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Farm bill passes, effects widespread Moran votes yea, Roberts nay

With schools closed across the county, children had the chance to go out and enjoy a winter wonderland. Top at left, William Toland watches as BreAnna takes a spill while sledding. Top right, Makayla Dunne brings some extra snow to pile onto her sledding ramp. Bottom left, Brissie the dog races across the snow by the Neosho River at Riverside Park. At bottom right, Ty Shaughnessy poses in a snow cave he built with his sister, Shelby, and his mother, Teri. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ

COUNTY COMMISSION

Snow and ice at hospital an issue

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

County commissioners will ask Allen County Regional Hospital to develop a plan to deal with snow and ice on its parking lot.

Iola and the county are committed to keeping roads leading to the hospital — Kentucky and Oregon — open when winter weather strikes. Bill King, director of Public Works, also said he would ensure access to the emergency room entrance.

But, he isn’t keen on dealing with the parking lot.

He noted county snow-removal equipment was large, designed to deal with roads, and that it would be difficult for graders and trucks to negotiate in the confined space.

“We also have more than 1,000 miles of roads that we have to keep open when it snows or ice becomes a problem,” King said.

The discussion arose from

a weekend call King received from a 911 operator, forwarding a request from the hospital that ice on the parking lot needed to be treated.

“We did what we could, but it’s $500 out of my budget,” King said, and also that he was concerned spreading pea rock and salt on the icy lot might lead to complaints from vehicle owners. When the mix is scattered on ice from a dump truck, it’s difficult to control where the rock bounces.

Commissioners directed County Counselor Alan Weber to act as the county’s liaison in developing a snowremoval plan at the hospital, just southwest of the intersection of Oregon and Kentucky roads.

Hospital officials had contracted for snow removal with the older facility in east Iola. No plan was in place when the back-to-back winSee SNOW | Page A5

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Art show features visually impaired artists

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Art comes in all different forms. A traveling art show, which features works by visually/physically impaired Kansans, will make its debut at the Iola Public Library meeting room on Friday.

“Through Different Eyes: Achieving a New Perspective,” will have work from 15 artists across the state.

“This traveling art show is a great opportunity to celebrate the capabilities of our Talking Books patrons,” said state librarian Jo Budler. “We thank the artists for sharing their gifts and enlightening us with beautiful work.”

The Kansas Talking Books Library Service through the Kansas State Library provides material so all are able to read.

This year the Iola Reads program, a cooperative project of USD 257, Iola Public Library, Allen Community College Library and the

“Through Different Eyes: Achieving a New Perspective”

When: Friday through Wednesday Where: The Bowlus Fine Arts Center How much: Free Bowlus Fine Arts Center, will focus on “The Miracle Worker.” Iola Reads runs through Feb. 27.

“We wanted to bring this (exhibit) to Iola because it fits so perfectly with the Iola Reads program,” Roger Carswell, director of the Southeast Kansas Library System See SHOW | Page A5

“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”

— Brendan Gill, The New Yorker 75 Cents

WASHINGTON (AP) — It isn’t just farmers who will benefit from the sweeping farm bill that Congress has sent President Barack Obama.

There’s also help for rural towns, grocery stores in lowincome areas and, most notably, the nation’s 47 million food stamp recipients.

After years of setbacks, the Senate passed the nearly $100 billion-a-year measure Tuesday on a 62-38 vote. The White House said the president will sign the bill Friday in Michigan, home state of Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow.

Farmers in every region would still receive generous subsidies — from Southern peanut growers to Midwest

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corn farmers and dairies around the country. The support is designed to provide a financial cushion in the face of unpredictable weather and market conditions.

But the bulk of its cost is for the food stamp program, which aids 1 in 7 Americans.

The bill would cut food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent.

House Republicans had hoped to reduce the bill’s costs even further, pointing to a booming agriculture sector in recent years and arguing that the now $80 billion-a-year food stamp program has spiraled out of control. The House passed a bill in September that would have reduced the cost of food stamps five times more than the eventual cut.

Those partisan disagreements stalled the bill for more than two years, but conservatives were eventually outnumbered as the Democratic Senate, the White House and a still-powerful bipartisan coalition of farm-state lawmakers See FARM BILL | Page A5

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Maya and Sage Shaughnessy, front right, Brian and Lindsey Shaughnessy, back right, and Andrew and Theresa Laffery are part of the “Haunt for Hirschsprung’s” benefit. COURTESY PHOTO

Benefit raises funds for disease On Jan. 31 Sam and Louie’s donated 10 percent of its entire day’s sales to the newly established local chapter “Haunt for Hirschsprung’s” benefiting the Giving Hope Foundation at the Colorectal Center for Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, going specifically for Hirschsprung’s disease. Giving Hope is a non-profit orga-

nization.

Haunt for Hirschsprung’s had an information table with flyers set up to answer questions. The Bounty Hunter from 97.7 The Dawg performed live broadcasts asking about their cause. With Sam and Louie’s 10 percent and the amount donated from the days customers, the group raised $472.

Hirschsprung’s Disease happens when some

of the nerve cells from the intestine do not form properly during fetal development. Because these cells are missing or do not function, a “normal” peristaltic (bowel) movement can not occur.

The group’s next fundraiser will be a chili supper at 6 p.m. on March 14 at the Elks Lodge in Iola.

Music will be provided

by T-N-T DJ and Karaoke service.

Teen builds ‘Robohand’ for boy

By Associated Press

Mason Wilde has always had a passion for figuring out how things work.

When he was 4 years old, he took apart his mother’s dining room table and gliding ottoman.

Last year, he built a computer, pretty much from scratch.

But it’s what the 16-year-old Louisburg High School junior made about two months ago that has him most excited these days. Not because it was so challenging, but because it’s already changing the life of a family friend’s 9-year-old son who was born without fingers on one hand.

Using a 3-D printer at the Johnson County Library, Wilde made a prosthetic hand that opens and closes and can even hold a pencil.

Just ask young Matthew how he feels about Wilde.

“He’s awesome,” the boy said, thrusting his mechanical hand high above his head.

The third-grader was born with only a thumb and a few partial digits on his right hand. He can lift stuff with it, balance a book on it, even tie his own shoes. But, Matthew said, “I was bored with that. I wanted to do more.”

Matthew’s condition, referred to as a limb difference, occurs for unknown reasons in about 5 out of every 10,000 births, affecting hands, arms, legs and toes. The condition has attracted unwanted attention to other children, Matthew’s mother, Jennifer, knows, which is why

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Matthew is adopted.

Jennifer was familiar with limb differences when she chose him.

Her dad, who died before the adoption, had the same condition on his left hand.

“I remember my dad telling me once that his mother had always wanted him to have fingers,” Jennifer said.

“And he was self-conscious about his hand well into adulthood.

Matthew isn’t self-conscious, and I never want him to be.”

Jennifer and her three adopted boys moved to Miami County, Kan., two years ago.

Children at Matthew’s elementary school were curious about the new kid’s hand without fingers.

“Every day, kids were asking him, ‘What happened to your hand, what happened to your hand,’ and I noticed it was wrecking his spirit,” Jennifer said. “Social stigma was starting to creep in on him.”

Still, Matthew showed no interest in getting a commercial prosthetic hand, his mother said.

What’s more, such a hand can cost as much as $18,000. Even with insurance, Jennifer said, “we wouldn’t be able to afford that. I’m a single mother.”

But when Matthew’s mom showed him an online picture of a “Robohand” created on a 3-D printer, he got excited.

She knew the Johnson County Library had a 3-D printer that was free for anyone with a

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“It is so cool,” Matthew said, which was just what his mom was hoping for. Maybe the kids at school whose questions seemed to say something was wrong with Matthew would instead ask about his cool robot hand.

Area school districts are on day two of school closings. Snowpacked r o a d s and the safety of students helped make the decision for the Jack Koehn closings.

Jack Koehn, USD 257 superintendent of schools, said he stayed up most of the night Monday tracking the snow storm.

282 calls

“The question was, were we going to get the kids home safely,” Koehn said.

