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Official defends KanCare, pushes back against report

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Susan Mosier pushed back hard Monday against a federal agency that has criticized the state’s privatized Medicaid system known as KanCare, accusing it

of using flawed analysis and offering its own opinions as facts in finding the program out of compliance with federal laws and regulations.

She also criticized the news media’s reporting on the issue, saying the state’s application to extend the program for another year has not

been denied but merely “delayed.”

“It was reported that the waiver was denied,” Mosier told a Senate committee Monday.

“When you actually read the letter, it says that it cannot grant the state’s request at this time and it cannot formally consider the state’s request for a

one-year extension.”

Mosier appeared Monday before the House and Senate health committees to respond to the findings in a recent audit by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its decision not to renew a waiver that has

KDHE SECRETARY SUSAN MOSIER PUSHES BACK against a federal agency that criticized the state’s KanCare system during a meeting Monday of the Kansas Senate’s Public Health and Welfare Committee.

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Students of color more likely to be labeled ‘special needs,’ report finds

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THE DOUGLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE WAS EVACUATED MONDAY after a suspicious package was discovered near one of its entrances.

Suspicious message, box cause disruption at courthouse

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

Deputies evacuated the Douglas County Courthouse and a number of downtown businesses on Monday morning after a suspicious box and message were reported on the building’s steps.

The box was later found to contain magazines and to have no connection to the message, which read “DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR.” The box and message, both located on the courthouse’s west staircase, were reported to deputies just before 8

a.m. Monday, said Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kristen Dymacek. The Douglas County Courthouse falls within the jurisdiction of the sheriff’s office.

Soon after the report, deputies evacuated the courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., and the businesses in the

1100 block of Massachusetts Street, Dymacek said.

Many of the evacuated employees huddled and shivered in the vacant lot just north of the courthouse while deputies and officers blocked off Massachusetts

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he U.S. Senate Monday night confirmed Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo as CIA Director, setting up a special election that could turn into the first public referendum on President Donald Trump’s new administration.

By most assessments, such a referendum would likely end favorably for whomever the Republican Party nominates, and for Trump himself, who carried the 4th District in the 2016

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election, 60-38 percent over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

In that same election, Pompeo won a fourth term for his seat by an even wider margin, 61-30 percent, over Democrat Daniel B. Giroux.

Pompeo was expected to submit his formal resignation immediately after the

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Once a student of color walks through the doors of a Lawrence public school building, he or she is more than twice as likely than a white student to be placed in programs for students with learning impairments.

And once flagged by teachers as such, many of those students tend to stay in special education programs for the remainder of their public education.

Those findings, from a summary report on the district’s special education program, were presented to the school board Monday and drew concern from several members.

“We know that as a SCHOOLS nation we have a problem with special education services being disproportionate for students of color,” said school board member Vanessa Sanburn. “And our district has decided that, in addition to a lot of things, we want to take on that issue head-on, and we want to be a district where that’s not true.”

Owing to the placement rates of students of color in some special education categories, the district is categorized as “discrepant.” If the placement for students of color were to hit three times the rate of white students, the district would be labeled as “disproportionate” and subject to federal action.

Though the school district is technically in compliance with federal rules, Sanburn said that should not be the district’s goal.

“The federal guidepost or the federal requirement isn’t sufficient for us to judge ourselves on,” Sanburn said. “If we’re meeting that, that’s alone not good enough.”

Federal action, though, could come in another form. The report noted that there is an open complaint with

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Former congressman Mike Pompeo sworn in as CIA director

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Washington — Mike Pompeo was sworn in Monday night as director of the CIA at a crucial time for U.S. national security as intelligence — traditionally a nonpartisan issue — has been thrust into the political arena.

“You are stepping up to lead the finest intelligence-gathering operation the world has ever seen,” Vice President Mike Pence said during the nighttime swearing-in ceremony. “The men and women serving under your command give true meaning to the word courage.”

The Senate earlier Monday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the CIA despite Democratic objections that the

Kansas congressman has been less than transparent about his positions on torture, surveillance and Russia’s meddling in the election.

The vote was 66-32.

Trump has been critical of intelligence agencies since their assessment of Russian involvement to help him win the election, but the new president also has said he is fully behind them.

Senate Republicans had hoped to vote on Pompeo’s nomination Friday, after Trump’s inauguration.

But Democrats succeeded in stalling action until they could debate.

Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden on Monday said Pompeo was the “wrong man for the job.”

“He has endorsed extreme policies that would fundamentally erode liberties and freedoms of our

people without making us safer,” Wyden said. He said Pompeo’s answers to questions from some senators have been “vague” and “contradictory,” making it impossible to know what Pompeo believes.

“I see no real commitment to transparency and his views on the most fundamental analysis of the day — the involvement of Russia in our election — seemed to shift with those of the president,” Wyden said.

In written responses to questions from the Senate, on Jan. 3, Pompeo said only that intelligence agency assessments in general should be taken seriously.

After Trump conceded Russia was behind the campaign hacks, Pompeo on Jan. 12 told the Senate intelligence committee that

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allowed Kansas to operate its Medicaid system as a privatized, managed care plan since 2013.

In a Jan. 13 letter, CMS said its on-site review of the KanCare system, conducted in mid-October, had verified complaints it had received over the last year from patients, health care providers and other stakeholders, and it said the state’s noncompliance with federal rules “places the health, welfare, and safety of KanCare beneficiaries at risk and requires immediate action.”

“I admit that on the surface, this letter looks alarming and concerning,” Mosier told the Senate committee. But she denied that the health and welfare of KanCare patients were being put at risk.

“As we went through the letter, item by item, one of the things that we saw and one of the things that we knew was that there’s no evidence of decreased access and no evidence of harm to beneficiaries,” she said. “And so, although they talked about process and procedures, they did not look at outcomes related to our (long-term managed care) program.”

She said state officials had provided CMS with “over 2,500 documents, over 40,000 pages and over 3 gigs of data,” much

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SENS. BARBARA BOLLIER, VICKI SCHMIDT and Laura Kelly ask pointed questions Monday of KDHE Secretary Susan Mosier during a Public Health and Welfare Committee hearing about the status of the state’s KanCare program. of which she said was not considered when CMS made its findings.

“Also, there were statements of opinion rather than fact” in the report, Mosier said.

Mosier told committees that since KanCare was launched in 2013, patients in the system have recorded fewer inpatient hospital stays and fewer outpatient emergency room visits, while at the same time getting more preventive care through primary care visits.

Mosier also said that CMS officials had assured her agency in midDecember that Kansas’ waiver would eventually be extended.

But under questioning from Sen. Laura Kelly, DTopeka, Mosier said CMS officials had not put that commitment in writing.

“It’s customary for CMS to not put anything in

writing until the very last conversation, so we’re having preliminary conversations and discussions,” Mosier said.

Other members of the panel questioned why Mosier had not notified the Legislature of CMS’s concerns, even though she knew about the onsite review and the agency’s concerns as far back as October.

“You’re telling me that these issues are there, and these are some really large issues, and yet I just met with you in my office and everything seemed to be going swimmingly,” said Sen. Barbara Bollier, R-Mission Hills. “And that’s a concern to me because these are some significant issues.”

Mosier said she actually had discussed CMS’s concerns with the Legislature’s joint KanCare

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in the opening days of the session to push through a bill cleaning up the state’s special election statutes, which haven’t been invoked since the last congressional vacancy in 1950. The law now reads that the governor has five days from the day the vacancy occurs to issue a proclamation calling for a special election.

That election must be held 75-90 days after the vacancy occurs. Political parties must wait at least

Street to traffic. At one point, Massachusetts Street was closed from 10th to 12th streets, and 11th Street was closed from Vermont to Rhode Island streets.

Around 11 a.m., Maren Ludwig said she was heading into Mass Street Soda, where she is a manager, to get a bit of work done before the shop opened at noon.

Ludwig said she saw the message written on the courthouse steps the day before and thought little of the graffiti.

“I just thought that given the current political climate, someone was upset,” she said.

As she neared the scene on Monday, however, Ludwig said police told her about the package and turned her around. She waited in the

oversight committee in November. But she also said that meeting occurred just two days after KDHE had received a preliminary report from CMS and so little information was included in the slide presentation she gave to committee members.

Minutes of that meeting and an online copy of the slide presentation show there was only a cursory mention that CMS had conducted an on-site visit, and there was little or no discussion about the specific findings.

Sen. Vicki Schmidt, RTopeka, who chairs the committee, said she was concerned that many people have received coverage and care under the plan only after going through lengthy appeals of their denials, and she asked Mosier to provide more specific information about the number of times KanCare denials have been overturned on appeal.

She also said there have been concerns that many providers have either stopped accepting KanCare patients, or have reduced the number of patients they receive and the number of hours per week they spend with KanCare patients, since Gov. Sam Brownback ordered a 4 percent cut in reimbursement rates last year as part of a package of allotment cuts to balance this year’s budget.

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nearby Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., to keep warm.

Considering the message and the newly discovered suspicious package, Ludwig said she thought to herself, “I bet the police are tying those two together.”

Later, Dymacek said that although investigators were unclear how long the box and the message had been on the steps, they did not believe the two were connected at all.

A bomb squad unit from Olathe, a K9 unit from Shawnee and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI arrived at the scene to help with the investigation. Lawrence law enforcement does not currently operate a bomb squad, so squads from other communities are brought in to assist with investigations.

Ultimately, the box was found to contain a number of magazines, Dymacek said.

More specifically, the

providers, out of more than 20,000, had completely withdrawn from KanCare since those cuts went into effect, and he said there was no evidence yet that patients are using the system less now than they did before the cuts.

Schmidt said after the meeting that it would take time to absorb all the information Mosier presented on Monday, but that many lawmakers still have serious concerns about the program.

“I think all of us have heard from advocacy groups, and certainly from individual patients and beneficiaries about issues in KanCare, and it’s very important that they be looked into,” Schmidt said.

Kelly, however, said she was “disappointed but not surprised” that Mosier spent so much time attacking CMS for its report.

“It’s sort of been the way they’ve operated the entire time the KanCare issue has been around,” she said.

“I hope that we don’t get distracted by that and we continue to get down to the problems.”

Mosier said the state would submit a corrective action plan by mid-February to address concerns raised in the CMS review and a new application to extend the program for another year would be submitted this spring.

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222. Follow him on Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

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magazines were the 2016 issue of Best of Lawrence. The courthouse is a distribution point for the magazine, and the box was left there to restock the courthouse’s supply, said Scott Stanford, publisher of the Journal-World, which sponsored the 2016 Best of Lawrence and published the magazine in partnership with Sunflower Publishing.

The Journal-World and Sunflower Publishing are owned by the same company.

Stanford said JournalWorld newspaper and magazine products often are deBIRTHS livered at night and the box Naomi Smith, Lawrence, of magazines was left on the courthouse steps because it a girl, Sunday.

Shaun and Jamie was delivered when the build- McPherson, Lawrence, a ing was closed. girl, Sunday.

Roads were reopened and workers were allowed to return to their businesses around 11:40 a.m.

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s promised, I’ve kept an eye on a recent survey from the city asking area residents about citizen oversight of the Lawrence Police Department, and it seems as though the majority of the several dozen people who participated would like to see a few changes.

If you haven’t been keeping up, let me see if I can give a brief summary of the situation.

Since about 2005, LPD has used a board called the Citizens’ Advisory Board for Fair and Impartial Policing. The group was originally launched as part of a statewide effort to review police department policies and procedures, especially relating to instances of racial profiling.

Currently, the board is responsible for examining annual police reports and already-completed

investigations into racial profiling complaints. In addition, the board will review use of force reports filed any time an officer uses a TASER. The board, however, has been willing to take on more responsibilities for some time.

Currently, the board does not accept complaints or reports themselves. Instead, complaints generally are filed directly with

Abortion foes pin their hopes on Trump

By John Hanna Associated Press

Topeka — Abortion opponents expressed optimism Monday that President Donald Trump’s early months in office would advance their cause as hundreds converged on the Kansas Statehouse to mark the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Trump, inaugurated Friday, has promised to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court with what he has called a “pro-life” justice and has said he would sign anti-abortion measures approved by the Republican-controlled Congress. Even as GOP governors and legislatures enacted a raft of new anti-abortion laws over the past decade, the movement faced a big obstacle from Democrat Barack Obama’s eight years as president.

“I have high expectations,” said Karin Capron, a 69-year-old retired chemist from the Kansas City suburb of Mission who has been active in the anti-abortion movement for more than four decades. “The more I hear about him (Trump), the more I think he can be very helpful to the prolife movement.”

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Longtime anti-abortion activists mixed with private school students and joined prominent state officials at the annual Rally for Life, one day after the 44th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade ruling.

The rally, which is regularly the largest annual political event at the Capitol in Topeka, was accompanied by worship services and workshops — a prelude

to the movement’s paramount event, the annual March for Life on Friday in Washington. The rally included prayers for Trump and seeking an end to abortion.

Trump on Monday reinstated a ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. The policy has been instituted by

Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since 1984.

The anti-abortion rally has drawn several thousand people to the Statehouse in the past; the crowd Monday had as many as 1,000 people.

But a women’s march and rally Saturday drew more than 3,000 people

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he University of Kansas hospital has endorsed proposed state legislation that would weaken the law allowing concealed guns on state university campuses starting this summer.

Specifically, the House bill would permanently exempt several types of health care facilities and colleges from the law that allows guns in public buildings, The Associated Press has reported. Otherwise, that exemption will expire July 1.

The hospital, in a statement released Thursday, said it — the state’s only academic hospital — would be exempted if the proposed bill passed.

If the bill does not pass, KU Hospital would be the only hospital in the Kansas City metropolitan area required to allow concealed guns.

KU Hospital president and CEO Bob Page said, in a video interview provided by the hospital, that would be a problem when competing for patients and staff. Also, he said, it would be dangerous.

“When people come to a hospital, they’re sick, they’re scared … so it’s a very high stress

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environment on a daily basis. The thought of adding guns to that environment is simply incomprehensible,” Page said.

Currently with its security system in place, the hospital does confiscate weapons — guns, knives and even swords — regularly, Page said.

Also, he reminded that in the 1980s, a resident was killed when someone with a rifle came into the emergency room and opened fire.

“The issue has nothing to do with gun rights or gun control,” the hospital statement said. “It is about the safety of our patients, visitors and staff.”

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

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Longtime KU professor, known for challenging his students, dies

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For years, Allan Cigler taught an entry-level honors political science class at the University of Kansas, which became a mini-pipeline of sorts for students aspiring to major in the field.

“After that class, out of 20 students we’d get 10 or 12 majors because he was so good,” said longtime colleague Burdett Loomis, also a KU professor of political science. “He loved the inter- Cigler action with new students, challenging them … he did see that he was shaping people who

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— many of them concerned about abortion rights.

Marilyn Ault, of Topeka, now 78, became an abortion rights supporter in the early 1960s after watching a friend recover from an illegal abortion.

Ault, who ran the local Battered Women’s Task Force, said she recalls fellow abortion-rights activists thinking after the Roe decision, “That was it, and we wouldn’t have to worry about it,” she said.

Capron, a lifelong Catholic, said she became active in the anti-abortion movement in 1973, following the decision, after seeing a slide show at a church that featured pictures of aborted fetuses. She’d just had a baby, and recalls, “I said, God,

would have terrific careers, and many of them have.”

Cigler, who spent his entire professional career at KU, died Jan. 13. He was 73.

Cigler was born in Braddock, Penn., according to his obituary. He got his bachelor’s degree from Thiel College (Greenville, Penn.), his master’s from the University of Maryland and his doctorate from Indiana University.

He started teaching at KU in 1970, and in 1992 was named a Chancellors Club Teaching Professor.

“Professor Cigler’s body of work as a researcher speaks for itself,

and it is even more notable given his tireless efforts as a teacher and a mentor who helped shape the minds of countless students during his 44 years at KU,” Bernadette Gray-Little, KU chancellor, said in a statement from the university.

Cigler did serve about 20 years as an undergraduate adviser for the political science department, Loomis said. Beyond that, he was not interested in climbing the administrative ladder.

“I think that he was pretty much constitutionally unwilling to do any more administration than represent undergraduates, which were really his passion,” Loomis said.

Cigler, who himself

I’ve got to do something.”

She has protested and handed out literature outside abortion clinics and staffed anti-abortion booths at fairs. She has marched to raise money for crisis pregnancy centers and worked as a pregnancy counselor.

Capron hopes Congress approves a measure to halt funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortions.

Another congressional proposal would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

At the state level, tough new restrictions on abortion are being pushed in numerous Republicancontrolled legislatures. For example, Ohio and Kentucky, within the past six weeks, have joined about 15 other states in banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Newly released data shows that the number of abortions in the U.S. fell to about 926,000 in

2014, the lowest level since 1974 — the year after the Roe v. Wade ruling. Reasons for the drop include the surge of abortion restrictions and the increased availability of effective contraceptives.

At the Kansas rally, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback touted the 17 anti-abortion measures he’d signed into law in six years in office.

“That doesn’t just happen,” he said. “It’s years of toil. It’s years of prayer.”

But Elise Higgins, a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said the group was encouraged by the turnout at Saturday’s rally and others across the nation.

“We know that reproductive rights are on the line now, and they’re not going anywhere without a huge fight,” she said.

— Also contributing was Associated Press writer David Crary in New York.

came from a workingpoor family, would probably be called “a little bit curmudgeonly” by a lot of people, Loomis said.

“He knew what he thought,” Loomis said, and he had high standards in the classroom — giving in to grade inflation less easily than many peers, but managing to still get good student reviews.

