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JAMES WESLEY AND ASHLEY BAZAN, OF LAWRENCE, on Friday hold their daughters Olivia, almost 13 months, and Penelope, born at 2:40 p.m. on New Year's Day at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Penelope weighed in at 5 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 19 inches long.

Say hello to Baby New Year old Sunday, his daughters are about as close in age as they can get. livia Wesley was “I guess we got pretty in good spirits on close,” he said.

New Year’s Day Bazan said she had a feelwhen she visited ing Penelope would be on her new baby sister, Penelher way around New Year’s ope — the first baby born at Day. Her due date was origiLawrence Memorial Hospital nally Jan. 30, and last week in 2016. doctors bumped that back At 2:40 p.m., James Wesley to Jan. 12 — but she knew it and Ashley Bazan became would be sooner still. parents for the second “I knew with this one, too,” time when Penelope arshe said, nodding toward rived, weighing 5 pounds, Olivia. “… They’re little pree12 ounces, and measuring 19 mie babies, but they’re doing inches long. pretty well.”

Wesley had hoped for twin Olivia was a bit too small girls. That didn’t happen, but to leave the hospital for with Olivia turning 13 months about a week when she was

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born Dec. 3, 2014, weighing just 4 pounds and 7 ounces, but she was healthy and gained weight quickly. On Friday, she was all smiles as her parents lovingly described her as a “class clown” and a “people-pleaser.”

Both parents are originally from Garden City and moved independently to Lawrence for the local music scene.

Wesley works as general manager of The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.; Bazan worked there, too, until she became a full-time mom.

They plan to stick around town with the daughters they’ve nicknamed Olive and Penny.

“(Lawrence) is where I want to raise my kids,” Bazan said. “We’re staying for the education the kids can get, and the community.”

Bazan said she decided a couple of months ago the girls should not expect any more siblings. But both parents have two brothers and two sisters each, so there will likely be plenty of cousins around.

As for New Year’s resolutions, Bazan said the only one right now is to be happy and healthy.

— Reporter Mackenzie Clark can be reached at mclark@ljworld.com or 832-7198.

Topeka — Heading into a new legislative session, and facing an estimated $175 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year, Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas lawmakers are eagerly awaiting a report that is supposed to show how the state can save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

LEGISLATURE In 2015, lawmakers hired the consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal to conduct a months-long review of spending and practices in executive branch agencies and K-12 education, and to make recommendations on ways the state could be more efficient.

Under the contract, for which A&M is being paid $2.6 million, a preliminary report was due Friday. But a more detailed report will be presented to the House and Senate budget committees

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When the governor presents his budget at beginning of session, it will balance with a few of the recommendations but not the majority.”

— Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., R-Olathe

KU team dates Kansas’ oldest rocks ‘Red beds’ deposited more than 250 million years ago

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The red beds at the base of Point of Rocks landmark in Morton County are even older than most scientists projected.

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ikers, birders and Santa Fe Trail buffs head to Point of Rocks in extreme southwest Kansas — a key landmark for pioneers — for the wildflowers, wildlife and wagon ruts.

But many a geologist has fixated instead on the mysterious streak of exposed red sandstone at the base of the famous rock formation.

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century they’ve debated, sat there for a long time how old are these sowaiting for somebody to called “red beds?” come by and answer the Finally, a team question.” of Kansas UniverThe red beds are sity researchers located at the foot of applying new dating the bluff topped by technology believes a formation known it has answered as Point of Rocks — that question with a welcome landKANSAS UNIVERSITY mark for pioneers certainty.

“This is pretty much on the Santa Fe Trail’s the last gap, the last hole Dry Route because natuin the geologic map of ral springs were located Kansas,” said Rex Buchan- nearby. Point of Rocks an, interim director of the lies within the Cimarron KU-based Kansas GeoPlease see ROCKS, page 2A logical Survey. “This has

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Appeals panel sides with tax board on Dodge City casino Topeka (ap) — A Kansas Court of Appeals panel has ruled a Dodge City casino doesn’t have to pay the state’s “use tax” on electronic gambling machines it operates for the Kansas Lottery.

The three-judge appeals panel agreed Thursday with a state Board of Tax Appeals decision that said the Kansas Department of Revenue was wrong in collecting $801,588 in compensating use tax from the Boot Hill Casino and Resort in Dodge City, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

The tax was from the casino’s purchase of outof-state vendors’ electronic gambling machines on behalf of the Kansas Lottery, the state agency that oversees operations at three state-owned casinos, including the one in

Dodge City. The casino paid the tax under protest before it started the appeals process to have the money refunded.

The Board of Tax Appeals ruled earlier that Boot Hill manages but does not own the equipment for the Kansas Lottery, which is required to own and operate all gambling equipment used in the state. The board said the casino doesn’t have to pay the use tax if it doesn’t own the equipment.

The Department of Revenue acknowledged to the tax appeals board that the Kansas Lottery was the owner of the machines. But it argued that Boot Hill still had to pay the use tax because it was “contractually allowed to exercise rights that allow it to use and enjoy the property.”

The Court of Appeals panel agreed with the tax board however, citing purchase agreements Boot Hill signed as “manager under contract to the Kansas Lottery on behalf of the State of Kansas.” It also cited provisions of the state’s gambling regulations that say no state-owned casino can purchase or lease any gambling device except on behalf of the Kansas Lottery.

The appeals court also noted that Kansas’ three state-owned casinos — the other two in Mulvane and Kansas City, Kan. — provide the Kansas Lottery with 100 percent of all gross gambling proceeds daily.

The Kansas Lottery returns 73 percent of that revenue to each casino on a monthly basis.

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National Grassland in Morton County.

The red beds were long thought by many to be the only Jurassic Period rocks exposed on the surface in all of Kansas, said Jon Smith, assistant scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey.

“We know that’s not the case now,” Smith said. “It’ll change the maps a little bit.”

The rocks are actually millions of years older, according to the research team’s paper, for which Smith was lead author. Testing revealed they were deposited in the Permian Period, which lasted from about 298 million to 252 million years ago.

Previous scientists had posited everything from Permian to the later Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods — but all were virtually guesses.

Scientists often use fossils embedded in rocks to date them, or perhaps ash layers embedded along with said fossils, Smith said.

“In this case we had no fossils,” Smith said.

“There’s no ash. There’s no anything.”

Instead, past geologists had basically looked at the red rock and compared it to similar-looking rock they’d seen in, say, New Mexico or Colorado, Smith said. If they knew the age of the lookalike rocks, then they based their red beds age guess on that.

The KU researchers applied a dependable dating technique based on radioactive decay, which Smith called “one of the best measured things in science.”

The team took samples of the rocks,

sent them to a lab to be crushed and suspended in a liquid that would allow tiny zircon crystals to be isolated by sinking to the bottom, Smith said. Those microscopic zircons were then tested for lead and uranium content. Over time, uranium decays into lead, so scientists can date material by the amount of lead in the zircons.

This testing was started several years ago, although KU has since added equipment that enables it to do such testing in-house today, Smith said.

Radioactive dating isn’t new, but it’s just now starting to be used to date sedimentary rocks, Smith said.

Although, it’s definitely too new to have been an option for the first geologists stumped by the red beds at Point of Rocks.

“One hundred years ago they were doing all this on horseback,” Smith said. “They had to focus on great big swaths of area.”

The seemingly “esoteric” study of stratigraphy — the branch of geology dealing with the order and position of strata and their relationship to the geologic timescale — can shed light on how environmental and geological aspects of the world may change in the future, Smith said.

“The present is the key to the past,” he said.

“In the same way, the past is also predicting the future.”

In the red beds project, applying a new technique to an old question was key, Smith said.

“People have been kicking this around like a football for 100 years.

Let’s apply some of these new techniques to get an answer,” he said.

“I think it was a real success.”

Topeka (ap) — People with hepatitis C who drink alcohol or stop using their medications would lose Medicaid coverage under a proposal approved by a Kansas legislative committee.

The KanCare Oversight Committee also recommended this week that the Kansas Department of Health and Safety begin using step therapy, which requires Medicaid patients to try cheaper treatments first and receive more expensive treatments only if the other medicines fail. State law currently forbids that practice.

Both proposals now go to the state health department, which will decide whether to forward them to the Legislature.

Lawmakers would have to approve them before they became state practice, The Wichita Eagle reported.

Sen. Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, suggested the proposals. He said the state should not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a patient who doesn’t follow treatment plans for hepatitis C, a viral infection that gradually destroys the liver.

“If we have patients that are abusing an $80,000 drug, then there have to be consequences,” Denning said, who said the money could be used to treat children instead.

The committee’s two Democrats, Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, and Sen. Laura Kelly,

D-Topeka, voted against the suggestion. Ward called it a “death sentence” for some people.

“Put me down as a ‘no’ for killing people,” he said.

Ward said the proposal is worded so vaguely private insurance companies that provide the state’s Medicaid services would have too much power to decide who receives treatment.

When asked what would make a person noncompliant, Denning said he couldn’t name everything but alcohol abuse was an example.

Sen. Mary PilcherCook, R-Shawnee, said people have other options besides Medicaid and a person who uses alcohol or drugs made a choice to ignore medical protocols.

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EPA penalizes Leavenworth for dirty water Leavenworth (ap) — The city of Leavenworth will be required to spend $85,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act. The payments come after the Environmental Protection Agency documented 19 sewer overflows between 2010 and 2015 from the city’s water

treatment plant near the Missouri River. The overflows sent sewer water into the river.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports the city must pay $46,200 in penalties and spend $38,800 for improvements to its storm water system.

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The EPA at first proposed $104,000 in penalties and costs but reduced the amount after talking with city officials.

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she said. “The things that I heard about from the first presentation (in early December) seem to be things that are pretty standard proposals that anyone can make. They weren’t necessarily Kansas-specific.”

On Dec. 8, A&M gave lawmakers a status report on the project and presented a few preliminary recommendations that called for filling vacant positions in the Department of Revenue to improve tax collections.

“We didn’t need to hire somebody to tell us that,” Francisco said.

A&M also recommended changing the way the state administers vendor contracts to take full advantage of the 30-day allowance for paying invoices, and negotiating discounts when the state pays more promptly than that.

“I’m concerned about efficiencies that help us (the state), but not businesses and citizens in Kansas, like the delay of making payments,” Francisco said. “That’s not more efficient. It maybe saves a little bit of money, but it does not make things more efficient.”

Meanwhile, many people are anxious to hear what A&M will recommend regarding K-12 education spending, the single largest category of state general fund expenditures, but a category over which the Legislature has little direct control because the funds are managed by each of the state’s 286 local school districts.

A&M spokesman Steve Alschuler declined to talk about the specifics of the report before its official release. But Kansas State Department of Education officials said the company requested volumes of information, both from the department and many of the state’s largest school districts, including the Lawrence school district.

Specifically, those included detailed information about districts’ employee health benefits and casualty insurance costs. The firm also asked for districts’ utility costs, vendor information, and their contracts and pricing lists.

In follow-up conference calls, the department said, A&M asked

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on Jan. 12, just hours before Brownback is scheduled to deliver his State of the State address.

Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., R-Olathe, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, said he’s optimistic that the report will be useful in the upcoming session.

“I believe the governor’s recommendations will include many of the savings, and that’ll give us time to delve into the details and work with the governor to come to consensus about other recommendations,” he said. “When the governor presents his budget at beginning of session, it will balance with a few of the recommendations but not the majority.”

But Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, who serves on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said she is less optimistic.

“Obviously we all want to be as efficient as we can with our government operations,”

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questions on a wide range of issues such as the use of private funds for professional development, and the possibility of consolidating responsibilities between the state’s schools for the blind and the deaf, and the departments of Health and Environment, Children and Families, and Aging and Disability Services.

Mark Tallman, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said in a statement in August that he hoped A&M would focus its attention on maximizing student success rather than cutting spending.

“From extensive research, we know that Kansas has one of the most efficient school systems in the nation, ranking in the top 10 for overall educational achievement,” Tallman said. “Kansas spends less per pupil than every other high achieving state, even when adjusting for regional cost differences.”

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222 or phancock@ljworld.com.

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BRIEFLY Man, 27, dies in Thursday crash An overnight crash in Jefferson County killed a 27-year-old man.

The one-car accident happened at 10:30 p.m.

Thursday at Seventh and Delaware streets in Winchester, according to a preliminary report from the Kansas Highway Patrol. The driver missed a curve, overturned his car several times and was thrown from the vehicle, according to the patrol.

The driver, Isiah Jackson of Atchison, was killed, according to the patrol. He was not wearing a seat belt.

No other injuries were reported.

The top KU stories of 2015

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Clockwise from top left: A visit from President Barack Obama, new housing for Kansas University basketball players and racial unrest on campus made headlines last year.

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s the JournalWorld’s Kansas University reporter, I was busy last year. Numerous KU happenings made national news, and some will have a lasting impact on the university. There were high-profile visitors, buildings going up and coming down, an alumnus’ ashes rocketing through space and controversies over race, sexual assault and donations from Koch Industry affiliates.

Here are my picks for the top KU news stories of 2015. It wasn’t easy, but I’ve pared my list down to a baker’s dozen:

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13. Jaybowl closes for good After 62 years, bowling at the Kansas Union ended in May. Citing declining popularity and loss of revenue, KU shut down Jaybowl and replaced it with an event space.

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12. Kansan slashes print production The Kansan, KU’s 111-year-old student newspaper, cut back this fall to printing just two days a week.

Editors announced the change as a move toward “digital-first” journalism.

11. Professor who used n-word in class placed on leave This story got more clicks than anything I wrote all year, thanks

The clinic treats acute problems such as bone, joint, respiratory, gasFor the first time, Kan- trointestinal, urinary or sas University’s on-cam- skin issues, according to pus student health center an announcement from is offering a mediWatkins. It’s open cal clinic for KU during business employees. hours and accepts The Immediate walk-ins.

Care Clinic at WatThe clinic isn’t kins Health Sermeant to compete vices sees currently KANSAS with other commuemployed KU fac- UNIVERSITY nity health care serulty and staff, as vices or to replace well as employees of KU primary physician care, Athletics, KU Memorial said Douglas Dechairo, Unions, KU Alumni Asso- Watkins director and ciation, KU Endowment chief of staff.

Association, Hilltop Child Rather, it’s envisioned Development Center and Please see CLINIC, page 4A the ROTC program.

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Police tally New Year’s response Lawrence police responded to numerous disturbances across the city on New Year’s Eve and in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, but none resulting in critical injuries.

Friday morning, officers were still busy finishing reports from the midnight shift, said Lawrence police Sgt. Troy Squire.

He said there were “a lot” of disturbances and that officers made eight arrests for DUI and OUI. One man was punched and rendered unconscious during a brief altercation with two other men about 2 a.m.

Friday in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, Squire said. The victim was taken to the hospital but did regain consciousness and was able to talk to officers, he said.

Another altercation downtown involved a brief police foot chase.

Police responded to a fight between two men about 3:45 a.m. in the 900 block of Massachusetts, Squire said.

He said one man ran as officers approached but that police caught and arrested him on charges of battery and interfering with duties of a law enforcement officer.

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in part to being picked up by numerous national news websites and blogs, including the Drudge Report.

Students filed a discrimination complaint against Andrea Quenette, assistant professor of communication studies, after she used the n-word during a class discussion on race. Quenette said she meant no harm but was using the word in the context of a discussion about racism.

She’s on paid leave until KU completes its investigation.

10. Prof discovers only known audio recording of James Naismith Associate professor Michael Zogry, while researching for a book, unearthed the only known recording of the voice of James Naismith himself Please see 2015, page 4A

Lawrence students picked for state choir

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Fifteen Lawrence high l Braxton Darrow, school students have Lawrence High been selected to particil Bryce Dunn, pate in the Kansas Music Lawrence High Educators Association l Elizabeth Godinez, All-State High School Lawrence High Choir. l Gavin Jones, Students from both Lawrence High Lawrence and Free State l Reagan Kanter, high schools competed Lawrence High against hundreds of stul Cameron Stussie, dents from across the Lawrence High state for the honor. The l Katie Carttar, all-state choir is made up Free State of 256 singers, selected l Maggie Carttar, from the students who Free State made one of the seven alll Josh Eisenhauer, district choirs in Kansas.

Free State “Congratulations to l Ernesto Hodison, the high school student Free State musicians earning recogl Nathaniel Hoopes, nition in (all-state choir) Free State and the outstanding edul Ethan Kallenberger, cators who work with Free State them,” said Lawrence l Jane Schinkel, schools Superintendent Free State Rick Doll. l Madison Vaughn, The students prepare Free State multiple pieces of music l Raemona Wilson, for the district and state Free State auditions, and receive a score based on a solo performance. Following the most recent auditions Students practice both in early December, six on their own and with Lawrence High students guidance from their high and nine Free State High school choir instructors students were selected to Please see CHOIR, page 4A continue to all-state choir.

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to prepare for the yearly choir competitions and concerts, said Hilary Morton, the choir director at Free State.

“When students make district and state choirs, they are a representation of their home school,” Morton said ahead of the state auditions.

Morton said that once students make the first cut, they rehearse on their own with recordings of the songs and also practice sight-singing.

“We sit with the kids every day after school for three weeks leading up to auditions to help them get over their nerves, which is the hardest part of the

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to be a convenient benefit to on-campus employees, he said.

The clinic is also hoped to help Watkins become less dependent on student fees.

Currently, Watkins Health Services is funded roughly 70 percent by a health fee paid by students and about 30 percent by “fee for services” revenue, or money reimbursed to Watkins by health insurance companies after they are billed for services, Dechairo said. The more faculty and staff that come in, the more revenue Watkins stands to earn from insurance reimbursements.

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experience,” she said.

The state selection process begins at district level. Thirty Lawrence high school students participated in the northeast Kansas district choir, which includes 52 high schools across 14 counties.

Students with the top audition scores at the district level are then eligible for selection to the all-state choir.

Lawrence High choir director Dwayne Dunn said the work students do as part of their district and state auditions builds their skills for their school choirs.

“They’ve worked very diligently to prepare the audition pieces and their sight-reading,” Dunn said following the recent district auditions. “Those are skills that translate to what we do every day in choir.”

said he had with employees on the hill since taking over at Watkins two years ago. “‘Why can’t we come see you?’” he said they asked. “I took that to heart.”

A survey of about 400 faculty and staff members indicated that about 75 percent would like to have an urgent care-type clinic on campus, he said.

Watkins hired a nurse practitioner to staff the clinic, which opened Nov. 30 on the second floor of the health center, in empty rooms formerly occupied by KU’s sports medicine clinic.

So far, it sees about three or four employees a day, Dechairo said. He said when no patients are in the clinic, the nurse practitioner helps in the student clinic downstairs.

Student Senate and the provost’s office considered the clinic and

LAWRENCE • STATE The KMEA All-State Choir performs at the annual in-service workshop at the Century II Convention Center in Wichita. This year’s performance will take place at 1:15 p.m. Feb. 27 at the center’s Century II Concert Hall.

Doll said attending school musical performances has been a highlight for him during his tenure as superintendent in Lawrence.

“Our fine arts programs are truly exceptional,” he said.

Concert tickets for the all-state performance will be sold through the WichitaTix office at Century II, according to the KMEA website, ksmea.org.

Tickets are $7 and will likely go on sale later this month. More details will be posted on the KMEA website as they become available.

supported it as long as it does not take away services from students, Dechairo said. He said the new clinic is a separate cost center and expects to provide financial updates.

“Like any new enterprise, we’ll probably be a little bit red in the beginning,” Dechairo said.

“But I’m hoping by year one that we’ll be in the black.”

Previously, Watkins provided only limited services to KU employees. Dechairo said those included prescription filling, physician-ordered Xrays and labwork, hardto-find vaccines needed for travel to foreign countries and specialized occupational physicals for facilities workers.

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187 or sshepherd@ljworld.com.

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— inventor of basketball and former KU basketball coach. The 1939 radio show clip is now online for all to hear.

9. KU takes action on sexual assault In May the chancellor’s Sexual Assault Task Force delivered 27 recommendations for change in how KU handles campus rape.

KU is implementing some suggestions, including creating a Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center. Others aren’t happening, including requiring freshman fraternity members to live in dorms.

8. Teacher with Koch ties settles lawsuit against university The case of KU School of Business teacher and Center for Applied Economics director Art Hall v. KU was settled out of court in August. A student group paid $1,800 for an open records request hoped to reveal more about Hall’s ties to Koch Industries, but Hall sued and the students only received some of the documents.

7. KU basketball team moves into new apartment building Another viral story.

(And I bet some of the people clicking on it were Kentucky fans trying to see if their basketball dorm has been outdone — pretty sure it has.) The Jayhawks moved into the posh new McCarthy Hall apartment building in October. It’s classy, not to mention accommodating of exceedingly tall people.

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6. Racial tensions flare on campus After high-profile protests at Mizzou, KU scheduled a town hall forum to talk about race in November. About 1,000 attended, including a group of mostly black student protesters calling themselves Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk.

The following weeks saw an effort to oust Student Senate execs, a new task force to address diversity problems and a protest in the chancellor’s office.

replace the Burge, parking garage and utility plant — all within the next three years. That’s on top of the neighborhood’s privately funded new McCarthy Hall, DeBruce Center and Capitol Federal Hall, as well as the already completed LEEP2 engineering building and Oswald and Self halls on Daisy Hill. To reiterate, Central District redevelopment is a massive and transformational project for campus.

5. $4.2 million river study exploring effects of climate change, development This was the highestdollar research grant story I wrote all year.

A KU professor is lead investigator on this pioneering collaborative project spanning two continents, 18 rivers and eight other universities.

2. McCollum Hall comes tumbling down The most dramatic piece of the aforementioned redevelopment project was without a doubt the spectacle of McCollum Hall imploding on Nov. 25. What’s probably Douglas County’s largest building square-footage-wise, home to 50 years of memories for an estimated 43,000 KU students echoed with dynamite blasts and crumbled in a matter of seconds.

4. Pluto’s ‘heart’ named for KU grad who discovered planet The world’s eyes were on the sky in July, when NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft snapped unprecedented close-up photos of Pluto. Aboard New Horizon were the ashes of the KU grad who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, and NASA announced that a prominent heart-shaped feature on Pluto’s surface was being named for him.

1. President Barack Obama visits KU Obama’s Jan. 22 address on “middle class economics” wasn’t exactly historic, politically speaking. But the man is a mega-star, and KU greeted him as such.

In a whirlwind couple of days, KU announced Obama’s visit, worked with Secret Service and law enforcement on myriad logistics, doled 3. KU kicks off massive out coveted tickets and Central District even arranged live music. redevelopment project The atmosphere inside In November the Anschutz Sports Pavilion Kansas Board of Regents was electric, and many OK’d KU’s $350 million KU students and commuCentral District redevel- nity members called the opment plan, including chance to see the sitting a novel “public-private president a highlight of partnership” funding their lives. mechanism to pay for it.

— This is an excerpt from KU will build a new sciSara Shepherd’s Heard on the ence building, residence Hill column, which appears on hall, apartment buildLJWorld.com. ing, student union to

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Jim Grimes, hairdresser, Lawrence “I played the French horn as a kid, but not anymore.”

Ashley McCaskill, graphic design, Lawrence “I didn’t play an instrument, but I sang in the choir.”

Dana Knorr, sales, Seattle “I played violin and piano. I still play piano for fun, but not very well.”

Dru Forrester, veterinarian, Lawrence “Alto saxophone.

I don’t still play it.”

What would your answer be? Go to LJWorld.com/onthe street and share it.

BIRTHS Ashley Bazan and James Wesley, Lawrence, a girl, Friday.

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Ulysses — “I know that while your physical and vocal abilities are limited, still the things you can do say ‘I love you.’ When I enter your room, your eyes light up and you smile — you say ‘I love you.’” — John Hamelin’s wedding vows.

