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A history of Kansas death penalty cases County’s first capital murder trial in decades begins on Monday Katherine Wartell kwartell@themercury.com The first capital murder trial in Riley County in decades begins Monday when opening statements are heard in the case against Luis Aguirre, the man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend and their 13month-old son in 2009. The case, historic for Riley County, sheds light on the death penalty in Kansas and, depending on its outcome, could have greater implications in a state where execution is relatively rare. Though nine men face execution in Kansas, the state has not executed an inmate since 1965

when serial killers George York and James Latham were hanged at Lansing Correctional Facility. The infamous Clutter family murderers, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were hanged earlier that same year. And since 1950, a total of 10 men have been executed in Kansas. The state’s death penalty was first abolished in 1907, then reinstated in 1935 before it was once again abolished in 1972 following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Though the Supreme Court determined the constitutionality of the death penalty in 1976, opening the doors for states to bring back the penalty, it wasn’t until 1994 that Kansas once again reinstated it when Gov. Joan Finney allowed it to become law without her signature. As established by Kansas law, the death penalty can be SEE

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Swanson finds himself in a changed district Swanson said. That would have left his own home district focused on Clay, northern The newest member of the Geary County and Fort Riley. Swanson was as wrong in area’s legislative delegation — and the only one guaranteed that assumption as everybody else. The 64th House to still be in office during district devised by the the 2013 session — is a judges and made public three-term incumbent about 10 days ago who suddenly finds himreplaced Swanson’s self a minority in a subGeary County constantially shifted disstituency with contrict. stituents in Riley CounVern Swanson didn’t ty. Not counting solexpect it to turn out that diers who live on the way when a three-judge Swanson Riley County portion of federal panel assumed the post, there are 6,000 the task of redistricting the Kansas Legislature that Riley Countians in Swanson’s the Legislature itself failed to new district, nearly as many as live in Clay County. accomplish. “It’s a different dynamic for “I was pretty sure my district would look like what the me,” said Swanson, who House had originally passed SEE NO. 3, BACK PAGE in a bipartisan manner,” Bill Felber bfelber@themercury.com

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Curtis Rawls III, age 6, lends his drum skills to a performance by a worship band and singers from Manhattan Christian Fellowship at the 23rd annual Juneteenth Gospel Festival on Friday in City Park.

Festival features gospel concert, parade, speakers Katherine Wartell kwartell@themercury.com

n June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and that slaves were free. His news came two years

after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but for many in Texas, this was the first they heard of it, and Juneteenth, became a celebration commemorating the end of slavery each year thereafter. This weekend, Manhattan observed the city’s 23rd annual

A group from Manhattan Christian Fellowship kicks off the Juneteenth Gospel Festival on Friday evening. Several groups performed throughout the evening, including several worship groups, a mime team, and dancers.

Juneteenth festival, kicked off by Friday night’s Gospel Fest, where eight groups of performers took to the stage in City Park. The performances were prefaced by a prayer from Pastor Darryl Martin with the Manhattan Christian Fellowship Church. “We are here to lift up the name of our savior,” Martin said. “It is unto you that we lift our voices.” Jaleesa Riddley, a soldier from Fort Riley, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” to open the night, and after the sun went down, she once again took to the stage to close the show. In between, there were performances by the Manhattan Christian Fellowship Church, who, sang “Not Forgotten/He Knows My Name,” among other songs; El Shaddai Ministries Community Church praise and worship team; the Junction City Church of the Nazarene; and Salvation Army, performSEE

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Manhattan Day Care closes following funding losses Burk Krohe bkrohe@themercury.com Manhattan Day Care and Learning Center, a fixture in the community for decades, closed its doors for good last month. It has left many residents wondering what happened. The center provided early childhood care and education for low- to moderate- income families for 42 years. Each year was different, but the center typically served infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers year round at its main facility located at First United Methodist Church, an additional space at First Christian Church and, more recently, a space at the Douglass Community Center. At its peak, it provided 56 spots for Manhattan children. The center had agreements with the churches for the spaces and an

agreement with the city for the Douglass Center space. Lauren Palmer, assistant city manger, said the center closed its operations on May 31. The center ran into problems that are prevalent among child care facilities—increasing demand and decreasing funding. Bruce Snead, vice president of the Manhattan Day Care board, said there was “a cascade of events over the SEE

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OBITUARIES James Shaw James Lee Shaw, 71, of Wichita, died June 15, 2012, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. His family provided some of the following information. He was James Shaw born June 2, 1941, in Wamego, the son of Robert and Mabel (Area) Shaw. He graduated from St. George High School and from the Wichita Technical Institute with his degree in Electronics in 1966. Jim served in the United States Air Force in the Korean and Vietnam Wars era as an Airman First Class. He worked as an engineer at KCMO in Kansas City and for KARD in Wichita, retiring in 2008. He was active with Cosmopolitan the Kansas City Charity for diabetic children and had his First Class Operators License for broadcasting with radar endorsement. Survivors include four children: Debbie Hehemann and her husband Ken, Kelly Rice and her husband

Charles all of Wichita; Jeff Thompson and his wife Lynn of Denver, Colorado, and Terry Whitmarsh and her husband Todd of Lee's Summit, Missouri; his mother, Mabel Shaw of St. George; one brother, Steven Shaw and his wife Rickie of St. George; wife Jackie Shaw of Overland Park, seven grandchildren: Chris and Kara Hehemann, Elizabeth Foster, Jessica Warren, Whitney Bartlow, Patrick Rinck and Ty Medlock; and five great-grandchildren: Wyatt and Miley Foster, Adam Warren, Isabelle and Josiah Bartlow. Jim was preceded in death by his father Robert Shaw; two sisters: Janice Bussart and Karen Shaw; one granddaughter, Amanda Rice; and one greatgrandson, Dominck Foster. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Chapel with Ray Emery officiating. Interment with military honors will follow in the St. George Cemetery. The family will receive friends from noon until the service time on Wednesday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left for the family through the funeral home

website at www.ymlfuneralhome.com. Memorial contributions may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Association. Contributions may be left in care of the YorgensenMeloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, Kansas 66502.

Zelda Anita Schroll Zelda Anita Schroll, 88, of Manhattan, died Sunday June 10 at the Via-Christi Village in Manhattan. She was a lifelong resident of Manhattan. Her family provided some of the following information. Zelda was born in Manhattan on Oct. 31, 1923, the daughter of the late John and Gertrude Anderson. Zelda graduated from Manhattan High School in 1941 and she married the late Jim Schroll. He died in May of 2011. Zelda was co-owner of Zeandale Salvage with husband Jim and mother of three boys. She was a member of the Zeandale Community Church and the ladies guild. She and her husband Jim were also supporters of Manhattan Christian College. She was an avid gardener and love to grow flowers around the house. She was also an avid animal

lover, especially dogs that gave her great comfort in the last several years of her life. Survivors include her three sons, Darrell and his wife Janet, Dana and his wife Jan, and Linn and his wife Sharon all of Manhattan; seven grandchildren, Rusty Schroll and his wife Jenn, Kristy Schroll, Duke Ridder, Cody Ridder and his wife Calie, Justin Schroll, Shane Schroll and Kelsey Schroll all of Manhattan; three nephews Joe Morehead of Kansas City, Larry Morehead and his wife Sheri of Manhattan, and Jerry Morehead of Manhattan; and many fine friends and people she touched in her life. A memorial services will be held at the Zeandale Community Church on Wednesday, June 20 at 11 a.m. Grave side services to follow at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Zeandale Community Church. Arrangements have been entrusted to IrvinParkview Funeral Home & Cremation, Manhattan. To leave an online condolence please visit us at http://irvinparkview.com or find us on Facebook.

and Powell Gardens. She was a lifelong contributor to the Juvenile Diabetes Association as well as a participant in the Whisper Walk for Ovarian Cancer. She is preceded in death by her mother and beloved step-father Dale S. Gessell. Sheryl is survived by her loving husband, Richard; her twin sister, Sharon Gieber and husband Dale; three brothers, Donald L. Paustian, Jr. and wife Beverly; William R. Paustian and wife Pamela; Daniel Paustian and significant other, Terrie Pattee; mother in law, Patricia Brotbeck; sister in law, Catherine Way; brother in law, John H. Brotbeck, III and wife Nelle; and ten nephews, two nieces and many dear family members and friends. Condolences may be left at www.amosfamily.com.

Sheryl Brotbeck Sheryl Elaine Brotbeck, 60, of Mission, died Saturday, June 16 at home, surrounded by her loving family and friends. Her family provided some of the following information. A celebration of Sheryl's life will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 20 at the Amos Family Funeral Home and Crematory. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Crossroads Hospice, Juvenile Diabetes, or the Whisper Walk for Ovarian Cancer. Sheryl was born Nov. 24, 1951 to the late Donald L. Paustian, Sr. and Lydia L. Gessell in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Sheryl graduated from Manhattan High School in 1969 and went on to attend Kansas State University. Sheryl worked as a bookkeeper for Motorville, Inc. and retired after 30 years in the performance automotive industry. Sheryl was a member of the American Business Woman's Association and was the Woman of the Year in 1980. Sheryl was a supporter of the arts and was a member of the Friends of the Kansas City Symphony, Chamber Music

Dean Piper Leland "Dean" Piper, 84, of St. George, died June 16, 2012, at Valley Vista in Wamego. He was born June 4, 1928, in Manhattan. Complete obituary and service information will be announced later by the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan.

POLICE Arrests Carol Ellen Garcia, 19, Fort Riley, for driving while suspended. Released on $500 bond. Tony Ray Dugan, 32, 12155 Blue River Hills Rd., for unlawful possession of hallucinogens and possession of drug paraphernalia. Released on $1,000 bond. Faith Melinda Morehead, 43, 613 Riley Lane, Apt. 1, for unlawful possession of hallucinogens, unlawful possession of depressants and failure to appear. Released on $4,000 bond. Marcel Dontae Williams, 23, 1010 Bluemont Ave., Apt. 9, for failure to appear. Released on $340 bond. Evon Ann Obannon, 50, 416 Vattier St., for driving while suspended. Released on $1,500 bond. Jermaine Lamar Mosley,

30, 3511 Hudson Cir., for sale or distribution of marijuana. Released on $4,000 bond. Jessica Marie Noe, 26, Wichita, for sale or distribution of marijuana. Released on $2,000 bond. Norberto Castro Oropeza, 25, 600 N. Juliette Ave., Apt. 2, for domestic battery. Released on $500 bond. Daniel Cole Arnwine, 31, 920 N. 4th St., for failure to appear. Released on $11,895.63 bond. Jayme Ray Deever, 27, Topeka, for driving while suspended. Released on $500 bond. Michael William Duncan, 28, 3796 Powers Lane, for possession of opiates, unlawful possession of hallucinogens and unlawful possession of stimulants. Confined on $4,000 bond. Alexandra Lynnee

McDermott, 21, Lawrence, for failure to appear. Confined on $159 bond. Tevin Lance Bruce, 19, Junction City, for failure to appear. Released on $2,000 bond. Lindsey Rae Pruitt, 28, 244 Westwood Rd., for driving while suspended. Released on $750 bond. John David Brun, 25, 814 Fremont St., for driving while suspended. Released on $750 bond. Angela Sue Ressler, 46, 416 S. 4th St., for criminal trespass. Confined on $500 bond. Aaron James Norris, 19, 2215 College Ave., for DUI. Confined on $750 bond. The Manhattan Marisa Ann Steven, 22, Mercury Wichita, for DUI. Confined on $1,500 bond.

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Burglaries in Eugene Field Neighborhood Several petty burglaries have been reported since the new year in the Eugene Field Neighborhood, with two recently reported on Fairview Avenue. Lt. Josh Kyle said that early Friday morning 1736 Fairview Ave. and 1723 Fairview Ave. were burglarized. At 1736 Fairview Ave., Kyle said the unknown suspect entered through a window and stole a wallet, resulting in a $50 loss. At 1723 Fairview Ave., he said an unknown suspect cut a window screen to gain entry but did not steal anything. He didThe notManhattan say the incidents were related, but said Mercury both homes had been previously burglarized. Residential burglaries were also reported in four homes in the 300 block of Delaware Avenue, the 1900 block of Leavenworth Street and the 1600 block of Laramie Street in March and April. All incidents involved forced entry. In January and February,

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Two female suspects reportedly filled bags with “significant” amounts of Dillard’s merchandise Thursday afternoon before The Manhattan leaving the area Mercury in a silver Lexus, police said. Lt. Josh Kyle said the incident was reported by a Dillard’s employee and occurred at approximately 12:30 p.m. He said the women stole $4,250 worth of merchandise. Kyle said an additional person drove the two women away from the store in the silver Lexus.

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two thefts were also reported in the 1800 block of Fairchild Avenue and the 400 block of 17th Street. Lt. Michael Quintanar said there are similarities between the incidents but to say they are linked is only speculation at this point in time. He said that in most of the burglaries, cash was the target. The burglaries and thefts are under investigation.

A man was arrested for driving under the influence early Friday morning after he backed his pick-up truck into an apartment building. Lt. Josh Kyle said Michael Wilton, 27, 928 Osage St., backed his black 2005 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck into an apartment complex at 1106 Bluemont Ave. at approximately 1:50 a.m. Kyle said the force broke a first-story window. Wilton was released from the Riley County Jail on $750 bond.

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Governor leads the way on ride Topeka Capital-Journal Gone for the day was his neatly pressed pinstripe suit and tie, reserved for official business Mondays through Fridays. Instead, Gov. Sam Brownback on Saturday was decked out in a light gray T-shirt and blue jeans, along with a black-and-gray jacket, gloves, sunglasses and a helmet. The apparel was appropriate for the motorcycleriding governor as he hopped on his Wichita-

made Big Dog bike Saturday morning on the south side of the Statehouse. After firing up his motorcycle, Brownback rode it along a sidewalk on the southwest side of the Statehouse grounds, then headed west on S.W. 10th, then south on S.W. Topeka Boulevard. About 400 other bikers followed Brownback in groups of 24 as they took part in the first Governor’s Flint Hills Freedom Ride. The 70-mile jaunt, which started under partly cloudy

Riley’s Hearts Apart program, Brothers in Blue Reentry and the Native Stone Scenic Byway. Coupled with corporate donations, about $50,000 was to be raised at the event. Brownback, 55, a firstterm Republican governor, said he had taken up riding a motorcycle a few years ago at the urging of a neighbor. “I love motorcycle riding,” he said. “It really is wonderful. You get to experience the feel and the smell of the outdoors.”

skies at 10 a.m. and ended at 1:30 p.m., took riders through picturesque areas of Shawnee, Wabaunsee and Pottawatomie counties along the Native Stone Scenic Byway. The ride ended in Wamego’s City Park, where Brownback honored veterans and Fort Riley soldiers and their families for their dedication to freedom. Bikers, some of whom came from more than 10 miles away, paid $25 to participate, with funds benefiting three causes: Fort

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Kansas SRS officials to improve training on elder abuse TOPEKA — State officials are taking on elder abuse. Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services Deputy Secretary Jim Kallinger announced Friday that the agency will increase training of social workers in elder abuse. SRS also is hiring four more adult protection services employees. SRS numbers show that there were 11,154 reports of alleged abuse, neglect or exploitation of adults from July 1 through March 30. The Lawrence JournalWorld reported that the agency announced its efforts in connection with international elder abuse awareness day. Among those attending the conference was State Rep. Ramon Gonzalez. The Republican from Perry is also a law enforcement official and said he has seen cases of elder abuse up close.

Doctor ditches plans for abortion clinic WICHITA — The lawyer for a Kansas abortion opponent accused of threatening a physician doctor says the doctor has abandoned plans to perform abortions at her Wichita practice. The Justice Department has sued Angel Dillard, of Valley Center, under a law protecting access to reproductive services. The government contends Dillard threatened Dr. Mila Means in a letter saying someone might place a bomb under her car. Means once trained to perform abortions. But Dillard's lawyer said in a court filing Thursday that Means no longer intends to perform the procedure. Means did not return a message Friday seeking comment. No abortions have been performed openly in Wichita since Dr. George Tiller was shot to death at his church in May 2009 by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder.

Fire destroys historic SE Kansas church MOLINE — A 126-yearold church in southeast Kansas is described as a total loss after a fire that may have been sparked by lightning. The fire at Christian Church in Moline was reported shortly before 3 a.m. Friday. Fire Chief Rob Wolfe told KAKE-TV the building was engulfed in flames

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when firefighters arrived. Pastor Stan Rumbough say neighbors told him the church bell tower had been struck by lightning. Powerful thunderstorms rolled across much of southern Kansas late Thursday and early Friday. Firefighters from Elk County, Howard and Granola were able to keep the flames from spread to nearby buildings. No injuries were reported. Moline Christian Church was built in 1886. Its current congregation numbers around 40. The pastor says they'll gather Sunday at the American Legion.

Walking/biking trail project in Scott City moves forward SCOTT CITY — Scott City has been developing plans for a walking and biking trail, thanks in part to donations made to honor a local family of four killed in a plane crash earlier this year. The Scott City Trail would cost about $363,000 and include a 1.4-mile trail through a city park and nearly four more miles of designated walking and biking areas. The project is funded through the Scott

western Kansas, about 35 miles north of Garden City. "Our community hopes that this brings a safe and well-designed place where people can enjoy exercising, walking and running," Roberts said.

Community Foundation, which has raised about $70,000, The Garden City Telegram reported. The foundation also received a $22,000 from the Kansas Health Foundation, which helped pay for the project design. SCF Executive Director Ryan Roberts said most of that money came from donations after the deaths of the Spencer family, who were killed in a plane crash northeast of Topeka last April. "They were an active family and very involved with walking and running," Roberts said. "This was one of the things their family wanted to get done." Dylan Spencer, 35, of Scott City, was piloting a small plane when it crashed into a cornfield three miles north of Topeka on April 22. His wife, Amy, 34, and their two daughters, 7-year-old Chase and 5-year-old Ansley, also died in the crash. They were on their way to visit Amy Spencer's family in northeastern Kansas for Easter. The Scott City Commission has approved the first phase of the trail project, which involves improvements to Palmer Park. Scott City has about 3,400 residents and is located in

Phantom cow hides near Bonner Springs golf course BONNER SPRINGS — A cow has taken up residence at a northeast Kansas golf course since escaping a cattle truck accident six weeks ago. Nicknamed Bessie, she spends her time hiding in the wood and drinking from the ponds on the Sunflower Hills Golf Course in Bonner Springs. And try as they might, no one has managed to catch her. Course golf professional Jeff Johnson told The Kansas City Star that she's "one happy cow." Bessie also is a survivor. She was one of dozens in a tractor-trailer that drove off an Interstate 70 bridge early one morning in late April. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the truck fell to the street below the bridge and burst into flames. The driver was injured and died two weeks later.

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Associated Press WICHITA — A Kansas law restricting private insurance coverage for abortions has made it more difficult to obtain the procedure without doing much, if anything, to reduce overall insurance premiums or protect women's health, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday. The ACLU made the claim in a federal court filing that, for the first time, documents the impact of a state law that took effect last year, prohibiting insurance companies from offering abortion coverage as part of general health plans, except when a woman's life is at risk. Kansas residents who want coverage for abortions must buy supplemental policies, known as riders. The ACLU has asked U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson to strike down the statute because its purpose is to make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The group claims the Kansas law robs women of their existing insurance coverage, forcing them to pay out of pocket for abortions and penalizing their exercise of a constitutional right. "The Act does nothing to inform a woman's choice; rather it obstructs it. It also does nothing to protect a woman's health; in fact, it endangers it. It does not reduce the cost of health insurance in any meaningful way. Nor does it have anything to do with ensuring that individuals are not forced to 'subsidize the cost' of another person's abortion or any of the other rationalizations Defendant has conjured up," attorneys for the ACLU wrote. The law was among several major anti-abortion

initiatives approved by Kansas legislators and signed into law last year by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who called on lawmakers to create "a culture of life" after he took office in January 2011. Supporters of the insurance restrictions contended that people who oppose abortion shouldn't be forced to pay for such coverage in a general health plan. Jeff Wagaman, deputy chief of staff for the Kansas attorney general's office, said in an email Friday that the ACLU's motion was expected. Without elaborating further, he said the state will be filing its own motion seeking a ruling deciding the case in favor of the state without a trial. In the meantime, the ACLU's attorneys bolstered their arguments with depositions from insurance executives, industry data outlining the effects the statute has had since it took effect July 1 and questionnaires answered by state regulators. Abortion coverage included in general health plans offered by the major insurance companies accounted for more than 70 percent of the Kansas market before the law was passed, the ACLU said. But after its passage, some companies decided not to offer abortion riders. Even if a rider is offered in a group health insurance plan, employers decide whether to buy the option, not employees, it said. Removing abortion coverage from insurance policies has not reduced their cost significantly, if at all, the ACLU added. Meanwhile, women who once had coverage for abortions are looking at big costs, with medical bills ranging from $450 to more than $10,000 for an abortion.

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Is there a Dad Divide to go with the Mommy Wars? nonprofit organizations has two kids, ages 13 and 11. His wife quit her teaching job to be home but now works as a substitute. "'What do you do for a living?' is a pretty common ice breaker," he said. "When a man tells me that he stays at home, it's usually preceded by or followed quickly with a justification, like 'I lost my job.' I receive that as a defense for staying at home. Right or wrong, men like to be the breadwinners." He quickly adds: "I think it's devaluing of men or women to say that staying at home is any less important than working 40-plus hours a week."

Associated Press NEW YORK — Hey, Mr. Mom. What's up, Workaholic? Whether they say it out loud or acknowledge it at all, that work-home divide traditionally reserved for the Mommy Wars can also rear between dads who go off to the office every day and the kind in the trenches with the kids. There are bound to be rifts, given the growing league of dads staying home at least part-time. But do the paths of work dads and home dads intertwine enough to make them care quite so deeply as the ladies? How exactly are they perceived, not by researchers or journalists, but by each other? "To be a stay-at-home dad requires a lot of confidence in who you are," said Paxton Helms, 41, in Washington, D.C. He became one about four years ago, when his daughter was 3 months old. A son followed and he now takes part-time contracts as an international development consultant, with flexible hours. His wife also works part-time. "The strangest thing that ever happened to me as a (stay-at-home dad) was riding on the Metro with both my kids and a guy asking me, 'So where's Mom?' I couldn't even think why in the world somebody would be asking me that question, so I couldn't even muster an answer," he said.

SUSPICION OVER WIVES, LAYOFFS Other at-home dads worry about jealousy from working brethren (What are they really thinking about all that time spent with the women?). Or suspicion that they're out of work. And dads on both sides of the divide report the occasional cold shoulder. "It seems that they try to avoid me or don't want to talk about what life is like for them," said dad-of-one Donald DeLong, 55, a Bloomfield Township, Mich., attorney who acknowledges a "deeply rooted need to work and 'earn a living.'" "When I do talk to them, the topics stay guy-safe. That is, sports, cars. After all we're both still guys. We don't talk about that sensitive touchy-feely stuff." Other at-home dads, those by choice or pushed out of the job market, said they've endured some snark, but they consider it more of a dad-on-dad discomfort than a serious divide. Martin Weckerlein, 33, is among them. He simply doesn't have the time to care. He was a tank commander in the Germany military, then a bank worker for six years before he gave it up to be an at-home for his three kids, ages 8, 3 and 9 months. The family lives in suburban Washington, D.C., where his wife has a government job. "When I'm with other dads who are my age, whether they work or stay at

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Chris Rock, left, and Tom Lennon play fathers in the movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting." A growing league of dads are staying home, at least part-time. Some at-home dads, those by choice or pushed out of the job market, said they've endured some snark by their working brethren, but they consider it more of a dad-on-dad discomfort than a serious divide. home, they tend to be pretty accepting and even curious as to how that works that we can afford me staying home, what I do during the day with the kids, and they say it must be nice to have that time," he said. "When I am talking with men who aren't fathers or who are older, their questions usually focus on what my career goals are after I am done being home with my kids. They seem to assume this is only a temporary thing for our family, a pause in my career for a few years, instead of an investment in our family," Weckerlein explained.

THE STEREOTYPES Yes, Mr. Mom comes up, the newest iteration in the shape of Chris Rock and his goofy band of dads with infants strapped to their chests in the movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting." It's been nearly 30 years since Michael Keaton was that guy on screen, setting the kitchen on fire and making his kids miserable in "Mr. Mom," but the lingering moniker feels more like yesterday for Weckerlein and other at-home dads. "I hate that phrase, Mr. Mom. I can't imagine my wife going into the office and saying, 'Hi everyone, it's Mrs. Dad,'" said Dan Zevin, a humorist, at-home dad to two and author of a new book, "Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad." In Boston, 32-year-old Nolan Kido is no stereotype. He's the exhausted at-home dad of an 11-week-old daughter as his wife completes her dental education. He deferred work on his doctoral degree in accounting after doing some recession-era math: his earning power versus her earning power in the face of more than $360,000 in student loans. "At the very beginning they were a little weirded

out, like what do we talk about, what's the common themes, but now the impression that I get more is actually jealousy," he said of his working dad friends. "It's not, like, mean kinds of things but just, 'Oh, I wish I could stay home' or 'Oh, I'd love to go to that park.'" The number of at-home dads who are primary caregivers for their children reached nearly 2 million in 2010, or one in 15 fathers, according to one estimate. Al Watts, president of the National At-Home Dad Network, believes a more accurate count is about 7 million, using broader definitions that include part-time workers. That amounts to onethird of married fathers in the U.S. Most, he said, want to be there, as opposed to the kind who never thought about it until the ax fell on their careers. And more often than women, they do earn a bit of income at the same time, he said.

COULD THEY DO IT? Watts, in Omaha, has been home with kids for a decade, since the oldest of his four was a baby. He sees a subtle shift in attitudes emanating from working dads. "Eight years ago, one of my wife's customers, when he found out that I was an athome dad he said, 'Oh you know, I'd really love to do that.' I knew what he really meant was that he assumed he could then just hang out at home and play video games and watch TV and not have to go to work anymore," Watts said. "Now when I have those conversations, they're generally like, 'You know, I really wish I could do that. But then they find out I have four kids and they're like, 'Well, I couldn't do that!'" The raised eyebrows, pregnant pauses and need to hide their real interests — shopping, crossing guard

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duty, laundry — for more generic work-dad friendly fare is tedious sometimes for Trey Parker, 32, in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. With a full-time working wife and two boys, ages 2 and 9 months to care for, a trip to Costco holds more allure than last night's game or chatter about sales quotas. "It's a little harder to speak with guys who are corporate dads," Parker said. "At Christmas parties and stuff like that, there's absolutely nothing in common with them. They're either talking about sports or whatever sales or whatnot they have going on at the office, and you can't com-

ment on any of that stuff. You're naturally drawn to the women because they're talking about the kids and the family." Weckerlein wasn't used to the idea that wanting to stay home with the kids was something other than perfectly natural: "It's kind of surprising that this is really a big deal because in the 21st century I thought we could think a little bit different. But yes, I get that 'Mr. Mom.'" There won't be any of that from 41-year-old Marty Guise in St. Louis, but he does feel the distance. He has a full-time job and a part-time one to pay the bills. The consultant for

Do you miss having a real job? Tony Reynolds, 47 and athome dad for 11 years, has heard it all since a downsize at a large insurance company solidified his decision to be home in suburban Columbus, Ohio, with his two youngest boys from a second marriage. "The other dads make snide comments or ask bizarre questions sometimes," he said. "I say it IS a real job and I bet you couldn't do it." Once pretty much by himself with the moms all day, the economy has driven some of his former dad doubters his way. "One used to say 'I wish my wife made so much money so I could stay home,' then he lost his job and started taking care of the kids and was like, 'Wow, this is a lot of work,'" Reynolds said. "Another used to drive a Mercedes," he added. "He's now a crossing guard at the school. I got him the gig."

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40 years later, Watergate crime scene forgotten Associated Press WASHINGTON — When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee there. Scandals, from Monicagate to Troopergate, haven't been the same since. These days, though, there's little marking the location of the 1972 crime that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The office building that was the site of the break-in is still in use, though tenants have changed. The adjacent hotel where the burglars stayed is currently closed. And another hotel across the street where a lookout watched the night of the break-in, with a walkie-talkie on hand, has been turned into a college dorm. Jane Freundel Levey, the chief historian for Cultural Tourism DC, a coalition of city cultural and heritage groups, says there's talk of installing a set of historical signs in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood where the buildings sit. If that happens, the spaces that played a part in the Watergate drama will certainly be marked, she said. "We are a nation of people who make pilgrimages," she said, adding that people like knowing when they're standing on a historic spot. Now, however, most

tourists visiting Washington head to see the Capitol, the Declaration of Independence, the theater where President Abraham Lincoln was shot and the Smithsonian museums, where interactive exhibits and tour guides await. There's nothing like that at the Watergate, which sits along the banks of the Potomac River next to the city's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The site is about a halfmile from the nearest subway station and not on the route of the city's red, double-decker tour buses. The surrounding neighborhood is full of George Washington University students and federal government workers, but the Watergate is a little farther away. "It's somewhat quiet down there," said Carolyn Crouch, founder of Washington Walks, a group that takes people on neighborhood walking tours and who leads a tour of the area about twice each year. "It's really pretty peaceful." The Democratic National Committee, the burglars' target, moved out of the Watergate long ago. The group's offices are now across town, just south of the U.S. Capitol. The sixth-floor office space the committee once occupied now houses the office of the Iraqi embassy's military attaché and a doctor's office. A real estate company that bought the building in 2011 has plans for millions of dollars of upgrades, but half the building is currently vacant.

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NEW YORK — Artist Matthew Long spent days carving 23 tons of sand into a sculpture of a tall ship to display on New York City's waterfront. Then, in seconds, it suffered the fate of sand castles everywhere. Long, a 57-year-old sand sculptor, arrived at Manhattan's South Street Seaport on Saturday morning to find his creation partially demolished and covered in boot prints, "about a size nine." "There were footprints all over the sand, and I was cursing under my breath," he said. "It was devastating — such a hard, sinking feeling after days of carving in the hot sun." He said he'd worried about leaving his work sitting outside on a Friday night near the bars in the district, but hoped a guard patrolling the area would keep it safe. On Saturday, Long was trying to reconstruct his vandalized creation — a promotion for his line of sand sculpting tools and for an exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum. "I'm trying to get my mind back into the groove." When completed, his creation will be 10 feet high and occupy a 20-by-20 foot space.The effort started Wednesday, when a truck hauled the tons of sand from the New Jersey shore to lower Manhattan.

Changing US way of war means less brawn, more guile WASHINGTON — After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile. Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from computers to foreign networks strike silently, with no American fingerprint. It's war in the shadows,

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Master Sand Sculptor Matthew Long works on repairing a sand sculpture outside the South Street Seaport museum June 16 in New York. The sculpture was vandalized Friday night. with the U.S. public largely in the dark. In Pakistan, armed drones, not U.S. ground troops or B-52 bombers, are hunting down alQaida terrorists, and a CIA-run raid of Osama bin Laden's hide-out was executed by a stealthy team of Navy SEALs. In Yemen, drones and several dozen U.S. military advisers are trying to help the government tip the balance against an alQaida offshoot that harbors hopes of one day attacking the U.S. homeland.

Sandusky trial shows missed opportunities to stop alleged abuse The eyewitness testimony that confronted jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child-molestation trial this week was disturbing not only for its graphic descriptions of sex with boys, but for what it said about the people who surrounded and maybe even protected the oncerevered Penn State assistant coach. Eight accusers took the witness stand and described how Sandusky molested them in campus showers, hotel bathrooms, a basement bedroom, a sauna used by the football team — right under the noses of his friends, colleagues, family members and acquaintances. The Sandusky story, the way authorities have framed it, is one littered with missed chances to

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mission, officials said. It was the second such autonomous landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. In 2010, an identical unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth after seven months and 91 million miles in orbit. The latest homecoming was set in motion when the stubby-winged robotic X37B fired its engine to slip out of orbit, then pierced through the atmosphere and glided down the runway like an airplane. "With the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet, the X-37B OTV program brings a singular capability to space technology development," said Lt. Col. Tom McIntyre, the X37B's program manager. "The return capability allows the Air Force to test new technologies without the same risk commitment faced by other programs." With the second X-37B on the ground, the Air Force planned to launch the first one again in the fall. An exact date has not been set.

Additional crews arrive at large Colorado wildfire DENVER — Additional crews have arrived at a wildfire in northern Colorado that has scorched about 85 square miles and destroyed at least 181 homes. More than 1,500 personnel are working on the fire about 15 miles west of Fort Collins. The lightningcaused blaze was reported June 9 and was 20 percent contained. Fire information officer Brett Haberstick says hot and dry weather is expected to continue, but crews have made progress in containing a 200-acre spot fire north of the Cache La Poudre River, a critical line of defense against northward growth.

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AREA BUSINESS NEWS BRIEFS New Pathways employee earns board certification New Pathways Neurofeedback announces that Shelley LeValley RN, BSN, BCN has earned a board certification in Neurofeedback through Biofeedback Certification International Alliance. She provides brain wave biofeedback to treat symptoms associated with ADD/ADHD, mood disorders, migraines, addiction, PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. LeValley services are available by appointment through New Pathways Neurofeedback on Friday, Saturday and Monday at 426 Westview Drive in Manhattan. She is also a provider with Midwest Neurofeedback in Prairie Village, Kansas, Tuesday through Thursday. The phone number for New Pathways Neurofeedback is 785-410-5360.

RSVP adds staff RSVP of the Flint Hills introduces new Staff. Quinn Jacobs is the new RSVP Volunteer Coordinator. She recently graduated with a master's degree in engineering from K a n s a s State University. Quinn and her husb a n d , Christopher,benjoy Quinn Jacobs working with youth at the Ogden Community Center and traveling overseas for mission trips. She is very passionate about serving in the local communities as well as overseas. As the volunteer coordinator, Jacobs is responsible for more than 400 volunteers. RSVP provides opportunities for those 55 years and older to volunteer their services and make a difference in their community. RSVP is a oneto-one volunteer referral agency serving residents throughout Riley and Pottawatomie counties. RSVP

of the Flint Hills is a community-based program funded nationally by the Corporation for National and Community Service and locally by United Way and the Riley County Council on Aging. Ashley Kenney is the new RSVP Wellness Coordinator. Ashley graduated from Kansas State University in 2008 with a bache l o r ’ s degree in kinesiology. After graduation, she moved to Texas where she became Ashley certified to Kenney teach early childhood — sixth grade and physical education. For the past year she has worked for Kid Fit USA as a children's fitness coach, educating children about the benefits and importance of physical activity. As the wellness coordinator, Kenney is responsible for implementing fitness and nutritional activities for youth as well as older adults in the community. For information on any of the RSVP programs, call 776-7787.

48 years of wonderful work treating patients. As Rawlings is recognized for her retirement, Mercy would like to announce that Brian Howells, PT, has recently been named the Director of Rehabilitation Services at Mercy. Howells has 10 years of experience working in health care and for the past seven years, he has worked at Mercy as a staff therapist, lead therapist and department superBrian visor. Prior Howells to Mercy, Howells worked as a physical therapist in New York City at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center - a multi-specialty rehabilitation hospital. Howells received his master's degree in healthcare administration from Capella University in 2009 and his bachelor's Degree in physical therapy from the University of Hartford in 2001. Howells and his wife, Amber, who is a registered dietician and an instructor at Kansas State University, reside in Manhattan with their two children, Riana, 5, and Gavin, 3.

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Mercy Regional Health Center would like to recognize and congratulate Jackie Rawlings on her recent retirement. Rawlings has served the Manhattan healthcare community for over 48 years, treating patients as a physical therapist and leading the Rehabilitation Serv i c e s department Jackie at Mercy for Rawlings the last 16 years. Jackie's hard work and dedication has served her patients, co-workers and Mercy very well. The Mercy Team would like to thank Jackie Rawlings for

KSU Foundation announces three new hires. Ryan Kenney, Manhattan, Kan., Brett Larson, Hesston, Kan., and Madison Loeb, Leawood, Kan., were recently hired as part of the development team for the College of Arts Ryan Kenney and Sciences and the College of Engineering at the KSU Foundation. They will serve as development officers. Prior to joining the foundation, Ryan Kenney worked in the Houston,

Texas area in sales for home health agencies with an emphasis on orthotics and durable medical equipment. He also has experience as a territory manager for Olympic Paints and Stains in Houston. Kenney graduated from Kansas State University in 2009 with a degree in social science and business administration. Brett Larson is a former major gifts officer for the Emporia State Univ e r s i t y Brett Larson Foundation. He also worked as a graduate assistant in the K-State Department of Intercollegiate Athletics while obtaining his master's degree in counseling and student development. Larson earned his undergraduate degree from Wichita State University, and also graduated from culinary arts

school in Boulder, Colo. Madison Loeb has served as an admissions representative for K-State for three years. As an undergraduate at K-State, she was involved with the K-State Student Foundation, including serving on the inaugural advisory board that founded and implemented the studentled philanthropic campaign, KState Proud. Madison also attended the Institute for Philanthropy and VolunMadison tary Service Loeb program at Georgetown University and completed the National Certification in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She graduated from the K-State College of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

a new name for its property management division, Centerline Property Management. The move comes amidst continued growth in that segment of the company, and is in response to new services being offered by its property management division. After years of only managing properties in which it has direct ownership, Capstone3D now offers comprehensive property management services to other client-owners of investment property under its new name. Centerline Property Management's staff has a combined experience of over 50 years, and specializes in optimizing the value and rate of return for investment properties in Manhattan. Capstone3D is a local construction and management company, and will continue to offer its full spectrum of construction services under the Capstone3D name. More information can be found at www.rentcenterline.com.

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Nation’s carpet capital confronts homelessness as job benefits end Bloomberg News DALTON, Ga. — Miguel Gines lost his job as a counselor for troubled children last year and has been surviving by using savings and unemployment benefits to pay for food and rent. Now Gines, 58, who lives in Dalton, is almost out of cash. His $133-a-week jobless benefits stopped in April, two months before Gines said he expected, and his savings are depleted. He may be homeless in July, after rent money he received from the Salvation Army charity runs out, he said. "I was going along fine, looking for work," Gines said. "The next thing you know, it was 'That's it.' I was thinking, 'Oh my God, what am I going to do." Gines said he still hasn't figured out the answer.

months before the end of the extended payment period. The cutoff in Georgia happened after the state's unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent. The formula used to eliminate funding for the long-term jobless doesn't account for areas with high unemployment within a state, such as where Gines lives. In Dalton, with a population of 33,000 in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the surrounding area, the unemployment rate is the highest in the state: 11.4 percent, according to government data. Of all U.S. metropolitan areas, Dalton reported the largest percentage decrease in employment from a year earlier, according to April data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Gines is among about 370,000 people in 23 states whose extended unemployment benefits abruptly expired from April 7 to May 12, according to estimates from the National Employment Law Project, an employee-advocacy organization based in New York. The group says the numbers will continue to increase as state unemployment rates dip below thresholds required for continued federal funding. Beginning this month, legislation approved by Congress in February will begin reducing federal benefits even further, in a separate program that now supports 2.6 million people. Those people will lose benefits entirely in December. In Georgia, 52,000 people received a letter two months ago announcing the end of benefits weeks or

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Egyptians choose between Mubarak PM, Islamist CAIRO — Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but now clouded by pessimism over the future. Whoever wins after two days of voting, Egypt's military rulers will remain ultimately at the helm, a sign of how Egypt's revolution has gone astray 16 months after millions forced the authoritarian Mubarak to step down in the name of freedom. "We are forced to make this choice. We hate them both," said Sayed Zeinhom at Cairo's Boulak elDakrour, a densely populated maze of narrow dirt alleys and shoddily built houses. Mahmoud el-Fiqi, waiting with him at a polling center, offered, "Egypt is confused." The race between Ahmed Shafiq, a career air force officer like Mubarak, and the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, a U.S.-trained engineer, has deeply divided the country after the stunning uprising that ousted Mubarak after 29 years in office, and left many disillusioned about the elections' legitimacy. Many voters felt that the choice no longer even mattered after a court ruling this week effectively ensured that the military generals who have ruled since Mubarak's ouster will continue to be in power.

UN observers in Syria suspend patrols as peace unravels BEIRUT — U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war. The U.N. observers have been the only working part of a peace plan brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan, which the international community sees as its only hope to stop the bloodshed. The plan called for the foreign monitors to check compliance with a ceasefire that was supposed to go into effect on April 12, but they have become the most

independent witnesses to the carnage on both sides as government and rebel forces have largely ignored the truce. Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the U.N. mission chief, said intensifying clashes over the past 10 days were "posing significant risks" to the 300 unarmed observers spread out across the country, and impeding their ability to carry out their mandate. The observers will not leave the country but will remain in place and cease patrols, Mood said in a taped statement, adding the suspension would be reviewed on a daily basis. Teams have been stationed in some of Syria's most dangerous cities, including Homs and Hama.

1 person dead after stage collapses at Radiohead concert TORONTO — Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert. They say two other people were injured and are being assessed. Some at Downsview Park ahead of the show are saying on Twitter that the area has been cleared by emergency crews. The venue said on its website that the concert has been canceled.

Canadian sisters found dead in Thailand BANGKOK (AP) — Thai media reported Saturday that two Canadian sisters were found dead in their hotel room in a southern resort island. Canadian Foreign Affairs spokesman John Babcock confirmed that two Canadian citizens died in Thailand but did not provide further details. He said Canadian consular officials in Bangkok are providing assistance to the family and are in contact with local authorities. Thai media reported that the bodies of the sisters were found at the Phi Phi Palm Residence Hotel on Phi Phi Island. The cause of death was under investigation. The Manager newspaper website quoted police Lt. Col. Rat Somboon as saying the women had probably been dead more than 12 hours when their bodies were discovered Friday with vomit and other signs of a toxic reaction.

LOS CABOS, Mexico — G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said Saturday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread of the European financial crisis. Calderon told a small group of reporters that he expects "there to be capitalization that's bigger" than the amount fund members promised in April. He called International Monetary Fund recapitalization one of the key tests of the success of the summit. The Mexican president said Saturday that he doesn't expect the United States to contribute to the recapitalization, something that he said showed the importance of emerging economies. The money would be used to bail out countries and key industries unable to borrow money on the open market due to fears the crisis will leave them unable to repay. "I expect there to be a very important agreement on the IMF," he said. "It will have a transcendental importance for many reasons, primarily because it will probably be the most important capitalization agreement that the fund has had in its history.

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"Secondly, it will be the first time that the fund is capitalized without the United States," he said. "On this occasion the leadership of the United States wasn't necessary." Group of 20 leaders are gathering for a two-day summit starting Monday that will be dominated by the crisis in Europe. As other leaders have, Calderon played down expectations that the summit will be able to address the result of Sunday's national elections in Greece, which could bring

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece — Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy. For Greeks are in a collective state of depression, burdened not just by the shriveling of their finances, but also political divisions with deep roots in history and confusion over their identity and the very concept of statehood. And yet an anxious world is looking to this tiny actor on the international stage for clues to whether the global economy will cling to a path of gradual recovery, or veer toward another destructive scenario like the one that followed the 2008 collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in the United States. A street scene in Athens on Saturday symbolized the sense of despair, tinged with defiance, which pervades a country battered by five years of recession after

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solutions rather than reassuring immediate market fears. "In any case, I think our efforts in the G20, and the efforts of other European countries, are to construct scenarios in which the economic future of Europe isn't dependent on the Greek case," he said. "This implies more rapid progress in the construction of a truly integrated European union." He cautioned against expected concrete steps in that direction to emerge from the G20.

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to power a party that rejects the terms of an international bailout of the country. That could set off a chain events leading to Greece's effective exit from the shared Euro currency and the spread of economically devastating fears about the viability of other European countries and industries. He said the ramifications of the elections would probably not become fully clear during the summit, and described the meeting's goal as finding long-term

modify an international bailout plan that has kept Greek finances afloat, and a left-wing party, Syriza, that surged in popularity because it opposes the old political order and wants to tear up the bailout deal in protest over the cutbacks it requires. Abroad, there is concern that a victory for Syriza could trigger market panic and drag down other economically vulnerable countries such as Spain and Italy, and then ripple across other continents. The Greek outcome will be watched closely by leaders of the world's 20 most important economies, who are meeting this weekend in Mexico. However, neither Syriza nor New Democracy are projected to win enough votes to form a government alone, meaning Greece will have to form a

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coalition if it wants to avoid another election. Elena Athanassopoulou, a political science professor at the American College of Greece, predicted "painful negotiations" among parties that would lead to a government after the vote, and said political stability was vital to prevent Greece going "any further down the slope." An earlier round of elections in May failed to deliver a clear winner, and coalition talks collapsed. Even if New Democracy, led by Antonis Samaras, emerges on top, there is no guarantee that Greece's creditors, including other European countries and the International Monetary Fund, will accede to his desire to dilute the multi-billion dollar bailout terms, or that Greece can stick to austerity measures imposed by creditors.

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NO. 1, FROM PAGE A1 ing with brass instruments. Cara Bilyew, a member of the Manhattan Christian Fellowship Church, said she has sung on the praise team for about three years. Her favorite song to perform is “Open the Eyes of My Heart,” which she said was one of the first songs she heard when she started attending the church. “It touched my heart,” she said. Other highlights included songs by Pastor Rachel Williams-Glenn of Bethel A.M.E. Church, who took to the stage and kicked off her shoes before announcing that she had a reputation as a “no-shoes” pastor; a performance by the Fellowship Temple Mime Team, a group of four performers who mimed to gospel music; and a spiritual dance by Lanique Jackson. Jackson said she has been dancing since she was little. “I practice,” she said. “But I go with however (God) moves me.” Monique King, the event coordinator for the Juneteenth, told the crowd that the theme for this year’s festival was education. “This is about unity and community,” she said. Yasche Glass, vendor coordinator, said that in following the theme, two students, Breonna Summers and Dakie Washington, who had shown service to their community and

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Singers from El Shaddai Ministries in Topeka perform Friday evening at the Juneteenth Celebration. Groups came from throughout the area to join in the celebration. stellar academic records were going to receive the Don Slater Academic Scholarship, a $500 scholarship to use toward college. The recipients wrote an essay on what Juneteenth means to them. “Slaves were not afforded the availability of an education,” Glass said. Pat Murray, committee secretary, said the Juneteenth festival has grown over the years. Murray has been on the committee, composed of about a dozen people, since the beginning and has seen the festival become a communitywide celebration over the

years. On Saturday, the celebrations continued with a parade down Poyntz Avenue. Mayor Loren Pepperd read the Emancipation Proclamation, and Myra Gordon, associate professor of psychology and associate provost for diversity at Kansas State University, spoke. Entertainment was provided by the ABC Boys Club Drill Team, the Kansas City Kansas Gateway High Steppers, Sara Jones, a dancer, and step show performances by Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Delta Sigma Theata & Phi Beta

Sigma, among other performers. On Sunday, Geraldine Baker Walton will give a lecture, “140 Years of Soul: African Americans in Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-2005.” The event is hosted by the Manhattan Juneteenth Committee and the Riley County Genealogical Society and will take place at the Manhattan Public Library at 2 p.m. And once the festival is finished, it will all begin again. Glass, who has been serving for three years, said planning for next year will start Thursday. “We don’t get a break,” she said.