Mark Hansen, now a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, was in Cigler’s honors class in 1978.

“He had an enormous enthusiasm for his subject, and it was clear he genuinely enjoyed teaching and genuinely enjoyed students,” Hansen said.

Hansen said Cigler,

who advised his senior honors thesis, was the teacher who encouraged him to think about graduate school, then how best to prepare for it.

Years later, when Hansen helped establish KU Endowment’s Allan J. Cigler Fund for Academic Enrichment, he said he realized he was far from Cigler’s only grateful alumni.

“He had student after student after student whom he was just really committed to and went out of his way to help, and made a big difference in their lives,” Hansen said.

Cigler’s areas of expertise were American political parties and interest groups, topics on

which he published several books and many articles, including some co-authored with Loomis. Their first joint book was the reader “Interest Group Politics,” which is now in its ninth edition.

Loomis said Cigler, who retired from KU a couple years ago, suffered from a degenerative neurological disease.

According to his obituary, Cigler donated his body to the KU Medical Center.

Cigler is survived by his wife, Beth, and daughter, Kirsten Cigler Nelson. No public memorial services are planned.

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The new name represents the hospital’s consolidation with physicians and clinics of University of Kansas Physicians, and better

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the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, which investigates complaints of discrimination. It was also noted at least eight formal complaints were filed against the district within the past three years, five of which were either resolved or withdrawn.

The report was completed by the Center for Innovative School Leadership, and it includes various recommendations. One such recommendation is that the district should develop a plan to improve disproportionate representation of

describes services offered by the hospital for the past few years, according to the announcement.

It also includes partner relationships with Hays Medical Center, Stormont Vail in Topeka, North Kansas City Hospital, Cornerstones of Care at Marillac and KVC Behavioral Health.

“We see patients from every county in Kansas, almost all counties in Missouri and all

students of color in special education programs, and establish a goal that no group will be more than two times discrepant. It’s also recommended that the district set clear entry and exit guidelines for the program.

There are various special education categories, including learning disabled, intellectually disabled, developmentally delayed and emotionally disturbed, as well as autism and other disabilities. The 42-page summary report does not list the exact figures for each race and the specific special education program categories that students of color were more likely to be placed in.

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and parents about the quality of the district’s special education program. Those results were mixed. For instance, 58 percent of the administrators feel there are recurring special education issues that need to be resolved. At the same time, of the parents surveyed, 71 percent believe their child is receiving educational services that help them improve academically.

In addition to the “discrepant” placement of students of color, some survey results indicated that teachers felt they needed more training in special education. District

independently governed and does not receive tax appropriations.

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officials said they realized that we know we need to teachers and our parents there were improvements work on, but we do believe that we can solve some of that needed to be made. that working with our these,” Harrell said.

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Trump’s games are dangerous The new president’s attempts to distract and discredit the press with ‘alternative facts’ are alarming and must be resisted.

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resident Donald Trump is good at playing games. This should not come as a surprise. Someone who previously made his living ensuring the public had an adequate supply of slot machines understands games better than most of us.

This fact was clear the first full day of Trump’s presidency. He got in a dispute with the media about the size of his Inauguration Day crowd. What silliness. The comments made by his press secretary were easily refuted by photographic evidence.

You may think this dispute is a sign the president isn’t so good with games after all. If he’s making statements that are easily proven false, that doesn’t sound so smart. Perhaps the president is simply thin skinned. But that may be underestimating the president, which many already have done to great peril.

More likely, the president picked this fight as part of a specific strategy in a longer game he is playing. Here are two possibilities: The “distraction” strategy: The more time we spend talking about the inauguration crowds, the less time we spend talking about more substantive matters, such as the recently signed executive order that may allow the IRS to ignore the Obamacare law charging a tax penalty to the uninsured. An executive order that essentially erases congressional action is more substantive than the inauguration crowd, but Trump is betting he can use the trivial to divert attention from the substantive. Magicians call it sleight of hand.

The “discredit the press” strategy: The dispute could be the opening salvo in Trump’s media war, in which the administration tries to blur the line between fake news and accurate and unbiased reporting by credible, long-standing news organizations. If Trump can successfully convince the public that the media can’t be trusted, then who needs the White House press corps? The Trump administration can simply issue its daily version of the news.

For evidence, look at this new phrase, “alternative facts,” that became a part of the American lexicon last weekend.

When Trump strategist Kellyanne Conway uttered the phrase to describe the president’s rationale for debating the inauguration estimates, it became clear that a Trump goal is to sow seeds of doubt around routine facts that might be unfavorable to the administration. Such a world is to the advantage of a president who may intend to practice more gamesmanship than statesmanship.

Expect more disputes to come, and don’t think they’ll be limited to the press.

The president is involved in a game, and the press is just one piece on his board.

Congress, the Supreme Court, major industries and foreign powers are all subject to the manipulation efforts.

But the most powerful piece on the board is the public.

The public must push back, especially Trump supporters. After all, you certainly don’t have to embrace “alternative facts” to believe that Washington is broken and swamp-like.

The only countries where an administration would attempt to peddle “alternative facts” are dictatorships where the press is an extension of the state. Those who can’t see that are the perfect pawns in the game Trump is playing.

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What the Lawrence Journal-World stands for Accurate and fair news reporting.

No mixing of editorial opinion with reporting of the news. l Safeguarding the rights of all citizens regardless of race, creed or economic stature. l Sympathy and understanding for all who are disadvantaged or oppressed. l Exposure of any dishonesty in public affairs. l Support of projects that make our community a better place to live. l l

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Cooperstown: Museum or shrine?

Washington — Many Americans are more thoughtful when choosing appliances than when choosing presidents, but the baseball writers whose ballots decide who is “enshrined” — more about that verb anon — in Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame are mostly conscientious voters struggling to unravel a knotty puzzle: How to treat retired players who are known or suspected to have used performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) while compiling gaudy numbers?

Such chemicals increase muscle mass, thereby increasing hitters’ bat speeds, pitchers’ velocities, and recovery from the strain of training and competing.

On Wednesday, two highly probable users, Roger Clemens (third-most career strikeouts, seven Cy Young awards) and Barry Bonds (career and season home run records, seven MVP awards) reached 54.1 percent and 53.8 percent, respectively, up from 45.2 percent and 44.3 percent last year and approaching the 75 percent threshold for admission. Only three players have reached 50 percent without eventually being admitted (Jack Morris, Gil Hodges, Lee Smith).

Cooperstown’s administrators — it is not run

by Major League Baseball — and the writers-cumgatekeepers must decide what the institution is. Its title — the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum — implies that the hall containing the players’ plaques is somehow apart from and other than the museum. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “museum” as where

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PEDs mock the idea that winning is a just reward for praiseworthy behavior — submission to an exacting training regimen and the mental mastery of pressure, pain and exhaustion.” “objects of historical, scientific, artistic or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.” A “shrine” contains “memorabilia of a particular revered person or thing.”

Cooperstown stipulates that “voting shall be based upon the player’s record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played.”

Some players’ records reflect abilities enhanced by acts of bad character — surreptitious resorts to disreputable chemistry that traduces sportsmanship. But as younger writers who did not cover baseball during the PED era become Hall of Fame voters, the electorate is becoming less interested in disqualifying PED users.

These writers should, however, consider why PEDs matter.

They subvert the central

idea of sport: athletes competing on equal terms. Distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate athletic enhancement can be complex: The body produces testosterone and human growth hormone (HGH) that are components of some potent PEDs. Enhancements improve performance without devaluing it only if they involve methods and materials (e.g., better training and nutrition) that help the body perform unusually rather than unnaturally well.

PEDs mock the idea that winning is a just reward for praiseworthy behavior — submission to an exacting training regimen and the mental mastery of pressure, pain and exhaustion. Drugs that make sport exotic make it less exemplary; they drain sport of admirable excellence, which elevates spectators as well as competitors.

Beyond this civic interest in honest athletics, there is a matter of justice. Many former ballplayers missed having major league careers, or longer major league careers with larger contracts, because they competed honestly against cheating opponents, or lost playing time to cheating teammates. These handicapped-because-honorable players could have leveled the playing field only by using dangerous PEDs, thereby jeopardizing their physical and mental health and forfeiting their integrity.

And consider Fred McGriff, who in 19 sterling seasons during the steroid era hit 493 home runs, seven short of the 500 mark that has generally opened Cooperstown’s doors to eligible

players (retired five years) not suspected of PED use.

There is no suspicion that McGriff used PEDs, and if he had he certainly would have hit many more than seven additional home runs.

The closest he has come to Cooperstown’s 75 percent is 23.9 percent in 2012. (He received 21.7 percent Wednesday.) And there are players in Cooperstown whose careers were enhanced by amphetamines, which once were ubiquitous in baseball but now are banned.

Until baseball’s steroid parenthesis, only one demarcation had disrupted the game’s continuity, that between the dead ball era and, beginning around 1920, the live ball era. The parenthesis has been closed, although the financial incentives to cheat are such that there always will be sinister chemists competing to concoct PEDs that defeat the efforts of other chemists to detect them. The incentives can, however, be decisively reordered by sufficiently severe penalties, which almost all players would favor.

If Cooperstown is content, as perhaps it should be, to be merely a museum — not a negligible thing — then Bonds and Clemens belong there as important elements of the game’s story, and their story should be candidly told on their plaques. If, however, Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the Hall’s ethic. America has never more urgently needed the insistence that real success must be honorably achieved.

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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Merger facts To the editor: Better Together? I have seen several full page ads endorsing the KCPL and Westar merger. I read that there will be nearly $2 billion in savings over a five- to 10-year period. I also see testimonials in support and letters of support headed by the likes of Gov. Sam Brownback, Senate President Susan Wagle and former Speaker of the House Ray Merrick, as well as a number of chamber of commerce and economic development councils.

However, I notice that there are not any Douglas or Wyandotte County organizations listed. Why? I urge the Journal-World and other credible newspapers to list the advantages and disadvantages of the merger. Advertisements from the two parties of the merger are not informative.

Richard Sengpiehl, Lawrence

Complacent state To the editor: Don’t buy the apparently carved-in-stone rhetoric about blue states and red states. Be engaged, ignore the “norms.”

Kansas had 1,817,920 registered voters.

Registered voters. That means there are even more people still wandering around that are eligible. The census estimates the total number of eligible voters to be

approximately 2,074,102.

According to the Kansas secretary of state, 1,225,667 Kansans voted in the presidential election.

That’s about 59 percent of all the people who were of age and eligible to vote. Between those who were registered and didn’t vote and those who were eligible but didn’t register, that’s a total of approximately 848,435 Kansans.

As a reminder, Kansas vote totals in the presidential election were: Trump, 671,018; Clinton, 427,005; Johnson, 55,406; Stein, 23,506.

Your vote doesn’t matter? Kansas is a red state? The 848,435 people in Kansas that stayed home could have sent this state’s electoral votes to any of these four. Kansas is not a red state. Or a blue state. It is a complacent state, a symptom it shares with 49 others and D.C. It is a state that suffers from the disease of ever-changing voter registration laws.

Pay attention and make your voice heard.

T.J. Henderson, Lawrence

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fewer. l Letters can be submitted via mail to P.O. Box 888, Lawrence KS 66044 or via email at letters@ljworld.com.

From the Kansas Daily Tribune for Jan. years 24, 1867: ago l “The ice IN 1867 bridge across the Kaw continues as firm as ever, and heavily loaded teams are crossing in great numbers. Wood is being brought in, in great quantities, and the price has fallen slightly. Now is the time to secure a good supply.” l “There is quite a general complaint of dull times in business, from all parts of the country. Strangers visiting here, say there is no town that gives so many evidences of prosperity, or exhibits more business activity, than Lawrence. With the railroad building south from here, and the immigration it will induce to this point, we shall have busy times here in the spring.”

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 24, 1917: years l “A robber ago who stole a IN 1917 nearly new Ford car from John Hunzicker at 900 Maine street last night got away clean with the machine without creating any suspicion on the neighborhood. Before going he helped himself liberally to Mr. Hunzicker’s stock of gasoline, as if in preparation for a journey of considerable length. The robbery took place some time after 10 o’clock. It was at that time last night that Mr. Hunzicker returned from a trip to Eudora in his car. He drained the radiator and put the car away for the night.

An aluminum pan which the thief probably used to fill the radiator was found in the alley this morning. Before the car had been taken away the tank had been filled with gasoline.

It was thought probable that the car had been pushed some distance by hand.”

— Reprinted with permission from Sarah St. John. To see more, go online to www.facebook.com/ DailyLawrenceHistory.

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participants feel the city should use an electronic/ online form for complaints. l 74.4 percent feel complaint forms should be placed in public locations. l 62.8 percent feel officers should make forms available upon request. l 67.4 percent of participants feel the citizens’ advisory board should be able to receive complaints directly. l 72.1 percent feel those who complain should be able to request the citizens’ advisory board review complaints of biased-based policing. l 81.4 percent feel the citizens’ board should be able to make recommendations to the city manager, if necessary. l 90 percent of participants feel body cameras

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also asked whether LPD should introduce body cameras and collect data on race for each call to services, and whether a sergeant position should be added to “manage professional standards and accountability.”

In all, 43 people took the survey. Some also offered comments, which are available for review online. Some comments come from anonymous users; other participants offered their names.

Just like the survey, I’ll go down the list one statistic at a time: l 93 percent of

should be implemented. l 65 percent feel race data should be collected for calls to services. l 62.5 percent feel LPD should add a sergeant position to “manage professional standards and accountability.” l 90 percent feel the city should use independent audits to “examine police department practices and findings of internal investigations.”

Those who are interested in reading the comments can head over to lawrenceks.org and scope them out. Some comments call for dramatic changes; others place a great deal of faith in the LPD. — This is an excerpt from Conrad Swanson’s Lights & Sirens column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

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Trump targets trade deal, abortion

Among executive actions: Withdrawing the U.S. from Trans-Pacific Partnership Gregory Korte @gregorykorte USA TODAY

WASHINGTON President Trump signed three presidential directives Monday, withdrawing U.S. support for a Pacific trade deal, imposing a hiring freeze in civilian agencies, and restoring the socalled Mexico City policy that prohibits U.S. aid from supporting international groups that promote abortion.

Along with an executive order signed Friday on Obamacare, Trump’s first-week executive actions signal a U-turn from Obama administration policies.

“Everybody knows what I’m about to do,” Trump said before withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal signed by the Obama administration but not ratified by the Senate. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time. A great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”

When Chief of Staff Reince

President Trump holds up an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the TransPacific Partnership after signing it alongside White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

“We’ve been talking about this for a long time. A great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”

President Trump

Priebus handed him a memorandum directing a hiring freeze, Trump emphasized, “except for the military.” The hiring freeze is in line with similar actions taken

by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in their first days in office. Obama did not order a SAUL LOEB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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After bolting TPP, Trump will focus on jobs

Priority is to slow tide of jobs leaving U.S.

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Spicer: Media too negative toward Trump

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TORNADOES SET DEADLY MARK IN THE SOUTHEAST At least 16 killed in worst January day since 1969

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The Southeast took stock Monday of the wide swath of destruction wrought by the deadliest January day for tornadoes in 48 years.

With 16 deaths, Sunday became the USA’s worst January day for tornadoes since Jan. 22, 1969, when 32 people died, ac-

Dozens of tornadoes were reported through the weekend at a time of year when storms of such power and destruction are rare. cording to the Storm Prediction Center.

Such destructive storms are rare for January, and Sunday’s storm was particularly deadly,

killing 15 people in Georgia and one in Florida. It was also the deadliest day overall since April 27, 2014. Four people were killed Saturday in another tornado in Mississippi.

January 2017 is now the second-deadliest January for tornadoes in the U.S. since accurate records began in 1950. Only January 1969 had more.

Survey teams were examining damage Monday to determine

A rescue worker searches for survivors in the wreckage of a mobile home Monday after a tornado ripped through Albany, Ga.

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USA’s newest satellite: ‘Hi-def from the heavens’ GOES-16, a revolution in weather science, sends its first images Doyle Rice

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The USA’s newest weather satellite — GOES-16 — has sent back its first images of our planet, federal scientists announced Monday.

The photos are of weather and Earth in high detail — at four

GOES-16 captured this view of the moon from the satellite’s position 22,000 miles above the equator earlier this month.

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times the image resolution of existing spacecraft. It’s like “high-definition from the heavens,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement.

GOES stands for geostationary operational environmental satellite.

“This is such an exciting day for NOAA,” says Stephen Volz, the director of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service.

“One of our GOES-16 scientists compared this to seeing a newborn baby’s first pictures — it’s that exciting for us. ... These images come from the most sophis-

ticated technology ever flown in space to predict severe weather on Earth.”

And it’s fast: The satellite can scan the entire Western Hemisphere in just five minutes.

“It will revolutionize how severe-weather forecasting is done,” says meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics.

The school-bus-size satellite, known as GOES-R when it was launched in November, is in a geosynchronous orbit of Earth.

This means it hovers in the same spot above the planet, about 22,000 miles above the equator, and matches Earth’s rotation.

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After TPP, Trump to focus on jobs Opinions split on effect pact would have had on growth Roger Yu

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership was pitched as fuel for American exporters in their global competition.

President Trump, by signing an executive order Monday to abandon the TPP, demonstrated that his priority is to slow the tide of jobs leaving the United States and experiment with other protectionist measures before providing a leg-up to American companies seeking cheaper labor abroad.

The order on his first working day as president reverses decades of pro-trade policies pursued by his predecessors, who argued such deals boost U.S. exports, open markets for American companies and lead to more jobs.