Koehn didn’t want to have the students come into school Tuesday and then have to find ways to send them home in the middle of the day. Transportation of students and cleaning sidewalks and parking lots was today’s closing factor for Iola.

Schools in Humboldt and Moran also are closed.

AAA Kansas reported Tuesday night there were 282 calls for emergency road service throughout the state, according to a press release.

The cause of the calls were consistent.

At least 40 percent of all calls were for situations where cars had skidded off a road and into snow drifts or stuck in significant snow depths. At least a third of the calls required towing.

Board to review fitness study TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The State Board of Education will review a recent study of Kansas elementary and middle school students linking fitness to academic success.

The results of the Kansas Fitness Information Tracking, or K-FIT, showed that stu-

dents who were able to reach fitness goals in five areas scored significantly higher on math and reading tests than students who weren’t fit.

The state board will review the study on Feb. 11 at its monthly meeting in Topeka.

The study, funded

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Financial Focus Financial Resolutions for the New Year

About 45% of Americans usually make New Year’s resolutions, according to a survey from the University of Scranton. But the same survey shows that only 8% of us actually keep our resolutions. Perhaps this low success rate isn’t such a tragedy when our resolutions involve things like losing a little weight or learning a foreign language. But when we make financial resolutions — resolutions that, if achieved, could significantly help us in our pursuit of our important long-term goals — it’s clearly worthwhile to make every effort to follow through.

So, what sorts of financial resolutions might you consider?

Here are a few possibilities: • Boost your contributions to your retirement plans. Each year, try to put in a little more to your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plans. These taxadvantaged accounts are good options for your retirement savings strategy.

• Reduce your debts. It’s not always easy to reduce your debts, but make it a goal to finish 2014 with a smaller debt load than you had going into the new year. The lower your monthly debt payments, the more money you’ll have to invest for retirement, college for your children (or grandchildren) and other important objectives.

• Build your emergency fund. Work on building an “emergency fund” containing six to 12 months’ worth of living expenses, with the money held in a liquid account that offers a high degree of preservation of principal.

Without such a fund, you might be forced to dip into your long-term investments to pay for emergencies, such as a new furnace, a major car repair, and so on. You might not be able to finish creating your emergency fund in one year, but contribute as much as you can afford.

• Plan for your protection needs. If you don’t already have the proper amounts of life and disability insurance in place, put it on your “To Do” list for 2014. Also, if you haven’t taken steps to protect yourself from the considerable costs of long-term care, such as an extended nursing home stay, consult with your financial professional, who can suggest the appropriate protection or investment vehicles. You may never need such care, but that’s a chance you may not want to take — and the longer you wait, the more expensive your protection options may become.

• Don’t overreact to market volatility. Too many people head to the investment “sidelines” during market downturns. But if you’re not invested, then you miss any potential market gains— and the biggest gains are often realized at the early stages of the rally.

• Focus on the long term. You can probably check your investment balance online, which means you can do it every day, or even several times a day — but should you?

If you’re following a strategy that’s appropriate for your needs, goals, risk tolerance and time horizon, you’re already doing what you should be doing in the long run.

So there’s no need to stress yourself over the short-term movements that show up in your investment statements.

Do whatever you can to turn these New Year’s resolutions into realities. Your efforts could pay off well beyond 2014.

Veterinarian PROFESSIONAL, CARING STAFF Ah, February...the month of love! That time when Cupid strikes unsuspecting people with his arrow causing them to fall in love. Maybe Cupid will pass you by because you have already found the love of your life. If so, have you made any special plans? Maybe a stroll through the park, or enjoying an outdoor activity together. Perhaps a massage or just sharing a night together without the kids would be more enjoyable. As the evening winds down and that special loved one gives you a big, slobbery, kiss, do you feel like offering him/her a breath mint? We know that you love your pets, and even though there isn’t a special day for showing how much you love them (although the weekend is looking nice!), there is an entire month devoted to their dental care.

It is estimated that 85% of dogs and 75% of cats that are over three years of age have some degree of periodontal disease. Periodontal disease can range from a retained baby tooth to teeth simply falling out, often a consequence of poor dental hygiene. Most of you brush your teeth daily, and visit your dentist once or twice a year, and the same is recommended for your pet. Many dogs and cats will let you brush their teeth, an important step in preventing many dental problems. (It is also important to know that you should NEVER use human toothpaste on your pets.) Your pet’s yearly teeth cleaning requires general anesthesia in order to fully inspect and clean each individual tooth properly. While this is the “scary” part of dental procedures for pet owners, we want to assure you that we take every precaution when anesthetizing your pets.

They are monitored very closely throughout the procedure, and we offer bloodwork to check for any underlying disease.

While there are a number of factors that can lead to dental disease, one of the most common is dog breed.

If you think about it, a five pound Chihuahua has as many teeth in their mouth as a 150 pound Great Dane.

That means a lot of crowded teeth in a small dog, which can lead to more rapid plaque build-up. Even though we offer pet foods that help maintain oral health, many pets are fed table scraps. Dry dog and cat foods actually scrape some plaque off of your pet’s teeth. Canned foods and table scraps are “sticky” and promote the build-up of plaque. Along with pet size and diet, some pets have underlying diseases that affect their oral health. For example, diabetes in cats and dogs decreases the ability to fight off disease-like bacteria that live along the gums and teeth. Because those bacteria can enter the bloodstream during the teeth-cleaning process, some patients are placed on antibiotics after the procedure. The last thing we want to do is clean the teeth, and cause disease somewhere else in the body.

Finally, the mouth can be a window to the rest of the body. Observe your pets. Do they drool? Do they drop food from their mouth? Do they run to the food bowl in anticipation of a meal, but then slowly turn away? Maybe their teeth are painful....and that horrible breath...well, that may not be from the stuff growing on their teeth either.

Like many of you, I don’t exactly enjoy a visit to the dentist, but I cannot imagine not brushing my teeth everyday! That “fuzzi’ texture that you can feel as you slide your tongue across your teeth just before brushing them....EEWWW! You can’t even see it most of the time, but you know that it is definitely there. Now imagine your pet feeling that day after day....maybe it’s time to take a look at their teeth and talk about what we can do to help. Until then, show your pets how much you love them by skipping the breath mint and brushing their teeth.

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FDA launches anti-smoking campaign WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is using ads depicting wrinkled skin on youthful faces and teenagers paying for cigarettes with their teeth in a campaign to show the nation’s young people the costs associated with smoking.

The federal agency said Tuesday it is launching a $115 million multimedia education campaign called “The Real Cost� that’s aimed at stopping teenagers from smoking and encouraging them to quit.

Advertisements will run in more than 200 markets throughout the U.S. for at least one year beginning Feb. 11. The campaign will include

that will get them to rethink their relationship with tobacco use.�

Zeller, who oversaw the anti-tobacco “Truth� campaign while working at the nonprofit American Legacy Foundation in the early 2000s, called the new campaign a “compelling, provocative and somewhat graphic way� of grabbing the attention of more than 10 million young people ages 12 to 17 who are open to, or are already experimenting with, cigarettes.

According to the FDA, nearly 90 percent of adult smokers started using cigarettes by age 18 and more than 700 kids under 18 become daily smokers every

According to the FDA, nearly 90 percent of adult smokers started using cigarettes by age 18 and more than 700 kids under 18 become daily smokers every day.

ads on TV stations such as MTV and print spots in magazines like Teen Vogue. It also will use social media. “Our kids are the replacement customers for the addicted adult smokers who die or quit each day,� said Mitch Zeller, the director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. “And that’s why we think it’s so important to reach out to them — not to lecture them, not to throw statistics at them — but to reach them in a way

day. The agency aims to reduce the number of youth cigarette smokers by at least 300,000 within three years. “While most teens understand the serious health risks associated with tobacco use, they often don’t believe the long-term consequences will ever apply to them,� said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. “We’ll highlight some of the real costs and health consequences associated with tobacco use by focusing

changes in tobaccorelated knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.

The campaign announced Tuesday is the first in a series of campaigns to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco use.

In 2011, the FDA said it planned to spend up to $600 million over five years on the campaigns aimed at reducing death and disease caused by tobacco, which is responsible for about 480,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Future campaigns will target minority youth, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and youth in rural areas.