On a recent December afternoon, John Hamelin and Beth Brandt vowed to love and cherish each other in sickness and in health.

However, it was more than just words spoken for this bride and groom.

Beth’s parents wheeled her down the aisle because she is disabled by neurofibromatosis 1, a genetic condition of the nervous system. John also suffers from NF1, but not as extreme.

Despite the challenges of daily living, in front of a congregation of more than a hundred friends and family, John, 56, and Beth, 54, promised to live as one.

When Beth was born in 1962, her mother, Janet Damon, noticed several brownish spots and splotches on her skin.

The doctor assured her they were nothing but birthmarks.

However, they learned later the spots signaled the presence of neurofibromatosis 1, also known as NF1, a rare disease that usually appears in childhood.

Several years ago, Beth asked her mother to write a story about her life with NF1. Janet Damon wrote “Rising Above: Facing the Dragon of Neurofibromatosis,” with contributions

by Beth. The book tells Beth’s story, including how by the time she was 4 the first soft tumor appeared. By the time she was in grade school, more tumors appeared and the kids on the playground were taunting her with names like “Lumpy.” She endured her childhood not only struggling with the condition but also with dyslexia. She went on to Fort Hays State University, majoring in special education.

She wanted to work with children who had learning or physical disabilities because she could relate to them. After all, she knew what it felt like to be different than others. But her dyslexia made it impossible to master algebra. After three tries, she gave up.

Instead of graduating from college, she went to work as a nanny in Dallas.

It was there she found an NF support group. Not only did she discover she wasn’t alone, she met doctors and researchers who taught her more about the disorder.

Beth went on to become a nanny in Virginia and even helped at a day care. She became certified to scuba dive and traveled to Cozumel and Honduras, where she explored the clear waters.

But her health problems continued to grow. She moved home to Ulysses after a variety of jobs and went to work with baby pigs at nearby Seaboard Farms.

One day, as she was driving home from work, her car was T-boned at an intersection. She ended up in critical condition.

From there, her health condition deteriorated.

There was severe damage to her leg, followed by blood clots, according to Damon. The stress of the car crash caused tumors to begin growing on her spinal cord. Over the years her health continued to decline and eventually she could no longer work. Her ability to speak and even see were affected by the tumors, which continue to grow.

Not only physically, but emotionally, it became more difficult for Beth, who had to accept the normal things people strive for — a career, romance, marriage, raising a family — were out of her reach.

“I know this day was long in coming, but it is here today, and I am happy to take you as my wife.” — John Hamelin’s wedding vows.

Like any anxious groom, John Hamelin watched for his bride to arrive at the church.

When he saw the van from the assisted living home approach, he rushed to open the glass door at Country View Baptist Church to help as Beth was wheeled into the foyer.

He knelt down to kiss and hug her. On the wall above them was a Bible verse, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible.” Mark 9:23.

Finally, they were just minutes away from being married.

“Beth, our meeting was improbable without the intervention of God. I resisted entering the chat room where we met. It was not a normal thing for me to travel 1,500 miles to meet someone I only chatted with online, but He pushed me to do both and I regret neither!” — John Hamelin’s wedding vows.

It was back in 2002 that Beth met John in an online NF chat room. It was an opportunity to share with others how the condition affected them. A friendship developed.

“He sent her a picture, and she was so excited,” said Damon.

They began taking turns calling each other on Friday nights.

“He was such a romantic. He would send her flowers and T-shirts,” said Damon.

It wasn’t long before Beth, her family and friends could see how loyal and attentive John could be.

More than a year later, John arrived in Kansas from Utica, N.Y. Though he has NF, his case was much milder. In fact, he didn’t even know he had it until he tried to enlist in the Army.

“It was a bold move for me to come,” John said about his trip west. Beth took a chance as well, inviting him to stay with her.

“I could have been another Charles Manson,” John said jokingly.

He spent two weeks with Beth and her family.

Over the years they took turns traveling back and forth from Kansas and New York for visits.

Then this summer, despite the fact that Beth no longer can do anything for herself, John proposed in June. He was offered early retirement from Mohawk Valley Community College, where he worked in the maintenance department.

John found an apartment in Ulysses and moved there in August so they could plan together their Dec. 5 wedding day.

As Beth waited in a room while the guests continued to arrive at the church, John took a moment to talk about the impending nuptials.

“Beth and I believe God brought us together,” John said. “If you love someone, and they have problems, you help them deal with it. Marriage is about being loyal and faithful to Beth forever. She is a wonderful woman. She doesn’t have a bad bone in her body.”

“You are the answer to my fondest hopes and prayers. I thank God for you and the way you treat me. I pledge to you my continual love and loyalty for as long as we both shall live.” — Beth Brandt’s wedding vows to John.

“The neurofibromatosis has continued its relentless toll on her body, but never once has John wavered in his love and loyalty to her,” Damon said.

Some days are better than others. On good days Beth can speak, but her words come slowly, barely above a whisper.

On their wedding day John thought she was having a good day and was confident she would be able to say “I do.”

The best man, Dr. Forrest Saxon, knew he was participating in a very special marriage ceremony.

“They probably have more love than most married couples when they start out,” Saxon said.

“They have triumphed through adversity.”

The service included a string of flower girls, four bridesmaids and groomsmen, special music and many tearful observers.

Everyone present knew something very rare was happening.

Beth’s sister, Kerri Brandt, the matron of honor, knelt next to the wheelchair to read the vows Beth had written.

Officiating the union, Pastor Sam Bynum acknowledged they were marrying for the most important reason, they had been led by the will of God. Bynum leaned in close to Beth to hear her response to the marriage vows. Then he gave a thumbs-up, telling the congregation, “She said ‘I do.’”

There was no honeymoon. Following a reception, she went back to the nursing home. He would live in the apartment — spending the days by her side, helping her to eat and play bingo and taking her on outings.

Marriage won’t be a panacea for this couple.

There will be more hardships, more exhausting days of pain for Beth. But they are confident their feelings for each other will only continue to grow.

“Well, darling, I will be a faithful husband to you, and I will always be by your side. I do not know how long God will grant us together, as no one is promised tomorrow, but I promise that I will make whatever time we have together the best days, weeks, months and years of your life.”

— John Hamelin’s wedding vows.

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ENGAGEMENTS McNeive-Odell Ryan McNeive proposed to Heather Odell on their 4 year anniversary, December 23, 2015, at Renee Kelly’s Harvest in Shawnee, KS. The couple live in Overland Park, KS with their son, Oscar McNeive, a 2 year old Lab mix.

ANNIVERSARIES Tom & Alberta Pyle-65th Wedding Anniversary Celebration open house in the Holy Family Catholic Church (Eudora) Parish Hall today from 2:304:30pm. The reception will be followed by the parish Mass in the new church at 5:00pm.

No credible evidence that Missouri State discriminated Springfield, Mo. (ap) — An investigation has found no evidence that Missouri State University discriminated against the top black official at the school.

The Missouri State Board of Governors hired outside investigators after an online petition alleged that Ken Coopwood, vice president of diversity and inclusion, was subjected to “despicable and hostile” behavior by his staff. His supporters also alleged the school administration discriminated against Coopwood and marginalized him by restructuring his job a year ago. A summary of the investigator’s report was released Thursday, The Springfield News-Leader reported.

In the summary, investigators wrote, “Based upon our investigation, we find no credible evidence which leads us to conclude that Dr. Coopwood has been discriminated against because of his race in connection to his employment at the university.”

Stephen Hoven, chairman of the Board of Governors, said investigators interviewed 38 people, including 12 suggested by Coopwood, and reviewed dozens of documents.

“We are extremely pleased with the manner with which the allegations were investigated,” Hoven said in a news release.

“The bottom line is that the report does not find evidence to support claims of discrimination and we are absolutely confident that this conclusion is accurate.”

Hoven said the board continues to support school president Clif Smart, who has said he

never “mistreated nor discriminated against” Coopwood.

“I am pleased that the report supports our assertions that Missouri State strives to be a diverse and inclusive campus,” Smart said in the news release.

The newspaper said Coopwood did not respond to an email Thursday seeking comment on the investigation and had previously declined to answer questions about either the petition or his treatment at MSU. Coopwood became the university’s first black vice president in October 2011 when he was named vice president of diversity and inclusion, which the university touted as part of its efforts to improve diversity on the Springfield campus.

Springfield business owner Du’Sean Howard started a petition on MoveOn.org in late November after several conversations with Coopwood, whom he said was a close friend. The petition alleged Coopwood was paid less than his white peers, had been “racially profiled as incompetent” and that his job was restructured to reduce his effectiveness.

Howard declined to participate in the Missouri State investigation but said he was “gratified” the school investigated the concerns.

“We asked for an investigation and that’s what we got,” he said. “I don’t know where else we can go from here and what else we can do. It’s up to Dr. Coopwood to push this forward, if he wants to.”

Missouri State officials said they consider the matter closed.

Kansas lawmakers OK software contract with company that came under fire Topeka (ap) — Kansas lawmakers have approved a sixmonth contract with a software company that was criticized for technical delays last year.

The Legislative Coordinating Council this week approved a $293,488 contract for Propylon,

a Dublin-based technology firm with a U.S. office in Lawrence.

The company will perform technical support and upgrades for the Legislature’s custom software.

The Wichita Eagle reports legislative leaders complained

during the last session that software problems slowed down the legislative process and delayed votes. The contract was under review since July.

The state has paid Proplyon about $16 million since 2005 to construct and maintain the

Kansas Legislative Information System and Services portal. It is used for writing, researching and publishing bills.

The new contract, which lasts through June, includes measures to ensure greater accountability.

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we didn’t attend the grandchildren’s school functions, we would never see them.

It seems that our daughter-in-law just doesn’t like us and wants minimal contact. Are we asking too much? Are we living in the past? Is there anything that can be done to improve the situation? You’ve advised parents in our situation to find other interests. I think that if the young couples

Lifetime thriller has decent cast Ashley Bell and Sara Rue star in the 2015 thriller “Don’t Wake Mommy” (7 p.m., Lifetime, TV-14). As to be expected, it’s about a new mother who meets a friendly stranger whose intentions are anything but kind.

Bell received rave notices for her appearance as a possessed young woman in the 2010 horror movie “The Last Exorcism.” Viewers may also recall her performance in Showt i m e ’ s “United States of T a r a , ” w h i c h happened to be set in nearby Overland Park.

Sara Rue made quite a charming impression as the star of the 2002 CW comedy “Less Than Perfect.” She has long played supporting roles as the best girlfriend or chatty neighbor. She hosted the weight-loss reality series “Shedding for the Wedding” in 2011. This summer, she was a notable presence as a perky church lady in the overlooked cable comedy “Impastor” on the TV Land network.

Today is consumed with non-fiction shocks. A twohour “Dateline” (7 p.m., NBC) recalls a couple whose afternoon hike turned tragic.

Two helpings of “The First 48” (8 p.m. and 9 p.m., A&E) recall separate “Houses of Horror.” And “Fatal Vows” (9 p.m., ID) takes the usual twist on “till death do us part.”

Tonight’s other higlights

Syfy’s “Twilight Zone” marathon continues.

AMC offers 12 episodes of “Fear the Walking Dead” (3 p.m., TV-14).

Oregon and Texas Christian appear in the Alamo Bowl (5:45 p.m., ESPN).

FX unspools the first nine episodes of the Fox comedy “The Grinder” (6 p.m., TVPG).

ABC offers four repeat helpings of chivalric frolics to anticipate Sunday’s return of “Galavant” (7 p.m., TV14).

A hunky contractor is more than meets the eye in the 2015 shocker “Fatal Flip” (7 p.m., LMN, r, TV-14).

Ash receives an offer he might not refuse on the season finale of “Ash vs Evil Dead” (8 p.m., Starz, TVMA).

Cult choice

Bruce Dern and Barbara

Feldon star in “Smile” (9:15 p.m., TCM), a 1975 satire of California’s beauty pageant culture. Look for a young Melanie Griffith.

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would imagine our situation in their own future, they might realize the extent of their hurtful behavior.

— Crying Mother Dear Mother: You are right that this is, unfortunately, a problem that many parents have.

We don’t know why your daughter-in-law is behaving differently. She may have her own emotional issues that prevent her from having a healthy relationship with you.

She may have been putting on a show for the past several years and doesn’t want to do it anymore. You may be behaving in a way that seems fine to you, but is annoying to her.

You are not asking too much, but you might consider readjusting your expectations.

Do not criticize or

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Saturday, Jan. 2: This year you often say one thing, but then do something different.

Others could be confused by your mixed messages. If you get feedback about this behavior, stop and listen. If you are single, others find you to be very attractive and alluring. If you are attached, the two of you play into each other’s moods.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) You still might be in the holiday spirit, and you’ll try to make sure that everyone feels that life is copacetic. Tonight: Spend time with a loved one.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You have a lot of ground to cover and every intention to complete what you feel is necessary. Tonight: Take care of yourself first.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Containing your inner child will be close to impossible, so don’t even try. Tonight: Relax.

Choose a favorite pastime.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) You continue to find that you enjoy yourself most at home.

A loved one will chat with you.

Tonight: In the limelight.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Someone could be quite controlling in his or her present mood. Try to back away from this situation. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

assign blame. That will only make the situation worse.

You can ask your son whether there is something you can do to help smooth over the relationship, and then do it. You can see whether your son will bring the kids over without his wife so she can get a break and you can spend time with them. Or you can accept that this is how it is, being grateful that you get to see the family on holidays and at school events, and involving yourself in things that will bring you peace.

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Understand the limitations caused by the recent holidays, and honor them. Tonight: Flex with someone’s unpredictability.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You are full of energy.

A friend might not feel the same way you do. Tonight: Ask for what you want.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Be aware of your limitations in a money matter.

Understand what needs to happen to make a situation work. Tonight: Extra R and R. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A conversation is long overdue. Maintain a sense of humor. Tonight: Surround yourself with friends.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Take charge. Some of you might choose to work for part of the day. Tonight: Others notice you wherever you are.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You might find that a friend is difficult to listen to, and you could feel drained as a result.

Tonight: Surprises run amok!

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You will want to make a substantial change. You need to rethink a question revolving around a particular relationship. Tonight: Share with a favorite person.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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When my son first married, his wife was loving and involved with the family. When the babies were born, we continued a warm relationship.

Now that their children are older, however, our daughter-in-law is cold and distant, and she is not interested in interacting with our extended family.

She grew up in a troubled family and seemed very happy to join ours. But not anymore. We live nearby and other than chance meetings, occasional help with the children and family holidays, we seldom see my son.

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Religious Directory

AFRICAN CAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

St Luke African Methodist Episcopal 900 New York Street 785-841-0847 Rev. Verdell Taylor, Jr. Sun. 11:00 am, Sun. School 10:00 am Bible Study Wed. 12:30 pm

ANGLICAN

Lawrence Anglican Mission Meadowlark Chapel 4440 Bauer Farm Rd Saturday, 3:30 PM 816-797-2237 www.stjamesanglican.net

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Calvary Temple Assembly of God

606 W. 29th Terrace 785-832-2817 Pastor Don Goatlay Sunday Service 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Wed Service 6:30 pm

Eudora Assembly Of God 827 Elm Street 785-542-2182 Pastor Glenn Weld Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening 7:00 pm

Lawrence Assembly of God 3200 Clinton Pkwy 785-843-7189 Pastor Rick Burwick Sunday 10:00 am www.lawrence3620church.com

New Life Assembly Of God Church

5th & Baker Baldwin City (785) 594-3045 Mark L. Halford Sun. 11:00 am 6 pm Wed. Family Night 6 pm

Williamstown Assembly of God 1225 Oak St. 785-597-5228 Pastor Rick Burch am wagc@williamstownag.org Sunday Worship 10:30 am

BAHA’I FAITH Baha’i Faith

BIBLE

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Community Bible Church 906 N 1464 Rd. Pastor Shaun LePage Worship 10:30 am community-bible.org

Lawrence University Ward (Student)

Lawrence Bible Chapel

505 Monterey Way *785-841-2607 John Scollon 785-841-5271 Lord’s Supper Sunday 9am Sun. School 10:10am Bible Hour 11:10am Supper: 6:15 PM; Prayer meeting 7pm

BUDDHIST

Kansas Zen Center

1423 New York St. Guiding Teacher Judy Roitman Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am Orientation for beginners 9 am kansaszencenter.org

CATHOLIC

Annunciation Catholic Church 740 N 6th Street Baldwin City (785) 594-3700 Fr. Brandon Farrar Sunday 10:30 am & 6:00 pm www.annunciationchurch.org

6001 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-6286 Fr. Michael Mulvany Sat. 4:00 pm * Sun. 8:30 am & 10:00 am www.cccparish.org

Holy Family Catholic Church 311 E 9th Street, Eudora 785-542-2788 Fr. Pat Riley Service Sat. 5:00 pm Sun. 9:30 am holyfamilyeudora@sunflower.com

CHRISTIAN

Lawrence Heights Christian Church

BAPTIST

Morning Star Christian Church

Fellowship Baptist Church 710 Locust Street 785-331-2299 Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Prayer 7:00 pm

Lawrence Baptist Temple

3201 W 31st Street Rev. Gary L. Myers Pastor Sun. School & Worship 10:00 am Sun. Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wed. Evening 7:30 pm

Lighthouse Baptist Church 700 Chapel Street 785-594-4101 Pastor Richard Austin Sunday Worship 10:30 am llbt115@embarqmail.com.

Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

901 Tennessee St (785) 843-6472 Pastor Eric A. Galbreath Sun. School 9:30am * Worship 10:45am nsmbclk.org

BAPTIST - AMERICAN

First American Baptist Church 1330 Kasold Dr. * 785-843-0020 Rev. Matthew Sturtevant www.firstbaptistlawrence.com Sunday Worship 8:30 am & 10:45 am Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

BAPTIST - INDEPENDENT Heritage Baptist Church

1781 E 800th Rd. (785) 887-2200 Dr. Scott Hanks Sunday Worship 10:30 am www.heritagebaptistchurch.cc

BAPTIST - SOUTHERN

Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church 802 West 22nd Terrace (785) 843-0442 Pastor Gary O’Flannagan Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.cornerstonelawrence.com

Eudora Baptist Church

525 W 20th Street 785-542-2734 Pastor Jeff Ingle Sun. School 9:00 am * Worship 10:15 am eudorabc.org

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

1470 N 1000 Rd. 785-843-3940 Bob Giffin, Senior Pastor Celebration & Praise Service 10:15 am www.lawrencefirstnaz.org

711 W. 23rd in the Malls Shopping Center 785-843-7535 Pastor Marilyn Myers Sunday Worship 10:00 am

University Community Of Christ 1900 University Drive 785-843-8427 Pastor Nancy Zahniser Sunday Worship 10:00 am Sunday Classtime 9:00 am

5700 W. 6th St. 785-865-5777 Father Matt Zimmermann 8 am & 10 am Holy Eucharist www.saintmargaret.org

Trinity Episcopal Church

1011 Vermont St (785) 843-6166 The Reverend Rob Baldwin, Rector 8 am; 10:30 am; 6:00 pm Solemn High Mass www.trinitylawrence.org

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA Christ Community Church

1100 Kasold Drive 785-842-7600 Jeff Barclay Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 10:30 am www.ccclawrence.org

ISLAMIC

North Lawrence Christian Church

Islamic Center Of Lawrence

7th and Elm Charles Waugh, Minister Bible School 10:00am Worship 10:55 am www.nlawrencechristianchurch.com

1917 Naismith Drive (785) 749-1638 Najabat Abbasi Director Friday 1:30 pm www.islamicsocietylawrence.org

Perry Christian Church

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

603 East Front Street Perry Kansas 785-597-5493 Pastors Will Eickman and Alan Hamer

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Lone Star Church of the Brethren 883 E 800 Rd Lawrence, Ks Jane Flora-Swick, Pastor Worship 10:30 * Sun. School 10:45am www.lonestarbrethren.com

CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST First Christian Church 1000 Kentucky Street 785-843-0679 www.fcclawrence.org Reverend Dale Walling Sunday 9am & 11am

Southern Hills Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 1:30 pm Public Talk & Watchtower Study

River Heights Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 10:00 am Public Talk & Watchtower Study Tues. 7:30, TMS, & Service Mtg

Chabad Center for Jewish Life 1203 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-TORA (8672) www.JewishKU.com “Your Source for Anything Jewish!”

