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Side effects of energy drinks cause spike in E.R. visits

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Nasty side effects from drinking too many energy drinks are causing a sharp increase in the number of visits to emergency rooms across the country.

A federal report released last month from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration showed that the number of emergency visits involving energy drinks increased more than tenfold between 2005 The kids are and 2009.

Public health drinking these officials in like sodas. It’s Kansas are becoming part taking note of the dangers of of their daily caffeinroutine. And it’s highly ated drinks. stressing the The Poison heart out every Control Center at Kansas time they are University doing it.” receives calls from through— Tama Sawyer, director out the state about energy of the Poison Control drinks.

Center at Kansas “Mostly it’s University from concerned parents. The kids are drinking these like sodas. It’s becoming part of their daily routine. And it’s stressing the heart out every time they are doing it,” said Tama Sawyer, director of the poison control center.

Too much caffeine causes the heart to beat faster and stronger, raises blood pressure and causes insomnia.

Other side effects are headaches and a jittery feeling that turns to more severe anxiety.

“Many people who use energy drinks are in their teens and 20s, and they don’t think they are in danger until something happens, and then they go to the emergency room,” Sawyer said.

The research, which was reported in the Drug Abuse Warning Network, noted that a can or bottle of an energy drink can have between 80 to 500 milligrams of caffeine.

That’s compared with a 5-ounce cup of coffee, which has about 100 mg, or a 12-ounce can of soda, which has 50 mg. The report also noted that certain additives (and the most popular brands have quite a few) may compound the stimulant effects of caffeine.

“The listing of caffeine doesn’t seem so bad, but it’s not giving you the full story,” Sawyer said. “It can be more like three cups of coffee per can.”

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Starbucks Frappuccino Coffee Drink Caffeine: 108 mg Size: 13.7 oz.

Roll out the red carpet. Put on the prom dress.

Smile for the paparazzi. It is tax season.

That’s right, tax season. And that means it is time for our annual awards program: The Taxis, where we take a look at fun facts and figures related to the tax rates of every government in Douglas County that has the honor of charging a property tax.

Per usual, most of the awards will go to governments, such as cities, counties, townships and — who knows? — maybe even a dark-horse candidate like a cemetery board or a watershed district. Wouldn’t that keep them talking on “Entertainment Tonight”?

Don’t worry, though. Ordinary citizens are sure to receive something too. Tax bills and statements were mailed to all property owners in Douglas County in late November. First half tax payments are due Tuesday.

But enough with the Barbara Wa-Wa chit-chat.

Let’s get on with the show:

Full Throttle Energy Drink Caffeine: 197 mg Size: 16 oz.

Diet Mountain Dew Caffeine: 91 mg Size: 20 oz.

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Category: The Big Gainers Six governments, out of the 40 that charge property taxes in Douglas County, had a mill levy increase of 1 mill or more for this new tax year.

They are: 1. City of Lecompton. The mill levy went from Amp Energy Overdrive Turbo Boost with Yerba Mate Caffeine: 190 mg Size: 16 oz.

Other stimulants in the drink: 296 mg of taurine, 248 mg of guarana extract, 148 mg of maltodextrin, 34 mg of panax ginseng extract, 16 mg of yerba mate extract

5-Hour Energy Caffeine: 207 mg Size: 1.93 oz.

Energy blend of 1870 mg contains taurine, glucuronolactone, malic acid, N-Acetyl, L-tyrosine, L-Phenylalanine, caffeine, Citicoline.

Rockstar Energy Double Strength, Double Size Caffeine: 180 mg Size: 16 oz.

Other stimulants in the drink: 300 mg of ginkgo biloba leaf extract, 50 mg of guarana seed extract, 50 mg of Inositol, 50 mg of L-Carnitine, 50 mg of panax ginseng extract and 40 mg of milk thistle extract

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Bevy of road projects up for city approval

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Red Bull Energy Drink Caffeine: 114 mg Size: 12 oz.

Starbucks’ Pike Place Coffee Caffeine: 330 mg Size: 16 oz.

AriZona Sweet Tea Caffeine: 43 mg Size: 23 oz.

— Photos by Nick Krug — Sources: Information was pulled from product labels, product websites or the Mayo Clinic website.

Shine up the orange cones and get out the detour map. Lawrence City Hall leaders are seeking approval for a host of new road projects for 2012.

City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will be asked to approve a formal street maintenance plan for the coming year, and they’ll also be told new numbers are suggesting the city’s renewed emphasis on streets is paying off.

The city is reporting that the number of potholes on city streets declined significantly from a year CITY ago. Through early November, COMMISSION the city has patched 10,901 potholes. That’s down from 30,472 potholes the city patched in all of 2010.

Mark Thiel, the city’s assistant director of public works, said the city’s patches are lasting longer now that crews can use a new spray injection patcher that allows potholes to be filled during any weather conditions.

“That piece of equipment has helped us tremendously,” Thiel said. “Typically when we Please see STREETS, page 2A

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DEATHS LAURA CHRISTINE BALDWIN A Mass of Christian Burial for Laura Christine Baldwin, 30, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.

She died Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born Nov. 17, 1981, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Steven R. Millikan and Linda Sue Franklin Millikan.

She attended schools in Overland Park and graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School. She was a graduate in civil engineering from Kansas University in 2004. She worked for a time as a civil engineer for Burns and McDonnell. Later, she received professional engineer certification and licensing.

Mrs. Baldwin was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church and a MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group in Lawrence.

She married Jacob C. Baldwin on June 24, 2006, in

Hospital, said LMH doesn’t have any data on people comToo much caffeine ing to the ER with energyLawrence. He For young adults drinking drink-related symptoms, and survives, of several energy drinks a day, she doesn’t think it’s a huge the home. the caffeine can add up. problem here.

Other The report noted that most survivors researchers and clinicians Alcohol, drugs and energy include sons consider 100 to 200 mg of drinks Connor J. Jenny Donham, a health caffeine per day to be a modBaldwin and erate intake for adults. And educator at Kansas University, Colter B. Baldwin they recommend that chil- said students are often taken Baldwin, of dren and adolescents abstain aback when they hear about the home; her father, Steven from all stimulant-containing the negative side effects of too Millikan, Olathe; her mother, many energy drinks. energy drinks.

Linda Harker and husband “I think people are extraorChad Steele knows that too Alex, Jackson Hole, Wyo.; much caffeine can come with dinarily surprised because a sister, Brandyn Ford and some pretty serious side ef- they figure if they can order a husband Ethan and their fects. In 2008, when he was a Red Bull and vodka together children, Avery, Huntley and senior at Kansas University, he that of course it would be safe Madelyn, Leawood; and a was drinking two to three en- for them,” Donham said. “If it’s brother-in-law, Josh and wife ergy drinks a day plus a couple available to them, why can’t Melanie and their daughter, of pots of coffee. All that caf- they have it?”

Kyra, Overbrook.

The federal study showed feine helped him keep up with The family will meet a busy schedule; he worked at that for 44 percent of the friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. night, attended school during emergency department vistoday at Corpus Christi its, the energy drink was the day and taught judo.

Catholic Church.

He knew he had too much mixed with a pharmaceutiThe family suggests mecaffeine when his eyes started cal drug, alcohol or an illicit morials to the ITP Foundatwitching or when his heart drug, such as marijuana or tion or to LMH Endowment began to beat irregularly or cocaine.

Association for Transfusion It also noted that younger too fast while exercising.

Rooms, sent in care of the “I’d stop drinking caffeine drinkers believed that energy mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., and sleep more,” he said and drinks could help “undo” the Lawrence, KS 66044. noted he has since stopped effects of alcohol, making it Online condolences may safe to drive. drinking energy drinks. be sent at warrenmcelwain.

The problem with combinJanice Early, spokeswomcom. an with Lawrence Memorial ing energy drinks and alcohol

HENRY S. KOCHANSKI Memorial services for Henry S. Kochanski, 92, Ozawkie, formerly of Philadelphia, are pending and will be announced next summer by

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Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home and Crematory in Lawrence.

Mr. Kochanski died Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at Village Villa in Nortonville.

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patch with the spray injector, the patch is lasting more than a year.”

Before the city began using the new piece of equipment, OCH SERVICES Thiel said city crews would have to replace some patches Funeral services for Karl “Patty” Wahl within one to two weeks, esW. Koch, 71, Shawnee, will pecially during the winter on July 26, be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at 1980, at the St. months when a “cold patch” Warren-McElwain Mortuary form of asphalt had to be used.

Paul United — Eudora Chapel. Military Thiel also said weather Church of graveside service will follow conditions have played a role Christ in in Eudora Cemetery. in the drop. Fewer freezeEudora. She He died Friday, Dec. 16, thaw cycles have occurred, survives, of 2011, at Shawnee Mission which has cut back on the the home.

Koch Medical Center. number of potholes.

Other surHe was born Sept. 3, 1940, The city also is reporting vivors include in Lawrence, the son of Gus that a preliminary analysis three sons, Mark, Mesa, and Jane J. Jackson Koch. shows the number of streets Ariz., Kristopher, GreenHe received his Bachelor rated in “fair to poor” conbrae, Calif., and Kyle, Los of Arts in journalism from Angeles; one daughter, Amy dition are declining. Crews Kansas University, a full with the city’s Public Works MacNabb, Carlsbad, Calif.; scholarship recipient as a one sister, Cherry McCabria, Department rate the condimember of the Navy ROTC tion of every street in the city.

Eudora; and five grandchilprogram. Mr. Koch then The city recently has finished dren, Austin, Mason, Max, served as an officer in the rating two-thirds of the city’s Patrick and Katelyn.

United States Navy for eight streets and has found 22.75 The family will greet years. He later spent more percent of the streets are in friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. than 30 years as an executive Tuesday at Warren-McElpoor to fair condition, which in the insurance industry, generally means the street wain Mortuary — Eudora including serving as the Chapel. executive vice president of The family suggests methe National Association of morials to Lawrence HuInsurance Commissioners mane Society, sent in care of and president of Meadowthe mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., brook Insurance. He was Lawrence, KS 66044. # Shane M. Jones, L.S.C.S.W., also a member of the AmeriOnline condolences may completed Trust-Based Relacan Legion. be sent at warrenmcelwain. tional Intervention this fall at He married Patricia A. com.

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will have to be rebuilt rather than repaired. In 2005, when the city first rated the streets, 31.5 percent were rated poor to fair. In 2009, the number was 29.8 percent.

The city also has completely rebuilt several stretches of street, including two projects along Kasold Drive and a stretch of 19th Street near Lawrence High School.

“As you get streets reconstructed, you should have fewer potholes,” City Commissioner Bob Schumm said.

“Those new streets better not have any potholes anyway.

But I do think the infrastructure is looking better than it did a year ago and probably much better than it did two years ago.”

City engineers have a mix of major rebuilding projects and preventive maintenance jobs lined up for next year.

City commissioners at their Tuesday meeting will consider approving the street maintenance plan for 2012. It includes work in several areas of the city: # Repaving of selected streets north of Sixth Street between Tennessee and Iowa streets.

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD is that the two are on opposite ends of the spectrum.

One is a stimulant while the other is a depressant, Donham said.

The energy drink masks signs the body gives off when someone is drinking too much, such as getting sleepy or sick.

“People are using energy drinks as a way to stay awake longer, so they are more likely to drink more, and they are at a greater risk for acute alcohol poisoning,” Donham said.

Even without alcohol, students have to be wary of energy drinks this time of year as they stay up late cramming for finals, Donham said.

While energy drinks might make it easier to stay awake, Donham said that without sleep the information isn’t likely to stick.

“You don’t learn the information until you memorize it. And when that memorization occurs is during the sleep cycle,” she said.

The federal study ended the report by noting the need for a public awareness campaign about the health effects of energy drinks, especially when they are combined with alcohol or drugs.

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

# Repaving of selected streets north of East 15th Street between Harper and Kentucky. # Crack sealing of streets south of Clinton Parkway between Iowa Street and Wakarusa Drive. # A rebuilding of Wakarusa Drive near the Bob Billings Parkway intersection. # A repaving and improvements to Sixth Street between Iowa and Monterey Way. # A state project to reconstruct the 23rd Street bridge between Barker and Haskell. # Repaving of neighborhood streets in the Breezedale neighborhood south of 23rd and Massachusetts.

While repaving, crews also may install traffic-calming devices previously approved by the City Commission. # Microsurfacing of neighborhood streets west of Kasold Drive, east of Wakarusa Drive, north of Bob Billings Parkway and south of West Sixth Street.

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

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

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District Judge Evelyn Wilson Brownback names sentenced 19-year-old Brandon acting KDOT secretary Stodden on Friday for agTOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback has named Barb Rankin to be the acting secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation as the search continues for a permanent secretary.

Rankin is general counsel for the agency. She takes over for Secretary Deb Miller, who resigned to take a job in the private sector.

Miller, whose last day was Friday, was the first woman to lead KDOT. She was the only Cabinet holdover from past Democratic administrations after Brownback, a Republican, took office in January. Miller has been transportation secretary since 2003.

Driver gets 44 months for running over man TOPEKA — A Topeka man is sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for running over a man on a sidewalk three times while driving drunk.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Shawnee County

gravated battery, leaving the scene of an accident, felony failure to report an accident and drunken driving.

Stodden pleaded guilty in August to the charges. As part of his plea, Stodden said he drank liquor and smoked marijuana at a party in Topeka before he ran over 57-year-old Kim Curtis at 5:30 a.m. May 11, 2010.

The car struck Curtis from behind, backed up over him and then drove forward over him again before leaving.

Curtis is in an Oklahoma nursing facility because of his injuries.

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The public is invited. # Gina Halsey, local acupuncturist, attended a seminar Nov. 1920 in Los Angeles led by Professor Shi Xue Min, chief physician of First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. There she learned “Xing Nao Kai Qiao Therapy” (XNKQ: activating the brain and opening the orifices). # During its annual conference, the Kansas Association of City/County Management honored Ottawa City Manager Richard Nienstedt as the 2011 recipient of the Buford Watson Jr. Award. The award, established in 1980, is given each year

by KACM to a local government manager who has displayed the attributes of the late Buford M. Watson Jr. (former city manager of Lawrence). # Erin Laing Mehojah, McGrew Real Estate, recently completed the Kansas Graduate REALTOR Institute Program, earning the nationally recognized real estate designation GRI. The GRI designation is awarded only to real estate professionals who are members of the National, State, and their Local Board/Association of REALTORS, and who successfully complete at least 90 hours of specific advanced coursework.

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1 | PHILIPPINES

Flash floods kill at least 450 Flash floods devastated a southern Philippine region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people as they slept and turning two coastal cities into muddy waterways strewn with overturned vehicles and toppled trees.

With nearly 300 people missing, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and top military officials were to fly to the worst-hit city of Cagayan de Oro today to help oversee search-and-rescue efforts and deal with thousands of displaced villagers, as the weather began to clear and floodwaters receded.

Among the items urgently needed are coffins and body bags, said Benito Ramos, who heads the government’s disaster-response agency.

“It’s overwhelming. We didn’t expect these many dead,” Ramos said.

Army officers reported unidentified bodies piled up in morgues in Cagayan de Oro city, where electricity was restored in some areas, although the city of more than 500,000 people remained without tap water.

2 | BEIRUT

Arab League mulls turning to U.N. The Arab League has given Syria until Wednesday to allow observers into the country or else it will likely turn to the U.N. Security Council for action to try to end the deadly violence against regime opponents, Qatar’s prime minister said Saturday.

Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani said in Qatar that Arab foreign ministers will hold a “decisive and important” meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to decide on next steps. He said there is near unanimity on taking the Arab League’s plan to the Security Council in hopes the world body can bring more pressure to bear on Damascus to accept it.

Syria has demanded changes to the proposal, which calls for an end to the government’s crackdown.

“We hope that the brothers in Syria sign before that date,” Hamad said, referring to Wednesday’s meeting.

The violence continued Saturday. The Britishbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces shot dead at least 20 people, most of them in the central province of Homs, a restive province that has seen intense protests and clashes since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March.

3 | BAGHDAD

NATO ends 7-year training mission

Brandon Woods’ deficiencies above average Nursing home among 81 named by group that exceeded national mean for 3 years

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Brandon Woods at Alvamar is among the nursing homes that a state advocacy group has identified as having poor inspection records over the past three years.

The Kansas Advocates for Better Care released a list this week of Kansas nursing homes that have an above-average number of deficiencies in their inspections records. The data is based on three inspection reports, which by federal law must be done every 12 to 15 months,

done by the Kansas Department on Aging.

The national average of deficiencies is eight, and in Kansas the average is 14. The advocacy group identified 81 nursing home facilities that exceeded the national average for three consecutive years. Brandon

Woods is among them with an average of 20 deficiencies per year.

“These are standout facilities in terms of a pattern of having deficiencies over a period of three years,” said Margaret Farley, board president of Kansas Advocates for Better Care.

“This is not a one-shot survey.”

The deficiencies found at Please see DEFICIENCIES, page 4A

Red and white and Christmas all over SantaCon descends upon downtown, raising cheer, food pantry donations

By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com

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This isn’t exactly your kids’ holiday party.

About 30 Santas (and maybe one or two reindeers and elves) met at the Sandbar, 17 E. Eighth St., on Saturday afternoon for the second annual SantaCon, a national trend in theme partying that’s spread to Lawrence.

It’s basically a pub crawl for the North Pole set.

It was a time to be jolly that also included a good cause: Among the rules for Santas participating (other than, of course, dressing with lots of Yuletide adornment) was to give a donation to Just Food, a Douglas County food bank.

Ali Brox was in the minority dressed as an elf, but that didn’t stop her enjoyment of the ’Con. She said she saw the event online and decided to come after having been to SantaCons in other cities.

When asked what, other than popularity of the SantaCon trend, made the event appealing, she was almost philosophical.

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STEPHANIE ROBERTS, FRONT LEFT, AND SHANNON GRAY, RIGHT, LEAD participants in the second annual SantaCon on Saturday. SantaCon featured elements of a flash mob and pub crawl with Christmas carols and random acts of kindness. This year it included a food drive to benefit Just Food, the primary food bank for Douglas County AT LEFT, participants in the SantaCon event gather at the Sandbar, 17 E. Eighth St.

NATO has ended its seven-year training mission in Iraq with a ceremony in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

During Saturday’s ceremony, senior Iraqi military commanders praised NATO’s role in training Iraqi army and security forces since the program began in 2004.

NATO announced on Monday that it would permanently shut down the training mission and withdraw all of its soldiers by Dec. 31 because of the failure to agree on an extension with Iraqi leaders.

Those negotiations stalled over NATO’s request for legal immunity for the foreign trainers — an issue that earlier torpedoed plans to keep a residual U.S. military presence in the country.

NATO has about 130 advisers from 13 member nations and Ukraine in Iraq.

Group masters science of bird-counting to gather data

4 | HONOLULU

By Alex Garrison

Parade honors Japanese-Americans Hundreds of Japanese-American veterans of World War II were honored Saturday with a parade in Honolulu, nearly 70 years after they volunteered to fight for their country even as the government branded them “enemy aliens.”

About 200 veterans rode in convertibles, troop carriers and trolleys past a cheering crowd of tourists, family and local residents. The event celebrates the Congressional Gold Medal the veterans received last month.

Fragile health prevented many of the surviving veterans, the youngest of whom are in their 80s, from traveling to Washington, D.C., to attend a ceremony at which the medal was presented.

So their supporters decided to hold a celebration for them in Hawaii, where two-thirds of the veterans were from.

The medal recognizes the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion, which together saw some of the most brutal fighting in the war as the soldiers pushed their way through Italy, France and Germany.

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They do it for the birds.

A small group of ornithological enthusiasts — mostly amateurs but with a few biologists to help out — took part in the annual winter bird count on Saturday. The day started at 5:45 a.m. with a predawn owl count and continued well into the afternoon with hiking, bird-spotting and note-taking.

Stan Roth, a retired Lawrence biology teacher, led a group of three surveying North Lawrence and much of the Kansas River bank.

He’s an old pro with winter bird counts — his first was in 1956. He wasn’t too interested in birds, he said, but his professor was the organizer of the winter bird count around

Emporia State University at the time.

“A good student always does what his or her major professor does,” he said. “And I kind of got hooked.”

Roth said that the count benefited science and the participants, who “just enjoy what they’re doing.”

Bill Busby, a zoologist with the Kansas Biological Survey (though he was birding Saturday on his own time), said that participants in the count had been working to make it more scientific to increase the importance of the data, which is eventually sent to the Audubon Society.

Busby said that this year things had gone as expected, though the relatively warm day skewed the birds away from the riverbank and spillway.

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

“The birds have more choices because it’s milder,” he said. “(The water), they don’t always love it, but it’s the best choice when things are grim.”

The small group within the count spotted at least 65 different species, Roth said.

The count has been a tradition

JON STANDING, LEFT, AND BILL BUSBY SURVEY a wooded area for birds along the River Trail in North Lawrence near the Eighth Street boat ramp Saturday. The two took part in the annual winter bird count, which runs through Jan. 5.

for Roth, whose group included a former student, Jon Standing, this year.

“It’s geeky,” he said. “But we’re not ashamed. We do it for the birds.”

— Reporter Alex Garrison can be reached at 8327261. Follow her at Twitter.com/alex_garrison.

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

U.S. Highway 59 !" North 200 Road closed at U.S. Highway 59 for frontage road construction work. Completion: late 2012.

U.S. Highway 69 !" Northbound left lane closed from 103rd Street to 91st Street in Overland Park for reconstruction work. Completion: spring 2012.

Interstate 70 !" Two right lanes on eastbound I-70 will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday from 18th Street and the Kansas/Missouri state line for pavement marking work. Completion: Monday.

Interstate 435 !" Various lane closures Monday from 98th Street to Leavenworth Road.

Interstate 169 !"Eastbound and westbound ramps 151st Street to U.S.-169 will be closed 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for fuel cleanup. Completion: Friday.

BRIEFLY Two 20-year-olds killed in rollover crash TOPEKA (AP) — Two 20-year-olds are dead after being involved in a one-car, rollover crash north of Topeka.

The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as Topeka residents Yasmin Lopez and John Miller.

Both occupants of a white Honda Accord were ejected from the vehicle when it crashed about 8 p.m. Friday.

The northbound car crossed into the southbound lanes, then entered a ditch, struck a utility pole and rolled several times before coming to rest on its wheels.

One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Topeka hospital.

Sheriff’s officials say Lopez was believed to have been driving, and neither victim was wearing a seat belt.

Ag producers teaching kids about farming SALINA (AP) — Farmers and ranchers in the Salina area are concerned that the younger generation knows very little about how food gets on the table.

So they’ve stepped up efforts to educate elementary students, by either bringing children to farms to visit, or taking a cow, plants or seeds to Salina schools.

Pete Meagher is a farmerrancher from eastern Saline County who teaches woodworking at Salina Central High School.

Meagher says if the younger generation doesn’t understand the importance of farming, the agriculture industry could be in jeopardy.

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LAWRENCE CITY COMMISSION Agenda highlights • 6:35 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Knology Channel 25 • Meeting documents online at lawrenceks.org

City to mull proposal for turn lane at Sixth and Iowa BOTTOM LINE

BACKGROUND

City commissioners will consider moving ahead with a project to add a left-turn lane on Sixth Street where it intersects with Iowa Street.

City engineers unsuccessfully sought state grant money to help pay for the $900,000 project that would add a turn lane for westbound motorists on Sixth Street. But engineers are recommending that the city proceed with the project even without state assistance.

The project is expected to reduce the average wait time for a motorist seeking to turn left to about 30 seconds, which is about a minute less than it is today. If approved, design work on the project would start in 2012, and construction would begin in 2013.

Westar Energy on the ReliabiliTree program.

• Consider the following Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) items: A) Consider a request to establish Yield Signs on Moundview drive at Crestline Drive and consider adopting on first reading, Ordinance No. 8688 to install Yield Signs on Moundview Drive at Crestline Drive.

B) Consider approving a recommendation from the Traffic Safety Commission to recommend the construction of traffic calming devices on Crescent Road.

• Consider approving the 2012 Comprehensive Street Maintenance Program.

• Consider authorizing the distribution of a Request for Qualifications, RFQ1103, for geometric improvements and a westbound left-turn lane at Sixth and Iowa, City Project No. PW1135 and consider adopting Resolution No. 6957, authorizing general obligation bonds in the amount of $900,000.

• Consider adopting the 2012 State Legislative Priority Statement.

OTHER BUSINESS Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from Dec. 6.

• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions.

• Approve all claims.

• Approve licenses as recommended by the City Clerk’s Office.

• Approve appointments as recommended by the mayor.

• Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Receive presentation from

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Asked at Sandbar, 17 E. Eighth St. “Santa Green,” “It’s a fun event.”

“Sleepy Santa,” “It’s fun to dress up and parade down Mass.

Street.”

“What’s a better way to spend a December Saturday than to drink beer and dress up like Santa?” she said.

Many of the Santas talked positively about the bemused expressions of passersby as they made their bar-hopping — their scheduled route inJana cluded the Granada, Replay “Santa RosborLounge, Red Lyon Tavern, Claus,” ough, the Bottleneck and Henry’s “It’s just a Santa, — rounds downtown. Perfun.”

“It’s haps they couldn’t deliver too many presents, but at someleast they could spread some thing cheer. differThe Santas, for the most ent and part, also kept up the Santasomething new. I saw stuff Con tradition of a little reabout similar things in belliousness and a lot of major cities.” anonymity, choosing to go by their Santa names for the afternoon. the event brought some time- it,” she said. “It’s fun for the “Sleepy Santa,” who was ly, whimsical fun to Massa- day.” outed as one of the organiz- chusetts Street. ers by two other Santas, said “There’s a positive spirit to — Alex Garrison can be reached at 832-7261.

of facilities can have a stumble. ... But we “A lot and Deficiencies expect, consumers should expect, if a facility has a poor inspection report with a high number of deficiencies, that they need to get on that and Brandon Woods, which are break a pattern.”

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— Margaret Farley, board president of Kansas Advocates for Better Care

mistreating residents or for failure to report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents. And three involved how the nursing home facility managed and administered drugs.

All but one of the deficiencies have been corrected, according to the Medicare.gov report.

Officials at Brandon Woods could not be reached for comment.

“A lot of facilities can have a stumble. Maybe it is just a change of management, or maybe they are having serious difficulties with staffing,” Farley said.

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detailed online at Medicare.gov, over the past year ranged from failing to resolve each resident’s complaints to not giving the proper treatment to bed sores.

Just one of the deficiencies — failing to make sure the nursing home area is free of dangers that cause accidents — was noted as causing actual harm. All the others were listed as causing minimal harm or having potential for actual harm. And one deficiency — failing to post nurse staffing information — was listed as affecting many residents. The other deficiencies affected a few or some of them.

Two of the deficiencies were for failure to hire only people who have no legal history of abusing, neglecting or

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“But we expect, and consumers should expect, if a facility has a poor inspection report with a high number of deficiencies, that they need to get on that and break a pattern.”

No other Lawrence nursing home facilities were on the list.

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

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For the past 56 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command has tracked Santa Claus’ global path.

The NORAD Tracks Santa website went live Dec. 1 and features a Countdown Calendar, a Kids’ Countdown Village with holiday games and activities that change daily, and video messages from students and troops from around the world.

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Read more responses and add your thoughts at LJWorld.com

Do you ever drink energy drinks?

Asked on Massachusetts Street

See the story, page 1A

Harrison Hems, Department of Transportation employee, Lawrence “I used to when I was a student up studying late. It got pretty bad sometimes.”

Sunday, December 18, 2011

BRIEFLY Oil companies exploring Kansas

p.m. Friday outside First City Barbershop, were identified as 25-year-old Derrick Jones and KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — 28-year-old Marshall Jones of Oil companies are leasing Leavenworth. mineral rights to thousands of Derrick Jones died at the acres in south-central Kansas, park, while his brother was where they intend to drill using taken away by air ambulance horizontal hydraulic fracturing, and pronounced dead at the a technique that’s drawn scru- University of Kansas Hospital. tiny from the Environmental Police Chief Pat Kitchens Protection Agency. told KCTV a third man found The companies that have in the car might have been been in Kansas lately include trying to get the brothers to a SandRidge Energy, Chesapeake hospital when he crashed the and Shell. vehicle.

Company representatives The driver was interviewed met with residents recently at the scene, and it appears the and said they intend to using brothers were the only ones hydraulic fracturing, or frackinjured in the shooting. ing, to explore oil reserves.

The method has been used Police seek missing for decades, but the EPA said recently it found evidence of a college student possible link between fracking OVERLAND PARK (AP) — and groundwater contaminaOverland Park police are looktion in Wyoming. ing for a 19-year-old Johnson Oil companies say fracking County Community College is safe and measures are taken student who was last seen to ensure groundwater safety. at the University of Kansas Kansas State Rep. Vince Edwards campus.

Wetta, whose district is in Police searched a wooded south-central Kansas, said area near the campus Saturthe leasing activity could be day, a day after Aisha Khan a potential boost for the area was reported missing. She was economy. last seen wearing black sweat pants, a yellow-and-black shirt, 2 brothers found black head scarf, black regularlength jacket and a long outer fatally wounded jacket that is black and white.

LEAVENWORTH (AP) — Police Khan is described as 5-footsay two brothers were fatally 2, 120 pounds with dark hair wounded outside a Leavenand brown eyes. Police say she worth barbershop and found might be wearing glasses. more than a mile away in a car Anyone with information that had crashed near a local on her disappearance is asked park. to contact the Overland Park The victims in the shooting, Police Department or TIPS which was reported around 6 Hotline.

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ACCIDENT REPORT • A man died in a singlevehicle accident that occurred 2:15 p.m. Saturday on I-435.

The driver had been traveling southbound near Johnson Drive in Shawnee when his vehicle drifted off the left side of the highway into the grassy median, became airborne and struck a bridge pillar. The Kansas Highway Patrol was investigating the crash but was not releasing additional details Saturday night pending notification of the victim’s family.

• A 39-year-old Lawrence man was struck by a 27-yearold Lawrence woman in a car as he walked across 26th and Iowa streets just before 8 a.m.

Saturday. He was taken by ground ambulance to StormontVail Healthcare in Topeka.

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Medical suspected that he had sustained head and leg injuries.

Sgt. Ted Bordman said Saturday that the man’s injuries were minor. The driver had made a complete stop on 26th Street and was beginning to make a right turn onto Iowa Street when the pedestrian entered the roadway, Bordman said. No citations were issued.

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.

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The JournalWorld found gas BIRTHS Stacey and Vernon Kehoe, prices as low as Lawrence, a girl, Saturday. $3.05 at several Ben and Lindsey Shepley, stations. If you Lawrence, a girl, Saturday. find a lower price, call 832-7154.

CORRECTIONS Nick Friling, engineer, Lawrence “I did when I was a student.

Never now.”

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Gingrich says rivals’ criticism taking a toll

By Kasie Hunt and Philip Elliott Associated Press

DES MOINES, IOWA — Newt Gingrich tried to quiet unrelenting campaign criticism that he acknowledged had taken a toll as Mitt Romney stepped up insider attacks Saturday in hopes of regaining front-runner status with the first presidential vote little more than two weeks away.

Gingrich, the former House speaker enjoying a late surge in the polls, pledged to correct what he said were his rivals’ inaccurate claims about him. Romney, the ex-Massachusetts governor looking for a rebound, portrayed Gingrich as a well-heeled lobbyist since his service in Congress and predicted that conservative voters will reject Gingrich as they learn more about his lengthy Washington record.

“I’m going to let the lawyers decide what is and what is not lobbying, but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, typically it’s a duck,” Romney said.

With the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3 up for grabs, most candidates are redoubling their efforts heading into the holidays, when voters generally tune out the race.

Gingrich is their prime target. Last week alone, antiGingrich ads from a Romney ally outspent Gingrich by an 8-to-1 margin on television.

Gingrich cited “the extraordinary negativity of the campaign” during a call from Washington with Iowa supporters. He said he was inclined to hold teleconferences every few days so people can discuss ideas and his campaign can “encourage them to raise any of these things that you get in the mail that are junk and dishonest.”

Romney campaigned in early-voting South Carolina, where tea party activists have given Gingrich a strong lead in polls. Romney told reporters that many voters now are just beginning to pay attention to the race and will turn on Gingrich after they learn about his time in Washington and his role with mortgage company Freddie Mac, a quasi-government agency.

Gingrich’s consulting firm collected $1.6 million from the company. Gingrich insists he did not lobby for them and only provided advice.

“I think as tea partyers concentrate on that, for instance, they’ll say, ‘Wow, this really isn’t the guy that would represent our views,’” Romney said after a town hall meeting with South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott. “Many tea party folks, I believe, are going to find me to be the ideal candidate.”

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18.5 mills to 21.3 mills. Elsie Middleton, a council member for the city, said the increase largely was to account for general government expenses.

“Basically, the cost of doing business has increased a lot more in the last five years than our mill levy has,” Middleton said.

Until this year, Lecompton hadn’t increased its mill levy by a mill or more since 2006.

Lecompton, the smallest city in Douglas County, continues to have the lowest mill levy of any town in the county.

2. City of Lawrence. The mill levy went from 26.697 mills to 28.612 mills. Voters are directly responsible for all but a fraction of this increase. Voters approved an $18 million library expansion, which increased the mill levy by 1.7 mills. The remaining increase funded an additional four police officers to the city’s force.

3. Wakarusa Township: Wakarusa Township had the third-largest mill levy increase, despite seeing its property tax base grow by a larger percentage than any other taxing unit in the county. (More on that in a moment.) Wakarusa’s mill levy went from 16.7 mills to 18.2 mills.

Township Trustee Steve Brown said there’s a simple reason why: oil. He said everything from the fuel spent on pushing more snow than normal the last two winters to the oil that is used to maintain the township’s paved roads have played a role.

4. USD 434 Santa Fe Trail School District, which extends into parts of southwest Douglas County: 55.0 mills to 56.5 mills.

5. Clinton Township in western Douglas County: 12.2 mills to 13.3 mills.

6. Osage County Fire District No. 4 in Overbrook, which extends into parts of southwest Douglas County: 3.5 mills to 4.5 mills.

Category: The Big Losers In this case, it is a good title to have. Only three governments, though, had a mill levy decrease of 1 mill or less.

1. USD 348 Baldwin schools: 75.1 mills to 73.8 mills 2. Palmyra Township near Baldwin City: 12.9 mills to 11.9 mills 3. Willow Springs Township in southwest Douglas County: 16.8 mills to 15.8 mills.

Category: The Long-Timer Award This category looks at which governments have kept their mill levies relatively stable over the last five years. Six cities, school districts or townships have actually either seen their mill levies go down in the last five years or have had an increase of less than 1 mill.

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Palmyra Township: Down 1.4 mills 2. Willow Springs Township: Down 0.7 mill 3. Lecompton Township: Down 0.6 mill 4. Kanwaka Township: Up 0.04 mill 5. USD 343 Perry-Lecompton school district: Up 0.7 mill 6. Baldwin City: Up 0.8 mill.

Category: The Big-Timer Award This category looks at which governments have had the largest mill levy increases over the last five years. School districts that are based in adjacent counties but extend to Douglas County have been the biggest movers.

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1. USD 287 West Franklin school district: Up 12.25 mills 2. City of Eudora: Up 8.0 mills.

3. USD 289 Franklin County: Up 7.4 mills 4. USD 434 Santa Fe Trail: Up 6.9 mills 5. USD 248 Baldwin City: Up 6.5 mills, although it is worth noting that the school district’s mill levy actually is up 13.8 mills from four years ago.

You may have noticed that none of Lawrence’s big three made either five-year list. So, if you’re curious, the city of Lawrence’s mill levy increased 2.2 mills during the last five years, USD 497 Lawrence Public Schools increased 1.63 mills, and Douglas County increased 5.76 mills.

2. Grant Township: Up 4.1 percent 3. Clinton Township: Up 3.4 percent 4. Eudora Township: Up 3.3 percent 5. Kanwaka Township: Up 2.1 percent 6. Marion Township: Up 2.1 percent 7. Lecompton Township: Up 2.0 percent 8. Palmyra Township: Up 1.5 percent 9. City of Lecompton: Up 1.3 percent 10. Willow Springs Township: Up 1.0 percent 11. City of Eudora: Up 0.9 percent 12. City of Lawrence: Up 0.4 percent 13. City of Baldwin City: Up 0.2 percent

Category: The High-Low Awards So now you know who has had the largest increases and decreases, but who actually has the highest and lowest mill levy rates? ! Cities: Highest: Baldwin City, 33.2 mills. Lowest: Lecompton, 21.3 mills ! School districts: Highest: USD 348 Baldwin City, 73.8 mills. Lowest: USD 287 West Franklin, 50.8 mills ! Townships: Highest: Eudora, 21.5 mills. Lowest: Palmyra, 11.9 mills.

Category: The Add It All Up Award When you add up all the different property tax rates charged to a property owner, such as city, school, county, drainage districts, etc., here are the top five total mill levies and the bottom five total mill levies.

