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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ ideal for the holidays The Iola Community Theatre’s second production of the season will help put Iola in the holiday spirit with its rendition of “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Show.”

The play is based on the film

by Frank Capra and adapted

by Philip Grecian. It takes the audience back to the golden age of radio when people had to use their imaginations and the mind was a stage.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the story of George Bailey, the unsung, beloved hero of Bedford Falls. As a child, George risked his life to save his brother from drowning.

As he grew older, his countless small deeds mattered very much in the lives of the Bedford Falls townspeople.

George prepares to leave town and go to college to fulfill his dream of building skyscrapers. However, when his father, the president of the small Bailey Building and Loan Company, dies, George

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postpones his dreams, manages the family company, and finds happiness in his marriage to Mary Hatch.

When Uncle Billy accidentally misplaces company funds, George faces financial ruin and almost certain imprisonment. Seeing no way out, he runs to the bridge over the river, prepared to plunge to his death. Clarence, George’s guardian angel, who has come to Bedford Falls to prove to George that his life is worth living and to earn wings for himself.

He grants George one wish: to see what the world would be like if he had never been born.

Richard Spencer directs the cast of six. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 13, 14, 20 and 21 at the Iola Community Theater Warehouse, 203 S. Jefferson, Iola.

Cast members are Regina Chriestenson, Dana

Shoppers to be feted Friday Downtown merchants are throwing a party Friday and Iola shoppers are the guest of honor.

Shoppers will be feted with refreshments, entertainment, store discounts and prizes during the 4th Annual Downtown Christmas Block Party.

To participate, shoppers use a punch card at each of the 11 participating stores. A drawing will be held for the grand prize of $220 in gift certificates.

Activities are from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the following downtown stores: Around the Corner, Audacious Boutique, Fifty 50, Funkie Monkey, McGinty-Whitworth, Peace of Mind, Salon Nyne, Second Chance, Sophisticated Rose, Sophisticated Rose Plus and Town & Country.

Torrie Lewis of Audacious Boutique shows off merchandise that will be available at the 4th Annual Downtown Christmas Block Party on Friday.

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Santa lands in Iola Thursday Congress crams unfinished Santa Claus is coming to town Thursday.

The candy cane hunt on the square will begin at 4:45 p.m.

The man in red will arrive by fire truck in Iola at 5 p.m. He will be available to visit kiddos, take pictures and hear wish lists for Christmas in his house on the square.

There will cookies and hot drinks provided by local businesses and the Kiwanis Train will run again this year as well. The Santa Trolley sponsored by PSI will give free rides around the square. Santa will also be in his house from 5 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 11 and Dec. 18.

Children can drop off Christmas letters to Santa at his house. The letters will be delivered to Santa and also be published in the Iola Register.

Santa will travel to see children in Moran at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Troxel Park. There will be treats for the children.

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Santa will be available for photos on Thursday. FILE PHOTO Cocoa will be served by the Moran Public Library. Santa’s

visit is sponsored by the Moran Ruritan Club.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lame-duck lawmakers return to Washington today facing a stacked agenda and not much time to get it all done before the new Congress convenes in January and a Republican takeover is complete.

Their to-do list includes keeping the government running into the new year, renewing expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses and approving a defense policy measure that has passed for more than 50 years in a row. They hope to get it all done in two weeks without stumbling into a government shutdown.

Also pending are President Barack Obama’s requests for money to combat

Islamic State militants, battle Ebola and deal with an influx of unaccompanied Central American children who have crossed into the U.S. Among the lower profile items on the agenda are renewing the government’s terrorism risk insurance program and extending the ban on state and federal taxes on access to the Internet.

Obama’s move to protect millions of immigrants from deportation proceedings and make them eligible for work permits appears to have made it more difficult to navigate the must-do items through a Capitol where cooperation already is in short supply.

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Cyber Monday new holiday shopping craze NEW YORK (AP) — After a busy holiday weekend in shopping malls, millions of Americans are expected to log on and keep shopping on the day dubbed Cyber Monday.

That day, the Monday after Thanksgiving, has been the biggest online shopping day of the year since 2010.

The day could take on added importance after a Thanksgiving weekend that saw fewer shoppers and lower spending than last year, according to some estimates.

Retailers have been pushing deals all month and particularly the past week, hoping to spur customers to spend. That may have taken away some spending from Thanksgiving weekend.

Research firm comScore expects people to spend about $2.5 billion on Cyber Monday.

There’s reason to think a lot of dollars are migrating online.

PayPal said its global mobile payment volume jumped 47 percent on Thanksgiving Day compared with last year. Wal-Mart said it had more than 500 million page views on Thanksgiving, and eBay says it sold 2,000 iPad Air 2 tablets for $399 at a rate of one a second.

Amazon has been offering special deals since Nov. 21, adding new discounts as often as every 10 minutes for eight days straight. Deals include up to 45 percent off some Samsung TVs and 28 percent off Beats by Dre headphones, selling for $275.

Wal-Mart said it has doubled its Cyber Week deals to 500 compared with last year, including up to half off some TVs, tablets and toys with free-shipping offers.

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Toys R Us is offering online deals for 11 days that began the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and also has freeshipping offers. Cyberdeals include $15 off Disney “Frozen” Princess dolls that are regularly $50 and $20 off a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battroborg Electronic Battle Game that is usually $80.

The name “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, Shop.org, to encourage people to shop online. After retailers revved up deals for the day, it became the busiest online shopping day in 2010. The name was also a nod to online shopping being done at work, where faster connections made it easier to browse, less of a factor now.

Cyber Monday comes after a weekend that saw 5.3 percent fewer shoppers and 11 percent less spending, ac-

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cording to estimates by the National Retail Federation.

“Online is nowhere near its maturity, so Cyber Monday should be big, with a lot of strength in the days leading up to it,” Forester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said. “More consumers are spending more shopping dollars online.”

She expects two spikes in online shopping: one during the long Thanksgiving weekend, including Cyber Monday, and one later in December when shipping deadlines to get items by Christmas start to hit.