917 Highland Drive 785-841-7636 www.LawrenceJCC.org Worship Friday 7:30pm Religious School Sunday 9:30am

Church Of Christ

201 N. Michigan St. 785-838-9795 Elders Tom Griffin & Calvin Spencer Sunday 10 am & 6:00 pm, Wed. 7 pm www.lawrencecoc.org

Church Of Christ of Baldwin City 820 High Street, Baldwin City (785) 594-4246 Sunday Worship 11:00 am

Bridgepointe Community Church 601 W 29th Terrace Lawrence (785) 843-9565 Pastor Dennis Carnahan Sunday 10:45 am www.bridgepointcc.com

1245 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4150 The Rev. Brian Elster, Lead Pastor Sun. 8:30 & 11:00am; Wed., 6:30 p.m. www.tlclawrence.org

Immanuel Lutheran Church

4300 W. 6th Street (785) 843-8167 Pastor Joe Stiles Worship Service 8:30 am & 11:00 am www.fsbcfamily.com

646 Alabama Street * 749-0951 Rev. William A Dulin Sun. School 10:30 am Worship 12:15 pm Tue. 7:00 pm Prayer & Bible Study Thur. 7:00 pm Worship & Pastoral Teaching

Victory Bible Church

Praise Temple Church of God in Christ

Redeemer Lutheran Church

1942 Massachusetts St www.victorybiblechurch.net (785) 841-3437 Pastor Leo Barbee Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Calvary Church Of God In Christ

315 E. 7th St. * 749-0985 Pastor Paul Winn Jr. SS 10:00 am * Worship 11:15 am Wed. & Fri. Bible Teaching 7:00 pm Call early for ride to church

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Central United Methodist Church

1501 Massachusetts St 785-843-7066 New Pastor Moon-Hee Chung Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.centralumclawrence.org

Clearfield United Methodist Church 297 E. 2200 Rd. Eudora 785-883-2130 Rev. Kathy Symes Worship 9:00am Sunday School 10:30am

Eudora United Methodist Church

2084 N 1300th Rd. Eudora 785-542-3200 * www.eudoraumc.org Sunday Worship 9:30 am Sunday School Children & Youth 10:15 am Adult Spiritual Formation Group 8:30 & 10:40 am

First United Methodist Church

704 8th Street; Baldwin Rev. Paul Badcock Sunday School each Sunday 9:30 am Traditional Worship 8:30 am Contemporary Worship 10:45 am Combined Worship 10:45 last Sunday month

First United Methodist Church Downtown 946 Vermont St. Rev. Dr. Tom Brady Pastor Traditional 10:30 am Contemporary 9:30 am West Campus 867 Highway 40 Contemporary 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.fumclawrence.org

Ives Chapel United Methodist 1018 Miami St Baldwin City (785) 594-6555 Rev. Kate Cordes Sunday Worship 11:00 am Church School 9:45 am

402 Elmore Street, Lecompton 785-887-6327 Pastor Billie Blair Sunday 8:30 am & 10:45 am www.lecomptonumc.org

Stull United Methodist Church

1596 E 250 Rd. Lecompton (785) 887-6521 Pastor Faye Wagner Worship 11:00am * Sun. School 10:00am www.stullumc.org

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416 Lincoln Street 785-842-4926 Pastor Dan Nicholson Sun. Worship 10:00 am * Wed. 7:00 pm lawrencechristiancenter.org

Lawrence Life Fellowship

911 Massachusetts Basement below Kinkos 785-838-9093 Gabriel Alvarado Worship 10:30 am AWANA, Wednesday, 6:00

Morning Star Church

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

Mustard Seed Church

700 Wakarusa Drive 785-841-5685 www.mustardseedchurch.com Wed. Youth Service 7:00 pm Sun. Morning Service 10:00 am

New Life In Christ Church At Bridge Pointe Community 601 W. 29 Terrace 10:30 a.m. Sunday Pastor Paul Gray 785-766-3624 www.newlifelawrence.com

New Hope Fellowship

1449 Kasold Dr. Lawrence 785-331-HOPE (4673) Darrell Brazell Pastor 10:15 am Sundays www.newhopelawrence.com

The Salvation Army

946 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4188 Lts. Matt & Marisa McCluer Sun. School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am lawrence.salvationarmy.us

United Light Church 1515 West Main Street Lawrence, KS 66044 785-393-3539

Velocity Church

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940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS Meeting at Lawrence Arts Center Sundays @ 9:30 am & 11:00 am www.findvelocity.org

ORTHODOX - EASTERN

Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church 1235 Iowa Street 785-218-7663 Rev. Dr. Joshua Lollar Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30am www.saintnicholaschurch.net

REFORMED-PRESBYTERIAN

Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church 2312 Harvard Road; Lawrence (785) 766-7796 Pastor John M. McFarland Sun. Worship 10:45 am; Classes at 9:30 am www.ChristCovenantChurchRPC.org

PRESBYTERIAN - USA Clinton Presbyterian Church 588 N 1200 Rd. Pastor Patrick Yancey Worship Sunday 11:00 am www.clintonchurch.net

2415 Clinton Parkway 785-843-4171 Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton Sun. Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am www.firstpreslawrence.org

West Side Presbyterian Church 1024 Kasold Drive (785) 843-1504 Rev. Debbie Garber Worship 9:55 am * Sun. School 10:15 www.westsidelawrence.org

PRESBYTERIAN-EVANGELICAL Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church 3312 Calvin Drive 785-843-2005 Pastor William D. Vogler Worship 8:15 am & 10:45 am www.gepc.org

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Hesper Friends Church

2355 N 1100th Rd. 2 Mi. South. 11/2 Mi. East Eudora Rev. Darin Kearns Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Oread Friends Meeting 1146 Oregon Street Loring Henderson, Clerk 785-764-2095 Meeting for worship, 10:00 am Sunday www.oreadfriends.org

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence 1263 N 1100 Rd. (785) 842-3339 Rev. Jill Jarvis 9:30 am Program & RE; 11:00 am Service www.uufl.net

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - UCC

Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC 925 Vermont Street 785-843-3220 Rev. Dr. Peter Luckey Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 11:15 am www.plymouthlawrence.com

St John’s United Church-Christ 396 E 900th Rd. Baldwin City (785) 594-3478 Pastor Heather Coates Sunday School 10:00am Worship 11:00am

St Paul United Church-Christ 738 Church St. Eudora 785-542-2785 Rev. Shannah McAleer Sunday Worship 10:00 am stpaulucceudora.com

UNITY

Unity Church of Lawrence 900 Madeline Lane 785-841-1447 Sunday Meditation Service 9:30 am Sunday Worship 11:00 am Sunday Child/Nursery Care Available Wednesday Meditation 7:00 pm Moment of Inspiration 785-843-8832 www.unityoflawrence.org

WESLEYAN

Lawrence Wesleyan Church 3705 Clinton Parkway 785-841-5446 Pastor Nate Rovenstine Worship 9:00, 10:00 & 11:15 am lawrencewesleyan.com

NON-DENOMINATIONAL Called to Greatness Ministries P.O. Box 550 Lawrence KS 66044 785-749-2100 info@calledtogreatness.com www.calledtogreatness.com

Christ International Church 1103 Main St. Eudora KS 66025 785-312-4263 Sunday 10:30 am Wednesdays 6:30 pm

Country Community Church

878 Locust St Lawrence 913-205-8304 Pastor, John Hart Sun. School 9 am, Fellowship 10 am, Worship 10:30 am

Eagle Rock Church

1387 N. 1300 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 785-393-6791 www.eaglerocklawrence.com Sundays at 10:00 am

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Centenary United Methodist Church

Worden United Methodist Church

2104 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-0620 Pastor Randy Weinkauf Wors. with Holy Communion 8:30 am & 11:00 am Sun. School & Christian Ed 9:45 am Nursery Available & Wheelchair Accessible Ministry to Blind Outreach 3 Thur. 5:30 pm www.immanuel-lawrence.com

First Southern Baptist Church

96 Highway 40 * 785-887-6823 January Kiefer Pastor Traditional Sun. 9:00am Contemporary call for information www.bigspringsumc.org

LUTHERAN - ELCA

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CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

Big Springs United Methodist Church

1724 North 692 Rood 785-594-3256 Pastor Joni Raymond Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Trinity Lutheran Church

CHURCH OF GOD

METHODIST - UNITED

722 New Hampshire Street (785) 749-5397 Rabbi’s Neal Schuster www.kuhillel.org

2211 Inverness Dr. * 785-843-3014 Pastor Ted Mosher Worship 2.0 9:30 am Classic Worship-11:00 am www.gslc-lawrence.org

Corner of 25th & Missouri 785-843-0770 Chris Newton, Minister Sun. Bible School 9:15 am Sun. Worship 10:20 am & 5:00 pm Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm

950 E. 21st Street 785-832-9200 Pastor Jami Moss Sun School 10 am *Worship 11 am Thurs Bible Study 7 pm

Family Church Of Lawrence

Vinland United Methodist Church

K U Hillel House

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Southside Church of Christ

Lawrence Free Methodist Church

Lecompton United Methodist Church

JEWISH

Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation

CHURCH OF CHRIST

METHODIST

Lawrence Indian Methodist Church

St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church

1229 Vermont ST 785.843.0109 www.saint-johns.net Weekend Mass: Sat 4:30 pm Sun. 7 am, 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 5 pm

615 Lincoln St 785-841-8614 Pastor Joanna Harader Service 10:30 am peacepreacher.wordpress.com

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

EPISCOPAL

St. John Evangelist Catholic Church

Peace Mennonite Church

3655 West 10th St. Lawrence 1st Ward 785-842-4019, 2nd Ward 785-3315912, Wakarusa Valley 785-842-1283 LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

Lawrence Community of Christ

Corpus Christi Catholic Church

MENNONITE MENN

3001 Lawrence Ave 785-842-2343 Pastor Bill Bump Blended 9:00 am * Contemporary 10:35 am www.lfmchurch.org

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST

Baha’i Worship Service most Sundays at 10-00 Call 785-843-2703 or friendsoflawrencebahais@gmail.com

1646 Vermont St • 843-5811 Pastor Arsenial Runion Sunday School 9:30 am Wednesday 7:00 pm Prayer Service and Bible Study

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene

2321 Peterson Road 785-843-1729 Pastor Steve Koberlein Sunday Worship 8:45 am & 10:30 am Lawrence-heights.org

First Regular Missionary Baptist Church

Church Of Jesus Christ Of LDS 1629 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-9622 Sacrament Worship 11:00am LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

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Opinion

Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Saturday, January 2, 2016 Lawrence City Commission Mike Amyx, mayor 2312 Free State Lane 66047 843-3089 (H) 842-9425 (W) mikeamyx515@hotmail.com Leslie Soden, vice mayor 715 Connecticut, 66044 (913) 890-3647 lsoden@lawrenceks.org Stuart Boley, 1812 W. 21st Terr., 66046, 979-6699 sboley@lawrenceks.org Matthew Herbert 523 Kasold Dr., 66049 550-2085 matthewjherbert@gmail.com Lisa Larsen, 1117 Avalon., 66044, 331-9162 llarsen@lawrenceks.org

Douglas County Commission Jim Flory, 540 N. 711 Road, Lawrence 66047; 842-0054 jimflory@sunflower.com Mike Gaughan, 304 Stetson Circle, 66049; 856-1662; mgaughan@douglas-county.com Nancy Thellman, 1547 N. 2000 Road 66046; 832-0031 nthellman@douglas-county.com

Lawrence School Board Vanessa Sanburn, president 856-1233 765 Ash St., 66044 vsanburn@usd497.org Marcel Harmon, vice president; 550-7749 753 Lauren Street, 66044 mharmon@usd497.org

Private firms revive space exploration Washington — Fractured and divided as we are, on one thing we can agree: 2015 was a miserable year. The only cheer was provided by Lincoln Chafee and the Pluto flyby (two separate phenomena), as well as one seminal aeronautical breakthrough.

On Dec. 21, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, after launching 11 satellites into orbit, returned its 15-story booster rocket, upright and intact, to a landing pad at Cape Canaveral. That’s a $60 million mountain of machinery — recovered. (The traditional booster rocket either burns up or disappears into some ocean.)

The reusable rocket has arrived. Arguably, it arrived a month earlier when Blue Origin, a privately owned outfit created by Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO and owner of The Washington Post) launched and landed its own booster rocket, albeit for a suborbital flight. But whether you attribute priority to Musk or Bezos, the two events together mark the inauguration of a new era in spaceflight.

Musk predicts that the reusable rocket will reduce the cost of accessing space a hundredfold. This depends, of course, on whether the wear and tear and stresses of the launch make the refurbishing prohibitively expensive. Assuming it’s not, and assuming Musk is even 10 percent right, reusability revolutionizes the economics of spaceflight.

Which both democratizes

Charles Krauthammer letters@charleskrauthammer.com

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Which means space travel has now slipped the surly bonds of government — presidents, Congress, NASA bureaucracies.”

and commercializes it. Which means space travel has now slipped the surly bonds of government — presidents, Congress, NASA bureaucracies. Its future will now be driven far more by a competitive marketplace with its multiplicity of independent actors, including deeply motivated, financially savvy and visionary entrepreneurs.

To be sure, the enterprise is not entirely free of government. After all, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landed on a Cape Canaveral pad formerly used to launch Air Force Atlas rockets.

Moreover, initial financing for these ventures already depends in part on NASA contracts, such as resupplying the space station.

That, however, is not much

different from the growth of aviation a century ago. It hardly lived off air-show tickets or Channel-crossing prize money.

What really propelled the infant industry was government contracts. For useful things like mail — and bomb — delivery.

The first and most visible consequence of the new entrepreneurial era will be restoring America as a spacefaring nation. Yes, I know we do spectacular robotic explorations.

But our ability to toss humans into space disappeared when NASA retired the space shuttle — without a replacement.

To get an astronaut into just low Earth orbit, therefore, we have to hitch a ride on Russia’s Soyuz with its 1960s technology. At $82 million a pop. Yet, today, two private companies already have contracts with NASA to send astronauts to the space station as soon as 2017.

The real prize, however, lies beyond Earth orbit. By now, everyone realizes that the space station was a colossal mistake, a white elephant in search of a mission. Its main contribution is to study the biological effects of long-term weightlessness. But we could have done that in Skylab, a modest space station that our political betters decided four decades ago to abandon.

With increasing privatization, such decisions will no longer be exclusively Washington’s. When President Obama came into office, the plan was to return to the moon by 2020.

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Jill Fincher, 865-5870 1700 Inverness Dr. 66047 jfincher@usd497.org Rick Ingram 864-9819 1510 Crescent Rd. 66044 ringram@usd497.org Shannon Kimball 840-7722 257 Earhart Circle 66049 skimball@usd497.org

Area legislators

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-44th District) Room 451-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-0063; Topeka: (785) 296-7697 barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov

Rep. John Wilson (D-10th District) 54-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7652; john.wilson@house.ks.gov Rep. Ken Corbet (R-54th District) 179-N, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7679; ken.corbet@house.ks.gov Sen. Marci Francisco (D-2nd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 842-6402; Topeka: (785) 296-7364 Marci.Francisco@senate.ks.gov Sen. Tom Holland (D-3rd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 865-2786; Topeka: 296-7372 Tom.Holland@senate.ks.gov Sen. Anthony Hensley (D-10th District) Room 318-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-3245 Anthony.Hensley@senate. ks.gov

— Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 2, 1916 “With all the winter just ahead, the city commissioners learned years this morning that there may be ago no more free gas supplied for IN 1916 heating the city hall. City Attorney Harley called the attention of the commissioners to the fact that the state utilities commission of Kansas has ordered gas companies to discontinue supplying cities with free gas. The gas now consumed at the city hall would cost $1,200 a year if paid for.

Mr. Cleland pointed out that the city is now using much more gas than it would if the gas had to be paid for.... It appears that the order fixing the time when the new gas rate shall go into effect has not yet been issued. The commissioners concluded that they would go right on burning gas until the time when it will cost the city real money, and then probably they will change gracefully over to the use of coal.”

Jessica Beeson, 691-6678 1720 Mississippi St. 66044 jbeeson@usd497.org

Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger (D-46th District) Room 174-W, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7122 BoogHighberger@house.ks.gov

A year later, he decided we should go to an asteroid instead. Why? Who knows.

Today future directions are being set by private companies with growing technical experience and competing visions.

Musk is fixated on colonizing Mars, Bezos on seeing “millions of people living and working in space,” and Richard Branson on space tourism by way of Virgin Galactic (he has already sold 700 tickets to ride at $250,000 each).

And Moon Express, another private enterprise, is not even interested in hurling about clumsy, air-breathing humans. It is bent on robotic mining expeditions to the moon. My personal preference is a permanent manned moon base, which would likely already exist had our politicians not decided to abandon the moon in the early 1970s.

We have no idea which plan is more likely to succeed and flourish. But the beauty of privatization is that we don’t get just one shot at it. Our trajectory in space will now be the work of a functioning market of both ideas and commerce. It no longer will hinge on the whims of only tangentially interested politicians.

Space has now entered the era of the Teslas, the Edisons and the Wright brothers. From now on, they will be doing more and more of the driving. Which means we are actually — finally — going somewhere again.

OLD HOME TOWN

Kristie Adair, 840-7989 4924 Stoneback Place, 66047 kadair@usd497.org

Rep. Tom Sloan (R-45th District) Room 149-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-1526; Topeka: (785) 296-7654 tom.sloan@house.ks.gov

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PUBLIC FORUM

Holiday rights To the editor: As the year comes to a close, I want to take time to do some complaining of my own. No, this won’t the usual bantering about snakes in the grass, or Fritzel, or Gov. B. No, I would like to complain about my individualized loss of freedom of speech, choice and religion.

Mind you, I am NOT a big supporter of the holiday season.

However, I will not prohibit someone else from doing whatever makes them happy. We, as a nation, need to stop the individualized force through the judicial system that stops special events. For example, when I was in high school, we knelt down and prayed as a team before games. Some of us faked it, but no one complained. Several months back, a coach was fired because of team prayer. Last week, a mother complained because she didn’t believe in Santa.

The school canceled the trip for the kids. Thank God, the parents took their children out of school to see Santa themselves.

In America now, it seems unpopular to have a “Happy Thanksgiving” or a “Merry Christmas.” It has to be “Happy Holidays.” What a crock. So afraid that an individual will be offended. If we don’t put our foot down now, soon we won’t have a Fourth of July or a Veterans Day. In Lawrence and the United States, we should still have the right as a group to celebrate any holiday and announce it in any way we choose. That is my right not a privilege.

Roger Powell, Lawrence

Tax deals To the editor: There has been considerable discussion recently about the various incentives granted to new businesses in Lawrence.

We have transportation devel-

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opment districts that can charge 1 percent additional sales tax and use the money to improve infrastructure; special taxing districts where the business will get a large percentage of the local sales tax they collect rebated to them and, of course, the more widely used multi-year tax abatement where a business will have 50-90 percent of the property taxes written off for a period of usually 10 years.

My concerns are as follows: 1. How many of these “deals” are presently operational, and what is the total of tax rebates written off for all these agreements? More specifically what is the total annual revenue loss to the city, county and state government units for all of these agreements?

2. With the variety, complexity and number of such agreements presently in place, who is monitoring all these dealings?

Whatever the total taxes rebated or written off may be, this is money that could be funding

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our various local and state units of government. It would seem reasonable to assume that if this money were going into the various government units we might well be looking at some nice property tax relief.

Nobody’s giving us, the taxpayers, a 90 percent abatement for 10 years. Shouldn’t everyone, including businesses, pay their fair share? At age 73, I’m getting a new understanding of what “free” means in the term “free enterprise system”!

William Simons, Lawrence

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Baldwin City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Baldwin Public Library, 800 Seventh St., Baldwin City.

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Partly sunny

Sunny to partly cloudy

Mostly sunny and breezy

Some sun; ice at night

High 40° Low 17° POP: 0%

High 31° Low 15° POP: 5%

High 27° Low 11° POP: 5%

High 35° Low 23° POP: 5%

High 38° Low 29° POP: 10%

Wind W 4-8 mph

Wind N 6-12 mph

Wind NE 4-8 mph

Wind SSE 10-20 mph

Wind S 7-14 mph

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McCook 42/13 Oberlin 41/15

Clarinda 29/13

Lincoln 39/12

Grand Island 39/14

Kearney 40/15

Beatrice 38/17

St. Joseph 36/13 Chillicothe 33/17

Sabetha 36/15

Concordia 43/20

Centerville 30/17

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 39/19 36/20 Salina 43/18 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 46/22 45/20 41/19 Lawrence 37/17 Sedalia 40/17 Emporia Great Bend 39/22 42/20 44/21 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 43/22 45/22 Hutchinson 42/19 Garden City 44/21 45/20 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 46/23 44/23 44/22 46/22 46/22 45/20 Hays Russell 45/20 44/20

Goodland 46/19

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

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Through 8 p.m. Friday.

Temperature High/low 42°/18° Normal high/low today 38°/19° Record high today 70° in 1939 Record low today -15° in 2001

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest.

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REGIONAL CITIES

Today Sun. Today Sun. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Holton 41 18 s 31 15 s Atchison 38 15 s 29 14 s Belton 38 20 s 30 17 pc Independence 39 18 s 31 18 pc 38 18 s 31 14 pc Burlington 40 19 s 34 16 pc Olathe Coffeyville 45 20 s 39 19 pc Osage Beach 44 23 s 40 20 pc Osage City 41 18 s 34 16 pc Concordia 43 20 s 35 15 s Ottawa 40 19 s 32 16 pc Dodge City 45 22 s 43 19 s 44 23 s 39 20 s Fort Riley 43 18 s 37 15 pc Wichita Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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OBAMA CONSIDERING ACTION ON GUN CONTROL Doug Stanglin USA TODAY

President Obama says he will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways to use executive action to make it more difficult for a “dangerous few” to gain access to firearms.

The president, who is vacationing in Hawaii, called the “epidemic of gun violence” one piece of “unfinished business” for his final year in office during his weekly radio address Friday.

“I get letters from responsible gun owners who grieve with us every time these tragedies happen; who share my belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a right to bear arms; and who share my belief we can protect that right while keeping an irresponsible, dangerous few from inflicting harm on a massive scale,” Obama said. “The gun lobby is loud and well-organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone. The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well-organized in our defense of our kids.”

The president does not spell out any specific measures but recently directed White House staff to look into potential executive actions, such as expanding background checks.

While federally licensed firearms dealers must seek background checks on potential firearm purchasers, there is no such requirement for those who sell firearms at gun shows, which are not federally licensed.

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Manhunt underway after gunman kills 2 at Tel Aviv bar Local reports say suspect is an Israeli Arab known to police Jane Onyanga-Omara USA TODAY

A massive manhunt was underway in Tel Aviv on Friday after two people were killed and at least five were injured when a gunman opened fire in a popular bar, police said.

The motive behind the shooting wasn’t immediately clear. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, who released the number killed and injured on Twitter, said officers were still investigating whether the shooting was a criminal or terrorist act.

CCTV footage shown on Israeli Channel 10 and posted online show a man with black hair, glasses and a backpack at a grocery store next door moments before the shooting. After about a minute of walking around, including scooping some nuts into a plastic bag and putting them back, the man places his backpack in a cart, takes out a gun and steps outside, where he starts shooting at the neighboring building. He quickly

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Israeli security forces stand outside a Tel Aviv pub Friday after a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding five. fires off some rounds before running away.

Israeli media reported the suspect was a 29-year-old Israeli Arab who was known to police and whose father called authorities after seeing footage of the at-

tack.

It was unclear if Friday’s attack was related to ongoing tensions in the region. The shooting comes amid more than three months of stabbing, shooting and vehicle attacks by Palestinians against Is-

raelis. Some 21 Israelis have died and least 131 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, 90 of them identified by Israel as assailants.

Dudi Malka, one of the owners of the bar where Friday’s shooting took place, told news source Haaretz that the gunman was a “fairly short, light-skinned man holding an M16 gun.”

Channel 10 reported about 30 shots were fired.

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai visited the injured in a hospital and said that “friends were celebrating a birthday and a man opened fire at them from the outside,” the Associated Press reported.

Gali Morag, who lives opposite the bar, said she heard gunfire and saw a young man dressed in black and wearing a wool cap running down the street, with others running after him, Haaretz reported.

“There was a huge crowd when I got to the scene,” Shani Mizrachi, a paramedic, told Haaretz.

“Some of the wounded were inside the pub and others lying in the street.”

Contributing: Katharine Lackey

NATALIE COLE 1950 - 2015

Legendary ‘Unforgettable’ songstress dies at 65 NINE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER HAD BATTLED HEALTH PROBLEMS

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er optimism amid personal struggles and family tragedies was inspirational.

Her voice? Unforgettable.

Natalie Cole has died at age 65.

“I think that I am a walking testimony that you can have scars,” she told CBS Sunday Morning in 2006. “You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.”

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Cole died Thursday evening at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles due to complications from ongoing health issues, her family said in a statement. Besides early problems with drug abuse, she battled hepatitis C and later had a kidney transplant.

“Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dignity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts

forever,” read the statement from her son, Robert Yancy, and sisters, Timolin and Casey Cole.

And she will remain victorious and unforgettable thanks to her outstanding talent and to the modern media wizardry that allowed her to record an unprecedented “duet” of the classic Unforgettable with her late, legendary father, Nat King Cole, who died in 1965. v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

Water recedes in St. Louis, but downriver threats rise Flooded areas of I-44, I-55 are reopened Doug Stanglin USA TODAY

As the St. Louis area slowly emerged from record-setting floods Friday, southern Missouri and Illinois, along with Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, braced for the deluge as the high waters move downstream.

In southeastern Missouri, however, local farmers got a bit of good news after the crest level at Cairo, Ill., was reduced from 59

feet to 57.5 feet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that means it will not have to repeat the devastating release of water from the Bird Point levee that destroyed thousands of acres of farmland in 2011.

Highway crews around St. Louis on Friday cleaned up the remaining debris from Interstate 44 and reopened the critical highway that runs southwest across the state from the city.

High water from the scenic Meramec River swamped both I-44 and, further south, I-55, which also reopened Friday. The river drove hundreds of people out of homes and businesses in

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A highway worker uses a water pump along Interstate 55 on Thursday in Arnold, Mo.

the St. Louis suburbs of Pacific, Eureka, Valley Park and Arnold.

The rare winter flooding of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, driven by heavy rain over a three-day period last weekend, is blamed for at least 22 deaths.

Four people remain missing.

Other southern Missouri and Illinois towns were gearing up as the high water flows south.

“Floodwaters will move downstream over the next couple of weeks, with significant river flooding expected for the lower Mississippi into mid-January,” the National Weather Service said.

Authorities in southern Illinois

urged residents living behind the Len Small levee to move to higher ground after Mississippi River water topped it. About 500 people live behind the levee.

Farther south, the Mississippi River is expected to crest in Memphis, Tenn., at 42 feet on Jan. 9. Although no major flooding was expected in the city, officials were moving to protect roads and a local airport. The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the Cumberland River at Dover, Tenn., through Monday evening.