Highest: Baldwin City: 145.712 mills Lowest: Clinton Township, the portion in far western Douglas County that is in the Shawnee Heights School district: 105.832 mills.

If you’re curious, the total tax rate for the city of Eudora is 140.678 mills. For the city of Lecompton, it is 120.988 mills.

For the city of Lawrence, it is slightly more complicated. For most of the city, the tax rate is 125.323 mills. But there is an area of the city where you get a significant discount, and you don’t even need a coupon.

A portion of northwest Lawrence is now in the Perry-Lecompton school district. That area of Lawrence has a mill levy of 119.287 mills, or a difference of about 6 mills or about $140 a year in taxes on a $200,000 home.

Category: It Pays to be in the Country Award Each government in the county has a tax base, which basically is just the taxable value of all property located inside a city, a school district, a township or whatever. These days, the fastest-growing tax bases are in the rural parts of the county.

1. Wakarusa Township: 9 percent assessed valuation growth. Wakarusa blew everybody else out of the water.

Presumably, the large increase in tax base was the result significant construction that has increased the value of Westar Energy’s coal-fired power plant that is located in the township. Wakarusa now has a tax base larger than the cities of Baldwin City and Eudora combined.

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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Saturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1 payroll tax increase and benefit cutoff for the long-time unemployed, but forced a reluctant President Barack Obama to make an election-year choice between unions and environmentalists about whether to build an oil pipeline through the heart of the country.

The action set up a House vote Monday on the legislation.

With the still-reeling economy serving as a backdrop, the Senate’s 89-10 vote belied a tortuous battle between Democrats and Republicans that produced the compromise two-month extension of the expiring tax breaks and jobless benefits and forestalled cuts in doctors’ Medicare reimbursements.

It also capped a year of divided government marked by raucous partisan fights that tumbled to the brink of a firstever U.S. default and three federal shutdowns, only to see eleventh-hour deals emerge.

It also put the two sides on track to revisit the payroll tax cut early next year as the fights for control of the White House and Congress heat up.

However, House GOP leaders held a conference call Saturday with rank-andfile lawmakers in which participants said strong anger was expressed about the Senate bill, including its lack of House-approved cuts in last year’s health care overhaul law and its failure to erase the reductions in doctors’ payments for more than two months.

PAYROLL TAX, JOBLESS BENEFITS BILL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of legislation renewing payroll tax cuts, jobless benefits: ! Extends 2-percentagepoint cut in the Social Security payroll tax through Feb. 29. Cost: $20.4 billion. ! Renews jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed through Feb. 29. Cost: $8.4 billion. ! Prevents 27 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors and extends miscellaneous health policies through Feb. 29. Cost: $4.1 billion. !"Increases home loan guarantee fees charged to mortgage lenders by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration by one-tenth of 1 percentage point. Raises $35.7 billion over 10 years. !"Requires President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline within 60 days unless he declares the project would not serve the national interest.

“You can’t have an economic recovery with this,” said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said of the bill “If the Senate is incapable of doing that, we don’t have to accept it.”

A House GOP aide said afterward, “Members are overwhelmingly disappointed in the Senate’s decision to just ‘kick the can down the road’ for two months. No announcement was made regarding the schedule or plans.”

By 67-32, senators gave final congressional approval

to a separate $1 trillion bill financing the Pentagon and scores of other federal agencies through next September.

That measure avoided a shuttering of government offices that otherwise would have occurred this weekend when temporary financing expired.

The tax legislation delivers tax cuts and jobless benefits that some Republicans opposed. It also represents a rebuff of Obama’s original demands for a yearlong payroll tax reduction for 160 million workers that was to be even deeper than this year’s cut, extended to employers and paid for by boosting taxes on the highest-earning Americans.

The measure’s $33 billion price tag will be paid for instead by raising fees that government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will charge to back new mortgages or refinancings, beginning next year. When fully phased in, those increases could cost a person with a $200,000 mortgage about $17 a month.

Despite the changes, Obama praised the Senate for passing the bill and prodded the Republican-run House to give it final approval in a vote, which has been expected early next week.

He exhorted lawmakers to extend the tax cuts and jobless aid for the entire year, saying it would be “inexcusable” not to.

“It should be a formality, and hopefully it’s done with as little drama as possible when they get back in January” from their holiday recess, he said.

The Senate adjourned for the year after its votes Saturday.

Pentagon chief Leon Panetta makes historic visit to Libya TRIPOLI, LIBYA (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “the torch of freedom” has passed to the Libyan people, and he pledged during a historic visit Saturday to Tripoli that the United States will do all it can to help the country move toward democracy.

But he and his Libyan hosts acknowledged the threat of Islamic militants gaining ground in this period of political uncertainty following the ouster and death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Panetta and Libyan leaders identified challenges for the government now forming, including how to gain control of the militias that overthrew Gadhafi during an eight-month civil war.

“This will be a long and difficult transition, but I have confidence that you will succeed in realizing the dream of a representative government,” Panetta said during a news conference with Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib.

“The torch of freedom that has passed throughout the centuries and now passes from nation to nation in the Middle East and North Africa burns brightly here in Libya. May it light your way to a future of peace, prosperity and freedom,”

Panetta said.

While his visit was brief, Panetta made history as the first U.S. Pentagon chief to set foot on Libyan soil.

He evoked U.S. history, too, with a visit to the cemetery presumed to hold remains of U.S. sailors killed in Tripoli

harbor in 1804. Their deaths were memorialized in the famous “shores of Tripoli” line in the Marine Corps hymn.

Both Panetta and el-Keib expressed confidence that the fledgling government will be able to reach out to the militias and bring them together.

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Palestinian textbooks debate reaches U.S. campaign

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh Associated Press

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — Do Palestinian school textbooks “teach terrorism,” as Newt Gingrich claimed in a recent debate among U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls?

His example — that Palestinians “have text books that say, ‘If there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?’” — is not in any of the texts, researchers say.

As for Gingrich’s broader claim, the textbooks don’t directly encourage anti-Israeli violence, but they also don’t really teach peace, studies say.

A review of some texts

by The AP, as well as several studies by Israeli, Palestinian and international researchers, found no direct calls for violence against Israel. However, the books lack material about the historic Jewish presence in the region and scarcely mention Israel and then mostly in a negative way. Peace with Israel rarely comes up. Texts for religious schools are harder-core, openly glorifying martyrdom.

Researchers disagree sharply in their interpretation of the material.

Two NGOs, one Israeli and one international, support the view of Israeli officials that the texts promote hatred of Israel. For example, Israel is not included in a list of the countries of the Levant, and Hebrew writing was removed in a depiction of a stamp from British Mandate rule of the Holy Land.

A joint Israeli-Palestinian study takes a softer view, saying that there is no direct attempt to delegitimize Israel but that “the way and contexts in which Israel is presented may give rise to the impression of an implicit denial of its legitimacy.”

The books must be seen in the context of ongoing conflict, said Nathan Brown, a George Washington University political scientist who has written about the issue. While highly nationalistic, government texts don’t glorify violence, explicitly deny Israel’s right to exist or portray Jews as villains, he said.

“I think the textbook critics have cause and effect mixed up — when there is a viable political process it may be possible to introduce a process to revise the books in a reciprocal way,” Brown said.

The argument looms large in a debate driven by the Israeli government, which frequently accuses the Palestinians of incitement in their schools.

“How can you take someone seriously as a partner in peace, if instead of teaching their children reconciliation they teach hate?” asked Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev. “It’s the heart of the matter.”

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FORT MEADE, MD. — The young Army intelligence specialist accused of leaking government secrets spent his 24th birthday in court Saturday as his lawyers argued his status as a gay soldier before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” played an important role in his actions.

Lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning began laying out a defense to show that his struggles in an environment hostile to homosexu- Manning ality contributed to mental and emotional problems that should have barred him from having access to sensitive material.

Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive items to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, including Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, State Department cables and a military video of a 2007 American helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.

Prosecutors at the pretrial hearing in a small courtroom on an Army post outside Washington began trying to connect Manning to the publication of that material

by WikiLeaks. On Saturday, they presented six of about 20 witnesses they plan to call during the hearing being held to determine whether Manning will be court-martialed on 22 counts, including aiding the enemy.

Testimony included the first references since the hearing began Friday to Adrian Lamo, a former hacker to whom Manning allegedly confessed his ties to WikiLeaks. The basis for the charges Manning faces are transcripts of a series of online chats with Lamo.

The Obama administration says the released information has threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America’s relations with other governments.

Manning’s lawyers counter that much of the information that was classified by the Pentagon posed no risk.

Army criminal investigators described evidence they collected that links Manning to the WikiLeaks website’s collection of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets.

But among the first issues to arise Saturday was whether Manning’s sexual orientation is relevant to the case against him. The defense revealed that Manning had written to one of his supervisors in Baghdad before his arrest, saying he was suffering from gender-identity disorder. He included a picture of himself dressed as a woman and talked about how it was affecting his ability to do his job and even think clearly.

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Maj. Matthew Kemkes, a defense lawyer, asked Special Agent Toni Graham, an Army criminal investigator, whether she had talked to people who believed Manning was gay or found evidence among his belongings relating to genderidentity disorder. The condition often is described as a mental diagnosis in which people believe they were born the wrong sex.

Graham said such questions were irrelevant to the investigation. “We already knew before we arrived that Pfc. Manning was a homosexual,” Graham said.

Prosecutors objected several times to the questions.

Kemkes responded that if the government can argue that Manning intended to leak secrets, “what is going on in my client’s mind is very important.”

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A poor fit As he chooses a new leader for SRS, Gov. Brownback should look for someone who understands Kansas and the need to seek input on key decisions.

I

t took less than a year for someone to realize that Robert Siedlecki Jr. was not the right person to lead the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.

Siedlecki announced Thursday that he would step down from that post on Dec. 31 and return to his home in Florida. He said he had taken another job there in order to be closer to his family, but the circumstances of his departure leave the impression that Siedlecki’s decision to leave SRS was not entirely his own.

On Thursday, Siedlecki tried to portray his exit as part of a long-term plan, saying, “I promised Governor Brownback one year to transform SRS to make it more effective and efficient …” However, it was less than a month ago that the secretary was taking umbrage at a state legislator’s comment about officials who don’t take time to learn what is going on in Kansas before trying to change things. Siedlecki quickly pointed out that he had bought a home in Kansas and was paying taxes here and told the legislator, “I prefer you call me a Kansan.”

That doesn’t sound like someone who was planning to leave the state within weeks, which raises questions about the governor’s role in his departure. On the “call me a Kansan” matter, Siedlecki could call himself a Kansan if he wanted to, but it was clear from the beginning that he didn’t understand much about how things were being done in Kansas and was making very little effort to find out.

One of the biggest complaints most Kansans had about major initiatives undertaken

by Siedlecki was the way he hatched those initiatives without consulting either the people who would have to implement his plans or the people who would be directly impacted by them. Lawrence got a first-hand view of that when Siedlecki announced the closure of local SRS offices in Lawrence and elsewhere. The same criticism was voiced when the secretary took actions to dismantle the state’s juvenile justice system and undertake a major reorganization of SRS services.

When Brownback visited the JournalWorld Tuesday, he was asked whether he was concerned about criticism concerning the lack of input on SRS decisions. He said that the state’s financial condition made it necessary to formulate some plans quickly and cited the number of public meetings his office had held around the state on various topics but didn’t directly address the SRS situation. Considering that Siedlecki resigned two days later, it would be interesting to know what the governor was thinking at that time — or perhaps already had decided — about the SRS secretary’s future in the state.

Although Siedlecki proudly outlined a list of accomplishments during his time at SRS, it also will be interesting to see how many of those decisions continue to be implemented after his departure and how many are revisited. Brownback has said he plans to name an acting SRS secretary before the start of the 2012 legislative session. In both the acting role and the permanent SRS appointment, it would be nice to see someone with greater experience and sensitivity to Kansas — maybe an actual Kansan — who also recognizes the importance of working collaboratively when considering policy shifts that affect thousands of people across the state.

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WASHINGTON — It’s telling that nearly three years into the Obama presidency, so many conversations with administration officials still begin with a litany of how bad things were under George W. Bush, to wit: The Obama team faced two foreign wars, an aggressive al-Qaida, a deep mistrust among allies, a shaken U.S. economy. They inherited a world of woe.

And now? Obama officials recite their catechism of successes. Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida is on the run; the troops are back from Iraq and gradually but inexorably coming home from Afghanistan; America is more popular overseas. The nation has turned the corner. The bad Bush years are over.

It’s an impressive record in many ways, and foreign policy could actually be Barack Obama’s strong suit as he campaigns next year. But here’s a caution to White House officials: Obama won’t be running against Bush. Slaying the dragons of the past isn’t enough; it’s the new dangers and challenges that matter.

On the eve of a presidential election year, the administration’s foreign policy is long on self-congratulation about the past and short on strategic clarity toward the future. Rather than measuring itself against its predecessor, this White House should be looking toward 2012 and beyond: How would Obama shape the world in a second

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term? What’s the strategic vision that animates his policies?

Here are three areas where Obama should work on what George H.W. Bush called the “vision thing.” These problems will top the global agenda after the 2012 election, and Obama should begin explaining how he will deal with them: !"The “global political awakening.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, the prescient former national security adviser, used this term in 2008 to describe citizen empowerment in the Internet age.

The movement is spreading rapidly. A year that began with the Arab Spring is ending with open dissent in Russia against

Vladimir Putin. Time magazine chose “the protester” as its person of the year.

But as with any revolution, it’s uncertain whether these uprisings will produce greater openness and freedom, or mob rule followed by a new wave of authoritarianism. One lesson from American history is that successful revolutions must be consolidated by a strong constitution and bill of rights that protect individuals and minorities. I hope Obama will make this a theme of 2012. !" A “reset” with Pakistan.

Obama rightly understood that the war in Afghanistan had to be linked with stability in Pakistan, but his approach is backfiring — with a militarized Pakistan on the way to becoming the world’s first nuclear “failed state.” A Pakistani source shared the chilling text of a Nov. 30 command communique from Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief, to his troops. It treated the Nov. 26 border incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers as a deliberate act of U.S. aggression and warned: “We will not let the aggressors walk away easily.”

When Pakistan talks as if it’s at war with America, it’s time to push the reset button. A new start should build on the most positive development in the region: The recent improvement in India-Pakistan relations, and their shared interest in averting a civil war in Afghanistan. A Pakistan that trades more with

India will become more prosperous, more connected to the global political awakening, more secure militarily, and better able to survive as a democracy. !" A sane, comprehensive strategy for Iran. Republican candidates have been making reckless threats of military action against Tehran. To counter them, Obama needs a clear alternative approach to deterring Iran’s nuclear program.

Here’s an Iran strategy that would be tough but not crazy: Sanctions that would gradually cripple Iran’s ability to export oil, so that Tehran is forced to choose between being an oil power or a nuclear power; a U.S. contingency plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in less than a week if Iran tries to close it, and careful preparation with allies in Europe, Asia and the Gulf so that squeezing Iran doesn’t explode an already shaky world economy.

The administration has been working on such a pragmatic Iran strategy, and the president should articulate it soon. That’s the best rejoinder to glib calls

by Newt Gingrich and other Republicans to bomb Iran.

Obama can campaign as a foreign-policy president, but only if he states his plans more clearly — not running against Bush’s record any more but explaining what he will do if he wins a second term.

— David Ignatius is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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A memorial service for Alfred Bromelsick was being held before the annual Christmas YEARS party in his name on the AGO upcoming Saturday.

IN 1971 Bromelsick, who had died in 1950, had left his estate to the county 4-H, Boy Scout, and Girl Scout organizations. The memorial service at Oak Hill Cemetery was to include representatives of the three organizations leaving a wreath at his tomb. The party was to follow in the afternoon at Hoch Auditorium at Kansas University and would include carol-singing, a feature-length film, and a visit from Santa Claus to the approximately 2,000 invited youngsters.

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Ferry case fights for economic freedom WASHINGTON — In 1927, seven years before the board game was created, Washington state decided to play monopoly. It gave a private interest the exclusive right to operate a ferry on 55-mile long Lake Chelan in the northern Cascade Mountains. The state apparently will defend this folly until Judgment Day, when state officials will get an earful from the Creator who — we have Jefferson’s word for this — endowed everyone, including Jim and Cliff Courtney, with the rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Courtney brothers’ happiness would be enlarged if they could operate a competing ferry.

But, 84 years ago, Washington state asserted a principle much favored by all of America’s governments, the principle that it may parcel out certain economic liberties sparingly and only to those who can prove to government that their exercise of their liberty will satisfy some government-concocted criteria.

That principle lacks constitutional warrant and repudiates the nation’s foundational philosophy.

Hence the national importance of the Courtney brothers’ litigation, which asks courts to correct judicial mistakes of 1873 and 1938.

The brothers live in Stehekin on the lake’s northern tip and provide recreational services to people who manage to get there from Chelan on the lake’s southeast end. But people can get to Stehekin only by plane or boat. And during the summer season, when the boat schedule is most convenient, the two boats operated by the

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state-conferred monopoly make only one trip a day in each direction, and both depart at the same time in the same direction.

But before the Courtney brothers can give travelers a better choice, they must receive from the state a “certificate of public convenience and necessity.” The burden is on them to prove that the current monopolist’s service is not “reasonable and adequate.” At least four would-be competitors tried and failed to get such a certificate; the most recent attempt generated a 515-page transcript.

How did America reach the point where aspiring entrepreneurs, seeking to improve their

lot by improving other people’s choices, must approach government on bended knee to beg it to confer upon them a right — the right to compete? How did America stray from its foundational principle that government exists to protect pre-existing rights, not to apportion such rights as it creates and chooses to bestow? Read on.

The Courtney brothers are represented by the Institute for Justice, which battles government infringements of individuals’ liberties — particularly economic liberties. In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court (divided 5-4) defined Americans’ “privileges or immunities” — the 14th Amendment’s language meaning rights — narrowly.

The court recognized only a few rights, mostly essential to national citizenship, and not including economic liberty.

In 1938, the court bowed to the progressive desire to empower government to allocate wealth and opportunity. The court decided — without citing a supportive constitutional text, there being none — that economic liberty should be assigned a status markedly inferior to that of “fundamental” liberties. This spurious dichotomy jettisoned America’s natural rights tradition reflected in the Ninth Amendment’s protection of unenumerated rights “retained by the people.”

The Courtneys’ litigation is a little lever that could move the entire nation back toward the Founders’ vision. It will do so if it advances the presumption of liberty. This, says Georgetown

University law professor Randy Barnett, is the principle that the government must be required to justify its restrictions on liberty, rather than requiring citizens to prove that the liberty they wish to exercise is somehow “fundamental” and therefore not an optional gift from government.

The Courtneys deserve judicial engagement where judges actively judge in defense of economic liberty. This means active enforcement of the principle that neither Congress nor the states are entitled to determine the limits of their powers. The Constitution made this determination before the mistakes of 1873 and 1938.

Washington state’s creation of the ferry monopoly is what governments have increasingly done since courts misconstrued the Constitution in a way that licenses governments to dispense particular economic favors by restricting general economic liberty. It is now routine for government to have transactions with rent-seekers — private interests who want public power used to confer advantages on them or disadvantages on competitors This case from a remote region of Washington state explains much about a Washington 2,200 miles away. Start with a misbegotten constitutional principle that denigrates economic liberty as less than fundamental, and thus licenses government to ration such liberty. You end with the pandemic rent-seeking that defines the nation’s capital.

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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Concordia 53/30

Oakley 56/24

Clarinda 50/29

Lincoln 50/26

Grand Island 51/24

Coffeyville Joplin 55/43 59/44

Springfield 57/38

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LAWRENCE ALMANAC Through 7 p.m. Saturday.

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19 MONDAY

Monday Movie for Teens: “Eight Crazy Nights,” 4 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. Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

Billings 48/21

San Francisco 55/42

Denver 55/21

Minneapolis 41/23 Chicago 42/36

Detroit 39/30

Kansas City 51/38

New York 36/29 Washington 45/32

Los Angeles 65/49

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Wind-driven lake-effect snow accumulated to 2 feet in northwestern Pennsylvania on Dec. 18, 1981.

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Dec 24

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.

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

For more information, call 843-7359.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Tuesday Concert, Forest Green, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

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

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

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

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

21 WEDNESDAY

Koch Industries wants to fill jobs WICHITA (AP) — Koch Industries says it wants to fill 2,500 jobs across the nation, including 300 in Wichita where the company is headquartered.

The Wichita Eagle reports that most of the job openings at Koch Industries and 10 of its subsidiaries are new, professional positions such as information technology, accounting and engineering.

Those adding jobs include Koch Chemical Technology Group, Flint Hills Resources, Invista, Koch Industries, Koch Carbon, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Koch Pipeline Co., Koch Supply and Trading, Matador Cattle Co. and the C. Reiss Coal Co. Jeff Morris, director of talent development, told the newspaper most of the job openings are due to growth, as opposed to replacement.

Koch and its subsidiaries have increased their Wichita workforce from 2,200 a few years ago to 2,555 employees this year.

Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, North Fourth and Elm streets in North Lawrence, donations accepted.

Clara’s Tea Party, preperformance event and photo opportunity, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. The Kansas Nutcracker, 2011 Sesquicentennial Edition with Mandolin Orchestra, 2 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Holiday Music in the Stacks: Keys of Joy Studio, 2-4 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. “White Christmas,” 2:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H. Bethlehem Express, 5-6:30 p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 Bob Billings Parkway.

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

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

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for

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Keys of Joy Studio Swing by the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., today for some holiday music courtesy of Keys of Joy Studio. The brother-sister duo will be performing in the library foyer from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Their group, Trail Mix, has performed at the Downtown Lawrence Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and the Downtown Lawrence Holiday Bazaar. The show is open to all ages, and attendance is free. prospective volunteers. For more information, call 8437359.

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

Chabad Menorah Lighting and Hanukkah celebration, 5:30 p.m., Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies, 6 p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 401 N. Second St. Exhibit opening: Stillness and the Word, 6-9 p.m., Lawrence Percolator, in alley behind Lawrence Arts Center at 10th and New Hampshire streets.

Library Goes Gonzo: Thomas W. Benton, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Artwork of Activism, 7-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Poetry Social: “Traditions,” 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. NAMI-Douglas County meeting, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Release party and concert for Ashley Davis’s “Songs of the Celtic Winter,” 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Free salsa lessons, 8:309:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

22 THURSDAY

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

Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Lawrence Arts & Crafts group, 7-9 p.m., Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

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

Van Go Adornment Sale, 715 N.J., 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 27 through Dec. 23.

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

Watkins Community Museum of History exhibit: “It Happened on Mass Street: 150 Years in Lawrence,” featuring historic photographs and objects illustrating the growth of downtown Lawrence, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 1047 Mass.

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

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

by Amber Hansen, Dec. 2 through Jan. 14; Constellation, an aerial installation by Juniper Tangpuz; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 940 N.H. Christmas Village Display at the Lumberyard Arts Center, 1-4 p.m.

Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, through Dec. 30, 718 High St., Baldwin City.

Lawrence Public Library storytimes for December: German storytime, 4 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Fridays; Teen tutoring, 3 p.m.

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

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

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Wesley grins, bears loss of tooth

By Jesse Newell jnewell@ljworld.com

AP File Photo

TIM GRUNHARD, A SECOND-ROUND DRAFT PICK out of Notre Dame in 1990, played 11 years at center for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was hired Tuesday as an assistant coach at Kansas University.

Grunhard seeking specific linemen

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

He was a second-round draft pick, played 11 seasons and 164 games in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs and was a standout offensive lineman at Notre Dame during the late 1980s.

It’s safe to say that Kansas University offensive line coach Tim Grunhard knows a thing or two about playing the position he now coaches. Although he won’t officially begin his new job until Jan. 1, Grunhard, who was hired Tuesday by new KU coach Charlie Weis, also has a specific vision for the type of player he wants representing the Jayhawks in the trenches during his time in Lawrence.

“I don’t care if you look like Tarzan, if you play like Jane, I don’t want you around,” said Grunhard during his weekly radio spot on 810 WHB last Tuesday. “The guys that we get in, I don’t care if they’re the biggest guys or the strongest guys, but they’ve gotta be the best technicians.”

Right away, Grunhard will have plenty of options from which to choose. Not only will KU return three starters from an offensive line that started the same five guys for every game of the 2011 season, the Jayhawks also have more depth on the offensive line than at any other position.

Heading into 2012, seniorsto-be Tanner Hawkinson (a 6-foot-6, 293-pound right tackle), Trevor Marrongelli (6-2, 293 left guard) and Duane Zlatnik (6-4, 305 right guard) will be joined by a couple of other offensive linemen who played a few snaps this season. That group will be bolstered by a pack of five red-shirt freshmen who came to KU together and spent the 2011 season getting bigger and stronger.

The most notable members of the top trio’s supporting cast are sophomore tackle Riley Spencer and freshman center Dylan Admire, 6-3, 272. During 2011, Spencer, 6-7, 300, was the first lineman to enter the game when one of the starters needed a rest, and Admire, who came from Blue Valley West High, got a jump start on his class by graduating early and joining the Jayhawks prior to spring ball.

Also on KU’s list of returning red-shirt freshmen on the OLine are: Travis Bodenstein, 6-5, 310; Luke Luhrsen, 6-5, 299; Damon Martin, 6-5, 265; and Bryan Peters, 6-5, 305.

Although their experiences during 2011 should serve all of KU’s linemen well, Grunhard said the new coaching staff was prepared to change the culture.

“They have to accept that they’re gonna work hard,”

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KANSAS GUARD MONICA ENGELMAN THROWS A PASS as she is forced out of bounds by defender Brianna Eldridge. KU routed UMKC, 77-52, on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

Jayhawks roll over Roos

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

If one word could sum up the feelings of Kansas University’s women’s basketball team Saturday it would be: finally.

The Jayhawks had been idle for nine days before returning to James Naismith Court at Allen Fieldhouse to play host to UMKC. And once they shook off some rust, they rolled to a 77-52 victory.

Junior point guard Angel Goodrich said it was nice to get back to the season after finals week.

“It was a week since we had a game,” she said, “so I think it helped that we were able to get out on the court, and it felt good being able to get up and down the court.”

Kansas (9-1) established a lead early, but it remained relatively small most of the first half until KU closed on an 18-4 run. Junior forward Carolyn Davis began the stretch with a score inside at the 4:52 mark. She made two more baskets during the run, which also featured four points apiece from Goodrich and junior guard Monica Engelman, a bucket from senior forward Aishah Sutherland and a floater off the glass from sophomore backup guard CeCe Harper that beat the buzzer and gave Kansas a 39-21 lead entering halftime.

Jayhawks coach Bonnie Henrickson said the close to the first half, by far, was the highlight of the night, calling it “really fun.”

UMKC GUARD DAYON HALL-JONES, RIGHT, LOSES CONTROL of the ball as she shoves Angel Goodrich out of the way.

“We turned them over, got to the rim, got lay-ups,” the coach said.

Engelman, who returned to the starting lineup for the first time since Nov. 26, said Kansas was successful on both ends of the floor during the final first-half minutes against the Kangaroos (65).

“I think we were just clicking on all cylinders, especially on the defensive side,” Engelman said after

scoring 14 points. “We got some good stops on defense, and we were able to make them pay.”

Goodrich, who had 16 points, seven assists and six steals, said it took KU time to get going.

“As a team, we were able to pick it up toward the end of the first half, and that is when we got our biggest lead,” she said. “We didn’t put our gas on the pedal when Please see KU WOMEN, page 4B

Justin Wesley recently has drawn a lot of comparisons to former Kansas University basketball player Cole Aldrich.

Not Wesley’s game, but his smile.

The 6-foot-9, 220-pound Wesley had a front-right tooth knocked out during KU’s practice on Nov. 28.

Aldrich similarly had a front tooth knocked out during his sophomore year.

“On Twitter and everything, that’s all I keep hearing about is Cole references,” Wesley said. “‘Keeping the tradition going.’

That kind of stuff.”

Wesley had the tooth knocked loose by none other than ...

5-foot-11, 175-pound Niko Roberts. The sophomore walk-on, as part of the red scout team, caught Wesley with an elbow on a spin move.

“As soon as he hit me,” Wesley said.

“I knew it was gone.”

Wesley jok- Wesley (with all ingly said he his teeth) should have guessed it might be coming. Just two weeks earlier, he accidentally broke Roberts’ nose, forcing the walkon to wear a protective mask.

At first, Roberts was apologetic for injuring Wesley.

“But then, as it got funny,” Wesley said, “he was like, ‘Yeah, I got you back for breaking my nose.’”

Following the incident, no one was able to find Wesley’s tooth on the court. After a trip to the dentist, Wesley recovered the tooth when he went back to his apartment, as it had been caught in his dry-fit jersey.

The Fort Worth, Texas, native later had his tooth shaved down and glued back in, but it popped out again the next day when he bit into a chicken strip.

Later this week, he’ll receive a retainer with a fake tooth. He can’t have surgery to put in a permanent replacement until after the season.

“It’s more than one procedure,” Wesley said. “They have to drill in there and all this kind of stuff.”

Wesley, who has played in all nine of KU’s games this season, is averaging 2.4 points and 2.6 rebounds. He also has been efficient with his shots, making eight of 14 field-goal attempts (57 percent).

He was asked whether his toothless look might make him appear more intimidating.

“I don’t know. If I stay out of foul trouble, I’ll see. We’ll see next game,” said Wesley, who leads the Jayhawks with 30 fouls despite playing the seventhmost minutes (125).

“I don’t plan on fouling. If my man gets by me, I might just have to let him have the lay-up,” he added with a laugh.

Packers perfect; Chiefs … not so much

KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers will throw for a slew of yards and a bunch of touchdowns. Some unheralded running back will start to resemble Jim Taylor. Clay Matthews will harass the opposing quarterback and Charles Woodson will probably force a turnover.

You pretty much know what to expect with the Green Bay Packers.

That’s hardly the case with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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have become the trying to survive a Nobody is going quintessential frustrating season. team in disarray: to give us a chance “To come out Their quarterback to win, and that’s against an unwasn’t on the team beaten team, a month ago, they OK. I guess as a against the Green have an interim strong-minded team, Bay Packers, it’s coach calling the we have to pull it just one of those shots and so many together.” games you have to players on injured get up for,” Chiefs reserve that it’s a linebacker Derrick wonder they have — Chiefs linebacker Johnson said. “Noenough to fill out Derrick Johnson body is going to the roster. give us a chance to Two teams that win, and that’s OK. couldn’t be more dissimilar will I guess as a strong-minded team, meet at Arrowhead Stadium to- we have to pull it together. day, one of them on a quest for “We have to play good,” Johnperfection and the other just son said, “I know that.”

The Packers (13-0) can clinch home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a victory, not to mention extend the best start and longest winning streak in franchise history.

The only team that has won more games in a row was the New England Patriots, with 21 straight victories in 2003-04.

Romeo Crennel understands how daunting it will be to end such a streak.

The Chiefs’ defensive coordinator, who was elevated to interim coach when Todd Haley was fired on Monday, served

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Celtics’ Green to miss season BOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green will have surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and will miss the entire season, the team announced on Saturday as it traveled to Toronto for its exhibition opener against the Raptors.

Green is scheduled for an operation on Monday at the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors have told him the operation “should completely repair Green’s condition and that he can expect to resume his NBA career next season,� the Celtics said

in a news release. If so, the timing of his training-camp physical — and the end of the NBA lockout — may have saved Green’s life and helped the Celtics avert a tragedy like the 1993 death of Reggie Lewis, who dropped dead on a practice court of a heart condition in the prime of his career. “While we are saddened that Jeff will not be able to play this season, the most important thing is his health,� Celtics president Danny Ainge said in the release. “We were fortunate to have ac-

cess to an amazing team of specialists to evaluate Jeff’s case.�

The team said it would have no more comment, at Green’s request. But Green said on Twitter on Saturday afternoon: “Thank u everyone for ur thoughts and prayers...much appreciated love u all..and I’ll be back soon stronger and better than ever I promise.�

Green, 25, averaged 9.8 points and 3.3 rebounds last season after joining the Celtics in a trade that sent Kendrick Perkins to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

An aortic aneurysm, which is more common in older people, is a ballooning of the wall of the aorta, the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. A person may show no symptoms from the aneurysm; but if it ruptures, it is likely to be fatal if not repaired immediately.

The team’s statement said Green’s aneurysm was detected during his physical after he reported for a training camp on Dec. 9.

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Hurd case makes Bears look foolish

Rollins, Phillies agree on three-year contract PHILADELPHIA — Jimmy Rollins is bringing his swagger back to the Phillies.

Three people familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press that Rollins has agreed to a three-year, $33 million contract with Philadelphia. The deal includes a vesting option for a fourth year.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because the agreement is pending a physical. “Gotta deal with me for 3 (4) more years!�

Rollins wrote on Twitter. He also thanked former Philadelphia Eagles safety Brian Dawkins, who tweeted congratulations to Rollins and the Phillies.

Rollins is a three-time All-Star shortstop and the 2007 NL MVP. He has spent his entire career with the Phillies after being selected in the second round of the 1996 amateur draft, and was a free agent for the first time.

By David Haugh Chicago Tribune

On the day before Sam Hurd signed a $4.15 million contract with the Bears in July, he was talking his way out of trouble with Homeland Security officials in Texas who found $88,000 cash and marijuana in his car.

During a routine traffic stop one day earlier, July 27, a federal affidavit states Dallas County police seized the money and a “green, leafy plant� out of a vehicle registered to Hurd and driven by his fellow conspirator. Hurd later contacted police to ask for his cash back but claimed he knew nothing about the pot, which he blamed on the buddy who detailed his car.

It was the beginning of a sting operation that ultimately led to Hurd’s arrest Wednesday night outside a steakhouse in Rosemont, Ill., on federal drug charges and, fair or not, made the Bears look guilty of not conducting thorough background checks on free agents.

Whatever due diligence the Bears did, it didn’t do enough to reveal Homeland Security officials were interviewing Hurd 24 hours before the team announced his signing. If the Bears were at the mercy of a federal probe that demanded secrecy, either President Ted Phillips, general manager Jerry Angelo or team security chief Tom Dillon should have made that clear. They still can.

Making Bears officials unavailable to discuss a player accused of trying to buy 1,000 pounds of marijuana and 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine per week only enhanced the perception that the team should have known more about someone who fooled everybody but the feds.

Asked at his news conference if anything in Hurd’s background raised concerns, coach Lovie Smith said, “No issues.

I’m in shock over it. Never saw it coming.�

The irony is the Bears have made limiting character risks on the roster a priority.

At a meeting of scouts in Bourbonnais before the 2010 season, assistant general manager Tim Ruskell referenced ex-Bear Tank Johnson’s problems in instructing staffers they couldn’t pursue any more prospects with questionable pasts. You wonder how much the flurry of free-agent signings after the July 25 end of the NFL lockout contributed to Hurd’s federal entanglement being overlooked.

So many valid questions about Hurd’s arrest deserve answers the Bears must address immediately, game week or not.

This was a guy brought into the organization hailed for his intangibles, a guy wide receivers coach Darryl Drake once said “added some maturity in the room.�

Did anybody in that room notice anything suspicious about a guy who, two days before the Sept. 11 season opener, allegedly tried arranging the purchase of $50,000 worth of cocaine in Texas? What does a background check entail?

Of more significance, anybody else wonder if the “higher-end� deals in Chicago that Hurd told an undercover agent he focused on involved any of our city’s millionaire pro athletes?

According to WSCR-AM 670, law-enforcement officials obtained a list of NFL players in “the double digits,� to whom Hurd distributed — and it would be naive to think a Bears player couldn’t be among Hurd’s clients. Smith only sounded out of touch suggesting otherwise. “I’m surprised right now but really would be shocked if ... I just know that no one else would be involved,� Smith said.

Remember that Smith was stunned when they found assault rifles in Tank Johnson’s home too.

I suppose Smith has 52 other guys to coach for three more games. But coaches really should avoid sweeping generalizations that later can make them look foolish. If we have learned anything in 2011, it is sports routinely shock and disappoint us. By now we are surprised anything surprises us at all.

GOLF DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — American teenager Lexi Thompson shot a 5-under 67 Saturday to win the Dubai Ladies Masters and become the youngest professional winner on the Ladies European Tour.

The 16-year-old Thompson pulled away from Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa to win by four strokes for her second professional victory. In September, she became the youngest winner of an LPGA tournament at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama. “It feels amazing,� Thompson said. “I’m just honored they invited me back and I’m just grateful to be here. I’ve been working on my game really hard and it has paid off.�

BANGKOK — Masters champion Charl Schwartzel shot a second straight 6-under CINCINNATI — The Reds acquired right66 on Saturday move four strokes behind handed starter Mat Latos from San Diego on Lee Westwood at the Thailand Golf ChamSaturday for a package of four players, includ- pionship. Westwood led by 11 strokes at the ing infielder Yonder Alonso and right-handed halfway stage after going bogey-free on the starter Edinson Volquez. opening two days, but a 1-over 73 in the third Latos went 9-14 with a 3.47 earned-run round allowed Schwartzel to cut the deficit. average for the Padres last season, finishing among the NL leaders in ERA and strikeouts.

