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Brownback budget steers clear of schools

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration Wednesday outlined his plan for balancing the state’s budget and filling a projected $175 million revenue shortfall in the next fiscal year.

The governor’s budget plan would make no substantive changes to funding higher education, including funding for Kansas University and the

KU, K-12 funding escape the worst; bioscience fund, corrections hit hard KU Medical Center. And it inGov. Sam cludes only a minor cut in K-12 Brownback’s education, due mainly to highbalanced er-than-expected property tax budget plan collections and lower-than-exseeks to make pected costs for contributing to up a projected school employee pension plans $175 million But it does include a numrevenue gap. ber of other spending cuts, fund transfers and accounting to liquidate the portfolio of changes, including a proposal the Kansas Bioscience Author-

ity, to make up for shortfalls in sales, income and severance taxes that have threatened to put the general fund in red ink.

“Because it’s the second year of a two-year budget, it’s really trying to find ways to plug holes,” said Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, who serves on the Senate budget committee. “We can’t do it through

our ending balance, so we are really grasping at straws to find money that we clearly need.

And we are not addressing many of the shortfalls that we are hearing exist.”

For example, she said, the governor’s budget does not include funding to hire more Please see BUDGET, page 2A

Hand warmers instead of handlebars DCF won’t face probe over anti-gay criticisms Deciding vote to deadlock cast by GOP committee chairman in unusual move

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LAWRENCE RESIDENT DAVID KINCAID takes a chilly, no-handed cruise on Vermont Street Wednesday morning on his way home.

Superintendent talk focuses on equity

By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

In the first session for the public to provide input on the Lawrence school district’s search for a superintendent, the topic of equity came up more than any other.

In each of the four questions posed by members of the executive search firm who facilitated the session, the impor- Doll tance of equity — for both students of color and of low socioeconomic status — was repeated.

The public was invited to provide input to the search firm McPherson & Jacobson LLC about community and district strengths, issues and challenges, and the desired characteristics of a superintendent to replace Rick Doll, who is leaving at the end of this school year.

One of the school district’s three main goals for the past several years has been equity, in terms of both differences in facilities across its 20 schools and in achievement between different student groups, such as low-income or minority. The $92.5 million bond issue voters approved in 2013 focused primarily on improving the oldest elementary schools in central and eastern Lawrence, and gaps in graduation rates between subgroups of students have improved over the past few years as well.

Many in attendance at the first input session, which took place at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, said those efforts were important, but if the next superintendent did not have the same

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the city manager from a pool of three finalists: Rod Bremby, of Glastonbury, Conn.; Cheryl Harrison-Lee, of Gardner; and Tom Markus, of Iowa City, Iowa.

Bremby, 55, currently works as a commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services; Harrison-Lee, 53, is the city administrator of Gardner; and Tom Markus, 64, is city manager of Iowa City.

Negotiations have been ongoing since Dec. 18 with the person selected. Mayor Mike Amyx said Tuesday night that they were close to coming to a deal.

Who will it be?

Visit LJWorld.com at 3 p.m. this afternoon to find out.

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The City Commission will announce Thursday afternoon the person it has selected as Lawrence's new city manager.

City commissioners will meet in a special session at Bremby 3 p.m. Thursday to make the announcement. They will also formally put the new city manager's employment agreement on the commission's Tuesday meeting agenda.

Commissioners must vote to approve Harrison-Lee the employment agreement before the city manager is officially hired.

They will meet in the City Commission Meeting Room on the first floor of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. The announcement will come Markus nearly one month after the commission selected

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Topeka — A legislative panel voted Tuesday not to conduct an audit of alleged antigay bias in the state’s foster care system after an official from the Department for Children and Families objected to such an audit.

But the joint Legislative Post Audit Committee did approve seven other audit topics focusing on DCF, including whether it is adequately protecting the safety of children in state custody and whether the state’s If we have decision 20 years people wanting ago to privatize child welfare services has to step forward produced the results and love and that were intended. embrace and DCF Deputy Sec- care for children, retary Jeff Kahrs said the agency wel- I don’t know why comed an examina- we stand in the tion of those other way.” questions, but he strongly objected to an audit of alleged — State Rep. Tom anti-gay bias in the Burroughs, D-Kansas City placement of foster children, and he denied that there is “an anti-homosexual culture” at DCF. “This audit language uses accusatory and inflammatory language,” Kahrs said. “It assumes a certain type of culture exists at DCF, and otherwise uses language that is both biased and partial against DCF.” But then he went on to say, “Social science research, based on a large collection of studies over many years, shows that children do best when raised by a healthy mother and father who are committed to one another in marriage.”

“I might suggest that DCF just answered that question,” Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, said following Kahrs’ remarks.

Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, who is not a member of the committee, requested the audit in December after a Topeka couple with 16 children in their home were arrested and charged with child abuse and neglect.

One of those children, a 1-year-old, had recently been placed in that home after he was taken out of the home of a same-sex couple in Wichita who had cared for the child since he was only a few days old.

The Legislative Post Audit Committee tentatively agreed in December to conduct such an audit, pending agreement on final wording of a scope statement.

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troopers in the Kansas Highway Patrol, which currently has at least 80 vacant trooper positions. Nor does it include funding for pay raises at the Department of Corrections, which has suffered from staff shortages and high turnover rates among guards in the state’s prisons.

Some of the key changes Brownback is proposing from the Fiscal Year 2017 budget that lawmakers approved last year include: l Shifting $44.1 million in tobacco settlement revenues out of the Children’s Initiative Fund directly into the State General Fund, then using federal welfare money known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF, to fund some of the programs previously paid out of the children’s fund.

The administration says that will not result in any funding changes for programs and services that are expecting to receive Children’s Initiative Fund money. l Transferring another $25 million out of the state highway fund into the general fund. l Privatizing the Kansas Bioscience Authority by liquidating its stock assets and depositing that money, estimated at $25 million, into the general fund. l Reducing funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by $25.5 million, replacing that with enhanced federal matching funds for that program. l And reducing spending on mental health drugs in the Medicaid program by $10.6 million with a “step therapy” program that requires patients to try lower-cost generic drugs first, before they’re allowed to use name-brand drugs.

Higher education KU Vice Chancellor Tim Caboni said that, given the state’s financial situation, the university has no complaints about the governor’s proposal.

“We’re pleased with where the session has started,” he said, noting that if the governor’s budget passes, it will be the third consecutive year of “stable” funding for the

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level of commitment to equity, the gains could quickly be lost. Part of that is having a superintendent who relates to all communities in the district, said Annette Kenoly, Liberty Memorial assistant principal. “(We need) someone who has some experience in working with equity issues in their district so that they’re not starting from page one,” Kenoly said, adding the district still has more work to do in that regard.

Rick Ginsberg, dean of the Kansas University School of Education, told the group he also thinks the district has significant equity issues, especially at

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BIRTHS Mara and Ian Wood, Lawrence, a boy and a girl, Tuesday.

Austin and Kaylee Hills, Lawrence, a boy, Wednesday.

Amy and Jason Ward, Tonganoxie, a girl, Wednesday.

Kerri Carter, Lawrence, a girl, Wednesday.

The committee met Wednesday to vote on that statement, but deadlocked in a 5-5 tie on whether to proceed.

Rep. Peggy Mast, R-Emporia, said she saw no reason for the audit.

“I don’t think we need to ask the question of (whether) they are being allowed to do foster care or adoption.

It’s already been proven that they are being allowed that,” she said. “But we’re focusing

university.

But he also noted the governor did not recommend one item the university had sought: pay raises for Medical Center faculty, which KU says are needed to recruit and retain top researchers and teachers.

“It’s the beginning of a long session,” Caboni said. “We’re going to continue to talk about the needs for raises at the Medical Center. But overall, we’re starting at a pretty good place.”

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Bioscience Authority Rep. Tom Sloan, RLawrence, said he was concerned about privatizing the Kansas Bioscience Authority, an agency established in 2004 to act as both a venture capital fund and as a kind of business incubator to help startup bioscience companies, primarily in the Kansas City area, get off the ground.

“The Bioscience Authority was created to drive the economic engine of Kansas,” he said. “And on the whole it’s done a very good job. There were glitches related to some inadequate management, but those were overcome. I really

Other proposals Brownback’s budget plan was unveiled the morning after his State of the State address, in which he unveiled a number of other non-budget initiatives.

But one of those involves a measure that could have a profound impact on local governments: moving up the effective date, to July 1 this year, of a new property tax lid that will prevent cities and counties from holding public votes before they can increase property tax revenues by more than the rate of inflation.

Both the city of Lawrence and Douglas County oppose such a move, which is being pushed by the Kansas Association of Realtors, and they listed blocking such an attempt as one of their top priorities for the 2016 session.

Douglas County administrator Craig Weinaug said that property tax lid could be especially harmful to the county.

“It certainly presents challenges for us, particularly if the state acts on the proposal to put more of the state’s prisoners in county jails,” he said.

“The state has a history of under-compensating counties for things they mandate that we do. Typically they pay only a fraction of the cost it takes to keep prisoners.”

Brownback also called for passage of a constitutional amendment to change the way Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected.

Rep. Boog Highberger, DLawrence, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, said he opposes that idea.

“I think our system now works really well, and we’re recognized around the country for having excellent judges,” he said.

Highberger also questioned whether Brownback can muster the two-thirds majority needed in both chambers to pass a resolution that would put a constitutional amendment on a statewide ballot.

“They obviously didn’t have the two-thirds (majority) on the changes they ran last time,” he said, referring to proposals in the 2015 session that never advanced out of committee. “It may be closer this time, but I don’t think so.”

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the middle and high school levels.

“We need someone to continue what’s happening, or we’ll step backwards,” Ginsberg said.

A current issue affecting equity that several people brought up was the use of technology, such as blended-learning classrooms — which rely on a variety of digital resources for classroom instruction — as well as digital textbooks.

Margaret Holdeman, a retired school counselor, said she loves technology and thinks blended classrooms are a good investment, but that there are other components to consider.

“I think that it’s a good thing the schools are investing in blended classrooms; however, the technology isn’t available to all students,” she said. “We need to have someone who

knows that just because it sounds good doesn’t mean it always is good.”

More than 90 percent of students districtwide, or about 10,000 students, have one or more subjects that rely on digital textbooks.

About 3,000 of those students met poverty guidelines to qualify for free lunches.

Several attendees commented that figuring out the difference between what sounds good in theory and what works in practice involves communication with a diverse group of students and teachers, and that the new superintendent would need to value a diversity of opinions.

Amy Phalen, a parent in the district, said a broader group of teachers should be asked for their feedback about changes, as opposed to a select few.

“They need to stop and ask those frontline people what’s going on and to value their input,” she said.

Underlying much of the conversation were issues with school budgets statewide and an awareness of the school funding debate that is ongoing in the Kansas Legislature.

Chuck Epp said equity and the increasingly tight resources districts have are linked.

There are three more public feedback sessions scheduled for today: l Noon-12:45 p.m. Multipurpose room (upstairs) at Lawrence School District Office, 110 McDonald Drive.

Bring your own lunch. l 6-6:45 p.m. West Middle School library, 2700 Harvard Road. l 7-7:45 p.m. Southwest Middle School cafeteria, 2511 Inverness Drive.

on a lifestyle choice.”

Rep. Tom Burroughs, D-Kansas City, who supported doing the audit, said he didn’t understand DCF’s objections to the audit.

“If we have people wanting to step forward and love and embrace and care for children, I don’t know why we stand in the way,” he said. “DCF has stated their reasons for not wanting this audit. I would clearly state that this is the opportunity to prove otherwise, to publicly prove otherwise that this isn’t occurring.”

When the panel voted, five members voted to proceed with the audit, and

four voted against it. Then, in an unusual move, the committee chairman, Rep. John Barker, R-Abilene, cast his vote against the audit, creating a 5-5 tie, which meant the motion failed.

Typically, committee chairmen will often vote to break a tie. But it is rare that they cast a vote to create a tie and thereby kill a motion.

“Usually, it’s a good sign that bad things are happening,” Ward said.

Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, a statewide gay rights advocacy group, issued a statement condemning the com-

mittee’s action.

“Today’s agreement by radical-right ideologues to help cover up DCF’s repugnant discriminatory practices is an outrage,” he said. “The State of Kansas is snatching children from gay and lesbian households and placing them with families that don’t want them, or worse, placing them with alleged abusers in crowded, unsafe conditions. This deserves a full public investigation, not a whitewash.”

K-12 funding Meanwhile, Lawrence school district officials said they are still not pleased with Brownback’s proposal for K-12 funding because, even though there are no substantive cuts in block grant funding, the fact that Lawrence’s enrollment continues to grow means the governor’s plan amounts to a cut, at least on a per-pupil basis.

Furthermore, Lawrence was among the districts that saw substantial cuts last year when the Legislature abolished the old per-pupil funding formula, replacing it for two years with block grants, because in that change, the state no longer counts virtual school students when calculating aid for the district’s local option budget.

“Our very real experience in USD 497 is that block grants have not increased our funding,” Lawrence school board member Shannon Kimball posted on her Twitter account. She said Lawrence’s enrollment grew by 249 students this year, but it received no increase in funding as a result.

The governor’s budget does, however, include $327,500 to fund an award program for teachers who earn National Board Certification.

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he first new development to go along the edge of the soon-to-be-completed South Lawrence Trafficway probably won’t be a new shopping center, but rather may be a big soccer complex. Plans have been filed for a multifield soccer facility near the eastern end of the SLT. A nonprofit organization called Jambars Futbol Club Inc. has filed plans to build five fulllength soccer fields, five separate training areas, a more than 200-space parking lot and a 6,000 square-foot building for concessions and such on property near the “ski lake” that is just south of Kansas Highway 10.

The group has filed for a conditional use permit for 80 acres of property at North 1300 Road and East 1750 Road. If you are still confused about the location, it is near the spot where the South Lawrence Trafficway begins to look like my tie after a spaghetti dinner.

Joe Comparato is the director of the soccer club.

He’s also a soccer coach at Bishop Seabury Academy.

Comparato told me multiple people are involved in the proposed venture, and he envisions the soccer facility would be used by a variety of organizations.

Comparato wants to use the facility for the training academies he runs, and he said Bishop Seabury is looking for a home to host its soccer teams. In addition, he said the Lawrence Adult Soccer League is looking for field space.

He expects some youth soccer organizations to be interested in field space as well.

“I’ve been promoting soccer my whole life, and people like me keep saying, ‘It’s coming, it’s coming,” Comparato said. “Well, I think it has finally arrived. The popularity of the game has reached a certain point in this country, but as the popularity of the game grows, it is going to take more space and more facilities.”

From the Archives

Kansas fares poorly on new move-out study Kansas didn’t fare well on a new study that measures the number of people moving in and out of the state.

Moving company United Van Lines recently released its 39th annual edition of a study that tracks how many people it helps move into and out of states. In 2015, Kansas had the sixth highest move-out rate.

The study found 57 percent of all the business it did in Kansas was related to people moving out of the state, while 43 percent was related to people moving in. Kansas was the only Plains region state to be in the top 10. Here’s a look at the 10 states that had the highest move-out rates: l New Jersey: 66.6 percent l New York: 64.6 percent l Illinois: 63.2 percent l Connecticut: 62.6 percent l Ohio: 58.4 percent l Kansas: 57.3 percent l Massachusetts: 57.2 percent l West Virginia: 57.1 percent l Mississippi: 56.3 percent l Maryland: 55.2 percent As for the states that were attracting the most move-ins, here are the top five: l Oregon: 69 percent l South Carolina: 62.4 percent l Vermont: 62 percent l Idaho: 60.5 percent l North Carolina: 58.9 percent United does survey some of its customers about their moves.

Traditional reasons such as job availability and being near family rank near the top of the list. The survey, though, noted some emerging trends, including the desire to be located in high-tech areas and to have more green space.

The United study isn’t definitive because it is just a look at one company’s activity, but it matches some concerns state leaders have been highlighting, such as a lack of strong population growth.

Oread area unveils design rules ——

Plan would keep architecture in line with historic styles

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

Journal-World Photo/University Archives, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, KU

TWO DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMERS CHECK THE MAILBOX APRIL 13, 1957, only to find that the postman hasn’t made his regular trip. Shown are H. F. Nisley, left, and Ronald Alford, both of Route 2, about 4 miles south of Lawrence. Mail delivery was cut off, and the Lawrence Post Office closed for the weekend, after Congress failed to appropriate $47 million asked by Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Each week, usually on Thursday, the Journal-World runs a photo from its archives, chosen by chief photographer Mike Yoder, that gives a glimpse into Lawrence’s past.

Sex assault prevention office at KU names its first director

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas University administrators say they want to ensure KU is a “national leader” in addressing sexual violence and hope a newly hired director will help do that.

The university on Wednesday announced it had chosen Jennifer Brockman as the first program director of KU’s newly created Sexual As-

sault Prevention ployees and a voland Education unteer group of Center, or SAPEC. 50. Brockman said She’ll start Jan. 20. it supports not Brockman is only the university executive direccommunity, but tor of the Rape also provides serVictim Advovices to residents cacy Program at of eight surroundthe University of Brockman ing counties.

Iowa.

In the past year The Iowa program she and a half, KU has had leads — the only one of its share of outrage over its kind in the country, sexual violence.

Brockman said — has a Please see DIRECTOR, page 4A staff of 22 university em-

New specifications for how properties in the Oread neighborhood are designed aim to recreate the look and feel of the area as it was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Proposed guidelines for new development or redevelopment in the neighborhood were publicly unveiled Wednesday to a crowd of a about two dozen people, many of whom had assisted in the six-year process of creating the plan.

The Oread Neighborhood Design Guidelines, a 132-page document, outlines in detail how things such as porches, fences, windows and doors should look in order to conform to the history of the area.

The goal is for the neighborhood to look and feel like it did between 1877 and 1945, when the original properties were established, said Jeff Crick, a city planner.

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The plans filed with the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department show the site — which is owned by a trust controlled by the Pendleton family — at 80 acres, but Comparato said the immediate plans call for developing only about 40 of the acres.

Lawrence does have a soccer complex today.

The Youth Sports Complex— or YSC — below the Clinton Lake Dam includes 23 soccer fields.

The city of Lawrence operates the facility. But Comparato said it is difficult to get time on the city-owned fields. The popular Kaw Valley Soccer Association has an agreement with the city that allows that youth soccer league to take

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KU is on the list of universities the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating for their handling of sexual violence cases. The victim whose complaint opened that investigation went public with her story, including to national media outlets, and what some considered insufficient discipline of the perpetrator sparked protests at KU in fall 2014.

Brockman said that kind of attention on the school does not daunt her. Instead, she called it “energizing.”

“To have the opportunity to have the national spotlight put on sexual violence on campus and communities, to really

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many of the available time slots for the facility.

Comparato said it is not unusual for soccer clubs in Johnson County to build their own facilities, and that model sparked the idea here. As for the proposed plans, the five fields would each be 360 feet long by 225 feet wide. The plans call for at least one of the fields to have lights, with lighting perhaps being added to other fields in the future.

The proposed site is one of the more visible properties in Lawrence.

Thousands of vehicles travel by the site every day on Kansas Highway 10, and traffic volumes are expected to increase significantly as the SLT bypass project is completed later this year. The soccer complex, if approved, will be a bit of a gateway into the community.

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LAWRENCE • STATE sioners rejected one development proposal at another soon-to-be-completed SLT intersection.

Commissioners last week rejected a development plan for a new shopping center at the southeast corner of the SLT and Iowa Street interchange, in part, because they said they didn’t feel development was ready to cross the trafficway.

That perhaps could be an issue in this area, too, but there is one large difference. The soccer group is not asking for any city approvals. The property currently is not in the Lawrence city limits, and the group is not seeking annexation.

“We don’t see any need to be annexed,” Comparato said.

Comparato said he thinks the soccer facility will fit in well with the county’s plans for the area. He notes that it is right next to the ski lake,

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To have the opportunity to have the national spotlight put on sexual violence on campus and communities, to really have it get the attention it deserves, is amazing.”

— Jennifer Brockman, KU’s new program director for the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center have it get the attention it deserves, is amazing,” she said. “This is an incredible time in the field of sexual violence work.”

Brockman added that she looked forward to working on a campus with high student activism rates and an “engaged student body.”

Brockman said working at KU also is a homecoming of sorts for her.

She is originally from Stewartsville, Mo., and has family in the Kansas City area.

Prompted by a recommendation from last year’s Sexual Assault Task Force and announced in

so there is already a recreational feel to the area. He doesn’t expect the major intersection to come under heavy development pressure anytime soon.

“If they turned that one project down on south Iowa Street, I figure it will be a long time before they let anything build out here,” Comparato said.

The soccer project will have to win approval from both the LawrenceDouglas County Planning Commission and the Douglas County Commission before it can proceed. The project is expected to have a hearing before the Planning Commission later this month. If the project wins its approvals, the project could begin construction this spring.

— This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

istrative assistant.

“As universities around the country continue to address sexual assault and violence, we are seeking to ensure that KU is a national leader in finding new ways to address these issues,” Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, said in a university news release.

In the search for the SAPEC program director, KU identified three finalists, and two talked with various groups of stakeholders on campus, including students, as part of the hiring process, KU spokesman Andy Hyland said. He said the salary for the position is $72,000.

KU has said the overall budget for the four-person SAPEC is expected to be about $200,000.

the fall, SAPEC will serve as the central coordinating office for KU’s sexual assault prevention and education programming, according to KU. Its creation shifts education responsibilities away from other KU units, such as Public Safety, Student Affairs, Watkins Health Services and the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, which investigates reports of sexual violence and other forms of discrimination on campus.

Brockman is the new center’s first employee. — KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at sshepherd@ Next, KU will hire two ljworld.com or 832-7187. educators and an admin-

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“Typically, property between 1877 and 1945 defined the architecture, the quality of the sites you see in the district,” Crick said. “We want to make sure that new construction and modifications are consistent with the best parts of the neighborhood, the parts that everybody associates with Oread.”

The guidelines cover the area from Ninth Street to the north and 17th Street to the south.

The area surrounds part of the Kansas University campus, with Massachusetts Street as the east boundary and Arkansas Street as the boundary to the west.

The city would use the guidelines when a property owner initiates a new project. The project would first have to fit the city’s zoning requirements, and then it would be determined whether it follows the new design guidelines, too.

City Planning Director Scott McCullough explained to the crowd that the zoning requirements were like the “blunt instrument” and the more detailed guidelines like “the scalpel.”

There are two other areas of Lawrence where design is required to follow a set of guidelines: downtown Lawrence and property surrounding Eighth and Pennsylvania streets.

On Tuesday, the City Commission denied a request from a Massachusetts Street restaurant owner to put a wroughtiron arch in front of his restaurant — something the city’s Historic Resources Commission found to be forbidden under the Downtown De-

sign Guidelines.

Guidelines for the Oread neighborhood are the first in Lawrence that cover a mostly residential area, McCullough said.

It will be at least March before the guidelines can gain full approval.

They will next go before the Historic Resources Commission and Lawrence-Douglas Planning Commission on Feb. 18 for review. On March 21, the two commissions will vote on whether to recommend the City Commission approve them.

It is not yet sure when they will go before the City Commission.

One point of contention Wednesday was the parking guidelines. One of the parking arrangements permitted for duplexes was a two-car garage with an area for five other cars.

