little white dog in an open, passenger’s side window.

Sunday’s demonstration took place two weeks before the presidential election, which Putin is expected to win. Although none of his four challengers poses a serious threat, Putin does need to get a majority of the vote to avoid a runoff.

Official: 3 killed after Wash. avalanche SEATTLE — Authorities say an avalanche near a Washington state ski resort swept four skiers 1,500 feet down a mountain, killing three of them.

King County Sheriff’s Sgt. Katie Larson says the three men killed Sunday were all expert skiers. The slide happened at Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains, about 80 miles northeast of Seattle.

Larson says the men were among three groups of people skiing out-ofbounds at the Stevens Pass ski area. The other skiers managed to dig the three men out and performed CPR, to no avail.

All of skiers were well-equipped and experienced. The fourth person who was swept down the mountain, a woman, wasn’t seriously injured.

Larson says the woman had an avalanche safety device, but she had no further details.

‘Colbert Report’ to return today NEW YORK — A representative for Stephen Colbert says “The Colbert Report” will return today after a sudden break due to the ailing health of the star’s Colbert mother.

The Comedy Central show last week substituted repeats for scheduled shows on Wednesday and Thursday. At the time, the network said only that the cancellations were because of “unforeseen circumstances.”

Colbert is expected to address his absence today.

His 91-year-old mother, Lorna Colbert, is ill.

Earlier on Twitter, Colbert thanked those who had offered “thoughts and prayers.”

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Sidewalk stand The city’s sidewalk ordinance is a weak tool to combat panhandling in downtown Lawrence.

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awrence City Hall leaders are heading off to court to try to prove the constitutionality of a city ordinance that regulates the manner in which people can walk, lie, stand or sit on a public sidewalk.

It is a lawsuit the city may win, but city leaders should recognize it will not produce a victory in their efforts to control panhandling in downtown Lawrence.

City commissioners approved this sidewalk ordinance, which makes it illegal to obstruct traffic on a sidewalk, in 2005. It was approved largely as a way to give the city more leverage over panhandlers who had created significant concerns among downtown merchants and visitors.

Last week, a municipal court judge ruled the ordinance unconstitutional after it was challenged by Robert Gilmore, who goes by the name Simon. He isn’t really a panhandler, but he frequently sits on city sidewalks with socks on his hands. His family has said he suffers from mental illness.

The city is entitled to appeal the ruling to Douglas County District Court, and city attorneys have said they’ll do that. If the city believes the constitution is on its side, there is no harm in appealing the ruling.

In the grand scheme of things, however, this sidewalk ordinance isn’t much of a weapon in the panhandling battle.

It may occasionally come in handy, but it would be naive to think it will have much impact on the city’s ability to reduce panhandling. City leaders have said as much over the years.

There seems to be two major actions the city can take to make panhandling less of an issue in downtown. One is to increase police foot patrols in the area. Many panhandlers simply don’t like the police and likely don’t want to share space with them.

A greater police presence will make it more likely the police can respond in a timely manner when a panhandler begins acting aggressively or being otherwise inappropriate. A greater police presence will require more city money, but maintaining our downtown is important.

The second action is more complicated but ultimately may be more effective. The city must work to educate residents that every time they give to a panhandler, they are encouraging more panhandling. The city is in a position to create and manage an education campaign about the negative consequences of supporting panhandlers.

Such an effort may require some signs, some advertising and other forms of public outreach. If panhandling is no longer profitable, it slowly will fade away.

Ultimately, victory in the panhandling battle will come when kindhearted visitors to downtown Lawrence understand that a quarter here or a dollar there doesn’t do much to help an individual in need. There are many social service agencies, churches or other organizations that can put that money to much better use in helping the poor, homeless and mentally ill.

The city should spend twice as much time spreading that message as it does trying to create and defend little-used laws.

DES MOINES, IOWA — Iowa seems like scorched earth today, and not only because there has been an unusual drought of snow this winter.

The caucuses are over; the candidates are gone. But a sense of anxiety, even embarrassment, lingers.

Part of the extensive unease here comes from the bungled election count. Iowans and people across the country went to bed that Tuesday night last month thinking that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts had prevailed, winning a vital political contest that had eluded him four years earlier. Then it emerged that the actual winner was former Sen. Rick Santorum

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of Pennsylvania, whose great strength so far has been in states contiguous to this one.

Part of the anxiety comes from the shrillness of the campaign rhetoric, which was discordant in this state of unusually high literacy and unusually good manners. The combative language that began here has continued, maybe even grown more coarse, as the contest has moved east, then south and then west. Party leaders across the nation worry that the sticks and stones of winter could end up hurting the Republicans in autumn.

GOP debate out of control And part of it is the sense of helplessness some Republicans feel as the debate veers out of control. The party seems to lack ballast, if not balance; one of the principal challengers seems more set on personal revenge and personal redemption than to have the party prevail in November; and the front-runner’s campaign seems rooted more in its sense of political inevitability than in its ideological irresistibility. Indeed, 70 percent of those who voted for Romney in the Nevada caucuses said their top priority was his electability.

And so, if the country — with a president with vulnerable poll ratings and an

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The political parade Beyond providing early political tests in unusually homogeneous settings, Iowa and New Hampshire share many qualities. They both are jealous of their positions at the front of the political parade and exceedingly vigilant about preserving their prerogatives.

Iowans, both Republicans and Democrats, are worried that the fumbled January vote count, the lengthy recount, tardy announcement of the

new results and the tawdry nature of the campaign could endanger the pre-eminent role the caucuses have played for more than a third of a century.

Any re-evaluation of the place of Iowa inevitably would raise the question of the pre-eminence of New Hampshire. Nobody is ready to touch that issue right now — but almost everybody, including candidates past and present, has been critical of the incivility of the Republican race thus far.

“This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time in our nation’s history. This is the most important election of our lifetime,” former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah said in his endorsement of Romney just before the South Carolina primary.

“The current toxic forum of our political discourse does not help our cause.”

While a candidate, however, Huntsman also used strong negative characterizations of his opponents.

Nationally, Republicans have been unusually forthright about the deficiencies of their nominating process, shining a light on the great vulnerability of the American political system: how we choose the finalists in presidential elections.

The Democrats bow to no party in their ability to tinker with, and then comprehensively overhaul their nomination process, almost always making it more inscrutable, more unresponsive to the times and more unlikely to produce a plausible president at the end.

Of course, in other political years, the primaries were fewer and later. In 1960, the Dem-

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“Apparently the confusion that occurred with the caucus count happens all the time and it doesn’t matter because the caucus results aren’t close,” says Barbara Trish, a Grinnell College political scientist. “But this year it was close, and it mattered. We know that this, after all, is a party event, not an election, and there aren’t the kind of formalized proceedings you see when a state runs a primary, but it still was embarrassing. At the same time, some of the campaigning turned people off. Activists weren’t impressed with the field and were alienated by the fighting and the language.”

Sociologists might describe The Winter’s Tale here in Iowa and the GOP conundrum across the country as anomie — a social instability or personal unrest growing out of a breakdown of standards or the absence of purpose. It is particularly pervasive here, where Matt Strawn, the Republican Party leader, has stepped down amid criticism, particularly strong among conservatives, that the party was reluctant, and then late, to announce Santorum’s triumph.

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ocratic calendar didn’t start until March 8 and included primaries in only 15 states and the District of Columbia. As late as 1976, the Republicans held fewer than 30 primaries, beginning in New Hampshire on Feb 24. The nomination processes used in 1960, when Sen. John F. Kennedy and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey engaged in a spirited Democratic fight, and in 1976, when President Gerald R. Ford and Gov. Ronald Reagan battled for the Republican nomination, didn’t choke off what we now know were important debates about the parties and their futures.

Back rooms have appeal Today’s parties shy away from the smoked-filled rooms — like the one at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where GOP leaders selected Warren G. Harding as their nominee — but party leaders privately pine for the days when a few professionals could bring order to the chaos of a modern nomination process.

You can hear some Republicans yearning for those days, though perhaps not for Harding, at a time when their party members are marching through their political calendar with the nagging notion that their most gifted field generals are on the sidelines — in Indianapolis, Trenton and perhaps even in the antechambers of the Senate in Washington.

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NATIONAL FORECAST Seattle 48/41

SUN & MOON Today 7:07 a.m.

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LAKE LEVELS

Clinton Perry Pomona

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San Francisco 56/48

Los Angeles 66/50

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Billings 40/26

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Detroit 38/29

Chicago 46/32

New York 46/34 Washington 48/34

Kansas City 52/34

Atlanta 56/40

El Paso 60/39

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Temperature bands are highs for today.

Houston 67/53 Miami 78/64

Fronts Cold

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Denver 39/21

Minneapolis 40/28

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: High pressure building into the East will support sunshine and dry conditions today. A storm developing in the Plains will produce some snow and strong winds. The Northwest will remain rather unsettled.

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WEATHER HISTORY Heavy snow hit the Midwest Feb. 20, 1898. Milwaukee had drifts as high as 15 feet.

21 TUESDAY

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

Louie and Clark — Tiny Tots Adventures, 10-10:45 a.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H. Intro to email, 10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Fat Tuesday parade, meet at noon at Aimee’s Coffeehouse, 1025 Mass., and parade to the Free State Brewery, 636 Mass.

Proposal Budgeting Basics Webinar, 1-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Dole Institute Study Group: “Presidential Play-By-Play” with Dole Fellow Tom King, 4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6-10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Be Prepared: Establishing an Emergency Fund, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Conservation ease-

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Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.

Harriet Lerner: Author Talk and Discussion, 7 p.m., The Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Panel, 7 p.m., Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Free salsa lessons, 8:30-9:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

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

THE WEEK AHEAD This week we will celebrate Mardi Gras, and a dedicated group of revelers will parade up Mass. Street around noon on Fat Tuesday.

Other highlights this week include the opening of “Becky’s New Car” at Theatre Lawrence on Friday, and the Pilot Club’s semiannual Antique Show and Sale on Friday and Saturday. This week also holds the Final Friday of February.

On the weekend, the Kansas Music Hall of Fame induction begins on Saturday, and Sunday is the 84th annual Academy Awards, with an Oscar watch party at the Granada Theater.

23 THURSDAY

ment workshop, 7-8:30 p.m., Baldwin Public Library, 800 Seventh St. “A Musical Evening with Randy Klein & Friends,” 7:30 p.m., Hall Center for the Humanities, 900 Sunnyside Ave. Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

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

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

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

22 WEDNESDAY

University-Community Forum, “Mexico Sin Sentido,” noon, ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers.

Dole Institute Study Group: “Put Your Money Where Your Vote Is” with Dole Fellows Elizabeth Conatser and Lisa Spies, 4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Public Service & Contemporary Politics with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II, 6:30 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Open Blues Jam hosted by Little Anthony & Friends, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Cutter’s Smokehouse, 218 E. 20th St., Eudora.

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

Into to email, 10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Blood drive, 2-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth.

Baker University Community Choir Rehearsal, 6-7:50 p.m., McKibben Recital Hall, 408 Eighth St., Baldwin City.

Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Lawrence Arts & Crafts group, 7-9 p.m., Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St. Jin Xing Dance Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Footprints Silent Film Series: F.W. Murnau’s “Sunrise,” with accompaniment by Monte Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

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A clear, calm night with a fresh snowcover.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Art in Cities: Max Grinnell, 1 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Lecompton City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Lecompton City Hall, 327 Elmore St. Baldwin City Council meeting, 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 803 S. Eighth St. “Monkey Magic,” Story Theater by Aurand Harris, directed by Jennifer Glenn, 7:30 p.m., Bishop Seabury Academy, 4120 Clinton Parkway.

Faculty Recital Series: Wayne Hawkins, piano, 7:30 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

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

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FROM LEFT, TED SHIELDS, DEREK BRUNK AND SEBASTON STEEB, of Boy Scout Troop No. 63 of Wellsville, have earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Ted, who has 39 merit badges, completed a DVD movie drive to benefit patients in the Medical Surgical Unit at Olathe Medical Center. Derek, who has 35 merit badges, collected supplies and money to benefit the Prairie Paws Animal Shelter in Ottawa. Sebaston, who has 44 merit badges, designed, built and installed birdhouses to benefit science students of the Wellsville school district.

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Ianello relishes return to roots

KANSAS MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sizing up swats

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

In coming to coach football at Kansas University, Rob Ianello is returning to what he’s used to and doing it with a different eye.

From 1987 through 2009, Ianello, 46, served as an assistant coach at five schools, including Notre Dame from 2005-09, when he worked under current KU coach Charlie Weis in South Bend, Ind. During his 20-plus years as an assistant, Ianello was an assistant recruiting coordinator at Alabama, a recruiting coordinator and tightends coach at Wisconsin and a wide-receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Arizona and Notre Dame.

He has inherited similar roles at KU, serving as Weis’ recruiting coordinator and wide-receivers coach, but he will approach them with a new mind-set — the return to his roots comes on the heels of a two-year run as the head coach at AkNick Krug/Journal-World Photos ron.

FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY CENTER COLE ALDRICH (45) AND CURRENT KU CENTER JEFF WITHEY (5) are both known for their shot“I think the blocking talents, but fifth-year Jayhawk Conner Teahan says one of his teammates has the upper hand. experiences I had as a head coach allow me to understand Ianello the chair the coach sits in and the deciJeff Withey’s recent emersions he has to make every gence has led to inevitable day — better than I ever uncomparisons to former KanCole Aldrich Jeff Withey derstood it before,” Ianello sas University center Cole 2009-2010 2011-2012 said.

Aldrich.

125 total blocks 92 (so far) Asked if assistant coaches Without even being asked 3.5 blocks per game 3.4 like him spend much of their to do so, Jayhawks sixth man 13.0 block%* 15.1 career thinking they underConner Teahan, in his fifth stand what goes into being a year in the program, volunhead coach, Ianello was hon253 career blocks 117 teered insight in the area of tkeegan@ljworld.com est. both centers’ specialty. * Block percentage is the percentage of an opponent’s two-point field-goal at“You do,” he said. “But as “He’s the best shot-blocker tempts that a player blocks while he is in the game. an assistant coach, you are I’ve seen since I’ve been at Withey comes from a big Source: basketball-reference.com inches from that chair but Kansas, I have to say that,” volleyball family. His older still miles away.”

Teahan said of Withey. “He sister, Michelle, played the Ianello was fired at Akron just has a great feel. ... Ususport at Oral Roberts Uniafter going 2-22 in two seaally, when you go up against a versity, and Jeff played it “That’s something I’ve performance for a longer sons, including a 1-15 mark guy with length, you want to growing up. When it came learned,” Withey said. “You stretch to draw comparisons in conference play. Despite go up into their body and try time to choose a sport, don’t want to hit the ball far to Aldrich, but he does have a the rough couple of years — to draw a foul or knock them basketball won out, but the away because then you don’t higher ceiling as a center and Ianello said he believed he away. He does a good job of volleyball instincts never get it. If you tip it to yourself, runs the floor better. was making progress, it just absorbing the hit and still left him. it counts as a rebound, too.

The numbers already was not showing up in wins blocking shots.”

Volleyball players trace the It’s something I’ve worked on back Teahan’s contention — Ianello emerged from the Better than Aldrich, with ball with their eyes and hands for many years. It’s just some- that Withey’s a better shotlow-profile school in Ohio whom Teahan teamed for in order to time their jumps thing I get to call mine.” blocker. Withey has blocked more prepared than ever three seasons? properly.

For such an aggressive 5.44 shots per 40 minutes for to battle with the big boys “I would say so,” Teahan “It’s all about timing,” shot-blocker, Withey does his career and 5.63 per 40 this again. But that feeling did said. “I really would. Now, Withey said of volleyball a solid job of avoiding foul season. Aldrich blocked 4.34 not surface immediately. that doesn’t take anything before a recent practice. trouble. per 40 for his career, 5.19 as a “There was a part of me away from Cole because Cole “Whenever I see the ball in “I’m just trying to be smart junior. that thought I wasn’t gonna was a great defensive center. somebody’s hands, it’s kind of going after the ball after it’s In 14 conference games, coach next year,” he said. “I He blocked shots, but Jeff, I in slow motion to me.” in the air instead of trying to Withey has 57 blocks, five was gonna take a year off.” guess he just has a knack for Withey’s hand-eye coordi- attack the guy when he’s right more than then next two Enter Weis, an old friend it. I don’t know if it’s because nation is so sharp he blocks in the middle of the shot,” he Big 12 players combined and former colleague who he played volleyball or what, shots with precision, control- said.

(Oklahoma State’s Michael reached out at just the right but he just has a knack for ling the velocity of them in Withey will have to mainCobbins and Baylor’s Quincy time. Less than two weeks blocking shots.” order to catch his own blocks. tain his recent level of overall Acy). after being fired by Akron, Ianello received a call from Weis about the opportunity at Kansas. The two talked.

Ianello offered his thoughts and functioned as a sounding board for Weis as he kicked around the idea of taking over at Kansas. Right away, Ianello noticed the similariBy Gary Bedore four assists and four turnThey played really ties to his situation at Akron. gbedore@ljworld.com overs in 27 minutes against well, which gave some “I went into a very tough the outmanned Raiders. “I’m situation from a discipline Former Kansas Univer- guys an opportunity to really excited the way they and accountability and acasity basketball All-American are playing.” demic standpoint,” Ianello Dave Robisch, who attended play ... It was good for The former NBA/ABA said of taking over at Akron. practice on Friday and the some of those guys to power forward had consid“And it took me quite a bit of Jayhawks’ 83-50 home rout get some confidence.” ered the possibility KU (22time to get that under control of Texas Tech on Saturday, 5, 12-2) might overlook Tech before I could address the (8-18, 1-13). definitely likes what he’s — Former Kansas University basketroster and all those things.”

“I was concerned actually seen out of the 2011-12 squad.