Trump argues these trade deals are costing U.S. workers their jobs, and that the TPP is filled with too many concessions to other nations The TPP is a trade pact among 12 Pacific Rim countries, excluding China, that was signed last year by President Obama after seven years of negotiation. But

the Senate had not yet ratified it.

The 30-chapter pact, which also needed to be ratified by other countries before Trump’s order Monday, aims to boost exports, remove tariffs, open access to more markets and usher in transparency in trade rules.

Other countries part of the TPP are Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Singapore and New Zealand. The pact “levels the playing field by setting the highest enforceable standards and by removing barriers to selling our goods overseas,” Obama wrote last year in an editorial for The Washington Post.

A key selling pitch by Obama was that agreement would remove more than 18,000 tariffs that have hampered U.S. companies from selling their products in foreign countries. The TPP also includes rules about environmental standards, labor practices, the influence of state-owned enterprises, trade disputes, e-commerce policies, intellectual property protection and anti-corruption measures.

ARGUMENT AGAINST TPP

Labor unions that oppose the deal are primarily concerned that the TPP inhibits domestic investment, particularly in manufacturing, by offering benefits to U.S. companies that relocate operations and jobs abroad. They say it

The TPP would have removed more than 18,000 taxes that have hindered the sale of U.S. products in foreign countries. also loosens restrictions on foreign companies that export to the United States, hurting domestic competitors.

For example, the agreement with South Korea requires that only 35% of the parts of products coming into the U.S. duty-free originate in Korea, which means the majority of parts could come from China or other places, according to the Communications Workers of America.

The TPP could be used as a “backdoor” for Chinese products to come into the U.S. duty-free and hurt domestic competitors, it said.

About 448,000 U.S. jobs could be lost if the TPP were enacted, according to a study by Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute.

Critics also say the TPP would be the latest in a string of failed trade policies that have contributed to wage stagnation in the U.S. Working-class Americans already lose about $1,800 annually because wages have been depressed by companies choosing to operate in countries with lower wages, according to the leftleaning Economic Policy Institute. “It’s a race to the bottom on wages,” said Robert E. Scott, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute.

Obama has countered that the TPP offers benefits that would touch many sectors of the U.S. economy. “Building walls to isolate ourselves from the global economy would only isolate us from the incredible opportunities it provides,” he said.

Jeffrey Frankel, professor of capital formation and growth at Harvard Kennedy School, said in an editorial for The Boston Globe that the TPP reduces tariffs and quotas. “It is true that the United States will not be lowering many such import barriers under TPP because we don’t have many,” he said. “But other members around the Pacific Rim have lots. TPP will lower their trade barriers.”

A NEUTRAL ASSESSMENT

In a report last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission, a non-partisan federal agency, had a more optimistic outlook, saying

the agreement would result in a net increase of 128,000 full-time jobs in 15 years.

But the agency estimated that the TTP would boost U.S. gross domestic product only by a modest 0.15%, or $42.7 billion, by 2032.

Output in manufacturing, natural resources, and energy would drop of 0.1%, with the TPP agreement in place, the agency predicted. In 15 years, output would grow 0.5% in the agriculture industry and 0.1% in the services sector, the ITC said.

The ITC concluded that the TPP would contribute to modest growth in American companies’ business abroad. U.S. exports and U.S. imports are projected to grow by 1% and 1.1%, respectively, in 15 years as a result of the TPP. The ITC said some details of the agreement — such as rules for protecting data flows and establishing standards for customs, sanitary conditions and intellectual property rights — would be more difficult to quantify but be just as beneficial to U.S. exporters.

“TPP would generally establish trade-related disciplines that strengthen and harmonize regulations, increase certainty, and decrease trade costs for firms that trade and invest in the TPP region,” the ITC said.

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how many tornadoes hit Georgia, the length of their path and their strength. The tornadoes and storms left dozens injured and destroyed homes, businesses and communities.

President Trump pledged to aid Georgia’s recovery.

“I just spoke with Gov. Nathan Deal,” Trump said at the White House. “Georgia is a great state, great people. … The tornadoes were vicious and powerful and strong, and they suffered greatly.

So we’ll be helping out the state of Georgia.” The president also expressed condolences for victims in surrounding states.

Deal declared a state of emergency Monday for 16 Georgia counties. He added that “all indications suggest” a request would be made for federal assistance.

“These storms have devastated communities and homes in south central Georgia, and the state is making all resources available,” Deal said.

About 4,700 Georgia residents were without power as of Monday evening, the state’s emergency management agency said.

There were 37 preliminary reports of tornadoes from Friday through Sunday, said Patrick Marsh, warning-coordination meteorologist with the prediction center. An average January sees only 21 tornadoes. The all-time record number of January tornadoes is 212, set in 1999.

There is no more danger of severe weather or tornadoes anywhere in the USA for at least the next several days, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Elsewhere Monday, separate storms were slamming California and the Northeast with heavy rain and snow and howling winds.

Flood watches and warnings were in effect from San Francisco to San Diego, and high-wind watches and warnings were posted in New England and portions

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Aretha Allen lost two members of her family in a tornado that devastated a mobile home park Sunday in Adel, Ga.

of the Mid-Atlantic coast as a potent nor’easter cranked up.

A hurricane-force wind warning was in effect for the waters south of Long Island, where gusts of up to 74 mph were forecast, the National Weather Service said, calling it “a dangerous storm for mariners.”

“The wind along with the drenching rain and soft soil could knock down trees and power

lines,” AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rathbun said. “The coastal flood threat will be greatest at times of high tide.”

Ferry service was halted Monday between Cape Cod and Nantucket in Massachusetts as wind gusts to 60 mph were expected.

Snow was forecast for interior portions of the Northeast, where winter storm warnings were in effect. One to 2 inches of rain was forecast from Pittsburgh to Washington, New York and Boston by Tuesday night, AccuWeather said.

In the West, yet another storm walloped California Sunday and Monday, dumping rain along the coast and a couple of feet of snow in the mountains. Two to 4 inches of rain fell on coastal Southern California on Sunday alone, which had first responders busy setting up roadblocks, rescuing people from the water, clearing debris and repairing power lines, AccuWeather said.

Mammoth Mountain, a ski area in the Sierra, announced Monday that it set a record for its snowiest month on record, according to its website. So far in January, the ski area has picked up more than 20 feet of snow, “and it’s STILL DUMPING!,” Mammoth announced Monday.

After lingering storms Tuesday, dry weather will settle over much of the western U.S. for the middle and latter part of this week and will stretch into early next week, AccuWeather said.

hiring freeze, but only a pay freeze for senior members of the White House staff.

The White House did not immediately release the text of the directives, but Trump held up the trade order for a photo opportunity.

“It is the policy of my administration to represent the American people and their financial well-being in all negotiations, particularly the American worker,” the memorandum said, according to an Agence France-Presse/Getty Images photo.

None of the directives were executive orders, but rather presidential memoranda. Known as “executive orders by another name,” presidential memoranda became President Obama’s executive power tool of choice, signing more of them than any president in history.

Trump ordered that all future trade deals be negotiated individually, country-to-country, and not part of regional trade pacts.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said it “ushers in a new era of trade policy,” and represents “a strong signal that the Trump administration wants free and fair trade around the world.”

The Mexico City policy, referred to as the “global gag rule” by abortion rights groups, was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been subject to presidential ping-pong ever since.

Democratic presidents repeal it as one of their first acts in office; Republicans reinstate it.

The text of President Trump’s Mexico City policy was not immediately available, but Bush’s version ordered that “taxpayer funds appropriated pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act should not be given to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.”

Spicer said the policy was intended to prevent “coercive abortion and forced sterilization practices.”

“The president has made it no secret that he’s a pro-life president,” he said. He cast the decision as both a question of protecting life and taxpayer money.

Trump already signed his first executive order on Friday, directing agencies to allow more flexibility to states, companies and consumers in carrying out the Affordable Care Act while the Republican-controlled Congress works to repeal it.

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Senate panel approves Tillerson for State ‘Reluctant’ Rubio makes it 11-10 to advance nomination Oren Dorell and Ledyard King USA TODAY

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WASHINGTON Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson won approval Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to become President Trump’s secretary of State, paving the way for confirmation by the full Senate.

The committee voted 11-10, along party lines, for Tillerson, whose nomination for the post has been controversial because of his close dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Tillerson prevailed after Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., announced he would reluctantly support former oil company executive despite reservations about his ties to Russia.

Rubio told the committee his concern was that Tillerson will “pursue a foreign policy of dealmaking at the expense of human rights and democracy.”

During a sometimes tense confirmation hearing Jan. 11, Rubio called Tillerson’s answers “troubling” and “discouraging” when he refused to agree that Russia and Syria’s aggressive actions were war crimes or that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s extradjudicial killings were human rights violations.

Republicans hold a one-seat advantage on the panel, so a “no” vote would have blemished Trump’s choice to run the State Department.

Rubio’s decision to endorse Tillerson was probably made easier by the announcement Sunday that two other Tillerson skeptics — Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — would favor Tillerson. In a joint statement, both said Tillerson “can be an effective advocate for U.S.

Rex Tillerson, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won the panel’s approval Monday.

“So many times he qualified (his responses) that he sounded like a business person, not like a secretary of State.”

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who voted no

interests.”

Rubio wrote a lengthy Facebook post explaining that he would vote for Tillerson: “Given the uncertainty that exists both at home and abroad about the direction of our foreign policy, it would be against our national interests to have this confirmation unnecessarily delayed or embroiled in controversy.”

Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the panel, said he opposed Tillerson’s nomination because “the fundamental role of a secretary of State is to promote American values.” He said Tillerson would not answer questions about whether he supported sanctions or whether development assistance should be contingent on human rights.

“So many times he qualified (his responses) that he sounded like a business person, not like a secretary of State,” Cardin said.

Cardin said Tillerson lacked the passion for human rights shown by other Trump nominees, such as South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, picked to be ambassador to the United Nations, and James Mattis, who was confirmed Fri-

day as secretary of Defense.

“There was disappointment with the way Mr. Tillerson responded to some of our questions, although it may have been consistent with President Trump,” Cardin said.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said he respects Tillerson’s experience, but his world views don’t support a tradition of promoting U.S. values such as protecting human rights and enforcing the rule of law.

“It is not the type of moral clarity I would like a secretary of State to espouse,” Menendez said.

Menendez also said he did not think Tillerson was forthcoming in his answers about ExxonMobil’s lobbying against sanctions.

Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., noted that Tillerson was an engineer by training and was cautious in some of his answers because he “probably doesn’t know the person he’s about to work for very well.”

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, voted in favor of Tillerson, saying he was impressed by his commitment to support NATO allies and to protect them if they come under attack. Those comments from Tillerson were at odds with Trump, who as a candidate said he would consider allies’ contributions to their own defense before ordering U.S. troops to defend them.

Democrats had criticized Rubio for what they see as caving to Trump.

“By ignoring his serious reservations about Tillerson’s connections to Vladimir Putin, Marco Rubio is not only rolling over for Donald Trump, he’s earning the nickname Trump gave him: Little Marco,” said Zac Petkanas, a senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee.

Rubio had been pressed by a number of influential Republicans in recent weeks to back Tillerson, including former vice president Dick Cheney. If he voted against Tillerson, Rubio would be tagged as the chief antagonist against his own party’s president.

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White House urges media to back off its ‘negative narrative’ First press briefing suggests new protocol David Jackson @djusatoday USA TODAY

After a weekend blowup about inaugural crowd sizes, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that reporters are too negative toward President Trump — part of an initial media briefing that revealed a new approach to choosing questioners and the Trump administration’s desire to get credit for its early work in office.

“It’s not about one tweet, it’s not about one picture — it’s about a constant theme ... the default narrative is always negative, and it’s demoralizing,” Spicer said in his first formal briefing as presidential spokesman.

Spicer also announced a new effort to bring new types of reporters into the briefing: four daily “Skype seats” in the press room, available to journalists from outlets not based in Washington.

The new press secretary joked and jousted with reporters about the tense start to Trump White House relations with the press — a short and combative statement he read to reporters late Saturday afternoon about their coverage of WASHINGTON

the size of the crowds for Trump’s inauguration Friday.

Seeking to leaven any remaining tension, Spicer opened the proceedings Monday by saying, “I was going to start with a recap of the inauguration, but I think we’ve covered that pretty well.”

Inauguration questions still surfaced, however, and Spicer defended his claim that Trump had the most-watched inauguration in history, as well as his approach to his new job as press secretary.

“It’s an honor to do this, and, yes, I believe that we have to be honest with the American people,” the veteran Republican Party spokesman said. “I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. ... But our intention’s never to lie to you.”

Fact-checkers bashed Spicer for his statement Saturday that “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe” — even though aerial photographs showed much fewer people for Trump than for newly sworn-in President Obama eight years ago.

In his briefing Monday, Spicer said Trump’s frustration with the crowd-size story reflects his frustration with what he called a trend: “The default narrative is always negative.”

Lawsuit filed over foreign payments to Trump firms

IN BRIEF

Fredreka Schouten @fschouten USA TODAY

ALESSANDRO DI MEO, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Rescuers carry three puppies found alive Monday in the rubble of the Rigopiano Hotel in Abruzzo, Italy. The sheepdog puppies are said to be in good health after being buried in the snow for nearly five days after an avalanche buried the hotel.

3 PUPPIES FOUND ALIVE IN AVALANCHE-HIT HOTEL

Rescuers digging out an Italian hotel buried by an avalanche discovered three puppies that survived for five days, raising hopes for more than 20 people still missing in the wall of snow.

Search teams have been working around the clock since Wednesday, when up to 16 feet of snow careened down a mountain and engulfed the Rigopiano Hotel near the resort town of Farindola.

Central Italy had been slammed with as much as 3 feet of falling snow when a series of severe earthquakes rocked the region, triggering the avalanche.

The discovery of the shaggy Abruzzo sheepdog pups means pockets of air could remain in the collapsed, luxury hotel. “It’s an important sign of life, which gives us hope,” firefighter Fabio Jerman told Agence France-Presse.

— John Bacon TALKS ON SYRIA’S CIVIL WAR OFF TO A SLOW START

Talks between the Syrian government and representatives of rebel factions got off to a rocky start Monday after their first face-to-face meeting in Kazakhstan that marked a major shift in the war’s dynamics and confirmed Russia’s role as regional heavyweight.

The gathering in Astana, the

Kazakh capital, is the latest in a long line of diplomatic initiatives aimed at ending the nearly 6year-old civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced half of Syria’s population.

The talks are focused on shoring up a shaky cease-fire declared Dec. 30, not on reaching a larger political settlement. Syria’s bitter divide was on vivid display as the delegates emerged from a closed, hour-long session marked by cold glances and sharp exchanges.

After an opening ceremony, both sides split and did not meet face-to-face again. The meeting later concluded until Tuesday.

— The Associated Press LONDON AIR POLLUTION AT ‘VERY HIGH’ LEVEL

Cold, still weather in London prompted the mayor to issue a “very high” air pollution alert for the first time Monday, while thick freezing fog caused numerous flight delays and cancellations at London Heathrow and other area airports.

The air monitoring team at King’s College London said pollution in the capital was at “black,” the highest level, meaning people should reduce physical exertion outdoors. It said the cold weather and absence of wind allowed emissions across the whole of southeast England to build up over the weekend.

— The Associated Press

WASHINGTON A liberal watchdog group filed a lawsuit Monday, contending that President Trump is violating the Constitution by continuing to accept payments from foreign governments at the businesses operated by his family.

“It was our hope that President Trump would take the necessary steps to avoid violating the Constitution before he took office,” said Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. “He did not. His constitutional violations are immediate and serious, so we were forced to take legal action.”

Asked about the lawsuit Monday, Trump said it was “without merit.”

At the heart of the suit: The foreign “emoluments clause” of the Constitution, which bans payments or gifts from foreign governments to the president without congressional approval.

This month, Trump and his lawyer Sheri Dillon said he was surrendering management of the company to his two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and a longtime Trump Organization executive. They plan to operate the businesses through a trust and will add an ethics adviser to review deals.

Trump, however, still retains ownership of his businesses.

At a news conference announcing Trump’s business plan, Dillon argued that the emoluments clause doesn’t apply to fair market value transactions for goods and services.

The lawsuit, filed in New York, seeks to stop Trump from taking payments from foreign governments. CREW’s lawyers in the case include prominent constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe, along with Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, who served as top White House ethics lawyers for President Obama and President George W. Bush, re-

ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAY

Before becoming president, Donald Trump revealed his plan to transfer his businesses to his sons. Yet he retains ownership.

“This lawsuit simply asks the federal court to enforce the Constitution and reaffirm that no person, not even the President, is above the law.”

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean, University of California-Irvine School of Law

spectively.

Eisen and Painter hold leadership roles at CREW, which had until recently been overseen by David Brock, a top supporter of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidency.

Several other constitutional scholars are part of the CREW lawsuit, including Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California-Irvine School of Law. “There is no doubt that President Trump has been violating the Constitution since he took the oath of office,” Chemerinsky said in a statement. “This lawsuit simply asks the federal court to enforce the Constitution and reaffirm that no person, not even the President, is above the law.”

Eric Trump told The New York

Times, the lawsuit was “harassment for political gain.”

The scope of emoluments clause has not been fully tested in court. In the lawsuit, CREW officials argue that they have endured harm because they have had to shift resources to investigate and respond to media inquiries about Trump’s activities, limiting their ability to pursue other parts of their mission.

A slew of liberal groups are looking for ways to challenge Trump on potential conflicts of interest.