Ogilvy leads in Australia The Reds gave up two of their top prosMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Geoff Ogilvy pects — first-round picks Alonso and catcher took a two-stroke lead Saturday in the Yasmani Grandal — in order to get Latos Australian Masters, shooting an 8-under 63 in their first deal of the offseason. He joins a on his boyhood course at Victoria Golf Club. rotation that includes right-handers Johnny England’s Ian Poulter, the leader after each Cueto and Bronson Arroyo. of the first two rounds, was second after a 69.

Australians Nathan Green (67) and Ashley COLLEGE FOOTBALL Hall (68) were 9 under.

Reds trade for Latos

Penn St. QB, receiver scuffle STATE COLLEGE, PA. — Penn State’s Matt McGloin was released from the hospital Saturday after university police said they were called to the locker room about a report of a fight between the starting quarterback and backup receiver Curtis Drake.

The school released a statement Saturday night saying police were called after the team finished practice. McGloin was treated at Mount Nittany Medical Center. McGloin’s father, Paul, told the Patriot-News of Harrisburg and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that his son suffered a seizure and a possible concussion but was back at his campus apartment.

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UCLA women take title SAN ANTONIO — Outside hitter Rachael Kidder had 20 kills, and UCLA beat Illinois in the NCAA women’s volleyball championship to give the Bruins their first title in two decades Saturday night. The Bruins won their fourth title in school history, putting them third behind Stanford (six) and Penn State (five). Tabi Love had 14 kills for UCLA in the 25-23, 23-25, 26-24, 25-16 victory. Michelle Bartsch led Illinois with 22 kills in the first championship match ever for the Illini.

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1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 61 points in a 130-110 victory over the St. Louis Hawks.

1964 — Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals scores 56 points, including 18 in the final quarter, in a 111107 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

1983 — Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky scores his 100th point of the season the Edmonton Oilers’ 34th game, a 7-5 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.

1995 — Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers records the fifth-highest yardage total by a receiver in NFL history with 289 yards, and catches three touchdown passes in a 37-30 win over the Minnesota Vikings. Rice also becomes the first receiver to have three 100-reception seasons.

2000 — Marshall Faulk of St. Louis scores four touchdowns for the second straight week and third time this season, breaking the NFL record he shared with Jim Brown. The Rams lose to Tampa Bay, 38-35.

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Romo, Dallas cruise TAMPA, FLA. (AP) — Tony Romo was nearly flawless in getting the Dallas Cowboys back on track in the NFC East.

Romo threw for three touchdowns and ran for a fourth score Saturday night, helping the first-place Cowboys beat the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-15.

Dallas stopped a two-game losing streak in which it blew fourth-quarter leads to allow a seemingly solid grip on the division lead slip away.

The victory gave the Cowboys (8-6) a half-game lead over New York. Although the Giants hold a tiebreaker adDave Martin/AP Photo vantage after beating Dallas PITTSBURG STATE QUARTERBACK ZAC DICKEY (6) CELEBRATES with teammate Luke Stringer 37-34 last week, the Cowboys after beating Wayne State, 35-21, in the NCAA Div. II national championship game on can claim the division title Saturday in Florence, Ala. and host a playoff game by finishing with wins the next two weeks over Philadelphia at home and the Giants on the road.

The Bucs (4-10) lost for the eighth straight time and played a miserable first half “It’s been a great run,” interceptions. He also ran 16 that certainly didn’t do anyFLORENCE, ALA. (AP) — Pittsburg State wasn’t about Wayne State quarterback times. thing to help coach Raheem to get comfy and cautious Mickey Mohner said. “No John Brown had five catch- Morris make a case for keepso close to ending a 20-year one thought we should be in es for 99 yards for the Goril- ing his job. quest for a second national the playoffs. No one thought las.

Romo threw a pair of we could win in the playoffs. title.

Mohner and the passing Clinging to a six-point lead We came in and won four game never got going. He in the final five minutes, Zac tough games on the road.” completed 7 of 16 passes for Dickey launched a 53-yard Toney Davis, who rushed 59 yards and was intercepted pass to Andrew Castaneda for 178 yards and two touch- three times — including picks to set up the decisive touch- downs, closed the gap on a on his first two attempts. down in the Gorillas’ 35-21 one-yard score with 5:11 left.

“I just didn’t get the job victory over Wayne State on Wayne State’s defense done in the passing game,” Saturday. then couldn’t keep Dickey & Mohner said. “It’s nobody’s “You come here and try to Co. from the end zone. fault but my own.” win it,” Pittsburg State coach Jason Spradling scored the Davis carried most of the Tim Beck said. “You don’t clinching four-yard touch- load for the Warriors offense, come here and try to hang on down with 2:38 left after the rushing 28 times. Fellow and hope you win it.” long ball by Dickey, who 1,300-yard rusher Josh Renel Especially not when you’ve bailed himself out of poten- returned the opening kick 93 come to the brink and fallen tial hot water on his mother’s yards for a touchdown but short the last three times. birthday. was on crutches in the secDickey passed for 190 “I hadn’t gotten her a gift ond half after sustaining an yards and rushed for 68 and yet,” he said. injury to his right foot. the Gorillas (13-1) also turned Jeremy Jones returned the Leading receiver Troy two blocked kicks into touch- kick into Pittsburg State ter- Burrell also sustained a brodowns to claim their second ritory but Elijah Olabode ken left collarbone and had national title and first since picked off a pass in the end only one catch for 13 yards.

1991 when Beck was an as- zone.

“We’re not complete withsistant. The Kansas school Lawrence native Jared out Josh,” Wayne State coach snapped a streak of three ti- Vinoverski, a Pitt State soph- Paul Winters said. “Troy and tle-game losses, the last com- omore safety, was credited Josh have excellent abilities ing in 2004. with a tackle assist in the title and it’s hard to lose talent The Warriors (12-4) had game. like that and be effective.” navigated four playoff road Dickey, who had more Pittsburg State surged to a games but the team from De- than 2,000 yards passing and 27-14 halftime lead with two troit fell short of becoming 1,000 rushing this season, touchdowns in the final 6:28 the first unranked team to completed 10 of 16 passes — and maintained it going win the title. with a touchdown and two into the fourth quarter.

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on coach Bill Belichick’s staff in New England during that remarkable run.

The affable Crennel said there are dozens of similarities between those Patriots and the current bunch of Packers, beginning with the personnel.

New England had a hotshot quarterback in Tom Brady who could make every throw whenever he was asked, while the Packers have a similar player in Rodgers who may have finally supplanted Brady as the best biggame quarterback in the NFL. Rodgers has already thrown for 4,125 yards with a career-high 39 touchdowns and only six interceptions, for a rating of 123.3 — third-

best through 13 games since the 1970 merger, trailing only Brady (123.5 in 2007) and the Indianapolis Colts’ Peyton Manning (126.3 in ‘04).

“When I look at the operation, it’s similar,” Crennel said.

“They’re a well-rounded team when you look at them overall.

They’re productive, they can move the football, they can score some points and their defense isn’t bad, either. We’ve got our work cut out for us.”

Especially considering the turmoil surrounding Kansas City this week.

After a 37-10 loss to the Jets in which the Chiefs were penalized 11 times, including a 15-yarder for unsportsmanlike conduct on Haley, the third-year coach was fired on Monday.

General manager Scott Pioli decided to make the move this week rather than wait for the end of the season, with the team having lost five of

its last six and fan apathy at an all-time high. Pioli said he wanted to give the team its best chance for success over the final three games, and he decided that putting Crennel in charge just might provide the necessary spark.

The former Cleveland Browns coach promptly benched journeyman quarterback Tyler Palko, who had led the offense to just two touchdowns while starting the past four games in place of the injured Matt Cassel.

Crennel said Kyle Orton, who was claimed off waivers from Denver a few weeks ago, will likely start against the Packers, though he didn’t rule out fifth-round draft pick Ricky Stanzi.

Orton has only played one down for the Chiefs, two weeks ago at Chicago, when he was hit during a throw and dislocated the index finger on his throwing hand.

8-yard TD passes to Miles Austin and Dez Bryant in the first quarter, then finished a seven-play, 89-yard drive with a 9-yarder to Laurent Robinson to make it 21-0 with just under 5 minutes remaining in the second quarter.

Romo made it 28-0 on a quarterback sneak in the closing seconds of the opening half.

Tampa Bay managed just one first down and was outgained 279 yards to 55 in the first two quarters, but found a way to make it interesting in the second half.

The Bucs, who had had yielded 69 consecutive points dating to the second quarter of the previous week’s 41-14 loss to Jacksonville, finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter when rookie Adrian Clayborn sacked Romo from behind, forcing a fumble that linebacker Dekoda Watson returned 4 yards for a TD for a much-needed spark.

Josh Freeman’s 13-yard TD pass to Dezmon Briscoe and a two-point conversion throw to Kellen Winslow trimmed the Dallas lead to 31-15 heading into the final quarter.

BOX SCORE Dallas 14 14 3 0—31 Tampa Bay 0 0 15 0—15 First Quarter Dal-Austin 8 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 8:44.

Dal-Bryant 8 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), :18.

Second Quarter Dal-Robinson 9 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 4:42.

Dal-Romo 1 run (Bailey kick), :20.

Third Quarter TB-Watson 7 fumble return (Barth kick), 13:39.

Dal-FG Bailey 30, 6:38.

TB-Briscoe 13 pass from Freeman (Winslow pass from Freeman), :23.

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Dal TB First downs 28 7 Total Net Yards 399 190 Rushes-yards 37-160 13-58 Passing 239 132 Punt Returns 4-15 1-(-2) Kickoff Returns 0-0 4-70 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 23-30-0 17-27-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-10 3-16 Punts 3-41.0 4-51.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 2-15 6-46 Time of Possession 37:59 22:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Dallas, Jones 22-108, Morris 12-53, Romo 3-(minus 1). Tampa Bay, Freeman 4-37, Blount 9-21.

PASSING-Dallas, Romo 23-30-0-249.

Tampa Bay, Freeman 17-27-0-148.

RECEIVING-Dallas, Austin 5-53, Witten 4-77, Bryant 4-40, Robinson 3-29, Bennett 3-23, Jones 3-23, Ogletree 1-4. Tampa Bay, Lumpkin 5-50, Winslow 4-37, Briscoe 3-36, Madu 2-8, Pianalto 1-7, Spurlock 1-6, Stocker 1-4.

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VERITAS’ KRISTEN FINGER, FOREGROUND, AND SHELBY BARTA WRESTLE for control of the ball during Veritas’ game against Olathe Christian. The Eagles lost, 33-29, Saturday in Eudora.

Veritas earns hoops split ————

Eagles boys down Whitefield, girls fall to Olathe

By Corey Thibodeaux cthibodeaux@ljworld.com

EUDORA — Basketball teams that turn the ball over 31 times in a game usually don’t win.

But Veritas Christian School’s boys, thanks to a solid first half and stout defense, hung on to beat Whitefield Academy, 38-33, Saturday at the Eudora Recreation Center.

The Eagles had trouble protecting the ball, sure, but two starters on offense — including its main ball-handler —were not playing. Eric Shin and Elijah Penny were out of town, so younger players played more minutes.

Veritas (4-3) jumped to a 21-6 lead and looked like it was going to roll.

“Our big lead in the first half won the game for us,” coach Gary Hammer said.

But turnovers stalled the offense while the defense held the Lions in check, so the Eagles were able to maintain a double-digit lead for most of the game.

At the end, though, the Lions heated up and started making shots. They came within three, but sophomore Brody Robinson, who started for Chin, hit a wild, fallingaway shot while drawing a foul.

That basically saved the game for Veritas.

Junior Thomas Bachert also had a huge game for Veritas with 12 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks.

Junior Andrew Currier, who led the Eagles with 16 points, said he was impressed with the bench players who played a lot of minutes.

“Like coach always says, we learn what we practice,” he said.

Even though it was a sloppy win that almost got away from them, Hammer said this was good for the young Eagles.

“That’s what I want,” Hammer said, “for them to gain experience in a way where we still win.”

Veritas will play host to Cornerstone Family School Jan. 3.

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Grunhard said. “The fundamentals and technique of the position are very important to me. There were a lot bigger guys than I (in the NFL), and you really have to be solid in fundamentals and technique to have success.”

Grunhard emphasized intelligence throughout his latest radio appearance. For him, it’s not as important to be a giant in stature as it is to be a genius upstairs.

“The secret to playing offensive line is to anticipate and be right,” he said. “And the only way you can anticipate and be correct with your anticipation is by studying film and understanding the game.

“The one thing we’re going

VERITAS’ ALISON DOVER (23) PRESSURES Olathe Christian’s Grace Williams.

Olathe Christian girls 33, Veritas 29 At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Veritas girls experienced a minor momentum change and couldn’t recover.

Veritas fell at home to Olathe Christian, and coach Kevin Shelton said it was a game his team should have won.

“It seemed like once they got ahead of us, we didn’t know what to do,” he said.

“We couldn’t ever get over that hump.”

The game was tied in the closing seconds of the third quarter until Olathe hit a basket at the buzzer to take a 2523 lead.

Junior Madison Bennett tied the score with a cou-

ple of free throws, but the Warriors responded with a three, and it was all they needed.

The offense for the Eagles (2-5) sputtered and every shot seemed like a struggle just to get off.

“We’re not executing on offense at all,” Shelton said.

“When you don’t execute, you let teams stay with you, and they get confident.”

Olathe’s Ali Cowan scored all eight fourth-quarter points for the Warriors.

It didn’t help that the Eagles missed free throws in the final minutes that could have changed the outcome.

For the night, Veritas hit nine of 25 of its free throws.

Senior Ellen Phillips led Veritas with 11 points. Junior

to concentrate on is becom- gives him the opportunity to ing students of the game, so coach the kind of players he that when we go to the line likes to coach. of scrimmage “I like chips The one thing we’re the beston their shoulprepared foot- we’re going to ders,” Grunball team, the concentrate on is hard said. “A best offensive becoming students lot of times, line, and we at KU you understand the of the game, so that get guys with logistics of how when we go to the chips on their we’re gonna do line of scrimmage shoulders beit. If you undercause they stand that and we’re the best-predidn’t have the you have confi- pared football team, o p p o r t u n i t y dence, you can the best offensive to play someplay with any- line, and we underwhere else.” body.”

He also said G r u n h a r d stand the logistics he looked forc o n t i n u a l l y of how we’re gonna ward to the talked about do it.” task of turning KU being the Kansas into a perfect place winner again for him to make — KU assistant coach and recognized the leap to col- Tim Grunhard how difficult lege coaching. the process For starters, it may be coming allows him and his family to on the heels of two of KU’s remain in Kansas City, and, worst seasons in school hismore important to the job, tory.

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Kristen Finger had eight, and Bennett had six.

The Eagles won’t play until Jan. 3 against Cornerstone Family School.

“It’s a tough way to go into your Christmas break,” Shelton said.

UMKC’S ASHLI HILL, LEFT, AND KANSAS’ CAROLYN DAVIS STAND side-by-side during a free-throw attempt. Hill, a Free State High product, led the Roos with a career-best 20 points in a 77-52 loss to KU Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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we came out to start the game, so when we got the lead toward the end of the first half, we just wanted to make it even bigger.”

Though the Jayhawks didn’t feel like they played well in the second half, when they outscored UMKC 3831 and shot 14-for-34 from the field, Henrickson finally felt comfortable enough to go deeper into the bench late. While KU stuck with a seven-player rotation (only Harper and sophomore forward Tania Jackson had come in off the bench) for the first thirty-plus minutes of the game, freshmen Asia Boyd, Bunny Williams, Chelsea Gardner and Donielle Breaux got on the floor in the final minutes.

After losing guard Keena Mays, who transferred out of the program, Henrickson said KU just has a short bench.

“Right now, that’s what we are,” she said.

Hill goes for career high UMKC sophomore center Ashli Hill led the visiting Kangaroos with 20 points — a career high for the Lawrence native and Free State High product.

Hill made eight of her 15 fieldgoal attempts in 30 minutes and grabbed four rebounds.

Her coach, Candace Whitaker, said Hill had been practicing much better lately, after eight straight games of single-digit scoring totals.

“Ashli’s had a really great week. She struggled a little bit early in the season,” Whitaker said. “She’ll continue to get better.”

The coach said she would’ve been surprised two weeks ago if someone had told her Hill would go for 20 points at KU. Henrickson was aware of

BOX SCORE UMKC (52)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Kim Nezianya 23 2-5 0-2 3-9 3 4 Ashli Hill 30 8-15 4-6 1-4 2 20 Dayon Hall-Jones 24 4-14 3-5 1-2 4 11 Eilise O’Connor 30 2-7 3-4 0-0 0 7 Brianna Eldridge 24 1-1 0-0 1-1 1 3 LeAndrea Thomas 24 1-5 0-0 0-4 3 3 Emile Blakesley 17 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 Kaycie Boyles 13 1-2 0-0 2-4 0 2 Hailey Houser 6 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 Jade Tinner 4 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 Mariah Scaife 3 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 Lexis Hardiek 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Sydney Crimmins 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 team 1-5 Totals 20-53 10-17 9-30 16 52 Three-point goals: 2-8 (Eldridge 1-1, Thomas 1-1, Nezianya 0-1, Blakesley 0-1, Hardiek 0-1, Hall-Jones 0-3). Assists: 11 (O’Connor 4, Hall-Jones 2, Eldridge 2, Thomas 2, Nezianya). Turnovers: 23 (O’Connor 6, Nezianya 4, Thomas 4, Boyles 3, Eldridge 2, Blakesley 2, Hill, Hall-Jones).

Blocked shots: 1 (Hill). Steals: 11 (O’Connor 3, Thomas 3, Eldridge 2, Nezianya, Boyles, Houser).

KANSAS (77)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Aishah Sutherland 28 6-13 1-2 2-7 1 13 Carolyn Davis 29 8-9 2-3 5-9 2 18 Angel Goodrich 36 6-10 3-5 1-3 3 16 Monica Engelman 31 5-11 4-4 0-3 4 14 Natalie Knight 27 1-4 0-0 1-4 4 2 CeCe Harper 16 1-5 2-2 0-4 2 4 Tania Jackson 14 0-3 0-0 1-2 2 0 Asia Boyd 7 2-2 0-0 0-1 0 5 Bunny Williams 6 1-1 0-1 2-2 0 2 Chelsea Gardner 4 1-3 1-2 0-3 0 3 Donielle Breaux 2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 team 0-1 Totals 31-61 13-19 12-40 18 77 Three-point goals: 2-8 (Goodrich 1-1, Boyd 1-1, Harper 0-1, Jackson 0-1, Engelman 0-2, Knight 0-2). Assists: 18 (Goodrich 7, Sutherland 3, Engelman 2, Knight 2, Boyd 2, Harper 2). Turnovers: 15 (Engelman 6, Davis 3, Sutherland, Goodrich, Boyd, Harper, Jackson, team). Blocked shots: 3 (Sutherland, Engelman, Jackson). Steals: 14 (Goodrich 6, Harper 3, Davis 2, Boyd 2, Sutherland).

UMKC 21 31 — 52 Kansas 39 38 — 77 Technical fouls: Jackson. Officials: Clarke Stevens, Brian Hall, Metta Roberts.

Attendance: 2,087.

Hill’s recent drought, as the 6-foot-5 center started only once in UMKC’s previous four games, but Henrickson praised Hill for stepping up.

“We all know this is her biggest game of the year, and it should be,” Henrickson said. “She played well, and shame on us, we didn’t guard her any better.”

Kansas has defeated UMKC six times in a row and leads the series, 15-3.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Kansas will play host to Oral Roberts.

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“I am aware of it,” he said.

“And that’s one of the reasons I took it. I love the challenge. You, as a person, cannot grow until you challenge yourself.”

Although coaching the proper footwork and the right reads will be a priority, Grunhard, who spent the last six seasons as a successful head coach at Bishop Miege High and was a Kansas Cityarea high school assistant for five years before that, also said he looked forward to keeping in touch with his high school roots on the recruiting trail.

“High school football in Kansas City, I think, is very, very underrated,” Grunhard said. “There are a lot of good football players, and we need to tap into that, and we will tap into that.

“It’s gonna be a blast, man.

It’s a dream come true. I know I keep saying that, but KANSAS GUARD ANGEL GOODRICH (3) SHOOTS a fade-away over defender Brianna Eldridge. it really is.”

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SAN DIEGO STATE WIDE RECEIVER MARCUS RUSSELL IS TACKLED by Louisiana-Lafayette linebacker Lance Kelley, top, on a pass play during the second quarter of their New Orleans Bowl on Saturday in New Orleans.

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New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego St. 30 NEW ORLEANS — Brett Baer kicked a 50-yard field goal as time ran out, lifting Louisiana-Lafayette over San Diego State in the New Orleans Bowl.

Playing in their first bowl game as a Division I FBS team, the Ragin Cajuns led most of the way but fell behind, 30-29, when Aztecs quarterback Ryan Lindley connected with Colin Lockett on a 12-yard touchdown strike with 35 seconds to go.

Louisiana-Lafayette was able to drive to the Aztecs 38 to set up what was initially a 55-yard attempt, but a presnap penalty moved the winning kick five yards closer.

Cajuns quarterback Blaine Gautier passed for 470 yards and three touchdowns. He finished with 2,958 yards passing and 23 TDs on the season, breaking Jake Delhomme’s single-season school records.

Potato Bowl Ohio 24, Utah State 23 BOISE, IDAHO — Tyler Tettleton’s late heroics helped Ohio erase decades of misery in the postseason.

The sophomore calmly led a 61-yard drive in the final 2:02 and scored on a oneyard keeper with 13 seconds left to give Ohio its first bowl victory, 24-23 over Utah State on Saturday in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Ohio had been winless in five bowl appearances, including setbacks the last two seasons.

But Tettleton changed all that, going 3-of-4 passing in the final drive, including a 14-yard completion to LaVon Brazill on fourth down to give Ohio a first down inside the 1 with 37 seconds left.

After getting stuffed on his first attempt to punch the ball in, Tettleton rolled right on the next play and outran two defenders to cap the comeback and set a new course for Ohio’s postseason future.

“There’s been a lot of great wins here, and I appreciate every one,” Ohio coach Frank Solich said. “This one obviously is kind of an answer to what these guys wanted to get done at the beginning of the year, and what we all wanted in terms of winning a bowl game. To accomplish that and get the first win in the history of Ohio football was meaningful to me, these players and this staff.”

The victory also gave Ohio its first 10-win season since 1968 and helped blunt the bitterness of letting Northern Illinois rally from a 20-point deficit in the Mid-American Conference title game two weeks ago.

Tettleton, the son of former major league catcher Mickey Tettleton, was effective throughout the game and kept the Bobcats close enough with his legs and arm.

Tettleton was 19 of 26 passing for 220 yards and two touchdowns and rushed 16 times for 31 yards. He was

only sacked twice and spread his completions around to seven receivers and the Bobcats had 345 total yards on offense.

For Utah State, the loss was a heartbreaker.

The Aggies dominated the first half and extended their lead to 23-10 in the third quarter behind a bruising rushing attack that kept Tettleton off the field and rolled up 345 yards. The Aggies came into the game with the nation’s sixth-best rushing attack, averaging 277 yards per game.

Michael Smith rushed for a career-best 157 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries, including a 63-yard scoring run early in the third quarter that put Utah State up 1610. Smith scored later in the third on an 11-yard run up the middle, giving the Aggies (76) a 13-point lead.

Robert Turbin added for 101 yards on 20 carries, and Kerwynn Williams had 69 yards on nine carries.

But Utah State, which finished second in the Western Athletic Conference and was making its first bowl appearance since 1997, failed to close the deal and paid a price for missing two scoring chances early in the game.

On their first possession, the Aggies (7-6) drove to the 1, but Turbin was stopped short of the goal line on fourth down. The Aggies missed another chance late in the second quarter when a 39-yard field-goal attempt by Josh Thompson sailed wide right.

Still, head coach Gary Andersen, whose team closed the season with five straight wins to earn the school’s first bowl invitation since 1997, believes there is plenty to feel good about and even more to build upon.

“It’s been the most gratifying season of my career, hands down,” Andersen said.

“This is unbelievably gratifying to get to this point. This crew of kids will be in my mind for the rest of my life.

We’re excited to represent all three classes of seniors that have been there. Tonight was for them, and we’ll look forward to the future.”

The Aggies had a chance to ice the game when they took possession at their own 7 with 4:23 to go. But Ohio’s defense stopped the Aggies on three straight running plays to force a punt.

On the winning drive, Tettleton scrambled for 14 yards and completed passes of 19, 7 and 14 yards to Brazill. The last reception was initially ruled a touchdown, but a review concluded he was down before the end zone, giving Ohio a first down inside the 1

and setting up Tettleton’s big play.

“It was designed as a fake quarterback sneak and we were going to have two guys on the flat to the left,” Tettleton said about his last-second score. “I got a rush up the middle and tried to make something happen after that and I was wide open to the end zone.”

Brazill, who was voted MVP for the game, led the Bobcats with eight catches for 108 yards, including a 44yard touchdown pass from Tettleton that pulled Ohio to 23-17 with 3:45 left in the third quarter.

The Aggies had just two possessions in the fourth quarter, but managed just two first downs, putting the onus on a defense that had let leads slip away in the last minute in games against Auburn and Brigham Young.

“This season has been a grind. Pretty much every single game we’ve played in has been a close game,” Turbin said. “Unfortunately, you win some and you lose some and we lost tonight.”

New Mexico Bowl Temple 37, Wyoming 15 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Temple came out swinging against Wyoming, jumping to a 21-0 lead in the first half of the New Mexico Bowl.

But when Wyoming freshman Brett Smith threw a 21yard touchdown pass to Josh Doctson with 37 seconds remaining in the first half, Temple quarterback Chris Coyer feared that Wyoming found a spark.

“We knew they had swung the momentum their way.

It was a big touchdown for them,” Coyer said.

Then, moments later, Coyer responded with 61-yarder to Rod Streater to give the Owls a 28-7 lead.

It was never close again.

Bernard Pierce ran for two early touchdowns and Coyer threw for 169 yards and the touchdown to help Temple overwhelm Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl — the first bowl game of the season.

The Owls (9-4) had three interceptions — tying a New Mexico Bowl record — en route to the second bowl victory in school history. The first interception came at the start of the second quarter when Temple’s Kee-arye Griffin picked off Smith’s pass to setting up Matt Brown’s 1-yard touchdown run that gave the Owls a 21-0 lead.

The last one came late in the game to Temple’s Kevin Kroboth, resulting in a field goal.

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Jones drops 28 as Baylor slips past BYU PROVAO, UTAH (AP) — With an NBA general manager watching from the front row, Baylor’s 6-foot-11 forward Perry Jones III came up huge for the No. 6-ranked Bears on Saturday.

Jones scored a career-high 28 points, including a putback with 20 seconds left after returning from a knee injury. The shot provided the final margin in an 86-83 victory over Brigham Young.

“I couldn’t let my team down,” said Jones, a sophomore. “I didn’t want to use my knee as a crutch. I just wanted to go back in and do what I could do to help my team win.”

The other star for Baylor was a guy more than a foot shorter.

Point guard Pierre Jackson blocked Brandon Davies’ three-point shot at the buzz-

er that might have forced overtime.

“You don’t expect your 5-9, 5-10 point guard to do that, but Pierre is really athletic,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “And the thing about him is, he’s a competitor. He didn’t want Davies to get a shot to (force) overtime.”

The 6-foot-9 Davies, who scored 18 points and dominated the boards (13) for BYU, was as shocked as anyone.

“I had no idea where he came from,” Davies said. “I didn’t see him at all.”

Baylor is off to the third 9-0 start in school history and best under Drew.

It wasn’t easy.

BYU (8-3) led by as many as 13 points in the first half thanks to 9-0 and 10-0 runs, and a huge advantage on the boards.

After 81⁄2 minutes, BYU held a 14-0 rebounding advantage “You’ve got to credit BYU’s team for playing outstanding in the first half,” Drew said.

“They got multiple good shot attempts and that was because of their heart and their toughness.

“A lot of times people talk about BYU’s great transition game and great scoring, but they’re a tough team. It’s a good group of guys then the crowd got them going.”

But Drew was proud the way his team showed resilience the final four minutes after the Cougars came charging back.

“We got stops and rebounds,” Drew said.

Baylor regained the lead 65-64 after six straight points

by Jones, then surged ahead 79-70.

But BYU fought back behind the play of freshman guard Matt Carlino.

Carlino was making his BYU debut after sitting out last year after transferring from UCLA. While he didn’t put up numbers like last year’s national player of the year Jimmer Fredette, the shoes he ultimately is expected to fill, he definitely turned heads.

“The scouting report we got didn’t do him justice,” Drew said. “We knew he was a good shooter, but we didn’t know he could make tough shots like that. If he continues to do that all year long, it gives BYU another weapon.”

Carlino made 7 of 14 shots, including 4 of 8 from threepoint range, to finish with 18 off the bench.

But Carlino also committed four turnovers, includ-

ing one as BYU had pulled within 84-83 on a jumper by Charles Abouo.

“Carlino played well but he just needs some experience,” BYU coach Dave Rose said.

BYU won the battle on the boards, 44-31 and outscored Baylor 41-24 in the paint.

Jones was too much in the second half, when he scored 16 of his 28 points and grabbed five of his eight rebounds.

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BYU (8-3) Davies 6-15 6-9 18, Abouo 7-10 2-2 17, Cusick 1-3 0-0 2, Zylstra 1-4 1-2 4, Hartsock 7-14 1-1 15, Carlino 7-14 0-0 18, Winder 0-0 1-2 1, Harrison 3-7 1-4 8. Totals 32-68 12-20 83.

Halftime-BYU 42-38. 3-Point Goals-Baylor 13-25 (Heslip 6-10, Jones III 2-2, Franklin 2-4, Jackson 2-4, Walton 1-3, Jones 0-1, Bello 0-1), BYU 7-21 (Carlino 4-8, Zylstra 1-2, Harrison 1-3, Abouo 1-4, Davies 0-1, Hartsock 0-1, Cusick 0-2). Rebounds-Baylor 31 (Jones III 8), BYU 44 (Davies 13). AssistsBaylor 17 (Jackson 7), BYU 14 (Cusick 4).

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Florida trounces A&M SUNRISE, FLA. (AP) — Billy Donovan leaped along the sideline, arms raised and fingers spread, trying to help his Florida Gators get the ball back. “Ten! Ten!” he shouted, lobbying for a 10-second violation.

Donovan’s team led by 20 points at the time. But for the high-scoring Gators, there are always more baskets to be made.

Launching three-pointers early and often, No. 13 Florida built a double-digit lead after 61⁄2 minutes and never let it go, beating No. 22 Texas A&M, 84-64, on Saturday in the Orange Bowl Classic.

Kenny Boynton sank six three-pointers, scored 22 points and was voted the game’s most valuable player.

Erving Walker had 16 points and six assists, and Bradley Beal added 16 points.

Florida (8-2) won for the first time in three games this season against teams in the Top 25. Texas AM (8-2) had a six-game winning streak snapped.

The Gators came into the game leading the nation in three-pointers and ranked third in scoring, and they showed why from the start, taking leads of 7-0, 18-2 and 35-14. ”I thought the first half was the best we’ve played all year,” Donovan said. “We shared it. We passed it. We moved it. We had inside-outside action.”

At halftime it was 5025, with Florida outscoring Texas A&M 21-0 from threepoint range. The Gators’ scoring spree came against an Aggies team that had been allowing only 51.4 points per game. ”Offensively they’re so good, with Walker creating so many opportunities, and with Boynton shooting the ball like that,” Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said.

“They’re very difficult to guard, and we couldn’t slow them down.”

Boynton, a native of nearby Pompano Beach, had plenty of supporters in the crowd of 11,262. ”It’s always great to come back home and have this performance,” he said. “But I’m happier that we got the win.”

Turnovers hurt the Aggies early, and they went eight minutes before making their first basket. ”In the first half we were playing on our heels too much, and playing kind of timid,” Aggies guard Elston Turner said. “That’s what caused them to throw that first punch and get out to that big lead.”

Texas A&M’s Khris Middleton, playing in his second game after being sidelined with a knee injury, shot only five for 18. He scored 12 points and added seven rebounds and seven assists.

David Loubeau, a native of nearby Miami, scored 20

points for the Aggies. Turner also had 20. Erik Murphy scored 13 for the Gators, including seven of their first nine points.

The Gators’ victory came one day after they announced a three-year extension for Donovan through 2015-16.

Florida’s only losses have been to No. 1 Syracuse and No. 2 Ohio State.

The Gators finished just under their scoring average of 86.8 points per game. More than half their shots came from three-point range, and they made 11 of 31.

The margin reached 26 points early in the second half before the Gators cooled off. They shot only 39 percent after halftime, and the Aggies cut the margin to 7361 with 2:12 left.

Texas A&M’s comeback bid ended when Walker sank a three-pointer, then made two free throws.

TEXAS A&M (8-2) Loubeau 9-14 2-3 20, Middleton 5-18 0-0 12, R. Turner 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 2-6 0-2 4, E. Turner 7-12 3-4 20, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Branch 1-1 0-0 2, Green 0-2 0-0 0, Roberson 1-3 2-3 4. Totals 26-57 7-12 64.

FLORIDA (8-2) Murphy 4-6 3-4 13, Young 2-2 1-2 5, Boynton 7-16 2-2 22, Walker 3-8 9-10 16, Beal 4-10 6-6 16, Rosario 3-6 0-0 6, Wilbekin 0-1 0-0 0, Yeguete 2-2 0-2 4, Prather 0-1 2-4 2, Larson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-52 23-30 84.

Halftime-Florida 50-25. 3-Point GoalsTexas A&M 5-13 (E. Turner 3-5, Middleton 2-6, Green 0-1, Harris 0-1), Florida 11-31 (Boynton 6-12, Murphy 2-4, Beal 2-8, Walker 1-4, Prather 0-1, Rosario 0-2). Fouled Out-Middleton. Rebounds-Texas A&M 28 (Middleton 7), Florida 33 (Yeguete 6).

Assists-Texas A&M 17 (Harris 8), Florida 13 (Walker 6). Total Fouls-Texas A&M 21, Florida 14. A-11,262.

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Men Kansas State 71, No. 23 Alabama 58 KANSAS CITY, MO. — Jordan Henriquez scored a careerhigh 17 points, Angel Rodriguez added a career-best 13, and Kansas State beat No. 23 Alabama at the Sprint Center on Saturday night.

Jamar Samuels added 14 points for the Wildcats (7-1), who used a 19-6 run midway through the second half to avoid going to overtime for the third consecutive game.

Kansas State lost to West Virginia in two extra sessions last week and needed overtime to beat North Florida last Sunday.

JaMychal Green scored 20 points for Alabama (8-3), which has lost three of four.

Trevor Releford, who grew up in suburban Kansas City and attended Bishop Miege High School, added 14 points for the Crimson Tide in a homecoming that would have been much more memorable had they been as stingy over the final 30 minutes as they were over the first 10 minutes.

The Wildcats started 2-of18 from the field, struggling against Alabama’s tenacious, trapping half-court defense.

They only trailed by seven, though, when they finally figured out how to get open shots along the baseline, and that opened up holes elsewhere.

Kansas State was still clinging to a 38-37 lead with just more than 13 minutes left when Samuels hit a threepointer off a feed from Rodriguez, one of his career-best seven assists. Shane Southwell scored moments later, Samuels added a pair of free throws and Rodriguez scored after a nifty behind-the-back move that got him open in the lane to make it 49-39 with less than 10 minutes to play.

The lead swelled to 61-

TEMPLE (6-3) Lee 1-3 2-4 4, Hollis-Jefferson 4-6 0-0 8, Wyatt 8-14 4-7 24, Fernandez 2-8 0-1 5, Moore 5-12 1-4 13, Cummings 0-1 0-0 0, DiLeo 0-1 0-0 0, McDonnell 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 2-5 3-4 9, Pendergast 1-1 0-0 2, Godino 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-51 10-20 65.

TEXAS (9-2) Holmes 1-3 5-6 7, Wangmene 0-2 0-0 0, Lewis 0-1 2-2 2, Kabongo 5-10 8-14 18, Brown 10-21 1-2 23, McClellan 1-5 4-6 6, Bond 6-7 0-0 12, Gibbs 1-2 0-0 2, Chapman 2-5 3-5 7. Totals 26-56 23-35 77.

Halftime-Temple 34-31. 3-Point GoalsTemple 9-18 (Wyatt 4-7, Moore 2-3, Brown 2-4, Fernandez 1-4), Texas 2-17 (Brown 2-9, Chapman 0-1, Lewis 0-1, Bond 0-1, Kabongo 0-2, McClellan 0-3). Fouled OutBrown. Rebounds-Temple 23 (Lee 5), Texas 48 (Chapman 13). Assists-Temple 14 (Fernandez 4), Texas 7 (Kabongo 3). Total Fouls-Temple 26, Texas 20. A-11,441.