State Sen. Marci Francisco, who lives in the neighborhood, said she thought the arrangement would encourage higher-density properties, which the neighborhood is trying to get away from.

Other guidelines Crick talked about Wednesday were details of what was permitted for sidewalks, front-yard landscaping, architectural elements, roof angles, building materials and exterior lighting.

“One thing I think is important to note, these guidelines don’t take away creativity,” Crick said. “If you are creative and want to go a little differently, they don’t prohibit that. They do make sure you can’t go very far outside of that and affect the impact of the architecture of the district as a whole.”

— City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ ljworld.com.

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Ask Ernie Cummings about his late friend George Paley, and he’ll offer up the old ripple effect, in which one action causes a series of events to unfold incrementally.

“The analogy would be those circles,” Cummings said, reminiscing about the longtime businessman and artist who died Sunday after a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. “You know, throw a pebble in the pond and all those waves go out?

That would be George.”

Paley, 67, owned several properties downtown (nearly a dozen, by his own count in a 2014 JournalWorld article) and many more across Lawrence.

But Paley, who was born to a farming family in rural Connecticut and moved to Lawrence in 1972, always had an artistic mind, those close to him said, particularly later in life.

Paley wasn’t afraid to take risks in business, recalled Cummings — the communications major, after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, arrived in Lawrence with a van full of used blue jeans that he would later sell at his first store, Bokonon, in East Lawrence — but he was never reckless.

Paley honored his commitments, saw the value in the unknown (the “adventurous” businessman enjoyed traveling and was a certified wind-surfing instructor) and was enthusiastic about collaboration, said Cummings, who owns Kizer Cummings Jewelers on Massachusetts Street.

“He was one of a kind,” Cummings said. “He accumulated a circle of friends that was really circles upon circles upon circles upon circles.”

Eric Kirkendall agrees.

Then a “poor college student,” Kirkendall first met Paley while perusing the jeans and vintage military jackets at Bokonon.

They drifted apart over the years, but, after Kirkendall’s eventual return to Lawrence, became closer than ever. The two were part of a close-knit group of arts supporters that helped

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“I think George had a vision ... a sense of vision, perhaps, that few other people had,” Kirkendall said. “He was, for example, the first person I ever heard say that Lawrence should be the Santa Fe of the Midwest.

He not only said that, but he believed we could make it happen.”

Paley was, simply, both a dreamer and a doer. In the last decade of his life, he lent his skills and reputation as a businessman to the cause — donating vacant space downtown to help Final Fridays get off the ground, opening his own gallery and “creative hub,” Art Emergency, in the Warehouse Arts District — but also became an artist himself, creating largescale metal sculptures out of found objects.

Like his business ventures before it, Paley’s art career didn’t take long to take off. His work (Paley spent 10 straight semesters auditing sculpture classes at Kansas University) started selling in galleries, and, in 2013, was featured in Washburn University’s Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.

Today, eight of Paley’s sculptures can be found near the entrance to the oncology unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, his wife of 39 years, Judy, proudly notes. Of all his accomplishments in life, she speculates, George was most

proud of his artwork.

“He saw art in every piece of junk he passed by,” Judy said of her late husband, with whom she shared three sons and two grandchildren. “I think it made him calm.”

Paley’s giant junk pile (the house-sized heap contains everything from old farm equipment and car parts to steel rods and screwdrivers) still rests on the family’s property west of Lawrence, a reminder of his innovative spirit and boundless imagination.

He died at home surrounded by family. It had been a long time coming, but the death was something of a shock to Judy — part of her still expects George to walk through the door and pull her outside to check out his latest creation, she said.

Experimental treatments had kept Paley going all those years, and even in his final months, he still held out hope for a trip to Australia to visit his middle son, Austin.

That trip didn’t happen, but Paley’s enthusiasm for life — and adventure — remained.

“I think I’ll miss his sense of wonderment of the world, which I think is what kept him creative.

He was just curious about everything,” Judy said. “It never faded, not until the last nanosecond.”

A celebration of life for George Paley will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St.

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ansas University is beginning to tear down the Stouffer Place apartment buildings this week, starting with two near Hilltop Child Development Center. Stouffer Place demolition kicks off redevelopment of KU’s entire Central District, which will create longterm detours and parking shortages in the area.

The Central District is the area between 19th and 15th streets and from Naismith Drive up to Daisy Hill. It’s home to the Burge Union, Allen Fieldhouse, Jayhawker Towers, Oliver Hall and the pile of rubble formerly known as McCollum Hall, among other buildings.

In the next three years the Central District will see construction of a new 500-bed residence and dining hall near Oliver Hall, a 700-bed student apartment building at 19th and Iowa streets, a new Burge Union, a parking garage, a utility plant and a 280,000-square-foot integrated science building.

All that’s going to take a lot of work. In an announcement Wednesday, KU outlined some of the things campus-goers can expect: l Stouffer Place buildings 14 and 16, directly southwest of Hilltop, will be the first to go. Once they’re removed, a temporary access road will be constructed from Ellis Drive to Hilltop. KU officials are working with the city to identify traffic control measures at 19th Street and Ellis Drive to help Hilltop families and

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service vehicles get in and out more easily. Construction traffic will be routed separately from Hilltop traffic, to help ensure children and their families are safe. l Stouffer demolition will continue in stages, with buildings north of Hilltop coming down before those to the south.

Demolition is expected to last into the summer. l A number of trees will be removed. KU plans to retain some of the wood for fine art projects, and officials expect half of the trees can be harvested and milled into lumber. l A large, temporary sediment basin will be constructed near 19th Street. l Construction will

cause parking shortages throughout the area. This spring, the western section of Bagley Drive will remain open to use for temporary parking, about 60 stalls.

However, KU said, drivers are “strongly encouraged to take full advantage of the KU on Wheels system.”

The 25-building Stouffer Place complex — opened in 1957 as married-student housing — closed for good in July. KU has no plans to build new family housing units. The university has said the buildings had come to the end of their useful life and KU would be unable to build new ones with comparably low rents, one of Stouffer Place’s main attractions.

In other Central District news, KU last week sold $327.1 million in bonds to pay for the Central District redevelopment project, at a total interest cost of 3.75 percent, according to KU officials. In November, the Kansas Board of Regents approved the project at a cost not to exceed $350 million.

— This is an excerpt from Sara Shepherd’s Heard on the Hill column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

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Couple should have settled chore issues earlier Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for 30 years and we’ve had the same problem all of that time. She doesn’t have an outside job, but she doesn’t do much around the house, either. She doesn’t clean and rarely cooks. It is always up to me to tidy up. I am forever picking up stuff, clearing piles of papers and eating mostly store-bought meals.

After a day at work, I would like to relax a bit. But I cannot tolerate this type of messy, dirty atmosphere. It upsets me and I lose my temper. This has been going on for our entire marriage and nothing changes. When I raise my voice, I am blamed for having a temper and made out to be the bad guy, and around and around we go. What can I do? — Going Mad

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in Canada Dear Mad: This type of issue should be addressed early in a marriage, before the behavior comes entrenched and resentment builds. After 30 years of enabling, you are delusional if you expect your wife to suddenly turn into a housekeeper.

Losing your temper obviously isn’t working. Instead, find ways to cope. Can you hire cleaning help so that the house stays

USA keeps dark drama trend going The dark new series “Colony” (9 p.m., USA, TV-14) reunites “Lost” producer Carlton Cuse with Josh Holloway, who played Sawyer in that cult series. Set in a Los Angeles not that far into the future, “Colony” depicts a world occupied by a technologically superior alien race that maintains totalitarian control with a divide-andconquer policy. Some residents choose to rebel, most merely muddle along, but another class has entirely chosen to collaborate with their conquerors.

After a scene of cozy domesticity, Will (Holloway) tries to get smuggled into another sector of the city to locate his lost son. Wife Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) sneaks off to a makeshift medical dispensary to try to score insulin for her ailing sister. The alien overlords have forbidden the manufacturing of the drug, hoping to “thin the herd” of “weak” diabetics.

The alien bad guys go largely unseen, and news of their abuses arrives in overheard snippets.

Drones fly overhead like malevolent ladybugs, but most of the dirty work is done by collaborating humans who descend in thuggish SWAT teams. The slow-building pilot shows how nearly every character is compromised by the need to survive.

Just when things get a little plodding and grim, along comes Proxy Alan Snyder (Peter Jacobson), a leader of the collaborators who wants to make an arrangement with Will. Snyder is brash, cynical, audacious and unafraid to admit that he’s basing his betrayal on self-interest.

Like any “smart” person, he argues, he is making the best of his situation. His arrival brings a spark of levity to what could become a very bleak drama.

“Colony” is smart enough to trust that its audience can deal with both heroes and a heel with mixed motivations. It remains to be seen if Snyder will turn out to be completely evil, or a weasel of a more nuanced and malleable sort, not unlike Claude Rains’ Capt. Renault in “Casablanca.”

“Colony” represents the USA Network’s continued departure from its pleasant “blue skies” comedies like “Psych” and “Royal Pains.” Launched last summer, the network’s deeply paranoid thriller “Mr. Robot” just won a Golden Globe for best TV drama.

That should certainly bring more viewers to that ambitious series and offer an incentive for USA to try out more smart and challenging fare.

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O Auditions continue on “American Idol” (7 p.m., Fox, TV-PG).

mostly tidy? We also recommend that you stop making an issue of it. Instead, say nothing.

Cook your own meals, clean your own dishes, wash your own clothes, and if your wife objects, tell her as sweetly as possible that she is welcome to do the same.

about her rude behavior, or question his constant spoiling of this ungrateful brat.

Tell “Heartbroken” to get out while she can. Moving in won’t fix anything. We tried counseling until we finally began addressing her awful behavior and she whined that she didn’t want to go.

We couldn’t force her, so we got nowhere and now I just deal with it.

I have tried to be nice, but it doesn’t work. My husband won’t do anything about it, because he doesn’t see it. My best response now is to just ignore her, as sad as that sounds. — Frustrated in Oregon

Dear Annie: “Heartbroken in California” needs to run for her life. No amount of counseling is going to help a guy who doesn’t see that his kids are tyrants.

I married a man who has a rude teenage daughter. This kid can flip a switch. She is nasty to me and then becomes a little angel the second my husband walks in the door.

When I come home — Send questions to from work, she won’t anniesmailbox@comcast.net, even acknowledge me. or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box Of course, I am not al118190 Chicago, IL 60611. lowed to say anything

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For Thursday, Jan. 14: This year people seem to perpetually express themselves to you, expecting you to respond accordingly. You will need to let others know that you are your own person who makes your own decisions. If you are single, you might be very desirable, but perhaps not emotionally available to many suitors. If you are attached, the two of you often have very different ideas.

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) ++++ Much has been going on behind the scenes. You might opt to take a strong stance. Tonight: Do whatever pleases you.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ You might be a lot more outwardly directed than you had anticipated. Tonight: Get some much-needed R and R. Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ You are in charge of a situation, and you’ll manage to make a difference that counts.

Tonight: Go where your friends are.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++ Understand that there is a different approach to a problem that you have yet to find out about. Tonight: In the limelight.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Someone close to you refuses to walk away from the bottom-line issue. Extremes mark

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the next few days. Tonight: Consider a visit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) +++++ You might be more resilient than anyone would anticipate. Be willing to make the first move. Tonight: Share news with a loved one.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++ You might be distracted by an idea from a friend whose opinions you welcome. Tonight: Be more upbeat than in the past.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ You could find a situation to be far more complicated than you had originally thought.

Tonight: Clear your desk.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++ Staying close to home might be a great idea; however, it also could add to a feeling of cabin fever. Tonight: Use your imagination well.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Keep conversations moving, even if you find the small talk to be tedious. Tonight: Head home.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++ Be more forthright and direct in how you handle a difficult situation involving finances. Tonight: Send and return emails.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++++ You’ll discover that others respond in a positive way, no matter what you do or say.

Tonight: Indulge a little.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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22 Mall occupant 25 They’re not final releases 26 One voice singing 30 Do some snacking 32 Valentine figure 35 Napoleon relative?

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47 Talk laryngitically 48 Midshipman’s counterpart 53 Sloppylanding sound 56 Language in “The Passion of the Christ”

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Shortsighted state Short-term funding strategies will have a long-term impact on Kansas.

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f Gov. Sam Brownback was looking for applause lines during Tuesday’s State of the State message, there’s probably a reason he didn’t offer many details about his plans to address the state’s projected budget deficit.

The plan outlined Wednesday by Budget Director Shawn Sullivan is a continuation of the governor’s strategy of using short-term patches to close the remaining $14 million budget gap for the current fiscal year and a projected $170 million gap for the fiscal year that begins July 1. There apparently will be no effort during the current legislative session to raise any new revenues.

Instead, the governor is pursuing a different course, including cutting $23.9 million from the state pension fund and continuing to rob the Kansas Department of Transportation of an additional $2.1 million this year and $25 million next year. KDOT has money to contribute to the state general fund, at least in part, because it is acquiring a mounting debt. Last year, the Kansas Legislature and Brownback agreed to suspend for two years a provision that forbade KDOT from having aggregate bond debt service that exceeds 18 percent of its annual revenue. After selling a record $400 million in highway construction bonds last month, KDOT’s debt service total rose to 19 percent.

The governor also is willing to eliminate two state entities in order to balance the budget. His plans include cutting $5 million from the Kansas Bioscience Authority this year and raising an additional $25 million next year by selling all of KBA’s investment assets.

The governor also plans to eliminate the Children’s Initiatives Fund, which was created with money from the tobacco settlement and earmarked for children’s programs. The $50.6 million in that fund will go into the state general fund, and the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund, which has overseen state grants from the CIF, will be moved into the Kansas State Department of Education.

The move will provide “greater transparency and accountability of that money in future years,” Sullivan said, but Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of Kansas Action for Children, said the action would jeopardize funding for critical early-childhood education programs.

“This isn’t just a shortsighted budget recommendation,” she said. “This will dismantle one of Kansas’ most innovative, forward-thinking legacies.”

Did someone say “shortsighted”? At least at this point, there is no indication that income tax cuts implemented by Brownback and the Legislature are having the predicted positive effect on the state economy and state revenues. To compensate for revenue shortfalls, the state is using shortsighted, piecemeal steps to plug budget holes. How many state agencies can the state sell or abolish to fill those holes? How much will the state endanger its highways or its pension fund? How far will it go into debt? How long will it take the state to undo the damage that’s being done?

Those are painful questions for Kansas, but ones that must be asked.

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U.S., Russia share interests in Syria Washington — Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration’s opposition to Moscow’s support for President Bashar al-Assad.

Russian-American cooperation on Syria now includes regular diplomatic, military and intelligence contacts.

Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for “de-confliction” in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.

Administration officials see working with Russia as the best of a bad set of options. An administration that has had trouble living with President Vladimir Putin, especially after his actions in Ukraine, finds that it can’t live without him in Syria.

Washington’s hope is that Putin will support American efforts to negotiate a cease-fire because he concludes it’s the only way to avoid a quagmire.

“While we remain skeptical of Russian interests and intentions in Syria, we also believe that they will be an essential part of any political solution to this conflict,” one senior administration official explained Tuesday.

“The degree of communication we have with them reflects that view.”

Putin this week seemed to take a public step toward the U.S. position that Assad must go eventually. In an interview with the German newspaper Bild released Tuesday, Putin hinted that he might grant

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Washington’s hope is that Putin will support American efforts to negotiate a cease-fire because he concludes it’s the only way to avoid a quagmire.”

Assad asylum. He said granting asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden “was far more difficult than to do the same for Mr. Al-Assad.” The Russian leader also said Assad “has made many mistakes in the course of the Syrian conflict.”

Putin’s reference to asylum was taken “very seriously” by the White House, a second administration official noted Tuesday. “I think he was sending a signal about where he stands” that was consistent with what Russian officials have been telling the U.S. in private, the official said.

Syria was also the subject of a phone call Monday between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They talked

about plans for a Jan. 25 U.N.sponsored meeting in Geneva to organize a common opposition front. Kerry and Lavrov are likely to meet in Europe next week for more talk about the Syria negotiations, including how to keep Iran and Saudi Arabia on board.

Another Russian-American channel involves CIA Director John Brennan. His conversations include exchanges about Islamic State terrorists that threaten both countries, and crises such as the shoot-down of a Russian jet by Turkey in November.

Brennan explained the counterterrorism dialogue in November at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “We’ve been exchanging information. I think it needs to be enhanced. But I am determined to continue to work with my Russian counterparts because of the importance that I think we each can bring to this issue in terms of our insights, our information, our data, and sharing it.”

An important booster of Russian-American cooperation is Jordan’s King Abdullah. U.S. officials believe the monarch has sought a special relationship with Putin and hopes soon to coordinate military activities with Russia against the Islamic State.

Already, there is a joint Jordanian-Russian military coordination center in Jordan; the Jordanians hope it could be the bridge to a cease-fire in the south between rebels and the Assad regime, and a coordinated assault on the

Islamic State. So far, though, the Russians have continued pounding the anti-Assad rebels in southern and northern Syria, alike.

For the past year, Jordanian officials have been discussing with their American counterparts the creation of a forward operating base inside Syria that could be a rallying point for Sunni forces against the Islamic State. Described as a modern-day “Fort Apache,” this base would be organized by special forces from Jordan and other Western and Arab coalition partners; U.S. officials, long skeptical of such a move, appear more supportive.

The crowded skies over Syria pose a special challenge.

The U.S. and Russia have agreed on a memorandum of understanding that mandates “maintaining professional airmanship at all times, the use of specific communication frequencies and the establishment of a communication line on the ground,” according to Lt. Col. Kristi Beckman, a spokeswoman at Centcom.

U.S. and Russian pilots operate at “safe distances,” she said, and if Syrian planes are near, “it is standard practice for us to stand off until the airspace is clear.”

For President Obama, the willingness to work with Putin is an act of foreign policy realism or desperation, depending on your point of view. Some would argue that in Syria, the two converge.

— David Ignatius is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 14, 1916: years “The minimum ago temperature reIN 1916 ported from the University of Kansas last night was 8 degrees below zero.... It is still cold weather, but Lawrence people are beginning to hope that the worst of the present cold snap is over. So many frozen pipes were reported over town that the plumbers had another busy day today. All the rural carriers made all their trips through the cold weather though most of them reached home three or four hours late.”

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Political alienation poses real threat As a general rule, I loathe both Holocaust and slavery comparisons.

Sadly, such comparisons have become more common in recent years even though, almost by definition, they trivialize two of the greatest crimes in human history.

When GOP senatorial candidate John Raese declared that having to place “smoke-free environment” stickers on buildings he owned was the “same thing” as Jews being forced to wear yellow Stars of David and when eventual GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson claimed the Affordable Care Act “in a way … is slavery,” what was revealed was not some new insight on stop-smoking campaigns and health care reform, but, rather, the historical illiteracy, incapacity for reverence and utter imbecility of the two men and anyone dumb enough to believe them.

So yes, ordinarily I loathe such comparisons. Yet I’m here to make one. Because, as more than one observer has noted, the parallels between the rise of Adolf Hitler and that of Donald Trump have become too neon to ignore.

Like Hitler, Trump has watched approvingly as his followers use violence to silence hecklers, dissenters and protesters.

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… his (Trump’s) dominance of the Republican field is instructive just the same, offering vivid evidence of the depth of alienation on that side of the political spectrum.”

Like Hitler, Trump offers few real plans or strategies for confronting the nation’s challenges, giving voters instead the assurance that he, by force of personality alone, will defeat them.

Like Hitler, Trump has presented the electorate a scapegoat for its fears and vulnerabilities. Hitler gave his people the Jews. Trump has given his the Muslims.

Like Hitler, Trump proposes to register, surveil and restrict the scapegoat populace. Nor, like Hitler, is he

overly concerned with the niceties of civil or human rights. “We’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago,” he has said.

It is in that context that Rose Hamid stood up last week in South Carolina.

Hamid, a 56-year-old Muslim flight attendant attending a Trump rally in Rock Hill, came to her feet and stood silently as Trump equated refugees from Syria with ISIS terrorists. She was wearing a hijab and a blue T-shirt that said, “Salam, I come in peace.” Several others stood in solidarity.

This passive protest was enough of a provocation that the audience began chanting their leader’s name like a mantra — “Trump!

Trump! Trump!” — and a police officer escorted Hamid out. She told CNN that while some Trump followers apologized to her, others pelted her with abuse.

“Get out!” one person shouted.

“You have a bomb?” another cried.

It all brings home something that has become glaringly obvious: While many of us have lamented Trump’s improbable rise to political prominence, the real problem is not him and

never was. Rather, the problem is that thing deep down in some of us that responds to him, that small, primeval thing so filled with uncertainty, fear and fury that it will suspend both logic and compassion to worship a man whose very name has become a symbol of all that is hateful and violative of American ideals.

No, Trump is not Hitler.

Hitler was a singular figure who committed a singular crime. Nor do I believe Trump will even be president. But his dominance of the Republican field is instructive just the same, offering vivid evidence of the depth of alienation on that side of the political spectrum. The rest of us ignore or underestimate that alienation at our own peril. The threat it poses to our hopes for a just and inclusive America is real and grave and should be treated as such.

To read of how fascism stole over Germany is to repeatedly ask yourself how an enlightened nation could have fallen for such transparent garbage. Well, the answer is unfolding before us in real time and it ought to horrify good people into taking a stand.

One woman already did.

— Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

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grades at Douglas County Youth Services, fairground renovations and lighting changes in county parking lots, Horn said.

Also at Wednesday’s meeting, commissioners acknowledged the receipt of a letter inviting county comments at a public hearing on a requested incentive package for Menard Inc. That meeting will be hosted by the City of Lawrence on Jan. 19.

Commissioners also unanimously approved a five-year extension on the current food contract with U.S. Communities, Premier, for five years. That contract provides food for the Douglas County Jail and Youth Services.

Douglas County Commissioners meet each Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. The meetings are open to the public and a full agenda is available online at douglascountyks.org.

— Reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at cswanson@ljworld.com or 832-7144.

DATEBOOK Superintendent Search, 7-7:45 p.m., Southwest Middle School cafeteria, 2511 Inverness Drive.

YA for Grown-ups: Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson, 7-8 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. KC Ale Trail with Pete Dulin, 7-8 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Lawrence Arts & Crafts, 7-9 p.m., Cafe area, Dillons, 1740 Massachusetts St. Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

Thursday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa St.

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Stories & Songs, 9:3010 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Toddler Storytime, 9:30-10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Toddler Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Stories & Songs, 10:3011 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Public Input Session for Lawrence USD 497 Superintendent Search, noon-12:45 p.m. (bring your lunch), Multi-Purpose Room at Lawrence School District Office, 110 McDonald Drive.

Personal Finance Apps, 2-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Cottin’s Hardware Farmers Market — Indoors, 4-6 p.m., Cottin’s Hardware and Rental, 1832 Massachusetts St. Dinner and Junkyard Jazz, 5:30 p.m., American Legion Post #14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Public Input Session for Lawrence USD 497 Superintendent Search, 6-6:45 p.m., West Middle School library, 2700 Harvard Road.

Library Storytime, 7-7:45 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Public Input Session for Lawrence USD 497

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Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Peterson Acres, 2930 Peterson Road.