On Friday, for instance, the American Civil Liberties Union announced it had filed Freedom of Information Act requests for communications between Trump’s team and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, the Office of Government Ethics and the General Services Administration. The General Services Administration oversees the lease Trump’s company holds on the federal building that houses the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington.

Other groups have talked openly of trying to persuade a business competitor — such as a rival hotelier who has lost foreign embassy clients to Trump’s hotel — to take legal action.

Contributing: David Jackson

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L awrence J ournal -W orld - USA TODAY TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017

AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch

STORY STOCKS Price: $18.40 Day’s high: $18.75

Will rising interest rates weigh on home sales?

Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

Aside from expensive ask prices, nothing turns off a potential home buyer more than rising interest rates, as the higher the mortgage rate the higher the monthly mortgage payment.

Higher rates also impact affordability, as more expensive borrowing costs often force home buyers to purchase a cheaper home or downside from a singlefamily home to, say, a condo.

That’s why Tuesday’s report on December existing home sales and Thursday’s on new home sales will be watched closely by Wall Street.

Sales of existing homes in the final month of 2016 are seen coming in at an annualized rate

of 5.53 million units, below the 5.61 million homes sold in November 2016, according to Bespoke Investment Group. A small drop in December sales of new homes also is seen. Economists forecast 585,000 new homes were sold last month, down from 592,000 in November 2016.

December saw a sharp rise in mortgage rates as investors began to price in higher rates after the Federal Reserve hiked short-term rates for the only time in 2016 at its December meeting.

The rate on a conforming 30year fixed-rate mortgage climbed as high as 4.45% in December, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, its highest level since spring 2014.

The big question now: Can an improving economy, more jobs and higher worker pay offset the downside of higher rates on home purchases going forward?

% chg 3.6%

Price: $9.18

-6.11

-2.39

CLOSE: 19,799.85 PREV. CLOSE: 19,827.25 RANGE: 19,732.36-19,833.98

CHANGE: -.3% YTD: +26.37 YTD % CHG: +1.2%

% chg 2.8%

Price: $12.31

-4.01

CLOSE: 5,552.94 PREV. CLOSE: 5,555.33 RANGE: 5,522.69-5,564.14

$8

Low: $12.22

% chg -0.5%

Dec. 27

Jan. 23

4-WEEK TREND $15

The automaker turned 2017 into a losing year as it extended a losing streak ahead of an earnings call Thursday. Years of rising sales led to more used cars, which has started to depress prices. Ford shaved $300 million from its profit forecast.

Change -$0.06

$9.18

$10

Ford

$12.31 $12

Dec. 27

Jan. 23

19,799.85

20,000

Company (ticker symbol)

CF Industries (CF) Positive company note after double upgrade.

Waters (WAT) Shares rise ahead of earnings call.

17,500

July

RUSSELL 2000 INDEX

Price

$ Chg

YTD % Chg % Chg

45.99

+1.66

+3.7 +28.0

35.25

+1.05

+3.1

+12.0

145.28 +3.84

+2.7

+8.1

+2.5

+2.6

Newmont Mining (NEM) Positive company note, shares climb.

35.88

+.84

+2.4

+5.3

205.02 +4.49

+2.2

Jan.

July

+2.2

-2.9

Alphabet A (GOOGL) 844.43 +16.26 Shares climb as company rehires Yoky Matsuoka.

+2.0

+6.6

Wynn Resorts (WYNN) Paradise Beach to bring in more traffic.

92.64

+1.82

+2.0

+7.1

Alphabet C (GOOG) Shares climb along with sibling stock.

819.31 +14.29

+1.8

+6.2

Price

$ Chg

YTD % Chg % Chg

54.88

-8.00

-12.7

-15.8

739.35 -30.67

-4.0

-6.4

MARKET PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR

Fund, ranked by size Vanguard 500Adml Vanguard TotStIAdm Vanguard InstIdxI Vanguard TotStIdx Vanguard InstPlus Vanguard TotIntl Vanguard TotStIIns Vanguard WelltnAdm American Funds GrthAmA m American Funds IncAmerA m

NAV 209.19 56.76 206.42 56.74 206.43 15.22 56.77 67.97 43.55 21.88

Chg. -0.56 -0.15 -0.55 -0.15 -0.55 +0.04 -0.15 +0.01 -0.02 -0.03

4wk 1 +0.2% +0.2% +0.2% +0.1% +0.2% +4.1% +0.2% +0.3% +2.4% +0.6%

YTD 1 +1.3% +1.2% +1.3% +1.2% +1.3% +3.3% +1.2% +0.8% +3.6% +1.0%

14.76

-.55

-3.6

+.1

Genuine Parts (GPC) Falls along with AutoZone on Amazon report.

96.25

-3.49

-3.5

+.7

Delta Air Lines (DAL) 48.77 Declines as investors show concern on computer outage.

-1.73

-3.4

-.9

O’Reilly Automotive (ORLY) Amazon parts push pushes shares down.

264.99

-9.02

-3.3

-4.8

72.75

-2.49

-3.3

-.2

First Solar (FSLR) 33.66 Rating downgrades, negative political environment.

-1.09

-3.1

+4.9

Halliburton (HAL) Expects weak sales, shares dip.

54.80

-1.65

-2.9

+1.3

Mylan (MYL) Unfavorable market, sector lags.

36.03

-1.04

-2.8

-5.6

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SECTOR

PERFORMANCE DAILY YTD

Energy

-1.1%

22.3%

Industrials

-0.6%

19.0%

Materials

0.2%

17.9%

Technology

0.2%

16.5%

Utilities

-0.5%

11.8%

1 – CAPITAL GAINS AND DIVIDENDS REINVESTED

ETF, ranked by volume VanE Vect Gld Miners SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr Dir Dly Gold Bull3x iShs Emerg Mkts Dirx Jr GoldMin Bull SPDR Financial iShares EAFE ETF Barc iPath Vix ST iShares Brazil CS VelSh 3xInvrsNGs

Ticker GDX SPY NUGT EEM JNUG XLF EFA VXX EWZ DGAZ

Close 23.81 226.15 10.98 36.96 9.17 23.00 59.54 20.50 37.67 3.91

Chg. +0.69 -0.59 +0.84 +0.54 +0.61 -0.15 +0.15 -0.21 +0.99 -0.21

% Chg +3.0% -0.3% +8.3% +1.5% +7.1% -0.6% +0.3% -1.0% +2.7% -5.1%

%YTD +13.8% +1.2% +43.7% +5.6% +64.3% -1.1% +3.1% -19.6% +13.0% +29.0%

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 3.75% 3.50% 0.66% 0.40% 0.50% 0.32% 1.88% 1.12% 2.40% 1.57%

Close 6 mo ago 4.06% 3.43% 3.20% 2.70% 3.03% 2.83% 3.31% 2.92%

SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM

COMMODITIES

Transocean (RIG) Reaches 2017 low in lagging sector.

Jan. AP

+.5

+1.58

United Continental Holdings (UAL) Shares dip on computer outage.

2,050

July

TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS

Extra Space Storage (EXR) 75.00 Positive industry overcomes fund manager sales.

AutoZone (AZO) Shares fall on Amazon parts push.

2,250

2,265.20

TOP 10 MUTUAL FUNDS

+.63

Qualcomm (QCOM) Shares dip on Apple’s legal assault.

STANDARD & POOR’S 500

5,000

25.62

Company (ticker symbol)

5,552.94

5,600

CLOSE: 1,347.84 PREV. CLOSE: 1,351.85 RANGE: 1,341.46-1,353.12

General Growth Properties (GGP) Positive industry note,shares up.

Humana (HUM) Aetna deal blocked, shares rise.

Jan.

NASDAQ COMPOSITE

CHANGE: -.3% YTD: -9.29 YTD % CHG: -.7%

CSX (CSX) Company’s stock rating is raised at BMO.

LOSERS

Day’s high: $12.38

Jan. 23

4-WEEK TREND

Shares of the telecommunications holding company jumped following the announcement it would acquire a 33% stake in Tidal, a music streaming platform by Jay Z. Sprint is looking to compete in content more closely with larger rivals.

Change $0.25

Dec. 27

CLOSE: 2,265.20 PREV. CLOSE: 2,271.31 RANGE: 2,257.03-2,271.78

S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS/LOSERS GAINERS

Low: $8.98

Sprint

RUSSELL

RUT

COMPOSITE

CHANGE: unch.

YTD: +169.83 YTD % CHG: +3.2%

$10

STANDARD & POOR'S

NASDAQ

COMP

Day’s high: $9.25

$18.40

$20

The fashion company saw its stock price jump premarket, making up this year’s loss after saying it attracted interest from Coach and Michael Kors as sale speculation picked up. The company also says it sees potential bidders from outside the U.S.

Change $0.65

S&P 500

SPX

INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

CHANGE: -.1% YTD: +37.25 YTD % CHG: +.2%

4-WEEK TREND

DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS

DOW JONES

DJIA

Low: $18.06

Kate Spade

MAJOR INDEXES -27.40

ALL THE MARKET ACTION IN REAL TIME. MARKETS.USATODAY.COM

Commodities Close Prev.

Cattle (lb.)

1.20 1.20 Corn (bushel) 3.70 3.70 Gold (troy oz.)

1,215.00 1,204.30 Hogs, lean (lb.) .65 .65 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.24 3.20 Oil, heating (gal.)

1.63 1.65 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

52.75 53.22 Silver (troy oz.)

17.15 17.00 Soybeans (bushel) 10.58 10.68 Wheat (bushel) 4.33 4.28

Chg. unch. unch. +10.70 unch. +0.04 -0.02 -0.47 +0.15 -0.10 +0.05

% Chg. unch.

-0.1% +0.9% -0.5% +1.2% -1.2% -0.9% +0.9% -0.9% +1.2%

% YTD +1.1% +5.0% +5.7% -1.7% -12.9% -4.6% -1.8% +7.6% +6.2% +6.2%

Close .7999 1.3252 6.8555 .9305 113.00 21.3801

Prev. .8079 1.3312 6.8755 .9339 114.31 21.6258

Close 11,545.75 22,898.52 18,891.03 7,151.18 47,116.24

0.1%

4.5%

Telcom

Consumer staples unch.

4.1%

Health care

-0.4%

-3.4%

Financials

-0.6%

-3.5%

CBOE VOLATILITY INDEX Measures expected market volatility based on S&P 500 index options pricing:

11.77

20 30

10

40

6 mo. ago .7638 1.3148 6.6787 .9123 106.17 18.5310

Yr. ago .7002 1.4151 6.5799 .9267 118.78 18.4251

+0.23 (+2.0%) S&P 500 P/E RATIO The price-to-earnings ratio, based on trailing 12-month “operating” earnings: 15

FOREIGN MARKETS Country Frankfurt Hong Kong Japan (Nikkei) London Mexico City

7.5%

0

FOREIGN CURRENCIES Currency per dollar British pound Canadian dollar Chinese yuan Euro Japanese yen Mexican peso

Consumer discret. 0.1%

Prev. Change 11,630.13 -84.38 22,885.91 +12.61 19,137.91 -246.88 7,198.44 -47.26 46,331.61 +784.64

%Chg. -0.7% +0.1% -1.3% -0.7% +1.7%

YTD % +0.6% +4.1% -1.2% +0.1% +3.2%

SOURCES: MORNINGSTAR, DOW JONES INDEXES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IN-DEPTH MARKETS COVERAGE USATODAY.COM/MONEY

7.5

20.81 22.5

30

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-0.06 (-0.03%)

Thrill of McDonald’s all-day breakfast may be wearing off Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

McDonald’s slightly beat fourth-quarter profit expectations Monday despite a drop in sales as it faces signs the novelty of its all-day breakfast option, a huge hit, is wearing off.

The fast-food chain posted net income of $1.19 billion in the fourth quarter, down 1% from a year earlier and equating to earnings of $1.44 per share.

Over the past couple of years,

MCDONALD’S

McDonald’s took fast-food rivals by surprise by expanding availability of its breakfast items to all day, which paid off with an earnings boost that extended into several quarters.

But the one-time surge in revenue is just that: a one-time boost.

Now, CEO Steve Easterbrook needs to find a new avenue for growth. That could involve home delivery, for example. Easterbrook told analysts in a conference call the “food-away-fromhome market” may present an opportunity. He said the company is in “very, very early stages” of testing home delivery in Florida.

Although offering all-day breakfast was a positive move, it has had some downsides, Conlumino retail analyst Neil Saunders said in an analysis. Because breakfast items can be cheaper than some lunch and dinner options, customers may not be

spending as much. And, to some extent, all-day breakfast isn’t driving new customers into McDonald’s. Rather, it is offering regulars more choices, while making the menu more complex.

“These changes were supposed to drive a steady and sustainable uplift in spending rather than a one-off spike in sales, but it is increasingly clear this strategy is not delivering through,” he said.

As a result, McDonald’s lacks “a clear forward strategy of driving customer traffic, it also means the menu and service options have been made more complex — with the costs and franchisee dis-

content that this entails — without a compensatory uplift in sales volume. Such a position is not particularly sustainable.”

The company’s profit beat S&P Global Market Intelligence expectations of $1.18 billion and $1.42 per share. McDonald’s reported a 1.3% decline in U.S. sales at stores open at least a year. The company blamed the decrease on a tough comparison due to a temporary surge in sales in the 2015 fourth quarter from the introduction of all-day breakfast.

Total revenue fell 5% to $6.03 billion for the quarter. Globally, same-store sales increased 2.7%.

L awrence J ournal -W orld

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Dear Annie: My husband and I were recently invited to a surprise birthday party for his 30-year-old daughter, ‘’Marcy.’’ We received the ‘’invitation’’ by text three days before the party via the son-inlaw’s mother, and it was scheduled at an expensive restaurant. Seemed a little off, as it was less than two weeks before Christmas and many budgets are stretched now, but the son-inlaw and his family are well-to-do. We and other family members RSVP’d that yes, we were coming.

The day of the party, we all received another text with specific instructions about what time Marcy’s husband would be bringing her and not to answer any calls from her; it was all a big happy surprise for her. The text also

Dear Annie

Annie Lane

dearannie@creators.com

mentioned that the cost of a meal at this restaurant would be between $75 and $120 per couple.

Am I a fuddy-duddy to think this was inappropriate?

We let the text inviter know that most of us would not be staying for dinner so she could change the reservation. One person was angry and opted out completely. We went for the ‘’surprise’’ part, gave Marcy our gifts and politely visited.

‘Outsiders’ is insane, hard to resist Returning for a second season, “Outsiders” (8 p.m., WGN, TVMA) is insane. And that’s what makes it hard to resist. You have to admire this tale of the feral Farrell clan for not holding back.

In fact, it piles one weirdness on top of another. It’s one thing to have the Farrells isolated on top of a Kentucky mountain. It’s quite another to have them speak their own specific language and follow old-time religious rites complete with shamanistic powers.

Thomas M. Wright stars as S h e r iff Wade Houghton, the local authority caught in the middle when the state gives a green light to a giant energy company to evict the Farrells and exploit the billions of dollars’ worth of coal beneath their ancient homestead. Wright’s own family lore includes the fact that his father had been struck by lightning at the top of that mountain. As the first season concluded, he was convinced that the Farrells and police were involved in a battle right out of ‘‘Vikings.’’ As season two begins, he learns that his nightmare was just that. But he’s not convinced that it won’t come true.

It’s curious that History’s ‘‘Vikings’’ features a ninth-century king beginning to doubt the power of animistic potions and spells, the very things that give the tribal leaders on ‘‘Outsiders’’ their control. If anything, some of the Farrells seem dirtier, hairier and more ornery than the gang on ‘‘Vikings.’’ Although some of them just ride all-terrain vehicles and make a lot of noise, just to bug their fellow Farrells.

Like I said, this show is insane.

O “American Experience: Rachel Carson” (7 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) offers a twohour profile of the reclusive scientist and best-selling author whose 1962 book ‘‘Silent Spring’’ rocked the chemical and pesticide industries and challenged common assumptions about the relationship between humans and nature.

In many ways, Carson, who died at 56 in 1964, was the mother of ecological awareness and the environmental movement that flourished a decade after ‘‘Silent Spring.’’

Actress Mary-Louise Parker provides the voice of Rachel Carson in this ‘‘Experience’’ that celebrates the power of ideas disseminated in a popular book by a passionate writer.

Tonight’s other highlights

O A convict’s wife seeks re-

venge on “Bull” (8 p.m., CBS).

O Too many candles to blow out on “This Is Us” (8 p.m., NBC).

O The three-night miniseries “The New Edition Story” (8 p.m., BET) recalls a Boston-based boy band popular in the 1980s.

O Deep water sabotage on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS).

O An ambulance ride sparks mixed emotions in Dawson on “Chicago Fire” (9 p.m., NBC).

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When all the son-inlaw’s family abruptly took seats at one end of the table, we left.

The son-in-law’s comment when we left was, ‘’Are you sure you don’t want to stay?’’

My husband and I would have been glad to assist financially with this party or suggest a less expensive alternative so all our family could have attended without feeling burdened — if we would have been asked.

My husband loves his daughter, but it seems the son-in-law and his family buy her away from us whenever possible. And she loves it, but it really makes for some hard feelings, especially during the holidays. — Family Stressed Dear Stressed: Sending out a lastminute ‘’Oh, by the

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Tuesday, Jan. 24: This year you seem to be riding a wave of good luck, especially if you detach more often and learn to keep your eye on the big picture. You need to be a stern realist when handling your funds; otherwise, you could make an error. You find that your daily life seems to present an interesting twist, no matter what you are doing.