Tobacco companies are footing the bill for the campaigns through fees charged by the FDA under a 2009 law that gave the agency authority over the tobacco industry.

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their salt well ahead of the time they traditionally really need it — when the coldest part of winter gives way to temperatures just warm enough to turn snow into freezing rain and sleet and roads into ribbons of ice. “If we don’t get the salt, at some point people are going to be sliding all over the place like what you saw in Atlanta,� said Julius Hansen, public works director in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, citing last week’s television images of thousands of motorists getting stranded on ice-covered roads in the South.

So far this year, Glen Ellyn’s snow-removal crews have responded to

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31 storms. “In an average winter, we have 20,� Hansen said.

A community the size of Glen Ellyn, population 27,000, might use 50 to 100 tons per storm.

A bigger community such as Waukesha, Wis., which has about 70,000 residents, could use 300 tons or more. The same storm in Chicago would call for more than 13,000 tons.

Demand is so high that salt gets more expensive every day. Communities are trying to decide what to do. They could buy a little more salt now, when it costs twice or three times more than earlier in the season, and hope it doesn’t snow too much more. Or they could wait until it does snow more and risk paying even higher prices.

In some areas, there has been so much snow that cities have had to find creative ways to stretch their supplies: spreading salt only on intersections and major roads and mixing it with sand. In Indiana’s Morgan County, there is so little salt left that what

is on hand will be mixed with sand and used only on the hills. “We can only do what we can do,� county engineer Larry Smith said.

In Pennsylvania’s Butler County, they’re trying out a product called Beet Heet, made of processed sugar beet molasses, for anti-icing purposes.

Milwaukee road crews are experimenting with liquid cheese brine, mixing it in with rock salt before it goes on the road to make the salt wetter “so it will stick in place instead of bouncing away,� said Sandy Rusch Walton, a spokeswoman with Milwaukee’s Public Works Department.

When Emira Palacios got into her car in Wichita Tuesday, as another storm rolled in, “none of the streets had salt,� she said. “It is a little scary.�

Wichita has received only about 800 tons of the 3,000 tons of salt it ordered. So salt is being mixed with sand and road crews are given just enough of the mixture to cover emergency routes.

When the salt runs out, road crews will use sand alone.

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Thursday - county bus to Garnett, call 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-448-4410, any weekday; Community Church Missionary, church annex, 1:30 p.m.; United Methodist Women, Methodist Church fellowship hall, 5 p.m.; Thursday to Tuesday recycle trailer at Broad and Pine in business area; Monday - Crest school board meeting, board office, 7 p.m.; Feb. 12 - Rural Water District No. 5 board meeting, board office, 7:30 p.m.; Working Wonders Christian Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council, Christian Church fellowship hall, 7 p.m.

School calendar

Thursday - regional scholars bowl at Norwich; Friday - high school basketball at Chetopa, no junior varsity; Monday - middle school scholars bowl at Uniontown, 4 p.m.; Tuesday - high school basketball at home vs.

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Scripture presented Sunday was Daniel 1-6.

Pastor Mark McCoy presented the sermon â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Story: Chapter 18, David in Exile.â&#x20AC;?

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Hard winter brings salt shortage CHICAGO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; As piles of snow grow taller during this seemingly endless winter, the mounds of salt for spreading on the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s icy, slushy roads are shrinking, forcing communities to ration supplies or try exotic new ice-melting substances.

Cities have already gone through most of

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on some of the things that really matter to teens â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their outward appearance and having control and independence over their lives.â&#x20AC;?

Two of the TV ads show teens walking into a corner store to buy cigarettes. When the cashier tells them itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to cost them more than they have, the teens proceed to tear off a piece of their skin and use pliers to pull out a tooth in order to pay for their cigarettes. Other ads portray cigarettes as a man dressed in a dirty white shirt and khaki pants bullying teens and another shows teeth being destroyed by a ray gun shooting cigarettes.

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Scripture presented Sunday at the United Methodist Church service was Lamentations 3:19-26, 2 Timothy 4:6-8 and John 14:1-6. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the service, which included a memorial service for Gary Hildebrand, 69, who passed away Jan. 29. He was a heart transplant survivor for 14 years.

Rickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halfway House

When the Colony Diner and Jeanieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foods burned in December, Rick Horn of Halfway House opened his building for people to gather and eat breakfast and lunch. It opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes at 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Offered for breakfast are biscuits and gravy, burritos and pancakes. Lunch offered is cheeseburger, turkey club, Philly steak cheese, hot ham and cheese sandwiches, (all with chips and pickles) and a daily special.

Working for Rick are Lisa Preston, Melissa Hobbs, Tom Buckle and Amanda Soliz. They each have other jobs,

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but together they have worked out a schedule to help the community.

The Halfway House will remain open until the new diner is in operation.

4-H

Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club members will go door to door in area communities from now until March 10. They will offer Blue and Gold meat products, sausage and bacon, both fresh and refrigerated, and frozen chicken strips.

This is a countywide fundraiser; 25 percent goes to the 4-H Council and the remaining 75 percent to each individual 4-H Club in the county.

Leaders are C. J. Lacey, Stacy Sprague and Kathy LaCross. If you have a question concerning the club or any fundraisers, contact any club member.

Extension

March is right around the corner. The Anderson County Extension at Garnett announced its annual Walk Kansas, which is March 16 through May 10 this year. Registration is due March 3. This 8-week walking program encourages family members, schoolmates, co-workers, friends, and neighbors to come together as a team. A team captain recruits five people to make a six-member team. Team participants will receive a weekly newsletter sharing what teams are doing and also will include information about health, nutrition, and food. Register by phone at 800-633-5621.

Knowledge at Noon programs will be held again. Register by calling 785-448-6826 or email nschuster@ksu.edu.

Ten participants are required to hold the noon programs. Joy Purkeypile, Linn County Extension FCS agent will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food Allergy Facts of Lifeâ&#x20AC;? on March 19. This lesson focuses on how to recognize the foods that most often cause food allergies, ways to manage food allergies and resources to help adults with food allergies and parents with children with food allergies. Programs are from noon to 1 p.m. A light lunch is served for $2. They are held at the Extension building, west side of square in Garnett.

Police hear screams, find happy male pig CHINA, Maine (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police responding to reports of screaming coming from a home in Maine didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a victim of domestic violence as they feared.

Instead, they found an amorous pig.

State police say a woman called last week after hearing what she believed to be a fight coming from a neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in the town of China. The caller said she heard screaming and thought there

was a domestic assault.

The Morning Sentinel reported four state troopers responded and talked to the neighbor.

The neighbor explained that she raises pigs and the screaming was coming from an overjoyed male pig that had been placed in a pen with five sows in heat.

Police say there was no assault and no disturbance â&#x20AC;&#x153;other than the screaming male pig.â&#x20AC;?

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Keystone, Flanagan two peas in a pod President Obama will decide soon whether to give his blessing to construction of the Keystone Pipeline, to carry heavy crude oil extracted from tar sands in Canada. The oil eventually will find its way to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

The pipeline’s projected route is through the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, ending at the huge storage depot at Cushing, Okla.

Environmentalists and landowners have railed about the pipeline’s construction, claiming fears of pollution from leaks that may occur and raising the flag of private property rights. Environmental activists also point to increased production of greenhouse gases as the heavy crude is converted to gasoline and other petroleum products. Fact is, oil will continue to be extracted from tar sand and refined, with or without Keystone.

Meanwhile, the Flanagan South Pipeline is being constructed over 600 miles — including through Allen County — to tie a collection point at Flanagan, Ill., to storage at Cushing. Some of the oil Enbridge’s Flanagan line will transport also will come from Canadian tar sand, along with production in Montana and the Dakotas.

Enbridge’s project seems in large measure to have escaped notice of protesters, although the parent com-

pany has seen fit to hire and dispatch security personnel to watch over storage and active construction areas.

Could the Flanagan line leak?

Of course it could. Nothing is absolutely fail-safe.

But, from what Enbridge has made public about the project, the likelihood of an accident of consequence seems remote.