Capital trial only the 27th in Kansas since ’94 NO. 2, FROM PAGE A1 sentenced in capital murder cases that involved eight aggravating circumstances, including especially heinous murder (like the use of torture), murder for monetary gain and murder that involved more than one victim. Since 1994, 13 men have been sentenced to death, though three of those men were spared the penalty by state officials and the Kansas Supreme Court, while another man has been scheduled for resentencing. The nine men now awaiting execution are James Kahler, Justin Thurber, Gary Kleypas, Scott Cheever, Sidney Gleason, Douglas Stephen Belt, John Robinson Jr., Johnathan Carr and Reginald Carr. No women are on death row in Kansas. According to The Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 85 capital cases have been filed in 31 counties since 1994, with the highest numbers in Wyandotte, Sedgwick, Johnson and Shawnee counties, and 26 capital trials have taken place. According to their num-

bers, 13 men have undergone a capital trial and not been sentenced to death. Since the reinstatement, the law has also proved to be contentious and dogged by court cases questioning its constitutionality, with two particularly important cases being those of Kleypas and Michael Marsh, a man whose death sentence has since been commuted to life without parole following a plea deal. Kleypas, whose capital trial for the 1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, has the distinction of the being the first man since 1994 to be sentenced to death in Kansas. (Barry Disney, one of the prosecuting attorneys for the Aguirre trial, was also involved in the Kleypas case.) Kleypas was sentenced to death by jury in 1998, but in 2001 the Kansas Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, ordered that he be resentenced because of what they believed had been an error in how jurors were told to decide whether Kleypas should live or die. Similarly, in 2004, the

Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional for Marsh, a man convicted for the 1996 murders of Marry Ane Pusch and her 19month-old daughter, Marry Elizabeth. They decided in a 4-3 decision to strike down the death penalty law in Kansas, ruling that it violated the U.S. Constitution because it had a flawed provision about how jurors should weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors for death during sentencing, arguing that jurors were told by Kansas law to favor death penalty when the arguments for and against the death penalty were equal. Though this decision placed all death penalty cases on hold, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 overturned the decision by ruling that the death penalty law in Kansas was constitutional, returning convicted killers like the Carr brothers to Kansas’ unofficial death row. Another jury sentenced Kleypas once again to death in 2008. With the exception of Cheever, who is held at Lansing Correctional Facility, Kleypas

and the seven others awaiting execution have been held at El Dorado Correctional Facility since their sentencing. In 2010, a bill that would have abolished the death penalty lost to a tie vote of 20 to 20. The bill had been sponsored by Sen. Carolyn McGinn, who had argued for repeal citing the high court costs associated with death penalty cases due to lengthy appeals. In Kansas, death penalty cases receive an automatic appeal made to the Kansas Supreme Court, and even following that appeal, defendants still have several options for overturning their sentence, including appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. 2010 numbers from the Bureau of Justice indicate that the average time between initial sentencing and actual execution is 178 months, or about 15 years. Of the nine men awaiting execution by lethal injection, two — the Carr brothers — were sentenced 10 years ago, while the latest to receive the sentence was Kahler in October 2011. All nine are in the process of appeals.

Swanson finds himself in a changed district NO. 3, FROM PAGE A1 acknowledged that like most everybody else he’s still trying to learn precisely where the boundaries of new district are. “Clay County has always influenced (the district) because we’ve had the most votes,” he said. Swanson at least gets one break that many incumbents won’t get this year: He is unopposed for re-election, giving him two years to become a more familiar figure in a district that now stretches from Ogden up to Clifton and from Oak Hill to Randolph. Around Topeka, Swanson is no stranger. Elected in 2006, he easily won reelection in 2008, then in 2010 he ran unopposed in November after winning a primary contest with 55 percent of the vote. He earned his reputation in Clay Center during a dozen years of service on the USD 379 Board of Education. He’s been involved with the Lions Club, the Clay County Arts Center, the parish council of his church, Pawnee Mental Health center, and the Emporia State University Alumni Association. Pegging him politically

is a little tougher. Swanson characterizes himself as “moderately conservative,” a term that sort of straddles the divide that marked the Republican Party during the 2012 session. He accepts the label of “pro-life,” but in a broader context than the “anti-abortion” interpretation usually attached to that term. “I am also proeducation, and I’m against the death penalty,” he said. “I’m pro-life in the sense of making for a better life.” There is a maverick element to him. During the 2011-12 session, Swanson was the seventh most likely Republican House member to vote against the majority of Republicans, doing so 11.12 percent of the time...which is to say roughly as often as most House Democrats. He voted with area conservative Republicans Sharon Schwartz of Washington and Richard Carlson of St. Marys 85.9 and 83.6 percent of the time respectively, about as often as he voted with House Speaker Mike O’Neal. Yet he voted with Tom Phillips more than 93 percent of the time. The alliances he formed on individual

votes were equally hard to categorize. He joined with Phillips and Schwartz in March to help defeat a House proposal in congressional redistricting that was supported by Carlin and Carlson. But in May he joined Phillips, Carlson and Schwartz to help pass a legislative redistricting proposal opposed by Carlin. A week later he joined Carlin in opposing a proposed constitutional amendment that would have restated the legislative power to determine spending on school finance. Carlson, Schwartz and Phillips all supported the proposal. Later in the session, skeptical that Gov. Brownback’s proposed reduction on income tax rates would stimulate private business to the extent proponents thought it would, he joined Phillips and Carlin in unsuccessfully opposing adoption of a conference committee proposal to enact that plan. Carlson and Schwartz supported the measure, which passed 68-48. “I hope the Governor's tax reduction plan, as proposed, works,” he said. “We do need to have more jobs created in our rural communities.”

He also joined Schwartz, Carlin and Phillips in opposing changes to the implementation date of the controversial voter ID bill. Swanson thinks his vote against the education spending amendment may illustrate his governmental philosophy. He said he does not take issue with the legislature’s right and responsibility to make spending decisions related to education. “The Constitution is very clear it’s the Legislature’s job to do the appropriating, he said. His objection was to use the Constitutional amendment process to send a political message to the court. “I didn’t see any reason to make it clearer,” he said. “I don’t like messing with the Constitution.” As disappointed as Swanson was with the outcome of the session’s failed effort to redraw legislative boundaries, he also isn’t ready to chuck that responsibility over to a bipartisan commission as has been done in more than two dozen states. “It’s still a legislative responsibility,” he said. “It will be 10 years from now, too. We just need to do a better job of it.”

TOPEKA — Kansas officials pressed the federal government Friday to move ahead with construction of a new biosecurity lab near Kansas State University, even though a new, independent report suggested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security still doesn't have a good assessment of how safely it could operate. The congressionally mandated report, from the National Research Council, described a favorable Homeland Security assessment in March as seriously flawed. The federal agency had suggested the risk of an accidental release of footand-mouth or another dangerous animal disease was minimal. The $1.14 billion National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility would research dangerous animal diseases representing a threat to the nation's food supply, and backers of the project say it's vital to national security. Kansas officials also see the lab, with potentially several hundred high-paying jobs, as an engine of economic growth and an anchor for an emerging biosciences industry. Congress set aside $90 million for DHS to build a new utility plant for the lab and continue work on the site in Manhattan but told the agency it couldn't spend the money until the National Research Council finished its latest report. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, also Friday, the U.S. senators for Kansas and

Missouri said "this final hurdle" had been cleared. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback joined the state's senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, in calling on Napolitano to release the funds. The letter also was signed by Missouri Sens. Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill. All are Republicans except for McCaskill, but the lab has strong bipartisan support among Kansas officials, who've hoped it would be operating by 2018. And Ron Trewyn, vice president of research at Kansas State University, said the new lab will face permitting and "rigorous" reviews by other federal agencies, so that further pre-construction safety assessments would accomplish little. "It's time to build the building," he said. "It's time to move forward." Kansas officials have worried about resistance in Congress to continued funding for the new lab, which would replace an aging one on Plum Island, N.Y. U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop, a New York Democrat whose district includes Plum Island, said the latest report underscores the concerns that he and others have about "this billiondollar boondoggle." He promised to raise the National Research Council report as an issue with Napolitano and in Congress. "It would be irresponsible to move forward with building this costly and controversial facility without fully understanding the risks associated with it," Bishop said.

Manhattan Day Care closes following funding losses NO. 4, FROM PAGE A1 “These types of things have been chronic issues with child care,” Snead said. This year, the center did not receive funding from the city when the Social Services Advisory Board declined to make a recommendation to the City Commission. It also lost funding from United Way of Riley County. Snead characterized the losses as a “couple of key financial blows.” Although the city did not provide funding in 2012, Palmer noted that in 2008 the City Commission approved a $100,000 grant to the center to be paid in three equal installments in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This was in addition to social services funding, which ended in 2011. The loss of funding came at an unfortunate time. First United Methodist Church had been planning to start its own education program and needed the space occupied by the center. Snead said that's not to disparage the church, which was a “gracious host” for many decades. The center was forced to look for a new location, though. Snead and Shelly Williams, president of the day care center’s board, said the city assisted the center in looking for a new home in Manhattan's industrial park. There were plans for Farrar Corporation, located in the park, to transfer land for the facility. In return, the city would have forgiven the final installment of Farrar's forgivable loan. The ambitious project envisioned a $4 million facility that would have provided care for 120 Manhattan children. But the nine-member board had difficulty leveraging the necessary funds for the facility. Snead said the resources to sustain such a facility would be substantial and an entity such as the city would most likely have to contribute. He said there was community support, but the project was just too much for the board to handle. “We didn't make enough progress in a variety of areas,” Snead said. Williams believes it contributed in part to the loss of funding. She said Manhattan Day Care hadn't made

much progress on the design when the center was applying for funds. The center also was being run by an interim director at the time. With no long-term facility or director in place, it's not entirely surprising the center lost funding. The loss of financial support and inability to secure a new space inevitably resulted in a reduction of services. Williams said the board started closing classrooms last fall. The day care and learning center was finally reduced to the Douglass Center site with about 16 slots for about the last six months Williams said the board notified parents on April 15 that they would need to find alternative child care options. She said the board worked closely with USD 383 and put together application packets for the district's at-risk child care program. “We also gave the families information on how to access child care in the community,” Williams said. The closure certainly has implications beyond reduced child care availability. Williams said it also affects other areas such as employment and health care. Snead and Williams noted that the closure will affect the center's 20 fulltime staff members. Snead said many were long-time employees who were highly dedicated to child care. “They had families, as well,” Williams said. The decision was challenging for everyone involved. “It was very, very difficult and emotional for the board,” Williams said. “We struggled with the decision for several months.” Ultimately, Snead said it was something done with great thought but also great regret.

LOTTERY TOPEKA — These Kansas lotteries were drawn Saturday: Super Kansas Cash 03-04-07-08-13, Cash Ball: 7 Estimated jackpot: $385,000 Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $47 million Powerball 08-14-15-16-27, Powerball: 26

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Senior 17ers drop third straight game Cole Manbeck cmanbeck@themercury.com Luke Snyder saw his team get shut out for a second straight day on Saturday as Mountain Vista defeated the American Legion Manhattan Manko Senior 17ers 8-0 at the Kansas State University Team Camp. And although there was nothing to show for it on the scoreboard, Snyder was encouraged by the way his guys swung the bat. “I’m starting to see some good things at the plate,” he said. “We’re getting more competitive each game, we’re putting better swings on the baseball. We just need some of those two-out hits with runners in scoring position. That’s

our biggest part right now. We’re able to get guys on, we’re moving guys around every now and then but we’re just not driving them in.” Manko trailed 8-0 after just two innings on Saturday. Starting pitcher Jesse Steinbring issued three walks in the first inning and Mountain Vista made him pay with a three-run triple. Steinbring got out of the inning without any more damage done, but he couldn’t escape the trouble that happened in the second frame. A leadoff walk, followed by a RBI triple and a RBI double, gave Mountain Vista a 5-0 advantage, ending Steinbring’s day on the mound. Mountain Vista added three more runs in the inning on

three singles off of right-hander Chris Klug. But the 17ers bullpen was strong the rest of the way, holding their opponent scoreless over the next four innings, something Snyder was happy with. “They threw strikes and we made plays on defense behind them,” he said. “That’s the key. You have to make the other team beat you and walks and hit batters don’t do that.” Following Thursday’s 6-1 loss to Junction City, Snyder said his pitchers needed to cut down on walks and hit batters, which the relievers accomplished on Saturday. “At this level, unless you can throw 90 miles-per-hour, location beats velocity,” Snyder said. “We had some guys

come out of the pen and they proved that. We weren’t throwing the ball real hard but we were hitting our spots. We were throwing off-speed pitches for strikes and we did some good things. You have to be able to locate. You give free passes then it’s going to come back and get you.” Saturday’s loss, which marked the third time the 17ers have been shut out this season, pushed Manko’s record to 1-7 on the year. But Snyder saw some positives from a lot of his guys in a losing effort. “We’re starting to see some good things,” he said. “It may not all be there yet but we’re getting there and moving in the right direction.”

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NBA Finals head to Miami Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant had the ball in his hands and LeBron James in his face. With 10 seconds left in Game 2, the NBA Finals were providing all the theater anyone could ask. Two superstars going head-to-head, the Miami Heat trying to hold off another stirring rally by the Oklahoma City Thunder, television ratings reaching levels last seen when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal played together. James forced Durant to miss that tying attempt — perhaps getting away with a foul — and the Heat held on for a 100-96 victory on Thursday night that evened the series at one game apiece. And as it shifts to Miami for the next three games, the only thing that seems certain is a tense series that looks to be lengthy. Game 3 is Sunday night and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra thinks it will look SEE

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Holliday's 5 RBIs lead Cardinals past Royals Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Matt Holliday found that elusive comfort zone. Holliday homered and drove in five runs and Yadier Molina homered and drove in four, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-7 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday. Holliday also doubled twice and singled. Molina broke a 7-all tie with a tworun, bases-loaded single off reliever Greg Holland in the seventh inning. After starting the game in an 0-for-12 rut, Holliday got four hits. "It's been frustrating, my swing had been a little off," he said. "I've just been try-

ing to battle, trying to find a good groove." The veteran slugger made a few minor adjustments in batting practice. Those moves paid dividends. "Some little mechanical things," he said. "It is nice to see the results." St. Louis won for the third time in four games. Kansas City's season high-tying four-game winning streak ended. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny was ejected in the first after umpires overruled an initial call that temporarily led to a temporary triple play. With runners on first and second, Eric Hosmer hit a line drive that St. Louis pitcher Joe Kelly snared near the ground and threw to first. After first baseman Matt

Adams tossed the ball back to Kelly, the pitcher then threw to second for the apparent third out. But after a three-minute conference that included crew chief Dana DeMuth, the umpires ruled that the ball hit the ground. Bench coach Mike Aldrete took over for Matheny. "I saw the ball bounce," said Hosmer. Matheny said he wasn't arguing about the reversal. Instead, he said he was upset that the umpires didn't make an immediate ruling on Hosmer's ball. "The issue was, the pitcher came up with the ball looking for a call to be made," SEE

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Del Valle sets Poyntz Mile record Joel Jellison jjellison@themercury.com Wearing his Kansas State purple track and field uniform, Armando Del Valle broke the Poyntz Avenue Mile record on Friday. Running the fastest road mile race in Manhattan history, Del Valle finished with a time of 4:07.71, shattering the record of 4:20 held by Tim Testa, Kory Cool and Joe Moore. The outgoing K-State senior received a loud ovation as he neared the finish, with much of the crowd urging him toward breaking the record by loudly reading the time as it moved forward. Lindsborg's Aaron Yoder had the back view of Del Valle's finish in the Elite Men's race, finishing with a time of 4:20.31, placing him among the three previous record

holders as running the now-second fastest time in Manhattan history. Cool finished third in the race at 4:24.46, while Lane Porter was fourth at 4:32.18. Ric Rosenkranz finished in fifth as the 41-yearold ran a time of 4:35.78. The first high school runner to cross the finish was Chris Melgares, who finished sixth at 4:38.55. The event benefits the Manhattan High cross country teams. Other MHS runners included outgoing senior Chris Davis in 13th, Isaiah Koppes in 15th, Nick Bandy in 17th, recent grad Keith Naranjo in 18th and Zach Minton in 19th. Kit McCaffrey took first place in the Women's Elite race, as the 42-year-old posted a time of 5:24.24. Julie Thornton was right behind her in second at 5:32.72, and 16year-old Jennifer Flack finished third with a time of 5:36.74. Christina Wankum was fourth and Cara

Melgares finished in fifth. Kira Rutherford was sixth. The top time in the citizen's race was posted by 22-year-old Chattman Olson of Manhattan, who posted a time of 5:01.35. Three runners finished just seconds off his time, as Bandon Religa, 14, was second, Stefan Arntsen, 27, was third, and Philip Sears, 33, was fourth. Erika Knopp posted the top time for a woman in the race, finishing 18th overall with a time of 5:58.63. Other highlights in the race included 9year-old Sean Anderson finishing 27th out of 67 runners with a time of 6:44.78. Marvin Hachmeister, 81, kept up his running ways by finishing 51st with a time of 8:51.10. Following the races, the runners each got a free slice of pizza from AJ's NY Pizzeria and took part in an awards ceremony on the restaurant's outside patio area.

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Manko Jrs drop two at Wamego Brady Bauman sports@themercury.com The American Legion Manhattan Manko Junior 17ers lost tight battles over the weekend at the Wamego American Legion tournament. The 17ers dropped Friday night's game against Royal Valley 4-3, and lost another tight game Saturday afternoon to Wellington, 2-1. “We were a lot better today,” Manhattan head coach Dan Rumsey said about Saturday's contest. “(Friday) we should have won on paper, but some things didn't work out for us. But we looked a lot better today and played with some real passion and pride. We just ran out of innings.” In the loss Saturday, strong pitching from Wellington tested Manko. Manhattan held a 1-0 lead four innings after surviving a two-out start in the bottom of the fourth with Manko taking advantage of fielding errors by Wellington. Wellington responded, though, in the next frame with two singles, two walks drawn and an error by Manhattan that scored two runs. Defense prevailed the rest of the way and the 2-1 Wellington lead held true. A.J. Epperson had Manko's lone hit of the game, while Wellington just had two more hits as a team. Evan Olson pitched a complete game for the 17ers and allowed two runs — one earned — on three hits with three walks and 10 strikeouts. Wellington's pitcher also went a full seven innings, and he allowed one run — none earned — on one hit with five walks and 13 strikeouts. SEE

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THE SUNDAY MERCURY SCOREBOARD TODAY’S LINE Major League Baseball Today National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Cincinnati -130 at New York +120 Interleague at Cleveland -135 Pittsburgh +125 at Detroit -170 Colorado +160 at Toronto -115 Philadelphia +105 at Atlanta -120 Baltimore +110 at Wash -110 NY (AL) +100 at Tampa Bay -110 Miami +100 Milwaukee -135 at Minnesota +125 at St. Louis -175 Kansas City +165 at Texas -190 Houston +180 at LA (AL) -120 Arizona +110 at Oakland -145 San Diego +135 at Seattle -115 San Francisco +105 at LA (NL) -130 Chicago(AL) +120 Boston -115 at Chicago(NL)+105 FAVORITE at Miami

NBA Playoffs LINE O/U UNDERDOG 4 (193 1/2) Oklahoma City

BASEBALL MLB Standings All Times CST AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct GB New York 39 25 .609 — Baltimore 37 27 .578 2 Tampa Bay 36 28 .563 3 Toronto 33 32 .508 6 1/2 Boston 31 33 .484 8 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 34 30 .531 — Cleveland 33 31 .516 1 Detroit 31 34 .477 3 1/2 Kansas City 28 35 .444 5 1/2 Minnesota 25 39 .391 9 West Division W L Pct GB Texas 38 27 .585 — Los Angeles 34 31 .523 4 Oakland 31 35 .470 7 1/2 Seattle 27 39 .409 11 1/2

Friday's Games Chicago Cubs 3, Boston 0 Colorado 12, Detroit 4, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 7, Washington 2 Cleveland 2, Pittsburgh 0 Toronto 3, Philadelphia 0 Tampa Bay 11, Miami 0 Atlanta 4, Baltimore 2 Texas 6, Houston 2 Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 3 Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2 Arizona 5, L.A. Angels 0 Oakland 10, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, Chicago White Sox 6 San Francisco 4, Seattle 2 Saturday's Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Washington 3, 14 innings Toronto 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Milwaukee 6, Minnesota 2 St. Louis 10, Kansas City 7 Detroit 4, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 9, Cleveland 2 Oakland 6, San Diego 4 Baltimore at Atlanta, Late Boston at Chicago Cubs, Late Houston at Texas, Late Miami at Tampa Bay, Late Arizona at L.A. Angels, Late Chicago White Sox at L.A. Dodgers, Late. San Francisco at Seattle, Late Today’s Games Colorado (Guthrie 3-5) at Detroit (Scherzer 5-4), 12:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Lincoln 3-2) at Cleveland (J.Gomez 4-5), 12:05 p.m. Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 2-6) at Toronto (Cecil 0-0), 12:07 p.m. Baltimore (W.Chen 6-2) at Atlanta (Delgado 4-6), 12:35 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Nova 8-2) at Washington (E.Jackson 3-3), 12:35 p.m. Miami (Jo.Johnson 4-4) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 2-3), 12:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Greinke 7-2) at Minnesota (Blackburn 3-4), 1:10 p.m. Kansas City (Mendoza 2-3) at St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7), 1:15 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 0-0) at Texas (Lewis 5-5), 2:05 p.m. Arizona (I.Kennedy 5-6) at L.A. Angels (Richards 1-0), 2:35 p.m. San Diego (Richard 3-7) at Oakland (B.Colon 6-6), 3:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 8-2), 3:10 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-4) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 4-5), 3:10 p.m. Boston (F.Morales 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Maholm 4-5), 7:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. Kansas City at Houston, 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Texas at San Diego, 9:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE All Times CST W L Pct GB Washington 38 25 .603 — Atlanta 35 29 .547 3 1/2 New York 35 30 .538 4 Miami 32 32 .500 6 1/2 Philadelphia 31 36 .463 9 Central Division W L Pct GB Cincinnati 36 27 .571 — Pittsburgh 33 31 .516 3 1/2 St. Louis 34 32 .515 3 1/2 Milwaukee 30 35 .462 7 Houston 27 37 .422 9 1/2 Chicago 22 42 .344 14 1/2 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 41 24 .631 — San Francisco 37 28 .569 4 Arizona 32 32 .500 8 1/2 Colorado 25 39 .391 15 1/2 San Diego 23 43 .348 18 1/2

Friday's Games Chicago Cubs 3, Boston 0 Colorado 12, Detroit 4, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 7, Washington 2 Cleveland 2, Pittsburgh 0 Toronto 3, Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Tampa Bay 11, Miami 0 Atlanta 4, Baltimore 2 Texas 6, Houston 2 Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 3 Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2 Arizona 5, L.A. Angels 0 Oakland 10, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, Chicago White Sox 6 San Francisco 4, Seattle 2 Saturday's Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Washington 3, 14 innings Toronto 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Milwaukee 6, Minnesota 2 St. Louis 10, Kansas City 7 Detroit 4, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 9, Cleveland 2 Oakland 6, San Diego 4 Baltimore at Atlanta, Late Boston at Chicago Cubs, Late Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, Late Houston at Texas, Late Miami at Tampa Bay, Late Arizona at L.A. Angels, Late Chicago White Sox at L.A. Dodgers, Late San Francisco at Seattle, Late Today’s Games Colorado (Guthrie 3-5) at Detroit (Scherzer 5-4), 12:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Lincoln 3-2) at Cleveland (J.Gomez 4-5), 12:05 p.m. Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 2-6) at Toronto (Cecil 0-0), 12:07 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 7-3) at N.Y. Mets (C.Young 1-0), 12:10 p.m. Baltimore (W.Chen 6-2) at Atlanta (Delgado 4-6), 12:35 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Nova 8-2) at Washington (E.Jackson 3-3), 12:35 p.m. Miami (Jo.Johnson 4-4) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 2-3), 12:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Greinke 7-2) at Minnesota (Blackburn 3-4), 1:10 p.m. Kansas City (Mendoza 2-3) at St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7), 1:15 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 0-0) at Texas (Lewis 55), 2:05 p.m. Arizona (I.Kennedy 5-6) at L.A. Angels (Richards 1-0), 2:35 p.m. San Diego (Richard 3-7) at Oakland (B.Colon 6-6), 3:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 8-2), 3:10 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-4) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 4-5), 3:10 p.m. Boston (F.Morales 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Maholm 4-5), 7:05 p.m. Monday's Games Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. Kansas City at Houston, 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Texas at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.

League leaders Through Friday American League B A T T I N G — Konerko, Chicago, .362; Hamilton, Texas, .330; Trumbo, Los Angeles, .322; Jeter, New York, .321; Fielder, Detroit, .317; AdJones, Baltimore, .310; MiCabrera, Detroit, .308. RUNS — Kinsler, Texas, 48; Granderson, New York, 46; De Aza, Chicago, 45; AdJones, Baltimore, 45; Kipnis, Cleveland, 44; Cano, New York, 42; Hamilton, Texas, 42; Reddick, Oakland, 42. RBI — Hamilton, Texas, 62; MiCabrera, Detroit, 52; ADunn, Chicago, 52; Bautista, Toronto, 47; Encarnacion, Toronto, 44; Willingham, Minnesota, 44; Fielder, Detroit, 42. HITS — Jeter, New York, 85; MiCabrera, Detroit, 80; AdJones, Baltimore, 80; Fielder, Detroit, 77; Hamilton, Texas, 77; Konerko, Chicago, 77; Andrus, Texas, 75; De Aza, Chicago, 75. DOUBLES — AdGonzalez, Boston, 22; Kinsler, Texas, 22; Cano, New York, 21; AGordon, Kansas City, 20; Ortiz, Boston, 20; MiCabrera, Detroit, 18; MSaunders, Seattle, 18; Willingham, Minnesota, 18. TRIPLES — Andrus, Texas, 5; Reddick, Oakland, 4; Rios, Chicago, 4; JWeeks, Oakland, 4; 9 tied at 3. HOME RUNS — ADunn, Chicago, 23; Hamilton, Texas, 22; Granderson, New York, 20; Bautista, Toronto, 19; AdJones, Baltimore, 18; Encarnacion, Toronto, 17; Ortiz, Boston, 15; Reddick, Oakland, 15. STOLEN BASES — Trout, Los Angeles, 16; RDavis, Toronto, 15; Kipnis, Cleveland, 15; De Aza, Chicago, 13; AEscobar, Kansas City, 12; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 12; Andrus, Texas, 11. PITCHING — Sale, Chicago, 8-2; Nova, New York, 8-2; MHarrison, Texas, 8-3; Sabathia, New York, 8-3; Price, Tampa Bay, 8-4; Darvish, Texas, 8-4; 9 tied at 7. STRIKEOUTS — Verlander, Detroit, 103; Sabathia, New York, 92; Darvish, Texas, 88; Scherzer, Detroit, 88; FHernandez, Seattle, 84; Sale, Chicago, 82; Doubront, Boston, 81; Shields, Tampa Bay, 81. SAVES — CPerez, Cleveland, 21; JiJohnson, Baltimore, 19; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 18; Broxton, Kansas City, 16; Aceves, Boston, 15; Capps, Minnesota, 14; Nathan, Texas, 13; Valverde, Detroit, 13. National League BATTING — MeCabrera, San Francisco, .365; Ruiz, Philadelphia, .362; Votto, Cincinnati, .359; DWright, New York, .357; CGonzalez, Colorado, .328; Pierre, Philadelphia, .325; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .321. R U N S — CGonzalez, Colorado, 50; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 47; Pence, Philadelphia, 46; Uggla, Atlanta, 46; Bourn, Atlanta, 44; DWright, New York, 44; Altuve, Houston, 42; Votto, Cincinnati, 42. RBI — Ethier, Los Angeles, 55; CGonzalez, Colorado, 51; Beltran, St. Louis, 47; Braun, Milwaukee, 45; Votto, Cincinnati, 44; Cuddyer, Colorado, 43; Freese, St. Louis, 43. HITS — MeCabrera, San Francisco, 93; Bourn, Atlanta, 87; Altuve, Houston, 81; CGonzalez, Colorado, 79; DWright, New York, 79; Prado, Atlanta, 78; Votto, Cincinnati, 78. DOUBLES — Votto, Cincinnati, 28; Cuddyer, Colorado, 22; DWright, New York, 21; Ethier, Los Angeles, 20; Hart, Milwaukee, 18; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 18; Stanton, Miami, 18. TRIPLES — MeCabrera, San Francisco, 7; Fowler, Colorado, 6; SCastro, Chicago, 5; OHudson, San Diego, 5; Reyes, Miami, 5; 8 tied at 4. HOME RUNS — Beltran, St. Louis, 19; Braun, Milwaukee, 17; CGonzalez, Colorado, 17; Bruce, Cincinnati, 14; Stanton, Miami, 14; Freese, St. Louis, 13; Hart, Milwaukee, 13; Pence, Philadelphia, 13. STOLEN BASES — Campana, Chicago, 23; DGordon, Los Angeles, 21; Bonifacio, Miami, 20; Bourn, Atlanta, 17; SCastro, Chicago, 16; Reyes, Miami, 16; Schafer, Houston, 15. PITCHING — Dickey, New York, 10-1; Lynn, St. Louis, 10-2; Hamels, Philadelphia, 9-3; Strasburg, Washington, 8-1; MCain, San Francisco, 8-2; Capuano, Los Angeles, 8-2; GGonzalez, Washington, 83; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 8-4. STRIKEOUTS — Strasburg, Washington, 100; GGonzalez, Washington, 97; MCain, San Francisco, 96; Hamels, Philadelphia, 92; Dickey, New York, 90; Greinke, Milwaukee, 89; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 88. SAVES — Kimbrel, Atlanta, 19; SCasilla, San Francisco, 18; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 17; Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 17;

Myers, Houston, 16; FFrancisco, New York, 16; HBell, Miami, 13; Motte, St. Louis, 13; Putz, Arizona, 13.

BASKETBALL WNBA Standings All Times CST EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Chicago 7 2 .778 — Connecticut 7 2 .778 — Indiana 5 3 .625 1 1/2 Atlanta 4 5 .444 3 New York 3 7 .300 4 1/2 Washington 2 5 .286 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 10 0 1.000 — Los Angeles 7 2 .778 2 1/2 San Antonio 3 4 .429 5 1/2 Phoenix 2 6 .250 7 Seattle 2 7 .222 7 1/2 Tulsa 0 9 .000 9 1/2

Friday's Games Connecticut 97, New York 55 Washington 67, Indiana 66 Atlanta 92, Los Angeles 59 Seattle 86, Tulsa 73 Minnesota 78, Phoenix 60 Saturday's Games Indiana 84, Chicago 70 Los Angeles at San Antonio, Late Today’s Games Connecticut at Atlanta, 2 p.m. Phoenix at Tulsa, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 8 p.m. Monday's Games Washington at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS Standings All Times CST EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA D.C. 9 4 3 30 29 19 New York 8 3 2 26 26 18 Sporting KC 8 3 1 25 17 10 Columbus 5 4 3 18 13 13 Chicago 5 5 3 18 15 17 New England 5 7 1 16 18 18 Houston 4 4 4 16 13 15 Montreal 3 7 3 12 15 21 Philadelphia 2 8 2 8 8 15 Toronto FC 1 9 0 3 8 21 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Real Salt Lake 9 3 2 29 22 14 San Jose 8 3 3 27 27 17 Vancouver 7 3 4 25 17 15 Seattle 7 3 3 24 16 9 Colorado 6 7 1 19 20 19 Chivas USA 4 6 3 15 9 14 Portland 3 5 4 13 12 15 FC Dallas 3 8 4 13 15 24 Los Angeles 3 8 2 11 15 21 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday's Games Vancouver 1, Colorado 0 D.C. United 1, Philadelphia 0 Seattle FC at Montreal, Late FC Dallas at Houston, Late Columbus at New England, Late Toronto FC at Sporting Kansas City, Late Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA, Late Today’s Games New York at Chicago, 4 p.m. Portland at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 20 Toronto FC at Houston, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Seattle FC, 9 p.m. Montreal at Chivas USA, 9:30 p.m. New York at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Saturday, June 23 New England at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Houston at Montreal, 6:30 p.m. Columbus at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Chivas USA at FC Dallas, 8 p.m. San Jose at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, June 24 Seattle FC at Portland, 4 p.m. D.C. United at New York, 6 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Friday BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Pat Light, RHP Jamie Callahan, RHP Ty Buttrey, RHP Mike Augliera, C

Miguel Rodriguez, RHP Kyle Kraus, 1B Nathan Minnich, INF Mike Miller, LHP Dylan Chavez, OF Shaq Thompson and 1B Jake Davies on minor league contracts. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Activated 3B Jack Hannahan from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Scott Barnes to Columbus (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Tyler Naquin and RHP Mitch Brown on minor league contracts. DETROIT TIGERS — Activated RHP Doug Fister from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Thad Weber from Toledo (IL). Sent LHP Casey Crosby and OF Matt Young to Toledo. MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent RHP Lester Oliveros to Rochester (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled OF Leonys Martin from Round Rock (PCL). Placed RHP Koji Uehara on the 15-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed RHP Kyle Drabek on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 14. Recalled LHP Brett Cecil from Las Vegas (PCL). National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled RHP Kris Medlen from Gwinnett (IL). Designated RHP Livan Hernandez for assignment. CINCINNATI REDS — Placed OF Drew Stubbs on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF-OF Willie Harris from Louisville (IL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with OF David Dahl, RHP Eddie Butler, OF Max White, C Tom Murphy, RHP Ryan Warner, RHP Seth Willoughby, C Wilfredo Rodriguez, OF Derek Jones, RHP Zach Jemiola, 1B Ben Waldrip, RHP Trevor Oakes, 1B Correlle Prime, RHP Shane Broyles, RHP Scott Oberg, OF Jeff Popick, INF Jason Stolz, INF Kyle Newton, LHP Anthony Seise, RHP Rayan Gonzalez, RHP Jordan Mejia, RHP Andrew Brown, LHP Michael Mason, INF Alec Mehrten, RHP Justin Arrowood, 2B Patrick Hutcheson, RHP Shawn Stuart, OF Ryan Garvey and C Chris Cowell on minor league contracts. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with OF Mitch Haniger, OF Tyrone Taylor, RHP Zach Quintana, RHP Tyler Wagner, SS Angel Ortega, LHP David Otterman, RHP Alex Lavandero, LHP Anthony Banda, RHP Eric Semmelhack, 1B Alan Sharkey, 1B Adam Giacalone, SS Alfredo Rodriguez, 3B Michael Garza, RHP Austin Blaski, C Michael Turay, OF Lance Roenicke, RHP Jonathan Armold, LHP Brent Suter, RHP Austin Hall, SS Jose Sermo and RHP Taylor Mangum on minor league contracts. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with OF Barrett Barnes on a minor league contract. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with LHP Max Fried on a minor league contract. American Association EL PASO DIABLOS — Signed RHP Juan L. Peralta. KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed OF Hunter Mense. Released INF Bridger Hunt. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed OF Mike Bisenius. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Released LHP Barrett Phillips. Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released INF Roberto Ramos. WORCESTER TORNADOES — Released RHP Michael Dicato and INF JB Brown. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Released C Steven Garcia and RHP Alfredo Venegas. ROCKFORD RIVERHAWKS — Released RHP Joey Gradney. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Traded RHP Dave Wigham to River City for a player to be named. Signed C Marty Coyle. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed C Andrew Heck. Released C Joel Carranza. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed T Cory Brandon and CB Cornelius Brown. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Jake Bequette. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Named Erin Exum media relations coordinator, Jeff Gilbert equipment assistant, Adam Johnson equipment assistant, George Li football operations statistical analyst and Greg Reuveni video assistant. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released LS Ryan Pontbriand. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released DE Monte Taylor. Signed LB Kyle Knox. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed LW Max Friberg to a three-year contract. LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed F MarcAndre Cliche and F Rich Clune to two-year contracts. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Named Clement Jodoin and Gerard Gallant assistant coaches. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Traded G Anders Lindback, F Kyle Wilson and a 2012 seventh-round draft pick to Tampa

Bay for G Sebastien Caron, two 2012 second-round draft picks and and 2013 thirdround draft pick. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed F Adam Hall and F J.T. Wyman to one-year contracts. SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Loaned D Andrew Duran to Atlanta (NASL). COLLEGE ARIZONA — Signed men's basketball coach Sean Miller to a one-year contract extension through the 2016-17 season. BOSTON UNIVERSITY — Announced it will join the Patriot League beginning with the 2013-14 academic year. DETROIT — Announced G Carlton Brundidge has transferred from Michigan. HIGH POINT — Named Colby Tilley women's assistant basketball coach. MONTANA — Named Kefense Hynson tight ends coach. NEBRASKA — Announced sophomore Corey Hilliard Jr. has been dismissed from the basketball program. SAINT FRANCIS (PA.) — Named Ashley Ross women's assistant field hockey coach. WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH — Named Eamon McKenna men's cross country and track and field coach. Saturday BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Josh Beckett on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 12. Recalled RHP Clayton Mortensen from Pawtucket (IL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled RHP Liam Hendriks from Rochester (IL). Optioned RHP Lester Oliveros to Rochester. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Released OF Manny Ramirez from his minor league contract. Recalled RHP Tyson Ross and INF Eric Sogard from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned RHP Evan Scribner and INF Adam Morales to Sacramento. Assigned INF Kila Ka'aihue outright to Sacramento. TEXAS RANGERS — Selected the contract of RHP Justin Grimm from Frisco (TL). Optioned RHP Yoshinori Tateyama to Round Rock (PCL). Transferred RHP Neftali Perez to the 60-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed RHP Drew Hutchison on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Robert Coello from Las Vegas (PCL). National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Paul Blackburn, RHP Josh Conway, INF Stephen Bruno, LHP Michael Heesch and C Chadd Krist on minor league contracts. MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Sandy Rosario on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Chris Hatcher from New Orleans (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Placed OF Jason Bay on the 7-day concussion DL. Activated INF Justin Turner from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with RHP Matt Koch, SS Branden Kaupe, RHP Brandon Welch, RHP Corey Oswalt, C Tomas Nido, 2B Richie Rodriguez, RHP Paul Sewald, RHP Robert Whalen, RHP Matthew Bowman, C Stefan Sabol, RHP Tyler Vanderheiden, RHP Timothy Peterson and 3B Jeff Reynolds on minor league contracts. Assigned Koch, Welch, Rodriguez, Sewald, Whalen, Bowman, Sabol, Vanderheiden, Peterson and Reynolds to Brooklyn (NYP) and Kaupe, Oswalt and Nido to Kingsport (Appalachian). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled C Erik Kratz from Lehigh Valley (IL). Optioned RHP B.J. Rosenberg to Lehigh Valley. American Association EL PASO DIABLOS — Released RHP Cody Railsback. GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed 1B KC Judge. Released INF Rico Washington. KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed RHP Drew Bailey. LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed C Salomon Manriquez. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released C Tyler Goodro. Can-Am League WORCESTER TORNADOES — Signed INF Ryan Brockett. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed OF Nick Colwell. RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Alex Sunderland. ROCKFORD RIVERHAWKS — Signed RHP Nelson Curry and SS Ted Obregon. WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Released INF Bruce Alter and OF Billy Nowlin.

Spurs Parker hurt NBA Finals head to Miami for Game 3 in rapper brawl NO. 2, FROM PAGE B1

Associated Press San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker says he suffered a scratched retina on one of his eyes during a New York City nightclub brawl involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage. Parker, wearing dark sunglasses, described the incident Friday in Paris during a news conference

posted on YouTube. Parker said he was wearing a "therapeutic" contact lens and had to go to an emergency room for treatment after arriving in Paris. Parker said: "I was with my friend Chris Brown and me and my friends took some punches, so I'll be missing the start of the French team because I can't do anything for a week.”

Manko Jrs drop two at Wamego NO. 1, FROM PAGE B1 “Wellington had a good pitcher who played hard and I tip my hat to the other team,” Rumsey said. Rumsey was proud of his pitcher, too. “Evan had the best pitching performance we've seen all year,” he said. “It was great for him to do that, and it was the highlight of the weekend. We just need to execute in all three aspects of the game — pitching, hitting and fielding. Once we start doing that, we'll be winning some games.” On Friday, Manko was in an early 2-0 hole to Royal Valley after the first inning but found a run in the next inning by scoring on a wild pitch. In the top of the fifth Manhattan found another run by scoring on a passed ball, but Royal Valley

scored again in the bottom of the inning to take a 4-2 lead. While Manko got off to a good start in the top of the sixth with a single by Issac Leon and scored again on another defensive miscue by Royal Valley, the game ended after Manhattan was retired due to a two-hour time limit for the game. Epperson and Leon led the batting for Manko, both going 2-for-3, while Conner Brown started the game on the mound. Brown went three innings and allowed three runs — two earned — on four hits with four walks and two strikeouts, while Leon came in for relief and pitched the rest of the way, giving up one run on one hit with two walks and three strikeouts. Manhattan will continue play Wednesday at Junction City.

similar to the first two. "This is going to be probably like this every single game, and that's the beauty of competition at this level, and embracing that competition and seeing what it brings out of you collectively," Spoelstra said. It's brought out the best of league MVP James and Durant, the NBA scoring champion. The series hype was built around them and they spent the first two games living up to every ounce of it. James has bounced back from his disappointing 2011 finals by scoring 30 and then 32 points, and even that was only good enough for a split because Durant has been just as good. He followed up his 36-point performance in Game 1 by scoring 32 on Thursday, 16 in the fourth quarter after he scored 17 in the final period of the opener. Yet that was wasted because the Thunder had fallen into a 17-point hole in the first half. The Thunder also spotted Miami a 13-point lead in the first half of Game 1 and have fallen into double-digit holes in three straight games. Coach Scott Brooks said after Game 2 he wasn't considering a new starting lineup, even though the Thunder have been more effective with a smaller group on the floor. Instead, he said the only change the Thunder needed was greater intensity from the start. "We didn't come out with the toughness that we need to come out with. We're an aggressive team, we're a physical team," he said. "Defensive mindset was not where it needs to be, and hopefully we change that going into Game 3." The slow starts at home could mean trouble for the Thunder in Miami, where they won't have their raucous crowd to help rattle the Heat. But Oklahoma City has been good on the road in the postseason, winning twice in Dallas in the first round, taking a game in Los Angeles in the second round and pulling out a Game 5 victory in San Antonio in the Western Conference finals. "These are the two best teams. They're confident no matter what building they're in," James said.

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Miami Heat assistant coach David Fizdale, center, gives instructions to forward LeBron James, left, and guard Dwyane Wade during the team's practice on Saturday in Miami. The Heat are scheduled to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 of the NBA basketball finals on Sunday. "We're happy now that it's a 1-1 series and we're going back to Miami and will take control of the home court. It doesn't mean that the series has changed. Both teams can win on each other's floor and both teams are confident." Ratings through two games are up 11 percent from last year, when it seemed interest in the Heat couldn't get higher, and Thursday drew the highest rating for a Game 2 since 2004, when the Lakers lost to Detroit in their last title run with O'Neal and Bryant. The latest game provided a look at the best of what both teams have: James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all making big plays in the fourth quarter; Sixth Man of the Year James Harden coming off the Thunder bench to keep them in it while Durant sat with foul trouble; Russell Westbrook turning from sloppy to sensational as the game went along. So what's next? "It's a long series. After Game 1 there was the hyperbole of, 'The Heat have no idea what to do with the speed of OKC.' I have no idea what the story lines will be after Game 2," Miami for-

ward Shane Battier said. "We know every game is its own beast. You just have to play disciplined and tough to win a single game in the finals." Battier has provided surprising offense with 17 points in each game while also taking his turns defending Durant. But it's James who will likely have that role during the important stretches, such as the crucial moment of Game 2. Durant expects to score no matter who his guarding him. The problem, he said, is the Thunder aren't paying enough attention to the other end of the floor. "I've got to make shots for my team. But I think on the defensive end, we all have to be better, and we can't really worry about the offensive end," he said. "We missed shots, but we can't let it dictate our defense. But I've got to stay positive, keep working, and we're looking forward to a Game 3." The Heat's last finals game on their home floor ended with Dallas celebrating a championship after Game 6 last year. They can be the ones partying this time if they take care of all three in Miami.

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LITTLE APPLE INVITATIONAL

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Manhattan Marlins’ Jordan DeLoach, 17, competes in the 100-yard butterfly during the Little Apple Invitational on Saturday at City Park. The invite was scheduled to continue today. Marlins’ swimmer Kelly Wichman comes out of the water during the mixed 50 breaststroke during action at the City Park pool on Saturday. The event drew teams from Topeka, Emporia, Hutchinson, Salina and Miami County.

Marlins’ swimmer Elizabeth Evans competes during the mixed 200 freestyle on Saturday.