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John Jervis, classical guitar, 8-11 a.m., Panera, 520 W. 23rd St. The Comical Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, 10 a.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. The Comical Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, 1 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Great Poetry Discussion, 2-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.

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Through the installation of solar panels, energy-efficient lightbulbs and various other green and sustainable projects, Douglas County saved a little more than $23,000 in 2015.

County Sustainability Coordinator Eileen Horn on Wednesday asked county commissioners to plug those savings back into the Sustainability and Energy Savings Reinvestment Fund.

Commissioners unanimously approved Horn’s request, rounding the number up to an even $23,600.

The fund, which began in 2011, is meant to supplement any additional costs for projects or improvements that may cost more in the short term but save the county money over time, Horn said.

“It provides the opportunity for departments across the county to go for the energy-efficient upgrades without being penalized for the upfront costs,” Horn explained.

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For example, if a county department needed to buy a new vehicle and the base model were less expensive than a hybrid model, but the hybrid model would cost the county less over time, the Sustainability and Energy Savings Reinvestment Fund could be used to bridge the gap and buy the hybrid model, Horn said. Those longterm savings would show in the county’s general fund balance and be sent back into the reinvestment fund.

Since the fund was created, it has enabled the county to undertake 15 different projects, Horn said. Each year the fund saves the county more money and the savings are reinvested, allowing for more projects.

“This fund creates a rolling and revolving fund so the county always has a pot of money to do energy efficient and sustainable projects that we know are important,” she said.

Future county projects that may use the Sustainability and Energy Savings Reinvestment Fund might include heating, ventilating and air-conditioning up-

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Oil price pain starts to spread Slump affects larger labor market, slows economic growth Paul Davidson USA TODAY

The unrelenting slide in oil prices is rippling to the broader economy as the industry’s downturn squeezes sectors as diverse as airlines and restaurants, steelmakers and law firms.

The U.S. crude benchmark price rose 4 cents Wednesday to close at $30.48 a barrel but has fallen about 18% this year after plummeting in 2015, and it’s close to 12-year lows. The crash has led oil producers to sharply scale back drilling and cut jobs. The bloodletting has translated into hundreds of thousands of payroll losses across the labor market and cut about a half a percentage point off economic growth in the past year, according to Moody’s Analytics.

United Airlines said this week it expects lower passenger revenue in the fourth quarter because of reduced bookings by Texas oil executives — who often travel first class — and the impact of the terror attacks in Paris, among other factors.

KB Homes, the building giant, dialed back construction in the Houston area last year because of oil’s slide.

The company “decided let’s take some chips off the table until things stabilize,” CEO Jeffrey

Metzger told analysts this week.

Though much of the fallout is concentrated in Texas, North Dakota and other oil-producing states, the decline also affects manufacturers and service firms across the country. The oil and gas industry announced 204,000 layoffs during the past 12 months, according to Continental Resources, an oil company that tracks the figure.

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IRAN RELEASES 10 U.S. NAVY SAILORS

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U.S. sailors are apprehended by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards after their boats entered Iranian waters unintentionally.

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State of the Union ‘degrades the presidency,’ Ryan says Speaker does agree Muslim ban wrong

wrongheaded those who are “promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control.”

Ryan said he agreed with Obama that Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from the USA was a bad idea. “Putting a religious test on anybody coming to this country is wrong,” the Wisconsin Republican said. “We ought to have a security test, not a religious test.

That’s who we are.

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In a scathing response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, House Speaker Paul Ryan told USA TODAY on Wednesday that the speech’s political tone toward Donald Trump and the Republican presidential field “degrades the presidency.”

Obama made comments unmistakably targeted at Trump, though he didn’t mention the GOP front-runner by name in Tuesday’s address. The president blasted as un-American and WASHINGTON

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U.S. officials thanked Iran on Wednesday for releasing 10 U.S. sailors briefly detained after their two boats strayed into Iranian waters but denied apologizing for the incident to the controversial Middle Eastern power.

“Absolutely ZERO truth to rumors that @JohnKerry apologized to Iran over Sailors,” State Department spokesman John Kirby tweeted.

Iran detained the sailors — nine men and one woman — at an Iranian military base in the Persian Gulf before they were freed, state-run IRNA reported.

Iranian TV released video purportedly showing a sailor saying, “We apologize for our mistake.” A U.S. Defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue, told USA TODAY the video appeared authentic but staged. The sailor may have been coerced to talk or attempting to protect his crew, the official said.

Another video from Iranian TV appeared to show the sailors kneeling on a boat, hands on their heads, and later eating while sitting on the floor of a room.

Secretary of State John Kerry downplayed the apology squabble at a news conference Wednesday, thanking Iranian authorities for their cooperation. He credited the quick resolution to a thaw in relations with Iran, highlighted by the nuclear deal in which the United States and other world powers agreed to lift sanctions in return for Iran reducing its nuclear program. Relief from the sanctions could begin this week.

Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke at least five times as the incident unfolded Tuesday, including once after President Obama’s State of the Union Address, a senior State Department official said in a background briefing Wednesday. The boats — traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain — drifted into Iranian waters Tuesday after experiencing unspecified mechanical problems.

Struggling Al Jazeera America news outlet to close Economic challenge too great, CEO says Roger Yu

USA TODAY

Al Jazeera America, the American cable news outlet owned by Qatar-based Al Jazeera, plans to shut down less than three years after its much-ballyhooed launch, unable to overcome low ratings, operational problems and a lack of advertisers.

The cable news network will be phased out by April 30, according

to a memo emailed to staffers Wednesday.

Al Jazeera Media Network, funded by the government of Qatar, launched the U.S.-based network in August 2013 after buying Current TV, the cable news channel co-founded by Al Gore, for about $500 million that year.

The decision to go out of business was “driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace,” Al Jazeera America (AJAM) CEO Al Anstey was quoted as saying in an AJAM report.

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Al Jazeera America’s business model is “not sustainable,” its CEO says.

“The wind down of Al Jazeera America is not expected to have any impact on other businesses or operations of the network,” Mostefa Souag, acting director

general of Al Jazeera Media Network, wrote in the note.

CNN, citing unnamed sources, said as many as 700 staffers could lose their jobs. Al Jazeera couldn’t be immediately reached to verify the number of people affected by the move.

As Al Jazeera prepared to launch in 2013, it promised to spend money for investigative and fact-based journalism to distinguish itself from more entrenched competitors.

AJAM won some awards for investigative journalism. Late last year, it produced a documentary that linked Denver Broncos quar-

terback Peyton Manning to human growth hormone. As the report encountered criticism for its sourcing, the reporters who worked on the story insisted that its main premise — that growth hormone was sent to Manning’s wife in Florida — is true. Manning, one of the most respected and popular NFL football players, hasn’t ruled out suing AJAM. Jokes about Manning’s hand in AJAM’s demise surfaced on Twitter. “Al Jazeera is shutting down,” a tweet read, accompanied by a reference to the jingle of Nationwide, an insurance company whose ad spokesman is Manning.

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5 flash points between the U.S. and Iran Iran’s brief detention of 10 U.S. sailors is the latest incident to spark growing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic in the wake of a nuclear deal that President Obama hoped would improve relations between the two estranged nations. Iran seized the sailors and their two small U.S. Navy boats Tuesday after the vessels drifted into Iranian waters. They were released Wednesday. Here are five other issues that have put the two countries in conflict:

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An Imad missile reportedly was tested at an undisclosed location.

BALLISTIC MISSILE TESTS

Last month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the country’s defense minister to expedite Iran’s ballistic missile program in response to planned U.S. sanctions on Iranian defense companies. “We have never negotiated regarding our defense capabilities including our missile program & will not accept any restrictions in this regard,” Rouhani said on Twitter. He added: “If the US continues its illegitimate interference w/ Iran’s right to defend itself a new program will be devised to enhance missile capabilities.” The United States considers the tests to be hostile actions that are in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Marine Sgt. Maj. Charles L. Cook’s son was killed in Beirut.

Iran said it has destroyed the core of its nuclear facility near Arak.

The Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian has been in prison since 2014.

FIRING ROCKETS NEAR SHIPS

SUPREME COURT CASE ON FROZEN ASSETS

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IMPRISONMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS

The U.S. military released a video Saturday showing what it said is an Iranian military vessel firing several unguided rockets near, but not at, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, other warships and commercial craft Dec. 26 in the Strait of Hormuz.

The images show what appears to be an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel firing rockets from about 1,500 yards, or less than a mile. Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the Navy’s 5th Fleet, said Iran’s actions were “unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law.”

Supreme Court justices in Washington heard arguments Wednesday that hundreds of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism and surviving family members should win access to about $2 billion in frozen assets of Iran’s central bank. Among them are relatives of 173 of the 241 servicemen killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. It was carried out by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, a close Iranian ally, but federal courts in the United States held Iran responsible. Now the high court must decide if Congress overstepped its bounds by passing a law specifically designed to resolve the standoff over the frozen assets.

Iran could gain relief from international sanctions starting as early as this week after meeting all the requirements under its nuclear deal with world powers.

However, most U.S. sanctions will remain until Iran takes additional steps to implement the deal, which was reached in July. International investors, foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies and foreign banks are waiting for guidance from the Treasury Department on what they will be allowed to do in Iran without breaking U.S. law, said Patrick Clawson, director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Members of Congress have been pushing to impose new sanctions over Iran’s recent missile tests.

Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter with dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship, has been sitting in an Iranian prison since 2014 on charges that include espionage. He was convicted and sentenced to a prison term but Iranian authorities did not provide details. Douglas Jehl, the newspaper’s foreign editor, called Rezaian’s imprisonment “an injustice” and a “sham.” Iran also is holding two other Americans with dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship. Saeed Abedini, a Muslim convert to Christianity, was arrested in 2012 while helping to establish house churches in Iran, and former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death on spying charges after being arrested in 2011 while visiting his grandmothers in Tehran. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson was taken hostage in 2007 on Iran’s Kish Island and has since disappeared. The FBI says he was there as a private investigator, but his family said he was working for the CIA. The U.S. government is seeking the release of the detainees and information on Levinson’s whereabouts.

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dresses,” Ryan said. “Speaking up for our values and speaking up for our beliefs is one thing. But kind of wading into the primary politics of the other party is just not really what presidents ought to do.”

Ryan sat down with Capital Download in the same gilded ceremonial room where congressional leaders greeted Obama on Tuesday before he went into the House chamber to deliver his final State of the Union before a joint session of Congress, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices and foreign ambassadors.

The State of the Union was the first such official ritual since Ryan, 45, succeeded John Boehner as House speaker two months ago — a job he hadn’t sought and wasn’t sure he wanted.

Indeed, the task of sitting just behind the president, keeping a poker face for an hour, was tough, he said: “I just basically wanted to be wallpaper.”

The next day, Ryan’s blunt comments about Obama’s message reflected a deep political divide about the state of the nation and its future.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama was struck by “the tone of the political debate and the doom and gloom that some are peddling. The president wanted to address that head-on because he has never been more optimistic about the future of this country and the potential of the American people.” He noted that the speech included priorities the White House wants to pursue with Congress this year.

“I thought it was a fairly typical speech for the president,” Ryan said. “Apparently, ISIS is a bunch of guys riding around in trucks, and a picture of a good foreign policy is Syria. I think he glossed over the economy. I think he glossed over our foreign policy failures.” Later, he said, “That’s the kind of speech he gives these days, and I think it really is divorced from reality.”

He said Obama’s arguments defending his record — and dismissing as “political hot air” ac-

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Iran reportedly fired rockets near the USS Harry S Truman.

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“That’s the kind of speech (Obama) gives these days, and I think it really is divorced from reality.”

Paul Ryan, speaker of the House

cusations that the nation is in economic and military decline — didn’t square with the realities many Americans see in their own lives. “What I don’t think you got out of that speech is, people are really hurting,” he said.

Those concerns fuel Trump’s surprising rise and political resilience, he said. “I think people are really nervous. I think people are really anxious. And that’s because they believe that the country as they know it, this American idea — the condition of your birth doesn’t determine the outcome of your life ... so many people are worried that’s leaving us.

“People are going to say, ‘I want someone who understands the pain I feel and the anxiety I have and the fear I have that the

country is going to lose a piece of its greatness,’ ” Ryan said. “I think that’s more than a Republican thing. I think Democrats feel it the same way.”

Ryan, who will be chairman of the Republican National Convention this summer, said “of course” he would support Trump if he wins the GOP nomination. “I respect the primary process,” he said. “I respect the Republican primary voter.”

He defended South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who gave the official Republican response to the State of the Union. Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, urged Americans to resist “the siren call of the angriest voices.” In an interview on NBC’s Today show Wednesday, she acknowledged that Trump was one of those she had in mind.

“I think she’s made her point pretty well, which is, as conservatives, we’ve got great principles, great ideas, and these are inspirational,” Ryan said. “These are optimistic ideas. These are inclusive ideas. ... I believe what Nikki Haley did was go out and win converts to conservatism.”

ing, the sector lost 114,000 jobs in the past year, but the human toll doesn’t stop there. Every lost oil and gas job leads to an additional 3.43 jobs cut in other sectors, Moody’s estimates.

That’s a relatively large multiplier effect because the energy industry is rife with well-paying jobs and big-spending employees, says Moody’s economist Chris Lafakis.

About 37% of those positions are directly affected by the energy industry, such as those in steel production and rail cars for oil transportation.

An additional 63% are because of laid-off employees’ reduced spending in sectors such as hotels, retail and health care.

That means the 114,000 job losses wiped out an additional 391,000 or so jobs in other sectors last year and sliced economic growth to about 2.1% from 2.6%.

Manufacturers announced 37,221 layoffs in the past 12 months, Continental figures show. “Energy has been a substantial drag on the job market,” Lafakis says.

Potentially adding to the industry’s troubles, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates last month for the first time in nearly a decade and additional hikes are probable this year, moves that are likely to further strengthen the dollar.

Since oil is traded in dollars, that could put even more downward pressure on crude prices.

The Lone Star State has borne a Texas-size share of the pain.

“Almost all businesses in this region have been affected,” says Dustin O’Quinn, a board member of the Houston Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

The University of Houston es-

timates the area added 15,000 jobs last year, down from 103,600 in 2014, because of the oil slump.

Traffic at Mezza Grill in Houston has fallen 20% to 30% over the past year, and patrons are ordering less expensive fare, owner Stephanie Tibi says.

“People are cutting back because they were laid off or are anticipating being laid off,” she says.

Tibi says she’s been forced to pare her staff to 22 from 40 a year ago.

San Antonio-based law firm Mazurek Alford & Holliday, which does work for energy companies, is down to about 10 lawyers after cutting its staff in half last year, partner Benjamin Holliday says.

Manufacturers across the country have been rocked. Shipments of steel in the USA — used to make oil and gas pipelines — were down 11.4% through the first 11 months of 2015, and the industry announced more than 12,000 layoffs during the past year, according to the American Steel and Iron Institute. The struggles stem from both the oil industry’s woes and a worldwide glut in steel capacity.

The U.S. and Canadian revenue of plastics maker A. Schulman fell short of targets last quarter “due to the significant downturns in the oil and gas markets,” CEO Bernard Rzepka told analysts this week.

Despite the downturn, the crash in oil prices has been a net benefit for the economy because cheap gasoline has bolstered consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, Lafakis says.

The Labor Department reported last week that employers added 2.7 million jobs last year, the second strongest year for job growth since 1999, behind only 2014.

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BERLIN As a backlash against a flood of migrants spreads, Europe’s most welcoming country on Wednesday weighed legislation to make it easier to deport refugees and foreigners found guilty of serious crimes.

The legislative move by the German Parliament underscores the anti-immigrant outcry since allegations surfaced about sexual assaults by migrants against hundreds of women in Cologne and other cities on New Year’s Eve. Police have received 561 criminal complaints related to the Dec. 31 assaults that include two rape allegations. At least 19 men are being investigated in the attacks, federal police said.

A poll this week by the YouGov online research firm showed that 62% of Germans say there are too many asylum seekers in the country, from 53% in November.

Germany accepted more than 1 million migrants last year from conflict zones such as Syria, Iraq and Eritrea. But the welcome mat for refugees laid out by German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being pulled back a bit.

She backs the proposal to deport migrants for crimes such as homicide and rape.

Aiman Mazyek, chairman of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims, said his group has seen a spike in threats since the events in Cologne.

“We’ve received an incredible number of hate calls. You could call it telephone terror,” Mazyek told state broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Tuesday.

Right-wing, anti-immigration groups were quick to capitalize on the Cologne sexual assaults.

Tatjana Festerling, a speaker for a group called PEGIDA, said Monday in Leipzig that Muslim refugees had declared “sex jihad,” a terror attack against blond, white women in Germany.

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TO BE SCREENED AT HOME United Nations plan aims to keep Central American migrants safe, while keeping country secure, Kerry says Alan Gomez

A 1-year-old from El Salvador clings to his mother after she turns themselves in to Border Patrol agents near Rio Grande City, Texas.

The U.S. government will work with the United Nations to screen Central American refugees inside their own countries in an attempt to stop them from rushing across the southwest border, the State Department announced Wednesday.

The program would resemble refugee processing centers used in Europe, where the U.N. screens refugees fleeing Syria, Sudan and other war-torn countries and then refers them to individual countries that conduct further screening.

Secretary of State John Kerry said the staggering flow of migrants across the globe requires enhanced efforts to protect refugees from harm, while also protecting the U.S. from terrorists exploiting those programs to enter the country.

“We can both maintain the highest security standards and live up to our best traditions as Americans by welcoming those in need of help to our great country,” Kerry said during a speech at the National Defense University in Washington. “We dare not turn our backs on future generations seeking the same set of opportunities. We have the ability to protect ourselves, even as we remain a country that welcomes migration.”

Central American migration exploded in recent years, including many minors traveling alone or mothers with their children.

They mostly come from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, which have some of the highest homicide rates in the world because of battles between drug cartels.

Immigration activists wel-

Americans reached the U.S. in the summer of 2014, a rush that strained the U.S. government’s ability to handle so many people and ignited a political battle.

Those numbers fell in 2015, after the U.S. pressed Mexico and Central American countries to control their borders, and the Obama administration warned migrants they would face swift deportation if they made the journey.

Those numbers are now skyrocketing again.

From October to December, 17,370 unaccompanied minors were caught along the southwest border — more than double the 7,987 caught during in the same period in 2014, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

There was an even bigger increase in migrants who came as “family units” — at least one minor with a parent. More than 21,000 of those crossed the border from October to December, a 187% increase from the same period in 2014.

Earlier this month, the Obama administration came under fire for responding to that surge with an immigration raid during the holidays that targeted mothers and children from Central America. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the raid, the first of a series, was necessary to deter others in Central America from making the journey.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said Wednesday that he hopes opening the processing centers would end that tactic. “We must immediately halt the domestic immigration raids that fast-track the deportations of the very same families we are hoping to aid with today’s announcement,” he said.

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comed the new approach, with Human Rights First calling it a “long-overdue development.”

“The United States has a long way to go if it is to reclaim its position as global leader in refugee protection,” said Sharon Kelly McBride of the Washingtonbased group, adding that the new centers would be a first step in that direction.

Roy Beck of NumbersUSA said the plan may reduce the flow of Central American immigrants to the U.S., but it won’t end that wave. Beck, executive director of the group that advocates for lower levels of legal and illegal immigration, said the U.S. maintains a strict cap on the number of refugees admitted every year, so he worried about all the Central Americans whose application for refugee status will be denied.

“They’re still going to show up on our border, unless (the administration) is clear that they are not going to be brought into the country,” Beck said.

The biggest surge of Central

A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks a migrant’s documents last month near Rio Grande City, Texas.

The number of migrant families and unaccompanied minors has surged.

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“We can both maintain the highest security standards and live up to our best traditions as Americans by welcoming those in need of help to our great country.”

The armed group that took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon more than a week ago will host a community meeting Friday to explain its position and announce when it will leave, one of the leaders of the group said, according to local media.

The meeting will take place Friday at 7 p.m.

PT, KTVZ-TV reported.

It comes against a backdrop of growing USA TODAY resentment LaVoy among residents Finicum of Burns, Ore., toward the group, which arrived Jan. 2.

“There should be a dialogue,” LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, said Tuesday while announcing the meeting, The Oregonian reported. It was not immediately clear where the gathering would be.

The group, led by Ammon Bundy, son of a Nevada rancher

in a longstanding battle with federal authorities over grazing rights, initially arrived in Burns to show support for two ranchers convicted of burning public land.

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sel, according to a review by the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum.

Searchers on the vessel Havila Harmony discovered the sonar image Dec. 19 and captured a high-resolution picture Jan. 2. It shows a largely intact ship 12,000 feet underwater. — Bart Jansen

U.N. CONDEMNS SEX ABUSE

BY PEACEKEEPERS IN AFRICA

The United Nations on Wednesday condemned alleged sexual exploitation and other “egregious conduct” by U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and called for a full investigation.

U.N. officials learned last month that at least four peacekeepers paid as little as 50 cents for sex with underage girls during a mission in the Central African Republic, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed United Nations officials.

The allegations are the most recent in a series of sexual abuse and exploitation claims linked to U.N. employees.

At least 26 incidents, including the most recent incidents, have occurred in the past 14 months, according to the U.N. — Mary Bowerman

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HUNT FOR MISSING AIRLINER TURNS UP SHIPWRECK

The search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished nearly two years ago has revealed a 19th-century shipwreck in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said Wednesday.

Based on sonar data, the ship appears to be a steel or iron ves-

uTurkish authorities said they detained four more people Wednesday in connection with a suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 10 German tourists. That raises to five the number of arrests stemming from the attack Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, citing Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. uThe Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found gaps in Ebola screening at U.S. ports, according to a report Wednesday. Customs and Border Protection released 169 passengers without taking their temperatures from October 2014 through June 2015, despite recent travel to an Ebola-affected country in West Africa, according to Inspector General John Roth.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Huntsville: AL.com selected for shaming the nine worst Southern accents in movie history. Among the offenders twanging the wrong note were Nicolas Cage in Con Air, John Travolta in Urban Cowboy and Keanu Reeves in Devil’s Advocate.

ALASKA Fairbanks: Inadequate

snow conditions in south-central Alaska could cause the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to return here for the second consecutive year, newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Surprise: Police warned residents about a phone scam involving someone making false claims about jury duty. According to Sgt. Norm Owens, the scammer tells potential victims they have missed a jury summons and must post an expensive bond to avoid arrest, The Arizona Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Fayetteville: Three

New York-based investment groups bought the Northwest Arkansas Mall for $39.5 million, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento:

Attorney Moseley Collins filed a wrongful death claim against Child Protective Services after John Huston’s 9-year-old foster son, Tyler Trammell-Huston, was mauled to death by three pit bull terriers that belonged to the boy’s older sister, The Sacramento Bee reported.

COLORADO Aspen: A Snow-

mass man was sentenced to five years in prison for attacking a man in Basalt, the Aspen Times reported.

CONNECTICUT Stamford: A

former police officer denied charges stemming from allegedly vacationing in Hawaii instead of reporting for training with the U.S. Army Reserve, the Stamford Advocate reported. Donald Chen pleaded not guilty to felony larceny in Stamford criminal court.