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KANSAS STATE COACH FRANK MARTIN questions a call during the Wildcats’ game against Alabama. K-State defeated the 23-ranked Crimson Tide, 71-58, on Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo. 45 when Henriquez scored back-to-back baskets and Thomas Gipson added a tough bucket in the paint.

The Crimson Tide never got close the rest of the way.

Kansas State sealed the game with free throws down the stretch.

The game matched a pair of head coaches in Alabama’s Anthony Grant and Kansas State’s Frank Martin who were teammates at Miami (Fla.) Senior High School, where they met as sophomores. In fact, Grant is the godfather of Martin’s eldest child, Brandon, and they remain good friends.

That doesn’t mean they wanted to win any less than usual.

Both coaches spent the majority of the game riding the officials, riding their own players — more or less yelling at anyone within earshot — and coaching with the passion of March in mid-December.

Alabama, one of the nation’s best defensive teams, held the Wildcats to two field goals over the first 10 minutes, slowly building a meager lead. Tony Mitchell’s first basket with 9:08 left in the half made it 15-8, the Crimson Tide’s biggest lead of the game.

The Wildcats still trailed 17-12 with less than five minutes left when Martavious Irving scored and Rodriguez fed Henriquez for an easy dunk, starting a 14-7 run to end the half. Henriquez’s bucket with 18 seconds remaining allowed Kansas State to take a 26-24 lead into the break.

ALABAMA (8-3) Green 7-13 6-9 20, Mitchell 5-10 0-1 10, Jacobs 2-3 0-0 4, Releford 6-13 2-2 14, Randolph 1-4 0-0 2, Hankerson Jr. 1-5 0-0 3, Lacey 2-6 0-0 5, Engstrom 0-0 0-0 0, Eblen 0-0 0-0 0, Cooper 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-54 8-12 58.

KANSAS STATE (7-1) Samuels 2-6 9-11 14, Gipson 1-6 1-5 3, Irving 4-7 1-2 9, McGruder 1-5 0-0 2, Spradling 3-6 1-2 8, Southwell 1-2 1-2 3, Ojeleye 1-2 0-0 2, Rodriguez 3-9 6-7 13, Diaz

0-0 0-0 0, Henriquez 7-9 3-4 17. Totals 23-52 22-33 71.

Halftime-Kansas St. 26-24. 3-Point GoalsAlabama 2-14 (Lacey 1-4, Hankerson Jr. 1-4, Randolph 0-1, Releford 0-2, Mitchell 0-3), Kansas St. 3-12 (Samuels 1-2, Rodriguez 1-3, Spradling 1-3, Ojeleye 0-1, McGruder 0-1, Irving 0-2). Fouled Out-Jacobs, Randolph.

Rebounds-Alabama 30 (Green 9), Kansas St. 38 (Henriquez 8). Assists-Alabama 14 (Releford 6), Kansas St. 16 (Rodriguez 7).

Total Fouls-Alabama 27, Kansas St. 14.

A-16,685.

Texas 77, Temple 65 AUSTIN, TEXAS — With a tough matchup looming, Texas needed a marquee nonconference victory. The Longhornd felt they got one Saturday against Temple.

The Longhorns came away with a resume-building win against a team that made it to the third round of last season’s NCAA Tournament.

“Those guys are going to play with a little chip on their shoulder,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said of Temple.

“They’re not going to be intimidated going anywhere.”

After defeating Texas-Arlington and a pair of South-

Snell 2-7 0-1 5, Adams 0-0 0-0 0, Fenton 4-7 1-1 10, McDonald 0-2 0-0 0, Walker 0-4 2-4 2, Bairstow 2-3 0-1 4. Totals 22-61 17-25 66.

OKLAHOMA STATE (6-4) Nash 2-15 1-2 6, Jurick 0-1 0-0 0, Page 5-12 5-8 18, Gulley 0-1 0-0 0, Brown 0-2 2-2 2, Olukemi 6-9 2-2 16, Guerrero 1-4 0-0 2, B. Williams 1-5 0-0 3, Dowell 2-5 0-0 5, Cobbins 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 18-56 12-16 56.

Halftime-New Mexico 36-26. 3-Point Goals-New Mexico 5-17 (Williams 2-6, Fenton 1-1, Greenwood 1-2, Snell 1-5, McDonald 0-1, Walker 0-2), Oklahoma St. 8-19 (Page 3-8, Olukemi 2-3, Dowell 1-1, Nash 1-2, B. Williams 1-4, Guerrero 0-1).

Rebounds-New Mexico 45 (Gordon 20), Oklahoma St. 41 (Jurick 11). Assists-New Mexico 9 (Snell, Williams 3), Oklahoma St. 10 (Brown, Dowell, Nash 2). Total Fouls-New Mexico 18, Oklahoma St. 22. A-5,303.

Women

No. 15 Texas Tech 70, Oklahoma 79, Houston 74 Illinois 64 OKLAHOMA CITY — Steven CHICAGO — Christine Hyde Pledger had a game-high 31 scored 18 points to lead Texpoints, and Oklahoma beat as Tech.

Houston in the first game TECH (9-0) of the All College Classic. TEXAS Mallard 4-10 4-5 12, Baker 3-5 4-8 10, Pledger was 10 for 13 from the Morris 3-8 4-4 11, Smalls 1-3 2-2 4, Hyde 6-10 18, Brown 1-7 2-2 4, Barncastle 0-0 0-0 0, field, including 4 for 5 from 3-4 Battle 0-0 0-0 0, Bokenkamp 0-0 0-0 0, Nobles three-point range, rendering 2-5 7-12 11. Totals 20-48 26-37 70. an off night from the Soon- ILLINOIS (4-6) 4-9 4-7 12, Magrum 2-3 1-2 5, McCully ers’ inside tandem of Andrew 1-5Penn 2-2 4, GodBold 0-4 2-2 2, Moore 5-16 Fitzgerald and Romero Osby 2-2 15, Mitchell 0-0 0-0 0, Burke 3-11 5-6 11, Crawford 5-10 3-4 13, Smith 1-1 0-0 2, irrelevant.

Rukavina 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 21-61 19-25 64.

HOUSTON (4-5) Gibson 3-8 1-2 7, Thomas 3-3 0-0 6, Thompson 2-7 2-2 7, Thibodeaux 4-9 0-0 10, Simmons 8-15 2-3 20, Young 4-11 0-0 10, Harris 3-5 0-0 6, Barnes 0-1 0-0 0, Van Slyke 3-9 0-0 8. Totals 30-68 5-7 74.

OKLAHOMA (8-1) Fitzgerald 4-16 2-4 10, Clark 6-11 2-2 14, Osby 2-11 1-2 5, Grooms 3-8 3-4 10, Pledger 10-13 7-7 31, Washington 0-0 0-0 0, Blair 0-1 0-0 0, Neal 2-4 4-5 9, Honore’ 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-64 19-24 79.

Halftime-Oklahoma 40-37. 3-Point GoalsHouston 9-25 (Van Slyke 2-3, Thibodeaux 2-5, Simmons 2-6, Young 2-7, Thompson 1-3, Barnes 0-1), Oklahoma 6-10 (Pledger 4-5, Grooms 1-1, Neal 1-3, Clark 0-1). Fouled Out-Harris. Rebounds-Houston 37 (Thomas 8), Oklahoma 40 (Osby, Pledger 10). AssistsHouston 14 (Thompson 4), Oklahoma 13 (Grooms 8). Total Fouls-Houston 21, Oklahoma 12. A-NA.

New Mexico 66, Oklahoma State 56 OKLAHOMA CITY — Kendall Williams scored 16 points, and New Mexico posted its fifth win this season over a team from a BCS conference.

Drew Gordon added 13 points and 20 rebounds for New

Halftime-Texas Tech 27-23. 3-Point GoalsTexas Tech 4-14 (Hyde 3-6, Morris 1-5, Mallard 0-1, Brown 0-2), Illinois 3-10 (Moore 3-8, Crawford 0-1, Burke 0-1). Fouled OutGodBold. Rebounds-Texas Tech 41 (Mallard 10), Illinois 38 (Moore 5). Assists-Texas Tech 13 (Smalls 5), Illinois 12 (McCully 6).

Total Fouls-Texas Tech 19, Illinois 24. A-NA.

No. 24 Texas 71, North Texas 62 AUSTIN, TEXAS — Chassidy Fussell scored 20 points, and Texas rallied after an early scare to beat North Texas.

NORTH TEXAS (7-5) Stanley 2-7 4-5 8, Nelson 5-13 1-2 13, McCoy 5-12 0-0 14, Hudson 3-13 3-4 11, Torru 2-10 2-2 6, Evans 4-9 0-0 8, Hankins 0-2 0-0 0, Foreman 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 22-70 10-13 62.

TEXAS (8-2) Gayle 2-4 2-4 6, Reed 5-7 0-0 10, Bass 3-10 6-7 13, Fussell 7-12 4-5 20, Fontenette 5-13 1-2 12, Brewer 1-1 0-0 2, Enemkpali 2-4 0-1 4, Hartung 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 27-56 13-19 71.

Halftime-North Texas 34-25. 3-Point GoalsNorth Texas 8-24 (McCoy 4-9, Hudson 2-3, Nelson 2-6, Stanley 0-1, Hankins 0-1, Torru 0-4), Texas 4-9 (Fussell 2-4, Fontenette 1-2, Bass 1-3). Rebounds-North Texas 40 (Evans 7), Texas 40 (Gayle 11). Assists-North Texas 12 (Torru 5), Texas 12 (Fontenette 9). Total Fouls-North Texas 15, Texas 14. A-3,210.

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Buckeyes bag victory, but Sullinger ailing ————

Thomas tosses in 30 points; Matta claims 200th triumph at Ohio State 0-0 0-0 0, Trawick 1-1 3-3 5. Totals 30-51 15-20 81.

Halftime-Georgetown 32-26. 3-Point Goals-American U. 6-23 (Hinkle 2-7, Schoof 2-7, Bersch 1-3, Jolivette 1-4, Munoz 0-1, Hill 0-1), Georgetown 6-16 (Starks 4-6, Whittington 1-2, Clark 1-5, Bowen 0-1, Thompson 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-American U. 23 (Grafft 4), Georgetown 34 (Porter 10). AssistsAmerican U. 12 (Munoz 4), Georgetown 18 (Sims 6). Total Fouls-American U. 20, Georgetown 18. Technicals-Hinkle, Bowen.

A-9,964.

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No. 2 Ohio State 74, South Carolina 66 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Ohio State coach Thad Matta might have a second career ahead as a comedian.

Asked about the status of injured star forward Jared Sullinger, Matta quickly said the Buckeyes sophomore wasn’t hurt, just yanked from the second-ranked Buckeyes’ 74-66 win over South Carolina on Saturday for shoddy defense. “He had no problems, we just sent him to the showers,” Matta told the room of stunned media.

Then Matta acknowledged the joke and Sullinger’s bone bruise in his left foot. Ohio State’s coach was just glad he could laugh a little bit since his leading scorer wasn’t more seriously hurt.

“We think he’ll be fine,” Matta said. “We’re just happy there wasn’t a break in there.”

Still, Ohio State (10-1) showed it could succeed with Sullinger sidelined. Deshaun Thomas had a career-high 30 points and William Buford added 17 as Matta collected his 200th win in nine seasons with the Buckeyes.

“We had to get a little juice into us,” Thomas said. “We made some mistakes on offense in the first half with turnovers and that’s not us.

So we just put a little fire and juice into us.”

That looked as if it might be hard once Sullinger left the game. The Buckeyes were trailing 33-29 at the half and had appeared a step slower than the Gamecocks (4-6).

The Buckeyes used a 20-8 charge in the second half to take control.

Thomas got the run started with a jumper. Lenzelle Smith Jr. had a basket and a three-pointer to put Ohio State in front for good, 41-37.

Thomas added a three-pointer and finished the surge with a short jump shot for a 49-43 lead.

The Buckeyes eventually built the lead to 11 points.

“Obviously, very happy with a road win,” Matta said.

He’s also happy about his place in Ohio State history.

Matta, 200-58 with the Buckeyes, joined Fred Taylor (279 wins 1959-76) and Harold G. Olsen (254 from 1923-46).

Matta did not know if Sullinger would be ready for Lamar on Tuesday night. But even if Sullinger can’t go, Thomas showed he’s more than ready to lead Ohio State (10-1). The 6-foot-7 sophomore hit 13 of 16 shots and surpassed his previous high of 24 points set last season against North Carolina A&T. South Carolina coach Darrin Horn said he was more worried about Buford’s outside touch coming in and tailored the defense to let Thomas, a 51 percent shooter on the season, wind up with the ball more often.

“We put him in position by design to make those plays and to his credit, he made them,” Horn said.

OHIO STATE (10-1) Sullinger 1-2 1-1 3, Thomas 13-16 2-3 30, Craft 1-3 2-5 4, Smith Jr. 2-6 4-4 9, Buford 5-14 5-5 17, Sibert 0-2 0-0 0, Scott 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson 0-0 0-0 0, Weatherspoon 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 3-6 0-0 6, Ravenel 2-5 1-2 5.

Totals 27-54 15-20 74.

SOUTH CAROLINA (4-6) Gill 4-6 3-3 11, Cooke 6-10 9-10 21, Harris 2-4 0-0 4, Smith 2-5 0-0 5, Jackson 3-7 0-1 6, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Richardson 0-1 0-0 0, Ellington 3-7 0-0 8, Leonard 2-6 1-2 7, Slawson 1-2 0-0 3, Geathers 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 23-48 14-18 66.

Halftime-South Carolina 33-29. 3-Point Goals-Ohio St. 5-16 (Thomas 2-5, Buford 2-6, Smith Jr. 1-1, Craft 0-1, Williams 0-1, Sibert 0-2), South Carolina 6-15 (Ellington 2-4, Leonard 2-6, Smith 1-2, Slawson 1-2, Cooke 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsOhio St. 34 (Smith Jr. 9), South Carolina 19 (Gill 4). Assists-Ohio St. 16 (Buford 5), South Carolina 9 (Cooke 3). Total Fouls-Ohio St. 19, South Carolina 18. Technical-Williams.

A-13,654.

No. 1 Syracuse 88, N.C. State 72 RALEIGH, N.C. — Dion Waiters scored a career-high 22 points to help Syracuse beat North Carolina State. Scoop Jardine added 16 points for the Orange (11-0), including a pair of three-pointers during an 11-2 spurt that finally gave them some cushion after the Wolfpack fought back from a 17-point deficit late in the first half. Waiters also came up big during that run, starting

No. 17 Miss. State 80, Detroit 75 DETROIT — Rodney Hood’s jump shot with 17.7 seconds left lifted Mississippi State, the 10th straight victory for the Bulldogs. Hood’s shot broke a 75-75 tie and Arnett Moultrie blocked a shot seconds later to keep the Bulldogs (11-1) ahead.

MISSISSIPPI STATE (11-1) Sidney 7-10 0-0 16, Moultrie 6-9 5-7 17, Steele 1-5 0-0 3, Bost 4-16 2-2 13, Hood 3-5 1-2 8, Bryant 6-10 4-6 17, Lewis 2-2 0-2 4, D. Smith 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 30-61 12-19 80.

DETROIT (5-8) Lowe 1-3 0-0 2, Anderson 4-8 5-5 13, Simon 4-13 6-7 17, McCallum 6-15 3-5 17, Calliste 2-5 2-4 7, Boutte 3-5 0-0 7, Holman 6-8 0-0 12, Bruinsma 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-59 16-21 75.

Halftime-Mississippi St. 39-36. 3-Point Goals-Mississippi St. 8-24 (Bost 3-11, Sidney 2-3, Hood 1-2, Bryant 1-3, Steele 1-4, D. Smith 0-1), Detroit 7-20 (Simon 3-7, McCallum 2-5, Boutte 1-1, Calliste 1-4, Bruinsma 0-1, Anderson 0-2). Fouled Out-Lowe.

Rebounds-Mississippi St. 38 (Moultrie 13), Detroit 33 (Holman 9). Assists-Mississippi St. 17 (Bost 5), Detroit 12 (Boutte 4). Total Fouls-Mississippi St. 16, Detroit 19. A-2,217.

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OHIO STATE’S JARED SULLINGER (0) shoots against South Carolina’s RJ Swanson (33) and Malik Cooke. The Buckeyes won, 74-66, on Saturday in Columbia, S.C. it by knocking down his own three-pointer to answer one

by Scott Wood that brought N.C. State (6-4) within 63-61.

Waiters also jumped a pass and raced in for a dunk, then Jardine closed the spurt with another three to push the lead to 74-63 with 6:41 left.

SYRACUSE (11-0) Jardine 7-9 0-0 16, Triche 0-3 1-2 1, Christmas 0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 7-14 4-4 21, Melo 2-5 0-2 4, Carter-Williams 0-0 0-2 0, Waiters 9-14 1-2 22, Fair 5-9 1-1 11, Keita 1-1 0-0 2, Southerland 4-7 0-0 11. Totals 35-62 7-13 88.

NC STATE (6-4) Howell 6-9 0-0 12, Brown 4-5 0-0 10, Leslie 6-11 1-4 13, Wood 3-7 0-0 8, Williams 9-13 4-4 25, Painter 1-5 0-0 2, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, de Thaey 0-1 0-0 0, Vandenberg 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-52 5-8 72.

Halftime-Syracuse 47-33. 3-Point GoalsSyracuse 11-25 (Southerland 3-6, Waiters 3-6, Joseph 3-6, Jardine 2-4, Fair 0-1, Triche 0-2), NC State 7-14 (Williams 3-5, Brown 2-2, Wood 2-6, de Thaey 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Syracuse 26 (Joseph, Melo 5), NC State 28 (Brown, Leslie 6). Assists-Syracuse 10 (Triche 4), NC State 21 (Brown 13). Total Fouls-Syracuse 9, NC State 15. A-19,400.

No. 3 Kentucky 87, Tenn.-Chattanooga 62 LEXINGTON, KY. — Doron Lamb scored 24 points, and Kentucky bounced back from its first loss of the season despite an injury to forward Terrence Jones. Voted preseason All-America, Jones spent much of the game on the bench after hurting a finger on his left hand early in the first half. He checked back in but played only 10 minutes. He finished with no points and one rebound.

Still, the Wildcats (9-1) opened with 13 unanswered points in their first game since a 73-72 defeat at Indiana last Saturday knocked them from the nation’s top ranking. The Mocs (3-8) never came within single digits after that.

CHATTANOOGA (3-8) Wattad 3-14 0-0 9, Zlovaric 7-13 1-1 15, Burroughs 1-3 1-3 3, Bell 2-12 2-2 8, Taylor 3-8 3-4 11, Stokes 0-1 0-0 0, Hampton 0-3 2-2 2, Baker 0-0 0-0 0, Bareika 0-0 0-0 0, White 1-1 0-0 3, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Mason 3-7 2-3 8, Bryant 1-1 1-2 3. Totals 21-63 12-17 62.

KENTUCKY (9-1) Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Kidd-Gilchrist 4-7 7-8 17, Davis 7-11 0-0 14, Lamb 10-17 0-0 24, Teague 5-13 0-0 11, Miller 4-9 2-4 12, Polson 0-1 0-2 0, Beckham 0-0 0-0 0, Malone 0-0 0-0 0, Vargas 0-0 0-0 0, Long 0-0 0-0 0, Wiltjer 3-7 0-0 9.

Totals 33-68 9-14 87.

Halftime-Kentucky 39-23. 3-Point GoalsChattanooga 8-27 (Wattad 3-10, Taylor 2-3, Bell 2-11, White 1-1, Hampton 0-2), Kentucky 12-33 (Lamb 4-9, Wiltjer 3-7, Kidd-Gilchrist 2-3, Miller 2-7, Teague 1-5, Jones 0-1, Polson 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsChattanooga 36 (Zlovaric 9), Kentucky 42 (Davis 18). Assists-Chattanooga 13 (Taylor 5), Kentucky 17 (Teague 8). Total FoulsChattanooga 17, Kentucky 17. A-23,211.

No. 4 Louisville 95, Memphis 87 LOUISVILLE, KY. — Russ Smith set personal bests with 24 points and seven steals as Louisville survived a roughand-tumble matchup with former conference foe Memphis to extend the Cardinals’

home winning streak to 18 games.

Gorgui Dieng added 14 points and 14 rebounds in the schools’ first meeting since the Cardinals (10-0) beat the Tigers (5-4) by a point to win the Conference USA tournament in 2005 before departing for the Big East.

MEMPHIS (5-4) Black 1-5 3-6 5, Jackson 6-12 8-9 22, W. Barton 7-14 14-19 28, Crawford 5-11 0-0 12, Thomas 4-10 0-0 9, Witherspoon 0-1 2-2 2, A. Barton 2-6 2-5 7, Hall 1-2 0-2 2, Simpson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-63 29-43 87.

LOUISVILLE (10-0) R. Smith 6-16 10-12 24, Siva 4-8 4-4 13, Buckles 4-4 3-5 12, Dieng 6-13 2-5 14, Kuric 5-10 0-0 11, Behanan 1-7 8-8 10, Justice 0-1 0-0 0, Swopshire 0-1 0-0 0, Henderson 0-1 0-0 0, C. Smith 2-7 5-6 11, Ware 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 28-70 32-40 95.

Halftime-Louisville 42-32. 3-Point GoalsMemphis 6-15 (Jackson 2-3, Crawford 2-3, A. Barton 1-3, Thomas 1-4, W. Barton 0-2), Louisville 7-23 (R. Smith 2-6, C. Smith 2-7, Buckles 1-1, Kuric 1-2, Siva 1-3, Henderson 0-1, Justice 0-1, Behanan 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Memphis 45 (W. Barton 16), Louisville 45 (Dieng 14).

Assists-Memphis 11 (Crawford, Jackson 4), Louisville 17 (Siva 9). Total Fouls-Memphis 28, Louisville 26. A-22,733.

No. 5 North Carolina 97, Appalachian State 82 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Tyler Zeller had 31 points and 10 rebounds to lead North Carolin. John Henson added 17 points for the Tar Heels (9-2). They never trailed, led by 29 and shot 54.5 percent to claim their third straight win and 22nd in a row at the Dean Smith Center.

APPALACHIAN STATE (4-6) Trice 0-2 0-0 0, Williamson 5-9 0-0 11, Okam 0-1 0-0 0, Milum 3-12 0-0 8, Neal 6-12 2-2 15, Butts 1-5 2-2 4, Woods 0-0 0-0 0, Carter 7-15 5-7 21, Vilarino 2-3 0-0 5, Healy 2-3 0-0 5, Hausley 1-2 0-0 2, Hamilton 2-4 6-6 11. Totals 29-68 15-17 82.

NORTH CAROLINA (9-2) Barnes 4-12 1-2 9, Zeller 11-15 9-10 31, Henson 7-10 3-5 17, Strickland 3-5 0-0 6, Marshall 2-6 0-0 4, Hairston 0-2 10-12 10, Bullock 4-8 0-0 10, Watts 0-1 0-0 0, McAdoo 3-4 0-2 6, Hubert 1-1 0-1 2, White 1-2 0-1 2, Simmons 0-0 0-0 0, Dupont 0-0 0-0 0, Crouch 0-0 0-0 0, Cooper 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-66 23-33 97.

Halftime-North Carolina 48-32. 3-Point Goals-Appalachian St. 9-20 (Carter 2-3, Milum 2-9, Williamson 1-1, Vilarino 1-1, Hamilton 1-1, Healy 1-1, Neal 1-3, Trice 0-1), North Carolina 2-10 (Bullock 2-5, Marshall 0-1, Barnes 0-1, Strickland 0-1, Hairston 0-2).

Fouled Out-Butts, Healy, Okam. ReboundsAppalachian St. 32 (Carter 7), North Carolina 39 (Zeller 10). Assists-Appalachian St. 13 (Neal, Vilarino 3), North Carolina 17 (Marshall 13). Total Fouls-Appalachian St. 26, North Carolina 15. A-20,892.

No. 11 Marquette 93, Northern Colorado 72 MILWAUKEE — Freshman Todd Mayo replaced suspended Darius JohnsonOdom in the starting lineup and scored 22 points to lead Marquette.

Jae Crowder added 19 points and 11 rebounds for Marquette (10-0), which moved to 10-0 for the first time in a decade and seventh time in school history.

Vander Blue had 18 points Tate Unruh had a career-

high 25 points for Northern Colorado (3-7), the defending Big Sky Conference regular-season and tournament champions. Unruh made five three-pointers.

NORTHERN COLORADO (3-7) Proctor 0-0 0-0 0, Osborne 0-2 4-5 4, Garnica 0-4 0-0 0, Svihovec 1-3 0-0 2, Unruh 10-18 0-0 25, Lloyd 1-4 2-2 5, Hawk-Harris 2-5 0-2 5, Keane 2-7 1-2 5, Huskisson 3-5 10-11 17, Addo 2-7 5-7 9, Douvier 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-56 22-29 72.

MARQUETTE (10-0) Crowder 6-13 5-7 19, Gardner 3-4 8-9 14, Blue 5-8 8-11 18, Mayo 7-15 4-4 22, Cadougan 3-6 2-2 9, J. Wilson 4-7 3-3 11, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, D. Wilson 0-2 0-0 0.

Totals 28-59 30-36 93.

Halftime-Marquette 47-30.

3-Point Goals-N. Colorado 8-16 (Unruh 5-8, Huskisson 1-1, Hawk-Harris 1-1, Lloyd 1-3, Svihovec 0-1, Garnica 0-2), Marquette 7-23 (Mayo 4-8, Crowder 2-8, Cadougan 1-1, D. Wilson 0-1, J. Wilson 0-1, Blue 0-2, Jones 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-N. Colorado 26 (Unruh 5), Marquette 43 (Crowder 11).

Assists-N. Colorado 17 (Lloyd 7), Marquette 23 (Cadougan 9). Total Fouls-N. Colorado 25, Marquette 23. Technical-N. Colorado Bench. A-13,593.

No. 15 Pittsburgh 69, South Carolina State 55 PITTSBURGH — Lamar Patterson tied a career high with 16 points, and Pittsburgh pulled away in the second half.

Ashton Gibbs added 14 points and a team-high six assists for the Panthers (10-1), who have won eight straight.

SC STATE (4-7) Sanders 3-9 0-0 6, Martin 0-1 0-0 0, Bell 0-5 0-0 0, Toombs 6-9 0-0 16, Riley 8-17 2-4 21, Ikhinmwin 0-3 0-0 0, Barber 4-7 3-5 12, Joint 0-1 0-0 0, Radovic 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 21-54 5-9 55.

PITTSBURGH (10-1) Patterson 7-11 0-2 16, Robinson 3-5 2-4 8, Taylor 1-3 0-0 2, Wright 0-0 0-0 0, Gibbs 6-18 0-0 14, Epps 0-0 0-0 0, J. Johnson 3-6 2-2 8, Gilbert 1-1 0-0 2, Zanna 4-6 4-6 12, Moore 3-7 0-0 7. Totals 28-57 8-14 69.

Halftime-Pittsburgh 31-26. 3-Point GoalsSC State 8-14 (Toombs 4-4, Riley 3-5, Barber 1-2, Martin 0-1, Sanders 0-1, Joint 0-1), Pittsburgh 5-23 (Patterson 2-5, Gibbs 2-12, Moore 1-4, J. Johnson 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-SC State 29 (Barber, Radovic 5), Pittsburgh 41 (Zanna 14). Assists-SC State 13 (Riley, Toombs 3), Pittsburgh 17 (Gibbs 6). Total Fouls-SC State 14, Pittsburgh 13.

A-9,521.

No. 16 Georgetown 81, American 55 WASHINGTON — Georgetown center Henry Sims took over the game early in the second half, finishing with 17 points and six assists, and Markel Starks scored 18.

Sims assisted on back-door baskets on four consecutive possessions in the opening minutes after halftime as Georgetown (9-1) broke open a tight game en route to its seventh victory in a row.

AMERICAN U. (8-4) Munoz 1-4 0-1 2, Jolivette 5-14 0-0 11, Schoof 4-9 2-2 12, Hinkle 6-13 2-3 16, Wroblicky 1-3 0-0 2, McCormack 4-5 0-0 8, Kager 0-0 0-0 0, Simon II 0-1 0-0 0, Flood Jr. 0-0 1-2 1, Fisher 0-0 0-0 0, Grafft 0-1 0-0 0, Hill 0-1 0-0 0, Bersch 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 22-54 5-8 55.

GEORGETOWN (9-1) Thompson 6-12 3-3 15, Starks 6-8 2-2 18, Sims 7-10 3-4 17, Clark 3-7 2-2 9, Lubick 2-3 0-0 4, Whittington 1-2 0-2 3, Hopkins 1-1 0-0 2, Porter 3-6 2-4 8, Bowen 0-1 0-0 0, Caprio

No. 18 Indiana 69, Notre Dame 58 INDIANAPOLIS — Cody Zeller scored 21 points and had eight rebounds to help Indiana beat rival Notre Dame in the Crossroads Classic. The Hoosiers are 10-0 for the first time since 1989-90 and protected their first Top 25 ranking in more than three years.

Eric Atkins led Notre Dame (7-5) with 15 points. But the only Division I team with six players who have scored 20 points in a game this season struggled badly against the Hoosiers’ defense. Notre Dame shot 38.1 percent from the field and went more than 16 minutes without a basket during one stretch. Indiana went on a 12-2 run during the drought to take its first lead of the game, then pulled away in the second half.

INDIANA (10-0) Hulls 4-9 2-2 12, Watford 2-9 6-6 10, Oladipo 6-7 3-5 16, Jones III 1-5 2-3 4, Zeller 8-14 5-6 21, Sheehey 1-7 0-0 2, Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Abell 1-2 0-0 2, Pritchard 0-0 0-0 0, Elston 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 24-57 18-22 69.

NOTRE DAME (7-5) Atkins 5-12 5-6 15, Dragicevich 3-6 0-0 9, Martin 1-4 4-8 6, Grant 2-10 9-10 14, Cooley 4-5 4-5 12, Connaughton 1-3 0-1 2, Knight 0-1 0-2 0, Brooks 0-1 0-0 0, Broghammer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 16-42 22-32 58.

Halftime-Indiana 26-20. 3-Point GoalsIndiana 3-7 (Hulls 2-2, Oladipo 1-2, Jones III 0-1, Elston 0-2), Notre Dame 4-11 (Dragicevich 3-5, Grant 1-4, Connaughton 0-1, Martin 0-1). Fouled Out-Cooley.

Rebounds-Indiana 40 (Sheehey 9), Notre Dame 28 (Martin 7). Assists-Indiana 9 (Hulls 3), Notre Dame 9 (Grant 4). Total FoulsIndiana 25, Notre Dame 20. A-19,064.

UNLV 64, No. 19 Illinois 49 CHICAGO — Mike Moser had 17 points and 11 rebounds, UNLV went on a 14-2 run to close the first half and the Runnin’ Rebels handed Illinois its first loss of the season.

UNLV (11-2) Massamba 3-3 2-3 8, Moser 6-11 4-5 17, Bellfield 1-6 4-4 6, Stanback 0-4 2-2 2, Marshall 1-5 2-3 5, Thomas 5-6 3-3 13, Lopez 3-5 0-0 6, Wallace 1-3 0-0 3, Mashour 0-0 0-0 0, Hawkins 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 22-50 17-20 64.

ILLINOIS (10-1) Griffey 3-5 0-0 6, Leonard 3-8 1-6 7, Maniscalco 1-10 3-4 6, Richardson 6-17 2-2 19, Paul 2-12 2-4 7, Abrams 0-2 0-0 0, Shaw 0-1 1-2 1, Bertrand 0-0 0-0 0, Henry 0-0 0-0 0, Egwu 0-2 0-0 0, Head 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 16-63 9-18 48.

Halftime-UNLV 33-22. 3-Point Goals-UNLV 3-11 (Wallace 1-1, Marshall 1-2, Moser 1-4, Stanback 0-1, Hawkins 0-1, Bellfield 0-2), Illinois 7-25 (Richardson 5-8, Paul 1-6, Maniscalco 1-7, Abrams 0-1, Griffey 0-1, Head 0-2). Fouled Out-Marshall, Paul.

Rebounds-UNLV 44 (Moser 11), Illinois 40 (Richardson 8). Assists-UNLV 11 (Bellfield 6), Illinois 12 (Leonard 3). Total Fouls-UNLV 21, Illinois 19. A-15,144.

No. 20 Michigan 87, Alabama A&M 57 ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Evan Smotrycz had 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead Michigan.

Trey Burke led the Wolverines with 19 points, and Zack Novak and Tim Hardaway Jr. contributed 13 each.

ALABAMA A&M (2-4) Hunter 2-7 0-0 4, Cantey 4-11 5-7 15, Crutcher 4-9 3-4 12, Tabb 0-5 0-0 0, Ellis 0-2 0-0 0, Banks 0-0 0-0 0, Hardy Jr. 0-2 0-0 0, Hill 1-3 0-1 2, Long 0-0 0-0 0, Ingram 5-11 0-0 14, Lee 0-1 0-0 0, Allen 4-8 0-0 10, Martin 0-3 0-0 0, Alexander 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-62 8-12 57.

MICHIGAN (9-2) Smotrycz 4-5 6-7 17, Morgan 2-3 2-2 6, Novak 6-8 0-0 13, Burke 6-10 4-4 19, Hardaway Jr. 5-13 2-3 13, Douglass 2-5 2-2 7, Brundidge 1-3 1-3 3, Akunne 2-2 0-0 5, Vogrich 0-2 0-0 0, Bartelstein 0-1 0-0 0, McLimans 2-3 0-0 4, Person 0-0 0-0 0, Christian 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-55 17-21 87.

Halftime-Michigan 41-27. 3-Point Goals-

Alabama A&M 9-23 (Ingram 4-7, Allen 2-5, Cantey 2-6, Crutcher 1-2, Ellis 0-1, Hardy Jr. 0-2), Michigan 10-22 (Burke 3-3, Smotrycz 3-3, Novak 1-1, Akunne 1-1, Douglass 1-3, Hardaway Jr. 1-6, Bartelstein 0-1, Brundidge 0-2, Vogrich 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Alabama A&M 30 (Hunter 7), Michigan 41 (Smotrycz 11). AssistsAlabama A&M 9 (Hill 4), Michigan 19 (Burke, Hardaway Jr., Novak 4). Total FoulsAlabama A&M 20, Michigan 15. A-10,497.

No. 21 Michigan State 74, Bowling Green 60 EAST LANSING, MICH. — Brandon Wood scored 16 points, and Michigan State overcame a sluggish first half.

Derrick Nix added a career-high 14 points to go with seven rebounds and Branden Dawson had 13 points for the Spartans (9-2), who have won nine straight. Draymond Green had 12 points and 10 rebounds, his fifth doubledouble this season.

BOWLING GREEN (5-5) Calhoun 6-14 0-0 12, Black 0-1 0-0 0, Crawford 4-10 1-2 11, Thomas 3-10 0-0 7, Brown 0-7 0-0 0, Henderson 1-3 0-0 2, Kraus 0-5 0-0 0, Erger 0-1 0-0 0, Clarke 4-5 5-5 14, Orr 1-2 0-0 2, Sealey 1-2 2-3 4, Oglesby 4-4 0-0 8. Totals 24-64 8-10 60.

MICHIGAN STATE (9-2) Green 4-10 4-5 12, Payne 2-5 2-5 6, Appling 1-4 1-2 3, Dawson 5-6 3-4 13, Wood 5-8 3-3 16, Byrd 1-2 0-0 2, Gauna 0-0 0-0 0, Kearney 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 1-1 2-2 5, Chapman 0-0 0-0 0, Trice 1-4 0-0 3, Nix 5-13 4-6 14, Ianni 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-53 19-27 74.

Halftime-Michigan St. 35-33. 3-Point Goals-Bowling Green 4-16 (Crawford 2-3, Clarke 1-2, Thomas 1-4, Henderson 0-1, Calhoun 0-2, Kraus 0-2, Brown 0-2), Michigan St. 5-11 (Wood 3-5, Thornton 1-1, Trice 1-2, Appling 0-1, Green 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Bowling Green 37 (Oglesby 9), Michigan St. 39 (Green 10). Assists-Bowling Green 10 (Clarke, Crawford 3), Michigan St. 16 (Green 6). Total Fouls-Bowling Green 21, Michigan St. 16. Technical-Oglesby. A-NA.

No. 24 Murray State 66, Arkansas State 53 MURRAY, KY. — Isaiah Canaan hit six three-pointers and scored 21 points to lead Murray State. Ivan Aska added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Donte Poole had 11 points for the Racers (12-0).

ARKANSAS STATE (5-6) Peterson 3-5 0-0 6, Kirkland 2-4 1-1 5, Finn 1-5 0-0 2, Hooten 2-7 4-4 9, Townsel 7-16 0-0 17, Dickerson 1-1 0-0 2, Griswold 0-1 0-0 0, Sterrenberg 3-6 3-6 10, Clark 1-4 0-0 2, Zuppardo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-49 8-11 53.