Research firm comScore expects online sales to rise 16 percent to $61 billion during the November and December shopping season, up 16 percent from last year. ComScore tracks U.S. See CYBER | Page A4

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Delbert Miller Delbert Lorraine “Del” Miller, Lake Geneva, Wis., and formerly of East Troy, Wis., was born into eternal life Nov. 24, 2014, at the age of 83.

Del was the loving father of Kathleen (Dennis) Rich and Lynn (Nancy) Miller; stepfather of Jerry (Kim Krabbe) Brandemuehl, Jim Brandemuehl and Michelle (Erik Gauger) Brandemuehl; proud grandfather of Chelsea, Carissa, Caitlin, Brittany, Jessica, Tiffany, Ian, Rob, Javier, Jessica, Carl, Sara, Kyle, Jackie and Tara; and greatgrandfather of 12.

Delbert was preceded in death by his wife, Marlene, his daughter, Dianne Lange, his sister, Janice Page, and his brother, Richard Miller. Del was a proud member of the National Guard. He was an avid saxophone player and enjoyed playing swing music. Del always enjoyed coaching softball and baseball. He was a past president of Kiwanis. Del was self-employed for most of his life but proudly held the title of “Emeritus” with Lennox. Del enjoyed his time with family, especially over the holidays, and the many parties that Marlene and Del hosted.

A visitation will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Schmidt & Bartlett Funeral and Cremation Service, 930 Main St., Mukwonago, Wis., prior to the noon memorial service. He will be laid to rest at Highland Cemetery in Iola at a later date.

Wreck kills Chanute man Roy Myers, 66, Chanute, was killed Saturday afternoon when the motorcycle he was riding struck a car, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.

The accident occurred in rural Wilson County at the intersection of K-39 Highway

and County Road 1700, or about eight miles northwest of Fredonia.

According to KHP reports, Sarah Robinson, 83, Fredonia was eastbound on K-39 in her sport utility vehicle and was attempting to turn onto 1700 when

Allen County officers were called to the 400 block of South Taylor in Gas Friday, where they arrested Coy W. Pergeson, Plano, Ill., for allegations of reckless driving, criminal damage to property, trafficking contraband into a correctional facility, possessing marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia. Pergeson was transported to Allen

County Jail, where he is being held on $15,500 bond.

Kenneth T. Minor, Neosho Falls, was arrested by Allen County sheriff ’s deputies Wednesday on a warrant issued out of Allen County District Court.

He was taken to Allen County Jail and later released on bond.

Mark G. Saban, Palos Park, Ill., was arrested Tuesday by Allen Coun-

she failed to yield to the westbound motorcycle piloted by Myers. The motorcycle struck Robinson’s Chevrolet Suburban.

Myers, who was wearing a helmet and face shield, was declared dead at the scene. Robinson was not injured.

ACC offers ‘Parents Day Out’

Allen Community College’s softball team will offer a “Parents Day Out” Dec. 13.

The Red Devil squad will open the Red Barn at the ACC campus to children of all ages from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Among the activities on tap are cookie decorating, holiday gift activ-

ities, Christmas movies and a variety of games.

The event is geared to assist parents needing a day for Christmas shopping, cleaning house, gift wrapping “or just a day to yourself,” head coach Jamie Jensen wrote.

Youngsters will need to bring a sack lunch, Jensen said.

ty officers for allegedly driving while suspended and failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. Saban was taken to Allen County Jail and later released on bond.

Allen County deputies arrested Andrew D. Sheldon, Gas, on Nov. 24 for suspicion of driving while suspended (third or subsequent offense).

He was taken to Allen County Jail and later released on bond.

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Police reports Arrests reported

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Jacob Maley, Moran, was northbound on 4600 Street Friday, where he struck a deer just north of Oregon Road on 4600 Street, or three miles east and two miles north of Moran.

Iolan Orion Leigh was eastbound on U.S. 54 Saturday, just west of Iola, when he struck a deer.

Neither driver was injured.

For more information call Jensen at 3655116, extension 204.

Kansas Extension District. “That’s a lot of money.”

Earlier this month someone stole a dozen or more Black Angus bulls and heifers — worth an estimated $20,000 — from a northwest Kansas ranch, The Salina Journal reported.

The cattle were reported missing Nov. 19 from a Cheyenne County ranch south of Wheeler.

“It was a quick grab-and-go,” Cheyenne County Sheriff Cody Beeson said.

In September, someone dumped a load of

cowhides in McPherson County. The Sheriff ’s Office said it received several leads but none panned out.

Ruiz said the hides could indicate that the cattle had been stolen.

“But that isn’t your run-of-the-mill rustler,” he said. “That’s a pretty sizable chunk of meat.

Where are you going to put that? That’s taking it to a whole new level.”

Ruiz advises ranchers to register a brand and brand their cattle, making it harder to sell stolen cattle by simply removing an ear iden-

tification tag. He also encourages ranchers to change their routines and not feed at the same time so potential thieves can’t take advantage of a schedule.

“Another thing is to install some deer cameras,” he said. “Take a look at who’s coming onto your property. Any way you can be vigilant to know what’s going on at your operation when you’re not there will help.”

The U.S. cattle herd is as low as it has been since the 1960s, causing prices to surge, Ruiz said.

Prosecutor: No charges to be filed in jail death LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A prosecutor has decided that no criminal charges are warranted in the death of a Missouri woman at a Kansas jail two days after she and her sister were arrested for possessing a small amount of marijuana.

Relatives of Brenda Sewell of Kansas City, Missouri, contend that jailers in Sherman County in western Kansas refused to give her prescription medication and were slow to help after she collapsed in her cell. Sewell was 58 when she died Jan. 22.

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Sherman County Attorney Charles Moser released the police investigative file exclusively to the Lawrence Journal-World this month, the newspaper reported.

The report showed that Douglas County Attorney Charles Branson was brought in to review the case and found that the correctional officers overseeing Sewell didn’t commit a crime.

“I will make no comment with regard to civil liability,” Branson wrote in the review.

The file said Sewell vomited more than two dozen times over 15

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hours. After being taken to a medical center and given intravenous fluids and anti-nausea medicine, she was returned to her cell. The next morning she was sick again, began having seizures and stopped breathing.