DELAWARE Dover:

A 12-year-old was charged with bringing a gun to school, and a 13-year-old was charged with firing it after a gun went off in a school bathroom, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Teri

Stubs donated video she shot from 1985-1995 of performances at the 9:30 Club to the Punk Archive of the Public Library, The Washington Post reported. Bands include Fugazi, the Psychedelic Furs and Nine Inch Nails. David Yow, vocalist of the Jesus Lizard, once climbed into Stubs’ lap.

FLORIDA Cape Canaveral:

SpaceX aimed to test-fire the engines of the Falcon 9 rocket booster that made a historic landing Dec. 21 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Today reported. The test would demonstrate the feasibility of reusing such boosters.

GEORGIA Chatham County:

County Commissioner Yusuf Shabazz asked that District Attorney Meg Heap be removed from handling misdemeanor traffic charges that he allegedly left the scene of an accident. His motion contends that he has “direct involvement” in voting on the budget for Heap’s office, the Savannah Morning News reported.

HAWAII Hilo: Bishop Museum

officials are looking to find a new

HIGHLIGHT: ACROSS THE USA

U.S. organ transplants reach 30K milestone Kim Painter

Special for USA TODAY

Thanks to a steady increase in Americans willing to donate their organs to save the lives of others, organ transplants in the United States reached a milestone in 2015, exceeding 30,000 for the first time, a non-profit group reported Wednesday.

Those 30,973 transplants of kidneys, livers and other organs were nearly 5% more than performed in 2014 and came after years of fairly slow, steady climbs, said officials with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).

The network coordinates U.S. transplant activities.

“This landmark achievement is a testament to the generosity of the American public to help others through donation and their trust in the transplant system to honor their life-saving gift,” the group’s president, Betsy Walsh, said in a statement.

Stepped-up organ donations, rather than any breakthroughs in transplant surgery, likely drove increases in recent years, said David Klassen, the network’s chief medical officer.

Transplant centers also have worked to improve logistics, so that fewer donated organs are discarded, he said.

But, he said, the number of people waiting for organs — now 121,700 — “still dwarfs the numbers of donors each year.” owner for the museum’s land in the Waipio Valley, The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported.

IDAHO Caldwell: A Nampa woman accused of trying to “baptize” her baby in an irrigation canal pleaded guilty to injury to a child, the Idaho Press-Tribune reported.

ILLINOIS Springfield: A truck

driver lost control of his vehicle while exiting Interstate 55 onto Interstate 72, The State JournalRegister reported. The truck, which was carrying hogs, went off the roadway and turned over onto its side.

INDIANA Indianapolis: A 4-

year-old boy was found inside a stolen vehicle. Police found the child unharmed when they responded to a call about the vehicle, The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Iowa City: A man who reportedly drove his car into the side of a house was charged with drunken driving, the Iowa City Press Citizen reported.

KANSAS Elkhart:

Part of the Cimarron National Grassland is closed during an investigation into the deaths of seven cattle, The Hutchinson News reported.

KENTUCKY

Louisville: Louisville Gas and Electric plans to shut down its coal ash ponds at two large power plants and ask its customers to carry the $311 million bill, The Courier-Journal reported.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The Prytania Theatre will remember David Bowie, who died of cancer Sunday at the age of 69, with a screening Sunday night of director Jim Henson’s 1986 fantasy adventure Labyrinth, starring Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, The Times-Picayune reported.

MAINE South Portland: Offi-

cials are in the process of developing a fire code amendment that would block a controversial proposal for a liquefied petroleum gas depot at Rigby Yard, the Portland Press Herald reported.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Resi-

dents will be able to select a large or small trash can as part of the city’s efforts to make neighborhoods cleaner, The Sun reported.

The cans, at 35 and 65 gallons, will be distributed in late February.

MASSACHUSETTS Brockton:

Police said a 17-year-old boy struck in the back by a bullet that passed through his home’s kitchen window was not the intended target.

MORE ARE DONATING ORGANS The number of organ transplants continues to rise, breaking the 30,000 mark for the first time in the U.S.

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As of Tuesday, 78,122 of the people on the waiting list were considered “active,” meaning they are eligible for transplant right away. People may move on and off the active list as their health fluctuates, Klassen said.

Most are waiting for kidneys, which can come from living or deceased donors.

Each day, about 22 people die while waiting for organs, the network says.

“We could save thousands of more lives each year if more Americans would just take a little time to register as donor, talk to their families about their MICHIGAN Flint: Genesee County workers removed nearly 600 tons of garbage during the past month from the site of a former recycling center, The Flint Journal reported. Mounds of debris were left over after the previous owners walked away from the business; the property was turned over to the county land bank after foreclosure on back taxes.

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wishes and encourage others to do the same,” said David Fleming, CEO of Donate Life America, a non-profit group that runs a national registry at DonateLife.net. Registries also are maintained by every state and listed at organdonor.gov.

“It’s great news that the number of transplants continues to increase each year,” said Jennifer Martin, vice president for constituent services at the National Kidney Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group. “But there’s still a lot of work to do to get organs for everyone who needs them.” terfly once found across the Southwest to see if it warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act. NEW YORK Rochester: Four

people who were found dead by firefighters in an apartment this week were probably killed before the fire began, The Democrat and Chronicle reported. Police officials acknowledged they were investigating the fire as an arson.

NORTH CAROLINA Cary: The

man with three convictions for driving while intoxicated was arrested again, this time with a young child on his lap while plowing snow with a front-end loader, KSTP-TV reported.

2015 Hometown Spirit Award recognized Anne Kratzer for her efforts to preserve historic buildings, The News & Observer reported.

MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: The

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

Vicksburg Post reported that officials approved a $42,000 contract with the Retail Coach to recruit and keep retail businesses.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Barbara

and Andy Taylor donated $21 million to endow the Art Museum’s directorship, effective Jan. 1. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that it is becoming increasingly expensive to hire leaders at U.S. museums.

MONTANA Helena: A Lewis and

Clark County sheriff’s deputy faces an assault-with-a-weapon charge after being accused of hitting a man and pulling a gun on him while drunk at a party, the Independent Record reported.

NEBRASKA Omaha: An armed man surrendered peacefully after a six-hour standoff with police, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

NEVADA Elko: Federal mine safety regulators said a fatal accident at a gold mine was caused by inadequate policies and safety procedures involving the operation of a 20-ton drilling machine, the Elko Daily Free Press reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Newington:

The state-owned Bank of North Dakota had record net income of nearly $131 million last year. The bank’s 2015 income was up nearly 18% over 2014 and more than $15% higher than was budgeted, The Bismarck Tribune reported. thought he was alone in his house after dropping his son off at a school bus stop, allegedly shot and killed the teen after the child returned home and hid in the basement to skip school, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Georta Mack, 14, died after being shot in the neck; police are investigating the incident.

OKLAHOMA Dover: Firefighters contained a fire at Dover High School. No injuries were reported, according to KWTV. OREGON Salem: Police investigated racially charged threats against a family as a potential hate crime, The Statesman Journal reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Steelton: Arce-

lorMittal is trying to sell a steel plant that’s operated since the 1800s. United Steelworkers local President Ray Napoli told WNEPTV that the plant is for sale.

RHODE ISLAND Bristol: A meet-

ing is scheduled for Thursday night to vote again on a proposal to cut the Fourth of July parade’s route by nearly a half-mile. The town’s July 4 parade was established in 1785 and is billed as the oldest continuous celebration of independence in the country.

NEW JERSEY Irvington: It took firefighters about four hours to get the upper hand on a fire that started in the Headquarters Bar & Grill, and flames spread to nearby structures.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

Albuquerque: Federal officials plan to study the status of the Great Basin silverspot but-

Smith, 33, was charged with criminal homicide in the death of her 84-year-old grandmother, the Knoxville News-Sentinel reported.

Campbell County deputies found the body of Mona Marcum in her home Tuesday but did not specify the cause of death.

TEXAS Fabens: A soldier wanted

for being AWOL from the Army was in the hospital after a rollover crash. Nicholas Martarano, 19, was allegedly speeding while traveling eastbound on Interstate 10.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Police found more than 600 vehicles left warming up and unattended throughout the city as part of an investigation into recent car thefts. Sgt. Robin Heiden said officers talked to the owners of each vehicle they found left idling. Almost everyone told police they had left their cars running only “for a second.”

None of the drivers was cited.

From Dec. 4 to Jan. 3, 202 vehicles were reported stolen in the city. Nearly 60 had been left running.

VERMONT Montpelier: The

House Education Committee, Democrat and Republican alike, voted 11-0 to raise school spending limits by 0.9% for fiscal year 2017, which would give schools more room to spend before incurring a hefty tax penalty, the Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Richmond: “Dressing Downton,” an exhibit of costumes from the popular PBS television show Downton Abbey, was seen by about 21,000 people during its run at the Historical Society, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

WASHINGTON Everett: The

former owner of five Snohomish County coffee stands, who pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution at the businesses, won’t spend any time in jail. The Daily Herald reported that a judge granted Carmela Panico, who had faced up to a year in jail, a firsttime offender waiver.

OHIO Cincinnati: A father, who

State police said glare from the sun and driver distraction were to blame for five accidents on the Little Bay Bridge. The Portsmouth Herald reported state police began receiving calls of multiple crashes on the southbound side of the bridge Monday morning.

NEW MEXICO

fish: The city issued 458 building permits last year that had a total value of almost $46.4 million, Chief Building Official Tom Paisley told the Black Hills Pioneer.

That was down only slightly from the record year of 2014, when the city issued 513 permits worth about $49.1 million.

The Pickens County Planning Commission suspended the land use permit granted for landfill company MRR Pickens after learning that it planned to use it for coal ash disposal rather than construction debris as had been approved, The Greenville News reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Spear-

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: This will be one of the last cities where Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey features its famous elephant acts, the Gazette-Mail reported. The touring circus show will perform eight shows from April 21-24 at the Civic Center. Elephants will be phased out of the circus’ performances in May. WISCONSIN Madison: Rep. Bob Gannon raised his middle finger at the Democrats’ leader Tuesday on the floor of the Assembly in response to criticism about comments Gannon had made about crime in Milwaukee. “Did he just give me the finger?” Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, asked after he began his comments about the Slinger Republican. Barca and other Democrats demanded an apology, and Gannon gave one, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

WYOMING Casper: Two men

were able to escape from their truck after it plunged through thin ice, KTWO-AM reported.

The two Fremont County residents were ice fishing at Boysen Reservoir and drove their F-350 Ford truck across the ice after dark. The ice broke, and the truck’s cab slid into the water, hitting the bottom and preventing the entire vehicle from going under. The driver was able to kick out the back window after four attempts. No critical injuries were reported.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer and Ben Sheffler. Design by Tiffany Reusser. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS GE moving its headquarters to Boston LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL USA TODAY - L awrence J ournal -W orld THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016

Manufacturing giant cites quality of life, business ecosystem Kevin McCoy and Kaja Whitehouse USA TODAY

Facing potential higher taxes at home and lured by universities and a high-tech future, manufacturing giant General Electric is moving its headquarters from a Connecticut suburb to Boston, the firm said Wednesday.

GE said it chose Boston as the winner from among 40 potential MONEYLINE GOPRO POUNDED ON AFTER-HOURS STUNNER GoPro, the maker of cameras for action-sports enthusiasts, stunned investors after the market closed with a disappointing forecast and news of job cuts.

The company said it only expects to post revenue of $435 million during the fourth quarter, missing analysts’ forecasts of $508 million. The company announced it would cut 7% of its workforce of more than 1,500 employees. Shares, which are down 71% in the past year, closed flat Wednesday at $14.61, but fell another 20% after shares reopened for after-hours trading.

CONVICTED MASTERMIND OF SILK ROAD SEEKS NEW TRIAL Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has asked a federal appeals court to vacate his 2015 criminal conviction and order a new trial, contending that government corruption and legal errors tainted the case. U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest sentenced Ulbricht, 31, to life in prison last June after a jury convicted him on charges of founding and operating a criminal version of eBay.

JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY

PC SHIPMENTS PLUNGE IN FOURTH QUARTER It was not a holly jolly Christmas for personal computer makers — unless you’re Apple. Global PC shipments fell for the fifth consecutive quarter, according to research firm Gartner. Overall, global shipments in Q4 fell 8.3%.

PC stalwarts including Lenovo, Dell and HP all ended the fourth quarter with declines in shipment growth. The lone bright spot? Apple, which posted growth of nearly 3% for Q4.

FORD, GM HANDING OUT AN EXTRA $1.1B THIS YEAR Ford and GM are handing out an extra $1.1 billion this year — to investors. GM on Wednesday announced it’s boosting its quarterly dividend nearly 6% to 38 cents a share, a day after Ford said it would pay a one-time dividend to investors this year of 25 cents a share.

USA SNAPSHOTS©

Average CD yields As of Wednesday: 6-month

This week Last week Year ago 0.16% 0.16% 0.16% 1-year

This week Last week Year ago 0.27% 0.27% 0.27% 21⁄2-year

This week Last week Year ago 0.47% 0.46% 0.41% 5-year

This week Last week Year ago 0.84% 0.86% 0.85% Find more interest rates at rates.usatoday.com.

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sites reviewed in a formal process that began in June, the culmination of more than a three-year consideration of the composition and location of its headquarters.

Generations of Americans know GE well for its consumer and kitchen appliances, home and electrical products, as well as parts and accessories.

Boston won the relocation nod based on business ecosystem, talent, long-term costs, quality of life for employees and higher education centers, GE said.

The move will have “no material financial impact,” GE said.

Massachusetts and Boston officials said they offered GE up to

CHRISTOPHE MORIN, BLOOMBERG

General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt.

$120 million in incentives and $25 million in property tax relief.

GE plans to sell its offices at its longtime headquarters in Fairfield, Conn., and at 30 Rockefeller

Plaza in New York City to further offset the relocation cost.

“Today GE is a $130 billion high-tech global industrial company, one that is leading the digital transformation of industry.

We want to be at the enter of an ecosystem that shares our aspirations,” company Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt said.

GE will have roughly 800 employees in Boston, including 200 corporate staffers and 600 digital industrial product managers, designers and developers.

The new headquarters will be located in Boston’s Seaport District. GE employees will move to a temporary Boston location

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starting this summer, with a full move completed in several stages by 2018, the company said.

The Fortune 500 company has long been based in the Connecticut suburb in commuting range of New York City.

But GE scouted a new base amid the possibility of higher Connecticut taxes on businesses and high earners.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said GE’s move is “a clear signal that Connecticut must continue to adapt to a changing business climate” by investing in transportation, higher education and high-tech employers’ needs.

GE shares fell 1.4% at $28.24.

SELL-OFF PUSHES STOCKS OVER CORRECTION CLIFF Investors seem to have embraced a ‘sell the rally’ strategy Adam Shell USA TODAY

Intense selling returned to Wall Street on Wednesday afternoon, pushing the Dow down 365 points and slicing 3.4% off of the tech-packed Nasdaq, dashing hopes for a third-straight day of gains on Wall Street and extending the financial pain in what has been a horrific start to the year.

The late-day sell-off came despite earlier gains sparked by better-than-expected trade data from China and an early bounce in oil prices from recent lows.

But the two-day bounce faded as the mood shifted on Wall Street from the once-winning buy-the-dip mentality to a “sell the rally” strategy, says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank. By the way investors are selling into rallies, it appears they believe more pain is forthcomng.

“There’s been a mind-set change,” Ablin told USA TODAY. “The consistent drumbeat of selling suggests investors believe there is more downside to come.”

At the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was off 2.2%, to 16,151, its lowest close since Sept. 29. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 ended down 2.5% at 1890, and back below the key 1900 level. The Nasdaq composite finished 3.4% lower, to 4526.

All three major U.S. stock indexes were back in correction territory, or down more than 10% from their 2015 record highs. The Dow is now down 11.8% from its May 2015 record close, the S&P 500 is off 11.3% from its peak and the Nasdaq is 13.3% below its record close in late July.

The small-cap Russell 2000 has suffered the biggest losses and is now down 22.2% from its June 2015 peak, putting it back into bear market territory, defined as a drop of 20% or more.

Earlier in the day, it appeared the market math was basic Arithmetic 101: Better data from China plus higher oil prices equals higher stock prices. But that invest-

BACK IN CORRECTION TERRITORY All three major U.S. stock indexes are back in correction territory, down more than 10% from their 2015 record highs:

DOW y 11.8%

from its May 2015 peak

“The consistent drumbeat of selling suggests investors believe there is more downside to come.”

Jack Ablin, chief investment officer, BMO Private Bank

SPENCER PLATT, GETTY IMAGES

ment thesis gave way later to fears of a global recession and the decision of investors to pare back risk and sell stocks. Some on Wall S&P Street argue that the 500 continuing weakness in the stock market is sigy 11.3% naling that the odds of from its May a recession in the U.S. 2015 peak are on the rise.

Nasdaq And even though the broad S&P 500 y 13.3% stock index is from its July only down 2015 peak 11.3% from its DOW May peak, Douglas DOW JONES JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG. INDUSTRIAL AVG. Ramsey, chief investment officer at Leuthold 16,550 Group, believes the U.S. stock 16,500 -364.81 market is already in a bear market, which he argues began last 16,450 May at the market’s last peak.

4:00 p.m.

“I’m really concerned,” Ram16,151 16,400 sey told USA TODAY, adding that 16,350 9:30 a.m. the current downturn is the sec16,516 ond leg down in the bear market, 16,300 which could drag the broad market down 20% to 25% before 16,250 market valuations are low enough 16,200 to lure investors back in. He said the next leg down will eventually 16,150 hit so-called “defensive stocks.”

“We expect more victims ahead, including eventually the WEDNESDAY MARKETS safe-haven stocks,” he said.

INDEX CLOSE CHG Nasdaq composite 4526.06 y 159.86 A closely followed Wall Street S&P 500 1890.28 y 48.40 fear gauge, dubbed the VIX, T- note, 10-year yield 2.09% y 0.02 spiked 16% before closing up alOil, light sweet crude $30.48 x 0.04 most 12% as the investor angst Euro (dollars per euro) $1.0876 x 0.0019 level picked up after the afterYen per dollar 117.78 x 0.20 noon sell-off.

SOURCES USA TODAY RESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM

Traders scramble at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday as market volatility continued.

4 earnings questions banks need to answer Kaja Whitehouse @kajawhitehouse USA TODAY

NEW YORK When the big banks report their fourth-quarter and year-end earnings this week, they are expected to largely meet dampened expectations.

Here are the top four questions Wall Street analysts and investors will be asking.

1. Will interest rates rise?

Consumer banks like JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Bank of America have been waiting for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates on the expectation that this will turbocharge their earnings on loans.

And they got their wish in December when the central bank

inched the benchmark federal funds rate up 25 basis points, or 0.25%. The problem is, rates need to go higher to really boost the lenders’ earnings.

But fears of a slowdown in China and other parts of the world have raised doubts over whether this will happen this year — if at all.

“The expectation is that maybe the Fed will not go as high as people thought or maybe it will take longer,” added Paul Miller, a banking analyst with investment bank FBR & Co. 2. Are large investors still scared? Investment banks like JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley make money whether stocks and bonds go up or down.

The overarching concern is whether an industry that survived a tough 2015 will be able to survive an even tougher 2016.

But they suffer when investors step back from trading, which is what exactly what happened in bonds, currencies and commodities last year.

“The concern is that the macro environment may get even more challenging,” said Brian Kleinhanzl, a banking analyst with

Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, an investment bank.

3. Is the cost-cutting over?

A number of the big banks are expected to trumpet 2015 as their most profitable year since the financial crisis took hold.

But don’t be fooled. Growing profits at places like JPMorgan and Citigroup and Bank of America have come at a time when revenues have been flat to down due to aggressive cost-cutting.

4. Will defaults rise? With oil prices plummeting, analysts are also expected to ask banks about their exposure to troubled energy loans, especially at banks that do a lot of lending in oil states, like Utah’s Zions Bancorporation and Dallas-based Comerica Inc.

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L awrence J ournal -W orld - USA TODAY THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016

AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

Stock prices jumped off a cliff again Wednesday, diving 2.5% and resuming the freefall start to 2016 after a brief two-day respite from the brutal selling.

The narrative on Wall Street has quickly pivoted from cautious optimism to pessimism as stocks continue to go down after its worst start to a year ever last week. The financial pain meter tells the story: the Dow industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all down more than 10% from their 2015 peaks and officially in correction territory. The small-cap Russell 2000 is already in the clutches of the feared bear, with its losses now totaling 22.2% since its June 2015 peak.

Blame a slowdown in China.

Facts about America’s investors who use SigFig tracking services:

Blame an overvalued U.S. market.

Blame the Federal Reserve for hiking interest rates last month for the first time in nearly a decade. Blame the mega-bears for sowing fear with predictions of financial doom. Blame forced selling. Or blame plain old fear-based selling.

The fact is the stock market is in a world of hurt. And even though Wall Street pros keep saying stocks are wildly oversold (code word for down way too much, way too fast), the hopedfor bounce just hasn’t arrived yet.

Wall Street is waiting for the final washout to bring buyers in search of bargains back into the badly bruised stock market.

Bounces are not uncommon when the market suffers a serious swoon. A market bounce — one with staying power — is what the bulls are hoping for to free stocks from the bear’s stranglehold.

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DOW JONES

Pfizer, Walgreens and Whole Foods were among the most popular stocks among SigFig women.

Twitter, Tesla and Nike were among the most popular stocks among SigFig men.

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INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

CHANGE: -2.2% YTD: -1,273.62 YTD % CHG: -7.3%

COMP

-159.86 CHANGE: -3.4% YTD: -481.35 YTD % CHG: -9.6%

CLOSE: 16,151.41 PREV. CLOSE: 16,516.22 RANGE: 16,123.20-16,593.51

NASDAQ

-34.51

CLOSE: 4,526.06 PREV. CLOSE: 4,685.92 RANGE: 4,517.56-4,713.98

CLOSE: 1,890.28 PREV. CLOSE: 1,938.68 RANGE: 1,886.41-1,950.19

RUSSELL 2000 INDEX

CHANGE: -3.3% YTD: -125.70 YTD % CHG: -11.1%

CLOSE: 1,010.19 PREV. CLOSE: 1,044.70 RANGE: 1,005.68-1,050.65

S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS/LOSERS GAINERS

Company (ticker symbol)

Southwestern Energy (SWN) Confident in new shale fields.

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Full sales recovery seen at Citi.

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Price

$ Chg

6.46

+.52

+8.8

-9.1

428.28 +24.02

+5.9

-10.7

23.91

+.66

+2.8

-2.8

Newmont Mining (NEM) Shares up as gold prices up.

17.48

+.47

+2.8

-2.8

EOG Resources (EOG) Earns A credit rating, maintains early jump.

64.17

+1.42

+2.3

-9.4

MetLife (MET) 42.91 To separate retail unit to escape capital regulations.

+.92

+2.2

-11.0

Consolidated Edison (ED) Sector upgrades, makes up January’s loss.

66.68

+1.18

+1.8

+3.7

F5 Networks (FFIV) 94.00 Gets over multiple downgrades, has strong afternoon.

+1.39

+1.5

-3.1

Sempra Energy (SRE) To stop gas leak in February, rides strong sector.

90.24

+1.30

+1.5

-4.0

Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) Raised to outperform at Cowen.

15.70

+.22

+1.4

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YTD % Chg % Chg

$ Chg

Williams Companies (WMB) 13.61 Acquisition by Energy Transfer may not be smooth.