With academics, accountcoming in that they might “I think they are playing ball All-American Dave Robisch ability and discipline serving come out flat, but they didn’t really well. Of course, Thomas the primary obstacles facas is playing great,” Robisch, after scoring 61 points and come out flat,” Robisch said ing Weis’ rebuilding project a KU standout from 1969 to grabbing 36 rebounds in the of the Jayhawks, who hit at Kansas, Ianello jumped off 1971, said of junior forward past three games, went for their first six shots and raced the page as the perfect fit.

Thomas Robinson, who nine points and eight boards to a 44-22 halftime lead.

Similarly, a chance to rejoin scored 16 points, grabbed with four blocks and a batch “They played really well, Weis and take another stab eight rebounds and dished of altered shots in 28 min- which gave some guys an at what many considered to opportunity to play. Young a career-high five assists utes.

Journal-World File Photo against four turnovers in just be a failed attempt at Notre “And Tyshawn is playing (Kevin, 10 points, 17 minutes) Dame excited Ianello.

FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY STANDOUT 24 minutes. great,” Robisch gushed of came in and played well.

“Coming back to work on DAVE ROBISCH, who averaged 26.5 “It’s good to see the im- senior point guard Tyshawn Teahan (Conner, 11 points) a staff where I had familiarity points per game in 1969-1970, says he’s provement of Withey in the Taylor, who scored in single hit some (three) threes. It encouraged by the improvement of this middle,” he added of junior digits for the first time in 12 Please see IANELLO, page 3B year’s KU squad.

Please see BASKETBALL, page 3B center Jeff Withey, who, games, going for nine points,

Teammate compares block kings Aldrich, Withey TALE OF THE TAPE

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Edwards claims pole for Daytona 500 DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. (AP) — Carl Edwards fell bitterly short in last season’s bid to win the NASCAR championship.

He’s starting 2012 out front.

Edwards, who lost the championship last season on a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart, won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, beating teammate Greg Biffle for the top starting spot during a windy Sunday

qualifying session at Daytona International Speedway.

Edwards turned a lap at 194.738 mph — the fastest polewinning speed since Jeff Gordon’s lap of 195.067 mph in 1999.

Biffle was second at 194.087 to give Ford and Roush Fenway Racing a sweep of the front row. “It’s so neat to come down here and to be so fast and to really have fun qualifying here,�

Edwards said. “These are the best race cars we’ve ever had at Daytona. Coming down here I didn’t even consider the pole, so this is huge.�

Biffle was not as thrilled. “I’m a little disappointed,�

Biffle said. “I hate the wind. I guess if you’re out sailing, it’s good. It was singing down the back, but coming down the front I just got a big gust of wind com-

ing off of (turn) four ... I knew I didn’t have it.�

Edwards and Biffle were the only two drivers to lock down their starting positions in Daytona’s unique qualifying format.

The rest of the starting order for Sunday’s race is set through Thursday’s twin 150-mile qualifying races.

But only four starting spots are up for grabs.

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Frozen by disease, Ali still Greatest

Haas holes 45-foot putt in playoff, wins Northern

By Tim Dahlberg Associated Press Sports Columnist

LAS VEGAS — They gathered in the bowels of the arena where most of the great fights of the last two decades have taken place, old men now all sharing one shining moment from years gone by. They had come to honor The Greatest, though whether Muhammad Ali remembered who they were or knew what it was all about was a matter of speculation that on this night would go unanswered.

Some, like Chuck Wepner, couldn’t stop talking about the night they won their own personal lottery — a spot across the ring from Ali. Nothing new there, since the Bayonne Bleeder has been talking about it to anyone else who will listen almost every day since.

Others, like Leon Spinks, weren’t able to talk much at all. “Leon Spinks is here and he needs help,� Wepner said. “There are a lot of fighters who need help.�

This was a night supposed to bring that help, both to fighters like Spinks and those fighting today. Millions would be raised in Ali’s name for the Cleveland Clinic’s new Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in downtown Las Vegas, where researchers are already busy trying to unlock the puzzles of damage to the human brain.

A seat for dinner and the show at the MGM Grand hotel started at $1,500. UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta spent $1.1 million in an auction for the gloves Ali used against Floyd Patterson in 1965 in the first heavyweight title fight in a city that would become synonymous with boxing. President Barack Obama wished Ali well in a video greeting, and Stevie Wonder was among those on hand to sing birthday wishes to the former heavyweight champion, who turned 70 last month.

At the center of it all was an elderly man, mute and his face seemingly frozen as he sat at a table with his wife, Lonnie, and several other family members.

Whether boxing caused Ali’s Parkinson’s is the subject of debate, but it was clear on this night the disease he has fought for three decades has taken a terrible toll on him.

He was once a magnificent man with a sculptured body and a mouth that wouldn’t stay shut. He’s still magnificent in the way that his very presence envelopes and engulfs an arena like it did Saturday night, hushing high-rollers and the elite of this gambling town in a way no other man could — and all without saying a word.

They used to trot Joe Louis out like this in his final years, too, a heavyweight great and an American hero reduced to drooling in his wheelchair at ringside. With Ali, though, it seems different in a way if only because you get the feeling that the man who was the ultimate people person still enjoys being around people. “I’m not sad about him, just proud to know him,� George Foreman said. “When people ask me if he’s the greatest boxer ever, it’s an insult. He was the greatest everything, just a great man.�

LOS ANGELES — Bill Haas knows anything is possible from even the most dire positions.

Remember, this is the guy only five months ago saved par with his ball partially submerged in a lake and won the FedEx Cup. Not even Haas could have imagined such a stunning conclusion Sunday at Riviera.

In thick rough behind the 10th green, the second hole of a three-man playoff with Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley, Haas smartly played away from the flag with hopes of making par and going on to the next hole.

He wound up holing a 45-foot birdie putt across the green to win the Northern Trust Open. “A part of me was saying, ‘I’ve done this once, let’s do it again,’� Haas said. “Another part of me was saying, ‘Don’t screw this up.’�

Mickelson and Bradley worked their own heroics just to get into the playoff.

Haas, who closed with a 2-under 69, was on the practice range at 7-under 277 as he warmed up for a playoff only he thought might happen. He was trying to convince himself that Mickelson or Bradley — maybe both — would make birdie on the 18th hole, even though it had yielded only six birdies all day.

With tournament executive director Jerry West — “Mr. Clutch� from his days with the Los Angeles Lakers — looking on, Mickelson rammed in a birdie putt from just outside 25 feet, pointing his putter and slamming his fist as the gallery packed into the hill below the stately clubhouse let out a cheer that could be heard down Sunset Boulevard.

Mickelson bumped fists with Bradley and told his protege, “Join me.�

That he did. Bradley’s birdie putt from just outside 12 feet took one last, slow turn at the cup and disappeared, setting off another enormous cheer. No one had to tell Haas what was happening. “You heard the cheers,� he said.

They started the playoff on the 18th, and Bradley had the best look at birdie with a 15-footer from just off the back of the green that touched the right side of the cup.

It was decided on the 312-yard 10th hole, regarded as the best short par 4 in America, certainly among the most interesting holes in all of golf. It can be reached with a drive, but it’s all about position.

Haas went long into thick rough, with enough of the back bunker in his way that he smartly played out to the right and left himself a long birdie putt that at least would assure him par.

Mickelson and Bradley each came up short, a horrible angle. Mickelson’s flop shot landed near the hole and rolled into the back bunker. Bradley was in the bunker, and did well to blast out to 15 feet, just through the green.

Haas ended the suspense with his putt.

Former Kansas University golfer Gary Woodland had his worst round of the tournament Sunday, a 77, and finished at 295. Only five other golfers put up bigger numbers, but he still earned $13,200.

Perry snares Champions title NAPLES, FLA. — Kenny Perry shot a 2-under 70 Sunday for his second Champions Tour title, cruising to a five-shot victory in the ACE Group Classic.

Perry birdied three of his first eight holes, and no one ever came closer than four shots after that. Perry totaled 24 birdies — two short of the tour record for a 54-hole event — and tied Allen Doyle (1999) for the largest margin of victory in the 25-year-old tournament.

Last year’s Champions Tour rookie of the year set the tour’s 36-hole scoring record in relation to par at 18 under following a 62 in Saturday’s second round.

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BILL HAAS CELEBRATES winning the Northern Trust Open on the second playoff hole on Sunday at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.

17-season career in which the center fielder won three Gold Gloves.

The 39-year-old outfielder signed a minorleague contract with Washington in December and was expected to have a good shot to make the roster with the Nationals unsettled at center field.

The 2001 All-Star played for eight franchises, hitting .249 with 278 homers and 968 RBIs. Last year Cameron hit .203 in 78 games for Boston and Florida.

Burnett headed to Pittsburgh NEW YORK — A.J. Burnett’s rocky tenure in pinstripes is over.

The Yankees and Pirates completed a trade Sunday that sends the much-maligned pitcher to Pittsburgh for a pair of minor-leaguers. New York is also giving the Pirates nearly $20 million to cover most of Burnett’s hefty salary in a deal that clears the way for the Yankees to sign Raul Ibanez.

The teams agreed to the trade Friday, but it was subject to Burnett passing a physical, which he did Sunday at Pirates camp as pitchers and catchers held their first workout of spring training in Bradenton, Fla. Commissioner Bud Selig also had to approve the deal because of the money involved.

Burnett goes from a perennial World Series favorite to a club coming off its 19th consecutive losing season, a record for the four major pro sports in North America.

The Yankees get 25-year-old right-hander Diego Moreno and 20-year-old outfielder Exicardo Cayones, both low-level prospects.

Pittsburgh will pay $13 million of the $33 million salary due Burnett for 2012 and 2013, a person familiar with the negotiations said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made at that time.

MEDIA

ESPN fires headline writer

BRISTOL, CONN. — ESPN fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin. The headline Friday on ESPN’s mobile website was used for a story about a New York loss in which Lin had nine turnovers. The headline was an idiom that contains a word that also can be used as a slur against Chinese. “I don’t think it was on purpose or whatever, but (at) the same time they have apologized.

And so from my end I don’t care anymore,� Lin said after leading the Knicks to a 104-97 win over Dallas on Sunday. “Have to learn to forgive, and I don’t even think that was intentional. Or hopefully not.�

Tseng takes LPGA win Lin is the NBA’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. He captivated CHONBURI, THAILAND — Yani Tseng watched fans by leading the Knicks to seven straight wins Ai Miyazato’s approach on the 18th hole of the before Friday’s loss.

LPGA Thailand and knew she had to come up with an equally impressive shot to avoid a possible playoff.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tseng met the challenge with a shot fitting WKU removes ‘interim’ tag her No. 1 ranking, controlling the spin perfectly to set up a tap-in putt.

Western Kentucky is keeping Ray Harper as “It was an incredible shot. I think it’s the shot head coach. of the week,� Tseng said Sunday.

Athletic director Ross Bjork announced the The 23-year-old Taiwanese star successfully move Sunday after Harper was named interim defended her title for her 13th LPGA Tour viccoach following the firing of Ken McDonald. tory, matching Miyazato with birdies on the final Harper will be introduced to fans at a pep rally two holes to hold off her Japanese friend by a tonight at E.A. Diddle Arena. stroke. “We have total confidence in his ability to return our program to prominence,� Bjork said in a stateBASEBALL ment. “We put him in a very challenging situation by naming him our interim coach on January 6, but Nats’ Cameron retiring he has performed admirably in these unique cirVIERA, FLA. — Mike Cameron has told cumstances while bringing much-needed energy The Washington Nationals he is retiring after a and excitement to our program.�

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K.C. pitchers hope for rebound year SURPRISE, ARIZ. (AP) — Dayton Moore knew he’d need to improve the Kansas City pitching staff if the Royals were to have any chance of fulfilling some lofty expectations this season.

The general manager’s first significant move came in November, when he dealt outfielder Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for Jonathan Sanchez, gambling a lefthander oozing with talent had put a season marred by nagging injuries behind him.

Moore then went out an acquired veteran reliever Jonathan Broxton to bridge the gap to closer Joakim Soria, who will be trying to rebound from his own roller-coaster of a year.

Perhaps the most significant move Kansas City made, though, had nothing to do with players.

The Royals decided to hire Dave Eiland to replace pitching coach Bob McClure, and it will be the longtime Yankees coach’s responsibility to begin revamping the Kansas City staff when pitchers and catchers report to the team’s spring training complex today in Surprise, Ariz.

“He is an extremely talented pitching coach and a proven winner,” Moore said upon Eiland’s hiring.

“Our entire baseball operations staff has strong convictions about Dave’s ability to make a positive difference with our pitching staff.”

The only regular starter last season with a winning

Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

KANSAS CITY ROYALS PITCHER BRUCE CHEN THROWS during an unofficial baseball spring training workout Sunday in Surprise, Ariz. record was Bruce Chen, who went 12-8, and the rotation went a combined 45-65 with a 4.82 ERA. The unsightly numbers included this seemingly implausible stat: Royals starters logged a mere 621 strikeouts in 943 innings.

So it’s no secret to Eiland that things will have to improve.

“It has to,” he said this week. “It if doesn’t, it falls into my lap.”

Even though youngsters such as Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas will garner the headlines during training camp, it’s the Royals’ pitchers who could decide whether a team that hasn’t made the postseason since winning

the 1985 World Series can finally compete for an AL Central crown.

Chen is back after signing a free-agent deal in the offseason. He’s basically assured a job in the rotation along with Sanchez and former top draft pick Luke Hochevar, who finally showed signs of life after plodding through a rough start to his big league career.

Hochevar was the opening day starter last season, and will likely get the assignment again when Kansas City opens April 6 against Albert Pujols and the Los Angeles Angels.

Hochevar went 11-11 last season, the closest he’s had to a winning season.

“Now is the time for him to take it to the next level,” Eiland said. “I think he’s prepared to do that mentally and physically.”

The 34-year-old Chen has led the staff in victories the past two seasons, which was enough to land him a $9 million, two-year deal in free agency. But he’s far from a sure thing — Chen went nearly four years without winning a big league game, and he’ll turn 35 in June.

“Bruce was Bruce, and I mean that in a good way,” Eiland said after watching him throw during an optional mound session this week. “He’s a veteran, a pro. He has a plan.”

Sanchez could become

the linchpin of Eiland’s entire rebuilding project.

He flashed talent when he threw a no hitter for San Francisco in 2009, but he was limited to 19 starts and four wins because of injuries last season.

He’s also a walk machine whose average of better than a strikeout per inning is tempered by the fact that he puts so many on base.

“It’s exciting, you know?” Sanchez said of the change in scenery.

“It’s exciting to make the playoffs, and that’s what we want, to be a young team that makes the playoffs.”

The biggest question in camp will be who lands

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They’ve really started to play well.

Coach (Bill Self) does a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B good job getting them was good for some of to improve as the seathose guys to get some son goes on.”

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FORMER AKRON HEAD COACH ROB IANELLO LEADS center Adam Bice (65) and guard Zac Kasparek (72) onto the field in this file photo from Nov. 3, 2011, in Oxford, Ohio.

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with the head coach and I knew him and trusted him, it was too good to pass up,” Ianello said.

With the spark reignited and the perfect opportunity to get back to coaching at his feet, Ianello started his research. He always had heard great things about living in Lawrence and knew a handful of people who had worked at Kansas throughout the years. One of them, former KU offensive coordinator Ed Warinner, just happened to be a good friend.

“I had a chance to talk to Eddie over the years, and I knew what they’d done out here,” Ianello said. “When I got involved with this opportunity, I called him and said, ‘Tell me about this, tell me about that.’”

Although Warinner’s role in Lawrence was different than the one Ianello will have, Ianello seems to be following in Warinner’s footsteps in at least one major way — both came to Kansas as part of a coaching staff that faced a giant rebuilding process.

Under former KU boss Mark Mangino, Warinner helped lead the Jayhawks to an Orange Bowl championship and some of the

most prolific offensive seasons in school history.

Whether the same fate awaits Ianello remains to be seen, but the bounce has already returned to the longtime assistant coach’s step.

“I love coaching,” Ianello said. “I love the interaction with the players. That’s the thing, as the head coach, that you don’t get as much. You don’t get into your (meeting) room with your players, and you don’t get the opportunity to kind of bond with them. So I’m really looking forward to getting back to that. That was always fun for me, and it’s gonna be fun for me again.”

BRIEFLY Jayhawk tennis moves to 5-0 Kansas University’s tennis team remained undefeated in dual competition on Sunday as KU took down Arkansas-Little Rock, 6-1, at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.

Kansas’ 5-0 record is its best start to a season since 1992.

The Jayhawks swept their doubles matches, including a 8-0 victory by Dylan Windom and Maria Belen Ludueña.

The home team’s only loss of the day came in

singles competition. UALR’s Viktoriya Plyuta defeated KU’s Monica Pezzotti, 6-2, 6-4.

The Jayhawks will compete next against Drake at 5 p.m. Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

KU softball wins Charlotte Classic

The Jayhawks (7-2) won all four of their games at the tournament and will play Fairfield at 9 a.m. Friday in Wilmington, N.C.

KU baseball game washed out

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Kansas baseball’s game against Lipscomb on SunCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kanday was canceled because sas University’s softball team of inclement weather.

The game has not been was declared the champion of the Charlotte Classic Sun- rescheduled. day after tournament officials The Jayhawks (3-0) will canceled the championship play Mississippi Valley State at 2:30 p.m. Friday in game in advance of rain and Starkville, Miss. thunderstorms.

confidence.”

Robisch, 62, who lives in Springfield, Ill., is thrilled the Jayhawks are tied for first place in the league (with 12-2 Missouri) with four games to play.

“Coming in, with the players they lost, everybody was a little uncertain of what would happen,” Robisch said. “They’ve really started to play well.

Coach (Bill Self) does a good job getting them to improve as the season goes on. Withey is a big key. He has come on strong. Last year he didn’t get to play much. Thomas didn’t get to play much.

Those guys have come on and are playing great.”

— Former Kansas All-American Dave Robisch on the 2011-12 Jayhawks

the final two rotation spots.

Felipe Paulino and Danny Duffy are considered the front-runners, but they’ll have to out-perform Luis Mendoza, Aaron Crow, Mike Montgomery and a host of others.