Sewell suffered abdominal hemorrhaging when her spleen ruptured, according to an autopsy report. Contributing factors to the rupture included vomiting and abdominal retching, the autopsy found.

Sewell’s family doesn’t understand why she wasn’t provided better, faster medical treatment. Sewell suffered from several autoimmune diseases includ-

ing fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren’s syndrome, her family said. She also had thyroid disease, high blood pressure and Hepatitis C, the family said.

Among Sewell’s prescriptions were pain and muscle relaxant medications prescribed to deaden the pain that some of the diseases caused.

“I firmly believe she would be alive today if they had just listened instead of treating (her and his aunt) like hardened criminals,” said Sewell’s son, Aaron Ray. “Everything about this was absurd.”

The family says it plans to file a lawsuit over Sewell’s treatment.

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Moran Thrive-Pride is sponsoring a Holiday Decorating Contest for Moran area residents.

Participants sign up at the Moran City office by Dec. 16. Judging will be done on Dec. 17. A $25 gift certificate will be awarded to the winner.

Debra Wagner won the fall/Halloween decorating contest was

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— Moran Public Library meeting, 5 p.m., Moran Public Library.

— Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

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— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Allen County Historical Society board meeting, 7 p.m., Allen County Historical museum.

— Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., KofC Room in the St. John Parish Center.

— Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

— Candy Cane Hunt, 4:45, Santa House.

— Santa will arrive by fire truck, 5 p.m., Santa house on the square.

— TOPS No. KS 880 5 p.m. weigh in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

— Iola Public Library board meeting, 6 p.m., Iola Public Library.

— ACC student directed one act plays, 7:30 p.m., Allen Theatre.

Ranchers warned of possible rustling surge SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas livestock expert is urging farmers and ranchers to take precautions against rustlers as historically high cattle prices make the animals a prime target for thieves.

Steers were selling between $1,300 and $2,000 per head in late November, according to a Farmers & Ranchers Livestock Commission’s market report.

“Right now we are looking at record prices,” said Anthony Ruiz, livestock production agent for the Central

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— Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

— 4th annual Downtown Christmas Block Party, 4:30 p.m., Iola square.

— ACC student directed one act plays, 7:30 p.m., Allen Theatre.

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— ACC student directed one act plays, 7:30 p.m., Allen Theatre.

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Thanks to All the Participants The Veterans Day committee says Thank You to all those who participated in our memorial service and parade to make them a success.

Among those are The Iola Register, KIKS Radio, Lloyd Houk, Lt. Col. Kenneth Weishear, Rev. Dave McGullion, Moran American Legion Firing Squad, Andy Dunlap, Elks Lodge & Ladies of the Elks, Iola Police Department, Iola Fire Department for putting up the flags, the City of Iola, O’Malley Equipment, Allen County Courthouse, Allen County Sheriff Department, City Of Gas, Jones Jewelry, McGinty-Whitworth, Renee’s Bakery, Town Square Tannery and Salon, Iola Office Supplies, Capper Jewelry, Grace Lutheran Church, Latter Day Saints Church, Wesley United Methodist Church, M&W Manufacturing, Sonic Equipment, Sherry Hart, Mark Friemiller, Mike Folstein, Duane’s Flowers and the 891st Engineer Battalion personnel for carrying the big flag.

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL VETERANS

Jamie Mosbrucker, chairman, Sandy Masbrucker Wanda Lytle, Becky Nilges, Connie Prock, Max Turner, Ton Nevans, Pete Smith, Frank Neimeyer.

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Coming home to a good job: The best of both worlds Small communities such as Iola endeavor to remain an attractive place to live and work not only to outsiders, but also to their children.

The competition from metropolitan areas is stiff.

The United States is increasingly becoming more urban.

Through effective design, city planners today see that suburbs, boroughs, and townships provide all the warmth and community of a small town with the amenities of a big city.

Today, four out of five Americans live in cities.

In the Midwest and South, 75 percent live in metropolitan areas compared to 85 percent on the East and West coasts.

Over one lifetime, Kansas has gone from 52 percent living in cities in 1950, to almost 75 percent today.

So it is no wonder townsfolk long to hold on to yesterday but realize time is not on their side as more and more of their youth flee to cities.

One angle is to promote the intangibles of small town life — clean air, safe streets, open skies, friendly faces, helping hands, quiet nights and a slower pace.

The trick is to seem comfortable but not provincial; safe but not boring; quiet but still thriving.

In our effort to lure pro-

fessionals to come our way, more and more emphasis is put on growing them.

Nowhere is the need more evident than in the health care field where increasingly, rural communities lack physicians and dentists and their residents must travel long distances for care.

KU Med has these communities in mind with a traveling entourage of health professionals whose goal is to enlighten high school students in the far reaches of the state of the many careers in medicine including X-ray technicians, pharmacy, orthopedics, nurses and physicians.

More than 150 careers exist in medicine, they inform the students.

Locally, administrators at Allen County Regional Hospital make a pointed effort that personnel have opportunities to further their careers if they so desire.

Once in a hospital setting they see all kinds of directions they can take their careers with more training.

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aware of such career possibilities in their own back yard might be a way of attracting them back home after they get their education.

For some, that’s the best of both worlds.

— Susan Lynn

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. ~ Amelia Earhart

The GOP’s shameful suit against Obamacare The lawsuit the House GOP filed against President Obama on Friday opened a new front in the attack on the 2010 health care law, this time targeting the subsidies that reduce deductibles, co-pays and other out-of-pocket expenses faced by lower-income Americans.

According to the complaint, the subsidies should not have been paid because Congress never formally appropriated the money for them. The claim is legally suspect, but more important, it misidentifies the party responsible for the alleged lawbreaking. It also puts Republicans in the position of making health insurance even less affordable for struggling constituents.

The case has been in the works at least since July, when the House voted to sue Obama for allegedly exceeding his authority as president when he implemented the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Half of the lawsuit focuses on the administration’s unilateral decision to delay the law’s mandate that businesses with 50 or more work-

Homeownership creates wealth Since the housing bust, renting has been in and owning a home has been out, especially among young adults who in earlier decades would have been first-time home buyers. As the rate of homeownership has declined, from a peak of nearly 70 percent in 2004 to a 20-year low of 64.3 percent recently, the number of owner-occupied homes has barely budged, while the number occupied by renters has increased by nearly 25 percent.