In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency because of “imminent flooding.”

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Kim Jong Un talks about war if he’s provoked N. Korean leader speaks of need to increase ‘might’ of his country Jane Onyanga-Omara USA TODAY

In his annual New Year’s speech Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is ready for war if provoked by “invasive” outsiders.

In the address, his fourth since taking power in 2011, Kim spoke of the need to increase the “political and military might” of his country “in every way,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

“The year 2015 was a year of gigantic struggle recorded with significant events and eye-opening successes and a year of victory and glory that strikingly demonstrated the dignity and might of socialist Korea,” Kim said in the 30-minute televised speech.

“We will continue to work patiently to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional stability. But if invasive outsiders and provocateurs touch us even

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Emails show Chicago officials worried about video response Demonstrators calling for an end to gun violence and the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel march Thursday in downtown Chicago.

Trevor Hughes USA TODAY

Newly released emails among top-level Chicago officials show they worried for months about possible responses to the eventual release of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager.

Chicago authorities released documents Thursday regarding the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was killed in October 2014 after being shot 16 times. The video, which was released in November 2015, prompted the resignation of a top police commander.

The emails also reveal that the city’s internal discussion of the situation ramped up after a Slate article detailing the autopsy results and that a city spokesman helped draft a media response to be given by the Independent Police Review Authority.

NBC 5 reported that while the IPRA was insisting that it was truly independent of the mayor’s office, the mayor’s office was also helping draft its public statements.

Justice advocates have criti-

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cized Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration for what they see as stonewalling over the issue: Investigators had the video for a year but only took obvious action to respond once it was publicly released.

The city’s police department is now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the officer who shot McDonald has been charged with murder.

The lawyer for McDonald’s

a microscope of national attention to the shooting itself as well as the city’s pattern, practice and procedures in rubber-stamping fatal police shootings of African Americans as ‘justified.’ ” The video showed McDonald veering away from officers before he was repeatedly shot, including while he was facedown on the pavement. Its release prompted a wave of protests across the city and calls for Emanuel to resign.

Dubai hotel fire under investigation as blaze smolders

“We are willing to have talks in an open-minded manner with anyone who wants peace and unification.”

Trevor Hughes USA TODAY

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

slightly, we will not be forgiving in the least and sternly answer with a merciless, holy war of justice.”

Such remarks aren’t unprecedented. In an October speech marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling communist Workers’ Party, Kim said he was prepared to wage war against the U.S. if necessary.

Kim said he’s open to talks on improving relations with South Korea. The neighbors reached an agreement to defuse tensions in August after a landmine at the border injured two of the South’s soldiers, but high-level talks last month ended without a deal.

The speech came on the heels of the death of Kim Yang Gon, North Korea’s top official in charge of ties with South Korea, who was killed in a traffic accident last week at age 73.

family accurately predicted the video’s impact, writing to city officials in March that the family wanted $16 million to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit. The family ultimately received $5 million.

“I submit the graphic dash cam video will have a powerful impact on any jury and the Chicago community as a whole,” attorney Jeffrey Neslund told city officials, The Associated Press reported.

“This case will undoubtedly bring

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Smoke billows from the Address Downtown Dubai hotel on Friday after a huge fire engulfed several floors of the building.

An investigation began Friday into what caused a high-profile fire in a downtown Dubai hotel that broke out shortly before thousands watched a massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

Authorities said the fire broke out around 9 p.m. local time on the 20th floor of The Address Downtown Dubai hotel, in the heart of the city in the United Arab Emirates. Sixteen people were injured, including one person who suffered a heart attack.

No deaths were reported.

Firefighters were utilizing “cooling procedures” Friday to ensure the still-smoldering fire was fully extinguished and in no danger of spreading. The government’s media office tweeted photos of water-soaked rooms with obvious fire damage, along with pictures of firefighters who responded to the blaze. The pictures appeared to show heavy

smoke damage to the building’s exterior.

Social media videos showed a massive column of smoke pouring from the 63-floor hotel that opened in 2008. A five-star facility, the hotel has 196 guest rooms and suites and 625 serviced apartments. It’s next door to Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower at 2,722 feet. It is part of a mixeduse, large-scale development called Downtown Dubai. The hotel also is flanked by the Dubai Mall, the world’s largest shopping and entertainment center.

Downtown Dubai set off a massive fireworks display Thursday night despite the blaze, launching fireworks from buildings all over the area.

Jaqueline Hurtado, a CNN en Español correspondent, reported she was at a restaurant in the area when she heard an explosion, “like a loud pop,” and thought the fireworks had started early.

“That fire was big. The fire was just going so fast,” she said. “It just started burning real quick.”

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The resulting 1991 album, Unforgettable...With Love, was a vocal tour de force, resulting in showers of sales and accolades for Natalie. More important to her, it allowed her to re-establish a bond with the adored father she lost when she was 15. It’s no wonder it won the Grammy album of the year.

The music industry mourned Cole’s death, from top executives to stars from her father’s era to stars of her own era.

“We are very saddened to learn of the passing of one of music’s most celebrated and iconic women, Natalie Cole,” Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said in a statement. “... We’ve lost a wonderful, highly cherished artist and our heartfelt condolences go out to Natalie’s family, friends, her many collaborators, as well as to all who have been entertained by her exceptional talent.”

Tony Bennett posted a picture of himself and Natalie on Instagram.

“I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Natalie Cole, as I have cherished the long friendship I had with her, her father Nat, and the family over the years,” Bennett wrote. “Natalie was an exceptional jazz singer and it was an honor to have recorded and performed with her on several occasions. She was a lovely and generous person who will be greatly missed.”

Cole was born Feb. 6, 1950, in Los Angeles, and grew up in the city’s old-money neighborhood of Hancock Park. Cole had music in her genes: Her father was a widely popular crooner, even in the

dying era of Jim Crow, and her mother, Maria Cole, sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. (Her mother died in 2012 at age 89.)

At age 6, Cole recorded a duet with her father, I’m Good Will, You’re Christmas Spirit. By age 11, she was performing alongside him on his television show.

When Cole was 15 and attending boarding school across the country, her father died of lung cancer. Although she grew up without her father’s guidance, Cole never abandoned music. She studied psychology at the University of Massachusetts and sang in clubs on weekends, where she was billed as Nat King Cole’s daughter. Yet she was about to find her own voice.

While performing at a club called Mr. Kelley’s, she was discovered by R&B producers Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy (whom she married in 1976 and with whom she had her son, Robbie, in 1977). In 1974, she had her first hit, This Will Be, from her debut album, Inseparable. The song won her the Best New Artist Grammy in 1975, the first of nine Grammys she would win throughout her career.

Hits and awards kept pouring in as Cole released two more platinum albums (Unpredictable and Thankful, both in 1977). On the outside, Cole was fulfilling her father’s legacy and drawing comparisons to Aretha Franklin. On the inside, she was battling drug addiction. In her 2000 autobiography, Angel On My Shoulder, she wrote that her addiction incapacitated her so severely that she was barely able to escape a fire in her Las Vegas hotel in 1981.

In 1983, she spent several

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Natalie Cole followed in the footsteps of her famous father, Nat King Cole, and became a pop singer, later turning more to jazz. months at the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota and, with her health intact, released her come-back album, Dangerous, in 1985.

As her career progressed, Cole began to drift away from the pop and R&B styles that had defined her early music and gravitated toward a more jazz-oriented style

that drew from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald — and her own father.

Her best-known album remains Unforgettable ... With Love, with its technology-assisted duet for the song Unforgettable with her father’s original recording.

Years after reclaiming her life from drug addiction, Cole was di-

agnosed with hepatitis C in 2008.

Exhausted, she continued performing until her rapidly declining health was tied to kidney disease, likely a result of the medication she was using to treat her hepatitis C. Cole continued to tour, receiving dialysis three times a week between performances. During a March 2009 appearance on Larry King Live, her fans’ love for her was apparent. The show received dozens of emails from fans offering her replacement kidneys.

While fighting her own battles, Cole was helping her sister, Cookie, battle cancer. Her sister died the morning Cole got a successful kidney transplant in May 2009.

Her own life saved, Cole was devastated at the loss of her sister, but grateful to the family of the woman whose kidney she received.

“To have your life saved by someone you don’t even know — oh, God. God bless them,” Cole told AARP Magazine in 2009.

Just months later, she was itching to get back onstage.

“The volume of work that I’ve had before, I can’t do it,” she told USA TODAY in 2009. “Instead of 90-minute shows, maybe I’ll only do 60. Instead of dancing around the stage, maybe I’ll just walk elegantly.”

Cole released a second memoir in 2010 titled Love Brought Me Back, a chronicle of her quest for a kidney transplant.

In recent months Cole had canceled many appearances citing a medical procedure and subsequent hospital stay. She canceled her November and December performances with the San Francisco Symphony.

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United States Chief Justice John Roberts is on a mission to make the nation’s federal courts faster, fairer and more efficient.

In his annual year-end report Thursday, Roberts urged judges and lawyers on opposite sides to cooperate in the administration of justice under a series of amendments to federal court rules that took effect in December following a five-year review.

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fundamentally sound, in premium on the public’s many cases civil litigainterest in speedy, fair, tion has become too exand efficient justice.” pensive, timeOne way, Roberts consuming and said, is for federal judges contentious, inhibiting to participate more ofeffective access to the ten and in person during courts,” Roberts said. pre-trial conferences, As he is prone to do, with the goal of avoiding JACK GRUBER, USAT the chief justice framed tripwires in the litigahis report in historical John Roberts tion process. terms, noting that civil “A well-timed scowl litigation is a far better way to re- from a trial judge can go a long solve disputes than gun duels of way in moving things along the 18th and 19th centuries. crisply,” he said.

While less blood is being shed, While the courts might not be however, he said judges and law- much faster in handling cases, yers “must engineer a change in they are handling fewer of them, our legal culture that places a the report showed. In the 12

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Ted Cruz and Ben Carson will each report substantial fundraising hauls in the final quarter of 2015, according to media reports.

The news comes as their campaigns end the year moving in opposite directions in Iowa and amid a staff shake-up for Carson.

Cruz pulled in almost $20 million in the fourth quarter, according to a memo from campaign manager Jeff Roe to staff and backers of the Texas senator, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The total would mark a notable uptick from Cruz’s $12.2 million in the previous quarter.

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months ending Sept. 30, the number of cases declined at the Supreme Court as well as at appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. That expanded on a trend begun a few years ago.

Only 7,033 cases were filed at the Supreme Court in the 2014 term that ended in September, down nearly 5% from the prior year and 13% over five years. Appeals court filings dropped 4%;

year to more than $45 million, according to CNN. “Some campaigns are focused solely on a man, some on a movement,” Roe said, CNN reports.

“Ours is a hybrid of the two built to win.”

Carson, meanwhile, despite declining poll numbers and internal turmoil, brought in $23 million, said campaign manager Barry Bennett, according to Politico, a slight increase over his $20.8 million from the third quarter.

The announcement came before Bennett and communications director Doug Watts resigned from the Carson campaign on Thursday. In recent days reports had emerged that an overhaul of his campaign staff was coming.

On Tuesday, Carson told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto that “we’re going to certainly be altering some things.” In a state-

ment to The Des Moines Register confirming his and Bennett’s resignations, Watts said they “respect the candidate and we have enjoyed helping him go from far back in the field to top-tier status.”

Carson, buoyed by his appeal to evangelicals and as an outsider candidate, surged to the top of Iowa polls in October. A Monmouth University Poll taken late that month showed him with a 14-point lead there over Donald Trump, who has topped national polls for most of the latter half of the year.

Since then, though, the retired neurosurgeon’s standing has declined. In the RealClearPolitics rolling average of Iowa polls, Carson is fourth behind Cruz, Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Official fundraising filings are due to be released on Jan. 31 — the day before the Iowa caucuses.

district court filings in civil cases dropped 6%, while criminal filings held steady due to increases in cases involving drugs, guns, violence and sex offenses.

While Roberts expressed satisfaction with the effort to speed up the process, a national watchdog group voiced impatience.

Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, which advocates for more transparency and tighter ethics requirements, said the reference to duels has “no relevance.”

“Instead of telling tales of times past, Roberts should look to the future and to implementing institutional improvements — from recusal reform to ending the broadcast media ban,” he said.

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It wasn’t much, but it was more than Bill Cosby has said on Twitter — or anywhere — in months: “Thank you.”

Directed at “friends and fans,” it wasn’t clear what he was thanking them for.

Cosby’s tweet posted late Thursday, one day after he was charged, arraigned and booked on the first-ever criminal charges brought against him in more than a year of mounting accusations that he drugged and/or sexually assaulted dozens of women during a period dating back decades.

The last time Cosby himself posted something on his Twitter account was in August, when he directed his followers (he has 4.1 million) to a TV interview with his lawyer-spokeswoman, Monique Pressley.

Lately, Pressley has been doing most of the talking for Cosby; she accompanied him to his arraignment in Montgomery County, Pa., on Wednesday when he pleaded not guilty to aggravated indecent assault in connection with an 11-year-old encounter and posted a $1 million bond before being released to his nearby home.

Thursday, Pressley made the rounds of TV news networks, defending Cosby as “not guilty,” declaring him the victim of “a game of political football” in local politics and vowing that he would be exonerated.

Meanwhile, there was more bad legal news for Cosby out of Springfield, Mass., near one of his other estates and where seven of his nearly 60 accusers are suing him for defamation in federal court. Their civil suit seeks to depose him and his wife, Camille, this week.

Cosby has already lost several motions to dismiss the lawsuit.

Next, his legal team sought to quash a subpoena for Camille’s deposition, arguing it was an attempt to pressure Cosby by forcing his wife to answer questions about his marital infidelities.

But U.S. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy rejected that argument, according to the lawyer, Joe Cammarata, who represents the accusers, and to the Boston Globe. The judge ruled that Camille Cosby’s role as wife and business manager make it at least “plausible” that she might have information relevant to the lawsuit.

Although Camille Cosby in her motion lamented the potential violation of marital communications and the “shame and embarrassment” of answering questions about her husband’s “alleged infidelities and marital misconduct,” these factors do not outweigh “the potential significance” of her testimony, Hennessy ruled.

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Directed at “friends and fans,” it wasn’t clear what Cosby was thanking them for.

Camille Cosby’s deposition in the case is scheduled for Jan. 6.

Pressley said Friday that “Mrs. Cosby’s attorneys intend to appeal the court’s decision.”

Cammarata also was pleased about the criminal charges filed against Cosby, which he said could aid his clients’ civil suit.

“We believe that the filing of the criminal charges will aid in the disclosure of valuable information regarding the behavior of Mr. Cosby and will validate the claims of those dozens of woman who have publicly declared that Mr. Cosby has also abused them,” Cammarata said in one of multiple statements he issued late Wednesday.

IN BRIEF WAYNE ROGERS, 82, DIES OF PNEUMONIA

A FROSTY NEW YEAR’S TRADITION

Wayne Rogers, whose “Trapper” John McIntyre on M*A*S*H was among the most beloved characters on one of the most popular shows of all time, died Thursday.

The actor was surrounded by family when he died in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia at age 82, his publicist and longtime friend Rona Menashe told The Associated Press.

As an army surgeon on M*A*S*H, Rogers swapped wisecracks with partner in martinis and mischief “Hawkeye” Pierce, played by Alan Alda.

EARTHQUAKE HITS NEAR OKLAHOMA CITY

A magnitude-4.2 earthquake hit north of Oklahoma City early Friday, the latest in a series of quakes that have rattled the state at an increasing rate in the past few years.

There was no immediate word of injuries or damage after the quake hit around 5:40 a.m. Friday near Edmond. The quake was

No. 1 film in 2015 domestically.

Disney says that as of Dec. 31, The Force Awakens’ domestic box office total is $652 million and the international box office total is $679.2 million.

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It’s a new year and another record broken by Star Wars: The

Force Awakens.

According to Walt Disney Studios, The Force Awakens will pass Titanic ($658.7 million) on Friday to become the second-highest grossing film of all time domestically.

It also will pass Jurassic World ($652.3 million) to become the

An explosion struck the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday evening, killing one person and wounding 11 people, officials said.

The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility and said one of their suicide bombers had carried out the attack, the AP reported.

The explosion went off in a central residential area of the city, which is home to many Afghan officials and where guesthouses are also located. The target of the attack was not immediately clear.

Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said that security forces fanned out at the site of the explosion “looking for any other possible terrorist in the area.”

He later said they had arrested one suspect but did not elaborate.

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MONEYLINE AT&T GETTING RID OF TWO-YEAR CONTRACTS AT&T, the only major U.S. carrier still offering two-year contracts to subsidize new smartphone purchases, will stop offering the contracts. Starting Jan. 8, AT&T customers will only be able to get new phones, even flip phones or so-called “dumb” phones, by paying the full price or paying in installments over time. Once the norm, two-year contracts have been phased out in the mobile industry in favor of selling devices to consumers at full price, typically through monthly installments over two years.

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TOYS R US CLOSES FLAGSHIP STORE IN TIMES SQUARE Toys R Us on Wednesday closed its superstore in Times Square due to rising rents. The flagship three-story store had wowed tourists and shoppers since 2001 with a 60-foot indoor Ferris wheel and 20-foot growling Tyrannosaurus Rex. The store’s closing follows the shuttering of iconic F.A.O. Schwarz in July. The company decided not to renew its lease, which expires this month, because of the high cost of renting the space, company spokeswoman Elizabeth Gaerlan said.

TASER SHARES GET A JOLT ON CHICAGO POLICE WOES The city of Chicago’s decision to double the number of Tasers available to police officers put some buzz in the device maker’s stock. Shares of Taser International (TASR) rose 40 cents to $17.81 Thursday, up 2.3% on a day when the overall market was down. The department will increase the number of Tasers to 1,400 in hopes that officers won’t have to use their guns as often. The purchase comes on the heels of controversy over the police shooting of a 19-year-old college student and a 55-year-old mother of five, the latter of which was deemed an accident and which is being investigated by the Chicago Independent Police Review Authority.

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Global glut led oil, gas companies to slash more than 258,000 jobs in 2015

“The closer you are to the wellhead, the quicker you are to lose your job,” John Graves of Graves & Co. said.

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Explosive job growth in the oil and gas sector propped up the U.S. economy for several years in the wake of the recession, as the fracking revolution put American energy workers back to work.

But 2015 was the year gains in the energy sector came to a screeching halt as rock-bottom oil prices triggered layoffs of more than 258,000 workers globally, according to a comprehensive analysis by industry consultant Graves & Co. And the energy business is poised for a fresh round of job cuts and bankruptcies in early 2016, analysts say.

The number of active oil and gas rigs in the U.S. fell 61% to 698 as of Dec. 31, compared to a year earlier, according to Baker Hughes Rig Counts.

Record-low oil prices drove gasoline below $2 per gallon for 71% of U.S. gas stations by the end of the year, according to AAA, fueling record sales of new vehicles and boosting holiday shoppers.

But the global glut of oil — caused by a sustained surge in U.S. output and high production by the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries — has undercut profit margins and spawned a slew of job cuts for energy companies. Oil is trading below $40 a barrel for the first time since early 2009.

The headlines focus on job-cutting global giants such as Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and Halliburton, which have each announced plans to cut thousands of positions this year. Yet it’s been particularly treacherous for exploration and production jobs across the board, including roughnecks, drillers, roustabouts, sur-

Number of global layoffs in the oil and gas business in 2015: % of Sector Jobs sector Service 120,488 46.68% Drilling 40,639 15.74% Supply 41,814 16.20% E&P 48,050 18.61% Midstream 1,094 0.42% Downstream 5,937 2.30% Legal services, 113 0.04% banking

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veyors and drafters.

“The closer you are to the wellhead, the quicker you are to lose your job,” Houston-based energy consultant John Graves of Graves & Co. said. “Those are the kind of jobs that get hit first because it’s where a company can quickly make cuts.”

In energy-rich Texas, exploration and production companies have shed at least 60,000 jobs, said Karr Ingham, petroleum economist for Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, about one-fifth of its Texas workforce.

“I expect it to get worse in the near term,” Ingham says.

Oil companies in Texas have endured revenue losses of up to 70% over the past year, he says.

Dan Heckman, national investment consultant for U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said he expects to see a fresh round of layoffs, production cuts and bankruptcies in the oil and gas business in early 2016.

The current U.S. unemployment rate for the oil, gas and mining sector is 8.5% but could top 10% by February, about double the overall jobless rate, Heckman projected.

Oil production leader Saudi Arabia has refused to slash output to bolster prices, and U.S. producers have kept wells flowing to pay off investments ordered in the 2000s when new fracking tech-

nology triggered a spike in energy production.

“Many of these companies are negative cash flow, and that’s not a sustainable dynamic,” Heckman said.

It’s a game of chicken, with energy analysts watching closely to see where production cuts take place in an effort to boost prices.

Projections for a prolonged period of low oil prices provide little hope for a quick rebound. Most analysts believe oil prices will stabilize in 2016 but probably won’t rise much until the second half of the year, barring unexpected geopolitical instability.

It’s a sharp reversal of fortunes for an industry that was celebrated for the economic windfall it provided for oil-rich states such as Texas, North Dakota and Pennsylvania as other areas of the economy remained soft.

The number of jobs at oil and natural gas companies rose 40% from the start of 2007 through the end of 2012, even as total U.S. private-sector employment rose only 1%, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In Texas, exploration and production companies have shed 60,000 jobs and oil companies’ revenue is down 70% over the past year.

In addition to the traditional jobs associated with rigs, maintenance and environmental compliance jobs have suffered — and companies are even slashing administrative posts, geological positions and engineering jobs.

But the rapid pace of the expansion mirrors the swift pace of the contraction, reflecting the painful volatility of the business.

One ray of encouraging news for the U.S. energy business is the so-called midstream sector — pipeline and energy transport companies, for example — which has not experienced the same kind of losses as producers.

Midstream companies accounted for only 0.4% of the job cuts in 2015, according to Graves & Co. Refiners, which occupy the downstream segment, have also enjoyed a relatively solid period.

A smaller, lively CES expected this year World’s biggest trade show kicks off Monday in Las Vegas Jefferson Graham @jeffersongraham USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES The world’s biggest trade show wants to get smaller in 2016.

Attendees begin descending on Las Vegas this weekend for the 48th annual Consumer Electronics Show, a bazaar of the latest new gadgets, hardware and technology.

“We want to make sure people can still get around the show, have a good time and that the show continues,” says Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, which stages CES. Last year, some 175,000 people attended. This year, Shapiro

hopes to whack it down to 150,000. He’s doing that by getting tighter on admission and press eligibility. The CTA also plans to beef up security by inspecting bags and banning luggage.

At this year’s CES, expect to see lots of drones, self-driving cars, virtual reality headsets, Internet-connected homes and appliances and those dazzling ultra-HD TVs. An estimated 1 million drones were sold in 2015, when the Federal Aviation Administration set forth new rules requiring registration by consumers.

Still, “everyone is fascinated with flight,” says Richard Doherty, an analyst with the Envisioneering Group. “You’ll probably see at least 100 new drones introduced at CES.“ For all the hype about new tech, the TVs always steal the show at CES, if for no other reason than they’re so large.

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Some of the biggest names in consumer technology — minus Apple and Amazon — will be on the floor in Las Vegas.

Past CES shows have featured high-profile introductions such as high-definition television, Ti-

Vo DVR, satellite TV and the earliest smartphones.

What you won’t see on the

floor are the most important names in consumer technology: Apple and Amazon don’t exhibit. Sony, Samsung, LG and other Asian manufacturers dominate the show floor, with the biggest, most exciting booths.

CES isn’t about the new production innovations, longtime tech analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies says.

“It’s about deal-making and networking,” he says. “People go there to speak with vendors, look at potential trends, and dealers go to shop for next Christmas.”

