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JEROD NIEDER, second from left, is recovering from a devastating neck injury he suffered on a family trip to Mexico. Pictured from left are Cale Nieder, Jerod, Sheri Nieder, Brityn Summers, Michael Nieder and Taeler Nieder.

In Mexico, family faces nightmare after son’s injury ————

Jerod Nieder, 29, recovering after breaking neck diving into ocean

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

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A CROWD FILLS THE INSIDE OF PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 925 VT., FOR A PUBLIC FORUM in July on Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration decision to close the Lawrence SRS location. The staff of the Lawrence Journal-World named the near-closing of the local SRS office the top local story from 2011.

SRS, KU Athletics, highway safety stood out in 2011

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

At the end of each year, the staff of the Lawrence Journal-World reflects on the stories that affected our community most. While no one event dominated the headlines this year, there were several that made 2011 a memorable one.

Here are our top stories:

10. Fallout from KU’s ticket scandal Last year’s top story, the Kansas Athletics ticket scandal, continued to make headlines in 2011. In 2005, former associate athletic director for ticket operations Charlette Blubaugh started taking football and basketball tickets and distributing them to other athletics department officials to sell either individually or to third parties. In all, the scam cost the university $2 million.

In 2011, those involved were sentenced and began serving time.

Former top officials Blubaugh and Ben Kirtland, who served as associate athletic director for development, were sentenced to 57 months in prison.

Thomas Blubaugh, Charlette Blubaugh’s husband and a former paid consultant, and Rodney Jones, a former assistant athletic director for the Williams Fund, are serving 46 months. Kassie Liebsch, a former systems analyst who took over ticket operations following Blubaugh’s resignation and then resigned upon her own indictment by grand jury, is serving 37 months in a prison camp in Illinois.

Tied to the scandal was the departure of KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins, which came a year ahead of schedule. Early in the year, Sheahon Zenger replaced Perkins as the new athletic director. Zenger was the athletic director at Illinois State and had roots at KU.

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A WHITE CROSS FOR RYAN PITTMAN, 24, killed in a crash on K-10 in April, sits next to the highway. Five-year-old Cainan Shutt was also killed in the accident that prompted thousands to call for cable median barriers to make the section of highway safer.

BELOW: Gov. Sam Brownback provides a progress report on his first six months in office in July at the Statehouse in Topeka.

Gov. Sam Brownback’s first year in office brought a wave of changes to the state.

What was supposed to be a celebratory holiday vacation in Mexico turned tragic last month for one Lawrence family.

On Dec. 18, the Nieder family arrived in Playa del Carmen, a beach town just south of Cancun. They had been coming to the region for the past several Christmases, which was a down time in the family’s businesses, Jayhawk Guttering and Nieder Contracting. This year there was an added bonus of a cousin’s wedding.

The family checked into the hotel. And as Mom and Dad, Mike and Sheri Nieder, finished unpacking, their children hit the beach to watch the sun set. The family had traditionally stayed farther down the beach, where the shoreline was smooth. No one thought that section was rocky.

The oldest, Jerod, 29, took two steps into the ocean and plunged head first into the water. He dived straight into a cluster of boulders just beneath the surface.

“The minute he hit the rock, Jerod knew he broke his neck,” said sister Taeler Nieder, a senior at Kansas University.

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The minute he hit the rock, Jerod knew he broke his neck.”

— Taeler Nieder, Jerod Nieder’s sister The collision left him face down in the water and unable to move. Still conscious, Jerod held his breath and hoped that someone would notice. His younger brother, Cale, who spent the past summer life-guarding, spotted him and pulled him out of the water.

All Jerod was able to say was “in trouble,” but it was enough to let his brother know something was seriously wrong.

A cousin helped Cale pull Jerod onto the beach, put pressure on his bleeding head and stabilize his body. Taeler ran to get her parents and sister and brother-in-law, Brityn and Steven Summers.

After what seemed like forever to the family, an ambulance arrived. And that’s when a second nightmare began to unfold: navigating the Mexican medical system.

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By Micki Chestnut

David Vance remembers as a kid phoning his grandmother who lived in Belfast, Ireland, and she wouldn’t be available to talk because she was hurrying off to deliver meals to shut-ins.

His grandmother’s dedication to taking nourish-

ing meals to her elderly neighbors made a big impression on Vance.

So in 2008, he said, “After Obama’s Vance election, initially there was a push for volunteering. I had done

lunch hour every Friday delivering hot, nutritious meals to the folks on his regular route.

And when the Meals on Wheels staff is in a pinch, he’s quick to help out by driving additional routes on additional days.

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He thought of his grandmother and decided to follow in her footsteps by volunteering for Lawrence Meals on Wheels. Since then, Vance, an architect with his own firm, Openhandesign, has spent his

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after a season-ending loss to Missouri. A few weeks later, KU announced the arrival of Charlie Weis, who spent 16 years as an NFL assistant (gathering four Super Bowl rings) and five years as the head coach at Notre Dame.

Even before the start of 2012, hopes for next year’s season are high after the transfer of two high-profile quarterbacks to KU.

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9. Occupy Lawrence From Wall Street to Mass.

Street, a national protest movement made its way to Lawrence by mid-October.

Dubbed Occupy Lawrence after the national Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters set up camp in South Park for several weeks. They peacefully vacated the park when police began enforcing a city ordinance that closed the park at night.

The movement made headlines later in the year when a man affiliated with the group was arrested on the roof of Weaver’s Department Store.

The man was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and chanting slogans.

8. Downtown development proposals Downtown Lawrence rose to new heights this year — literally. Developer Doug Compton’s sevenstory building that went up at the southwest corner Ninth and New Hampshire could be just the beginning.

That $10 million structure, dubbed the 901 Building, holds apartments, a gym and office space.

As it was being built, Compton filed plans with the city of Lawrence for a sixstory hotel and apartment building on the southeast corner of the intersection.

Lawrence-based Treanor Architects proposed a $2 million project to convert the former Strong’s Office Supply building at 1040 Vt. into an office building for its firm’s headquarters.

On the outskirts of the downtown, a Kansas City developer proposed rehabilitating the former Poehler Mercantile Co. building and an adjacent 1880s structure near Eighth and Delaware streets.

The $9 million project would create 49 affordable housing apartments.

Across the river by Johnny’s Tavern, there is a proposal for a project that would include about 200,000 square feet of space for shops, restaurants, apartments, condominiums and perhaps a hotel or movie theater. One of the unique features is an 1,800-footlong boardwalk running alongside the existing Kansas River levee.

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NEWLY HIRED KANSAS UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SHEAHON ZENGER, LEFT, and former Athletic Director Lew Perkins talk in the concourse prior to tipoff of the men’s basketball game against Kansas State in January 2011 at Allen Fieldhouse. LEFT: A trio of riders make the best of last January’s snowfall as they slide down slopes near Kansas University’s Potter Lake. In early February, eight inches of snow graced the city, the most in a single day since 1980.

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7. Wacky weather 2011 was a year of extremes for weather in northeast Kansas. In early February, eight inches of snow graced the city, the most in a single day since 1980. The storm kept city crews busy clearing streets and had folks homebound for a day or two.

The weather took a different turn during the summer with extremely hot temperatures. July marked the sixthhottest one on record for east central Kansas. The high temperatures damaged crops, pushed the city’s water treatment plant close to capacity and sent folks to the hospital.

6. Conference realignment Who’s in and who’s out of the Big 12 continued to capture KU sports fans’ attention.

After losing the universities of Colorado and Nebraska in 2010, the University of Missouri along with Texas A&M University announced their departure at the start of football season. The move ended 119 years of the Border Showdown, the longtime rivalry between KU and MU. As for who KU will play in 2012, the University of West

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doors wouldn’t open until a credit card was presented.

“No matter how urgent his situation was, they wouldn’t do anything until we handed over money,” Taeler said.

Once at the hospital, doctors surmised Jerod had shattered his C5 vertebra, which had been pushed into his spinal cord. The C4 and C6 vertebrae were also damaged. Emergency surgery was needed to take the pressure off his spinal cord. The family had to decide whether to wait to do the operation in the United States or do it as soon as possible in Cancun.

They picked Mexico, and at midnight Jerod went in for a six-hour surgery that included taking a bone from his left hip to fuse together his C4 through C6 vertebrae.

Once out of surgery, Jerod was placed in the intensive care unit, where visiting

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forgets, we call David. He is always willing to help out,” said Kim Culliss, executive director for Lawrence Meals on Wheels. “David has a fulltime job and a family, and still finds time to help.”

That’s why Culliss nominated Vance for the United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center’s 2010 Wallace Galluzzi Outstanding Volunteer Award.

Meals on Wheels depends upon volunteer drivers like Vance to deliver more than 100 meals a day to homebound individuals who have special dietary needs.

“The bigger thing the volunteers provide is friend-

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JEROD NIEDER GETS fitted for a wheelchair with his mother, Sheri Nieder, standing at his side. hours were slim, his family believed he was being neglected, and communication was hindered by a language barrier.

“There were times when

Virginia and Texas Christian University have both been slated for replacements, although legal challenges have been filed. As other schools in the Big 12 rotated in and out, KU has remained loyal to the conference.

5. School closing In May, teachers and students said goodbye to Wakarusa Valley School.

The school was targeted for closure as a money-saving strategy. Six other elementary schools have been identified by the Lawrence school board as candidates for potential consolidation: Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill.

This year, the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group formed to recommend which schools should consolidate. The working group is charged with recommending a plan that would trim the list of six schools to three or four within the next two years.

4. Brownback and other Republicans bring social change Gov. Sam Brownback’s first year in office brought a wave

Jerod needed help and was ignored,” Taeler said.

Cale insisted on staying with his brother throughout the night. The next day, two days after his accident, Jerod was flown by air ambulance to Denver’s Craig Hospital, a top-notch facility for spinal cord and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.

For the past week and half, Jerod has been at the facility, where the process of physical therapy has begun, managing his medications and working toward healing him.

As of now, Jerod is paralyzed from the chest down.

He has no movement in his legs or feet. Arm movement is limited, but he can’t move his hands. He can move his head back and forth.

It’s a condition that Jerod and his family hopes will improve. They’ll find out how extensive his spinal cord damage is in several weeks.

The average stay at the hospital is three months, but Jerod could be there for more than a year, Taeler said.

“We’re all hoping for a full

on them and keep track of them.

Real friendships form.”

Vance now understands why his grandmother was so # Meals on Wheels is always enthusiastic about delivering in need of volunteers, esmeals to the homebound, and pecially during the winter about volunteering in general. months, when Kansas Univer“It’s been a great experisity student volunteers are ence,” he said. “It has good hugone and inclement weather manity to it. I like that interacmakes it difficult for older tion. People get too focused on volunteer drivers to venture their own lives and their own out. things, and they don’t realize # To find out more, contact that volunteering is a simple Meals on Wheels at (785) 830thing to do. It really knits you 8844 or 4mealsonwheels@ into being part of the commusbcglobal.net. nity. Sometimes it feels awkward to step into someone ship,” Culliss said. “Someone else’s world, but those experiis checking on them, is inter- ences make you feel interconested, will say hello.” nected with the people you The good feelings go both live around.” ways, Culliss points out.

— Micki Chestnut, associate director of “Often our drivers say they get more out of it than the cli- United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center, can be reached at 865-5030. ents do, to deliver to folks, check

of changes to the state. Early in his administration, Brownback abolished the Kansas Arts Commission, replacing it with a private organization that would raise funds. Kansas is the first and only state to pull funding for the arts, a move that prompted active in Lawrence’s arts community to protest in Topeka.

At the start of his first term, Brownback asked lawmakers to create a “culture of life” in Kansas. That request was followed by the approval of several antiabortion initiatives. One restricts private health insurance companies from covering abortions. And another sets new regulations that abortion providers must follow. Both laws are being challenged in court.

In April, Brownback signed into law another nationalattention-grabbing bill that required a photo ID for all in-person voters and proof of citizenship to register to vote.

2. Safety examined on K-10 A row of crosses on the side of Kansas Highway 10 near Eudora bear a sobering reminder of a 2011 top story.

On April 16, two people died when 24-year-old Ryan Pittman crossed over a median and struck an oncoming van.

Pittman and 5-year-old Cainan Shutt, a passenger in the van, died.

The accident, and similar incidents before it, prompted thousands to write to state officials urging the Kansas Department of Transportation to install cable median barriers to make the section of highway safer.

Those concerns were heard as this fall KDOT Deputy Secretary Jerry Younger announced an $800,000 project that will install cable median barriers along two two-mile stretches of K-10, including a section where the deadly accident occurred.

The project will begin next summer.

1. City and county fight to keep SRS office Heart-breaking. Devastating. A nightmare.

Those were the words local health officials used to describe Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services’ decision to close the Lawrence SRS office in July. The local office was one of nine in the state that Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration had slated for closure as a way to save money.

Lawrence and Douglas County officials protested, saying the closure would disrupt services to thousands of people and create havoc in the community.

After the public outcry, the city and county agreed to pay SRS $450,000 over two years to cover the cost of office rent and overhead. Four other cities approved similar 3. New football coach agreements to keep their ofWith a 5-19 record after fices opened. two seasons, Kansas Uni— Reporter Christine Metz can be reached versity’s head football coach at 832-6352.

Turner Gill was fired the day

recovery and that he is walking again. But we aren’t sure how much of that is possible,” Taeler said.

Just the other day, Jerod was fitted with an electric wheelchair, something he considers to be a stepping stone.

Throughout the ordeal, Taeler said, her brother, who is a Free State High School graduate, helps run Jayhawk Guttering with her dad and loves to mountain bike, has had the best attitude imaginable.

“He constantly stays positive. He’s happy (to be) alive, and he won’t be satisfied if he knows he hasn’t worked his hardest,” Taeler said.

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

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Obama signs defense bill President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

The bill also applies penalties against Iran’s central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran’s ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Bioscience industry aims to continue growth

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

If building and filling a building equals success, then the bioscience industry in Kansas should have a promising year in 2012.

Among the highlights: ! The Lawrence-Douglas County Bioscience Authority would like to expand the $7.5 million, 20,000-squarefoot Bioscience and Technol-

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Man with explosives detained at airport A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said.

The man was stopped at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport about 9 a.m. and taken into custody by the FBI, they said.

FBI spokesman Mike Martinez declined to say whether the man was in military uniform or how many explosives were found in the bag. He said he did not know where the man was being held, saying he was at either the airport or at the FBI office in Midland.

Midland police Sgt. Brian Rackow told the Midland Reporter-Telegram and Odessa American that the man identified himself to investigating officials as being active in the military.

4 | CALIFORNIA

NASA probe circling the moon As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.

After a 3 1/2-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon’s south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two backto-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.

Mission control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving confirmation that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year’s Eve arrival. Despite the successful maneuver, the work was not over. Its twin still has to enter lunar orbit today.

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ence Authority, received its first tenants in the late spring and is now at 41 percent occupancy with seven companies.

Vranicar “In Kansas we have continued to advance the bioscience sector, and there is a lot of progress on a lot of different fronts,” KBA interim

president and CEO David Vranicar said.

Lawrence incubator space LaVerne Epp, president of the Lawrence-Douglas County Bioscience Authority, said the incubator space at KU filled faster than anyone thought it would.

The building brought nine companies to Lawrence and another one to an expansion facility.

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Yemen’s outgoing president decided to stay in the country, reversing plans to leave, his ruling party said Saturday, in an apparent attempt to salvage his control over the regime, which has appeared to unravel in the face of internal revolts and relentless street protests.

In a sign of the fraying, the son and nephew of President Ali Abdullah Saleh launched a crackdown on suspected dissidents within the ranks of the elite security services they command, officials within the services said. The Republic Guard, led by the son, and Central Security, led by the nephew, have been the main forces used in trying to suppress the uprising against Saleh’s rule the past year.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis marched in the streets of Sanaa and other cities on Saturday, demanding that Saleh be put on trial for the deaths of protesters killed in the crackdown since February.

ogy Business Center on Kansas University’s West Campus. The incubator opened in August 2010 and is 100 percent full. ! With 2011 federal funding certain and 2012 money less so, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to begin construction on part of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. ! The Kansas Bioscience Park Venture Accelerator, a project funded by the Kansas Biosci-

Spring-like temperatures inspire outdoor activities

By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com

Before New Year’s Eve parties got started, many people on Saturday got to celebrate a less-annual joviality: unseasonably warm weather.

Lawrence saw a high of 64 degrees, and residents with outside hobbies like cycling, golfing and motorcycle-riding got to enjoy their passions later into the year than usual.

It was breezy as well as balmy — the National Weather Service in Topeka issued a wind advisory for Douglas County from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday — but those riders, walkers and shoppers weren’t complaining. And neither were the businesses that support them.

Angela Watts said she planned a late lunch outside Jefferson’s, 743 Mass., several days ago, knowing spring-like temperatures were predicted for an especially mild day of several this late-to-start winter.

“We’re always outside downtown if it’s 60 degrees,” she said.

Saturday, it just so happened to be 60 degrees on the last day of the year.

Golfers took the opportunity to take to the greens.

Alvamar Golf Course, 1809 Crossgate Drive, was totally booked for the day, more than a month beyond the date most put their clubs back in the garage, said David Dunn, head golf professional.

Frank Dehart said he’s golfed 15 times since that Nov. 15 date. In comparison, he said that last year those clubs stayed put for three months straight over the winter holidays.

He has two “snowbird” trips planned in the near future — to Florida and to California, where his meteorologist son lives — but thinks he might not need the respite from snow he thought he would.

“I think it’s going to stay mild like this for the whole rest of the winter,” he said.

Perhaps on the opposite end of the hobby spectrum, Jill Patterson, of Overland Park, was one of many motorcyclists who packed the parking lot of Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Patterson described herself as “not a fair-weather fan” — she rides mostly despite the weather.

“We just like to ride,” she said.

Gar Crisman, another of motorcyclist, was on a monthly ride with a group from various parts of Kansas City. He’s not a fairweather fan, either, but said he couldn’t help but enjoy the unexpected December sun.

“It’s always well worth it to ride, but this is just an especially great day,” CrisMike Yoder/Journal-World Photo man said. “And a great way MARCIA RUNYON, WEATHERBY LAKE, MO., BICYCLES with her grandto finish out the year.” daughter’s family dog, Otis, on Saturday at the end of a six-mile ride — Reporter Alex Garrison can be reached on the levee trial in North Lawrence. Runyon and her husband, Norm, at 832-7261. Follow her were visiting relatives in Lawrence on an unseasonably warm last day of at Twitter.com/alex_garrison. the year. “It’s beautiful,” Runyon said.

18 Occupy protesters arrested Eighteen protesters connected to the nationwide Occupy movement were arrested Saturday outside the presidential campaign headquarters of Republicans Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

Local police in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, say the 16 adults and two juveniles were arrested for trespass, a simple misdemeanor. Most were released later Saturday.

Dozens of demonstrators massed outside the office where Bachmann had come to rally staff and make calls to potential caucusgoers. Campaign security told the protesters not to approach the office.

Urbandale police Lt. Kent Knopf said the 10 Occupy demonstrators were arrested, handcuffed and taken away in squad cars from Bachmann’s office after they ignored security, who called police.

Seasonal workers staying on longer to give extra help

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Although the “help wanted for the holidays” signs may have left Lawrence store windows, seasonal workers remain at some area businesses.

Kate Turner, co-owner of Express Employment Professionals, said her company placed more workers in seasonal jobs

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in 2011 than 2010. Many of them worked at distribution centers for large retailers, and some will stay on a little longer to help with the influx of returned gifts that usually come after Christmas.

Overall, Turner’s company saw an uptick of between 20 and 25 percent in job placements over the last quarter compared with 2010.

“There were some pretty big

companies in the area that did need seasonal staffing,” Turner said.

In past years, those companies would have had enough full-time employees to handle the post-holiday gift returns, but layoffs have left them without the manpower to do so.

Eric Dungans holds a different type of seasonal job. His work at Kansas University’s Al-

len Fieldhouse centers on basketball season, not the holiday season. Dungans has worked there since October doing maintenance.

“It’s been good for me,” said Dungans, who has been seeking permanent employment since moving to Lawrence several months ago.

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rie of southwestern Kansas, Ashland is a sleepy cattle ranching and oil town filled with modest homes and an aging population. The major employers left are the schools and the hospital. It has a small grocery store, but no gas station. Walking anywhere in town takes 10 minutes.

Anderson, who’s gone on missions to Zimbabwe since coming to Ashland in 2009, was convinced the compassionate health care providers he sought could best be found among physicians with a passion for mission work in developing countries.

A few months ago, Dr. Dan Shuman, a 43-year-old family physician, was working

at a health care center and a multi-specialist medical group in Georgetown, Texas.

Then he heard from a friend about a little hospital in Kansas and the mission opportunities that came with it.

Although Shuman had a comfortable practice caring for well-insured retirees, he missed the medical work he had once done in places like Haiti and Mexico. Shuman and his wife, a social worker, moved in July with their five children to Ashland.

“Everywhere in the country we have problems with health care,” Shuman said.

“But this was a place that was really seeking to make a difference.”

Ashland’s recruitment model was developed with faculty at the private Via Christi medical residency program in Wichita, part of the nonprofit Catholic health care system, where students can complete a three-year family medicine residency.

It also offers an International Family Medicine Fellowship, a one-year post-residency program geared to providing health care in developing countries.

Dr. Scott Stringfield, its recruiter, has seen more medical students wishing to do mission work, both in developing nations and domestically in inner cities.

Last year, 16 percent of applicants indicated interest in such work. This year, it was 33 percent.

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ASHLAND — The hospital had lost the last doctor in a succession of those who came to the remote Kansas town and left again. A sole physician assistant kept watch over the 24-bed facility and its adjacent nursing home. It was on the verge of closing.

Then officials at the Ashland Health Center, seeking to reverse the drain of talent symptomatic of what happens across rural America, embraced an unorthodox approach to bring doctors back.

All employees, from maintenance people to physicians, get eight paid weeks off each year that they can use to do missionary work in other countries. The idea: People willing to care for the sick and suffering in developing nations might be content to do the same in a town of 855 people, more than two hours away from the nearest Starbucks.

The public hospital began advertising that benefit, which employees can use for other volunteer work or any purpose they choose, not just mission work, in Christian publications and at Catholicrun medical schools. Today, the hospital has a chief medical officer, a medical technologist, a nursing director, a nurse practitioner and other staff drawn by its so-called mission-minded recruiting.

It’s now looking for nurses, a

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DR. DANIEL SHUMAN, A MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL STAFF AT ASHLAND HEALTH CENTER, leaves the records area in Ashland on Dec. 13. The center draws doctors to rural Kansas by offering paid time for international mission work. dentist and a physical therapist.

“I was not surprised by the differences between rural Kansas and rural Zimbabwe.

What surprised me were the similarities,” said the hospital’s 32-year-old administrator, Benjamin Anderson, who has been the catalyst for the program. “I am not saying rural Kansas is the same as a developing country, I am simply saying rural Kansas and rural Zimbabwe struggle with some of the same challenges — they just look different.”

In both places, people have difficulty accessing medical care, face housing problems and can feel isolated.

Situated in the vast prai-

AROUND & ABOUT IN LOCAL BUSINESS Douglas County Bank recently promoted these staff members: ! Judy Dinges-Mulford was promoted to senior vice president of Retail Services. ! Danette Umholtz was promoted to vice president of account services. ! Lisa Stuhlman was promoted to vice presidentauditor. ! Sean Buffum was promoted to vice president-IT director. ! Zak Bolick was promoted to assistant vice president-loan services. ! Matt Wedan was promoted to Internet banking manager.

And these bank employees were honored for their service to the bank: 15 years: Ross Edwards, office clerk, and Lisa Stuhlman, vice president, auditor.

10 years: Adrienne BoydAkers, financial services officer, Ted Haggart, president and CEO, Wendi Morris, South Iowa branch manager, Mary McKenzie, assistant vice president, human resource director, Gwen Denton, HR specialist, and Kathy Meyer, proof operator.

Five years: Matt Wedan, Internet banking manager, and Tim Metz, vice president, loan

services, Zak Bolick, assistant vice president, loan services, and Molly Wetta, account service representative.

Three years: Harriet Shaffer, customer service representative (CSR) I, Sean Buffum, vice president, IT director, Liz Clement, CSRII, Kim Emmons, account services representative/data entry specialist, and Anna O’Flannagan, CSRI. !"KU Credit Union recently presented $4,662.34 to Lawrence public high schools. The money was generated by the credit union’s school spirit debit card program. !"Two Kansas University students — Misty Goff and Brian Henry — each recently received $500 from the credit union for winning a drawing after they wore their KU Credit Union T-shirts to the bank. The shirts are distributed at the beginning of each school year. !"Farm Bureau Financial Services agents Mark Edgecomb, Lawrence, and Wick Hollingsworth, Basehor, completed the Emerging Business Leaders life insurance and annuities school in West Des Moines, Iowa. The EBL is an award for agents who have completed their second year with the company.

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NBAF Lots of prep work has gone into the $650 million federal biosecurity lab in Manhattan.

The good news for NBAF is that funding from the 2011 fiscal budget, which was matched by $45 million in state money, will allow for the DHS to construct the building’s central utility plant and to tear down an old grain mill. How much money will come from the 2012 federal budget is still uncertain. President Barack Obama’s budget recommended $150 million. But approval hasn’t come from Congress.

“It’s a complex process.

The federal budget is a difficult thing right now given the financial situation,” Vranicar said.

As the physical construction of NBAF is under way, KState and the KBA are working to the lay the groundwork for research. The KBA set aside $35 million to be spent on research programs at KState that will help bridge the work being done at the existing federal lab on Plum Island to the research that will get under way once NBAF opens in 2018. The money will help recruit researchers to KState, train them and allow them to travel to Plum Island to become familiar with the

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“Most communities (with similar universities) have these kind of facilities, and we didn’t have anything like this. And I think there was some kind of pent up demand,” Epp said.

The success has the LDCBA looking to start on the second phase of the building, which would be about 30,000 square feet and cost between $8 million and $10 million.

This winter and spring will be used in gathering support for funding the building. Money for the first phase of the building came from KU, the city of Lawrence, Douglas County, LDCBA, KBA and the KU Endowment Association.

If that fundraising campaign is successful, the organization hopes to start on phase two construction by this summer and be opened in the middle to end of 2013.

Epp thinks that just like with the first phase, companies will want to move into the building.

“I don’t think any of us thought it would happen that quickly,” Epp said of filling the first phase of the incubator space.

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His current position, which he got through Express Employment, is expected to end in March.

Nationally, customer service and retail positions were the jobs most in demand during the holidays, but they weren’t the only ones being offered. Customer service and retail jobs made up about 30 percent of seasonal jobs, according to a CareerBuilder. com, and the other 70 percent of jobs were in areas such as clerical work, shipping and technology.

Shirley Martin-Smith, owner of the local staffing franchise Adecco, said there has been a shift in the way companies structure their workforces. In the old days, a company might call her and request five employees for the next day. Now they plan ahead, calling to reserve employees weeks or months in advance.

Martin-Smith thinks it is partially a function of the recession, in which layoffs have forced companies to operate with less people and invest in new technologies that help them to do that. This allows them to better predict when

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Road work planned this week Lawrence !" Kansas River levee closed for construction of Bowersock Mills & Power Co.’s new plant on the north bank. Users will be detoured to city streets crossing at the controlled intersection of North Second and Locust streets. Completion: late 2012. !" Water lines will be replaced along 23rd Street from approximately Barker Avenue to just east of the Douglas County Maintenance yard, 711 E. 23rd St. Sanitary sewer piping will be reconstructed along the Burroughs Creek 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 35 !" Various lane closures between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Tuesday from U.S. Highway 169 to Interstate 435 for pavement repair work.

Completion: Tuesday.

Interstate 70 !" Westbound left lane and then eastbound left lane closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday for barrier wall sweeping. Completion: Wednesday.

Our mission is to fill a company’s need when they have a peak in their workload.”

— Shirley Martin-Smith, owner of the local staffing franchise Adecco

they will need extra help, beyond obvious times such as the holidays.

“Our mission is to fill a company’s need when they have a peak in their workload,” Martin-Smith said.

“Now they can look ahead to see what kind of resources or personnel they might need to help them go through a peak.”

Dungans has also noticed employers are planning further ahead with their temporary job offerings. His contacts at Express Employment have been good about having jobs lined up for him.

Dungans hopes his basketball season job will lead to full-time employment at KU or elsewhere, but if that doesn’t happen he thinks he will have another temporary job lined up before the end of basketball season.

— Reporter Aaron Couch can be reached at 832-7217. Follow him at Twitter.com/aaroncouch.

For the KBA, 2011 was a year of turbulence.

Last winter, the organization’s spending habitats and staff salaries were called into question

by Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Susan Wagle, a Wichita ReThornton publican.

In the wake of those hearings, CEO Tom Thornton left the organization along with CFO Jan Katterhenry. An audit is being performed and its findings are expected to be made public in January.

“Throughout this process ... we have been very successful in continuing to do the core work of the KBA. Our staff has been very focused on supporting companies and university partners and continuing to make investments,” Vranicar said.

It’s work Vranicar plans to continue in 2012.

work already occurring.

The work on these foreign animal diseases will occur at K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute. Right now, the facility is in t he process of receiving federal clearance to work on African swine fever, classical swine fever and Rift Valley fever. Research on those dis- Wagle eases should begin in 2012.

KBA In Olathe, the KBA is seeking tenants for its recently opened $13.9 million, 38,773-square-foot incubator space. Like the new bioscience facility in Lawrence, the building is intended to foster budding bioscience companies.

“We are in line with where we thought we would be.

When we start with something like this, that’s brand new, it takes awhile to get the word out,” said Vranicar, the interim president.

The KBA also has 42 acres of land next to that building that is intended to attract larger, more established companies. So far it remains empty, which isn’t a surprise given the economic climate.

“The economy has caused a slowdown somewhat. But we are having conversations with a number of people.

There certainly are prospects out there,” Vranicar said.

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Kansas had 2nd-highest increase in nation KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Kansas had the second-highest jump in the number of drunken-driving fatalities in the nation in 2010, a year in which overall alcohol-related fatalities fell, according to federal data.

Statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show 168 people died in such crashes on Kansas roads in 2010, the most recent year statistics are available. That’s 45 more than were killed in 2009.

The Kansas City Star reported nearly four in 10 highway deaths in Kansas were related to alcohol, according to the federal data.

“That statistic is stunningly bad,” said Kansas Rep. Pat Colloton, a Leawood Republican.

Kansas trailed only New York, which saw its number of drunken-driving deaths rise by 46 in 2010. In Missouri, there were 44 fewer drunken-driving fatalities than in 2009, which is more in line with a national trend in which 32 states saw declines.

Overall, drunken-driving deaths were down about 5 percent nationally in 2010 compared with the previous year.

TOPEKA — Kansas has a full field of candidates for its Republican presidential caucuses March 6.

The state Republican Party said Friday that eight candidates had filed. The deadline was Saturday, but the party said no other candidates’ campaigns had contacted it, and the Kansas GOP is charging a nonrefundable fee of $10,000 for candidates who want on the ballot.

The field filled out when former Minnesota congresswom-

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Misty and Chris Seal, Lawrence, a girl, Saturday.

Caitlin and Matthew Gough, Lawrence, a girl, Saturday.

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an Michele Bachmann, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum filed this week.

They joined former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas congressman Ron Paul.

Georgia businessman Herman Cain also filed, but he has since asked to have his name removed from the ballot because he suspended his campaign.

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• Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews responded to a possible water rescue needed call in the 1200 block of E. 500 Rd. Saturday afternoon.

Division chief Lyle Schwartz said a man and a woman capsized their small sailboat but were both on land by the time rescue operations got to the scene.

Craig Harris, nurse, Arizona “No. I don’t really buy into it.

If I was going to do something, I would have done it already by now.”

Kansas lawmakers have been struggling with ways to toughen laws to deal with repeat drunken drivers. In 2009, a state report characterized Kansas’ system for dealing with repeated offenders as dysfunctional.

The report found that people drive drunk repeatedly in Kansas without risk of serious punishment, and that it can be hard to track repeat violators because drunkendriving arrests or convictions are sometimes not reported, or lost or discarded.

Colloton has teamed up with state Sen. Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, to find ways to fix the system. Because of their efforts, the Legislature passed a law requiring first-time DUI offenders to have ignition interlocks placed on their vehicles, making Kansas one of 14 states that make the devices mandatory for all drunkendriving offenders.

The two also helped secure funding for a central records repository where drunkendriving convictions can be tracked statewide.

That change wouldn’t have affected the 2010 numbers, but Owens said the 2010 statistics illustrate the need for the changes made this year.

Research indicates the ignition interlocks, which require a driver to blow into a breath-test device connected to the vehicle’s ignition system, can reduce recidivism by 67 percent.

A New Mexico study found a 32 percent decline in alcohol-related injury crashes from 2002 to 2006, a period in which interlocks were installed for 35 percent of all arrested offenders.

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FILIPINOS WATCH A FIREWORKS DISPLAY as they welcome the New Year at Manila’s Rizal Park, Philippines, today.

More than 200 people have been injured by illegal firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines despite a government scare campaign against reckless New Year revelries, officials said.

NYC, world ring in 2012, bid adieu to a tough year

By Verena Dobnik Associated Press

NEW YORK — Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012.

From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year today and hoped for a better future, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil that many would rather forget.

In New York, hundreds of thousands gathered at the crossroads of the world to witness a crystal ball with more than 30,000 lights that descended at midnight. Lady Gaga and Mayor Michael Bloomberg led the crowd in the final-minute countdown of the famed crystal-paneled ball drop.

Revelers in Australia, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which jumped across the international dateline to be first to celebrate, welcomed 2012 with booming pyrotechnic displays. Fireworks soared and sparked over Moscow’s Red Square, crowds on Paris’ Champs-Elysées boulevard popped Champagne corks at midnight.

‘A pretty tough year’ But many approached the new year with more relief than joy, as people battered by weather disasters, joblessness and economic uncertainty hoped the stroke of midnight would change their fortunes.

“It was a pretty tough year, but God was looking after us and I know 2012 has got to be better,” said Kyralee Scott, 16, of Jackson, N.J., whose father spent most of the year out of work.

Some New York revelers, wearing party hats and “2012” glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, even as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights.

The crowds cheered as workers lit the crystal-paneled ball that drops at midnight Saturday and put it through a test run, 400 feet above the street.

The sphere, now decorated with 3,000 Waterford crystal triangles, has been dropping to mark the new year since 1907, long before television made it a U.S. tradition.

In Times Square, hundreds

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We’re hoping the next year will be better. We’re starting off optimistic and hoping it lasts.”