Those trends have led to questions about the future of homeownership. Would more and longer rentals be a bad thing? Are the benefits of homeownership overrated?

The answer to the first question is yes; the answer to the second is no.

Homeownership long has been central to Americans’ ability to amass wealth; even with the substantial decline in wealth after the housing bust, the net worth of homeowners over time has significantly outpaced that of renters, who tend as a group to accumulate little if any wealth.

A recent study by researchers at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University analyzed the reasons for these differing outcomes. Paramount among them is that homeownership requires potential buyers to save for a down payment, and forces them to continue to save by paying down a portion of the mortgage principal each month.

Renting, in contrast, offers the potential for comparable wealth building only if renters invest an amount equal to a down payment plus any sav-

ings from renting. As a prac- publicans, who now control tical matter, most renters do Congress, have consistently not do that. Even in instances tried to weaken the agency where renters have excess and the provisions of Doddcash, saving a substantial Frank generally. President amount is difficult without a Obama must be prepared to near-term goal, like a down veto legislation to repeal or payment. It is also difficult weaken mortgage-finance and to systematically invest each consumer-protection reforms. month in stocks, bonds or othEqually important, larger er assets without being com- economic forces that make pelled to do so. homeownerThe analysis ship less posdoes not downEven in instances sible for workplay the risks ing people of homeown- where renters have ex- need to be in ership or the cess cash, saving a sub- the forefront devastation of stantial amount is diffi- of political dethe housing cult without a near-term bate — even bust. But the if Republican lesson of that goal, like a down pay- control of Condebacle is not ment. gress makes for individuals actions to adto avoid homedress them ownership or unlikely. Longfor policy makers to devalue term wage stagnation, for exits importance. Rather, the les- ample, has made it increasson should be to foster condi- ingly difficult to accumulate tions under which middle- and enough for a down payment, lower-income Americans can and has led many homeownsustain homeownership and ers to refinance their mortavoid the ruin of foreclosure. gages in order to pull out eqFor starters, legal and reg- uity for consumer purchases. ulatory protections against The solution is to lift wages, practices that inflated the not only with new policies like housing bubble need to take higher minimum wages and root. The Dodd-Frank finan- toughened labor standards, cial reform law, for example, but also with approaches to requires lenders to ensure managing the economy to that borrowers have the abil- ensure that a fair share of ity to repay their home loans growth goes to wages and saland outlaws complex mort- aries, rather than going disgage terms that enrich lend- proportionately to corporate ers but expose borrowers to profits. payment shocks.

Renting can make sense as The law also established the a lifestyle choice or because Consumer Financial Protec- of income constraints. As a tion Bureau, with the purpose means to building wealth, of looking out for consumers’ however, there is no practical interests in financial transac- substitute for homeownertions. The C.F.P.B. has gotten ship. off to a good start, but Re­— The New York Times

ers provide comprehensive health benefits — a mandate, by the way, that Republicans opposed. The other half focuses on the law’s requirements that insurers reduce the outof-pocket expenses for lowerincome customers, and that the government make “periodic and timely payments” to insurers to cover their costs.

THE COMPLAINT contends that the administration asked Congress to appropriate $4 billion for these cost-sharing subsidies in fiscal 2014.

After lawmakers essentially ignored the request, the complaint says, the administration went ahead and made the payments to insurers anyway in violation of the federal Anti-Deficiency Act. But the health care law compels insurers in no uncertain terms to provide the subsidies and requires the government to reimburse them. Congress has done nothing to change those statutory mandates or to alleviate the government’s obligation to spend the money.

Besides, the Anti-Deficiency

Act was designed to prevent an administration from creating obligations Congress hadn’t approved, not to excuse the government from fulfilling the ones Congress itself created.

As we’ve said before, the courts are likely to toss out the case because the dispute is political, not legal. Still, it’s worth noting how Republicans have sought to undermine and destabilize the Affordable Care Act by attacking the benefits it provides to Americans on the lowest economic rungs.

This lawsuit, which would affect millions who earn nearpoverty-level wages, follows a case brought by conservative activists that seeks to end insurance subsidies for more than 13 million low- and moderate-income Americans in 37 states.

We get that Republicans are intractably opposed to the health care law, but it is particularly shameful that they should take it out on the Americans most in need of the help.

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“We need a global condemnation — including from Muslims — who say ‘This isn’t who we are. This isn’t the Quran.’” — Pope Francis who, along with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, demanded an end to persecution of religious minorities in Syria and Iraq. ***** “You want to isolate 100 percent of patients with Ebola and have 100 percent safe burials.

Getting to 70 percent doesn’t really mean a lot.” — Sebastian Funk, director of the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of

Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on WHO’s goals to fight Ebola. ***** “Online is nowhere near its maturity, so Cyber Monday should be big, with a lot of strength in the days leading up to it. More consumers are spending more shopping dollars online.” — Forester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru on Cyber Monday after the Thanksgiving shopping weekend saw 5.3 percent fewer shoppers and 11 percent less spending.

Today in history The Associated Press

Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2014. There are 30 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1974, TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, New York, with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York).

On this date: In 1860, the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” was first published in weekly serial form.

In 1941, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Brit-

ain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note.

In 1942, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States.

In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.

In 1969, the U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II. Ten years ago: Tom Brokaw signed off for the last time as principal anchor of the “NBC Nightly News”; he was succeeded

by Brian Williams.

Thought for Today: “The only people who attain power are those who crave it.” — Erich Kastner, German author and poet (1899-1974).

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Most children’s broken bones are treated improperly

By MEREDITH COHN The Baltimore Sun

Hundreds of thousands of times each year in the United States, children go to emergency rooms with bone fractures. But new research from University of Maryland School of Medicine shows that the injuries are almost never splinted properly.

Ninety-three percent of the splints that are used to immobilize fractured limbs temporarily are not put on correctly, according to the study of pediatric patients in the Baltimore area. And that can lead to swelling, skin injuries and other problems — some of them long-term.