Paulino was 4-6 with a 4.26 ERA after joining the Royals rotation mid-season, while Duffy went 4-8 with a 5.64 ERA as a rookie. Both have shown flashes of brilliances, but both also had trouble pitching late into games, which in turn taxed the bullpen.

Mendoza was a revelation in the minors, going 12-5 with Triple-A Omaha.

He was 2-0 with a 1.23 ERA in two starts after a September call-up.

Crow was the Royals’ lone All-Star selection as a rookie reliever, and although he seemed to regress in the second half last season, the former first-round pick will get a long look at the rotation.

So will Montgomery, who spent all of last season in the minors.

Eiland said he spent “many, many hours” watching video of Royals pitchers in the offseason.

If he can figure out a way to coax the starters deep into games, it should take some of the load off a talented bullpen that seemed to wear down late in the season, and just maybe give Kansas City the support it needs to challenge for a division title.

“I saw a lot of good, impressive arms,” Eiland said. “It’s about consistency, pitching to win and not pitching to survive.”

(Okla.) Memorial High, who attended Saturday’s game, has received scholarship offers from Memphis, Oklahoma and San Francisco, according to Rivals.com. He also has received interest from KU, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and others.

“I really like the coaching staff, and it seems they get along well with the players,” Woodard told Rivals.com. “Coach Self was real honest with me and my family. He said that he likes me a lot and he likes my game. Coach Self thinks that I can be one of the next point guards that move in and run the team.”

Woodard is currently ranked No. 122 in the Class of 2013. He scored 29 points versus Edmond Santa Fe High in a game Self attended earlier this season.

league play. Kentucky is second at 962.

Here are other Big 12 teams’ marks in conference play: Texas, 822-529 in 106 seasons; Missouri, 760-634 in 106 seasons; Kansas State, 695-633 in 108 seasons; Oklahoma, 695-549 in 105 seasons; Oklahoma State, 675-498 in 103 seasons; Texas A&M, 656-709 in 100 seasons; Texas Tech, 621-494 in 87 seasons; Baylor, 563819 in 106 seasons; Iowa !

State, 549-804 in 105 seaMore on milestone: sons. KU has won a na!

KU’s victory over Texas tion’s best 54 conference Next: KU will meet Tech marked the Jay- titles.

Texas A&M at 8 p.m. hawks’ 1,000th conference !

Wednesday at Reed Arevictory against 396 defeats Woodard’s visit: Jor- na in College Station, spanning 114 seasons. No dan Woodard, a 6-foot, Texas. The Aggies enter other team in the U.S. has 175-pound junior point 13-13 overall and 4-10 in from Edmond the Big 12. reached 1,000 victories in guard

SPORTS

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Today’s games

Atlantic Division W 20 15 16 9 9

Philadelphia Boston New York Toronto New Jersey

L 12 15 16 23 24

Pct .625 .500 .500 .281 .273

GB — 4 4 11 111⁄2

L10 4-6 5-5 8-2 2-8 1-9

Str L-3 L-3 W-1 L-4 L-1

Home Away Conf 13-6 7-6 15-5 11-8 4-7 14-10 9-8 7-8 10-8 4-11 5-12 6-16 3-12 6-12 7-17

L 7 12 12 24 27

Pct .781 .625 .613 .226 .129

GB — 5 51⁄2 171⁄2 201⁄2

L10 9-1 7-3 4-6 3-7 1-9

Str W-6 L-1 L-1 L-2 L-1

Home Away Conf 13-2 12-5 20-4 12-6 8-6 14-8 9-5 10-7 15-6 4-12 3-12 5-17 2-11 2-16 3-21

L 8 12 18 17 22

Pct .758 .613 .419 .414 .333

GB — 5 11 11 14

L10 7-3 4-6 3-7 4-6 7-3

Str L-1 W-2 W-1 W-1 W-3

Home Away Conf 11-2 14-6 17-6 9-4 10-8 14-9 7-7 6-11 9-9 7-8 5-9 7-13 8-10 3-12 8-15

Pct .710 .625 .563 .563 .233

GB — 21⁄2 41⁄2 41⁄2 141⁄2

L10 10-0 6-4 6-4 6-4 3-7

Str W-10 L-1 W-4 W-1 W-3

Home Away Conf 13-1 9-8 16-7 12-5 8-7 15-8 12-5 6-9 12-12 12-4 6-10 12-12 3-14 4-9 3-18

L 7 15 15 15 16

Pct .774 .531 .531 .500 .500

GB — 71⁄2 71⁄2 81⁄2 81⁄2

L10 7-3 4-6 2-8 3-7 6-4

Str W-2 W-1 L-3 L-1 W-3

Home Away Conf 12-1 12-6 19-6 12-5 5-10 12-11 8-7 9-8 8-15 12-5 3-10 10-12 9-10 7-6 11-7

L 10 13 19 17 21

Pct .655 .581 .406 .393 .323

GB — 2 71⁄2 71⁄2 10

L10 6-4 6-4 5-5 5-5 4-6

Str L-1 L-1 W-1 L-3 L-5

Home Away Conf 11-4 8-6 10-8 13-2 5-11 12-6 6-8 7-11 7-13 8-9 3-8 6-12 7-5 3-16 7-13

Southeast Division W 25 20 19 7 4

Miami Orlando Atlanta Washington Charlotte

Central Division W 25 19 13 12 11

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Cleveland Detroit

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W 22 20 18 18 7

San Antonio Dallas Memphis Houston New Orleans

L 9 12 14 14 23

Northwest Division W 24 17 17 15 16

Oklahoma City Portland Denver Utah Minnesota

Pacific Division W 19 18 13 11 10

L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State Sacramento

Atlanta at Chicago, 3 p.m.

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

Boston at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 8 p.m.

Washington at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games

Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Memphis, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 9 p.m.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Oklahoma City Did not play (coach’s decision) Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 6. FGs: 2-5. FTs: 2-2.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Pts: 3. FGs: 0-2. FTs: 3-3.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee (DId not play, wrist injury) Markieff Morris, Phoenix Pts: 10. FGs: 2-11. FTs: 5-6.

Paul Pierce, Boston Pts: 18. FGs: 6-11. FTs: 4-4.

Leaders THROUGH FEB. 18 Scoring Bryant, LAL James, MIA Durant, OKC Love, MIN Westbrook, OKC Aldridge, POR Ellis, GOL D. Williams, NJN Griffin, LAC

FG Percentage G 30 30 30 29 30 30 27 31 29

FG 316 303 293 241 260 275 218 225 254

FT 192 211 173 217 139 123 123 152 106

PTS 867 840 805 747 678 674 593 669 615

AVG 28.9 28.0 26.8 25.8 22.6 22.5 22.0 21.6 21.2

FG 121 114 116 230 203 161 173 303 114 254

Chandler, NYK Splitter, SAN Pekovic, MIN Howard, ORL Gortat, PHX Nash, PHX Bynum, LAL James, MIA Okafor, NOR Griffin, LAC

FGA 172 184 188 416 368 292 316 555 214 477

PCT .703 .620 .617 .553 .552 .551 .547 .546 .533 .532

Rebounds Howard, ORL Love, MIN Bynum, LAL

G OFF 31 108 29 119 26 88

Assists

DEF 366 292 240

TOT AVG 474 15.3 411 14.2 328 12.6

G AST AVG 28 305 10.9 21 200 9.5 32 280 8.8 24 208 8.7

Nash, PHX Rondo, BOS Calderon, TOR Paul, LAC

Team statistics Team Offense Miami Denver Oklahoma City Golden State San Antonio L.A. Clippers Houston Portland Chicago Minnesota Utah New York Philadelphia Milwaukee Dallas Atlanta Indiana Cleveland Phoenix Memphis

G 31 31 30 28 31 29 31 32 33 31 29 31 31 30 31 31 30 28 31 32

Pts 3215 3205 3047 2766 3059 2835 3025 3118 3207 2998 2792 2950 2943 2847 2931 2930 2825 2628 2907 2995

Avg 103.7 103.4 101.6 98.8 98.7 97.8 97.6 97.4 97.2 96.7 96.3 95.2 94.9 94.9 94.5 94.5 94.2 93.9 93.8 93.6

Orlando Sacramento L.A. Lakers New Jersey Washington Boston Toronto Detroit New Orleans Charlotte Team Defense Philadelphia Boston Chicago L.A. Lakers Dallas Orlando Atlanta New Orleans Memphis

31 30 30 32 31 29 32 32 30 30

2901 2793 2793 2962 2837 2603 2842 2835 2619 2607

93.6 93.1 93.1 92.6 91.5 89.8 88.8 88.6 87.3 86.9

G 31 29 33 30 31 31 31 30 32

Pts 2702 2529 2906 2722 2815 2825 2849 2774 2961

Avg 87.2 87.2 88.1 90.7 90.8 91.1 91.9 92.5 92.5

Portland Indiana New York San Antonio Toronto Miami L.A. Clippers Minnesota Oklahoma City Detroit Houston Milwaukee Utah Phoenix Cleveland New Jersey Denver Washington Charlotte Golden State Sacramento

32 30 31 31 32 31 29 31 30 32 31 30 29 31 28 32 31 31 30 28 30

2964 2785 2911 2912 3019 2935 2754 2959 2872 3070 2996 2906 2818 3017 2736 3182 3103 3108 3016 2820 3049

92.6 92.8 93.9 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.0 95.5 95.7 95.9 96.6 96.9 97.2 97.3 97.7 99.4 100.1 100.3 100.5 100.7 101.6

NBA All-Star directors want entertainment, not controversy

By Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, FLA. — Whether it’s the NBA, the NFL or major-league baseball, big-name musical acts are as much a part of professional sporting events as beer vendors and jumbo video screens.

And so are the headaches, ranging from wardrobe malfunctions to rude gestures to pleasing the audience.

That’s why, “if you’re scheduling entertainment for a massive event with a very diverse audience, you’re obviously going to be a little careful about who you choose,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University.

And it was definitely on Charles Rosenzweig’s mind as he pulled together the musical lineup for this weekend’s NBA All-Star Game in Orlando.

“In the back of everyone’s mind are some of these instances,” said Rosenzweig, the NBA’s

senior vice president for entertainment and player marketing, adding that the NBA’s own production team produces the All-Star Weekend musical segments to maintain control.

“We discuss the creative approach with the artists; we discuss the lyrics; we discuss wardrobe - just like we do with any show that we’re doing. We’ve been fortunate that we haven’t had any incidents.”

Finding the right entertainment, especially in an increasingly diverse music industry, isn’t as easy as it once was.

“Booking any act that will get everybody excited is really hard to do,” Thompson said. “If you take 100 people randomly, of different ages and economic backgrounds, you might have a hard time coming up with more than a couple of names of recent musicians that everybody knows. Maybe Lady Gaga or Katy Perry, but it’s a relatively small list.”

The NBA goes out of its way “to be current, to be

hip, to know that we have an audience that skews younger and to work with acts that have big hits at that moment,” Rosenzweig said. His lineup for All-Star weekend includes singer Mary J. Blige, Miami rapper Pitbull and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.

Rosenzweig said he’s more worried about a technical malfunction than a wardrobe one.

The mother of all controversies happened during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, when Justin Timberlake grabbed Janet Jackson’s costume and exposed her breast for about half a second. It “was a massive nuisance to the television industry,” Thompson said. “It’s still an issue for the networks and leagues.”

This year’s Super Bowl halftime show offered a reminder of that, when singer M.I.A. flashed her middle finger to the game’s record-setting 111.3 million TV viewers. Even the show’s headliner, Madonna, criticized the move.

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Knicks 104, Mavericks 97 NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin had 28 points and a career-high 14 assists, Steve Novak made four threepointers in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks ended the Mavericks’ sixgame winning streak Sunday.

J.R. Smith scored 15 points in his Knicks debut and Novak had all of his 14 in the final period as New York won for the eighth time in nine games.

In a game of wild momentum swings, the Knicks reeled off 17 straight points in the first quarter, fell behind by 12 in the third, then pulled it out to beat the Mavericks for only the third time in the last 20 meetings.

DALLAS (97) Marion 6-11 2-2 14, Nowitzki 11-20 8-9 34, Haywood 4-6 1-3 9, Kidd 3-9 0-0 8, Carter 3-9 1-1 9, Terry 5-13 0-0 13, Wright 2-5 1-2 5, Odom 1-6 0-0 2, Jones 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 36-81 13-17 97.

NEW YORK (104) Shumpert 2-9 0-0 5, Stoudemire 4-10 3-4 11, Chandler 5-7 4-4 14, Lin 11-20 3-6 28, Fields 6-12 0-0 13, Jeffries 1-5 2-4 4, Smith 6-16 0-0 15, Novak 5-7 0-0 14.

Totals 40-86 12-18 104.

Dallas 20 25 30 22— 97 New York 32 16 24 32—104 3-Point Goals-Dallas 12-33 (Nowitzki 4-5, Terry 3-10, Carter 2-4, Kidd 2-8, Jones 1-1, Marion 0-1, Odom 0-4), New York 12-29 (Novak 4-5, Lin 3-6, Smith 3-9, Fields 1-3, Shumpert 1-5, Jeffries 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsDallas 48 (Marion, Terry 7), New York 53 (Chandler 10). Assists-Dallas 24 (Terry 6), New York 21 (Lin 14). Total FoulsDallas 20, New York 16. Technicals-New York defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls-Terry. A-19,763 (19,763).

Thunders 123, Nuggets 118, OT OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant scored a careerbest 51 points for the top performance in the NBA this season, Russell Westbrook added 40, and Serge Ibaka had his first career triple-double as Oklahoma City beat Denver in overtime.

Durant hit a threepointer and drove for a dunk to tie the game with 4.4 seconds left in regulation, then used the extra period to chalk up the first 50-point game of the twotime scoring champion’s career.

Ibaka added 14 points, 15 rebounds and 11 blocks to become the 14th player in franchise history with a triple-double.

DENVER (118) Brewer 5-14 0-0 10, Faried 0-1 0-0 0, Mozgov 2-5 2-2 6, Lawson 8-17 0-0 17, Afflalo 10-21 5-6 27, Harrington 3-9 3-4 11, Miller 9-19 2-2 21, Andersen 5-6 1-2 11, Koufos 6-7 1-1 13, Hamilton 1-2 0-1 2.

Totals 49-101 14-18 118.

OKLAHOMA CITY (124) Durant 19-28 8-10 51, Ibaka 6-7 2-4 14, Perkins 0-1 0-0 0, Westbrook 16-29 5-5 40, Cook 1-6 0-0 2, Harden 2-12 5-6 10, Collison 0-2 3-3 3, Mohammed 2-2 0-0 4, Jackson 0-3 0-0 0, Ivey 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 46-94 23-28 124.

Denver 27 31 25 28 7—118 Oklahoma City 25 28 30 28 13—124 3-Point Goals-Denver 6-22 (Harrington 2-5, Afflalo 2-6, Lawson 1-3, Miller 1-5, Brewer 0-3), Oklahoma City 9-28 (Durant 5-6, Westbrook 3-6, Harden 1-7, Jackson 0-1, Ivey 0-3, Cook 0-5).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Denver 58 (Harrington 11), Oklahoma City 51 (Ibaka 15). Assists-Denver 26 (Miller 10), Oklahoma City 20 (Westbrook 9).

Total Fouls-Denver 22, Oklahoma City 19. Technicals-Denver defensive three second. A-18,203 (18,203).

Heat 90, Magic 78 MIAMI — Dwyane Wade scored 27 points, LeBron James had 25 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, and NBA-leading Miami beat Orlando for its sixth consecutive victory.

With former President Bill Clinton sitting courtside next to Heat managing general partner Micky Arison, Udonis Haslem scored 10 for the Heat, who improved to 25-7, a half-game better than Chicago for the best record in the NBA and Eastern Conference.

ORLANDO (78) Turkoglu 0-4 1-2 1, Anderson 3-8 1-2 9, D.Howard 5-10 2-10 12, Nelson 2-11 2-2 7, Redick 6-10 0-0 17, Q.Richardson 4-9 0-0 10, Davis 3-10 6-6 12, Duhon 0-3 1-2 1, Wafer 4-9 0-1 9, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Harper 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-74 13-25 78.

MIAMI (90) James 9-14 6-7 25, Bosh 4-10 0-0 8, Anthony 0-1 2-4 2, Chalmers 2-5 2-2 6, Wade 13-23 1-1 27, Haslem 5-11 0-0 10, Battier 1-3 0-0 3, Cole 2-4 0-0 4, Miller 2-6 0-0 5, Pittman 0-3 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, J.Howard 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-80 11-14 90.

Orlando 19 12 23 24—78 Miami 22 21 27 20—90 3-Point Goals-Orlando 11-29 (Redick 5-7, Q.Richardson 2-5, Anderson 2-5, Wafer 1-2, Nelson 1-4, Turkoglu 0-3, Duhon 0-3), Miami 3-12 (Battier 1-2, James 1-2, Miller 1-3, Wade 0-2, Chalmers 0-3). Rebounds-Orlando 51 (D.Howard 15), Miami 53 (James 11).

Assists-Orlando 15 (Nelson 4), Miami 20 (James 8). Total Fouls-Orlando 10, Miami 18. Technicals-James. A-20,185 (19,600).

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KNICKS’ SENSATION-OF-THE-MOMENT JEREMY LIN (17) TRIES to move past Dallas’ Dominique Jones during the first half. Lin had 28 points and 14 assists in the Knicks’ 104-97 victory Sunday in New York.

T’wolves 92, 76ers 91 MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love scored 12 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, including a pair of free throws with 0.1 seconds left.

PHILADELPHIA (91) Iguodala 5-8 2-4 13, Brand 2-9 4-4 8, Allen 3-6 0-0 6, Holiday 10-20 0-0 20, Meeks 4-10 0-0 9, Turner 2-5 0-0 4, Vucevic 4-8 0-0 8, L.Williams 5-12 2-2 13, Young 5-12 0-0 10. Totals 40-90 8-10 91.