Each weld between the 30-foot joints is carefully scrutinized. The pipe is 36 inches in diameter with walls half to three-quarters of an inch thick.

A weakness as small as a dime can be detected and pinpointed to its precise location so repairs may be made. massive investment in the project ensures its due diligence, with the transport of 600,000 barrels a day that fetches $60 million at today’s rates.

Enbridge will have spent $3.2 billion by the time the pipeline goes into operation, and as a for-profit company it means to recoup its investment and move to the positive side of the ledger in short order.

As for Allen County, the pipeline will add significantly to local property tax valuations, helping to boost local school districts, Allen Community College and county coffers.

— Bob Johnson ENBRIDGE’S

Thought for the day And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

— Anais Nin, author

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

I was reading a story last week about Davos, Switzerland, where about 1,500 billionaires meet every year to plan how they can make more money the next year. They pay $20 million to get into the event; most fly in on their $40 million Gulf Stream jets.

They already own about half the planet and they want to get richer.

Did you know that 85 of the richest billionaires own more wealth than 3.5 billion people combined. Let that soak in for a little bit, as there are 8 billion people on earth.

President Obama gave a speech the other day in which he used the word inequality 17 times. I didn’t think much about the word because that doesn’t include you and me, does it. Looking at these figures, maybe it does.

Pope Francis says there is a revolution on inequality coming. He has declared war on inequality and says inequality is the root cause of all social ills.

The pope is commander in chief of the world’s largest

army and includes 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, 78 million Americans, 200 cardinals, more than 5,000 bishops and 450,000 priests and deacons worldwide to carry out his mission.

The pope has a 10-point plan in his 76-page report. No. 2: Trickle-down economics of the rich is a failed ideology.

No. 4: The tyranny of capitalism rejects the public good.

A recent PBS documentary told of one of the richest men in North Carolina who has bought judges, senators, state legislators and the governor for his own self-interest.

I believe the same has happened in Kansas. The Koch brothers of Wichita are among the richest in America and just gave $200 million to Americans for Prosperity, which they own. That much money can buy a lot of influence. I believe they have a direct line to Governor Brownback. He has put his own lawyer in as an appellate judge, who was rejected twice before by his peers. He lambasted the Kansas Supreme Court justices before

the entire state in his annual address, more or less telling them they would be fired or overrun by his cronies if they didn’t follow his ideology. If he has no respect for the law, why should we? This is someone who wants to make up his own laws and appoint his own judges. Talk about abuse of power.

Kansas is facing a budget shortfall, mark my words, because Brownback has removed the income tax that only favors people with incomes like the Koch brothers.

Brownback says all these new industries moving into Kansas will provide new jobs and their wealth will trickle down. Meanwhile, he robs the state’s highway department fund to pay for his failed experiment. Building roads provides good-paying jobs, you know.

He also doesn’t want to fund education. Kansas teachers rank 42nd in pay out of the 50 states. We don’t have to be first, but come on governor, give these folks a little raise.

David Comstock, Colony, Kan.

Parents get peace of mind knowing kids are insured When history tells the story of the rollout of the health insurance Marketplace, one of the oddest vignettes will be about a tailgate party at a University of Miami football game hosted by a group called Generation Opportunity. This bash was complete with a DJ, balloons, beer, pizza and attractive young “hosts and hostesses” circulating through the crowd encouraging the partiers to forgo the opportunity to enroll for health insurance coverage. A civic organization discouraging what seems like responsible conduct seems odd. Most moms would find a measure of peace and comfort in having their young adults covered by health insurance.

Plying young people with beer has a long tradition of inducing questionable behavior, often with lifelong consequences.

Of course Generation Opportunity would say the Marketplace is a bad deal for these young people. Furthermore, they believe that they can drive up the prices by keeping the numbers of young people enrolling down. Making the whole thing fail is what they hope to achieve.

But is the Marketplace really a bad deal for young people?

The facts would suggest it can be a pretty good deal. Young people are seen as “good for the system” because they generally make fewer demands for health services. This is true enough, but ignores the need for protection from devastating downside risk. While most medical needs of young

John Robertson

Thrive Allen County people are modest, they are more at risk for certain types of risks. Accidents, including automobiles crashes, are more likely to afflict this age group than their older neighbors. Medical cost associated with an accident can easily plunge a young person into bankruptcy.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) offers a number of options for young adults. Since 2011, if a plan covers children, they can be added to or kept on a parent’s health insurance policy until they turn 26. These young people do not have to be financially dependent, students, or even live with their parents.

They can be married and be covered. Like all applicants since Jan. 1, 2014, they cannot be turned down or charged more because of a pre-existing condition.

The other way the ACA provides coverage to young adults is through the Marketplace.

This is where they are said to be at a disadvantage. Let’s look at real policies and costs available on the Marketplace in Allen County. Consider Miley, a hypothetical 22-year-old woman who lives in Iola and works at a coffee shop earn-

While young people generally make fewer demands for health services, they are more at risk for certain types of risks. Accidents, including car crashes, are more likely to afflict this age group. Medical cost associated with an accident can easily plunge a young person into bankruptcy if they are not insured. ing $12,000. Because of her modest income she will get a tax credit that will lower the amount of the premium she will have to pay. She will also get help to lower the deductibles. Miley can choose from 13 different “Silver” (70/30) plans from Blue Care Network and Coventry in Allen County.

After her tax credit these policies will cost her from $20 to $31 each month. She also gets help with her co-pay and deductibles. If she chooses the least expensive Blue Care network policy she has a $250 deductible, pays $20 for a visit to the doctor and $15 for a generic prescription. It is hard to see how anyone is “taking advantage” of Miley.

Now let’s look at Bieber, 24, who just landed his dream job in Humboldt and makes $50,000 a year. Bieber doesn’t get near as much help. He will not get a tax credit nor will he get help with deductibles or co-pays. Because of this he isn’t limited to a Silver policy, which has the best subsidies. There are 36 policies from Blue Care Network and Coventry he can choose from.

These range in price from $101 to $266 a month.

If Bieber selects the same policy as Miley, it will cost him $173 a month. He will have a $3,000 deductible, pay $30 for an office visit and $15 for a generic prescription.

Because Bieber is under 30 he has another option unavailable to older applicants, unless they can show a financial hardship. He can purchase a “catastrophic” policy on the Marketplace. The least expensive catastrophic policy is offered by Coventry and would cost him $102 a month. This is an option that specifically recognizes that young people generally have less need for

health services and permits a policy with less coverage. This means that Bieber can save money on premiums and assume some of the risk himself.

But instead of bankruptcy and financial ruin if a health disaster strikes, his losses are capped at $6,350 a year. Equally important, Bieber would be acting in a responsible way toward his community and neighbors, who would not be stuck with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of uncompensated care brought on by a major accident or other health crisis. Hopefully Bieber will never need it, but his mom will be glad to know he has the coverage.

Thrive Allen County offers assistance of trained Navigators to help residents of Allen County enroll in the health insurance Marketplace. Call 365-8128 for an appointment or drop in the Thrive office Wednesday evenings from 5 to 8 for assistance.

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Owl stolen from sanctuary Farm bill: passes, Obama SELAH, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are seeking the public’s help in finding out who stole a rare owl from a central Washington bird sanctuary.

The 14-year-old tawny owl was taken Friday from a building on the Raptor House property in the small Yakima Valley city of Selah, the Yakima County sheriff ’s office said.

Shannon Dalan, who helps run the sanctuary with his wife, Marsha, said it was obvious the owl didn’t fly the coop on his own: Someone took off a lock to the building, removed latches and unhooked

the leash holding the owl, named Sherman.

The bird is glovetrained and frequently is displayed in classes, the sheriff ’s office said.

Sherman weighs less than a pound and has reddish-brown feathers and pink eyelids.

The tawny owl is native to Europe and Asia, not North America, and Sherman could be worth $3,000 to $4,000 on the black market, Shannon Dalan said Tuesday.

“This bird is rare,” he said. “They knew what they were looking for.

The person who stole it walked past other, native birds.”

The Raptor House

is home to about 20 birds, including other owls, hawks, falcons and eagles. Some are being rehabbed for return to the wild, and others that can’t be released are used for education.