“I did the study because I see a lot of splints on wrong, but I didn’t think it would be that high,” said Dr. Joshua M. Abzug, the director of pediatric orthopedics at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the lead author of the study. “This is really a baseline study that shows, ‘Hey, there is a problem and we recognize that it exists.

“The next step is education.”

Abzug, who is also an assistant professor in Maryland’s School of Medicine, studied 275 children and teenagers who came to a Maryland pediatric orthopedist from a community hospital emergency department or urgent care center in the region. He presented his findings in Washington last month at a conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The splints that are

used to stabilize broken bones usually include a strip of rigid material, a wrapping of soft padding and an elastic bandage to hold them in place.

Most of the time, Abzug said, the application is good enough for a patient who will see an orthopedist within a few days. The orthopedist can evaluate the patient and put on a cast.

But if that visit is delayed, he said, serious problems can develop.

They include wounds that require skin grafts or even surgery to reset a bone.

In 77 percent of the cases Abzug studied, elastic bandages were incorrectly put directly on skin. In 59 percent, joints were not immobilized correctly. In 52 percent, splints were the wrong length. About 40 percent of the kids had skin and soft-tissue complications.

Those percentages are particularly troubling, he said, given the numbers who are splinted.

Nearly half of all boys and a quarter of girls suffer fracturesz before age 16, Abzug said. Almost 1 million kids under 15 fracture limbs each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in its 2010 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and millions more get splints for sprains or strains.

Abzug suspects that adults also are not splinted properly.

The researchers could not identify who was applying splints incorrectly most often — doctors, nurses, physician assistants or medical

Girl Scouts go digital for cookie sales NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out world, the Girl Scouts are going digital to sell you cookies.

For the first time in nearly 100 years, Girl Scouts of the USA will allow its young gogetters to push their wares using a mobile app or personalized websites.

But only if their scout councils and guardians say OK. “Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space,” said Sarah Angel-Johnson, chief digital cookie executive for the organization covering about 2 million girls. “Online is where entrepreneurship is going.”

And the best news for these digital natives: They can have cookies shipped directly to your doorstep.

More than 1 million scouts, from kindergarten-age Daisies to teens, were expected to opt in as cookieselling season cranks up this month and the scouting organization gets digital sales underway. But digital sales are intended to enhance, not replace, the paper spreadsheets used to generate an estimated $800 million in cookie sales a year — at anywhere from $3.50 to $5 a box, depending on scout council.

Jessica Ryan plays with her two 1-year-old sons Hayden, right, and Hudson, left, in her home in Abingdon, Md. Hudson broke his leg and the splint ended up giving him a sore, a common but avoidable occurrence according to his doctor. Cassidy Johnson/Baltimore Sun/TNS

assistants — because parents couldn’t reliably tell them. They planned to demonstrate up-todate techniques to staff in area hospitals and urgent care centers and perhaps provide some posters and pocket-size cards for reminders. Abzug said they would redo the study to see whether splinting improved.

Dr. Robert G. Graw Jr., founder and medical director of the Righttime Medical Care group of 13 urgent care centers in Maryland, said he would welcome the additional training.

Graw, a pediatrician, said 15 percent of the kids who visit a Righttime center have injuries that require splints. He said staff members learn how to apply splints from the orthopedist groups to which Righttime refers patients. The demonstrations are video-recorded so staff members who don’t perform the tasks

often can refresh their skills on demand.

But techniques and materials change, Graw said, and people lose skills that they don’t use regularly, so updates are important.

“Splints are a small percentage of what we do, and we like to learn from people who do things all the time,” he said. “Send him my way.”

Graw said children and their parents also need to be warned not to take off splints, because they could be reapplying them improperly.

The year-old son of Jessica Ryan, an Abingdon, Md., mother of four, was injured last month in an accident in the home. X-rays showed a fractured tibia.

His leg was splinted at the emergency room; Ryan declined to say where. At one point, he crawled out of the splint.

At another, she removed it so he could sleep.

When Hudson saw Abzug for a cast, the pediatrician told Ryan he wasn’t surprised to see a sore on Hudson’s heel.

Ryan doesn’t know if she or the hospital applied the splint incorrectly.

More than a month later, the cast is now off and the sore is a scab.

Hudson and his twin brother, Hayden, are learning to walk. But Ryan still thinks about the family’s experience.

“I wonder how many emergency rooms even know this is happening,” she said. “You don’t see them again. They didn’t warn us to look out for blistering or rubbing so maybe they didn’t know that was a possibility.”

“I feel terrible that we may have prolonged [Hudson’s] recovery.”

Dr. Jennifer M. Weiss, a board member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, has long noticed improperly placed splints.

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The tax-writing committees are trying to renew a bundle of expired tax breaks such as the deductions for state and local sales taxes and the research and experimentation credit. Some, like tax credits for renewable energy projects such as

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Jennifer Donaldson, a 47-year-old property manager, dropped in at Macy’s at New York City’s Fulton Street Mall on Sunday, although she usually does her shopping online.

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Denver controls AFC West with win over Chiefs

By RANDY COVITZ The Kansas City Star

(TNS) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One day, the Kansas City Chiefs will beat the Denver Broncos again. But it probably won’t happen until Denver quarterback Peyton Manning decides to finally retire.

In a game the Chiefs had everything to play for, they came up woefully short to Manning and the Broncos, falling 29-16 in a nationally televised game Sunday in front of 76,894 frigid fans at Arrowhead Stadium.

Manning, now 13-1 in his career against the Chiefs (including 6-0 as a Bronco), threw for 179 yards and two touchdowns, and third-team running back C.J. Anderson blasted his way for 168 yards rushing as Denver, 9-3, seized control of the AFC West.

The loss dropped the Chiefs, 7-5, two games behind the Broncos in the standings — but, in effect, three behind because Denver owns the headto-head tie breaker — with four to play.

The Chiefs also fell a game behind San Diego, 8-4, and into a quagmire with at least four other teams — Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Buffalo — for the conference’s second wild card. Miami also can be 7-5 with a win over the New York Jets tonight.

The Chiefs were culpable in all three phases of their game.

— The offense struggled to

find a rhythm and produced just 151 yards, their fewest since they had 119 yards against Oakland and Denver under Romeo Crennel in December 2012.