MURRAY STATE (12-0) Daniel 1-2 3-7 5, Aska 5-13 4-4 14, Canaan 7-12 1-1 21, Poole 5-11 1-2 11, Long 3-6 0-0 6, Wilson 1-4 0-0 3, Mushatt 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 1-3 2-2 5, Garrett 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 23-51 12-18 66.

Halftime-Murray St. 35-30. 3-Point GoalsArkansas St. 5-16 (Townsel 3-7, Hooten 1-2, Sterrenberg 1-3, Peterson 0-1, Clark 0-1, Finn 0-2), Murray St. 8-19 (Canaan 6-10, Jackson 1-1, Wilson 1-3, Poole 0-5).

Fouled Out-Kirkland. Rebounds-Arkansas St. 26 (Kirkland 12), Murray St. 37 (Aska 11). Assists-Arkansas St. 8 (Townsel 5), Murray St. 13 (Jackson, Long 4). Total FoulsArkansas St. 16, Murray St. 12. A-4,031.

Indiana State 61, No. 25 Vanderbilt 55 NASHVILLE, TENN. — Steve McWhorter hit two free throws with 3:32 left to put Indiana State ahead for good, and the Sycamores upset Vanderbilt.

INDIANA STATE (8-2) Richard 4-6 0-0 11, Walker 1-10 1-2 3, Odum 3-9 4-6 10, Printy 4-7 0-0 11, McWhorter 2-4 2-2 6, Lu. Eitel 0-0 0-0 0, Gant 0-3 0-0 0, Lathan 3-4 0-0 6, Mahurin 5-8 0-0 14. Totals 22-51 7-10 61.

VANDERBILT (6-4) Taylor 8-15 2-4 21, Odom 0-2 0-0 0, Ezeli 2-6 0-0 4, Tinsley 5-8 0-0 12, Jenkins 3-10 4-5 11, Johnson 0-2 1-2 1, Goulbourne 1-3 2-3 4, Parker 0-1 0-0 0, Tchiengang 0-3 2-4 2. Totals 19-50 11-18 55.

Halftime-Tied 28-28. 3-Point GoalsIndiana St. 10-21 (Mahurin 4-7, Richard 3-4, Printy 3-5, Lathan 0-1, Gant 0-1, McWhorter 0-1, Odum 0-2), Vanderbilt 6-22 (Taylor 3-6, Tinsley 2-4, Jenkins 1-6, Tchiengang 0-1, Parker 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Goulbourne 0-1, Odom 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsIndiana St. 29 (Odum 8), Vanderbilt 34 (Goulbourne, Taylor, Tinsley 6). AssistsIndiana St. 14 (Odum 7), Vanderbilt 9 (Tinsley 3). Total Fouls-Indiana St. 14, Vanderbilt 10. A-13,310.

No. 25 Creighton 97, Houston Baptist 62 OMAHA, NEB. — Doug McDermott scored 25 points, Gregory Echenique had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Creighton overpowered Houston Baptist. McDermott, who came in as the nation’s No. 2 scorer at 24 points a game, had his eighth straight 20-point game for the Bluejays (8-1).

HOUSTON BAPTIST (4-7) Bernardi 7-14 0-2 16, Davis 2-3 0-0 5, Latas 3-9 1-4 7, Smith 0-5 1-2 1, Russell 1-5 2-5 4, March 1-5 0-0 3, Thomas 1-4 0-2 2, Hill 6-10 1-2 16, Asp 0-0 0-0 0, Bowden 2-3 0-0 4, Bembry 2-7 0-1 4, Evans 0-2 0-1 0. Totals 25-67 5-19 62.

CREIGHTON (8-1) McDermott 9-17 6-6 25, Echenique 6-9 6-8 18, Gibbs 0-0 2-2 2, Manigat 3-7 0-0 7, Young 0-3 0-0 0, Chatman 1-3 4-8 6, Stormberg 1-3 0-0 3, Jones 2-3 0-2 5, Sebastian 1-1 0-0 2, Ferrarini 1-3 0-0 2, Dorwart 0-1 0-1 0, Dingman 2-6 3-4 8, Artino 3-5 3-4 9, Wragge 2-7 4-4 10. Totals 31-68 28-39 97.

Halftime-Creighton 46-23. 3-Point GoalsHouston Baptist 7-19 (Hill 3-5, Bernardi 2-4, Davis 1-2, March 1-3, Russell 0-1, Evans 0-1, Smith 0-3), Creighton 7-28 (Wragge 2-5, Jones 1-2, Stormberg 1-3, Manigat 1-4, Dingman 1-4, McDermott 1-5, Young 0-1, Chatman 0-1, Dorwart 0-1, Ferrarini 0-2). Fouled Out-Davis. Rebounds-Houston Baptist 36 (Bernardi, Latas 5), Creighton 56 (Echenique 14). Assists-Houston Baptist 12 (Smith 3), Creighton 27 (Gibbs 8). Total Fouls-Houston Baptist 26, Creighton 19.

Technical-Davis. A-16,513.

Lawrence Journal-World SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011 10B

SCOREBOARD

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD Scoring Touchdowns

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 3 0 .769 396 274 N.Y. Jets 8 5 0 .615 327 270 Buffalo 5 8 0 .385 288 341 Miami 4 9 0 .308 256 246 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Houston 10 3 0 .769 330 208 Tennessee 7 6 0 .538 266 251 Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 207 293 Indianapolis 0 13 0 .000 184 382 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 10 3 0 .769 320 202 Pittsburgh 10 3 0 .769 282 198 Cincinnati 7 6 0 .538 285 270 Cleveland 4 9 0 .308 178 254 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 8 5 0 .615 269 302 Oakland 7 6 0 .538 290 354 San Diego 6 7 0 .462 324 299 Kansas City 5 8 0 .385 173 305 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 8 6 0 .571 348 296 N.Y. Giants 7 6 0 .538 324 349 Philadelphia 5 8 0 .385 297 292 Washington 4 9 0 .308 229 290 South W L T Pct PF PA x-New Orleans 10 3 0 .769 415 286 Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 341 281 Carolina 4 9 0 .308 313 355 Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 247 401 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 13 0 0 1.000 466 278 Detroit 8 5 0 .615 367 305 Chicago 7 6 0 .538 301 255 Minnesota 2 11 0 .154 274 364 West W L T Pct PF PA y-San Francisco 10 3 0 .769 307 182 Seattle 6 7 0 .462 246 259 Arizona 6 7 0 .462 253 288 St. Louis 2 11 0 .154 153 326 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Atlanta 41, Jacksonville 14 Saturday’s Game Dallas 31, Tampa Bay 15 Today’s Games New Orleans at Minnesota, noon Seattle at Chicago, noon Cincinnati at St. Louis, noon Carolina at Houston, noon Green Bay at Kansas City, noon Tennessee at Indianapolis, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Washington at N.Y. Giants, noon Detroit at Oakland, 3 p.m.

New England at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

Cleveland at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 3:15 p.m.

Baltimore at San Diego, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.

Chiefs

Buffalo, L 7-41 (0-1) at Detroit, L 3-48 (0-2) at San Diego, L 17-20 (0-3) Minnesota, W 22-17 (1-3) at Indianapolis, W 28-24 (2-3) BYE at Oakland, W 28-0 (3-3) San Diego, W 23-20 (OT) (4-3) Miami, L 3-31 (4-4) Denver, L 10-17 (4-5) at New England, L 3-34 (4-6) Pittsburgh, L 9-13 (4-7) at Chicago, W 10-3 (5-7) at N.Y. Jets, L 10-37 (5-8) Today — Green Bay, noon Dec. 24 — Oakland, noon Jan. 1 — at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

AFC Individual Leaders Week 15 Quarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD Brady, NWE 496 328 4273 33 Schaub, HOU 292 178 2479 15 Roethlisberger, PIT 429 276 3526 21 Rivers, SND 480 302 3745 22 Mat. Moore, MIA 263 162 1864 10 Tebow, DEN 198 96 1290 11 Sanchez, NYJ 426 242 2859 21 Hasselbeck, TEN 403 246 2701 15 Dalton, CIN 415 245 2833 18 Fitzpatrick, BUF 449 278 3013 20 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG Jones-Drew, JAC 294 1334 4.54 43 R. Rice, BAL 234 1029 4.40 67 A. Foster, HOU 239 957 4.00 43 Ry. Mathews, SND 185 943 5.10 39 F. Jackson, BUF 170 934 5.49 80t McGahee, DEN 199 920 4.62 60t Benson, CIN 222 883 3.98 42 Chr. Johnson, TEN 217 875 4.03 48t S. Greene, NYJ 207 868 4.19 31 Be. Tate, HOU 146 820 5.62 44 Receivers No Yds Avg LG Welker, NWE 100 1339 13.4 99t R. Gronkowski, NWE 71 1088 15.3 52t B. Marshall, MIA 67 937 14.0 46 Bowe, KAN 65 937 14.4 52t St. Johnson, BUF 63 790 12.5 53 M. Wallace, PIT 62 1034 16.7 95t R. Rice, BAL 62 593 9.6 52 Garcon, IND 60 851 14.2 87t N. Washington, TEN 59 798 13.5 57 Hernandez, NWE 59 607 10.3 30 Scoring Touchdowns TD Rush Rec Ret R. Gronkowski, NWE 16 1 15 0 R. Rice, BAL 12 10 2 0 A. Foster, HOU 10 8 2 0 Jones-Drew, JAC 10 7 3 0 Decker, DEN 9 0 8 1 Welker, NWE 9 0 9 0 M. Bush, OAK 8 7 1 0 Green-Ellis, NWE 8 8 0 0 V. Jackson, SND 8 0 8 0 Mendenhall, PIT 8 8 0 0 Kicking PAT FG LG Cundiff, BAL 33-3327-35 51 Gostkowski, NWE 46-4622-26 50 Rackers, HOU 36-3724-29 54 Nugent, CIN 28-2925-27 49 Novak, SND 31-3223-28 53 Janikowski, OAK 30-3022-24 63 Bironas, TEN 29-2921-24 52 Folk, NYJ 39-3916-21 51 Suisham, PIT 32-3218-24 49 D. Carpenter, MIA 19-1921-26 51

Int 11 6 11 17 6 2 11 10 12 16 TD 7 10 8 4 6 4 5 4 6 3 TD 9 15 4 4 6 8 2 6 5 5 Pts 96 72 60 60 54 54 48 48 48 48 Pts 114 112 108 103 100 96 92 87 86 82

NFC Individual Leaders Week 15 Quarterbacks

A. Rodgers, GBY Brees, NOR Romo, DAL E. Manning, NYG Stafford, DET Ale. Smith, SNF M. Ryan, ATL Cutler, CHI Kolb, ARI C. Newton, CAR Rushers L. McCoy, PHL M. Turner, ATL Gore, SNF Forte, CHI M. Lynch, SEA B. Wells, ARI Murray, DAL S. Jackson, STL A. Peterson, MIN Blount, TAM Receivers R. White, ATL J. Graham, NOR T. Gonzalez, ATL Sproles, NOR Ca. Johnson, DET Harvin, MIN Cruz, NYG St. Smith, CAR G. Jennings, GBY H. Nicks, NYG

Att 438 543 453 489 516 358 505 314 253 452

Com Yds 305 4125 385 4368 294 3646 303 4105 327 3754 221 2565 307 3698 182 2319 146 1955 270 3573

TD 39 32 26 25 29 15 26 13 9 15

Int 6 11 9 12 14 5 12 7 8 16

Att 242 273 234 203 225 216 164 202 186 167

Yds Avg 1172 4.84 1129 4.14 1054 4.50 997 4.91 969 4.31 943 4.37 897 5.47 895 4.43 872 4.69 737 4.41

LG 60 61 55 46 47 71 91t 47t 54 54t

TD 14 9 6 3 9 9 2 5 11 5

No 85 80 74 74 72 69 68 67 67 65

Yds Avg 1100 12.9 1101 13.8 826 11.2 580 7.8 1121 15.6 779 11.3 1150 16.9 1217 18.2 949 14.2 1023 15.7

LG 43 59 30 36 73t 52t 74t 77t 79t 68

TD 8 8 7 4 12 5 7 5 9 6

L. McCoy, PHL C. Newton, CAR Ca. Johnson, DET A. Peterson, MIN M. Lynch, SEA J. Nelson, GBY G. Jennings, GBY M. Turner, ATL B. Wells, ARI Br. Jacobs, NYG Kicking

GORILLA MY DREAMS

TD Rush Rec Ret Pts 17 14 3 0 102 13 13 0 0 78 12 0 12 0 72 12 11 1 0 72 10 9 1 0 60 10 0 10 0 60 9 0 9 0 54 9 9 0 0 54 9 9 0 0 54 8 7 1 0 50

Akers, SNF D. Bailey, DAL Crosby, GBY Kasay, NOR M. Bryant, ATL Gould, CHI Ja. Hanson, DET Barth, TAM Henery, PHL Gano, WAS

PAT FG 27-2736-42 32-3231-35 55-5623-25 45-4526-31 38-3823-25 32-3225-28 41-4122-26 20-2024-26 34-3419-22 20-2123-32

LG 55 51 58 53 50 57 51 55 47 59

X Sunday, December 18, 2011

Pts 135 125 124 123 107 107 107 92 91 89

College Football

Bowl Schedule Saturday’s Games New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Ohio 24, Utah State 23 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego State 30 Tuesday’s Game Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday’s Game Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday’s Game MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (112), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 5:40 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5), 9 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 1 p.m.

(CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (10-3), noon (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), noon (ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, TBA, (NFLN)

Division II Playoffs

First Round Saturday, Nov. 19 North Greenville 63, Albany State (Ga.) 14 California (Pa.) 44, Elizabeth City State 0 Kutztown 17, Concord 14 North Alabama 43, West Alabama 27 NW Missouri State 35, Missouri Western 29 Minnesota-Duluth 30, Saginaw Valley 27 Wayne State (Mich.) 48, St. Cloud State 38 Washburn 52, Abilene Christian 49 Second Round Saturday, Nov. 26 New Haven 44, Kutztown 37 North Greenville 58, at Mars Hill 32 Northwest Missouri State 38, Midwestern State 31 Wayne State (Mich.) 38, NebraskaKearney 20

Dave Martin/AP Photo

PITTSBURG STATE FANS CHEER IN THE FIRST HALF of their NCAA Div II National Championship college football game against Wayne State. The Gorillas won, 35-21, Saturday in Florence, Ala. Story on page 3B. Winston-Salem 35, California (Pa.) 28 Delta State 42, North Alabama 14 Pittsburg State 31, Washburn 22 Minnesota-Duluth 24, Colorado StatePueblo 21 Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 3 Winston-Salem 27, New Haven 7 Wayne State (Mich.) 31, MinnesotaDuluth 25 Delta State 28, North Greenville 23 Pittsburg State 41, Northwest Missouri State 16 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 10 Wayne State 21, Winston-Salem 14 Pittsburg State 49, Delta State 23 Championship Saturday’s Game At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Pittsburg State (Kan.) 35, Wayne State (Mich.) 21

Missouri Baylor Oklahoma Kansas State Texas Texas A&M Kansas Iowa State Oklahoma State Texas Tech Thursday’s Game Missouri 104, Kennesaw State 67 Saturday’s Games Baylor 86, BYU 83 Texas 77, Temple 65 Florida 84, Texas A&M 64 Oklahoma 79, Houston 74 Kansas State 71, Alabama 58 New Mexico 66, Oklahoma State 56 Today’s Games Central Michigan at Iowa State, 1 p.m.

(CTN) William & Mary at Missouri, 2 p.m. (MSN) Grambling State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

(TTSN) Monday’s Games Paul Quinn College at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Davidson vs. Kansas at Kansas City, Mo., 8 p.m. (ESPNU)

SOUTH Auburn 84, North Florida 71 Austin Peay 72, Rochester (Mich.) 50 Clemson 60, Winthrop 40 Coll. of Charleston 70, Charleston Southern 68 E. Kentucky 59, Jacksonville St. 53 Florida 84, Texas A&M 64 Furman 76, W. Kentucky 63 Indiana St. 61, Vanderbilt 55 Kentucky 87, Chattanooga 62 Liberty 74, Hampton 65 Louisiana Tech 71, UALR 68 Louisville 95, Memphis 87 Marshall 79, High Point 59 Miami 93, FAU 90, 2OT Murray St. 66, Arkansas St. 53 North Carolina 97, Appalachian St. 82 Northwestern St. 85, Missouri Valley 39 Ohio St. 74, South Carolina 66 SC-Upstate 79, Stetson 63 Samford 90, Spring Hill 64 Southern Miss. 86, Mississippi 82 Syracuse 88, NC State 72 Tennessee St. 59, Delaware St. 55 UCF 61, Old Dominion 53 VCU 87, UNC Wilmington 64 Virginia Tech 85, Campbell 60 MIDWEST Akron 91, Florida A&M 69 Butler 67, Purdue 65 Cincinnati 101, Radford 70 Creighton 97, Houston Baptist 62 Dayton 61, FIU 40 DePaul 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 62 Indiana 69, Notre Dame 58 Iowa 82, Drake 68 Loyola of Chicago 64, Chicago St. 49 Marquette 93, N. Colorado 72 Miami (Ohio) 66, Belmont 61 Michigan 87, Alabama A&M 57 Michigan St. 74, Bowling Green 60 Milwaukee 86, Nebraska-Omaha 50 Mississippi St. 80, Detroit 75 Missouri St. 78, Kennesaw St. 55 N. Dakota St. 92, Mayville St. 50 Nebraska 60, Alcorn St. 46 Northwestern 70, CCSU 64 Oakland 82, Valparaiso 80 Ohio 82, Wright St. 54 S. Illinois 62, N. Illinois 49 Saint Louis 65, Alabama St. 35 Tennessee Tech 72, Evansville 70 Toledo 86, Youngstown St. 77 UNLV 64, Illinois 48 W. Michigan 85, Duquesne 71 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 62, SE Louisiana 55 Lamar 87, Rice 81 Oklahoma 79, Houston 74 Stephen F. Austin 64, Texas College 57 Texas 77, Temple 65 Tulsa 80, Texas-Arlington 75, OT UTEP 87, Southern U. 57 FAR WEST Air Force 64, Md.-Eastern Shore 60 Baylor 86, BYU 83 CS Northridge 99, Pacifica 58 Cal Poly 65, Fresno St. 46 Cal St.-Fullerton 86, La Verne 44 Denver 79, Boise St. 62 Georgia 63, Southern Cal 59 Georgia St. 71, Utah Valley 68 Gonzaga 71, Arizona 60 Idaho 72, CS Bakersfield 44 N. Arizona 69, Arizona St. 68 Nevada 71, UC Riverside 47 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 77, Bethune-Cookman 52 Santa Clara 78, Pacific 76, OT Stanford 75, San Diego 55 UCLA 82, UC Davis 39 Utah St. 78, Seattle 53

Kansas Men

Big 12 Women

NBA Preseason

Friday’s Games Chicago 95, Indiana 86 Philadelphia 103, Washington 78 Cleveland 91, Detroit 87 New Orleans 97, Memphis 90 Saturday’s Games New York 92, New Jersey 83 Houston 101, San Antonio 87 Minnesota 117, Milwaukee 96 Golden State 107, Sacramento 96 Today’s Games Boston at Toronto, noon Orlando at Miami, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 9 p.m.

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

Big 12 Men W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Conf.

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Overall W L 10 0 9 0 8 1 7 1 9 2 8 2 7 2 7 3 6 4 4 4

Exhibition Pittsburg State, W 84-55 Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 101-52 Regular season Towson (first-round Maui Invitational), W 100-54 (1-0) Kentucky in New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden), L 65-75 (1-1).

Georgetown (Maui Invitational), W 67-63 (2-1) UCLA (Maui Invitational), W 72-56 (3-1) Duke (Maui Invitational), L 61-68 (3-2) Florida Atlantic, W 77-54 (4-2) South Florida, W 70-42 (5-2) Long Beach State, W 88-80 (6-2) Ohio State, W 78-67 (7-2) Monday — Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), 8 p.m., at Sprint Center, ESPNU. Dec. 22 — at USC, 10 p.m., Fox Sports Net. Dec. 29 — Howard, 7 p.m., JTV. Dec. 31 — North Dakota, 3 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 4 — Kansas State, 7 p.m., Big 12 network.

Jan. 7 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 11 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 14 — Iowa State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Jan. 16 — Baylor, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 21 — at Texas, 3 p.m., CBS. Jan. 23 — Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 28 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m., ESPN/ ESPN2.

Feb. 1 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Feb. 4 — at Missouri, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 8 — at Baylor, 6 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2.

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

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

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

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

College Men

EAST Bucknell 79, Richmond 65 Cornell 85, Albany (NY) 82, OT Dartmouth 62, Elon 54 Drexel 73, Bradley 68 Georgetown 81, American U. 55 Hofstra 82, Binghamton 62 Iona 73, Vermont 72 LIU 82, St. Peter’s 80 New Hampshire 73, Marist 56 Pittsburgh 69, SC State 55 Rider 73, UMBC 66, OT Robert Morris 72, Louisiana-Lafayette 64 Rutgers 67, Stony Brook 58 Saint Joseph’s 74, Villanova 58 St. John’s 56, Fordham 50 UMass 72, Quinnipiac 67 West Virginia 84, Texas A&M-CC 64

W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Conf.

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Overall W L 10 0 9 0 5 0 9 1 7 1 8 2 7 2 6 2 5 3 4 3

Baylor Texas Tech Oklahoma State Kansas Missouri Texas Texas A&M Iowa State Kansas State Oklahoma Wednesday’s Game Texas 79, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 40 Saturday’s Games Texas Tech 70, Illinois 64 Texas 71, North Texas 62 Kansas 77, UMKC 52 Today’s Games Texas Pan American at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Southern California at Texas A&M, 2 p.m.

(FSN) Ohio vs. Oklahoma, 4:30 p.m.

Connecticut at Baylor, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN Kansas State vs. North Dakota State, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Syracuse vs. Oklahoma, 4:30 p.m.

Evansville at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Kansas State vs. Northwestern, 9:30 p.m.

Kansas Women

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0) SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1) Wisconsin, W 73-44 (8-1) UMKC, W 77-52 (9-1) Dec. 21 — Oral Roberts, 7 p.m. (Knology) Dec. 28 — Sam Houston State, 7 p.m.

(Knology) Jan. 4 — at Texas, 8 p.m. (Longhorn) Jan. 7 — Kansas State, 7 p.m. (Metro) Jan. 11 — Iowa State, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 15 — at Missouri, 11:30 a.m. (FSN) Jan. 18 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 — Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 25 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 28 — at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Jan. 31 — Oklahoma, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 4 — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Feb. 8 — Texas, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 12 — at Kansas State, noon (FSN) Feb. 15 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 — Missouri, 1 p.m. (Metro)

Feb. 21 — at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSN) Feb. 29 — Oklahoma State, 7 p.m. (Metro) March 4 — at Oklakhoma, TBA March 7-10 — Big 12 championship at Kansas City, Mo.

College Women

EAST Duquesne 61, West Virginia 55 Fordham 76, Winthrop 53 Manhattan 71, Monmouth (NJ) 59, OT Rider 66, Binghamton 56 Seton Hall 65, Stony Brook 30 SOUTH Alabama 64, Alabama St. 54 Alcorn St. 70, Northwestern St. 60 Davidson 56, Coll. of Charleston 39 FIU 79, Jacksonville St. 52 Florida A&M 85, SE Louisiana 63 Furman 75, Elon 60 Kennesaw St. 83, UNC Asheville 79 North Florida 72, Delaware St. 61 Samford 64, W. Carolina 61, OT South Florida 71, Md.-Eastern Shore 50 Stetson 69, SC-Upstate 54 Wofford 62, UNC-Greensboro 47 MIDWEST Bradley 96, Iowa 88 Butler 74, Marian (Ind.) 39 E. Illinois 64, IUPUI 49 Kansas 77, UMKC 52 Miami (Ohio) 74, Cincinnati 69 Michigan 72, Indiana St. 44 N. Illinois 60, Indiana 59 North Dakota 74, N. Iowa 70 Texas Tech 70, Illinois 64 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 69, Stephen F. Austin 64 Texas 71, North Texas 62 FAR WEST BYU 73, Utah St. 65 Boise St. 72, E. Washington 63 Colorado 77, Weber St. 59 Fresno St. 61, Pacific 52 Gonzaga 83, UC Riverside 56 Louisville 71, Portland 42 Ohio St. 77, California 75 S. Utah 59, Westminster (Utah) 57 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 71, Seattle 70 San Diego 69, Cal Poly 52 San Francisco 86, Sacramento St. 71 San Jose St. 74, Santa Clara 53 Stanford 85, Princeton 66 Tennessee 85, UCLA 64 UTEP 68, Loyola Marymount 48 Utah 75, Texas Southern 33 Utah Valley 73, N. Arizona 56 TOURNAMENT St. John’s-Chartwells Holiday Classi First Round Memphis 86, Louisiana Tech 67 St. John’s 66, Prairie View 50

BASEBALL National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded RHP Mat Latos to Cincinnati for RHP Edinson Volquez, RHP Brad Boxberger, INF Yonder Alonso and C Yasmani Grandal. Designated C Luis Martinez for assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Signed G Rodney Stuckey.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Signed G Chauncey Billups and F Caron Butler.

SACRAMENTO KINGS-Claimed F Travis Outlaw off waivers.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DL Jarron Gilbert. Released LB Antonio Coleman.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed C John Sullivan to a five-year contract extension.

OAKLAND RAIDERS-Placed CB Chris Johnson on the reserve/non-football illness list. Signed DE Mason Brodine.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned F Ben Smith to Rockford (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled G Olivier Roy from Oklahoma City (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled C Greg Rallo from San Antonio (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Fired coach Jacques Martin. Named assistant coach Randy Cunneyworth interim coach.

PHOENIX COYOTES — Traded F Kyle Turris to Ottawa for D David Rundblad and a second-round draft pick. Recalled G Justin Pogge from Portland (AHL) on an emergency basis.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled D Evan Oberg from Norfolk (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Acquired M Marvin Chavez from FC Dallas for allocation money.

COLLEGE MARQUETTE — Suspended men’s basketball G Darius Johnson-Odom one game for an unspecified violation of team rules.

High School

Ottawa Invitational Saturday at Ottawa Team Standings: 1. Valley Center 244, 2. Prairie View 219, 3. Baldwin 213, 4. Burlington 149, 5. Fort Scott 146, 6.

Osawatomie 136, 7. Ottawa 145, 8. Highland Park 90, 9. Anderson County 64, 10. Topeka West 53.

Baldwin Team Results Baldwin 65, Highland Park 18; Valley Center 42, Baldwin 24; Baldwin 65, Anderson County 4; Baldwin 59, Osawatomie 24; Baldwin 51, Burlington 27.

Baldwin Individuals 106, Jon Pratt, 4-1, 1 fall; 113, Ben Huntington, 4-1; 120, Tucker Clark, 5-0; 126, Bryce Shoemaker, 5-0, 5 falls; 132, Andrew Morgan, 5-0, 4 falls; 138, Cody Sellers, 5-0, 3 falls; 138/145, Grayson Langham, 2-0; 145, Dalton Mitchell, 1-2; 152, Colton Horne, 3-2, 2 falls; 160, Jason Von Bargen, 5-0, 1 fall; 170, Mark Harman, 2-3, 2 falls; 182, Joe Chapman, 3-2; 220, Colton Bonner, 4-1, 2 falls.

Ottawa Team Results Prairie View 60, Ottawa 9; Ottawa 48, Burlington 32; Fort Scott 39, Ottawa 34; Ottawa 54, Topeka West 21; Ottawa 51, Highland Park 30.

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JUNIOR VARSITY Saturday at Leavenworth Tournament Lawrence High Results Xavier Kinney (first place) pinned Danielle Krulic, Piper; received bye; pinned Hannah Overbey, Leavenworth; pinned Sach Ortiz.

Tim Thonegone (second place) lost to Lane McKinney, Gardner-Edgerton, 6-4; def.

Daniel Thompson, Lansing, 15-0; received by; pionned Colton Bray, Mill Valley.

Cy Burghart (first place) def. Will Gering, Lansing, 8-4; lost to Max Lamb, SM East, 2-0; pinned Hayes Wendt, Topeka; def. Colin McGlaughlin, Blue Valley Southwest, 17-2.

Zech Warren (first place) received bye; def. Brandon Dofat, Spring Hill, 4-2; pinned Colten Jenkins, Blue Valley Southwest; received bye.

Sean McCoy (second place) received bye; lost to Daniel Wilson, Leavenworth by pin; def. Justin Andrews, Lansing, 3-1; pinned Brett Holle, Spring Hill.

Zech Sarmiento (third place) def. Nathan Anderson, Mill Valley, 9-4; pinned Pierce Holyfield, Piper; lost to Kris Steenbock, Shawnee Heights, by pin; pinned Max Flores, Spring Hill.

Adam Ramos (second place) pinned Carlos Santoro, SM East; pinned Keaton Shireman, Gardner-Edgerton; lost to Blake Younger, Shawnee Heights, by pin; def.

Jacob Sloan, Spring Hill, 3-0.

Anthony VanSchmus (third place) lost to John Hacker, Spring Hill, by pin; pinned Taeler Jackson, Topeka; received bye; lost to Mark Davis, Leavenworth, by pin.

Jacob Von Feldt (second place) received bye; pinned Kyle Johnson, Blue Valley Southwest; lost to Lincoln Smith, Spring Hill, 10-3; def Braeden Vaughn, SM East, 11-4.

Josh Song (first place) def. Blaise Brewer, Gardner-Edgerton, 7-0; pinned Josh Keegan, SM Northwest; pinned Aaron Mayo, Topeka; def. Austin Cabbrera, Mill Valley, 4-0.

Isaias Rojo (first place) def. Nathan Damron, Gardner-Edgerton, 6-4; def. Adrian Figueroa, Shawnee Heights, 10-7. pinned Gavin Cruise, SM East; pinned Jackson Price, Spring Hill.

Akram Laytimi (first place) pinned Cole Kedney, Blue Valley Southwest; pinned Nick Tate, Piper; pinned Brandon True, Shawnee Heights; def. Ed Heniss, Gardner-Edgerton.

Greg Grammer (second place) received bye; pinned Jean Teisserenc, Leavenworth; lost to Anthony Cisneros, GardnerEdgerton, 11-2; pinned Ben Plotner, Lansing.

Stephen Hodges (second place) pinned Jacob Rosebaugh, SM Northwest; lost to Tommy Dettenwanger, SM East, 10-2; received bye; pinned Dauby Knight, Topeka.

Alex Jones (third place) lost to Austin Pittman, Spring Hill, 5-0; pinned Sebastian Uriarte, Mill Valley; def. Michael Chavez, SM Northwest, 6-0; lost to Corbin Southerland, Leavenworth, 6-0.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Philadelphia 31 20 8 3 43 110 91 N.Y. Rangers 30 18 8 4 40 87 67 Pittsburgh 33 18 11 4 40 107 88 New Jersey 32 18 13 1 37 90 92 N.Y. Islanders 30 10 14 6 26 69 97 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 31 21 9 1 43 108 61 Buffalo 32 16 13 3 35 89 94 Toronto 32 16 13 3 35 100 105 Ottawa 33 15 14 4 34 102 116 Montreal 33 13 13 7 33 85 89 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 32 17 9 6 40 87 82 Winnipeg 32 15 13 4 34 89 97 Washington 31 16 14 1 33 91 96 Tampa Bay 32 14 16 2 30 87 107 Carolina 33 10 18 5 25 84 113 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 32 20 8 4 44 107 96 Detroit 31 20 10 1 41 104 69 St. Louis 31 18 9 4 40 76 65 Nashville 32 17 11 4 38 85 84 Columbus 32 9 19 4 22 76 105 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 33 20 8 5 45 84 72 Vancouver 32 19 11 2 40 106 80 Calgary 32 14 14 4 32 80 90 Edmonton 32 14 15 3 31 87 87 Colorado 33 15 17 1 31 88 100 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 31 18 12 1 37 80 86 San Jose 30 17 10 3 37 86 74 Phoenix 32 16 13 3 35 84 85 Los Angeles 32 14 14 4 32 69 79 Anaheim 32 9 18 5 23 75 105 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games Florida 3, Calgary 2, SO Buffalo 5, Toronto 4 Ottawa 6, Pittsburgh 4 New Jersey 6, Dallas 3 Chicago 4, Anaheim 1 Saturday’s Games Nashville 2, St. Louis 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 2, Minnesota 1, SO Boston 6, Philadelphia 0 Vancouver 5, Toronto 3 New Jersey 5, Montreal 3 Pittsburgh 8, Buffalo 3 Winnipeg 5, Anaheim 3 Detroit 8, Los Angeles 2 Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Phoenix 2 Colorado 2, Washington 1 San Jose 3, Edmonton 2 Today’s Games Carolina at Florida, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Australian Masters

Saturday at Victoria Golf Club Melbourne, Australia Purse: $1.02 million Yardage: 6,886; Par: 71 a-amateur Third Round Geoff Ogilvy, Australia 71-66-63—200 Ian Poulter, England 65-68-69—202 Nathan Green, Australia 69-68-67—204 Ashley Hall, Australia 66-70-68—204 Steven Bowditch, Australia 70-69-67—206 Greg Chalmers, Australia 69-70-67—206 Peter Lonard, Australia 67-70-69—206

Fight Schedule

Dec. 17 At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (SHO), Andre Ward vs. Carl Froch, 12, for Froch’s WBC Super World and WBC super middleweight titles; Bowie Tupou vs.

Donnell Holmes, 10, heavyweights.

Dec. 23 At Bangkok, Thailand, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam vs. Hirotumi Mukai, 12, for Wonjongkam’s WBC flyweight title; Adrian Hernandez vs. Kompayak Porpramook, 12, for Hernandez’s WBC junior flyweight title.

Dec. 31 At Yokohama, Japan, Takashi Uchiyama vs. Jorge Solis, 12, for Uchiyama’s WBA World junior lightweight title; Celestino Caballero vs. Satoshi Hosono, 12, for Caballero’s WBA World featherweight title.

At Osaka, Japan, Kazuto Ioka vs. Yedgoen Tor-Chalermchai, 12, for Ioka’s WBC strawweight title.

At Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center (SHO), Tavoris Cloud vs. Zsolt Erdei, 12, for Cloud’s IBF light heavyweight title; Rico Ramos vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux, 12, for Ramos’ WBA World junior featherweight title.

2012 Jan. 7 At Heredia, Costa Rica, Bryan Vazquez vs. Eugenio Lopez, 12, for Vazquez’s interim WBA World super featherweight title.

Jan. 14 At Offenburg, Germany, Arthur Abraham vs. Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias, 10, super middleweights; Robert Stieglitz vs. Henry Weber, 12, for Stieglitz’s WBO super middleweight title.

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Holding: Holiday Event, Craft Fair, Bake Sale or Open House?

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Become a Dental Assistant in as little as 10 Weeks.

The Kansas Dental Assistant Institute (KDAI) provides classroom and actual dental office training in Lawrence. Call 785550-2289 to start your exciting dental career.

Child Care Provided Babysitter seeking temporary employment. Female graduate student seeking temporary babysitting job around KU during winter break. References available upon request. Contact Madinah at 785-979-5455 or tmadinah@gmail.com.

Education CNA classes Lawrence Jan 17-Mar 15 T/Th 5pm-9:15pm or Jan 30-April 25 M/W 5pm-9:15pm Call 620-431-2820 ext. 262 or email trhine@neosho.edu

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AdministrativeProfessional Allied Health Instructor Needed:

Neosho County Community College - Certified Nurse Aide and Certified Medication Aide for the Lawrence site. Are you a Registered Nurse with two years of long-term care experience and want to share your expertise with our students? Please call Tracy Rhine at 620-431-2820, ext. 262 or email to trhine@neosho.edu.

NCCC is an AA/EEO employer.

The mission of DMI is to promote tourism in Lawrence & Douglas County by focusing fiscal, management and community resources on heritage and cultural assets in an effective and collaborative manner.

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Please send resume to: University National Bank Human Resource Dept.

PO Box 1777 Lawrence, KS 66044 Program Assistant Or to www.unbank.com The Women’s Leadership E.O.E./Member FDIC Institute at the University of Kansas is hiring a TELLERS part-time (.5 FTE) Pro(Experienced) gram Assistant to manage project organization Mainstreet Credit Union, details, in-residence and Lawrence locations, has travel logistics, and an immediate opening PR/communications arfor a PT Teller/Customer rangements.

Service Rep. Seeking REQ: Bachelor’s in educaqualified individuals w/ tion, communications or minimum 6 mos. teller related; 2+ yrs exp. in a experience in a financial position requiring organinstitution, quality cusization and tomer service skills, promulti-tasking; Exp. with fessional appearance & data entry and manner. databases; Exp. with orInterested applicants fax ganizing conferences or resume to Mainstreet large events; Excellent Credit Union, written skills; Exp. inter913-599-4816 or contact acting with persons of HR Dept., 913-599-1010, diverse cultures and beext 236. Only qualified liefs. Salary: $16,000+ for individuals need apply. half-time.