MINNESOTA (92) Johnson 0-4 0-0 0, Love 7-23 6-8 20, Pekovic 4-7 9-10 17, Rubio 7-17 6-6 22, Ridnour 5-10 0-0 10, Barea 6-12 2-2 14, D.Williams 1-3 0-0 2, Beasley 2-6 0-0 4, Webster 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 33-85 23-26 92.

Philadelphia 24 25 25 17—91 Minnesota 22 22 28 20—92 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 3-11 (Iguodala 1-1, L.Williams 1-2, Meeks 1-5, Holiday 0-3), Minnesota 3-16 (Rubio 2-4, Webster 1-2, Barea 0-1, Johnson 0-2, Ridnour 0-3, Love 0-4). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Philadelphia 52 (Allen 8), Minnesota 55 (Love 15). AssistsPhiladelphia 14 (Turner, Iguodala 3), Minnesota 13 (Rubio 5). Total FoulsPhiladelphia 21, Minnesota 12. A-18,759 (19,356).

Suns 102, Lakers 90 PHOENIX — Jared Dudley scored a season-high 25 points, Marcin Gortat had 21 points and 15 rebounds, and Phoenix held on to beat Los Angeles, ending a four-game losing streak.

L.A. LAKERS (90) World Peace 1-4 0-2 2, Gasol 6-11 5-6 17, Bynum 7-12 2-3 16, Fisher 0-1 0-0 0, Bryant 11-24 9-12 32, Blake 1-2 0-0 2, Murphy 3-7 0-0 8, McRoberts 0-0 0-0 0, Barnes 2-8 1-2 5, Goudelock 2-5 0-0 4, Walton 0-0 0-0 0, Kapono 1-3 0-0 2, D.Morris 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 35-78 17-25 90.

PHOENIX (102) Hill 5-13 4-4 15, Frye 4-7 2-3 13, Gortat 9-15 3-5 21, Nash 2-8 4-4 8, Dudley 9-15 5-6 25, M.Morris 2-11 5-6 10, Brown 1-2 0-0 2, Telfair 0-0 0-0 0, Lopez 0-1 2-2 2, Redd 2-8 2-2 6. Totals 34-80 27-32 102.

L.A. Lakers 19 21 27 23— 90 Phoenix 35 28 19 20—102 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 3-18 (Murphy 2-4, Bryant 1-8, World Peace 0-1, Goudelock 0-1, Kapono 0-2, Barnes 0-2), Phoenix 7-20 (Frye 3-4, Dudley 2-6, Hill 1-1, M.Morris 1-3, Brown 0-1, Nash 0-2, Redd 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 57 (Gasol 12), Phoenix 45 (Gortat 15). Assists-L.A. Lakers 21 (Gasol 6), Phoenix 25 (Nash 14). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 22, Phoenix 21. Technicals-Phoenix defensive three second. A-18,023 (18,422).

Pistons 96, Celtics 81 AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — Greg Monroe had 17 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Rodney Stuckey added 16 points to lead surging Detroit.

Paul Pierce led Boston with 18 points.

BOSTON (81) Pierce 6-11 4-4 18, Wilcox 6-10 2-2 14, O’Neal 4-6 0-2 8, Rondo 1-6 3-4 5, Allen 5-11 0-0 13, Pietrus 0-4 0-0 0, Johnson 2-4 0-0 4, Stiemsma 2-3 0-0 4, Dooling 1-4 1-2 4, Bradley 3-8 1-1 7, Daniels 0-1 0-0 0, Moore 1-3 0-0 2, Pavlovic 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 32-72 11-15 81.

DETROIT (96) Prince 5-14 2-4 13, Maxiell 3-7 0-0 6, Monroe 8-19 1-7 17, Knight 3-7 4-4 12, Stuckey 2-10 12-15 16, Gordon 2-7 0-0 4, Jerebko 4-10 5-6 13, Wilkins 1-2 3-4 6, Bynum 2-3 2-4 7, Wallace 0-1 0-2 0, Macklin 1-1 0-0 2, Russell Jr. 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 31-82 29-46 96.

Boston 26 16 19 20—81 Detroit 26 29 20 21—96 3-Point Goals-Boston 6-16 (Allen 3-4, Pierce 2-4, Dooling 1-3, Daniels 0-1, Bradley 0-1, Pietrus 0-3), Detroit 5-9 (Knight 2-2, Bynum 1-1, Wilkins 1-1, Prince 1-1, Stuckey 0-1, Gordon 0-1, Jerebko 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Boston 49 (O’Neal 11), Detroit 63 (Monroe, Maxiell 10).

Assists-Boston 22 (Rondo 10), Detroit 14 (Monroe, Gordon, Maxiell 3). Total Fouls-Boston 31, Detroit 19. TechnicalsBoston Coach Rivers, Rondo 2, Wilcox.

Ejected-Rondo. A-22,076 (22,076).

Pacers 108, Bobcats 73 INDIANAPOLIS — Roy Hibbert had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead Indiana over Charlotte.

CHARLOTTE (73) Maggette 4-14 2-4 10, Diaw 0-3 0-0 0, Biyombo 0-2 0-4 0, Augustin 3-12 1-1 9, Williams 3-7 0-2 6, Diop 0-1 0-0 0, Brown 6-9 4-5 16, Walker 6-13 2-2 15, White 4-7 2-2 10, Mullens 0-0 2-2 2, Thomas 0-3 0-0 0, Carroll 1-3 0-0 2, Higgins 1-1 0-0 3.

Totals 28-75 13-22 73.

INDIANA (108) Granger 5-14 4-5 14, West 7-10 0-0 14, Hibbert 7-8 4-6 18, Collison 2-6 6-6 11, George 3-10 0-0 7, Hansbrough 3-4 7-10 13, Stephenson 3-5 0-0 7, Foster 0-1 0-0 0, Price 2-7 0-0 5, Jones 5-8 0-0 12, Amundson 1-4 2-3 4, Pendergraph 1-1 1-2 3. Totals 39-78 24-32 108.

Charlotte 12 21 15 25— 73 Indiana 24 29 35 20—108 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 4-17 (Augustin 2-7, Higgins 1-1, Walker 1-6, Maggette 0-1, Williams 0-2), Indiana 6-16 (Jones 2-2, Collison 1-1, Stephenson 1-1, Price 1-3, George 1-3, Granger 0-6). ReboundsCharlotte 41 (Biyombo 8), Indiana 62 (Hibbert 14). Assists-Charlotte 19 (Walker 5), Indiana 22 (Collison 6). Total FoulsCharlotte 24, Indiana 27. TechnicalsCharlotte Coach Silas, Indiana defensive three second. A-11,673 (18,165).

Cavaliers 93, Kings 92 CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving’s two free throws with 0.4 seconds remaining lifted Cleveland.

SACRAMENTO (92) Thornton 8-20 4-5 21, J.Thompson 1-4 1-2 3, Cousins 6-17 7-11 19, Thomas 8-16 4-5 23, Evans 5-17 0-0 10, Hickson 0-3 0-0 0, Hayes 1-2 0-0 2, Fredette 1-3 0-0 2, Salmons 3-7 0-0 6, Greene 2-4 2-2 6.

Totals 35-93 18-25 92.

CLEVELAND (93) Casspi 3-12 0-0 6, Jamison 7-21 5-7 21, Erden 0-1 0-0 0, Irving 8-21 5-5 23, Gee 3-10 1-2 9, Sessions 5-14 3-4 14, Hollins 0-0 5-6 5, T.Thompson 6-10 3-6 15. Totals 32-89 22-30 93.

Sacramento 31 18 19 24—92 Cleveland 27 23 25 18—93 3-Point Goals-Sacramento 4-19 (Thomas 3-7, Thornton 1-6, Greene 0-1, Evans 0-1, Fredette 0-1, Salmons 0-3), Cleveland 7-22 (Irving 2-4, Gee 2-5, Jamison 2-6, Sessions 1-2, Casspi 0-5).

Rebounds-Sacramento 64 (Thornton 10), Cleveland 66 (Casspi, T.Thompson 12). Assists-Sacramento 21 (Thomas 11), Cleveland 15 (Sessions 5). Total Fouls-Sacramento 25, Cleveland 23.

Technicals-Cleveland defensive three second. A-16,812 (20,562).

Rockets 101, Jazz 85 HOUSTON — Kyle Lowry scored 32 points, Luis Scola had 26, and Houston fought off a late run by Utah.

UTAH (85) Hayward 1-4 2-2 4, Millsap 8-16 6-6 22, Jefferson 10-20 3-4 23, Harris 3-6 2-2 9, Bell 4-5 0-0 11, Watson 0-7 0-0 0, Favors 1-7 3-6 5, Howard 1-2 0-0 2, Burks 0-3 0-0 0, Kanter 3-6 0-0 6, Miles 1-5 0-0 3, Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-81 16-20 85.

HOUSTON (101) Parsons 2-5 2-4 7, Scola 12-20 2-2 26, Patterson 4-9 0-1 8, Lowry 9-13 7-7 32, Martin 4-9 3-5 11, Smith 1-2 0-0 2, Dragic 1-4 0-0 2, Lee 2-5 2-3 8, Dalembert 2-3 0-0 4, Budinger 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 37-72 17-24 101.

Utah 22 24 18 21— 85 Houston 23 22 27 29—101 3-Point Goals-Utah 5-14 (Bell 3-3, Miles 1-1, Harris 1-2, Millsap 0-2, Hayward 0-2, Watson 0-4), Houston 10-19 (Lowry 7-8, Lee 2-3, Parsons 1-3, Martin 0-1, Dragic 0-2, Budinger 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Utah 49 (Jefferson 11), Houston 46 (Scola 9).

Assists-Utah 16 (Harris, Hayward 4), Houston 18 (Lowry 9). Total Fouls-Utah 23, Houston 20. A-16,764 (18,043).

Bucks 92, Nets 85 NEWARK, N.J. — Ersan Ilyasova had career highs of 29 points and 25 rebounds.

MILWAUKEE (92) Delfino 4-10 0-0 11, Ilyasova 11-23 5-6 29, Leuer 3-5 0-0 6, Jennings 6-15 3-3 17, Livingston 1-9 8-9 10, Mbah a Moute 5-9 2-4 12, Dunleavy 1-4 0-0 2, Udrih 1-5 0-0 2, Jackson 1-4 0-0 2, Brockman 0-2 1-2 1.

Totals 33-86 19-24 92.

NEW JERSEY (85) Stevenson 1-4 0-0 2, Humphries 5-11 3-4 13, Lopez 2-7 5-11 9, D.Williams 10-24 3-4 26, Brooks 3-14 6-8 12, Morrow 7-11 1-1 17, She.Williams 1-8 2-3 4, Gaines 0-5 2-2 2, Petro 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-85 22-33 85.

Milwaukee 23 20 27 22—92 New Jersey 17 19 20 29—85 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 7-19 (Delfino 3-7, Ilyasova 2-4, Jennings 2-4, Leuer 0-1, Dunleavy 0-1, Jackson 0-1, Udrih 0-1), New Jersey 5-23 (D.Williams 3-9, Morrow 2-4, Gaines 0-2, Stevenson 0-3, Brooks 0-5). Fouled Out-Ilyasova.

Rebounds-Milwaukee 67 (Ilyasova 25), New Jersey 58 (She.Williams 15).

Assists-Milwaukee 16 (Livingston 6), New Jersey 16 (D.Williams 6). Total Fouls-Milwaukee 23, New Jersey 24.

Technicals-Milwaukee defensive three second, Humphries. Flagrant FoulsStevenson. A-15,262 (18,711).

SPORTS

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Monday, February 20, 2012

SCOREBOARD

TOP 25 ROUNDUP

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SYRACUSE’S KRIS JOSEPH (32), BOTTOM, TRIES TO HOLD ON to the ball as Rutgers’ Eli Carter reaches over during the first half. Syracuse won, 74-64, on Sunday in Piscataway, N.J.

Syracuse survives scare from Rutgers ————

Duke cruises; Indiana tumbles The Associated Press

No. 2 Syracuse 74, Rutgers 64 PISCATAWAY, N.J. — C.J. Fair scored a career-high 21 points, and Scoop Jardine added 17, including a dagger three-pointer with 1:11 to play, as Syracuse escaped another close one on Sunday.

The Orange (27-1, 14-1) improved their lead in the Big East standings to 21⁄2 games over No. 12 Marquette and No. 23 Notre Dame. They won two of their last three games by three points or fewer and this one looked to be going the same way.

The Scarlet Knights (1215, 4-10) beat two Top Ten teams this season at home — Florida and Connecticut — and they were right there with the Orange, who have won 12 straight games in the series.

Gilvydas Biruta matched his career-high with 21 points for Rutgers.

SYRACUSE (27-1) Christmas 0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 5-10 2-2 14, Melo 2-5 6-8 10, Jardine 7-13 1-5 17, Triche 2-4 1-2 5, Waiters 2-7 3-6 7, Fair 6-8 8-8 21, Keita 0-0 0-0 0, Southerland 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-48 21-31 74.

RUTGERS (12-15) Miller 2-3 2-2 6, Biruta 9-14 3-4 21, Seagears 1-4 2-2 4, Mack 3-7 0-0 8, Carter 3-13 0-0 7, Poole 5-11 0-0 10, Randall 2-3 1-1 5, Jack 1-7 1-2 3. Totals 26-62 9-11 64.

Halftime-Syracuse 40-34. 3-Point Goals-Syracuse 5-12 (Joseph 2-3, Jardine 2-4, Fair 1-1, Triche 0-1, Waiters 0-3), Rutgers 3-18 (Mack 2-5, Carter 1-8, Poole 0-2, Seagears 0-3). Fouled OutPoole. Rebounds-Syracuse 29 (Fair 8), Rutgers 34 (Biruta 7). Assists-Syracuse 11 (Jardine 7), Rutgers 15 (Miller 5).

Total Fouls-Syracuse 15, Rutgers 21.

A-8,093.

No. 5 Duke 75, Boston College 50 BOSTON — Seth Curry scored 18 points and Duke didn’t need another late rally as it cruised past Boston College behind a smothering defense.

The Blue Devils had erased a 20-point deficit in the final 111⁄2 minutes to beat North Carolina State 78-73 on Thursday night. Eight days earlier, they had come back from 10 points down with 21⁄2 minutes left to beat North Carolina 85-84.

Duke (23-4, 10-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) pulled into a tie for the conference lead with North Carolina and Florida State.

DUKE (23-4) Mas. Plumlee 1-5 1-1 3, Mi. Plumlee 3-5 3-7 9, Rivers 7-13 0-1 16, Thornton 1-2 0-0 2, Curry 4-8 7-7 18, Cook 1-2 2-2 5, Gbinije 1-2 2-2 4, Hairston 0-1 0-0 0, Dawkins 5-11 0-0 13, Kelly 2-8 0-0 5, Zafirovski 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-57 15-20 75.

BOSTON COLLEGE (8-19) Anderson 6-12 7-10 21, Clifford 2-7 1-2 5, Daniels 3-8 0-0 6, Humphrey 3-6 3-4 12, Jackson 0-3 0-0 0, Abdo 0-0 0-0 0, Moton 0-2 0-1 0, Visockas 0-2 0-0 0, Odio 0-1 1-2 1, Caudill 0-0 0-0 0, Kilcullen 0-0 2-2 2, Cain Carney 0-0 0-0 0, Cahill 1-2 0-0 3, Rehnquist 0-0 0-0 0, Rubin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 15-44 14-21 50.

Halftime-Duke 30-21. 3-Point GoalsDuke 10-22 (Curry 3-4, Dawkins 3-7, Rivers 2-5, Cook 1-2, Kelly 1-2, Gbinije 0-1, Thornton 0-1), Boston College 6-18 (Humphrey 3-6, Anderson 2-3, Cahill 1-2, Visockas 0-1, Moton 0-1, Daniels 0-2, Jackson 0-3). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Duke 45 (Mi. Plumlee 10), Boston College 21 (Anderson 8).

Assists-Duke 14 (Cook, Kelly 3), Boston College 9 (Daniels, Humphrey 3). Total Fouls-Duke 18, Boston College 17.

A-8,606.

No. 7 Michigan St. 76, Purdue 62 WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — Draymond Green had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Austin Thornton scored a career-high 17 points to lead Michigan State past short-handed Purdue.

By winning their second straight in West Lafayette and sweeping the Boilermakers this season, the Spartans (22-5, 11-3 Big Ten) took a one-game lead in the conference title chase.

Purdue (17-10, 7-7) played without starting guard Kelsey Barlow and swingman D.J. Byrd. Both were disciplined after a Friday night incident outside a local bar.

MICHIGAN ST. (22-5) Payne 1-4 0-0 2, Appling 2-5 3-4 7, Thornton 6-10 4-4 17, Dawson 7-12 1-3 15, Green 7-15 3-3 20, Byrd 0-0 0-0 0, Gauna 0-0 0-0 0, Kearney 0-1 0-0 0, Chapman 0-0 0-0 0, Nix 6-8 0-1 12, Wood 1-4 0-2 3, Ianni 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-59 11-17 76.

PURDUE (17-10) T. Johnson 1-8 1-2 3, Hummel 8-21 7-9 24, Jackson 6-11 3-5 15, Smith 3-11 1-2 10, Carroll 0-4 0-0 0, A. Johnson 4-8 0-0 10, Anthrop 0-0 0-0 0, Hart 0-1 0-0 0, Lawson 0-0 0-0 0, Marcius 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 22-65 12-18 62.

Halftime-Purdue 38-35. 3-Point GoalsMichigan St. 5-13 (Green 3-4, Thornton 1-3, Wood 1-3, Kearney 0-1, Appling 0-2), Purdue 6-22 (Smith 3-9, A. Johnson 2-3, Hummel 1-9, T. Johnson 0-1). Fouled Out-Hummel. Rebounds-Michigan St. 44 (Dawson 11), Purdue 32 (Hummel 15). Assists-Michigan St. 16 (Green 7), Purdue 11 (Jackson 5). Total FoulsMichigan St. 17, Purdue 16. A-14,736.