The tawny owl arrived about five years ago from a sanctuary in St. Louis. Shannon Dalan started calling him Sherman after ball-hawking Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman.

Sherman the owl has been seen by a lot of people, but Dalan couldn’t speculate on who might have taken him.

Show: A new perspective

Continued from A1 said.

The exhibit will be from Friday to Wednesday, with different hours every day. Hours for the exhibit are Friday 6 to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.; Monday, 10 a.m. to noon; Tuesday, 3 to 8 p.m.; and

Wednesday, 3 to 8 p.m.

“We think it’s great for us to be the first stop for the world premiere of this show,” Carswell said.

Displayed will be everything from ceramics to needlepoint to thrown pottery.

“This show was cre-

ated with accessibility in mind,” said Toni Harrell, Kansas Talking Books director. “We hope to engage as many people as possible — with or without disabilities.”

For more information on the show contact the Kansas State Library at 785-291-3230.

Snow: An issue at hospital Continued from A1 ter storms hit, an oversight on the hospital’s part, Commissioner Dick Works said.

TERRY CALL, who does billing for ambulance runs, told commissioners 220 runs were made in the first full month of Iola being in charge of countywide service.

That compares to 106 made by ambulances operated by the county in January 2013.

He said billings totaled $162,047 in January and $47,338 had been paid; last year’s numbers were $93,100 and $53,953.

Of the 220 runs this January, 89 involved advanced life support, requiring procedures and medication while a patient is being transported. Basic life support, those without medication, totaled 72.

That left 59 “dry” runs, those answered but without transport.

They are for such things as lift assist, when someone has fallen and is having difficulty getting up.

Call said 38 transfers were made to metropolitan hospitals, including nine by ambulances stationed in Iola. He said the first two transfers

in any day were made by ambulances at Humboldt and Moran, with the third done by an Iola-based ambulance.

The discrepancy in the total for the three stations comes from the first, second and third routine restarting at midnight each day. For example, if two transfers occurred on consecutive days, all four would be done by Humboldt and Moran ambulances.

Whenever an ambulance is gone from Humboldt or Moran, one is dispatched from Iola if a call comes during the absence.

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expected to sign on Friday

Continued from A1 pushed to get the bill done.

The White House had been mostly quiet as Congress worked out its differences on the bill.

But in a statement after the vote, Obama said the legislation would reduce the deficit “without gutting the vital assistance programs millions of hardworking Americans count on to help put food on the table for their families.”

He said the farm bill isn’t perfect, “but on the whole, it will make a positive difference not only for the rural economies that grow America’s food, but for our nation.”

Obama praised the bill for getting rid of subsidies known as “direct payments,” which are paid to farmers whether they farm or not. Most of that program’s $4.5 billion annual cost was redirected into new, more politically defensible subsidies that would kick in when a farmer has losses.

To gather votes for the bill, Democrat Stabenow and her House counterpart, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., included a major boost for crop insurance popular in the Midwest, higher subsidies for Southern rice and peanut farmers and land payments for Western states. The bill also sets policy for hundreds of smaller programs, subsidies, loans and grants — from research on wool to loans for honey producers to protections for the catfish industry. The bill would provide assistance for rural Internet services and boost organic agriculture.

Stabenow said the bill is also intended to help consumers, boosting farmers markets, encouraging local food production and seeking

to improve access to grocery stores in low-income communities.

“We worked long and hard to make sure that policies worked for every region of the country, for all of the different kinds of agricultural production we do in our country,” she said.

The regional incentives scattered throughout the bill helped it pass easily in the House last week, 251-166. House leaders who had objected to the legislation since 2011 softened their disapproval as they sought to put the long-stalled bill behind them. Leaders in both parties also have hoped to bolster rural candidates in this year’s midterm elections.

Conservatives remained unhappy with the bill.

“How are we supposed to restore the confidence of the American people with this monstrosity?” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. McCain pointed to grants and subsidies for sheep marketing, for sushi rice, for the maple syrup industry.

The $800 million-ayear savings in the food stamp program would come from cracking down on some states that seek to boost individual food stamp benefits by giving people small amounts of federal heating assistance that they don’t need. That heating assistance, sometimes as low as $1 per person, triggers higher benefits, and some critics see that practice as circumventing the law. The compromise bill would require states to give individual recipients at least $20 in heating assistance before a higher food stamp benefit could kick in.

Some Democrats still objected to the cuts, even though they are much lower than what the

House had sought. The Senate-passed farm bill had a $400 million annual cut to food stamps.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime member of the Agriculture Committee, voted against the bill. He cited provisions passed by the Senate and taken out of the final bill that would have reduced the number of people associated with one farm who can collect farm subsidies. Grassley has for years fought to lower subsidies to the wealthiest farmers.

The bill does have a stricter limit on the overall amount of money an individual farmer can receive — $125,000 in a year, when some programs were previously unrestricted. But the legislation otherwise continues a generous level of subsidies for farmers.

In place of the direct payments, farmers of major row crops — mostly corn, soybeans, wheat and rice — would now be able to choose between subsidies that pay out when revenue drops or when prices drop. Cotton and dairy supports were overhauled to similarly pay out when farmers have losses. Those programs may kick in sooner than expected as some crop prices have started to drop in recent months.

The bill would save around $1.65 billion annually overall. But critics said that under the new insurance-style programs, those savings could disappear if the weather or the market doesn’t cooperate.

Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group, an organization that has fought for subsidy reform for several years, said replacing the direct payments with the new programs is simply a “bait and switch.” He said there is “the potential for really big payoffs.”

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Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drought worst in recorded history

By PAUL ROGERS San Jose Mercury News

SAN JOSE, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current drought is being billed as the driest period in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recorded rainfall history. But scientists who study the Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches before that 163-year historical period began.

And they worry that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;megadroughtsâ&#x20AC;? typical of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earlier history could come again.

Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living in a dream world.â&#x20AC;?

California in 2013 received less rain than in any year since it became a state in 1850. And at least one Bay Area scientist says that based on tree ring data, the current rainfall season is on pace to be the driest since 1580 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more than 150 years before George Washington was born.

The question is: How much longer will it last?

A megadrought today would have catastrophic effects.

California, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most populous state with 38 million residents, has built a massive economy, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and millions of acres of farmland, all in a semiarid area. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dams, canals and reservoirs have never been tested by the kind of prolonged drought that experts say will almost certainly occur again.

Stine, who has spent decades studying tree stumps in Mono Lake, Tenaya Lake, the Walker River and other parts of the Sierra Nevada, said that the past century has been among the wettest

of the last 7,000 years.

Looking back, the long-term record also shows some staggeringly wet periods. The decades between the two medieval megadroughts, for example, delivered years of above-normal rainfall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the kind that would cause devastating floods today.

The longest droughts of the 20th century, what Californians think of as severe, occurred from 1987 to 1992 and from 1928 to 1934. Both, Stine said, are minor compared to the ancient droughts of 850 to 1090 and 1140 to 1320.

What would happen if the current drought continued for another 10 years or more?

Without question, longtime water experts say, farmers would bear the brunt. Cities would suffer but adapt.

The reason: Although many Californians think that population growth is the main driver of water demand statewide, it actually is agriculture. In an average year, farmers use 80 percent of the water consumed by people and businesses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 34 million of 43 million acrefeet diverted from rivers, lakes and groundwater, according to the state Department of Water Resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cities would be inconvenienced greatly and suffer some. Smaller cities would get it worse, but farmers would take the biggest hit,â&#x20AC;? said Maurice Roos, the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief hydrologist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cities can always afford to spend a lot of money to buy what water is left.â&#x20AC;?

Roos, who has worked at the department since

1957, said the prospect of megadroughts is another reason to build more storage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both underground and in reservoirs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to catch rain in wet years.

In a megadrought, there would be much less water in the Delta to pump. Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; allotments would shrink to nothing. Large reservoirs like Shasta, Oroville and San Luis would eventually go dry after five or more years of little or no rain.