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Douglas County, the City of Lawrence, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area are the stakeholders with representation on DMI’s Board of Directors.

The President and CEO of DMI has responsibility for the operating functions of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau (LCVB), Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) in accordance with bylaws and coordinates funding for Douglas County Historical Societies FFNHA responsibilities include management of the work of the Trustees, staff and volunteers to fulfill the mission and implementation of the ten-year management plan, grant-making, marketing, research, interpretation and fundraising. Leadership in the cultivation and maintenance of relationships with constituencies on local, state and national levels in addition to nonprofits, businesses, and foundations to assure effective program performance is expected.

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Crown Toyota and Volkswagen currently accepting applications. For the following positions, ELECTRIC ASE certified repair technician, entry level techniLINEMAN cian, service dept. porter, The City of Baldwin City and service advisor. is currently seeking an Please contact Carl Windle Electric Lineman. or Tom Turner 785-843-7700.

Full-time position. High school diploma or GED required. 2 years lineman Banking experience and graduation from Electric Distribution Program preferred.

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For more information and to apply, go to https://jobs.ku.edu, search for position #00064835.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IS SEEKING A PROJECT COORDINATOR/PROJECT MANAGER. SALARY $50-65K. This position is responsible for providing project management for selected IT technology and/or network construction projects, including project planning and organization, documentation, coordination, facilitation, monitoring and communication. Under the direction of the IT PMO Manager, this position is given considerable latitude and independence in the performance of the duties of the position.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or five or more years of experience as a project manager; Three years of experience with project management software and methodologies; Evidence of effective oral and written communication at all levels of the organization in previous positions; Three or more years of experience working with diverse work groups to accomplish project goals.

For a complete list of requirements and to apply, visit https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position number 00209415.

Application close date 12/29/2011.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IS SEEKING A PROGRAMMER II/SR. PROGRAMMER TO SERVE IN THE STUDENT ADMINISTRATION UNIT. SALARY: 52-62K. The Senior Programmer in System Design & Development is expected to work within a standards-based collaborative team environment to contribute code, provide technical support and development expertise to various development projects and applications. Different skill sets may be emphasized as dictated by current priorities requiring the incumbent to be adaptable and flexible.

The incumbent is also expected to take every opportunity to advance skill sets in areas that are critical to the organizations, especially webbased application development and mentoring other programmers in the group. Effective communication with peers, other campus service providers/data sources, and management is essential to assure timely, well-documented results.

Required Qualifications: 2-4 years exp. With PeopleTools 8.49 or higher/PeopleCode, 1-2 years exp. with: Web-based Application Development, The application of object-oriented programming techniques, Development & maintenance of a database focused application, RDBMS (prefer Oracle mySQL and/or MySQL, UNIX flavor operating system (prefer Linux), SQR, SQL For a complete list of requirements and to apply, visit https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position number 00000051.

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Teen realizes intimacy not to be treated lightly Dear Annie: I am 18 and had been seeing casually a 15-yearold girl who lives down the street. We were mostly friends, although she hinted that she wanted something more out of the relationship.

When I turned 18, my father had a serious talk with me about the responsibilities associated with becoming a legal adult. One area of discussion included dating minors and some of the possible consequences. After listening to Dad, I decided it was better to break off my friendship with this girl, telling her that I was busy with high-school sports and a part-time job.

Should I have handled it differently? — Confused 18-Year-Old Dear Confused: We are impressed with your willingness to gather advice, especially from your father. It’s OK to be friends with anyone, as long as they understand the boundaries. Your 15-year-old neighbor doesn’t quite get this. Your father cautioned you because he sees that this girl is infatuated, and it puts you in a vulnerable position. You may become convinced that indulging her romantic fantasies would make you a nice guy, but it doesn’t, and worse, it can lead to a situation that is dangerous for you.

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Dear Annie: Please print this. I’m certain it applies to others.

An Open Letter to My Granddaughter: I’ve spent the past 20 years dealing with your drama. Last night, you cried and told me how I’m making things harder for you. You also admitted that you are abusive and told me several things you want.

Now let me tell you what I want. I want a life free from abuse. I want serenity. I want fun. I want to live my life to the fullest without medication to help me deal with the stress and anxiety that have become a part of every day.

I want to put my head on my

‘Holiday Homes’ injects Hollywood glam HGTV’s “Celebrity Holiday Homes” (7 p.m. Sunday) puts the tinsel in Tinseltown and harks back to the yuletide excess of yore. In the second helping of the season, singer Jo Dee Messina needs the help of designer Matthew Haly to breathe some family-friendly comforts into her Nashville home. Wayne Brady opts for a more exotic Hawaiian theme for his holiday decorations; help arrives in the form of designer Stacey Vuduris and an onslaught of coconuts, seashells and starfish. Actress Alison Sweeney requires the professional help of designer Sandra Espinet to breathe some “Hollywood glam” into her holiday decor.

Christmas may be the time for giving, but it’s also the time for stealing.

Plots, that is. Hallmark, self- proclaimed home to 1,300 hours of holiday fare, presents “Christmas Magic” (7 p.m.

Sunday), a holiday trifle shot through with feel-good plagiarism. For starters, it’s a movie about a fledgling angel earning her wings through a celestial intervention with a would-be suicide. If there were any lawyers in heaven, Clarence from “It’s a Wonderful Life” could sue.

Football season comes to a climax on “All-American Muslim” (9 p.m. Sunday, TLC). The home improvement chain store Lowe’s pulled advertisements from this series because of pressure from a conservative organization that deemed the show’s depiction of an ethnic group’s assimilation into American society to be too “controversial.”

The only thing controversial about this sad incident is Lowe’s decision.

Sunday’s highlights

Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Meryl Streep; the health of maritime reefs.

The Chargers host the Ravens on “Sunday Night Football” (7 p.m., NBC).

John Doe lies in a coma on “Once Upon a Time” (7 p.m., ABC).

Tim Allen returns in the 2006 sequel “The Santa Clause 3” (8 p.m., ABC).

Durant faces financial calamity on “Hell on Wheels” (9 p.m., AMC).

Sunday’s season finales

“Survivor” (7 p.m., CBS) extinguishes another torch. A reunion (10 p.m.) follows.

Allen has his way on “Allen Gregory” (7:30 p.m., Fox).

Dexter and the authorities rush to stop the Doomsday killer on the season finale of “Dexter” (8 p.m., Showtime).

Carrie’s theories fall under scrutiny as Brody makes his final preparations on the season finale of “Homeland” (9 p.m., Showtime).

Sunday series Lost keys reveal a secret Springfield on “The Simpsons” (7 p.m., Fox) ...

Stewie sets his sights on the North Pole on “Family Guy” (8 p.m., Fox).

pillow at night without fearing a distress call from you.

I want to use my income to enjoy the time I have left on this earth instead of putting it where I know it is needed, but not appreciated. I want to make plans with friends without worrying that you will call and I will have to put your needs before my own once again. I want to live without threats or attempts at intimidation. I want to make my own choices about who to speak to and what to say, without being accused of things I have not done. I want to trust those I allow into my

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something is going on. Follow your intuition emotionally. Tonight: Let the good times begin.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) You love downtime at home. Make it so, and others will notice that refreshed and invigorated look. Tonight: Happy where you are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You are likely to be the friendliest of signs once you wake up. Make Sunday calls. Reach out for others. Tonight: At a local spot.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) Whatever you are up to, your budget is involved. Whether off buying a tree, putting in overtime or playing Santa’s elf, communication is important.

Tonight: Treat yourself, too!

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Lunar rays flatter you. If you are looking for the right time to express a key issue or thought, eye the next few days. Tonight: Whatever feels right.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Take a hint from Cancer’s message: Stay

close to home. Make it all right to play the recluse.

Tonight: Not to be found.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) Plans could be tossed to the wayside, but all the better. You’ll replace them with an activity or get-together that feels so much more fun and appropriate. Tonight: Zero in on what you want.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You feel pressure from various situations. You might be assuming too much responsibility. Tonight: Share hot cider.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If a loved one or dear friend snaps, know that this is not the situation all the time. Kick back and relax. Tonight: Play out an imaginative idea.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Go out with a dear friend or partner.

Enjoy yourself, even if you cannot get away from the crowds. Tonight: Togetherness is the theme.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is 84. Rock singer-musician Keith Richards is 68.

Writer-director Alan Rudolph is 68. Movie producer-director Steven Spielberg is 65. Blues artist Ron Piazza is 64. Movie director Gillian Armstrong is 61.

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home without fear that my things will be destroyed or stolen.

I want to be loved for who I am, not for what I can provide. I want someone who is there for me as I have always been there for you. I want you to have a full and productive life, living up to the potential I see in you. — Grandmother Dear Grandmother: It is hard to say no to a grandchild, but sometimes you can become a crutch instead of a source of strength and support. You have written sensible words. We hope you can follow them.

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For Sunday, Dec. 18: You discover that out of the seeds of the unexpected come some very special opportunities. Learn to work with change rather than fear it. If you are single, you easily could meet someone very special this year. Be open. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy socializing and being seen out and about. You could witness a newfound closeness this year. Libra is a good friend.

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) Others make it clear they desire your presence. Without realizing it, you have processed a lot in your sleep. Tonight: A second wind is likely.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Once more, you need a day dedicated to the tired Bull within. With Christmas heading in, you might not have the luxury of a whole day, yet for everyone’s sake, take an hour. Tonight: Live it up.

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Movie reviewer Leonard Maltin is 61. Actor Ray Liotta is 56. Comedian Ron White is 55. Actor Brad Pitt is 48. Professional wrestler-turnedactor “Stone Cold” Steve Austin is 47.

Actress Rachel Griffiths is 43. Singer Alejandro Sanz is 43. Country/rap

singer Cowboy Troy is 41. Rapper DMX is 41.

International Tennis Hall of Famer Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is 40. DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit) is 39. Actress Katie Holmes is 33. Singer Christina Aguilera is 31. Christian rock musician Dave Luetkenhoelter (Kutless) is 29.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker December 18, 2011 ACROSS 1 Powerful feline 5 Period of mourning in Judaism 11 ___ la la (singing syllables) 14 Burl who told the story of Rudolph 15 Cocktail-party appetizer 16 Twenty-year sleeper or embarrassing sound 17 One followed by 15 zeroes 19 Nail down or cool down 20 Bones in forearms 21 Honeymoon destination Niagara ____ 22 Super criminal Luthor 23 Words before “1-2-3” or “A-B-C” 25 Hang around 27 Rich person 33 Zilch 37 Figure skating category 38 Caroling song 39 Shouts at the bullring 40 Keglers’ org.

41 Curry and Coulter 42 Somewhat, on a score 43 They may be found hanging in malls 45 “What A Wonderful

World” opening 46 One followed by 18 zeros 49 “Look before you ___” 50 “Casablanca” star Humphrey 55 Orioles ironman 57 Far from promising 61 Cry from a judge 62 61, in old Rome 63 Even richer person 65 “Xanadu” rock band 66 Make possible 67 God, in Latin class 68 Boggy land 69 Supply’s counterpart 70 Phoenix basketball team DOWN 1 Stimulate, as curiosity 2 Lobe at the middle of the soft palate 3 “By all ___!”

4 Words after “clear” or “bright” 5 ___-fi movie 6 Fifty percent 7 “To Live and Die ___” (1985 movie) 8 Colorado ski resort 9 Early NASA missions 10 Muppet creator Jim

11 National debt word 12 “Dirty” Cajun dish 13 Topmost point 18 Use a juicer 24 Drink hot tea 26 Island veranda 28 Flap in the fashion industry 29 Written defamation 30 Shah’s subject, once 31 Russo of the “Lethal Weapon” series 32 “What ___ can I say?”

33 M-R connection 34 Baseball’s Moises, Felipe, Jesus or Matty 35 One followed

by 33 zeros 36 How two hearts may beat 43 A call here may lead to an arrest 44 Cry out loud 47 Like some folders 48 Lunchtime, for many 51 Mortarboard tossers 52 “Farewell” from France 53 Second showing 54 Lock of hair 55 Musical staff symbol 56 Car bar 58 Actor Jack of old Westerns 59 Jessica of Hollywood 60 Baking chamber 64 British ref. work

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OPERATORS, CONCRETE WORKERS & EXPERIENCED CONSTRUCTION WORKERS Crossland Heavy Contractors is a growing company that is among the nation’s Top 200 environmental firms in the US, ranked by ENR. Crossland Heavy is experienced in bridge and roadways, water and wastewater treatment plants, along with a variety of other civil oriented projects.

We are currently seeking individuals to fill positions for loader/dozer operators, concrete workers and experienced construction workers for our Kansas City area division. Candidates must have own transportation and be highly motivated. Drug screen, physical & criminal background check is required of successful candidates. We offer excellent pay and benefits including health, dental, 401k and holiday pay.

We also offer paid educational opportunities to enhance your career.

Interested candidates should apply online at: www.heavycontractors. com Or email resumes to: hiring@crossland construction.com Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/V/H LANDSCAPE LABORER (Temporary 4/2/2012 -11/30/2012) 25 jobs w/Lawrence Landscape, Inc. in Lawrence, Kansas.

Use/hand/power tools/equipment.

Lay sod/mow/trim/plant/ water/fertilize/dig/ rake/assist w/irrigation install. Entry level/req’s supervision, no exp. req’d/will train. Lift/carry 50 lbs, when nec.

Pre-emp/employer pd drug test req’d for new hires, foreign and domestic.

40 hr/wk, M-F, 7am-4pm. Sat. work req’d, when nec. This job pays $8.48/hr (OT varies at $12.72/hr).

The hourly wage may be different in the future but this is not guaranteed as it depends on future events which may or may not occur. Employer provides transportation to/from jobsites in Douglas & Jefferson countys from central loc. To apply, fax resume to (785) 843-6524.

Management Positions Pro-Cuts now hiring a full or part time stylist to join our fun, energetic team!

Apply at 2500 Iowa in Lawrence 785-841-6640, 660-422-8200

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2 to 3 hours per night $8 per hour Apply at 939 Iowa, Lawrence 785-842-6264

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If you are serious about a new opportunity where you will enjoy great pay/benefits. Westaff will be hosting a Career Fair at the following location: Tuesday, December 20th 10 am to 2pm Lawrence Workforce Center 2540 Iowa Street Suite R • Production Line Operators • 1st, 2nd, 3rd Shift • $9.00 hour • Background/Drug Screen • Med/Dental/Vision/401K Online Application may be submitted to: www.westaff.com in advance

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CSL Plasma

CSL Plasma is now hiring LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics for our Full Time Medical and Reception Operations Supervisor.

Responsibilities include supervision of the plasma donor process, supervision and development of reception and medical staff, and assisting management with daily center operations.

We offer solid benefits package including no overnight shifts! Current license and CPR certification required. More information on the position and our company benefits can be found on our company website.

Interested candidates should apply online at . cslplasma.com KMC seeking LPN/MA for Derm Clinic in Lawrence.

Mon. - Fri. Days. Experience in busy clinic preferred. Free health insurance and great benefits.

Resumes to: keakins@kmcpa.com FAX: 785-233-4669 PHONE: 785-295-0929

Medical Assistant

Busy dermatology practice seeking an experienced, energetic person to assist physician with patients. Must be familiar with medical terminology, sterile technique, and be adept at taking patient histories. Call Mon. - Fri. 8AM-Noon at: 785-842-7001

Lead Teacher Lead teacher for after school program. Approx.

20 hours per week Mon-Fri. afternoons.

Starts early January. Requires experience teaching and supervising elementary age children, good group management and curriculum planning skills.

Contact Hilltop Child Development Center, 785-864-4940 (leave message) or ppisani@ku.edu for application information. EOE.

Water/Wastewater Plant Operator

The City of Eudora, Kansas (population 6,200) seeks responsible applicants with knowledge of the operation and maintenance of city an owned water treatment plant.

Certification preferred but not required. Interested applicants should submit an application: the City of Eudora PO Box 650 Eudora, KS 66025. Attention: Pam Schmeck or pamcaa@sunflower.com

by Tuesday, January 10, 2012.

For more information and job description go to www.cityofeudora.com or call Eudora Public Works Director Mike Hutto at 785.542.3100. EOE

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Health Care Caregivers/CNA’s Needed!

Great Opportunity and Competitive Pay Please apply by calling 785-856-0937 Positions Available immediately the Windsor of Lawrence is looking for CMAs to join a wonderful team of direct care staff.

Positions open immediately for full time evenings and nights. Competitive wages and benefits. All interested parties can call 785-832-9900 and ask for Lindsay/Brandon or apply at 3220 Peterson Rd., Lawrence, Ks. 66049.

Tonganoxie Nursing Center Currently has positions open for CNA & CMA all shifts. Please apply in person at 1010 East Street, Tonganoxie, KS 66086. (913) 369-8705.

Or E-mail resumes to: Michelle Eickhoff, DON Email:meickhoff@cypress healthgroup.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, pre-employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required. EOE

I am looking for a particular type of person. One who will take a personal interest in my local business. If you are willing to work hard, follow instructions and can live on an average of $3,000 per month until your skills improve, I will TRAIN YOU; train you well. PAY YOU; pay you well and provide advancement limited only by your own ability. We offer $60,000 $80,000 1st year potential.

FOOD SERVICE • Supervisor Oliver Dining Mon. - Fri. 3 PM - 11:30 PM $10.95 - $12.28/hr.

• Grill Cook Ekdahl Dining Wed. - Fri. 10:30 AM - 9 PM Sat., 10 AM - 8:30 PM $9.51 - $10.65/hr.

• Cash Bonuses • 2 Retirement Programs • Incredible Incentives • 40 hour work week

• Food Service Worker Ekdahl Dining Sun., 10:30AM - 9PM Mon. & Tues., 7AM - 5:30PM Wed., 6AM - 4:30PM $8.86 - $9.92/hr.

If you are teachable and driven, we will match this career against anything you see in this paper.

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• Food Service Worker Underground Mon. - Fri. 9AM - 5:30PM $8.86 - $9.92/hr.

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Full job description available online at: www.union.ku.edu/hr Applications available in the Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard EOE Lawrence, KS

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IS SEEKING 2 SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATORS. SALARY 68-78K. The Senior Database Administrator works as part of the Application & Database Administration team providing key foundational support for KU enterprise systems and services. Reporting to the Manager of IT Application Administration and Database Administration, this position works within a standards-based collaborative team and contributes to the implementation and maintenance of complex databases that support KU enterprise services. Key services include, but are not limited to, PeopleSoft, Blackboard, Library systems, document management and imaging, and other vendor and open source applications.

Required Qualifications: 1. 2+ years of Oracle, MySql or MSSql database administration experience.

2. Experience in database monitoring, maintenance, and automated alerts on server thresholds and events.

3. Experience in different disaster-recovery and hot backup procedures.

4. Experience in supporting development and production environments.

5. Experience with server, query, database and application performance tuning.

6. Experience managing production databases independently and in a team environment.

7. Experience in logical and physical design.

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New 1BR - $540/mo. Open Mon.-Sat. Noon-4pm, 2451 Crossgate Dr. 785-760-7899

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Submit application letter, resume, transcripts, names /phone numbers of 3 references to: Dean, School of Nursing, Washburn University 1700 SW College Topeka, KS 66621 785-670-1526 Employment at Washburn University may be conditioned upon satisfactory completion of a background check.

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Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in all units.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

JOB FAIR8a-6p, Dec. 22, 2011 COF Training Services Looking for Residential Direct Service Professionals to assist adults with developmental disabilities in activities of daily living and quality of life activities.

FT, PT-Day/evening, overnight positions in Burlington, Osage City, Ottawa.

HS diploma/GED and good driving record required. $9/hr + 50 cent raise after completing training, health/dental, life insurance, KPERS, PTO, OJT. Apply and interview at: Waverly Community Bldg, 408 Pearson St., Waverly, KS or call 620-364-2151; 785-242-5035

Applecroft Apts.

19th & Iowa, Lawrence 1 Bedroom Gas, Water & Trash Paid

785-843-8220

Half Month FREE

1 & 2 Bedrooms, Near KU. Water/trash paid, No pets.

AC Management 785-842-4461

BRAND NEW One Month FREE

Rent Includes All Utilities. Plus Cable, Internet, Fitness & Pool.

Garages Available Elevators to all floors

Reserve YOURS for Spring/Fall

Call Today 785-856-8900

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KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADULT EDUCATION FOR PROGRAM AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT

Limited Time Special

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

Call 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

REDUCED RATES

offer good for limited time

1BR & 2BR Remodeled Units All utilities paid, includes high speed Internet.

Starting at $560/month

The Oaks 785-830-0888

PARKWAY COMMONS One Month Rent FREE!

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

• Small dog welcome • Income restrictions apply • Students welcome

LAUREL GLEN APTS

For Current Rent Specials Call 785-838-9559 EOH

2 & 3 Bedrooms Clubhouse lounge, gym, garages avail., W/D, walk 3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st in closets, and 1 pet okay. floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No 3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 785-842-3280 www.rentinlawrence.com

2408 Alabama

Call Today 785-841-1155

Great Locations! Great Prices!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

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

785.856.7788

Available January 2012

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Covered Parking * 2 BR, 1,300 sq. ft.

2-Car Garage Showings By Appointment

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NO RENT UNTIL 2012

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Saddlebrook Townhomes

Luxury 2BR, 2 Bath Units Gas FP, W/D, 1 Car garage Quiet West Side Area 625 Folks Rd. 785-832-8200 Saddlebrook@sunflower.com

Houses

3BR - 2121 Inverness, 2 story, 2.5 bath, CA, DW, 1BR farm house, near LawW/D hookup, 2 car, 1 pet rence. Stove, refrig., W/D ok. $850/mo. 785-841-5797 hookups. NO PETS! $560/ mo. +deposit. 785-842-3626 NEW RENT SPECIALS Leave name, phone#, msg.

Campus & Downtown 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts 785-749-7744 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Heatherwood Valley & Sunflower Apartments 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Units • No Application Fee • Short-term Leases avail.

• Leasing Programs for Applicants w/Bad Credit 785-856-1237 www.AssetMgmtPlus .com

1-5BRs: 615 Ohio, 608 & 945 Kentucky, 746 & 901 Missouri, 1128 New York, 1104 New Jersey. 785-842-2268

1st Class, Pet Friendly Houses & Apts.

www.vintagemgmt.com 785-842-1069 2BR - Stonehouse, old stone house south of Lawrence.

All modern amenities. $900.

Avail now. 785-841-2828

2BR, lg. W. Lawrence home, master BR suite w/garden tub & terrarium. 2 bath, 2 Studio Apt., 1907 W. 25th, car & yard work included. $390/mo. + Tenant only No pets. Call 785-979-7474 pays elect. 785-841-1155 3BR, exceptionally nice! Fireplace, 2 baths, double garage, fenced yard. Good for commuter, in Prairie Park. $1,100/mo. 785-841-4201

DOWNTOWN LOFT

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

825 sq. ft., $855/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

3BR, 1.5 bath, 2530 Ridge Ct. Wood floors, W/D, DW, 2 car.

Newly remodeled. $959/mo. Call 785-841-4449

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3BR, 813 Crestline Ct. CA, 1 bath, garage, fenced yard.

Avail. Now. $750/mo. 1/2 off 1 - 4 BRs Studios — 2400 Alabama, all Deposit.

Call 785-842-7644 elect., plenty of parking, AC, Garages - Pool - Fitness Center laundry. $390, water/cable • Ironwood Court Apts. paid. No pets. 785-841-5797 3BR, Remodeled old farm • Park West Gardens Apts house, huge kitchen/LR, 1 • Park West Town Homes Studios - 1708 W. 5th, all bath. 7 mi. S. of Lawrence • Homes at Monterey Bluffs elect, plenty of parking, AC, on all blacktop. $800/mo. and Green Tree laundry. $410. water/cable Avail. Jan. 5. 785-979-0767 Call for more details paid. No pets. 785-841-5797 785.840.9467 Duplexes Apartments, Houses & 2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, Duplexes. 785-842-7644 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo. 3BR + loft, great south lowww.GageMgmt.com No pets. Call 785-841-5797 cation, 2924 Crestline Dr. www.rentinlawrence.com 2½ bath, walk-in closet, lots of storage, deluxe Roommates 2BR - 2406 Alabama, Bldg. 2, kitchen, FP, sound proof2 story, 1.5 baths, CA, DW, ing, 2 car garage w/opener, 2BRs avail. now for females $500. No pets. 785-841-5797 big back yard, patio. No in 4BR townhome. No pets/ www.rentinlawrence.com pets. $900/mo. Avail. now. smoking. $350/BR per mo.

Call Neil 785-423-2660 Share utils. 785-727-0025 2BR — 2412 Alabama in 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, washer Eudora & dryer. No pets. $470/mo.

Apartments, Houses & Call 785-841-5797 Duplexes. 785-842-7644 3BR nice mobile home, 1.5 www.GageMgmt.com 2BR - 3503 W. 7th Court, 2 bath, new carpet, CH/CA, story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D W/D hookup, $545/mo. + dehookup, garage, 1 pet ok. Townhomes posit & Refs. 913-845-3273 $650/mo. 785-841-5797 2BR, 1 bath, 2100 Haskell.

Tonganoxie 2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4- CA, DW, W/D hookup, carplex, CA, W/D hookup, off- port. $575/mo. Available st. parking. $410-$420/mo. Now. Call 785-842-7644 4BR, 2,500 sq. ft. townhome No pets. Call 785-841-5797 located on quiet cul-desac. 2 car garage. $1,100/ 2BR — 934 Illinois, In 4-plex, mo. 1 Year lease. $1,100 1st floor, DW. $490/month. deposit. No smoking. Call No pets. Call 785-841-5797 913-845-9005, 816-872-7343 www.rentinlawrence.com -

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

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 2BR, lower in 4-plex, 1725 www.princeton-place.com Tennessee. $465/mo. Has DW. Quiet & clean. No pets.

PARKWAY 4000 785-813-1344, 785-393-4510 2BR avail. now, very nice & quiet, DW, W/D, off-st. parking. $545/mo. No pets.

785-423-1565, 785-841-4035

2BR, 925 Alabama. 1 Bath, Central Air, $500/mo. 2 Car garage is avail. for $100 per month. 785-842-7644

Last One Left!!

The Board of Regents invites nominations and applications for the Associate Director of Adult Education for Program and Staff Development.

941 Indiana - 2BR 1 bath $650/mo. 785-841-4935

A complete position description and instructions on how to apply for this position is available on www.kansasregents.org.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Large kitchens, bedrooms and closets. Newly updated. Convenient to all services, on the bus route

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The Woods of Old West Lawrence 785-841-4935

Parkway Terrace Apts.

2340 Murphy Drive 1 Bedroom - $440/mo.

2 Bedrooms - $500/mo.

Call Today 785-841-1155

RENT SPECIAL!

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

Move-In Specials!

• 2 & 3BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722 2BRs from $600 - $800/mo.

West side or close to KU. 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360 www.lawrencepm.com

Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

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

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

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage.

2BR - 415 W. 17th, laundry Newer spacious unit. All on site, wood floors, off-st. appls. No pets. Avail. now. parking, CA. No pets. $450/ $895/mo. Call 785-766-9823 mo. Water pd. 785-841-5797 AVAIL. Now 2BR — 909 Missouri or 1305 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., Kentucky, in 4-plex. Have FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505 CA & DW. No pets. $450/ month. Call 785-841-5797

CEDAR HILLS

New Management

1-3BR apts. in Tonganoxie

Many improvements!

816-260-8606, 913-845-0992

Office Space Downtown offices, 3 avail. $325, $350, $450/mo. New! Nice ammenities. Utils. pd.

Year lease. 785-842-7337

Office Space Available

at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

785-841-4785

Retail & Commercial Space 1311 Wakarusa - office space available. 200 sq. ft.

- 6,000 sq. ft. For details call 785-842-7644

Antiques

KIPP’S TREASURES

423B E 4th Street Tonganoxie, KS 66086 913-704-5037 Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Furniture, Treasures

3BR Townhomes Avail.

Four Stock Gun Rack, Adam Ave. - 2 bath, 2 car, made by a craftsman in 1,700 sq. ft., some with the 1940’s, holds 4 rifles or shotguns, made of white 2BR, 1310 Kentucky. CA, DW, fenced yards, $895/mo. laundry. Close to KU. $550/ Bainbridge Cir. - 1,200 - oak, valued at $200, asking $50.

Please call 1,540 sq. ft., 1.5-2.5 bath, 1 mo. One Month FREE. $200 785-550-4142 car, $695 - $775/mo.

Deposit. Call 785-842-7644 Pets okay Edison Victrola, early Village Square with paid pet deposit 1900’s. Stand up type on Stonecrest • Hanover www.garberprop.com rollers. Mint condition. Call 1, 2 and 3 Bedrooms 785-841-4785 785-423-0108 Near KU, Pool, Pet Friendly Reserve YOUR Apt. for 2012 Antique Mirror for VictoApartments, Houses & Call 785-842-3040 or email: rian home.

Very old, Duplexes. 785-842-7644 village@sunflower.com 16”x31” framed mirror www.GageMgmt.com w/picture section at top.

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES Call 785-841-3904 for info.

INVEST IN A NEW HOME Near K-10, W/D hookups FOR THE HOLIDAYS & fenced courtyard.

Appliances 1, 2, & 3BR townhomes 2BR & 3BRs Available avail. in Cooperative.

Units MOVE IN SPECIALS GE Chest Freezer, 38” W. starting at $412 - $485/mo.

Call NOW 785-842-1322 by 32” T. by 22” D. $100 Water, trash, sewer paid.

785-843-1207.

FIRST MONTH FREE! Back patio, CA, hard wood Baby & Children's floors, full bsmt., stove, refrig., W/D hookup, gar- Items bage disposal, Reserved parking. On site manage- Barbie Doll, 38” tall. $15 ment & maintenance. 24 hr. Cash. Please call 785emergency maintenance.

842-0011 Membership & Equity Fee Now Leasing Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) Hand-Crafted Doll Clothes, for 2012! for 18” doll. Will fit Ameriwww.pinetreetownhouses.com Studio, 1, 2 & 3 BRs can Girl doll.

Call Fast, Reliable Maintenance 785-542-2014.

On-site Management Close to KU, 3 Bus Stops Snowsuit- Carters 6 to 9 Bob Billings & Crestline months Snow Suit $25, www.meadowbrookapartments.net never worn.

Call 785-842-4455 785-393-0749

EO/AA

Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline (SSCGP) is an interstate natural gas transportation company, headquartered in Owensboro, KY. SSCGP operates a 6,000-mile pipeline system transporting natural gas from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming and Colorado to markets in the Mid-continent. We provide competitive salaries and benefits.

Southern Star provides a fun, friendly, and modern working environment as well as competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We are seeking experienced professionals with skills and qualifications in the following areas: Job # 11-0009 – Team Leader, Operations For more information on these positions regarding complete job description and details for applying, please visit http://www.sscgp.com/Working/ Working Locations: North, East, and South Region These regions are comprised of the work locations in and around the following cities: North Region (Concordia, MO; Tonganoxie, KS) East Region (Independence, KS) South Region (Blackwell, Edmond, OK) Website: www.sscgp.com • Deadline: December 23rd, 2011 NOTE: Interviews will be held in January, 2012 How to apply: If you have qualifications we need, want a job that uses your existing skills and encourages you to develop new ones, provides varied work challenges, and allows you to work with a great group of people, this position might be a perfect fit. Please forward your resume, which should provide evidence of how you meet each minimum requirement mentioned and any preferences listed, to: SSCGP HR Department, Job Postings, PO Box 20010, Owensboro, KY 42304 or e-mail your resume to jobs@sscgp.com. You must include the Job# identified above or your resume will not be considered.

SSCGP is AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER We thank all applicants for their interest, but will only respond to those selected for interviews.

Apartments & Townhomes 2, 3 & 4BRs

HIGHPOINTE APTS

785.843.4040 www.thefoxrun.com Offering Leases through the end of May 2012

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2900 Bob Billings Pkwy.

Sunrise Place Sunrise Village

All Units: Pool, on KU bus route, DW, & microwave 2BRs - 1/2 Mo. Rent FREE near KU, laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4BRs - Special Prices W/D, FREE wireless internet 660 GATEWAY COURT

Aspen West

For complete job description information and to apply go to https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position #00000302 .

Close date is 1/05/12.

No Phone Calls Please

Happy Holidays

chasecourt@sunflower.com

1BR, 1.5 bath 2BR, 2.5 baths

Rooms (newly remodeled) Rent by week or by month.

With cable & internet. Call Virginia Inn 785-856-7536

www.firstmanagementinc.com

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at 901 New Hampshire 785-830-8800

1BR - $450, 2BR- $510/mo.

Water & trash pd. Deposit - $300. On the Bus Route.

Newer 2BR for only $475.

Jacksonville Apts.

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Downtown Lofts

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Red Oak Apts.

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Seasonal position. Mon. Fri., 8am-5pm (Sats possible), available now thru April????. Stocking, pulling, packing and shipping both small packages and freight orders. Possible full time position for right person. Send resume to: sharonholladay@ westheffer.com or fax to 785-843-4486

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Firewood: mostly split oak delivered/stacked. $190 full, $95 half. Call Mike at 785-241-1857 Seasoned Firewood for sale. hedge, oak, locust, & other mixed hardwoods. $160/cord. Split stacked & Delivered. Call Ryan at 785-418-9910

Furniture

Hunting-Fishing

Desk, blonde color, with 2 drawers, $10. Please call for more information 785-331-5072.

Guns, Ruger new model Blackhawk .357 with 9mm cyl, 6 1/2 in blued with 100 .357 rds and Lee loading dies - all for $375. Daiwa .12 ga auto 500 with Desk, solid oak desk with chokes $350. Mossburg .20 removable hutch, Asking ga bolt action model 85D $175. Call to inquire at $200. 785-843-1207 785-841-9033

Medical

End Table, dark wood, $20.

Equipment Seasoned Mixed Firewood, Please call for more inforFirewood-Stoves 2-1/2 miles south of Law- mation 785-331-5072.

Wheelchair, Like new, $40. rence. $80/half cord. Call A Full Cord Seasoned Please Call for more inforLloyd 785-842-4502 Hedge, Oak, Locust & mation, 785-331-6368 mixed hardwoods, stacked & delivered, $160. Call Lan- Furniture Miscellaneous don, 785-766-0863 Baby Bed- Wood Baby Bed, Firewood, Mixed hard- like new. Only used 3 Gerbil or Hamster Setup, 5 woods, full cord: $150. You times. $99 Please Call Holiday Decor gallon tank, screened haul. Or small delivery fee. 785-456-4145 cover, 2 exercise balls, Oak & hedge cords slightly food dish, food water bot(2) 8 Channel programmamore. 35 years in business.

Bed, Includes Queen Mat- ble lite-o-rama Christmas tle, $20. 785-841-3419 Call Bill at 816-810-3673 tress, box spring, frame & light controllers with softFirewood: Mixed hard- 1 set of sheets, mattress ware pkg. & 10 new curtain woods, mostly split. pad and foam padding, strobe lights. Over $700 Tabletop Foosball Table, Stacked/delivered. $85 -1/2 $75. Please call for more new, asking $525, will neg. 20”x36”, Great shape. $20. cord. James 785-241-3530 information 785-331-5072.

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Auctioneers

Carpets & Rugs

SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

Auto Maintenance and Repair

CARPET TILE BUY-OUT!

(covers almost 11 sq.ft) Save to 84% while supply lasts!

Special Buy. Assorted.

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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 Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

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FINAL DAYS!

FREE CARPET INSTALLATION BEFORE CHRISTMAS

One room or a whole house*,

Jennings’ Floor Trader 3000 Iowa - 841-3838

Quick Installation! *Details in store

Staining & Engraving Existing Concrete Custom Decorative Patterns Patios, Basements, Garage Floors, Driveways 785-393-1109 www.robinseggconcrete.com

Decks & Fences Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791 www.billyconstruction.com

Stacked Deck

Catering Oakley Creek Catering - Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

On-Site Cooking Available Family Owned & Operated

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Child Care Provided

785-842-2108

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Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery

Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

Electrical

Harris Auto Repair

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

785-838-4488

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Hite Collision Repair

“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

K’s Tire

Sales and Service 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

Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Road Lawrence, Kansas 785-864-4940 hilltop@ku.edu twitter.com/HilltopCDC Serving Lawrence since 1972.

Montessori Children’s House of Lawrence Preschool Enroll by 2-1/2-3 yr.old Half day or All day spots. www.montessorilawrence.org 785-843-7577/785-842-6002

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

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems

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Five yrs. exp. References, Bonded & Insured Res., Com., Moveouts 785-840-5467

Let Us Help With The Holidays

Gift Certificates Avail.

Family owned and operated since 1992 For Your Holiday Cleaning Needs

English bull dog for sale AKC regsitered, 2yrs. old, great with kids. $700 Needs to a good home.