-2.93

-17.7

-47.0

Tesoro (TSO) Shares dip as gasoline supply grows.

91.92 -12.73

-12.2

-12.8

Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Earnings outlook gets slashed; negative note.

3.64

-.41

-10.1

-19.1

40.39

-4.39

-9.8

-20.6

Consol Energy (CNX) 6.05 Shares followed falling oil but never followed back up.

-.65

-9.7

-23.4

33.84

-3.56

-9.5

-21.7

3.74

-.37

-9.0

-44.8

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) Shares dip as oils reverse early gain.

42.28

-4.11

-8.9

-18.4

Valero Energy (VLO) Reverses gain on dividend raise talk.

65.03

-6.16

-8.7

-8.0

Netflix (NFLX) 106.56 -10.02 Subscriber growth concern pushes shares down.

-8.6

-6.8

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) Weak China, oil and copper.

AGGRESSIVE 71% or more in equities

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Chipotle Mexican Grill

Price: $428.28 Chg: $24.02 % chg: 5.9% Day's high/low: $432.30/$406.65

Chg. -4.44 -1.25 -4.40 -1.24 -4.40 -2.58 -0.13 -1.16 -0.24 -0.63

4wk 1 -5.9% -6.5% -5.9% -6.5% -5.9% -6.6% -5.2% -7.5% -3.5% -2.9%

YTD 1 -7.4% -8.0% -7.5% -8.0% -7.5% -7.9% -7.3% -9.0% -4.6% -4.5%

Close 188.83 25.20 21.72 9.09 2.19 29.25 100.38 101.90 11.36 19.79

Chg. -4.83 +2.29 -0.58 -0.08 -0.04 -0.31 -3.33 -3.64 -0.10 -2.19

% Chg %YTD -2.5% -7.4% +10.0% +25.4% -2.6% -8.9% -0.9% -17.4% -1.8% -44.6% -1.0% -9.1% -3.2% -10.9% -3.4% -8.9% -0.9% -6.3% -10.0% -23.3%

INTEREST RATES

MORTGAGE RATES

Type Prime lending Federal funds 3 mo. T-bill 5 yr. T-note 10 yr. T-note

Type 30 yr. fixed 15 yr. fixed 1 yr. ARM 5/1 ARM

Close 6 mo ago 3.50% 3.25% 0.36% 0.13% 0.22% 0.01% 1.52% 1.72% 2.09% 2.45%

Close 6 mo ago 3.82% 4.20% 2.94% 3.16% 2.84% 2.65% 3.14% 3.10%

SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM

Commodities Close Prev.

Cattle (lb.)

1.32 1.32 Corn (bushel) 3.58 3.57 Gold (troy oz.)

1,087.50 1,085.60 Hogs, lean (lb.) .62 .62 Natural Gas (Btu.) 2.27 2.26 Oil, heating (gal.) .97 .99 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

30.48 30.44 Silver (troy oz.)

14.15 13.74 Soybeans (bushel) 8.99 8.91 Wheat (bushel) 4.78 4.81

Chg. unch. +0.01 +1.90 unch. +0.01 -0.02 +0.04 +0.41 +0.08 -0.03

% Chg. unch. +0.4% +0.2% unch. +0.5% -2.1% +0.1% +3.0% +0.9% -0.7%

% YTD -2.7% -0.2% +2.6% +3.0% -2.9% -11.9% -17.7% +2.7% +3.2% +1.7%

FOREIGN CURRENCIES Close .6923 1.4360 6.5754 .9195 117.78 17.9229

Prev. .6928 1.4273 6.5727 .9211 117.58 17.8794

6 mo. ago .6459 1.2754 6.2083 .9091 123.47 15.7235

Yr. ago .6602 1.1966 6.2001 .8500 117.73 14.6457

FOREIGN MARKETS Close 9,960.96 19,934.88 17,715.63 5,960.97 41,008.78

Dec. 16

Jan. 13

$42.91

Prev. Change 9,985.43 -24.47 19,711.76 +223.12 17,218.96 +496.67 5,929.24 +31.73 41,022.74 -13.96

%Chg. -0.3% +1.1% +2.9% +0.5% unch.

YTD % -7.3% -9.0% -6.9% -4.5% -4.6%

SOURCES: MORNINGSTAR, DOW JONES INDEXES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IN-DEPTH MARKETS COVERAGE USATODAY.COM/MONEY

The heady days of boffo tech valuations and funding rounds may be a thing of the past.

A report paints a rather gloomy picture of $100 million-and-up megafinancial rounds for venture capital-backed companies and the rate at which unicorns — start-ups with market valuations of at least $1 billion — are born.

The number of megadeals, plentiful in the third quarter of SAN FRANCISCO

CARL COURT, GETTY IMAGES

After a few years of ample funding for companies like Uber, megadeals are starting to slow down.

2015 with 72, dropped nearly in half to 38 in the final three months of last year, according to the KPMG International & CB

Insights 2015 Venture Pulse Report, which tracks the drastic decline.

Investor sentiment toward major tech financing deals is at its lowest since the third quarter of 2014, the report said. Megarounds in the just-completed quarter raised $11.4 billion — a steep drop from $20.3 billion in Q3 2015 — and the lowest level recorded since the first three months of 2013.

“We’re just at the beginning of a readjustment or re-balancing of people’s expectations and valuations,” says Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures.

Jan. 13

INVESTING ASK MATT

NAV 174.44 46.74 172.71 46.73 172.72 91.15 13.43 37.59 19.30 53.36

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$428.28

Late Tuesday the insurance giant $50 announced that it would pursue a separation of its U.S. retail business through either a spin-off, initial public offering or sale because $40 Dec. 16 of onerous capital requirements.

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4-WEEK TREND

The beleaguered fast-food chain mapped out plans to restore customer confidence and said it won’t $400 scale back growth plans.

Price: $42.91 Chg: $0.92 % chg: 2.2% Day's high/low: $45.31/$42.85

$61.14

GoPro stock is ‘attractive,’ but may be too wild Q: Is GoPro a bargain now?

Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: GoPro makes cameras for thrill seekers. Now, the stock is a good choice for investors looking to take a wild ride.

GoPro shares tanked more than 20% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company warned fourth-quarter revenue would come in at $435 million.

That not only fell short of estimates by nearly 15% but is down 31% from the same period a year ago. Falling this much is eye-opening since the stock already closed at $14.61 a share, which is down 71% over the past year.

The beat-down is a major comeuppance for investors who have been chasing makers of technology hardware companies. GoPro’s shares tripled in value in their first few months following the June 2014 initial public offering. Investors pushed the stock’s valuation to 60 times trailing earnings per share, says S&P Capital IQ. That’s roughly three times the market’s multiple.

Investors could somewhat justify the multiple, as long as the company was growing by 87% like it did in 2013. But sticking up for a stock with a lofty valuation is harder to do when revenue is falling as many people who wanted a GoPro now have one. Shares are now trading for 12 times earnings. The stock is “attractive” says New Constructs, based on expected future cash flow. But it’s too wild for most investors.

As sentiment sinks, so does big-dollar venture funding @jswartz USA TODAY

-3.11 -8.60 AAPL AAPL OI

4-WEEK TREND

The online loan marketplace’s stock initially rallied after it raised $100 Price: $61.14 its revenue and cash flow guidance Chg: -$25.49 for fiscal 2015 but then got crushed % chg: -29.4% Day's high/low: after the company talked about $60 mortgage originations.

Dec. 16 $89.99/$58.82

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The rise of unicorns, meanwhile, slumped to nine in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with 23 the previous quarter, according to the report. It was the worst quarter for the creation of unicorns in at least a year.

The lackluster numbers are sure to rattle jittery investors. After a few years of ample funding and unbridled market values, as illustrated by Uber’s $62.5 billion value, the high-flying tech sector is headed for more measured times, one tech veteran says.

“We aren’t entering a bubble, we’re already in a bit of one,” says John Mutch, 59, a former Micro-

soft executive named CEO of computer-security firm iSheriff.

Luxury fashion deal site Gilt Groupe, valued at $1.1 billion in a funding round in 2012, was sold for $250 million to Saks-parent Hudson’s Bay last week, less than the $280 million it raised since it was founded in 2007.

An October report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association showed VC firms are raising significantly less money than they were in previous quarters — $4.4 billion in the third quarter of 2015, down 33% from the same quarter a year earlier.

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MAKING WAVES NBC is hoping to reassemble the cast of ‘Friends’ to honor legendary director James Burrows with a special set to air Feb. 21.

NBC EntertainWARNER BROS. ment chairman Robert Greenblatt promises all six stars will be involved. They just may not be together. “We’d like to get all six of them in a room at the same time, but I’m not sure we can logistically pull it off,” he said Wednesday. Burrows, also known for ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Cheers,’ is celebrating his 1,000th comedy episode. The casts of some of the other series will also make appearances in the special.

AWARD TRACKER RAZZIE NOMINATIONS The 36th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards announced their nominations Wednesday celebrating the very worst that Hollywood can crank out. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ received nominations for worst picture and screenplay.

Johnny Depp and “His Glued-On Mustache” scored a worst actor nom for ‘Mortdecai.’ The Razzie “winners” will be announced at 11 p.m. ET/8 PT on Feb. 27, the day before the best films are feted at the Academy Awards.

Country legend kicking it, sticking with his roots Bob Doerschuk

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NASHVILLE Pretty much the last place you’ll find Hank Williams Jr. these days is Nashville.

“Hell, no!” growls the sometimes controversial, occasionally cantankerous country music legend. “Let me tell you something.

When I go to Nashville to open the CMA Awards or whatever, I don’t really want to hang around, man. I’m gone. I’m in Apalachicola, Fla. I’m in Wisdom, Mont. I’m in Buchanan, Tenn. I don’t do traffic jams. I do 600 miles an hour in an old Toyota.”

He chuckles, spears and swallows another forkful of barbecue, then swivels away from the picnic table and nods toward the valley that swoops down toward a distant tree line.

“See where I am? Know how I got here? I busted my (expletive)!

I’d get, ‘What are you are doing?

You’re crazy! Don’t you do that!

You’re dumb! You’re throwing everything away!’ The head of the William Morris Agency said, ‘I can tell you how many acts there are in this town that do what you do.’ ” He pulls his shades down, eyebrows raised. Then he holds up his right hand and touches the

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HANK WILLIAMS JR. RAW AND REAL ON NEW CD tips of his thumb and first finger.

Zero.

Now he answers an imaginary phone. “What? You want me to do a $300,000 Cheyenne rodeo?

Absolutely not! It’s turkey season!’

And he’s asking me, ‘You know how many people do that in this business?’ ” The zero turns into one finger pointed skyward. “You know where I got that from?” he asks.

“Hank Senior. Minnie Pearl said to him in the dressing room, ‘There’s 10,000 people out there!’

And Daddy would say, ‘Wait a minute’ and keep talking about his squirrel dogs.”

He grins and then states the obvious: “That’s the same person, right here.”

On this afternoon, Williams, 66, presides over the 1,100 acres he owns near Paris, Tenn., not too far from Memphis but not so close to Nashville that the music business is breathing down his neck. Bass and bream fill his private lake. Wild turkey and deer roam those faraway trees and come out often enough to reappear as dinner a few hours later.

It’s country music heaven out here, which is one reason why Williams doesn’t do concert tours or even record as much as he used to. However, with a new album out Friday, he knows he’s got to do at least a little skin-and-grin.

That album, It’s About Time, is which he continues to embrace.

At the same time, decades have raw and unapologetic. Williams saunters and shouts; there’s noth- passed since the younger Wiling subtle about his approach to a liams established his own identilyric. He begins the beer-soaked, ty, not just as a songwriter and steel-guitar-drenched Those Days musician but as a public figure Are Gone with a concise com- with no hesitation about speaking plaint: “Well, there ain’t nobody his mind. At times this has gotten him into trouwants to get ble, most notostoned anyriously when more.” An omi- “I don’t do traffic his comparison nous kick-drum of President tread and jams. I do 600 Obama to Adolf bluesy drone miles an hour in Hitler promptunderscore his ed ESPN to paean to God an old Toyota.” drop his All My and Guns. He Hank Williams Jr. and the band Rowdy Friends hammer through Club U.S.A., si- as the opening theme to their phoning equal parts Chuck Berry Monday Night Football broadcast. and ZZ Top into a celebration of His views haven’t necessarily “swimming pools and barbecue in changed since then, but experithe backyards” and “Dirty Harry ence has persuaded Williams to movie stars.” And nothing in con- air them more circumspectly. temporary country music rings as A few twists and turns down true as his promise on Just Call dirt roads and a stretch of paved Me Hank that “over the hill, that’s highway lead back to the combination of working space and lifeone place I won’t go.”

Williams was of course born to style museum that serves as royalty. He was just 3 years old Williams’ office. It’s clear that he’s when Hank Williams Sr. died on invested some of his money into New Year’s Day, 1951. Inevitably, his passion for hunting.

A hallway leads into the highHank Jr.’s early performances were all about his father’s legacy, ceilinged room where his military

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memorabilia are stored. Civil War artifacts predominate.

“I’ve got about $2 million here,” Williams says, walking slowly past his arsenal. His hand brushes against each muzzle.

“They all still work, too — just put in 2 pounds of cannon powder, shoot it off and you get a 20-foot flame.”

That’s what he does every Fourth of July. Neighboring families come by to enjoy the spectacle and, just as important to Williams, revisit the nation’s history. This is a side to the artist that non-local folks don’t often see. The swagger and bravado that define so much of his sound rests on a foundation of reverence for what he sees as the essence of America’s character.

These values matter far more to Williams than Music Row, more even then casting a few political stones when it might be wiser to demur politely.

What, then, is his mission at this stage of his life and career?

“If we can get this son of a (expletive) over with, I’m taking a jet to Alabama and shoot me a big old hog. That’s my mission!”

There’s promise in high-stakes ‘Colony’ premise Dealing with alien occupiers, resistance sets up a conundrum As “what would you do” premises go, Colony’s could go far.

Certainly, the dilemma producers TV Carlton Cuse (Lost) PREVIEW ROBERT and Ryan Condal BIANCO (Hercules) has set up for Lost star Josh Holloway in USA’s Colony (eee out of four) is a powerful one. A former FBI agent trying to stay under the radar in a Los Angeles ruled by alien occupiers, Will Bowman (Holloway) has been given a choice: Help root out the resistance, or watch your family die.

And the stakes are even higher than Will knows, because the demands being placed on him by the city’s “proxy leader” (Peter

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Will Bowman (Josh Holloway, right) tries to protect his family when he’s given the dubious choice of helping to root out the resistance or watch that family die die in Colony.

Jacobson) will bring Will in direct conflict with his wife (Sarah

Wayne Callies). On the other hand, it may also reunite them

with their lost son, who went missing in Santa Monica when it was cordoned off by the conquering invaders.

Will soon discovers that lines in this new world are not as brightly drawn as he thought.

There are people who collaborate with the aliens — who, in the early going, are never seen — for power or profit.

But there also are people like his new boss (guest star Kathy Baker) whose only goal is to stop the occupation from becoming even worse than it is. And while the resistance may have noble goals, there are people who pursue them with a disregard for human life that rivals that of the aliens.

If this sounds to you like a sci-

fi twist on the German occupation of France during World War II, then you’ve made Cuse and Condal very happy, because that’s exactly what they’re going for.

And indeed, when the show sticks to those parallels — the ethical choices occupation forces upon a conquered population, and the struggles it creates to just survive — Colony feels like something fresh, interesting and worth following.

It’s when we get into the nitty gritty of Will’s police work, the stuff that provides the weekly engine for the series, that it feels a bit old-hat and rote.

Still, you get a great role for Holloway, who has great, sexcharged on-screen chemistry with an equally strong Callies, and the strength of that “What would you do” premise. And for now, that may be enough.

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Chiefs QB Smith playing better than ever

By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. — Alex Smith had just led the Kansas City Chiefs to another win in what has become a season full of them when offensive coordinator Doug Pederson was asked to assess his quarterback.

Rarely one to speak in superlatives, Pederson replied quite candidly: “I think he’s probably having the best season of his career, honestly.”

Pick your metric, and it probably backs up that appraisal.

Smith threw for 3,486 yards this season, by far the most of his 10-year career. He completed more than 65 percent of his throws, matching his best mark for a full season. Smith He tossed 20 touchdown passes, second only to his first season in Kansas City. He ran for nearly 500 yards, also a career best.

Then there’s the most important measure: wins. After losing five of their first six, Smith led the Chiefs to 10 consecutive victories to finish the regular season.

He made it 11 with a 30-0 rout of the Houston Texans last Saturday and will try to make it 12 when Smith leads Kansas City into New England for a divisional matchup this Saturday.

“Numbers may not be up there with some of the top guys in the league, but his wins and losses are,” Pederson said. “He’s understanding what we’re asking him to do. We’ve given him more opportunities in games to get us out of certain things or put us into certain things.

He’s leading this football team like we knew he was capable of doing, and given us opportunities to win games.”

Smith bristles at the notion that he’s a “game manager,” as if that’s a derogatory term reserved for quarterbacks one step down from elite. But in his case, it may be a flattering description.

Not many signal-callers in the league make fewer mistakes than Smith, who threw just seven picks all season. Few have the same wherewithal to scramble for first downs when a pocket collapses, or check out of a failing play, or chuck the ball out of bounds to avoid a sack.

“He’s very smart in reading coverages,” Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty said. “He’s not always just dropping back and trying to run” Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who has worked side-by-side with Tom Brady for so many years, also praised Smith’s cerebral nature. Belichick got a full dose of it last year, when Smith was 20-of-26 for 248 yards and three touchdowns without a pick in a 41-14 blowout of Belichick’s team.

“Consistent. Lot of production. Great ball security. Makes a lot of throws,” Belichick said. “He extends plays with his legs, sometimes to throw, sometimes to run. He’s very good at improvising.”

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TEXAS’ IMANI BOYETTE (34) BOXES OUT KANSAS UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE CHAYLA CHEADLE as they fight for rebounding position. Texas defeated the Jayhawks, 75-38, on Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

Texas too tough for KU, 75-38

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

Figuring out a way to become the first opponent this season to defeat No. 4 Texas would’ve been difficult enough for Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.

When the struggling Jayhawks spotted the mighty Longhorns 17 points, arduous morphed into impossi-

ble, and UT remained undefeated with a 75-38 drubbing Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse.

KU trailed 17-0, committed six turnovers and missed seven shots before sophomore Lauren Aldridge gave the home team its first points on a three-pointer from the top of the key, 6:20 into the Jayhawks’ seventh consecutive loss.

“We shot ourselves in the

foot a bunch,” first-year KU coach Brandon Schneider said of the awful start. “We turned it over. I thought we looked intimidated and timid in far too many spots.

“And the frustrating thing was, I didn’t think we played a possession that way against Baylor (in a 58-40, Jan. 6 home loss) with that kind of mentality. I’m disappointed that it took that kind of start for us to kind of snap out of it

and play better in the second quarter.”

Kansas (5-11 overall, 0-5 Big 12) only made one other shot in the first quarter, Texas scored 12 points off KU’s eight turnovers, and UT led 28-7 entering the second.

Said Aldridge, who led KU with 12 points and shot 4-for9, hoisting every attempt from behind the three-point Please see KU WOMEN, page 3C

Jayhawks’ effort called into question

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The worst thing about Tuesday’s 74-63 loss at West Virginia — according to Kansas University’s players and coaches — is the fact the No. 1-ranked Jayhawks didn’t appear to exert the extra effort it takes to beat a No. 11-ranked squad on its home floor.

“We were a little disappointed in how we compet-

ed and tried against them. I hadn’t seen our team do that all year. I think the players agreed the same thing. I think they agreed they didn’t try as hard as they need to,” KU assistant coach Kurtis Townsend said on Wednesday’s weekly “Hawk Talk” radio show, subbing for coach Bill Self, who was out recruiting.

“It was a rough trip. We got home pretty late. We didn’t do much today except

watch tape,” Townsend added. “A couple of the guys said, ‘We didn’t realize how bad we were until we saw it on tape.’ Hopefully we can take from it, learn from it and go from there.”

Self said after the game the Jayhawks (14-2, 3-1) may have been “a little full of ourselves” after winning 13 in a row and vaulting to the top of the national polls.

“We feel we have a good enough team if we compete

harder than other teams we should win the game,” said KU junior forward Landen Lucas, who had six rebounds and a blocked shot in 14 minutes. “We failed on that end for sure.

“I think we unfortunately let them compete more than we did. They got us off our game. It’s tough. We talk about it. We watch film.

We’ve seen halves where we

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Lawrence High’s Morgan commits to Air Force

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

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LAWRENCE HIGH’S PRICE MORGAN SCORES after a reception during the Lions’ victory over Shawnee Mission Northwest on Sept. 24 in Overland Park.

Lawrence High senior linebacker Price Morgan was hesitant when he was first recruited to play college football by the Air Force Academy.

He doesn’t have any ties to the military, and he was unsure how he would adjust to the day-to-day lifestyle.

But once he took a visit to Colorado Springs last weekend, all of his doubts were put to rest. Morgan committed to play football at Air Force on Tuesday night.

“Just after being out there, I really got to meet the play-

ers and coaches,” Morgan said. “They just seemed like great people that I would mesh with. They have one of the best engineering schools in the nation, which is something that I want to do.”

Morgan, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound linebacker, announced his commitment on Twitter following his basketball team’s 82-70 victory over Shawnee Mission West.

A first-team All-Sunflower League selection, Morgan made a team-high 123 tackles last season. He added 14 Please see MORGAN, page 4C

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22, Monroe 8-13 5-9 21, Carter-Williams 2-6 Ohio St. v. N’western 7 p.m. BTN 147,237 Atlanta 19 17 22 26— 84 Oklahoma City 24 (Westbrook 8). Total Fouls0-0 4, Middleton 9-17 6-7 25, Henson 2-4 0-0 4, Charlotte 20 25 35 27—107 Dallas 20, Oklahoma City 26. Technicals-Barea, Idaho v. Northern Ariz. 7:30p.m. FCSP 146 Mayo 1-3 0-0 2, O’Bryant 0-1 2-4 2, Vaughn 1-4 3-Point Goals-Atlanta 7-25 (Korver 2-4, Villanueva 2, Ibaka, Westbrook 2. Ejected0-0 2. Totals 38-72 24-34 101.

Scott 2-6, Teague 1-1, Millsap 1-2, Bazemore Fla. Atlantic v. S. Miss. 8 p.m. FSN 36, 236 Villanueva, Westbrook. A-18,203 (18,203).

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Rebounds-Atlanta Boston — Isaiah Thomas 1-3 2-2 5. Totals 38-84 18-24 106.

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62 (Zeller 10). Assists-Atlanta 17 (Schroder 6), Washington 29 27 15 35—106 Charlotte 26 (Batum 10). Total Fouls-Atlanta Diamond Resorts Inv. 1:30p.m. Golf 156,289 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 1-8 (Middleton INDIANA (94) 21, Charlotte 24. A-15,334 (19,077).

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Out-None. Rebounds-Indiana 58 (Mahinmi season-worst eighth straight.