New start-ups save their money and place the biggest bet of all by gambling on a small booth in one of the more out-ofthe-way exhibit areas, in hopes of finding an investor or acquirer.

Very few have made it out of there. It rarely happens.

But hey, it’s Vegas, the land of dreams, right?

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Many have come to sad conclusion that its time has passed Jon Swartz @jswartz USA TODAY

There is one certainty about Yahoo’s uncertain future: 2016 should mark a turning point, but not a return to its glory days in the 1990s.

An Internet icon that helped introduce the concept of an online destination (remember “portal”?), the Silicon Valley company founded at Stanford University in 1994 by then-graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo later defined online content and was the “it” Internet company long before Google and Facebook.

Now it resembles a latter-day steel company, a one-time American success story that is an afterthought. Its 15% stake in e-commerce giant Alibaba, at roughly $30 billion, is nearly all of its market valuation of $31.5 billion. Its assets? Zilch.

“The problem is Yahoo has not SAN FRANCISCO

had an original or unique idea in a long time, and the stock price desperately needs a few high potential projects that change the dynamics,” says Holger Mueller, principal analyst at Constellation Research.

The situation at Yahoo is tenuous and fluid. Its nine-member board of directors, which includes CEO Marissa Mayer, pulled an about-face and decided not to spin off Alibaba amid pressure from activist shareholder Starboard Value.

Its core Web assets are likely to be sold. More than a dozen executives have departed over the past year. An acquisition spree the past few years has produced middling results on Yahoo’s bottom line.

Yahoo shares are trading at $33.26, closer to the 52-week low ($27.20) than the high ($50.78).

Shares lost 33% last year.

Several potential hurdles confront Mayer & Co. in the near future: Fiscal fourth-quarter results are to be announced in late January and the entire board is up for re-election in the summer, which could lead to a proxy battle.

“There’s a feeling among some

investors and observers that if Yahoo was going to turn around it would have done so by now,” says Greg Sterling, contributing editor at market researcher Search Engine Land.

Yahoo declined to comment.

The rise of mobile devices and social media accelerated what was already a slide into diminished relevance the past several years. Underscoring the fall-from-grace narrative, a lavish Roaring Twenties-themed holiday party with spacious digs near the San Francisco Bay, flap dancers and a speakeasy motif, presented a perception to some that Mayer was tone deaf to the company’s precarious situation.

The cost of the celebration, which company critics pegged at $7 million, was actually $2 million, said the people, who are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

While others disparaged and dismissed Yahoo, some clung to the belief it would find a way to leverage its excellent content in sports, finance and tech. Its monthly audience of about 1 bil-

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Time may be running out for Marissa Mayer, a successful former Google executive who was named Yahoo CEO in July 2012.

With its options apparently dwindling and pressure on its management team intensifying, Yahoo must make hard choices — and fast. lion alone merited hope.

The chronicle of Silicon Valley includes some tech companies that have managed to come back when they were down.

Apple was left for dead in the mid-1990s before embarking on a run of success rarely seen in the history of corporate America.

Facebook faced uncertainty over its mobile strategy, then proceeded to hit it out of the park the past few years. Even gilded Google encountered an identity crisis when it turned 15 years old.

But Yahoo is trapped in a purgatory of middling ad revenue

on their gender and ethnic makeup showed some strides in hiring women but little progress in hiring underrepresented minorities.

SELF-DRIVING CARS

Elon Musk’s Tesla introduced a $2,500 software upgrade in October to bring semi-self-driving to his cars, via no hands on the steering wheel. Google tested its selfdriving cars on the roads in Mountain View, Calif., and expanded its tests to Austin.

Traditional automakers including Ford and Audi installed more sensor-based features that take over some of the driving, such as braking. Rumors, but no announcement, burbled from Apple about its own stealth product.

Auto and car-tech makers are set to descend upon Las Vegas next week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which has partially turned into a showcase for new car tech. Many self-driving cars will be on display at the show, even though true autonomous vehicles aren’t expected to become a reality for another 10 to 15 years.

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2015 With drones lurking, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and connected cars dominated Jefferson Graham l @jeffersongraham USA TODAY LOS ANGELES Apple, Facebook and Google dominated the 2015 tech headlines, along with self-driving car technology, security concerns, women in technology and gadgets such as the Apple Watch, iPhone 6S, drones and 360-view spherical cameras.

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Facebook has an average of 1.5 billion people tuning in daily.

FACEBOOK

The world’s largest social network got even bigger, with more than 1.5 billion people tuned in daily and an average 8 billion daily video views, and its Facebook, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp services dominated Nielsen’s year-end chart of the most-used apps. It opened up its news feed to video produced by spherical 360 degree cameras and started “Instant Articles” from selected publishers that load up faster than links. Its market cap topped $300 billion. Additionally, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he would eventually give away his $45 billion fortune, and he increasingly took the world stage on policy issues.

GOOGLE

The world’s No. 1 search engine shocked the industry in the summer by forming a new umbrella company, Alphabet, to oversee the “moonshot” ambitions of cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and named Sundar Pichai to run its core Google business.

Its YouTube subsidiary continued its stranglehold on young

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Many hands make light work. ever, to a new type of reaction than the folks in Cupertino, Calif., had encountered in decades. “None of them were like ‘Wow, I’ve got to have it,’ ” says Rich DeMuro, a tech reporter for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. The heavily hyped Apple Watch launched, but without product in stores for opening weekend. By the end of the year, Apple wouldn’t say how many watches had sold (analysts projected sales of 20 million), and the product was being discounted to $100 off, something rarely seen in Apple devices. The launch of Apple Music, the company’s answer to Spotify and Pandora, found many critics saying the new service was hard to navigate and not as simple as past Apple products. The new iPhone 6S sold well (48 million in its first weeks on sale) but the new features introduced, like 3D Touch and Live Photos, have yet to dominate the culture, like past Apple iPhone introductions Siri and the iPhone fingerprint log-in. Meanwhile, Wall Street seems to have turned on Apple, with its stock down 17% from its high and up just 0.8% for the year.

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audiences and music MANAGEMENT fans and made a move to BATTLES take on Netflix in the fall The micro-blogging serwith a new subscription vice Twitter continued to service, Red. Nielsen’s struggle to grow, but year-end rankings much of the year was showed growth beyond spent focused on new the desktop, with five of leadership. Would cothe top 10 most used founder Jack Dorsey get apps. Its stock price re- ANDREW GOMBERT EPA the CEO title? He did in bounded, as investors Twitter and October, notwithstanding lapped up restructuring Square CEO concerns about his ability and expense-tightening Jack Dorsey to run two companies at moves instituted by a once (he’s also CEO of new CFO, as well as its first stock Square, which went public.) At the buyback. Late in the year, it end of the year, much attention made a major push to take on was focused on embattled Yahoo the sizzling cloud storage busi- CEO Marissa Mayer. ness that’s dominated by Amazon, buying Bepop Technologies, APPLE a start-up run by former The world’s largest tech firm introduced more new products than VMware head Diane Greene.

growth — especially when compared to Google and Facebook — and stilted market share for search. It seemingly is the third and fourth option for advertisers and consumers.

Yahoo is expected to be far behind its rivals in the $104.3 billion worldwide market for online display advertising in 2016 — 2% vs.

21% for Facebook and 12% for Google, according to eMarketer, which tracks ad spending on the Internet. Yahoo’s slice of the estimated $72.1 billion worldwide mobile ad market this year is 1.5%, compared to Google’s 34% and Facebook’s 17%.

“In contrast to her critics, I believe Marissa Mayer has done a relatively good job with the hand she was dealt,” Sterling says. “She has Google on the one side and Facebook on the other limiting her growth potential and room to maneuver.”

A former Yahoo executive compared Mayer’s situation to that of ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo — embattled executives with few internal advocates and a swath of lethal rivals such as Facebook and Google.

The melodrama is sure to ratchet up in early 2016, when Mayer has vowed to articulate a plan to “narrow our strategy and focus on newer products” that could result in thousands of layoffs. There is also the strong possibility of a private equity firm buying up pieces of Yahoo.

“Can she keep the trust of the board (in 2016)?” Mueller asks.

“It’s a fine example where the Valley transplants a successful exec to another entity, but Yahoo’s business is so different than Google’s (that) very little that worked at Google works at Yahoo.”

Despite the contretemps, there is a solution to Yahoo’s problems.

That is, get rid of search and concentrate on mail, messaging and content, according to a third person familiar with the company’s strategy who asked not to be named.

Which all leads to one inescapable question: How long will Mayer survive as CEO? Many are betting she fights on, despite the criticisms and self-inflicted wounds.

Some speculate she may just look for an elegant exit.

Dell snapped up EMC for $67 billion, Hewlett-Packard split into two companies, Verizon acquired AOL and struggling tech news site Re/Code became part of Vox Media.

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The e-tailer dominated holiday shopping more than ever in 2015, with 3 million new subscribers to its Prime offering of faster shipping and home entertainment, made inroads in Hollywood with the critically acclaimed Transparent and The Man in the High Castle series and seems to be on the way to creating its own delivery service, supplanting UPS. A surge in Amazon shares, buoyed by Amazon’s fast growth in cloud services, made founder Jeff Bezos the world’s fourth-richest man.

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The days of DVDs are starting to seem like ancient history, as streaming media — mostly in the form of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — dominate the living room like never before. Netflix itself has grown to more than 60 million subscribers, with more than 70% of evening Internet usage owned by Netflix and other streaming services, according to market researcher Sandvine. At the Emmys this year, best actor in a comedy went to Jeffrey Tambor from Amazon’s Transparent, and best supporting actress went to Uzo Aduba from Netflix’s Orange is the New Black.

What it’s like to be a woman, Black or Latino working in technology formed a steady undercurrent of discussion amid new product DRONES launches and With sales projeccorporate tions of more than 1 shake-ups. Elmillion in 2015, len Pao lost a that means gender discrimithere are nation lawsuit potentially against former emmore small ployer Kleiner Perkins unmanned Caufield & Byers, but not vehicles in the before the five-week trial GETTY IMAGES/ air than planes. The provided a public viewing ISTOCKPHOTO Federal Aviation Adinto the male-dominated Drone culture of venture capital. quadrocopter. ministration unveiled new rules in December Comments by a former senior engineer at Twitter, who is calling for all consumer drones to African American, shone a spot- be registered by February, or risk a light on how tech company culture fine of up to $250,000.

At the CES next week, drones can act at cross purposes to public goals on diversity. And some are expected to be one of the hotmedia organizations threatened to test, fastest-growing categories.

“Look for a new category — boycott SXSW after the tech and ideas festival canceled panels on drones you can fly in your home,” women in gaming. Reports re- says Richard Doherty, an analyst leased by major tech companies with the Envisioneering Group.

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For decades, dramas such as Schindler’s List, Life Is Beautiful and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas have taken audiences behind the barbed-wire fences of Nazi concentration camps, where 11 million people died during the Holocaust.

But Son of Saul, Hungary’s submission for the Academy Awards, aims for a more visceral depiction of the death camps. The film (now showing in New York and Los Angeles; expanding to additional cities throughout January and February) is told from the perspective of Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish prisoner working in the gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1944, who saves a child’s body from the cremation ovens and tries to find a rabbi to give him a proper burial.

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Röhrig is Saul, a Jewish prisoner who is forced to work in the gas chambers and cremation ovens of Auschwitz. first-time director László Nemes says. “It’s not a story about survival — the rule is death. All the films try to avoid crematoriums, whereas the crematoriums are the heart of the Holocaust.”

When Nemes read victims’ journals a decade ago at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, he was introduced to the moral dilemma of “Sonderkommandos” (command units of Jewish inmates forced to help in the extermination and disposal of bodies). Years later, he wrote a script and found financing through the national

film fund in his native Hungary.

Since winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Saul has earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign-language film and is widely considered an Oscar front-runner in the same category.

The film is shot mostly in a tight close-up on Röhrig and blurs out much of the chaos and carnage that surround him. The narrow vantage point was done in part to separate it from other Holocaust movies, which “always have this establishing shot of the

camp or high-angle perception of everything,” Nemes says. “My assumption is that one couldn’t see much and the limitations were part of the unbearable plight of the individual. I wanted to find a way to communicate that.”

Saul is the first major acting role for Röhrig, a Hungarian-born poet who lives and works in New York as a Judaic studies teacher.

“In so many ways, components of my personal journey came into this movie in a very beneficial way,” says Röhrig, who was orphaned at age 4, expelled from high school for anti-Communist activities and later published his first poetry book about Auschwitz.

Through Saul, Röhrig hopes to humanize the Sonderkommandos, who were often seen by other prisoners as willing participants in the Nazis’ crimes. Although Sonderkommandos usually were executed after a few months on the job, some committed suicide out of guilt.

“We’re not in a position to pass judgment because we’re not in their shoes — this is such an extreme human situation,” Röhrig says. In a way, the Nazis “basically deprived (Sonderkommandos) even the solace of seeming innocent. They brought the Jews down to the bottom levels of their own morality and made partners of them. They made Cain out of Abel.”

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For a man who has created immersive and intriguing movies revolving around real emotion, Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has a surprising confession: “I like fake things a lot.”

The filmmaker’s latest reflects this interest with the puppets and stop-motion animation sets of Anomalisa (opened Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles, expands nationwide in January). “I like trying to imbue those things with life in a subtle and real and nuanced way and have emotional impact,” says Kaufman, who codirects with Duke Johnson.

The movie centers on self-help author Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) meeting Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on a business trip to Cincinnati. The shy and insecure customer service rep’s voice alone smacks some life into Michael’s mundane existence.

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Much of the film’s action takes place in a hotel room. Here, a crew member sets up puppets for an intimate conversation. her character two years ago, and she “was one I never wanted to let go of,” the actress says. “It just stays with you. There’s something about those puppets that you just project yourself into them.”

While animated projects are mainly for kids, R-rated Anomalisa is decidedly adult in its scenes and themes. And it could give some competition to Pixar’s Inside Out, a favorite for the Oscars: Every expert on the awards site GoldDerby.com has Anomalisa garnering a nomination for best animated feature, and it already has a Golden Globe nod.

The film stands out from the

pack as “easily the most original,” Fandango.com Oscar expert Dave Karger says. While it might not best Inside Out, “its inevitable inclusion alongside entries from established powerhouses like Pixar and Aardman (Shaun the Sheep) will serve as a testament to its creativity and daring.”

Kaufman originally wrote Anomalisa as a radio play in 2005.

Until Johnson and his Starburns Industries animation studio approached him, “I hadn’t thought about it at all,” says Kaufman, who won an Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (best original screenplay) and

was nominated for his screenplays for Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.

Anomalisa’s scale is contained in one sense, since much of it takes place between Michael and Lisa in his hotel room, yet from a production standpoint, “it was massive,” Johnson says. The filmmakers built 10 hotel rooms and 100 feet of hallway for sets that would act as background to realistic performances from their puppets.

The trickiest of all was an intimate love scene between Michael and Lisa, especially in terms of having it come off awkwardly real and not as a joke.

“Silicone puppets have no compression, and they repel each other,” Johnson says. “And trying to have them interact and all the fabrics and the bedsheeting and the compression of the mattress and them touching each other and the hair, all the technical stuff was a challenge.”

With one stop-motion movie under his belt, though, Kaufman already has ideas for more.

“You see a second (of animation) and then you see three seconds and you see eventually two minutes years later, and it starts to be exciting,” Kaufman says.

“There’s a lot of waiting and a lot of anxiety, but then it starts to grow into something.”

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Doubles in Big 12 good test for play in NCAA Considering it takes two victories over a Final Four opponent to cap a six-game winning streak and win a national title, not many schools can simulate conditions that difficult during the regular season.

Plus, three of the NCAA Tournament victories must come in games that are the second ones played in a three-day span, a test of depth and endurance.

Tough to simulate, but not impossible.

As loaded as the Big 12 Conference is this season, Kansas can point to multiple bunched pairings in its schedule that represent difficult sweeps. Kansas has four Monday night games, all of which follow Saturday contests. Going 6-0 in the first three pairings presents an even greater challenge than winning a national title, even though nothing definitive is at stake on the former, everything on the latter.

Pairing No. 1: vs. Baylor in Allen Fieldhouse, 3 p.m. today, and vs. Oklahoma, 8 p.m. Monday: Both games are at home, an advantage the NCAA Tournament doesn’t offer, but a sweep will require sharp play from Kansas twice in three days.

Rico Gathers (14.1 points, 11 rebounds), Taurean Prince (15.5 points, 5.9 rebounds) and Lester Medford (6.83 assists) make Baylor a squad capable of pulling off big upsets.

Oklahoma shoots threepointers (.462) and defends them (.281) even better than Kansas and boasts the conference’s best player in senior guard Buddy Hield (24.4 points, .529 threepoint shooting percentage).

Hield has performed up to first-team All-American standards so far.

Pairing No. 2: vs. Texas in Allen Fieldhouse, 1 p.m., Jan. 23 and at Iowa State, 8 p.m., Jan. 25: Defeating Isaiah Taylor-led Texas and then winning at jacked-up Hilton Coliseum two days later would be an impressive double. It must seem to the rest of the Big 12 that KU’s Perry Ellis and Iowa State’s Georges Niang have been in the Big 12 for about a decade.

Niang is off to a great start (18.8 points, 6.7 rebounds, .404 three-point pct., .884 free-throw pct.).

Pairing No. 3: at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., Feb. 13 and vs. Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., Feb. 15: Defeating Oklahoma on the road might be tougher than defeating any opponent in the nation on a neutral floor. Unlike in the NCAA Tournament, where the easiest game comes first, it arrives last in this six-game study.

There isn’t better preparation this season for playing in the NCAA Tournament than grinding through the Big 12 schedule that tips off for Kansas today.

— Sports editor Tom Keegan appears on The Drive, Sunday nights on WIBW-TV.

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I think Perry is very underrated. He can leave Kansas as one of the topIn late November, on a five leading rebounders and scorers in small patch of grass in the middle of paradise, Kansas school history. That is real good.” mtait@ljworld.com

University basketball legend and current Wake Forest coach Danny Manning entertained questions about the possibility of coaching against his alma mater in the 2015 Maui Invitational.

It never happened, of course, as Manning’s Wake Forest squad — which, by the way, is off to a 9-3 start — fell to Vanderbilt in the Maui semis, and KU went on to knock off Vandy in the title game.

That didn’t stop Manning from sizing up the 2015-16 Jayhawks, the fourth team fielded by Bill Self since Manning left Kansas as an

— Former Kansas University standout Danny Manning, on KU senior Perry Ellis assistant coach following the run to the 2012 national title game.

Manning offered insight on everything from Kansas’ fast pace and individual talent to the Jayhawks’ guard play and the joy it brings to see his son, Evan, play at his alma mater as a senior reserve.

The former No. 1 overall pick in the 1988 NBA Draft heaped praise on junior point guard Frank Mason III, soph-

omore Devonté Graham and junior wing Wayne Selden Jr., but saved his kindest comments for a player with whom he has more than a little in common.

“I think Perry is very underrated,” Manning said of KU senior Perry Ellis. “He can leave Kansas as one of the top-five leading rebounders and scorers in school history. That is real good.”

While Ellis could reach such heights by the end of

the 2015-16 season, it would take a monster year to get there, and top 10 seems more reachable.

He entered the season ranked 24th with 612 career rebounds and 38th with 1,157 points. That left him 322 boards shy of passing Eric Chenowith for fifth place and 732 points from passing Sherron Collins for fifth on the scoring list.

During KU’s 11-1 start, Ellis has scored 181 points and grabbed 74 rebounds. Projecting those numbers out over the final two-thirds of the season gives Ellis 222 rebounds and 543 points during his final season as a Jayhawk.

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For the first time in the 13year Bill Self era, Kansas University’s basketball team will play a pair of home games to open the Big 12 season.

“I don’t know that I do,” Self said, asked what he likes about opening against Baylor (3 p.m. today) and Oklahoma (8 p.m. Monday) in Allen Fieldhouse.

“I think it’s better — for fairness, we should play all 18 games here,” he joked. “The reality is, if you start on the road and you win, you’re a leg up on everybody. You win at home, that’s just a push, because you’ve got to do that.”

KU — which has won 142 of its last 145 home games — is 94-5 at home in conference action during the Self years.

“A negative could be the students aren’t here (on se-

mester break), but I still think we’ll have pretty good crowd support in these games. But it really doesn’t matter much either way,” BIG 12 Self said.

OPENER KU last opened league Who: Baylor play with two (10-2) vs. home games Kansas (11-1) during the 1997-98 sea- When: 3 p.m. son, when Roy today Williams’ Jay- Where: Allen hawks went Fieldhouse 15-1.

TV: CBS “I think it’s (WOW! chana good start, nels 5, 13, especially for 205, 213) the young guys, to see what conference play is really about — to open up at home in a more comfortable state,” KU junior guard Wayne Selden Jr. said.

The two games in three

days at home will be against ranked teams. Baylor (10-2) is No. 23 in the AP poll, while Oklahoma (11-0) is No. 3 in the land, a slot behind KU. “Yes, it’s a challenge. But there are going to be weeks in the league where a lot of teams play two ranked teams. When you have five teams ranked every week or whatever it is, there’s a lot of times they are going to match up that way,” Self said.

“Thinking about what has happened in the past is something that you can think about and be happy about, but our focus and my focus is 100 percent what’s going to happen this year, and there’s obviously a ton of things that have to fall right for us to have to put ourselves in position to have another great league season,” he added.

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Chiefs LB Houston returns to practice Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — Chiefs pass rusher Justin Houston returned to practice for the first time in more than a month on Friday and is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders.

Fellow linebacker Tamba Hali is also questionable after missing a game because of a broken thumb.

Houston has not played since he hyperextended his knee against Buffalo on Nov. 29. The Chiefs have considered him day to day ever since, though he has not participated in any workouts.

“He got good work in. We’ll just see how he feels,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “We’ll take it from there. I’ve kind of said it’s day by day, and that’s really what it is. He moved around pretty good today.

We’ll just see how he does here.”

Hali did not participate in the workout, but that has been the norm. The Chiefs have tried to lighten his load to keep the 32-year-old Hali fresh for the end of the season.

Even if Houston or Hali does not play Sunday, the fact that they are questionable increases the likelihood they’ll be available for the playoffs. Kansas City (10-5) has secured a wildcard spot and could still win the AFC West by beating Oakland and if Denver loses to San Diego.

Houston has 71⁄2 sacks this season, and Hali has 61⁄2. But even when they’re not getting to the quarterback, they demand so much attention that others get loose. Despite no sacks last weekend, Kansas City still has 41 on the season, tied for fourth in the NFL. Then there’s their play against the run. Houston and Hali are far better at containing the ground game than Dee Ford and Frank Zombo, who started last week’s game against Cleveland in their place.

Also, offensive tackle Jah Reid remained sidelined due to a knee injury, while safety Husain Abdullah did some light work and could return from his concussion this week.

Reid declined to address the Chiefs’ decision this week to put wide receiver and punt returner De’Anthony Thomas on the reserve/non-football illness list. Thomas sustained a concussion against the Chargers on Nov. 22 that kept him out four games. He was cleared to return to practice last week.

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AL EAST Heat 106, Mavericks 82 HASKELL Miami — Hassan Whiteside TODAY had 25 points and 19 rebounds, • Women’s, men’s basketball at Gerald Green added 19 points Ottawa, 4 p.m. off the bench, and Miami rolled AL CENTRAL past Dallas on Friday night to snap a two-game slide.