Farmers would fallow millions of acres, letting row crops die first.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d pump massive amounts of groundwater to keep orchards alive, but eventually those wells would go dry. And although deeper wells could be dug, the costs could exceed the value of their crops. Banks would refuse to loan farmers money.

The federal government would almost certainly provide billions of dollars in emergency aid to farm communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some small towns in the Central Valley would really suffer. They would basically go away,â&#x20AC;? said Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But agriculture is only 3 percent of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy today,â&#x20AC;?

Lund said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the main urban economy, most people would learn to live with less water. It would be expensive and inconvenient, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do it.â&#x20AC;?

If a drought lasted decades, the state could always build dozens of desalination plants, which would cost billions of dollars, said law

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m a t o n Va l l e y H i g h S c h o o l r a M Class of 2014 Emily Meiwes

Emily is the daughter of Gene and Karen Meiwes.

She plays volleyball and basketball. She is active in FFA and FCCLA. Her hobbies are hanging out with family and friends and playing sports.

Emily plans to attend Allen Community College for one year then transfer to Pittsburg State University to major in business.

In high school she enjoyed the FFA trips, bus rides to volleyball and basketball games and hanging out with friends.

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She participates in volleyball, trapshooting, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic Church, FBLA, FCA, FFA, Forensics, school plays, National Honor Society and is an FCCLA officer.

Her hobbies are hunting, fishing, hanging out with friends and family and listening to music.

She works on her family farm part time.

After high school she will go to Allen Community College for a year then attend Pittsburg State University for two years and then Wichita State University for two years to study to be a physicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant.

Going to Philadelphia and New York for National Catholic Forensics League, FCCLA State Convention and National FFA Convention were Tapangaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school highlights.

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SOCHI’S GAMBLE Uncertainty about security, readiness cloud region as Olympics commence

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS and BARBARA BARRETT McClatchy Foreign Staff

SOCHI, Russia (MCT) — Palm trees have been planted near futuristic-looking stadiums, lush green sods of grass placed over muddy patches near newly built hotels, and the finishing touches put on a festive park that bears a striking resemblance to both Disneyland and Six Flags.

Russia, at least cosmetically, appears ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a Feb. 7-23 spectacle expected to bring 6,000 athletes from more than 85 countries and an estimated 10,000 American spectators to Sochi, a once-sleepy resort town on the Black Sea. But can fun times and feelgood competition emerge from the threat of terrorism, cloud of corruption, controversy over Russia’s anti-gay laws, and the challenge of hosting a winter sports festival in a subtropical region?

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Security forces gather along a transportation route at the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, this week in advance of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which begin Thursday. HARRY E. WALKER/MCT

Hotel’s advice: Don’t let dangerous water touch your face CHICAGO (MCT) — If there’s a gold medal for tweeting, we have a winner.

When Stacy St. Clair arrived in Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics for the Chicago Tribune, she probably wasn’t expecting to tweet this. And she definitely wasn’t expecting this tweet to go viral. Currently at nearly 1,200 retweets, 250 favorites and counting, this tweet has been featured on Deadspin, Sports Il-

lustrated, CNN — even Canada. com.

Not bad, eh?

And St. Clair’s fame extends offline too. In an email exchange earlier from a bus traveling through Russian mountains, she wrote that a Swedish gentleman recognized her and asked if she was “the dangerous face water woman.”

Sounds like a business card update is in order.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is banking his reputation on it. He brought the games to this unofficial summer capital for Russia’s vacationing political elite by waging a successful charm offensive on the International Olympic Committee members

who chose Sochi. He then remade the area through force of political will and an estimated $50 billion that makes these the most expensive Olympics in history.

“Putin considers the event to be a demonstration of Russia’s post-Soviet potential and

Justin Faulk (27) will play for the U.S. Olympic hockey team in Sochi. He said he’s not worried about security in Sochi. But his mother, brother and another guest going to Russia to watch him play are “more worried about it than I am,” he says. CHRIS SEWART/RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER/MCT

NASCAR announces new system for penalties

By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR unveiled a revamped penalty system Tuesday that for the first time will define specific offenses with pre-determined penalties.

The new “Deterrence System” classifies six different levels of penalties, with fines and point deductions increasing as the infractions become See NASCAR | Page B3

Drinking glasses show yellow-colored water from a bathroom faucet at a Sochi, Russia, hotel Tuesday. STACY

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its growing role on the international stage, as well as visible proof of his success in overcoming the political chaos that followed the dissolution of the USSR,” Sergey Markedonov, a visiting fellow at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in his analysis of the winter games. “The Sochi Winter Olympics have also been interpreted by some as an integral part of Putin’s return to the presidency — an attempt to secure domestic support and prestige.”

However, a confluence of controversy could potentially crash Putin’s party. More than 300 miles separates the Olympics’ glistening state-of-theart arenas and snow-covered slopes from Chechnya, the scene of two bitter civil wars, home of anti-Putin Muslim rebels, and the homeland of the family of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

“I don’t think ever has a Winter or Summer Olympic games been held in a place so close in proximity to a region — the Northern Caucasus — which is so rife with conflict, instability and acts of violence, many of them terrorist acts,” said Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at

“I don’t think ever has a Winter or Summer Olympic Games been held in a place so close in proximity to a region ... so rife with conflict, instability and acts of violence, many of them terrorist acts.

It’s a pretty risky play for Putin. The jihadists, they would like to spoil Putin’s party in Sochi. That would be the Holy Grail.”

— Andrew Kuchins, director Center for Strategic and International Studies

the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It’s a pretty risky play for Putin.

The jihadists, they would like to spoil Putin’s party in Sochi.

That would be the Holy Grail.”

The potential for danger was reinforced in December when suicide bombers detonated themselves in a crowded bus and a railroad station in Volgograd, a city about 400 miles north of Sochi, killing 32 people.

Last July, Doku Umarov, a Chechen rebel leader, released a video over the Internet that implored his followers to use “maximum force” to disrupt the Winter Olympics and referred to the games as “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.”

Putin has promised to place a “ring of steel” around the Olympics to shield athletes and spectators from terrorist acts. Government officials have deployed an estimated 100,000 security personnel under the direction of Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB), according to a study done by Stratfor, a Houstonbased global intelligence agency.

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Kansas rebounds with 69-52 win at Baylor

By STEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press

WACO, Texas (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self knows most people look at how Andrew Wiggins plays as a barometer for what to expect from the eighth-ranked Jayhawks.

Don’t make the mistake of overlooking the other players around the Big 12’s top-scoring freshman.

Naadir Tharpe scored 22 points, nine in a go-ahead run before halftime, and the Big 12-leading Jayhawks rebounded from their first league loss with a 69-52 victory at Baylor on Tuesday night.

“We’ve just got to be a team

that it’s going to be a different guy most every night,” Self said. “And (Tharpe) stepped up when we needed him to step up.”

Early on, there were three ties and nine lead changes.

Tharpe’s short jumper with 3½ minutes left in the half broke a 25-all tie and put the Jayhawks (17-5, 8-1 Big 12) ahead to stay.

The tiebreaking shot was Tharpe’s third basket in a 14-3 spurt over the final 5 minutes of the first half, and he added a 3-pointer with a minute left. He then made another 3 on Kansas’ opening possession after halftime.

Wiggins finished 4-of-13 shooting and didn’t make his first basket until a half-court

shot to beat the buzzer going into halftime for a 35-27 lead.

“Well, we ran that play for him at the end of the first half to get him going,” Self joked of Wiggins, who finished two points off his season average.

“It was big. It gave a great momentum push going into halftime,” said Perry Ellis, who had 14 points and 10 rebounds. “It was great that he knocked that down. It got him going.”

Cory Jefferson had 14 points to lead Baylor (14-8, 2-7), which lost its fourth consecutive game at the Ferrell Center after a 13-game home winning streak. It’s the longest home drought since dropping six straight in 2005.

The Bears, coming off a

win at then-No. 8 Oklahoma State that snapped their overall five-game losing streak, were trying to set up for a final shot before halftime when Kenny Chery threw an errant pass that Wiggins intercepted.

“Round 1 is over in the league. We have to do better in Round 2,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “The good thing is I believe we can win every game, but with the Big 12 being like it is we can lose every game. We have to make sure we play well to have a chance to win.”