Westwood, Els share US Open clubhouse lead Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The top of the U.S. Open leaderboard is getting awfully crowded. Jim Furyk was 1 over through 12 holes Saturday to top the leaderboard at even par, while Lee Westwood shot a 3under 67, and Ernie Els had a 68 to share the clubhouse lead at 2 over. Tiger Woods, Furyk's playing partner, threeputted on No. 8 for his fourth bogey, then holed a birdie putt from about 14 feet on the ninth. He was 2 over for the tournament. Nicolas Colsaerts and 2010 U. S . ch a m p i o n Graeme McDowell were a stroke back at 1 under through 13. Webb Simpson, Kevin Chapp e ll a n d J o h n Senden all shot 2 under to reach 3 over. Els eagled the 17th from the shaved grass in a collection area below the elevated green, missing a ch a n ce to p ul l ahead of Westwood when he pushed a long birdie putt on 18. Woods, Furyk and David Toms started the day two shots ahead of the field at 1 under but the tight, twisting fairways at The Olympic Club wreaked havoc again . To m s h a d f o ur bogeys on his first six holes and was 3 over through 10 holes. Welcome back, U.S. Open. After Rory McIlroy shattered championship records to win at 16 under last year at rainsoftened Congressional, dry co n d itio n s a t t he undulating Lake Course in San Francisco

restored "golf's toughest test" and then some. Once again, par might be good enough to win. Westwood overcame two bogeys to finish with five birdies, the last coming when he trickled a putt from about 15 feet into the hole on the historic 18th hole to bring the crowd roaring to its feet. Now the Englishman, with 35 wins as a pr o f e s s i o na l b ut n o major title to his name, is again in the hunt at one of golf's grand slams. "I think every time you g e t y o ur s e l f i n con tention you learn something new," Westwood said. "I've been in contention a lot in different kinds of positions, leading, coming from behind. And in this tournament and other tournaments, the Masters, I finished third, so I was in contention there. "I pick little bits out of all of those, but the main thing is just to go out there and believe that I'm good enough." A s u n-t o u c he d d ay with a blue sky and a slight breeze along the California coast created c l e a n c o n di t i o n s an d provided another majestic backdrop of San Francisco's steep hills. The dry weather also made the fast and fickle fairways even quicker, frustrating players and amateurs alike. Furyk overcame a bogey on No. 1 and pared the next three holes to briefly take the lead. He also bogeyed the fifth to fall back into the crowd of leaders on the course until he birdied the seventh to move back to par. That might be a great score this week.

NCAA deregulates texts, calls to hoops recruits Associated Press Coaches can now pick up their smartphones without trepidation. Starting Friday, Division I men's basketball coaches will be able to send unlimited texts and make unlimited calls to recruits who have wrapped up their sophomore year of high school. The NCAA will also allow coaches to send private messages to prospective players through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. It all means that sending a recruit an LOL (laugh out loud) will no longer get you a TTYL (talk to you later) from the NCAA. The NCAA is allowing coaches to text, tweet and talk to their hearts' content because, as Missouri athletic director Mike Alden put it, the organization "recognized the evolving nature of communication with students." In essence, coaches can finally get with the times without getting into trouble. "I really believe it will help. I'm excited about it. And I think it's going to be good, more so than the texts, just the ability to call and making sure to have that

direct verbal communication," Memphis coach Josh Pastner said. The new rule was adopted by the Division I Board of Directors last October after being recommended by its leadership council. The NCAA realized that coaches were having a tougher time than ever building relationships with recruits who already know their way around social media and then some. What was even more worrisome was that while coaches had their thumbs tied behind their backs, third parties were using new technology to get to recruits more easily than ever. "Now instead of going around people to get to the kid or the parents, you can call them directly. I think that's a very valid point as to why they made the rule change," first-year Illinois coach John Groce said. But just because a coach can call and text a kid at will doesn't mean he should. Knowing when to contact a recruit and when to back off could be the tricky side of this new policy. Creighton coach Greg McDermott has a unique perspective on the matter, having seen recruiting from the side of a coach at North-

ern Iowa, Iowa State and Creighton and as the father of current Jays star Doug McDermott. Greg McDermott said that the main objective for his staff is to get to know each recruit and their family inside and out. Some will undoubtedly get a kick out of all the extra attention, while others will be turned off by it. "I think I'm probably still on the fence," McDermott said of the new rules. "It can be a disruptive process if you allow it to become that. So I think it's going to become really important for our staff to make sure we do our due diligence in researching each individual and each family." With these new guidelines, the NCAA has essentially legalized the activity that got former Oklahoma and Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson bounced from the college game a few years back. But all coaches have had to walk a tightrope of monitoring phone calls made by themselves and their staff to recruits, and the new rules should help them breathe easier. "You know, honestly I think it's just too hard to keep track of," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins

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said. "If you can't legislate it, if you can't enforce it then you probably ought to just go ahead and make it legal. I think that's kind of what happened with Prohibition." There could also be an unexpected benefit from allowing more contact between coaches and recruits. It will be easier for everyone to know the level of interest — say, a BFF (best friends forever), a BFFN (best friends for now) or it's C-YA time. "I think it's a win-win for everybody," Minnesota coach Tubby Smith said. "Kids, they all have cellphones where they can identify who's calling. They can pick up the phone or not. That gives you an indication about where you stand."

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AUTO RACING 12:00 p.m. TNT (30) Auto Racing NASCAR Quicken Loans 400 Sprint Cup Series (Live) Site: Michigan International Speedway — Brooklyn, Mich. BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. TBS (29) MLB New York Yankees vs. Washington Nationals (Live) Site: Nationals Park — Washington, D.C. 1:00 p.m. FSN (34) MLB Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals (Live) Site: Busch Stadium — St. Louis, Mo. 4:00 p.m. ESPN2 (33) Baseball NCAA Division I Tournament (Live) — Omaha, Neb. 7:00 p.m. ESPN (32) MLB Boston Red Sox vs. Chicago Cubs (Live) Site: Wrigley Field — Chicago, Ill. 8:00 p.m. ESPN2 (33) Baseball NCAA College World Series (Live) — Omaha, Neb. BASKETBALL 7:00 p.m. (9) KMBC (14) (49) KTKA (9) NBA Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Miami Heat Playoffs Final Game 3 (Live) Site: American Airlines Arena — Miami, Fla. GOLF 3:00 p.m. (27) KSNT (7) Golf U.S. Open Final Round (Live) Site: Olympic Club — San Francisco, Calif. SOCCER 1:30 p.m. ESPN (32) UEFA Portugal vs. Netherlands Euro 2012 Group B (Live) Site: Metalist Stadium — Kharkiv, Ukraine ESPN2 (33) UEFA Germany vs. Denmark Euro 2012 Group B (Live) Site: Arena Lviv — Lviv, Ukraine

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Yanks beat Nats in 14 innings Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mark Teixeira hit a two-run double in the 14th inning Saturday and the New York Yankees beat the Washington Nationals 5-3 for their eighth consecutive victory. Teixeira's drive to the right-field corner off Brad Lidge (0-1) brought home Jayson Nix and Derek Jeter in the longest game by innings for either team this season. Freddy Garcia (1-2) pitched two innings to get the win. Rafael Soriano finished for his 12th save, but only after allowing consecutive one-out singles to Jesus Flores and Steve Lombardozzi. The game ended when Soriano got Bryce Harper to ground out, ending an 0-for-7 day for the Nationals' teen sensation that included five strikeouts. Ian Desmond hit a solo homer for Washington.

PIRATES 9, INDIANS 2 CLEVELAND — A.J. Burnett became the first Pittsburgh pitcher since 1990 to win six straight starts and Pedro Alvarez homered twice. Burnett (7-2) gave up two runs over 6 2-3 innings. He extended the best stretch by a Pirates pitcher since Doug Drabek won six in a row during his NL Cy Young Award-winning season. Casey McGehee homered and drove in four runs and Alvarez had three RBIs as the Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak. McGehee broke a 2-all tie with a two-run homer off Ubaldo Jimenez (6-5) in the sixth. Cleveland's Michael Brantley went 0 for 3 with a walk, halting the majors' longest hitting streak this season at 22 games.

BLUE JAYS 6, PHILLIES 5, 10 INNINGS TORONTO — Rajai Davis drove home the win-

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Washington Nationals' Tyler Moore is out a home on the tag by New York Yankees catcher Russell Martin as home plate umpire Tim Timmons jumps to get out the way during the eighth inning of a game at Nationals Park on Saturday in Washington. The Yankees won 5-3 in 14 innings. ning run with a two-out drive in the 10th inning that bounced over the wall and Toronto extended Cliff Lee's winless streak to 11 starts. Yunel Escobar connected for a solo homer among his three hits and also scored the winning run. Francisco Cordero (2-4) pitched one inning for the victory. After Toronto scored three times in the eighth to make it 5-all, Escobar drew a leadoff walk in the 10th from Joe Savery (0-2). Escobar moved up on a balk, advanced to third on Mike McCoy's groundout and scored when Davis hit a drive that hopped over the left-center field wall. John Mayberry Jr. hit a three-run homer for the Phillies, who have dropped 11 of 14. Lee allowed five runs and 12 hits in seven-plus innings.

BREWERS 6, TWINS 2 MINNEAPOLIS — Ryan Braun hit two home runs and Michael Fiers pitched seven strong innings for Milwaukee.

Braun added a double and a walk to back Fiers (22), who gave up one run and four hits. Aramis Ramirez and Cody Ransom also homered for the Brewers, who have taken the first two games in this interleague series. Liam Hendriks (0-3) gave up five runs — two earned — and eight hits in five innings in his first start since being recalled from Triple-A Rochester. Trevor Plouffe went 0 for 1 with three walks, ending his streak of four straight games with a homer as the Twins lost their fourth straight.

TIGERS 4, ROCKIES 1 DETROIT — Doug Fister pitched six shutout innings in his return from the disabled list and Miguel Cabrera homered to lead Detroit to the win. Fister (1-3) had been out since aggravating a ribcage strain on May 28. He missed a month after sustaining the original injury in his first start of the season. Fister allowed three hits and struck out six,

sending the Rockies to their ninth loss in 10 games. Cabrera hit his 14th homer in the first. Colorado's Christian Friedrich (4-3) gave up three runs, two earned, and three hits in five innings. He walked five and struck out four.

ATHLETICS 6, PADRES 4 OAKLAND, Calif. — Pinch-hitter Jonny Gomes belted a two-run homer in the seventh inning to lift Oakland to its fifth consecutive victory. Seth Smith also homered for the A's. Jemile Weeks and Collin Cowgill each drove in a run. Carlos Quentin hit a home run for the Padres, who have lost two straight since sweeping the Mariners. Will Venable had two RBIs. Sean Doolittle (1-0) pitched the seventh to pick up his first major league victory. Ryan Cook got three outs for his third save. Joe Thacher (0-2) took the loss.

Holliday's 5 RBIs lead Cardinals past Royals NO. 1, FROM PAGE B1 Matheny said. "The play was not to first base if we get a quick ruling on what it is. That was my argument." Said DeMuth: "Our main concern was to get the call right. When I got everybody together, nobody had a catch." Holliday staked his team to an early 2-0 lead with a 431-foot homer off Bruce Chen in the first. Molina also hit a two-run homer in the first. Chen gave up six earned runs on seven hits over 1 2-3 innings, his shortest start of the season. "I'm definitely not very happy with the way I pitched," Chen said. "I just didn't pitch well enough to help my team win." Mike Moustakas homered and drove in four runs for the Royals, who rallied from a 6-1 deficit to a take a 7-6 lead with three runs in the seventh. Mitchell Boggs (1-1) picked up the win with 1 1-3 innings of scoreless relief. Jason Motte recorded his 14th save in 17 chances. Tim Collins (4-1) took the loss. Alcides Escobar had a two-run single in the seventh to give the Royals a 7-6 lead. Holliday, who began the day in an 0-for-12 rut, tied it with an RBI single in the seventh. Allen Craig walked to load the bases for Molina. Kansas City came back with single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings before taking the lead with three in the seventh. Hosmer walked and Jeff Francoeur singled before Moustakas added an RBI hit. Brayan Pena followed an infield single to load the bases and Escobar poked a hit to right to give the Roy-

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Kansas City Royals pitcher Tim Collins dives after a bunt single by St. Louis Cardinals' Rafael Furcal in seventh inning of a game on Saturday in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 10-7. als a 7-6 lead. "I was really proud of the offense, the way they stayed after it," Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. "Down 6-1, they just kept putting together good at-bats. We battled back and got the lead, but from the seventh inning on (our pitchers) just really struggled to command the ball." Kelly, making his second major league start, gave up two earned runs on seven hits in 4 1-3 innings. Carlos Beltran added three hits and extended his hitting streak to nine games. He pushed the lead to 51 with an RBI single and Holliday followed with an RBI double. Moustakas hit his 10th homer in

the fourth. He also had a run-scoring single in the first and an RBI groundout in the fifth. NOTES: The Royals' five previous games had all been decided by one run. They won four. ... Kansas City RHP Luis Mendoza (2-3, 4.89 ERA) will face Adam Wainwright (57, 4.75) in the series finale on Sunday. Mendoza took a no-hit bid into the seventh of his previous start, a 21 win over Milwaukee on Tuesday. ... The Cardinals are 39-29 in regularseason meetings with their crossstate neighbors. ... Billy Butler made his first pinch-hitting appearance this season for the Royals and flied out.

Manny requests release; A's oblige Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Manny Ramirez is a free agent again after he asked the Oakland Athletics to release him and the team granted his request on Friday. Ramirez signed a minor league deal with Oakland on Feb. 20 and hit .302 with 14 RBIs in 17 games with Triple-A Sacramento. He served a 50-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy last year, but remained in the minors

Players embrace new scoring appeals process

when the ban ended on his 40th birthday on May 30. "It looked like he was down there for a while and I think he wanted out," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "He wanted an opportunity, if we weren't going to do something, to go somewhere else. It is what it is. Certainly we wish him the best." The dreadlocked slugger was expected to make approximately $500,000 if he was added to Oakland's big league roster. "Manny believes he has demonstrated that he is

ready to return to the major leagues," Ramirez's agents, Barry Praver and Scott Shapiro, said in a statement. "However, given that the Oakland Athletics could not give Manny any assurance that they plan to promote him in the immediate future he asked for his release. Manny thanks the A's for providing him with this opportunity." Ramirez, who has 555 career homers and 1,831 RBIs, retired last season rather than serve a 100game suspension for fail-

ing a second drug test. But Commissioner Bud Selig cut the suspension in half after Ramirez sat out the balance of the season. He served a 50-game suspension in 2009 while with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, playing parts of three games in Albuquerque during his rehabilitation assignment. The 12-time All-Star went 1 for 17 (.059) in five games last season for Tampa Bay, which had signed him to a one-year deal worth $2.02 million.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland's Coco Crisp tracked Robinson Cano's drive to right-center. He seemed ready to make the catch — until he got caught between deciding whether to jump or stay on his feet and the ball bounced off his glove. Cano easily got into second base as New York Yankees teammate Curtis Granderson came around to score. Official scorer Chuck Dybdal ruled it a two-base error. To many at the ballpark, the call seemed routine. But the Yankees were bewildered. They filed an appeal with Major League Baseball the following day to give Cano an RBI double. And their wish was quickly granted by MLB executive vice president Joe Torre, a pattern that is being repeated much more frequently under a streamlined appeals process for official scoring calls. "You can see it and then you can appeal," Cano said. "It's a good thing you can appeal, because sometimes those things, maybe can be the one that — you can hit 2,000 hits. Maybe a double, you can hit 500 doubles. Or the RBI — you can get 1,000 RBIs. Who knows? You know how hard it is to get a hit or double in this game." Don't forget how hard it is to pitch. The Mets took a shot at getting R.A. Dickey's one-hit gem against Tampa Bay on Wednesday belatedly changed from a one-hitter to a no-hitter. But no luck. That appeal got turned down. "We took advantage of the process," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "You can do it, so we gave it a shot. We didn't win it. We didn't expect to win it. Just gave it a try. If we had won it, we've got another no-hitter." Both cases have their roots in player complaints about official scoring during last year's collective bargaining talks, leading to a new appeals process and an effort by MLB to try and bring more consistency to official scoring decisions from city to city and scorer to scorer. Team officials are not supposed to "initiate communication" with scorers and MLB will punish people who "intimidate, influence or pressure" scorers into changing calls. Instead, a player or team can appeal any call to MLB within 24 hours after it is made. While baseball will not release numbers on how many appeals there have been this year, scorers, teams and players say it is up considerably from last year when 12 of 58 plays appealed under the old system were overturned. "It's a good thing because it's less of a distraction as the game goes on and there's a call that, at face value, you say, 'That's a hit or that's an error,'" Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "There's a process in place where you ask the league to take a look. It's one less distraction that can happen in the dugout, where guys are saying, 'Are you (kidding) me?'" After a successful appeal, the call and corresponding statistics are changed with no fanfare or announcement. In the play involving Cano and Crisp on May 25 in Oakland, A's starter Tyson Ross had three earned runs added to his ledger just hours after being sent down to Triple-A from 5.94 to 6.51 without throwing an additional pitch. "That's unfortunate because I believe I should have caught that," Crisp said. "That works out in my favor but Tyson doesn't deserve those runs. It should have been an error." Baltimore's Nick Johnson was on the winning side of an appeal earlier this year when Torre ruled a ball Eduardo Nunez of the Yankees allowed to

fall in left field on May 1 should have been a double not an error. "I like it," Johnson said of the new process. "I think it's going to work well. Just another set of eyes to take another look at it. You hear back from them in two, three days and go from there." Minnesota scorer Stew Thornley said he has had calls overturned on appeal and likes the new process better than the confrontations with players or team officials that used to more frequent. He sympathizes with players who are upset about calls they disagree with, because he used to do his share of complaining before becoming a scorer himself. "You think you got jobbed by a scorer's call, you're unhappy. I totally understand that," Thornley said. "That's part of the job. That's why any clown out there can't do it because boy, I used to be one of those clowns. 'Boy if I were doing this job.' Then you find out what it's like to do it from the hot seat and get some of that criticism." While baseball's rules say judgment calls by an official scorer should only be changed if they are to be determined to be "clearly erroneous," players who like the new process acknowledge there is rarely unanimity on disputed calls. Oakland shortstop Cliff Pennington said when he polls teammates about disputed calls, the clubhouse verdict is usually split. "We're judges the same way you think of a judge in court," New York scorer Billy Altman said. "It's not completely possible to standardize that. No court can standardize how judges approach things. ... If every call was black and white, they would not need an official scorer. These are judgment calls. They can go either way." The streamlined appeals process is just one change in how baseball is handing official scorers this season. MLB also brought at least one scorer from every city to New York this offseason to try to bring common standards to an admittedly subjective process. Like past efforts to try and make strike zones consistent from umpire to umpire, MLB wants scoring decisions applied consistently. "We want more uniformity of calls," MLB senior vice president Phyllis Merhige said. "A little less variation of what gets called one way in one city and different in another city or among different scorers in the same city." To help achieve that, scorers looked at tapes of last year's appealed and overturned calls and had breakout sessions addressing press box announcements, how to deal with a ball getting lost in the sun or lights, sacrifice bunts and defensive indifference. One of the most helpful sessions was led by Tampa Bay scorer Bill Mathews, who is also the head baseball coach at Eckerd College. He gave scorers clues on what to look for in terms of how hard a ball is hit, the angle a player takes and a fielder's position when a ball is caught. "There's still human judgment," Mathews said. "Scoring is about judgment, feel and knowledge of the game. It's about making tough decisions under pressure at the right time. That's what makes it fun. I'd say 94 percent of plays are a piece of cake. That 6 percent are what you take home and lose sleep over because you just want to get it right." There has been a strong trend leading to fewer errors in the big leagues with the 11 highest fielding percentages of alltime coming in the past 11 seasons.

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Umpire with 2 nohitters called in '12 Associated Press SEATTLE — Amid the chaos of the starter leaving with an injury, a twobase th r o w in g er r o r, three walks and five pitching changes, Brian Runge wasn't paying attention to the history the S e a ttle M a r i ne r s were making last week. Wh e n s ix M a r i n e r s pitchers tossed the 10th combined no-hitter in major league history Friday night, Runge found his own chapter in the anna ls o f b a s e b a l l umpires. Runge was the home pl ate u m p ir e fo r Fr i day's no-hitter in the Mariners' 1-0 win over the Dodgers. And he was behind the plate April 21 in Seattle when the White Sox's Philip Humber threw the 21st perfect game in baseball history. Ru n ge is th e f i r s t umpire since Drew Coble in 1990 to be behind the plate for two no-hitters in one season. "It's an amazing story, just to be a part of it and be on the field, but then to be behind the plate both games," Runge said Sunday before the finale of the Mariners' series against the Dodgers. "You can't really write that stuff. It was storybook." Runge has now been behin d th e p la t e f o r three no-hitters, the first Jonathan Sanchez's nohitter for San Francisco on July 10, 2009. Runge is in his 14th major league season and is part of the only three-generation umpiring family in baseball history. His grandfather Ed and his father Paul were both major league umps. An d a ll th r e e h a v e been behind the plate for a no-hitter. During Humber's perfect game and during Sanch e z ' s n o - h i t t e r, Run ge s a id h e d i d n't start grasping what was happening until about

the eighth inning. It was the bottom of the eighth, to be exact, when Humber's perfect game starting sinking in, leading to the "longest nine outs there was for me." "I had to tell myself every pitch, call the pitch, watch the pitch, a l mo s t l i k e um p i re school type thing, and I've been here 14 years now," Runge said. But Friday was different. Seattle starter Kevin Millwood was perfect into the fifth when he walked Juan Rivera to open the inning. At that point, Runge said he was fully aware of what was happening. Out of character, he was keeping an eye on the scoreboard. He felt Rivera's walk was the best thing for him because it took away a little of the perfect game pressure. Two i nn i ng s l at er, with Millwood still having not given up a hit, the game took a decidedly un c o nv e n t i o na l t u rn . Millwood threw one warmup pitch to start the seventh and realized he had strained a groin muscle. Seattle then cycled through five relievers to close it out, but they didn't make it easy, twice giving the Dodgers scoring chances on a twobase throwing error by Charlie Furbush in the seventh and two walks by Stephen Pryor to start the eighth. Each time Seattle's staff worked through the jam. They finished off the no-hitter with Tom Wilhemlsen working a 12-3 ninth. The closest thing to a debatable call was when Ted Barrett called Dee Gordon out at first in the ni n t h o n a b a ng-b an g play where even slow motion television replays had a hard time deciding if Gordon was safe or out. "It was just a great experience, the whole thing," Runge said.

Rookie Diamond keeps shining for Twins Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Scott Diamond grew up in Canada, seemingly destined to become a pitcher. The Minnesota Twins are sure happy he found his niche. The rookie lefthander has taken hold of thei r r a gge d r o t a t i o n since he was summoned from Triple-A Rochester a little more than a month ago, one of the main reasons why they've gradually improved on their rotten start to the season. "He's not just keeping us in the game, he's really doing it out there," teammate Trevor Plouffe said. "With that, and our offense clicking the way it is, it's going to bring some wins." Diamond will take a sc orele s s s tr e a k o f 1 3 st rai gh t in n in gs i n t o Thursday night's game against the Philadelphia Phillies. According to the team, via the Elias Sports Bureau, the 25-year-old's 1.61 ERA is the lowest of any Twins rookie in his first seven starts of a season since the club arrived in Minnesota in 1961. The previous best was Francisco Liriano's 1.64 ERA over his first seven turns in 2006. Rookie status in Major League Baseball doesn ' t e x p ir e u n t i l a pitcher has spent 45 days on the 25-man roster or pi tch e d 50 in n in g s o r more, and Diamond was sl ight ly u n d e r t h o s e marks during seven unremarkable starts for the Twins last year. He struggled then, with a 1-5 record, a .317 opponent batting average and the weight of his Rule 5 draft pick status. "They traded for me, which meant the Twins really liked me," Diamond said. "I really love this organization. I love the way spring training was and the whole atmosphere. I think all that

being said, I put a little extra pressure on myself and tried to do a little too much." Signed by Atlanta in 2007 as an undrafted free agent out of Guelph, Ontario, a town about 60 miles from Toronto, Diamo n d ha d t h r e e sol i d minor league seasons in the Braves organization but wasn't protected on the 40-man roster. The Twins selected him in the major league portion of that annual winter draft — the Rule 5 — and traded hard-throwing pitching prospect Billy Bullock to keep him last spring. He went 4-14 for the Red Wings in 23 starts with a 5.56 ERA. That was a far cry from the 4-1 record and 2.60 ERA he posted for Rochester this year, performances that practically begged the pitchingdeficient Twins to bring him up for another audition. "This is a good story. Go down and get it done and be the guy, and that's what he did," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He went down and pitched his tail off down there, and when he's come up here he's carried it right through here." Diamond has walked only four batters in 44 2-3 innings with the Twins this season, the kind of control a guy without a power arm needs to stay relevant. Like so many professional athletes describing newfound success, he said he's felt more comfortable on the mound this season because the game has slowed down for him. "He works ahead so much in the count, and he's able to throw his firstpitch breaking ball over or throw a changeup every once in a while for the first pitch over," Gardenhire said. "So they can't just sit on one pitch. But the location of his fastball has been unbelievable."

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Ventura, Sveum finding their way Associated Press CHICAGO — Dave Sveum was patient and ready as he waited for that first full-time, big-league manager's job. There had been a short interim stint running the Milwaukee Brewers after years spent as a player and a coach. Robin Ventura? He was about to dabble in baseball again as an adviser, but managing for the first time wasn't on his radar at all. Now, here they are on opposite sides of a city that takes its baseball seriously, making daily decisions that are critiqued and dissected by thousands if not millions of fans while dealing with young players, multimillion-dollar stars and the grind of a season where fortunes change rapidly. So far, Ventura's ride has been a lot less bumpy. He has guided the White Sox to first place in the AL Central, thanks to an earlier nine-game winning streak, and he has done it with a laid-back style and dry humor. Sveum's assignment has been much rougher, running a Cubs team in rebuilding mode and enduring a 12-game losing streak that has the Cubs sitting firmly in last place. As of mid-week, they had the worst record in the majors. "You've been around long enough, you pretty much know the challenges you're going to face," Sveum said. "Being a bench coach, just being around the game, you understand all the challenges, the communication things you have to deal with. You can't miss out on the importance of communication." Here's just a few things Sveum has dealt with during his first 2 1/2 tumultuous months on the job: the demotions of reliever Carlos Marmol (out of the closer's role) and starter Chris Volstad (to the minors;) the retirement of struggling fan favorite Kerry Wood; the firing of well-respected hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo; and that losing streak that has the Cubs pointed toward a 100-loss season as they build for the future at the dawn of the Theo Epstein regime. Sveum was one of several candidates to be put through an intensive screening process late last year that required quick-thinking, game-like responses and then a news conference to see how he would handle the media. The talk around the Cubs, as always, is about ending the World Series drought that dates back more than a century, though everyone figures that the rebuilding on the North Side will take time. By contrast, Ventura was pretty much the only candidate pinpointed by general manager Ken Williams, who gave some consideration to Paul Konerko as a player-manager. Ventura had eased back in the game as an adviser to White Sox's vice president of player development Buddy Bell when Williams steered a dinner conversation in a startling direction: Would Ventura be interested in managing the major league team? Say what? Ventura had never managed at any level and he would be following his friend and former teammate Ozzie Guillen, the outspoken and often outrageous skipper who had taken the White Sox to their first World Series title in 88 years in 2005 before leaving near the end of last season and becoming manager of the Marlins. Ventura was apprehensive but after taking time to mull it over and discuss it with his family, he accepted, partly because of his feelings for the White Sox. He would be rejoining the team that had given him his start and where he spent the first 10 of his 16 major league seasons as a slickfielding third baseman who finished his career with 294 homers. "It's challenging and everything else," Ventura said of his first taste of

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In this May 18, 2012, file photo, Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura, left, and Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum talk during batting practice before an interleague game in Chicago. managing. "It's more or less what I thought it would be. I think having played as long as I did that stuff is pretty normal, the mentality of showing up every day and doing it." And there's more to it than in-game managing, making out the lineup and keeping the troops ready and happy. "There are little things here and there, more decisions beside just the baseball stuff — what guys are wearing on the road — just simple stuff. Not even the big stuff. That has been different. But it's not overwhelming," he said. Epstein, the Cubs president who hired Sveum, won two World Series in Boston, relying on new baseball math, numbers and stats to concoct an advantage. Sveum is a proponent of that philosophy — he is a believer in using shifts on defenses based on tendencies — although he doesn't rely solely on numbers to make his decisions. Ventura certainly doesn't either. "You get all this information. It's just how you apply it," Ventura said. "I mean the numbers don't lie, they are there for a reason. A lot of it is valid, but sometimes it's what you feel your guys are capable of and who you got." Ventura has been able to get a great deal out Adam Dunn, who has already nearly doubled his home run output of a year ago, while Alex Rios and Gordon Beckham have also been hitting the ball much better. Ventura will have some tough decisions ahead — like what to do with righthander Phil Humber, who pitched a perfect game in April but has struggled mightily since and could be a candidate for the bullpen. Sveum, who managed three years in the Pirates' minor league chain before becoming a third-base coach with the Red Sox, was also a candidate for the Boston job that went to Bobby Valentine. He had managed the Brewers for the final 12 games of the 2008 season on an interim basis after Ned Yost was fired and then in four playoff games after Milwaukee won the wild card. But he did not get the job fulltime. He served in various capacities with the Brewers, including hitting coach and bench coach, roles that gave him a good feeling on what he would be tackling. "I had already done it. I mean it wasn't for a long period of time or anything like that," Sveum said of his new gig. Sveum drew kudos from general manager Jed Hoyer for his handling of young shortstop Starlin Castro, a 22-year-old star who sometimes commits mental gaffes like recently when he forgot how many outs there were in the inning. Sveum let Castro know it was not acceptable.

"Dale has struck the perfect tone with Starlin — 'Hey, I like you. I get it, but it's going to have to stop,'" Hoyer told reporters. "It's a big part of why we hired Dale. He can strike that balance. And I don't think Starlin resents him for it. Starlin understands." Ventura, who will turn 45 next month, and Sveum, who is 48, were White Sox teammates for part of the 1992 season, and Sveum said he occasionally watches White Sox games on TV and texted Ventura on his success. "It's nice to have a buddy that's starting out the first time and obviously they're doing well," Sveum said. And the two managers have something else in common — both suffered horrific leg injuries during their careers. Probably no two managers have a better understanding of what it's like to endure a major injury and setback. Sveum hit 25 homers and had 95 RBIs in his first full season as a Brewers' shortstop 1987. But next season he broke his left leg in a collision with teammate and outfielder Darryl Hamilton chasing a popup, missing the final month of 1988 and all of 1989. He was the never the same player. Ventura suffered a compound fracture of his right ankle in a grotesque home plate slide at spring training in 1997, but after grueling hours of rehab was able to return for 54 games that season. After leaving the White Sox following the 1998 season, he enjoyed some success with the Mets and Yankees before finishing up with the Dodgers in 2004. Ventura's playing career may have been more successful than Sveum's, but it won't make a difference in managing. Head-to-head Ventura leads 3-0 after the White Sox swept the Cubs three straight at Wrigley Field last month. The rematch is next week at U.S. Cellular Field. "He's not letting us get too high and he's not letting us get too low," Dunn said of Ventura. "He's been the same guy since Day 1. When we weren't playing too good to when we were playing pretty well, he's been the same guy. You know what you're going to get with him each and every day." Konerko said Ventura's low-key approach has been a hit. Of course, winning helps. "He seems to be a natural at it. He doesn't say a whole bunch but that way when he does talk or call people together to say something he wants to say, everybody listens up," Konerko said. "When the game starts it's all about what can we do for the next nine innings to try to win this. That's it. It's good."

Indians' Perez a rock and roll reliever Associated Press CLEVELAND — Bored by 40-year-old artifacts that seem ancient to them, a group of junior high students were on a long, strange trip through a Grateful Dead exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they saw something they could relate to amid Jerry Garcia's guitar collection. Sunglasses sweeping back long hair, the bearded guy in jeans, retro sneakers and jeweled wristwatch had a rock star's look and swagger. The kids rushed Chris Perez. "What's your favorite thing so far?" asked Cleveland's colorful closer. "You," yelled one of the youngsters. Not everyone has been as excited to see Perez lately. In case you haven't been following his exploits, Perez has been something of a renegade during this season's first two months. He's the first player to be fined under Major League's Baseball's social media

policy. He's fired fastballs past opponents and offended others — most notably the Kansas City Royals — with primal screams and gestures on the mound. He's even antagonized Cleveland fans by shaming them for not backing an Indians team fighting for first place. As the students clamored around him, Perez posed for pictures, signed autographs and promised free tickets to one of the mom chaperones. Moments earlier, riding an escalator to the top of the building's pyramid-shaped glass atrium, Perez was struck by the similarities between athletes and musicians. "You can't be afraid to speak your mind or worry about what people think about you," he said before pausing. "As long as you can back it up." A large photo of Doors frontman Jim Morrison — leering — hung nearby. It seemed to fit. In an age of political correctness, this CP doesn't worry about being PC. He's

bold and brash, a baseball outlaw enjoying the ride of his life and getting paid big money to play a kid's game. He's making friends and enemies, and rattling everyone's cage along the way. He's living in the moment. That's rock and roll. Pure Rage. That's Perez's nickname, though it also would work nicely as the tag for a heavy metal band or punk group. It's also the attitude Perez carries with him to the mound. Now in his second season as Cleveland's closer, the hard-throwing 26year-old, acquired in a trade from St. Louis in 2009, has become one of the game's top relievers. After blowing his first chance of the year at home on opening day he was perfect ever since heading into the weekend, and has been a major reason the Indians, picked to finish way behind Detroit and Chicago in the AL Central, are hanging around the top of the division. Perez's record is near

pristine. His performances have been far from perfect. Watching him try to get the last three outs is not for the faint of heart. Perez is part knife thrower, part high-wire walker, a daring act loaded with surprise and suspense. He rarely retires the side easily, often putting a runner — or two — on base before working his way out of a self-inflicted mess. It's the way he's always done it, going back to his days at the University of Miami and low minor leagues. "I was rough," Perez said. "I would walk three in a row and strike out three in a row. That still is me sometimes. But I'm more refined now." Last year, Perez made his first All-Star team and finished with 36 saves despite a tendon injury in his elbow he didn't reveal until spring training this year. Without his best stuff, Perez was forced to adapt. He learned how to pitch instead of just raring back and throwing heat. If he gives up a hit, Perez shrugs it off.

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Green looks to follow father's legacy Jury orders Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Panthers rookie wide receiver Jared Green learned quickly that his father is smarter than he is. "There's a small percentage of kids who learn that, but I learned pretty early," he says laughing Of course, not every child has a father who's a Hall of Fame cornerback that played 20 seasons with the Washington Redskins like he does. Darrell Green, who went to seven Pro Bowls, has tried to install many of the qualities it takes to win in his son. But the younger Green has to take a much tougher road to make it in the NFL. Unlike his father, a firstround NFL draft pick in 1983, Jared Green went undrafted out of Southern and faces an uphill climb to the make the Carolina roster. But that hardly means he's given up hope. When Green looks at his opportunity with the Panthers he thinks of two words: Right now. That's a message he and his father have discussed repeatedly. "That's what we live our life by," Green said. "Everybody in this position has an opportunity to make that big play and to do that big thing — and that can be on or off the field. When they give me that opportunity, right now is right now. Right now isn't tomorrow or next week, it's right now. Every time they call my number I have to make it happen." His father is confident he can. Darrell Green took in Thursday's minicamp practice from the sidelines

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Jared Green, right, walks with his father, former Washington Redskins and Hall of Fame receiver Darrell Green, after an NFL practice on Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. and has plenty of confidence his son can follow in his footsteps and make it in the NFL. "He should have been drafted, I truly believe that," Darrell Green said. "But he's taking the beltway around. And that's OK. But he's worked and worked and now he's going to have to keep working." In many ways, the elder Green sees a little bit of himself in his son. Darrell Green went on to a stellar career with the Redskins despite playing at Texas A&M Kingsville, a school that doesn't produce too many NFL players. "It's funny, when you go to a small college sometimes you come in with certain stereotypes and stigmas against you," Darrell Green said. "It's like, 'You can't do this. You can't do

that.' There was a scout here that just came up to me and told me, 'They told me Jared couldn't catch.' And I'm like, 'Who told you that? There's no evidence of that anywhere.' But that's the way it is." Darrell Green heard it too when he was coming out of high school. "They told me I was too little," Darrell Green said. Jared Green is a little bigger than his 5-foot-9 father. At 6-foot-1, he decided he'd be better off as a wide receiver. What they do share is what they call "Green speed." Darrell Green was won the NFL's Fastest Man competition four times during his career. He was clocked at 4.29 in the 40yard dash coming out of college, which is one of the pri-

mary reasons he wound up getting drafted so high. Jared Green runs it in 4.33. "I feel like my speed is something that gets me in the door," Jared Green said. "Now I just have to make plays." So far the Panthers like what they've seen in the younger Green. "He has exceptional speed and catches the ball well and runs good routes," general manager Marty Hurney said. "And his bloodlines are pretty good too." For now Jared Green's focus is on the mental side of the game, including learning the playbook. "I have to learn everything and get in the book every day," Jared Green said. "We're all good players, but sometimes it comes down to who is smart."

Freeman learning new Bucs offense Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Josh Freeman walked off the practice field, drenched in sweat and smiling. Tampa Bay's young quarterback is excited about the new offense the Buccaneers are installing and confident the team has the talent to run it effectively. The fourth-year pro welcomes the addition of firstround draft pick Doug Martin and All-Pro guard Carl Nicks to the running game. And he appreciates what receiver Vincent Jackson and tight end Dallas Clark could mean to a passing attack that sputtered during last season's 4-12 finish. Freeman also feels good about the progress he's made working with the men first-year coach Greg Schiano hired to help the 24year-old realize his potential, offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan and quarterbacks coach Ron Turner. "For sure, this offense is allowing a lot of guys to step up and shine," Freeman said during a three-day minicamp that concluded Thursday. The next time the Bucs convene will be for the start of training camp in late July.

"In this month we have off ... it's going to be crucial that guys stay in their playbooks, that guys get together and work on their crafts because when we get back it'll be full speed," Freeman said. Tampa Bay concluded 2011 on a 10-game losing streak that led to the firing of former coach Raheem Morris. In addition to yielding a NFL-high 30.9 points per game and ranking 30th among 32 teams in yards allowed, the Bucs had one of the league's lowest scoring offenses at just under 18 points per game. Freeman's production lagged, too, despite throwing for a career-best 3,592 yards. The 2009 first-round draft pick threw for 25 touchdowns with just six interceptions while pacing a 10-6 finish in 2010. A year ago, he tossed 22 interceptions compared to 16 TD passes. Sullivan and Turner have been working with the quarterback to improve his footwork and decisionmaking. "At times, perhaps Josh may have been trying to do a little bit too much. I think he's a very competitive young man," Sullivan said. "He's a very talented play-

er, and coach Turner's done a phenomenal job with him this spring honing in on some specific fundamentals and some of his mechanics. "We've talked about decision-making and the importance of it within our scheme. ... The bottom line is we can't score if we don't have the football," Sullivan said. "I know that's an over simplification, but more games are lost than are won because people are giving away opportunities." Sullivan joined Schiano's staff from the New York Giants, where he worked closely with Eli Manning as quarterbacks coach. Turner has been an offensive assistant with several NFL teams. "I think physically, he's done a great job this offseason," Turner said of Freeman, who's dropped about 15 pounds this offseason and looks trim and fit at about 238. "And mentally, I think he's hungry. He's eager to learn what we're doing and what we're teaching, and he wants to be good," Turner added. "He wants to get better and he is really working at it mentally and physically." From the day Freeman became the third quarter-

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Sanchez, the Bucs have stressed that everything they do — whether it be offensively or defensively — is with "5'' in mind, referring to Freeman's uniform jersey number. That hasn't changed with Schiano replacing Morris and promising to assemble a tough, physical offense that runs the ball, opening up opportunities to throw the ball down the field. "When you look at the teams that have been able to get to the top of the moun-

LAS VEGAS — Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones must pay $11 million in damages to two Las Vegas strip club employees injured in 2007 when a lone gunman claiming he was doing Jones' bidding opened fire outside the club. Tommy Urbanski, a club manager who was left paralyzed from the waist down, and Aaron Cudworth, a bouncer who was wounded, stand to collect after the late Friday verdict. Urbanksi's bones were shattered in the shooting that occurred after Jones and several other people were ejected from the club. The shooter later demanded $15,000 from Jones for "services rendered." Jones' lawyer, Lisa Rasmussen, said there is no evidence Jones was behind the shooting. She said Jones, who has played five years in the NFL, didn't have the cash to cover the award because he won't receive his first paycheck of the season until September. Rasmussen plans to appeal the verdict. "It's obviously a devastating amount for him financially," Rasmussen said. "He has really worked hard to make a comeback with his NFL career." She said the jury in the civil case was likely swayed by the sympathetic sight of Urbanski in his wheelchair and Jones' celebrity. "People perceive him as a person who is able to pay $11 million," she said. "Adam doesn't even get paid until he plays his first game." Cudworth's lawyer, Richard Schonfeld, declared the verdict fair, saying the bouncer continues to grapple with "constant pain from being shot in the chest and arm." Cudworth was awarded $1.3 million, including $300,000 in punitive damages. The verdict was first reported by the celebrity website TMZ. "I am pleased that Mr. Jones has finally been held accountable," Schonfeld said, adding that his client "is pleased to have closure." Schonfeld said he wasn't worried about an appeal or Jones' alleged inability to pay the award. "If he is making money,

I am going to be there trying to collect," Schonfeld said. Urbanski said by telephone Friday evening that he believes the verdict will send a message to athletes and celebrities that they can be held responsible for public "rampaging," even if they escape criminal charges. "They've got to clean up their acts," he said. "All of them." Jones was not in court when the verdict came down. Rasmussen said he was attending mandatory training in Cincinnati. The Bengals re-signed Jones in March for a third season. His one-year contract is reportedly worth $950,000, including incentives. Rasmussen said Jones' salary will be distributed in 16 checks throughout the season and he only collects if he is healthy enough to play. Jones was sidelined with a neck injury last season, but still played in eight games, including the last seven as a starter. He had 31 tackles. This is the latest legal setback for Jones, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in January after he was accused of shouting profanities and trying to pull away as officers arrested him at a downtown Cincinnati bar last year. Jones received a year of probation and community service. The Las Vegas case stems from a shooting after a strip club brawl on NBA All-Star weekend in February 2007. Police alleged Jones incited the fight by throwing wads of dollar bills toward a stage, then becoming angry when the dancers picked up the money. Jones and his entourage were removed from the club, and police claimed Jones met briefly with the accused shooter, Arvin Kenti Edwards, before Edwards opened fire. Jones denied having a role in the shooting. He pleaded an equivalent of no contest to misdemeanor conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct. Edwards is serving four to 10 years in prison for his so-called Alford plea to attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon. The plea is not an admission of guilt, but acknowledges that prosecutors could have proven the case against him.

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NFL turns over evidence in appeals Associated Press NEW YORK — The NFL turned over some evidence to the four players suspended for the Saints bount y p r o gr a m, b ut lawyers for the players said Friday they are seeking more information. C ur r e n t S a in ts l i ne backer Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith, Green Bay defensive end Anthony Hargrove and Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita will have their appeals heard Monday by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "We have followed the procedures set forth in the CBA on appeals of commissio n e r d is cip l i ne ," league spokesman Greg Aiello said. T hos e p r o ce d ur e s inc lu d e th e p a r t i e s exchanging "copies of any exhibits upon which they intend to rely no later than three calendar days prior to the hearing," Aiello added.

Ev i de n c e pr esen t ed included some 200 pages of documents, with emails, power-point presentations, even handwritten notes, plus one video recording. But a ledger that reportedly documents payments of $1,000 for plays called "cart-offs" and $400 for "whacks," as well as $100 fines for mental errors, was not in the material. Vi l ma h a s b e en su spended for the 2012 season, while Smith got four games. Hargrove was suspended for eight games and Fujita for three. P r e v i o us l y, Good el l suspended Saints coach Sean Payton for the season and assistant coach Joe Vitt for six games. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis got eight games, while former d e f e ns i v e c o o r di n at or Gregg Williams — who has apologized for his role in the scandal — was suspended indefinitely. Vilma's lawyers, Peter

Ginsberg, said the evidence the league provided did little more than reflect Williams' approach to firing up his players. "The league provided no evidence to us in a timely manner," said Ginsberg, who also is representing Vilma in a defamation lawsuit against Goodell. "It has provided no evidence to corroborate the accusations, and yet the NFL furthermore has told us it doesn't plan to present any witness at the hearing." Ginsberg said requests by the players' union to have Payton, Williams and Vitt at Monday's hearing were ignored by the league. Aiello said the league is "not commenting on the d et ai l s or p ot en t i al details of Monday's proceeding." T h e p l ayers al read y have lost two grievances filed with arbitrators that challenged Goodell's authority to impose punishments in the bounty cases.