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FCSA 144 Gay 5-9 2-2 12, Acy 0-1 0-0 0, Cousins 13-30 5-10 0-0 10, Reed 1-3 0-0 2, Larkin 6-10 4-4 (Towns 16), Houston 50 (Howard 10). Assists- 3-4 32, Rondo 7-11 2-4 17, McLemore 1-1 0-0 2, 17, Karasev 0-0 0-0 0, Bogdanovic 4-5 2-2 14, Minnesota 25 (Rubio 12), Houston 19 (Harden Belinelli 1-6 0-0 2, Koufos 4-6 1-2 9, Casspi 3-8 Wisconsin v. Penn St. 5:30p.m. BTN 147,237 Bargnani 2-6 0-0 4, Robinson 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 11). Total Fouls-Minnesota 27, Houston 19. 0-0 7, Collison 4-9 1-2 10, Cauley-Stein 1-1 0-0 2, Merrimack v. N. Dame 6:30p.m. NBCSP 38, 238 Technicals-Howard, Houston defensive three 45-86 11-14 110.

Curry 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 41-84 9-14 97. second. A-17,115 (18,023).

Mich. St. v. Minnesota 8 p.m. FCSC 145 New York 20 31 24 29—104 New Orleans 28 31 31 19—109 Brooklyn 29 25 20 36—110 Sacramento 19 25 21 32— 97 3-Point Goals-New York 7-22 (Calderon 4-6, 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 16-33 (Gordon College Gymnastics Time Net Cable Afflalo 2-5, Thomas 1-3, Grant 0-1, Vujacic Hornets 107, Hawks 84 6-12, R.Anderson 4-6, Cunningham 2-2, Cole 0-1, Porzingis 0-3, Williams 0-3), Brooklyn 9-17 2-4, Gee 1-1, Davis 1-2, Evans 0-2, Holiday 0-4), California v. Oklahoma 7 p.m. FCSP 146 Charlotte, N.C. — Kemba Sacramento (Bogdanovic 4-5, Sloan 2-3, Johnson 2-4, Larkin 6-23 (Cousins 3-8, Rondo 1-1, 1-2, Bargnani 0-1, Ellington 0-2). Fouled Out- Walker scored 23 points, and Collison 1-4, Casspi 1-6, Belinelli 0-2, Gay 0-2).

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Wisconsin 8 p.m. BTN 147,237 Total Fouls-New York 13, Brooklyn 15. A-17,732 Orleans 18, Sacramento 15. A-17,317 (17,317). ing streak.

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San Antonio — The Big 12 Conference got what it wanted and showed the smallest power conference in major-college football still has some muscle.

A rule change approved Wednesday at the NCAA annual convention will allow the Big 12 to hold a championship game as early as next season if it wants to.

The change scraps the requirement that leagues have 12 members and play in two divisions in order to hold a title game. The new rule lets a smaller league — one with 12 teams in its name but only 10 on the playing field, for example — to play a title game pitting its top two teams, provided it plays a round-robin regular season schedule as the Big 12 does now.

The vote by the NCAA Division I Council passed 7-2. The Atlantic Coast Conference and the American Athletic Conference voted against it. The Pac-12 didn’t vote but later said it supported the change.

The Big 12 is the only major conference that doesn’t play a football title game. League Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he doesn’t know if the change will guarantee the league plays one, but it was determined to have the right to do so.

The decision to play a championship game rests with Big 12 member schools, whose next meetings are in early February, Bowlsby said. If approved NFL PLAYOFFS this year, a title game could be Favorite.............. Points (O/U)...........Underdog played as early as next season, Saturday, Jan 16th. but 2017 would be more likely.

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San Antonio — College basketball underclassmen could work out with one NBA team per year and still return to college without jeopardizing their eligibility under new rules approved Wednesday at the NCAA annual convention.

Players will be allowed to enter the draft multiple times and participate in the combine and one NBA team tryout per year.

They also will be allowed up to 10 days to withdraw from the draft after the combine.

The changes, which take effect immediately, were designed to help players make better decisions on their future and keep those who find out they’re not ready for the NBA on track for graduation.

NCAA officials said the rule changes were offered after collaboration between the NCAA, NBA and that National Association of Basketball Coaches.

“It’s really significant for guys who are going to get a better idea on where they stand,” Charlotte Hornets coach Steve Clifford said. “(Some) come out early and it doesn’t work out for them. All of a sudden, they’re 25 or 26 years old with no career.”

Since 2009, players have been required to remove their name from the draft the day before the spring signing period in April.

Now coaches will have to wait until late May to know what a player is going to do.

Kansas coach Bill Self said the change was needed to help the athletes.

“This legislation, with help from the NBA, will allow studentathletes the opportunity to make informed decisions on their true status as a draft prospect” before forfeiting their collegiate eligibility,” Self said in a statement released by the NCAA.

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The second session of Kansas University’s spring football practices under head coach David Beaty is scheduled to begin in mid-March, with the annual spring game slated for a 1 p.m. kickoff on April 9.

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arc: “We were sending three people back, and it felt like they were shooting layups on the other end, so that’s the frustrating part.”

The Longhorns sprinted to 30 points off KU’s 21 turnovers to cruise.

Schneider credited UT coach Karen Aston and her players for putting KU away so quickly and thoroughly.

“I think it says something about them. Because they’re playing a team that hasn’t won a game in the league and a team that they’re obviously supposed to beat,” Schneider said, “but they came in really engaged and focused and didn’t take us lightly.”

With 6-foot-7 senior center Imani Boyette dominating inside (15 points, eight rebounds, three blocks), KU couldn’t find anything easy near the basket all night and shot just 12-for-47 against the Longhorns (16-0, 5-0), who out-scored the overmatched Jayhawks 44-8 in the paint and won the battle of the boards 46-26.

“To score around the rim was gonna be difficult tonight,” Schneider said. “Caelynn (Manning-Allen, KU’s starting junior post player) obviously struggled, going 2-for-11. She was out

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play into their rhythm and halves where we play our own. It’s night and day. Unfortunately, today they put in a full game.

We can’t let that happen especially next time we play them (Feb. 9 in Allen Fieldhouse),” Lucas added.

As far as the Jayhawks not being as hungry as West Virginia (15-1, 4-0) ... Lucas says, guilty as charged.

“Unfortunately, it shouldn’t take a loss for that to happen,” Lucas said of the Jayhawks regaining intensity for each and every game. “But maybe that is the case where we could use this to motivate us and get us hungry again, want to get back on top because we got a little taste of it and were enjoying it. Now it’s just about getting back there.”

KU senior Perry Ellis said the result is “definitely a wake-up call to everybody that we can’t play that way if we want to do what we want to do.

It’s definitely a wake-up call and will make us better,” added Ellis, who had 21 points, seven boards and three assists in 38 minutes. l

Weather mayhem: Like KU’s players, who arrived at the game at 6 p.m. for a 7 p.m. tipoff because of icy roads that caused multiple accidents on the streets in Morgantown, West Virginia’s players had trouble making it to the arena, too.

Stuck in bumper-tobumper traffic, Mountaineers Jaysean Paige

released those details and others on Wednesday afternoon as the program begins preparations for the second season of the Beaty era.

As usual, KU’s spring football will feature 15 practices — 14 plus the spring game — spread out over a five-week period. A handful of midyear transfers who signed

BOX SCORE Texas 75, Kansas 38 TEXAS (75) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t Imani Boyette 21 5-8 5-6 2-8 2 15 E. Davenport 25 3-8 5-6 3-10 0 11 Celina Rodrigo 28 1-3 4-4 1-5 0 6 Brooke McCarty 18 2-7 0-0 0-2 2 5 Brianna Taylor 21 1-9 3-4 2-5 2 5 Jordan Hosey 13 1-4 3-4 1-2 2 5 Lashann Higgs 14 3-6 0-0 2-4 2 6 O. Aborowa 4 1-2 0-0 1-1 1 2 Tasia Foman 7 2-4 2-2 0-2 2 7 Ariel Atkins 14 3-3 0-0 0-0 1 6 Brady Sanders 10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Sara Hattis 7 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 Kelsey Lang 18 3-4 1-1 1-5 1 7 team

1-1 Totals 25-59 23-27 15-46 15 75 Three-point goals: 2-9 (Foman 1-2, McCarty 1-4, Rodrigo 0-1, Davenport 0-2). Assists: 15 (Rodrigo 7, McCarty 3, Davenport 2, Foman, Sanders, Lang).

Turnovers: 11 (Boyette 2, Lang 2, Davenport, McCarty, Taylor, Aborowa, Foman, Atkins, Hattis). Blocked shots: 5 (Boyette 3, McCarty, Lang). Steals: 13 (Taylor 5, Foman 3, Rodrigo 2, McCarty, Higgs, Lang).

KANSAS (38) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t C. Manning-Allen 14 2-11 1-2 0-3 1 5 Lauren Aldridge 34 4-9 0-0 0-1 3 12 Timeka O’Neal 23 2-7 0-0 0-0 0 6 Aisia Robertson 18 0-4 0-0 0-3 4 0 Chayla Cheadle 23 0-0 0-0 1-6 2 0 Chelsea Lott 4 0-0 0-0 0-1 3 0 Jada Brown 15 0-1 3-4 0-2 3 3 L. Enabulele 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 J. Christopher 19 0-2 0-0 1-1 0 0 Kylee Kopatich 24 3-12 2-2 1-3 2 10 Tyler Johnson 22 1-1 0-0 1-2 3 2 team

1-4 Totals 12-47 6-8 5-26 22 38 Three-point goals: 8-25 (Aldridge 4-9, O’Neal 2-6, Kopatich 2-8, Robertson 0-1, Christopher 0-1). Assists: 8 (Aldridge 2, Cheadle 2, O’Neal, Robertson, Enabulele, Christopher). Turnovers: 21 (Cheadle 5, Christopher 4, Robertson 3, Kopatich 3, Aldridge 2, Manning-Allen, O’Neal, Lott, Brown). Blocked shots: 5 (ManningAllen 2, Lott, Kopatich, Johnson). Steals: 4 (Manning-Allen, O’Neal, Robertson, Cheadle).

Texas 28 10 22 15 — 75 Kansas 7 12 9 10 — 38 Officials: Bob Trammell, Jesse Dickerson, Billy Smith. Attendance: 1,903.

of sorts the entire game and it affected her on the defensive end. We count on her too much for her to have that kind of per-

with Kansas in December will be eligible to practice with the team throughout the spring.

This year’s spring game is slated a little more than two weeks earlier than last year’s, which took place on April 25.

Behind-the-scenes, off-the-field efforts, of course, have been ongoing since KU lost its final

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To score around the rim was gonna be difficult tonight.”

— KU coach Brandon Schneider formance and give us any kind of a chance to have success.”

Although Kansas actually won the second quarter, 12-10, Aldridge three-pointers proved to be the only consistent part of KU’s first-half offense, as the sophomore guard made three of four from deep, giving her nine of KU’s 19 points at the break.

A Kylee Kopatich layup, one Manning-Allen bucket and a solitary Timeka O’Neal threepointer accounted for the rest of KU’s first-half baskets, as the Jayhawks shot 6-for-24 (25 percent) in the first 20 minutes and turned the ball over 11 times, leading to a 38-19 Texas advantage at halftime.

Kansas missed its first seven shot attempts of the fourth quarter — not that the Jayhawks had a chance of coming back at that juncture. KU misfired on seven of its final nine shots in the third and turned the ball over six times in that sevenminute-plus stretch, as UT padded its already healthy lead to 60-28 entering the final period.

The Jayhawks play at West Virginia (14-4, 3-2) on Saturday.

“Thank you Morgantown and Mountaineer Nation for braving Tuesday’s challenging conditions to make it to the Coliseum — or in front of your television sets — to support our basketball team and help it achieve an historic victory.

“We know the weather and road conditions presented obstacles to the community, even without the complicating factor of thousands of folks trying to get to the Coliseum for a nationally televised game against the No. 1 team in the nation.

It was not feasible, nor even possible, to cancel or postpone the game as some have wondered or suggested, but this community came together in true Mountaineer determination to make it all work. It’s one reason Mountaineers are special.”

In all, 12,097 fans made it to the game, though l a majority arrived late.

Turnover talk: West WVU Coliseum holds Virginia forced 22 turn- 14,000. l overs. KU’s previous high Honorees: KU’s Perry in a game this season had been 15 three different Ellis and Wayne Selden Jr. were named to the times.

“That’s the way we play Wooden Award’s mid— ‘Press Virginia.’ They season Top 25 list on had 22 turnovers tonight. Wednesday. l We were all over the Recruiting: KU refloor,” WVU’s Devin Williams told wvusports.com. cruiting target Michael “Me and Jon Holton con- Porter and his teamtrolled the boards. Tarik mates from Tolton Cathand them were aggressive olic in Columbia, Misup top, just everything. souri, will attend KU’s We laid it out. I’m actually game against TCU at 1 tired, so I can only imag- p.m Saturday in Allen.

Then at 8:30 p.m., Tolton ine how they feel.” l will meet Blue Valley AD statement: To Northwest at the Best of show how bad the weath- the Midwest Showcase er was on Tuesday, WVU at Johnson County Comathletic director Shane munity College. Porter is Lyons felt compelled to the No. 3-rated player in issue a statement after the Class of 2017 by Rithe game: vals.com. and Tarik Phillip jumped out of their car and ran several blocks to WVU Coliseum.

“We were debating whether to sit in the car or not. Long story short, I saw big Jon (Holton) running up the hill and so I jumped out of the car and started running with him,” Paige, who burned KU for 26 points, explained to John Antonik of wvusports.com. “I had my jacket, big old boots and my shoes, so people knew who we were. We were just running trying to get there.

“For a game like this you want to be here,” Paige added. “You don’t want to miss this. You don’t want to be late and might not play, or something might happen, so we just wanted to get here on time.”

Phillip’s mom took over driving duties and eventually parked in a Coliseum lot.

game of a winless 2015 season back in November. Beaty and his staff — which has changed slightly with the departure of linebackers coach Kevin Kane and the addition of receivers coach Jason Phillips — have been hard at it on the recruiting trail, trying to fill the 2016 class, which will be revealed

on national signing day Feb. 3.

Following that, Beaty and his staff will hit the road for the second consecutive year of “Football in February,” an effort by the KU coaches to get out and meet as many fans across the state as possible.

Exact times and dates for the Football in Feb-

ruary event will be announced soon, but expect it to be five or six dates in five or six different cities.

Other dates of note that were announced Wednesday include: Kansas Football Coaches Clinic (Feb. 19-20) and the fourth-annual Train Like a Jayhawk Kids Clinic (April 9).

OUR TOWN SPORTS Ad Astra swimming: Ad Astra Area Aquatics invites your family to experience Lawrence’s only athlete-centered, coachdirected, parent-supported swim team. Tryouts are open, just contact coach Patrick at 785-331-6940 or coach Katie at 785-7667423 or visit the website at adastraareaaquatics.org.

Come find out why AAAA is known in our area for its reliable staff and funfriendly-fast culture! l

Horseshoes anyone?: Anyone interested in pitching horseshoes is welcome at 7 p.m. every Thursday at Broken Arrow. Contact Wynne at 843-8450.

Let us know Do you have a camp or a tournament or a sign-up session on tap?

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Basketball Academy: Reign Basketball Academy, LLC., offers yearround elite level agility, l speed and basketball Aquahawks openings: training for all youth The Aquahawks are always athletes, ages 5-18. PRICaccepting new members.

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Titans looking: The Lawrence Titans U14 baseball team is looking for two players. It is a competitive team that will play in league and 6-8 tournaments in spring of 2016. Players cannot turn 15 before May 1, 2016.

Contact baseball66@ outlook.com for tryout details. l

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For a private tryout, text Mark Kern at 785-6916940. l

Royals looking: The l U12 Royals baseball team FUNdamental softball: is interested in adding a Learn the proper mechannew player. The Royals ics and techniques to play will play in the U12 Amerisoftball. Emphasis placed can DCABA league next on fundamental instruction summer. Player must be teaching the aspects of 12 or younger as of May pitching, catching, fielding, 1, 2016. The Royals have base-running and hitting. a experienced coaching Coach and team consulting staff with many years of available, too. For inforyouth and high school mation, contact LuAnn level experience. Player Metsker at 785-331-9438 will have unlimited access or dmgshowpig@aol.com to indoor hitting and pitchl ing facility. Please contact Basketball basics: Andy Vigna at 785-691One-to-one instruction by 5656 or at andyvigna14@ Frank Kelly, for boys and gmail.com girls of all ages. Fundamenl tals of shooting, passing, Youth baseball trydribbling, defense and reouts: A youth baseball bounding. Ten years coach- team is looking for U10 ing experience. References. American League kids Cost: $25 per hour. For for the 2016 season who information, call 393-3162 are interested in playing or email lingofrank@gmail. in competitive, yet fun com DCABA baseball. We will l play in the U10 American Baseball lessons: regular-season league and Hourly lessons. Grades possibly look into playing K-12. All skill levels. Funda- a couple of tournaments. mentals of hitting, pitchContact David Pedersen ing, fielding, baserunning at pedersen@ku.edu or and other baseball-related 785-691-5240. skills. Have references. Call l coach Dan at 785-760Baldwin City Wres6161 (baseballknowhow@ tling: For an informational weebly.com). flyer on the Baldwin City l Wrestling Club, email Basketball lessons: kharris@usd348.com or Gary Hammer offers call Kit Harris at 785-221private and small group 8025. The club if for ages basketball lessons. Ham14u, 12u, 10u, 8u, 6u. Has mer is the P.E. teacher and practices on Tuesdays a coach at Veritas Christian & Thursdays, optional School. Affordable prices Wednesdays. Preseason and excellent instruction! workouts in December.

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Douglas County Amateur, Ice/Heinrich & Houk League Baseball: Registration is being taken for 2016 DCABA leagues along with the U14 Ice/ Heinrich and Houk leagues.

Registration information is available online at www. lprd.org. Deadline for team entries is the first eight teams per division. For more information, contact Lee Ice at ice@lawrenceks.org l

Winter Speed and Strength Training: LMH Performance and Wellness Center offers classes for 2-5th grade and 6-8th grade. Varsity Sports Training for competitive high school athletes available.

Train with experienced Certified Strength and Conditioning Coaches and Sport Physical Therapists.

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Baseball camps: The Jayhawk Baseball Camp has several different camp options for area youth in the coming months. We have a variety of hitting, pitching, and catching academies in January — March, and a two-day Spring Training Camp in March. Camps are open to any and all, limited only by number, grade level, and/ or gender. Please contact the KU Baseball Office for more information at 785864-7907, or go to the camp website at http:// www.kuathletics.com l

Weight training: A beginning weight training and conditioning class will be taught by coach Fred Roll, certified strength and conditioning coach. Class is designed for beginners from seventh grade to weekend warriors that want superior fitness for any sport. Emphasis on techniques, body balance, body composition, flexibility, speed, power and change directions. Classes Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-7 p.m., optional on Saturday. Ends just before schools’ spring sports.

Contact coach Roll at 785331-8200 or freroll13@ gmail.com l

FSHS fundaiser: Free State Fall Softball will be holding its annual biscuit & gravy fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 30 from 8-11 a.m. at the Free State High School cafeteria. Come support the Firebirds, $5 per person. l

Morgan and Sullivan honored: Lawrence High graduate Grace Morgan of Kansas University and Free State graduate Bailey Sullivan of TCU were named to the Academic All-Big 12 women’s cross country team. l

Nahm named top 25 instructor: Lawrence resident Josh Nahm, teaching pro at Firekeeper, was named one of the Top 25 Elite Junior Coaches in the United States by Future Champions Golf. The organization recognizes coaches who specializes in competitive players from 13-18. Nahm, former head of the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina, joined Firekeeper in 2012.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Clemson upends Duke The Associated Press

Clemson 68, No. 9 Duke 63 Greenville, S.C. — Jaron Blossomgame scored 17 points, including the clinching dunk with 13.5 seconds left, to lift Clemson over Duke on Wednesday night.

Coupled with Sunday’s win over then No. 16 Louisville, it’s the first time the Tigers (11-6, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) have beaten consecutive ranked opponents since closing the 1989 season with victories over Duke and Georgia Tech.

This one started like a typical Blue Devils blowout, with Duke taking a 28-16 lead midway through the opening half.

Instead, the Tigers hung tough to beat Duke (14-3, 3-1) for the second time in three seasons.

Grayson Allen led Duke with 17 points, three off his season average. Freshman Brandon Ingram scored 16 points for the Blue Devils, all but one in the first half.

DUKE (14-3) Allen 7-9 0-2 17, Thornton 3-9 0-0 8, Jones 2-6 0-1 5, Ingram 6-11 1-2 16, Plumlee 3-5 1-2 7, Jeter 0-0 0-0 0, Kennard 4-11 0-0 10, Jefferson 0-0 0-0 0, Vrankovic 0-0 0-0 0, Obi 0-0 0-0 0, Pagliuca 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0, Besser 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-51 2-7 63.

CLEMSON (11-6) Blossomgame 4-12 8-8 17, Holmes 2-8 3-4 7, Grantham 6-13 1-1 16, Roper 3-5 0-0 7, Nnoko 6-12 0-0 12, Robertin 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, DeVoe 3-4 0-0 7, McGillan 0-0 0-0 0, Djitte 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 25-55 12-13 68.

Halftime-Duke 35-33. 3-Point GoalsDuke 11-25 (Allen 3-4, Ingram 3-6, Kennard 2-5, Thornton 2-5, Jones 1-5), Clemson 6-16 (Grantham 3-6, Roper 1-2, DeVoe 1-2, Blossomgame 1-3, Holmes 0-3). Fouled Out-Jeter. Rebounds-Duke 24 (Plumlee 9), Clemson 36 (Nnoko 13). Assists-Duke 16 (Allen 4), Clemson 15 (Roper 9). Total Fouls-Duke 18, Clemson 16. A-12,972.

No. 2 Oklahoma 74, Oklahoma State 72 Stillwater, Okla. — Buddy Hield scored 26 points to help Oklahoma hold off a spirited Oklahoma State squad.

Hield made 10 of 17 shots for the Sooners (14-1, 3-1 Big 12), but he committed 10 turnovers, including a crucial one that gave Oklahoma State a chance to win. Jeffrey Carroll missed a potential game-winning threepointer for the Cowboys as time expired.

Jawun Evans scored 42 points, an Oklahoma State (9-7, 1-3) record for a freshman and the thirdmost points in school history.

Oklahoma is in position to move up to No. 1 after top-ranked Kansas lost at West Virginia on Tuesday night. The Sooners host No. 11 West Virginia on Saturday.

OKLAHOMA (14-1) Spangler 2-7 3-4 7, Lattin 4-4 1-2 9, Woodard 4-11 6-8 17, Cousins 4-11 2-2 12, Hield 10-17 0-0 26, Walker 1-3 0-0 3, James 0-0 0-0 0, Buford 0-1 0-0 0, Manyang 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-54 12-16 74.

OKLAHOMA ST. (9-7) Hammonds 2-6 0-1 5, Solomon 0-2 0-0 0, Evans 18-31 4-5 42, Newberry 3-8 1-2 8, Carroll 2-9 1-2 5, Shine 0-1 0-0 0, Olivier 6-7 0-2 12, Allen Jr. 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 31-64 6-12 72.