Baylor has never won consecutive games over Top 25 opponents.

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Sochi: Challenges cloud region as Olympic Games begin Continued from B1

will patrol the skies around Sochi, boats will be on patrol in the Black Sea, phone calls and computer activity within Sochi will be heavily monitored, and Russian Cossacks will walk the streets during the games to keep an eye out for trouble.

Russia’s security efforts received a vote of confidence this week from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.

“I’m sorry to tell you I’m sleeping very well,” Bach told reporters in London when asked about security at the games.

But U.S. officials are still suffering insomnia.

The State Department recently issued a travel alert for the Russian Federation, reminding travelers of the terrorism threats to the Olympic Games.

A senior administration official acknowledged last week that athletes had been advised to consider not wearing their U.S.A. uniforms outside the Olympic perimeter.

“If you’re an American athlete, you probably don’t want to advertise that much outside the Olympic venues,” one senior administration official told reporters. “It’s just good common sense.”

Some U.S. lawmakers are urging American spectators to think twice about going to Sochi.

“If I were an athlete, I would go, I’m almost certain,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., former chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. “But as a spectator, no, I would not.”

But Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the current homeland security committee chairman, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “If we do not support our team and show up, I think the terrorists are winning.”

“Having said that, I would say that the security threat to ... this particular Olympics is the greatest I’ve ever seen.”

Russia also faces potential blowback from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and human rights activists over an anti-propaganda law, widely viewed as anti-gay, and for the alleged abuse of workers who built the Olympic

arenas, villages, and other venues.

Last year, Russia approved a law which prohibits individuals from promoting “homosexual behavior” and spreading “propaganda of nontraditional relations” among minors, subjecting violators to fines and possible incarceration.

LGBT and human rights groups aren’t sure how Russian officials will react if there are individual or group protests to the law in Sochi or other parts of the country.

Russian and IOC officials have repeatedly stated that the law won’t be a problem during the games.

Sochi captures world’s attention over next 17 days

IN DECEMBER, the IOC announced that Sochi will have designated public zones where protestors can demonstrate,

“If I were an athlete, I would go, I’m almost certain. But as a spectator, no, I would not.”

— Rep. Peter King, R-New York

similar to areas established at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

BUT SOME world leaders have chosen to protest the law by not attending the opening or closing ceremonies of the Sochi games because of the anti-propaganda law.

President Barack Obama is skipping Sochi and is instead sending a low-level official U.S. delegation to the games that includes three gay members — tennis great Billie Jean King, Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater Brian Boitano, and U.S. women’s ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow.

Human rights activists and Russian political watchdogs have a bone to pick with Putin over the building up of Sochi for the games.

Russia spared no expense. The estimated $50 billion price tag exceeds the $43 billion China spent on the larger 2008 Summer Games; the $13

Days on which specific events will be held as part of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Boxes with shaded circles indicate medals will be awarded on that day. billion London spent on its Summer Olympics; and the $8.9 billion bill for the Vancouver Winter Games.

Putin dismisses the $50 billion figure, but concedes that Russia had to build a Winter Olympics from scratch, converting summertime Sochi into a winter wonderland.

Indeed, the area smacks of newness, from highways to a high-speed rail line that links seaside Sochi to the mountains and Krasnaya Polyana, formerly a quaint resort village converted into a highend ski town with new hotels and eateries.

At sea level in Sochi’s Adler district, new arenas dominate a skyline dotted with hotels, villages, and entertainment centers that didn’t exist prior

to Russia securing the games in 2007.

“It’s very exciting,” said David, a longtime Sochi resident who’s working in the hospitality services during the games. He declined to give his last name.

“Everything new. Before this, it was nothing.”

But critics complain that Putin’s allies and business oligarchs managed to line their pockets in the Olympics construction frenzy.

Many point to a new $8 billion stretch of highway that connects Sochi to Krasnaya Polyana as evidence of excess and corruption.

Leonid Martynuk and Boris Nemtsov, staunch Putin opponents, authored a report last May charging that $30 billion of the Olympics budget

went missing in “kickbacks and embezzlement.”

“An absence of fair competition, clan politics, and the strictest censorship about anything related to the Olympic Games have led to a sharp increase in costs and a low quality of work,” their report said.

Even putting the games in Sochi, where the February temperature is about 47 degrees, seemed like a curious choice.

“It’s hard to find a place on the map of Russia where there hasn’t been snow and where winter sports are not developed,” Nemtsov wrote in his report.

“But Putin found such a spot and decided to hold the winter Olympics there. It’s the city

of Sochi.”

Human rights activists claim that much of the work done for the Olympics was mostly done by foreign laborers, often under inhumane terms and conditions, according to a report last year by Human Rights Watch.

The 67-page report contends that migrant laborers had their passports confiscated, were forced to work 12-hour shifts seven days a week, were paid between $1.80 and $2.60 an hour, and lived in overcrowded conditions.

Putin has shrugged off the allegations.

“I do not see serious corruption instances for the moment, but there is a problem with overestimation of construction volumes,” Putin told the BBC in January.

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more severe. The new system will be applied only to technical infractions; NASCAR will still handle behavioral offenses individually.

The structure also allows the sanctioning body to hit repeat offenders with a multiplier that could increase penalties by 50 percent.

NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous penalty system did not tie pre-determined sanctions to specific offenses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to be more effective, fair and transparent,â&#x20AC;? said Steve Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell, senior vice president of racing operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never our intent to penalize, but in order to keep the playing field fair for everyone, we recognize that strong rules need to be in place.â&#x20AC;?

NASCAR has also removed chief appellate officer John Middlebrook.

The retired General Motors executive has been replaced by Bryan Moss, president emeritus of Gulfstream Aerospace.

Middlebrook had overturned or modified some key NASCAR decisions,

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michael Frazier II scored 14 points, highly touted freshman Chris Walker had two crowdpleasing dunks in his debut and No. 3 Florida beat Missouri 68-58 on Tuesday night.

The Gators won their 14th consecutive game and extended a school record with their 28th straight victory at home.

Frazier came up huge in the latest one. The sophomore drained three 3-pointers in a 2-minute span in the second half, giving Florida some breathing room in a tight, back-and-forth game.

Patric Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving layup with 4:10 remaining gave the Gators (20-2, 9-0 Southeastern Conference) a 58-48 lead.

including a penalty to Hendrick Motorsports in 2012 and Penske Racing last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to clearly state that Bryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment is not a result of recent appeals outcomes or because of the changes to the Chase,â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;John did a great job for us, but Bryan will take over as the final appeals officer.â&#x20AC;?

NASCAR also has removed track promoters from its appeals panel in order to keep them from having to rule on a team while also needing that teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members to help promote races. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have probably put some people in some tough spots in the past,â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see national series promoters as part of that panel and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see more industry experts participate in that role in the future.â&#x20AC;?

Another change to the penalty system is in the appeals process: Penalized teams will be allowed to see NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation during the first appeal. Previously,

each side presented its case without the other side in the room.

Parties will now submit summaries of issues in advance of the hearing and it will be NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burden to prove that a penalty violation occurred. During second and final appeals, the burden will shift to the team to prove the panel decision was incorrect.

The biggest changes are to the penalty system, which is now broken into six classes.

Minor technical infractions in the P1 class could lead to lost track time and other relatively light punishments; violations affecting the internal workings and performance of the engine in P6, on the other hand, could lead to the loss of 150 points, a fine of at least $150,000 and suspensions.

If P5 and P6 infractions are found in post-race inspection, wins would not be eligible to be used to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship or to advance through the Chase rounds. And if

Kansas: Jayhawks get defensive in win Continued from B1

The Bears shot only 29 percent from the field (16 of 55) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Drew, looking for a positive, pointed out they did have assists

on all but one of those made baskets. They were outrebounded 45-31.

Kansas was coming off an 81-69 loss Saturday at surging Texas.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just came out there without energy. I felt like even though Texas played that tremendous game out there, we kind of beat ourselves,â&#x20AC;? said Tharpe, who sat the final 10 minutes of that game when he had only three points on 1-of-4 shooting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come out with any kind of energy, we had nothing. After they made a play, we had nothing coming back. So we knew coming into today in Waco, we had to come out with some fire right away. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we did.â&#x20AC;?