— Becky Martin, a former elementary school teacher who drove from Rockford, Ill., to spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square of thousands people were crammed into spectator pens ringed by barricades, enjoying surprisingly warm weather for the Northeast this time of year. The National Weather Service said Saturday it was about 49 degrees in nearby Central Park. That’s about 10 degrees warmer than the normal high temperature this time of year.

Cautious hope As the country prepared for the celebration, glum wasn’t on the agenda for many, even those who had a sour year.

“We’re hoping the next year will be better,” said Becky Martin, a former elementary school teacher who drove from Rockford, Ill., to Times Square after spending a fruitless year trying to find a job. “We’re starting off optimistic and hoping it lasts.”

Many expressed cautious hope that better times were ahead after a year in which Japan was ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami, hurricanes wreaked havoc across the country and a debt crisis devastated Europe’s economy.

“Everybody’s suffering.

That’s why it’s so beautiful to be here celebrating something with everybody,” said Lisa Nicol, 47, of Melbourne, Australia.

For all of the holiday’s bittersweet potential, New York City always treats it like a big party — albeit one that now takes place under the watchful eye of a massive security force, including more than 1,500 police officers.

Dick Clark, who suffered a stroke in 2004, put in a few brief appearances mentioning that he has hosted his namesake New Year’s Eve celebration for years, but said “tonight, it’s better than ever.” Clark, looking cheerful but struggling with his speech, introduced a performance by Lady Gaga and also assisted in the countdown. The show, hosted by Ryan Seacrest also featured a performance by Justin Bieber.

LE MARS, IOWA — Mitt Romney is the clear Republican front-runner in Iowa in the final days before the first voting in the 2012 presidential election. But that’s where the clarity ends in this unpredictable nomination race.

Five others are fighting, as they have all year, to emerge as the Romney alternative.

The ascendant Rick Santorum and Rick Perry are battling to win over social conservatives. Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul is working to preserve support that’s starting to slip.

Newt Gingrich is struggling to end his sharp slide. Michele Bachmann is hardly a factor.

“It may be Romney’s to lose at this point,” said John Stineman, an Iowa GOP campaign strategist. “And it’s a battle among the rest.”

While much can happen before Tuesday’s caucuses, public surveys and internal polls as well as interviews with Republican activists,

Iowa voters and political operatives both inside and outside the candidates’ campaigns suggest that Romney Romney is in strong contention to win Tuesday’s caucuses.

Paul, who surged this month, has faded some following attacks on his foreign policy positions. Santorum and Perry are climbing, but evangelical Republicans and cultural conservatives continue to divide their support among the field — giving Romney an opening. And a large contingent of voters hasn’t yet locked in on a candidate as the clock winds down.

Despite rapidly shifting dynamics, two things were clear on the final weekend before the caucuses: The yearlong effort to establish a consensus challenger to Romney had failed, and Romney’s carefully laid plan to survive Iowa was

succeeding. It relies on conservative voters failing to rally behind one candidate.

He was either slightly ahead or in a virtual tie with Paul in NBC/Marist and CNN/Time polls, with Santorum running third. A new poll by The Des Moines Register, which has endorsed Romney, late Saturday showed Romney and Paul statistically even at the front of the pack. Romney had 24 percent while Paul had 22 percent.

Santorum was third with 15 percent of likely voters backing him.

Gingrich had 12 percent support and Perry had 11 percent. Bachmann trailed with 7 percent.

But the poll showed Santorum ascendant and Paul falling. During the last two days of the poll, taken Dec. 27-30, Santorum drew 21 percent while Paul had fallen back to 18. The survey showed that 41 percent of likely caucusgoers say they still might change their minds. ! Political attacks turn

nasty in Iowa, page 6C.

Magnitude-7.0 quake hits Japan TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake hit off the shores of Japan’s southern Pacific island.

The Meteorological Agency says the offshore quake today struck about 230 miles below the sea surface. The agency said there was no danger of a tsunami. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Northeastern Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing. Japan, which lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” is one of the world’s most seismically active countries.

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Challenges ahead A new year is filled with challenges but also opportunities.

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e’re not much good at predictions, but here are a few wishes for the new year. !" We entered 2011 with hopes for a significant improvement in the struggling economy.

Unfortunately, we’re still waiting. There have been a few signs that 2012 will be better. We hope that is the case. !" We hope government officials at all levels can make a more serious attempt at statesmanship rather than gamesmanship. That may be a vain hope in a presidential election year, but the nation can ill afford another year of politically motivated paralysis in its government dealings. !" It was disappointing to have a couple of major retailers announce in December that they would leave the Lawrence market. It would be nice to see some fresh retail faces in the community in the next year. !"To go along with the retail, Lawrence could use more jobs with wages high enough to help support that retail. New jobs are vital to the city’s growth and prosperity. !" We hope state officials are cautious and thoughtful about instituting drastic changes that will alter the face of Kansas for generations to come. There’s a difference between being innovative and being foolhardy. We should be willing to try new things, but we shouldn’t turn the state into a laboratory for experimental policies. !"Dare we hope that this is the year that both the funding and the legal hurdles are cleared and work on the east leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway moves forward? !" We wish Kansas University officials well in their assignment to elevate the school’s academic reputation and solidifying its standing in the Association of American Universities.

New admission standards may be part of the plan, but it will be tricky to set higher standards without offending some in the state. !" Maybe this is the year KU football draws as much attention as KU basketball. That’s not a prediction, just a hope. New coach Charlie Weis already has brought positive attention to the football program and Jayhawk fans are keeping their fingers crossed.

A new year always brings new challenges, and we know that will be the case in 2012. We hope that whatever challenges face us as individuals, a city, a state or a nation, we will greet them with grace and determination to move forward and make things better.

Happy New Year!

’12 may be good year for conservatives WASHINGTON — Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current president, conservatives should stride confidently into 2012. This is not because they are certain, or even likely, to defeat Barack Obama this year. Rather, it is because, if they emancipate themselves from their unconservative fixation on the presidency, they will see events unfolding in their favor. And when Congress is controlled by one party, as it might be a year from now, it can stymie an overreaching executive.

In 2011, for the first time in 62 years, America was a net exporter of petroleum products. For the foreseeable future, a specter is haunting progressivism, the specter of abundance. Because progressivism exists to justify a few people bossing around most people, and because progressives believe that only government’s energy should flow unimpeded, they crave energy scarcities as an excuse for rationing — by them — that produces ever-more-minute government supervision of Americans’ behavior.

Imagine what a horror 2011 was for progressives as Americans began to comprehend their stunning abundance of fossil fuels — beyond their two centuries’ supply of coal. Progressives responded with attempts to impede development of the vast proven reserves of natural gas and oil here and in Canada.

They bent the willowy Obama

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…if they emancipate themselves from their unconservative fixation on the presidency, they will see events unfolding in their favor. And when Congress is controlled by one party, as it might be a year from now, it can stymie an overreaching executive.” to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Canadian tar sands; they raised environmental objections to new techniques for extracting gas and “tight” oil from shale formations.

An all-purpose rationale for rationing in its many permutations has been the progressives’ preferred apocalypse, the fear of climate change. But environmentalism as the thin end of an enormous wedge of regulation and redistribution is a spent force. How many Americans noticed that the latest United Nations climate change confabulation occurred in December in Durban, South Africa?

The futility of this nullity signaled the end — probably for decades, if not forever — of a trivial pursuit that began 14 years ago with the Kyoto Protocol that the U.S. Senate would not even bring to a vote.

The pursuit was for a 194-nation consensus obligating a few nations to transfer enormous wealth to many other nations’ governments, to be politically distributed by them, with the supposed effect of ending global warming, if such proves to be.

Meanwhile, back in the nation that probably would have ponied up the largest portion of this money, sales of the electricpowered Chevrolet Volt were falling short of General Motors’ goals even before reports about fire hazards in crash tests. And a Wall Street Journal headline proclaimed: “Americans Embrace SUVs Again.”

Because of the Energy Department’s myriad scandals and other misadventures as a venture capital firm (Solyndra, Beacon Power Corp., etc.), it is probable that 2011 will be remembered as the high-water mark of industrial policy. This is another way in which events are draining the Obama presidency of some of its power for mischief. If in November Republicans capture the Senate, which must confirm many senior officials of the executive branch and agencies, only weakness of Republican will can enable, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Labor

Relations Board to continue being unconstrained instruments of presidential decrees.

Political logic suggests that, this year, Obama will try to rekindle the love of young voters with some forgiveness of student debts. But one-third of students do not borrow to pay college tuition. The average debt for those who do borrow to attend a fouryear public institution is $22,000 and the average difference between the per-year earnings of college graduates and those with only a high school diploma is ... $22,000.

It will be interesting to see how such a bailout of young and privileged borrowers will appeal to voters, who will begin to be heard from in Iowa.

Before this year is many months old, discerning conservatives may decide that Obama probably has been rescued by the Republican nominating electorate and hence it is time to begin focusing on two things other than the 2012 presidential election. One is capturing the Senate. The other is preparing the ground for a better presidential nomination competition in 2016.

In any case, nothing that happens this November will bring an apocalypse. America had 43 presidencies before the current one and will have many more than that after the end of this one in 2013 or 2017. Decades hence, it will look like most others, a pebble in the river of American history.

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

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Christmas caring To the editor: Thanks to all of the people who again made the Community Christmas Dinner possible. Everyone was welcome. The volunteers are so happy and, sometimes, they have entertainment. I am truly blessed to live in Lawrence where people really care.

Mary Ann Canfield, Lawrence

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Souvenir cards reading “The Eldridge Lives!” had been passed out to people who had stopped by the Eldridge House’s opening night on New YEARS Year’s Eve. The $3 million renovation AGO had been finished sufficiently to have IN 1987 an official opening reception, but developer Rob Phillips said that he had planned to have more work finished by the year’s end. The hotel had been opened on Dec. 31st primarily to allow investors to claim tax credits on their 1986 returns instead of waiting another year. During the reception, random construction noises were still being heard, but visitors were impressed by the work so far.

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Happiness is hard to quantify Economist Carol Graham claims to have created a new science that can measure “the economics of happiness.” Her book, “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of WellBeing,” offers the stunning revelation that money doesn’t buy happiness. Graham’s investigations of other cultures led her to a paradox, which she describes as “happy peasants and frustrated achievers.” Successful people often complain of being unhappy, she writes, while poor people seem content. As evidence of this dubious generalization, she observes that laid-back Nigerians are cheerful, while striving Japanese are for the most part miserable.

A leap into the pit of platitudes is irresistible to certain intellectual pilgrims.

And Graham’s findings might seem like another example of harmless wool-gathering.

But her subtext is a favorite of utopian busybodies: Individualism and capitalism are bad.

Government-managed society is good. “Health, leisure, and friendships” count for as much as productivity and long working hours, she writes. Only Scrooge would disagree. But on the basis of that bromide, Graham argues that happiness should be factored into GNP, something French and British politicians have attempted to do. It’s really a device to rationalize

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Happiness is elusive and usually comes when we’re least expecting it, when we’re not consciously pursuing it at all. Above all, it comes when we’re not obsessing over ourselves.”

the economic failures of the welfare state: high unemployment, low productivity, declining standard of living.

And, ironically, it’s an attempt to put a monetary value on happiness.

Lurking behind Graham’s musings is the assumption that government is better qualified to make life choices than individuals. The state will take care of all your cradle-to-grave needs. It will even guarantee your happiness. All you have to do is give up your freedoms. Eat the lotus flowers and sleep your life away in peaceful apathy. Who

will decide what’s best for you? Why, enlightened people like Graham, of course.

And they’ll be the ones with power and its trappings.

Romanticizing peasant life is a familiar academic pastime.

But Graham may have mistaken happiness in poor societies for resignation. Peasants all over the world have been fleeing the idyllic agrarian life in search of opportunity, dreaming of something more than a daily bowl of gruel and an early demise. Money may not buy happiness, but destitution isn’t a formula for bliss either.

And there’s such a thing as too much leisure. Ask anyone who’s lost his job. Some people enjoy working. They find that it provides one kind of happiness.

Happiness is elusive and usually comes when we’re least expecting it, when we’re not consciously pursuing it at all. Above all, it comes when we’re not obsessing over ourselves. Besides, where is it written that we’re entitled to happiness?

Freud said that the purpose of psychotherapy was to take people from “hysterical misery to normal unhappiness.”

By the way, he was a workaholic himself who hoped to “die in harness.”

— George Gurley, a resident of rural Baldwin City, writes a regular column for the Journal-World.

To the editor: I’m visiting Lawrence for the holiday and felt compelled to write a response to the article by Karrey Britt (Dec. 26) on the book written by a radiologist, I hope readers of his book will be cautious with what they believe. He espouses tort reform, but that must be weighed against compelling evidence published in major medical journals that between 14 percent and 21 percent of hospitalized patients are harmed by serious, preventable adverse events.

Our country’s problem of high infant mortality, low life expectancy and inordinate medical costs per person are not myths. Our infant mortality and life expectancy are ranked about 40th among nations of the world. Our medical costs per person are double that of most developed nations. We have a failed health care industry by almost any objective measure.

The solution is not less government regulation, as the radiologist supposes. All medical systems that deliver better, less-expensive medical care than the United States do so under thoughtful, relatively efficient government regulation.

Unfortunately, Medicare and Medicaid leaders have lacked the courage to refuse to pay doctors and hospitals for procedures that have no benefit for patients. For example, it was not until January 2009 that Medicare quit paying doctors when they operated on the wrong patient. Furthermore, we have no standardized electronic medical record system as most other developed countries have. If we had this, the radiologist’s complaint about too much paperwork would be solved. The real solution to our health care woes is to better engage patients in their care so that they can purchase safe health care as informed consumers.

John T. James, Houston, Texas

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WEATHER

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

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THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

1 TODAY

Mostly sunny, windy and cooler

Plenty of sunshine

Mostly sunny, breezy and milder

Partly sunny

Mostly sunny and mild

High 46° Low 19° POP: 0%

High 37° Low 13° POP: 0%

High 48° Low 23° POP: 0%

High 51° Low 26° POP: 0%

High 55° Low 32° POP: 5%

Wind NW 12-25 mph

Wind NW 8-16 mph

Wind SSW 10-20 mph

Wind WNW 7-14 mph

Wind SW 8-16 mph

POP: Probability of Precipitation

Kearney 40/12

McCook 41/9 Oberlin 43/11 Goodland 41/13

Beatrice 40/18

Oakley 43/14

Manhattan Russell Salina 47/15 45/13 Topeka 48/19 44/18 Emporia 45/17

Great Bend 44/16 Dodge City 47/18

Garden City 45/19 Liberal 47/17

Kansas City 43/19 Lawrence Kansas City 41/18 46/19

Chillicothe 43/17 Marshall 45/20 Sedalia 46/22

Nevada 46/20

Chanute 48/19

Hutchinson 48/16 Wichita Pratt 47/19 48/20

Centerville 37/17

St. Joseph 44/16

Sabetha 40/15

Concordia 42/17 Hays 45/13

Clarinda 39/13

Lincoln 39/12

Grand Island 38/13

Coffeyville Joplin 48/22 48/23

Springfield 44/21

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

LAWRENCE ALMANAC Through 7 p.m. Saturday.

Temperature High/low Normal high/low today Record high today Record low today

66°/26° 38°/19° 66° in 2006 -11° in 2001

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 7 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date

0.00 2.99 1.60 29.40 39.89

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 48 22 s 37 21 s Atchison 43 18 pc 34 13 s Fort Riley 47 15 s 36 16 s Belton 41 16 pc 35 18 s Olathe 41 21 pc 34 18 s Burlington 46 18 pc 33 19 s Osage Beach 45 22 pc 32 15 s Coffeyville 48 22 s 38 22 s Osage City 44 18 s 31 19 s Concordia 42 17 s 32 20 s Ottawa 44 18 s 31 15 s Dodge City 47 18 s 42 23 s Wichita 47 19 s 38 22 s Holton 44 18 pc 32 16 s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Seattle 49/35

SUN & MOON Today

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset First

7:40 a.m.

5:09 p.m.

11:56 a.m.

12:37 a.m.

Full

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7:40 a.m.

5:10 p.m.

12:25 p.m.

1:35 a.m.

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NATIONAL FORECAST Billings 34/20

San Francisco 62/44

Denver 44/21

Minneapolis 23/6 Chicago 33/16

Detroit 38/24 New York 53/37 Washington 62/36

Kansas City 41/18

Los Angeles 79/52

Jan 16

Jan 23

LAKE LEVELS

As of 7 a.m. Saturday Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

Level (ft)

873.72 891.52 973.33

Discharge (cfs)

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for today.

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2012

INTERNATIONAL CITIES Today Hi Lo W 89 76 pc 52 45 sh 54 41 pc 65 40 s 88 75 pc 36 19 pc 48 46 sh 53 42 sh 81 74 s 62 48 s 30 24 s 46 34 pc 49 45 c 66 57 s 52 44 pc 48 20 s 52 39 c 55 41 s 73 39 pc 37 30 c 28 23 c 68 46 c 28 27 sn 51 48 r 85 70 r 54 50 s 34 18 s 90 77 t 39 37 sn 82 61 s 50 41 pc 42 23 sn 46 42 sh 47 46 c 37 36 c 16 4 pc

Houston 66/35

Fronts Cold

Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Atlanta 60/32

El Paso 58/34

Hi 88 46 55 59 86 36 50 44 87 61 49 43 46 63 51 50 43 51 65 31 25 70 28 49 79 57 32 88 39 84 50 27 47 50 44 10

Mon. Lo W 74 s 37 sh 43 s 40 s 75 pc 18 s 37 r 28 r 67 s 45 pc 23 pc 38 pc 38 r 59 s 40 r 20 c 37 s 34 c 34 r 3 sf 14 c 43 pc 21 c 34 r 70 r 50 sh 21 pc 77 t 36 c 63 s 37 s 6 sf 41 r 42 c 40 r 10 pc

Warm Stationary

Miami 79/63

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: A significant lake-effect snow event will commence with 2012 across the Great Lakes today as strong winds usher frigid air into the northern Plains and Midwest. The southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley will also turn cooler, while the East enjoys one last mild day.

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 55 30 pc 38 24 s Albuquerque 53 32 s 51 31 s 79 63 s 77 48 pc Anchorage 10 0 c 13 -2 pc Miami 27 14 sf 20 9 c Atlanta 60 32 pc 45 24 pc Milwaukee Minneapolis 23 6 sf 14 2 pc Austin 64 29 s 54 27 s 54 28 pc 39 22 pc Baltimore 60 39 pc 42 26 pc Nashville New Orleans 68 42 pc 53 34 s Birmingham 61 30 pc 46 22 s 53 37 pc 43 26 pc Boise 42 29 s 43 27 pc New York 39 12 pc 31 15 s Boston 49 34 pc 43 26 pc Omaha Orlando 77 56 s 66 36 s Buffalo 41 26 c 32 12 sf Philadelphia 57 36 pc 41 26 pc Cheyenne 42 18 s 49 35 s 76 53 s 76 50 s Chicago 33 16 sf 22 10 pc Phoenix Pittsburgh 50 26 c 27 18 sf Cincinnati 44 24 c 25 15 sf Cleveland 40 24 c 31 17 sn Portland, ME 44 30 pc 40 24 pc Portland, OR 47 34 pc 48 39 r Dallas 59 33 s 54 31 s Reno 53 27 s 56 23 pc Denver 44 21 s 55 33 s Richmond 64 35 s 47 24 pc Des Moines 36 15 pc 23 11 s Sacramento 60 34 s 62 37 pc Detroit 38 24 sf 27 15 sf St. Louis 49 22 pc 31 16 pc El Paso 58 34 s 60 36 s Salt Lake City 42 26 s 48 26 pc Fairbanks -20 -26 c -14 -32 c San Diego 74 52 s 73 50 s Honolulu 80 66 s 79 66 s San Francisco 62 44 s 59 47 pc Houston 66 35 pc 57 33 s Seattle 49 35 sh 49 42 r Indianapolis 38 20 c 21 11 c Spokane 32 23 pc 33 27 c Kansas City 41 18 pc 35 18 s Tucson 74 45 s 72 46 s Las Vegas 63 41 s 63 43 s Tulsa 57 26 s 40 23 s Little Rock 58 32 pc 44 25 s Wash., DC 62 36 pc 43 26 pc Los Angeles 79 52 s 78 51 s National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: San Bernardino, CA 86° Low: Orr, MN -2°

WEATHER HISTORY

On Jan. 1, 1864, an arctic blast caused the temperature in Louisville, Ky., to drop from 47 to 19 below zero in just 21 hours.

WEATHER TRIVIA™

is coldest it has ever been in the Northern Hemisphere?

Q: What -90F Verkhoyansk in northern Asia.

Jan 9

A:

Jan 1

Sheriff accused of distributing meth HAYS — A northwest Kansas sheriff has been arrested on suspicion of distributing methamphetamine after an investigation involving several agencies.

Ellis County Attorney Thomas Drees says 43-year-old Rooks County Sheriff Randy Axelson was arrested Friday by agents with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Drees has been appointed as special prosecutor in the case. Axelson was being held in Ellis County Jail without bond until a court appearance scheduled for Tuesday.

Drees says Rooks County Attorney Ed Hageman asked the KBI on Tuesday to investigate Axelson, who took office in 2009.

Rooks County deputies, Stockton police and Plainville police also took part in the investigation.

The Ellis County jail said Saturday it was unclear whether Axelson had hired an attorney.

Nobody answered at a phone number provided for Drees.

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, sign-up at 9 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

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

2 MONDAY

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.

3 TUESDAY

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

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

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

4 WEDNESDAY

Older Women’s League meeting, 2-4 p.m., Robert Doud room, United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

Growing Lawrence meeting for food producers, topic Resources (seeds, plugs, organic suppliers, etc.), 7-8 a.m., Chamber of Commerce offices, 646 Vt., Suite 200.

ONGOING

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

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Brunch at Ten Celebrate the new year or nurse an aching head at The Eldridge, 701 Mass., this morning at Ten restaurant’s brunch. If you were fortunate enough to get in on one of the hotel’s New Year’s Eve packages, brunch was included. If not, you can still swing by for a mid-morning meal before starting your day — or going back to bed. We won’t judge. As an added bonus, it’s buffet-style. Brunch starts at 10:30 a.m. and goes until 2 p.m. 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. 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.

Spencer Museum of Art exhibits: Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place, Sept. 10 through Jan 15. Museum open until 4 p.m. daily, 8 p.m. on Thursdays, 1301 Miss.

The Impact of the King James Bible, Quayle Bible Collection exhibit, 518 Eighth St., Baldwin City, 1-4 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, through July 2012.

KU Natural History Museum exhibits: Bug Town, third floor; Explore Evolution, fifth floor; Mosasaur Munchies, self-guided tour; Darwin’s Journey, sixth floor.

Museum open until 5 p.m. daily, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence Public Library storytimes for January: Fun with Food storytime, 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays, Jan. 10-Jan.20; Toddler storytime resumes Jan. 24, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; Library storytime, 7 p.m. Thursdays and, after Jan. 24, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays and 10:30 a.m.

Fridays; Storytime in Spanish and English resumes Jan. 21, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays; Family storytime, 3:30 p.m.

Sundays; Books & Babies resumes Jan. 23, 10:30 a.m.

Mondays and 9:30 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.

Wednesdays; Storytime in German resumes Jan. 31, 4 p.m. Tuesdays 707 Vt. Lawrence Public Library weekly teen programs for January: Wii Olympics for Teens, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; Gaming with the Pro, 3 p.m.

Wednesdays; Teen Zone Cafe, 4 p.m. Fridays; Saturday Teen Screen, 3 p.m.

Saturdays; Teen tutoring, 3 p.m. Sundays, 707 Vt.

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The only players in Big 12 men’s basketball history to score 30 points and grab 20 rebounds in a game are: # Blake Griffin (twice) # Kevin Durant # Michael Beasley # Mario Boggan # ... and Kansas University’s Thomas Robinson.

“Nice names right there,” Robinson, KU’s junior power forward from Washington, D.C., said with a smile after setting career best marks in points (30) and boards (21) in the Jayhawks’ 84-58 rout of North Dakota on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.

“That’s good company,” chimed in senior guard Tyshawn Taylor, who also had a big day with 18 points and five assists. # For more Robinson hit 10 of 14 shots on KU’s — including nonconferthe first threeence finale, pointer of his including career — and message nine of 12 free boards, The throws.

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Wayne Hightower scored 36 points and secured 21 rebounds in an 88-73 victory over Missouri on Feb. 13, 1961. The incomparable Wilt Chamberlain is the only other Jayhawk to hit for 30 points/20 rebounds (seven times).

“It definitely was a great accomplishment to get that,” Robinson said after grabbing the most boards by a Jayhawk since Nick Collison’s 21 versus Syracuse in the 2003 NCAA title game. Robinson’s 30 points were most by a Jayhawk since Marcus Morris’ 33 versus Iowa State last season.

“Coach’s big thing before the game was to get momentum before conference, to send a message and get in the flow of everything. We wanted to make a statement today that we’re ready.”

KU will meet Kansas State at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Allen Fieldhouse in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

Coach Bill Self can only hope Robinson plays as well as he did Saturday. The 6-foot-10, 237-pounder passed quickly out of double-team situations on a day he tied a career high with four assists.

“If I didn’t get those assists, I probably wouldn’t have 30 points,” Robinson said. “Coach has been stressing to me for 90 percent of the season if I learn how to play the game outside of the double-team, eventually the offense would come through me. I fought it a little bit. I finally listened to him, and the man knows what he’s talking about.”

Self smiled when told of Robinson’s comments.

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Lost in the justifiable marveling at just how terrific — substantively, stylistically and statistically — a game Thomas Robinson played Saturday was the nagging reality that the junior forward has so few teammates ready for the rigors of Big 12 basketball.

If most Bill Self benches are made of steel and bolted to the ground, this one’s made of plywood and balanced on golf tees.

Self considers senior marksman Conner Teahan one of his six starters. Based on that guideline, post player Justin Wesley, ’tweener Kevin Young and rookie Naadir Tharpe form the bench. They combined for 49 largely encouraging minutes in Thursday’s blowout victory against Howard.

Saturday, in the final sparring session before the relentless Big 12 schedule begins in Allen Fieldhouse against alwaysphysical Kansas State, the three newcomers vying for minutes off the bench only combined for 18 minutes in an 84-58 tagging of North Dakota.

Self second-guessed Self for giving each player six minutes on the floor in the final game in a long while in which he could experiment without risking losing.

“I think I played them more than they deserved to play,” he said, without naming names.

“There were guys out there, to me, they started their New Year’s Eve festivities around 2 p.m., whatever they’re going to do. I shouldn’t have played them as much as I did.”

He lumped starting center Jeff Withey (two points, two rebounds and two turnovers in eight minutes) into that category.

In 18 minutes against North Dakota, the bench trio didn’t contribute a point or an assist, a blocked shot or a steal, and had two rebounds and two turnovers.

Tharpe, who played so well in the exhibition season and in the season opener against Towson, hasn’t yet looked comfortable against stiffer competition.

He has made four of 19 shots on the season and just one of 10 against schools from BCS conferences. He didn’t look confident against North Dakota, either. He might be a year away from making a major contribution.

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Chiefs sign LB Siler to extension KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs signed linebacker Brandon Siler to a oneyear contract extension after he missed all of this season because of a torn Achilles tendon.

Siler’s agent, David Canter, confirmed the deal Saturday in a text to the Associated Press.

Siler was expected to compete for time at middle linebacker alongside Pro Bowl selection Derrick Johnson after spending last season with the San Diego Chargers. He had a good start to training camp but was hurt in late August and had surgery to repair his Achilles a few days later.

Canter said that “rehab’s going well� and that Siler is looking forward to August.

The former Florida linebacker made 12 starts in 58 games over five seasons with San Diego. He had 38 tackles, a sack, an interception and a forced safety during the 2010 season.

The deal came one day after news broke that the Chiefs had signed kicker Ryan Succop to a five-year extension worth $14 million. Succop’s deal includes a $2 million signing bonus.

General manager Scott Pioli still has several decisions to make in the coming weeks.

Cornerback Brandon Carr, who has been a stalwart opposite Brandon Flowers in a talented Chiefs defensive backfield, will become a free agent after this season.

So will Dwayne Bowe, who made the Pro Bowl last season and has quietly put together another outstanding year despite a carousel of starting quarterbacks.

Bowe has 75 catches for 1,066 yards and five touchdowns.

Pioli may also try to re-sign Kyle Orton, who will start his third straight game today at Denver.

The veteran quarterback, who will also be a free agent, was claimed off waivers when Matt Cassel went down due to a season-ending injury to his throwing hand.

The Chiefs also will need to address their offensive and defensive lines.

Longtime center Casey Wiegmann is considering retirement after a season in which he acknowledged spending more time in the training room. Offensive tackle Barry Richardson has struggled much of the year, and veteran defensive tackle Kelly Gregg has been playing on a oneyear deal.

Siler’s signing solidifies the linebacker unit.

Johnson was chosen to his first Pro Bowl after setting a singleseason franchise record with 172 tackles heading into today’s game at Denver. He’ll be joined in Hawaii by outside linebacker Tamba Hali, who has racked up 12 sacks despite facing repeated double teams.

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White Sox send OF Quentin to Padres SAN DIEGO — Being traded from the Chicago White Sox to his hometown San Diego Padres couldn’t have been any more convenient for All-Star outfielder Carlos Quentin. “I get a call and they said I’ve been traded to San Diego. I’m already here,� Quentin said on a conference call shortly after the trade was announced Saturday.

Four years after trading Quentin from Arizona to the White Sox, new Padres general manager Josh Byrnes is bringing him home.

Byrnes made his second bold move in two weeks when he acquired Quentin for two prospects. “Trading him is pretty high on my list of regrets,� Byrnes said. “That group in Arizona had a lot of talent. Carlos always stood out for his intensity and his style of play. Having a chance to get him back became very appealing here this offseason.�

The trade is expected to bolster San Diego’s offense, which was dreadful as the Padres finished last in the NL West at 71-91, 23 games behind the Diamondbacks. Quentin has four consecutive 20-homer seasons, including 36 in 2008.

The White Sox received minor-league pitchers Simon Castro, a right-hander, and Pedro Hernandez, a left-hander. “San Diego came back and obviously put something on the table that attracted us,�

White Sox GM Ken Williams said. “Both of these guys are guys that we can ultimately see, and we can see them very quickly here.�

Castro went 7-8 with a 5.63 earned-run average in 22 starts between Double-A San Antonio and Triple-A Tucson last season.

On Dec. 17, Byrnes dealt right-hander Mat Latos to the Cincinnati Reds for four players, including starter Edinson Volquez and Yonder Alonso, the leading contender to start at first base.

By Mac Engel Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Penn State defensive end Eric Latimore was 9 days old when SMU’s football program received the “Death Penalty.� As far as he is concerned, SMU football plays in Conference USA. “I didn’t know anything about it until I saw that thing on ESPN last year,� Latimore said.

Latimore is referring to the ESPN “30 For 30� documentary, “Pony Excess�, which chronicled the SMU football program that, in the 1980s, redefined “lack of institutional control� for a generation of NCAA cheats.

Penn State is in town to play Houston in the TicketCity Bowl on Monday in the Cotton Bowl. Theirs is a level of lack of institutional control for which the NCAA has no guideline or precedent.

Using the private school about six miles from the team hotel as a point of reference, it’s going to take 20 years before Penn State returns to just being Penn State.

Maybe less. “I know there was a scandal there, but the only reason I know about it is because of that ESPN thing,� Penn State center Matt Stankiewitch said. “I know they were good in the ’80s.�

In 20 years, no one who was born in the last few years will remember the human tragedy that was exposed this fall at State College. All they will know will come from a documentary, a book or archived news footage and stories.

It took SMU decades before its foremost descriptor was not the Death Penalty for its football team. Ask the people on The Hill in Dallas — this kind of thing is every bit a part of a legacy as a national title banner, a thriving Greek life, a presidential library or anything else.

Compared to Penn State, what happened at SMU is nothing.

The sad part is that this scandal and cover-up by a small number of individuals has forever tarnished what had been a fine and upstanding state university.

What Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Mike McQueary and a few administrators did does not change the good that has come from Penn State, or what that community can and will produce. But nothing can alter the sad trajectory of this failed leadership.

This story will eventually fade and be replaced, but it will always be there.

The Penn State degree is no less valuable today than it was six months ago, but it comes with a story now that no one wants to be a part of.

Talking to a handful of Penn State players Wednesday afternoon at the Hyatt Regency, it was nearly impossible not to be both impressed by their words and their behavior, and to not feel badly for them.

Unlike the players at SMU who received side benefits that led directly to the school’s punishment and stained reputation, none of these guys had any clue what was going on between the assistant coaches and the upper-level members of the school’s administration. “Here, you’ve got 120 great guys that are playing and going to class and doing everything they need to uphold the Penn State name. And then we got thrown this terrible, terrible trouble with this one guy....,� running back Michael Zordich said. “Eighty percent of the team barely knows the guy.�

This story is not over yet, and for everybody but those directly involved there will one day be closure.

The story, however, will forever remain a part of the Penn State legacy.

Saturday in a bid finally to win a major title.

The fourth-ranked Scot will begin working with the Czech-born Lendl as he prepares for the Australian Open, which starts Jan. 16.

The 24-year-old Murray spent all of last season ranked in the top four but still ended it without a first Grand Slam title.

Djokovic wins exhibition ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Novak Djokovic showed he remains the player to beat in 2012, routing David Ferrer, 6-2, 6-1, on Saturday to win the World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament.

This is the first Abu Dhabi title for the top-ranked Djokovic, who earlier beat Gael Monfils and then swept past Roger Federer en route to the final.

The fifth-ranked Ferrer had defeated second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the semis but had no answer for Djokovic. Earlier, Nadal played with an ailing shoulder but defeated Federer, 6-1, 7-5, for third place in the $250,000 winner-takes-all six-man tournament, a warmup for the ATP season.

Blue Jays sign LHP Laffey TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a minor-league contract with left-hander Aaron Laffey and invited him to spring training.

Laffey was 3-2 with a 3.88 earned-run average in 47 relief appearances for Seattle and the New York Yankees last season. He held left-handed batters to a .242 average.

The Blue Jays also on Saturday signed right-handers Jerry Gil, Garret Mock and Robert Coello, and shortstop Brian Bocock to minor-league contracts and invited them to spring training.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Police say Minnesota Vikings cornerback Benny Sapp has been cited for fifth-degree assault and careless driving, both misdemeanors, after a run-in with security at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis.

Officers were called Friday morning after police say Sapp and his 11-year-old son tried to enter the hospital through a closed entrance.

The Star Tribune reports Sapp left his son with a hospital security guard, saying the boy’s mother was inside and he had to go to work.

KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Kansas City Chiefs put running back Jackie Battle on injured reserve and signed running back Shaun Draughn to the active roster before their season finale against Denver. Battle was in a walking boot and did not practice this week after sustaining a foot injury in last Sunday’s overtime loss to Oakland, which eliminated Kansas City from playoff contention.

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Clemson coach honored ATLANTA — Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who took the Tigers to 10 wins, including a win over Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, has been named the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year.

Swinney was announced as the unanimous winner of the award, which recognizes “the highest ideals on and off the field.�

Gator Bowl Everbank Field-Jacksonville, Fla. Florida .............................2 (44) ......................... Ohio St Rose Bowl Rose Bowl-Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon ............................6 (72) ................... Wisconsin Fiesta Bowl University Stadium-Glendale, Arioz.

Oklahoma St ..........4 (74) .............. Stanford Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans Michigan ....................... 21â „2 (51)............ Virginia Tech Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium-Miami Clemson ...........................3 (61) .............. West Virginia Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl Cowboys Stadium-Arlington, Texas Arkansas ................8 (63) ............ Kansas St Compass Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh ......................3 (47) ............................... Smu Sunday, Jan. 8 Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd Peebles Stadium-Mobile, Ala. Arkansas St ................. 11â „2 (63).................... N. Illinois Monday, Jan. 9 BCS Championship Game Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans Alabama ........................11â „2 (40)................................ Lsu

NBA Favorite ............Points (O/U) ....... Underdog Boston ............................ 7 (184)............. WASHINGTON CLEVELAND .................31â „2 (186) ............. New Jersey ORLANDO .......................12 (186) ...................... Toronto MIAMI ..............................14 (194) .................... Charlotte Dallas ..............................3 (204) ............... MINNESOTA CHICAGO .........................8 (189)..................... Memphis DENVER .......................... 3 (199).................... LA Lakers x-SACRAMENTO .... No Line (XXX)....... New Orleans LA CLIPPERS ...............31â „2 (201) ................... Portland x-New Orleans guard E. Gordon is doubtful.

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1935 — Bucknell defeats Miami, 26-0, in the first Orange Bowl.

1991 — Georgia Tech routs Nebraska, 45-21, in the Citrus Bowl to finish as college football’s only unbeaten team (11-0-1).

1992 — Miami beats Nebraska, 22-0, in the Orange Bowl, the first shutout of the Cornhuskers since 1973, and finishes with a 12-0 record.

1993 — No. 2 Alabama wins its first national championship in 13 years and deprives Miami of its fifth title as the Crimson Tide defense humbles the No. 1 Hurricanes, 34-13, in the Sugar Bowl.

1993 — Florida State beats Nebraska, 27-14, in the Orange Bowl to set an NCAA record by winning eight consecutive bowl games.

1999 — Ron Dayne rushes for 246 yards and a record-tying four touchdowns as Wisconsin beats UCLA, 38-31, in the Rose Bowl.

2000 — Georgia’s Hap Hines kicks a 21-yard field goal in overtime to complete the greatest comeback in bowl history.

The Bulldogs beat Purdue, 28-25, after trailing 25-0 early in the second quarter in the Outback Bowl.

2001 — South Carolina, winless in 1999, caps the most dramatic one-year turnaround in Southeastern Conference history by winning the Outback Bowl, 24-7, over Ohio State and finishing with an 8-4 record.

2005 — David Greene, the winningest quarterback in NCAA history with 42 victories, passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns in his last game as Georgia beats Wisconsin, 24-21, in the Outback Bowl.

2006 — Seattle’s Shaun Alexander sets the NFL mark for touchdowns in a season with 28 and wins the league rushing title with 1,880 yards. He breaks Priest Holmes’ 2003 mark of 27 with a 1-yard run, the 100th touchdown of his career.

2006 — New England’s Doug Flutie converts the NFL’s first successful drop kick in 64 years during a 28-26 loss to Miami.

2011 — No. 3 TCU completes a perfect season with its first Rose Bowl victory, 21-19 over fourth-ranked Wisconsin.

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Today’s games New Jersey at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Chicago, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Oklahoma City Pts: 2. FGs: 1-2. FTs: 0-0.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Pts: 11. FGs: 5-7. FTs: 1-1.

Kirk Hinrich, Atlanta Did not play (shoulder injury) Marcus Morris, Houston Did not play (coach’s decision) Markieff Morris, Phoenix Pts: 15. FGs: 5-8. FTs: 2-3.

Brandon Rush, Golden State Pts: 4. FGs: 1-6. FTs: 2-4.

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Lakers 92, Nuggets 89 LOS ANGELES — Andrew Bynum had 29 points and 13 rebounds.

DENVER (89) Gallinari 3-12 1-2 7, Nene 5-10 3-5 13, Mozgov 4-7 0-0 8, Lawson 3-8 2-4 9, Afflalo 4-10 3-5 13, Miller 5-9 3-4 13, Harrington 8-17 2-2 21, Fernandez 1-6 0-0 3, Andersen 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 34-80 14-22 89.

L.A. LAKERS (92) Barnes 3-7 0-0 7, Gasol 7-10 3-4 17, Bynum 13-18 3-3 29, Fisher 3-7 0-0 6, Bryant 6-18 5-6 17, Murphy 0-0 0-0 0, World Peace 0-8 0-0 0, Blake 2-9 1-2 5, Kapono 2-6 0-0 5, McRoberts 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 39-86 12-15 92.

Denver 23 22 26 18 — 89 L.A. Lakers 22 24 23 23 — 92 3-Point Goals-Denver 7-26 (Harrington 3-8, Afflalo 2-5, Lawson 1-3, Fernandez 1-5, Miller 0-1, Gallinari 0-4), L.A. Lakers 2-24 (Barnes 1-3, Kapono 1-4, Gasol 0-1, Fisher 0-2, World Peace 0-3, Bryant 0-5, Blake 0-6). Fouled Out-Fisher. Rebounds-Denver 44 (Mozgov 10), L.A. Lakers 60 (Bynum 13).

Assists-Denver 22 (Lawson 8), L.A. Lakers 24 (Bryant 9). Total Fouls-Denver 17, L.A. Lakers 20. Technicals-Bryant. A-18,997 (18,997).

Pistons 96, Pacers 88 AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — Jonas Jerebko had 20 points and 12 rebounds.

INDIANA (88) Granger 4-15 2-2 11, West 4-11 2-2 10, Hibbert 4-7 1-2 9, Collison 4-6 5-6 15, George 2-5 2-3 7, Hansbrough 5-14 6-7 16, Hill 7-11 1-2 16, Jones 0-3 4-4 4, Amundson 0-1 0-0 0, Stephenson 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 30-76 23-28 88.

DETROIT (96) Prince 5-13 0-0 12, Jerebko 8-14 1-3 20, Monroe 8-12 3-4 19, Stuckey 5-12 4-4 15, Gordon 6-12 2-2 16, Knight 3-8 0-0 6, Maxiell 3-5 0-0 6, Wallace 1-1 0-0 2, Daye 0-3 0-0 0, Wilkins 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 39-82 10-13 96.

Indiana 18 26 20 24 — 88 Detroit 21 31 30 14 — 96 3-Point Goals-Indiana 5-15 (Collison 2-3, George 1-2, Hill 1-3, Granger 1-4, Stephenson 0-1, West 0-1, Jones 0-1), Detroit 8-15 (Jerebko 3-4, Prince 2-3, Gordon 2-4, Stuckey 1-1, Daye 0-1, Knight 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Indiana 44 (Hibbert, Hansbrough, Collison, West, Hill 5), Detroit 53 (Jerebko 12). Assists-Indiana 17 (Collison 8), Detroit 25 (Stuckey 7). Total Fouls-Indiana 19, Detroit 23. TechnicalsIndiana defensive three second 2. A-8,824 (22,076).

Rockets 95, Hawks 84 HOUSTON — Kevin Martin scored 27 points.

ATLANTA (84) Smith 4-12 4-8 12, M.Williams 3-7 2-2 9, Horford 6-11 3-4 15, Teague 3-7 0-0 6, J.Johnson 7-15 0-0 15, Pargo 3-5 0-0 6, Pachulia 1-2 1-2 3, McGrady 6-11 0-0 13, Radmanovic 0-5 0-0 0, Green 2-5 0-0 5, Collins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-80 10-16 84.

HOUSTON (95) Budinger 7-10 0-0 17, Scola 9-19 3-4 21, Hill 5-8 1-2 11, Lowry 0-6 2-2 2, Martin 9-20 3-3 27, Dalembert 3-6 1-2 7, Lee 1-3 0-0 2, Dragic 1-5 0-0 2, Patterson 3-5 0-0 6, Parsons 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-82 10-13 95.

Atlanta 22 22 16 24 — 84 Houston 31 20 21 23 — 95 3-Point Goals-Atlanta 4-16 (McGrady 1-2, Green 1-2, M.Williams 1-2, J.Johnson 1-5, Smith 0-1, Pargo 0-1, Radmanovic 0-3), Houston 9-19 (Martin 6-11, Budinger 3-4, Dragic 0-1, Lowry 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Atlanta 46 (Smith 7), Houston 52 (Hill 15). Assists-Atlanta 16 (Teague 5), Houston 26 (Lowry 18). Total Fouls-Atlanta 14, Houston 18. Technicals-J.Johnson, Houston defensive three second 2. A-14,390 (18,043).

Thunder 107, Suns 97 OKLAHOMA CITY — Russell Westbrook scored 18 points, Daequan Cook hit four threes.

PHOENIX (97) Hill 2-8 2-2 6, Frye 1-6 0-0 2, Gortat 5-9 2-2 12, Nash 3-10 0-0 8, Dudley 5-10 3-3 14, Childress 0-4 0-0 0, Lopez 1-4 2-2 4, Price 2-6 1-2 5, Morris 5-8 2-3 15, Warrick 5-8 5-7 15, Brown 4-8 0-0 9, Telfair 2-7 2-2 7. Totals 35-88 19-23 97.

CHIEFS-BRONCOS CAPSULE KANSAS CITY (6-9) at DENVER (8-7) 3:15 p.m. today, CBS (Knology channels 5, 13, 205, 213) LINE — Broncos by 3 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Kansas City 8-7; Denver 7-8 SERIES RECORD — Chiefs lead 55-48 LAST MEETING — Broncos won 17-10, Nov. 13 LAST WEEK — Chiefs lost to Raiders 16-13 OT; Broncos lost to Bills 40-14 CHIEFS OFFENSE — OVERALL (25), RUSH (12), PASS (25) CHIEFS DEFENSE — OVERALL (15), RUSH (20), PASS (9) BRONCOS OFFENSE — OVERALL (23), RUSH (1), PASS (31) BRONCOS DEFENSE — OVERALL (23), RUSH (25), PASS (20) STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Romeo Crennel 0-2 lifetime against Denver and John Fox 3-0 in his career against Kansas City. ... Last time teams met in Denver, on Nov. 14, 2010, Kyle

(8-7) will win the AFC West and clinch their first playoff berth since 2005, when Mike Shanahan and Jake Plummer were still around. They could lose and still get in, if San Diego wins at Oakland, but the Broncos don’t want to leave it up to anyone else to bail them out.

A victory over the Chiefs (6-9) would also validate Broncos boss John Elway’s dangerous decision to release Orton on Nov. 22 knowing

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Roundup OKLAHOMA CITY (107) Durant 4-11 2-2 12, Ibaka 4-4 0-0 8, Perkins 2-3 0-0 4, Westbrook 8-14 2-2 18, Sefolosha 4-7 2-2 12, Collison 5-7 1-1 11, Harden 1-6 8-8 10, Mohammed 4-6 1-3 9, Cook 4-5 0-0 12, Maynor 0-4 0-0 0, Hayward 3-5 0-0 7, Aldrich 1-2 0-0 2, Jackson 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 41-77 16-18 107.

Phoenix 22 24 21 30 — 97 Oklahoma City 27 33 29 18 — 107 3-Point Goals-Phoenix 8-26 (Morris 3-4, Nash 2-7, Telfair 1-1, Brown 1-2, Dudley 1-3, Price 0-1, Hill 0-2, Childress 0-2, Frye 0-4), Oklahoma City 9-22 (Cook 4-5, Sefolosha 2-3, Durant 2-3, Hayward 1-2, Westbrook 0-1, Jackson 0-2, Maynor 0-2, Harden 0-4). Rebounds-Phoenix 43 (Gortat, Morris 6), Oklahoma City 52 (Perkins 8).

Assists-Phoenix 19 (Nash 6), Oklahoma City 25 (Harden 8). Total Fouls-Phoenix 16, Oklahoma City 27. A-18,203 (18,203).

Knicks 114, Kings 92 SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Carmelo Anthony scored 23 points.

NEW YORK (114) Anthony 6-15 11-13 23, Harrellson 5-11 0-0 14, Chandler 6-8 10-10 22, Douglas 6-18 1-1 17, Fields 10-16 1-2 21, Jordan 0-3 0-0 0, Walker 5-8 0-0 11, Bibby 1-4 0-0 3, Novak 1-3 1-1 3, Balkman 0-2 0-0 0, Lin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-89 24-27 114.

SACRAMENTO (92) Salmons 3-9 0-0 7, Hayes 2-6 1-2 5, Cousins 2-10 5-6 9, Evans 6-14 1-3 13, Thornton 5-13 2-3 14, Fredette 2-10 2-2 7, Thomas 0-2 7-10 7, Hickson 2-3 1-1 5, Outlaw 0-2 0-0 0, Thompson 5-10 3-8 13, Greene 3-7 2-4 10, Honeycutt 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 30-86 26-41 92.

New York 35 21 22 36 — 114 Sacramento 20 22 23 27 — 92 3-Point Goals-New York 10-28 (Douglas 4-6, Harrellson 4-8, Bibby 1-2, Walker 1-2, Balkman 0-1, Novak 0-2, Anthony 0-3, Fields 0-4), Sacramento 6-22 (Greene 2-4, Thornton 2-6, Salmons 1-3, Fredette 1-7, Thomas 0-1, Evans 0-1). Rebounds-New York 51 (Harrellson 12), Sacramento 72 (Hayes 13). Total Fouls-New York 35, Sacramento 22. A-16,175 (17,317).

Spurs 104, Jazz 89 SAN ANTONIO — Manu Ginobili scored 23 points.

UTAH (89) Hayward 1-9 1-2 4, Millsap 4-7 0-0 8, A.Jefferson 10-19 1-1 21, Harris 2-8 4-4 8, Bell 0-3 0-0 0, Favors 2-6 3-4 7, Howard 6-16 6-6 18, Watson 2-9 1-2 5, Kanter 2-3 3-4 7, Miles 2-7 2-2 7, Burks 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 33-89 21-25 89.

SAN ANTONIO (104) R.Jefferson 3-7 0-0 8, Duncan 4-13 4-5 12, Blair 5-8 7-13 17, Parker 3-10 8-8 14, Ginobili 9-10 0-0 23, Leonard 3-5 0-1 7, Anderson 2-6 3-4 8, Splitter 4-7 0-0 8, Bonner 1-1 0-0 3, Ford 0-3 0-0 0, Green 2-3 0-0 4, Joseph 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-74 22-31 104.

Utah 18 21 21 29 — 89 San Antonio 23 31 29 21 —104 3-Point Goals-Utah 2-16 (Hayward 1-3, Miles 1-4, Howard 0-1, Bell 0-2, Harris 0-3, Watson 0-3), San Antonio 10-16 (Ginobili 5-6, R.Jefferson 2-3, Bonner 1-1, Leonard 1-1, Anderson 1-3, Green 0-1, Ford 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Utah 46 (A.Jefferson 11), San Antonio 61 (Blair 10). Assists-Utah 11 (Hayward 4), San Antonio 26 (Parker 8). Total Fouls-Utah 25, San Antonio 21.

Flagrant Fouls-Howard. A-17,769 (18,797).

76ers 107, Warriors 79 OAKLAND, CALIF. — Andre Iguodala had 14 points, eight rebounds and seven assists.

PHILADELPHIA (107) Iguodala 4-10 3-6 14, Brand 3-8 1-2 7, Hawes 7-9 0-2 14, Holiday 5-12 0-0 12, Meeks 1-6 0-2 2, Turner 2-8 5-7 9, Williams 7-11 5-7 23, Young 7-12 4-5 18, Vucevic 2-2 0-0 5, Brackins 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 39-79 18-31 107.

GOLDEN STATE (79) D.Wright 2-10 0-0 4, Lee 8-24 3-4 19, Biedrins 1-1 0-0 2, Curry 9-15 0-0 21, Thompson 1-3 0-0 3, Brown 1-1 0-0 2, Smith 4-11 1-2 9, Rush 1-6 2-4 4, Udoh 3-10 1-2 7, McGuire 3-5 0-0 6, C.Wright 0-2 0-0 0, Tyler 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 34-89 7-12 79.

Philadelphia 19 31 22 35 —107 Golden State 25 17 12 25 —79 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 11-20 (Williams 4-4, Iguodala 3-5, Holiday 2-5, Vucevic 1-1, Brackins 1-1, Turner 0-1, Meeks 0-3), Golden State 4-17 (Curry 3-8, Thompson 1-2, Rush 0-2, Smith 0-2, D.Wright 0-3).

Rebounds-Philadelphia 57 (Hawes 12), Golden State 56 (Udoh 9). Assists-Philadelphia 29 (Iguodala 7), Golden State 20 (Smith 5). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 17, Golden State 22. A-19,084 (19,596).

Chiefs, Orton can spoil Broncos’ season DENVER (AP) — Kyle Orton won’t come out and say it, calling his much-anticipated return to Denver today just another chance to take the field and play a football game.

It’s a whole lot more than that.

With a victory over the Broncos, Orton, who was masterful in ending the Green Bay Packers’ perfect season two weeks ago, perhaps can secure starter’s money and a long-term deal he’s been longing for as he heads off into unrestricted free agency.

And he could also help Kansas City Chiefs interim coach Romeo Crennel secure his own future.

Perhaps biggest of all, Orton can stick it to the team that benched him after he finally caved under the weight of Tebowmania and the Broncos stumbled to a 1-4 start.

The stakes are even higher for Tim Tebow, who’s gone 7-3 with a series of fourthquarter comebacks that galvanized a city and captivated the league. Tebow has stumbled himself the last two weeks, committing five turnovers in back-to-back losses that have rendered today’s reunion a high-stakes showdown.

If Tebow can beat the guy he couldn’t beat out in training camp, the Broncos

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Orton threw career-high four TDs against Chiefs and Tim Tebow also threw first career TD pass. ... Orton started 33 games with Broncos before release Nov. 22, passing for 8,263 yards with 49 TDs, 27 INTs and 86.4 passer rating. In two starts with KC, Orton averaging 299.5 yards passing. ...

Chiefs RB Dexter McCluster had career-high 89 yards receiving last week. ... Dwayne Bowe (1,066) has topped 1,000 yards receiving for third time. ... LB Tamba Hali needs two sacks to join Neil Smith and Derrick Thomas as only Chiefs to register 14 sacks in two seasons. ... With win, Broncos reach playoffs for first time since ‘05. ... Tebow 7-3 as starter in ‘11 with 16 TDs. In two career games vs.

Chiefs, Tebow has two TD passes, no INTs and passer rating of 102.8 with two TD runs. ... ... RB Willis McGahee (1,054) became second player in league history to record 1,000-yard seasons for three different teams (Buffalo, Baltimore).

full well the Chiefs had lost Matt Cassel to a hand injury and were likely to put in a waiver claim.

They did, saving the Broncos $2.6 million in salary — the same amount they’d paid him to ride pine for six weeks after his demotion.

Orton could make them pay an even heftier price if he keeps the Broncos out of the postseason party. That would make Denver’s front office look foolish for grant-

ing him his request to be released and would stamp Elway’s first — and otherwise successful — season as an NFL executive with a black eye over a blunder that could long hang over the franchise that has won just one playoff game since Elway hoisted the Super Bowl trophy in 1999.

If the Broncos win, Orton is a mere footnote in this scintillating season that’s included four consecutive fourth-quarter comebacks, a 1,000-yard bounce-back season by Willis McGahee, clutch kicks galore by Matt Prater, and a defensive revival led by Pro Bowlers Champ Bailey, Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller.

At 2-5, the Broncos appeared headed for another debacle like last year’s franchise-worst 4-12 finish, but they revamped their offense to fit Tebow’s unorthodox skill set and surged to the top of their division.

So, here comes Orton vs.

Tebow, although both teams cringe at the very mention of it.

“It’s the Broncos vs. the Chiefs, that’s how we look at it,” Dumervil said. “Yeah, Kyle was here and maybe it would be more sensitive to him, but for the guys here in the locker room, we’re worried about getting ourselves in the playoffs.”

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HASKELL GUARD STAND LOVATO (14) LAUNCHES A THREEPOINTER over Avila guard Brandon Redmond. Lovato led HINU with 13 points, but the Indians fell, 73-56, on Saturday at Coffin Complex.

Haskell tumbles to Avila, 73-56

By Corey Thibodeaux cthibodeaux@ljworld.com

Without leading scorer Brady Fairbanks, Haskell Indian Nations University’s men’s basketball team didn’t look right Saturday.

As the Indians tried to find out who their new go-to players were, Avila University took advantage and left Coffin Complex with a 73-56 victory.

“The pressure got us,” HINU sophomore guard Luke Lee said.

It was a frustrating day for Haskell (7-8) in many facets of the game. The Indians couldn’t hit easy shots, no matter how close to the basket they were. They made 42 percent of their shots, but they gave the ball away to the Eagles too many times, helping Avila shoot 65 percent.

Haskell coach Chad Kills Crow called this stage of the season “Life without Fairbanks,” referring to the senior forward who is expected to be out the next three games because of a foot injury. Kills Crow said he was looking for players to rise to the occasion and make up for the missing 20 points per game. He saw players grow in maturity, but there were too many mistakes to consider anyone becoming the new go-to guy.

“We’re still trying to seek who those leaders are,” Kills Crow said. “Different guys were just trying too hard tonight.”

Haskell left the first half struggling, but so did Avila (8-6). The Indians started the second half down 11, but it slowly got out of hand as they shot 29 percent in the half. A few three-pointers down the stretch made the score look respectable, but it was too late for a comeback.

Freshman guard Stand Lovato led the Indians with 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting.

Junior guard Trey Osborne, who was aggressive Saturday, added 12. But the Eagles had a more balanced scoring effort with five players in double figures.

Life without Fairbanks will continue for the next three games so he can be rested when conference play starts Jan. 13, Kills Crow said. But the next three games, all away, are against three of the top teams in the country.

This is by design.

Kills Crow said his lofty goals for Haskell include winning the conference so the Indians can make the national tournament. Playing bigger teams is the perfect measuring stick, and the next one is Jan. 7 at University of St. Mary.

“With those kinds of goals, I scheduled pretty heavy this year,” he said after the loss to Avila. “This was a good test.”

Honoring Homeratha The funeral service for legendary Haskell coach and educator Phil Homeratha was held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, so the men’s basketball team was not able to attend because of the 3 p.m. tipoff.

Kills Crow regrets missing it, but knowing Homeratha and getting support from the school, he had to coach.

“There’s no way he would allow me to cancel this game on his behalf,” Kills Crow said.

And during the game, he and the players all had the same thing in the back of their minds.

“He was here with us today,” Kills Crow said.

Avila 42 31 — 73 Haskell 31 25 — 56 Haskell — Stand Lovato 13, Trey Osborne 12, Luke Lee 9, Byron Trujillo 7, Zachary Eastman 6, Jonn Garrick 5, Seth Alden 2, Raymond Whiteshield 2. Totals 17-40-56.

Avila — Austin Stockard 13, Zach Smith 12, Curtis Churchman 12, Ben Dierkes 11, Kevin Booker 11, Kelby Phelps 4, Andrew Smith 4, Keith Taylor 4, Lance Miller 2.

Totals 28-43-73.

Three-point goals: Avila – Stockard 4, Dierkes 2, Churchman 1, Booker 1. Haskell – Osborne 2, Lovato 2, Eastman 2, Trujillo 1.

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KANSAS 84, NORTH DAKOTA 58

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By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Saturday was historic for the University of North Dakota men’s basketball team, but not just because UND played its second game in Allen Fieldhouse or made its first appearance on an ESPN network.

The Fighting Sioux’s 84-58 loss to No. 17 Kansas University marked the final time the school would compete with its nickname intact.

Beginning today, all of UND’s athletic teams simply will be known as the University of North Dakota. No mascot. No nickname. And, really, only part of its 81-year identity.

“It was special to us,” UND coach Brian Jones said of his team’s final competition as the Fighting Sioux. “I talked about going out and representing not only our program, but representing our former athletes and alums who have a lot of passion for this. Understand that there has been a lot of tradition behind that. We just wanted to go out and represent our community and our university in a proud way. The score was big, but we really played hard. We played together, and we played within ourselves, which we really wanted to do.”

UND’s mascot — originally the Sioux in 1930 and changed to Fighting Sioux

during the 1960s — has come into question because of its tie to the various Native American tribes of the Sioux nation. For years, athletic teams at all levels have been involved in legal battles regarding the use of Native American mascots and nicknames, with many changing them to end the squabbling.

Despite documented support from several Sioux leaders, that’s what UND is doing here in an effort to appease the NCAA, which officially has dubbed the nickname — and others like it — offensive.

According to reports, continued use of the moniker would expose the Grand Forks, N.D., university to NCAA penalties, includ-

ing a ban on playing host to postseason competition and complications in its effort to join the Big Sky Conference in 2012.

Lawmakers in North Dakota have fought for UND to keep its Fighting Sioux name, even proposing an amendment to the North Dakota state constitution that specifically addresses UND’s ability to use the name. But the NCAA has persisted, so the school has agreed to drop it, effective today.

“It’s been getting brought up for a while now,” junior forward Jordan Allard said.

“We have a great community up there that has been behind that name for a while. But if it causes issues with anybody

that will affect our program, we’ll be all right without it.”

UND guard Aaron Anderson shared Allard’s point of view, but admitted that moving forward without a name would be weird.

“It’ll be different,” Anderson said. “But you put the school first. I’ve heard a lot of people want us to keep the name, but we really have no control over it.”

The Fighting Sioux scrapped from start to finish and made KU work hard for everything it got in the first half.

“This opportunity, for us, was a big one,” Jones said. “And I was really proud of our effort and our resiliency against a team (like) that. They’re talented in many ways.”

In the second half, KU took over, led by a monster game from junior forward Thomas Robinson, who finished with career-highs of 30 points and 21 rebounds.

“Tape and DVDs do that young man no justice with the size of his body and strength,” Jones said. “You just have to keep mixing up your coverages on him. But he’s a tough match-up because he can handle it. He scores in the open floor, he goes to the backboard, and he’s so patient.”

North Dakota’s next game — and its first as a team without a nickname — comes Wednesday vs. Mayville State. Kansas (10-3) also will play Wednesday, at home against Kansas State.

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Self says Kansas too ‘soft’

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

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KANSAS GUARDS TRAVIS RELEFORD, FRONT, AND ELIJAH JOHNSON HOUND NORTH DAKOTA GUARD JAMAL WEBB during the first half. KU beat the Fighting Sioux, 84-58, Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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“That’s nice of him to say that,” Self said. “Thomas gets frustrated too easy. Teams that double-team him ... the best way to get them not to double-team him is to be very effective passing the ball out of double-teams as opposed to going one-on-two. I told him if we were patient and he became a better screener and passer, he’d score more points. He certainly had an opportunity to today. He only took 14 shots and still gets 30.”

Self said he has been especially proud of Robinson during this holiday season — Robinson’s first Christmas without his mom, grandmother and grandfather, who all died in a month’s span last winter.

“This is a tough time of year for him. It is so good to see him come out and play.

He played with joy today, the first time I think he has played with joy in a while,” Self said.

“The last few weeks have been very trying for him.

He’s handled it pretty well.

I don’t think he’ll ever completely get over it. Maybe do a little better each and every year as you move forward.”

Robinson was able to spend some time with his sister, Jayla, over Christmas in Washington, D.C. “She’s doing well. Thomas is happy about that. He feels good about that situation knowing she is doing well (living with her dad) and is healthy. I think that’s a big relief for him coming back after Christmas,” Self said.

Robinson said he has been pleased with his play so far for the Jayhawks, who went 10-3 in the nonconference season.

“I wanted to be the best player in the country, to achieve the expectations set for me. It was something I’d never seen before,” Robinson said of preseason expectations. “I didn’t want to let anybody down. We still have a long year ahead and we have a lot of goals to meet.”

Kansas University’s basketball team, which lost NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris and Josh Selby off last year’s 35-3 Elite Eight team, finished the 2011-12 nonconference campaign with a 10-3 record.

“Our record isn’t quite what I wanted. I was really hopeful we could get through nonconference with a couple of losses,” KU coach Bill Self said after Saturday’s 84-58 victory over North Dakota.

“After we beat Ohio State, I said we have a chance to have two losses, and if we had two losses we would be in the Top 10 in the country right now.

Not that we deserve that, but that’s the way it works. The thing that concerns me is how soft we are. Everybody sees it. You have balls hitting guys in the hands, and they don’t come away with it, and we are getting ready to play big-boy ball starting Wednesday (7 p.m., at home against Kansas State). I am really concerned with our big guys because other than Thomas (Robinson) I don’t think we have a big guy that can get a rebound in traffic against men. That would be my biggest concern right now.” !

Self’s plans for New Year’s Eve?: “We’re going to go to dinner, I guess,” he said, noting he wouldn’t be hosting any party.

He was asked if the team would practice today. “The guys who played all the minutes, they won’t practice much. Those other guys ... they should be ready for practice tomorrow.”

Starter Jeff Withey went just eight minutes Saturday, while Justin Wesley, Kevin Young and Naadir Tharpe each played six minutes.

KANSAS FORWARD THOMAS ROBINSON REACTS to a foul called against the Jayhawks.

Of his improvement since last season, he said: “I can’t even put it into words. I know I’m a better player. I am more patient. I know more about the game. It’s all about having more experience on the floor.

I’m still getting better.”

Robinson and Taylor scored 12 points apiece the first half as the Jayhawks took a comfy 37-21 lead into the break. Travis Releford scored 11 of his 14 points the second half, while Elijah Johnson netted 11 total points and Conner Teahan nine. Jeff Withey, who was ineffective in a short eight-minute stint, had just two points and two boards.

Nobody else scored.

“I thought Tyshawn and Elijah did some good things, but we can’t go 6-for-27 from three. That is ridiculous,” Self said. Johnson was 2-for10 from three, Teahan 1-of-6 and Taylor 1-for-3. “We have better shooters than that, but our two best ones go 3-for-16.

We will do better than that, but we did some good things today, and I thought the guys that played the majority of the minutes did some really good things offensively.”

As far as the story of the day ... “Thomas scored the most points ever, gets the most rebounds, and he played the most unselfish he’s ever played. I thought he played great. He needed that. That was really good,” Self said, adding, “He is a terrific kid.”

BOX SCORE NORTH DAKOTA (58) MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Brandon Brekke 16 1-2 0-0 1-5 1 2 Patrick Mitchell 21 2-5 0-0 0-3 5 5 Aaron Anderson 31 5-6 0-0 0-1 0 11 Troy Huff 27 6-13 3-4 1-4 2 16 Jamal Webb 29 1-10 2-2 0-3 2 4 Jordan Allard 19 3-6 0-0 1-2 2 7 Josh Schuler 18 3-7 0-0 0-2 1 7 Mitch Wilmer 12 0-2 1-2 1-2 5 1 Spencer Goodman 11 2-4 0-0 0-1 2 5 Nick Haugen 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Doug Archer 4 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 Lenny Antwi 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Josh Gentry 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Dan Stockdale 2 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 Mike Mathison 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 team 2-3 Totals 23-57 6-8 7-29 21 58 Three-point goals: 6-18 (Anderson 1-2, Huff 1-2, Goodman 1-2, Mitchell 1-3, Allard 1-3, Schuler 1-3, Webb 0-3). Assists: 14 (Webb 6, Mitchell 4, Allard 2, Anderson, Schuler). Turnovers: 16 (Webb 3, Brekke 2, Mitchell 2, Anderson 2, Antwi 2, Huff, Haugen, Allard, Wilmer, team). Blocked shots: 2 (Mitchell, Allard). Steals: 4 (Brekke, Mitchell, Allard, Archer).

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MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Thomas Robinson 34 10-14 9-12 8-21 1 30 Travis Releford 31 5-10 3-8 5-7 2 14 Jeff Withey 8 1-1 0-0 0-2 1 2 Tyshawn Taylor 31 7-13 3-5 0-1 2 18 Elijah Johnson 33 4-12 1-2 0-0 1 11 Conner Teahan 29 3-8 2-2 0-3 2 9 Jordan Juenemann 7 0-2 0-2 1-3 1 0 Naadir Tharpe 6 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 Justin Wesley 6 0-0 0-0 0-1 2 0 Kevin Young 6 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 Merv Lindsay 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 Christian Garrett 3 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 Niko Roberts 2 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 Totals 30-62 18-3115-42 13 84 Three-point goals: 6-27 (Johnson 2-10, Robinson 1-2, Taylor 1-3, Releford 1-4, Teahan 1-6, Juenemann 0-2). Assists: 21 (Johnson 7, Taylor 5, Robinson 4, Teahan 3, Releford, Juenemann). Turnovers: 10 (Taylor 3, Withey 2, Juenemann 2, Johnson, Tharpe, Wesley). Blocked shots: 2 (Robinson, Juenemann). Steals: 8 (Robinson 2, Teahan 2, Releford, Withey, Taylor, Johnson).

North Dakota 21 37 — 58 Kansas 37 47 — 84 Officials: Duke Edsall, Randy Heimerman, Bret Smith. Attendance: 16,300.

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KANSAS GUARD TYSHAWN TAYLOR GETS A BUCKET AND A FOUL from North Dakota forward Mitch Wilmer during the second half.

KANSAS FORWARD THOMAS ROBINSON LAUGHS with his teammates on the bench after coming out of the game against North Dakota.

This, that: KU won its 55th consecutive nonconference home game. ... KU has won 13 in a row overall in Allen. ...

Self is 247-49 at KU. ... Robinson set KU season highs in points (30), rebounds (21) and offensive rebounds (eight). He also matched the KU season high for field goals (10). ... The Big 12’s last 30-point/20-rebound game was Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin vs. Texas Tech on Feb. 14, 2009. ... Travis Releford had a career-high seven boards and matched his career high with 14 points. He also had 14 in the opener versus Towson. ...