If you are single, you never know who you are going to meet next! If you are attached, you and your sweetie will want to travel more.

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) ++++ Keep your priorities in mind. Daylight hours are likely to be more successful than those later in the day. Tonight: Chill out.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ You might not be aware of how much a boss needs your presence and feedback. Tonight: Find your friends.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ Relate closely to a partner. Just keep exploring different approaches. Tonight: Out late.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Others love to be around you, and vice versa. Try not to have a conflict. Tonight: A close encounter.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++ All work and no play doesn’t suit you. Nevertheless, you’ll discover how important it is

way, hope you’re all prepared to spend $100 tonight’’ text?

That’s the wrong kind of surprise party.

I’m guessing that money has never been much of an issue for these people, so they’re probably clueless. Clue them in. Ask them to get you involved earlier in the process next time so you can help plan and contribute.

But once you have communicated to them your wishes and been open about your expectations for them, you must let go of the hard feelings. As the saying goes, ‘’resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.’’ Stay healthy.

— Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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to stay focused on a certain serious conversation. Tonight: Trust your choices.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ Tap into your ingenuity for a solution. A loved one might be critical, but he or she also is not getting the whole story. Tonight: Keep it light and easy.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ Use your excellent ability to be creative. Loosen up and relax.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ Ask all the questions you need to in order to get verification. Tonight: Catch up on a close friend’s news.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ You could feel overwhelmed by a loved one’s request.

Tonight: Balance your checkbook before deciding.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) +++ In the daylight hours, you’ll discover how fatigue really feels.

Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ Hang out with friends as much as you can. A serious conversation could take place between you and a friend. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ You might be the apple of your boss’s eye, so it is likely that he or she is observing how you handle various situations. Tonight: At home.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy Parker January 24, 2017 ACROSS 1 Surprising way to be taken?

6 Jungle primates 10 Monopoly phrase with “Jail” 14 Trickery 15 Turn over, as land 16 As ___ (letter closing) 17 When Lil Wayne is happy, he feels ...

19 Gambler’s giveaway 20 Athlete’s lasting power 21 Use the bow, to a cellist 22 ___ out a living (gets by) 25 Seat in a cathedral 26 Scientific Sir Isaac 28 Horizontal graph line 30 Sharpie tip, e.g.

32 “Well, ___di-dah” 33 Cinders container 35 Big-time tire maker 39 Tai ___ (martial art type) 40 Lithium-___ battery 42 “___ to a Nightingale” 43 Wharton degree 44 Gifted 47 Slobbers 49 Suitable for the job

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JAMES MOREY James Virgil Morey, 78, Tonganoxie, KS, passed away Monday January 16, 2017 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Memorial service will be at 1:00 PM, Saturday February 11, 2017 at Camp Naish, Bonner Springs, KS. Jim was born February 9, 1938 in Beatrice, NE, the son of Virgil I. and Ethel A. (Hackbarth) Morey. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1958­1962. He was a photographer in the Navy.

And later for North American Rockwell working on the Apollo program. He also worked as a photographer at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He spent several years traveling and presenting educational lectures at schools in Kansas and Missouri.

Later in his career he established a company producing computer

simulations for the allied health careers. Jim was active in the Boy Scouts of America mentoring young leaders. He was also very active with the Tonganoxie Public Library. He was united in marriage to the love of his life, Earleta Mae (Stucker), on August 3, 1961. She survives of the home. Other survivors include; three sons, Burt Morey, Linwood, KS, Thomas Morey, Tonganoxie, Pat Morey, Tonganoxie; one brother, Kent Morey, Redlands, CA; and 6 grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions C/O Quisenberry Funeral Home 604 E 4th Street, Tonganoxie, KS 66086. www.quisenberryfh.com ¸

DELMAR MICHAEL KOCH Military graveside for Delmar Michael Koch, 86, Lawrence will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 2017 at Memorial Park Cemetery in Hutchinson, KS. He passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017 at his home.

Delmar was born December 26, 1930 in Spearville, KS the daughter of John Michael Koch­Kleck and Elizabeth Ann (Mellecker) Koch.

He graduated St. Theresa High School in Hutchinson, KS. He served his country in the United States Marines during the Korean War and was a member of “The Chosin Few”.

He was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, was a past president of the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union 765 for three years, a member of Lawrence Flying Club, Cub Scout Pack 376, and was a Hunter Safety Instructor.

He was a plumber for school district USD #497.

He married Evelyn Fae Shenold September 11, 1954 in Hutchinson, KS. She preceded him in death May 16, 2000.

Survivors include two daughters, Sharri Ann Patton, De Soto, KS, Odell, Marie Teresa Lawrence; two sons, David Mark Koch, Derek Michael Koch, both of Lawrence; eight

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grandchildren; and two step grandchildren; six great grandchildren; sister, Mary Agnes Kalevik, Salt Lake City, UT; and brother, Tom Koch, CA. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Betty Ann Shaull; and three brothers, John Koch, Jim Koch, and Bernard Koch.

A rosary will be recited at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2017 at Warren­McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence with a visitation to follow until 7:00 p.m.

Memorials may be made in his name to Crossroads Hospice for Children’s Summer Camp and may be sent in care of the Warren­McElwain Mortuary, 120 W. 13th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044.

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The Eudora City Commission on Monday took another necessary step if its $850,000 investment in the Nottingham Elementary School property is to pay off for the community.

Commissioners unanimously voted to create a Tax Increment Financing District for the property.

The district also includes the Kaw Valley Bank property north of 14th Street.

The action came immediately after a public hearing on the proposed TIF district that had Eudora school district board member Joe Hurla as the only speaker. Hurla said the school board had concerns about the loss of property tax revenue and lack of direct control of future development, but put those considerations aside because of its trust in the current city government.

“We felt a level of trust with the city manager and the city government that made us comfortable with this,” he said. “We think this is a good opportunity for Eudora to become much more than what it is.”

City Attorney David Waters said with publication of the ordinance, the school district and the Douglas County Commission would have 30 days to decide not to participate in the TIF. The city of Eudora bought the former Nottingham Elementary School and the adjacent Law Field from the Eudora school district for $850,000 in 2015 with the goal of controlling the redevelopment of the 15-acre site on the city’s Kansas Highway 10 gateway. In

April 2016, the Eudora City Commission selected the Kansas City, Mo., firm CBC Real Estate Group to develop the property. The Commission entered into a predevelopment agreement with the firm in May, which committed the city to work exclusively with CBC while the firm recruited future tenants for the property. The city and developer will eventually enter into a development agreement that ties down the responsibilities of both parties in the property’s development.

Creation of a Nottingham TIF district would allow the added property, sales and franchise taxes collected from the site’s redevelopment to be used to finance needed infrastructure improvements at the site. TIFs cannot be used to finance privately owned buildings. By state statute, TIF bonds can have up to a 20-year retirement schedule.

In another decision that could have significant consequences to the community, commissioners approved a resolution supporting Topeka developer Commercial Group Inc.’s application for tax credits from the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation. If awarded, the tax credits would finance the complete rehabilitation of the 60 units in the company’s Pinecrest I and II apartment complexes and the development of a new 36-unit housing complex northeast of the intersection of 10th and Cedar streets. The new apartment complex would be built just to the east of the Pinecrest complexes.

Cathy Feriend, of Commercial Group Inc., said

the new complex would have about 36 apartments with a mix of one- and two-bedroom units. The new apartments would be available for general occupancy and families.

The new complex would have a management office and a clubhouse with central laundry room, meeting area, exercise equipment and computer room for residents’ use. It would also feature a walking trail and playground.

The renovated Pinecrest Apartments would remain available only for those 62 years of age or older or individuals with disabilities.

A clubhouse with similar features as the one built in the new complex would be part of the renovations, Feriend said.

Tax credit applications for the new complex and the Pinecrest renovations would be submitted separately, Feriend said. The KHRC could approve both, OK one and suggest Commercial Group reapply for the rejected application in 2018, or reject both, she said.

“These are highly competitive,” she said. “They expect about 50 applications and will award 13 or 14 of those.”

The projects wouldn’t go forward without the tax credits, Feriend said. If awarded for either project, construction would start in 2018.

The resolution of support does not commit the city to approving building permits or any zoning changes needed for the projects, Feriend said.

At a work session that followed the business meeting, the City Commission gave consensus

for city staff to seek a Kansas Department of Health and Environment loan to finance the proposed Winchester waterline project and the improvements necessary to make well No. 10 operational. The proposed waterline project would install a 12-inch waterline from the water tower at 14th and Maple streets west along 14th Street. It would tie into an existing 12-inch line on Winchester Road.

As for the well, a citizen gave the water well to the city. The city must start using it as a water source soon or risk losing its water rights.

City Manager Barack Matite and Assistant to the City Manager Leslie Herring recommended the city apply for the KDHE loan after they learned the city did not have enough low- or moderate-income households to qualify for grant programs that finance infrastructure improvements. Conversely, Matite was confident the city’s loan application would be approved.

Matite estimated the two projects would cost $750,000 and said both could be completed in 2017. The task before commissioners in the coming months would be identifying the funding source that would pay off the loan, Matite said. Because the debt service would have a considerable impact on water rates, commissioners could consider using for that purpose some of the 4 mills set aside in the 2017 budget for infrastructure upgrades, he said.

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166. Follow him on Twitter: @ElvynJ

DATEBOOK Public Library Readers’ Theater, 707 Vermont St. Lawrence Restaurant Week, Jan. Dr. Bruce Twarog: Kepler and 20-28. the Hunt for Exoplanets, noon, Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 1204 Oread Ave. W. 11th St. Teen Zone Expanded (grades Lawrence Breakfast Optimists, 6-12), 2-5 p.m., Lawrence Public 7-8 a.m., Brandon Woods Smith Library Teen Zone, 707 Vermont St. Center, 4730 Brandon Woods TerDouglas County Heritage race.

Conservation Council Grant Info Books & Babies, 6-6:30 p.m., Session, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Baldwin Lawrence Public Library Readers’ City Public Library, 800 Seventh Theater, 707 Vermont St. St., Baldwin City.

Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 p.m., LawDouglas County Commission rence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. meeting, 4 p.m., Douglas County Ninth St. Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Tech Drop-in, 5-6 p.m., LawAmerican Legion Bingo, doors rence Public Library Meeting Room open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 C, 707 Vermont St. p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. 25 WEDNESDAY Yoga at Your Library, 5:30-6:30 Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, p.m., Lawrence Public Library 6 a.m., Rock Chalk Sports Pavilion, Auditorium, 707 Vermont St. 100 Rock Chalk Lane.

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Here is a list of recent Lawrence Police Department calls requiring the response of four or more officers. This list spans from 6:10 a.m. Friday to 5:39 a.m. Monday. A full list of department calls is available in the Lights & Sirens blog, which can be found online at LJWorld. com. Each incident listed only bears a short description and may not capture the entirety of what took place. Not every call results in citations or arrests, and the information is subject to change as police investigations move forward.

Friday, 11 a.m., seven officers, wanted person, 400 block of Minnesota Street.

Friday, 11:13 a.m., four officers, suicide threat, 1000 block of New Hampshire Street.

Friday, 11:47 a.m., four officers,

suspicious activity, 200 block of Summertree Lane.

Friday, 1:15 p.m., four officers, suspicious activity, 1000 block of Massachusetts Street.

Friday, 1:35 p.m., five officers, theft, 2100 block of West 27th Street.

Friday, 3:26 p.m., six officers, burglary, 1000 block of Indiana Street.

Friday, 5:06 p.m., five officers, trespassing, 700 block of Vermont Street.

Friday, 5:15 p.m., four officers, battery, 100 block of Rock Chalk Lane.

Friday, 6:09 p.m., four officers, fight, 900 block of Louisiana Street.

Friday, 9:53 p.m., four officers, alarm-intrusion, 3100 block of West 29th Terrace.

Friday, 10:34 p.m., four officers, traffic stop, address not validated.

Friday, 11:02 p.m., eight officers, disturbance, 1000 block of Massachusetts Street.

Saturday, 12:13 a.m., five officers, bar check, 1200 block of

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Saturday, 12:29 a.m., five officers, unknown emergency, 200 block of Maine Street.

Saturday, 1:35 a.m., seven officers, fight, 700 block of Massachusetts Street.

Saturday, 2:16 a.m., four officers, pedestrian check, 1500 block of North Third Street.

Saturday, 2:32 a.m., four officers, auto accident, 1200 block of North Third Street.

Saturday, 3:03 a.m., five officers, DUI, 1100 block of Tennessee Street.

Saturday, 3:43 a.m., five officers, DUI, 1400 block of West 23rd Street.

Saturday, 11:46 a.m., four officers, warrant service, 800 block of North Seventh Street.

Saturday, 12:44 p.m., five officers, trespassing in progress, 1900 block of East 10th Street.

Saturday, 3 p.m., four officers, child out of control, 3000 block of Flint Drive.

Saturday, 3:13 p.m., four officers, suspicious activity, 2300

block of Iowa Street.

Saturday, 4:04 p.m., four officers, disturbance, 2700 block of Louisiana Street.

Saturday, 4:26 p.m., four officers, civil standby, 1400 block of East 15th Street.

Saturday, 5:02 p.m., four officers, theft, 1500 block of East 23rd Street.

Saturday, 10:25 p.m., four officers, suicide threat, 1200 block of West Campus Road.

Saturday, 10:57 p.m., seven officers, domestic disturbance, address redacted.

Saturday, 11:35 p.m., four officers, bar check, 1100 block of Massachusetts Street.

Sunday, 12:16 a.m., five officers, disturbance, 2500 block of Winterbrook Drive.

Sunday, 12:35 a.m., 13 officers, shooting, 1900 block of Haskell Avenue.

Sunday, 1:16 a.m., four officers, wanted person, 700 block of West 23rd Street.

Sunday, 1:23 a.m., five officers,

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Sunday, 2:16 a.m., five officers, disturbance, 1300 block of Ohio Street.

Sunday, 2:30 a.m., four officers, noise loud music complaint, 4100 block of West 24th Place.

Sunday, 2:57 a.m., five officers, suspicious activity, 4100 block of West 24th Place.

Sunday, 3:28 a.m., four officers, disturbance, intersection of Tennessee and West 11th streets.

Sunday, 3:49 a.m., five officers, criminal threat, 3400 block of Aldrich Street.

Sunday, 6:12 p.m., four officers, suicide threat, 900 block of Delaware Street.

Sunday, 8:30 p.m., five officers, indecent exposure, intersection of Ninth and Ohio streets.

Sunday, 11:59 p.m., six officers, auto accident, intersection of 11th and Kentucky streets.

Monday, 2:27 a.m., six officers, suspicious activity, 700 block of Iowa Street.

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ver the last several months, a Strategic Planning Task Force made up of representatives from the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, medical staff, management staff and employees has engaged in an intensive strategic planning process known as Destination Health. Last week the LMH Board of Trustees approved a new strategic plan that maps the hospital’s journey to a healthy future over the next three to seven years.

LMH President and Chief Executive Officer Russ Johnson said, “Destination Health guides who we are, what we stand for, and how we deliver care.”

At the core of this new plan are three strategic imperatives that Johnson says are fundamental to the hospital’s success going forward: l People First: We will make it easy for patients, families and consumers to access care when, where and how they want it. l Provider Alignment: We will cultivate strong value-based alliances with providers and create an outstanding

practice environment that encourages physician leadership and collaboration. l Clinical Integration and Excellence: We will address the continuum of health care needs in an excellent, coordinated manner.

The strategic imperatives are the long-term themes that set the direction for the next five to seven years. The Strategic Planning Task Force also developed 12 to 15 milestones representing initiatives to support each imperative. The plan is to accomplish the 39 milestones within one to three years, and each year the milestones will be revisited, adjusted and added as progress occurs.

The next phase of the planning will include the development of specific tactics, metrics and responsibilities.

Underpinning the strategic plan is a strong foundation of concepts that Johnson shared; they are key to the success of the plan. They are: l Cultural Beliefs

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On the 6th day of February 2017 at 1:30 p.m. each parent and any other person claiming legal custody of the minor child is required to appear for an Adjudication and Disposition Hearing in Division 6 at the Doug2. To consider an amendment to the City’s Zoning las County Law Enforcement and Judicial Center, 111 E Regulations include a new Article for planned unit 11th Street., Lawrence, Kansas. Each grandparent is developments. permitted but not required to appear with or without counsel as an interested party in the proceeding. Prior As provided in the Baldwin City Zoning Regulations, the to the proceeding, a parent, grandparent or any other above applications will be discussed and considered by party to the proceeding may file a written response to the Baldwin City Planning Commission, and all person the pleading with the clerk of court. interested in said matter will be heard at this time concerning their views and wishes; and all matters con- Each parent has the right to be represented by an cerning the request and presented at the hearing will attorney. A parent that is not financially able to hire an be considered. The Planning Commission may continue attorney may apply to the court for a court appointed this matter to a later date without additional notice. attorney. A request for a court appointed attorney should be made without delay to: Clerk of the District Certified, this 19th, day of January, 2017 Court; ATTN: Division 6; 111 East 11th Street; Lawrence _______ Kansas 66044-9202. Joshua Seiden, an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas, has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the child.

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World on January 17, 2017) All parties are hereby notified that, pursuant to IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS DIVISION SIX IN THE INTEREST OF: K. L. C. DOB: 11/16/2009, a male Case No. 2016-JC-000116 TO: KYLE COATS, HIS RELATIVES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED NOTICE OF HEARING (K.S.A. Chapter 38)

K.S.A. 60-255, a default judgment will be taken against any parent who fails to appear in person or by counsel at the hearing.