Halftime-Oklahoma 43-31. 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma 12-28 (Hield 6-12, Woodard 3-6, Cousins 2-6, Walker 1-1, Spangler 0-3), Oklahoma St. 4-12 (Evans 2-2, Newberry 1-1, Hammonds 1-2, Shine 0-1, Solomon 0-1, Carroll 0-5). Fouled Out-Lattin. Rebounds-Oklahoma 37 (Lattin, Spangler 8), Oklahoma St. 30 (Evans 7). Assists-Oklahoma 12 (Hield, Spangler 4), Oklahoma St. 11 (Evans 6).

Total Fouls-Oklahoma 18, Oklahoma St. 15. A-9,380.

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receptions for 265 yards and three touchdowns at tight end, but he will play inside linebacker in college.

Morgan also traveled to Colorado Springs in early November on an unofficial visit, watching the Falcons pick up a win over Army.

“My biggest concern was just that day-in and day-out military life,” Morgan said. “No one in my family has really done anything like that. That was kind of the reason I went

Richard Shiro/AP Photo

CLEMSON’S JORDAN ROPER, LEFT, AND AVRY HOLMES CELEBRATE after beating No. 9 Duke, 68-63, on Wednesday in Greenville, South Carolina.

SMU (16-0)

in Baylor’s game-turning run before halftime as the Bears beat TCU. Baylor (13-3, 3-1 Big 12) went ahead to stay with a 13-0 run over the final 31⁄2 minutes of the first half.

Since the instate rivals became conference foes again three seasons ago, Baylor has won all eight meetings by an average margin of 20 points.

Karviar Shepherd had 13 points for TCU (9-7, 1-3), while Chauncey Collins had 11 points.

The Bears won their 14th consecutive home game, one short of the school record set five years ago. The last opponent to win in Waco was then-No. 21 Oklahoma State last February. Overall, Baylor has won its last 25 home games against unranked teams since a loss to West Virginia two years ago.

No. 6 Villanova 83, B. Moore 8-12 1-2 17, Tolbert 6-12 3-5 15, Milton 5-12 0-0 13, Brown 4-5 0-0 Marquette 68 11, N. Moore 2-6 0-0 6, Kennedy 4-8 2-3 Villanova, Pa. — Kris 11, Foster 1-3 0-0 3, Wilfong 1-1 0-0 3.

Jenkins scored 20 points, Totals 31-59 6-10 79.

CAROLINA (8-9) and Jalen Brunson had EAST White 6-12 1-2 15, C. Williams 3-9 0-0 6, Zangari 2-7 0-0 5, P. Williams 1-4 14 to lead Villanova over 0-0 2, Tyson 7-13 0-0 15, Bryant 0-1 0-0 Marquette.

0, Tejada 3-6 1-2 10, Nzege 0-0 0-0 0, The Wildcats (15-2, 5-0 Barkley 0-2 2-2 2, Aja 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 4-6 55.

Big East) blew a 16-point 22-54 Halftime-SMU 40-32. 3-Point Goalslead and trailed early in SMU 11-22 (Brown 3-4, Milton 3-8, N. the second half until they Moore 2-5, Wilfong 1-1, Kennedy 1-1, Foster 1-3), East Carolina 7-23 (Tejada took control late in game 3-5, White 2-6, Tyson 1-4, Zangari 1-5, to for the 36th straight Barkley 0-1, C. Williams 0-1, P. Williams 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-SMU time at the Pavilion.

42 (Kennedy 10), East Carolina 22 (C. Daniel Ochefu grabbed Williams 5). Assists-SMU 23 (N. Moore East Carolina 15 (Tejada, White, P. 13 rebounds, and the 12), Williams 3). Total Fouls-SMU 11, East Wildcats hit eight three- Carolina 13. A-6,022. pointers to win their seventh straight game.

Alabama 73, Haanif Cheatham led No. 19 S. Carolina 50 Marquette (12-5, 2-3) with Tuscaloosa, Ala. — 17 points.

Riley Norris hit his first seven three-point atMARQUETTE (12-5) Cohen III 4-8 0-0 9, H. Ellenson 5-11 tempts and scored a 1-2 12, Carter 4-8 0-0 10, Cheatham 4-14 7-9 17, Fischer 5-6 1-1 11, Wilson career-high 27 points to 2-5 4-5 9, W. Ellenson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals lead Alabama to an upset 24-53 13-17 68. of previously unbeaten VILLANOVA (15-2) Brunson 3-6 6-8 14, Jenkins 6-12 5-6 South Carolina.

20, Hart 4-12 2-3 10, Arcidiacono 3-6 The Crimson Tide 4-4 12, Ochefu 2-8 0-0 4, Booth 4-8 1-2 1-2 Southeastern 10, Bridges 3-4 3-3 9, Reynolds 0-0 4-4 (10-5, 4. Totals 25-56 25-30 83.

Conference) got the Halftime-Marquette 38-37. 3-Point Goals-Marquette 7-22 (Carter 2-4, first league win of Avery Cheatham 2-5, Cohen III 1-3, Wilson Johnson’s debut season in 1-4, H. Ellenson 1-5, W. Ellenson 0-1), Villanova 8-21 (Jenkins 3-6, stunningly easy fashion.

Arcidiacono 2-3, Brunson 2-4, Booth The upset leaves No. 10 1-2, Bridges 0-1, Hart 0-5). Fouled OutSMU as the nation’s only Carter. Rebounds-Marquette 31 (H. major-college Ellenson 8), Villanova 32 (Ochefu 13). unbeaten Assists-Marquette 17 (Carter, Wilson team.

5), Villanova 15 (Arcidiacono 6).

The Gamecocks (15-1, Total Fouls-Marquette 25, Villanova 17. Technicals-Carter 2 (ejected), 2-1) missed their first 12 Marquette Bench. A-6,500. shots of the second half and went more than 11 No. 10 SMU 79, minutes without a field East Carolina 55 goal starting before the Greenville, N.C. — Ben break. They ended an Moore scored 17 points, 8-minute scoring drought and SMU remained un- after halftime down 48beaten by routing East 22.

Carolina.

SOUTH CAROLINA (15-1) Markus Kennedy had Thornwell 1-6 0-0 2, Chatkevicius 3-7 6, Dozier 0-5 0-0 0, Carrera 5-10 2-2 11 points and 10 rebounds, 0-0 14, Kacinas 2-8 2-4 6, Stroman 0-2 0-0 Jordan Tolbert finished 0, Doby 2-2 0-0 4, Gregory 3-3 1-3 8, with 15 points, and Nic Notice 2-8 3-3 7, McKie 0-0 0-0 0, Ragin 0-0 0, Cobb 1-2 0-0 2, Silva 0-0 1-5 1.

Moore had a career-high 0-0 Totals 19-53 9-17 50.

ALABAMA (10-5) 12 assists for the Mus9-16 1-2 27, Kessens 3-7 0-0 tangs (16-0, 5-0 American 6, Norris Edwards 1-5 0-0 3, Taylor 2-3 1-4 5, Athletic Conference), Obasohan 1-5 2-4 4, Schaffer 1-1 0-2 3, Coleman 4-8 5-5 14, Hale 2-4 2-2 8, who had five double-fig- Austin 0-1 0-0 0, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Hall 1-1 ure scorers for the fourth 1-2 3. Totals 24-51 12-21 73.

Halftime-Alabama 35-22. 3-Point time this season.

Goals-South Carolina 3-18 (Carrera 2-5, Playing their first game Gregory 1-1, Dozier 0-1, Chatkevicius as a top-10 team in 31 0-2, Kacinas 0-2, Thornwell 0-3, Notice Alabama 13-28 (Norris 8-11, years, they never trailed 0-4), Hale 2-4, Schaffer 1-1, Edwards 1-4, and shot 52.5 percent Coleman 1-5, Austin 0-1, Obasohan Fouled Out-Dozier, Hall. while extending the best 0-2).

Rebounds-South Carolina 33 (Carrera start and second-longest 10), Alabama 38 (Norris 7). AssistsCarolina 9 (McKie, Notice winning streak in school South 3), Alabama 16 (Coleman 6). Total history.

Fouls-South Carolina 19, Alabama 20.

Caleb White and B.J. A-12,443.

Tyson scored 15 points apiece to lead the Pirates No. 22 Baylor 82, (8-9, 0-4), who shot 33 TCU 54 Waco, Texas — Terry percent in the second half and lost their fourth Maston scored a careerstraight to remain one high 17 points and comwith Taurean of two teams winless in bined Prince for all the scoring AAC play.

TCU (9-7) Shepherd 5-8 2-3 13, Washburn 2-7 0-1 4, Collins 3-9 3-3 11, M. Williams 2-4 0-0 6, Parrish 3-6 0-0 7, Shreiner 1-2 0-0 3, Brodziansky 2-5 0-0 4, Miller 1-7 0-1 2, Abron 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 21-52 5-8 54.

BAYLOR (13-3) Gathers 4-4 3-4 11, Prince 4-6 0-0 9, Medford 1-5 0-0 3, Wainright 2-3 3-4 7, Freeman 2-4 4-4 9, Lindsey 1-2 2-2 4, Motley 5-6 0-1 10, Heard 0-1 0-0 0, McClure 3-5 0-0 8, Maston 8-11 1-2 17, Mills 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 31-49 15-19 82.

Halftime-Baylor 41-31. 3-Point GoalsTCU 7-17 (M. Williams 2-4, Collins 2-6, Shepherd 1-1, Shreiner 1-2, Parrish 1-3, Miller 0-1), Baylor 5-12 (McClure 2-3, Prince 1-2, Medford 1-2, Freeman 1-3, Mills 0-1, Heard 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-TCU 19 (Miller 4), Baylor 36 (Gathers 8). Assists-TCU 17 (M. Williams 8), Baylor 27 (Medford 11).

Total Fouls-TCU 19, Baylor 13. A-5,764.

out (for a visit), just to see is that something that I can do? I know it’s going to be hard at times — that’s how it’s going to be anywhere — but I feel like if I can get through that, it’s really going to make me a better individual.”

Morgan will attend basic training in June, which he was told was “probably the hardest part” of joining the Air Force.

Along with four years of school, all graduates must serve at least five years of active duty, which is something that Morgan is excited to do.

“Some people could kind of see that as a negative, like, ‘Oh, they’ve got you for five years,’” Mor-

NFL right now. Not saying I’m going to go to the NFL or anything, but he’s probably going to give me one of the best chances I could have of maximizing my potential on the field.”

Morgan missed two basketball games this season because he was visiting colleges, but he’s glad to put the recruiting process behind him and focus on enjoying the rest of his senior year.

“After I made the phone call and said, ‘Hey, I’m coming to you guys.’

It was just like the weight of the world was off my shoulders,” Morgan said.

“It’s hard to really explain how I felt. It was just great.”

gan said. “I see it more as I have a guaranteed job. It pays well. Then I get to serve my country, which is pretty cool as well.”

Along with all of the benefits off the field at Air Force, Morgan is hopeful that he can make big strides at linebacker, a position he only started playing in high school.

Before deciding to play at Air Force, he considered Columbia University, Princeton and Kansas University.

“Coach (Ron) Vanderlinden is their inside backer coach and he has a great reputation,” Morgan said. “He coached at Penn State and coached a lot of guys who are in the

SCOREBOARD High School Boys

SHAWNEE MISSION SOUTH TRIANGULAR Tuesday at Overland Park Team scores — 1. Lawrence High 66, 2. Shawnee Mission South 61, 3.

Olathe Northwest 59.

200-yard medley relay — 3.

Lawrence A (Patrick Oblon, Isaac Springe, Raymond Faith, Hunter Boehle), 1:56.38; 7. Lawrence B (Matt Ramaley, Nick Steichen, Jack Ryan, Elliott Abromeit), 2:08.74; 8. Lawrence C (Josh Axlund, Brian Myers, Jared Miller, James Lynch), 2:16.63; 10.

Lawrence D (Bryce Hadl, Andrew Severn, Dylan Bierschbach, Alexander Arone), 2:36.80.

200-yard freestyle — 1. Stephen Johnson, 1:48.90; 9. Treyton Trujllo, 2:34.25; 10. Garrett Prescott, 2:41.63.

200-yard IM — 2. Chase Odgers, 2:17.35; 9. Jack Ryan, 2:36.62; 10. Elliott Abromeit, 2:43.56; 11. Raymond Faith, 3:02.97.

50-yard freestyle — 1. Alex Heckman, 23.00; 4. Patrick Oblon, 24.78; 8. Hunter Boehle, 26.02; 10. Matt Ramaley, 26.24; 20. Nick Steichen, 28.75; 23. Brian Myers, 29.33; 27. Josh Axlund, 29.89; 28.

Devin Van Schmus, 30.08; 29. Treyton Trujillo, 31.09; 30. James Lynch, 31.21; 32. Dylan Bierschbach, 31.81; 33.

Andrew Severn, 32.47; 34. Bryce Hadl, 34.36; 35. Cameron Walters, 34.74; 36. Alexander Arone, 34.98; 39. Reed Preifer, 36.33; 40. Davis Reed, 36.42.

1-meter diving — Izaiah Bowie, 215.48; 6. Anton Martinez de Velasco, 149.58; 7. Patrick Steinbach, 123.30.

100-yard butterfly — 1. Stephen Johnson, 57.14; 7. Raymond Faith, 1:08.95; 10. Jared Miller, 1:18.45.

100-yard freestyle — 1. Alex Heckman, 51.63; 3. Chase Odgers, 52.51; 7. Patrick Oblon, 56.93; 16. Noah Kucza, 1:02.15; 25. Devin Van Schmus, 1.08.02; 31. James Lynch, 1:12.85; 32.

Alexander Arone, 1:15.27; 34. Cameron Walters, 1:22.52; 36. Davis Reed, 1:23.46; 37. Reed Pfeifer, 1:24.39.

500-yard freestyle — 1. Isaac Springe, 5:26.82; 5. Jack Ryan, 5:54.68; 8. Garrett Prescott, 7:32.18.

200-yard freestyle relay — 1.

Lawrence A (Chase Odgers, Patrick Oblon, Alex Heckman, Stephen Johnson), 1:37.26; 5. Lawrence B (Hunter Boehle, Elliott Abromeit, Noah Kucza, Isaac Springe), 1:46.99; 10. Lawrence C (Brian Myers, Devin Van Schmus, Garrett Prescott, Nick Steichen), 2:00.46; 11. Lawrence D (Treyton Trujillo, Bryce Hadl, Andrew Severn, James Lynch), 2:09.14; 12.

Lawrence E (Cameron Walters, Davis Reed, Alexander Arone, Reed Preifer), 2:22.18.

100-yard backstroke — 4. Matt Ramaley, 1:09.55; 7. Josh Axlund, 1:16.41; 9. Jared Miller, 1:20.01; 10.

Dylan Bierschbach, 1:40.61.

100-yard breaststroke — 4. Elliott Ambromeit, 1:18.48; 7. Nick Steichen, 1:23.13; 8. Brian Myers, 1:23.80; 9. Noah Kucza, 1:29.74.

400-yard freestyle relay — 1.

Lawrence A (Chase Odgers, Isaac Springe, Alex Heckman, Stephen Johnson), 3:33.03; 5. Lawrence B (Matt Ramaley, Raymond Faith; Hunter Boehle, Jack Ryan), 3:36.87; 9. Lawrence C (Josh Axlund, Devin Van Schmus, Garrett Prescott, Noah Kucza), 4:40.51; 11. Lawrence D (Treytn Trujillo, Dylan Bierschbach, Andrew Severn, Jared Miller), 4:43.62.

PENN ST. (10-8) Banks 1-8 0-0 2, Zemgulis 1-4 0-1 2, Taylor 10-15 0-1 21, Dickerson 1-1 2-4 4, Garner 3-9 2-2 9, Foster 3-4 0-0 7, Jack 5-7 0-0 12, Washington 0-4 0-0 0, Moore 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-54 4-8 57.

PURDUE (15-3) Edwards 6-8 3-4 19, Swanigan 5-12 2-2 13, Hammons 6-11 1-6 13, Hill 1-6 0-0 2, Davis 1-5 0-0 2, Thompson 0-2 2-2 2, Cline 1-5 0-0 3, Stephens 0-1 0-0 0, Mathias 2-3 0-0 6, Haas 5-6 4-5 14.

Totals 27-59 12-19 74.

Halftime-Purdue 38-25. 3-Point Goals-Penn St. 5-19 (Jack 2-4, Foster 1-1, Taylor 1-3, Garner 1-5, Banks 0-1, Washington 0-2, Zemgulis 0-3), Purdue 8-21 (Edwards 4-4, Mathias 2-3, Swanigan 1-3, Cline 1-5, Stephens 0-1, Thompson 0-2, Davis 0-3). Fouled OutJack. Rebounds-Penn St. 25 (Moore, Zemgulis 5), Purdue 42 (Swanigan 9).

Assists-Penn St. 8 (Garner 5), Purdue 15 (Mathias 4). Total Fouls-Penn St. 21, Purdue 15. A-13,802.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 Kansas City at New England, 3:35 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Arizona, 7:15 p.m.

(NBC) Sunday, Jan. 17 Seattle at Carolina, 12:05 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC, 2:05 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 5:40 p.m. (FOX) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

TBD, 5:30 p.m. (CBS)

Overall W L 15 1 14 1 14 2 13 3 10 6 12 4 11 4 11 5 9 7 9 7

Baylor 82, TCU 54 Oklahoma 74, Oklahoma State 72 Saturday’s Games TCU at Kansas, 1 p.m. (ESPN) Baylor at Texas Tech, 2 p.m. (FSSW) West Virginia at Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

(ESPN2) Iowa State at Kansas State, 3 p.m.

(ESPNU) Oklahoma State at Texas, 5 p.m.

(ESPN2)

College Men

Big 12 Women

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Texas 5 0 16 0 Baylor 4 1 17 1 Oklahoma 3 1 12 3 Iowa State 3 1 11 4 West Virginia 3 2 14 4 TCU 3 2 11 5 Oklahoma State 2 3 12 4 Kansas State 1 4 11 5 Texas Tech 0 5 9 7 Kansas 0 5 5 11 Wednesday’s Games TCU 69, Texas Tech 48 Texas 75, Kansas 38 Kansas State 47, Oklahoma State 44 Saturday’s Games Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, noon (FSN) Kansas at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

(ROOT Sports) TCU at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baylor at Texas, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Iowa State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

(FSSW)

College Women

EAST Albany (NY) 78, New Hampshire 52 Army 67, Colgate 55 Boston U. 63, American U. 59 Duquesne 79, Rhode Island 70 George Washington 83, La Salle 59 Holy Cross 66, Lafayette 49 Loyola (Md.) 51, Navy 38 Maine 74, Mass.-Lowell 44 Nebraska 83, Penn St. 78 Rutgers 67, Illinois 54 Saint Joseph’s 64, Richmond 53 Stony Brook 69, UMBC 60, OT SOUTH Chattanooga 77, W. Carolina 59 South Florida 71, Tulane 67 St. Bonaventure 59, Davidson 47 Temple 71, UCF 63 UConn 86, Memphis 46 UT Martin 67, Tennessee Tech 53 MIDWEST Akron 71, Bowling Green 55 Ball St. 68, Buffalo 63 IUPUI 75, Nebraska-Omaha 59 Indiana 81, Michigan St. 65 Iowa 57, Wisconsin 54 Kansas St. 47, Oklahoma St. 44 Ohio 71, E. Michigan 64 SE Missouri 61, Jacksonville St. 47 Saint Louis 69, UMass 49 Texas 75, Kansas 38 Toledo 55, Miami (Ohio) 50 VCU 74, Dayton 72 W. Michigan 73, Kent St. 52 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 79, McNeese St. 62 Cincinnati 55, Tulsa 53 TCU 69, Texas Tech 48 FAR WEST Boise St. 66, Nevada 58 Colorado St. 60, San Diego St. 57 New Mexico 67, UNLV 53 San Jose St. 67, Wyoming 66 UC Riverside 78, Long Beach St. 60 Utah St. 66, Air Force 53

Kansas Women

NFL Playoffs

No. 24 Purdue 74, Penn St. 57 Big 12 Men West Lafayette, Ind. Big 12 W L — Vince Edwards scored West Virginia 4 0 19 points, Isaac Haas had Oklahoma 3 1 Kansas 3 1 14 and Caleb Swanigan Baylor 3 1 added 13 as Purdue rout- Texas 2 2 1 3 ed struggling Penn State. Iowa State Texas Tech 1 3 The Boilermakers (15- Kansas State 1 3 3, 3-2 Big Ten) have won Oklahoma State 1 3 1 3 seven of eight in this series. TCU Wednesday’s Games

MIDWEST Bradley 54, Loyola of Chicago 53 Cincinnati 70, Houston 59 Indiana St. 74, N. Iowa 60 Jacksonville St. 74, SE Missouri 60 N. Dakota St. 66, South Dakota 65 Notre Dame 72, Georgia Tech 64 Ohio St. 94, Rutgers 68 Purdue 74, Penn St. 57 Wichita St. 78, Missouri St. 62 SOUTHWEST Baylor 82, TCU 54 Houston Baptist 78, Nicholls St. 69 Oklahoma 74, Oklahoma St. 72 FAR WEST San Jose St. 62, Wyoming 55

EAST Boston U. 61, American U. 50 Colgate 80, Army 66 Duquesne 81, Saint Louis 71 Georgetown 93, St. John’s 73 Hartford 76, Binghamton 72 Lafayette 65, Holy Cross 52 Navy 60, Loyola (Md.) 52 St. Bonaventure 69, Rhode Island 64 Syracuse 62, Boston College 40 Villanova 83, Marquette 68 SOUTH Alabama 73, South Carolina 50 Clemson 68, Duke 63 Florida St. 85, NC State 78 Georgia 81, Tennessee 72 LSU 90, Mississippi 81 Memphis 67, Temple 65 Richmond 83, La Salle 61 SMU 79, East Carolina 55 Saint Joseph’s 87, George Mason 73 VCU 88, Fordham 54 Virginia Tech 93, Wake Forest 91

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, 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, L 44-67 (5-7, 0-1) Jan. 3 — West Virginia, L 45-65 (5-8, 0-2) Jan. 6 — Baylor, L 40-58 (5-9, 0-3) Jan. 9 — at Iowa St., L 49-65 (5-10, 0-4) Jan. 13 — Texas, L 38-75 (5-11, 0-5) Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 20 — Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Jan. 27 — at Texas, 7 p.m.

Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, 5 p.m.

Feb. 2 — Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at Baylor, 2 p.m.

Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 17 — TCU, 7 p.m.

Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at TCU, 6 p.m.

High School Boys Box

Tuesday at East Lawrence Center VERITAS CHRISTIAN 77, CHRIST PREP 40 Christ Prep 10 12 10 8 — 40 Veritas 15 22 21 19 — 77 Christ Prep — Seth Hensarling 5, Grant Stamatis 5, Nate Anderson 2, Aj Alsup 3, Reagan Miller 15, Charles Speady 6, Seth Newkirk 4.

Veritas — Weston Flory 3, Trey Huslig 14, River Welch 2, Chad Stieben 20, Miles Dressler 12, Isaiah Garrett 3, Michael Rask 4, Quinton Donohoe 3, Kyle Weinhold 5, Peyton Donohoe 4, Mark Weinhold 7.

Middle School Boys

Wednesday at Kansas City, Kansas TURNER 55, WEST 51, OT West highlights: Alyus Wisdom 13 points; Dekari Middleton 11 points; Tate Fanshier 11 points.