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The unconventional Bode Miller has added some twists to his training regimen for the upcoming World Cup season, like coloring and watching "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" on his house boat that's docked in a San Diego marina. The daredevil skier's preparations also involve shopping at the mall, playing in the park, fixing pasta dinners — just butter, no sauce — and sometimes, on special occasions, taking out a smaller vessel to watch the seals in the harbor. All because that's what his 4-year-old daughter wants to do. And anything Neesyn Dacey — Dacey, as everyone calls her — wants to do, he's more than game. This is another side of Miller, 34, the one that few actually get to see. The fivetime Olympic medalist cherishes little moments with his daughter, even puts training on the back burner just to sneak in more time with her. It's all part of his maturation on and off the slopes. The arrival of Dacey on Feb. 19, 2008, hasn't exactly mellowed out Miller — he's always been pretty mellow — but it has adjusted his way of thinking. One of the greatest U.S. skiers ever to fly down the mountain realizes that, indeed, there are more important things in life than conquering an icy course. And for someone who's spent decades searching for perfection on a downhill run, he's found the perfect day can be as simple as reading books with his daughter on his boat. "She's obviously a top priority," Miller told The Associated Press. "Attitude-wise, she's made me maybe a little more conscious of the things I do and the way I act." He was on his way to winning the overall title the year she was born, when he decided that he had to be there for her birth. So, after competing in Zagreb, Croatia, he boarded a plane and arrived just in time for Dacey's birth. Then, he hopped back on a jet and was back in the starting gate for another race in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Somehow, I pulled it off," Miller said of the tight turnaround. An apt description of his career, too. Miller has always taken risks on a course that few others would even dare attempt. His no-holdingback mentality has been highly successful, too,

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In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, World Cup skier Bode Miller holds his daughter, Neesyn Dacey, during a weather delay at a World Cup downhill race in Beaver Creek, Colo. resulting in 33 World Cup wins, two overall titles and five Olympic medals, including that elusive gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Soon, Miller will leave for the long, grinding World Cup season, missing his daughter and their simplest of activities, such as making dinner together — Dacey loves pasta and broccoli — or settling in to watch "Dora The Explorer." Miller is fast approaching an age when most skiers step away. But skiing still remains fun, and as long as it stays that way, he's going to keep competing. That said, he's not ready to commit to being around for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. "I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that," he said. For now, he's simply content living the way he usually does — in the moment. In the offseason, he sees his daughter about as often as he wants. And while Dacey's mom — whom Miller doesn't like to name to protect her privacy — recently got married and moved farther north, it's hardly an issue, especially since he can pull up the anchor on his 70-foot house boat and pretty much dock anywhere. Although he enjoys being near San Diego — so he and Dacey can venture to the wild animal park or zoo on a moment's whim — he's willing to move anywhere to remain close to Dacey. When he has his daughter, Miller doesn't sneak in much training. Keeping up

with her is enough of a workout, especially with his knee just now rounding back into form. He cut his season short in February to have a second surgery on a balky left knee. While there was no structural damage, Miller has been unable to put much weight on the knee for nearly two months and is just now regaining strength. "It's really been a long, slow process," said Miller, who has had put aside his usual summertime activities such as beach volleyball, soccer and tennis. As for the upcoming season, Miller's actually growing antsy to click back into the skis. He has a new technician running the show and a softer stance on the introduction of new rules concerning giant slalom skis. To make the discipline safer, the International Ski Federation altered the hourglass shape of the GS skis for the upcoming season, much to the disapproval of Miller. But now he's embracing the change, even if he's yet to try out this version of the skis. "Change is actually exciting when you get later in your career," he said. "I'm psyched about that." Miller is still skiing at a high level, too, turning in four podium finishes last season, including a nervetesting victory on the demanding downhill course at Beaver Creek, Colo., last December. In that race, Miller took plenty of risks and when he crossed the finish line, he pumped his fist in exultation, knowing he skirted disaster his entire journey down the hill. That run was the essence of Miller, who has

long taken a gambler's approach to skiing — willing to risk everything for high reward. But now, in the twilight of his career, he's realizing something: He can tap the brakes and still be true to himself. "It's just maturity now, but I feel if I want to play a more tactical game, I can," Miller said. "Before, it would've been me chickening out or me faking it. "Everyone says, 'Oh, you could win so many more races if you backed off or did this or that.' That wasn't who I was then. Now, being 34 and having other priorities, it is who I am." Miller insists he has no regrets in his lengthy career. Not even his performance at the 2006 Turin Games, when he didn't win a medal and infamously declared that he "got to party and socialize at an Olympic level." "I really am a thinker," Miller said. "I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean. "There's not one thing I would go back and redo because it would be too damn risky. No way I'd come out in a better place than I am right now." His sister has definitely noticed a change. Kyla Miller runs his Turtle Ridge Foundation, which was established in 2005 to support adaptive and youth sports programs. At a recent benefit to raise money, Miller approached his sister for a little advice on the topic of raising kids. "He's like, 'I need your help,'" recounted Kyla Miller, who has three children. "I said, 'What do you mean you need my help?' It was the most foreign thing he's ever said. He's like, 'I need you to help me learn how to be a good parent.' "He wants to be the best father he possibly can be and know how to balance things and how not to just be 'fun-time dad' and be 'real dad,' where you have accountability and responsibility." The advice she gave was succinct: Trust his heart, because he's not going to have all the answers. "Being able to vocalize his concerns is half the battle for him," she said. "He used to be able to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. Now, there's something else that's more important to him — his daughter. That's his priority. He takes that into consideration in every single thing he does. "His daughter has really made him shine."

Earnhardt Jr. at site of most recent win Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Eleven top10 finishes. Second place in the Sprint Cup standings. That's an impressive start to the season for any driver, but for Dale Earnhardt Jr., it only makes the question more persistent. When will he finally win again? "I feel like we're getting real close," Earnhardt said. "We've been really competing well and been competitive every week, at every track, and that feels really good to say." Earnhardt is back at Michigan International Speedway for this weekend's 400-mile race — four years after he won at this same track. He's without a victory in 143 Cup races since, and all the steady consistency in the world isn't going to take the attention off that ugly streak. Last weekend at Pocono, Earnhardt led 36 laps in his No. 88 Chevrolet and had it positioned as the car to beat until crew chief Steve Letarte made a call for a late stop for gas instead of trying to stretch the fuel to the end. Earnhardt finished eighth. He supported the call and said he'd take a top-10 finish any time over running out of gas. "I knew that we weren't doing the popular thing by pitting and taking the fuel," Earnhardt said. Earnhardt says he's fine with the questions about his winless drought because at least people still care and are paying attention to him. "It hasn't been that incessant," he said. "If you weren't asking that kind of question I would be a little worried." Other drivers are certainly aware of Earnhardt's dry spell. "I feel if you go four months, it's tough enough," Jeff Gordon said. "I think it all depends on the expectations. If you won a lot of races and then you go into a slump like that, it weighs

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks on during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quicken Loans 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway, on Friday in Brooklyn, Mich. more heavy on you because you came to not just expect it but you feel like you're capable and your team is capable of winning on a more regular basis. So when that all of a sudden doesn't come it's much tougher to handle." Greg Biffle can relate, sort of. He ended a 49-race winless streak in April with a victory in Texas. "It wears on you," Biffle said. "The other thing that is actually worse for (Earnhardt) right now is that he is running so good, that it seems like when you run as good as he is running, the pressure is even greater because you know a win is just around the corner, if that makes any sense." Earnhardt doesn't seem to be pressing — witness last weekend's

move to pit rather than making a risky bid for a victory. This year, Earnhardt has finished second twice, third twice — and no lower than 17th. Forget winning a race. At this point, he has his sights on trying to win the overall series championship, and that's part of the reason he played it safe at Pocono. "It's best that we made a good call, and we were good enough to get back up in the top 10," Earnhardt said. "If we can put together this type of performance in the Chase, I don't see why we can't consider ourselves with an opportunity to challenge for the championship." But no matter how much he tries to stay the course, the focus from the outside is still on his lack of victories. When asked Thursday what he remembered most about his fuelmileage victory at MIS four years ago, Earnhardt paused for a while. The date was June 15, 2008, and he snapped what was at that point a 76race winless string. "Probably just the nerves of the last few laps," Earnhardt said. "To know we had a green-white checkered and not sure I had enough gas to make it." Earnhardt has won twice at MIS and finished 10 times in the top 10 in 18 starts. The track was repaved during the offseason, and Sprint Cup drivers have been almost routinely surpassing 200 mph during practice runs. Earnhardt surpassed 201 on Friday. "Up until last week, I felt like they were a team that was just strong and consistent and doing a great job, but not really a team that showed like they really had what it took to win," Gordon said. "Last week, they showed by dominating that race that they really stepped up their game this year and have a real legitimate shot at winning races."

Olympic events Associated Press NEW YORK — If you miss any of your favorite events during the upcoming Summer Olympics in London, don't blame NBC. Every sport, every single competition will be streamed live online or telecast by NBC and its affiliated cable networks in the U.S. this summer — starting with the Great Britain vs. New Zealand women's soccer game on July 25, two days before the opening ceremony. It will be the most visible change for NBC in its first Olympics coverage since 1992 not run by veteran television executive Dick Ebersol. Ebersol, executive producer of eight winter and summer Olympic telecasts for NBC, quit as head of NBC Sports in May 2011. He will still be in London working for NBC as a consultant. On television and online, NBC will offer 5,535 hours of Olympics coverage. The NBC broadcast network itself will have 272 hours, including the flagship prime-time telecast that will amount to a "greatest hits" of each day's competition. Ebersol's successor as NBC Sports Group chairman, Mark Lazarus, ordered the live streaming during his first Olympics planning meeting after taking the new job. "I said, 'This is what I believe. Convince me that we should not be doing it,'" Lazarus recalled. "Nobody convinced me." NBC offered streams of several events from the 2008 Beijing Games, but would not present any of the showcase competitions that it was taping for later broadcast in prime time. The concern was that fans who saw the events live online wouldn't bother watching NBC that night, depressing ratings for the broadcast that mattered most. In Beijing, however, some marquee events such as swimming were held in the morning in China so they could be televised live in prime time in the United States. In London, the time difference won't allow for that option. Lazarus believes that many people who watch an event online will be interested in seeing how NBC handles it later. Fans watching live streams are also expected to use social media, building anticipation for the broadcast. Any people who don't want to watch on NBC what they've seen online will be more than offset by extra viewers drawn in by the excitement, Lazarus said. Fans who want to see the streams on NBCOlympics.com will have to verify that they are paying cable or satellite subscribers. NBC says that's necessary to protect these businesses since they pay a premium to air the NBC cable stations because of the Olympics. While most live streams will be archived, reruns of high-profile events that are going to be shown on the network will not be available until after the West Coast broadcast. There will be times that NBC's Olympics website is showing as many as 40 separate competitions at the same time, said Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics. The decision could neutralize what has always

been a major criticism of NBC — that showing some events only on a tape-delay basis makes them feel stale, particularly in an era of instant communication. It might keep viewers from fleeing NBC, since some frustrated fans had sought out live telecasts from other television or Internet sources, said Andrew Billings, a sports media professor at the University of Alabama and author of "Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television." "They realize it has to go in this direction," Billings said. "Some people say they are four to eight years late in this game." The time difference — it will be 1 a.m. in London when NBC's prime-time broadcast begins on the East Coast, 4 a.m. for the West Coast show — means no events will be offered live on the telecast most people watch. Ebersol might no longer be in the control room, but NBC will keep his template. Under his direction, the prime-time broadcast began concentrating on four major competitions: swimming, diving, gymnastics and track and field. Later, beach volleyball was added. Those sports accounted for 93 percent of the prime-time coverage in Beijing, Billings said. The idea is they are the best for the bite-sized competition and personal stories that attract female viewers. If the audience is dominated by male sports fans, as opposed to families, then it's a losing proposition for NBC. "We'll try to have a little more variety," said Jim Bell, executive producer of the Olympics telecasts, "but for the most part there are some tried and true sports that we know people love to watch." Bell's experience producing four hours of live television each day at the "Today" show was key to his selection replacing Ebersol in the control room, Lazarus said. Bell also has an Olympics pedigree: His first NBC job out of college was pushing the wheelchair of a temporarily disabled NBC executive around Barcelona for meetings two years before the 1992 Olympics there. "Today" might be one of the best jobs to teach a TV executive the need to meticulously plan for a broadcast, yet also understand when the situation calls for throwing those plans out the window. NBC Olympics executives, most of whom owe Ebersol for their jobs, see no reason to change what's been a successful formula. As a consultant, Ebersol is offering frequent advice to Lazarus, Zenkel and Bell and will be in London. "They found a formula and I'd be stunned if they moved away from it too much," Billings said. There will be several changes on NBC's cable menu. For the network itself, Ryan Seacrest and John McEnroe are being added to the mix to contribute feature stories. Since its acquisition by Comcast Corp., NBC Universal has renamed the Versus cable channel the NBC Sports Network, and it will take much of the Olympics programming that in recent games has been seen on USA. A successful entertainment network, USA will stick with entertainment.

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Grand Marshall James Marshall wins inaugural Colbert Charity Classic Cole Manbeck cmanbeck@themercury.com James Marshall called it the best nine-hole stretch of his golfing career. It resulted in the biggest payday of his life. Marshall, a 24-year old from Fayetteville, Ark., shot an 8under 28 on the back nine in the final day of the Colbert Charity Classic at Colbert Hills, earning him a $20,000 check. “It’s incredible,” Marshall said. “I hit a lot of good shots and I made pretty much every putt I had (on the back nine).” Marshall began Saturday at 8under par as he was paired with former Kansas State golfer Robert Streb, who entered the final round of the four-day tournament as the leader at 11-under par. But Streb couldn’t hold off Marshall’s late charge. “He just ran me over on the back nine,” said Streb, who finished in second place at 13-under par. Both Streb and Marshall shot even-par on the front nine on Saturday, but Marshall began his push on hole No. 10 when he eagled the par-5 to close within one stroke of Streb. Marshall proceeded to birdie each of the next six holes and scored par on

holes 17 and 18 to cap off his day with a score of 64, which tied the course record. He admitted his performance surprised himself a little bit. “I really didn’t have any expectations coming in because I really hadn’t been hitting it that great,” he said. “But I started hitting it well the second round and kept it going.” Marshall found the bulk of his success throughout the tournament on the back nine, where he shot a combined 14-under during his four days on the course. “For some reason I was really comfortable on the back nine,” he said. “It really fit my eye well. The front nine I never really played that well on but I always got it going on the back so it worked out.” Marshall continually credited his putting for his success, and thanks to that putter, he was holding a large check on Saturday. “I was lucky enough to win a few times in college so I’ve done it before but this is obviously a lot bigger stage so it was good coming down the stretch to be able to do it under pressure,” Marshall said. “For a guy like me, $20,000 is a lot of money.”

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Robert Streb chips a shot toward a hole during action on Saturday at Colbert Hills’ first professional tournament.

ABOVE: Josh Parsons hits a shot during Saturday action at the Colbert Charity Classic. RIGHT: Chris D. Thompson chips a ball toward the green during the fourth round of the tournament on Saturday.

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Streb, a former Kansas State golfer, tees off on Friday at Colbert Hills Golf Course. Streb finished second in the first-ever Colbert Charity Classic.

ABOVE: Former Kansas State golfer Joseph Kinney waves to the crowd after a birdie on the ninth hole on Friday. Kinney had four birdies in a row. LEFT: Chris Ward lines up a putt on the ninth green on Friday at Colbert Hills.

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Emily Maynard and former K-State football player Sean Lowe go on a date in London for reality TV show “The Bachelorette.” Lowe has inspired a devoted group of fans who hope that he will be the one to win Maynard’s heart.

TEAM L♥WE Former Wildcat on ‘The Bachelorette’ has quite a following Megan Moser lifestyle@themercury.com

former K-State football player looking for love on ABC’s reality show “The Bachelorette” has gained a whole new set of fans — and they seem to be every bit as devoted as those who bleed purple. Sean Lowe, 28, who played for KState from 2002 to 2006, has become a favorite contender on the show, in which 25 men vie for the affection of one woman. She eliminates the least eligible bachelors until the only man left standing is — hopefully — her groom-tobe. According to a 2002 article from gopowercat.com, Lowe grew up in Texas as an A&M fan, but during a visit to KState, he was impressed by the Wildcat coaching staff and the fans. When he went home, he immediately gave all of his Aggies gear to the homeless and painted a Powercat on the wall. Lowe’s three seasons at K-State were also the final three of Bill Snyder’s first tenure. (He red-shirted his first year.) In his sophomore year, K-State went 11-4 and beat Oklahoma 35-7 to win the Big 12 Championship, playing Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Lowe was a linebacker and defensive end on the 2003, 2004 and 2005 teams, which went a collective 20-17. Now, Lowe is one of eight men remaining going into the sixth episode

of the show set to air Monday night. And if his online groupies are correct, he will be among the final three seeking bachelorette Emily Maynard’s hand. Lowe, a 6-foot-3 fitness model and insurance salesman, who said his main priorities in life are faith and family, won her over in the last episode when they went on a date in London. The pair rode a double-decker bus, had dinner at the Tower of London and went to the Speaker’s Corner at Hyde Park, where Lowe told a crowd that he’s looking for love. “Loving someone is giving yourself to them completely,” he declared. He said he’s never had that kind of love, but he has seen it with his parents and grandparents. And he said he hopes to have it with Emily. Cut to Maynard in a studio interview: “Standing there, listening to Sean talk about love… it was so hot," she said. They also bonded over a desire to have a big family. “I can’t imagine anyone being more marriage material than Sean,” she said. Given that comment, it was no surprise when Lowe received a rose, meaning he is safe from elimination, at least for the moment. And it’s no surprise that many viewers think Lowe will make it to the end. But then, his fans might be a little biased.

Lowe and Maynard had a one-on-one date in London. They rode a double-decker bus, and had dinner at the Tower of London.

Lowe’s sister said he was a good candidate for “The Bachelorette” because everybody likes him.

A blogger on wetpaint.com gushed, “Seeaaaan! This adorable blond bombshell finally scored a date with Emily and proved to be the sweetest Greek god look-alike of all time.” And some other fans have created an entire website devoted to Lowe, teamsean.com. For just $20 plus shipping, you can order a T-shirt or tank that say “Team Lowe” (the “O” is a heart). But Lowe’s biggest fan may be his older sister, Shay Shull. She has said he’s perfect for the show not only because he’s in the right age range and single, but also because “everybody likes him.” Plus, she kind of owed him. In college, Lowe brought his friend and teammate Andrew Shull home to Texas with him for the Fourth of July, and Andrew and Shay met for the first time. They had a connection, and soon they were in a long-distance romance. They are now married with two kids. They run an insurance agency with Lowe in the Dallas area. So perhaps big sis thought she’d try and return the favor by helping her brother find love. Will there be a happy ending for Sean Lowe? We won’t know for sure until the end of the season. But Shay set off a whirl of gossip earlier this week when wetpaint.com asked if she thought her brother would be on an upcoming season of “The Bachelor.” “Probably,” she said. “I think, if they

Emily Maynard was selected as the bachelorette after her romance on the most recent season of “The Bachelor” fizzled.

were offered, and he was available and not in a relationship, yes, he’d love to be the bachelor.” Though no one has actually given it away, bloggers and commenters wondered whether this was a hint that Lowe had been eliminated. But even if Sean and Emily don’t live happily ever after, Sean will have his family, two dogs and tons of admiring fans on his side.

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Blooms to add color and beauty

Sprucing up for summer Several of the properties on this year's garden tour had plants in the spruce family. Most spruces are large trees of pyramidal form. They become large and need to be used in the right place for adequate space and visual appeal. It is not easy to grow spruces under Kansas growing conditions. There are no native or naturalized spruces in Kansas. Most grow in cooler regions than Kansas. The best soil is one that is moderately moist and well-drained. Their roots are shallow and spreading. Frequent and shallow watering is suggested when irrigation is needed. Serbian and oriental spruces are perhaps the most adaptable. Bruns Serbian spruce was at two of the tour locations. It has a narrow upright, uniform habit. Silvery-white bands on the underside of each greenblue needle create a stark contrast. Good as a screen or a stately accent for smaller spaces. A weeping form of Serbian spruce creates a focal point in the landscape, as it was on the tour. This is a slender tree with drooping, slightly twisted branching. In time, it can be 25 feet tall and 12 feet wide. Dense, compact, and with narrow pyramid horizontal branches describes many spruces including the oriental. A cultivar on the tour was 'Skylands' with golden needles. The gold color will likely fade in the heat of the

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Neil Sperry McClatchy Newspapers If you’re looking for flamboyant color come summer, this is your year to turn to hibiscus. They’re tropical. They’re temperate. They’re totally tremendous. Some options:

GREGG EYESTONE RILEY COUNTY Kansas summer. Norway and Colorado spruce are favorites of travelers that settle in Kansas. Given the right location, they can survive for many years. Many of these spruces do end up being temporary landscape features. The cumulative weather factors over time can kill a spruce. Stresses brought on by weather conditions can lead to their common pests. Stem cankers, needle casts and shoot blight are potential diseases. Other potential pests are mites, aphids and bagworms. Being aware of these issues is part of being a caretaker of spruces. Evergreen type plants commonly should make up a third of the landscape. They make for year round color and interest. Considering a spruce may be the right plant for the right place given the situation.

Tropical hibiscus The iconic member of the entire clan, this state flower of Hawaii (the yellow hibiscus) comes in a wide assortment of shades of red, pink, yellow, orange and white, many with two and three colors per flower. Many are single-flowering (5 petals), while others are fully double (many petals). All have glossy, dark green leaves that are evergreen in frost-free settings. That means you’ll either have to lose your plants the night of the first freeze or grow them in pots, so that you can bring them inside. As with most members of the hibiscus clan, tropical hibiscus flowers last only one day. The plants produce buds and flowers on new growth. Their new buds will continue to develop as long as you keep the plants consistently moist and well

nourished with a watersoluble, high-nitrogen fertilizer. They require almost full sunlight, although a little protection from the mid-afternoon sun in midsummer may slow down their likelihood of wilting. Hibiscus plants of all types abort unopened flower buds when they are allowed to get even modestly too dry. Tropical hibiscus grow quite well in pots, although you’ll certainly want to repot your plants once or twice annually, to keep them growing at peak vigor. Use a loose, highly organic potting soil each time that you step up your plants. Should they eventually outgrow the space you have for them, you can use air layering to propagate new plants.

Hardy hibiscus These are Texas-tough perennial plants that can handle outdoor temperatures to 20 below and colder. Their leaves are large and coarse-textured. Hardy hibiscus plants establish as clumps of many stalks that grow to 3 to 5 feet tall. Unlike tropical hibiscus, the hardy types’ stems do not produce branches. Flowers

If you would like additional information on a horticulture topic, please contact Gregg Eyestone at the Riley County office of K-State Research and Extension. Gregg may be contacted by calling 537-6350 or stopping by 110 Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan or e-mail: geyeston@ksu.edu and at www.riley.ksu.edu.

Have you considered pre-sprouting? Lee Reich Associated Press Planting a seed is an act of faith. After all, what could seem more far-fetched than dropping a shriveled, apparently lifeless speck of something into a hole in the ground, then expecting to return and find a green, growing plant brimming with life? A lack of faith — or maybe it's just impatience — drives some gardeners to set out transplants rather than sow seeds. But there's another option: pre-sprouting.

Reasons to pre-sprout You can pre-sprout enough plants for a whole garden bed in one small jar. With transplants, growing that many plants would require a small greenhouse. I only pre-sprout a few kinds of seed. I also avoid pre-sprouting fungicidetreated seeds because the extra handling that presprouting requires means touching more fungicide. Not a good thing. Pre-sprouting works well with plants that do not transplant well, such as lupines or carrots. It also might be worth doing with plants, such as peas and beans, that are not worth growing as transplants because of the paltry yield per plant. A jar of sprouting pea or bean seeds requires little space and no light. Pre-sprouting has the advantage of getting sluggish seeds to germinate faster than they would out in the garden. Pre-sprouting hastens germination because sprouting inhibitors are washed out of seeds, and because the seeds can be given nearly ideal moisture, air and temperature conditions indoors.

One more reason you might want to pre-sprout: When space is tight in the vegetable garden, something else can still be growing out there during the few days that seeds are presprouting indoors.

Soak, then keep moist Large seeds are the easiest to sprout indoors. Soak them for a half a day or so in a jar of water to plump them up, then drain off the water. Rinse the seeds frequently. Keeping the jars near the kitchen sink is a convenient reminder to rinse them a couple of times a day, or enough so they never dry out. A canning jar with a screen for a lid works well, as would any other container to which you could add and pour off water without losing the seeds. With small seeds, spread them out after a half-day soak on a piece of paper towel, blotter paper or filter paper laid on a dish. Then cover the seeds with another piece of moist paper and some sort of a lid, such as another dish, inverted, to maintain humidity. Petri dishes are ideal for sprouting small seeds.

Don’t wait too long to plant Keep all these seeds warm, then get ready to plant soon after you see little white root radicles poking through their seedcoats. Be gentle to avoid damaging those delicate radicles. Dump larger seeds onto a tray or plate to be plucked individually into waiting ground. Thoroughly mix small seeds with some dry sand or fine potting soil so that they are easier to spread along a furrow. Water the sprouted seeds in their holes or furrows before covering them with soil. Then firm the soil in place and stand back!

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are borne for several months at the tips of the stalks, often two or three blooms per stem per day. That’s especially notable when you consider that the flowers may be as large as dinner plates. Flower colors include shades of red, pink and white, and the blooms are always single. Because of their dominant look, use hardy hibiscus toward the back of your floral border.

Rose-of-Sharon, or althaea If you’d prefer something of a more permanent landscaping shrub, this is your sister. Depending on the variety, althaeas range in mature height and spread from 10 to 15 feet. They’re winter-hardy clear to the Upper Midwest. Flower colors include red, pink, white and lavender. Some types have double blooms, while others are single. Many have contrasting “eyes” in the centers of the blooms. Roses-of-Sharon, if the truth were known, aren’t too thrilled with hot, dry Texas summers. The plants produce quantities of buds in May, but in badweather years of heat and drought, they may drop

half or more of those buds before they open. Mulching and deep soakings both help.

Turk’s cap This is a hibiscus cousin of a different turn. Its flowers are spiraled, like rolled sheets of red paper. They never really open, but that doesn’t slow down the hummingbirds. They’re attracted to Turk’s cap like teenagers to pizza. And, another difference: Turk’s cap grows and blooms well in partial to fairly heavy shade. Turk’s cap dies to the ground with the first hard freeze, but the clumps reemerge each spring, getting bigger and fuller each year. By summer, the blooming has started, and it will continue right up to frost. The plants grow to 4 to 5 feet tall and wide, although a more compact form is also sold. You’ll occasionally see pink- and white-flowering forms. A variegated type offers interesting foliage. Neil Sperry publishes Gardens magazine and hosts Texas Gardening 8-11 a.m. Sundays on WBAP AM/FM. Reach him during those hours at 800-288-9227 or 214-787-1820.

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A foray into pet food From the “Why didn’t we think of that sooner?” department…Kansas State University, long a feed, milling and grain science world leader, is only now going to create a pet food research and teaching department. Of course, Kansas has been home for decades and decades to fine pet food making companies, some of them leading brands sold everywhere anything is sold on the planet. It has become perfectly obvious that pets are big business in America. Pet health care and pet nutrition and pet training are three big items to go along with clothing and toys and sleeping quarters. This has always bemused me, who thinks pets belong outdoors and should be semiwild at any rate. I especially wonder about the degree of care, or more specifically, the pampering given some pets when I think back on the times in the Navy during the 1960s when we visited many third world countries and saw many humans literally starving to death. But that was then and there and this is now and here. Kansas State’s belated entry into the pet food realm should be nothing but a positive for the university and another discipline that turns out well

JIM SUBER VIEW FROM RURAL ROUTE 8 educated people equipped to make real contributions in a culture that really does need professional help for its pets in many areas, nutrition not the least of them… Unfortunately, some people still steal cattle. I’ve a friend long in the cattle business who says he wouldn’t own any cattle that weren’t identified with a hot-iron registered brand. A recent story about cattle stolen from the Natoma area reminded me of another rustling long ago in western Kansas told to me by a brand inspector. The lawman was to meet the cattle owner at the ranch and see the place in the pasture where the animals were last known to be. As they topped a hill and paused, looking down into the pasture, the owner cried out, “There those SOBs are, gone!” And gone they were indeed, my friend noted… Remember when overwrought animal lovers managed to have all horse processing plants shut down in the United States in 2007? One awful unintended result was that

unwanted or undesirable horses were often abandoned and/or neglected, whereas before they were worth something to their owners as pet food or even human food. Another was that the horses that had reached the end of the trail still had many miles to go after all. They were often shipped hundreds or even several thousand miles out of the country to foreign packing plants where there was no oversight on whether they were treated humanely or handled properly. This was yet another case where cocksure and arrogant activists failed to acknowledge probable bad consequences from their actions, which greatly increased suffering of horses with more neglect and harsher handling at the end. Now, much later, some of those ills might be reversing a little. A firm at Rockville, Mo., says it is going to open a horse processing facility with 50 jobs by the end of summer. The operators said the plant would be inspected and regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that its internal standards would exceed those required by government to ensure quality in handling, testing of meat and tracing of ownership.

Symphony touts ranching Associated Press “There’s no place like the Flint Hills.” Three “contemporary” ranchers made that emphasis during one of the Ranching in the Flint Hills presentations at the Symphony in the Flint Hills. Mike Beam from the Kansas Livestock Association moderated the speakers on “Ranching Through The Seasons” at the Leet Pasture on a hill west of Bushong in Lyon County. Brian Keith, Allen; Richard Porter, Miller; and Tom Moxley, Council Grove, told about their specific ranches, and reviewed important economic implications for the cattle industry and the Flint Hills. Keith specializes in back-grounding and preconditioning cattle at his 3,000-head capacity onranch feedlot. “With my son, Justin, and one hired employee, we operate about 12,000 acres of mostly- rented

Flint Hills pasture and annually graze 3,000 cattle, in addition to keeping 200 stock cows, with their calves finished to slaughter weight at a custom feedlot,” Keith said. Porter has what he described as “strictly a growing program,” for 8,000 cattle. But Porter clarified, “We have finished cattle in the past, and they became so valuable I had to sell them. We’ll probably get back to finishing cattle at some point.” Featuring cattle growing and grazing operations, Moxley emphasized, “The Flint Hills are the most efficient way to put pounds on cattle from April through early July. Grasses are so high in protein and minerals, that gains are similar to feeding corn.” “While grass protein declines in the summer, growth continues, and the prairies supply energy for cattle year around,” added Moxley, who didn’t reveal

the size of his operation, but indicated that one worker is needed for about 1,000 head of cattle. Keith clarified, “We often ‘double-stock’ pastures by grazing more cattle for 90-days when the protein level is high, rather than full season stocking for six months. “Our cattle gains are sharply higher, and it gives grass time to rebuild roots,” Keith added. Noting that water is essential for grass and cattle, Porter, in a tongue-incheek tone, said. “It’s often too wet to plant crops in the spring, and too wet to harvest in the fall, while we’re praying for rain to keep pastures growing during the summer.” Although stock cows can graze the Flint Hills year around, Keith said, “They will require supplemental protein when grass matures, and we often do that with dry and wet distillers byproducts, which are more economical than corn.

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The extruded grain world Ron Wilson Contributing Writer What crop are you producing? Many Kansas farmers produce wheat, corn, and soybeans which can be processed into various products. Now, extruded grain products are traveling from rural Kansas to needy families around the world, thanks to an innovative Kansas school system, a pioneering private sector grain processing company, and a creative teacher with some caring students. That’s the subject of today’s Kansas Profile. Last week we learned about Sabetha High School teacher Carol Spangler and Grains for Hope, a Sabetha student organization which helps ship extruded grain products to needy families in Mozambique and Haiti. After Carol learned about Wenger Manufacturing, a world-leader in grain extrusion technology based in Sabetha, she suggested a school research project to determine which countries could best use the extruded grain products generated by Wenger. That became the organization known as Grains for Hope which has led the effort to ship these products overseas. Grains for Hope has involved an estimated 200 students and shipped 25 tons of enhanced grain products overseas. This innovative project benefitted many poor, malnourished families in these developing countries and has led to Sabetha High School receiving numerous awards. But in visiting with Carol Spangler and Sabetha High principal Todd Evans, it’s clear the awards are not what is most important to them. “It’s amazing what kids can accomplish if you open the doors,” Carol said. She proudly points to the achievements of those students who have been involved with Grains for

Hope. “In education today, project-based education is one of the major directions,” said principal Todd Evans. In addition to the community engagement in Sabetha and the humanitarian benefits for needy families overseas, he sees the beneficial learning outcomes which result from students applying their classroom studies in a real world setting. “A project like this gives relevance and meaning to their studies,” Todd said. “All of a sudden, students see that physics make sense, or it dawns on them that trigonometry can be used on an actual project.” So what have students learned? Ben Koch is a senior at Sabetha High. “Incorporating this has been very meaningful,” he said. “You get to see a more global picture and you get encouraged to find a rewarding career, not just a job.” He received a scholarship to attend and speak to the American Association of Cereal Chemists annual meeting, and Carol Spangler saw his confidence and professionalism grow through that experience. Another student gained a career-building internship through Grains for Hope. He came from the nearby rural community of Morrill, population 270 people. Now, that’s rural. Anna Sunderland is a sophomore at Sabetha. After an earthquake in Haiti, she traveled there through her church and worked in a Haitian hospital. The experience helped her see the importance of these food products and realize how fortunate people are in the U.S. “I remember that we had a baby who needed medicine,” Anna said. “I put Tylenol in the baby’s mouth with a plastic disposable cup like those which come with the bottle in the U.S. I was going to throw it away, but a lady from the clinic stopped me because she

needed to clean the cup and save it. She said, `We have only one cup for the entire clinic.’” Compassion for those less fortunate has been a driving force for the Grains for Hope project. It has also been a life-changing experience for a number of students. Carol Spangler points to Grains for Hope students who have gone on to study at Ivy League schools. The young woman who was the founding president of Grains for Hope did cholera research at Dartmouth and is now doing graduate studies at the University of North Carolina on infectious diseases and malnutrition. What crop are you producing? Grains for Hope is helping process crops into products for needy families, but it is also producing something else. We commend Carol Spangler, Todd Evans, and all those involved for making a difference in the lives of those served, as well as those who are doing the serving. For Sabetha High students, Grains for Hope is producing an abundant harvest of caring and achievement. More information is available at grainsforhope.com/index.php.

Help on way for rural firms The Obama administration on Tuesday announced nearly $2 billion in investments by 2016 to help small, rural food businesses expand, modernize, and hire. Last August, at the White House Rural Economic Forum, Obama announced his commitment to invest in rural businesses through the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. “As we fight our way back from the economic crisis, rural America is helping lead the charge,” said Obama.

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anniversaries Schlender John and Pat (Bartlett) Schlender are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary at an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. July 1 at the Westbank Club House on Rockridge Court, Manhattan. They were married June 29, 1952, in Clay Center. John retired from the Kansas State University agricultural economics department in 1992. Pat graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in home economics education. The open house is hosted by their children: Pam Jack, Manhattan; Doug Schlender and wife Sandy, Bozeman, Montana; Kevin Schlender and wife Tere-

sa, Bozeman, Montana; Suzanne Hoeppner and husband Tony, Lexington, Missouri; Lisa Rock and husband David, Olathe; Scott Schlender, Manhattan; and Kristen Anderson and husband Kurt, Crestwood, Kentucky.

Beverly, and a son, Rici and his wife Wanda, who live in Topeka. They also have nine grandchildren, 12 greatgrandchildren and one grandson in heaven. They would enjoy receiving cards from family and friends.

Over spring break, the couple celebrated with their children and grandchildren by taking a Caribbean cruise. Their children will host an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. June 23 at the Wamego Seniors Center, 501 Ash St., for their 50th anniversary. Your presence is their gift.

Hodges Elmer and Charlene (Funk) Hodges of St. George will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a family celebration hosted by their children and grandchildren on June 24. They were married on June 24, 1962, at Riley Presbyterian Church in Riley. They have two children: Lynette Brickell, Valley Falls; and Tom Hodges, St

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Prairiewood Retreat and Preserve in Manhattan. The bride has a bachelor's degree in business management from Kansas State University. Megan is the project development specialist for the Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation at Kansas State University. The groom has a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Kansas State University. Andrew is a graduate research assistant and master's degree student at Kansas State University. The couple honeymooned on the Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Portelli-Berklund Winter Portelli and Steve Berklund of Manhattan announce their engagement. Winter is the daughter of Phil and Lori Portelli of Manhattan. Steve is the son of Scott and Karalee Ridder of Olsburg. The bride-to-be holds of bachelor's degree in family studies from Kansas State University. Winter is a lead teacher at Little Love Bugs in Wamego. Her fiancé holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kansas State University. Steve is sports editor for the Junction City Daily

Karen and Jeff Tappen, Maple Hill. They also have two granddaughters, Randi and Shelli.

Deb and Keith Anderson of Belleville announce the engagement of their daughter, Nickele Anderson to Tyler Hoefler. Tyler is the son of Mary and Rob Hoefler of Manhattan. The bride-to-be holds a bachelor's degree from University of NebraskaLincoln and a master's degree in physician assistant studies from Wichita State University. Niki is a physician assistant at MidAmerica Heart and Lung Surgeons. Her fiancé holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Kansas State University. Tyler is a sales repre-

The 76th annual reunion of the Gfeller Family was held on May 6, 2012, at the Geary County 4/H Senior Citizens’ Center in Junction City. Floyd and Mary Widler registered 52 family members and guests. Co-Presidents Douglas Mailen and Kent Mailen welcomed the attendees and called the meeting to order. Secretary-Treasurer, Peggy Mailen read the minutes and gave the treasurer’s report for the 2011 reunion. Carnations were presented to family members who were 80 years or older. They were Muriel Wyman, Otto Roesler, Rose Mary Roesler, Virginia Gfeller, Charles W. (Bill) Gfeller, Marjorie Davis, Webb Davis, Noreen Zumbrunn, Dan Zumbrunn, Norma Mailen, Bob Gfeller, Nadine Riekeman, Dwayne Riekeman, Patsy Gfeller, and Ruth Gfeller. Carnations were also presented to six couples that had been married 50 years or longer. They were Kenneth and Muriel Wyman, Otto and Rose Mary Roesler, Charles W. (Bill) and Virginia Gfeller, Dan and Noreen Zumbrunn, Dwayne and Nadine Riekeman, and Webb and Marjorie Davis. Norma Mailen of Junction City was honored as the oldest member present at age 93. Clara Gfeller, age 4, daughter of Heath and Stephanie Gfeller of Chapman, and Korbin Blacketer, age 2, son of Steve and Missy Blacketer of Clay Center, were recognized as the youngest members present. Carnations were presented to the honorees. Kent Mailen of Washington, D.C., was recognized as having flown the greatest distance to attend the reunion. Arlan and Sonja Van Dusseldorp of Pella, Iowa, were recognized as having driven the greatest distance to attend. Mailen conducted a memorial service for seven deceased family members. Those remembered were: Elmerta Florine Leatherman Hall, Violet Esther Gratten, Sheryl Lynn Eye, Robert Niquette, Debra Elizabeth Auld-Bliss, Dillon DeLoy Garrison, and Douglas Roy

Gfeller. Thirteen births and seven marriages were also recorded this year. Joseph Healey of Manhattan presented special music. Dr. Mark Alterman of Manhattan Christian College gave an inspirational message about how things don’t always turn out as we plan. To conclude the meeting family members sang “God Be With You” and Mark Alterman asked a blessing on the food. Hosts for the basket dinner were Charles and Virginia Gfeller, Dave and Janet Gfeller, Kenny and Debby Gfeller, Wayne and Ruth Gfeller, and Floyd and Mary Widler. Wayne Gfeller took group photographs after the meal. Family members attending from Junction City were Wayne and Ruth Gfeller, Kenny and Debby Gfeller, Otto and Rose Mary Roesler, Bill and Virginia Gfeller, Webb and Marjorie Davis, Norma Mailen, Dwayne and Nadine Riekeman, Ronnie and Linnie Gfeller, and Ruth Gfeller. Attending from Chapman were Dave and Janet Gfeller, Dan and Noreen Zumbrunn, Bob Gfeller, Heath and Stephanie Gfeller and Clara Gfeller, and Patsy Gfeller. Abilene attendees were David Lehman, Cheyanne Hutcherson-Tyler, and Kenneth and Muriel Wyman. Other family members present from cities in Kansas were Floyd and Mary Widler from Enterprise; Larry and Sharon Babst and Kathy Yenni from Wakefield; Charles and Sharolyn Chamberlin from El Dorado; Duane Gfeller from Huron; Steve and Missy Blacketer and Kendan and Korbin Blacketer from Clay Center; and Doug and Peggy Mailen and Susan Mailen of Winchester.

birthdays Union. They plan a July 21, 2012, wedding at Prairewood Retreat and Preserve in Manhattan.

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Hoover Lanny and Judy (Herman) Hoover celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by taking a trip to the Black Hills. They were married June 10, 1962, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Norton. After living in Colorado and western Kansas, they moved to Manhattan in May of 2008. Lanny is retired from the American Institute of Baking. Judy retired from Manhattan Parks and Recreation Department in December 2001. Their children are Doug and Vickie Hoover; Greg and Nancy Hoover; Mike and Tammie Hoover; and Rod and Dixie Hoover. The

weddings Megan O'Neal Andrews and Andrew Ross Esser of Manhattan were married May 19, 2012, at Prairiewood Retreat and Preserve in Manhattan. The wedding was officiated by Rev. Kevin Ingram, Manhattan Christian College president . Parents of the bride are Jenne and Rusty Andrews of Manhattan. Parents of the groom are Carol and the the late Martin Esser of Lenexa. Maid of honor was the sister of the bride, Lyndsey Buseman. Bridesmaids were Andrea Andrews, Laura Esser and Cassondra Wyatt. Best man was friend of the groom, Michael Mitchelson. Groomsmen were Logan Andrews, Jonathan Scott and James Barnard. Ushers were Doug Buseman, brother-in-law of the bride; and Connor McKay, friend of the groom. Ring bearer was Tyler Abrams, and coin bearer was Brenden Buseman. Flower girl was Elly Abrams. The reception was held at Blue Sage Barn at

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Butler Rodney and Judy Butler of Silver Lake will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 2 p.m.to 4 p.m. June 23, at the Senior Community Center at 404 E. Lake in Silver Lake. Hosts will be their children. Rodney Butler and Judy Riniker were married June 20, 1962, in Riley. Mr. Butler is retired. Mrs. Butler has worked for the Kansas Department of Agriculture for 30 years. Their two children and spouses are Julie and Mike McDaniel, Silver Lake; and

anniversaries Jerry and Vida (Running) Pultz celebrated their 50th anniversary on Saturday. The couple celebrated with a family gathering. They were married June 16, 1962, at 526 Fremont St. in Manhattan. Their childen are Randy Pultz and wife Nancy; Sean Pultz and wife Vicky; and Thad Pultz and wife Sally. They also have four grandchildren.

Seamans Corwin and Ruth Seamans were married June 16, 1962, at the Olive Hill Church near Superior, Nebraska. They were high school sweethearts and after college moved to Wamego where Corwin taught history at Wamego High School for 37 years retiring in 2000. He also served as Pottawatomie County Commissioner from 2007 to 2011. Ruth taught school and later worked for The Women’s Health Group in Manhattan as the business office manager, retiring in 2006. They have two children and five grandchildren: Bryan and Angie Seamans, and children Colton and Jordyn of Topeka; and Kimberly and Kerry Parks, and children Matthew, Nathan and Luke of Salina.

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Worley Earnest “Earnie” and Otillie “Lilly” Worley celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Manhattan on June 16. They were married on June 16, 1952, in Augsburg, Germany. Earnie recently retired from driving school buses for USD 383 ManhattanOgden. He is also retired from the U.S. Army and the City of Manhattan Water Department. Tilly was formerly employed in the baby department at Walmart, but is now a stay-at-home wife. They have a daughter,

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Maginness Paul Maginness of Fostoria will celebrate his 80th birthday today. Paul is retired from Kansas State Unversity’s Photographic Services. He greatly enjoys his car hobby. Family and friends are invited to a reception party, from 1 to 3 p.m June 17. at the Olsburg American Legion. No gifts please.

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sentative at State Farm Insurance. They plan a June 16, 2012, wedding in Manhattan.

Maurita Sesler will celebrate her 84th birthday June 24, 2012. Please help us wish her a happy birthday with a card shower. Cards can be sent to Maurita Sesler, 2800 Willow Grove Road, Manhattan, KS 66502.

Coast braces for tsunami debris Santa Cruz Sentinel children are planning to host a reception in the fall after Doug returns from his tour of duty in Kuwait. They also have 16 grandchildren and four greatgranddaughters. George. They also have eight grandchildren: Beth Anne, Kate, Ty and Jake Brickell; and Kelsey, Kendra, Lexi and Jace Hodges. Elmer worked more than 40 years for the former Klepper Oil Co. in Manhattan. He is currently working for Rook’s Ranch. Charlene works at First National Bank in Wamego. Cards may be sent to them at 3905 Hodges Lane, St. George, KS 66535.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The flotsam of the Japanese tsunami has so far included a massive dock, an empty ship and teenager’s soccer ball, the latter of which was returned to its owner even as the 16year-old’s family still awaits permanent housing. Those finds — in Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska, respectively — have affirmed that some of the 5 million tons of debris raked into the Pacific Ocean in the aftermath of a devastating 2011 earthquake are starting to make landfall in North America. And with some headed

toward the California coast, the watch is likely to last for some time. “It can come ashore over the next several years,” said Keeley Belva, a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Maryland, who said scientists believe about 70 percent of the debris sank. There have been several other unverifiable debris finds, including an empty bottle of Japanese dish soap found by a Rio Del Mar jogger in March. The speed with which the items have crossed the Pacific Ocean surprised NOAA officials, who revised their models and say items that sit high in the water are being

pushed across the sea by winds. The debris is not radioactive, experts say. The items — ranging from the smallest of trinkets to even automobiles — were pulled in the water by the tsunami and resulting tidal waves triggered by the 9.0 earthquake, days before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis emerged. “All of our experts are telling us they don’t expect that to be a problem,” Belva said. Locally, Save Our Shores has partnered with NOAA to monitor tsunami debris. In Southern California, Santa Monicabased Heal the Bay is doing the same.

“Save Our Shores anticipates the arrival of tsunami debris on our shores, although how much and when is still uncertain,” said Laura Kasa, the group’s executive director. “We hope the community will come together and help make sure that the beaches stay clean and safe, whether that’s volunteering for our cleanups, notifying us if they find tsunami debris or donating to Save Our Shores to help support more (beach) cleanups.” Both Save Our Shores and Heal the Bay are monitoring lightly used or inaccessible coastal sites to get an idea of how much debris is coming in from the sea.

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club NEWS Bonfire 4-H Club The monthly meeting of the Bonfire 4-H Club was called to order on May 14 at the Green Valley Community Center. The roll-call question was “What is your favorite thing to do in 4-H?” There were 21 members, three leaders, and three guests present. Elleri Nichols lead us in “The Shark Song.” During our meeting, Mrs. Clanton announced that we were the winners of the Riley County 4-H Sign Contest, and that we would be having our ice cream award party at the conclusion of the meeting. She also announced that the Riley County 4-H Fair Books would be arriving in the mail shortly. At our meeting, Talia Clanton demonstrated how to make some delicious chocolate chip muffins. For our recreation, Dylan Chitwood led us in a game of charades. Our next meeting will be June 11 at which time we are having Parents Night, and that means that the parents of the club officers will conduct our meeting. Should be lots of fun. Bonfire meets the second Monday of every month at 7 p.m . at the Green Valley Community Center. Please come check us out some time and bring a friend!

Eagles Auxiliary The first meeting of our new auxiliary year was

June 7. Trustee Betty Mullet attended the Aerie Trustee meeting at 6 p.m. Our auxiliary officers met at 6:30, then we enjoyed a potluck meal provided by members. President Nancy Drumm called the 7:30 regular meeting to order. Joan Baughman, secretary, was installed into her office. She was absent when official installation happened. The salute to the U.S. flag, and Pledge of Allegiance was led by Shirley Wilson, conductor. Pearl Scott, vhaplain, gave the opening and closing prayers. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Joan Baughman, secretary, and approved. All financial reports were given by Treasurer Betty Mallon. There was no new membership applications. We voted to send a donation to the 4-H Foundation. Mildred Macy and Nila Parks were attending the State Convention in Great Bend as our delegates. Macy carried our auxiliary banner during the opening ceremony. The auxiliary past president's will be honored at our June 21 meeting. During the Good of the Auxiliary, Nancy Drumm presented her gifts to newly selected auxiliary mother, Betty Mallon, and newly selected grandmother, Mary Lou Little. Virginia Wesley, now junior past president was given her pictorial Book of

Memories 2011-12 by Betty Mullet, outgoing junior past president. Secret Pal drawings will happen at one of our next meetings. Ticket drawing winners tonight were Virginia Wesley, Mary Lou Ellis and Nancy Drumm. We will meet again, June 21, unless convened earlier through notice to our members.