/s/Emily C Haack EMILY C HAACK, 23697 Assistant District Attorney Office of the District Attorney Douglas County Judicial Center 111 East 11th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044-2909 (785) 841-0211 || FAX (785) 330-2850 ehaack@douglas-county.com _______

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trusted companion to guide and support them through their health care journeys. Our commitment to patients and the entire community is built on our purpose: Your lifelong health is our priority.”

What does this mean? With lifelong health at the center of LMH goals, we are empowering healthy decisions, promoting healthy Johnson lifestyles, and providing guidance and support for every health care journey.

To deliver health services when and where they are needed, we are forming community partnerships and working together for a seamless experience, both inside and outside our facilities.

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Johnson said, “We really do want to continue to grow and be seen in this community as a really great partner. We may not be the end-all solution to everything, but we want to be an engaged partner in this journey for health.

“We’re a health care organization that also has a hospital. Providing ‘hospital services’ is still maybe the nucleus of who we are, but we are so much more. As you think about health and prevention and wellness and post-acute care and education and access and behavioral health, we want to have a broader definition of what it means to be engaged in health care.”

— Janice Early is vice president of marketing and communications for Lawrence Memorial Hospital, which is a major sponsor of WellCommons. She can be reached at janice.early@lmh.org

Health Champion nominations sought l Work that goes above and beyond what is expected through normal job or organizational responsibilities. l Efforts that have resulted in a positive health impact on others in the community.

“We know there are many deserving individuals in our community.

Whether they’ve started a walking group, organized an event or volunteered service, this is an opportunity to recognize individuals and their efforts,” Partridge said.

The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Board will select the health champions, who will be recognized during

By Karrey Britt

The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department will recognize Douglas County residents who model, encourage and promote health in the community during National Public Health Week, April 3-9.

Director Dan Partridge encourages individuals to take the opportunity to nominate their favorite health champions for the Douglas County Health Champion award. The deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 15, and the nomination form can be found at ldchealth. org.

Nominees are expected to have demonstrated:

a community breakfast April 7. Each recipient will receive a Douglas County Health Champion Award certificate, and a $200 donation will be made to a charity of his or her choice.

This is the fifth year for the Douglas County Health Champion awards. Previous winners were Michel Loomis and Josie Naron, 2013; Ellen Young and Logan Brown, 2014; Rick Martin and Di Xie, 2015; and Linda Cottin and Marilyn Hull, 2016.

— Karrey Britt, Communications Coordinator for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Schedule takes KU behind the eight ball

T

he Kansas basketball team begins an eight-game stretch of games today so brutal that the easiest of the lot comes against Iowa State, which has a winning record in Big 12 play.

The eight-game, 27-day journey includes five tests against teams ranked in the top 25 poll released Monday. It will reveal plenty about a team that, compared to all of the others Bill Self has coached for Kansas, has less reliable front-court depth and fewer above-average defenders.

Experienced guards Frank Mason and Devonté Graham, savvy fifth-year center Landen Lucas, energetic, talented freshman Josh Jackson and emerging scorer Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk have staked Kansas to an 18-1 start and No. 2 national ranking. Just one of those games came against a team now ranked in the top 25, Duke, then ranked No. 1, now No. 17.

The eight games, ranked in order of degree of difficulty: 1. At No. 4 Kentucky, 5 p.m. Saturday, Rupp Arena: Even though the Wildcats, as always, are young, they don’t play that way. Just 6 percent of their offensive possessions end in steals, the fifth-best percentage in the nation, according to kenpom.com.

Point guard De’Aaron Fox and shooting guard Malik Monk are freshmen in name only and combined for 37.9 points per game.

2. At No. 18 West Virginia, 6 p.m. today, WVU Coliseum: Back-toback losses to Oklahoma in Morgantown and at Kansas State beg the question as to whether the key to unlocking constant full-court pressure, applied even after misses, has been discovered and copied. Probably not, but it’s a fair question. In the loss in Manhattan, losing the ball was more the issue. The Mountaineers turned it over 23 times.

Coach Bob Huggins knows how to fix what’s broken and the players will be highly motivated to remove the bad taste left by the two recent losses. Plus, Kansas has lost three in a row in Morgantown, where depth, one thing the Jayhawks lack, helps visiting teams.

3. At No. 5 Baylor, noon Feb. 18, Ferrell Center: The dimly lit Ferrell Center does not seem to hold sound all that well and the fans generally are more interested in the Bears’ football teams anyway, so it’s not the venue that makes this a particularly tough game as much as it’s the players. The Bears, according to kenpom.com, have the nation’s third-best defense and 11th-best offensive rebounding squad.

4. At Kansas State, 8 p.m. Feb. 6, Bramlage Coliseum: The schools’ home courts are 88 miles from each other, which, if

While shooting for a national title, WVU’s big-time coach maintains strong ties to home

Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP, File

IN THIS TUESDAY, JAN. 3 FILE PHOTO, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins yells out after a foul during an NCAA basketball game against Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. The Jayhawks will face Huggins’ Mountaineers today at WVU Coliseum.

By Tom Keegan

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orn in Morgantown, W.V., and reared in the small Tuscarawas County town of Midvale, Ohio, Bob Huggins doesn’t quite understand why some seem so puzzled at coal miners choosing such a potentially dangerous occupation.

“I grew up in a coal-mining town,” Huggins said during a long interview at Big 12 Media Day in Kansas City, Mo., in October. “You go out on a Friday night and here come the guys who graduated (high school) the year before, two years before, and man, here they come with the new cars, the new clothes, all the sudden, don’t seem so bad. They went in the mines, made a lot of money and all the girls were hanging out with them because they had money and cars and all that.”

It wasn’t for him, but he understood the temptation. A basketball

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I wanted (the players) to understand what those people do to be able to pay money to come watch them play. I thought it was important for them to appreciate what the people up there cheering for them go through on a daily basis.”

— Bob Huggins, WVU coach

scholarship gave Huggins another path and he used it to attend college, first at Ohio University and then West Virginia, where he became a two-time Academic All-American.

“I didn’t have a coal miner in my family,” Huggins said. “My (paternal) grandfather was a water commissioner and my grandfather on my mother’s side came over from Italy, settled in Morgantown, and became a glass-blower at the glass factory.

The one thing I knew was I wasn’t doing any of that stuff.”

His upbringing gave him an appreciation for factory workers and those who emerge from a long, cramped

day of underground labor with sootblackened blue collars, so instead of merely talking about coal miners to his players, he took the lesson a great deal deeper than that. Huggins said that a handful of years or so ago, he took his Mountaineers basketball players into a coal mine for nearly an entire eight-hour shift.

“I wanted them to understand when they run out there and we’ve got 14,000 people in there cheering for them, I wanted them to understand what those people do to be able to pay money to come watch

> HUGGINS, 4D

Family, fans mourn for Dominican pitcher Ventura

By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez Associated Press

Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic — Dozens of children wearing blue T-shirts with the name “Ventura” emblazoned on the back gathered around a coastal home on Monday to pay their respects to their idol: Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura.

He died Sunday in a car crash in Ventura his native Dominican Republic, where he was known for practicing with his former youth baseball team every time > KEEGAN, 4D he visited the Caribbean

country, said Silvano Santos, who coached Ventura from age 7 to 14.

“He was an inspiration to every kid,” Santos told The Associated Press, recalling how Ventura took time to meet with members of the Kelly youth team that he once played for and gave them gifts, including uniform T-shirts.

The children talked quietly among themselves as they sat in the patio of the house Ventura bought after signing with the Royals. Inside, friends, family and admirers gathered around his coffin and tried to console Ventura’s mother.

“This is very painful for me because he was such a great baseball player,” said

> VENTURA, 3D

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ANGELL HERNANDEZ, a cousin of the late Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, watches videos of Ventura on his phone during the major leaguer’s wake Monday in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic. The city’s mayor has declared a two-day mourning period for the 25-year-old Ventura, who was killed Sunday in a car crash.

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TODAY • Men’s basketball at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY NORTH • Women’s basketball at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

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TODAY • Bowling at St. James Invitational, 3:30 p.m.

• Boys swimming at Topeka Invitational, 4 p.m.

• Boys basketball at Lansing, 7:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY • Wrestling dual vs. LHS, 6 p.m.

Flowery Branch, Ga. — Dan Quinn certainly knows who the Atlanta Falcons are playing in the Super Bowl.

No wonder.

By Beth Harris LAWRENCE HIGH It seems as if Bill Belichick, SOUTH WEST AP Sports Writer TODAY Tom Brady and the New EngAMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE • Boys swimming at Topeka land Patriots are there every Los Angeles — Tiger Woods AL EAST Invitational, 4 p.m. year. is roaring into the new year, WEDNESDAY EAST the NORTH One day after reaching preparing to play four times in big game for only the sec• Bowling at Olathe East triangular, five weeks in his return to the ond time in franchise history, 3:30 p.m.

PGA Tour after a 15-month abAL CENTRAL Quinn and his players were • Wrestling at FSHS dual, 6 p.m. sence. One of his stops includes back at their training complex • Boys basketball at Olathe East, a return to his hometown tourin Atlanta’s northern sub7 p.m. nament in Los Angeles, where urbs, rehashing the blowout of he made his first start on the Green Bay before turning their AL WEST pro tour as a skinny 16-yearSEABURY ACADEMY attention to the team they’ll old.

TODAY play next.

Woods has stayed away from • Girls/boys basketball vs. Cair “Going to the Super Bowl is Riviera, which hosts the newly Paravel, 6 p.m. not a reward,” Quinn said Monrenamed Genesis Open next David Goldman/AP Photo day. “Playing really well and month, since 2006. He loves the winning, that’s the reward. It’s ATLANTA FALCONS HEAD COACH DAN QUINN answers questions at the VERITAS CHRISTIAN venerable course nestled in a TEAM 081312: Helmetteam’s and team logos facility for the AFC teams; stand-alone; ETA 5 p.m. football practice Monday in various Flowerysizes; Branch, Ga. Thestaff; Falcons going to be AFC a hell of aLOGOS battle.”

TODAY posh residential neighborhood Immediately after the Patri- will play the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday Feb. 5.

• Girls basketball vs. Topeka overlooking the ots routed Pittsburgh for the Heritage, 6 p.m.

Pacific Ocean, AFC title, Belichick said he dispute over the how the play- where I can help, and I’ll share SOUTH but has never • Boys basketball at Baldwin, 7 WEST didn’t even know the Falcons ers departed their chartered that with the guys.” won there. p.m.

Quinn’s advice will certainly had won the NFC champion- jet in Miami to, most notably, And that led come in handy for players such ship game. team leader Eugene Robinson AL EAST him to avoid it.

HASKELL No such ignorance from his being arrested the night before as Taylor Gabriel. The speedy “I’ve just coaching counterpart in At- the game for attempting to so- receiver was cut by the lowly WEDNESDAY never played it Cleveland Browns during the lanta. licit a prostitute.

• Men’s basketball at University of well,” he said “Yes, I know,” Quinn said After all that, it wasn’t sur- preseason and now he’s got a the Ozarks, 6 p.m.

Monday as ocAL CENTRAL with a smile. prising that Denver cruised to shot at a championship, a turn casional rain Woods of events that still seems a bit He didn’t get much sleep the a 34-19 victory. pelted the alnight before.

Quinn expects no such prob- surreal. ready soggy course. “That’s the SPORTS ON TV “It hasn’t hit me yet that I’m It didn’t have anything to do lems from his team, before or only reason.” going to the Super Bowl,” he with facing the mighty Patriots, after it gets to Houston.

AL WEST Woods debuted at Riviera in TODAY however.

“With some teams, I might said after the 44-21 victory over 1992 on a sponsor’s exemption.

“I generally don’t after be worried. Not this one,” he the Packers.

College Basketball Time Net Cable The teenager from nearby OrGabriel, who is from the Auburn at S. Carolina 5:30 p.m. SECN 157 the games,” the second-year said. “This team is so tight. ange County shot 72-75 to miss coach said. “I’m thinking about The accountability they have Dallas suburbs, expects to get Kansas at W. Virginia 6 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 the cut. what we could’ve done differ- for each other is so strong, this a plethora of ticket requests Louisville at Pittsburgh 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 “I felt fine on that first tee ent. Then today, we get right brotherhood is so strong. They from family and friends who Rutgers at Maryland 6 p.m. BTN 147, 170, but as I took the club back, I can easily make thestaff; drive to back into our process.

Hon-Helmet careand about one another.

They

171, 237 AFC TEAM LOGOS 081312: team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; ETA 5 p.m. never felt nerves like that,” he estly, when you’re around our realize they’re playing for Houston.

Villanova at Marquette 7 p.m. FS1 150, 227 recalled. “I was skinny. I looked That’s one of those things Ark. at Vanderbilt building ... whether it’s Week something bigger than them7:30 p.m. SECN 157 like a 1-iron. I didn’t weigh a lot.

4, Week 8, Week 12, Week 16, selves. This team, this group, I that every player must deal Kentucky at Tenn.

8 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 I had a lot of speed.” with to some degree during a Kansas St. at Iowa St. 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Week 19, when you’re inside totally trust them.”

Woods birdied his first hole these walls, it should feel the A bigger concern might be Super Bowl week, and some Penn St. at Wisc.

8 p.m. BTN 147, 170, and thought to himself: “That’s same. We try to put up a cham- the huge gap in Super Bowl ex- manage it better than others.

171, 237 how you want to start off your Another possible distraction Utah St. at New Mexico 10 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 pionship week every time we perience.

PGA Tour career.” go.”

Outside of 36-year-old de- for the Falcons is the impendOn his second hole, his shot Time Net Cable The Patriots know a thing fensive end Dwight Freeney, ing departure of offensive co- Golf smacked a fence and before or two about championships. who played in a pair of title ordinator Kyle Shanahan, who Abaco Classic 2 p.m. GOLF 156, 289 long the teenager was 17 shots They are the first team to reach games with the Indianapolis is expected to be named coach behind Davis Love III after 36 the Super Bowl nine times, and Colts, the Falcons really have of the San Francisco 49ers as Tennis Time Net Cable holes. Love eventually lost in a the coach-quarterback tandem no idea what they’ll face over soon as the season is over.

Australian Open 2 a.m. ESPN2 34, 234 playoff to Fred Couples.

The Falcons will have a nor- Australian Open of Belichick and Brady will be the next two weeks.

8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 “I have so far to go,” Woods going for its fifth Lombardi That’s where Quinn might mal week of practice through recalled thinking. “I’m not that Friday, so Shanahan will like- Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable Trophy. be of help. good.”

Quite a contrast with the FalHe was Seattle’s defensive ly have a second meeting with Kansas at TCU replay 7 a.m. FCSC 145 But by 1997, he was Masters cons, who have never won an coordinator during back-to- 49ers officials on Saturday Kansas at TCU replay 10 a.m. FCSC 145 champion and well on his way NFL title in their 51-year his- back Super Bowl appearances to hammer out any lingering Kansas at TCU replay 5 p.m. FCS 146 to winning 79 PGA Tour career tory. It’s been 18 years since — one a rout of the Broncos, details about his first head titles. their initial Super Bowl ap- the other a heartbreaking loss coaching job, according to NHL Hockey Time Net Cable “Twenty-five years later, Quinn. pearance, when a team known to the Patriots.

Blues at Penguins 6 p.m. NBCSN 38, 238 here we are,” said Woods, “I’ve gone when things have “I’m really proud of him,” as the “Dirty Birds” was beaten whose best finish at Riviera handily by the Denver Broncos gone well, I’ve been a part Quinn said. “A lot of speculaWEDNESDAY was a tie for second in 1999. of it when it hasn’t,” Quinn tion and things are going on NBA Basketball in John Elway’s final game.

Time Net Cable From the end of 1999 to earAtlanta endured plenty said. “I want to outline some in the outside world, but he ly 2000, Woods either won or Warriors at Hornets 7 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 of distractions in the build- of the keys to playing well in was able to stay dialed in. He was runner-up in 10 of 11 PGA up to that game, from coach the game and managing some should be commended for be- Thunder at Pelicans 7 p.m. FSN+ 172 events.

Dan Reeves reliving an ugly of the things on the outside. ing on point and going for it. Lakers at Trail Blazers 9:30 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 The exception was Riviera, breakup with the Broncos to a That’s a part of the process He totally nailed that.” where he tied for 18th.

College Basketball Time Net Cable The last time he played RivKan. at W. Virginia replay 12 a.m. ESPNU 35, 235 iera was in 2006. Woods was

TWCSC 37, 226 among those who got caught Kan. at W. Virginia replay 3 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 out in the rain without an umKan. at W. Virginia replay 6 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 brella. He made the cut on the Kan. at W. Virginia replay 9 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 in 14 years.

31 winners, including 14 on her Kan. at W. Virginia replay 12 p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 number, but then withdrew the By John Pye Vandeweghe advanced to powerful forehand side.

AP Sports Writer next morning because of the Kan. at Iowa St. replay 4 p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 a will be playing her first ma“Once I got rolling in the sec- SMU at Central Fla. flu.

5 p.m. ESPNE. 140, 231 Melbourne, Australia — jor semifinal, using a powerful ond, it was like a freight train, St. John’s at Providence 5:30 p.m. FS1 150, 227 Although Riviera is considered his hometown tour- Venus Williams has reached forehand to dictate play against you couldn’t stop it,” she said. Bryant at Central Conn. St. 6 p.m. FCS 146 Williams has advanced Minn. at Ohio St. nament, Woods is partial to the semifinals of a Grand Slam French Open champion Garb6 p.m. BTN 147, 170, Torrey Pines near San Diego, for the 21st time and will play ine Muguruza in a 6-4, 6-0 win. through the tournament with- 171, 237 She has beaten Grand Slam out dropping a set, and isn’t Missouri at Mississ. St. 6 p.m. SECN 157 where he’ll start his season on CoCo Vandeweghe for a spot champions in back-to-back ready to stop there.