West record: 0-1. Next for West: Today at Southwest.

WEST B 52, TURNER B 21 West highlights: Ben Miller 12 points; Burt Solis 6 points; Jake Miller 6 points; Peyton Case 7 points; Marcus Preston 6 points.

West B record: 1-0. Next for West: Today at Southwest.

Sumpter powers HINU women to 63-53 victory over Sterling Reyes added 12 points, and Ember Sloan scored Sterling — Tyler 10 for Haskell (15-3).

Sumpter scored 14 Haskell 17 13 13 20 — 63 points, and Haskell In- Sterling 17 14 11 11 — 53 Haskell — Tyler Sumpter 14, dian Nations Univer- Brandi Buffalo 2, Kortney Meat 8, sity broke open a close Cerissa Honena-Reyes 12, Arnetia game in the fourth quar- Begay 8, Ember Sloan 10, Cheyenne 7, Justina Coriz 2. ter for a 63-53 women’s Livingston Sterling — Megan Stagner basketball victory over 4, Jordin Greer 14, Kate Brickell 5, Hailey Davis 4, Jessica Princ Sterling College.

5, Kristin Waters 7, Kennedy Cerissa Honena- Sokoloski 11, Alissa Gasper 3.

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(First published in the mont St #200, Lawrence, Lawrence Daily Journal- KS 66044, World January 7, 2016) bpollington@lawrencecham ber.com, 785.865.4425.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Proposals will only be ac(RFP) cepted from January 7th29th, received by 4:30p.m.

The Chamber of Lawrence C.S.T. via local dropoff or Kansas on behalf of postmark date, (RFP bids be between BizFuel partners are seek- must ing to hire an adver- $10K-$12K). ________ tising/marketing agency or individual team to provide strategic implementation of (First published in the messaging, advertising and Lawrence Daily Journalmarketing strategies as World January 7, 2016) needed for promoting the IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL BizFuel Partnership in DISTRICT Douglas County.

DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS BizFuel is a public and priCIVIL DEPARTMENT vate partnership that works to assist Small to MID AMERICAN CREDIT Medium Enterprises UNION, (SMEs) to start, grow, add Plaintiff, jobs, and succeed by building an entrepreneurvs. ial environment that will spur educational advance2011 ARTIC CAT 450 ATV, ment, networking, techniVIN#4UF11ATV2BT257217, cal assistance, research, KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF advocacy, and/or work to REVENUE, foster SME collaboration THE STATE OF KANSAS and connections.

KANSAS HIGHWAY PATROL, BizFuel Partner and Lead Contact for RFP: The and the unknown spouses, Chamber of Lawrence Kan- heirs, executors, adminissas, Attn: Brady Pollington, trators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of Economic Development Project Manager, 646 Ver- such of the defendants as

may be deceased; the unknown spouses of the defendants’; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants as are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of such defendants as are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or are in anywise under legal disability; Unknown persons in possession, Defendant(s).

are or may be concerned in the subject of this action, forever quieting the title to personal property described as 2011 ARTIC 450 ATV, CAT VIN#4UF11ATV2BT257217 and that the Kansas Highway Patrol perform an MVE-1 inspection upon the above described vehicle and upon successful completion of said inspection, the Kansas Department of Revenue, issue a clear title to this motor vehicle; and for such other and further relief as plaintiff may be entitled to, either in law or in equity;

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- World January 14, 2016) NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on Thursday, February 4, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., in the Commission Meeting Room, first floor of City Hall at Sixth and Massachusetts Street, Lawrence. The following item will be considered at that time: B-16-00005: A request for a variance as provided in Section 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The request is a variance from the required number of off-street parking stalls calculated using the standards found in Section 20-902, “Off-Street Parking Schedule A” in the Development Code, which requires multi-dwelling structures to provide one off-street parking stall per bedroom for a duplex dwelling structure. The applicant is seeking a variance to reduce the number of parking stalls from the code required six (6) spaces to four (4) parking spaces, which will be accessed from the alley. The property is located at 1030 Ohio Street. Submitted by Abel Leon, President, Kolibri Ventures LLC, the property owner of record.

You are hereby required to plead to said Petition on or before the 17th day of February, 2016, in said Court at Douglas, Kansas.

NOTICE OF SUIT Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will B-16-00006: A request for a variance as provided in SecTHE STATE OF KANSAS be entered in due course tion 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City TO: ALL INTERESTED PAR- upon said Petition. of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The request is for a TIES variance to reduce the 20 feet side yard building You are hereby notified BRUCE, BRUCE & LEHMAN, setback required in Section 20-601(a) of the City Code that a petition has been L.L.C. to a minimum of 4.6 feet, which will allow construction filed in the District Court of P.O. Box 75037 of a 16 feet by 22 feet kitchen addition on the northeast Douglas County, Kansas by Wichita, KS 67275-5037 corner of the residential dwelling. The property is loplaintiff, Mid American Telephone: 316-264-8000 cated at 5750 Yankee Tank Court. Submitted by Monte Credit Union, praying for Facsimile: 316-267-4488 L. and Molly C. Soukup, the property owners of record. judgment against the Attorneys for Mid B-16-00007: A request for variances as provided in Secclaims of any defendants American Credit Union and the claims of all those Plaintiff tion 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City classes of persons who _______ of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The first request is Case No: 2015 CV 463 Pursuant to Chapter 60 of K.S.A.

for variances from the code required 25 feet front yard, 25 feet exterior side yard, 20 feet rear yard, and 5 feet interior side yard building setbacks required in Section 20-601(a) of the City Code to a 5 feet front yard, 11 feet exterior side yard, 6 feet rear yard, and 3 feet interior side yard setbacks for a new single-family residential dwelling which is proposed on a nonconforming lot.

The second request is a variance from the required number of off-street parking stalls calculated using the standards found in Section 20-902, “Off-Street Parking Schedule A” in the Development Code, which requires a detached dwelling to provide a minimum of two (2) off-street parking stalls.

The applicant proposes to provide the parking spaces in the public right-of-way adjacent to the property with a use of right of way agreement with the city. The property is located at 945 Missouri Street. Submitted by Paul Werner, Paul Werner Architects, representing the property owner of record, Geneva L. Swartzel Trustee.

B-16-00008: A request for variances as provided in Section 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The requests are for a variance to reduce the 20 feet front yard and exterior side yard building setbacks required in Section 20-601(a) of the City Code, to a minimum of 15.87 feet and 11 feet, respectively. The variances are requested for an existing front porch and a proposed 10 feet x 24 feet addition on the east side of the residential dwelling. The property is located at 845 Illinois Street. Submitted by Mike Logan, property owner of record.

B-16-00009: A request for a variance as provided in Section 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The request is for a variance to reduce the 5 feet accessory building setback from an interior lot line required in Section 20-533(3), “General Standards for Accessory Structures,

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6C Density and Dimensional Standards,” in the City Code, to a minimum of 1.5 feet from the rear lot line. The property is located at 607 Elm Street. Submitted by Tony Backus, Backus Construction Company, representing the property owner of record, Matthew F. Gilhousen.

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Scott McCullough Director of Planning and Development Services ________

tivities at City-owned or operated facilities is detrimen- (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to use any form tal to their health; and of tobacco or e-cigarette at or on any City-owned or operated outdoor recreational facilities. This includes but WHEREAS, the City of Eudora has a unique opportunity is not limited to playgrounds, athletic fields, aquatic to create and sustain an environment that supports a areas, parks, walking trails, restrooms, and spectator non-tobacco and non-e-cigarette norm through a To- or concession areas. bacco and E-cigarette Free Policy, rule enforcement, (b) Any person found to be in violation of this section and adult-peer role modeling on city-owned outdoor shall be subject to immediate ejection from the City recreational facilities; and park or recreational facility. (c) Tobacco use shall be defined as ingestion of any WHEREAS, the City of Eudora believes that parents, product containing, made, or derived from tobacco or leaders, and officials involved in recreation are role containing nicotine, whether synthetically produced or models for youth and can have a positive effect on the derived from any other source that is intended for hulifestyle choices they make; and man consumption. (d) E-cigarette use shall be defined as the ingestion of WHEREAS, the tobacco and e-cigarette industries ad- nicotine or other substances used in any electronic or vertise at and sponsor recreational events in order to battery-powered device/vaporizer that simulates tofoster a connection between tobacco or e-cigarette use bacco smoking or vaping by producing an aerosol that and recreation; and resembles smoke, vapor or any component thereof.

WHEREAS, cigarettes, once consumed in public spaces, are often discarded on the ground which diminishes (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- World the beauty of the City’s recreational facilities, poses a January 14, 2016) risk to toddlers due to ingestion and requires additional maintenance expenses.

ORDINANCE 1048 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNAN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE OF TOBACCO ING BODY OF THE CITY OF EUDORA, DOUGLAS PRODUCTS AND E-CIGARETTE DEVICES IN OUTDOOR COUNTY, KANSAS: CITY PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. SECTION I. Tobacco and e-cigarette use is prohibited in WHEREAS, the City of Eudora believes that tobacco and outdoor recreational facilities in the City of Eudora, e-cigarette device use in the proximity of children and Kansas. adults engaging in or watching outdoor recreational ac-

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- World January 14, 2016) ORDINANCE 1047 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING SMOKING OR VAPING IN ENCLOSED AREAS OR PUBLIC MEETINGS OR THE WORKPLACE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DESIGNATED SMOKING AREAS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF EUDORA, KANSAS. WHEREAS, the state of Kansas has adopted the Kansas Clean Indoor Air Act to protect people from exposure to harmful chemical present in secondhand smoke; and WHEREAS, E-cigarettes produce an aerosol that resembles smoke that emits secondhand chemicals into the surrounding air through its use; and

WHEREAS, the City of Eudora has the opportunity to SECTION II. This ordinance shall be in full force and ef- create and sustain an environment that supports a fect from and after its adoption and publication as pro- non-tobacco and non-e-cigarette norm through a tovided by law. bacco and e-cigarette free ordinance and rule enforcePASSED AND APPROVED this January 11th, 2016, by the ment.

Governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kansas, with not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the members elect voting in favor thereof.

APPROVED: Tim Reazin, Mayor ATTEST: Pam Schmeck, City Clerk ________

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF EUDORA, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS: SECTION I. It shall be unlawful, with no requirement of

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Ex-NU standout Phillips found dead Sacramento, Calif. (ap) — Lawrence Phillips, a standout running back at Nebraska and first-round NFL draft pick whose pro career quickly unraveled amid disciplinary problems, was found dead in his California prison cell early Wednesday, and officials said they suspect suicide.

Guards at Kern Valley State Prison found Phillips, 40, unresponsive in his cell. He was taken to an outside hospital and pronounced dead about 1:30 a.m., the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

He had been housed alone in a segregation cell since April 2015 after he was suspected of killing his cellmate. A Kern County judge had ruled Tuesday that there was enough evidence to try Phillips in the death of Damion Soward, 37.

Phillips went to prison in 2008 to serve a sentence of more than 31 years after he was convicted of twice choking his girlfriend in 2005 in San Diego and of driving

his car into three teens later that year after a pickup football game in Los Angeles.

He played for the St. Louis Rams before being released in 1997 for insubordination. He also played for the Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers.

Phillips was once one of the nation’s top college football players at Nebraska, but he went from Heisman Trophy candidate to pariah after he beat a former girlfriend hours after a spectacular performance in a September 1995 win at Michigan State.

Phillips pleaded no contest to third-degree misdemeanor assault and trespassing and was sentenced to one year of probation. Tom Osborne, Phillips’ former coach at Nebraska, arranged for Phillips to undergo inpatient therapy for anger management at a Kansas clinic and suspended him for six games, a punishment many national observers deemed too lenient.

L.G. Patterson/AP File Photo

THIS FILE PHOTO SHOWS ST. LOUIS RAMS running back Lawrence Phillips (21) leaping over a mound of players as he scores against Cincinnati during a 1996 game in St. Louis.

Osborne defended his decision to reinstate Phillips, saying medical personnel agreed that Phillips needed the structure of football in his life.

His former coach said Wednesday that Phillips’ death surprised him.

“All of his correspondence with me, in spite of his circumstances, have been fairly upbeat,” Osborne said. “I’m surprised

because I didn’t see that coming.”

He said it was sad because Phillips had many gifts, not just in athletics.

“He was an intelligent person and had some good qualities,” Osborne said. “He was very loyal to his friends, and yet he had some anger issues and couldn’t overcome the demons in his life.”

Coincidently, a court-

appointed suicide prevention expert commended the state corrections department in a report Wednesday for recent steps it has taken to combat what has been a chronic problem. Lindsay Hayes said the number of suicides and the suicide rate appeared to have decreased slightly during the last two years. However, he noted several continuing problems with suicideprevention efforts at the prison where Phillips died.

Judge Michael Dellostritto on Tuesday ordered Phillips to face trial on a charge of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of lying in wait, Kern County court records show. The special circumstance could have led to the death penalty had he been convicted, but prosecutors said no decision on that had been made.

“Our condolences are extended to his family,” Deputy District Attorney Andi Bridges said after learning of Phillips’ death.

The cellmate he was accused of killing was the

cousin of former University of Southern California and NFL wide receiver R. Jay Soward, who was wellknown in Los Angeles during his career.

George Darlington, the assistant coach who handled Phillips’ recruitment to Nebraska, said Phillips was optimistic about Tuesday’s court hearing in a letter he received about two weeks ago.

“I had no indication that he had lost hope or wanted to give up,” Darlington said.

He said people would be surprised to hear that Phillips was an unselfish individual who cared about his teammates.

Nebraska recruited Phillips out of a West Covina, California, group home, and he was a key member of the Cornhuskers’ national championship teams in 1994 and 1995. He ran for 165 yards and two touchdowns in a Fiesta Bowl win over Florida that clinched the national championship, then declared he would enter the 1996 NFL draft as an underclassman.

St. Louis mayor: No interest in NFL now St. Louis (ap) — The NFL is abandoning St. Louis again, and this time, the mayor has no interest in trying to bring pro football back.

League owners voted Tuesday to allow the Rams to move to Los Angeles starting next season. It means that St. Louis is losing a team for the second time in three decades. The Cardinals left for Arizona in 1987, and St. Louis was without football until the Rams arrived from Los Angeles in 1995.

The decision stunned some in St. Louis who thought plans for a $1 billion riverfront stadium

would persuade the NFL to let the Rams stay. The stadium plan was deemed inadequate, opening the way for Tuesday’s decision that also gives the Chargers the first option at sharing a new $1.86 billion stadium planned by Rams owner Stan Kroenke in Inglewood, California.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has had enough, saying the NFL strung St. Louis advocates along while never intending to block Kroenke’s move.

The decision “sent a loud and clear message.”

“Their home cities and hometown fans are commodities to be abandoned

once they no longer suit the league’s purposes,” Slay said Wednesday.

Asked if he believes the city should pursue another team, Slay gave a definitive no.

“At this point I’m so frustrated and disappointed with the NFL,” Slay said. “Why would anybody want to, in any way, even entertain any suggestions from the NFL after the way they dealt with St. Louis here?

I mean, it was dishonest. They were not being truthful with us. There’s no appetite that I have to take another run at an NFL team.”

Dave Peacock, co-

chairman of the St. Louis stadium task force, wasn’t as adamant, but seemed resigned to life without the NFL. He said he believes St. Louis has the fan support, but “it would need to be a fully committed effort by the league and the owner.” Besides, he said, the league is not planning to expand, and no teams seem poised to move.

Peacock called the interactions with NFL leadership “a head-scratcher. “ He said NFL executives initially expressed support and optimism about the stadium project. In the end, he said, he realized the deck was stacked

against St. Louis, perhaps the whole time.

“Having been through this process I’d say there was probably more of this that was contemplated and contrived than I realized,” said Peacock, a former Anheuser-Busch executive.

With the Rams leaving, the stadium plan appears all but dead.

The plan was contentious because it would have required about $400 million in public money (with the rest coming from the league and the owner), just a little over two decades after the Edward Jones Dome was built completely with

taxpayer funds. City aldermen had already approved about $150 million, but some Republican legislative leaders were pushing for a public vote on state funding. A legislative hearing scheduled for Wednesday was called off.

Slay was clearly ready to let go of the stadium plan, which would have revitalized an area of mostly vacant buildings just north of the Gateway Arch. He said land acquisition efforts at the riverfront site should continue toward “a different kind of development,” though he said there are no specific alternative plans.

Missouri admits NCAA basketball violations The Associated Press

Admitting it found NCAA violations in its men’s basketball program dating to 2011, Missouri on Wednesday banned itself from the postseason this year and said it is vacating all 23 wins from the 2013-14 season.

The NCAA is still investigating and Missouri said it was working with the organization in hopes of limiting the punishment to its self-imposed sanctions, which includes the SEC tournament.

“We have already taken many proactive steps to address concerns, including appropriate self-imposed sanctions,” athletic director Mack Rhoades said in a statement. “We will win at Mizzou and do so with integrity and class.”

Missouri was 23-12 in 2013-14, Frank Haith’s final season. Haith left for Tulsa not long after the school received a verbal notice of inquiry from the NCAA in April 2014.

The Tigers won just nine games last season under

new coach Kim Anderson.

“We are obviously very disappointed that the actions of a few individuals have put our program in this situation,” Anderson said in a statement.

“I hurt for our kids more than anything and for our only senior, Ryan Rosburg, in particular.”

Besides the postseason ban, the school has stripped itself of one scholarship this season and a second scholarship no later than the 2017-18 season, plus has restrict-

ed recruiting through 2016-17. It also said it would pay a $5,000 fine.

The school permanently banned one unidentified donor who the NCAA said provided impermissible benefits to three players and one recruit in 2013-14. The benefits included compensation for work not done at a business through a summer intern program, along with housing, $520 cash, local transportation, iPads, meals and use of a local gym.

“It is clear from our

collaborative investigation with the NCAA that a former member of our athletics staff and members of our donor community violated NCAA bylaws, and we take those actions seriously,” chancellor Hank Foley said.

A second donor has been banned for two years after providing 11 players and three members of one player’s transportation for multiple players to the hotel from the campus.

The school was hit with a third major infraction

for failing to adequately monitor the internship program.

There were two minor infractions cited. A former associate head coach helped a recruit relocate by providing the phone number of the recruit’s mother to the second donor to arrange for rental housing, and the first donor had multiple impermissible contacts with a recruit.

The school said there is no evidence that any current staff members were aware of the violations.

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SECTION IV: Definitions for terms used in this ordinance are as follows: 1. “Access point” is defined as the area within a ten foot radius outside of any doorway, open window or air intake leading into a building or facility that is not exempted pursuant to subsection (d) of K.S.A. 2012 Supp.

21-6110, and amendments thereto.

2. “Bar” is defined as any indoor area that is operated and licensed for the sale and service of alcoholic beverages, including alcoholic liquor as defined in K.S.A. 41-102, and amendments thereto, or cereal malt beverages as defined in K.S.A. 41-2701, and amendments thereto, for on-premises consumption.

3. “Employee” is defined as any person who is employed by an en employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit, and any person who volunteers their services for a nonprofit entity.

4. “Employer” is defined as any person, partnership,

corporation, association or organization, including municipal or non-profit entities, which employs one or more individual persons.

5. “Enclosed area” is defined as all spaces between a floor and ceiling which is enclosed on all sides by solid walls, windows or doorways which extend from the floor to the ceiling, including all space therein screened by partitions which do not extend to the ceiling or are not solid or similar structures. For purposes of this section, the following which do not extend to the ceiling or are not solid or similar structures. For purposes of this section, the following shall not be considered an “enclosed area” : (1) Rooms or areas, enclosed by walls, windows or doorways, having neither a ceiling nor a roof and which are completely open to the elements and weather at all times; and (2)Rooms or areas, enclosed by walls, fences, windows or doorways and a roof or ceiling, having openings that are permanently open to the elements and weather and which comprise of an area that is at least 20% of the total perimeter wall area of such room or area.

6. “Food service establishment” is defined as any place in which food is served or is prepared for sale or service on the premises. Such term shall include, but not be limited to, fixed or mobile restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias, short-order cafes, luncheonettes, grills, tea rooms, sandwich shops, soda fountains, taverns, private clubs, roadside kitchens, commissaries and any other private, public or nonprofit organization or institution routinely service food and any other eating or drinking establishment or operation where food is served or provided for the public with or without charge.

7. “Gaming floor” is defined as the area of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility, as those terms are defined in K.S.A 74-8702, and amendments thereto, where patrons engage in Class III gaming. The gaming floor shall not include any areas used for accounting, maintenance, surveillance, security, administrative offices, storage, cash or cash counting, records,

food service, lodging or entertainment, except that the gaming floor may include a bar where alcoholic beverages are serve so long as the bar is located entirely within the area where Class III gaming is conducted.

8. “Medical care facility” is defined as a physician’s office, general hospital, special hospital, ambulatory surgery center or recuperation center, as defined by K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto, and any psychiatric hospital center or recuperation center, as defined by K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto, and any psychiatric hospital licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto.

9. “Place of employment” is defined as any enclosed area under the control of a public or private employer, including, but not limited to, work areas, auditoriums, elevators, private offices, employee lounges and restrooms, conference and meeting rooms, classrooms, employee cafeterias, stairwells and hallways, that is used by employees during the course of employment.

For purposes of this section, a private residence shall not be considered a “place of employment” unless such residence is used as a day care home, as defined in K.S.A. 65-530, and amendments thereto.

10. “Private Club” means an outdoor recreational facility operated primarily for the use of its owners, members and their guests that in its ordinary course of business is not open to the general public for which sue of its facilities has substantial dues or membership fee requirements for its members.

11. “Public building” means any building owned or operated by any, city, department, agency, bureau, commission, authority or other instrumentality thereof.

12. “Public place” is defined as any enclosed areas open to the public or used by the general public including, but not limited to: Banks, bars, food service establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, public means of mass transportation, passenger elevators, health care institutions or any other place where health care service are provided to the public, medical care facilities, educational facilities, libraries, courtrooms, public buildings, restrooms, grocery stores,

school buses, museums, theaters, auditoriums, arenas and recreational facilities. For purposes of this section, a private residence shall not be considered a “public place” unless such residence is used as a day care home, as defined in K.S.A. 65-530, and amendments thereto.

13. “Smoking” is defined as the possession of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or burning tobacco in any other form of device designed for the use of tobacco.

14. “Vaping” is defined as the possession of the possession any electronic or battery-powered device/vaporizer that simulates tobacco smoking or vaping by producing an aerosol that resembles smoke, vapor or any component thereof.

15. “Tobacco shop” is defined as any indoor area operated primarily for the retail sale of tobacco, tobacco products or smoking or vaping devices or accessories, and which derives not less than 65% of its gross receipts from the sale of tobacco or vaping products.

16. “Substantial dues or membership fee requirements” means initiation costs, dues or fees proportional to the cost of membership in similarly-situated outdoor recreational facilities that are not considered nominal and implemented to otherwise avoid or evade restrictions of a ban on smoking or vaping.

SECTION V: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption and publication as provided by law.

PASSED AND APPROVED this 11th day of January, 2016, by the Governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kansas, with not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the members elect voting in favor thereof.

APPROVED: Tim Reazin, Mayor ATTEST: Pam Schmeck, City Clerk ________

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