No. 15 Wisconsin 65, Penn St. 55 MADISON, WIS. — Josh Gasser scored 15 points and Wisconsin held off Penn State to win for the eighth time in 10 games.

Jared Berggren added 13 points, and Ryan Evans and Jordan Taylor scored 11 each for the Badgers (20-7, 9-5 Big Ten), who maintained their grip on fourth place in the conference.

Tim Frazier scored 20 points for the Nittany Lions (12-16, 4-11), who used a 17-2 run in the second half to cut the lead to 51-46 with 5:49 remaining. That’s as close as it would get, as Berggren hit a pair of threepointers to help Wisconsin close with a 14-9 run.

PENN ST. (12-16) Graham 4-9 1-3 9, Travis 2-3 1-2 5, Colella 1-5 0-0 3, Frazier 9-20 2-2 20, Woodyard 1-9 1-2 4, Glover 0-0 0-0 0, Marshall 4-8 2-2 12, Borovnjak 1-2 0-0 2.

Totals 22-56 7-11 55.

WISCONSIN (20-7) Evans 4-7 3-4 11, Bruesewitz 2-5 3-5 7, Berggren 4-8 2-2 13, Taylor 4-12 0-0 11, Gasser 3-6 6-6 15, Brust 2-4 0-0 6, Wilson 0-3 0-0 0, Kaminsky 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 20-47 14-17 65.

Halftime-Wisconsin 35-21. 3-Point Goals-Penn St. 4-18 (Marshall 2-5, Colella 1-5, Woodyard 1-5, Frazier 0-3), Wisconsin 11-22 (Berggren 3-3, Gasser 3-5, Taylor 3-6, Brust 2-4, Kaminsky 0-1, Bruesewitz 0-1, Wilson 0-2). ReboundsPenn St. 27 (Graham 10), Wisconsin 38 (Bruesewitz 12). Assists-Penn St. 8 (Frazier 4), Wisconsin 14 (Bruesewitz 5). Total Fouls-Penn St. 15, Wisconsin 11. A-17,230.

Iowa 78, No. 18 Indiana 66 IOWA CITY, IOWA — Matt Gaten scored a careerhigh 30 points and Iowa snapped Indiana’s threegame winning streak.

Melsahn Basabe had 13 points for the Hawkeyes (14-13, 6-8 Big Ten), who beat the Hoosiers in Iowa City for the seventh time in eight tries.

Iowa jumped out to an 11-point halftime lead and pushed it to 52-33 midway through the second half.

Indiana closed to 10, but Gatens responded with four crucial threes.

INDIANA (20-7) Watford 0-5 1-2 1, Elston 4-6 3-4 13, Zeller 5-12 5-7 15, Hulls 1-5 0-0 2, Oladipo 4-11 7-7 15, Barnett 0-0 0-0 0, Sheehey 2-7 3-4 7, Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Jones III 0-2 0-0 0, Etherington 0-0 0-0 0, Abell 0-0 0-0 0, Pritchard 0-1 1-2 1, Roth 4-4 0-0 12. Totals 20-53 20-26 66.

IOWA (14-13) McCabe 1-3 0-0 2, White 4-10 0-1 8, Oglesby 2-8 5-6 11, Marble 4-17 2-5 10, Gatens 10-18 3-3 30, Basabe 4-5 5-6 13, Brommer 1-1 0-0 2, , Stokes 1-1 0-0 2, Archie 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-63 15-21 78.

Halftime-Iowa 37-26. 3-Point GoalsIndiana 6-16 (Roth 4-4, Elston 2-3, Jones III 0-1, Oladipo 0-2, Watford 0-2, Sheehey 0-2, Hulls 0-2), Iowa 9-18 (Gatens 7-10, Oglesby 2-5, McCabe 0-1, Marble 0-2). Fouled Out-McCabe.

Rebounds-Indiana 35 (Zeller 13), Iowa 41 (White 10). Assists-Indiana 13 (Hulls 4), Iowa 12 (Marble 7). Total FoulsIndiana 19, Iowa 18. A-13,282.

HOW TOP 25 FARED 1. Kentucky (26-1) did not play. Next: at Mississippi State, Tuesday.

2. Syracuse (27-1) beat Rutgers 74-64. Next: vs. South Florida, Wednesday.

3. Missouri (25-2) did not play. Next: vs. Kansas State, Tuesday.

4. Kansas (22-5) did not play. Next: at Texas A&M, Wednesday.

5. Duke (23-4) beat Boston College 75-50. Next: at No. 20 Florida State, Thursday.

6. Ohio State (22-5) did not play. Next: vs. Illinois, Tuesday.

7. Michigan State (22-5) beat Purdue 76-62. Next: at Minnesota, Wednesday.

8. North Carolina (23-4) did not play. Next: at N.C. State, Tuesday.

9. Baylor (22-5) did not play.

Next: at Texas, today.

10. Georgetown (20-5) did not play. Next: at Seton Hall, Tuesday.

11. UNLV (22-6) did not play. Next: vs. Boise State, Wednesday.

12. Marquette (22-5) did not play. Next: vs. Rutgers, Wednesday.

13. San Diego State (20-6) did not play. Next: vs. Wyoming, Wednesday.

14. Florida (21-6) did not play.

Next: vs. Auburn, Tuesday.

15. Wisconsin (20-7) beat Penn State 65-55. Next: at Iowa, Thursday.

16. Murray State (26-1) did not play. Next: at Tenn. St., Thursday.

17. Michigan (20-7) did not play. Next: at Northwestern, Tuesday.

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18. Indiana (20-7) lost to Iowa 78-66. Next: vs. N.C. Central, Wednesday.

19. Louisville (21-6) did not play. Next: at Cincinnati, Thursday.

20. Florida State (19-7) did not play. Next: vs. No. 5 Duke, Thursday.

21. Saint Mary’s (Cal) (23-5) did not play. Next: at Portland, Thursday.

22. Virginia (20-6) did not play. Next: at Virginia Tech, Tuesday.

23. Notre Dame (19-8) did not play. Next: vs. West Virginia, Wednesday.

24. Gonzaga (21-5) did not play. Next: vs. BYU, Thursday.

24. Wichita State (24-4) did not play. Next: at Illinois State, Wednesday.

Sunday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.6 million Yardage: 7,349; Par: 71 Final (x-won on second hole of playoff) x-Bill Haas (500), $1,188,000 72-68-68-69—277 Phil Mickelson (245), $580,800 66-70-70-71—277 Keegan Bradley (245), $580,800 71-69-66-71—277 Sergio Garcia (109), $259,875 69-76-70-64—279 Jimmy Walker (109), $259,875 72-66-72-69—279 Jarrod Lyle (109), $259,875 73-65-71-70—279 Dustin Johnson (109), $259,875 71-70-67-71—279 Bo Van Pelt (80), $191,400 74-68-68-70—280 J.B. Holmes (80), $191,400 67-73-70-70—280 Jonathan Byrd (80), $191,400 68-70-69-73—280 Jim Furyk (68), $158,400 72-70-69-70—281 Aaron Baddeley (68), $158,400 73-69-66-73—281 Fredrik Jacobson (57), $123,750 72-72-71-67—282 Bubba Watson (57), $123,750 70-69-72-71—282 Justin Rose (57), $123,750 70-70-71-71—282 Pat Perez (57), $123,750 72-65-70-75—282 Brandt Snedeker (51), $86,366 75-70-68-70—283 Adam Scott (51), $86,366 73-71-69-70—283 Michael Thompson (51), $86,366 72-72-71-68—283 Zach Johnson (51), $86,366 71-69-71-72—283 Marc Leishman (51), $86,366 70-69-71-73—283 Ryan Moore (51), $86,366 72-69-68-74—283 Bryce Molder (51), $86,366 74-67-66-76—283 Matt Kuchar (43), $49,940 69-69-75-71—284 Kevin Stadler (43), $49,940 71-71-72-70—284 Kevin Chappell (43), $49,940 73-67-73-71—284 Ryan Palmer (43), $49,940 76-69-68-71—284 K.J. Choi (43), $49,940 69-71-74-70—284 Cameron Tringale (43), $49,940 70-74-69-71—284 Kyle Stanley (43), $49,940 74-68-70-72—284 Johnson Wagner (43), $49,940 73-71-68-72—284 Hunter Mahan (43), $49,940 67-75-70-72—284 Vijay Singh (38), $38,940 74-70-71-70—285 Charlie Wi (34), $31,928 75-69-70-72—286 Y.E. Yang (34), $31,928 72-72-69-73—286 Briny Baird (34), $31,928 71-70-72-73—286 Carl Pettersson (34), $31,928 68-70-76-72—286 Jason Kokrak (34), $31,928 76-67-70-73—286 Retief Goosen (34), $31,928 73-67-72-74—286 Nick Watney (34), $31,928 73-70-69-74—286 J.J. Killeen (34), $31,928 71-69-71-75—286 Erik Compton (29), $25,080 73-72-69-73—287 Brendon de Jonge (29), $25,080 73-69-71-74—287 Graham DeLaet (25), $20,513 73-68-73-74—288 John Senden (25), $20,513 73-70-72-73—288 Jeff Overton (25), $20,513 73-72-71-72—288 David Hearn (25), $20,513 70-73-74-71—288 Padraig Harrington (25), $20,513 74-70-74-70—288 Bobby Gates (21), $16,676 73-72-69-75—289 George McNeill (21), $16,676 76-67-73-73—289 Harrison Frazar (21), $16,676 71-74-74-70—289 Spencer Levin (18), $15,477 73-66-73-78—290 Tommy Gainey (18), $15,477 70-73-70-77—290 Bud Cauley (18), $15,477 74-70-71-75—290 Jason Dufner (18), $15,477 72-72-73-73—290 Luke Donald (14), $14,916 70-72-71-78—291 Kevin Streelman (14), $14,916 74-70-71-76—291 John Mallinger (14), $14,916 71-71-75-74—291 Ernie Els (11), $14,520 73-68-73-78—292 Vaughn Taylor (11), $14,520 72-71-73-76—292 Ken Duke (11), $14,520 69-72-78-73—292 Joe Ogilvie (7), $13,992 71-71-72-79—293 Rickie Fowler (7), $13,992 75-69-70-79—293 Billy Mayfair (7), $13,992 72-73-72-76—293 Ricky Barnes (7), $13,992 71-71-77-74—293 Jason Day (7), $13,992 73-71-75-74—293 Stewart Cink (4), $13,530 69-71-74-80—294 Cameron Beckman (4), $13,530 70-75-71-78—294 Brendan Steele (1), $13,200 69-74-74-78—295 Gary Woodland (1), $13,200 73-71-74-77—295 Troy Matteson (1), $13,200 68-75-77-75—295 Sunghoon Kang (1), $12,804 72-71-73-80—296 Ryo Ishikawa (0), $12,804 73-70-76-77—296 Matt Bettencourt (1), $12,804 73-70-77-76—296 Bill Lunde (1), $12,540 73-72-74-78—297 Kevin Na (1), $12,408 74-71-78-77—300

ACE Group Classic

Sunday At TwinEagles Golf Club (Talon Course) Naples, Fla. Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 7,193; Par: 72 Final Charles Schwab Cup points in parentheses K. Perry (240), $240,000 64-62-70—196 B. Langer (141), $140,800 66-65-70—201 Bill Glasson (95), $95,467 68-66-68—202 M. Goodes (95), $95,467 65-68-69—202 T. Lehman (95), $95,467 64-66-72—202 Jay Haas (64), $64,000 66-68-69—203 Larry Mize (58), $57,600 62-67-75—204 David Frost (51), $51,200 68-66-71—205 R. Cochran (42), $41,600 64-70-72—206 Jeff Sluman (42), $41,600 69-67-70—206 Rod Spittle (42), $41,600 71-66-69—206 M.Calcavecchia (0), $31,600 69-67-71—207 Joe Daley (0), $31,600 71-68-68—207 Nick Price (0), $31,600 68-73-66—207 L. Roberts (0), $31,600 71-69-67—207 M. Allen (0), $24,032 66-72-70—208 Jay Don Blake (0), $24,032 68-67-73—208 Jim Carter (0), $24,032 68-68-72—208 J.L. Lewis (0), $24,032 71-67-70—208 Joey Sindelar (0), $24,032 68-66-74—208 Olin Browne (0), $18,160 70-72-67—209 John Cook (0), $18,160 69-67-73—209 Gary Koch (0), $18,160 68-71-70—209 Jim Rutledge (0), $18,160 70-68-71—209 Jim Gallagher (0), $15,253 69-68-73—210 Dan Forsman (0), $15,253 69-66-75—210 P.H. Horgan (0), $15,253 68-68-74—210 Chip Beck (0), $12,960 70-68-73—211

Sunday At Siam Country Club (Pattaya Old Course) Chonburi, Thailand Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,469; Par: 72 Final a-amateur Yani Tseng, $225,000 73-65-65-66—269 Ai Miyazato, $140,688 67-70-65-68—270 Jiyai Shin, $102,059 70-66-68-67—271 Amy Yang, $78,951 68-69-68-69—274 Jimin Kang, $49,297 70-72-69-67—278 S. Feng, $49,297 70-70-70-68—278 A. Blumenherst, $49,297 71-67-71-69—278 Stacy Lewis, $49,297 70-69-69-70—278 Jenny Shin, $32,736 71-70-67-71—279 Karrie Webb, $32,736 68-65-71-75—279 Hee Young Park, $28,884 72-71-69-68—280 C. Hedwall, $26,958 72-65-74-70—281 a-Ariya Jutanugarn 73-69-65-74—281 L. Thompson, $23,107 73-73-70-66—282 Cristie Kerr, $23,107 74-68-71-69—282 Mina Harigae, $23,107 74-68-68-72—282 P. Phatlum, $23,107 71-67-71-73—282

BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES-Traded RHP A.J. Burnett and cash to Pittsburgh for RHP Diego Moreno and OF Exicardo Cayonestwo.

National League CINCINNATI REDS-Agreed to terms with RHP Brett Tomko on a minor league contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES-Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Kendrick on a two-year contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALSAnnounced the retirement of OF Mike Cameron.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS-Recalled C-F Greg Smith from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Suspended Minnesota C Warren Peters one game after cross-checking St. Louis RW David Backes in the head in a Feb. 18 game. Fined Florida F Kris Versteeg $2,500 for cross-checking Washington F Jeff Halpern in a Feb. 17 game.

CALGARY FLAMES-Recalled G Henrik Karlsson from Abbotsford (AHL). Assigned G Leland Irving to Abbotsford.

MINNESOTA WILD-Re-signed C Kyle Brodziak to a three-year contract.

Recalled F Chad Rau from Houston (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS-Placed D Adam Larsson on injured reserve, retroactive to Feb. 2. Recalled D Peter Harrold from Albany (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS-Signed LW James Neal to a six-year contract extension.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS-Assigned F Keith Aucoin to Hershey (AHL).

COLLEGE WESTERN KENTUCKY-Named Ray Harper men’s basketball coach.

Daytona 500 Lineup

After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 194.738.

2. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 194.087.

Failed to Qualify (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 194.028.

(9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 193.999.

(13) Casey Mears, Ford, 193.844.

(24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 193.803.

(56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 193.665.

(6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 193.665.

(21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 193.615.

(14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 193.607.

(55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 193.503.

(48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.449.

(43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.382.

(27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 193.374.

(34) David Ragan, Ford, 193.249.

(17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 193.245.

(39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 193.224.

(22) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 193.121.

(2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 192.992.

(29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 192.914.

(20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 192.868.

(15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota.

(31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 192.777.

(42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 192.6.

(5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 192.583.

(26) Tony Raines, Ford, 192.534.

(30) David Stremme, Toyota, 191.963.

(18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 191.873.

(1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 191.84.

(10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 191.738.

(09) Kenny Wallace, Toyota, 191.567.

(32) Terry Labonte, Ford, 191.522.

(36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 191.506.

(51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 191.363.

(33) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 191.27.

(40) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 191.18.

(87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 191.16.

(11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 191.127.

(78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 191.063.

(98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 190.99.

(83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 190.605.

(38) David Gilliland, Ford, 190.046.

(47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 190.022.

(97) Bill Elliott, Toyota, 189.950.

(37) Mike Wallace, Ford, 189.853.

(93) David Reutimann, Toyota, 189.235.

(23) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota, 188.438.

(7) Robby Gordon, Dodge, 188.229.

(49) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 187.954.

College Men

EAST Duke 75, Boston College 50 Loyola (Md.) 69, Boston U. 56 South Florida 56, Pittsburgh 47 Syracuse 74, Rutgers 64 Washington (Mo.) 74, NYU 68 SOUTH Ala.-Huntsville 67, Christian Brothers 62 Rhodes 58, Centre 56 Sewanee 79, Millsaps 54 Vanderbilt 61, Georgia 52 MIDWEST Iowa 78, Indiana 66 Michigan St. 76, Purdue 62 Tennessee St. 68, Miami (Ohio) 61 Wisconsin 65, Penn St. 55 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 80, Texas A&MKingsville 70 FAR WEST Oregon 68, Stanford 64

Big 12 Men

Conf. Overall W L W L 12 2 25 2 12 2 22 5 9 5 22 5 9 5 19 8 7 7 18 8 7 7 17 10 6 8 13 14 4 10 13 13 3 11 13 13 1 13 8 18

Missouri Kansas Baylor Iowa State Kansas State Texas Oklahoma State Texas A&M Oklahoma Texas Tech Today’s Game Baylor at Texas, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 Kansas State at Missouri, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Kansas at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 25 Missouri at Kansas, 3 p.m.

Iowa State at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

Oklahoma at Baylor, 12:30 p.m.

Texas A&M at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.

Texas at Texas Tech, 3 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 27 Kansas at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Texas Tech at Baylor, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 28 Kansas State at Texsas A&M, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 29 Iowa State at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas, 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 3 Texas at Kansas, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

Missouri at Texas Tech, 3 p.m.

Texas A&M at Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

Baylor at Iowa State, 6 p.m.