Thursday in the Farmers Insur- in the Australian Open final.

Texas A&M at Mississ. 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 “It’s wonderful to start the Mass. at St. Louis The 36-year-old Williams matches at Melbourne Park afance Open. He’s won that tour7 p.m. FSN 36, 236 nament seven times along with beat No. 24-seeded Anastasia ter her upset over top-ranked year out with this appearance,” Texas Tech at Baylor 7 p.m. ESPNE. 140, 231 a U.S. Open playing on a bad Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Angelique Kerber, who won said Williams, who hadn’t Butler at Seton Hall 7:30 p.m. FS1 150, 227 Tuesday, becoming the oldest the Australian and U.S. titles reached the semifinals in Aus- Alabama at Georgia 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 knee at the La Jolla course. tralia since 2003, the year she Woods will be testing his player to reach the Australian last year.

Iowa at Illinois 8 p.m. BTN 147, 170, Vandeweghe saved the only lost the final to her sister, Sersurgically repaired back start- Open women’s semifinals in

171, 237 break point she faced in the ena. “I want to go further. I’m ing at Torrey Pines. Next week, the Open era.

Fla. at LSU 8 p.m. SECN 157 Her 50th career win at Mel- first set with an ace, and only not happy just with this. But Washington at Arizona St. 10 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 he’ll jet to Dubai for an event before returning to Los An- bourne Park earned her a spot conceded 10 points in the I’m so happy to be in the posi- UCLA at South. Calif. 10 p.m. FS1 150, 227 geles for the Feb. 13-19 Gen- in the last four for the first time 28-minute second set. She had tion to like go further.” esis Open and then playing the Golf Time Net Cable Honda Classic in Florida. A lot Abaco Classic 2 p.m. GOLF 156, 289 of travel in a short time for the LATEST LINE 41-year-old.

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1 2 3 THREE KEYS FOR KANSAS

Take care of the ball

Embrace the moment

It almost seems too simple to state such a difficult task in such a matter-of-fact way, but ball security is by far the biggest key for Kansas in this one and everybody knows it.

KU coach Bill Self, the Kansas players who have experienced it and even those who haven’t have spent the past couple of days obsessing over how to prepare for West Virginia’s vicious pressing defense.

Each has come up with the same simple answer — be smart, stay poised and attack.

“It’s always a challenge,” said KU senior Frank Mason III. “They do a great job of being active, guys in the right spot. And they do a great job of rotating and also just trapping and playing with unbelievable energy.

It’ll be fun.”

WVU leads the NCAA in turnovers forced per game (23.2) and also leads the Big 12 in scoring (88.3 points per game), steals (12 per game), turnover margin (+11.5) and defensive rebounds (15.6 per game).

Each of those statistics is related in some way, and Kansas’ goal of preventing the Mountaineers from flourishing in each of those areas will come down to how cool, calm and collected the Jayhawks can remain when these two teams are out there flying around the floor.

“It’s very important because everybody knows they’re pressing and they force a lot of turnovers,” junior Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk said. “So, for us, it’s going to be real important to keep the ball alive and limit mistakes.”

It’s been four years since Kansas walked into WVU Coliseum and left with a victory, and the Jayhawks, who have won 18 consecutive games after dropping the season opener back in November, find themselves in a great position to end their three-game road losing streak against WVU. Reeling from back-to-back losses — at home against Oklahoma last week and at Kansas State over the weekend — the Mountaineers dropped 11 spots in the polls this week and have to be dealing with at least some doubts and confidence concerns as they prepare to welcome the nation’s second-ranked team into their home arena.

Of course, nothing would go further in helping WVU get back on track than a strong effort against Kansas in front of what figures to be a wild home crowd.

The Jayhawks experienced something similar early last week at Iowa State and, after that win, KU coach Bill Self said he thought his players enjoy playing in those types of atmospheres.

This will be one of them and the Jayhawks appear to be ready for the challenge.

Said Self, whose team is set to kick off a nasty, three-game stretch at No. 18 West Virginia, at No. 4 Kentucky and home vs. No. 5 Baylor: “We can’t be in a better position than we’re in right now, but it would be nice if we kick it into another gear. Because, if we don’t, we’ll be looking, two weeks from now, at the situation saying, ‘OK, it’s anybody’s race.’ And it still is anybody’s race, but we’ve put ourselves in a decent position and now we have to capitalize on our efforts so far.”

You could nitpick and try to find the big man battle that might tip the balance one way or the other or look to the bench, where WVU both goes deeper and gets more production than Kansas, but the bottom line is this one figures to be decided by the guards.

KU veterans Frank Mason III and Devonté Graham along with freshman Josh Jackson against West Virginia vets Jevon Carter, Daxter Miles

and Tarik Phillip. Whichever trio out-produces the other likely will lead its team to victory.

All six players in that group find ways well beyond scoring to impact each game, from defensive intensity and veteran leadership to setting up teammates and scrapping for extra possessions.

For Mason, the individual matchup with Carter will mark the third time in the past four games that he has faced one of the Big 12’s elite point guards.

— Matt Tait

One way to take the home crowd out of it is by jumping out of the gate fast and taking control of the game. The Jayhawks did that against both Texas and at Iowa State in their most recent victories and a similar effort here would go a long way toward not only keeping the WVU fans quiet but also allowing even more doubt to creep into the minds of the West Virginia players themselves.

KU’s fast start in both of those games was aided as much by stellar defense as it was sharp shooting and strong play on the offensive end.

So far, Kansas has shown a propensity throughout the season to answer big runs with timely shots and the Jayhawks figure to need more of that in this one. But the one way to limit just how many of those clutch plays they might need starts with turning up the defensive intensity and getting easy buckets in the first five minutes.

“It’s definitely up there with KState, Iowa State and then I would say it’s West Virginia,” said Mason, when asked to name the toughest places to play in the Big 12. “But sometimes they can be up there for one of the best.”

— Matt Tait

JAYHAWK PULSE

MEGA MATCHUP Backcourt vs. backcourt

Start fast

After weeks of looking ahead to the gauntlet that’s now in front of them, the Jayhawks are set to jump into a two-week stretch of games that will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt whether they truly are one of the top teams in the country.

Self recently said he thought KU was ranked high because of its impressive record, but he added that, since opening the season against Indiana and Duke, the Jayhawks had not truly been tested the way they will in the next three weeks.

Five games against Top 20 foes — including three on the road — awaits, and there is not a tougher place to kick it all off than

Morgantown, W. Va. The Jayhawks are coming off of one of their most impressive defensive efforts in their win over Texas but also allowed that game to be more competitive than it looked like it would be after the Jayhawks’ 14-2 run to open the game.

It’s unlikely that Kansas will survive this stretch in good standing without flashing at least some kind of the killer instinct that has eluded them, and it’s that aspect, as much as defensive improvement and continued offensive punch, that will be under the microscope in the immediate future.

— Matt Tait

Yonfer Ventura, an 11-year-old member of the youth team.

Ventura was born in the town of Samana on June 3, 1991, and quit school at 14.

He was working on a construction crew to support his family when he heard about a baseball tryout, which led to a spot in the local Royals’ academy.

The right-hander wound up pitching his entire career for the Royals, going 38-31 with a 3.89 ERA. The mayor of the Dominican town of Las Terrenas declared a two-day mourning period for the 25-year-old player, who died on a highway about 40 miles (70 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Santo Domingo.

Authorities have not determined what caused the accident but suspect speeding. Ventura was driving by himself in a vehicle he had imported from Florida last October after making some modifications to it.

Angela Martinez, mother to Ventura’s only daughter, said the player wasn’t known for speeding because he was affected by the 2014 death of his friend, former St. Louis Cardinal outfielder Oscar Taveras, who crashed at 22 in his hometown of Puerto Plata.

“I always told him to be careful,” said Martinez, who recalled Ventura as intense and very cheerful.

The Dominican Republic has the highest trafficrelated death rate in the Western Hemisphere with nearly 30 deaths per 100,000 people. Four current or former major league players have died in traffic accidents here in recent years, including Andy Marte, a 33-year-old infielder who also was killed Sunday. He had played in the Major Leagues from 2005-2010 with Atlanta and Cleveland and returned in 2014 with Arizona.

Authorities said Marte died when the Mercedes Benz he was driving hit a house along a road between San Francisco de Macoris and Pimentel, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital.

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Heat 105, Warriors 102 Miami — Dion Waiters’ 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left capped his 33-point effort, and Miami beat Golden State on Monday night to end the latter team’s seven-game winning streak.

The Heat wasted a 10-point lead in the final 4 minutes, and Kevin Durant tied the game on a dunk with 11.7 seconds left.

With no timeouts, Waiters walked the ball up the court and drilled what became the game-winner over Klay Thompson.

GOLDEN STATE (102) Durant 12-23 2-2 27, Green 3-8 1-4 7, Pachulia 2-6 2-4 6, Curry 7-19 4-5 21, Thompson 8-18 3-4 22, McGee 5-6 0-1 10, Livingston 2-4 0-0 4, Clark 1-2 0-0 2, McCaw 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 41-88 12-20 102.

MIAMI (105) Babbitt 3-6 2-2 11, Whiteside 4-13 2-5 10, Dragic 5-14 8-13 19, McGruder 1-5 1-4 3, Waiters 13-20 1-1 33, White 2-3 1-1 5, Reed 3-5 0-0 6, J.Johnson 4-8 0-0 9, Ellington 3-12 1-1 9. Totals 38-86 16-27 105.

Golden State 30 18 25 29 — 102 Miami 28 18 31 28 — 105

Pelicans 124, Cavaliers 122 New Orleans — Terrence Jones filled in brilliantly for injured All-Star Anthony Davis, scoring a season-high 36 points and grabbing 11 rebounds while powering New Orleans to the surprising victory.

Jrue Holiday added 33 points and 10 assists for the Pelicans, and Langston Galloway capped a 12-point night with a clean steal on LeBron James’ drive in the final minute, preventing the Cavs from erasing a deficit they had trimmed from 22 late in the first half to three with 1:32 left in the game.

CLEVELAND (122) James 11-21 3-4 26, Love 7-15 7-8 22, Thompson 1-5 0-0 2, Irving 15-28 11-11 49, Shumpert 4-10 0-0 10, Jefferson 2-5 0-2 5, Frye 1-4 0-0 3, Korver 2-4 0-0 5, Liggins 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 43-93 21-25 122.

NEW ORLEANS (124) Cunningham 4-10 1-2 11, Hill 0-3 1-2 1, T.Jones 13-18 7-10 36, Holiday 12-19 5-5 33, Hield 1-4 0-0 3, Diallo 0-0 0-0 0, Motiejunas 5-8 2-4 14, Galloway 3-9 3-3 12, Evans 3-8 2-2 9, Moore 2-8 1-2 5. Totals 43-87 22-30 124.

How former Jayhawks fared Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Did not play (coach’s decision).

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Did not play (coach’s decision).

Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 38. Pts: 13.

Reb: 3. Ast: 1.

Markieff Morris, Washington Min: 41. Pts: 23.

Reb: 8. Ast: 2.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 23. Pts: 10.

Reb: 2. Ast: 1.

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Did not play (coach’s decision).

Jeff Withey, Utah Did not play (coach’s decision).

and eight rebounds, and Washington earned its fifth win in six games.

WASHINGTON (109) Porter 6-11 0-0 14, Morris 8-13 5-5 23, Gortat 4-5 0-0 8, Wall 9-20 6-7 24, Beal 6-16 2-3 18, Oubre 4-5 0-2 10, Smith 3-4 0-0 6, Burke 3-3 0-0 6, McClellan 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 43-80 13-17 109.

CHARLOTTE (99) Kidd-Gilchrist 4-8 0-1 8, Williams 5-12 2-2 13, Zeller 4-7 5-5 13, Walker 7-24 5-7 21, Batum 2-9 0-0 4, Hibbert 2-2 1-1 5, Kaminsky 3-10 0-0 8, Sessions 3-6 2-2 9, Belinelli 5-12 6-7 18. Totals 35-90 21-25 99.

Washington 30 30 20 29 — 109 Charlotte 22 26 26 25 — 99

Bucks 127, Rockets 114 Milwaukee — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 31 points, Jabari Parker had 28 and Milwaukee snapped a five-game losing streak.

HOUSTON (114) Ariza 2-7 2-2 8, Anderson 6-11 1-1 16, Capela 7-12 2-3 16, Beverley 7-10 0-0 18, Harden 6-10 12-14 26, Brewer 0-1 0-0 0, Dekker 2-7 0-0 4, Hilario 6-9 5-8 17, Harrell 0-1 0-0 0, Gordon 3-9 0-0 9.

Totals 39-77 22-28 114.

MILWAUKEE (127) Antetokounmpo 11-17 7-8 31, Snell 3-3 0-0 9, Parker 11-19 4-4 28, Plumlee 4-5 2-2 10, Dellavedova 5-6 4-5 16, Teletovic 1-4 0-0 2, Monroe 7-13 3-4 17, Terry 3-5 0-0 8, Brogdon 2-8 2-4 6.

Totals 47-80 22-27 127.

Houston 33 31 27 23 — 114 Milwaukee 33 35 25 34 — 127

Spurs 112, Nets 86 New York — Patty Mills scored 20 points, Cleveland 26 24 36 36 — 122 New Orleans 35 35 24 30 — 124 LaMarcus Aldridge had 16 and San Antonio rolled Clippers 115, Hawks 105 while playing without Atlanta — Austin Riv- Kawhi Leonard and three ers scored 27 points and other regulars.

Jamal Crawford broke ANTONIO (112) out of a shooting slump SAN Anderson 6-10 1-2 14, Aldridge 8-19 with 19, helping Los An- 0-0 16, Dedmon 4-5 2-2 10, Murray 2-8 0-0 4, Green 4-8 0-0 9, Bertans 3-5 geles to the road win.

3-3 11, Lee 7-13 1-2 15, Anthony 0-1 L.A. CLIPPERS (115) Mbah a Moute 4-5 3-4 12, Jordan 1-1 5-8 7, Felton 6-13 0-0 14, Redick 6-13 2-2 17, Rivers 10-21 2-2 27, W.Johnson 4-7 0-0 9, Speights 1-2 0-0 3, Bass 1-2 5-5 7, Crawford 9-20 0-1 19. Totals 42-84 17-22 115.

ATLANTA (105) Bazemore 9-21 4-5 25, Sefolosha 5-11 0-0 11, Millsap 5-16 7-8 19, Howard 6-7 4-5 16, Schroder 7-18 6-6 21, Humphries 0-1 0-0 0, Scott 0-1 0-0 0, Delaney 2-5 0-0 5, Hardaway Jr. 1-6 1-2 3, Dunleavy 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 37-88 22-26 105.

L.A. Clippers 30 28 27 30 — 115 Atlanta 21 19 35 30 — 105

Wizards 109, Hornets 99 Charlotte, N.C. — John Wall had 24 points and seven assists, Markieff Morris added 23 points

0-0 0, Mills 7-13 2-3 20, Forbes 1-6 0-0 2, Simmons 3-7 4-4 11. Totals 45-95 13-16 112.

BROOKLYN (86) Booker 4-7 1-1 9, Lopez 4-10 4-4 12, Dinwiddie 6-9 0-0 13, Bogdanovic 2-8 0-0 5, Foye 0-4 1-2 1, McCullough 1-2 0-0 2, Acy 0-1 0-0 0, Scola 0-2 0-0 0, Hamilton 1-3 0-0 2, Whitehead 6-15 5-5 19, Kilpatrick 7-16 2-2 17, HollisJefferson 1-4 4-4 6. Totals 32-81 17-18 86.

San Antonio 27 25 39 21 — 112 Brooklyn 26 16 27 17 — 86

Kings 109, Pistons 104 Auburn Hills, Mich.

— DeMarcus Cousins had 22 points and 14 rebounds, and Sacramento snapped a five-game losing streak.

SACRAMENTO (109) Cousins 8-21 5-8 22, Koufos 3-5 0-0 6, Collison 4-5 2-2 12, Temple 3-6 4-5 11, Afflalo 2-9 0-0 6, Barnes 4-9 1-1 10, Tolliver 2-4 1-2 6, Cauley-Stein 5-8 2-2 12, Lawson 7-11 4-4 19, Richardson 2-4 1-2 5. Totals 40-82 20-26 109.

DETROIT (104) Morris 5-11 2-2 13, Leuer 6-11 0-0 15, Drummond 6-11 2-5 14, Jackson 6-12 3-4 18, Caldwell-Pope 4-14 5-6 14, Bullock 3-6 0-0 7, Johnson 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 7-11 0-0 15, Baynes 2-3 0-0 4, Smith 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 41-82 12-17 104.

Sacramento 28 37 23 21 — 109 Detroit 38 24 19 23 — 104

Knicks 109, Pacers 103 Indianapolis — Carmelo Anthony scored 26 points and broke a tie with a turnaround baseline jumper with 23.4 seconds left to give New York a rare victory at Indiana.

NEW YORK (109) Anthony 9-17 7-8 26, Porzingis 3-11 0-0 8, Noah 1-1 0-2 2, Rose 7-16 6-6 20, Lee 3-7 7-7 14, Kuzminskas 0-1 0-0 0, O’Quinn 1-1 1-2 3, Hernangomez 5-8 4-4 14, Jennings 2-5 4-4 9, Holiday 4-9 2-2 13. Totals 35-76 31-35 109.