Harmony Rebekah 689 The June 12 meeting of Harmony Rebekah lodge 689 opened with Noble Grand Victory Rodriguez presiding. Nancy Drumm, Donna Wilkins and Victory made reports on members needing aid or sympathy, and Nancy reported on cards sent to members. Elizabeth Harbstreit made a report on her travels and visits to lodges. She will have the final details for her banquet and reception at our next meeting. The members voted to recess the months of July and August and the officers to take care of business during the summer. A work schedule was assigned for the members to work at the rest stop area July 4. Rodriguez read the history of the U.S. flag for the month of June. Another name for the flag was Union Jack years ago. The next meeting will be June 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Seniors Center, 412 Leavenworth St. A potluck dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Members are to bring cook-

ies and snacks for the reststop area.

Solar Kiwanis The Manhattan Solar Kiwanis Club met at the Little Apple Brewing Company at noon on June 11 with 19 members and two guests present. The guests were Steve Byars, guest of Jack Byars; and Mary Todd, guest of Mike Holtman. The meeting was led by President Ron Jackson. The song “America” was led by Warren Prawl, the Pledge to the U.S. flag was led by Larry Williams and the invocation was led by Ron Jackson. It was announced that the Solar Super Salad Supper and Sweet Sensations and Bocce Ball Tournament would be on June 21, and the visit to Seelye Mansion in Abilene will be June 23. Our Solar Kiwanis Astros have regular games, and we were encouraged by Doug Ackley to go to their games. The Kansas District Convention will be July 27-29, and registration is still open. Our Pancake Feed will be on July 4 at the Pottorf Hall. The speaker for the day was introduce by Doug Denning, standing in for Mike Holtman. The speaker was Mary Todd, the coordinator for treatment of women recovering from sexual assault, at Kansas State University. The speaker for June 18

will be Samantha Brown, faculty sponsor of Riley County High School KEY Club and Kobe Brown, who just returned from KEY Leader Camp at Rock Springs. They will be introduced by Pam Fajen. Solar Kiwanis Club meets every Monday Noon at the Little Apple Brewing Company. Guests and prospective members are always invited and encouraged to attend. No reservations are needed.

Manhattan Duplicate Bridge Sue Danker and Jacquie Brewer tied with Linda Schottler and Katha Hurt for first place in the duplicate bridge game on June 11. Nelson Love and Mory Mort were third, and Lois Smail and Leeroi McTamany were fourth. The group meets each Monday at 1 p.m. at the Riley County Seniors Center, 412 Leavenworth St. New players are very welcome. Contact Sue Danker at 537-1701 for a partnership or more information.

KPQG The Konza Prairie Quilters’ Guild met June 11. The Quilts from the Heart Committee reported on its meeting with the director of the safe shelter which serves a five-county area. They discussed how the shelter operates. The 150 small comfort quilts

that the guild makes and donates each year to the shelter are given to all children who use the facility. The most recent donated quilts were shown. There was a report from the Opportunity Quilt Committee noting that one individual will be randomly selected to receive the quilt in December. The library committee reported on new additions to the library. Block of the Month blocks were displayed and a reminder was given about continuing to work on the guild’s 2012 challenge quilt project. A show-and-tell featuring members quilt projects followed. Kathy Delaney from Overland Park presented the program, “The Mystery of Color Solved.” She had numerous quilts to share showing examples of what works and what might not work when using color in quilts. Our next meeting will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 9 at St Thomas More Catholic Church. All attending are urged to bring sack lunches and sewing machines to work on projects that will be sold at Pumpkin Patch. There will also be instructions for working on projects that members can make for themselves. Pat Tippin will be presenting a special workshop, “Pretties,” about jewelry making. All are welcome to attend the meeting.

Brazil’s AIDS success faces uncertain new chapter McClatchy Newspapers RIO DE JANEIRO — In the 10 years that Dr. Anna Cabral has been treating AIDS patients, she said, she’s seen a change in the people who come to her clinic in a large public hospital. Where once a diagnosis would fill them with terror, said Cabral, a teaching doctor at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, today they have hope. An AIDS diagnosis is no longer a death sentence in Rio de Janeiro, as the variety and quality of treatments continue to improve, thanks largely to a national treatment and prevention program that calls for near-universal distribution of medication. But the controversial program — the government broke international patent laws to mass-produce the drugs at a lower cost and recruited sex workers to help distribute condoms — may not survive for long, experts say. “We have progressed in constructing a public health system oriented in these principles (of social justice and universality), but at this moment, there is a crisis,” said Veriano Terto, a psychologist who specializes in public health and a member of the coordination staff for the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association. AIDS activists fear that costs will rise for the Brazilian government as patients on the life-saving treatment live longer than they did in the past, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. Richard Parker, an

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Dr. Anna Cabral has been treating AIDS patients at University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a decade. American medical anthropologist and the president of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, also says there’s less support from the government under President Dilma Rousseff than there was under her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula. The result, Parker said, is “destructuring of what was a great program.” “The issue is that Brazil had, clearly, what was a model for the response to AIDS in the developing world,” he said. “That model program is now in jeopardy.” The first case of AIDS in Brazil was recorded in 1982, and since then, the country has established a

number of policies in AIDS treatment and prevention. In 1992, the World Bank predicted that 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with AIDS by the year 2002. In 2007, the U.N. estimated the number to be 620,000 — half the prediction. Much as in the United States with Rock Hudson, it took a celebrity to bring the AIDS issue to public attention, Cabral said. The Rio-based singer Agenor Miranda Araujo Neto, known by the stage name Cazuza, publicly declared his HIV status in 1989. He died a year later. In 1991, Brazilian health officials began to distribute free azidothymidine treatments,

better known as AZT, to AIDS patients. By the mid-1990s, more effective and powerful antiretroviral therapies replaced the older treatments, and in 1996 Brazil declared that it would offer free antiretroviral treatment to all citizens with AIDS. Parker said getting the law passed was the major victory of that generation of the AIDS movement. “It took a number of years and pressure for the law to take effect,” he said. In 2007, in a move that would anger some of Brazil’s allies and drug c o m p a n i e s , L u l a announced that the country would import a lowercost version of one of the antiretroviral drugs. He signed a so-called compulsory license for the drug efavirenz — originally developed by the U.S. drug giant Merck — which Brazil began to produce more cheaply. Drug-company trade groups have denounced the use of compulsory licenses, saying they reduce the incentive for companies to develop new life-saving treatments. Brazil has been home to new and innovative ways to spread awareness of sexual health issues and to promote safe sex practices, Parker said. In one case, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association produced a pamphlet that contained a series of three erotic stories that put a positive light on condom use — without mentioning HIV or AIDS. The approach was “more shocking than anything produced in the U.S.,” Parker said. In 2002, Brazil’s Health Ministry recruited sex

A child walks by the emergency entrance at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. workers as “partners” in the fight against HIV. A series of posters, leaflets and stickers depicted the cartoon character “Maria Without Shame,” who promoted a positive view of women in the sex industry. The advertisements proclaimed, “You need have no shame, girl. You have a profession.” According to a 2010 U.N. report, 47 percent of female sex workers in Brazil were receiving assistance from an AIDS prevention program in 2009. Despite the near-universal access to medica-

tion and aggressive approaches to prevention, activists’ fears haven’t abated. “We have a kind of silence with what is happening with health in Brazil,” Terto said. “We don’t like to admit our mistakes.” Cabral said that despite these fears, she hadn’t seen any negative impacts on AIDS treatments at her hospital, and that other diseases often saw their public funding fluctuate. From her perspective, the focus should shift toward lessening the stigma associated with AIDS.

Boxing match puts El Paso on the defensive Los Angeles Times EL PASO — The fight is on to defend the reputation of America’s safest city — this time, through boxing. Last year, publications christened the desert city of 650,000 near the Mexico and New Mexico borders the safest municipality of its size in the country. Then this spring, the University of Texas chancellor called off a championship boxing match to be held at El Paso’s Sun Bowl stadium, citing security concerns. UT System Chancellor Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa cited security con-

cerns after a federal assessment showed the boxing match posed a higher than normal security risk, with members of Mexican drug cartels expected to attend. Observers speculated the problem was boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., the undefeated World Boxing Council middleweight champion, son of the legendary Mexican boxer. Chavez’s girlfriend had a baby with the late son of notorious Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman. Violence has surged in recent years in El Paso’s southern neighbor in Mexico, Ciudad Juarez, dubbed

“the murder capital of the world.” Cities along the U.S. border have long struggled with a bad rap, despite crime rates lower than those of metro areas of similar size elsewhere in the country. But El Pasoans particularly resent being confused with their sister city, especially by authorities in the Texas capital nearly 600 miles away. They united in outrage against the chancellor, forcing him to back down in April and allow the fight to proceed Saturday, although Cigarroa succeeded in banning alcohol at the event.

There were 16 homicides in El Paso last year, according to police, on par with the annual average during the last decade. Ciudad Juarez, which has about twice the population of El Paso, had more than 2,000 homicides last year and saw crime soar in recent years after federal troops were sent in to battle drug cartels in 2008. “We like to fight, just not like that,” said J.L. Rocha, 43, an El Paso pipe fitter smoking outside Yvan’s Offsides Bar & Grill last week, a boxing fan hangout where the elder Chavez’s photo and

signed gloves are mounted on the back wall. El Paso is home to a boxing hall of fame, a downtown boxing mural and a large boxing fan base that claims a few hometown stars, notably featherweight Antonio Escalante, who was born in Cuidad Juarez. El Paso is about 81 percent Latino, according to the latest census, so there’s also a fair amount of ethnic pride in watching Chavez defend his title against Irish challenger Andy Lee. “This is a Mexican hero,” said David Mansfield, 42, an orthopedic surgeon and native El

Pasoan having drinks with friends at the Hope and Anchor bar on North Mesa Street last week. Residents and civic organizations have mobilized to boost the fight crowd even more, buying blocks of tickets, trumpeting the event in the El Paso Times newspaper and vowing to fill the Sun Bowl. “This is not about the boxing match; it’s about El Paso,” Mayor John Cook said during a recent news conference to promote the fight. “This is about our opportunity to be in the national spotlight, to show the world what El Paso is made of.”

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Happy Father’s Day There’s more to the occasion than funky ties

ads aren’t always cooperative around Father’s Day. That might be because they don’t really want much, but it also might be because they worry that when they open a really hideous gift — yes, there are such things — their demonstrative “I love it!” won’t fool anyone and they’ll have to atone for their insensitivity. If there’s something Dad wants and it won’t break the budget, Father’s Day is right up there with Christmas and his birthday as a reason to get it. A fishing pole, for instance, or a magazine he enjoys. With any luck, it’ll be something the whole family can use, like a new grill or, better yet, a new car. On further review, scratch the car on budgetary grounds. But if there isn’t any thing he wants, maybe there’s something he wants to do. And unless it’s, say, a nap on the couch, chances are he’d be happy to have company. Father’s Day is a good time for a round of golf or a movie or a family picnic... or working on those bookshelves or sitting around and playing a good board game. If there isn’t something specific he wants to do, there might well be something specific he isn’t

looking forward to. That’s the cue for able children to offer to mow the lawn or wash the car or clean the garage or — gad, clean their rooms. Yes, that matters to fathers as well as to mothers, so if it hasn’t been rearranged since Mother’s Day… Most of these are things that might make Dad feel a little special, important, appreciated. And that’s the whole point of Father’s Day. Oh, he might say he doesn’t need this or want that, but rare is the father who wouldn’t welcome a hug from a young child or a subtle nod from a headphone-clad adolescent trying to survive those years when the script says parents are decidedly uncool. Fathers don’t always realize it, but they’re lucky to have kids and the opportunity to guide them through the delight and the torture that is childhood. That’s a gift of immeasurable value that’s easy to overlook among the daily demands. That he is truly blessed might occur to Dad when he closes his eyes for 15 minutes on the couch. Or it might be when, opening a truly bizarre gift, he says a two-part prayer that his jubilation looks real and that somewhere, someone kept the receipt.

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Finally, a world free of polio is within humanity’s grasp 2012 Washington Post

he world is closer than ever to eradicating the polio virus. When the effort began in 1988, the disease was endemic in 125 countries, but now just three remain: Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In recent months, there have been fewer cases in fewer districts of fewer countries than at any time in history. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said recently that the battle against polio is at a ”tipping point between success and failure.” Polio is a highly infectious disease that affects the nervous system and can lead to paralysis. It largely strikes children 5 years old and younger, but there have been more cases involving adults in recent years, with higher lethality. Obliterated in the United States 30 years ago, polio has proved a stubborn foe elsewhere in the world. As recently as the 1980s, polio killed or paralyzed more than 350,000 children each year. But the eradication effort has come a long way. There were only 650 cases last year and only 73 so far this year. The potential benefits of wiping out polio are improved lives for millions of children. Yet eradicating diseases is immensely difficult. So far, the campaign against smallpox stands as the only success. For years, there was concern that if the transmission of polio could not be halted in India, eradication would be impossible. But India has been free of polio since January 2011. Also, a more effective oral vaccine is targeting the two strains of

the virus that are most prevalent. On May 26, the 194 member states of the WHO declared polio eradication a “programmatic emergency.” The idea is to galvanize work in the remaining polioinfected areas of Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. All three nations suffered alarming spikes in cases last year, and the goal of delivering oral vaccine to every child is up against the formidable obstacles of war, corruption, weak public health systems and widespread migration. This appears to be another make-orbreak moment. A renewed campaign will be costly. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, set up in 1988 by the WHO, UNICEF, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Rotary International, says that it needs an additional $945 million for a total budget of $2.19 billion this year and next. For the current fiscal year, the United States has boosted support to $151.1 million, up $17.6 million over last year. Rotary International has exceeded its goal to raise more than $200 million to match a $355 million challenge grant over several years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The CDC has made polio a top priority; it put some 90 people to work on it every day in its emergency operations center. These examples and the urgency of the cause will hopefully inspire other donors around the world to fill the budget gap. Stamping out polio is not a sure thing, but this may be the best chance in a generation. It should not be missed for lack of resources.

■ ETCETERA The government’s definition of a “green job” includes janitors at solar panel plants, school bus drivers (it’s public transportation) and antique dealers and used-record-shop clerks, who, after all, are in the recycling business. So said a Labor Department official under questioning by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa.

Letters to the Editor Reader is the right person to break gridlock in Topeka To the Editor: If we had to choose a candidate for Kansas Senate based on performance at the recent Republican Party hamburger fry, it would be an easy choice. The first candidate who spoke went immediately on the attack and even referred to himself as “mad and angry.” The last thing we need in Topeka is another “mad and angry” politician. Bob Reader was the second candidate to speak, and he reiterated a promise he had made before — that he would run a clean campaign. He spoke with passion and compassion, laying out a vision for our state and for our district that included the ideas of balanced budgets, good jobs and excellence in education. This is a vision we can believe in. The third and final candidate lacked passion and seemed intent on justifying the hostile environment that he was a part of in Topeka for the past several months. We certainly don’t want to send him back to Topeka for more of the same. Bob has the best ideas. He speaks with civility. He cares about people. By responding to hostility with a calm but firm resolve, as he did last Sunday and as we have seen him do through the years, we believe Bob is the right person to break through the gridlock in Topeka and do better for K-State, Fort

Riley, small business and our families. We plan to vote for Bob Reader for Kansas Senate on Aug. 7. Sherlund and Sandra Prawl 1504 Williamsburg

Exchange student’s year in Riley was unforgettable To the Editor: My name is Giulia Burgio. I am from Mazara del Vallo, Italy, and I was an AFS exchange student this year at Riley County High School. My time in the U.S.A. has flown away really fast, and now that I am sitting here in my room with my suitcases packed and ready to fly home; only now I realize how much I will miss from this experience. The adaptation process was long and hard, and there were moments when I felt lonely, as if I didn’t fit in the family or in the school. But despite all the difficulties and the problems encountered on the way, I feel the months I have spent here were the most meaningful and instructive of my life. Here in Riley, Kansas, a small town in the middle of nowhere, I found a new home and a new life. My best memories will be the moments shared with my family and my friends, the AFS meetings where I had a chance to get to know other boys and girls who made the same decision I made, and the graduation party. Graduating at Riley

County High School was a very exciting experience, and because I have one more year of school back in Italy, I will be able to say I graduated twice! I would like to thank all my teachers here and all the school staff for being helpful, understanding and generally awesome. And I would like to thank all my schoolmates for sharing part of this experience with me. You really made me feel part of the school and the community, and I will miss you all! I would also like to thank AFS for making this possible. Thank you to all of the volunteers in the United States of America, in Italy, and all around the world. Thank you to my liaison, Lisa Mechels, for being always there when I needed you, and for worrying for me. But the biggest thank-you goes to my family — to Kim and David Stevenson, and my brother DJ, and my sister Kellie with her husband, Matt, and her lovely children, Tinley and Traelan. And to Nova, for being my cat and dealing with me every day. And to my aunt Rosemarie and my cousin Bekah, for being an amazing aunt and an amazing cousin. And to Granny, and all the other members of this big, big family. Your love and your commitment were what made this experience unique and unforgettable. Giulia Burgio 324 N. Main St. (Home of Kim and David Stevenson) Riley

Self-esteem gets taken to task 2012 Los Angeles Times

ohn Vasconcellos could be forgiven for having a migraine right now. As a longtime California legislator, he was the driving force behind the state’s Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility. That group’s 1989 report helped persuade schools nationwide to nurture their students’ selfesteem as a way of eliminating social problems and academic failure. Yet in the last week or so, the loud accolades have gone to a Massachusetts English teacher whose speech to graduating high school students dumped on all that carefully cultivated selfworth. “You are not special,” David McCullough Jr. told the students — in hearing range of their parents, no less. “You are not exceptional.” And the Class of 2012 applauded. Many of the students in affluent Wellesley, Mass., appreciated

the bald honesty and overdue dose of reality. Of course, the self-esteem movement has been taken down before. Research published in 2004 found that, contrary to expectations, higher self-esteem was not linked to better learning or even better behavior. That year, the main character in the children’s movie “The Incredibles” memorably fumed, “They keep inventing new ways to celebrate mediocrity.” And an international math test found that although American students ranked low on skills, they were at the top of the world when it came to believing they were good at math. There was a reason for that: They were also the most likely to report getting good grades in the subject. McCullough took that on, too, bemoaning that today’s B is yesterday’s C. The speech was not all about running down its audience. McCullough emphasized that special is as special does, that chil-

dren can earn greatness rather than merely expect it. Parents love their kids for their very existence. That’s a parent’s job. Middle-class American childhood, with its plethora of kiddie awards — remember the seventhplace ribbons adorning a wall in the film “Meet the Fockers”? — feeds the belief that the world will look on them the same way. The lucky Wellesley students had McCullough to dash that expectation. As he told them, what will make them exceptional — or not — are their actions, not their beliefs about themselves. Those graduates might not be special, but they aren’t stupid, either. They know the current economy isn’t tossing a shining future into their laps. Here was someone to give voice to that sneaking suspicion. When they encounter their first low grade in college, or an incompatible roommate, maybe they’ll cope instead of calling in Mom. If so, they’ll have learned something worthwhile on commencement day.

State planners deserve better T

he Surface Transportation Act, called the highway bill for short, is the basic measure funding the nation’s roads, bridges and mass transportation systems. Typically, the bill lasts for four to six years, giving state officials needed time for longterm planning. The last bill expired in 2009. Congress has temporarily extended it nine times since then, most recently in March. That extension expires June 30. So much for long-term transportation planning. With May’s dismal jobs report

showing a loss of 28,000 construction jobs, you would think renewing the transportation act would be an urgent priority. Clearly, you are not a member of Congress, specifically not a Republican back-bencher whose chief role seems to be to make GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s life miserable. In March, the Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion bill, basically to buy time for the House to finish work on its own five-year, $260 billion plan. But urban and rural Republicans can’t reach agreement on funding for mass

transit. And there’s another, more significant problem: paying for it. The simplest solution would be to raise the tax — but that’s out of the question in the current political climate. Other proposals, like tolls on the interstate, also are nonstarters. However, Boehner is now talking about putting the whole issue off until after November, where it will be caught up in a crush of lame-duck legislation ... Surely our lawmakers can do better than this. Memphis Commercial Appeal

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Syria presents thorny diplomatic challenges Dale R. Herspring Contributing Writer

f the diplomats we send to represent the United States in other countries and the ones we receive from abroad are smart — and they are — why haven’t we gotten a better handle on the world’s problems? Diplomatic problems are among the most difficult issues in the world today. Consider, for example, the Arab-Israeli crisis. When I joined the American Foreign Service in 1973, ArabIsraeli relations were considered one of our most difficult problems. When I retired more than 20 years later, it was still all but intractable and was one of the most dangerous problems we faced. Twelve U.S. presidents — from Harry Truman to Barack Obama — have devoted considerable attention to the issue, but there is no sign it will be resolved soon. There are a number of reasons for this, all of which can be illustrated by a close look at the situation now in Syria, in which the killing of innocent people —

including women and children — is beyond the pale. Reports of slaughter are nearly daily occurrences. Extensive news coverage of events in Syria means that Washington must at least act like it has a policy. We want to think that our foreign policy experts, including the president, are on top of things. The problem is that when you begin dealing with a problem like Syria, you’re dealing with the actions and wishes of a number of other countries. In this case, it is not only a question of developing a policy that the Europeans agree with, one also has to consider Russian, Chinese and Middle Eastern policies and interests as well. Russia and China strongly oppose any use of force against the government of of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Moscow’s stock in the Middle

East has taken a turn for the worse in recent months. Russia used to have a presence in Libya through oil contracts, and used to have a presence in Egypt. Now both countries are up for grabs. The situation in Iran is also complicated. I have witnessed Russians throwing their hands in the air in frustration when it comes to Iran. “We are forced to deal with religious nuts. We never know what they will do

next,” is the way one of my Russian friends put it. Syria is Moscow’s last toehold in the region — and a good market for Russian weapons. Moscow fears that if it permits greater U.N. involvement, the United States will again take charge as it did in Libya. That would leave the Russians with little or no presence in the country. It is also worth remembering that before we trump the Russians, we continue to need their help in other parts of the world, such as Afghanistan. Going it alone is always a possibility. However, there are problems. First, President Obama eschews international leadership roles. Second, while the massacres are horrifying, it is hard to find many Americans who upset enough to support the use of U.S. military power in Syria, even if only in the form of

air power. Furthermore, Obama reads poll numbers, and he knows he has a high rating among Americans because of the Navy SEALs’ success in killing Osama bin Laden, and because he is pulling troops out of Afghanistan and cutting back on their numbers, weapons and equipment. As long as the American people are “tired” of sending U.S. troops abroad and the Russians make a joint effort difficult, if not impossible, the Syrian problem will remain too difficult to solve. Indeed, the only visible resolution at this point is to work with whoever is still standing after thousands more have killed one another at the end of a civil-war. That may not be the most desirable solution for Syria, but it may be the only realistic one. Sometimes, might does make right in the world of Realpolitik. Dale R. Herspring, a University Distinguished Professor at KSU and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a retired U.S. diplomat and Navy captain.

Doing nothing is not an option I

s there nothing the international community can do to stop the bloodshed in Syria? Since the civil unrest began 15 months ago, over 13,000 people have been killed — many of them women and children . Yet, the world’s powers seem helpless to work together to stop the violence. It is frustrating to stand by while thousands of innocent civilians are being massacred just a few hundred kilometers to our north.

Absence of unions weakens America Harold Meyerson Special to the Washington Post

re American unions history? In the wake of labor’s defeated effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, both pro- and anti-union pundits have said unions are in an all-but-irreversible decline. Most don’t think that decline is irreversible but few have any idea how labor would come back. What would America be like without a union movement? That’s not hard to answer because we’re almost there. The rate of private unionization has fallen below 7 percent, from a post-World War II high of roughly 40 percent. The economic effects of a union-free America are apparent: an economically stagnant or downwardly mobile middle class, a steady clawing-back of jobrelated health and retirement benefits and ever-rising economic inequality. In the three decades after World War II the U.S. dominated the global economy, but that’s only one reason our country became the first to have a middle-class majority. The other is that this was the only time in our history when we had a high degree of unionization. From 1947 through 1972 — the peak years of unionization — productivity increased by 102 percent, and median household income also increased by 102 percent. Thereafter, as unionization relentlessly fell, a gap opened between the economic benefits flowing from a more productive economy and the incomes of ordinary Americans, so much so that in recent decades, all the gains in productivity have shown — have gone to the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans. When labor was at its numerical apogee in 1955, the wealthiest 10 percent claimed just 33 percent of the nation’s income. By 2007, with the labor movement greatly diminished, the wealthiest 10 percent claimed 50 percent of the nation’s income. Today, wages account for the lowest share of both gross domestic product and corporate revenue since World War II ended — and that share continues to shrink. An IMF study released in April shows that the portion of GDP going to wages and benefits has declined from 64 percent in 2001 to 58 percent this year. The survey compared the U.S. with Europe, where the

only other nations in which labor’s share declined were Greece, Spain and Ireland — countries whose economies are at death’s door. Our economy is nowhere as weak, but as Americans’ ability to collectively bargain has waned, so has their power to keep all corporate revenue from going to top executives and shareholders. When unions are powerful, they boost the incomes of not only their members but also of nonunion workers in their sector or region. Princeton economist Henry Farber has shown that the wages of a nonunion worker in an industry that is 25 percent unionized are 7.5 percent higher because of that unionization. Today, however, few industries have so high a rate of unionization, and a consequence is that unions can no longer win the kinds of wages and benefits they used to. Deunionization is just one reason Americans’ incomes have declined, of course; globalization has taken its toll as well. But the declining share of pretax income going to wages is chiefly the result of the weakening of unions, which is a reason American managers now routinely seek to thwart workers’ attempts to unionize through legally questionable tactics. The weakening of unions also has had a huge political effect: the realignment of the white working class. Since the ’1960s, unionized blue-collar whites have voted Democratic at a rate 20 to 30 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts. The decline in union membership has weakened Democrats in heavily white, increasingly deunionized states as West Virginia and Wisconsin — the main reason Republicans such as Walker have sought to reduce labor’s numbers. Liberals who have been indifferent to unions’ decline will find it difficult to enact progressive legislation in their absence. Understandably, some liberals seek ways to arrest the economic decline of millions of Americans in a post-union environment. I fear they’re bound to be frustrated. If workers can’t bargain with their employers, it can’t be done. If and when Big Labor dies — it’s on life support now — America’s big middle class dies with it. Meyerson is editor-at-large of The American Prospect.

And this frustration is compacted by the knowledge that — in this case at least — our political autonomy does not help us to reach out to the embattled Syrian people. In some respects, Syrian animosity toward Zionism actually transforms the Jewish people’s statehood into an obstacle to extending humanitarian aid. But even the international community’s ability to stop the bloodshed in Syria is limited. The Syrian opposi-

tion involves diverse groups. Some are democrats and nationalists. But others are Islamists, including groups connected to al-Qaida. Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood are providing aid to these Islamist elements. Meanwhile, Iran and Russia are providing Assad’s regime with weapons and support. There are no easy solutions. But doing nothing at all is not an option. The Jerusalem Post

Cynicism extends to justices 2012 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

n his dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively awarded the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, Justice John Paul Stevens made a prediction that now appears to have come true: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.” A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 76 percent of Americans believe justices sometimes go beyond legal analysis and allow their personal or political views to influence their decisions. The court very soon is expected to rule in the challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health-care reform. The poll found that 55 percent of Americans think justices’ personal or political beliefs, not just legal analysis, will guide their decisions. The poll also showed that more than two-thirds of Americans hope the court will throw out all or part of the 2010 health-care law. Earlier speculation had been that Chief

Justice John G. Roberts Jr. might be loath to vote against the law out of fear for the court’s reputation. The poll suggests that he’d face no backlash; the damage already is done. Justices and judges always have been influenced by their personal and political beliefs. The law is not set in stone, and different interpretations are why cases make it to the

Supreme Court. That’s why lawyers shop for judges and venues. That’s why the Supreme Court at times in its history has been known as “liberal” or “conservative.” That’s why Supreme Court nominations have become political dogfights. Philosophy is one thing; partisan politics is another. Federal judges get lifetime appointments. In return, they

must abide by a Code of Conduct, which forbids partisan political activities. The code doesn’t cover Supreme Court justices; until recently, it wasn’t a problem. But both Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have flaunted their ties to conservative activist organizations. Virginia Thomas, the justice’s wife, is a conservative activist and fundraiser. The two justices were part of the 5-4 majority in Citizens United v. FEC, the 2010 decision that allowed unlimited campaign donations by corporations and wealthy donors. Six days after that ruling, President Obama used part of the 2010 State of the Union speech to criticize Citizens United, saying, “I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities.” In April, a week after oral arguments in the health-care case, the president baited the court, saying that throwing out the health care law would take the court “back to the ’30s, preNew Deal.” All of this is true, but the president should have limited his remarks to the issues, not taken the fight directly to the court as an institution. Not only was it bad strategy — the justices get the last word, after all — but it further deepened the kind of cynicism reflected in the recent poll.

Finances should be our focus 2012 Los Angeles Times

ederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has implored lawmakers to keep the federal government from driving off a “fiscal cliff” — a phrase he coined earlier this year to describe the hefty spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January. But he was talking to the wrong audience. The two men he should have been lobbying are the ones running for president. Bernanke’s remarks came amid a global economic slowdown, with Europe, Asia and China in varying degrees of decline. In the U.S., employment and economic growth have been sluggish since last year’s surge. Yet corporate profits have risen for two years, and companies are sitting on cash hoards exceeding $1.5 trillion. In other words, corporate America has the wherewithal to hire and expand, but not the willingness to put the money at risk. Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on the cause of the problem, let alone the solution, so neither side’s proposals are going anywhere. Worse, lawmakers have planted a tax and spending time bomb set to go off in 2013. Tax cuts worth about $600 billion annually are slated to expire at the end of this year, and more than $100 billion in spending cuts go into effect on Jan. 1. These changes may reduce the federal deficit, but they’re also likely to trigger a new recession, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The mere existence of such a fiscal cliff may harm the economy by making consumers and businesses unduly

cautious about spending. Add another debt-ceiling stalemate early next year and it’s easy to understand nervousness about what might happen. We’re in this mess because Washington repeatedly put off addressing the federal deficit and debt problems amid the downturn. Sudden, across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts would have a disastrous effect on the economy, but the longer the government waits to set a course back toward a balanced budget, the harder the problem will be to solve. Lawmakers recognize that, and some — notably the “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group of senators that’s pushed a multiyear plan to rein in the deficit — are trying to build consensus for a proposal to overhaul the tax code, slow growth in Medicare and other costly entitlements and roll back discretionary spending. That’s the right way to address the fiscal cliff, even if it means more deficit spending in the short run. Unfortunately, the effort has little chance in an election year. As long as most Republicans dig in their heels against increase in taxes and Democrats demand higher rates on “millionaires and billionaires,” there’s no middle ground. That’s why Obama and Mitt Romney should make the fiscal cliff the centerpiece of their campaigns. Rather than a referendum on the past, they should

turn the election into a question about the very near future. How, exactly, do they propose to put the federal government’s house in order? They’ve both talked about overhauling the tax code, but they’ve offered few details. There’s a good debate waiting too over how to slow the growth of health-care entitlements, how large the defense budget should be and what the size of the federal budget should be relative to the economy. Most important, the candidates need to admit that the fiscal problems can’t be solved without sacrifices, and what those would be. There’s no guarantee that our polarized Congress will follow the president’s lead, even if lawmakers punt the problem until after the election in search of signals from the electorate. But the more Obama and Romney focus the public’s attention on the fiscal cliff, the more likely the winner will be able to claim a mandate for how to respond to it.

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Kansas State spring 2012 semester honor roll Continued from June 10 education page Manhattan: Ashleigh Herd, Meghan Herde, Elisha Hillegeist, Cara Hillstock, Lisa Hillstock, Brooklyn Hnizdil, Justine Hobbs, Derek Hobling, Elizabeth Hoefgen, Mark Holton, Samuel Honey, Jennifer Hornbeck, Daniel Hornsby, Elise Houtz, Jessica Huey, Emily Huff, Nicholas Hughes, Jacob Hull, Mary Hunt, David Hwang, Chandler Imhof, Brian Ingalsbe, Karen Ingram, Alexandra Jackman, Kara James, Theresa Jardine, Nicholas Jarvis, James Jensen, Dylan Johnson, Hyojung Jung, Jennifer Keefe, Rachel Kel-

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Anthony Meals, Danielle Meek, Nathan Menne, David Miles, Alexandra Miller, Callee Miller, Kristina Miller, Maria Montoya, Richard Moore, Aaron Morgan, Nicole Munoz, Cortney Nagel, Cherie Nelson, Kelley Nelson, Jamison Nichols, Alexander Noblett, Tyler Norris, Kiara Ohle, Brian Oliveras, Joshua Olson, Leah Oropesa, Ashley Ott, Presley Pacholick, Christa Packard, Catherine Paliwoda, Krystal Paschal, Tiziano Pedersoli, Angelica Peralta, Carmen Phillips, Jemma Pipkin, Robert Powell, Daniel Preston, Jordan Priddle, Anita Pritchett, Adam Ramm, Heidi Ramzel, Jesse Ran-

EDUCATION BRIEFS Flints Hills Christian spring 2012 honor roll The following students made the Flint Hills Christian School Spring 2012 Honor Roll. Distinguished Achievement (4.0): Sarah Dodge, Bo Love, Courtney Cranford, Mary Harner, Kenan Bitikofer, Hannah DeWitt, Sarah Featherstone, Christy Love, Elijah Darey, Ashlyn Shultz, Arthur Williams Principal's List (3.503.99): Sarah Brown, Joe Catterson, Tyler Eaves, Jonah Ferguson, Rebecca Sylvester, Amber Seymour, Ryan McDonald, Christie Warren, Katie Warren, Parker Eaves, Darien Stokes, Sara Sylvester, Amanda Dillon Honor's List (3.00-3.49): Dennis Luberus, Katie Smith, Cheyenne Giersch, John Rogers, Jacob Shultz, Cole Wilson, Micah Linville, Jordan Barnes, Sophie Doolittle, Marin Coughlin, Caleb Linville

Area state finalist for national teacher prize Cathy Wilber, a teacher at West Elementary School, is a state finalist for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching are the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teaching. They are presented to educators who show a high degree of knowledge, innovation, skill and leadership. Kansas had 13 math nominees and 11 science nominees. Each of the state finalists receives a $500 award and will compete for a national finalist title. Two educators from each state, one in math and one in science, may be named national finalists next spring. Each of the national finalists receives $10,000.

Area students make Peru State dean’s list Rick Bruna, of Hanover, and Stephanie Neilsen, of Wamego, made the Peru State College Dean's List

for the spring 2012 semester. Bruna made a 4.0 for the semester. To make the Dean's List students must have a grade point average of 3.75 or higher for the semester, have completed at least 12 college credit hours during the past semester and have no incomplete grades for the semester. PSC is a member institution of the Nebraska State College System.

Student named to H.S. activity advisory team Tanner Langvardt, who will be a junior in the fall at Council Grove High School, has been named to the Student Advisory Team of the Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) for the 2012-13 school year. Langvardt will be a junior representative of schools in the 3A classification. He is the first CGHS student ever selected to this prestigious group. Langvardt is the son of Karl and Amy Langvardt, of Alta Vista, and the grandson of Howard and Ann Langvardt, of Chapman, and Frank and Jan Lyons, of Manhattan.

will practice Internal Medicine at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jessica Strafuss, M.D., will practice Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Flint Hills Christian scholarship recipients Four seniors from Flint Hills Christian School received scholarships to various schools. •Sarah Dodge – $14,000 academic scholarship to Mid-America Nazarene College •Tyler Eaves – $3,250 scholarship from the KSU Foundation, $3,000 KSU Grant from Kansas State University and $500 scholarship from the Riley County Farm Bureau •Bo Love – $4,000 Fairchild Scholarship and $3,000 First in Class Scholarship, both from Kansas State University •Rebecca Sylvester – $7,000 Dean's scholarship and $1,500 equestrian scholarship, both from Southern Nazarene University

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Survey says KSU alumni recommend university Earning a bachelor's degree is time well spent for Kansas State alumni, according to a recent survey by the university's office of assessment. The survey polled 1,718 one-year alumni and 1,807 four-year alumni. Of those who responded, 98 percent of the one-year alumni and 99 percent of the four-year alumni stated they would recommend the university to prospective students. Also, 95 percent of respondents in both areas indicated that - if given the opportunity -they would attend Kansas State University again. The university's vice president for student life and dean of students, Pat Bosco, describes K-State as an output school. "We take great pride in taking our students as they are when they come into college and helping each one achieve success -- for some students their achievements are signifi-

cant," Bosco said. The university will use the information to improve the college experience for future students by identifying strengths and growth areas within the university's academic programs. Alumni were asked to determine the skills they rely on most in the work force. Both groups of alumni reported that the top three demanded skills are problem solving and analytical reasoning, computer skills and working with a diverse group of people. "We will use the survey results to continue our focus on developing highly skilled workers and building a connected and diverse culture of learning that will prepare students for their professional lives in line with our vision to become a top 50 public research institution by 2025," said April Mason, university provost and senior vice president.

Not only are Kansas State University students learning some of the most important skills for their careers, but 96 percent of survey respondents also indicated that their quality of life has been enhanced by their undergraduate experience at the university. "The feedback is very important to me," Bosco said. "It shows alumni are not only extremely happy with their time and money spent for their K-State education, but more importantly they can directly associate their success to our faculty, staff and a classic college atmosphere. This represents the K-State brand." Additional information on the alumni survey -including a summary and full report -- is available at the office of assessment's website at kstate.edu/assessment/surveys/alumnisurvey/index. htm.

Local honored by KU math department Shkelzen Mansaku, of Manhattan, was among the students honored by the University of Kansas mathematics department, which recognized its undergraduate and graduate students and faculty for outstanding academic and teaching achievements at its 55th annual honors banquet April 24. Mansaku was named a NSF Graduate Research Assistants Summer Scholar 2012. Mansaku is a graduate student in mathematics.

Locals graduate from KU medicine school Two students from Manhattan graduated May 13 from the KU School of Medicine – Wichita with their medical doctor degrees and will soon begin their residency training. Molly Lindquist, M.D.,

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At least aging is good for a laugh

Photos courtesy Atlantic Records

Zac Brown Band (pictured) along with Toby Keith, The Band Perry and Luke Bryan headline this year’s Big 94.5 Country Stampede.

The only way to deal with growing older is with a sense of humor. As the years mount (which is better than the alternative), so do our aches, pains and medical bills. Our senses aren’t as sharp as they used to be, our bodies aren’t as agile and our minds aren’t as quick. But we’re still clinging to life, and that’s reason enough to look older age in the eye and chuckle. There are lots of funny stories about oldsters. Here are a few:

LOVE BITES

Four-day Stampede to feature Toby Keith, Zac Brown Band and more Staff reports

ou’re likely to see more red plastic cups than you could ever imagine as well as the man who consecrated them in song at this year’s Country Stampede. The four-day music fest, sponsored by Big 94.5, begins Thursday and runs through Sunday at Tuttle Creek State Park. Headliner and multi-platinum artist Toby Keith, whose 2011 ditty “Red Solo Cup” has become the anthem for keggers everywhere, will perform at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. The main-stage lineup also includes Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan, The Band Perry, Travis Tritt, John Michael Montgomery, Jerrod Niemann and many more. Attendees can also enjoy food and merchandise vendors and an arts and crafts show. Now in its 17th year, Stampede is the biggest annual music festival in Kansas. In 2011, it drew about 160,000 people. With so many people in one place, Stampede officials have offered the following tips to help fans have a safe, fun experience:

GOOD GUESS! Eighty-year-old Bessie bursts into the rec room at the retirement home. She holds her clenched fist in the air and announces, “Anyone who can guess what’s in my hand can have sex with me tonight!” An elderly man in the back of the room shouts, “An elephant?” Bessie thinks for a minute and says, “Close enough.”

OLD FRIENDS Photo courtesy Shock Ink

Toby Keith will raise up his “Red Solo Cup” along with 160,000 beer-drinking fans when he performs at the 17th-annual Country Stampede on Saturday night.

available at the water buffalos located around the festival grounds. Also, don't forget your sunscreen! You will be spending a lot of time under the sun. Applying sunscreen will prevent you from becoming one of those poor unfortunate lobster people IF YOU GO 1. Take care of that we see walking yourself For updates and around every year! Since this is an out- information visit door event, some simple countrystampede.com 2. Pack smart precautions must be The old saying that, "if taken to ensure a safe or call (800) 795-8091. you don't like the weathand happy weekend, but er in Kansas, just stick in the excitement of the event these things can be easy to over- around" is very true. While we expect look. Drink plenty of water. Bottled that the weather will be warm and water is available at all of our pop and sunny it's a good idea to pack for everybeer stands and free potable water is thing from cooler temperatures to rain just in case.

3. Come early

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The Band Perry will cap Country Stampede with a performance Sunday night.

Thursday 5 p.m.

Lucas Hoge

6:30 p.m. The Cleverlys 8 p.m.

THE FARM

9:30 p.m. Luke Bryan

Friday 2:30 p.m. Travis Marvin 4 p.m.

Thomas Rhett

5:30 p.m. Steve Holy

4. Familiarize yourself with the rules

9:30p.m. Toby Keith

5. Have fun and be safe

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Main stage schedule

Coming early in the day has a lot of advantages. Arriving before the big evening rush ensures you a better parking spot, getting parked faster, and if going general admission it allows you to get a closer place to set up your lawn chair. Coming early also allows you time to experience all the cool activities and vendor exhibits at Stampede, not to mention all the great entertainment you would otherwise miss out on. Gates open at 4pm on Thursday and 1pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Parking lots open at 8am.

Check out countrystampede.com and read our Tips, FAQ, and Camping Rules & Regulations before you come. There is a lot of great information on there about what you can and cannot bring to the festival, and other important festival policies.

Luke Bryan will be Thursday’s headlining act at Country Stampede.

An older couple were lying in bed one night. The husband was falling asleep, but the wife was in a romantic mood and wanted to talk. She said, “You used to hold my hand when we were courting.” Wearily, he reached across, held her hand for a second, then tried to get back to sleep. A few moments later she said, “Then you used to kiss me.” Mildly irritated, he leaned over, gave her a peck on the cheek and settled down to sleep. Thirty seconds later she said, “Then you used to bite my neck.” Angrily, he threw back the covers and got out of bed. “Where are you going?” she asked. “To get my teeth!”

Our aim is to put on a show that will leave you with unforgettably great memories. We need your help to make sure that happens, and following these tips and our rules and regulations is the best way help us accomplish that goal.

7:30 p.m. Travis Tritt 9:30 p.m. Zac Brown Band

Saturday 4 p.m.

JT Hodges

5:30 p.m. Jerrod Niemann

Two elderly ladies have been friends for decades. Over the years, they have shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities have been limited to playing cards. One day, they are playing cards when one looks at the other and says, “Now don’t get mad at me. . . I know we’ve been friends for a long time, but I just can’t think of your name. I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. Please tell me what your name is.” Her friend glares at her. For at least three minutes, she just stares and glares. Finally, she says, “How soon do you need to know?”

AGAINST THE GRAIN As a senior citizen was driving down the highway, his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Vernon, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on 125. Please be careful!” “Hell,” said Vernon, “it’s not just one car. It’s hundreds of them!”

EITHER, OR ... A little old lady who had lost her marbles was running up and down the halls of a nursing home. As she ran, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and yell, “Supersex!” She ran up to an elderly man in a wheelchair and, flipping her gown at him, she said, “Supersex!” He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered, “I’ll take the soup.”

ONE OR THE OTHER

2:30 p.m. Evidence of Journey

My wife Joyce and I have seen legendary country music star Little Jimmy Dickens, age 91, on the Grand Ole Opry several times. Each time, Jimmy tells the same jokes ... and they are always just as funny as when we heard them the first time. Last time (and several times before that), he recounted, “My wife said, ‘Honey, let’s run upstairs and make love!’ And I said, ‘I can’t do BOTH.’”

4 p.m.

Sweethearts of the Rodeo

CHECKING HIS ID

6 p.m.

John Michael Montgomery

8p.m.

The Band Perry

7:30 p.m. Brantley Gilbert

Sunday

And finally, this great story about longtime TV personality Art Linkletter: While speaking to a group of older adults at a retirement home, Art noticed a woman sitting on the front row, just smiling and nodding her head the whole time. When he finished, he walked up to her, handed her an autographed photo and said, “Do you know who I am?” To which she replied, “No, but if you go to the front desk, they’ll tell you.”

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RESCUE ME, by Rachel Gibson. Everyone in Lovett, Texas, wants to see Sadie married. Could Vince, a former Navy SEALs member, be the one?

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T H E A M A T E U R , by Edward Klein.A journalist argues that President Barack Obama is callow, arrogant and unable to lead.

New York Times News Service When Louise Brooks, the queen of silent-movie flappers, was a wicked little minx of 15, she traveled from Wichita, Kan., to New York City to study modern dance. It was summer 1922, and she was accompanied by Alice Mills, who Louise would later describe as "a stocky, bespectacled housewife of 36." In her memoir "Lulu in Hollywood," Louise barely remembered her traveling companion. She did sniff that she had "tolerated Mrs. Mills' provincialism because she shared my love of the theater." So why does Laura Moriarty make a fictionalized version of Louise's chaperon the main

T H E C H A P E R O N E , ' By Laura 'T Moriarty. 371 pages. Riverhead Books. $26.95. character in her novel about their New York trip? Louise would seem to warrant top billing. At 15, she already had the patent-leather bangs and mischievous abandon that would make her the epitome of 1920s screen glamour. By contrast, her chaperon, here named Cora Carlisle, is a fusty matron with no capacity for turning heads. "Cora had been told she had a kind, pleasant face, and that she was lucky to have good teeth," Moriarty writes. Still, "The Chaperone" sees Cora as an opportunity. She is 21 years older than Louise,

which gives the book a way to address generational change, and she has more than her share of big, dark secrets. Cora is a wife and mother who lives a staid Wichita life, so the freedom of jazz age New York will be liberating; "The Chaperone" is not subtle about this. It frequently mentions how constricting Cora's corset is and how much better she feels when she casts it off. Most important for the book's best-seller aspirations is Cora herself. She is one of those nonfamous, not so quick protagonists placed into the orbit of a great celebrity. (See "The Paris Wife.") She clings to benighted social attitudes that are guaranteed to change and will make readers feel

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IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis centers on the experiences of William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.