— The defense surrendered a season-most 215 yards rushing, two weeks after Seattle gouged the Chiefs with 204 yards and the Raiders rolled up 179 yards. Anderson, who rushed for 167 yards last week against Miami, rushed for the most yards by one player against the Chiefs since Cleveland’s Jerome Harrison had 286 yards on Dec. 20, 2009.

“We’ve got to do a better job of tackling,” coach Andy Reid said in an understatement.

— The special teams not only surrendered a fake punt, but also a Denver punt caromed off the leg of the Chiefs’ Marcus Cooper, and the Broncos recovered, setting up Connor Barth’s fourth of five field goals that gave Denver a 2610 lead with 14:44 left in the game.

“There was not a phase I can point to that was a positive,” Reid said. “We’ll evaluate this ... we’ve all got to do better.”

Though the Chiefs expected to come out inspired in a game dedicated to safety Eric Berry, who last week was detected with a mass in his chest feared to be lymphoma, they were totally outplayed in the first half for the second straight week.

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Denver Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe (95) hits Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith (11) and forces an incomplete pass in the fourth quarter on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER

KU basketball wins Orlando Classic

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press

K-State defenders stack up Kansas running back De'Andre Mann (23) for a loss Saturday at the Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan. Kansas State won 51-13. TNS/WICHITA EAGLE/BO RADER

K-State claws Jayhawks in 51-13 rout Saturday

By ADAM SUDERMAN Associated Press

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — After an eight-game stint as interim coach at Kansas, Clint Bowen still wasn’t going to plead his case for the permanent opening — even if plenty of other people were willing.

“I truly believe it with every ounce of my heart,” he said, “this is about Kansas football, this football program and this university. (Athletic director Sheahon) Zenger has a decision to make and he’s going to make the best decision based off of what’s best for this football program.”

Bowen’s stint in charge included a few highs but plenty of lows, concluding with a 51-

13 loss to No. 11 Kansas State on Saturday in the annual Sunflower Showdown.

“I think the first step is hiring the guy we have right now,” said Jayhawks linebacker Ben Heeney, who finished his senior season as one of the Big 12’s top tacklers. “He got us moving in the right direction. That’s the first and only step right now.”

Jake Waters threw for 294 yards and four touchdowns, two of them to record-setting wide receiver Tyler Lockett, as the Wildcats (9-2, 7-1) moved into a tie atop the Big 12 standings.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Kansas capped a terrific weekend with a big win.

Perry Ellis had 17 points and nine rebounds to help No. 11 Kansas beat Michigan State 61-56 Sunday in the championship game of the Orlando Classic.

“To me winning the tournament is OK,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “But beating a quality team is more important to me.”

Svi Mykhailiuk added 11 points and Frank Mason III chipped in 10 for Kansas (51).

Michigan State (5-2) got 14 points from both Denzel Valentine and Travis Trice.

“They found a way to win, give them credit,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said.

“We found a way to lose, give us blame.”

Trice’s 3 made it 59-56 with 1:36 to play. After both teams failed to score on their next possession, Jamari Traylor hit two free throws in the final minute.

Kansas took its biggest lead at 54-46 on Cliff Alexander’s 3-point play with 7 1-2 minutes left.

The Spartans struggled from the floor during the first 12 minutes of the second half, making just 4 of 22 shots (18.2 percent). Kansas was 6 for 17 (35.3) over the same stretch.

Ellis scored on a spin move, Mason made two free throws and Landen Lucas had a layup to put Kansas ahead 45-38 with 14 minutes to play.

“I think this is big,” Ellis said. “It’s great for us, we came down here and get better as a team. It’s a big momentum boost for us.”

After Michigan State

pulled within three, Lucas’ rebound basket made it 47-42 three minutes later.

The Spartans ended shooting just 32.2 percent (19 for 59).

“We just didn’t execute very well,” Izzo said.

The Jayhawks lost their other game this season against a Top 25 team, 72-40 to No. 1 Kentucky on Nov. 18.

Kansas is 5-1 or better for the third straight year and 10th time in coach Bill Self ’s 12 years at the school. Mason had 10 rebounds and five assists.

In their other game against a Top 25 team this season, the Spartans were beat on Nov. 18 81-71 by No. 4 Duke. Coach Tom Izzo is 4-2 against Kansas. Branden Dawson had eight points and nine rebounds.

Kansas hosts Florida Friday night as part of the Big 12-SEC Challenge.

Teammates mourn Ohio State athlete

By RUSTY MILLER and LISA CORNWELL Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State athlete found in a trash bin with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound is being mourned by his football and wrestling teammates as police investigate his death.

A woman and her son looking for items in a dumpster on Sunday found the body of Kosta Karageorge, 22, who disappeared four days earlier after sending his parents a text message saying concussions had messed up his head.

A handgun was found in the dumpster, police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner said.

Karageorge was a Buckeyes wrestler for three years, and the senior defensive tack-

le joined the football team as a walk-on this season, playing in one game.

After Karageorge went missing, the football team’s physician, Dr. Jim Borchers, said he could not comment on the medical care of student athletes. But, he said, “We are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return athletes to participation following injury or illness.”

Wrestling coach Tom Ryan told The Columbus Dispatch that Karageorge did not have documented concussions as a wrestler.

Ryan said teammates wonder if they could have intervened to help Karageorge, and some wept at the news of his death.

“There was a lot of crying,” Ryan told the newspaper. “That says something because you know how men

are. We don’t cry in front of anybody and don’t show weakness. But it was emotional.”

University athletic officials said they were saddened.

“It’s hit the team hard,” football team spokesman Jerry Emig said.

Police found Karageorge’s body within a couple hundred yards of his home and about a half-block from High Street, the main artery of the campus. Karageorge had last been seen at his Columbus apartment, when roommates said he left for a walk.

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The group said in an October progress report that the efforts started in spring 2013, when student and faculty surveys gauged opinions about the possibility of a tobacco-free campus. The University Senate passed a resolution encouraging the Student Senate to develop a more restrictive smoking policy. KU got a $25,000 grant from the Kansas Health Foundation to help research the viability of going tobacco-free.