INDIANA (103) Miles 4-14 0-0 10, George 11-24 6-7 31, T.Young 2-6 0-0 5, Turner 8-12 6-6 22, Teague 3-9 0-2 7, Robinson 3-3 0-0 6, Seraphin 1-2 0-0 2, Jefferson 5-8 3-4 13, J.Young 0-2 1-2 1, Ellis 1-6 4-4 6.

Totals 38-86 20-25 103.

New York 22 40 24 23 — 109 Indiana 34 24 17 28 — 103

Thunder 97, Jazz 95 Salt Lake City — Russell Westbrook hit a pullup jumper with 1.4 seconds left, and Oklahoma City stopped Utah’s sixgame win streak with a victory.

Westbrook took over down the stretch and scored 11 of the Thunder’s final 13 points after going cold in the third quarter. He finished with 38 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his 22nd triple-double of the season.

Alec Burks missed the final shot for the Jazz as time expired.

OKLAHOMA CITY (97) Sabonis 0-5 0-0 0, Adams 4-10 1-2 9, Westbrook 11-29 13-17 38, Oladipo 8-11 1-2 18, Roberson 4-6 0-0 8, Grant 1-3 0-0 2, Lauvergne 0-0 0-0 0, Kanter 5-9 4-4 14, Payne 2-6 0-0 5, Abrines 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 36-83 19-25 97.

UTAH (95) Ingles 3-5 0-0 6, Hayward 6-17 3-3 17, Favors 5-12 0-0 10, Gobert 5-8 2-7 12, Hill 2-10 5-6 9, Johnson 2-6 1-1 5, Lyles 3-9 1-2 9, Diaw 3-3 0-0 6, Exum 3-6 1-1 8, Burks 4-7 5-6 13. Totals 36-83 18-26 95.

Oklahoma City 27 29 11 30 — 97 Utah 26 27 19 23 — 95

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP The Associated Press

Big 12

Halftime-Oklahoma St. 32-29.

3-Point Goals-TCU 6-26 (K.Williams 2-5, Brodziansky 1-2, Robinson 1-3, Miller 1-3, Fisher 1-5, Bane 0-1, M.Williams 0-3, B.Parrish 0-4), Oklahoma St. 5-15 (Evans 2-4, Carroll 1-1, Dillard 1-2, Forte 1-6, Hammonds 0-1, McGriff 0-1).

Fouled Out-Hammonds, Robinson.

Rebounds-TCU 31 (K.Williams 12), Oklahoma St. 26 (Carroll 10). AssistsTCU 10 (Robinson, Fisher 3), Oklahoma St. 13 (Evans 8). Total Fouls-TCU 20, Oklahoma St. 18. A-6,090 (13,611).

Oklahoma St. 89, TCU 76 Stillwater, Okla. — Jawun Evans scored 27 points, dished out eight assists and Oklahoma State never trailed in a victory over TCU on Top 25 Monday night.

North Carolina State 84, No. 17 Duke, 82 TCU (14-6) Durham, N.C. — Brodziansky 5-10 9-10 20, K.Williams 7-10 4-4 20, Robinson 3-8 6-6 13, Freshman Dennis Smith B.Parrish 0-6 1-2 1, Fisher 3-7 0-0 7, Jr. scored a season-high Shepherd 3-4 0-0 6, Washburn 0-1 0-0 0, Miller 1-7 2-2 5, Bane 1-4 0-0 32 points to help North 2, M.Williams 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 24-61 Carolina State stun 22-24 76.

Duke.

OKLAHOMA ST. (12-8) Hammonds 1-4 4-4 6, Solomon 3-4 2-2 8, Forte 4-10 0-0 9, Evans 11-17 3-3 27, Carroll 5-6 8-8 19, McGriff 0-1 0-0 0, Averette 3-7 0-0 6, Dziagwa 0-0 0-0 0, Waters 0-1 0-0 0, Dillard 3-7 3-4 10, N’Guessan 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 32-59 20-21 89.

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them play,” Huggins said.

“I thought it was important for them to appreciate what the people up there cheering for them go through on a daily basis. Our guys put on the helmets, the boots, the whole thing. Most of them say it’s one of the greatest things they’ve ever done.”

The memory puts a smile on Huggins’ face — the face that during games so often boils with anger aimed at referees or his players; the face with the easily readable lips uncovered by a cupped hand or program.

“You have to go through the safety deal and they’re telling them about the helmet and the light on the helmet and they said, ‘If you cut the light out, you won’t be able to see your hand in front of you.’ Put your hand right here (inches from his face), and you can’t see your hand,”

DUKE (15-5) Jefferson 2-4 1-2 5, Tatum 7-14 1-2 16, Bolden 1-4 0-0 2, Jones 4-11 0-0 11, Jackson 3-4 0-0 7, Giles 4-5 0-2 8, DeLaurier 0-0 0-0 0, Allen 4-13 4-5 13, Kennard 5-9 8-10 20. Totals 30-64 14-21 82.

Halftime-Duke 44-38. 3-Point GoalsNC State 6-16 (Smith 4-6, Rowan 2-6, Dorn 0-1, Henderson 0-3), Duke 8-28 (Jones 3-8, Kennard 2-5, Jackson 1-2, Tatum 1-4, Allen 1-9). Fouled OutKennard, Kapita. Rebounds-NC State 33 (Kapita 10), Duke 37 (Tatum 9).

Assists-NC State 9 (Smith 6), Duke 16 (Kennard 4). Total Fouls-NC State 19, Duke 22. Technicals-Kapita. A-9,314 (9,314).

The Bulldogs have won 20 straight games, their longest streak since winning that many in the 200506 and 2003-04 seasons.

NC STATE (14-7) Abu 8-12 3-4 19, Yurtseven 0-2 0-0 0, Henderson 1-5 4-5 6, Smith 10-18 8-15 32, Rowan 2-7 3-4 9, Anya 0-0 0-0 0, Hicks 0-0 0-0 0, Kapita 6-7 2-2 14, Dorn 1-2 0-0 2, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 29-57 20-30 84.

No. 3 Gonzaga 83, Portland 64 Portland, Ore. — Zach Collins had 13 points and Gonzaga remained the nation’s only undefeated Division I team with a victory over Portland in a game that was rescheduled because of a winter storm earlier this month.

GONZAGA (20-0) Williams 5-7 0-1 10, Karnowski 4-4 0-1 8, Perkins 3-8 0-0 9, Mathews 5-8 0-0 12, Williams-Goss 2-9 0-0 4, Jones 1-2 0-0 2, Hachimura 0-1 1-2 1, Tillie 0-1 4-4 4, Collins 4-6 5-5 13, Edwards 2-2 0-1 4, Alberts 1-3 1-2 4, Bakamus 0-0 0-0 0, Melson 4-8 2-2 12, Triano 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-60 13-18 83.

PORTLAND (9-11) Taylor 1-9 0-0 2, Hartwich 2-4 0-2 4, Jackson 5-14 2-2 15, Johnson 4-13 2-4 10, Ferguson 2-6 0-0 5, Smoyer 1-2 0-0 2, Barreno 1-2 2-2 4, Tyson 5-7 1-1 15, Hallinan 0-1 0-0 0, Monson 0-0 0-0 0, Maker 2-6 3-4 7. Totals 23-64 10-15 64.

Halftime-Gonzaga 38-23. 3-Point Goals-Gonzaga 8-24 (Perkins 3-7, Mathews 2-4, Melson 2-5, Alberts 1-3, Jones 0-1, Triano 0-1, Williams 0-1, Williams-Goss 0-2), Portland 8-20 (Tyson 4-4, Jackson 3-6, Ferguson 1-3, Maker 0-2, Taylor 0-2, Johnson 0-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Gonzaga 39 (Collins 8), Portland 33 (Maker 7).

Assists-Gonzaga 15 (Karnowski, Williams-Goss 5), Portland 12 (Johnson, Ferguson 3). Total Fouls-Gonzaga 17, Portland 20. A-4,852 (4,852).

Huggins said. “It’s that dark.”

Elite athletes tend toward fearlessness. They tend to seek thrills. So what Huggins said next came as no surprise.

“That’s all they wanted to do when we first went down there: ‘Can we turn the lights out? Can we turn the lights out?’ When they said they could turn the lights out, it wasn’t 30 seconds and you hear them banging on their helmets, trying to get the lights back on. They’re scared to death,” Huggins said.

When the coach sees players from that team, he said that to this day they will remind him how you know you’re headed toward the exit of a mine by saying, “Make sure the small end’s first, coach, make sure the small end’s first.”

Meaning?

“You go over to the wall and there’s like a, for lack of a better term, a clothesline, and you walk with the clothesline in your hand,” he said, “and if it gets bigger in your hand as you walk you’re headed toward the exit.

If it gets smaller, you’re

walking away from the exit.”

Huggins takes pride in the product mined in West Virginia.

“We have the best coal,” he said. “Methane coal is the hottest-burning coal you can get. Our problem is because we’ve mined it for so many years, it’s harder to get to, so you spend more money to get to it, but it’s the best coal. The cost of mining coal is getting it on the belt and getting it out. The longer the belt, obviously, the more it cost. You can mine it in Wyoming for one-third the cost, but our coal is the best.”

Nobody need remind Huggins how much his basketball team means to those who do toil underground.

“When we were in the Final Four (in 2010), they pumped the game on radio into the mines,” Huggins said. “The governor (then Joe Manchin) had it pumped in because nobody was gonna go to work.”

A big-time basketball coach armed with rugged

small-town charm, Huggins aimed for the moon when asked before the season to name a goal for this team, and then his answer came right back home where he has shown for 10 years now that he belongs, his slice of almost-heaven, his alma mater and the state it represents.

“You know what would be really neat?” Huggins asked and then answered.

“We really need to win a national championship, take the trophy and get on a bus, just go to all these places in West Virginia nobody’s ever heard of, have it on the radio: ‘All you people want to touch the trophy; in 20 minutes we’ll be on the square in Jane Lew.’ That’d be pretty neat.”

It will take more than West Virginia (15-4) losing back-to-back games to Oklahoma and Kansas State to kill the coach’s dream. He’ll have his team ready to give No. 2 Kansas, winner of 18 consecutive games but winless in its past three trips to WVU Coliseum, 40 minutes of hard-boiled basketball tonight.

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SCOREBOARD The Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 22, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Villanova (35) 19-1 1591 1 2. Kansas (28) 18-1 1572 2 3. Gonzaga (2) 19-0 1471 4 4. Kentucky 17-2 1414 5 5. Baylor 18-1 1379 6 6. Florida State 18-2 1215 10 7. Arizona 18-2 1190 14 8. UCLA 19-2 1177 3 9. North Carolina 18-3 1171 9 10. Oregon 18-2 1035 11 11. Butler 17-3 914 13 12. Virginia 15-3 803 16 13. Louisville 16-4 796 12 14. Notre Dame 17-3 767 15 15. Wisconsin 16-3 746 17 16. Creighton 18-2 731 7 17. Duke 15-4 628 18 18. West Virginia 15-4 569 7 19. Cincinnati 17-2 478 20 20. Purdue 16-4 412 21 21. Saint Mary’s 17-2 290 23 22. Maryland 17-2 261 25 23. South Carolina 15-4 171 24 24. Xavier 14-5 146 22 25. Florida 14-5 47 19 Others receiving votes: Kansas St. 41, SMU 33, Northwestern 28, UNC Wilmington 14, Iowa St. 12, Virginia Tech 7, Dayton 6, Southern Cal 6, Akron 1, Illinois St. 1, Middle Tennessee 1, Utah 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 22, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Pvs 1. Kansas (18) 18-1 785 1 2. Villanova (11) 19-1 773 2 3. Gonzaga (3) 19-0 734 4 4. Kentucky 17-2 696 5 5. Baylor 18-1 666 6 6. North Carolina 18-3 577 9 7. UCLA 19-2 552 3 8. Florida State 18-2 550 12 9. Arizona 18-2 549 13 10. Oregon 18-2 513 10 11. Butler 17-3 410 14 12. Notre Dame 17-3 407 15 13. Virginia 15-3 405 16 14. Louisville 16-4 374 11 15. Wisconsin 16-3 366 17 16. Creighton 18-2 358 7 17. Duke 15-4 298 18 18. West Virginia 15-4 290 8 19. Cincinnati 17-2 264 20 20. Purdue 16-4 187 22 21. Saint Mary’s 17-2 143 23 22. Xavier 14-5 138 19 23. Maryland 17-2 106 25 24. South Carolina 15-4 100 24 25. Florida 14-5 37 21 Others receiving votes: UNCWilmington 21, Northwestern 21, Kansas State 17, Indiana 16, Southern Cal 16, SMU 16, Iowa State 4, Middle Tennessee 4, New Mexico State 4, Miami 2, Nevada 1.

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W Toronto 28 Boston 26 New York 20 Philadelphia 15 Brooklyn 9 Southeast Division

W Atlanta 26 Washington 24 Charlotte 23 Orlando 18 Miami 15 Central Division

W Cleveland 30 Indiana 22 Chicago 22 Milwaukee 21 Detroit 21 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W San Antonio 35 Houston 34 Memphis 26 New Orleans 18 Dallas 15 Northwest Division

W Utah 29 Oklahoma City 26 Denver 18 Portland 19 Minnesota 16

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my math skills are on point, calculates to roughly 20 dribbles for Svi. 5. No. 5 Baylor, 8 p.m. Feb. 1, Allen Fieldhouse: The Bears didn’t handle the hostile environment of WVU Coliseum well, so it’s legitimate to question their ability to deal with the Fieldhouse intimidation factor. If they don’t shrink emotionally, their size makes them no easy out.

6. No. 18 West Virginia, 8 p.m. Feb. 13,

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in the fall of 2015 and didn’t play again until his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas last month.

He finished 15th in the 17man field.

“I just need to get out there and do it,” Woods said. “I feel like I’m strong

Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 38 7 .844 — L.A. Clippers 30 16 .652 8½ Sacramento 17 27 .386 20½ Phoenix 15 29 .341 22½ L.A. Lakers 16 32 .333 23½ Sunday’s Games Golden State 118, Orlando 98 Dallas 122, L.A. Lakers 73 Phoenix 115, Toronto 103 Minnesota 111, Denver 108 Monday’s Games Washington 109, Charlotte 99 L.A. Clippers 115, Atlanta 105 Miami 105, Golden State 102 Sacramento 109, Detroit 104 San Antonio 112, Brooklyn 86 Milwaukee 127, Houston 114 New Orleans 124, Cleveland 122 New York 109, Indiana 103 Oklahoma City 97, Utah 95 Today’s Games Boston at Washington, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Sacramento at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Houston at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 7 p.m.

New York at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Utah, 9:30 p.m.

Big 12 Women

League Overall Baylor 8-0 19-1 Texas 8-0 14-4 Oklahoma 6-2 15-5 Kansas State 5-3 15-5 Texas Tech 3-4 11-7 West Virginia 3-5 15-5 Oklahoma State 2-5 12-6 Iowa State 2-6 11-8 TCU 2-6 10-9 Kansas 0-8 6-13 Sunday’s Games Oklahoma 68, Oklahoma State 62 TCU 83, Kansas 68 Wednesday, Jan. 25 Texas Tech at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Iowa State at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Kansas at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Baylor at Kansas State, 7 p.m.

Texas at TCU, 8 p.m.

Big 12 Men

League Overall Kansas 7-0 18-1 Baylor 6-1 18-1 Kansas State 4-3 15-4 West Virginia 4-3 15-4 Iowa State 4-3 12-6 Texas Tech 3-4 14-5 TCU 3-5 14-6 Oklahoma State 2-6 12-8 Oklahoma 2-6 8-11 Texas 2-6 8-12 Saturday’s Games Oklahoma 87, Iowa State 92, 2OT Texas Tech 64, Oklahoma State 83 Kansas 79, Texas 67 Kansas State 79, West Virginia 75 TCU 53, Baylor 62 Monday’s Games Oklahoma State 89, TCU 76 Texas 84, Oklahoma 83 Today’s Games West Virginia vs. Kansas, 6 p.m.

Iowa State vs. Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Baylor vs. Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

NFL Playoff Glance

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 7 Houston 27, Oakland 14 Seattle 26, Detroit 6 Sunday, Jan. 8 Pittsburgh 30, Miami 12 Green Bay 38, N.Y. Giants 13 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday, Jan. 15 Green Bay 34, Dallas 31 Pittsburgh 18, Kansas City 16 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 22 NFC Atlanta 44, Green Bay 21 AFC New England 36, Pittsburgh 17 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 29 at Orlando, Fla. AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5 at Houston Atlanta vs. New England, 5:30 p.m.

(FOX)

Allen Fieldhouse: The Mountaineers don’t scare easily, but they also will have more fouls called against them in Lawrence than in Morgantown.

7. At Texas Tech, 1 p.m. Feb. 11, United Spirit Arena: Red Raiders are hanging tough so far in the Big 12 and know how to find good shots, but they’ll have a tough time stopping Kansas from scoring.

8. Iowa State, 1 p.m.

Feb. 4, Allen Fieldhouse: The Cyclones don’t have any size, so this could be the game in which Carlton Bragg Jr. gets going. And as we all know, because he said so, “Once I get going, there’s no stopping me.” enough, I can handle the workload. Feeling good about it and doing it are two different things.”

Three weeks into the new year, Woods already has the Masters on his mind.

“I would love to play and I would love to win,” he said. “I’m hoping I can get everything right, so yes, I’m looking forward to it.”