Jordan Juenemann set career highs in rebounds (three), assists (one) and blocks (one). ... KU wore crimson uniforms for the first time since the Colorado State game last season. It was the first time KU wore crimson at home since the Alcorn State game in 2009. ... KU attempted a season-high 27 threes and shot a season-worst 22.2 percent from beyond the arc. KU also took 27 threes against Iowa State on Feb. 12, 2011. ...

KU had a season-high 15 offensive rebounds.

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KANSAS DEFENDERS ELIJAH JOHNSON, LEFT, AND THOMAS ROBINSON put pressure on North Dakota guard Troy Huff during the second half. KU routed UND, 84-58, Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

Johnson inspired ————

Uncle gives KU guard ‘extra boost’

By Jesse Newell jnewell@ljworld.com

If he keeps playing like this, Kansas guard Elijah Johnson might consider bringing a family member to all of his home games.

With his uncle, Prince Couisnard, in attendance Saturday, the 6-foot-4 junior Johnson posted 11 points, seven assists and just one turnover in the Jayhawks’ 84-58 victory over North Dakota.

“Whenever my uncle’s around, it does something different to me,” Johnson said. “It’s like having my dad there (and) just gives me that extra boost to look in the crowd and see somebody that I recognize.”

The two have a closer uncle-nephew relationship than most, as Couisnard handled most aspects of Johnson’s recruiting in high school.

Couisnard had been through the process before. His sons P.J. (Wichita State) and Jay (UMKC) were Div. I basketball players.

“I love him, and he’s just a great person to be around with all his encouraging,” Couisnard said. “He loves to make everybody better around him.”

Against Ohio State on Dec.

10, Johnson scored 15 points on 5-for-7 three-point shooting with his dad, Marcus, watching him.

Couisnard, who lives in Houston, actually didn’t tell Johnson he was coming until Wednesday. After driving 10 hours from Houston to watch his daughter, Tiffani, play basketball for the University of Tulsa, Couisnard made the three-hour trek to Lawrence.

“You can’t say enough about the coaching staff here,” Couisnard said. “Coach (Bill) Self is just tremendous with developing him.”

The area where Johnson struggled most Saturday was his three-point shooting. He made just two of 10 threepointers, while KU as a team hit just six of 27 (22 percent).

Johnson, who has made 31 percent of his threes this year, isn’t worried about his mini shooting slump.

“I try not to focus on it,” Johnson said. “I’ve been thinking about it too much, and that’s the problem. I know I can shoot the ball.”

Self said Johnson could help KU’s offense even more by being more aggressive.

The coach pointed to the fact that KU guard Tyshawn Taylor has 87 free throws this

year, while Johnson has just 11.

Self said Johnson was limiting himself to two options when he received the ball: shooting or passing. The coach would like to see him drive it when he’s not shooting it.

“He can get his shoulders past people,” Self said. “...

He’s just kind of being a ballmover, and he’s too good to be just that.”

Johnson believes he still can improve defensively as well.

“I can do more,” Johnson said. “I feel like I can get a couple more steals a game.

I can definitely steal four or five rebounds a game.”

At the end of nonconference play, Johnson is third on the team in scoring with 10.2 points per game and second in assists with 2.9 per contest.

“It’s confusing, honestly, because some days I feel like we’ve made so much progress,” Johnson said. “I feel like we’re looking like the team from my freshman year, just the way we play in practice and get up and down the floor. Some days, I feel like we take steps back.

“But I feel like we’re getting to that point now where we’re just taking steps forward.”

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14-point effort in the victory against Ohio State. He shoots well, skies and has the speed to beat opposing big men down the floor. Yet, he sometimes seems surprised when the man he’s guarding does what the scouting report tells him to do, which is blow by him on the dribble when you have the ball, cut hard to the hoop and be rewarded with an easy bucket when you don’t have it.

“You look at it from my perspective,” Self said. “Two guys (Robinson and Travis Releford) on our team got an offensive rebound, and we’re getting ready to play K-State on Wednesday. Not good.

Not good.”

He stated the qualifier that he wasn’t counting the last two minutes of garbage time in citing that statistic.

“That’s a bad sign,” he repeated. “And when you have your other bigs, the balls hit their hands, and we don’t secure rebounds, which happened six or seven times in their limited minutes, that’s a bad sign when you’re getting ready to play K-State on Wednesday.”

Did he happen to mention Kansas State comes to Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday?

In keeping with the tradition established in one year in Manhattan by Bob Huggins, it can be said of Frank Martin’s teams that their best offense is a missed shot. They crash hard at both ends, and Robinson will need more help than

KANSAS CENTER JEFF WITHEY FIGHTS FOR A REBOUND among North Dakota defenders. he received against North Dakota.

Self coached against the Fighting Sioux — the mascot is dead, long live the mascot, more egg on the NCAA’s face — and the Wildcats on Saturday. He continued to coach against Kansas State during his postgame remarks.

Asked again about the bench, he said, “It’s just awful. I like them, but I mean, they know what I want from them. To just play so soft ... so soft. Point guards have a certain role they have to do; big guys, everybody’s got a role they’ve got to do to give our team the best chance, and tonight I could have played those guys more, but

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think they deserved to be out there.”

Aside from Withey, the other five “starters” averaged more than 31 minutes in the blowout.

“We made it real clear at halftime,” Self said of the other rotation players, “they each got a minute to prove me wrong. They didn’t. So they knew. Jeff has really had a pretty good year so far, but that was ridiculous tonight.”

The brutally honest words might help Withey to channel his Duke performance and Young his Ohio State effort for the conference opener, which has a shot at shaping up as a thriller.

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Giant-killer Indiana takes down No. 2 OSU The Associated Press

No. 13 Indiana 74, No. 2 Ohio St. 70 BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Victor Oladipo scored the goahead basket with 36 seconds left Saturday, and Jordan Hulls scored 17 points to lead Indiana past Ohio State — the school’s first-ever sweep of the nation’s top two teams.

Indiana (13-1, 1-1 Big Ten) is the ninth team to defeat both a No. 1 ranked team and the No. 2 team in the same season since 1996-97. The Hoosiers are only the third team to beat both teams in the same month. They beat then-No. 1 Kentucky three weeks ago.

The Hoosiers needed Oladipo’s layup, three free throws from Hulls and Watford, a rebound from Christian Watford and a steal from Oladipo in the final 36 seconds to seal it.

Ohio State (13-2, 1-1) was led by Aaron Craft with 16 points and Jared Sullinger with 15 points and nine rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to extend their five-game winning streak or the school record six-game winning streak against the Hoosiers.

OHIO ST. (13-2) Sullinger 3-5 9-13 15, Thomas 2-6 1-2 5, Craft 6-10 3-4 16, Smith Jr. 4-8 2-2 12, Buford 3-7 2-2 8, Sibert 0-3 0-0 0, Scott 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson 3-6 0-0 6, Weatherspoon 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 2-2 0-1 4, Ravenel 1-2 2-2 4.

Totals 24-49 19-26 70.

INDIANA (13-1) Watford 3-10 4-6 10, Zeller 5-9 4-7 14, Hulls 6-9 1-2 17, Oladipo 7-13 0-0 15, Jones III 4-11 6-6 14, Etherington 0-0 0-0 0, Abell 0-1 0-0 0, Pritchard 0-0 0-0 0, Roth 0-0 0-0 0, Elston 2-6 0-1 4. Totals 27-59 15-22 74.

Halftime-Indiana 33-32. 3-Point GoalsOhio St. 3-11 (Smith Jr. 2-3, Craft 1-1, Thompson 0-1, Thomas 0-1, Buford 0-2, Sibert 0-3), Indiana 5-13 (Hulls 4-5, Oladipo 1-4, Watford 0-2, Jones III 0-2). Fouled OutZeller. Rebounds-Ohio St. 35 (Sullinger 9), Indiana 28 (Oladipo, Watford 6). AssistsOhio St. 11 (Craft 4), Indiana 6 (Hulls, Watford 2). Total Fouls-Ohio St. 22, Indiana 20. A-17,472.

No. 3 Kentucky 69, No. 4 Louisville 62 LEXINGTON, KY. — Freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had season-highs with 24 points and 19 rebounds to lead Kentucky.

Fellow freshman Anthony Davis added 18 points, all in the second half, for the Wildcats (13-1) in their annual instate rivalry game.

The Cardinals (12-2) only led at 2-0, but gave Kentucky all it could handle after rallying from an early 15-point deficit before tying it in the second half thanks to Russ Smith, who had a career-high 30 points.

LOUISVILLE (12-2) Kuric 1-4 0-0 2, Behanan 1-3 2-2 4, Dieng 2-5 1-2 5, Siva 2-13 4-6 8, C. Smith 2-10 2-2 7, R. Smith 10-20 7-10 30, Buckles 1-4 0-0 2, Swopshire 1-2 2-3 4, Justice 0-0 0-0 0, Ware 0-1 0-2 0. Totals 20-62 18-27 62.

KENTUCKY (13-1) Kidd-Gilchrist 7-16 8-13 24, Davis 3-4 12-13 18, Miller 2-8 2-2 7, Lamb 1-7 8-9 10, Teague 1-8 2-2 4, Jones 1-9 0-4 2, Beckham 0-0 0-0 0, Vargas 0-0 0-0 0, Wiltjer 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 17-57 32-43 69.

Halftime-Kentucky 36-33. 3-Point GoalsLouisville 4-18 (R. Smith 3-8, C. Smith 1-3, Swopshire 0-1, Kuric 0-2, Siva 0-4), Kentucky 3-16 (Kidd-Gilchrist 2-4, Miller 1-3, Jones 0-1, Wiltjer 0-2, Teague 0-3, Lamb 0-3).

Fouled Out-Behanan, Teague. ReboundsLouisville 31 (Behanan, Dieng, R. Smith 5), Kentucky 57 (Kidd-Gilchrist 19). AssistsLouisville 6 (Siva 4), Kentucky 10 (Teague 5). Total Fouls-Louisville 29, Kentucky 22.

Technicals-Behanan, Kentucky Bench.

A-24,387.

No. 9 Connecticut 83, St. John’s 69 HARTFORD, CONN. — Shabazz Napier had 17 points and nine assists for Connecticut in a game coached by assistants for both teams.

Andre Drummond had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Jeremy Lamb added 15 points for UConn (12-1, 2-0 Big East).

UConn coach Jim Calhoun was serving the second of a three-game suspension for NCAA violations, while St. John’s coach Steve Lavin continues to recover from prostate cancer surgery in October.

ST. JOHN’S (7-6) Achiuwa 4-9 8-10 16, Harkless 5-11 5-5 16, Pointer 6-9 1-3 14, Greene 2-9 1-2 6, Harrison 4-16 8-10 17, Garrett 0-2 0-0 0, Stith 0-2 0-0 0.

Totals 21-58 23-30 69.

UCONN (12-1) Daniels 2-5 2-2 6, Oriakhi 3-5 0-0 6, Drummond 7-11 2-3 16, Lamb 5-9 1-1 15, Napier 5-6 5-6 17, Wolf 0-0 0-0 0, Giffey 2-2 1-2 7, Olander 2-4 2-4 6, Boatright 3-6 3-4 10, Cochrane 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart 0-0 0-0 0, Waite 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-48 16-22 83.

Halftime-UConn 38-25. 3-Point GoalsSt. John’s 4-24 (Harkless 1-3, Pointer 1-3, Greene 1-6, Harrison 1-8, Stith 0-1, Garrett 0-1, Achiuwa 0-2), UConn 9-16 (Lamb 4-7, Napier 2-2, Giffey 2-2, Boatright 1-3, Daniels 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-St. John’s 28 (Pointer 8), UConn 32 (Drummond 11).

Assists-St. John’s 7 (Harrison 4), UConn 21 (Napier 9). Total Fouls-St. John’s 17, UConn 21. A-16,294.

No. 10 Florida 90, Yale 70 GAINESVILLE, FLA. — Kenny Boynton’s 26 points led Florida less than 40 hours after the Gators were upset at Rutgers.

Patrick Young added 19 points, and Erik Murphy had 18 for Florida (11-3), while Bradley Beal had 11.

YALE (8-4) Willhite 3-10 0-0 8, Mangano 11-18 0-0 26, Kreisberg 2-6 0-0 4, Morgan 4-12 0-0 10, Grace 2-5 0-0 4, Pritchard 0-0 0-0 0, Cotton 0-0 0-0 0, Anderson 0-0 2-2 2, Duren 1-1 0-0 3, Salafia 2-3 0-0 6, Martin 0-1 0-0 0, Kelley 0-0 0-0 0, Childs-Klein 0-0 0-0 0, Sherrod 1-3 1-1 3, Townsend 1-4 2-5 4. Totals 27-63 5-8 70.

FLORIDA (11-3) Murphy 6-12 1-2 18, Young 6-10 7-8 19, Boynton 8-12 5-7 26, Walker 1-4 0-0 3, Beal 4-8 3-5 11, Rosario 4-8 0-1 9, Wilbekin 0-0 0-0 0, Yeguete 2-3 0-0 4, Larson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-58 16-23 90.

No. 15 Mississippi St. 66, Utah St. 64 STARKVILLE, MISS. — Rodney Hood scored 16 points, and Arnett Moultrie added 15 for Mississippi State.

The Bulldogs (13-2) needed a defensive stop on its final possession to seal the win.

Utah State’s Danny Berger missed a three-pointer as time expired that would have won the game.

UTAH ST. (8-6) Grim 5-11 0-0 10, Reed 3-8 2-4 8, Pane 5-9 0-0 11, Berger 1-4 0-0 2, Medlin 5-9 4-5 15, Clifford 3-5 0-0 7, Thoseby 0-1 0-0 0, Farris 2-3 0-0 5, Bruneel 2-3 0-0 4, Stone 1-3 0-0 2.

Totals 27-56 6-9 64.

MISSISSIPPI ST. (13-2) Sidney 6-8 0-1 13, Moultrie 6-13 3-5 15, Steele 2-5 0-0 6, Bost 1-10 2-2 5, Hood 7-16 0-0 16, Bryant 2-4 0-2 4, Lewis 0-2 0-0 0, D. Smith 2-2 2-2 7. Totals 26-60 7-12 66.

Halftime-Mississippi St. 32-29. 3-Point Goals-Utah St. 4-11 (Farris 1-1, Clifford 1-2, Pane 1-2, Medlin 1-4, Berger 0-2), Mississippi St. 7-16 (Steele 2-4, Hood 2-5, Sidney 1-1, D. Smith 1-1, Bost 1-3, Bryant 0-1, Moultrie 0-1). Fouled Out-Pane. ReboundsUtah St. 31 (Clifford, Grim 7), Mississippi St. 35 (Moultrie 10). Assists-Utah St. 9 (Grim, Pane 3), Mississippi St. 14 (Bost, D. Smith 4). Total Fouls-Utah St. 17, Mississippi St. 9.

Technical-Bost. A-7,385.

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INDIANA’S VICTOR OLADIPO, TOP, PUTS UP THE GO-AHEAD SHOT against Ohio State’s Sam Thompson with 36 seconds left during the second half on Saturday in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana won 74-70.

Halftime-Florida 46-35. 3-Point Goals-Yale 11-21 (Mangano 4-6, Willhite 2-3, Salafia 2-3, Morgan 2-5, Duren 1-1, Martin 0-1, Grace 0-2), Florida 12-21 (Boynton 5-7, Murphy 5-7, Walker 1-2, Rosario 1-3, Beal 0-2). Fouled Out-Salafia. Rebounds-Yale 37 (Mangano 15), Florida 32 (Yeguete 8). Assists-Yale 19 (Grace 6), Florida 24 (Walker, Young 5).

Total Fouls-Yale 21, Florida 12. TechnicalYale Bench. A-9,119.

Iowa 72, No. 11 Wisconsin 65 MADISON, WIS. — Freshman reserve Aaron White scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half, and Iowa snapped Wisconsin’s six-game winning streak.

White was 6-of-7 from the field, including two threepointers, and made all four of his free throws as the Hawkeyes (9-6, 1-1 Big Ten) held on to beat the Badgers for just the third time in the past 15 meetings.

Senior Jordan Taylor had 17 points to lead Wisconsin (12-3, 1-1), which shot 3-for-28 from three-point range.

IOWA (9-6) Basabe 6-11 2-5 14, McCabe 3-5 0-0 6, Marble 3-6 1-3 7, Gatens 2-9 2-2 6, May 1-4 0-0 2, Olaseni 0-1 0-0 0, Oglesby 1-4 0-0 2, Brommer 0-0 0-0 0, Cartwright 7-12 3-3 17, White 6-7 4-4 18. Totals 29-59 12-17 72.

WISCONSIN (12-3) Evans 2-3 1-2 5, Bruesewitz 1-7 2-2 4, Berggren 6-17 0-0 12, Taylor 7-19 1-1 17, Gasser 2-6 7-7 11, Brust 4-13 2-2 11, Wilson 2-3 1-2 5, Kaminsky 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 24-69 14-17 65.

Halftime-Tied 31-31. 3-Point GoalsIowa 2-6 (White 2-2, Gatens 0-1, Oglesby 0-1, McCabe 0-2), Wisconsin 3-28 (Taylor 2-7, Brust 1-9, Wilson 0-1, Kaminsky 0-1, Bruesewitz 0-2, Gasser 0-3, Berggren 0-5). Fouled Out-Evans. Rebounds-Iowa 41 (Gatens 12), Wisconsin 39 (Gasser 8).

Assists-Iowa 10 (Cartwright 5), Wisconsin 9 (Taylor 4). Total Fouls-Iowa 17, Wisconsin 18. Technical-Basabe. A-17,230.

No. 12 Georgetown 49, Providence 40 WASHINGTON — Henry Sims scored five of his 11 points in the final seven minutes for Georgetown, which blew a 14-point lead and shot a season-low 30 percent.

The Hoyas won their 10th straight game despite making only eight field goals in the second half. The score was tied at 35 with eight minutes to play before Georgetown closed with a 14-5 run.

PROVIDENCE (11-4) Coleman 1-10 1-8 3, Batts 1-8 2-2 4, Cotton 2-8 0-0 6, Henton 4-7 5-6 13, Council 4-15 1-2 10, Kofane 1-2 0-0 2, Dixon 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 13-51 11-20 40.

GEORGETOWN (12-1) Thompson 2-9 0-0 4, Starks 2-3 0-0 5, Sims 2-13 7-9 11, Clark 6-12 3-3 16, Lubick 2-5 0-2 4, Whittington 0-3 0-0 0, Hopkins 0-1 0-0 0, Porter 3-7 0-1 6, Trawick 1-6 0-0 3. Totals 18-59 10-15 49.

Halftime-Georgetown 27-19. 3-Point Goals-Providence 3-13 (Cotton 2-6, Council 1-5, Coleman 0-2), Georgetown 3-17 (Starks 1-2, Trawick 1-3, Clark 1-4, Lubick 0-1, Whittington 0-1, Thompson 0-3, Porter 0-3). Fouled Out-Batts. ReboundsProvidence 45 (Henton 11), Georgetown 43 (Porter 12). Assists-Providence 6 (Council 5), Georgetown 7 (Sims 3). Total FoulsProvidence 15, Georgetown 17. A-11,834.

No. 16 Michigan St. 68, Nebraska 55 LINCOLN, NEB. — Draymond Green scored 19 points, and Keith Appling had eight of his 14 in the last seven minutes to lead Michigan State to its 13th-straight victory.

The Spartans (13-2, 2-0 Big Ten) are on their longest winning streak since the 1998-99 team won 22 straight.

Eleven of the 13 have been by double digits.

MICHIGAN ST. (13-2) Green 4-11 9-9 19, Payne 2-4 1-1 5, Appling 5-10 4-4 14, Dawson 2-5 0-0 4, Wood 3-8 1-2 7, Gauna 0-0 0-0 0, Kearney 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 2-2 4-4 9, Trice 1-3 0-0 2, Nix 4-7 0-1 8. Totals 23-50 19-21 68.

NEBRASKA (8-5) Ubel 4-7 1-1 9, McCray 5-10 2-3 14, Richardson 1-5 3-4 5, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Walker 3-8 2-3 9, Rivers 0-1 0-0 0, Hilliard 0-0 0-0 0, Niemann 0-2 0-0 0, Spencer 4-15 4-4 15, Fox 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 18-50 12-15 55.

Halftime-Nebraska 30-29. 3-Point GoalsMichigan St. 3-14 (Green 2-6, Thornton 1-1, Trice 0-2, Appling 0-2, Wood 0-3), Nebraska 7-25 (Spencer 3-9, McCray 2-4, Fox 1-1, Walker 1-5, Moore 0-1, Rivers 0-1, Richardson 0-2, Ubel 0-2). Fouled OutMcCray. Rebounds-Michigan St. 38 (Green 8), Nebraska 24 (McCray 6). AssistsMichigan St. 10 (Appling 4), Nebraska 12 (Richardson 6). Total Fouls-Michigan St. 15, Nebraska 18. A-10,679.

No. 19 UNLV 74, Hawaii 69 HONOLULU — Anthony Marshall scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lift UNLV to a win over Hawaii.

The Rebels (15-2) overcame a slow start in the first half and held off the pesky Warriors (8-6) in the second to win their sixth straight and seventh in their last eight games.

UNLV (15-2) Bellfield 1-7 1-2 3, Marshall 8-15 3-3 19, Massamba 1-1 0-0 2, Stanback 6-7 0-0 13, Moser 6-16 1-2 15, Thomas 2-5 1-3 5, Wallace 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 1-3 3-4 5, Lopez 2-4 1-2 5, Hawkins 3-8 0-0 7. Totals 30-68 10-16 74.

HAWAII (8-6) Johnson 4-11 2-3 12, Thomas 8-16 0-0 16, Ostrowski 0-5 3-4 3, Joaquim 5-11 5-7 15, Wiseman 0-3 6-8 6, Jefferson 1-3 2-3 4, Stokes 2-7 0-0 4, Rozitis 0-2 0-0 0, Brereton 3-9 2-2 9. Totals 23-67 20-27 69.

Halftime-UNLV 35-28. 3-Point Goals-UNLV 4-18 (Moser 2-5, Stanback 1-2, Hawkins 1-5, Marshall 0-1, Wallace 0-2, Bellfield 0-3), Hawaii 3-17 (Johnson 2-8, Brereton 1-4, Wiseman 0-1, Ostrowski 0-1, Stokes 0-3). Fouled Out-Thomas. Rebounds-UNLV 44 (Marshall 13), Hawaii 40 (Thomas 15).

Assists-UNLV 12 (Bellfield 5), Hawaii 9 (Ostrowski 5). Total Fouls-UNLV 25, Hawaii 14. A-6,726.

No. 21 Creighton 68, Wichita State 61 WICHITA — Antoine Young scored 19 points, and Creighton rallied in the second half to beat Wichita State.

Creighton (11-2, 1-1 Missouri Valley) trailed by 11 points late in the first half and was still down by eight at the break. But the Bluejays held Wichita State (10-3, 1-1) to just 22 points in the second half and pulled away.

CREIGHTON (11-2) McDermott 4-9 2-3 12, Gibbs 4-4 2-2 11, Echenique 5-12 2-2 12, Manigat 1-2 0-1 3, Young 5-14 8-10 19, Chatman 0-2 0-0 0, Jones 3-8 0-0 8, Dingman 0-0 0-0 0, Artino 0-0 0-0 0, Wragge 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 23-54 14-18 68.

WICHITA ST. (10-3) Hall 7-9 3-4 17, Stutz 2-8 1-1 5, Ragland 3-10 5-8 12, Murry 1-7 3-4 5, Kyles 3-11 3-3 11, Williams 1-4 0-0 2, Smith 2-7 1-3 7, Orukpe 0-1 0-0 0, Cotton 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 19-57 18-25 61.

Halftime-Wichita St. 39-31. 3-Point GoalsCreighton 8-15 (McDermott 2-2, Jones 2-5, Gibbs 1-1, Young 1-2, Manigat 1-2, Wragge 1-3), Wichita St. 5-26 (Smith 2-6, Kyles 2-9, Ragland 1-6, Murry 0-1, Williams 0-2, Stutz 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsCreighton 36 (McDermott 7), Wichita St. 38 (Hall 13). Assists-Creighton 12 (Gibbs 6), Wichita St. 9 (Ragland 3). Total FoulsCreighton 17, Wichita St. 17. TechnicalCreighton Bench. A-10,506.

No. 24 Harvard 74, Saint Joseph’s 69 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Kyle Casey scored seven of his 26 points in the closing 4:25 as Harvard completed a comeback from a late 11-point deficit.

SAINT JOSEPH’S (10-4) Aiken 4-5 0-0 9, Kanacevic 4-8 0-0 8, Galloway 6-10 0-1 15, Quarles 0-3 1-2 1, Jones 8-17 4-8 22, Roberts Jr. 4-5 0-1 8, Wilson 0-1 2-2 2, Ndao 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 27-51 9-16 69.

HARVARD (12-1) Casey 10-16 4-6 26, Wright 8-14 0-0 16, Curry 3-8 2-2 8, McNally 2-3 2-3 8, Webster 3-7 0-0 7, Rivard 1-3 2-2 4, Moundou-Missi 0-1 0-0 0, Miller 1-2 0-0 3, Saunders 0-1 0-0 0, Travis 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 29-57 10-13 74.

Halftime-Saint Joseph’s 48-38. 3-Point Goals-Saint Joseph’s 6-17 (Galloway 3-3, Jones 2-7, Aiken 1-2, Kanacevic 0-1, Ndao 0-1, Wilson 0-1, Quarles 0-2), Harvard 6-15 (McNally 2-3, Casey 2-3, Miller 1-2, Webster 1-4, Rivard 0-1, Curry 0-2). Fouled Out-Roberts Jr.. Rebounds-Saint Joseph’s 27 (Kanacevic 7), Harvard 31 (Casey 10).

Assists-Saint Joseph’s 12 (Jones 5), Harvard 15 (McNally 7). Total Fouls-Saint Joseph’s 15, Harvard 15. Technical-Kanacevic.

A-2,195.

BIG 12 MEN’S ROUNDUP

Kansas State empties its bench in rout of Howard The Associated Press

Kansas State 82, Howard 46 MANHATTAN — Frank Martin didn’t want to see Kansas State play down to the level of the opposition.

That happened earlier this season in a narrow victory over Charleston Southern.

It happened again against Loyola of Chicago and again in an overtime victory over North Florida.

It didn’t happen against Howard on Saturday.

Rodney McGruder scored 14 points, Will Spradling added 13, and Martin was able to empty his bench in an 82-46 victory, which wrapped up the Wildcats’ nonconference slate and set the table for their Big 12 opener against rival Kansas next week.

“We’re ready.

We’ve been ready. This is what the guys have worked for, to be ready,” Martin said.

Angel Rodriguez added 11 points, and Jamar Samuels and Jeremy Jones scored 10 each for Kansas State (11-1), which hit a season-high 13 three-pointers and took advantage of a nearly 10-minute stretch over the first half in which Howard (4-11) managed only one field goal.

That allowed Kansas State to build a 50-18 lead by halftime and coast the rest of the way.

“I told the guys, ‘It’s great when you take two steps forward. It’s awful when you take one step backward.

That’s wasting time,’” Martin said. “Coming into the year,

no one gave these guys credit. All they talked about was they were Jacob Pullen and a bunch of misfits. That’s not the case.”

The Wildcats, picked to finish sixth in the Big 12, will carry a six-game winning streak into their game Wednesday night against the Jayhawks, which opens an expanded 18-game conference schedule.

HOWARD (4-11) Okoroh 1-3 2-6 4, Phillips 0-3 1-2 1, Boyomo 1-2 1-2 3, Andrews 9-23 1-1 25, Frazier 0-2 1-4 1, Lee 0-3 0-0 0, Dickerson 0-2 0-0 0, Collins 1-5 0-0 2, Ford 1-3 0-0 2, Leary 1-2 5-6 7, Ellison 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 14-48 12-23 46.

KANSAS ST. (11-1) McGruder 5-7 0-0 14, Samuels 2-6 6-8 10, Gipson 2-4 4-8 8, Southwell 1-5 0-0 3, Spradling 5-8 0-0 13, Ojeleye 1-2 0-0 2, Williams 1-2 0-0 2, Lawrence 0-2 0-0 0, Rodriguez 4-7 0-0 11, Diaz 1-1 0-0 2, Henriquez 1-2 1-4 3, Jones 4-8 0-0 10, Rohleder 1-2 0-2 2, Meyer 1-1 0-4 2. Totals 29-57 11-26 82.

Halftime-Kansas St. 50-18. 3-Point GoalsHoward 6-22 (Andrews 6-16, Okoroh 0-1, Lee 0-1, Dickerson 0-1, Collins 0-3), Kansas St. 13-27 (McGruder 4-4, Rodriguez 3-6, Spradling 3-6, Jones 2-5, Southwell 1-3, Samuels 0-3). Fouled Out-Leary. ReboundsHoward 32 (Leary, Lee 6), Kansas St. 43 (Samuels 8). Assists-Howard 7 (Frazier 5), Kansas St. 20 (Southwell 6). Total FoulsHoward 21, Kansas St. 16. A-12,528.

RICE (9-5) Kazemi 2-4 7-8 11, Kuipers 1-4 0-0 3, Jackson 5-19 7-10 19, Frizzelle 5-10 1-1 14, Ennis 1-3 1-2 3, Ibrahim 1-4 0-0 3, Reischel 0-2 2-3 2, DeBose 1-3 1-2 4, Chadwick 0-1 0-0 0, Oraby 0-1 0-0 0, Gearhart 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 16-52 19-26 59.

TEXAS (10-3) Bond 1-3 2-4 4, Chapman 0-0 2-2 2, McClellan 5-10 8-9 19, Kabongo 2-6 4-6 9, Brown 7-16 6-6 23, Holmes 2-3 1-1 5, Gibbs 3-3 0-0 9, Wangmene 1-3 0-2 2. Totals 21-44 23-30 73.

Halftime-Texas 35-27. 3-Point Goals-Rice 8-19 (Frizzelle 3-5, Jackson 2-6, DeBose 1-1, Kuipers 1-2, Ibrahim 1-2, Gearhart 0-1, Ennis 0-1, Chadwick 0-1), Texas 8-18 (Gibbs 3-3, Brown 3-7, Kabongo 1-4, McClellan 1-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Rice 27 (Kazemi 10), Texas 37 (Kabongo 9).

Assists-Rice 7 (Ennis, Frizzelle, Jackson 2), Texas 9 (Kabongo 4). Total Fouls-Rice 24, Texas 23. A-14,506.

minute, to lead Virginia Tech to a win against increasingly shorthanded Oklahoma State.

Victor Davila hit two free throws with 1:30 remaining to put the Hokies (11-3) back ahead after Oklahoma State (7-6) had rallied with 10 straight points to tie it.

VIRGINIA TECH (11-3) Finney-Smith 1-5 0-0 2, Eddie 4-9 0-0 9, Davila 2-4 4-5 8, Hudson 5-10 6-6 18, Green 6-17 3-3 16, Brown 4-9 0-1 8, Raines 2-4 0-0 4, Rankin 0-0 0-0 0, Barksdale 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 24-59 15-17 67.

OKLAHOMA ST. (7-6) Olukemi 3-7 1-1 8, Nash 1-6 2-4 4, Jurick 2-2 1-2 5, Page 8-21 0-0 21, Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Guerrero 1-5 2-2 5, B. Williams 6-9 1-2 14, Soucek 0-0 0-0 0, Cobbins 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 23-55 7-11 61.

Halftime-Virginia Tech 28-23. 3-Point Goals-Virginia Tech 4-16 (Hudson 2-4, Eddie 1-2, Green 1-5, Finney-Smith 0-2, Brown 0-3), Oklahoma St. 8-22 (Page 5-14, Olukemi 1-2, B. Williams 1-2, Guerrero 1-2, Brown 0-1, Nash 0-1). Fouled Out-Guerrero.

Rebounds-Virginia Tech 47 (Finney-Smith 10), Oklahoma St. 24 (Jurick 5). AssistsVirginia Tech 6 (Green 3), Oklahoma St. 9 (Jurick, Page 3). Total Fouls-Virginia Tech 14, Oklahoma St. 17. A-12,500.

Oklahoma 83, Northwestern State 63 NORMAN, OKLA. — Oklahoma got 18 points apiece from Steven Pledger and Romero Osby, disposing of Northwestern State with a win.

OU (10-2) led by 11 at halftime and by as much as 20 overall, never trailing for the Iowa State 67, entire duration of the game.

Mississippi Valley St. 65 NORTHWESTERN ST. (7-7) AMES, IOWA — Melvin Ejim Hulbin 6-12 4-4 18, Roberson 4-8 1-2 11, Mosley 4-6 2-5 10, Davis 4-12 5-6 13, Ellis scored 15 points and grabbed 2-14 0-0 5, Jacobs 2-5 1-2 6, Robinson 0-1 0-0 15 rebounds for Iowa State.

0, Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Frazier 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart Scott Christopherson add0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-60 13-19 63.

OKLAHOMA (10-2) Texas 73, Rice 59 ed 11 points for the Cyclones Fitzgerald 5-9 4-4 14, Osby 8-13 2-2 18, AUSTIN, TEXAS — J’Covan Grooms 5-7 1-1 11, Pledger 6-11 3-4 18, Clark (10-3).

Brown scored 23 points, and 1-5 2-2 4, Franklin 0-1 0-0 0, Washington 4-5 0-0 8, Fraschilla 0-0 0-0 0, Blair 0-1 2-3 2, Neal MVSU (1-11) Texas downed Rice.

1-1 0-0 2, Honore’ 1-2 2-4 4, Arent 0-0 2-2 2.

Joyner 5-15 2-2 14, Studivant 2-4 1-2 5, Brown had three three- Totals 31-55 18-22 83.

Jones 2-10 0-2 5, Burwell 4-8 0-0 11, Crosby 5-19 11, Pajkovic 0-1 2-2 2, Arrington 1-4 Halftime-Oklahoma 40-29.

3-Point Goalspointers and was 6-of-6 from Northwestern St. 6-24 (Roberson 2-3, 1-2 3,0-1 Cox 4-6 2-2 11, Ralling 1-1 0-0 3. Totals the free-throw line. Sheldon Hulbin 2-4, Jacobs 1-2, Ellis 1-9, Stewart 24-68 8-13 65.

Robinson 0-1, Davis 0-4), Oklahoma 3-5 IOWA ST. (10-3) McClellan added 19 points in 0-1, Babb 1-6 1-3 3, Allen 2-8 3-6 8, (Pledger 3-5). Fouled Out-None. Reboundshis first start, and the Long- Northwestern St. 30 (Roberson 6), Oklahoma Christopherson 4-14 1-2 11, Gibson 2-6 0-0 4, White 0-0 0, Railey 0-1 0-0 0, Palo 1-3 6-9 horns (10-3) won in their first 38 (Clark 9). Assists-Northwestern St. 11 8, Ejim0-1 5-8 2-4 15, Booker 4-9 2-2 10, McGee (Davis 4), Oklahoma 17 (Blair 6). Total Foulsgame since losing at No. 5 Northwestern St. 19, Oklahoma 18. A-8,532. 3-8 0-0 8. Totals 22-64 15-26 67.