In their regular season finale last March, the Jayhawks lost 81-58 at Baylor. They still had a share of their ninth consecutive Big 12 title, but that loss kept them from winning it outright.

Baylor was within 4944 midway through the second half and Wiggins

had just shot and missed the rim.

But the Bears missed three free throws on the same possession. Then, with Baylor students chanting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Air Ball!, Air Ball!â&#x20AC;?, Wiggins swished a 3-pointer from the right wing. Wiggins scored again on the next possession to push the lead to 54-44, and had the next basket as well with a dunk with 7:49 left.

Brady Heslip had 12 points on four 3-pointers, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score again after his last gave Baylor a 22-21 lead with 6:34 left in the first half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were just playing him behind his numbers.

We were running behind him,â&#x20AC;? Tharpe said of second-half adjustments on Heslip. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just knew that he got a lot of good looks off in the first half, and we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let that happen again.â&#x20AC;?

Games called off

the same car repeats an offense in the same category during the season, the penalty increases 50 percent above the normal standard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe the new system is easily understood and specifically lays out exactly what disciplinary action will be taken depending upon the type of technical infraction,â&#x20AC;? said vice president of competition Robin Pemberton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More importantly, we believe we have strengthened our system to ensure even more competitive racing.â&#x20AC;?

ARKANSAS CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Allen Community College basketball games at Cowley have been pushed back because of wintry weather.

The Red Devil women will tip off at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Cowleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s William F. Scott Gymnasium in downtown Arkansas City. The men follow at about 7:30.

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The count was 549 in favor to 251 opposed.

Voter turnout was 27 percent, according to the Clay County clerk’s office.

Voters approved a 0.5 percent sales tax Oct. 1 that could raise from $30,000 to $35,000 a month, according to estimates from Clay Center Mayor Jim Thatcher. That revenue is earmarked to replace the current pool, built in 1937.

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Utilities lobby for lower solar fees

By ANDY MARSO The Topeka CapitalJournal

A bill to cut the reimbursement rate utility companies pay customers who feed energy back to the grid has gotten the attention of solar advocates.

Mark Moser, of Manhattan, is the inventor and owner of the Konza Solar Tracker, a device that moves solar panels with the sun to make them more efficient. He told legislators that if they end the “net metering” billing practice that reimburses customers one kilowatt hour of electricity for every kilowatt hour they send back to their utility company it will make Kansas one of the worst states for him to do business in.

“I would be left with few options,” Moser said, noting that 43 states have net metering. “As the proverbial solar tracking mustard seed, the Konza Solar Tracker will have to find more fertile ground to grow in elsewhere.”

Bills to end net metering have been introduced in the House and Senate and are supported by utility companies like Westar Energy and Kansas City Power and Light.

Mark Schreiber, Westar’s executive director of government affairs, told legislators under current law his company “is paying net-metered customers a retail price for a wholesale commodity” and that the 1-to-1 kilowatt credit doesn’t account for infrastructure costs like power plants and power lines.

“When a customer generates some of his or her own power and gets paid the full retail rate of 10 cents, the result is that other customers pay his share of the cost of the entire infrastructure that he continues to use,” Schreiber said. “Rooftop solar systems don’t remove a customer’s reliance on the utility grid of power plants — they just save fuel.”

The Vote Solar Initiative, a San Franciscobased nonprofit that helped push for California’s net metering law, said the benefits outweigh the costs in that state by $92.2 million per year.

The organization acknowledged the cost of lessening utility company revenues used for infrastructure, but said customers who produce their own electricity save everyone money by lessening the amount of infrastructure needed within the grid, reducing the amount of electricity lost as it is transmitted over power lines, and preventing pollution.

“Actual costs and benefits are specific to each utility,” a Vote Solar Initiative handout against the Kansas bills states.

“However, the size of California’s solar market and its unique tiered rate structure make it a strong test bed for the economics of net metering. A net benefit in California indicates a likely net benefit in other states as well.”

The rest of the planet is going solar now. When the coal dust finally settles and we are done with the age of fossil fuels your names will be attached to this monumental transition. ­— Mark Moser, Konza Solar Tracker

Schreiber said the bills before the Legislature would still compensate consumers “at a premium for their excess electricity” but lower the reimbursement to the “utility’s avoided cost” rather than the “full retail price.”

Otherwise, Schreiber said his company might be forced to raise rates on customers who don’t generate their own electricity, as the number of those who do rises.

“We are already seeing an increase in the number of net-metering applications we receive each month,” Schreiber said.

Senate Bill 280 is in the Senate Utilities Committee, while its counterpart, House Bill 2458, is in the House Energy and Environment Committee.

Kansas Interfaith Power and Light, a group of religious leaders against climate change, has made the net-metering bills a top priority, alongside measures to roll back renewable standards that fizzled in the Legislature last year but are expected to reappear.

Meanwhile, the coal industry is weighing in more broadly with a study titled “Energy Cost Impacts on Kansas Families.” Mike Duncan, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity in Washington, D.C., said in a news release that renewable energy is driving up costs.

“As we have witnessed throughout this historically cold winter, a rapid shift to fuel sources that are less reliable, less abundant and more costly than coal for electricity generation has severely undermined American families’ access to affordable heat when they need it most,” Duncan said. “For the good of all Kansas families, we must work together to fully take advantage of all the abundant, low-cost resources within our borders.”

But Moser told legislators that the cost of solar energy is dropping due to devices like his, while the costs of burning fossil fuels like coal go beyond power generation and include health and environmental damage.

“The rest of the planet is going solar now,” Moser said. “When the coal dust finally settles and we are done with the age of fossil fuels your names will be attached to this monumental transition that our global civilization must now make.”

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Snow storms mark winter of discontent for much of U.S.

By MICHAEL MUSKAL The Los Angeles Times

For as much as twothirds of the United States, this has, indeed, been the winter of our discontent.

Even as a harsh storm was dropping as much as 10 inches of snow on parts of the Midwest, especially Kansas, that same system was moving east and was expected to make this morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive to work in the Northeast a miserable experience.

Nor could the Northeast take comfort that the worst was over. After a snow storm earlier this week, a third storm is gathering and is expected to hit at the end of the weekend and into the early part of Monday, proving that three of a kind is only good when playing poker.

Winter storm warnings were posted for more than a dozen states where well more than one-third of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population lives. Where there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t warnings, there were advisories. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the system moves east, the heavy snow and ice will impact locations

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In addition to the winter weather, heavy rainfall could result in flooding across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys,â&#x20AC;? the National Weather Service warned.

The heavy snow closed schools throughout the region where many places were reporting that the days lost to weather were piling up almost as high as the drifts outside.

Indiana, for example, has some areas where schools were closed for a full week in January because of the weather and road conditions.

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Service warned of extremely difficult driving conditions. Interstate 70, an artery linking Kansas City and St. Louis, was closed in both directions on Tuesday near Columbia, Mo., after several accidents involving tractor-trailer trucks.

More than 3,700 flights were delayed on Tuesday, and more than 1,200 were canceled by midday, according to Flightaware.com, a website that tracks air traffic.

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cent history. It estimated that severe weather flight delays last month cost Americans $2.5 billion in lost business and productivity.

Icy conditions were also a problem in Arkansas, where multiple accidents were reported on several major traffic arteries. Conditions were most hazardous in the northwestern corner of the state, near the borders with Missouri and Oklahoma. Power outages were also reported as ice and snow clutched overhead transmission lines and the added weight snapped the circuit.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe directed that only essential state employees were to report to their jobs in the capital.

Records were buried in snow piles. Detroit, for example, recorded 39.1 inches of snow in January, a record for the month, and New York City received almost 2 feet more snow than in most other years. In Chicago, the storm marked the 33rd and 34th days of measurable snow this season, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Only two other seasons in the past 129 years have seen more days of measurable snowfall through Feb. 3: 33 days in 1976-77 and 35 days in 1978-79, according to the Tribune.

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