IT WORKED FOR ME , by Colin Powell with Tony Koltz. Rules for effective leadership from the fourstar general and former secretary of state.

KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy.

W I L D , by Cheryl Strayed. A woman's account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.

T H E P A S S A G E O F P O W E R , by Robert A. Caro. The fourth volume of "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" follows events from 1958 through the Kennedy assassination.

enlightened. (See "The Help.") Cora begins "The Chaperone" with quaint, even smug thoughts about racial integration, wifely submissiveness and maidenly virtue. "Louise, I'll put it to you plainly," she tells the far worldlier 15-yearold vamp. "Men don't want candy that's been unwrapped. Maybe for a lark, but not when it comes to marriage. It may still be perfectly clean, but if it's unwrapped, they don't know where it's been." This is a pokey start. But "The Chaperone" gradually reveals why Cora does not really believe in her own bromides. She is not what she seems. She's lying when she SEE

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Associated Press "The Wrong Man," the third legal thriller by David Ellis featuring lawyer Jason Kolarich, delivers several surprises and is a great read. Homeless veteran Tom Stoller is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He's accused of murder, and based on the evidence, his conviction appears to be a slam dunk. The Wrong Man " "T Kolarich believes Stoller (Putnam), by David is guilty, but Ellis. decides to defend him. But as he begins to investigate, Kolarich starts to believe that Stoller is innocent. Was he framed? The victim had many enemies, and Stoller may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Will uncovering the truth make Kolarich the next target? Ellis is an attorney, and he's also written several thrillers with James Patterson, so he knows the ins and outs of the courtroom and how to create suspense on the page. He has been writing terrific stories, and "The Wrong Man" is another outstanding effort. Readers not familiar with Ellis or his attorney character Kolarich will find this a great place to begin the proceedings.

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U N B R O K E N , by Laura Hillen2 brand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.

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Mark Haddon is best known for 2003's best-selling "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time," told from the point of view of an autistic teenager. Unfortunately, his new novel has little of the sweetness and humor of that gem. Instead, Haddon revisits well-trodden material and fails to provide any new insight in "The Red House," which tells the story of an estranged brother and sister who take their families on vacation together shortly after the death of their mother. Not surprisingly, Angela and Richard, who had spent "no more than an afternoon in each other's company over the last 15 years," and their families are thrown together for a week at a house in the English countryside — an obvious setup for drama. Big drama. In fact, so many crises get revealed and aired out in this 264-page novel that it starts to feel a bit like a Jerry Springer episode. The book's other major shortcoming is its characters. With only eight people to keep track of — two couples and four children, three of whom are teenagers — it shouldn't be a problem. But none, especially the adults, is particularly clearly drawn, leaving them muddled and difficult to tell apart. On the upside, Haddon's prose is lovely. "Time speeds up. A day becomes an hour, becomes a minute, becomes a second. Planes vanish first, cars are smeared into strings of colored smoke then fade to nothSEE

The Washington Post Until Monday, the go-to event at this weekend's annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America was titled "Sacramental-Liturgical Theology Since Vatican II: The Dialectic of Meaning and Performance." But that was before the nun sex book. That's shorthand now for the writings of Sister Margaret Farley, a 70something theological heavyweight, whose book, "Just Love" was censured by the Vatican this week for its empathy toward samesex marriage, masturbation and divorce, among other activities totally forbidden by Catholic teaching. Now the must-attend event for members of the world's largest group of theologians, is an interview with Farley, the group's past president and a matriarch of feminist theologians. Catholic sexual ethics, like everything else in American Catholicism — and perhaps America as a whole these days — is divided into two galaxies. There's the Farley-like camp at the Society, with more than 1,300 members, which has generally embraced more open, liberal interpretations of Catholic sexual ethics. They long ago OKed papal no-nos like premarital sex and same-sex relationships, and are more focused now on things like creating stable families led by equal partners and the impact of toy marketing and media on girls' moral values. Then there's masturbation. While banned by the church, Farley wrote, the practice is neither inherently good, or bad. "Self-pleasuring," Farley said, can help or harm "well-being or the liberty of spirit" — it depends. Women, in particular, she says "have found great good in self-pleasuring . . . something many had not experienced or even known about" with husbands and lovers. "In this way, it could be said that masturbation serves relationships

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FEARLESS, by Eric Blehm. A tribute to Adam Brown, a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, who was killed in Afghanistan.

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. The story of an Africa-American woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951.

Personal duel in the Arabian desert New York Times News Service The hero of Dave Eggers' absorbing new novel "A Hologram for the King" is a pennyante Job named Alan Clay, who finds himself in an absurd situation. Alan is deeply in debt, unable to pay his daughter's college tuition and plagued by a scary golf-ball-size lump on the back of his neck. He's betting everything on a last-ditch chance at a big payday, hoping he can sell the Saudi king, Abdullah, on a lucrative technology

contract — a conA HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING,' ventilated 'A he tract that depends By Dave Eggers. 312 pages. one employed on Alan's going to a McSweeney's. $25. in his dazremote real estate zling 2000 development in Saudi Arabia and making an debut book, "A Heartbreaking elaborate holographic presen- Work of Staggering Genius." tation to the king, who may or Gone are the self-conscious commentary and postmodern may not even show up. ''Hologram" is studded with pyrotechnics of "Genius." Gone allusions to a rich array of liter- too are the less effective exercisary classics, but Eggers uses a es in mimicry and pastiche feanew, pared down, Heming- tured in his 2002 novel "You wayesque voice to recount his Shall Know Our Velocity." Perhaps the remarkable act story, a voice that stands in sharp contrast to the baroque, hyper- of ventriloquism that Eggers

performed in his 2006 book "What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng," based on the real life story of a Sudanese refugee, awakened him to the possibilities of a simpler, more straight-ahead brand of storytelling. In any case, he demonstrates in "Hologram" that he is master of this more oldfashioned approach as much as he was a pioneering innovator with "Genius." In Eggers' telling, the 54-year-old Alan is not just SEE

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A summer invasion of aliens at the library The summer reading theme this year is “Dream Big,” and we have tied in lots of space decorations, stories and activities. Most popular among these are aliens – alien stories, crafts, games, and prizes. We even have rubber ducky aliens. So it seems like the perfect time for me to tout some of my favorite new reads starring beloved, or destructive, invaders from outer space. I got a kick out of Boom by Mark Haddon, who is best known for his popular adult book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. This scifi adventure is full of diary-of-a-wimpy-kid style humor, car and motorcycle chases, big

black, and a harrowing adventure for Charlie, Jimbo, and his sister, who turns out to be not quite as bad as he thought. I lisCHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN tened to this rollicking tale on blasts, space travel, even romance – it’s just got audiobook, which made it everything. James easier to understand (“Jimbo”) is a typical kid Jimbo’s British lingo. Boom reminded me of who is having some trouble in school, fights regu- Adam Rex’s The True larly with his annoying Meaning of Smekday, older sister, and often which has gained a large feels misunderstood. following of young readLuckily, his best friend ers, teens, college stuCharlie is right there with dents and science fiction him. When the two of them fans in general since it spy on staff in the teach- was published in 2007. It ers’ lounge at school, they has its own website: smekoverhear a mysterious day.com. The book is just conversation which leads plain weird and very hard to kidnappings, men in to explain, but the gist is

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that Gratuity Tucci (nicknamed Tip, hee hee) is traveling in an alien-engineered car, with an alien, across the country searching for her mother who was abducted when the Boov took over Earth and renamed it Smekland. Tip and her new friend, an AWOL alien Boov named J.Lo, discover something that might stop Earth’s total destruction, but it isn’t going to be an easy fix. Readers who love strange creatures and creative storylines will devour this 400-pager and come up looking for Rex’s newest book, Cold Cereal. The Daniel X series by James Patterson is in our young adult collection and will appeal to kids

Nuns and books and sex NO. 1, FROM PAGE D2 rather than hindering them." Her thinking was in keeping with that of many of her liberal colleagues. "Younger Catholic scholars are seeing a big divorce rate, a hook-up culture. [But] they aren't on the bandwagon of condemning. They just want to give people more sense of direction," said Lisa Sowle Cahill, a Boston College theologian who is interviewing Farley for the Friday night talk. Cahill added, rather sarcastically: "But some people would rather talk about masturbation, which is so much more important." More conservative thinkers join the muchsmaller Academy of Catholic Theology or Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. "I don't belong and I don't know of conservative theologians who do. We are definitely not welcome there," Janet Smith, a prominent moral theologian at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, said of the St. Louis event. Conservatives theologians argue that Catholic sexual ethics should not change with the times. Ethical behavior must also be judged differently in a sexual relationship than in other relationships, they say. The relationship must be between a man and a woman who are married, who don't use contraception and who view sex as a

means for procreation. The good of sexuality comes from the fact that it bonds two people and is tied to baby-making, said Eduardo Echeverria, a philosophy professor at Sacred Heart seminary who writes about sexual ethics. Masturbation violates both those things, he said, and can lead to using pornography or helping someone avoid fixing any sexual problems in their marriage. The fact that it feels good is meaningless, he said. "Adultery can produce pleasure, so can pedophilia. . . . Human sexuality has a nature, and it's toward union and the good of the other." While the more liberal sexual ethicists, like Farley, see their role as challenging official teaching to evolve with the times, traditionalists say being a Catholic theologian is about "trying to be faithful to what the church teaches . . . and to explore the content of revelation," Echeverria said. Theologians, Echeverria said, are divided deeply — like Catholics in general — over questions of whether scripture is the real and immutable word of God. What does it mean to be a committed Christian? What gets people like him, he said, is that the Theological Society-types barely address church teachings or people sup-

portive of church teachings in their arguments. "It's as if intelligent people can't really believe what the church teaches," Echeverria said. "There are all these [huge theologians in the past] who wanted to be faithful to the mind of the church, and it's as if, 'We don't bother to read these people." Farley, who has been challenging church teachings on the male-only priesthood and abortion for decades, is an author favored by liberals. On the right, the celebrity theologian is Christopher West, who used to do marriage preparation classes for the Washington Archdiocese and runs seminars and chats on the radio about Pope John Paul II's landmark "Theology of the Body." Meanwhile, the censure by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith continued Thursday to elevate Farley far beyond theological circles. Her book, which came out in 2006, remained in the top 20 bestsellers on Amazon, above "The Hunger Games" box set but below "Eat to Live." That's about 200,000 spots higher than where it sat before the censure was announced. "Have they seen 'Footloose' at the Vatican? Jeez," said Rocco Palmo, a popular blogger who writes about the Vatican and the U.S. clergy. Meaning: Forbidden fruit tastes better. In St. Louis, the Theological Society's board on

Thursday approved a statement in support of Farley, who has been comfortable in the center of controversial sexual and gender storms for decades. The board is "especially concerned," its statement read, about the Vatican's view of the role of theology. The notification by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith "risks giving the impression that there can be no constructive role in the life of the Church for works of theology that 1) give voice to the experience and concerns of ordinary believers, 2) raise questions about the persuasiveness of certain official Catholic positions, and 3) offer alternative theological frameworks as potentially helpful contributions to the authentic development of doctrine. " While many won't be in St. Louis this weekend, conservative sexual ethicists have had their own flurry of activity since the announcement of the notification, the first from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in five years. Colorado theologian E. Christian Brugger wrote a piece entitled "Three Cheers for the CDF." Others zapped around critical reviews from when Farley's book debuted in 2006. This week moral theologian William E. May called Farley's work "atrocious" and said she is arrogant. "People have gone into their own their own enclaves," Cahill said.

Personal duel in the desert NO. 2, FROM PAGE D2 another hapless loser undergoing a midlife crisis. Rather, his sad-funnydreamlike story unfolds to become an allegory about the frustrations of middleclass America, about the woes unemployed workers and sidelined entrepreneurs have experienced in a newly globalized world in which jobs are being outsourced abroad. We learn that Alan's father was the foreman at a Stride Rite shoe factory in Massachusetts, which in 1992 "ditched the unions and moved production to Kentucky" and then, five years later, to Thailand and China. Alan, for his part, sold bicycles, "and did fine, extremely well for a while there, until he and others decided to have other people, 10,000 miles away, build the things they sold, and soon left himself with nothing to sell." On Alan's way to Saudi Arabia a fellow passenger complains that America has "become a nation of indoor cats," a "nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers." A U.S. architect, who has designed a couple of the tallest buildings in the world, tells Alan he has been working for 10 years in Dubai, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and China, where "the dreaming's being done" now. And Alan himself thinks back on the trip he and his daughter, Kit, took to Cape Canaveral to watch one of the last shuttle flights, and how so many of the NASA employees they met were soon going to

be out of work. A summary of such moments may make "Hologram" sound like a schematic lesson on the United States' decline, but it's not. Thanks to Eggers' uncommon ability to access his characters' emotions and channel their every mood, we are instantly immersed in Alan's story, rooting for him somehow to win an audience with the king and turn his life around. He holes up in his Jidda hotel room, scrolling through the personal photos on his laptop, "the vast grid of his life in thumbnails," and like Saul Bellow's Herzog, writes letters he never sends. Vacillating between despair and hope, anxiety and optimism, he relives his failed marriage, his failed business endeavors, his fantasies of making the big score with the king and his fears that such hopes are nothing but a naive delusion. When a European woman named Hanne comes on to him, Alan finds himself wishing he could go home. All he wants to do is drink by himself and watch old Red Sox DVDs. "After the divorce he'd been angry for years," Eggers writes, "but at the same time he was alive. He'd laughed, he'd dated, he'd enjoyed the things he was expected to enjoy. But now he was something else." It doesn't take long for Alan to discover the incongruities of life in the kingdom, where the wretched

excesses made possible by oil money coexist with ancient mores regarding women, where a craving for the modern conveniences of life coexists with a deep suspicion of the West. In a society where, he is told, adultery is a crime that can be punished by death, Alan finds himself invited to a decadent private party featuring scantily clad women and lots of pills and booze. Some of Alan's adventures take on a decidedly Kafkaesque flavor. He goes on a long trip with his driver Yousef to Yousef's father's house, which resembles a castle in a remote village. Alan's grappling with the bureaucracy in King Abdullah Economic City, the urbanplanning development where he and his team are to make their holographic presentation to the king, is even more surreal. The development is supposed to become one of the kingdom's showplaces, a futuristic oasis of modernist architecture and relatively modern social mores, on the shores of the Red Sea. In Eggers' fictional riff on a real place, what Alan initially glimpses, however, is not the next Dubai or Abu Dhabi, but a collection of three modest buildings: a pastel-pink condominium, a two-story welcome center surrounded by fountains and a glass office building. If Alan and his team can make a persuasive presentation, the king might award the company they represent an information technology contract for the entire city. But the Wi-Fi

and the air-conditioning in the tent where they have set up their equipment are erratic, and day after day they go on waiting for the king, who fails to arrive. One worker tells Alan that the king "hasn't been here in a while" — a while being at least 18 months. Another day a newspaper reports that the king is in Yemen, which means he is not coming to King Abdullah Economic City. Later there are reports that the king is in Riyadh or traveling to Bahrain. The analogies to Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" seem completely intentional. The novel's epigraph is even taken from Vladimir's famous speech in that play, in which he says: "Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not." Eggers wisely does not strain to try to turn Alan's story into an existential parable of the human condition like "Godot." Instead, he has achieved something that is more modest and equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.

who love the Men in Black movies. Four books are out so far, plus a graphic novel. Daniel is an alien hunter, and the Earth happens to be quite infested with them. He’s only fifteen but has some amazing super powers, including the ability to get anything he needs simply by imagining it. Fast paced with plenty of explosions, slimy aliens, big guns and cute teenage girls, Daniel X is a perfect summer series for middle school guys who are tired of “reading list” books. Children’s librarians Jessica Long and Rachel Carnes both recommended Aliens on Vacation by Clete Barrett Smith. When David, aka Scrub, is shipped off to his estranged grandma’s house for the summer, he doesn’t know what to expect. She runs The Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast, which seems like a silly name until he meets the boarders, including a family walking down the hall on all fours, a little boy with weird lumps all over his head, and other guests that are almost perfectly round. The b & b really is intergalactic! With visitors arriving from all over outer space, Scrub spends his summer vacation helping his grandma try to make the aliens look human while they take a holiday on our primitive planet. Laddertop by Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, is the first volume in a new graphic novel series, co-authored with the writer’s daughter Emily Janice Card and with energetic illustrations by Honoel Ibardolaza. Set in a future

Earth, kids who are smart and meet certain criteria (like being short) are chosen to attend the elite Laddertop Academy. Extraterrestrials who visited the planet years ago constructed four ladders that have become portals to the stars, rising 36,000 miles into space. Now humans can use raw materials from asteroids and even begin to colonize space. However, much of what happens at Laddertop remains a mystery to everyone left down below. Why did “the Givers” really build those ladders? And why must children be recruited to operate them? Nevertheless, it is feisty Azure’s dream to go to Laddertop, and her best friend Robbi’s secret dream as well. When both girls are chosen to go through the training and test phase, some inexplicable, strange things begin happening. This volume came out in the fall, and I hope we will not have to wait too long for the next issue. For a more informational approach, kids will love poring over Allen Gray’s Alienology, a combination of fact and fiction (or supposed fiction, depending on where you stand in the alien debate) packed with illustrations, textured pictures, liftthe-flaps, guides, diagrams and charts. The library has one copy that can be checked out and one that stays here on our “novelty book” cart with other interactive and pop-up books. So blast off to the library for close encounters of the literary kind. Summer reading prizes and activities continue through the end of July.

A girl in the orbit of celebrity NO. 3, FROM PAGE D2 says she has never been to New York. She was once Cora X, relegated to a Manhattan orphanage until she was sent west with a train load of other orphans seeking adoption. While Louise hopes to be on stages as a star, Cora spent time on Midwestern stages where the train stopped, being sized up by potential adoptive parents (many of whom turned her down). She did wind up being raised by a good-hearted couple on a Kansas farm. So Cora has her own New York agenda. While Louise pursues the relatively uninteresting goals of flirting with strangers, swilling gin (during Prohibition) and advancing her career, Cora keeps busy tugging at the reader's heart. She wants to know where she came from. She wants to know who her parents were. And although Cora does not initially know it, she wants to behave in risque ways that will eventually make Louise seem the more staid of the pair. ''The Chaperone" gets better as Moriarty lets Cora grow some backbone, talk straight and reach out for what she really wants. It also makes her a very decent person. In a book that involves a number of teenage mothers and unwanted children, she finds ample opportunity to repay the kindnesses done to her in those Cora X days. Yet the novel depends on contrivance to let Cora's story unfold so neatly. Much of the justification for her New York makeover can be found in the 19-year-old newspaper announcement of Cora's marriage to Alan Carlisle, a prosperous lawyer who was many years her senior and had previously been one of Wichita's most eligible bachelors. How pat do things get? Moriarty has Cora reading "The Age of Innocence," and contemplating the cowardice of Newland Archer in the face of New York societal pressures, while Louise

harshly condemns him. "He's an idiot," says the girl who never suffered fools gladly. "He deserves his misery. But I don't know that he deserves a book." Louise's own reading taste runs to Schopenhauer, whose audacious worldview horrifies Cora at first. While most of "The Chaperone" is about the single summer during which Louise and Cora were New York roommates, the peculiarly paced novel returns to Wichita, where Cora reemerges with a potentially shocking new design for living and some new convictions. (She becomes an outspoken advocate for birth control.) Then it speeds up enormously, letting decades and generations pass by quickly. Even as the world is changed by the Depression and World War II, "The Chaperone" stays genteel. When Kansas went Dust Bowl dry, Moriarty notes that Wichita had to abandon its gardening club. While Louise never really looked back, "The Chaperone" keeps track of her later life — the years as a Ziegfeld girl and screen star — only distantly. (The cover does show her with a different coiffure, as one way of defying readers' expectations.) Cora remains center stage, and Moriarty summarizes her favorite chameleon's many changes in the last paragraph. It turns out she could be talking about either of the women when she writes, "She knew who she was."

Light on sweetness NO. 4, FROM PAGE D2 ing." Or this: "The witching hour. Deep in the watches of the night, when the old and the weak and the sick let go and the membrane between this world and the other stretches almost to nothing." And the writing is just about enough to keep readers engaged.

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Daughter’s salute to dad honors them all Universal Press Syndicate DEAR ABBY: It’s Father’s Day and I’d like to salute one particular unsung hero — my dad. He was there for me and my sister despite a difficult workload throughout our childhood. He has always been generous with love and affection, and I have no doubt that he has sacrificed things he wanted personally for our benefit. Dad has been the calming voice during times of strife. He can fix anything from a broken washing machine to a broken heart. He has not only nurtured us, but our children as well. He has been our role model when it comes to setting an example of what a man, husband,

father and grandfather should be. He is never judgmental and has always shown us the best in ourselves. He’s consistent in his love of God, country and family. He is patient, kind, generous and smart in ways I only wish I could be. To top it off, he found us the best mother we could have hoped for. They have been married 58 years. My unsung hero doesn’t wear a cape, but I do believe he has certainly earned a halo. — SHARON IN BRANDON, FLA. DEAR SHARON: What a sweet letter. I’m printing it to honor not only your father but also the millions of men who dedicate themselves daily to raising their children with love and support. In addition,

DEAR ABBY ADVICE I’d like to extend a Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere — not only birth fathers but also stepfathers, foster fathers and those caring individuals who mentor youngsters whose parents are absent or deceased. Bless you all. DEAR ABBY: Will you please help librarians across the country clarify something that is generally misrepresented to the public? Patrons who need assistance operating a comput-

er MAY be able to get help at their local library. That’s ‘‘may,’’ not ‘‘can.’’ Too often, people are instructed to go to their library and use a computer to file taxes, redeem a gift, print pictures, etc. The fact is, not every library has computers with Internet access. Most do, but not all. Further, many libraries lack sufficient staff to offer one-on-one support to operate a computer. To someone who is proficient, it may seem strange that a person can’t simply lay a hand on a mouse and go. The reality is, computers and the Internet are not intuitive to those who haven’t been exposed to them — and there are many. While I don’t know of a

librarian who wouldn’t like to offer unlimited assistance to computer users, libraries nationwide are losing staff due to budget cuts. At the same time, use of libraries is steadily increasing. It’s frustrating to disappoint patrons who expect to receive instruction in computer operation. We prefer they leave our building happy. So, Abby, please spread the word. Computers and Internet services vary from library to library. Readers should ask their librarian about what services are available at their local branch. — CONCERNED CITIZEN, EASTHAMPTON, MASS. DEAR CONCERNED CITIZEN: Thank you for shining a light on this

important subject. Readers, if this letter is as disturbing to you as it is to me, write your congressional representative and express your concern. For lower- and middle-income people of every age, libraries have performed — and continue to perform — a vital function. Their budgets must not be slashed to the point that they can no longer fulfill their mission of informing and educating the public. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Frank Cady LOS ANGELES — Frank Cady, a character actor best known as the general-store owner on the TV sitcom ‘‘Green Acres,’’ died June 8 at his home in Wilsonville, Ore. He was 96. Cady played Sam Drucker, one of the less loony denizens of Hooterville in ‘‘Green Acres.’’ The show, about a New York couple who left the big city to live on a rundown farm, ran from 1965 to 1971. Cady played the same character in TV’s ‘‘Petticoat Junction’’ and ‘‘The Beverly Hillbillies.’’ He also had a recurring role as Doc Williams on ‘‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.’’ Cady and his wife, Shirley, moved to Oregon in the 1990s. She died in 2008.

Frances Williams Preston NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Frances Williams Preston, who worked with top songwriters as president of the royalties company Broadcast Music Inc., died June 13. She was 83. Preston was president of New York-

based BMI, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, from 1986 to 2004. Before that, she was head of the company’s office in Nashville, where she was born and grew up. During her career, Preston worked with dozens of artists, including Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings and Tammy Wynette. As BMI president, she oversaw a company that represented Paul Simon, Janet Jackson, Sting and others. In 1998, Preston received the highest Grammy award given to a non-performer, the National Trustees Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She was a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Henry Hill LOS ANGELES — Henry Hill, whose life as a mobster and FBI informant was the basis for the Martin Scorsese film ‘‘Goodfellas,’’ died in a Los Angeles hospital after a long illness. He was 69.

An associate in New York’s Lucchese crime family, Hill was a small-time gangster who became a big-time celebrity by telling detailed, disturbing and often hilarious tales of mob life, first in the 1986 book ‘‘Wiseguy’’ and later in 1990’s instant classic ‘‘Goodfellas,’’ starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta as Hill, a young hoodlum who thrives in the Mafia but later turns on his friends and enters witness protection.

J. Michael Riva NEW ORLEANS — Oscar-nominated production designer J. Michael Riva, whose film credits include ‘‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’’ ‘‘A Few Good Men’’ and ‘‘The Pursuit of Happyness,’’ died June 7 after suffering a stroke in New Orleans. He was 63. Riva earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on 1985’s ‘‘The Color Purple.’’

Ann Rutherford LOS ANGELES — Ann Rutherford, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s sister Carreen in the 1939 movie classic ‘‘Gone With the Wind,’’ died June 11. She was 94.

Rutherford was playing Mickey Rooney’s girlfriend Polly Benedict in MGM’s Andy Hardy series when she got the role in ‘‘Gone With the Wind.’’ Rutherford said in 2010 that MGM head Louis B. Mayer was going to refuse her the part. But Rutherford, who was a fan of the novel, burst into tears and he relented. Rutherford continued to make Andy Hardy movies and later appeared in other films, including 1947’s ‘‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,’’ and on television before retiring in 1976.

Pete Cosey CHICAGO — Pete Cosey, an innovative guitarist who brought his distinctive distorted sound to recordings with Miles Davis, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, died May 30. He was 68. Cosey was born in Chicago, and later moved to Arizona, where he started to develop his unique sound. In the 1960s, Cosey was a member of the studio band at Chess Records in Chicago, where he played with Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Cosey also played on many of Miles Davis’ boundary-pushing recordings in the 1970s.

‘Car Talk’s’ last lap: Click and Clack to retire; fans mourn Rene Lynch L.A. Times LOS ANGELES - “Click and Clack,” the mechanics-turned-comedians who launched one of the most unlikely - and most beloved - talk shows in radio history, have decided that 35 years at the wheel is enough. Brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi have announced that they will no longer record new episodes of the weekly call-in series, but it will continue to live on in syndication. The loss of the popular

public radio show is a blow to NPR, and its listeners. The show was one of NPR’s powerhouse performers, in part because it appealed to such a diverse audience. People who had no interest in cars, or weren’t the least bit mechanically inclined, were among the most devoted listeners tuning in for the radio magic that took place when the brothers began playing off each other. “We’re certainly disappointed that they’re not going to do this forever. But ... they’ve earned

this,” Eric Nuzum, vice president for NPR Programming, said. NPR President and Chief Executive Gary Knell sought to put a positive spin on the development. “I’m thrilled that they will continue to entertain and engage today’s fans and future fans for many years to come.” It will be no surprise to fans of the show that the pair announced their departure with their trademark humor, which has been described as equal parts Marx Brothers, Mark Twain

and Mr. Goodwrench. “My brother has always been ‘work-averse,’” Ray Magliozzi, 63, said. “Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him!” “It’s brutal!” chimed in Tom Magliozzi, 74. The pair said they decided it was time to “stop and smell the cappuccino.” The brothers began making “Car Talk” in Boston 35 years ago. It captured audiences there, and soon became a mainstay on NPR member stations - remaining so for 25 years.

Plans for Oreos’ historic home draw fire Karen Matthews Associated Press NEW YORK — One hundred years after the introduction of the Oreo, an expansion plan at the iconic cookie’s New York City birthplace has left a bitter taste in the mouths of its neighbors. Community activists say the two new towers that developer Jamestown Properties wants to affix to the historic factory known as Chelsea Market would be eyesores and would increase traffic and congestion. But the company that bought a majority stake in Chelsea Market in 2003 says the block-long complex — home to the Food Network, Google and a tourist-friendly ground-floor food mall — must grow if it is to thrive. Jamestown’s plan to mount a new 250-foot (75-meter) box-like structure atop Chelsea Market’s western section and a similar 150-foot (45-meter) structure on the eastern side is going through an approval process that will likely end with a City Council vote later this year. Foodies outside New York may know Chelsea Market from cable TV shows like ‘‘Chopped’’ and ‘‘Food Network Stars’’ that are shot there. Its soup-to-nuts retail shops sell live lobsters, imported pasta and high-end cupcakes. ‘‘This is the American epicenter of food culture,’’ said Michael Phillips, chief operating officer for Jamestown. The market draws an average of 15,000 daily visitors, many of them tourists aiming cellphone cameras at architectural details like massive pipes and corrugated metal that recall the building’s industrial past.

‘‘I always like old buildings that have been refurbished,’’ said Paul Hofer, visiting from Horsham, Pa. ‘‘I find these places intriguing.’’ Chelsea Market’s walls are decked out with artifacts from its heyday as the home of Nabisco, formerly the National Biscuit Co. A March 8, 1912, letter documents the sale of a shipment of the Oreo ‘‘variety’’ of biscuits to one S.C. Thusen of Hoboken, N.J. Tourists don’t see the 915,000 square feet (85.000 square meters) of office space above. In addition to Google and the Food Network, tenants include all-news TV station New York 1 and Major League Baseball’s website mlb.com. In an interview in Jamestown’s offices five floors above a kitchen-supply store, Phillips suggested that by expanding Chelsea Market the developer can attract more of the high-tech companies that exemplify Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s vision of New York as Silicon Alley, challenging California for geek supremacy. ‘‘This is a perfect neighbor for people in this neighborhood,’’ Phillips said. ‘‘This is a clean industry, it’s people who bike to work and use public transportation and work at varying hours so you have less of a rush-hour dynamic.’’ Preservationists disagree. ‘‘The complex which is an icon of adaptive reuse is wonderful and successful as it is,’’ said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. ‘‘Plopping an office tower or a hotel on top of it will only take away from what makes it so successful and attractive to New Yorkers and tourists alike.’’

A March 6 editorial in a neighborhood newspaper called the expansion plan ‘‘aesthetically ridiculous and with serious and negative effects on this mostly residential community.’’ A few dozen foes attended a May 31 committee meeting of the local community board devoted to Chelsea Market, waving signs and cheering when board members criticized the proposal. ‘‘I don’t think it will be aesthetically pleasing,’’ said retired teacher Carol Demech. ‘‘It’s just not a benefit for the neighborhood.’’ Details of the proposal are in flux. A hotel slated for Chelsea Market’s eastern side may morph into offices after opponents said the neighborhood already has a surfeit of trendy hotels. Plans submitted earlier this year to the community board show 240,000 square feet (22,300 square meters) of office space in a glass-and-steel box perched atop the existing structure’s western side. At the committee meeting, board member Joe Restuccia called that addition ‘‘a goddamn spaceship that didn’t land.’’ But Jamestown officials presented a new version at the meeting, with the glass and steel replaced by a terra cotta facade that looks more similar to the existing structure’s red brick. The full community board voted June 6 to deny the zoning changes that the project would require unless a laundry list of conditions are met, including the construction of affordable housing elsewhere in the neighborhood. The vote is advisory, and the project will now go to the Manhattan borough president, the Planning Commission and the City Council.

Ostensibly, the call-in show is about car stuff. But it’s actually about much, much more than that. “We’ve managed to avoid getting thrown off NPR for 25 years, given tens of thousands of wrong answers and had a hell of a time every week talking to callers,” Ray Magliozzi said. “The stuff in our archives still makes us laugh. So we figured, why keep slaving over a hot microphone?” Beginning in October, the “Car Talk” production team will unveil new shows built from “the best of” the archives, which include more than 1,200 shows. The brothers will still write their twice-weekly “Dear Tom and Ray” column. The brothers left open the possibility that they might return to the airwaves for special occasions, or perhaps even something new. They ended a note to fans with this: “Thank

you for giving us far more of your time than we ever deserved. We love you. And know that starting this fall, for the first time, we’ll be able to sit at home, laughing at ‘Car Talk’ along with you guys on Saturday mornings.” Fans, meanwhile, were officially in mourning. Said one commenter on the website: “I stopped caring about cars when I graduated high school. But, that didn’t stop me from passively listening and laughing most Saturday mornings while out and about running errands. The biggest lesson I’ve learned from listening to Car Talk over the years? Strive to be more like Tom and Ray. Your obvious love of life, your strong relationship, the approachable and goeasy attitude, all things we should all strive to replicate. Thank you for your impact and years of service, best wishes in retirement.” It was signed, “Your most unlikely fan.”

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Cultural events in the city occurring this week Today Riley County Genealogical Society Lecture: "140 Years of Soul: AfricanAmericans in Manhattan, Kansas 1865-2005" by Geraldine Baker Walton, 2 p.m. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Manhattan Juneteenth Committee. Manhattan Public Library Auditorium. Jazz Brunch, 10 a.m.noon. Bluestem Bistro. Wayne Goins Jazz Trio, 68 p.m. dellaVoce.

Monday Toddler Storytime, 10 a.m. For other storytimes times, visit www.manhattan.lib.ks.us. Manhattan Public Library. Manhattan Arts Center auditions for “All My Sons,” 7-9 p.m. Also Tuesday. Roles are available for 4 females with one 20-30, one 50-60 and two 30-50. Five male parts are also available including one 2030, one 30-40, one 50-60 and two 30-50. There is also a part available for one male or female innocent and charming child. “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller, follows the Keller family who

are in a state of sadness over the loss of their son/brother, Larry, in World War II. Larry's memorial tree blows over and uproots a devastating family secret, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards the truth. The performance dates are September 28-30 and October 4-7. For more information, visit manhattanarts. org or call (785) 537-4420.

Tuesday Sing-a-Long with Mr. Steve, 9:30 a.m. Bluestem Bistro. Manhattan Municipal Band, 7:30 p.m. Larry Norvell Band Shell, City Park. Flint Hills Chapter PFLAG and the Flint Hills Human Rights Project Educational Meeting featuring the “Best Selling Gay-Themed Film” on Amazon Instant Video: “You Should Meet My Son,” 7 p.m. A fish-out-of-thewater comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won’t go through life alone and miserable, she sets out to find him the perfect husband. First Congre-

gational United Church of Christ, 700 Poyntz Ave.

Wednesday Downtown Farmers’ Market, 4-7 p.m. CiCo Park.

Arts in the Park presents the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, 8 p.m. Traditional Steep Pan music from the Island of Trinidad. Free. Larry Norvell Band Shell.

Thursday Country Stampede, through Sunday. Thursday features Luke Bryan. Friday night features Travis Tritt and the Zac Brown Band. Saturday features Jerrod Niemann, Brantley Gilbert and Toby Keith. Sunday features John Michael Montgomery and The Band Perry. For ticket information and a complete line-up, visit countrystampede.com. Teen Summer Reading: Constellations, Astrology and the Zodia, 2-3 p.m. What's a constellations? Which ones can I see this summer? What is my Zodiac sign and where do those things come from? Get answers to these questions and get ready for our Teen Star-Gazing on June 23 during this program. Manhattan Public Library.

Friday Kids’ Movie: “Sleeping Beauty,” 10 a.m. Free. Manhattan Public Library.

Saturday Flint Hills Farmers' Market, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Staples/Hobby Lobby parking lot. Three of a Kind, 10:30 p.m. O’Malley’s. Downtown Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Fifth and Humboldt. Territorial Governor’s Day, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary for Kansas statehood and the start of the Civil War. Featuring presentations, activities for children, food vendors and historic reenactors portraying events and historic Kansans from 157 years ago. Partners of the First Territorial Capitol starts at 1 p.m. Free. Visitors must present photo identification to enter the post. Fort Riley.

Ongoing Close to Home, through June 19. Photographs by

Scott Bean. William T. Kemper Art Gallery, KState Student Union, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. MAC Watercolor Studio Exhibit: “PAINT. PAINT. PAINT.” Through July 14.This unique yearly exhibit from Manhattan area artists includes a variety of themes such as landscapes, still lifes, portraits and floral paintings. The Watercolor Studio has met weekly at the Arts Center for the past fourteen years and has had an annual exhibition for the past thirteen years. Also in the galleries from June 2-July 14 is MAC's Oil Painting Studio in the front gallery. This is the Oil Painting Studio's debut exhibition at MAC. This studio is a recent addition to the Arts Center and strives to introduce the medium to those interested as well as providing a place where area painters can get together for feedback and inspiration. Manhattan Arts Center, noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday. The Owl and the Pussycat and Under Kansas

Skies, through July 28. Featuring abstract paintings by Jane Booth and a selection of Kansas landscape paintings. Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406 œ Poyntz Avenue, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Quiet Symmetry: The Ceramic Art of Yoshiro Ikeda, through September 2. An internationally known artist in clay and a Distinguished Professor of Ceramics at Kansas State University, Yoshiro Ikeda has for nearly four decades produced sculptural vessels that reflect on an ultimate harmony in nature. Beach Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. To place an item here and on The Mercury’s web-site, please go to www.themercury.com/calendar. Hit the “click to submit an event” button and follow the directions. If mailing in, send to A&E Calendar, The Manhattan Mercury, P.O. Box 787, Manhattan, KS 66505. Deadline is noon on Wednesday for the following Sunday. It’s a free service of The Manhattan Mercury.

Much rides for Disney on success of CarsLand (c) 2012, Bloomberg News LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co. opened the Cars Land attraction in suburban Anaheim to the public Friday, part of its largest investment ever in the theme-park unit. The implications are broad for both earnings and succession at the world's largest entertainment company. The 12-acre addition at California Adventure, next door to Disneyland, takes guests through the fictional town of Radiator Springs from the two "Cars" movies. More than 4,000 tons of steel and 280,000 feet (85 kilometers) of rock work were installed, including mountains shaped like vin-

tage Cadillac tail fins. The $1.1 billion remodeling of California Adventure, including Cars Land, is part of a multiyear expansion of the parks and resorts division that adds two more cruise ships, attractions in Orlando and Hong Kong, and a $4.4 billion Shanghai park scheduled for 2015. Disney has raised prices in Anaheim in a bet the new rides will draw consumers even as the economic recovery remains tentative. It's a crucial test, too, for Thomas Staggs, who moved over to lead the parks unit in 2010 after 12 years as Disney's chief financial officer. He is seen by investors, along with Chief Financial

Officer Jay Rasulo, as a contender to be named chief executive of Burbank, California-based Disney when Robert Iger relinquishes the title in March 2015. "Bob had to take Tom out of his comfort zone to give him operational experience at what is the soul of the company, the parks," said David Miller, an analyst who follows Disney for Caris & Co. in Los Angeles. "If you took a poll of 100 portfolio managers, 55 percent would say Staggs gets the job, 45 percent Rasulo. Mr. Staggs has the leg up." Staggs said he is content where he is. "You get to open a park like this, makes me feel like

I've got one of best jobs in the world," Staggs said Wednesday. "I'm not anxious about going anywhere any time soon, so as long as I can keep doing this I'm happy." Parks and resorts is Disney's second-largest unit, after its television networks, accounting for 29 percent of sales and 18 percent of profit in fiscal 2011. The networks, led by ESPN and Disney Channel, generated almost four times the parks unit's $1.55 billion in profit, on about 1 1/2 times its $11.8 billion in revenue. The choices to fix California Adventure and invest in other leisure businesses were made over the

past five years, even as the company was offering discounts to entice recessionconscious travelers to its parks, Iger said. "It's a long game, it's not a short game," he said. "The decisions were made when we thought the opportunities existed and the time was right." The company invested $2.7 billion in its parks division last year, up from $933 million in 2008, according to Disney filings. "We've got a real bubble in terms of investment, but also a real surge in opportunity going forward," Staggs told Bloomberg Television at the launch of the Disney Fantasy cruise ship in March.

Todd Juenger, an analyst who follows the stock at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York, said he expects operating income at the parks division to top $2.4 billion next year, a 55 percent increase from 2011, as global tourism rises and Disney's new projects come online. Attendance at the parks worldwide climbed 5 percent in the company's second fiscal quarter that ended March 31, while revenue in the unit gained 10 percent to $2.9 billion. Attendance at Disneyland set a record, the company said. California Adventure was considered a flop after it opened in 2001.

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HELOISE HouseHold Hints King Features Syndicate Dear Heloise: Reading about others’ situations (about MONEY HIDDEN by older family members) reminded me of my mother placing quite a bit of cash in a plastic margarine container and placing it in her freezer (in case the banks failed). After my mother fell and broke her hip, there were ladies who stayed with her in her home. One of the ladies decided to throw away everything in the freezer, including the margarine container. — Sharon in Texas Oh no! I’m sure she just thought she was helping! Guess the lesson here for others helping out: Open it before throwing it out! Many older folks (and some younger, too) do hide money in unusual places around the house! — Heloise COVER YOUR DUVET Dear Heloise: How does a person put a duvet into a duvet cover without a wrestling match or standing on the bed and shaking it in as you would a huge, heavy, unwieldy pillow? — Susan in Annville, Pa. Susan, I’m sure many

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people have wrestled with this same problem! Here is a suggestion: Turn the duvet cover inside out. Lay the duvet on a flat surface and match one side of corners with the cover. If you have a problem with the duvet bunching up in the duvet cover, you can safety-pin the corners if you want. Have a helper reach in and hold the corners while you slowly turn the duvet cover right side out around the duvet. It’s just like putting a pillowcase on an oversized pillow. Hope this makes the job a little easier. — Heloise CARD CADDIE Dear Heloise: I use a small photo-album book for business cards. I get two cards to each side of the page. When I need them, I just go through the pages, and there they are,

in clear view. I also keep one in the kitchen for recipes. The index cards fit each page perfectly. — Martha in California CLEAN SHEET Dear Heloise: My office came up with a hint to save paper. Instead of using a new cover sheet every time we fax, we made a basic one and laminated it. There are a few dryerase markers by the fax machine for filling in the recipient information. — Joyce in Colorado SOUND OFF Dear Heloise: I read about the person who did not like the black cords on white appliances. I can go her one better: white pockets in men’s black pants. While standing, the white does not show, but when he sits, the white shows big-time. — Jessie in Virginia

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Platters soared with Reed 2012 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - Herb Reed of the Platters, who died June 4 in Boston at age 83, was the last surviving original member of the great ’50s R&B and doo-wop group known for its soaring operatic hits “The Great Pretender,” “Only You,” “Twilight Time,” “My Prayer” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” Reed’s glorious bass voice anchored the group’s sound, keeping the music rooted to the earth as tenor Tony Williams took those songs and dozens of others upward into the musical stratosphere. To the casual pop music fan, it’s easy to lump the Platters with the Coasters, the Drifters, the Penguins, the Clovers and other early R&B and doo-wop groups of the ’50s. That’s partly because, for so many of these vocal groups, their identity began and ended with the name - they weren’t differentiated into superstar guitarists or drummers or even lead singers, but made their mark by harmonizing together. Clyde McPhatter became a rare exception when he left the Drifters to chart a solo career that gave him an individual identity, but for the most part, it was the collective that fans knew and loved. Reed and Williams first got together with tenor David Lynch, soprano Zola Taylor and baritone Paul Robi in Los Angeles in the early ’50s, and it’s usually Williams’ voice that one heard first in their mix. But “My Prayer” provides a great example of what Reed contributed time and again. After Williams sings the opening line, a cappella, “When the twilight is gone,” the other Platters answer and support him with an elongated “gone” in which Reed’s oaky bass is not only heard but also palpably felt. That’s historically the role the bass voice serves in gospel, pop and classical music: It’s the soul, reaching to the deepest parts of the human heart. It’s appropriate to reference classical music when discussing the Platters because their signature sound tapped much the same sweep and grandeur of great operatic arias. The group’s manager, producer and sometimes songwriter Buck Ram, who had shepherded the career of the Ink Spots a decade earlier, had a great ear for what would appeal to more than just the African American listeners who still bought the majority of R&B records in the early ’50s when the Platters came around. Ram sweetened their records with strings, and he got the five singers to apply their vibrant harmonies to many songs that had previously been hits in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, giving them an air of familiarity for a broad swath of music fans. “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” had been a No. 1 hit in 1934 for the great bandleader Paul Whiteman, Glenn Miller had reached No. 2 with “My Prayer” in 1939, and “Twilight Time” had been a top 10 hit in 1944 for the Three Suns. The Platters brought a new pulse and sensuality to the material, but also elegance and sophistication that were more transcendent and ethereal than the gritty sexuality of the likes of Ruth Brown and Etta James. The Platters created a blueprint for towering pop music that would later be exploited mag-

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Seattle Center continues to evolve Donna Gordon Blackinship Associated Press SEATTLE — Fifty years after the World’s Fair inserted the Space Needle into Seattle’s skyline, the city is celebrating that anniversary by offering an array of new things to see and do at Seattle Center: from a zip line to a new art glass museum. Seattle’s 74-acre gathering place has been gradually reinventing itself for years, with a new opera house and a rock ‘n roll museum designed by Frank Gehry. This year’s changes may be the most dramatic since the Experience Music Project opened in June 2000. The rides and games that have been around since 1962 have all but disappeared. Glass art, a sophisticated new restaurant, history displays and a temporary playground filled with blow-up toys have taken their place. Beyond the connection to the World’s Fair, Seattle Center isn’t easy to describe. If it were in New York City, for example, it might be described as a cross between Lincoln Center and Central Park, but with a lot fewer trees. It’s a large park, filled with public art and grassy picnic areas and home to more than 30 arts and cultural organizations. The

220-foot wide International Fountain, which shoots musically choreographed water from 137 nozzles as high as 120 feet into the air, is its most popular attraction, especially on warm summer days. ‘‘We’re going to try to touch the fountain without getting wet,’’ said Mark Kleisath, a visitor from Walnut Creek, Calif., who was in town to see his daughter get her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. They stuck to free activities at the center, including stopping by the EMP to see how the Space Needle reflected in its metal exterior. Including the EMP, four museums are scattered around the campus, from the Pacific Science Center to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new visitor’s center and the Children’s Museum. Sports teams, movies and rock shows make regular stops and the city’s biggest festivals all take place at Seattle Center. Not all this fun is free, however, including the beautiful but pricey new glass art exhibit, Chihuly Garden and Glass. You could just peek over the hedge at the garden, but you’d miss some of the coolest installations including one of Dale Chihuly’s mesmerizingly bright glass ceilings and an unusually shaped glass

house that seems destined for wedding receptions. Families with young children might want to skip the exhibition and go straight to the restaurant filled with Chihuly’s personal collections of toys and other objects. Some will leave the Collections Cafe with a free booklet chronicling Chihuly’s collections of old radios, ceramic dogs, bottle openers, etc. Of course, it might be fun to see if your toddler will try to crawl into the displays. Leslie Jackson Chihuly isn’t worried about breakage because she says her husband’s work has traveled around the world but is seldom broken by overeager art

patrons. She expects the little ones will really enjoy the bright colors. The Chihulys are hopeful the exhibit right under the Space Needle will attract thousands of new visitors to center. Some people protested the idea of adding a new commercial venture to the campus, but Seattle Center director Robert Nellams says it’s important to find the right balance between free events and attractions that generate revenue. The Seattle City Council doesn’t have extra money to pump into the place. City tax dollars already cover about 35 percent of Seattle Center’s about $35 million annual budget.