Halftime-Iowa St. 36-23. 3-Point GoalsNorth Carolina on Dec. 21.

MVSU 9-27 (Burwell 3-6, Joyner 2-7, Cox 1-1, Julien Lewis did not play Virginia Tech 67, Ralling 1-1, Jones 1-4, Crosby 1-5, Pajkovic 0-1, Arrington 0-2), Iowa St. 8-25 (Ejim after starting 12 straight Oklahoma St. 61 3-3, McGee 2-6, Christopherson 2-7, Allen STILLWATER, OKLA. — 1-4, Palo 0-1, Babb 0-4). Fouled Out-None. games for Texas. The fresh43 (Cox, Jones 9), Iowa St. man guard injured his left Dorenzo Hudson scored 18 Rebounds-MVSU 49 (Ejim 15). Assists-MVSU 17 (Burwell 6), hand Thursday when it got points, including four clinch- Iowa St. 12 (Ejim, Palo 3). Total Fouls-MVSU ing free throws in the final 23, Iowa St. 13. Technical-Crosby. A-12,399. caught in a car door.

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KANSAS STATE GUARD WILL SPRADLING (55) SHOOTS between Howard center Theodore Boyomo (25) and Simuel Frazier in the second half on Saturday in Manhattan. Spradling scored 13 points as Kansas State won, 82-46.

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Emotional Aggies win Meineke Bowl, 33-22 HOUSTON (AP) — After everything Texas A&M had been through in the last month, interim coach Tim DeRuyter worried how the Aggies would respond in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.

It didn’t take long for DeRuyter to see that his team was going to be just fine.

Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards and a touchdown, and Ben Malena ran for two more scores to lead Texas A&M to a 33-22 win over Northwestern on Saturday.

Northwestern led 7-3 early in the second quarter before A&M reeled off 27 straight points to take a decisive lead and then fight off a late rally to capture its first bowl victory since 2001.

Texas A&M (7-6) broke a five-game bowl losing streak in a win the team dedicated to fired coach Mike Sherman and offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio, who was killed in a car accident last week. ”When you go through the adversity our guys have been through ... there was just a sense that things weren’t quite right,” DeRuyter said.

“As a coach you’re a little bit unsettled. But when we came out and started fast, I thought: ‘These guys are really ready to play.”

A&M won a bowl for the first time since a 28-9 victory over TCU after the 2001 season. That also came in Houston, when this game was called the Galleryfurniture. com bowl.

Tannehill said all of the adversity simply gave them extra motivation. ”It’s been a long year with a

STATISTICS

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TEXAS A&M’S KYLE MANGAN (18), UZOMA NWACHUKWU (7), JONATHAN STEWART (11) AND NEHEMIAH HICKS CELEBRATE after winning the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Saturday in Houston. Texas A&M defeated Northwestern, 33-22. lot of ups and downs,” Tannehill said. “To get a bowl win for the first time in 10 years, to play for Joey V. most importantly and his family and coach Sherman — there’s many different levels to it, but a win satisfies them all.”

Malena ran for 77 yards, filling in ably for Cyrus Gray, who missed his second straight game with a stress fracture in his left shoulder.

Northwestern (6-7) hasn’t won a bowl game since the 1949 Rose Bowl, a span of nine losses.

Dan Persa, who finished

with 213 yards passing, was disappointed he couldn’t help the team break its bowl win drought. ”We failed in that regard,” he said. “We let everyone down and we know it.”

Persa set an NCAA record for career completion percentage (73.6) by going 25of-37 to end his career 460 of 633. He entered the game needing 19 attempts to meet the minimum standards to qualify for the record.

The Aggies were up 30-7 before Brian Peters intercepted Tannehill early in the

fourth quarter and the Wildcats took advantage of that mistake when Kain Colter scored on a one-yard run for Northwestern’s first points since early in the second quarter. The two-point conversion left A&M ahead 30-15.

Colter found Tim Riley in the corner of the end zone for on a two-yard TD pass to get Northwestern within eight with less than six minutes left.

A&M responded with a clock-eating drive capped by a 31-yard field goal to secure the win. Senior Jeff Fuller, who has had a disappointing

and injury-plagued year, had a key third down catch for 29 yards on that drive and finished with a season-high 119 yards receiving.

DeRuyter was with the team for his last game before leaving to become Fresno State’s coach. The Aggies hired former Houston coach Kevin Sumlin earlier this month to replace Sherman, but he wasn’t involved in bowl preparations.

Texas A&M wore helmet decals honoring Villavisencio, who died Dec. 22. The black and white decal, which

Texas A&M 3 17 10 3 —33 Northwestern 0 7 0 15 —22 First Quarter TAM-FG Bullock 24, 5:46.

Second Quarter NU-Mark 2 run (Budzien kick), 10:12.

TAM-Malena 1 run (Bullock kick), 7:58.

TAM-Fuller 26 pass from Tannehill (Bullock kick), 1:31.

TAM-FG Bullock 40, :00.

Third Quarter TAM-Malena 19 run (Bullock kick), 10:00.

TAM-FG Bullock 47, 5:59.

Fourth Quarter NU-Colter 1 run (Fields pass from Ebert), 11:15.

NU-Riley 2 pass from Colter (Budzien kick), 5:22.

TAM-FG Bullock 31, :30.

A-68,395.

TAM NU First downs 22 24 Rushes-yards 27-80 38-52 Passing 329 226 Comp-Att-Int 27-40-1 27-40-0 Return Yards 54 50 Punts-Avg. 4-45.0 8-42.1 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 7-67 8-67 Time of Possession 26:41 33:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Texas A&M, Malena 23-77, Tannehill 3-10, R.Swope 1-(minus 7).

Northwestern, Colter 17-65, Green 3-13, Mark 3-7, Schmidt 5-6, Persa 10-(minus 39).

PASSING-Texas A&M, Tannehill 27-40-1329. Northwestern, Persa 25-37-0-213, Colter 2-3-0-13.

RECEIVING-Texas A&M, R.Swope 8-105, Fuller 7-119, Malena 6-36, Nwachukwu 5-67, Prioleau 1-2. Northwestern, Fields 7-73, Ebert 4-35, Schmidt 4-32, Lawrence 3-28, Colter 3-12, Dunsmore 2-13, Jensen 1-12, Moulton 1-11, Green 1-8, Riley 1-2.

says ‘Joey V.,’ had his No. 67 and the Texas A&M logo.

There was a moment of silence for Villavisencio before the game and fellow offensive lineman Danny Baker wore his number and greeted his father before the game. ”Hopefully we were able to give some comfort to Joey V’s family,” DeRuyter said.

“I think it was uplifting for them to be here.”

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said the loud, heavily A&M crowd made things difficult for his offense.

Utah powers past Ga. Tech in Sun Bowl Cincy slides by Vandy EL PASO, TEXAS (AP) — John White took his final hand-off of the day, followed his lead blocker and set of a celebration.

White plowed into the end zone from 8 yards out to give Utah a 30-27 overtime victory against Georgia Tech on Saturday in the Sun Bowl.

“They trusted me with the ball, so I saw Shawn Asiata blast somebody and I knew I was going to go in,” White said.

“As soon as the ball crossed the plain I looked up to the ref and saw his hands go up and knew it was a touchdown so I just wanted to go celebrate with my teammates.”

Justin Moore kicked a 34yard field goal in Georgia Tech’s overtime possession to take a three-point lead, but White finished a 115-yard rushing day with the gamewinning score on his 26th carry.

The Utes (8-5) tied it in regulation when Jon Hays hit DeVonte Christopher with a 28-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-14 with 1:32 left in the fourth quarter.

“There’s no quit in these guys,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. “They kept believing, coaches kept believing, and we found a way to win in the end.”

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson was disappointed with his team’s play in the fourth quarter.

“We couldn’t block in the fourth quarter and the plays we needed to make just didn’t happen,” Johnson said. “It feels like somebody kicked you in the gut. When you are competitive, it really hurts” The Yellow Jackets (8-5) drove to the Utah 31 with two

in Liberty Bowl, 31-24

STATISTICS

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UTAH RUNNING BACK JOHN WHITE RUSHES during the second quarter in the Sun Bowl against Georgia Tech on Saturday in El Paso, Texas. Utah won, 30-27, in overtime. seconds left, but David Scully missed a 48-yard field-goal attempt as time expired to send the Sun Bowl to overtime for the first time in its 77-year history. Moore had earlier missed two 42-yard tries for Tech.

“I thought (Scully) hit the ball good and I actually thought it went in but I guess it was a few feet to the right,” Johnson said. “We didn’t make enough plays and we missed three field goals.”

Georgia Tech lost its seventh straight bowl appearance

and Utah improved to 7-1 in bowls under Whittingham.

Georgia Tech’s Preston Lyons, who came in with only 39 carries, rushed for a career-best 140 yards on 18 carries and Tevin Washington passed for 137 yards and ran for 97.

Utah grabbed a 7-0 lead on Asiata capped the gameopening drive with a 1-yard run.

With David Sims out of with an injury and Orwin Smith also ailing, Georgia Tech relied heavily on Lyons,

Georgia Tech 0 7 17 0 3 —27 Utah 7 3 0 14 6 —30 First Quarter Utah-S.Asiata 1 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 9:54.

Second Quarter GaT-Lyons 36 run (Ju.Moore kick), 11:39.

Utah-FG Petersen 25, :15.

Third Quarter GaT-FG Ju.Moore 32, 10:27.

GaT-S.Hill 31 pass from Washington (Ju. Moore kick), 4:43.

GaT-Nealy 74 interception return (Ju. Moore kick), 4:15.

Fourth Quarter Utah-Moeai 3 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 6:50.

Utah-Christopher 28 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 1:32.

Overtime GaT-FG Ju.Moore 34.

Utah-J.White 8 run.

A-48,123.

GaT Utah First downs 19 14 Rushes-yards 56-311 32-144 Passing 137 193 Comp-Att-Int 11-15-0 15-32-1 Return Yards 84 41 Punts-Avg. 5-45.6 8-49.5 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 4-30 4-20 Time of Possession 33:58 26:02 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Georgia Tech, Lyons 18-138, Washington 20-96, Peeples 9-59, Jones 5-20, S.Hill 1-2, Perkins 1-(minus 1), O.Smith 1-(minus 1), Team 1-(minus 2). Utah, J.White 26-115, Dunn 2-37, Hays 4-(minus 8).

PASSING-Georgia Tech, Washington 11-15-0-137. Utah, Hays 15-31-1-193, Christopher 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Georgia Tech, Melton 3-19, Jones 3-17, S.Hill 2-35, Lyons 2-8, Peeples 1-58. Utah, S.Asiata 5-57, Christopher 4-74, Moeai 2-8, Matthews 1-31, Rolf 1-20, M.Walker 1-6, J.White 1-(minus 3).

who put the Yellow Jackets on the board with a 36-yard run up the middle tie the game at 7.

Lyons finished the first half with 129 yards on 12 carries.

“Defensively we were real soft against the running game in the first half,” Whittingham said. “They had a nice scheme and showed us stuff we didn’t practice. It took us a while to adjust to that and we gave a bunch of rushing yards in the first half however only seven points, which is the bottom line.”

Auburn fries Virginia in Chick-fil-A Bowl ATLANTA (AP) — Playing without its top quarterback and running back, Auburn used tandems at each position to set a season scoring high and beat Virginia 43-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday night.

Auburn was without running back Mike Dyer, who was suspended for an undisclosed rules violation.

Quarterback Clint Moseley left because of an ankle injury early in the first quarter.

Onterio McCalebb, who said this week he wanted to “show everybody I can do

it all,” scored on a threeyard run and 25-yard catch while starting for Dyer.

McCalebb had 109 yards rushing.

Tre Mason added 64 yards rushing, including a 22-yard scoring run.

The offensive outburst came in Auburn’s last game with offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, who has been hired as the Arkansas State coach.

Barrett Trotter passed for 175 yards and a touchdown while sharing time with Kiehl Frazier, who ran for two touchdowns.

STATISTICS Virginia Auburn

7 7

10 21

7 12

0—24 3—43

First Quarter UVa-Burd 27 pass from Rocco (Randolph kick), 8:05.

Aub-Frazier 3 run (Parkey kick), 4:02.

Second Quarter UVa-Burd 6 pass from Rocco (Randolph kick), 12:59.

Aub-McCalebb 3 run (Parkey kick), 10:33.

Aub-Frazier 1 run (Parkey kick), 8:44.

Aub-McCalebb 25 pass from Trotter (Parkey kick), :59.

UVa-FG Randolph 24, :00.

Third Quarter Aub-Mason 22 run (Parkey kick), 11:09.

UVa-Parks 1 run (Randolph kick), 6:20.

Aub-Safety, 1:57.

Aub-FG Parkey 45, :47.

Fourth Quarter Aub-FG Parkey 37, 8:09.

A-72,919.

First downs Rushes-yards Passing Comp-Att-Int Return Yards Punts-Avg. Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

UVa 25 30-123 312 26-41-1 0 3-13.0 1-1 3-25 28:40

Aub 22 44-273 181 12-23-0 22 3-49.0 2-0 6-65 31:20

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Virginia, Parks 11-48, Richardson 6-33, P.Jones 8-32, Jennings 1-5, Milien 1-5, Hodges 1-3, Rocco 2-(minus 3). Auburn, McCalebb 10-109, Mason 9-64, Frazier 16-55, Trotter 5-32, Bray 1-16, Moseley 1-(minus 1), Team 2-(minus 2).

PASSING-Virginia, Rocco 26-41-1-312.

Auburn, Trotter 11-18-0-175, Moseley 1-4-06, Bray 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Virginia, P.Jones 7-90, Burd 6-103, Jennings 4-35, Keys 2-24, Milien 2-23, Phillips 2-7, D.Terrell 1-29, M.Snyder 1-5, Parks 1-(minus 4). Auburn, Blake 6-108, Bray 3-12, McCalebb 2-53, Wisner 1-8.

MEMPHIS, TENN. (AP) — Isaiah Pead ran for 149 yards and a touchdown, and Ralph David Abernathy IV’s 90-yard kickoff return early in the fourth quarter put Cincinnati ahead to stay as the Bearcats edged Vanderbilt 31-24 on Saturday in the Liberty Bowl.

The Bearcats (10-3) capped the season with their third straight victory.

But the co-Big East Conference champs had to work to put away Vanderbilt (6-7), a team that tied for fourth in the Southeastern Conference, despite forcing three turnovers and coming up with two sacks. The Commodores led 21-17 when Abernathy returned the kickoff for a TD. Vandy’s Archibald Barnes blocked Tony Miliano’s 39yard field goal with 3:58 left, giving the Commodores the ball with plenty of time to go ahead. Nick Temple picked off a Larry Smith pass with 3:15 remaining, and Pead sealed the victory with a 12yard TD run with 1:52 left.

Pead was the game’s MVP.

STATISTICS Cincinnati 0 14 0 17—31 Vanderbilt 7 0 7 10—24 First Quarter Van-Stacy 7 run (Fowler kick), 7:34.

Second Quarter Cin-Winn 69 run (Miliano kick), 14:17.

Cin-McClung 8 pass from Collaros (Miliano kick), :12.

Third Quarter Van-J.Seymour 5 run (Fowler kick), 3:53.

Fourth Quarter Cin-FG Miliano 44, 14:41.

Van-Boyd 68 pass from Smith (Fowler kick), 14:03.

Cin-Abernathy 90 kickoff return (Miliano kick), 13:51.

Cin-Pead 12 run (Miliano kick), 1:52.

Van-FG Fowler 35, :24.

A-57,103.

Cin Van First downs 20 14 Rushes-yards 44-221 36-127 Passing 80 168 Comp-Att-Int 12-29-2 12-34-2 Return Yards 16 33 Punts-Avg. 7-42.9 8-42.3 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 5-55 6-39 Time of Possession 30:37 29:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Cincinnati, Pead 28-149, Winn 6-78, McClung 1-4, Team 1-(minus 2), Collaros 8-(minus 8). Vanderbilt, Stacy 18-57, Rodgers 9-33, Kent 1-17, Smith 5-17, J.Seymour 2-5, Team 1-(minus 2).

PASSING-Cincinnati, Collaros 12-29-2-80.

Vanderbilt, Smith 8-19-1-142, Rodgers 4-141-26, Stacy 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Cincinnati, Robinson 4-16, Kelce 3-29, Pead 3-15, Chisum 1-12, McClung 1-8. Vanderbilt, Matthews 4-56, Barden 3-20, Boyd 2-69, Stacy 2-11, Tate 1-12.

Illinois snaps loss streak in Fight Hunger Bowl SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Terry Hawthorne returned an interception 39 yards for Illinois’ first touchdown late in the third quarter and the Illini snapped a six-game losing streak by beating UCLA 20-14 in the Fight Hunger Bowl.

Nathan Scheelhaase added a 60-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Jenkins midway through the fourth quarter to seal the first victory for Illinois (76) since beating Indiana 12 weeks ago.

The game between two six-win teams who have already fired their head coaches matched the underwhelming expectations as there was little excitement before Hawthorne’s third-quarter touchdown that gave Illinois its first lead.

UCLA (6-8) was held to 18 yards rushing in its third straight loss.

Kevin Prince threw two touchdown passes, including one in the closing minute to Nelson Rosario after the game had been decided.

STATISTICS Illinois 0 3 7 10—20 UCLA 0 7 0 7—14 Second Quarter UCLA-Embree 16 pass from Prince (Wallace kick), 10:02.

Ill-FG Dimke 36, :00.

Third Quarter Ill-Hawthorne 39 interception return (Dimke kick), :43.

Fourth Quarter Ill-FG Dimke 37, 12:17.

Ill-Jenkins 60 pass from Scheelhaase (Dimke kick), 5:36.

UCLA-Rosario 38 pass from Prince (Gonzalez kick), :29.

A-N/A. Ill UCLA First downs 17 14 Rushes-yards 43-178 30-18 Passing 148 201 Comp-Att-Int 19-33-1 14-29-1 Return Yards 70 (-1) Punts-Avg. 5-46.0 8-45.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 4-1 Penalties-Yards 6-51 3-15 Time of Possession 33:46 26:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Illinois, Scheelhaase 22-110, Young 12-45, Jenkins 1-16, Pollard 4-13, O’Toole 1-1, Team 1-(minus 1), Millines 1-(minus 2), Dimke 1-(minus 4). UCLA, Coleman 9-39, Franklin 8-29, James 2-(minus 6), Team 1-(minus 13), Prince 10-(minus 31).

PASSING-Illinois, Scheelhaase 18-30-1139, O’Toole 0-2-0-0, Millines 1-1-0-9. UCLA, Prince 14-29-1-201.

RECEIVING-Illinois, Jenkins 6-80, Lankford 3-25, Millines 2-18, Viliunas 2-15, Young 2-(minus 1), Scheelhaase 1-9, Harris 1-6, Davis 1-0, Pollard 1-(minus 4). UCLA, Fauria 5-36, J.Smith 3-60, Rosario 3-55, Evans 1-29, Embree 1-16, Coleman 1-5.

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SCOREBOARD

Sunday, January 1, 2012

THE DIRECT APPROACH

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 12 3 0 .800 464 N.Y. Jets 8 7 0 .533 360 Buffalo 6 9 0 .400 351 Miami 5 10 0 .333 310 South W L T Pct PF y-Houston 10 5 0 .667 359 Tennessee 8 7 0 .533 302 Jacksonville 4 11 0 .267 224 Indianapolis 2 13 0 .133 230 North W L T Pct PF x-Baltimore 11 4 0 .733 354 x-Pittsburgh 11 4 0 .733 312 Cincinnati 9 6 0 .600 328 Cleveland 4 11 0 .267 209 West W L T Pct PF Denver 8 7 0 .533 306 Oakland 8 7 0 .533 333 San Diego 7 8 0 .467 368 Kansas City 6 9 0 .400 205 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 8 7 0 .533 363 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 355 Philadelphia 7 8 0 .467 362 Washington 5 10 0 .333 278 South W L T Pct PF y-New Orleans 12 3 0 .800 502 x-Atlanta 9 6 0 .600 357 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 389 Tampa Bay 4 11 0 .267 263 North W L T Pct PF y-Green Bay 14 1 0 .933 515 x-Detroit 10 5 0 .667 433 Chicago 7 8 0 .467 336 Minnesota 3 12 0 .200 327 West W L T Pct PF y-San Francisco 12 3 0 .800 346 Seattle 7 8 0 .467 301 Arizona 7 8 0 .467 289 St. Louis 2 13 0 .133 166 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Today Chicago at Minnesota, noon Carolina at New Orleans, noon Detroit at Green Bay, noon San Francisco at St. Louis, noon Tennessee at Houston, noon Buffalo at New England, noon N.Y. Jets at Miami, noon Indianapolis at Jacksonville, noon Washington at Philadelphia, noon San Diego at Oakland, 3:15 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 3:15 p.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 3:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 3:15 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD SOUTH Appalachian St. 64, Longwood 54 Charleston Southern 76, Presbyterian 67 Coastal Carolina 58, Winthrop 54 E. Kentucky 79, Tennessee St. 59 FAU 66, Louisiana-Lafayette 52 High Point 89, UNC Asheville 49 Liberty 76, Radford 68 Louisiana-Monroe 83, Arkansas St. 57 Middle Tennessee 60, South Alabama 39 Morehead St. 74, Austin Peay 67 UT-Martin 83, Tennessee Tech 61 Wake Forest 68, Davidson 66 MIDWEST DePaul 65, N. Illinois 46 Detroit 68, Valparaiso 52 Drake 47, Creighton 44 Marquette 69, Toledo 60 Marshall 60, Ball St. 58 Murray St. 80, SE Missouri 75 N. Dakota St. 78, Oakland 65 N. Iowa 62, Missouri St. 54 S. Dakota St. 81, IPFW 58 SIU-Edwardsville 79, Jacksonville St. 39 UMKC 92, Oral Roberts 79 W. Illinois 65, IUPUI 60 Wichita St. 71, Bradley 58 Wright St. 48, Butler 47 Youngstown St. 70, Cleveland St. 48 SOUTHWEST North Texas 57, Troy 36 TCU 66, Texas Southern 38 Texas-Arlington 78, Houston Baptist 61 UTEP 81, Texas St. 58 FAR WEST Arizona St. 60, Arizona 45 Boise St. 85, Utah Valley 64 Bowling Green 70, Colorado St. 57 Brown 61, San Jose St. 47 CS Northridge 63, UC Riverside 55 Cal Poly 61, UC Santa Barbara 58 Cal St.-Fullerton 58, UC Davis 50 Colorado 58, Utah 52 Long Beach St. 63, UC Irvine 51 Montana St. 95, Portland St. 83 N. Colorado 77, N. Arizona 71 Oregon 88, Washington 86 Pepperdine 62, Santa Clara 56 Sacramento St. 78, Weber St. 60 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 54, BYU 48 San Francisco 61, Loyola Marymount 59 Southern Cal 74, California 54 Stanford 77, UCLA 50 UALR 53, Denver 51 Washington St. 61, Oregon St. 54, 2OT

PA 321 344 385 296 PA 255 295 316 411 PA 250 218 299 294 PA 383 395 351 335 PA 386 316 318 333 PA 322 326 384 449 PA 318 342 328 432 PA 202 292 328 373

Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo

ILLINOIS INTERIM COACH VIC KOENNING, FRONT, FACES HIS TEAM RIGHT BEFORE HE IS DOUSED after Illinois defeated UCLA, 20-14, in the Fight Hunger Bowl on Saturday in San Francisco.

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) Green Bay, W 19-14 (6-8) Oakland, L 13-16 (OT) (6-9) Today — at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

Cutler, CHI C. Newton, CAR Vick, PHL Rushers L. McCoy, PHL Gore, SNF M. Turner, ATL M. Lynch, SEA S. Jackson, STL B. Wells, ARI Forte, CHI A. Peterson, MIN Murray, DAL DeA. Williams, CAR Receivers

AFC Individual Leaders Week 16 Quarterbacks

Att 576 292 473 316 556 472 523 483 523 511

Com Yds 378 4897 178 2479 301 3856 189 2375 347 4314 278 3166 324 3525 297 3274 297 3480 287 3267

TD 36 15 21 15 24 20 22 16 19 24

Int 11 6 14 7 19 13 19 14 12 15

Att 318 278 267 222 216 221 260 239 247 170

Yds Avg 1437 4.52 1224 4.40 1173 4.39 1091 4.91 1086 5.03 1054 4.77 1016 3.91 999 4.18 986 3.99 934 5.49

LG 43 43 67 39 76t 60t 42 31 48t 80t

TD 8 10 10 6 6 4 6 6 4 6

No Welker, NWE 116 R. Gronkowski, NWE 82 B. Marshall, MIA 77 Bowe, KAN 75 R. Rice, BAL 74 St. Johnson, BUF 72 Hernandez, NWE 72 M. Wallace, PIT 71 N. Washington, TEN 70 Garcon, IND 68 Punters

Yds Avg 1518 13.1 1219 14.9 1177 15.3 1066 14.2 696 9.4 964 13.4 772 10.7 1182 16.6 931 13.3 925 13.6

LG 99t 52t 65t 52t 52 55 46 95t 57 87t

TD 9 15 6 5 3 6 6 8 6 6

No 77 74 69 92 47 85 66 55 81 58

Yds 3902 3618 3348 4381 2234 3966 3066 2551 3707 2573

LG 80 70 66 66 71 64 62 65 68 69

Avg 50.7 48.9 48.5 47.6 47.5 46.7 46.5 46.4 45.8 44.4

No 29 37 31 30 27 28 42 47 49 29

Yds 388 442 366 325 291 300 447 498 518 290

Avg 13.4 11.9 11.8 10.8 10.8 10.7 10.6 10.6 10.6 10.0

LG 37 25 84t 60t 53 72t 79t 56t 79t 68t

TD 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1

No 32 24 28 37 32 24 39 31 25 28

Yds Avg 1022 31.9 664 27.7 721 25.8 951 25.7 801 25.0 573 23.9 926 23.7 725 23.4 557 22.3 548 19.6

Brady, NWE Schaub, HOU Roethlisberger, PIT Mat. Moore, MIA Rivers, SND Dalton, CIN Fitzpatrick, BUF Hasselbeck, TEN Flacco, BAL Sanchez, NYJ Rushers Jones-Drew, JAC A. Foster, HOU R. Rice, BAL Ry. Mathews, SND Re. Bush, MIA McGahee, DEN Benson, CIN S. Greene, NYJ Chr. Johnson, TEN F. Jackson, BUF Receivers

Lechler, OAK Fields, MIA Moorman, BUF B. Colquitt, DEN Scifres, SND McAfee, IND Koch, BAL Mesko, NWE D. Colquitt, KAN Hartmann, HOU Punt Returners Arenas, KAN Bess, MIA Cribbs, CLE An. Brown, PIT Kerley, NYJ Edelman, NWE Mariani, TEN Br. Tate, CIN Jac. Jones, HOU L. Webb, BAL Kickoff Returners McKnight, NYJ An. Brown, PIT R. Goodman, SND Cribbs, CLE C. Gates, MIA Karim, JAC Br. Tate, CIN Mariani, TEN McCluster, KAN Lefeged, IND Scoring Touchdowns

LG TD 107t 1 52 0 44 0 63 0 77 0 37 0 45 0 49 0 35 0 51 0

TD Rush Rec Ret R. Gronkowski, NWE 16 1 15 0 R. Rice, BAL 13 10 3 0 A. Foster, HOU 12 10 2 0 Jones-Drew, JAC 11 8 3 0 Decker, DEN 9 0 8 1 Green-Ellis, NWE 9 9 0 0 Mendenhall, PIT 9 9 0 0 Tolbert, SND 9 7 2 0 Welker, NWE 9 0 9 0 Burress, NYJ 8 0 8 0 Kicking PAT FG LG Gostkowski, NWE 54-5426-31 50 Rackers, HOU 38-3929-35 54 Nugent, CIN 32-3330-34 49 Cundiff, BAL 35-3527-36 51 Janikowski, OAK 34-3427-31 63 Novak, SND 36-3726-32 53 Bironas, TEN 32-3226-29 53 D. Carpenter, MIA 25-2525-30 51 Suisham, PIT 35-3521-28 51 Folk, NYJ 42-4218-24 51

Pts 96 78 72 66 54 54 54 54 54 48 Pts 132 125 122 116 115 114 110 100 98 96

NFC Individual Leaders Week 16 Quarterbacks

A. Rodgers, GBY Brees, NOR Romo, DAL Stafford, DET M. Ryan, ATL E. Manning, NYG Ale. Smith, SNF

Att 502 622 485 604 557 556 415

Com Yds 343 4643 440 5087 317 3895 385 4518 341 4071 335 4587 253 2931

TD 45 41 29 36 27 26 16

Int 6 13 9 14 12 16 5

R. White, ATL J. Graham, NOR Ca. Johnson, DET Sproles, NOR T. Gonzalez, ATL Harvin, MIN Cruz, NYG Pettigrew, DET St. Smith, CAR Colston, NOR Punters A. Lee, SNF Morstead, NOR J. Ryan, SEA Weatherford, NYG Masthay, GBY Kluwe, MIN Zastudil, ARI Koenen, TAM Donn. Jones, STL McBriar, DAL Punt Returners D. Hester, CHI P. Peterson, ARI Ginn Jr., SNF L. Washington, SEA Cobb, GBY Weems, ATL Banks, WAS Sproles, NOR P. Parker, TAM Sherels, MIN Kickoff Returners

314 182 2319 13 492 295 3893 20 384 229 2968 15

7 16 13

Att 273 275 284 266 244 245 203 208 164 148

Yds Avg 1309 4.79 1202 4.37 1168 4.11 1118 4.20 1069 4.38 1047 4.27 997 4.91 970 4.66 897 5.47 783 5.29

LG 60 55 61 47 47t 71 46 54 91t 74t

TD 17 8 9 12 5 10 3 12 2 7

No 96 91 85 81 79 77 76 76 73 73

Yds Avg 1227 12.8 1213 13.3 1437 16.9 681 8.4 867 11.0 852 11.1 1358 17.9 661 8.7 1308 17.9 998 13.7

LG 43 59 73t 39 30 52t 99t 27 77t 50

TD 8 10 15 6 7 6 8 5 6 6

No 73 45 87 78 51 71 80 64 99 58

Yds 3686 2160 4074 3584 2330 3241 3605 2874 4348 2542

LG 68 64 77 62 71 60 66 65 65 68

Avg 50.5 48.0 46.8 45.9 45.7 45.6 45.1 44.9 43.9 43.8

Yds 450 636 466 422 295 306 329 249 210 277

Avg 17.3 15.9 12.3 11.4 11.3 9.9 9.7 9.6 9.1 8.4

LG 82t 99t 55t 37 80t 42 55 72t 34 53

TD 2 4 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0

No 26 40 38 37 26 31 34 26 23 33

No Cobb, GBY 34 Ginn Jr., SNF 29 Sproles, NOR 38 Stroughter, TAM 20 Pilares, CAR 21 Je. Norwood, STL 19 Logan, DET 29 L. Washington, SEA 41 Dev. Thomas, NYG 24 Stphns-Howling, ARI 36 Scoring Touchdowns TD L. McCoy, PHL 20 Ca. Johnson, DET 15 C. Newton, CAR 14 M. Lynch, SEA 13 A. Peterson, MIN 13 Jor. Nelson, GBY 12 J. Graham, NOR 10 B. Wells, ARI 10 Bradshaw, NYG 9 D. Bryant, DAL 9 Kicking Akers, SNF Kasay, NOR D. Bailey, DAL Crosby, GBY Ja. Hanson, DET M. Bryant, ATL Gould, CHI Gano, WAS Henery, PHL Mare, CAR

Yds Avg 941 27.7 800 27.6 1035 27.2 540 27.0 553 26.3 481 25.3 729 25.1 1000 24.4 576 24.0 857 23.8

LG TD 108t 1 102t 1 92 0 78 0 101t 1 47 0 42 0 54 0 40 0 37 0

Rush Rec Ret Pts 17 3 0 120 0 15 0 90 14 0 0 84 12 1 0 78 12 1 0 78 0 12 0 72 0 10 0 60 10 0 0 60 8 1 0 56 0 9 0 54 PAT FG 30-3042-49 57-5727-33 37-3732-36 62-6323-26 50-5023-27 39-3926-28 35-3527-31 24-2530-39 42-4222-25 42-4321-27

College Bowl Glance

LG 55 53 51 58 51 51 57 59 51 45

Pts 156 138 133 131 119 117 116 114 108 105

Saturday, Dec. 17 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, Dec. 20 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall 20, FIU 10 Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Southern Mississippi 24, Nevada 17 Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Missouri 41, North Carolina 24 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Purdue 37, Western Michigan 32 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State 31, Louisville 24

Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Toledo 42, Air Force 41 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas 21, California 10 Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State 18, Notre Dame 14 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor 67, Washington 56 Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas BYU 24, Tulsa 21 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Rutgers 27, Iowa State 13 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17 Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma 31, Iowa 14 Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Illinois 20, UCLA 14 Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Auburn 43, Virginia 24 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, 3 p.m., (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 3 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 1 p.m. (CBSSN)

Big 12 Men Baylor Missouri Kansas State Oklahoma Iowa State Kansas Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Oklahoma State

Saturday’s Games Kansas 84, North Dakota 58 Virginia Tech 67, Oklahoma State 61 Iowa State 67, Mississippi Valley State 65 Kansas State 82, Howard 46 Texas 73, Rice 59 Oklahoma 83, Northwestern State 63 Monday, Jan. 2 Texas A&M at Baylor, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 3 Oklahoma at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 4 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Texas at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 7 Kansas at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

Baylor at Texas Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Missouri at Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.

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

Oklahoma State at Texas, 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 9 Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 10 Baylor at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 11 Kansas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Missouri at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

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

Big 12 Women

Conf.

Overall W L W L Baylor 0 0 13 0 Texas Tech 0 0 12 0 Kansas 0 0 11 1 Missouri 0 0 10 1 Oklahoma State 0 0 8 1 Texas 0 0 10 2 Texas A&M 0 0 9 2 Iowa State 0 0 9 2 Kansas State 0 0 9 3 Oklahoma 0 0 8 3 Friday’s Games Baylor 93, Mississippi Valley State 55 Texas A&M 72, McNeese State 62 Missouri 66, Sam Houston State 48 Iowa State 65, Buffalo 45 Texas Tech 58, San Diego 57 Long Island 64, Oklahoma State 63 Wednesday, Jan. 4 Kansas at Texas, 8 p.m.