College Women

EAST Delaware 40, Drexel 39 Fairfield 63, Canisius 51 Hartford 66, UMBC 54 Hofstra 69, Towson 66 Iona 72, Loyola (Md.) 65 Manhattan 72, St. Peter’s 59 Marist 79, Niagara 77, 2OT Northeastern 61, James Madison 50 Siena 61, Rider 42 Temple 84, Rhode Island 41 UMass 56, George Washington 53 Vermont 71, Maine 54 SOUTH Florida 61, Georgia 57 George Mason 70, Georgia St. 68, OT Georgia Tech 85, Boston College 48 LSU 57, Auburn 41 Marshall 40, UAB 37 Maryland 63, Duke 61 Memphis 61, UCF 54 Miami 67, Florida St. 60 North Carolina 68, NC State 59 Richmond 63, Fordham 50 South Carolina 69, Alabama 55 Southern Miss. 56, Tulane 51 Tennessee 66, Mississippi 56 UNC Wilmington 78, William & Mary 71 VCU 67, Old Dominion 56 Virginia 66, Virginia Tech 40 Wake Forest 63, Clemson 51 MIDWEST Ball St. 84, Cent. Michigan 76 Creighton 63, Indiana St. 48 Illinois St. 66, Drake 51 Michigan 61, Indiana 48 Michigan St. 67, Purdue 52, OT Missouri St. 81, S. Illinois 61 Nebraska 68, Wisconsin 59 Wichita St. 69, Evansville 43 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 67, Mississippi St. 53 Rice 69, SMU 60 Tulsa 75, East Carolina 70 UTEP 71, Houston 51 FAR WEST CS Bakersfield 86, N. Arizona 77 Southern Cal 66, UCLA 54 Washington 68, Arizona 59

Big 12 Women

Conf. Overall W L W L Baylor 14 0 27 0 Texas A&M 10 4 19 6 Oklahoma 9 5 17 9 Kansas State 8 6 17 9 Iowa State 7 7 16 9 Kansas 6 8 17 9 Texas Tech 5 9 17 9 Texas 5 9 15 11 Oklahoma State 5 9 13 10 Missouri 1 13 11 14 Saturday, Feb. 18 Missouri 70, Kansas 65 Kansas State 65, Texas 45 Baylor 56, Texas Tech 51 Texas A&M 63, Oklahoma State 49 Iowa State 77, Oklahoma 71 Tuesday, Feb. 21 Kansas at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Missouri at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Texas at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Texas A&M at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 24 Baylor at Kansas, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 25 Kansas State at Missouri, noon Oklahoma at Texas, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 27 Baylor at Texas A&M, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 28 Texas at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 29 Oklahoma State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Kansas State at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 3 Iowa State at Baylor, 11 a.m.

Texas Tech at Kansas State, 6 p.m.

Missouri at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 4 Kansas at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

Texas A&M at Texas, noon

High School Boys

Junior Varsity Friday at Free State Free State 58, Olathe North 52 FSHS scoring: Blake Winslow 12, Logan Bannister 7, Weston Hack 7, Wilson Hack 6, Joe Dineen 6, Keith Loneker 6, Cody Scott 4, Reshawn Caro 4, Chris Heller 2, Cole Moreano 2, Seth Maples 2.

FSHS record: 11-5. Next for FSHS: Tuesday at Shawnee Mission East.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers57 38 14 5 81 161 116 New Jersey 58 34 20 4 72 164 159 Philadelphia 58 32 19 7 71 193 177 Pittsburgh 59 33 21 5 71 184 160 N.Y. Islanders58 25 25 8 58 139 168 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 57 35 20 2 72 190 132 Ottawa 60 30 22 8 68 179 183 Toronto 59 29 24 6 64 178 180 Montreal 60 24 26 10 58 160 164 Buffalo 59 25 27 7 57 148 175 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 58 27 20 11 65 144 162 Winnipeg 61 29 26 6 64 153 170 Washington 58 29 24 5 63 159 163 Tampa Bay 58 26 26 6 58 163 195 Carolina 59 22 26 11 55 153 181 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 60 41 17 2 84 190 139 St. Louis 59 36 16 7 79 150 117 Nashville 59 34 19 6 74 165 154 Chicago 60 32 21 7 71 189 178 Columbus 59 17 35 7 41 136 195 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 59 38 15 6 82 194 144 Calgary 59 28 22 9 65 142 155 Colorado 60 29 27 4 62 151 168 Minnesota 59 26 24 9 61 131 154 Edmonton 58 22 30 6 50 153 177 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 57 31 19 7 69 167 142 Phoenix 59 29 21 9 67 152 147 Los Angeles 59 27 21 11 65 124 126 Dallas 59 29 26 4 62 152 167 Anaheim 59 25 24 10 60 152 168 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Buffalo 6, Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 3, San Jose 2 Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 Minnesota 2, Boston 0 New Jersey 3, Montreal 1 Anaheim 2, Florida 0 Nashville 3, Dallas 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Columbus 2, OT Winnipeg 5, Colorado 1 Vancouver 5, Edmonton 2 Today’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, noon Washington at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

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Applicants are welcome from all levels of experience. This is a full-time position in our Topeka, KS, office. To apply send resume, cover letter and 1 page critique of the magazine and website. email to : letters@ MotherEarthNews.com or mail to: Heidi Hunt Mother Earth News 1503 SW 42nd Street Topeka, KS 66609-1265 An equal opportunity employer

Solos and Teams needed!

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Standard Beverage is currently hiring!

We are looking for:

CLASS B DELIVERY DRIVER self-motivated, customer friendly, with clean driving record to deliver and unload our top selling products!

We offer excellent benefits such as health, dental and life insurance as well as 401(K)!

Please apply in person at: Standard Beverage Corporation 2300 Lakeview Rd. Lawrence, KS No phone calls please.

Equal Opportunity Employer

TRUCK DRIVERS needed for local hauls. Must have experience and Class A CDL. Apply between 7AM & 3PM at Hamm Companies, 609 Perry Place, Perry, KS. EOE

CSL Plasma is now hiring LPNs & Paramedics for our Full Time Medical & Reception Operations Supervisor. Responsibilities include supervision of the plasma donor process, supervision & development of reception & medical staff, & assisting mgmt w/daily center operations. We offer solid benefits package including no overnight shifts! Current license & CPR certification required. More info. on the position & our company benefits can be found on our company website. All Interested candidates should apply for the Medical Operations Supervisor position posted online at cslplasma.com This position is listed below the LPN/Paramedic/RN position postings.

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PREP COOK

Production Varied Schedule 30+ Hrs. per Week Line Cook experience helpful $9.51 per hour Job description at: www.union.ku.edu/hr Applications available: Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard EOE Lawrence, KS

Management RETIREMENT COMMUNITY

Director of Dining Services This position manages the kitchen and dining staff assuring their compliance with all state and federal regulations pertaining to food preparation and service. These include but are not limited to: blood borne pathogens, infection control, use of hazardous materials, and fire safety.

The preferred candidate will have prior experience in food production and dining service supervision as well as an advanced knowledge of food preparation and menu planning.

CDM would be a plus. He/she should be capable of creating, presenting, and delivering a quality dining experience for our residents in the Rapid Recovery, Long Term Care, and Assisted Living Communities. They must be dependable, an above average communicator, and convey a sense of urgency to their staff that the well being and satisfaction of our residents is a top priority.

Salary is based on education and experience. For more information call the Administrator at 749-2000. Apply online for Dietary Manager position at www.midwest-health. com/careers. EOE

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Property Manager

Seeking an experienced Property Manager to run a large luxury apt. community in Lawrence, KS. Candidate must be upbeat, able to multi-task & computer savvy. Marketing experience is a plus & attention to detail a must.

Submit Resume to: First Management, Inc. PO Box 1797 Lawrence, KS 66044 or email to: jobs@firstmanagementinc.com

DISTRIBUTION TEAM LEADER Lawrence Journal-World is hiring a Team Leader in our distribution center. We are a family-owned operation with a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, several weekly community newspapers, a Commercial Printing division, and a contract print site for USA TODAY. Team Leaders are responsible for handling the processing and bundling of newsprint products from the press to distributors; troubleshoot machinery; and assist with supervising and providing training to team members. Candidates must be available to work between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.

We are looking for talented and hardworking individuals who are looking to grow in their career with a fastpaced company. Ideal candidate will have leadership experience; a team player; self starter with strong organizational skills; experience operating machinery and maintenance skills preferred; strong communication skills; good attention to detail and able to multi-task; a high school diploma or GED; able to lift up to 70 lbs.; stand for long periods of time and frequently twist and bend; and proficient with MS Office products.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com or complete an employment application at 609 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS. We offer an excellent benefits package including health insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, opportunities for career advancement and more! Background check, preemployment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required. EOE

MULTIMEDIA SALES MANAGER The World Company is seeking an innovative and experienced Multimedia Sales Manager who will be responsible for leading a team of multimedia sales reps in a fast paced print and digital integrated sales environment. Are you a motivated sales leader with a proven track record in leading successful teams? Can you answer YES to the following questions?

• Do you want to coach and develop your team to be the best media sales reps in the industry?

• Do you use unique and innovative ways to achieve revenue budgets?

• Do you believe digital advertising needs to be a part of every campaign?

• Do you use social marketing as part of your everyday life?

• Do you place client visits at the top of your priority list every week?

• Are you famous for getting results for your customers?

• Are you a great listener and problem solver?

• Do you love to turn a “no” into a “yes?”

• Do you love staying on top of the current Internet trends and finding digital solutions for your clients’ needs?

If you’ve answered YES to these questions and possess strong leadership and relationship-building skills; have experience playing a pivotal role in the development and implementation of advertising strategies; and have experience in print and online media sales, then we want to hear from you!

As Multimedia Sales Manager some of what you would do includes:

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CLASSIFIED SALES REP Lawrence Journal-World is hiring for a part-time Classified Sales Rep to make outbound sales calls. Sales rep will sell commercial and private advertisements and public notices in our World Classifieds which covers northeast Kansas. Position will also sell, format, proof and obtain approvals on classified ads or public notices for advertisement in any of the World Company publications. Sales calls will be to new accounts and current customers. Must be available to work 20-30 hours per week between 8 am and 4 pm, Monday-Friday.

Ideal candidate must be comfortable making outbound calls; have excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills; strong organizational skills with ability to follow through; minimum one year of customer service experience preferred; will represent the World Company in a professional and positive manner; be proficient in MS Office (Word and Excel); ability to work independently with minimal supervision; and able to multi-task on numerous projects and work in a fast paced environment.

If you have a proven track record of sales success and enjoy a fast-paced environment, then we would like to hear from you! We offer a competitive salary and commissions, employee discounts 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

• Supervise and develop sales representatives in their efforts to sell creative solutions to clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a collection of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, Deals, and event marketing sponsorships.

• Monitor, evaluate and drive individual and team performance to reach sales objectives.

• Participate in the development and sales of new, revenue-generating projects.

• Create a work environment that promotes communication, encourages cooperation and operates efficiently, focusing on both overall revenue growth and success of individual revenue units.

• Know the strengths and weaknesses of the competition across all advertising mediums and position The World Company accordingly.

Ideal candidates will also have at least five years of successful career development in sales, e.g. growth in territory or responsibility; a bachelor’s degree is preferred or equivalent years of experience; a proficiency for understanding and selling all media types; a creative, positive and flexible attitude and a team-oriented philosophy; strong sales and organizational skills; strong communication skills, negotiation and influencing skills, both written and oral; ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressured, evolving environment; proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and media software; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

We offer 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

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Line Lead The Lawrence Paper Company, a leading corrugated box manufacturer for over 125 years, is seeking applicants committed to teamwork with production experience to qualify as a Line Lead in our growing Lawrence facility.

We are seeking self-motivated individuals with excellent communication skills and attendance who have a good work history and are comfortable performing a variety of tasks. Manufacturing, supervisory experience, and a high school diploma or GED are desired.

Responsibilities include performing various duties on a packaging line and making sure that line is set up and run efficiently throughout the shift while adhering to quality and safety guidelines. Achieving daily production goals, implementing and improving productivity, making decisions based on the production requirements are essential. Individuals must be able to communicate effectively with floor supervisor, fork truck and inventory control personnel to replenish supplies and materials as needed.

Qualified applicants will be expected to pass a drug test and pre employment physical. This is a day shift job that may require some overtime. Pay rates start at $11.22/hr. with opportunities to increase pay to $14/hr.

Benefits include health, dental, short and long term disability, life insurance, 401 (K), holiday and vacation pay, weekly direct deposit payroll, on-site fitness center, clinic and credit union.

Apply in person at: The Lawrence Paper Company Personnel Office 2901 Lakeview Road Lawrence, KS from 7am - 3pm, Mon. - Fri. You can also email your resume to: resumes@lpco.net Our phone number is 785-843-8111 ext. 584 EOE

Manufacturing & Assembly Laborers and Machinist needed - We are growing our Bonner Springs plant, adding machine operators and production laborers to produce quality pre-cast concrete structures safely and efficiently. Qualified applicants will be able to read manufacturing blue prints, use hand tools, operate manufacturing equipment, and do basic math. Ability to operate forklift or travel lift a plus.

Heavy manufacturing or concrete construction experience preferred. Cretex Concrete Products Midwest is a market leader in concrete pipe and manholes, and box culverts in Iowa and Kansas City. We offer competitive wages and benefits. Apply between 8:30-4:00 Mon. - Fri. 23600 W. 40th Street, Shawnee, KS 66226. Call 913-422-3634 for directions

Office-Clerical InBound-FunBound!

Do you have the gift of gab? This is not your typical call center.

It’s a PEOPLE center. As a Sales Specialist for our company you will be helping Inbound clients through the FAFSA process to apply for Federal funds. If you are a people person, have a minimum 1 year sales AND customer service experience and willing to commit at least 120 days or more to our company, Please Apply to: Http://goo.gl/Tmg8g immediately. Paid Training begins March 19th, 2012

PUT YOUR EMPLOYMENT AD IN TODAY!!

Go to ljworld.com or call 785-832-1000.

UP TO FOUR PACKAGES TO CHOOSE FROM! All packages include AT LEAST 7 days online, 2 photos online, 4000 chracters online, and one week in top ads.

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Days in print vary with package chosen.

Sales-Marketing QSI, Quality Structures Incorporated, a construction company specializing in post frame buildings, is seeking an individual to manage our Sales Support team. This team is responsible for drawing & material listing a wide variety of post frame building designs. A minimum of 5 years CAD & wood frame construction experience is required. Windows 10 & Excel spreadsheet competency required. Managerial experience preferred. Submit your resume to rob.pearce@quality structures.com .

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Do you love food writing and local entertainment events? Then you should write for the Lawrence Journal-World! We are hiring for a feature writer to write stories for the food centerpiece, Sunday Pulse and the Go! cover story and company websites such as Lawrence.com. Writer will also be responsible for coordinating food pages; making daily story or blog contributions to Lawrence. com; posting stories online, setting up photo shoots; receiving content from contributors; and increasing consumer engagement and growing the audience through social media.

Ideal candidates must have a bachelor’s degree preferably in journalism; demonstrated writing experience; knowledge of, and demonstrated passion for, food content; knowledge and demonstrated experience with social media blogging platforms and experience editing news for the Web; one year shooting and editing video preferred; proficient in MS Office and InDesign; and the ability to drive, with valid driver’s license and safe driving record.

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

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2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4plex, CA, W/D hookup, off- 2BR w/garage, W/D hookup st. parking. $410-$420/mo. Lease & deposit. No pets.

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DIGITAL MEDIA SALES REPS Are you looking for a career opportunity in media sales and can you answer YES to the following questions?

• Do you enjoy meeting new people and coming up with creative ideas?

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

Ideal candidates will also have remarkable verbal and written communication skills; enjoy networking; effective time management and interpersonal skills; regularly achieve monthly sales goals; selfmotivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, preemployment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

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Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

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Stk#142161 only $7,750.

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at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

785-841-4785

Office Space, 1,000-1,500 sq. ft., Business or Professional on Busy Street. 3109 W. 6th, Lawrence. 785-766-1242

Retail & Commercial Space 2859 Four Wheel Drive

Studio/office, Wi-Fi avail., private bathroom, 697 sq.ft.

785-842-5227 for more info

Two Sets of Italian leather chairs with ottomans. Excellent condition. Asking price $800 for both. Contact by cell phone at 417-349-1136 (Lawrence) or by email nanneegoat@hotmail.com Upholstered Chair, that rocks and swivels. Like new. $35. Call 785-331-6599.

Miscellaneous

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.

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Music-Stereo Piano, Vose Sons Baby Grand Piano w/ bench. $1,000. (785) 856-2014

Area Open Houses OPEN HOUSE - Lawrence Sun., Feb. 19 - Noon - 3PM 4212 Saddlehorn Drive For Sale By Owner Updated 3BR, 2 Bath Ranch with partial basement. $228,500.

785-749-9346

Mobile Homes OWNER WILL FINANCE 3BR, 2 bath, CH/CA, appls., shed, clean, move in ready!

Lawrence 816-830-2152

Mclouth 50 Acres (most farmable) custom built 2,000 sq. ft.

3BR home. Has 2 bath, huge master BR w/walk-in closets, full walk-out bsmt. (part. finished), plus 2 attached garages & 70 x 80 machine shed. North of Lawrence. $350,000. Might take trade (small house, truck, tractor) 785-250-7702

Pianos, Winter Company Spinet or Acrosonic Spinet, $525. Acrosonic Spinet, $475 Price includes tuning and delivery. Call: 785-832-9906

SW Lawrence Townhome 3BR, 1,100 sq. ft., 1.5 bath, attached garage. Rented to long time tenant that wants to stay. Returns $8,000 plus per year. Must sell, due to my advanced age. Call 785-766-8139

Chevrolet 2007 Cobalt Victory Red, 84K Clean, Local Trade-In Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Office Equipment Oak Desk, Hutch, 2 drawer file cabinet, Book Shelf, Printer stand, Leather Chair. Nice furniture reasonably priced. $250. (785) 856-2014 Smith Corona Memory Electronic Typewriter.