The zip line, which costs $7.50 to ride, was added to answer criticism when the fun forest was removed. It’s part of an area called ‘‘playway.’’ Here’s some Seattle Center trivia to store away: the area of rides and games was called ‘‘gay way’’ when it opened during the World’s Fair. For more trivia and historical facts about the World’s Fair or Seattle Center, stop by the history exhibits that are part of the 50th anniversary celebration. ‘‘There a lot to see and do here,’’ said Brenda Tubbs of North Bend, Wash., who brought family visiting from Utah to Seattle Center.

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‘Madagascar 3’ employs familiar formula fairly well If Dreamworks knows anything beyond animation, it is how to stick to a formula that has worked for them. “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” follows the awkward anthropomorphic animals on the move pattern only slightly modified by the addition of 3D and the spectacle that inspires. The story begins in Africa, where Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) is homesick for the fame and attention he had at the zoo in New York. Marty the zebra

(Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) attempt to cheer up their leonine friend, but it only serves to make him miss home more. Rather than wait for the doubtful return of the penguins in their monkey-powered airplane, Alex and his companions decide to go to Monte Carlo on their own and meet the penguins. With no elaboration of their journey from Africa, the four animals wind up

CHRISTOPHER K. CONNER ARTS CRITIC offshore and compile a Mission Impossible style plan to sneak into the casino, retrieve the penguins and force them to return to New York. Of course things don’t go as planned and the various animals find themselves being pursued

Helen Reddy to roar again Barbara Jones L.A. Daily News Four decades after ‘‘I Am Woman’’ roared to the top of the music charts and empowered a generation of budding feminists, Helen Reddy is preparing to return to the spotlight to prove that she’s still strong and, yes, invincible. Reddy — who penned the lyrics to her signature song — will be performing July 13 and 14 to benefit the arts program at St. Genevieve High School, whose principal is a longtime friend. Her appearance will be only her second as she emerges from a 10-year singing hiatus, time she spent working as a hypnotherapist in her native Australia. ‘‘I’ve still got a lot to do and a long way to go,’’ Reddy said in an interview. ‘‘I’ve always been pretty feisty.’’ For baby boomers, Reddy’s concerts will be an opportunity to reconnect with the performer whose lilting voice dominated the airwaves in the ’70s, when ‘‘I Am Woman’’ and three other songs hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. For others, it will be an introduction to the works of the Grammy-winning artist, whose message of self-worth made her a star of the emerging women’s movement. ‘‘I’ve always had very strong ideas,’’ said Reddy,

70. ‘‘I remember being 4 or 5, and being disturbed by a comedy sketch on TV that I thought was sexist. ‘‘I think I was born to be here at this particular time.’’ Reddy’s appearance at the Panorama City campus will be an encore of sorts. She visited St. Genevieve’s in 2010 as part of the school’s Character Education Speakers Series, reiterating many of the messages that made her a feminist icon. ‘‘She told us to be as we are as young women, and to respect ourselves,’’ said Rosalind Smith, 16, who was a freshman when she heard Reddy speak. ‘‘It had a very nice impact on me as a person.’’ An accomplished singer, Smith has been chosen to perform a duet with Reddy during the concerts in the school’s Madonna Hall. The school’s jazz band and singing group, The Valiant Voices, will also perform. ‘‘I was beyond honored,’’ said Smith, who has starred in many of the musicals produced by St. Gen’s and who aspires to attend The Juilliard School as a vocal student. ‘‘I thought about my dad, who passed away when I was 3. He was a singer, and the music brings me closer to him,’’ she said. ‘‘I wanted to cry, but I had the biggest smile on my face. ‘‘I want him to be proud of me.’’

‘Sell This House’ returns Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal Q: Will “Sell This House” return? A: Sort of. After a long run as “Sell This House,” the A&E series was retooled as “Sell This House: Extreme” last year. A new, 11-episode “Extreme” season begins July 7. A&E says the new episodes will be “bigger than ever” as the team tackles “massive renovations” to get homes sold. Tanya Memme returns as host, with construction expert Charlie Frattini and a new designer, Daniel Kucan. Q: I have viewed a movie starring Kevin Costner as an instructor for U.S. Coast Guard “rescue swimmers” on TNT and USA several times. Unfortunately I have always missed the opening minutes and never saw the title or actors. Amazingly this is not listed as one of his films on the Internet. What is the title and year produced? Who played his star pupil Jake Fisher and his girlfriend? A: Amazingly, I saw it listed in several of Costner’s filmographies, including the one on his website. That’s “The Guardian,” from 2006. Ashton Kutcher played Fisher, and Melissa Sagemiller was Fisher’s girlfriend, Emily Thomas. Q: What happened to the TV show “Brothers and Sisters” that was on ABC for years? Sally Field was the main star and I don’t remember ever seeing a finale or was it just canceled? A: The series, which also starred Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths, had its last new

telecast in May 2011 after a five-season run. The last episode was not officially a series finale - the series was formally canceled a bit later - and some plot threads were left unfinished. On the other hand, the show had been in ratings jeopardy enough that it ended on a note that could serve as a conclusion, with the characters dancing happily at a wedding and a summing-up comment by Nora (Field’s character). The final season - in fact, the entire series - is on DVD, as well as by streaming video on Netflix and Amazon.com. Q: “Legend” was Richard Dean Anderson’s first post-”MacGyver” product (around 1995?). It was a western with a humorous flair (I think there was a Ned Buntlinetype character played by the actor who was Q on “Star Trek.”) Has it been released on DVD or anything else? A: “Legend,” which marked Anderson’s return to series TV after some post-”MacGyver” movies and specials, aired in 1995 on the old UPN network. According to “The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows,” Anderson played Ernest Pratt, a writer who assumed the identity of Nicodemus Legend, a character in Pratt’s dime novels. Pratt/ Legend worked with Janos Bartok, a professor and inventor played by John de Lancie the Kent State alum who played Q on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager.” Unfortunately, I do not know of any authorized release of the series on DVD or other current formats.

Reddy is not the only star connection at St. Genevieve, which was named in 2003 a National School of Character. Students have built a friendship with former President Jimmy Carter, thanks to a fan letter that Principal Dan Horn wrote years ago to former first lady Rosalynn Carter. The school’s choir and acting troupes have made several trips to Plains, Ga., where they’ve performed concerts and musicals for the former first couple. This year, the school performed ‘‘Carousel,’’ said to be Jimmy Carter’s favorite show. On a lark, Horn invited Shirley Jones, who starred in the 1956 film version of the musical, and she not only accompanied the students but opened the show. ‘‘We’re a National School of Character, and it’s not just a name,’’ Horn said. ‘‘When people walk onto our campus, they immediately sense that something is different. It’s opened up all sorts of doors for us.’’ Horn met Reddy in the 1980s, working as a go-fer as he tried to break into show business. Their friendship blossomed over the years, and St. Gen’s seemed the perfect venue to help Reddy ease her way back into performing. The shows will be intimate, she insisted, without any of the flash or costume changes of her appearances at Carnegie Hall or on the Las Vegas Strip. The program will include songs she’s recorded, but it’s not going to be a selection of her greatest hits. She’s not even going to sing ‘‘I Am Woman.’’ ‘‘I’ll be reciting it at the end of the show,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s more powerful that way.’’

by Captain Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) of animal control. Being the kind of extreme parody that only works in cartoons and sitcoms, Dubois is itching to fill the space on her wall reserved for the only animal she has yet to capture with Alex’s head. Losing their monkey powered airplane in France, the zoo animals take shelter in a circus train, convincing the animals inside that they are American circus performers. The Circus Zaragoza has one performance before they expect perform in front of an American promoter that they hope will sign them to a contract and take them to New York. The zoo animals hope to ride along and get home. Vitaly the tiger (Bryan

Cranston) doubts their story and threatens to throw the group out as stowaways. To get around the rules, the penguins use much of their gambling proceeds to purchase the circus from the ringmaster. Now without any humans involved, the circus sets up their show in Rome, but end up having to flee when an angry mob demands their money back from the catastrophically bad performance. Realizing that something is wrong, Alex learns from Stefano the sea lion (Martin Short) that the circus is in trouble. Stefano reveals that the circus had not been the same since Vitaly had an accident during a performance and lost his confidence. Figuring this is their only chance to get home, Alex sets convinces the

Zaragoza performers to redo their acts, making them flashy and modern. The most amusing aspect of the film was the tenacious Captain DuBois. While the animals in the film are more human than animal, DuBois turns that on its head, adopting many postures and actions that are more animal than human. Her relentless pursuit keeps the film moving from one location to the next, providing a sense of urgency. Madagascar 3 has a standard, improbable plot with many of the standard sight gags you would expect from the third in a series of animated children’s movies. The formula is the same, and the results are predictable. While certainly no classic, Madagascar 3 is better than average for its genre.

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Wanted: Automotive

$Guaranteed Top Dollar Affordable Towing. Buying junk vehicles. Free towing. Same day service. (785)4104444 AA Wamego Truck and Auto. Buying rebuildable or salvaged cars and trucks. Evening and weekend pickup available. 785-456-5433, 785-456-7306. AAA Now paying $50 & up for salvage or used vehicles. Pick up available. Wamego Recycling, 785-456-2439 or 785-4563793.

CAR COUNTRY Paying $150 to $3,000. for salvage or rebuildable vehicles. Free tow, call anytime 785-539-8003 GET cash for your car! Currently buying foreign and domestic autos, trucks, vans, etc. Anything considered. 539-3376 MIKES WRECKER Service now buying junk cars and trucks, not selling parts. Free pick up. Mon. - Fri. 8 - 5, 785-7764895, 785-539-4221

Motorcycles, Bicycles

Harley- Davidson New and used Harley- Davidson, Suzuki and Kawasaki motorcycles. Harley- Davidson clothing and accessories. Kawasaki ATV’s and Jet skis. 1021 Goldenbelt Blvd., Junction City, KS. Along I-70 between exits 295, 296. Toll free 1-877-6001983YAMAHA Vino 49 cc scooter for sale. Gets 100 miles per gallon. Silver, with matching helmet. Less than 3,000 miles. $1,200. (785)313-3074

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Business Property

810 Fairlane, 10x 20, 10x 30, 12x 30. 5261 Tuttle Creek Blvd, 5x 5, through 11x 28. Open 7 days a week. Well secured. Call 539-8996

Knox Ln. Self Storage 210 Knox Lane, 5x 5- 10x 30, 539-2325.

Taylor Made Storage 2 miles north of Manhattan, 5x 10, to 12x 50. Big discount for long term. 785-5878777

Office Rooms

200 SOUTH Wind Place. 780 square feet. Fixed cost rate. Rent all inclusive except tenant communications services. Call Tim at 785-776-3010. 2505 ANDERSON, 1425 sq. ft. office. Call (785)532-8541 for details. DOWNTOWN and westside locations, 500- 2,000 sq. ft. (785)537-2332 OFFICE spaces, great location, parking, gas and electric included. 785-776-7615 ULRICH Building, 4th Street & Poyntz, second floor 2- 4 offices (785)537-9100

Mobile Homes

2 BEDROOM, Walnut Grove, Brensing/ White Division, $600/ month. (785)4948702

Furnished Apartments

2 BEDROOM. Quiet location. No pets. Lease and deposit. (785)537-1310

25 Unfurnished Apartments Manhattan City Ordinance 4814 assures every person equal opportunity in housing without distinction on account of race, sex, familial status, military status, disability, religion, color, national origin or ancestry. Violations should be reported to the Director of Human Resources at City Hall, 5872443.

700 Sq. Ft. office plus 900 Sq. Ft. workshop with heat and air. Large parking lot. Located on K- 18. $1,000 per month. 785776-1271

1 AND 2 bedroom available. Central location- close to downtown. Trash/ water paid. Coin laundry on site. Carport available. No pets. No smoking. (785)410-3020

A-1 DEAL. Retail, 1,470- 5,900 sq. ft. Next to Wal-Mart. Lease $1,100 per month per bay. 1019 Hostetler Dr. 785539-1554

1 BEDROOM plus, near downtown, no pets, available July 1st, $675. 785-7765936.

Ft. Riley Blvd. Frontage 1,750 sq. ft. retail/ office space available in the 300 block of Fort Riley Blvd. across from Convention Center. Gross Lease. Available Immediately. (785)539-9599 TOWN Pavilion, 300/ 1500 square feet, office space, downtown. (785)537-2332

Garage, Storage

Amherst Self Storage New storage units, all sizes, plus climate controlled units. Military and long term discounts. Located behind Little Apple Honda Toyota. (785)776-3888

AZTEC STORAGE 1st month Free with a 3 month contract. Open 7 days a week, all sizes, plus boat and RV storage, competitive prices, security, on site management by Manhattan Airport. 785-776-1111

Buying junk vehicles, free pick up. Scrap metal hauled away. 785-770-2066

785.320.2116 www.eliterepairllc.com

Celebrating 29 years.... Thank you!

New & Used 1826 Tuttle Creek Blvd. Manhattan, Kansas 539-2565

“Our Reputation is Your Guarantee”

B & T STORAGES

1 & 2 BEDROOM apartment available in a quiet complex next to CiCo Park. No pets allowed. Call Plaza West Apartments at 785-539-2649. www.plazawestapts.com

$ Top $ Paid Guaranteed

$$$ BUYING Junk and Repairable Vehicles, Cash paid- Free Tow. Same Day Service, $250- Up. (785)633-7556 $$$

Garage, Storage

30 ft. x 100 ft. Warehouse with large parking lot. Located on K- 18. $1,000 per month. 785-776-1271

Wanted: Automotive

$ TOP $ paid for junk vehicles & scrap metal. Free pickup. 785-770-2066

RV's, Campers

1991 PACE Arrow, 33 ft., 30,000 miles on engine, extras. (785)410-7123

Lost

2 LARGE brown pottery lamps and living room tables taken from curb outside 1005 Humboldt by mistake. Please return!

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1 BEDROOM, downtown. Heat, water, trash paid. No pets. (785)341-4267

1106 BLUEMONT 2 bedroom apartments, 1 bath, available Aug. 1, $650/ month, water/ trash paid. No Pets. Close to campus and Aggieville. (785)341-5414

785-776-2200 • fax 776-8807 • themercury.com 318 N. 5th, P.O. Box 787, Manhattan, KS 66505 • Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-noon

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RENTALS

26 Duplex,Condo,Townhome

3 BEDROOM, 1 1/2 bath, close to KSU, on- site laundry, available August 1. No pets. (785)537-1746, (785)539-1545.

SUMMER subleases. 1 bedroom, $550. 2 bedroom, $650. 785-214-2898

DUPLEX- very nice 1 Bedroom, appliances, washer/ dryer. No pets/ smoking. Near Jardine Apts. $550. Manhattan Realty, (785)776-1010.

3 BEDROOM, 1.5 bath, stove, fridge, washer/ dryer, $900 a month. Electricity, trash, and propane included. 14 miles North of Tuttle Creek dam. 785-564-1245 3 BR, 1 bath, main floor apt., available Aug. 1. 931 Vattier. $1050, water/ gas/ trash paid. Washer/ dryer, window AC. fenced yard, pet friendly. 785-539-4949 3 OR 4 bedroom, close to campus, 1 1/2 bath, dishwasher, laundry in complex, available August. 785-537-7810 or 785537-2255. 829 FREMONT, 2 bedroom washer/ dryer, pet negotiable, $800. 785-341-3669

August Pre-Leasing 2 bedroom at 610 Vattier, 4 bedroom at 820 Moro. Text or call (785)477-6295. www.wilksapts.com AVAILABLE August 1, 2 bedroom, near downtown, $725. (785)221-5525, (785)771-2301. AVAILABLE August 1, 5 bedroom, upstairs of house, 1 block from Aggieville, pets allowed w/ deposit, 785-539-8295. AVAILABLE now, remodeled 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath in 9 plex. No pets. 1 year lease. References required. $700. 3032 Kimball. 785-410-5457 or 556-0586 AVAILABLE now. Clean, roomy 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath in 12- plex. No pets. 1 year lease, washer/ dryer hookups, reference required, $700. 3032 Kimball. (785)556-0586 LEASING for June and August. Studios, 1 & 2 bedrooms. www.schrumrentalsllc.com or call 785-214-2898.

LUXURIOUS Professional, quiet 1 bedroom apartment, washer/ dryer, fireplace, utilities paid, July 1. No pets. (785)236-3050

Ultimate Living in a Perfect Setting • 10 minutes from Fort Riley • Swimming pool/hot tub • Full size washer/dryer in every unit • Clubhouse with home theater & game room

1810 Caroline Ave. Junction City, KS 785-238-4409

WOODWAY APTS Leasing for Fall 2012. Three and Four bedrooms. Close to K-State Football. Pool, On- site laundry, small pets okay. 2420 Greenbriar Dr., Suite A. (785)5377007

26 Duplex,Condo,Townhome 2 BDR, 1 bath duplex, available July 1, 2012. 1 car garage, fenced yard, washer & dryer hookups. Lawn care provided. 3001 #2 Dickens Avenue. Rent $750. Call 785-341-3232 2 BEDROOM nice brick duplex in residential area. $700 month. No pets/ smoking. (785)313-2045. 3 BEDROOM upstairs duplex, in country, off West Anderson, water paid. $895. ( 7 8 5 ) 3 1 7 - 7 0 8 6 www.farcoinvestments.com 5 BEDROOM 2 1/2 bath, Brittany Ridge townhome. Washer/ dryer. No pets. Available August. $1,000. (785)250-0388 SUPER nice 3 bedroom, 3 bath. $1,200. No pets. 920 Connecticut. (785)556-0160

GARDEN GROVE APARTMENTS

QUIET 1 bedroom- close to City Park. Utilities paid. No pets. No smoking. Available August 1. (785)410-3020

RentHRC.com Spacious 2-3 BR/ 1-3 BA Over 800 Units Multiple Locations Pool & Fitness Facilities Call for Pricing, Showing & Availability

two, three & four Bedroom Apartments

3 BEDROOM spacious, washer/ dryer, dishwasher. All utilities paid. August 1st, $1350. 785-565-1498 or 785-537-9425

The Bluffs

Now Leasing For Fall Walking distance to Campus/ Aggieville, spacious, luxury 2 bedroom/ 1- 2 bath apartments, 1114 Fremont, 2000 College Hts. Rd., 519 Osage St. BRAND NEW! 1131 Bertrand, 916 Kearney. CALL TODAY! (785)537-9064. www.rentHRC.com

2 BEDROOM in spacious modern duplex. In quiet neighborhood near Zoo. Free washer/ dryer. Available 1 July. (785)5395921. $625.

2 BEDROOM, stove, refrigerator, $450, available now, Ogden. 785-556-7535

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2 BEDROOM apartment, washer/ dryer, $650 a month. Please call 785-564-4078 or 785-770-2307. No Pets!

2 BEDROOM, quiet, spacious, heat/ water paid. No pets/ smoking. (785)410-6124

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••(785) 537-9064•• SOMERSET APARTMENTS 539-5800

2 & 3 BEDROOM, close to campus or city library, dishwasher, central air. No pets. (785)539-0866

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close to campus www.somersetmgmtco.com STUDIO, 1 or 2 bedroom, dishwasher, laundry facility in complex, swimming pool, 1100 Garden Way 537-2255 or 5377810

National Church Residences

INCOME BASED SENIOR HOUSING AVAILABLE NOW! NO WAITING LIST

CALL TODAY! 785-776-2277 1115 Garden Way, Manhattan, KS 66502

Westside Townhome 1,825 sq. ft., 3 bd, 2 1/2 bath, double car garage w/ openers, full appliances incl. washer/ dryer, wood blinds at windows, covered deck, 13 Seer heat pump. Landlord pays trash, lawn care. Tenant pays elec./ water. $1,380/ month. Absolutely No Pets. (785)539-9599 or (785)3134929.

Houses

1540 HARTFORD. 3 bedroom, 1 bath, & garage. $995/ month. Available June 1st. Call Blanton Realty 785-776-8506. 2 BEDROOM in Ogden, smoke free, no pets, couple or single. $650 plus deposit and utilities. 539-2597 after 1pm 210 S. Manhattan. 5 bedroom, 3 full baths, 2 car garage, laundry room, 2 large living rooms, central air & heat. No pets. No smoking. Large back yard. (785)2369654. Available Aug. 1. 3 BEDROOM, 2 Bath- Walk to KSU Campus, College student rental, $1025 per month. Available Aug. 1st. Will go fast! 785-539-4577 4 BEDROOM 2.5 bath townhome, all appliances included, June 1st, $1100. NO PETS! 785-317-7713 4 BEDROOM house available in June. Great location, washer/ dryer included, fenced in back yard, and newly remodeled bathroom. Please call 785-587-0123 4 BEDROOM house close to Cico and Amanda Arnold School. $1200. All appliances, No pets, No smoking. June or August. 785-539-0866 4 BEDROOM, 3 Bath- Westside home, 2175 sq ft, two car garage, fenced yard. Available August 1st. Great neighborhood! $1350. 785-539-4577

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Houses

4 BEDROOM, 3 bath, 10 yr old, excellent condition, 620 DeHoff, 2 car garage w/ openers, a must see, $1,650. Great for Fort Riley or westside Manhattan. Ready now. (785)587-9487 5 BEDROOM, 3 Bath- Eastside home, 2000 sq ft, one car garage, fenced in backyard, partly furnished, off street parking. $1600. Won't last long! 785-539-4577 5 BEDROOM, 3 Bath- Westside home, 2000 sq ft, two car garage, corner lot. Currently Available! Great neighborhood. $1450. 785-539-4577 CUTE 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $900/ month. (785)556-0160 CUTE 4 bdrm within walking distance of campus! 785-539-1554 SMALL 2 bedroom house in Ogden, needs help, $400/ month. (785)410-2336, (785)776-7562.

Roommates

ROOMMATE wanted. Home environment close to campus and stadium. Fully Furnished except bedroom. Email vad@k-state.edu for more information.

Wanted To Rent

WANTED: Small mobile home or house to rent or buy in Manhattan area. Must allow pets. (620)376-8111

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Business Property

3.41 ACRES, zoned commercial, north on Tuttle Creek Blvd., just south of Kimball. (785)313-1196 6,500 Sq. Ft. building in Ogden located on Riley Avenue, corner lot with off- street parking. $100,000. 785-776-1271

Farms & Acreage

17.32 ACRES, south side of Knox Lane, west of Northview Park, Zoned G-1. (785)313-1196 25 Acres next to Manhattan Airport with 3bedroom house. Heated shop 40 ft. x 100 ft, several outbuildings and corral. 785776-1271

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2 bedroom, all appliances included, garage, privacy fence. $125,000 at 2120 Green Avenue 785-564-2735

2229 Browning 5BR, 3BA 2 car garage Westside Priced to Sell $189,500 Knight Realty (785)539-2539 or (785)341-2598 HOME for sale, 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom, close to Northview School. Great starter home that includes all appliances. Please contact Travis at (785)341-4265 for more questions.

HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! Open House 12:00-4:00 1804 Plymouth Rd. $155,000 Home has 3 BD, 2 Baths and many updates! Highly desired west side neighborhood. NEW construction west side, 3112 Wilson Dr. 1510 main, 1988 lower with walkout. Exterior finished, you finish interior. 7760473

OPEN HOUSE 2 to 5p.m. 2616 Brockman, $179,500 with no specials. 6 bedrooms, 2 baths. 785-565-3760

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157 SOUTH Dartmouth. 4 bedroom, 3 bath, on cul-de-sac. Price $229,000. (785)556-0622

Houses

3 bedroom with 4th BR N/C in basement, 2 1/2 bath, central air, 2 car garage, extra large lot. Make an offer. Knight Realty, (785)539-2539 or (785)341-2598. Lots

NORTHERN Estates. No specials. 2 acre lots, paved, 1 1/2 miles north of Wamego. (785)456-3116 ON Wamego golf course (new 9) in gorgeous setting. (785)458-2862, (785)4565219. Owner/ agent.

Price Reduced $5K 5 lots at Lake Elbo, now only $40,000. (785)776-2102 WESTSIDE, 116 North Dartmouth, great view, no specials, open lot. 776-0473

Mobile/Modular Homes

2 BED, 2 bath, $15,000. 2115 Spruce Place. (785)410-0773 2 BEDROOM, 2 bath rent to own $500/ month. www.farcoinvestments.com 785317-7086 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, very good condition. Must be moved. Reasonable price. (785)537-8017

New and PreOwned Homes For Sale Financing available w. a. c. Competitive lot rent. Nice Community. www.redbudestates.net. (785)539-5791

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive difference in someone’s life? We’re working with teenage boy with challenging behaviors who needs support and companionship in his home between 8:00 a.m. & 8:00 p.m. Two individuals will be staffed together on 4 hours shifts a majority of the time to provide the necessary support and supervision this individual needs. High School diploma or equivalent required. With training provided, individuals must be able and willing to apply appropriate interventions as needed to manage aggressive behavior. Related experience is preferred. This is a temporary placement, however, successful individuals could move into non-temporary positions as openings occur.To apply visit: www.pawnee.org. Equal Opportunity Employer

GLASSMAN CORPORATION is now accepting applications for experienced plumbers and sheet metal installers. Local area work. MUST have minimum journeyman’s license or equiv. credentials. Full-time. EEO. Must pass a pre-employment drug screening & physical. Excellent pay and benefits package. 401k. Safe working environment. To request an application or to send a resume please email hr@glassmancorp.com. For additional information or questions, please call 785625-2115 or visit our website at www.glassmancorp.com. 41 YEAR old local company is looking for an administrative assistant. Must be motivated, have excellent organization skills, and have the ability to multitask. Superior phone and computer skills a must. Knowledge of QuickBooks and Microsoft Office a plus. Benefit package includes health and dental insurance, and vacation and holiday pay. Apply in person at Tri-City Fence Co., 5005 Murray Road, Manhattan, KS. No phone calls, please. E. O. E.

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CONSTRUCTION Laborer. Temporary and permanent positions available. D & I Repair. Apply in person at 1614 Fairlane.

HUMAN SERVICES

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Manhattan City Ordinance 4814 assures every person equal opportunity in securing and holding employment in any field of work or labor for which he/ she is properly qualified regardless of race, sex, military status, disability, religion, age, color, national origin or ancestry. Violations should be reported to the Director of Human Resources at City Hall, 587-2443.

Income Property

310 and 312 Quail Westmoreland KS. Each unit 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom. Units produce $1,200 a month income. $150,000. Call 785-458-9248

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Price Reduced $199,950

SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012

ATTENTION Immediate openings. $15 base- appt, FT/ PT schedules, sales/ svc, no experience necessary, all ages 17+, conditions apply, 785-370-0445

Manhattan Commercial Real Estate Company has an immediate opening for an Administrative Assistant/ Bookkeeper. Part- time (12- 15 hours weekly). Flexible Schedule. Associates degree. Able to work independently. Candidate able to perform basic office duties, possess computer proficiency in QuickBooks Pro, Excel (spreadsheeting), Microsoft Word. Basic accounting and payroll experience helpful. Excellent communication skills. Pay commensurate with experience. Send resume to: 555 Poyntz Avenue, Suite 255, Manhattan, KS 66502. FORT Riley is seeking certified personal trainers and fitness instructors. Applicants should have current certification and part time availability. We offer very competitive pay and flexible hours. Contact fitness department at (785)239-3146.

Processor / Call Center FBL Financial in Manhattan, KS has a full-time Processor position available with outstanding benefit package for a dynamic individual w/ excellent business office skills to support our Commercial Shared Services Department. Responsible to answer a variety of incoming questions from insureds and agents, process changes and other duties. Excellent customer service, attention to detail, good keyboarding, logic, communication, organization & strong software skills needed. Desire resourceful & flexible individual who can make good decisions while working independently. M-F 8a - 5p & rotational eve shift until 6:30p also req. EOE. Apply online at www.fblcareers.com

Great Career Opportunities RN SANE/SART PROGRAM COORDINATOR SANE Certification Required Interested in Women’s Health Issues and meeting a community need? Mercy Regional Health Center is looking for a RN to join our Sexual Assault Response Team (SART).

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Accepting Resumes for Multiple Positions FSI is proposing on the O & M Services Contract at Irwin Army Community Hospital, Ft. Riley, Kansas. Positions-Job/ Qualifications: Project Manager min 10 years or pm at 40 bed health facility/ 5 years technical. Maintenance Manager min 3 years or Maint Manager of 30 bed medical or commercial facility. QC Manager- min 3 years supervisory experience in facility planning, maint/ repair and operation. QC Inspectors min of 1 year experience and successfully completed Army Corp of Engineers Construction Quality Management for Contractors Course. Shift Maintenance Supervisors/ Leaders 1st, 2nd, 3rd shift- 1 year experience in electrical, mechanical and plumbing trades personnel. Journeyman Electrician/ HVAC/ Plumber/ Gas Fitter/ Medical Gas Fitter state licensed or journeyman and 4 years experience in field. Carpenter- 4 years experience. UMCS Technician Engineering Tech IV equal- 1 year experience with Johnson Controls System. Vibration Analyst- 1 week fundamentals of vibration and balance, use and operation equipment 1 year using vibration analyzing equipment 2 years experience. Generator Mechanic- 5 years in Maint/ repair. Elevator Maint Mechanic- 4 years maint/ repair/ Certified ASME/ ANSI/ Elevator Insp 7 years experience/ Certified with ASME QE1- 1. Energy Plant Operators- 2 years experience in operations. Fire Alarm, smoke control, radio transceiver and crises system maint tech- min 5 years experience in maint/ repair. MUST HAVE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ABOVE. Please email or fax resumes to: (913)552-7074 or email to: spaxton@facsvcs.com ARE you an enthusiastic, self- motivated person who is well- liked by others? Do you need an exciting environment where you are challenged in a fast- paced environment and are able to push to meet goals? Geary Estates Apartments is looking for some outstanding, career minded individuals within the property management field. The following positions are open for you: Assistant Manager, Leasing consultant & Maintenance Technicians. Please apply in person at 1215 Cannon View Lane, Grandview Plaza, KS, or fax resume to (785)238-4160. No Phone Calls, Please. ASSISTANT Toddler Teacher & Lead Preschool Teacher needed for active learning environment. Experience in licensed center required. (785)587-9400 AUTOMOTIVE- We're looking for a sales professional with a desire to grow into a management position. Career minded applicant with proven customer service skills. Min. 3 years experience in ire/ auto service sales. Paid vacation & holidays, personal leave, health/ dental insurance, 401K retirement. Apply in person at T.O. Haas Tire & Auto, 808 South Washington in Junction City or to jobapps@tohaastire.com.

BETHANY COLLEGE Position Announcement: Full-Time Assistant Professor of English, Academic Support. For further information please visitwww.bethanylb.edu or call Vanessa Hull at 785227-3380 ext. 8104

ELECTRICIANS Licensed electricians needed in Manhattan area for residential and commercial. Starting pay $20/ hour. 785-456-7730

EMPLOYMENT

Help Wanted

CARPENTER Seeking skilled, dependable carpenter to complete various projects for a local, reputable property management company. To include windows, doors, countertops, decks, siding, etc. This is a seasonal position with full- time permanent potential. Hourly wage based on skills and experience. Must have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license. Apply at McCullough Development, Inc., 210 N. 4th St., Ste. C, Manhattan, KS 66503. E. O. E. CDL drivers for flatbed & livestock hauling. Salina based. Good wages & per diem. Benefits. Must pass drug screen. 785-643-1604 or 785-493-6252. CNA, Full Time, Evening 3p- 11p or Night 11p- 7a. Call Rebecca today for an interview, Westy Comm. Care Home, Westmoreland, KS, (785)457-2801. rebeccawcch@bluevalley.net

Coding/ Billing Specialist Medical office looking for self motivated individual to work in all aspects of a medical business office. Need to have team player mind set with experience required. Excellent communication skills as well as honesty, reliability, and positive attitude are necessary. Experience with collections and insurance a plus. Must enjoy working with the public. M- F 8:30am to 5:30pm. Fax resume to Amanda at 785587-9090 or email busmgr@stonecreekfp.com CONSTRUCTION: Drywall Systems, Inc. is looking for experienced individuals skilled in metal stud framing, drywall, finishing, acoustic ceilings, or EIFS trades. Working Foreman positions also available. Applicant must have experience, reliable transportation, and valid driver’s license. We offer competitive pay, benefits, family atmosphere, a safe work environment, and long term employee commitment. Office locations include: Wichita, Salina, and Olathe. If interested, please call Bill Coleman at (316)942-4994. D & I Plumbing, Heating & Air needs a technician for the summer. 2 years experience. Apply in person at 1608 Fairlane. DRIVER needed to haul fertilizer and grain. Class A driver’s license required. Home on weekends. Health insurance provided. Inquire at 1-800-480-3885. EMPLOYMENT: Twin Lakes Educational Cooperative (USD 379) has full -time special education paraeducator positions available at Riley County Grade School at for the 2012- 13 school year. Competitive salary and benefits available. Applications available at www.usd379.org/Jobs.asp, or Stuart Administrative Center, 807 Dexter, Clay Center, KS 67432, phone 632-3176. Applications accepted until June 29. E. O. E.

FT Personal Banker Kansas State Bank Consult with new and existing clients in this full-time position at our Westloop location to assess their needs and provide personalized solutions. Excellent communication skills and an outgoing personality are a must. Prior banking experience preferred. Typical schedule is 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, however there are some schedule rotations. Learn more or apply online at myksb.com/jobs. EOE

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PART-TIME TELLER Commerce Bank is currently accepting applications for a part-time Teller. If you have excellent customer service skills, accurate attention to detail and an outgoing personality, you’ll fit right in! Part-time hours vary between 9:30am and 4:30pm Monday thru Friday, with rotating Saturdays from 8:30am until 12:15pm. Commerce offers competitive wages and excellent benefits for part-time employees, including tuition assistance. Qualified candidates may express interest on the Commerce Careers website at www.commercebank.com/careers.

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REGISTERED NURSE CARDIAC REHAB CARDIAC CATH LAB EMERGENCY SERVICES MEDICAL PERIOP SURGICAL

ALLIED HEALTH Medical Technologist Medical Lab Tech Sleep Lab Tech Certification /Registration required

PROFESSIONAL & SUPPORT ED Tech Unit Clerk Certified Nursing Assistant ***Nutrition Assistants*** (Dietary Aides) Environmental Service Associates (Housekeeping) EOE

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www.mercyregional.org Mercy Regional Health Center (877) 389-8864 Please visit our website!

•Adult Basic Education Instructor • Assistant Boys Soccer Coach • Assistant Principal (MHS) • At-Risk ESOL Aide • Bus Driver • Computer Lab Aide (MHS) • Elementary Art Teacher • English as Second Language (ESL) Teacher • Gifted Facilitator • Industrial Technology Teacher • Library Media Clerk - Ogden • Library Media Specialist - Frank Bergman • Math Enrichment Teacher • Migrant Education Program Tutor • Office Clerk/Library Media Clark - Bluemont • Principal’s Secretary • Special Education (Interrelated) Teacher • Speech/Language Therapist USD 383 is a Kansas Work Ready Preferred Employer. Applicants are encouraged to present the Kansas WORKReady! Certificate at the time of application. Contact the Manhattan Workforce Center for more information about the certification at 785-539-5691 or email Terry at tumscheid@kansasworks.com

Job description available at www.usd383.org All applicants may now apply at http://alioemployee.usd383.org/ApplicantPortal/search.php or visit Manhattan- Ogden USD 383, 2031 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502, 785-587-2000. E. O. E.

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English Language Program Kansas State University seeks applicants for instructor positions with MA in TESL or related area and experience. The English Language Program, Kansas State University, is seeking applicants for fulltime instructors for 9- and 12month positions beginning in August 2012. Required: MA in TESL or related area. Preferred: teaching experience, especially intensive English at the post-secondary level. Screening will begin June 18th, 2012. Call 785-5325498, e-mail oip@ksu.edu or go to www.ksu.edu/oip for position description and application procedures. EOE Paid for by Kansas State University. KSU is AA/EOE and background check is required. ENVIRONMENTAL Technician- Driller’s helper position available immediately for a busy local environmental consulting firm. Paid vacation and holidays. Health insurance coverage. Overnight travel required. CDL Drivers License is a plus. Will provide Hazmat training. Apply at 404 Pottawatomie, Manhattan, KS during business hours. EXPERIENCED Concrete Laborers, local contractor. Apply 1600 Fair Lane, Manhattan. E. O. E.

Experienced Sales Professional 170+ year old lubricant company seeks experienced salesperson to work as independent contractor. Excellent line of agricultural, industrial, and commercial lubricants and additives. Commission sales with incentives. Earnings potential limited only by salesman’s desire and ability. Contact Don Weese Jr. at 501-834-3020. FT Maintenance Tech position open: Person with plumbing, electrical and carpentry experience. HVAC certification a plus but not required. On- call rotation. Must be bondable. Must have transportation and phone. Great benefits. Pay range $10$15 based on experience and/ or HVAC certification. May apply at Prairie Glen East Cooperative, 2144 Prairie Lee from 9am- 12pm and 1pm- 4pm. FULL time staff needed for busy optometric office. Excellent customer service and communication skills required. Previous experience in the medical office preferred, but will train right person. Right person is a happy, energetic, caring person who is self motivated and can be part of a team. Health insurance, vacation, sick, and 401K part of benefit package. Bring your resume and fill out an application at The EyeDoctors, Optometrists, 3012 Anderson, Manhattan, KS 66503 by 5:00p.m. June 25. FULL- Time Laundry position at Stoneybrook Retirement Community. Must work every weekend. Apply online at midwesthealth.ppi.net/ FULL- Time Maintenance Position at Stoneybrook Retirement Community. Apply on-line at midwesthealth.ppi.net/ GRADING Contractor seeking experienced loader operator for a highway project in Manhattan, Kansas. Call for application, (913)334-2330, M- F, 8a.m.- 4p.m. or email qualifications to dvseeman@hotmail.com. E. O. E. HEAD Cook. Must be positive, hard working, and able to work with others. Hope Lutheran Early Learning Center, (785)587-9400.

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Jade Travel Career Opportunity Looking for enthusiastic person to join our team in Manhattan. Ideal candidate would have previous travel agency or airline experience. Personal travel experiences and sales background preferable. Submit resume in person at Jade Travel, 315 Poyntz, Manhattan. K-STATE Career and Employment Services seeking Career Development Coordinator. See www.ksu.edu/ces for complete job announcements. Background check required. E. O. E. K-STATE’S Award Winning Residence Hall Food Service offers great food in a team environment. Applications are being accepted for full time, benefits eligible Food Service Worker ($9.68 p h), Cook Senior ($10.68 p h) and Custodial Specialist ($10.68 p h) positions. Possible additional $.40 p h shift differential. Benefits include health/ dental insurance, retirement plan, paid vacation, sick leave and holidays. Information at http://www.ksu.edu/hr/employment/vac.ht ml or contact Division of Human Resources, Edwards Hall, KSU campus, telephone 785-532-6277. Deadline is Thursday, 6/ 21/ 12. E O E./ V P E. Background check is required.

Kansas State University Communications and Marketing seeks a talented self-starter for full-time opening as Graphic Designer. Creative and visionary designer will have a leadership role in design of an integrated K-State print and web presence. Screening begins 6/25/12. More information: h t t p : / / w w w . k state.edu/vpcm/jobs/ K-State is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Background check required. Kansas State University Division of Communications and Marketing is seeking applicants for position of Web Programmer. Applicant review begins June 18, 2012. More infomation: http://www.kstate.edu/spcm/j obs K- State is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Background check required.

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LIFEGUARDS and swim Instructors wanted-- Morning, Afternoon, and Evening shifts available. Contact UFM at 785-5398763 or email jessica@tryufm.org.

Machine Operator Full time position for PVC slotting and threading machine operator. Competitive wages and benefits. Machine operation experience and mechanical ability necessary. Apply in person at Environmental Manufacturing, Inc., 8887 Green Valley Dr., Manhattan. E. E. O. E.

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Property Management company is accepting applications for a skilled, full time, permanent maintenance tech. Will be expected to provide own hand tools and participate in the “On Call” program. Must have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license. Eligible for full benefits package. Pay based on qualifications and experience. Fill out application at McCullough Development, Inc., 210 N. 4th St., Ste. C, Manhattan, KS. E. O. E. MANKO Windows has an opening for a full time permanent fabricator on day and evening shift. Candidate must have construction background, use of power tools, reliable transportation, and good attendance. Only qualified individuals need to apply at 800 Hayes Drive, Manhattan, KS or email employment@mankowindows.com. Applications will be accepted thru Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Manko Window Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations and a drug free workplace.

Marketing Coordinator/ IT Support Marketing and advertising developer needed at community bank in Wamego, KS. Marketing, graphic design, public relations, Adobe Creative Suite, event planning, computer and organizational skills necessary. Send resume and cover letter to: Kaw Valley State Bank, Marketing Dept., P.O. Box 245, Wamego, KS 66547; or jmartin@kvsb.net

NOW HIRING Line Cooks, Bartenders and Servers. Apply in person at 4 Olives, 3033 Anderson Avenue or email resume to scottb@4olives.biz.

NURSE- LPN/ RN Via Christi Village is looking for an energetic and loving nurse to work F T, 2p.m.10p.m. Awesome benefits. Please apply online at www.via-christi.org. E. O. E. Handicap, Veteran, Drug Free.

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Radio Sales Rep.

Competitive, athletic minded, self motivated, aggressive sales person needed for a “hunters” position with a Billion dollar company. Excellent growth potential, above average base, commissions and bonuses with outstanding benefits. Email jack at jack_hopkins@unifirst.com

We d love to have you join us! 1420 KJCK, Power Hits 97.5 and Q103.5 Radio Stations are looking for a sales representative to work with Junction City area businesses and help them grow their business through advertising. If you re a motivated person who wants to take advantage of this career opportunity, drop off your resume at our offices, 1030 Southwind Drive, Junction City, KS 66441 or by e-mail to mark.ediger@eagleradio.net. For more information you may call (785)762-5525 or check our website at www.kjck.com. Eagle Communications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Part Time Interpreter Needed The Twin Lakes Educational Cooperative is in need of a part time American Sign Language Interpreter. It is preferred that the individual be a certified interpreter, but not required. The need is for three to four days per week while school is in session and the location is at Randolph (Blue Valley High School) and Riley County Grade School. If interested, please contact Steve Joonas at the Stuart Administrative Center in Clay Center at 785-632-3176. The classified application can be downloaded from our website at www.usd379.org. E. O. E.

Program Associate The College of Business Administration at Kansas State University is seeking to fill a full-time regular position to direct the newly created Professional Advantage and Executive Mentor programs. Bachelor’s degree required; Master's degree preferred. Go to cba.k-state.edu/employment for position description and application procedure. EOE. Background check is required.

Program Director The College of Business Administration at Kansas State University is seeking to fill a full-time regular position to direct the newly created Professional Advantage program. Bachelor’s degree required; Master's degree preferred. Go to cba.k-state.edu/employment for position description and application procedure. EOE. Background check is required.

Records Assistant II: Riley County Clerk’s Office full time position that will process deeds, affidavits and court documents that effect real estate ownership. Provide service to general public and area professionals. Experience and operations with KOMTEK tax system, GIS, CAMA, ArcView and all Microsoft Office Applications preferred. Accuracy and attention to detail is essential. High school diploma or GED required. Position requires a two year associateís degree with 2 years general office experience, or equivalent of 4 years office experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Hiring pay range is $14.70 - $16.24 with excellent benefits. Pre-employment drug screening is required for all conditional offers of employment. Applications are required and can be accessed www.rileycountyks.gov, or at the Riley County Clerk’s Office, 110 Courthouse Plaza, Manhattan, KS 66502. Riley County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Manhattan Mercury is searching for a dedicated and hardworking individual for a retail delivery route. Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance, and a phone number are required. This is an independent contractor’s position. Contact Logan at 785-776-8808.

TRIM Carpenters needed on Fort Riley. Please call 785-313-5723

Looking for something new & exciting? Cascade has been providing PRN staff & travel contracts to hospitals, clinics & nursing homes, all over KS and MO since 1988. Work a shift every few weeks OR sign up every day, the choice is YOURS! RN’s earn $30-50 hr CMA/CNA’s $10-19

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LPN’s $20-30 PT’s & RT’s needed also!

RN’s Clear about $425 per 12 hr shift!! How: We need 5 PRN RN’s, 3 for nights, 2 for days to work 12 hr shifts, in Topeka or Wichita at LTAC hospitals. Apply: cascadestaff.com or email resume hr@cascadestaff.com or call Scott at corp 816-229-5800

K-State Research and Extension - Dickinson County is seeking an Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences. Office location in Abilene. See: www.ksre.ksu.edu/jobs for responsibilities, qualifications, and application procedure. Application Deadline: July 2, 2012. K-State Research and Extension is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Employment is contingent upon results of a Background and Driving Record Check.