785-550-8408

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Breathe Holistic Life Center

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Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

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FOUNDATION REPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Moving-Hauling

Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

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Professionally trained Instruction and . staff. We move everythTutoring ing from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

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Quality work at a fair price!

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

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Heating & Cooling

Music Lessons

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Garage Doors

Ani-Pals Pet Resort is seeking a full dog groomer. Must have at least 6 years experience in a professional setting and experience in all breeds.

The right person will have: Professional appearance.

Professional attitude. Gentle and patient grooming style. Excellant customer service skills and references.

Please call 913-422-8108 to schedule and interview. Location is one mile south of the Kansas Speedway.

Pet Services

Piano Lessons 4704 W. 24th St Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year!

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

Air Conditioning Heating/Plumbing

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Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Al 785-331-6994 albeil@aol.com

Salon & Spa

Landscaping Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Get Lynn on the line!

785-843-LYNN www.lynnelectric.com

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• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation

General Services

Employment Services

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

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

Computer/Internet

Eagles Lodge

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

785-843-2174

785-843-2244

www.scott-temperature.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/scotttemperature

Fast Quality Service

Accessible and General Public Transportation We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

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.

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

www.ah-air.com

Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

MULTIPLE PHOTOS, MAPS, EVEN VIDEO! WorldClassNEK.com Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

913-636-1881

15 yrs exp, Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal All jobs considered. 785-312-0813 785-893-1509

LAWN & LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE Big/Small Jobs

Dependable Service

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat

Riffel Painting Co. 913-585-1846

Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Light Up The Season!

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Locally owned & operated.

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services

Fall Clean Up Leaf Clean Up Snow Removal

Marty Goodwin 785-979-1379 ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

• Holiday Lighting Installation • Professional and timely • Residential & Commercial

913-488-7320

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

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Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

785-841-5466

Lawrencemarkeptlace. com/firstclass

Arborscapes Tree Service Tree trimming & removal Ks Arborists Assoc. Certified Licensed & Insured.

785-760-3684 www.KansasTreeCare.com

Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee - Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals We take glass!

1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter

BUDGET TREE SERVICE, LLC. 913-593-7386

Trimmed, Shaped, Removed Shrubs, Fenceline Cleaned

No Job Too Small Free Est. Lic. & Ins. 913-268-3120

Chris Tree Service 20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Free Est. Ins. & Lic. Buyers of aluminum cans, 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659 all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, Fredy’s Tree Service 501 Maple, Lawrence. cutdown• trimmed• topped 785-841-4855 Licensed & Insured. lawrencemarketplace.com/ 14 yrs experience. lonnies 913-441-8641 913-244-7718

785-764-2220

Adorable Animal Designs

Lawrence First Class Transportation

Tree/Stump Removal

“Call for a Free Home Demo” www.MuttsandManners.com

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Repairs and Services

Full Service Grooming All Breeds & Sizes Including Cats!

Flea & Tick Solutions

Year round storage

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

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ENHANCE your listing with

Travel Services

Husband & wife team, exp., fast & good.

Reasonable, Carolyn& Mark 785-424-5860

Green Grass Lawn Care

Home Improvements

• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Interior/Exterior Painting

Painting

Whatever U Need

www.independenceinc.org

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

785-594-3357

JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

Steve’s Place

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

785-865-0600

Painting

785-550-5610

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

Dependable & Reliable Holiday pet sitting, feeding, overnights, walks, more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

Insurance

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

briggsautodirect.com

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

“When You’re Ready, We’re Reddi” •Sales •Service •Installations •Free Estimate on replacements all makes & models Commercial Residential Financing Available

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Repairs and Services

KEYS of JOY

785-331-8369

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

http://lawrencemarket place.com/patchen

Events/ Entertainment

Quality work at a fair price!

Pets

Cars-Domestic

Care-ServicesSupplies

602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

Concrete

TV, 32” Sony Television, in excellent condition. Make a good Christmas gift for a main or second TV. $70 Please call 785-842-1560

Medical-HealthTherapy

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

Pets

TV HD), (NOT 25 in. Toy Poodles, Chihuahuas, Mitubishi for sale. ExcelYorkies. Older puppies lent condition. Good game reduced. 785-883-4883. room TV. For information www.cuddlesomefarm.com inquire at 785-841-9033

Home Improvements

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

Computer Running Slow?

785-842-3311 Viruses/Malware?

For Promotions & More Info: Troubleshooting? Lessons? http://lawrencemarketplace Computer Questions, Advise? .com/kansas_carpet_care We Can Help — 785-979-0838

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning.

Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

Guttering Services

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

785-841-3088

Buckingham Palace Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services “The Greener Cleaner”

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Cross Country Skiis, “epoke 1000” with poles and mens size 10 boots, $100. Please call for more info. 785-887-6048

SKi Machine, Precor 515e.

Best aerobic total body workout without pounding. Conditions heart and lungs, improves strength in every major muscle group. $75. 785-843-0257

TV-Video

Foundation Repair

Cleaning

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

Golf balls- Pkg of 6 new Callaway Tour Golf balls already in holiday gift bag.

Great stocking stuffer.

Less than half price retail. $8. Call (785) 840-6251 to leave mssg if interested.

Golf Club, Baffler Rail H Hybrid Utility wood#3, left Bowflex, exercise machine, handed, $30. Like new. Call nearly new, Asking $125 or 785-841-2381. negotiable. Call to inquire at 785-841-9033

Your Local Lawrence Bank

Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

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Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Sports-Fitness Equipment

Cross Country Skiis, “Rossignol wioth poles and womens size 8 boots, $100. Please call for more info. 785-887-6048

All Your Banking Needs

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

For All Your Battery Needs Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Piano, Wurlitzer piano, serial # 453156. In nice condition. Family piano of 50 years. $300. Please call 785-331-7022

Sports-Fitness Equipment

Bus. 913-269-0284

Heavy-Duty Quality. 39”x39” ea.

Playroom, office, laundry/utility, workshop/storage room, etc.

WAY Below Wholesale!

Now $7.79 ea.

Compare to $50

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Financial

(3) Pianos, Winter Company Spinet or Acrosonic Spinet, $525.

Sterling Spinet, $175. Price includes tuning and delivery. Call: 785-832-9906

Decorative & Regular concrete drives, walks, & patios. 42 yrs. exp.

Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261

BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AT YOUR SERVICE

Automotive Services

Concrete

Music-Stereo

• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

785-842-3030 Free Quote

Place your ad

ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT

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Cars-Domestic

Buick 2010 ENCLAVE Certified, Stk#T96788A Special Price $30,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Buick 2008 Lucerne CX, 46K, Dark Crimson Metallic A Car For The People from The “Dealer For The People” www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Buick 2009 Lucerne CXL, leather heated seats, 3800 V6, great power with great gas mileage, On Star, trade in, stk#54939A2 only $12,715.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Domestic

Chevrolet 2000 Corvette Coupe, Automatic, chrome wheels, leatehr, 117K, Winter priced at only $12,888.

All American Auto Mart 1200 East Santa Fe Olathe KS 66061 visit our website www.aaamkc.com Call 888-239-5723 Today.

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Cadillac 2007 CTS sunroof, leather, power seat, alloy wheels, stk#631501 only $17,588.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2009 Civic Hybrid 4CYL, Auto, 30,000 mi. $18,988 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Ford 2007 Focus SE Cloud 9 White!

Credit so Easy a Child Can Do It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2010 Focus SE 33K, Sterling Grey Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Hyundai 2006 Sonata LX Sedan - Silver, B6689A $9991.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Cars-Domestic

Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix Certified, Stk#B6652A Sale Price 19,000.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

NADA retail price $2900, Buy it NOWfor $1750 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports only at

briggsautodirect.com ***

FORD 2008 FOCUS Stk#B6482A $12,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

GET YOUR CAR COVERED From the tires to the roof from Bumper to Bumper.

0% FINANCING AVAILABLE on all service contracts.

NO CREDIT CHECKS! CALL FOR DETAILS. 785-843-5200 ASK FOR ALLEN

2008 Mercury Grand Marquis GS V8, Auto, Carfax 1 owner $9995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Chevrolet 2002 Cavalier, Automatic 2 door in very clean condition. A very nice car, with good gas mileage for under $5000.

Come for a test drive. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Chevrolet 2006 Cobalt LT Sedan Blue, T6900A $9888.00 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports .

Kia 2010 Forte 4dr, 1 owner, extra clean, great gas mileage. Lots of cars for under $200/mo. WAC. All American Auto Mart 1200 East Santa Fe Olathe KS 66061 visit our website www.aaamkc.com Call 888-239-5723 Today.

MERCURY 2005 GRAND MARQUIS Stk#B6902A Special Price $12,000.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Mercury 2008 Milan White Suede Pearl, 34K Academy Cars: Where You Have the Right To Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2008 Mustang GT this is one hot ride!

Leather heated seats, Shaker sound system, local trade, very nice!

Stk#58041A2 only $16,999.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2008 Mercury Sable Premier V6, Auto,Pearl Carfax 1 owner, $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2001 FORD MUSTANG

Chrysler 2010 Sebring LTD Leather, Alloys, 38K, Inferno Red! Credit so Easy a Child Can Do It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Dale Willey Automotive 2840 Iowa Street (785) 843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2008 Mercury Sable Premier V6, Auto, Black Carfax 1 owner $18,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

1999 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX

NADA retail price $6400, Buy it NOWfor $4950 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports, only at

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Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix, sunroof, spoiler, alloy wheels, great gas mileage and room for the family! Stk#166701 only $11,684.

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2008 Ford Taurus SEL V6, Auto, Low miles $15995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Dodge 2008 Caliber SRT-4. Make a statement in this Awesome car - the right color all it needs is a home! All the right equipment, power windows, power locks, sunroof, manual transmission! $15,788.

All American Auto Mart 1200 East Santa Fe Olathe KS 66061 visit our website www.aaamkc.com Call 888-239-5723 Today.

Dodge 2010 Caliber SXT 44K, Inferno Red Are You Drowning In Choices? No More! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

What’s GM Certified?

2yrs of free regular maintenance 172 Pt. Inspection 12 Mo./12,000 Mi. Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty 100,000 mi./5-yr. limited Powertrain warranty, no deduct.

24-hr. Roadside Assistance Courtesy transportation.

Nationwide coverage backed By General Motors.

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2008 Mini Cooper S, 2 Door, 6speed manual, heated seats, cloth, Moon, CD, Bluetooth, Trac, Spoiler, 25K, $19,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Pontiac 2008 G6 Carbon Black, 32K Finally! A Better Way To Go! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

BMW 2005 x5 3.0i, white with gray interior, 100K. Perfect condition all records. This vehicle is like Brand New. All American Auto Mart 1200 East Santa Fe Olathe KS 66061 visit our website www.aaamkc.com Call 888-239-5723 Today.

Chevrolet 2002 Corvette Convertible, 2Dr. Stk#T96291A Sale Price $27,495

Pontiac 2010 G6 4cyl, great gas mileage, GM certified, that means 2 yrs of scheduled maintenance for free!

Stk#453475 only $13,999.

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Lexus 2007 RX350, leather, heated memory seats, traction control, plenty of luxury and safety! Stk#50849B1 only $22,845.

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Lincoln 2009 MKZ premium alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, CD changer, Sync, leather, and more for only $16,715. stk#404101.

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2008 Mazda6 4cyl., Auto., Carfax 1 owner $14,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Hyundai 2011 Elantra GLS 4 cyl, Auto, white, Carfax 1 owner, $17,988.

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Pontiac 2008 G6 Sedan GT Stk#D8757 Sale Price $14,780

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Mazda 2008 Mazda3 Hatchback. FUN car with heated seats! Dark Gray color, BOSE audio, BRAND new tires, and much more. Super nice condition, lots of options, and a great looking car. Drive Fun. See wbsite for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2006 Mazda5 Sport Wagon. Really nice, 5 door with dual sliding side doors. Dark gray, only 63K miles. Automatic. FUN car!

Brand new tires. Reduced.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Pontiac 2009 G6, V6, power seat, ABS, traction control, remote start, 17” chrome tech wheels, GM certified, lots of warranty!

Stk#314521 only $15,444.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Some People Try to Suck the Joy and the Meaning Right Out of Christmas and…

We’re Here To Say it…

Merry Christmas!!!

• $4,000

GUARANTEED TRADE-IN

Hyundai 2007 Sonata GLS 4 cyl, Auto, gray, Carfax 1 owner $9,998 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Hyundai 2009 Sonata 48K, Willow Grey You have the Right to a Lifetime Engine Warranty! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2006 Mazda3 S, 2 owner, 65k original miles, 5dr hatchback, moon, manual, 30+ MPG, 6CD, sporty! $9900 .

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

• $1,000

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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With Approved Credit

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 KIA 2006 AMANTI. Stk#T6622A. Sale Price $13,999

Robert Brogden Auto Plaza

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Toyota 2007 Camry SE, Loaded, 4cyl, auto, FWD, 35K, light blue, leather, Ex. Cond, moon roof, Bluetooth, dual power heated seats, remote start, Intrusion Protection, front & side air bags, tilt wheel, cruise, alloy wheels, ABS, rear spoiler, JBL premium, multi CD, new battery. $16,800. Call 785-841-1128.

2007 Toyota Camry XLE Auto, gray, Carfax 1 owner $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer ES V6, 5speed manual Silver $7,495 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Toyota 2010 Corolla, CE Barcelona Red, 48K Can you believe It?! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2010 Corolla CE 21K, Barcelona Red Can You Afford to NOT Buy Your Next Car On-Line at Academy? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportsback GTS Auto, Black, Carfax 1 owner $14,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Toyota 2009 Corolla XLE 46K, Capri Sea Metallic From Your Partner in On-Line Car Buying! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2009 Yaris Silver, 70K Fuel Economy PLUS A Cheap Payment! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2005 Altima SE, 69K, White, V6, Alloys, Leather, Moon Roof, Sonoma Metallic.

You Have the Right To the Most Money For Your Trade-In www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2010 Sentra 2.0 Magnetic Grey, 47K Who Could Say Not To… www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2007 Mazda3 sSport 4cyl., 5speed manual Carfax 1 owner $12,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

100% Approval!!!

Protect Your Vehicle with an Extended Service Contract from Dale Willey Automotive.

Call Allen orr Tony at 785-843-5200

2010 Mitsubishi Galant ES 4Cyl, Auto,7,000 mi Carfax 1 owner $14,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Nissan 2010 Versa 1.8 S 30K, Brilliant Silver etallic, Swear By Your Car, Not At It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Drive-It-In Bonus!

• No Money Out-Of-Pocket and No Payments Till 2012!!!

Premium selected automobiles Specializing in Imports www.theselectionautos.com 785-856-0280 “We can locate any vehicle you are looking for.”

Toyota 2000 Camry LE Automatic. 4cyl. 198K, Runs great! Non-smoker. Very clean interior & exterior.

Timing belt & water pump were changed at 153k.

Newer brakes & tires.

Heater & AC work great!

Power driver seat. Sun Roof. Factory radio & CD. Power windows & mirrors.

Cruise control. Excellent gas mileage. $4,200. ConMitsubishi 2009 Galant tact AJ 913-568-2981 ES, alloy wheels, power equipment, great fuel economy and dependability!

Only $10,888.

Toyota 2006 Camry LE stk#10854.

65k, Dark Grey Metallic Dale Willey 785-843-5200 From Lawrence’s Favorite www.dalewilleyauto.com On-line Dealership!

Nissan 1997 Altima SE, 97,300 miles, tan with tan interior, auto, AC, PW & PL, cruise control, and priced at $4,350. Very clean with Carfax.

See pictures online. 785-218-7290

My “For The People” Credit Approval Process Will Get You Approved Whether You Have Been Naughty or Nice.

As Always, My Goal is

Pontiac 2009 G8 GT 6.0 V8 with lots of power to spare! You gotta drive this one! Not many left!

Stk#11346 only $23,950.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mitsubishi 2008 Ecplise GS 48K, Sunset Pearl Metallic You Have the Right to a Fear-Free Car-Buying Experience! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Mazda 2007 Mazda 5 Sport 46K, Brilliant Black 6 Passenger Comfort, Can You Imagine?

And Fuel Economy Too! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Hyundai 2011 Elantra GLS 4 cyl, Auto, white, Carfax 1 owner, $17,988.

Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Here’s What You Need To Know!

Saturn 2004 Ion Quad Coupe, 4cyl, FWD, spoiler, power equipment, very sporty & great gas mileage!

Stk#581581 only $8450.

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The Selection

Pontiac 2008 G6 sedan, 4cyl, great gas mileage and room for the family, stk#16670 only $11,684.

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Shop Like Santa, Spend Like Scrooge!

Ford 2005 Taurus SE Sedan - Silver. T96907A $7991.00 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Lexus 2004 RX330 All Wheel Drive, Sky Blue with gray int. Has every option you could get on this car. NADA retail, $20,125. ON SALE for Only $15,888.

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Pontiac 2009 G3, automatic, talk about fuel economy and room!

You’ve gotta try this one to believe it! Stk#328851 only $12,444.

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Porsche 1999 Boxster.

ONLY 32K miles! Local car kept in garage by a meticulous professional. Guards Red is very shiny. Excellent condition with all keys and books. Would make a great Christmas present!

Includes big red bow! See website for photos.

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2008 Mercedes R350 4Matic (AWD), panorama roof, Navi, Harman Kardon, 6disc, heated. seats, 54K, $30,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2007 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX NADA retail price $9975, Buy it NOWfor $7950 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports, only at

Nissan 2007 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two starting at only $12,762. stk# 14043.

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Ford 2009 Mustang V-6, Auto, 30,174 mi. $17,988 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Cars-Imports

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Chevrolet 2005 Tahoe LS SUV, Stk#B6867B Special Price $13,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Chrysler 2010 Sebring Limited Brilliant Black, 48K Check Out the Cockpit of This Amazing Machine! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Cadillac 2007 DTS very nice, very luxurious!

With out the luxury price! Stk#164601 only $16845.

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Cars-Imports

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Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT Stk#D8756 Sale Price $15,780

Chevrolet 2010 Malibu’s 32 mpg hwy, nicely equip’d.

Like new throughout with remainder of 5yr/100,000 mile factory warranty. 2 available price as low as $14,425. 1.9% apr financing available.

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Cadillac 2007 CTS leather heated memory seats, On Star, plenty of comfort that only a Cadillac can give you!!

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Dodge 2007 Charger RT V8, auto, Silver, Carfax 1 owner, $16,988.

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Buick 2001 Regal LS Sedan, Gold Metallic, B6647A $7771.00 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Nissan 2010 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two only $14223.00 stk#s13257 or 14043 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2008 Toyota Yaris 5spd. manual, white Carfax 1 owner $10,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Volkswagen 2009 Passat Sedan 4dr Auto Komfort FWD Sedan Stk#T6696A Sale Price $20,995

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Ford 2008 Edge Limited AWD, ultra sunroof, leather heated seats, power liftgate, navigation, very nice!

Stk#414381 only $25,887.

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Crossovers

Sport Utility-4x4

Saturn 2008 Outlook XE, sunroof, alloy wheels, 2nd row bench, room for 8! Lots of style for a very affordable price!

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Sport Utility-4x4

2011 Jeep Liberty 4WD Black, 1 Owner, auto, alloys, power, tint, remainder of factory warranty, 22K, $17900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

Truck-Pickups

Buick 2007 Lucerne CXL, remote start, leather, sunroof, cd changer, On Star, only $16844. stk#404262 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Truck-Pickups

2007 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XLT, V6, Auto, $13995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Truck-Pickups

GMC 2008 YUKON XL DENALI, AWD, SUV Certified, Stk#D8785 Special Price $36,000.

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Vans-Buses

Buick 2007 Terraza CXL these have got to be one of the nicest mini-vans that you will ever look at.

Stk#645461 only $15,774.

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Ford 2006 Escape Limited - a nice ride. Be the Envy of all your Friends in this fully loaded Escape.

82,000 miles, leather, sunroof. All the Goodies! $13,995.

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Volkswagon 2004 Passat AWD, low miles, power equip, sunroof, leather, heated seats, alloy wheels, great gas mileage!

Only $12,455.00 stk#14587A3.

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Crossovers

Dodge 2007 Nitro SLT 4X4, 61K, Brilliant Black Metallic Perfect for Today’s Busy Family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2007 RAV4 Limited, V6, FWD, 3rd row seat, DVD, 79K, Excellent Condition. $15,500.

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2006 Acura MDX Touring, V6, AWD, 2-Owner, well-maintained, leather, Moon, 3rd row, Bose, 92K, $17,900.

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2009 Audi Q7 Premium 3.2 Quattro, AWD, panoramic sunroof, lthr, 3rdrow, htd seats, Bose, Navi/Back U cam, pwr liftgate, 43k $39900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2004 Ford Explorer AWD, 2-owner local trade, 122K, Eddie-Bauer, Leather, Moon, DVD, 3rd row, tow, $9900.

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GMC 2009 Acadia SLE, one owner, tow pkg, room for 8 pass, alloy wheels, power seat, 24 mpg hwy, stk#19786A1 only $19,741.

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Hyundai 2010 Santa Fe GLS 4 cyl. Auto, Blk, Carfax 1 owner $18,998 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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2008 Buick Enclave CXL 1-Owner, AWD, Pearl White, 3rd row, Leather, 2nd Row Buckets, rear ac, Bose, htd seats, power, park assist 92K, $20,900.

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Chevrolet 2011 Traverse, Nobody beats us on selection! We’ve got 12 to choose from starting at $21,995 and GM certified!

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Chevrolet 2006 Uplander LT, FWD, leather heated seats, dual power seats, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, DVD, XM radio, & more, stk#117531 only $12415 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

GMC 2008 DENALI AWD SUV Stk#D8782 Special Price $40,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

2006 Toyota 4Runner SPORT, 4WD, Moon, tow, CD, PL, PW, cruise, spoiler, 120K, new tires, clean! $14,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Motorcycle-ATV

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Ducati 2004 1000 DS only 1K miles on multistrada like new.

Save money only $5,988.

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2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE NADA retail price $7300, Buy it NOWfor $5350 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports only at

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2007 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic Fire Fighter Special Edition 6 Speed manual, Sharp! $14995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2010 Mitsubishi Endeavor LS V6, Auto, white $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Nissan 2009 Rogue SL 4 Cyl, Auto, Silver, Carfax 1 owner $20,988 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

Ironhorse 2003 Texas Chopper.

I can’t say enough about this bike.

You have to see in person! Absolutely Amazing.

Thousand below Value.

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Chrysler 2009 PT Cruiser 40K, Surf Blue Pearl You Have the Right To Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Pontiac 2006 Grand Prix GT, this is a fantastic luxury sedan, plenty of room for the family and power for the driving enthusiast!

Stk#424761 only $9,412.

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Kawasaki Vulcan 500cc, 7K, 1 owner nice bike only $2,488.

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JEEP 2007 WRANGLER UNLIMITED X. Stk# T96620A Sale Price $21,999

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Chevrolet 2008 Colorado LT 2WD, crew cab, power equip, alloy wheels, bed liner, hurry before this one is gone! Stk#132031 only $16,844.

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Chevrolet 2006 Silverado Crew Cab 4WD, one owner.

111,700 Mostly highway miles. $15,800 or best offer. Includes Z-71 off-road package, 5.3L V8, 295 HP, trailer hitch, black aluminum 4-fold tonneau cover, white with gray interior, and radio/ navigation system.

Call (785) 749-9455

Toyota 2002 Highlander, All wheel drive. Great gas mileage in a small SUV. Beautiful Bluestone Metallic, Alloy wheels, and brand new engine with warranty! Clean, NO acci- Chevrolet 2005 Silverado dent. AutoCheck history. ext cab, 4x4 Z71, one Also check out my 2005 owner, Bose sound, bed Highlander, just in. See liner, very hard to find, website for photos. stk#399471 only $16850.

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See website for photos.

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Stk#52071A2 only Toyota 2000 4Runner- ONE $11,888.

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Truck-Pickups

Chevrolet 2007 Silverado LT 4x4, quad cab, 80,388.

Put it to work or carry the Family around excellent condition & well equipped. $21,988.

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Chevrolet 2004 Silverado LT 4wd, leather heated seats, steering wheel controls, running boards, Bose sound, power equip, tow package, & more stk#52071A1 only $18,877.

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Jeep 2007 Commander 4x4 Rocky Mountain edition, sunroof, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, 2nd row bench with a 3rd row, plenty of room. Boston sound, cd changer, and much, much more! Stk#150391 only $17,774.

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Call for details.

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2006 Honda CR-V EX-L SE 1-Owner, 4WD, 4cyl, auto, leather, moon, alloy, PW, PL, 6CD, ONLY 31k ORIGINAL MILES $18,900.

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2003 NISSAN FRONTIER CREW CAB NADA retail price $10,475, Buy it NOWfor $8800 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports, only at

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Dodge 2007 Grand Caravan SE Stone White, 60k, Perfect for You and the Crew! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2009 Grand Caravan SXT, Green, 58k, Perfect for today’s busy family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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GMC 2011 2500HD STK#T6764A Sale Price $59,999

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Toyota 2007 Tacoma Double Cab SR5 Sport. Like new, local truck, clean history and ,well, clean everything. Shiny red, entire truck shows great care!

Only 52K miles and priced to sell quickly. Two wheel drive, bedliner, 400W A.C. outlet, new factory alloy wheels, great tires, and much more.

Christmas present?? See website for photos. Thanks and happy holidays!

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GMC 1997 Savana High Top Conversion Van. 350 ci., auto, loaded, lots of van for only $3,888.

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Honda 2007 Odyssey EX-L V6, Auto, Carfax 1 owner, Front Wheel Drive Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

GMC SIERRA 2007 1500 Classic Work Truck regular cab Stk#T6666A Special Price $16,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

2008 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE 1 Crew Cab, 4x4, V8, Auto, Carfax 1 owner $24,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Toyota 2008 Tundra crew cab 4x4, 49,000 miles, loaded, TRO package, leather, PW, PL, cruise, fully equipped nice ride.

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Toyota 2006 Tundra, 68K, Access Cab. You Have the Right to a Fair and Easy Credit Approval Process! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2003 Tundra Limited Stepside, Black Can You Believe it?!? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Kia 2008 Sedona, 38K Glacier Blue Perfect for Today’s Busy Family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2008 Toyota Sienna XLE V6, Auto, Red, Carfax 1 owner $22,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Lawrence NOTICE TO BIDDERS:

2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO Z71 NADA retail price $13,050, Buy it NOWfor $7400 Or will sell to highest bidder, full mechanical condition reports only at

Dodge 2006 Grand Caravan, 67K,

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Chevrolet 2007 Silverado LT 4WD, crew cab, ABS, traction control, alloy wheels, bed liner, power equip. stk#369512 only $22,995.

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Jeep 2007 Liberty Limited 4x4, 54K, Stone White. Perfect for today’s busy gal! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

We are now your Chevrolet dealer, call us for your service or sales needs!

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GM CERTIFIED is not like any other dealer backed warranty. Don’t let the other dealers tell you any different. Dale Willey Automotive is the only dealer in Lawrence that GM Certifies their cars and trucks.

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GMC 2008 Sierra SLE, 4WD Crew cab, diesel, one owner, local trade, GM certified, very nice!

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Jeep 2003 Grand Cherokee Limited Edition, in beautiful white with tan leather heated seats. Very clean, very good history, and average miles. Loaded with moonroof, chrome wheels, roof rack, HomeLink, and much more. See website for photos.

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Jeep 2005 Liberty RENEGADE model with tons of fun options. Nice silver color, clean condition and history.

Automatic and 4X4. Light rack, skid plate package, and lots more!

See website for photos.

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HUMMER 2006 H2.

Stk#D8763.

Sale Price $31,999,

Ford 2008 F150 Ext cab FX4, running boards, towing pkg, alloy wheels, CD changer, stk#59369A3 only $21,800 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

FORD 2007 TRUCK Stk#B96918A Special Price $21,000.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Buick 2008 Enclave FWD 4dr CXL Stk#D8742 Sale Price $24,918

100% Approval!!! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2002 Avalanche 4wd LT, crew cab, leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, and lots of extra’s stk#600642 only $13,481.

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Dodge 2010 Caravan’s starting at $17451.00, stk#13591, 4 to choose from, hurry for best selection on these like new, low miled, vans.

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GMC 2008 Sierra SLE 2WD, ext cab, towing pkg, On Star, GM certified and more! Only $18,888. stk#545031 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2011 Toyota Tundra V8, Auto, 4x4, 15,000 mi Carfax 1 owner $25,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Interested vendors are encouraged to visit the University of Kansas Purchasing Services website for a listing of Current Bid Opportunities. Electronic Bid postings are located at: www.purchasing.ku.edu /Bids/KU_Bids.aspx Interested vendors may also contact KU Purchasing Services, 785-864-5800.

1246 West Campus Road Rm. 30, Lawrence, KS 66045 Fax 785-864-3454 or email: purchasing@ku.edu (Published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld December 18, 2011)

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LEGAL NOTICE

Dodge 2008 Ram 1500 Quad Bright Silver You Have the Right to “Love Your Truck” www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2003 Ram 1500 SLT, Hemi, Atlantic Blue Buy a Truck, From a Truck Dealer www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

GMC 2004 Sierra SLE 4wd, Z71, ext cab, alloy wheels, running boards, tow pkg, hard to find at this price, only $15,950. stk#10092.

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Toyota 2008 Tundra 4WD, SR5, towing pkg, alloy wheels, JBL sound, and more, stk#311612 only $22,415.

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Cottonwood Incorporated is submitting an application for U.S.C. 49-5310 federal capital grant funds to be provided through the Kansas Department of Transportation.

Persons wishing to make comment on the application are requested to do so in writing no later than 4:30 pm on January 3rd, 2012. Comments can be mailed to: CEO, Cottonwood Inc., 2801 W. 31st ST, Lawrence, KS 66047.

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hunk! The sound startles me and I look up from the project I am working on in time to see a robin dusting his slightly rumpled feathers before he flies off in the other direction. The bird’s collision with my window, and other birds before it, happen occasionally. I am reminded to take action to prevent future collisions.

Although my friend Mr. Robin flew off this time, bird/window collisions are a serious issue. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service even goes as far as saying that plate glass is one of the greatest hazards to birds, “… with windows in homes and offices killing as many as 1 billion birds each year.”

Preventing future window collisions is not always easy, though.

I am pretty sure in this case, Mr. Robin was just taking off from a bath and a drink at the fountain near my window. His short takeoff likely saved his life. He may have seen a reflection of the landscape behind him, or looked through the pane, unable to distinguish it from open space.

Researchers and bird enthusiasts suggest that birds may also fly into windows seemingly intentionally when they see their own reflection and try to attack it. Cardinals are one of the species most likely to act this way, although the cardinals that frequent my fountain have yet to try it.

Nocturnally migrating birds may also strike lit windows at night.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says the best solution for preventing birds from flying into windows is to cover the outside of the window with netting or screening. The netting or screening should prevent reflection and hold the bird far enough from the window that it cannot be injured.

Crop netting, also called bird netting, works well and is available in many hardware stores and garden centers. Use fine mesh netting to keep birds from getting tangled in it.

If netting will not work for the window in question, the next best option is one-way transparent film. When mounted properly

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on the outside of the glass, this film makes the window appear opaque on the outside but leaves the view unaltered from the inside.

Vertical tape strips, soap and markings with permanent paint are a common although less attractive suggestion. The idea is to reduce the amount of reflection on the window. I have also heard that simply leaving the window dirty can help, but it obviously is not working in my case.

Shutters, external sun shades and awnings may help by blocking reflection.

The most common recommendation I hear and questions I get are regarding the use of decals, hawk-shaped stickers, plastic owls, pinwheels, and other shiny, moving objects. Although all of these things may work in the right situation, they are less effective in research trials than the previously mentioned suggestions. They are more effective when placed less than eight inches apart than when only one or two stickers are present. I have heard one report of a mobile comprised of small mirrors that is effectively deterring birds from a window where previous methods were ineffective.

Of course, you can always move the feeder, birdbath or fountain closer to or farther from the window. Or plant some trees to shade the reflection for future generations. Or just put up the netting. I am headed to the hardware store now.

— Jennifer Smith is the Horticulture Extension Agent for K-State Research and Extension in Douglas County. She can be reached at 843-7058.

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A CARDINAL POUNDS its beak against this window. Birds that fly into windows see their own reflection and try to attack it, researchers and bird enthusiasts say. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service says that the glass in windows kills as many as 1 billion birds a year.

Kovel’s Antiques: Santa’s image has changed through time

By Terry Kovel

Santa Claus has changed in appearance throughout the centuries.

He is now a mixture of the Dutch, German, Scandinavian, British and American characters that have represented Christmas. The earliest Santa-like figure was Saint Nicholas of Myra, a 4thcentury Greek bishop. He was pictured as a thin bishop in religious clothing. The bearded Norse god Odin also influenced the Santa Claus image by the 13th century. He led a hunting party in the sky while riding an eight-legged horse. The Dutch had Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas, by the 16th century. He rode into town on a steamboat in November and carried a book that told which children were good and which were naughty. Then in December, the elderly tall man with white hair and beard and a long, red cape rode a horse in the sky and delivered gifts through the chimney. Santa got shorter by the 1840s in Scandinavia. He was a bearded elf dressed in a gray outfit with a red hat. The Scandinavians also have a tradition of the “Yule Goat,” that pulled

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a sleigh through the sky. It came from the story of Thor, a Norse god. The goat is now a life-size Christmas figure made of straw. Father Christmas, known in 17th-century Britain, was a chubby, jolly, bearded man dressed in a green, fur-lined robe.

But in America, Santa Claus has been inspired by the figure described in the 1823 poem “The Night Before Christmas,” which describes St. Nick as plump and jolly but also as a small elf that could slide down a chimney.

By 1863 Thomas Nast, a cartoonist, had pictured Santa as a large, heavy-set man with a beard. The Coca-Cola ads in the 1930s feature the Santa best known today, the jolly man with a beard and fur-trimmed red suit. All of the Santas gave gifts to children, and most could ride in the sky. A rare tin Santa toy made in the 19th century sold recently for $161,000.

It shows Santa in a sleigh drawn by goats. The first one found made experts wonder if it was all original — because goats, not reindeer, are pulling the sleigh. Two more of the clockwork toys are now known, however, proving that the expensive toy is original.

Perhaps the maker was familiar with the tradition of the Q: I have a set of four Yule Goat. winking Santa mugs from 1960 with an “H.H.” logo Q: Can you give me infor- on the bottom. I’d like to mation about a rhinestone know who made them and if necklace and matching they’re worth anything. screw-on earrings that were A: Your winking Santa given to me by a deceased mugs were made by Holtfriend born about 100 years Howard Co., an importing ago? Each piece is marked company that started working with the copyright symbol in New York City in 1949 and and the name “Lisner.” moved to Stamford, Conn., A: Your costume-jewelry in 1955. The company sold pieces were marketed by D. candleholders, condiment Lisner & Co. of New York jars, decanters, spoon holders, City. Founded by David Lis- saltshakers and other table acner in 1904, the company was cessories. It was bought out strictly a wholesaler of im- by General Housewares Corp. ported European jewelry un- in 1969. Holt-Howard pieces til the 1930s. During the ’30s, often are stamped in black Lisner enlisted a partner to with “Holt-Howard” or “HH” oversee the establishment of and the year of manufacture. a retail business that depend- The “HH” mark was used uned on contracts with jewelry til 1974. Production of Holtmanufacturers in Providence, Howard pieces ceased in 1990.

R.I. The “Lisner” mark was Your mugs, if in perfect condiused starting in the 1930s, tion, are worth $5-$6 each. but any Lisner mark with the copyright symbol dates Q: I have an Edna Hibel from after 1955. The company 1985 Christmas plate called was sold and resold several “The Angels’ Message.” It’s times since 1979, and jewelry in perfect condition, but I marked “Lisner” has not been don’t have the original box. made since 1985. Lisner neck- I’d like to know the current lace and earrings sets sell for value. $75 to $150 or even more, deA: Edna Hibel’s 1985 Christpending on style, colors, ma- mas plate was the first in a seterial and condition. ries of four Christmas plates

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It is one of three known to exist and was auctioned for $161,000 by James D. Julia of Fairfield, Maine. by the artist. It originally sold for $45. The first in a series of limited-edition plates usually sells for more than subsequent plates, and buyers who “discover” the series later try to find the first of the series to complete the set. Today you can find this plate listed online for prices ranging from $10 or less to more than $200, but the plate in a frame sold for less than $15 at auction this year.

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A Celtic winter’s in the air —————

Singer Ashley Davis discusses new album’s seasonal theme ning into almost everything being about the birth of Jesus. So often what I would do is cut up songs. They’re two songs that I’ve put together.

I’ve taken these two verses that were secular and these two verses that were secular and put them together and rewritten them to work.

So it was easy for me to do because it was an academic exercise. And the majority of it I wrote in Ireland this summer and was collecting in Ireland this summer when it was beautiful there and I was wearing sandals. I just have a vivid imagination and it’s easy for me to transport myself, too.