Features: Correcting cassette, auto.memory correction, WordEraser Auto Center, Bold, Decimal Tab. Includes several refill cassettes, $30. 785-843-9199

Sports-Fitness Equipment Blow Dart gun, 6ft. long with camo print. Blowgun survival weapon, NO darts! $25/offer.

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Cars-Domestic

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

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Computer Desk, $15, Please call for more information, 785-979-0859

14 wooded acres bldg site, Pro-Form Crosswalk SI NW, near Lake Perry. Old Treadmill, 2.0 HP Power homesite. Repo, assume DC Motor, 0-10 MPH Zone owner financing with no Monitor, total body workdown payment. $427 out, exercise lift incline. monthly. Call 785- 554-9663 Space Saver. can be reached at 785-749-5644

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

Regents Court

• Do you love staying on top of the current internet trends and finding digital solutions for your clients’ needs?

• Selling creative solutions to your clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a trio of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawrence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, our Deals websites (including Lawrence Deals and johnsoncountydeals.com), and event marketing sponsorships.

• Prospect new regional clients and make initial contact by cold-calling either in person or by phone.

• Develop and build relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list.

Avail. NOW. 4BR + study, 2 car garage, fenced yard. finished bsmt. $1,600/mo.

Furniture

BodyCraft K2 Home Gym w/Leg Press in like new condition. Will help breakAcreage-Lots down and load. Payment: 3 - 6 acres, includes pond, Cash or Money Order only.

On Hwy. 40 near Big $1,500. (785) 856-2014 Springs. Owner will trade and/or finance with no Perfect for Home Gym, like down payment. From $171 new. Full size, 6 ft front risers and 2.5 ft quarter per month. 785-554-9663 length back risers. Not a large, full-cage type. $100.

Farms-Acreage 785-393-6614

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

• Do you use social marketing as part of your everyday life?

The World Company has an extraordinary opportunity for talented media sales professionals in Lawrence and Shawnee, Kansas. As a sales rep some of what you would be doing includes:

Country Home - 3BR, 2 bath $950/month includes internet, water, & propane Call 785-766-1017

2BR, 2 bath, W/D hookup, 2 car, fenced yard. Avail. Washer & Dryer, Dryer • Small dog welcome Mar. 15th. $875/mo. 4906 works. Washer, as is.

• Income restrictions apply Stoneback Pl. 785-766-1017 (have part to fix it • Students welcome (transmission to motor LAUREL GLEN APTS AVAIL. Now coupling). $225. Lawrence.

For Current Rent Specials 785-393-6614 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., Call 785-838-9559 EOH FP, 2 car.

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• Do you believe digital advertising needs to be a part of every campaign?

If you have been answering YES to these questions and have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling then we want to hear from you!

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.

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Half Off Deposit

• Do you love to turn a “no” into a “yes”?

• Are you looking at being part of the fastest-growing area in media sales with the best growth potential?

to Invest in a Co-op

Move-In Specials!

785-843-1116

Houses

1628 W. 19th Terrace

PARKWAY COMMONS

Available Spring 2012

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, February 25th, 2012 10:00AM - 12:00PM 3800 Greenway Circle, Lawrence, KS ____________________

Apartments Unfurnished

Singer ZigZag Sewing Machine, model #734 with instructions manual, accessories in all wood cabinet. $80. 785-865-4215

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Collectibles Football, Charles “Chuck” Gordon (#3) Signed KU football $85/offer.

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Pressed steel/plastic.

NO BOX $60/offer.

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Computer-Camera HP Desk Jet 3930 Printer $20, HP 1315 All in one Printer $20, Apple 3G Tower Computer $25, Acer 15 inch Computer Mointor $10.

Call Chris at 785-727-5431.

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Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

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View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

We buy all Domestic cars, trucks and suvs.

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8B MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

BUSINESS Adult Care Provided

Carpets & Rugs

Cleaning

Employment Services

Call 866-823-8220 to advertise.

General Services

Home Improvements

Loving Caregiver For Your Loved One. 24/7 or live-in. 20yrs. exp.

Prof. references. CALL Yvonne 785-393-3066

Auctioneers BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

Automotive Services Auto Maintenance and Repair

www.lawrenceautodiag.com

785-842-8665

Carpet Remnants

Save to 75% & a $50 Coupon!

Here’s Just A Few… Size Color Retail Sale 12’x15’ Green $495 $198 12’x’9’ Taupe $260 $99 12’x’22.5” Brown $455 $238* 12’x11.5” Taupe $350 $131 12’x23’ Green $1,080 $336* 12’x16’ Brown $525 $189* 12’x13’ Brown $430 $156 12’x21.5” Beige $1,065 $338* 12’x16” Green $410 $142* 12’x20’ White $655 $248* 12’x22.5” Brown $1,140 $279* 12’x15’ Beige $495 $148* 12’x10.5” Brown $250 $138 12’x22’ Beige $1,080 $346* 12’x14’ Brown $315 $152 6’x7’ Taupe $110 $39 12’x6.5” Tan $165 $74 12’x6.3” Brown $175 $68 $50 IN-STORE COUPON* * $50 Instant Savings Coupon on many premium carpet remnants! Dozens of choices.

Great quality at up to 75% OFF. One of a kinds, subject to prior sale. Coupon offer exp.

2/29/12, *$50 coupon reflected in price listed.

Catering

- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

On-Site Cooking Available

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Cell Phone Service & Repair

http://lawrencemarketplace. com/dalerons

Computer/Internet Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise?

We Can Help — 785-979-0838

Concrete

Events/ Entertainment Eagles Lodge

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES

Guttering Services

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarket place.com/Eagles_Lodge

CONCRETE INC. Your local concrete repair specialists Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

Decorative & Regular Drives, Walks & Patios Custom Jayhawk Engraving Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261 Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Buy * Sell * Repair * Smart Phones Tablets Gaming Systems 2201 W 25th St.

Child Care Provided

Full service preschool & licensed childcare center for children ages 1-12. Open year-round, Monday- Friday, from 7 am to 6 pm

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Tires for anything Batteries Brakes Oil Changes Fair and Friendly Customer Service is our trademark 2720 Oregon St. 785-843-3222 Find great offers at

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Decks & Fences

DECK BUILDER

Over 25 yrs. exp.

Licensed & Insured Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791 www.billyconstruction.com

Stacked Deck

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Road Lawrence, Kansas 785-864-4940 hilltop@ku.edu twitter.com/HilltopCDC Serving Lawrence since 1972.

Licensed Day Care

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All Your Banking Needs

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery

Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

Electrical

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Foundation Repair ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

Quality work at a fair price!

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

FOUNDATION REPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepair.com

Garage Doors

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems

Gift Certificates Avail.

For Promotions & More Info: http://lawrencemarketplac e.com/kansas_carpet_care

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

785-842-3311

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

Give your sweetie the gift of cleaning.

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

785-841-3088

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation

General Services

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

Get Lynn on the line!

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Employment Services

Family owned and operated since 1992

Honest & Dependable Free estimate, References Call Linda 785-691-7999

Housecleaning Services Thorough, dependable, reasonably priced. Call for an estimate. 785-764-1596

Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

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jayhawkguttering.com

Heating & Cooling

Call 785-215-4251

Inside - Out Painting Service Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

785-766-2785

• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

inside-out-paint@yahoo.com Free Estimates Fully Insured Lawrencemarketplace.com/ inside-out-paint

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

785-842-3030

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

Free Quote

Interior/Exterior Painting

Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat

Retirement Community Drury Place

Live More Pay Less Worry-free life at an affordable price

1510 St. Andrews

913-585-1846

785-841-6845

Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ druryplace

Roofing

785-865-0600

Landscaping Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

785-550-5610

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Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Fast Quality Service

Lawn, Garden & Nursery Green Grass Lawn Care

15 yrs exp, Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal All jobs considered. 785-312-0813 785-893-1509

Locally owned & operated.

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services

Complete Roofing

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

We’re There for You!

785-749-4391

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I COME TO YOU!

Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs

Dependable & Reliable pet sitting, feeding, walks, overnights, and more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

Free Estimates

Insurance Work Welcome

785-764-9582

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ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH Professional Service with a Tender Touch

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

midwestcustompools.com

785-843-2244

www.scott-temperature.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/scotttemperature

Complete Roofing Services Professional Staff Quality Workmanship http://lawrencemarketplace. com/lawrenceroofing

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Call Calli 785-766-8420

www.cnnmobilepetsalons.com 1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

Plumbing

Salon & Spa

We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

913-636-1881 JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

Bus. 913-269-0284

Snow Removal Driveways & Sidewalks

Insured 20 yrs. experience www.independenceinc.org

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• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Breathe Holistic Life Center

Yoga is more than getting on the mat.

Live Passionately Yoga Nutrition Classes Relaxation Retreats 1407 Massachusetts 785-218-0174 lawrencemarketplace.com/ breathe

Travel Services

Moving-Hauling Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

Also Maintenance/Cleaning for home/business, inside/out plumbing / electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info 785-841-6254

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of: Decks Drywall Siding Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors Trim

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Medical-HealthTherapy

Home Improvements

Accessible and General Public Transportation

Housecleaner

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

No Job Too Big or Small

http://lawrencemarketplce.com/ lynncommunications

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

Insurance

785-594-3357

Eco-Friendly Cleaning

Five yrs. exp. References, Bonded & Insured Res., Com., Moveouts 785-840-5467

Repairs and Services

www.ah-air.com

http://lawrencemarket place.com/patchen

Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

• House Cleaning • Chandeliers • Post Construction • Gutters • Power Washing • Prof Window Cleaning • Sustainable Options Find Coupons & more info: lawrencemarketplace.com/ birdjanitorial Free Est. 785-749-0244

I Will Paint Your Home, Apt. or Place of Business Free Estimates Senior Citizen Discount Exp. professional painter

Your Local Lawrence Bank

602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

Westside 66 & Car Wash

• Color & Design • Space Planning • Furniture Layouts • Trade Discounts • Project Management 785-766-9281 originsinteriordesign.com

Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

785-764-6660

Cleaning

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“where simple ideas become inspiring realities”

Financial

2 Openings 18 months - 5 years First aid, CPR, SRS

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Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Origins Interior Design

785-843-2174

Hite Collision Repair

K’s Tire

Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

785-841-4855 lawrencemarketplace.com/ lonnies

Riffel Painting Co.

WIRELESS RESTORE

Harris Auto Repair

Sales and Service

Instruction and Tutoring

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

CELL PHONE REPAIR

For All Your Battery Needs

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

• Baths • Kitchens • Rec Rooms • Tile • Windows •Doors •Trim •Wood Rot Since 1974 GARY 785-856-2440 785-925-0803 gwbrown52@sunflower.com www.winston-brown.com Licensed & Insured

Steve’s Place

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

Quality work at a fair price!

(785) 550-1565

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Family Owned & Operated

785-424-5960

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

785-842-6264

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Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

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

785-887-6936 http://oakleycreek.com

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Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Janitorial Services Business-Commercial-Industrial Housecleaning Carpet Cleaning Tile & Grout Cleaning The “Greener Cleaner” Locallly Owned Since 1983 Free Estimates

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

Oakley Creek Catering

Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

785-842-2108

A. B. Painting & Repair

Al 785-331-6994

3000 Iowa - 785-841-3838 Mon. - Sat. 9am - 5pm www.FloorTraderLawrence.com Follow us on Facebook too!

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

Recycling Services

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

Jennings’ Floor Trader

Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

785-843-5803 bryantcollisionrepair@msn.com. lawrencemarketplace.com/ bryant-collision-repair

Painting

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Recycling Services PIANO LESSONS

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Tree/Stump Removal Chris Tree Service

Music Lessons

Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year with Simply Music!

Keys of Joy 785-331-8369 Karla’s Konservatory 785-865-4151

Lawrence First Class Transportation

12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals We take glass!

1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter

20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Free Est. Ins. & Lic. 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659

Fredy’s Tree Service

cutdown• trimmed• topped Licensed & Insured.

14 yrs experience.

913-441-8641 913-244-7718

Vacuum Service & Repair DAVE BALES Vacuum Cleaner, Sewing Machine, Lamp Sales & Repair. All makes & models All Panasonic, Royal, Sanitaire vacuums on sale “now!” 935 Iowa St. Suite#9, Lawrence Ks 785-550-7315

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Dear Annie: I have two grown children, both married with kids.

My youngest, “Carrie,” has a 14-year-old daughter who has been seeing a boy for a year.

The other day, we were visiting Carrie, and my granddaughter and her boyfriend got very cozy at the dining room table while we were eating dinner. They started kissing and making out in front of the entire family.

Carrie didn’t say a word.

I think this is terrible.

Carrie is not the easiest person to approach about it, however. If I say anything to her, I doubt she’ll respond well. Any suggestions? — Grandmother in Boston Dear Boston: Carrie may have reasons for ignoring such inappropriate behavior. Perhaps this teenage granddaughter already has plenty of issues with her mother, and Carrie has decided to ignore as much as she can.

If you spend time alone

Annie’s Mailbox

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell anniesmailbox@comcast.net

with your granddaughter (and we recommend it), you can discuss these things directly and calmly with her. Otherwise, it would be a good idea to stay out of it.

Dear Annie: My dentist performed a root canal on the wrong tooth.

Because of his mistake, I had to go through two root canals and two crown preps. He didn’t charge me for the one he did in error, but I did get a bill for more than $2,000 for the other.

I feel violated. Crowns do not last as long as natural teeth, so I’ve lost

PBS profiles Bill Clinton ‘‘American Experience” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings; concludes 7 p.m. Tuesday) celebrates Presidents Day with a two-night profile of Bill Clinton.

Recent history is always tricky.

For many, it will seem hardly possible that the 1990s have receded into “history” already. ‘‘American Experience” profiles tend toward psycho-biography, and this one has a field day with Clinton’s contradictory personality, his often brilliant public performance and his sloppy private life.

This “Clinton” is so focused on the scandals of the era that viewers may be forgiven for thinking it may have been lying in a vault since 2000. It’s a media time warp.

Speaking of media, the program never discusses the new and unique challenges of the 24-hour cable news media or the hostile and extremist talk-radio media that accompanied Clinton’s presidency. The Fox News Channel, created specifically to torment the president and his party, is never mentioned.

Neither is Rush Limbaugh.

Despite enduring brutal attacks, impeachment and hitherto unimagined private scrutiny and public humiliation, Clinton left office more popular and admired than ever. All but ignoring Clinton’s foes, this “Experience” overlooks the idea that they may have been key to Clinton’s survival and enduring popularity.

There’s an old saying in politics, dating to the Cleveland administration and popular during FDR’s era: “We love you for the enemies you have made.” It goes a long way toward explaining people’s feelings about Bill Clinton.

Tonight’s other highlights

Auditions continue on “The Voice” (7 p.m., NBC).

An intricate ballet ruse on “House” (7 p.m., Fox).

A chemist emerges from the mists of time on “Alcatraz” (8 p.m., Fox).

“Jefferson’s Secret Bible” (7 p.m., Smithsonian) explores a founding father’s complex relationship with Christianity.

A corpse is discovered wearing ceremonial garb on “Hawaii Five-O” (9 p.m., CBS).

The search for DiMaggio continues on “Smash” (9 p.m., NBC).

War looms on “Castle” (9 p.m., ABC).

BIRTHDAYS Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 88. Actor Sidney Poitier is 85. Racing Hall of Famer Bobby Unser is 78. Racing Hall of Famer Roger Penske is 75. Singersongwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 71. Actress Sandy Duncan is 66.

Rock musician J. Geils is 66. Actor Peter Strauss is 65. Rock singermusician-producer Walter Becker (Steely Dan) is 62. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is 61. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 58. Basketball Hall-ofFamer Charles Barkley is 49. Actor French Stewart is 48. Model Cindy Crawford is 46. Actor Andrew Shue is 45. Singer Rihanna is 24.

a perfectly good piece of my anatomy. The dentist now says I eventually would have needed a root canal there anyway, but that’s not true. I have Xrays from another dentist that show nothing wrong with that tooth.

I know I could sue him for malpractice, but I don’t want the stress of going to court. And the dentist told me if I sue and don’t prove my case, he would countersue with a defamation claim.

Should I report him to the dental board? Should I inform my family, since I have recommended this dentist in the past?

— A Lakes Region Dear Region: Telling your family is your choice. Mistakes can happen in any profession. However, this dentist should have apologized profusely instead of becoming defensive and threatening you with a countersuit. We recommend you call your state dental society

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Monday, Feb. 20: This year you will tend to walk to your own beat. Often you will feel left out, as others go down their own paths. Your self-confidence grows as a result of success. Others find you to be most appealing and gentle, yet also a bit odd. If you are single, you need to be more open to someone who will appreciate you. Be careful that this person is not emotionally unavailable. If you are attached, plan a special vacation together.

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) Your energy carries a project across the finish line. You might wonder what to do next. Follow your natural inclinations, and you will land just fine. Tonight: Zero in on what you want.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Take the lead when others are in a quandary. Your efforts are appreciated, and they can make a difference in the outcome.

Tonight: Could be a late dinner.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Keep reaching out for a friend or loved one at a distance.

You might have to push very hard to establish a trusting relationship.

Tonight: Approach a situation differently.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Open up to a very different attitude and approach. This style is unique and points you toward a new path. Tonight: Go with another person’s suggestion.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Let others make the first move, both professionally and emotionally. Understand what motivates

about resolving this conflict. If that doesn’t help, you can consult an attorney and find out whether it’s worth pursuing a financial solution.

Dear Annie: “Broken” said his ex-girlfriend dropped by, they had a couple of beers, and because he had taken a sleep aid earlier, he fell asleep and woke up having sex with her. You said he apparently didn’t make a conscious decision to cheat on his current girlfriend.

I wish you had pointed out that what happened to him was rape. Any person who wakes up in that situation is a victim, regardless of gender. — Concerned Citizen Dear Concerned: If the ex had given him the sleeping pill, we would agree. But she was unaware of it. In fact, it’s possible “Broken” initiated the sexual contact.