PART TIME POSITION Part-time customer service-oriented person needed for advertising layout, design, and sales. Must be able to follow written and oral directions. Organizational skills and attention to detail are a must. Needs to be able to work on their own with little supervison and have good time management. Knowledge of newspaper helpful. Computer experience necessary. Knowledge of QuarkXPress required. MacIntosh experience helpful. Must be available to work some weekends. Send resume to: Drawer 0406 c/o: The Manhattan Mercury P.O. Box 787 Manhattan, Kansas, 66505-0787 EOE

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FINANCIAL SERVICES ASSISTANT Commerce Bank is seeking a part-time Financial Services Assistant. This position assists with account maintenance, opening accounts, ordering checks, customer service, assisting FSRs as needed and possible cross selling of services. Applicants should have excellent communication and customer service skills; knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing programs; accurate attention to detail and the ability to multi-task. A good understanding of bank products and services is desired. This position is scheduled 1:00pm to 5:00pm Monday-Friday, and rotating Saturdays from 8:45am to 12:30pm. Commerce offers competitive wages and excellent benefits for part-time employees, including tuition assistance. Please apply on the Commerce Careers website at www.commercebank.com/careers.

A leading Culture Change Community is seeking applicants.

LPN/RN – Special Care Household Physician’s Office – PRN Lab, Nursing & Reception Sales Leader RN & LPN Server Cook/Dishwasher Household Coordinator CNA, CMA, CHHA Additional wage differential for evening & night household nurses. Ask about our 3rd shift & weekend differential, also our wage incentive for experienced professionals. Apply online at www.meadowlark.org/employment Equal Opportunity Employer

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AA/EOE/M/F/D/V “Be Accessible, Offer Solutions, Build Relationships” www.commercebank.com

CASE MANAGER Full Time - Manhattan Part Time - Clay Center Positions available providing skills training and support to a caseload of adults with mental helath challenges as the strive toward greater independence. Positive role modeling and service documentation are also primary duties. Position in Clay Center will consist of 32 hours/week. Bachelors degree in a human services field or a combination of human services work experience and related education with one year of experience substituting for one year of education, required. A valid driver’s license with a satisfactory record is required. Offering $12.50/hr to start, a comprehensive benefit plan and a chance to make a positive difference! Apply online at www.pawnee.org. Equal Opportunity Employer

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Regional Property Supervisor Local property management company seeking dependable, self- motivated applicants with a positive attitude for a leadership position as Regional Property Supervisor. Five years property management experience or other supervisory experience required. Two years multi- site property supervision preferred. Excellent verbal/ written communication skills and attention to detail a must. Would be leading 20+ employees at 8 different properties located in KS, IA, IN, & TX. Must reside in or near Manhattan, KS and be willing to travel overnight at least 3 times per month. Competitive compensation & benefits package. Send resume, cover letter, 3 references, and salary expectations to hr@mdiproperties.com or to McCullough Development, Inc., Attn: Director of HR, P.O. Box 1088, Manhattan, KS 665051088. E. O. E.

TFI Family Services has an opportunity for part-time Transporters in the Manhattan/Salina area. Responsibilities include picking up youth, escorting them to their appointment, and returning them to their final destination. Part-time and volunteer positions available. Part-time will use agency vehicles and be paid a flat rate. Volunteers will use personal vehicle and be reimbursed mileage. Must have current license and must pass background checks. Apply online at www.tfifamily.org or send resume to: Human Resources, PO Box 2224, Emporia, KS 66801. USD 379 is accepting applications for a Library Media Specialist. Applications and more information are available at www.usd379.org/jobs or by calling 785632-3176. E. O. E.

Comfort Suites is looking to add some new members to our Award Winning Team. We are seeking a Part Time Breakfast Attendant, food exp. preferred, but not required. And Full and Part Time Front Desk, all shifts including Night audit, hotel exp. preferred but not required. For all positions, previous customer service exp. and references required. Please apply in person, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. 1020 Hostetler Drive Manhattan KS.

Join the Hilton Family. Offering openings at Hilton Garden Inn and Conference Center:

• Housekeeping • Banquet Cooks • Banquet Servers Apply in person with resume at: Hilton Garden Inn • 410 S. 3rd Street • • Manhattan, KS 66502 • No phone calls please

Truck Drivers Wanted Midwest Concrete Materials, a locally owned construction materials supplier is accepting applications for experienced local delivery drivers. Drive for respected company, with opportunity for advancement. • • • • • • • •

Competitive Pay Vacation Paid Holidays Health Insurance Dental Insurance Short Term Disability 401K Retirement Home every night

Midwest Concrete 701 S. 4th Street Manhattan, Kansas 66502 785-776-8811 mikes@4mcm.com EOE Midwest Concrete Materials is a drug free company.

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Research Assistant K-State Rabies Laboratory A Research Assistant position is available at the Kansas State University Rabies Laboratory. The successful candidate must have bachelor’s degree, and at least one year of experience in health-related field or similar QA practices. Excellent oral and written communication and computer skills are required. Multi-lingual (i.e. Spanish) is highly preferred but not mandatory. Responsibilities will include preparation of samples, interpretation of results, data entry and verification of results. Other duties may involve responding to customer inquiries with health information and laboratory website improvement. Application deadline is June 20, 2012. Submit resume, 3 references, letter of interest and career goals to Rachel Appelhans, Kansas State University, 102 Trotter Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 or email rachel87@vet.ksu.edu. KSU is an AA/EOE. Background check required. RILEY County- Public Works Operator IIGraduation from high school or equivalent and Commercial Driver’s License required. Experience operating construction equipment required. Five years of concrete construction or asphalt maintenance experience and Vo-Tech training preferred. Starting pay range is $15.43- $17.05/ hr plus benefits, including a retirement plan, health insurance, paid leave, and holiday pay. 40 hour work week and no travel. Applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment must submit to a drug test. Applications available at Riley County Clerk’s Office, 110 Courthouse Plaza, Manhattan, Kansas, 66502 or Riley County’s website: www.rileycountyks.gov. Applications accepted until position is filled. E. E. O. E.

SECRETARY needed for Rock Creek. Starting pay range $8.80- $9.35 based on experience. Accounting or bookkeeping strongly preferred. Details and application at www.rockcreekschools.org. Submit to District Office at 201 S. 3rd Street, P.O. Box 70, Westmoreland, KS 66549. (785)457-3732. Application Deadline June 25. E. O. E.

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RN/ LPN Stonecreek Family Physicians is fast paced primary care facility. we are looking for an experienced full- time RN or LPN. Essential skills include multi- tasking, detail oriented, and self- motivated. Must hold current Kansas nursing licensure and 2 years of experience is preferred. Great atmosphere, salary, benefits. Please email your resume to Kelly at nursing@stonecreekfp.com or fax to 785587-9090 TECHNICIAN Wanted: Tools and experience required. Good work environment, benefits available. Apply at Quick Lane, 8020 E. Hwy 24, Manhattan.

The Manhattan Mercury is searching for a dedicated and hardworking individual to deliver in the north Manhattan area. Streets include Valley Wood, Rocky Ford, Bent Tree Dr, River Bend Rd, and Tuttle Creek Blvd. Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance, and a phone number are required. This is an independent contractor’s position. Contact Kari or Ronnie at (785) 776-8808. The Manhattan Mercury is searching for a dedicated and hardworking individual to deliver in the northeast Manhattan area and Highway 24 corridor. Streets include Blue River Rd, Casement, Brookmont Dr, Green Valley Rd, Hopkins Creek Rd and E Marlatt. Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance, and a phone number are required. This is an independent contractor’s position. Contact Kari or Ronnie at (785) 776-8808. The Manhattan Mercury is searching for a dedicated and hardworking individual to deliver in the Zeandale, Deep Creek, and Alma areas. Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance, and a phone number are required. This is an independent contractor’s position. Contact Kari or Ronnie at (785) 776-8808.

Independent Contractors We’re looking for responsible, dependable people with win-win sales and customer service attitudes to deliver The Manhattan Mercury. We have routes available in or around your neighborhood.

City Routes - Manhattan • Downtown Area • Osage, Moro, Juliette, Laramie, Vattier, Fremont • Yuma, Colorado • Timbercreek, Taneil • Brook’s Ct, Caitlin Dr, Lindsey Dr, Tumbleweed Terrace • Allison Ave, Dondee Dr, DeHoof Dr • Brierwood Dr, Juniper Dr, Kingwood Dr, Sumac Dr Looking for substitute carriers interested in temporary routes for both walking and motor routes. The Mercury is afternoon delivery Monday thru Friday and early Sunday morning with no Saturday deliveries

If you’re interested in earning some extra money, call the Manhattan Mercury Circulation Department today at (785) 776-8808 or e-mail us at circulation@themercury.com, please provide your name, address and telephone number.

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The Manhattan Mercury is searching for a dedicated and hardworking individual to deliver in the south Manhattan area and west K-18 corridor. Streets include Pottawatomie Ave, S. Manhattan, S. Airport Rd, Eureka Dr., and W 68th Ave. Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance, and a phone number are required. This is an independent contractor’s position. Contact Kari or Ronnie at (785) 776-8808. 43

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LICENSED daycare, located in Manhattan, off Green Valley Road, has openings for all ages. (785)564-0857

LOVING, clean, westside opening, 16 months and up. (785)532-8164 WESTSIDE Area Daycare. Monday- Friday, 18 months to school age. (785)7761768

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53Garage Sales,Flea Markets 2 LARGE brown pottery lamps and living room tables taken from curb outside 1005 Humboldt by mistake. Please return!

FLEA MARKET Sunday, June 17th, 9a.m. to 2p.m. at the Purple Wave Event Center at 825 Levee Dr., Manhattan. Vendors will be there featuring fishing equipment, outdoor equipment, antiques, LPs, CDs, Scentsy, crafts, Tupperware, jewelry, collectibles, Mary Kay, video games, DVDs, Die Casts, furniture, Bank Notes, and much more! Check out more up to date listings at www.tlctradingpost.com, or call (785)5652362, or like us at Facebook TLC Trading Post.

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Bob’s Lawnmower Repair Buy, sell. Will come to you. (785)4103995

RIDING lawn mowers & push and self propelled lawn mowers for sale. (785)4103995

Miscellaneous

Free Wood Pallets Pick up at The Manhattan Mercury, at south door, in alley.

LIVESTOCK

Appliances

SCRATCH & DENT

To slightly used. Front load washers. Dryers, gas/ electric, single or stack units, quantities available. Warranty and delivery. (785)537-1986

KITTENS, sweet, adorable, good with kids, litter trained, $15. (785)477-0372

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QUEEN sized headboard, brushed finished silver colored metal, not being used and no room to store it. Purchased at Pier 1. Call or email to inquire, (785)477-2075 or kateking2011@hotmail.com

MAINE coon kittens $500, supreme champion lines, HCM clear. tykakats.com. 620364-1485

YORKIE POO puppies, 7 wks old, $400 O. B. O. 785-313-5077

ACAP COUNSELOR I FT. RILEY NC50126252

Serco Inc. is a leading provider of professional, technoogy and management services focused on the federal government. We advise, design, integrate and deliver solutions that transform how clients achieve their missions. Our customer-first approach, robust portfolio of services and global experience enable us to respond with solutions that achieve outcomes with value. Headquartered in Reston, VA, Serco Inc. has approximately 9,000 employees with an annual revenue of $1.5 billion and is part of a $6.6 billion global business that helps transform government and public services around the world. We have an immediate need for an ACAP Counselor I to provide direct ACAP services to transitioning military personnel, Army civilians, and their family members. Services include the conduct of automated and manual pre-separation briefings, delivery of job assistance training in group or individual settings, conduct of individual counseling sessions, and other job assistance activities such as resume critiques and mock interviews. Additionally, assists clients in the use of the ACAP XXI automated system, supports ACAP Center marketing initiatives by briefing installation leaders and managers, tracks the progress of clients and motivates clients to increase their utilization of ACAP Center services. May manage supplies or assume responsibility for a major activity such as job fairs, employer days, or the conduct of a classroom events. Travel may be required. Requirements: a Masters degree or equivalent and 0-3 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Individual must be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the field. Able to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills. Supreme customer service focus. Knowledge of military protocol.

Educational KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Announces the following positions:

Call our office to schedule an appointment and gain helpful tips on “Preparing for an Interview” and “How to Polish Your Resume and Letter of Interest”, available M-F 9:00am - 3:30pm at K-State Division of Human Resources, Employment Services, 103 Edwards Hall, Manhattan, KS, 785-532-6277. Additional information regarding the requisition numbers, salary, closing date and position summary is available at: • Employment Services job line (785) 532-6271 • Kansas State University Division of Human Resources, 103 Edwards Hall, Manhattan, KS • The Employment Services web site at www.ksu.edu/hr • The Manhattan Workforce Center located at 205 S 4th Street, Manhattan, KS Submit: Application online and other required material for each vacancy by 5:00 pm on the closing date. KSU is an EOE/AA, VPE employer that encourages diversity among its employees. Background checks required.

Music, Drama, Dance

PIANO LESSONS Summer is a great time to learn to play! Degreed, experienced teacher has openings. Call 785-806-7077. Betty

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Saturday, June 23, 10:30 AM

Saturday, June 30, 10:30 AM 301 E. Cedar Riley, Kansas

Zeandale Community Building East of Manhattan, KS on Hwy 18 Between Wamego & Manhattan '99 Buick LeSabre, '98 Ford F150, '53 Ford Jubilee Tractor, Farm Tools & Equipment, Furniture, Household Items

KENNY BERG ESTATE GANNON REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONS Vern Gannon Broker/Auctioneer 785-770-0066 or 785-539-2316 MANHATTAN, KANSAS www.gannonauctions.com

4 Bedroom, 2 Bath Home on Secluded Lot; Furniture, Household, Appliances, Tools, More

LOVENA BLODGETT POA FOR GUILLERMO SALAZAR GANNON REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONS Vern Gannon Broker/Auctioneer 785-770-0066 or 785-539-2316 MANHATTAN, KANSAS www.gannonauctions.com

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To apply online: Click on Careers at www.serco-na.com reference job # NC50126252. EOE

Library Assistant III Veterinary Tech. II - Oncology Food Service Workers - 3 Positions Cook Senior - 3 Positions Custodial Specialist - 2 Positions Facilities Maintenance Supervisor Plant/Landscape Care Tech. Parking Control Officer

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Wamego

CNA CERTIFICATION TRAINING Classes will be offered at Valley Vista Good Samaritan Tuesdays and Thursdays 8am-12:45 pm and 1:30-6:15pm Aug 21st thru Oct 11th, 2012 Cost is $500.00 which includes certification testing fees and book rental. If you are interested in a new career path, CNA training is your chance to experience the rewards of working in a field that’s primary focus is to serve others. It is also a great place to start that offers you a foundation of skills that can help guide you to explore further options of advancements in the medical field. For further questions or to enroll, please call Valley Vista in Wamego at 785-456-9482, and ask for Betsy Miller, RN or Amy Steiner, DNS.

AUCTION

Monday, June 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM 530 Oakdale Manhattan, Kansas

Thursday, June 21, 5:00 PM 2216 Tamarron Ter. Manhattan, Kansas

3 Bedroom Home, Hardwood Floors, Spacious Rooms; Furniture, China, Collectibles, Household, Misc. REAL ESTATE (SELLS APPROXIMATELY 5:30 PM)

MARR ESTATE GANNON REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONS Vern Gannon Broker/Auctioneer 785-770-0066 or 785-539-2316 MANHATTAN, KANSAS www.gannonauctions.com

Grandfather Clock, Appliances, Furniture, Household, Motorized Chair

DEB JACOB GANNON REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONS Vern Gannon Broker/Auctioneer 785-770-0066 or 785-539-2316 MANHATTAN, KANSAS www.gannonauctions.com

LAND AUCTION 238 Acres +/- of Geary County Kansas Land Land Location: 13655 Lower McDowell Road (1 mile south of I-70 exit 307) Manhattan, KS Auction Date & Time: July 30th 1:30PM Auction Location: McDowell Creek Community Center 12510 Lower McDowell Rd. (1 mile South of land)

OPEN HOUSE TO VIEW PROPERTY: JULY 16TH, 2012 FROM 4:30 PM. UNTIL 6:00 PM. Hamm Auction and Real Estate is pleased to offer for sale at Auction to the highest bidder the Waters Farm. This farm has been in this family since the 1880’s. This property offers farmland, pasture, hunting, fishing, 3 ponds, McDowell creek, a spring and a home site. In addition the mineral rights will sell with this property. This property would classify as a premium property.

Farm stead info: This stone farm home is a 140 +/- years old, 1 1/2 story, 3 bedroom, 1 bath home with 1,362 square feet of living area. Home has central heat/air (new), good septic system, and good water well. A 20x24 garage, a 20x20 storage sheds, a 60x26 storage shed, a 40x18 building, an all purpose 36x24 building, a 51x32 animal shelter and more. Beautiful Farm Home!! View pictures at www.hammauction.com FSA Data: Cropland 97.2 acres, Bases Wheat 28.7 acres, Corn 3.4 acres, Grain Sorghum 42.6 acres, Soybeans 1.6 acres for a total of 76.3 Base Acres. The balance of 140.8 acres is brome, grass, trees, and home site. Tenant Rights are in effect. 2012 Taxes on Property: $2,027.68 Legals: E 1/2 of SE 1/4 of 27-11-7, N 1/2 of NE 1/4 of 3411-7 & the E 1/2 of NW 1/4 of 34-11-7 less tract Terms: This farm will sell in one tract to the highest bidder. Minerals: Sell with the Land Earnest Money: $50,000 Down Day of Sale Title Insurance and Closing Fee: 50% Buyer, 50% Seller Closing: On or Before August 30th, 2012 Possession: According to Farm Lease Agreement.

Sellers: Virginia Waters & Children John Hamm/Auctioneer 620-672-6996 or cell 620-450-7481 Announcements Day of Sale take precedence over any internet, printed, digital or faxed materials. You as the Buyer need to make your own determinations about the information on the property.

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First published in the Manhattan Mercury on June 15, 2012; subsequently published on June 17, 2012.

First published in the Manhattan Mercury on June 10, 2012; subsequently published on June 13 and June 17, 2012.

RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS INVITATION TO BID

UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 383 2031 POYNTZ AVENUE MANHATTAN, KS 66502-5898 DATE: March 27, 2012 BID

Corrugated Metal Pipe and Bands Bids will be received by the Board of County Commissioners at the office of the County Clerk, 110 Courthouse Plaza, Manhattan, Kansas until 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 27, 2012; and then read aloud in the Commissioners' office at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, June 28, 2012. Bid forms and specifications may be acquired at the office of the Assistant Director of Public Works, 6215 Tuttle Creek Blvd., Manhattan, KS 66503. Phone 785539-2981. The Board of County Commissioners reserves the right to reject any or all bids or waive technicalities and to purchase materials which in the Board's opinion are in the best interest of Riley County. By County Clerk Date________________________ ____________________ Rich Vargo

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Today is Sunday, June 17, the 169th day of 2012. There are 197 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex. On this date: In 1397, the Treaty of Kalmar was signed, creating a union between the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In 1775, the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses. In 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere (eeSEHR’). In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation. In 1940, France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II. In 1942, the U.S. Army began publishing “Yank, the Army Weekly,” featurLEGAL NOTICES

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ing the debut of the cartoon character G.I. Joe. In 1944, the republic of Iceland was established. In 1957, mob underboss Frank Scalice was shot to death at a produce market in the Bronx, N.Y. In 1961, Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris. In 1971, the United States and Japan signed a treaty under which Okinawa would revert from American to Japanese control the following year, with the U.S. allowed to maintain military bases there. President Richard M. Nixon declared a “war” against drug abuse in America in a message to Congress. In 1987, Charles Glass, a journalist on leave from ABC News, was kidnapped in Lebanon. (Glass escaped his captors in August 1987.) In 1992, President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a breakthrough arms-reduction agreement. Ten years ago: A judge in San Francisco tossed out the second-degree murder conviction of Marjorie Knoller for the dog-mauling death of neighbor Diane Whipple, but let stand Knoller’s conviction for involuntary

manslaughter. (However, Knoller’s murder conviction was reinstated in 2008.) The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 8-1, struck down a law in the Ohio village of Stratton that required door-todoor solicitors to register with authorities and carry a permit. Five years ago: Thirtyfive people were killed in the bombing of a police academy bus in Kabul, Afghanistan; the Taliban claimed responsibility. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (mahkMOOD’ ah-BAHS’) swore in a new government and outlawed Hamas militias. Angel Cabrera (AHN’hehl kuh-BREHR’-uh) held off Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk by a stroke to capture the U.S. Open. Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, known as the “architect of fashion,” died in Milan at age 62. One year ago: The United Nations endorsed the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people for the first time ever, passing a resolution hailed as historic by the U.S. and other backers and decried by some African and Muslim countries. A Saudi woman defiantly drove through Riyadh while others brazenly cruised by

police patrols in the first forays of a challenge to Saudi Arabia’s male-only driving rules. Rory McIlroy (MAK’-ihl-roy) became the first player in the 111-year history of the U.S. Open to reach 13under par. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Peter Lupus is 80. Actor William Lucking is 71. Singer Barry Manilow is 69. Comedian Joe Piscopo is 61. Actor Mark Linn-Baker is 58. Musician Philip Chevron (The Pogues) is 55. Actor Jon Gries (gryz) is 55. Movie producer-directorwriter Bobby Farrelly is 54. Actor Thomas Haden Church is 51. Actor Greg Kinnear is 49. Actress Kami Cotler (TV: “The Waltons”) is 47. Olympic gold-medal speed skater Dan Jansen is 47. Actor Jason Patric is 46. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kevin Thornton is 43. Actor-comedian Will Forte is 42. Latin pop singer Paulina Rubio is 41. Tennis player Venus Williams is 32. Actor-rapper Herculeez (AKA Jamal Mixon) is 29. Actor Damani Roberts is 16. Thought for Today: “Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be tough.” — Wilhelm Busch, German illustrator and poet (18321908).

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After devastating losses, woman is on mission to skydive in all 50 states The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — A broken neck, a broken back and a laundry list of other injuries led doctors to believe that 27-year-old Nicole Smith of Atlanta would never walk again. Those same physicians need simply look to the sky and see a woman who’s literally risen above the bleak prognosis. Smith, who has recovered from a battered body and bruised spirit, is well on her way to achieving the lofty personal goal of skydiving in all 50 states. She’s descended over the Delicate Arch in Moab, Utah, looked down upon the stunning sands of Sebastian Beach in Florida, and gotten a rare view of Mount Rainier in Washington. Having jumped in more than 40 states and counting, Smith’s goal should be met in about a month with the logistical challenges of Alaska serv-

ing as her final conquest. Smith’s passion for skydiving runs deep, dating to her 22nd birthday. That’s when she and her husband celebrated by indoctrinating themselves into the hobby. “It was the most exciting thing I’d ever done in my life,” she said during a recent Atlanta stop in the midst of her mission. “You use up eight hours of adrenaline in one jump. It was just overwhelming and incomprehensible.” The couple would relive the experience annually until tragedy struck in January 2010. The death of her husband, a man she had been with the majority of her adult life, found Smith in an emotional upheaval. It took her the better part of a year to adjust. Smith sought solace in skydiving, approaching the sport alone for the first time in January 2011 at Skydive the Farm in Rockmart, Ga. It’s where she met instructor Jeremy

Marston, and they soon began dating. Smith found herself not only falling in love with skydiving, but with Marston, too. In June of last year, Smith and Marston were returning home from a date when their vehicle was struck by another as the driver ran a red light. Marston was killed in the accident. Smith was in critical condition with the back and neck injuries, as well as two broken ribs, four pelvic fractures, a broken tailbone, a punctured lung and two brain injuries. If she was fortunate enough to beat the heavy odds and walk again, doctors said it would be with assistance and a limp. After spending 11 days in the hospital, Smith began months of physical therapy. “I felt completely defeated,” she said. “I almost didn’t make it through this particular incident. I had been working, saving and investing,

Can illegal immigrant practice law? Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — When Sergio C. Garcia was sworn in as a lawyer at a courthouse in Chico, Calif., late last year, hundreds showed up. A local restaurant gave out food and a Spanish radio station covered the event. In this community bounded by orchards and fields, Garcia’s success was unique, and cherished. His parents had brought him to the United States illegally when he was 17 months old. They toiled as farmworkers and constantly encouraged their children to go to school. As an adult, Garcia worked full time at a grocery store while attending college. He passed the bar exam on the first try and after a two-year wait, he received a notice saying he could be sworn in. “I kind of broke down and started crying,” he said. “I’d been working at this for 20 years.” But Garcia’s life as a lawyer lasted only a couple of weeks. He now works alongside his father as a beekeeper while the California Supreme Court determines whether he should be allowed to have a license to practice law. The case could set a precedent for other undocumented students who want to be lawyers. The State Bar of California certified Garcia after he met rigorous requirements, including passing the bar examination and receiving a positive moral character determination from the Committee of Bar Examiners. Bar officials will file a brief on the case this month. Because of the pending case, Garcia, 35, won’t discuss why he was allowed to practice for a short period, though he says media inquiries about his immigration status prompted the bar to re-examine the case. State bar officials won’t discuss the case because the process is confidential. A similar case is pending in Florida, where the state bar asked the state Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on whether Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio and other undocumented immigrants can be granted licenses to prac-

tice law. John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University in Orange, said it’s unlikely the court will rule in Garcia’s favor. “I think existing federal law makes it very problematic for him to get a license to practice law,” he said. It is illegal for anyone to hire Garcia. And federal law makes it illegal to grant him a professional license without state legislation, he said. Eastman said that although he believes current federal immigration laws are too restrictive, until there’s a change, “I think it’s foolish to do everything you can to ignore the existing immigration laws which make it unlawful for somebody to work here who is not in this country lawfully.” Holly Cooper, associate director of the immigration law clinic at the University of California, Davis, said the state has a vested interest in allowing law graduates to practice if they pass the bar exam. “If the decision doesn’t go well, it could be one more ceiling that an undocumented student will hit at some point,” she said. Garcia was born in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. Before he turned 2 years old, his parents took him to Northern California. They stayed for several years, until he was 9, when they decided to return to Mexico, he said. His father eventually returned to the U.S. alone to work while the family remained in Mexico. During that time, he was able to secure a green card under the 1986 amnesty law, Garcia said. In Mexico, Garcia loved going to school and excelled there, earning several recognitions. Watching the Mexican justice system play out left him wanting to be a lawyer. “When somebody got busted for any reasons in my town back in Mexico and they didn’t have money to bribe the police, they had to stay in jail,” he said. “They didn’t have any rights. They didn’t know how to represent themselves. There was no justice.” At 17, Garcia returned from Michoacan along with the rest of his family and enrolled in high school.

Not long after, his father sponsored him for a green card, an application that has been pending for 18 years. In his off time, he worked with his father clearing brush and doing other tasks in the local almond orchards. “Dad moved pipes around for them to get water,” he recalled. “They’re huge pipes, and when they have water inside they’re so heavy, you end up muddy. The pipes get so hot they’ll burn your hands when you grab them.” Garcia was able to leave the fields after he was hired at a grocery store. During the 12 years he worked there, he took classes at a community college, then transferred to Cal State Chico. After finishing college, Garcia took night classes at Cal Northern School of Law. He had imagined he would study criminal law but couldn’t come to grips with the idea of defending someone who might be guilty. He switched to civil litigation and personal injury law. Adam Sorrells, a personal injury and civil litigation lawyer in Chico, took him on as an intern. He was impressed with Garcia and let him help with everything he was permitted to do as a student, including making a court appearance. “Here’s a guy that’s done everything right,” Sorrells said. “He has no criminal record, he’s worked all his life; he pays taxes; he treats people with respect and he’s nice to people. “When we look at society, at what we ask of our citizens, everything that Sergio has done with his life is what we expect of a good citizen, somebody who deserves to be a lawyer.” Garcia is optimistic the court will rule in his favor. He hopes his case could open doors for many others like him. While he awaits a decision, he’s back helping his father. Most days they wake up before dawn and head out to the fields where the bees are kept. “It’s terrible,” he said. “It’s hot out there, and those bees sting like crazy. But I don’t mind.”

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because I was going to retire at 40. My realization was that life is so fleeting.” This new lease on life included Smith walking away from her job as district manager for a large specialty retail company. And yes, she was walking — without a cane or a limp. She ventured back to skydiving last November. Smith and Marston would have one last jump together. On Jan. 7, Marston’s birthday, Smith and a group of their comrades dropped his ashes from the sky. “It was overwhelming,” she said. Two months later, Smith decided to embark on her 50-state trek. Although she had no goal outside of wanting to “see everything in the United States,” Smith thought adding skydiving to the mix would take things to the next level. She wanted to appreciate the beauty of America by enjoying the view from 14,000 feet.

Her parents were apprehensive at first, but Smith said they’re basically used to her lifelong tendency to “push the envelope.” Once they understood what goes into accelerated free-fall training and the different licenses skydivers hold, Smith said they began to feel more comfortable with the idea. They can keep up with their daughter’s adventure as she blogs each experie n c e (www.temptphate01.tumblr.com). The trip has been continuous, with Smith traveling the country in her compact car along with the basic necessities, including a couple of suitcases, a tent and a sleeping bag. A gnome statue often rides shotgun. As a nod to those Travelocity TV commercials, Smith takes pictures of the gnome at the various drop zones and stops along the way. The life experience has been invaluable, she said, citing the amazing

scenery and the characters she meets. The biggest byproduct is arguably the unexpected spiritual journey Smith finds herself on. She’s found a sense of peace. It’s brought her closer to God, she said, giving her the opportunity to give thanks for a second chance at life, and relish the experiences she has each day. After she wraps up her quest, Smith said she plans to earn enough skydiving jumps to become an instructor. The new year will include a trip to Australia, where she’ll explore her love for videography and perhaps teach others how to skydive. Her advice to those contemplating skydiving or any other positive life experience: Just do it. “Take advantage of the life that you have right now. It’s so easy to put things off until tomorrow, and sometimes tomorrow doesn’t come.”

In Syria, life goes on despite violence Los Angeles Times QUSAIR, Syria — The sky above the mosque is pastel blue, but in the distance is the sound of threatening thunder. But it’s not stormy weather. It’s shelling, the same kind of shelling that already slammed into the Rahman mosque almost a dozen times, leaving the facade agape with holes that look like extra windows. For more than two months, no one prayed in the mosque, fearing it would be struck again by government tanks positioned around this mostly opposition-run town near the border with Lebanon. But as the shelling continues unabated and U.N. efforts to broker a meaningful cease-fire are paid no more than lip service, residents have returned to the mosque. In the main prayer hall, men and boys have swept up the broken glass and crumbled concrete and wiped off a thick layer of dust that had entered through the shattered windows. One man dusted while carrying a handgun in his belt. “This conflict is prolonged and prayer is mandatory,” said Abu Saeed, who heads a local religious council formed after street protests against President Bashar Assad began more than a year ago. “We had said we would wait till things calm down but they are remaining the same, so we don’t want to wait anymore. There is still fear, but whatever God wills will happen.” Ordinary life has slipped away in this mostly Sunni Muslim town of more than 30,000. But in its place has emerged at least a semblance of daily routine, a sort of new normal as Syrians are accepting the fact that the conflict that has roiled the country for 15 months is likely to continue indefinitely, despite international diplomatic efforts to restore peace and an armed rebellion’s attempt to oust Assad. Schools here did not open this year, and most men no longer go to work, either because they fear driving through army checkpoints or because they have enlisted in the Free Syrian Army. In the groves and orchards that surround Qusair, apples, apricots and blackberries ripen with no hands to harvest them. Everyday conversations are punctuated by the sounds of shelling or sniper fire, followed by a lingering pause as residents wonder whether the rounds found their targets. Government snipers are stationed at the town’s hospital and City Hall, and the random shelling comes from the outskirts. Combat in the streets is rare, but clashes erupt with some regularity on the edge of town. Residents say snipers appear to target people at random, and sometimes even shoot at garbage bins or birds, apparently out of boredom. So, in some neighborhoods, crossing the street has become fraught with danger. Residents map out alternative routes to avoid roads they have traversed their entire lives. Qusair, less than 20 miles from the battered city of Homs, rose up against Assad last year and as a result has been a frequent target of the government offensive against dissent. When rebels with the Farouq Brigade fled the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr in late February, many found their way here. Residents still come out in daily antigovernment protests, but it is often someone walking or driving along the main road out of town who becomes the next victim. Even with the risk, though, some residents who had fled to the capital, Damascus, or Lebanon have begun to trickle back, saying they would rather die in their hometown than elsewhere. “They have gotten used to it because the most important thing now is to remain defiant,” said Dr. Qassim Al-Zein, squinting sleepily through his glasses. “Because if the people don’t remain so, they have been broken and the uprising is done.” Al-Zein, a specialist in internal medicine, heads a four-bed field hospital in Qusair and oversees surgeries performed by nurses. Victims of the conflict from the town and surrounding villages are being treat-

ed, but most of the 150 or so patients a day are children suffering from illnesses like colds or stomach flu. Al-Zein and the nurses prescribe medicines that are smuggled into the country. The National Hospital in Qusair has been taken over by the army and no other doctors are practicing in the town. After the swiftness of the “Arab Spring” revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, and even Libya’s nine-month armed uprising, Syrians harbored hope that theirs too would succeed quickly. Just a few months ago, some Syrians continued to maintain that Assad’s days were numbered even as the situation indicated otherwise. Now those Syrians ask one another, “What do you think, is this conflict going to last a long time?” People here have been surprised by the brutality of Assad and the international community’s unwillingness to get involved beyond sending observers and brokering failed peace plans. “We’ve grown accustomed, you can say. We have submitted our fate to God and we are trying to live,” said Khawla, 26, a mother of two who asked to be identified by only her first name. “Despite the shelling, life is continuing. The people are creating hope for themselves.” “There are many people who are trying to lead a normal life,” said her husband, Zakaria Harba. “But it is difficult.” Outside, the morning sound is of metal grates lifting as shops open. Were it not for the gunfire in the distance, it might seem like an ordinary day. “If everyone stops working, it will be a big problem for us because people need the basics,” said Harba, 31, who owns a shop that mostly sells Turkish coffee. Coffee is a ritual here, of both daily life and hospitality, that even war cannot interrupt. For months his shelves were empty, but recently he was able to hire a Christian, for twice what it would normally cost, to make the perilous drive to the city of Hama to pick up a new supply. The trip, Harba said, would be far more dangerous for him, a Sunni Muslim man, because a majority of the rebels are Sunnis. Christians have been largely on the sidelines of this conflict, although the Vatican recently expressed concern that they have been told to leave the town. Harba’s shop used to be on the main market square. But when the plaza was shelled heavily more than a month ago, businesses that weren’t destroyed moved to nearby Omar ibn Khattab Street. This street has become the commerce hub of Qusair, but shuttered storefronts still dominate. About 200 shops selling fruits and vegetables have been reduced to about two dozen, Harba said, and often half their shelves are bare. The same goes for the few pharmacies. At a newly relocated pastry shop, the owner scrounges for basics like ground meat, flour and gas canisters. “Each day we are just living for that day,” said the owner, who didn’t want to give his name for fear of reprisal. “Our projects, we have delayed everything. We are just working to eat.” Inside, a refrigerator holds only a few bottles of domestic cola. Electricity and water are cut off regularly, but the owner, whose pot belly stretches the front of his shirt, still works throughout the day to fill orders for thyme, cheese and meat pastries. Oftentimes, they are for rebels who live communally nearby. Across the street, at one of the few remaining cellphone shops, decorative cases and key chains sit untouched. Customers ask only to add minutes or buy chargers and batteries. Cellphones are a necessity for checking on the casualties of the latest attack. “We were scared a lot in the beginning of the revolution; now we have gotten used to it,” said Zainab Harba, whose son owns the shop. When the sound of shelling intensifies, the shop is shuttered. But on quiet days, it is reopened, if nothing more than to occupy time, Zainab Harba said. “Now there’s just eating and shelling and massacring,” she said dryly.

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Dear Ms. Lank: To settle an argument (with my brother-inlaw), let's assume I have some money to invest. Is it still a good idea, in today's difficult real estate market, to send in extra money to pay off my mortgage quicker? -- J. Answer: First off, no particular financial move is good for everyone. The answer depends on many factors: the stability of your job, whether you have emergency savings stashed away, and perhaps most important, whether you're paying high interest on credit card borrowing. But in general, if you have, for instance, a 5 percent mortgage, then every extra dollar you send in to reduce the principal debt saves you five cents a year from then on. That's a 5 percent return, no-risk, guaranteed, which is terrific investment income these days compared to less than one percent on bank savings accounts. You wouldn't want to tie up extra money in your house, though, until you had set aside enough cash to cover several months' possible emergencies. And if you're paying high interest on credit card borrowing, you'll get an even better return by applying your extra cash to reducing that debt. Only problem is, you must then resist the temptation to run your credit card balance back up again. Problem with Buyer Dear Edith: A few years ago, our real estate salesman told us the only way we could sell our home in a hurry was to finance it ourselves. The buyer paid us a small down payment and is now making monthly payments to us. We in turn pay the bank that holds the mortgage.

Our mortgage states we cannot keep the loan if we sell the house. The salesman assured us the bank is only interested in receiving the payments and will not foreclose if the payments are made on time. The buyer is becoming increasingly late in his payments, and I am worrying myself sick over this. We could be in a tight spot soon and the late payments are ruining our credit rating. We did have an attorney at closing. We signed an agreement. But our buyer says if there's trouble, he will leave us high and dry and just leave town. Is there any way we can get ourselves out of this problem? -- X. Answer: You knew you were risking your loan by selling the house in violation of the mortgage agreement. You should not have taken legal advice from a real estate agent (who should not have given you any.) At the least, you could have protected yourselves by insisting on a good credit report from the prospective buyer, and a substantial down payment. Go back to your attorney. You should have the right to evict the buyer if payments are late. If the papers didn't provide for that, then your lawyer is at fault and should put it right for you. Once you get rid of the present occupant, be sure to deal with a different real estate broker. Explore with your lender whether a qualified buyer might be allowed to take over your loan. My guess is that most buyers would rather take advantage of today's low rates anyhow. Two Years or Five Dear Edith: Our house is presently up for sale. We

bought it at a real bargain four years ago and will have a profit even after the expenses of selling. I would like to know once and for all -- to get our profit tax-free, do we have to live in the house two years or five years? -- J. Answer: Once and for all, two years' ownership and occupancy in your main home are enough to qualify, assuming they were fairly recent. How recent? Within the past five years. It looks as if you can take your capital gain taxfree, up to a limit, for a married couple filing jointly, of half a million dollars. That should be enough to cover it. Another VA Loan Dear Edith: We bought our first home many years ago with a VA mortgage. It has been paid off completely. Now we are moving out of state and we would like to conserve our cash and use a VA loan all over again. Is this possible? -- E. Y. Answer: If your first VA mortgage has been paid off, then yes, the veteran can regain his or her eligibility and get another VA-guaranteed loan. Even if it wasn't paid off (taken over, perhaps by the qualified buyer of your present home) it's still possible that you might swing another VA loan. Assuming your first purchase was a modest one, you may not have needed the entire amount available for a VA guarantee. In that case, you may have some eligibility left, enough to cover your next -- not too expensive -- home. Edith Lank will respond personally to any question sent to www.askedith.com. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM

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Dear Ms. Lank: Our home loan is in my name, with my husband listed on the deed. When our home was refinanced, the lender was supposed to take my husband's name off the deed, but they didn't. He has outstanding tax liens levied against the home. Would it be beneficial to get his name off the deed, and how? -- Email Answer: Your lender doesn't have anything to do with determining ownership of the property. The lender can't take your husband's name off the deed. If you want to be the sole owner, the two of you can sign a new deed putting the title in your name alone. That can be done anytime, but it won't get rid of the liens that are already there. Mother Taking Over Ms. Lank: We have a mobile home and want to try and let our mother "take over payments" so that we are free to buy a new home. Can we do that? If so, what will it take to do that? -- G. Answer: I don't know whether your mobile home is on your own land and qualifies as real estate with a mortgage, or if it's on rented land. That would make it personal property with a different type of loan. In either case, your lender is the place to ask if your mother can buy your home and take over the debt. If the point is to qualify for a mortgage on your next home, an important question is, would the lender then release you of liability on the mobile home?

step, go together to a lawyer who specializes in estate planning or elder law to see if it is a good idea in your particular situation. You need to know both the advantages and the drawbacks before doing anything. No Broker's Rush Dear Edith: We are an elderly couple living in a paid-for house but are willing to walk away from it if we could find a small home with a postagestamp sized lawn and yard. When we sold our first home, we had hordes of people in and out, then at sale were told to rush out and buy another home -- a very unpleasant experience. What I wish to do now is find this ideal small home near my church, buy it and then put this house up for sale after we are moved. Can it be done with as little problems as possible? How can we conduct the whole business without the usual broker's rush? - L. L. Answer: If you'd be more comfortable buying first and selling later, you can certainly do it that way. That's assuming you have the financial resources to carry two properties for a few months. Some people, though, find that an even more stressful situation. You mention "the usual broker's rush" -- but, trust me, there are all different sorts of successful real estate agents. Some are gung-ho, some are laid-back. You can certainly use someone who does business in a way you feel comfortable with. Call local agencies and ask them to send someone over. You'll get lots of free advice

with no obligation, and it shouldn't be hard to find a softspoken easy-going broker who feels right for you. Dear Mrs. Lank: I recently had to break a rental agreement because of noise above and below us that went on sometimes until 3 in the morning. We are senior citizens and finally had to give the manager a notice in writing that I have a heart condition and the noise compelled us to move. We gave the required notice to vacate, but the rental contract says that anyone breaking the agreement prior to the expiration date would be charged $1000. They still hold our $900 security deposit. We moved on the last day of the month, and the new tenants moved in the next day, so they didn't lose any rent. Can they legally keep $900 of my deposit due to us breaking the rental agreement? -- T. Answer: According to the letter of your lease, the landlord has the right to keep the $900. It's possible, though, that a court would say they had failed to provide you with habitable housing if the noise was bad enough. In that case, it would be the landlord who had broken the lease. To find out in a simple, inexpensive manner, go into small claims court asking for the $900. You can do it yourself, without a lawyer. At least you'll have the satisfaction of a judge's opinion Edith Lank will respond personally to any question sent to www.askedith.com. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM

Parents Transferring House Dear Edith: If my parents want to transfer a house from their name into my name, what is the best way to do that? -- A. Answer: Transferring ownership is simple, assuming there's no mortgage involved. Any lawyer can help with the paperwork, but you're asking the wrong question. Before your folks take that

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Pristine condition! Bilevel home w/ 4 BR’s, 3 Baths, wood flrs, fin walk out bsmt, deck-partially covered. $205,000

Spacious Westside Candlewood home w/ 4 BR’s, 3 Baths, open flr plan, eat in kit, formal dining rm, great deck! $220’s

Perfect first home! Spacious ranch style home w/ 3 BR’s, 2 Baths, many updates throughout, close to Ft. Riley! $142,500

Investors & developers…3 BR house w/ 11 vacant building lots, minutes to Manhattan, Ft. Riley or JC. $189,900

Great Investment Opportunity knocking at your door! Four-Plex just blocks away from KSU, AggieVille & City Park, call for additional details

Rare find! Newer home in small town just minutes to Manhattan or Wamego! 4 BR, 3 Bath home w/ wood flrs, lg open kit, full fin bsmt, deck, fenced yard. $184,900

New Price: Much desired Westside location! Newer 5 BR, 3 Bath ranch home w/ full fin walk out bsmt, vaulted ceilings, open flr plan & more. $239,000

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Coldwell Banker Realty Group One $245,000 By Owner $155,000 ERA The Conderman Group $197,900 Realty Executives Weis Real Estate $429,900 Realty Executives Weis Real Estate $163,500 Ryan & Sons LLC $204,900 Coldwell Banker Realty Group One $198,000 Hallmark Homes $141,900

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Wonderful and well kept home for family or investment. 8 blocks to KSU. Wrap around front porch and character in this 5 BD, 2 BA home. 24x24 garage w/off street parking. $179,900

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3746 Saddlehorn Trail

1312 Christy

816 Davis Drive

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148 Bethany Open 1-3:00

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4441 Kitten Creek

$36,000 - Miller Ranch $78,500 - Lake lot w/ water access 1613 Woodoak $150,000 - 20 acres close to town Condo $109,900 Jim Blanck REALTOR 539-0244

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922 Bertrand 6 BD/KSU $149,900 Summer Hamil REALTOR 341-7205

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2609 Elm Creek 3 BR, 2 BA on 1/2 acre. Near School. Call Leslie! $163,500

5 BR, 3 BA, 4-car gar. 3+ acres. New Price! $415,000

5 BR, 3 BA, 3 car/shop, 2 acres. Wooded. $372,900

829 Brierwood

2417 Hillview

5890 Edgewater

Vaulted 4 BR, 3 BA. Wooded lot w/views! $255,000

1904 Blue Hills Road

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8736 Eagles Landing Dr

4154 Taneil Drive

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY • LAND! 270 acres 14 miles East of Manhattan (West boundary is RileyWabaunsee County line). 130 +/- acres tillable. 140 +/- acres grass. Call Jerry for more info! • 12 LOTS FOR SALE! Great opportunities for investors, builders or families! Convenient to Manhattan, Ft. Riley, Junction City. Call Leslie for detailed information! • 6+ acre prime building site. Adjoins marina on south side of Milford Lake. $89,000. Call Jim or Leslie!

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3199 Keats Ave

1121 Caroline Ave, J.C.

Floyd $110,000 Floyd $139,900 Unique property w/ many possi- Ranch, 3 BR, 2 BA, 2 car bilities on 1.3 acres. garage. Corner lot.

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Call or Email the Listed Agent for more Pictures and Details Floyd..........313-1672.....frogers@remax.kscoxmail.com Joe..............712-0027.....................www.joemaggio.com Karen.........532-9333...............www.KarensKastles.com Sandy........565-8433......ssalava@remax.kscoxmail.com Shanelle....226-2746.......sfields@remax.kscoxmail.com

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• 1109 W 1st, Abilene - $98,500: Ranch, 3 BR, 2 BA, large lot, 1 car garage. Contact Floyd • 213 W Walnut, Waterville - $54,900: Ranch, 2 BR, 2 BA, 1 car garage. Contact Floyd • 408 W 7th, Junction City - $49,900: 2 BR, 1 BA, 1 car detached garage. Contact Floyd

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• 1401 Eisenhower, Junction City $32,500: Ranch, 2 BR, 1 BA, corner lot. Contact Floyd • 307 SW 4th, Abilene - $34,900: 1.5 story, 3 BR, 1 BA, 2 car garage, large lot. Contact Floyd • 713 Grove St, Dwight - $29,900: Ranch, 2 BR, 1 BA, det. workshop, 1 ac. lot. Contact Floyd

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