SPORTS ON TV Chris Bosh scored 16, and TODAY Goran Dragic had 15 points and AL WEST seven assists for the Heat. MiCollege Basketball Time Net Cable ami adjusted its starting lineup KU v. UC Irvine replay 6 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 shortly before tip-off when Ga. Tech v. N. Carolina 11 a.m. KSMO 3, 203 Dwyane Wade was stricken by W.Va. v. K-State 11 a.m. ESPNU 35, 235 flu-like symptoms. Wade got Houston v.

Temple 11 a.m. ESPNN 140,231 some intravenous fluids and Penn St. v. Michigan 11 a.m. BTN 147,237 checked in early in the second AFC TEAM LOGOS 081312: St. Joe’s v. Richmond 11:30a.m. NBCSP 38, 238 quarter, just his 10th time play-Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m.

Tennessee v. Auburn 1 p.m. CBS 5, 13, ing off the bench in his 13-year

205,213 career. He finished with 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting.

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DALLAS (82) Parsons 2-8 0-0 4, Nowitzki 4-14 3-3 11, Pachulia 5-9 4-5 14, Barea 3-9 0-0 6, Matthews 4-9 0-0 12, Felton 1-4 2-2 4, Williams 3-9 1-2 9, Powell 0-5 1-2 1, Harris 0-0 0-0 0, Villanueva 4-11 0-0 9, McGee 3-5 0-0 6, Jenkins 3-4 0-0 6, Evans 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-88 11-14 82.

MIAMI (106) Deng 3-7 2-2 9, Bosh 6-16 1-2 16, Whiteside 12-16 1-2 25, Dragic 7-12 0-0 15, Johnson 3-7 1-2 8, Green 8-13 1-1 19, Udrih 1-2 0-0 2, Stoudemire 0-0 0-0 0, Wade 5-6 0-0 10, Haslem 1-1 0-0 2, Andersen 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 46-82 6-9 106.

Dallas 10 35 16 21— 82 Miami 22 36 22 26—106 3-Point Goals-Dallas 7-31 (Matthews 4-7, Williams 2-5, Villanueva 1-6, Felton 0-1, Jenkins 0-1, Evans 0-1, Nowitzki 0-2, Parsons 0-3, Barea 0-5), Miami 8-18 (Bosh 3-6, Green 2-4, Dragic 1-2, Johnson 1-2, Deng 1-3, Andersen 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Dallas 43 (Pachulia 13), Miami 55 (Whiteside 19). Assists-Dallas 22 (Felton, Barea, Williams 5), Miami 24 (Wade, Dragic 7). Total Fouls-Dallas 11, Miami 16.

Technicals-Stoudemire. A-19,748 (19,600).

Bulls 108, Knicks 81 Chicago — Jimmy Butler scored 23 points, and Nikola Mirotic had 17 points and seven assists to help Chicago beat New York.

Pau Gasol added 17 points and eight rebounds as the Bulls won for the fourth time in five games while avenging a blowout loss at New York on Dec. 19.

NEW YORK (81) Anthony 8-18 3-3 20, Porzingis 4-14 0-0 9, Lopez 2-5 0-0 4, Calderon 7-9 1-1 18, Afflalo 2-9 0-0 4, Thomas 3-9 5-5 11, O’Quinn 1-3 0-0 2, Seraphin 2-7 0-2 4, Galloway 1-2 0-0 3, Williams 1-4 4-6 6, Grant 0-3 0-0 0, Vujacic 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 31-84 13-17 81.

CHICAGO (108) Mirotic 6-8 1-2 17, Gibson 2-7 3-4 7, Gasol 5-17 7-7 17, Hinrich 1-2 0-0 2, Butler 8-18 7-10 23, Portis 6-9 2-2 16, Brooks 3-4 0-0 7, Snell 2-7 0-0 4, McDermott 5-9 0-0 13, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Bairstow 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 39-85 20-25 108.

New York 18 32 23 8— 81 Chicago 34 22 21 31—108 3-Point Goals-New York 6-19 (Calderon 3-3, Galloway 1-1, Anthony 1-3, Porzingis 1-3, Grant 0-1, Seraphin 0-1, Thomas 0-2, Williams 0-2, Afflalo 0-3), Chicago 10-16 (Mirotic 4-6, McDermott 3-4, Portis 2-3, Brooks 1-1, Hinrich 0-1, Butler 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsNew York 47 (Porzingis 9), Chicago 61 (Portis 10). Assists-New York 16 (Calderon 4), Chicago 27 (Mirotic 7). Total Fouls-New York 25, Chicago 19. Technicals-Chicago defensive three second. A-22,443 (20,917).

Raptors 104, Hornets 94 Tornoto — DeMar DeRozan had 23 points, and Kyle Lowry added 18 points and 11 assists as Toronto rallied to beat Charlotte.

It was the fourth doubledouble of the season for Lowry, who helped the Raptors come back from a seven-point deficit entering the fourth quarter and avenge a 109-99 loss in Charlotte last month.

Oklahoma City..............5 (208.5).................CHARLOTTE CLEVELAND....................8 (194.5).........................Orlando MINNESOTA....................1 (200.5)....................Milwaukee DALLAS............................. 3 (208).................New Orleans SAN ANTONIO............... 11 (200.5).......................Houston b-UTAH...........................OFF (OFF)......................Memphis c-GOLDEN ST.................OFF (OFF)..........................Denver LA CLIPPERS.................121⁄2 (210)...............Philadelphia a-Sacramento Forward R. Gay is questionable. b-Utah Forward D. Favors is questionable. c-Golden St Point Guard S. Curry is doubtful.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Favorite................... Points................Underdog SETON HALL.......................... 11..................................DePaul TEMPLE.................................51⁄2. ...........................Houston NORTH CAROLINA.............131⁄2..................Georgia Tech Florida St..............................11⁄2...........................CLEMSON OLD DOMINION.....................15........................Charlotte U James Madison.................41⁄2....................... DELAWARE MICHIGAN...............................12................................ Penn St RICHMOND...........................31⁄2. ....................St. Joseph’s NC WILMINGTON.................. 5.....................Northeastern XAVIER..................................41⁄2.................................Butler SMU.........................................25....................South Florida VALPARAISO......................251⁄2............. Illinois Chicago INDIANA ST..........................51⁄2. .............Loyola Chicago AUBURN.................................11⁄2........................ Tennessee WISC GREEN BAY.................13......... Northern Kentucky AIR FORCE..............................10.......................San Jose St WISCONSIN......................... 161⁄2.............................Rutgers NC State................................11⁄2.................VIRGINIA TECH MIAMI-FLORIDA..................111⁄2.......................... Syracuse Dayton.................................... 6.......................... DUQUESNE Michigan St........................ 101⁄2......................MINNESOTA TEXAS TECH............... 41⁄2.......................Texas West Virginia............. 31⁄2.............. KANSAS ST DETROIT.................................. 11................. Youngstown St OAKLAND.............................121⁄2....................Cleveland St PROVIDENCE...................... 161⁄2.........................St. John’s KANSAS...................... 111⁄2......................Baylor Indiana..................................51⁄2. .......................NEBRASKA WISC MILWAUKEE.............. 71⁄2. .........................Wright St WILLIAM & MARY...............61⁄2.........Coll of Charleston UL-LAFAYETTE.....................14.................Appalachian St

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Rutgers v. Wisconsin 1 p.m. BTN 147,237 Norfolk St. v. Alabama 1 p.m. SEC 157 N.C. St. v. Va. Tech 1 p.m. FSN+ 172 Syracuse v. Miami 1:30p.m. KSMO 3, 203 Mich. St. v. Minnesota 2 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 St. John’s v. Providence 2:30p.m. FS1 150,227 Kansas v. Baylor 3 p.m. CBS 5, 13,

205,213 Tulsa v. Cincinnati 3 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Evansville v. Mo. St. 3 p.m. FSN 36, 236 TCU v. Okla. St. 3 p.m. ESPNN 140,231 Indiana v. Nebraska 3 p.m. BTN 147,237 Arkansas v. Texas A&M 3:30p.m. SEC 157 Joe Skipper/AP Photo Marquette v. G’town 4:30p.m. FS1 150,227 HEAT GUARD BENO UDRIH (19) LOSES THE BALL UNDER PRESSURE from Memphis v. S. Carolina 5 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Mavericks defenders including forward Jeremy Evans (21) in the Heat’s Iowa v. Purdue 5 p.m. BTN 147,237 106-82 victory Friday in Miami.

Iowa St. v. Oklahoma 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Mississippi v. Kentucky 6 p.m. SEC 157 6:30p.m. ESPNN 140,231 extended its dominance of Or- S. Florida v. SMU Georgia v. Florida 7 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 lando.

Maryland v.

N’western 7 p.m. BTN 147,237 ORLANDO (91) Harris 5-9 2-3 13, Frye 2-4 0-0 4, Vucevic 7-16 LSU v. Vanderbilt 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 0-0 14, Payton 1-6 0-0 3, Fournier 5-11 0-0 11, Smith 5-8 0-0 10, Oladipo 8-18 2-2 20, Gordon S. Diego St. v. Utah St. 9 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers 3-6 0-1 6, Nicholson 3-4 2-2 8, Hezonja 0-2 0-0 0, Villanova v. Creighton 9 p.m. FS1 150,227 Dedmon 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 40-85 6-8 91.

Did not play (inactive) Gonzaga v.

San Fran.

10p.m.

ESPN2 34, 234 WASHINGTON (103)

How former Jayhawks fared

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Did not play (inactive) Drew Gooden, Washington Min: 4. Pts: 0. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Min: 16. Pts: 2. Reb: 5. Ast: 2.

Kelly Oubre, Washington Min: 21. Pts: 7. Reb: 5. Ast: 0.

CHARLOTTE (94) Hairston 1-5 0-0 2, Williams 6-12 2-2 17, Zeller 5-7 5-6 15, Walker 7-21 2-2 18, Batum 4-9 3-4 14, Kaminsky 5-10 2-2 13, Lamb 2-10 0-0 5, Roberts 3-5 2-2 8, Hansbrough 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 34-85 16-18 94.

TORONTO (104) Carroll 5-11 0-0 14, Scola 2-10 0-0 5, Valanciunas 3-9 4-5 10, Lowry 6-16 4-4 18, DeRozan 7-18 7-7 23, Ross 3-9 0-0 8, Patterson 5-9 0-0 14, Biyombo 2-3 2-2 6, Joseph 3-6 0-0 6, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-91 17-18 104.

Charlotte 28 27 27 12— 94 Toronto 29 26 19 30—104 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 10-32 (Batum 3-4, Williams 3-6, Walker 2-8, Lamb 1-4, Kaminsky 1-5, Roberts 0-2, Hairston 0-3), Toronto 15-33 (Patterson 4-6, Carroll 4-7, DeRozan 2-2, Ross 2-6, Lowry 2-7, Scola 1-4, Joseph 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Charlotte 49 (Zeller 9), Toronto 60 (Valanciunas 13). Assists-Charlotte 15 (Batum 7), Toronto 21 (Lowry 11). Total Fouls-Charlotte 16, Toronto 19. TechnicalsCharlotte defensive three second, DeRozan, Toronto defensive three second. A-19,800 (19,800).

Wizards 103, Magic 91 Washington — John Wall scored 24 points with 13 assists, Otto Porter had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Washington

LATEST LINE NFL Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog Sunday, Jan 3rd.

Week 17 NY Jets.............................21⁄2 (42).......................BUFFALO CAROLINA.................... 10 1/2(46.5)................Tampa Bay New England..................91⁄2 (47).............................MIAMI CINCINNATI.......................9 (41.5)......................Baltimore ATLANTA..........................51⁄2 (53)................New Orleans HOUSTON.......................61⁄2 (45.5)..............Jacksonville Pittsburgh.........................11 (47)....................CLEVELAND KANSAS CITY........... 7 (43)...................Oakland x-INDIANAPOLIS.............OFF (XX..................) Tennessee DALLAS...............................4 (39)....................Washington CHICAGO......................Pick’em (46).......................Detroit NY GIANTS.......................31⁄2 (51).................Philadelphia GREEN BAY....................31⁄2 (45.5)...................Minnesota DENVER............................... 9 (41)........................San Diego St. Louis...........................3 (37.5)..........SAN FRANCISCO ARIZONA.............................6 (47)..............................Seattle x-Indianapolis QB M. Hasselbeck is doubtful.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAMES Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog Taxslayer Bowl Everbank Field-Jacksonville, FL. Georgia...............................6 (43)............................ Penn St Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl-Memphis, TN. Arkansas................121⁄2 (56)............ Kansas St Alamo Bowl Alamodome-San Antonio, TX. Oregon......................7 (74)..........................Tcu Cactus Bowl Chase Field-Phoenix, AZ. West Virginia............1 (64)...............Arizona St Monday, Jan 11th.

National Championship Game University of Phoenix Stadium-Glendale, AZ. Alabama...........................61⁄2 (52)........................Clemson NBA Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog BOSTON........................ 81⁄2 (204.5)....................Brooklyn a-SACRAMENTO...........OFF (OFF)........................Phoenix INDIANA.........................41⁄2 (201.5).........................Detroit

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Porter 9-20 0-0 20, Dudley 3-11 0-0 7, Gortat 5-10 0-0 10, Wall 10-19 4-4 24, Temple 4-10 2-2 11, Sessions 5-10 1-2 13, Humphries 4-6 2-2 11, Gooden 0-1 0-0 0, Oubre Jr. 3-5 0-0 7. Totals 43-92 9-10 103.

Orlando 21 22 29 19— 91 Washington 24 24 24 31—103 3-Point Goals-Orlando 5-20 (Oladipo 2-6, Payton 1-2, Harris 1-3, Fournier 1-5, Gordon 0-1, Vucevic 0-1, Frye 0-1, Nicholson 0-1), Washington 8-26 (Sessions 2-3, Porter 2-8, Oubre Jr. 1-1, Temple 1-3, Humphries 1-3, Dudley 1-5, Wall 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Orlando 46 (Harris 10), Washington 51 (Gortat 14). Assists-Orlando 29 (Payton 7), Washington 25 (Wall 13). Total Fouls-Orlando 13, Washington 11. Technicals-Orlando defensive three second. A-16,986 (20,308).

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in the fourth quarter against his former team, and Jordan Clark- Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable son added 19.

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PHILADELPHIA (84) Sampson 2-6 0-0 4, Grant 2-6 5-6 9, Noel 6-11 3-5 15, Smith 3-19 3-4 9, Canaan 2-11 2-2 7, Stauskas 2-9 0-0 4, Covington 3-6 2-2 10, Okafor 6-10 0-0 12, Holmes 0-0 2-4 2, McConnell 5-6 1-2 12. Totals 31-84 18-25 84.

L.A. LAKERS (93) Brown 2-3 0-0 5, Nance Jr. 4-7 0-0 8, Hibbert 1-6 1-2 3, Clarkson 6-17 7-9 19, Williams 6-15 10-12 24, Russell 3-14 0-0 6, Randle 6-10 3-4 15, Bass 2-4 1-2 5, Young 3-11 0-0 8. Totals 33-87 22-29 93.

Philadelphia 21 20 19 24—84 L.A. Lakers 21 19 22 31—93 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 4-24 (Covington 2-4, McConnell 1-2, Canaan 1-8, Sampson 0-1, Smith 0-2, Grant 0-2, Stauskas 0-5), L.A. Lakers 5-16 (Young 2-7, Williams 2-7, Brown 1-1, Clarkson 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Philadelphia 60 (Noel 12), L.A. Lakers 61 (Nance Jr. 14). Assists—Philadelphia 21 (McConnell 7), L.A. Lakers 17 (Russell, Williams 5). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 21, L.A. Lakers 17.

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Ohio State cruises past Notre Dame The Associated Press

Fiesta No. 7 Ohio St. 44, No. 8 Notre Dame 28 Glendale, Ariz. — Ezekiel Elliott was Ohio State’s drive capper in the first half. He became the show stopper with a burst of speed in the second.

Not a bad way to head off to the NFL. Elliott ran for 149 yards and matched a Fiesta Bowl record with four touchdowns, sparking Ohio State’s prolific offense against Notre Dame.

The Buckeyes (12-1) were left out of the College Football Playoff thanks to an inopportune loss. They may leave the desert wondering what could have been after blowing past another late-season playoff contender.

Ohio State rolled past the Fighting Irish (10-3), quick-hitting its way to one scoring drive after another and 496 total yards.

Elliott, who’s leaving school early for the NFL, scored on three short runs in the first half and left Notre Dame defenders flailing as he raced past them for a 47-yard score to open the second.

The Fighting Irish had some good offensive moments behind DeShone Kizer after Buckeyes star defensive end Joey Bosa was ejected for targeting in the first quarter.

They just couldn’t keep up with the blistering Buckeyes after losing linebacker Jaylon Smith, one of their best defensive players, in the first quarter.

Kizer threw for 284 yards and two touchdowns on 22-of-37 passing, but had an interception and lost a fumble.

Notre Dame missed its CFB chance by four points; two-point losses to Clemson and Stanford.

Ohio State lost to Michigan State in its penultimate game and had to watch the Spartans join fellow one-loss teams Alabama and Oklahoma in the playoff.

Those just-misses turned the Fiesta Bowl into a talent show, with NFL-caliber players dotting rosters from both teams.

Two of the best players were gone before the first quarter ended.

Smith, the Butkus Award winner as the nation’s best linebacker, had to be helped off four minutes in after suffering an apparent leg injury and did not return.

Notre Dame 0 14 7 7 — 28 Ohio St. 14 14 7 9 — 44 First Quarter OSU-Elliott 2 run (Nuernberger kick), 9:53.

OSU-Thomas 15 pass from Barrett (Nuernberger kick), 7:41.

Second Quarter ND-Adams 3 run (Yoon kick), 7:34.

OSU-Elliott 1 run (Nuernberger kick), 4:55.

OSU-Elliott 1 run (Nuernberger kick), 1:48.

ND-Kizer 1 run (Yoon kick), :29.

Third Quarter ND-Brown 4 pass from Kizer (Yoon kick), 8:58.

OSU-Elliott 47 run (Nuernberger kick), 6:37.

Fourth Quarter OSU-FG Nuernberger 37, 12:10.

ND-Fuller 81 pass from Kizer (Yoon kick), 11:27.

OSU-FG Nuernberger 38, 6:09.

OSU-FG Nuernberger 35, 2:42.

A-71,123.

ND OSU First downs 24 27 Rushes-yards 32-121 54-285 Passing 284 211 Comp-Att-Int 22-38-1 19-31-1 Return Yards 21 77 Punts-Avg. 6-48.2 3-41.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-20 4-45 Time of Possession 27:15 32:45 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Notre Dame, Adams 14-78, Kizer 15-21, Carlisle 1-20, D.Williams 2-2. Ohio St., Elliott 27-149, Barrett 23-96, Miller 2-26, Marshall 1-15, Team 1-(minus 1).

PASSING-Notre Dame, Kizer 22-37-1284, Hunter Jr. 0-1-0-0. Ohio St., Barrett 19-31-1-211.

RECEIVING-Notre Dame, Fuller 6-113, Hunter Jr. 4-52, Brown 4-35, Robinson 3-41, A.Jones 2-24, Carlisle 2-14, Smythe 1-5. Ohio St., Thomas 7-72, Marshall 5-29, Samuel 2-27, Miller 2-12, Elliott 1-30, Baugh 1-27, Vannett 1-14.

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OHIO STATE WIDE RECEIVER MICHAEL THOMAS raises the champions trophy after the Buckeyes beat Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl, 44-28, on Friday in Glendale, Arizona.

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No. 5 Stanford 45, No. 6 Iowa 16 Pasadena, Calif. — Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, and Christian McCaffrey almost won the Heisman Trophy.

McCaffrey and the mighty Cardinal didn’t miss a thing in their Rose Bowl romp over Iowa.

McCaffrey caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the opening snap and returned a punt 66 yards for another score while setting the Rose Bowl record with 368 all-purpose yards, propelling Stanford past the Hawkeyes.

No. 16 Mississippi 48, No. 13 Oklahoma St. 20 New Orleans — Chad Kelly threw for 302 yards and four touchdowns — three to Laquon Treadwell — and Mississippi beat Oklahoma State.

Ole Miss (10-3) jumped to a 34-6 lead by halftime, cruising up and down the field against an overwhelmed Oklahoma State defense.

Stanford 21 14 3 7 — 45 Iowa 0 0 3 13 — 16 First Quarter Stan-McCaffrey 75 pass from Hogan (Ukropina kick), 14:49.

Stan-Hogan 8 run (Ukropina kick), 9:13.

Stan-Meeks 66 interception return (Ukropina kick), 4:07.

Second Quarter Stan-McCaffrey 63 punt return (Ukropina kick), 14:12.

Stan-Rector 31 pass from Hogan (Ukropina kick), 8:22.

Third Quarter Stan-FG Ukropina 31, 11:09.

Iowa-FG Koehn 39, 3:36.

Fourth Quarter Iowa-VandeBerg 36 pass from Beathard (kick failed), 13:12.

Iowa-Wadley 31 pass from Beathard (Koehn kick), 2:46.

Stan-Rector 42 pass from Hogan (Ukropina kick), 1:54.

A-94,268.

Stan Iowa First downs 19 18 Rushes-yards 34-206 38-48 Passing 223 239 Comp-Att-Int 12-21-1 21-33-1 Return Yards 129 38 Punts-Avg. 3-36.3 6-38.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-70 7-50 Time of Possession 27:09 32:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Stanford, McCaffrey 18-172, Wright 5-30, Hogan 6-24, Sanders 2-2, Love 1-(minus 2), Team 2-(minus 20). Iowa, Daniels, Jr. 10-37, Wadley 9-33, Canzeri 5-8, Mitchell Jr. 1-3, Beathard 13-(minus 33).

PASSING-Stanford, Hogan 12-211-223. Iowa, Beathard 21-33-1-239.

RECEIVING-Stanford, McCaffrey 4-105, Hooper 3-23, Rector 2-73, Irwin 1-12, Cajuste 1-8, Love 1-2. Iowa, VandeBerg 4-64, Mitchell Jr. 4-41, Wadley 3-60, Krieger Coble 3-20, T.Smith 2-17, Hillyer 2-16, Canzeri 2-12, Daniels, Jr. 1-9.

Outback Tennessee 45, No. 12 Northwestern 6 Tampa, Fla. — Joshua Dobbs threw for 166 yards and ran for two touchdowns, helping Tennessee cap its best season in eight years.

Northwestern 0 6 0 0 — 6 Tennessee 7 10 7 21 — 45 First Quarter Tenn-Dobbs 14 run (Medley kick), :14.

Second Quarter Tenn-FG Medley 35, 10:47.

NU-Jackson 5 run (kick failed), 5:40.

Tenn-Kamara 11 run (Medley kick), 2:18.

Third Quarter Tenn-Hurd 3 run (Medley kick), 4:40.

Fourth Quarter Tenn-Dobbs 18 run (Medley kick), 11:42.

Tenn-J.Kelly 1 run (Medley kick), 4:24.

Tenn-Ev.Berry 100 interception return (Medley kick), :08.

A-53,202.

NU Tenn First downs 18 24 Rushes-yards 37-132 53-226 Passing 129 194 Comp-Att-Int 14-33-4 16-30-0 Return Yards 0 121 Punts-Avg. 7-34.0 4-47.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 3-35 8-90 Time of Possession 25:51 34:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Northwestern, Jackson 14-74, Acker 3-25, Thorson 12-23, Long 4-8, Hanaoka 1-2, Vault 1-0, Anderson 2-0. Tennessee, Hurd 24-130, Kamara 11-53, Dobbs 12-48, J.Kelly 4-4, Pearson 1-0, Dormady 1-(minus 9).

PASSING-Northwestern, Thorson 8-20-2-57, Oliver 6-13-2-72. Tennessee, Dobbs 14-25-0-166, Dormady 2-4-0-28, Ashford 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Northwestern, Vault 3-19, Youngblood-Ary 2-33, Carr 2-26, Shuler 2-17, Jackson 2-15, G.Dickerson 1-11, C.Dickerson 1-4, Long 1-4.