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Charges against Mubarak dismissed CAIRO (AP) — A judge dismissed murder charges Saturday against former President Hosni Mubarak and acquitted his security chief over the killing of protesters during Egypt’s 2011 uprising, crushing any hope of a judicial reckoning on behalf of the hundreds victims of the revolt that toppled him.

Some 2,000 young people protested the verdict near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising closed off Saturday by soldiers and police, though open a day earlier despite widespread fears of violent Islamist protests. They chanted against the military, whose former chief, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is now the president.

In the evening, police broke up the gathering, firing water cannon and tear gas and driving protesters into side streets after supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood joined the protest.

Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief reporters, said police arrested 29 people.

A statement from the health ministry early Sunday said one person was killed and nine were injured in the clashes.

The dispersal of protesters contrasted with the jubilant wellwishers who greeted Mubarak after the decision when he returned to his temporary home at a Nile-side military hospital. He later triumphantly waved back to supporters from his hospital window.

A television interviewer reached him by telephone, asking whether he had ordered the killing.

“I did not do anything at all,” replied Mubarak, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2012 on charges related to the killing of protesters.

The verdict was overturned on appeal the following year.

Mubarak, who assumed Egypt’s highest office in 1981 following the assassination of Anwar Sadat, has spent

virtually all the time since he was detained in April 2011 in hospitals due to poor health.

On Saturday, he came to the courtroom on a gurney, wearing dark glasses, a navy blue tie and a matching cardigan.

In his ruling, judge Mahmoud al-Rashidi cited the “inadmissibility” of the case against Mubarak due to a technicality. He said Mubarak’s May 2011 referral to trial by prosecutors ignored the “implicit” decision that no criminal charges be filed against him when his security chief and six of his top aides were referred to trial by the same prosecutors two months earlier.

After the decision, Cairo resident Nermine Fathy simply asked: “Who killed the martyrs? I want to know who killed the martyrs.”

That question likely won’t be answered in Egypt’s courts. Already, nearly 170 police officers and security officials put on trial in connection to the killings have either been acquitted for lack of evidence or were found to have acted in self-defense.

Some received short, suspended sentences.

The Mubarak trial, however, was concerned only with the killing of 239 protesters whose names were cited in charge documents, not the nearly 900 killed in total during the 18 days of the revolt.

Saturday’s ruling marks another major setback for the young activists who led the 2011 Egyptian uprising, many of whom are now in prison or have withdrawn from politics.

It likely will reinforce the perception that Mubarak’s autocratic state remains in place, albeit led by el-Sissi, the former military chief who later led the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

It was not immediately clear whether Mubarak would now walk free since he is serving a three-year jail term for separate corruption charges he was convicted of in May.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register, December 1, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of E Richard Houk, Deceased No. 2014 PR 63 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on November 25, 2014, a Petition for Probate

of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court

by Ann C. Houk, surviving spouse and heir of E. Richard Houk, deceased.

All creditors of the Decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is

known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice is given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Ann C. Houk, Petitioner IMMEL & HEIM, P.A. Four East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-2222 Attorneys for Petitioner (12) 1, 8, 15

(First published in The Iola Register, December 1, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Alfred E. Link, Deceased No. 2014 PR 64 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Susan K. Downey, the sole and only heir of Alfred E. Link, deceased requesting: Descent be determined of the

following described real estate: Lot Twelve (12), Block One Hundred Fourteen (114), City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by the Decedent at the time of death, and that such property and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by the Decedent at the time of death be assigned pursuant to the terms of the Family Settlement Agreement, dated November 25, 2014.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or

before December 23, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. in the District Court, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Susan K. Downey, Petitioner IMMEL, WORKS & HEIM, P.A. Four East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749-0766 (620) 365-2222 Attorneys for Petitioner (12) 1, 8, 15

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Cardiac pathway can be blocked Dear Dr. Roach: I recently was diagnosed with Wolff-ParkinsonWhite syndrome. I have seen two cardiologists, and while I feel they have done what they think is right, I believe that because we have had a sudden cardiac death in our family, more monitoring should be done.

I have had a stress test, a monitor that I wore for 24 hours and an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed a healthy heart, and the monitor showed signs of a high heart rate, but apparently there were no corresponding symptoms at that particular time. I have told them I have minor (now that I am used to them) chest pains every day, with rapid heart-

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health beat that radiates to my back, dizziness, nausea, etc. They have told me that my pathway is not activated right now and that when it becomes activated, I most likely will pass out and have worse chest pain. I had an episode the other day where I stood up from a chair and couldn’t breathe, and had chest pain radiating to my back. It took about five minutes to go away. I was not doing anything strenuous at the time. — J.P. Answer: The Wolff-

Parkinson-White pattern is a finding on an electrocardiogram of an “accessory pathway” — a way for the electrical impulse to bypass the usual path at the AV node, the junction of the atria and the ventricles, where the impulse slows down to allow the blood to flow optimally. It is not rare — perhaps one person in 400 will have this finding on an EKG — but only about 1 percent of people with the EKG abnormality will develop symptoms (according to a 22-yearlong study). People with symptoms and WPW pattern are said to have WPW syndrome. The likelihood of sudden cardiac death is low in this group; however,

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with a family member having a history of sudden cardiac death, an evaluation such as what you had is called for.

The optimal management of WPW isn’t completely clear. Most people probably do not need intervention. However, persistent symptoms should make your cardiologist consider an electrophysiologic study and a catheter ablation, which uses radio waves to block the accessory pathway. I am surprised you haven’t been offered this, and I suggest you see an electrophysiologist, a cardiologist with additional training in diagnosing and treating electrical problems of the heart. Please let me know what happens.

When Facebook friends and politics collide Dear Carolyn: Facebook is ruining my social life. I have always been gregarious, and I have always been politically minded.

All my friends and family see everything I post, political or not, so friends who have previously been ignorant of my views have been inundated with this “new” side of me. So I have had some attrition of acquaintances.

But now, my closest friends seem to be retreating. I saw a post this morning by a friend thanking our mutual friends for a great night on the town for her birthday. Nobody invited me. I have tried to dial down my political posts on Facebook, but I

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— Facebooker Answer: “I cannot stop talking about things I care about”? Yes, you can.