Texas A&M at Kansas State, 5:30 p.m.

Missouri at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Iowa State at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 7 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Texas at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Texas Tech at Missouri, 4 p.m.

Baylor at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 8 Oklahoma at Texas A&M, 2 p.m.

Kansas Men

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) Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), L 74-80 (7-3) USC, W 63-47 (8-3) Howard, W 89-34 (9-3) North Dakota, W 84-58 (10-3) 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.

Kansas Women Conf.

W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Overall W L 13 0 13 0 11 1 10 2 10 3 10 3 10 3 9 3 7 5 7 6

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0)

SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1) Wisconsin, W 73-44 (8-1) UMKC, W 77-52 (9-1) Oral Roberts, W 85-68 (10-1) Sam Houston State, W 87-59 (11-1) 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 Men

EAST Albany (NY) 65, Mount St. Mary’s 64 Army 79, St. Francis (NY) 70 Bucknell 63, Cornell 60 Drexel 63, St. Francis (Pa.) 42 Duquesne 118, Houston Baptist 72 George Washington 77, Delaware St. 59 Georgetown 49, Providence 40 Harvard 74, Saint Joseph’s 69 Holy Cross 65, Dartmouth 61 La Salle 73, Hartford 55 Lehigh 72, Bryant 55 New Hampshire 71, Colgate 64 Quinnipiac 59, Boston U. 53 UConn 83, St. John’s 69 SOUTH Arkansas St. 65, Louisiana-Monroe 63 Charleston Southern 81, Liberty 76 Coastal Carolina 55, High Point 52 E. Kentucky 73, Tennessee St. 68 East Carolina 91, Virginia-Wise 56 FIU 81, W. Kentucky 63 Florida 90, Yale 70 Gardner-Webb 61, Radford 55 Kentucky 69, Louisville 62 Louisiana-Lafayette 67, FAU 55 Maryland 75, Samford 63 Memphis 67, Charlotte 58 Middle Tennessee 68, South Alabama 52 Mississippi St. 66, Utah St. 64 Morehead St. 68, Austin Peay 64 NC State 82, W. Carolina 55 South Carolina 72, SC-Upstate 66 Southern Miss. 65, McNeese St. 56 Tennessee Tech 85, UT-Martin 62 UAB 92, Alabama A&M 58 UNC Asheville 73, Winthrop 68, OT VMI 78, Presbyterian 70, OT MIDWEST Ball St. 86, Chicago St. 58 Butler 54, Milwaukee 50 Creighton 68, Wichita St. 61 Detroit 65, Loyola of Chicago 54 Gonzaga 72, Xavier 65 Indiana 74, Ohio St. 70 Indiana St. 77, Bradley 66 Iowa 72, Wisconsin 65 Iowa St. 67, MVSU 65 Kansas 84, North Dakota 58 Kansas St. 82, Howard 46 Michigan St. 68, Nebraska 55 Missouri St. 72, Drake 61 Purdue 75, Illinois 60 SIU-Edwardsville 66, Jacksonville St. 61 Valparaiso 90, Green Bay 87 Wright St. 74, Ill.-Chicago 70, OT Youngstown St. 73, Cleveland St. 67 SOUTHWEST Lamar 102, Lyon 58 North Texas 87, Troy 65 Oklahoma 83, Northwestern St. 63 SMU 73, Louisiana Tech 65 Texas 73, Rice 59 Tulane 53, Texas-Pan American 42 Tulsa 74, TCU 66 Virginia Tech 67, Oklahoma St. 61 FAR WEST Arizona 68, Arizona St. 51 BYU 88, San Diego 52 California 85, UCLA 69 Colorado 73, Utah 33 Idaho 76, Boise St. 73 Loyola Marymount 77, San Francisco 76, OT N. Colorado 80, N. Arizona 64 New Mexico 64, Saint Louis 60 New Mexico St. 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 65 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 74, Pepperdine 45 Stanford 51, Southern Cal 43 UALR 66, Denver 59 UNLV 74, Hawaii 69 Washington 76, Oregon 60 Washington St. 81, Oregon St. 76 Weber St. 74, Sacramento St. 63

College Women

EAST Duquesne 66, Robert Morris 63 Mount St. Mary’s 58, Bucknell 46 Pittsburgh 74, Lafayette 69, OT Princeton 63, Drexel 51 Providence 63, Hartford 46 St. John’s 75, Boston U. 38 Syracuse 83, Colgate 32 West Virginia 84, Elon 36

BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS-Agreed to terms with LHP Aaron Laffey, RHP Jerry Gil, RHP Garret Mock, RHP Robert Coello and SS Brian Bocock on minor league contracts.

National League SAN DIEGO PADRES-Acquired OF Carlos Quentin from the Chicago White Sox for RHP Simon Castro and LHP Pedro Hernandez.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES-Re-signed C Hamed Haddadi.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS-Placed OT Brandon Keith on injured reserve. Signed CB Marshay Green from the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS-Signed LB Brandon Siler to a one-year contract extension.

Placed RB Jackie Battle on injured reserve.

Signed RB Shaun Draughn.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Fined Phoenix F Raffi Torres $2,500 for elbowing Colorado D Jan Hejda in a Dec. 29 game. Fined New York Rangers D Michael Del Zotto and Florida F Tomas Kopecky $2,500 apiece, for their respective actions during an altercation in a Dec. 30 game.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS-Recalled D David Savard from Springfield (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS-Reassigned RW Evgenii Dadonov to San Antonio (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS-Announced C Sean Avery cleared waivers and assigned him to Connecticut (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES-Assigned F Adam Cracknell to Peoria (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS-Announced G Tom McCollum was assigned to the team from Toledo (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL-Suspended Colorado’s Michael Forney one game as a result of his actions in a Dec. 30 game at Alaska. Fined Colorado assistant coach Greg Pankewicz an undisclosed amount as a result of his actions in a Dec. 30 game at Alaska.

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS-Announced G Mike Spillane was activated from leave of absence by league.

DAYTON GEMS-Announced F Damian Surma was placed on leave of absence by league.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN-Announced D Steve Makway was placed on league suspension for one game.

MISSOURI MAVERICKS-Activated F Vern Cooper from the 30-day injured reserve and placed him on team suspension.

COLLEGE CONNECTICUT-Named Phil Chardis assistant director of athletic communications.

MARSHALL-Suspended freshman men’s basketball G Justin Coleman indefinitely.

WASHINGTON-Fired defensive coordinator Nick Holt, linebackers coach Mike Cox and safeties coach Jeff Mills.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 36 23 9 4 50 107 77 Philadelphia 36 22 10 4 48 123 106 Pittsburgh 38 21 13 4 46 121 100 New Jersey 37 21 15 1 43 103 105 N.Y. Islanders 36 13 17 6 32 84 113 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 35 24 10 1 49 123 68 Ottawa 39 19 15 5 43 120 133 Toronto 38 18 15 5 41 118 125 Buffalo 38 17 17 4 38 100 112 Montreal 39 14 18 7 35 99 110 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 39 20 12 7 47 103 107 Winnipeg 38 19 14 5 43 104 107 Washington 37 20 15 2 42 111 109 Tampa Bay 37 17 17 3 37 104 122 Carolina 40 13 21 6 32 103 135 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 38 24 10 4 52 125 107 Detroit 38 24 13 1 49 123 84 St. Louis 38 21 12 5 47 95 85 Nashville 38 20 14 4 44 100 105 Columbus 38 10 23 5 25 93 128 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 39 24 13 2 50 129 96 Minnesota 40 21 13 6 48 95 95 Colorado 40 21 18 1 43 108 115 Calgary 39 18 16 5 41 96 106 Edmonton 37 15 19 3 33 100 104 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 39 19 14 6 44 86 90 Dallas 37 21 15 1 43 100 107 San Jose 34 19 11 4 42 99 83 Phoenix 39 19 16 4 42 102 103 Anaheim 37 10 21 6 26 87 124 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

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

Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers vs. Philadelphia at Philadelphia, PA, noon New Jersey at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

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Send resume to Judy Fabert, Human Resources Director, 1429 Kasold Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049 jfabert@pmma.org

Salon & Spa

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Leavenworth County Development Corporation is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented person to fill the position of Administrative Assistant.

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• Do you love staying on top of the current internet trends and finding digital solutions for your clients’ needs?

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If you have been answering YES to these questions and have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling then we want to hear from you!

The World Company has an extraordinary opportunity for talented media sales professionals. As a sales rep some of what you would be doing includes:

Information Specialist I (Web Developer). KU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS). Duties: Works to support the web-based needs for units within CLAS. The position is responsible for designing, developing, testing, analyzing, and maintaining web applications and database schema.

Required: Bachelor’s degree or higher AND two years experience with web application development including creating web interface using HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, and JavaScript; two years experience developing rational databases with MySQL or other relational database systems; two years experience developing web interfaces that adhere to usability and accessibility standards; and experience using Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

For a complete list of requirements and to apply, go to https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position number 00206580. Initial review of applications begins 1/17/12 and will continue until no longer needed. EO/AA.

• Selling creative solutions to your clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a trio of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawrence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, our Deals websites (including Lawrence Deals and johnsoncountydeals.com), and event marketing sponsorships.

• Prospect new regional clients and make initial contact by cold-calling either in person or by phone.

• Develop and build relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list.

Ideal candidates will also have remarkable verbal and written communication skills; enjoy networking; effective time management and interpersonal skills; regularly achieve monthly sales goals; self-motivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

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

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Career Education University Career Center University of Kansas Plans and administrates career-related programs including career counseling appointments and workshops. Leads UCC efforts to effectively utilize social networking strategies.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s Degree (Requirements completed by date of appointment) in education, counseling, human resources or related area; excellent written communication skills as demonstrated on application materials; one year in teaching, training or group facilitation experience; one year experience in providing career counseling to college students; successful completion of at least one graduate level course in career development/career guidance.

To Apply: Go Online to jobs.ku.edu and search for position #00065932.

Deadline to apply 1/16/2012.

EO/AA Employer

General Assemble/Display 30+ FT Openings Sign on Bonus On Job Training $400 to $600 wkly pay No layoffs

Provost Business Services The University of Kansas is seeking an Administrative Professional to provide fiscal and personnel administrative support to two Vice Provost areas and to the Provost Business Services team. This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in personnel, business, public administration or a related field OR minimum three years of experience performing human resource, budgeting or administrative management functions.

Priority review of applications will begin January 17. Salary: Minimum $36,170, plus benefits.

For more information and to apply go to https://jobs.ku.edu.

Search for position #00001111.

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Lawrence Presbyterian Manor is seeking a full-time, licensed social worker for our CCRC campus. Join our high functioning, Mission driven team. Great bene2BR, 602 Bremer, 1 story, 1 fits and working environbath, garage, C/A, W/D ment. hookups, DW, 1 pet ok, Send resume to $500. 785-841-5797 Judy Fabert, Human Resources Director, 1429 Kasold Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049 jfabert@pmma.org 2BRs, 1419 1/2 New Jersey, 2 story, 1 bath, C/A, W/D hookups, DW, 1 pet ok, $535, 785-841-5797

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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

WEB DESIGNER Looking for a new gig? Well, regardless of whether you are or are not “in search of” that next great place to work… We are looking for you!

Want to be our next web designer and be part of our rapidly expanding digital development team? The team designs/develops our digital products, provides maintenance/support of existing websites, and implements third-party digital initiatives. The World Company’s online operation is considered to be among the most innovative of news and media organizations in the country. Our websites include LJWorld.com, Lawrencemarketplace.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com and WellCommons.com. We are in search of a designer that is fairly technical and not afraid of the command line when dealing with front-end development and that can also provide creative concept and design solutions after ramping up.

What we want to see: • A few years of web design experience is ideal (preferably using open-source technologies).

Obviously - proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Experience in designing for mobile platforms a plus).

• Knowledge and hands on experience with content management systems is extremely helpful (Django templates would be ideal).

• Strong preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience. However, we will train the right person who demonstrates passion for their work and a willingness to learn.

• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git).

Some of what you will do here: • Varied design work and maintenance in addition to design processing from concept to implementation.

• Respond to non-technical users on a variety of technical issues and status updates.

• Identify research and resolve technical problems.

• Document, monitor and follow-up on issues to ensure a timely resolution.

The World Company is a communications and media company based in Lawrence, Kansas. We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

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Mother-in-law is simply a control freak Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 14 years and have known my husband’s family for an additional 10. My mother-in-law has always been critical of me, and I know she was critical of both her sons’ previous partners. She has called me lazy, disparages any gift I buy her, criticizes my weight and even selected furniture for our home because I “have no taste.” I always bite my tongue.

Now that we have a child, her behavior has escalated.

We moved to a different country (it was my husband’s dream), and she blamed me, saying I am preventing her from having a relationship with my husband and child.

For the first time ever, I stood my ground and we had an argument.

Since then, she has openly complained about me to my mother and stepmother. My husband told her she was out of line, but she didn’t stop. My father-in-law takes her side, and they both are demanding an apology. (I’ve already apologized.) They say I am not welcome in their home.

My husband’s brother also has joined forces with them.

My husband is having a hard time standing up to his family. I also believe he figures it’s pointless since we live so far away. I will support my husband and child

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about you to the grandchild.

If she does, he should leave immediately.

Dear Annie: My older sister (who has a long-standing case of sibling rivalry) will often say something critical about herself and include me in the put-down. One of my friends does this, as well. For instance, they may say, “It’s time WE got a face lift” or “Too bad WE look our age.”

I think such statements are anniesmailbox@comcast.net meant to sabotage my self-esteem, although I’m sure they in whatever relationship they would deny it if I were to say decide to have with my inso. Instead, I remain silent, laws, but I have decided to but I resent it. remove myself from his parents’ lives altogether.

How do I do this without causing an issue in my marriage? Although I am convinced that cutting ties is the healthiest option, how do I stop the anger and sadness at the way I’ve been treated? — California Dear California: Try to understand that this is not about you. It’s about your motherin-law’s need for absolute control over her children.

We think you are making the right decision to remove yourself from the drama while allowing your husband and child to have a relationship with the in-laws. But your husband must be vigilant when he visits to make sure that your mother-in-law does not say unkind things

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell

Mockumentary a bad move for HBO HBO rings in the new year with “Angry Boys” (9 p.m.), a mock-documentary from Australia starring Chris Lilley as characters old and young, male and female. He plays Nathan and Daniel Sims, identical twins in a dusty rural town who curse and swear at each other almost all of the time. One is nearly deaf and the other is brutally insensitive to his condition. Lilley also plays “Gran,” a spunky 65-year-old guard at a juvenile detention facility where she dispenses tough love.

Look for him as an American rapper, a Japanese wife and an aging Australian surfer.

Like many fake documentaries/ acting showcases, “Angry” accentuates audacity, versatility and just plain weird silliness. It’s a little like being forced to watch a show-off at an improv group’s workshop. It’s impressive but not necessarily entertaining.

There are plenty of shows like this on other networks, forcing one to ask, “What’s this doing on HBO?” Or worse, “Why am I paying extra for HBO for the kind of quickie import I’ve already seen on IFC and BBC America?” This is not the way HBO should be responding when Showtime (“Homeland”), AMC (“The Killing”) and FX (“American Horror Story”) are getting better all the time.

BBC America welcomes 2012 with a marathon of “Absolutely Fabulous” (6:20 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday). This anticipates a 20th anniversary “Fabulous” special airing Jan. 8 on Logo and BBC America.

Excess and indulgence of another sort unfold on “Drugs, Inc.” (7 p.m., National Geographic), a weekly look at America’s illegal narcotics underground.

Not content with showcasing real critters, Animal Planet goes on a 10-episode snipe hunt with “Finding Bigfoot” (9 p.m.).

Tonight’s other highlights

Discovery invites viewers to spend the day with a “Gold Rush” (9 a.m.) marathon.

Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): An SAT cheater confesses; House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Alex Honnold, a “freestyle” mountain climber.

The Giants host the Cowboys on “Sunday Night Football” (7 p.m., NBC).

On three episodes of “Once Upon a Time” (ABC): the price of gold (7 p.m.), a big decision (8 p.m.), memories return (9 p.m.).

An illegal nanny faces scrutiny on “The Good Wife” (8 p.m., CBS).

Julie Andrews hosts a New Year’s celebration from Vienna on “Great Performances” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings).

Brand-name chefs compete on “Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off” (8 p.m., Food).

Vengeance consumes Cullen and Elam on “Hell on Wheels” (9 p.m., AMC).

(This series has been renewed for a second season.)

The 10th anniversary of 9/11 brings a time for reflection in Dearborn, Mich., on “All-American Muslim” (9 p.m., TLC).

Cult choice A short, unpleasant Minneapolis musician pouts and speaks cryptically in the 1984 rock fantasy “Purple Rain” (7 p.m., VH1 Classic), starring Prince.

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For Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012: Strong feelings open you up. You become more willing to express your vulnerability. As a result, you attract many people and opportunities. Aries wants what they want.

Watch out.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) You snap, crackle and pop as the new year enters its first day. Don’t wonder why some people might be distancing themselves. They don’t have your energy or enthusiasm. Tonight: A special talk.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You might return to a former stubbornness where you say little, or nothing at all! Give it up and have a discussion later in the day when you feel better. Tonight: Take a needed rest.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Let the good times flourish and flow. To make this a vintage first day of the year, choose the perfect company, activity and location. Tonight: You are all smiles.

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You have the qualities of being enduring and caring. You are busy making sure everyone is OK and thinking very little about yourself. Tonight: You are very much your own person.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You need a bit of an escape after having to be so present in the moment. Go off and make things happen for you, creating what you need. Tonight: Follow your imagination.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) You smile, and others respond. But at first the apple of your eye might not respond. Give him or her the space to unwind and relax. Tonight: Be a duo.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Others are unusually challenging, especially in the morning. Sleep in late or ignore what is happening around you. Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are one of those people who is focused on the task at hand, which could look like supporting your team in front of the TV screen. Tonight: Only relaxing.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21)

BIRTHDAYS comedian Don Novello is 69. Actor Rick Hurst is 66. Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) is 62. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is 58. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 54. Actress Ren Woods is 54. Actress Dedee

Where did this energetic, dynamic person come from? You have always been like that, but right now you have the energy and spirit to let everyone meet the real you.

Tonight: Live for now.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Getting you off the phone or to cut a chat short could be close to impossible. You find yourself preoccupied catching up on others’ news. Tonight: Make special time for a special friend.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Take your time; treat a loved one or dear friend as you would like to be treated. Center with family and loved ones for the moment. Tonight: Treat a tired loved one to a massage.

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Country singer Brian Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 46.

Actor Morris Chestnut is 43. Actor Verne Troyer is 43. Actress Eden Riegel is 31.

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Starting at $560/month

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One Month FREE Rent Available Now! 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence

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2408 Alabama

1BR - $450, 2BR- $510/mo.

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

• Small dog welcome • Income restrictions apply • Students welcome

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2 night tables, 1 rocking chair. ex. cond. Call for Come for a test drive. See website for photos. appt. 913-244-0311 Lawrence Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com Sofa w/ queen sleeper. Re2441 W. 6th St. movable pillows.

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Table, Hexagon glass table, $25.

Please Call 1, 2, & 3BR townhomes avail. in Cooperative. Units 785-842-1760 starting at $412 - $485/mo.

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TV, Sharp 19” Color TV. $25.

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Cars-Domestic

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Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

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Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Ford 2004 E250 cargo van, V8, auto transmission, white, good cond,.alarm system, shelves, bulk head, tinted windows in rear, new tires, ladder racks, has B-G fluid treatment, $5,000. Call evenings 785-841-3199.

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CEDAR HILLS

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New Management

1-3BR apts. in Tonganoxie

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Townhomes

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2008 Mini Cooper S, 2 Door, 6speed manual, heated seats, cloth, Moon, CD, Bluetooth, Trac, Spoiler, 25K, $19,900.

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2002 NISSAN ALTIMA

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Townhomes

Antiques

Mercury 2008 Milan White Suede Pearl, 34K Academy Cars: Where You Have the Right To Love Your Car!

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Cars-Imports

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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

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT Stk#D8756 Sale Price $15,780

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Cars-Imports

Lincoln 2000 Towncar, Cartier, Excellent condition.

73,350 miles. Has all extras . except moonroof. A silver beauty with a lot of good miles left! $7,500.

785-843-2140

Ford 2007 Focus SE Cloud 9 White!

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Move-In Specials!

at Harvard Square Starting at $595. No pets.

PARKWAY 6000

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785-843-9199

1999 CHEVROELT MALIBU NADA retail price $3625, Buy it NOWfor $1750

Cars-Domestic

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785-843-8220

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Red Oak/White Oak Mix, $150/truck, $210/cord Stacked & delivered. Cured Cadillac 2007 DTS very & Seasoned.

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Furniture

Cars-Domestic Chrysler 2010 Sebring LTD Leather, Alloys, 38K, Inferno Red! Credit so Easy a Child Can Do It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Firewood, Mixed hardwoods, full cord: $150. You haul. Or small delivery fee.

Oak & hedge cords slightly more. 35 years in business.

Call Bill at 816-810-3673

Roommates

Garages - Pool - Fitness Center Studios — 2400 Alabama, all • Ironwood Court Apts.

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3 BEDROOMS Call 785-841-5797 Quality thru-out - like new 2BR - 3503 W. 7th Court, 2 in NW Lawrence at FHS story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D No pets, $1175. hookup, garage, 1 pet ok.

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2BR avail. now, very nice & quiet, DW, W/D, off-st. parking. $545/mo. No pets.

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Cars-Domestic

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Stk#314521 only $15,444.

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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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Saab 2006 9.5, 4Dr wagon 2.3T Sport SUV Black, 76K, $12,900.

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Smart 2009 ForTwo Passion. Local one-owner car with only 10K miles! Previous owner moved to asisted living. Beautiful blue and silver. Panorama glass roof, automatic, and very clean. A rare low mile find.

Tremendous gas mileage! See website for photos.

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Cars-Imports

Crossovers

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. Contact AJ 913-568-2981

Toyota 2006 Camry LE 65k, Dark Grey Metallic From Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Buick 2008 Enclave CXL AWD CERTIFIED Stk#D8770 $27,000 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

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 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.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2007 RAV4 Limited, V6, FWD, 3rd row seat, DVD, 79K, Excellent Condition. $15,500.

785-242-3830 785-418-5749

Jeep 2004 Grand Cherokee Special Edition.

Local trade-in.

4X4, Heated Seats, leather, dual power seats, moonroof, and tow package, and lots more.

Very nice condition. V8.

See website for photos.

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Truck-Pickups

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

Chevrolet 2006 HHR LT, running boards, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, power seat, and more, stk#631502 only $10,850.

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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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Sport Utility-4x4

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

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Buick 2008 Enclave FWD 4dr CXL Stk#D8742 Sale Price $24,918

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Ford 2009 Escape Limited, leather, ABS, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, roof rack, stk#588491 only $17,653 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Kia 2008 Sportage, All wheel drive, in excellent clean condition. Light neutral color with light interior. Very nice late model small SUV for a great price! See website for photos.

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GMC 2005 Sierra SLT ext cab Z71, leather, alloy wheels, power seat, dual exhaust, tow pkg, tonneau cover, running boards, stk#533511 only $18,250 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 GMC 2001 Box Van, White, Runs well, recent tires, brakes, and tuneup. $7900.

785-766-3615

Vans-Buses

SU#DAY, JA#UA*Y 1, 2012 5C Lawrence

Chevrolet 2009 Silverado 1500 Stk#T96661A Sale Price $12,000

Call for details.

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TA-8-11-11: Consider a Text Amendment to the Douglas County Zoning Regulations for the Unincorporated Territory of Douglas County to establish Agritourism as a use in the A (Agriculture) District.

A-8-3-11: Consider annexation of approximately 17.4 acres for Yankee Tank, located south of Bob Billings Pkwy, north of Clinton Parkway, east of Villa Drive, and west of Burning Tree Drive. Submitted by North Tank LC and Burning Tree LLC, property owners of record.

A-8-4-11: Consider annexation of approximately 109 acres for Yankee Tank (commonly known as Lake Alvamar), located north of Clinton Parkway, south & west of Lake Alvamar Drive, and east of E. 920 Road.

Submitted by Alvamar Inc, and Kansas Athletics, Inc. property owners of record.

TA-10-16-11: Consider a text amendment to Chapter 20 of the City Code, Land Development Code, to review the uses of the existing industrial districts and explore creating a new district that permits uses with intensities between the IL (Limited Industrial) district and IG (General Industrial) district. Deferred by Planning Commission on 11/14/11.

CPA-6-5-09: Reconsider Comprehensive Plan Amendment to Horizon 2020 Chapter 14 to include (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World the Northeast Sector Plan.

Approved by Planning ComJanuary 1, 2012) mission 5-4 on 9/20/10. Referred to Planning CommisIN THE SEVENTH sion by the Board of County JUDICIAL DISTRICT Commission and City ComDISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS mission for consideration of specific issues. Deferred

by Planning Commission on IN THE MATTER OF THE 12/12/11.

PETITION OF Sarah Anne Smith The Planning Commission To Change Her Name to: will consider the following Sarah Anne Archer public hearing and non hearing items at their Case No. 2011 CV 747 Wednesday, January 25, Div. No. 1 2012 meeting: PURSUANT TO K.S.A. CHAPTER 60 Z-11-27-11: Consider a request to rezone approxiNOTICE OF HEARING mately 12.40 acres from IG PUBLICATION (General Industrial) to H THE STATE OF KANSAS TO (Hospital), located at 138 Alabama Street. Submitted ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified by Treanor Architects, for Post #852 that Sarah Anne Smith filed Alford-Clarke a Petition in the above VFW, property owner of court on the 28th day of De- record and Bert Nash Comcember, 2011, requesting a munity Mental Health Cenjudgment and order chang- ter, contract purchaser. ing her name from Sarah Anne Smith to Sarah Anne Z-11-26-11: Consider a request to rezone approxiArcher.

The Petition will be heard in mately .20 acres from IG Douglas County District (General Industrial) to IL Industrial), loCourt, Division One, 111 E. (Limited 11th, Lawrence, Kansas, on cated at 920 and 920 ½ Delthe 24th day of February, aware Street. Submitted by Struct/Restruct, LLC, prop2012, at 10:00 am.

If you have any objection to erty owner of record. the requested name Consider a change, you are required to PP-11-11-11: file a responsive pleading Preliminary Plat for Even Lower East Side Addition, a on or before February 23, 2012, in this court or appear one lot subdivision containing approximately .20 acat the hearing and object to the requested name res, located at 920 and 920 change. If you fail to act, ½ Delaware Street. The rejudgment and order will be quest includes a variance entered upon the Petition request from the Subdivision Design Standards, as requested by Petitioner. specifically 20-809(d) re/s/ Sarah Anne Smith garding the minimum area Petitioner, Pro Se of the proposed lot. Submitted by Struct/Restruct, _______ LLC, property owner of record.

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In the Matter of the You Have the Right to a The applicant proposes to Estate of Fair and Easy Credit sell soil for the nearby US Richard H. Smith, Approval Process!

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(Proceeding Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) Z-11-28-11: Consider a reToyota 2003 Tundra quest to rezone approxiNOTICE TO CREDITORS Limited Stepside, mately 41.15 acres from RS10 (Single-Dwelling ResiBlack THE STATE OF KANSAS TO dential) to RM12 Can You Believe it?!?

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Comprehensive Plan www.purchasing.ku.edu Dale Willey 785-843-5200 Amendment to Chapter 6 of /Bids/KU_Bids.aspx www.dalewilleyauto.com Interested vendors may Horizon 2020 to expand the boundaries of also contact KU Purchas- identified Downtown Lawrence to acing Services, 785-864-5800. commodate a proposed 1246 West Campus Road Rm. 30, Lawrence, KS 66045 mixed use project known as the North Mass DevelopDodge 2006 Grand Fax 785-864-3454 or ment. The request includes Caravan, 67K, email: purchasing@ku.edu a proposal to exempt the Are You Drowning In proposed North Mass DeChoices? velopment from the current (Published in the Lawrence requirement that individual www.academycars.com Daily Journal-World Janustores in the Downtown 785-841-0102 ary 1, 2012) Commercial Center have a maximum footprint of no NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC more than 25,000 square feet.

Proposed by Paul The Lawrence/Douglas Werner Architects.

Dodge 2007 Grand County Metropolitan PlannCaravan SE ing Commission will hold Legal descriptions for pubStone White, 60k, their regularly scheduled lic hearing properties listed Perfect for You and monthly meetings on Januabove are on file in the the Crew! ary 23 & 25, 2012, at 6:30 Planning Office for review p.m. in the Commission www.academycars.com during regular office hours, Meeting Room on the first 785-841-0102 8-5, Monday - Friday. floor of City Hall, 6 E. 6th Street.

Communications to the Commission: The Planning Commission will consider the following Dodge 2009 Grand Written comments are welpublic hearing and non Caravan SXT, come and encouraged on hearing items at their MonGreen, 58k, all items to be considered day, January 23, 2012, meetPerfect for today’s by the Planning Commising: busy family! sion. The Commission has www.academycars.com established a deadline for CUP-11-7-11: Consider a re785-841-0102 receipt of all written comvised Conditional Use Permunications of no later mit for Fred’s Boat Storage, Ford 2003 Windstar SEL 4D, located at 568 North 1800 than 10:00 a.m. on Monday, $6,000 obo: very comforta- Road. The request amends January 23, 2012. This enble seven-passenger van CUP-8-7-06 to specifically sures your transmittal to with leather interior, VCR include the covered stor- the Commission can be resystem, rear bucket seat- age of recreational vehi- ceived and read prior to ing, luggage rack, dual au- cles, trailers and campers, their meeting. tomatic sliding doors, re- as well as boats as curSheila M. Stogsdill mote open/close and rently permitted.

Submitlock/unlock. 117, 500 miles ted by George Roll, Prop- Assistant Director, runs very well. Please call erty owner of record. Joint City/County Planning 785-838-8906, schedule a meeting with Lecompton www.lawrenceks.org/pds/ ________ drive or to make an offer.

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Watch out: Political attacks turn nasty

By Philip Elliott Associated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — So much for Iowa Nice. It’s more like Iowa Nasty.

In a state whose Midwestern civility usually extends to politics, the Republican presidential campaign has become an acerbic affair.

Negative ads fill TV and radio. Attacks are all over the Internet and in material stuffed in mailboxes. Many of the candidates are bashing each other with abandon.

It’s a reflection of the crowded GOP field and the volatile race to emerge as the Republican challenger to President Barack Obama in November. To the dismay of many voters, it’s also probably only going to get worse when there are fewer candidates and the contest moves to New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond.

“If they go negative, they aren’t getting my vote,” says Ginger Allsup, a 45-year-old Oskaloosa bakery worker.

That’s a risk campaigns in Iowa are willing to take, given the high stakes and state of the race ahead of Tuesday’s caucuses that kick off the fight for the GOP nomination.

Different this year Only three candidates typically make it out of Iowa with enough momentum and money to continue. Polls are showing that most hopefuls are bunched tightly behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Desperate to break from the pack, they’re whacking away in hopes of sinking opponents and wooing undecided voters.

Usually, presidential candidates and their allies take care to be congenial in Iowa, which has a record of rewarding candidates who stay above the fray. It’s a state where campaigns seek to make positive first impressions by promoting their own policies and offering subtle comparisons.

It’s a reflection of the crowded GOP field and the volatile race to emerge as the Republican challenger to President Barack Obama in November. To the dismay of many voters, it’s also probably only going to get worse when there are fewer candidates and the contest moves to New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond.

By the time New Hampshire comes around, the field usually has narrowed and those left standing try to differentiate themselves even more, in a sharper and often more personal tone. It only escalates from there when voting turns to South Carolina, which has a long history of go-for-the-jugular politics.

But Iowa is different this year.

It’s partly because of a Supreme Court decision that allowed unions, corporations and individuals to spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for the election or defeat of candidates. As a result, new outside groups, known as super PACs (political action committees), that are aligned with the candidates sprang up. These groups have paid for an avalanche of hard-hitting TV and radio ads, as well as aggressive literature in mailboxes and harsh messages online.

Sharp tongues What about the candidates? They’re hardly holding their tongues. Sometimes, they’re using language that Republicans often reserve for Democrats “She doesn’t like Muslims; she hates them; she wants to go get ‘em,” Texas Rep. Ron Paul said about Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.

“Dangerous” is how Bachmann describes Paul’s foreign policy.

In other cases, they use humor to try to blunt the force of the attacks.

Asked about Newt Gingrich’s failure to get on the Virginia ballot, Romney likened the former House speaker’s political operations

Running ahead in polls, Romney took care not to initiate attacks and only weighed in when asked questions. But he did give pointed responses.

“I don’t think Ron Paul represents the mainstream of Republican thought with regards to issues, particularly to an out-of-control choco- in foreign policy,” Romney Nam Y. Huh/AP File Photo late factory from a half-cen- said, seeking to marginalize tury-old “I Love Lucy” epi- his closest pursuer in most TRAVELERS CHECK THEIR LUGGAGE at a United Airlines express check-in area at O’Hare International Airport in sode. polls.

Chicago in this Dec. 23, 2011, photo. Boarding an airplane “Cute” was Gingrich’s reSuccessful strategy? has never been safer. In the last 10 years, there were 153 ply.

There’s a reason candi- fatalities in U.S. airline crashes. That’s two deaths for every He then issued a challenge as he visited a chocolate fac- dates are assailing each oth- 100 million passengers and the safest decade in the country’s aviation history, according to an Associated Press analytory the day after Romney’s er: It can work.

Consider Gingrich’s up- sis of government accident data. poke: “Here I am in the chocolate factory. And now that I and-down December.

He was flying high in polls have the courage to come to the chocolate factory, I hope at the start of the month.

Gov. Romney will have the Then he was pounded by at courage to debate me one on least $4 million in negative one and defend his negative TV ads in Iowa, most run

by Romney allies and some ads.”

Candidates are being hard- by Paul’s campaign. The ads er on some rivals than others cited both personal flaws and

By Joshua Freed as they look to peel off sup- professional missteps. and Scott Mayerowitz OVER THE DECADES Mailings described him “as port from certain blocs.