Tennessee, Ellis 3-74, Kamara 3-19, Pearson 2-32, Et.Wolf 2-24, Malone 2-17, North 1-12, Jo.Johnson 1-9, Jennings 1-7, Hurd 1-0.

Oklahoma St. 3 3 7 7 — 20 Mississippi 10 24 7 7 — 48 First Quarter OkSt-FG Grogan 26, 4:52.

Miss-FG Wunderlich 34, 2:15.

Miss-Core 31 pass from Kelly (Wunderlich kick), :20.

Second Quarter Miss-Treadwell 34 pass from Kelly (Wunderlich kick), 11:28.

Miss-Treadwell 10 pass from Kelly (Wunderlich kick), 6:58.

Miss-FG Wunderlich 38, 3:39.

OkSt-FG Grogan 31, 1:22.

Miss-Tunsil 2 run (Wunderlich kick), :00.

Third Quarter Miss-Wilkins 36 run (Wunderlich kick), 4:26.

OkSt-Walsh 2 run (Grogan kick), 1:11.

Fourth Quarter Miss-Treadwell 14 pass from Kelly (Wunderlich kick), 13:04.

OkSt-Walsh 8 run (Grogan kick), 3:03.

A-72,117.

OkSt Miss First downs 20 28 Rushes-yards 30-63 37-207 Passing 303 347 Comp-Att-Int 27-45-0 22-35-1 Return Yards 31 0 Punts-Avg. 7-38.1 4-45.8 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-77 5-75 Time of Possession 31:53 28:07 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Oklahoma St., Walsh 10-74, Carson 10-13, R.Taylor 1-3, Childs 3-(minus 1), Team 1-(minus 3), Rudolph 5-(minus 23). Mississippi, Kelly 10-73, Wilkins 5-48, Judd 7-43, Walton 8-40, Brazley 3-8, K.Moore 1-3, Tunsil 1-2, Buchanan 1-(minus 4), Team 1-(minus 6).

PASSING-Oklahoma St., Rudolph 18-31-0-179, Walsh 9-14-0-124.

Mississippi, Kelly 21-33-1-302, Treadwell 1-1-0-45, Buchanan 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Oklahoma St., Ateman 5-70, Carson 4-59, Glidden 4-59, Sheperd 3-35, McCleskey 3-24, Jarwin 3-10, Seaton 1-18, Washington 1-10,Seales 1-9, Veatch 1-9, Carr 1-0.

Mississippi, Engram 6-96, Treadwell 6-71, Core 4-91, Pack 2-10, Wilkins 1-45, Adeboyejo 1-23, De.Jones 1-13, Walton 1-(minus 2).

Citrus No. 17 Michigan 41, No. 19 Florida 7 Orlando, Fla. — Jake Rudock threw for 278 yards and three touchdowns, and Michigan’s defense dominated throughout.

Michigan 7 10 14 10 — 41 Florida 7 0 0 0 — 7 First Quarter Mich-D.Johnson 4 run (Allen kick), 5:54.

Fla-T.Harris 2 pass from Callaway (MacInnes kick), 1:58.

Second Quarter Mich-Chesson 31 pass from Rudock (Allen kick), 8:49.

Mich-FG Allen 21, 1:01.

Third Quarter Mich-Perry 3 pass from Rudock (Allen kick), 8:47.

Mich-Houma 2 run (Allen kick), 3:48.

Fourth Quarter Mich-D.Johnson 8 pass from Rudock (Allen kick), 12:32.

Mich-FG Allen 25, 6:42.

A-63,113.

Mich Fla First downs 28 14 Rushes-yards 46-225 27-118 Passing 278 155 Comp-Att-Int 20-31-0 10-25-2 Return Yards 12 0 Punts-Avg. 1-57.0 4-54.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-30 7-66 Time of Possession 38:38 21:22 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Michigan, Smith 25-109, D.Johnson 6-58, Houma 9-32, Rudock 4-29, Team 2-(minus 3). Florida, T.Harris 11-55, Taylor 11-50, Cronkrite 3-17, Bryan 1-(minus 1), Grady 1-(minus 3).

PASSING-Michigan, Rudock 20-31-0278. Florida, T.Harris 8-21-1-146, Grady 1-2-0-7, Callaway 1-1-0-2, Townsend 0-1-1-0.

RECEIVING-Michigan, Chesson 5-118, Perry 5-51, Butt 3-34, Darboh 2-24, D.Johnson 2-10, K.Hill 1-24, Bunting 1-17, Smith 1-0. Florida, Callaway 5-75, B.Powell 1-26, Thompson 1-20, Robinson 1-17, Cronkrite 1-15, T.Harris 1-2.

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If KU wins today and Oklahoma tops Iowa State in Norman, KU and OU could be Nos. 1 and 2 nationally entering Monday night’s contest.

If that matchup occurs, it would be the second time in history KU has played as the No. 1-ranked team vs. No. 2. The top-ranked Jayhawks fell to No. 2 Missouri, 77-71, on Feb. 13, 1990 in Allen.

That’s possible hype regarding Monday night’s game.

As far as today, KU hopes to extend its conference-opening win streak to 25 games overall, with 12 of those games in Allen. Last time KU lost a conference opener was to Oklahoma, 88-82, on Jan. 8, 1991 in Norman.

The Jayhawks, who have won 11 straight league titles, are 13-0 versus Baylor in Lawrence (12-0 in Allen) and 21-2 against BU in Big 12 regular-season play. KU, which leads the all-time series 24-4, has won five straight in the series and 10 of 12. Self is 16-3 vs.

Baylor while at KU; Baylor coach Scott Drew is 3-16 vs. the Jayhawks.

The 2015-16 Bears are led by 6-foot-8 senior forward Taurean Prince, who averages 15.5 points a game off 41.6 percent shooting. Rico Gathers, a 6-8, 275-pound senior forward, averages 14.1 points and 11.0 rebounds, while 5-10 senior guard Lester Medford has dished 82 assists against 21 turnovers.

Gathers averaged 12.7 points and 11.7 boards in three losses to KU last season.

“Last year he was unreal, scored outside the lane, jumpers right-handed, left-handed, doing everything. But he’s going to get his, and he’s going to get rebounds and things like that. We just can’t let him get huge numbers,” Self said noting, “our big guy, whoever the big guy is, will draw that assignment.”

“He (Gathers) is a big, physical guy,” KU senior forward Hunter Mickelson said. “He gets a lot of rebounds. He’s definitely a force on offense, too. Strictly from the size standpoint, getting offensive rebounds, guarding him on the block, making sure he doesn’t get angles. He’s a big guy, and we’ll definitely have to work on being able to guard him.”

Medford leads an unselfish offensive attack that has accounted for 272 assists to 148 turnovers. KU has 222 assists to 137 turnovers.

“It’s unbelievable. Like in the last game against Texas Southern, they had 27 baskets and 23 assists.

I mean, the numbers are

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to crack the top 10 in both categories.

Whether Ellis lands in the top five, top 10 or top 20, Manning’s feelings about the Wichita native won’t change. Although he never coached Ellis at Kansas, Manning was in on the initial stages of recruiting him and said he could tell early that Ellis had a bright future as a Jayhawk.

“I think his mindset is one thing that gives him a chance to have a lot of success, because he’s so even-keeled,” Manning said. “Whenever somebody gets to their senior year, you see how they’ve evolved, not only on the court but as a young man.

And what he’s done is pretty cool.”

Asked to elaborate on the aspects of Ellis’ game he liked the most, Man-

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Kansas University Probable Starters BAYLOR (10-2) F — Rico Gathers (6-8, Sr.) F — Taurean Prince (6-8, Sr.) G — Lester Medford (5-10, Sr.) G — Ishmail Wainright (6-5, Jr.) G — Al Freeman (6-3, Soph.)

KANSAS (11-1) F — Perry Ellis (6-8, Sr.) F — Hunter Mickelson (6-10, Sr.) G — Frank Mason III (5-11, Jr.) G — Wayne Selden Jr. (6-5, Jr.) G — Devonté Graham (6-2, Soph.)

Tipoff: 3 p.m. today, Allen Fieldhouse.

TV: CBS (WOW! channels 5, 13, 205, 213).

Rosters BAYLOR 0 — Jo Acuil, 7-0, 210, Jr., F, Melbourne, Australia.

1 — Wendell Mitchell, 6-3, 180, Fr., G, Rockdale, Texas.

2 — Rico Gathers, 6-8, 275, Sr., F, LaPlace, Louisiana.

3 — Jake Lindsey, 6-5, 190, Fr., G, Salt Lake City.

5 — Johnathan Motley, 6-9, 230, Soph., F, Houston.

11— Lester Medford, 5-10, 175, Sr., G, Tucson, Arizona.

13 — John Heard, 6-5, 210, Sr., F, Houston.

20 — Manu Lecomte, 5-11, 170, Jr, G, Brussels, Belgium.

21 — Taurean Prince, 6-8, 220, Sr., F, San Antonio.

22 — King McClure, 6-3, 200, Fr., G, Ovilla, Texas.

24 — Ishmail Wainright, 6-5, 230, Jr., G, Kansas City, Missouri.

25 — Al Freeman, 6-3, 200, Soph., G, Charlotte, North Carolina.

31 — Terry Maston, 6-7, 215, Soph., F, DeSoto, Texas.

33 — Austin Mills, 6-1, 175, Sr., G, Beverly Hills, California.

Head coach: Scott Drew.

Assistants: Jerome Tang, Grant McCasland, Paul Mills.

KANSAS 0 — Frank Mason III, 5-11, 185, Jr., G, Petersburg, Virginia.

1 — Wayne Selden, Jr., 6-5, 230, Jr., G, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

2 — Lagerald Vick, 6-5, 175, Fr., G, Memphis.

4 — Devonté Graham, 6-2, 175, Soph., G, Raleigh, North Carolina.

5 — Evan Manning, 6-3, 170, Sr., G, Lawrence.

10 — Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, 6-8, 195, Soph., G, Cherkasy, Ukraine.

11 — Tyler Self, 6-2, 165, Jr., G, Lawrence.

13 — Cheick Diallo, 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Kayes, Mali, Africa.

14 — Brannen Greene, 6-7, 215, Jr., G, Juliette, Georgia.

15 — Carlton Bragg, Jr., 6-9, 220, Fr., F, Cleveland.

21 — Clay Young, 6-5, 205, Soph., F, Lansing.

22 — Dwight Coleby, 6-9, 240, Jr., F, Nassau, Bahamas.

31 — Jamari Traylor, 6-8, 220, Sr., F, Chicago.

33 — Landen Lucas, 6-10, 240, Jr., F, Portland, Oregon.

34 — Perry Ellis, 6-8, 225, Sr., F, Wichita.

42 — Hunter Mickelson, 6-10, 245, Sr., F, Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Head coach: Bill Self.

Assistants: Kurtis Townsend, Norm Roberts, Jerrance Howard.

staggering of what they are doing, and Lester is probably the biggest reason why that is. He’s off to a fabulous start,” Self said.

“We talk about Frank’s assist-to-turnover ratio (Mason has 68 assists, 16 turnovers). Medford the last five games is 42 to 6. That’s 7-to-1, and we talk about Frank being really good at 41⁄2-to-1.

They haven’t skipped a beat with him playing there (point), at all,” Self added.

Baylor likes to confound opponents with its zone defense, though the Bears also play man-toman. BU has allowed 63.3 points a game. with foes shooting 40.4 percent overall.

“Their zone, their size, their strength down low,” Selden said, asked to describe some challenges in facing Baylor. “Just trying to attack that zone can take different forms at times trying to get in there sometimes. UC

Irvine had a good zone (in KU’s 78-53 victory on Tuesday). We really didn’t know what was going on at some points in the first half with their zone. I think that was good preparation because after a while we were able to attack it better,” Selden added.

Of Baylor’s zone, sophomore guard Devonté Graham said: “Baylor has length in its zone. It’s hard to attack it. We’ll watch on film how to attack the zone and hopefully come out with the ‘W.’’’ In general, “We’ve been doing a good job so far,” Graham said of going 11-1 with one nonconference game remaining, Jan. 30 vs. Kentucky, “but we’ve got to keep it up.

The intensity level has to go up a couple notches.

Everybody will be coming for us, trying to end the streak (of 11 straight conference titles). We’ve got to pick it up and realize the competition is about to go up.”

ning had trouble limiting the list.

“He’s a smart young man. He’s very calculated at understanding what he needs to do out there on the court,” Manning said. “And, like a lot of talented guys that come in their freshman year, you want to fit in, and I think he’s starting to do a really good job of starting to assert himself, especially down the stretch last year.”

So far this season, Ellis’ play has resembled his past three years. Spurts of brilliance followed by moments of disappearance have urged Self to call for Ellis to be more aggressive. Lately, the plea appears to be working.

In KU’s three most recent games, the 6-foot-8, 225-pound senior has averaged 17 points and seven rebounds in wins over Montana, San Diego State and UC Irvine. What’s more, Ellis in recent weeks has emphasized

getting to the free-throw line, where he has missed just once (21-for-22) in the past four games.

“He’s always been very athletic,” said Manning, noting Ellis’ leaner look in 2015. “But I think he’s a little bit more sure of himself in contact now.

He’s seeking out contact more. ... He gives coach Self a chance to do some things with his versatility, because he’s quick enough to slide against guards, and he handles it well enough that you can put him on the perimeter and do some different things that coach hasn’t been able to do the last couple years.”

Regardless of where Ellis ends up in the KU record book, Manning said the senior forward was worthy of owning a place in the storied history of Kansas basketball.

“Absolutely,” Manning said. “No question. I’m happy for him and hopefully he goes out with a bang this year.”

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UTAH GUARD LORENZO BONAM (15) DRIVES TO THE BASKET against Stanford during the first half of the Utes’ 70-68 overtime loss on Friday in Stanford, California.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Utah tumbles in OT The Associated Press

Stanford 70, No. 21 Utah 68, OT Stanford, Calif. — The Pac-12’s top freethrow-shooting team entering Friday missed its final seven chances from the stripe — and No. 21 Utah lost the game because of it.

Perhaps its place in the Top 25, too.

Rosco Allen scored five of his 17 points in overtime after banking in the tying basket with 10.5 seconds left in regulation, and Stanford took advantage of all those missed free throws to beat the Utes 70-68 on Friday night in the conference opener for both schools.

“We missed shots, missed free throws.

That’s what happened,” said Jordan Loveridge, who missed two free throws with 18.9 seconds left in regulation and another two in OT. “Can’t win like that.”

Utah shot free throws for 15 minutes during its shootaround earlier in the day, just as it does during every practice.

The Utes (11-3, 0-1) got one final play with seven seconds left, and Lorenzo Bonam drove into traffic and traveled.

Utah, shooting 73.2 percent from the line coming in, missed four free throws in the final 18.9 seconds of regulation.

Brandon Taylor missed two with 1.8 seconds left after the two misses by Loveridge, who missed two more with 2:27 to go in overtime.

Allen then drove the baseline for a dunk and his long jumper with

BOX SCORE UTAH (11-3) Taylor 3-8 0-2 8, Bonam 4-11 6-7 15, Loveridge 2-8 0-4 6, Kuzma 7-15 0-2 14, Poeltl 6-8 4-6 16, Chapman 3-4 0-0 6, Wright 0-0 0-0 0, Tucker 1-2 0-0 2, Reyes 0-1 1-3 1. Totals 26-57 11-24 68.

STANFORD (8-4) Sanders 2-7 0-0 4, Humphrey 4-12 5-8 13, Pickens 2-8 0-2 4, Mar. Allen 4-11 4-4 14, R. Allen 7-14 1-3 17, Mal. Allen 0-1 0-0 0, Sheffield 7-13 3-5 17, Sharma 0-0 0-1 0, Walker 0-0 1-2 1, Verhoeven 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-66 14-25 70.

Halftime-Utah 30-21. End Of Regulation-Tied 63. 3-Point GoalsUtah 5-19 (Taylor 2-7, Loveridge 2-8, Bonam 1-3, Tucker 0-1), Stanford 4-17 (Mar. Allen 2-5, R. Allen 2-6, Sanders 0-1, Sheffield 0-1, Humphrey 0-1, Pickens 0-3). Fouled Out-Chapman, Humphrey, Poeltl. Rebounds-Utah 39 (Kuzma 12), Stanford 39 (Humphrey 8). Assists-Utah 14 (Bonam 5), Stanford 7 (Pickens 4). Total FoulsUtah 25, Stanford 25. A-4,065.

1:31 left in the extra period put Stanford ahead again.

“There are a million different elements to the game,” Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said. “Free throws might be the one most glaring, but there are a lot of plays along the way.”

Stanford shot 14-for-25 at the line.

“Maybe a little hangover from the holidays,” coach Johnny Dawkins said of both teams’ poor free-throw performance.

Freshman Marcus Sheffield scored a season-high 17 points and Marcus Allen added 14 for Stanford (8-4, 1-0), which made 10 of its first 18 shots out of halftime to get back in the game.

Jakob Poeltl, Utah’s leading scorer at 17.8 points and one of four starters averaging in double figures, scored 16 points but fouled out before OT. He converted a three-point play with 2:22 to go in regulation as Michael Humphrey fouled

out, then Poeltl fouled out with 39.6 seconds left.

The Utes missed a third straight game reaching 100 points.

Bonam scored 15 points and Kyle Kuzma added 14 as the Utes had their four-game winning streak snapped to begin the tough Bay Area road trip.

“We’re just trying to get this out of our heads and bounce back so we can play Cal,” Bonam said.

Rosco Allen’s threepointer with 9:59 to play pulled Stanford within 45-43 then Humphrey’s free throws at 9:30 tied it.

Marcus Allen hit a three NFL Team Statistics with 5:53 left that again Week 16 YARDAGE kept the Cardinal close at TOTAL AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE OFFENSE 52-50.

Yards Rush Pass Stanford opened con- Pittsburgh 5943 1694 4249 ference play with a hard- New England 5795 1334 4461 5632 1248 4384 fought win at Maples San Diego N.Y. Jets 5625 1746 3879 Pavilion hours after the Buffalo 5480 2319 3161 5436 1660 3776 Cardinal’s 45-16 Rose Cincinnati 5408 1419 3989 Bowl victory over Iowa Baltimore Jacksonville 5366 1441 3925 was shown on the arena’s Denver 5185 1508 3677 Houston 5162 1571 3591 main scoreboard before Oakland 5131 1409 3722 the game.

Cleveland 5048 1443 3605 4960 1855 3105 The basketball game Kansas City Miami 4869 1400 3469 drew 4,065 fans, about Indianapolis 4815 1311 3504 what was expected on a Tennessee 4757 1348 3409 day that focused on foot- DEFENSE

Yards Rush Pass ball here.

Denver 4213 1227 2986 4748 1565 3183 The Utes had held Houston Jets 4803 1222 3581 their previous four op- N.Y. New England 4993 1484 3509 ponents to a shooting Kansas City 5064 1523 3541 Baltimore 5101 1516 3585 average of 30.8 percent, Cincinnati 5112 1418 3694 then limited Stanford to Tennessee 5148 1670 3478 San Diego 5288 1795 3493 39 percent.

5402 1608 3794 The Cardinal missed Buffalo Oakland 5479 1489 3990 eight straight shots dur- Pittsburgh 5546 1373 4173 5598 1549 4049 ing a 2-for-14 stretch Jacksonville Cleveland 5688 2025 3663 midway through the Miami 5823 1949 3874 Indianapolis 5835 1815 4020 first half with three turnovers, but Utah also NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE went cold in a 3:09 scor- OFFENSE

Yards Rush Pass ing drought.

Arizona 6301 1890 4411 The Utes still used a New Orleans 6071 1424 4647 5705 2124 3581 9-0 run during that time Seattle Bay 5628 2085 3543 on the way to a 30-21 half- Tampa Atlanta 5571 1519 4052 Carolina 5505 2171 3334 time lead.

Pitino addresses scandal Louisville, Ky. (ap) — A frustrated Rick Pitino said the NCAA has not interviewed him about an escort’s book allegations of sex parties at Louisville players’ dormitory and doesn’t believe the scandal will be resolved until summer.

At the end of Friday’s news conference previewing Louisville’s Atlantic Coast Conference opener against Wake Forest, the Cardinals coach answered an initial question about whether he made an obscene gesture to Kentucky fans following last week’s loss — he has said he didn’t — before going on an unprompted diatribe about the sex scandal surrounding his program.

Katina Powell has alleged former Louisville staffer Andre McGee hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players. Pitino has denied knowledge of the allegations but said Friday he believes one person did “some scurrilous things.”

Pitino didn’t mention McGee as the person in question.

But the coach said, “Did one person do some scurrilous things? I believe so, from what I know now.

The only thing I don’t know is why he did it. For the life of me, I can’t figure it out. .... He knew better and was taught better by his parents and by me.”

Pitino launched into his first lengthy comments about the scandal since late October after talking about Sunday’s game.

Pitino railed against media outlets for giving Powell a forum to lay out allegations he has denied knowing about and also questioned. He also has concerns about some of the reporting that has been done, as well as how the journal was put together.

He said some of his concerns were raised during a meeting between Louisville athletic officials and Indianapolis-based IBJ Book Publishing — which published “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen.”

“You mean to tell me a four-year record was kept? There was no fouryear record that was kept, come on,” said Pitino, adding that the school has

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 3 0 .800 455 295 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 370 292 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 357 342 Miami 5 10 0 .333 290 379 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 8 7 0 .533 309 307 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 303 384 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 370 418 Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 275 393 North

W L T Pct PF PA y-Cincinnati 11 4 0 .733 395 263 Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 395 307 Baltimore 5 10 0 .333 312 377 Cleveland 3 12 0 .200 266 404 West

W L T Pct PF PA x-Denver 11 4 0 .733 328 276 x-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 382 270 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 342 376 San Diego 4 11 0 .267 300 371 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 354 356 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 342 400 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 390 407 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 252 340 South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 462 298 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 322 325 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 332 379 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 388 459 North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 355 303 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 345 289 Detroit 6 9 0 .400 334 380 Chicago 6 9 0 .400 315 373 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Arizona 13 2 0 .867 483 277 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 387 271 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 264 311 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 219 371 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday, Jan. 3 Jacksonville at Houston, noon Washington at Dallas, noon Detroit at Chicago, noon N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, noon New England at Miami, noon New Orleans at Atlanta, noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, noon Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon Tennessee at Indianapolis, noon Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, noon St. Louis at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 3:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 3:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 7:30 p.m.

been wronged. “You’ve got to be kidding me. ...

“Here they’re saying they kept a journal for four years and can’t complete two sentences? Something’s not right here.”

Powell’s attorney, Larry Wilder of Jeffersonville, Indiana, has stood by his client’s accounts in interviews and said Friday in a lengthy text to the Associated Press that the NCAA went through each page of Powell’s five journals.

“I appreciate Coach Pitino’s position. I understand that he is hopeful that these things didn’t take place,” Wilder wrote. “However, the NCAA will render their opinion when they complete their full investigation and I am confident that their opinion will be reflective of the totality of the evidence and the circumstances.”

Pitino recently has not been available often to talk about the scandal. He did not speak at ACC media day on the advice of counsel and has skipped several postgame interviews, often sending assistant coach Ralph Willard in his place.