And when you’re looking at all this beautiful poetry and literature, and song lyrics, it’s easy to be carried away, for me, to these wintry times and places and imagining how it would feel. Because I’m not talking about suffering in any other way than heartache in the album, it’s a pretty ... obviously, that’s a metaphor that’s used throughout the album — that winter is like suffering for somebody’s love, also.

By Sarah Henning sarah@lawrence.com

Lawrence-bred Celtic songstress Ashley Davis is out with a new album celebrating the chill in the air.

Davis will debut “Songs of the Celtic Winter” at a release party and concert Wednesday night at the Lied Center by playing all 11 tracks on the album plus a special song commissioned by Family Promise of Lawrence.

The singer-songwriterproducer sat down with staff writer Sarah Henning to talk about her third album (that was partially funded by a Kickstarter.com campaign), winter as a theme and how her creativity has expanded since her move back to Lawrence two years ago.

Sarah Henning: You say you feel the sound on this record will be your “signature” sound. How do you describe it?

Ashley Davis: This particular album, since it’s a winter album, we didn’t put any high-end (sounds) into this album whatsoever. So it’s all mids and low-range instrumentation and frequencies.

So it really does have that almost Russian-choir, lulling, dark sound throughout it.

That doesn’t mean depressing, but paints a picture of a landscape that isn’t springy and flowers popping up and so forth.

So we try and paint these landscapes with the music and the words, certainly, too. And so I think on probably seven of the pieces I cowrote with this producer in San Francisco and what he would do is send me a chord progression and say, “What do you think of this?” And then I would write a melody through that and the words then. Then we would put those together and add the instrumentation and so forth.

And then the other major, major influence that I sort of had an epiphany (about) during the process of doing this album is the harp. I realized that the harp is a really integral part of what my sound is. And working with Cormac DeBarra, who is also Moya Brennan’s harper, has just helped open up my absolute love for harp music, just in general, traditional harp tunes and how beautiful they are. Just the modality of them and Cormac has been a great influence on me in that way.

Where we’d set out to have Cormac on four tracks of the album, he’ll end up being on nine of the 11. Because everything sounds good with harp on it. And he plays the harp in a different way, so that it is accessible — my writing and his playing are very complementary toward each other.

That’s the best way to say that.

I didn’t have any “rules” with this album. I was able to use electronic instruments, instruments from any genre that I wanted to, I had the entire palette and that was what I’m so proud of. And even language-wise, even lyric-wise, that I wasn’t having to write in a traditional Irish language fashion. Some of the songs, I would say, are very Victorian literatureangled and some are medi-

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CELTIC SINGER ASHLEY DAVIS has released a winter album and will be performing selections from it Wednesday at the Lied Center pavilion, 1600 Stewart Drive. eval poetry that I pulled from England. There’s a real mix of that, but they all sort of have a common ground because of the music that grounds them.

S.H.: You mixed original songs with old carols, songs and poetry, yet they flow seamlessly. How do you go about creating a feel for your albums as a whole?

A.D.: So I feel like between authors who are long gone, anonymous pieces and my own writing, I think that’s what keeps it fairly seamless.

Because I choose stuff that complements one another, or I write it to complement one another.

I want people to be able to listen to the album — and this is the way I feel about all my albums — from start to finish without jolting up and going, “Whoa!” like some crazy reel hits you from the side of the head and you’re jumping around. That’s really important to me. That was another big defining moment about this album, which was I didn’t need to have albums that were upbeat. That were jaunty. That were pub music. That people would spin around the dance floor (to). I can write that way, but that’s, at least at this point in my life, not the way I want to write. And I was really comfortable with that.

I wasn’t scared as I was with the first album — my first release coming out, people saying, “Gosh, but it’s all really slow music.” This I didn’t mind at all. And a lot of it is because it’s winter music and you don’t mind a quiet approach to music for the winter. But “Winter Jig” on there is as crazy as it gets.

ASHLEY DAVIS RELEASE PARTY AND CONCERT Where: The Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Drive When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 Tickets: $20; contact the Lied Center box office at 864-2787 or go to www.lied. ku.edu

S.H.: If you started culling information this summer, when did you start recording?

A.D.: I started recording in September. We turned it around fast. But, again, that had to do with my co-producer in San Francisco knowing me quite well. He’s really multi-instrumental, and so we could literally do a track from beginning to end — vocals to everything with percussion — in about three and a half hours. I was there four days and we came out with eight tracks done of 11.

S.H.: How has your move to Lawrence affected the feel of this album?

A.D.: I think the reason I created exactly the album that I set out to create was because I’m so comfortable here as Ashley. I have been more creative and more prolific in the last two years in Lawrence than I was my entire decade in New York City. Because I’m so comfortable and relaxed here that it’s an amazing creative space for me. And in New York, you’re just trying to get by, day by day. Sleep-deprived ... everything. This is an oasis for me.

sic. It was brought on by living in New York. I was heavily surrounded by the Jewish community in New York.

And it had always struck me that from December on, every store that they walked into, it was Christmas music playing. There were never secular albums that were put out that everybody, no matter what your background was, could listen to and there would be nothing that would verbally jar you into one way or another. And so I wanted to create something that was S.H.: What can fans expect very Old World. That had next from you? nothing to do with religion A.D.: It’s a toss up between — that purely celebrated the three things. I’ve said that I season of winter. wanted to do an album for the four seasons, so I might S.H.: You started working move on to spring and do on this album two years ago. that next.

How did you maintain that I might do — I’ve had a lot “winter” vibe over the span of requests for a Celtic lulof that time? laby album, and when I was A.D.: All of my albums researching at the New York are approached from an aca- Public Library, I found so demic standpoint. That’s one many cool resources for that of the main things. So when of really old Celtic lullaby you’re looking at something pieces from amazingly far academically, you have a back, so that’s material I’m retask and a purpose. The first ally looking forward to workthing I do when I’m research- ing on. Or I might just write ing an album is I’m going in a straight-up Ashley Davis and I’m looking specifically album that doesn’t have any for Celtic songs from any of particular theme, that’s just the Celtic regions that have a performance- type album to do with winter. Again, I that could play festivals and S.H.: Why did you want to was coming up against a big things like that. do a winter album? challenge here, because the A.D.: I had always wanted (Celtic) regions are primarily — Staff writer Sarah Henning can be reached at 832-7187. to do an album of winter mu- Christian. And so I was run-

MTV names Katy Perry its 1st artist of the year

By David Bauder Associated Press

NEW YORK — Katy Perry’s run of No. 1 singles has earned her the distinction of becoming MTV’s first artist of the year.

Perry topped Adele after a spirited discussion among MTV’s internal panel of experts, the network said Thursday. Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was chosen top song of 2011, said Amy Doyle, the network’s chief of music programming.

MTV also declared Skrillex its electronic dance music artist of the year over David Guetta.

Different parts of MTV would make “best of” lists in the past, but the network

wanted to establish a franchise that brought all its online and TV arms together and emphasized MTV’s music roots, Doyle said. The network, established in 1981, hopes it becomes an annual thing.

Seven panelists made the final choice, and their deliberations were featured in MTV programming this week.

“Rolling in the Deep” was an obvious selection as top song, Doyle said. Runnersup were Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” and Rihanna’s “We Found Love.”

“I loved the song the moment I wrote it,” Adele said.

“The melody and the beat added some conviction to it.

I think that’s why people connected with it.”

Perry’s achievement of tying Michael Jackson’s “Bad” as the only albums to yield five No. 1 singles was particularly impressive, Doyle said. Along with the title cut, “California Gurls,” ‘‘E.T.,” ‘‘Firework” and “Last Friday Night” (T.G.I.F.) all topped the charts. She’s trying to beat the record with the current single “The One That Got Away.”

“You just really felt her presence in pop culture throughout the year,” Doyle said.

Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny Moore, describes his music as a combination of “dubstep, electro and glitch.”

MTV included the category of best electronic dance music artist to pay tribute to the way the style is taking off with its young viewers, she said.

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SINGER KATY PERRY ARRIVES at the 39th Annual American Music Awards on Nov. 20 in Los Angeles. Perry is MTV’s first artist of the year.

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Sandra Hardie, office manager, Lawrence “‘The Affair’ by Lee Child. I like it, and I like the author.”

The real John Updike Novelist also made fine contribution to literary journalism

“The Artist of Disappearance,” the title of Anita Desai’s first book in seven years, nominally refers to the lead character in the third and final novella in this collection.

But Desai might have been describing herself, during the course of a long literary career in which she has consistently sided with those left behind by the march of history.

“We are all in this together, this world of loss and defeat,” reflects one of the characters profiled here. “All of us, every one of us, had a moment when a window opened,” she continues. “But all of us, on this bus, David Petersen, have had the window close retired, and remain closed.”

Lawrence In all three novellas gath“I’m working my way through ered here, that lament is fothe mysteries. Sometimes cused on what’s been lost by the plots aren’t very deep, India itself, reminding us that but there’s always interest- heady celebrations of how ing characters.” the world is now flat rarely acknowledge what gets bulldozed in making it smooth.

In “The Museum of Final Journeys,” the narrator is a civil servant recalling his first assignment, to a remote region of India he describes as a “benighted hinterland.”

Like so many Desai charac-

A night-time lurker shambling by, Hulking wreck of former monster Far outmassing human scale, Lately frightened me at dawn – Wordlessly demanding something Unknown I would greatly rather Not retrieve from some dark vale.

I promised I’d reply anon.

Since it sleeps by daylight, I Perhaps can let this creature lie.

Our Poet’s Showcase features work by area poets. Submit your poetry via email with a subject line of Poet’s Showcase to danderson@ljworld.com.

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IN THIS MAY 2006 photo, author John Updike speaks at BookExpo America 2006 in Washington.

Updike’s latest book is “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism.” out an immense amount of work, at great speed, on a huge range of subjects, at a dismayingly high standard of excellence.

So the best term would be literary journalist. Thousands would like to be just that — the better literary bloggers come close — but few get paid and make it their lifework. Sad. Carduff writes, on behalf of more than two generations of readers: “... (T)he learned yet never pedantic, civilizing yet gossipy ‘I’ of his criticism ... became a familiar voice in our heads. Over the course of five decades, we came to know, trust, and appropriate his pronouncements and predilections.”

Here and in those 10 other collections, Updike, who died in 2009, furnishes an ideal for the working literary journalist, the knowledgeable man or woman who writes for everyone, who is just as committed to elucidation as to judgment, who can turn on a quark from modern art to semiotics to memoir to politics to sports, regarding all as accessible to any mind reasonably informed and engaged ... and write his or her own fiction and poetry.

Academic critics often speak as if Updike were shallow. That shows they don’t get it. His main goal is not the assertion of intellect; it

is, first and foremost, to describe and explain the work before us, to assess it (but that’s seldom his main aim), and to account for its impact.

He is the absolute master of the one-sentence snapshot of an artist’s characteristics. He once told me he worked especially and self-consciously hard on such snapshots, and they’re awfully good. Here’s his apercu of Cole Porter: “He brought to the traditional and somewhat standardized tasks of songsmithing a great verbal ingenuity, a brave flexibility and resourcefulness ... a cosmopolitan’s wide expertise in many mundane matters including foreign lands and tongues, and a spirit that always kept something of collegiate innocence about it.”

Yep. A painting by Turner: “White edges of moonlit foam, delicate as lace, define an oval of momentarily concave water rendered with an avid fidelity to its mixture of shadow and translucence. ... (These) portend Turner’s lifelong obsession, to the point of enraptured obscurity, with light in its ephemeral impressions.”

You have to marvel. Here, as again and again in “Higher Gossip,” we’re in the presence of one of the best of U.S. prose stylists. As almost always, style is content as well as form — both what he has to say and how he wields American English to say it.

I said above that Updike’s main aim is seldom the judgment of good/bad. He can slap stuff that doesn’t work, as with a novel by a celebrated U.S. author: “In their ten days of living together, the ten characters generate more chatter than drama.” When he disagrees with a book, he has amiably discreet ways of disemboweling it. With Amity Shlaes’ ‘The Forgotten Man,’ a shambling hatchet job on the New Deal, Updike just reminisces about his own boyhood in the Depression, quietly but indelibly blighting her premises and leaving her book looking small.

More often, the Updike energy bends to bring the object to us (whether it’s Vermeer or Vonnegut or Tiger Woods, booksellers or old age) and us to the object.

It must have been terrifically hard work, much harder, even, than he often said. Not pontificator but reporter, he went out to have the experience, then turned around and made it available to others. “Higher Gossip,” once again, makes us grateful, first, for an Updike, and second, for the supple, demotic American English in which he wrote. This book sends us searching for the next generation of cosmopolitan, affirmative writers who will write for all, about almost anything, in spirited, sunlit sentences.

Author explores India’s losses in 3 novellas Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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—David Burress, Lawrence

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Which is the real John Updike?

Is it the Updike of the short stories, cramming 15 full-length collections, reading matter for millions in the 1960s and 1970s? Is it the Updike of the (by my count) 26 novels, the Rabbits, the Bechs, the Eastwicks, the Scarlet Letters, that won him many awards, including two Pulitzers?

Or is it the Updike of books like “Higher Gossip,” the 11th collection (and there may be Sarah Hoppe, more) of essays, prefaces, looking for work, personal pieces, and afterLawrence “‘The Hum and the Shiver’ by words, taking us for tours of Alex Bledsoe. It looks inter- literature, art, sport, and self?

I first encountered Updike esting. I really like violins, as a poet. While some snideand this is about a woman ly dismiss his work as light getting back to music as verse, much of it is anything communication.” but — the poems in “Higher Gossip” show what he could do — and his reputation as a poet is growing.

But I found the real Updike when I read “Hugging the Shore,” his 1983 collection of essays and criticism.

What a fine guide he was to the writers of his age: Nabokov, Barthes, Calvino. What a vivid, relentlessly honest personal essayist. What an unabashed yet rapier-sharp sports analyst, as on baseball or golf. I wore the book out; it repays rereading.

“Higher Gossip” cinches Linda Davis the case: The real John Upsocial worker, dike, where he and his lovely Lawrence prose were most at home, “‘The Maid’ by Kimberly Cut- was in his professional jourter. I like historical fiction.” nalism. As editor Christopher Carduff says in a perceptive foreword, if you were to read all his essay collections, from 1959’s “Assorted Prose” through “Higher Gossip,” you’d have a compelling experience of many of the important cultural moments of the last 50 years.

You can’t call it “occasional journalism.” Updike didn’t do this once in a while. This was his day job (the jour in journalism), and he turned

Eleen Hart, retired, Lawrence “‘The Affair’ by Lee Child.

It’s popular and it holds your attention.”

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ters, he can neither connect with nor understand the land he has entered, and he longs for the day when he will be recalled to New Delhi.

But before he makes his escape, a local takes him to a crumbling mansion, once the grandest in his district, stuffed with paintings, rugs and other artifacts from all over Asia, recalling a pre-colonial era when India was a beacon to the world.

Like the mansion that stores them — or the sad, ill-kept elephant living in captivity behind it — these objects are “abandoned, disused, decaying,” exuding a “sad obsolescence” that haunts the narrator all his life, reminding him that his narrowly pursued career as a civil servant has done nothing to restore these formerly potent symbols of a nearly mythological past.

In “Translator Translated,” Desai revisits terrain she explored in her novel “In Custody” (1985).

Prema Joshi is an obscure teacher stuck in a minor college who, through a chance meeting with a publisher, seizes an opportunity to es-

cape obscurity by preparing English translations of stories by an obscure Indian author who writes in Oriya, which is also the language of Prema’s long-dead mother.

Toggling between first- and third-person narration, Desai traces Prema’s increasingly muddled intentions.

Originally motivated by idealistic hopes of reconnecting with her mother’s forgotten culture, Prema is eventually consumed by fantasies that she is author as well as translator.

Prema’s increasingly loose translations distort and flatten the original text, underscoring how much gets lost in any translation — and how India itself is being homogenized.

Those same homogenizing forces close in on Ravi, the artist of disappearance in the titular novella in the collection.

Much like Hugo, the protagonist in Desai’s masterful “Baumgartner’s Bombay” (1989), Ravi is an aging recluse, surrounded by cats, who has turned his back on people and the mess they’ve made.

Ravi lives in the Himalayan foothills, giving Desai an

opportunity to showcase her command of detail and her feel for the Indian landscape, almost always a strength in her work.

Ravi’s fragile equilibrium gets disrupted by well-meaning but ultimately clueless visitors: a crew of documentary filmmakers hoping to chronicle the ecological fallout of illegal mining and logging.

Instead they engage in some spoliation of their own, after stumbling upon the intricate artwork in Ravi’s pristine hideaway, an embodiment of his childlike relationship with his natural surroundings.

Like Baumgartner before him — described by Desai as a “mournful turtle” — Ravi responds by disappearing, convinced he can only remain true by withdrawing further into himself.

Desai’s depiction of the filmmakers is reductive, a rare swerve from the admirably nonjudgmental restraint that usually characterizes her Chekhovian prose.

That lapse underscores how fully Desai sympathizes with Ravi’s plight — an artist who, like her, pays moving homage to the wonders of a vanishing world.

BEST-SELLERS Here are the best-sellers for the week ending Dec. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Fiction 1. “11/22/63.” Stephen King.

Scribner, $35.

2. “Red Mist.” Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95.

3. “The Litigators.” John Grisham. Doubleday, $28.95.

4. “Death Comes to Pemberley.” P.D. James. Knopf, $25.95.

5. “Kill Alex Cross.” James Patterson. Little, Brown, $28.99.

6. “The Drop.” Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $27.99.

7. “Explosive Eighteen.” Janet Evanovich. Bantam, $28.

8. “The Best of Me.” Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $25.99.

9. “V Is for Vengeance.” Sue Grafton. Putnam, $27.95.

10. “Micro.” Michael Crichton & Richard Preston. Harper, $28.99.

11. “Zero Day.” David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99.

12. “The Scottish Prisoner.”

Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte, $28.

13. “A Dance with Dragons.”

George R.R. Martin. Bantam, $35.

14. “1Q84.” Haruki Murakami. Knopf, $30.50.

15. “The Snow Angel.” Glenn Beck. Threshold, $21.

Nonfiction 1. “Steve Jobs.” Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35.

2. “Killing Lincoln.” Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Holt, $28.

3. “Unbroken.” Laura Hillenbrand. Random House, $27.

4. “Go the **** to Sleep.”

Adam Mansbach, illus. by Ricardo Cortes. Akashic, $14.95.

5. “Being George Washington.” Glenn Beck. Threshold, $26.

6. “Jack Kennedy.” Chris Matthews. Simon & Schuster, $27.50.

7. “Guinness World Records 2012.” Guinness World Records, $28.95.

8. “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”

Daniel Kahneman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.

9. “Catherine the Great.”

Robert K. Massie. Random House, $35.

10. “Through My Eyes.” Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker.

Harper, $26.99.

11. “Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook.” Cook’s Illustrated Editors. Cook’s Illustrated, $40.

12. “Heaven Is for Real.”

Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.

Thomas Nelson, $21.99.

13. “Then Again.” Diane Keaton. Random House, $26.

14. “Nearing Home.” Billy Graham. Thomas Nelson, $19.99.

15. “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible.” Paula Deen with Melissa Clark. Simon & Schuster,$29.99.

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Golden Globes surprises, snubs Books

By Jake Coyle Associated Press

Woody Harrelson said it himself.

As one of the stars reading the nominations for the Golden Globes on Thursday morning, the actor jokingly added his own film, “Rampart,” to the list of best dramatic films.

“There’s a lot of things left off today, I just want to say,” shrugged Harrelson.

There always is.

The year in movies has shaped up to be one without many clear heavyweight favorites, but rather a large spectrum of fine, worthy films. That means more deserving movies than normal went unheralded by the Globes.

Thus far, the awards season has played out unpredictably, with critics groups and the Screen Actors Guild (the best early indication of how the industry is voting) generally spreading honors around. Among the few that seemed assured of Globe nominations — and received them — were the French ode to silent films “The Artist,” with a leading six nominations, and the 1960s racial tale “The Help” and Alexander Payne’s Hawaiian family story “The Descendants,” each with five nominations.

Some snubs and surprises:

Extremely quiet The silence for the much anticipated “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was deafening. Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel has been the biggest question mark of the awards season, having held its screenings later than any other movie did.

The film boasts all of the trappings of awards bait,

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speed of 1/20. I had tested this exposure by photographing my hand held as far away from me as I could reach.

This let me gage how much flash would hit a subject at three feet. I could then do an estimate on the flash output at other near distances.

Focusing was another problem. It was so dark that my camera’s auto focus barely recognized my hand during the above flash test. So as Weis stepped off the plane to walk to a nearby car, I had several concerns about getting a usable photograph.

Plus, did I mention the part about feeling like a member of the paparazzi? I had visions of my bright flash blinding the new coach, causing him to fall

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Her father was too overwhelmed to care for a baby girl, so she was sent to live with her grandmother while her young brother stayed to help work the farm. When her dad remarried, MawMaw returned home, only to set off for Kansas in her teens to live with her aunt. To this day, no one knows exactly why.

The Great Depression was in full swing then. MawMaw recalled eating a lot of potato soup in those days. She graduated from high school, received her teaching certificate and rode horseback to work in a one-room schoolhouse in Nemaha County.

She returned there in her mind — deftly conducting games in her classroom from her nursing home bed — the day before she died.

It’s normal, I suppose, for people who survive great loss and scarcity to accumulate and hold on to things.

But MawMaw’s motto didn’t just apply to worldly goods.

“More was more” when it came to MawMaw’s love, too. Her devotion to family was unconditional and unabashed.

Her baby grandson could be throwing a colicky fit — screaming at the top of his lungs for two solid hours.

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GARY OLDMAN is shown in a scene from “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.”

with top-of-the-line talent in director Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”), screenwriter Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”), cast (Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max Von Sydow) and producer Scott Rudin (“The Social Network”). But it failed to land any nominations, not even for the score

by Alexandre Desplat, who has previously been nominated by the Globes five times.

Beware the ides of March?

Few might have noticed had George Clooney’s political thriller not received any nominations. Instead, “The Ides of March” landed four big ones: best picture (drama); best director for Clooney; best actor (drama) for Ryan Gosling; and best screenplay for the script by Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon.

“Ides” received respectful but tepid reviews on release and is not considered an Oscar favorite.

Clooney was nominated for best director over more likely candidates, including Daldry, Steven Spielberg (“War Horse”), David Fincher (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”) and Terrence Malick (“Tree of Life”).

Also, many would have chosen Gosling’s performance in “Drive” over his in “Ides.”

off the planes stair steps.

Fortunately it didn’t happen. The handful of journalists present were warmly greeted by Weis and I approached to within range of my flash.

Although I could barely see the guy through my viewfinder, I kept pressing the shutter button and praying that he was in focus and in my frame.

Imagine being in a dark closet photographing a black suit coat — as it moves. At times, the light of a TV camera would provide a brief moment of illumination and I would quickly lock focus and fire.

After Weis got into the car, the interior dome lights enabled focusing through the window. Worrying about correct flash exposure and focus was hard enough — now I had to take into account photographing with flash through a window. You can’t shoot flash into glass di-

She’d smile and say, “He’s good as gold,” while jiggling him on her chest.

Emporia locals still talk about the time MawMaw beat her youngest son (my husband) to the end zone as he ran for a touchdown in junior high. Or when Little League umpires almost had to peel her off the backstop while she cheered him into home plate. (MawMaw’s enthusiasm sometimes got the best of her.)

She worked tirelessly for countless clubs and organizations. More was more when it came to giving back to her church and community. As a volunteer, she never said no to a request for help.

MawMaw thrived on giving food, gifts and compliments to the people she cared about, and many she hardly knew. All she ever wanted in return was more time with the people she held dear. (“Do you have to go? Can’t you stay a little longer?”)

The doting mother, grandmother and wise, old-oneroom-schoolhouse teacher taught me an invaluable lesson: Love should never be understated. More is more is more is more.

And a little extra bling never hurts either.

— Cathy Hamilton is the executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., author of 16 books and blogger at boomergirl.com. Contact her at cathy@boomergirl.com.

The shutouts As Harrelson suggested, the most striking thing about the Globes’ picks were how many good films were left out.

Maybe there wasn’t room for them, but it’s not every year that a dozen wellcrafted movies with realistic awards chances go without nomination.

The exceptional family drama/apocalyptic nightmare “Take Shelter” didn’t receive anything, including the riveting performance by Michael Shannon.

Nor did the sleek and stylish Cold War espionage film “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” which some suspected would land an acting nomination for its star, Gary Oldman.

Malick’s cosmic-tinged family drama “Tree of Life,” considered a masterpiece by some, failed to gain any notice.

Its stars, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, were nominated for other movies.

Neither was there anything for Tom McCarthy’s charming “Win Win,” the financial industry thriller “Margin Call,” Lars von Trier’s operatic “Melancholia” or Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare adaptation “Coriolanus.” Even Harry Potter’s swan song, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” escaped attention.

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“Trackers” — Deon Meyer The South African thriller writer jokes that “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer is his cousin, not that he needs the street cred. His books, while translated from his native Afrikaans, are highoctane social commentaries set in his home country.

David Sedaris’ catalog The humorist is famous for his essays on National Public Radio, and his books showcase his wit with the perfect subject matter: his screwball family and current life as an ex-pat.

“The Areas of My Expertise” — John Hodgman The “Daily Show” contributor put on his thinking cap for this extensive and hilarious take on all the knowledge you’ll ever need to know.

The “John Rain” thrillers — Barry Eisler Eisler’s popular series follows a Japanese-American professional killer with a talent for making his victims look like they died naturally.

Sunday, December 18, 2011 — newest book, “Operation Napoleon”

Kids (and their parents) What’s the easiest way to keep your kids entertained on a long car ride? Well, if the iPad’s dead and the TV screens in your headrests are on the fritz, hand them these popular tales (Warning: You may want to steal an old favorite for yourself).

“The Hobbit” — J.R.R. Tolkien This classic is something tweens and teens can enjoy along with their parents.

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” — Lemony Snicket A series of novellas narrated by Lemony and revolving around Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire.

The “Little House on the Prairie” series — Laura Ingalls Wilder Another classic, in which children can both learn about and be immersed in the lives of children on the American prairie — perfect for holiday trips that take your family across Kansas.

“Anne of Green Gables” — Lucy Maud Montgomery More than 100 years old, this is the fabled tale of a plucky (and unexpected) The “Silence” Amish crime orphan who is taken in by a thrillers — Linda Castillo couple in rural Canada.

Castillo’s novels about The “Harry Potter” series murder in Pennsylvania’s — J.K. Rowling Amish country center on If your kids haven’t read Chief of Police Kate BurkIt’s not time to meet the these books, there’s no time holder, who survived a serial Muppets like the present to get them killer as a young Amish girl.

Maybe the Hollywood ForThe “Silence” series has been hooked. Though they might eign Press finds the Swedish be so engrossed they won’t be described as a cross between Chef offensive. prepared at present-opening the works of Karin Slaughter Whatever the reason, the time. and Julia Spencer-Fleming. largely acclaimed reboot of the “The Muppets” failed to Nordic noir (for those who “Clan of the Cave Bear” — win a nomination. love Stieg Larsson) Jean M. Auel Though the Globes make !"Jo Nesbø — newest With themes of “them” comedy and musicals a catebook, “The Leopard” and “us,” this famed historigory of its own separate from !"Arnaldur Indridason cal novel is intriguing and drama, no musicals were nominated.

rectly because of its reflectivity. The flash will bounce the light right back at you.

To avoid this, I moved to a position at a 45-degree angle to the window. This eliminated the possibility of getting flash reflections but would still reach the subject.

As the car pulled away, Weis waved to us one last time and I snapped a final frame. I only took about 20 shots during this whole event and of those only five were usable. Other frames were out of focus or totally dark because the flash did not recharge quick enough during a sequence of shots.

The flash testing prep work and a quick recollection of how to correctly shoot flash through glass got me the shots I needed.

Welcome coach. Now smile!

— Chief photographer Mike Yoder can be reached at 832-7141

Answer : CRANKY POISON ACTING THRIVE SWIVEL LURKED Wilbur and Orville made this when they chose to put two wings on their plane —

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otherworldly, though set on this planet during the time of the Neanderthals and Cromagnons.

Audio The best audiobooks actually enhance the overall literary experience — especially when enjoyed during a trek across monotonous stretches of open road. Reading about Keith Richards’ exploits is one thing, but to hear the man himself describe the inner workings of the Rolling Stones or his struggles with addiction is almost surreal in its candidness. Likewise, Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” or David Sedaris’ “Holidays on Ice” are made even funnier when read by their respective authors.

“Life” — Keith Richards The Rolling Stones musician’s memoir was among those honored with an “Audie” award for 2011 by the Audio Publishers Association.

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” — Rebecca Skloot The best-seller’s audio version, read by Cassandra Campbell and Bahni Turpin, perfectly captures both the story of a cancer patient whose cells changed medical research and that of the breakthroughs she (unknowingly) helped produce. “The Immortal Life” also won a 2011 “Audie.”

“Bossypants” — Tina Fey For all the reasons above, plus the fact that the funnywoman reads it herself.

David Sedaris’ catalog For all the reasons above, plus the fact that Sedaris, like Fey, adds something extra by reading his books himself.

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

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Jungyul Lee Age: 31 Relationship status: Single Hometown: Suncheon, South Korea Time in Lawrence: 1 1/2 years Occupation: Graduate student in special education Dream job: Special-ed teacher in the U.S., teaching fourth- or fifth-grade students What were you doing when scouted?

Homework at Z’s Espresso How would you describe your style? I am an active and outgoing person, and I think my style reflects that.

Tell me about your outfit: My sweater was a gift from a student’s parent in South Korea. I found my jeans during one of the sales at American Eagle.

Current favorite fashion trends? I like styles that lend a youthful, fun air to the wearer.

Fashion trends you hate? Colors that are too loud.

Fashion influ- CLOTHING DETAILS: ences? I have my Sweater: Gift. Glasses: own style. Sporty, Shop in South Korea, $150. Jeans: Ameriactive. can Eagle, $29. Shoes: What would Foot Locker, Perry Ellis you like to America, $45. see more of in Lawrence? More sales in clothing stores and more diversity in the population.

People say I look like: Yoon Jong Shin, a famous singer in Korea.

Tell us a secret: There are many good-looking ladies in Lawrence.

Making this holiday ONE FOR THE BOOKS

Cathy Hamilton cathy@boomergirl.com

Recalling the original Queen Bee of Bling

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IF YOU’RE TRAVELING THIS CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR’S EVE, either alone or with your family, any of these books are a great way to pass the time on a long car ride or layover, or if you just feel like settling in with a good book on a comfy sofa next to a fire.

Know someone stylin’? Send us a tip! style@lawrence.com

Bernadette Rose Zacharias Age: 29 Relationship Status: Saving myself for Christian Slater Hometown: Lawrence Time in Lawrence: All my life Occupation: Manager at Goldmakers Jewelry What were you doing when scouted? Working at Goldmakers Jewelry How would you describe your style? Lately I call it English tea with a slice of cake. Like I love putting on my plaid wool coat over a floaty pretty outfit for winter.

Tell me a little bit about your outfit: The sweater, the shoes and the crazy orchid necklace all go together with the winter flower colors, purple and pink on navy.

They all have fun details up close, like the pink and black lucite heels, or the print on the sweater — it’s little perfume bottles!

Favorite fashion trends: Scarves CLOTHING DETAILS: are trending hard, I Coat: Wildman Vintage. think. And I think they Blouse: Nomads, around represent a bygone $50. Sweater: Purchased elegance so I love that. in Seoul for around $35.

Least favorite Tights: Weaver’s, $10. trends: Deep tanShoes: Irregular Choice, ning. These days it is $130. Necklace: Alexis really striking to see Bittar lucite. Ring: Goldsomeone naturally makers Fine Jewelry fair rock that skin and not feel like they have to bronze it.

Fashion influences: My friend Jennifer. Her style is fearless and she never leaves the house in anything mediocre.

She is so beautiful, but not afraid to risk that beauty to make a statement.

Also when I went to Japan and Korea last summer I was really inspired by how those ladies always take the time to look their best and most polished, so I try to think about that when it comes to waking up earlier and putting in a little more effort.

What would you like to see more of in Lawrence? Jobs so my friends won’t move away so often!

What would you like to see less of in Lawrence? Empty storefronts.

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Reading recommendations include funny favorites, classics, winter thrillers

By Sarah Henning sarah@lawrence.com

Whether you’re staying home or hitting the road this holiday season, chances are you’ll have the time (and need) to curl up with a good book. Really, the situations rife with holiday book need are endless: Huddled in the car or coach for long distances? Book.

Curling up on the couch after you finally get the house back to yourself? Book.

Whiling away the time during a snowstorm? Book.

This goes for adults and kids

alike, and thus we talked with Susan Brown of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., and Carmela Feigenbaum and Timothy Dodd from Half Price Books, 1519 W. 23rd, to get their picks for the best books (and audiobooks) to cozy up to.

Adults If you’re fortunate enough to be the copilot on the holiday road trip, happen to be flying or aren’t going any farther than your couch, pick up one or more of these must-reads.

“Bossypants” — Tina Fey Be forewarned — you may

snort eggnog through your nose on this one. Fey’s account of her childhood, working life and motherhood will have you howling. Plus, the way the book is divided into essays makes it for perfect periodic reading — you won’t get lost in a cast of characters.

Bill Bryson’s catalog Educational, witty, charming and extremely observant, Bryson is one who can perfectly capture a reader’s imagination and won’t let go. His most recent title is “At Home: A Short History of Private Life.”

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Bringing KU’s new football coach to light

By Mike Yoder myoder@ljworld.com

In a little more than a 36-hour period, on three separate occasions JournalWorld photographer Nick Krug and I covered the arrival and introduction of Charlie Weis to Lawrence as Kansas University’s new football coach. If you can picture Weis in your head right now, it’s probably because of us.

Our sports reporters were tracking KU’s jet plane Thursday night, Dec. 8, surmising that Weis might land at the Lawrence airport. I got a call around 8:30 p.m. and within 10 minutes of my arrival at the airport the plane was in sight. Well, sort of.

It was actually pitch black.

With no ambient light near the KU hangar, I knew that any photo of Weis departing the plane would require flash. Ironically, using flash in total darkness isn’t easy.

If you use automatic settings, the camera and flash tend to overcompensate.

The camera’s auto metering registers the dark area and assumes a whole lot of light is required for a correct exposure. Any nearby subject, surrounded by darkness, could be blown away by the auto flash. To compensate, I manually dialed down my flash to 1/16 power. My other settings were, f5.0 aperture, 1600 ISO and shutter

f my mother-in-law had a motto in life, it was “more is more.”

Following her death a couple weeks ago, friends and family recalled the endearing qualities of the 94-year-old lady my kids called MawMaw, especially her unapologetic love for costume jewelry.

MawMaw never simply wore a necklace. She rocked three or more with matching earrings as big as her earlobes would bear, bracelets times 10, and rings on every finger. She was the original Queen Bee of Bling.

“I know some people think I wear too much,” she said once.

“But I don’t care. Not a particle.”

Four years ago, when time came to close her three-story house and move to a one- MawMaw bedroom apartment, Maw- never simply Maw let most wore a neckof her posses- lace. She sions go with rocked three ease. Not the or more with jewelry.

“It’s all com- matching ing with me,” earrings as she said adamantly.

So big as her we packed up earlobes six enormous would bear, storage bins of bracelets bling (I’m talking thousands times 10, of pieces) and and rings on squeezed them every finger. into every nook and cranny of her tiny, new digs.

MawMaw’s motto carried over to clothes. After all, what good is a boatload of accouterments if you don’t have the outfits to accessorize? There were shoes and a bag for every ensemble, belts in every color of the rainbow.

A year-and-a-half ago, when time came to move MawMaw into a nursing facility, we worried she would be distraught at the purging of her closet. She wasn’t. She was too sick. But, when her status improved, she asked us to buy more.

“I’m going to need a Christmas sweater and a long skirt.

They’re all wearing long skirts this year, you know.”

At one time, there was even more “more” in MawMaw’s life. She had a vast collection of bells, dozens and dozens of dolls and more knickknacks than a big-city Hallmark store. And the Christmas decorations! Sixteen, maybe 20 boxes worth she insisted on putting up every year.

Frankly, I always thought it a little much. I was raised to appreciate the art of understatement. “Less is more.” Anything over the top was considered kitschy.

It took me years to realize what a snobbish attitude I had, and that MawMaw loved “more” because she had so much less as a child.

Born in Illinois in 1917, she was 2 when her mother died.

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THE HIRING OF CHARLIE WEIS as KU’s new football coach provided staff photographers Nick Krug and myself three different photo events to cover on his arrival to Lawrence. The trickiest for me was a nighttime coverage of Weis’ arrival at the Lawrence airport. Getting correct flash exposures and photographing through glass were two problems I dealt Please see LENS, page 11C with while trying to capture the new coach.

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