Associated Press A look at aviation fatal“I am a consistent conser- a 30-year Washington insidity rates over the decades. vative. I have always been er” who has “taken both sides NEW YORK — Boarding an The figures are for regupro-life. I have always been on core Republican issues.” airplane has never been safer. larly scheduled commerpro-traditional marriage. I His infidelity is highlighted The past 10 years have cial flights involving U.S. have always been a fiscal in emails circulating among been the best in the counairlines. conservative. I have never conservatives. In addition, a try’s aviation history with 153 ! 2002-2011: T wo been for global warming,” video he once recorded with fatalities. That’s two deaths deaths per 100 million Texas Gov. Rick Perry said then-House Speaker Nancy for every 100 million passenpassengers (153 fatalities this past week in response to Pelosi, D-Calif., urging action gers on commercial flights, among 7.1 billion passena voter’s question. He then on climate change blankets according to an Associated gers). added, “I’m glad you gave me the Internet.

Press analysis of government !"1992-2001: 20 deaths But negative advertising the opportunity to reflect my accident data. per 100 million passengers also can backfire, particularly differences with Mitt.”

The improvement is re(1,135 fatalities among 5.8 Perry was much sharper in a crowded field in Iowa. markable. Just a decade earbillion passengers).

In 2004, former Vermont hours later as he fought for lier, at the time the safest, !""1982-1991: 22 deaths support from Christian con- Gov. Howard Dean and thenpassengers were 10 times as per 100 million passengers servative voters also being Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt likely to die when flying on (881 fatalities among 4 courted heavily by former were the front-runners to an American plane. The risk billion passengers).

Pennsylvania Sen. Rick San- win the Democratic nominaof death was even greater !"1972-1981: 61 deaths tion. Looking to seal the deal, torum. during the start of the jet age, per 100 million passengers Said Perry: “He is what I each ran blistering ads just with 1,696 people dying — 133 (1,502 fatalities among 2.4 call a serial earmarker,” re- before Iowa voted. Both endout of every 100 million pasbillion passengers). ferring to the special spend- ed up losing voters and the sengers — from 1962 to 1971. !"1962-1971: 133 deaths ing projects that members of nomination. Massachusetts The figures exclude acts of per 100 million passengers Sen. John Kerry and then Congress seek. terrorism.

(1,696 fatalities among 1.3 Santorum, who is rising in North Carolina Sen. John EdSitting in a pressurized, billion passengers). polls and may end up being wards got the coveted tickaluminum tube seven miles Source: Associated Press Romney’s prime challenger ets out of the leadoff caucus above the ground may nevanalysis of data from National in Iowa, said Romney had no state. er seem like the most-natuTransportation Safety Board The lesson: Those who run track record of success. “In ral thing. But consider this: and Bureau of Transportation fact, he’s only run as a mod- negative ads risk driving up You are more likely to die Statistics. erate or a liberal,” Santorum their own negative percepdriving to the airport than tions in voters’ minds. said. flying across the country.

There are more than 30,000 ners of the world where motor-vehicle deaths each flying is risky. Russia, the year, a mortality rate eight Democratic Republic of the times greater than that in Congo and Somalia have particularly high rates of planes. political fate “I wouldn’t say air crashes deadly crashes. Russia had If those efforts fail, the will no lon- White House says, Obama’s of passenger airliners are several fatal crashes in the ger be tied re-election year will focus a thing of the past. They’re past year, including one to Washing- almost exclusively on execu- simply a whole lot more rare that killed several promiton. than they used to be,” says nent hockey players. Africa tive action.

“Now that Earnest said Obama will Todd Curtis, a former safety only accounts for 3 percent he’s sort of come out with at least two engineer with Boeing and of world air traffic but had free from or three directives per week, director of the Airsafe.com 14 percent of fatal crashes.

Still, 2011 was a good year having to continuing the “We Can’t Foundation.

Obama put out these Wait” campaign the adminThe improvements came to fly. It had the secondfires, the president will have istration began this fall and even as the industry went fewest number of fatalities a larger playing field. If that try to define Republicans in through a miserable financial worldwide, according to includes Congress, all the bet- Congress as gridlocked and period, losing $54.5 billion in the Flight Safety Foundater,” said Josh Earnest, White dysfunctional. the past decade. Just to stay tion, with 507 people dyHouse deputy press secretary.

Obama’s election year re- afloat, airlines eliminated ing in crashes. Seven out of But, he added, “that’s no longer treat from legislative fights meals and added fees for 28 planes in fatal crashes were on airlines already a requirement.” means this term will end checked luggage.

Aides say the president will without significant progress But safety remained a pri- prohibited from flying into not turn his back on Congress on two of his 2008 campaign ority. No advertisement of European Union because completely in the new year. He promises, an immigration tropical beaches can sup- of known safety problems. is expected to once again push overhaul and closing the plant the image of charred (There were fewer fatalities lawmakers to pass elements of military prison for terrorist metal scattered across a in 2004 — 323 — but there were also fewer people flyhis jobs bill that were blocked suspects at Guantanamo Bay, field.

by Republicans last fall.

There are still some cor- ing then.)

Cuba.

Analysis shows it’s never been safer to fly

In 2012, Obama to press ahead without Congress

By Julie Pace Associated Press

HONOLULU — Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda and may even benefit in his reelection campaign if lawmakers accomplish little in 2012.

Absent any major policy pushes, much of the year will focus on winning a second term. The president will keep up a robust domestic travel schedule and aggressive campaign fundraising and use executive action to try to boost the economy.

Partisan, down-to-the-wire fights over allowing the nation

to take on more debt and sharply reducing government spending defined 2011. In the new year, there are almost no mustdo pieces of legislation facing the president and Congress.

The one exception is the looming debate on a full-year extension of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. Democrats and Republicans are divided over how to put in place that extension.

The White House believes GOP lawmakers boxed themselves in during the pre-Christmas debate on the tax break and will be hardpressed to back off their own assertions that it should continue through the end of 2012.

Once that debate is over, the White House says, Obama’s

N. Korea vows to defend State revenue rises, but not enough to offset cuts at a slow pace. But Kim Jong Un ‘unto death’ “anyIt’simprovement, no

By Melinda Deslatte

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (AP) — North Korea vowed today to stage an all-out drive for prosperity as it unites behind new leader Kim Jong Un, ushering in 2012 with promises to resolve food shortages, bolster its military and defend Kim Jong Il’s young son “unto death.”

The pledge in North Korea’s annual New Year’s message, released by the official Korean Central News Agency, comes as the country enters a new era, with Kim Jong Un installed as Supreme Commander of the 1.2 million-strong military and ruling party leader following his father’s Dec. 17 death.

This year is a crucial one in North Korea’s history as it tries to build a “great and prosperous nation” befitting the April 2012 centenary of the birth of national founder Kim Il Sung, the new leader’s grandfather.

“Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding,” the North said.

“The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human

shields in defending Kim Jong Un unto death.”

North Korea said it would boost its military and boasted it was “at the epochal point of opening the gates of a thriving country,” with parts of Pyongyang “turned into socialist fairylands.”

Still, the message acknowledged the country’s food crisis, saying “the food problem is a burning issue.” Pyongyang had been in talks with the United States on food aid, but they stopped because of Kim Jong Il’s death.

The United Nations has said a quarter of North Korea’s 24 million people need outside food aid and malnutrition is surging, especially among children.

The North’s message said organic farming methods should be used and that farming machinery and materials should be provided, but it did not go into specifics for improving food supplies.

The message, carried in a joint editorial in the Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi newspapers, said North Korea must build on the foundations laid last year and turn itself “into an economic giant.”

Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, LA. — College students clash with administrators over steeply rising tuition. Public employees shut down statehouses amid cuts to pay and retirement benefits. Teachers and social welfare advocates protest budget cuts. Lawmakers struggle to cope with sharp declines in tax revenue.

If government budgets were once an eye-glazing topic, they moved to the top of the public agenda in 2011 as state and local governments faced some of their most difficult decisions since the national recession began in late 2007.

A fourth year of declining tax revenue meant deep spending cuts and, in many states, a rethinking of the role of government and the scope of the services it should provide.

Budget experts expect last year’s tumult to give way to somewhat steadier times in 2012, as tax revenue continues a slow rebound. But few budget planners are celebrating, as cautious optimism about an uneven economic recovery is leading to subdued expectations.

“There will be no resto-

rations,” said Eileen Klein, chief of staff for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. “I hope we can eliminate that word from the budget vernacular.”

The end of a three-year state sales tax increase in 2013 and concerns about Medicaid expansion in 2014 driven by the federal health care overhaul has led the state’s Republican governor and GOP lawmakers, who have a majority in the Legislature, to say they must hold the line against new spending.

The cautiousness in Arizona is an illustration of the continued budget turmoil expected in 2012 throughout much of the nation, even after four years of deep spending cuts.

States have closed budget gaps totaling more than $500 billion since late 2007, with 48 states cutting programs and services.

Louisiana, for example, recently trimmed subsidies that are provided to grandparents and other relatives taking care of children who are not their own, ended a program in 10 local jurisdictions to help people find jobs and sliced money for counseling services for at-risk children.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal cut public college funding another $50 million this month to help close the latest budget shortfall. Rising

matter how small, is positive news.”

— Todd Haggerty, a research analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures

tuition has led to rallies on campuses across the country, including some protests that turned violent in California.

Adam Thongsavat, 22, expects the year ahead to be even more active on campuses. The student body president at the University of California, Davis, where campus police pepper-sprayed peaceful demonstrators last fall, said students are angry over rising tuition and a lack of job prospects once they graduate.

In his time as a student, he saw tuition and campus fees at the public university rise by nearly 68 percent, from about $8,000 in 2007 to $13,400 this year.

“I think 2012 will make even optimists pessimistic,” said Thongsavat, who recently graduated with a double major in history and political science. “I think what you’re going to see is a lot more unrest

unless leaders in Sacramento, our regents and community leaders take active stances on improving student lives.

We’re going to see a lot more of the same, and it’s going to get a lot worse.”

Federal stimulus money approved by Congress when the Democrats were in control helped during the heart of the recession, delaying layoffs of teachers and police officers while moderating cuts to Medicaid and other public health programs. Some states raised taxes and fees and tapped their rainy-day funds.

But even with a trickle of good economic news recently, state officials say no one should expect robust government spending anytime soon. Commitments still exceed incoming tax revenue in many states.

“It’s at a slow pace. But any improvement, no matter how small, is positive news,” said Todd Haggerty, a research analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Twenty-nine states are spending less from their general funds today than they did before the recession, according to a recent joint survey from the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers.

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Resolutions offered for all the green thumbs

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eed New Year’s resolutions you can stick to?

How about making some changes in the way you garden?

Or starting gardening? The physical and mental benefits gardening provides just might help with any other resolutions you make, and better gardening practices benefit the entire community.

Warning: Implementing all of these is only for overachievers (unless you are already doing most of them).

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Compost, compost, compost Make or buy compost and use it in the landscape and fruit/ vegetable garden. You can even spread it over the lawn if you want. Homemade bins work just as well as commercial ones.

If a compost bin is unacceptable in your neighborhood, compost is available twice a year at minimal cost through the city of Lawrence yard waste recycling program.

are just too cute. Then I get home and the empty space in the corner of the landscape bed is a little smaller than I remembered. New plants are great — just consider the space carefully before planting. Consider overhead and underground utilities first and foremost.

Mulch, mulch, mulch Wood chips, pine needles, bark, straw, prairie hay or whatever other organic material you fancy will all do the trick. Use it in the landscape, in the vegetable garden and around trees. Just avoid mulch volcanoes — they can lead to girdling roots and other tree health problems.

Grow something you can eat Herbs are great for beginners and grow well in containers — imagine picking fresh basil right outside the front door. A tomato plant will grow as well in a landscape bed as it will in a vegetable garden, or a little trellis of peas makes a nice backdrop for perennial flowers. Large containers work for just about any vegetable besides sweet corn.

Jennifer Smith smithjen@ksu.edu

Have your soil tested and fertilize accordingly Of the lawn and garden samples tested through our office last year, almost all had adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium.

If that is the case in your lawn or garden, you can stick with simply providing supplemental nitrogen to improve plant growth. For fruits and vegetables, timing and amounts depend on the specific crop. For fescue lawns, September and November are the best times to fertilize, although a May application is recommended in irrigated lawns. Trees and shrubs rarely need additional fertilizer.

Soil can be submitted for pH and nutrient analysis at the KState Research and ExtensionDouglas County office, 2110 Harper St. Take separate samples from the lawn, landscape beds, and vegetable gardens, as needs and soils vary. About two cups of soil is required per sample. Currently, Douglas County residents can test up to 10 soil samples per year for free thanks to a grant from the Douglas County Conservation District.

Plan ahead as results may take two to three weeks at peak testing times.

Share your love of gardening Spend some time in the garden with a young relative or friend — you might be surprised at who is curious about gardening but afraid to ask. Avoid making them pull weeds in the beginning. Also know that despite your best efforts this task often takes more Garden more patience than any other garden Enough said. Gardening has to chore. be more fun than the treadmill.

Make better plant choices I often joke about picking up cute little shrubs and flowers at the garden center because they

— 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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WHETHER YOU HAVE A LARGE GARDEN PLOT, a small kitchen garden or just a few container plants, you can you can set resolutions to get more out of your gardening in 2012.

Kovel’s Antiques: Figurines captured famous likenesses pictured the 1884 U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates, Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks and Republicans James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Value: under $100.

By Terry Kovel

Figurines were the “photographs” of the 18th and 19th centuries. Well-known politicians, royalty, sports figures, actors, writers, religious subjects and newsworthy criminals, places and events were the inspiration for the figurines. They were made to sell, so the figurines had to depict something that would add decorative value to a home. But the potters had few sources to use when making a portrait — just a few prints, paintings and sometimes statues. Staffordshire potters wanted to tap the American market by selling figurines of American politicians. George Washington was a popular subject, and both standing figures and busts of Washington were made. But since no English potter had ever seen the first U.S. president, some potters wound up labeling figurines of Benjamin Franklin as George Washington. William Shakespeare and John Milton were famous British writers seldom shown in widely distributed prints, but a large statue of Shakespeare stands in Westminster Abbey, and a smaller one of Milton is owned by the York Castle Museum. So several Staffordshire potteries made 12-inch copies of the statues

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ENGLAND’S DERBY PORCELAIN WORKS made these figurines, copies of famous statues of William Shakespeare and John Milton. The 12 1/4-inch figures sold as a pair for $460 at a 2010 Charlton Hall auction in West Columbia, S.C. that could be displayed on a fireplace mantel. And, of course, displaying the statues suggested that the owners were well-read.

Q: My mother gave me a pressed-glass plate that has a frosted center embossed with a picture of a man on horseback spearing a lion. The scalloped edges have alternating panels of

Q: Can you tell me if there is a market for vinyl records from the 1940s and ’50s? I have two albums’ full.

A: Most records made before the 1940s were made with a hard shellac surface, so they usually broke if dropped. By 1946, unbreakable vinyl records were being sold commercially. Companies began phasing out the production of phonograph records after compact discs became available in 1982. There has been renewed interest in vinyl recordings in the past few years because they produce a fuller sound than digital recordings, which don’t capture every tone. Some companies are even making new vinyl records. Most old records sell for less than $20, but an early rare recording by Elvis Presley might sell for several hundred dollars. Elvis Presley’s first recording for Sun Record Co. in 1954, “That’s All Right” and “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” recently sold for $896.

oak leaves and diamonds.

It’s signed “Jacobus.” It’s approximately 11 1/2 inches in diameter. I’d like to know more about it and its value.

A: Your plate was made by Gillinder & Sons of Philadelphia, which was founded by William Gillinder in 1861. It’s part of the Classic pattern designed by P.J. Jacobus (18441910). There were five plates Q: I have a collection of in this pattern. The others swanky swigs with vari-

ous decorations. Most of them are in good shape, but some of them are cloudy.

I’ve tried soaking them with denture cleaner and scrubbing the outside gently with liquid dish detergent, to no avail. Do you have any other suggestions for getting the glass clear again?

A: It depends on what caused the glasses to become cloudy. Hard water can cause calcium deposits to build up on the glass and make it cloudy. Filling the glasses with warm water and adding a denture tablet usually clears it up.

Other solutions include soaking the glasses in a mixture of hot water and a cup of white vinegar, or washing them in a dishwasher with a cup of vinegar poured in the bottom of the dishwasher. You also can try using a cleaner meant for shower doors. If none of these solutions works, your glasses probably are permanently etched. Sometimes this happens if the water is too soft and too much detergent is used.

This condition can’t be cured.

Q: I have a mahjong set that I’d like to know more about. The cabinet holding the drawers of tiles is elaborately carved on all four sides and the top. I’ve been assured that the tiles are real ivory and bamboo. I’ve had the set

for about 65 years. Can you tell me anything about its origin or value?

A: The game of mahjong is based on a card game played in China in the late 1800s. The game became popular in the United States in the 1920s.

Early sets were imported from China. Tiles were made of ivory, bone or wood. Some sets came in intricately carved rosewood boxes, while others were packed in cardboard boxes. Sets made in the United States during the 1930s usually have Bakelite or plastic tiles.

Joseph Park Babcock, a Standard Oil Co. civil engineer, often is credited with bringing the game to the United States after he saw it being played when he was sent to Suzhou, China, in 1912. One of the names the Chinese used for the game was “ma que,” which means “sparrow.” Babcock trademarked the name “MahJongg” and published a book of game rules in 1920. Several manufacturers made their own versions of the game but had to use other names for it.

Babcock assigned his rights to the name to Parker Brothers in 1924. Mahjong is still played in the U.S., but the version played now is different from the version played in the 1920s, according to the National Mah-Jongg League.

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Traveling theater troupe calls Lawrence home

By Michael C. Auchard Special to the Journal-World

Many people complain they never get to travel and that work and life always get in the way.

The members of the Lawrence-based Buran Theatre Company, however, have found a unique way around those problems.

Formed in 2007 on the campus of Kansas University, the troupe regularly performs across the country in many of the nation’s largest markets and has even performed in Lithuania multiple times.

Recently, the group has been invited to perform at the Revolutions International Theatre Festival in Albuquerque, N.M., representing the United States. The group will be performing its selfproduced work “The House of Fitzcarraldo,” and will open with a showing at 8 p.m.

Friday at the Helen Hocker Theater, 700 Southwest Zoo Parkway, Topeka. Admission is free.

Artistic director and cofounder Adam Burnett says the piece is based on the 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo” and a corresponding book and documentary about the movie.

“It’s about a German film director who wants to take a steamship over a mountain using its own steam,” Burnett says. “This is a dream he has in the middle of the night — it’s an image that comes to him. He believes it’s a worthy endeavor and worthwhile enough to ruin lives and end people’s lives. He enlists this megalomaniac actor, Klaus Kinski, to help him, and the story centers around these two men pursuing this useless dream.”

Burnett says the group still sticks to many of the principles it was founded upon back in 2007. He says the members always write and produce new, experimental shows that are free to the community. Also, he says he enjoys the ensemble’s current situation, where members live all across the country, as it adds to the creative flavor of the productions.

“We really get to do exactly the kind of work we want to do. That’s been the really wonderful thing about it. Whenever we get together, we get to work in the way we want to work. It’s nice to live in the satellite system of individuals but know that when we get together we have a system, and every time so far it hasn’t failed us.

It’s always a surprise to see what comes out of our work, that’s what I really cherish.”

Burnett says the Lawrence community is integral to the group’s development and ability to create and perform future productions. Of the group’s 13 members, he says five still live in Lawrence.

“Almost everyone in the company still has ties to Law-

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THE BURAN THEATRE COMPANY REHEARSES Thursday at Murphy Hall. The members are, clockwise from bottom, Val Smith, Adam Burnett, Jud Knudsen, Hilary Kelman and Henry Bial. The group will be performing its self-produced work “The House of Fitzcarraldo,” and will open with a showing at 8 p.m. Friday at the Helen Hocker Theater, 700 Southwest Zoo Parkway, Topeka. rence,” he says. “The University of Kansas still gives us residency there to create new work. That has allowed us to continue to come back to Lawrence and make it a point to make this our home and continue making work. (At festivals) we’re not only listed as representing the U.S., we’re listed as representing Lawrence, Kansas.”

Val Smith, a company member playing in the chorus for “The House of Fitzcarraldo,” says the group is tightly knit, with all of the members helping to write and conceive the piece as well as act in the productions.

“I’ll be playing anywhere from four to six roles during the show,” she says. “We didn’t just sit down and write.

We really had a lot of source material to work from, and then we did a lot of work on our feet. It was difficult, it was challenging, but it was fun and interactive, and I’ve gotten to work with a lot of people I really love, so it’s fun for me.”

Smith says the group’s stopand-start schedule is great for her, as all of the company members have other jobs to work and lives to live as well as perform for Buran.

“There’s nothing weird to me about having the sporadic performances,” she says.”

I have a really busy life, so in a way it’s beneficial to pick and choose when I can be involved. This was a great opportunity for me

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So I wrapped up an older digital camera and hoped for the best.

It’s a little bigger than a modern day point-and-shoot, which I thought would be a good thing. He thought it was too big.

As I tried to explain all the buttons and internal menus I realized this wasn’t going to work.

“I think you can take it home with you,” he politely said. I hadn’t considered how complicated digital cameras are in relation to old film cameras.

I may try another approach in the future. The first thing that film-camera users want to do is put the camera to their eye.

Unfortunately, few compact digital cameras have optical viewfinders. And that’s just the first thing that can discourage a digital camera rookie.

If you’re trying to advise or assist older film-camera owners in using a digital camera, it’s probably best to take them to a store and let them try some models. Or give up and provide them a

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

I WAS NOT CARRYING A CAMERA when a walk around a lotus pond offered up several photo opportunities. But I did have my iPhone with me, and not only was I able to capture some unique photographs, including close-up shots of a dragonfly on a lotus bulb, but I was also able to upload the image and a caption immediately to Facebook. lifetime supply of film. Let’s see; for my dad that would be about three rolls a year. Now that’s a bargain.

Some of my favorite photos of the year were captured with my iPhone.

No other tool has changed the way I do my job or helped me more in my life as the smartphone.

In the past year I have used

because I was able to get off work for a week to do this and some time off this week as well to get to work on rehearsals and props and things like that.”

Company member Henry Bial says he’s particularly excited to perform at the Revolutions Festival.

“It’s one of the better-established alternative festivals that goes on this time of the year. I think they’re on their 12th or 13th annual incarnation. That’s a really prestigious invite for us. It’s one of the most selective venues we’ve gotten a chance to perform in.”

Bial says working with the Buran Theatre Company is always interesting, and he’s looking forward to actually performing “The House of Fitzcarraldo” rather than rehearsing it. He says that because of the group’s tendency to involve the audience in its works, it will be interesting to actually perform it in front of people.

“The most fun thing about it is that we’re always looking to find something new and interesting, and the rehearsals are always a bit tricky,” Bial says. “They’re fun because we’re exploring, but it’s the kind of show that only comes alive when we have an audience there because so much of what we do to keep it fresh is based on interacting with the audience, so we won’t really know what we have until we get it in front of people.”

it to record audio interviews, capture video and photos for both work and pleasure, jot down names and notes when I’m without a pen and paper, use the phone’s illumination to see my camera’s settings in the dark, read the New York Times at lunch and play “Angry Birds.” The remarkable thing is that I can also email most data back to the newspaper for immediate posting to the Web. If camera sensors and lenses keep improving in these devices, there will be a time when I don’t need another camera.

The Journal-World photo staff will have a package of some of our best work of the year in Monday’s newspaper.

For additional photos and commentary you can go online to see slideshows of each staff photographer’s picks of the year. For other notable year-end wrap-ups check out these three sites with national and international pictures of the year in slideshows and videos: bit.ly/w2VnNR on.wsj.com/v0evtf nyti.ms/t5d91h — Chief photographer Mike Yoder can be reached at 832-7141.

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children write on their retro costume party invitations?

“Come as you were in the two-thousand aughts”? Stuff like that drives me crazy.

No. 2: Speaking of mental health, I promise not to contribute to my own insanity by: a) watching “real” housewives from any part of the country or “Millionaire Matchmaker” marathons; b) venturing out in game-night traffic; or c) listening to talk radio, especially of the sports and political ilk.

No. 3: And speaking of politics, I will not. At least with folks of the opposite persuasion. I love my friends of all leanings, but political differences can breed contempt — no matter how civil we try to be with each other — and 2012 promises to be a hostile year.

No. 4: I will make peace with my age spots, lines and dimply parts. Not that I won’t continue trying to cover them up. I just won’t let them depress me anymore.

No. 5: On a related note, no more looking at my hands and screaming, “I’M TURNING INTO MY GRANDMOTHER!!” The slew of liver spots notwithstanding, my grandma was a fine-looking woman right until the end. Any comparison to her is far from tragic. And besides, the screaming really rattles the dog.

No. 6: I will make more phone calls and lunch dates in 2012. Emails, texts and Facebook missives have changed the way I communicate with people. I miss faces, voices, friends in the flesh. From now on, if I feel like talking to somebody I’m going to pick up the phone and dial. And if we can’t meet for lunch, we’ll yammer on — ignoring call waiting — until our jaws get tired.

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD No. 7: Starting today (well, maybe tomorrow — I’m nursing a splitting Twister headache right now), I’m going to apply the one-year rule to everything in my closet, even the clothes I purchased too small on purpose as diet motivation. If I haven’t worn it since Jan. 1, 2010, it’s going straight to a charity thrift shop. There are a lot of people who could be wearing those Not Your Daughter’s Jeans while I’m waiting to squeeze into them. Hell, by the time that happens, we’ll all be wearing space suits.

No. 8: I will apply the same rule to my refrigerator, but with a slightly different time frame. If the item is two weeks past its expiration date, out it goes. No exceptions.

No. 9: I’m starting my own “slow food” movement in the new year. I’m not just talking about buying fresh and local, although I believe that’s the way to go if you can. I’m talking about slowing down at the table, making everyday meals more of a ritual: burning the candles, decanting the wine, having “My Dinner with Andre” conversations.

You have to wonder what would happen to our national obesity crisis if we all just slowed down, chewed our food and shared more of our lives between bites.

No. 10: And speaking of weight (sigh, you knew this was coming), I hereby re-

solve to reduce mine by at least 10 percent this year.

This, of course, will require less food and more (gulp!) exercise because that, my friends, is the only way it happens: Calories in, calories out. With that in mind, I’m tuning up the treadmill, dusting off the old stability ball and reworking my workout playlist to include songs newer than “Billie Jean.”

I will park in the back of the parking lot! Ride my bike to the grocery store! Take calisthenics breaks from the computer every two hours!

And I resolve to play more Twister! Think about it: Why pay for yoga lessons when you’ve got Twister? Wonder how many calories are in a split of champagne?

— 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.

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By Elizabeth C. Gorski Edited by Will Shortz Across 1 Arthur Honegger’s “A Christmas ___” 8 Staring intently 13 “Scrooged” actor Robert 20 Add a musical track to, e.g.

21 Destroyed 23 Noted bride of 1969 24 Model for an art class, say 25 “Stop stalling!”

26 Approach like an eagle 27 Baptism, e.g.

28 Kid’s block 30 Cozy footwear 31 “I could ___ horse!”

33 Japanese stringed instrument 34 Journalist Joseph 36 Clearly happy 39 Goes for the gold?

40 Spice organizers 43 Lose intensity 44 Fencing position 47 Crunchy snack bit 50 Storage units 51 Piccadilly movers 55 Roman “olive” 56 “Make ___!”

58 “Unto us ___ is given” 59 Salt flats locale 60 Carnivore’s love 62 Components 68 Getaway planner?

70 Newfangled 71 Actress Andie 73 Like some lines 74 Pola of the silents 76 Decoration on a 91-/100-Across 77 Mistreat 79 Predispositions 82 Score after deuce 84 “Hairspray” role 86 Young business partner?

90 Bay Area airport, in shorthand 91 With 100-Across, image revealed by connecting the circled letters alphabetically

95 Mozart’s birthplace: Abbr.

96 “Miracle on 34th Street,” e.g.

99 Medium skill 100 See 91-Across 101 Cold war fighter 102 2001 film in which 91-/100-Across is a character 104 Horsed around?

106 Shake up 109 Special ___ 111 Chess champ Mikhail 112 “Honey in the Horn” trumpeter 113 “___ framed!”

115 Some toy batteries 116 Beta preceder 119 Tone quality, in music 121 Stuck 123 Wall St. deal 126 Singer Mitchell 128 Bronx and Central Park attractions 129 ___ good turn 132 Prepare, as eggnog 133 Partridge’s preferred tree 134 Navigational aid 136 Fictional planet in “Flash Gordon” 138 “Incidentally …”

140 Drive-thru sandwich order 141 Crudités platter centerpiece 145 Delicious 146 Org. in Tom Clancy novels 147 Maternity ward figures 149 Coffee order 151 Stipulations 153 Pacino and Bundy 154 Eponymic town of Cambridgeshire 155 Mediterranean capital 156 Skip across the water’s surface 157 Certain pass: Abbr.

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35 ___-12 37 Part of many a science course 38 “___ Misérables” 39 ’70s TV production co.

41 Mao contemporary 42 “Santa Baby” singer 45 Camaro ___-Z 46 Paradise 47 Bulbous plant part 48 Butter alternative 49 Actor Foxx 52 Bickering 53 High praise 54 Storage unit 57 Friend ___ friend 58 Deaf talk: Abbr.

61 You are: Sp. 63 Serving well?

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71 Calf-length dresses 72 Hawaiian porch 75 Stormed 78 Star of “Gunsmoke”?

79 Cellar, in classifieds 80 Get an ___ effort 81 De ___ (anew) 83 How Santa’s reindeer are harnessed 85 Slights, say 87 Buster?

88 Winter bird feeder food 89 Terse reproofs 92 Radiate 93 Mob turncoat 94 ___ B’rith 97 Cousin ___ 98 Californie, e.g.

102 Tunisian seaport 103 Males 105 16th-century monarch credited with presenting 91-/100-Acrosses to guests 107 Sr.’s test 108 Light head?

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116 Slumber party togs 117 Relaxer for Santa 118 Recovering after injury, say 120 Swab 122 White lie 123 Small boat danger 124 Some pudginess 125 Arm extension?

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133 Chem. class measures 135 Capital of Belarus 136 Boss’s notes 137 Bouquets 139 Iraq’s Aziz 141 Roman 950 142 Table d’___ 143 Nile deity 144 Baby boxer, e.g.

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74 TV adjuncts 75 Hostel visitor 76 Navy or vanilla — 77 Powdery residue 80 Chowder morsels 82 Shanghai warehouses 83 Young Lennon 84 Pizarro foe 85 Singer — Dion 87 Hoedown honeys 88 Galloping gourmet 89 Roused from slumber 90 Alpine bloom 91 Corn tassel 92 UFO pilot 94 Jiffy 95 Nosegay holder 96 Senor’s coins 97 They may be wild 98 Profile 99 Vintage auto 100 Basins in a church 101 Schusses 102 Rolls tightly 104 Forces a bill through 107 Steps to the Ganges 108 — and tonic 109 Danish islands (var.)

113 Antennas 114 Mistrustful 115 Wards (off) 117 Foam-ball brand 118 007 adversary 119 Give a darn 120 Made the roads slick 122 Telephone trio 123 Macbeth’s burial place 124 Weight 127 Snoop 129 Kind of race 130 Cotton thread 131 Sea swallows 132 Most aloof 133 Fluency 134 Slightest 135 Proverb 136 Evening gala

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Down 1 Move laboriously 2 Team member 3 Footman’s attire 4 Literary miscellany 5 “I, —” (rock autobio) 6 Hair covering 7 Swiftly 8 Tickled 9 Like the flu 10 Cable channel 11 Blackhawks org.

12 Unit of current 13 “Dream Lover” singer 14 Environmental sci.

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57 Toothpaste type 58 Circulars 60 Permit 61 Big League events 63 Privy to (2 wds.)

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67 Kublai — 69 Crowning point 70 Boys 71 Jowly canine 72 Forward or reverse 74 Delivery trucks 75 Egg parts 76 City near Zurich 78 Public tiff 79 Lacked options (2 wds.)

81 Occupation 82 Coronas 83 Meets, in poker 84 “— — Woman” 85 Cleveland hoopster 86 NASA excursion 87 Main ideas 88 Hobby shop buys 89 Novelist Virginia — 91 Dispatches 92 Copacetic, in space 93 Milk, to monsieur 94 Cosmonaut’s lab 96 Billiards parlor (2 wds.)

98 Ring-shaped cake 100 Monks’ titles 101 Use a grater 102 Diplomacy 103 — Andreas Fault 104 Shark hitchhiker 105 Rock concert venues 106 Desert phenomenon 107 Loft 108 Turning right 110 More embarrassed 111 Otherwise (2 wds.)

112 Decadent 113 In reserve 114 Laments 115 Botanist’s study 116 18-wheelers 119 Thing, in Spain 120 Exceeded the limit 121 1920s look 125 Contend 126 Ms. Hagen of films 128 502, in Rome

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22 Buggy drivers 23 — Picchu 24 Town in India 25 Fine cigar 26 Overdone novel (2 wds.)

28 Retired 29 Drain cleaner 30 Potter or glassblower 32 Bridal attire 33 “Gil Blas” writer 35 A Saarinen 37 Raul’s brother 38 “Jurassic Park” costar 39 Leafier 40 A funny Richard 42 DA’s degree 43 Writer — Grey 44 Lighter 45 Ill-considered 47 Tooth holders 48 Dour 49 Dadaist Jean — 52 Gloomy guy 53 Descartes’ name 54 Sidewalk edges 55 Exercise system 59 Picnic take-along 61 Date palm locale 62 Tow-away — 63 Vine-covered 64 Hiked the price 65 Throw in the towel 66 Trait determinant 67 Tolls 68 Celebration 69 Memo abbr.

70 Glasses, slangily 72 Poltergeist 73 Week da.

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BOOKS The mouth that roared

Book explores how Cosell transformed American sports

By Allen Barra

Newsday

Lisa Finley, warehouse employee, Lawrence “‘Naked in Death’ by Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb. I really like Nora Roberts; she’s one of my favorites, so I decided to start at the beginning of this series.”

Jonni Percival, Haskell Indian Nations University student, Lawrence “‘Bitterwood’ by James Maxey. I was looking for a new fantasy novel.”

Lacey Kester, Kansas University employee, Lawrence “‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ by John Perkins.

It talks about U.S. imperialism and corporations as government. It was written some time ago, but I think it’s really relevant right now.”

How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a definitive biography of sportscaster Howard Cosell?

Mark Ribowsky (author of a superb book on Satchel Paige) may have lost something by waiting so long after Cosell’s death in 1995.

A generation has grown up thinking that ESPN’s Chris Berman invented Cosell’s signature call — “He could ... go ... all ... the ... way!” — for a breakaway touchdown run. (Was there an American male who watched “Monday Night Football” from its inception in 1970 to Cosell’s final broadcast in 1983 who didn’t do an impression of the man?)

But Ribowsky also gained something: perspective.

“Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports” is an exhilarating look back at a man and a time that are inextricably entwined.