N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota Dallas San Francisco St. Louis DEFENSE

Seattle Carolina Arizona Tampa Bay Dallas Minnesota Atlanta Chicago Detroit Green Bay St. Louis Washington San Francisco Philadelphia New Orleans N.Y. Giants

5454 5395 5224 5198 5172 5003 4897 4849 4402 4399

1401 1623 1420 1268 1743 1774 2060 1790 1436 1825

4053 3772 3804 3930 3429 3229 2837 3059 2966 2574

Yards 4438 4781 4793 5080 5133 5157 5172 5178 5252 5305 5428 5578 5835 5924 6201 6290

Rush 1279 1338 1315 1495 1788 1672 1613 1867 1697 1754 1713 1862 1887 1945 1984 1822

Pass 3159 3443 3478 3585 3345 3485 3559 3311 3555 3551 3715 3716 3948 3979 4217 4468

AVERAGE PER GAME AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE OFFENSE

Yards Rush Pass Pittsburgh 396.2 112.9 283.3 New England 386.3 88.9 297.4 San Diego 375.5 83.2 292.3 N.Y. Jets 375.0 116.4 258.6 Buffalo 365.3 154.6 210.7 Cincinnati 362.4 110.7 251.7 Baltimore 360.5 94.6 265.9 Jacksonville 357.7 96.1 261.7 Denver 345.7 100.5 245.1 Houston 344.1 104.7 239.4 Oakland 342.1 93.9 248.1 Cleveland 336.5 96.2 240.3 Kansas City 330.7 123.7 207.0 Miami 324.6 93.3 231.3 Indianapolis 321.0 87.4 233.6 Tennessee 317.1 89.9 227.3 DEFENSE

Yards Rush Pass Denver 280.9 81.8 199.1 Houston 316.5 104.3 212.2 N.Y. Jets 320.2 81.5 238.7 New England 332.9 98.9 233.9 Kansas City 337.6 101.5 236.1 Baltimore 340.1 101.1 239.0 Cincinnati 340.8 94.5 246.3 Tennessee 343.2 111.3 231.9 San Diego 352.5 119.7 232.9 Buffalo 360.1 107.2 252.9 Oakland 365.3 99.3 266.0 Pittsburgh 369.7 91.5 278.2 Jacksonville 373.2 103.3 269.9 Cleveland 379.2 135.0 244.2 Miami 388.2 129.9 258.3 Indianapolis 389.0 121.0 268.0

NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE OFFENSE

Yards Rush Pass Arizona 420.1 126.0 294.1 New Orleans 404.7 94.9 309.8 Seattle 380.3 141.6 238.7 Tampa Bay 375.2 139.0 236.2 Atlanta 371.4 101.3 270.1 Carolina 367.0 144.7 222.3 N.Y. Giants 363.6 93.4 270.2 Philadelphia 359.7 108.2 251.5 Washington 348.3 94.7 253.6 Detroit 346.5 84.5 262.0 Chicago 344.8 116.2 228.6 Green Bay 333.5 118.3 215.3 Minnesota 326.5 137.3 189.1 Dallas 323.3 119.3 203.9 San Francisco 293.5 95.7 197.7 St. Louis 293.3 121.7 171.6 DEFENSE

Yards Rush Pass Seattle 295.9 85.3 210.6 Carolina 318.7 89.2 229.5 Arizona 319.5 87.7 231.9 Tampa Bay 338.7 99.7 239.0 Dallas 342.2 119.2 223.0 Minnesota 343.8 111.5 232.3 Atlanta 344.8 107.5 237.3 Chicago 345.2 124.5 220.7 Detroit 350.1 113.1 237.0 Green Bay 353.7 116.9 236.7 St. Louis 361.9 114.2 247.7 Washington 371.9 124.1 247.7 San Francisco 389.0 125.8 263.2 Philadelphia 394.9 129.7 265.3 New Orleans 413.4 132.3 281.1 N.Y. Giants 419.3 121.5 297.9

College Bowls

Thursday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl Atlanta Houston 38, Florida State 24 Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal) Miami Gardens, Fla. Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17 Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal) Arlington, Texas Alabama 38, Michigan State 0 Friday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Tennessee 45, Northwestern 6 Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Michigan 41, Florida 7 Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

Ohio State 44, Notre Dame 28 Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford 45, Iowa 16 Sugar Bowl New Orleans Mississippi 48, Oklahoma State 20 Today TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

Clemson (14-0) vs. Alabama (13-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 5 p.m.

(ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 30 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

Conference Bowl Records Through, Jan. 1, 2016 Conference Pac-12 Southeastern Conference USA Big Ten Mountain West Sun Belt Atlantic Coast Mid-American Big 12 American Athletic Independents

W 6 6 3 5 4 2 5 3 1 1 0

L 2 2 2 4 4 2 6 4 3 5 2

Pct. .750 .750 .600 .555 .500 .500 .455 .429 .250 .167 .000

FCS Playoffs

Championship Saturday, Jan. 9 At Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas North Dakota State (12-2) vs.

Jacksonville State (13-1), 11 a.m.

FOOTBALL National Football League PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed S Ross Ventrone from the practice squad. Released WR Jacoby Jones.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed S Chris Conte on injured reserve.

Signed LB Darius Eubanks from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DL Kamal Johnson to the practice squad.

COLLEGE PURDUE — Named Ross Els defensive coordinator.

College Men

SOUTHWEST North Texas 70, UTSA 66 UTEP 61, Rice 60 FAR WEST Southern Cal 90, Washington St. 77 Stanford 70, Utah 68, OT

Big 12 Men

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Oklahoma 0 0 11 0 Iowa State 0 0 11 1 Kansas 0 0 11 1 West Virginia 0 0 11 1 Texas Tech 0 0 10 1 Baylor 0 0 10 2 Kansas State 0 0 10 2 Oklahoma State 0 0 8 4 TCU 0 0 8 4 Texas 0 0 8 4 Today’s Games West Virginia at Kansas State, 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Texas at Texas Tech, 1 p.m. (ESPNU) Baylor at Kansas, 3 p.m. (CBS) TCU at Oklahoma State, 3 p.m.

(ESPNEWS) Iowa State at Oklahoma, 6 p.m.

(ESPN2 Monday’s Games West Virginia at TCU, 6 p.m. (ESPN2) Oklahoma at Kansas, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

KU Men

Nov. 4 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 89-66 Nov. 10 — Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 95-59 Nov. 13 — Northern Colorado, W 109-72 (1-0) Nov. 17 — Michigan State at Chicago United Center, L 73-79 (1-1) Nov. 23 — Chaminade at Maui Invitational, W 123-72 (2-1) Nov. 24 — UCLA at Maui Invitational, W 92-73 (3-1)

Nov. 25 — Vanderbilt at Maui Invitational, W 70-63 (4-1) Dec. 1 — Loyola (Md.), W 94-61 (5-1) Dec. 5 — Harvard, W 75-69 (6-1) Dec. 9 — Holy Cross, W 92-59 (7-1) Dec. 12 — Oregon State at Kansas City Shootout, Sprint Center, W 82-67 (8-1) Dec. 19 — Montana, W 88-46 (9-1) Dec. 22 — at San Diego State, W 70-57 (10-1) Dec. 29 — UC Irvine, W 78-53 (11-1) Today — Baylor, 3 p.m.

Jan. 4 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

Jan. 9 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Jan. 12 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 16 — TCU, 1 p.m.

Jan. 19 — at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Jan. 23 — Texas, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 —at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 30 — Kentucky in Big 12/SEC Challenge, Allen Fieldhouse, TBA Feb. 3 — Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at TCU, 11 a.m.

Feb. 9 — West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Feb. 13 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

Feb. 15 — Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 20 — at Kansas State, 5 p.m.

Feb. 23 —at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at Texas, 8 p.m.

March 5 — Iowa State, TBA March 9-12 — Big 12 tournament at Kansas City, Mo.

College Women

EAST Syracuse 91, Texas Rio Grande Valley 32 SOUTH Florida A&M 59, Savannah St. 38 Louisville 79, Florida St. 69 N. Kentucky 55, Ill.-Chicago 53 Stetson 68, Hampton 59 MIDWEST Green Bay 63, Milwaukee 42 IUPUI 69, IPFW 50 Indiana St. 59, Wichita St. 33 Missouri St. 73, Illinois St. 51 N. Iowa 62, Evansville 51 S. Illinois 77, Drake 67 South Dakota 85, Denver 60 W. Illinois 72, Oral Roberts 61 Wright St. 80, Valparaiso 63 SOUTHWEST North Texas 68, UTSA 58 UTEP 60, Rice 54

Big 12 Women

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Texas 1 0 12 0 Oklahoma State 1 0 11 1 Oklahoma 1 0 10 2 Iowa State 1 0 9 3 TCU 1 0 9 3 Baylor 0 1 13 1 Kansas State 0 1 10 2 Texas Tech 0 1 9 3 West Virginia 0 1 10 4 Kansas 0 1 5 7 Today’s Games Kansas State at TCU, 1 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Iowa State, 2 p.m.

Texas Tech at Texas, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games West Virginia at Kansas, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma at Baylor, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Oklahoma at TCU, 6 p.m. (FSSW+) Oklahoma St. at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m.

Iowa State at Texas, 7 p.m. (LHN) West Virginia at Kansas State, 7 p.m. (FCS Central) Baylor at Kansas, 7 p.m. (TWCSC)

Kansas Women

Nov. 1 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 80-54 Nov. 8 — Emporia State (exhibition), W 68-57 Nov. 15 — Texas Southern, W 72-65 (1-0) Nov. 19 — Memphis, W 72-63 (2-0) Nov. 23 — at Arizona, L 52-67 (2-1) Nov. 27 — Northern Illinois at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, Dallas, W 66-58 (3-1) Nov. 28 — SMU at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, Dallas, L 64-73 (3-2) Dec. 2 — Creighton, W 67-54 (4-2) Dec. 6 — St. John’s, L 71-86 (4-3) Dec. 10 — UMKC, L 44-47 (4-4) Dec. 13 — Navy, W 61-54 OT (5-4) Dec. 20 — Washington State, L 53-66 (5-5) Dec. 22 — Oral Roberts, L 63-70 (5-6) Dec. 30 — at Oklahoma, TBA Jan. 3 — West Virginia, TBA Jan. 6 — Baylor, TBA Jan. 9 — at Iowa State, TBA Jan. 13 — Texas, TBA Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, TBA Jan. 20 — Kansas State, TBA Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, TBA Jan. 27 — at Texas, TBA Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 2 — Iowa State, TBA Feb. 6 — at Baylor, TBA Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, TBA Feb. 17 — TCU, TBA Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, TBA Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, TBA Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 29 — at TCU, TBA March 4-7 — Big 12 tournament at Oklahoma City

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 21 13 .618 — Boston 18 14 .563 2 New York 15 19 .441 6 Brooklyn 9 23 .281 11 Philadelphia 3 32 .086 18½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 21 13 .618 — Miami 19 13 .594 1 Orlando 19 14 .576 1½ Charlotte 17 15 .531 3 Washington 15 16 .484 4½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 21 9 .700 — Chicago 19 12 .613 2½ Indiana 18 14 .563 4 Detroit 18 15 .545 4½ Milwaukee 13 21 .382 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 28 6 .824 — Dallas 19 14 .576 8½ Memphis 18 16 .529 10 Houston 16 18 .471 12 New Orleans 10 22 .313 17 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 23 10 .697 — Utah 14 17 .452 8 Portland 14 21 .400 10 Denver 12 21 .364 11 Minnesota 12 21 .364 11 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 30 2 .938 — L.A. Clippers 21 13 .618 10 Sacramento 12 20 .375 18 Phoenix 12 23 .343 19½ L.A. Lakers 7 27 .206 24 Friday’s Games Washington 103, Orlando 91 Toronto 104, Charlotte 94 Miami 106, Dallas 82 Chicago 108, New York 81 L.A. Lakers 93, Philadelphia 84 Today’s Games Brooklyn at Boston, 2 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Utah, 8 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

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Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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4wd ext cab, V8, power equipment, cruise control, running boards, alloy wheels, very affordable!

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Semi-retired social worker seeks position as in-home caregiver. Meal prep, light housekeeping, personal care, errands. Ref. available.

Call Mary 785-979-4317 The Wood Doctor - Wood rot repair, fences, decks, doors & windows - built, repaired, or replaced & more! Bath/kitchen remodeled. Basement finished.

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2012 Volkswagen Beetle 2.0 TSi

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Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

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Higgins Handyman Interior/exterior painting, roofing, roof repairs, fence work, deck work, lawn care, siding, windows & doors. For 11+ years serving Douglas County & surrounding areas. Insured.

785-312-1917 Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

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Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash 785-766-5285

Family Tradition Interior & Exterior Painting Carpentry/Wood Rot Senior Citizen Discount Ask for Ray 785-330-3459 Interior/Exterior Painting Quality Work Over 30 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

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hundreds of jobs OPEN NOW! PLACE YOUR AD:

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A P P LY N O W

590 AREA JOB OPENINGS! BERRY PLASTICS ............................... 45

FEDEX ............................................. 25

MISCELLANEOUS ............................... 28

BRANDON WOODS ............................. 20

HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE .............. 20

MV TRANSPORTATION ......................... 15

CITY OF LAWRENCE ............................ 37

KU: FACULTY/ACADEMIC/LECTURERS .. 106

VALEO ............................................. 20

CLO ................................................ 12

KU: STAFF OPENINGS ......................... 73

WESTAFF .......................................... 25

COTTONWOOD................................... 11

KU: STUDENT OPENINGS .................. 136

FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ..................5

LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL .......... 12

L E A R N M O R E AT J O B S . L AW R E N C E . C O M

AT T E N T I O N E M P L OY E R S !

Email your number of job openings to Peter at psteimle@ljworld.com. *Approximate number of job openings at the time of this printing.

Behavioral Health Care

Director of VRC

Valeo Behavioral Health Care is hiring a Full Time Director of our Valeo Recovery Center. The Director is responsible for managing Valeo’s substance abuse programs and services to adults who are requiring evaluation and/or treatment. These programs include twenty-four hour residential services, outpatient, evening treatment and life integration services. This position, in partnership with the CEO, participates in the coordination and procurement of funding, and interaction with community and state agencies.

This position requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Addiction or a Mental Health related field. Qualified candidates must also be a licensed substance abuse counselor, with experience in substance abuse, minimum of five years experience in program management and other administrative experience in substance abuse services. The candidate must also have an understanding of the current State funded system including managed care experience. Must have reliable personal transportation, a valid Kansas Driver’s license and proof of auto liability insurance. For a complete listing of our open positions, please visit our website: valeotopeka.org

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume to Valeo Behavioral Health Care, Human Resources, 5401 SW 7th Street, Topeka, KS 66606 or email to apply@valeotopeka.org.

Valeo gives an incentive for Spanish speaking applicants. Valeo is an EOE.

For a complete listing of these positions, please visit our website: valeotopeka.org.

General

A Job that Nurtures the Soul!

LPN Full and Part Time

www.lawrencepresbyterianmanor.org

CNA Full and Part Time

1429 Kasold Dr. Lawrence KS 66049

APPLY ONLINE AT OR IN PERSON AT

QUALITY ASSURANCE COORDINATOR, RN Benefits. Drug test required. EOE

Come work where you can really make a difference!

CAREER S E I T I N U T R OPPO ists ical Technolog d e s M e rs u N d Registere ciates, CNA o s s A l a ic n li C Housekeeping

/careers g r .o H M .L w w w Apply now at

Enhance the life of a senior through non-medical companionship, and home helper services. Help seniors remain safe and independent in their homes. HHAs encouraged to apply.

Apply online at: homeinstead.com/584 & Click on “Become a CAREGiver”

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Find the latest openings at the best companies in Northeast Kansas!

Water/ Waste Water Plant Operator

Dental Hygienist

Eudora, Kansas, population 6,300, seeks responsible applicants with knowledge of the operation and maintenance of a city owned water treatment and waste water treatment plants. Certification preferred but not required. Salary range is $31k to $44k. Position reports to the Public Works Director and will be responsible for running the water plant, producing quality water and treating wastewater per KDHE requirements. Valid Kansas Drivers License is required.

Apply at: www.cityofeudoraks.gov or email pschmeck@ cityofeudoraks.gov Position open until filled. EOE

You Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

APPLY!

Full time position: Mon/Wed/Fri, 8-5; Thur 8-7pm; 2 or 3 Sat. per month from 8-noon.

Dentrix & Dexis experience preferred. Must be licensed in the state of Kansas, caring, compassionate and committed to providing excellent care to our patients. Benefits incl. health insurance; retirement plan; vac & continued education.

Salary commensurate with experience. Apply

by January 8, 2016 to: Office Manager kdavis.wsadds@sunflower.com PO Box 442228, 66044

Healthcare CNA & Personal Care Attendant wanted. Full or Part-Time positions. Call 785-842-3301 Professional Sitters Home Health.

Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com

Maintenance

NIGHT CUSTODIAL SPECIALIST Kansas Athletics

Family Medicine and Urgent Care of Basehor LPN or MA FT with benefits, PTO, sick leave, competitive pay. Must be CPR certified.

Excellent opportunity.

Apply in person or Fax resume to: 913-774-3366 or email: hr@jcmhospital.org www.fwhuston.com 408 Delaware Winchester, KS 66097

Routine custodial duties including sweeping, cleaning and assisting with set-up/tear down of athletic events. High school diploma or equivalent; valid driver’s license; ability to lift and carry heavy objects; ability to work assigned sporting events including days and week-ends.

Working hours 7:00 p.m.

- 3:30 a.m. Position open until filled. Apply on-line only: www.kuathletics.com Equal Opportunity M/F/D/V

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Found Item

Walkout basement or similar setup. Seeking long-term arrangement.

West Lawrence area ideal.

Mature quiet male.

Established job.

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Healthcare

Decisions Determine Destiny

SEEKING RENTAL

325 Maine Street • Lawrence, Kansas • 785-505-5000

General

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YOUR NEXT APARTMENT IS READY. FIND IT HERE.

FOUND WATCH 2 wks ago by Bus Stop at

Checkers If you think this is yours, Call to identify:

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RENTALS REAL ESTATE TO PLACE AN AD:

REAL ESTATE

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RENTALS

Townhomes

Houses

MERCHANDISE PETS TO PLACE AN AD:

Lawrence Investment / Development

OPPORTUNITY:

Apartments Unfurnished Cedarwood Apts

147 acres- Lawrence Schools, large CUSTOM home, barns, 2nd house on property, ponds, just west of 6th & SLTfastest growing intersection in Kansas. $1.6 M

2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious 1 & 2 Bedrooms Start at $450/mo. * Near campus, bus stop * Laundries on site * Near stores, restaurants * Water & trash paid

Bill Fair & Company www.billfair.com 800-887-6929

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Acreage-Lots

CALL TODAY (Monday - Friday)

785-843-1116

LAND AUCTION Merriam +/-0.70 acre Industrial Site & city approved for Office/ Light Industrial/ Comm building with drive-in loading and divisible up to 4 tenants. Immediate access to I-35.

Minimum Bid: $30,000 More details at:

LAUREL GLEN APTS All Electric

1, 2 & 3 BR units Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

785-838-9559 EOH

www.LEEbid.com/211M2 Casey Flynn (800) 966-0660

OPEN HOUSE SPECIAL!

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Duplexes 2BR in a 4-plex

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Pet under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com FIRST MONTH FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom Units Available Now! Cooperative townhomes start at $446-$490/mnth.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

Back patio, CA, hardwood floors, full bsmnt., stove, refrig., w/d hookup, garbage disposal, reserved parking. On-site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity fee required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) pinetreetownhouses.com

New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop.

W/D is included.

ADVERTISE TODAY! CALL 832-2222 or email classifieds@ljworld.com

3 and 4 Bedroom Townhouses and Single Family Homes Available Now $950-$1800 a month.

Garber Property Management

785-842-2475

TWO DAY AUCTION Saturday January 9th & Sunday, the 10th, 2016 9:30 A.M. Both Days Douglas Co. Fairgrounds 2110 Harper Bldg. 21 Lawrence, KS Vintage Automotive signs, Antique furniture, Costume jewelry, Brass tools, Antique Toys & Vintage Hotwheels, SO much MORE! Check web!

Elston Auctions 785-594-0505| 785-218-7851 Full list & pics online:

Pool, On KU Bus Route, Spacious Floorplan,Patios/Decks.

Great location: 837 Michigan $200 OFF First Month Rent

Call now! 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Music-Stereo CLARINET FOR SALE Good condition, $50 call for more details: 785-979-5569

PIANOS • H.L. Phillips upright $650 •Whitney Spinet - $500 • Cable Nelson - $500 • Gulbranson Spinet - $450

www.KansasAuctions.net/elston

Prices include tuning & delivery

785-832-9906

CALLING ALL AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS, & ESTATE SALE COMPANIES! ADVERTISE YOUR 2016 SALE IN OUR PAPERS! Lawrence, Shawnee, & Surrounding Communities

Liner & Display Ads Available LOVE ANTIQUES? Check our local and regional Estate Sales listed HERE! Have a sale you need to advertise? Call 785.832.2222 or email classifieds@ljworld.com TUCKAWAY APARTMENTS

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MERCHANDISE

Tuckawayatbriarwood.com

Now Leasing 2 BR’s Close to Campus & Downtown

FOR SALE 2 Igloo Dog Houses Large and medium. Best offer. 785-841-3947

Large 2BR, garage, deck, CH/CA, street level in fourplex, no stairs.

Newly remodled. No smoking. $650/mo.

Avail. NOW! 913-593-8088

TUCKAWAY AT BRIARWOOD

SUNRISE VILLAGE & PLACE

Townhomes

Lawrence

HARPER SQUARE

Equal Housing Opportunity.

785-865-2505

All Choices Include: 20 lines of text & a free photo!!!

Country Home: 4 BD, 3 BA. 7 mi. South of Lawrence. Nestled between beautiful hills, farms, & beside working ranch.

Lg. Great room. $1300/ mo. No indoor pets.

Outdoor animals (horses/ cows) for add’l rent. Contact Zac, farm mngr: 785-893-3708

Harpersquareapartments.com

1st Month FREE!

1 DAY $50 2 DAYS $75

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Miscellaneous

AUCTIONS

3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA W/D hookups, Fireplace, Major Appliances. Lawn Care & Dbl Car Garage!

Equal Housing Opportunity

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HUTTON FARMS Huttonfarms.com

Office Space OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Call Garber Property Management at 785-842-2475 for more information.

Clothing Anyone interest in nostalgia clothing, KU and other paraphernalia call 785-865-1517 or 550-3799. Open house Dec. 27th - Jan. 2nd, 7:30am-until. Customers set own price.

Pioneer PLl-990 Stereo Turntable Never used, still in packaging! Built in equalizer. Fullauto operation makes it easy. Low-mass tone arm is sensitive for excellent tracking.

Precision DC servo motor provides smooth rotation.

Two- speed stereo turntable ensures high-quality sound. Pitch Control.

Retails at $150 NOW PRICED $130 Please leave a message 785-841-7635

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Pets AKC Chocolate Lab Pups AKC registered chocolate lab puppies, 6 wks old, healthy, good natured & farm raised. 1st shots and wormed $600. call 785-817-2512 Need an apartment?

under $100 CALL 785-832-2222

Pets

PETS

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AKC Lab Puppies 2 chocolate males champion bloodlines, blocky heads, parents on site, vet & DNA checked, shots, hunters & companions. Born 11/11/15Ready now! $600.

Call 785-865-6013

OPEN HOUSES

RENTALS & REAL ESTATE

GARAGE SALES

20 LINES: 1 DAY $50 • 2 DAYS $75 + FREE PHOTO!

10 LINES: 2 DAYS $50 • 7 DAYS $80 28 DAYS $280 + FREE PHOTO!

UNLIMITED LINES: UP TO 3 DAYS, ONLY $24.95 + FREE GARAGE SALE KIT!

CARS

SERVICE DIRECTORY

MERCHANDISE & PETS

10 LINES & PHOTO: 7 DAYS $19.95 • 28 DAYS $49.95 DOESN’T SELL IN 28 DAYS? + FREE RENEWAL!

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