Nonetheless, you are right that men can also be the victims of rape.

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another person before you take a leap of faith. Tonight: As you like it.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your focus can, and will, make all the difference in a personal issue. You could be overwhelmed by another person’s efforts. Tonight: Togetherness is the theme.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Deal directly with a child or loved one. You could be overwhelmed by everything that is happening. Step back and consider what would be the best way to proceed. Tonight: Enjoy a special person.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Listen to what another person is trying to share with you.

He or she might be trying to nudge you out of your complacent attitude. Tonight: Heading home.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Communication with someone you absolutely love to hang out with tells you a lot about what you need to know. Tonight: Make time for a special friend.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You know how to build security on both emotional and financial levels. You see a difference between the two, and you know how to proceed. Tonight: Buy a treat on the way home.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You feel up to snuff and enjoy just being you. Listen to what another person is sharing. Tonight: Wherever you are going to be.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Allow yourself time alone to process an issue. You could try another approach or speak to a respected confidant. Tonight: Do for you.

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SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK By Mark Hooper

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Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker February 20, 2012

ACROSS 1 Financial adviser, for short 4 Go off course 7 False front 13 It might be fine 14 Gets an A 16 Semievergreen ornamental shrub 17 Sodom escapee 18 Kind of crime 20 Make impatient 22 It’s collected on a turnpike 23 Gabriel of “Miller’s Crossing” 24 Forensic science tool 25 Personal quirk 26 Abbr. on a toothpaste box 28 “Chill out!”

31 Argument 34 Like the north wind or Northern Lights 38 Body part susceptible to frostbite 39 Concealed advantage 42 In accordance with 43 Highly skilled people 44 Scallion relative 45 Esteem 47 Poetic work

12 “Fatha” Hines of jazz 15 “The Man” of St. Louis 19 “H” on a frat sweater 21 An egregious error 25 Report a playground infraction 27 “Humble” dwelling 28 Deep-voiced opera singer 29 Valentine word 30 “The ___ shall inherit ...”

31 Snack of Spain 32 Clinched, as a victory 33 Soured, as grapes 35 Signal for a fastball 36 Agent, for short 37 N.Y. time zone

49 St. Louis-toCleveland dir.

50 Square dance sweetie 53 Ennead minus one 57 “It ___ what you think!”

59 Planting season 61 Like some expenses 63 Shipping unit 64 Type of roast 65 First lady on Mt. Olympus 66 Was a consumer 67 Number on either side of a + 68 Christmas Eve drink 69 Center of center court DOWN 1 Moses sent him into Canaan to spy 2 Absentee ballot 3 Essence from rose petals 4 Yelled obnoxiously 5 Symptom for a dentist 6 Strange 7 Confront 8 Blood classification syst.

9 A Boston cager 10 Recipient 11 Classic phone feature

40 Skin fruit 41 Yet to be installed, as a politician 46 Speak hypnotically 48 Army identification 50 Large U.S. publisher?

51 Bridge or foot feature 52 Compare (to) 54 Business bigwig 55 Act the drama queen 56 Believe it either way 57 Raccoon River locale 58 Took legal action 59 Burned rubber 60 Fiddling Roman 62 Aquatic appendage

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by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

AGNIT ©2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

ARRUL

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Grandma should have talk with teen

45 Esteem 47 Poetic work

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

A: Saturday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: STOOD ADULT UNPACK BENIGN Answer: The offensive lineman didn’t want to remember the team’s loss, so he did this — BLOCKED IT OUT

BECKER ON BRIDGE

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World February 13, 2012) Douglas County, Kansas Request for Bids No. 12-F-0005 Douglas County, Kansas is soliciting bids for the modernization of one elevator at the Douglas County United Way, 2518 Ridge Court, Lawrence, KS. Sealed bids must be received in the Office of the Douglas County Clerk’s Office, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044 before 3:00 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 1, 2012.

Interested parties are required to attend a pre-bid conference which will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m., Douglas County United Way, 2518 Ridge Court, Lawrence, KS. Attendance is mandatory to submit a bid.

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SIMPLE HOME BALANCE TEST Dorian Logan, physical therapist DPT at Lawrence and Baldwin Therapy Services, suggests a simple at-home test to see how you’re doing on balance.

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on the street What keeps you feeling young?

Note: Be extra cautious while testing yourself and make sure someone else is nearby, just in case your balance isn’t what you thought it was. If you believe you have some instability, skip home testing all together and visit your doctor or physical therapist.

“Being around children.”

Frances Sanford, piano teacher, Lecompton

1. Start by standing at your kitchen sink in flat shoes or bare feet.

2. Face the sink and place both hands on the lip of the sink.

AYNSLEY ANDERSON, A REGISTERED NURSE with Lawrence Memorial Hospital, goes over safety precautions to prevent falling during a demonstration on Feb. 9 at Meadowlark Estates.

Logan says. “Sometimes they just grab an assistive device like a cane or a walker and are like, ‘Well, this is going to keep me safe.’ It’s kind of like a security blanket.”

For a person who has no self-apparent balance issues as of yet but has concerns about preventing problems later, Samuelson suggests adding balance training to their fitness regimen. Yoga, stability ball work, planks, BOSU Trainer exercises or anything in which you must use one leg or arm at a time could help improve your balance on the whole, she says.

“If you’re at the gym, doing single arm or single leg exercises,” Samuelson says. “If you’re in good shape and doing a plank, put one arm up or leg up or alternate arms and legs — anything with any sort of imbalance would be beneficial in becoming stronger with balance.”

If you’re not fit, she says, simple exercises like brushing your teeth while balancing on one foot or trying to get out of a chair on one leg could be an easy way to start improvements. She also says focusing on core strength — which can improve your stability — has a side effect of helping to improve balance.

3. Pick up one foot, so that you’re standing on a single leg with your hands on the sink.

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EVEN “BIG KIDS” enjoy the marionettes at the Puppetry Arts Institute in Independence, Mo. A trip just across the state line can appeal to multiple generations.

ntergenerational travel is a growing trend, and grandparents in Lawrence don’t have to stray too far from home to take the grandkids on a memorable adventure.

Independence, Mo. — just minutes east of the Kansas City International Airport — offers a wealth of interesting kid-friendly and senior-friendly sites and attractions.

There’s so much to see and do in Independence that it’s hard to know where to start, but my favorite place in town is the Puppetry Arts Institute.

There’s a scene in Walt Disney’s animated film, “Pinocchio,” that takes nearly every child’s breath away when they view it for the first time. The Blue Fairy has just granted Pinocchio his dearest wish, to become a real boy, and little Pinocchio comes alive.

The fact that a little “wooden head” could suddenly feel life in his limbs and start prancing around is a concept that must occur to every child — and quite a few adults — when they first enter the amazing Hazelle Rollins Puppet Museum at the Puppetry Arts Institute.

At first glance, there are puppets everywhere — more than 150 of them: mermaids, nuns, kings, clowns, parrots, and even a perfect replica of Harry Truman! There are marionettes, hand puppets, shadow puppets, rod puppets, finger puppets and European paper puppets (with their own toy theaters). There are even puppets in the Gift Shop that consist solely of “googly” eyeballs for children to wear on their fingers!

Some of the puppets’ faces are so lifelike that you’d expect them to hop off the shelves or unstring themselves

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DAYTRIPPER from the walls and start dancing. Visitors must surely wonder what happens when the last lights go off and the museum is closed for the evening. Do the puppets come out to play?

A wide assortment of hand puppet heads lies invitingly on a table for visitors to select and paint. Don’t be shy about coming in to make a puppet if you’re over 3 feet high, even if you don’t have a child in tow. The museum is not just for kids, but it helps if you’re a kid at heart.

And, through the end of July, it’s Howdy Doody Time!

Baby boomers may find themselves swooning over the special Howdy Doody collection, enhanced by tapes from the TV show. What a thrill to be able to share the magic of Howdy Doody with your grandchildren! One of the Howdy Doody puppeteers is now on staff at the Institute and can answer questions about Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle the Clown and even Howdy.

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The ghost of the inimitable Harry Truman looms large over the entire town, and both you and your grandkids will enjoy touring the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Seniors will get nostalgic over the section of the museum devoted to exploring the postwar economic boom of the 1950s, when America’s standard of living soared, suburbia was born, and new appliances and other consumer goods entered the culture. It’s like a step back into the past — your past.

A vintage television set in this area displays a continuous video loop of television shows and commercials from the early 1950s. Your grandkids may have heard you talk about “the good old days” when you were growing up, but now they can see for themselves some of the television programs that you watched.

A vintage refrigerator in the same room of the museum is stuffed with food that you might remember grabbing as a kid from your parents’ fridge, and the walls are papered with old Life magazine covers from the same era. Spend a little time talking with your grandkids about your own personal experiences during that time period, and they’ll learn more than they’d ever retain from a history textbook.

A new major exhibit at the museum, “The Life and Times of Harry S. Truman,” offers plenty of hands-on activities for younger kids. Your grandchildren can make (and keep) campaign buttons, dress up like Harry or Bess in period clothes, or play “postmaster” and deliver letters.

For a change of pace after the museum, head to Independence Square, which offers plenty of intergenerational activities, like antique shopping (the new Lily Wolfgang is a “mishmash boutique”), bowling (the Diamond Bowl features neon pins and wall art of Day-Glo images of past Presidents demonstrating their bowling techniques) — and, of course, eating!

Your “cool quotient” will rise in your grandkids’ eyes when you treat them to one of the specialty pizzas at Square Pizza, where the pizzas are made “one square at a time.”

Clinton’s Soda Fountain, where young Harry got his first job, still serves up scrumptious ice cream sodas and handdipped shakes. Clinton’s also offers classic soda phosphates with flavored syrups. You might even want to try “Harry’s Favorite” — a butterscotch sundae with chocolate ice cream.

— Nancy Pistorius can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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t’s almost cliché at this point to talk about how difficult it is for a mature woman to find fashionable clothing.

When my mother, who’s in her late 50s, and I go shopping, she looks for blouses and nearly always walks out of the store empty-handed.

For women in their 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, shopping trips can become dreaded endeavors and instead, these seasoned women hunt through their closets and end up grabbing the same sweater they wore to their daughter’s junior high bake sale.

Part of the problem in mature women’s fashion is to blame on the stores that carry ill-fitting, age-inappropriate clothing. But on the consumer’s end, be sure not to fall into the trap of trying to look like a younger version of yourself.

The most elegant and young-looking woman in Hollywood isn’t Joan Rivers, who is, at this point, more plastic than flesh. No, it’s the woman who has embraced her age and ushered it in with grace. It’s women like Diane Keaton or Helen Mirren, both 66. These ladies showcase that it’s not about looking young; it’s about looking good. For this special edition of Go!, we’ll look at Keaton and Mirren’s styles to determine how to dress as a senior woman.

Helen Mirren

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NEUTRALS I don’t think I’ve ever seen Diane Keaton in an actual color. She’s always looking absolutely amazing in either in a stunning black dress or a white button up shirt.

Mirren, too, is often found in champagnes and muted silvers. Neutral colors are perfect for mature women, because they proclaim a certain understated confidence, a undeniable elegance that younger women just can’t pull off. The best thing a woman can wear is a crisp, white button-up shirt.

FUNKY GLASSES Eclectic eyeglasses juxtaposed against an elegant ensemble make for a sophisticated yet youthful look. Keaton switches between round, silver wireframed glasses and thick, square plasticframed glasses. This simple change in accessories can make a big impact in your appearance.

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I’ve stressed this point in almost every column I’ve written about women who are older than 20. For mature women, fit is the most important aspect to consider when purchasing clothes. You’ll save money and stretch your wardrobe by investing in a tailor to fix clothes that don’t quite fit.

SENSIBLE HAIRCUT Gone are the days of throwing your mane back in a messy bun or letting it fall down over your shoulders. However, it’s still possible to have a fun and beautiful haircut.

Hairstyles for women over 60 should follow these three simple rules:

If your hair is thin, cut it to your shoulders or above.

Brighten it to a color lighter than it was in your 20s and 30s.

Don’t load it down with hairspray. The less stiff, the better.

Diane Keaton

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

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Is that a TV in your pocket?

River City Jules

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never thought chuck wagon dinners sounded good before,” my husband confessed at the dinner

table.

We had been talking about last summer’s voyage to Wyoming, a trip that included a horse-drawn wagon ride to a barbecue dinner and cowboy sing-a-long.

What’s not to love?

“It was that old dog food commercial,” he explained as 10 eyeballs shot his way.

“You know, the one with the covered wagon that came out of the television and ran around the dog’s living room?”

Our kids were intrigued. How, with the dark-age technology of the 1970s, could non-cable television have produced a commercial that landed a chuck wagon in a living room, they wondered?

My husband pulled out his iPhone and within moments had located the commercial on YouTube.

Unfortunately the clip was slow to load, taking nearly 20 seconds, just long enough for the following conversation to take place.

“Why is this taking so long?” he asked, I am assuming, Steve Jobs.

The fact that we were using 4G (I have no clue what that is) technology at our dinner table to watch a commercial from 35 years ago that brings pre-Civil War era covered wagons to life was too much for me to keep quiet.

“Do you understand you just pulled a television,” I started, “a t-e-l-e-v-i-s-i-o-n,” I clarified, “out of your pocket?”

He looked up as YouTube continued to buffer.

“Our parents didn’t have televisions in their homes until well after starting grade school, but our kids are about to watch one you just pulled out of your pocket.” The kids looked at me, horrified at the thought

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that Mimi, Papa, Grammy and Grandpa lived so long without access to SpongeBob. At this point the commercial was ready for someone to tap “play,” but I was on a roll with an attentive audience, something that rarely happens in our home. I should have used this chance to ask for more help in the laundry room, but technology was on my mind.

“For most of the last three decades, if we wanted to watch a woman reconstitute golden nuggets and tender red chunks of meat for her dog we would have had to sit in front of the television and wait for it to come on.” (All it took was warm water and the dog was eating a meal fit for a cowboy.

The ’70s were awesome.) “But now you can reach into your pocket and summon a commercial I haven’t seen since Lou Ferrigno last painted his pecs green.”

Eight young eyebrows contorted in confusion.

“He played the Incredible Hulk,” I explained to their satisfaction before pointing out to my husband that the high-def television he held in the palm of his hand was ready for viewing.

Without a word he tapped the screen, and within nanoseconds the old chuck wagon was once again rolling through the dog’s house and into the kitchen cabinet.

— Julie Dunlap can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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anging anything onto a plaster wall is a bit of a challenge. Depth finders help locate studs behind the plaster, but drilling through plaster and lath into a stud is often problematic.

There are a few good options to consider when trying to hang something on a plaster wall.

Option 1: In days of yore, builders often installed wooden picture rail molding a few inches from the ceiling around the perimeter of the room. Flat metal molding hooks and long strings or ribbons were then used to hang artwork down at eye level from the rail tops. Special molding hooks are available at most local hardware stores and can be permanently mounted in place with a small screw for added security.

Option 2: For walls lacking picture rail molding, 3M’s Command line of hooks are an easy solution. Available in a wide range of options, these self-adhesive hooks stick well to most surfaces and leave no residue when they are removed. For best results, clean surfaces with rubbing alcohol before installing any type of adhesive hook.

Option 3: Standard picture-hanging hooks work wonders in plaster walls. These

small “J” shaped metal hooks come in various sizes and can hold up to 100 pounds of weight. The mounting nail angles through the hook and into the wall holding the hook in place with a simple lever design. To reduce plaster damage, place a small piece of transparent tape on the wall before hammering the nail into place.

Option 4: For heavier items, toggle bolts are the best option. These butterfly-like toggles thread onto long machine screws and offer the best support for securing objects to plaster walls. To use a toggle bolt, drill a hole large enough for the folded toggle to slip into the wall. Insert the machine screw through the mounting bracket of the object to be hung. Thread the toggle onto the screw end with the wings of the toggle folded inward, pointing toward the head of the screw. Push the toggle through the wall until the toggle wings spring freely open.

Once the toggle bolt is in place, use a screw driver to tighten the bolt to the wall.

When the toggle bolt is secured, the pressure of the toggle on the opposite side of the wall will hold most any object in place.

— Linda Cottin can be reached at go@ljworld.com.

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PIP, THE CAT, LIKES TO CURL UP WITH LULU, THE DOG, on a chilly October morning in Lawrence. Pip was adopted from an animal shelter in western Kansas as a kitten in 2008, and Lulu was adopted from the Lawrence Humane Society as a puppy in 2010. Pip was smitten with Lulu as soon as she joined the family. Vanessa Eicher, Lawrence, submitted the photo. Got a picture for Pet Post? Bring in or mail a Pet Post photo and some information about your pet to the Journal-World, 645 N.H., Lawrence, KS 66044 or email it to go@ ljworld.com.

ognitive decline, including memory loss, is one of the top fears among people over the age of 55.

More than half of baby boomers fear the loss of mental capacity, and 41 percent are afraid their brain fitness has decreased in the past 10 years, according to a 2010 report in Today’s Dietitian.

There are easy lifestyle choices you can make every day to sustain your mental edge as you age.

Give your brain a workout. Exercise helps maintain a healthy body and brain.

Research has found associations between physical activity and reduced risk of cognitive decline.

Give your body and brain a workout by engaging in physical activities at least 30 minutes every day.

Nourish your mind. Protect brain cells from memory loss by following a diet rich in good fats such as DHA, a major structural fat accounting for up to 97 percent of the omega-3 fats in the brain.

DHA intake has been associated with a decreased risk of mental decline associated with aging.

Another easy way to get it is by taking a daily DHA supplement, clinically shown to improve memory in adults over 55, according to a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Activate your mind. Brain cells can grow bigger and stronger with cognitive challenges and stimulation. Pursuing education, learning a new language, reading and working crossword puzzles are fun ways to exercise your mind.

By giving your brain a little more attention, you’ll not only lead a fuller life, but you’ll also be helping to keep your mental edge.

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