It may seem Cosell-like hyperbole when Ribowsky writes, “There can be no overestimating how unique, and even unprecedented, Cosell’s fame was by the middle of the 1970s. He had done no less than make himself a one-man industry by turning scabrousness into an endearment,” but that must have been the way we felt about Cosell because even when we cursed him we kept on watching. Even Woody

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HOWARD COSELL, shown in a September 1975 broadcast of “Monday Night Football,” is the subject of a new biography

by Mark Ribowsky, “Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports.”

Allen was a fan, giving Cosell guest spots in three of his movies, playing himself, of course.

Arrogant, tempestuous and ambitious, Cosell dragged sports journalism kicking and screaming into an era when electronic media replaced print.

Born in 1918 to Isidore and Nellie Cohen and raised in Brooklyn, Cosell studied law at NYU and floundered for years, trying to find his niche. He finally found it in 1956 with a radio show, “Speaking of Sports,” sponsored by a relative who owned a shirt company.

After waiting so long for his break, Cosell pursued stardom with a vengeance, bringing the big guns of his scathing, contrarian wit and bludgeoning pomposity to bear on sport’s stuffed shirts, such as International Olympic Committee head Avery Brundage and baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn.

He made more enemies than friends with his aggressive interviewing style.

New York Yankees manager Ralph Houk famously compared Cosell to excrement, telling him, “you’re everywhere.” Cosell didn’t care.

A tireless self-promoter,

he ignored his critics and pressed onward. But there was, as Ribowsky points out, a hard kernel of integrity in his bluster.

Cosell wasn’t alone in supporting Muhammad Ali in his legal battle with the U.S. government over the draft, or Curt Flood, who sued the baseball establishment in an attempt to become a free agent, but he made the most noise for their causes.

For several years, the public practically saw Ali and Cosell as an act; Ali actually told Cosell to call him by a racial epithet in public so that “They’ll think we hate one another.”

The irony to Cosell’s life is that he yearned for the more serious journalistic work that would surely have stifled his individuality. He lost ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” job to the far less abrasive Jim McKay and never got over his bitterness when his longtime supporter at ABC, Roone Arledge, passed him over for the network’s coverage of the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics (again for McKay). Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg, who often served as ghostwriter for Cosell’s radio and TV commentary, thought, “(It) ate him up that he wasn’t the focal point when it all happened.”

Cosell was so truculent — to use one of his favorite words — that when ABC arranged a farewell dinner for him in 1986 he informed the network head: “I don’t want to be honored. If you want to talk about my departure, talk to my lawyer.”

“His coda,” Ribowsky writes (correctly I think), “more than anything else, is his singularity — a long-lost quality in the postmodern culture that has wiped men like him off the slate.” Howard Cosell made his own mold, and then broke it.

‘Why We Broke Up’ by Lemony Snicket author is a poignant reliving of teen’s first romance

By Susan Carpenter Los Angeles Times

Most of us have been there, experiencing the unprecedented high of a first love followed by the debilitating low when it crumbles. But few of these tragic trajectories have been written about as poignantly as in “Why We Broke Up.” The young-adult debut from Scott Sheu, Daniel Handler, better known AmeriCorps volunteer, as Lemony Snicket, is an ilLawrence lustrated novel that is its own “‘The Keep’ by Jennifer series of unfortunate events, Egan. I just saw an article chronicling a brief but intense about women in fiction, and teen relationship gone wrong. this seemed interesting.”

Penned as an elaborate “Dear John” letter written by high school junior Min Green to her ex Ed Slaterton, “Why We Broke Up” doesn’t begin with words but an artfully rendered end paper that shows a baby blue delivery truck parked at the end of a driveway. The truck belongs to Min’s friend, who has driven her to Ed’s house to drop off a box containing all the mementos of their 38-day Meredith McCarter, love affair. “Fragile,” reads international customer the lid. service representative, It’s ironic that this box, Lawrence filled as it is with “the prizes “‘The Penguin Book of Irish and the debris of this relaFiction’ edited by Colm tionship,” is the same shade Tóibín. I just started taking and shape as a gift from Tifclasses in the Irish language.” fany’s since it contains items of such negative, emotional

Book includes illustrations by artist Maira Kalman value. But it’s equally unusual that Ed and Min even started to date to begin with.

According to her friend, Min has “all the qualities Ed Slaterton looks for in his millions of girlfriends. ... You have two legs.” Ed is a senior and co-captain of the basketball team. Min is a junior whose greatest interest is old movies. Yet there was something between them, beyond hormones, that prompted the two to go out.

That something has its roots in the well-traveled, opposites-attract high school trope. In “Why We Broke Up,” it’s just told more creatively, with the benefit of hindsight and pictures. This deconstructed story about falling in love is illustrated, quite literally, with the artifacts that document their romance. Each chapter begins with a drawing of a single item of significance that is elaborated upon through text. The first objects to be so presented are the bottle caps for Scarpia’s extra bitter ale that Ed drank the night Min talked to him at a party after admiring his strong shoulders, arms and jawline. Min doesn’t drink beer. She does,

Handler

Kalman

however, see a lot of old movies, which, as the painting of a movie stub indicates, is where she takes Ed on their first date.

Those items are followed by the note Ed left in Min’s locker that scrawled, “I can’t stop thinking about you,” on lined note paper, the Hellman High School pennant Min was given to wave at basketball games as Ed’s official girlfriend and, eventually, a condom wrapper. Artist Maira Kalman’s full-color paintings of such mundane objects highlight the weighty sentimental attachments of the ordinary in the mind of an emotional high schooler, as do Handler’s words.

Few male writers could make a teenage-girl narrator in the throes of romantic desire and despair seem so credible, but Handler, who, on the jacket flap, says he was

dumped at least three times in high school, has, apparently through experience, convincingly mined the psyche of the love struck, presenting the story in an elegant and humorous style that borrows some of the tricks he honed as Lemony Snicket.

Though fans of his “Series of Unfortunate Events” aren’t likely to see any direct similarities, especially in the story line, Handler demonstrates a continuing affection for run-on sentences and food novelties with “Why We Broke Up.” He takes an entire page to describe the ludicrous course of events in a typical high school day as Min counts the minutes until she’s reunited with Ed. He describes the chestnuts the two were supposed to cook for Thanksgiving as tasting “like someone chewed up a tree branch and then Frenchkissed it into your mouth.”

It’s easy to predict how Handler’s story will conclude from the book’s few pages.

It’s more difficult to take such an everyday tragedy with a predictable ending and elevate it to an end point of enduring, emotionally effective art.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Poet’s Showcase What’s Wrong I dislike the economy very much Just like the stock market being bad Same thing with the medical situation And the terrorism makes me very mad The economy is failing The government is bailing The world is falling apart And now it is time to restart Legislators, where is the good in your mood?

If you’re doing what’s right, ignore being booed.

All I am saying, if you can understand Is that it’s the time now to take a stand.

— Dane Reinsch, fifth-grader at Sunflower School

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BEST-SELLERS Here are the best-sellers for the week ending Dec. 24, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Fiction 1. “11/22/63.” Stephen King.

Scribner, $35.

2. “The Litigators.” John Grisham. Doubleday, $28.95.

3. “Kill Alex Cross.” James Patterson. Little, Brown, $28.99.

4. “Death Comes to Pemberley.” P.D. James. Knopf, $25.95.

5. “Locked On.” Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. Putnam, $28.95.

6. “The Best of Me.” Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $25.99.

7. “Red Mist.” Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95.

8. “Explosive Eighteen.”

Janet Evanovich. Bantam, $28.

9. “V Is for Vengeance.” Sue Grafton. Putnam, $27.95.

10. “The Drop.” Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $27.99.

Nonfiction 1. “Steve Jobs.” Walter Isaacson. Simon and Schuster, $35.

2. “Killing Lincoln.” Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

Holt, $28.

3. “Unbroken.” Laura Hillenbrand. Random House, $27.

4. “Go the **** to Sleep.”

Adam Mansbach, illustrated

by Ricardo Cortes. Akashic, $14.95.

5. “Guinness World Records 2012.” Guinness World Records, $28.95.

6. “Through My Eyes.” Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker.

HarperOne, $26.99.

7. “Jack Kennedy.” Chris Matthews. Simon & Schuster, $27.50.

8. “Every Day a Friday.” Joel Osteen. FaithWords, $24.99.

9. “Nearing Home.” Billy Graham. Thomas Nelson, $19.99.

10. “Being George Washington.” Glenn Beck. Threshold, $26.

Biography of Coco Chanel examines fashion influence, scandalous life

By Elizabeth Wellington The Philadelphia Inquirer

Women’s wardrobes would be oh-so-cumbersome, not to mention boring, without the contributions of the great Parisian designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel.

Chanel gave us the little black dress, gaudy layers of pearls, and the fitted tweed suit. Most important,

she popularized predecessor Paul Poiret’s early-1900s frocks that featured straighter silhouettes and shorter hemlines. These boyish pieces ultimately helped women do away with the corset.

That’s common fashionista knowledge.

But there’s much more that hasn’t been common knowledge about the bobbed, early20th-century businesswom-

an, and it should make for a book chock-full of scandals and affairs. Hence, British author Lisa Chaney’s 400-pluspage tome, “Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life.”

In the book, Chaney pieces together lost letters and records, which the designer spent most of her life trying to hide, that retell her maudlin story and give substance to a lot of rumors about Cha-

nel. But, while the story is juicy chick lit, the book is not.

What this fact-heavy prose lacks is spice.

It takes a while, but we get Chaney’s point: Chanel was a style innovator, but it wasn’t a love of clothing that made this woman tick. It was fear.

Fear that she’d lose control or, worse, the independence she so fiercely fought for.

Chanel was born in 1883,

the illegitimate child of an unemployed French playboy and a severely depressed mother, and lost her parents when she was 12. She grew up in an orphanage run by nuns.

Chanel’s life wasn’t easy, and at times, it was downright degrading. She spent her young adult life as a courtesan, an upscale prostitute.

She entered high society as one of two mistresses of her

first financial backer, socialite and horseman Etienne Balsan, whom she eventually left for an even richer Englishman, Arthur “Boy” Capel, after cheating on Balsan with Capel.

By the book’s end, Chanel has become a lonely and bitter woman who spends much of her time bashing fashion, especially the miniskirt, which she found vulgar and inappropriate.

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who plans to retire in April.

Greece has been making up the shortfall by charging everything to a MasterCard account that the Greek government applied for — in what some critics consider a questionable financial practice — using the name “Germany.”

In a historic episode of the TV quiz show “Jeopardy,” two human champions are swiftly dispatched by an IBM supercomputer named Watson, which combines an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide range of subjects with the ability to launch a 60,000-volt surge of electricity 25 feet.

On Broadway, the troubled musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” suffers a setback when three actors and 11 audience members are injured in what the producers describe as a “catastrophic Spandex failure.”

In sports, two storied NFL franchises, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, meet in Super Bowl XLV, a tense, back-and-forth battle won at the last minute, in a true shocker, by Watson the IBM supercomputer.

Speaking of shocking, in ...

March ... the European economic crisis worsens still further as Moody’s downgrades its credit rating for Spain following the discovery that the Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

In domestic news, the renegade Wisconsin Democratic state legislators are finally captured in a late-night raid by the elite Wisconsin State Parliamentarian SWAT team, which knocks down the legislators’ hotel-room door using a 200-pound, steel-reinforced edition of Robert’s Rules of Order.

The troubled musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” suffers yet another setback when four orchestra musicians are killed by what producers describe as a “freak clarinet accident.” Responding to the tragedy, President Obama delivers a nationally televised address, expressing his personal sympathy and noting that Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blocked the administration’s proposed $37 billion Federal Department of Woodwind Safety, which would create literally dozens of jobs.

In sports, National Football League owners lock out the players after negotiations break down over the issue of — in the words of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — “locker rooms being littered with reeking jockstraps the size of hammocks.”

Speaking of negotiations, in ...

April ... a major crisis is barely avoided when Congress, after frantic negotiations, reaches a last-minute agreement on the federal budget, thereby averting a government shutdown that would have had a devastating effect on the ability of Congress to continue spending insanely more money than it actually has.

Meanwhile the economic outlook remains troubling, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a rare press conference, consumes an entire bottle of gin. Things are even worse in Europe, where Moody’s announces that it has officially downgraded Greece’s credit rating from “poor” to “rat mucus” following the discovery that the Acropolis has been repossessed.

On the political front, the field of Republican contenders considering running for presidential nomination continues to expand with the addition of Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Gary Johnson, all of whom pose a serious threat to gain traction with the Gingrich voter. Donald Trump reveals that he, too, is considering running for president, spurred by a sincere and passionate desire for attention. Trump makes headlines when he appears to side with the “birther” movement, questioning whether Barack Obama is in fact a natural-born U.S. citizen. Under growing pressure to respond,

Sunday, January 1, 2012

the White House finally releases a certified copy of a long-form birth certificate that appears to prove conclusively that Donald Trump is Belgian. Also, biologically female.

But the month ends on a joyous note as millions of TV viewers around the world watch Prince William and Catherine Middleton, two young people widely hailed for their down-to-earth likability and common touch, get married in a wedding costing the equivalent of the gross domestic product of Somalia.

Speaking of joyous, in ...

May ... the big story takes place in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden, enjoying a quiet evening chilling in his compound with his various wives and children and porn stash, receives an unexpected drop-in visit from a team of Navy SEALs. After due consideration of bin Laden’s legal rights, the SEALs convert him into Purina brand Shark Chow; he is then laid to rest in a solemn ceremony concluding upon impact with the Indian Ocean at a terminal velocity of 125 miles per hour.

While Americans celebrate, the prime minister of Pakistan declares that his nation (a) is very upset about the raid, and (b) had no earthly idea that the world’s most wanted terrorist had been living in a major Pakistani city in a large high-walled compound with a mailbox that said BIN LADEN. In domestic affairs, Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals that he fathered the child of a member of his household staff; incredibly, he does not follow this up by announcing that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain, however, does enter the GOP race, promising to reach out to as many ... No, wait, let’s rephrase that: Promising to take firm positions on ... No, sorry, how about: Promising to appeal to a broad ... OK, never mind. Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty also announces his candidacy, but winds up withdrawing from the race about midway through his announcement speech when he realizes that his staff has fallen asleep.

Meanwhile, followers of Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping prepare for the Rapture, which Camping has prophesized will occur at 6 p.m. on May 21. But the fateful hour comes and goes without incident, except in New York City, where, in yet another setback for the troubled production of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the entire cast is sucked through the theater ceiling, never to be seen again.

As the month draws to a close, a Twitter account belonging to Anthony Weiner — a feisty, ambitious Democratic up-and-comer who managed to get elected to Congress despite looking like a nocturnal rodent that somehow got a full-body wax and acquired a gym membership — tweets a link to a photograph of a pair of briefs containing what appears to be a congressional member rarin’ to filibuster, if you catch my drift. This member immediately captivates the nation, although, surprisingly, President Obama fails to deliver a nationally televised address about it. The drama continues to build in ...

June ... when Weiner denies that he sent the photo, although he admits he cannot say “with certitude” whether the member is or is not his. He finally confesses to sending the photo, and, as the pressure on him to resign becomes overwhelming, he is left with no choice but to declare his intention to seek the Republican presidential nomination.

No, I’m kidding. Weiner resigns and takes a full-time position in the private sector admiring himself in the mirror.

Meanwhile the Republican field does in fact continue to grow as Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, “Mitt” Romney, the late Sonny Bono and somebody calling himself “Jon Huntsman” all enter the race, bringing the Republican contender total to roughly 125.

In Washington, Congress is under mounting pressure to do something about the pesky federal debt, which continues to mount as a result of the fact that the government continues to spend insanely more money than it actually has. Congress, after carefully weighing its three options — stop spend-

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ing so much money; get some more money somehow; or implement some combination of options one and two — decides to go with option four: continue to do nothing while engaging in relentlessly hyperpartisan gasbaggery. Incredibly, this does not solve the debt problem.

But perhaps the month’s most disturbing development takes place in the Middle East when Iran, which is believed to be close to developing nuclear weapons, test-fires 14 missiles, including some capable of threatening U.S. interests, as becomes clear when one of them plunges through the theater roof during a matinee performance of the troubled musical “SpiderMan: Turn Off The Dark.”

Speaking of disturbing, in ...

July ... the eyeballs of the nation are riveted on Orlando, Fla., where Casey Anthony is on trial on charges of being an attractive young woman who is definitely guilty of murder according to millions of deeply concerned individuals watching on TV. The trial becomes an obsession for hundreds of people who are not in any way connected to the victim, Caylee Anthony, but are so distraught over her death that they feel compelled to travel to Orlando and lurk around the courthouse expressing anguish, as opposed to doing something that might actually help one of the many living children who are at risk but who, unfortunately for them, are not featured on TV. In a shocking verdict, Anthony is acquitted of murder and set free, only to be attacked outside the courtroom and have large clumps of her hair yanked out by outraged prominent TV legal harpy Nancy Grace.

Speaking of drama: In Washington, as the deadline for raising the federal debt limit nears, Congress and the Obama administration work themselves into a frenzy trying to figure out what to do about the fact that the government is spending insanely more money than it actually has. After hours of intense negotiations, several walkouts, countless press releases and of course a nationally televised address by the president, the Democrats and the Republicans are finally able to announce, at the last possible minute, that they have hammered out a historic agreement under which the government will continue to spend insanely more money than it actually has while a very special congressional committee — A SUPER committee! — comes up with a plan, by a later date, that will solve this pesky problem once and for all. Everybody involved heaves a sigh of relief and basks in the feeling of satisfaction that comes from handling yet another crisis, Washington-style.

In England, the News Corp. media empire comes under scrutiny for alleged phone hacking when an investigation reveals that calls to Queen Elizabeth’s private mobile number are being answered

by Rupert Murdoch speaking in a high-pitched voice.

On a positive note, NFL owners and players are finally able to settle their dispute,

thereby averting the very real danger that millions of Fantasy Football enthusiasts would be forced to develop lives.

Speaking of threats, in ...

August ... Standard & Poor’s makes good on its threat to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, noting that the federal government, in making fiscal decisions, is exhibiting “the IQ of a turnip.” Meanwhile Wall Street becomes increasingly jittery as investors react to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernanke’s surprise announcement that his personal retirement portfolio consists entirely of assault rifles.

In political news, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces that he will seek the Republican nomination with a goal of “restoring the fundamental American right to life, liberty, and a third thing.” But the early GOP leader is Michele Bachmann who scores a decisive victory in the crucial Ames, Iowa, Straw Poll, garnering a total of 11 votes, narrowly edging out Ron Paul and a heifer named “Widget.” In what will become a pattern for GOP frontrunners, Bachmann’s candidacy immediately sinks like an anvil in a duck pond.

Abroad, a wave of riots sweeps across England as thousands of protesters take to the streets of London and other major cities to strike a blow against racism and social injustice by stealing consumer electronics and designer sneakers.

As the end of the month nears, a rare 5.8-magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter in Virginia, rattles the East Coast, shaking buildings from South Carolina to Maine but causing little damage, except in New York, where a theatrical set depicting a building topples over onto the cast of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.” The producers, determined to escape the bad luck that has haunted the current theater, move the entire production to New Jersey, which unfortunately turns out to be directly in the path of Hurricane Irene.

Speaking of disasters, in ...

September ... the worsening European debt crisis worsens still further when Italy, desperate for revenue, establishes a National Tip Jar. As markets plunge, the International Monetary Fund, seeking to prevent worldwide investor panic, announces that it will henceforth be supplementing its income by selling Herbalife.

Meanwhile on the Republican side, Herman Cain surges to the top of the pile with his “9-9-9” plan, which combines the quality of being easy to remember with the quality of being something that nobody thinks will ever actually happen. Seeking to regain momentum, Rick Perry also comes out with a tax plan, but he can remember only the first two nines. Adding spice to the mix, “Mitt” Romney unexpectedly exhibits a lifelike facial expression, but is quickly subdued by his advisers.

In what is seen as a sign of public disenchantment with the political process, voters in New York’s 9th congressional district, choosing a replacement for disgraced Rep.

Anthony Weiner, elect Anthony Soprano, despite the fact that he is a fictional character and not even Jewish.

Disenchantment is also apparent in New York City’s Zuccotti Park with the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a gathering of individuals who seek to focus the nation’s attention, laser-like, on the problems of income inequality, greed, corporations, student loans, hunger, mortgages, health care, reforestation, unemployment, political corruption, racism, gender discrimination, lack of tents, consumerism, global climate change, banks, poverty, people wanting to tell other people where and when they can and cannot drum, fossil fuels, showers, immigration, animal rights, Internet access, capitalism and many other issues that will not be resolved until people finally wake up, get off their butts and start seriously engaging in long-term urban camping.

As the month draws to a close, an anxious world looks to the skies, as a NASA satellite weighing more than six tons goes into an uncontrolled reentry, breaking into fiery pieces that hurtle toward Earth but fortunately come down at sea, where they do no damage other than sinking a passenger ship that had been chartered for a recuperation cruise for the surviving cast members of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.”

The downward trend continues in ...

October ... which sees yet another troubling development in the world economic crisis when an International Monetary Fund audit of the 27-nation European Union reveals that 11 of the nations are missing.

“Also,” states the audit report, “the nation claiming to be Slovakia is in fact Belize using a fake ID.” Meanwhile in Greece, thousands of rioters take to the streets of Athens to protest a tough new government austerity program that would sharply reduce the per diem rioter allowance.

In Arab Spring developments, Libyan strongperson and lunatic Moammar Gadhafi steps down and receives an enthusiastic sendoff from his countrymen, who then carry him, amid much festivity, to his retirement freezer.

Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the FBI has uncovered a plot by Iran to commit acts of terror in the U.S., including assassinating the Saudi ambassador, bombing the Israeli embassy, and — most chillingly — providing funding for traveling productions of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”

On the political front, Sarah Palin announces that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination, noting that the GOP field is “already funny enough.”

In technology news, Apple releases the iPhone that comes after the iPhone 4, which was rumored to be named the “5,” but which instead is named — talk about innovation — the “4S.” It is of course a huge hit with Apple fans, who, upon purchasing it, immediately form new lines outside Apple stores to await the next breakthrough iPhone, preliminarily rumored to be named the “4.7.”

In sports, one of the most exciting World Series in history is won by some team other than the New York Yankees.

Humanity reaches a major milestone as the United Nations estimates that the population of the Earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom sends you irritating emails inviting you to join something called “LinkedIn.” The month ends on a tragic note when Kim Kardashian, who only 72 days earlier had a fairy-tale $10 million wedding to the love of her life, professional basketball player whatshisname, files for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in height. “Also,” she states in the filing documents, “I am a total slut.”

Speaking of fairy tales, in ...

November ... the congressional Supercommittee, after months of pondering what to do about the fact that the federal government is spending insanely more money than it actually has, announces that, in the true “can-do” bipartisan Washington spirit, it is giving up. This means the government will continue spending insanely

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more money than it actually has until 2013, at which time there are supposed to be automatic spending cuts, except Congress would never let that happen, and even if it DID happen, the federal government would still be spending insanely more money than it actually has.

Speaking of the many benefits provided by the federal government: As Thanksgiving approaches, the Department of Homeland Security, having apparently handled all the other terrorist threats, issues a warning, including a scary video, on the dangers of: turkey fryers. I am not making this item up.

Abroad, the worsening Greek economic crisis forces Prime Minister George Papandreou to resign, leading to the formation of a new coalition government headed — in what some economists view as a troubling sign — by Bernie Madoff.

In domestic politics, the Republican Party is rocked by polls showing that 43 percent of all likely voters — nearly 55 million people — claim to have been sexually harassed

by Herman Cain. With Rick Perry stumbling and Mitt Romney continuing to generate the excitement level of a dump fire, the GOP frontrunner becomes none other than that fresh-faced, no-baggage, anti-establishment Washington outsider ... Newt Gingrich!

Speaking of extraterrestrial phenomena: astronomers watch closely as an asteroid 1,300 feet across hurtles extremely close to Earth. Incredibly — NASA calls it “a one in a billion chance” — the asteroid fails to hit anyone or anything connected with “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”

The month ends on a reflective note as Americans pause to observe Thanksgiving very much as the Pilgrims did in 1621, by pepper-spraying each other at malls.

Speaking of pausing, in ...

December ... Herman Cain announces that he is suspending his presidential campaign so he can go home and spend more time sleeping in his basement. This leaves the Republicans with essentially a twoman race between Gingrich and Romney, which means it’s only a matter of time before we start hearing the name “Bob Dole.”

The U.S. Postal Service, facing huge losses, announces a cost-cutting plan under which it will start delivering first-class mail “to totally random addresses.” The resulting savings will enable the USPS “to continue providing every American household with a minimum of 145 pounds of junk mail per week.”

Abroad, the member nations of the European Union, in a last-ditch effort to avoid an economic meltdown, announce that they are replacing the “euro” with a new unit of currency, the “pean,” the exchange rate for which will be linked to the phases of the moon. The goal, according to the EU announcement, is “to cause American tourists to become even more confused than they already are.” The plan starts paying dividends immediately as a pair of elderly ladies from Indianapolis purchase two croissants at a Paris cafe for six peans and wind up leaving the equivalent of a $3,780 tip.

The economic outlook is also brighter in Washington, where Congressional leaders, still working night and day to find a solution to the problem of the federal government spending insanely more money than it actually has, announce that they have a bold new plan: They will form another committee. But this one will be even better than the Supercommittee, because it will be a SuperDUPERcommittee, and it will possess what House and Senate leaders describe, in a joint statement, as “magical powers.”

So the nation is clearly in good hands, and as the troubled year finally come to an end, throngs of New Year’s revelers, hoping for better times to come, gather in Times Square to watch the descent of the famous illuminated ball, followed by the rise of what appears to be a mushroom cloud from the direction of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”

But there’s no need to worry: The president is planning a nationally televised address. So everything will be fine. Happy New Year.

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A ‘train-wreck of a year’

Boomer Girl Diary

Cathy Hamilton

by Christina Wood

cathy@boomergirl.com

Jennifer DiDonato Age: 26

Resolve to play more Twister in 2012

Relationship status: Single

Hometown: New Philadelphia, Ohio Time in Lawrence: 4 years Occupation: KU undergraduate student Dream job: I would love to act and sing as a voice-over of a Disney princess!

What were you doing when scouted? Going for coffee How would you describe your style? Eclectic bohemian

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The good, the bad and the Spidey

Favorite fashion trends: I’m a big fan of scarves.

Least favorite trends: Jeggings!

Fashion influences: I love how some Australian roommates of mine used to dress.

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CLOTHING DETAILS:

Boots: Kieu’s, 2011, $40.

Cardigan: American Eagle, 2011, $15. The rest of my outfit I was smart and borrowed from roommates and siblings!

What would you like to see more of in Lawrence? Old-school roller-skating and ice-skating rinks!

What would you like to see less of in Lawrence? The crazy drunken culture People say I look like... Kiki from a kids’ show or Tina Fey when I wear glasses.

Tell us a secret: I got caught moon walking in front of a mirror in a public restroom. It wasn’t pretty.

Know someone stylin’? Send us a tip! style@lawrence.com

Adrian Lee Age: 20

2011 truly awful. What made it truly awful was the economy, which, for what felt like the t was the kind of year that 17th straight year, continued to made a person look back stagger around like a zombie on fondly on the Gulf oil spill. crack. Nothing seemed to help.

Granted, the oil spill was bad.

President Obama, whose instincBut it did not result in a hightive reaction to pretty much decibel, weeks-long national everything that happens, includconversation about a bulge in ing sunrise, is to deliver a nationa congressman’s underpants. ally televised address, delivered Which is exactly what we had in numerous nationally televised the Festival of Sleaze that was addresses on the economy, but 2011. Remember? There were somehow these did not do the days when you could not estrick. Neither did the approxicape The Bulge. At dinnertime, mately 37 million words emitted parents of young children had by the approximately 249 Repubto be constantly ready to hurl lican-presidential-contender telethemselves in front of their TV vised debates, out of which the screens, for fear that it would single most memorable statement suddenly appear on the news in made was, quote: “Oops.” high definition. For a brief (Har!) As the year wore on, frustraperiod, The Bulge was more tion finally boiled over in the famous than Justin Bieber. form of the Occupy Various RanAnd when, at dom Spaces movelast, we were done But all of these devel- ment, wherein with The Bulge, who were opments, unfortunate as people and we were able sick and tired of a to turn our atten- they were, would not by lot of stuff finally tion to the presigot off their butts themselves have made dential election, and started work2011 truly awful. What and the important ing for meaningful issues facing us, as made it truly awful was change via direct the economy, which, for action in the form a nation, in these troubled times, of sitting around what felt like the 17th it turned out that straight year, continued and forming multhe main issue, to tiple committees judge by quantity to stagger around like a and drumming of press coverage, zombie on crack.” and not directly was: groping. issuing any speSo finally, cific demands but repelled by the drainage ditch definitely having a lot of strongly that our political system has held views for and against a wide become, we turned for escape to variety of things. Incredibly, an institution that represents all even this did not bring about that is pure and wholesome and meaningful change. The economy decent in America today: college remained wretched, especially football. unemployment, which got so bad That was when we started to that many Americans gave up have fond memories of the oil even trying to work. Congress, spill. for example.

I’m not saying that the entire Were there ANY positive deyear was ruined by sleaze. It was velopments in 2011? Yes: !"Osama bin Laden, Moammar also ruined by other bad things.

Gadhafi, and the New York YanThis was a year in which jourkees all suffered major setbacks. nalism was pretty much com!"Kim Kardashian finally found pletely replaced by tweeting. It her lifetime soulmate for nearly was a year in which a significant two and a half months. earthquake struck Washington, !"Despite a prophecy by D.C., yet failed to destroy a single revered Christian radio lunatic federal agency. It was a year in Harold Camping, the world did which the nation was subjected not end on May 21. to a seemingly endless barrage Come to think of it, that last of highly publicized pronouncedevelopment wasn’t totally posiments from Charlie Sheen, a tive, not when we consider all the man who, where you have a other things that happened in 2011. central nervous system, has a In case you’ve blotted it out, let’s Magic 8-Ball. This was a year take one last look back, through in which the cast members of squinted eyelids, at this train“Jersey Shore” went to Italy and then — in an inexcusable lapse of wreck of a year, starting with ... border security — were allowed January to return. ... which sees a change of But all of these developments, power in the House of Represenunfortunate as they were, would tatives, as outgoing Democratic not by themselves have made

By Dave Barry

Relationship status: Single

Home country: Malaysia Time in Lawrence: Four months Occupation: Undergraduate engineering student at Kansas University Dream job: Working for a company or for myself as an engineer What were you doing when scouted?

Hanging with friends How would you describe your style?

Casual Favorite fashion trends: I like comfortable, recreational pants and casual shirts.

Least favorite CLOTHING DETAILS: trends: Don’t really mind what Sweater: Walmart, 2011, $20. Shirt: Bonia, 2011, $20. other people Jeans: Levi’s, 2011, $15. wear Fashion influences: Popular culture and icons People say I look like... A typical Asian.

Tell us a secret: I like candies!

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel over to Republican John Boehner, who, in the new spirit of Washington bipartisanship, has it checked for explosives.

In the State of the Union address, President Obama calls on Congress to improve the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. He is interrupted 79 times by applause, and four times by falling chunks of the Capitol ceiling. In other Washington action, Chinese President Hu Jintao is honored at a White House dinner for 225 luminaries, who dine on prime rib accompanied by 17,000 little plastic packets of soy sauce.

The month’s biggest story is a tragedy in Tucson, where a man opens fire on a meet-and-greet being held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The accused shooter turns out to be a mentally unstable loner with a history of drug use; there is no evidence that his actions had anything to do with uncivil political rhetoric. So naturally the blame for the tragedy is immediately placed on: uncivil political rhetoric. This results in a nationwide spasm of civil political rhetoric lasting about two hours, after which everybody returns to uncivil political rhetoric, which has been the norm in the United States for two centuries.

In Egypt, demonstrators take to the streets to protest the threedecade regime of President Hosni Mubarak following revelations that “Hosni Mubarak” can be rearranged to spell “A Bum Honks Air.” The movement continues to grow in. ...

February ... when “Arab Spring” anti-government protest demonstrations spread from Egypt to Yemen, then to Iraq, then to Libya, and finally — in a development long feared by the U.S. government — to the volatile streets of Madison, Wis., where thousands of protesters occupy the state Capitol to dramatize the fact that it’s warmer in there than outside. As the protests escalate, 14 Democratic Wisconsin state legislators flee to Illinois, where they barricade themselves in a hotel and, after a heated four-hour debate, decide, by a 7-4 vote with three abstentions, to order room service.

In Europe, the economic crisis continues to worsen, especially in Greece, which has been operating under a financial model in which the government spends approximately $150 billion a year while taking in revenues totaling $336.50 from the lone Greek taxpayer, an Athens businessman

Winter Enrollment Capo

In case you haven’t fully gained consciousness after last night’s champagne-fueled Twister tournament (oh, wait!

That was me), today is the first Sunday AND the first day of a new year.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist (though I wasn’t convinced Elvis was really dead until 1986), but I’d say someone is trying to make me break last year’s “no more resolution columns ever” rule.

Oh, all right. I’ll give it another go, but only because I don’t want to write about hangover cures (although if someone has one that doesn’t involve raw eggs, send it my way ASAP).

No. 1: I hereby resolve to figure out, once and for all, what exactly to call this decade we’re in. Is it the “two-thousand teens”? Or is that inaccurate until next year? And what about last decade? What will our Please see BOOMER, page 8C

BEHIND THE LENS

Closing the shutter on 2011

By Mike Yoder myoder@ljworld.com

ONLINE: See the photographers’ Photo of the Year videos at LJWorld.com

As I look forward to new adventures and photographs in 2012, here are some observations and notes to sweep out 2011.

I discovered too late that the ACME shirt shop in downtown Lawrence is a good place to get a T-shirt made from your own photographs. Take a disc in or email them a digital file, pick out a shirt, design the layout and print it. Sweet and simple. I guess it’s not too early to think about gift options for next year.

Getting a camera for your parents can be tricky. My 82-yearold father said he was interested in using a digital camera if I had one to spare. I tend to hang on to cameras, so I had one. He uses an inexpensive film camera — but not often. He just finished up a 24-exposure roll on Christmas weekend that included photos from a September trip. Twentyfour exposures in four months; you do the math.

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Cadenza

Classes meet Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 10, 2012, 4:45 pm, FSHS Choral education for children PK-3rd grade. No auditions. Scholarships available.

Register at www.lawrencechildrenschoir.org or call 331-4662.

This program is presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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CONTACT US Trevan McGee Lawrence.com editor 832-7178 tmcgee@ljworld.com

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