It’s a choice, so you can make a different one.

It seems to me you have all the pieces in front of you, and now you just need to decide how to arrange them: Keep posting political things and lose friends for it, or keep the friends and lose the political posts. It’s all about which one you value more.

As you weigh the two possibilities, I suggest you assess honestly what you accomplish with each choice. What does time with these friends add to your life? Are you having fun, forging alliances, helping the community and being helped by it, teaching your kids by example? Likewise,

what does posting things accomplish — are you advancing your causes, changing minds, drawing out informed disagreement from people you respect on the other side of an issue? One thing you aren’t doing is “talking.”

That implies exchange, which allows for nuance.

Posting is a much blunter instrument.

This Facebook-orfriends? decision is just like anything else, requiring honesty with oneself and a cost-benefit analysis.

There is, by the way, a middle avenue, where you create a list of friends you know to appreciate political posts, and post only for their eyes.

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Athlete: Found dead Chiefs: On a two-game losing streak Continued from B1

texted a message apologizing and saying the concussions had messed up his head. “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment,” he wrote.

A woman answering the phone Sunday at Susan Karageorge’s home identified herself as a friend and said that neither Susan Karageorge nor other family members had any comment.

No one answered Sunday when an Associated Press reporter knocked on the door of Karageorge’s apartment.

When asked about any plans to honor Karageorge or logistics for the team to attend the funeral, Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith said in a text message that it was too soon to answer those questions. The Buckeyes play Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship game Saturday in Indianapolis.

Some teammates attended a vigil on campus Sunday night that drew a crowd of up to several hundred people.

Junior wrestler Josh Fox described Karageorge as a loyal friend and persevering athlete.

“He would be down in a match but always found a way to get back up,” Fox said.

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Kosta Karageorge game against rival Michigan, starting defensive tackle Michael Bennett spoke fondly of Karageorge, calling him “an interesting guy and a big heart.”

Coach Urban Meyer said Karageorge was a hard worker.

The player’s sister, Sophia Karageorge, told The Columbus Dispatch that he apparently was upset on the night he disappeared, and roommates said he went for a walk, dressed in black from his hat to his boots.

“We’re very concerned that he’s not himself and that he maybe doesn’t know what’s going on,” she told the newspaper.

She said after each concussion he followed trainers’ instructions and received proper care but “his repercussions from (concussions) have been long-term or delayed.”

Last week, the previously winless Oakland Raiders jumped out to a 14-0 lead on the way to a 24-20 victory.

This week, the Broncos bolted to a 17-0 lead before the Chiefs even had a first down. Denver scored on all four of its first-half possessions and led 20-7 at halftime.

The Chiefs cited the short week of preparation and travel for the Thursday night loss at Oakland, but this time, they had three extra days to get ready for Denver in front of a rowdy home crowd.

“The last two weeks are uncharacteristic of us as a team,” said quarterback Alex Smith. “It’s Kansas City Chiefs defenders swarm to tackle Denver Broncos wide receiver gut-check time. There’s Demaryius Thomas (88) during the first quarter on Sunday. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/ still a lot of football left DAVID EULITT for us. It’s a matter of with their first turnover game, opened the scor- of offense in the first what we do with it.”

The Chiefs drew to of the game when de- ing by floating a 23-yard quarter.

The Broncos toyed within 20-10 in the third fensive tackle Terrance touchdown pass to DeKnighton deflected a maryius Thomas, who with the Chiefs’ dequarter after linebacker Justin Houston sacked pass by Smith that was made an over-the-shoul- fense on a second-quarand stripped Manning intercepted by lineback- der grab after running ter drive in which they of the ball on the first er DeMarcus Ware. The past Sean Smith to the converted two fourth downs — one on a fake series of the second half, Broncos converted that end zone.

Anderson, playing punt. Facing fourth and safety Kurt Coleman into a 30-yard field goal recovered at the Denver by Barth for a 23-10 lead. in place of injured and 7 at the Denver 36, Barth, who signed Montee Ball and Ron- the direct snap went to 23.

But the Chiefs could with the Broncos last nie Hillman, took a cue wingback David Brumanage just 2 yards of week after the club cut from how Seattle and ton, who picked up the offense and had to settle rookie Brandon Mc- Oakland ran the ball first down with a 13yard run. for a 39-yard field goal by Manus, made all five of against the Chiefs. his field-goal attempts, He also proved to be a When Denver faced Cairo Santos. tying the franchise redeft pass receiver. fourth and 1 from the The Broncos answered cord set twice by Jason With Denver fac- Chiefs’ 22, Anderson Elam. It was Barth’s ing third and 11 at the dashed for 13 yards, first game in nearly two Chiefs 15, Anderson keeping the drive alive seasons after an Achil- slipped out of the back- that ended with a 22les injury suffered in a field and got behind yard field goal by Barth.

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school record in career catches and matching his mark for touchdown receptions. Lockett has 222 catches and 26 TD grabs heading into next week’s showdown at fifth-ranked Baylor.

Curry Sexton added nine catches for 141 yards and a score, and Waters and Charles Jones each had touchdown runs as the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks (3-9, 1-8) for the sixth straight time.

Kansas State is now tied with TCU and Baylor at 7-1 in the conference, and will play the Bears next Saturday night for no worse than a share of the Big 12 title.

“We have a chance to win a championship now,” Waters said. “That gives me chills.”

Michael Cummings threw for 139 yards and two scores for the Jayhawks, but he was also picked off twice — once on a tipped pass, once on a ball kicked into the air by his intended target.

Now, their offseason of uncertainty begins.

After Charlie Weis was fired four games into the season, defensive coordinator Clint Bowen did an admirable job steadying the program. The Jayhawks knocked off Iowa State and nearly upset the Horned Frogs, making him a popular candidate in the locker room.

Sports Calendar Iola High School Basketball Friday, at Girard, 4:30 p.m.

High School Wrestling Saturday, at Caney Invitational, 9 a.m.

IMS Girls Basketball Today, at Independence, 3:30 p.m.

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Allen Women’s Basketball Today, at Pratt, 6 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Today, at Pratt, 8 p.m.

Kansas State Football Saturday, at Baylor, 6:45 p.m.

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